davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-23

hey seem to have much nicer
things that we have Has Jim Jordan
such large income?"
Il believe he has a very good salar-
led position
"Oh, pshaw, do wish could
spend $500 on some new things. We
need them, and could make the
money go so far. Don't you believe
We could afford it? 1t wouldn't be ex-
tratasant because we would be accll-
mulating property.
Why, yes: | guess we can stand it.
have paid the semiannual interest on
the mortgage, met all my other eX-
penses and have 81 900 in the bank.
think We a.e doing very We'll OF
course, We must keep our end up"
thought | detected a look of care
en- dear old Toms face as be stood at
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-23
2Ss23'1&l@s

"hen Tom and I were married we
MoVeQ at once into a charming but
modest uptown apartment. Tom was
cashier in brokers' Office at salary
VI so'o0V year. Things Went swim.
N'Hsls' and We were as happy and
contented as any two young persons
ever We're. The $1,000 a year we had
10 pay for rent seemed big sum to
u.s. and it looked bigger the second
year than it did the first. Somehow.
even though we had not been extraya-
santh We never seemed to have ready
money, The $4,000 was gone and
'nere were unpaid bills when the first
anniversary day came around.
ioh' dear I said, after we had
"AisleQ most daintily served ami
'efSafy dinner don't you think there
10 10 something wrong in our methods?
w surely ought not to spend all Of
:" income You know proyident peo-
PIC r iay aside something for rainy day.
iineSs may come, we may have I'M
expected demands upon our resources
=. ~ any lime What will we do at sucn
times?e
"oh DON'T worry, little one" he
replied, as his eyes took on the tender
g expression which really made me
0ifs, fom. Well get on somehow,
ana yoar sweet face was never in
ended for worry wrinkles, so don't
invite them
we'll | know this, Tom: The Jack
Aais i've out at JtngIewood. only an
DouF S ride from Wall street. and they
L taelI own place and they are pay
IS lof It by the year. The price was
'AiS $i0000, and the house is Just
'pie"old, with grounds, and a barn, and
uses and a garden, with fresh peas
'Ao corn every DAY that are much
'-Nei 'han you buy Of the vegetable
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-23

Continued en- Page Fourteen.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-29

lea, but to help safeguard the interests of
all the world In South America, in so far
They are equally unanimous In hoping that
the appearance of the United States Minis
ter to Venezuela in Washington as the rep
resentative of Castro WIFI not be sane
toned by the Government and that. if it
should be Mr.. Bowen win be unsuccessful
In securing for Castro better terms than
he deserves. which seems to have been the
object of his mission. This is all the more
significant because Mr.. Bowen is personally
very popular and highly respected. not only
by the American colony in Venezuela. but
by all white men resident in the country.
BOWEN is LIKED.
During the irving days last Dccersher.
when every white msn's4life was in danger
and many were imprisoned. he showed HIM
self to be a man of quick determination. He
saved the situation and many lives. The
insinuations which are being made as to the
motive of his mission in Washington END
nate from Castro and his yellow crew. not
from the Americans in Venezuela, who re-
gard Mr.. Bowen's activity as an error of
Judgment, which should have been correct
ed in Washington. They deplore the equiv
Ocal position in which he has been placed.
but have rot abated jot Of their conf
dence in his personal integrity. Many in
cidents of their treatment related to me
by American business men in Venezuela
must remain untold simply because re-
cital of the facts would imperil their lives.
While 1t Is trenching on dangerous ground
I find 1 cannot refrain from relating the
experiences of an American corporation
(and / do not refer to the asphalt COM
pany, whose concession is being contested
in the courts that in the shape of plant
and business outlay has put something over
half n million dollars in Venezuela. Sunk
is the word the general manager uses
when speaking of this investment in con-
versation which is not for publication. 1T
was the most promising of fields" says the
manager, las pointed out to us first by the
Venezuelan Minister in Washington. He es-
timated our profits at 35 per cent per an
mum. We thought 20 per cent would be
about the figure. and so it would have been
If everybody in the country from the Pres
took our time, and you should have seen
how our Board of Directors was cajoled
and soft soaped until we We're bunkoed and
our plant was in the hands OF the bandits
CASE OF "BUTTERED PARSNIPS.,'
Zone day there were letters from the Min
lister of Commerce, another day letters fror.a
the Minister of Foreign Affairs. and finally
there came by express busts of Bolivar for
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DIAMONDS ADVANCE AGAIN.
Five Per Cent Added to Price of
All Grades of Rough Stones.

New York. March 2S-Another advance
in the price of diamo Ids Is announced.
Private cablegrams from European brokers.
which were received by diamond import
ers here, stated that 8 per cent had been
diamonds. the advance to take effect at
once.
There was similar advance five weeks
ago. and dealers said that still higher prices
were to be expected in the near future. Re-
tail prices are said to be higher now than
they were a year ago, and the advance in
rough stones will be followed by an in
crease in the retail rate
Mining of diamonds is becoming more
and more difficult every year." said New
York dealer. LAS the mines get deeper the
cost of operations becomes dearer. In ad-
dition to that there is constantly increas-
ing demand for the gems"
Prices have been advanced three times in
the last six months. Each change has been
5 per cent.
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ARABS FOR THE WILD WEST
Cossacks, Moors and Beers Also
Set Sail From Hamburg.

cablegram from Hamburg. Germany.
received yesterday by the Luella Fore
paugh-F1sh Wild West management no
Of CnssacRs. Arabs' IN moons rn SSo
Dragons and Beers engaged for the wild
Vests production. which gives a. nine
days performance here at Handlan's Park
next month. The foreigners are accom-
panied by Prince Alexis Georgian, who
gathered the detachments and will direct
their performance with the Wild West.
Prince Georgian is one of the finest horse
men in Russia.
Among the party Of Arabs is one Hadji
Zessik. an expert whirlwind gun spinner
and Dervish dancer. The foreigners are
expected to reach st. Louis in the next
twelve days. The show provides a special
car for their transportation while on the
tour. and. according to contract. pays their
transportation back to Europe at the close
OF the season in November.
Prohibition Alliance Meeting.
A public meeting in the interest of honest
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DEMUR AT INTEREST KATE.
The incidents of the robbery. as stated
above, are fully known at the legation. and
their correctness Is not denied The claim
of the American is for the market value of
the steers the day they were stolen: plus
sale as per the contract he had with the
Cuban (Which Castro's General carried out
on his own hook, plus II per cent interest
will never ccme--when the claim is liqui-
dated. understand that the, legation de-
murs at the rate of interest charged, and
believe this is it's excuse for not referring
the claim to Washington. To us Il per cent
seems large. but in Venezuela 1t is the legal
rate of interest that is paid by the Bank of
Venezuela The American in question, when
his herd was stolen, was left without a
cent, and he might we'll have starved had
small sum Of money to begin business again
mot the cattle business-on a small scale
The rate at which this loan was made was
an accommodation such as this. The loan
was legalized before an American Consul
and the papers are on file In his Office.
quently, that the claimant. in demanding
y per. cent interest on his claim. Is asking
less than that to which he is clearly, enti-
tied. But to return to the cattle trade.
RATES ARE RAISED.
Despite all these exactions and handicaps
and taxes Of various kinds which have not
the space to enumerate. the initial cost of
fine animals that there was stil profit in
the trade until the Custom-house people
took hand in the game. No one who
zueIa will imagine for single moment that
any Of the cattle ships had left for Cuba
without paying blackmail to the Custom
house officials. This exaction at first
amounted to only per cent of the value of
the steers, and the trade could stand that
Three months after the trade spranR up,
cas-, and from Castro himself, to levy "a a
head on each steer. There was no law or
export tax to justify this and the interest
ed parties protested When the matter was
brought TO his notice Castro said it was
outrageous and discharged several Of the
minor officials concerned. giving them lu-
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city government will be held by the Caron-
delet Prohibition Alliance Tuesday evening
at the Carondelet Methodist Episcopaf
Church. at Virginia avenue and Blow street..
Mrs. Leonora Lake. vice president Of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Association Of
Housekeeping"
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May DO BUSINESS IN ILLINOIS.
National Packing Company LII
censed by Secretary of State.

Springfield, ILL.,. March 1-seretary Of
state Rose to-day licensed the National
Packing Company, organized under the
laws Of New Jersey. to do business In NH
nois: with capital Of "A. 900 GOO The capital
315,OO0O0O "
The Illinois of1ces will be in Chicago.
This company recently assumed control OF
other cities
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She Held the Reips

Your wife has opened an account with
Don't do 1t. young man! I've had busi-
ness dealings with her now for ten years
and she has always got the best of me-
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Turnverein VIII Give Euchre,
The Humboldt Turnverein will give a nro.
gressiye euchre in their new gymnasium
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MI. Spra6ue Says
You will receive good service at the new
Colonial Restaurant. Broadway and Locust
street.
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afternoon at Buehler's Hall. corner Tay
lor and Easton avenues. Game commences
at go o'clock
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Charity Euchre Tuesday.
charity euchre win be given Tuesday
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
THE LATE REV. 3. R. HALL.

There will be widespread regret in
North Carolina over the death Of Beaja-
min r. Hall, presiding elder of the Nj.
E. Church, South on the Fayetteville
District, at Fayetteville. For thirty
years he had been Methodist preacher,
filing some of the most important posi-
tions in his church. As circuit preacher,
station preacher, presiding elder he won
the affection of thousands of good men
and women, and his ministry was crown
ed with success. He was a strong. APP
posite and effective preacher, some
times rising to the truest eloquenco.
He was a lovabIe man and made warm
friends. He had fund of humor hat
made him the centre of the social circle
and a delightful companion. He was a
man of Infinite jest and his helpful
mirth carried brightness and cheer into
many homes. He was an Independent
victions. He was broad minded, many
sided, companionable He was tho soul
of honor and sincerity. He let no 'nan
do his thinking for him.
Mr.. Hall was a native Of Cleveland
county, the son of Mr. II. G. Hall Rock
ed in a Methodist cradle he was early
imbued with its doctrines and became
leading exponent of its tepets. He was
educated at Donaldson Academy, Fay
ettevilIe, and afterwards graduated 1T
Trinity College under the great Craven.
He joined the North Carolina Conference
in 1875. He married Miss Fannie Sted-
man, daughter of DIR. Stedman. of Ger
mantown, who survives him with four
children. For eight years Mr.. Hall has
lived on his farm on the Cape Fear, rear
Fayetteville, and was devoted to agricul-
tural pursuits. Some years ago he had
a long illness which it was feared would
result fatally. A few weeks ago his
illness returned. he was in the Marsh
Highsmith Hospital at FayettevilIo for
some time, returned TO his work, only to
return 10 the hospital where he died He
was fifty-one years old.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
BLOOD HUMOURS
Skin HumOurS, Scalp HunOurs,
Hair HunOurS,
Whether Simple SCrOfuIOuS or
Hereditary
Speedily Cured BY CutiCura
Soap, Ointment and Pills,
When All Other Remedies and
Best Physicians Fail.
COMPLETE TREATMENT, SI.OO.

In the treatment of torturing, disfig-
uring, 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, glandular swellings, ulcer
Gus patches in the throat and mouth,
sore eyes, Copper-colored blotches, as
well as bOils, carbuncles, scurvy, sites,
ulcers and sores arising from an inn
pure or impoverished condition of the
blood, yield to the Cutieura Treatment,
when all other remedies and methods
fail.
And greater still, If possible, is the
wonderful record of cures Of torturing,
disfguring humours among infants and
children. The suffering which Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment have aleviated
among the young, aud the comfort
they have afforded WORKOUT and wor-
ried parents, have led to their adoption
in countless homes as priceless cura-
tiYes for the skin and blood. Infantile
and birth humours, milk crust, scall
head, eczema, rashes and every form of
itching, scaly, pimply skin and scalp
humours, with loss of hair, of infancy
and childhood, arc speedily, perma-
nently and economically cured when
all other remedies suitable for children,
and even the best physicians, fail.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
1T Is JUDGE ALBERTs0N.

North Carolinians win place and honor
wherever they go. The latest North
Carolnian to be promoted is Mr.. Robert
Il. Albertson. of Seattle, Washington,
who has been appointed Judge of the
Fifth district by Governor McBryde
The Seattle acknowledgements prints a
handsome two column cut of Judge Al
bcrtson and an appreciative sketch of his
life. He was not a candidate for the po-
sition and the honor was therefore unso-
licited and more to be priced.
Judge Albertson comes of Quaker
stock, and many of his name have been
honored in North Carolina. He was
born in HEREFORD. n. C., December 21st,
1883. He graduated from the University
at Chapel Hill and was licensed to prac-
tice law in 1883. Shortly thereafter he
went to Seattle. then a flourishins young
city. When he reached there he had no
money or friends. and he found employ
ment in lumber yard. Later he was
assistant city editor of the Daily
Chronicle, and then entered the law of
flee of Burke & Rarms as clerk. In
1886 he began to practice Law on his own
account. He was Republican city chair
man in 1887; city attorney in 1883: he
was elected to the Legislature in 1895
and was reelected.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
THE SCHOOL MONEY WILL BE
PAID.

Our friend of the Stanley Enterprise,
we fear. is becoming prematurely pes
slmistic. He is complaining because the
extra one hundred thousand dollars of
public school fund has not yet been paid
because it is not yet available. The En-
terprise says:
s'The people all over the State are
complaining about the schools having to
stop short off, all hopes of getting the
second 100000 appropriation having
vanished just as the schools are finishing
up the available fund. Where lies the
fault? Who is to blame? The Demo
cratic party was never more sincere in
its pledges to the people, and the great
body of the party and the Governor of
our State meant that every dot and let
ter of the pledges should be redeemed.
But they have not. and there is just
cause for grievance"
The present Legislature is Democratic.
The pledge to the children of North
Carolina is a Democratic pledge and the
money will be forthcoming.
The Enterprise is mistaken as to its
estimate OF the men comprising the pres
ent General Assembly. 1t says:
eve have bright and able men in tho
Legislature, but they are not legisla-
tors. Take half dozen men out of the
House and possibly few more out of
the Senate. and the whole thing would be
blank. Young, inexperienced fellows
some just fresh from college-have been
chosen to run and regulate the affairs of
our great State; they arc sent there ito
get a start" but mistake has been
made"
The Enterprise evidently has a mild
case of political dyspepsia. There are
many safe, wise and able men, old and
young, in the present General Assembly.
They are legislating cautiously and con-
servatively, and therefore they have not
been rushing legislation, but the frame
work of all necessary general legislation
has been about completed, and the result
will, without doubt, be in keeping with
the pledges of the party and the demands
of the State.
There are many more than half dozen
able men in the Legislature. The En-
terprise's own county has sent a young
man in the person of Mr.. j. r. Price,
but he is a safe, conservative, able legis-
lator, always at his post of duty, watch
full of all that pertains to the interest,
not only of his own county, but of the
State-And there are others
Let us wait to test the Legislature by
what it accomplshes when the sum total
of its legislation is in the statutes.
Wherein 1t errs, criticism should not be
withheld; wherein it has been wise, praiA
should be given. 1t win make mistakes,
Jut all that it does should be considered
together and general average taken
of the finished legislation. AS to the
public school appropriation, there will
be no cause for criticism.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24

of tho outside world was called to fact,
that there was money in cotton manufac-
turing in North Carolina. 1t was in
nv own county the first cotton factory
was built by Mr.. Edwin Holt Atten-
ton was called to the fact by the late
Prof. Kerr, a native North Carolina boy,
that the State was rich in mineral
resources, and that the climate or the
long leaf pine belt, around Pinehurst,
was unsurpassed for invalds. and there
stands today as a result of words one of
the finest winter resorts in the South.
We have hundreds of boys who viii do
as much for North Carolina aleng agri-
cultural lines if we will but give them
the opportunity.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
CELEB BATES wAsHVNaroNs BIRTHDAY.
Revenue Cutter Boutwell, Entertained the Peo-
pls of New Bern.
Especial to News and Observer

New Bern, n. c., Feb. 23.-The reve-
nue. cutter Boutwell,, of this port, today
celebrated Washington's birthday by
giving exhibition of rowing matches,
rigging climbing, 1000 yards foot race,
100 yards three legged race, sack race,
potato race and tug war match by the
entire crew.
These exhibitions were witnessed by a
thousand people. The ship was beau
tifully decorated with flags of all the ma
tions. This entertainment was conduct
ed by the officers of the ship.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
Burial of o. W. BIacknall, Jr.
(SpeciaI to News and Observer. J

Kittrell, N. c.. Feb go. w. Black
nall, Jr., who died in Phoenix August Is,
will reach Kittrcll February 18th and be
buried at the Confederate cemetery
Thursday 26th, p. m.
DR. J. d. Hufham will deliver at
Blakehhall, the family residence, an ap-
preciative address on this brilliant young
man. Bishop Cheshire will officiate at
the grave. Though far too young to
have participated in the war he was as
ardent and devoted Confederate as ever
followed Lee. In testimony of this the
Daughters of the Confederacy at I<ittrell
are flying the Confederate flag at nalf
mast and draped in mourning during his
silent journey Of 1900 miles back to the
place of his birth and final rest. Fast
train No. p, southbound. will be stopped
at Kittrcll that o".aing at p. III.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24

1t is probable that, the Legislature
will instruct the legislative committed
which has heretofore been regularly APP
nointed to examine the books Of the State
Treasurer and State Auditor, also to
examine the books of all the State insti-
tutions. 1t should name committee OF
competent accountants to do this i'm
portant work.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24

On the petition of the General As
sembly to let the people of Catawba
county vote on the question of prohibi-
ton. appears among many other names
that of Mr.. James A. Garvin, merchant
of Newton. brother of the neWly-elected
Governor of Rhode Island.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
Under the Dome.

George w. Hinshaw, of Winston Salem.
who has been in Raleigh some days to
secure an amendment to the charter of
the Stone Mountain Railway, which will
permit It to build to the South Carolina
line from Roaring River says that he
docs not know at what point the road
would strike the South Carolina line as
that had not yet been definitely decided.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
IN THE SENATE TODAY,

The wiscst advocates of temperance leg
islation do not care anything about any
particular bill. They wish certain leg
islation that will prove effective and Will
minimize the evils of the liquor traffic
If it is by passing the London bill, as
amended, that will suit them. If it is
to amend the Watts bill and pass is.
that will suit them. Neither Mr.. London
nor any other Senator is insistent upon
any particular bill. 1t is the temper
ance legislation they wish. They wish
to add two or three provisions TO the
provisions contained in the Watts bill.
That measure is already a composite
bill, embracing several sections Of the
Smith bill If the Senate today will
pass the London BILL or what is just
as good engraft on the Watts bill some
of the necessary provisions of the Lon
don bill, the $4,000 petitioners will be
gratified, and it win mark a new era
in legislation in North Carolina.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24

House of Representatives the Counties,
Cities and Towns committee will give
hearing to the proposition to extend the
corporate limits Of the city of Raleigh. OF
course the corporate limits of Raleigh
ought to be extended. The argument in
favor of extension is unanswerable.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
Convict Camp No. 4

To the Editor: Give convict camp no.
fair play. The bidding that was con-
sidered filthy by camp No. 2 hadn't been
in use but about three weeks. The NV
ticks were filled with straw purchased Of
Spencer Phillips, a wealthy farmer, Jan
uary 10Th. 1908. We battle the men, ten
in a crew, two men to the tub, each tub
holding twenty-five gallons Of water. As
to sleeping quarters they cannot be inn
proved only by new ones entirely.
]. b. KICKS,
Superintendent.
Dover, N. c., February 20.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
A MORNING TONIC.
John Ruskin.)

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it
interviewer forever in the work of the
world; by so much evermore, the strength
of the human race has gained.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that application
will be made to I - ssembly to
amend the chart IN OF RAN
dleman.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24

Luck is a combination of an opportuni-
ty and the man.