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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-25
Bill Arp's Letter

for Cicero, but they have got new ways
now and | don't know where | am at
Vesuvius has been cutting up for more
than two thousand years. IL has had
nine bad eruptions, but there are still
people living on its slopes and cultivating
hem. Its enormous crater is miles
around and 2.0G0 feet deep, and the ac-
cumulated lava sometimes raises its
brink 500 feet during an eruption.
When Spartaous the gladiator. was
besieged by the Romans he with his
little army of seventy men took refuge
in that crater, for it was quiet then. and
Killed 5000 Romans who attacked them
on its brink. The great orator, Cicero.
had beautiful villa at its base, but in
the year 20 A. d. old Vulcan fired up
his furnace and belched forth fire and
smoke and lava and ashes and buried
those two cities sixty-five feet deep and
changed the sea shore and the river so
that their sites could not be found and
when found by accident they were two
miles inland. For three centuries ex-
cayations have been going on and Of
late with great energy, and the veritable
homes of the cultured people have been
found filled with ashes and cinders that
have preserved them all these centuries.
These homes and halls and churches
and temples have been cleaned out and
even the paintings on the walls have
been restred and the beautiful marble
sculpture cleaned and renewed just as
il was when the awful calamity oceurr-
ed. The. celebrated sculptured figures of
LAGOON and his sons suangled by a SER
pent was found there in perfect condition
In some Of these beautiful homes of the
wealthy the tables We're set for feast
and in the temple were found the gold
and silver adornments that are usual in
such places. In the Temple of Juno there
were the corpses of 800 people who had
fed there for safety but Juno was pow
erless and they all persisted just as did
the 5000 at St. Pierre who fled into the
Roman Catholic cathedral
The fate of all these cities was very
similar, for it was not lava that destroyed
them, nor at st. Pierre, but shower of
einders and ashes, and these are pre-
seryatives of anything that they enease.
When we consider all such calamties
grateful and thoughtful people will be
thankful to our Heavenly Father that We
live in land remarkably free from ca
lamity or affection. No volcanoes hang
their threatening PEAKS over us or near
US, no cyclones visit us. The noisome
pestilence does not visit us by day or by
night. Cadaverous famine does not dar-
ken our households with its awful dis
tress, but we live in peace and in plenty
and the lines have fallen unto as in pleas
ant places.
1t is a fitting time now for those who
like to read romance that is founded ON
fact to take up that good old book OF
Bulwer's THE Last Days of Pompeii,
and read it again. BILL ARP.
l have just received a pleasant letter
from North Carolina friend asking me
what | think of Carroll's book. The
Negro a Beast" and he asks, DO lou
believe the niger is a beast?" answered
at the bottom of his letter, (Which mig
Ger?" -. a.
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Judge Brown FIR Associate Justice

To the Editor. | think | voice the IN
divided sentiment of our party in this
district, when / assert that the nomina-
ton and election of Judge Geo. II
Brown to a seat upon the Supreme
Ccort bench would be hailed with gen.
uine delight by our people.
We point with pardonable pride to the
record he has made as Superior Court
Judge and feel that whether lustre
loiters about it is ours as part Of our
districts history.
1t would seem. as matter of fair
ness. that seniority OF service as nisi-
prius Judge should of itself be, to some
extent, controlling reason for the oc-
cupants further promotion
So far as ability and attainment are
concerned, it would be an idle waste of
time for any writer TO assert his posses
sion of them. because we feel safe in
assuming that the record which he has
made has ranked him easily with the
best judges we have had.
I am not a railroad lawyer. nor an ad-
vocate of any special interest hut hav-
ing seen much of him on the bench.
have been impressed with his impartial
bearing. whether suitors We're individ-
uals or corporations. He decides for the
latter when justice so DEGREES and ne
rules against them, as promptly as any
judge ever did. when the same justice
says he should. His prompt and firm
dealing with the law agent of the
strongest corporation in the State, few
months ago, bespeaks more strongly
than any words / could use his freedom
from fear of them.
On the other hand, he has joined in no
crusade against them He holds the
scales of justice with even hands and
endeavors to mete it out to rich and poor
alike.
We would feel were he on our highest
bench. that the interests of all We're in
safe hands and his district. the First,
will! assert this confidence in him by
presenting it's unbroken columns In his
support when the gavel calls the Green's
bcrc convention to order.
w. VI. BOND.
Edenton, N. c., May 81, 1902.
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SCROFULA.

Scattered consumption" is a
good way of describing this
disease. 1t is in fact a real
consumption of the little
glands under the skin.
SCOTS Emulsion cures it.
SCOTS Emulsion is good for
all kinds of consumption but
especially good for scrofula.
1t heals the sores-but
doesn't stop there for the
weakness and loss of flesh is
the worst part of scrofula.
SCOTS Emulsion feeds and
strengthens scrofulous chill
dren.
Send for Free Sample
SCOTT & BOVINE Chemists, 4oe Pearl ST., N. Y.
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a GOOD FARMER
Farming Can be Made Profitable Business
With Very Small Capital.

To the Editor: A good farmer is one
who makes enough to live on and has
a surplus to sell. He does this, making
his land year by year. not poorer but
richer.
There are more men engaged in farm
ing than in any other occupation. But
there are but few really good farmers;
that is, there are but few who make
money farming. A majority barely
make living; many are always bur-
dened with debt. A good farmer. hav-
ing fairly good health and ordinarily
good seasons need not be in debt, unless
il ne for the purchase of land or Tor
necessary farm improvements: and these
ought to be made to pay for themselves
very soon.
A horse, cow or hog will never pay
for keeping unless they are we'll fed.
And so a farm will never pay well un-
less it is fed with fer tiliZers. The best
sSrmer is the one who makes the largest
quantity of home made fertilizers and
who buys the smallest quantity OF tor
eigE fertilizers; and we enricheS his
land most by sowing clover. peas. etc.
good farmer will not undertake to
cultivate large quantity of poor land
with his own or hired labor Ii he knows
any thing he knows this will not pay:
but he runs a small farm, makes it rich,
cultivates it well. and gathers paying
crops. But few farmers ever made a
fortune farming; but thousands of them
have made an Independent living, and
thousands more could if they would
learn to farm wisely.
But many say: 81 am poor, I cannot
farm like / want to-
Go to work OF small scale. AS soon
as one crop is gathered, go to work to
prepare for another.
Spend time and labor in making farm
pen and compost manures. Make two OF
three acres of land rich each year: and
in a few years you will have enough rich
land to make enough and to spare
Farming can be made profitable busi-
ness 1t can be done with very small
capital to begin with.
1t is the most quiet. pleasant, inde
pendent, secular business in which 9
man can engage. A good farmer be-
comes deeply interested in his work. HI
loves to see his growing grain, grasses
and stock. He realizes that his is the
most important of all secular employ
ments He has to feed and tlothe al
others
The professions and every kind o
business are crowded: but there is
bright prospect for good farmers. Al
farm products are in demand at goo6
prices. 1t would be wise for more
young men To go to farming.
oxford, n. e. j. A. :.
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A MOTHERS lNGLUENcE
No Place Where Education Tells so Much as IN
Mothers Influence on a Family.

God has made woman to occupy the
noble and exalted position of wife and
mother. and to aid in making and main
tanning a Christian home. What words
are sweeteT than mother. home,
heaven?'' Everybody ought to have Il
harpy home. s'But what is hcme with
out MOTHER" II is her work and in
fiuence mainly that makes home happy.
1t is the character and destiny of the
family.
Recently. I spent a Saturday night in
a lovely Christian home. The wife and
mother is woman of strong moral and
religious convictions She trains her
children with the most scrupulous care.
Her husband is kind. good meaning
man: but is easily influenced by evil
associates into wrong things. The wires
influence over him has been excellent.
She is ar afflicted woman, rarely ever
able to leave her home.
On telling her good bye on Sabbath
morning, 1 said: my sister, I wish you
could go with us to church today.
Tears filled her eyes as she said: II wish
/ could, but am not able to go. I have
eight or ten years. / am not able to do
but little for my family. l feel that my
life has been a failure" | said. "No
my sister, your life has been grand
success Feeble as YOU have been IN
body, YOU have trained family of the
best children TO be found. They are a
blessing to society, and to the church
of God. You have done work that will
glorify God, and bless mankind; you
will live and work on in the lives OF
your noble sons and daughters" There
is no means of estimating the great good
this humble. afflicted Christian woman
has done. Fer children. and her neigh
bors will rise up and call her blessed
and her reward will be great in heaven
1t is natural that mother should
exert greater influence in family
thai father. AS rule. woman is
more gentle and affectionate than man
1t is a mothers lot to have the training
of children in the early formative period
of life. She is with them in the home
while the husband is away at work
In view of the mighty influence en-
erted by a mother, she ought to be
| first, devotedly pious. No mother car
| fill her responsible position without be-
ing q Christian. Secondly, a mother
ought to be thoroughly trained in al
domestic duties. so that she can teacf
her children to do all kinds of HONORABLE,
work. Third mother ought to be wei
educated and intelligent. 1t is vastly
more important to educate girls thar
boys There is no place where eduea
| tion tells for good so much as in
mothers influence on family. Wher
you enter a home, YOU can tell. rot only
by the presence of books and periodi
Gals. but by the intelligence and refine
ment of the children. that the mother i
/ an educated woman
! j. A. STRADIlEY.
! Oxford. N c.
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1t is fitting time to think about vol
canoes earthquakes and other internal
and Internal things that are going on in
the bowels of the earth. We can see up
ward and outward TO the stars aud
planets for millions of billions OF miles.
but the inside of this little world is all
unknown. We live upon it's crust and
eat and sleep and dance and prance and
fight and talk war and politics and trusts
With no thought of how near We are to
the fires that are burning under us nor
when they will break out and consume
us all, as they certainly will some time
according to Scripture. Those internal
fires have been burning for thousands
OF years, and the mystery is, why they
have not burned to the surface long be-
fore this. Where does the heat all go.
and where are the escapes-the chimneys
for the smoke and the ashes and lava?
Surely these few volcanoes can't dis
charge it all. The word volcano, or vul-
cano. as it used to be called. comes from
Vulcan. the god of fire, and the ancients
believed that the old fellow had his shops
and furnaces down there. and sometimes
when he blowed the bellows too hard the
fire bursted out through a hole in some
mountain and the melted rock spouted
ur and ran over the tank and washed
down in the form of lava, which is an
other Latin word and means to wash.
Volcanoes are Vulcan's chimneyS, and as
far back as we have history sacred or
profane these chimneys have had their
periodic discharges. Some writer's be-
lieve that there was one of these not far
from Sodom and Gomorrah and those
cities were destroyed just like Pompeii
and Herculaneum, or more recently like
st. Pierre in Martinique.
few years ago two Of my boys took
a sea voyage from New York to Trinidad
and stopped at all of those little islands
and historic points They told us of
Martinique, where the Empress Josephine
was born and lived until she was II
years old and whose beautiful monument,
they saw. Unhappy lady, The world is
still weeping FOR her. They climbed the
heights of this same volcano and looked
down into it's crater, for it was quiet and
peaceful and had not had an eruption for
fifty years The island is small, very
small, not quite as large as Barlow
county. but had a dense and mongrel
population of 10000 people-chefly In
dams. negroes and Chinese. The whites
numbered less than 10000. of whom only
I 700 were French Just think of it. Our
county is about rs miles square and is
quite thickly settled and has $4,000 peo-
pie, while Martinique has seven times
as many and most of them are negroes.
These Nc zroes were all slaves until lS4S.
They I've chiefly on fruit and anything
they can pick up or steal My boys
amused themselves throwing dimes into
he hot
deep and the little negro boys would
plunge in and dive to the bottom for the
money and always got it.
Then l got 20 Eliminating about Vesu-
vius and Pompeii and Herculaneum |
used to speak a speech about ancient
Greece and Rome and Thebes. and | al
ways said Pompyeye and The-bees. for
that was right then, and so was Sisero
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(Goldsboro Argus

(Goldsboro Argus.)
Go back, Mr. Wilson;
Go way back and sit down!
For Bachelor and Clark
Have done you up brown.
Fourteen charges were too much
For a small sized gum &
The rebound was so great
Fab and Day are on the run.
Go back, Mr.. Wilson;
Go way back and sit down!
Go back to Round Knob
And build up town.
Send for Ohio and open
Your hotel again;
"Aleck," doubtless, will arrange
For stopping the train.
Go back. Mr.. Wilson;
Go way back and sit down.
There is many a slip
Twixt the Cross and the Crown.
With half rates. and free passes
Over the great Southern line.
You ought to rake in the shekels.
A comm and gwine.
Go back, Mr.. Wilson;
Way back to first base!
From the Democratic ranks.
Yo uhave deserted your place.
Go back to your first love,
And wait for your inning;
Corporations and sore heads
Can't keep Clark from winning.
AS a high mountain climber,
You are as good as they make.
Stick right down to business;
Give politics shake.
When you shoot off again,
Be more careful of aim;
Remember small calibre guns
Never kill big game.
j. M. +
Goldsboro, May IA.
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which the blood is continually
throwing off. Pimples, black
heads and blotches are evidences
of too acid blood, which has
inAamed and clogged the pores.
Skin Diseases being depend
ent upon the same causes require
the same treatment, which must
be constitutional and not external.
Nothing applied locally 70 tie
inAamed surface can bring much
relief. The dishguring eruptions
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Cat Swallowed a Frog Who Wouldn't
Stay Swallowed.
stg7StFs
(Clarkton Express

(ClarktOn Express.)
One of our young Clarkton friends re-
ports having seen a very peculiar thing
last week. An cid cat, wandering around
the yard just before supper time, found a
nice fat frog. Deciding that she would
like to have a variety occasionally, she
bounced on Bro. Frog and hustled him
down without much chewing. This not
being the time of year when frogs like
to stay in dark places all the time, he
decided to come back, and so he did.
Bro. Frog snapped his eyes and hoped
as if nothing unusual happened, but from
the antics that Sister Cat cut while Bro.
Frog was on his way back to this world
we don't think she will try any more frog
for supper right soon.
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treatment, readily yield to the curative
powers of S. S. S., and there is no reason
why the long time sufferer should feel
resigned to his fate under the mistaken
idea that some skin diseases are incura-
bic, for S. S. S. has cured and is still
curing cases perhaps far more desperate
than yours. S. S. S. is purely vegetable
remedy. containing no Potash, Arsenic
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SHOULD HE WITHDRAW.

Apex News.
II Judge Clark. who claims to be a
loyal Democrat. thinks his candidacy will
impede the advancement OF Democracy,
he should. in justice to his party, with
draw his name from the contest. but IL
he is being prosecuted for personal spite
t. is but natural that he should fight to
the bitter end.
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SALT RHEUM, ECZEMA
letter, NETTLE Rash
PSORIASIS, ACNE, BOILs

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all
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MOUNTAIN PARK HOTEL

New
the
thyfve miles AsheVe
the main line Of the souhen galway surrounded by Of
fogs delightful home TO the Eden for the
delightful the
llused analysis and testimonials
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The North Carolina Hot Springs /!
The Mountain Park Hotel.
HOT SPRINGS - N. G..

m baths, with
Strongly Aka
line and Nature Specific Sciatica
which will
will positively faithfully
hese springs the grounds OF the
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The skin is provided with millions Of little pores
and glands invisible to the natural eye, yet through
these tiny outlets the larger part of the deadly matter
that daily collects in the body is carried off But nature
never intended that poisons of an irritating acid
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Don't think less OF your system thar
you do OF your house. Give ii a thor.
ough cleansing. too Take Hoods Sar-
saparilia.
The Forrest City times., 1902-12-05
NEW THINGS

To be had at w Il Sanders Grocery
this week: Breakfast foods - Force,
Shredded Wheat Biscuit. New Dat
meal, fresh Grape Nuts. Grits, Iiomi-
ny. Navy Beans Postum Corral New
Sugarhonse Molasses. Fresh Fruits.
Prunes, Dried Fruits. Krant. Macke.
rel and every thing good to eat. Tele
phone your order, if YOU cannot call
Phone | Free delivery
The Forrest City times., 1902-12-05

Orris Lynn was arrested a couple OF
weeks ago at Skeston, Missouri. by
ID, putty Sheriff Murphree, acting for
Montgomery county, aud brought here
and confined in the county jai. on a
charge OF burglary aud grand larceny.
said to have been committed in said
Montgomery county, this state, some years
ago.
Lynn has been arrested severa times
before. but has heretofore been able to
make his escape. AT one time when In
the custod, OF the sheriff OF Montgomery
county. aud they were passengers on
train, Lynn excused himself to 40 To the
toilet aud then deliberately ju,nped
through the window of the rapidly NOV
ing tram. He was handcutfed at the time.
but nevertheless he escaped
Deputy Murphree arrested him once,
about three years ago, and he begged to
be allowed to eat his supper The
shackeS were removed, Lynn ate. and
wnth ne arose ne stepped 10 MS mother
who was sitting III the door, with the re-
mark. ''weiI mother. you had better take
what money have, as shall not need
1t, and as he reached her she moved
aside and he made dash for liberty
The mother then stood between the sher-
riff and his escaping prisoner, and The
former could not shoot, and TIE latter
escaped-as Murphree expresses il, lin
rs minutes after | arrested him
Lynn was raised IN this county. and is
a brotler-in law OF Frank GOssett who
lives at or near Palestine.
He is also brother OF Arthur Lynn. of
Brookport, Illinois, who is an engineer
on the Illinois Central Railway, and a
clever looking gentleman.
His brother Arthur, hearing of Orris'
trouble came here Monday and put up
$500 in cash as bond for his brothers
appearance at the court to which he had
been bound over, and Orrs was given
his liberty.
The Forrest City times., 1902-12-05
PHOTOGRAPHS.

We have just received the finest
stock Of Photograph Card Mounts
ever brought to the city. All the
latest novelties found In the city
galleries, together with souvenir
sofa pillows, book marks, hat
marks, scarfs, etc, in the latest
designs, suitable for holiday and
birthday presents. Also are pre-
pared to supply buttons in all
grades and prices. Call and ex-
anime our work and get our prices
which run from $100 to $40 per
dozen. South Side Gallery.
The Forrest City times., 1902-12-05
Tie Makers Poem.

If tie-making is your calling in life.
Dispise IL not. nor think II low;
For mid the turmoil OF this strife,
Many good seeds you may sow.
Then do your best from day 10 day.
And be not ashamed Of your hand:
For the All Wise One will surely pay
Any true and honest laboriDg man.
Your hands may be hard from using the
maui,
Your face be tanned by the winds and the
sun:
But you ca stand with the greatest of all
When LIES weary struggle is done.
GEY WARD. Widener. Ark.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-04-03
By H. Phelps Whitmarsh....
... COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY H. PHELPS WHITMARsH

loafer, or I'll put you in lronsv' snap.
ped the skipper. "And you can make up
your mind that, if I don't send you
back before, you'll get three months
hard labor when we reach Adelaide.
What is your name?'
"'Awkins, SIR \
Ever been to sea?'
mo, sir, I can't rightly s'y as I've
been to sea, sir, but I've knocked abaht
the river quite a bit, and I've been as
Ear as Margit once, SIR
The boatswain grinned broadly at
this; even the captain could not forbea1
smiling.
''Well," he said, "put him to work.
bos'n." And the green hand went for.
ward to be initiated into the mysteries
of the ''slush bucket and the "soogey.
moogey" can.
Unfortunately, as the captain put it,
no homeward bound vessels were sight
ed until it was too late to think of re.
turning the stowaway. He was there.
fore taken into the mates watch az
dirty workman, where he showed re.
markable aptness for some things and
marvellous stupidity about others. In
most matters pertaining to seamanship
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'Ihank you, SIR" replied the stoaUuqvay

'Thdnk you, SIR" replied the stoaUdaUaqJ.
appeared to be everywhere Did she
gaze aloft to watch the swelling can
vas, there was Hawkins rafting down
the topmast rigging or placing chatting
gear, his eyes fixed upon her. Did her
glance wander forward along the deck,
Hawkins would look up from his paint
ing, his sonnet making or the rope up
on which he was hauling and meet
that glance. Did she hear singing in
the forecastle during dog watch hours,
it was the deep voice of. Hawkins
Even in the night, when the noise of
hauling the braces or making sail
awakened her, she heard the stow
away's sonorous singing out" above
all other sounds.
By the time the Dunbarton ran down
into the roaring forties" the young
lady had openly snubbed the sleek De
Montparnasse and was worrying her
aunt by persistently going on deck at
all times and in all weathers.
One morning when the vessel was
sixty-one days out and just abreast of
the cape Mr.. Angus tumbled up on
deck for look around before break
fast. The mate was on watch, with
Hawkins at the wheel.
"Good morning, Calker," said the
horse breeder. ''Still nasty weather, I
see.''
eyes, SIR" replied the officer. 1--WE
must expect it while we're running our
casting down. How are you this morn
ing, sir?" .,s.
"Well, to tell the truth, Calker, I
backed out feeling a little sore this
morning; hampers down or some
thing" u ..-.
''Take glass of sea water, Mr.. An
gus. That will fix you up, sir"