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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-08-23
A Powder Mill Explosion

Removes everything in sight;
so drastic mineral pills. but
both are mighty dangerous.
Don't dynamite the delicate
machinery of your body with
calomel, croton oil or aloes pills,
when DR.. Kings New Life Pills
which are gentle as a summer
breeze, do the work perfectly.
Cures Headache, Constipation.
Only IS cents at Standard Phar-
macy.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-08-23

The Methodist Sunday school
excursion to Mays Head Tues
day was a success. The crowd
was not as large as was expected,
but it was all the more pleasant
on this account. Mr.. Winder,
the popular assistant superin-
tendent of the S. S., looked out
for the young people.
Young ladies who desire to
make college preparation for
teaching will find it to their int
crest to write to Pres. Rhodes,
Litt,eton Female College, Lit
Teton, N. G. This Institution
enjoys great prosperity, is ofer>
ing scholarships 20 worthy app
1icants and has money to lend to
needy students.
Among the crowd that went
on the Methodist excursion to
Mays Head last Tuesday were
Mr.. Ma1tby and Mrs. Swindell,
both of this city, who decided to
try matrimony for the second
time; consequently they went to
Manteo Immediately and JUS
tice of the Peace performed the
ceremony. The couple returned
to this city Tuesday night. We
wish them a long and happy
life.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-08-23
Volcanic EruptiOns

Are grand, but skin eruptions
rob life of joy. Bucklen's Ar
MICA Salve cures them ; also Old
Running and Fever Sores, VI
GERS, Boils, Felons, Corns, Warts,
Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Scalds,
Chapped Hands, Chiblains
Best Pile Cure On earth. Drives
out Pains and Aches. Only IS
cents a box. Cure guaranteed.
Sold by Standard Pharmacy.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-08-23
$500 REWARD
s. L. SHEEP, Pres,
Elizabeth City. ~. c

We VIII pay The above reward Tor any case Of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache In.
dig stion, Constipation Costiveness we cannot
cure with Liverita. the Up-todate Little Liver
Pill when the directions are strictly complied
with. They are purely Vegetable. and never fail
Ioc boxes contain 20 Pills, sc boxes contain IS
Pills. Beware of substitutions and limitations.
Sent by mail stamps taken. NERVITA MEDl-
CAL c., cor. Clinton and Jackson SITS, Chicago
III. For sale by Standard Pharmacy, Elizabeth
CITY. n c.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-08-23

| returned from deft1OrQ, Wnere
they spent several days very
pleasantly.
Messrs. w. II. Weatherly and
Wesley Williams have returned
from Wilmington. They report
a royal time.
Mr.. T. P. Wilcox, deputy col
lector of internal revenue, wen,
to Plymouth last Thursday on a
business trip.
Mr.. E. f. Sawyer has returned
from Berkeley. where he has
been spending several days Wis
iting friends.
Mr.. Geo. H. Riggs, of South
Mills, was on the streets Mon>
day shaking hands with his
many friends.
Mess. F. H. Ship and w. c.
Sawyer left Saturday night on
the Kitty to spend several days
at Mays Head.
The Misses Lucille and Fran
els Sanderlin, of Brambleton,
Va. are in the city visiting rela.
t1ves and friends.
Mrs. Sarah White, of Wintall,
is visiting the family of Mr..
Alex Davis, On corner of Martin
and Pearl streets.
We are glad to know that Mr..
James Madrin. who has been
very i'll with typhoid fever, is
able to be out again.
Mr.. Vernon Godfrey, who was
recently hurt in a ball game,
was brought home last Monday,
very much improved.
Misses Louise and Ella James,
who have been enjoying the sea
breeze at Mays Head for
month have returned.
Mr.. Geo. Smith, who spent
ten days very pleasantly at
Mays Head, returned to the city
last Saturday morning.
Try our sodas and phos>
pilates. All favors. Elizabeth
City Dairy Lunch, Poindexter
street, next door to P. ..
Capt. E. L. Mason and family,
of Norfolk, are in the city, the
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. Ii:
Wood, in Fearing street.
Miss Jennie Salomonsky, who
has been in Norfolk and New
port News visiting relatives and
friends, returned Monday.
Miss Ida J. Flora, who has
been spending the summer at
Mays Head, has returned, to the
delight of her many friends.
Miss Harry Arundel, of
Berkeley, Va, who has been Wis
iting Miss Sanderlin, in Main
street, returned home to day.
Mrs. D. A. Sawyer, of Prin>
cess Anne county, Va, is here
on visit to her mother, Mrs.
Lou Jones, in Fearing street.
We can please the most fas-
tidious smoker. A large line of
cigars to select from.
Standard Pharmacy.
Misses Lucy and Annie,
daughters of Mr.. w. N. Gregory,
left yesterday for Norfolk to
spend several weeks with friends.
Mrs. Seth Morgan, who has
been a guest at the home of Mr..
w. J. Broughton, returned yes
terday to her home in Norfolk.
Mrs. Samuel Wilson and Mr..
M. L. Sanderlin, both of whom
have been seriously i'll with ty>
phoid ttsver, are slowly improv>
ing.
We are pleased to learn that
Mr.. Charlie {. Allen, who has
been i'll at his home in South
Road street, is rapidly improv~
ing.
Col. E. w. Hoffman, of News
port News, Va, was in the city
asst week in the interest of the
Newport News Military Acad-
envy.
The family of Capt. Davis, of
he steamer Neuse, have re-
:urned from Mays Head, where
hey have been for several
Prof. E. T. Burgess of Shiloh,
Ind Miss Irene Wright, of
passed through the
city last Thursday on their way
to Salem.
Our subscription list is grow
100. 1.~o~e~ e1,arx, Io1, To>,sf wa
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-08-23

made us a pleasant call.
Mr.. W. 2. Mckee, of Ports
mouth, arrived Monday and is
stopping at the Central.
DR.. A. L. Pendleton, who has
been spending the summer at
Mays head, has returned.
We were pleased to have Mr..
J. A. Evans, a prominent citizen
of Manteo, call Saturday.
Mr.. M. N. Sawyer left yester
day for the seashore, where he
will spend several weeks.
MIS-. w. 7. Broughton and child
rem are visiting relatives in the
lower part of the county
MI. H. T. Greenleaf, who has
been on business trip to MOI
folk, returned last Friday.
Our Strawberry Freeze is quite
popular these hot days.
Standard Pharmacy.
Hon. J. H. Small will speak
at Currituck Court house On the
1st Monday in~September.
Mr.. S. S. Barcliff, who has
been on a visit to Norfolk and
Berkeley, Va, has returned.
Mr.. Vim. Hinton, of Norfolk,
is visiting the family of Prof.
S. L. Sheep, in Road street.
Mr.. Henry Jones. of Edenton,
spent Tuesday night in the city
returning from Mays Head.
Mr.. R. J. Mitchell who has
been spending several weeks in
the mountains has returned.
Mr.. Alex Wadsworth and
wife, of Norfolk, are in the city
visiting relatives and friends.
Don't forget home enterprises.
Subscribe TO the FISHERMAN &
FARMER. Only sI.oo year.
Miss Linda Spence, who has
been spending several weeks at
Mays Head, returned last week.
Mr.. Burfoot Clarendon, of
Coinjock, was in the city last
Saturday morning on business.
Our cream is delicious this
hot weather. Call and give it a
trial. We can please you
Elizabeth City Dairy Lunch,
Poindexter St., next to P. 0.
Mr.. Frank Thrift, formerly of
this city, but now of Edenton,
spent Sunday here with friends.
Mr.. J. w. SharbeE and family
have gone to Clifton Springs to
spend the remainder of the sum-
mer.
Miss Maggie Spruill, of Mack
ey's Ferry, passed through the
city yesterday en- route to Nor
folk.
Messrs. Dave Sharber and
Billie Williams went to Roper
City yesterday to spend several
days.
Miss Clara Weeks returned
Tuesday from Hartford, where
she had been on a three weeks
visit.
Bring your job work to the
FISHERMAN & FARMER office,
corner Poindexter and Matthews
streets.
Call and examine our choice
inc of perfumery and toilet ar
ticles. Standard Pharmacy.
We are pleased to learn that
Mrs. J. Y. Old, who has been i'll
or several weeks, is greatly inns
proved.
Mr.. c. w. Grice and wife,
Who have been enjoying the sea
oreeze at Mays Head, have re-
turned.
Mess. w. w. Mcpherson and
T. J. Gregory, of Camden coun
y, were visitors in the city
Monday.
DR.. Mcmillan and T. p. Nash
re having a cement pavement
placed in front of their places of
business.
We were pleased to receive a
all from our friend, DR.. J. L.
4eggett, of Hartford, one day
asst week.
When fatigued drop in and
nv our Lunch. Elizabeth City
Dairy Lunch, Poindexter street,
lext door to P. 0.
Misses Elite and Evelyn Ayd
EFT will leave nax+ Monday for
oxford to enter Oxford Female
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-08-23
LOCAL AND
PERSONAL

The steam 9r Haven Bell is
here for rePnlrs.
a pleasant shower fell here
Monday aft, moon.
Mr.. Henry Bright is spending
this Week It Mays Head.
Hon. Z F. Aydlett returned
from Me- Bern Tuesday.
Mr.. P. H. gregory is off or a
BUSHES trip to Virginia.
Mr.. Logan Olo went to South
Mills Monday on business.
Miss Mamie Red returned
Tuesday from Berkley, Va.
Mr.. VIM. Halstead, OF Camden
County, was here Saturday.
Mr.. w. T. Williams is of on
visit to friends IN Norfolk.
Mr.. James Hui came over
from Mays Head this week.
Mr.. N. Tucker, of HEREFORD,
was at the Central Monday.
Mr.. D. J. CLOWN, of Camden,
was at the Central Monday.
MIR. ]. H. Parker, of Her tford
was at the Central Tuesday.
Miss Bette Mann is visiting
Mrs. w. J. Griffin in Manteo.
Quality and not quantity is
what you want. Give us trial.
Mr.. w. G. Coppelsmith has
returned to his home in Norfolk
We keep stationery that will
suit you. Standard Pharmacy.
Miss Mamie Smith, OF Man
teo,is in the city visiting friends.
Mrs. J. L. DeCormis, of Shaw
boro, was in the city last week.
Mrs. w. J. Woodley and chil>
dren went to Mays Head Tues
day.
Mr.. Frank Morgan, of Norfolk
was a visitor in the city yester
dey.
Mr.. Charles Benbury and chill
dren are of on visit to Hertz
ford.
Mrs. B F. Gum is visiting
relatives and friends in Hertz
ford.
Cool and refreshing drinks at
our fountain.
Standard Pharmacy.
Nh. Hayward NJ. Crowson went
to South Mills yesterday after
noon.
Miss Mary Grice left for Port
smouth, Va, Saturday to visit
fl lends.
Miss Louise Drummond, of
Norfolk, is visiting friends in
the city.
Mrs. L. Turner, of this city,
is visiting Mrs. J. 7. Gtandy in
Norfolk.
Squire ]. K. Abbott and 7. NJ.
Abbott were here Monday on
business.
Mr.. David Simons has just
returned from an extended trip
out West.
Capt. r. E. Lee, of Edenton,
called at this Office yesterday
afternoon.
Mrs. E. J. Shepherd has res
turned from a pleasant visit to
Roper City.
Miss Inez Reid, after spend
ing several nays at Mt. Herman,
has returned.
Mr.. S. E. Speight went to
Mays Head Saturday and re-
turned Monday.
Mrs. J. B. Leigh is visiting
relatives and friends in Bruins
wick county, Va.
Accuracy and purity guaran-
teed i'll our prescriptions.
Standard Pharmacy.
Rev. R. A. Willis went to
Manteo Friday to conduct Quar-
terly Conference.
Mr.. William J. Crowson, Jr,
Of South Mills, is in the city Wis
iting his brothers.
Mr.. L. S Gordon left Monday
for Baltimore to purchase his
fall stock of goods.
J. A. Whitehead, Esq, of Cam
den County, was visitor in the
city last Thursday.
Messrs. l. NJ. Meekins and D.
o. Newberry left for Colum bia
Yesterday morning.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-19
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

OF the total track mileage in Englund1
one-third is owned by the public.
Silk worms. in Flammarion's ex-
periments. have attained their maxi
mum production in white, red and blue
light.
Measurements by an American mi
croscopist to test the theory that the
red blood corpuscles vary in size in
different races have failed to show any
marked differences.
Recent explorations show that Brazil
could, if pushed, furnish so per cent.
more raw rubber than at present and
that the possibilities of Africa as a
rubber exporting continent are linn
itless.
Aberdeen (Scotland) has become the
great center of the Scotch fishing in
dustry. No fewer than 140 steam
trawlers, rs steam liners and so other
boats are engaged in fishing. These
land on an average something like $40
tons of fish every week.
But for the severity of Siberia's eli
mate great deal more gold would be
mined there. As it is, about one-tenth
of the worlds supply comes from there.
The immense coal deposits have hard.
ly been touched. One mine, with siS
beds, contains as much coal as all the
deposits in England.
The effects of hunger when pro-
longed are found by Prof. Lassignardie
to be much like tbo.e of drunkenness
At first the intellectual powers become
unusually active and the imagination
runs wild, then there is change to ex-
citability, selfishness, cruelty and
weakened faculties.
Experiments have for some time been
made in England with smokeless coal
This peculiar fuel may be burned eth
er in an ordinary CRATE or in basin
in the middle of the room without de-
veloping any perceptible odor or smoke
at any time. The fire looks like the
finest coal fire, and the flame is white
and blue.
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push us away to get back to the sa-
loon, but l held your aims and
screamed, and we were both arrested. :"
"Jndge," said the husband. please
give me six months and disc& arge my
wife. Drink gets the better ST me at
times. and | make a brute o. myself"
Il want six months, too. y he gets
it," spoke up the wife, ''for its more
my fault than his that we rtand be-
fore you to-day"
"Your fault?" gasped the husband.
"No, no, Jennie; it's mine, it's mine"
81 say it's NINE" remarked; the wife.
Don't you remember. John, what you
said to me yesterday morning as you
started for your work? Jennie, be
sure, now was what you said, and
be at the shop at six oclocl; and in
duce me to come home, or else 1t will
be like other Saturday nights, and l
will come home drunk and penniless.'
| met woman and we got IL talking,
and before l knew it it was ten min
utes past six. | hurried to the shop,
but l was too late" He was dis
charged
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-19
HOW SHE MADE HER WILL.
Pnralyzed EnglisbwOmnn Made Her
Wishes Known by Means of
Playing Cards.

Miss Edith Marion Moore. of Lon
don. who recently died, executed what
was probably the queerest will ever
admitted to probate in British
court. She has been long aff1ict-
ed with paralysis. which brought
on aphasia, condition in which she
could not express herself by words.
and could not give instructions on
her own initiative. On separate cards
were written the names OF all her rela-
tives and these cards were made into
one pack. On another lot of cards
were placed descriptions of each sep
arate piece of property she possessed
Then the cards were dealt out to her
one at a time from each pack. When
the name of her brother. Arthur John
Moore, was turned up the other pack
was turned over until the card
containing the name of her property
in Ballycohy, Ireland, came to the
top and she Indicated by signs that
it was her desire he should have this
estate. After all her property had
been disposed of in this way came
the selection of an executor. The
pack containing the names of her
relatives was gone over again and she
selected the one bearing the name of
her brother Arthur. Apparently she
wanted another executor to be APP
pointed and the cards were gone over
again, but none of the names seemed
to hit her. She tried to write on a
paper the name of the person she
wanted. but what she wrote could not
be read, so finally she agreed that her
brother should be the sole executor.
The will was drawn up and read care
fully to her and she affixed her mark.
Two relatives. however, thought
that the will was not duly executed,
that it was not drawn and prepared
according to her instructions, and
that she did not approve of its con-
tents, so they contested it. The
Judge decided that the mode of ar
irving at Miss Moore's wishes was
novel, well intentioned. most ingenious
and on the whole satisfactory. and he
decided that the will should stand,
though he put the costs of the ac-
ton on the estate
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degradation of the people themselves.
lation estimated at from three to four
hundred millions, covering a territory
considerably larger than the United
States, excluding Alaska, 30 times as
large as France and "a times greater
than the German empire, with a mil
lion villages and towns, besides 1900
walled cities, some terrible customs
prevail and dreadful crimes are fire.
quently committed; but the same state
of affairs has existed for centuries.
Missionaries for years have been doing
a great work for individuals, but the
'fttle leaven" has not, thus far, seemed
to accomplish much for the whole
lump" Yet things might have i'm
proved gradually had not outside
greed for money, land and power
waged too active a warfare against
the traditions of the slow7going Mon
golians who are so little susceptible
to change and whose civilization has
been the almost imperceptible growth
of ages.
Whatever the cause, the record of re-
cent events transpiring in that unhap-
Ply country does not make pleasant
reading.
There are great many Chinese So
cieties, and there are few Cinnamon
who are not members of one or more
of them. An innocent man, because
he cannot help himself, may belong to
one of the most criminal. He must
join or be killed. The dues are heavy
and the larger the membership the
greater the income of the chief Off
GERS. Some of the associations are en-
tirely harmless. Some correspond to
our trades unions, others are of polit-
ical character, while there are some
little better than bands of robbers:
Many of those whose origin was for
laudable purpose have degenerated
The society of Boxers is said to have
originated $50 years ago and to favor
the overthrow of their Manchu rulers
and the restoration of the revered
Ming dynasty. The secret societies
accompany the Chinese wherever they
go. European governments have made
great efforts to stamp them out at all
points where they have jurisdiction
A great struggle was made at Singa-
pore, where it is believed they are prac-
tically suppressed. That many of the
crimes committed on our own Pacific
coast may be traced to these organiza-
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real history is contemporary with
that of legendary Rome, and whose
fabulous history so far antedates that
of all other nations, except, perhaps,
Egypt, that it's fantasies bear a GER
tain mark of dignity.
Heather China was a civilized pow
er long before the Israelites were de-
livered from bondage in Egypt, was
700 years old when they crossed the
Red sea, and had settled constitu-
tional government in the time of
Abraham. The Chinese are not such
navigators as might be expected of
people with 400 miles of coast, yet
they invented the compass 1884 B. c.,
over 400 years before Babylon was
said to have been founded by Nimrod,
the grandson of Ham.
The Chinese were carrying on, very
much as they do at the present day,
their pursuits of agriculture, COM
merce and literature" when Joshua's
trumpet sounded outside the walls of
Jericho, while the "chosen people"
were waging all their fierce battles,
when the Psalms of David were first
sung, while the temple of Solomon
was in process of construction, when
the great seer, Isaiah, was pouring
out his prophecies, while Daniel stilled
the lions roar and the three young
men walked unframed through the
fiery furnace. They had grand
canal 1900 miles long before Columbus
discovered America. Their great wall
was built 22O years before the birth
of Christ.
This is not the first time anarchy
and confusion have reigned in this
country, which numbers centuries as
we do years, but heretofore affairs
have seemed to adjust themselves.
For period of over 100 years end
ing A. d. APO conditions were much
worse than at present. Now repre-
sentatives of many nations are trans
porting munitions of war into this
hoary old land, that their own "citi-
zens resident there may be protect
ed" The Chinese have progressed so
slowly that the masses are totally in
capable of utilizing our modern artil-
lery, should some of the guns fall
into their hands, yet they were IA
miliar with the use of arms and gum
powder 1000 years ago. We consider
the introduction of printing as one Of
the most important landmarks of the
progress of our civilization. The Chi
nese practiced the art 500 years be-
bore the birth of CaXton, and manu-
featured paper $50 A. D. They were
engravers 1000 B. C.
China's population is so great that
it is impossible to realize the numbers
as we speak them. 1t is said that all
the citizens of Canada could be placed
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to drinking so-ae kind of alcoholic bev-
erage. 1t is further stated that those
experimental upon were not under OBJ
servation, in All experimental way, long
enough to determine what might have
been the result of imbibing this
amount ofalcohol for a long time. The
fact to which attention should be
called is that no definite measures were
instituted to determine whether the CT
ganism at all suffered in its functions
by the taking of these small daily guam
titles of alcohol. 1t will not satisfy the
earnest investigator to be told that
they seemed" to do no harm, nor need
he content himself with this answer.
Others have determined that, arriving
at definite results.
DR.. Herman Frey, in Sahh's clinic in
Berne, Switzerland. in 1896, undertook
to determine the effects of small guam
titles of alcohol upon muscular work.
We cannot, within the limits of this
article, give these experiments in de-
tail. Suffice it to say that they were
carried out with the utmost care and
all apparent sources of error eliminat-
ed. Alcohol was given in the form of
cherry brandy, cognac, wine, beer and
diluted with water, not more than one
and onefourth to two drachms, or five
to ten grams of alcohol being admin
istered at one dose. The strength of
the muscular contractionS was meas
ured by Mosso's ergograph. As a re-
suit of his experiments DR.. Frey found
that alcohol in these quantities de-
creased both the strength of the indi-
vidual contractions and the amount of
work which the muscle was capable of
doing before being fatigued, in some
cases the decrease amounting to near
ly 80 per cent.
Concerning the effects of alcohol up
on mental processes we have only to
recall the work of Kraeplin and his CO.
laborers. These eminent and careful
Investigators. after many experiments,
1850 in one group. announced without
reservation that ''all the intellectual
functions examined suffered a marked
depression after the ingcstion of small,
moderate and large doses of alcohol,
and this depression makes its appear
ance Immediately after the alcoholics
been ingested."
As to the heat producing power of
alcohol that is another fallacy; for, in
spite of the fact that really more heat
is produced in the body by the oxidiza-
ton of alcohol, the heat radiation by
reason of the dilation of the peripheral
vessels is increased in still greater de-
gree, and the sum total of the effects
is an actual decrease of bodily temper
allure.
Let anyone consider these facts,
which have been estab lished by the
most careful possible methods and
with mathematical precision, and he
must deny in toto that alcohol deserves
Il place in the list of carbohydrate or
any other class of fooGs.-Jo ohm Mad
den, NJ. D., in n. Y. Independents