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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11

beyond fifty years of age. We baptized
gray-headed men and prattling babes in
arms. We sat together at the Lord s
table and we sang Jesus Lover of My
Soul
First of all came the professed con-
version of the leading merchant in the
village, my familiar friend and a man
who had not failed me in all those stormy
months. He, his wife and daughter were
received into the church ON profession of
faith"
There was the saving of young ply
stefan from drink and his happy restor-
alton to his family.
The chief peddler of liquor came for
ward to confess his sins
An old moonshiner, sixty-five years of
age, made a profession of religion and
was received into the church.
One of those who bonded himself to
the government that the distillieries
might operate, brother to the distiller
who fled to the West, requested prayer
for himself. He entertained the preach
er at his home and furnished a buggy
for his transportation to and from the
meeting.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11
DEATH OF W. Il. c0NKLIN.
He Claimed to be Confederate Veteran and
Had Been Asking Help.

An old man who has for a month past
been on the streets asking for assist
ance, was found early yesterday morning
Mrs Parsons, corner of Wilmington and
Hargett street. w. H. Conklin was the
old mans NAME and he was Sc years
old. In the statement he handed to per-
sons when asking for assistance he said
he was a Confederate soldier, but had
bad luck, and merely wanted a little
money to pay his fare to Grayson Vir-
ginia, where he said his home was. He
applied for admission to the Soldiers
Home here through Mr.. d. H. Hill,
claiming he had been in General Hills
command. There being no proof that he
was an old soldier, however. admission
was denied him.
He said that he had a wife living in
Virginia, and that he had two daughters
in Mt. Airy, N. c., one of whom was
named martha. The other, he said, was
married. telegram was sent to Miss
Martha Conklin, notifying her of Mr..
Conklin's death. Two letters were found
in the pockets of the deceased one evil
IDENTIFY from a daughter, but neither one
was signed.
The body was turned over to Mr.. G.. A.
Strickland, on Wilmington street, who
embalmed the remains, and will keep
them out for several days. If nothing
is heard from the relatives, the body will
be buried at the citys expense. Heart
failure was given as the cause of death.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWSPAPER MAN.
Mr.. August Kohn, of the Charleston News and
Courier Visitor to Raleigh.

Mr.. August Kohn, of Columbia, S. c.,
was visitor to Raleigh yesterday. Mr.
Kohn is on the staff of the Charleston
News and Courier with which paper he
has been connected for many years. He
is oe of the bright newspaper men of the
Palmetto State, and his special work as
the representative Of the News and
Courier in Columbia during the legisla-
tive sessions is always readable. Mr..
Kohn left here for Washington in the
afternoon, not forgetting, however, to
say before he left, that delightful visit
was in store for all North Carolinians
who landed in Charleston during the
great exposition, which is now going on.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11
BREESE ON THE STAND
Dickerson Has Asked For a
Cha nge of Venue.
I is Believed This Will b. Granted. Freight in
Smash Up at Alexander. No One
Hurt
Especial TO the News and Observer.)

| Especial 10 the News and Observer)
Asheville, N. c., March 10.-Today's
proceedings in the Breese- Dickerson trial
opened with testimony by Director and
Vice President r. r. Rawls. With this
testimony the Government closed it's
case.
Judge C. A. Moore then proceeded with
the defense. In his address to the jury
he said that he intended to show that
the defendant did not do the things
charged, or if he did, not with wrong
full intent, as stated in the i'll of indict-
ment, to injure the First National Bank
He said the defendant was a self-made
man, of good character, an eX-Confed-
crate soldier He invested his earnings
ten thousand dollars, in the First Ma
tional Bank and friends in Charleston
took stoc kto the extent of ninety thou
sand dollars. Forty thousand dollars
were lent to Penland and family to in
vest in real estate. The defendant was
allowed to improve the property in the
same way. This was known to every Of
ficer in the bank.
At the close of this address Maj.
Breese was sworn in. He said that
about ten thousand dollars worth Of
stoc was held among Asheville people.
About five thousand dollars was held in
vanced money to Mr.. Penland to uild
Massachusetts. He said the ank adj
thirteen houses and he orrowed money
to improve property. The bank got along
we'll till the Kennilworth Land Company
was organized. A panic came in shortly
after that and money affairs were
strained The bank was only kept going
by money, from Ave to ten thousand dol
lars, deposited weekly by Mr.. Vanderbilt
to pay his laborers.
Maj Breese was asked to explain the
Leonard transaction. He said the Comp
troller cnsented to the bank loaning one
hundred thousand dollars to Mr.. Graham,
prominent merchant He (Breese)
could not see why he should not do as
the Comptroller had permitted, when the
bank needed money. So he had issued
notes.
j. E. Dickerson has applied for change
of venue in the bank case. Prejudice eX-
listing here against Dickerson is given asi
the cause. 1t is believed that Judge
Jackson will allow the change.
An electric railroad is being built to
Locust Gap, two miles beyond the pres
ent terminus of the Asheville and Craggy
Mountain railway.
v II. S. Courtney, clothing merchant
here, assigned today. His liabilities are
put at nine thousand and twenty-five
dollars His assets include his personal
property.
A rear end collision occurred at Alex
ander this morning. A heavy freight run
into the second section. Both trains
were badly smashed. No one was hurt.
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THE FIRE At GRAHAM
Loss by Fire at Oneida Mills
About $4,000.
Insurance $4,000. Part Of the Machinery Starts
Operation Today and Mr.. |. Banks Holt is
Working to Have il All in Operation,

The loss by the burning of the dye
out to be about ten thousand dollars. The
insurance is $4,000.
Mr.. L. Banks Holt, the owner of Oneida
mills, has been greatly troubled because
of the enforced shutting down of the
mil at this time, mainly because it
throws the operatives out of work How
ever, with his accustomed thoughtfulness
and generous methods, he has given
help to all employed in his
suffering or want by any of those who
are temporarily out of work One third
of the machinery started up work yester-
day to give employment at once to as
many as possible, and Mr.. Holt is hur-
rying forward as rapidly as work can be
done to have the whole plant running on
full time. Ii will all be in operation
within four or five weeks.
Mr.. Holt intends to put in a perfect
dying plant-a plant that will be second
in every equipment to no dyeing plant in
this country 1t will have all modern i'm
provements and will be a model in every
way.
After the fire, which destroyed his
dyeing plant and apparatus, other mill
men were kind in Offering assistance by
doing his dyeing for him so that 49,
Oneida mill work could be continued.
Fortunately Mr. Holt owns Belmont cot
ton mills, four miles from Graham, which
is equipped with a good dyeing plant. He
will also get the mills at Haw River to
do some dyeing until Oneida Is in full
operation next month
The spectacle presented at Graham is
one that all good North Carolinians
could wish to see always prevail--the
owner of a great mill more deeply con-
cerned for those in his employ, necessari-
ly thrown out of work temporarily, than
about his own losses, and providing for
their support until the mill can be put
in operation again. Mill owners and mill
operatives are close together when each
is concerned for the welfare of the other,
and it guarantees conditions that are
most desirable in our growing common
wealth.
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CHANGE IN S. A. L. RY. SCHEDULE

CHANGE IN S. A. L. RY. SCHEDULE.
Taking effect at 1901 p. M, Sunday,
March 2, the Seaboard Air Line Railway
will change the schedule of their passen-
ger trains, as follows: No. &c the Sea
board Fast MALI (northbound) which
now leaves Union Depot for points North
and East at 1920 a. m, will leave at IL So
a. m, and No. q the 'Seaboard Fast
MALI (southbound) which leaves at 1885
p. m. will in future leave at 1927 p. m.
c. H. GATTIS, C. F. &, T. A.,
Raleigh, N. c.
NzH5|2S/ Xzfg2S1 %
aRi NyeSa
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It Bespeaks Good Work.

Insurance Commissioner James r.
Young yesterday paid into the State
Treasury SOS, SS775, the amount which he
had collected during the month of Feb
ruary. This makes the total collections
in this department since April 1st, last,
$123,242 The fiscal year ends April LIST,
and the collections have already exceed
ed last year by more than 1000.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11
MISSIONARY WORK IN BUNC0MBE.
Rev E. Mac Davis Tells of the Fight Against
Liquor in the Western Country.

Rev. f. MacDavis, of Buncombe coun-
ty, occupied the pulpit of the First
Presbyterian church Sunday morning and
spoke TO the students at Peace Institute
Sunday night
Mr.. Davis has had some thrilling eX-
periences in contests with the liquor men
in the mountains. He carried the petit
lions for prohibition for Buncombe be-
fore the Legislature of 1901. The petit
ton was granted. He has been active in
seeing that offenders are brought to JUS
tice.
In his address at the church he said in
part:
"a man who early in the campaign
sought to incite violence against us, &C
knowledged his fault and knit himself
to us by bonds of friendship. Another,
who out of malice, indicted fourteen
year old son of a temperance worker on
the charge of carrying pistol, confessed
his shame and requested the solicitor to
mol PROSE- the case.
'Stil another from whom an instanter
capias was issued in order to get him to
court has become my friend lately. and
told me that if necessary he could rally
an hundred and fifty men for, my protec-
tion within thirty minutes. Should L
suffer in body at the hands OF the liquor
men, my death would be speedily
avenged.
1.-THE people have given me lot OF
an acre and three quarters, fifteen thous-
and feet of lumber and ten thousand
shingles. The manse has been erected
and my family has occupied it since
mid summer But the great victory
came only a little while ago in pro-
tracted meeting First the fire, the
storm and the earthquake, then the still
small voice.
"That week we received forty-four
members into the church, six of them
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

Is a specific remedy for all ailments of
the stomach, liver and bowels, and one
that is backed by hundreds of testimon-
ials received during the past fifty years.
We would therefore urge every sufferer
from Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Flatuiency
Constipation, Sick Headache or Liver
and Kidney troubles to give it trial. 1t
Will surely cure you. The genuine must
have our private stamp over the neck
Of the bottle. 1e
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11
A Pony in a Box.

An unusual sight, and one of much in
terest, yesterday morning at the Union
Station was beautiful Shetland pony
completely encased in a crate, ready to
be put in the express car. The pony,
which was a beautiful specimen of it's
kind, was consigned to w. NJ. Bailey, of
Louisburg. Mr. Bailey was accompany
ing the little traveller, which is intended
for his little boy
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11
New Mining Company.

The Haywood Lumber and Mining Com
pany, of Waynesville, was Incorporated
yesterday. The capital stock is SOL 900,
ana the company will begin business
with 100000. There are thirteen incor-
porators, from Massachusetts, New
YORK, pennsylvania, and Illinois, with
one from North Carolina, Jules WEIGH,
of Waynesville.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11

Ground rents are sometimes due to an
earthquake.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11
MULE STOLEN.

Stolen from me during the snow, in
February 1902, by Norman Rogers, white,
black mare mule, medium size, split
in one ear, SPAWN bone on hind leg and
about ten years old. When last seen he
was in Durham, N. c. / will pay lib
eral reward for information leading to
the recovery of mule
T. L. LOVE, Raleigh, N. c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11
For the Movement.

Treasurer Joseph G. Brown yesterday
received $54 from the students of the
University of North Carolina for the Sir
Walter Raleigh monument fund. This
is the largest contribution from any
single source. When the movement was
launched last October, Mr.. f. II. Busbee
pledged ten cents each for the students
of the University and they sent. him the
check, which he turned sover to Treas
urer Brown.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11

presented and discussed at this meeting
and full attendance is expected.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-11
Chamber OF Commerce.

Ihe monthly meeting of the Chamber
OF Commerce will be held in the Mayors
Office this Tuesday at s D. m.
Is expected that several matters of
great interest to our citizens will be
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-28

A London physician of large practice
asserts that owing to his extremely
sensitive sense of smell he can foretell
the coming of death forty-eight hours
He says that when a patient comes
within two days of death peculiar
earthly smell is emitted from the body.
When the fatal disease is slow in its
progress, the Odor makes its appear
ance as much as three days before
hand. but when the disease is of the
galloping kind the doctor says he re
ceives much shorter warming He at
tributes the smell to modification
which begins within the body before
life is extinct
Dogs are thought to have this sense,
for hunting hounds have been observed
to begin a mournful baying day or
two before their masters died
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-28

If single beds were more numerous
than they are, a great many people
would be better off When one is
tired, sick, cross, restless. out of sorts.
he or she ought to sleep alone and not
communicate by proximity the NAL
aides that affect him. The brute crea-
lures when sick go away by them
selves till they die or get over their
troubles, and this instinct a great
many human beings have Those that
have it are best if INDUCED in it, not
to the slightest degree Of neglect. how
ever. Where two children in family
must share the same room in a great
many cases they would be better off to
have two single beds rather than one
wide double bed. We can share n
great many things with those we love,
but solitude clings to us from birth to
death We come into the world alone:
we must go out of it alone. and we
live in 1t alone. in a certain important
sense, and to get and keep our bear
ings" we must sometimes be left alone.
1t is good that we should be-Family
Doctor
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-28
RIGHTS OF NAVAJO WOMAN
She Alone of All Indian Squavvs En-
joys Independence.


joys Independence.
The Navajo woman, who has made
her tribe the most famous of all liv-
ing Indian races by means of her great
and eXcellen. invention, the Navajo
blanket, occupies a social position of
great Independence. Her property
rights are carefully respected She
owns much of the wealth of the tribe,
and her children belong to her alone.
A woman may have hundreds of sheep
when she marries, and not one be-
comes the property of her husband
Descent is traced through the female
line. 1t is survival of the primitive
matriarchate.
The Navajo woman has no perma-
nent home. The progress of the tribe
has been greatly impeded by its dark
superstition that every death is caused
by Chinde, the devil, and that evil
spirits linger about the dead body. The
house is never occupied again. The
corpse is buried in the floor and the
house pulled down over it, and a Ma
vajo would freeze before he would
make fire upon the logs of one Of
these deserted heaps. So the Navajo
hogan" is a poor, temporary affair, a
mere circular hut of logs and stones,
with a hole in the roof for the smoke
and blanket for the door In the
summer the Navajo woman loves to
move into brush wickiup, made of
greasewood boughs. There she sets up
her loom in the shadow of the rocks
and lives in the open air all summer
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-28
Old Age.

Old age as it comes in the orderly pro-
cess of Nature is beautiful and majestic
thing. The very shadow of eclipse which
threatens it, makes it the more priced It
stands for experience knowledge, wis
dom and counsel. That is old age as it
should be- But old age as it so often is
means nothing but second childhood of
mind and body What makes the differ
ence2 Very largely the care of the stom-
ach. In youth and the full strength of
manhood it doesn't seem to matter how
we treat the stomach. We abuse it, over
work it, injure it, We don't suffer from
it much But when age comes the stom-
ach is worn out. 1t can't prepare and dis
tribute the needed nourishment to the
body, and the body, unnourished fall in
to senle decay. DR., Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery is wonderful medi.
cine for old people whose stomachs are
i weak" and whose digestions are ''poor. y
IIs invigorating effects are felt BY mind as
well as body. 1t takes the sting from old
age, and makes old people strong
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-28
ORIGIN of the Cannon.

1t is curious fact that the first cam
non was east at Venice. 1t was called
lombard" and was invented and
employed by General Pisani in a war
against the Genoese. The original
lombard. which bears the date of
1890, is still preserved and stands at
the foot of Pisani's statue at the ar
senal. The lombard threw a stone 100
pounds in weight: but another Vene-
tan general, Francisco Barde, i'm
proved it until he was able to handle
a charge Of rock and powders weigh
ing 1900 pounds. 1t proved disastrous
to him, however, for one day during
the siege of lara, while he was oper-
ating his terrible engine, he was hurled
by it over the walls and instantly
killed.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-28
when Jnckson ninedl

While the dinner hour still clings to
the noontime among country people it
has advanced in the cities until now it
occurs at any time between noon and
midnight And that reminds us, says
the Montgomery (Ala.J Advertiser, of
one of the many stories about Colonel
Davy Crockett. While he was a mem
Der of congress and was ut his home in
Tennessee some one asked him about
the dinner hour in Washington. He
said the common people ate dinner at
L. the next above them at /, the mer-
chants at 2. the representatives at 3,
the senators at f. members of the cabi-
net at and the vice president ut G.
But when does the president diner?
What! Old Hickory" said Crockett,
anxious to fix time that would suit
his idea of Jackson's greatness. Well
he don't eat till next dayv'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-28


AT Heathtield, in England, is farm
on which still stand the remains CT
an old stone house that is said once to
have been the home of the notorious
Jack Cade. Whether or not Cade ever
lived there can never be accurately de-
termined, but there is no disputing the
fact that he was killed in that neigh
borhood. On the main road. not far from
the ruins of the house, stands mon
ument with this inscription: Near this
spot was slain the notorious rebel Jack
Cade by Alexander Iden. Esq. sheriff
of Kent, A. d. 1850. His body was
carried to London and his head fixed
upon London bridge. This is the sue
cess of all rebels. and this fortune
chanceth ever to traitors"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-28
rhe sea- Trout.

The earnest of salt wa,er fish, after
the striped bass. is the weakfish or sea
trout. The sport of angling for them
is generally enhanced because, feeding
as they generally do near the surface,
it is possible to fish for them with light
tackle The best places to find them
in the vicinity of New York are ia
maica bay, the southwestern shore Of
Staten Island and the mouth of the
Shrewsbury river While they have
been caught weighing upward of TWEEN
ty pounds, q six or ten FOUNDER is
good size, and the average will only
run from one to two and half. There
is never any doubt when a weakfish
bites. He does not nibble around the
hook, but takes the bait at one fair
swoop and then starts off with it like
a limited express with time to make
up. He is shy fish, and the man
who uses a small line, light leaders
and smells to his hook and keeps quiet
while fishing is the one who is apt to
have the best luck.-Country Life In
America
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-28

The earliest application of the clepsy-
dra principle to produce motion was by
Tsiang Hung, A. d. 126, who made an
'orrery" representing the apparent mo
ton Of the heavenly bodies around the
earth. which was kept going by drop
Ding water
In the sixth century of the Christian
era an instrument was In use in China
which indicated the course of time by
the weight of water as it gradually
came from the beak of a bird and was
received in a vessel on balance. every
pound representing a one-hundredth
part of the day of twenty-four hours.
About this time mercury began to be
employed in clepsydras instead of wa
ter.
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A philanthropic lady visited the asy-
lum at Kingston, Canada, says Brook
Ign Life, and displayed great interest
in the inmates. One old man particu-
larly gained her compassion.
And how long have you been here,
my manY' she inquired.
Twelve years." was the answer.
do they treat you well?'
YES"
do they feed you wellT'
Yes"
After addressing a few more ques-
tions to him the visitor passed on. She
noticed broad and broadening smile
on the face of her attendant and on
asking the cause heard with conster-
nation that the old man was none 9TH
er than DR.. Clark, the superintendent
She hurried back to make apologies.
How successful she was may be gath
cred from these words: Il am very
sorry. DR.. Clark. l will never be gov
erned by appearances again."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-28

An interesting human kink is given
by the London Chronicle in the follow
ing item: Every pound of butter that
goes to the West Indies is colored
brilliant red. The darkies over there
won't have any other color. They like
red butter, just as they adore red
shirts and red ties or the red label on
a tomato can. Grocers say that if a
black and white label should be placed
on canned tomatoes there would be no
sale at ALL"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-28
Women In Paris streets.

1t is quite a feature of Paris to see
streams of open carriages, private and
hired, taking folks for an after dinner
drive along the grand boulevards,
which are thronged with promenaders
and groups Of people sitting outside
cafes talking. Now and aa;l.a Il car
riaec will stop to deposit its burL-n in
front of cafe and return later. either
TO this or another to which its occu-
pants have migrated
With her husband Frenchwoman
may 20 anywhere, and it is quite Gus
tomary for the very incest French
women to take coffee in the open air
outside cafe AID make this a pleas
ant meeting place for friends.-Ex
change