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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Charlotte; Selma Institute Selma
Greenville Academy. Greenville: Buic's
Creek Academy. Poe's: Newbern Acade-
nv Newborn: Warrenton Academy,
Warrenton: Union Home School, Nistar:
Lexington Seminary. Lexington: Allan
tic Institute. Elizabeth City: Liberty
Normal College. Liberty; Elm City Acad-
envy: Elm City: Newell School. Newell;
CASTOR Institute, Gastonia; and many
others
This Association of Academies is in
fusing spirit and life into the work
of these various institutions; it is up
lifting the courses of study. and is doing
an infinite amount of good along its line
of educational progress. The larger per
cent. of public school teachers; hundreds
Of our best business men; and success
full men in every walk of life. look back
to the academy as their sole alma mater.
North Carolina needs every educational
force she has, and this Association has
no spirit of antagoniSm for any cduca-
tional uplifting.
Let us hope that from these annual
gatherings of devoted men. great
good may result and the spirit of pro-
gress. already manifest in this State. be
broadcned and decpened until every
phase Of educational thought may be
ouickened. and our whole State may be
fired with new educational zeal.
The programme of the meeting is as
fellows:
Wednesday evening, December 2Sth.-
s n. m.-Annual Address by the Presi-
dent of the Association.
$40 p. m.--The States debt to the
Observation-Disclosures by Hon. c. IL. Me
bane. State Superintendent Public In
struction.
$3.50 p. inflow may the North Caro-
lima Association Of Academies benefit the
Educational Work of the State? Re
marks by j. G.. Horner, Horner School;
John Graham. Warrcnton High School;
Hugh Morson, Raleigh Male Academy.
Thursday morning. December 29th.
9:00-Thc Teaching of English in our
Academies. W. Canada. Chapel Hill
School: Washington Catlett. Cape Fear
Academy.
Discussion by Ira burlington, Turling-
ton Institute; w. Banks Dove. Lexins-
ton Seminary: a b. Justice. Wakefield
Academy: and others.
f0:30-Preparation of Public School
Teachers in Academies. "A. Campbell,
Buic'S Creek Academy
Should the State Aid Academies in
Furnishing Normal Training?-R. l..
Madison, Cullowhee High School.
Discussion ny Martin ii. Holt, Oak
Ridge Institute; L. c. Amick, Liberty
Normal College; A. NJ. Garwood, Glib
sonville School; JAS. w. Hays, Elm
City Academy; and others.
11:45-Industrial Training in Acade-
mies-John +. Kelley, Union Home
School.
Discussion by ]. d. Hodges, Hodges
School.
1890 Report of the Committee on
Courses of Study. Committee: Hugh
Morson. Martin RI. Holt, Holland
Thompson, j. NJ. Horner, X. l.. Madi-
son.
Thursday afternoon. December 29th.--
3:00--C ollections-Holland Thompson,
Concord High School.
Discussion by Il. l.. Middleton, Cary
High School; S. l.. Sheep, Atlantic Col
legiate Institute; and others.
;.:45- General Suggestions as to vari-
Gus matters incident to Teaching.
Football as School Came" Il. H..
Wright. Oak Ridge Institute; Opening
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

A remedy for nasal catarrh poisons
every breath that is drawn into the
lungs. There is procurable from any
druggist the remedy for the cure Of this
trouble A small quantity of Ely's
Cream Balm placed into the nostrils
spreads over an infiamed an angry sur
face. relieving Immediately the painful
inflammation, cleanses, heals and cures.
A cold in the head yanishes Immediately.
Sold by druggists or will be mailed for
30 cents by Ely Brothers, IS Warren
Street, New York.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28
9Th DAY OF MARCH, 1899,

the valuable property known known as 'THE
HOTEL OZONE"
Terms of sale-Cash.
This eegant hotel s comparatively new, with
large, well ventilated rooms, well lighted, easy
stairs, large parlors and dining-room. and other
modern conveniences, favorably located within
one block of the Seaboard Air Line depot,
about the centre of the growing city of South
ern Piues, the noted winter health resort, and
affords lie opportunity for investment. This
hotel has been in successful operation for q
number of years, being crowded with guests in
the fall, whit r and spring, and enjoying good
patronage in summer, being the only hotel in
the city open throughout the enfire year This
hotel is especially attractive to Northern WISH
tors on account of its elegant winter porches
and heated halls.
This property is sold for partition among
claimants in common.
For furt particulars call on or address j..
C. Black, Carthage, N. c., ". G. Douglass,
Raleigh, N. c., or Sergeant & Hollis, attorneys
at law, Concord, New Hampshire.
j G. BLACK,
w. G. DOUGLASS,
dec1ssu Commissioners.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28


Raleigh Male Academy. Raleigh; Lewis
School. Kinston; Tarboro Academy. Tar.
boro; Winton Academy. Winton; Thomp.
son School. Graham; Chapel Hill School
Chapel Hill; Advance High School, Ad.
vance; Fairyiew Institute. Fairview; St
Pauis School, Wilmington; University
School, Rocky Mount: Hodges School
Augusta; Fayetteville Military Academy
Fayetteville; Penelope Academy, pene-
lope; Vine Hid Academy. Scotland Neck;
La Grange School. La Grange. Mt
Olive School. Mt. Olive: Rich Square
High School. Chocowinty; Cary School
Dunn; Hayesyille School. Hayesyille;
Robeson Institute, Lumberton; Cape
Fear Academy. Wilmington; Trinity
High School, Chocowinity; Cary School
Cary: Wake Forest Academy. Wake
Forest; Charlotte Military Institute
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Trains on the Scotland Neck Branch Road
leaves Weldon 55 m, Halifax 80 p m, ar
rives Scotland Neck 20 p m, Greenville 81 ID
m, Kinston 9 55 m, Returning leaves Kim
ston so m, Greenville 81 a m, arriving at
Halifax IL IS m, Weldon II SO m, daily exc
cept Sunday
Trains on the Washington Branch leaves
Washington 8 20 a m and 30 p m, arrives Par
mele 10 m and 90 p m, returning leaves
Parmele IS a m and 6 80 p m, arrive Washing
ton IL 90 and z 20 p m, daily except Sunday
Train leaves Tarboro, N G, daily, except Sun
day, so p m, Sunday Is p m, arrives Plymouth
daily except Sunday, so m, 90 a m Return
ing leaves Plymouth daily except Sunday, z so
m, and Sunday 900 m, arrives TarborO
10 Of IN, II 90 a M
Train on Midland, N @, Branch leaves Colds
boro, daily except Sunday, 10 m, arriving
Smithfield 80 M returning leaves Smithfeld
90 M, arrives at Goldsboro 10 25 am
Trains on Nashville Branch leave Rocky
Mount at 80 p m, arrives Nashville 5 05 p m,
Spring Hope 80 p m, returning leaves Spring
Hope 8 90 m, Nashville IS a m, arrives at
Rocky Mount 905 a m, daily except Sunday
Train on Clinton Branch leaves Warsaw for
Clinton daily except Sunday, at ii 20 m and
AS M returning leaves Clinton at 90 a IN
and 90 pm
Train No rs makes close connection at We'll
don for al points North daily, all rail via Rich.
H. M. IMMERSION, Gen Pass Agent
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Chamberlain Collie. Cholera and Diar
rhoCa Remedy can always be depended
upon and is pleasant and safe TO take
Sold by J. Hal Bobbitt. Henry II. Hicks
and North Side Drug Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28
To bOrT0W8 S
AID investors
THE MECHANICS AND INVEST
ORS' UNION.

Returns to its members all payments
made by them, together with a profit of
so per cent. free of tax. 1t sells full paid
6 per cent. annual dividend coupon stock,
secured by mortgages ON real estate,
with handsome profit at maturity. Taxes
all paid by the Union. This is the best
investment on the market.
The Union makes advances to members
with which to build, or to buy. homes,
on new plan, the most favorable ever
offered. Stock sold and loans made in
any portion of the State. The Union has
ample surplus to guarantee all promises.
Liberal terms to agents. Apply to
GEORGE ALLEN,
Secretary, Raleigh. n. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Wanted, all parties, when writing for designs
to give sex of deceased, and some idea of how
much the work must cost We ha re thousands
of designs. with prices running from $500 up in
the thousands, and can't tell unless you do this.
Direct all letters to Capital Marble Works, E. T.
Marks, Proprietor, corner of Fay etteville and
Davie streets, Raleigh N. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Late to bed ana early to rise, prepares
a man for his home in the skies. But
early to bed and Little Early Riser's,
the pill that makes life longer and bet
ter and wiser. j. Hal Bobbitt and Hen
ry II. Hicks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28
Notre Dame of MARYLAND.

Charles Street Ave.. Baltimore, Nd.
College for Young Women and Pre-
paratory School for Girls. Regular and
Elective Course. Extensive grounds Lo
cation unsurpassed. Suburbs Of Bait.
more. Spacious building, completely
equipped.
Conducted by School Sisters of Notre
Dame.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Wanted, the people to know that the Capita
Marble Works is the only works in the State
that is doing all kinds of carving in bold relief
with guarantee that it shall be as good as any
sent from New York or Italy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Indus Cody. an enthusiastic supporter
of the Christian Alliance, is to start
for Cuba in January to begin mission
work there.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Wanted, all parties to know that they can ex-
anime all work shipped to them by us, and II It
is not first-class in every way, they can send ii
back to us at our expense.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Wanted, all parties who are thinking OF pur-
chasing monuments of any kind to write to the
Capital Marble Works, Raleigh, N. c., before
buying elsewhere.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Wanted, the people to know that by dealing
direct with the Capital Marble Works they can
save money and get class of work second to
none.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

The transport Chester. having smash
cd her propeller blade. has put into
Charleston for repairs.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Two vessels sailed from Havana yes
terday with Spanish troops. and another
vessel sails today.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Wanted, all parties to know that the Capita
Marble Works is selling better and cheaper
work than other dealer in the South.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

WE WANT AGENTS who want money-we have
w new plan. It's "a honey" Good work,
big pay, permanent business, and something
that beats 'em all. Rite and G. Cat-a-log free.
Nonpareil Portrait and Pub Co., Camden, o.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

A good-sized dining room is to bt
found in an empty stomach.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28
Jones e. Powell,
Raleigh, N. c.
SALE OF
VaIubIe Hotel Property
In the town of Southern Pines, Moor
County, North Carolina.

BY virtue of decree of the Superior Court
of Moore county, North Carolina, made in
cause entitled Sadie A. Holt and Others against
r. NJ. Couch, the undersigned commissioners
will offer for sale to the highest bidder at public
outcrY at Southern Pines. N. G. on the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Wanted all parties to know that the Capital
Marble Works delivers all work at your nearest
depbt free of freight.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28
D, ]. ROSE & BRO,
AR CHITECTS
RALEIGH, NJ. c.
....cOMPILERS Off,.
SOUTHLANO H 0 M E S

The demand for it comes from al!
carts Of the country. North and South.
Order one to-day. This book contains
20 modern designs with plans, and useful
information. Size of book 7x11 in., 70
pages. 1t is full of plan suggestions,
and will help you in planning your home.
An art production. Price postpaid, 81.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

Daily except Monday, tDaily except Sunday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

TRAINS GOING SOUTH
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-28

dec1ssu s
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-27
No Longer a Theory.

Direct legislation is no longer a the
Dry to be considered at some future
time, but has come up before the peo-
pie to be settled. Shall we have a
government by the people and for the
people, or a government by and for
the money changers? Delegated gov
eminent has proven a failure, and we
should assert our right to have a voice
in the management of the government.
Under the present system we elect a
man to a legislative office, and then he
will not do a thing that he is in
structed by his constituency to do. and
the bigger rascal he is the more chance
he stands for reelection. Under the in
itiative and referendum the people
could have just such laws as they
wanted. There would be no power
above the people. You will not have
to give up your other ideas for this
one. If you are a free silver Demo-
crat you can continue so to be. If YOU
are a gold standard advocate and be-
lieve that a majority of the people
want monometallism, you cannot OBJ
ject to this principle.-Legal Tender.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-27
Failures Increase.

Though no mention is made in the
leading dailies about the alarming in
creas in failures since the Inaugural.
ton of Mckinley, the fact still exists
that we are in the midst of a cyclone
of financial and business destruction.
Bradstreet and Dun both are keeping
tab on the conditions, and their re-
ports show that during the past week
there were f~orty-six more failures
than were reported for the same week
last year. Not a paper comes from
the press but shows a general crash
in business houses all over the coun-
try. Their frequency has, to a large
extent, allayed alarm, and vampire
like, lulled the people into quiet, while
the work of destruction is augmented
with each succeeding day.-Dalsas
Mercury.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-27
PROSPERITY
A Labor Paper Strongly objects te
Their tho

Our attention has beer called to
some ngures printed in the Pioneer
fress and alleged to have emanated
from omclals of the state federation
OF labor, which form the basis for an
argument on the improved conditions
prevailing among the organized trades
III tnls state. 1t is claimed that the
repor show that the members OF
those trades are more generally en-
ployed now than at any time for sew
eral years. Further along it is as
serted that So per cent of the union
men in Minnesota are at work.
whether or not the officials of the
state federation have made the re-
ports as alleged, Labor World does not
know. But no union man or any other
man with his eyes open is deceived by
such allegations. That the public
may know just how much truth there
IS In the report it is only necessary
to state that not one union in ten ever
makes such a thing as an official re-
port on the matter in question.
Unions have to report their member
snip to their national officers because
lhelr dues are determined by the
numbers of MEMBERS; but as a rule
they never &C farther. 1t is customary
lor central bodies to have a statistician
whose duties it is to gather statistics
regarding wages, men out of employ
ment, etc., but SO far as experience
goes the mission of the Office is an en-
tire failure because the affiliated or
CARNATIONS will not report. Hence,
the officials of the state federation have
no data on which to figure, and the as
sumption that they have, to every in
telllgent union man, is a dead give
away on the prosperity boomers"
ms boom business does the cause
a positive injury. 1t misleads the pub
nc as to actual economic conditions,
and justifies the perpetuation of infu-
ences that are sapping the strength of
the social foundation. The first es-
sentlal to a scientific understanding of
the social problem is a correct knowl-
edge of actual facts and the cause can
nave no greater enemy anywhere than
those who, from over enthusiasm o1
other motives, deliberately m%isrepre-
sent conditions.-Duluth Labor World.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-27
Discouraging improvements.

Assessors generally have got into
the habit of assessing improvements
at not less than 80 per cent of their
actual cost, and land unused or par
TALLY used land at 80 to 40 per cent OF
what the proprietor holds it up for
sale at, thus encouraging the specu-
lator in keeping from using the boun-
ties of the Creator. Assessors gener.
ally are imbued with conscientious mo-
tives, still that does not alter the fact
that taxing or ining n for having
made an improvement is enough tc
keep people idle when they might as
well be working.-Schenectady IN. W
Journal. <
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-27

great increase in the number of offices.
and an extension of electric commune
catian to places which previously did
not enjoy its benefits, because private
management could not afford to pay
Office rent and maintain an operator
at such places; but the government.
having no additional Office rent to
pay, and appointing a postmaster or
postmistress who was a telegraph OPP
orator, could do so with but little ad-
ditional expense. An additional bene-
fit was found in the fact that the
p%ostoftice usually afforded a most con-
veniently located telegraph office as
the %postofice is the center of local ac-
~tivities in small places. Supplement-
ing these advantages is the important
fact that if it becomes necessary to
borrow money for the extension of
lines, the government ear do SO on a
basis OF 3 per cent, while private cor
pOrations would have to pay 5 per
cent for the same accommodation.
While the conditions are somewhat
different in this country. owing to
greater distances. which would prob
ably necessitate a classification of ter
ritory, with varying rates, according
to zones or distances. it is safe to say
that the results would be, approx
matelv, the same, viz:
First-Enormous reduction in rates
to the public for electric ~communica-
use of the telegraph.
Second-Simplifying and extending
the service.
~Third-Better compensation to en-
ployes and a general benefit to the
nm ~ n -. md s~n;,1 ;,{,,,@r ~f %ln
nation.
An interesting side light of the use
fitness of the telegraph under govern
ment management is shown in the
development in the transmission of
telegraphic money orders by the Eng
fish government. On September 2,
1889, the issue of Geographic money
orders between London aud seventeen
large towns was commenced as an ex-
pertinent. Between that date and
February %, 1890, 2,Oss orders were
issued, of the value of sS.674. On
March /, 1890. the system was extend-
ed to all head and branch offices in the
United Kingdom: and on March l..
1892. it was extended to all money or
der offices which were also telegraphic
offices.
The limit is elO, and the rates are:
Not exceeding .Os Al
Not exceeding .0s Cd
Not exceeding 44.........,.......Os Sd
Not exceeding .0s 1Od
Not exceeding SO. Cd
In addition to a charge of at least Cd
for the official telegram, which is sent
in duplicate. authorizing the payment.
On March 1, 1892, arrangements came
into force by which, when several or
ders are ser at the same time and the
total amount does not exceed ESQ. only
one official telegram authorizing pay
ment is sent and charged for.
The number of telegraphic orders is
sued has been, approximately, as fol-
lows:
lseO-91.. az, 900 1s93-94. .107 900
l%Sa1-92... $1,000 lS94-95. -. 49,, 900
1929 -. 80. 900 1896 .153 900
The average amount of a telegraphic
money order during the past year has
been E3 rs I'd.
Notwithstanding the enormous sums
saved to the public in reduced rates
for Geographic service and the great
Increase in the value of the lines paid
for out of current receipts. the tele-
graphic department of the British pos
tai service has shown a clear profit in
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-27
POSTAL TELEGRAPH
BENEFITS THIS COUNTRY
COULD OBTAIN
II tho Government Would Either Con-
struct an Independent System or Aquire
the Lines Already Exlsting.-Great
Britain's System.

All the principal countries of the
world, with the exception of the
United States. own and operate the
telegraph as al adjunct to their postal
service, and the principal commercial
organizations of this country have
repeatedly urged that it should be
made a part of our postal organization
in the United States: but thus far pri-
vate vested interests. approaching the,
value OF the ''unearned increment
constantly accruing in a fast develop
ing country like ours, have been sufi-
GENTLY influential to postpone this
much-to-be-desired consummation. AS
a result, a large part of the sparsely
settled portion of our country has been
denied the benefits of electric commu-
nication, and the development of the
nation has been correspondingly re-
tarded. Under private ownership of
the telegraph electric communication
is necessarily limited to those places
where the business is su efficiently large
to pay the salary of an operator, rental
and other expenses. If the same prin-
ciple governed the postal system of the
United States, it would discontinue
two-thirds Of the mail routes operated
in the United States today, for only
one-third of the postal routes paw a
profit.
An interesting illustration of the
operation Of the telegraphs in connec-
ton with the postal system is found in
the results attending the taking over
Of the telegraphs by the government
in the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and Ireland. Up to 1870 the tele-
graphs We're owned and operated bv
private corporations in that country.
on the same principle which 10Y gov
erns the operation of the t~elegraphs in
the United States. In that year the
English government bought out the
private companies and established a
uniform a t Of Is or, say, rs cents a
message of twenty words, including
address and signature. throughout the
United Kingdom. The result is shown
IN n following table of the number
of messages transmitted:
No. of No. of
Year Messages Year Messages.
~lS7O-71.. 1885, III 1s7s-79. .24,459, 775
ls7l-72..12,473.79 la79-s0. &c, 547, 137
1878. 1885, lsS0-sl. 30, All ,9s2
800 f.:1t.osl lSol-S2. 81 ,345 ,S6l
lS74-75 l9,253,120 1928. 81, O92 .02G
1875-76. 20, 900, 535 1ss3-s4. .3s.s43.12o
1851. .2l, reg, 143 lSs4-s5. 33.e7s. ass
1S77-7s. .22,17l, 1867
In 1885 the rate was reduced from
Is (25 centsl to 6dQ1e11aa cents, with the
following result:
No. of No. of
Year Messages Year Messages
1856. 80, LAG. 2s3 1912. so, 6s5, 4sQ
1se6-S7. so, 243,630 1s92-93. go, 9O7, S4s
1898 81, 403. 1926 189S-94. 20. S99'49s
1SS8-S9. 81, 765, 347 1s94-95. II $50, O64
lss9-90. .62,,4O3. 399 1s95-96. rs, S39, 6lO
189O-9l sc, 400. 2ll
Accompanying the taking over OF
the telegraphs by the postal depart
nent of the United Kingdom came a
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-05-27
Printed for Rich Loafers.

The metropolitan dailies have be-
come so voluminous. SO stuffed and
inflated with wind and worthlessness.
that none but professional loafers have
time to wade through them.-Bodie
Miner-Index.