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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-09-11
q Verifabie Democratic
Tidal Wave.

Mondays State election i'll
Arkansas was a Veritable Demo~
cratic tidal wave. According to
the latest count, Colonel Dan w.
Jones was elected Governor by a
majority of $1,000. This claim
is disputed by the Republicans,
who place the figures at $4,000.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-09-11
4 STATE p.
4ormaI aud industrial
SCHOOLS.

DEPARTMENTS we'll equip
ped p teachers; 444 regu-
lar students, besides practice
school of 81 pupils; $50 matric-
0ates since its opening i'll 1892;
90 OF the 96 counties represented.
NO free tuition except to appli-
tantS signing a pledge to become
teachers. Annual expenses of
lree-tultion students boarding in
oofmltories, 500; tuition paying
students, $50. Address, Presi~
Dent CHARLES D. MCIVER.
Greensboro, N. C
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-09-11
Is Encouraging. Dishonesty.

No, sir; l can't support Mr..
Bryan"
"Why not?"
"He's encouraging dishonesty,
that's what he's doin'." n
Chow so?"
"Well, tn day he was in town
we all went out or tn sidewalk
to see him go by, and derned ef
same onary cuss didn't sneak in
tn back door an steal two roll
in pins an a mop handle. -
Cleveland PLAIN Dealer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-09-11
rDc UNIVERSITY

20 Teachers, 534 Students,
Tuitiou 500 q year, Board 98
~. lit dollars) a month, 3
Full College Courses, 3 Brief
Courses, Law School, Medical
School, Summer School for
'rc4chcrs, Scholarships and
loans for the needy.
Address
PRESIDENT WINSTON,
Chapel Hill, N. {.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-09-11
PICKING COTTON.

OF Hard Times is done forgotten
Country's gone ter piCkiu' cotton:
Pick away.
Pick away
Pick away down south i'll Dixie!
o cottoa-shc is 4 big dccciver
Love her SO dat des can't leave her;
Pick away,
Pick away
Pick away down south III Dixie.
Start dcs soon as de v vhite folks let you;
Git dc mule FUN de mortgage, bet you.
Pick away,
Pick away
Pick away down south III Dixie
0 pick right OH 'twell you roll i'll riches
Waltlia' ca2e Ell par er britches;
Pick away.
Pick away
Pick away down south in Dixie
+. L. .SLgRLIH.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-09-11
ssiorn,
OF Spirits

50 common in summertime
accompanied by loss Of energy,
lack OF thought-poWer, means
a deficient supply of nourish-
ment, The vital force is lost.
Itisn't aquestion Of muscle and
sinew, but of resistance and
endurance. At any age, but
especially in youth, it involves
the risk of lung g'disease. Loss
of flesh and a cough are threat
@~i,,r c,j0nc
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-09-11

For the news-all the news
fresh and unbiased, you must,
read the Fisherman & Farmer.
Don't borrow it, subscribe I!
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-09-11
AS They Should Have Done.

The Washington, D. c., police
refused to carry the Hon. Ii
Hung Chang in his bamboo
chair.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-09-11
Newport News Military
ACADEMY.
NearOld Point Comfort, Va.
Classical, Scientific, English
and Commercial Courses.

Five States, Dominion Of Canada,
and District of Columbia represented
last year. The instructors are degree
graduates and men OF experience, rep
rcscnting the Johns Hopkins Unycr-
sity, the V. NJ. l., the University Of
Virginia, Randolph Macon, and Will
liam and Mary Colleges. the Ncwbcrry
College 5. G.. and the National Penn
Art Hall and Business College Of Ohio.
The Boarding Department is strictly
irst-class; carpctcd and papcrcd rooms,
lighted by electricity, and furnished as
a frst-Clasj Hotel. Hot and cold water,
baths, sc. Location unsurpassed.
Terms very low for advantages offered.
Write for Catalogue.
Il. w. Huffman, Principal,
Newport News, Va.
Third Annual Session opens Scptcm-
Der 9, 1896.
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EDUCATIONAL.
gas atlantic collegiate
Institute,
A School for Both Sexes.
ELIZABETH CITY,.N. G.
The 10tN 4nnuut Session
opens Sept. . list, 1864

This school prepares for business life
or for entrance to higher institutions Of
learning, including the t. S. Military
and Naval Academies.
Exceptionally fine advantages offered
i'll instrumental and vocal music.
Diplomas are awarded students COM
plcting courses of study.
Students of this school are admitted
to the University of North Carolina and
to Wake For College upon Cirtili-
cate.
Full faculty of six regular teachers
besides special instructors.
Rates Of tuition and board very low.
Write for Catalogue.
Address,
-. 4. Sheep, President.
Elizabeth City, N. c.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-09-11
FIREiv VEGETABLE.

'tfta'''.s 3 -,....-lp Roots and Herbs which an
~ "ts. 'E.s.Gzn.s n.s laced In countries whera
Liver i's.1.'s most IgcvaI. IL will euro All
i'-':t-c> crus"d ~ Derangement of tho
liver '.rd E'ovYri-.
L. SYMPTOMS & Liver Complaint arc a hitter
"' 't taste a. th~ r,h Pain in the Back Sides ox
! ..r's. ..va mistaken Tor Rheumatism: Sour
N''ntao',; LIS e. appetite: Bowels alternately
'".aF. arI Lex. Headache. Loss OF Memory, with a
~ "lI sensation H having tliled do something
Nt.-n ~. "l - hAy- bcva done, Debility; Low
.pir';H: tas / yellow appearance uf the Skin and
Lyes t'y ioas IA. often mistaken fuE CunNun,ption
Sos4ctnv' n,suy Il these symptoms attend the
disease. ", uH,r~ yrH sW hut the livER the larsest
orS' 10 tn body, *, morally the ni the disease
and H nos Regulated IA time. great AuticTng wrstch-
ctness and DEATH viii cuSuc.
ihS following highly esteemed persons attest to- the
virtues oi SINIu>s lHNiK EFGuIAruR. Gen W $
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son. >3.~rrri0 Ehh Co. ga, a Butts Bainhridge
ga. Rev. J. ". burke Macon Ga: Nirra Powers
Supt. Ga. =. ". K. X. Hon. Alexander II stephens
Nc hA.a ,,s,rl it, virtues reasonably and know
that t"r Dyspepsia. BhuUsncss and Ihrubbng Head.
.ohc, Il IS ,hc best mrdytas tho world ever saw We
have rt," touy oascr remedies before simmons Liver
Er."','r AMI none uf ihela gave w. more than TEN.
p,.,r r.H.i tha Regulator only relieved but cured
Us. .. -. l:II, rAyif AND AhssuSuER MACON Ca
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II[l SG;lllIIlS5iiq1l

of Cod-liver Oil, with the hypo-
phosphites, meets these cases
perfectly. 1t tones up, fattens
and strengthens.
In SCOTS Emulsion the taste
Of the oil is fully disguised,
making it almost as Palatable
as milk.
Eor sale at soc and $1.oo by all druggists
scoTT g. DoWHE, Mfg. Chemists New xors
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-09-11
ESTABLISHED 1886.
District @ @

ASK the recovered
dySpeptics. bilious suf-
tercS. victims Of fever
and ag1Ie. the mercurial
diseased patient, how
they recovered health,
cheerful spirits and good
appetite. they viii tel
yeu by taking SIMMONS
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This paper for sI.oo a year.
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rOFlL NOIFE r. FREE

-, c,,..rv entertainment or excursion
.-,r which the printing is done at the
Fisherman 6; Farmer Job Printing
IT,. corner Water and Matthew SITS.
And We propose to do the printing we'll
md at Il moderate price.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-23

me DR.. Miles, NERVE PLAsrERs for sPINAx
WEAKNESS All druggists sell 'em for 25c
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-23
What Do They Care for Experiences.


To open the tloodgates and permit the
worlds volume of silver to flow to our
minis to be coined at sixteen to one i'll
the hope and belief that the market val
ne of silver would be thereby advanced
to S1.29 an ounce seems to me to be n
dream so extravaganza as to be beyond
the possibility of realization. If free
coinage by this country alone would
not only arrest the decline of silver, but
restore it's market value, why is it that
such a result has not been attained in
the countries where free coinage is per-
mitted? The mints of Japan, Mexico
and several of the countries of South
America-Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador
are to-day open to the free and unlim-
tied coinage of both gold and silver, yet
in no single instance can it be shown
that the bullion value of silver has been
kept at a parity with its coinage value.
More than this, NO nation on the globe
to-day has it's minis open to the free and
unlimited coinage of both gold and sill
yer that is not confessedly on a silver
basis with gold at premium. What
reason have we, therefore, as a nation
to expect any different results if we
should venture on such an experiment?
From reason and experience am forced
to the conclusion that to open our minis
to the free and unlimited coinage of sill
YER at the ratio of sixteen TO one with
out the cooperation of the leading COM
mercial nations of Europe would quick
| ly plunge the nation to silver basis
monetary system as to involve its total
J destruction.-Hon. J. c. Burrows.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-23
RUSSIA MOVES FORWARD.
Abandons the DEPRECATED Silver None
Standard and Adopts Gold.

Abandons the DEPRECATED Silver Money
Standard and Adopts Gold.
After more than half a century's ex
perience with silver monometallism and
fat money Russia has adopted the gold
standard.
This has been done in pursuance OF
Russia's determination to press forward
in the march of the nations.
In 1889 the silver ruble was estab.
lished by imperial decree as "the legal
and unalterable metallic unit of the
money current in the Russian empire
Russia has found that she cannot keep
the pace of other great nations with a
silver standard and has therefore
changed to the gold standard.
Silver will still be freely used in the
Russian currency as it is in the. cur
rency of all nations which have the gold
standard, and lao, 900 ounces of sill
yer are to be purchased to take the place
of about one-fourth of the Russian
paper currency.
The adoption of the gold standard
will therefore result in a great i'm
provement of the monetary system oil
that country. Twenty-Five years ago
the Russian ruble had a purchasing
power of IA cents in gold. 1t has fallen
ITO about 40 cents, owing to the immense
increase in the production of silver and
the general adoption of the gold stand
ard by the civilized world. -
Russia has acted wisely in abandon
ing deprecated money standard, and
the adoption of the gold standard will
make the empire a still more powerful
factor In the affairs of Europe and the
world.--Atlanta journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-23
THEY HAD KNOWING HENS.
How a Proud and Sensitive Fowl Asserted
Her Dignity.


He was being interviewed on the
poultry business by a Wabash Times
reporter when he said: 81 don't want to
boast, but do think we have got the
knowingest hens in the world in our end
of town. have flock of 200, all black.
1t is a theory of mine that black hens
lay better than those of any other color.
One day found hen in my flock with
few white feathers in her tail. Icalled
the hired man and told him to catch and
kill her. You can't rely on the laying
capabilities of hen with white feath-
ers,' / said. The hen gave me a sorrow
full look, but did not say word. Next
morning the hired man told me that he
could not find her. A month or two
later opened pile of potatoes had
stored in the cellar and found big,
hollow space in the center of them.
There was a bunch of black feathers in
the place with three white ones stand
ing up in defiant sort of way. Behind
the feathers were &C eggs. Recognized
at once that it was the work of the miss
ing hen. The proud, sensitive creature
had slowed herself away and worn her
self out laying eggs to prove that the
sdeorv vas mistaken one"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-23
BITS OF HISTORY. .
Curious Facts About Swearing Vice Pres
idents Into ONCE.


Curious Facts About Swearing Vice Pres
idents Into ONCE.
More than once in our history the
vice president has been sworn and in
Quoted into Office sooner than the presi-
dent, says the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
This was the case of John Adams, who
took the oath and became president of
the senate and vice president of the
United States nearly a month before
Washington's first Inauguration; it was
the case with Millard Fillmore, whoe it
is said, took the oath on Sunday, March
4, falling on that day of the week in
1s40, while Taylor, the president-elect,
being rigid Sabbatarian, did not per-
init himself to b sworn until Monday.
1t is said that in 1877, when March 4
again fell on Sunday, Wheeler, the vice
president-elect took the oath on that
day, while Hayes, having religious
scruples, put Off the matter until Mon
day. Of these cases, however, the most
peculiar was that of 1889, when, the gov
eminent having just been put in opera
ton, presented the curious spectacle of
vice president without a president.
At the time, however, the matter seems
to have attracted little attention or re-
mark, and is now remembered only as a
historical curio.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-23
Thousands of Hens on One Ranch.

Some hopeful spectators who have
been counting unmatched chickens are
about to start poultry ranch near San
Francisco which IS to be the largest i'll
the world. 1t is toreach its full capacity
in three years, when it is to put on the
market annually 100000 eggs and co.
900 chickens for broiling. The plant
will include two incubators, with a ca
pacity of 1000 eggs each, and no end of
houses and pens, which will be con-
tanned in 4o-acre ranch. There will be
900 hens laying for the incubators and
10000 laying for the market-Chicago
Chronicle
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-23

me and again in the 10th century by
Nicholas Copernicus. Coming down &c
1917, Sir Isaac Newton, at that time
director of the mint of England, de-
clared:
"If silver leaves the shores of Eng
land in crowns or in ingots, the produce
of coins remelted, and gives place to
gold, it is because the value which the
monetary legislation assigns to it, in re-
lation to gold, is not correct"
Apply the lesson practically to our
own money. With, free and unlimited
coinage of gold and silver at the ratio Of
sixteen to one silver recommendation
would result, and the measure of the
value of our dollar would be 37114 grains
of silver, worth about 10 grains of gold.
But the advocates of silver coinage
insist that with 371A grains of silver
admitted in unlimited quantities to the
minis for coinage, free of charge, the
bullion value of this number of grains
would necessarily be equal, before coin
age, to the coined dollar. This is true.
and it would be equally true of 100
grains, or of one grain, if admitted free
and in unlimited quantities to coinage.
Indeed, if chips were admitted free and
in unlimited quantities to the privilege
if being stamped into dollars, the chips,
before they were stamped, would be
worth as much as the dollars after they
were stamped, but unfortunately the
dollars would be worth no more than
chips.
Another favorite argument of the free
silver advocates refers to the experience
of France, and they have claimed all
over the country that France, fro-r .S93
to 1874, by fixing legal ratio for the
coinage of silver and gold lat fifteen
and one-half to one), kept the CONNER.
cial ratio between the two metals at the
same figures. This inaccurate state
ment has been one of their principal
arguments. If they will really examine
the history of France, they will find that
before 1920 the difference between the
value of gold and silver ex-
ceeded fifteen and one half to one, and
France became silver monometallic.
Later on, between 1910 and 1850 the
difference was less than fif-
teen and one-half to one, and France be-
came gold monometallic.
From 1899 to 1860 the subject of coin
age of gold and silver was frequently
by American statesmen, and
no suggestion can be found, from any
of them, that the government could
overcome even small difference in the
value of metals by free and
unlimited coinage at fixed ratio.
This country failed to add three per
cent. to the value of silver and make.i it
equal to ratio of fifteen to one with
gold prior to 1884, and it failed to add
six per cent. to gold and make it equal
to a ratio of one to sixteen with silver
subsequent to 1910.
No limit can be placed upon the mass
of silver still unmined. Good authority
indicates that the present annual vol
ume can be produced for about 60 cents
an ounce. 1t is impossible to place and
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-23
WHAT MAKES THEM PooR7
A Free Silver Kindergarten Lesson for
the Benefit of Those Who Need 1t.

| A Free Silver Kindergarten Lesson for
the Benefit of Those Who Need 1t.
What is it makes some people poor?
The crime of 1873.
How did that "crime" cause poverty
By strilsing down one-half of the
| money of the country.
How much silver money was there in
the United States in 1873?
Less than $sO,O0O,O00.
How much have we now?
Six hundred and twenty-five million
dollars.
Does this increase of about $3.50, o00,-
900 look like a reduction in the volume
of our silver money?
So Senator Stewart says
What causes floods, droughts, weevil,
bollworms, grasshoppers, gophers and
other evils which injure the farmers
and planters crops?
The gold standard
What will make the cows give more
milk, the sheep grow more wool, the
hogs weigh twice as much and the hens
lay bigger eggs?
The silver standard.
Name some of the silver standard
countries?
China, India and Mexico.
Are the people of these countries more
prosperous than the American farmers
and workers?
No; they are great deal poorer.
Why has not their silver money made
those countries richer?
Ask something easier.
If there are more poor people in silver
standard countries than in gold using
nations, how would free coinage of so
cent dollars abolish poverty in the
United States?
This is one of the things that nobody
can find out.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-23
For Sale by All Druggists
SOME HARD FACTS.
They Hit Telling Blows Against Free
Coinage at Sixteen to One.

They Hit Telling Blows Against Free
Coinage at Sixteen to One.
Hon. Hoke Smith, secretary of the in
terror, delivered speech in New York
on May 16 on the currency question.
1t is speech that should be read by all
who buy and sell or who vote or have
influence with voters. 1t is as follows:
The people of this country make their
contracts payable in dollars. Uncer-
tainty as to the meaning of the word
dollar must create doubt as to the effect
Of contracts and general distrust in bust
ness.
The dollar of the United States at the
present time has a distinct meaning.
It is equivalent to 1922 grains of pure
gold. Paper dollars are mere promises
to pay in coin. Silver dollars, while they
contain bullion worth only about so
cents each, have been surrounded by
safeguards of legislation limiting the
number coined and supporting them by
the credit of the government, so that
they have been kept on a parity with
gold dollars. Observation-Disclosures
one-hundredths grains of gold therefore
measure the value of what is meant by
a dollar, when the term is used for
trade here, and this has been true for
about so years, with the exception of
the period during which paper dollars
were deprecated.
Upon the floor of the house of repre-
sentatives in 1853, when the bill was
pending which made fractional cur
rency subsidiary, Cyrus L. Durham, Of
Indiana, who had charge of the bill,
said:
IAN objection urged against this pro-
posed change is that it gives us gold
standard only. Gentlemen talk
about double standard of gold and sill
yer as thing that exists, and that we
propose to change. We have had but n
single standard for the last three or four
years; this has been and now is gold; we
propose to let it remain so and adapt sill
YER to and regulate it by gold"
After this long experience in the use
of dollars based upon 1922 grains of
gold the advocates of silver demand its
free, unlimited and independent coinage
at the present ratio.
This is really proposition to remove
from silver dollars the safeguards of leg
islation which surround them, to with
draw the limit and to take from them
the support of the government. tits an
effort to reach bimetallic currency by
the free and unlimited coinage of two
metals at fixed ratio which places 100
cents worth of bullion in the gold dol.
lar and so cents worth of bullion in
the silver dollar.
Theexperience of every country which
has attempted the free and unlimited
coinage of the two metals at a ratio dis
regarding the commercial value of tho
bullion of each metal put into dollar
has been the coinage and use of the
cheaper metal and the loss as money o.
the more valuable metal. The prin
ciple is thus expressed by Sir Isaac
Gresham:
"If debased coin is attempted to b,
circulated with full value coin, all o.
the latter will disappear from circula
ton, and the overvalued and DECEASED
coin will alone remain, to the ruin O.
our commerce and business"
This indisputable doctrine was laugh
in the 18th century by Nicholas Ores
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-02

The following tribute 10 1.-THE Soldier
is from the pen Of Hon. NJ. II. Bryan. u
the Nashville Bar. lt was written as a
school defamation for his son:
The soldier is the guardian OF liberty.
the prcscrvcr of peace. the zoe Of anarchy
and the hope 81 the oppressed For the
contest DE lves-for victory he dies. His
blood has crimsOned the sod in every land.
his sword has flashed meath every sun.
LOYAL 10 his commander. he follows
where he leads laughs a. danger. and
halts not before a soldiers grave.
Though he has fought under every BAN
ner. has upheld the tyrant on this throne.
and OFT defended the wrong. yet through
him has right triumphed, and IN him
found its ahlcst defender. His victories
mark the milestones along the road from
Paganism 10 Christianity. civilization and
enlightenment until the history Of every
nation may read in the prowess and
character of it, soldiery.
I'm this fair land. whore the skies are
ever blue where the flowers in sweet per
lection bloom. and gentle winds blow
health TO all. the ideal soldier has stamp
eI forever his personality upon the ample
page Of history He WAS great IN war. but
gentle i'm peace. pure In life. but with
purpose strong he lived and died. the en-
bodlment OF all that was noble in men,
a soldier and patriot his sword cleaned
in the sanguinary glare OF battle 10 be
sheathed only when his countrys cause
was lost. But
Never hand
Waved sword from stain as free.
Nor purer sword led drawer band.
Nor Drawer bled for a brighter land
Nor brighter land had a cause so grand,
Nor cause d chief like Lee"