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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-16

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A SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.

Greater New York Medical Association,
says, There is just one scientific compound
known as DIAMOND DIGEST TABLETS which
can be relied upon TO cure dyspepsia and
constipation so they will staY cured. Posi-
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ever endorsed by prominent physicians.
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Cut flowers. boquets and floral d.r, grI
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Shade trees, evergreens and strawberries.
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MOZLtYS LEMON ELIXIR.
A PLEASANT LEMON TONIC.

Cures Indigestion, headache, malaria,
kidney disease, fever, chills, loss of APP
petite, debility, nervous prostration heart
failure, and appendicitis by regulating the
Liver, Stomach, Bowels and Kidneys.
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MoZLEY's LEMON ELIXIR.

Cured me of Indigestion. l had suffered
for ten years. ! had tried almost every
medicine. but all failed Since taking
lemon Elixir l can eat anything l like.
W. A. GRIFFITH.
Reevesville, S. C.
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Uniformly kind courteous and polite
treatment of all persons is one mark of
the true man or woman.
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POBT. r. RAY
F-Ob i II. IIA
Sec. and Treas. McAden Mills.
Vaudeville, n. c.. Nov. II, 1900.

To the Editor: On my return this morn
ing from = trip of a week to New York.
find Your letter CT the 10th inst I
shall be very glad to look over this copy
of the "Child Labor Bill" and will be
glad then to write you further as to our
ideas concerning it.
We do not know how it may be with
other manufacturers. but with us it has
been, and is a constant struggle to keep
children out Of the mill, because we
would very much prefer TO work only
matured help, but there is constant pres
sure TO get children at work. In view of
these facts. we think legislation on the
subject should be directed to the par
ents against putting their children TO
work too soon rather than to Furnishing
mills for employing them. Further than
this we cannot give an opinion until l
shall have had time to read and study
the proof you enclosed and perhaps also
10 hear from parties in Charlotte. who l
had understood were at work upon a
draft of the same description.
f. {: II. FRIES.
Winston Salem, n c., Nov. II. 1900
To the Editor: Replying to your let
ter or the lUtn INST Woulu say Win re-
gard to the labor bill submitted. that |
am in favor OF some law on the subject
and it seems to me this one is very good
with the exception of section 3, which
ought to be changed as no mill could use
it TO advantage as it now stands. /
would say allow children between ten and
twelve years to work three days in a
week consecutivelv and rest three. or
prohibit their employment entirely. |
have not yet given the matter much
thought, and | may have something more
to say to you about it.
A. c. LINEBERGER,
Sec Treas Tuckaseege Manufacturing Co.
Mount Holly, N c., Nov. IL, 1900.
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30 the Editor | want to say at the
outset. in replying TO your request for ny
opinion of the "Child Labor Bill, re-
Gently introduced in the Georgia Legisla-
ture, that, as rule. | am opposed to la
Dor legislation. | think, however, that
something should be done to prevent the
employment OF children under ten years
of are in textile mills. and l have al
ways favored compulsory education to a
limited extent.
The bill you enclose. it seems to me.
could be improved on by a committee OF
practical mill managers, who would
doubtless fix the age limit at 10 or Il
years. strike out section relating to the
half day system. and alter the other sec
tons TO CONFORM.
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MozLEY.s LEMON EL1xIR

Cured me of indigestion and heart dis
ease, after years of suffering when all
other remedies and doctors had failed.
n. d. COLEMAN.
pauIab G n
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MozLEY's LEMON ELIXIR.

Cured me of enlarged liver, nervous
indigestion and h~o~+ disease. / was una
bic to walk up stairs or to do any kind
kind OF work. / was treated by many
physicians but got no better until / used
Lemon Elixir. l am now healthy and
vigorous.
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man is as old as he feels and a wo-
man is as old as she doesn't think she
looks.
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Some men are bigamists, but one wife
is more than the average man can man
age
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To the Editor: Sections 1 and Z I cor
slider to be very good, and | would like to
see them enacted in this State.
Section is entirely impractical and
foolish.
Sections 2. and 6 have for their OBJ
ject the enforcement of compulsory edu-
cation on cotton mill operatives. Almost
all cotton mill operatives have opportu-
mites for education and / wish they would
take advantage of them, but see no rea-
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To the Editor:-Your circular letter of
November 18th came in my absence, and
having just returned to the Office / take
the first opportunity OF answering.it.
| have not given careful thought to
1.-The question of child labor and would
be satisfied to act under any wise law en-
acted by the Legislature, but II seems to
ME that il is much better for children to
be at work in mills than to be unemployed
and out on the streets subject 10 no con-
troll: the parents and older members of
the family being in the mill these chill
dren are liable TO drift into all sorts of
vicious companiorship, and the old saying
of the devils being apt to furnish en-
poyment to the idle to some extent fits
the case.
OF course, if the public schools can be
made to take care of the children for
longer period during the year it might
be we'll to make it unlawful for children
under a certain age to work in the mills
during the school term, and the same law
should compel the children to go to
school But as between idleness and mill
work ] think mill work is much better
Nest of the mills are kept in sanitary
condition, the work is not too hard for
the child, and ii enables the child to learn
a useful trade and to form habits of in
Ndustry which would be likely later to be
Y favorable factor in is development.
The only evil see to the work of chill
dren of the proper age in mills is where
u conflicts with and deprives them of the
benefits of education.
Referring to the bill enacted by the
Georgia Legislature, | think that very
few children under ten years of age are
employed in factories.
Section 2 of the bill seems to provide
for the education of children from ten to
fourteen as far as practicable.
Section may be good in theory, but
might not be found to work practically.
Sections s. and seem to be all right
Yours truly,
HUGH MACRAE.
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Pres. Wilmington Cotton Mills
A

To the Editor:-Yours of the 18th ulti-
mo was received few days ago enclosing
a copy of the bill now before the Geor-
gia Legislature.
We favor legislation on this line, and
like the bill now suggested by Mr.. d. A.
Tompkins better than the one before the
Gorgia Legislature.
Very truly yours.
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son for this discrimination against the
class.
DAVID CLARK.
Cen Mgr and Treas. Ada Mfg Co.
Charlotte, y. c.. Nov 20, 1900.
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lFN THE LITERARY WORLD.

/ journal of humor, Life. The first story
in the book Our James," by Robert Al.
ston Stevenson, treats of the tramp prob
| lem in a decidedly novel way. New
YORK lady, who had a passion for slum-
ming, on her return from down-t town
trip. found tramp who offered to work
for his dinner. She employed him. and
in spite of her husbands predictions that
he would prove a fraud he was in truth
a Jewel of a servant "dignified. resDecta-
BILE and thoroughly capable" One day.
after he had been with his employers about
a year. he went to the grocer's and aever
came back. months salary was due
him, nothing was missing, and his disap-
pearance was a mystery Some months
later the employers of Our James" were
invited to dinner. where the host asked
the lady to go out to dinner with her for
mer hired man. Ee turned out to be DR..
J. Mortimer Stubs. who had lust com.
pleted a book that everybody was talking
about called Personal Investigations in
All Social Classes" He had assumed a
mental place to make his book a success
The other stories are each of its kind ex
cellent. The illustrations are the best
work of Hanna, Gilbert, Cox, Coffin. Rich
illustrations is thoroughly artistic.
The contents of the December Magazine
number of The Outlook are varied Among
the special articles will be found the fifth
installment of the autobiography of Book
err T. Washington, called, up From
Slavery" the final installment of Mr..
Hamilton w Mabie's civilian Shake
speare; Poet. Dramatist and Man, which
has now been published by the MacMil-
lans in sumptuous book form; elaborate
articles reviewing the ablest books of the
season in the departments of art, biog-
raphy and fiction, with many portrait il
Illustrations; and, most prominent of ALL
series Of brief articles by such men as
James Bryce. Henry Van Dyke, Edward
Everett Hale President Hadley of Yale,
and half dozen others. giving their opln-
ions in reply to the question What Are
the Greatest Books of the Century" 50
a year The Outlook Company, 2ST Fourth
Avenue, New York;
THE Broken Sword. a tale of Recon
struction in North Carolina. is the title
in the prospectus of new book that is
now in press. 1t is written by Col. Dennis
Worthington, an able and scholarly mem
Der Of the Wilson bar. The prospectus
whets the appetite for the book, which
will no doubt be marked success. Prof.
II. H. Horne, of the faculty of Dartmouth
College, who has read the manuscript,
says of the hook:
THE work of Colonel Worthington has
conspicuous merit and unusual strength.
It's character portraits are definitely. con-
sistently and strkingly drawn; the ne
gro dialect is Incompatible He viii be
widely thanked by the youth, especially
of the South, of this and succeeding gen
Grafton, for his forceful and realistic por-
trayal of the days of Reconstruction,
which are a memory to him but only his
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CHILD LABOR IN
COTTON MILLS
Continued From First Page.)

suggest that fines be imposed on parents
of % or so dollars for putting their chill
drep i'll mills before they can read and
write, the mill-owner to pay the fine.
Employing children under the law pro-
vides for the fine 10 be applied to school
fund. Respectfully.
S. YOUNG.
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AN AMERICAN GIRLS TRIP TO THE
ORIENT AND AROUND THE WORLD.
by Christine Collbran. Illustrated. Pub
fishers: Rand. McNally & Co., Chicago.
This is an interesting story of young
girls trip Round the World written
primarily for her brothers. 1t will inter-
est all, particularly young women.
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Treas. Cedar Falls Manufacturing c.
Cedar Falls, n. c.. Dec. 4.
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MoZLEY,s LEMON HOT DROPS.

=. II. bALDNN IN.
No. 9S Alexander St.. Atlanta, Ga.
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FIVE BEAR STORIES, by Joaquin Miller
Publishers Rand McNally & Co.. Chi

FIN r bFAR SIUHIEO, DY JUdQUIH -NIIIOI !.
Publishers: Rand. McNally & Co., Chi
caSo.
What Joaquin Miller does not know
about bears IS not worth knowing. He
has hunted them, he has played with
them, he has studied them in every as
pect with philosophical interest. until
he knows more about them than the bears
know about themselves. This book has a
charm. an absorbing interest, a series CT
adventure that are heightened by the
we'll known style OF the popular author.
AS Christmas present for boys. it could
not be surpassed, and the boys grown
tall will find it equally absorbing
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| in printing them. The effects thus Sc
cured are largely due to the mastery art
of the engraver and the printers unre-
hitting care. The 16-page form contain
ing these Illustrations is printed on their
ordinary magazine presses, but on heav-
Ter paper than usual
The contents of the Christmas number
are in keeping with the notable achieve
ment in colored printing, and most of
them breathe the Christmas spirit Among
the contributions is thoughtful paper
on Paths of Hope for the Negro, by
Prof. Jerome Dowd of Durham, N. c.,
member of the faculty OF Trinity College.
Prof Dowd is one of the ablest OF the
Younger men of the South in the field
of economic study and research. he writes
what he thinks, based upon careful obser-
vation To the hackneyed subject of the
negro which every man in the South,
and the North as we'll, deludes himself
into thinking he understands, Prof. Dowd
has brought lucidity and originality of
treatment that gains for it place in the
Christmas Century. That is evidence that
competent critics think he has message
for the thoughtful world. In this COM
pass we cannot attempt a review of the
article 1t ought to be read in full-no
synopsis could do it justice, for it is
compact boiled down with the skill of
the writer who makes every word tell.
Some will agree with Prof Dowds con-
illusions and some will not agree with
him. but all will admit that he has treat
ed the most difficult problem in Ameri-
can life with perfect honesty and thor
ough knowledge of the negro, the South
ern white man, and their environments,
with spirit of fairness and desire to
learn and state the truth. 1t is in this
spirit only that p solution of the negro
question can be found
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Mocresbdro. n. c.. Nov. 20.
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November 18th, 1900.
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MozLEY,s LENNON ELIxIR.

Beulah, s. c.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-21
EXHIBIT HELPED HAWAII HIS CONSCIENCE FORBADE
WHY JUDGE EDINGs COULD NOT
SIT IN CASE
Dilemma In Supreme Court This Morn
ing Because a Judge Was Friendly to
One of Litigants.

There was an affair of conscience"
in the Supreme Court this morning, the
like OF which has seldom been wit
messed. 1t tied up business for an hour
and laid court and lawyers under the
stress of a painful dilemma.
The case of Thomas Christley VS.. j.
A. Magoun was called. This is an old
trust matter that has already been
aired in the Circuit Court F. NJ. Hatch
and j. T. De Bolt appeared for the
plaintiff; w. A. Kinney and E. b. Nc
Clanahan were present for Mr.. Magoon.
At the outset it was found that Justice
Perry was disqualified, having sat on
the case once before. 1t was agreed,
too, that as the defendant is lawyer
no brother lawyer should be asked to
sit on the case. This reduced the re-
sources to a case of calling in a Circuit
Judge. Judge Humphreys was disqual-
flied because he was related to Mr..
Magoon by marriage. Judge Edings, of
Hawaii, who is in town was then sent
for.
Then came the hitch and the dilem-
ma. When he appeared Judge Edings
stated that he could not conscientiously
sit on the case on account of business
relations with Mr.. Magoon. A deal was
now pendinU which would be somewhat
to his Judge EdingsD advantage and
his conscience would not let him sit in
J Judgment on a case III WHICH SuCn COH-
ditions existed. He felt that he was
going or would be favored by Mr.. Ma
goon in the transaction and, while that
feeling would probably not affect an
unbiased judgment upon the case, he
did not feel that it was exactly fair
to the other litigant to undertake it
in the circumstances.
Mr.. Kinney, attorney for Mr.. Magoon
protested that pending business trans
action could not have any detrimental
effect upon Mr.. Christley's cause. Mr.
Hatch, for the plaintiff, finally consent
! ed to allow Judge Edin"s to go ahead
even with his well known personal
friendship for Mr.. MagOon. But the
man from Kona was obdurate. The
deal was still pending and his consci-
! ence would not allow him to sit. There
was talk of sending for Judge Hardy
of Kauai who is in town, but it was
| found that ho was IT, i'll to sit. Send
| ing to Maui for Judge Kalua or to Hilo
| for Judge Little were finally discussed
but this seemed impossible as Mr.. Nc
Clanahan, who will present the case foI
| Mr.. Magoon expects to leave in few
days for California.
7 Judge Edings was finally asked if he
could close his deal with Mr.. Magoor
this afternoon and after that would his
conscience permit him to serve. He
replied that such was possible, where
upon the case was adjourned to tomor-
row morning.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-21
HOUSE PASSES REORGANIZATION
BILL.
The Army Canteen Must Go-Gen.
Shafter Not Retired as a Major Cen
eral-Lee and Wilson.

WASHINGTON %. Co, December
6.-The army reorganization bill passed
the House this evening by a vote of
166 to 1873. Three Democrats voted for
the measure, Wilson and Clayton of
New York and Hall of Pennsylvania.
A motion by Representative McClel-
Ian of New York to recommit the bill
with instructions to report . bill eX
tending the provisions of the existing
law for two years was defeated by a
vote of 6S to 246.
The bill provides for a permanent
standing army of approximately 100000
men on a peace basis.
Republican leaders are jubilant to-
night over their success in passing the
measure on the fourth day of the ses-
sion. In order to accomplish it they
had to sidetrack the oleomargarine bill,
which was the special order for today.
Unanimous consent permitted the ole
omargarine bill to go over until to-
morrow, so that there was no hiatus in
the consideration of the Administra-
TONS paramount measure.
Despite the splendid organization of
the House Republicans, there were
some surprises in store for the men who
reported the bill. BY the overwhelm-
ing vote of 1853 to 81 the House decided
against the continuance of the army
canteen. The amendment adopted
drinks on any premises used or owned
by the United States for military pur-
poses.
BY a vote of 127 to 100 it was decided
that General Shafter has done no SER
vice to warrant his being retired as a
Major-General. Some of the leading
Republicans voted with the solid Dem
ocratic ranks against the promotion of
an Administration pet.
There was apparent in the vote re-
buke of the Administrations favorit-
ism during the Spanish War and it's
treatment of General Miles. General
Fitzhugh Lee and General James H.
Wilson, whom it was proposed to re-
tire as Brigadiers, were sacrificed be-
cause Shafter could not be given the
coveted Major Generally. There was
no division called for in the vote on
their cases.
Scores of the Women of the White
Ribbon, delegates to the National w. G.
II. u. Convention now in session here,
sat in the House galleries and applaud
ed the sentence of death pronounced
on the army canteen. Fully as inter
ested, although not as conspicuous were
number of army officers, active and
retired, who declared that the abolish
in of the canteen would be the worst
thing that ever happened for the morals
of the army. Representatives Little
field of Maine, undoubtedly the most
forcible debater on the Republican side,
was the floor champion of the anti-can-
teen crusaders.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-21
WATER FRONT gamblers
A SMALL BOYS LARGE GAMBLING
OUTFIT.
Wharf Rats Who Have Sentinels Out
Watching for Police-Dice Thrown
Into the Harbor.

Captain Flint of the water front po-
lice yesterday captured a small wharf
rat who was enjoying a crap game and
on searching him found ten sets of dice
in his various pockets. He was only a
youngster, but he was well fixed for a
game with any acquaintance he met.
The dice were taken away from him and
thrown into the sea.
The crap games of the wharf rats
flourish nearly all day long in spite of
all the police can do. Every wharf rat
that runs about the front has dice in
his pockets and the boys begin a new
game within a few minutes after every
raid that is made. If the police officer
is on one side of a wharf they go to
the other, and there is always time for
a few passes" at least, before he can
get to them. Another scheme is to
play near a loose plank. If an officer
shows up the dice are showed under the
plank.
The youngsters have watchers out in
every direction for long distance.
Those who play on the Pacific Mail
wharf have boys stationed at suitable
points as far up town as Queen street
and If an officer starts for the scene of
the game there is sure to be a small boy
running ahead to sound a warning. I'm
der such protection as this the games
flourish quite openly. Anyone but an
officer may see the games going on,
with money on the ground and passes
being made as quickly as excited gam
blers can make them. Complaints are
often made, but the people who COM
rlain do not come forward and testify
against the gamblers, and arrests do
no good.