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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-28
DECAYED BAYLUS AGAIN.

Decayed Baylus has been explaining
what he did say when he slandered the
Baptist Church. Here is his statement
of what he said made In n speech at
Hillsboro and reported in that skunk
of journalism" the Asheville Gazette:
81 am Baptist, denomination,
which, including the colOred members,
will equal all other Christian denomi-
nations as to numbers in the State.
1t is d fact that the leaders OF the
Baptist Church with the leaders in
ether Christian denominations who are
large property owners, are opposed to
educating the people by taxation.
They have shown this in our uni
versity, our A. and NJ. Colleges and in
our Normal and Industrial schools.
Pass this Amendment and eliminate
the poor voters, and do you suppose
that these property owners will tax
themselves to educate the poor chill
dren?"
This is not true in any particular.
1t is true that some Baptists and some
members of other churches have OPP
posed certain appropriations to High
er Education, but these men have
strenuously advocated increased APP
preparations to public schools. The
bulk of Baptists and others believe in
public education from top to bottom,
but believe the greatest need is TO
appropriate to public schools.
So much for that, Decayed Baylus
adds: pass this Amendment and elm
mate the poor voters and do you sup
pose that these property owners will
tax themselves to educate poor chill
dren ?"
The Amendment eliminates no poor
voters except negro voters. 1t pro-
tects every white man in his vote,
whether rich or poor, educated or
uneducated, and Mr.. Cade knows this
as well as anybody else. Why, then,
does he try to convey wrong i'm
preston?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-28
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS,
Medical College Of Virginia

A called meeting of the Board of WISH
tors of this Institution will be held in the
College Building on Tuesday July II
1900, at II o'clock noon, for the purpose
of electing a Professor to the Chair OF
History, Pathology and Bacteriology
made vacant by the resignation of Profess
sor e. C. Levy, M. D., Candidates for the
position will forward their applications
and testimonials to Christopher Temp
kins, NJ. D., Dean of the Faculty.
J. b. M'CAW, M. D.,
President Board CT Visitors.
DANIEL d. TALLEY, Secretary.
Richmond, Va, June %, 1900.
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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
A TYRANNICAL IMPERIALISTIC OIL
GARCHY.
New York Herald.


New York Herald.
After an existence of q century and q
quarter as a country where the govern
ment derives it's authority solely from
the consent of the governed, the United
States is turning it's back upon it's own
history and traditions. From a free
Democracy it is in danger of becoming
a tyrannical, imperialistic oligarchy. The
adult Republic seems to be entering it's
second childhood as a baby empire.
AS a sign that it has deserted the prin-
ciples of individual freedom upon which
it was founded it is at this present mo-
ment trying to cram it's rule, at the bay
onet's point, down the threats of the
people-Filpinos Cubans and Porto
Ricans- who the Declaration of Indepen-
dence says were created equal, with
certain unalenable rights among which
are life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness.
AS far as the Filipinos are concerned
the United States is doing it's
''damnedest" to ALLEVIATE all three of
these 'unalenable rights" Their lives
have been taken, they have been robbed
of their liberty, and instead of pursuing
happiness they are being pursued like
wild beasts into the savage interior OF
their native islands; and all because they
believed, like the American colonists of
1776, that they were justified in trying
ito institute a new government" in con-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-28
| Called in a Doctor !
| Tried Another !!
| Tried Another II!
Roxboro, N. c., Aug. Z, 1899.

Roxboro, N. c., Aug Z, 1899.
MRS. JOE PERSON:
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doctor with the same result. then
tried another, giving three doctors a trial
for about two years with the little boy,
and he seemed to grow worse. The sores
seemed to come together in one, on the
top of his head. / then became fright
ened over my little boy. l was induced
to try Mrs. Joe Persons Remedy. l
bought three bottles of your wonderful
medicine and one package of your Wash.
Now let me tell you what it did for my
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-28
A POWDER MILL EXPLOSION

Removes everything in sight; so do
drastic mineral pills, but both are mighty
dangerous. Don't dynamite the delicate
machinery OF your body with calomel, GRO
ton oil CT aloes pills, when DR.. King s
New Life Pills, which are gentle as a
summer breeze, do the work perfectly.
Cures headache, constipation. Only %
cents at all drug stores.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-28
TRINITY COLLEGE

Offers undergraduate and graduate
courses. Large number of electives.
Eight scientific laboratories, equipped
with modern and advanced apparatus.
Large additions to library. Complete
gymnasium. Expenses low. Fifty schol-
arships to be awarded. $4,000 spent in
improvements the past year. Send for
catalogue.
PRESIDENT KILGO,
Durham. N. c..
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OXFORD SEMINARY for GIRLS
OXFORD, N. c..

51st Annual Session opens Aug. 30. Board
and Literary Tuition for annual session
1925. Music $40 Apply for handsomely
illustrated catalogue.
F.. P. HOBGOOD, Pres't.
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formity with their legitimate desires and
needs when the old one imposed upon
them by Spain had become intolerable.
1t is about time to face the situation
squarely. The United States cannot, will
not, allow the war to continue much lon
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Mclean Doing Good Work.
Especial to News and observer)

Stonewan, N. c.. June 27.-Hon. Dan
Mclean made telling speeches in this
county at Oriental last night and at Bay
boro today. The speeches did much good
for the Amendment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-11

objection to their writing letters and
attending to their constituents in the
halls of congress.
This building would be splendidly
situated for their purposes Just mid
way between the capitol and the big
departments. While each congressman
would have a workroom, ample recep-
.tion rooms. parlors and waiting rooms
would be provided, where they could
give ear to their constituents appeals
and indulge in social converse.
In the top story there might be res
taurant, barber and bath arrangements
and other features of club life. We
owe it to our congressman to make
their life here as comfortable as posi-
BILE 1t may also tend to improve, or,
rather, to keep up, the present high
standard of legislation.
1t ought to be the object of every
state to keep on file in its quarters in
this building a mass of useful facts and
figures about it's commerce, etc, from
which its representatives might get any
data at a moments notice that they
may need. This would ultimately Gre
ate an exchange bureau here, where
one might find out anything he wants
to know about any or every state. 1t
would tend to unity the states, keep
them in as close touch socially and
ically. To the nation as a whole one
can readily see how infinitely more
beneficial such a building with such
purposes would be than is even our
beautiful library of congress.
According to my plan, when the
screens are raised the auditorium and
the grand hall may be thrown together.
the exhibits, desks, etc, in the latter
lowered to the storerooms in the base
ment, and you would have one vast
hall capable of accommodating $4,000
people for great conventions and as
semblies. You would decorate this
room every four years and have an in
augural ball there that would be some-
thing to remember. AS it is now, the
work of an entire branch of the gov
eminent has to be virtually stopped for
a couple of weeks in order that its
building may be prepared for that GER
emony. Surely we are wealthy enough
to afford the luxury of one such hall,
owned by US jointly, at the Federal
capital of our country!
F. w. FITZPATRICK.
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ants charged with any such duty.
| What suggest is a grand states build
ing-not a Federal institution in any
sense, but peoples building, where
every man from every state may feel
| at home-buiIt for his comfort and in
| his interest principally.
The plans for such, a building should
be made by the very best architect in
the land, and he should be chosen in
an honestly managed, clean COMPETE
ton open to all the architects of the
| country.
| The site is a magnificent one-a grand
opportunity for an architectural dis
play fronting, as it does, one face on
the proposed government tho1oughfare
and one upon Pennsylvania avenue, the
principal commercial artery of the city.
1t is directly opposite where it is pro-
posed to erect a mammoth union rail-
way station, and therefore will be
about the first thing one sees upon
reaching town and should also be every
strangers objective point.
On the first floor, fronting the new
avenue. there should be the states
rooms, also great reception rooms,
checkrooms, toilets and bureau of
inquiry, where guides may be obtained
to do the city, and also the names of
hotels, boarding houses and all other
useful information. The states rooms
would I'LL the first and pretty nearly all
the second story, these rooms to be
regular offices for each state-a meet
ing place for all visitors from that
state, sort of home for the way
farer," in charge of a state officer noted
for his good humor and patience, whose
duty it would be to be of as much serv-
ice to his co-citizens as possible.
There would be registers in each
room, where every one from that state
would give all the information concern
ing his wherea bouts and the duration
of his visit that he might see fit; post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-11

THE Chinese have been brutally
frank in chronicling the misdeeds
4 of their sovereigns, for even the
reigning rulers could not pervert the
statements of their historians, which
We're not published until the dynasties
OF which they wrote had ended.
One of the first instances mentioned of
punishment melted out to negligent Off
Gals was the famous case of Hi and
Ho. astronomers. who went on a spree
and omitted to notify their emperor of
an imminent eclipse of the moon. 1t,
therefore, took him unawares, so that
he could not avert the impending dis
aster by having his archers shoot off
arrows at the big dragon which was de-
vouring the sun, and he ordered them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-11

Japan has a police force modelled
something after the French system.
In various places throughout Tokyo
there are small kabanchos. which are
something like the British sentinel
boxes, but larger.
Three men are attached to each box
daily One remains inside, resting,
while another stands at the door, and
the third patrols a beat and returns at
regular intervals to the box. Stations
are changed every eight hours. After
"a hours work the three policemen are
given the same length of time to rest,
and three other men are sent to the
box.
During their "off'' days the men are
employed in taking a census. making
reports regarding tile condition of
streets, bridges, entertainments, drains
and cemeteries. They also report we'd
dings births. deaths, theatrical per-
formances and the presence of suspi-
cious people
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to turn their weapons against the I'M
lucky Hi and Ho, who were promptly
executed The Chinese astronomers
knew what to expect after that, for an
imperial edict proclaimed that when
they give notice of an eclipse too soon,
let them be put to death without any
forgiveness, and when after the time
let the same thing happen to them"
That event occurred about 215O B. c.,
and a thousand years later the imperial
heart had not softened, apparently, for
mention is made of one Chow Sin (per-
haps a remote ancestor of the modern
''Ah SIM, who was the first to use
ivory ehopsticks and who was so cruel
that all his subjects feared him. He
became infatuated with an abandoned
woman, and to please her invented
several kinds of torment, with which
he experimental upon his victims. One
was called the heater" This was a
piece of redhot metal which the I'M
fOrtunates were compelled to hold in
their hands. Another was known as
the rooster" which consisted of a well
creased copper pillar over a pit full of
burning charcoal. On this the condemned
man was. compelled to walk, and when
his feet slipped he fell into the fire and
was roasted alive. to the great delight
of Chow Sin and his inamorata. in or
der to settle a discussion as to which
had the most marrow in their bones.
young men or old men, the king caused
a number to have their legs broken,
and these are the first victims mention
ed as having directly suffered in the
sause of science.
Accustomed as they were to deeds of
cruelty, the Chinese of every age have
reveled in bloodshed and shown an
amazing insensibility to suffering.
From the earliest times also they have
displayed an insensate hatred of for
eigners, who from the first they termed
"barbarians." 1t was in the reign of
Muh. about 1000 B. c., that the DEGREES
were enacted known as the five great
puniShmentS," which were cutting off
the nose, ears and feet. branding and
death. A thousand different kinds of
crime were punishable by the first two,
500 by the third. 800 by the fourth, while
there were 200 which incurred the death
penalty But all these could be COM
muted by money payments, according
to a published scale, and this system of
compromising with crime has operated
to the enrichment of the mandarins
and the corruption of the courts up to
the present time.
was the Emperor Wu IT, who was VIC
was SO superstitious that he always
W. being DESTROYS of receiving a mes
sage direct from the gods the magician
at last told him he would find 1t inside
certain cow. which he ordered killed.
The message was found as foretolds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-11

a rather amusing story is going the
rounds in London of Mr.. A. ]. Balfour
and the Cassiobury Golf club. The 9TH
er day Mr.. Balfour and Lord George
Hamilton went down to have a game of
golf on the Glastonbury golf links, near
Watford. There is rather a sensible
rule in force at this club which enables
members to always get into a cab
which is going to the club from the sta
ton by paying sixpence- The rule,
however, on this occasion was the
cause of rather a surprise for golfer
and the two right honorable gentlemen
The expectant golfers had ensconced
themselves in their cab and were just
driving off when an excited looking in
diyiduaI, with golf clubs, rushed out
of the station and stopped the carriage,
merely uttering a mumbled phrase
about there being room for another,
and got in. Mr.. Balfour and his friend
were considerably surprised, as they
were unaware of the rule But when
they arrived at the end OF the short
tourney and their fellow traveller calm
Iy offered Mr.. Balfour sixpenee as his
share of the fare. their surprise quickly
changed to Amusement. However, when
the bylaw was explained Mr.. Balfour
not only laughed at their experience,
but commended so exceedingly con-
venient an arrangement.
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A States Building
At Washington.

THE people of the country at large
and the citizens of Washington
! particularly are just now wonder
ing what scheme or ceremony will be
decided upon to fittingly celebrate the
one hundredth anniversary of the
founding of Washington as the nation S
capital.
The centennial committee of govern
ors outlined a programme for this pur-
pose some time ago, a part of which
was the carrying out of Architect
Cobb's suggestion to cut a grand
Centennial avenue" through the Mall
or Central park along it's northern
edge, and that would leave between
IL and the first e--e.~a north of it a
strip of land block or so wide
that congress- seas to. dedicate as
-sIent w.
-444sD s-sspgN> re- ing a sum suffl-
~ssszs ~ s<t s--S preliminary surveys
- 80 mas been enacted. and next ses-
sion that grand avenue may be ordered
completed.
About q year ago. and in connection
with this scheme, I suggested that a
great states building be built in
this city and that a fitting ceremony to
help celebrate the centennial would be
the laying of it's cornerstone, or, at
ledSt, the very Actl"S dSiIdtiOn VI SuCA
a building project.
The lot I have in mind for that build
ing would be the present Central mar
ket Omitted States government proper
ty) site, added to the small part of the
Mall between the market and the pro-
posed grand avenue-a lot of 500 by
nearly 900 feet, bounded by the new av-
enue, Pennsylvania avenue, Seventh
and Ninth streets, northwest.
A word as to the purposes of this
building
The states are represented here by
their senators and their representatives
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Office, where letters may be addressed
to it's care, the principal newspapers
of that state kept on file, writing ma
terial, etc.-in fact, a room for the par
ticular comfort and use of every one
visiting the nations capital from that
state.
These large rooms would open into a
grand hall, lighted from above the sec
ond story and the full size of the light
court of the building. In this hall or
states court" there might be por-
toned off sections for the display of ex-
hibits from each state, its products,
etc, but it would be chiefly a great
lounging room, where people from the
four corners of our country might meet,
get acquainted and feel at home. on
this court and closed from 1t by drop
screens in ordinary times would be the
auditorium, fronting on Pennsylvania
avenue. A great, galleried amphithea-
ter, seating 5000 people at least, and
seven wide exits and broad stairs
would allow of quickly emptying its
crowds directly to the street level ana
in immediate proximity to all the car
lines. This auditorium would be for the
use of all the great conventions assem-
bling here. each to arrange long
time ahead for dates, etc., with the
board of control
Scattered over the various floors
would be the congressional committee
rooms. The reason for their being in
this building is that, although congress
when in session meets at noon, until
then the congressman are at their Of
fees, scattered through the business
blocks of the city or in their committee
rooms at or about the capitol Having
these committee rooms near their Of
fees would be a wonderful convenience.
These men are here in the interests of
their states; it is but Just that those
states furnish them an Office where 9TH
er than the purely legislative business
of the state may be attended to. Ev-
cry day, too, there is growing greater
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wooden lions, which caused them to
turn tail and charge upon their owners.
He it was who massacred all the Bud
dhist priests in his empire and destroy
ed their idols and their temples. But
he was no more enlightened than the
others, for his soldiers, when they
marched through the enemy's country
impaled tender babes on their pixies
and gloated over their agonized writh-
ings while held high in air. A sue
cessor of his. a hundred years later
while suppressing a conspiracy against
his throne, seized the ringleaders and
boiled them in a caldron of oil.
Early in the seventh century a rebel
lion was suppressed by the reigning
emperor, who murdered more than 3d.
900 people in cold blood. The most
sanguinary instruction that ever dew
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trays and tiny cups. Is a thing never =
be forgotten.
The guests remove -
entering the hour sts gsssea
provided with "a epssE 4~Sr-
shoes. must sp,--A ~ &. e -.sg in stock
inged feet uni -.-siy the host has
an extra pair. wife of a Japanese
gentleman does preside at his table
unless there are ladies in the party. but
appears with the tea and sweetmeats
which always precede a dinner She
merely greets the guests and appears
again only when the goodbys are said.
Silken cushions are scattered about the
floor, and the guests are arranged ac-
cording to rank, for the Japanese are.
of course, great sticklers for form and
ceremony. Little tables, some six inch
es high, are placed before each one, and
barefooted waiting maids in graceful and
prettily tinted kimonos bring in lacquer
trays with several tiny covered bowls.
Before leaving the trays on the tables
they set them on the floor and, drop
ping on their knees, make their best
bow, touching their foreheads to the
floor.
The host sets an example by remov-
ing the covers from the tiny bowls, and
the guest, doing likewise finds an as
sortment of food quite new and gener-
ally most distasteful. mastering up
much skill, one attempts getting the
food on chopsticks from the tables to
ones mouth The first few times most
of it falls on the floor or in ones lap.
The wretched sticks wabble and cross
each other as if focused. When almost
desperate, the good host is apt to come
to the rescue by suggesting lifting the
bowls and, with the aid of a chopstick,
shoveling the food in, as one would po-
tatoes into barrel.
In each course there are half dozen
dishes, and the host tells what they are.
First, a bean soup; chestnuts boiled
and crushed: fish, picked fine and roll
ed into little balls and baked; raw fish,
cut into thin slices and covered with
ice. This is dipped into rich sauce
called soy. and is really very good.
Little cups of warm sake. the native
brandy made of rice, are served with
each course. Napkins and bread are
unknown quantities.
The second course is a small fish boil
ed whole bits of fowl boiled with pota-
toes or lotus root; salad of onions;
peas and beans, with a few leaves of
lettuce sea snails served with eggplant
mashed, and thick soup made of fish
and vegetables, with mushrooms for a
relish.
The third course is a curry of rice
and picked vegetab les. and for fourth
and final course you have a sort of
vermicellf served with soy and sweet
iiqueur called mirin; shirufSo, rice cakes,
seaweed and confectionery of, all sorts,
which are very sweet and tasteless.
During the dinner each guest rises
and proposes the health of the host
and one other guest until the whole
party is disposed Of This custom is
rather hard on the guests, for sake is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-11

RACES occurred. Our minister at Pc
king requested a guard to protect the
legation, and so marines were sent
from United States war vessels, while
early in the war the four great powers
had made an agreement that their
forces should protect each others cit
liens or unite for common defense If
necessary.
1t was in January of the present
year, shortly after the outbreak, that
Mr.. Brooks of the north China mis-
sion was killed by Boxers at Tai
an-fu, being the first martyr of this
uprising. Later two others, the Rev.
H. V. Norman and Rev. Charles. Rob
inson, We're murdered at Yung Chin,
and in addition thousands of native
converts have been reported killed at
various missions.
TRUMAN L. JAMESON.