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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-27

Mckinley wouldn't do a bad thing
if he were to write to Hanna and
Beveridge after the manner of Quay,
who once sent to one of his candi-
dates for Governor of Pennsylvania
this note: Dear Beaver: Don't talk
The Hon. Mark Hanna has talked too
much and the Hon. Al. Beveridge has
talked too frankly-for McKinley's
good.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-27

The Raleigh Christian Advocate en-
dcrses the movement for the forma-
ton of estate Literary and Histori-
cal Society," and adds: Though but
comparatively few realize it, the de-
mand for such an organization is very
pressing. North Carolina is and has
ever BEEN very barren in literature.
Yet we have had and have now gifted
writer's. Much of our literary posses
sions is yearly going to waste. We
need some power to crystalize in per-
manent comedy form this disintegrat-
ing literary wealth. Such power can
be found in Literary Association y
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-27
SOMETHING WONDERFUL.

SOMElHlNG WONDERFUL.
81 think the action of Mrs.
Joe Persons Wash some
thing wonderful"
This was the expression OF
Mrs. ThoS. Piper, of Burling-
ton, N. c., and she also
wrote
| suffered intensely from
some stomach trouble, and
could not eat anything with
sut its causing pain and was
cured by using six bottles of
Mrs. Joe Persons RemeQy.
think the Wash is a grand
remedy. | tried it on a case
of Poison Oak. 1t afforded
instant relief and made a per-
feet cure.
Mrs. Thos. Piper,
Burlington, N, c., September
II, 1899.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-27

On the transport Grant, which has
Just arrived at San Francisco, thirteen
soldiers died during the voyage and as
many more were insane. Losses
among our troops in the Philippines
now foot up 2.732 killed and dead from
wounds and disease, and 1874 wound
ed. These figures do not include those
dying on transports returning to the
United States or after reaching home.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-10-26
WHAT'S Your FACE WoR1H2

Sometimes fortune, but Dever, If you
have sallow complexion, iaundice
look, moth patches and blotches on the
skin.-all signs of Liver Trouble. But
DR.. Kings New Life Pills give Clear
Skin, Rosy Cheeks, Rich Complexion.
Only % cents at DR.. w. III. Sheldon's
Drug Store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-10-26
PERHAPS YOU WANT A new ONE

We have a very good assortment of
Heaters from $40 up, and they're all
standard makes. We stand by them for the
best in the market Call and look them
over; no trouble to show them to you. and
explain their good points.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-10-26
IS YOUR STOVE UP?

If it isn't, don't get "stove up" yourself in
trying to put it up. Send to us and we
will take the entire job off your hands.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08

london some time before. \ seedy
looking man. describing himself as a
Journalist. called upon him one dry and
offered to cut out from papers. etc. all
the complimentary things said about
Mr.. Barnato. The genial man of mil
lions saw that the man WAS down on
his luck. and engaged him on Fhe spot
at n salary of Els per month. This was
quite characteristic of "Barney's sui
den and irresponsible freaks.
II the end Of six months the man.
who lad been paid monthly. aglm
called on Mr.. Barnato and presented a
huge bundle of clippings from news.
papers. asking whether he should con-
tinue the work. No replied Barney.
but I'll engage you for six months At
the same salary to cut out all the nasty
things yon can find said about M An
other six r0nths elapsed. aud once
more the lndefaiigble paper-clipper.
turned up aud reported his work 10 he
flushed. Well asked Barney,
where are tue results Of your work.
Here Barney assumed his grayest as
peet as he repeated the mans reply:
I have not been able TO bring them In,
there are two carthads outsideT-Lon-
don Westminster Budget.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
Another Husband In Trnnhle.

The wife of an employee of the Phila-
delphia postofiice recently got set OF
four store teeth" which she usually
placed on the bureau In the bedroom be
fore retiring for the night. One morn.
ing she arose early and went to prepare
breakfast. When her husband arose
he saw the teeth on the bureau. TO ac-
eonmodate his wife he put them In his
trousers pocket, intending to give them
to her when he went down stairs. In
stead, he forgot all about them and car
ried them off. About three hours later
his wife rushed into the postoflice and
between sobs exclaimed: I've swal.
lowed my teeth. What shall | doY I
know I'll die" and so on. The man
fished the missing teeth from his peck
ct. when his wife's tears turned TO In
dignation, AID the setting out she gave
her poorer half will long be remem.
bered by the Office clerks.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
EDUCATING JAPANESE WOMEN



Under the auspices of the economic
and reform section of The Society for
Ethical Culture addresses upon The
social Condition and Education Of
Women in Japan" were recently dellv-
cred before large audience. says the
Philadelphia Ledger Inazo Aitrobe,
Phi. D., professor of economics n the
Imperial College at Sapporo, give IA
historic resume of the condition Of
Japanese women. and said their pres
emit inferiorlty Is due to tie feudalism
existing in his country for the last 100
years. Japan received Its BEGINNINGS
in literature from China and its BUD
dhism from India, and both of these
forces also had an indirect influence in
lowering the status of women.
I Olson II. Sakrul, registrar of the
Meiji Girls seminary at Tokyo, and
Miss Anna c. Hartshorne. who spent
three years in Japan, said that general
interest ln education is increasing, and
il is only matter of time before prl-
sately endowed schools fer women
W III Dt a ltai VI ilhh . ai'AiR.fAAa
system. The Meiji seminary, which is
the only private non-sectarian girls
school In Japan, WAS established In
1888, but lost all its buildings and APP
paratus by fire three years ago. Over
| 500 girls have received the benefits of
its training, but owing TO financial
needs and the lack of permanent
fund only sixty arc now in attendance.
The japanese Government began 10
take an interest in co-edncation twenty
years ago. when several young women
were sent abroad for study. and ut the
present time there are ten Japanese
girls studying in the United States.
The outlook for the future was said to
be promising one, if the proper inter-
est aud encouragement are given from
countries more advanced in culture aud
enlightenment.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
Executions In England.

The number of executions during the
present reign has been much smaller
than formerly. Coke, in the time Of
Queen Elizabeth, remarks on the large
number of persons hanged. In 1I5O
a great Increase of crime occurred, and
in the following year sixty-three per-
sons were hanged In the small London
of those days. But many more We're
sentenced than were actually hanged.
In England in 1885 there were 242 SEN
fenced, and lob actually suffered.
Townsend, the Bow street runner, said
that between 1871 and 1877 he had seen
as many as twelve, sixteen or twenty.
hanged at one execution. Twice he
had seen forty hanged at one time. In
the fifty eight years ending 1894, there
were 1876 executions In England and
Wales, or between twelve and thirteen
per annum. In the first ten years there.
were 100, In tn last ten, 164-which,
though actually more. is. In proportion
to the population less than In the first
ten, as the population doubled between
1887 and 1894. The largest number In
any one of these years was In 1877,
when there were %, and the smallest.
In 1871, when there were 4.-Ghambers'i
Journal
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
MONSTER TURTLES IN MAINE.
Big Fellows that Are Able to Smash
Paddle Wheels of Steamboats,.

Big Fellows that Are Able to Smash
Paddle Wheels of Steamboats,.
II has been some years since sight
of tile Grapevine turtle has been re-
ported in the Lake Sebee district in
Maine. Thirty years have passed since
John Lander of Dover saw this big rep
tile IN the bog through which the
Grapevine stream flows in its course
into Sebec lake, aud was impressed BY
Its size. Fifteen years later Sam
Guernsey and Henry Warren, fishing
the same stream. saw what they took
to be partly submerged elapboard
iafioat In the still water but at the sound
of their voices it moved Off through the
water. leaving a wave Ike that OF a
rowboat. aud they saw that IL was
a giant turtle. Its most notable
appearance in recent years was 10
Bernard Warren of Dover. who, in fish
ing the Grapevine, came upon the turtle
In the open bog away from the water,
50 that full idea of the creatures
bulk was obtained. Its shell was as
large around as washtub. and the
head and legs were OF proportionate
Size At sight of the fisherman the
turtle started for the water, and War
rem, seeking TO detaiD 1t, by Selling its
tail. was taken In tow as snmmarily as
If the turtle had been expressly charter
ed for the purpose. Finding the taper
ing tail inconYenient to hold. Warren
jumped on the turtles back, but the
I'll III Will
so much as slackening its gait. ON
coming to the alders, along tile edge
of The stream, Warren, finding his bare
back position difficult to maintain.
slipped off behind. and caught hold
once more of the tail, but the turtle.
quickening pace, jerked him from bis
feet. aud the man let 20 his grip at the
bank. not caring TO follow the turtle
into the two feet OF water and twenty
feet of soft ooze that lay beyond. The
turtle went into the stream like saw
log down rollway, and Warren went
back to his fishing, convinced that IT
was not his day for undertaking. As
the Grapevine is now closed by law to
fishermen, there have been no reports
of the big turtle this year, but 1t il
safe to say that it will he heard OF
when the stream is opened three years
hence.
Fifteen years ago Captain Ansel
Crockett, of Sebec, steering his side
wheel passenger steamer, the Rippling
Wave. up the lake. encountered mid
way in the trip a swimming turtle so
large that to avoid collision he alter
ed the course of his craft so as to pass
it on the starboard side. The turtle,
which was seen by all the passengers,
was described as being as large round
rs hogshead, and n paddle-wheel
striking 1t would have been broken as
surely as If 1t struck a rock. In the
autumn of that year n Penobscot In
dian caught a turtle at Sebec Lake,
perhaps the same one. which measured
thirty-nine inches from tip to tip, aud
the upper shell was described by one
who saw 1t as being large enough TO
serve for the cradle of a child.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08

The first thing which strikes the
traveller In China upon his entrance in
10 any of the many cities of the Celes
tlal empire is the strings of dried mice
which hang from the roofs of the
houses suspended by their tails, just as
sausages are hung in front of butcher
shops In France.
The Chinese hunt these mice with n
long. sharp pointed knife. which they
plunge into the animals throats. Then
the mice are suspended by the tails I'M
I'll the blood has drlpped out, when
they are skinned drawn and smoked.
Another favorite dish with the Chi
nese Is dogs feet. The feet OF black
dogs are considered more of delicacy
than those OF any other color. and
white dogs are rejected as being taste
less. Dogs fat. prepared In special
manner. is looked upon as a repast fit
for a king
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
Made Him a Foreigner.

when | was on the BENCH says
Judge j. J. Du Bose, I'VE were one day
making up a special jury for a murder
trial. The lawyers were examining the
venire, and | wasn't paying much at
tentIon to what was going on till one
of the lawyers attracted my attention
by saying:
Your Honor, this man Is lncompe-
tent for jury service. He's foreigner
Il looked at the man under examina
ton and didn't think he looked like a
foreigner. He looked, anyway, like he
was acclimated. So asked him:
Have you ever been naturallzedr
No. sir he answered.
!" And you say you're foreigner and
not naturalized. What country are you
a native Off
Arkansas
well, everybody In the court room
laughed. | told the man he could 90.
lie wasn't much of foreigner. but too
much to sit on a jury In my court
Memphis Seimitar.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08

! A lady visiting in the South was told
n story of an old colored man. who
came 10 matchmaker with the two
hands of clock.
Il want yer TO fix up desc hands.
Rey amt kept no correct time for mo-
den six munfs."
We'll, where Is the clock?v respond
led the watchmaker
j "Out Mt my house"
But | must have the clock"
'Didn' tell yer dar's muffin de mat
tier wild de clock 'cepring de han's2 An
here dey be. fou jest want de clock so
you kin tinker wild II. and charge me
"A big price Gimme back dem hands"
And so saying he started off to find an
honest matchmaker.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
Tapping Redwood Fores,..

The immense redwood forests of
Mendocino and Humboldt counties,
California, are to be invaded by line
OF railroad. Hundreds of acres of tim
Der lying too distant from the coast to
be cut and transported by vessels TO
market will thus be thrown open to
expectation and direct shipment to San
Francisco and the East With that OBJ
jeet the California and Northwest
Hallway Company has been incorpor-
ated. The new road Is to be built into
the redwood region from some point OF
the San Francisco and North Pacific
road
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
scotch, n. She IL Wrote.

Mrs. ohmboddie-What are you
reading that absorbs you so:
Mr.. Hohmboddie docking up from
his book)--lt is n new Scotch novel;
Mrs. Hohmboddie with entIusiasm)
oh. | am so fond of those dear dialect
things! DO read me a. little.
Mr.. Hohmboddie (readingl-"Ye see.
Elpsie." said Duncan doueely. Il might
hae mair the matter wi me than We
wad be spierin. Aibllns me cen is n
bit dazzlit an am hearin the poolses
thuddin In ma ears, an ma TONGUE in
clayin when it sud be gaein, an div We
no hear the dirlln o ma HART an feel
the shakin o ma hond this day gin
gat glimpse o ye, sair hirplin like an
aud mon? Div ye nae guess what's a
the steer. Kinney. wi'out Inc gaein it
mair wordsT' = ,-
Mrs. Hohmboddie-Stop. for good
ness sake What In the world is the
creature trying to say?
Mr.. Hohmboddje-He' making a dec
laration of love,
Mrs. Hohmboddle-A. declaration Of
love, thought he was telling a lot
of symptoms to his doctor.-Collier's
Weekly
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
HOLD YOUR BREATH.
Thereby Yon May Avoid Being brow
Mhen IN the Water.


whatever you do. hold your hreatb.'
said the swimming MASTER Mhen he
had lalf dozen young women To look
after at tie beach. "No onR ever vas
drowned without inst struggling. and
then nnng the lungs Wit Nater IN a
struggle that Is twice IS nefee a. an
effort 10 hold tie breath would lie. II
they can preserve their presence ur
mind and prevent drawing III the breath
they are safe. While above maier iha
air can be taken IN little hreaths, almost
gasps When the water goes over they
tan hold their breath mn they viii u
a certainty come 10 tie surface.
Look III that girl with the red cap
he remarked. pointing 10 a GIT young
woman who was Insisting gu getting
beyond her depth, and who VAS com
polling her limbs TO lind the way Of pro.
pnlslon. she viii ioarn to swim be.
cause she Is determined 10. ana she
takes her time about II. She VIII MT
allow herself to be frightened. no mat
ter II she pats her feet down anu dues
not touch the ground. She knows that
Is the way 10 get herself In serious
trouble aud so she keeps control of her-
III aud Is calm all the tine. Wien
a cannot touch bottom she catches "A
title breath at n time and tries 10 strike
out. OF course she goes under nov aud
then, but she doesn't Try TO breathe
under water, because size knows she
is not n fish. \ fish has gills and can
strain the air from the wafer. but she
has lungs, aud when she ILLS them With
water she gets some air. to be sufe.
for there is air in the water all the time.
But she gets too much water ut tho
same time aud IL doesn't do her any
good.
If people would just keep quiet and
not get excited, just remain cool aud
collected and hold their breath unless
the nose Is above water. we never
would hear of n death by drowning
OF course, in the ease of shlpwreck. or
whenever ole gets loo much exhausted,
the holding of the breath Is ont of the
question. But | never saw anyone Mt
these beaches wien Il seems 10. mo
there was any excuse for not learhlng
TO swim. There certainly Is no oxriise
for losing control of ones self. aud get,
ting strangled. or becoming unron-
scious.
Hold your breath. Chicago EVEN
Ing Post.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
Fed by Postage stamps.

Most people entertain the curious de-
fusion that a million old postage
stamps will get an orphan into some
charitable home. How the idea orig
mated no one knows, but there is no
truth in it. 1t is quite true, however.
that the orphan home at Locle, Switz-
erland, is partly maintained by old
postage stamps.
The reader may ask, How Is this
done? In this way. This orphanage.
being In the center of Europe, receives
old postage stamps from all the coun.
tries of Europe and other parts of the
world. In this institution are eighty.
six orphan girls, and these old postage
stamps are judiciously mixed by them
and placed into parcels for sale to
stamp collectors. In this way the or
phanage makes about E12O year.
which goes to. the support of the poor
children.
Every year three London publications
make a collection of old postage stamps
for this charity, and this year the pa
,pers are offering over 81 800 In prize.
for the biggest collection of old stamps
The stamps may be either English OF
foreign
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
OUR KlNsMEf THE BoERs.
There Is a lie BetSeen Them and onr
Conntry's EarIy Settlers.

There Is lie between Them and Onf
Conntry's EarIy Settlers.
Reminded nces sanity of their kinship
with the English. Americans are mol
often asked 10 remember their kinship
with the Beers. And yet the tie Is
close one. The Boer is Il transplanIea
Dutchman, aud the influence Of Ilol.
land IN shaping the destiny uf til >
country is ranked by historians as sec
ond only TO that Of Britain.
In contemplating The Transyaal war
it Is well not 10 forget what the Dutch
! did for America.
The Pilgrim Fathers having been
driven ouf of England, found refuge
+ In Holland until they sailed for lie
/ New World. Holland WAS III that aga
f the cradle OF religious liberty. II Vas
one of the worlds great states. aud It's
f people had won greater freedom than
+ those of England.
During their sojonrn there the refu
gees learned 10 admire aud love many
Dutch institutions. aud they carried
these feelings with them across the 1t.
inutic.
In the very foundation Of The Amerl.
eau commonwealth there was stratum
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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08

When the German emperor was at
school at Cassel he aud his brother.
Prince Henry. lodged in an old castle
near. but In the school the two boys
were treated exactly like any other
youngsters. On one, occasion, 1t is re-
lated. MASTER knowing that Prince
William was backward In Greek and
wishing to curry favor with him. told
him secretly what the subject of the
next days examination would be.
Early next morning the prince went
into the classroom and wrote the in
formation on the blackboard In huge
letters. not wishing TO have any unfair
advantage over his schoolfellows.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
Columbus Marriage.

The reason why Christopher Coium
bus has not yet been numbered among
1t seems that his Qualification has been
urged for centuries, but has never been
decreed because his marriage certificate
could not be produced, and consequent
" his welded life, he leaving n son
CDlego), was considered concubinage.
Now that the Congregation OF Rites
has recently discovered the missing Ger.
tificate, all obstacles are removed, and
ere long we may hear of christopher
Columbus beatus."
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
Papa's Encouraging Talk.

Miss Wilkins" he said, Il met
your father at luncheon to-day, and re
had a long and confidential talk"
A glad light came into her big, soulful
eyes, and in low. happy tones she asked;
Was papa in pleasant moodg
Yes, he spoke very eneouragingly to
me-"
For a long time she was silent. L,
was evident that she expected him to go
on. But he only sat there. looking of
Into space and tugging at his mustache.
At last she drew a tremulous sigh aud
murmured:
at is strange that papa didn't say
anything to me about 1t at tea this
evening"
We'll" Henry Twlckenham replied,
Il suppose 1t had passed out of his
mind. He is a very busy man, yoa
know"
STILL" she said, "he wouldn't be like
ly to forget thing that-that SO direct
ly concerned me-"
"Ah, Miss Wilkins" he cried, do
you, too, take an interest In me? l as
sure you this is very fiatterlng. DID
you read my plea to the jury IN the
Mundle versus Binkham casei 1t was
that upon which your father especially
congratulated me. He said 1t undoubt-
edly presaged a bright future for me-
Then it suddenly began to grow chilly
Whereabouts, and fifteen minutes later,
when Henry Twlekenham had been
frozen out, Gladys Wilkins clapped
her soft, white hands to her temples
and exclaimed:
81 wish that fool and his Mundle YER
sus Binkham case were in skaguay.'-
Cleveland Leader.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-03-08
An African Snake. story.

An exciting incident marked the trial
trip ON the new Congo Hallway from
Matadi to Stanley Pool says lhe Nest
minister Gazette. When nearing the
latter place huge python was obsery-
Ell on the line. The reptile appeared
fully alive TO the discomfort OF being
cut to pieces, aud made tracks" with
all possible speed; but, as the train en-
tered a narrow cutting, he found him
self at close quarters and turned On
the engine driver. who pulled up in dis
may. One of the officials hereupon
alighted and by well-tlmed blow put
the intruder hors de combat,