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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

DIR Kingsbury has been skeptical as
Carolina statesmen, but now he is very
near the kingdom" Closing his article
no saws: lone of the greatest, most
beneficial services Mr. Macon ever rem
dared his country was in doing so much
70 nut the greatest statesman, Thomas
Jefferson, in the Presidential chair over
sncb a narrow, Objectionable man as
John Adams, of Massachusetts.
Dr. Kingsbury may not know it, but
the reason he gives for admiring Macon
is the real reason why his greatness has
heen denied in North Carolina. The
Federalists and early Wings of North
Carolina, as elsewhere, hated Jefferson
with an unreasoning hatred. 1t was Mr..
Macon who defeated them at every turn
and made North Carolina the truest
state in the Union to Jeffersonian De-
mocracy. Col VIM. l.. Saunders once
said that North Carolinians insisted upon
voting for Jefferson for a third term even
after his refusal to accept it Piqued and
mad because they could make no head
way against Jefferson in North Carolina,
his political opponents deliberately set
to work to write down Macon as a small
They could not harm him in life. For
thirty-seven years his word was law i'll
North Carolina politics. After his death
they systematically wrote and talked
him down. They controlled much of the
press, they educated most of the young
men. they had much of the culture and
wealth. For political purposes they I'M
derestimated Macon and a generation
grew up who were taught to laugh at
him as IAN eccentric old codger who
accidentally filled big office. No friend
or supporter of Macon wrote the true
history of his life and the false estimate
of North Cardinals greatest man came
to be largely accepted. Latterly men
who study history without bias have
learned that the true Macon is not the
Macon pictured by Federalist and Wing
teachers and writer's, but man of al
together different mould and stature-a
man like Washington in his equipoise,
like Jefferson in his devotion to popular
government, and like Jackson in his
unyielding character and simple habits
the typical North Carolina statesman
not free from its provincialism, If you
please. but tower of strength in the
Federal government as Well as in the
State for forty years.
All who approach the study of Macon
without the inherited partisan made de-
prociations of the man will be as candid
as DR.. Kingsbury.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

people. Few believed them. Time has
shown that the Democrats have kept
their promise. At the election in No
vember no white man will lose his vote
because of inability to read and write.
No white man over fifty years of age
and therefore no Confederate soldier
will lose his vote, because the only
white man who cannot vote is one under
fifty, not too poor to pay his tax, who
has failed to pay his poll tax. And he
is not DISTINGUISHED. He can register
under the grandfather clause and vote
at every election in the year that he
pays his poll tax.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

Pritchard's organ. the Charlotte OBJ
server gives a mild "yelp' at the sight
'shied" into it's crowd in regard to its
report of the Pritchard Craig discus
sion at Statesvile. We are sorry for
these fellows; but II is only the penalty
that the "uneo' good" and hal!neas pee
pie have to pay. to have their sins point
ed out. If these people could only be
taken at their own valuation without
any inquiry their acts. wouldn't they be
perfect lot?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

In the same month, January, 1900,
Senator Butler wrote letter to a voter
in North Carolina in which he said
mo one will deny that the result (of
the amendment will be to disfranchise
fifty on sixty thousand white voters of
the State, many of them old men and
Confederate soldiers who are now too
old to start to school and get an edu-
cation even if they had the time and
money to do SO. These men, who COM
pose some of the very best and most
substantial citizens of our State, would
be digfranchised, while the town negro,
with his cooked hat and eye glasses,
would vote and be eligible to hold office
according to the provisions of the amend
ment. l regret to say it, and would not
advertise the fact if the threatened dan
ger of disfranchisement of our good,
honest voters did not demand it, that
North Carolina has larger percentage
of illiterate voters than any State IN
the Union
The Caucasian in an editorial April
26th, 1900, said;
THE infamous scheme to disfranchise
good, honest, brave white men because
they cannot read and write is now under
stood by these good citizens of the state,
and when election day comes they VIII
bury with their ballots the Simmons
ballot box suffers.
1.-THE white men, whose Liberties are
in grave danger, now plainly see through
the damnable plot to prevent them from
voting after the adoption of the amend
ment The Ransom Simmons ma
chine have no love for the honest, hum
bile brave and noble hearted plain peo-
ple of North Carolina, and by this dis
franchising scheme are attempting to rob
them of their right TO vote. The mig
ger racket will be worked vigorously
by these tricksters so as TO hide their
devilish scheme to remove the honest.
uneduCareu white man as "A political
factor"
Again. on May Srd, the same paper
says, editorially:
"The pending proposition to tear the
ballot out of these ignorant hands Is
the Democratic party's return for the
confidence and trust reposed In them by
the illlterate electorate of North Caro-.
lima"
We might nli a whole page with stint
lar extracts Then we said that theas
Two Senators were tfyins 20 mislead th,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

This is testimony supported by the
law and by the facts which must be &C
cepted 1t effectually answers the ne
publican orators who have been mis-
leading the people by the statement
-tbot there are no tariff duties on anthra-
cite coal or the products of the Stand
ard Oil Company.
This testimony knocks the last prop
from under Mr.. Prltchard great
speech which the protectionists have
been circulating as their best campaign
document.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19
A MORNING TONIC.

Life hath no blessing like an earnest
pathway, We should dull the sharpened
thorns-gather all the sweetest flowers,
and ever have handful ready, to throw
to everyone we meet"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

And now we are lectured every day py
Radicals and their allies about tine
arrogance and insolence" of the vote
the ticket" people. They are the people
who saved the State from negro rule
and they will save it from rule by
Pritchards doodles and hangerson. There
are 10000 of them in North Carolina.
too
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

Senator Aldrich, the trust Senator, had
the Republican convention OF Rhode
island 10 saw that the combinations
acclaimed against are enormously called
trusts" The Standard Oil Senator has
tender feelings toward these eombina-
lions.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

The interview with State Treasurer
Lacy. published in another column. gives
complete answer 10 the Winston Re
publicans big claim of the State credit
under the Republican State Treasurer
IL Is a "socdolager."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

One dollar reward will be paid Tor
copy of the full ticket that the so-calieo
Independent Hill billies are sending out
for their 400 voters to put in the box. SO
far they will not say who they will sup
port for Corporation Commission, Super
intendent of Schools and Superior Court
Judges-Rhamkatte Rooster.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

Independentism that is a side show for
the Radical party does not appeal TO
true independents. They wish no sham.
They see the ass's ears sticking out
from under the Hons skin.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

The Republican State convention de-
clared In favor OF "a more general and
equitable distribution" OF the pension
fund. The Anglo Saxon thinks that a
declaration TO divide the fend with de.
aertcra
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-19

The News and Observer goes every day
now 10 s.ia2 subscribers. That's the way
the OLD Reliable" Ia golug forward
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02

remember once stepping into a village
 inn for shelter during a heavy thunder
 storm and finding the landlord and his lloW-topers, all notorious blasphe- mers and cure-b baiters, simply rolling Oh the tap-room floor in ecstaces of ter rified supplication for divine protection. superstition of the grossest kind still flouflshes all over Normandy. A most respectable old gentleman recently died in village near Dieppe, who, although ne was both wealthy and charitaple, had for years before his death been un- der taboo by the villagers. He had the reputation of being a sorcerer The be- lief in witches and sorcerers Is still rampant at the beginning of the twen- teth century all over this province. These eyilly- disposed persons, such Is the popular credence, can cast spells, whereby castle peak and pine and har- vests fail. This is province where there are the shrewdest heads in France. And it is not in the rural dis tricts only that these absurd beliefs obtain. I was in Rouen some time ago the capital of Normandy-and found there flourishing a superstition and it's resultant rites which date from before the Christian era indeed, more than twenty centuries before our era.--Rob- ert H. Sherard in the Boston Tran script.
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c FITTING READY FOR MORE.

| Tn time of peace the British prepare 1 for war, and now in time of war they are actively preparing for more war
 Recently all the muzzle-loaders in the | forts along the coast were replaced with up-to-date breech-loaders, and smoke
 less powder has been laid up for future
 use. At Gibraltar and other fortresses and naval stations modern ordnance has been installed. Now it is announce ed that forty-two native regiments of infantry and twenty-two of cavalry in India have been armed with the Lee Enfield magazine rifle. Over half of the native troops still have Martinls, supplied to them in this financial year. The factories have been rushing the manufacture, but the war in South Af- rica caused heavy demands. It is claim ed for the 1903 Enfield magazine rifle that, if not better than, it is cer- tainly as good as, the Mauser, which mas made great reputation for itself A new rifle is being tried which is said to be superior to the ee-Enfeld. As the volunteer troops at home as well as the regulars and volunteers in South Africa, India and elsewhere are now provided with modern rifles and cannon and smokeless powder the armament of the British army is more up- -to-data than it has been since 1915. With it's recent increase of size and improved drill and experience it is probably more efficient than 1t ever was before
 Perhaps by and by when things are quiet some distinguished person will read paper" before some distinguish ed society on What the Boers did for the British"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02
OV THE RIGHT TRACK.

New York's new mayor evidently doesn't mean to be in a position where he can be accused of being a stock holder in an ice trust, or anything like The talk is that Mayor Low has sold large amount of securities since he and bonds in several of the strongest banks and trust companies in the city, besides the securities of lighting, gas and water companies. Some of these securities he inherited from his father, the late A. A. Low. Others he invested in. All are 'gilt-edged" and pay high rate of interest. The new mayor rid himself of these, because owning the bank stocks he might have felt com pelled to refuse the banks requests to receive city moneys, and that would have been unjust; and the other cor porations whose stocks and bonds he owned might have come before him in one way or another for his official &C., tion
 In this action Mayor Low has shown fine sense of duty and honor. For tunately he was able to get a good price for his securities, but it will trouble him to reinvest the proceeds protitably.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02
THE PEASANTS OF NORMANDY.
De Maupassant's Types Were Not
 Overdrawn

De Maupassant's Types Were Not Overdrawn.
 People who have read the wonderful short stories of Guy de Maupassant, that master stylist, where he describes
 the Norman peasant as he is to-day,
 may have thought, as I formerly used
 to think, that his types could not be but
 the creations of his brain in a pessi-
 mistic mood, that such compounds of
 cunning, avarice and meanness could
 not possibly exist in real life. Profess
 sor Lombroso in manuscript, as yet unpublished, which have been reading,
 and which deals with regicides, asserts
 that morbid feeling of atruism is one
 of the characteristics of political crim-
 inals and in many cases the direct
 cause of their crimes. We'll, if that is
 so one need never fear to see a Norman
 peasant in the ranks of political crimi-
 nals. There is not an atom of tltruism
 in his psychology, nothing but egoism
 of the most ferocious type. For De
 Maupassant was true to nature in his
 portraits of the race from which the great aristocratic families of England
 originally sprang Indeed, an artistic reserve seems at times to have prompt ed him to tone down his colorng. This is an opinion to which l came after spending some months at the beginning of this year in a village in Normandy, where 1 lived entirely among the peas ants and had hourly opportunities of studying them, Many of the stories I heard them tell among themselves may well have been heard by De Maupas- sant also, for Rouen and it's environs as far as the eeacoast is the Maupassant country, and may have furnished him with the ideas and personages of his tales of peasant life. Most of his read CTS will remember that story of his which is called "The Little Barrel" A well-to-do farmer obtains from an old woman, who owns some land an agree ment by which this property shall re- vert to him at her death, and this in of an annuity to be paid by him, After paying the annuity for two or three years he begins to fear lest he have made bad bargain, as the old woman remains hale and hearty So he sets to work to induce her to drink. Every time that he calls on her he produces bottle of brandy and forces little glass after little glass upon her. Gradually she acquires the drink habit and the desired denouement is about by a little barrel of coz
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02
THE CONTENTION.

The Constitutional Convention began operations yesterday, and the opening session was not altogether encouraging to those who have hoped that public spirit would shame private spirit in the convention. Still it is too soon to tell how things are going to be done. Elk Judge Andrews, chosen chairman of the convention, made a careful and prudent address which indicated that he isn't in favor of any very radical action. And it was also very evident that the representatives of the small towns are not in favor of any radical action.
 The convention did not adjourn sine die yesterday, as some think it ought to have done. It will resume work to- day, and we shall soon see how 1t is headed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02
EYPLOSy IF.

Mrs. Boaster-Henry and l attended that opera last night. We had q box.
 Mrs. Blount-- Caramels, weren't they? I saw you in the gallery eating some thing Richmond Dispatch.
 What Broke the Engagement.-She But I would never marry a man who loved me for my good looks.
 He-Of course not, dear I never thought of such thing. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,
 II was nearly overcome by gas again. remarked the man who had come from the suburbs.
 When did 1t occur?"
 'At the usual time. When the com pany rendered it's bill. Tit Bits
 There isn't as much kicking in foot ball as had expected" said the young woman.
 "No,' said the young man. If you enjoy kicking you want to take an in terest in baseball. ."--W Washington Star.
 Crimsonbeak-My wife had her pock- etbook stolen three times within 2 fort night while shopping
 Yeast-You don't tell me!
 "Yes, and strange to say the thieves got the same each time.
 That is odd How much did they get?"
 Nothing. Workers Statesman
 Still Manufacturing friend Jigley failed in the wooen business, didn't he?"
 ''Yes, he was yarn manufacturer and he's started up again in the same line"
 That so?"
 Yes; he's press agent for a circus now Philadelphia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02
Watches That EG8D Time. Some of the Special Bargains in the George H. Ford Co.'S
 Retirement Sale.
Substantial, Reliable Watches for Men, Decorated Cases, Dainty Sizes, Good Keep
 sakeS and Good Time
 pieces for Women.
Absolute Guarantee given with every Sale by this Firm, which is the Official Watch Inspector for the N. Y., N, H. and H. R. K. Co.

There is fasination in the sub tie influence of good watch. That air of mystery about the inechan- ism which inpresses one like the Latin of a doctors prescription often assists a fraud, therefore it behooves the cautious not to be attracted by the Allurements of the cheap watch seller.
 When reliability is absolutely necessary, there is no better place to find it than at The George H. Ford Co.,, where the discount re- tirement sale now in progress, in cludes its stock Of watches as well as other articles.
 This house has been for long time the official watch inspector for the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, and as it's trade with railroad men Is extensive it has made speciality of accurate time pieces in dust proof cases In looking over tho stock today, the following selections were made of particular interest, that have come under the price reduction:
 A mans open-faced gold watch, reduced from s46.5O to s25; U gold open-face, English chronorneter, adjusted by Walch, the finest time piece in the world, reduced from $275 to $l75; a boys solid silver watch reduced from s19.50 to $10; q lady's watch, gold plated case, Waltlam movement. the kind that other dealers call filled case,' re- duced from s15 to s750; solid silver watch, eleven jeweled, nickel movement, reduced from $1750 to s1O; ladies open face watch re- duced from $35 to s17.50; a very fine old watch, gold case, high class movement, quarter repeater, made the early part of the last century and purchased in Amsterdam, re- duced from $150 to $10O; d mans gold open face observatory time piece, full jeweled, w. J. Tobias movement, chased case with the head of Washington. reduced from $100 to $50; a Waltham watch, ex- tra heavy IS karat gold case, re- duced from $S6 to $66; an extra heavy Walthan, railroad dial, Bartlett movement reduced from sso to $2O.
 All the stock in retirement sale reduced from 20 to 50 per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02
Hnrss. Dog nnd tha Man.

The horse and the dog had tanned man and fastened him to fence; ,,, Said the horse to the dog; For the life of me, 1 don't see Il bit of sense In letting him have the thumbs that grow
 at the sides of his hands-do you! And the dog looked solemn and shook his head and said: Pm goat II ] do. The poor man groaned and tried to get loose, and sadly he begged them:
 Stay!
 You will rob me of things for which I
 have use by cutting my thumbs away! You will spoil my looks, you Will cause ne r pain! An, why would you treat me As I am. God made me. and He knows
 best! Oh, masters, pray let me go!' The dog laughed out and the horse replied
 "Oh, the cutting won't hurt! You see, We'll have hot iron to clap right on, as
 you did ill your docking of me! God gave you your thumbs and all, bat ,, still the Creator, you know, may faii To do the artistic thing, us He did in fur
 nishing me with a tail!' So they bound the man and cut off hls
 thumbs, and were deaf to his pitiful
 cries,
 And they scared the stumps and they view
 ed their work through happy and dag
 2led eyes;
 "How trim he appears" the horse ex-
 claimed, "since his awkward thumbs
 are gone,
 For the life of me cannot see why the
 Lord ever put them on.'' "Still it seems to me-" the dog replied
 that there's something else to do; His ears look rather too long to me, and
 how do they look to youT 2 The man cried out; "Oh, spare my ears.
 God fashioned them as you see, And if you apply your knife to them you'll
 surely distigure mee' But you didn't disfgure me you know,'
 the dog decisiyely said, When you bound me fast and trimmed my
 ears down close to the top of my
 head."
 So they let him moan and they let him
 groan while they cropped his ears
 away,
 And they praised his looks when they let
 him up, and proud indeed were they! But that was years and years ago, in an
 unenlightened age! Such things are ended now, you know! we
 have reached a higher stage! The ears and thumbs God gave to man are
 his to keep and to wear, And the cruel horse and dog look on and
 never appear to care!
 $. E. Kiser, in Rider and Driver.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02

be rubbed down dry and made warm. The preparation of such a bath consists of six gallons of warm water, into which I put gallon of milk, two doz- en eggs and a quart of whiskey, This helps, not only to clean their skin, keep them healthy and in nice condition. but they drink it greedily. It is interesting to watch the manner in which q snake drinks. Dogs, cats, lions and most oth- CT animals lap their drink. The snake drinks in the same manner as horse, swallowing it down in large gulps and, unlike a man, it always knows when it has enough You could put food and water into a serpent's cage after once being fed and watered and it would re- main there for many weeks until the snake became hungry or thirsty again without it being touched.
 The stomach of a snake Is perhaps the most peculiar dispensation that Providence has provided for the preser- walton of the reptiles. The snake has no feet and, conseuently, nothing with which to protect. It is at times prey to wild boars and other animals. Since the days of Eve every man has been against it, the idea of it being snake makes them kill it. It is much ma- ligned and were people more conversant with snakes they would find much that is lovable even in a snake.
 "The inhab bitants of Corea and cer- tain parts of Asia, which are infested by rats and mice, keep in their homes a pet snake that performs the same duty as the English terrier, cleaning the house frt n vermin, and is a pet of the family and to the children. ."-Buf- falo Express.
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TT CAN BE DONE.

It Is hard to believe, but it is said that actually being abated. and not very slowly either. Cleveland has been at this
 beneficent work for some time. Moral suasion, the awakening of public senti- ment, and instruction in the economies possible with smoke consuming devices, careful firing, the use of smokeless coal,
 and of mechanical stoking, are the only
 methods upon which the Smoke Inspec-
 tor and his assistants rely. Since the first of July nevertheless, they are able
 to report that fifty mechanical stokers and smokeIess furnaces have been in- stalled and contracts let for about thirty more. The consequent improve
 ment in the case of seven establish ments amounted to per cent. on the scale of measurement adopted. i C., from 15 to per cent. Tn six others the fall was from 21 to per cent. The railroads have lent their aid by ap- pointing special engineers and inspec- tors to cooperate with the city officials. and by insisting on better firing. As against the 20 to 35 per cent observed last March, the percentages in Novem- Der have run from to 13 per cent. only, and in the case of one road from 10 per cent At no time since the be- ginning of the york; the report con- cludes, has the outlook been. more promising or the evidence of improve ment more marked"
 can't it be done in some other places?