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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-26

When some men talk, others are apt
to regret that automatic ear-elosers
have not yet been placed upon the
market.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-26

The Tarboro Southerner says that Mr.
Fenner Gay and Mr.. Proctor received
painful injuries by a runaway at Rock.
Mount The buggy was completely de
molished. Mr.. Gay was much bruised ant
Mr.. Proctor was picked up unconscious.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-26

There seems to have been a general
Qualification of social affairs going on
over in Rutherford county during the
past week, says the Asheyille Citizen,
Two young men, brothers, were sent to
the penitentiary for fifteen months each
for the seduction of two sisters, while a
colored preacher was given nine months
on the roads for slandering some of the
sisters in de church.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-26

Mr. E. z. Ethcridge, former register of
deeds OF BERTHE county, has moved to
Elizabeth City to reside.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-26

Employees may not be meddlcsome
yet they are always minding somebody
else's business.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-26

Moncure, N. c.. Nov. 25.-Rev. ". II
Thompson, aged 81, died here yesterday
He was a faithful and highly esteemed
Methodist minister He was the father
of Rev. L. E. Thompson, of the Nortf
Carolina Conference, and of Mrs. r. A
Moore, of Durham, who are here to at
tend the funeral.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-26
STATE NEWS.
learning,

The Alhemarle House at Elizabeth City
Will be rebuilt.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-26
Industrial News.

Mr.. G. w. Maslin is to be president
of the new First National Bank of
Waynesville, which will soon open with
s25, 900 capital.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-26

Fred and John Oliver. of Charlotte,
have organized 100000 company at
Portsmouth, Va. The plant they are
building will be confined to the delinting,
crushing and refining of cotton seed
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
The Value of Honesty.

William Alden Smith of Michigan,
in illustrating the value of honesty
in politics, told story the other day
of an old governor of Michigan, who
became a candidate on condition that
he should not be asked TO make
speeches. An occasion soon arose.
however, when the regular orators
were absent from a meeting. and the
crowd insisted on hearing from the
candidate himself. He walked to the
front and bravely announced that he
was no speaker. with considerable
repetition, and after little hating
proceeded to talk for three-uuarters
of an hour. When the meeting was
over the candidate had quite come to
the conclusion that he was speaker
after all. and especially did he feel so
when an old farmer came up to him to
say that. although lifelong Demo-
crat, he had decided as result of
what he had heard to vote this time
for the Republican candidate. Before
the latter, in his bushes, could stam-
mer out a response, the farmer con.
tinued: what we want as governors
is honest men. You are one. You
said that you were no speaker. You
told the truth. | shall vote for YOU"
New York Post.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
WALKING AN AID TO LONGEVITY

With Many Centenarians 1t Was tho
Favorite Form OF Exercise.
Walking appears to be the form of
physical exercise most favored by cen
tenarians. 1t is related of one Mac
Donald, who died in Highlands, Scot
land, in 1871, aged 10l: ''He was a
great pedestrian, and the year before
he died, at the age of 100, undertook
on a wager to walk ten miles in two
hours and half, which he performed.
He was accordingly presented to the
king at Windsor"
Colonel George Perkins of Norwich,
Conn, who died thirteen years ago,
aged 100, made practice of walking
four miles a day until within a few
years of his death. Mary Wilkinson
of Yorkshire, England, who iI 1883
died at 109. walked to London when
she was 80. The distance was $50
miles. She made it in five days and
three hours. Mary Mcdonnell, a Wig.
orous old woman of Magheratempany
Ireland, in 1884, when III, walked
fourteen miles.
Sally Morris, who recently died near
Parkersburg, w. Va, at the age of
113, had, up to two years previous to
her death, walked twenty miles to
town and back one day in each week.
A conspicuous number of centena.
rians have enjoyed their favorite
sports and pastimes even in their very
last days. Sieu Dason de Veger of
Lourday. France, who died in 1744,
aged lis, rode hunting fifteen days
before his death" Bartholomew Ry,
mer, Yorkshire gamekeep who ended a
century of vigorous life in 1891, shot
game flying in his 99th year" One
Hastings. an Englishman, dying in
1850 rode to the death of a stag
when near go" In the last century
of his life he was a fisherman and
swan the river after he was 100.
All these instances, says the Roch.
ester Post-Express, prove the value of
outof-door exercise as an aid in the
prolongation of life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
A MIDNIGHT CALL UPON MeTHUeN
Soldiers Sense of Human Not Destroyed
by Hard Work.

by Hard Work.
The recent capture and release OF
Lord Methuen by the Beers has given
rise to a number of stories relating
to this unlucky commanders career In
the army, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. Long before the Boer war
began Lord Methuen was campaign
ing in South Africa at the head of the
famous band of rough riders known as
Methuen's Horse. A member of the
regiment. G. L. Chesterton, has since
made a reputation as a worker in the
field of London journalism, and he It
is who tells this anecdote of CAM
paigning on the borders of Bechuana
land:
When we were encamped on the
big hill overlooking the Setlagoli Riv.
or, not very far from Mafeking, Lord
Methuen used to occupy a common
bell tent, near to which slept a couple
of his orderlies and myself. his field
trumpeter. One dark night the Hca.
Dick Cotton came stumbling into
camp and, endeavoring to discover the
whereabouts of the commander, az
preached us. shouting in high voice:
Paul, | say, Paul, where are your
Presently from the inside of the tent
came more sonorous sound is that
you. Dick? What do you want?' The
jaded wayfarer remarked: DO you
know. Paul, that asked one of your
men where ! could find you. and he
told me to go to - Without a
moments hesitation Lord Methuen re.
piled; Come inside, Dick, come in
side"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
The Successful vooer.

Men would have a great deal more
chance of success in their wooing II
they understood better how girls like
to be wooed AS it is. they have no
idea on the subject that is at all use
full, and many a lovers suit is unsuc-
cessful Just because he is ignorant OF
a girls tastes in that direction.
Now. IL girls had the matter in their
own hands they would manage very
differently To begin with, they would
never play the bashful lover There is
nothing less calculated to make a girl
say yes" to the important question
than the wooing of lover who is shy.
She despises man who cant have
courage enough to ask her boldly, and
when he stammers and hesitates over
it. instead OF walking up boldly to the
lions mouth, he reduces his chances to
a minimum. says the Philadelphia 10
qulrer.
Above all things. woman delights in
feeling the superior strength of man.
When he comes and asks her to be his
wife with fine, bold front and manly
bearing. the battle is half won.
She respects and admires him for
pressing his suit with decision. and
when she begins to admire man love
does not lag far behind. The trem-
bling. timorous lover never commands
her respect.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
UNCLE SAM RAISES sPoNGEs.
Experiments Intended to Foster and
Develop Industry.

Experiments Intended to Foster and
Develop Industry.
The United States is engaged in ex-
periments intended to foster and de-
velop the sponge-raising industry in
this country.
The only sponge state in America is
Florida, off the coast of which lie the
great sponge banks. OF late they have
not been yielding the quantity desired,
so the United States fish commission
has set out to plant sponges in Florida
Keys.
AS yet their efforts have not been
rewarded with any great degree of
success. The sponges which they plant
refuse for some reason to grow, but
the scientists in the governments en-
ploy will not give up. The United
States fish commission ship Fish
Hawk is still cruising about Florida
waters, and the sponge scientists are
keeping right on planting sponges.
BY experiments which they are now
conducting they intend to demonstrate
at what depth a sponge can grow, and
they expect to explode the old theory
that fifty feet is the limit.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
pews sRoUoHr HIGH PRICES.
In Washinston's Exclusive st. Johns
One Sold for $3.50.

IN Washingtone exciustve OF. Johns
One Sold for $3.50.
At an auction sale held Friday at
Sloan's auction rooms two pews in
st. Johns Protestant Episcopal
church, Lafayette square, were sold
at big prices. Pew No. 50 brought
$2,75O, while pew No. n was sold for
1000. While these prices may seem
large. in reality they are not. for IL
is rare thing for pew in old st.
Johns, which is the ultra-fashionable
church in Washington, to be had for
love or money" The church edi-
fee being SO small, the pews have for
years been most sought after, and
they have been attainable only of
recent years by auction. Then they
are sold outright to the purchasers
and remain in family until that fam
lily either dies out or moves away
from the capital. Often pewholders
with small families sell seat in their
pews for a certain number OF years,
and even a single seat brings prices
away up in the hundreds of dollars.
1t has been several years since there
was chance to purchase a pew in St.
Johns. The last one sold-at auction
of course-was during the Cleveland
administration. 1t brought better
price than the two sold Friday on ac-
count Of it's superior location.
There is waiting list of persons who
desire pews or seats In st. Johns
which, If filled, would take up all the
seatings in a new church almost twice
the size of the present one.
Some years ago Baltimorean
bought paw in st. Johns and gave it
to the church with the distinct under
standing that it was to be placed at
the disposal of the president of the
United States and his family. Presi-
dents of late years, however, have
rarely used this pew, for Mr.. Cleve-
land attended the Presbyterian
church. and so did Mr.. Harrison.
President Mckinley was Methodist
and Mr.. Roosevelt is Dutch Reform
err. Mrs. Roosevelt is an Episcopa-
liam, and she, with the Roosevelt
children, now occupies the presidents
pew almost every Sunday.-Washing
ton Correspondence Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
Women Of the AntIpodea.

The female voter, the female harris,
ter, the female auctloneer and the
female Shareholder have already ar
rived at the Antipodes, and now the
lady juror and the lady magistrate
are promised. Asked whether he in.
tended to introduce measure giving
women the right to act as Jurors, the
premier of New South Wales replied:
81 see no reason why women should
not act as Jurors"
"They would take long time to
come to a decision some member in
terjected.
THAT may be-" rejoined the pre-
mier. Il believe in women having the
same rights as men, and, so far as
| am concerned, intend that the
women of New South Wales shall
have them.''-London Chronicle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03

friends passed him in the corridor
without recognition.
Anselm Joseph McLaurin, United
States Senator from Mississippi, is an
other of the old-time southern states
men who have received legislative
honors. Since the close of the civil
war, in which. though only 16 years
of age, he served in the confederate
army with distinction, he has been
elected successfully to almost every
post of honor in the gift of the people
Of his state. His present term in the
senate expires in 1907. In politics
Senator McLaurin is democrat. He
is "a years old.
Congressman Hull of Iowa was in
Philadelphia the other day when the
Five O'clock club gave a dinner. He
was seized upon as guest by the
good fellows in the club, but pleaded
that he had no dress suit.
I'VE can fix that all right" said his
hosts, and, taking him into an adjoin-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03

his arm lady with sylphliks form,
but who was heavily yelled.
Charles traitor heart leaped at
sight OF her. The graceful carriage
was SO like that of Airline, so queenly
and perfect.
Yet he knew beyond peradventrSe
that this was the countess who had
finally fallen into the tolls of the
fowler.
Charlie was inclined to rush and
seize upon his friend. the baron: but
those two guards held his arms in a
grip of steel.
Attract the attention of Peterhoff
only for the woman at his side, know
ing his men were capable of executing
the orders previously given.
So he assisted her into vehicle and
swept one last glance around.
Charlie cried out.
Other sounds there were in the
street just then. At any rate, the
baron never vouchsafed single look
in his quarter. but waved an arm.
jumped into the vehicle and was gone.
BY this time the gendarmes were
issuing from the hotel, each with a
companion, most of the prisoners be-
ing gentlemen.
AS fast as the vehicles were filled
with guards and captives they dashed
away
Charles turn came. He attempted a
protest. but was. roughly showed along
and thrust into one of the closed We
hicles. which presently numbered
down the street.
And so the innocent suffered with
the guilty.
Ito be continued.)
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
TusKs OF GREAT MAMMOTH.
Found in Texas and Now in New York
They Settle a Scientific Doubt.

A pair of tusks from a mammoth
that lived at least $4,000 and possibly
100000 years ago has just been re-
ceived at the American Museum of
Natural History in New York, from
Victoria, Tex, where they were found
in an old river-bed deposit.
The particularly interesting thing
about them is that they are the larg-
est ever found. Prof. Lucas, curator
of the National Museum at Washing
ton, is authority for that statement.
The larger of the two tpsks. measur-
ed ON the outside curve. is thirteen
feet and some inches in length. The
estimated height of the mammoth to
which they belonged is thirteen feet
Jumbo was eleven feet high.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03


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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03


outward and the broad-brimmed white
hat came into collision with it and
then went rolling along the lobby like
barrel of -four.
oh, DEAR" exclaimed Mr.. Carlisle,
as he went scrambling after the hat.
and then he brushed it as carefully as
though it were a beaver of the latest
style.
Senators Allison and Plat, of Con
necticut, stood at the door of the ele-
vator yesterday.
After you" said Allison, with a
bow to Platt
NO, you go first" said Plat, bow.
ing TO Allison.
And then along came Senator Nc
MILAN. He passed between Allison
and Platt with laugh. Take me to
the top floor" he said to the elevator
conductor, and If his colleagues hadn't
stopped bowling and stepped aboard
they would have teen left as certain
as fate.
"Uncle Nick Young, who has been
identified with the National Baseball
League since its inception, has re-
moved his headquarters to New York.
His office has been located in Wash
ington for longer than thirty-one years
and has been the rendezvous for all
players who visited the capital Fiji
teen years ago, when the game was
enjoying its halcyon days. mick"
Young was almost as important a per.
sonage as the man who lived at the
white house
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
No Aamlrer Of Social Forms.

Ex-Gov. Pattison has large and
healthy contempt for the punctilious
of social form. He thinks there's a
great deal of an American fubdub
about such matters and illustrates his
views on the subject by adding that
he never came across anything supe-
rior to reply a Pennsylvania politi-
clan received from a friend whom he
sad invited to reception. Yours
received. | will be there" was all
of it. "and quite enough. too" sayT
the ex-governor.
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: Our Weekly Letter
Q From the Capital 8
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Especial letter.

her husbands long efforts in behalf of
the Cuban cause with the authorities
in Washington.
81 wish you would come up to take
dinner with me-" said Senator Till
man to a friend in the capitol yester-
day.
Certainly" was the reply, What is
your address?"
Eighteen sixty-one Mintwood
place." said the Senator.
That's pretty hard to remember"
said Tillmans friend; I'm write 1t
down."
20, no." remarked Tillman. RE
member the year the war began. That
will fix the number Of the house
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
WANT RusneII sane to Rest.

Russell Sage's family and family
physician are in league against tho
veteran financier, who is now in his
eighty-eighth year. Concerted effort is
being made to convince him that he has
done his share of the worlds work.
They do not even nope that he will
stop a,,ending the business alto
gether: they are merely trying TO
have him reduce his working hours to
two or three daily, with occasional hol-
idays.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03

The British Navy League has been
officially informed that the safety OF
the Nelson column will have to be OBJ
solutely assured before King Edward
is advised to give his assent to any
bill providing for tube" railway nn-
der Trafalgar square, London,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03


lWife of the New Cuban Ambassador
to the United States.l
Then remember mint juleps. and you
can't forget the street Now, don't
forget. Think of the first year of the
war and of mint juleps, and you will
come straight to where I live"
Ex-senator Carlisle, of Kentucky,
came up to the capital yesterday wear
ing the most remarkable title" seen
during the present generation. 1t was
tall, white, stovepipe of the "Tippe-
canoe-and-Tyler-too" brand. Mr.. Car
Isle had it on his head as he started to
enter the senate chamber. At that
moment some one swung the door
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03

hasten the appointment.
out in Danville," he said, Il went
70 see a friend. and after pleasant
visit | asked him to come and see me.
Bring your little boy, also, | said,
for | have pony on my farm which
| will give him.
The gentleman thanked me, but the
little boy pulled at his fathers coat
tails. Pop he whispered, when is he
going to do it?'"
The President laughed at the story,
but did not answer the question as to
when the Congressman's friend would
be named.
Senator Warren of Wyoming was
entertaining some friends at lunch re-
Gently. The change from a IS bill
was exactly 81. The waiter broug.-.
him 81 bill, a 50-cent piece and two
quarters.
Mr.. Warren looked smilingly at the
waiter. May l ask" he inquired
why you did not bring me two 81
bills?"
Because. Senator" replied the wise
and witty waiter, the Lord loveth a
cheerful giver."
The 50-cent piece went into the
walters pocket
Beg your pardon, sir; but only
members and ex-members are allowed
on the floor of the house." said one of
the doorkeepers recently as Repre-
sentative Babcock started to enter the
house. We'll, I'm member" said
the representative from Wisconsin.
Don't you know me?"
"Oh," said the startled doorkeeper,
Il know you now. but | did not recog.
nize you at first. The loss of your
beard makes big difference"
Mr.. Babcock smiled and and disap-
peared into the house, where the mem.
bers looked searchingly at him, many
failing to recognize their colleague
because of the absence of his whisk-
ers.
Mr.. Babcock hasn't worn a smooth
chin in fifteen vars. The change was
most pronounced. and many of his
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
rrouble for spanlsh KIna.

Among the other troubles OF the
young King of Spain is that of having
a wife imposed upon him. The Royal
Society of Matchmakers will attend TO
the business for him, so that he WIN
have no trouble until after the wed
ding
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03

SeEasor A. J. McLaurin.
ing room. they attired him in suit
which had done duty in a similar
emergency before. When Mr.. Hull
was asked to make a speech he ex-
planned his presence in an ill-fitting
costume.
"Oh, don't apologize" coolly re-
marked the President of the club.
1.-THE last man who wore that suit had
Hull of time himself"
Diplomatic circles are much inter-
ested in Nine. De Quesada. who. as
wife of the Cuban minister to the
United States. win occupy a position
of social prominence. Nine. Quesada
is accomplished and her tact and
geniality won her many friends during
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
MISS VIRGINIA CRANES
Tells How Hospital Physicians
Use and Rely upon Lydia E.
Pinkhsm's Vegetable Con
pound.

"DEAI Mrs. PISKHAM Twelve
years continuous service at the sick
bed in some of our prominent hospi-
tails, as well as at private homes, has
given me varied experiences with the
diseases of women. L have nursed some
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03

A mans business is a curse when
ne ~ too busy to stop to do good
Rams Horn.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03

REPRESENTATIVE CAN
NON, who has a friend
whom he hopes will be
appointed a judge on the
district bench, told the
President a story the 9TH
er morning in order to
hasten the appointment.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-03
A WARRIOR BOLD.
b. ST. GEORGE RATHBoRNE,

AsfAor or "Little Miss Mtiions." "7ns Spidsr's
Fso,""Dr. Jaek's Widou'. KISS Coprics," etc
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Copyright 1901. Stree, and smith, New York.
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