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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15

How small the part of what we all en-
Is that which kings or laws can cause or
cure.
We make much ado over the money
question, the tariff, the trusts, the COM
bination Of capital against labor and the
greed and corruption Of politicians, but
after all our felicity depends upon our
selves and what we choose TO make of
our domestic life. Compared with hap
piness at home all other joys are triiies,
transitory pleasures that come and go
and leave us at last to take refuge in
the domestic circle. A hundred years
ago the poet wrote:
IF solid happiness we prize
Within our breast this jewel lies,
From our own selves our joys must come
And that endearing place-our home"
How sadly sweet is the dream Of home
to the boys who have exiled themselves
to foreign land-to the daughters who
have followed their husbands far away
to the soldiers who lie in the trenches
in the distant islands of the sea, and
to the wretchcd convicts who toll in
the mines for life or for term of mis-
cradle years.
/ was Illuminating about how much we
complaining mortals have to be thankful
for in this goodly land. 1t is well for us
all TO sometimes take an invoice of what
we have got that neither kings nor laws
can take from us The masses of our
neople have homes-humble homes, COM
Portable homes where, as William Pitt
said, .'The poorest man may bid def
ance to the crown. 1t may be frail, its
roof may shake, the wind may blow
through it and the rain leak in, but the
King Of England cannot enter, nor his
forces dare TO cross its threshold" The
masses of our people have good health,
which is the chiefest of all the poor
mans blessings. In this goodly South
ern land we have pure air, good wa
fer. n temperate climate and soil
that responds easily and surely To the
laborer's toll. Adam Smith said in his
great work on the wealth of nations
that d kind Providence had so ordained
that the average labor of one man would
support eight persons and give them ali
of the necessaries, many Of the com
forts and some of the luxuries Of life.
How nicely this fits the average family
IA man and his wife and six children.
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sorbing business of our life. The de-
sire to see them we'll and happy in
childhood and later on to be well mated
and married and prospecting in business
and ornaments to the church and the
community is the ideal hope of parents.
TO glorify God and to enjoy him for
ever" is in Il measure postponed for
another world. we trust the Lord and
pray to Him, but our most constant
devotion and anxiety is for our chill
dren.
But why this moralizing. The poets
have long since sung the sweet song
of filial and paternal love. Even David
sang of the rich reward to the righteous
man when his children grew up like
olive plants around his table.
Our little orphan girl came home yes
terday as proud as her Uncle Tom will
be when he receives his tnousand-dollar
sword for she is on the second honor
roll at school and her picture will get
into the papers some of these days. AM
other grandchild got the second honor
in another grade and the parents and
we grandparents are as proud as the
children. We had no marks or honors
when we went to school. except to get
head in the Friday evening spelling
class, when the whole school stood up
in a semi-crcle and eontended for the
highest place My sweetheart generally
held the fort and if | could climb to
her side and hold her hand in mine
it was enough for me. But, ah! the
beautiful books the children have now
and the beautiful pictures. How we
would have wondered and admired if
we had had a small portion of them.
The old bluebacE spelling book had
five, | think, and | see the rude boy up
in the apple tree now stealing apples.
And we had an English reader and /
remember the picture of the two farm
ers quarreling over COW. One had
her hy the horns and the other by the
tail and they were both pulling with
all their might while lawyer was
sitting on a stool milking her. How
does that III lawyers and a law case
now? we had grammar and an
arithmetic and ! notice that three times
three still make mine and the multiplied
ton table Is The same, but | don't see
the rule Of three nor "tare and tret"
that we used 70 whisper was enough to
make the devil sweat, Our geography
was a book aud an attas separate, but
there were no pictures. But there is
more in the boy or the girl than in the
books, and either can get an education
if they try to. The hest part of our
education comes after we quit school
and settle down to the business of life.
1t comes from reading good books
history, biography, magazines and news
papers. In our young days we did not
read trash, for we did not have it. but
now the young people read anything
and everything. If evil communications
corrupt good manners, as st. Paul said,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15
A PROMINENT MEMPHIAN
WRITES.

DIR. III. Motley, Atlanta: Having been
a great sufferer for three years from in
digestion, and been treated by many
physicians, who failed to give me any
relief. Continuing to grow worse my
brother advised me to try DIR. Mozley's
Lemon Elixir, which remedy he had used
for several years. commenced its u.s.,
and must say that your Lemon Elixir
is the greatest medicine on earth. i
have never suffered a day since |
commenced using Lemon Elixir.
II. j.. ROCCO,
206 fernando ST., Memphis, Tenn.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15

through Germany he saw many and
many woman yoked beside cow or a
steer pulling a pillow through the tough
soil. and hundreds of women going to
market half bent under the burden of
wicker baskets piled up with small wood
or vegetables. The white mans bur-
den is nothing compared with the white
wOman's burden among the peasantry
Of that country. Every young man
owes military service to the government
and is obliged to go when his time
comes, but here every man is Il king
or a sovereign and can go or not as he
plcases. The truth is that our common
people are the most independent com.
mon people in the world and ought to
be grateful to God that the lines have
fallen to them in such pleasant places.
Why be cnvious Of the rich, the mill
lionaires who have more care and anx-
iety than we have; whose children grow
up in peril. whose days are consumed
in plans to increase their riches, whose
nights are restless with dreams Of gold,
and whose health and appetite requires
constant nursing. The law of compen-
sation Is as fixed as fate and it is entire
IL possible in this land of liberty for
poor man to be as happy as rich one.
But we must all work and be diligent
in business. 1t is every mans duty 10
better his condition If he can. He must
make his home comfortable and attrac-
tive. His wife and daughters are com,
PEELED to live there and they like comforts
and ornaments. 1t is the nature of woman.
The roof should not leak nor the wind
blow in at a broken window pane. The
doors should shut easily and the front
gate hang well on its hinges. If you
cant buy a carpet, you can make one
of bagging that will be comfort in
winter. Beg a few rose bushes and
vines from your neighbors and plant
them. Bring some golden-rod from the
fields and place it somewhere to look
at. Keep a good, clean dog, but don't
let him lie by the fire. If you can't hire
Il servant. then do you or the boys
make the fires and milk the COW. Wo-
man has enough to do in nursing the lit
tie children making their clothes ana
caring for them all the day and some
times half the night. My contempt for
man who ,.oes not help his wife has
no bounds.
The catechism asks what is the chief
end of man? And the answer is, TO
glorify God and enjoy Him forever"
That is good theory, but the fact is that
a mans chief business is to raise chill
dren and to enjoy them. The world
is working for children and our greatest
pleasure and orr greatest grief comes
from them. What does politics or fame
or money weigh compared with. the
death or the dishonor of child. How
does the great world shrink when af-
Fiction inyades the family circle. The
welfare OF our children is the all-ab-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15
Keeping Our Money Home.

This establishment viii actually manu-
facture their own shoes from the best
quality of their own tannage Of leather,
instead of buying them from Eastern fac
tories, thus using their money in the
building up of home industries.
1t is the biggest thing in manufacture
ing in this line that has been heard OF
in this locality in long time. The en-
terprise will require capital of $3.50
600 About 500 hands will be employed,
and the goods will go direct to the retail
trade.
The oft-repeated story told by sales
men that their houses own or control
factories in the East has lost its effect
as all intelligent buyers now know that
no Eastern factory is owned either in
whole or in part, by any jobbing house.
Eastern factories make shoes and sell
them to the jobbers, just as they did
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15
The Equipment and Labor.

Large sums of money are being spent
for new machinery to fully equip both
plants. bringing them strictly up to the
requirements of the present advanced
progress which has been made in new
inventions in these lines. The idea is to
turn out the best leather possible and
make stylish shoes that will wear well
and be perfectly comfortable.
In the Shoe business merit wins, and
honesty is certainly the best policy.
Everybody, rich or poor, wears shoes,
and every purchaser demands comforta-
Bile, durable, good-looking and reasona-
bly, cheap footwear.
The factory of Inman, Smith y Co.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15

then a persons character is affected by
the books he reads Reading all sorts
of novels is as much a dissipation as
gambling and / wish there was a COM
mission in every State to decide what
books were best for minors to read.
There is smart servant girl in my
family and she is reading "Trilby" on
the sly-negrocs will do every devilish
thing they see the white folks do. l
reckon that is the monkey that is in
them. BILL ARP.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15
M0ZLEYS LEMON ELIXIR.
Regulates the Liver, Stom-
ach Bowels and Kidneys.

For biliousness, constipation and ma
laria
For Indigestion, sick and nervous head
ache.
For sleeplessness, nervousness and
heart failure
For fever, chills, debility and kidney
diseases, take Lemon Elixir.
Ladies, for natural and thorough or
ganic regulation, take Lemon Elixir.
soc. and 81 bottles at druggists.
Prepared only by DIR. III. Motley, At
lanta, Ga.
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Card.

This is to certify that 1 used DIR.
Mozley's Lemon Elixir for neuralgia of
the head and eyes with the most marked
benefit to my general health. l would
gladly have paid $500 for the relief it
has given me at a cost Of two or three
dollars. III. "A. BEALL
Clerk Superior Court Randolph Co., Ga.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15

Inman. Smith & Co, of Atlanta, Ca,
have just taken a long step forward in
the field of home industries, and their en-
terprise is attracting favorable attention
wherever the facts are known.
This firm has recently purchased the
well-known Hynds shoe factory and tam
merry at Gainesville. Ga. and the estab-
lishment will soon be prepared to supply
the trade with a good, reliable article OF
firstrclass and thoroughly satisfactory
homemade shoes.
Messrs. Inman, Smith X Co., are men
of foresight and experience. They know
trial and commercial conditions of this
region.
They have found it necessary in the
course of their extensive business to be-
come manufacturers in order to meet the
demands of their numerous customers
who are to be found in every Southern
State. They have built up an immense
trade in pants. shirts, drawers. overalls,
etc, but they have succeeded in this line
by manufacturing superior goods, thus
eliminating the middle man, and making
it to the interest of the retail merchants
to buy directly from them, and not
through jobbers.
The margin on such articles Of general
and everyday necessity is too close to al
low more than one profit, and that TO the
man who makes them. This was so
plainly evident that the home maniufac-
ure of these goods was the logical result
of the new conditions.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15
A PROMINENT MINISTER WRITES

Aften ten years of great suffering from
indigestion, with great nervous prostra
ton, biliousness, disordered kidneys and
constipation, / have been cured by DIR.
Mozley's Lemon Elixir, and am now
a well man. REV. G. G.. DAVIS,
Elder M. II. Church, South, No. % Tat
nall street, Atlanta, Ga.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15
First Glass Home Made Shoes.

The experiment in other lines has prov
en- so successful and satisfactory to both
themselves and those handling their pro-
duction that the enterprising Aflantians
who had entered the new field decided to
go into shoe manufacturing on a large
scale. With this object in view they pur-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-15

chased the Hynds shoe factory and tam
merry. located at Gainesville. Ga, and
they will now be able to get rid of al;
middlemen. from the original raw hide
and the shoe factory down to the retail
merchant. thus eliminating every unnec-
essary adjunct and expense. All OBJ
servant, wideawake merchants are inn
pressed with the fact that the trend OF
the times is to bring them closer to the
manufacturer.
The establishment is already success.
1t has stood the test of experience and
has won favor wherever its products are
known.
1t will be with the new additions the
largest combined tannery and shoe fac
tory in the country. The tannery ems
braces large and commodious buildings
and twelve acres of convenient and well
located grounds, with every facility for
making the best leather in the market.
No cheap, quick process of tanning
with acids and other chemicals will be
used, as is the case now in nearly all the
leather made. Only oak bark will be
used in the old. reliable way, the only
method which has ever been known to
produce uniformly good leather that will
give satisfaction and stand the tests of
time and wear.
During the next few weeks the tam
merry will work in twenty thousand hides,
every one of which will be put into hon
est first-class, all-leather home made
shoes.
Bes: up-to-Date Machinery.
Within the next few days the shoe fac-
tory win be equipped with all Of the nec-
essary latest improved machinery. One
of the members of the firm, Mr.. Smith,
and Mr.. J. G.. Hynds, are now in the
East selecting new machinery, and the
very latest and best lasts for the factory,
which will then be able to turn out shoes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-10
~ rAE NrRorElN NNA-LS-


From The Chicago Post
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one an get e>ery tang SO m..h ..i ''I
There
EVERY thing hut husbands
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-10

,,fe legislature actually lid on the hcer qu .so
,on sim IS is qet quite e~T ,i r.. rn.ow@G
"ot'sf.rnaiion DOS not get prevail ia th" iii7 OBJ
fhc hqIOr dealers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-12
BARRED FROM LODGE.
Suspended Members Try to Break IN
Door of Gov. Stanley's Order.

Wichita. Kan, April 12.-There was
real excitement here last night. II was
the regular meeting of Pleasant lodge
Modern Tonties of America. When
nearly sixty members of the lodge ap-
reared at the door about a score on
the inside refused them admission, say
ing they had been suspenaeoc +b. or
The national grand master or the or
der E ]. Menu, who, by the way -
the father of the order, was inside ana
sanctioned the order not to admit the1n
The crowd on the outside, consisting OF
men and women, proceeded to break
down the doors and the chlet OF ponce
and six officers were called to preserve
order. The police, upon nearing tne
statement of both sides, withdrew as
from a family affair and lett them 10
fight it out.
The door was forced open to some ex,
examiner of the order, crowded into
the breach He was not only squeezed
nearly to death, but was hit three times
on the neck by a pugilistic professor IN
the city schools. He was finally dragged
out by the outsiders, but he got away
without any serious injuries.
The outsiders finally placed a guard,
consisting of ex-Police Officer IrlshWho
killed a man here a few years ago, ana
others at the lodge door to prevent any
persons from entering or leaving the
hall while they organized rival lodge
in the Knights of PythiaS hall in the
same building.
Among the suspended members who
are in rebellion are County Superin-
tendent CaViIle, ex-POlice Commissioner
Furnish ex-Police officer Derr and
Prof. Benning of the city schools. Near
ly a score of the wives of members are
also with them in the rival meeting.
Governor Stanley and Ex-Governor
Lewelling are both members of the
lodge.
The trouble grew out of a supposed
tangled condition of the finances. The
rebellious brethren and sisters refused
to pay any more assessments until
full statement was made by the ma
tional president, who lives here, and
it was on account of this failure to pay
assessments that their suspension was
rushed through.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-12
SANTA FE AT EMPORIA.
Makes Several Changes For the Bene-
fit of the Freight Business

Emporia, April 12.-General Superin-
tendent H. U. Nudge who has been
looking over this division and branch
roads of the Santa Fe for the past few
days, has completed all details for the
removal of the Santa Fee freight house
from it's present site to the block just
east, directly behind the court house.
The present site of the freight house
will be shielded over and used for a
transferring station for freight. Twelve
tracks will run under these sheds. and
all the freight for branch roads will be
changed there. The freight house
which is to be moved to the block east.
will be used for the freight that is for
Emporia.
For the past three years the freight
business here has been badly crippled
by lack of room. Mr.. Nudge said to-
day that he expected the present ar
engagements, when completed would
enable them to handle all freight bust
ness here in proper manner The work
of the moving of the freight house is
to be started at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-12
A LETTER FROM DEWEY
To Secretary Long Gives His Opinion
of the Filipinos.

Washington, April 12.-Admiral Dewey
has written to the secretary fthe navy
as follows respecting the capa b1ht1eS
of the Eilipinos:
Manila, Feb. %, 1899
1.-The good effects politically of taking
the natives into the service of the gov
eminent have not bee Most sight of and
from the first large numbers of them
have been employed at the Cav1tte ma
val station as mechanics and laborers
in coaing and in manning tugs and
launches.
81 regret to state that the latter ex-
pertinent has been only a partial sue
cess, as nearly all of the mechanics and
laborers left on the outbreak of hostili-
ties between the United tSates and the
FiIipinOs, and are now believed to be in
Filipino ranks. I am unable to state
how much of this was due to intimida-
ton and forcible impreSsment into the
army by the so-called Filipino republic
but from the statement of some few
who returned from the fact that nearly
all of those who live in the coal lighters
and turrets. that is, under our immedi-
ate protection, have remained, it would
appear that intimidation was a large
men. 1t is we'll known that the Aguin-
aldo government is a severe military
despotism.
Although under the rule of the Uni
ted States the character of the natives
will certainly improve, a sudden change
is not to be, expected. A few of them
might be employed on transports and
vessels of that kind; indeed, the Filipi-
nos quartermasterS who have been
serving on the Nanshang and Zafiro,
since the purchase of these vessels have
always been satisfactory, but because
of their long association with Ameri-
cans and Englishmen they belong to a
class apart from the great majority
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-12
FOR THE ELECTRIC LINE.
Leavenworth Kansas City Railway
Plans Rapidly Maturing.

Kansas City, April 12.-Herbert w
Wolcott of Cleveland, who represents
the capital that has decided to build the
electric railway between Kansas City
and LeaVenworth, planned by Will
lard E. Winner, is in the city to remain
here a week with Mr.. Winner and have
the work of construction started The
plans for the line and the route and the
capital are all ready and the construc-
ton of the line is assured.
1t will use the old kensington branch
of the L. road from Eighteenth street
and Central avenue, the end of the
Grandview line in Kansas City, Kan,
and then go over the agreed line to
Leavenworth. Mr.. Wolcott was here a
few weeks ago with Charles Q. Schwartz
of Cleveland, and c. H. Wheeler of Ak
ron, and went over the plans with Mr..
Winner. They reported favorably on
the plan, and that insured the construc-
ton of the line.
Mr.. Wolcott is a brother of Senator
Wolcott of Denver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-12
TRYING TO HOLD ON.
Wichita Police Judge Refuses to Sur
render Office to Man Elected
to Succeed Him.

Wichita Kan. April 12.-E. E. Enoch,
who was elected police judge at the city
election, week ago, demanded the Of
flee today, but Judge Mitchell, who was
appointed by Mayor Ross last July,
when the metropolitan police commits
sion was abolished by Leedy, refused to
give up the office.
Mitchell claims that the legislature, in
repeating the metropolitan police law,
failed to make any provision for the Sc
lection of police judge in cities of the
frst-class in Kansas, and that, as the
office was appOintive prior to the enact
anent of the police commission law, he
is entitled to the place for a term of
two years Mitchell was appointed by
Mayor Ross and confirmed by the city
council, and it is the opinion of City
Attorney Adams that, unless the pres
ent police judge can be investigated out,
he can hold the office till the expiration
of his term, in July, 1900. Enoch was
nominated by the Republican city con-
vention and elected over the fusion
nominee by a majority of 1896. He has
taken the case to the district court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-12
CUT OFF THE QUEUES.
How an American officer Stopped
Chinese Looters.

Washington, April 12.-The incoming
mails from Manila bring many queer
stories connected with the war now in
progress between the United States
troops and the insurgents. When Mac
Arthur led the first onslaught to the
north uDOn the inSurgent stronghold,
the United States military commanders
were amazed at the extent of the loot
ing practiced by the non-combatants.
The Chinese took a leading part in this
looting. beginning it before the retreat
ing insurgent forces were fairly out of
a town They apparently had no con-
eeption of the enormity of their offense
and it had been reluctantly concluded
to shoot some of these Chinese 1ooters
for the sake of example, when a young
officer cut off the queues of a dozen
Chinese who had been caught red hand
ed and looting stopped, and the Chinese
disappeared as if by magic from the
whole province.