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The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09
A Bonrding-House 2.7es Years old.

is the ''motl1' of the story of 'The Proph- cts Chamber" in the Four-Track News for May. This little story will prove in tensely interesting to every farmer, and particularly to every farmer wife, in New York and New England. The Four-Track News will be mailed free to any address in the United States on receipt of cents in stamps, or 1t will be mailed for year for 50 cents, by Geo II. Daniels, General Pas senger Agent, Grand Central Station, New York
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09
Mission Houses Destroyed.

Abilene, Kas., May 6.--A eablegram from Calcutta, India, says all the mis- sion houses occupied by the Kansas there were destroyed by last weeks storm. The Kansans es- paDpd
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09
A Kansas Obituary.

tice: "He was born May B 1875. and there fore escaped this earth in time to celebrate his twenty-seventh birthday in the house Of his eternal abode beyond the arching skies, leaving terrestrial land on Friday, March 10. 1902. at 9:30 D m, central time. :" Oklahoma State Capital
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09
Might Say Something Else.

Mrs. Wederly-You had better say grace again, my dear.
 Wederly-Why repeat it?
 "In order to give the soup a chance to cool."-Chieago Daily News.
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09

A girl may laugh at mans jokes, but after she marries him she discovers that her sense of hHmor Is badly in need of moisture, and needs digging around the roots.-Atchison Globe.
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09

Fits Permanently Cured. No fits after first days use of Dr. kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Free g o0 trial bottle Dr. R, H. Kline, Ltd, 93l Arch St, Philadelphia, Pa
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09
Ask To-Dny for Auen,. Toot.Ea.e.
There Comes a Change

It cures swollen, aching, tired feet At all Druggists and Shoe stores. 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address A. $ Olmsted. Le Roy, N Y.
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09

T saw the kaiser in Germany You know l visited all the continental courts And paid fines in most G. them, l hear"-Lon- don Answers
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09
Russian Town Half Burned.

St. Petersburg, May 6.--Half of the town of BobiuislS, in the province of Minsk. has been destroyed by fire.
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09

Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat ana lungs.-Wm. o. Endsley, Vanburen. Ind. Feb 10. 1900.
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09

There is fa2 more eloquence in silence than there is in some long-winded speeches. Chicago Daily News
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09

Don't mix the cream of your charity with the pickles of your pessimlsm. - Rams Horn.
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09

PUTNAM FADEIESS DYES do not stain the hands 1l spot the kettle tex eept green and purple.)
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09

To Cure Il Cold in One Day Take Laxative Promo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund moneyifit fails to cure. 25c.
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09

Paradoxica though it may seem, it is hard to touch close man.-Chicago Daily News.
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09
COMDIete Treatment S1

Complete external and internal treatment for every humour, consisting of CUTIcURA SOAP, 25c., to cleanse the skin of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cut icle; CUrIcURA OINTMENT, 50c., to in- stantly allay itching, inflammation, and irritation, and soothe and heal and CUTI- cURA REsoLvKNT PILLS, 25c., to cool and cleanse the blood. A SINGLE SET is often sufficient to cure the most torturing, dis figuring, itching, burning, and scaly skin, scalp, and blood humours, eczemas, ,rashes, and irritations, with loss of hair, from infancy to age, when all else fails.
 CUrIcuaA REMEDIES sold throughout the world. Bri.ish Depot, 2S Chartsrhouse sq London French Depot, Rue de la Paix, Paris POTTER DsUo CHxx CoRr. Sole Props, Boston. U. s. A.
The Monticellonian., 1902-05-09

NHRS. COL. E. J. GRESHAM, Treas WI urer Daughters of the Confeder- All aey, and President Herndon Will aage Improvement Society. writes the Following letter from Hernden, Fair tax county, Virginia:
 Herndon. Va. The Peruna Medicine Co.,, Columbus, O.: Gentiemen-''i cannot speak too highly of the value of Peruna. I believe that owe my life Q it's wonderful mer- Its. I suffered with catarrh of the head and 1unos in its worst fcrrn. nm
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
Testers Cotton Statement.
(By the Associated Press

New Orleans, Dec. 5.-Secretary Hes
ters statement of the worlds visible
supply of cotton shows the total visible
to be 3,463,243, against 1887, $50 last week,
and S,634,769 last year. Of this the total
of American cotton is 2,942,2 43, against
2,S1S.0S0 last week and 3,171,767 last year,
and of all other kinds, including Egypt.
Brazil, India, etc, 521, 900, against 49,
600 last week and 461, 900 last year.
OF the worlds visible supply of cotton
as above. there is now afioat and held
in Great Britain and continental Europe
100000, against 100000 last year; in
Egypt 10000, against 1885, 900 last year: in
India 145, 900, against $4,000 last year, and
in the United States 1,649 900, against L.
$4,000 last year.
Secretary Hester's New Orleans cotton
statement, issued today. shows for the
five days of December an increase over
last year of 1000. a decrease under the
same period year before last of 5000.
For the 96 days of the season that have
elapsed, the aggregate is ahead of the SO
days of last year 255,O0 ahead OF the
same days year before last of 275,000
The movement since September 1 shows
receipts at all United States ports, g.
$4,000 bales, against 3,673(454 last year;
overland across the Mississippi, Ohio
and Potomac river to Northern mills and
Canada, 401 ,662 bales. against 445, 4S5 last
year IXnterior stocks in excess of those
held at the close of the commercial year,
47S,S63 bales, against 479, 1913 last year:
Southern mill taking $3.50 bales,
against 5S1, 16S last year.
The total movement for the Sc days
from September 1 to date has been S.,
434,105 bales, against 5,179,300 last year,
and 5,15S,601 year before last.
Foreign exports for the week have been
215,169 bales, against 272,1 last year,
making the total thus far for the season
1904 1884 bales, against 2, 707,526 last year.
The total takings of American mills,
North and South and Canada thus far
for the season have been 1.417. 555 bales,
against 1,370033 last year
Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty
nine leading Southern interior towns
have increased during the week 61,9S6
bales, against an increase during the cor
responding period last season 55,761.
Including stocks left over at ports and
interior towns from the last crop and
the number of bales brought into sight
thus far for the new crop the supply to
date is 5,649179 bales, against 5,53S,9S7
for the same period last year.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
Sobriety.

We should seek to form in early life
habits the most conducive to usefulness
and most preservative of our energies and
life. For habits control man, whether
they are good or bad. They soon become
his master, guiding him in safe lines
OF conduct, if they are good, or plunging
him into pitfalls and ruin, If they are
bad and they rob him of the power OF
reformation, if they are bad; or they
soon, when vicious take away all his
strength to do right. Take for example
the case of a drunkard Naturally he
may be as quick of mind, and healthy
as any ordinary man-may be a bright
man OF fair promise. But he indulges
in the habit of strong drink until his in
tellect is weakened, his courage all gone,
his self-respect sacrificed, and he feels
that he is banished from the company
Of the respectable. He sinks down into
the dark ways OF such as never aim to
do we'll.
He does not take care of his money.
He is perhaps gambler, and his money
is thrown away in the grogshop, or on
lewd women his family is disgraced
and his conscience is never at peace. He
feels that he is a failure and misery
haunts his steps. He never expects to
do any better, but is tied hand and foot,
body and soul by the dreadful tyrant OF
drunkenness. What wretch, what 4
failure! she+
What shall I say of so many grog-
shops, so many opportunities and ways
of encouraging drunkenness in this coun-
try? SO many bar-rooms could not thrive
If there were not so many of our old men
and our young men sacrificing their money
on these vile affairs. 1t is shame to
our people and country that such things
exist here.
Why do our people submit to such an
outrage, such a prostitution Of ourselves
Every young man and every old man
ought to be sober. If you will all be
sober that will dry up the grog-shop
business.
Men, why not think, ponder, face this
matter? Ask yourself the question, Why
should I be drunkard? Why should 1
not be a sober man as any one? Why
should not 1 think as much of myself,
of good principle, of righteous living as
any one? p ID. GOLD
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
Lies About Missionaries.

(Francis H. Nichols in the December
Atlantic)
With the hackneyed objections to mis-
sionaries l have nothing to do; they are
as cruel and unjust as they are untruth-
full All of the socalled footing, Tor
which Pekin missionaries have been de-
nounced by men on this side of the
world, never enriched an individual mis-
sionary or his mission by so much as a
single tael. When Officers and gentle
men," legations attaches, soldiers, sail
ors and foreign merchants were plumber
ing and helping themselves to every
thing on which they could lay their
hands during the chaotic days That fol-
lowed the fall of Pekin, it is really sur
prising that a few missionaries ala not
loot" more as the only means or pro-
yiding food for the hundreds or starving
converts dependent upon them. Equally
outrageous is the charge that mission
aries are as a rule men of little educa-
ton and of less than average ability,
who are enabled by their calling TO i've
in China amid a luxury OF surroundings
that would be impossible for them in
any occupation at home. In Wretched
little Chinese houses in the towns OF
Shansi and Shensi that are visited by
shout one white man in every two years,
l have had the honor of dining with mis-
sionaries who were graduates OF uni
yersities, who could have hlled any pull
pit or who could have graced any as
semblage in New York or London.
OF all the missionaries with whom /
came in contact in the interior, did not
find one who was not both brave and
honorable, or who would not willingly
have given his life in the cause OF the
Christianity in which he believed. the
faults of missionaries are all OF the head,
not of the heart
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
Randolph Superior Court.
Especial 20 News and Observer

Especial 20 News and Observer.)
Asheboro n. c., Dec 5.-Randolph Su-
perior court is still in session. Several
submissions have been taken in mis-
demeanors, one man being sent to the
county roads for four months.
Shube Morris. charged with killing one
Parker, was discharged. The case of
Oscar Williams for the murder of Routh
was continued until next court. The Grim
inal docket is closed except two cases
against Richard FARRELL, for larceny,
which are held open for witnesses. The
civil docket was taken up yesterday af-
ternoon and while the calendar embraces
Thursday of next week, the term will
probably close tomorrow. Rain and mud
in abundance make it disagreeable for
suitors and witnesses.
Dr. William Edwin Hall, of New York
city, lectured in the academy last night.
The lecture was good, but rain caused the
audience to be small
The new county officers have acquitted
themselves like experienced men in the
conduct of court matters.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
BARRETT TO BE NAMED.
TO the Vacancy Caused by the Death Of Minis
ter Buck
(By the Associated Press.O

(By the Associated Press.)
Washington. Dec 5.-When the Presl-
dent comes to take up the question OF
the succession to the vacancy caused by
the death of Minister Buck. at Toxic, 1t
is understood that he will name John
Barrett of Oregon. at present commits
sioner general of the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton to Asia and Australia, to be min
lister.
Mr.. Barrett now is somewhere in the
neighborhood of the Straits settlements.
He has been working to secure good
Asiatic representation at the st. Louis
Exposition, and his efforts have been at
tended with success. for he has induced
both China and Japan to embark upon
large governmental exhibits when they
had decided not to be represented in that
way He is now bound for Australia,
where it is his hope to change the mind
of the premiers in Australia and New
Zealand, and cause them to reconsider
their purpose to allow the exposition to
go on without exhibits from their COL
onieS.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
COL. F. w. FOSTER DEAD.
a. Valuable Citizen Identified with the Indus
trial Life of Wilmington.

Especial to the News and Observer
Wilmington, n. c., Dec. 5.-Col F. w.
Foster aged 63, we'll known citizen of
Wilmington and president of the Gore &
Foster planning mill, sash, door and blind
company, of this city and Castle Haynes.
died here this Afternoon of cirrhosis of
the liver.
He was born in Canton, Pa, and was
prominent in Republican politics for a
long time until few years ago when
he renowned the faith and became a
Democrat. He served two terms in the
Legislature from Bladen county just
after the war, and had at different times
been a member of the board Of aldermen
of Wilmington and chairman of the New
Hanover board of county commissioners.
He was noted for his generous spirit and
keen business management.
AS he passed away his attorney here
was reading in his office this afternoon
the copy of favorable decision in a big
suit by which it was sought to throw
Col. Fosters company into the hands of a
receiver.
The funeral will be conducted from the
late residence at 3 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
CaARGE AGAINST PHYSICIAN.
Graud Jury Reports That he Neglects Inmates
Of the County Home.
(sneciaI to News ana Observer

Especial to News and Observer.)
Charlotte, n. c., Dec. 5.-The grand
jury of the Superior court, in making it's
report to Judge Coble today, charged
that the inmates of the county home
We're suffering from want of medical at
tention, and further charged that the
county physician was neglecting his
duty.
At the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Lockhart Cotton Mills at
Spartanburg today it was decided to in
crease the capital stock to million dol
lars for the purpose of building an addi-
tional mill.
From burns, received this morning from
a red hot wood heater, Dewey Lee Core,
the little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Core, died this afternoon in great agony
The little one was playing alone in her
mothers room when her dress ignited
and she ran screaming into the hallway
with her clothes ablaze. Medical atten-
ton relieved the little sufferer and death
came at three o'clock.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
he LAUGHED AND DIED.
Terrible suddenness of Minister Bucks Death
Funeral set for Sunday.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press)
Yokohama, Dec. 5.-Paralysis of the
heart caused the death of Minister AL
fred E. Buck, which occurred yesterday.
The end was tragically sudden.
Mr.. Buck was the guest of the EN-
peror in a duck hunt on the Shinhama
preserves. A bird had been Melted and
the minister. with a jocular remark
started to reset the net. Suddenly he
fell and without word or groan, ex-
pired instantaneously. He had suffered
from a weak heart for some time.
Mrs Buck was not with the party.
Mr.. Buck was held in high esteem IN
Japan and the flags on government build
ings have beer placed at halfmast. che
funeral has been set for Monday next.
Secretary ]. M. Ferguson is in charge
of the legation.
Washington, Dec. ga few details cf
the untimely death of Minister Buck are
furnished in the following cablegram, re-
ceived at the State Department today
from Mr. Ferguson, the United States
Charge:
'Tokio, Dec. 5.
minister Bucks death was caused by
paralysis of the heart. 1t occurred on
an Imperial hunting preserve near Toxic.
The funeral takes place here on the 18th
and full official honors will be extended
by the Japanese government as in the case
of Minister Swift. The widow will prob
ably leave Yokohama on the oath with
the body for burial at Arlington. re-
spectfully recommend that the military
attache be granted authority by tele-
graph to accompany the remains TO
Washington and to return as soon as
possible to his post.
No action has been taken on the last
request.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
MORTGAGE SALE OF LAND.

BY virtue of mortgage executed by L
W. Jones and L. B. Jones, his
wife, bearing date November list
1887, and recorded in the Regis
ter's office of Wake county, N. c., in
book 176, page 81, November 21st, 1902
will on Monday, December Goth. 1902
at the Court House door, in the city OF
Raleigh, at II o'clock M, sell to the
highest bidder for cash, the lands therein
described, adjoining the lands Of d. A
Ray, L. f. Harrison and others, con-
tanning twenty acres known as the
Nancy Sykes place, and the land in
herited by said l. w. Jones from his
father, l. B. Jones.
JOHN M. CRENSHAW, Mortgage.
Wake Forest, N. c., Nov. 26th, 1902.
n-2S-1 mo.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
Race of the Postmasters.
Especial to News and observer.)

(SpoCldl u NEWS anu OpSSl NClo
Washington n. c., Dec. 5.-As the
Coast Line train pulled out yesterday
morning, a tall man rushed breathlessly
up and tossed his dress suit case on the
end of the moving car and scrambled
aboard. This was John B. Respass, Jr.,
assistant postmaster here, and on the
same car was George E. Buchanan. an
aspirant for postmaster.
Buchanan made up his mind Wednesday
to leave, but Respass did not learn this.
A friend went to Respass' home at day
break Thursday and said that Buchanan
was going north for the office.
Me too said Respass. and he cram
med some clothes in his dress suit case.
The train carried them both away. 1t
is thought Respass will get the place.
Meanwhile Washington watches interest
eddy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
THE MOST PRACTICAL SOLUTION

Referring to the News and Observers
temperance legislative policy, one of the
first meI in the Piedmont section, says:
''Your timely and telling editorial in Sun
days News and Observer contains the
wisest and most practical solution of the
liquor problem / have ever seen any
where. 1 heartily endorse every line
and letter of it."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
The Walter L. Main Suit.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Durham, N. c., Dec. 5.-Another move
has been taken in the suit between the
Seaboard Air Line road and the Walter
L. Main circus, the circus people having
given bond in the sum of $1,000 and taken
charge of the horses that were attached
by the sheriff the day that Mains circus
was in the city. The horses have been
shipped to Ohio, where the circus is in
winter quarters.
The case will now be fought out on its
merits before the courts of the State.
Durham is now North Carolina head
quarters for the American Cigar Com
pany, which has capital of $4,000, 900.
Mr.. f. L. Fuller is the States represen-
tative of the company.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06

We observe that, in order to get Sam
Nick's scalp. Senator Pritchard has prom
Used Roosevelt the electoral vote of North
Carolina in 1894, and agreed to dis
reimbursement of most Southern States in
the National conventions. Il never let
a few promises stand between me and
an election" was the jocular comment OF
famous North Carolina statesman be-
fore the war.--Rhamkatte Rooster.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
Spirit of the Press.
PROSPERITY.

PROSPERITY.
Chicago Record Herald.
last May,
The said increase amounting to 80 cents
day.
Since then they've raised the prices
OF carrots and of beets,
OF flour and of meats,
OF corn and coal and fruits,
OF babies little boots,
OF potatoes, milk and cheese,
OF the product of the bees,
OF hats and socks and coats,
OF all that sinks or floats.
He's paying out the money that he saved
before his raise,
But prosperity's upon us, and his heart
is full Of praise.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
An Excelsior Mill at Bryson City.
fsnecial to News and Observer

Asheville, N. c., Dec 5.-Another new
lumber industry for this section is the
Excelsior Factory The new enterprise.
the only one of its kind in this section,
is owned by the Dickson Lumber Com
pany, and located at Bryson City. 1t has
a capacity of five tons daily.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
WHY We HAD TO PAY $4,000

The truth about the Pennsylvania coal
mines is coming out at last and It af-
fords food for thought, to say the least.
A fireman has testified before the An
thracite Strike Commission that he re-
ceived $1.57 for a day of twelve hours,
and his assistant SIPS. On every other
Sunday when he and his assistant shifted
from day to night work, they were COM
stretch without relief. They were off
duty one day every two weeks. thus
working six days one week and eight
days the following week.
One of the commissioners asked the
witness what would happen if he should
fall asleep during the long shift of
twenty-four hours.
WELL" replied the fireman, eff 1 slept
long enough the fans would stop, gas
would accumulate in the mines, and if an
explosion took place some men might be
zkilled; that ALL"
Here is a state of affairs to contem-
b1ate for minute.
What the coal strike has cost the peo-
pie of this country cannot be estimated,
and perhaps it is we'll that it cannot:
t i. veil tle peace and harmony
,1 the country We now that it has
alrectly COSTA the tay-r ayers the round
sum ID g55, ooo, fer Ger gress has just
passed q bin appror ing that amount
to pay the expenses of the Anthracite
Strike Commission.
And why all this trouble and expense
to the whole country? Just because
handful OF coal mine owners refused to
make a few concessions to make life
more bearable to men who work seven
days week. twelve hours a day. and
at. times twenty-four hours without rest
at $1.57 and $125 day, and that too,
placing in hazard the lives of many
others Of their fellow-workmen, as testi-
fed by the fireman quoted above Think
if it: that fireman worked for little
over IS cents an hour?
Rev. James V. Hussie. pastor of st.
Gabriel's Roman Catholic church, Halle
ton, man with nothing to gain or lose,
and therefore without fear or favor.
testified that the conditions in that re-
gion were deplorable, that the mine
workers were barely able to exist, that
their homes were merely habitations, but
that they were God-fearing. frugal,
conservative and reasonable people.
Families could not be kept together. the
boys being sent into the mines almost
as soon as ''they are able to toddle
out and the girls sent to mills or al
lowed to drift into the large cities, worst
thought of all. The examples of poverty
cited We're simply awful.
Such were the conditions from which
the miners sought a small measure of
relief. which was not granted by the
mine owners, and thereby all this trou-
BILE and expense to the whole country.
Think of it; if the handful of rich, in
fluential mine-owners had been willing
" "o ii0'io piI aSheu VI Ihem " aiie-
viate the sufTerings of the thousands of
miners employed by them who contribute
to their riches and their influence. the
taxpayers of this country would have
beer saved $4,000, to say nothing of the
losses caused by the scarcity of coal and
the consequent high prices that have
obtained.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-06
a MORNING TONIC.
(Bacon.)

: If one easily pardons and RENTS
offenses, it shows that his mind is plant
ed above injuries, so that he cannot be
reached.