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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-15

and therefore not there, towit: Daniel
l. Russell, ]. j. Mott, M. l.. Mott,
Thomas Settle, V. S. Lusk, G. w. Cobb,
r. r. Hill, j. A. Cheek, II. l.. Grant, D..
w Patrick and many others who are
not tagged by the boss, and who are not
sycophants that thrift may follow their
fawning.
J. c. L. HARRIS.
Raleigh, N. c., Oct IA, 1901.
p. S.-Grant may have been invited
but he is not in line with the boss and
his policy and therefore he stayed away.
J. c. +, TT
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A NATIONAL PARK IN THE SOUTH.
Tho 10 rtfo,rd Co,,yopf

A NATIONAL PARK IN THE SOUTH.
The Hartford Courant.
The advocates of the Appalachian Park
have issued pamphlet recording the
progress made up to date and quoting
number of Endorsements from leading
men and papers given to this project. The
arguments are all one way The Depart
mcnt of Agriculture earnestly recon-
mends the appropriation, the committee
recommended it, whoever locks into the
matter sees it's immediate Importance. 1t
is up to Congress to pass the bill. The
magnificent forests of that region are be-
ing cut away, Unreasonable damage is
being done to the water supply, and if
the land is not bought soon it will take
fifty years to restore its trees and bring
it back to it's present condition. The
natural beauty Of the Appalachian district
is beyond description. 1t is one Of the
most attractive sections of the world.
The axe has only just begun to get in it's
work there. II we move promptly the
government can secure a national park
as choice in it's way as the Yellowstone
and within days journey of three-quar-
tiers of the people of the United States.
There is neither time nor reason for de-
law
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-15

President Roosevelt says he does not
will appoint negroes of good character to
office. He is an orthodox Republican and
believes in the streak Of lean and streak
negro office holders together, la the
Greensboro meeting.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-15

There will be no accessions to the
Republican party in North Carolina until
the Federal Ringsters are forced to step
down and out. Under present Republican
leadership Madison will give Democ-
ratio majority next year. Col. j. c. l..
Harris to Senator Pritchard.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-15

Here is the beginning and the end of
Republican politics in North Carolina:
The Outs want to get in and the 'Ins"
want to stay in.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-15

Mr.. Carnegie is generous. He has in
creased his donation to the Charlotte
Library to $4,000. He promised to give
only $4,000. We congratulate Charlotte.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-15

Jim Young was present at the Green's
bore meeting He was backward in COM
ing forward with the suggestion that all
negro and messy back Radical office
holders resign for the good of the party"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-15

The one great virtue of Burnett's yanil-
la Extract is purity. 1t is real vanilla
extract and nothing but vanilla extract.
Always use Burnett's.
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Spirit of the Press.
ADDITIONAL NAMES FOR PROF
TIGHE

II.
Montgomery Advertiser.
Students in the sixth grade in the pub
lie schools of Asheville, N. c., are re-
quired to-
'Use freely stories from lives of great
men and women-as Washington, Frank
lin, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, John Brown,
Lee, Jackson (StonewalD, Edison, Audu-
bon, Longfellow, Agassiz, Clara Barton
and others
The people of the State are stirred up
over this requirement and nobody can
blame them. The idea that children, es-
pecially in the South, should have The
idea instilled into their minds that a
murderer and outlaw, like John Brown,
should be placed in the same rank with
Washington Lee and the Jacksons is SO
utterly offensive as to be almost gro
tesque. AS the Virginia remarks,
there was no reason for leaving out Car
RE Nation and Emma Goldman. We also
suggest that Captain Kidd and one Bene-
dict Arnold are ignored. The people of
Asheville should use blue pencil on any
school board responsible for such re-
quirements.
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The Iredell Republican announces that
Chief Justice Furches will not be can
didate for recollection. Affirmed. No dis
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-15

Senator Depew's BRIDE o-be is named
May 1t will be December and May.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-15

Don't think that eruption of yours can't
be cured. Take Hoods Sarsaparilla-its
virtue is it's power to cure.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-15

First Vice President & Gen'l Manager
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28
A KITCHEN
GARDEN va
CONDUCTED BY
DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE

her own marketing, and knows a good
thing to eat when she sees it. One
of the most curious plants in the
truck patch is a kind of sedge, which
looks for all the world like the coarse
marsh grass that grows in swampy
places along the seashore. But pull up
a clump of it, and knock the earth
away from the roots. and you will
find attached to the latter a lot of
queer little tubers, each of them about
the size of a hazel nut. These are an
excellent table vegetable, when suita-
bly, prepared, and in Europe the chill
dren are fond of eating them raw, in
which condition they taste somewhat
like cocoanut. Chufa is the name of
the plant, and there is a fair pros
pect that within a few years from now
1t will be widely known in this
try. Another interesting plant, set
out in rows in the truck patch, looks
like a gigantic thistle, but is in reality
the so-called globe artichoke." This
kind of artichoke is largely eaten in
Europe, but is hardly known in this
country outside of Louisiana, where
it is quite extensively cultivated for
the New Orleans market, being highly
appreciated by the Creoles. The plant
is not at all related to the Jerusalem
artichoke, which is in reality a sum
flower. Among other things that are
being tried by the government ex-
perts are Egyptian peanuts, which pro-
dI1an a much 1aroor nnroonfoO n nf Oi1
than our own varieties. Peanut oil
has become a commercial article of
such great Importance that it is well
worth while to do everything possible
in the way of encouraging its produc-
ton in this country. Likewise from
Egypt are several varieties of pump
kins and squashes which are being
grown experimentally, and several va
rieties Of celery, most of them from
southern Europe, are being tested for
their relative merits. Two serious diff
ficulties with which the experts in
charge of the farm have to contend
are sparrows and rats. The sparrows
eat the growing corn and wheat,
which are cultivated in small guam
titles for seed, the object be-
ing to obtain improved varieties by
the process known as plant breeding.
AS for the rats, they are big, gray fell
lows, which come from the shipping
docks in the neighborhood. They de-
vour all sorts of products of the truck
patch and are particularly destructive
to the cowpeas.-New York Herald.
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Greate.t Newspaper crltIo.

Henri De Blowitz, the great critic
and correspondent of the London
Times, who a~pprehends a general war
among the nations Of civilization and
whose opinion finds response in Down
ing street, is probably the greatest of
newspaper writer's in Europe. M. De
Blowitz, although derived from He
brew stock, is a Roman Catholic in
faith and most devout in his practices.
He began his journalistic career as a
contributor to the Gazette de Midi and
to La Decentralization. From July,
1871, begins his association with the
London Times and since he has repre-
scented "The T~hunderer" in Paris.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28

Uncle Sam has a truck patch over
on the Potomac flats, neal Washing
ton, which has been started recently
for the purpose of experimenting with
various plants newly introduced into
this country by the department of
agriculture. 1t covers about % acres,
and just at present a considerable part
of this area is devoted to the cultiva-
ton of a number of valuable kinds of
potherbs, which Secretary Wilson
wishes to add to the list of those al
ready known to American housewives.
Before long supplies of the seeds will
be distributed all over the United
States, and anybody who wants to
raise them will have a chance to do
so. Many is the dish Of soup or stew
to which they will lend fiavors, at
once delicious and novel, for the bene-
fit of every day people. One of these
potherbs is a vine from India, called
in that country "basella," and COM
monty grown on poles, though it does
very well running owe the ground. 1t
has exquisite pinkish blossoms, small
and somewhat resembling those of the
trailing arbutus or may flower, and
these are replaced in due time by cum
ming little fruits that look like tiny
blackberries. 1t is one of the most
delicious Of all potherbs, and a not
able point about this plant is that it
keeps on growing all summer long,
continually producing fresh leaves for
the housewives use. The vine, by the
way, is related to the we'll known
Madeira vine, which is familiar in
houses. Another of the new potherbs
is the so-called New Zealand spinach,
which has been we'll known in Europe
for ever so long. 1t looks not very I'M
like the ordinary table spinach, ano
undoubtedly will be a great ~acquisi-
ton. Then there is a kind of a sor-
rel, with large leaves that nave a rath-
er agreeable sou taste when one bites
a piece. 1t is related to the familiar
American sorrel. but quite a different
plant. OF course, everybody knows
the common okra, which is SO import
ant an ingredient of gumbo soup-that
dish of delightful flavor which origi-
mated in the south. But Uncle Sam
is raising, in the truck patch afore-
said, a European okra which is like
ours much magnifed, having great pods
eight inches in length, and not less
tender by reason of their size. Here
is a novelty that is sure to command
~tt0-tio" f+e1- tAe woman who does
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28
Eating Partridges in Madrid.

We have agreeable memories of per-
dices escabechadas, eaten in cool wine
vaults of the toughest, in torrid Ma
drid. Unlike the kindred French dish,
and Notwithstanding tine name, the
cabbage is not much in evidence. but
the bird is served with a piquant
sauce of vinegar. Those "laigh eel
lars" as the Scotch would call them,
were much patronized by bullfghters
and other eminent members of the Ma.
drid fancy, and the charm of the plat
was that it was an admirable prelude
to emptying copa after copa of cool
Manzanilla.-Saturday Review.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28
Some Irish Bulls.

The Irish bull has of late beer wax
ing fat and kicking, assisted by MIR.
MacNeil, asking why some Rhodes
Chamberlain correspondence which
he was told had never existed, "was
not produced" and the Australian edi-
tor who that anonymous
contributions "can not be returned un-
less a stamped envelope bearing the
name and address of the writer is in
closed" A correspondent of a sport
ing paper says that "Mr. Brown, or
rather his brother, died yesterday"
and a lecturer in Scotland that Gin
Adam himself were implanted heredi-
tary criminal instincts" And a Dub
lin gentleman the other day invited a
friend to dinner by telegram without
signing name or address-'to give him
a surprise. London Chronicle.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28
BOYS Lasso a wheelman.

Small boys of Oak Park are giving
the police much trouble. Led on, it
is said, by reading wild west litera-
ture, they have armed themselves with
small arms and lassos, with which they
are doing much damage among the
song birds and annoying greatly the
citizens with their ropes. Last Satur-
day George Baldwin of Oak Park was
jerked from his bicycle by being las
seed by some boys. He was going at
a rapid rate, and the rope thrown over
his head brought him to the street.
He was injured severely by the fall,
but refused to prosecute the boys be-
aus they were sons of his friends
Chicago Chronicle.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28
Worked Both WAYS.

A little story comes from a seaside
village in Normandy, in England,
where a well known man of letters is
staying in company with a young
writer Of trifes at a somewhat print
tive hotel. One fine morning the for
mer addressed the host as follows:
You would oblige me by making your
charges as low as possible for my
young colleague. He is not a rich
man." The landlord, delighted with
the presence in his house of the man
of renown, promised to have due con-
sideration for the purse of the younger
guest. But a few days afterward the
famous author came to him again,
saying: "By the way. don't let my
bill be bigger than that of my young
friend. 1t would humiliate him. Boys
like that are SO extremely touchy!"
Kansas City Star.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28

For centuries Friday has been re-
garded as the most unlucky day in the
week, but the tendency now is to re-
gard Sunday as the most unfortunate
day. According to a modern statisti-
clan, who has just published an inter
esting pamphlet on the subject, Sun
day is certainly more unlucky than
Friday, SO far as rulers and other
prominent personages are concerned.
The king of Italy, he points out, was
killed on Sunday, and it was on Sun
day that two previous attempts against
his life were made-namely, on Sun
day, March IL, 1878, and on Sunday,
March 25, 1898. Other cases cited by
him are those of the Due de Berry, who
was stabbed to death on Sunday, Feb.
10, 1920; of Gar Alexander H., who
was killed by a bomb on Sunday March
10, 1881; of President Carnot, who was
assassinated by Caserio, on Sunday,
June "a, 1894, and of M. Canovas, who
was killed on a Sunday in 1897.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28
AsHIo in sHRouDs.
Many Women Earn Living by Caterinr
to Corpses' styles. {

Many Women Earn Living by Catering
to Corpses' styles. .
So much time and thought are be-
slowed on the question Of how and
with what shall we clothe the living
that the impression of fashions for
the dead never comes into our heads,
says the New York Herald. Yet there
are many women earning their daily
bread in New York by catering to the
into the bourne where it is commonly
supposed there are no ~dressmakers and
no milliners. All the caIket companies
down in Great Jones street employ
ONE for no other purpose than to
study the tastes of people in the mat
ter of shrouds, and these women will
tell you that grave clothes fashions
are just as tickle as the fashions of
street clothes or party clothes, or in
fact, any other specially designed
style of garment. The prevailing
styles are followed closely. If large
sleeves are in fashion in the clothes of
the living, why, then the shrouds must
be and are made with large sleeves.
If the skirts are stiffened with crino-
line or %haircloth, SO also is the skirt
of the shroud, and recently, when
trains were SO fashionable, there were
few shrouds made that did not have
a long dip in the back. There Is only
one radical difference nowadays be-
tween the up-to-date shroud and the
up-to-date gown, and that is that the
former always opens in the back. To
get rid of old fashioned shrouds is as
difficult a problem among manufactur-
ers and dealers as it is for the mer-
chant to dispose of out-of-date cloth
ing for those living. 1t is next to i'm
possible for them to do it, although
llsuch goods are often marked down to
the proverbial song. Indeed, SO great
is the aversion to an old fashioned
shroud that it is rarely possible to
give n away. People seem to have
an instructive desire to have the last
dress of their departed loved ones
just as up-to-date as it is possible to
make it, irrespective of whether or
not the corpse had been a man or wo-
man addicted to current fashions.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28
DAINTY IN DEATH.

Insects Perform Their Toilet While
Yielding Up Their Lives.
1t has often been noticed that there
are no animals which are more dainty
and fastidious in their personal habits
than insects, the extreme pains which
the common hOuSe1y takes in attend
ing to it's toilet being a good example
of this racial characteristic. The dis
covery has now been made that there
are certain insects which have such a
respect for Mrs. Grundy and are en-
dowed with such an innate love of neat
ness and order hat not even death, or,
rather, decapitation, can prevent them
from making one grand final toilet,
which is clearly designed to give them
a sedate and respectable appearance
after death. DR.. Ballion, a skilled en-
tomologist, has discovered this remark
able fact. During one of my recent
horseback rides" he says, 81 frequent
ly caught one of those large flies which
annoy cattle and horses so much, and
l promptly got rid of it by crushing
its head. One day, instead of throw
ing the mutilated insect away, l placed
it on the back of my hand and indo-
lently watched it. For some seconds
the insect remained m~otionless, but
then, to my unbounded surprise, it
moved it's front legs forward to the
place where the head should have been,
and after it had rubbed them nervous
ly together, apparently in anguish, it
began to brush it's body and to smooth
it's wings with its hind legs. Under
the gentle pressure of these limbs the
body gradually became extended and
the extremity curved, while the wings
gradually changed their natural posi-
ton and left the upper part of the
body exposed. Meanwhile the hind
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28
SAVED HER LIFE.

When the late Alexander Dumas was
contributing a. serial story to a French
journal he received one day a letter
from an unknown correspondent be-
seeching him to allow the consump-
tive heroine of the story in question
to live, and not to pass away; as the
opening chapters seemed to foreshad-
ow. my daughter, who is taking a
very keen interest in the serial"
wrote the gentleman, "fancies herself
possessed of the same malady as your
heroine; and l fear that if the latter
dies my poor child will fall into a
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28
Halifax Citadel Garrison.

Halifax citadel is at present garri-
soned by a volunteer regiment of Can
adam militia. When the Boer war
broke out the Royal Leinster regiment
of the British army was stationed
there. All the available troops were
wanted for service in South Africa, and
as it was impossible to leave the cita-
del without a garrison, the Dominion
government offered to provide a regi-
ment to replace the Leinsters. The OF
fer was accepted by the imperial war
office and volunteers were called for
from the various regiments of Cana
dian militia. and it is the regiment
composed of these volunteers that is
now doing garrison duty at Halifax.
The men were enrolled for a year and
it is hardly likely that any new re-
cruits would be taken on. In any case
if any were required they would in all
probability be selected from the mill
tia. There is no way Of joining the
British army in Canada. If you wish
to join you will have to present your
self in person at some recruiting sta
ton in the old country.
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state of melancholy that may termi-
nate in death" The renowned au-
thor, much touched by the letter, i'm
mediately acknowledged it, saying
that, although he had intended to kill
his heroine, he would certainly alter
his determination in view of the cir
cumstances. The girl in the story ac-
cordingly lived, and the novel ended
happily, though, perhaps, few readers
at the time guessed how it had come
about chat the c~onsumptive young lady
%contrived to get rid of her apparently
deadly malady.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28

Ezary Baird of Fond du Lac, WIS,
and Miss Clara Elmer of Oshkosh made
arrangements to be married at the
home of Mrs. King in the former city
the other evening. When the justice
examined the marriage license he
found the five days limit required by
the instrument had not expired. The
wedding party waited until after the
midnight hour, the Justice returning at
about l o'clock in the morning to tie
the knot.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28
F OF
Differences In the Patrons of These Pub
lie Houses.

lie Houses.
Every goes to them-men, wom-
en-, priests and children. The cafe is
the center of social life. 1t is there
that the policy of the government is
discussed the latest play criticised and
business transacted. At 4 o'clock in
the afternoon it is with difficulty that
a seat can be had in one of these popu<
lar meeting Places for at that hour
every Viennese partakes of his after
noon coffee, which fills the place of
the Englishman's5 o'clock tea. These
cafes are regular reading rooms;
some of them take as many as 500 diff
ferent periodicals, and often fifteen
copies of the same paper-some popuA
lar Austrian OF foreign sheet-are on
file, says the International Magazine.
Let a foreigner enter, and the expert
enced waiter Immediately recognizes
his nationality. If he Is an American,
a New York daily is brought to him;
if a Frenchman, a Paris boulevard
paper is laid before him, and so on.
If a Russian enters, cigarettes are at
OACS " OuuCCO. SdISS dT6 lOE Iu0
Viennese a second home, and they all
have two kinds of clients, the stamm-
CAST, or habitues, and the laufende, or
transients, The habitues, commonly
called wirthaus bruder ("cafe BROTH
ers"), have tables reserved for them,
and woe betide the man who ventures
to take possession of this sacred prop
erty! There are many Viennese who
for the last thirty or forty years have
sat at the same table, in the same cor
ner, day after day, drinking the same
brew of beer or brand OF wine, and
smoking the same scrt of tobacco in
the same old pipes. A 'stammgast gen.
orally spends from three to four hours
every day at his cafe, the natural re-
suit being a great loss of time and
money. But the Viennese are not
miserly. They live up to the German
proverb, which seems to have been
written on purpose for them: "Leben
nd leben lassen" ("Live and let live''l:
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28

A Paris newspaper gives the weight
of certain European sovereigns. In a
football lineup, Dom Carlos of Portu-
gal would be center. His towardness
or valor ought to be guaranteed by his
202 pounds. Ferdinand of Bulgaria.
III pounds, and Oscar of Sweden, one
pound less, seem fitted for guards.
Kaiser Wilhelm's 100 pounds would
give him momentum and force as a
tackle. The car would scarcely make
the team except as quarterback, for
he weighs only 121 pounds. The little
King of Spain, SO pounds. is out of
the question, ave to hold the sweater
of a player or to toss the coin for
choice of position. If monarchy could
tolerate the presence of a president of
a republic for fullback, the head of the
French government, with his 1870
pounds, would naturally be a candidate
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28

The President usually issues his
Thanksgiving day proclamation just
before the November elections. In that
way he saves himself from the shafts
Of the jokers. Were it issued after
election, a Presidents attitude of
thankfulness would be ascribed to his
own party's. victory, if it had achieved
q victory. If defeated he would be ac-
eused Of "whistling to keep his cour-
age up"