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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-23

Prof. Edwin Kick of Rush Medical Col
lege, Chicago who announced some two
or three weeks ago that he had discovered
the yellow fever germ, says that it is an
easy matter to avoid the fever All mat
is necessary, according to the professor.
is TO boil the drinking water and eat only
hot food that has been thoroughly cooked.
The professor says an American army in
Cuba could render itself practically i'm
mune from the fever by the observance
OF this simple rule. It is not known lust
what advantages Prof. Kick has had for
studying yellow fever, and what amount
of information he has with regard TO the
subject; nevertheless. it is a little re-
markable, if he is correct, that none of the
yellow fever experts of the South and of
the southern Americas. has heretofore hit
upon the simple preventive of thoroughly
cooked food eaten warm and boiled water.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-23

1t may be that before a great while
South Carolina win have Congressman
to match against that Western
Governor WHO refuses to wear
a collar. Josh" Ashley of An
derson county is said to be afflicted
with the Congress fever. He is the sort
OF man usually referred TO, when he be-
comes OF some political account or has
influence, as a rough diamond" Josh"
among other things. does not believe In
The detachable adjuncts to a shirt; what
ever is sewed on goes" with the excep-
ton Of cuffs, but anything that must be
buttoned on or tied on meets only with
his contempt. Thus, if the collar is made
on" il is all right. but not otherwise Cuffs
and cravats, however, are evidences of
hypocrisy. At the same time he does
not get as near to the ground as Jerry
Simpson used to; he wears socks. Mr.
Ashley is an Unlettered man. but is
sArewd, and has made money at farming
He is now a member of the legislature.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07
AWFUL SKIN DISEASE
Suffered Untold AgonyTwo Years.
itching and Burning Terrible.
Had to Give up Work Entirely.
Instant ReIiefin First Application
OF CUTlCURA REMEDIES.
AtWork, Fully Curedi in 2 Months.

was afflicted with terrible malignant break.
ing ont all over the upper part of my body l
was treated by some of the very best physicians,
who pronounced it contagious blood poison,
through whom spent hundreds of dollars trying
to getrelief, butt seemed to get worse. All the
time 1 was suffering untold agony, and finally
had TO give up work entirely. grasped at every
thing saw advertised, and listened to every sug-
gest0n from friends, butnothng seemed to reach
my case. The burning itching fix was in seemed
10 be aggravated by every effort to relieve myself;
but, thank God, relief came TO me at last. CuTI-
cCRA REMEDIES were suggested to me, and
Immediately procured the CUTIcUEA (ointmcnG,
CuTIcUEA SOAP, and CUTiCURA REsoLvENT.
From the first, ! experienced soothing relief,
Notwithstanding my intense pain. Tho warm
bath, with CUTIcUKA SOAP, the amounting with
CUTICURA, aud the dose Of CUTICURA REsOL-
VENT, seemed to start the good work from the
first / improved right along, and In less than
tho 1aoathS aUas able TO be up and at lC0Th,
and continued to improve daily till at last acas
entirety cured, sound and well, not q sign on mig
50lly apUohere indicating that anything had ever
been the matter with me. 1t is now over two
wears since have been entirely cured, and not
sign or a symptom has ever returned I will
gladly answer any and all letters with reference
10 nv case NJ. Il. BASTIET,
1856 w. Hunter St., Atlanta, Ga.
Witness: j. G. AHERN.
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WANTED DEcENCY IN POLITICS

Major Hiram L. Grant is quoted as
saying there must be some decency in
politics" There has not been any de
cency in politics in North Carolina since
Hiram L. Grant and his gang have
been in control. The people say there
must be some decency in politics" and
they are beginning to realize that the
first step to secure it is to drive out the
Hiram Grants and all others who are
on the same low plane with the Wayne
county slanderer and traducer. If Grant
will accept the offer of paymaster in the
army and have done with North
Carolina politics, we win have some de
cency," but we need not hope for any
until then.
A demand for decency in politics is
equivalent to a demand for the retire
ment of Grant and the base fellows who
follow his leadership.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07
II. A. JOHNSON WRITES.


He Says His Address Mt Elizabeth City
Was not "Innammatory" and Quotes
the Calpolinian, Whose Editor Was
Present, to Sustain Him.
TO the Editor: In your issue of Sun
day last You published clipping from
the Elizabeth City Economist, which
stated in reference to an address deliy-
cred by me before the Colored Normal
School there, which read as follows:
I'VE have heard the address condemned
for its infammatory character. 1t pre-
dicted, as we have heard the ultimate
absorption of the Southern white race
by the greater fecundity of the negro
race in the Southern States
| desire to say that the address was
not infammatory and did not make any
such prediction MS alleged in the above
article. My address was delivered from
manuscript, and | have been unable to
discover anw of this alleged infammatory
matter referred to. In reference to the
negroes "fecundity," / said that in spite
of the prediction that if emancipated the
negro would become extinct that some
body had figured out that in 1885 there
would he 195,000,000 negroes in the UlE-
ted States. No prediction was made.
DIR. John, editor of the Carolinian OF
the same place, was present and heard
the address, and the following is what
he says about it in his paper of June LIST,
", (the editor was not PRESENT..
The annual commencement exercises
of the Elizabeth City State Colored Nor
mai School closed at the court house on
Friday night 1t has been the most
successful commencement occasion in the
history of this now well established In
stitution. The essays by the young ladies
We're Of a high order. evincing thought
and intellectual power; and the orations
by the young gentlemen were particularly
well delivered. The annual address was
delivered by Prof. Il. A. Johnson, of the
Law Department of Shaw University,
Raleigh. His subject was Self Reli-
ance." While there was no attempt at
spread-eagle oratory, the address was
brimful of wisdom and philosophy
plain statement of practical and COM
mon sense truths especially adapted for
the occasion. 1T was interspersed with
bits of poetry. humor and wit, and il
made a decidedly good impressions.
Il. A. JOHNSON.
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WHAT OTHERS SAY.
A REVIVAL OF CHIvALRY.
Washington Post.


Washington Post.
The exploit of young Hobson and the
gallant fellows who accompanied him on
that perilous, almost fantastic, mission
with the Merrimac, deserves all the
plaudits and congratulations it has re-
ceived or can receive. 1t was as bril-
liant an exhibition of courage and devo-
ton as can be found in the annals of HUI
man achievement. The fact that nearly
every officer and man i'll the fleet was
willing if not anxious to undertake the
task detracts nothing from the glory Of
those who were selected for it. 1t proves
only that a spirit of daring and self.
sacrifice animates the American naval
service. In the case Of Hobs0n, as in
that of Dewey. it happens that the OPP
portunity came his way, and that he en-
braced it with heroic ardOr. Dewey is a
Vermonter, Hobson an Alabamian, and
these two have shown the world-and
what is more important, the people Of
this country-that valor of the highest
type is the product Of no particular sec
ton, but the common heritage of a free
and noble people. Dewey is of New
England ancestry. His progenitorS were
bleak, unfavored region from the wilder
ness. Hobson comes of the Southern
aristOcracy, the slave-owning class OF
antebellum times. Fifty years ago their
fathers represented antagonistic ideas
and irreconcilable principles and meth
DDS. But we see, now, that there was
little essential difference in the stock
and blood--that both classes had in them
III 10. ,,f nd tps,
heroism-and we realize with a thrill Of
gratitude and pride that time has eradi-
Gated all those superficial differences
and that Americans of the Anglo-Saxon
breed are very much the same when
ever we put them to the test and what
ever may have been their environment
of birth and training. We know that at
last we are a homogeneous people and
that the flag may count upon indomita
Bile champions everywhere it flies.
There was a touch of the romantic and
the chivalrous in young Hobson's splen-
did feat that appealed to the Spanish
Imagination, too. The prompt action Of
Capt. Ovieto, his assurance of cour-
teous treatment for the prisoners and Of
prompt cooperation in any measures for
their exchange, showed that the descen-
dants of El CampeadOr still admire and
honor gallantry and are quick to pay
tribute to those lofty virtues. 1t is com
forting to know that in the forces now
hemmed in ut Santiago we shall meet
Il brave and generous foe. We pause to
inhale this breath of poetry and grace
that comes to MS in an interlude of the
dire tragedy Of war-Hobson's fine deed
Of courage and devotion and the Span
iards' instructive recognition of its brill
liancy.
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THE DELAY is INExCUSABLE.

Last week we called attention to the
fact that many of the volunteers in camp
at Raleigh did not have change OF I'M
derwear and some of them did not
have shoes. The good women Of the
city have labored to remedy this deplor-
able condition, but il is a state of affairs
that ought never to have been permitted
to exist. If the sons of their daddies ap-
pointed by the President to good paying
bomb-proof positions havn't sense enough
to clothe and equip the soldiers, the Gov
ernor of the State ought to have prompt
ly advanced the sum necessary to pre-
vent the discomforts that have made
camp life humiliating to the brave men
who have enlisted to fight the battles Of
their country. In other States there
has been this prompt assistance.
Our special staff war correspondent
at Jacksonville wires that Col Julian 5.
Carr has advanced a months pay to the
Durham soldiers and will go at once to
Washington to urge the Secretary of War
to properly equip and clothe the North
Carolina soldiers in camp at Jackson
vile. This is noble and generous in Col.
Carr. The government ought not to per
nit such conditions as make such drafts
on the sympathies of generous-hearted
private citizens. 1t ought to promptly
see at least that men have comfortable
clothing and enough changes to keep
clean. and enough money is spent to do
this il it were properly expended. There
are altogether too many porcelain bath
tub fellows in the department that furn
ishes supplies.
We forebore to criticize when the sol
diers first reached Raleigh and had to put
up with unheard-of >discomforts, thinking
that the authorities would promptly fur
nish clothes and equipment. Last week
Col. Burgwyn had to go to Washington
in person to get any attention to requisi-
tons for absolute necessaries. If men
who know anything were in charge there
would be no necessity for Il solitary sol
der to want for clothes, shoes and equip
ment. and the discomforts to which they
have been subjected are ineXcusable.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07
THE CHICAGO PLATFORM GROWS STR0N,
GER.

The Chicago platform grows daily in
favor with the people. The politicians
who assailed it in 1896 are now coming
to approve first one plank and then
another. The legislation Of the future,
when the trusts quit debating it, will be
along the lines of that platform. Sena-
tor Foraker is the latest public man to
affirm his belief in the righteousness of
the demands for an income tax. Elk
Secretary George S. Boutwell,. in an able
discussion in the June number of the
North American Review, shows its con
stitutionality and adds:
1T is apparent that the necessity for
such Il tax is great at the present mo-
ment. and that in future times the neces
sity win be still greater, even though the
general condition of the country should
be a condition of peace
We do not have TO go away from
years ago were opposed to the principles
enunciated at Chicago throwing up their
hats and rejoicing when the Democratic
State convention declared, Eve do here
by approve, endorse and ratify the ma
tional Democratic platform" There
were not many Democrats in North
Carolina who opposed these declarations
two years, ago. Now all of them who
have not made up their minds to go into
the. Republican party, either approve OF
or acquiesce in them. The declarations
Of the recent State convention went
further than the Chicago platform. car
rying into State issues the spirit of jus
tice and fairness that permeates the
Chicago platform.
we 90 forward.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07

DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.

FOR JUDGES SUPERIOR COURT
First District George I'll. Brown, Jr.
OF Beaufort.
Second District Henry r. Bryan, OF
Craven.
Firth District Thomas ]. Shaw OF
Guilford.
Sixth District FL. Allen, Of
Lenoir.
Seventh District Thomas A. Mcneil
of Robeson.
Eleventh District-W. A. Hoke, Of
Lincoln.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07
CAR COUPLERS AND NEGLI
GENCE.
Asheville Citizen.

Asheville Citizen.
There is n law to compel the use of
the safety appliances that make it unne-
cessary for men to go between cars 10
couple them. Now, il companies refuse
to comply with the law and an accident
follows. who should suffer? The EN-
ploye for whose protection the suspended
law was framed and declared necessary
almost to his existence, as might be
said? We should think not. the fact be-
ing that if the coupler law had never
been passed. those companies who refuse
to adopt that appliance as a tested, prac-
ticable invention, necessary to the safe
handling of cars would be culpably neg
ligent. The suspension Of the law by the
Interstate Commerce Commission could
not act in the company's favor as waiv-
or Of responsibility. That existed before
the passage Of the law dating from the
year when n practicable. reasonably
economical and safe coupler was avail
able for freight cars.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07
An Innocent Sufferer.

How often you hear of Il sweet inno-
cent child suffering from some terrible
blood disease which is hereditary and
which if not eradicated from the system
will be Il source of misery during its en-
tire life. If you are parent and your
child is suffering from any blood disease,
don't neglect getting bottle of Afri-
cana the sure cure
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07
READ THE FOLLOWING:

/ had been troubled for years wifi
rheumatism. | took two bottles Of youl
most excellent medicine, Africana, which
has about relieved me entirely, and
feel like a different man. My little
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1t affords me great pleasure to recon-
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''Africana,' rs a great relief to suffer
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Rreyard, Pennsylvania county, n. G.
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A CONGRESSMAN RIGHT.
Springfield Republican.


Congressman Fitzgerald is actively
concerning himself in the welfare of the
Massachusetts soldiers at Camp Alger
Yesterday morning he called on the See
rotary of War and exhibited to him q
nine-inch slab of fat pork which had nc
lean meat on ii. In indignant tones the
only Democratic Congressman from New
England" asked: DO you call this ba-
CONF 1t was what the Ninth Massa-
chusetts regiment was getting for bacon.
We fancy there are votes for Fitzgerald
in that pork episode.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07
YELLOW JAUNDTCE CURED.

Suffering humanity should be supplied
with every means possible for its relief.
1t is with pleasure we publish the fol-
lowing: This is to certify that | was
Il terrible sufferer from Yellow Jaundice
for over six months, and was treated
by some of the best physicians in our
city and all to no avail. DIR. Bell, our
druggist, recommended Electric Bitters;
and after taking two bottles, / was en-
tirely cured. | now take great pleasure
in recommending them to any person suf-
fering from this terrible malady. ] am
gratefully yours. M. A. Hogarty, Lex
ington, KY" Sold by all druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07

The father of Richmond Pearson Hob
son. the hero of Santiago, was a native
of Davie county, North Carolina, and
graduated at the University in 1858. The
mother was daughter of Chief Justice
Pearson. That the young man was born
in Alabama does not take away the fact
that he is a North Carolinian in every
thing except birthplace. He sheds lus-
tire on the State of his parents and upon
his entire country.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07

The banner liar" who a few winters
ago located his headquarters at Bakers
vile, Mitchell county, is now in Hayti.
His daily kilograms from thence telling
of occurrences in Porto Rico and Cuba
go bow-shot beyond any of his pre-
yi0us efforts.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07

In Oregon yesterday, Legislature
which elects a United States Senator and
two members OF Congress. was held.
1t was theft rst gun Of the elections this
year. In 1896. Mckinley carried the
State and both members Of the house
chosen were Republicans.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07

If all the reports Of sinking Spanish
ships that excite the people daily were
true. Spain would have already lost more
war vessels than all the nations own.
Moral: Do not get excited till You see
the Associated Press reports. 1t is the
"old and reliable
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07

The Wilmington Messenger says that
thirteen thousand acres of land near
that city have been selected and that
six hundred families from the North will
build town and settle there. Each
family that is to come will have from
$500 to 1000. The success of the set
tiers in Moore county, in Chadbourn and
other places has been such as to en-
courage others to come. There is no
State that offers so many advantages
TO thrifty and Industrious settlers as
North Carolina, or no place where Il war
mer welcome awaits them.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07
CONVENTION DATES.

Sixth District, Congressional, Will
mington, July 9th.
Third Congressional district, Clinton
June 80
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Referring 10 the clamor for the resig-
nation Of Secretary Alger, the Chicago
journal desires to know the name of any
Cabinet officer who has measured up TO
the occasion. If anybody thinks either of
the mediocre men who hamper mediocre
Mckinley fills the bill, let him be named.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-07

1t Is a great leap from the old fash
toned doses Of blue-mass and nauseous
physics to the pleasant little pills known
as DeWitt's Little Early Risers. They
cure constipation, sick headache and bill
iousness. Heart e. Heartt.
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GEORGIA, FULTON COUNTY.
n Justice of the Peace in and for 1926 District,
q NJ State and County aforesaid, j g. Ahern,
who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that
the statements made in the above Testimonial IRE
true. >. u. AHEtN.
sworn to and subscribed before me this oct.
2Sth 1897. EDGAR II. ORR, j. Z.
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'This week is to witness the climax
Of the war says the Washington Post.
This means that the bond syndicate is
satisfied.
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