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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
FAIR WORDS BUTTER MOTORISTS

The Louisville Post, which has come
to be the most vicious and vitriolic Re-
publican paper in the South, has a para
graph in late issue that points a
moral. 1t says:
MIR. Bryan says the Republicans adj
journed Congress without avowing their
purpose in the Philippines. The best
possible avowal is in acts, not words.
and the act establishing a civil govern
ment in the Philippines is altogether
satisfactory to the American people"
The Post is everlastingly right when
it says: THE best possible avowal is in
acts, not words" Exactly Now let us
apply that true test to the Republicans
with respect to their attitude toward
the trusts.
While Congress was in session, Mr.
Roosevelt was dumb as an oyster about
the evils of trusts. AS soon as Congress
had adjourned and NOTHING COULD
BE DONE the President began very
strenuous talk of what he was going to
do to the trusts. 1.-The best possible
avowal is in acts. not words
Just before the House adjourned, the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
WHICH Is RIGHT

Some so-called Democratic papers,
which pose as Democratic only to stab
the party, are just now busy trying to
make light of the Democratic attitude
against the trusts and the protective
tariff. They ridiculed it's position in
favor of bi-metalism, they laughed at its
hostility to Imperialism, and now they
are engaged in trying to make the people
believe that it's plan of campaign against
the trusts is idle nonsense" For ex
ample, the Morning Post said yesterday
morning:
1.-THE talk of abolishing all duties on
articles manufactured by trusts is idle
nonsense"
Which is equivalent to saying that
Senator Simmons, Representatives Small
Kitchen, Thomas, Bellamy, Pou, Kitchen
and IilUttz and every Democratic men,
Der of Congress is advocating a policy
that is idle nonsense" Here is the
resolution unanimously adopted by the
Democratic House caucus in June Of
this year:
THAT we favor the immediate passage
of a measure to amend the present anti
trust law so as to more fully protect
trade and commerce against unlawful re-
straints and monopolies, and also meas
ure to reduce the duties on all articles
and commodities manufactured and con-
trolled or produced in the United States
by a trust or trusts so as to destroy
such illegal combinations, and to reduce
the rate of duty on any article or COM
modify manufactured in the United
States and sold in a foreign country
more cheaply than in the United States. :"
The Democrats in Congress favor such
reduction as will destroy such illegal
combinations" And the Post calls such
advocacy idle nonsense" Which is
right-the Post, which is always Repub-
lican except when it poses as Democratic
in order to help it's railroad owners, or
the Democratic minority in Congress?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
FARMERS NATIONAL CONGRESS s

We publish elsewhere a letter from
Col. Benehan Cameron, vice-president of
the Farmers National Congress, which
will hold it's next session in Macon,
Georgia, on October 7th-10th inclusive
The coming meeting will be the largest
convention of farmers ever held in
America, and as it is held in an adjoin-
ing State and in a pleasant Georgia city,
North Carolina ought to have large rep
resentation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
WHY He WOULDN'T aENUFLECT

TIL Asheville papers and correspond
ents from Asheville make great TODD
because our friends, Virgilius Semper
Lusk refused to genuflect when the
high and mighty Judge James E. Boyd en-
tered the court room in Asheville. II
seems that when that august parsonage
arrives, dressed up in costume to hide
his pulchritude, the court crier precedes
his majesty and commands everybody in
the court room to rise up and do him
honor 1t seems that while everybody
else was genuflecting before this Tar
Heel Pooh Bah, Col. Lusk kept his seat
From this plain statement of fact, a
story has gone out that Col Lusk re-
fused to do homage to Judge Boyd be-
cause he wished to show the Pooh Bah
disrespect, said disrespect growing out
of COL Lusks disappointment in not
getting the ermine himself
Perish the thought! Col Lusk intended
no disrespect of the court or of the
mighty Jeems Ebenezer Boyd. He kept
his seat because he is too old to genu-
which Judge Boyd enjoys as much as the
Mikado enjoys his job, Col. Lusk was in
formed by Senator Pritchard that he was
"too Old Up to that hour when Pritch-
ards cruel message came to the sage
of Sandy Mush, our Virgilius Semper
thought he was "just as young as he
used to be- Immediately prior thereto,
while the aged and decrepit Jeems Ebe-
nezer was passing the time playing cards
by the Pritchardites to go up against
Locke Craig in all the precincts of Bun
combe county. Nobody thought he was
too old to do the hardest campaigning
in the most closely contested county in
the State. He was young and vigorous
enough for that work, but when it came
to the laborious work of wearing a robe,
being "genu1ected" by the bar and peo-
pie, and presiding about four months in
the colonel was too old for such diff
ficult position, and so the young and
doughty Jeems Ebenezer was given that
job. There were people who said that
certain corporate interests, always intent
on controlling the Federal judiciary, OBJ
jected to Col. Lusk because they thought
he wouldn't take orders from Samue
Spencer, and other railroad magnates
and that the too old" reason was the
poor excuse given to the friends of Vir-
gilius Semper. Who believes this gossip:
If any have given credence to it hereto
fore, the fact that Col. Lusk was 'toc
old to rise and "genufect" before Boob
Bah Boyd seems to afford abundant
proof that he is too old to be the re-
cipient of such genufections. He only
is fit to command who is ready to obey
He only is young enough to be genu-
flected to who is young enough to genu-
feet
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
A SPLENDID TICKET.

That was a magnificent body of unter-
rified Wake county Democrats who met
in the Metropolitan Hall yesterday to
nominate county ticket. Every pre-
cinct was fully represented, and there
was enough division, debate and discus
sion to show that the Democratic party
is a live and progressive body of earnest
and aggressive Democrats.
The delegates had been instructed by
the primaries as to all the candidates
except one or two, and they proceeded to
carry out their instructions. The result
is the nomination of a splendid ticket
we'll distributed throughout the county,
and composed of men of character and
ability. The Legislative ticket is a
strong one. The county officers are men
who have been tried and found capable
and worthy Wake will pile up big
Democratic majority in November.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
CONVENTION DATES.

Sixth District, Congressional, Fayette-
VILE, August Goth.
Tenth District, Congressional, Hen
dersonville, August 7th.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03

you have rescued my daughter from
drowning, sir. What shall be your re-
ward?"
The Stranger-Don't mention it. I'll
send you a bill I'm a specialist from
New York.
Good heavens. I'm ruined. Life.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
THEY INVITE A TEST.


For some months now we have been
hearing from half dozen or less cotton
mill owners that about all the officers
and employees in the cotton mills were
Republicans and would join that party
upon the ratification of the amendment.
This information has not come through
the native-born cotton mill men, but has
generally reached the public through
certain men whose wish was father to
the thought.
OF course there are some Republicans
among the owners and employees of cot
ton mills as there are among farmers,
merchants, and other classes in North
Carolina. AS a matter of fact, however,
the bulk of men whose skill and brain
and money are employed in our cotton
mills are Democrats and will remain.
Democrats. Quite number of them did
not approve the 1896 platform, but they
them out of their party. They know that
they do not depend upon protection for
their prosperity. They know that they
have to pay fifty per cent. more for all
machinery because of the trust-tariff.
But even most of those who have i'm
bibed protection do not hesitate to say
that good home government is their first
concern and that they know the only
hope of good government in North Caro-
lima is in the Democratic party. And
they are going to stay in that party,
have voice in shaping it's policies, and
keeping it in right channels.
The news from Charlotte, however, is
that Mr.. Geo. B. Hiss, an officer of the
Southern Spinners' Association, believes
the fable about the cotton mill men being
anxious to vote the Republican ticket,
and that he aspires to be the Republican
nominee for Congress in the new Ninth
District. 1t is a great cotton mill dis
trict, embracing such cotton milling coun-
ties as Mecklenburg, Lincoln, CASTOR,
Cleveland and Catawba. If those people
who have been declaring that the cotton
mill men are all Republicans at heart
are right-if employees and employers are
hungering to vote the Radical ticket
then Mr.. Hiss will be elected, for they
vote in Mitchell and Madison, to elect.
But-watch the prediction!-for every
vote of the cotton mill population Mir.
Hiss manages to secure, nineteen will be
cast for Yates Webb, the Democratic
nominee. The Ninth is about as good a
district to explode the fable about the
cotton mill vote as could be selected.
After November Mr.. Hiss will find that
he has put his faith in myth that has
fooled nobody except the few who have
the mistaken idea that mill men do not
think for themselves, but take their
views from a few men who sell mill sup
plies or own few spindles Mr.. Hiss is
certain to learn that, like other North
Carolinians, the mill men vote as citi
zens and not as mill men, and that they
know too much to invite return to Re-
publican rule, even if it is sugar coated
with Hiss cotton mill saocharine. ,ls
Mr.. Hiss invites a test and has selected
the time and the place. The people well
come it and rejoice that in Mr.. Webb
they have q candidate who will be sure
to come out victorious. After November
the great bug a. boo that a few men like
Mr. Hiss have held over the Democratic
party will be seen to have been only a
poorly made scare crow.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03

The whole State will sympathize with
Senator Pritchard in the death of his
wife which occurred at Biltmore Hospi-
tai early yesterday morning. She was a
great sufferer from a cancer but bore
her pain with marked fortitude. She had
many noble qualities and made strong
friendships. Her devotion to her hus-
band and his deep affection and solicit
tude were beautiful "She was conscious
two hours before she died and was able
to speak loving farewell to her hus-
band" says a report from Asheyille.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03

A billboard may help to swell the
actors head. but a board bill is quite
another story.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
A MORNING TONIC.

The greatest homage we can pay to
wrath is to use it.-Emerson.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-03
THE MODERN JUMBO OCHs.

Mr.. Adolph s. Ochs is today bigger
man than old Grant" and nobody in
America is more talked about. Yester-
day he dined with President Roosevelt.
All the newspaper folks in America, from
the Rhamkatte Rooster to the New York
Herald, wake up every morning wonder
ing if Ochs will buy them before night.
There are many questions as to where
he gets the money for his great pur-
cbases. what is the object of the men
who put up the money to buy so many
influential papers, and what paper the big
Ochs will swallow next. He seem capa-
Bile of swallowing power presses and
editor writes a receipt for a cord OF
wood on subscription. Here is the latest
guess as to what Mr.. Ochs is up to, and
is in a New York letter to the Nash
vile, CTenn.) Banner
"A new development of the strong
movement for the nomination of Grover
Cleveland for third term as President
is found in the recent action of q pow
erful syndicate of financiers and bank
ors behind Adolph S. Ochs, owner of the
New York Times, the Chattanooga Times
and the Philadelphia Times, in purchas-
ing the Philadelphia Public Ledger,
founded by George w. Childs, hitherto
a Republican newspaper. Not only has
this purchase been announced, but now
it is understood that the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, leading afternoon
sheet, is to become the evening issue
from the New York Times office. 1t is
also stated that Mr.. Ochs and his syndi-
cate have also been successful in secur-
ing the control of a prominent Wash
ington newspaper, the announcement Of
which fact is expected soon to be made.
Mr.. Ochs has just completed contracts
for a new twenty-story home for his
New York newspaper, costing some four
millions of dollars, at Broadway and
Sixty-second street 1t is understood
that at the proper time each one of the
newspapers controlled by Mr.. Ochs will
boldly announce it's support of Grover
Cleveland as a candidate in 1904"
1t will be recalled that Mr.. Cleveland
wrote a very complimentary letter to Mr..
Davis, editor of the Public Ledger, ex-
pressing qualification that Mr.. Davis was
to- continue as editor of the Ledger. 1t
would be no new thing for all these pa
pers TO support Mr. Cleveland. All of
them have done so heretofore except the
Public Ledger and it has always been
friendly to him. Our recollection is
that it supported him in 1892.
The whole State will sympathize with
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
LAST OF A NINE FIRE.
It Burned Fifty-three Years and Con-
sumed the Interior of a Hill. Il

It Burned Fifty-three Years and Gem
I sumed the Interior of Hill.
The fire in the mine at Summit Hill,
carbon county. Pa, is out, after fur
nishing spectacle for fifty years. Tho
mine caught hre before the Civil war.
The fire could not be controlled, and it
was decided to let it burn itself out.
time as to how long it would take. The
hill over the main fire rose to height of
sixty or seventy feet and the veins out
! cropped at the top. 1t was therefore ap-
parent that the coal would have to be
burned from the very heart of the hill
before the fire could eat itself out.
Many mining men believed that the fire
would burn out in ten years, and none
gave 1t more than tewnty years, but it's
life proved to be ffty-three years. For
many years there were no outward signs
Of tire except the smoke and the gas
which escaped from some natural vent
holes, but of late years the fire had so
the flames were plainly visible and could
be seen for miles
The final act of this fire was witnessed
BY only one man, a miner who was on
his way home from work early one morn
ing. He was passing within half mile
evidently caused by the accumulation
and explosion of gas in the interior of
the hill
These explosions grew in force until
there was a very loud report and a gush
Of flames and smoke from the top. Then
the peak of the hill sank in slowly and
the sides tumbled in after it, filling up
the hollows in the veins below, long ago
eaten out by the flames.
Showers of sparks and great gushes
of smoke burst forth and the heavens
were lighted by the flames as the hill
sank. The whole time consumed in this
final work of destruction was not more
than half an hour and when it was over,
the hill was like the crushed in top of a
pie, and the fire which had burned for
fifty-thre years was slowly dying out
for want Of fuel to feed upon. 1t had
eaten out the hill until there was moth
ing left but q crust.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
Our Vanishing Ideals.

We begin by believing that the way
Of life is by acquisition, by what the
world reckons progress. We live to learn
that it is by abandonment, by the ability
to do without rather than by the eapa-
bility to gain, by the growing away from
ideals rather than by fulfllment of them,
and this not necessarily by ruthless
decree, but most often by a specially be-
nignant one.
were more explicit on this point. And
so wishing, so thinking, began to put
down the poor, bare, utterly common
place little outlines I know ''best of air.
as Mrs. Burnett says; and looking back
ward as best l could, my recollection
flew, straight as magnetic needle to the
north, to the time when used, as a little
girl, to look forward with chill agony
Of foreboding to the inevitable time
when should be "too hi g. to play with
dolls. felt sure that when such a time
came to me I should want to die: life
would hold no further incentives to- 20 on
living: l really suffered in this anticipa-
ton, imagining that some day, in the full
flush of my passionate love for my dolls,
someone would come to me and make me
put my treasures away from. me forever,
and my heart would surely break in one
great ache Of agony: But I can't even
remember how or when stopped play
ing with dolls. Ny interest in them, my
passion for them, their power to absorb
and satisfy me, faded so gradually, so
gently, into other interests, other pas
slons. that there was no wrench in the
transition; it was evolution, and as quiet
as the growth Of grass, the unfolding of
buds, as the creeping by of time.-From
''The Evolution of a Girls IDEAL" by
Clara q. Laughlin in Scribner's.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
Mushroom Quarries of Paris.

South of the city of Paris the country
is honeycombed with abandoned quar-
ries, some Of which are of enormous ex-
tent. resembling the shafts of great
mines, from 800 yards to half mile il
length. and lying from 80 to $50 feet
beneath the surface of the ground. In
these old quarries are grown nearly all
the mushrooms consumed in the French
capital. The mushrooms flourish in
these caverns at all seasons, and they
superior in flavor to those grown else
where. The worst enemy of the mush-
room growers is species of fly which
swarlns through the dark passages in
such numbers as sometimes to extin-
guish the candles of the workmen. The
larvae of this fly destroys the beds be-
fore the shoots have emerged above the
grOund-YOuth' COMPANION
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
History OF Jewel.

In the first Of his series of lectures on
personal Jewelry from Prehistoric
Times at the Society of Arts, Cyril
Davenport carried his audience back to
the days before dress of any kind was
thought Of Or required, and asserted that
necklaces were probably the earliest dec
Grafton worn by human beings. Subse-
quently they denoted rank and position,
as in the Tonga islands, where chiefs
wore necklaces of the scarce orange cow
~. Such practice has it's analogy today
in the collars worn by the Knights of the
Grand Cross Of the great orders, in the
chains Of Office of mayors. and in the
collars worn by judges and heralds. The
bracelet, which may lay claim to some
degrees of utility, disputes with the neck
lace the earlier place. Skins with long
hair attached, iron bands with dangerous
spikes, disks of shells with razor edge,
sheath for knife or dagger, were some
Of the earliest forms to be used. The
diadem was supposed to have originated
in bandeau, worn probably to keep the
hair from falling about the eyes. Incl
dentally it came to be mark Of dis
tinction and to denote sovereignty-Lon-
don TdegraDh
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
Richest Bachelor in Europe.

His royal highness, the Grand Duke Of
Saxe-Weimar, is just Is years of age,
and is said to be the richest bachelor
in Europe, not even excepting his majes-
ty of Spain. He is a soldier of much
promise, and his career has been watched
credited his royal highness with tender
sentiments toward more than one princess.
the latest selection being the Princess
Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
whose attractions are becoming greater
every year, says Home notes. The grand
duke is expected to shortly visit Eng
welcomed as the kinsman of Field Mar
shall Prince Edward Of Saxe-Weimar.--
New York Telegram.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
The Spoken Language Of Cuba.

A Cuban paper expresses a fear lest
the Spanish language as spoke in that
island be corrupted by the more intimate
contact with Americans, English words
being adopted, and English idioms turned
into barbarous Spanish, ousting the
Spanish ''modismos." There is probably
ready Cubans settled in New York City
will employ such ludicrously corrupt ex-
pressions as, "Dame una chanza!' in
translation Of the English colloquial
phrase, "Give me chance" although
johanna" in Spanish means a witty or
burlesque expression" a joke. The
he is going to '*carpetear" his house, in
stead Of employing ''alfombrar," and his
wife goes to ''marketear," or marketing!
Mexican Herald,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
MENU FOR KINGS DINNER.
London Specializing Upon What Can
ba Had for the Half Million.


If 100000 persons are to be Toasted
for 100000, what may they expect to
have in their menu? a little elementary
arithmetic shows that the money availa-
BILE amounts to 100000 shillings. Allow
ing for the invariable incidental expenses
Of organization by knocking off 100000
shillings, and assuming that shilling
head would be available for the RECALLING
Of the Kings humble guests, repre-
sentative put an inquiry to director Of
well-known firm of refreshment con-
tractors as to what he would be prepared
to provide.
1t was suggested that the time of year
might influence the tastes of the diners
but. with a knowledge born of long ex-
perience in furnishing similar feasts, the
gentleman Intercepted observed, smil-
ing, that that made no difference. Dog
days or winter. the banqueters would ex-
pect very solid and filling sustenance;
and he expressed his conviction that
for the sum named it would be perfectly
practicable 20 provide square meal'
Of joints, sweets. cheese, a limited guam
THY of beer or mineral waters, and per-
haps even a trifle in the nature of des-
sert. If, as is most probable, local be-
nevolence should come forward to fur
nish the liquid portion of the dinner, and
amateur walters will minister to the
needs Of the feasters, then the banquet
may become more Observation-Disclosures
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