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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15
LIQUOR RETARDs PROSPERITY.


| Statesville Mascot.
One of the favorite arguments of the
| liquor men is that 1t will kill the town
| to drive out whiskey. Their anxiety for
the progress of the town is touching, but
| their argument is childish and worthless
Let us reason about the matter minute
| for every good citizen is interested in
the growth Of the town and all of us want
to see more factories here, more Citl-
Gems moving in, more houses being built
and more comforts in the homes of the
| town.
We assert that 1t will help the town
and not hurt 1t to shut out LIQUOR and
we don't have to depend on one-sided
statement OF the condition OF affairs six
teen years ago in city in another State
for proof. Let us take North Carolina
towns with no greater natural advantages
than Statesville and see what their his
tory is. From the census returns we
find that the following towns in North
Carolina. that have no saloons and with
an aggregate population in 1880 Of 12,17S,
have increased in 1900 to 26,41S or 116
per cent. Asheboro, "a per cent; Burling-
ton, 116 per cent; Concord, 50 per cent;
Gastonia, 253 per cent; Kings Mountain.
$50 per cent: Mooresville, 70 per cent;
Randleman "a per cent; Albemarle, 457
per cent; Thomasville, q per cent;
Lenoir, 80 per cent. While the cities and
towns having saloons and an aggregate
population in 1890 of 70,972 have increased
in 1900 to S9S17 or is per cent. In Char
lotte, SIS per cent; Durham, Il per cent;
Marion, As per cent; Morganton, "a per
M TF.t.,W
40 per cent; statesville, 81 per cent,
Wilmington, Oh per cent; Raleigh, z per
cent; Asheville, 26 per cent.
If it would kill Statesville to drive out
saloons, it should help it to keep them.
Then why have the prohibition towns
above mentioned grown more rapidly
than Statesville. when it had the benefits
according to -prohibitionists) of the
liquor traffic? Take another example.
In 1890 High Point, which has never had
a saloon, had $3.50 inhabitants, in 1900
it had increased to 4,163 or So per cent,
while Statesville in 1890 had 2,29S, in
1900 3,141, an increase of only 81 per cent,
although all that time Statesyille had
liquor in abundance. Since 1900 High
Point has continued to grow and instead
of trying to get saloons, they asked the
Legislature that has just adjourned 20
pass an anti-jug law, so whskey couldn't
even be shipped into the town. Concord
and Gastonia are still growing and hav-
ing tried prohibition they like it so well,
that the last Legislature enacted anti
jug laws, not only for each OF the towns,
but also for both Cabarrus and CASTOR
counties in which they are situated.
Would the business men of these towns
be trying to make their prohibition laws
more stringent IL they did not know from
actual experience that prohibition was a
good thing for their towns? What be-
comes of the kill-the-t town argument in
the light of these facts? The liquor men
know better and mo sensible man will be
deceived by their statements.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15
AS TO PISTOL ToT1NG.

Recent crimes in North and South Car
DINA, where the man who killed his
enemy or antagonist whipped a pistol ont
OF. his pocket in moment, shows that
pistol toting is all too common in the
Carolinas. The press and the pulpit
the twin teachers and leaders of grown
up men-must use every influence to put
an end to that unlawful and dangerous
practice. Many man has stained his
hands in the blood of his fellow man in
moment of passion, who would other
wise have no guilt of taking another
life, if he had not been in the habit OF
carrying pistol. South Carolina has
passed law forbidding the sale of pis-
tolls except to officers of the law. 1t is
good statute.
But, while the people of North Caro-
lima and South Carolina are looking their
faults squarely in the face, and seeking
to remedy the pistol totng, which is
very rare among us when the number of
homicides is considered, the people of
ether States ought to do likewise. In
fact the practice. in these two States is
much less common than in some locali-
ties that assume to lecture the Carolinas.
special telegram from Kokomo, In
diana, to the Chicago Chronicle shows
nf ho. Of ic+o
is north of the Ohio river. The tele-
gram reads:
Superintendent Ogg, of the city
schools, today ordered all the boys in
school searched for weapons. About five
hundred small calibre pistols were
found. All these had loaded cartridges
in them, and Chief of Police Taylor pro-
nCunced them deadly weapons"
city would show the young boys growing
up with the deadly weapon toting habit
Our men do more killing, but our boys
rarely carry deadly weapons on their
person. The next generation will show
an improvement in the matter of homi-
cides.
Speaking of pistol toting thought
full member of the State Senate who lives
in Piedmont North Carolina said it had
been his observation that no men, save
in case of an expected assault, carried
pistols except men who have some Sc
cret sin and who were conscious of be-
ing violators of the law And he is
very nearly right about it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

In due time we shall escape from the
policing of the earth by iron and blood,
at least, that police will move only rare
ly and when insensate folly shall be deaf
to the command of an enlightened and
benevolent world sentiment. The ulti-
mate risk, even from a military or naval
point of view, or that of commerce or
finance. of offending that world senti-
ment, will be more serious than the risk
of some specific and immediate offense
against any one of the war lords of great
nations.-Edward NJ. Shepard.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15
EMIGRATION OUR BANE.

There was time when North Caro-
linians did not resent the statement that
North Carolina is a good State to be
born in provided you leave It," But to-
day North Carolinians believe-and back
up their faith with facts and proof-that
North Carolina offers exceptional advan-
tages not only to it's native sons but also
to enterprising and industrious men who
we're not so fortunate as to be born in
this good State. Not a few progressive
men have come among us and succeeded
wonderfully we'll and North Carolinians
native "and to the manner born" have
made notable success in developing the
resources of the State and improving OPP
portunities that are within the reach OF
every wide-awake man.
And yet-and this is the sad fact-there
continues to pour out a stream of good
North Carolinians into Western States.
This State did much to settle all the
States far South and West and the craze
that carried away many of our best pop
ulation seems not to have wholly abated
The Asheville Citizen notes that party
containing $50 to 200 people will leave d,
Western North Carolina on the goth of
March for Idaho where they will settle
on railroad land and engage in farming
and stock-raising. Most of the party will
go to Sandy Mush. Twenty persons went
on Monday to Washington State and next
month there is to be an excursion to
Indian Territory.
The fever of going West is not con-
fined to the section West of Buncombe
1t has ragged most violently in Yadl1in
and adjacent counties. A recent issue of
the Elkin Times says:
THE Western fever has again struck
this country and almost every week one
or more parties leave here to seek home
and fortune in the great West. Last
Monday the following persons boarded
the train here for different points: Mr.
N. T. Blackwood and Lee Perkins went
TO Indiana Paul Robey to Fresno Cal;
Columbus Gray wife and four children
and Theodore Ring and wife to Caruth-
ers, Cal"
Below we give a concrete argument
against emigration. 1t shows what North
Carolina folks on North Carolina land
can do 1t is from the Roanoke Chowan
Times, and is as follows:
Roanoke river lands beat the State
for farming purposes. General Matt
Ransom sold his last years crop of cot
ton for $76,365.60 and his cotton seed for
1000, a total of 500, 1850 for one crop
of cotton. Messrs. w. P. and R. C. Ben
thall, who purchased a small Roanoke
farm Of $50 acres two years ago, did even
better than that, considering the size
of the farms The Benthalls sold, last
week, their last years crop of cotton for
some over Sc, 200. They had already sold
cotton seed to the amount of 1854. Their
net profits last year amounted to about |
Sd, 900 The year before the net profits |
on this farm were over $4,000. They gave |
$500 two years ago for the farm at !
public sale. Many predicted they had |
buried their money but the net profits |
of the farm will more than pay for it |
in three years"
Few of those who go West will do so |
well as these farmers. North Carolina |
is a good State for industrious men to |
come to and the best State for native |
North Carolinians to stay in.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15
ANEW TRAIN ON THE sEABOARD

On Monday a conference is to be held
between officials of the Seaboard Air
Line Railway and committees of the Raj
eigh Chamber Of Commerce and Business
Mems Association with reference to a
the North every morning and TO return
every afternoon. 1t would be great
convenience to the people livinT north
of Raleigh, a splendid thing for the
business men of Raleigh, and would add
to the popularity of the Seaboard Rail-
way system.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

The Wisconsin suggestion of a conven-
tion to settle the race problem is said to
be a scheme to further the nomination
of Senator Spooner for President. Every
time Republican politician begins to
wave the bloody shirt, you will find con-
cealed on his person desire for political
promotion. They all evidently think
there is another presidency in the SEQ
tional issue.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

The bill that passed the Legislature
authorizing the town of Pinebluff to levy
tax for the purpose of advertising
itself, has created more widespread in
terest than any other legislative act. The
Middletown Comm Tribune has half
column editorial upon the law which it
says is lin the line of progress"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15
A MORNING TONIC.
president Schurman.)

The difference between the educated
man and the uneducated, is that the
educated man sees more, feels more,
wants more, is interested in vastly
greater variety of things, and, in short
lives a larger, a richer and a fuller life.
He is haunted by thoughts and touched
by emotions and moved by ideals which
are fncommunicable to him who has
not been nourished at the breasts of
human science and culture.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

Mr. Hanna continues to tell US that
there are no trusts. If he will examine
the Congressional Record of February
speech by Congressman Littlefeld con-
tanning list of trusts in the United
States The list was compiled by the
CongT essional Information Bureau: if
covers six pages of the Record and gives
the names of 500 trusts with an agere.
gate capitalization of nearly $4,000, 900,
600.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

, cause of Boston then was the cause of
all, The injury of one now is the con-
Germ of all. The tobacco farmers North
and South are destined to be doomed to
.serfdom by the tobacco trust unless they
can find or make way to get out of its
clutches.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

Here is chance for Mr. Roosevelt to
open 1.-THE door of hope and opportunity:
New York theatre has drawn the race
and colored line as follows: mo colored
person will be admitted to the sections
reserved for the whites. and no white
person will be admitted to the parts Of
the house reserved for the colored peo-
pie"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

The Washington sensational CORE
spondents would have us believe that
Fairbanks has no desire to carry any
precinct except Elizabeth City and that
Hearst will be satisfied with Edenton
They are both fine places, but cannot
alone control National Conventions.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

Here is an extract from a recent let
ter from a devout Methodist preacher
Il shall stop taking the Morning Post
Lack of convictions on moral questions
or quenching those convictions at the
dictation of others, is almost an unpar-
donable sin" More truth could not be
packed in fewer words
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

The excellent cartoon 1.-THE Rising Sun
of Democracy" which we print today
first appeared in the Winston Salem Jour-
nal. That papers artist has talent of a
high order and has drawn some cartoons
worthy of Davenport
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15
Mr.. PAGE WAS RIGHT.

Webster's Weekly.
Walter H. Page in his address at the
dedication of the Buck Duke Building
at Trinity College referred to Thomas
Jefferson as 1.-The highest constructive
imagination that we have bred in our
civilization" The president of Trinity
College says he was a monster.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15
CARRIED HIS POINT.

Webster's Weekly.
Judge Graham made a mastery fight
against long term bond issue and car
ried his point. Tax-dodgers must face the
music hereafter.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

Several subscribers have fade request
printed in full in these columns. They
wifi appear in the Legislative Edition
which viii be issued nextASunday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15

We have for generations been a verit-
able world power, even if until lately
we did not pass under the glamour of
imperial or colonial polidx.-EdN ard M
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15
VIOLATION OF LETTER AND SPIRIT
Wilson Times

The anti-dispensary people say they
are going to register all the negroes they
possibly can, believing that if they got
them on the registration books they viii
vote against the dispensary This is
violation of the letter and the spirit Of
the law enacted Under the constitutional
amendment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15
Spirit of the Press.
A soCKDoLoGER.
Durham Herald.

Durham Herald.
If the Southern believes that the courts
will decide in its favor why does it not
go ahead with the depot and depend upon
getting enough damages out of the town
OF the Seaboard to pay for it?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15
Deserved Criticism.

(Stanly Enterprise)
Cur road supervisors will stand in the
way Of much unjust criticism, but let
them be careful not to give just cause
for IT, That supervisor who worked only
pne hand on his section drWnnnaaN. %
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-24
alexandria Gazefte.
WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE "a, 1908.
All Planters Were Architects.

Very few of the old houses Of the
south, except some Of the Georgian
houses Of Charleston, which belong to
an earlier period than the white col
umned houses of the early nineteenth
century, have deliberately decorated III
teriors. The reason is not far TO seek
Except in the seacoast cities Oh tne
south skilled labor was rare, ana ar
chitects were almost unknown. Inc
great majority of planters therefore
were compelled either to import tnelr
architectural designs or draw them
themselves. Most Of them preferred 10
do the latter (as Thomas Jefferson pre-
ferred to draw his own plans for Mon
ticello) and to oversee personally the
construction of the houses.
With this end in view almost all
men of means in the south prior to the
civil war were students of architecture
and ready purchasers of such architec-
tural plates as were published from
time to time. To this day heavy vol
umes on Greek Observation-Disclosures
works that only students would care
to own-are to be found as features OF
such old family Libraries as are still
preserved throughout the south.-Mrs.
Thaddeus Horton in House Beautiful
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Mov,n0 In Spanish cities.

An odd sight to be seen in Spanish
cities Is the manner Of moving house,
hold effects. In cities like Toledo and
Cordova the streets are mostly very
narrow and the houses tall, sometimes
six or seven stories. The streets are
often so narrow that horse vehicles are
not permitted in them. When the PEG
pie move from place to place their
household goods and chattels are trans
ported In handcarts. Then, instead OF
being painfully lugged up the narrow
staircases, for there are no elevators
they are hoisted in large baskets by
means Of block and tackle to the par
4icular floor to which they are destined.
When there, they are passed in through
large doorlike windows. In most OF
these cities one sees ornamental iron
hooks projecting from the topmost cor
nice Of the facade, to which the tackle
is adjusted. 1t works on precisely the
same plan as that followed in Ameri
can stable lofts for hosting hay.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-24
RAILROADS
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Schedule effective June %. 1908.

Schedule effective June ~. lyO5.
Trains leave Southern Railway Station
Alexandria:
z.50A. M-Daily-Iocal for Harrisonburg
Warreuton. Danyille and way stations
iI:1O A. M.-Dsily-Washington and
Florida Limited, first-class coach TO jack
sonyille and drawing-roorf sleeper to jack
sonyille. Dining car service.
1l:35 A. M.--Daily--U. s. Fast Mail. First
class coaches and draving-ro0m sleeper TO
New Orleans. Dining car service.
4:2S p. E.--Week Days-Local for Iisr-
rison6urg and way stations on Manassas
branch.
4;52 P. M.-Daily-LOcal for wsrrentonand
Charlottesville.
900 p. M.-Daily-New York and Atlanta
Express-First class coach and sleeper 30 At.
lanta. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
Sunset Route Tourist sleeper Washington 10
San Francisco.
1910 p. M.-Daily-washington and Chat
tanooga Limited (via Lynchburgl. First
class coach and sleeping car 10 Roanoke,
Knoxville, Chattanooga and Memphis. Sleep
er to New Orleans. Dining car service.
ll:O5 p. M.-Dsily-Washington and South
western Limited. All Pullman train, club
and observation cars 10 Atlanta and Macon.
Sleepers to Nashville, Augusta, Atlanta, Ma
con, Memphisand New Orleans. Dining car
service.
TRAINS ON BLUEMONT BRANCH.
Leave Alexandria s:1S A. NJ, LOG and 4:55
p. NJ, week days for Biuemont. $50 p. NJ.
for Leesburg. o:0S A. NJ. on Sundays only
| for Bluemont.
Through trains from the South arrive at Al
exandria 617, 6:32, 7:20 and 9:25 A. NJ. and
| | 40 and $3.50 p. NJ daily. From Harrison
burg 1885 A. NJ. week days and s:45 p.
| NJ. daily. From Charlottesville 500 A. N
and $40 P. NJ daily.
For detailed schedule figures, tickets, Pull
man reservation, ETC., apply to w. G. liz
| HEW, ticket agent, Alexandria, Va.
| C. II. ACKERT, General Manager.
| s. II. HARDWICK, Gen. Passenger Agent.
| L. S. BROWN, General Agent -
| Washinofon n a.
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Washington, Alexandria 4
Mt. Vernon Railway.
In effect May 5, 1908.
LEAVE ALEXANDRIA.

For Washington, from corner King and
ROYAL streets, week days, at 545, ID, $50,
6 So, 10, 730, 745, 756, S16, $50, goo,
9 80. 1000, 25, 10 so, II 20 and IL AZ a. m.
~ 20, 70 46 90, / 20, 46, 10, 246, %, 8 80,
46, A 10, 436, ass, 529, 5 As, sos, 80, So,
7 Is, so, s 80, 9 10, $50, 10 80 and II 20 p: m.
Sundays-7OO, sl5, goo, 946, 1923, 1850
Q 20, $50, 320, $50, 4 20, $50, s 20, $50, &c
6 80, Z 20, 7 80, $50, 9 10, 9 So 10 3d. IL pop. m
Leave Alexandria for Four Mile Run lin
addition TO local trains for Washington, week
DAYS, at IL 55 p. m. and IL IS q. m. Sundays
IL So p. m. and II So IN.
LEAVE WASHINGTON.
For Alexandria, from the corner Of Pennsyl-
vania avenue and 131 street, week days, 6 20,
so, 7O5, 7S0, So sos, SS5, 905, 9S5,
1000, 1925, II 90, II 80 a. m, Y % noon, l22V,
| IL 40, 05 (express), 20, l So, 200 (expressl
2 80, 255, 3 80, 405, 4 10, 335, 455, 8 II, 522
5 49, COS, 6 80 705, 7lS, $50. $50, 8 10, $50
10 80, II 20 .. m. and IL 0S midnight.
Sundays 40, 900, 945, 1880, lr00, II 80
a. m. 1900 noon, 1880, / 90, l 80, 200, 230,
8 90, 8 80, 400, 430, 500 $50, 800, 6 80, 200,
100, 755. $50, 910, $50, 1880 II 20p. m.
and IL 03 midnight.
FOR MOUNT VERNON.
Leave Alexandria for Mount Vernon, week
days, $50, s 80, 1882, IL 80 a. m. ~ 81, 81
2 so, 327, 4 Is, 447, 6 40 and 8 OF p. m.
Sundays OF, 933 a. m.,i2 80, 2 80, 447,
| $40 and 9 OF p. m.
FOR RoSsLYN.
Leave Alexandria for Rosslyn, week days,
! 7 10, 7 Sc, s 80, 900, 1000, 1850, II AZ q. M,
~ 40, 2 As, as, 4 SO, 5 20, 40, $50, 655 and
Sundays Is, 9 90, 945, $50, II Oa. m.
! 1850, 80, $50, $50, 450. $50, $50 and
z 80 p. m.
Leave Rosslyn for Alexandria, week days,
749, S32, 90S, 939, 1898, ll27 a. M, 1887,
so, 327, 432, 10, 600, 629, 7O2, 7H and
Sundays-s56, 94, 1927, 1127ss., 1927,
127, 227, 327, Az, 527, 6T, 7T and S2S
p. m.
Baggage checked and carried on the follow
| ing trains from Alexandria for Washington
week days: $50 and 10 rs q. M, 20, % and
| 607 p. m.
Sundays Is a. m. and 620p.m.
Parcels carried.
Freight carried daily, morning and evening
| in each direction. No freight accepted unles
delivered at the station at least 80 minutes be
fore the departure Of the freight trains.
| CLARENCE p. KING, J. CoLyIS,
President. Superintendent.
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Washington Southern Ry
Schedule In effect Nav "a. 1908.

Schedule IN effect May r. IyO3.
Trains leave station corner Fayette and
Cameron streets for Washington and poinE
north at "A, S01 and 9 81 q. M, 1914, 254,
200, s 10, and II % p. M, week days.
Sundays IA, 9 81 and II 43 q. M, 700,
8 10 and II % p. m.
For Fredericksburg, Richmond and points
1859, 459 (ocal), and Is p. M, week days.
Sundays-44S, 756 and II OF a. H., SO
50 (locaD, and Is p. M.
Accommodation for Quantico So a. m. Sum
day only and "a p. m. week days. S26 p.
W " Dbl D. Duke R1 c. II. CULP, W. P. TAYLOR
Gen. Man. Asst Gen. Man. Traf. Man.
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je23 eotd

RY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
~ dated the 25th day Of January, 1882, re-
corded in Liber B, No. 5, page 81, of the deed
books Of Fairfax county, Va, executed TO the
undersigned trustee by Jonathan Magarity
and wife, the undersigned trustee at the re-
quest Of the party thereby secured, default
having been made in the payment of the in
debtedness thereby secured, will offer for sale
at public auction in front Of the Court House
of said Fairfax county, at u o'clock, on
MONDAY, MAY IS, 1908
County Court day., THAT TRACT OF
LAND wherein NJ. q. Dixon resides, located
principally within the corporate limits Of the
town Of Vienna, in Providence district of said
county, on the old road leading from Fairfax
c. II. to said town Of Vienna, adjoining the
lands Of Hunter, Moore aud others, and con-
tanning 1876 acres more or less. Said land is
mostly cleared and is very well adapted to
farming. Ii is improved by commodious
frame dwelling house and outbuildings. This
is very valuable property:
Terms of sale 1: So much cash in hand as
will be required to pay the expenses of sale
and the sum of $4,000 with interest thereon
from January %, 1902, and the residue on q
credit of one, two and three years in equal
installments, to bear interest from day of sale
and TO be secured by deed Of trust on the
r. WALTON MOORE, Trustee,
Fairfax C. H., Va.
The above sale has been postponed until
THURSDAY, JULY %, 1908, at the same
hour and place. je23 w-td-t