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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23

Rev. J. e. Smith, pastor Of the Baptist
church at Concord, arrived in the city
yesterday and is the guest of his moth
er, Mrs o. A. Smith. He will occupy
the pulpit at the Baptist Tabernacle to-
morrow.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23

All fiavors of ice cream at Bretsch's.
5-22-2t
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23

Henry Brown, the negro arrested for
stealing $1sS.27 from the freight office
Of the Seaboard Air Line, was yesterday
bound over to court by Mayor Powell in
a bond of 500 in default of which he went
to Jail.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23
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Specials in
Mems Summer
Underwear
R~A
Changing Time: Right Now

Our Spring and Summer stock of Underwear and
knit goods for men, women and Children is thor
Oughly complete, variety great, and OF the salabe
sorts.
1t is paying pleasure to sell up-tO-date goods,
especially at lower prices than all others. The goods
themselves the most eloquent speakers. Test this
offering by the standard of your good Judgment
or by crucial comparison with others from other
stores.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23

Mr.. James r. Young has gone to Win
ston to look after some insurance mat
ter there in connection with the insur-
ance department.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23

Mr.. w. w. Newman, who has been
attending the Order of Railway Con-
dslctors' Convention in Pittsburg, Pa,
for the past week, has returned to the
city He reports a splendid meeting and
a great crowd.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

Governor Aycock left yesterday TO
Leesville. where he delivered an address
last night before the Leesville AcaG
envy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23

Numbers of students from Buie's Creel
Academy and from the Bingham Schoo
at Mebane were here yesterday on their
way home. They speak in glowing terms
of the success OF these schools during thu
past session
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23

The State Board. of Education will meet
to-day and will probably transact some
business with regard to the State public
school lands.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23

The singing class of the Oxford Orphan
Asylum was here yesterday on its way tC
Selma, where last night a concert was
given.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-23

Mr.. r. NJ Watts. who has been with
the w. H. King Drug Company. leaves
Sunday night for Sanford, where he has
taken a position with w. A. Crabtree in
the drug business Mr. Thomas Aiken,
OF Hicks Drug Store, succeeds Mr.. Watts
at Kings.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
General Trade Conditions.

R G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
Of Trade" says:
A striking contrast appears when
comparison is made with the CORE
spending week OF last year. Prices
were then tending upward in many
branches OF industry. new business was
coming forward more .apidly than il
could be handled, and in the security
market all records for activity and high
prices were being surpassed.
Later events have demonstrated that
the situation was unhealthy. and spec
ulative excesses have been followed by
reaction and readjustment. Conserva-
tisr was then the exception; it is now
the rule. Prospects for steady gains
and their maintenance are brighter un.
der the present system
Failures this week in the United
States are 1871, against I7o last week,
23S the preceding week, and 200 the
corresponding week last year. and in
Canada 7, against SO last week, 8 the
preceding week and 10 last year.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16

The sting of bee is composed of two
spears of polished horn held in a
sheath. The edge of a very keen razor
when examined under a good micro
scope appears as broad as the back OF
thick knife-rough, uneven and full
of notches. An exceedingly small and
delicate needle similarly scrutinized
resembles rough bar from q smiths
forge. The sting of n bee viewed
through the same instrument shows q
fiawless polish without the least blem
ish or inequality, ending in a point too
fine 10 he discerned. In the act of
singing. the spears. each OF which has
nine barbs and is grooved with chan.
mel for the passage of the poison,
emerge from the sheath. One of them
Is plunged into the flesh of the victim,
the other following, and alternately
they penetrate deeper and deeper. The
venom is forced to the. ends of the
spears by much the same process as
that which carries the poison from the
tooth OF snake when it bites.-Field
and Fcxm.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Flour-Spring clear, S37s63 90; best
Patent $500; choice Family S4.2s.
Wheat-New York No ?, SOC; Phil
adclphia No. 2, S21zc; Baltimore No. 2,
SEC.
Corn-New York, No 2, SOC; Phila-
delphia No. 2, ssA@s6c; Baltimore
No. 2, soc.
Oats-New York No ?, ssc: Phila-
delphia No. 2, 4I14c; Baltimore No. 2,
4o13c.
Hay-We quote: No. I timothy.
large bales, Sl7,ooGI7.so; No. 2 tim
2thy Slo'ooGio so; No. 3 timothy SI2 so
Green Fruits and dVegetables-Quote:
Applcs-Maryland and Virginia, per
brl, fancy -7od75c; do, fair to good,
oo@65c. Beets-Native, per bunch
IH62c. Cabbagc-Native, per 100,
Wakefield, $2.oo63oo; do, Flat Dutch,
- ,ood 500. Cantaloupes-Anne Arun.
del Gems, per basket goa 6oc; do, ma
tive, large. per 100 S2ood3. So Celery
New York State, per dozen 3oCd SOC.
Sarrots-Native, per bunch. IMIHc.
Sorn-Native, per dozen. field 8d12c.
Cucumbers-Anne Arundel, per basket
4oG soc. Damsons-Maryland and Vir-
glnia, per full barrel s.. 4.sods.oo. Egg
PIIants-Native, per basket 1s@5oc.
Huckles berries-Eastern Shore, Mary
,and and Virginia, per quart 6H6zc.
Lettuce-Native, per bu box 4old soc.
Lime beans-Native, per bu box 6om
55c. Onions-Maryland and Pennsyl-
vana, yellow, per bu 7sCdSoc. Peaches
Maryland and Virginia, per basket.
red sod6oc. Pears-Eastern Shore.
Bartlett, per basket 5otG75c: do, per
box oocM$r.oo. Pineapples-Florida.
per crate, as to size, So. 25Q32s. Squash
Anne Arundel, per basket, GOA asc.
String bcans-Anne Arundel, per bu,
green. 45d5oc. Tomatoes-Potomac,
per 2-basket carrier 3od soc do, per
'-basket carrier 25d3sc. Watermelons
Anne Arundel, per 100 selects, SI4oo
CISCO; do, prime, S7oo0looo.
Potatoes. - White - Eastern Shore,
Virginia, per brl, No. !, S1256Lso
Maryland and Pennsylvania. prime, per
ou, 4SMs5. Sweets-Yellows. Maryiand
md Virginia, per brl, SI75G 90; yell
iows, North Carolina, per brl, SI75O
400.
Provisions and Hog Products.-Bulk
:lear rib sides, S34c: bulk clear sides
s}4c; bulk ham butts, SC; clear sides,
toe; bacon shoulders, o24c; sugar-cur.
ed shoulders, extra broad. IIc; sugar.
:ured California hams, SMc; canyascd
and uncanvased hams, IL lbs and over,
i5c; refined lard, hali-barrels and new
;ubs, 9c; ticrces, lard. SIC.
Live Poultry.-Chickens per
ID, IIdIIHc; do, old roostcrs. each,
25d SOC; do, spring, large, per lb. "a
l4c; do, spring, small. per ID, -CGI4c:
10, spring. poor, per lb, -0I3. Ducks
Paddle, per ID, -tdIoc: do, muscovy
and mongrcl, per lb, 9@Ioc; brakes,
each, 3o(n4 4oc.
Eggs,-Choice, Maryland and Penn
;ylvania, per dozen, loss off, "a zoe;
Virginia, per dozen, IeGIoHc: West
Virginia, per dozen, loss off. -ldIoHc;
Southern Der dozen, loss off, -6ISI5.
Buttcr-Separator 2I022c Gathered
cream IoCd 2oc; limitations -ldIoc.
Cheese-Large, 6o-lbs, II6IIHc: do,
3o-ibs, II14@lI14; 2o-lbs, IIH@II34.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
Tramp Changed His Mind.

Friends OF resident OF the northern
section OF the city are enjoying story
which he tells at his own expense. The
gentleman in question is a six-footer
and is proportionately broad and solid
He lives on Blant avenue. and as he
was passing along the hallway the
other day a brisk ring was given the
front door bell. He turned to the
door, opened it and found himself con-
ironted by bit OF a man, a sort OF
pocket edition. much the worse for
wear and evidently belonging to the
genus tramp.
We'll, what do you want?' the man
OF the house asked.
"Ah-ah-please, SIR" the man on
the doorstep stammered, looking up at
the man towering above it, "I-ah-ah
was going to ask Tor some OF your
old clothes, but (another glance at the
big man in the doorway I've changed
my mind"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
Partly For Ornament.

The trained nurse has to meet many
curious conditions which arise among
her poorer patients. One of these
faithful women, who had sick girl
in charge in miserable tenement
house. noticed that the oranges which
had been provided for the fever patient
We're not eaten. They were placed in
an old, cracked blue bowl on little
table by the side of the sick girls bed
and there they remained untouched.
"Mary," said the nurse one day.
"don't you like oranges"
"Oh. yes'm," answered the girl.
"You haven't eaten any of these|
the nurse suggested.
"Mary's mother answered. "Oh
miss" she said eagerly, MARY she et
a half an me an Jimmy we ct TIL
other half; an Mary an me we says
we won't eat any more, cause 1t looks
so rice and wealthy t have oranges
settin' round"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
Deafness Cannot &c Cured

ylocalapplications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. THERE'S only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by consti-
tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by IN
inaamed condition OF the mucous lining OF
the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in
famed you have rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing and when 1t Is entirely closed
Deafness is the result and unless the inflam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever. Nine cases out OF ten
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an
nfamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of fDeafness( (causedby catarrh) that can
notbe cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars free. r. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the bes..
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
INDUSTRIAL AND SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

The aborigines OF Peru can. in the
darkest night and i'll the thickes,
woods, distinguish respectively a white
man, negro, and one OF their own
race by the smell.
South Africa is probably destined in
the near future to become a formidable
rival to California and Australia as 2
competitor Tor the English market in
the supply of fruit.
The largest gas engine in the world
having 5000 horsepower, will be sent
by a Belgian manufacturer to supply
part OF the motive power OF the Worlds
Fair at ST. Louis.
The common contagious diseases, the
causes Of which are still unknown, are
scarlet fever, measles. chickenpox, vel.
low fever, and hydrophobia. One diff.
Guilty in experimental research for the
organisms which cause scarlet fever,
yellow fever and measles is that ami.
mails are not susceptible TO them.
An the foreign-born population in the
United States, $40 per cent. are OF the
English Tcutonic stock, and 400 are
Celts. Thus, practically three-iourths
OF the iorcign-born in the United States
are OF EnglishTeutonic and Celtic
stocks.
In eleven years British manufactured
exports have decreased BY 3.s per cent.
American manufactured exports have
increased ia per cent, and German
manufactured exports have increased
35.5 per cent.
Persia buys over SI5.ooo,oo worth
OF goods each year from other eoun.
.ries. OF this the United Kingdom get.
s3 per cent, and the United States one
,wo-thousandth OF per cent.
So important is the Pasteurixing OF
milk deemed by Russia that the i'm
serial minister OF agriculture has an
noumced an International competitive
show OF apparatus for that purpose in
st. PETERSBURG next snrinG.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
Position in Advertising.

There is a tendency on the part OF
many advertisers, says tine Grand
Forks Herald, TO pay undue attention
TO the position of their announcements
in the papers. They ask that their
advertisements be placed at the top
of column, next to pure reading matter,
that there shall be no other ads on the
page, that they shall be surrounded
by reading matter, and make lot of
other provisions, with which al ad.
vertising men are familiar.
The advertising that depends for its
value on its ability to obtrude itself
by virtue of its position where it Is
not wanted, IS not good advertising.
ANY man who is in legitimate bus-
ness and is conducting it as ii ought
to be conducted has something to say
to the public that the public wants
TO know. If the public wants to know
it, and the story is properly told, there
need be no fear that it vii! not be
read if published in any part of good
newspaper.
There IS tendency on the part of
many advertisers to regard the puolic
ms a child to be dosed, advertising as
nauseous mess that must he crammed
down its throat in some way, and
few paragraphs of pure reading mat
ter" as the sugar coating which is 10
cover up the vile compound in the
interior of the pill.
Advertising should he so prepared
that people will want TO read IL, and IT
should be grouped as all the other
contents of the paper are grouped.
1t is an insult to the public to present
for its consumption what purpOrts TO
be story or scientific paragraph
and which ends in an invitation TO
buy somebody's corn cure.
This is another case of the sugar
coated pill. The presumption is ~
ways against the contents. The two
classes of matter should he kept sep
arate. If the reader wants to mix
them, he can do so for himself, but
most people prefer them straight
Fourth Estate.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
HirhIx Fncetiou. Cold.

Dean Farrar once related this story
sat one small public dinner at which
/ met Charles Dickens | was struck
with his chivalry to an abs,nt friend.
Nc. Sims Reeves had been announced
to sing at the dinner, and, as hap
pened not infrequently, Mr.. Sims
Reeves had something the matter with
his throat and was unable to be pres
ent. Dickens announced this and the
statement was received with a general
laugh of incredullty. This made Dick.
ems, who was In the chair, very angry.
and he manfully upheld his friend.
My friend. Mr.. Sims Reeves he said.
regrets his inability to fulfill his en-
gagements. owing he added with great
severity. to an unfortunately amusing
and highly facetious coldg" .-..
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
Little Fertil,uing Matter in Snow,

1t has been the popular belief that
snow is valuable TO the land from the
fertilizing elements contained in It..
Scientific investigation has shown that
there is little foundation for this belief.
From careful examination it is esti-
mated that the total amount OF ammo
mia brought down In rain. dew and
snow in the whole year is only about
eight pounds to an acre Of surface, and
but small part even Of this quantity
II in the snow. But a covering Of
snow upon the ground doubtless acts
beneficially. protecting the roots Of
grains. grasses and other vegetation
from the effects Of extreme cold.--Hart.
ford (Conn.l Farmer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
Live Stock.

Chicago.-Cattle steady; god to prime
steers S5.45Mooo; poor to medium, 81 Io
G4.3o stockcrs and feeders, S.. 5o64 Is
cows and heiiers, 81 5o6 500; Gamers
SI.5oG as; bulls, Saoo@465; calves
S3.5od7.oo; Texas steers, S3.25d45o;
Western steers, $5,2o@465. Hogs-Re.
:eipts to-day $1,000 head tomorrow, IS.
900; market opened steady, closed tc
Ioc higher; mixed and butchers. S5.a56
500; good to choice heavy, S54o05.75
rough heavy, S5.Io@s.4o; light, $500
6.I5; bulk of sales, S5.3o@s65. Sheep
Receipts 1900 head; market steady tc
strong good to choice wethers, S3.256
3.7s fair to choice mixed, S22sG32:;
native lambs, So 5od6oo.
Hers Island.--Cattle steady. Choice
IS '.3od 500; prime, S. IoG s.25 fair, s. 2s
q $50 Hogs active, Prime heavy, 5000
a6,Io; mediums, $64oG 64s; heavy
Workers, S6.35@6.4o; light Workers
S6Iodb.25; pigs, S5.5od $50; roughs,
S5oods.25. Sheep active. Best wethers
S3oo44I5; culls and common, SI.sc6
200; spring lambs, S3.5oa3.75; veal
calves, S7.so6Soo.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
Some Newsparer Proverbs.

Strickland w. Gillian, of the Balti.
more American, who is the secretary
of the recently organized association
of Newspaper Nersifers and Humor.
lists, has dug up the following pro
verbs from out his twenty years ex.
perience rs hard working newspaper
man:
The chap who tries hardest to wots
newspaper for special favors is tile
one who never spends n cert with il
and is not even subscriber.
That the one who demands the high.
est excellence in typography, subiec:
matter and quantity Of contents, docs
| the least to help the cause along.
That the man who kicks most about
the inaccuracy of newspapers In gen
eral is the enc who does least TO assist
in getting the facts accurately when
he has an opportunity TO do so.
That the man who has 1t in for news
papers in general has had the bitter
truth told about him once by some
unusually frank reporter, and has a
big sore spot.
That the man who brings in the
longest obituary of the late deceased
was not model husband always.
That the woman who declares it's
none of the public's business and she
won't talk, so there" always winds
up by giving the reporter rattling
good story so that he can't take it
down in short hand.
That the man who begs that his
name be left out of the list Of drunks
for fear it will hurt his mothers fee.'
ings never considered that good lady's
sensibilities before in his life.
That the men who spend the most
money with the paper kick the least.
That If you expect man to find
compliment about himself you must
put it on the front page in bOld-face
type.
That If you put in one-lne roast in
nonpareil between two patent modi'
cine ads on the steenth page he'll find
it and come hunting the man who writ
the piece.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
ARTILLERY OF THE SHOWS,


tain Ice.
Those who for the first time have ex.
plored among the higher mountain
| ranges of the earth in the season of
early summer, have doubtless beer
perplexed at the apparent firing of can
| non at various points amid those snow
covered mountain peaks and pyramids,
| a great volume of white smoke being
| observed to issue from a lofty emf
nence. soon followed by a loud report
as of heavy artillery. 1t is soon real
lied that these explosions are vast
avalanches of snow, which. having
partly lost cohesion by the increasing
heat Of summer. are dislodged by theiI
inherent weight. and fall from preci
pice TO precipice with laundering re
verberation. the apparent smoke being
volumes of powdery snow discharged
high in air each time the ponderous
mass is shattered against some rocky
obstruction.
TO spectator at distance the phe
nomenon is sufficiently grand and
startling, especially if observed
through a powerful telescope; but II
by any means, whether from balloon
rotherwise, an avalanche could be
| witnessed from short distance
through its whole course. the spectacle
must be awe-inspiring and appalling
At first mass of snow perhaps few
acres in extent. and weighing many
hundreds of thousands of tons. slips
away from the steep slope on which II
was deposited. and with terrific roar
the mighty mass bounds over preci
pice uprearcd n thousand feet or more
from the lower plateaux. The stipend
Gus impact with the snow beneath or
this slanting declivity must cause the
very rocks to tremble and quiver, and
raises q dense cloud of particles Of
frozen snow; the whole mass then
doubled in volume, madly rolling dowr
the slope with ever-enhanced impetuos.
ity.
Continually augmenting in bulk and
with more and more accelerated veloc
ity. the great colossal avalanche now
plunges downward in its headlong ca.
reer of destruction with wild momen'
has left the snow line has cut a great
avenue through n pine forest, break
ing down trees like matchwood. and in
few moments, with n grinding crash,
an entire hamlet or village beneath is
wholly submerged. splintered in ter
thousand fragments. and utterly ohlit
Grated from the face of the earth;
though the warning roar may probably
have premonished the inhabitants tc
fee for their lives.
This, however. IS not always practica
BILE, and it is related that OH one o"ca.
sion no less than 400 Austrian soldiers
were suddely overwhelmed by pro
digious avalanche which entombed the
entire battalion in snowy sepulchre
Glasgow Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
Wanted Olives fof Grown Folks.

Apropos OF olives an exceedingly dig
nihed elderly gentleman entered fancy
grocer's recently and asked ii they
kept olivcs-his wife wanted bottle.
oh, yes" responded the proprietor.
we have all sorts and sizes. we have
the largest varietics-we also have baby
Olives
Il haven't any baby" replied the gen
tleman, gravcly. Il want them for
grown iolks-I guess those will do
Indicating a bottle) and the gravity
oi the clerical staff could scarcely be
maintained until he made his exit.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-09-16
sI.oo Big 5oo-Pound steel Range oner

sI.oO Big 5oo-Pound Steel Range Offer.
II you can use the best big 500 pound steel
range made in the world and are willing to
have it placed in your own home on three
months free trial, Just cut this notice out
and send it to SEARS, RoEBUcK & Co., Chi
cago, and you will receive free by return
mail a big picture OF the steel range and
many other cooking and heating stoves; you
will also receive the most wonderful sl.00
steel range offer, an offer that places the
best steel range or heating stoN o in the home
Of any family; such an offer that no family
in the land, no matter what their circum.
stances may be, or how small their income,
need be without the best cooking or Ieating
stove made.