The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-08
Views and Interviews,

The officers of the Fayetteville indie
pendent Light Infantry tell a good one
on their chaplain. After the great pa
rade in New York city in honor Of Adj
miral Dewey. the chaplain having occa-
sion to stop in haberdasher's shop on
lower Broadway, was thus profusely
greeted by the genial proprietor, who in
sisted on serving him:
Il seen yous in the parade thish af-
ternoon."
"AhI"
"Yesh, for then it was / took the big
drink. You know what the Governor
of North Carolina said to the Governor
of South Carolina, I'M had me big bot
tie there. Didn't / Jake? And Jake
and |, we took one, because / remember
ed, and | didn't want it to be too long
between drinks"
And the chaplain, as he departed,
only smiled, for all knew that the old
Dutchman along with many others, had
mistaken him for the governor, who
had ridden in a carriage and not with
his staff.
And now, every time the boys see their
popular chaplain, who is an ardent pro-
hibitionist, they are reminded of the big
bottla
A fayetteville friend vouches for the
above.
Mr.. B. F. Sanding, Of New Light,
who was in Raleigh yesterday, was
talking about holding cotton for better
prices, and said: II know a man who
has bale Of cotton raised during the
war or just after the war when cotton
was forty cents a pound who is still hold
ing it. He is Mr.. Thomas Perry. who
lives near Creedmore, Granville county.
When his cotton was ready for market,
the price went below forty cents. He
refused to sell and said he would hold
it until cotton went back to forty
cents, and he has been holding it ever
since. He also has some t0bacco--or
did have a few years ago-that was
raised nearly thirty years ago. / ask
cd him why he hadn't sold it. He said,
Daddy and me raised it together. Dad
dy never said anything about selling it,
and | didn't either"
There is ONE law in the State that
is practically dead letter" said Capt.
Bradley, of the Supreme Court Library
yesterday, ut is section 3S41 Of the Cole
which provides thar every person using
weights, measures, balances, steelyardS,
&c, S.lal take them to the standard
keeper Of the county once every two
years to have them tested and stamp
ed. The section imposes fine OF $50 for
failure to comply with the law, $25 to
go to the standard keeper and $50 to the
county, but nobody seems ever to he
fined If the law were Suddenly rigidly
enforced the standard keeper would be-
come a plutocrat in short order. And it
is a good law too
There is great stir in print cloth
circles now" said a dry goods drummer
from New York last night. The action
Of the big Fall River mills in putting
their product into the hands Of a selling
committee and cutting off the brokers
has naturally agitated the latter while
the small trade that has been accus-
toned to get its supplies from the bro
kers ut practically the same figure as the
large buyers are hardly less diSpleased.
Whether the brokers viii bunch their
orders and buy from the mills that way
and then sell to the small trade or
whether they will give up the business
altogether seems to be uncertain at
present The mills claim to save from
to 212 per cent under the new man
agement."