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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-06
Death of a Little Child.

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Goldsboro, N. c., August 5.-Mr. and
Mrs. Jerre Harris. of this city, have the
sympathy of their many friends in the
death of their 10-months' old son. Albert.
which occurred at their home yesterday
afternoon at six o'clock.
The Sunday School excursion of st. Paul
church left here this morning for Will
mington with large crowd on board. Sew
eral people were unable to &c because
a sufficient coaches could not be had to
accommodate the crowd
Mr.. Fred Dawson, who has been filling
a position with the Southern Cotton Oil
Company in this city, left today for
Conoeto, where he goes to accept a posi-
ton with the Conoeto Oil Mill as cashier
and book keeper.
The board of aldermen will meet in
regular monthly session tomorrow night
and it is expected that sc,nc active steps
will be taken toward the removal of the
ola great eastern building, which stands
as an eye-sore adjacent to the new city
hall. The city holds a contract for the
removal Of the building and they intend to
have the contract complied with.
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WARRANT FOB REUBEN BARBEE.
Charged With Hiring Man to Whip r Prus
chanskin
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Durham, N. c., August 5.-A warrant
was issued this afternoon for the arrest
of Reuben Barbee white man, who is
wanted on the charge of conspiracy The
prosecuting witness is f. Prischanskin, a
Jew. The charge against Barbee is that
he hired a man by the name of Frank
Howard to whip Pruschanskin Tor which
he agreed to pay the sum of so.
Day before yesterday Howard assault
ed Pruschansllin on the streets knocking
him down several times and inncting q
bad wound on his head. As an excuse for
the fight Howard charged that Pruschan-
skin had called him liar. The Jew
denied this but the fight or assault fol
lowed nevertheless. When the matter
came on for trial Howard was sent over
to court because there was serious dam
age done, a long cash being cut in the
head of the Jew by his head coming in
contact with the sidewalk curb stone. He
could not give the required security and
was committed to jail.
When this was done Howard and his
friends tried to get Reuben Barbee to take
him out of prison and when he refused the
plot was given away. The story is that
Barbee was mad with the Jew over a bust
ness transaction. and that he said he
would give so to any man who would
whip him. Howard at once accepted the
proposition and the money was posted
After the fight and Towards arrest Bar
bee pulled down the money and this was
a second grievance.
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railroad company, was thrown from his
train and lost leg. He said that the rail-
road had offered to compromise by giving
the injured man $4,000. After asking the
lawyer to take the case and receiving his
promise to do so the man said that he
wanted to bring the man and some letters
from Columbia, S. c., and have the law
yer to interview him. He said that he
needed So more than he had now.
The lawyer put him off for short while
and in the meantime ascertained shat The
whole story was scheme to beat the law
yer. The story is that the man went to
several lawyers with his story and finally
succeeded in getting the amount of money
he wanted.
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TIE THIRD REGIMENT.
Encampme 1t Opens at lindley Park Today
Agreemsn With the Southern
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Greensboro, N. c., Aug 5.-Extensive
preparations have been under way for the
Regiment of the North Carolina State
Guards, which goes into camp there to-
morrow for one week. and everything
will be in readiness when the soldiers ar
rive. detail of two men from each of
the companies of the regiment arrived
last night and are busily engaged today
putting up tents. Representatives of the
Quartermaster Department have arranged
for the sustenance and comfort of the
regiment.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Central Carolina Fair Association last
night. satisfactory arrangements were
made with the chief engineer of the
Southern Railway as to the location of the
shifting yards. 1t was mutually agreed
that no tracks should be laid in front
of the FAIR Ground property
The representative of the American CT
gar Company, which has large branch
factory here, appeared before the board
of commissioners yesterday and gave in
the property of that company in Guilford
county on May 31st at 1923, 1000
The County Board of Education yester
day fixed the first Monday in November
as the date for the public schools to open.
First grade teachers salaries were fixed
at $50 per month, and second grade at
$25 per month.
The board, upon petition, authorized
elections to be held on September 9th.
in Gibsonville school district and in Fen
tress township on the question of special
local taxation for school purposes. Fen
tress township is the first in the county
TO call for a special tax election for the
whole township. The result will be
watched with great interest, since it will
demonstrate the extent of favor with
which the educational special tax propa-
ganda in this county has been received.
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No Change in the Strike.

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Durham, N. c., August 5.-RegGrding
the strike there is nothing new. Both
sides are holding firm and the situation
rs about as 1t was on Monday. There are
three contractors with the strikers and
three against them. A few non-unon
men are at work, but the contractors
contend that they do not need men at
this time and that they can get them
when they want to.
The contractors have agents in Raleigh
and other places to get brick masons and
the president OF the local union says that
he has sent out agents to every town
where the contractors have men and the
situation is being watched closely. The
strikers now have out pickets who watch
all trains to see when and how many
come in to take places of workmen. The
strikers are full of hope and say that they
are bound to win.
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HON. ]. Y. JOINER.

Jasper School House. Northampton
county, August 18th.
Ormondsville, Greene county, August 10.
Sparta, Allegheny county, August 81
Laurel Springs, Allegheny county, August
%.
Jefferson, Ashe county, August %.
Franklin, Macon county, August IS.
Highland, Macon county, August 49,
DIR. CHARLES D. McIvER.
Castalia, Nash county, August 21st.
Kirby, Northampton county, September.
PROF ]. B. CARLYLE.
Severn, Northampton county, Aug. 6.
Conway, Northampton county, Aug. Z
Liverman, Northampton county, Aug. s
Kittlell, Vance county August IL.
Jonesville, Yadkin county, August 10.
Broomville, Yadkin county, August IA
1adkinville, Yadkin county, (nigh0
August IA.
West Bend, Yadkin county, August Is.
North Wilkesboro, Wilkes county, p.
m, August II.
Moravian Falls, Wilkes county, August
IS.
Kendall Wilkes county, August 10.
New Hope, Wilkes county, August 20.
Bugaboo, Wilkes county, August %.
HON. JOHN H. SMALL.
Mt. Gilead, Cabarrus county, August
18th.
Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus county, August
18th.
Georgeville, Cabarrus county, August
Goth.
Bethel, Cabarrus county, August 21st
Harrisburg, Cabarrus county, August %.
HON. r. B. WHITE.
Blowing Rock, Watauga county, August
8th.
Skulls Mills, Watauga county, August II.
Mabel, Watauga county, Aug. 18th.
Meat Camp, Watauga county, August 49,
Boone, Watauga county, August 18th
(night).
Popular Tent, Cabarrus county, August
II.
Mt. Gilead, Cabarrus county, August IS.
Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus county, August
10.
Georgeville, Cabarrus county, August TO-
Bethel, Cabarrus county, August 81.
Harrisburg, Cabarrus county, August %.
HON. R. F. BEASLEY.
JJnionville, Union county, August 1st.
Joneshoro. Moore county, August 5.
Pine Bluff. Moore county, August 6.
Carthage, Moore county, August Z.
Carbonton, Moore county. August 8.
Pink Hill. Lenoir county, August 18th,
DIR. C. T. WINSTON.
ua1u,ood county week ending August Is.
Enon pennsylvania county, August 2Oth.
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NO PE0NACE THERE
investigation of Charges as
10 Halifax County.
No Locking Of Negroes in Siockades---No Plac'
ing of Guards Over Them--- Facts in
The Case.
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(SpecEll TO news ana ODSefVef.J
Weldon, n. c., August 5-My attention
having been called to "a statement sent
out by a Raleigh correspondent to daily
paper that peonage existed in Halifax
county. | have made a careful investlga-
ton and find that there is no truth in the
report, as far as this section of the coun-
ty is concerned l interviewed a leading
river farmer today. He said there has
never existed any such practice on the
river as far as he knows, and he is pretty
intimately acquainted with the big plant
ers on both sides of the stream.
The only thing that borders on it find
to be this. One of the leading planters
had contracts with laborers who deliber.
ately got into debt and then left the
farm. The farmer had them arrested
under the laws of 1889, chapter 444, and
laws Of 1891, chapter 1906 which law was
passed for just such cases. But the ne
groes agreed to return to work and the
prosecution was dropped and there was
never any trial. The men were never
locked up at night, nor under guard, and
were and are just as free at the close of
the days labor as any of the hands on the
farm. ID. f. STAINBACK.
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Fire at Chapel Hill.

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Chapel Hill, n. c., Aug 5.-The quiet
slumbers of our little town were broken
yesterday morning at 2 o'clock by the cry
of fire. The fire company and numbers of
citizens responded quickly to the alarm
to find the beautiful home of Mr.. w. E.
Lindsay, on Pittsboro street, completely
enveloped in flames. On account of its be-
ing beyond the water limits and the late
ness of the discovery it was impossible to
save but little furniture. Mr.. Lindsay
loss is heavy, and only covered by $500 in
surance. The fire is supposed to have
caught from stove flue in the cook room.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lindsay have the sympathy
of all our citizens in their great loss.
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ELON COLLEGE

Opens September Bird, 1903. For cata-
ogue and other particulars write DR.. J.
U. Newman, Dean of the Faculty, Elon
College, N. G.
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Had a Scheme to Beat Lawyers.
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Durham, N. c., August "a few days
ago a prominent lawyer in this city who
requests that his name be withheld from
the papers at this time, had a man to
try slick duck game at dead beating
him, the racket being that the man
wanting to bring a suit against a railroad,
asked for an advance of SIS.
The man who wanted the suit brought
said his name was Roach and that he was
employed by railroad company He told
of how a short while since, his cousin,
Caghill who was also employed by a
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-06
CHRONIC SORES
Signs Of Polluted Blood.

nothing repulve looking disgusting
You over till the brain and work with until the
exhausted and the the
place makes you irritable respondent and desperate
condition.
disorder The taking strong
will polute
pair general that the
healing of the offensive character.
Often out frgu eating the limbs
mddel Whenever
fault and while ansepc Washes sav powders
the Inflammation
till the blood itself has purified
with
Polluted blood is purified wl1en
~ T@ IN rich blood is circulating
body the flesh dsotebe to-
o1ololon natural color the discharge Of matter
49, 49, >G% and the place heals
and builds
No charge for medical advice
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, Ga.
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EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
GuiIfOrd College 9th Year

Four courses leading to the bachelors
degree.
A course of two years in Bible study
Excellent library and laboratories.
Faculty of twelve members.
Five we'll arranged buildings.
Good water supply.
Elevation a thousand feet.
Electric light plant being installed.
Location on 300 acre dairy farm.
Charges moderate.
Next term will open September list.
For catalogue address the president.
L. L. HOBBS,
Guilford College, n. G.
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Roanoke s c0h1E Ee'

Cources for Degrees; also a Commercial
Course. Able Faculty. Library, 22,00G
volumes; working laboratory; good moral
influences; six churches; no barrooms.
Healthful mountain location. Very mod
crate expenses. 51st year begins Sept. %.
Catalogue free. Address,
PROF. L. MeRETNOLDS, Sec'y.
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EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN.
Dates When Prominent Citizens Will Speak
Educational Rallies.

The FLOWING educational rallies have
been arranged by the executive commit
tee, and this list will be added to from
time to time.
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Trinity Park High School
Established 1897

Established 1889
An up-to-date College Preparatory
School. Modelled after the best type of
preparatory schools of the United States.
The equipment is complete; the discipline
firm and helpful; the training is such as
to arouse studiousness, ambition, upright
conduct, and self-reliance in pupils.
This school has been increasingly popu-
lar since its foundation. The graduating
class this year numbered fifty four. Terms
moderate.
For catalogue and collection of views,
address
j. F. BIVINs. Headmaster,
Durham, N. c..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-05
TALE OF THE BUSY-BODY WHO
FORCED HIS OWN FINISH

Copyright, 1903, by Steve Floyd N. Y. /
Once upon a time there existed IN
tYhe fourishing city Of Sageville a
geezer Of the name of Hiram Hard
cider. '5-.,'
Hiram was the star get Of one of
the oldest families in the county, of
which fact he was we'll aware. f.!
While shedding his teens his mother
made him sit in the shade and keep
auiet so that he would not over-exert
himself, and as consequence of this
heroic treatment he contracted very
severe case of let-me-tell-you-h
should be-done.
In due course Of time Hiram met the
appropriate party and forthwith re-
duced the enlargement of his heart
by marrying her. And altho there was
not lazy bone about his premises,
Hiram had no payday for the simple
reason that he was unable to locate
. employment just exactly suited to a
So his wife took in sewing and gave
music lessons to Hal Hooker's daugh-
ter, who had been to boarding school
and owned a brand new upright. -.
Despite the fact that Hiram was
heavy frost as a provider, he was
very much occupied piece Of work.
Fact is, he didn't have time to earn a
cent. Why, sometimes he would have
SO much on his hands, In addition to
a perfect epidemic of freckles, he sim
ply couldn't do a blessed thing.
True, Mrs. Hardcider's lady friends
had a habit Of saying that it was a
downright shame that she had to sup
port him by working like a dog, but
then women never can understand
any way. Besides, Mrs. Hardcider
always was fond of needlework and as
she was shy piano, it was really a
treat to teach Hortense Hooker, for
she was an 'awfully nice girl and paid
four bits for each lesson, which never
took more than three hours at the
very most.
That, at least, is what Hiram said
about it, and he ought to have known,
for he almost graduated at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college and
had been to Philadelphia twice.
. But, as has already been stated,
Hiram was a busybody of the most
powerful brand.
Every morning after breakfast he
would hurry right oyer to Caraway's
drug store. and scan the Sageville
Banner until No. 6 arrived with Mr..
.Caraway's city paper. II the steam
cars happened to be on time or. Mr..
Caraway got one Of Doc Hemlock' IS
prescriptions for fifty pills, Hiram
would get through with his mornings
duties in time to play a couple of
games of checkers with Bud Timber
lake before going home to dinner
But if trade happened to be slack at
the pillery, Mr.. Caraway would kill
time with the moulders of public
opinion, and of course Hiram would
have to wait until he got through alb
sorbing the news. Also would Mrs
Hardcider have to keep dinner or
the back of the stove until hubby
could get away. But this never made
her the least bit sore, for she knew
perfectly we'll that every man was ap
to be unavoidably detained dowr
town.
After filing his grub bunkers an6
taking a hurried nap, Hiram would
rush back to the business center O.
the station and resume his labors
which consisted largely Of putting hi
fellow citizens wise to the misman
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THE PHnosoPHY%oF FELIX G. PRYME

In order to7be popular, forget to say
a good deal -. - ~ 49, = 4. z..>-7:
The way to make a man forget q
favor is to do him, one. "
Roomerangs and Sevil thoughts act
in u similar fashion,. -.. -.
a big heart usually goes with a big
body, but a big. head rarely, doess -
Wisdom is. always conceded to a
rich man until he loses his riches. ::.s>s
Do not emphasize your own virtues
by :enlarging on the failings Of others.
1lie most depressing. humidity is
that caused by the tears of a woman.
|; A genius is; a. man who refuses to
believe. in the impossibilities Of other
people.
/ :. A safe way to Judge man is to
ascertain just what friends he doesn't
make. ~ ~ -. " - .
No marriage ceremony has ever
been gone thru without a7thitch-of
bride and groom.
So1fe mer who take a postgraduate
course are, lin the Flong run, glad. to
become letter carriers. ~ :, .s4..
The Claims to wisdom OF owls and
a multitude of men rest upon-thelr
looks. and nothing more. g.7,,-z 800
The heartaches sof many a. widow
has been tempered. !. b, the reflection
| that she looks her best in black.
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CHAPTER IX.-Continued.
The Flight of the Fool.

i. The Flight of the Fool.
"Why," he said, thou art now the
fools only friend at court.
When again he moved on with
rapid, nervous stride, the animal came
after. Darker grew the road; deeper
hued the fields and stubble; more SOM
Der the distant castle against the
cleaning. Only the cry Of a diving
night-bird startled the stiffness Of the
TRANQUIL air: a rapacious flcher that
quickly rose, and swept onward thru
the sea of night. It's melancholy note
echoed in the breast of the fool; me-
chemically, without relaxing his pace,
he looked upward to follow it, when
a short, sharp bark behind him and a
premonition Of impending danger
caused him to spring suddenly aside.
AT the same time a dagger descended
in the empty air, just grazing the
I shoulder Of the Jester, who recovering,
5 himself, grasped the arm of his assail-
ant and grappled with him. Finding
him a man Of little strength, the foo
easily threw him to the earth and
kneeling on his breast in turn men.
Y aced the assailant with the weapon ne
{ had wrested from him.
Have you any reason, knave, why
should spare you?" asked the fool.
IF had-for want Of breath i
would fail mel answered the mis-
creant with some difficulty.
roguei" he said, and the man obeyed
He was a pale. gaunt fellow, will
long hair, unshayen face, hollov
cheeks and dark eyes, set deeply in hi
head and shaded by thick, blacl
brows. His dress consisted Of rougl
doublet. with lappet sleeves, carrie,
down to point, tight leggings. broa'
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ing in the clerks, office, Hiram: would
chase across to the depot to see what
drummer came in on the north-bound
limited. His next regular stop was the
postoffice to get mama's circulars
from the mail order houses. BY this
time the sun would be. down and; he
would knock off for the day and DRAG
himself home to supper, After which
he would crawl between the sheets: tc
rest his weary body for the heavy
grind of the morrow. b.. - :5.2 81.
Hiram kept up this awful pace il
spite of Mrs. Hardcider's warning:
that he would work himself to death
But, as he said himself, he had to be
doing something all the time. It was
his nature he couldn't help it. K.
IL In time, however: cruel fate handed
him an overdose of employment ant
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SOME CLEVER TOASTS

Of loneliness alone,
A woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon,
Her health, and would on earth there
stood ~
Some more of such frame,
That life might be all poetry,
And WEAKNESS name.
Edward Coates Pinckney.
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen
Here's to the widow of fifty;
Here's to the Haunting, extravagant
$500 queen, -. -.
And here's to the housewife that's
-. thrifty! -
Let the toast pass;
&.., Drink to the lass;
I'lll warrant she'll i:rove an excuse for
the glass.
g.. III Sheridan.
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Umder the Rose.
By FREDERIC S. ISHAM,
Assthor of 1.-THE Strouers"
Copyright Bowen.n1errn Company

shoes and the puffed upper hose; the
entire raiment frayed and worn; his
hesh,s or rather, his bones showing
thru the scanty covering for his legs,
while his feet We're no better pro
tected than those of a trooper who has
been long on the march. He dis
played no fear or enmity; on the con-
trary, his manner was rather friendly
than otherwise, as tho he failed to
understand the enornaity OF. his offense
and the position in which he was
placed. Shifting fom one foot to an
other, he crossed his great, thin hands
before him and patiently awaited, his
captor's pleasure. The latter sur
veyed him curiously, and, noting his
woebegone features and sbeggarly at
tire, pity, perhaps assauged his just
anger toward this starveling.
why did you wish to kill me %
asked the Jester. quietly, if somewhat
impatiently.
1T was not my wish, Master Fool,
gently replied the other, but even as
i he spoke the resignation in his manner
gave way to a look of apprehension
Lifting his hand, he felt in his breas
land glanced about him on the road
Then his face frightened.
with your permissio nI have e''eI
dropped something"
And STOPPING, the scamp-scholal
:: picked up small, leathern-bound vol
ume from the ground, where 1t hae
fallen during the struggle, and held i
tightly clutched in his hand. All,
he muttered with a, glad sigh, -
/ feared had lost tiny Horace! Ant
= now. Sir Jester, what would you witt
) me ?'
( "A question might answer with
i question: replied the fool. Havin
| failed in your enterprise, why shout
II spare you 2"
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=
staple left to sell? And didn't cotton
go scootin' up just as soon as them
ornery* scalawags got it in their
clutches? ~. .:tr 49,, -
But that is neither here nor there,
Hiram had done lots of other bright
things and really would have made
his mark had he had the" time.
More'n ever, he warn't~ no brag. a.s-,,.,..s,
Well, to- get back to the chalk mark,
when Hiram had finished explaining
to the Sagevillians how come him to
know that this country would never
have a real spell of prosperity sc" long
as them promise breakers In Wash
ington hobnobbed with them. Wall
street varmints, he would. get down to
the real exacting business Of the day
| -butting in. Z ~. = 49, 49, ...na
After going to the courthouse to see
whether old man "Manderville had
placed: any more. mortgages on Widow
4 Filters mules, and otherwise; &C.
quainting himself with what was do: