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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-09-26
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.


Medical Testimony >es to tho Injury OF
Giving IntoxicantsN to Children - Re-
sponsible For Many Diseases and Or
ganic Troubles-A Great Evil.
Professor Max Kassowitz, the most fa-
nous authority in Vienna on chifdren's
diseases, speaking at the session in VieRna
of the International Anti.Alcohohc Con-
gress, strongly opposed the practice OF
giving children intoxicants IN any form,
even in very moderate quantities.
Beer and wine, he held, were highly, in
furious on account of the changing char
acter of the bodily organs during child
growth. Such liquids were absolutely un-
nourishing and frequently led to epilepsy
and had also deadening power IN learn
ing.
Mondays the children were dull and heavy
in consequence of the beer and wine drink
ing on Sunday. Fifty per cent. of the
Vienna school children, it was stated, take
intoXicants.
The New York Herald interviewed va
rious New York medical men on the mat
ter. Dr. Louis Fisher, leading specialist
in diseases of children, corroborated the
statements of Professor kassowitz as to
the injury of intoXicants to those of ten
der age.
DR.. Fisher was inclined from personal
observation to the belief that wine and
beer were frequently given to children in
this city, especially among the tenement
house population. He added:
This is observed by any physician who
has a dispensary practice. Among par
ents of Irish birth who live on the west
side whisky is a favorite tonic for babies
The Germans on the east side give their
children beer.
parents seem to have the idea that by
giving children liquor they are making
them strong-that it will strengthen their
hearts. They generally begin the practice
very early.
"In consequence of this practice the
growth of the children is retarded, and
their digestion is disturbed. The suffer
ing of the baby from the effects of the ad
ministration of liquor seems to give the
parents the idea that more is needed to
:ounteract the ailments. So they go from
bad to worse.
"To any one whose attention has been
called to the subject particularly it is re-
markable to note how much digestive
trouble can be traced to this practice.
The most deplorable part of it is that the
il-effects of the liquor are not injurious
to the stomach alone, but quickly extend
20 the liver"
DR.. Augustus Caille said the evils result
ing from the practice were real and not
imaginary. He declared that great care
was necessary in the administration of
liquors to children even by physicians.
He added that he did not prescribe whisky
Or brandy for children except in extreme
cases.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-09-26

A novel but excellent idea has peeh
introduced in London at all of the
large halls, museums, exposition
buildings and other places which are
frequently attended by children. AT
the Crystal Palace, South Kensington
Museum, the Hippodrome, Earls
Court Exhibition. the Agricultural
halls, the Kew Gardens and other
places a room has been set apart tc
which lost children are taken by the
ushers and other attendants and re
tanned until called for by their par
ents or whoever is in charge of them
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-09-26

When Sheffield steel manufacturers
set up mills in Pennsylvania, Great
Britain indeed gives up beaten.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-09-26
Views of the Very Rev. Dean Farrar.

Ny reasons for taking the pledge were
partly general and partly special.
Hrst-I became convinced that the use
Of alcohol in any form was not neces-
sity. l saw that whole nations have
lived and fourished without it. | be-
lieved that the whole race of man had ex-
isted for centuries previous to its discov-
cry.
Second-I was struck by the indisputa-
BILE fact that in England 10000 inhabit-
ants of our prisons, accustomed to strong
drink all their lives, and the majority of
them brought into prison directly or indi-
rectly by it, could be, and were, from the
moment of their Imprisonment, absolute
ly deprived of it, not only without loss,
but with entire gain to Their personal
health.
Third derived from the recorded tes-
timony of our most eminent physicians
that the use of alcohol is a subtle and
manifold source of disease even to thou
sands who use it in quantities convention
ally deemed moderate; also, that all the
young, and all the healthy, and all who
eat well and sleep well, do not require it,
and are better without it.
Fourth-That the carefully drawn statis-
tics of many insurance societies convinced
me that total abstinence, so far from
shortening life, distinctly and undisputa-
bly, conducted to longevity.
Fifth--Then l accumulated proof that
drink is so far from being requisite to
physical strength or intellectual force,
that many of our greatest athletes, from
the days of Samson onward, Whose drink
was only of the crystal brook have
achieved without alcohol mightier feats
than have ever been achieved with it.
Drinking Habits and Success Are Alien.
Here are some words from John d.
Rockefeller, spoken in his speech before
the great University of Chicago, to which
he has given over $9000,000. They de-
serve to be printed in every paper in the
land. He said to the young men: Some
of the foes which threaten your success
may not be apparent to you until 1t Is too
late. If you are to succeed in life it will
be because you master yourselves. and if
you are to continue masters and not slaves
you do not need that | should say to you
here to-day that you must jealousy guard
the approach of any foe to your we'll
being. How many a young man whom L
knew in my school days went down be-
cause of his fondness for Intoxicating
drinks. No man has ever had occasion to
regret that he was not addicted to the
use of liquor. No woman has ever had oc-
casion to regret that she was not instru
mental in influencing young men to use
intoxicants. The chances for success are
better to-day than ever before. Success
is attained by industry, perseverance and
pluck, coupled with any amount of hard
work, and you need not expect to achieve
it in any, other way. This is, the esti-
who has probably had opportunity to
know and see as many young men succeed
or fail as any other man in the land 1t
is fast becoming true that drinking hab-
its and success in life will not so together.
Baptist Argus.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-09-26

Mosquito hunters will follow with in
terest the experiments that are being
made in New Orleans, where the mos
quitoes flourish practically all the
year around. Oil has become very
cheap in that city since the opening
of the Texas fields, and it has been
decided to try to do two things at
once-lay the dust in the streets and
kill the mosquitoes. Railroads have
tried sprinkling their roads with
crude oil, and have found this method
most efficient in permanently laying
the dust New Orleans is trying the
same thing, and it is said to be as
successful in streets used for traffic
as it is on railways. Most of New
Orleans mosquitoes are bred in open
drains and cisterns, and while the
streets are being sprinkled oil is put
on the neighboring drains.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-09-26

AS result or the observation
of a board of British naval officers
some important changes are to be
made in battleships to be built in the
near future as part of England's prin
ciple defence For one thing it has
been decided to cut down the masts
of such ships some sixty feet, because
the new signaling devices introduced
into use recently make tall maStS un
necessary. Furthermore, the high
fore and aft bridges are to be lowered
built entirely of iron, and so arranged
that in clearing ship for action they
can easily be slid overheard. These
improvements are in the general line
of naval progress, and must be ac.
cepted as good. But what will the
outsider think in regard TO the grad.
ual disappearance of all that he has
long recognized rs marks of ship?
There were weepings and wailings
when the old spars and canvas went,
and in the course of time even the
fighting mast will go. and when
steam is superseded perhaps even the
tunnels. Then we shall have nothing
but the floating hulk, filed with death.
dealing machines and lorrid to look
upon But maybe before that time
comes war will have been abolished.
Why not? queries the New York
Times.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
THE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
Collections Are About Double What They Were
Under the Old System.

Insurance Commissioner Young yester-
day paid into the State Treasury the
August collections amounting to $685.
1925 The amount paid in the July col
lection was $14,943.63, making the total
collections FOR July and August $43,-
O45. 49, This makes, with the amounts
heretofore paid in since the beginning of
the fiscal year, april 1st 1901, total of
SIC, 26612.
The receipts in this office are derived
from licenses and taxes of insurance
companies. The fiscal year runs from
April 1st to April list. The receipts thus
far show an increase over last year and
the Department will, by April 1st next,
collect from 800, 900 to $4,000. The col
Iections last year were about $1,000 The
expenses of the Department, including
the salary of the Commissioner and his
clerk. Mr.. r. Nj. Phillips, will not exceed
S., 900 a year. These figures seem to
indicate that the Legislature acted wisely
in creating the Insurance Department
Commissioner Young's collections are
double what they were before the De-
partment was separated from the Secre-
tary of States office.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08

good price for this years cotton crop and
next years crop will take care of itself
For we will be compelled to SOW a
greater acreage this fall in oats to help
out our corn crop so will even the great
state of Texas; for today a gentleman
living in Texas, who is we'll informed on
agricultural interests, stated to me that
Texas was short on corn and would sow
great deal of her cotton land in OATS
and that corn was twice as high now as
he had ever seen it before in that State.
Acreage in cotton next season will neces-
sarily, be decreased
Texas is now ready and Wiling TO heip
you in the movement to get your. price
for cotton, and has joined the order ana
has money left from her big crop OF last
year, and is not forced to sell her cotton
until she gets ten cents for it.
The merchant is anxious for you to re-
ceive it, the bankers will aid you, the
Hon. William r. Merriam, director OF the
census, will inform you with his buile-
tins on cotton ginning; and by all cotton
growers joining the association and gam
ing information from headquarters and by
united action and cooperation success Is
assured.
If you have a club already organized In
your country try to revive interest IN
same and get every man eligible to men,
bership to join.
If you have no club let some one sug-
gest a good man to organize it and let
me know at once so / can appoint him.
Want a good man in each congressional
district who will organize the district for
a moderate compensation. l make this
appeal because it will be impossible for
me to visit all the counties.
With proper organization, cooperation
and concert of action of the cotton grow
ers of the South, you can command and
receive ten cents for your cotton which
is fair and legitimate price. Wait no
longer, join the movement, and let us
supply the mills with cotton only as they
absolutely require it. Then you will get
good prices for your cotton, and you be
willing and able to pay the manufacturers
better prices for their goods. You will
no longer be simply "hewers Of wood
and drawers of water but your cotton
fields will be your oil gushers and your
gold mines. and contentment and peace
and plenty will again reign supreme on
the old plantation.
WILLIAM A. BROUGHTON.
President Georgia Cotton Growers Pro-
tective Association.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
A High Point Enterprise.

The High Point Trunk and Bag Fac
tory was incorporated by the Secretary
OF State yesterday. The capital stock is
$50, 900 with 800 paid in.
The company is to manufacture trunks.
travelling bags, dress suit cases, tcie-
scopes, valises and all appliances OF a
complete travelling outfit 1t will also
make excelsior. manufacture wheelbar-
rows, washboards, barrel slaves, churns,
wagons, buggies. names. plOws. safes,
writing desks, bureaus, tables and novel
ties of wood.
The incorporators are all of High
Point, ~ c., and are Messrs. E. L. Raglan,
A. L. Burns, j. r. Brown, W. p. hagan.
Geo. A. Nation, Alfred Payne, J. r. Reit-
eel, ID. H. Hall, E. NJ Armfield, NJ. j.
Wrenn, S. B. Sapp c. G. Muse, J. l.. Sc
chrest, w. C. Jones, j. E. Kirkman, w.
H Raglan, j. H. Mills.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
Mr.. Dave Berwanger Returns.

Mr.. Dave Berwanger returned to Raj
eigh yesterday after three months visit
to Europe He has had delightful trip
and while on the big pond missed even
being sea sick. He landed at Bremen.
and then went to Frankfort and Hard
helm. Later he went to Monheim, the
home of Mrs Sam Berwanger. At Hard
helm he visited his sisters people and on
his further Journeys in the Rhine c2un-
try he had with him relatives, is niece,
Miss Zelina Hanft, being often with him.
Mr.. Berwanger made many friends on his
trip and says he will 90 again. He
brought back a number Of souvenirs of his
stay in Germany, and one from Heidelberg
is valued at this office. mo man could
have had better time declared Mr.
Berwanger yesterday while shaking hands
with many friends whoI were glad 10 well
come him back to America and Raleigh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
NEGRO BOY WILL HANG.
Fifteen Years Old He Commits Rape on Five
Year Old Child.

Judge Walter H. Neal, of Scotland coun-
ty, was in the city yesterday on his way
to Wadesboro to hold court His first
court is just over at Rockingham, Rich
mond county, and the docket was a heavy
one.
Among other important eases was the
one in which John DeBerry, a negro boy
fifteen years old, was tried on the charge
of the rape of Iota Mckay, a negro girl
five years old, committed last June near
Hoffman. The negro was found guilty,
the sole defence being that he is almost
an idiot, though all the witnesses say he
was able to know that he was commit
ting a crime. His counsel agreed to a
verdict of guilty and Judge Neal SEN
fenced him to be hanged on October 18th
He is supposed to be the youngest crimi-
nal ever sentenced to death in North
Carolina. 1t is said that because of his
mental condition Governor Aycock will
be asked to commute his sentence to life
Imprisonment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
An Excellent Teacher.

Miss LOWE Jones, an admirably equip
ped teacher of piano and vocal music re-
opened her music school here on Wednes-
day. She was student at Oxford and
Peace for four years and for some time
at st. Mary's, afterwards taking instruc-
lions from Mr.. VIM. H. Sherwood and
took her examination on all musical stu
dies from the American College of Musi-
clans" of New York. She has taught for
twelve years, two of these at Chapel Hill
and one at the Baptist Female University,
the rest of the time being spent with
private classes. Those of her pupils who
are now teaching are all doing we'll Miss
Jones work gives great satisfaction 30
her patrons and she is a credit to the
ability of the young women of Raleigh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
The Hosiery Mill at Valdese.
(The Southern Field.)

(The Southern Field.)
The Hosiery mill at Valdese, conducted
by Waldensians, is reported to be doing
we'll. These people began with small
capital and upon low priced lands. They
are rapidly developing fine farms and it
will soon be the most independent colony
of people that ever came to the United
States. A visit to this settlement will
repay any farmer seeking Indignation
about opening up farm in the Piedmont
section of the South. tour Of the set
visiting the various new farms
and talking with the people, will repay
any one. Rev. B. Soulier, the pastor of
the church at Valdese, advises that in
the vicinity Of the colony can be had con-
cheap land and his people are
anxious to see the entire section occupied
by a thrifty people.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
Opening Of Peace Institute.

Peace Institute will open for it's next
session on Wednesday morning. At IL
o'clock, on that day, appropriate opening
exercises will be held in which the fol-
lowing speakers have been invited to
take part: Rev. Dr. Eugene Daniel, Mr..
w. S. Primrose, Rev. c. F. Smith and
Or. George T. Winston. The public are
invited to attend these exercises.
President Dinwiddie is expecting the
largest opening he has ever had. ST have
every room FULL he said yesterday.
THE prospects for the school We're never
so encouraging"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
DISEASE AMONG HORSES.
Reports Indicate That the Epidemic in the
East is Disappearing.

Commissioner of Agriculture Patterson
has gone to the eastern part of the
State to consult with State Veterinarian
Butler in regard to the disease among
the horses of that section. He will prob
ably return to the city Monday or Tues
day
In addition to DIR. Butler, the Bureau of
Animal Industry at Washington City. has
sent an expert veterinarian to this State
to lend what assistance he could in the
work of suppressing the epidemic.
The meagre reports received since
their arrival in the infected district in
dictate that the disease is abating.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
Held For Court.

Yesterday Mayor Powell sent Jesse
Jones to iail in default of a 5000 bond
and Charles Burch to the same place on
a 800 bond. These are the negroes
charged with cutting Will Palmer some
weeks ago while in drunken frolic on
Yves Cabarrus street.
The hearing had been postponed be-
cause of Palmer's condition. Yesterday
he was brought in carriage from Rex
Hospital to the mayors office and gave
his testimony. Col ]. c. L. Harris rep
resented Burch. 1t appeared that Jones
did the cutting and used Burch's knife,
both being concerned in the matter. The
trial will take place at the next term
of court
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
REDUCED RATES TO SAN FRAN
CISCO AND RETURN.

For the occasion of the General Con-
vention of the Episcopal Church at San
Francisco October End, the Southern
Railway will sell round trip tickets
from Washington, Alexandria, Char.
lottesville, Lynchburg, Richmond, Nor
folk, Greensboro Asheville and con.
tiguous main line points at $685. Tick
cts will be on sale September 18th to
18th with limit on going trip to October
End, and final return limit Nov. 18th, re-
turning either via same or another
route. Through excursion sleepers are
operated the year round from Wash.
ington to Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco without change, leaving Wash.
ington Monday, Wednesday and Friday
each week This will afford four de-
partures for Episcopal Convention.
These excursions are personally con-
Quoted and afford every facility fol-
comfort, convenience and economy
For further information apply to any
Southern Railway ticket agent, or to
S. H. Hardwick, G. P. A., or to A. j.
Poston, General Agent, 511 Penn. Ave,
N. W., Washington, D. c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
DR.. Baskerville's Work.

The work of Dr. Charles Baskerville
on his new discovery of "Carolinium" is
attracting considerable deserved atten-
ton. In the way of provisional grants
made by the American association, for the
assistance of scientists carrying on nota-
bic Investigations, the council appropriat
ed the following sums: $50 to DR.. Carl
Eigenmann, Bloomington, Ind, for the
study of blind vertebrates; $50 to Prof
Davenport, University of Chicago, for the
study of cumulative variation; $50 to J..
McKeen Cattell of Princeton, for the study
of anthropmetric measurements; $50 to
Charles Baskerville, University of North
Carolina, for chemical research.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
Mr.. Cannon a Good Guesser.
Concord Times.)

The New Orleans cotton exchange Of
fered this summer three prizes for the
three nearest guesses to the number of
cotton bales made this season. Mr.. j..
W. Cannon, being good business man
and in touch with the conditions of the
cotton crop in every State, has been noti-
fled that his estimate gained the second
prize, which is $50. This is not as good
luck as Mr.. Cannon had last year in
winning the first prize of 500 given by
this exchange. The report of the cotton
exchange is 10,3S3,422 bales; Mr.. Cannon
gave his estimate as 10399, 500 bales,
coming within 1857 of the correct num-
6er and second best
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
After Lawbreakers.

Attorney General Gilmer leaves next
Tuesday for the eastern counties to make
investigation into the depredations on the
swamp lands of the State, and will ar
range to put stop by law to these en-
croachments. He will also meet oyster
Commissioner Webb at Newborn and in
vestigate the matter of the parties who
have not paid their oyster taxes.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
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The News and Observer
during the past week has add
ed Two Hundred and Sixteen
daily subscribers. They come
from as far West as Ruther-
fordton. and as far East as
GreenviIle.
The OLD RELIABLE is the
paper for news, for opinions,
for justice, for right. 1t has
no 5ack door, stands FOR
True Democracy.
Industrial Development.
Educational Progress.
Better Roads.
Free Rural Delivery, and for
every coed thing that will ad-
vance the interests of the peo-
pie of North Carolina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
A Stick For the Governor.

Mr. W. A. Graham, Jr., of the Agricul-
tural Department, who has just returned
from the western part of the State brings
back a white hickory walking stick for
Governor Aycock.
1t is a gift from Mr.. A. P. Dellinger, a
good citizen and a working Democrat of
Iron Station, Lincoln county. Mr.. Del
linger was a member of Company H, 52nd
North Carolina and was with General
Fettigrew a few minutes before the gen.
eral was killed. The Governor is certain
to appreciate the handsomely worked up
stick.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
A SUIT FOR DAMAGES.
1t Will be Brought by the Wife Of Fireman
Rosemond.

Mrs. Rosemond, the wife of the fire.
man who was killed in the recent Sea-
board Air Line wreck near Cheraw, S. c..
yesterday qualified as executor of her
husbands estate for the purpose of bring
ing a suit for damage against the rail-
road.
Her attorney is Col. T. M. Argo.
Rosemond's train was wrecked by a
washout just two weeks ago, and he was
crushed beneath his engine.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08
A Model Citizen.

Here's an extract from tribute to the
late Mr. Oran S. Poe, of Pittsboro, from
the Chatham Record which is the highest
commentator that man could desire:
He was a ruling elder in the Presby-
terian church, and was public spirited
citizen, who was ever ready to do his full
duty towards the upbuilding of both
church and State. He was strictly honest
in all his dealings and was faithful to
every trust
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-08

Owing to the fact that scarlet fever is
raging near Murphy, the town authorities
quarantined last Tuesday, placing guard
at both bridge cross Valley river. The
graded school was closed as well as all
churches. An order was passed by coun-
ell forbidding children outside their yards.
From all we can learn the epidemic is
Observation-Disclosures Scout.