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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-18
Treasury Department,
State of North Carolina.
Raleigh, March 10, 1903,

The State Treasurer of North
Carolina offers for sale to
highest bidder 100000 Cou-
pom Bonds in denomination of
$500 and $1,000; 100000
Registered Bonds of the State
of North Carolina in denomin-
alton of $50 each.
All hearing 8 per cert inter
est, payable semi annually,
dated January 4, 1903. Pay
able ten years after date, and
exempt from all taxation.
Sealed bids received until
IL o'clock m April End, 1903.
Right reserved to reject any
and all bids.
Address B. r. LACY,
State Treasurer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-18

81 owe my whole life to Burdocl Blood
Bitters Scrofulous sores covered my
body. I seemed beyond cure. y. b. Il.
has made me a perfectly we'll woman.
Mrs. Chas Hutton, Bervile, Mich.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-18

ga dose in time saves lives" DR..
Woods Norway Pine Syrup; natures
remedy for coughs, colds, pulmonary di-
seases of every sort.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-18
Catawba Road Tax Election


New Bern. N. c., March 1.-THE Board
of County Commissioners met in special
session yesterday and ordered an election
to be held on Thursday after the third
Monday in April, submitting the question
for special tax of IS % cents on the
500 of property and soc on the poll for
the working of the public roads under
act of the General Assembly for Caswell
and Catawba
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-18
Wallar of Samar Fame" Promoted
DIV the Associated Press. J

Washington March 17.-Major L. W
T. Waller. United States Marine Corps.
who was with the first relief to enter
Pekin and afterwards made the march
across Samar in the Philippines which
resulted in a court-martial, has been
promoted to the rank of lieutenant col
onel.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-18

The beauty of reading a tiresome book
is that you can turn over two leaves at
a time without realizing the difference.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-18
A. M. E. z. BOARD OF BISHOPS.
Representatives of the Church in the United
States and Africa.
Especial to News and Observer)

Greensboro, N. c.. March 1.-THE
Board of Bishops ana general officers of
the A. NJ e. z. church met in regular
annual session Wednesday of last week
and continued in session until Saturday.
The entire board of eight bishops was in
regular attendance, excepting Senior
Bishop j. w. Hood, l.. L. D., who was i'll
during most of the session. Addresses
of welcome were delivered by Rev. At
kins, President Chavis and President
Dudley The response in behalf of the
board was made by J. c. Dancy, Recorder
OF Deeds, Washington, d. C.
The condition Of the work of the church
which extends over the United States and
Africa was carefully considered and the
operations of the several departments
of the church organizations were found
to be quite satisfactory. The financial
department reported the receipts for the
year, $35, 900; the educational department,
$4S, 600 The publication house at Char
lotte. which has suffered from a fire, has
been put in splendid condition It's re-
ceipts were sos, 600 The Womans Home
and Foreign Mission has raised So 200, the
church extension, $S,732.
Through Bishop J. 3. Smalls, d, D.,
the work in Africa was reported to be
in good condition.
Arrangements were made for the Cen
eral Conference to meet in St Louis,
May. 1904.
Dr. ]. f. Moreland, one of the most
successful negro hnanciers, was placed
in charge of the bond issue of $4,000.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20

in the same speech in which Sir
Henry Campbell Bannerman asseI ted
that 80 per cent of the people of Gr5as
Britain lack a sufHciency of daily food
he declared that the proposed duties
81 grain would reduce the prosperity
Of the empire to ashes" If he should
ever have occasion to revise his speedA
for permanent publication it wouA
probably occur to him that prosperity IS
Hardly the word to apply to such a..
existing state of affairs as he de-
scribes.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20

fought valiantIy under Black George
against the Turks and ten years later
betrayed his old commander into the
hands of the pasha of Belgrade. Now
q descendant of Black George mounts
n throne wet with the blood Of the last
Of the Obrenovitches.
Austria Hungary has long taken a
peculiar interest in Servia. No import
ant occurrence there finds or leaves
Russia unobservant and Indifferent.
However deeply the statesmen at 81.
Petersburg may deplore this oc-
currence. they have consolationS
not vouchsafed to their brethren
at Vienna. The new king married one
of the half dozen daughters of that
good friend of the car. Nicholas Of the
Black Mountain, and is reputed Russo
phil to the tips of his fingers His wife,
BY the way, is a sister of the queen of
Italy. For his own education he is in
debted to France, but his son and heir
is at school in the cars capital where
he is in the way of seeing GeneIRl
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and other
interesting persons.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JUNE 20, 1903.
A Time For Rejoicing.

Property owners of the salt Rive"
valley who are not sgratihed ut q
special dispatch from washington
which appears in The Republican this
morning must be hard to please, mas
much as it gives a reasonable assur-
\ance that the Tonic Basin dam is 70
be built. our correspondent hopes tLat
word may be received at the interior
department today that 10000 acres
have been subscribed. According to our
local report of the operations of the
Water Users association such word
was sent last night.
This has been a harder struggle ,han
most people imagine, so hard, indeed,
but Cor the friendliness of the Off
GERS of the geological survey and their
influence in the department it would
have been hopeless. for the project
was beset by numerous enemies in
spired by varied interests. Those who
have furnished the opposition have not
all been residents of the valley and
some of them have been in Official posi-
ton. There was a danger, now happily
passed, that the Salt River valley
would be ground to pieces between the
supper and the neither millstones. But
its friends have prevailed.
The mission of Mr.. Heard to Wash
ington has ended in failure as it was
quite certain it would before he started
and we hope,that the impression gath
cred at the interior department, that
he has accepted the situation is 4 cor
rect one. It is true. as our correspond
ent states, that the future course Of
him or his followers cannot now affect
the project for the building o; the dam.
1t may not be built, but any obstacle
which might prevent it's construction
is not now in sight and it is difficult to
imagine what il could be.
We believe that this is the proper
time to congratulate the gentlemen of
the Water Users association upon the
success of their strenuous efforts.
1t is though matter Of regret that
there has not been the entire unanim-
ity of opinion regarding this great I'M
dertaking which might have been reas-
onably expected.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20
An Arizona POetess.

1t is with qualification that contivued
recognition is given the most gifted
literary woman of Arizona, Miss Shar-
lott NJ. Hall. Miss Hall has been do
ing some good work for many of the
principal eastern magazines during the
last year. The current number of the
Youths Companion prints a poem by
her. There is a great deal of honor in
this, for the Companion will have none
but the best. In it Miss Hall sings:
My heart was weary YESTERDAY.
L said: The day is long:
The busy hum of middle day
Shuts out the morning song;
The rush of myriad hurrying feet
That crowd the upward slope,
Have crushed the daisies into dust
And spent the dews Of hope.
Then straight within the trampled path
The eager throng had trod
y little purple flower Enclosed,
Nor pinned for greener sod;
And One whose load had weighted sore
Looked down at it and smiled,
And dreamed of woodland trails he'd
loved
To follow when child.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20

Colonel Watterson's eyes are now
turned - temporarily. anyhow - upon
Circuit Attorney Joe Folk of ST. Louis.
He suspects a meaning, IF not kind
of destiny" in Folks election to the
circuit attorneyship. He is pleased
that Folk is to speak in Tammany Hall
on the Glorious Fourth. Suppose Folk's
speech fires the democratic heart, Sup
pose Folk runs for the Missouri gov
ernOrship and gets there, Suppose Folk
is another Tilden!
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20
The Tragedy at Belgrade.

y good many years have come and
gone since any European capital has
been the scene of such another bloody
coup &c palais as this at Belgrade
Here and there a learned contemporary
is reminded Of the later emperors and
the Praetorian Guards. 1t isn't really
necessary to go quite so far back az
that, but such stories were more famil-
lar in times when there were as yet no
newspapers to tell them.
It is simply impossible to feel about
Alexander as everybody not a hate
mad anarchist felt about Garfield, Car -
not, Elizabeth of Austria, Humbert and
Mckinley Alexander had plenty OF
natural ability. plenty of reckless cour-
age an inOrdinate supply of self-con-
ceit and self-wiI, an inherited talent
Cor and love of intrigue, but very little
OF kingliness and less of goodness
King Milan, the graceless, clever cid
scamp. knew his Servians down to the
ground. and knew how to get along
with them. They are a bad lot, and he
was frankly DaQ IOJ himself, ana
they understood one another, and there
was something like a real 'camaraderie
between them. Milan's son had his
chance and made an astonishing mess
Of it.. Headstrong, pctulant, capricious,
lie offended both parties by turns and
first and last trod on the toes of nearly
all the sinister persons who pass at
Belgrade for statesmen. At the same
time he fatuously aiienatcd the sympa-
thies Of all Europe. Perhaps his end
was appointed from the beginning. but
he did not leave much undone to invite
and hasten it.
In the nature of things the death b.
violence of a reigning sovereign must
always get more or less on the nerves
OF the other reigning sovereigns. 1t is
unpleasantly suggestive. But Servian
royalty is what Rudyard Kiplng's
swagger cavalrymcn would call royalty
Of sorts. Ii isn't the real thing. The
dynasty that came TO an end has
history Of only cighty-six years.
II was founded by sturdy
grazier, Milosh Obrenovitch, who
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20

General MacArtiiil:--'c son stood first
in class of almost one hundred mem
bers that was graduated at West
Point yesterday, and Ulysses S. Grant
Sd stood sixth. This recalls the story
that when General f. b. Grant was in
the Philippines he wrote to the acad-
envy to ask how his son was progress
ing and received the reply: Don't be
disturbed. He is doing better than you
did in everything"
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20

Word comes from Manila that the
worst boss ladrone of the lot-a fellow
who was at it in the Spanish times and
robs and murders from force Of habit
has been nabbed. So far so good, but
we hope to hear later that he has been
hanged. If there had been ! much less
sparing use Of Manila rope. years ago,
there would have been much less trou-
BILE with "ladronism" now.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20

Think of it, Richard Harding laws
had come home because there was
nothing doing in the BalkansI
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20

So. sfil. when bitterness and fret
Would drown the melody,
Some little harmony stcIls in
To set the music free;
Aud we may keep till evcntide,
The mornings joys we knew,
If ever in our hearts there live
The daisies and the dew.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20

The Thermometer ought to take q
tumble to itself.-Philadelphi Record.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20
MAcHINERY. kNe1NEs. ETC.

WESTERN IRON WORKS. 90S-928 N
Main St, manufactrs crude oil engines
and pumps. Complete irrigating plants.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20

1t IS a doleful feeling that'in time a
mans grave would lie entirely neg
lected were it not Tor committee
Atchison Globe.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20

VULCAN IRON WORKS. 9l7-9l9 n.
Main ST., nlanfrs. stamp mills. ore crush
ers. well tools. General machine work.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20
AeRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

ARNOTT &. COMPANY, Los Angeles,
Cal. Vehicles. Farm Machinery. Mail
orders solicited. Write for catalogue
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20
REGAL SHOES by Neil.

1915 PER PAIR. CARRIAGE CHARGES
PREPAID. IA different fittings, $50
styles. Self-measurement blanks and
Spring catalogue free upon request.
Los Angeles Store. 222 w. Third ST.
A. S. VANDEGRIFT. Manager.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20
BARRELS AND TANKS.
OPTICAL GOODS

Los Angeles Cooperege Co. Tanks, barrel
and kegs. -AYTite for prices
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20
PATENTS
sANATORIUMS

BALLARD PULMONARY sANATORIUM,
Pasadena, Cal Dr. W. H. Ballard, Hadical
Director. Write for Booklet.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20

MRS. 3. 5. HAWLEY. 25i S. Broadway.
Special attention to Arizona orders.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20
EMPLoYMFNT AGENTS

Hummel Bros. & Co, 1918 E. Secon
st. Carefully selected help.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-20
CARPETS AND RUGS.

r. ELLINGTON CO.. 312-314 s. Broad
way. Curtains, draperies, China and ia
pan mattings. All kinds of floor cover
ings.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-12-26
SHE THOUGHT SHE SAW TINY
FIGURES MOVING.

window. AS she assembled these steps
she became smaller and smaller, un4
til, when she had reached the top,
Fanchon was no larger than the
fairies. She looked back at the shop.
and it appeared to be a great dark
cavern, a mile wide and ever so deep.
The fairies crowded around Fanchon
and kissed her and asked her to go
with them to see their Queen.
Fanchon's eyes were dazZled by
what she beheld. The paths were ice,
the fountains were ice and the waters
spouting from the fountains was froz-
en- into ice. Even the trees and fiow-
ers were of ice; and all glistened so
that it was almost binding.
The fairies led Fanchon through
hall after hall in a palace of ice un.
I'll they entered a large room. The
walls and ceiling of this room were
spun with frost finer than the finest
lace, and thousand times more
beautiful. In the center of this room
the Fairy Queen sat upon her throne.
Welcome. little girl" the Fairy
Queen said. Now that you have seen
my gar lens aud palace of ice | am
going to show you our real Fairy
Land"
The Queen took Fanchon's hand.
and, followed by all her court, led the
way to the end of the garden of ice.
Here, awaiting them. were hundreds
of chariots. TO which butterflies were
harnessed, and they entered the char
lots and few away to Fairy Land
Nothing was ever so beautiful. The
palace was of onyz, and the walks
were paved with pearls. The foun.
tains sprayed perfumed waters, and
every flower that ever grew was
there.
With one Of the fairies as a guide
Fanchon wandered through the gar
dens, Teasing her eyes upon the won
derful sights on every hand. She sat
upon a bank covered with bluebells
to rest. and the drowsy hum of insects
caused her to doze, but a gentle tink-
ling aroused her-she looked about to
see where the sounds came from, and
saw that all the bluebells were ring
ing.
When she returned to the palace
the Queen sent for her. "Fanchon,"
the Queen said, "As this is Christmas,
| will make you a present OF any one
gift you may choose"
Fanchon replied that the only one
gift she would choose would be the
diamond har fathar bad Lost
The Que2A axdeged the fairies
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-12-26
Advice About Christmas elfts.

Every gift should be carefully en-
veloped in tissue paper, whether it is
intended for a member or your own
household or not. 1t gives a gift an
added luster to have it mysteriously
shrouded from sight for moment
after coming into your possession. A
sufficient quantity of tissue paper
should be laid in early in December,
for at the last there is always rush,
and it often happens that, even in big
metropolitan shops, the supply gives
out a week before Christmas. Lay
aside, also, as many bolts of baby"
ribbon as you think you may need.
paper should be white and the ribbon
holly-red, but many persons prefer
something more distinctive of them
selves, so have paper OF a very pale
pink, with white or pink or pale green
ribbon, or white paper and white rib
bon, or blue or pink or some other
favorite color with which to inclose
their gifts.-Womans Home Compan-
ion.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-12-26

DANCING IN FROM ALL SIDES.
let," and then she gently waved her
scepter in the air.
Innumerable fairies came dancing
in from every side, all dressed in sill
yer gauze and each with a silver wand
in her hand Fanchon SAL on the
steps of the throne and for long
time watched the fairies as they
whirled and turned and danced to
sweet music, which they sang; bat
she was worn out at last and the room
began to go round and round and the
fairies seemed miles away when she
heard the Queens voice say: THE
child is tired. Take her to her bed"
While being carried by the fairies
Fanchon was so sleepy she could not
open her eyes. but when they placed
her on her cot she was in an uncom-
Portable position and turned over; in
doing so she opened her hand and the
diamond dropped out.
Fanchon was wide awake in an in
slant and jumped from her bed. She
looked all over the floor where the
light from the swinging lantern was
shining, but could not see the dia-
mond She was ready to cry with
disappointment at not finding it when
she happened to glance in the dark
under the bench and saw something
sparkling with green and red and yell
low light.
There it is" cried Fanchon. But
it was in a crack and she could not
reach it. With a small file, however.
she easily got the diamond out To
make sure that she would not lose it
again Fanchon took a small box from
her fathers bench and putting the
diamond in X Rugged the box for the
balance of the night.
In the morning. when Fanchons
father awakened her with "A Merry
Christmas" he asked her what the
box contained which she held so
tightly.
Why" exclaimed Fanchon, "it Is
the Fairy Queens Christmas gift. It's
the diamond which you lost
Her father opened the box and, to
his amazement and his joy, saw their
troubles were at an end. There, shin
ing in the bottom of the box, was the
cause of them all. There-winking
and blinking-was The Lost Diamond.
FRANK G. STARK.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-12-26
THE STORY OF a
LOST DIAMOND

Many years ago there lived in Am.
sterdam. great city Of Holland, a
diamond cutter. who, one unfortunate
day, lost a valuable stone which nad
been intrus,ed to him. In some unac-
countable way 1t had disappeared
from his work bench and could not be
found. He gave what little money
he possessed, but it was not enough
to pay the full value OF the diamond.
From week to week he gave one-half
OF what he earned toward paying the
balance; but hts earnings were small.
as losing the diamond had caused
customers to leave him. He became
very poor and he and his daughter,
whose name was Fanchon, were COM
PEELED to live in his workshop.
The shop was located in base
ment fronting upon public square
and there was large swinging lan-
tern, such as were used in those days,
hanging in front of 1t. Often at night
after Fanchon had been put to bed
she would amuse herself by looking
at the lantern and watching the shad-
ows cast upon the window panes by
the people who passed.
On Christmas eve the windows
were thick with frost. When Fanchon
looked at the lower panes she saw
they were covered with Giants Cas-
ties, Mountains of Crystal and great
forests; but when she looked at the
upper panes she was filed with de-
light. There were temples and foun-
tains and groves, and in their midst
the most beautiful Fairy Palace that
was ever seen.
While gazing in wonder Fanchon
thought she saw ting figures moving
through the gardens and walks, and
she arose and approached the window.
Sure enough. there were hundreds OF
fairies dancing and singing-she could
plainly hear their voices.
ooh" exclaimed Fanchon- How
I wish were there!"
Come, then" a chorus of little
voices responded. Come, Fanchon,
and dance with us"
Fanchon had started to climb upon
her fathers bench when she noticed
there were steps leading up to the
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-12-26

day and that head clerk he called me
aside and let out that Mr.. Busby was
going to buy me one of those nice
fur-trimmed coats, and wouldn't | like
to choose it, without him knowing it?
So chose-and won't have a joke on
Mr.. Busby tomorrow"
That was real nice of that clerk"
at was, and seeing how could trust
him, | asked him to advise me which
one of those nice warm bathrobes TO
choose for Mr. Busby-I just couldn't
decide between the red one and the
green one. He said"
"Oh, by the way, he told me real
funny story about bath robe. He
saws a lady wanted to buy her hus-
band one for Christmas and asked his
advice. He told her to wait until to-
morrow, as some new ones were COM
ing in then. and"
"Why, that must have been the very
day was in; though l didn't see any
new ones when / went back the"
"Mhm. And he just called her hus-
band in that night and told him to
choose for himself, SO he wouldn't
have to exchange it the day after
Christmas. Her husband thought it
the best joke yet to think what laugh
he'd have on her when she gave it to
him. So he chose a blue one and
why, what's the matter, Mrs. Busby?"
Without a word, Mrs. Busby fled up
the stairs, returning moment later
with blue bath robe in her trembling
grasp.
Did you ever in your life know any
body as mean as that clerk?" she
gasped.
ELISA ARMSTRONG BENGoUGH.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-12-26
DEAD SEA NAVIGATION.
nc rs Carried on by simple saiiina
R9at which Is Just About
Twenty Feet Long.

Since the earthquake in Palestine
last April some one circulated the story
that the mouth Of the River Jordan
the level Of the river had been altered
Ito such an extent that at the place where
the historic river goes into the Dead
sea there was now waterfall of con
siderable depth and strength. This is
altogether false, and no change what
ever has taken place al or near the
Mouth OF the Jordan. A writer for the
London Graphic has just spent some
days there, and made 1t his special
business to investigate this matter.
Much has also appeared from time to
time in papers and periodicals about
steamboats, navigating the Deed sea.