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The news & observer., 1901-11-12
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MISS ELLIOTT WEDS|
Peace Institute StudentWhose
Wedding Was Stopped.
With Her Father She Meets Mr.. C.M. Sherril
al Salisbury Last Night and
Marries.

Miss Pearl Elliott is now Mrs. c. NJ.
Sheriff..
The romance of the frustrated elop-
ment attempted in Raleigh on October
27 has had the inis of the wedding bells.
The bells did not ring. but two hearts
were made happy at Salisbury last night
when the minister pronounced them
Miss Pearl Elliott and Mr. C. Marion
Sherrill-husband and wife
Miss Elliott. it will be recalled was a
student at Peace Institute. Mr.. c. NJ
Sheriff., son of Mr. NJ o. Sheriff.. State
Librarian, is cashier of the Bank OF
Hickory On October 27, Saturday OF
Fair week, Mr.. Sheriff. secured license
here for his marriage TO Miss Elliott,
declaring her to be eighteen years old
But the vigilance Of President Din
widdie Of Peace and Mrs. Elliott whom
her daughter was visiting at the Var
borough House during the Fair, frus-
trated the plans of the cooers Miss
Elliott lacked six months of being the
necessary eighteen years, and Mr.. Sher-
rill was persuaded to forego matrimony
for shat dav.
Mrs. Elliott left for Hickory, as did
Mr.. Sheriff., while Miss Elliott went
back to Peace Institute, it being UNDER
stood that the marriage was postponed
till next summer, but not so it proved
Yesterday Mr.. J. ID. Elliott. the young
lady's father. came. 1t is said that
President Dinwiddie had written him it
was best that he should come and talk
with Miss Pearl over the matter
Mr.. Elliott came, talked with his
daughter, had her 70 take dinner with
him at the Marlborough and yesterday af-
ternoon left for Salisbury with her. Two
rumors were in circulation about the
departure. One that Mr. Elliott had
fatty said there should be no marriage
till next summer; second that the mar
riage could take place in Salisbury last
night on the way home.
The denoument of the story, telling
what happened in Salisbury. is told in
the following special TO the News and
Observer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-21

stances of this sort could be multiplied.

stances of this sort could be multiplied. | We could wish that all those keeping | house would make up their minds seri-
 ously to return to the excellent custom of preparing many articles of food for 1 themselves at home Who does not ad-
 init the charm of homemade bread, home-brewed beer, or homemade jam and simply because they are known to be made from an honest formula which has stood the test of time and from good materials which yield a palatable product? Even in the country good old fashioned wheaton bread, with that fascinating brown color of rich wheaten flour, containing the entire nutritious portions of the berry and possessing that delightful wheaten flavor, now seldom, if ever, characteristic of bread, Is difficult to obtain The bakers loaf
 is, as a rule, a tasteless, insipid article which requires considerable appetite
 before the idea of eating it can be en- tertained. No wonder that the taste for
 bread Is steadily diminishing, and ur-
 doubtedly less bread is consumed than
 used to be the case. As is well known
 bread contains almost every element of food necessary for existence, but we
 should be sorry for the person who tried to subsist entirely upon the mod ern uninteresting loaf made from
 blanched roller mill flour.
 It has recently been stated that the degradation of the teeth so noticeable among us now is due to roller milling having largely supplanted stone mill ing We should not be surprised. The degradation of food is very serious matter and Is bound to lead sooner or later to the degradation of the eater.
 No movement could confer greater blessing upon the people than that which aimed at bringing about q re- turn to thes older and more rational methods of preparing food Let us see more of the home made article than we now see; let us return to more palatable food and to food that will do more good than the machine-made stuffs and the endless series of substi- tutes. Tn all the schools throughout the land we would have the children taught the advantage of home made food, and how that bread, fruit jam or even beer and cider can be made at home. It would encourage spirit of industry, it would give us palatable and nourishing articles to eat or drink, and might have a very wholesome ef- feet upon those who seem deliberately to attenuate food as much as possible or who pay no regard to its naturally endowed palatabiity.-Th Lancet
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THE ENGLISH OF TRADE.
Many Familiar Words Are Made to Take on New Meanings For Business

Many Familiar Words Are Made tc Take on New Meanings For Business | Use
 | The belief exists in certain pedantc
 circles that the English language was | not made for man, but man for the | English language. There is no doubt about the value and beauty of the
 mother tongue, and the care which should be given to it, but, after all a language belongs to the people and they should be allowed, within discreet limits, to make use of their own as they please. Bad grammar is outside
 the question; the point is how far good
 English words, of pure lineage, shall ba | turned out of the straight and narrow path of their ancestors to do special duty for the modern world. In this
 case what are discreet limits? The spirit of America, whatever it's noble qualities has not developed reverence to an undue extent, and has no inten- tion of using a word in a certain sense
 merely because that is the way in
 which it has been user for four hun dred years. The result Is some curious
 specimens of alleged English, many of
 them distinctly beyond charity
 The determination of commercial men
 to adapt an ancient tongue to modern uses is consistently evident, and there is much to be said for the eminently expressive diction of commercial pa pers. Some of the words employed may be surprised to find themselves descend ed such base uses but they prove their adaptabllity by giving a certain racy appositeness to the sentence. One reads in the market news of large orders for "spots" and ''futures'' with a little be- wilderment, until further on refernce Is made to "spot tomatoes" and future peaches" whereupon the former phrase becomes clear and even picturesque. "Orientals Spirited,' reads a line in an- other paper, which is not giving infor- nation in regard to uprisings in India but is endeavoring to convey the fact that Oriental rugs are in demand Sole leather is referred to as becoming mellow" an adjective not without at tractiveness in that connection, A "rnelow" shoe is pleasing conception. In yet another journal is the startling line considerable Excitement in Bak- ed Beans" which reminds one of the advertisement of an enterprising deal CT in household furnishings: "A flutter in brass bedsteads" A new item which appeals strongly to a lively i'm aginat ton reads: Last week there was a slump in watermelons which greatly alarmed dealers. They got out in quick time." Who would not retire from the neighborh6od of 'slumping" watermel- ons with the greatest expedition? In buying peaches you may have, if you wish, NO. peeled pie' or "unpeeled pie" Sometimes the language of these
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EARL r.

l T hear Scribblelgh is a strong writ er." T should say so. His books have to be kept in the refrigerator. De. troit Journal.
 Friend-"Do you permit your wife te have her own way?" Husband (posi | tively-"No, sir. She has it withou my permission, "-Newark Call.
 MT. Henry-''Why does your friend date her letters ahead?' Mrs. Henry 1T suppose she gives them to her bus. band to mail!"-Harper' Bazar. l Customer Gin restaurant Look here, waiter, I've found a button ir this salad!" Waiter-"That's all right sir; it's part of the dressing. Sea shore Sun.
 Precarlous.-" think I shall take my | daughters out of society long enough to give them a liberal education" But then they won't want to go back. "- Brooklyn Life.
 | New office boy-"A man called here | to thrash you few minutes ago.. Editor-"What did you say to him?' ''I told him I was sorry you wasn't in. ' l Chicago News.
 She-"I feel that I ought to tell you before I am married. that I am trifle selfish" He-"Oh, that's all right; I'm monster of selfishness myself. Detroit Free Press.
 T can take 100 words minute" said the shorthand writer" q often take more than that" remarked the other, in sorrowful accents; but then I have to. I'm married. ."-Buffalo Courier.
 How 1t Looked -Beggar-"Sir, l am starving and haven't a penny to my name!" Citizen-"Huh, You're one O those guys that's been giving away his money before death, suppose ?"-Puck.
 Too Soon.-He-"Dont you think you should set the day. dearest?" She "Oh no; not now Why, we haven't written each other enough love letters yet to make a respectable volume. "- Detroit Free Press.
 "He thinks he's popular, eh " Does he? Why, whenever his name appears in the paper he fancies the public reads 1t this way: John (cheers) Henry (ap- plause) Muggin 0oud and continuous cheering,) '"-Philadelphia Press. A baron afflicted with gout
 Would have no thin servants about;
 And they all, without fail,
 Drank freely of ale
 That even the porter was stout!
 Smart Set.
 All's Well That Ends Well-Step- mother (entering village school with whip)-"My boy tells me you broke your cane across his back yesterday" Schoolmaster Burning pale)-"Well, T may have struck him harder than I intended, but -" Stepmother-"I thought I'd make you a present of this whip. You'll find it'll last longer and do him more goodn-Puck.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-21

ings, bridges and artistic street equip ments The outdoor section should be devoted to representation of ideal city streets and public places, with oppor- tunities for street pageantry, for show ing street lighting methods, with types of the best designs for lamp-posts as employed in European cities; systems of sanitation; the treatment of various kinds ue formal areas in congested cen- tres, including the intelligent grouping of public utilities; commendably legiti- mate and inoffensive ways of providing public advertising, both for daylight and nighttime purposes; and show ing of the proper architectural and decorative accessories for parks and other departments.
 If our Chapel street pavement should happen to be finished by 1903 it would be good idea to show the world at St. Louis how we managed to do it.
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WHEl

This country will be a little short on | its corn crop, though there will be enough to go round. It has magnifi- cent wheat crop and as there isn't | enough wheat in other countries to go | round the wheat of this country is sure | to be in demand at good price. It is already in demand. Our shipments of | wheat to Europe since the first of July are more than double those for the same period last year Last week they | were the largest on record, reaching, in exact figures, no less than 9,039761 bushels about treble the total for the same week last year. The shipments,
 meanwhile, from Argentina, our often rather formidable South American com- petitor in Europe, were only 352,0O0 bushels.
 France alone will 1t Is believed, need
 to import OO0Oo,0oO bushels of wheat,
 and if the truth is told about the Rus
 sian wheat crop France will have to
 import from the United States on
 larger scale than ever before If the
 harvest had come up to expectations entertained two months ago the Rus sian exports would have been op large scale. According to present re- ports there will be little or no wheat to come from the Czars wide provinces All western and central Europe will re- and the American shipments will be ex- tended even to Hungary.
 We shan't have to ship much gold to Europe soon. Our wheat is as good as
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DO wg1AoK UAsY BIG1Dr1Yq

Great and rapid progress toward Anglo-American harmony has been made, but occasionally there is a note of discord. For instance, the head of a London dancing academy says of the art of dancing as taught in this coun- try: "It violates every principle Of graceful motion. American ladies are especially ridiculous when they try to dance. Their vertical demonstrations are exaggerated, not to say grotesque, Their bodies sway about absurdly and they attempt to lead rather than follow their male companions. Of the danc- ing of English ladies this same author ity says: 'They preserve an easy rigidity of body, and glide through the figures instead of leaping and hopping excitedly."
 Exaggerated vertical demonstrations in the United States and easy rigidity in England. Both are important if true. And as there can be no doubt that it Is better to be easily rigid than exaggeratedly vertical it behooves us not to cuss the London dancing master without inquiry. And If on inquiry we find that he has told the sad and sol emn truth our dancing women must hasten to change their exaggerated ver- tical demonstrations for easy rigidity.
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DETERIORATION OF OUR DAILY 0 FOOD

DETERIORATION OF OUR DAILY
 FOOD.
 There can be no doubt that during the past decade food has undergone a steady degradation, and this cannot be without demorallzing influence upon the human race It will be noticed that by far the majority of cases of tamper- ing with food relate to the substitution of a cheaper article rather than to the addition of "an injurious substance." The common defence Is that modern conditions of life make substitution a necessity It is difficult to see the log ic of such a defence-at least, in num- Der of instances.
 It is urged, for instance, that jam or marmalade cannot be made without the addition of glucose which prevents the preserve from erystallizing. Now long before glucose Twas a household word jams and marmalade were nade--and very good they were, too, consisting en- tirely of sugar and fruit. In the same way we are told that beer must be brewed exclusively from sugar and that brewing exclusively from malt presents untold difficulties Again, golden syrup, WnlcH uSeu lorlHerly to De lHe relIleu syrup of molasses, consists largely now of artificial sugar which is doubtless a more marketable product, but is not the same thing as cane sugar. Yet, again, we are told that the public de- mand a perfectly white loaf of bread, the truth in reality being that machin- cry has produced a roller flour which is an inferior thing to the now, we sup pose, extinct stone -milled flour. In-
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coon sUG0 EsTIoN.

The excellent suggestion is made that at the St. Louis exposition there should be an exhibit that would represent municipal art and the science of mod ern city making. The step is urged particularly for the reason that the inn provement of towns and cities is sub ject of such widely recognized impor- tance to the people of the United States; civic improvements of a pub lie character being destined soon to transform many communities Among the suggestions made is that there should be Civic Arts building for ex- hibiting representations of notable mu- nicipal improvements, including mod els, plans, maps and photographs-the models to show in plaster, or similar material, such things as public build
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reports seems arbitrarily complicated as when it Is stated that Sugar is 1 steady for raw" Tea may be pure
 high grown. bright outturn," or heavy | bodied" in the kind which produces" a | liquor robust and rosy, syrupy and | juicy" There is something singularly | unpleasant about the idea of rosy tea to the average mind, but the ad- jective has apparently some weight with the initiated. When coffee is spoken
 of as fair to fancy" it almost seems as if the dealer had been reading an undue number of eighteenth century love songs but the explanation is com
 monplace enough, for he is merely re- ferring to the grades flair" and Different professions have their spe- cial jargons, but these have in so many instances acquired the dignity of tech
 nical terms that they must be treated
 with respect. The printing office and the theater have perhaps the most elaborate jargon, but it is difficult to tell what is legitimate and what is not, New words are needed. and the best method of supplying them is to add new meanings to old words. It would
 take far too much time and Ingenuity to invent them. The familiar use of the word story" for instance, shows how easily the language may be shift ed about, to the advantage Of every- body concerned. A news item Is not an
 article" and article is too dignified a word for human natures daily fco1, anyway. Now, story" fills the gap admirably, referring to news items, special articles and what not. When word is needed to take the place which story" left vacant when ap- pointed to a new position, fiction comes in neatly. Everybody is made happy, and the English language ought not to have grievance. In the theatri- cal profession "business,' to denote the action necessitated by the parts, fills a place for which the banished word would seem to have as many qualifica- tons. Get a hand" as less dignified than receive applause" appeals to the careless actor, although the proper ex- pression is no longer, and applause" is sufficiently common word to come easily to anybody's lips
 It would seem that the desire for pioleoniolldl ldH6u SoihCthAH5 III which the outsider canot share, is uni- versal. Each calling has its shibboleths. Some one writing of slang said that the 'essence of 1t is that it embodies the instinct of familiarity precisely as does a nickname when applied to per son. It represents some endeavor to pat life on the back-to dig 1t in the ribs" If this is true of slang it is true of professional jargon, And since these misused words are pulled out of their places in order that a man may express affection for his chosen trade, or, at least, make himself feel more at ease in it, they are serving a not unworthy purpose, and probably, if their own opinions could be taken, do not object half so strenuously as their self-con- stituted guardians, the purists.-New York Tribune.
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MORE PROBdBfLITIES.

Those who have been depending on corns or rheumatism for advance infor- nation concerning the weather will probably not care to change, but others may find something in the theory of Dr. Eydam, a German physician, who declares that the sound of the wind as 1t passes through telegraph or tele- phone wires foretells changes in weather. As he was waiting for train at a country station the shrill sound of the wind passing through the tele- graph wires near by reminded him that he had frequently heard similar sound either immediately before or af- ter storm or a heavy fall of rain or snow, and 1t naturally occurred to him to try and ascertain whether there was any connection between the sound and such changes In the weather. As heavy shower of rain fell within forty eight hours after he had heard the SOuIlu it llie IdlllOdu SldliJli, ie tpH~ cluded that there was such a connec- ton, and he then determined to inves- tigate the matter thoroughly. As re- suit he now maintains, first, that any unusual disturbance in the telegraph wires is an infallible indicator of bad weather; and, second, that the nature of the changes in the atmosphere may be learned from the sound which the wind makes when passing through the wires Thus a deep sound, he says, which is of considera ble or medium strength, indicates that there will be light showers of rain, with moderate winds, within thirty to forty-eight hours, and, on the other hand, a sharp, shrill sound is the sure token of a heavy storm, which will be accompa- nled by much rain or snow.
 Between corns, rheumatism, the sound of the wind in the wires, and the weather bureau, it ought to be possi- ble to say what the weather will proba- biy be.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-21

q The Ruskin Commonwealth of Social ists in Georgia has failed. Only three families remain, the others having de- parted for the North and West. Their printing outfit is advertised to be sold by the sheriff on August 31, and the land will go the same way on Septem- Der B. This will wipe out the last ves- tige of the colony at Waycross which went from Tennessee two years ago.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-21

< A subcommittee of the Cincinnati Board of Education has voted to rec ommend the abandonment of vertical Handwriting in the schools and re- turn to the old style slant There will be more such recommendations.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-21

The falls at Glomen in Norway are to be utilized for the operation of an electrical generating plant almost as large as the one at Niagara.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-21

A United States syndicate has just bought the timber privileges on a tract of thousand square miles in Labra-
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s...slt -hfs Education.
B. A. LEOPOLD,
Committee on Lamps and Street
 Lighting.

The Committee on Lamps will meet Ut Rooms 10-11, City Hall, on Wednesday eve ming, August 21st, 1901, at clock, for tie purpose of considering the following peti- tlons. Interested parties are hereby notl- fled to attend.
 Petition of J. F. Miller for electric light on East street, opposite Locust street Petition of George l.. Ives ct al for elec- tric light on Spring street between Button and Hurlburt streets.
 Petition of Frank W. Wright for electric light corner Pearl and Pleasant streets Petition of the officers of St. Luke s Church for Welsbach lamp on Park street between Crown and George streets
 Petition of Henry Hicks for electric light corner orchard and Charles streets. Petition of r. H. Brethauer for electric Petition of Walter H. seaver ct al. for electric light. corner Whitney avenue and Petition of W. W. Farnam for gas lamp on Prospect street (west side) about loo feet north. of Hillside Place and change of location of lamp on east side of street. corner Morris and >Rosette streets.
 Petition of John Larson ct al. for, gas lamp on Mansfield street least side) be- Petition of Patrick Kent ct al. for naph- tha lamp on Blatchley avenue between Pine street and Old Shore Line railroad. Petition of Thomas Chadwick ct al. for Welsbach gas lamp on east side of Dlxwell avenue between Munson street and Argyle street. Per order
 J. F. SAVERS, Chairman. Attest H. HOPKINS. Clerk. au19 St = District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court,
 August 18th, 1901. ESTATE of ELIZABETH H. BARNES,
 late of New Haven, In said District de-
 ceased.
 Charles D. Barnes, Trustee, having made written application for an order authorizing and empowering him to sell and convey cer- tain real estate of said deceased, as by said application on file in this Court more fully appears, 1t Is
 ORDERED ' That said application be heard and determined at q Court of Pro bate to be held at New Haven, in said Dis trict, on the 26th day of August. 1901. at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and that public notice of the pendency of said application, and of the time and place of the hearing thereon, be given by publishing this order three times in some newspaper having a circulation in said District.
 By order of Court, au2o St ALBERT F. WELLES, Clerk.
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Fond Mother-"Tommy dear, what did you buy with the money your grandpa gave you?" Tommy-"An un- breakable engine" And where is it now?' "Oh, Jimmy Whittle smashed it."-Tit- Bits.