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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-21
Views and Interviews,

"Ths has been great week at the
Baptist Female University" said Presi-
dent Blasingame yesterday. 1--WE have
had "a great number of visitors, very
great number The people have come
in great streams to see the college. The
Fair has been the best advertisement
we could possibly have had"
DR.. Cooper Curtice, the State veterin-
arian, says he does not expect any furth-
err outbreaks of Texas fever among the
cattle of the State this fall.
4 hope there will be never any more, >
he added, "but of course that is not
probable. When the grass comes out
next spring and the cattle begin to go
around grazing we may expect more
fever"
In view of the moral wave that has
swept over the Agricultural Society IN
regard to the Midway, wag yesterday
irreyerently suggested that the next Fair
be opened with prayer and closed with
the long meter Doxology.
Rev. j. B. Burns returned yesterday
from Cincinnati where he has been at
tending the semi-centennial of the estab-
lishment of missionary work in the
Church of Disciples.
when this mission movement was
started in October 1910 we had only
100000 MEMBERS" Mr.. Burns said.
Now we have 1.1tS,965. The meeting
in Cincinnati was the annual conven-
ton of all missionary societies in our
church, and great meeting it was
one of the largest of the kind ever held
in the world.
Manager Rivers deserves great
credit" said a theatregoer yesterday,
''for the manner in which he has con-
Quoted the Academy of Music during the
Fair. He has ben selling tickets only
for the capacity of the house. Rather
than permit crowding he has for three
nights turned away from 100 to 300
people who were very anxious even for
standing room. / am glad to hear that
Mr. Rivers is succeeding in his manage
ment of the house. He richly deserves
it. He does all in his power for the
pleasure and comfort of his patrons"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-21

The Postoffiee Department yesterday
ordered the hospital station posteffice
at Fort Monroe discontinued October
31st on account of the few troops re-
manning at the post.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-21

During the winter of 1897 Mr.. James
Reed, one of the leading citizens and
merchants of Clay, Clay county, w. Va,
struck his leg against cake of ice
in such a manner as to bruise it Sc
verely. 1t became very much swollen
and panied him so badly that he could
not walk without the aid of crutches.
He was treated by physicians, also
used several kinds of liniment and
two and half gallons of whiskey in
bathing it, but nothing gave any relief
until he began using Chambarllin's
Pain Balm. This brought almost a
complete cure in weeks time and
he believes that had he not used this
remedy his leg would have had to be
amputated. Pain Balm is unequaled
for sprains, bruises and rheumatism.
For sale everywhere. Bobbitt- Wynne
Drug Co., and FL. I. Hicks, Druggists,
Raleigh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-21

The Delaware Legislators and newspa-
per men will conclude their three days
visit TO Norfolk today, special steam
IN taking them to Cape Charles, where
al special train is to take them to Will
mington
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-21
Fresh live HOLSTERS at Giersch's.

At Baltimore before the Eureka Athlet-
ic Club last might AXE Kil1ain, the for
mea clever heavyweight boxer and for a
time the worlds champion in his class,
was practically put to sleep i'm five
rounds by Steve O'Donnell of Australia
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-21
AS IT NOW STANDS.
Durham Herald.

Durham Herald.
As the matter now stands it looks
like those candidates who think they
are strongest with the people will favor
Senatorial primaries, while those who
stand in with the ring will want the
old methods to prevail.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-21

President King, Farmers Bank,
Brooklyn, Mich, has used DeWitt's Lit
tie Early Risers in his family for years.
Says they are the best. These ia
nous little pills cure constipation, bill
iousness and all liver and bowel troubles.
Bobbitt- Wynne Drug Co., w. II. King
& Co., Adams 81 Moye, VIM. Simpson.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-21
Machine Business.

We are still ON hand with a full line o.
engine boilers. saw and grist mills. tran,
cars, the celebrated Champion Reonars
and Mowers and brick making mn
chimes.
Repairing done Promptly.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-21
ALLEN & CRAM
MACHINE COMPANY,
RALEIGH, N. C.

We regard the liberal patronage that
we have had in our line during the last
twenty-nine years as evidence of our
ability in the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-21
Statesville Mascot.

NEAR THE LINE OF TREACHERY
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09

Standard quotes three newspaper opfn-
ions this morning, on this page, that
will pass as samples. We take the Bos-
ton Herald. the Philadelphia Times and
the New York Evening Post. These
three are so-called independent news
papers, in reputation they are not out
ranked by any newspapers in the coun-
try. They supported the war, they rep
resent opposing views as to Imperialism,
but they are of one mind as to Alger,
and it can be said that their talk Is
representative of the comment found in
this country's leading newspapers. Mer-
ritt's babble didn't do Alger any good.
but it did Merritt great deal of harm.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09

HE idea of Arbor day originated
in the mind of J. Sterling Nor
ton, secretary of agriculture
under Cleveland. 1t was twenty-five
years ago that Mr.. Morton prevailed on
his neighbors on the treeless plains of
Nebraska to join in a tree planting
movement. A resolution was brought
before the state board Of agriculture
designating a particular day for the
planting and later the state legislature
appointed a day to be known as Arpor
day. Other states followed Nebraska s
lead until now nearly every state in the
union has it's Arbor day. Mr.. Suther-
lin, editor of the Rocky Mountain Hus-
bandman, was the father of the bill Gre
ating Arbor day in Montana. Origin
ally it was set for the third Tuesday in
April. The legislative assembly of 1895
changed the day to the second Tues
day in May.
From all accounts the observance of
Arbor day in Montana this year will be
more marked and more general than it
ever was before. Governor Smith has
| taken more than ordinary interest in
| the matter-he is going to set the citi-
zens of the state a good example by
planting twenty-four trees on his own
| premises in Helena. Teachers and
school children are prepared to observe
the day in the right spirit. The advisa-
| bility of tree planting in Montana goes
without saying. The trees will be of
more benefit to the next generation
than to this; but meanwhile the fact
that they are planted and growing will
enhance the value of real estate and
add to the beauty and permanence OF
every home.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09

pense that is irksome." That is the
truth, but it does not alter the fact
that there are libel suits and libel
suits. There are people of tempera-
ment so excessively delicate that they
are prone to appropriate as libel that
which they cannot persuade a court
or jury to construe as libelous utter
ances; cases of the kind are very COM
mon.
In the present instance the Standard
has. up to date, nothing to go by eX-
cept what the Inter Mountain prom
ises. In any event, this procession of
libel suits-if they reach the proper
tons of a procession-will be fun for
the Inter Mountain. 1t is safe; it does
not run the risk of a libel suit as the
sequel Of it's branding of any republican
or any democrat who sold his sena-
toral vote to Clark.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09
Its New Departure.

- ATHER unique in some of its
II paragraphs and interesting
~ throughout, is a paper in the
May number of the North American
Review, in which Nicolas Estevanez,
formerly a minister of war at Madrid,
tells what Spain can teach the United
States" This article recites in a can
did way how Spain failed and how
our government may succeed in dealing
with colonists. The article is an in
teresting bit of magazine work, sug-
gestive in matter and good in form.
1t is, in fact, one of several contribu-
tions which make the current number
of the North American Review a good
deal brighter than recent issues have
been. General Miles, Thomas B. Reed,
William Dean Howells and others fur
nish articles of much more than aver
age merit, thus giving a pleasant send
off to the May number, in which the
Review passes under the management
of George B. NJ. Harvey. In more than
one way Mr.. Harvey has the resources
wherewith the North American Review
can command it's rightful place, up in
the front rank with this country s
most sterling publications. BY the
way, the passing of the Review into
new hands gets just a dash of local
| coloring from the fact that one of Mr.
Harveys sisters is Mrs. F. E. Sar-
| geant, of our own city.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09
And There You Are.

: OW now? How now? The re-
~ port was flashed out in New
! York paper couple of days ago
that wv A. Clark has shaken up the
money centers of Europe with his In
ternational Copper trust and that
from Paris come the news of the big
gest thing of all in the shape of his
Anglo French copper combine
In instances the New York newspa-
pers speak of the Anaconda and other
Montana properties, and of Spain's Rio
Tinto, which Clark has succeeded in
interesting in the Anglo-French COM
pany. 1T is now believed" the New
York Journal says. that Clark has
also interested the Rothschilds in this
International Copper trust and that
soon the mining and financial world
will be startled with the tidings that
the copper supply of the entire world
is practically under one management.
This would bring the Rockefellers and
theRothschilds into a corporation re-
lationship-a combination vaster than
any the world ever dreamed of. Such
syndicate, with the Standard Oil
Colossus as a part of it, would come
very near the hypothetical Universal
trust of the economists
That sounds nightly like the Clark
literary bureau. And there's more of
it. For instance, one bit of printed
New York comment says: Every
word received from abroad indicates
| the great success of Senator Clark
| His work has added to the force of the
copper boom until now copper shares
! are the sensation of every bourse in
Europe" Surely that has the Clark
| literary bureau ear mark. If the SEN
tence had been added that Clark has
paid eight hundred million dollars fol
another Louis Quatorze bedstead anc
now has one more of them than Mr.
Whitney's residence has, the identified
ton would be complete.
But, good Lord. what will Clark:
other newspaper, the Helena Independ
ent, do? That publication has beef
having fits over Marcus Days rela
tions to a copper combine. And nov
it turns out that it was Clark all thi
time Clark owns the Independent, b,
virtue of blanket-securityp process, Blu
he'll sue the Independent, sure, for no
having made him the head of the trus
instead of DAILY. Watch out and you'l
see that Clark will do it.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09
The Worst Yet.

\ HEN you think of it, about the
M worst of all of them is Cen
eral Merritt. Within the po-
litical realm, American soldiers of high
rank have been accused of saying some
mighty stupid things and really, since
the bad break General Hancock made
when he was running for president, it
does seem that army-post life is not
training school where soldiers are
taught to say clever things on topics
relating to politics and the like.
In this instance there is a sort OF
newspaper consensus that General Mer-
rift takes the prize cake. He recently
made a pilgrimage to Detroit, cooked
and primed, as the event proved to put
in word for Alger. He was so far
from being clever about it that his talk
was a burlesque outright; he over
worked the compliment business sadly,
or laughably, just as it strikes you.
Dozens of newspapers that have
reached the Standard office within a
day or two carry extended comment on
tiiV Nlol iili-AiSVl liiSluCHA. IL oue u
it's many exchanges has a word in APP
prevail of Merritt's bombast the Stand
ard has not come across that newspa-
perrin fact. the disposition is to feel
sorry that Merritt should have made
such bad break. Merritt went to De-
troit to give Alger a coat Of whitewash
Merritt was not artistic at it. A lit
tie whitewash goes a long way when
spread with suitable thickness. Mer-
rift slapped it on in great gobs-he as
serted that Alger was the victim of "a
few indictments" and, absurd as that
remark was, General Merritt made him
self a worlds laughing stock by add
ing that Alger is "the best secretary OF
war the world has ever scent"
Change best so as to make it read
worst" and you will measure the diff
| ference there is between Merritt's n.y.
pocritical praise of Alger and the
American peoples estimate of him.
About a year ago Merritt as good as
| fatty refused to go to the Philippines.
His criticisms given out at the time are
| remembered; he left the country to in
| fer that he simply would not go, under
! the provisions for troops that had been
made by Ayers war department. Then
the country remembered that relations
| were strained" between Alger and Mer-
| rift. 1t was recalled that three or fOul
| commanding officers, during our civil
war, had recommended Alger's dislnis
| sal from the army for what was tech
| ncal desertiOn and what was apparent
| cowardice. Sheridan was one of thess
commanders; Merritt was another. AL
! ger was permitted to resign.
| We have said that General Merritt'g
worse than silly talk finds no favol
with the American press On the con
| trary, it has called out columns anC
| pages Of censure. In illustration ths
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09
Promised by the Inter Mountain.

" often as once or twice in a
while, you have to go away
l from home to get the news.
Yesterday afternoon the Butte Inter
Mountain dubbed all over with the
rumor that "Swede' Murphy has
caused papers to be prepared in which
"a suit for damages is brought against
the Standard, the damages which he
has sustained aggregating, the Inter
Mountain says, a grand total of $780,,
0oe-which is a very large sum of
money.
The Miner office has been rife with
talk about suit against the Standard
ever since Whiteside brought an ac-
ton against that newspaper. 1t may
be that this talk had it's spring in the
ancient observation that misery loves
company, or, it may be that there is
q solid Swede-Smith basis for the re-
cent talk; at any rate, the Inter Noun
tain appears to know all about it, the
alleged suit against the Standard
breaking out in two or three places in
yesterdays edition of the Granite
street organ. In fact, the Inter Noun
tain is so we'll informed in this mat
ter as to be able to promise that the
Murphy action will ask that the
Standard go to Helena to make its
defense. Indeed, lIr. Nantes news
paper finds itself engaged so cordially
in this matter that it even invents a
cause of action for the alleged plain
tiff, that newspaper imputing to the
Standard words that this newspaper
never used and words which, it is
certain, will not be found in the COM
plaint-if one is brought.
Not a word about it all thus far.
except second handed, as just describ
ed, in the office of the Standard. What
the public hears about the reported
libel suit is, up to the present hour the
Inter Mountains exclusive news.
Touching this whole subject the Stand
ard remarked a few days ago: For
any newspaper office a libel suit is one
of the meanest things i'll christendom.
The Standard has no contemporary
Upon which il would invoke an afflic-
dion of the kind. Suits of the sort are
a vexation and, in instances. an eG-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09
TWELVE PAGES.
Off Wrong Again.

IHAT brains God gave to the
wv Kautz family He seems to
have conferred in the admiral
who Is representing the government
and people of the United States at
Apia. Manifestly the rest of the
Kautzes--the whole race of them-are
ninnies.
The first Kautz letter to reach the
public abounded with talk which, of
course, the admiral never suspected
would get out of the family circle. He
wrote to his cousin about making kings
and unmaking kings, and she, the
cousin, was foolish enough to let the
newspapers get it all, to the dismay
of President Mckinley. as the Wash
ington dispatches frankly confessed
AS if this weren't Kautz gaucherie
enough, along comes the admiral's
brother and he blabs the contents of
another letter forwarded from Apia.
In this second letter Admiral Kautz
goes after Rose, the German consul at
Apia, in great shape. saying a good
many things that are well enough when
an admiral tells them to a brother
providing it's a brother who can keep
his mouth shut-but in very bad form
when this brother is a man who gets
up on the housetop to proclaim what
the admiral has to say in denunciation
of Rose It's another foreign compli-
cation, but it also is a clear proof that
Kautz has a lot of fool relatives. If
there is any criticism on the admiral
himself it is that he ought to know
better than to entrust condolences to
the kind of brothers and cousins and
aunts by whom evidently and most
unfortunately he is beset.
Isn't it remarkable; time in its flight
is proving that, after all, Dewey's the
one American whom our recent troubles
made great and keep great Nobody
mas to apologize for Dewey or, for that
smatter for his relatives.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09
Current Comment.
Degeneration of a Year.

From the Kansas City Times.
The thought which seized hold of the
nation year ago that the Cubans should
be relieved of the Spanish yoke was di-
vine Inspiration, but not so the thought
of territorial conquest which subsequently
seized hold upon the Washington govern
ment. The first was the mighty and lofty
sentiment which called the colonies to
arms century and quarter ago to fight
for human liberty. The second is the SEN
timent which moved Spain four centuries
ago to cruise the seas in search of lands
and peoples to seize and conquer. The
first made America the freest and rich
est nation in the world; the second will
send the nation back to the days of Ar.
ragon and CASTLE If persisted in.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09
Literature of the Year.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Whatever the historian of the future
may have to say in regard to the achieve
rnents of our soldiers in the recent quar-
rel between the United States and Spain,
he will have no difficulty in characterizng
the contemporaneous descriptions of
them. The slush and gush which passes
in press reports and magazine pages for
war literature will find it's due level in
time and the strong common sense of the
people may be trusted meanwhile to read
between the lines and note what is &C
tually Transporting.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09
Personal.

Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. formerly
Miss Irene Langhorne of Baltimore will.
it is said. pose for all her husbands So
cety pictures in future.
Mrs Booker T. Washington is her hus-
bands most efficient helper in the man
agement of the Tuskegee institute. She
is graduate of Fisk university
Mrs Mckinley is very generous with the
bushels of flowers at her disposal every
day. and delights in giving to her friends
the trophies of her Conservatives.
In Russell Sage. Andrew Fl. Green.
Charles L. Tiffany. Parke Goodwin and
Robert Olyphant, New York contains a
group of the youngest looking old men in
the country.
Mrs. Mary Harrison Mckee, daughter
of eX-President Benjamin Harrison, has
been appointed by Governor Roosevelt a
commissioner to the Paris exposition for
the state of New York.
The Professional Womans league of
New York will present 1.-THE Three Mus
kCteers" and the great event is positively
dated for May II. Miss Maude Banks, in
stead of Miss Mary Shaw. will play D'Ar-
| tagnan; Janauscnek will play Richelieu,
and Miss Lillian Russell is cast for Anne
| of Austria.
Emile Zola, in his English exile, gives
the morning to literary work, the after
noon to walh.ng or bicycling and the
evening to Partisan and London newspa-
pers, which latter he translates only by
the constant aid of a dictionary. He be-
leves that June will see the end of the
"Affaire DreyIus."
Edouard Andre, the Belgian consul at
| Manila, who has just reached Brussels,
| thinks the Philippine instruction will end
only when Aguinado and his followers
| know the exact form of government the
United States intend to give them and
when the United States have paid them
| for their successful fight against the
| Spaniards.
Thomas Leggett, iunkman and rag deal
er of New York. has fallen heir to about
$4,000 through the death of Colonel Will
| liam L. Blanchard. a wealthy sporting
man, who ran a gambling resort in West
| Forty-seconu street for many years. Leg
| gett is the only surviving relative of
Blanchard, and it has taken nearly year
to find him.
Princess Eugene Paleologue's claim
that she is the direct descendant of Con-
stantine Paleologus, the last emperor OF
| Byzantium. has been declared valid by the
| Russian holy synod after examining the
documents submitted by her. Her rank
will, hereafter be recognized by Russia
and a pension will be paid to her. The
princess is a Maltese.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09
cyclones More Deadly Than War.

From the Boston Herald.
The new destructive weapons of war do
not seem to do much destroying after all.
We are told of savagely-fought battles in
which Maxim and Gatling guns are used,
of tremendous hombardments, of desper-
ate storms of shot hurled against the en-
envy. and then read that the loss of life
on the part of the foe aggregates from 30
to 50 men. And the 'old-fashoned cyclone
goes on its way and mows downs hun
dreds in its path in few seconds, to say
nothing of Wiping two or three towns off
the face of the earth at the same time.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-09
The Idaho Trouble.

From the Minneapolis Journal,
The destruction of some 5000, 900 worth of
Idaho mining property will be of no help
to the union miners. 1t is the mere tenn
porary qualification of spite. The action
is absolutely indefensible. The mine own
ers had given the advance of wages de-
manded by the union miners, but they
demanded the discharge of the non-union
men and were refused The violent action.
the wanton destruction of property. fol-
lowed. The last demand was illegitimate
and deliberate ignoring of the legal
rights of both labor and capital