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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09
Sec. Fred Mason Makes Prin-
cipaI Address of the Day.
THE DEAD BEATS TO GO
Purpose Of Association to Protect Retailers by
Cooperation With Wholesalers ard
Enactment of Better Credit
Laws.

ct has been said that the way to a
mans heart is through his stomach and
that if you want to touch a mans feel
ings touch his pocket and you have got
him." so said Dr. Dixon in his address
of welcome to the Retail Grocers and Mer-
chants Association yesterday.
These are the grand objects of the asso-
citation as outlined later That is: To
cooperate with the wholesalers and each
other and in this way pevent tire cutting
of prices, thus enabling the grocers to
make Just profit and sell only pure foods
And secondly to bring about the enact
ment of better laws for the protection of
the merchant who does a credit business
The meeting of the feeders, so far, has
been grand success. There were about
sixty-five members present from twenty OF
the representative towns throughout the
State Great enthusiasm prevailed
throughout the meeting, and If something
doesn't result from the formation of the
Grocers Association it will not be because
Organizer Williams and National Secre-
tary Fred Mason haven't done their duty.
Both of these gentlemen are thoroughly
alive to the conditions of the grocers, the
needs of organization and to the results
which will necessarily follow organization.
1t was a splendid looking body of men
who assembled IN the Hall of the House
of Representatives and their appearance
in meeting, at the hotels and on the
ltreets was greatly complimented. As
types of the retail grocers of the State
they impress one as being able, progress
sive, alert business men, and on top OF
this of being good-looking substantial citi-
zens.
The Retail Groeers Association of North
Carolina was called to order by Organizer
G. J. Williams yesterday morning IN the
House Of Representatives.
DR.. G. +. Smith, of the Edenton Street
Methodist Church, opened the meeting
with an earnest prayer.
The chairman announced that the trains
from the west, on which many delegates
were expected late, had not arrived.
and the convention. on motion, went IN
to temporary organization.
Organizer G.. ]. Williams gave short
history of the organization movement in
North Carolina He said that he had met,
in the beginning, with some opposition,
but that as soon as the grand objects OF
the association were well understood, that
then his success was instantaneous.
The plan Of organization was gone into.
County organization throughout the State
was agreed upon by the delegates. He
explained the good which would surely
result from the organization. He an
nounced that since the organization work
began that the following local associations
had been formed:
Wilmington-J H. Thomas, president;
w P. Heinberger. secretary and treasurer.
Goldsboro-J. E. Peterson, president;
w. H Barne, vicepresident: w. r.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09
MUST USE TENDERS
Supreme Court Holds for Act
Of190i.
Corporation Commission Not Authorized to Sus-
pend the Street Car Aci---Rider 10 Bill
Unconstitutional.

The Legislature of 1901 enacted that
every street car must put on tenders, I'M
de IA penalty of mot less than $40, nor
more than 500 per day" for failure to do
so. 1t then added order that the Cor
poratiOn Commission might exempt in
such cases as it thought proper. The Cor
poratiOn Commission instead of confirming
themselves to special exemptions suspend
ed the whole act. The Supreme Court
held in an opinion filed yesterday that
this action was unauthorized and anullity,
and fuhther strongly intimates that the
Legislature having made it an indictable
offense to run street cars without tenders
it was unconstitutional to authorize three
men to suspend a criminal statute, either
entirely or in special cases.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09
RALLIES IN DARE COUNTY.
Educational Meetings and Picnics June gath,
25th, and Goth

County Superintendent B. G. Crisp, of
the Dare County Schools, has issued cir
culars calling attention to Educational
Rallies and Picnics, as tonows:
Hon. ]. Y. Joyner, State Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction, VIII visit Dare
county in June and Educational Rallies
and PicniCs for the schools of said cOun-
ty will be held at the places and times
below designated:
Buxton, Wednesday, June 24th for
schools between New Inlet and Hatteras
Inlet.
''Mann's Harbor, Thursday, June 25th
for schools at East Lake, Mashoes, Mann's
HarboT. Stumpy Point.
Fort Raleigh Friday, June 10Th, for
schools on Roanoke Island, Mays Head
and Collington.
preachers of public schools are re-
quested to give holiday on the dates
designated and attend the exercises with
their pupils. All who feel an interest in
the great cause of education, are cordially
invited to attend. Informal exercises for
the pleasure of pupils and benefit of
teachers, committeeman and school off
Gals viii commence at 1890 a. M, at each
of the above named dates and places.
AT / o'clock p. m, Hon. ]. Y. JOY
ner viii deliver an address OH matters
pertaining to the advancement of the
cause of education and the betterment of
the public school system. A pleasant and
profitable time is assured all who at
tend"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09
Liquor Dealers to Meet Here.

The North Carolina State Liquor Deal
ers, Distilers and Grape Growers AssO.
citation meets in Raleigh this week, on the
eighth, ninth tenth and eleventh. Rou-
tine business and election Of officers is the
programme.
About fifty delegates are expected. The
president is e. A. Lackey, of Hamlet;
vice-president, T. H. Scoggins, of Durham
secretary, John U. Smith, of Raleigh, and
treasurer, Ed. v. Denton, of Raleigh
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09
These ara Good Views.

The photographs of the Southern Rail
ways rotten ties wreck taken by Mr.. St.
Jacques are much sought after, as they
give splendid views of all positions of the
wrecked train and the rotten ties. The
pictures can be had at Darnells studio on
Fayetteville street at ten cents a copy.
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Eighty Lives Lost in the
Great Flood.
Continued from Page One.)

burg, S. c. district. was at the Postoffice
Department today and told Second Assist
ant Postmaster General Shallenberger
that ten thousand people in his section had
been thrown out of employment by the
washing away of factories and mills He
says that he succeeded in getting out Of
spartanburg by walking and riding on a
mule for several miles to point where
trains could run.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09
Mr.. James Monroe Britt

On Friday evening the graduating exer-
cises of the National University Law
School were held at the New National
Theatre in Washington. In the senior
class of 19O2-O3 was Mr. James Monroe
Britt, of North Carolina, who received
the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and he
also received the degree of Master of
Laws in the post graduate class being
the only North Carolinian in the class.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09
Fmbezzlad Shoes and Pants.

A negro named George Bryan was up
before Mayor Powell yesterday for the
ENLIGHTENMENT of a pair of shoes and
pair of trousers. He was sent on to
court in a bond of $50.
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They Still Live.

1t has been reported that Selma. the
plucl1y lion tainer. whose hand was torn
here by one Of her lions during the carni-
val had died in Philadelphia. This is not
so for she is now giving entertainments in
Philadelphia. Dare Devil Grant, the high
diver, is also alive, though there was a
report here that he had made a miscalcu-
lation in a dive at Norfolk and had been
killed.
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ANOTHER SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT.
Orrum, in Robson County, Voted Local EchOol
Tax Yesterday.

The State superintendent yesterday af-
ternoon received telegram from Coun-
ty Superintendent ]. A. McAllister, of
Robson, saying that the Drum school
district, of Robson county, had yesterday
voted special school tax.
This makes 1876 special tax districts in
this State, and five for Robson county
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09
DON'T LIE AWAKE NIGHTS.

Horsford's Acid Phosphate taken just
before retiring quiets the nerves, nour-
ishes the body and induces refreshing
sleep. 1t supplies the needed brain and
nerve food.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09

Miss Annie Wilson. Of Charlotte. is
visiting at the residence OF Mr. Chas. y.
johnson, on Hillsboro street
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09
Under Cover.

The work on the new building of the
Methodist Orphanage is being pushed
rapidly. The work has progressed so far
that the building is now under cover.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09

1t will only cost you $3.50 to go to Nor
folk on Christian and Weathers Excur-
sion, June 18TH
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09

Every man thinks he is one in a thou
sand, and he is-one of the ciphers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09

A mans wealth brings him lot OF un
happness-after he loses it.
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At the afternoon session Mr.. John Dunn,
of New Bern, was elected temporary chair
man. Mr. Dunn is president of the New
Bern local association. Mr.. J. B. Green
was elected temporary secretary.
Mr.. Ball, wholesale grocer of Raleigh,
made a short address. assuring the asso-
citation of the cooperation of the whole
salers Of North Carolina.
Mr.. Carter in response to Mr.. Ball:
We accept the welcome extended us by
Mr.. Ball. We come here for business. The
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-04
Preferred the Hox,,

They tell a good one on prominent real
estate man of Waurika. Some time ago he
carried Prospector over on Beaver Creek
man that il was an exceptionally fine claim
that the land did not overflow, and that
he would sell it to him for $1,000 The man
looked around and discovered some red
mud way up in tree and asked the real
estate man what caused that mud in the
tree tops if the land did not overflow. The
agent promptly replied that there was a
kind of hog raised over in the Chickasaw
country which used to range on the creek
and that they rubbed the mud on the trees.
The prospector took a look over the land.
glanced up in the tree again, and told the
Waurika man that he wouldn't take the
claim, but that he would give him $40t
for a couple of those hogs.-kansas City
Iournal
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A Tight Suueese.

Brazils, Ark, May llth-To be snatched
from the very brink of the grave is a some
what thrilling experience and one which
Mrs. NJ. o. Garrett of this place has Just
passed through.
Mrs. Garrett suffered with q Cerebro-
Spinal affection, and had been treated by
the best physicians, but without the slight
est improvement.
For the last twelve months two doctors
were in constant attendance, but she only
grew worse and worse, till she could not
walk, and did not have any power to move at
all.
She was 90 low that for the greater part
Of the time she was perfectly unconscious
of what was going on about her, and her
heart-broken husband and friends were
hourly expecting her death.
The doctors had given up all hope and
no one thought she could possibly live.
In this extremity Mr.. Garrett sent for
box Of Dodd's Kidney Pills. 1t wac a last
hope, but happily it did not fail
Mrs. Garrett used in all six boxes of the
remedy, and is completely cured. She says:
Il am doing my own work now and feel
a. well as ever l did Dodd's Kidney Pills
certainly saved me from DEATH"
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nncTnR ENenR supT; SOUTH !,a t:,.o. cARo!lSA
UUUIUu 6UOU0 STATE INSTITUTION.
Endorses the Catarrhal Tonic Peru -na--.
A C0nereSSman's Letter.

DR. j. F. Bnsor, Postmaster of Column
bia, s. c., late Superintendent and Ply
sician in charge of State Insane Asylum
at Columbia, S. c., writes:
"Affer using your Peruna myself
Ing used and are now using fhe same
with good results, snd upon the In
formation of Others who hsve been
benefited by II - . cure for cafanh
and an fnvig0rsfing tonic, can cheer
fully recommend II to aH persons re.
quirilg 50 effective remedy. "-..Dc
J. F. Ens0r.
Hon. c. w. Butts, ex-Member of Con-
gress from North Dakota, in q letter
from Washington, d c., says:
THAT Perune is not only a vigorous,
as well as an effective tonic, but also a
cure of catarrh is beyond controversy.
1t is already established by its use by
the thousands who have been benefited
byeit cannot too highly express my
appreciation of its excelE &C. w.
Butts.
DIR. R Robbins. Muskosee, /. r.,
writes:
"Peruna is the best medicine know
of for coughs and to strengthen q weak
stomach and to give appetite. Beside
prescribing it for catarrh, have ordered
It for weak and debilitated people, and
have not had a patient but said it helped
him. 1t is an excellent medicine and
it fits SO many cases.
81 have a large practice. and have =
chance to prescribe your Peruna.
hope you may live long to do good to
the sick and 81, fforsuO
Only the weak need tonic, People
are never weak except from some good
cause. One of the obscure causes of
weakness and the one oftenest over
looked is catarrh.
Catarrh inflames the mucous MEM
brane and causes the blood plasma to
escape through the mucous membrane
in the form Of mucus. This discharge
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-04

Dr.. Patton was delivering lecture recent.
y in his course on ethics at the Princeton
Theological seminary and experienced much
annoyance because some of the students ate
peanuts instead of attending to him. Final
~ he administered this rebuke: Gentle
men, have delayed starting the most inn
portant part of to-day's lecture hoping that
the stock of peanuts would be consumed and
q restful quiet be restored. As the quantity
seems ample to meet the demands and the
supply appears inexhaustible, feel con-
strained to request that your appetites be
restrained until the conclusion Of the lee
ture. i would be greatly pleased if in the
future anyone wishing to conduct a FIVE
o'clock tea in the classroom would confine
the refreshments to sponge cake. Indian
apolis News
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the buyers will grind IL into various
kinds Of food.-CincinnsH Price Cur.
ENSILING RED CLOVER.
Not Been Attended with the
Best Of Success.

Those who have empty silos may
desire to fill them with clover for
feeding during the fall shortage in
pasture. EnsiIoing clover for this
kind of feed is not regarded as the
best practice in economical feeding.
Neither has the work been always
successful. We are inclined to the
opinion soiling crops would be more
economical than SLIDING clover. The
Wisconsin experiment station has
been making clover ensilage almost
every year for the past twenty with
more or less success. but reports say
that only in few instances has the
ensilage been entirely satisfactory.
Sometimes IL il too watery. The
stems of the plants are frequently
strong and tough, and in many in
stances the silage has a rank, disa-
greeable odor about it that is unpleas-
ant. The imperfect character of the
silage has been laid in some instances
to cutting too early. In others. to
cutting too late. In some instances
the putting of clover into the silo too
wet, and yet in others to putting 1t in
same too dry. The manner of han
ding it has been varied from year to
year In order to meet these objec-
tions, and yet the results have not
been satisfactory.
1t is remembered that this station
has been eminently successful in max
ing corn ensilage, and that, too, under
varying conditions. We would not adj
wise using clover in the silo when
wether conditions are such that it can
be cured. There is not that improve
ment or difference between clover en-
silage and clover hay as there is be-
tween corn ensilage and corn stover
or fodder.-Farmers' Guide.
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HERE AND THERE.

Young pigs grow fastest and
make cheap pork on clover pasture,
| supplemented with skim milk, one
third corn meal and two-thirds wheat
middlings.
The superiority of the soy bean
over and other chop will be empha-
sized in our future farming by grow
ing soy beans alone for feed, pasture
and to plow down.
North Georgia will produce prac-
tically no peaches this season, and in
the middle and southern part of the
state only an occasional orchard will
bear anything like crop.
Corn is the greatest of all fatten-
ing feeds for live stock, but. as is well
known, it will make badly-balanced
ration, being deficient is protein, and
consequently not suited as sole rs-
ton for growing animals.
A small flock of sheep on farm
are worth their keep merely for the
purpose of destroying the weeds.
There are more than five hundred diff
ferent weeds common to southern
farms which sheep will eat.
The Breeders Gazette states that
''mules are in better demand than
they have been for long time
Farmers, it seems, are using more
and better teams--and that means
mules. Prices have gone up very ma
terially.
Chickens are great imitators, like
two-legged animals without feathers.
A hen that contracts the habit of eat
ing eggs, or of flying over the garden
fence, will teach a large part of the
flock to do likewise, and all such Of
tenders are better in the bake oven
than the poultry yard.
A cross of wild with tame turkeys
is advised by many, with the addition
al information that wild turkeys are
easily domesticated If taken while
young. For our part we would rath-
er put up with some of the tame
breeds than IVY to take wild turkeys
while ssunJ shich is easier said than
dones
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PAPER FROM coRNsTALKs.
CORn-Raising Farmers Of
the Country.

A press report from Washington
says the department of agriculture is
interested in the plans of capitalists
to manufacture high-grade paper
from cornstaiks. The farmers of In
diana and Illinois, it is announced,
are to be the first to profit by the
new process. Reports to the depart
ment show that experiments have
been carried on at Kankakee, ILL.,, for
some time, and information was re-
ceived recently to the effect that by
the time this years crop of stalks is
ripe. the men using the process will
be ready to begin the manufacture
Of paper on a large scale.
Samples of paper made from the
stalks of corn have been received at
the department. Three different
grades are exhibited. One is made
from the shell of the stock, another
from the pith, and a third from the
husk. From the pith is turned out .
fine grade of oil paper-almost if not
quite, equal to linen paper, experts at
the department say.
The department is informed that
the great problem has been to make
1t an inducement 70 farmers to sell
their cornstalks to the manufactur-
ers, instead of feeding them to live
stock. To overcome this obstacle, It
is announced, . machine has been in
vented and is building which will take
the stalk with the ear still on il,
husk the ear, remove the husk from
the stalk, and then remove the shell
from the pith. With q machine per-
fected that will do this work, the
men who propose to manufacture pa
per out of cornstalks will propose to
farmers to buy their corn crop out
right in the field. If the farmers
wish the corn after it has been
husked. IL will be passed back to the
farmer or il will be marketed by the
paper manufacturers.
In time, il is predicted a. the de-
partment there will be machinery
which will make us of every part Of
the cornstalk and the ear. Instead Of
turning the husked corn back to the
farmer OF putting Il q The maztst
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Ensaand under Mater.

French fishermen report that England il
now entirely submerged. The cause is said
to be the great increase which Great Britain
has recently made in her already monstrous
navy. The last three battleships launched
made the displacement of her channel fleet
considerably greater than tina: of the leland
itself, and as q consequence the highest
spires are now many fathoms under water
Parliament, when last heard of, was seated
in rowboats, drifting over the spot where
London was last seen. The government was
trying to push through measure ordering
erals had a strong tide in their favor, and the
Irish members were rocking and splashine
so that it was impossible to take standing
vota-N. Y. Sun.
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OF mucus is the same as the loss of
blood. IT produces weakness.
Peruna stops the catarrh and prevents
the discharge of mucus. This is why
Peruna is called a tonic. Peruna does
not give strength by stimulating the
nervous system a little.
1t gives strength by preserving the
mucous membranes against leakage.
1t gives strength by converting the
blood fluids and preventing their drain
ing away in mucous discharges.
Constant splitting, and blowing the
nose will finally produce extreme weak
ness from the loss OF mucus.
If you do not derive prompt and satis-
factory results from the use of Perupa,
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President of The
Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio.
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In plowing crops and also in plant
ing and cyltivating them many farm
ers do not consider the topography
and characteristics of the soil. For
some reason they want corn here and
cotton there, and the sweet potato
patch there, and the arrangement
may be good or bad. They run their
rows up and down hill, or across it
without considering the effect upon
drainage. For this reason many
farms have had their fertility washed
away toward the sea, and the farmer
wonders why his land does not yield
as IL once did. We know a once rich
black land farm in Grimes county,
Texas. with a deep soil and no rocks
in sight. This farm embraced a hill
on the top of which were the resi-
dence and other buildings. The rows
were run up and down the hill. After
few years the bottom rails of the
fence were covered with sediment
washed down from above. In a few
more years the plow occasionally
scraped a rock; these rocks became
numerous on the surface, and almost
the entire field was covered with
rocks, all the surface soil being
washed into Beason's creek. The
farm had to be abandoned, and has 50
remained for many years.-Farm and
Ranch.
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Farmer. unersani.ed are HeIples

Farmers CnOrganised are Helpless
Hon. F. A. Derthick, chairman OF
the committee on agriculture, Ma.
tional Grange, says:
1--WE have more wealth than any
other class We have invested in our
business sixteen billions of dollars,
and the last census credits us with an
annual income of more than four bill
lions of dollars. The year book for
1901 says that in that year we not
only furnished food and clothing for
the seventy-six millions of our own
people, but sent across the sea nine
and one-half millions of our products
to preserve the balance of trade.
Manufacturing, mining, commerce,
business, is each taking care of its
own. and each is to be applauded for
SO doing. They ask no assistance
from us in protecting their interests,
they offer us no assistance, but expect
us to take care of ourselves. The
farmers of the land as individuals, un-
trained and inexperienced. are help
less in any contest with the compact
organizations all around us. In our
extremity the grange comes to us,
and offers us the same opportunity
for educated concert of action so cas-
ily within the reach of our friends in
other associations."-Fa and Fire
side
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L.underinx the n.by,. CIoth...

Many mothers are ignorant of the serious
injury that may result from washing the
clothing Of an infant with strong washing
powders and impure soap. For this rea.
son it should be laundered at home under
the mothers directions and only Ivory SoaI
the ordinary wash shows great carelessness
ELEANOR r. PARKER,