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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02
JOHNSTON STILL THE BANNER.
Sixteen Out of Eighteen Years Sheriff
Ellington First to Pay Taxes.

For eighteen years Sheriff Ellington, the
that office. During sixteen years of that
time he has been the first sheriff in the
State to settle with the State Treasurer.
Yesterday he came to Raleigh and paid
to State Treasurer Lacy the sum of $15.-
S6977, the amount ascertained to be due
| the State. And he was the first sheriff
in the State to make settlement, keeping
old Johnston ''the banner county"
Talking about his county and its af-
fairs, Sheriff Ellington said
Johnston county does not owe a cent,
and has several thousand dollars in the
county treasury. The tax rate is below
the constitutional limit, the entire State,
county and school tax being 63 cents.
Is there another county with so low
tax? In addition two townships levy
road tax. During the past year two
bridges have been built, one an iron bridge
over Neuse river. There has been only
one time in eighteen years when county
scrip was not as good as gold-and that
was when the State Bank at Raleigh
failed. The treasurer OF the county had
his money deposited in that bank and for
two months county orders were not paid
on presentation. That was no fault of
the county administration. I settle the
school tax on the first of January and
pay the county tax later.
II understand that in some counties
the first tax collected by the sheriff
must go to run the county and that de-
lays the settlement by the sheriff with
the State. Johnston county has plenty
of money. 1t is run on sound business
principles and most economically, and
the county does rot need any money
until the first of January"
Fortunate Johnston! 1t wouldn't be
bad idea for other counties to get the
receipts for this state of affairs!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02
Plans for Eastern Truck
and Fruit.
A GOOD SUGGESTION
Or. Stephen 3. Weeks Would Have a
Collection of States Literature
at ST. Louis--Mr. Bruner
Addressed Apple
Growers.
Growers.

Secretary T. K. Bruner, of the BoarC
Of Agriculture, said yesterday afternoon
speaking of his trip to st. Louis, thai
he had been extremely busy while away
laying out plans for North Cardinals eX
hibit as well as those for other States
he having also assisted the Commissions
ers OF the other States in perfectng then
plans However. he did find time to at
tend the American Apple Growers Con
gress on November 18th in st. Louis, and
make them short talk on 'The Apple
as a Food He says the meeting Wss
a large and enthusiastic one, over 30l
persons being in attendance.
Speaking Of apples. Mr.. Brunor said
there are more than one hundred car
loads of apples now in ST. Louis, to be c.
hibited, including one carload from North
Carolina.
On the 18th OF this month, week after
next, Mr.. Bruncr says the State Hort
cultural Society will meet here, and it is
the purpose to try to get this BODY to
interest the railroads lii the East TO Ike
extent Of furnishing transportation Tor
the truckers and fruit growers Of tu&t
section to supply their exhibits, with tfo
view of making a demonstration of tie
unrivalied products of that region.
ct is impossible" said Mr.. Braner, 90
take the products of the east and pre-
serve them in cold storage, as the apples
of the west are treated. For instance,
the life of peach in cold storage is but
ten days, SO that it is absolutely neceG-
sary that peaches. plums and berries be
supplied fresh for exhibition purposes.
THE plans for the Agricultural and
Mining Exhibitions are under way, while
Curator Brimley has already presented
blue prints Of the forestry, fish and game
exhibit This exhibit promises to be one
of the most interesting the State has ever
made, IS well as one of the most beau
tiful. A letter from DR.. Stephen B.
Weeks received today, suggests that a
part of the exhibit of the State consist OF
a collection of the literature Of the State,
divided in two parts, one devoted to his
torcal matters and dealing with all phases
of the States life. and the other contain
ing all other books written by North
Carolinians whatever might be their char
acter This suggestion is a valuable one,
and will be referred to suitable parties in
the state who may be able TO work u2
the exhibit. This, however, cannot be
placed with any of the above exhibits,
as it would be classified in Literature or
Education, aud would constitute another
district exhibit for the State should it
he deemed wise to undertakes Il
"All of the principal buildings are com
pleted and ready for the installation of
exhibits to begin early in the new year.
A few of the States are still constructing
their buildings, and some of the foreign
exhibitions are just bringing their build
ings to completion. The prospect for OPP
ening on time, April 3Oth, is entirely be
yond peradyenture."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02
MRS. JOE PERSON.
She ! caves KittreII and Charlotte Will
be Her Headquarters.

Mrs. Joe Person, whose name is a IA
miliar one in the State. because of her
well known remedy, was in the city yes
terday with her son, Mr.. r. M. Person.
They we're on their way to Charlotte,
and will in the future make that their
home at which point ''Mrs. Joe Persons
Remedy will be made and shipped to the
extensive trade which demands it. The
laboratory and headquarters will be IN
Charlotte after the first of January
Here is a coincidence. ''The very first
bottle OF medicine that I sold when | be-
gan to do this by personal solicitation,
was in Charlotte" said Mrs. Person yes
terday. This was in 1889 and I am go
ing to make that place my headquarters,
as it is central and l have large trade
South. I like Charlotte, for I've always
been nicely treated there, even when L
was not known
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02
TRINITY TRUSTEES TO NIGHT.
Meet In Dukes Hall and Bassett Matter
Will Come up.

The Trustees of Trinity College meet
tonight in Durham.
Ii is meeting the report of which will
be awaited with interest, for at this meet
ing the Bassett matter will come up.
The meeting will be held tonight at
7:S0 in Dukes Hall, the main building at
Trinity.
The trustees OF Trinity College are as
follows:
Rev. John N. Cole. Rev. F. A. Bishop,
Rev. a. p. Tyer, Rev. G. \. Oglesby, Rev.
j. r. Brooks d. D.. Rev. R. H. Parker.
Rev. S. r. Turrentine, Joseph G. Brown,
&. N. Duke, j. II. Southgate, V. Ballard,
y. A. Long, Col. G.. w. Flowers, ex-Judge
w. j. Montgomery, Col J. w. Alspaugh,
w. f. Odell, J. A. Gray, f. Stikeleather,
Kope Elias, p. II. Hanes, Rev. L. n. Ivey,
D. d.. Rev. j. B. Hurley. Robt l.. Dur
ham, Hon. F. M. Simmons. o. w. Carr,
r. A. Mayer, Rev. N. M. Jurney bred
Peacock, R. B. Nicholson, w. G. Brad
shaw, DR.. E. T. White, Col. John f.
Bruton, c. W. Toms and Henry A. Page.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02
"CLEANING HOUSE"
A Change OF Food Cleans the Souls
House.

When the body is clogged up by the
use of improper food and sickness sets
in there is nothing so good as a house
cleaning and the right way to Go this IS
to change the food, for although taking
medicines may afford temporary relief q
complete change of food is much the
surest and safest way.
The highest medical authority in the
world, THE Lance" of London, says OF
Grape-Nuts Our analysis shows it is q
nutritive of a high order since 1t contains
the constituents of complete food in
very satisfactory and rich proportion and
in an easily assimilable state. About
two years ago." says resident Of Spring
vile, Ind, ~ had terrible stomach
trouble and although I tried all kinds OF
medicines none of them cured me. / was
so run down | could not eat, got very
little sleep and was dizzy-headed and
miserable all of the time About that
time friend told me thtat the only way
TO cure NV trouble was to change my
food and recommended Grape-Nuts.
From NV very first meal OF Grape
Nuts my stomach began to get better and
all the improvements that come from a
healthy stomach in place OF an unhealthy
one soon followed. and this was not all,
for just as great ar Improvement came IN
my brain. All of the dizziness IS gone
and my. brain is now clear and active
can eat anything want, sleep well and
am altogether new man mentally and
physically.
eat the time I commenced to use this
food 1 was nothing but skeleton weigh
ing 100 pounds but now I have got back
ny aormal weight Of nearly 200" Name
given bv Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
C
Look in each package for copy OF
the famous little book, Ihe ROAD 10
Wellville.'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02
NOTICE OF SALE.
J. II. FLEMING,
Commissions .

Under ard by virtue of a judgment Of
the Superior Court Of Wake County rem
dered at October Term. 1868, the under
signed will expose to pubic sale on the
premises to the highest bidder, on
MONDAY, THE 21ST DAY OF DECEM-
Der, 1908.
at u O'Clock NJ, that certain lot or pareel
of land IN the City of Raleigh situate at
the Northeast corner Of the intersection
of Wilmington and Edenton Streets
fronting $50 feet moro or less on Whining
ton Street and 105 feet. more OF less, on
Edenton Street, and known as the Skin
ner residence" The lot will be offered for
sale Grst in two separate lots, and 'mme-
diately thereafter as one lot.
Terms of Sale: CASH. Inquiry NAV be
made Of either of the undersigned for
particulars
Although the sale is for cash, the pur-
chaser can have Indulgence as 70 the
greater part of the purchase rooney
G. NJ. BUSBEn,
f. H. BUSBEE,
Commissioners
November IA. 1868. ids.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02
LAND FOR SALE.

On Monday, December the eth, 1903,
viii sell by auction for cash on the pre-
ses, the valuable tract of land belonging
the estates OF the late J. 4. and Mary FL
eycutt, deceased, situated in Berton's CIR,
Township Wake County, about ten mi
north Of Raleigh, adjoining the lands OF
g. Dunn, J. w. Reddish. Mrs, Walter HI
son and others, containing about 400 acr
THIS land will be sold in three lots, &
of which lots will contains 100 acres ga
and the shir6 lot 200 acres.
Each division contains a dwelling a
out houses on 1t, also valuable woodlaI
and tenable land, and is well watercd vii
springs, wells and brooks, and Fan Ores
runs through the land.
The 200 acre tract contains the residenI
Of the late J. A. and Mary Iloueycutt.
FIVE room house, plastered and painted, vii
ali necessary cut houses, and is pleasantly
situated on a public road. The zoo arfe
tract will also be offered for sale is 20.
acre tracts and il the sum bid in the sep
a,ate tracts is more than the amount hid
on the 200 acre tract, the larger sum bid
will be recommended for confirmation
This sale is made for partition under a
decree of Superior Court Of Wake County
In case of 7. i. Honeycutt ct. ais ex. parte
plot and description OF the land caH lie
saen in my Office, 25 Pullen Building, Rs.-
eigl, n c., after the 10th Of November,
1908.
]. H. FLEMING,
Commissioner.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02
Free Site For Gotten Mill.

The new town of Coats, on the Cape
Fear and Northern road, is situate IN
the heart of the best cotton growing Sec
ton of the State. 1t is in most healthy
location and surrounded by a population
from which could be drawn the best la
Dor for employment in a cotton mill.
In order to secure the location oil
cotton mill in this new railroad town. the
offer is made of site free of charge.
Parties interested should write to
J T. COATS,
11-24-4t. Coats, N. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02

M. Smith, General Secretary of the State
Association and Prof. Sorrell of Nelson
High School.
Every phase of Sunday School work in
this township seems to have taken on new
life. Steps wal be taken Immediately to
organize Teachers Meetings and Home
Departments in all the schools.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02
Notice Of Sale.

Under the provisions of a mortgage deed
made to by Thomas u. Bryant and wife
and registered in the Registers office OF
Wake County Book 1s1, page 46S, ] WI
expose to public sale to the highest bidder
at the County Court House door, On Satur-
day, the 10th day of December, 1903, at IL
o'clock NJ, certain house and lot on North
East Street, North of Polk Street, fronting
26 IA feet on East Street and running back
20 feet, adjoining the lots OF o. p. Hay
and others.
Terms of Sale: CASH.
c. NJ. BUSBEE, Trustee.
November Is, 1908.
1l-l9-20d.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02

cover all that is in the patches of my
nelghborhood.
Il am saving my cotton for twelve
cents. The last ginners report convinces
me it viii go that high At any rate
will not sell until after the rext GIN
ners' report which comes on December
3rd"
The cotton manufacturers are cup
against it, in the matter of high priced
cotton. In New England wages have been
reduced. There have been no reduction here
and mills are running on full time There
is belief that production must be cur
tailed unless large demand can be re-
lied upon for cotton goods at higher
prices. The following is the official notice
Of an important meeting to be held at
Charlotte next week, reference to which
has already been made in these columns:
The committee that was appointed at
the last meeting of the North Carolina
Manufacturers Association at Greens
boro. N. c., believing that the condi-
lions of trade and the future of manu-
featuring calls for some united action
to curtail production, do hereby call a
meeting of all the Cotton Manufacturers
of North Carolina to meet at Charlotte,
n. c., on Tuesday, December Sth, 1908,
ut II m. cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all interested Cotton Maunfac-
turers in the United States, who feel an
interest in the welfare of the Cotton
Manufacturing business. to be present at
the place and on the day mentioned
above.
Yours truly,
J. NJ. ODELL,
W. A. ERWIN,
ALFRED THOMPSON,
STANHOPE BRYANT,
J. @. CANT,
]. H. McADEN,
Committee for the North Carolina Man
ufacturers' Association.
Concord, N. c., Nov. oath, 1908.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-02
Appointment at New 5erHe.

Judge Purnell yesterday appointed as
Referee in Bankruptcy at New Bern Mr..
Samuel w. Smallbones to I'll the place
made vacant by the death of Mr.. Leonidas
J. Moore.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-16
Nieknames of Prominent Men.

Nearly every prominent man OF
title in England has a nickname and
some of these cognomens are trife
odd. For instance, Sir Michael Her
bert, British minister to Washington,
is known as -sMungo," just why does
not seem to be clearly known; the
duke of Westminster is called Bend
Or" which was a Derby winner own
ed by his grandfather the duke of
Marlborough is Sunny" from Sun
derland, one of his many second
titles, and Lord Granville Gordon has
an his life answered to the name Of
Granny"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-16
Twelve Hours of Activity
With Andrew Carnegie
Day with the Greet Phiantropst His Beautiful
York Horne-Perfect System in Each Hour of Lebor

and a lot of blue penciled papers from
other cities.
Visitors have been coming and
going all day, but, with the exception
of a committeeman, he has not seen
any OF them. He has public dinner
engagement at the Waldorf-Astor5a
for the evening, and has no time to
talk to any one whose business is not
imperative.
Six o'clock sounds from the big
hall clock and its companions, and
Bertram and Campbell disappear. As
they go out CHEEKY voice is heard
in the hall, and Mr.. Carnegie smiles.
He recognizes the tones. In another
moment, Charles M. Schwab, presi.
dent of the United States Steel Cor
poration to the world at large, but
Charlie to Andrew Carnegie, is
seated in the den, laughing and talk.
ing. They may talk steel business.
but if they do it is only in a casual
way. Andrew Carnegie has passed
through a busy day, and he has still
that dinner to attend at the Waldorf.
Astoria.
Lets have some music" suggests
Mr.. Carnegie, leading the way to the
magnificent pipe organ, which is one
of the luxurious features OF the Car.
negfe palace.
"All right" responds Charlie" as
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-16

Ninei The deep-toned bell of the
cathedral clock in Andrew Carnegie's
mansion at Fifth avenue and Ninety
first street, New York, has chimed
the quarters in a musical scale, and
is booming the hour as the master
reaches the doorway of his workshop.
AS he stands for a moment on the
threshold of his library, his small,
1.-THE figure is the incarnation of quiet
force and nervous energy. He has
said publicly that he is out of bust
ness for good. He is about to begin
busy day, in the course OF which
he will accomplish twice as much
work as many a man in the hurly-
burly of lower Broadway who Is still
in active command of his forces as a
captain of industry
System is Andrew Carnegies
watchword Although no longer
directing the movements of 100000
employees in the great steel works
and other enterprises with which his
name was so long associated, he con-
tinues to be the man of affairs, and
each day brings its labors, none the
less exacting because they are pri-
marily for the good of humanity and
not for personal gain.
1t is estimated that Mr.. Carnegie's
income is SIS zoo, 900 a year. OF this
he gives away two-thirds at least.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-16

any misconception, let it be said
here, positively, that writing the word
Personal on an envelope will not
deter the secretary from opening it.
Mr.. Carnegie has gone through the
first letter and makes short memo
randum on it. The same with several
others Then he takes up one from
a Western city which tells him that
the authorities there have decided
not to accept his offer of a library
because public feeling is against
using the required sum from the
municipal treasury every year to
support it. He elevates his eyebrows
in a shadow of vexation, and dictates
a reply to Bertram, who jots it down
in shorthand. The reply is courteous.
1t expresses regret that the town will
not take a library on the terms Of
fered, but declares emphatically that
the conditions which govern all other
library endowments cannot be modi-
fed in this case.
By the time the correspondence is
disposed of, and Mr.. Bertram's note
book is full of pothooks for Campbell
to turn into typewriter letters. the
forenoon is well advanced. and a pile
of newspapers from other cities, in
America, and abroad, are ready for
Mr.. Carnegie's attention. He reads
the mall. Many are complimentary,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-16
The Heart of the His.

There's a wonderful country, lying
Far off from the noisy town,
Where the wind-fower swings.
And the veery sings,
And the tumbling brooks come down.
IT'S a land of light and of laughter,
Where peace all the woodland nils;
IT'S the land that lies
Meath the summer skies,
In the heart of the happy hills.
The road to that wonderful country
Leads out from the gates of care;
And the tired feet
In the dusty street
Are longing to enter there;
And a voice from that land Is calling,
In the rush of thousand rflls,-
Come away, away,
To the woods to-day:
To the heart of the happy hills"
Far away in that wonderful country,
Where the skies are always blue,
In the shadows cool.
BY. the foaming pool,
We may put strength anew;
We may drink from the magic fountains
Where the wine of life distflls;
And never a care
Shall find there.
In the heart of the happy hills
j. S. Cutler, in Boston transcript
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-16

but there are some which criticise
the use he makes of his wealth, or
take issue with certain opinions he
may have expressed in speeches,
magazine essays or newspaper inter
views.
-All of these receive due considers
ton and even when a prominent hum
orist raps him hard-as one did
few weeks ago-he only smiles in
diligently No one realizes better
than Andrew Carnegie that to be in
the limelight of public view means
many an unkind comment, as well as
a fair quantity of praise. SO he takes
the bitter with the sweet with equal
composure.
1t is now time for luncheon Mr.
Carnegie steps into one of the auto
matte elevators and is taken to the
dining room There is not much done
in Mr.. Carnegie's room for an hour
or two after dinner. He has spent
more than an hour at luncheon, in
domestic privacy, and when he re-
turns to his den it is to sit quietly
reading for an hour before. the car
rage is announced for the afternoon
drive in the park.
But he cannot spend much time in
n
to attend the opening OF one of his
libraries ON the east side He has
promised to be present and make q
short address, and he will keep his
word The carriage has been ordered
to be in readiness on his return from
his walk, and by 4 o'clock he is on
the platform in the new building, fac
ing q large audience He shakes
hands with a few scores of persons,
and is rescued from some hundreds
of others who would like to grasp his
hand, and drives back to his home
He il IN particularly good spirits
now, and is ready for . lot more cor
respondence- There have been sew
eral mails in the course OF the day,
and the mountain OF letters which the
secretary has wfnnowed has resulted
in q pile fos his personal considera-
ton even larger than that which
faced him in the morning He goes
through them rapidly. and then he
has the evening New York papers
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-16
Work of War Correspondents.

f"1 wonder said the Major, how
many of the old war correspondents
of forty years ago are living now. l
remember as among the living only
Townsend. Reid, Furay, and a few
Others. The most of them have. cross
ed the line with the great soldiers
whose campaigns they followed and
whose battles they described. / have
often wondered if the nerve tension
that told so heavily against the men
who strove in battle and shortened
their lives did not also shorten the
dives of the men who wrote of bat
ties under the stress of the conditions
that prevailed at the front or in the
rear of an army. Certainly, the SER
vice was a strain on the nerves,
whether the correspondent wrote of a
battle in progress or in the midst of
the distressing confusion that follow
ed a battle.
Here at home man cannot write
a business letter or short article for
q newspaper if he is subjected to or
binary Interruptions. 1 saw the Colo
mel in frenzy the other day because
three ladies came in. one after an
other, while he was preparing an ar
gument. And yet he had all his ma
terials at hand, and the Interruptions
were not of a trying character. Think
OF the strain under which an army
correspondent wrote. with the uproar
and confusion of battle pressing on
his nerves. Seeing only q part of the
field, he must write of the whole
Dimly comprehending the maneuvers
based on strategy or exigency, he
must describe all in their relations to
defeat or victory When command
ers were beside themselves with ex-
citement he must in some way get in
formation from them
The correspondent was compelled
not only to get Information. but to
measure its value, and, dazed or ex-
cited, he was compelled to write with
the calmness of a war historian and
at the same time to portray graphi-
eally the battle scenes. After bending
all his energies to composition he was
often compelled to ride as wildly
as a charging trooper to start his
dispatch or letter northward. The
service was very trying, and little
wonder that so many of the old war
correspondents died in what the
world called their prime. There were
men. of course. who wrote of battles