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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
THE LAST VAIL.
Shendum Real Estate is Again COM
handing a Price.
Salisbury Index.)

NNaliSDuTy lHutA.l
i heard the last despairing sigh over
bursted bubbles from Il Shendun boomer
last night
1t was one of those cases where the
investor had survived the crash and
was good humoredly taking a retrospec-
tive glance ut that era in his life when
he dreamed of millions one day and
clutched for his pennies the next. And
the promoter in question is SO amused
over his own experience that am go
ing to give the public, with his consent,
the benefit Of it.
Mr.. ID. l.. Gaskill. of this city. saw.
as did numerous Salisburians. a good
thing in Shendun dirt. Mr.. G;lskill had
just made Il good thing at Glasgow. Va,
and rode in on the tidal wave at Slen-
dun. He invested So, 100 in lots 25x12J.
Mr. Gaskill's lots ON paper We're in the
heart of hustling metropolis. They
We're IN fact the ragged ends of sage
held. At any rate Mr.. Gaskill showed
up $500 worth of the green and cams.
nome to await results The sequel
Oh the Shendun boom is known of the
world.
Yesterday Mr.. Gaskill received u
proposition from a Virginia gentleman
who desired to purchase his lots. The
gentleman made "a proposition something
like this:
Lot No. 81. 10
Lot No. SO 80
Lot NO. 81 100
and so on. Suffice it to say that Mr..
Gasl2ill was offered SO for fifteen lots
and $50 for his villa lot. which he once
held at $3.50. or a total Of $3.50 for
a property that cost him So. $50. leaving
hlm to the bad in the deal for So, T27 80.
The proposition was accepted and Mr..
Gaskill mailed his acceptance last night.
While searching for the deeds to the
property Mr.. Gasloill had occasion to GO
through some old papers he had not
touched since his Shendun experience
Snugly ensconced inside the papers We're
five twenty-dollar notes. What they
We're put there for he cannot remember
1t is estimated that fully 100000
was lost by SalisbuIians in this Shen-
dun boom.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
NEWSPAPERS FOR THE MILLION.
CBoston Time and the Hour)
The Theory Upon Which New York
Publisher Acted.

Apropos of Z. i. Godkin's reference I'm
his Recollection to the development of
yellow journalism, George III. Benjamin..
son of the late Park Benjamin. tells this
story of Il conversation which he had in
Paris some years ago with a now we'll
known New York publisher:
After dinner we were seated on the
balcony enjoying our cigars when / asked
him to what he attributed his success as
a newspaper man. He replied: When /
reached America had a sm,la knowledge
of the English language, and that was
about all. Finding that col,ld not OBJ
tain employment in New York, drifted
to Cincinnati. and there, after many vicis-
STUDIES, | obtained the position Of a wait
er i'll a restaurant. 1t was Il good restau
rant, and the bill OF fare contained almost
every article of food that could be desired.
/ was however, surprised to note that
eight tenths of all the people that came
into the restaurant called for ham and
eggs, beefsteak or mutton-chops. | manly
times suggested that they should try some
of the entrees, game, or something of the
kind. But, no; the Cry was, Give us ham
and eggs, Ibeefsteak or mutton-chops.'
This puzzled me for time, but l
soon made up my mind that the great
mass of humanity did not think or know
anything above the level of ham and eggs.
beefsteak and mutton-chops. This fact
impressed me. and when finally drifted
into journalism. / made it a rule never to
write an article or report an occurrence
above the level of ham and eggs, beef
steak and mutton-chops.
Now he added. if you will examine
the columns of certain newspapers pub
lshed throughout the county, you will
find that they are ham-a1pd-esgs, beef
steak-and- papers. Their
success is due entirely to their recognition
of the limitation of intelligence of the
masses, and the avoidance of matter APP
pealing to a higher intelligence.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
STATE NEWS.

Cypress lumber is now $50 thousand.
Six months ago it did not exceed $50.
All lumber has gore up III proportion and
the dealers cannot keep UP with the de
mand.
The Wadesboro Messenger says th,.
clothing OF the little three-year-oli
daughter of Mr.. James Sings, of Anson,
caught fire Tuesday while she was
playing around the fire, and before it
could be eXtinguished she was so badly
burned that death resulted yesterday.
The child'S mother WIS in the yard when
the accident occurred
Mr.. Owe w. Dali died this morning
very unexpectedly, at his home i'm Snow
Hill. He had been sick, but was thought
to be improving. He was aged IL years
-KinStOn Free Press.
The Dist and 22nd of February will be
gala days in the Pines. The citizen are
arranging to celebrate Washington
birthday in grand style and everybody
is looking forward to the occasion with
Il great deal of interest and pleasure
The $. A. l.. Band will be obtained for
the Occasi0n.-Aberdeen Telegram.
Hutton Il BOurbonnais have secured
through the authorities at Washington,
Il 100000 contract for boxes in which
TO store census reports. This firm also
has the contract for supplying the
Blackwell Durham Tobacco Company
with all the boxes they may need for
a period of twelve months! This CON
tract was formerly filled by northern
nills.-licliory Press.
The Rockville Times is twenty-one
years cid. Editor Crowson is giving the
people of Davie an excellent paper.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
THE DREAM OF WOMAN.

ELLA Wheeler Wilcox in New York
Journal.)
This is the dream of the woman,
Ever since time began,
Or ever since first, like flower, she burst
Full blown ON the vision of man.
She dreams of a realm of pleasure,
OF music, and bloom and nirth,
yet sorrow lies cllrled in this rose OF a
world,
Or where were her mission ON earth?)
She dreams of a man-ruled region,
And ever the ruler is just;
The rights of her sex do not worry or vex
For the dream man is worthy of trust.
She knows he is stronger OF muscle,
He knows she is stronger of soul,
And always they seem i'm this wonderful
dream
Two halves of a beautiful whole.
And ever he worships her beauty
And ever he bows to her worth,
Beside. not above her, protector and lover,
He walks to the ends Of the earth.
She tolls in the vineyard of duty,
But knows not the wage-earner' strife,
Her work is but pleasure and sweeter
than leisure
THE labor of mother and wife.
Now this is the dream of the woman,
And why has it vanished away!
land moves along
The wage-earning throng tlrough the
Who Weakened the dreamer? ! say.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

News from the South is that the farm
ers are making preparations for an inn
mense crop of cotton. Secretary Brun2r
says the sale of tags SO far indicates a
normal crop in North Carolina. The
farmers have the matter in their own
hands They receive forty million dol
lars more this season for nine million
bale crop than last year for an eleven
million bale crop. IL they make twelve
million bale crop next year the price VIII
go back to FIVE cents. The thing for
North Carolina farmers to 10 is TO Iii
versify their crops, putting the emphasis
and the accent en- hog and hom;ny.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

THE Last Wall taken from the
Salisbury Index, giving the experience Of
Il citizen of that place with the Virginia
boom towns" reads like Gammon's big
speculations in South Sea bubbles 1t is
remarkable how MANY successful bust
ness men everywhere dropped their
money in those booms. In twenty years
the people will be ready to be humbug-
ged the same way again.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

Closing his account of his rescue, 1t.
mos: Lieutenant Gilmore declined to
speak regarding political conditions, ex-
cept to say that he thought the insurrec,
ton would last as long as there were any
Tagalos left" Exactly. We will conquer
when we exterminate.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
Spirit of the Press.
HOW HE RESEMBLED \ WAVE
OF THE SEA

Charity and Children
In daily paper OF Il few days ago,
containing n column or two of society
news, youth is reported to have made
the following remark: II would that
were wave of the sea that | might DO
nothing but dance" He would never
90 Ill the world for "A wave because
aahchg IS only a small part of it's du-
ties. a wave shines, and sparkles and
roars, and sings, and surges. and docs
other beautiful and vigorous things thar
feeble sport could not do. However
he is somewhat like wave in two otg,'
er particulars besides dancing-he cam
swell and break.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

There is talk OF the Raleigh and West
ern Railway Company extending its line
from Cumnock to Randleman, a distance
of fifty miles. Randleman is cotton mill
town and with n railroad from Cumnock
to that place, the Cumnock Coal Conn
pany would be enabled to furnish the
latter town with coal. The proposed rail-
road will extend through a good farming
section, rich in minerals and hard-woods.
Sanford Express.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

When the Asheville Gazette began to
fight the amendment we predicted that it
would SOON be dyed-in-the-woo Republi-
cam organ. That's why it was bought.
In Saturdays issue it said: Cages
explanation was satisfactory 1t will
soon be describing HanEa's wings.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

Expansion is a Democratic doctrine
when it adds to the Republic territory
that can be made into States, provided
two things /. That the territory is on
this continent 50 as not to violate the
spirit of the Monroe doctrine; >. That it
be territory, to quote Jefferson, that
would not require a navy to defend. Amy
other expansion is undemOcratic
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
PROFITABLE FISHING.
(Newbern Journal.)

A boat crew of four men, colored. went
ont yesterday morning and ut night re-
turned with between 1.50O and 1000
pounds of rock fish, which they sold for
500.
This made an average of $500 per
man for the days work.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

III answer to Subscriber" The
States funded debt is $6,501, TO. The
annual interest charge is S3O5, IFS. The
and the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad, valued at $5,000.000, from
which it gets Il rental of $223.S15.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

The friends of Mrs. Carrie Jenkins
Harris will be glad to know that She
has been appointed to a position that will
give her responsible work in the Ameri-
can exhibit at the Paris Exposition.
Mrs. Harris is an accomplished North
CoroIinian whose love for her State and
whose enthusiasm and energy specially
fit her for the duties upon which she will
shortly enter.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

If the Senate really. wants to expose
and punish the purchase OF seats in the
Senate, why not make an example of
Hanna? He is the incarnation of all
corruption and debauchery iii American
politics. the most baneful figure ever
known to politics since the Republic was
founded.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

If Judge Simonton would abdicate and
tax case the people and the railroads
would have an eqYal showing. But the
Federal court judge has another pull.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
COMPLETE ANSWER.

In a recent special issue Of The
Iradeslnan two articles appear that are
sure to attract attention. One is an ar
itcle by Edward Atkinson. in which the
BostQnian shows that he does not under
stand the South and misrepresents it in
some important points. He instances the
Revolution of 1893 in Wilmington and
asks this question: What Will become
Of the industries of Wilmington: Are
they suffering?" BY request of the editor
of The Tradcsman, Hon. y. NJ. Waddell
answers Mr.. Atkinson i'll mastery way.
We can make room only for the extract
answering the questions quoted above.
Col. Waddell writes:
Without stopping to say that the
abuses in Wilmington were perpetrated
by the negroes themselves, aided by few
viliainOuS whites. who were driven out
Of the city, it affords me great Satisfaf~
ton to- inform him that since the revolu-
tiGn of November 10, 1898, there never
was the semblance of riot. the indus
trial progress of the city has been greater
than III any year, or perhaps any five
years of its existence. Order and law
have taken the place of disorder and law
leSsneSS- confidence has been substituted
for anxiety amongst capitalists and bust
ness me1l-traffic by railroads and steam
ships has increased-bank deposits are
larger. in spite of disastrous bank fail
ures a few years ago-new mills and
ether enterprises, one of which cost Il
quarter OF million. have been establish
ed-mOre and better buildings, residential
and business. have been erected than ever
before in any one year-the city debt to
the amount of S150.000 has been refund
ed at lower Interest," more cheerful
spirit than for many years prevailS-and.
In Il word, strangers who have returned
to the city, after having known it a
year and half ago. express establishment
at the general improvement, and say they
can hardly realize that it is the same
place.
81 have lived in Wilmington forty three
years, and cam say with absolute truth
that the city has never been in so pros
porous a condition as today, and with
equal truth that it was never in SO criti-
cal condition, excepting during the war
OF 1S61-'65, as it was for some time
before November 10, 1898"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

Sheriff Page Yesterday made a pay
ment of $3l ,543.25 to Treasurer Worth
in partial settlement of Wake county's
taxes for the year 1890.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

The Ashevilc Citizen points out one
good effect of the passage of the amend
nlent that is apt to be overlooked, to-wit,
that it will bring desirable immigrants
to the South. At present they are de-
tered by race politics. With the Negro
eliminated, Northern men with money
and brains will come If. as the meet
ing in Raleigh threatened, many ne
groes leave, their places will be taken
by white immigrants. The going OF 1G0.-
900 negroes to twenty States would be
a good thing for the negroes who go
and for those who stay, as well as for
the State. The best solution of the race
problem. since colonization is not feast
bic. is for them to be divided among ali
the forty-siX States.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
TALKING THROUGH EIs HAT.

The Salisbury Index quotes Jim Moo
dy as saying that Buncombe will give
anywhere from 800 to 1000 majority
against the amendment, and that every
county in the Ninth district except Hay
wood will do likewise. Moody lives in
HAYWOOD. He knows that 1t will give
a biz majority for the amendment. lie
does not know about the other counties
and there he gives his imagination fnlI
play. His Haywood figures are reliable;
the balance is guess work.
The Ninth district will give ma
ioritv FOR the amendment in August
When the voters come fully TO under
stand the amendment, they will rebuke
the men who falsely tell them that the
amendment will disfranchise Il single
white voter The advocates of the
amendment will clear UP all honest
doubts and expose the miserable mis-
representations the negro party is put
ting in circulation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

There will always be plenty of room at
the top just as long as people can avoid
Twin. in attics
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

The Houston Post prints the result of
investigations from all the cotton coun.
ties Of the State and says the Texas
cotton crop is over a million bales short.
The estimate in the early fart OF the
season was a shortage of from SOC, 000 to
10000 bales.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14

Lots of valuable time is wasted in argu.
ing matters that are Of no importance.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-27

CITY of Mexico, Jan. 23.-News is ar
irving from the interior points affected
by the earthquake Friday night and
Saturday morning. Much damage was
done to property in GuaGalajara and
the City of Colima, capital of the state
of the same name, was the scene Of
terrifying experiences, accompanied
by loss Of life. The City of Mexico
came off comparatively 1lnscathed in
the quake, few accidents occurring
here CT in the suburbs, although some
huts in the suburbs fell in and one
bridge was partly wrecked. The sub
terranean electric light insulation
was not harmed and the city contin
ues to be well illuminated.
Colima. Mex, Jan. %. An earth
quake shock began here at a quarter
before midnight Friday and assumed
serious proportions at Tenimata,
many houses being badly injured and
some of light construction wrecked.
There was great CONSERVATION and
people rushed into the streets, some
barely escaping with their lives.
Seven people were killed outright and
sixty were wounded and are being
cared for by local surgeons.
Guadalajara, Mex, Jan. 23.-At mid
night Friday an earthquake shock
cracked the arches and staircase OF
the state palace and the porticoes Of
the university and the Degallado thea
ter, the latter one Of the most massive
structures here. The churches of
San Francisco and San Jose were
damaged. The former is n OF
handsomest edifces on the continent
and is locally known as the Golden
Cup from the magnifcencc of its IN
terror. The government has closed
Ragario church, fearing the dome VIII
fall in. Carmen barracks were badly
damaged, and news from Zapaotlan
and Sarula state that several houses
were demolished.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-27
Criminal Record.

Mrs. Collins, twenty-five years old,
separated from her husband, commit
ted suicide by cutting her throat at
New Harmony, Ind.
William Newman, a negro, was
hanged in the yard Of the county court
house at Pittsburg. Death resulted
from strangulation. The crime for
which he was hanged was the murder
of his mistress, Alice Warner.
A lone robber, masked and armed,
cleaned out two restaurants in the cen
ter of Kansas City at 6 o'clock the
other morning under the glare Of an
electric light. He secured over $500
in less than five minutes and escaped.
Two unknown we'll dressed men, one
about forty-ive or fifty years old and
the other about twenty-five or thirty,
were found dead in a room at the Santa
Maria hotel, Chicago. Gas was es.
Gaping from a jet, and appearances in
dicated a carefully planned suicide.
John A. Wilson, doing business in
Milwaukee, was arrested by Postoffice
Inspectors Bird and Farrell. It is al
legged that Wilson operated in Chicago
under the name Of G. Nelson, and COM
mitted gigantic frauds by dealing in
peddlers' supplies which he never paid
for.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-27
Acctdental Happeninxs.

The dry goods store Of Lee Di Klee
at Tampa, Fla, was destroyed by fire.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
A boiler in Frank Farquar's flour
mill at Lima, Ind, exploded, wrecking
the mill and fatally injuring Edward
Lamppears, the engineer.
An hour before her intended mar
rage to Charles Hume, Miss Anna
Monroe suddenly expired Of heart
trouble at Shelbyville, Ind.
Paul II. Himrod, bookkeeper of the
Pawnee coal mine near Danville, I'LL.
was killed. His skull was crushed
between coal cars on a switch.
Daniel r. WEIGH, a thirteen-year-old
Springfield Oily boy, died Of lockjaw
resulting from an injury to his foot re-
ceived while attempting to board a
train.
Mrs. Christina Harth emerged from
a trance at East st. Louis to find her
self under process Of being embalmed
and prepared for the grave. A move
ment Of an eyelid saved the woman
from death at the hands Of the under
taker or from burial alive.
Nearly q hundred guests at the we'd
ding Of Morris Pollock and Annie
Schmett at Chicago were poisoned by
eating chicken which was prepared in
a copper kettle. No deaths have oc-
CURED, but many are seriously i'll, in
Guiding the bride and groom.
The fine passenger steamer Licking.
ton, owned by the Carr line Of Charles
ton, w. Va, while racing with the op.
position packet Argand, struck the lock
wall near Scary, breaking in twain and
sinking Immediately. The Argand went
to her assistance and took of the pas
sengers and crew..
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-27

Cannibalism has broken out in the
tribe, employed as revenue officers of
that country, having been sent out on
a somewhat questionable expedition to
collect rubber, ivory, slaves and goats,
as tribute to the sovereign authority,
burned fourteen villages, killed eighty
people and crowned their rapacious
proceedings by eating five of their
prisoners. The Congo Free State rul-
ers might find it to their advantage to
take lessons in venue raising from
American municipal experts and learn
the civilized art of plucking but not
killing the goose that lays the golden
eggs.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-27
FATAL FIRE.

Half a Dozen People In lew Orleans
Are Su6Ocated.
New Orleans, Jan. pa fire which
started in a barroom in the old St.
Mary's market neighborhood shortly
after midnight obtained considerable
Roadway before the firemen reached
the scene, and half a dozen People IN
the adjoining building were suffocated
before help arrived. They were most.
" Sicilians. -Four were taken out
dead and the others will hardly live.
The origin Of the fire has not been
traced. The building is an immense
brick structure, h~oneycombed with
DOOR tenements.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-27
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Senator Gear has been reelected SEN
ator by the Iowa legislature.
Chicago packers say that diseased
cattle are killed in German slaughter
houses.
The first wing Of the Iowa historical
building at Des Moines has been COM
pleted.
Work on the New York underground
railway tunnel will begin within q
month.
The eighth annual convention of the
Northwestern Electrical association
was held at Milwaukee.
If the legislature decides against
them, the Kentucky Republicans will
carry the ase to the courts.
The Standard Oil company is negotl-
ating for the purchase Of the Russian
company, to gain a monopoly of the
world.
Two cases Of smallpox were discov-
cred at Clifton, a village a Kan
kakcp, Ill. The patients contracted
the disease at Monticello.
A jury at Shelbyville, Ind, refused
to set aside the will of Miss Martha
Murphy, who willed her estate, valued
at $4,000, to her brother.
A telegram from San Francisco says:
The transports Olympia and Pennsyl-
vania are to be turned over by the
government to their owners at once.
A New York man who was expelled
from a Masonic lodge has brought suit
in the civil court for reinstatement.
This is the first case of the kind ever
known.
The American Steel and Wire COM
pany has advanced the wages Of its
employees in. the iron mines at Grown
Point, Essex county, n. Y, 10 per cent,
to take effect at once.
A local cotton firm at Memphis,
Tenn, has received a letter from Gen.
Joe Wheeler, ~inclosing a sample Of the
cotton grown in the Philippines. He
says very little cotton Is grown there,
however; and most Of the cotton used
in the Manila mills comes from the
United States. ~