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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25
WAKE FOREsT-TRINITY DEBATE.
There Will be Much to Do in Raleigh Next
Thursday.

The Raleigh people will have plenty
of material for amusement, edification
and instruction next Thursday.
In the morning at II o'clock. Bishop
H. 0. Morrison will preach a Thanks
giving sermon at Edenton Street Meth
odist Church.
Some time during the day, at an
hour not yet specified, there will be
Union Thanksgiving services at the
Presbyterian Church, conducted by
the pastors of the city. The program
for this will Le published later.
At night lat the Academy of Music,
the annual Thanksgiving debate be-
tween Trinity and Wake Forest Col
leges, which has come to be a State
event, will take place.
The question that will be discussed
is: "Resolved, That the South Caro-
lima Dispensary System is Unwise
Trinity defends the affirmative Of the
proposition. that is, will try to show
that the dispensary system is unwise,
while Wake Forest is to show that it
is not unwise.
The question was propounded by
Trinity and Wake Forest had the
choice of sides these privileges alter
mating each year.
Trinity will be represented in the
contest by Messrs. +. ID. Garden, OF
Virginia.; w. H. Wannamaker, of South
Carolina. and j. Z. Lilies, of Tarboro
n. C.. Wake Forests Representatives
are Messrs Flack, Dunn, and Flour
noy, all of whom are from this State
The contest is for a silver cup, given
by the Chamber of Commerce. of this
city. 1t was won first by Trinity, who
at last Thanksgiving were defeated
The contest will be of unusual interest
this year.
These contest have been marked by
unusually able discussions, and high
grade of oratory. No debater from
either college has participated in any
of these debates before. They will be
greeted by a large crowd and with
much enthusiasm.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25
CHARMING AFTERNOON TEA.
Given at His Studio to Friends by Mr.. Jaques
Bnshee.

Mr.. Jacques Busbee gave charming
afternoon tea on Saturday, in his
studio at 1OS West Hargett street.
Quite a number of friends were pres
ent and enjoyed the dainty refresh
ments and view of some of his re-
cent work.
Among the portraits shown were one
of Miss Mary Lily Kenan, very dainty
in color scheme of green and lemon
yellow and charmingly painted. DR..
r. j. Noble, o. Selma, n. c., looked out
from dark background and the head
strongly relieved, was boldly and
broadly handled. A large portrait of
Mr. c. NJ. Busbee for the Odd Fellows
Hall in Baltimore is a excellent like
ness and painted in a very cool soft
light, with fine sense of atmosphere
around the figure. Another, delight
full head of little girl with a, blue
bow. A small cabinet-sized head of
VIM. Henry Briggs seemed very life
like. A study of an old negro woman
picking goose and doing in the fire
light was a good bit of realism.
Among the landscapes shown, one
painted in Oberlin was fine in effect
the fieeting cloud shadows falling and
advancing in very momentary way.
a sky of cumulous clouds and a flight
of buzzards added strongly to- the
home feeling.
Vinegar Hill, East Raleigh" was
rather q study of winter dusk and
moonrise, hazy with the conflict of
daylight and moonlight.
One very attractive canvass was
''The Pinacle of the Blue Ridge"
naiptod at Gomhroom Gov Tance'S
mountain home.
A number of sketches and drawings
adorned the walls.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25
The Monday Evening Club.

All the expectations which centered
around the November meeting of the
Monday Evening Club, which was held in
the home of Mrs. j. M. Rich. last Mon
day, were more than met. This was to be
the beginning of the new line of original
work which was to mark this year from
those which had preceded it.
Mrs. Charles McKimmon, Miss Wat
kins and Miss Matte Higgs, the soloists
of the evening were all at their best.
Miss Laura Deveraux, in a thoughtful and
exhaustive review of When Knighthood
was in Flower, showed forcibly the short
comings and long goings of the history
of the so-called historical novel.
The original character sketch by Mr. A.
j. Field. was of a nameless North Caro-
linian who has hidden away a volume of
great poems yet to astonish the world,
and of whom
1.-THE wonder is and still the wonder
grows,
How one small head can carry all he
knows
Mr.. w. J. Peel's sketch was of GER
tain captain in the region of the Cypress
swamps, whose further peculiarities will
be told at the next meeting.
Interesting ashad been all the rest
the greatest expectation naturally cen
tered around the first chapter of the COM
posite novel. This, Prof. Asbury, the
first writer named The Thirteen Club
This remarkable club is composed OF
thirteen Philistines of the deepest dye,
who, in twelve years of united work have
entered every field of science, literature
and art. and once and forever have re-
duced them all to the exact rules and
methods which ever characterizes the
efforts Of Philistines.
The beginning of the thirteenth and last
year of the club having arrived they meet
to decide what its browning labor shall
be. After a review of it's passed imparall-
eled achievements it is decided to give
the year to reducing the fact of love tt
an exact science. The data from which
the science is to be deducted is the loves
antipathies, likes and dislikes of them tt
women and men who compose the clut
for one another, it being supposed thai
six happy marriages will result. Here
at the beginning of this deeply interest
ing investigation, Prof. Ashbury left the
plot for the next author who burdeneC
with thirteen affaires du occur will neeC
to be deep in Dan Cupids' secrets.
The Political Prize Competition was ar
ranged for those wishing to compete, be-
ing asked to send short poems with rea
name in sealed envelope to the club secre
tary, Miss Fannie e. l.. Peck.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25
COTTON TAKES A TUMBLE.
The Highest Price Paid on the Local Market is
97-8.

Cotton took tumble yesterday
The highest price paid was 97s cents.
On last Tuesday it reached 10 cents
for the first time since the election.
The receipts had been less than IS
bales per day When the price began
to move upward towards the ten cent
figure, the receipts began to increase.
On Monday last the receipts were only
"a bales Tuesday they were 222 bales,
Wednesday they were 1926 bales and
Thursday the receipts were AS bales.
On Friday, 400 bales of cotton were
sold here. On the four days following
Monday, the streets were full of cotton
wagons. All along Wilmington street,
from Hargett to Davie was crowded,
as was Martin from Blount to Fayette-
vile.
On Wednesday the receipts amount
ed to AIS bales. 1t was said that 600
bales of cotton were brought to the
city that day. In the afternoon the
price declined slightly and much of
the cotton that had been stored here,
the farmers determined not to take
less than 10 cents for their feecy pro-
duct
& The total receipts for the past week
were 500 bales, against GIG bales for
the corresponding week of last year,
the price being two cents in favor of
this year.
The receipts up to date for this sea-
son are just about 10000 bales. The
receipts for the corresponding time
last year were 5000 bales. The total
/, receipts last year were 1S,S03 bales.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25
The Catholic Orphanage.

Whilst all charitable institutions
throughout the State will doubtless be
remembered in the joys of Thanzsgiv-
ing day, the Catholic Orphanage OF
Raleigh, will surely receive special
memento. This institution takes in
Orphan boys from all part of the State
and from all denominations, the needs
and charity of the particular case
alone being considered. Packages out
side Of Raleigh can be sent by express
to Catholic Orphanage, Raleigh, n. c.
Parties in Raleigh desiring to give can
send packages for the. Orphanage to
Mr.. Chas. NJ. Bretsch's bakery. on
Fayetteville street, where they will be
received by the institution.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25
SPECIAL SALE.

Three cotton gins, presses, platform
scales, elevators, all in good condition;
also one 25-norse power boiler, good as
new, one 25-horse engine, one good saw
mill and cutoff saws and fixtures, one
feed MILL one rip saw, one log cart, also
buildings on premises; to be sold sep
arately or as a whole on December the
goth, if not sold by pricate sale before
that time. Terms, one-third cash, bal
ance in six and twelve months.
j. S. PATRICK,
Massey, n. G.
November 18th, 1900.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25

they wish to extend their invitation
and make new friends, as they hope to
be at the same place each year to show
their work suitable for Christmas
presents. They will serve daily, and
until II in the evening, lunches, etc.
A bill of fare will be published later,
which no doubt will speak for itself.
The ladies deserve a liberal patronage.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25
INTERSTATE TELEPHONE CO.
Pass 500 Number. Line to Chapel Hill. New
Subscribers

The Interstate Telephone Company
here has completed its 500 key board,
1t is now full, and the company will
Immediately put in another section.
Yesterday this company began work
on the construction of a line from
Durham to Chapel HILL and it will
not require many weeks to complete
it. This will give Raleigh telephone
connection with the State University.
The line from Raleigh to Wake For
est is complete, but the Henderson
company, which will operate the Wake
Forest exchange, is making some
changes so that the line is not yet in
use.
Subscribers to the Interstate Tele-
phone Company will please ado the
following names to the list IN book
published September Is, 1900:
Capt. c. b. Denson's office No. sac
w. II. OVERLY, Stoc2 NO. 81
John H. johnson, Residence, No. G43
Chas. j. Parker, Residence. NO. 394
J. w. Weir, Residence. ........No. 32o
f.. II. Love, Store ....No. $40
Il. r. Lee, Residence. ...No. lS3
King Bros, Store. Northumberland. 3ol
r.. l.. Pease, Residence. .......No. BOB
Vertruvius Register, Residence, No. 236
II. II. Roberts, j. p, Residence. No. 427
NJ. B. Barbee, j. p, Office. mo. 264
General r. f. Holle, Residence. No. 3O7
Capt. j. w. Lee, Residence. mo. 3o9
w. 3. Barrow, Residence. mo. 4S7
Cooper Bros, Marble Yard. No. 22o
w. A. Cooper, Residence. .....No. 3O4
Thomas Cooper, Residence.....No. 3O6
Shilly Swain, Residence =. No. 452
E. II. Ellis, Residence :. mo. 229
Prof. +. A. Weihe, Residence mo. 233
Fab Weathers, Residence, :. No. 1868
Edgar Ellington, Residence :. No. 1872
Miss Dixie Stein, DressMaker,
Miss Annie Riggan :. mo. 432
Miss Myrtle Belvin, Residence No. 379
New York Dental Association,
DIR. S. p. Norris, Office :. mo. 3O6
Capital Steam Laundry. .......No. 100
H. C. Olive Co., Sippahaw,
Store =. =. ....No. IO%-'
Myrtle Wood Lumber Co., Sip
pahaw, Lumber Dealers. No. 702-0
Varina Mercantile Co., Sippa-
nav, store. Inv 'U~-o
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25
HE FOOLED THE SURGEONS.

All doctors told Renick Hamilton, of
West jefferson, o., after STEERING IS
months from Rectal Fistula, he would
die unless a costly operation was per-
formed; but he cured himself with five
boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the
surest Pile cure on Earth, and the best
Salve IN the World. Is cents box. Sold
by all druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25
BAZAAR OF ST. MARY's SCHOOL GUILD:
Lunches Will be Served at the Parish Rooms
of the Church of the Good Shepherd.

One of the attractions for next week
will be the opening ON Wednesday, De-
cember 5th, of the st. Marys' School
Guilds in the parish rooms of the
Church of the Good Shepherd on Nor
gan street at IL o'clock a. IN.
The patrons of last year will remem-
Der the delicious menu served each
day at such reasonable rates, well.
the ladies feel sure ''come again. but
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25

j. o. Carr. ESQ, who has been confined
TO his old home at Zenia, Duplin county,.
for several months with a severe attack
Of fever, has partially convalesced and
returned to the city Wednesday evening
His friends are glad to note that he is
steadily improving Wilmington Star.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25

DeWitt's Little Eearly Rsers are the
best liver pills ever made Easy to take
and never grippe. Bobbitt e Wynne Drug
Co., w, II. King, VIM. Simpson.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-25

Wednesday, 10 a. M, Friday, p. M.
Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, services at
II a. m, offerings for the poor of the city
and for the Thompson Orphanage Fri
day, st. Andrews Day, holy communion
at 10 a. m.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-19
Tho Way OF the ChInaman.

That the Chinaman places his sur
name first, while the American has
his last; that the Chinaman wears
white for mourning and the American
black; that the Chinese women have
big waists and little feet, while the
American women have little waists
and big feet; that the Chinaman sits
in a draught as a matter of prefer
ence, while the American avoids It.
that one eats with chopsticks and
spoons, the other with knife and fork
these and hundred other insignifi'
cant contrasts in the customs of every
day life indicate the kind Of ,observa'
tions I am naturally making during
my sojourn in the United States. But
I realize that this antithesis is only
skin deep. Human nature is; the same
in both cases, but expresses itself diff
ferently.-The Hon. WI Ting-Fang, In
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. e
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-19
Necessary Dishes For the Picnic

Picnickers should keep in mind the
list Of things. they require for use each
time, and it will save confusion and
the misfortune of leaving the most
necessary articles at home. There
should be wood plates, glasses and
cups. knives and forks, doilies or pa
per napkins, (Which are really the
most satisfactory, teaspoons, can
opener, corkscrew, hatchet,, matches,
and g wire for the coffee can, which
can be hung over the limb Of tree
when the coffee is made, with an agate
coffee pot or tin pail. There should
be glass jars or earthenware pots for
cream and salads, and n jelly glass
for butter, or tin baking powder box
:an be used. 1he butter can be packed
over night and put on Ice, and it Hill
keep. hard for, long time. If the jar
be placed in a: tin lard pail filed with
Ice the butter will be as hard as If
served from the iceboX. Cream for
the coffee should be whipped, as 1t
/ will not shake so much, and will be
more likely to remain sweet 1t is but
little more trouble to take few extrs
dishes. and the picnic is much NOR
satisfactory. : 80,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-19
A Point Well Made.

Lord Russell took q great interest
in sport of all kinds, and he had q
weakness for. lecturing people Of all
sorts on their shortcomings. When in
October, 1893, the London Irish Rugby
Football Club was matched to play
Hammersmith Club onA the London
County Athletic Ground, Herne Hill,
Lord Russell was Invited, and con;
santed to Kick off the ball On arriv!
ing punctually at the hour appointed
he found that some of the members
of the London Irish team were not on
the ground. He waited patiently for
some ten or fifteen minutes until all
the players were assembled, and then
called up Mr.. Dyas, the captain of the
London Irish, and delivered the fol-
lowing homily: Captain ,Dyas and
members Of the London Irish Football
Club: desire to point out to you that
one of your cardinal rules in life
should be punctuality. Unless you
study that rule, whether In business
or play, you will never be successful
men, and hope that you will take to
heart the lessur am now reading
you" The Lord Chief Justice, with
the utmost gravity, then proceeded to
kick off the ball.-London Chronicle. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-19
Russell Sage, Pedler Of "Notions."

It was in a country store that the
astonishing financial genius Of Russell
Sage, the actual extent Of whose great
fortune is unknown, was first devel-
oped. Until he was twelve the boy
worked on his fathers farm, in Dur
hamville, N. Y. At twelve this in
dependent young man left home and
became an errand boy in his broth
er's grocery store in Troy. -
But when a boy has the thrift and
business ambition Of Russell Sage, 1t
does not take him long to. grasp the
principles of buying and selling grocer
les, farm produce and notions-which
in those days were all sold in the
same shop.
So, while still lean STRIPPING, Rus
sell Sage took his wages as errand
boy, bought cautiously such goods as
he believed were easiest and most
profitable to sell, and canvassed Troy.
Probably there was no shrewder mer-
chant in tho city.
At all events, the boy was astonish-
ingly successful, and at twenty-one
became the partner Of another BROTH
er, also in the grocer's business. This
brother he shortly bought out" So
at the age when the young men Of to-
day are leaving college Russell Sage
held the reins of destiny firmly in his
hand.-New York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-19
A Trick in Cookie Making.

Every housekeeper knows that to
be good, eoakie dpugh must be han
died gery ghtly;;sbut, says writer
in what EaE. many, Of us have also
found ta9t f}Iere are some cookie
,dnlsi tha pcslfEuay refuse to be
.eoaxSd into 3shap without consider
able handling and kheading. To such
ia mduid onletEa suggestion that may
prove of as much value as it has to
me, Stir yours Ingredients in mixing
bowl with geanite soon only, and
when reads 40 roll spread the bread
6fotK OF other clean white cloth over
the kneading board dredge thickly
sfour, and drop your dough upon
this fsem .fheS oens Flour your roll
ing pin put the dough into shape with
the spoon. dredge Tightly with flour
and ron out. BY this little trick your
cakes are ready for the oven and you
have not soiled your hands, ruffled
Your temper, or, worse than all, ruined
y6uft cookies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-19
SteDhen Girard's starr.

Stephen Girard, the great benefactor
of Philadelphia, was born in Bor-
deaux, France, was left an orphan at
ten and put on a ship as cabin boy.
That was his first trip to America.
He could not read or write, but he
worked hard to make up deficiencies
in carly training, and soon set up a
shop in Walker street, New York
City. He"e lie married Polly Lum,
daughter of q calker, against her
fathers wish. The marriage proved
unhappy, and Girard went to sea
again before, at forty, he found his
real vocation as q merchant in Phila-
delphia. When in 1893 yellow fever
broke out IN the city Girard proved
himself true hero, and organized the
public hospital. His magnificent be-
quest to the city is famous the world
over. In one room are kept his boxes
and his bookcase, some of his papers,
his clothing-a pair of homely old
knitted braces bespeaking his plain
and frugal habits.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-19
no Census Ever Taken in China.

Such thing as house to house
canvas. and an enumeration, however
,meager in actual detail. has never
been known throughout China. To
attempt it would straightway cause
trouble, every Chinaman thinking it 4
new scheme to eXtort money, and con-
Quoting himself accordingly.
Some outside authorities estimate
the population of the empire as high
rs 45000O,0rO-othcrs as low as 30O,-
100000 Between these totals mag,
or may not, be fairly correct.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-19
WHEN WE'LL ALL BE GOOD.

I don't know when the day will come,
But you and /, we know
That after awhile our good resolves
Will into being grow.
Some day, when we both have the time,
Wen cast Aour faults away,
And you'll be good, and III he good
Well all be good, some day.
Well run our business affairs
With thought of fellow.mcn,
For2we will let our good intent
Go into action then: ,
Wen make our friends all happier,
And life will really pay,
For you'll be good. and III be good
Wen al. be, good, some day
Some day-of course, it's way ahead
But / know, 50 do YOU,
That. aome day we will take turn,
ssAnd try. the good and true: :,
Wa'li do our best for other folks,
The world will be more fair,
And .yoi'll be- good, and III be good,
xfVEen wevS the time to spare.
SBsh VIM in Baltimore American
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-19
Where Suits Are Lost.

Once when a certain well-known
English judge was trying a case he
was disturbed by young man who
kept moving about in the rear of the
courtroom, lifting chairs and looking
under things.
Young man." said his lordship, you
are making a great deal of unneces-
sary noise. What are you about?"
my lord" replied the young man,
Il have lost my oVercoat, and am try
ing to find It."
WELL" said the venerable Judge,
with 4 grim smile, people often lose
whole suits in here without making
all that disturbance"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-19

The troops Of the italian expedition
to China went without flag. The
Italia Militare explains this: Only two
battalions were sent off, not a whole
regiment, and therefore they had no
right to have a flag. This is quite
according to military regulations, but
neither those who went off nor those
who remained behind were satisfied,
and the ladies of Italy are opening q
subscription to present the troops
which have already left with a BAN
ner, which will be sent out as soon
as possible.