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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
A Poster Widow.

At a shop window, full of bright and pref
ty garments made for women, two young
women gowned in deep mourning fingered
to look and admire Behind them stood an
other woman, and, without any intent to
listen. she overheard this startling revela-
ton from one in the deepest crepe bands
and veil:
Yes; don't they make lovely things now
adays? 1t seems to me that clothes get
gayer and gayer all the tin {, just because
1 can't wear any of them. / just hate these
old black clothes. Mamma says I'm wicked
but 1 can't help it if am. OF course, /
loved Harry, and l mourn his death; but
it couldn't be helped, and l don't see why
L should go all my life looking like a guy
just because he had to die. He wouldn't
like it himself, / know he wouldn't; he adj
mired pretty, bright clothes just as well as
do, and he always wanted me to wear red
all the time. Well, I've got on bright things
underneath, anyway. You needn't look
shocked, for / have. I've got on bright-rcd
stockings, and a red corset, and a red silk
petticoat-the reddest thing you ever saw.
Mamma thinks it is dreadful. She says /
look just like poster and L suppose l do,
but can't help it. Harry used to like red,
so I'll wear black outside to satisfy the
world-the stupid, conventional world; ana
I'll wear red undergarments TO please my
self. If l ever lose another husband
though, of course, never, never intend TO
marry again-never-I won't put on one
stitch of mourning-that / won't; it is
heathenish, anyway you know it is"
Inconsistent Woman.
At German school small Amel en-
ry eight wears old is laboring Il =. uire
that foreign language, and at home - his
mothers great Distress he f-l1ueNtiy inter
sperses his conversation With ogee' phrases
picked up from his associates on the play
ground. Mamma" he said one day, leave
me go out and play with Dcky Dobbs?'
Henry, Henry" his mother cried, where
do you get such queer talk? Leave me go?'
Why don't you say let me go?' -
Young Henry turned and appealed to his
father: Now. papa, just listen to mamma;
amt she funny? She sends me to that
school to learn Dutch, and then she gets
mad at me when l talk it,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

With whom should / correspond TO gain
some information regarding Jamaica, West
Indies FL. G.. Il.
You could write to Louis A. Dent United
States consul, Kingston, jamaica or to the
colonial secretary, Kingston. The govern
ment publishes an annual handbook.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

I Corinthians. vii. sl-They that use this
world. as not abusing it.
James IL, 1+-What is your life?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06

Please give me the main reasons that are
urged against compulsory education? What
States of the United States have adopted
compulsory Observation-Disclosures
We have never heard any reasons urged
against compulsory education. Every State
in the Union has a compulsory education
law of some sort.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
Officially Notified.

Washington, April 26.---The
following Geographic instruc-
tons were sent last night to all
the United States Legations
abroad
"a Joint resolution of Con
gress, approved April 20, direc>
ted the intervention Of the Uni
ted States for the paci6cation
and independence of the island
of Cuba. The Spanish Govern,
ment on April 2 informed our
Minister that it considered this
resolution equivalent to a decla-
ton of war, and that it accord
ingly withdrew its Minister
from Washington, terminating
all diplomatic relations, Con
gress has therefore, by an act
approved today, declared that
state of war exists between the
two counties, since and inclu-
ding April Fl. You are there
fore requested to inform tie
Government to which YOU are
accredited so that its neutrality
may be assured in the existing
war"
(Signed) SHERMAN.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29

thusiasm before there was Bed
lam let loose now, and while the
cheers went up as heartily as
ever there burst from certainly
thousand Threats the famous
rebel yell. 1t came from all parts
of the house. For quite a time
this continued, men and women
Joining in the uproar, the ladies
leaning out OF the boxes and wav-
ing their handkerchiefs while
the Southern air way played.
The audience had hardly quiet
ed when a man in one of the
boxes leaned over the rail and
yelled, "Who says we are not
ready for WARP" and the house
went wild again, with another
combination of "Union cheers"
aud "rebJ yells." Then some
one Ill the aisle~called for three
cheers tor "Our flag and our
country, the North and the
South-We're all ready" and
the previous scene was repeated.
When the STARS and Stripes"
was sung there was still another
demonstration, and then FIVE
thousand tired aud hoarse indiv-
lduals took themselves home
New York Herald.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29

and would return to Cuba at the
head of an army, proved interest
ing reading for General Lee,
who said after he read it, that
he would like nothing better
than to face Weyler with an
army. General Lee appears to
think that the proposed delay
IN sending troops to Cuba will
prove somewhat dangerous.
The rainy season sets in on the
island at about the middle Of
June or the first of July, and he
had hoped that the troops would
be sent at once to Cuba, and
that the fight. as far as driving
the Spaniards from the island,
would have been over before
the rain began to fall, for if
Americans unaccl1mated are
on the island after the
rainy season begins they will be
very apt to contract fever.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
REBEL YELL.
NO NORTH NO SOUTH,
5000 Persons Engage in a De-
monstration When The Band
Plays "Dixie'

There have been some lively
scenes in the theatres of late
when the "Star Spangled Ban
ner' was played, but none OF
them equalled the extraordinary
demonstration Of last night at
the Metropolitan Opera House
when Sousa's Band played the
National anthem and then
swung into "Dixie."
1t was Sousa's last Sunday
night concert, and the house
was packed with an audience
that made even the top gallery
black with a dense crowd 1t
had been announced that Sousa S
1.-The Stars and Stripes Forever"
would be given during the even
ing, and that the principals and
chorus mem bers of the De Wolf
Hopper and the "Bird Elect"
companled woul take part with
the band. The audience had
come with the idea Of "lettipg
itself loose" when the proper
time came, but they did not wait
for the advertised number, but
caught at the first opportunity
that presented itself.
In response to All encore call
alter a suite played by the band,
Susa gave a medley Of such airs
as yankee Doodle and March,
ing Through Georgia" and the
house was fairly on fire with
enthusiasm in an instant. Men
b>gan to beat time with their
feet and pound canes, while a
RATHER OF applause that grew
louder and louder almost browns
ed the music.
When Sousa finished there
was roar of cheers from the
house, and the band at once be-
gan the Star Spangled Banner"
In an instant the entire audience
from orchestra rails to top gall
lery, sprang to their feet, Whirl>
wind of cheers going up, and
hats, handkerchiefs, and canes
being waved in the air.
During the playing of the
entire piece the demonstration
kept up, and when it came to
conclusion with the final crash
Of music from the band, the
scene beggared description. An
encore was demanded, but Sousa
stood calmly aN aiting quiet but
he would not go OIL. Then, when
he could be heard, he said:
"Ladies an d gentlemen, 1t
seems as though the only appro
pirate encore that | can give III
these days is "Johnny, Get Your
Gun" but there's another air we
all will cheer to night. and turns
ing to his hand, the musicians
swung into "Dlxie."
If there had been orderly ell
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
The St. Louis Goes into Com
mission TODAY.

New York, April 2o.-The
steamship St. Louis went into
commission this morning VIXEN
she left her pier at the foot of
Fulton Street, Brooklyn, at
eight thirty>6ve. Coal passers
worked all night, placing six
thousand tons in her bunkers
She was saluted from all sides
as she left the pier in Brooklyn.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
FITZ LEE FESTIVE.
He is Anxious to Fight the
Spaniards in Cuba.

General Fitzhuhg Lee left Rich
mond yesterday for Washington
The General appears somewhat
restless under the restraint placed
upon him by the delay in send
ing troops to Cuba. He is anx-
lous to get back to the island
and attack the Spaniards, and
predicts that if he is put in
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
Must Enlist For Two Years.

Washington, April 20. The
letters sent by the War DEPART
ment t. the Governors Of the
different States notifies them
that enlist1nents must be for two
years unless sooner discharged
The Adjutant General to be in
formed when each states quota
is rendezVoused.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
10000 MEN
OFFERED
BY GOMEZ.
The Commander OF
The Cubans Will
Aid in A ttacking
Havana.

Havana. April Is. via Lon>
don).-Captain General Blanco
cables to Madrid that he can de-
feud Havana without the aid of
the Spanish warships.
Gomez announces that he will
aid the United States with
thirty thousand men III attack
ing Havana.
Washington, April 20. Co
mez has notified the United
States to send arms for the in
surgents.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29

Berling, April 26. 1t is au
nounced semi officially that Ger.
many has not issued a declara
ton Of neutrality, in order that
she may preserve Freedom of &C
ton and be i'll position to inter-
vene if considered necessary.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
"Dirty American Pigs"

New York, April 20. The
steamship Saratoga, the last
Ward Line steamer to leave
Havana arrived here this rorn>
ing. The Captain reports that
he was attacked and fired upon
by Spanish soldiers, who called
his passengers dirty American
pigs"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
EVerYbouy oays so,

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de!f"I N, deal disco cry of tie age, y cas-
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and pos lively on kidneys. liver and bowels,
cur" headache. fever, Eaitua cons tipatton
and biliousness. Please biIy and try q box
OF {. {. &. to-day; 10, 25 ~ cents. Sod and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
a ~ onNc-ruf E.sccr.rr-.

The last quarter of a century rccur,t;
many wonderful discoveries in medicine.
but none that have accomplished more f.
humanity than that sterling old household
remedy, Browns Iron Bitters. 1t seems to
contain the very elements of good health
and neither man, woman or child can take
1t without deriving the greatest benefit.
Browns Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29

The autograph letters testifying to
cures made by Ayers Sarsapaailla and
other preparations are kept on fl at
the !. c. Aver & Co. S Office, Lowell,
Mass, They are from all over the
world and are cherfully shown to any
one DESTROYS of seeing them.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29

charge of troops down there, he
will make quick worl: of Blanco's
army. The announcement from
Spain that Weyler had con-
ferred with the Queen regent,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
What the Ply stefan Said.

when my little boy was two years
old eruptions appeared on the back of
his eirs which a physician said were
Caused by scrofula. His face became
mass of sores. The doctor presCrib
ed Hoods Sarsaparilla aud he took
it until he was cured and entirely free
from eruptions." A. J. SLATER, Poca,
w. Va.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
cLoTHING-

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this kind We stand alone in the Clothing business thousand dollars
Boys from 50 $loo
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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
Wash Goods and White Goods.

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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29

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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29

HOODS PILLS cure all liver ills
Mailed for I5C. by c. l. Hood & Co.
Lowell, Mass.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-04-29
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The age-herald., 1898-10-28
The Cold Wave.

The mercury in this city fell yesterday
 morning to about 35 degrees, and a frost
 lay on town and country as severe and
 biting perhaps as any that was seen last
 winter. The freeze was not as deep and
 the wind as bitter as on the Tuesday be-
 fore Ash Wednesday last spring, but the
 frost was as plentiful yesterday morning as it was on any day of last winter. And the best of it all is, this frost probably covered every portion of the south, southern Florida alone excepted. Some frost at least must have been seen in Mobile and New Orleans and Galveston and Jacksonville.
 Coming a month earlier than usual, this
 frost is worth big money to the south. It
 caps and clinches, so to speak, the light
 frosts and low temperatures of the last two
 weeks, and makes yellow fever a mere memory. It re-opens every town and every
 railroads, and steamboats can stop at a landing without encountering the wan with a shotgun. The south has resumed. The
 only known exception is the governor of Mississippi, who is somewherein the back
 districts as punishement for continuing in office board of health that assumed the negroes of Jackson were immune That as- sumption transformed the governor of the state into an exile, to be polite. He was driven out of his own capital, and is even yet out of reach except by telephone.
 Mississippi has a duty to perform, and she should do it fearlessly. Louisiana should assist her. The two states, neither of which is as exposed to fever germs as
 Florida is, have vexed and disturbed and damaged the south and through the south the entire country, two successive years, and the country is getting tired of such work. All know that 1t is primarily due | to the want of sanitation, and secondarily | to a want of vigilance in the germ-incu- | batting period of the year. There should be
 a change. Louisiana and Mississippi should either clean up and stay cleaned up, or l else they should fence themselves in.
The age-herald., 1898-10-28
Senator Morqan Tonight.

At Seals hall tonight Senator Morgan will discuss the questions of the day, par ticularly those that relate to our new pos- sessions and to trade in the Pacific. There is not a man in the country who has given more time and more thought to such ques- tions, and there is not a man in the land who has more thoroughly mastered them. And when you think of 1t, there Is not a man in or out of congress whose plans and policies are materializing so rapidly and numerously as Senator Morgan's. Some of them were first developed years ago, when they were received, perhaps coldly, but if Alabama's senator ever laid down propo- sition or policy that was in the long run rejected, The Age-Herald cannot recall it. His foresightedness is becoming proverblal. Go out tonight to hear "the Grand Old Man of the state. His age has not dim med his powers in the least. He is nearly ten years the junior of Senator Morrill, of Vermont who will doubtless be a candidate for reelection.
The age-herald., 1898-10-28
More Schooling Needed.

Down in Selma a beautiful pair of stand ard-bred ponies, owned jointly by Chief Dawson and MT. w. H. Williams are to be rallied in aid of 'school on Range avenue in the vicinity of the Cowthon cotton mills'' ''Remember, adds the Selma Journal "a chance in the ponies means an additional months schooling for some little child who would not otherwise have the opportunity to learn to read and write.'
 It is reflection upon the state that ponies have to be given in order to pro- cure facilities of common school education anywhere within her limits. It is an ex- planation at once of the states high per centage of illiteracy and low percentage of wealth.
 The raffle is highly creditable to the gen. erous men who have provided the ponies, put IL IS uol creultdDie to the Sldle II CHe raffle be not held some little child, says the Journal, must go githout an opportuni- ty to learn to read and write. In other words, the state would let that little child grow up mentally crippled and compara- lively unproductive. As an economic policy the state is making a sad mistake. Every child that is permitted to grow up without learning to read and write is hampered in the race of life, and the aggregate ham, pering is seriously felt in the tax returns and in the general condition of the state. The schools of the state are at low-water been in a worse condition than they are today. Close and competent observers do not hesitate to say that they are worse
 than none The system needs rebuilding, and above all else it needs enlarged ap- propriations. The townships need terms of six months, and that too, without the aid of rallies or private contributions of any sort
The age-herald., 1898-10-28
Death of Col. Pickett
From the Tuscumbia Dispatch.

From the Tuscumbia Dispatch.
 Colonel R. o. Pickett, the oldest member of the Florence bar, and who stood at the head of his profession for many years, died at the home of his son-in-law, Paul S.. King, at Leighton, on last Sunday morn ing at the ripe old age of S5 years. Colonel Pickett was born in Virginia in 1923, his father coming to Limestone county, Ala, in 1892, where he lived the remainder of his life He began life as a merchant, but not succeeding he wished, studied law and began it's practice at Moulton and repre- scented Lawrence county in the legislature in 1S49. He remained in Moulton until the outbreak of war. In 1862 he raised a com pany-Thirty-ifth Alabama infantry. In 1863 he was commissioned colonel of the Tenth Aalabama cavalry, and served with this regiment until the close of the war. At the close of the war he returned to Mouiton and resumed the practice of law, but in 1867 he removed to Florence, where he has since taken an active part in poli- ! tics. He was the father of nine children of whom only two are living. -+
The age-herald., 1898-10-28
Sanitation and Quarantine.

pr. Souchon, chairman of the Louisiana board of health, has called a convention to meet in New Orleans in December. The Memphis convention Is to be held in No vember. The former is planned to be a sanitation convention. and the latter na- tional quarantine boomer
 The two hitched together would about fill the bill. Wake up the towns, coun- ties and states to the preventative value of sanitation. Bring home the fact that yellow fever germs cannot be multiplied or even matched except in stagnant water of filth of some kind-that filth and fever germs go together It is the states duty to enforce cleanliness. It is particularly important that cleanliness should be en- 1roced in the gulf states. Florida compels her towns, both big and little, to clean up, and to stay clean. She is as immune as Pennsylvania or Virginia. Her wells. and outbuildings and drains and pools are in- spected. Sanitation is enforced in that state, not simply suggested. The average town will not act upon suggestions. The strong hand of the law is needed. Penal ties of the strongest sort are absolutely es- sential. Tyranny in behalf of the public health is defensible and unavoidable.
 Besides sanitation by the state and local committees, national quarantine Is need ed. It is needed at the ports for the pur- pose of keeping germs out of the country and 1t is needed in ba xxrba and wherever germs gain foothold. As soon as case appears the national author ities should take hold of the entire situa- tion. The Mississippi policy has broken down. The Florida plan would do, but pr. Porter is confined to state lines. He can- not cover the country, and there are no in- dications that Mississippi or Louisiana would accept the rigid Florida plan.
 There is no way out of the disgracefuI and damaging scenes of the last two years but through internal sanitation backed up by national authority at the ports, and elsewhere whenever the plague becomes manifest. How far federal authority can be extended in the way of discovering the eAi9'ehSo oi the uisease Hldy De an open question; but as soon as the disease is recognized the federal authority should take hold, and be given all needful sup port in its efforts to crush out the disease But sanitation of the right sort and na- tional authority at the ports, together win the cleansing of Havana, would obvi- ate federal interference in the interior. There need never be another case of yellow fever in the interior districts of the coun- try. But there surely will be unless local sanitation is sternly enforced and con- tnuously maintained. Sanitation and federal quarantine are strong team but the more efficient of the two is local sani- tation.