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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-12

DeWitt's Little Early Risers cure Con-
situation Billiousness. Sich Headache,
Torpid Liver, Jaundice, Malaria and all
other Liver Troubles. They never grippe
w. ii. King Drug Co.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-12

scientific remedy for catarrh. 1t cures
catarrh wherever located. Its cures last.
Peruna gives strength by stopping
waste.
BY saving the mucus it enriches the
blood.
By cleansing the mucous membranes
it preserves the vital forces.
A constant drain of mucus from the
system is known as systemic catarrh
This may occur from any organ OF the
body.
Peruna stops this waste by curing
the catarrhal condition of the mucous
membrane, no matter which organ may
be affected. Peruna cures cat&rrh Wher-
ever located,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-12

was attacked with
la grippe, W h i C h
he f t m e wit h
q severe liver
trouble. 1 gave up
h pc of ever re-
covering. Peruna
cure d me. / feel
young again, and
am gaining in flesh,
as l was very
e m a CT a t e d. My
r,.. Ill 4
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-12
MANY THOUSANDS CURED OF CATARRf.

Mrs. Mary Cook, Pittsford, N. ", also
says:
81 was not very well for six years,
paid many doctor bills, but never inn
proved very much. Two years ago
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27
50, 900 for M~ecklenburg's Rural School

$4,000 for Mecklenburg's Rural Schools
Messrs. F. @. Abbott, J. A. Dur
ham, F. r. McNinch and Prof. r. J..
Cochran, trustees of the Mecklen-
burg rural school fund, met yester-
day in the office of Mr.. McNinch for
the purpose of c~anvassing the fund
and arranging for It's collection.
It was found that there is sub
scribed to the fund $3,611.47 of the
required $4,000, leaving a balance to
be subscribed of $388.53. The COM
mittee is certain that this amount
can be raised in a short time, and
then the work of distributing the
fund among the rural schools
building and repairing schools and
the like-will be begun.
1t is remembered that the General
Educational Board of New York
agreed to duplicate the amount that
was raised in this county, and so
soon as the $4,000 is contributed the
$4,000 of the Board will be forth
coming. and thus $4,000 will be
given to the country schools in this
county.-Charlotte Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27
Wilcox Gets Thirty Years at Hard
Labor.

Hartford, n. c., Jan. 21.-James
f. Wilcox was to-day sentenced to
thirty years at hard labor in the
State prison for the killing of Ella
Maude Cropsey. The jury returned
a verdict of guilty of murder in
the second degree. At 2 p. m. Jim
Wilcox forged his way through a
jostling crowd in the aisle of the
courtroom to the bar. There, with
unfinching eyes, he stood, and, I'M
b~lanching, heard his fate pro-
nOunced.
The defense was not satisfied with
the verdict, and asked for a new
trial. This was not granted. They
will appeal to the Supreme Court.
The time in which to do so was
placed at thirty days.
The verdict meets with almost
universal approval. There are two
parties with whom it is unsatisfac-
tory. These are the Cropseys and
the Wilcoxes. The Cropseys say
that nothing short of a hanging
would satisfy them. off Wilcox is
guilty at all-and he is guilty-he
should receive the s~everest penalty"
The Wilcox family are not all
pleased, though they talk little.
Wilcox, ST., remarked in significant
tones that Jim wasn't in the peni-
Tertiary yet. James Wilcox himself
is quoted as saying that death is
preferable to the sentence imposed.
He once said: "Give me liberty or
give me DEATH" And evidently he
wasn't testing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27

machines, failed to report the num-
Der of children under II years m
ployed out of their 1886 opera
tives. One hundred and seventy
eight mills reported 929 children
under - employed. The highest
average daily wages paid is, males,
$1.9O, females 81 cents; lowest wage,
males So cents, females 45 cents ;
average children's wage daily 35
cents. Number of hours of labor
range from 10 to u per day. The
number dependent on the mills for
a living is 1O9,781. Percentage of
adult operatives who can read and
write is "a, of children II.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27

AS the results of infection from
the dissection of a cadaver, two stu
dents of the North Carolina Medical
College at Davidson are in a critical
condition and their deaths are ex-
pected momentarily. The unfortu-
nate students are J. M. Boyce, of
Blacksburg, S. c., and o. r. Mcleod,
of Robson County, this State. One
cut his finger, the other had slight
abrasion on the back of the hand.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27

Two or three bills directed at the
factory child-labor evil have been in
troduced. One by Senator Gillian
says: "No child under IA years of
age shall be employed in any factory
or manufacturing establishment
within this State during hours when
the public schools of the city, town
or township in which he resides are
in session, nor be employed in any
such work before the hour of 6
o'clock in the morning or after the
hour of 7 in the evening. Provided
hat this act shall not apply to chill
dren over - years of age upon
whom a widowed mother or totally
disabled father is dependent for
support, or in case such child is
an orphan and has no other means
of support. Provided further, that
no child under the age of 10 years
shall be so employed under any cir
cumstances." A fine of 800 is the
penalty for violation.
A similar bill has been introduced
in the House by III. B. Parker, Jr.,
of Wayne. The bill prohibits the
employment of any child under the
age of u in any factory in the
State, unless a widowed mother or
totally disabled father is dependent
upon the labor of the child, or in
case a child is an orphan and has
no ether means of support. Nc child
under ten shall be employed under
any circumstances. The parent or
guardian cf any child employed
must file with the employer an aft
davit certifying the age of the child.
No child under 16 shall be kept at
work between Z p. m. and 5 a. M, or
for more than sixty-six hours in
any week, or more than eleven hours
in a day. No child under IA shall
be employed unless he or she can
read and write, and unless after Jan
uary LIST, 1904, such child attend
school for at least nine weeks in the
year.
Settle Dockery, of Richmond, has
introduced a bill regulating employ
ment in factories, which contains a
section prohibiting any child under
10 from being employed in any fac
tory. This bill limits a days work
to 10 hours, a weeks work to sixty
hours. It provides, further, that no
child under Is shall work later than
8 p. M.
A bill to give the Corporation
Commission power to compel the
railroads to establish union depots
where needed passed the House last
week, after bitter opposition from
the railroads.
A bill has been introduced for a
Reformatory, to which all white male
persons under the age of 81 years,
who are convicted of felonies and
misdemeanors for the first time,
shall, in the discretion of the Judge,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27
Rural Free Delivery Carriers In North
Carolina.

0SAVS
Carolina.
Raleigh Special to Charlotte OBJ
server: Postmaster Bailey, who pays
the rural free delivery carriers in
this State, says there are nov over
200 and there will probably be $50
by February 1st, these additions be-
ing for routes planned last fall. All
of them get 5000 a year except three,
two of whom get $500 and one $3.50,
these three routes being shorter than
the others. The payments now made
are over $4,000 a month, and 80 per
cent for the checks are sent by the
third of each month, this being quick
work. There is one lady carrier and
one colored carrier. The lady has a
route from Statesville.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27

E. L. Utley, of Fayetteville, was
sentenced Friday to 20 years at hard
labor for the murder of Clerk Hol-
lingsworth a few weeks ago. Utley
was drunk at the time.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27

Roanoke-C howan Times: Meat is
advancing and likely to be as high or
higher in price this year than last.
Most farmers in this section raised
enough for home use, and many
have some to sell, SO that high prices
of meat and lard will not hurt a
majority of our farmers, and benefit
a few.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27

$1,000
one hundred bona fde inhabitants,
passed it's several readings, with n
dissenting vote, that of Mr.. Bryan
of Wilkes.
Senator Warren's bill Ito protect
crops cultivated under a common
fence by making a misdemeanor out
of removing fence without ninety
days notice." has passed.
A bill by Jones Fuller to incorpo-
rate Trinity College names the fol-
lowing gentlemen as incorporators:
A. P. Tyea, J. H. Southgate, B. N.
Duke, G.. A. Oglesby, V. Ballard,
J. A. Long, J. F. Bruton, J. N. Cole,
F. A. Bishop, J. G. Brown, @. W.
Toms, J. W. Alspaugh, W. R.. Odell,
j. A. Gray, F. Stikeleather, Hope
Elias, S. B. Turrentine, P. Fl. Hanes,
T. F. MARI, G. W. Flowers, M. A.
Smith, r. III. Parker, W. J. Mont
gomery, F. M. Simmons, o. W. Carr,
R. A. Mayer, N. M. Jurney, bred
Peacock, B. B. Nicholson, W. G..
Bradshaw, E. G. White, T. N. Ivey,
J. B. Hurley, r. L. Durham and
". @. Wilson. The college is au-
thorized to hold property to an
amount not exceeding three millions
of dollars. T~hirty-six trustees are
provided for, twelve to be elected
by the North Carolina Conference,
twelve by the Western Conference,
and twelve by the graduates of the
college.
"The city of Greensboro, in her Of
fetal capacity and various organiza-
tions, having their headquarters
there, have planned a reunion of and
a reception for all the nonresident
native North Carolinians to be held
in Greensboro on North Carolina
Day, October -, 1903" So the Gov
ernor announced in a special mes
sage Thursday. Both houses for
mally endorsed the movement.
Writing to his paper, the Chat
ham Record, Senator London says:
"There is no doubt that a bill will
be passed to codify u statute laws,
which is very much needed. It has
been twenty years since our laws
have been codifed, and so many
changes have been made in our pres
ent Code that only the best lawyers
know what they are. The magis-
trates cannot keep up with these
changes, and their Codes are of little
use to them.
"There will be no new pension
legislation, although several bills on
that subject have been introduced.
The State Auditor advises against
any changes in the present pension
law, and the Senate committee is
opposed to any. IF applicants for
pensions cannot pass their county
boards, they ought not to have pen
sions by special acts Of the Legis-
lature."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27

Fewer Business Failures in North Caro-
lima.
North Carolina has made a good
record in reducing the number of
failures. This shows hat the bust
ness of State is on the up grade.
Perhaps no State. in the Union has
made more improvement in business
during the past decade than North
Carolina. The Charlotte News gives
the following statement:
During 1902 there we're 81 fail
ures in North Carolina, as against
IA in 1901, and the liabilities were
only $254,956, as compared with
$486,O55 in the previous year. In
every other Southern State in 1902
the number of failures and the at
tendant liabilities show an increase
over the preceding year, which makes
the showing of North Carolina sig
nifcant."- Scotland Neck Common
wealth.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27
Adulterated Bran-Pure Food Law In
adequate.

Gentlemen of the General Assem-
bly,, the pure-food law enacted in
1899 is inadequate. It does not go
far enough. Take, for instance,
wheat bran, which is found on the
market shipped from other States,
and it contains in almost every in
stance saw-dust, crushed corn cobs,
dirt, corn bran, weed seed and other
d~eleterious substances which are not
in any way nutritious. In fact, in
most of the bran made IN our own
State there is a preparation known
as crushed corn cobs, containing
what else no one knows. There is
at least II mill in the State which
does nothing but crush corn cobs
and ship the stuff to adulterate bran.
It has been suggested that all bran
be labelled, as is the case with fer
tilizers. Why not try this on bran,
meal and ur?-Asheboro Courier.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-01-27

In the House last week the bill
to prohibit the manufacture of
liquor in Johnston County, and it's
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03
gage as an IneXOrable Taslxmas-
ter That Knows No Sleep.

The mortgage is a self-supporting in
stitutiOn. 1t always holds its own.
1t calls for just as many dollars when
grain is cheap as when grain is dear.
1t is not affected by the drought. It
is not drowned out by the heavy rains.
1t never winter kills. Late springs
and early frOsts never trouble it. Po-
tatO bugs do not disturb it. Moth and
rust do not destroy it. It grows nights,
Sundays, rainy days and even holidays.
1t brings a sure crop every year. and
sometimes twice a year. 1t produces
cash every time. 1t does not have to
wait for the market to advance. 1t is
not subject to speculations of the bulls
and bears on the board of trade 1t is
a load that gals and frets and chafes.
1t is burden that the farmer cannot
shake off. 1t is with him morning,
noon and night. 1t eats with him al the
table. 1t gets under his pillow when
he sleeps. 1t rides upon his shoulders
during the day. 1t consumes his grain
crop. 1t devours his cattle. 1t selects
the finest horses and the latest steers.
1t lives upon the first fruit of the sea-
son. 1t stalks into the dairy where the
busy housewife tolls day after day
and month after month and takes the
incest cheese and the choicest butter.
1t shares the childrens bread and robs
them of. their clothes. 1t stoops the
toiler's back with its remorseless bur-
den of care. 1t hardens his hands, be-
numbs his intellect, prematurely
whitens his locks and oftentimes sends
him and his aged wife over the hills to
the poorhouse. 1t is the memorable
and eXacting taskmaster. Its whip is
as merciless and cruel as the lash of
the slave driver. 1t is a menace to lib
erty, a hindrance to progress, a curse
to the world.-Ringwood (Okla.)
Leader
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03
Profit in Keeping sheen.

More land can be put to grass for
pasture and hay land, and more
sheep kept on the products of such
land with less labor than when
reaped in the way of grain and fed
to grain consuming animals. The
man who is fitted for the place and
desires to get along on farm with
little hired help and a minimum of
labor can find solution of the prob
lem by keeping a few sheep. Put
the land to grass, fence for sheep.
Craze a goodly portion of it and
make the rest into hay Buy little
grain for fattening purposes and
feed out each year the surplus and
the solution will have been solved.
A sheep should have no place on a
mans farm who keeps poor fences or
who does not like TO handle them
Rural World.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03
Roots for Breeding Ewes.

It would pay every farmer, thinks
the National Stockman to raise a few
roots to feed sheep, especially to the
breeding ewes. The roots will keep
them in good condition. The last
winter the writer fed the sheep as
follows, with good results: For
morning clover hay, noon about six
quarts bran and two quarts corn
mixed; also about three pecks either
sugar beets or rutabagas; at night
clover hay or cornstalks. This Tor
twenty head.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03
ROOTS FOR THE HOGS.
Than Is Represented by Their
Chemical Analyses.

We have frequently made the state
ment that roots have feeding value
much higher than is represented by
their chemical analyses. We have
claimed that the effect on the ami
mails system has been most beneficial,
and that small quantity of roots fed
IN nearly every case would cause a
freer assimilation of other foods, says
the Homestead.
There has just come to hand a re-
port from the Ontario experiment sta
ton, in which an interesting expert
ment has been conducted with hogs.
the results of which tally very close
ly with our position on the subject.
One lot of hogs fed barley and mid
dllngs for a period of seven months
gave a daily gain of two-fifths of a
pound, while another lot, fed with a
similar quantity of the same grain,
supplemented by roots, gave a gain of
four-fifths of pound per day. In this
instance it was found that $40 pounds
OF roots were equivalent to 100 pounds
OF meal. This report claims that this
is an exceedingly high value for roots
and yet such were the facts indicated
by the experiment.
In another instance, corn and mid
dllngs were fed, in which case the hogs
gave six-tenths of pound daily gain,
while the gain was seven-tenths of a
pound when this meal was supple
mented by roots. In this case it was
found that 564 pounds of roots equaled
100 pounds of the meal in feeding
value.
We believe that there would be more
healthy hogs in the country if roots
were grown to a larger extent and
made to take the place of some of our
heavy meals in the hog ration. We
believe in many instances that hogs
are fairly burned up with heavy meals,
and that much economy might be prac-
ticed by supplementing some cheap.
succulent food, such as mangels, car
rots or turnips. As to the effect of
roots on the character of the increase
in this case, the report says: Those
which were fed roots were much more
growthy and thrifty looking than the
others and showed less tendency to be-
come fat. 1t is possible therefore.
that the roots had a beneficial effect
upon the digestive organs of the ami
mails, causing them to digest their food
better than the others. for there is
little doubt that hogs closely confined
IN pens are likely to have Indigestion"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03
SLANG IN TIE LsAK.N0.
Many OF the Un-t"-Dnsr i'nrnsc> Can
not Ise Traced So TheIr
Ori%tn

The study ni Slang in the making
has always hccn hampcrcd by the fact
that no Investigator ever sees The in
ventor at his work. In some college
students room. behind the screens Of
drinking hail, or among the Iousta-
bouts OF the Icvee he words and high
ly cOlOred phrases taken up by the
world SO readily have probably first
been altered. Where lived the man
who coined word "chump?" asks he
New York Evening Post. Who first
thought of saying to his rival: Go
way back and sit DOWN." No one
seems to know. and the inquirer has
to be cOntcnted with inferior spcci-
mems for study. One Of these has
inst come to light in Chicago. II is
not one of the elusive sort, full of
fancy and inspiring Suggestions. But
IT. has the merit of having been de-
signed. as it were. before our eyes.
like tn" wheat cakes which the white
capped cook makes i'm the window of
dainty restaurant II is the word
seq" which is applied to the young
women now attending the University
of Chicago. Since coeducation has
been abolished it is obviously mac
cnrate to call them goods. At the same
time. the west does not take up The
less complimentary terms which the
young men in some eastern colleges
apply TO their feminine fellow stu
dents The new word is certainly as
enphonious as the old (mOre so. if any
thing. because it has no hiatus), it is
highly descriptive and not in the least
uncomplimentary
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03
Underground Den for Pics.

If you have not suitable buildings
for pigs dig an underground den,
cover with boards, stalks straw. sods,
or other handy material. For win
ter, the deeper this den is dug the
better. Have the pigs tame by gen
tie and quiet treatment. If you have
not conveniences for separating them
and wish to separate one hog at a
time take a light crate or box, and
while the pig is eating place this
crate or box over the pig; then with
a man on the other side to hold the
crate you can march" the pig any
where with perfect ease.-Farmers'
Voice
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03

FLOAT IN POSITION

I have been buying galvanized iron
floats until l am tired. They rust out
in short time seldom lasting more
than two years and costing five times
as much as the one Illustrated. sim
ply buy stone jug. preferably one
gallon jug, and plug it carefully, so
that it is alright. l fasten this by
means of a wire chain to the valve at
the bottom of the tank This will last
indefinitely and will neither rust nor
waterlOg, as is the case with iron or
wood.-D. B. Solomon, in Orange Judd
Farmer.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03
Cure for Dyspepsia.

Tramp jus dropped in, mum,
to offer my new cure fer Indigestion,
dyspepsia and kindred ailments.
mum. 1t may prove a great blessing
to your family, mum, and l charge
you nothing for the prescription.
Lady--Well, | must say that's rea-
sonable enough. What is the cure?
Tramp-Live on plain food, and give
your rich and indigestible dishes to
the poor. I'm the poor, mum.-Tit-
Bits.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03
NEVER VICTIMS OF CUPID.
There Are More RnrheIOra Than Old
Maids in the Cens0. Emu
mernttOn.

IT is estimated that there are now
IN the United States 2.5OO.O 900 more
single men of manageable age than
there are single women, the official fig
ures being as follows: Unmarried men.
1O,44S, 1853; unmarried girls and women.
7.573,S19. The male population of the
United States. through the excess of
male immigration aud the higher male
birth rate. is more than 900, 600 in ex-
cess of the female. The span of life is
on the average, longer for a woman
than for a man and the marriageable
age for women is several years younger
than the average for men. AS a con
sequence of this the numberof widows
Is very largely in excess of the number
of widowers, the figures being 2, 700. 900
and 100000 resi- ectiveIy. says the San
Francisco Argonaut.
There are more divorced women who
have not remarked than there are
divorced men, and for all these reasons
the number of the single men of mar
riageable age is, larger than the num-
Der of single women. In New York il
is 100000, in Pennsylvania 10000 in
Ohio 10000. in Illinois 200. 600. in Cali
fornia 100000. in Texas 10000 and in
Kansas $4,000. In Massachusetts the
number of unma rricd men exceeds the
number of unmarried women by only
few thousand. In Utah there are 35.-
600 unmarried men and $4,000 unmar-
rled women Of marriageahIe age In
Washington. the capital the number
OF single mrn is ~ 900 and of single
women about the same.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03
A Little One-stded.

"Some women are very unreason-
able" said the young man.
"Jilted AGAIN."
I'm afraid so. I'm expected to give
up smoking. Here is girl who recites
'Curfew Shall Not Ring to Night, plays
popular marches on the piano, whether
it's in tune or not, and cooks things
in a chatting dish, who says she couldn't
think of marrying a man who has any
bad habits. "-Washington Star.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03
Cold Comfort.

"T was sitting here with the crea-
lures of my brain for company" said
the budding poet and playwright, to
a visitor who had found him before
a dying fire.
You poor thing!" said the visitor.
who was a practical person and
distant relative. 81 said to myself
as | opened the door: If he doesn't
look lonesome, then l never saw
man that did youths Compan-
ion
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-04-03

the same time it would take to get his
wife out to hold the bags. 1t is made
of a piece of inch board, two feet long
and four inches wide. -thirds-inch
wire nails are driven through from one
side and crooked with a hammer to
make hook. The nails (a) are 10
inches apart. It can be fastened any
where by simply driving two nails
through thames Dunlap, in Farm
and Herr