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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-03-03
A TRULY AMERICAN PEOPLE.

The people of the South are es-
sentially American. They trace their
genealogy through three, four or five
generations of American born parents.
and for that reason are under pecul-
lar obligations to keep alive and to
give strength and vigor to the spirit
we inherited from our revolutionary
fathers, and upon the dominating in
fluence of which depends the contin-
ued existence of our system of con-
stitutional government.
IF the original theory of our gov
ernment is to be preserved the ten
dency to paternalism must be re-
strained, and there is no portion of
our people better qualified by nature
and education to stem the current of
socialism than that in the South.
"Questions OF currency and coin
age, of revenue and taxation, of free
trade and protection come and go
with changing conditions, but the
true relations between the general
government and the State and the
extent of federal power, If any such
there be, to control or direct the bus
mess affairs of the people, are funda-
mental questions which ought not to
be obscured by, or subordinated to,
any necessity, however pressing. or
to the remedy of any wrong, however
grievous it may appear.
TINES DEMAND A CHANGE.
administrative reforms involving
the complete restoration OF that re-
spect for law and that unquestioning
obedience to constitutional limitations
which characterized the American
people in their earlier years OF the
republic constitute the most i'm
perative necessity OF the times.
Thirty years Of self Impression,
during which the people of the
South gathered wisdom which they
could have acquired under no other
circumstances, their traditions, their
education. their American instincts,
all point to the fact that they alone
can take up these great reforms with
reasonable hope of arousing public
sentiment. North and South, East and
West, which in the end may prove
strong enough to overwhelm the sell
tishness and sectiOnalism which have
well nigh converted our government
into an instrumentality for promot.
ing the material interests OF favored
sections and enriching preferred
classes at the expense Of those, who,
expecting nothing from government
ask only that they and their wiver
and children may be permitted to
enjoy, in peace and security, the re-
wards Of their industry, fortitud'
and thrift"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-03-03

worse until l was un.
able to take my food
or handle myself in
any way; l was ahso-
lu,cly helpless. Three
bottles of SIS. re-
lieved ME so that /
Dwas soon able to move
my right arm; before
long l could walk
across the room, and
she'd one dozen bottles
'tely and AMI As we'll a.
IN I-pr
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-03-03

4 FRiSASA wlll cure Rheumatism ano
- Scrofula to Stay Cured.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22

Office: News and Observer Building
Fayetteville Street.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22

source, namely one of the great discover
les of the age.
Bishop Wilson says: Il have taken
Warmers Safe Cure with great advan-
tage and derived much benefit from its
use, and unhesitatingly recommended
it to my friends"
In speaking upon this subject, DIR.
Rankin says: Il have known of many
who have been permanently cured of
diseases of the kidneys and urinary
organs by the use of Warmers Safe
Cure. | know, too, of it's being used in
similar cases by physicians of the high
est standing. This remedy l want in the
cause of humanity to recommend"
Men like Bishop Wilson and DR.. Ran
kin do not speak hastily or of things Of
which they are not fully aware. They
love men and women and desire to see
them made, physically as we'll as NOR
ally, better. Thousands of dollars could
not for moment tempt them to make
statements like the above unless they
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22

"a man is known by the company he
keeps"
Above are the pictures of two we'll
known and noble gentlemen. One is the
TT. Rev. Bishop Edward Wilson, D..
D.. LII. D., President of the Howard
University, Washington, d. c., and the
other is Rev J. E.. Rankin, d. d., LII.
d., President of Harvard Univer-
sity. of Washington. d. G. These
gentlemen have secured the high position
they hold and the confidence which
everyone has in them through the fidel-
ity they have shown to humanity and
the cause they represent. They are men
who have the confidence of all who know
them; men who love humanity and seek
by every means in their power to do
everything to benefit it.
1t is notable. though not strange, that
both these gentlemen have found great
help and assistance from the same
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22
MAKING A RECORD.
An Enterprise That Home People Arc
PatroniZing.
Greensboro Evening Telegram.)

Greensboro Evening Telegram.)
The sales of the Simpson Shields Shoe
Company yesterday amounted to $2,673
This, while a good day, was not greatly
disproport.0nate to other days in its
sales. This firm has only been in bust
Eess something like a year. When they
began there was many Jobs comforterS
to say You can make u living here. -
The sequel shows quite the contrary.
The business of the firm has shown a
steady growth from the very beginning.
They keep five travelling men on the
road all the time, but n large part OF
their business is made up of mail orders,
and so careful are they in filling orders
that when customers are secured they
are always retained.
This is the only firm in the State that
WHOLESALERS shoes exclusively and it il
gratifying to know that they are receiv-
ing so large a share of the patronage of
the State. This is as it should be. Tar
Heel merchants are beginning to learn
that when goods can be had at home for
the same money as in New York or Bal
timore, and save freight, it pays to buy
at home.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22
SALE OF LAND.

The sheriff at the same time and place
will sell other printing material.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22

knew positively that they were true.
There are men innumerable who have
been worn out by the cares and strains
OF life, who are less energetic and active
than formerly; who feel Il lack Of ambi-
ton when they should be energetic, and
who do not know the cause. There is
but one cause for all these troubles, and
that is, kidney or liver disease.
There are many women who are unac-
countably pale, sallow, sickly, who lack
appetite and are virtually a burden to
their friends and yet who do not realize
the occasion of such troubles. 1t all
arises from female difficulties caused by
imperfect kidneys. TO all such the out
spoken words above quoted should come
as a blessing.
When such well-known and noble men
as the above speak in such frank and
manly terms as they do of remedy,
they thoroughly know there cannot be
the slightest question us to its great
merits and its power to benefit mankind.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22

came into the hands of the gang that IS
now misgovernng it and bringing DIS
grace upon its fair name.
The good people of North Carolina,
seeing their State and Federal offices
filed in the main by horde of incom-
petent. base and corrupt men. and the
value of their products reduced to less
than the price of putting them on the
market. have every incentive to rise up
in their might and resolve that these
conditions shall not longer prevail.
1t is not too much to say that at no
time in the history has the leaders of
any party been confronted with more
grave responsibilities than rest upon the
gentlemen who will meet in Raleigh to-
night
There is not good citizen in the
State who will not pray that they may
he guided by wisdom in their delibera-
tons.
There is not a loyal Democrat who
will not follow where they lead, having
faith in their patriotism and confidence
to their Judgment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22
SOMETHING TO KNOW.

1t may be worth something to know
that the very best medicine for restoring
the tired out nervous system to Il
healthy vigor is Electric Bitters This
medicine is purely vegetable, acts by Civ
ing tone to the nerve centres in the
stomach, gently stimulates the Liver
and Kidneys, and aids these organs in
throwing off impurities. Electric Bitters
improves the appetite. aids digestion, and
is pronounced by those who have tried
it as the very best blood purifier and
nerve tonic Try it. Sold for soc or 81
per bottle at any Drug Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22

Gentlemen Of the State Democratic
Executive Committee: The Capital city
extends TO YOU most cordial welcome.
1t will thrice welcome your State CON
yention whenever you may see proper to
call it, and it will boil with glad
ness, when under your direction, the
people of North Carolina have restored
TO the State capable, honest and clean
government.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22
a G. BAUER,
ARCHITECT and
SUPERINTENDENT
PRlNTING MACHINERY FOR SALE.
RALEIGH, N. O.

On Thursday, the 3rd day Of March,
1898, at the printing office of Mr.. e.
NJ. Uzzell on the third floor of the build
ing situated at the North East corner
of the intersection Of Wilmington and
Martin streets in the city of Raleigh, n.
c., we will sell at public auction, two
No. 3 complete Campbell Presses, one
Ruling Machine, one Cutting Machine,
two standing Presses, one Paging Ma
chine. one Gas Machine, one II Medium
Universal Press, one u medium Univer-
sal Press, one Super Royal Universal
Press, one lot Bindery Fixtures, one lot
of type stands, cases, office furniture
and fixtures and all the property and eff
fects conveyed to the undersigned, as
trustees, by E. NJ. Uzzell by deed dated
May 18th, 1887, and registered in Book
No. 50, page SIG of the Register
of Deeds office in Wake county. Sale
made pursuant to the terms, conditions
and powers contained in said deed of
trust.
Terms Of sale cash. Hour of sale
II m.
S. f. MORDECAI,
ERNEST HAYWOOD,
Trustees.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22

BY virtue OF a Judgment OF the Super
ior court of Wake county, October term,
1897, in the action of w. w. Vass, execu-
tor of w. w. Vass, deceased, will
offer for sale ON the 2Sth February, 1898,
at IL m, at he court house door Of Wake
county, at public auction, for cash, a
tract of land situate in the State Of
North Carolina, county Of Wake, adj
joining the land of ALI. Jones, the Nor
wood heirs, and others, and bounded
as follows: Beginning at a stake on the
Hillsboro road, corner of lot No. 1, as
appears in survey, in NOrwOOd's line;
thence with the same south degrees,
east 10 chains to a stake; thence south
~ degrees, west 19 chains to stake;
thence south II degrees, west 3O chains
to an ash or a small branch; thence
south q degrees, east 1870 CHAINS TO an
ash: thence south So degrees 1855
chains to a stake on Raleigh road, cor
ner lot No. /; thence with said road to
the HiElsboro road; thence with the
same to the beginning, containing one
hundred and fifty acres, more OF less,
tbe same being hand conveyed to ALI.
Jones by Mark +. and Mamie p. Jones
nv deed recorded in registers office Of
Wake county. in book 80, at pages 2S5
and 2S6. and conveyed by ALI. Jones
and wife to Mamie p. Jones by deed
dated 3rd September, 1882.
SPIER WHITAKER,
Commissioner.
Tan on 9ndn
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22
The News : Observer.

NEWS AND OBSERVER PUBLISH
ING COMPANY.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22
NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS.

The News ana Observers telephones
Business Office ................. 127
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The News and Observer has long
urged the Commission to make such re.
auctions in railroad passenger and
freight rates as could be done without
denying to the railroads concerned, fair
return upon the money invested. They
can do nothing less if they do their duty;
nothing more would be approved by Il
just population.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-22
wHERE AND HOW TO INVEST

WTHERE AND HOW TO INVEST
With Safety, Permanence and Profit is Vital
Question.
The Mechanics and Investors Union OF
Raleigh Offer Many Advantages
For SIS you can purchase share Of 0pe
cent coupon stock, on which you receive
per cent annual dividends and at maturity
800. Or for a payment Of e5 cents per
month you can own a.share of stock worth
at maturity in about eight years, 500.
You can, through this company, purchase
and own home, at a small advance over
the amount paid for rent, and in case Of
death your widow will be fully protected
against loss of home
GEORGE ALLEN, Sec,
% Pullen Building, Raleigh, N. @.
JOHN G. DREWRY, President.
b. 8. JERMAN, Treasurer.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-24
MODERN FRENCH TRAGEDY.
How q Pair of Paris Lovers Attempt,
ed to End Their Unhappy
ExistencS.

French tragedy in these degenerate
days is seldom without its flavor of
Ourlesque or opera bouffe. Take the
recent case of the Partisan Romeo and
Juliet. Georges Vavian and Marie
Machine are about the age of the i'm
mortal lovers of Verona, and a feud
divides their houses. They determined
10 carry out the likeness 20 the end.
The first time every requisite for the
tragic denoument was prepared.
Georges had provided pistols. and the
occasion was to be walk in a de-
serted garden al nightfall. When the
final crisis was at hand. however, the
pair found they had omitted to pro-
side themselves with sufficient forti-
Jude on this first occasion to carry out
their foolish project. Nothing 10th,
they determined upon making sec
ond attempt.
This time wellknown recipe for in
stilling artificial bravery was put into
use. Hoping to compensate with
Dutch courage his natural lack Of
valor, Vavian drank a quantity OF
brandy, and took up pistol to shoot
his betrothed. Again his nerve failed
him. Still undeterred, Vayian imbihed
more brandy. Having at last screwed
his courage up to the sticking place
by these artificial means, he leveled his
weapon at Marie Machine. this time
with serious results. He fired and
wounded her in the forehead. Sud-
denly, aghast at what he had done,
he threw the pistol away instead OF
pointing it at himself, and shouted
Justify for help. Fortunately, the
boys hand appears to have shaken
possibly under the influence of drink
when he took aim at Marie Machine,
and the life of the latter was spared.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-24
UNCLAIMED BANK BALANCES.
They Amount to Nearly Half q MIL
lion Dollars in Canadian
Institutions.

1t may seem strange, says the Toron-
to Monetary Times, that there is in the
banks of Canada a sum approaching
$400,0 ,000-in 1896 it reached 1927, 1O8 and
1897 it was S3ST 668-consisting of un
claimed balances. The sums are yari-
Gus, ranging from one cent or frac-
tion of dollar to thousands of dol
lars. One wonders how many of these
balances arise. We have been told
that many an old man or old woman
will make deposits and not wishing.
their relatives to know of their saw
ings, will say nothing about the fact.
Should such old persons die the only
way in which this deposit could prob
ably become known would be through
the list of such sums published annual
ly. Again, there are numbers of per-
sons who, having long had an account
with bank, will draw all their money
except one or two dollars. This helps
to account for many a small sum.
Naturally, the older banks have the
larger accumulation of unclaimed
money in this or other ways. The
Bank of Montreal and CHE British
bank have large sums, but the city dis
trict savings bank exceeds either of
them, having nearly 1000 separate un
claimed balances, the aggregate of
which is over $4,000. It is only of late
years that the government OF Canada
has busted itself in taking custody of
these funds. Not, presumably, that
they we're unsafe in the hands of the
banks, but perhaps that 1t was a pa
ternal duty of the state to control
thop
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-24
DOMESTIC OLIVE OIL,
The Demand for IL Is Steadily In
Observation-Disclosures as
Medicine,

There is a general growing demand
IL all the markets of our country for
the California picked olive. The Cali
fornia olive grower is able to compete
with the foreign market in this direc-
ton, as the picked olives admit of no
adulteration; consequently each
stands on its own merits.
The superiority of the California
olive has called attention to the Cali
fornia olive oil, which is as good as
tie pickled Olive. Here the competi-
tion is difficult, as the foreign oils are
nearly all adulterated Were they
brought here pure they could not be
sold at the price the California oil can
be made fer.
There is reason to believe that the
government will do something for the
protection of It's home olive growers
similar to that which 1t has done for
the prune, raisin and grange growers.
There are at the present time 2,500,O
olive trees in California, and about
three-fourths of these are in southern
California. 1t is said that the latter
place can grow enough olive trees to
make all the olive oil and picked
olives that this country can consume
The California raisins. prunes and
oranges had to fight for their reeog-
milton in the United States. and even
though the superiority of these was
admitted the government had 10 lend
some aid.
The pure olive oil is an excellent rem
edy for stomach troubles, and is also
prescribed by doctors for all diseases
ef the nerves. y tablespoonful taken
every night has been known to effect
speedy cure in eases of chronic indi-
gestion. The first taste may notprove
agreeable, but after few doses one
learns to like tn. Y. Tribune.
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-24
FLAG OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE.
1t Was First Carried by Narciso Lo-
pez in 1S5O-51-VersiOns as
to Its Meaning.


The Cuban flag was first carried by
Narciso Lopez about 1S50-1951, when
he invaded Cuba and lost his life.
There are quite a. number of versions
as to the meaning of this flag; one is
that the red equilateral triangle
stands for equality; the white star
represents Cuba. which would gain her
independence through sea of blood,
and the three blue stripes for the
three departments into which they in
tended to divida the island-eastern
Cuba, central Cubazand western Cuba.
There Is another version, that once
about 1850 or 1881 group of Cuban ex-
iIes'w talking of the new flag that
should be adopted. and trying to get
suitable design, when one of them
went to the window of the room in
which they were holding their discus
sion and saw the evening star shining
brightly in the heavens, surrounded
by the glare of the setting sun, while
still higher the sky was blue, striped
with white clouds.
The revolutionary flag of Puerto
leo is of the same proportions and de-
sign as the Cuban flag, only the colors
are changed. Where the Cuban flag
is red the Puerto Rican flag is blue. and
where the Cuban flag is blue the Puer-
to Rican flag Is red. It is singular to
notice that in almost every country of
which liberty is the watchword and
guiding idea the flag is composed of
the three colors-red, white and blue,
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-24
ELECTRIC LOVE ALARM,
How Suspicious English Faith er
Detected the FIirtations of
HIS Daughter.

The ingenious father of an estimable
young lady in Sheffield recently rugged
up clever contrivance by which he
discouraged a certain young man who
had been accustomed to make love TO
his daughter, says Pearson's Weekly,
The old gentleman recently caught
the young man and The girl sitting
rather close together on the sofa. He
read the girl lecture and made her
promise not to let the young man sit
beside her on the sofa again.
He was bit suspicious, and decided
not to trust the girls promise, so he
called in an electrician to carry out a
little scheme of his. A contact plate
was fitted just under the cushion of
the sofa and another to the bottom Of
the frame in such a way that when the
weight of two persons bore down upon
the top plate it would touch the other
and close the circuit. =.
Wires were run from the plate to the
old mans bedroom, where. as soon as
the circuit was closed, a small bell
would ring. All this was done without
the knowledge of tBe girl.
The next night the youngma called
again, and everything was as it should
be until the old folks retired, about
ten o'clock. About half an hour later
the bell upstairs rang furiously. The
old man sneaked downstairs and
caught the lovers smuggling very close
together on the sofa
The young man escaped with his life.
fortunately, but the poor girl is locked
up on diet of bread and water,
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-24
:.
WAR LEVELS ALL RANKS.
That Is Not Too Good
to Be True.

Like love, war levels all ranks. I'm
like love, it substitutes other ranks of
its own making, says the Chicago Jour
nal. In company of southern volun-
teers is. a private who, by virtue both
of pedigree and pence is, socially,
very welT-known man in his part of the
country. He would be recognized any
where as gentle bred. Having enlisted
merely as private, however, his duties
are those of the common soldier, and,
while it is nothing to his credit that he
does these without hesitation, such
work is certainly novel to him. His
regiment has mot yet left for active
service but as a<home guard occupies
the army post of its neighborhood.
The regiments colonel and the
colpneFs family of daughters are warm
personal friends of the private, yet
since the war they have never met
upon the old common level, The other
day the private was ordered to do
police duty around the colonel's
grounds, which, being interpreted
meant that he was to pick up all the
rubbish he might find there. What was
the horror of the colopel's wife few
minutes later, therefore, to see this
highly eligible young man down on his
hands and knees before her house pick
ing up stray banana peels and vagrant
bits of paper!
"Of course it couldn't be helped" she
said, in recounting the incident later.
"Still, l did what | could to spare his
feelings. l called to the girls to run
quick to the back of the house and not
to dare to go near a window for fear
they'd catch sight of young Blank po-
licirg the lawn"
The Winslow mail., 1898-09-24
TEN DOLLARS WITH INTEREST
The Treasury Note That Was Odd
Recently Presented at the Treas
ury Department.

There was paid over the counter at
the treasury department the other
day a ten-dollar bill of kind few of
us have ever seen. 1t was worn com
pletely through in places, though it
had been in the possession of the man
who presented it almost since its issue,
says the Washington Post. 1t bore in
gold letters on it's face the words:
Compound interest treasury note"
the act of congress of June 30 of that
year and was numbered 409993. On the
back was printed the statement;
''By act of congress this note is
legal tender for ten dollars, but bears
interest at six per cent. compound
every six months, though payable only
at maturity, as follows" The ''as fol
ows'' was table showing the worth of
the note at six-month intervals and
the elaborate explanation concluded
with:
This sum, s11.94" = shown in the
table-"will be paid to holder for prin-
cipal and interest at maturity ofnote,
three years from date"
The old man who presented it seemed
surprised to learn that the interest.
and the compounding of the interest
had ceased in 1867, but he took his
$11.94 and departed content. The bill
was an cid wartime greenback, made
interest-bearing in order to make it
more acceptable to the people, for
money for war expenses didn't pour
into the treasury in those days as it
does now.