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piece OF ground and the owner would
not sell it, but the owner finally con-
sented to let it to him until he could
raise one crop. and the abbot sowed
acorns, a crop of 200 years And tell
you. young man, that the dishonesties
which you plant in your heart and life
will seem to be very insignificant, but
they will grow up until they will over
shadow you with horrible darkness,
oversiadow all time and all eternity.
1t will not be a crop for 200 years, but
q crop for everlasting ages.
have also II word of comfort for all
who safer from the malfeasance of 9th
ers, and every honest man, woman and
child does suffer from what goes on in
financial scampdom. Society is so
bound together that all the misfortunes
which good people suffer in business
matters come from the misdeeds Of 9th
ers. Bear up under distress, strong in
God lie VIII see you through, though
yonr misfortunes should be centupled.
Scientists tell us that column Of air
Is miles in height rests on every man 3
lead and shoulders. But that is moth
ing comparets with the pressure That
business life has put upon many of You.
God made mp his mind long ago how
many or how few dollars it would be
best for you to have Trust to his ap-
pointment The door will soon open to
let you ont and let you up. What shock
of delight for men who for 80 years
have been in bueiness anxiety when
they shall suddenly awake in everlast-
ing holiday On the maps of the arctic
regions there are two places whose
names are remarkable, given, sup
pose, by some polar expedition-Cape
Farewell and Thank God harbor. AT
this last the Polaris wintered in 1871
and the Tigress in 1878. Some ships
have passed the cape, yet never reached
the harbor But from what know Of
many of you 1 have concluded that,
though your voyage of life may be very
rough, run into by icebergs on this side
and icebergs on that, you will in due
time reach Cape Farewell, and there
bid goodby to all annoyances, and soon
after drop anchor in the calm and i'm
perturbable waters of Thank God har-
bor "There the wicked cease from
troubling and the weary are at rest. y
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Th. Secret of Fiona Macleod.

We are told by the London Academy
that Miss Fiona Macleod has had to
make extraordinary efforts to maintain
the secret of her personality.
Miss Macleod's letters have to be re-
addressed three or four times before
they come into her hands. She is known
to a small circle who keep the secret
WELL her forcible handwriting is known
to many. No editor has managed to get
her photograph, though one had it in
his hands. We doubt if Miss Macleod's
publishers have met her. At first Mr..
William Sharp did good deal of her
business work, but she supelintends it
herself now. The mystery as to he1
identity is not one that will arouse the
suspicion of the literary, but certain
Gaels, whose dislike for Miss Macleod s
work amounts to a passion, have sought
assiduously to force her to reveal her
personality.
Every sort of criticism except that
which is literary has been applied to
her work. One ardent Gael turned ur
the files of Glasgow paper to see If
any of the tragedies Miss Macleod de-
picts actually occurred, another took a
census of Iona-no difficult task-tc
discover the originals of her characters.
1t is startling to learn that their re-
searches were unavailing. Still another
Gael is said to have done detective duty
opposite Il house in Edinburgh. where
NJ - lsiacleod sometimes stays, and
Miss Macleod is as unknown as ever.
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The Magic of Rome.

The story of Rome is tale of muir
der and sudden death, varied, chang
ing, never repeated in the same way;
there is blood on every threshold; a
tragedy lies buried in every church and
chapel, and again we ask in vain
wherein lies the magic of the city that
has fed on terror and grown old in
carnage, the charm that draws men to
her, the power that holds. the magic
that enthralls men soul and body, as
Lady Venus cast her spells upon Tam
hauser in her mountain of old. Yet
none deny it, and as centuries roll on
the poets, the men of letters, the must
cians the artists of all ages. have come
to her from far countries and have
dwelt here while they might, some fol
long years, some for the few months
they could spare, and all of them have
left something, verse a line, a sketch,
a song that breathes the threefold mys
terry of love, eternity and DEATH
"Studies From the Chronicles of Rome :"
nv Marion Crawford
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M,rue,ia 1nntead of Carbon

4 new form of incandescent electric
lamp has been invented by Professor
Nernst of Gottingen. Instead of car
bon filament in an exhausted bulb it
has a block of magnesia, heated to an
enormously high temperature. The
principle relied upon is the fact that
when magnesia is heated above 5000
degrees c. it becomes good conductor
Of electricity and will retain its bril-
liant incandescence without much ex-
penditure of current. To start the lamp,
however, it is necessary first to heat the
magnesia up to certain temperature,
and this is effected by Professor Nernst
by placing it in the focus of reflector,
on the inner side of which is a spiral of
platinum wire, which is readily brought
to bright heat. AS soon as current
starts in the magnesia the platinum
wire is cut off. 1t is claimed that the
new lamp is economical and that it
gives a purer light than the carbon fila
ment but this remains to be proved.
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Shnt Scared the Car.

At the recent Banquet in San Fran
cisco given Irving u Scott. the build
er of the Oregon. upon his return from
russia. Mayor James D. Phelan called
fo i the u, Its of the evening by a
speech, III Inch he described the inter-
view between the car and fIr. Scott as
follows
"Having heard so much about the
builder OF the Oregon, the car sent fol-
him when he wanted to build some nice.
new bat1leships of his own.
g Lei me see your schedule Of
prices, said the emperor Of al the Rus
sias.
''Mr. Scott handed over one of his
price lists. The car glanced at the first
figure that caught his eye. Then he re-
tired to study them over.
" Before awarding the contracts,
he said to Mr.. Scott, 4 want to exam
inc these prices carefully
Son the following day the car issued
his famous appeal for the disarmament
of the whole world San Francisco
Noyrc o+to,
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Tie sn,dcr,s elastic Appetite.

The spider has tremendous appetite,
and his commanding defies all human
competition. A scientist who carefully
noted spiders consumption of food in
"a hours concluded that if the spider
were built proportionatcly to the human
scales he would eat at daybreak Zap
proximately) small alligator, by Z a.
m. lamb, by 8 a III. young camelo-
pard, by clock a sheep and would
finish up with lark pie in which there
were 12O birds Yet, in spite of his
enormous appetite, spider has wonder.
full power of refrair;s from food, and
one has been known to live for ten
months when absolutely deprived OF
food. A beetle lived i'll a similar state
of unrefrcsh1rent for three years.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
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DIPLOMATIC clPHERs.
Secret Codes Which Prove to Be Any
thing but Secret.

SecEcts
To Mr.. Labouchere are due our
heartiest thanks, our warmest congrat-
ulations. Ever since The Outlook came
into being we have insisted, in season
and out of season, upon the folly Of per-
hitting every official and unofficial tele-
graphic message to and from the far
east to pass through an Office in Hong
kong jointly tenanted and controlled
by Anglo and Russo-Danish companies.
But, the companies have said in re-
ply to our remonstrances "what nom
sense you talk Every important mes
sage, official and private, goes under
cover of a code. What could be more
secure?" Let Mr.. Labouchere reply.
He was one of the secretaries of Lord
Napier of Ettick when that diplomatist
was ambassador at St. Petersburg, and
here is a pretty tale he tells in Truth:
81 suppose I am telling no tales out
of school in relating the following:
Prince Gortchakof, the Russian chan
cellor, asked Lord Napier to communi-
cate from st. Petersburg some infor-
nation to the British government. This
he promised to do. But how are you
going to send it2' asked the chancellor.
Lord Napier had an linking that the
Russian foreign Office was already able
to read his cipher, SO he said, I will
send it by telegraph. Prince Gortcha-
kof on this began to fdget, and said, i
do not wish my colleagues to know
what I am communicating to you.
Certainly, replied Lord Napier, but
you have nothing to fear, as I will send
it in my cipher. Still more did the
prince fdget At last he said: we are
old friends, and we understand the ne
cessity of diplomacy. The truth is that
we can decipher the code that you usu-
ally use. On this Lord Napier promised
to send it by messenger, the fact being
that codes used by diplomatists were
deciphered at the ministry of the in
terror, and it was precisely the min
lister of the interior who was not to
know that the information had been
given.
And this, Mr.. Labouchere goes on to
tell us, is how the trick was done:
"Whenever foreign representative
Cat St Petersburg) received telegram
in cipher from his government a copy
of it was taken at the ministry Of the
interior If the representative receiving
the telegram communicated to the Rus
sian minister of foreign affairs any
thing day or two later, this, too, was
sent to the ministry Of the interior.
The communication and the telegram
were then compared Surprising the
cipher to be series Of numbers, as Is
usual, few words would thus be made
out The clews thus obtained would In
crease according to the frequency Of
the kilograms received, and in a very
short time it would be possible to read
the whole cipher. .
Can any sane person suppose that the
tricks of Lord Napier's day have been
forgotten-that indeed they have not
been improved upon? And yet our for
eign Office calmly ignores the fact that
our telegraphic base at Hongkong is in
the hands of a combination in which
Russo-Danish influence plays large
part.-London Outlook.
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He Robbed Discourteous1y.

A letter to the editor which has just
appeared in the leading papers of Pa
lermo bears the signature of Candino,
the most feared and murderous of Sicil-
ian brigands, and is destined to inform
the readers that he has expelled from his
band notorious robber named Galbo.
as having been guilty of "discourteous
and unmannerly conduct in his dealings
with the public The letter ends with
the words sskindest greetings of friend
ship. Paris Messenger.
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!. chinese woman Doctor.

Miss Hu King Eng, young Chinese
woman who studied for seven years in
the University of Michigan and took
the degree of NJ. D. there, is now in
charge Of hospital at Fuchau. Such
is her reputation that cody wheeled
his old blind mother 1000 miles in
wheelbarrow to take her to "the wom-
an DOCTOR An operation for double
cataractwas performed, and the woman
can now see as well as ever.
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The enc pav Cold Cure.

Cold in head and sore throat cured by ker.
motifs Chocolates Laxative Quinine. As easy
70 take as candy, "Children cry for them
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-02-11
AN ABUSE OF TRUSTS.
DR.. TALMAeEleREAcHEsAeAlNs DIS
HONEST TRANSACTIONS.

Timely .Lessona Drawn From the spi-
der and the Fly-The Web of Pecn-
lotion, Which Causes the Ruin OF
Many Men.
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Caution to spccnlntors.

If the first men. and especially Chris
tian men. will learn never to speculate
upon borrowed capital-if you have a
mind to take your own money and turn
it all into kites to fly them over every
common in the United States, you do
society no wrong, except when you
tumble your helpless children into the
poorhouse for the pubic to take care OF.
But you have no right 10 take the mon
ey of others and turn it into kites.
There is one word that has deluded
more people into bankruptcy and state
prison and ruin than any other word IN
commercial life, and that is the word
borrow That orc word is responsible
for all the dofalcations and embezzle-
ments and financial considerations OF
the last 90 years. When executors con-
clude to speculate with the funds OF an
estate committed to their charge, they
do not purloin; they say they only oor-
row. When banker makes an ever
draft upon his institution, he does not
commit theft; he only borrows
When the officer of company by
haming advertisement in some religious
papers and gilt certificate of stock gets
a multitude of country people to put
their small earnings into an enterprise
for carrying on some undeveloped moth
ing, he doee not fraudulently take their
money: no only borrows When a young
man with easy access to his employer,
money drawer or the confidential clerk
by close propinquity to the account
books takes a few dollars for Wall
street excursion, he expects to put 1t
back. He will put it all back He will
put it all back very soon. He only Dor
rows. Why, when you are going TO do
wrong pronounce so long word as
borrow, word of six letters, when you
can yet shorter word more descriptive
of the reality, q word of only I'VE let
tiers, the word steal?
There are times when we all borrow
and borrow legiti1nately and borrow
with the divine blessing, for Christian
his Sermon on the Mount enjoins,
.From him that would borrow of thee
turn not thou away" A young man
rightly borrows money to get his edu-
cation. Purchasing house and not
able to pay all down in cash, the pur-
chaser rightly borrows 1t on mortgage
Crises come in business, when it would
be wrong for man not to borrow. But
I roll this warning through all these
aisles, over the backs of all these pews,
never borrow to speculate-not dol
lar not cent not farthing. Young
men, warn you by your worldly pros,
poets and the value of your immortal
souls, do not do it. There are breakers
distinguished for their shipwrecks-tbe
Hanways, the Needles, the Caskets, the
Douvers, the Anderlos, the Skerrles-
and many craft has gone to pieces on
those rocks, but l have to tell you that
all the Eanways and the Needles and
she Caskets and the Skerries are as
nothing compared with the long line OF
breakers which bound the ocean OF
COMMERCIAL life north. SOU east and
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Hay, Coal, Flour, Terra Gotta Piping,
General Merchandise &c.

Fertilizers Baugh laughs High
Best for onions round and peas we a E
6xs Egg and Stove Goal the oa o.
kn cheaper wholesale
we'll tubes will cost ABOUT T.
quality century
full well selected In
Plows
arow Implements, Hay Flour Goal
oso J NJ Msurys buy for spot cash
dsela the mar gin o
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-08

sidered a bar to political preferment un-
til the political and religious enemies
of the present representative from Utah
thought proper TO urge them against
him. But such men have been elected
to offices of high honor in the State
OF Utah and others against whom such
charges were made by affidavit, we're
appointed to Federal offices in the Sta.
notwithstanding such objections We're
urged against them.
4 shall do all i can to maintain my
rights under the constitution. stand
alone, except for the very few who gave
me their very guarded support by vot-
ing against the monstrous proceedings
that prevents me from taking the oath
of office. / ann without dollar at my
except the SALARY attached TO
my office with which to fight the bat
tie now pending before the special CONF
mittee. l ann without legal counsel ex-
cept for the kindly suggestions of here
and there a word from lawyer ac-
quaintance or friend. | want the condi-
fion here named to stand as 4 refuta-
ton TO the sensational charges that
have been made about the Mormon
church standing behind me, with any
amount of money for legal counsel, and
the maintenance of lobby in Wash
ington."
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BOUGHT BY THE DUKES
Piedmont Springs and Hotel
Near Danbury.
Also Fine Water Power Near There With
View to Establishing One or More
Big Cotton Mills.

Winston, n c., Dee. --(Special)-
The American Development Company,
which is composed principally of the
Dukes Of the American Tobacco Com
rany, has purchased Piedmont Springs
and Hotel, near Danbury, also the fine
water power near that place with view
to establishing one or more big cotton
mills
w. II. Gilbert, the hardware merchant,
who disposed of his sixteen thousand
doilar stock for eight thousand several
weeks ago and left Winston without
paying his creditors, was arrested yes
terday in San Francisco He was ar
ranging to board a steamer for Japan,
and objected seriously to being searched.
He viii be brought back here and held
for trial at the Federal Court at Greens
boro. A lawyer for the prosecution says
penalty is FIVE YEARS in the peni-
tentiary
The stock which was sold to another
hardware firm here, is locked up by or
der of Judge Ewart, Of the Federal
Court. until the case is disposed of in
the Superior Coul1.
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BRIGHT FOR TAYLOR
Believed That SATURDAY, S De-
cisiion Wi | be For Him,
Admitting the Commission Of Frauds the Board
VIII Probably ecide il Cannot Go
Behind the Returns.

Frankfort, Ky, Dec THE decision
of the State Board Of Election COM
nlissioners covering the gubernatorial
contest vii be handed down on Satur-
day morning. The strong probability Is
that certificates Of election will be given
TO William S. Taylor, the Republican
candidate for Governor, and to the Re-
publican candidates for the other off
ces on the State ticket The vote viii
probably he two for the Republican and
one for the Democratic State ticket.
1t was thought when the board ad-
iourned at noon, after the conclusion OF
Judge Hargis' argument, that two of
the members of the board had practical
ly decided to vote for Taylor, and that
they wished to spend the time between
the adjournment Of court and the time
set for the reading Of the opinion, IN
preparing Il syllabus of the decision they
had decided to render The three mem
bers OF the commission have been
placed in a most unenyiable position.
Their best friends. even their relatives,
have pleaded with them ON both sides
of the question, some for Taylor, some
for Goebel. No matter which way they
decide the case, it means much 10 their
friends.
The pressure against them has been
something stupendoils, and it is only fair
to say that throughout the entire can
yass and during the ore and one half
days OF argument. they seemed actua-
ted only by the intention to do their
duty as they understand il ard to rem
der justice where they consider it due.
There is no doubt the pressure brought
to bear upon them so far will be con-
tinued until they have handed down
the certificates OF elections on Satllr-
day. II is possible that one or the other
Of the two majority members Of the
board may alter his position and stand
for Goebel. but it is not considered
likely. and the chances now are that
the conditions which prevail tonight.
vii endure to the end. and that the
certificates will be handed down TO J I'll
liam $. Taylor and his colleagues on
Saturday.
1t is possible in case the decision is
given to Taylor, that the Democrats may
secure am injunction restraining him
frcm taking his seat, and in this manner
jnaugurate the fight that will be carried
into the Legislature and fought out there
to tfle bitter end. Some slrch step has
been considered, but not definitely de
tcrmned upon. 1t is believed the board,
in handing down its decision, will say
that while frauds and irregularities We're
undoubtedly committed in the election,
the powers Of the board do not permit ii
TO go behind the returns. 1t is expected
that upon this part Of the decision,
granting it is made, Democratic con-
test will be given ground to stand.
Neither of the candidates would talk
about the matter.
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NEXT MILITARY GOVERNOR.
General Leonard Wood Will Succeed
Brooke in Cuba.

Washington, Dec 7-General Leonard
Wood had conference with the Secre-
tary Of War today respecting his future.
While neither of the principals had any
thing to say for publication as TO the
conclusions reached. it is gathered that
General Wood is to be the next Governor
of Cuba, succeeding General Brooke, who
will return to the United States.
1t is expected that the military force
in Cuba and be greatly reduced i'm the
near future. so that while General Wood
by commanding the troops remaining
will be a military governor, there viii
be so little left of the military establish
ment that his office will be much more
civil than military in fact The reduc-
tion in force will enable the War De-
partment to withdraw some or perhaps
all of the general officers of the regulars
now in Cuba.
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LEADS ALL MORTH CAROLINA OAlES M NEWS AMID GDRGULA OM

mountains. VIII send transportation to
bring the prisoners to Manila and to sup
ply Young's troops with necessary quar-
termaster's stores. Our casualties were
one killed and twelve wounded, wounds
mostly slight Enemy left in trenches
twenty-five dead, few rifles. several
thousand rounds small ammunition and
10 shrapnel Young has sufficient
troops to meet all difficulties
(Signed) "OTIS."
NO LARGE FORCE OF FOE
Washington, Dec. 7.-General Otis has
cabled the War Department as follows
respecting the military situation in
LuZon:
Manila, December 7th-In Central
Luzon there is no insurgent force OF
importance except in Bulacan Province
near the mountains, where General
Pillar holds together 1,000 or more men
which viii be attacked soon. General
Grant has moved a small column down
the east coast Of Bataan Province, en-
countering little opposition A column
moving westward from the mountains is
expected TO reach the western coast OF
Lrzon the tenth instant Many small
insurgent armed bands ARE in the cOun-
try robbing and in some instances muir
dering the inhabitants, which are being
pursued by troops quite successfully.
To the south of Manila the insurgents
still maintain their positions, but the
necessary force to scatter them will be
sent soon.
tSigned.) Otis"
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IN THE UPPER HOUSE.
A Mvely Coloquy Between Senator'S
Hale and Chandler.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Routine proceed
ings Of the Senate today were. enliyened
by colloquy between Mr. Chandler, of
New Hampshire. and Mr.. Hale, of
Maine, over bill introduced by the
former to promote athletic sports at the
Academy at West Point and the Naval
Academy at Annapolis Both Senators
became facetious, and at times sarcastic
over the growth Of athletic sports ait
American colleges. and Mr.. Chandler
advanced the proposition that the cuIti-
vation Of such sports as football and
similar sports at the Government acade-
mics ought to be given the sanction of
law.
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African Methodists.

Rome, Ga. Dec THE African
Methodist Episcopal Conference will
be in session in this city this week. The
conference represents a membership of
100000 having churches and Sunday
Schools all over the world. There are
twenty bishops in the church.
All this session delegates vii lbe elect
ed to the general conference which
meets in Chicago next May.
There are 200 delegates present,
among tn most prominent being DR..
Spencer, Of Philadelphia; Dr. Dowell,
DR.. Huburt. OF New York; DIR. Smith,
and DR.. Johnson, of Cincinnati.