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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
Tales Of Yankee EnChantnlent.
The WITCH WOMAN OF WATERFOWL.
Thrilling Story Of Boy Who Suffered From Severe
and Lucrative Attack of Hen Fever.
By Charles BatteIl LOOMS.
tcopyright 1900, by Charles Battell Loomis.)

and the first thing l did see was stars '
BRYANT laughed. Here was an old
woman who could make IL joke of her
trouble. and he was the better pleased
TO help her, for he was always Joking
himself.
He put his arm around her and find
ing her bag of bones he lifted her
with no trouble at all.
Indeed but you're al good lad. Once
I'm on my feet I'm good for all day
but when | tumble which ] don't often
do-Tm as badly off as a turtle ON IT'S
back
Are you going fal?" said Bryant
Cant / carry your basket"
Thank you kindly if YOU will" said
the old woman. my hip pains me
good deal. | suppose you'll be going
to the Bangtown fair and exhibiting
some chickens like the other boys"
No, indeed, said Bryant, r1lefully
Il have just money enough TO get in
myself and ! made that helping Beecher
Ward take care of his ducks. j wish
| could enter some hens, for / love them
and would like to win Il prize"
We'll, its a lucky thing that YOU met
HE and that | fell. for | have the hen
that laid the golden egg in my basket
and | will let you have her all day to-
morrow if you will promise to return
her to me next day. | live on Black
Mountain.
An dthen Bryant knew who it was THAI
he had bef1'ended; none other than the
witch woman OF Watertown who in win
ter lived in Watertown, but in summer
lived in an old abandoned charcoal burn
pr's huf o11 thp tnpllntaii,
You can win prize with the hen
and YOU can sell the golden egg which
she will lay at ten in the morning. for
a great deal of money and YOU can
show her in a tent and charge so much
admission
Did ever IL boy find fortune knocking
so many times on his door at once?
His eyes filed 18th tears and he grasped
the cid woman's hand and thanked her
with all the fervor of warm nature
Il must go and see about getting IL
tent at once" said Bryant.
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tDally except Nor

tDally except Monday. tDaiIy except sunday
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, Yadkin
Division Main Liue-Train Leaves flmingtOu
90 M arrives Fayetteville IL 10 p IN, leaves
Fayetteville IL Is m, arrives Sanford AZ p III.
Returning leaves Sanford 81 m, arrives Fay
ettevile Al p m. leaves Fayetteville 40 M, ar
ilmine ton and Weldon Railroad BENEFITS.
vile Branch-Train leaves Bennettsvllle 8 is m,
Mills 10 AZ m, arrives Fayetteville 10 SIS. Re-
turning leave. Fayetteville 40 p m, Hope Mills
AS M, Red SPRINGS IS p m, Maxton Is p m,
arrives B-nnettsville Is pm.
Connections at Fayetteville with train No. 70
at Maxton with the Carolina Central Railroad,
at Red Springs with the Red Springs and Bow
Air Lice and Southern Railway at Gulf with the
Durham and harlotte Rail- Gard.
Train on the Scotland Neck Branch Road
riS Sss Scotland Neck o. m, areenviiie s57p
m, Kinston z So m, Returning leaves Kin.
ston 7 81 q m, Greenville 50 q m, arriving ~
Halifax IL IS q m, Weldon II 80 q m. daily ex.
Trains on the Washington Branch leave
Washington 10 q m and 30 m, arrive Tar.
mele 10 q m and 90 p m, returning leave
Parmele IS m and 80 m, arrive washing
ton II 90 and 2 80 p, m, daily except Sunday
day, so p m, Sunday 15 p m, arrives Plymouth
? 40 M, 6 10 p m Returning leaves Plymouth
daily except Sunday, 90 m, and Sunday
Train on Midland, N G, Branch leaves Colds
boro, daily except Sunday, o5 m, arriving
smithfeld s 10 a m, returning leaves smithfeld
90 m, arrives at Goldsboro 10 % I'm
Trains on Nashville Branch leave Rocky
Mount at 8 80 a m, 3 40 p m; arrive Nashville
10 10 8 m 03 m, Spring Hope 10 40 q m, % p
m,returning leave Spring Hope IL 90 m,
4 s. D M Nashville II p a m, Is p m, arrive
at Rocky Mount IL 40 a m, 8 90 p M, daily except
Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves Warsaw for
Clinton daily except Sunday, at ii 40 m and
4l5 D m returning leay es Clinton ut 7 90 . m
and so q m
Train No rs makes close connection st Wei.
don for al points North daily, all rail via Rich.
mond.
JR HENLEY, General Manager.
T. NJ EMMERSON. Traffic Manager.
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Mrs. Col. Hamilton. same for some
time, and am enjoying better health
than have for some years. l attribute
the change to Pe-ru-na, and recommend
Pe-ru-na to every woman, believing it
to be especially beneficial to them"
Catarrh of the lungs is, ordinarily,
known as consumption; also called
tuberculosis. In these cases the catarrh
has usually found its way into the lungs
by the gradual extension of the disease
from the throat through the bronchial
tubes. Consumption is the natural
termination of all cases of neglected
chronic catarrh. Every one who is
afflicted with chronic catarrh is liable
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lSn mems.
But poor little Bryant Williams felt
quite left out because he had nothing
TO send. He was a little orphan who
would have had hen fever in minute
if he could have bought or borrowed
any hens, but it was all he could do 40
get enough clothes to cover him and
sufficient food to keep his internal ma
chinery going and to have bough. even
one scrub hen would have overtaxed his
resources.
I'm rather afraid that Abbott Lyman
crowed a little over Bryant he
had caught it fran his hens-and maybe
not. But wherever jte had caught it
he should have dropped it instanter. He
said III that haunting way of his that
made him so unpopular with smaller
boys and got him into 50 many scrares
with bigger ones, If l was so poor that
i couldn't entr any fowl at the far
I'd 60 jump into Naugatuck'
But little Bryant, instead of making
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All the boys in Oakville had hen
fever. | once heard a little boy say
hen fever is something like chicken
pox and something like scarlet fever.
but it lasts longer than either and
i guess he was right But if you who
are reading this are so unfortunate as
TO be city boy and only know hens as
the featheress things they hang up by
their legs in the poultry stores l can
tell you that hen fever is very delight
full while it lasts, for it means the en-
thusiastic care of hens-which are the
birds who lay the eggs of commerce.
1t means feeding them the right food
and rejoicing in their cackling, which
is their way of saying Watch me lay
an egg and it means hunts for hid
den nests with maybe a dozen eggs in
them and it may be a dozen fluffy little
chickens 1t means the right food and
plenty of water for them and tucking
them into bed at night so they won't
catch cold and it sometimes means
enough pocket money from the sale of
eggs and chickens to buy handsome
double ripper with picture of Dewey
winning out, at Manila, on it.
So you see that hen fever doesn't re-
quirc the services of a physician and you
can catch it at any time of the year, al
though March and April are the easiest
months in which to get it, for then any
old hen at all viii lay eggs and you think
she's going to do ii all the year round and
you get your father to buy forty of them
and the first thing YOU know your hens
are all on strike and you're buying your
eggs at a grocery store. And that some
times cures hen fever. But it also shows
you that you didn't have the right brand
Of fever or they would have kept on
laying.
The annual Bangtown fair was billed
to come off the first Tuesday in October
and ten of the Oakville boys had en-
tered their hens in the hope of winning
prizes. Abbott Lyman was going to send
ten Black Leghorns and Philip Wendell
was going to ship q crate of White
Plymouth Rocks and Beecher Ward
was going to exhibit three Black Span
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time. In the first stages Of the disease
Pe-ru-na 10 . sure cure; in the later
stages of the disease Pe-ru-na can be
relied upon to produce great benefit, and
in large per cent. Of cases produce a
permanent cure. All those afflicted with
this dread disease should begin at once
treatment with Pe-ru-na.
Mrs. FL. A. Tyner, Four Oaks, N. c.,
says: "In January 1893, my daughter
was taken sick with pain in her chest
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Now | like that" said the old witch.
Some boys would have expected me
10 furnish tent and all myself, but l see
that you are willing to help yourself.
Go to Lowell Russell and tell him
sent YOU and he will fix you out. Here.
take the hen along, but be sure that
no one steals her or she and the thief
will disappear entirely.
Bryant promised and ran off with the
lasket. While he was waiting for Mrs.
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whose residence Is
at 259 Goodale St.,
Columbus, o h i o,
writes the follow
ing about Pe-ru-na,
DR.. III ar t m a n S
scientific remedy
for ca tarr h: +" i
can bear testimony
as to the merits of
your remedy, Pc
ru- ma. 1 av e
been ia k in & the
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and right shoulder
blade. A cough soon
developed, w h i c h
neither of our resi-
dent phi Y sicians
seemed able to re-
m owe. She h a d
every symptom of
consumption - sup
preston Of menses,
night sWeats and
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an ugly reply, simply turned hand
spring and went down the road to heip
Beecher Ward knock a crate together
for his Pekin ducks.
On the "ay to Beeoher's house ne
came upon an old woman who had
slipped on u slide and bad fallen
She had dancing black eyes and a sugar
loaf hat and long straight hair and her.
nose was within mailing distance of her
chin and she looked a good deal like
old Mother Hubbard or Mother Goose
or one OF the other mothers Of nursery
tales.
Bryant was a helpful chap and in-
stead Of laughing ut the old woman as
Abbott would have done he stopped and
said, Have you hurt yourself: Can I
help you?'
Indeed you can, sonny. l think I've
cracked my hip, / didn't see the ice
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The modern and most effective cure for
constipation and all liver troubles-the
famous little pills known as DeWitt's
Little Early Risers. Bobbitt & Wynne
Drug Co, W. Fl. King, Adams &
Moye. VIM. Simpson
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Size doesn't indicate quality. Beware
OF counterfeit and worthless salve offer
ed for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
l'eWitt's is the only original An infalli.
Bile cure for piles and all skin diseases.
Bobbitt " Wynne Drug Co, w. Fl. King,
Adams ~ Moye. VIM. Simpson.
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Lewis Dennis. Salem. Ind, says.
"hodol Dyspepsia Cure did me more
good than anything | ever took" 1t
dlgests what You eat and can not help
but cure dyspepsia and stomach troubles.
Robbitt & Wynne Drug Co, W. n. King,
Adams & Moye, VIM. Simpson.
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CAROLINA & NORTH WEST
ERN RAILWAY co.
G. W.T. HARPER, President.

Vt VI '""' -
Schedule In Effect From Juno 20. 1899.
Leave Raleigh, s. A. L.. 2:14 q. M
Leave Charlotte, s. A. LIZ 500 m.
Leave Lincol't'n, G. & N. w. 1887 q. m
Leave Raleigh, So. R'y -. 200 a. m.
Leave Greensboro, So. R'y :. 1887 q. m.
Leave Salisbury, So. R'y. .10:05 q. m.
Leave Hickory, G. & N. W.. .11:50 a. m.
Ar. Lenoir, G. & N. W.. 1905 q. m.
Ar. Blowing Rock, Stage. -. 600 p. m.
G. f. HARPER,
Gen. Pass. Agt.. LencGr. N. q.
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1t is but natural that breach-of prom
Use case should be heard in court
house
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Kusseii to open the door he lifted the
cover of the basket and looked in.
lnerc sat quiet-looking hen OF Il
brlght golden color. Her comb was as
red as blood and she looked exactly as
II laying golden eggs was a good thing
for her health. Which it undoubtedly
was, for think how many years it is
since she was first discovered.
Bryant told his errand to Mrs. Rus
sell and she told him that hel. husband
who was vice-president OF the Bang
town Fair Associaticn-had a tent that
was TO have been used by Il man with
Il five-headed calf, but the cali had lost
four of his heads in a railroad accident
and was POW no better than any calf
50 the man didn't need the tent. And
then Mr. Russell came in and proved
To be Kindness itself.
Next morning the fair opened and it
was like all the country fairs that were
ever held. And if you never attended
one | can tell you that the chief things
to ne seen there are people. People
who have come afoot and horseback
on wheels and between wheels--and
some would come in balloons rather
than Miss coming There is one big
tent and a lot Of smaller ones, and there
are men who sell candy and oysters and
soda and whips. The whip men are
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W. & v. RAILROAD
AND BRANCHRs
AND ATLANTIC COAST Linz
RAILROAD COMPANY OF
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Condensed Schedule.

TRAINS GOING SOUTH
DATED No % No IS No 100 No Al No4e
July 81, 1885, Daily Daily Dali, Daily Daily
Elk Sun
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dencc. The only danger tho campaign
managers say thoy ever recognized has
been overcome. The cry OF Wake up
has done its work. the managers say,
and now they talk as though II were all
over but counting the votes, II tho
men at the headquarters hore are not
rs confident OF McIfinley's election as
they are that they breathe the air OF
life then they can be credited with the
clcvercst and best hit Of sustained act
Ing on record. Having conquered Gem
crai Apathy. tbs cry Is Everything Is
coming our wny." While no work will
BIZ left undonc, little will be heard In
tho future OF ovcrconild,ncc. ItIs the
cite nov TO make out that the Demo-
Gratis are beaten 10 standstill. Thou
sands OF voters like to shout with tho
lnrgest srowd.
The registration in Chicago on tho
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Lydia E. Pinkhcms Vegetable Com

. D.
Lydia E. Pinkhrm's Vegetable Com.
pound.
II you are troubled with pains,
fainting spells, depression of spirits,
reluctance to 90 anywhere, headache,
backache, and always tired, please re-
member that there Is gu absolute
remedy which will relieve. you Of your
suffering as it did Mrs. Rice. Proof
is monumental that Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound Is the
greatest medicine for suffering women.
No other medicine has made the cures
that it has, and NO other woman has
helped SO many women by direct advice
us has Mrs. Pinkham; her experience
is greater than that Of any living per.
son. II you are sick, write and get
her advice her address Is Lynn. Mass.
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+ first OF the two registration days indl-
Gates that the Republicans are aroused.
The total registration Is but little be-
low the phenomenal figures In 1893. Next
week Tuesday. the second registration
day. the managers expect the figures OF
four years ago will be passed. Strong
Republican wards show. heavy gains.
With but two exceptions the Democratic
wards madel poor showing, and in
these two Instances the good showing
was Indicative OF the personal ambition
of u certain cog in the Democratic ma
chine. rather than Of interest in the
fcause OF Bryan.
The Literary Bureau.
r One of the best conducted departments
In the Republican national camp is the
literary bureau. Under the supervi-
sion Of Secretary Heath over one hun
dred columns of matter for the news
PAPERS are Issued each week. And It is
such matter that the newspapers use.
The literary bureau has shown by facts
and figures the prosperity OF all Glasses
in the country. demonstrated the les
son Of prosperity in a hundred ways,
and has ISSUED whole volumes OF inter-
vie@swith United States senators, rep
resentatlves and business men OF prom
inence. Last week from this depart
ment was Issued great sheet carrying
the names OF 5s1 men VINO had deserted
Bryan for Mckinley. This week another
sheet was Issued with more than 400
more names. The Democratic national
committee went into this line of bus
iness some weeks ago. Up to date it
has given out but flfty-tive names of
converts to Bryan.
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DR.. Alley to dress the wound. Later he
was taken to his home at Newark, Ohio.

DR.. Alley TO dress the wound. Later he
was taken to his home at Newark, Ohio.
WIZ Portcrflcld has returned from
GRAFTON. where he has been working
during the past four months, He In.
accepted position In the Baltimore &.
Ohio office ut the Junction. n
Ernest. the four-ycar-old child OF ].
" hamilton. died OF dIphtherla at Q
p'clock yesterday afternoon, The child
was Sick only four hours.
.NWill Chalk lost very valuable coon
das yesterday. Tho animal was run
oyer on the baltimore &. Ohio tracks ut
the lower end Of town.
iJohn Roy has returned from pleas.
ant stay with the Dixon Rod and Gun
Club. At, Big Run.
The Rivcrside steel works will resume
operations. after an extended idlcncss.
The plato department at the Wheeling
steel works Ia shut down for repairs.
Prof. jacob Roineke's dancing class
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HELP FOR WOMEN
WHO ARE ALWAYS TIRED.

+. e . . a u e. d
I; Elk do. not feel very well. l nm SO
tired all the time. lido not lsnowwhat
Is the matter with me-
: You hear these words every dry; as
often as you meet your friends just SO
often are these words repeated. More
than likely you speak the SUMO signifi.
cant words yourself. and no doubt you
do feel for from well most OF the time.
Mrs. Ella Rice, OF Chelsea, Wis,
whose portrait We publish, writes that
he,suffered for two years with bear
ing.down. pains, headache. backache,
and had all kinds transferable feelings,
all OF which was caused by falling and
inflammation Of the womb, and after
doctoring with physicians and numer.
Gus medicines she was entirely cured BY
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90 Years of vilo Catarrh,-cbns

go Years OF Vilo Catarrh,--chas. O.
Brown, journalist, OF Duluth, MINI
writes: 81 have been n sufferer from
Throat and Nasal Catarrh for over "a
years. during which time my head bos
been stopped up and my condition truly
miserable. Within IL minutes oftcr
using DR.. Agncw's Catarrhal Powder
I obtained relief. Three bottlcs have
almost. II not entirely, cured me" For
sale by Chas. r. Goethe. Twelfth and
Market strccts.-19.
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.BENWooD.
News Notes From tho Busy Marshall
County Town.

County Town.
Hon. A. B. White. the next governor
of this state. Perry A. Shanor, will ad-
dress a mass meeting OF Republicans
here October &c. There will be n street
demonstration before the meeting, and
clubs from surrounding towns Will par
ticipate This will no doubt be the
banner demonstration of the forces of
sound money. protection and national
honor here this campaign.
Yesterday Afternoon at 8 o'clock. John
Lotus died ut the North Wheeling hos
pital. from the effects of an operation
on him for the removal OF a leg. He
was brought to his home, at the corner
Of Water, and Eighth streets, from
where the funeral will take place. Mr..
LOTUS is survived by widow and one
child. He. had host of friends who
will mourn his death.
w. S. Powell. n brakeman on the Bal
umore & Ohio. in attempting to jump a
train ut Schad's crossing yesterday
morning. fell. and had the left side OF
his head badly injured. The side Of
his face was frightfully lacerated, and
II required two hours surrical work nv
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OFFICERS.
BANK OF THE OHIO VALLEY,
CAPlTAI-sI75,OoO.

WILLIAM a. ISETT. Preside,
AoisT!MER POLLOCK. Vice Presid.ll
j. II. McDoNALD..,.,....,,,Ass't Cashla
r Drafts on England. Ireland. France and
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Fall Costume Of Terra Gotta Broadcloth.

Terra cotta back in favor
than This benu full costume
1t has the boused bodi falling ally all
cred gdc Of black velvet like collar
give the black arc embo
cred in black gold Russian
Is headed by narrow black velvet similar trimming
aounce on tho skirt Design by oestreicher
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DIRECTORS.
william a. Isett. Mortimer Pollock.
!: \; Miller. Robert Simpson.
L. Al. Atkinson. c. u. Frissell.
Julius Pollock.
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FAMILY WASHING

Rough Dry Washed, Starchcd mud
Dried cents per pound.
cents per pound.
per pound. at LUTZ pRos, ~ ;
Homo Steam Laundry.
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NO one would ever be bothered with
constipation II everyone knew how nat
urnlly and quickly Durdock Blood Dl,
ters regulates the stomach and bowels.
II .
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HANNlBAL FORBES. .pres!ds..
]. a. JEFFERSoN., ,,,........' Cish,.:
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Will meet at Blue Ribbon hall Mon
day evening.
John W. Leach returned ycstcrda!
from a business trip to Marion.
VIII Goodwin and wife and tht
guests of McMechen friends.
Mrs. Cora Bell is able to be out. aftel
4 few days illness.
The infant child of John Bannon |!
seriously III. n# Sc
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RESULT RI: OF POLL.
Figures Exceed Greatest Expectation,
of;the Republican Managers.
.lNDIANA.NO,L LONGER DOUBTFUL.

Results Of Poll In kentucky Astound.
Ing Indicating q Republican Ma
jortty of 81, ooo-Maryland, West
Virginia and Kansas Out Of the
Doubtful column--Reg
In Chicago Shows the Republicans
arc Aroused.