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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-30
PRESBYTERIAN Christmas
Tree.
ISL

Twas sixteen years ago that the Pres
byterlans decided To have u Christmas
Tree. True, it was an innovation, but
competition was strong, therefore d
Christmas tree, one that would be the
talk OF the town and the envy of the
other denominations; a Christmas tree
right and left, and all along the line.
The Senior advised the Juniors to lay off
from their rabbit Gum and turkle traps
and cure up sore toes, that they might
wear shoes on the great occasion. Tx
citment ran high, but by promptly en-
forcing the proviso relating to internal
dissensions kicking, butting, punching,
pulling hair, rubbing III cuckleburrs,
crooked pins, and such Like amusements
dear to boys, and the liberal use of
axle grease, they looked well up to the
mark when the long-lookedfor evening
came.
With proud head, the Senior marched
them in. True, one of them carried
his shoes in his hand, not being able
to wear them on account of a stone
bruise on one heel, and an unhealed
moccasin bite on the other; another had
no eye brows or lashes to speak of,
because some VILLAIN had left a package
VI kun DOnuGI Ill tic DuCh SdAd1 WhACA
the Junior innocently took for tea and
applied fire to it.
Notwithstanding these little draw
backs, when the Senior sS-v them ar
ranged along the Session house wall, he
thought to himself, what nice, sweet,
clean looking little boys they were and
the other little rangers.
kos 81 It'll =
recitation by boy who was considered
very smart (by b parents.) The whole
school sang, Il wish / were an Angel"
evening began.
An old Curmudgeon mounted a step
ladder and ann unced that he would
proceed to deliver the presents. OF
course everybody was expectant, and
ears wide open. The Fiend 1--WE at first
wrote Old Cuss, but you can read 1t
either way) reached for the tree, and
plucking small package from it, called
out in loudest tones: "Stronach Junior;
one Fine Tooth Comb" The Senior
visibly shrunk in his No. 10, half-Bro-
gans, and without claiming the award,
quietly and quickly gathered his pOsteri-
ty together and was back again in Ger
anium valley before the Juniors knew
that Lightning had struck the Parent
Tree.
The rabbit Gums and turkle traps,
backed by the grocery shop, have kept
us off the county, bat the time has
come when we want some more custom
ers who buy lots of groceries. We are
going TO do the libe4al to all of them.
Each and every one shall have rabbit
or turkle, name your choice.
w. G. STRONACE & SONS,
Grocers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-30
CITY IN BRIEF.

HEPTASOPHS.-T will be an
Important meeting of Improved Order Of
Heptasophs az the office of DIR. j. w.
McGee, Jr., tonight, at 7:3O o'clock.
HURT.-Mr. J. @. L. Harris slipped
on the steps Of his residence last Sat
urday and fell, hurting himself SO seri
ously that he has not been able to get
out since.
TO THE ROADS.--The Mayor yes
terday sent a white woman--Annie
Clark, alias Dinkins-to the roads for 80
days for being drunk and disorderly on
the streets.
CHORUS CLASS.-The Chorus Glass
of the Raleigh Musical Association will
meet at their hall in the Woman's Ex-
change building, this evening at 8
O'Clock, for practice. A full attendance
10 desired.
RUNAWAY.-A horse belonging to
Ed. Smith, a negro drayman, ran away
at the market house yesterday and
wrecked the dray to which he was at
tached. Fortunately no one was in the
vehicle.
BEAT A WOMAN.-Huel Turner, q
negro charged with badly beating ne
gro woman, Emma Pratt, on October
18th, was caught yesterday. He ran
away after the row and went to Norfolk,
but came back to spend Christmas.
IN CONSCIOUSNESS comes from
Goldsboro that Kirby Smith, who fgur-
ed recently so prominently in peniten-
tiary society scandals, is now resid-
ing in that city. Capt. Smiths family
has moved from the penitentiary back
to Goldsboro.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-30
BUSINESS TRAINING SCHOOL.
The Southern Shorthand and Business
University OF Norfolk, Va.

Inc 41uoInOcS
University of Norfolk, Va.
We take pleasure in calling the atten-
ton of the readers of the News and
Observer to the Southern Shorthand
and Business University of Norfolk, Va.
Although this school was established
only little over year ago, it already
enjoys an enyiable reputation among
the business schools of the country for
its thoroughness, and its systematic and
common-sense methods of imparting a
business education to the young men
and women OF our country. This inst-
tuition does not receive its patronage
from Norfolk alone. 1t has a large
and increasing aatronage from our own
State as well as from Virginia.
This school IL endorsed by some OF
the most prominent professional and
business men Of the South, and its
graduates READILY find employment with
the business firms OF Norfolk and else
wherh .4-----
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-30
STIERWOOD HIGGS &, GO.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 10 DAY.

SHERWOOD HIGGs & Co.-Extraor-
dinarLanuafy Sale.
STATEMENT.-M and Manu-
facturers' Insurance Company.
HENRY 4. HIChS.-Vaccinat Pro-
tect0rs.
RIGGAN'Ss Specials for Saturday and
Monday.
J. NJ. RESsLER- Southern Shorthand
Business College.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-30
Special Anniversary Sale.

We are going anniversary sale the first week in nuay
we are all who attend this sale will
member it, but we'll say of this later.
getting clear of small lots short pieces and odds
prices gone. Come in and
dollar will do for Raeghs biggest and leader
all We much brag but terrible terror
to with prices and with the quality
that's motto Say just keep on this great big store
other which the wind FROM
Come and spend pleasant hour with often We
want you how things and how cheap sell goods
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-30
Robert S. MC6eaChy, N. o.,
PraCtiClng Physician
RALEI0H N c
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Location unsurpassed. Suburb Of Bal
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-30
WANTED.

Representative to sell shares Cor
gilt edge KlOndyke Mining Company.
WIN pay large commissions. S14 Roa1p
oke Building, Chicago, Ill
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-30
STATEMENT
Showing the Conditioned the
Merchants and Manufacture
ers' Insurance Co.,
OF BALTIMORE, MD.
December 81, 1896.
A SSElCS

December 81, 1896.
ASSETS.
Amount of stocks and
bonds of the United
States, and of this and
other States, also all 9th
er States, also all other
stocks and bonds abso-
lutely owned by the Com
pany ................. SZ06,0l0.0U
Stocks, bonds and all
other securities Except
mortgage) hypothecated
to the Company as collat-
eral security for cash ac-
tualIy loaned by the Com
pany .....s....ss..... 0,IO0.OI
Interest due and accrued
on stocks and other Sc
curities -. SS.o4
Cash in Company's prin-
cipal office and belonging
to the Company, Deposit
ed in Bank ........... l1,64S.O0
Gross premiums in course
OF collection .........s 11,O36.2S
All other assets, detailed in
statement ............. 2,OUO.OO
Total Assets ........ $S16,s49s4
LIABILITIES.
Losses unpaid, including
those resisted ....... $1,O24.OO
law .................. 4s,719.52
All other claims ......... BASS
Total Liabilities 49,, OTIS 10
Capital stock paid up. -. S2OO,0OO.OO
Total income ......... 1OS,OO4.26
Total expenditures ..... 62,554.51
President, Rufus Woods.
Vice-P President, J. Frank Supplee.
Secretary, J. Ramsay Barry.
General Agent, A. w. Moye, Raj
eigh, N. g.
State Of North Carolina,
Office of Secretary Of State,
Insurance Department.
Raleigh, N. O., Dec. q, 1897.
In compliance with Section of IAN
Act to consolidate the Insurance Laws
Of North Carolina" / certify that the
above is a true extract from the sworn
statement OF the Merchants and Manu-
facturers Insurance Company on De-
cember 31st, 1896, now on file In this
Department. ,
Secretary of State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-30
CHRISTMAS GOODS.
All Holiday Goods Cut Half in Two

price isyou remember what told seof We will
goods the These goods
Come you use-your price win take them We
in Millinery Department We take off
prices Wednesday close the stock in few
days felt shapes Jumped 25c for any and all
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-30
OUR SHOES.

The public appreciate the fact that sell BETTER SHOES FOR LESS
bought regular
complete ladies' Misses Cbfdns Boys
Shoes no lei
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-08-14

7. Discussion.
8. Song, Miss Edith WINS.
9. School Devices, M. M: Har-
mon.
10. "Tle system of Vertical Pen
manship," Martin L. McAllister.
Note. On, Friday, September
10th, the Committee of Arrange
ments will be pleased to conduct
the teachers to the Hot Springs
near LaVerkin Bench, and in. the
evening will give a Ball..
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-08-14
Kept fgig. word;

when I heard the bicycle bell just
stood on my rights and refused TO move,
threatening at the same time that il
he ran into me I'd smash his machine"
"Wel?"
81 kept my word. He ran into me
and smashed the machine" +
What did he doT'
''IIe gathered it together"
''13ut to you?" :
"Oh," sadly. they gathered me TO
gcther, too" - Philadelphia North
American.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-08-14
PEARL FISHING.
How 1t Is Managed by the Proprie-
tors of the COncessfOu

How 1t Is Managed by the Proprfe-
tors of the Concession.
The agent of the English proprietors
OF the concession granted by the Next
can republic for a monopoly of pearl
fishing in the Gulf of California recent
ly arrived in San Francisco and gave
some interesting details of the pres
ent methods employed i'm their industry,
which has con tinued ever since the oc-
cupation OF the, country in the time of
Cortez.
The whole coast of the Gulf of Cali
fornia abounds in pearls, and the con-
cessions control the entire territory
Until within the last few years native
divers were employed, and the depth
to which they could descend did not ex-
, coed 35 feet.
With the introduction of diving APP
paratus the limit of depth was increased
to 80 fathoms. The best divers could
formerly remain under water not to
exceed two minutes. A, modern diver
thinks nothing of n two-hour stop in
water 100 feet in depth, though at great
er depths the stay is, necessarily short
ened on account Of the enormous pres
sure of the superintendent water. A
diver when upon the floor Of the ocean
looks about for the, oyster, which he
tears from the object to which it is at
tached, and places It'll in small bag
hanging to a rope, which is hauled into
the boat on given signal. Sometimes
the number of oysters secured is large,
at other times only a few are caught.
Ro Jix-or l. -
the pearl oyster alone, but if he sees
a rare specimen of coral or a new spe-
cies Of shell he places it in his bag and
sends it to the surface, where it becomes
the property Of the concession and the
sources of it's large income.
Last year the valhe of the pearls har-
vested in Lower California was alone
$3.50, O00a In addition, 5000 tons Of shells
were exported which,. were valued at
$1,250,0O0 more. Pearl fishing is the
entire occupation of the natives, and
La Paz, the headquarters, city of the
peninsula, with about 2 Goo inhabitants,
is solely dependent upon the industry.
The business IS one of chance, and the
pursuit is fascinating one to the ma
tives, who are born gamblers.
Every oyster does not contain it's
pearl, and only at'interyals, and rare
ones at that, is a'really,valuable pearl
discovered. The largest one ever found
was about three-quarters of an inch
in diameter, and was sold in Paris to
the emperor of Austria for $4,000.
Many black pearls are found in Lower
California, and are valued higher than
the pure white. The large majority are
seed pearls, and are only Of moderate
value.-San Francisco Call.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-08-14
PROGRAM.

Wednesday, Sept. Sth.
10 a. m.
l. Singing.
2. Invocation.
3. Address of.welcome, Supt. L.
N. Harmon.
4. How to teach Geography,
Miss Zadie Walker.
5. Discussion.
G. Song, Miss Edith Duffin.
z. Biography of. Pestalozzi,
Miss Mary, Thompson.
8. Discussion.
9. Instrumental Music.
10: Number work, Miss Nellie
Pace.
IL. Discussion.
IL. Benediction.
Up, nj.
!. Singing.
Q. Invocation.
3. How to teach Language, John.
T. Woodbury..
f. Discussion.
S. Recitation, Miss Jennie Slack.
6. How to teach music in the
schools, illustrated by appropriate
songs, Miss Edith Twins.
2. How to teach drawing, Mrs.
Martha Keate.
8. Discussion.
8. Benediction.
Up. m.
1. Singing.
2. Invocation.
5. Lecture, Herbert Spencer as
an Educator" Hon. E. II. Snow.
4. Benediction.
Thursday Sept. 9th.
1C. a. m.
L Singing.
2. Invocation.
3. Lecture, School Manage
ment," James G, Dufin.
4. Discussion.
S. Duet, Miss Ella Bfinghurst
and Miss Gena Spillsbury.,
6. How to teach Reading, Miss
Ella Jarvis.
z. Discussion.
s. Biography of Horace Mann,
David Hirschi.
@ Benediction.
2. p. M.
T.. Singing.
2. Invocation.
The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1897-08-14
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The times., 1897-05-06
AROUND THE sAWlUST RING |
Crowds We're Under the Canvass
at Yesterdays Performances.
OLD SCENES OVER AGAIN
Were All Right and Had
Their Moiety OF Attention., but
Everybody Went to See the Circus.
And the Circus Embraced Every.
thing Eippodrone Features.

The circus had two tremendous crowds
yesterday. Loyalty to this ever ancient
but ever new Institution never wavers
Every year it rs the same Did story. but the
it, the middle-aged people Will have ii,
young people demand it and babies cry for
it. And they all CO. Every year thecrowd
seems larger than the year before, but
probably its the same old crowd that comes
in droves FROM all quarters and fills the
great canvases 10 overflowng
Built about the old familiar features there
are SOME novelties even this year Theend
of newness seems forever in sight, but
recelics little further away each year
before the ingenuity of some new genius
The hit OF yesterdays performance was
undoubtedly the canine football player; or,
as the game should be called in this artists
case, s'nosel;ail. 1t is truly remarkable
the way his dog pushes about the pigskn,
bouncing IT into the air, catching 1t
again Oh his nose and again bouncing it
forward. The dog was the star
But two other features one for its
mystery, the other for its originality
sake, retains dominant interest Leon La
Roche, ascending the spiral doubled up
in his sphere, is still the wonder OF the
performance. No one has come forward
as yet to explain the mystery of his as
tonishing act. The palm for an act of
real beauty belongs to the ol,l-time trainer,
John Brien, with his seventy-horse
display. The conception. training and
execution is all absolutely unique and
beautiful.
Tie other acts were not especially
new, but all the performers brought new
wonders 70 their manner OF performing.
Tie aerial work was especially fine. There
are three groups of aeriaIists, tine four
Dunhams on the nidair horizonta bars,
the five Silbons in flights, leaps, ard head
foremost dives at the dome of the canvas,
aud the four Zedorasin equally asto nishing
performances on the trapeZe.,
The menage acts were likewise good
without being new they were the best that
have ever been seen. Several groups Of
educ;t ed danimalsattractedatte These
were goats, pigs. pigeons, dogs. elephants,
ponies, cows, and horses. Gaping all there
We're the usual startling hippOdrome fea-
lures
iHe i"'haStiic 10 betOei tiidH ever tiilS
year. The heroes here are a great number
OF curios on the central stage The dwarf,
Peter, is the most remarkable piece of
living smallness ever exhibited, and the
giantess beside him is a striking contrast
There is another freak OF the Siamese twins
species, and a number Of others that only
u catalogue can chronicle.
This is the last day OF the circus It is
a great patriotic opportunity which M
one viii want to miss, for their wn sakes
or for the sake OF the young people who
look upon attendance upOn this institution
as a sort of religious duty.
The times., 1897-05-06
A TEMPLE FOR PYHHlANS
Knights Appeal Therefor to all
Subordinate Lodges.
Half Million Wanted To Construct
Fitting Edifice ia the Cradle
" of Pythianism.

The ways and means committee OF the
Grand Lodge of the Knights OF Pythias of
the domain OF the District Of Columbia,
charged with the collection OF funds for
the erection of ''Pythian Temple in
this city, has issued an earnest and urgent
appeal to the members of the subordinate
lodges of the city for funds to complete
the building.
The appeal sent out by MI Edward G.
Niles, chairman of the ways and means
committee, is as follows:
Dear Brother We enclose you petition
which is self explanatory. Read with care.
Mediate upon the immens sity Of the under
taking. We must have money. We depend
upon YOU. Contribute cheerfuIly- We ex-
pecU at least 81 from every biother-we ex-
pect more il the brother can affordit Con-
suit your heart and contribute according to
your means. We beseech you to give freely.
1t is imperative that you 90 80 at once
Look at the immense amount of good the
erection of the Temple will Go in Our be-
loved domain. We are going to send the
petition to every subordinate lodge in the
order universal. Give US your help. We
give our time and noney-eGualiZe things.
We want your contribution. Wemust have
it, Put your contribution in The small enve
lope, and write your name, your address,
your lodge, and the amount you contribute,
and place a two-cent stamp on the larger
envelope enclosed, and send to Brother
Henry G. Wagner, our treasurer, who viii
acknowledge il and place your name on the
contribution list. Do this at once.
Thanking you sincerely in advance, we
are, in friendship, charity, benevolence,
EDWARD G. NILES
In years past, several efforts have been
made TO combine the ythian forces OF the
District In q united effort to erect a
templein this city, thecradle Of p ythianism.
All these have failed, and it was not until
now that the members of the order in the
District have felt that their efforts will
be crowned with success. The success OF
the present movement is due almost en-
tirely to Capital Lodge, No. pa, which, in
February, 1896, when the Old association
was on the verge of failure, discussed the
present plan, which Promises to result so
successfully.
TIE affairs in connection with the erec-
tion of the building is in the hands of the
committee OF forty-five, which consists of
three members from each individual lodge
of the knights OF Pyttias OF the Distrietof
Columbia, have decided to send out the
enclosed petition for the erection of q
Memorial Pythian Temple, to be built in
this city The cost of the building Is to be
about $500 900 There are 600 900
Knights of Pythias in the United States
from whom a contribution is expected
John A Frank. the sanitary officer of the
District of Columbia is chairman of the
committeeof forty-five ] Kelley Mangun,
Center Market, is treasurer Of the COM
rnittee
The times., 1897-05-06
BESSIE STACEY MARRIED
The Groom Promising Young At
tOrney From Pensacola
Much Talked-Of Young Woman Gives
Her Friends a Surprise-Nar-
ried at Hyattsville.

Bessie Stacey, the young girl, who is
underindictment for the theft of diamonds
from Harris & schaefer, stated TO Times
reporter yesterday afternoon that she
was married Tuesday evening, in Hyatts-
vile, to young lawyer. named w. III.
Sutherland, from Pensacola, Fla
Miss Stacey said she had been engaged
to MIR. Sutherland for some time, and that
their marriage was the result of an agree
ment between them during Mr.. Suther
lands visit to her two weeks ago.
She was joined in this city by Mr..
Sutherland on Tuesday morning, and to-
gether they proceeded to II Hyattsyille, Md. !,
where Rev Father GIoydr of the Catholic
Church. joined them in the holy bonds
of wedlock.
When Times reporter saw the young
bride yesterday afternoon, she was busily
engaged In making preparations for her de-
parture.
YES" I am married. she said, '.bnt
/ don't know why on earth the newspapers
are so much interested in that. It's no
body's business but my own, and / just
wish you would say am glad to get away.
MI. Sutherland and l expect to take a tip
through the Hudson River Valley and after
a short stay with relatives at Elizabeth, n.
Y, we Will go to Pensacola"
Miss Stacey said very emphatically that
the charge Of theft against her had been
permanently settled, and had been Tor
some days.
She also said that the statement which
recently appeared in an afternoon paper
that she would probably be prosecuted for
theft by dry goods firm was maliciously
untrue.
The times., 1897-05-06
A LADY ACROBAT INJURED.
Turning in Midatr, Mile. Dunham
Falls WITHOUT the Safety Net.

Mile Dmhanl, one OF the aerohatic per-
formers at BaTnUn & Baiiey's circus, yes
terday afternoon, met with d painful, and
perhaps, serious accident, while going
through her part OF tile program. Dressed
in her pretty blue tights, she had just
completed remarkable turn in mid
air on the horizontal bars, and upon the
trapeze, which won her repeated applause.
In the center of the inner ring a large
net had been stretched TO catch the
acrobats in case they should fall, but in
some unaccountable manner the lady fell
outside the net and struck heavily upon
the wooden rim OF the ring. Several at
fractions were going on at the time in the
two side rings, but the -Four Electrifying
Dunhams," the father, son, and two
daughters, were commanding the greatest
interest.
The rain was pouring down in torrents at
the time, and leaking through the huge
tent, SO that it was with difficulty that
the performers were able to go through
their remarkable feats Lightly the lit
tie woman fitted from one trapeZe to an
other, turning somersaults md executing
turns, and had about competed her act
when the rope, to which she held in ordre
TO let herself drop carefully, broke while
she was still swinging, and in this man
ner she was thrown outside the net. The
fall WAS probably thirty-fiye or forty feet,
and when the attendants reached Mile.
Durham she was partially unconscious
She was picked up and carried from the
ring to the dressing tent and physician
summoned. The extent of the young won-
ans injuries are not yet known, as it Is
feared that she may be internally injured.
No bones were broken, however, and she
was taken to her boarding-house, and it is
doubtful if she will be able to leave to-
morrow with the remainder Of the troupe.
The accident occasioned not little ex-
citerlent among the spectators, and several
ladies came near fainting
The times., 1897-05-06
Fortified With the AntIers.

Last night was q ''red letter. night in
the annals of Washington Lodge, No 10,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
the occasion being the initiation of seventeen
candidates at one session, which began at
6 O'Clock and lasted until after midnight
After the solemn ceremonies Of initia tion
had been gone through with, the lodge
chosen wearers OF the antlers, as well as the
organized in social session. and the newly
older members OF tie order, were entertain
ed in tile manner for which the Eiks have
became 50 celebrated There ale some
thirty or forty candidates for the donning
of the antlers still on the list OF Washing
ton Lodge, who will receive their degree
before the heated term sets i'll.