The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-20

utah.
"And you broke off the engagement
said one young man. pei
.Yes-not brutally, you know bus
managed 1t.
ssHowY w
.Told her what my salary is.-N ASH
ington Star.
Democratic merchant in this county
ras So confident of RusselPs defeat thae
ha rashly vowed that if Russell was
elected he would not have fre III ms
store during his term as Governor. lie
- I;Eelv TO have rather a cold time OF It.
Chatham Record.
The Genesis of a Name w ny, ashea
the daughter with the dreamy eyes, Why
DO they call it the honeymoon, mamma
Because" answered the mother Win
the drawn lines about her mouth. pe-
cause it is a sort of sweet lunacys sup
pose.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
George Bernard Shaw, the london
novelist, who has been a-yegetaEian lot
fifteen years, says that "the enormlty OF
eating the scorched corpses OF aniinais-.
cannibalism with its heroic dish omitteu
becomes impossible the moment 1t be-
comes consciously instead OF thonghtiess-
w habitual.
Dick.-And how did you proceed!
Fred.-Why, I just went up TO her and
asked her if she would marry me.
Dick.-Without first telling her now
much you loved her and all that sort o
thing?
Fred.-Of course; did not want to pre-
JUDGE her judgment.
Dick.-My dear boy, don't yen know
when folks fall in love they don't have
any Judgment s-Boston Transcript
Snain's new loan simply reduces the
chances of it's being able to fly at the
limited States. 1t has been put more
heavily under bonds to the money powers
of Europe to keep the peace with the
limited States, and those powers are
more potent to-day for peace or war
than the political powers are.-Springheld
Republican. They are the real rnlers.
The political powers merely do their bid
ding.
Miss Anna Shaw asks women to assert
their independence and complains that
wives sometimes cannot get their Legally
designated shares of husbands estates
Here enters the main question OF We
mans rights. Can woman assert an IN
dependence and maintain its When she
does. there will be no claim eR husbands
estates. If she cannot, the men must
e on fighting the battles and protecting
he women and children.
Like all the trusts, the steel billet com
b;nation american Bessemer steel asso-
eiation) was organized to put prices up
to the top notch, and its officers now an
nounce that harmony continues and the
top notch prices as well. Having held
ND the prices through the recent depres-
sion. when no billets could be sold, the
trust sees no reason to retire from the
field now. This trust is only little less
extortionate than the nail trust.-Spring-
field Republican.
Congressman Hilborn, of California,
who was unseated in the Fifty-third
Congress by a partisan majority that
gave the Office to Warren Il. English
beat English for the next Congress 1.-THE
present one) and again defeated him in
the late election said Mr.. II. V. Hall.
Of San Francisco, at the Raleigh. ''This
time he got a fair larger majority than
in 1894. English accepts his defeat
good-naturedly, and friend in explain
ing how he got left, said: THE Popu-
lists wouldn't vote for him; the Irish
wouldn't support him because his name
is English, and the A. r. AS refused
him their ballots because his wife is a
Catholic Washington Post.
Just how the silver issue weakened
the Democratic party in Ohio may be
seen IN the figures presented by the Gin
cinnati Enquirer Ohio gave Bryan
475.000 votes, 10000 more than were
given 10 Cleveland in 1892. when he near
" carried the State. and 10000 more
than ex.ti0yernor Campbell received in
1885. when he ran on a gold platform.
Not only was his vote far greater than
that Of any previous Democratic candi-
date, but it was $1,000 greater than
any Republican candidate ever received
until this year. Governor Bushnell, who
holds the record, having received only