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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
ATTACK ON IMPERIALISM.

This bill has. aroused storm of pro
test from Republicans in public and in
private life. But why should any Repub-
lican be surprised? Imperialism means
that the people brought under the flag
are not to share in the benefits of the
Constitution. 1t is amazing that the Re-
publicans have contemplated the perma-
nent acquisition of the Philippines is
lands without stopping to consider the
future status of the Filipinos. Are the
Filpinos to be citizens? Are they to be
allowed to come to the United States
with their Oriental methods of living and
compete with American labor? What
good does it do to exclude a few Chinese
and then bring in by force eight millions
of FilipinCs? Are the Filipinos to expect
to participate in our elections? Is a Presi-
Dental contest to be determined by the
returns from the Philippine Islands? Are
the questions which concern our own peo-
pie to be decided some day by the Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress
frcm the Philippine sIalandsgss SsssAnd sifAthe
TiliDinos are not to be citizens are we
going to change our Constitution so as
TO hold them in a perpetual state of
vassalage? Can we expect anything but
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
BEvERIDGE OFFERS A SUBSTITUTE.
Gives Porto Rico Free Trade But Denies it the
Constitution.

Washington, March Ex-senator Bever-
idge today offered the following substitute
for the tariff section of the Porto Rico
Bill:
''All articles coming into the United
States from Porto Rico or going into
Porto Rico from the United States shall
be admitted free of duty but this act
shall not be construed as extending the
Constitution of the United States or any
part thereof, over Porto Rico, and it is
hereby declared that the Constitution OF
the United States is not extended over
Porto Rico"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
SALE OF LAND.

BY virtue of an order of the Superior court
OF Wake county in Special Proceedings. entitled
Mrs Dora Brewer vs. Lulu McGehee and Others,
1900. at the court house door in the city of
Raleigh at IL o'clock m. expose to public sale
to the highest bidder the following described
tract of land:
Lot No. 3 in the division of the McGehee
lands which was drawn by w. II. McGehee, now
deceased, and is sold for partition among his
heirs. Said land is located in Houses Creek
lows: beginning at stake, northeast corner
of lot No. /; thence south Sc degrees, east Q
chains to stake; thence south degrees, west
$3.50 chains to a stake; thence north SO degrees,
west chains to a stake; thence north 40 degrees,
east $3.50 chains to the beginning containing 80
acres Terms of sale cash.
This March 9Th, 1900.
MRS. DORA BREWER,
Commissioner.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE.

BY virtue of authority conferred by a Judgment
of Wake county Superior court. rendered at us
October Term, 1899, in a civil action therein
pending entitled A. W. Shaffer, Executor Oh
James H. Miller, deceased, plaintiff, against
Pattie Christmas, ct ais, defendants, Will on
Monday, April %, 1900, sell at public auction 70
the highest bidder for cash, a certain lot OF lana
in the city of Raleigh. Wake county, n. W
and more fully described follows:
Being lot No. in a plot Of the Ray property,
in the city Of Raleigh, which was made by
Fendol Bevers, surveyor and recorded as, as
70 John eating on November %, 1877, which
said deed is recorded in the office of the Regis
ter of Deeds for Wake county, North Carolina,
in Book 40 at page 2ls, the said above lou no;
8 being So feet broad and l05 feet deep and
fronts on an extension OF Edenton street made
through said property.
Time of sale IL o'clock m. Place OF SAFE
county court house door in Raleigh, N. Z.
ERNEST HAYWOOD. Commissioner
March &c. 1000 tus
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
MIR. BRYAN'S SPEECH.
He spoke as follows:


Mr.. Bryan's speech before the Demo
cratic Convention dealt almost entirely
with money, trusts and imperialism. He
charged the Republican party with prae-
ticing a deliberate fraud upon the voters
in 1896, by holding out the hope of inter-
national bimetallism, when the leaders
neither expected nor desired the resto-
ration of the double standard either by
independent action or by international
agreements He said that the Republic
cans were opposed to the free coinage Of
silver at any ratio or under any condi-
tions and he pointed to the fact that
the Secretary of the Treasury and the
leading Republican papers were talking
of the gold standard at the very time
that the commission was in Europe try
ing to gets rid of it, He said that the
ratio of 16 to ! was the only ratio that
was discussed and the only ratio for
which any considerable number of people
were working He denounced the cur
rency feature of the Financial Bill and
said that the Republican party had never
in a campaign advocated the retirement
of the greenbacks and that it would not
be able to defend that bill before the
country He said that a national bank
currency SECURED ny JULIUS
could not be permanent settlement Of
the currency question unless we had a
permanent and increasing national debt.
On the trust question he recited his
condemnation of the Republican party,
saying the President felt it necessary to
denounce trusts in his message last De-
cember but did not recommend a remedy.
A PAPER MONEY TRUST.
"a Republican Congress" said Mr.. Bry
an, "listened to the reading of the mes
sage and then proceeded to establish a
paper money trust which gives to the
people a larger chance of injury and to
the banks larger opportunity for profit
than any other trust in existence"
He said that the Republican party was
powerless to interfere with the trusts
as the leading Republicans were connect
ed with the trusts and the party had to
rely upon trust contributions to carry on
the coming campaign. He presented and
defended his remedy suggested at the
antitrust meeting in Chicago last fall
Mr.. Bryan, continuing said:
THE desire to impose import duties on
goods from Porto Rico compelled the Re-
publican party to disclose its imperialstic
tendencies.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20

A. r. De Fluent, editor of the Journal Doyles-
town, Ohio, suffered for number OF years from
rheumatism in his right shoulder and side. He
says: My right arm at times was entirely use
less. i tried Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and
was surprised tesreceive relief almost immediate
ly. The Pain Balm has been a constant com
panion Of mine ever since and it never fails
For side sverywhere. B6bbitt -Wynne Drug Co.,
and H. 7. Hicks. Raleigh. n. c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
FREE BOOK OF ADVICE.

Members of the wholesale grocery hrm
of A. Erich e Brother of Savannah, Ca
were arrested yesterday and taken be
fore United States Commissioner Lewis
on charge of violating section 10 OF the
Interstate Commerce Law. The specin-
cation is that the firm shipped hence TO
Junction City Fla, five barrels of "sassa-
fras herb bitters, the barrels being
labelled "seed oats" The rate on SEED
oats is 1Sc per hundred pounds, and on
btters or whiskey is 75c per hundred
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
THE BEST PRESCRIPTION FOR

Chils and Fever is bottle of Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic. The formula is plainly printed
on each package. 1t is simply Iron and Quinine
in ,tasteless form and is compounded in cor
rect proportions. The reason imtators do not
advertise their formula is because they know
you would not buy their medicine if you knew
its ingredients. Groves is the original, and is
the only chill and fever remedy sold throughout
the entire malarial section of the United States.
No cure, pay. Price E0c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
NOTICE.

Having qualified as. the ,admlplstratfal!N
1oFsYb A te r. Il. Roberts i hereby mott
fy all persons holding claims against his
estate to present them within twelve
months from this date. or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their recovery
MARTHA S. ROBERTS,
ADMINISTRATIVE of Il. +. Koberts, Decd.
SHEPHERD & SHEPHERD,
Attorneys for the Administrators.
Feb. 14tl, 1900. once W-o-Ws
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
TRADE BOUGHT BY BLOOD

Imperialism, Mr.. Bryan said, had it's
inspiration in the desire of the syndicates
to extend their commerce by conquest,
and he said that he was willing to en-
dorse the language of Benjamin Franklin
and say that "coo and dispassionate pos
terity will condemn to infamy those who
advised it.
He also read a letter written by Abra-
ham Lincoln November 21st. 1864, to Mrs.
Bixby, of Boston. a mother who had
lost five sons in the Civil War and con-
trasted it with the sordid assurances OF
those who say that the trade which we
secure vii be worth the blood that is
spent for it and asked why the people
who wanted the trade did not purchase it
with their own blood instead of the blood
of other peoples sons.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20

Courtship was probably invented by
some man who wanted to find out what
some woman thought of him without
asking her.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20

Republican leaders in Congress per-
ceive that the sense of their own power
has led the party into trouble and that
a strong curb must be placed upon it
until after the election. One of the plans
of the Mckinley managers for the cam
paign is said to be the promotion of visit
ing delegations, TO which the President
may deliver addresses that will serve to
Offset those of Mr.. Bryan.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20

through carpet Dag governors
THE Republicans have studiously
avoided a discussion of the Philippine
question They have opposed considera-
ton Of that question by the cry that
nothing could he done until the insur-
rection was put down. The Porto Rico
Tariff Bill however, gives us some idea
of the treatment which the Filipinos may
expect and Prof. Schurman, one of the
Presidents Commissioners, says that this
bill will arouse suspicion in the mind OF
the Filipino as to his future condition.
Mr.. Bryan proposed as the only consis-
tent settlement of the Philippine ques
ton declaration of the nations purpose
to give the Filipinos independence as soon
as a stable government is established.
when that declaration is made, he
said. "hostilities will cease and it will be
easy to establish a stable government. To
independence should be added protection
from outside interference. Not pro-
tectorate such as European countries ex-
ercise for the spolatfon of the protected.
but protection such as this nation has
exercised over the republics of Central
and South America. 1t will be sufficient
for the United States to announce that
any molestation of the Philippines will
be considered an unfriendly act. If our
nation will stand erect and exert its
great influence in behalf of peace and
Justice and liberty, no nation will dare to
touch the Philippine Islands just as no
nation has dared to disturb the republics
to extend their commerce by conquest
which lie south of us.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20

Former Senator German believes the
Democrats have an excellent chance to
win this year. He advises the party not
to tie up the Porto Rican question, but to
take advantage of all its opportunities.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
Sundays News in Brief.

The Naval Appropriation Bill, as it will
be reported. shows how completely the
Armor- Plate Trust has Congress in its
grasp. According to the report Secretary
Long may contract for armor at $545 per
ton to the amount of $10,900,0 00
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20

The Filipino Junta is again becoming
active in Manila. Arms have recently
been struggled into LuZon from China
Hostile natives are reported organizing in
several of the conquered provinces
Trains ar. run under heavy guards. The
guerrillas are becoming more active
There is treason among municipal Off
Gals on all sides. The Spaniards en-
courage the FilipinOs to continue the
struggle.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-20
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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25

HISTORY or The NiTED sIAlES. BY John
Bach McMaster. In seven volumes. VOL. Y.
tls2l-lsSO)- New YORK; - Appleton %.
PRACTICAL AGITATION. BY John Jay Chap
man New YORK: Charles ScflbneI sons
SIS
Pooh PkOf'Lt- Novel by =, n friedman.
Boston: HoughtGn, Mlifhn q 90. SL2O.
\ DAVIS PIONEER. Novel. by Rowland h.
Robinson. Boston: Houghton, MIinm co.
sl26. .-
MAN AND HIS ANtLSlok- story IN Evoiution.
BY Charles Morris. New A9rk' The Macmillan
Company Sl25.
RASSELAS. (Casaells National LlbTaryD New
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25
Minor Fiction.

Poor People" by /. X. Friedman. is a
story, or rather a series of sketches, OF
life in tenement house-not in "slum"
district, however. The subject is diff
cult one TO handle, and has seldom been
treated successfully. Perhaps the most
notable work in this line was Julian
Ralph's People We Pass" Mr.. Fried
mans work must certainly take place be-
side il.
The hero is a German matchmaker with
ambitions in the line Of play writing, and
the heroine the daughter of an old mu-
stefan, who tells the story. The style OF
the book is simple and unpretending in
the extreme. and there is no striving after
effect and very little plot. Every char
acter is drawn with absolute accuracy and
sympathetic fidelity TO the best as well as
the worst traits of the polyglot popula-
ton of the tenement. One OF the finest
bits of portraiture is that OF the old Ger
man cabinetmaker, father of the hero,
whose real genius for wood carving and
designing is made ineffective by intem-
perate habits and superstition. The in
terview between this old man and the
Dutch fortune-teller is particularly de-
lightful. and the conclusion of this chap
ter is worth quoting. The old mans for
Nuno H"e peihs Sa'iSiae''i'' NC eASiainis'
"a viii not bay de cards vas no gut; you have
scharmed dem
81 will have you arrested you old scamp abe
shFieked.
"You call me 4 schgamp; me, de great carver,
de Michael Angelo In wood! You old. fat, ugly
weed. You sit your dirty wrapper in hke-like .
schiInney covered schmoke nit
This swi, change OF smile. this degradation
from a rose &c a weed and then to a smoke
wrestsed chimney. left her speeches. She jerk
ed at The cords OF the cotton window shade and
the sunlight came streaming into the room. The
parrot shrieked in Dutch. The cats debouched
from the other room and ran about yogels feet,
making him the centre Of circle the circunaier-
ence q which was 4 heavy black line.
Il cures you u the name Of the seventh dauGh-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25
In the Fighting Top.

Up. up in an eyrie Of steel We stand,
Where swirls the unchecked breeze,
tense. devoted, i. untless band,
We peer across the seas.
We peer and walt. Not ours the ships
Great thunders to unstOp.
But ours the yenomous. singing lips
We men OF the 1shtins top.
We note rom our vantage FIN and wing;
We note the distant foe.
We note-watch close,-thc big gun swing
Athwart the deck below.
We grip-and peer-crashi crash,-hurrayl
The smoke wreaths I'LL our eyes,
But quick we see. long miles away,
mighty fountain rise.
God grant we're given chance Just one!
God grant the foe comes niEherl
Nowi Now! From rapid, searching gun
We vim cur nest with FIRE.
We pour our deadly stream OF hail
Upon each shape that nears:
And high amid the battles gale
We answer cheers with cheers
b. bullet ard shell our ears are lashed.
No bulwark ours Of might.
Fair target we. We: mabashed
Alott. alone we fight.
We know fuIl well an AK Of steel
Our swaying trunk may lop.
What then? What then? Come woe or veal,
We're men OF the fighting top,
Edwin L. Sabin, in Munsey's Magazine.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25
u! ]. y ! !

day was. in the authors estimate growing
so prodigiously that the family factotum
| hung up the knocker and announced TO all
callers that Mr.. Rogers was doing as well
as could be expected"
Ii was but natural therefore that man
Of Gray's habits and temperament should
have supplemented his poetic works with
an excellent series of letters, many writ
[ ten during his tour of the Continent IN
company with Horace Walpole and many
more to the famous Premier's son after
j he had. in a caddish moment, broken with
! Gray only to be reconciled in his saner
! years.
( 1t WIS to Walpole. for instance. that
/ Gray writes one of the most interesting
! letters in the collection before us:
| Yesterday 1 he'd the misfortune Of receiving a
! letter from certain gentlemen tas their book
! sellers express IN, who have taken the Magazine
! OF Magazines into their hands. They tel ne
that an ingenious poem. called reflections IN
! a Country Church YaId' has been communicated
! to them which they printing forthwith; that
| they are informed that the excellent author oil
! il is / by name. and that they beg not only his
indulgence. but the honor o: his correspondence.
etc. etc As am at all disposed TO be either
so indulgsnt correspondent a. they deslre.
have but bad way lett TO escape the honor
/ they would infiCt upon me. and am therefore
Obliged to desire you would make Dodsiey print 1t
Immediately (which may be done IN les Than a
weeks timc) from your copy. hut without ny
ZANE. what form most CONVENIENT Tor hlih
| but on his best paper and character he must
correct the press himself and print il without any
interval between the stanzas because the sense IN
some places continues beyond them; and the tue
\ must be. "Elcgy, Written in Country Church
| Yard II he would add TO line or two to say It
| came into his hand, by aeciden, ! should like 1t
better.
1t was typical modesty on Gray's part
| that he should have desired his name
omitted from the title page of his immortal
| work 1t is a fact which emphasizes the
conscientious manner in which Gray work
ed that one of the most ex-
quisite stanzas in the whole po-
em-one which greater poet than Gray
declared the best in the "Elegy
subsequently suppressed entirely because
it made the parenthesis before the epitaph
too long. 1t is not familiar to the lovers
of Gray, perhaps, and may be reproduced
| here:
There scattered oft the earliest OF the year
BY hands unseen. are showers Of violets found;
The redbreast loves 10 build and MARBLE there,
And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
This same scrupulous care in the matter
of finish and proportion is to be found in
will be read with more than passing inter-
est by all lovers of literature and travel
There is an excellent etching of Gray as
a frontispiece to the volume. A clear and
concise estimate of the poet is made the
preface. while the notes give all the light
on the features mentioned in the letters
which could be desired. (Boston: Small,
Maynard & Co. S10e.)
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25

Untrammelled Giant Of the West.
With all of Natures gifts endowed,
With all Of Heavens mercies blessed,
Nor Of thy power unduly proud
Peerless in courage, force, and skill,
And godlike in thy strength of will
Before thy feet the ways divide:
One path leads up 10 the heights sublime;
The other downward slopes, where bide
The refuse and the wrecks Of Time.
Choose then, nor fdlter at the start,
o choose the nobler path and part!
Be thou the guardian Of the weak.
OF the unfriended, thou the friend;
No guerdon for thy valor seek,
No end beyond the avowed end.
Wouldst thou thy godlke power preserve,
Be godlikc in the viii l. serve!
Joseph B. Glider
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25
The Spring Fever.

We're hunting a house-dO YOU know OF one
With bath and furnace and closets and gas
Well cis,ern, and faucets, and plenty Of sun,
And plat in front having lots of grass2
A garrett where traps can be stored away.
And nice back yard for Bobbie and Sue,
And barn for the horse and oats and hay,
And summer kitchen and woodshed, too.
We're hunting house-and IL must be where
The children can easily walk to school;
Not too far on. from the court house square,
But still the location must be cool.
The paper and paint must be fresh and clean;
The place in the best condition be.
Perchance you've house that should be seen.
Please tell US where We can get the key.
We're hunting house-as the one we're in
Fer fully year has sheltered US.
Hence now il Is time that we begin
To have our annual moving fuss.
The season is here, and a vague unrest
Has driven the people by hundreds mad;
So we will change to neighbours nest
And others will enter the one we've had.
Edwin L. Shin.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25

Last night came Sorrow while lay in sleep,
And laid his hand upon my brow, and drew
Nv mind to wakefulnesl and thrilled me
through
With mem'ries that thought were buried deeti
felt faint and familiar fragrance creep
About my face; and my lips the dew
OF kisses long time lest fell soft anew:
And in my heart | felt the old love leap.
And so the pain / co,.nt,J dad came back,
And took possession Of ny heart and eyes
To make them hold tis thing they needs must
lack
Dearer than ever dear All. HOY unwise
The soul that says: This grief can no more
rack
For sorrow slumbers co. but never dies.
) j. Bell.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25
The Author of the EIeg,.

There is a breath OF the learned and
leisurely days Of correspondence in the
Letters Of Thomas Gray" and
We are given portraiture bf
the latter part of the eighteenth CEN
tury which compares favorably with what
that queen of the quill, Lady Mary Wort
ley Montagu, had done twenty years be-
fore and with the brilliant letters of Nine.
de sevigne. The author OF the "Elegy In
Country Church YARD was not q mar
vel Of energy. He was rather, as he him
self confessed, "push-pin player in ordi-
nary TO her Supinity--Laziness." The sum
of his entire poetic output is not large
The seven years he spent ever the "Elegy'
bear testimony to the deliheration with
which he composed-practically the same
elaboration eharacterizing the laboriou.
composition of Rogers Pleasures oil
Hope" which at the rate of one line Z
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25

Who would trust England, let him lift his eyes
To Nelson, coumned DER Trafalgar Square,
Her hieroglyph of Duty, written where
The roar Of traffic bushes to the SKIES
Or mark while Paul's vast shadow softly lies
On Gordon's statued sleep, how praise and
prayer
Flush through the frank Young faces clustering
there
To con that kindred rane O: Sacrifice.
England, bland oloud-ship in the blue.
But rough oak, plunging ON DER perilous jars
OF reef and ice, our faith will follow you
The more for tempest roar that strains your
spars
And splits your canvas, be your helm but true,
Your courses shapen by the eternal stars.
jay Lincoln, III the April Atlantic.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25

The Loneliness of the sea IS in my heart.
And the wind is not more lonely thai this gray
mind.
l have thought far thoughts. have loved, have
loved. ard | find
Love gone thought weary, and ], alas, left be-
hind.
The loneliness of my heart Is in the sea.
And my heart is noh n,re lonely tIan this gray
wind.
Who shall stay the feet Of the sea - bind
The wings OF the wind? Only the feet OF man
kind
Grow old in the place Of their SORROW, and bitter
Is the heart
That may not wander az he wind or return as the
Arthur Sylnons