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ue" congress must be elected. At that
'i.iie we snail See whether the election
oi MT. Mckinley has brought perma-
iehl prosperity. If it has, then moth
."s oah overthrow the Republican party
at that time. If, on the other hand
'iiiies are then still hard and getting
worse that will demonstrate that his
eiec1lon was mistake, and the people
VII then elect a Congress opposed to
Nif. Mck1nley's administration. But
sor the present no aggressive opposi-
aon should be organized which could in
any way tend to retard the revival of
business activity"
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CHANGES RECOMMENDED.
REPORT OF FIRST ASSISTANT
POST1ASTER-GENERAL.
A Saving During the Year and an I'm.
provement in Delivery of
Mail Matter.

WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-First AS
slstant Postmaster General Frank
Jones, in his annual report for the fiscal
year ending June 80. 1896, states that
there has during that time been saw
ing of $3,27S, ,9S5, and also shows an
improvement in the service of deliver
ing the volume of mail matter.
The numberof Presidential Postoffices
Is 1864, the salaries of Postmasters be-
ing S6,203,900 and the total gross re-
ceipts from these offices were Sta, ,2S2.-
364.
Mr.. Jones recommends that SIT ,00O.-
600 be appropriated to compensate
Fostmasters for the next fiscal year. He
asks only $11, 900, 900 for clerk hire. a
considerable decrease in proportion to
the increase of clerks to be employed.
He recommends that $4,000 be appro-
rriated for the rental and purchase of
canceling machines. He thinks that
$4,000 is sufficient sum to cover adj
vertising expenses regarding unclaimed
letters, and advocates the addition CT
the bulletin board system in this mat
ter. He recommends that ten inspect
ors be assigned to look after the work
IN the salary and allowance branch OF
the service. Free delivery service ha:
been established at twenty-four cities
during the year, and there are now but
thirty-six entitled to it. but on account
of the expense the remainder could not
be benefited. Experimental free deliv-
cry in towns and villages has shown a
reduction in gross receipts in major
ity of offices. BY November 1st next
rural free delivery will be tested in
about thirty States. There was re-
duction of dismissals of letter carriers,
which evidences the high standard of
discipline.
An estimated expenditure of $13,326,-
eco is made on account of free delivery
systems for the fiscal year 1S9t-9S.
Negotiations are now pending for an
exchange of money orders with Mexico.
Mr. Jones recommends that penalty
be prescribed for the unlawful use Of
the frank of a member of Congress, and
suggests $500 fine in each case. He says
the law was disregarded during the
Congressional campaign just closed.
He asks legislation to do away with
private Postoffice boxes.
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AN IMPORTANT LINK.
New Railroad to be Built From Texas
Into rlexiCO.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. S.-A special to a
morning paper from Victoria, Mexico,
says: Governor Guadalupe Maninero of
this city has been granted a concession
for the construction of railroad from
San Miguel, town opposite Rio Grande
City, Texas, to the Gulf Railroad.
The Federal Government will give him
a subsidy of $1,000 for each kilometer
constructed. United States capitalists
will furnish the money for the enter
prise. This road viii make an important
link in a direct road from the Texas
border to the City of Mexico.
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Will Start Up.

TEXARKANA (Ark.), Nov. S.-The
Central Coal and Coke Company has
issued orders to start up all of the mills
December 1st. Several hundred men
will be employed at their mills in this
city, which are the largest in this sec
ton. Several hundred men have been
put to work on the Kansas City, Pitts
burg and Gulf Railroad, on which work
was suspended in September.
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BUSINESS OPENING UP.
Hills and Factories in Indiana viii
Employ 1ore Men.

TERRE HAUTE 0nd.), Nov. S.-The
two rolling mills here. beginning to-
morrow, VIII give employment to 1ol
more mer than have been employed ip
the past six months.
The Standard Wheel Company. which
has the largest share of the output Of
the wheel trust yesterday bought Sloo,-
600 worth OF malleable iron, which Is
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Democrats Claim Wyoming.

CnE f>NE Wyo), Nov. Sat 10
CLOCK Tonight the Democratic State
COMMITTEE received returns from one
tara Oh the precincts in Big Horn
county The committee declines to
siVe the hgures received, but states
that they show decided Democratic ma
jorltles and that they will carry the
county by several hundred majority.
ana that the Democrats will carry the
entire electoral, State and CONGRESS
sionai tickets by majorities ranging
from 200 to 600.
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A Portfolio for Harmer.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. S-A die
Patch from Washington last evening
stated tnat there was a report in Re-
publican circles at the capital to the
enect that Congressman Alfred c. Har-
mer OF this city would be rendered
portfolio in the Mckinley Cabinet. Mr..
II barmer said to-day that it was the first
that he had heard of it, although for
some time past. he said, it was fnti-
mated to him that his very close friends
were bringing his name forward in con-
nection with a Cabinet position.
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DEPRECATES MORE AGITATION.
A Silver Paper Advocates Waiting to
See il Prosperity Returns.

COLUMBUS (O), Nov s. The
Press of this city, which was one of
the most enthusiastic supporters of free
Silver in the late campaign, deprecates
the determination of the Western free
silver men with Mr.. Bryan at their head
to keep up the agitation of the silver
question.
1t says: mo national election will
take place for two years. In 1898 q
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For Buckner or Carlisle.

LOUISVILLE Ky), Nov. S.-W. II.
Stiglitz, one of the Republican mem
bers of the Legislature from Louisville,
says that in the event of an extra ses-
sion he would vote for either Simon
Bolivar Buckner or John G. Carlisle. 1t
is understood that three other Republi-
can members of the Legislature from
Louisville will vote with him.
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Miller for Secretary OF Agriculture.

COLUMBUS (O), Nov. S.-W. ".
Miller, now Seeretarv of the Ohio lsoard
Of Agriculture, is mentioned for Sec
retary of Agriculture in MeKinley's
Cabinet. He was Captain in Nc
kinley's regiment in the army and has
been a close friend ever since. When
he was Governor Mr. Mckinley made
Captain Miller one of the managers of
the State Prison
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Fred Grant for Secretary of War

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. S.-Dr. r. 7.
Charlton of Plainfield recently returned
from visit to General Miles. is author
lty for the statement that Colonel Fred
Grant of New York is to be Secretary
of War in McKinley's Cabinet. DR..
Charlton says it is Well understood bv
General Miles and the members of his
staff that Grant is TO be at the head
of the War Department.
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Will Run Full Time.

UTICA IN. ", Nov. S.-The West
Shore Railway shops at Frankfort, en-
ploying 800 men, will start running or
full time again tomorrow.
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Sir Charles Tupper Sails.

QUEBEC, Nov. S.-Sir Charles and
Lady Tupper left for England yester-
day by the steamship Nunidian, which
sailed from Quebec at 10 o'clock
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three times as much as was used during
the past year, and more is to be bought
The company has number of orders
conditioned on the election of Mckinley.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
HOW LONG OUGHT SERMONS TO
BE.
Wilmington Messenger.

Wilmington Messenger.
How long shall a man preach? ThaC
depends. He should preach so long as
he really has something new to say. He
ought not to keep on thrcshing his old
straw. He should take a subject text,
and develop it, getting out it's true mean
ing and dr5v.hg it home voon the hearts
and consciences of his hearers. A man,
if great, may preach with safety and sat
isfaction for three hours, more or less
But light guns do not carry that far. DR..
Adam Clarke said he preached an hour
or ten minutes according to his subject.
That was sensible. In England lately
there has been much discussion over this
question of the proper length of sermons.
Two or three hundred writers had a hand
in it. 1t was a contest for prize. We
have not seen much as to what was said,
but find a few points quoted in late
number of the Greensboro Christian Ad-
vocate. The sum Of the matter seems to
be this:
THE longest sermons reported were by
the Rev. Donald Davidson, of the Free
Church in Scotland and the Rev. q. w.
Bailey, of the Methodist New Connection
in England, both preaching an hour and
twenty-eight minutes. The shortest SER
mon reported was by the Rev G. Bicheno,
a Primitive Methodist minister whose SER
mon was five and three-quarter minutes
long. A study Of the list as published in
the Weekly shows twelve sermons of
an hour or more in length; fourteen Of fif-
ty minutes or more-and among the latter
preachers we notice the names of DR.
MacLaren, the Revs. Samuel Pearson
Mark Guy Pearse, w. ]. Dawson, and
principal Fairbairn. Thirty-eight preach
ed forty minutes or longer, among whom
we notice the names of the Rev. Q. Il.
Aked, DR. Charles A. Berry; and the
late Rev. J. M. Gibbon. DR.. John Wat
son is reported as having preached thirty
seven minutes"
These great preachers are those whose
sermons are the longest. This is the case
in this country. All the greatest preach
ers we have heard in the last fifty years
preached from fifty minutes to an hour
and quarter The late B. F. Moore
and Governor Holden agreed in the
opinion that Bishop Maryin's sermon at
Raleigh was by odds the very greatest
sermon they ever heard. 1t was two
hours long 1t is permissible for men of
less power and eloquence and feryor to
cut their discourses much longer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29

call Big Shanty, the old man stretched up
another inch and pointing his trembling
hand said: Right over there is the
spring where used to fill my old canteen.
Yes. / would be glad to stop long enough
to walk over there and take one more
drink Of that water We licked them
Yankees all around here, but there was
too many of 'cm-too many. They just
come up out Of the yearth like locusts in
Egypt"
me old man was familiar with every
place we passed, and talked fast and
eagerly When he told me he was from
old Gwinnett and had a farm on Yaller
river, was drawn closer to him and ask
ed him about the Craigs and Vaughans
and the cid Moses Liddell place and
Shoal creek and Montgomery's mill pond
and Fairview church and the old manual
labor school. The old man looked at once
and again with bewildered curiosity and
finally ventured to ask what mout my
name be.
Did you know the Alexanders and
Strickland and Rattan HutchinsY said l..
ooh, yes / knowed DR. Alexander and
all his boys, and all the Stricklands from
old Mia down and knowed the
Hutchinses. | come down to Atlanta
with Fits Hutchins this morning. He's
our judge, you know, and he's a good
friend of mine. / knowed all the boys.
Clarence amt fur from me-"
What mout your name be-? said he
do you know an old man in Lawrence
vile named Asa Smith," said I.
why, of course / did; everybody know
ed nm. | traded in his store for years
and years. He moved away to Floyd
county just before the war Did you
ever live in LawrenceyilleT
do you remember n little dark-skin,
black-eyed girl who used to ride horse
back up that road She was Fitz
Hutchins sister"
why, of course do. Everybody knew
her She used to go to the old judges
farm on the river, twelve miles from
town. and go alone. And she went in a
hurry and come back with a bag of ap-
pies or peaches hanging to the horn of her
saddle. She married old Asa Smiths son,
if / don't mistake I think Fitz told me
that was thinking that maybe you
were him, but You are too old man,
reckon"
MY friend" said l, ''you forget that it
mas Deen over uIJy years SINCE you saw
that little girl; yes, she is my wife and is
not little girl any more.
Wen, well, shore enuf," said he, with
a melancholy tone: 81 done forgit-Tm
always forgittin And you are old Asa's
SON. Well, well; I used to trade with yon
and your pa and the Stricklands Well
well; am so glad come across You"
The whistles bowed and the bell rang
and / gave the old man warm shake Of
the hand and said, "Goodby-God bless
YOU" BILL ARP
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
A STATE REFoRMATORY.

To the Editor:-A few days ago I no
ticed in your paper a reference to a
State Reformatory. l do not hesitate to
say that in my opinion there is no in
stitution in this State more needed in
this State than a reformatory. We often
have youthful defendants that we do not
know what to do with. 1t will hardly
do to leave them under the existing infu-
ences which surround them at home,
and it will not do to send them to the
penitentiary, where they will be thrown
with and come in contact with the hard
est criminals, and the last condition
would be worse than the first and when
released would soon find their way back
within it's walls. | think the next Gen
eral Assembly will take the matter in
hand and pass an act creating an institu-
ton for the protection and reformation
of our youthful class Of our criminals.
No one can calculate the vast amount Of
good that would flow from this work.
Yours truly,
VIM. !, LEARY, SIR.
Solicitor First Judicial District.
Edenton, N. c., November q.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29

seen much Of the world, both in this and
other countries Before | was pulled into
this trouble here / was never bothered.
| was innocent and did not fear the re-
suit | hope some of the brave men who
showed such desire to hang me have
suffered no more than l have. How did
| feel with the rope around my neck
1t didn't bother me great deal because
/ knew | was innocent. / was angry,
though. to hear men say that is the
man who had never seen me before. The
case against me has been shown to
amount to nothing, and | am on an
equal footing with these men. / could
have jumped my bond and gone to Brit
ish Honduras, where ] have friends
among the natives. | could have gotten
away safely, but ] claim to be a man.
and il never once entered my head to do
the dirty thing by the kind gentlemen
who befrierded me by making bond. |
am not constructed on that principle.
Barring a few indiseretions, / have never
committed nm act to be ashamed OF or
for which / could be punished by law.
An honest heart and Il clear conscience
makes one feel that he can face much.
How long will / remain in Columbus
That is difficult to answer If | can find
sufficient employment here to keep me W
| may stay indefinitely. If work fails
me | may go at any time. My parents
are dead; | have but few relatives I care
anything for; no one is dependent upon
me. and / am free to go where / please
go long as behave myself, At lanta
Journal
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
AT A THEATRE IN THE EARLY
DAYS

Now that Joe Jefferson has set up as
carriage company" by virtue of being
hauled to his hotel by the students Of
Baltimore, where he unpacked n de-
lightful assortment of anecdotes, the in
cident recalls a story he told Dion Bouci-
cault Henry Watterson, Bill Travers,
the great New York wit, and the writer
some years ago in Travers' dining room,
lover the nuts and wine" II was out
West" said Jefferson, lin the early days
Of my career, and we were giving Ham
let to a hayseed audience with unusual
powerful cast. In the last act, after
everybody had been slaughtered and the
curtain was coming down, and we were
all dying to the slow music of a bass
drum, cornet, and fiddle, Hamlet, who
was sprawling on the floor near the King
remarked to his majesty, Billy, you had
better wiggle n little further this way
or that curtain will knock your head off ,
The King, who was mortally jealous Of
Hamlet, sat up and said, Shut your
mouth, or I'll put a head on you.
want you to understand / am King, and
I'll die where / damn please This
brought down the house, also the cur
tain. Washington Post
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
A FARMER WHO MAKES EVERY
THING AT HOME.

Mr. Leonard Morton is one Of Ons-
lows farmers who doesn't loose any
sleep in attempting to solve the financial
puzzle, or rack his brain in vain effort
TO frame q tariff measure. Mr.. Morton
is 67 years of age and is a firm be-
lever in the theory that a farmer should
produce everything he eats and wears,
and up to this date has never purchased
suit OF clothes; all the cloth his family
uses is manufactured at home from the
wool and cotton produced on his farm.
Mr.. Morton never purchased meat but
once and then only thirty pounds. That
his plan is a good one, is demonstrated
by the fact that he doesn't owe a dollar
and never has the nightmare worrying
over hard es.-Jacksonyille Times.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
HOW THE QUEEN SPENDS SUN
DAY.

Queen Victoria has always been de-
vout in her Observance of the Sabbath.
Just after breakfast, if the weather per-
mts, she takes turn around the grounds
i'm her famous chase and then goes TO
the morning service 1t is customary
for the preacher to wear n black gown
and to read from a manuscript. No per.
sonal reference to Her Majesty is allow
ed in the discourse. The Queen enjoys
a gospel sermon, but does not care to have
it more than twenty minutes long. Says
one of the English papers: Questions
of the day, and, above all, politics, must
be entirely excluded. The Queen, when
in residence at Windsor, was wont to at
tend service at the beautiful st. George :
chapel, but for some years past divine
service has been held in the private chapel
which communicates with her apart
ments. The suite and servants sit in the
body of the chapel in order of precedence.
The Sunday service is at II o'clock and
consists of morning prayer ante-com-
munion and sermon. The Queens seat
is slightly in advance of the others, and
is still more marked by the presence of
a small table TO carry her books. On
this il a carved radiant sun, with the
words: Heavens light our guide-the
motto of the Order of the Star Of India.
At Balmoral the Princess Beatrice or Il
lady-in-waiting plays the organ, the sing
ing led by some Of the servants Of the
castle"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
EASY TO SHIT

From the Chicago Daily Tribune.
DO YOU want shirt that opens in
front or one that opens in the back?
asked the salesman.
Don't keer where it opens" answered
Uncle Silas, ''so's it's got an openin' at
the top an bottom"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
ABOUT TODE LYaCHtD

A Tramp Tells of His Exciting
Experience.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
BETTER TAKE THE WOODS

From the New York World.
Rev DIR. Haldeman in his Sunday ser
mon said: IF you go down to Henry
street or Caxter street / viii show You
hell turned inside out on the sidewalk. .
Evangelist Moody in his Monday ser
mon said: "There are as many sinners
in Fifth avenue as there are in Water
street in proportion to the population
This makes it right hard for the respect
able New Yorker to pick out his streets.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-30
connle of Peculiar Theories.

Iowa FALLS, Oct. as-The astound-
ing intelligence wired to the press OF
the northwest to the effect that rabbits
had been carrying diphtheria germs
from point in Hamilton county to
Iowa Falls and surrounding towns has
led scientists in Iowa Falls to make
known theory thai is given color by
this rabbit-diphtheria report. 1t is to
the effect that the cholera germs that
are being spread all over this section
and are working havoc among the
swine herds OF this part of the state
are carried from one drove to another
by the tumble weeds that are blown
over the country and from farm to
farm, thus spreading the disease far
and wide. There is as much plaus-
Utility and probability in one theory
as the other, and if one is accepted
there is just as much ground for the
acceptance OF the other
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-30
ElTS OF KNOWLEDGE.


At tho present time there Is more
steel used in the manufacture OF pens
than in all the sword and gun factories
In the world.
Leading electricians claim that the
new vacuum tube light will be three
times as brilliant as the present light
and its cost only one-third as much.
Carthaginians are said to have been
the first who paved their towns with
stones. London was first paved about
the year 1888. Wood pavement COM
menced in 1880
Fulton Canada, of Florida, has Just
returned from three weeks alligator
hunt. He killed 29S alligators, aver
aging six feet long. during the time.
for which he received $14534.
There is not peer in the house Of
lords who was there at the beginning
OF Victoria's reign. The earl Of Mans
field has been there for ffty-six years
and the earl OF Kimberly for fifty.
The late Sir John Millais' income
ranged as high as 100000 in the best
years, and from an early date in his
career his terms for portraits exceeded
those charged by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-30
The NEWS in IOWA.
TELL A HARD STORY.

Two Strangers Say They Were swindled
out of $4,000.
DIES MONIES, Oct. as.--Joseph Quit
ard, of Kansas, and K. G. Davis, who
'ecently came to Des Moines to live,
ave fled suits for damages against
y. J, Jones, of East Des Moines. They
say they We're swindled out of $4,000
in land trade. Davis asserts that he
gave 1880 acres of land in Louisiana
for lots in Northwood Park and in
East Des Moines. He says that Jones
represented to him that the lots in
Northwood Park were improved. The
Kansas man says it was represented
to him that the streets were paved
and street cars close by. In fact, Nor
wood Park is In the northwestern part
Of the city and quite a distance from
street car lines. Davis wants $4,000
damages and Guittard $4,000.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-30
Recalls Mcfarland Case.

Dies MONIES. Oct. 2s.-The supreme
court has affirmed the opinion of the
lower court in the case of John Puth
vs.. j. L. Zilnbleman, executor of the
estate of E. W. Mcfarland, deceased,
appellant, from the Boone district
court. This action was originally
commenced by plaintiff against E. w.
Mcfarland to recover damages for
alternating the affection of his wife,
and fcr crime against society com
mitted in 1894. The trial resulted in a
verdict for plaintiff in the sum of
$500. After the appeal of the
defendant was taken, Mcfarland was
xii a by the father of young girl
wtom he had ruined, and his executor
" su bstituted as party defendant.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-10-30
NEW PRIMATE NAMED.
Bishop of London Translated to be Arch
bishop of Canterbury,

Bishop of London Translated to be Arch
bishop of Canterbury.
LONDON, Oct. 27.-Right Rev. Fred
erick Temple, D. D., isnow chbishop
of Canterbury and primate of all
England. The bishop of London has
been translated to the primacy to
succeed the late Edward White Benson,
who was stricken wibb- apopleAy while
atservice in the OIL Ah>.of the Glad
stones at Hawarden two weeks ago.
Once the chaplain of the queen, DR..
Temple has enjoyed royal favor that
is credited with having elevated him.
in the honors of the established church.
Archbishop Temple is already rs years
old, and it is half century since he
was ordained. He has had dis
tinguished career. He was a college
instructor for many years, and enjoyed
the distinction of having been one of
the notable head masters of Rugby