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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
High Tribute to the Late Mr. F. G.
Simmons.
Rayboro Sentinel.l

We have just learned of the murder Of
Furniford G.. Simmons, of Jones county,
the father of United States Senator f.
NJ Simmons. We are almost dumb
founded, Uncle "Furney as we called
him, though no relation whatever, was
particularly intimate friend; yes even more.
he was a faithful adviser to us and the
shock that the news over the phone
brings us, unneryers us, why any one
should want to kill Furniford G. Simmons
is beyond our comprehension. He was a
good man, a noble man, a kind hearted
man, a conservative man, and the noblest
of Gods creation an honest man" He
always had, for everybody, nothing but
good cheer, love and best wishes with
good advice. If he had lived to die from
natural causes. we might have been pre-
pared to receive the shock, but to be
slain by the worthless hand of a muir
derery a fiend incarnate, for such his
slayer Is we were not prepared A good
man has been taken from us, his friends
and relatives mourn his loss and his I'M
timely end; his neighbors miss him, also
the poor, the afflicted the widow and
the orphan, everybody that knew him will
miss him. He is gone and thank God,
we can say from his uprightness in life
here below, we know he is at rest above.
He has climbed that ladder that Jacob in
his vision saw extending from earth to
heaven, where angels were ascending and
descending, the three principal rounds of
which were faith, hope and charity; and
from the topmost round he stepped into
the New Jerusalem where the righteous
are forever at rest.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
RAILROAD ELECTION TO-DAY.

Eleven hundred and sixty-one votes have
been registered in Raleigh township for
the lection to be held today upon the
proposition to vote $4,000 of township
bonds to guarantee the building of an
independent railroad from Raleigh to
Washington. 1t will traverse one of the
most fertile agricultural sections of North
Carolina and connect four of the most
prosperous and rapidly growing business
places in the State--Raleigh, Wilson.
Greenville and Washington.
Under the law, it will be necessary for
five hundred and eighty-one of the regis
tered voters to deposit their ballot for the
bonds for the proposition to carry.
The sentiment in Raleigh in favor of
the construction of this railroad is very
strong and the friends of the railroad be-
lieve that it is almost unanimous in ia
vor of issuing the bonds. The building Of
this road would be of great advantage to
Raleigh in many ways,
The only danger is that many who ia
vor the bond issue will not feel that
it is necessary for them to go out and
deposit their ballot. Those favoring
bends who are registered should remember
this: that failure to vote is equivalent to
voting against the bond issue. for in this
election it requires that a majority of
those registered must vote for the bond
issue.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
BLOOD HUMOURS
Skin HumOurs, SCaIpHumOurS,
Hair HumOurS,
Whether Simple SCrOfuIOuS or
Hereditary
Speedily Cured by Cuticura
Soap, Ointment and Pills.
Complete External and Internal
Treatment, One Dollar.

In the treatment Of torturing, dis
figuring, itching, scaly, crusted, pimply,
blotchy and scrofulous humours of the
skin, scalp and blood, with loss of hair,
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills have
been wonderfully successful. Even the
most obstinate of constitutional hui
mours, such as bad blood, scrofula, in
herited and contagious humours, with
loss of hair, granular swellings, ulcer
Gus patches in the throat and mouth,
sore eyes, unprecedented btotches. as
we'll as boils, carbuncles, Scurvy, sites,
ulcers and sores arising from an I'M
pure or impoverished condition OF the
blood, yield to the Cuticura Treatment,
when all other remedies fail.
And greater still, if possible, is the
wonderful record of cures o. torturlng,
disfiguring humourS among ln1antS anu
children. The suffering which Cutlcura
Remedies have alleviated among the
Young, and the comfort they have al
iorded WORKOUT and worried parents,
have led to their adoption In countess
homes as priceless curatives ior the
skin and blood. Infantile and Dlrth hu-
mours. milk crust, scaled head, eczema
rasbes and every form ofitching' scaiy'
pimply skin and scalp humours, with
loss of hair, of infancy and childhooa'
are speedily. permanently and economl-
caIlv cnred when all other remedies
suitable for children, and even the best
physicians, fail. ...,r.,. 20, .,
sold aosted pills CSC per vial OF ~. OiLt
meut Oc Soap Csc BepOs; Lonag I Columbus Ave
pddt.er i1ync q chem Corp, Sole Props. crsD
m Sand for "The Great Humour OuIS'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
"0ur Duty to the Negro Race"
Especial to News and observer)

Especial to News and Observer
Durham, N. c., Sept. 21.-At Trinity
Park this evening the first of the series
of faculty lectures was delivered by Dr.
j. c. Kilgo, president of Trinity College.
He spoke on "Our Duty to the Negro
Race. The lecture was delivered in the
Craven Memorial Hall and was heard by
large number of people outside of the
student body.
Jeff Davis, a white boy, has instituted
suit against the Erwin Cotton Mill on ac
count of damages he received while at work
in the mill He GAINS that one hand was
badly torn and lacerated by some Of the
machinery. The suit is for $4,000. Davis
claims to be without home or kindred and
the court has appointed Justice of the
Peace D. c. Gunter as next friend to
bring the suit.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22

Some people strain at gnats and swal
low camels. Such rHople are those who
talk a great deal about the revenues that
are derived from dispensaries and say
nothing of the ten-fold Jaeger sums that
go into the pockets of the liquor dealers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
Spirit of the Press.
NO DIFFERENCE.
Charlotte News.

Charlotte News.
There is no difference in criminal in
tent between seduction with promise of
marriage, and rape. If there were less
adherence in the punishment, then there
would be less of the making and execut-
ing of law by outraged kinsmen.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
Finest Apples

GROWN IN WESTERN NORTH CAR
oLINA. Write for prices ana express
rates; both are low. Address ]. u. HALL
Waynesville, N. C. Box 20.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
To Answer to barge of assault.


Especial to News and Observer
Winston Salem, N. c., Sept. civil
liam Bondurant. aged sixty-one, was ar
rested here yesterday and carried to High
Point last night to answer charge of an
attempt to criminally assault Miss Lew
ellen, a seventeen-year-old girl, in High
Point few weeks ago The defendant,
who has been here three weeks, claims to
be innocent
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22

The liquor saloon men who are running
the campaign for open bars have instruct
Ct, their emissaries to go about talking
loudly in favor of prohibition. This fact
alone ought to cause all good men to vote
together against hypocrisy as we'll as
against intemperance.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
A MORNING TONIC.
Lord Lytton.l

Lord Lytton)
He who seeks one thing in life, and but
one,
May hope to achieve it before life be
done,
But he who seeks all things wherever he
goes,
Only reaps from the hopes which around
him he sows,
A harvest of barren regrets.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22

Mr.. Godfrey was held up in the middle
of the road and compelled to pay one
thousand dollars for his bonds. If that
can go unpublished, then bond-stealing in
the dark will become as profitable in 1903
as bond-stealing in the light was in the
year 1868.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
THE MAN TO BE FEARED.

Charlotte News.
The man who has nothing to lose, who
is absolutely unselfish in his advocacy of
cause and who believes in the ultimate
triumph of right is the man to be feared.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
"a WINNING TICKET"

Louisburg Times.
A winning ticket for the Democrats:
German and Hearst"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22

Quality is what makes price. II BUR-
NETTS VANILLA EXTRACT was nc
better than other extracts its price would
be the same. Once tried. always used:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
Among the Railroads.

The comparative statement of the
earnings of the Seaboar Air Line Rail-
way for the first week of September
makes the following showing: Week end
ing September 8th, 1908, $251, 1915 same
week last year, $265,175; decrease, $13,-
403. July 1st to September 1st, 1908, ST.
243, 731; for the same time last year, ST.
lat ,S67; increase, $95,764.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22

Trains of the Rock Island and Frisco
systems recently allied with the Sea
board Air Line Railway, will be running
regularly into Washington over the Sea-
board tracks by December fst. Work on
the Birmingham connecting link is being
pushed with all expedition, and will soon
be completed. The first through business
over the newly extended system from
Washington to San Francisco was hand
led on September 18th. In consisted of
the transportation of Companies l.. and
NJ of the Third Battalion of Engineers.
which were carried through this city to
the Pacific coast With the completion of
the connecting link regular through pas
senger and freight traffic will be operated
over the whole line.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22

A twenty-five cent bottle of Blue Ribbon
vanilla extract gives the whole family
pleasure
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22

Captain c. d. Thompson, one of the
Seaboards popular conductors, has re-
signed and accepted a position with the
Cape Fear and Northern as conductor on
passenger train.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22

EUvITA is not a drug, but a pure,
wholesome beverage equally delightful in
summer and winter and beneficial at all
times. At all Fountains.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
First Cotton Eleven Cents.
Especial to News and observer.)

Especial TO News anu UbserVer.I
Henderson, N. c., SEPT. 21.-Today We
had our first new cotton and it sold fol
II cents, the five bales being bought by
Mr.. D. Y Cooper. Eleven cents makes
the farmer smile and that makes the mer-
chant feel good. +a
Henderson is to vote Oh the dispensary
question on the goth of October. and there
is little doubt that we will have a
dispensary after January 1st, 1904.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22

For LaGriDpe and influenza
use CHENEY'S EXPECTO-
RANT, {
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-22
GOOD EFFECTS ALREADY SEEN.
Gastonia Gazette

Though the new prohibition law has
been in operation only two months and a
half, its good effects are already noticed
in a lighter criminal docket and lighter
grand jury work in our county court.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12
8 her gratitude to all

.ered to my dear husband
 sickness" Leavenworth woman adds. in her card of s: "And especially the accident in- slrance agent, MT. Fairlock. who as- sures me that congestion of the stomach comes under the head Of accidents"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12
AG6atsats an Hour.

Twas long ago; a man diseeEned A faucet that lad not been turned, And yet it leaked-'twss then he learned 4 lesson that he'd fain have spurned-
 At eO cents an hour. He told a plumber man to come Down to his house and tinker some' The plumber said, in accents srnm: By gum! Of course I'll come ana pIumO
 At 60 cents an hour. The plumber came and looked about And viewed the faucet with some OouptB Then hammered on the water spout, Sat down, and let his whiskers sprout
 At 60 cents an hour. The water dripped in little pools And spatteFed into wee gl0buleS. The plumber said: "It is the rules That must go and get mS- tools
 At 60 cents an hour. Next day he came and looked again And made some figures with his pen, And called couple of his men To see how it was dripping then
 At 60 cents an hour. The days wore on; the weeks went byS The months and years began to fly; But still the plumber, looking wry, Came daily in and cooked his eye
 At 60 cents an hour. And still the water dripDed away, And still the plumber would not stay More than ten minutes any day And he was growing bent and gray
 At 60 cents an hour. At last the man, unsatisfied, Gave up the ghost-in short. he died Of old age-then the plumber sighed And came around and took ride
 At GO cents an hour. The leaky faucet s dripping still And adding to the plumbers bill. The plumber has it in his will That all his heirs their time must Kill
 At 60 cents an hour.
 MA Chicago Tribune
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12
PENSIONS,

In his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior Pension Commissioner Ware has much that is interesting to say. He cheers us with the probability that the pension roll will not again cross the million line, and he makes us feel generous by his statement that the payments of pensions to soldiers and sailors of the War of the Rebellion and of the regular military and naval establishment since the close of said War of the Rebellion, and their widows, children and dependent relatives, amount to $2,S62, 2,24O, 400. But perhaps the most interesting part of Commits sioner Wares report is the recommen- dations he makes. All except some of the women will indorse his proposition I that women who marry veterans after the latter are pensioned should not al any future time be entitled to consider ation as veterans widows. So many marriages of this kind have been made for revenue only that the Pension Office ! should no longer be compelled to en- courage frauds. None except criminals
 will object to his recommendation that
 law be passed to forfeit the pension or the right to pension in cases where the applicant stands convicted of ar infamous. crime. He further suggests
 boards constituted of experts under
 civil service rules which should go from
 place to place on fixed days giving ex'
 aminations and receiving testimony re- garding the condition of applicants an6
 making reports thereon. He also rec
 ommends a law providing for superan
 nuated clerks, vigorously urging some
 laws of retirement and provision.
 If we don't have another war soon w can stand the pension business, al
 though the cost of it per capita for 19o;
 is $1.75.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12
THE so UTR-Pd IFS.

What Professor Lornbroso has to say
 about Left-handedness and Left-sided-
 ness will not encourage some people,
 that is, if they think he knows as much about them as he thinks he does. The
 learned and audacious Professor made
 observations upon 1929 operatives and soldiers, and found that the normal proportion of left-handed ones was 4 per cent. in men and to 8 per cent. in women. Further search revealed the fact that the proportion of left
 handed people among criminals is very much higher. So that Lombroso re- gards left-handedness as a new char acteristie which connects criminals with savages, among whom left-handedness is not uncommon. His researches in this direction led Lombroso to inquire whether there is not also what one might call dedness-that is, whether there are not people who have greater sensibility on the left side
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12

Negro graduates of the Kansas City High School are reported to be flooding that town without opportunity to get suitable employment. This leads Edit or Louis Woods of the Rising Sun, the leading Kansas City negro organ, to say that high schools fill the crap joints. We over educate our boys, When they set out to find congenial en- ployment not a door is open to them.
 They cannot turn their hand to the blow without throwing away the years of education and the great sums of money expended upon them, so they re- main in idleness." |... Fl
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12
REYfVED.

Nell-Yes, we're engaged; but took my time about accepting him. 1
 Belle-Indeed? Waited until he ac- tualIy proposed, did you?-PhiIadelphia Ledger.
 Her novels show lack of revision"
 Well, she is very young"
 q suppose her mother hardly per mits her to read what she has writ ten. Puck. Ut. ,..
 He had risked his life to rescue the fair maid from water grave, and, of course, her father was duly grateful Young man. he said, T can never thank you sufficiently for your heroic act. You incurred an awful risk in saving my only daughter None whatever, sir" replied the amateur life saver. T am already married. "- Chicago Daily News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12

The other day a negro having the look and speech of an educated man complained to London police magis- trate that a publican had refused to serve him with "refreshment" because of his color. The magistrate told him the law could do nothing for him; Vis- count Marberton had been sent away dry by another publican because he was in knickerbockers instead of trousers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12

le right He discovered that
 sssdness exists in much larger
 eortion than left-handedness. and $Sat Ieft-handed people do not have more of this sensitive Ieft-sidedness than right-handed people. In lunatics this sensitive left-sidedness is almost more the rule than the exception; the conclusion being that left-handed peo- ple are more numerous among crimin- als, and sensitive left-sided people among lunaties. Lombroso remarks: As man advances in civilization and culture. he shows an always greater right-sidedness as compared to say- ages, the masculine in this way out numbering the feminine. and adults outnumbering children. Thus women and savage races, even when they are not properly left-handed, have certain gestures and movements which are a species of left-handedness. Some time ago Delaunay observed that the man holds out the right arm, which the woman takes with the left; that the woman buttons her clothes from right to left, while the man does so from left to right, and that women and chil- dren, when they trace a line or turn key, for instance, of watch, initiate the movement from right to left, while the adult man does so always from left to right. This explains why, in early times, and still among people little civilized, such as Arabs, the writing was preferably from right to left. which is the habit of children until corrected. Delaunay even went so far in his ob- servations as to discover that antique chronometers were wound from right to left, while modern ones are wound in the opposite direction.
 Interesting if true. As corroborative of it it may be mentioned that there are some left-handed baseball pitchers who often play ball criminally.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12
4 FAITHFUL Wo UND.

Sir Norman Lockyer's remark that
 what Great Britain needs just now is
 ''more brain power rather than more
 sea power is good one, and is making
 the Britons think. In the opinion of
 this eminent British scientist an enor-
 nous navy cannot save Great Britain
 from being outdistanced in the race for
 homrnercial and industrial supremacy if the brains of Britons are not devel- oped as highly as the intellects of their
 rivals. This year Great Britain will
 spend s170,0O0,00O in maintaining her
 enormous navy and in building new
 warships. While the nations fighting
 machines are continually increasing, educational institutions are at stand still. Many of them, in fact, are suffer- ing from the lack of adequate endow-
 ments. The rich Briton is not distin- guished for bequests to the universities of his native land Tn the last sixty wears British educational institutions
 have received only s20,oooOOo from this \ ---t'
 source. In the United States Americans have given ten times that amount to their colleges and universities during the sanie period Sir Norman Lockyer urges the imperial government to come to the aid of higher education in Great Britain, to cut down the appropriation for "sea power" and give literally to the development of ''brain power"
 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, and this wound is an uncommonly faithful one.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12

7TsIT of Mexieoeiso to have some more splendid buildings. Chief of these will be the legislative palace, now under construction. It is to cost the Mexican government about $2o,00o,OoO. It will be in the renaissance style, and it's orna- mentation is to be most elaborate and artistic. Besides the legislative palace, the Mexican government is preparing to erect pestofice building and a building for the war and navy depart ments. Not less than $5O,000,OOO is ex- pected to be the outlay on the elaborate public buildings now planned.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12

The people of Oklahoma proudly say that their territory has the largest farm in the Southwest. It is the 101 ranch in the Ponca reservation and is so big that 1t is necessary to plant several va- rieties of wheat in it--one of which ripens several days later than the other yin order that all of them may be harr- vested at their prime. On this farm the wheat fields are of 1000 acres each, the cattle pastures are of 1000 to 1,5O0 acres each and pasture 5000 head an- nually. the corn rows are one and 8 half miles long, requiring 800 mules and 300 men to handle the crop, and it takes thirty self-binders three weeks to cut the wheat crop and dozen or more steam threshers forty days to thresh it. There are 50,00O acres in the ranch.
 M. Henneberg, q Swiss silk manufact- urer, who recently retired from busi- ness, has built for himself on Lake Con- stance a habitation exactly after the model of prehistoric lake dwelling shown in the Zurich Museum. The building, which is about two hundred feet off the shore of the lake, rests upon piles, a few yards above the level of the water. It consists of only one room, and it's framework is made from the wood of the yew tree. Round this room a gallery extends of a width of some five or seven feet. The walls consist of willow wickerwork and mud plaster, the floor of hard mud and plaited willow, and the ceiling of pressed straw. The walls are ornamented with designs drawn with coal and bullock's blood. j.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-12

This is the way Chicago school chil- dren answered questions: "Our body is made out of skin and bones; also 'toe- nails" 'gThe veins carry impure blood and the artileries carry pure blood" :" s'The Nile empties into the Victoria Ni- zana.'' ''The mouth of the Nile is call- ed the Metterian sea-" 'Ceylon is in northeastern Ashia." "The camels cross the desert in the travellers" ''The lar gest cities of India are called Canton, Pekin and Kokomo." Because India is called British India the British own it.'' China is where all the Chinese people crowd together. About 1000 peo- pie in that city" "The people of India are called Indianas." "Ceylon is in China.'' Natives of India is called h. digos." ..:. t-. .
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