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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05
bacco Company.

Our little stranger was given one OF
these cards, bearing the following in
scription: Remember thy Creator
in the days of thy youth" He read,
re-read, and pondered thoughtfully
over The inscription until it became in
delibly impressed upon his mind. liz
was like precious seed sown in fertile
soil. Three years later he made APP
plication and was received into mem
bership Of the Methodist Church.
And thus the foundation was laid
for one of the most consecrated, use
full and successful lives it has ever
been our pleasure to chronicle.
W.Duke, of Durham, is known and re-
spected all over the United States, and
many foreign countries, as a gentle
man of highest integrity. Mr.. Duke
was born Dec. 20, 1920, in Orange,
(now Durham) and is a son of
Taylor and Dicie Jones Duke. His pa
rents were natives of Orange and
Granville counties, North Carolina.
The Dukes are of English and Scotch
Irish descent paternally, and on his
mothers side of Welsh. His father
was a farmer of prominence in his
day, and q man Of brilliant mind. He
was elected captain of the militia,
which rank, in his day, was quite q
distinction; was also deputy sheriff of
Orange County. Was the father Of ten
children, viz: William j., the Oldest,
died near Durham in 1884; Mary, wife
of james Stage, died in 1881; Anna,
wife of John Clinton, died in 1S4S;
Amelia, wife of James Riggs, died in
Il. =. Z.
Mainda died in 1874; John Il. is now
living in Tennessee; Brodie died in
1914: Robert died in the Confederate
army in 1868; and w. Duke.
The subject Of this imperfect bio
graphy was reared as a sturdy tiller
of the soil, and his educational advan-
tages We're very limited--not more than
six months of his life having been
spent at school. He is, therefore, a
self-made man. He labored with his
brethren at the old homestead until he
became of age, and, as the History OF
Durham very pertinently puts it,
graduated with high distinction at
the Plow Handles, an institution
which is the bone and sinew of our
great Republican nationality; an in
stitution upon which the perpetuity of
our greatness as a people is based, and
from which our greatest men have
come to bless the world, and leave be-
hind them a halo of imperishable
glory"
At the age of twenty-one he began
the battle of life for himself-farming
on rented land for four years, when,
through industry and frugality, he was
able to purchase a small farm of his
own. He continued to purchase one
small tract after another until he had
acquired a farm of three hundred
acres. He successfully operated his
farm until 1868, when he entered the
Confederate army as private, and
was assigned duty at Camp Holmes as
guard for few months, and then en-
tered the navy and was transferred to
Charleston, S. G. After six months
service in the navy at Charleston, be
was transferred to Richmond and as
signed duty at Battery Brook, where
he remained until the army retreated
to Appomattox. At Appomattox he
was captured by the Federals and con-
fined in Libby prison for two weeks.
After the surrender he was given
transportation as far as Newbern, n
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05


" equipped for the manufacture Of
granulated smoking tobacco. The
process of manufacture is not unlike
that employed in the cigarette depart
ment, so far as drying, ordering and
cleansing the tobacco is concerned. Tt
then passes into a graduating ma
chine, not the old fashioned method of
Trailing it to pieces with poles, adopted
by Mr.. Washington Duke, when he
first founded this great establishment,
but immense machines run by steam,
and crushing the leaf into granulated
particles as fast as a man can feed the
leaf into it. 1t goes from here into
oscillating selves, where all the dust
and finer particles are taken out; it
then passes into heap in bin, where
it is submerged in sprays of delightful
flavor. From here it goes to the
packing department, where hundred
or more busy people are weighing and
packing it into bags-eighths, quar-
ters, halves and pounds. 1t then goes
to the stamping department, where it
is labeled and stamped, ready for
shipping. While all this is going on in
the cigarette and smoking tobacco
departments, hundreds of people are
busy in other departments making
boxes, printing labels, packing the
manufactured product into substan-
tial boxes for shipment throughout
this and all other countries.
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automatically from a revolving coil,
wraps. pastes, prints, measures and
cuts the cigarettes at the rate OF 10000
an hour. This wonderful machine, in
vented by young Virginia genius be
fore he was % years of age, and put on
the market little more than a dozen
years ago, made a complete revolution
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05
COMPANY.

Com
over four acres), with every modern
convenience that could be adapted TO n
factory building, as well as everything
for the promotion of the safety and
comfort of the employees, such as fire.
escapes, fire company, ice water, dress
ing rooms, steam heat, fans in summer
run by steam, sanitary closets, etc.
They make their wood and paper boxes,
tobacco sacks, labels and many Of the
implements used in their business.
The commodious, well arranged, and
handsome offices are connected with
all parts of the factory by telephone,
speaking tubes and electric bells.
The factory has daily production Of
three million cigarettes and ten thou
sand pounds of smoking tobacco. IN
addition to the main factory building,
they have in various parts of the town
storage warehouses in which are stored
millions OF pounds of natural leaf.
In this immense factory employ
ment is given to more than eight hum
dred people, and the annual business
exceeds four million dollars. 1T is a.
great institution, and the history of it's
napid success lis more wonderful than
any story in the books.
It's owners are wide-awalSe, able, far
seeing, wise and active business men,
who have not only made this concern
the greatest of its kind, but have been
instrumental also in helping largely to
build the city of Dufhama monu-
ment to the genius of the men who
have controlled the manufacture of to-
bacco there.
The interior of the mammoth Duke
factory in Durham is a little world
in itself. The acres of space are
filled with machinery and people,
each keeping the other busy, and
from the time the hogshead of leaf
tobacco goes into the stemmery, on the
top floor of the building, it never rests
moment until it reaches the shipping
department. Having been stemmed,
steamed, favored, redressed, cut into
shreds, fed into machines, made into
cigarettes, each cigarette stamped and
measured automatically; then packed
into small paper packs, labelled,
stamped, packed in Autograph paper
boxes, and then into wooden cases,
ready for shipment. The process is
an interesting one and the equipment
absolutely complete. I
HE 5lEMMEH1.
The large hogsheads of the bright,
golden weed are first lifted by steam
elevators to the top story of the build
ing. Here they are opened "a dozen
hogsheads at once-the tobacco taken
carefully out and fed into long
steam cylinder. In three minutes it
has passed through this cylinder and
is in perfect order for stemming. In
this department are a hundred or more
people stemming each leaf as fast as it
comes from the steam cylinder.
From the stemmers the leaf goes
into an immense double-acting copper
flavoring box, in the centre of which is
a spray of those peculiar and delight
full liquid sweets; and as the tobacco
falls down under this spray, every
fiber of it is saturated with this de-
lightful flavorng. In the meantime
the dry leaf has passed over revolv-
ing seive. which has eliminated all the
dust, and thoroughly cleansed the
leaf.
From the flayoring box the favored
leaf goes TO the cutting machines; of
these there are five, with a nine thou
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05

young manager, whose methods and
manner are conducive to the best of
feeling between employees and en-
ployers, and the best results from con-
cert OF action and systematic work.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05

in cigarette making and principally by
its use the manufacture of cigarettes
has doubled and trebled until to-day IT
is one Of the worlds greatest and most
profitable industries.
From the machine room the cigar
cites go to the packing department,
and here the def fingers of innumer-
able pretty girls count and pack them
into neat, dainty boxes. | said count
them," but ii is not quite that; these
young women are such adopts at the
business that they don't have to count
them, they merely gather them up and
by the mere feeling can tell when they
have the requisite number. They
carefully put them into these neat
paper packs, and from here they go to
the stamping and labelling department
where each package is stamped and la
belled and packed into neat litho-
graphed paper boxes of 1000 cigarettes
each.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05
THE BRANDS.

Here are made the famous and world
renowned Duke of Durham, whose de-
lightful flavor and standard of excel
lence has charmed smokers from one
end of the earth to the other, whose
genuine merit has builded the largest
plant in the world and caused the
North Carolina weed to be used and app
preciated where tongues were stran-
gers to the language spoken by the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05

men who made it. Besides the Duke
of Durham, this establishment makes
the widely known "Cycle"-20 for s
cents-the Cyclone, the Double Star,
the Cameo, the Turkish Cross-cut, the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05

The office force is composed, besides
Mr.. Geo. Watts and Mr.. B. N. Duke,
the managing directors of the enter
prise, of Messrs. Chas. A. Jordan, c..
NJ. Hutchings, Il. S. Thompson, Chas.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05
THOROUGH SYSTEM.

There is perfect system and har-
mony from one end of the great build
ing to the other. So thorough and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05

Velvet Mouth Piece, and other brands
that add to the glory attained by the
golden weed of North Carolina all
around the earth.
SMOKING TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.
This department, like the cigarette
is perfectly and complete
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-05

most perfect and complete pieces of
mechanism ever invented by man. 1t
takes the tobacco as it is fed into it at
one point and meets it in the center
with strip of cigarette paper, drawn
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08
Dominic and Domino.

Differences that seem very slight in
foreign or provincial words may be very
real, and it is important TO know and to
note them. An eminent New York
scholar calls attention, in this line, to
an erroneous use Of the word dominic"
for domino" by a recent contributor
to The Sunday School Times. BE says:
"The terms dominic and domino
both are plainly derived from the Lat.
in, but do not mean the same thing.
The former is q Scottish usage for
schoolmaster only. and is universally
known because OF Dominic Sampson
in one Of the Waverley novels. The lat
ter is q Hollandish, respectful designa-
ton for a minister Of the gospel only.
II is used very generally in the Dutch
churches in this country, but always in
reverent and, indeed, affectionate
sense 1t appears TO me that the two
terms should not be COMPOUNDED. but
invariably confined to that application
which is required by their historic or
igin."
This distinction is not generally
known, although the dictionaries point
il out. Sunday School Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08
IN. Cured Tower Of tn. Rhon..

The cursed tower is an architectural
curiosity. 1t is almost as far out from
the perpendicular as is the tower at
Pisa and is far more impressive, be-
cause it stands upon an isolated crag
which drops below 1t sheer to the river
in vast precipice. Anciently. before it
vent wrong and its curse came upon 1t,
he tower was the keep Of the Benedic-
tine nunnery of Soyons. Most ungallant-
ly, in the year 1869. the Huguenots cap
tured the abbey by assault. and there
upon the abbess. Louise d 'Amanze (poor
frightened soulD hurriedly embraced
the reformed religion, in dread lest,
without this concession to the rather de-
cided opinions of the conquerors. still
worse might come. Several Of her nuns
followed her hastily heterodox example,
but the mass Of them stood stoutly by
their faith and ended by making on
with it intact to valence. Thomas A.
Janyier in Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08

telles. Ribbons, straps of passementerie
or bands Of flowers are usually employed
FOR this purpose, the top Of the shoulder
being crowned by bow, chou or cluster
of blossoms or ostrich tips.
White violets as we'll as purple ones are
fashionable for hat and gown trimmings,
but the purple ones, being more charact, r
istic, will continue TO predominant.
Black materials are being largely used,
but are trimmed with great deal of color,
uncompromisingly brilliant. Very bright
purple; keen emerald green and all the
cherry shades are seen In combination
with black, besides great deal of passe-
menterie having gold steel and iridescent
effects.
The fashionable evening ooiffure Is still
parted In the middle. The hair Is waved
and curled, drawn loosely back over the
ears and fastened In a soft knot at the back
of the head, jeweled side combs being
placed In front This Is pretty style In
itself, but so bideously unbeoomiug to any
except very Juvenile or beautiful faces that
IL by no means prevails.
The illustration shows a toque for .
young girl made of printed velvet, which
has French blue ground on which Is a
pattern In yellow, red and green. The
velvet Is picturesquely arranged In plaits
and points and is held together In front
by a paste buckle. On the left side are
four black quilts. JUDO CBoLLET.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08
A Nfisdt.

eyes" be answered. as he seemed to
huddle himself in heap. eve done
some odd things in my time. I've jump
ed from train running at speed OF
4s miles an hour, and can't say as l
want to repeat the experiment.
"What was the occasion?"
"Three years ago. did it for bet
of 90 shillings. The bet was that i
daren't walk out on the platform and
take the Jump without picking out my
ground. As it happened the ground was
pretty clear, but el,000,OOO wouldn {
get me to try it again. F"
Chow did you come outr'
"well, it's hard to describe the sensa-
ton. AS Isprang from the step / SEEM
ed to fly. sailed along in the air until
my wings grew tired, and then l drop
ped down 10 see the country. Some
times / beat the professionals all hol-
low, and again ] made mess OF IT. IL
was my intention 10 skip all the mud
puddles and avoid all the stumps, but
you can't always have your own way
in this world. BY and by / came up
with a bang in "a ditch corner, and
waited for first class hospital to visit
me.
much hurt?'
might have been worse. Broke an
arm, two ribs and had over 100 cuts
and bruises, and it was seven weekssbe-
fore could walk yard.
"But You won the 20 shillingsg
eyes, but there is where always
grow sad. The stakeholder forwarded
it to me from his town in the shape Of "a
coffin. and it didn't fit my length by
seven inches. Ihad TO sell the confound-
ed thing as a misfit at half price. -
Strand Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08
An Indian Taboo.

The penalty for violating. even I'M
Willingly, the taboo Of gems is . vifi-
tation Of sores, livid spots, Inflammation
Of the eyes and even blindness. The
In-shtasunda. or thunder gems, do not
touch reptiles. toads or beetles. Some
years ago the vegetable garden OF the
Omaha mission was visited by the pota-
to bug. The good missionaries in charge
engaged the children in the work OF ex-
termination by Offering a bounty OF o
cents q quart, solid measure, for de-
funct bugs. As the extinction OF the
species became imminent, some OF the
young wits adulterated their bugs by
the addition Of spurious beetles About
this time one Of the little girls became
suddenly covered with sores. Her par
ents, hearing Of IL, came in corsterna-
ton 20 the mission. She belonged to the
thunder gems, and the child's bug in
come ceased at once. She bad unwit-
tingly been carrying on traffic in her
taboo. Alice O. Fletcher in Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08
He Got the Message.

An experienced telegraph operator can
from listening to the sounds under
stand message On ono kind of telegraph
instrument without seeing it at all.
Ono day an inspector walked into al
office and began 10 question the clerk III
charge. Suddenly message began to
arrive, and the clerk sat down to writo
it. The message was as follows.
"Look out for squalls. The inspector
is somewhere ON the line and Will be
poking his nose in everywhere. y
The inspector smiled rs he listened
to the message, while the poor clerk
looked quite helpless. His superior.
however, went 10 the instrument and
sent back the answer: "Too late. Ho
has already poked his nose IN here. -
Pearson's Weekly
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08
Tho Ffnlanders'

Mutual Fire Insurance company OF
Houghton and Keweenaw counties, or
ranized In 1890 according to the laws oil
the State Of Michigan, will insure proper
ty OF it's members. Have paid fire losses
over %, 900 during It's existence. Inc
company paid back during the last year
20 sixty.two OF it's members OF five yesrs
standing 6s per cent Of their premiums
amounting to s3,5o2. Will pay back
during this year on the same rate 70
thirty-six members OF FIVE years stand
ING Al AT. On the first day oil this wear
the company had ga members s2s7,.
40 worth Of property insured and
90, 594. IL in treasury. For further par
ticuIars apply to the undersigned.
JOHN BLoMovIsr, President.
ALEX LENoSEN, Secretary.
Once, 44s Pine street, upstairs. Red
Jacket.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08
LETTERS COST 81 APIECE.
"a. Iornia Miners Lined Up For the Mail.
and Places Were Worth $500,

and Places were Wort 4ooUt
A well known patent attorney in this
city, who was in California in the early
mining days, apropos the publication in
The Post of the cost Of carrying mails
ON the Yukon, makes some interesting
statements about similar service on the
Pacific coast in lS49-50:
"We had to pay 81 for every letter
sent or received" he states. besides
the government postage. We were in
the mines and had to send a messenger,
with an order for the postmaster to de-
liver to him our mail at Sacramento,
distance of from 75 to 100 miles, ac-
cording 10 the location of the camps.
Parties made business of carrying the
mail and had regular routes around
through the mining camps.
cat that time mail went by way OF
the isthmus, there being but one steam
er every three weeks. AS result, at
San Francisco and at Sacramento, the
two main Offices and supply points for
the state, there would be "a large crowd
waiting every time mail arrived. They
finally adopted rule among themselves
requiring all to form IN line and take
their turn, and hundreds stood or laid
in line day and night to keep their
places, sometimes several days before
they could be served, the line being
formed days before the steamer arrived.
Resident spectators would take position
in the line, and when they had advanc-
ed near the door would sell their place
TO others from the mines, who were
waiting, frequently getting from 800
to $500.
"Such thing can hardly be believed
BY those who have never had any such
experience, but in the fall of lS49 an OK
team driver got $40 per day and board,
Sundays being counted the same as 9TH
or days, while carpenters got from an
ounce ($16) to an ounce and half per
day, everything else costing in proper
| ton, and hence the mail carriers for the
mines could better afford to pay for the
position in line than to wait on expense
and lose the time. they sometimes being
kept waiting for a week before they
could get all their mail for the several
camps.
lone OF. the curious sights was the
sale of the New York papers. As soon
as the steamer arrived man or boy
with lot of papers would rush ashore,
mount box and just as fast rs he could
hand out the papers and make change
dispose Of them at 81 each. OF course IN
time all this changed. but communica
| ton with the States was then so slow
and the time required so great that q
us, isolated as we were from home ant
friends and the whole outside world, j
seemed almost an eternity. "-Exchange
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08

NJ. r. Goldsw orthy and Z. ID. Johnson,
both most popular gentlemen among the
boys, will captain the teams in the MEM
bership contest OF the Y. M. C. A. This
contest has raised great deal oiinterest
at Calumet. The association there as
we'll as at Hancock is after fourth place
among the State associations in place OF
membership and this will add interest to
the coming scheme to increase the local
institution.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08

DIR. Boone, OF the State Normal at Up
SLANT will lecture at the Y. M. c. A. Hall
next Wednesday evening. The lecturer
comes here by invitation OF the teachers
IN the public schools and to defray the
expenses an admission of so cents will be
charged. The lecture will be on some
educational topic OF peculiar interest to
teachers. but with Information advan-
tageous to anyone. Or. Boone will also
lecture at Lake Linden, but will not 20
to Calumet. During one day OF his stay
here he will visit the schools and will
then talk to the teachers and pupils. He
is q well known educator.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08
Browns Cough Balsam has no equal.
For sale bv all dealers.

wv. Pierce, Republic, Ia, says; u
have used One Minute Cough Cure In my
family and for myself, with results so sat
isiactory that l can hardly find words to
express myself as to It's merit. l viii
never fail to recommend 1t to Others on
every occasion that presents itself.
EAGLE DRUG STORE.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08

The Frank Tucker theatre company
concludes successful engagement at st.
Patrick's Hall this evening. The play
will be Gan Unequal Match" The hand
some bed room set now on exhibition In
the show windows OF j. N. Mitchell will
be given away this evening.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08


White Grape and Purple violets Worn nj
Wedding.
English Grape Is being very extensively
used for mourning and Is not by any
means confined to widows. Entire gowns
are now made Of It, and long wraps also.
Grape wells reaching to the feet are now
correct for widows wear, and the tiny
bonnet serves merely as foundation for
IL. being otherwise indicated only by tho
white ruche around the face. Plaitings,
ruffles, ruchings and other trimmings Of
Grape will be worn In profusion.
White Grape, Identical with the black
save In the matter Of color, Is fancy Of
the moment. At wedding In fashion
able family recently bereaved the sisters
Of the bride wore white Grape costumes
and purple violets.
Most of the 1880 decolletages-that Is,
those cut square across, leaving the top Of
the arm nomenclature now the addition
of some sort Of straps or bands passing
over the shoulders. They may begin az
tho edge Of the deoolletage or may be car
ried up from the bolt In the form OF bre-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-08

Drs. Jones and Scott on Thursday set
the limb OF John Osborne, broken in a
freight car at the D.. s. s. & A. depot ten
days ago. The injury was 80 serious
that more than the ordinary time had to
elapse before the operation could be per-
formed