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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
WORTH TRYING.

Softleigh-'I always weah gloves fob
the-aw-purpose of keeping me hands
soft. doncher know"
Miss Cutting Indeed! And don't
You think it would be a good idea to
discontinue wearing your hat for sim
liar reason?"
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BELIEVE IN WHITE RULE
WILL SHOW IT BY BIG MAJORITY
FOR AMENDMENT.
SYNOPSIS OF HON. LOCKE cRAIe'sspEEcH
The Constitutional Amendment win not Dis
franchise SinsI, White Man un'ess
he Swears he is Negro or The
Ii e De; cen a i, One"

Old Fort, n. c., Aug. 21.-(Special) y
BY wire Saturday might your readers
received glowing and true account
of the rally and picnic here on that date.
/ regret that no report in cold type could
give the people of the State an adequate
conception of the enthusiasm and inter-
est of our gala day.
The people of Mcdowell understand
the amendment. They cannot be deceiv-
ed by the false statements that are be-
ing sent broadcast. The speaking on
Saturday was of high order. | regret
that | cannot send you a fuller synop-
sis of the excellent speeches of Maj.
William A. Guthrie, Senator Nj. III.
Justice and Mr.. Ellis Gardner. They
caught the crowd and made great
speeches that will tell.
| give below the outlines of the speech
delivered by Hon. Locke Craig, of Bun
combe:
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MIR. CRAIG's SPEECH.

This is memorable day in North
Carolina. 1t will be remembered not
only on account of the presence of the
distinguished gentlemen who have adj
dressed you, this great and happy throng
of people, but specially because it is the
beginning Of the movement among the
people to rewrite the Constitution of
North Carolina ON a most significant
question. This meeting is not a POI
litical one. We have met in no parti-
san spirit, but come as citizens of one
common glorious old commonwealth, as
heirs of one sacred priceless heritage, as
members of the same great family of the
human race.
We of the South are a peculiar peo-
ple-peculiar not on account of race, for
the blood of the puritan and the cava-
lier flow together in the veins of the
American citizen, peculiar not on ac-
count of sectional prejudices, for the
South is loyal to the Union. Every
monument that is erected to perpetuate
the memory of the boys who died for
Dixie is built in love and loyalty to the
whole Union. When Lee surrendered
at Appomattox we babe farewell for
ever to the lost cause and determined
that the republic should have no more
patriotic and devoted sons than those
who live south of the Mason and Dixon
line. We are peculiar people because
we have for solution the greatest prob
lem that ever taxed the wisdom and
justice and patriotism of any section.
1t is the race problem. 1t has no prece-
dent for solution in the history of the
world. Two distinct races have never
existed on the same soil at the same
time OH terms of peace and equity. BY
reason of kinship and similarity they
have become amalgamated and racial
distinctions obliterated as was the case
with the Saxons and Normans in Eng
land, or else there has existed between
the two an initerminaIble hnternicena
struggle, or else one race has acknowl-
edged the superiority of the other, sub
uniting itself to the laws and the gov
eminent of the stronger.
On this Southern soil we have two
races nearly equal in number. and as
unlike as it is possible for different
branches of the human family to be
With MS amalgamation is impossible. II
would mean the degradation, of boeh
races. The Almighty has erected an inn
passable barrier between the TWO. Cen
turtles from today there will evist In
the Southern States two peoples as diff
ferent from each other as white is
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AN ALTERNATIVE

mo" said the conscientious candi-
date, I'D like very much to secure the
nomination, but | cannot tell a lie."
"Oh that's all right" answered the
old politician, here's pen, ink and
l5aper-you can write it"
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Elizabeth College, Charlotte, N. c.
"The Vassar of The South"

United
teachers uniyersues Oh
the countries
adm to
Student attendth
building modern comfort
furnished A lcaef individual student
for nne In tne Suburbs %
Z eu"uieu anu fus eN W KING President
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"FOR THE SAKE OF FUN MIS-
CHIEF is DONE"

A vast amount of mischief is done
too. because people neglect to keep their
blood pure. The mischief appears IN
eruptions, dyspepsia, Indigestion, ner-
vousness, kidney diseases, and other
ailments. This mischief, fortunately,
may be undome by the faithful use OF
Hoods Sarsaparilla, when cures all
diseases originating in or promoted by
impure blood.
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To Insurance Solicitors.

TOP COMMISSION AND TEN PER
cent. bonus for 100000 between now
and January 1st. An excellent oppor-
tunity for two good men. Address
stating record for past six months.
old Line" care The News and OBJ
server, Raleigh, n. G.
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eased the blood becomes impoverished,
and nerves and muscles grow weak for
lack Of nutrition. More fatal diseases
probably begin with weak stomach "
than with any other cause. The first
symptom of disordered stomach calls for
prompt use of DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
zeal Discovery. 1t is a vegetable 1nedi-
cine, absolutely non-alcoholic and non
narcotic, and is nnequalcd for the strength
it gives to blood, nerves and muscles.
During the summer and fall Of 1855, writes
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22

the State Young ladies Of
denomination
0 The University building possibly the most beautiful and symmetrical
South Everything furnished Latest
Electric lighted best heating and ventilation known clos
TEEN and the best colleges and universities OF this
Board will be excellent
andel of
Of A. NJ
light and literary tuition $l6o0 Music
O an Eocution. pecus address
BLASINGAME .
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EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
VINE HILL MALE ACADEMY

= Select boarding school for boys. Nine
tieth year. Thorough preparation for
college or business. Good buildings,
library, literary societies. For terms
and catalogues address
PRINCE & WILSON, superintendent,
SCOTLAND NECK, n. g.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22

Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. Non
irritating.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22

IIIdt tAdIISOI y tI'9I
as great TO the man on
the sidewalk or in the
Office as to the man
: on the roof. When
the stomach and the
organs of digestion
,j ,,,,4r,+i0,, ora die
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three square meals q day, and 90 not feel that
miserable burning in the stomach after eating.
7 think / now we'll
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11
Story of a Fish Pond.

He thought that he had struck bo-
nanza and it did look that way for a
time, for he had some large and very
fine springs running into coulee on his
farm, and he thought that he would
raise fish instead of corn and hogs; SO he
built some fine fsh-ponds and stocked
them, one with pike, one with bass, one
with trout and one with carp. The fish
thrived and were soon big enough to
catch, and then he would let the fisher
men catch the trout for twenty cents a
pound, the bass and pike for twelve
cents ard the carp for eight cents, the
ponds were genuine money makers for
him; but the drought came on; the
springs dried up and ceased to flow; the
fish died and now he is raising corn and
hogs just like the rest of us for living,
and take it all round this is the very
worst fish story we ever heard, for it is
all true.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11
A New Woman.

We saw woman a farmer daughter,
few days since, seated on sulky pillow
driving team of three fine horses
and doing as nice job OF blowing as we
have seen done in many day, doing her
work in far better shape than was man
with similar outfit in an adjoining
field. mo business to be doing this
sort of work. you say? well, we don't
know about that. She might far better
be driving That team and doing that nice
blowing than fooling her time away on
some lovesick novel. or be pounding a
piano when she had no more music in
her makeup than an old goose, or be
working green storks on yellow card
board and calling it art, or be living a
useless, idle existence, primping and
posing to get some fellow to marry her.
There's whole lot of mush about
modern ideas OF woman and her sphere.
II more OF this healthful outdoor work
was done by American women they
would not have to hire wet-nurses for
their babies and there would be more
and healthier children raised. We know
of farmer to whom the Lord sent a
whole lot of girls and no boys. He was
fairly we'll to do, and three of the girls
did not want to teach school, work in a
millinery store and that sort, and the
old man would not let them lay around
and do nothing; so he made deal with
them to help him ON the farm. and they
MIXED the cows, fed the calves, took
care Of the garden and orchard, helped
do the seeding, corn-plowing, haying,
harvesting, and when we saw them they
were none the less refined and lady like
because of SO doing; and my, but what
pretty, healthfulgirl they wore compe-
tent, resourceful, energetic, and each
one Of them had nice young fellow who
was wrestling with the problem of getting
farm and home of his own, who
found in these girls just the right sort
Of woman to help him do it. Woman
may from choice do this sort Of out door
work without degradation or loss Of
womanly refinement and grace. but she
should net b compelled 70 DO it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

The street fair is the prevailing fad.
The holding of Just one usually satisfies
the average community. In business
way they probably advertise the town
where they are held, but it is a costly
method of advertising to the business
men. They draw all the fakes ana
frauds within reach and encourage the
violation of the laws of the state. They
beat the tom tom and rocad up the
country sucker for the city pirate to
fleece. Not town which has one but
has bad taste in its mouth after the
thing is over. AS usually conducted
they appeal wholly to the uncouth, the
uncivilized, the barbaric, ard lower the
tone of our civilization. They are simply
festival tributes to the god Mammon
offered by civilized heather. They
might be otherwise, but they are not.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

He would not put the shingles on his
new barn because the moon was not
right, as he expressed it. He would not
plant his potatoes till the moon got right
either, and he would starve before he
would sit down with twelve other people
to meal, and lose the advantage Of an
excursion rate on railroad before he
would commence journey on Friday.
and yet he knew, or claimed to know, all
about how the county, state and nation
should be run, believed in an overruling
Providence, read the daily papers and
had good deal to say about the enlight-
ened age in which he lived, when a
foolish superstition dominated all his
actions as much as though he were a
Zulu Of South Africa or Tagal Of the
Philippines. You know him, do, youl
Well he il queer combination, 10 he
Hees
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11
Night Life.

The life of the world of nature as one
sees it by day reveals only part of the
mysterious and manifold life of the
world. We say in a general way that
when darkness falls upon the earth all
things rest and sleep after fashion, but
really the advent of the night is the
coming of the morning the waking up
time-for countless forms OF animal,
vegetable and insect life. The nights of
the spring and autumnal months wit
ness most marvellous migrations of bird
life. 1t was cold and wintry yesterday,
and you wake in the morning feeling
that the winter is over at last because
you are greeted by the CHEEKY song of
the blue-bird or the robin which have
travelled hundreds of miles since the
sunset. You stand ,out under starlit
sky in November and the trained ear
will detect the whirr of countless wings,
or the signal call of the leader of myriad
numbers of wild fowl, all headed for a
SUMMER and warmer cline. Like an evil
spirit the owl in the dense, dark night
reads his owl world like an open book
ana startles the belated traveller with
his uncanny call from some tree top. or
silently fans himself through the invisi-
BILE air, pirate of the night. An army
of bats the whole night long chase down
another army of night-hying bugs and
beetles, while the whole family of the
carnivora are night-feeders. The life of
the night is full of tragedy and mystery,
the wild beast seeking it's prey, while a
cereus will unfold it's exquisite flower.
Longfellow had evidently never COM
pretended the virility and activity Of
night-life in the world when he wrote:
Darker and darker the black shadows fall;
Sleep and oblivion reign over ALL"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

New methods beget new dangers and
risks. Old and unused wells of water
have from time immemorial been known
as the begetters and harborers of car
bonic acid gas and so men have been
cautious how they went down into such
wells, but here comes the report of a
silo being filed, the contents fermenting
over Sunday, and three men who went
into the silo on Monday morning being
overcome and killed by the carbonic
acid gas which had accumulated.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

II the cholera can be lodged, every
little black pig on northwestern farms
represents the sum Of s12 by the time
he is fit to market. This little black pig
at even this price means lots of money
for the farmers of the territory in which
he is raised. 1t would not be inappro-
pirate to have printed on each mortgage
satisfaction filed in the Poland China
territory Of the northwest, cut Of his
excellency, the Poland China hog, for
he has brought about the satisfaction Of
more mortgages than any other animal
connected with western farms.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

The time is not far distant when the
supply Of choice clear lumber used by
the northwest will nearly all have to
come from the Pacific coast. The north
ern cut lumber Of the Minnesota, Mich
igan and Wisconsin pinories gets poor
or in quality and more knotty each year,
For lumber and timbers Of extra length,
say over 80 fset-the coast product can
be already laid down as cheaply as that
of the northern pineries, and is besides
OF better quality. On ordinary sized
lumber there is only about five dollars
per thousand in favor of the homo pro-
duced stock. With the advancing prices
for lumber and growing scarcity S4n
diGSTepce win soon b wiped out.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

In the membership of cooperative
creamery of 100 members which had
hard work to get along, and which made
a low grade of butter, only % took any
kind of an agricultural paper. The 70
went it alone on the old lines of their
fathers. Agriculture and progress are
today synonymous terms. Old ways are
dead ways. Grey matter, nitrogen, pot
ash, phosphoric acid and providence are
working together. The reading farmer
raises the best crops and makes the most
money. The man who reads also thinks
and the man who reads and thinks and
works always will take first money.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

Creamery enterprises fail because too
much money is invested in the building
and outfit; because there are not enough
cows in the locality whereit is establish
ed; because it gets to bucking some riv-
al concern; because it employs cheap
buttermaker; because the manager
seeks to get acquainted with all the
commission houses in New York and
Chicago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

The woman man wants for wife is
not Martha, all engrossed with cook
ing, scrubbing and the cares of the
home, nor Mary absorbed with literary
tastes and ambitious to shine in social
way, leaving fellow to wear buttonless
shirts and eat bakers bread. There is a
woman just about half way between
these two types that fills the bill.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

A hard summer storm coupled with
wind and hail, will kill more sparrows
than any other agency SO far employed
for their destruction. Such storms dis
pose of them by the million. The next
best thing is the common house cat,
which in Europe is about the only active
enemy the little pest has. Ameri-
can cats are not yet educated to hunt
this bird as they are in the old countries.
But they will learn to do it in time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

Better apples can be raised in this
country than in Europe, and as a result
constantly increasing demand for
American apples is met with. The
mountain lands of the Virginias, east
Tennessee, portions of the state OF New
York, and Canada, now produce the
finest fruit. A great apple country is
also being opened up in the Ozark
country in northern Arkansasand south
ern Missouri, while Idaho and Washing
ton show some of the finest apples rails
ed anywhere in the world.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

A farmer friend OF ours has sixty-fve
tons of good timothy hay in his barn
He also has fifty acres of good corn, not
a stalk of which he viii utilize. save as
the cattle have the run of the field after
the corn is husked. His sixty-fve tons
of hay will sell this winter for at least
1926 and he might have sold every ton
of it if he had been wise enough to have
saved his fodder on the fifty acres Of
corn
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

The ability to make loaf of good
bread is an accomplishment which every
woman should possess before she gets
married. 1t is of no use for woman to
think that she can hold mans affect
ions very securely if she feeds him on
death-slug biscuits, soggy pie crust and
burnt or half cooked meats. Men do not
live to eat, but they have to eat in order
to live, and what they have to eat has
much to do with their temper, their
piety, and their health. A woman
should take pride in being expert and
accomplished in her cooking and the
care of her home, just as man does in
being expert in his businessor profession
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

The manager OF line ofgrain eleva-
tors told US recently that it rarely ever
pays farmer to use elevator storage for
his grain. The storage and insurance
charges are constantly eating away at
the stored grain and in nearly every
case the farmer is the loser. He cited a
case where lot of corn was stored with
his company by farmer, in which case
the storage charges not only ate up all
the grain but brought the farmer in debt
to the elevator company besides.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

Some men destroy as fast as built all
the nests of the barn swallows attached
to their buildings. We wouldn't.
A band Of barn-swallows willin season
destroy an incalculable amount of de-
structive insect life. Birds of whatever
kind, which are partially or wholly in
ectivorous in their diet, are among
mans best friends and should be fully
protected by him. We just enjoy seeing
a woman who will wear dead bird in
her spring hat, plagued to death with
flies, musquitos and bed bugs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

The feeding value Of the fodder on
forty acres of corn, where timothy and
clover hay is worth S. per ton, is not
less than $500, provided the corn is cut
up at the right time and properly cared
for. This is one of the most important
facts connected with farming in the
northwest and one which not one
farmer in ten as yet comprehends.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

There are not few men who want no
better proof of their business ability
than to start out in the morning with an
old plug of horse and return at night
with better kind of plug, three dol
lars in cash and an old harness
Every little town has one or more of
this sort. Their wives generally take in
washing to support the family.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

We noted careful directions how to
plant trees in the fall given by farm
paper lately. The directions were all
right but the writer should have added
"dont plant the tree until spring. Fall
planting of any sort of trees is mistake
in the northwest. There is seldom
moisture enough in the ground to pre-
serve the life of the tree until spring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

1t is of no sort of use to expect to
make success of winter dairying unless
you have the right kind of feed for your
cows and warm barn to keep them in.
Pasturing cows in field of stalks in
midwinter soon makes them farrow.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

The gathered cream creamery at
Usage Iowa made last year 36O,237 lbs.
of butter at cost of LII cents per 10.
placed on the cars. 1t is claimed that
these figures have never been duplicat-
ed by any creamery in the west
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

In Porto Rico the finest of oranges re-
tail for four cents dozen. Here they
sell for 40 or so cents. We are opposed
to annexation on general principles I'M
less those four cent oranges can be laid
down here for 20 cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11
FARM, ORCHARD,
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford Iowa.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.

The new crop of broom corn is finding
a market at about $50 per ton, making
it very profitable crop to raise
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

india uses but liz pounds or soap
annually for each $500 of her population,
or less than one ounce per head. 1t is
not much wonder that the people die off
like sheep from epidemics of filth
diseases
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

The beet sugar factory at Minneapolis
will this year make about 8,OOOOOO
pounds of sugar and work up about
1900 acres of beets.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

An unlocked for obstacle to the use
Of oil, as applied to the road beds OF the
railways to keep down the dust, has
come to light. When soaked with oil
the road bed takes fire from the passing
trains and burns out the ties. A four
mile strip thus treated on the Union
Pacific has to be constantly patrolled in
order to put out the fires.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-11

Yes, its go cd thing to halter break
the colt young and its also pretty
good thing to halter-break the boy
pretty young too. A five year old colt
and ten year old boy, if allowed to run
wild, are hard subjects to handle.