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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-24

burg where he now resides, and was
chairman of the Elders and Deacon
Institute, which met at Red Springs in
August. 1899. He was a member of the
House from Richmond county for which
position he was nominated by the largest
Democratic county convention ever held
in Rockingham. 1t was largely due to his
efforts in the Legislature of 1899 that
Scotland was made a county and it is
therefore fitting that he should be the
first to represent that county in the Gen
eraI Assembly. In the present session
he was on the following committees:
Chairman Mechanics and Mining, Agri-
culture, Counties, Cities and Towns, Re-
apFortionment Representatives.
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REPRESENTATIVE C. b. PATTERSON
OF robson.

Hon. Guilbert B. Patterson, member of
the House from Robson, was born in
Richmond county on May 30 1863 of an
old and distinguished family, who have
resided in that section for many genera
IONS. he was educated at the High School
OF Laurinburg, completing his education
at the University of North Carolina,
when he graduated in 1885, For three
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daughter of ]. A. Adams, ex-Register of
Deeds Of Johnston. He took particular
ly active part in the campaigns of 1898
and 1900 and enjoys the distinction of
being the only member of the present
Legislature, indicted and tried as Red
Shirt but the prosecution failed and
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Thomas Legion and commanded the COM
pany till the close of the civil war. He
was married in November, 1877. he mas
been a merchant for twenty-five years,
and has been travelling salesman for a
wholesale house in Knoxville, Tenn. For
ten years he has always been an earnest
worker in the Democratic party and never
asked for an office of any kind till last
summer when he was elected Representa-
tive from Haywood. He now lives on d
farm at Clyde. In the Legislature ne
served on the committees on PENSIONS,
Agriculture, immigration, Fish inter
ests, Federal Relations.
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REPRESENTATIVE JOHN NJ. MORGAN,
OF JOHNSTON

Hon. John M. Morgan of Benson, Dem
ocratic representative from Johnston,
was born in Harnett county in 1867. When
he was years old his parents moved
10 Johnston county, where he was rear GU
he was educated in the pupIc soiiooiH
and at burlington Institute ne 1ausn'
school and then read law at the ohl'qI
sity Law School under Dr. Matlnlns' "
was admitted to the bar in 1850. ne .nei
spent two years in Texas ana Loulalail'i'
but finding no place like North ealolllle
returned in 1885 and has since Ioiiomeu
the practice of his profession. iae "a'
married in 1897 to Miss Annie NJ Adams
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ably represented his party. He was a
member of the committees on State Lii
brary, Enrolled Bills, Health.
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to his graduation. He graduated with
great honors, winning the orators medal
in his graduating speech in 1896. He was
principal Of Arcadia Academy from 1896.
to 1897 ard Of the Advance Hill School
from 1897 to 1900. He held the office of
county examiner from April 6, 1897 to July
LIST, 1897, was county supervisor of schools
from 1887 to 1899 and also held the office
OF county superintendent of schools of
his native county from July 1st 1899 to
Sept. %, 1900. He is a member of the
Methodist church He was Il successful
teacher, but gave up the work to make
the canvass of 1900 as the Republican
nominee for the Legislature, where he
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the witnesses against him swore that
he saved their lives by risking his own
in rescuing certain Republicans from mob
violence among them his opponent in
the campaign. He is a vigorous cam
paigner. He made strong fight in the
Legislature to apply profits of the dis
pensary to the benefit of the public
schools. He ably served on the commit
tees on Judiciary. Propositions and Griev-
ahces, Congressional District and others.
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Six Per Cent Investment Company.
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Mechanics and Investors Union,
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REPRESENTATIVE R. ]. PETREE, OF
STOKES.

Hon. R. j. Petree. Of Germantown, the
Republican representative from Stokes
county, was born November ., 1858, at
Germantown, Stokes county. He married
Miss Addie f. Blum, of Winston, N. c.,
April T. 1881, and they have nine children.
He was elected to the House Of Represen-
tatives in 1893 and has been elected con
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PEBBLES. In 1895 he was elected mayor of
Jackson, and county attorney. He was
elected in 1900 to the Legislature by the
largest Democratic majority ever given
III the county, 2,012. He was the author
OF the movement for dispensary at
jackson, which has given nine months
school with three teachers, where there
was formerly three months school with
one teacher, and which is expected to
lead 10 graded school. Mr. Harris was
member OF the committees on Judiciary
corporations, Banks and Currency, Mill
tary.
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tinuously since then, the nomination al
ways being unsolicited. He was a mem
Der Of the Committees on Election Laws,
Finance, Justice of the Peace Insurance,
Appropriations. He is a successful farm
or, tobacco raising being his speciality.
His usual crop of tobacco is 10000 pounds
and over. He is eminently successful in
business and politics.
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SENATOR GEORGE II. CURRIE, OF
BLADEN COUNTY.

Hon. George Fl. Currie was born July
"a, 1872 in Clarkton, Bladen county. lie
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MECHANICS AND INVESTORS UNION, OF RALEIGH
Seventh Annual Report Stockholders Jan. l. 1901.

ASSETS.
Loans to members, secured by
real estate mortgages, held
by B. s. Jerman, Treasurer
and Trustee, for benefit and
protection of the Stockhold-
ers of the Union. .......... SAG, 1880
Advances made on stock of the
Union, secule ed by collateral
notes and the certiflces. 2,65O.0O
Real Estate. ........ 100000
Furniture and Fixtures. . $4,000
Cash in Banh....... ........ 1,470.11
$52,371.11
OFFICERS AN
JOHN c. DREWRY, President.
3. S. JERMAN, treasurer,
C. c.. LATTA, w
{ FALLEN, Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

Colonel Hughes secretary Of the Sheffield Chamber Of
Commerce recently visited this country investigator
OF its manufacturing commercial conditions. In an
Interview published London newspaper Saturday
gave the results of his observations He informs
his counrymen that the Steel Trust is by he
whole thing" that works of the largest dimensions
springng up rapidly outside Of it. and that there
so individual enterprise is present
shown" in this country.
The chef contrast which Colonel Hughes remarks be
British American industrial life is that put
more vim into our business English do theirs,
says the New York World He says:
Undoubtedly American manufacturers are very much
alive the necessity moving with the times Both
masters and display energy which is perfectly
American animated with the desire TO do
as much work as he possibly and money
as possible"
Colonel Hughes also points out that great difference
between American and English works is that in the former
there fewer and machines in every drec
ton" He also notes universal American tendency to
concentrate all the branches trade compre
plant that the materials brought in by
rail at end and kept moving until the finished product
goes out by rail at the other end
reports further American railroad transporta
ton is vastly superior" the English both passen
freight service Our freight traffic particularly
impressed him being handled Sin wholesale fashion
astTunning trains unlike the soveny methods prevalent
in England"
In short the colonel tells his countrymen that they
must wake up and hustle" and must forget that
both masters and in the United States working
in deadly earnest to command the trade of the world
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ns;x4.ASA "a YoIe
@dkIt ~ss-S9 @6Y~&
M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
AN lNnlAn.RANcHMAN pEAL.

The Kiowa and Apache Indians have fled protest
with the department interior against the opening
Of the Kiowa and Comanehe reservation The department
will ignore the protest Indians threaten to take
out writ Of injunction the court in that
event. to prevent the settlement Of these lands.
Back Of the Indians action unquestionably large
rattle interests which have been enjoying tn pasurage Of
these Indian lands dirt cheap
It is in word the same old fight again Part Of
these lands are agricultural They were placed there for
eventual cultivation employ produce for the
world The westward tide immigration has reached
them and demands them. it has demanded all lands
that it has reached There other fields available for
the cattle interests and they win seek them The
baronial instinct pastures give to the
homesteader interest of few acres for the
world the vicinity for humanity including
the Indian himself
for the Indian his has set His day of genteel
oahng has passed his day for cowardly massacre
der the name Of warfare passed thirty years ago. The
segregation Of any considerable body land for his es
urey nonproductive holding belongs different day
than the present
The sentimental grounds that the Indian owned
the continent and is deserving Of perpetual reward that
account is well taken. All the northern Indian tribes
Of prmeva America produced less and were Of less use
world than any single agricultural county in the
nation today It was in the stars for the Indian to sur
his nominal possession Of the continent and to be
placed on reservations It in the stars that he shall
surrender the reservations and placed aotments
It viii be in the stars unless he develops industry thrift
and usefulness the community and the nation for him
surrender the aotments and give them to people who
can and viii put them to their intended use
The government underst- It has come at last
to the belief that nothing is to be gained by pampering
the Red Man; that greatest justice him by
directing him along useful lines The department will en-
terrain protests ribbed" by benefited cattle interests
matter is taken before the supreme court that
tribunal win injunction The reservation viii
be opened August 6.
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patient would be cured Dr. Robertson upbrads the Eng
sh government and people because they are doing little
nothing to discover such cure.
Conditions in Great Britain the United States
practically the in this respect The number OF
the insane has in recent years been increasing at more
rapid than the population The existing asylums are
full and more are constantly demanded Modern science
is emphatic declaration that by the greater part
Of this terrible suffering its nature preventable and
in its earlier stages, remedabe."
Merely from economic point Of view the problem is
one that calls for attention The financial buruen Of the
Of the insane this country amounts annually to
many millions OF dollars and is constantly increasing
The spent for this in Great Brit
ain contrasted by Dr. Robertson with the meager
amount spent efforts to discover cure for the evil
The criticism applies with equal force to methods
Of procedure the Chicago Tribune Since insanity
known to be toxic disease the dphtheria or
yellow fever scientists should be encouraged and
aided in every possible way discover methods Of cure
for mental maladies Money donated to that purpose
might do good than If itwere used TO build
asyIums.
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soUARINo THE CIRCLE AT PEKIN.

How the Chinese indemnity is to be paid is problem
the difficulty whereof is made less great by the d
Tergent of the various powers China herself ap
pears have given up representatives having con
tented themselves with making the statement Of the ut
most limit of the ability Of to pay The Chi
government Gey say by the Increase Of the mari
time customs dues the provincial transit duties or likn
the salt car raise $40 100000 year to be ap
piled the indemnity accountant they leave it to the
foreign fnanciers to find the apportoning this
Inadequate so it viii cover interest on the
amount Of the indemnity and leave something over toward
the ultimate payment Of the principal Now demurrer
has been entered behalf China against the size Of
the bill presented by the powers
Inasmuch the demands OF the powers foot up
sS37o00000 is evident that the Chinese offer is not sum
cent TO interest at the rate OF per cent
which is country comparatively so poor
In credit China could expect obtain Under these
circumstances the would remain standing in perpet
ity and would be increased 100000 every year through
deficiency the interest account Manifesy there
fore reduction Of the claimed to $3.50 100000
less would be condition precedent bringing the debt
down TO the stated limit Of Chnas ability pay If that
reduction effected there would still be obstacles
of considerable number and Importance to be overcome
before settlement could be obtained.
The British proposal China should issue per cent
bonds with sinking fund Of onehaf per cent would
be financially sound provided principal Of the debt
should be scaled down to s250O00000 thereabout as
indicated above BY this PLAN however the final payment
would be postponed time the end Of the TWEEN
tysecond century It is doubtful whether some Of the
powers could be induced to wait long their money
The Russian plan Of raising the required by means
OF loan with the joint guaranty of powers is i'm
practicable most OF the governments concerned would be
preeuded by constitutional restrictions from becoming
suretes for foreign nations financial obligations Ger
manys suggestion that each nation take over from China
its own portion Of the indemnity upon condition that the
Chinese government pay certain of interest and
provide for the extinction Of the in annual install
ments IS open to the objection that in the almost certain
event of default If the penny of the total
sum demanded should be insisted upon would lead to
separate ntervenuons and either the division Of the Chi
nese empire or the establishment Of joint financial con
troll after the manner Of the public debt commission in
Egypt The British plan is the that has yet been
submitted but conceivable program soud be made TO
succeed that should not begin with reduction by eighty
odd millions Of dollars of the indemnity claimed
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23
OUTLINES OF okLAHomA.

At Taloga, last week. 1--WE inches OF rain
fell in forty-eight hours.
IN southern Oklahoma the farmers are
going into millet extensively.
There IS a man ar Chickasha with the
euphoneous name Of Jedediah Judkins.
A whole lot OF people seem fnnocertlv
anxious TO postpone that Eiowa opening.
Judge Irwin is back in e. Reno from
holding court at CordeIi. and he had TO
swim in.
A colony OF burglars are now working
in Oklahoma trying TO get next some Of
the wealth
On June 10 the people Of weathersord
VIII vote $1,000 bonds 70 build ? system
OF waterworks-
In the Oklahoma boom the man who
knocks out the assume and agree 70
pay clause. IS wise.
The saloon men have petitioned the
mayor TO close en- on Sunday. 4 GOOD
many funny things happen in the peu-
ton line.
The bird. the paddle and the envelope
scheme is just now being tried in south
ern Oklahoma towns, and the suckers
are active.
The Indian territory VIII never prosper
until it kicks the credit system OF trading
overheard. No people can prosper and
practice Il.
A man named CLANCY was held up by
footDads near Enid. They demanded his
money or his life and CLANCY handed
over 10 cents.
G. ". Hughes. living near shawnee.
recently caught two wolves feeding on
his pigs He got out his gun, gun. gun,
and filed the wolves full OF lead. lead,
lead.
Mrs H S 8Inward and Miss Leola
Kellam, while walking along the street in
Weatherford last week. were struck by
lightning. Both are in q critical condi-
ton.
Before sentencing those two men at
Pawnee. Judge Hainer exhOFted them to
make their peace with God. What they
will really do VIII be TO so after com
mutation.
At Weatherford last week, when the
rain was the heaviest. a man who had a
leaky house remarked that he guessed
he would step outdoors where he wouldn't
get so wet.
Sunday night at Enid the home OF DR..
H. B. Mckenzie was entered by burglars
while the family was at church. The
thieves carried of three watches and
other jewelry.
The government has instructed Horace
Speed TO defend every Usage Indian who
has been sued by traders. Speed. II he
ever taxes HOlu OF the lLQldu CIGult SFS-
TEN, viii probably break a bolt or some
thing.
A drunken Indian lay out in the hail
storm at Weatherford the whole night
and II never touched him. He was full OF
bitters and thought he was sleeping on a
plush-lined cloud IN a summer sky, while
567 haii-stones were hitting him every
minute.
oklahoma City Times-Journalj While
the plant lice would not probably have
destroyed the wheat crop without the
Intervention OF the thousands OF LADY
bugs that have made their appearances. It
is most probable that corn and other
crops would have been destroyed but for
their work. When the wheat became
harsh and difficult for the lice to work On
they left II to attack more tender and
juicier weeds which had made theiF ap-
pearance. At this stage unheard of num-
bers OF lady-bugs made their appearance
and attacked the lice, and the effect was
soon apparent. The lice have been so
reduced in numbers that the corn and
other crops which they attack are safe
from their ravages.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23
Isl INSANITY INcuRARLE7

DIT Ford Robertson the British pathologist contrib
utes to the National Review article which he urges
that more time and money ought to be devoted to study
Ing the causes and cure Of insanity He holds that mental
diseases at least in their earlier sages are durable Sci
ence has banshed the ancient idea that insanity is vs
FERROUS visitation utterly different from other diseases
Even within the last i've six years the scientists know
edge Of insanity has undergone complete revolution TT
can now be shown says Dr. Robertson that various
forms OF insanity differ in their from other diseases
in no respect except that the particular tissues Of
which the functional activity is perverted or abolished
They are bodily diseases ust truly as typhoid fever
rheumatism or fractured leg and they have similar
causes
The greatest advance in this department Of pathology
has 5eea made by Italian and German investigators Their
work has demonstrated that almost all mental diseases
are the result Of toxins poisons in the body These
toxins act upon the cells OF the brain Al first i'm
pairing their action and ultimately destroying the cells
The poisons may be introduced from without or nav b
created within the body By oisordered ORGANS The
toxin has different effects different people INSANITY
IS not inherited but the susceptibility OF the nerve o IL
toxins IS inherited the same as the color o. The ewes ~
the shape Of the If the poison were removed 49,
eouneTaoted before its work had progressed tee far m
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pIFFER As TO the nAmENpMENrr

After all the that has been brought to bear
and despite nducement could well be
promote harmony in the Cuban constitutional conven-
ton two reports the much-dscussed Patt amendment
TO be presented Perhaps the presentation major
y report and minority report important matter
to be interpreted sign that Cuba is being rapidly
AmeTicauized but there is possibly doubt this
point
In the majority report the amendment which General
Wood such pains to enforce upon the minds
delegates is accepted with the specific declaration that
does not the establishment Of United States pro
tectoae sovereignty Cuba This report is said
be signed by Delegates Tamayo, Quesada and Vuendas
The proposed Plat amendment, the importance of
which Secretary Root insisted upon convention
is largely rewritten" in the minority report,
asserted is signed by Delegates Gualberto Gomez and
Silva General Wood is asked by the promoters Of the
compromise plan submit to Secretary Root which he
may may not do
Meanwhile. although the conservative leaders IN the
Cuban convention still maintain that they the major
ity them they wholly in an u7pertrhed state
Of mind. This may be week of surprises at Havana.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

One Of the leaders the striking machinists saws
There viii be arbtraton this matter has gone too
lar for arbitration" The chump Nothing ever
goes TOO far for arbitration
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

The Omnpotent hates gadder. All those American
professors who to the other side Of to see
eclipse Saturday defeated by lot Of cheap fifty
cont ~ l--fll cLonds
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

Governor Allen doesn't think a territorial government
should be extended to Porto Rico But the promise Of
should be- and the promise in time be full
filed. And Americans enough get down there
the territory will come all right
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

Colonel Mills the superintendent Of West Point is IN
trouble But he isn't getting any sympathy. The coun-
try hasn't forgotten his brutal about the dead
cadet BOOz
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

In due time the great question in country will be
transportation and car load lots than car load
lots viii have battle which viii make Commences head
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

The Constitution acts as thought it could beat any
thing which carries sails but the Shamrock Il IS waking
up and viii give The Constitution about all she can do
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

Carnegie is criticised in parts Of Scotland FOR
founding Scotch university with S100o0000 II is not
possible to do anything and receive unanimous consent
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

The brave boys Of West Point. who make weakIings
drink tooasoo sauce can't be bu6ed by little thing Ike
congressional law
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

A new comet with q tail ten degrees IN length has
been discovered by astronomer Honolulu The comet
not amount 70 much. but that tail is magnacent
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

Since gof came in vogue and the golf ball and the
high grass contact collar button under the
bureau Joke has disappeared.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

The chances are that Miss Shamrock II Is consider
able Of possum and that the American yachters are
smart enough TO see it
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-23

Mckinley speaks Of the neglected opportunities OF
youth What ones did President Mckinley neglect IN his