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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-11
SOME PUMPKINS.

We can't tell you about them to-day our
Senior Junior has gone to Morehead City to
consult DR.. Blacknalt alb tut an enlargement
of the heart and we are busy, very busy.
Hot or cold, wet or dry, we never have
room to complain.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-11
Reason Why.

We keep in ovory department the best of
everything, and sell at reasonable prices.
Our Roller Patent made from winter wheat
is the whitest, sweetest, and stronges st flour
made.
"Fox River Butter, one and two pound
blocks, for richness and delicate flavor is UNI
surpassed.
We have a State reputation for fine Coffee.
Our finest roast is composed entirely of Pri
vate Growth Fancy Padang Java and Finest
Mocha. "A drink for the gods"
The immense sales of "He-No" Tea prove
it's merit, as q hot drink, 1t is unsurpassed; as
an iced drink, it has no rival.
We keep the finest cures of hlms, includ-
ing Smithfield, Southampton, Ferris. West.
phalia, Culpepper, and other brands.
All kinds of foreign and domestic fruits,
berries and vegetables in their season.
Special packing of Cuba grated pineapple
and choice extracts for flavOring ice cream,
Van Houten's Cocoa, Bakers Cocoa and
Chocolate, the best goods manufactured
Our four year-old pure apple vinegar will
keep pickle perfectly in any climate. Olives
of all finest importation in glass Baby
Olives, zoe per quart; Queen Olives, SOC per
quart. Imported Olive oils salad dressing.
Pure spices and dried herbs. Whole Ok
Tongues, Deviled Crabs, Barataria Shrimps.
French Sardines, Canned and Potted Meats
at prices that will compare fayoraoly with
butchers prices for raw meats:
We have only mentioned few things we
keep. We have hundreds of things and
things and otner things-fisf, flesh and fowl.
All goods promptly delivered and guaranteed
to give satisfaction.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-11

Mr.. W. III. whitman, a prosperous
travelling man, of Greenvillle, s. O., in
Charlotte Observer, writes:
Greenville, s. c., May "a, 1897.
Editor Charlotte Observer:-Five years
ago last February, I registered as q pa
tient at the Kelley Institute, Green's
boro, N. G. had drank for ten years.
remained there five weeks. The treat
ment completely restored me. l have no
desire to drink since, and 1 personally
know more than one hundred men who
have had the s-me experience at the
Greensboro Kelley, and have NEVER
tasted any kind Of intoxicants since.
l write this because consider it duty
as well as pleasure.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20
DRIFT OF OPINION.

ZThe prospect for clover is better
man il has been since 1So2.--St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
EyThere are calamity howlers, OF
course, who Will never he satisfied until
they have diycd down and found the
undertow Of the wave OF prosperity
Chicago Tribune.
ELIn travelling about the United
States Mr.. Bryan can hardly fail to be
impressed by the fact that ''the enc
my's country is much larger than IL
was few months Chicago Times
Herald
EyMr. Cleveland hardly waited for the
conclusion of the Inauguration cerc-
monies before starting on another duck
hunt. This may have been due 20 de-
sire for ducks or a yearning for soli-
tude.-Cleveland Leader.
EZThe question Of international BIZ
metallism will have early and earnest
attention. II will be my constant en-
deayor TO secure II by cooperation with
the other great commercial powers OF
the world President Mckinley.
EyPresident Cleveland is reported as
having saved the bulk Of his salary
this term" But as far as heard from he
is more lucky than the great bulk of his
subjects. who have been at their wits
ends 20 live upon theirs and eat regular
meals.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
GyProbably Grover Cleveland never
heard sound republican doctrine as
frankly and strongly proclaimed by any
speaker as he did in the inaugural adj
dress Of Mr.. Mckinley. And he was in
a position where he couldn't get up and
leave the hall.-Indianapolis Journal.
ETSome OF the silver papers advise
the boiling republican senators not TO
obstruct republican protective tariff.
The fate Of the new bill does not de-
pend on this form of support If it did
10 would probably be reduced 10 a more
shapeless mass OF ruins than the Wilson
bill.--St. Louis Globe Democrat.
EyJapnn's coinage ratio OF silver 20
gold Is not 16 10 1. but 32 10 to /. The
laps have done just what Alexander
Hamilton and Thomas jefferson did
they nave recognized the truth that the
coinage ratio and the commercial ratio
must be the same in order to insure the
equal purchasing power OF coins OF
equal face value composed respectively
cf the two metals.-Milwalkee Wiseon-
sin.
rJThis cabinet is a remarkably strong
enc, as 10 seems 20 be generally con
oedcd. IL is composed OF men Of tho
very highest character and ability.
Evidently there was a tone OF prophecy
in the words which President Mckinley
used in his Marquette banquet speech
little over n year ago. when. in com
menting on Lincoln. he said that he was
great enough 10 surround himself with
great cabinet.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20
The Vanity of nrran.

1t is hard TO say whether the con-
tinucd exhibition OF his vanity made
by William j. Bryan Is the more pain
full or ridiculous. He cannot be made
10 understand that the country has had
far more than enough OF him and wants
nothing so much as that he should re-
tire into the obscurity of his own neigh
borhood and no longer thrust himself
mpudently on general notice. But he
is just the kind Of person who cannot do
this. A little brief not0rietv has com
pletely turned his head. and he imag-
ines himself n person Of commanding
consequence. He is already in train
ing for the presidential succession, not
having the wit 10 see That the demo-
cratic party will never repeat the mon
strous error OF 1896. His immediate
idea is TO keep himself in evidence in
the east during the inauguration Pc
riod. Tie delivered one OF his foolishly
vapid lectures NJ New Haven. and a
sheriff ATTACHED" the receipts for
claims against the enterprise. And this
kind Of thing, we suppose, will have To
60 ON until there is some tragical coll
lapse.-+N Y. Mail and Express.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20
M'kINLEY is PRESIDENT.
starts In with the Hearty Good VIII
of the People.

of the People.
The best people in the United States
supported the election of Maj. Mckinley
Irrespective of party. Many good peo-
pie failed 10 support him by reason of a
partisan bias to which they could not
at the time rise superior. IL is probably,
therefore, not too much 10 say that he
now goes into Office with the sincere
good wishes of an immense majority OF
the American people. 1t is doubtful,
indeed, whether any president, since
partisanship in this country was forged
on the anvil of experience. was ever
inaugurated who had at the outset a
more hearty support from the masses
Of the people themselves.
To know this must be n great salts
faction to Maj. Mckinley; but at the
same time the condition OF the public
feeling towards him increases his re-
sporsibilities and does not i'm the least
lessen the task that he has before him.
With those OF whom very much is ex-
pected we have IA scarcity OF patience.
and the public Is therefore in danger at
the outset Of attempting 10 hurry the
administration into action not sufii-
GENTLY considered. Against such dam
gers as this we have the calm of Maj.
McKinley's temperament and his long
experience in public life.
There is disposition in many quar-
ters of this country to believe that the
president of the United States has some
magical power and can do instantly
what he chooses for good or for ill., This
wrong conception of presidential pow
er has been greatly fostered by the dem
agogues who roam the land with open
mouths and empty heads. But the
president can only execute the laws and
recommend new ones. In this way he
is said 10 construct policy. But he
can much easier make a law of the land
than n law OF nature. That no man
can 30. But, singularly enough, that is
wha% many presidents are asked TO do.
Indeed, they are asked 10 do more
they are advised TO break the law of the
land in a vain effort to make new laws
OF nature.
OF course Maj. Mckinley will try no
such vain things. He ought not, in
deed, tobe pestered with the quacl<s who
will so advise him. He should be left
alone 10 use his great office TO restore
the confidence OF the people in one an
other and in the resources of the coun-
try. With that lubricant OF confidence
the machinery of trade and commerce
will be smoothly set in motion, and
when again running on full time we will
hear little of the nostrums which the
ignorant always recommend when
times are unprosperous.
The new president should not be hur-
ried at the outset. He should be per-
mitted TO go his own pace-a pace that
wisdom and experience suggest shall
be slow and sure.-Leslie's Weekly.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20
THE LENGTH OF THE LEGS.
LincoIn's Idea which Mckinley APP
piled 10 the Tariff.

To all sincere questions by converted
free traders, whose faith in protection
Is still little weak, and to all specious
inquiries by disingenuous opponents of
the American system" in regard TO
the specific rates of the protective tariff
10 be imposed by a protectionist con-
gress, good answer is the story about
Lincoln told by Maj. Mckinley in his
speech before the Marquette club at
Chicago last February. Some one asked
Lincoln how long mans legs ought TO
he. Lincoln replied: That is very
serious question, and have given much
thought 20 il great many times. Some
should be longer and some shorter; but
/ want to tell you mans legs ought
always TO be long enough TO reach from
the body to the ground" And Maj.
Mckinley pressed home the illustration
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20
A QUESTION OF POSSESSION.
A Matter between Two Throbbinn
Hearts AmicabIy settled.


Hearts AmicabIy settled.
"Will you be mine?"
1t was a young man who spoke, and
the young woman, understanding, bent
low her shapely head, and, blushing.
answered: Yes"
Oh Lowell Oh, rapture
Sample copies sent on application.
However, this is a true story, and
IL took place in Washington not long
ago, and the young woman has re-
turned to her western home 10 get
ready for the wedding in May.
Fifteen minutes after the above emo
tional conversation had taken place
the storm abated to some extent and
she lifted her joyful eyes to his as IL
in question.
Quick is the apprehension OF love,
and he was all anxiety in n moment.
"What is il, darling?" he asked, hold
ing her 10 him as IL fearful lest she es-
cape.
Haven't got $4,000 in my own
right?" she murmured.
His grasp frightened on her as IL IL
were twice as much.
$50 have heard, dear" he respond
ed, trying to be utterly indifferent.
"And you haven't $4,000 cents?"
Just about. darling" and once moro
he frightened his hold on the future
comforts OF life.
For q long time she remained silent.
as IL in deep thought.
Don't you think, John" she said,
nj last. that that question you asked
me a minute ago was just bit out OF
plumb?"
'What question, dearest? don't un-
derstand," he said, greatly perplexed.
DO you mean when l asked you TO
bc mine?"
Yes, John"
what was wrong with IL, darling?
/ meant IL all, and more"
Eyes. John, l know" she said,
weighing her words carefully, "but il
occurs 70 me that MS you are not putting
up the money and ! am you might
change IL around a little and you be
mine, instead of the way you had IT,"
All the worry and anxiety fed from
his face and soul on the spot.
Have IL exactly as you please. dar-
ling" he said, with radiant smile.
There isn't any more mine or yours
in this family. anyhow; it's all ours.
Sce2"
And they will. no doubt. live hap
PLY ever afterward At least, we may
all hope ao.--Washington Post.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20

A Revenue Tariff Cheapens Prodscts
by Cheapening Men.


There are two kinds of cheapness-
One way TO secure cheap products Is TO
grind down labor. to.force wages down
to the lowest possible notch, TO open our
markets to the free importation Of the
products of the cheap labor of Europe
and of Asia, and 50 force our workmen
to meet the conditions which exist in
those countries. This Is the way of free
trade. The other way TO secure cheap
products Is TO put such barriers about
our markets that our workmen are not
forced TO meet the conditions which
exist in Europe and in Asia; TO protect
American labor against the undergrad
labor of those countries. In this way
the people of this country have time and
money for education and for mental de-
velopment; they have leisure for
thought. AS result, new labor-saving
inventions are made, new methods of
manufacture and of business are de-
vised; we reap the products of the
brains of the people as well as the prod
ucts of their hands. This is the way
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20


There Is no use In denying it. the
modern armchairs and lounges In win
ter time and hammocks in summer are
generating a perilous weakness in the
modern spine that il not conducive 10
grace or beauty. If a casual observer
chances In at an informal tea and casts
a glance about, the attitudes of the
youths and maidens assembled ludi-
crously suggests the first stages in the
career of Dickens Mr.. and Mrs. SMALL
weed, who gradually slid into heaps in
their respective chairs and had TO be
shaken up at regular intervals.
Now, IL Is comparatively easy to-
stand well or even TO walk with some
grace, but 10 subside into chair and
TO hook well after such subsistence Is
quite another matter. Many people
drop into seat and great is the fall
thereof" but most Of them wrigglc
down in baphazard style, and the effect
is not soothing TO sensitive eyes and
ears.
To change, then, from standing to
a sitting posture Is a trial to every
woman alive, until she learns how to do
IL. The ones whe have learned are
never known TO impress you with the
fact that they are in state or evolu-
ton, they are standing before you
lightly and easily, chair or n lounge or
n sofa is behind them. but they do not
seem 10 be noting the fact, in another
moment they and the chair are one, but
you do not see just how IL came about.
The muscles have deftly given way
here, and tightened there, the knees
have bent little. but not hairs
breadth too much; the entire body has
undulated for n second, and the deed In
done, but as TO the doing-it is as inn
possible TO describe as are the changes
from one shape TO another in a summer
cloud.
Once seated, the woman who knows
gives no evidence of dominance of one
part of her physique over another. You
are aware that she has feet. but not too
positive about it; you know that she
is resting. but you are sure she is not
longing; you see that she is inside
of her clothes, but you are not pain
fully conscious that she is imprisoned
in them, and, altogether, she is a tri-
umph of combined knowledge and clev-
erness.
She sits erect because she remembers
that one Of BismarclS's tutors has said
that the great chancellor insisted upon
everyone at his table being in a strictly
upright position and that he (the
tutor, after having been at Schon-
hansen for some time, gained two inches
in height; and then she knows, too. that
il is n principle Of physical culturists
that the higher an organism is held the
better il will fulfill it's functions. IL
was only timid little lady from the
provinces who was asked why she sent
all her daughters 20 school. but she
was wise beyond her environment when
she lisped out in answer: IL like to
thend them becauthe they learn 10 thit
tho nithe!"-Philadelp Record.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20

The sun crosses the equator and en-
tiers the sign Aries, thereby marking
the commencement OF spring, on March
20 about . o'clock a. M, central time
At this time the days and nights are,
theoretically, of equal length in all
parts OF the earth. Actually, how
ever, the hours OF daylight and dark
ness will be of equal duration in this
latitude some four or five days before
the equinox, while on the Goth the sun
will be above our horizon at least ten
minutes longer than below IT,
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20
sThe body II One, Hut Hath Many
Pnrfa.u


Here I'm this country we are dependent
upon each other. no matter what our occu-
patton may be. All or us want good times,
good wages. good prices and good mar
kets.-William Mckinley.
The free traders are forever. and
eternally, trying to stir up class feeling.
They tell the workmen that the pro-
tective tariff hurts them and helps the
manufacturers. They tell the farmers
that the protective tariff hurts them
and helps the industrial classes. They
tell everybody that the protective tariff
hurts them and helps everybody else;
that IL hurts the consumers and helps
the producers. IL is quite inconsistent
with the utter disregard of the free
traders for everything but theories for
them 10 see that everyone in this coun-
try is a consumer and everyone pro
Queer; that the entire industrial system
is a great cooperative enterprise. The
farmer produces food for the manufac-
turer 10 consume and the manufactures
produces goods for the farmer to con-
sumo. The manufacturer OF boots and
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20


One Cleveland maIl was left In town
A prey 10 perturbation:
He didn't do a thing but frown
And cuss his isolation.
Three times before he cast his vote
In mental aberration:
He was a mugwump and did dote
On Growers corporation.
And when Bill bryan stirred up Cain.
In sheer evaporation,
This mugwump tried 10 vote again
For beef and conservation.
II am the only one--alasl''
He wept In desolation;
Besides, he had no railroad pass
To give him consolation.
And then he took TO drink and drugs
And awful dissipation;
That's why the last OF all the mugs"
Missed Macs Inauguration.
IN. Y. Sun.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20

shoes consumes the products Of the
manufacturer of clothing, and vice
versa. The workman gets work when
the, manufacturer has market for his
products and gets good wages when the
manufactures gets good prices In Maj.
McKinley's words: I'VE are dependent
upon each other" Hard times are felt
everywhere and prosperity touches
everyone. We have had enough Of free
trade hard times and are ready 10 go
back to protection and prosperity.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20

In these words: and so tell you, my
inquiring free trade friend, that the legs
OF the next republican tariff law will be
long enough to firmly support the Amer
lean body polite; sustain the public
treasury; lift up our national credit,
and uphold the dignity and independ-
ence OF American labor. and the enter
prises and occupations OF the American
people" This is McKinley's answer and
IL covers the question. as do all the
answers OF the great apostle of pro-
lection" and friend OF American labor.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20

MIR HpLMEs, the librarian OF Queen
Victoria, is making rapid progress
with his life OF the queen. II Is char
acteristic OF her majestys love OF thor
oughncss that she reyises every sheet
of the manuscript herself, and that she
will strike out the slightest biograph-
zeal error which may occur Tho
queens. memory is singularly acute,
and she often surprises her ministers
by correcting thcm in some detail
which, 90 them, seems trifling. but
which TO her seems nil-important
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20

England is more nearly a free trade
country than any other. and her sys-
tenn OF taxation furnishes an unmistak-
able example OF the practice and prin-
ciple OF revenue tariff. Her import
duties arc imposed almost exclusively
upon articles which cannot be produced
by her own people upon her own soil.
Tobacco. snuff, cigars, chicory, cocoa,
currants, figs, raisins, rum, brandy,
wine. tea and coffee. these are the ar.
ticl.s from which her customs revenue
il derived-articles, in the main, not
produced in England. but which must
be supplied from abroad; while prac-
tically all competing products Of for
cign make and production arc al
mitted through her customhouscs free
Of duty.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20

A HEw explanation of the so-called
"canals' OF Mars has been offered tho
Royal Dublin society by DR.. J. Jolly.
lie suggests that in past times cracks
may have been made by the attraction
OF small satellites rotating close Go the
planets surface, the double canals. Z"
with their seasonal variations OF visi-
bility, being probably mountain
ranges produced by these disturbances.
Such satellites at distance OF 40 70 30
miles would not exist more than a score
or SO o. years, when they would reach
the larger BODY and be absorbed.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20
REMARKABLr results are reported !

REMARKABLE results are reported 20
have been obtained in England by
treating wounds with oxygen gas.
Two kinds of micro-organisms are
found in wounds, one kind being be-
neficent and the other injurious in its
effects Oxygen causes an increase Of
the former and decrease OF the lat
ter, SO that, according to a writer in
the British Medical Journal, wounds
treated with oxygen heal more rapidly
and with less pain than by any other
form OF treatment
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20

In has been ascertained by expert
ments that number OF persons who
use the telephone habitually hear bet
ter with the left ear than with the
right The common practice of the
telephone companies is TO place the re-
ceiver so that it will be applied TO the
left ear. In order TO educate the right
ear TO the same point of efficiency it is
recommended that the receiver be held
in the right hand half the time.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20

In the preface to his new book which
assails the Newtonian theory OF grav-
station, DIR. Stephen ii. Emmens said
that he was prepared to be told that
he is ignorant and foolish, etc. The
authors of review of the book In SCI
ence straightway took the doctor at
his word, and now they have a $4,000
libel suit on their hands. This is pleas
ant news for reviewers
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20
NATIONAL TAX PER CAPITA.
Its Increase During the Last -Four
Democratic Years.

This is an interesting study. The ma
tional debt Of the United States reached
its lowest point, S12.55 per capita of our
population, with the close Of the repub-
lcnn administration in 1898. the de-
crease Of debt being $1.67 per capita be-
tween 1890 and 1898. Under the pres
cnt democratic administration IL has
advanced from $12.55 in 1898 TO $13.41
in 1896, an increase of SO cents per capita
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20

THEODORE SEDGwICK FAY, who was
associated with N. l.. Willis and George
L. Morris in editing the New York
Mirror more than 60 years ago, is still
living in Berlin. at the age OF 30.
Three novels from his pen-"Norman
Leslie" Countess Ida, and "Hoboken,
a Romance of New York"-were once
very popular. A few years ago he
wrote history of Germany.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-03-20

A wATER-TUBE jail is one OF the lat
est achievements OF Yankee ingenuity
1t is no longer necessary TO make the
prison bars so heavy and so hard that
cutting through them becomes very
difficult; but, instead, they are made
simply of pipes, forming part of a
high-pressure water system. Should
ally of these pipes be severed, the wa.
ter would escape and quickly give
warning OF the break