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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
OLD NICK BIDDLE STILL LIVES

Secretary Shaw as Fairy God
MOTHER is the way the Philadelphia
Public Ledger heads sensible editorial
critcizing Secretary Shaws announced
policy of assisting the st. Louis banks
in carrying the Exposition. The Public
Ledger wisely says
IF Congress is sane and in working
order this winter we confidently expect IL
to pass or at least to discuss thoroughly,
some plan of currency legislation, in or
der that the finances of the Unite5 States
may be safely conducted under the law
of the land, instead of at the whlm of
Secretary of the Treasury, in defiance of
the explicit statutes
1t is too much to expect Congress to be
sane The idea that dominates today
is that the Treasury Department exists
only to carry out the DEGREES of the great
city banks-to help them out of hole
when they have been carrying the
gambling world.
The spirit of Nicholas Biddle still lives
and dominates the financial world. But.
alas, we have no Old Hickory Jackson
to meet Nicholas Biddle in mortal conflict
and restore the government to its right
full place.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
Tobacco Puffs.

Washington, d. c., Sept. s, 1908.
To the Editor: The report issued on
September /, 1908, by Col. H. G. Hester,
Secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Ex-
change. makes the commercial cotton
crop for 1902-1903, in actual figures, 10, 49,
$50 bales. In connection with this report
the following estimates made during the
commercial year will be somewhat inter
esting reading. These estimates, except
that of the United States Department OF
Agriculture, were based upon what is
known as the commercial crop, while that
of the Department of Agriculture was
based upon the actual growing crop OF
cotton. These estimates are for minimum
crop.
ESTIMATES ON CROP OF 1902-19O3.
October l. 1902-Jerome Hill Cotton Co.
II $50, 900 bales.
October 8, 1902-M. II. Gunther & Co.
II ,440 900 bales.
November /, 1902-H. M. Neill, II, 500,
900 to 100000 bales.
November /, 1902-Geo. C. Smith, Mil
ledgeville, Ga, 1O,S7500O bales
November 8, 1902-T. II. Price, n. Y,
9,579,254 bales.
November 7, 1902-Augusta Cotton Elk
change, II 093 1923 bales
November IL, 1902-M. H. Gunther &
Co, 1850 900 bales.
November %, 1902-Latham, Alexander
& Co., II 900, 900 bales.
November &c, 1904. B. Shepperson
II 600, 900 to 200, 900 bales.
November 26, 19O2-New York cotton
Exchange, II ,077000 bales.
November 30, 1902-Memphis Cotton Elk.
change, II ,161, 1888 bales.
November 20, 1902-Norfolk Cotton Elk.
change, II ,012, $50 bales.
November 90, 1902-Llverpool Cotton
Association, II ,167 900 bales.
December /, 1902. M. Aver & Co..
New York, 100000 bales.
December 1, 1902-R. DeJardines, Mem
phis, 10000, 900 to II 100000 bales.
December l. 1902-Savannah Cotton Elk
change, 11,190,079 bales.
December /. 1902-New Orleans Times
Democrat, II 100000 bales.
December 2, 19O2-Little Rock Board
of Trade, 11,O11, 74O bales.
December 3, 1902-Yazoo City Cotton
Exchange, 1901, PSI to II ,25O,OOO bales; av
erage around 10,500,000 bales
*December 8, 1901. S. Department OF
Agriculture, 10,417 900 bales, (actual grow.
ing crop.
December 4. 1902-Newburger Cotton
Co., II LIFTS, 900 bales
December 4, 19O2-Mobile Cotton Elk
change, 1921. 1868 bales.
January 49, 19O3-R. T. Wilson, 100000
bales
sin issuing this report, Statistician John
Hyde said:
'The commercial crop vii consist of the
above mentioned 10,417 900 bales, together
with 154. 592 bales brought forward from
last year. about 100000 bales of linters and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
THOUGHT FREE RURAL DELIv.
cry WOULD GIVE SOME
THING FOR NOTHING.

When the Alliance was first organized.
some of the more ignorant members did
not fully understand its mission They
thought it was sort of Santa Claus that
was to bring them something. To illus
trate that misconception Captain Alexan-
der told story about farmer in his
section who brought a bag with him at
the second meeting of the Alliance He
name and spirit of the organization.
What did you bring that bag for?" he
was asked. WELL" he replied, II jined
the Lowance last month and 1 fetched
the bag to carry my 1owance home in
it,"
1t takes time for some people to catch
on to new things. Take the matter of
free silver. Some people thought that
they were to get silver for nothing. Some
people talk about free gospel" and
think it means they mustn't pay the
preacher. The free rural delivery sys-
tenn is the newest thing and the Monroe
Journel tells a story showing that some
folks think it is a new-fangled scheme to
give them something for nothing. Here
is the story-it is a good one and is well
told:
Esquire Jacob S. Little is the veteran
rural free delivery carrier in Union coun-
ty, and it is safe guess to say that
there is not better one in the Uni
ted States. Squire Littles amiable eyes
twinkle very brightly as he tells the story
of a darkey who put up a mail box on
his route when the route was opened up.
dis is a free dlivery mail hain't it,"
asked the darkey.
yes" replied Squire Little, II deliver
your mail free if you put up box"
THE next day the box was up. For
two weeks the old darkey watched the
box daily, but no mail came. Finally ne
halted he carrier and wanted to know
why he hadn't put any mail in the box.
He was told that none had come for him.
This puzzled the old fellow.
why don't you subscribe for a pa
PERI" asked Squire Little, "and then
you'll get mail
Il lowed dis wus er free d'hvery, and
if hits free Use titled ter papers same
as anybody else" was the answer, and 1T
was sometime before the expectant darke,
could be made to understand that the gov
eminent didn't subscribe for newspapers
and send them to him free. When he
did understand his disgust was great.
THE next day when Squire Little went
by the old darkey's box it had been
smashed into a thousand splinters."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

How any man may quickly cure him
sef after years of suffering from sexual
weakness, lost vitality, night losses,
varicocele, etc., and enlarge small weak
organs to full size and vigor. Simply
send your name and address to DR..
Knapp Medical Co., S27 Hull Bldg, De-
troit, Mich, and they will gladly
send the free receipt with full directions
so any man may easily cure himself at
home. This is certainly most generous
offer, and the following extracts taken
from their daily mail, show what men
think of their generosity.
Dear Sir:-Please accept my sincere
thanks for yours of recent date. I have
given your treatment a thorough test
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
: THE TRUSTS FIGHT US; LET :.
: US FIGHT THE TRUSTS BY NOT i
: USING THEIR GOODS 4
< ts.-s+


The sad part of it is that people who
suffer most at the hands of the trust
often vote to perpetuate their power, as
will every man who votes the Republican
ticket And they will strengthen the
hands of the trusts by using trust-made
goods when they could help themselves
by patronizing independent concerns.
In an address on Labor Day at Greens
boro, Judge R. c.. Strudwick, who has re-
Gently returned to his native State after
a long residence at Seattle, Washington,
touched upon the relation which the
trusts bear to labor. He is thus reported:
Judge Strudwick said that working
men in the West were far better organ
lied than In this section of the country.
He said when he left this State some
years ago Labor Day was not heard of,
neither was organized labor.
Judge Strudwick said the worst enemy
the working man had was the trusts.
Those who were at the head of the great
trusts he said, We're already wealthy,
but like Moloch, they wanted more
wealth, and to secure such wealth they
made the workingman work for less than
his due He said when monopoly became
supreme, it would be the death blow of
organized labor Judge Strudwick's ad
dress met with hearty approval"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

u. S. Department of Agriculture.

The police were notified from Hobgood
that the early freight had three men
beating" their way. When the train
pulled into the station this morning
Policeman Pulley was there to look for
the truck riders. AS he stopped over 70
look under the cars he saw man who
began shooting at him. In trying to get
Rt this man he ran against another and
seized him, but his firing man ran off and
so did another. The one he captured
had large self-cocking revolver a gold
watch and some money on his person He
was placed in the lookup until the case
was heard by Mayor Fender, who sent
the man to Jail in default of bail to an
swer at court for carrying a concealed
weapon.
All three of the men were white. The
other two ran off and disappeared.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
Health, Strength and Vigor for MerA.

and the benefit has been extraordinary.
1t has completely braced me up. 1 am
just as vigorous as when boy and you
cannot realize how happy I am"
Dear Sirs:-Your method worked
beautifully. Results We're exactly what
l needed. Strength and vigor have COM
pletely returned and enlargement is en-
tirely satisfactory"
"Dear Sirs:-Yours was received and
had no trouble in making use Of The re-
ceipt as directed, and can Faithfully say
1t is boom to weak men. I am greatly
improved in size, strength and vigor."
All correspondence Is strictly confide1-
tiaI, mailed in plain, sealed envelope.
The receipt is free for the asking and
they want every man to have it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

The news from Buncombe is that George
Vanderbilt is kicking on the assessment
of his property. Last year in New York
on his personal property, stocks and
bonds by declaring that he was a citizen
of North Carolina. We are proud to
State. Did he give in his millions OF
stocks and bonds for taxation in Bun
combe county. How about that, Chair
man Reed?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

In recent speech Senator Fairbanks,
cities, says it will be followed by a re-
turn to the country. The Kansas City
Journal says that this return drift has
already set in. $50 mote it be- The
multiplication of good rural schools, the
building of good roads and free rural de-
livery will make country life more de-
sirable than city life. Goldsmith wrote
truly when he SAYS:
But a bold peasantry, their country's
pride,
When once destroyed, can never be sup
Piled
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

Rev. J. L.. Hillyer, of Macon, Ga, who
recently defended lynching and said he
law, is receiving many abusive letters. A
Michigan man wrote him thus: "a man
who will use the Bible to prove lynching
is right should be himself lynched," and
that hell is now full of better men than
the minister who would preach such
sermon"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
THE CASE WE'LL STATED.

\ "The town runs the dispensary. !
X The bar-rooms run the town. In !
X these two paragraphs Webster's !
x Weekly sums up the whole question <
X in a nut she'll. Shut up the bar-rooms +
X and the towns will have better men !
X in office and better city government ::
!. in Raleigh, and in every other town ::
X and city. The bar-room influences in !
:. politics is only less injurious than !
\ the bar-room influence in the home !
x Shut them up! i
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

Kaiser Wilhelm, of Germany, has in
vented a new plan to help German to-
bacco dealers and drive the American To-
bacco Trust to the wall. According to
this new plan no canteen in the army will
be allowed to sell any of the brands con-
trolled by the trust; no trust cigars are
to be sold in the officers casinos; and II
decree will be issued advising the sol
diers III the army in the name of pa
triotism not to buy cigars or tobacco
from dealers who carry American goods.
Southern Tobacco Journal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

The negro fares well in the Indian Ter
rltory where many received homestead
from the government because they had
Indian blood. Why? According to the
Washington Post they have been kept,
under the operation of the Federal law,
from the use of liquor, the sale of which
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

We believe the estimate made by the
Wilson Times will prove to be about cor
rect, and that in yield there will be a
falling off of from % to SO 1-3 from
last year. With these facts car the
bright stuff continue low? 1t certainly
will not, if there is a curtailment of the
crop next year.-Southern Tobacco Jour
nal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

The severest blow yet dealt, to coeduca-
ton comes from Dean Tufts, of Chicago
University, which has been dubbed 'the
freak university He made this an
nouncement in the Chapel a few days ago:
Women in this institution average
twenty-eight years and men twenty-five
years DID," Look for falling off of wo-
man students in the Chicago University.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

is prohibited in the territory, and have
accumulated very liberal share of the
worlds goods" If whiskey could be kept
from the negro, it would do more to help
him than anything else.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

Public men who are loved by their
friends need not care what their enemies
say about them. Andrew Johnsons motto
was: Make your friends love you and
your enemies hate you"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

sample cotton, and so much of the crop of
10000 as may be marketed before Sep
TENDER /, 1908, less 100 bales of the
present crop marketed before September
1, 1902, and SO much of this same crop as
may be carried forward to the year 19O3,-
o." B. c. WHITE,
Special Field Agent
u S. DEPARTMENT of Agricnlt1re
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

Referring to the editorial of the Chicago
Mr.. Cleveland, an exchange says that the
Chronicle claims to be "a Democratic
paper" Claims to be is good. 1t is one
of those Democratic papers that nearly
always supports Republican policies and
Republican candidates.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
A MORNING TONIC.
(Feltllam.l

Discomfort is like ink poured into water
which fills the whole fountain full of
blackness 1t casts a cloud over the
mind and renders it more occupied about
the evil which disquiets it than about the
means of removing it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
THEIR WORST ENEMY.

The worst enemy of labor-in the fac
tory, on the farm, in the home-ls the
trust In the parade on Labor Day in
Syracuse, when President Roosevelt was
the orator. a placard was borne in the
parade that read thus:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

Bishop Joyce expresses the wish that
some millionaire will endow the chair Of
Common Sense in our theological semin-
aries. Old fashioned horse, common
sense is about the rarest thing to be
found.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

A whole twenty-four hours has passed
without lecturer, preacher or editor
making fool of himself about the negro
question. Is it possible a wave of sanity
is abroad ?-Rhamkatte Rooster.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
Spirit of the Press.
WORK FOR REV. MASSEE

WORK FOR REV. MASSEE.
Charlotte News
If Brother Massee will exert his infiu-
epce with the negroes to get them to do
IA fair days work, he will find that there
is no objection to paying them higher
wages and not grinding them down any
longer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
NOT A MATTER OF MERE TEMPER.

NOT A MATTER OF MERE TEMPER.
Atlanta News.
1t was not a matter of mere temper,
that men so distinguished as Senator
Bacon and his party should refuse to fol-
low the negroes in a meal in the Hamlet
dining room, but it was a matter of very
great Importance that these gentlemen
should maintain their personal self
respect and at the same time record an
emphatic and necessary protest against
the violation of a fundamental and vital
social law in the South.
1t would have been an almost exactly
parallel case If the negro party who
dined at Hamlet had, before reaching
Atlanta, telegraphed to the Kimball
House for breakfast, and the whole three
dozen of them with others who might be
invited to participate, had, upon their
arrival, been ushered into and seated at
the tables in the principal dining room
of the hotel.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

The one great virtue OF BURNETTS
VANILLA EXTRACT is purity. 1t is real
vanilla extract and nothing but vanilla
extract. Always use Burnett's.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
WHAT CAUSES A CLOUD BURST.

WHAT CAUSES A CLOUD BURST.
Charlotte News.
The News and Observer refers to the
editor of The News the question pro-
pounded by an esteemed correspondent,
What causes a cloud burst? Exactly
the same thing that causes a mist-burst
or frog-burst, namely, vivid magma.
ton, ignorance of meteorology, and the
desire to make good headline to news
paper.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

Gastonla Gazette.
At Charlotte a white man has been
sent to Jail for drunkenness and failing tc
provide for his family. Oh, if that kind
of justice would only become catching
and spread all over the State
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10

Sick Headache.
Flatulency,
Loss of
Appetitue,
Indigestion,
Dyspepsia and
Constipation
arc all caused
by the stomach
becoming weak.
Strengthen j t
with the Bitters
and be cured of
these ailments.
1t never fails.
Be S u I c to
try it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-10
Gastonia Gazette.

1T WAS A WHITE MAN, BEAR IN
MIND.
The colored American., 1903-04-18
ENFORCE EXISTING LAWS

The great victory achieved by the
government in the Northern Securities
case emphasizing the precedent declar-
alton Of AttOrney-General Knox that
we needed no further enactments but
more rigid enforcement of existing
law to conserve the rights of the gov
ernment and the whole people, comes
home to our race with peculiar force.
The inquiry suggests itself whether
there are not already written upon our
statute books. ample legislative pro-
visions and sufficient sanctions for the
conservation of the rights by the col
ored race in this country, and wheth-
er therefore, our efforts should not be
addressed to the application of exist
ing statutes. rather than to supple
mentary laws. 1t may be that even the
Crumpacker bill may be found to be
a non essential. Some of our best
thinkers hold that the passage of this
measure would be unwise from a race
standpoint, even though the South
should consent. They maintain it
would be placing the inferential seal
of national approval upon our dis
franchisement in Southern states.
If that should become a law and
the Supreme Court should find the
Southern Constitution have violated
the Constitution Of the United States,
an embarrassing situation would be
me. The reduction in representative
principle would have to disappear by
some process, and we'll we had better
await the course of events. It is
natural for us to expect blow, for,
when since reconstruction has the
court handed down a decision touching
us, which did not limit or
destroy some right or privilege which
we had fought for and earned thrice
over.
The colored American., 1903-04-18
LIEUT.. TOOMEY'S THANKS.

Editor The Colored American:
Sir:-Permit me thus publicly to
thank my many friends for the sub
stantial manner in which they have
expressed, il the recent testimonial,
their appreciation of my work.
My thanks are due to the people
generally, but especially to the follow
ing named friends, whose active in
tereSt contributed to make the testi-
monial a success: DR.. Willie M.
Harris, Mesdames Scott, Miller, Bowie,
Jackson, Slade, Misses Jeanette Will
hanson, Eva Bell, Ottie Brooks, Masie
Carter, Blanche Carter, Howard Univ.
Quartette, Prof. Kelly Miller, Hons. J.
G. Dancy, Geo. H. White, Messrs. A.
W. Scott, E. L. Scott, Geo. w. Jackson,
j. B. Askins, ]. T. G. Newsom, Prof.
Daniels and Prof. Stephens, instructor
in music at Howard University.
This Testimonial is to me an in
centive to greater effort and more con-
secIated application.
Sincerely,
RICHARD E. S. TOOMEY.
The colored American., 1903-04-18
THE SMART SET CO.

Washington theatre-goers have been
given a rare treat this week by the
high-clasS entertainment furnished by
The Smart Set Company, at the EN-
pire Theatre. To say that everyone
who attended got his moneys. worth
and more is expressing 1t very mildly.
The theatre was packed at every per-
formanee, and the colored people were
given privileges rarely accorded them
in this city in theatres and public
places. The company is composed OF
thirty-five people, led by that prince
of fun-makers, Mr.. Ernest Hogan. The
Post says:
Mr.. Hogan is endowed by nature
with comic proclivities, which, joined
with the considerable amount of ar
tistic talent which he possesses, makes
him a very funny stage character
The burIeSque comedy presented is
called Southern Enchantment, and
is rather pretentious in plot, costumlng
and music. The action and dialogue
of the play are much quicker and Sc
quential than those of most similar
productions, and the costumlng IS
good both principles and chorus dlS-
playing tasteful and numerous changes
Of the music, nothing can be express
ed but praise; the selections are eX-
c6llonC ana Jno TeuuiIloH SOou' ohO"
ing both vocal ability and training.
Mr.. Jackson Norris proved to be the
possessor of a fine tenor voice of un-
usual strength and quality, and ms
song. Honey. Will You Miss Me-"
was sung with ease and color. Other
musical selections were well rendered
by Mime. Cordelia, Billy McClain, Din
widdie Quartette. and Ben HUM The
welI-drilled chorus was large, compris-
ing maidens of all shades, from octo-
rooms to those of ebOn hue, and the
smoothness of the performance be-
tokened good stage management. The
house was crowded at all perform
anceS.
The colored American., 1903-04-18
SAW GEN. MACEO
FALL.
KilIedin Open Fire with
a Few Of is Daring
Followers.

In the taking of testimony before
the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission
Yesterday afternoon in the case of
PprfectO LacOSta ct uX against the
United States, very Unexpectedly, the
first authentic history of the killing of
Gen. Maceo was made. Mayor Morales,
of the ward Beaute, was testifying as
TO the operations of his forces in the
vicinity of the Central Mucia, when he
was asked the question:
when did you see Gen. Maceo last?"
In December, 1896, near Punta
Brava."
The attorney for the United States
government asked the further ques-
ton:
please describe fully the attack
that led up to the death of General
MaCeO."
The courtroom was quiet, and with
considerable feeling and with the
vividness of one who knew all the
details, Mayor Morales Cat the time of
the fight he was Capt. MOrales) said:
Il was. operating with a few of my
men in the vicinity of Punta Bravo,
when l ran on Gen. Maceo, who had
about sixty or seventy men with him.
He had passed the Mariel trocha, and
by travelling night times, had ad-
Vanced as far east at Punta BraVa.
He crossed the calZada that morning,
and at 7 o'clock the same morning
camped on the south side of the Gala
Zada. | do not know where he was
going, as l did not hear him say.
About one o'clock that afternoon