The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-15
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Patient That sign of yours is not
very encouraging.
Dentist-Why so? l guarantee to
extract teeth without pain.
Patient-Yes but ! want the pain
extracted. I'd rather keep the tooth
Philadelphia Record.
1T seems to me that you are writing
q good many mother-in-law jokes" re-
marked the critical friend.
Yes" replied Merriman; IF the
market for them holds out Ill be able
to pay back some of the money my
wife's mother was kind enough TO
lend us when we went to house-keep-
ing. Washington Star.
One speaker at the Republican club
Monday night said the reason he had
been attracted to the Republican party
was that it had no bosses to make him
do what they said. There is one in the
Populist party who will make them
come to their knees, and his name
spells Butler Watch him as he brings
them into line! Asheyille Citizen.
The Yancey man who heard Rev. III.
Budger make rip-roaring Democratic
speech six years ago and went home
and named his baby after him, and who
has now had to change the yearlingss
name from Xxi. to Thad., affords an
other instance of the great risk you run
in naming your baby after any man un-
til after the latter is dead.-Charlotte
Observer.
Mayor John Boyd Thatcher caused
the raid of disorderly house in Al
bany, M. u, Tuesday night, and made
haul of six Assemblymen, all Repub-
Iicans, and three from New York city.
The city and Legislature are politically
at odds, and the Assembly will proba
bly, retaliate by Immediately legislating
the city's police board out Of Office.
The affair has created an intense sensa-
ton.
The Progressive Farmer is initiating
B'rer Rabbit in these days Of turmoil
among the Fusionists, and seems to be
looking for light, and says: 1--WE want
letters for publication from the people
of the State giving their views as To the
best course to pursue Ia political af-
fairs this year. We want to get the
concensus Of opinion from q nom
partisan standpoint, and not letters in
the interest of any particular party.
Members Of any political party are in
yited to express their opinions through
our columns, and all will be treated
with impartial courtesy"
We heard several countrymen dis
cussing politics this morning. They
We're intelligent men and all for free
silver. They all voted the Third party
ticket at the last election but were
not certain how they were going to
vote this year. They said their sole
aim was the desire to see silver on
parity with gold and that it could not
be secured by electing two men TO the
United States Senate, one for silver
and one for gold as was done by the
last Legislature. This lis a sign OF how
the tide Is drifting Fayetteville OBJ
server.
The New York Morning Advertiser
gives this glimpse of Boss Platt at a
dinner by the Progress Club. In his
speech he said
THE first vote that ! cast was for
John g. Fremont. IN that campaign
] displayed, think, just the same
spirit that ! display now. But / was
a singer ia those days
There the leader amid the widest
enthusiasm began the singing Of the
old gospel hymn:
In the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea,
With glory in His bosom
Which transfgured you and me;
As He died to save our body,
Let us die TO make men free.
At first the crowd was amazed, and
then delighted, as the sweet, clear
tenor voice of the old leader filled the
hall. There was in that East Side
room the same stiffness which comes
over the Metropolitan Opera House
when some famous prima donna is in
the midst of q solo. There was earn
estness and fire, too, in the ex-senator
The memory of the old days seemed
81 come to him. When he hal con-
q tded the crowd seemed to grow wild
II .heered for full ten minutes.
That's the first time, he said, when
he had opportunity to resume, that
I've sung one of those old campaign
sengs in fifteen years"