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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-19
FIFTH SESSION
OF the Sunday School Convention of
the Christian Church.

Auburn, y. c.. July 11.-(Srecial Cor
respon,lence.) THE fifth annual Sunday
School Convention of the Eastern North
Carolina Conference of the Christian
Church was held last week, July II, ID,
ii. at Mt. Hermon Church. near Au-
burn, Wake county.
The convention was organized with
Rev. c. III. Rowland. of Elon College,
as PRESIDENT and Rev. w. ID. HARDWOOD,
of Morrisville. secretary.
The first days session WAS devoted to
the enrolment of delegates. reading re-
ports from the various schools represent
ed. assignment of homes, etc. The fol-
lowing committees were also appointed:
Religious literature Prof. s. Nj. Smith.
l. w. Pritchard, Miss Bessie Staley.
committee on nominations, w. ID. Har-
ward. s. NJ. Smith, l.. r. Johnson;
awarding banners, Prof. S. NJ. Smith,
Miss Mamie Clements.
On motion the convention decided to
meet one week later in it's next annual
session. This was done to enable the
farmers to finish their crops before the
session begins.
The second days session was devoted
to the discussion of the following topics:
1IoAtl III lut Cttilddy bseiiul NAofS-
mert,' by Rev. w. ID. Harvard; How
to Get Old People Interested in the Sun
day School," by Prof. S. NJ Smith, w.
ID. Harvard. j NJ King and others;
what Should Excuse Anyone from the
Sunday School, by ]. Milton Banks.
Prof. j. o. Atkinson, J NJ King: "Wo-
mans Work in the Sunday School for
the New Century" by Miss Mamie
Clements: Missionary Work an the
Sunday Schools by w Watts Flow
l Superintend Ny Sunday School," by
Prof. $. NJ. Smith, j. y. King, I. w.
Pritcharl. J. Milton Banks. Possibly
the most interesting address Of the day i
session was that of Prof. J. o. Atkin-
son. of Elon College, on ..Education''
The third days session opened with
religious exercises conducted by Rev.
G. III. Utley, of the Baptist Church
The following subjects were discussed:
1.-The Organic Sunday School," by Rev
G. II. Rowland; Primary Work in the
Sunday School," by Mrs. J. L. Foster;
Character Building" by Prof. j. q.
Atkinson; .Picnics. Excursions and
Christmas Trees by Revs. C. H. Ut
ley, l.. f.. Johnson and others; .'JumoI
Christian Endeavor,' by Miss Eun1ce
Worth. of Raleigh; ..Tshe Christian En-
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curry and potash seemed to add fuel to tht
twful flame which was devonring me. wal
advised by friends who had seen wonderful
cures made by it.. TO try Swift's Specific. Wy
got two bottles. and felt hope again revive IL
my breast-hope for health and happiness
again. improved from the start, and com
plete and perfect cure was the result s. S. s
is the only blood remedy which reaches des
perate cases. MRS. 7. w. LEE.
Montgomery, Ala.
OF the many blood remedies, S. S. S
is the only one which can reach deep.
seated, violent cases. It never fails tc
cure perfectly ard permanently the
most desperate cases which are beyond
the reach of other remedies.
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Sacrificed to
Blood Poison.

Those who have never had Blood Poi.
son can not know what desperate con.
dition it can produce. This terrible
disease which the doctors are totally
unable to cure, is communicated from
one generation to another, inflicting itf
faint upon countless innocent ones.
Some years ago was inocuIated with poison
by q nurse who infected my babe with blood
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HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS.
Piedmont Springs
Hotel"

Situated in a beautiful and picturesque
country at foot of Suara Mountains on
Dan River. The water is recommended
by some of the most prominent people
and physicians--for indigestion, dyspep-
STA, insomnia and nervous prostratiou.
"A fine tonic for the broken down. Hotel
well equipped, Electric bells. Hot and
Geld water. The service the best for
prices charged, which are reasonable
Write for descriptive pamphlet, rates,
&c, to
w. p. HALLIBURTON, Prop,
Piedmont Springs, Stokes Co., n. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-19

what might have been'-if that little
cough hadn't been neglccted-is the sad
reflection Of thousands of consumptives.
One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs
and colds. Sold by Bobbitt-Wynne. w.
II. King q Co. Adams & Moye, VIM.
Simpson, Druggists.
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tdI1t. Inc llttlc OHc Wal
unequal to the struggle,
and its life was yielded
up to the fearful poison.
For six hong years / suf-
fered untold misery. !
was covered with sores
and ulcers from head to
foot, and no language
can express my feelings
of woe during those long
years. l had the best
medical treatment. Sew
eral physicians success.
sively treated me. but all
to NO OIfrnoSp The p,er.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-19
S.S.S.FffIs s Blood

is PURELY VEGETABLE, and is the ONLY
blood remedy guaranteed to contain no
mercury, potash, or other mineral.
valuable books mailed free by Swift
Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-19
ITO THROW GOOD MONEY
AFTER BAD

Will but increase my PAIN If you
nave thrown away money for medi-
cines that did not and could not cure,
why should you not now begin taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla, the medicine that
never disappoints? Thousands OF people
who were in your condition and took
Hoods Sarsaparilla say it was the
best investment they ever made, for it
brought them health.
Hoods Pills cure sick headache indi-
gestion.
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r.. w. BAGLEY.
AN EPIDEMIC OF DIARRHOEA

Mr.. \. Sanders, writing from Cocoa
nut Grove, Fla, says there has been
quite an epidemic of diarrhoea there. He
had a severe attack and was cured by
four doses Of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He
says he also recommended it to others
and they say il is the best medicine they
ever used For sale everywhere Bob
bitt-Wynne Drug Co. and III. L. Hicks.
Druggists, Raleigh.
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ALLEGHANEY SPRINGS, VA.

Recommended by the Medical Society
of Virginia; is celebrated for it's cures of
dyspepsia, in it's various forms. Most
extended and beautiful grounds in tho
mountains.
For descriptive pamphlet, terms, testi-
monials, &c. Write to
G. A. CALHOUN,
5-S1-2 m Proprietor.
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When the society ball season ends that
of the lnothball begins.
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SEVEN SPRINGS.
The Very Finest Of All Minal Waters.
A POSITIVE CURE FOR

DYSPEPSIA PROSTR ALTON
KIDNEY AND
all La Grange Telephone line
free in
address,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-15
The Time. Clocks in the Treasury.

The action OF the House committee on
appropriations in providing in the legis-
lative, executive, and judicial appropria-
tion bill for the discontinuance OF time.
clocks in the Treasury Dependencies said
mainly to be due to the tremendous infu-
ence brought to bear by the clerks. The
clocks are pet hobby of Assistant Secre-
tary Vanderbilt. 1t is alleged the clerks
have filled the clocks with sand and muci-
lage and resorted to various other devices
to impair their usefulness. Mr.. Wander
lip contends the clocks are simp, to COM
pei the clerks to work the number Of
hours for which they are paid.
The proviso concerning the clocks was
adopted by the committee without dis
senting voice. Commissioner OF Internal
Revenue Scott protested before the COM
mittee against the use of the time. clocks
He said that far from protecting the gov.
ernment from the impositions OF clerks
who desired to escape work, they
operated against the innocent and in
favor of the guilty. Two clerks could ar
range between them to pass each Others
cards through the clocks and thus circum.
vent the department day after day. The
clocks were nearly always out OF order
and he was utterly opposed to their use.
Washington Correspondence Balti.
more Sun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-15
Window Gardens.

Few plants in the window garden will
bloom much during the usually cloudy
weather of December. Indeed, few will
make much growth during this period.
But with the advent OF the new year,
and the sunshine which generally charac-
terizes the season after the holidays,
plants will begin to put forth foliage and
buds, and by February they will be at
their best. if they are given proper care.
Many persons who grow plants think
to start growth by feeding them with
rich food. They apply this or that fcrtil.
izer in liberal quantities. and look Tor
immediate and satisfactory results. la
most cases they are sorely disappointed.
Instead OF encouraging tagging plants
TO vigorous and healthy development,
their treatment is productive of serious
injury, because the plants, being dor
mant, or nearly SO, are not in con-
dition to appropriate the food furnished
them. 1t affects them precisely as rich
food affects the stomach of person who
is not able to assimiate or digest it.
Often plants are killed outright by this
mistaken kindness on the part of their
owners. The proper time, and the only
time when it is safe, to give fertilizers, is
when plant is growing. Then, and
then only, can it make good use of it.
it in excessive quantities.
Overf eding is often as harmful as
undertaking. A plant can be fed to
death as we'll as starved to death.
If prepared fertilizers are used, follow
the directions carefully which are given
on the packages. If bone meal is used,
a teaspoon'ul to six or seven inch pot
will be sufficient, and the application
should not be repeated oitener than once
in six weeks during the period of the
plants most active growth. Dig it into
the soil about the roots OF the plant, but
do not let it come into immediate con-
tact with the young and delicate roots.
If prompt results are desired, be sure to
get that which is finely ground. Coarse
bone meal is long time in dissolving.
II liquid manure is used, let it be the
color OF weak tea. Use it once a week.
Apply enough to saturate all the soil in
the pot
Plants in the living-room generally
suffer greatly at this season from the
dryness and excessive heat of the al mos
phere. Furnaces and stoves seem to
burn all vitality out oil the air, unless
great precautions are taken to impart
some degree of moisture to it. Pans OF
water can be kept on the stove or regis
ter to give off, by evaporation, steady
supply OF moisture. II care is taken to
ill them as fast as the water is dissi-
pated, and if the plants are showered
daily, degree of humidity will result
which will make the atmosphere con.
genial to the plants in the window. and
their growth and development will be
far healthier than it can possibly be in a
room where nothing is done to modify
the Objectionable conditions which pre-
vail there. Look the window gardens OF
your friends over carefully, and you W, !
find that in nine out of ten of them the
plants are making rapid but weak
growth. This is because they are iorc, d
to an unhealthy development by the un.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-15
Largest Checks Ever Drawn.

There were made out last year two
checks which were and still are the larg-
est ever dra wn in single financial trans
actions, says the St. James Budget.
The smaller of the two checks estab.
ished record as the largest ever drawn;
but although it was for more than $55..
600 900, it did not long remain the larg
est being soon eclipsed by check Tor
$622,500
These valued pieces of paper were
drawn in connection with the last
Chinese loan. and the final installment
OF the war indemnity money which was
due to Japan from China, and changed
hands in the parlor OF the Bank Of Eng
land, the plenipotentiares of the Chinese
and Japanese governments, and the
managers and sub-managers of the
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor
poration. Their record check was the
largest ever draw by any banking firm
1t was an ordinary looking document
enough, and folded would easily 60 into
ones vest pocket. II it were possible to
make golden column of these millions
by plling the coins one on top of the
other, the height of 10% miles would
be reached. II chain were made of the
coins, they being placed side by side, it
would extend 14Sa4 miles.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-15
Worse Writing than Greeley IS.

Speaking OF hand writing" said an
old newspaper man, "the worst in the
profession since the Greeley myth was
that of Col J. F. Barton. The colonel
was southern man; he died in Ala
barna in 81, and dozen years ago he
was famous throughout the Middle
West as an editorial writer OF great
power and versatility. The queer thing
about him was that his normal penman-
ship looked almost like copper plata
beautiful flowing script, but let him get
excited or hurried, and it double dis
counted the chicken tracks on Cleopa-
tra's needle.
"There used to be funny story about
him, current among printers, and III tell
it for what it is worth. One night. ac.
cording to the yarn, tramp printer
drfIed into western office where the
colonel was in charge, and applied Tor a
job. The foreman put him to work, and
he pegg' al ing all right until just before
the hour for gong to press, when Barton
late news, telegrarh. Nearly all the print
ers had l.f', SO the new man got piece OF
the copy page from about the middle.
He carried it to his case, looked at it
frowningly. turned it upside down.
looked at it again, and finally put it in
position before him and began to snatch
up type. Read that in your sticks
yelled the foreman, we amt got time
for prools! And when the new man
carried his over it was dumped into the
forms without further ceremony.
What he had set ran about like this:
The mscreant who wrote the copy l
have before me is responsible for my tate.
No human being can read it. He cannot
read it himself. Tonight shall jump a
freight, and, as l am somewhat shaky
from recent jags, will probably fall off
and be killed. My blood be on his head
This remarkable paragraph, appearing
without rhyme or reason in the middle
of Barton's brilliant editorial, aston
ished the readers of the paper next
morning. When the colonel recovered
sufficien ly to get club and rush down
to the office the tramp printer had van
ished."-[New Orleans Times Democrat.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-15
Important to rlothers.

The manufacturers of Castoria have
been compelled to spend hundreds of
thousands of dollars to tamiliarize the
public with the signature of Chas. II.
Fletcher. This has been necessitated by
reason of pirates countereting the Cas-.
toria trademark. This counterieiting is
a crime not only against the proprietors
OF Castoria, but against the growing
generation. All persons should be care
iul to see that Castoria bears the sigma
tureo of Chas. H. Fletcher, il they would
guard the health OF their children.
Parents and mothers, in particular,
ought to carefully examine the Castoria
advertisements which have been appear
ing in this paper, and to remember that
the wrapper OF every bottle of genuine
Castoria hears the fac-simile signature
OF Chas. H. Fletcher, under whose super.
vision it has been manufactured contin-
uously tor over thirty years.-[Phila.
Bulletin.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-15

kilograms have been sent without
wire to distance of eighteen kilometres
by means of the Marconi system.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-15

natural conditions which exist in most
dwellings during the winter season.
They get too much heat and too little
fresh air. The temperature ought to be
kept at sixty-6ve or seventy degrees by
day and fifty to ffty-fve degrees at
night, or as near these figures as posi-
BILE, and on every pleasant day, in
moderate weather. air should be admit.
ted freely. The window at which the
plants stand should not be opened, but
door or window at some distance from
them can be used to admit it, and it will
mix with the warm air of the room
and lose it's keen frosty tang before it
reaches, them Often blast of cold air,
coming directly in contact with them,
will injure delicate plants almost as
much as touch OF FROST Harper's
Bazaar
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-15

The Boston Alumni Association of the
University of Vermont held their annual
gathering at the Parker Houselast Thurs
day evening. President Buckham was one
OF the speakers and paid handsome tri-
butte to Senator Morrill,, saying that no
otherman had done as much for the uni.
versity as he. Prof. Lewis H. Meader of
Providence, so we'll known in Ryegate
and President OF the Vermont Association
oil Rhode Island, gave an eloqueutaddress
on Vermont and her people.
Gov. E. c. Smith was one OF the speak
ers at the Yale alumni banquet in Bos-
ton and he spoke on college athletics.
lie told the Yale bows that they ought
to pick their athletes from the country
bred men on account of their superior
possession of vitality and endurance.
Commenting on this the Burlington Free
Press says. III he had expressed just
what was in his mind he would undoubt-
NuiS navy tOio tuC IdlC hluHut " put
more Green Mountain boys upon their
various teams and they would have no
trouble about keeping TO the 'front.'"
The catalogue OF the Worcester Poly
technic Institute for the current year has
Just been issued and contains 200 pages
Of matter that will especially interest
prospective students to that we'll known
school. There are now 236 students in
The institute, the freshman class leading
with II members. At the close OF the
book is complete list OF the addresses
and occupations of the gradutes, and
perusal OF this list shows that the school
has furnished skilled workmen to the
leading corporations in all parts of the
United States and also in foreign
countries.
Dartmouth has been offered by the New
England free trade league two prizes of
$l0O and $50, respectively. for the best
essay written by undergraduates upon
the subject, Whom does protection pro-
tect!" These are the largest prizes ever
offered Dartmouth for excellence in any
branch OF English and the TACT isespecial-
~ gratifying when it is considered that
nsioulu 10 OHc VI i've huiS' N"" WI
'eges selected by the free trade league to
participate in the competition, similar
prizes being offered to all. The colleges
are Dartmouth, Cornell University of
lineage, University OF Pennsylvania and
the Univei sity OF Michigan.
The Dartmouth College catalogue for
1899 has just been issued and is full OF
interesting Information. A summary OF
students shows total OF COL. OF which
~ are in the Thayer school, 131 in the
medical school and the balance in the
college proper. Distributed by states
massachusetts, leads New Hampshire in
ehe number OF students, furnishing 239
students. New Hampshire is a close Sec
pnd, ho wever, having 231 OF her sons in
dartmouth and Vermont comes third
win ~. The book contains in its 200
pages much that will interest Dart
mouth student and alumnus.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-15
Orain-O Brings Relief

to the coffee drinker. Coffee drinking is
habit that is universally INDUCED in
and almost as universally injurious. Have
you tried Grain.O? 1t is almost like
coffee but the effects are just the oppo-
site. Coffee upsets the stomach, ruins
the digestion, effects the heart and dis
turbs the whole nervous system. Grain o
tones up the stomach, aids digestion
aud strengthens the nerves. There is
nothing but nourishment in Grain-O. 1t
can't be otherwise. Is and 25c. per
package.
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-15
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY.
observed In Several Churches.

"JJnless the great God, who assisted
mir, Washington shall be with me and
Id me. | must tail. If the same omnis-
n mind and almighty arm that d.
rected and protected him shall guide and
sunport mel shall not fail shall sue
iced. Let us all pray that the God OF
our fathers may not forsake us now
From Lincoln's farewell speech at
Springfield, H.. Feb. IL, 1861, on start
ing for his perilous ride to Washington.
Sunday was the Goth anniversary of
the birth of of Abraham Lincoln, the
18th president of the United States and
one of the greatest of Americans. The
abolition of slavery, the destruction oil
the southern conlederacy and that SUI
oreme event in the career of Lincoln, his
death at the hand of an assassin, are
events of so recent occurrence that they
are still vivid in the memories of living
men, and yet they are so remote that
they awaken only historical interest in
the minds of the rising generation.
That the life OF such a man should be
held up as an ideal for modern youth is
very fitting and the anniversary OF his
birth was celebrated in several of our
churches with appropriate exercises.
At the Universaiist Church.
The members OF the G. A. R., S. of ",
W.R.C c. and Co. D., LIST Vt. Vol. &C.
cepted an invitation to attend the morn
ing service at the Church of the Messiah
and listen to tribute to Lincoln by the
pastor, Rev. Harry Lawrence Veazey.
He chose for his text Micah 6 8, what
doth the Lord require OF thee but to do
Justly and to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with the Lord" From these
words he spoke in part as folio VS.: "Abra.
ham Lincoln was honest and gentle,
manly and kind; he was gentleman of
the finest type and Christian of the
most exalted character. He had an ex.
allied faith in Righteousness and mag
ni6cent faith in God. To do justly one
must be able to see clearly. Lincoln's
faith helped him to do this. He saw
clearly that the Union is perpetual and
saw through the sophistry of state
rights. The southern people admit to-
day that the state rights idea was utter
ly false and to have brought about this
change in their minds is one Of the great.
est victories ever won by arms. There is
one thing in Lincoln's life that is not
generally known and that is that he did
not draw his salary until the end OF the
year, in order that the government
might have the use of the $25 900 with
out interest.
Lincoln is the American ideal oil hui
mainly. He lived closely to God as is
shown by the VOW he made to God to
free the slaves il Lee was driven back"
The address closed by beautiful poetical
tribute to Lincoln.
The address was interspersed with
many interesting extracts from Lincon's
various speeches, which plainly showed
the dep h OF mind. broadness OF thought
and honesty of purpose Tor which this
great character is so noted.
The church was prettily decorated
with flags and bunting and at the right
of the speaker was large picture OF
Lincoln.
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Among the Colleges.

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