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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04
(Modern Machlnery.)

Capitalists of Baltimore are
engaged in an enterprise destined
to have a marked effect upon
transportation between North
and South. The scheme COM
templates the general enlarge
ment of the Dismal Swamp
Canal and the restoration of that
ancient waterway to something
like its former Importance as a
means of bringing freight from
the Carolina rivers into Chesas
peake bay.
This statement arouses far
difernt images in the mind than
would the announcement of the
invasion of commerce into any
other as small region in the
United States. 1t is like reading
Of electric lights i'll kenilworth
castle or a railway past Auld
Kirk Alloway; it disturbs one
of the few haunted spots in
our new country, opening it up
to the light OF day that is SO un-
kind to ghosts. The many tradi-
tions of the Dismal Swamp make
it a legendary land; the impene>
trability, the desolation, the
half savage fugitive slaves who
once inhabited it, living by
woodcraft, the very name of it
breathing desolation, aid the
gruesome interest attached to it
by Moore's exquisite ballad "The
Lake of the Dismal Swamp"
have invested it with a fasclna>
ton whose counterpart is to be
found only in the weird tales of
Edgar Allen Poe. His "Ullalume'
partakes of the same hopeless
ness and horror; only the half
mad could go there, and once
there the spell Of the lost is upon
them and they never come back.
The images of the Dismal
Swamp are Indefinite If the
boundaries Of the "Night's plu-
onic shore" were given, it would
occasion no more necessity for
mental readjustment than to be
told that the Dismal Swamp lies
Just south of Norfolk, Va, be-
tween Chesapeake bay and
sound, and directly
west of Cape Hatteras, off which
SO many good ships have found
cred in ths last $50 years and so
many souls have hastened to
their account. This is the reason
for the canal. 1t is but twenty>
two miles long, from Deep Creek
to Pasquotank river, to connect
two inland seas less then fifty
miles apart, but it will cut off,
for shipping purposes, the most
dangerous part of the Atlantic
coast from Charleston to New
York.
There has never been a time
when this region of the Dismal
Swamp did not excite fascina-
ton and horror. The earliest
account of a passage through it
is by Colonel Byrd, of Westover
Mansion, Va, who surveyed the
boundary between the colonies
of Virginia and North Carolina
in 1928. He said briefly in his
sedate report to the Governor:
Until this time the dreadful
swamp was ever judged impass-
able" but what images those few
words conjure up. We can pict>
ure him, white handed, urbane,
in velvet and lace. ruf1es, with
his silk incased legs under his
own mahogany and his hand on
decanter, relating to his fair
daughter, Evelyn Byrd, who was
to win the homage of London
gallants,. to suffer blighted affect
ions and early death, how he
went.
Through tangled juniper, beds Or reeds,
Aud many fen where the serpent feeds
And man never trod before.
And the black boy who stood
behind his chair may we'll have
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04
i Richmond Virginia.

Consignments of North Caro-
lima Herring solicited, and pro-
ceeds relnitted in cash.
On account of our intimate
acquaintance and frequent trans
action with the grocery trade of
the West and South we are able
to handle N. c. Fish to the best
possible advantage, and we are
known everywhere as the largest
distributor IN this market.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04
Everybody Says So.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won
derful medical discover OF the age, peas
ant and refreshing t. the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispcl colds,
cur" headache, fever, habitnal constipation
and biliousness. Pleaso buy and try u box
Of e.. T.. G. to-day; 10, -, 80 cents. Sold and
guaranteed TO cure by all druggists.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04

been the first slave who eveI
heard described the desolate re-
gion where SO many OF his race
were to find refuge from the
consequences of crime or the
uncomfortable burdens of servi-
tude. Before the French and
Indian war it was believed that
fugitive slaves were living in the
swanps, but the horrors to be
encountered and the jungles OF
nolsome vegetation to be peneN
trated prevented white men from
following them, so the despera~
ton of outlaws was added to the
other terrors and the region was
avoided. The depths of the sea
would not hide a man more
securely. Nearly thirty years
after Colonel Byrd's surveying
expedition, Scotchman by the
name of Drummond penetrated
to the very centre Of the swamp,
discovered lake, and named it
after himself-a name that was
never very generally accepted
for very early in the present
century Thomas Moore, who
escaped the irksome duties of a
consulate in the Bermuda islands
by travelling in the United
States, wrote the mourning
ballad, "The Lake of the Dismal
Swamp" and by this name only
has the melancholy sheet of
water been identified in literature
for nearly hundred years.
In 1868 George Washington,
then only 81, explored the swamp
and, as he quantity says, "encom-
passed the whole of it," With
some knowledge Of the sciences
and civil engineering he made
the first discoveries of import :
ance about the region. He canped
one night on the past shore and
discovered that the mysterious
lake was some twenty miles in
circumference and that it was
situated "neither on a hollow
nor a plain, but on hillside"
a phenomenon to be seen in the
mountain bogs of ireland. The
lake was found to be in the mid
die of swamp or bog thirty-fve
by over twenty miles in extent,
and to comprise an area of over
900 square miles. The whole
region was literally a hillside, a
slope that connected the two
parallel coast plans of Southeast
Virginia by gradutl rise Of ten
to twenty-five feet above the
sea level.
This is how the swamp appear
ed to George Washington, and
all undeterred by the many diff
cult;es in the way he planned an
waterway through it,
believing that not only would it
furnish transportation, but that
it would serve to drain a region
of great fertility. The Revolu-
tionary war interferred with the
out OF this scheme, but
in 1857, the Dismal Swamp
Canal company was chartered
by Virginia and North Carolina.
The charter powers of the origin
al company are such as no Legis
Iature would now grant, the
franchise and privileges going
Herewith being perpetual and
irrevocable. 1t was opened for
traffic in 1924 and almost im~
mediately became paying in>
stitution. Porte Crayon, who
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04

Health and happiness are relative
conditions; at any rate, there can be
little happiness without health. To
give the body its full measure OF
strength and energy, the blood should
be kept pure and vigorous, by the use
of Ayers Sarsaparilla.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04
DISMAL SWAMP CANAL.
Enterprise That Will Have a
Marked Effect on Trans
portation North and
South.
PLANS OF BALTIMORE
CAPITALISTS.

CANAL TO BE ENLARGED AND
RESTORED TO IT'S FORMER
IMPORTANCE AS AN INLAND
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. RE-
GION THAT EXCITES FASCI>
NATION AND HOEROR--CELE-
BRATED IN SONG AND STORY.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04

Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever be mag
netic. full Of life. nerve and vigor, take No-To.
Bac, the wonder-worker that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure guaran-
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04

It's the best thing for the
hair under all circumstances.
Just as no man by taking
thought can add an inch to
his stature, so no preparation
can make hair. The utmost
that can be done is to pro-
mote conditions favorable to
growth. This is done by
Ayers Hair Vigor. 1t re-
moves dandruff, clcanses the
scalp, nourishes the soil i'll
which the hair grows, and,
just as desert will blossom
under rain, so bald heads grow
hair, when the roots are nour-
ished. But the roots must be
there. If you wish your hair
to retain its normal color, or
If you wish to restore the lost
tint of gray or faded hair use
Ayers Hair Vigor.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04

No-To- Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. soc, 81. All druggists
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04

Halls Hair Renewer is pronounced
the best preparation made for thicken-
ing the growth of the hair and restor-
ing that which is gray to its original
color.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04

Candy Cathartfc. cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. II c. c. G. fail, druggists refund money.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04
ASK the recovered

= ASK the recovered
dyspeptics, bilious suf-
k1kk1kllg&kEsLSs. s.erers, victims of fever
and ague, the mercuriai
III XA diseased patient, how
S~ they recovered health
>6V&Z2 <Esss cheerful spirits and gooI
EMAS@.A11 ZlFFTa appetite: they will tell
WzagA&zsI;yzE E'.* BY t:ss:.sos' ;:s:s: s's"'"'
The Cheapest, Purest and Best Family
Medicine in the World!
For DYSPEPSIA. CONSTIPATION, Jaundice,
Bilious attacks, SICK HEADACHE, II Collie Depres-
sion of Spirits. SOUR STOMACH, Heartburn, etc.
This unTivaled remedy !, warranted contain
single particle OF NEEcURY or any mineral substanos,
PURELY VEGETABLE,
containing those Southern Roots and Herbs which an
al-%lse Providence has placed in countries where
Liver Diseases most prevail 1t will cure all
Diseases caused L. Derangement of the
The SYMPTOMS of Liver Complaint are bitter
or bad taste in the mouth Pain in the Back Sides or
stomach; Loss of Appetite; Bowels alternately
costive and lay Headache: Loss of Memory with =
painful sensation of having failed to do something
which aught to have been done: Debility; Low
Spirits; thick yellow appearance of the Skin and
Eyes dry Cough, often mistaken for Consumption
Sometimes many Of these symptoms attend the
disease, others very few but the LIVER the largest
organ in the body generally the seat of the disease
and if not Regulated in tme great suffering wretch.
edness and DEATH will ensue.
The following highly persons attest to the
virtues of SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR Gen w S.
Holt, Pres. Ga. S. W. K. X. Co. Rev. J. R. Fielder,
Perry, Ga; Col f. K Sparks Albany Ca. G. Master
son, Esq sheriff Bib CO. Ga A Butts cambridge,
Ga. Rev. J. w Burke, Macon, Ga: Virgil Powers
Supt Ga S W. X. R; Hon. Alexander H Stephens
We have tested it, virtues personally and know
that tor Dyspepsia 3 lousness and Throbbing Head.
ache is the best medicine the world saw We
have tried forty other remedies before Simmons Liver
Regulator, and none OF them gave more than tenn
porary relief the Regulator only relieved but cured
us--kD. TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER MACON ca
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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04
Safe at Franklin Opened,

Professional cracksmen have
struck Franklin Va. "Wednesday
morning the door of the Atlantic
and Danville ticket office was
forced, and the safe on the inside,
owned by Agent A. L. Gardner
was cracked. About $50 in cash,
a gold watch, and others articles
of value were stolen. The key
to the ticket shelves was also
missing, and for awhile some
trouble was experienced before
the pasteboards could be gotten
at.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04

The Wilmington Messenger
figures up that along the Will
1nipgton and Weldon Railroad,
in the vicinity of Wilmington,
five million, one hundred and
twenty thousand quarts of straw>
berries have been shipped this
season, which brought six huns
dred and forty thousand dollars
in the market. When it is re-
membered that this is one of the
spring crops, let alone the sum-
mer and autumn crops, person
will have no difficulty in figuring
out that Eastern North Carolina
is the worlds choicest garden
spot, and a mine Of wealth to
the industrious and persevering.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-06-04

Health and vigor are essential for
success Therefore make yourself strong
and healthy by taking Hood Sarsapar-
i111
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
"The most subtle and deceitfuI hope

s'The most subtle and deceitful hope
which ever existed, and one which
wrecks the happiness of many a
young girls life," writes Evangelist
Dwight L. Moody, in the June LADIES'
Home Journal, sis the common delu-
sion that woman can best reform a
man by marrying him. Tt is a mystery
to me how people can be SO blinded
to the hundreds of cases in every
community where tottering homes
have fallen and innocent lives have
been wrecked, because some young
girl has persisted in marrying a
scoundrel in the hope of saving him.
I have never known such a union,
and [ have seen hundreds of them,
result in anything but sadness and
disaster. Let no young girl think
that she may be able to accomplish
what a loving mother Or sympathetic
sisters have been unable to do. Be-
fore there is any contract of marriage
there should be convincing proof
that there has been real and thorough
regeneration"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
"Friends In Common"

There is no more continually COM
mitted inelegance of speech than the sub
stitution of mutual friends for "com-
mon" friends, according to Vogue, which
says: Many fairly we'll educated per-
sons are apparently unaware that they
are speaking incorrectly when they re-
fer to mutual" friends. In general con-
versation it is certainly the exception
when common friends is used. Even
those whose training in rhetoric keeps
them from misapplying mutual" rather
shrink from using the word common, !"
its significance in so many other con-
nections being the reverse of compli-
mentary. Indeed, in many cases it
amounts to stigma-as she is "com-
mon" woman, they are very common. :"
Tt is used as nearly Synonymous with
vulgar, the latter implying somewhat
more of self assertion. To employ a
term which is never used in an exclu-
sive or faJtering sense to designate ones
friends goes against the grain, even
though it carries the mandatory rule of
the rhetorician. A certain woman, who
is disturbed by this divergence between
the correct and the agreeable, somewhat
softens the statement by putting it in
the form of friends in common
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
LIVE STOCK MARKET

Sheep and Lambs-The supply fell off
little from the large amount that was
eceived last week, but this had no effect
n the prices. The latter remained at
steady figure and was mistaken by the
mount received during the week. Buy
fs of the stock were generally active
md took up offers at prices obtained a
Feek ago, although large sales were few.
Northern and Eastern Beef Cattle
receipts very light. They sold at the
anne prices as last week.
WI Western Cattle-None offered on the
lbme market or consigned to Eastern
ilaughterers. They were wholly for
ne export trade.
Veal Calves-This stock was the only
ne on the market in which there was a
Mango of condition. There was a
mailer supply than last week, but this
I'd the effect of sending the prices UP
& higher than last week. This was the
My rise of the market.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

introduced. One Of Virot's imported
models has a double crown of bright
green straw yelled with tulle, the feath-
ers set at the side, while large gold
brimmed hat had crown resembling a
large bee in black lace, with couple
of feathers at the side.
There is a new rich magenta peach
tint which is becoming and has been
most successfully applied to bonnet Of
darker tone of straw, with violets and
peoples. Certainly the newest make OF
ribbon is MORE, with an almost imper-
ceptible watering, employed for erect
bows, and the lily of the valley is a ia
vorite flower, especially when mingled
with gauze.
Among gems in way of victorian
headgear is the victorian turban, a re-
production of the turban headdresses
worn at the beginning of the century,
adapted to our era. 1t is made of black
chiffon drawn on wire, SO that it as
sumes the rounded shape necessary, and
is literally trimmed with roses and TO-
liage and an osprey.
Many new notions prevail in straw,
and black hat with soft cream lace
crown, gathered in the center beneath a
diamond ornament trimmed with shot
silk and duets, is quite original.
The new canvas hats are singu1arly
pretty trimmed with brown velvet and
a quill, and so are the small waved
toques, with high straw crowns and lace
brims, which minimize the troubles OF
the amateur milliner. Then there are
flexible straw hats shaped to set back on
the head when the hair is dressed la
pompadour. To wear with lace and or
candle dresses are garden party hats of
straw, lace and flowers. The brims are
not wired, but bend in irregular fashion
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

There is probably no kind of fruit
better adapted to hen than the
plum. And the difficulty of growing
this fruit, because of curculia attacks,
is so far obviated by flock of hens
that combining the two is an advan-
tage to both. A farmer who had a
plum orchard from which the fruit
regularly fell before ripe never sue
ceeded in getting a crop until he
transferred his hens to the orchard
and kept them there till the plums
were ripe. The fowls needed less food
than when kept in close quarters, and
gave better returns.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
BOSTON PRODUCE MARKET

#Meal-Cornmeal is firm, on the strong
eR position of corn, but quotations are
not yet changed: Barrel cornmeal, 81 As
ID so; bag meal, 67@69c; yellow granu-
sated, $2@2 Is; rolled and ground oat-
.neal,$2 95@3 So; cut,$3 55@3 rs; graham
FTe, 50@55c per blu.
Muttons and Lambs-Lambs and Nut
{0ns are rather easy, with veals appar-
atty a little frmer: Lambs, Springers,
3DG20c; fall lambs, 9@915c for choice;
Brighton and fancy, 9@1Oc; muttons, Z
27815c; yearlings, 7@Sc; veals, 6@9c;
3hncy, $4,000.
title changed. Straw continues dull and
#asy: Choice hay, S17@17 so; ordinary,
l2@15; rye straw, $14@15; oat straw,
Nos so; sack spring bran, $11@11 25;
rack winter, s12 25@12 so.
&#Potatoes-Old potatoes are firm. New
NJ uthern are little easier: Hebrons,
#0G75c per bu; green mountains, 65O7Oc:
aAaine and New York white, 60@65c; new
#outhern, extra, So 50G4 per Dbl; fair to
bod, 81 50@3.
Corn-Corn is very firm: Chicago No.
N yellow, to arrive, 35c; country yellow,
~. The spot market is firm: Track
Manner yellow, 3412@34Ac; steamer
liked, nominal, 1917 @34c.
#Dats-Oats are very steady, with fair
H Ade: Track. So to 40 10, 29c; No. 1
#EppeI, 2S1a M29c; No. clipped, 28c: No
C.
AN Beef-Only a fair trade in beef is noted,
Hth little change in prices: Choice
Mk ers, SIC; good, SIC; light and cows,
&c.
NJ Apples-Apples are in small offering,
|#At h the demand dull: Russets, 81 5000;
Hdwins. out Of cold storage, $500 80.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
NEW ENGLAND's SUMNER RESORTS

NEW ENGLAND's SUMNER RESORTS
The summer season will soon be up
on us, and then comes the task of
selecting the vacation grounds.
New England in Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont has hundreds
of resorts which are visited each year
by multitudes of tourists and to these
resorts, which include the mountains,
the seashore and lake regions, during
the periods from June 1st to Septem-
Der 30th the Boston & Maine Railroad
will have round trip excursion tickets.
This company also issues an excur-
sion book which. is replete with in
form alton for tourists and travellers
regarding routes and rates to all
points in Northern New England;
while list of the leading hotels and
boarding houses of this region is also
included in this book, which is sent
free to any address upon application
to the General Passenger Department
of the Boston & Maine Railroad, Bos
ton.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
OUR FARMERS.
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

The annual loss to this country by
the depredations of insects is estimat
at $3.50, ZOO, 900, without including the
labor and cost of insecticides used as
preventives.
The peach tree is renewed quickly
by severe cutting back. 1t has hap
pened that when tree was apparent
ly dead cutting away the old wood
and allowing new buds to grow made
almost new tree in a year or two.
An English gardener says: sIt may
not be generally known that if leaves
or litter be placed on the tops of
horseradish crown foot Or so thick
the plants grow through them in the
course of the summer, making small
white roots the thickness of ones
finger, which are as tender as spring
radish and much preferred to the
tough, stringy stuff we usually get.''
The increase in the price of wheat
may encourage western farmers to
extend their area of spring wheat, but
as the home market is very large
there may be only a small surplus to
ship abroad. 1t is estimated that five
bushels of wheat must be retained for
each inhabitant of the United States.
With our population of 70, 900, the
country must keep at home the en-
ormous amount of $50, ooo,o 900 bushels.
The Russian thistle, which was con-
sidered dangerous pest in the west,
has not spread very rapidly, as was
expected. It seems to thrive best on
alkali soils, and is not partial to every
kind of land. Though it is not a de-
sirable plant to have on the farm, the
farmers who have learned how to
keep it in subsection no longer fear
it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

A visit to one of Uncle Sans mod
ern battleships leads one to marvel
how the navy ever got along without
the aid of electricity. The multifari-
GUS functions performed by electric
currents on the man of-war of today
are bewildering in their number and
ingenuity. From the ordinary push
button to the searchlight and the Ar
dois signals, ammunition hoists to
range finders, steering gear to cabin
lights, electricity is depended upon
to do it's work instantly and faithfully
at any time. The electrical engineer
counts for great deal in modern
naval affairs Electrical ReuieU.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

A cooking school formula for the
PREPARATION of beef tea that is nutri-
tious advises: Take beef which has
been freed from all visible fat, and
chop it not too fine, add pint of
cold water, and stir with a wooden
spoon until it is PUPPY. Then let it
stand in the icebox for two hours.
Put it into a porcelain kettle; add
little salt Or a bay-leaf,o or a Glove or
stick of celery. When the kettle is
on the fire it should be stirred con-
stantly until it has reached the
steaming point. 1t must never boil.
The white of an egg is used to clarity
it, and it is strained through a double
cheese cloth.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21

Duffins-Oh, don't believe in long
engagements! Why, I didn't know
my wife six weeks before I married
her. Mufins-Ah, I didn't know
mine until a month after I married
her.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
WOMEN AND FASHION.
Fashionable Millinery For Summer Wear.
Friends In Common" = Learn
ing to Ride a Wheel.

Large hats made in fine black chip
are a feature in this seasons millinery,
and an admirable example had a wreath
Of roses carried round the crown, the
rest of the trimming being principally
lace. White ostrich plumes appear on
black hats, and in a great many hats
and bonnets killed velvet or ribbon is
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
Learning to Ride

An article much used in cycling
schools abroad, capital for assisting
both teacher and pupil, is leather belt
fitting the waist, some six or eight
inches deep. Behind it is furnished
with handle, which the teacher holds
in her right hand, thereby supporting
and regulating the riders movement,
while with her left she guides the ma
chine.