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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
HELLER BROS Raleigh, NC.

struction Of the law from the court now
in session, as there were several cases
on its docket for violation of the law.
Touching this same question of passes,
Commissioner Abbott introduced the
following resolution, which he said he
had prepared after much thought and
consideration. The resolution was not
fXrther discussed, but on motion of Com
missioner Pearson, was indefinitely
postponed by the vote of Commissioners
Caldwell and Pearson:
Whereas, The fourth section of the
act creating the Commission is not clear
in the matter of discrimination, or at
least in the past has not been so con-
strued as to prohibit the issuing of what
are known as free passes, evidence Of
this construction being that it is charged
that State officials, including the Gov
ernor, legislators and railway commits
siOners, have recognized this fact, and
Whereas. This board at it's session
December %, 1897, having concluded
that this section is being violated by the
issuance of free passes to certain indi-
vilu3ls, passed an order to the effect
that in thq future the Commission would
take whatever measures may be lawful
to enforce the provisions of said act and
enforce the penalty therein prescribed
for it's violation;
Resolved, That this board win take
no action as to any offence under this
section committer prior to the said
resolution, but that all violations Of this
section since the passage of the resolu-
ton will be dealt with according to the
construction of the law by the present
Board of Railway Commissioners"
1t is said that Judge Timberlake Is
trying to keep from trying the pass cases
at this term of court. Rumor says he
doesn't want to pass upon them, espe-
eially until he has had further time to
examine into the law.
But it now looks as If he will be
forced to try them. Commissioners
Caldwell and Pearson were before the
grand jury yesterday afternoon.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
THE RoGERs-GRILLEY COMPANY

Last nights entertainment by the
Rogers-Grilley Company was no disap-
pointment to those who were present
This was tie third number of the star
Course and was the most pleasant NUM-
te1 of the seres yet presented.
Mr.. Rogers as a hdrpist has few
equals. HIS serenade and poular melo-
dies were particularly enjoyable anA hi.
every nur'her was CnCc cd.
Mr.. Grilley is an inimitable mimic
and anecdote teller. His selections,
THE Rivals" and the scene from rip
Van Wrinkle" were excellently rendered
and he grew more popular with the au-
dience as the performance heightened.
1t was a delightful entertainment and
lovers of music were given quite as rare
treat as were. those who delight in
laughable situations.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

guarantee of sufficient business to justi-
fy the building of the siding.
a complaint was made by Mr.. w. j.
Wellington, of Charlotte, for damage
to a trunk sent as baggage from kinston
to his home. He asked for SO damage
on phonograph outfit that was dam
aged in his trunk by rough handling.
The Commission didn't think the evl-
dences such as to warrant them IN grant
ing the relief asked
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
CONSTRUCTION or PASS LAW.
The Railroad Commissioners Slow to
Pass Upon It.


Pass Upon 1t.
There seems to Ky no little uncer-
taiaty rs to jast what the anti-pass law
means. and efforts are being made to
nave the Commission construe it.
L Ae Southern Railway especially is
insisting upon it. It's attorney, Mr.. r.
II. Busbee, yesterday went before the
Commission and asked that it construe
the law for the benefit OF the road he
represented. He said the Southern
wanted to obey the law, and if it viola
ted it, it would be because it didn't know
what the law was.
Oth9 Wilson also, iii closing his evil
dence before the Commission asked if
q pass in exchange for advertising was
contrary TO law, for If it was he would
like to know it since he did not wish to
violate the law.
Chairman Caldwell said that the Com
mission now had this master under
consideration, but had not given an opin-
ion. He was, he said expecting con1
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
NO CURE NO PAY.

That Is the way all druggists sell
GROVES TASTELESS CHILL TON
10 for Chills and Fevers and all forms
of Malaria. 1t is simply Iron and Quin-
inc in a tasteless form. Children love it.
Adults prefer it to bitter, nauseating
tonics. Price, SOC.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Mr.. Seymour Hancock, of Newbern,
is in the city. He is candidate for as
sistant district attorney and business
connected with his candidacy is what
brings him here. He is accompanied by
his father, Mr. Robert Hancock, presi-
dent of the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad.
The assistant district atterneyship
seems to lay between Mr.. Hancock and
Mr.. Oscar J. Speans, of Harnett. The
opinion has prevailed for sometime that
Spears could get the place for the asking.
Ia remains to be seen what effect Mr..
Hancock'e candidacy will have.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
UNIVERSITY BOYS TONIGHT.

The members of the University ORA
matte Club will arrive on the noon train
to-day, and will be entertained by their
friends in the city. After their per-
Torrance they will attend the Bal
Poudre. They will be greeted at eight
o'clock this evening with a crowded
house at Metropolitan Opera House, and
altogether it is hoped the young gentle
men from Chapel Hill viii enjoy their
visit to the Capital city.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

Miss Alice Hughes, Norfolk, Va, was
frightfully burned on the face and neck.
Pain was instantly relieved by De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve, which heal
ed the injury without leaving a scar.
1t is the famous Pile remedy. Carolina
Drag Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

Nature makes the cures
after all.
Now and then she gets
into a tight place and needs
helping out.
Things get started in the
wrong direction.
Something is needed 70
check disease and start the
system in the right direction
toward health.
SCOTS Emulsion of Cod
liver Oil with hypophos-
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1t strengthens the nerves,
feeds famiShed tissues, and
makes rich blood.
soc. and $500; all druggists
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists. New York.
TO CURE A GOLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo QuiRine Tab
let's. All Druggists refund the money il
Foil 20 Etrpun
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
MAY BE ACQUITTED.

At 3:30 last night the jury were still
In the court room, unable to agree. 1t
was believed they stood s for acquittal
and 4 for conviction of murder in the
second degree. The verdict will proba-
bly, be a compromise one.
This morning James Brooks, the muir
derer Of Mahaley White will be put on
trial for his life.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

1t is truth which l thought needed
TO be told.
On July 4th, 1861, in his message to
congress. in special session, he closes
with these words:
And having thus chosen our course
witho guile let us renew our trust ia
God and go forward without fear and
with manly hearts.
Passing through Philadelphia on his
way to his inaugural February 22nd,
1e6l, he closed his address as fol-
lows:
1t have said nothing but what 1 am
willing to live by, and if it be
the pleasure of almighty God. to de
by.
He had implicit faith in special
div ne providence. At the nOtify alton
Of his nomination 10 the presto ency the
inst time in his letter of acceptance
d4led Springfield, May 23d, 1860,
among other things he said:
1IoplOIlng The assistance OF divine
providence L am most happy to
cooperate for the practical SUCCESS of
the principles declared by the cow. n
zion.
On leaving Springfield for his in
augural. February1lth, 1861, he said:
On the almighty being L place my
reliance for support. Aud L nope you
M friends will all pray that i may
rec eve that divine assistance W. thout
which L cannot succeed, but iJh which
success is Certain.
Reliance in the providence of God
was the main thought which found
utterance in the speeches he made
in the cites he visited on bis route to
the inaugural. AT Colum bus, Ohio, he
said:
| cannot but turn and look for tie
Import, without which it will be i'm
p Jssible for me to perform the great
tasE. l turn there and look 10 the
great American pt ople and to that GCd
who has never forseken them.
AT Steubenviile be said:
Encompassed by vast diffiaulties as !
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19
LINCuLN'S RELIGION.
Evidence From his Lips and Pen of his
Faith in God and Il IigiOn.

REV. f FERDINAND c. ITLEHART, d. ID.
Lincoln, early IN life, Was see p.icul,
was even al elstical, out the full ripe
Llocoln, tue gre at ruler OF gre at Il a.
tlon Was Chris tlau believer. He nad
al unfalter.ng faith in tne bib.e. AT
the annual meeting of the Springfield,
LII, Bible society, lie s. ID:
1t seems to me that LoIhing short of
1nhL lite Wisdom could have devised and
given to man this excellent and perfect
moral code. IL 10 suit-d to men in ali
the conditions of life AID inc lude; all
the ouGles they owe to their creator,
to them elves AID their fel ow-men.
He so often quoted from the bible
his great speech in Chicago, July 8,
1895, just after his nom nation for III e
United States senasorship at Spring
field, vas built on this text With he
useG, IA house divided against itself
Cannot stand" In his second lnaugur-
al. which is ole of the most permanent
literary records of the nation, he de-
votes nearly one-third of the space to a
tt rrlble arrangement of the national
sin, beginning with 1--WE unto the
world because of offences, for IL must
needs be that offences come; but wee
TO that man by whom the offence
came" etc, and closing with the
judgments of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19

siOn." Lincoln said mo. it is indebt
ed to God for it," He continueu: "a
spent the greater lart of night ir
prayer for some plan for relieving tn.
suffering Of our soldiers, and God put
the sanitary commission in my head
Thank him, not me-"
Lincoln beliey ed in Christ and il
Christi nifty. In his letter to Judge
Gili. spie. he refers to Jesus Christ as
Toe Son of God" In another letter
he speaks of him as Saviour" To
d. ess, he says:
''InCellige nee, patriotism, Christian
ity, and firm reliance on him whu
has never yet fursaken this favored
land are Sill competent to &C just IL
the best way all our present difficulty.
In his great spt ech In Chicago, after
his nomin alton to the United Stats
senators nip, he said: II know that
llbreJy is ri hit, for Cnriss teaches it,
army and navy, issued Nov. 1862
closes with these words: 1.-The presi
dent hopes aud trusts that every Off
ctr and man Will eEdeavOr to live ant
act as becomes a Christian so der, de-
Tending the dearest rights and liber :
Ties of his country" The same order
demanding an observance of the Chris
tian Sat bath says:
The Importance OF man and beast of
the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred
hts of CHRISTIAN soldiers and sailors
u becoming Difference of the best Sc n
timent OF a Or ris tian people, and due
regard for the Divine will, demand
that Sunday labor in the army and
navy be reduced to the measure OF
strict necessity.
Lin coin S belief in Immortality was
strong. 1t is beautifully expressed in
letter TO his step-brCther, John
Johnston. at the time of the fatal illness
of his father. Among other things he
writes: Say to father, that if it be
his lot to go now he will soon have a
joyful meeting with loved ones gone
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19

Private Darby of the Confederat tie
army, company K, Tenth Alabs ma
Volunteers, who was seriously wound
ed in the battle of Sharpsburg, tells a
be autiful story in point here: LAS l
lay suffering and weak from loss of
blood, a gentleman in citizens clothes
bent over and in gentle voice said.
My lad, you are very young. How old
are you?' Il am sixteen and am dying.
Will you be kind enough to send this
b BILE 10 my motber?' He said: We
will not let you die and you shall take
the bi BILE home yourself AS the man
walked away l called him back and
said, What is your pame?' He said,
1T is Abraham Lincoln.' 1 was nurseu
tenderly and after months of sufferin g |
recovered apd was notified | was to be
exch ange. As was about to leave,
the fficer handed me small package.
On the train L opened it. 1t was my
mothers bible with a card with this
written on it: Take this book of Goo
to your mother. A. Lincoln The card
was st the twelfth CHI pter, of Erclesi-
aste and three verses W r. heavily
| marked in pencil with the letter l..
I These are the verses: the first, Ike
member now thy Creator in the days
of thy youth, while the evil days come
not nor the yea: draw nigh when thou
shalt say l hsve no pleasure in them.
The thirteen verse, Let US ar the
conclusion of the whole matter. Fear
God and keep his commandments, for
this is the whole duty of man. and the
fourteenth verse, For God shall bring
every work into jud gment with every
secret thing, whether it be good or
whether it be evil By the time !
reached home my mothers bible and
Lincoln's bible had save d my soul and
| felt [ WAS converted
! In the month of February, 1860, on a
Sundsr morning, there appeared g
stranger at the meeting at the Five
Points House of Industry He was
asked to speak 10 the Children which
he did al u the bible and Q rist aid
duty in 20 attractive manner, hat the
children cried ego on'' WREN he at.
/ tempted to stop. The teacher asked
his name ard he said Abraham Lin
coin. He had come to New York to
deliver the Cooper Union address that
gave him national fame as an orator
And he spent his Sunday morning in
! looking up a poor Sunday school.
| Lincoln believed 10 a personal God
Ten days after his famous second in
augural address he wrote:
! Dear Mr.. Weed.-Men are not fiat
tered by being shown that there has
been a differe nee of purpose between
the Almighty and them. To deny it,
however, in this case, is to deny that
there is God governing the world.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19

am, nothing shall be wanting on my
part, if sustained by the American peO-
pie and God.
At Buffalo, N. Y, he closed his ad-
dress as f lows:
lam sure l bring a heart true to the
work. For the ability to perform it l
must trust in that sup enc being, who
has never forsaSen this favored land
without to at assistance [ shall surely
fail; 18th it L cannot fail.
At the Assembly hall, at Albany, N =.
Y, he said.
| still have.confidence that the al
mighty, the maker of the universe. will
through the fundamentally of this
great and Intelligent people, bring us
through this as be has through oil the
other difficulties of cur country. Rely
ing on this, thank you for this gen.
erous eception.
When the electoral votes had been
counted and the committee had Motif d
him of his election the first time, he
made the following reply:
With deep gratitude to my country
men for this mark of their confidence
with a distrust of my own ability to
perform The dutv required, yet with a
firm reliance on the strength OF our
| loyalty of the people to the just prin-
ciples upon which it is founded, and
| above all, with the unshakeu faith in
the Supreme Ruler of nations, ;cept
the cedicatiOn.
, The dedication ;On at Gettysburg
closes with the words:
That this nation under God shall
| have new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the leo
pie and for the people shall not perish
from the earth.
| Pr es dent Lincoln was man OF
prayer. Iu a letter to Judge Gillespie.
| be said.
L have read on my kne the story OF
@ 9thsemape. [ am in the garden OF
Gethe emane now, and my cup OF bit
terness is full aud overlooking.
HIS EN- ancipatiOn Proclamation
closes with prayer
| l invoke the considerable judgment OF
mankind, and the generous favor OF
God.
The Sunday morning after the battle
of Gettysburg Lincoln visited General
Sickles who had lost his leg in the bat
tie. He told General Sickles he had
prayed for victory at Gettysburg, and
that God had given the answer before
the battle. An officer of a Christian
church, of which l was a pastor, said
to me: 81 was at Washington attend
ing meeting of the sanitary commits.
sion, of which l was q mem Der, and
said: "Mr. Lincoln the country Is in
debted to you for the sanitary commits
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19
hrlstian Endeavor Convention

Chicago will BE- the meeting place
for the int irrational convention of the
Christian Ende avor unions in Jul ,
1899, if the efforts of the Chicago
uuiOn prove successful. Realizing the
value of an early campaign, the men,
bers of the Chicago branch have al
ready entered tie field. y pre-
urinary committee, headed by A. E.
McDonald, pre- sident of the Oh C, GO
union, has already been appointed to
secure guarantee fund OF $50, COO, the
amount necessary fer the entertain
ment of the visitors. Tiis commi tee
Is know as :Chicagu '99.'' aud will
begin soliciting subs, rip Ions at once
1t Is estimated that over seventy-five
thousand people will attend the con-
VentiOn.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19
A Good Showing.


The church at home and abroad
quotes from the foliowiI e report to the
be ard of home missions by Rev. Henry
w. Moore concerning The resby te-
ran church at this place
This Is my last reIor'. We think
during 1898 we can get along without
applying TO the home mission board
We thank you for ailyou have done for
Us.
Since October 10, we have received
thirty five mt mbers into the church;
OF these, t@enty-One came on profes-
sion and fourteen by certificate. Since
then L have bapt Esd eleven infants
and six adults. Our church is still
crowded every Sabbath, d. M, and p.
m. The future is bright. Since then
Cur laGies have fur nlshed free of
charge new parsonage. l pay the
rent OF the house, $500 year. TIE
parsonage is rented, not owned by the
church. The feeling of the people 10
excellent. L cannot writ YOU any dis
couraging features. We need par
sonage to be owned by the church and
then our church is decidedly to small
for the cor gregations. 1t seats 25U.
we have already sent you collection
for home missions al shal sci d more.
we have contributed 10 every boar
this year, except the board for Fresd
men ana SJ nodical Aid, which We shall
attend to.
Ell PasO IS just now "on a BON" and
the future OF the city St ems bright
We are getting low a better class OF
people here and we Presbyterians are
getting our share. In few years you
Will lind In Ell PasO one of the strong
est Presbyterian churches in our
whole s. noo, and 1 think IL at our next
Minutes" will sLo w our church here
making The best rel ort of any Presby
terlan church (nCrth) in Texas.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19
Liquor at the Capital.

According to returns made to con-
gress by the dist, let commissioners
there are 54I retail aud l47 wholesale
liquor establ. shmenls at the national
capital.
This is reductit n of nearly half in
the number of saloons within couple
of years, due in a great measure to the
high license eXacted from the pro-
prietors, only Al of whom were convict
ed in the last year of violating the
excise laws. For these otferses fines
were imposed amounting to $40, $50,
but only $500 was collected. In other
cases tee sentences were served out af-
ter conviction.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19

before. and where the rest of US,
through the mercy of God, hope ere
long to join them.''
1 have not INDUCED in any specula-
ton, but have held L'coln himself con-
stantly in evidence as to bis faith.
With the posit- We verbatim and often
the official records of his faith in the
Bible. in God, in prayer, in Christ and
Christianity, and in immortality, we
do not see how any unprecedented per-
son can doubt that President Lincoln
was true Christian beliver.-Chris-
tian Herald.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19
No Royal Road.

There is no royal road to Godl
The humblest clod
Who kneelS him down and dareS
Send one or maybe many prayers
Up to the heart that waits
At mercy's open gates
Treads it, aye, as the elect have trodl
There is no royal road to Godl
The Christening rod
OF conscience has sting
Alike for beggar and for king,
And if each soul obey
What, then, can lead them far astray,
Though one be bare of foot and one
most richly shod?
There is no royal road to Godl
The common sod
Are we, though on n throne
Or born low down to grieve and moan.
All our inheritance is this
A thoroughfare to eternal bliss
That, if our eyes but see, is smooth and
broad.
Edward Wilbur Mason.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19
FRANCES WILLARD AS PIRATE.
Early Traits of the Late Temperance
IpaSpr

Early Traits of the Late Temperance
Leaier
The late Frances Willard was never
intended by nature to walk in the old
beaten track, say her friends.
When she was mere girl at school
at Evanston she joined herself to the
widest and brightest girls in the
school, and one night after the reading
of Jack Sheppard" she and another
kindred spirit dressed themselves as
pirates, with bowie knives and pistols,
and, armed further with two cigars and
q bottle of ginger pop, attempted to
emulate the real pirate by looking as
fierce as they possibly could. The two
WORTHLESS were discovered by teacher,
who told them to go to her room and
smoke out the mosquitoes that were
''tantalizing" her there, aud the future
temperance leader and her friend went
through ali the horrors of "a first
smoke.''
10 later life, when Miss Willard was
elect, president of the Chicago
Union, she refused salary, saying
that she intended TO live by faith alone,
but when she went home to be nursed
after she had known hardship and
suffering, her mother taught her a
lesson That she never forgot, in the
following way:
Nov, l want you to listen to your
mother" she went on. Il believe in
faith as much as you do, but you have,
with pure intention, yet iguorantly,
flown in the face of Providence. Those
good women spoke to you about a
maintenance the very day they chose
you presid Mt. That was your Heaven
ly Fathers kind provision, AMI you
turned away from IL and dictated to
Him the method of His care. The
laborer is worthy of his hire; they
thai preach the Gospel shall live by
the Gospel; this is Tt law and the
prophets from ST. Paul down to you.
God isn't going to start loaves of bre ad
flying down the chimney, nor set the
fire going in my stove without fuel. l
shall soon see the bottom of my flour
barn ell and my coalbin. You are out a.
elbows, down at the heel, and sick,
too. Now, write 20 those temperance
women, give them plain statement
of the facts, aud tell them thai you
have made the discovery that God
works by means, and they may help
you if they like"
Including the missions of all depom-
nations in China, the re are 2S9 or
dalned missionaries, $40 women evan
gelists and eighty one TEACHERS, be ides
ENof r.. IL. ~ z~r.l-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-19

There are reported to be 1,IS7 reli-
gious newspapers and periodicals,
with an average circulation of 1856
copies, now published in the UIite d
States.