The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-04

Monday. He left $50, 900 to the South
ern Methodist church.
Two Richmond inventors have invent
ed an improved fishplate for use on rail-
roads which they claim will make a
spreading rail an impoSsibility, and will
also prevent the MASKING of rail ends.
There is fortune of $100,0 09 waiting
for Parker Valentine, formerly of In
diana, but he is afraid to come out and
get it, because he killed aman some years
ago in Minnesota, and he is afraid to
take the chances OF trial tor murder.
Bernhardt is out against knickerbock
ers for cyclists of her sex, and she bases
her objections wholly on moral grounds.
She says that she has seen too much in
America and in England of the result of
giving indiscriminate liberty TO girls to
wish to see French maidens subjected to
similar influences.
The San Francisco Star speaks of JUS
tice Walter Clark, of the Supreme Court
of North Carolina, as having acquired
a national reputation outside his profess
sion by his articles on postal telegraph"
and remarks further that North Caro-
lima lawyers and jurists have always
borne high reputation for ability and
integrity"
At an entertainment given for the
benefit of the Methodist church of
Moultrie, Ga, few nights ago, the
prettiest young ladies of the town ar
rayed themselves in their best costumes
and sold kisses to the boys for ten cents
apiece. "As a natural consequence"
says the Albany Herald, 1.-THE church
debt has been paid in full, nice surplus
left, and the young men of Moultrie are
bankrupt"
John Mccullough, Kansas boy who
has been admitted to West Point, is a
poor farmers son born in an out of the
way place, with no schooling whatever,
simply educated by study at odd hours
other applicants in competitive exami-
nation for entry into the military
academy, driving 300 miles across the
prairie and camping at night to reach
the place of Determination. The Secretary
of War, impressed by the earnestness of
of this young man, held special final
examination, so as to admit him while
he is still twenty one, as the law re-
quires.
Imagine city in which every street is
well paved and every pavement kept in
perfect repair; every street and alley in
the city sprinkled and swept every day;
all ashes and garbage removed every
day; street railroads carrying passen-
gers for two cents, and one line as low
as one cent, and yet paying royalties to
the city sufficient to maintain the pave
ments; gas furnished at such low rates
that the poorest tenements are well
lighted and many even heated with it.
These things are so surprising that most
people will think they can only be had
in the end of the next century, when
the world has grown much wiser and
new inventions have made all work
easier and cheaper. Yet the city of
Glasgow has them all now.
The contrast between the career of DR..
Marion A Cheek, whose death in Siam
has just been announced, and the career
Va oOLAS VI thO UNHAPPY ihAcoichdiicS IA
China, is great indeed. DIR. Cheek went
to Siam in 1874 as missionary. For
tunately for him, he had studied medi-
cine in this country, and his knowledge
soon brought him into prominence. The
native physicians were unable to contend
with the insidious diseases of the coun-
try, and the doctors fame as a successful
physician soon spread abroad The wife
of the chief of the Laws fell i'll, and the
natives tried in vain to heal her. She
was taken to the ''white magician, who
cured her, and he Immediately became
a man of great influence in the country.
Among his patients were soon numbered
members of the royal family and promi-
nent men of Siam. A few years ago the
Bo neo Company found it necessary to
carry on its negotiations with the people
of North Siam through DR.. Cheek, as his
influence was greater than that of sny
man in the whole country. Honors of
all kinds were showered upon him, but
he never accepted an official place under
the crown, although he had the refusal
of many. His death is sincerely regret
ted. Mrs Cheek has been in California
for som time. 1t was there she received
the word of her husba nd's death. At
lanta Constitution.