The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Seven of the delegates to the Ma
tional convention say they will stand
by the Chicago nominees, silver or no
Now that each woman has a wheel,
Dame Nature, too, has caught the
craze,
And fired with consuming zeal,
She scorches through the lengthen-
ing days.
New York Tribune.
Papa. is Mrs. Bigelow very poor?"
sNo, Cedric, Mrs. Bigelow is well off;
don't you know what a nice house she
has? But she sleeps in the hen-coop,
papa" why, Cedric!" ''She said she
did, ssWhat do you mean?' Don't
you remember when she was here to
dinner night before last she excused
herself and said she must go home
early because she went to bed with the
chickens ?'-Harper's Round Table.
Johnnie Had Learned to Spell
When speaking in his presence john
MES parents would often spell any
word they did not wish him to hear.
This worked very well for while, but
finally Johnnie himself learned to
spell, and sprung his accomplishment
on his parents one day at dinner. Their
pastor was dining with them, and
Johnnie, noticing the minister take his
third helping of short-cake, compla-
Gently observed: mamma, don't YOU
think the minister is hog ?'-Wash-
ington Times.
The cemetery trustees, of Lansing,
Mich. have adopted an effective plan
for bringing TO time well-to-do citi-
zens who have failed to meet payments
on notes given in part payment for
their cemetery lots. They have an
nounced that if these overdue obliga-
tons are not liquidated within rea-
sonable time the bodies buried in the
lots of the delinquents will be disinter-
red and buried in the Potter's Field and
the deIinquents dispossessed of their
lots.
"Whv.'' asks the New York Nation,
'swas Padereswski to earn $247 900 IN
Eve months while most other pianists
barely make enough to pay expenses?
His technique is no better than that Of
several other pianists now in the field;
his superiority lies entirely in the fact
that he plays with expression, and
therefore touches hearts which others
leave cold. The same lesson was taught
by List and Rubinstein; yet music
teachers continue to devote 50 per cant
of their pupils time TO mere technical
exercises which are as as insufficient
to make a real pianist as mere erudi-
tson to make an author"
Whenever a new candidate for presi-
Dental honors is put forward by a
great party it is well to scrutinize him
In the light of what Rutherford B.
HAYES once said after ne had left the
White House. practically" said
Hayes, ''the President has the nation
in his hands. He is conmander-in-
chief of the army and navy and has
control of foreign affairs. He can at
any time force Congress into war with
foreign powers. BY law Congress has
the power to declare war, but the real
power is with the executive. 1t war
once exists the President HAS the war
powers, and no man has defined what
these are or placed limit on them. "
The Baltimore Sam says: The con-
vention threw a sop TO the colored
brother in the plank relating to lynch
ings, condemning the practice as un-
civilized and barbaroux. Inasmuch az
the platform also proelaims that the
Republican party is mindful OF the
rights and interests of women" il
would seem that in condemning lynch
isgx it would also have found word
Of reprobation for the crimes against
women, for which, in the South al
least, mob violence is usually the pen
atty. The women who are the victims
of this crime are quite as worthy OF
sympathy as the brutes who dishonor
them.