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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23
For SOC. Wrappers that SOLD
at 81 to Sl.30.
For 7oc. Wrappers that sold
at Sl.5O to 81.

First OF this seasons sale OF BI;ACk
CHINA SILKS commenced WIN lo'
lust received Every yard - Wal
ranted fast black. Will not smut re-
versiule quality.
500 yards II Inch for 3Vc
900 yards 2N-inch for 400
5oO wards 37-.nch-wide for b9c;
Also. 100 yards Oriental Na'er-
proof silks, cannot be stained py
water 40 81. -, colo
,sr6 the balance. 29-inch. at Toe. a
yard
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23
New Floor OiIclOth.

Annual early spring sale Is now on
samples of qualities sent anywhere.
Estimates given for covering floors.
It's Meyers way OF selling of large
quantities to cut prices. Who bene-
fits by it more than you?
Regular 25s. quality ISc. square
yard.
Regular sOc. quality, pc. square
yard.
Regular 35c. quality. &C. square
yard
Regular 4Oc. quality, 32c. sauore
yard.
Regular soc. qualify. 371ac. square
yard.
A retail firm decides to give I'D
Wrapper-selling. and turns their en-
tire stock Of 23S Wrappers over TO us
for a mere trine Of their original cost
We are not at liberty to tell you who
this firm is. but they all bear original
price tickets. % you can readily see
what a bargain you are buving.
Not a Wrapper sold for less than Toe
Not a Wrapper sold for more 'nan
$50.
bingham Wrappers, best Percale
Wrappers. fine Satine Wrappers hhe
Calico Wrappers. fine Dimiy wrap
ners. Navy Blues. Blacks, Grays'
Light Colors. including every size from
81 to a bust measure,
DIVIDED INTO TWO PRICE LOTS
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23
Ladies' Cloak Sale
$3.50.
Special Black Goods

For first and second mourning anq
ordinary black wear. Every yaro
sIarautaod. AID sold with privilege or
exchause o. refund OF prico paid.
aO-inch-v.!de Atwood Doubie-Warp
Storm SeYce. 500. value. soc.
f3-inch-wilo ATWOOD French serge,
extra heavy. SEC. value soc.
45..uch-wid. ATWOOD cycle SuitinS,
29c value SOC.
s6'inch-wiae Au-Wool Henrietta,
10: value. Soc.
5l-inch-wide All-Wo0l i-inch Wide
VALE Serge, Toe. value. 81.
WiIe.Waie Cheviot. an wool. b0c.
46-lnch-wide All-Wooi Corded Chew
iotne. SOC: value. T5c. easy
5o-inch-wide Ail-Wooi Cross Weave
Henrietta Cloth. 75c.: value, 81.
45-.nch wide Ali-Wo,i henrietta,
silk finished, ACC. value, sJc.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23
66C a pair
See the Mating Window

A sale that included 900 rolls ans
At prices that are only brought about
bv fortunate purchasing.
Seamless Mating. Japanese weave
Inserted patterns. regular 2oc. qualitN,
1910. a yard. .,. Ill
Very Heavy China Mattiugs, small
ard large patterns, seamless. Zoe.
quality. 1Jc a yatd ,o,,
CHINA Mattings. fancy designs, 125sc.
value. &c. "a yard. -.
Seamless Lineu-N APP japanese MAJ
ting. 80 patterns. 2ic. "A yard
D5uble-Thck China Mattinss, three
and four.stri1g edge l9c.
New Smyrna Rugs, hearth SIZE
fringed 81 ,o
New Door Mats. heavy brush, 5oc.
New line japanese Tinsel DraDery
New Fancy Scrims. 10 inches wide.
nc "A ward.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23
Kid-GlOye Occasion

Every size. 53-4, G. Cit Gl4. G 81,
771-4 six shades OF Tan. Mode. and
Brown. three rows wide Black en-
brolderV. buttons to match shade OF
gloves. Never before have you seen
such Kid Gloves Tor
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23
75C a pair

New Wash Chlmois Gloves. landed
this week direct from Paris-Oousht
under price. and Will be- thlnS OF
memory only in day or t"o-JoO
pnfrs-gNpTV eiZ -
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23
Whitney Baby Carriages

Only place VA Richmond YOU can
get them Thousands OF Richmond
ueoDle can attest they are best ana
lsst longest. Prices from $3.50 TO Si's
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23
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Special Sales.
Rally Around These Ribbons

For IL they remain unsold Saturday
night IL will be because the weather
Will keep you away.
BLACK VELVET RIBBONS.
l2J pieces, l-4-inch wide. 1214o.
quality. Price lac. yard: Soc piece
IL. cards. INA. p.,..
&c. for n whole f0-yard piece,
RLACK SATIN RIBBONS-TadeiaE Edge.
Pure silk. very heavy cuality-SQ
pieces. III inches wide &c, instead Oh
iec: 100 pieces Pinch wide 20. IN
stead OF 2Vc.
BLACK AND WHITE STRIPE RIB.
An-snk No. 4. CSC. yard, instead o.
PLAID TArFETA RIBBONS.
Pure SIX Reversible, ~, inches wio~
29c a ward. instead OF 5Oc.
CHANGFARLE TAFFETA RIBBONS.
pure SIX. No. 50. nearly inchss
wide. a5c. a yard. instead OF ooc'
Ladies' Cloak Sale
Every Ladies and Misses Winter
Goa, IN stock 50 to be sold Sasurdsy
at gbpf,a ~
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23
We've Created
4 New Era In
Clothing Selling.

We've proved that Fine Clothing can be sold
for small prices. We've done it. We doing
it every day. Selling the Finest Suits and Over
coats way below what any oneelse has ever offered
them before. These prices show it:
Mems Fine Worsted and Cheviot Suits So 25
Mems Fine Kersey Cheviot and Melton OverCoats IS
Bows Fine Chevot, Cashmere and Worsted Suits IS
Chdrens Fine Tweeds, WOrsted and Chevot Suits 4 Is
Mems Fine Pants 2 4S and Is
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23

here.
n The weather is propitious this week,
Wells and DObhins Will begin practice.
Freddy" Foster viii 20 70 New York
IA nmc 90 leave with the team for the
South Manager Irwin has divided his men
into TWO teams FOR practice games Foster
is on team so. D.
Leach. who was drafted from tho Nir-
rinia League. has been returned TO the
Portsmouth club.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-04
Practical Poultry Raising.

way. Let us look around us. Who is
it that has made money in the last
few years? Is it the careless and in
different one, or has it been the care
full, calculating, practical man? Take
the farmers for example. There are
only few of them who have made
any money above expenses, but the
ones who have are the practical, edu-
Gated men. [ mean men educated in
their profession. But look on the
other hand. Where there is one farmer
making money, there are several who
are not making expenses.
So we can see that in farming it is
only the man who does his work in a
careful, practical way from the time
he commences to plan what he will
plant and where he will plant it, I'M
til it is harvested and the last bushel
sold.
So if it is only the practical farmers
that can make their profession pay, I
unhesitatingly say it is only the prac-
teal men who can make the rearing
of poultry d success.
There are men who are making it
grand success, but while that is the
case, there have been as many or more
failures made in raising poultry than
in any other profession, and if we are
careful in our investigating, we will
find that nearly all the failures have
been careless, Indifferent men, who
today would claim more money in
poultry than anything else, and to-
morrow so badly discouraged that you
could not get them to say 'chicken."
Who today would pay $500 for trio
of poultry and sell it tomorrow for
$3.50.
1t is wonderful to note the differ
ent ideas such people have about the
housing, feeding and doctoring Of
poultry. Such messes and doses as
poor biddy has to take, it is no won
der so many make it failure. But
dI1 SCCCllIS away IIOA1I MY ouOJONO'
= You want to know what [ call practi-
cal poultry raising.
First, it is taking pencil and paper
and counting up cost of building
suitable for your undertaking, cost of
food and money invested in stock;
counting everything that goes to
make expense, then count money re-
ceived for eggs and poultry and value
of stock on hand, and if you have not
got balance on hand, something is
wrong; find out what that something
is and remedy it or you cannot be
practical poultryman
After deciding that you are going
to raise poultry, study your market
and find out what will bring you the
best returns, eggs, broilers, or a com
bination of both. If you decide in
favor of eggs, then choose one of the
EGG varieties; or if you decide in fav
or of a fowl that is good to produce
eggs and also market fowl, you will
find plenty of that variety to choose
from. [ would advise choosing the
one that you like best, regardless of
other advice, unless you know it is
offered for your good. Then, when
If is DOSSible to do so, start with thor
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-04

clear and you have dollars in your
pockets.
But then, I do not want to dis
courage those who cannot afford to
buy thoroughbred stock; take your
common hens and get a thorough
bred cock and cross on them. and the
difference it will make in your young
stock will more than pay for a few
settings of eggs, and in couple of
years, those in the humblest circ1lm-
stances can have a fine flock of good
poultry.
In buying stock or eggs always try
to buy from good honest breeder
| Do not try to start in breeding all
| the different varieties you find in the
standard of perfection. Two or three
are enough and [ would prefer only
one at first. Never commence before
you are ready. You must have good
warm house for your poultry; if you
| do not, you cannot expect to make it
pay. 1t must be roomy, well lighted
and warm-not heated artificially.
You may venture on that after you
| have had several years experience
with the poultry.
Now you have your poultry and
house for them. They must have
| good wholesome food and have iG as
regular as you have yours. Do not
buy musty or damaged grain because
you can get it cheap; always buy the
| best and a variety of it. Often dis
ease in poultry can be traced towhcre
they were confined to bad and dam
aged food. Commence your doctOring
by preventing all diseases you posi-
bly, can. Give them plenty of fresh,
clean water, and above all do not neg
| lect to keep their quarters clean and
| free from vermin. Remember one
thing from the start regularity i'll
| feeding, and attention is the key to
| success.
1t has been proven beyond doubt
| that where you want two hundred or
more young chicks an incubator is
preferable to hen. One of the great
est advantages of the incubator is
that you have it under your control
md can get out your chicks as early
as you want them, which you cannot
| do successfully with hen.
After you get your young chicks
| out feed them often and keep them
| growing till time for market; the
sooner you can get them in market
after Matching the more will be your
profit.
When you are situated close to
rillage or city, it is best to get Gus
toners to take your eggs and surplus
| poultry. Always deliver them prompt
| iy on a certain day of each week and
never allow a stale egg to go to
customer, and in short time you
| will have customers to take all the
| Eggs YOU can furnish at as much or
more than they sell at from the
| stores.
In selling your poultry, always
have it fat and looking neat and it
will make a good appearance, always
| selling for the very highest market
price. [ have seen very good poultry
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-04

Ship them in separate coops; fowls to
themselves and chicks the same way
Keep each variety separate, if posi-
BILE; it will pay you to do so, as it will
look heater and make a better ap-
pearance and bring you nice profit.
I know this from years of experience
in handling poultry in the city mar
ket. l would advise you not trying
to sell fancy poultry for breeding
purposes until after you have had
some experience as a breeder You
should be familiar with the variety
you are breeding, able to detect the
smallest defect and also to fully I'M
derstand all the good qualities of
your stock; then you will be able to
sell thoroughbred poultry for breed
ing and showing.
Advertise your stock in several
good reputable papers, telling the
people what you have for sale, and
constantly keep it before them, as it
is the one who persistently sticks to
it, that makes it pay. Then attend
your county and state fair with some
your best birds, get acquainted with
the poultry people, talk poultry to
them and listen to them. Tell of the
merits of the varieties. Select a few
of your choicest pairs and send or
take them to the winter shows as it
is in the show room that you will find
out what you have and what it's de-
fects are. The sooner you find these
things out, the sooner you will be
able to remedy them. There are many
poultry raisers, who think they have
the very best, until they show it,
when they find out theirs is not what
they wanted. Let us find out these
things early in our, poultry career,
and it will save us time, which is
money to u.s. Then the show is a
great advertising medium; it is there
that people who are interested, go to
look at the exhibits, ask questions
and often buy. Always be courteous
and kind in answering questions con-
corning your stock. You may not
make a sale then, but your kind and
gentlemanly conduct will win for you
in the end.
In answering inquiries by mail, be
very careful to tell as near what you
have as possible. Never try to make
out your stock better than what it is
to effect a sale, if you do, before long
you will have more complaints than
orders and your career as a poultry
man will be short. Give as good or
better than you have advertised and
you will receive kind and encourage
ing testimonials which will make you
happy and a successful poultryman.
One thing more | would urge, is to
take good poultry literature and keep
yourself familiar with what is going
on in the poultry world. Tell your
poultry friends of your success. Try
to learn all you can to further and
improve your business, and always
be ready to give a weak, deserving
brother friendly lift.-Je jefferson d.
}rice in Interstate POultryman.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-04

w. N. HALDEMAN President of the great Louis.
vile Courier-J Journal, says:
DR. WINTERSMITH-Sir: | waive rule have
observed for many years, the value of your rem
edy prompting me to say it cured two cases OF
chills in my family after many other remedies
had failed. 7 do not hesitate to express my be-
lief that your Chill Cure is a valuable specific,
and performs all that you promise for it.
Very respectfully, WIN. HALDEMAN.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-11-04
POULTRY DEPARTMENT.

Address all communica tons to Poultry De-
partment Box 200, DeLand. Fla,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14
TEN TONS OF GRAPES.
The Marvellous Record of a Single Grape
Vine.
rom The San Francisco Examiner.

From the San Francisco Examiner.
In the rich valley of Carpenteria, in
the most picturesque part of beautiful
Santa Barbara county, is a viticultural
curiosity, almost mOnstrosity. Its 10
cation is comparatively secluded, and
with the exception Of the residents of the
vicinity, few know of the location of a
mammoth grape vine, the largest in the
world,
The massive trunk of the vine is seven
| feet eight inches in circumference, it's
size and appearance suggesting an oak
rather than a grapevine. Its branches
rest on a stalwart frame, covering a
space one-third of an acre in extent 1t
grows rapidly. and would undoubtedly
attain even greater dimensions were 1t
not that the owner, having reached the
limit of the space he has reserved for
his giant vine, and being unwilling to
concede it more room, cuts it back every
year.
The frame over which the vine is
spread is strongly built, as is required
to support the tremendous weight of
grapes annually yielded by the vine.
Sixty stout posts, with heavy cross
beams, form the foundation for the
grape-laden branches. The vine is of
the mission variety, and is so prolific
that in 1893 it bore eight tons of grapes,
and last year the owner took ten tons
from the vine, in addition to as many
clusters as the neighbors cared to carry
away.
This Carpenteria vine is n uch larger
than the celebrated grape bearer of
Hampton Court England, which has
been regarded as one of the horticultur-
al wonders of the world, and by many
claimed to be the largest in existence.
In 1877 a grapevine from Montecico,
Santa Barbara county, was then admit.
tedly the largest in the world. It was
removed in sections and set up in the
Centennial exposition of Philadelphia,
where it attracted much attention. The
Carpenteria vine is now one-third larger
than was the Montecito product when
exhibited.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14

Many times within the last few
weeks it has been stated, on the au-
thority of some one supposed to be in
the confidence Of Senator Hill, that
the senator would soon issue state
ment announcing his purpose to sup
port the Chicago ticket, but for some
reason or other the announcement has
been delayed. But what difference does
it make what Mr.. Hill may say or do,
AS matter of fact, Senator Hill has
practically ceased to be great factor
in the political situation. Nothing he
may do or say is likely to hurt or help
the presidential ticket of the demo-
Gratis.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14
They Paid TO See a Fight

~ was out in the mountains this sum
mer," SAID department clerk to Wash
ington Star reporter. "At the houe c
where boarded there were twenty OF
thirty Washington people. One day a
mountaineer came up to the porch where
we all were seated, dragging a dog that
seemed very loath to move. A short
distance behind him was another man,
also pulling dog along.
Gentlemen said the first man to ar
rive, these hyar dawgs air tn fightenest
dawgs in the mounting. We uns hev a
bet on 'em an we're gwiue ter hev tn
fight in tn stable yander. It'll be til
derndest bout yo' all ever seed. Only
two-bits TO look at It,
"We all went to the stable in which
there was door and window. A ring
was made and the dogs thrown in it
One uttered yelp ana jumped through
the window, the other made a break for
the door.
''Thar they co. shouted one of the
men; follow EN-, gentlemen, eff yo' want
ter see the puFtiest race yo' ever looked
at. They're just taking a run fer exer-
else, an when they get back the bout'll
come off. Wen 60 an bring 'em back
when they get enough warmed up
Then they left; and guess the dogs are
still running, as the fight has not come
off,"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14

And Sewall is something of patriot
himself. The fusion arrangement in
North Carolina was laid before Mr.,
Sewall, and Notwithstanding it was to
cut him out of votes in the electoral
college, he wrote to the chairman Of
the committee as follows:
II believe the friends of bimetallism
ought to vote for an electoral ticket
that will elect Bryan to the presidency
and l thoroughly approve of the policy
which unites the supporters OF free
silver in your state and every other.
at is the peoples cause against mo-
nopoIies, and no local differences or
personal aspiration ought to prevent
union"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14
DOES ADVERTISING PAY?

The success of the opening of the
new store of the Siegel-Cooper Co.,
New York, proves that advertising
pays, and pays well. According to re-
liable accounts 100000 to 10000 people
visited che store on last Saturday night
alone, and it has been crowded every
day since. These immense crowds
were drawn to the store by advertis-
ing in the newspapers. Simultaneous
ly with the opening of Siegel-Cooper
Co.'S. store, Macy O'Neil, Erich Bros,
and Bloomingdale, the other great ad-
vertising firms of the metropolis, an
nounced their fall opening, so as to pre-
vent the new concern from mOnopo-
lizlng the attention of shoppers. These
mammoth department stores secure
trade by studying the art of adyertis-
ing, and keeping their names ana
what they have to sell persistently be-
fore the public. Such houses do not
combine to keep purchasers In the
dark as to prices, so that they may sell
at large profits; but they let the pub
lie and their competitors know what
they are selling, and let competitors
beat them in getting trade if they can.
The policy of these houses is to spend
81 to per cent. of the gross amount
of business in advertising, and it is
just as much a legitimate expense in
successfully conducting business as
store rent or clerk hire, and they spend
as much for newspaper advertising as
they do for either of those items.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14

1t is surprising to many that football
players and other athletes regard a sprain
or bruise of so little consequence. One
reason of this is, they know how to treat
such injuries so as to recover from them
in few days, while others would be
laid up for two or three weeks if not
longer. Writing from Central State Nor
NAL School, Lock Haven, Pa, Mr.. w. H.
Losch, captain of the base club and gym
nasium, says: 81 take pleasure in stat
ing, that the members of our base ball
club and myself have used Chamber
lain's Pain Balm with most excellent re-
suits. l unhestating'y recommend it as
the best remedy for sprains, swellings,
cuts and bruises, of any l know. Fol-
sale by Farrar & Farrar, Druggists.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14

The current campaign in this coun-
try seems to have gotten our British
cousins all mixed up. To judge from
their newspapers comments, they re-
gard the matter as a case of "heads I
win, tails you lose," with Uncle Sam
Tipping the coin against John Bull.
They fear Mckinley with his high
tariff, and they also fear Bryan with
his 16 to 1 coinage proposition. From
their standpoint the outcome will be
against Great Britain, whatever it may
be.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14

Though it is not his first donation,
Mr.. Sewall hes just turned to his check
book and placed 500, 900 in the hands of
the managers of the democratic cam
paign. The contribution is undoubt-
eddy timely one. 1t costs money to
carry on an educational campaign.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14

''For Life' says the leading headline
of a weIl-known contemporary, and as
the reader glances down to see what
poor criminal has received his legal
dues he is perhaps rather surprised to
find that "Joe Jefferson's grand
daughter and Glen McDonough are
Joined"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14

Don't bolt ,ur food, it irratates your
stomach. Choose digestible food and
chew it. Indigestion is dangerous
sickness. Proper care prevents it. Shak
er Digestive Cordial cures it. That is
the long and short of indigestion. Now,
the question is: Have you got indiges-
ton? Yes, if you have pain or discom-
fort after eating, headache, dizziness,
nausea, off nsive breath, heartburn,
langour, weakness. fever, jauBdice, fatu-
lence, loss of appetite, irritability, con-
stipation, etc. Yes, you have indiges-
ton. To cure it, take Shaker Digestive
Cordial. The medicinal herbs and plants
of which Shaker Digestive Cordial is
composed help to digest the food in your
stomach; help to strengthen your stom-
ache. When your stomaohe is strong,
care will keep it SO. Shaker Digestive
Cordial is for sale by druggists; price
10 cents to $1.00 per bottle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14

Hon. VIM. A. Little, of Columbus,
assistant attorney general of the Unit
ed States, assigned to the interior de-
partment, has rendered his resignation
to the president. His successor will
be announced within the next two or
three weeks. Mr.. Little was appoint
ed at the request of ex-Secretary Hoke
Smith, and it is said that he re-
turns to Georgia to becomes candidate
for the supreme bench.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-10-14

Chronic constipation is painful, dis
agreeable and lfe-shortening difficulty.
1t deranges the system, causes sick head
ache, bad breath, and poisons the blood
1t can be readily overcome by DeWitt's
Little Early tisers. The little pills are
great regulators.
SALE-DAVIs DRUG Co,