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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-18
,vrr WEATHER.

Forvaast fer Wednesday. The United
Rates w~xsaer Bureau issues the follow
mg forecast fer the next twenty-four
hours:
For Nsrsh Carolina: Fair; variable or
southerly wisds,
Yesterday Maximum temperature, 70;
sninimuw temperature, 40.
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Dress Goods.

Plaids are very fashionable; of thess
we show complete assortments of Scotch
and FIR nch effecrs, including the vew
desirable dark blues and greens which
are so scarce.
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Upholstery.

NV Japanes- dr. per CT, pes all eel
ors. with gold printed iJurss: Poppy,
Carnation, Chrysanthemum Al d other
foraI designs besides great variety
Of Delft and Japanese effects-10e to
IL &c per yard.
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Under the law authorizing the reprint
Of the scarce volumes of the Supreme
Court Reports, the Secretary Of State
is allowed to apply to that purpose only
so much as shall be derived from the
sale of Supreme Court Reports. During
the incumbency OF the present Secretary
of State for the past twelve months there
have been reprinted the following ten
volumes: LIST and End Martin. Taylor
and Conference, Law and EQUITY; 9Th,
9th, 10th and 18th Iredell's Law: End
and 4th Iredells Equity: Goth. SIND and
S3rd. The Secretary of State very much
desires to contract within the next thirty
days for the reprint of several other
volumes that are out of print and very
scarce, but his ability to do this will de
pend upon the number of Supreme Court
Reports he can sell within that time.
He would, therefore, respectfully suggest
to the members of the legal profession
and dealers in law books thar they make
their purchases as early as possible.
Attention is also called to the fact that
the following other volumes of the Su
preme Court Reports can be had at this
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Martin and Haywood.
Taylor and Conference
/ Murphey.
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YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND SOMETHING
WANTED FAR BELOW THE PRICE
EXPECTED.
NNNNNNNNNRNNA&AeNAAAANA
t.f That s.s r.. s..
NewSiIk Plush Capes

REGULAR AND EXTRA LENGTHS. FULL SWEEP.
Plain, jetted, appHqued, fur-ribbed
and other fashionable garnitures, all
with satin or fancy tsffeta silk Innings.
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INDRx 70 ADVERTISEMENTS
w. n. Jenes Fine Dress Goods,
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Canvas L-anieux.
Ponnpadour Mohair.

Is a MOHAIR and WOOL BOURETTE NOVEL
TY: neat check in all the latest color combinations
covered with small curs of bright usre Mohar forming
a stripe extra value at $Ioo per yard.
Samples to out-of-town patrons.
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Deputy Sheriff r. H. Whitehead, of
Wilson. yesterday brought two coEvlcts
10 the nenitentiary,
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Rich Dress Goods.
Coat Of Mail"

This new fabric comes in two ways, being open in
mesh the other being firm and solid in "Armor' effects
We open Monday an assortment Of Goat Of Mail" in
self plain colors, Navy, Brown, Green, Fawn at SO
Importation and when sold cannot be replaced.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31

There is widespread impression
among medical men and the public at
large that there is little or no danger
attending the removal of the tonsils,
and instruments for this purpose are
found in the possession of almost every
practitioner in the land. An eminent
surgeon declares that removing the
tonsils is an operation attended with
n great deal of risk. One reason foI
this seems to be that in cutting there
is danger of approaching near the large
arteries, or, at all events, tapping small
veins that may cause alarming hem
orrhage. This physician gives an &C
count of the removal of the tonsils
from the throat of boy, when he wa.
obliged to hold the parts with his fin
gers for several hours to arrest tn,
hemorrhagc that threatened the
youths life. Having no appliances al
hand for checking the hemorrhage
which was entirely unlocked for, hi
came very near losing his patient. The
general practitioner is warned agains
too free use of these Instruments in
deed, it is as well to be very wary il
cutting the tonsils at all, and not t,
operate upon them unless it is abso
lutely necessary, and then only remove
a sufficient surface to relieve the me
chanical obstruction caused by thei
nlargement.-N. Y. Ledger.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31
sTEvENsoN's SAMOAN HOME.
Tree-Embowered House on Large
Plantation in Upolu.

A Tree-Embowered House on Large
Plantation in UpOlu.
Mr.. Stevenson knew as little as you
do about Samoa and the remote South
seas when several years ago he came to
San Francisco and set sail in beaut-
full schooner-yacht, hoping the trade
wind would blow him to some pleasant
isle where he might get well and strong
again. The Shining Ship" (for that
was what the natives called herr polied
her nose into many a sweet bay and
lark-blue lagoon, and passed from
island to island through calm and storm
and picked her way through gurf-swept
reefs where the sharks played like min
nows beneath her keel, but she came no
nearer the haven for which she was
in search. At last she reached an island
called Oahu, which was so pleasant to
look at and SO agreehle to live in that
Mr.. Stevenson thought his voyage was
over. The king of Oahu was very
agreeable man, TOO, and wished Mr..
Stevenson never to go away, but to stay
with him all his life and be his friend
So Mr.. Stevenson stayed many months
in Oahu, and would have been very
happy and contented had it not been
for the trade wind, who was always tell
ing him about the fine islands further
on until be was persuaded to say good
by to the king and set sail again.
The trade wind took him a long road
and through many queer and dangerous
places before he brought him within
sight of Upolu, in Samoa, and told him
to pack up and go ashore; which Mr..
Stevenson was very glad to do, for he
was quite agreed with the trade wind
| that Upolu was the finest island in the
| whole ocean. Here he bought large
| tract of land which he called ''Vailima,"
and built a big house, and planted
bananas and breadfruit trees and CO.
coanuts and mmgos and other trees
| with strange names, in order to feed
the brown people who had gathered
about him and made him the head of
their tribe. They called him ''Tusitala,"
or the Writer OF Tales" fol his own
name was too hard for tn. m to sa.J-
In short time Mr.. Storyteller grew
well and strong, just as he hoped he
would, and remained grateful all his
days to the trade wind for bringing him
to Upolu; and he always made pointof
speaking kindly about il in his books
Lloyd Osbourne, in St. Nicholas.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31

that grind the faces of the poor. His
face had been ground, and it made him
sharp.
LIN his recent location his ostensible
business had been brokerage in oil and
gas lands, but his actual employment
IL best defined in a general phrase, as
the making of ingenious and compli-
Gated trades in property which he does
not own; yet which, by some clever
method, not involving the payment of
money, he manages to possess legally.
Ezra's attorney, young Mr.. Archi-
bald Face, had instituted this action
against McTagg and Hockensmith I'M
der an imperative instruction and
against his best Judgment, and it was
sot until the week before court con-
rened that the attorney succeeded in
persuading his client to yield to adj
vice.
Mr.. Face had poen retained because
he was cheap, and Ezra's confidence in
his ability was, therefore, not quite
firm. At last, almost on the eve of the
trial, he consented, regardless of ex-
pcnse, to take the opinion of that hester
Of the circuit, ex-Judge J. Billings
sayte, and agreed to dispose of the con-
sroyersy us Judge ]. Billings Gayle in
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31
The American FATHER.

In what have seen of English home
life it has seemed to me that the Eng
fish father is on terms of closer ac-
workmanship with his daughter
than is the American father. This
may be due to the fact that the Ameri-
can father is much more occupied with
his business, and also to the additional
fact that the American daughter has
more self-reliance in her disposition
which renders her to a certain extent
more independent and capable of look.
ing after her own interests. In GER
tain sense, especially as regards none
tary and matrimonial matters, itmight
be said that the English father acts foi
his daughter, while the American faith
or allows her to act for herself. Thos,
who have made a study of the Ameri
can girl can have little doubt that thi'
independence is good for her, in boil
mental and moral sense, though i
does not follow that the same cours,
OF treatment would be good for tn,
English girl.-Elizabeth L. Banks, il
Nineteenth Century.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31
"A Large Tunnel.

The largest tunnel ever built-the
underwater section of the Blackwell
tunnel, under the Thames-has Just
been finished. 1t is 81 feet in diane
ter and one mile in length, and con-
meets Poplar on the north side of the
river with Greenwich on the south.
Nearly 1000 feet of this tunnel had 10
be driven by compressed air. The &c
curacy of the survey and the dangers
of the worl; may be imagined from
the statement of the engineers that
while driving the shield under the river
bed there were, at one time, but five
feet and two inches of earth between
the top of the tunnel and the water
So great was the danger of the water
bursting through that large quantities
Of clay were dumped into the river ovci
the thinnest spots.-N. Y. Ledger.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31
His Identity Fixed.

"Yes," said the man with the impos-
ing conversational manner, "this coun-
try has much to learn"
Think SOP" replied the hotel clerk.
"Enlphatically. lam daily panied by
It's deficiencies in art, music, science and
literature. What it wants is some per
son-some cultivated person like my
self, for instance-to show it how its
books should be written, and how its
army should be disciplined, and how its
government should be conducted"
Here he was interrupted by the shril
stage whisper of one of the bell boys:
Hi, CHIMNEY, tel de boss ter fire da'
bride an groom out'n de parlor suite OF
de secon' fiovr. We's got de emperor o.
Germany wit us in disguise. Wash
ington Star.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31
THEcoUNTRY SCHooL-TEAcHER
Receives as Much Pay as the Cobbler or
Dreismaker.

DTofblnthtTs
In the country, whether in the cast
or west, north or south, the compensa-
ton to school-teachers is so small that
it seems wonderful that those who re-
ceive these salaries can live on them
These salaries range from $1OO year
to 5000 year. The average for a
school year Of about seven months is
S3lS.36 for men, and $262.92 for women.
The duties of country school-teacher
usually includes cleaning the school
house and building fires. These duties
are not always considered hardships
by the persons who take such posts,
as the women in all save exceptional
cases have been accustomed to such
work at home, and the men find it easy
enough to get pupils to do the work
in exchange for favors in school. In
the country schools of the United
States there are three times as many
women as men, the percentage being a
little greater than in the cities.
Most country schools have only one
teacher and that teacher is required to
instruct children of all ages and in all
branches up to grammar and algebra
| The amount of either grammar or al
zebra dispensed in these schools is
quite inconsiderable, as these are
branches of knowledge not in demand
| For what these country teachers do
as the schools are at present estab-
lished, it is likely that they are quite
adequately paid. A village school-mas
ter will earn as much as the cobbler;
the schoolmistress will make as much
in the year as the drcssmaker. They
do not belong, as n general thing, to q
class better educated than the cobbleI
Or dressmaker, and they do not worl
any harder. Those of them who have
thought about their calling, and who
have ever been moved to feel that great
responsibilities devolved upon them
have realized that the conditions were
such that they could do next to moth
ing, and usually they have given ovel
any efforts to secure change in schoo
administration Forum.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31
WIT AND WISDOM.
III you will give your hand to me.
I'll tell your fortune true"
mo doubt, dear count" the maid re-
piled,

III you will give your hand to me.
I'll tell your fortune true"
mo doubt, dear count" the maid re-
piled.
"And you would spend It, too"
IN. Y. Recorder
We are reformers in spring and
summer. In autumn and winter we
stand by the old. Reformers in the
morning; conservatives ut night
Emerson.
Every man has his chain and clog,
only it is looser and lighter to one than
to another; and he is more at ease who
takes it up and carries it than he who
drags it.-Seneca.
Mrs. Snaggs (who was school
teacher before her marriage) -"The sci
entific name of the turkey is Meleagris
Gollopavo." Mr.. Snaggs-"We will alb
breviate that name to Dennis for the
time being" = Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
--Millionaire-"Well, my dear baron,
you seem to have an important com-
munication to make?' Baron-"Coun-
cilor F, / am happy to tell you the
glad news that it is my intention to Up.
point you - my father-in-law." -
Deutsche Wcspen.
Poor fellow!" she said, sympa-
thetically. whats the matter?" he
asked. THE poor man was disappoiut.
ed in love-" she replied. "Of course,
he returned. ut never does come uI
to expectations" - Chicago Evening
Post.
-Susie-"And SO you are an old maid
auntie--a real old maid?" Aunt Ethe
-"Yes, Susie, dear-lm real Ole
maid" Susie (wishing to be nice ant
comforting)-"Well, never mind, poor
dear auntie; I'm sure it isn't YOU
fault. "-Boston Courier.
Character is like stock in trHle
the more of it, a man possesses, thu
greater his facilities for making add
tons to it. Character is power-is in
fuence; it makes friends; creates
funds; draws patronage and support
and opens sure and easy way t.
wealth, honor and happiness. = j
HAYES.
Some men think that the gratifi
cation of curiosity is the end of knowl
edge; some the love of fame; some III
pleasure of dispute; some the necessit.
of supporting themselves by thci
knowledge; but the real use of al
knowledge is this, that we should dedi
cate that reason which was given IL
by God to the use and advantage o
man.-liacon.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31
PENNSYLVANIA MouNTAlNEeRs
they Arc What Might he Called ccn-
arIenlInus MnnnahIncra.


rhcy Arc What Might Be Called Gen.
scientious Moonshiners.
Moonshining Is secretly carried on
all over the mountains. II is the ear
nest conviction of those people that
they have divine il not lawful right
to convert the product OF their farms
into liquor, which they can readily dis
pose of at better price than they can
the raw products. They still hold to
the, principle for which all western
Pennsylvania rose in arms over CEN
fury ago, but they are no more ancient
in this contention than they are in all
their modes of life.
Within the mountain cabin everything
is as primitive us without and rounG
about. Most of these are one story,
with loft above, and contain but two
small apartments. Built against the
log building is, the massive stone chin
ney, and the chink holes between the
notched logs of which the cabin is built
are filled with mud. All the furnish
ings are rude and mostly homemade
and the few utensils are of the most
Anticipated pattern. The door is low
and the windows small and few. Some
cabins have stairs to the loft, some d
ladder, and some only pegs. In the loft
the wife has her weaving loom, spin
ming wheel and reel, ard here she keeps
her flax and wool. 1t is here that tn,
material for clothing is spun anf
woven. Pine knots and tallow candles
furnish the light, but when nigh
comes the family generally goes to bed
Bedsteads are generally made by th'
head of the family, but sometimes W.
find flashy-painted specimen, which
has descended from sire to son. Cradle,
are hewn from logs and the rounded
surface serves as rockers.
If schoolhouses are the heralds o
civilization, then the mountain region
| is like the country of the Gauls befor,
the coming of Caesar. Way dowr
toward the foot of the range we may SCI
n little battered and faded building, bu
few, indeed, are the children Of TIL
mountain region who Joy it's benefits
We scarcely ever meet man or woman
who is able to read and write intelli
gently, and daily paper is an entir
stranger to the mountain cabin.
Only the weekly papers reach it, an
these not for month after they ar
issued. The mountaineer has no occ.
sion to go to the village at the foot o
the range oftener than once month
Many of the gray-headcd seers hay
never seen railroad, and plenty of tn
strappiDg youths have never been
dozen miles from home. This il OH
place, at least, where the sports of on
grandfathers are still in vogue, and tn
highest ambition of youth or Made
of the region to attend log-rollins
wood-chopping, corn-husking, house q
barn-raising, apple-cuttiDg or stone
picking, with their Accompanying
nights of merriment. When the wor
for which the frolic is held is finished
and supper over, the room is clcarc
and the old fiddler appears upon tn
scene, and soon the strains of such oil
tunes as the Virginia Reel, ""Old Da
; Tucker" and the Irish Washerwoman
fill the air. One by one the couples {
dancers take their places, and then ell
sues a period Of hilarity and uproa
that would rival an Indian pow-wow.-
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL,

DIR. Frederick ii. Wines has been
appointed lecturer on social classes and
social evils in Harvard university.
Oxford university has 1855 UNDER
graduates this fall, an increase of s22
over last year. Christ church has ESQ,
New college, 200; Keble, ga; Balliol,
224, and there are 241 Intercollegiate
students.
The Japanese religion demands that
man must worship on the soil every
day. Noblemen and rich men evade this
by sprinkling little dirt in one corner
of The room on square Of cement made
for the purpose.
Am expedition from Amherst col
lege, in charge Of Prof. David p. Todd,
will observe the total eclipse of the sun
on August 0, 1896, from the island of
| GEO, Japan.
Though the German schoolmaster
won the war of 1870, he was and still is
very poorly paid. Thirteen thousand
schoolmasters have salaries of less than
5000 year. They lately met and re-
solved that they ought to have at least
$500 to begin with, and chance to rise
to 5000 by the end of rs years.
johannes Adolf Overlook, for AZ
years professor of archaeology at the
University of Leipzig, died recently
aged go years. lie wrote history Of
Greek sculpture, a standard work, q
book on Pompeii, and "Greek Art
Mythology" He was nephew of the
famous painter, FREDERICK Overlook.
Cardinal Bonaparte's death leave.
only seven cardinals Of Plus KS ere
alton in the sacred college. Three are
cardinal bishops, Monaco la Vailetta
Oreglia di Santa Stefano, Parocchi
three cardinal priests, Won Hohenlohe
Ledochowski and Di Canossa, while
Cardinal Mertel is cardinal deacon
Urban VIII. is the only pope so far who
survived all the men who elected him.
Rev. G. II. Beamish, curate of st
Georges cathedral, Kingston, Can, hal
baptized the oldest pei son who has eve
received the sacrament of baptism il
modern times. This was Mrs. Orr, nov
an inmate of the house of industry, VIII,
has reached the age Of ITO years.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31

not to take the land; but you've got a
rare bargain, Grassncck,' says he, AN
| visit you'd find it handy TO pay me
the thousan' | advanced you when you
bought the land, cause I'm needin'
money soon.'"
Exactly" remarked the judge.
Then he gets in his buggy and drives
off, an | amt had a chance to get a.
him sence, except by bringin' this law
salt"
"Then l understand" said the Judge,
that you've made contract with Joe
Hockensmith to purchase this land
from him at $4,000, and that you and
McTagg have each paid thousand dol
lars on the purchase price?"
That's the way it looks-only--"
as the land worth $4,000"
That's it-et amt worth $500"
$50 thought. And you therefore in
fer that McTagg's thousand dollars
were returned to him and yours di.
vided between the two, and Joe has
your contract to buy the land for IS, 900
less the two paid"
"Jedge, there amt no doubt about it.
! mo doubt at all. How about the
telegram, Mr.. Face?"
1T was probably" replied the Other
lawyer, "a genuine one referring tt
other lands that McTagg actlaIl,
bought for the Slandered Oil com.
pany."
Nov, Ezra" resumed the Judge
matters stand this way: You wan
your contract cancelled and your money
refunded. McTagg claims an actor
against you for thousand dollars lent
you, and Joe Hockensmith threatens tc
sue you on your contract for $4,000 still
due. You understand the situation
Wen not need you again until Eorn
ing, as Mr.. Face and require the res
of the day for consultation"
THAT ALP" piped Ezra, dolefully.
That's all. Call tomorrow morning
at $780,"
"Well, good day. You'll do YOU
best"
Face" queried the judge, as the doc,
slammed, they have the documents9 ~
Enough to win any kind of an actor
at law"
"Our clients hands are not quit
clean enough for equitable relief, eh?"
They look bit soiled."
you've examined the contractr
Its perfect"
''The title to the land?"
"Flawless."
HIN - bright fellow - McTagg
We've got to settle it," 1t was settled
and McTagg dictated the terms.-lllus
trated American.