The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-27

was elected. lie Is now Wiling pay
the debt 10 to /.
Mr.. Bryan received ten more electoral
votes than Mr.. Cleveland did in 1888
and there's sight Of consolation in that
fact, says the Atlanta Constitution.
Mr., r. Pence writes the Wilmington
Star that Republicans declare that DR..
Mott carried Rowan county for the
Democrats" This will be news for Over
man, Kluttz, and Julian.
Science is daily making fresh disclos-
ures. In the. current issue of Harper'S
Magazine, DIR. William w. Jacques
claims to have found a direct method by
which electrical energy can be extracted
from coal.
Just before the election a Maine shoe
factory posted notice that if Mckinley
was elected wages would be advanced.
He was elected, but, instead of an ad-
vance, the wages were cut more than %
per cent. last week.-Progressiye Far
mer.
1.-THE vicar of Stratford-on-Avon a.
gain! This time his reverence, backed by
the rest of the clergy of Stratford, has
declined to attend the annual municipal
banquet, because a Baptist minister was
asked by the mayor himself a Bap-
tisn to say grace at last years function. !"
TaIkin' erbout Thanksgiyin' Day
Wrote up by all the editors,
A feller-he kin be thankful yet
Though he's hands an head-over heels
in debit
IF only that body O his is set
On better legs than his creditors.
Frank l.. Stanton
At London Salvation Army meeting
recently fervent Salyationist prayed,
with all the intensity Of his faith, that
God would break the Sultan's heart"
with a view, of course. to the conversion
of the barbarous Abdul The prayer was
interrupted by an addition petition
from one of the deyout company, and
it ran thus: "Oh, God, break his neckr'
This telegram is sent out from Balti-
more: General Bradley T.. Johnson, who
was recently in Cuba as a newspaper
correspondent, is quoted to-day as stating
that he believes that the meeting of Con-
gress on the first Monday in December
viii be made notable by message from
the President recommending recognition
of the Cuban belligerents, and that the
following Wednesday will see a declar-
alton Of war by Spain against the United
States.
In New Zealand a weekly half-holiday
for servants is compulsory. Not only is
the employer bound to give it, but the
servant is bound to take it, and il any
servant is found at work during the statu-
tory half-holiday the employer has to pay
fine of S25. Should the servant return
for meals during the half-holiday the mis-
tress is obliged to minister to her wants.
Under the circumstances every domestic
who can makes it point to come home
to tea on that day, the privilege Of being
served by the mistress not being one to
be overlooked
The News and Observer is in receipt
from Messrs. Casey & Wright, tobacco
manufacturers Of Winston, of a thanks
giving offering Of chewing tobacco, and
by the bye, of their Thanksgiving"
brand. 1t is not every day that everybody
in a newspaper Office has chewing to-
bacco at once. But everybody did last
night, and everybody chewed that had
not contracted the evil habit of not
chewing. If there be anything in this
mornings paper better than usual, it
may be credited to the Thanksgiving to-
bacco, which has made its mark in the
hearts of the recipients-as well as on the
floor.
The Woodville (Mass) Courier con-
tains the following, which is of interest
to the youth Of the South:
MANY farmer boys are now undecided
whether to leave the old homestead and
press their way into the crowded city,
there to engage in the severe and uncer-
tain struggle Of a business life, or to re-
main upon the old farm, adopting agri-
culture as their life work. These boys
like the farm and hesitate to adopt farm
ing, emily that they fear that the re-
turn may not be commensurate with the
effort put forth. But if the great finan-
cial troubles which recently swept over
this country have proved one thing more
conclusively than another, it has proved
the uncertainty of business ventures in
the city, and the certainty Of competence,
comfort and the best things of life to
those who sensibly and Systematically
follow farming. Each day deYeIopes
the fact that education and training pay
on the farm as they pay elsewhere in
life, and, other things being equal, the
young man who fortifes himself by q
thorough agricultural education will sac
cesa better saan he mig aesxscts this
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