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co,or Preferences of Mosquitoes.

Nuttalrs experiments indicate that the
MOSQUITO is attracted by some coiors ana
renelled by others. The experiments were
conducted In large gauze tent, one END OF
which was formed by large windows, into
which the sunlight poured on bright days.
Large stone basins were placed on the
f,oor for the anopheles to breed in. At the
beginning, It was noticed that when a per-
son entered the tent clad in dark gray
clothes the mosquitoes settled on the dark
cloth. but that they never did this when
the person entering was clad In white han-
nels A number Of boxes lined with ciotn
Of various colors were placed In rows on
the floor and It was noticed that the mos
nnitoes would enter the box lined with dark
hlue In great numbers and, IN less num-
hers would enter boxes lined WIN other
colors. In the following order; Dark req.
brown. scarlet, black, slate gray, oive
green. violet, leaf green blue, pearl gray;
Dale green, light blue. ochre, white and
orange No mosquitoes were found IN the
box lined with yellow. As practical appif-
cations Of these experiments 1t Is to be
noted that the khaki uniform should offer
advantages in addition to being invisible to
the human enemy. The number OF insects
be lessened by the choice Of suitable colors
applied to the walls. A trap might be made.
lined with dark blue, in which the insects
would congregate, 30 that they could be
readily destroyed in large numbers. Have
your mosquito bars yellow. The favorite
blue seems to be also the mosquito favor
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Hotel Arrivals,

Normandie-Leo. E. Bennett, Muskogee,
Indian territory; Benz. Martin, W. e. Prai-
nor, Muskogee, I. T.; H. B. Kirkland, Cam
bridge, Mass.
Raleigh-Charles E. Hotchkins, W. N.
Cromwell. Anderson Herd New York; G.
H. Mulford, New Haven; Ramor Pands,
Bolivia: c. H. Bohanon, Chicago; William
]. Scott, Philadelphia; Alfred w. Cody
Westchester. N. Y; H. NJ. Fisher, W. T.
Doyle. Philadelphia; George Wilson, New
York.
Willard-J. j. Pomers, Vicksburg, Miss. !:
Howard Mitchler. Easton, Pa; Raymond
Duncan, Paris; w. c. Hobbs, Indianapolis;
Guy Norman, Newport, r. l.; Aman Pollok
San Francisco; John H. Longstreet, Ger
mantown; Walter r. Gilbert, c. B. Cush-
New York; L. p. Mathews, Cincinnati
Smith D. Atkins, Freeport, ILL.,; A. ]. Hunt
Arkansas City, Kans.; ]. H. Raine At
lanta Ga. ,EA kssl,'
Ebbitt-W. H. Tolman, ]. D. F'razee, New
York; W. NJ. Hremhaels.- Bryn Mawr, Pa. |;
Green Bay; Wts;i I, n, Hibbon. Buffalo;
I. w. Rand, p. J. Williams, United States
army. - h1+'e' 81
Gordon-J. AymarssRev. j. D. Wells. Jas.
Post, New York; N H. Davis and wife.
Cincinnati; Mrs n D. Andrews. Pey-
Metropolitan Kett, M. Morse. A. W.
Rothschild, E.aMs Webster, New York; J.
e. Donaldson, Philadelphia; H g. TYSON.
Cincinnati; Charles Wilson, Cleveland; r.
N. Merrill. Da9bury. Conn; e. A. Stark.
F. B. Morrison. Toledo, Ohio; J. H. Loeser,
Johnson-W. y. ,Fsgin, Cincinnati: J H
Billings Chicago; Geo. e. Berna, York,
Pa; c. NJ Gibbens,r Winchester, va; ]. W.
CAST, Norfolk, Va; p. T. Green, New York
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COnsiderations of Money.

FROM Inc independent.
Such laws as the prohibition to take in
terest for money loaned to one in distress
EXODUS. XIII, "a; Leviticus, XIV, SO; COM
pare Pslams, XIV. D. is protest against
tho business Of money lending as car
ried on in Babylonia, where thousands of
tablets found beneath the mounds reveal
the extent to which this enterprise was de-
veloped in the commercial centers Of the
Euphrates valley. OF course, without
money lending commerce on a large scale
cannot be carried on, but this is exactly
what the Pentateuch aims to avoid The
ideal which It holds up is not commerce,
but agriculture. 1t has no sympathy with
commercial expansion; 1t does not hold out
the hope-nay, 1t distinctly discourages the
prospect OF the people becoming the rivals
Of the Babylonians and Phoeniciaps, the
great merchants Of antiquity. The progeny
of Abraham is to be ''as numerous as the
sands OF the sea-" but nowhere is wealth
held up either as a goal or even a possi-
bility. The picture which the compilers
Of the Pentateuchal codes had In mind was
that Of each man sitting with his family
under the shade Of his fig tree. Every pater
familias was to own the land which he cul-
dvated Country life Is given the prefer
ence over city life. Hence interest Is In
tentionaIy tabooed as an effective blow
against converting the people Into "a COM
merciai nation.
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A steepled Tenement Hou,e.

From the Lewiston Evening JournsI
There is unique tenement house in Gull
ford. Years ago the old Universalist Church
In that place was abandoned as a place OF
worship and 1t fell into the hands Of sew
eral owners who converted It into a large
dwelling house by the alteration simply OF
the interior. Stairways were placed on the
outside. leading to the upstair tenements
but beyond these exterior additions the
church retained all Its former appearances
Of a meeting house." and 10 known local
ly as The Church" The high steeple and
and no usefulness to this rather odd dwellp
ing house, but they continued to occupy
this exalted IL incongruous position until
a week ago. when the carpenters tore down
the steeple, and this old landmark OF "Pious
Hill.' lost. as 1t were. Its piety.
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The Size of Texas.

From Pearson's Magazine.
Texas, the largest state in the Union has
the proportions OF an empire, and It is only
by comparison that one can gain an ade-
quate idea of her size and Of the magnfff-
cent distances between her boundaries. To
say that the area Of the state is 265. $50
square miles conveys little meaning. hut
when one considers that it's width is more
than one-half that Of the southern hor7er
Of the United States; that 1t is larger Than
the whole Of New England, with New York
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia
thrown in; that it is larger than even Ter
many OF France, and that il the whole
population Of the United States was placed
within its borders 1t would be no mora
thickly settled than Is eastern Massachu-
setts today-then one begins to realize the
vastness Of this great southwest ern domain
In travelling across Texas from Texarkana.
on the eastern border to El Paso In the az
treme west. one journeys nearly the dis
passing from the Panhandle District In the
north-a strip Of Texas in which the entire
territory embraced In the New England
states would be lost-to the gulf coast, one
finds almost every variety Of climate and
soil represented In any part Of the country
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Queen Alexandra.
From the London Chronicle.

From the point of view Of the street dec
orator and designer of birthday nlumina-
tions Queen Alexandra has been more for
tunate In her initial letter. The first of the
alphabet is nearly the easiest to devise
The of Queen Victoria was equally sim
pie, and in some of the decorations of the
last day or two the late queens initial
has been merely reversed and a cross-line
added. The same economy was practiced
vice versa when Queen Victoria came after
Queen Adelaide; but that queens unpopu-
larity at the time she was supposed TO
influence the king against the reform bill
OF 1882 kept In check the supply of AS.
indeed, the Queens Theater had TO change
Its name, and the Adelaide omnibuses To
post sheets of paper over "the hated let
ters,"
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Carrier Pigeons.
From the Chicago News.


Carrier pigeons have been put to novel
use by a physician of Rockford, Me- On
one occasion he was called to an island
twenty miles distant to attend patient
who was seriously i'll. To reach this Island
he was obliged to make a dangerous trip.
Before he returned to the mainland he
gave the family of his patient six homing
gers to inform him of the patients condi-
ton. A pigeon was dispatched as. often as
necessary, carrying assurances to the ply
sician of the patients steady progress to-
ward recovery.
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HANGING GARDENS,
Traveller Describes Those He Has
Seen I'm Arabia.

Traveller Describes Those He Has
Seen I'm Arabia.
From the New York Sun.
The hanging gardens Of Babylon, con-
structed over 500 years before the Christian
era, were reckoned at that time among the
wonders Of the world. A hanging garden
Is garden formed in terraces rising one
above another. There were five Of these
gardens at Babylon, each consisting Of an
artificial hill 400 feet square, the sides d.
vided into terraces of earth resting on stone
platforms, covered with groves, avenues
and beds of flowers and provided with gal
leries and banqueting rooms. They were
irrigated from a reservoir at the summit
filed with water raised from the Euphrates.
There are today many hanging gardens in
various parts of the world particularly on
mountain sides in China, water being raised
in buckets, sometimes thousands Of feet, to
irrigate them. Col. S. 3. Miles of the Brit
ish army has just described the hanging
gardens he found on the mountains in the
interior of Arabia about sixty miles south
west of the trading port Of Muscat. Visitors
have to cross a stretch of desert to reach
this beautiful region of verdure amid the
thirst lands.
One of the inland towns IS Sheraizi
perched on the brow of lofty cliff which
falls to the valley beneath. The town is
built on so steep a declivity that the houses
appear 10 oVel nanS one another, the only
communication being by means of steps
leading from one to another row Of build
ings. Just below the town Is a copious
spring of pure water gushing from the rock
in sufficient quantities to meet the require
ments of the Inhabitants and to supply the
channels that fertinze the hanging gardens
below. These extensive gardens, spread
along the precipitous valley walls, are the
most beautiful feature of Sheraizi. The
whole face of the mountain side to a depth
of over 900 feet Is cut into a parallel series
of lodges or terraces. Owing to the SHARP
angle of the slope the Lodges are not over
ten to twelve feet in width. The inhabitants
would be glad Of greater depth Of sodl and
the garden spots have been enriched by a
large amount of fertile earth brought to
them
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would be nothing to the corporation and
In view Of the coming coronation and the
festive purposes to which the hall will be
put in connection with it, is it unreason-
able to hope that this year will be marked
by the much-needed Improvement? The
obstruction to be removed is, it may be OBJ
served, very small as compared with that
which had to be got rid of before West
minister Hall could be brought fully to
view Three weeks work would do what
is needed. The GuildhaH dates from 1411,
but, being greatly damaged In the great
fire, was restored by Wren.
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Army shoe. and Corns.

From the New York Sun.
"If law could be passed." said the
ehiropodist, prohibiting the wearing of any
shoe in this country except the pattern
army shoe worn during our civil war, the
cern Doctors occupation would be gone.
That war was. for the time, the greatest
corn-eradfcator ever known. never knew
single case OF a soldier in that war who
suffered from corns month after he be-
gan wearing his regulation army shoe. and
1 was four years a soldier in 1t myself
That shoe seemed to be made just right for
comfort"
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Arrange. for EARLY Pay Day.

Mr.. c. C. Rogers. the disbursing officer
Of the District. has made arrangements
whereby the school teachers OF the Dis
trict, the members Of the police and fire
departments and the pensioners OF the same,
win receive their salaries the 23d instant for
December, instead OF waiting until the last
of the month, as Is ordinarily the case.
This arrangement fs made in order that the
teachers, the policemen and the firemen
may have funds with which to do their
Christmas shopping.
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Guildhall.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
II IL extraordinary that the citizens OF
London should permit the one historical
building which the corporation possesses
to be crowded up by buildings destitute OF
a particle OF architectural merit or inter-
est. A full view Of London's Guiidhall Is
impossible 30 long az 1t fs obscured by the
ugly and incongruous edif1ce at It's west
end. The cost Of opening out the hall
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AN APPEAL FOR AID.
Local Associations State Necessities OF
the Deserving Poor.

Local Associations State Necessities of
the Deserving Poor.
The finance committees of the Citizens
Relief Association and Associated Chari-
ties, at a. joint meeting held yesterday at
the office of Fitch, Fox & Brown, decided
to issue an earnest appeal to the public
for aid to meet the present large demands
| upon the treasury. It is hoped that imme-
diate response will be madesto the appeal
for the suffering poor:
The finance comI Inittee of the Citizens
Relief Association consists Of James e.
Fitch, John Joy Edison, Gen. Sternberg,
Col. George TrAesdell and Rudolph Kauff-
mann, and of the Associated Charities
comprising Col. Archibald Hopkins, F. L.
Moore, s. w. Woodward, Thomas W.
Smith and Col. H. F. Blount.
The following contributions. in addition
to those heretofore acknowledged, havebeen
received by Mr. Beriah Wilkins, treasurer
Of the Citizens Relief Association:
James H. Hopkins. ns....................... 5000
Mrs. Gardiner G. Hubbard. 5000
James e. Fitch ...............-...-.... 25W
Charles j. Bell. ......................... 1000
George w. Brown. n....................... 1000
Claudius B. Jewell. eH...................... 1890
The following contributions were received
by Mr.. John Joy Edison, treasurer Of the
Associated Charities:
Woodbury. Lowery. 5000
Judge A. B. Hagner. $500
Woodward & Lothrop. op................. 10000
W. J. Boardman. an...................... 5000
Judge Walter S. Cox. ox.................. 5000
Francis E. eupp...................... 1000
Mrs. Charles E. Blunt. ................ 500
Mrs. B. Lamberton. Observation-Disclosures. 500
Mrs. Julia Closson. 500
Miss Julia D. Strong. g.................. 800
Miss Mary Strong. g..................... 500
Bernard R. Green.... 1900
A. and G.......................... 1000
Eugene Stevens. s......................... 5000
DR.. and Mrs. Mackay Smith. ........ 10000
Mrs. NJ. c. Buckingham. 5000
John Joy Edison. Observation-Disclosures. 10000
NJ. Goldenberg. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 500
! c. A. Snow. ............................. 1000
w. NJ. Gait & Observation-Disclosures. 2O.00
Mrs. e. T. Ward. ard........................ 800
Mrs. NJ e. Hood. INSTRUMENTATION. SEQ
Total. ........................... $1,000
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Club Election,

At the last regular meeting Of the Gale
donia Club the following officers were elect
ed for the term Of one year. ending De-
cember 81. 1902: DIR. F. Miller, chief;
James Cassells. vice chief; william Jardin.
treasurer: John 3. Smith, recording secre-i
tary: David Black, financial secretary;
John T. Duncan. corresponding secretary;
Robert Gordon, librarian.
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Ladrones.

LadrOnes.
From the Manila American.
The iadrones die slowly. but they are GO
ing just the same.
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Regular $3.50 quality hand-welt Box
Calf and Surpass Kid. ex- G n me-
tension Sole shoes-Boys' % Ii W.
or GirlS'-at. W
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ChiIdren's best quality MR~
feece-lined Rubber Boots.-An VSG
Sizes up to 2.-Tomorrow 49,.
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Excellent 50 grades yici Kid and Box
Giris-a fIi Styles for Boys 5 L AS
Tomorrow w....-.........
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Solid, serviceable, shapely Kid and Calf
Laced and Button Shoes for
Girls and Boys.-Sizes up to OVC.
Z--s..--.. -...-.......---..
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Warm Jersey Leggins. - All Sizes for
Girls and Little Soldiers -0~
75e Legsins for Boys tomor- s0WCo
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Childreul's.

Best known make of Reliable Rubber
Overshoes. All Sizes for ~
Misses and Children tomor- ZSC.
row.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-07
A SAVAGE REPLY
FROM MaclAURlN
(Bv the Associated Press.)

Columbia, S. c., August 6.-The State
Democratic Executive Committee today
read Senator McLaurin's reply to their
action of July 25th, condemning his course
in the Senate and demanding his resig-
nation. In the course cf the letter Sena-
tor McLaurin writes:
s'I hold nv commission from the Demo-
cratic voters of South Carolina, | recog-
nize no authority but theirs, take no or
ders from any source but them and shall,
in due course appeal TO them for judgment
on my course as a Senator, and my char
acter as a man and Democrat.
PERSONALLY. l am Indifferent to your
action because nobody has made you my
master or censor, and | regard what YOU
have done as merely exI ressing the NAL ce
and the fears of one individual, Senator
r r. Tillman But for this always evil
and indecent influence, ordinary respect
for the proprieties would probably have
prevented the four of you who are my de-
clared competitors for the seat | now
have the honor to occupy, from attempting
m use the pcwer entrusted to you by
vour marty TO remove a rival from youI
path.
oI shall ask the people to decide be-
tween the man who has tried to help cot
ron factories. open highways of COM
merce and to so command the Democratic
marty a s to command for it the confidence
and respect of the business and laboring
elements North and South and of the
man whose conduct and record has been
TO sink the party to disrepute and i'm
potence. I shall ask them to say whether
they prefer the Senator who has tried to
retain for South Carolina the honor and
dignity won by long line of illustrious
sons nd glorious deeds or the Senator
who has porsured as buffoon and bully
and who proclaimed on the floor of the
Senate that he represented a constituent
cy of ballot box suffers and murderers
who wanted their share of the stealage.
81 desire to proclaim to the world that
YOU do not represent the intelligence.
the Democracy of the people of South
Carolina. and to you and Senator Till
man that he has never been my master
and shall never be; that he shall not es-
cape the vengeance that must curely fall
upon him when the peope have been
made to understand his motives, his
methods. his debased character and his
shameful record. To that grand conser-
vator of free government, the reserved
patriotism and common sense of the peo-
pie, / make appeal, against partisan in
tolerance and tyranny"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-07
SIX HOURS IN A TREE
A Roaring Torrent Beneath,
a Pelting Rain Above
Or. Davis and His Driver Attempting TO Cross a
Swollen Creek at Night, Narrowly
Escape Drowning.
Especial to News and Observer)

Charlotte, n. c., August G.-Dr. II. c..
Davis, of Paw Greek. this county, had q
thrilling experience last night. He was
returning home from a visit to a very
sick patient. His road led across creek
that proved to be very much swollen.
When the doctor and his driver attempted
to cross, the buggy and horse floated
down the stream.
As it was very dark and the rain falling
fast, neither the doctor nor his driver
could get out of the stream for some time.
Finally, they both managed to grab a
floating branch and pulled themselves into
a tree Not knowing where they We're,
the two were compelled to remain in the
tree top until 4 o'clock this morning.
The accident occurred at ten O'Clock,
making six hours of weary waiting, ex-
posed to the fury of the storm. Both DR..
Davis and his driver We're badly worsted
by the exposure.
The horse and buggy were found this
morning some distance from where the
two men spent the night in the top of the
tree.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-07
THE FIRE AT LOUIsBURG.
The Damage to Opera House Not More Than
One Thousand

Especial to the News and Observer
Lousburg, N. c., August 6.-At about
O'Clock yesterday afternoon it was dis
covered that there was fire under the
roof of the opera house. On account of
the high pitch of the upper story and the
fact that the building is three stories. it
was difficult to reach, and for quite a
while it seemed that the building would
be consumed, Notwithstanding all the eff
forts that were made to extinguish it.
There was a restaurant in the base
ment of the building, and it is thought
that the fire began by reason of a defect
in the fues from this restaurant.
Mrs. A. NJ Halls racket store and the
clothing store of Strickland e. Whelless
were in the ground floor. All of the
stocks in the building were removed but
as there was heavy rain falling at the
time they were very much damaged, The
loss on the tocks is covered by insur-
ance. The town owned the opera house.
The roof of this was almost entirely
ruined in the efforts to reach the fire.
The loss is perhaps $1,000, on which
there was no insurance. The lower part
of the building belonged to Cooke & Ford
and was insured for part of its value.
Their loss will not exceed $25. The in
surance was in the Home, of New York,
Continental, Lancashire, and Hamburg
Bremen companies.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-07
TO KILL NEW ELECTION Law.
Maryland Republicans Promise This if Put in
Control of the Legislature
(By the Associated Press.


Baltimore, Nd, August 6.--The Repub-
lican State convention, held here today,
placed in nomination the following ticket:
For State Comptroller, Herman S.
Platt, of Baltimore city
For Clerk of the Court of Appeals,
Thomas Parran. of Calvert county.
Both nomination were made by accla-
nation, no other names coming before
the convention. Interest, therefore, Gen.
tered mainly in the platform and the
speeches, all of which teemed with de-
nunciation Of Democracy in general, and
former United States Senator German in
particular. The white supremacy" is
sue raised by the Democrats in the plat
form adopted by them in last week S
convention is ignored in that upon which
The Republican candidates will stand, but
1t came in for it's share of unfavorabe
mention in the speeches. Phillips Lee
S. GoldsbOrough chairman of the Republic
can State committee, stated clearly the
course to be pursued by his party in the
coming fight with regard to this issue in
his opening address to the convention
ITO the cry that this is a white mans
State" said he, 1--WE say the negro bogey
will scare no man. 1t is disgusting but
humorous; it is a sham and fraud; it is
without force. The suggestion that more
than so per cent Of the white population
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-07
Gen Carr's Liberal Offer.

The Washington Gazette notes the re-
turn TO that city for a visit of Jesse d..
PurseE, : an old Confederate soldier, a
member Of Captain Trips company, of
Beaufort county. Mr. Purser was in the
old soldiers home here and was the only
one from Beaufort. He will remain in
Washington till the old buildings are re-
palced with the new ones being erected.
He tells of the generous offer of General
Julian S. Carr to provide home on one
Of his farms for any OF the old soldiers
while the new buildings were going up.
This offer is in keeping with the whole
souled spirit shown by General Carr
towards Confederate veterans.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-07
JUDGE PRICE Is DEAD.
When Buchanan Ordered Sumter Reinforced
Price Threw Up His Office.
(By the Associated Press }

Chicago, Ills, August 6.-Judge Will
liam Cecil Price, U. S. Treasurer under
President Buchanan, died here today
at the home Of his son-in-law, William
S. Newberry, aged Sc.
Judge Price settled in Springfield
Mo-, in the early 30s He became
prominent in the ranks of the Demo-
cratic party and when Buchanan was
elected he was chosen United States
Treasurer. When Buchanan ordered
Major Anderson to reinforce Fort Sum
ter Judge Price resigned his office in
anger
He was with General Price at the bat
tie of Pea Ridge, and was captured by
the Federal forces and confined in the
prison at Alton, Ills, until September
1862, when he was exchanged
Judge Price has been in i'll health for
some time owing to his advanced age
and the end was not unexpected. The
body will be taken to Madison, Wis,
for interment Thursday.