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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-29
EIGHT CENT COTTON IN SIGHT.

Cotton sold yesterday on the Raleigh
market at seven and a sixteenth of a cent
per pound which gave the farmers NEAR
~ $50 per bale. On Sept 18th, 1893.
cotton in Raleigh brought four and mime
ty-one hundredths cents per pound about
SD per bale. The price received this
year so far is about $40 more for each
bale than farmers received this time last
year. This is gratifying increase, but
is not yet as much of an increase as the
farmers would now be realizing but for
the Neill predictions which encouraged
English spinners to press down the price
of cotton. 1t begins to look like cotton
Will go to eight cents. If the Grip is as
short as the reports from most sections
of the South indicate, the price ought
to go still higher.
In Georgia the farmers, merchants ana
bankers of many counties are holding
meetings together and resolving not to
sell cOt:on under eight cents. The reso-
lutions of the Wilkes c,>unty farmers
contained. n.ilch sound sense. We quote
them:
The farmers, merchants and bankers
of Wilkes county have met today in
pursuance of a cali to consider some
plan to prevent the sacrifice of the cot
ton crop of the present year. They sug-
gest the following:
Il. That we all recognize as our first
obligation to protect the parties who nj y
hold liens and claims upon the crops.
but we believe this cam be done without
forcing the cotton upon the market at
rrTinoils prices.
-. That we believe that cents is the
lowest price we should receive for cotton
made this year, and that until that price
is reached we agree that whenever it
can be done we will refrain from putting
it upon the market.
80. THE action of business men
throughout the south ON this line is al
ready having a marked effect upon
prices, and we believe that if the mer-
chants, bankers and other parties inter-
ested in the welfare of the country will
stand together and resist the nefarious
designs of the nlapipulatOrs of cotton
prices, there will be no doubt of our
success
The mills must have the cotton. The
people must have cotton goods. 1t is the.
duty of the farmers to hold back Their
cotton until they can get what it IS
worth. If they owe money, they can
borrow all they want with their cotton
as security. The cotton mill men are
moving to secure an increase for the
produce of their mills. With everything
else going mp. the Southern farmers and
mill men ought to use all legitimate
methods of organization to secure for the
Solth its proportion of the general rise
in prices.
Several weeks ago, when the NefH pre-
diction sent cotton down, this paper be-
gan to urge the farmers TO hold their
cotton for the rise which we felt sure
would come. The increase up to date
has put something like mine dollars n
the pocket of every North Carolina farm
er who took our advice.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-29
Pain Conquered; Health Re-
stored by Lydia {. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
LETTER TO MRS. rINKHAM NO. e2,64ol


81 feel it my duty to write and thank
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pound has done for me. ltis the only
medicine I have found that has done
me any good. Before taking your medi-
cine, was all run down, tired all the
time, no appetite, pains in my back and
bearing down pains and a great suf-
ferer during menstruation. After TAX
ing two bottles of Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound l felt like new
woman. / am now on my fourth bottle
and all my pains have left me. feel
better than have felt for three years
and would recommend your Compound
to every suffering woman. hope this
letter will help others to find cure
for their troubles" - MRS. DELLA
REMICKER, RENSSELAER,, IND.
The serious ills of women develop
from neglect of early symptoms. Every
pain and ache has cause. and the
warning they give should not be disre-
garded.
Mrs. PinlSham understands these
troubles better than any local ply
stefan and will give every woman free
advice who is puzzled about her
health. Mrs. Pinkham's address is
Lynn, Mass. Don't put oil writing until
health is completely broken down
Write at the first indication Of trouble.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-29
AN INVENTIVE INDIAN.
lCherokee Scout.l

John McLeymore, a Cherokee Indian
living near Murphy. was in town the
other day with a violin that he made
himself. including the bow. 1t WAS n
piece of handsome workmanship and
stamps John as genius or no mean
character. The violin had a pleasant
sound and was admired by all who saw
II
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-29

There's always hope while there's One
Minute Cough Cure. ''An attack of
pneumonia left my lungs in bad shape
and | was near the first stages Of con-
sumption. One Minute Cough Cure COM
pletely cured me-" writes Helen Nc
Henry, Bismarck, N. d. Gives instant
relief. Bobbitt- Wynne Drug Co, w. Fl.
King & Co., Adams Sc Moye, VIM. Simp-
son.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-29

the patient is left in a normal and healt
DESIRE nor necessity for stimulants. o
been permanently cured of the disease of
ment, which is administered in North Ca
Greensboro. The treatment at this inst
posed; it is like taking four weeks vaca
Detailed information of this treatment a
application to THE KELLEY INSTIT
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-29

Cotton is going up-up-up. Why? Be
cause the crop is short and the worlds
demand is large. Tobacco has gone
down, down, down. Why? Because
a trust controls it, Down with the
trusts.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-29

Chatham Record.)

The millennium must be near, for at
last the lion and the lamb are lying
down together. At least, our former
countyman, Mr.. Thos. J. Lamhc, and
Mr.. George Lyon have formed CO.
partnership, at Durham, in the clothing
business under the name of Lampe and
Won
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-29

# money could only induce people to
be good, what a jolly world this would
be.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-29

It's simply impossible for man to love
his neigllb0r as himself il he has a gar
den and lhis neighbor has chickens.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
BITS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
A Small budget of Information on
Culinary md Other
Matters.

To keep eggs-Eggs may be packed
with the small ends down in salt to keep
for winter use.
Raisins sink to the bottom of cake
when the batter is too thin or the
raisins have not been Toured.
Honey-If honey agrees with you
there is no reason why you should not
eat it now and then in moderate guam
titles.
Baked apples-Persons with gastric
intestinal indigestion must settle for
themselves whether or not they should
eat baked apples.
Oak stain may be purchased at any
paint shop. They will mix it for you,
and you can apply it yourself. You
lay or may not, as you wish, varnish
the woodwork afterward.
A bilious child should not eat sweets
of any kind, nor fried food or soft
cereals. Whatever starchy foods are
taken should be properly baked and
thoroughly masticated.
Impure water-If there is the slight
est danger of water being contaminat-
GU WIN pOlSOuOu5 germs, DOll w anu 10
soon as it is cold put it into water bot
tie and stand it in the refrigerator to
cool. Use distilled water If you can
get 1t.
Maple sugar icing-Scrape the maple
sugar; add a little water and pour it
over the cake, and allow it to harden, or
boil IL with butter and little water un-
til brittle; stir until partly cool and
then use. The latter way makes soft
er icing.
Wheat griddle cakes-Beat two eggs
without separating until very light;
add one cup of milk, level tablespoon
full of butter melted, cupful and a half
of flour; beat thoroughly; add tea
spoonful of baking powder, and bake
on hot griddle.
To remove kerosene from wall paper
Cover the spots of kerosene with full
er's-earth or French chalk. By holding
a piece of blotting paper over, and put.
ting a warm iron on the outside of the
paper, you may be able to absorb a part
OF the grease into the chalk.-Ladies
Home Journal.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
WILL u IS OAK CASKS.
english Scie ntists' Plan to Study
AGctic Currents.
ohe Aun-dred Specially Made Casks
TO BE Set AnOat on Arctic
w aters, Each Containing
Records.

A British geographical society is
abo ut to make a departure in investi-
ga ting the poles. Some years ago Capt.
G. gorge Melnoote, the famous explor-
Clr, was wrecked on an ice foe some
where in the Arctic sea. His snip fell
to pieces under the pounding of the bill
lows, but he and the crew escaped in a
boat. The fragments Of his craft were
never found, yet on pulling away a
strong current toward the pole was
encountered. This set the explorer to
thinking. If the pieces of his ship
were carried off into the unknown seas,
why might human agencies be not?
So far the only reason for sending
out expeditions northward has been
mainly for the purpose of observing a
daily record of events, such as latitude,
longitude, soundings, daily drift, find-
ing the Arctic oceans bottom where
possible, and so forth, with the possi-
bility of discovering the north pole.
A far-seeing geographer asks: why
undergo this human risk when it can
be obviated with the use of oak casks?"
1t is never too late to adopt good idea,
and so, acting on the suggestion, the So
ciety in question is about to set afoat
100 specially made casks on arctic
waters. These casks are to be made
on the principle of spindle, conical
shaped at each end, of 20 gallons ca
pacity and iron hooped. They are to
be set afoat in Behring strait, and it is
thought that at the end of four OF five
years they may be expected to turn up
at Spitzburgen and Greenland, during
which period they will have travelled
round the pole. Should present geo.
graphical deductions be correct, these
casks may demonstrate the existence
of a current far enough to the north
and west to meet the polar drifts which
run southwark along the east coast of
Greenland, whence it turns to the west
ward, thence to the southwark, where,
as part of the Labrador pack, it eventu-
ally finds its way into the Atlantic
ocean. You can trace this route in the
arctic regions on any good map of the
world.
So far as regards the stability of the
casks to stand the great strain they are
sure to be subjected to on their novel
voyage, they Will be made of heavy oak
slaves ~ inches thick, bound round
with heavy iron hoops, three-sixteenths
of an inch thick and two inches wide.
Coated with a solution of pitch and
resin, the casks will be almost corro-
sive proof. They are to be placed on
the heavy foe pieces that they may
drift with the ice. Each cask is to con-
tain a number of records printed in the
principal languages of the world, these
requesting the finder of any one cask
to preserve the latter, but to send the
records to the photographic office of
his own country, such Office in turn to
send to all other important countries
the other records found within the
cask, stating the latitude and longitude
where found.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
NO MORE MEN NURSES
According to This Account They
Were Never as Satisfactory as
the Women.

A writer in contemporary has late
ly been endeavoring, in series of arti-
cles to prove the lamentable inferiority
of women to men IN the different arts
and professions, says the Philadelphia
Times. If the writer did not include
nursing in his catalogue he was wise
man, for the conference on nursing,
lately held at the Medical society's
rooms, would certainly have made him
look rather foolish. The male nurse il
rapidly becoming rerer, but his rarity
does not, so far as one can Judge from
the conference, mean that he is pre-
cious. In fact, his disappearance seems
to be a matter of eongratulation. He
is said to be not at all conscientious or
sober, very open to bribes and thor
oughly untrustworthy. He is drawn
from lower class than women nurses,
and it was almost unanimously decided
at the conference that his services were
best limited to cases of paralysis, with
insanity.
1t is rather an odd theory that men
should make bad nurses, as their hands
are, as a rule, more deft and skillful
than women's. But evidently the right
sort of man does not adopt the profess
sion, and the right sort of woman does.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
TRICKS IN THE FISH TRADE.
The Novel Use to which a Chicago
Dealer Puts His Finny
Cannibals.

An amateur dealer in goldfish has dis
covered a most profitable trick for his
trade. He has a modest little shop on
the North side near one of the public
schools, and his show windows allure
hundreds of children to the reckless in
vestments in tiny aquariums, reports
the Chicago Inter Ocean. Some time
ago the shopkeeper happened to buy a
number of fish that soon exhibited an
appetite for their companions. Large
and small fish were devoured, and the
dealers stock was soon alarmingly re-
duced. Then happy thought struck
him. When he made sale he tried put
ting one cannibal fish with every lot.
In less than a week each purchaser
would return with the announcement
that all the fish except one had died.
The dealer sympathized with the disap-
pointment of the children, gave direc-
tions concerning the change Of water
and the allowance of food, and sold q
new lot of fish. By slIillful distribu,
ton of the cannibal fish he soon doubled
his trade, and he is now selling choice
lots of the cannibal fish to downtown
dealers, and the sales are reported to
be increasing in manner that encour-
ages the North side man to put fancy
prices on his peculiar speciality.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
HE ASKED TOO MUCH.
A Rescuer Who Severely Taxed the
Gratitude of the One
Rescued.

1t was in Bradford. An old man was
about to step in front of steam tram
going at full speed, when hand seized
him and flung him back. 1t was a mar
row shave, and as soon as the old man
realized it he extended his hand to his
rescuer and exclaimed:
"You have saved my life and can
never repay the debt"
II deserve no thanks" was the modest
reply.
But you deserve more than thanks.
l am rich man, and want to give you
some substantial token of my graft
tude. Here-let me write you a check
for"
"I couldn't accept anything-really,
l couldn't" protested the other, "but
there is something you might do for me
all the same"
Speak and it shall be done"
"You are rich man and know you
by name. l am secretary of the gas
company. Every month when you come
in to pay your bill you make tremen-
dous row for half an hour and declare
that we are highway robbers. If you
would only agree"
"Not to make row over my gas bill?
Never, sir, never! You saved my life,
and l am ready TO draw you check for
e 10000; but, as for foregoing privi-
lege granted only TO free-born Britons
| can't surrender it-couldn't do it il
you saved my life dozen times over!'
| Tit Bits.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
War and Famine I'm Cuba.

I must have seen rs graveyards on
my trip In the various provinces, and
j remember only one that was not en-
ilarged because of the famine of the
war. Maj Gen. James II. Wilson told
me the story of the horrors of recon
centration had been only partly told.
1t was far worse than the people of
the United States had believed. The
pen of a trained historian alone can do
the story of death by famine and mAi-
tary wantonness justice. Competent
judges assert that the island is nearly
100000 men short. In most of the prov
inces the birth rate is less than one
half Of what it was before the war. The
island was stripped of cattle. In Ma
tapzas, the province chiefly given to
the cattle-raising industry, there were
29a,0OO cattle, according TO a census
In 1894. When the war ceased there
were fewer than 1900 cattle in the
province.-FranISlin Matthews, in Har
per's Weekly.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
Empress EIluabeth,. Assassin.

1t is stated that the dungeon in which
Luccheni, the assassin of Empress Eliz-
abeth, is now confined has no windows,
its walls are of cold generally damp
stone, its floor of stone, its ceiling of
stone, and that Luccheni will probs. bly,
pay for his crime by the loss OF his eye
sight and his reason. Only once fort
night is he permitted to walk in the
prison courtyard for half an hour. He
does not even see the attendants who
bring him his daily rations at six o'clock
every morning, and pass them through
an opening over the iron door which
closes the dungeon.-N. Y. World.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
WORST OF NIGHT NOISES.
A Nervous Boarder Says IL Is the
Flapping of skirts Ont of
windows.

~ am expert on night noises and
their relative effect on the sleep wooer's
SYSTEM" said Mr.. Keenstrung to the
new boarder the other morning as he
waited for his late breakfast to be pre-
pared 81 have kept watch in the heart
of New York for thousands of nights
and know exactly to what extent the ,
creaking of boots, the shutting of
hatbox lid, the bang of door or te ~.
ing on the stairs damages and dists noes
my chances Of sleep. / have r, ocular
gamut of nightly recurring SC ,nnds IN
go by, and can conjure the ,nr+icular
degree of hopelessness and ogorava..
ton evoked by each in tu' =, b,,+ to n,
the sound of sounds mos ,no,o,,lated a.
set the nerves on edg . is the 'wh opI
wnOp' "nop Oh woman's Ssirts
shaken out Oh an upper window at
iiiu,iSn n Nv VI Cio a on to midnight.
"A househo' der over the why here
70 s..en " ,cadRing up his full-toned
p"ii IN toward the small hours.
neighbor makes it practice
" ieU at his house bound dogs for ex-
ei.9e arourd the block et the same
un' .sssonable time. They are big dogs,
=, 4 enjoy the chance. There is some
dnes a great clatter when the maids
next door get to shying tins and heavy
4 objects at the cat that prowls in the
area, and there is the usual number of
whirring, gong-sounding electric cabs
and late scurrying hansoms in this
neighborhood. But no one of these
sounds, or all put together, can COM
pare in efficacy with that clothes shak-
ing business. The half muffled domes-
tic sort of sound is as much more
audible than any mere racket can be
as a stage whisper carries further
than talk conducted in an ordinary
tone of voice.
The young woman who has the
room next to mine shakes her skirts out
of the window in this way every night
without fail" he went on. She is
; strong and vigorous, and flaps them
in lively and germ-banishing fashion
over and over again, while listen on
tenter hooks for the alternate strokes
of the whisk brush and other steps in
, the dirt-freeing process that l have
learned to recognize. Trailing skirts
are the mode now, so they gather much
dirt. No matter how we'll am getting
on toward my coveted sleep haven,
how soothed and tranquil my nerves,
> how deliciously elusive my sensations
> in that happy state preceding slumber,
: at the first throwing up of the sash
= and preliminary flourish of those wide
breadthed garments l am as wide
awake as though the hour was IL noon
instead of sleep time. 'Whop! whop!
! whop! scutter scutter! scutter' goes
on the operation with now and again
pause while she picks off a feck, re-
moves thread or hattens the frocls
= out on the sill for fresh onslaught. I
know the whole programme by heart,
. and long after she has shut the window
and settled down for the night, doubt
less dreaming of her sweetheart or her
new spring hat, am tossing in exas-
! peration, mauling the bed clothes, and
: in between, times trying to think out
just why it is that things so excellent
and admirable in themselves should
= work such discomfort and unchari-
= tableness to those they hit at random" !"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
Express street Cara.

Express cars are now running on the
street car tracks of Pittsburgh. They
are bnilt on the same principle as the
United States mail cars. There are two
doors, one in front and one in the rear.
The interior is made of the finest wood,
and has several shelves for packages,
All along the route recently people
looked with curiosity on the new car
Few had any idea to what use it was to
be put. In McKeesport flocks of chill
dren ran after the car, imagining 1t was
one of the show variety.-Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
Notice of appointment

The undersigned has been duly appointed
administrator of the estate of George Har.
mon, late of Stark county, Ohio deceased.
Dated the 22nd day of May, 1899.
w. ii. HARMON,
5-26 DIT fsw Administrator.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
AIsatian Eggs.

Chop one onion and five ounces Of
calls liver; toss them for eight min
utes over brisk fire; add eight drops
of vinegar, dash of pepper and a
saltspoon of salt; arrange Ave poeched
eggs on dish, sprinkle salt and pep
per over, and put the chopped liver
and onion at each end of the dish as
q garnish.--Housewife.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
Gentle CannIbala.

Capt. Guy Barrows in Pearson's Mag
azine maintains that cannibalism is a
sign of little higher development
than the tribes who do not practice it
possess. 1t is a relic of some religious
rite or perhaps hunger that has been
retained until the descendants Like the
practice of it. The flesh of relatives
is never eaten and some tribes forbid
the use of human flesh to their wom-
en-. A cannibal is often kind and af-
fectionate and no bad moral results
have been discovered fro-''+
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09

DOR SALE--Three acres splendid farm land, 10
L good trucking order, plenty of fruit of all
kind, in Nimishillen township; house of rooms
barn and outbuiIdinVs; miles from Canton.
two years SIMON RINGER,
8dm- -wkly Trump. Stark co.. y.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
For sale.

Three excellent farms. ne consisting of
80 acres, ~ miles northeast of Paris, good
buildings and outbuildings, good hard
water, ana un4eridl9 wlth d lour .ioot VEN n
mile east of first farm, good buildings, well
watered and all tillable land And another
of 40 acres joining last me"tioned farm on
the east, also with good buildings and spien-
did water. The buildings ON each of the
farms are located on good public highways
For further particulars inquire of
LEVI WALKER,
Agent for the heirs of Philip Walker
deceaSt d. 5.26 hm fsw
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-09
Military Musicians.

The German army includes more
than 10000 military musicians. Other
powerful nations on the continent en-
ploy rather less numbers in military
hands
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-08-09

about 10 strike McEloy when Mr..
Winslow shbuUd 10 his keeper In "a
moment Mclthgy had his pistol out and
he covered the barAeeper until the bot
lie was dropped.
There were four or five men i'm the
saloon and they seeing the bartender
was getting The worst of the argument
pushed against the keeper and against
the deputy sherni. Mr. Winslow said
uhe baIwCcm must be cleared. Just
"a this juncture keOugh got back He
brought much anger with him and be-
gan hurting things Gbout. The loafers
i'm thu baroom began jostling again
but Mr.. Wins.ow had made up his
mind there must be an end to the
squabble and ne pulled out his revolt
Yer and So did .,,r. Mclclroy. There
was a diversion again. however. for
Mr.. Carroll the holder Of ..-e mortgage
came into the saloon. Mr.. Keough said
unpleagart things. about Mr.. Carroll
and there WAS more trouble. Things
We're smashed emiscuously IL
looked as II some one would hurt
The end OF the circus was that the
deputy sheriff and h.s keeper had pos
session OF the sasoon. its fixtures and
come 81 or thereaJouts that was I'm the
money drawer.
This morning Keough's real estate
was attached and the two keepers were
in charge OF the place where things
were so disturbed yesterday.