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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-19
MOREHEAD ROBBERIES.
Manager Cook States That They Were
Smaller Than Reported and
Hotel Not Responsible.

Referring to the thefts committed at
Morehead City, reported in Saturday
mornings News and Observer, Mr.. A.
j. Cook, the manager of the Atlantic
Hotel. has the following to say:
THE loss of some few articles by
visitors at Morehead, among the num-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-19
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

ROANOKE COLLEGE. SALEM. VA.
Courses for Degrees; also q COM
merciaI Course. Able Faculty. lii
brary. $4,000 volumes; working Iabo-
ratory; good moral Influences; siS
churches: no bar-rOoms. HcalthfIil
mountain location. Very moderate
expenses. SD year begins Septem-
her II. Catalogue free. Address, j.
\. MOREHEAD, President.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-19
Marriage License Issued.

Register of Deeds j. j. Bernard
yesterday issued license to marry to
Freeman Barker, aged 81, and Miss
Claudio Spence, aged 10, both of Raj
eigh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-19
New Bern Military Acad-
envy
NEW BERN. n. C.

NEW BERN, n. c.
Largest and best equipped boarding
school in Eastern Carolina. Several
thousand dollars being spent in build
ings and equipments Electric lights
bath rooms, water-Works, football
boat racing. baseball, faculty of 10
specialists (ncIuding lecture faculty.,
CAROLINA BUSINESS COLLEGE,
New Bern, n. c.
Every graduate holding a position.
Positions guaranteed. Railroad fare
paid. Large and loyal student body
our best advertisement. Special rates
for July.
Write at once for beautifully Illus
trated catalogue.
S. j. HOLIDAY. President.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-29
State Ownership

Editor Independent: read very
carefully the article in The Indepen-
dent of September |. showing the in
consistency of state ownership of rail-
roads. | think the arguments against
II are unanswerable. When first read
Mr.. Bryan's statement of state owner
ship OF the railroads in the commoner
| took exceptions 10 It, | have a great
deal Of confidence In Mr.. Bryan's hon
csty and ability but | think he has not
given that subject sufficient thought
and study, and when he does SO | think
he viii give up and 90 In for owner
ship hy the general government
An idea struck me a day or two ago
hy which the government could pur-
chase all the railroads aud pay for
them and the government or the pen-
pie would hardly feel the debt | viii
not here attempt 10 elaborate my
thoughts ON tho matter: viii simply
state my Idea. N Is this;
lot the government purchase the
railroads and Issue $500 900 600 Of full
legal tender areFnhaets ala the hrst
payment For the balance ol the pur.
chase money. sssuf bonds bearing 9
per cent interest. Let them b. 40 ~.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-29
OwsLEY WILSON, ATTORNEY
3O1 Richards Block, Lincoln. Nebr.

To John NJ Barber and Mrs John NJ. Barber
his wife nonresident defendants and TO al
persons having or claiming any interest In, or
lien on lots number - and II, Block II, Belmont
Addition to Lincoln, In Lancaster County, Ne
braska.
You and each OF you are hereby notified that
on September 9th, 1901 Henry J Bannister COM
menced an action in equity against you and
against the land above described, 10 ioreclose
tax sale certificates No. 1888 and No 1854 cov-
ering said lots respectively, and issued by the
County Treasurer OF Lancaster County. Nebras-
ka, To said plaintiff on March 18th. 1862 for the
then due aud delinquent state, County and
City Taxes for the years 1894 1906 1885, 1897 1903
1890 and 1890 on each lot and amounting TO
s2la2 on each certificate.
Plaintiff thereafter duly paid ON each OF said
certificates respectively, taxes then become due
on each ol said lots as follows ON July ~, 1909
couniy aud state, Ig02-70c; May 10 1902 ia0
clty-9ic, September w. 1905 Iss0 city-2lc, o
each OF Aaid lots, There n now due 10 plainu
s26A on each of said Two certificates with inter
est un each 81 san payments. from The dat
thereof a. March, 7, 1901, 20 70 per cent Per an
mum aud thereafter al The rats 90 ~ per cent per
annum together with attorneys fees and costs
The plainlin prays that caci. Of said Tots mag
BE- sold TOT the payfnent ~ the amount due ca its
respective tax sale certificate. with interest a..
lornrys fees and cost and that you. thr above
named defendant aud All versions having, ug
claiming any interest IN, o. lien on said land
may b. haired and lofrclOssd ~ all equity Vf
redemption therein and foe r4ullshle relief
Npn ARE fVanlFVS ~ answer VlAiniiHs petition
on o. before ms sith day % 0ctaher i9sl
HENRY !. NANNlNfkh.
ny ONslNS WitsnN
lIis Attorney,
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-29

hunter, you have Just got to show us those coon
skins"
And that Is just what Vitae Ore. the natural min
erai remedy which Is being advertised extensively
I'm these columns. has been doing right along. For
"coon skin, the actual living, breathing walking
talking witness IN the cured one 1t does not ask
belief,it asks credence, wants only an oppor-
tunty TO show ''coon skns' In each individual CASE
to produce before each and every sick and aling
reader of this paper "coon skin" In the form OF
his or her own improvement and benefit, before he
or she need believe one jot or pay one cent.
Medicines have come aud gone, have sprung Up In
and told OF remarkable hunts and the capture OF
markable numbers of"coons." but when the time
came they could not show the ''coon SKINS" and
passed out into the night, to be be heard of
Not so with Vitae-Ore! It has stood the test OF
over generation of time and peoples, and has fully
proven and snbstantaed its right the title OF be-
Ing the BEST thing In. on, out of the earth for e
afflicted" Read the 30dhy trial offer in this ISSUE
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-29

For over sixty years Mrs winslow's
Soothing Syrup has been used by
mothers for their children while teeth
ing. Are you disturbed at night and
broken of your rest by a sick child
suffering and crying with pain of cut
ting teeth? If so. send at once and
get bottle of Mrs Winslow'a Sooth-
Ing Syrup for Children TeethIng. lta
value In incaleulahle II Will relieve
the poor little sufferer Immediately
Depend upon II. mothers, there h NO
mistake about II n cures ilarhoea.
regulates the stomach aud bowels
cures wind collie. softens the gums. re-
dueca Inflammation. and gives tone
and energy 10 the whole system. Mrs
Wluslow'a Soothing Syrup FOR chill.
drvn teethng II pleasant a. the taste
and II the prescription III ono M the
oldest and best female physicians and
nurses In the United States, and IA for
sale BY all drnNNlHte throughout tic
world. Price. % cents a bottle 20
sure and ASA for Mrs WInalow 4
Soothing syrup"
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-29

sued that certain amount, say $780,
100000, fall due each year, all payable
in full legal tender greenbacks, inter-
est to cease if not presented for pay
ment. These issues not to be redeem
able in gold or silver. No legal ten
der money should be redeemable by
another legal tender.
F. B. VAN COURT.
Newton, la.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-29

numDer6 OK cOOnB ne had ann1h1-
lated the night before. These
honest friends. with true South
ern good nature, passively SUBJ
mitted to these Wild tales from
day to day, until the number grew
to such magnitude as to surpass
all belief. 8nd then. rising in-their
righteous indignation. as one
body, gave vent TO their feelings
In the following:
"Look. here. neighbor. this talk
of killing coons Ii all well and
good. There are cOOns In the
woods, and powder and shot can
kill them, but IL you want us to
believe that You are such Il mighty
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-29
SEND YOUR ADDRESS ON POSTAL CARD

Commercial Club. ureat Fails.
Mont, for pamphlet on wheat lands
u Montana.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-29
SHOWING COON SKINS.

An old Arkansas hunter, who was in the habit Of
taking his dogs and gun out for solitary coon hunt
almost every evening. weather permitting also took
himself to the cross roads store ach following
morning, and to the neighborS assembled there, re-
lated mora mil loua
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-29

FINtUIy tut UoI tIodII UUootS.
Better far. march in the vanguard OF
The hosts Of reform and help blaze the
way for self-government again, than
bear Pickering torch in the rear of
the procession in an army of exploita-
ton and ruin.
better far. be right than be wrong,
Letter far be an American citizen than
a pan tisan.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
THE POOR MANS FISH.
It Is the Porgy and Is Not by Any
Means to Be Despised by
the High Toned.

'The porgy is essentially the
poor anglers fish," said the phil
OsOphical angler, according to the
New York Sun. "He affords sport
for the grOcer's clerk, the BARRIERS
andthe small tradesmen, who have
neither the time, the money nor
the inclination to seek the bigger
and gamer yari ties of fish. If
you see a man sitting on a pier
withacane pole, a wooden reel and
a cotton line you can make up your
mind that he is fishing for porgies.
This little fish affords plenty of
sport for unambitious men.
ON partially landlocked waters
the pOrgy rarely attains a length
of over nine inches, but as it's
bones are large, it makes an ex-
cellent pan fish. In the deep wa
tiers of the R%ockaway shore the
porgy grows to be five or six
pounds in weight and is worthy of
the spOrtsman's finest tackle.
Pound for pound, the sea porgy is
a superior game fish to the weak
fish, and will even put up as stout
a fight as the striped bass.
"While the pOrgy is held in con.
tempt by some fishermen, he can.
not legitimateIy be despised. The
difficulty with the ordinary Amer
lena angler is that he has been
spoiled by the large number of
game fish in our waters.
"When a Seine or a Thames an.
gler comes homo at night with 90
fish, weighing perhaps three
pounds, he thinks he's had a glori.
Gus days sport. The libraries of
the old world are filled with
learned treatises on how to catch
carp and dace, while in America
these fish are considered to be of
value only as fertilizers.
"Those anglers who smile al
porgy fishermen should 90 for a
days fishing with an English gen
tleman, who willfurnish them with
a leader made of a single strand
Of hOrsehair, and a float made of a
goosequill, to catch what all
American boy would call sinners.
such Ash as we use for weakhsh
bait"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
so THINKS A HEATHEN.
Remarkable Lesson for Millions Of
People Who Claim to Be
Christians.

The following remarkable ex
ample Of the mode of thinking Of
a follower of COnfucius is related
in Mr.. Whigham's book about
Manchuria and Korea:
A drunken Cossack shot at a
Chinaman, and it was found neces
sary, for the sake of identified.
ton, to bring some suspected
ones to the couch of the dying; but
the Chinese inlexibly refused to
point out the guilty one, saying:
"Why should he also be shot, as
am surely to die?'
After it was explained to him
that the guilty one would not be
shot, but only severely punished,
the Chinaman responded: 'That
he could not understand why, as
he had forgiven the Cossack, the
latter enc should be punished"
Thenhe was told that he who had
done the reckless shooting ought
to be punished lest he might com
NIT a similar act again; but the
follower of COnfucius said: "He
will never do it again when he has
learned that have forgiven him"
This is a remarkable lesson to
millions and millions of people
who wish to be called Christians.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
WHY THE ENoINEER CRIED.
Newfoundland Dog Saved a Little
Girl from the Wheels OF
His Engine.

Eyes, indeed, we have some
queer little incidents happen TO
U.S. said the fat engineer, accord.
ing to the Galveston Tribune.
Queer things happened to me
about a year ago. You'd think it
queer for a rough man like me to
cry for ten minutes, and nobody
hurt, either, wouldn't you? Well,
/ did, and | can almost cry every
time think of it. | was running
along one afternoon pretty lively,
when l approached a little village
where the track cuts through the
streets. | slackened up a little,
but was still making good speed,
when suddenly, about 20 rods
ahead of me, a. little girl not more
than three years old tOddled onto
the tracks. You can't even mag
inc my feelings. There was no
way to save her. 1t was impossi.
BILE to stop, or even slack much,
at that distance, as the train was
heavy and the grade descending.
In ten seconds it would have been
all over, and after reversing and
applying the brake | shut my eyes.
| didn't want to see any more. AS
we slowed down my fireman stuck
his head out of the cab window to
see what I'd stopped for, when he
laughed and shouted at me: Jim,
look herep / looked, and there
was a big black Newfoundland
dog holding the little girl in his
mouth, leisurely walking toward
thehouse where she evidently be.
lOnged. She was kicking and cry.
ing, so that | knew she wasn't
hurt, and the dog had saved her.
My fireman thought it funny, and
kept laughing, but l cried like a
woman. | just couldn't help it,
| had a little girl of my own at
home"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
WATER FROM THE CACTUS.
The Prickly Plant Yields Refreshing
Liquid to the Thirsty Desert
Traveller.

The marvellous strength OF
desert plants is well known, but
we are at a loss to explain the
source or reason of their luxuri
ance in regions where only a few
inches of water fall during the
year, and that little is immediate.
iy drunk up by the tOrrid sun, says
the National Geographical Mag
azine. What enables the yucca to
thrust its head through 80 feet Of
gypsum sand, or the barrel cactus
to store enormous quantities of
water and to hold the water for
months, perhaps years, or even
sumac to cling so t%enaciously to
Its ground when everything else
Is swept away, are questions which
none al satisfactorily answer.
No less marvellous and inexplica-
BILE is the mesquite shrub, which
sometimes has roots over 50 feet
long, and other desert plants
whose hairy coverings and resin.
Gus cOatings prevent the evapOra-
tion of moisture. These secrets
may soon be discovered, however.
as the Carnegie institution has es
tablished a desert botanical labo-
ratory at Tucson to study them.
1t was among the desert hills
west Of Torres, Mexico, that the
Indian cut the top from a plant
about five feet high, and with a
blunt stake of palo verde pounded
to a pulp the upper six or eight
inches of white flesh in the stand.
ing trunk. From this, handful by.
handful, he squeezed the water.
into the bowl he had made in the
top Of the trunk, throwing the dis
carded pulp on the ground. BY.
this process he secured two or
three quarts of clear water, slight
ly salty and slightly bitter to
the taste, but of far better quail
ity than some of the water a des.
ert traveller is occasionally com
PEELED to use. The Pupago, dip
ping this water up in his hands,
drank it with evident pleasure,
and said that his people were ac-
customed not only to secure their
drinking water in this way in
times of extreme drought, but
that they used it also to mix their
meal preparatory to cooking it
into bread.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
THE BANNs OF MARRIAGE.
Were Published Long Before There
Was Any General Law on
the Subject.

The custom of publishing the
banns of marriages dates back to
the primitive church, for Tertul-
Ian, who died \. d. 240, states
that warning of intended mar.
riages was given among the early
Christians.
1t appears, says London An.
swers, that the publication of
banns was habituali in many places
long before there was any general
law on the subject, since Gregory
". Q19S-1216) speaks of the banns
from Latin bannum, a proclama-
ton; AnglO-SaxOn, BAN being
given out in church, according to
custom. The practice was intro
duced into France about the ninth
century and in 1176 was enforced
in the diocese of Paris.
The earliest enactment on the
subject in England was an order
made in the synod of Westminster
in 1900 to the effect that no mar
riage should be celebrated till the
banns had been published in the
church on three several SUNDAYS
or feast days. This rule was made
obligatory throughout the church
by the fourth Lateran council held
in Rome in 1215. BY act of parlia-
ment banns must now be given out
in England on three SUNDAYS.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
WAS
Professional Strong Man Quickly Sub
dues Fresh Young Men on
Street Car.

Attila-whO plays with thou.
sand-pound toys-was the hero of
an odd scene in a crowded Broad
way surface car the other day. 1t
was near Union square, and had
the face of the strong man been
known as we'll as his name it
would have saved three young
men from a rather humiliating ex.
perience. They had boarded the
car at Fourteenth street, and, be-
ing unable to get seats, stood in
the aisle, says the New York
Times.
Presently espying a middle.
aged woman near them with a
large basket in her lap, the trio
began making uncomplimentary
remarks about women with bas.
kets riding in crowded cars. Sew
eral passengers ventured to re-
mOnstrate with them, but with
out avail, until a broad-shouldered
man with irOn-gray hair suggested
that they leave the car.
Only in professional attire is
the extraordinary strength of the
man revealed and his polite sug-
gestion only elected a laugh from
the offenders. But this rapidly
died away as the strong man, who
held a 25-cent piece in his right
hand, raised the coin and with a
powerful muscular movement
bent it between his thumb and
forefnger, accompanying the ac-
ton with a second suggestion
that they leave the car. They ac.
guessed without further argu-
ment.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20

A mans accusations of himself
Hre always believed; his praise Of
pelf n~eyer.-MOntaigne.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
LIFE OF POOR IN RUSSIA.
Live in Huts That Are C~omfortless
Excepting for Extemporized
Vapor Baths.

AS a rule, a Russian village is a
forlorn looking place, where the
huts of the poor are made of birch
logs, with upright oak or pine sup.
ports, ceilings Of strips of the
same birch and walls lined with
crude branches. In these huts,
says the Social Service, there are
only two rooms, one of which is
not for everyday use, but is kept
for best occasions. This room
houses those sacred images so
dear to the heart of every member
of the Greek church. to which be
long the great mass of the Rus
sian people.
The other room serves the pur-
pose of both kitchen and sleeping
room, as one of the principal ideas
of comfort to these people, ice and
snOwbOund for so many months of
the year, is warmth. In many of
the peasant huts no beds are used,
and the top of the stove, reaching
nearly to the roof, is a much
sought sleeping place, Although
the conditions make dirt and ac-
companying results inseparable in
the life of these peasants, they are
deyotedly fond of bathing. The
yapor bath in a crude form may be
called a national institution, and
a not unusual picture of a summer
afternoon is the village pond filed
with women and children bathing.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
HEROES EASILY JARRED.
Sandwich Island Princes Set Up Yell
Over Glow Worms, Which They
Thought Were Devils.

The Alake of AbeOkuta is not
the first visitor to English shores
who has caused difficulty to his
entertainers. The queen of the
Sandwich Islands, whom Dean
Stanley found such a delightfully."-
interesting little woman, refused
to leave her quarters unless an es-
cOrt of the guards was sent to con
duct her forth, says the st. James
Gazette.
Earlier still we had over here
some real New Zealand princes
whom an admirer entertained.
Luncheon went off capitally. The
four princes ate IA pounds of roast
beef between them, and promised
to "mOkO," i. e., tattoo the face of
their host. The after proceedings
were equally felicitous until the
master of the house produced a
case of glow worms. With shrieks
and yells the warriors rushed
from the house like deer, leaped
the wall of the garden and those of
adjoining ones. A drawing room
window was open.
Shrieking in fear and indigna.
ton they made for this, and at a
bound we're through it. There sat
an elderly lady knitting socks for
her boys in far distant lands
Hades, she thought, had sent he1
its ambassadors as the painted
yelling savages bounded in upor
her. They we're as frightened as
she, returned by the way they had
come, and were brought to just il
time to prevent their taking to Re
gents park. They had never seer
before anything like that which
had alarmed them. The glow
worms simply represented devils
to the New Zealanders, and they
were anxious not to remain in sucl
company.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
HE SAW THE HEADLIGHT.
But He Wasn't Going to Take a Bluff
from Any burned Lo-
connective.

81 got into a town in Pennsyl-
vania last fall where everybody
rode a bike" said the New York
drummer, relates the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, "and there was no
law to make them light up at
night. | had business out in the
evening and the landlord said l
had better take a lantern along. l
did so, and l was walking in the
middle of the road when an old
man came riding plump into me
and knocked me into the ditch.
"'You blamed ass, but are YOU
blind@ yelled at him, as l sat up.
"'Not by a burned sight, he re-
piled.
Then you must have seen my
lightY
"'Of course l did,
Then why did you bump into
me?
Because l thought it was one
o. them burned locomotives from
the railroad travelin' around on
the street, and l wantedit to know
that wouldn't take a blufpn
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
Apple Green Diamond

One of the unique stones is an
apple green diamond owned by
the present prince of Wales. 1t
was discovered in South Africa.
and is the largest stone of the
shade in the world. Apple green
is a very rare and precious spe.
cies. 1t was found two and a half
years ago and weighs three and a
half carats. The value placed
upon it by connoisseurs is $4,000.
but it is practically a priceless
jewel, as the prince of Wales
would not part with it for any.
thing. The ordinary price of a
diamond is $3.50 a carat weight,
and on that basis Of valuation the
princes stone would be worth
only about $500; but it's rare shade
10 Its charm.-N. Y. Sun.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
sage's Successor.

Even wealth does not always
bring notoriety to its possessor.
Few people outside his immedi-
ate circle knew anything about
Amos M, Lyon, the successor of
Russell Sage in the New York
put and call market. And yet he
Is worth more than $25, O0O, 900.
So common are millionaires nova.
days!
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
c. & A. Tlme abIe-HIgglnsvIne,
ADMINISTRATORS Nnr1cr

Letters of administration on the estate of
James I. Helm, deceased, were granted to
1904 by the probate court of Lafayette
county, Missouri. ALI persons having Claims
against said estate are required to exhibitthem
Tor allowance TO the administrator within one
year AFTER the date OF said letters orthey NAV
and II such claims be not exhibited within two
years from the date OF said letters they win
be forever barred. 80
This 2ist day Of July, 1903.
MARTINI HELM.
i-Nl9 Administrator.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-08-20
Quite.

"Gracious!' exclaimed Mr..
swellman, "the baby has just
eaten a lot of that dog biscuit"
"Never mind" replied Mrs.
swellman, "it just serves Fido
right, for he has often eaten the
baby'S foOd."-Philadelphia Pub.
lie Ledger.