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• •- * I / TRADE MARK REGISTERED " Imitation is the Sincerest Flattery The unprecedented popularity of Royster's FARMERS' BONE fertilizer has induced some of our competitors to advertise Fish Guano, claiming theirs to be “just as good/' FARMERS' BONE is the original Fish Guano, and, to prevent being imposed upon, buyers should be sure that our trade-mark is on every bag. This is the only guarantee that you are getting the genuine Farmers’ Bone M3d3 with* Fish srr^s.c. F. S. ROYSTER GUANO GO. Tarboro. N. C. Macon,Ca. Style! Shape! Quaiity! All Perfect. What More Can Any Man Ask For? — — ■f 1 f. - ! r/i Fire, Life, Accident, Health Insur- once Surety Bonds.' Jones J. Darby Dependable Groceries Thoaearethe kind I Mil. My Coffees are giving satisfaction •ad my sales more than doable each month. Rave yon tried them? My Tea is a winner al *>- : : : : : I Have Just Reeelved Heinz’s barrel Pickles, both Sweet and Sour. Fine Sauer Kraut. Also have Dill Pickles • Sun diied Peaches and Apples, nice lot of Jellies and Preserves. Evaporated Cream, Eagle Brand Condenced Milk, Pound Cakes, etc. Yours to please, F, Bee Gaffney PENAL SETTLEMENTS. Where Prinonem Who Are Deported l*o For Life. France, Spain, Portug.il, Russia and Turkey are today Hie only European countries which transport their cnuii- | nals, and there are si^ns that this form j of punishment will not lie continued | much longer by civilized nations. Rus sia has aircady diminished the number of offenses for which Siberia is the penalty". France has two penal set^-meuts, one the Island of New Caledonia, which lies nortfieast of Australia, the other in French Guiana. Caleuouia, or He Non. has often been d* cribed as a sort of inferno. At a matter of fact, it is the best managed convict island in the world. The climate Is not bad, aud the convicts can gain by good conduct pleasures and privileges unheard of in British prisons. ’ Convicts form the working classes of the island. They stroll about unshac kled aud unguarded. They can smoke cigarettes and buy a little wine. The | better class act as barbers, waiters, eu- 1 gineers and stokers and can earn about ttvepenee a day. The birch and the cat-o’-nine-tails are | unknown in the island, the punishment t being the “cacbot,” or black cell. A | few hours or days in this living tomb j is usually enough for any of them, | however refractory. They come out like lambs. Bad as is the lash, it is j nothing compared with a sentence of j li\e years in the “ca< - hot," with only j me hour of light in c t< h thirty days! Cayenne is very different. The eli- j mate is about as bad as bad can be. The work is principally'masonry and clearing laud. In case of mutiny hoses are ready charged with scalding water. The least infringement of the rigid dis- o'phne is visited with cruel punish- laimt. One of the commonest is to ro- dm-o a man to one meal a day, and iliet nothing lint 11 road and water, f loath follows any attack on a warder, liethv-r injury is indicted or not. The f i.'d, all except Tiie bread, is wretched The nio-t horrible of the penal col i ni- , s in ex -dem e at present are un- <t M.' i .,jiy those of Fpain at Ceuta and i'ernaudo Fo The latter place is an island in ti e bight of Hiafla. Theaver- -o t mpei itnre .• ii the year round i> nearly .So degrees, ami the heat is a damp kind, most tr.ving.to Europeans. The horrors which t'nban patriots un derwent in Fernando i’o are not to be matelied in Siberia itself. Three out ; of live died before they had been there two years. tiddly enough. Portugal manages ! these matters much better than does Spain. She sends most of her con victs to Goa, on the coast of India, or to her East African possessions. Her system resembles that of New Cale donia, but is less strict. In fact, Por tuguese convicts do very little bard la bor. They are allowed almost com plete liberty so long as they do not leave the limits of the settlement to which they are assigned. At Mozam bique you may see government oiBcials playing billiards with convicts of good birth. When a Turkish political prisoner Is senteuced to be deported to Tripoli or to the Euphrates, his friends bid him farewell They know that they will never see him again sllve and in all probability never hear of him again unless enormous sums are forthcom ing to bribe scores of different officials. In fact, the only difference between a death sentence in Turkey and one of transportation Is that the former is more rapid and merciful. The govern ment prefers the latter, because It Is less public. \ w and Jhen, however, news leaks through—of poor Midbab Pasha, for instance, it is known that near Bagdad ids brutal guards beat out his brains with the butt ends of their rifles.- London Answers. HORSES AT $9 A DOZEN. An Odd but I’aylriK Spccn lnl ion by an ActrcMM. Miss Edna Wallace Hopper is a good judge of horses. How good a Judge she discovered only by chance. “It was one of the oddest experiences In speculation,” says Miss Hopper, “that ever came to me. It happened several years ago when I was on my way to the Pacific coast. It should be said, too, that it was before the Boer war had cleaned up the American ranges of mustangs. Horseflesh in the northwest was hardly worth keeping track of. I chanced to stop off at Spo kane, Wash., and In going about the city was attracted by a large crowd before the courthouse. Upon investi gation I found that an auction by the sheriff’s office was going on, and a lot of cayuses—as they call them out there —was about to be sold. Curious, I waited to see the fun. The horses in a co.ral near by looked mighty good to me, aud I was struck by the evident lack of desire to bid on them. Final ly the auctioneer managed to coax a bid of $50 for the lot. I eould not be lieve my ears—50 cents apiece for real live horses! Some whim seized me. and I called out a raise to $75. fully expecting, of course, that another buy er would go higher, but hardly were the words out of tny mouth when the auctioneer snapped me rp and knock ed down the lot to my bid. “I could not get out of it. and there 1 was with 100 h >rses on my hands :].O iO miles away from New York. It looked for a time like the original white ele men!' Small Pewm. One feature which I noticed espe dally in a recently ofifned church !■ the city was the large number vf small pews—pews intended for ti*» persons only—waa the comment of •» old New York churchgoer the other Sunday. Now, fifty years ago the m* jority of the pews held six perso«« comfortably and sometimes more. There may have been a few of these two seated pews, but they were a ne cessity because of the interference mt a pillar, and there were never more than six or eight of these small pewe in an entire church. In the church f speak of I noticed two rows of them, extending the entire depth of the audi torium. I couldn’t help but think «f the good old times when the entire family went to church In a body and filled a long old fashioned pew. And I got to wondering what the new tw» seated arrangement stood for. Is It an outgrowth of apartment living, race suicide and all the other evils one hears of, or is It old fashioned now for children to accompany their par ents to church?—New York Sun. French Satire, I range ponses fo id of a bimu >r a h'iti'r statin; had baon m id of flic British wires hot tele take tiie offer it might a Ire: course of a f check f »r the re I was on t! 0 tra< stay in. I mad( * a wa 1 rancl iicr a few miles to n 111 the lion ■jos on ngre ed to pn\ r the ill ' * I d M 1 r tho feed and ’Miicn jousp lime bom • low nr T n im • mind. I I had a! potur was the-proud h •!■ • ,..1. T it an -iffor of £1 i** foi • them 1 a an a; 1 LTOY< eminent. I set in a (]y } !. 1 n m > r hurrv. fe- »o tin. late a n< : >u* In Vw 1 full lYO'd.-s ! r $1 r fro ecei vo m a ! ’omiti :ig tiie cas t of k Some timely advice is given by the Cri de Paris. “Frenchmen,” It ex horts. “drink only hoiled water.” This advice is good, but the following is even better, “Before stepping into a train make sure that no Russian grand duke travels in it.” Further, “Before stopping at a hotel make sure that It. does riot harbor some Russian grand duke.” There is today nothing more dangerous than a hotel In which a member of the czar’s family has tak en qv irters. A p atron sits in the read ing room or in the dining room when, hang! the shattered window panes fly about and the ceiling tumbles down? In justification of this exhortation to precaution the paper calls attention to the fact th at the train between Bor deaux and Cette in which a Russian gri.i. i du! e was traveling to Biarritz i off tie- rails, and two passengers lo tin c* j : y> ; t•* .t s!:iiult.,neousIy a exal • ’ in the Simplon tunnel a g;.and duke had passed 1 FOR SALE. On Monday, February 4Ui, 1WT, 1 will offer before the court house door to the high eat bidder all my real eo- tate. consisting of one lot of land coo* talning fifty acres, more or less, with dwelling and outhouses thereon. Terms of salo: One-third cash: hat anoe In one and two years, with Ant mortgage to secure payment M. 0. Perry- Jan. 18, If. ft. 28. 28, Pob. L DON'T FORGET l to* an ho eared of Omm. To- l l mor or Chroole OM Boron Too I l tboosaod oaaoo treotod. It Is tho I I so rest care on earth. Delay Is I I fata! How to bo corodf Just I • write 1 I O. B. GLADDEN Grover. N. C. I FOR Jp-to-Date Job Prm - ing, call at .EDGER Office. • Gaffney, S The GreHt Hotel City. An expert who has studied the hotel business in every principal country of two hemispheres says that New York cares for three times as many persous in hotels as does London, six times as many as does Paris and ten times as many as does any other city that can be named. There are 138 large first class hotels In Manhattan alone—more than 300 including the smaller ones— and at the rate of construction at pres ent the calculation has been made that within twenty years there will be on Manhattan Island alone 380 hotels of 400 rooms each or of greater size. Cradled wherever it may have been, the boatelry art has surely found Its home In the American metropolis, and one needs no further figures than those just given to furnish explanation of the amaxlDg evolution of the hotel In New York city. With a footing popn latlon each day ranging from 73.000 to IffcOQOi according to tho railroad pas aengar accountants, for tho various aoafifM of the year, there la little wen- dor tfcat New York tea become the dtp of earth moot conspicuous tor its lug them, the cayuses averaged In cost $1 each to me, so my profit was a clean $1,400, which was not bad on an in- S vestment of such a size.”—Bohemian Magazine. Trouwerw and Uelitcinn. Many of the chiefs In the protec- | torate of Gambia wish to have their | sons educated in the now Mahomrned- . an school of that religion, says the , Tailor and Cutter. But there was a bar to their full enjoyment of the ed ucation they were likely to receive. The pious Mohammedan papas were afraid that the wearing of modem trou sers was part of the school curriculum, and therefore they viewed the school with peculiar suspicion. The governor of Gambia now reports that the par cuts have been assured that their chil dren will not be converted Into “tron .sers men,” and the prospects of the school are now very bright. It would be Interesting to learn ho^f this suspicion of the modern nether covering arose and whether the dry goods merchants denied the natives their ordinary material. But it may be Interesting to recall the fact that the British government forbade highland ers to wear the kilt for some years aft er the battle of Culloden. However, the government was In a tight corner during Its continental wars, and It was glad to raise several regiments of high landers, who resumed the kilt, and the trousers wearing edict died a natural death. s , : Ai Jtopimk-fiwtai Ganava nawspapars call fee atten tion of the federal govern meat to the following legal clash: When a French man living in Switzerland becomes s naturalised Swiss cttlsen, without be ing entirely free from bis military serv ice In France or without the authorisa tion of his government, his children, according to French law, which does not recognise the validity of their natu ralization. remain Frenchmen. By Swiss law, however, they are Swiss. Owing to tjjese conditions It has hap pened that young men, the sons of nat uralized Frenchmen, serving in the Swiss army and traveling In France, were arrested and compelled to comply with their military duty in France. “It Is high time.” says a Swiss paper, “that the federal smthorities apply iigilu to tin* Fren -b government to reach an understaud ng on this ques tion. and also on that of the Frencb- ine i born In the canton of Geneva.** :*rof»'(*{<ir For Slilrls. ^ hen .i buys a dress shirt uow- adays lie can depend on the bosom be ing fihsolutoL potless, since owing to a new device t! t has been thought of the shirt is protected from the toin* of soiled fingers that so often were wont to leave their mark on the fair surface. This new style of protection . consists of an envelope of transparent paper that is large enough to hold the ; shirt, keep It absolutely clean and yet enables one to see the size numbers through it. Without adding much to t the cost, the envelope is a great econa- ; my to the dealers and makers, since ; with Us use there is never any cause for the return of shirts to the factory that have been soiled In the handling as there Is In the ease of collan and cuffs.—New York Prase. Panama Canal—Erie Canal. Machinery is digging the PanatoA Canal a thousand times quicker than the shovel dug the Erie. Machinery produces the L. & If. Paint at 50 times less cost for labor, than If made by hand. The L. & M. gives the best Job to the world, because L. & M. Zinc hard ens L. & M. White Lead and make* L. & M. Paint wear like Iron for If to 15 years. It only r o quires 4 gallons of thto celebrated paint and 3 gallons of Ll»- seed Oil at CO cts per gallon, to patofi a moderate sized house. If any defect exists in L. & M, Paint, will repaint house for nothing. Sold by Smith Hardware Co.. Gaff ney. —“Town Talk” flour Is the brat fancy patent. Try a sack. Carroll ts Byers. Sloeovs Luvinveivt For Cough, Cold, Croup, Sore Throat, Stiff Neck Rheumatism and Neuralgia At «ll Dealers PHcg 25c 5Go 6 *IOO Sent- Free 'Stoanfe Book on Horses Cattle* H09S 6 Poultry I Address Dr. Ear) S. Sloan 1615 Albany St Boston. Mass. A Get Goods Where you get Presents. Every person that spends one dollar cash or tn >re with me this week wil get a present free of charge. This is a sure fact. It is no faike like you have red of or heard before. Come one come a!!. I can furnish you with what you want for Xmas. All kinds of Fruits, To(s an-! Fireworks. Watch my windows this week and see what I give away Come and see w . j . Jvi a is: k ts ^ ^ 1 1 m^i —ran, J