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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

The Washington Post stands for re-
duction of the tariff on all commodities
that are self-sustaining and free trade
on those articles which American manu-
facturers sell to foreigners cheaper than
to the home market. The logic of events
demands such tariff revision but it will
not come from the Republican party. 1t
is in the control of the men who get the
tariff ''rake-off" and they are not yet
ready to give up their big bonus.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
The Timber Outlook.
Wilmington Dispatch.)

Timber is coming in inAarge quantities
now and it finds ready sale. In fact,
the demand is GREATER than the supply.
Prices are very good and chances are
that they will continue high. A promi
nent timber man said today that the
prospects for the season are brighter
than they have been for years. Much
more timber will be marketed this sea-
sen than in some time past. as country
people are cutting more than they usual
ly do and the continued fullness of the
streams enables them to move it with
very little difficulty.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
HEAL THYSELF.

Ninetynine of every hundred people
suffer to some extent from indigestion,
heartburn. nervousness, constipation and
dyspepsia. "Colemans Guarantee" posi-
lively cures such cases. "Tabe it. eat
what you want and be happy" Price soc.
Large bottle, al druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
A BOLD ATTEMPT.
Wilkesboro Chronicle.

The attempt by some Repub-
lican newspapers and some few
TOOL anarchist school teachers to
place old Anarchist John Brown, the
great law breaker and negro strife gen.
orator, among the great men-along
with Washington, Lee and Grants
the boldest attempt of a century to
make honorable the chief of anarchists.
Down with anarchy and down with all
the modern anarchists who try to make
anarchy respectable.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
Farewell Letter to His Wife.
columbus News.)

The following letter bearing the Elktor
postmark, addressed to the editor of this
Elizabethtown, N. c., Oct. 8, 1901.
Mrs. w. c. Jones, Orbit, N. c.
Dear Wife:-You have looked upon my
face the last time in life. You have made
my life intolerable. Before 1890 O'Clock
this a. m the end of my earthly career
will come, and no one save the God OF
heaven will ever know. Good bye.
Your loving hus as ever,
WELDON CALHOUN JONES.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
THE POPULAR WOMAN.
The Kind That Men Admire.


to be
;tab;ltv
happy, social life
which lydia
Pinkhams Vegetable Compound will certainly
which continually publishing in the
of all kinds female ills possibly
anything
Pinkham'S Vegetable
female ills has made actual
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
WITH APOLOGIES TO WI.
Winston Sentinel.

DtHtIHOI'
Minister WI Ting Fang is to make an
address at Asheville, during the annual
session of the American Association OF
general passenger and ticket agents, to
be held October 18th to 18th. We would
suggest that the school authorities up
there could make a vast Improvement in
their list of names for the constellation
OF children by dropping the name of John
Brown and substituting that of WI Ting
Fang We make the suggestion with
apologies to Mr. WI for mentioning his
name in the same breath with the no.
torious and Infamous Brown.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

The Democrats in Baltimore are jubi-
liant over the registration. They believe
they have kept off the books hundreds
of nomadic negroes and Washington City
blocks five Republican voters.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
AS WINSTON SEES HIM.
Winston Journal

Over at Asheville the school officer who
suggested the study of the lives of great
men, including John Brown and excluding
Thomas jefferson, has made public an
explanation" which possibly sets him
right from his own standpoint but which
will in no wise relieve him of the condem-
nation of intelligent people. We retain
our early opinion that the Professor is
more or less of an ass.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

The Industrial edition of the Marion
News is elegantly printed, handsomely
illustrated and chock full of interesting
information about that wide awake,
growing and progressive town. Editor
Eaves has done his town great service
by this excellent edition.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
HIS DREAM WILL BECOME A NIGHT
MARE.
Statesville Mascot.

StateSViIIe MASCOT.
President Roosevelt is troubled with the
dream of resectable white Reublpican
party in the South" which held out false
homes of Republican control of Southern
States to several of his predecessors. He
will find that appointing former Democrats
to office will not tempt the Democratic
masses from the allegiance to the party
of their fathers. Former Democrats can
be found to accept offices at the hands Of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
ENDORSE PERJURY AND AN
ARCHY.
txy;,,,aeboro Chronicle.

Wilkesboro Chronicle.
The 'paramount issue" with the an
archist Republicans in this district has
simmered down to an endorsement or
Perjurer Jones, of Allegheny, and
justification of the anarchist assassina-
ton of Gov. Goebel, of Kentucky. The
plain old fashioned Republicans, we are
glad to say, don't endorse any SUCH
stuff
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

The Savannah News thinks that fair
estimate of the crop from present indica-
tions would be anywhere from 10000 900
to 10,500,000 bales. A better estimate
would be 100000 bales.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

Eugene Grissom predicts, in commu-
nication that IF Senator Pritchard is re-
inee for vice president in 1904" That
"IF'' is as big as the Rocky Mountains.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

The husband of Chicago woman who
has given birth to eleven children in
seven years has fled from his home in
despair. 1t is suggested that he has
probably gone to quiet place to study
the doctrine of Nautilus.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
NOT NECESSARILY.

Roanoke -Chowan Times:
1t is now generally conceded that the
cotton crop is short in all the cotton
producing States, owing to the drouth
in some portions and excessive rains In
others; but a short crop does not neces-
sarily mean that there will be much IL
any, advance in price, in these days OF
trusts and combinations.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

Fifty foreigners were naturalized in
Baltimore on Tuesday and every one was
made to swear that he was not an an
archist and did not belong to any anar.
chistic group.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

Mr.. Roosevelt has our sympathy.
Senator Pritchard, ex-Gov. Russell,
Claudius Bernard and DR.. Mott are
tighten him on North Carolina politics
He would learn more to go hunting
with Badly Boyden and have more fun.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
Two nore Grateful Letters.

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM 81 feel it
my duty to write you in regard to
your valuable medicine. / have been
troubled with falling of the womb
and Inflammation of the ovaries, and
was so bad could hardly walk across
the floor The doctors said it was
impossible for me to get well unless
had an operation, but this / would
not listen to. Having read SO much
about Lydia r.. Pinkham'S Veg
etable Compound l made up my
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Hoping that your Vegetable
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as it did me, and thanking you for re-
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ALMA LARSON Box 1885, Hudson. Wis"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
VERY CREDITABLE.

Greensboro Patriot.
The Sunday edition Of the Raleigh
News and Observer contained a splendid
write up of the Fair, including compl-
mentary notices of some of the officers
Of the association and favorable men
! ton of the business life of Greensboro.
II was a very creditable edition.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
EXCELLENT WRITE-UP.
Durham Herald.

The Greensboro Fair had an excellent
write-up in Sundays News and Observer
and if it is half as good as 1T is rep
resented to be it will be worth going
miles to see.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
YOU ARE RIGHT.

Winder (Ga.) Democrat.
The soul Of Mr.. Brown will have a
hard time marching through North Caro-
lima.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
BUT NOT OF CHILLS.

Mt. Olive Advertiser.
A load of watermelons that were Of
fered for sale on our streets last Thurs
day might be termed "the last OF the
season."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

Rev. Hay Watson Smith, formerly of
Greensboro, has received call to the
Parkville Congregational Church in
Brooklyn.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
WOPST SORT OF ANARCHY.
Wilkesboro Chronicle. ~

The Davie Record, Republican,
says it will join in fighting
anarchy in every form and al
every place, and at the same time the
editor fills his paper with anarchist
abuse and vituperaticn OF The laws and
officers of North Carolina, trying to in
cite the ignorant and vicious and in
flame their passions against the rule OF
the people of the State who are in pow
err This is the worst kind of anarchy
and is the kind that does the injury to
free government. The falsehoods about
Democratic officials and laws make an
archists out of lots of ignorant fools.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
THE NEWS AND OBSERVER COM
MENDED.

Wadesboro Messenger and Intelligencer:
The Raleigh News and Observer was
right in taking the principal of the Ashe-
vile graded school to task for including
the name of John Brown with that of
Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Lee and
others, in list of great men," whose
lives are to be studied by the pupils of
the schools. John Brown was undoubt-
|edly the most bloody minded old ia
matte this country ever produced, and
it is going little too far to have him
paraded before the children of a North
Carolina school as great man.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
YOU CAN BE TOO TOLERANT.

IOO OZt4N DE IOO IOI1I1HtIhA<I'
Charlotte News:
It is all right to be tolerant, provided
you don't get so sentimentally tolerant
that you tolerate wrong.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

The alligators have damaged bridge
OH the shell road from Wilmington to
Wrightsville so that the management
has had great difficulty in, keeping the
embanlzment at the bridge over Brad
leys creek in repair. They keep their
den under the approaches to the bridge.
The damages have been cauesd by the
burrowing which they do in making
themselves a cave.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

We are going to have an election
next year, and the Lenoir Topic says:
Some candidates for county offices are
already trimming their sails"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

The Morganton Herald leads as an in
ventor Of new phrases to describe an
individual it wishes to lambast. 1t calls
him pigeon headed, pig souled, brass
boweled jabberwock."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

DEAR MRS. PINKHAM - have
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and have not been sick since. That
was three years ago, and / have given
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do all my homework for family OF
six" Mrs. JOHN MoLER, Hillsboro,
Ohio. (Nov. 10, 1900
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12

There were 24,l69 people in India who
died from snake bites last year. AS
John Dobson would say, India is not
ajoinin' of the counties of Wilkes,
Yadkin and Surree, or this great cat-as-
trophy would never have cometh to
pass" The snake antidote elixir would
have done the healing work.-Wilkes-
boro Chronicle.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-25
THE ROPE AS A FIRE-ESCAPE;.
A New Orleans Fireman Has No
Faith in IL In Tall Buildings.

Faith in 1t In Tall Buildings.
From the New Orleans Democrat.
Strange how people pin their faith to
rope as a means of escape from burning
buildingsr remarked an officer of the
fire department Hundreds of travelling
men carry a coil of light rope habitually
in one of their trunks and feel safe on
the upper floors of hotels they know are
mere deathi traps. A drummer of my ac-
qua!ntance, who weighs fully 200 pounds
and who has taken no exercise for the
last twenty years, has sample case with
a special compartment, containing fifsy
yxrds of silk life line, extremely light and
strong
lido you really think you could slide
down on that In case of fire?' l asked
him. when he showed me the arrange
ment why not? he replied. It's been
tested to three times my weight The
only difficulty that occurred to him was
the breaking of the line. That he would
have no trouble in hanging to 1t on the
way down he took for granted.
Now, as a matter of fact" continued
the speaker, "a rope is the very worst
fire escape imaginable. To begin with,
a moments reflection will show you that
the chances are two to one that 1t VIII
catch on tire ana be destroyed DeIoTs ~
can be used The windows of nearly all
buildings are arranged in straight, verti-
cal limestone directly above the other
and rope thrown out Of an upper story
would necessarily cross every easement
on the way down. The probabilities are
that some or all of them would be spout
ing flames, and the rope would last about
as long as a piece of pack thread.
''But. assuming the coast to be clear
rope would be almost useless to anybody
but a trained gymnast. The average man
would find II physically impossible to let
himself down hand over hand, ana, II
he attempted to slide, his palms would pc
fiayed and he would let go involntarlly
before he went thirty feet. Gloves or cloth
are no advantage, as we have proven py
tests In the department. II they are
thick enough to prevent abrasion, they WIZ
also prevent one from obtaining SUM
Client purchase to ease the descent
1.-The only thing OF any value In that
resnect is a handkerchief looped loosely
around the rope and then tied firmly by
both ends TO the wrist The loop will bind
slighf1v in the descent and act as brake.
That Is something, by the way, that mas
never been in print. and 1t Is Wen worth
remembering. Getting a hitch or TWO
of the rope around ones leg IS OF no
,,xe whatever unless somebody has holo
OF the lower end and is keeping It taut'
Altogether, the rope escape Is delusion
ana n snare. and / wish the fact were
generally understood because the conf
dence that is reposed In II makes people
careless of other and proper prcautions'
The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-25

had many lovers walk with the beau
tiful daughter of Princess Alice, whom he
was destined to marry in the very mouth
In which he was crowned Car of Russia,
but 1t was far from Balmoral that the
word was spoken which made him the
happiest of princes.
The first meeting of the royal lovers
was at the yearly gathering of King os-
cars family at Rosenberg palace, and II
was during n moonlight ramble in the
palace gardens. in an Interval stolen from
evening party, that the young prince
who was so soon to be an autocrat over
millions vowed fealty to Princess Alice.
Thirty years earlier the Prince of Wales
wooed and won his Danish bride In the
same grounds and under similar stolen
conditions, although the lovers first saw
each other at the Palace of Leaken, and
not, as It is commonly accepted In a
cathedral
From a Scottish moor and setting OF
"hills and heather to an imperial palace
With all its pomp and glitter is a grelt
step; and IL was in the environment of
the grand palace of the czars that the
Duke of Edinburg, then man in his
thirtieth year proposed to the czar's only
daughter. the Grand Duchess Marie
1t was at Windsor Castle that Queen
Victoria, then only a girl of twenty lid
what she described as 1.-THE most nervous
thing woman, was ever called on TO do"
when she summoned the young Prince
Albert Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha to a private
interview and proposed" to him. She had
first met him when as a boy OF seven
teen. he came with his father to Eng
land, and when. three years later, he
made no secret" Of his love for his fair
cousin. mo one was surprised and every
one was delighted"
II was a walk before breakfast that
decided the fate OF King Edward Wis
eldest daughter. Princess Louise. she
staying with her mother and sisters as
guest of Mar Lodge, the Earl OF Flies
Aberdeenshire home; and, rising early one
morning, she went for a ramble before
breakfast. II was not destined to be a
solitary walk. however, for the Earl who
had known and loved her as a child. he'd
anticipated her as an early riser, and was
already out with his gun. Under such
circumstances, is II any wonder that the
birds were forgotten, or that two lovers
lived to bless the virtue Of a walk before
breakfast?
The Duke OF York proposed to Princess
May of Teck in the beautiful and secluded
garden of White Lodge In the very heart
of Richmond Park; and there was never
prouder lover than the duke as he
walked across the park TO carry the news
of his acceptance to his sister at Sheen
House.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-25
IS HURTING BRUNSWICK.
Reported Improvement Used to I'm
load City Dock and Improve
ment stock In Network.


Brunswick, Ca, March 24.-The average
Brunswick citizen, especially the proper
ty owning kind is not at all pleased with
the manner in which stock of the Bruins
wick City Dock and Improvement Com
pany is being handled on the New York
Stock Exchange. This company owns
considerable real estate here, and all of it
is assessed at something in the neighbor-
hood of $500, 900, while the company has
stock out for Sc, 600 900. The stock has been
quoted and SOLD on the New York Stock
Exchange for Ice. Some persons have
been caught and Brunswick is being crit
ioised. when as a matter of fact none of
the stock is owned here.
Among the other publications TO boom
this stock is an electric railway" "a new
railway which is almost completed" and
other untrue statements in which Bruins
wick figures conspicuously and knows
very little about.
A franchise was granted to party
some time ago for the construction of an
electric railway, but there has been no
move made towards the building of the
same. and the probabilities are that there
will not be.
Other stocks in which Brunswick is
concerned are being handled in the same
fashion, and with the exception of few
who are interested, our citizens ere very
much wrought up over the matter. 1t has
been suggested that the Board of 1lode
take a hand in the affair and issue
statement denounci7g these schemes, but
whether anything will be done by that
body will not be known until Friday, at
which time the board meets.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-25
THE TOURIST TRAINS.
A Move to Have Them Continued
After ApriI O.

Atlanta, March 24.-Although many of
the fast trains put on by the different
roads to accommodate the winter resort
travel to Florida and Georgia will be dis
continued April and 6, railroad officials
here have been given to understand that
the hotel people will ask for continuance
of the fast schedules, for two weeks from
that time, owing to the heavy bookings
The Florida tourist season will close the
last week in April, two weeks later than
ever before. 1t is understood that the
Southern, Atlantic Coast Line and Sea-
board Air Line have agreed to run their
fast trains from the East to Florida
points three days of the week, instead of
daily after April 6.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-25
BLAZING RIVER OF OIL
s,vEF,Ps DOWN ON A LITTLE JER-
SEY VILLAGE.
INHABITANTS WERE ASLEEP.
ox,y EVENT OF THE KIND THAT
EVER OCCURRED.

1--e4rht Train Breaks in Half and
ou Go to smash Right at the ViI-
,oce-Burning OIL Ran Along the
Noin street and Fired Everything
II TOuched-People Were Asleep
and Barely Escaped With Their
Lives.
New York. March ga river of fam
ting oil swept down upon the little village
If Glen Gardner, N. j., while. its inhabi-
tants we're asleep this morning and re-
duced eleven buildings, stores and resi-
dences, TO ashes. The confiagration was
extraordinary in character, and in it's or
,gin. The village is in valley along the
line of the Jersey Central Railroad. An
immense freight train was coming east
at $50 a. m. 1t was composed of a string
If coal cars and eighteen tank cars.
High above the village the tracks of
the railroad run along the side of a
mountain. They descend as they APP
proach the village, but even at the sta
tion are considerably above the main
street. which runs up to the depot at a
steep incline.
A few miles west of the village, while
coming down the incline around the
mountain the train parted. The engineer
on the forward part pulled open the throt-
tie of the engine and tried to race away
from the section, which was increasing
its speed every second. He managed to
L
opposite the depot at Glen Gardner, when
the second section smashed into the first
The first section composed of coal cars,
was going at high rate of speed and
none of its cars were jolted off the track.
The forward car one of the oil tanks of
the runaway section, was hurled side
wise across the tracks, and the oil tank
cars behind it were piled up on top of it
in every way.
The first crash caused the oil in one of
the tank cars TO explode and ignite, and
the terrific heat caused the other cars to
explode, one after the other.
The incline running from the depot down
to the main street acted as a sluice for
the burning oil, and 1t poured into the
chief thoroughfare of the village, set
ting fire to everything 1t touched. Houses,
fences trees, shrubbery and barns were
reduced TO ashes in an incredibly snort
time
Villagers awakened by the explosions
rushed from the coming flood of blazing
oil, carrying children in their arms. Some
risked their lives to free horses, cows and
dogs in outbuildings, but other unfortu-
nate animals could not be reached in
time, and were burned.
Within five minutes after the first ex-
plosion the flowing river Of oil had reached
the Masonic Temple, in the heart of the
village, and ten minutes later the struct-
ure was enveioped in flame.
Then building after building, all of them
frame, took fire as the oil reached them,
and within half an hour an area of 800
square feet was mass of fame.
From the wrecked cars the oil also
flowed down the incline of the railroad
track, making long line of fire that de-
stroyed the ties and bent and twisted the
tracks, The loss is estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000.