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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-10-29
GARDENS ARE FASHIONABLE.

GARDENS ARE FASHIONABLE.
This is the day of garden hobbies,
and the woman who has no garden is
to be pitied, while she who has one
puts into it all the fancies that she once
put into embroidery and fancy work.
One woman prefers the fine, broad eff
feet of one sort of flower massea to-
gether, and this style is carried out to
perfection in the Dutch garden, in the
sundower walk and in the pergola, en-
tirely covered with pale pink roses.
Another woman has an "old garden -
where time-honored flowers grow in
simple profusion, and also a medical
garden, where may be found all herbs
dedicated to the art Of healing.
ington Star.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-10-29

the contour Of the throat. But Of what
use1s pretty face without nice com.
Portable figure?
Better too fat than too thin, they say.
But there is no reason why woman
should be either too fat or too thin.
and, in these days Of physical culture.
she will not for day tolerate either
condition without beginning upon the
the work Of 7cure.-Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-10-29

The manufacture of anhydrous pa
per. which forms the best casing for
underground telephone cables, became
IN important industry in England, but
the business is now transferred to
American factories because of the
comparative dryness Of our climate
The skOboscopic method Of investi-
CATION is being practically applied to
engineering purposes. This beautiful
principle is the same as that we'll
known in connection with the zoetrope
and similar toys, in which success
sion of moving objects, viewed through
Sits in rotating drum Oh disk, ap-
pear to have the movements Of life.
BY examining a rapidly moving piece
of mechanism with closely succeeding
flashes OF light. the parts may be
caused to appear as standing STILL and
tons may be studied minutely under
all the actual conditions of rapid move
ment.
The Chinese of Ningpo are success
fully introducing their hand-woven
cotton goods in Manchuria. The cloth
is made from yarns spin in Chinese
mills and from imported yarns. The
yarns are colored before being woven
and the coiors are fast and dura BILE.
The cloth is made in pieces twenty
yards long and twenty five inches wide.
The price Of these goods at Ningpo
is $3 Mexican ($1.S5 United States) per
piece The company furnishes the
yarns to the villagers and pays them
by the foot for weaving. The work
is done on hand looms in the homes
by women and children. whose earn
ings are only a few cents per day.
Many bOok-buyers must nave noticed
the remarkable lightness of some Of the
volumes recently issued. especially
from English presses. The paper. al
though OF normal thickness, is singu-
Nlarly lacking in weight. Some Amer
lean books also begin to show this
characteristic. In some cases the
relative loss Of weight, as compared
with Older: volumes of equal size.
amounts to thirty OF forty per cent.
The cause is the recent adoption for
book-work Of paper made Of esparto-
grass fiber. This paper lacks the
smooth surface Of the older kinds.
but the relief afforded by the loss of
weight in bulky books is very agree
able.
The great power station now in
course of construction for the district
railway system OF London is remark
able for being the first large electrical
power station to be operated entirely
by steam turbines. There will be ten
turbines, each OF 1900 horsepower.
Only four field-magnet poles are en-
pIoyed. and the current is produced
at 11.GOO volts potential. The gener-
ators run at 1000 revolutions per min
ute. In consequence Of the rapid rev.
olution and the small number Of poles,
the diameter Of the dynamos is only
nine feet. whereas it would have to be
more than thirty feet, with recipro-
eating engines running at seventy-fye
revolutions per minute. as at the metro
politan power station in New York.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-10-29

The Scandinavians have now an
enormous fleet of big steel tramp
ships in serious rivalry with the
British. ..---e-----Ala .ss----.=-~---@-
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
BULGARIA FOR PEACE
WILL MAINTAlti ATTITUDE OF
NEUTRALITY.

If I1ostiItcs Are Declared Bulgaria
Will Accept Challenge rcarIessly.
Massaeres More Bloody Than Thos.
Of Century Ago.
Sofa. Bulgaria. Sept !.--Accc.aing
to reliable reports from Varna. at the
recent council OF ministers. presided
over by Prince Ferdinand, at the
palace. OF Euxinograd, It was resolved
that Bulgaria should continue to main
tain an attitude OF the strictest neu.
trality in the Macedonian question
and further that the most stringent
measures should be adopted to pro.
vent anything likely to cause dis
turbance in Bulgarlas relations with
Turkey Should Turkey attack Bull
garia, declared the war minister the
army could hold the Turks in check
for the first few days while the en-
tire Bulgarian. army could be mobil-
lied in three to twelve days Bull
garia would never declare war. he
added, but il war was declared against
her she would accept the challenge
fearessly The minister expressed
the opinion that the powers would
soon reach the conviction that the
Macedonian question could not be de-
cided without their Intervention.
The Autonomie publishes the names
of fifty villages burned by the Turks
in the following districts: Resen,
thirty villages; Kostur, fourteen;
Brushovo, six and one monastery.
The Turks burned four villages in the
district of Struskkopolisk and muir
dered the priest. The population fed
20 the mountains. The Turks have
destroyed all the -four mills in the dis
trict of Resen and also every church.
A fight Is reported to have taken place
at the village of Vetrsko between a
body OF insurgents and Turkish bat
talon. 1t lasted four hours and the
Turks lost heavily.
Reports have reached the revolu-
tionary headquarters here of atrocities
by the Turks in the village Of Vel
mosti. The troops and Bashi-Bazouks
are said to have surrounded the viii
lage and part of them entered and
began plundering the houses and u.s.
saulting the women. The other SOL
diers remained outside and killed
those inhabitants who tried to escape.
The Turks then set fire to the village
in four places, burning twelve women
and children. One child was hanged.
Altogether sixty peasants were killed
and their bodies were left lying in the
streets.
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
Tribe of Tree pweIIers.

London, Sept IA Melbourne dis
patch to the Daily Chronicle says the
administrator of British New Guiana
reports the discovery of an extraordi-
nary tribe of marsh land dwellers in
the island of Papoa. Owing to the
swampy ground and tangled tropical
underground. walking and canoeing
are almost impossible. The native
dwellings are built in trees and as a
result of the conditions the natives
are gradually losing the use of their
lower limbs. and are unable to walk
on the ground without their feet bleed.
ing Their bodies have developed
enormously. while their legs and
thighs have become atrophied. In fig
ure and carriage they are ape-likc.
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
Kansas City Live stock.

Kansas City. Sept T.-Cattle-Receipts
1880 natives. 2.l00 Texans calves. i.pno
natives. 500 Texans; cornfcd cattle steady
70 weak grass westerns slow anh lower;
quarantine 10c lower. cows steady TO Toe
lower. stockers and feeders steady calves
quiet. choice export and dressed beef
steers. 81 7Od5.0o. fair 10 good. 81 oo0I 70.
stockers and feeders. 81 2oftl so; western
fed steers. Sc 25Fii 60; Texas and Indian
steers $ ToG3.G0 Texas cows. 81. .coffa s5 5
natlve eows. $l.50a3. 10. native heisers
So 75Gi4 O0' Gamers, siO0d2 81. bulls, 81
a3.50. caves s2.5oGJ 40 Hogs-Recelpts
l.Co0. active ana steady; top, S5o7is; bulk
CT saios Si.GOff5 81: heavv.' 50 aais05 IS
mixed packers. 81 72isNaal, tight. 81 s5Gi
500 yotkers. s. $4,000; pigs. SIS 0o@
s5.pTik sheep Receipts, 10000: steady .
native lambs s2.90Nj 20 western 'ambs.
80. 1905 90. fed ewes s. 5oi3nQi Texas
Clipped ygnrlncs 81 4o7i 90 Texas slipped
sheen. -30u3 50. stockrrs anl feeders.
81 OO6f3 80
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
WOULD FORCE THE ISSUE.
Revolutionists strsinns Every Nerve
to BRING About Strife.

Sofia. Bulgaria. Sept Sin official
circles there Is suspicious absence
OF news from the interior OF Macedo.
mia. md also from Adrianople. and It
is feared that the conditions there
are steadily becoming worse. The
Macedonian organizations are strain.
ing every nerve to force Bulgaria into
war Largo and small bands are
crossing tho frontier Of northern Ma.
cedonla. where General Zontcheff and
Colonel Yankoff arc organizing the
insurrectIonary movement. which is
expected to break out In the valley Of
Struma before the end OF the week.
Several fights are reporte- from tho
district Of Iosengrad AZ tho Dashl.
BazoulS village OF Sasara. the Turks
lost twenty men At Tersldere a band
fought 300 soldiers all day with the
fesult that the Turks had thirty-seven
men killed. whlo the insurgents lost
nve. At Prespan fighting has long
been proceeding between insurgent
bands and an army OF 10000 Turks.
The latter are reported TO have lost
more than 200 killed or wounded An.
other engagement. lasting all day. has
been fought at Prybilisti In which
the Turkish loss was given as forty
and the insurgent loss as five.
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
SHAW TALKS TO FARMERS.
Says Agriculture Has Not Kept Pae'
With Other Industries.

Columbus. O.. Sept 5.-In speech
at the fair grounds Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw declared that In its
economies. agriculture had not kept
pace with other industries. saying:
AT the risk of offending some. | am
going to say that II | questioned the
first ten farmers | meet in adjoining
states. nine would tell me how produc-
tive their farms used TO be. how much
butter they used to make and how
much hay they used to produce. There
is no excuse for land deteriorating
and as certain as day. economy must
be pract!ced on the farm as 1t is in the
factory. packing house and refinery.
The by-products must be turned to
profitable account. Upon your farms
you hold the most hopeful generation
of boys Of which this world has knowl-
edge. Do not teach them they must
leave the farm in order TO succeed.
Good roads interurban lines. automo.
biles and rural free delivery are des-
tined 70 bring to the farmers door
every real advantage incident to the
city and In no manner discount the
peculiar benefits of the country life"
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
AlRsHlp REFUSES TO FLY.
Propeller ef Lanoley's Aerodrome
Runs Amuck Among the Rods.

Whitewater. Va. Sept. 5.-The pros
pective launching of Professor Lang
ley's big aerodrome was abandoned
after the port propeller. revolving
about 600 times per minute. had
wrecked itself among the rods and
bars of the machine. Both blades of
the propeller were torn TO small.
pieces. The accident was the result
of n change occurring In some unex.
planned manner In the orbit of the
blades. But for the prompt action OF
Professor Manley. who was in the
navigator's car. in shutting off his en-
gine. the aerodrome might have been
hurled from the superstruc,ure and
entirely wrecked At the time the ac-
cldent occurred the newly repaired
engine was being tested After in.
specting the damage Professor Lang.
ley decided TO return TO Washington
The machine may be repaired by Mon.
day.
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
eoDY IS FOUND IN A car.
That Of Man Apparently Murdered at
Fort Madison, Iowa.

Fort Madison, Iowa.
Raton, N. NJ. Sept. 8.-The dccon-
posed body of man who apparently
was murdered at Fort Madison, Ia,
has been found in freight car here.
The car was in through freight train.
The find was made by car inspect
or whose attention was attracted by
blood on the car wheels and terrible
stencil coming from within. lnvesti-
cation revealed that he had been shot
three times in the right side. His
watch had been cut from the chain
and nothing of value was found on
the body. A letter, dated Harvey, H.,
found in his coat, evidently from his
wife. was addressed to ]. o. Palmer.
A Wells-Fargo receipt for grip. dated
Chicago, Sept. I, from J. o. Palmer.
and consigned to himself at Fort Mad
ison, Ia, was also found. The car in
which tho body was found was re-
ceivedgby the Santa Fe company from
the Burlington at Fort Madison Sept q.
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
WAR OF DETERMINATION.
6eiicose Feeling in Turkey is In
creasing and Situation is Grave.

creasing and Situation is Grave.
London. Sept. THE Daily Mails
correspondent at Monastir says:
There is no doubt that Turkish war
OF determination is proceeding in the
Ogrida district. The massacres of a
century ago are as nothing compared
with those occurring daily in the viii
ayet OF Monastir. have obtained
substantial evidence to prove that the
Turkish troops are in most cases COM
mitting unheard of atrocities. which
are not solely the work of the Bashi-
Bazouks. as the authorities are seek.
ing to prove. The plight OF the sur
vivors is terrible. Not daring to leave
their houses and subsisting on grass
and water. they resemble people In
the last stages of famine. The Turks
are also losing heavily. judging from
the number of injured arriving here
Among the instances he gives In
support of his statement the corre-
spondent relates that priests son in
one village was flayed alive and kept
In this horrible condition for several
days to the delight of his tormentors.
until a merciful Turk shot him dead.
Special dispatches from CONSTANT
nope say all concur regarding the
gravity of the situation and state that
the warlike feeling has been increased
by the fact that the sultan reviewed
and presented colors TO two new hus-
sar regiments, recruited from the
tribes which produced the Ottoman
dynasty this being the first time that
the sultan has presided at such cere-
mony. Tho Turkish papers are MAX
ing patriotic appeals TO the loyalty
and devotion OF the nation
dispatch to the Chronicle from
Constantlnople says the military party
is clamoring for war. but the sultan
stili hesitates. Nevertheless. troops
ore being massed along the frortier.in
readiness to take the field
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Cattle Steady to Fifteen Cents Lower.
Hous AVERAGED Steady

Chicago. Sept. I.-Cattle-Receipts 81
900. including loo Texans and 6.Ooo west
erns: hest steady. hulk 10lll5c lower: good
to prime steers. sj.40a6.oJ. poor 20 me
dunn. 81 O06i5.2J stockers and feeders.
so.50ftl 90; cows 81 .aOM4.ao. heifers. $500
Ma.OO. Gamers. S1.jod2.G0: bulls. SO .00dt
45o- calves. s3.5OM6.I5. Texas fed steers.
s3.25p4 20. western steers. s3.25mi GO.
Hogs-R rceipts today. 1000; tomorrow.
5000: averaged steady: mixed and butch
ers SJ.35G6.iO: good to choice heavy. s.. GO
az 90: rough heavy. s5.loaia.35: light. GO
sI6 20. bulk OF sales. Sj.i5N5.11. Sheep
Receipts. $4,000. sheep and lambs steady
20 lower: good TO choice iyvethers. So 30
as fair 10 choice mixed. 81 25n3. 90
western sheep. g 55G3.5o. native lambs.
So ,5N5 -: western lambs. SS75d5.2S.
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
saIvationists to Invade Kentucky.

Pittsburg. Sept IA deputation of
Pittsburg Salvationists, under the
leadership Of Staff Captain White,
will leave Wednesday for the feud dis
trict of Kentucky and undertake the
work of reforming the feudists. The
objective point will be Breathitt coun-
ty. The party will be made up, out
side of a few of the officers in the
work in this city. of members of the
local army. who volunteered to give
their time to the work. and 1t is like
ly by the time the party is ready to
start there will be quite formidable
array of workers in the party. The
reception which the members of the
army will receive in the counties to
be invaded is matter of grave doubt
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
PREFERS DEATH TO CAPTURE.
tIssro browns Himself Rather Than
Run Chances of Being Lynched.


Kansas City, Sept. AN unknown
negro caught in the act of strangling
Mrs. Margaret Gerahn, White wcm-
an. in her home at Armourdais, Kany
escaped TO the Kansas river, where be
drowned himself rather than run the
chances OF being lynched, crowd
having chased him to the bank OF the
Dtream The women was seriously
hurt. hut will recover.
Mrs. Gerahn is a widow, Her hus-
bend. who was packing house en-
ploye, md son were drowned in the
great June flood and she lived alone.
The negro, black brute of thirty.
called at the house about noon and,
entering stealthtly. locked himself in.
He surprised Mrs. Gerahn at her work
and demanded her money. Upon her
persistent refusal to tell him where
she kept her money. the negro repeat
edly choked her Neighboring women
broke into the house after Mrs.
Gerahn had been at the power Of the
negro for three hours and found him
standing over the PROSTATE woman.
sinking his fingers into her throat.
The negro hurried from the house and
ran to the Kansas river two blocks
distant. where he hired boat and or
dered the owner to row quickly to the
Missouri shore. When the boat had
reached midstream a crowd of excited
men and boys had gathered at the
bank and shouted to the owner OF the
boat to return to shore. He started
to do SO when the negro stood up in
the boat and with the remark, Il have
lived too long to die at the end OF a
rope" dove into the water. He
drowned before the spot could be
reached and his body disappeared.
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
TRADE REVIEW FOR THE WEEK
Tone of General Business Is Decidedly
Conservative.

CONSERVATIVE
New York, Sept. 5.-Bradstreets
says: Crop developments have been
mostly favorable. fall jobbing trade
reports indicate further improvement
and monetary conditions show less
tension. The tone of general bust
ness is conservative ard the tendency
is to eliminate anything in the nature
Of speculation or over extension from
general business. Manufacturing in
dustry shows continued activity. ex-
cept in such lines as cotton and silk
production. which note the influence
OF special conditions, and some lines
of iron and steel. Some approach
ing slackening in anthracite coal is
to be seen. Some improvement is
noted in car scarcity trouble and
gross earnings OF railroads continue
large. but increased cost of operations
and improvements limit net results
August suspensions foot up larger
total of liabilities. particularly of
small financial institutions and manu-
facturers Collections are still rather
backward. though somo improver' ut
is noted where backward crops Lave
been realized upon.
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
eENoue DECLARED INSANE.

Man Who Threatened Life of Secrc.
tary Hay Sent to Asylum.
New York, Sept 7.-Francis Benque.
who sent a threatening letter to Sec
retary of State Hay and who for years
has given trouble to officials at Wash
ington with letters. was declared in
sane by DR.. Gregory at Bellevue hog
pital He will be committed to an in
stitution for the insane for permanent
care. DR. Gregory said that Benque's
mania is that he is being prosecuted.
Benque even today. wrote several
letters. He says himself that he
wrote to Mrs. Mckinley. among others.
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
Marconi at ST. Louis.

st. Louis. Sept. 7-Signor Marconi.
the famous young inventor of the
wireless telegraphy. arrived in st.
Louis accompanied by a number of
officials of his company Shortly
after their arrival they were called
on by a party of Worlds fair officials.
including President Francis. They
were taken in carriages 10 the St.
Louis club. where dinner was given
In honor of Marconi
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
sonth omaha Live stook.

south omaha. Sept Z Cattle Receipts
5000. Slow. zoe lower native steers 81 %
as. go, COWS and helfcrs g 0014o0. west.
etn steprs S300dl,io. reNas steers, s. 75fi
ass: Western COWS ana hefers 81, 2503 2ji
canners 81 50W.. IS. stockers Gn1 feeders
saT5sfl H. ca'ves. s30Oa3 - bulls. stays,
etc OO0l 90 Hogs Receipts. a0cc.
5s lower rVavy. s5.sOfi5 40 mixed. Sj 35Gl
$40 ilsht. - 5Od5 70. pigs 81 Oou5 so.
hulk Q. salcs IS 3ja5i5 sAccp-Receipts.
i0.lo0i steady western ycarlings 50 lo6f
s.G5 wcthcrs, s30OGt3.4o- ewes 81 50ci3 90
common ana stockers. 81 o0d3.io, lambs.
s4.O01tl 70.
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
Ehson a Heavy pefauItcr.

New York. Sept More than $50.
600 and perhaps 800 200 is lost to
st. Mlchaers Protestant. Episcopal
church according TO the Herald.
through forgeries aud mlsappropria-
tions by Henry T Edison, who last
Wednesday Killed Mrs. Fanny pulcn
and himself
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
Railway oHicIals Arc Not Guilty.

Newark. Sept 4.-chier Justice
Gummero announced that he had de.
cIded to grant the motion for the dis.
missal OF the indictment for man.
claughter against the officials OF the
North Jersey street railway.
Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
81. Iosenh Live Stock.

st. Joseph. sept. 7.-Cnttlc-- Receipts. 4.
Coz st,ndy to 10c lower. natives. So son
525. COWS aud heifers. siooftiT5, stockers
and feeders. sa.5ol425. Hogs Receipts.
4ss5 steady 20 SC lower light. s5.15I
coo, medium; and heavy, s5.o0Gi5.so.
Evening star., 1903-12-19
NEW ROLL FILM.
Convenience Which Has Heretofore
Been Had Only With Plates.
from the Philadelphia Record,

From the Philadelphia Record.
A new idea in the manufacture of roll
films for Photographic purposes has been
brought out in England which gives the
user an advantage which has heretofore
been obtainable only with the glass plate.
The innovation will be of interest to all
amateur photographers and a great many
professionals who make use of film occa-
sionally. With the use of the roll films now
on the market 1t is NOT generally possible to
focus the object in the camera on the
ground glass for the purpose of securing a
clear. sharp image. although there are at
tachments for cameras which are designed
to permit of this operation. They are not
largely resorted to- however. for some
reason or other. Under the circumstances
the focusing has been done by means of
scale, the distance being judged and tIe
focusing arrived at In this manner but
not always satisfactorily. as 1t is frequently
difficult to accurately estimate the dis
tance between two objects.
The feature of the new film is that the
exposures are cut and each pasted in
string. Between each exposure there Is
inserted a piece of transparent material.
on which II is possible to view the scene
or object about to be photographed. II Is
claimed by the inventors of these films that
almost any camera may be readily adapted
to make use of them. The value of this
feature will be readily appreciated by any
one familiar with the use of the instrument
1t gives the operator the advantage of the
focusing feature of the plates, together with
the lightness and compactness of the films.
Evening star., 1903-12-19
The Little Brown Sparrow.

A little brown sparrow. contented and gay
Went hopping about a cold wintry day
In search of a dinner of porridge or bread
Or Ii not to be had. then POTATOES instead
But never an atom Of feod could she find
save mofsels OF fce which were not to her mind
But what did she seer Only think the old eat
So snngfy at rest on the kitchen door mat
And close by Miss Pussy a saucer of food
And. oh, 1t was tempting. so sweet and SO good
We'll now" thought the sparrow, j" it's really
That the wicked eat should have food and to
spare f-' -?-'e'
While I'm so hungry-I'm voracious,
And nothing around me bat snow everywhere
think III just venture little bit nearer
CThe horri1 old thing, feel sure, Is asleep):
And really I'd like just to somewhat clearer
That food In the saucer-I must have a peep"
So saying, she few from the left to the right
And gazed at the saucer with hungry delight
Eli, grown really bold. she advanced with hop,
believing the cat to be Sound top
But here let me whisper a secret to you
Puss heard her quite well, and was watching her.
too.
That night our brown sparrow had promised to go
With q friend OF her own on account of the snow,
Intending together to rest tree;
But she never appeared. so. now, where could
she be2