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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04
N. C. JOBBERS AND MANUFACTURERS. =

We understand that at an early date a
convention of the Jobbers and Manufac-
turers throughout the State will be held
for the purpose of effecting perma-
nent organization for the advancement
and protection of their interests.
This is an excellent move. 1t is some
thing North Carolina has needed for a
long time, and we predict that much
good will result from it. AS we under
stand it is not to be restricted to any
particular line of trade, it is to be
hoped that every jobber and manufac-
turer will give the movement his hearty
support.
There are many subjects urgently re-
curing the attention of such an organ
ization, but most prominent among these
are the questions of General Legisla-
ton, Taxation and Freights.
Comparatively few of our manufac-
turing and jobbing enterprises are able
to cope single-handed with conditions
of today. The struggle for existence is
fierce; the weak fall, and those who
hesitate are left behind. There are
trusts in trade, pools in transportation
and lobbyists to look after every legis-
lator. To deal with these, organization
and concert of action is absolutely in
despensable.
While North Carolina has been hest
tating, our sister States, by favorable
legislation and taxation, have drawn
away from us valuable industries and
much needed capital; and their wide
awake jobbers and manufacturers have
by their organized and persistent eff
forts, secured from the railroads what
are called ''gateways," to which points
freight is handled at remarkably low
rates. For instance some articles of
freight are hauled from Chicago to
Richmond, nearly as cheap as they are
from Richmond to Raleigh.
Such conditions should not exist, and
will not, if the proposed organization is
prosecuted with vigor and intelligence
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04
IMPORTANT SALE.

Under and in pursuance of a judgment of the
Superior court of Wake county, duly rendered
| at April term, 1899, in the action of John Ward
| ct al VS.. The North Carolina Car Company ct al,
| cuted April ], 1897, by said North Carolina Car
| Company to the undersigned Trustees, and reg
istered in the Office of the Register of Deeds of
Wake county in Book l4S, page 72s. the under
signed will expose to pub ic sale on MONDAY,
AUGUST z, 1899, at IL O'Clock M, at the County
| Court house door in the city of Raleigh, all
that tract or parcel of land, on which the works
| of the North Carolina Car Company are now
| state of North Carolina just beyond the north
ern boundary OF the city of Raleigh, bounded
and described as follows: Beginning on Frank
| lin Place street at the southwest corner of the
alueppelburg lot and running with his line
north n degree west, 20S 1-2 feet to his corner
| thence with his line and the line of Vass' lot
south so l-2 degrees, east $50 feet to Steinmetzs
| line; thence with SteInmetz's line north 81 de-
grees, east S87 feet to W. Turks line; thence
with said line north IS IL degrees, west 3s31s
feet to the right OF way of the Raleigh e. CASTOR
Railroad Company; thence southwardly with
said right of way 8o2 feet; thence north 81 I-2
degrees east 1877 feet with the lines of Cole and
Neumeyer's lots thence north degrees east
q feet thence north 81 I-2 feet, e .st with Neu-
meyers line l2t IL feet: thence north degrees
east with Undertakes and Heiligs lines 2l5
Place street lis feet to the beginning, contain
ing six and 39-l00 acres, more or less, together
with all privileges and appurtenances thereto
| appertaining or belonging, and all the buildings
| said land. and all engines, boilors and every
other kind of machinery on said land or in SAID
buildings and all and singular the corporate
rights and franchises of said North Carolina
Car Company.
Terms of sale: cash. G. BELvIN,
K. G. SMITH,
Trustees and Commissioners
June 3, 1899. tbs.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04
THE MAN FOR PRESIDENT OF A. AND NJ
COLLEGE.

TO the Editor: For eight years
| enjoyed the privilege and honor of being
| a member of the Board of Trustees of
| the North Carolina College of Agricul-
| ture and Mechanic Arts-was with then,
i'll the beginning, when Colonel HoIladay
was elected president and Mr.. w :.
Primrose was made chairman OF the
Board. 1t was not all smooth sailing then.
and the candidates for president were
few. Indeed the college at that time
had strong opposition from several
sources, and, to the surprise Of some of
us, some of it came from leading edlica-
tors.
1t was not then thought that the
presidency of the college of right De-
longed to Il teacher in this State, AM!
that to give the position to any one not
Il teacher would be wrong 10 the pro-
feSSiOn.
| am quite sure the trustees of the
college have never expected the presi-
dent to do much teaching. To manage
an institution IKE that gives but little
time for teaching. In the past the only
teaching he has done has been history.
What is needed most of all is a
good executive head to the college-one
who can oversee its interests, make its
advantages known to the people and
build it up in every way. In my hum
BILE opinion, Mr.. w. $. Primrose knows
more about this system of education
than most of the teachers in North Car
DINA. He has made Il study of the sub
ject. He has visited leading institutions
of this kind in various parts of the
country. He has been a close observer
of what should be done and of what
can be done, and after eight years asso-
citation with him on the Board of Trus-
tees, do not believe there Is any doubt
whatever about his pre-eminent fitness
for the presidency.
cia attention to the work OF the North
Carolina College of Agriculture ana
Mechanic Arts; he has always shown an
Intelligent and an unselfish interest
in practical education and all that goes
to build up and help our people. In
all the efforts made in this State or out
of it to prove the superior advantages we
possessed, and in all the undertakings
to bring capital and business to our
people. he has been found in the fore
front
AS citizen of Raleigh. his native city,
L
in all that goes to make Il true man.
and again and again, the city has offered
its choicest honors to him. He has
walked uprghtly as the friend of all
and as president of the a. and NJ. Col
lege he would go before the people
without antagonism and as the friend Of
all.
| believe the Agricultural and Mechau-
ical College has a great future rs wen
as splendid past. and | am sure, if
the honorable Board of Trustees shall
elect Mr. Primrose as president, the
people of the State of all classes will
applaud their action and tnaC he Will
bring to the important position every
qualification demanded.
\ North Carolinian knowing every
nook and corner, every hill and valley,
her mountains. her streams. her people.
her industries, her needs we hope he
will be the choice of the Board.
y. Il. BROUGHTON
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Additional testimony as 10 the Merits Of
Mrs. Joe Persons Remedy.

The Editor of The Stanly En'crprise
says:
Albemarle, n c., May 18th. 1895.
Dear Mrs. Person.
| am Il complete convert to faith in
your Remedy. | wrote you about my
mother of her having been attacked at
regular intervals with erysipelas, her hav
ing an ulcer on her ankle, swollen leg.
etc. And further, after taking two bot
ties of your Remedy as prosecuted h wv
she broke out with Il terrible itching
humOr. Well, after resting on the
strength of what she had taken for
Il few days, she commenced it again and
am thankful to say it has done fer
her what II years treatment from
doctors and other remedies failed to
accomplish. In less ;hap two months
your Remedy has driven the erysipelas
from her system, (she not having had
Il single attack since commencing your
Remedy the swollen leg has been re-
duced to normal proportions. and that
ulcer on her leg, which had been there
in an unframed and running condition
for II years, has entirely ncatcd. aal,
praise God your Remedy has done for
my mother what doctors could not do,
and what we had lost all hope ri ever
being done for her. Despite her -
years of age, she can walk two mlies
with more ease now than she could
walk two blocks before. ! feel like
singing your praise for what your Rene
DIV has done for my mother, and ! shan
take pleasure in recomm III ling 1t Oh
all occasions. | am
Sincerely,
n RINI\S
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04
THE CONJURE DOCTOR.

The negro seldom confesses his super
stitions to the white man. The crcdul-
Gus, MISUNDERSTANDING, mystery loving
semi-savagery of him he conceals as fal
as possible. because he belives that the
white man regards it as matter Tor
ridic,lle. All the same, for good or for
evil it is not negligible quantity, alld
this is occasionally forced upon public
attention.
Lately there has been more than one
instance that the negro is not outgrow-
ing his superstition so rapidly as those
who have his welfare at heart could
wish. Here, for example, comes
strange story from Pitt county that a
negro has confessed to a conJure doctor
that he was implicated in the Dongola
murder and has incriminated several
white men, Only the other day the
newspapers printed story of a negro
who died of appendicitis. but whose wife
held out to the end that he had been
oonjured, and was really afflicted with
scorpions. Ian this city, while the small
box was here, the authorities found that
the greatest obstacle i'm the way of
stamping it out was the ignorance and
superstition of the negro.
In this, as i'm other respects, the trou-
BILE lies largely with the leaders of the
race. We believe that we do tlIem no i'm
justice i'm saying that they have
not always set their faces SO resOlutely
against this side of the Negroes nature
as they should. To the more unscrupul-
Gus this simple credulity offers power
full leverage for control, and it is used
without hesitation. The politician, the
comjIre doctor, the secret brotherhood
organizer, victimize the negro through
his superstition. Even some ministers
of his race take this easy and certain
way to increase their power over him,
and if they do not actually mix fetichism
with the Christian religion, often come
perilously near it.
And yet it is the negro that must cure
the negro of the conjure doctor. For
reasons sufficiently plain, the white man
cannot do it, just because he is the white
man. He can not penetrate to, or even
understand, these hidden Things Of the
negro character. He can. and us ready
and willing to give the negro the school
teacher instead of the conjure doctor,
and that way lies the salvation of the
negro race; but meantime the educated
negro, the teacher, the preacher, the
leader of what ever sort, if the negro
is to be civilized, must do what they
have never yet done-set Systematically
about making reason instead of super
srtion the controlling force in the negro
character. They must make the conjure
doctor impossible.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04
The News & Observer
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Office: News and Observer Building,
Fayetteville Street.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04

Mr.. Paul Jones, member of the Tar
boro bar, expects soon to begin the pub
LEGATION of a Law Journal for North
Carolina lawyers. AS soon as he can
secure three hundred subscribers at
1926 per annum he feels sure he can
make the journal success. Mr.. Jones
has had newspaper experience and is
well equipped for the work he Aproposes
to do, and we wish for the enterprise
the greatest measure of success.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04
TO BE EMPLOY Ed ONLY WHEN NEEDED

A correspondent asks why the new
board of agriculture elected fifteen ''in-
spectors of fertilizers" The board de-
cided that there was no good reason
for employing any fertilizer inspector
all the year, and that they ought to be
employed only few months in the year.
They deemed it best to have large
force of capable men at work two or
inspection is needed than to employ a
few all the year. The commissioner is
authorized only to employ the inspectors
chosen when their services are actually
needed, and the gentlemen selected will
accept with that knowledge.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04

quest and nothing ought TO stand In
the way. If the anti-dispensary people
want to abolish it, they ought to he
given vote at the proper time. Tn,
thing to do now is to submit to the
law.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04
NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.

Entered at the postoffice at Raleigh,
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04

J. j. Jenkins couldn't get To Congress.
but he will supervise the census taking
in this district. Is he appointed as a
Republican or POpulst?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04

The News and Observer Is opposed ID
government by injunction and i'll faye-
of letting the majority Of white voters
control the government of every town
and county in North Carolina. The
Greensboro people held white primary
decided by big majority for Il dispen-
sary, the Legislature granted their re-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-04
VALUABLE PRECEDENT.
ttron judged

TOu-Nhy were you so determined
to kiss that homcly cousin of yours?
Dick-I wanted to establish rrecc-
dent She has two very pretty sisters,
Won know.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-28
MILLS DRY GOODS co.

taken the oath of allegiance which their
constitution requires.
A Filipino proclamation replying to the
proclamation of the American commission
ers has appeared. 1t is signed by Madini
for the president and it is dated Caniasdro,
April 10. 1t is in the usual grandios
style and declares that President McKin-
ley issued the proclamation in order to
force the American congress toHratify the
cession of the islands under the treaty of
Paris.
'"Thisc ontract of cession was made
with the Spaniards after Spanish DOM
ination had been ended by the valor of
our troops the proclamation asserts.
The proclamation complains that the
Filipinos were not represented at Paris
during the negotiation of the treaty
and that they are without assurances
of the fulfllment of American prom
ises. 1t dilates upon the alleged Anglo
Saxon hatred of blacks and asserts a
desire to enslave them. Deploring a
lack of foreign aid in prosecuting the
war, the proclamation concludes:
I'VE stand alone, but we will fight
to the death. Coming generations will
pray over our graves, shedding tears
of gratitude for their freedom"
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-28
AGUINALDo's SLY MOVE.
Trying to Gain Time to Recuperate
His Forces.

Manila, April 28.-7:5O p. m.-Aguin-
aldo is evidently selecting the army as
a cloak for his congress, hoping by sub
terfuge to overcome Gen. Otis consist
ent policy of ignoring the Filipino gov
eminent. The Filipinos' argument is
that it is impossible to arrange an ar
mistice without the sanction of the con-
gress. Gen. Otis punctured this as
sumption that if Aguinaldo could make
war without congress he could stop it
without reference to that body. One of
the conferees afterward remarked that
they were shrewder than white men in
diplomacy, as the Malays are credited
with being.
While the insurgents are undoubtedly
tired of war, the leaders are torn with
dissensions.
There is suspicion that it was hoped
by means of a conference to ascertain
what they could expect. If they saw that
anything is to be gained by continuing the
war armistice would afford them an
opportunity for recuperating their demor-
allied forces.
1t is an interesting commentary upon
AguinaldO'S scheme that only 60 of the 300
members of the Filipino congress have
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-28
MUST PAY LEGAL FEES.
The Realty and Guaranty Company
Is an Insurance Organization.

Attorney General GODDARD, replying to
an inquiry from w V. Church of the
insurance department, holds that the
Realty Guaranty company of Minneap-
oils, Mimi, which seeks to do business
in Kansas, is an insurance corporation
and must, therefore, be under the super
vision of the insurance department, and
to secure the necessary license must
pay the fees prescribed for insurance
companies.
This is the company which seeks to
insure the farmers crops under an OPP
tion contract, by the terms of which the
farmer agrees to sell his crop to the
company at IS per acre.
The company must procure the GER
tifcate Of authority from the insurance
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-28

deemed unfavorable and this put the local
professionals in buying mood. Snow,
in his weekly crop summary, was bullish.
The Modern Miller was beariSh- The
crowd was Influenced by the large ship
ping business done Wednesday and Thurs
day. Very little was accomplished today.
however, either here or east. The tone is
firm at the close and we look for a better
market tomorrow
CORN-It has been mainly a changing
market in corn, with the spread about q
between May and July. Prices have varied
very little Argentine shipments were
~ put price, making scaipers rather bull
ish.
OATS-Oats have been about steady,
with changing from May to July the fea-
ture and with the difference the same as
yesterday, 212c. Trade was not large.
Norton, who is credited with the big May
line, has not openly been in the market.
PROV1SIONS-PriceS have been a shade
easier; Carrying charges have widened
slightly: The Cudahys are credited with
moderate buying, presumably to cover. 1t
has been an unimportant changing mar
ket. J. T. HARRIS.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-28
CAPT. BISHOP WOUNDED.
Co. NJ of the Twentieth
Kansas.

Washington April 2s.-Adjutant Cen
eral Corbin has received the following
casualty list from Gen. Otis:
Kiled-First Washington, April 81,
company F. Corporal Edward W.Strain;
Private Joseph Emo.
First Montana, company NJ, Private
Charles Murphy.
Wounded-First Washington, COM
pany F, First Lieutenant Charles A.
Booker scalp slight; Privates Harvey
VIM. ]. Marshall, neck, Slight: COM
pany H, Clyde z. Woods, abdomen, Sc
we're; Robert Hovey, leg, severe; sgd
ney o. Dickinson, chest, severe; Abel
Nilsson, cheek, severe; VIM. E. Howard,
thigh, severe; Sherman T. Sheppard,
chest, severe; Edward Curley thumb,
slight; George A. Clark, thumb, slight; !;
Arthur A Ellis, 1Oin, slight; Corporal
George w. HOvey, abdomen, severe;
company L, Private Ennis, chest, Slight.
VIM. Bishop, hip, moderate; company
A, Sergeant c. A. Woodworth, groin,
moderate; company K, Corporal E. r.
Kincaid, arm, slight; company L, Prt-
Yates E. L. Whitaker, side, severe; l..
A. Terry, abdomen, severe; company NJ,
Henry Morrison, chest, severe. [Ser-
geant Woodwork lived at 81 West
Seventh street with his widowed moth
er Capt. Bishop is from Salina.l
First South Dakota, company B,
Sergeant Charles L. Butler, leg, slight;
Corporal Hammond H. Buck, arm,
slight
First Montana, Major John Miller,
shoulder, severe; company E, Captain
Andrew Jensen, forearm, severe; COM
pany B, Privates James Tirney, thigh,
severe; company I, J. T. Schultz, scalp,
slight; company c, John Kirley, shoul-
der moderate.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-28
THOMAS CAUGHT.
Fowler Ranch Murderer in
Custody in Missouri.

John Thomas, the cowboy who muir
dered Edwin F'ransen, filed Gus Carl
son with lead and shot his sweetheart
on the Fowler ranch near Maple Hill
a year ago, is in custody at Gait, Grun-
dy county, Mo-, and the sheriff of Wa
baunsee county left today with a requi-
sition from Governor Stanley to bring
Thomas back to Alma for trial.
Thomas was working on the ranch
but was discharged because of his at
tentions to a girl employed by w. J.
Todd. He went to Kansas City and got
drunk, bought a revolver and a pocket
full of ammunition, then went back to
the ranch swearing vengeance. The first
man he saw was Edwin Fransen. He
shot and killed him. Thomas then went
to the home of Gus Carlson and as
Carlson opened the door Thomas shot
him two or three times. Thomas shot
at every man he saw and finally shot
at the girl, the bullet grazing the top
of her head.
Thomas then fed and a posse which
secured the country for several days
failed to locate him.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-28
A GERMAN PARTY
Is Threatened if Republicans Don't
Come to Time

St.Louis. April 2S-The Post-Dispatch
today says: DR.. Emil Pretorius, editor
of the St Louis Westliche Post, one of
the most influential German dailies OF
the Mississippi valley and who has
been identified with the Republican
party since it's birth, said today in an
interview, that the guns of the German
press are directed against the expan-
sion policy of President Mckinley and
that the meeting of Missouri German
newspaper representatives held here
this week was the forerunner of a sys-
tematic movement to fight imperialism
militarism and jingOism in the Republi-
can party. He added that the German
press is a unit in opposition to 'forci-
BILE annexation by criminal aggres-
Sion.''
If the demands of the German-Amer-
leans are not respected, DR.. Pretorious
declares the question will be carried in
to the next national Republican con-
Vention and that defeat there will mean
the formation of a new political party.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-28
NORTH TOPEKA.

Pumps and repairing, phone Pratt sos.
Miss Margaret Hanley spent Thursday
in Kansas City.
Special bargains are offered in Shoes,
by The Leader, S13 Kansas avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris of Hoyt are home
from visit of several days in Kansas
City.
Mr.. HoII will move shortly from the
Willitts property on Kansas avenue to
Oakland.
Mrs. w. c. Steele returned today from a
two weeks visit to her mother in AIRING
Go to c. B. Lyon, D. D. s.. for fine
dental work at popular prices. Office
511 Kansas avenue Tel. 656-
During the storm yesterday a large sign
was blown off the roof of the George J..
Graves & Sons buggy factory.
The fountain statue, having been given
a coat of paint and it's broken arms mend
ed. is again adorning the Union Pacific
park
Mr. and Mrs. ]. A Campbell entertain
ed the choir of Grace cathedral and Dean
Sykes last evening at their home. lib Mon
roe street.
Mr.. Thornton Lockman of Mooney. Ind.
summer here the guest of his uncle, Andy
Scott, at his home miles north of town.
Miss Myrtle Olinger went to Horton yes
stenographer in the Rock Island offices
there as substitute for Miss F'luke. who is
confined TO her home by Illness
The Ladies guild of the Church of the
Good Shepherd gave an ice cream social
H. C. Stafford, 4OS railroad street. A gram
aphone afforded considerable pleasure for
Fhose present, but the feature of the even
ing was the concert given by eight mem
bers of MarshalFs band under the direc-
tion of Mr.. Klein. They were accompa-
MED in several numbers by Mr. Kirby. a
proficient whistler. and so clear were his
notes that it was thought by several to be
members of the band present were D. G..
I&lei, Klein, Frank Muir; Charles Chapman.
Pierce, John Sheetz and Mr.. Blumm.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-28
CONGRATULATIONS RECEIVED
From Foreign Ambassadors on End
of the War.

Washington, April 2S.-At the foreign
embassies and legations the news that
the FilipinOs had treated for peace at
of the Otis dispatch was communicated
to several of the foreign offices abroad.
The ambassadors said: Your country
is to be congratulated on this result. 1t
means a great deaI-much more than
the mere cessation of fighting. 1t will
avoid campaign through the wet
months of the Philippine wet season
the American forces, brave and ener-
getic as they are. 1t will convey an
impressive lesson to the FiIipinos and
one which it is to be hoped they will
not soon forget. At the same time it
conveys to the world at large another
evidence of the pluck and endurance of
your soldiers and the American charac-
terist1c of indomitable perseverance in
the face of difficulties