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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23
Speaking.

Hon. L. L. Smith, Democratic
candidate for the Senate, will
speak at the following places and
time: Belvidere, Thursday
October 22d, I o'clock p. m;
Hertford, Thursday night, Oct
22d, 8 o'clock; Moyock. Friday
October 23d, I o'clock p. NJ:
Coinjock, Saturday, October "a
Old Trap, Monday, October Goth
Elizabeth City, Monday night
Oct. Goth; South Mills, Tuesday
October 27th; Salem, Wednesday
October 28th; Edenton, Wednes-
day night, Oct. 28th; Yeopim
Thursday, October goth; Bosley
Friday, Oct. goth; Gates Station
Saturday, October 31st; New
Hope, Hall Township, Monday
November 2nd.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23
Remarkable Religious Revival.

There is going o1 III C"lum-
bus. Ga, the most remarkable
revival Of religion t.le city has
ever experienced. Rev Sam
Iones and his CO workers began
in the large tabernacle, built TOR
the meetings, September 27th.
r,heIe has been a daily aver"ge
attendance OF from i 900 TO 1 s.
900 people. Mr., Jones has
preached two special ser;hons
for men, which were attended
byvat5out 5000 len each. Alter
y sermon to men only last night
not less than 1900 s.rong men
with earnest faces gave their
hand, asking for prayers and re-
solving upon new lite. All
classes are in attendance. All
classes are being moved and con-
vertcd; men hardened i'll sin,
from seventy years old down to
little boys and gills. Perhaps
not less than 5000 people have
been forward for prayers since
the meetings began.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23
A WORD WITH MEN.

The people Of Elizabeth City, as
well as visitors from the surrounding
country, will find on Fearing street,
one door from Water street, the retail
Liquor, Cigar and Tobacco store, under
the efficient aud popular management
of Mcssrs Richard Berry and Edgar
Shannon who have recently purchased
the business of j. B. Brockctt.
This establishment, which has be-
come favorite with people who appre-
ciate pure wines and liquors, fine
chewing tobacco and fragrant cigars,is
largely patronized and regarded as
thoroughly reliable. The best Of order
is maintained, the service is prompt
and courteous, the goods sold arc of
the best and prices reasonable.
Messrs. Berry & Shannon arc aHablc
gentlemen, WHO study to please and
never fail in this particular. They have
large country and river trade aud fill
promptly all orders, whether delivered
in person or by mail, guaranteeing sat-
isfaction with the quality and price of
their goods. Call TO see them, or ad-
dress all orders to BERRY & SHANNON,
Elizabeth City, NC, and get the best.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23
Worthy Your Confidence.

The success of Hoods Sarsaparilla in
conquering scrofula in whatever way
it may manifest itself is vouched for by
thousands who were severely afflicted
by this prevalent disease, but who now
rejoice over permanent cure by Hoods
Sarsaparilla. Scrofula may appear as
humor, Or it may attack the glands of
the neck, or break out in dreadful run
ming sores on the body or limbs. At
tacking the mucous mcmbrance, it may
develop into catarrh or lodging in the
lnrgs lead to consumption. Come as it
NAV, a faithful course of treatment
with Hood Sarsaparilla will overcome
it, for working upon the foundation of
all diseases, impure blood, the system
is clarified and vitalized, and vigor,
strength and health restored to the
BODY.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23
AGEORGIA ENCHANTMENT.
SEEDS THAT WILL PRODUCE
COTTON PLANTS TWEEN
TX FEET HIGH.

-
late that Charles Jackson, a cots
ton planter, is i'll possession of
twenty bushels Of cotton seed
that. it is predicted, will revolu>
tionlze the cotton growing in>
dEstry of the world.
From these seed, it is claimed
stalks attaining great height can
be grown, that will yield from
TWO TO four bales per acre on the
poorest sort of land.
The quality Of the product is
said to be remarkably good, and
as fine as long staple cotton. The
seed from which the cotton is
grown came from Africa. SO the
dispatch says. While Ill the very
heart Of that country a wealthy
American, travelling for health
and recreation, it is said, discOv-
cred a field of cotton plants,
none Of which was less than
twenty feet in height A bota
nist who accompanied the party
cut from one of the taiiest stalks
a section Of about eighteen
inches, and ii was from this
stalk that the seed came.
While touring the South some
years later, 50 the dispatch re-
lates, the African traveller met
Mr jackson and presented him
With the seed. At the next
planting Mr.. Jackson deterrnln-
ed upon u severe test Of the seed
and planted it i'll the poorest
land Of his farm. It thr1ved be
yond his most sanguIne eNpecta-
tions, 50 the story so, S, and 50
great was the yield that other
growers i'll the nsighborhood
viewed the. product with alarm.
Should this seed become gen~
orally used, they reasoned, the
co,toI: crop OF the South would
so increase that the industry
would be ruined. So great be
came this fear among the farm
ers that a committee was ap-
pointed, it is said, to walt Oil Mr..
Jackson, purchase the seed and
desrtoy every vestigc OF 1t. 81
multaneously, it is stated, the
NV Orleans Cotton Exchange
wired Mr.. Jackson to set a prlce
on his holdings, requesting at
the same time that he send
sample OF The c1tt0n stalk 1or
he investigation of the board.
Learning of the New Orleans
correspondence, SO the dispatch
says, the farmers committee OF
fered Mr.. Jackson $4,000 spot
cash. He refused the Offer, 1t IS
said, and holds out for higher
figure.
Members of the New York
Cotton Exchange, who had
heard Of this wonderful product
spoke guarde~ily Oil the subject
yesterday.
TO New York Times report
er Mr.. William Moir, Of Mohr
& NanneHann, expressed the
opinion that if such a seed eN~
istec, it would certainly prove
benefit to the Southern cotton
planters and not d dctrllnent. Ii
mt was possible to ,,t,oln such
crops the cotton acreage could
be correspondingly decreased
and th. land used f.. cultlVat1ng
-o.her salable farm products.
Mr. p. S. Galaati, of RaIl1
Bros, declared that such a yield
would r1eau cotton at q cant
pound, and therefore ruin tor
the farmers that raised it. Mr..
l.. Maudclbau,iI thought 1t was
yet to early to express an opln>
ion.-Ne7O York Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23
SILVER OR GOLD.

Better than either is healthy
liver. If the liver is O. X. the
man is 0. X. His blood is kept
pure, his digestion perfect, and he
can enjoy life and act intelligently
and patiently upon the questions
of the day. You all know what to
take. You have known it for years.
It is Simmons Liver Regulator
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23

The men who advertise in the
FISHERMAN & FARMER are the
men who have faith in what they
have to sell. Having a good
thing to offer they want to sell
it because the more used the
better satisfaction it gives.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23
Killed Wife .and Child

Marion kennard, of Wise
county, West Va, went home
drunk, Saturday night, and after
quarreling with his wife, took a
corn knife and deliberately muir
dered her, and son. His
daughter made her escape.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23

We know whereof we affirm when we
state that Ayers Pills. taken promptly,
at the first symtoiSs of colds and fevers,
arrest further progress of these disor-
ders, and speedily restore the stomach,
liver, and bowels, to their normal and
regular action.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23

For years you and your fathers
have found it of sterling worth.
1t is and always has been put up
only by J. II. Zeilin & Co. Take
none but the genuine. 1t has the
Red Z on the front of the wrapper.
and nothing else is tho same, and
nothing so good.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23

A Pennsylvania man has had
to pay $4,000 for telling a girl
he loved her and then marrying
another girl Now you can't
convince him that there is any
truth in the adage that talk is
cheap.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23

Catnrrh IS 4 Constitutional disease
an. requires Il constitutional remedy
li.;. loJd'5 :lAr3a parilla, which r-;ri-
fie5 t.!c hlJOl.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23
Only One
Standard

You and we may differ as to
money st ndards and out OF
our very differences g-od may
cone. Bat we won't differ as
to the nzrits Of orc standard
emulsion of cod liver Gil.
SCOTS EMULSION has
won and hetd its way for
nearly Is years n the world OF
medicine unti1 to-day it IS al
most as mech the standard IN
all cases of lung trouble, and
every condition of wasting
whether IN child cr adolt as
ouinine Is IN malaeial fevers.
Differ On the money ques-
ton If yoo viii, bus when 1t
comes to a question Of health,
perhaps of life and death, get
itle standard.
Your druggist sells SCOTS Emulsion.
Two sizes, SO cts. and $500
SCOTT & BOVINE, New York.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23
S. FL. Murrell.
The Old Reliable
Sail Maker.

ELIZABETH CIZ'Y ~ C.,
can be found at his old stand at the
Short bridge, over James Spires store,
Zimmerman Hall.
! Canvas Furnished
! at Factory Prices.
Awnings, Tents and Flags a
Speciality.
All orders by mail promptly attend
ed to. Old Canvass bought and sold.
p o. Box L5z, Elizabeth CITY, W. c.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-23

OF Any
U,cE{u Paper Published
III Eastern Carolina.
ads R cad 1t.
zar7N asc as a@Aga 9e efy SesE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-05
e moopY MEErINGa.

FI7rOn Harper's Weekly.
Crowds attend the Moody and Sankey
meetings at Cooper Union and Carnegie
hall Mr. Moody hopes TOR a revival or
religion that VIII keep pace with the re-
vival in business, and he is making
good progress in his labors to that end
He is reVivalist. and there are people
who dislike reviVals and distrust their
results, perhaps not entirely without
reason; but MT Moody is very good of
MS klnd,and mis- methods and dIscourseS
present little if anything to which sound
exception can be taken
The future Of the American repuDilc
depends upon the development OF the
American conscience Unless the con-
trolling element of the people shall be
honest and good, the republic viii not
live AS the people are, so the govern
ment must eventually be. That truth
has been brought home to US with UNI
common force during the late presiden-
tial campaign. The trust of those of us
who hoped for such q result of the cleo
ton as we believed to be in closest ac-
cord with honesty and high principles
has been based upon our belief that the
majority of the voters are honest, and
believe in doing as they would be done
by Mr.. Moody, in preaching the Chris
tan religion, breaches honesty, sobriety.
the brotherhood Of men, ana the golden
rule. He breaches against anarchy,
against eNtCrtiOn and hate. He is the
enemy of sectionahsm and all hostility
Of class to class His mission is to
arouse the conscience and to awaken
the spiritual side Of men; to make them
patient. long suffering. diligent, TO make
them to find their highest satisfaction.
not in dissipation or in money-grab abiding
but in right living.
This country in its rapid development
and swift increase Of material wealth
can assimilate great deal of such
preaching as his TT is our first con-
Germ not to be the richest or strongest
nation on earth. but to be a nation of
good people, with a high ideal of con-
duct. The greatest thing that can be
done Tor us as people is to better US as
individuals 1t is in that work that Mr.
Moody is engaged. There are many
ways of promoting it. His way is one
of the most familiar and effectual and
he is remabrka bly, efficient in it. His
labors are patriotic as well as piOus
Success to themi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-05
House HTATTN4.


(From the New York Tribune)
The real competition in house heating
lies between hot air. steam and hot water
The hot-air furnace continues in high
favor. and dealers say that the sales have
been larger this year than ever before.
superior in many respects TO any that
have ever been placed on the market and
the expert mechanics are continually de-
Vising new methods to lessen the Objec-
Iions to the furnace heat 1T is bound
TO remain the most popular dealer
and people viii overlook a little dust and
a little bad air once in awhile if they
know that they are saving money.
1t is estimated that a steam plant costs
about twice as much hot-air plant.
and that to heat a house by hot water,
a plant must be put up which will cost
about 20 per cent more than the one for
steam The same calculation makes the
fuel Tor the hOt-air plant the most eX-
pensiVe. that for steam % per cent less,
and for the hOt-Water system % per cent
less than steam
Large buildings viii continue to use
steam until some system less expensive
can be devised, and when it is taken into
consideration that most of the heat in
the large office buildings and factories is
furnished by exhaust steam it is easy to
understand that to furnish a cheaper
system is a difficult task.
Many new houses are also being fitted
cost IS not taken into consideration and
where the matter of space does not play
an important part. hot water is being
used The advocates of the system say
that it is less complicated and that when
people know that the fear of explosions
VIII be equipped with the hOt-water heat
ing system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-05
WHITE HousE MTsrREss.

IFrom the San Francisco Bui1etin-1
Tt is generally accepted as a fact at
Canton among the intimates Of the Nc
Kinley family that Miss Mary Barber.
Mrs McKinley's niece and the eldest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs NJ. c. Barber,
will be the active mistress of the White
House under the new regime.
Miss Barber is a beautiful and grace
full girl of about a years and is a great
social favOrite in Canton.
President-elect and Mrs. Mckinley re-
gard Miss Barber with paternal affection
and have the utmost confidence in her
ability to ill and adorn any social posi-
ton She viii probably be the youngest
mistress that the White House has ever
had.
There is a tinge of sorrowful romance
associated with the selection Of Miss
Barber to represent Mrs. Mckinley in
the social functions at the White House
Two daughters have been born to Mr.
and Mrs Mckinley. both Of whom died
in infancy. Had the eldest one Ida
survived. she would have now been
about Miss BARRIERS age
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-05
FOOTBALL OUTORY.


rom the AIlICa20 RECORD
Missouri and Georgia have started a
crusade against foot ball, the latter
state making cause against both foot
ball and the cigarette Ia both these
states bills have been. or are TO be
proposed. prohibiting the game of foot
ball. or at least providing against its
brutalities. That neither. of these
states has ben specially noted for pre-
eminence on the gridirOn field or for
casualties in the game is beside the
case The people have q right, if they
choose to exercise it, to set the ban OF
the state upon any form of amusement
deleteriOus in its influence or danger
Gus in it's character, and the promoters
of legislation against foot bah in Mis-
souri, and Georgia certainly are not
without sufficient facts upon which to
base such legislation The fatal ter
minatiOn of foot ball contest in
Brooklyn last week and the number
of serious accidents elsewhere through
out the country al the Thanksgiving
games are sufficient. even without ref
erence to previous fatalities and in
iuries to make a case for those who
are starting the new crusade against
the pigsldn-
THAT this toughest Of all American
sports should have become the most
popular is largely due to the colleges
and to the patronage society gives to
all college sports and especially to foot
ball Therefore the movement to re
form it should evidently begin with the
colleges themselves OF course it is
not desirable to keep young men in
glass cases and provide against all
forms of vigorous sport. But the ten
dency to make foot ball games more
and technical or professional skill is
dishpartenina
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-05
PoRRIDGE AND Boards.

(LOndOn Letter in Mail and EXpress-)
Matters have come under my notice
during the past week which opens visions
of a future altogether dominated by ter
ror An appalling fashion has come into
marked prominence during the Scottish
shooting season that has just closed
really don't know whether to consider the
innovation simply sublime or amazingly
ridiculous. 1t certainly does testify to
the fact that in all humans still fingers
some traces of the pig. The new fashion
concerns pOrridge- i like pOrrldge. if it's
Wen made: and if real cream goes with
it, and so ii seems do all the men who 90
over the border for a bit of shooting.
Nine-tenths of these spOrtsmen are APP
parently mustached and bearded, and un-
deXterous in the use of a spoon For
fashion there has decreed. probably as
the result of much unkemptness. that
pOrridge and cream shall be eaten behind
screen or in an ante-roOm- The lovers
of porridge are not able to put it all in
their mouths.
1 am informed on authority that I have
no reason whatever to doubt that this
custom was followed during the ears
stay al Balmoral, and that the car of
all the Russians, mighty as he undoubt-
eddy is. thought the idea capital one.
For he himself is not able to manage the
ceremony without splitting the cream ana
the Great White Car with a great white
dab of cream on his beard is by means
a immortal Dirt1lrPI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-05
JoAoUrN MrLLER's POET.

TTrOm tile Philadelphia Americana
joaquin Miller has been busy manu-
featuring a new American poet olt qI 2
youthful, soulful SON oi Japan Two or
three literary papers take the news in
all sOlemnity. They give the boy
portrait as if he was somebody, and
quarter of yard or so Of his poetry
as II il was something. And SO it IS,
Walt Whitman and water if the w hit
maniac deIuge could carry another
drop The beauty of Whitman is that
anybody can wade ankle high in his di-
luton of Isaiah and Job with the very
blank verses of the New Jersey Jere-
miah- Here are two or three Whitman
Milerized bagpippings of young one
hiro Noguchi. hailed by at least three
literary publications as the coming
Americanary poet. AS one Of these is
this bird-Qf-a-feat hery title for the inn
ported chick Now, silence for the soar
ing song.
THE brave upright rains come right
down like errands from iron-bodied
yOretime, never looking back, out of
the ever-tranqul ocean breasted, far
high heaVen-yet as high but as the
gum tree at my bin window
Without hesitation they Kill them
selves in an instant ON the earth, lifting
their single noted chants-O tragedy
Chants? Nay, the clapping sound of
earth-lips.
The fiat-boarded earth. nailed down
at night rusting under the darkness
The universe grows smaller, palplta ting
against its destiny.
MY chilly soul-center of the world
gives seat to audible tears,-the songs
of the cricket
I drink the darkness Of a corner of the
universe,-alas square. immovable
world to me. on my bedt Suggesting
what-god or demon 2-far down, under
my body.
am as a lost wind among the count
less atoms of high heaveni"
Q joachim. art thou jokin? Is there
no drug store i'm Oakland, Cal? Are
no remedies for fatulence there?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-05
lie ooUNrRY DO.

From the New York Tribune.l
The country newspaper man occupies
the same place as to success as the
average country business man; there
are no more failures in the rural news
paper business than there are in the
rural store business Still the coun-
try editor if asked by a young man
how to start a paper, would say,
Don't" He would tell the aspirant
for Journalistic houors that the work
is thanl5less and burdensome, that there
is no money in it, that the country
newspaper must compete with the
metropolitan papers and that every
subscriber wants favors which cost
many times more than the annual sub
scription. But the complaining editor
remains in business, his paper usually
grows, he adds new presses to his out
fit and shows other signs of prosperity.
ana he would not abandon his plant
except for handsome eOnsidera ton
How can I sell out2' a country
editor said when approached on the
subject Fl am firmly rooted here.
Have my family ia the place and be
long to it, Ny coming here was an
experiment, but I had to take pay for
my paper in all sorts of things that
would be no good to bachelor so 1
married and that settled it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-05
MRS. RUMPHRY WARD.

[From the Chicago Times Herald
Mrs Humphrey Ward. whose novel.
sir George Tressady." viii be a sure
source of conversation through the win
ter at every afternoon call or tea table.
is now inhabiting a romantic and inter
esting house near Tring. in England.
called Stocks
At Stocks there is an immense huge
tree trunk-it measures about AZ feet ia
griffin which is carved a rude resting
place called the poets seat Here Wal
Ter used to write.
At one time Mrs Humphrey Ward
and her husband were located down
al Haslemere, that abode OF MANY great
wits. where Lord Tennysonfs favorfte
house on Breakdown is. Mrs Ward has
dedicated her latest work. Sir George
Tressady." to her brother and friend
VIM. Thos Arnold. The coupling Of the
relationship with the qualifying friend
may seem odd to many people. II is
very characteristic, however. of Mrs
Humphrey Wards intense sincerity. She
is well aware that AUTHORIZATIONS must
lee made where even the sacred bond Of
brotherhood is present
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-05
MALEDoN, THE HANGMAN.
30 Lac ClncinnatI EnaaIrer.l

TFrOm the Cincinnati ENQUIRER
A hanging by George NaledOn, the
Fit. Smith (Arl1) hangman who hanged
SO many men. was worth going miles
to see. Tt was a thing Of scientific beau
~ From the moment the subject be-
gan to prepare for the march to the
scaffold the little Dutch hangman was
at mis- heels.
He had been UP before daylight greas-
ing his ropes, oiling the hinges of the gal
lows trap and adjusting and readjust-
ing the moose. He followed the subject
to the gallOWs, and when the foot of
the steps leading up to ii was reached
the little hangman would trot around
and trip jauntily up the stairway ahead
of all the rest
From the moment Naled0n's face was
a study for physiOgnomis6- He
needed not the spectators, nor any one
on the scamold except the subject. and
ne moved around him with am air of
ownership. Sometimes if the subject
was slow and backward MaledOn would
encourage him with a few Well-chosen
words Of impatient hurry. as "Oh,
come on. now it's nothing at all. You
q jiffy'"
NIaledon would stand the subject On
the trap and then generally would take
a chew of tobacco and stand with the
moose ready in his hands while the
clergyman prayed. After that it was
not a minute till George had the moose
firmly adjusted with one motion. the
black cap over the head with smother
and the trap sprung with another. AS
the body hung limp and sWayed gent
would walk around the square hole of
the trap with his hands on his hips
looking down at the swinging body and
surveying it critically from every point
of view while he chewed tobacco anx-
iousiy and vigorously and spat down
through the hole past the body.