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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

Numerous gentlemen are pointing,
with more or less glee, to the report
that a foreign nation wishes to borrow
money in this country, as an indication
of our great prosperity. The shallow
bit of sophistry that much idle money
lying in the banks of financial centers
means that the people generally are pros
porous is long-lived. With our vast re-
sources only slightly developed, a for
eign loan is the best possible evidence
of unhealthy commercial conditions.
One money lender don't make a prosper
Gus community.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

L. is estimated that $4,000 troops will
be sufficient to 'pacify" the Philippines
with 100000 inhabitants, but that it
viii require $4,000 troops to restore
stable government" in Cuba, which has
less than half the population of the
Philippines. This is an exceedingly
strange estimate and one for which no
reason has as yet been given by the
big army or bust shouters.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21
WILSON WILL NOT RESIGN.

Macon, Ga, Dec. 20.-General James
II. Wilson, commanding the First Army
corps, in camp here, and who made the
reference to Canada under the Stars ard
Stripes, denies that he will resign, and
says the reports which appeared IN the
papers to that effect, are totally without
foundation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

According to the Washington CORE
spondent of the Boston Journal, Re-
publican organ, it is proposed to placate
Aguinaldo by paying his soldiers for
services rendered in the war with Spain.
This is a novel proposition in view the
explicit declaration of General Merritt
in recent interview that he refused to
recognize Auginaldo and his army or to
when it was decided to attack Manila
the fact was carefully concealed from
Aguinaldo because his assistance" was
not wanted and would not have have
been accepted if offered. There are some
queer kinks in our colonial policy
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21
WEDNESDAY. ;. December p, 1898.

We note that every place the Presi-
dent visited surpassed all preceding
places in lavish hospitality according to
the press reports. From which it will
appear that its various esteemed con-
temporaries were not minded to let At
lanta scoop all the glory.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

Late to bed and early to rise, prepares
a man for his home in the skies. But
early to bed and a Little Early Riser's,
the pill that makes life longer and bet
ter and wiser. j. Hal Bobbitt and Hen
ry T. Hicks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

The real excitement will begin when
an attempt is made to make free silver
and anti-expansion work in double har-
Washington Post.
But the gentlemen who are engaged
in driving Imperialism and the Dingley
tariff tandem will miss the greater part
OF it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

Those esteemed contemporaries that
would deprive Sampson of all credit for
the naval victory and give Shafter full
credit for the land victory must have Il
flexible system of logic. According to
all accounts, Sampson was little further
away when Cervera waded ashore than
Shafter was when San Juan was cap
tured. Scrape the glory off both or
neither.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

If District Attorney Graham and
Senator Mathew Stanley Quay would
settle their differences in some way 9th
err than that in vogue with Jim Corbett
and Bob Fitzsimmons it would be more
agreeable, not to say edifying, to the
public.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

Louisiana has parish, Tangipahoa.
and nobody is ever punished. Life there
is said to be nearly as insecure as in
Brooklyn or Chicago.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

Maybe Lieutenant Hobson was look
ing forward to a period of poor BROW
ing in the Philippines.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

There is, no denying tia chunk of
August with Turkish bath annex was
delayed in transmission"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

It looks like France may yet SLAP
Germany on the back and blubber.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

Overcome evil with good. Overcome
your coughs and colds with One Minute
Cough Cure. 1t is so good children cry
for it. 1t cures Group, bronchitis, pneu-
monia, grippe and all throat and lung
diseases. j. Hal Bobbitt 'and Henry L.
Hicks
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

Georgia and Alabama will devote this
week to the application OF cold towels TO
the head and larynX.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

The News and Observers telephones:
Business Office $3.50. .127
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21
The News & Observer
NEWS AND OBSERVER PUBLISH
ING COMPANY.

Office: News and Observer Building,
Fayetteville Street.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

To the Managers Genera Age o Society
be December take
mail this morning brought appauGIs
over one NH
on the ecordbakng month
each of the working days
of indication what the
called
by and determination wins
VIM STEVENS, Secretary.
have lust received the above circular letter and call
especial attention of intending insurers to the phenomenal
record the Providant Savings is making
J. STERLING JONES,
Manager N. c. Department,
GREENSBORO, N.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

Entered at the postoffice at Raleigh,
N. c., as second-class matter.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-21

Tomorrow / will give Tennessee's
method of regulating suffrage, aud fol
low that with interviews with SenatoT
Money. Representatives Catchings and
Patrick Henry, of Mississippi, upon the
practical workings of the constitutional
regulation of suffrage in that State.
j. ID.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
Ladies and the Paris Exposition.

The ladies of the country are de-
manding a share in the honors and re-
sponsibilities at the Paris Exposition.
They want a separate organization
and $3.50, 900 of the S75O,OOO that is to
be appropriated for the representation
of our government. They want their
own commissioner-general and staff,
and object to being mixed up with the
men folk. They have a committee in
Washington composed mostly of New
York women led by Mrs. Ledyard
Stevens, of that city, and command q
good deal of social and political infu-
ence. They have seen the President,
the Secretary Of State, Judge Day,
and members of the appropriation
committees of both Houses. But thus
far they do not seem to have made
much of an impression. The Presi-
dent ipclines to an arrangement by
which there shall be woman's board
under the commissioner-general, but
thinks that two organizations would
result in friction and confusion. The
Appropriation Committee is of SINH
lar mind. They are perfectly willing
to authorize the commissioner-general
to appoint q woman assistant, but
they do not see any practical use in
having two separate and Independent
organizations. The ladies, however,
will insist upon offering an amendment
in the Senate if the Appropriation
Committee refuses to comply with
their wishes.-William E. Curtis, in
Chicago Record.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02

y Japan's industrial enterprise con-
tinues to excite fresh wonder and as
Sonishment. Without the least exag-
geration it may be affirmed that this
little island empire is entitled to the
worlds record for It's growth and pro-
.ress within the past few years.
Prior to the recent war between japan
and China, the former country was
little understood in this hemisphere.
Most people labored under the impress
sion that Japan was welded to her
idols, and that progress in the modern
sense of that expression was wholly
foreign to the atmosphere which she
Inhaled. But even prior to the war
which brought her to the front with so
much prestige, Japan had seriously
commenced to rid herself Of her en-
cumbering superstitions and to borrow
western ideas of life. To-day the To-
comotive, the telephone, the tele-
graph and the electric light are mir
acles of progress as familiar almost to
the Japs as they are to US, who first
produced them. From some interest
ing data recently compiled by one ol
our consuls to Japan, it appears that
the manufacture of matches is exten-
sively carried on in the kingdom.
There are now some forty-fve estab-
Hshments in all, employing not" less
than Il ,00O operatives. Since 1893
the growth Of this indGs.ry, although
retarded by the recen. w&f, has been
phenomenal. In 1896 the value OF its
total output aggregated &l,672, 1876,
and in 1897, 81, ,7O6,G ,G12. The wide
awake enterprise of the kingdom is
still further illustrated in the activity
displayed in its navy yards. At the
present time Japan is engaged in the
construction of seven war vessels. II
Japan continues to develop atthe pres
.ent rate, there is no telling what pos
sibilities of national expansion lie be-
fore her.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
A YOUTHFUL EXEGETE.
His Interpretation of the Scriptures
Was Not Orthodox.

Strange are the workings Of the in
FAINT mind. The little son Of we'll
known naval officer stationed here has
advanced 4 new version of an old text
The wife's mother, who makes her
home with her daughter, is of the OLD
school, a dear creature, with pulls and
CAPS, who reads her Bible from prefer
ence. 1t is a custom for her to teach
her little grandson every day q verse
from the Bible, and on Saturday OF last
week the verse selected was:
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep
it holy"
The child had unusual difficulty in
committing the verse, but, once mas
tered, it must have settled deep into
the very largest brain cell possessed by
the little fellow.
Sunday morning the youngster came
fresh, white and starched, from ms
nurses hands, and was deposited on the
front porch until the family assembled
for church. Emerging at the last mo-
ment. the neither was Mortified at the
sight of her small offspring seated up
On the terrace digging with all his
might into the moist ground.
Baby, baby, come here this MN
ute. Don't you know it is naughty 10
play on Sunday, and get yourself all
dirt?" cried the mother.
The little fellow looked up with Il
puzzled air, and made answer: wv ny
muvver dear, l is digging holes Tor
Sunday"
Digging holes for Sunday: WHAT
nonsense, You bad, bad little son, re-
turned the mother, none too gently
trying to rescue the once immaculate
suit
Now, muvver, dear, I did learn ve
verse from grandma, and it was 'he-
member We Sabbath day to keep 1t
holy and 1 is only digging We holeS
for Sunday to make it holy, and Ism
a bad little son at ALL
There was a suspicious trembling
about the mouth, but it is needless TO
relate that the little philosopher was
caught in his mothers arms and kissed
before the cry developed, and that he
was given two plates of ice cream 1oT
his Sunday dinner, all because Oh MS
original ry.-Washingtop Stan
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
SECLUDED CHINESE WOMEN
Many of Them Die without Ever Hav-
ing Left Their Homes.


How can we expect much Of the Chi
nese women? They spend their time,
shut in their own apartments, gossip
ing and reading novels, says Mrs. Gil
bert Reid, who has been a missionary
in China five years. The gentlemen
who prepare our course in Chinese lit
erature say they've found only one Chi
nese novel, q historical romance, fit foS
us to read, and yet the Chinese women
live on Chinese fiction. They talk with
their servants, smoke water pipes, and
most of them get drunk on hot wine. A
Chinese woman Of any position or re-
spectability never goes out of her house
without a special invitation, and many
of them grow old and die without ever
having set foot outside Of their front
door. No thought from the outside
world can get to them. AS l said, they
read, gossip. cultivate their long, yell
low, claw-like finger nails, paint their
faces, lips and eyebrows and dress
their hair deliberately. That's the way
they spend their days. They are Jeal-
Gus Of one another, jealous of attention,
and envious of anybody who has fine
clothes. They are now getting to wear
foreign things and are especially fond
of our watches and trjnkets. They are
crazy over American music boxes. At
one place l visited they had an organ
brought up to hear me play on 1t, ana
I tell you l was great show to them.
They have no carpets in their houses
and neither do they have fires. when
it is cold the women sit up in fur-lined
garments from morning until night
with their tiny feet on foot stove ana
read those ficndish novels. Chinese
women never see a man except their
husbands. Chinese girls never see
man other than their fathers, or at
least that is what the Chinese say
themselves. You know the general
idea prevails that Il Chinese girl never
sees the face of her batrothed or he hers
until they are married, but have good
reason TO believe that boy and girl hu-
man nature is the same in China as 1t
is here, and l think that such things as
secret meetings between lovers are not
upleard Of in the Celestial empire.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
a Xove!ty in Dress Trimmings.

A novelty in dress trimmings IS q
fine fawn-colored batiste embroidered
all over in minute design Of chenille.
This is used for cuffs, collars and
revers on silk waists. Oriental en-
broidered insertions, set IN between
groups of tucks, form another mode OF
trimming. Waists OF plain silk IN
medium and light colors are striped
up and down diagonally across the
sleeves with velvet ribbon Of darker
shade.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
The Out-Door Woman.

The subject Of bicycle touring is one
which has been widely discussed, and
in regard 10 which q great deal Of ad-
vice has been given. Lists of the
necessary articles to be taken as bag
gage upon the wheel have been made
out and multitude of directions have
been laid down governing the proper
equipment in general. Nothing that
the tourist could possibly need has
been omitted, but-and here lies the
mistake-a vast number of things
which she could dispense with have
been included in the outfit. From
this cause largely has come the dis
satisfaction which has been expressed
regarding bicycle tours. Too many
Of them have been undertaken by per-
sons so oyerburdened with alleged
'conveniences" that their trip has re.
sembled that of freight-laden cara
van. The secret of pleasurable tour
lies, in a great measure, in the light
est possible equipment. The tourist
on wheel cannot expect all the travel
ing luxuries to be found in drawing
room car, and the more strictly she
limits her list the more comfort she
will have.
A plan which has been followed with
much success by man and his wife
who live in the suburbs might well be
followed by tourists in general, They
carry with them as baggage little else
besides few toilet articles. These
are packed into a strong bag of brown
linen, made with pockets fer the
brRshes, combs, soap, etc. This bag
is put into tne-fat luggage carrier, Of
moderate size, which fits into the
diamond frame Of the mans wheel.
The repair outfit for the two wheels
also find plenty of room in this lug
gage carrier, so that they need not be
strapped elsewhere, and drinking
cup is another necessary article. No
attempt is made to carry any extra
clothes; but arrangements are made to
have these sent on by express to the
hotels or houses ct which the tourists
are to stop on their journey. This
plan requires that the route shall be
carefully planned before the start is
made, and that the cyclists shall ad-
here faithfully to their programme.
Arrived at each nights stopping place
they find bag of fresh clothes await
ing them, and having taken these out
they repack the valise with the things
they have been wearing and have it
expressed home again. If they are to
make stop of unusual length any
where they order trunk instead of
bag, to be at the place at the proper
time.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
Saws the New York Post: Atimelyrt

Says the New York Post: Atimelyre-
buke has been administered by Justice
Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, to pettifog-
ging, or what the Pennsylvania court
calls perverted ingenuity" The oc-
casion was the filing of an appeal in
the case of man condemned to death
on the morning of the day of execu-
tion,> ground of newly discovered
evidence, fesst-0n>sgeged errors of the
most formal and perfunctory Efld,
which had been already passed upon
by the lower court in refusing new
trial. 1t was simply move for delay,
or, in the language Of the court, "a
Aagrant example of the perverted
standard of professional ethics, which
assumes that counsel should help his
client to escape the proper conse-
quences of his act by any move or de-
vice, short, perhaps, of actual fraud
or imposition. This is very serious
error and apparently becoming more
widespread, especially in cases invol-
wing life. The boundaries of pro-
fessional privilege and professional
obligation are clearly defined, and in
no way doubtful Counsel represents
the prisoner to defend his rights. In
so doing he is bound to exercise COM
yetent learning and to be faithful, Wig
liant, resolute But he is. at the same
time an officer of the court, part of the
system which the law provides for the
preservation of individual rights in
the administration of justice, and
bound by his official oath to fidelity
as well to the court as to the client. !"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
Canada looks carefully after its W

Canada looks carefully after its win
ter quail. the farmers feeding and pro-
tecting them and the local protectors
of the preserves making regular trips
into the country to see how the inno-
cent birds are faring. Without such
attention to their needs the rigorous
climate would exterminate them; with
it they have come through the pres
ent winter remarkably well, and in
che coming shooting season the sports
men of Our Lady of the Shows will
rise up and call their protectors
blessed.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
LOOKING FOR as CENTS.
Fifty Men searched Nine Hours Before
the Error Was Located.

bookkeeping has been reduced to
such an exact science in the big metro
poIitan banks that the clerks are eX-
Dected to strike 4 correct balance at the
close of each days work, no matter IL
the transactions run into the millions OF
dollars. When the books fail to bal
ance, the whole force of the bank is put
TO work to discover the error, and no
clerk starts for home until it is dlscoV-
cred, whether it amounts to cents OF
$1,000. Generally quarter of an hour
will bring the mistake to light, Dut
sometimes the hunt is kept up until
late into the night.
Such a search was recently conducted
in New York bank located in the VI
cinity of Wall street. Forty-tive cents
was missing. At o'clock not trace
of the erraEt sum could be discovered.
Dinner was sent in for the whole force
from an adjoining restaurant, anu atter
half an hours rest the search was
again taken up. Midnight came, but
still no c!ew, so sandwiches and coffee
We're served.
Hello said a clerk. "The BLANK
National people are working tonight,
too. Guess they're in the same box.
Sure enough the windows of the bank
across the street were brilliantly light
ed. The incident was soon forgotten
when the wcarying hunt after that
elusive 10 cents was resumed. Shortly
after one o'clock in the morning, as
they We're about to give up for the
night loud rapping w:s heard or the
front door Of the bank.
Hello. Hello, What's the matter:'
called the cashier through III" keynote.
Matter, you chumps. Why, we've
got your blamed old 45 cents. Come
along home to Ded.'
Outside stood the crowd of clerks
from the neighbOring bank. 1t appear
ed that, in making n cash transaction,
one of the banks had paid the other 10
cents too much. AS result fifty men
had worked nine hours, and the search
was only ended then because bright
clerk. noticing the light in the bank oD-
posite, shrewdy guessed the cause,
hunted up the cash slip and discovered
the error.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
Tie Postofice Department Of Can

The Postofice Department OF Can
ada does not pay expenses, but the
deficit last year was only $5SG,539.
while in 1896 it was S781,152. Dur
ing the last year 123, $4,000 let
ters and 26,14O,OO0 postal cards
passed through the mails. OF the
Ie3ters 8, 500, 800 were registered. The
number of newspapers and books
mailed in the year was 22,O15,000.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
Fashion Notes.

Silk shirt waists ere completed with
stock and long tie of the san e silk.
Neckties of white chiffon trimmed
across the ends with gathered narrow
white satin ribbon are the latest fad.
Flower gardens on the head in the
shape of hats will be prominent this
summer. They will be made of old
garden posies and no ribbons will be
used.
"a novelty in long watch chains is
made of black sewing silk, with either
gold, coral, turquoise or some other
variety of fancy bead at short inter
walls the entire length.
Wells are worn in dots and large
blocks, and are the proper accom-
painment of every big hat. They
come down below the chin and knot
comfortably at the back.
Never were finer woven or more
daintily fascinating designs and love-
ly color blendings produced than are
shown in the organdies brought to
view for the summer Of '9S.
Purple in one OF other of its many
tints and tones, including plum,
violet, orchid, heliotrope, petunia,
iris, lilac and wistaria, is everywhere
in evidence in the exhibit of dress
fabrics, ribbons and millinery.
The riding habits are excessively
simple, the skirt narrow and only long
enough to cover the feet, with tight
fitting, single breasted coat OF three
quarters length. These are made up
in dark cloth and lightweight coverts,
devoid of ornamentation, their beauty
depending entirely on their cut and
fit.
The big dotted veil is thing OF the
past. It is not even carried III stock
at really swell places. The complex
ion veil has ousted it. This IS very
properly named, but it might be even
better TO call it Tho complexion beau
tifer. It is astonishing how q piece
of plain black net of crisscross OF diG-
mond design can enhance a plain
woman's looks.
For gollng costumes the circrlar
skirt Of double-faced material is much
used, and the simple golf cape is con-
sidered better style than the fanciful
shawl cape. A new golf dress is made
Of smooth brown cloth, finished with
rows of stitching. The jacket isquite
short and is worn with scarlet waist
coat, which opens in square at the
neck over stiff shirt and mannish
tie. OF course, there is brown cape
with tartar. lining.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
The New GauZcs.

A frock of one of the new gauzes IS
a peculiar shade of blue-something
between harebell and indigo. 1t is
strewn with blurred red and yellow
blossoms, the red and yellow melting
into the blue, of course, and not spoil
ing the general tone. The skirt IS
made over two underskirts, one Of
white mousseline and one of blue taf-
feta, and is finished p at the bottom
Siitths 8 deep >founce of black Chantilly.
Lines of black lace are laid over the
material at intervals of five inches
apart all the way around the skirt,
running from waist to hem. The
bodice has the same lines Of lace, but
here there are insertions, showing the
white mousseline beneath. A deep
collar of rich cream white lace is
edged with long points, which also
form epaulets. The pattern of the
lace is set off by light tracery of gold
thread. A simple stock, covered with
the cream lace, deep frills of cream
lace at the wrists and a ceinture Of
blue tahfeta fastening in the back,
with big fiat rosette of light blue
velvet and a buckle of steel and dia-
monds complete this odd and pretty
costume.