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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-10

of the owner Of the premises. 1t shall
also be his duty to record in the same
manner. and in the same book the date
upon which every house reported~as con.
tanning a tuberculous or consumptive per
son was vacated by said person, and the
date upon which said house was disn-
fected by said sanitary officer.
Section So. 1t shall be the duty of the
city sanitary officer to supply at once,
and afterwards from time to time. to
such tuberculous or consumptive persons
as are INDECENT the necessary disinfectants
and spittoons, prescribed by the Board OF
Health, during the continuation of the
disease.
Section 50. 1t shall be the duty of the
city sanitary officer to visit such tuber-
culous or consumqtive persons as are in
digent at such intervals of time as the
Board of Health may prescribe, for the
purpose of furnishing disinfectants, show
ing the proper methods for using such
and explaining fully the i'm
portance of the same. not only to the
other members OF the household but to the
person afflicted.
This is a matter that demands the con-
not only of the people of Raj
eigh, but of every city in the State, and
therefore careful consideration of the
proposed ordinances is invited.
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Sunday School Teachers
and Workers on the
Way to Palestine.
A PROMINENT PARTY
A North Carolina Lady Writes OF the
Trip and Personnel of The Com
pany and The Programme.

To the Editor: What may follow
We do not know, but surely q
boat never left our shores. OF
any other shore as TO that, freighted
with such cargo as the ''Grosser Kur-
furst" bore away last Tuesday, March
Stb-eight hundred and eleven Sunday
School teachers. Bible students and min
listers on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
hundred more at different points in the
Mediterranean. Every State and Terri
tory. Canada and British Columbia are
represented.
The Pilgrim Fathers when they en-
barked at Delft Haven in 1C20, Ray have
been party sImliar IN loyalty to convIe-
tion and earGestness OF purpose. but no,
i'll numbers aud well-laid, thought-0ut
plans for definite work for the Master
Surely never before has steamship
crossed the Atlantic when prayer. praise
and song were made the order OF the day;
when stewards and walters FASTENED to
clear the large dining saloons that they
might become chapels for sermons, lee
luIe-TOOiUS 1T ldlllSIn
and halls for sacred music. One of the
chips officers was heard to say, Il have
never seen it after this manner
The well-arranged program for the voy-
age By the central Committee is being
successfully and interestingly carried out.
1t has been a continuous convention
ever since we left New York. 1 an re
minded of my own yearly meeting when
church work in all its phases is dis
cussed.
There are meetings during the day in
almost all available parts cf the ship
in the forward dining saloon, in the aft
dining saloon. In the ladies libraries, etc.
AS l write Mrs. Mary Bryner, of Illinois,
the charming little woman of national
reputation iii Sunday School work is law
ing a meeting on the deck for the teach
ers in juvenile work in Sunday Schools.
You will recall that she was in Raleigh
some time ago.
There is a printing press on board.
Judging from the amount of printed mat
ter distributed from time to time it must
be kept ''whizzing."
Soon after leaving New York printed
program of the proposed "doings'' of the
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The "Benefit of Clergy"
(Wilkesboro Chtoniclc.)

The Mount Airy News. last week. has
this query:
'The Republican Congressional Con-
vention" and Mount Airy District Con-
ference are to meet on the same day,
March 31st, at Wilkesboro Was this ar
ranged so as to have the preachers on
hand to keep the delegates from pulling
hair? II you can do so, Bro. Deal, please
tell us about it,
In answer to Brother Lowrys query, we
will state, under oath upon information
and belief that the Methodist Confer
ence was induced to be present, so that the
Republican convention. in its death strug-
gle for Federal patronage could have the
old English right of benefit of clergy"
But old uncle Jesse Ashburn, primitive
Baptist minister from Surry performed
that right IN open convention and relieved
the conference Of all responsibility.
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The Oxford Dispensary.


From the report of Mr.. H. NJ. Shaw,
Treasurer, found elsewhere in this paper
it will be seen that the Oxford dispensary
has been most admirably conducted under
the direction of Commissioners H. NJ
Shaw, ]. d. Bullock and s. w. Parker
The sales for one year and ten days
amounts to $26 3.77-net profits $9,022. .25.
Stock on hand $2,7S5.26 Amount pail the
town treasurer, $4,500 and paid the coun-
ty treasurer $1,500. MIR. R. Broughton,
by his wise management of the dispensary
has proved that he is certainly the right
man in Tue right place and that the com
missioners made no mistake when they
selected him to take charge of the busl-
ness
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Boys and Cigarettes.

(New York American.)
We want boys, too, and young men, to
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Suggestions For the En-
forCement Against
Bucket Shops. z
CRIME OF SEDUCTION
When Marriage Follows With Immedi-
ate Abandonment in View This
Deserti0n Should be Punished.

To the Editor: a letter from the Code
Commissioners was received by me some
| time ago, (smilar, | presume, to the let
ters addressed to tie other solicitors in
the State), asking for suggestions as to
! changes and improvements in the criminal
law of the State. Thinking that public
discussion of some of the changes that it
appears to me it would be advisable to
make would do good, the following sug-
gcstions are made for the purpose of in
viting discussion and criticism:
DEALING IN FUTURES.
During the past year Gor the first time
so tar as / am advised) some of the
judges have been directing the attention
OF the grand jures of the different coun-
ties TO the provisions OF chapter 22l of
the Acts OF 1889 making Futures and
other vicious contracts indictable.'
In the Fourth Judicial District the
grand julies OF two counties have made
presentment against men who conduct
exchanges s'-as the players who win at
these industrial games of chance call the
places at which men bet on the rise and
fall OF the product of labor-or 'bucket
shops, as the fellow who loses call them.
In both these cases bills of Indictment
were drawn and witnesses sent before the
grand jury, but evidence sufficient to find
a bill WAS not secured in either case. In
one case there is before the court undis-
posed of a rule for a witness to show
cause why he should not be attached for
contempt OF court for refusing to answer
questions relative to dealing in futures
But can a witness be forced to answer
questions relative to dealing in futures
it he claims that to do SO will incrim-
nate himself?
The law provides a way to secure evil
dence to prove gaming (The Code Sec
tion 1215), but it also provides that mo
disclosure made by the witness upon such
examination shall be used against him in
any penal o. criminal prosecution, and he
shall be altogether pardoned of the of
tense so done or participated in by him.
This section of The Code has been de-
clarcd constitutional in the case of State
vs.. Morgan, 133 N. C. The same
question in 4 different form is now be-
fore the Supreme court ia a contempt pro-
ccedjng.
In the enforcement of the statute
against futures there is no such
Continued on Page Four.)
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New School House for Hope Mills.

Information has 5een received here that
at recent meeting of Hope Mills graded
school it was decided to erect a new
school house. and the authorities are ad-
vertising for bids Under the efficient
superinterdency of Prof. C. D. Cole, assist
ed by an excellent faculty, the Hope Mills
graded school has been remarkably sue
cessful and that its good work is gener-
pusly supported by the community is
shown in the statement. that the attend
ance OF Students is about $50.
What happy old word this would be
Il people who lose their tcmpers were
unable to find them again
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Nothing Like Optimism.
Monroe Enqulrer.)

81 uoror lnew fine fruit crop and
ooos eors orons at the same time" said
. e0ou tIdan l1lu last tuesday. when he was
There is i nothing like being optimistic
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Let no mans heart fail him because
a worker drops cut of the ranks. The
work, 1t it be OF the Lord, will go right
on until He comes to claim His own!
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Comments OnLiying Topics
(Archibald johnson in Charity and Chill
dren)

Archibald johnson in Charity and Chill
dren)
God is greater than man. Isn't it high
time we should learn this lesson? His
workers fall but His work goes on. He
is not limited in His resources as we are.
The sea is His and He made it. and His
hands formed the dry land. Yet when a
leader falls by the wayside like spoiled
children We cry that the cause is lost.
Why are we so timid and fearful and
weak? Why do we put so much trust in
men and so little in God?
Let no mans heart fail him because
a worker drops cut of the ranks. The
work, It it be OF the Lord, will go right
on until He comes to claim His own!
Mr.. Erwin Avery was full of compass
sion. His heart overiioWed with Sympa-
thy Tor the weak. He would have shed
his blood ior a child, a little ragged waif
of the streets; and all the rich treasure
OF his matchiess nina he would cheerfully
eXpend TO maintain the rights OF a be-
grmmed and homeless boy beneath the no.
tice OF the average man. The unwashed
urchins OF Charlotte will miss him-the
poor tousle headed fellows that other peo-
pie pass in dignified disdain.
That, brethren real strength. 1t Is
the un1aiing sign of a noble nature. He
stopped to conquer. Born OF gentle blood,
a knightly fellow Of a high born race, he
had nothing to lose and much to gain by
throwing great strong arm of protection
and help around a lad in rags.
Speaking OF the gift of seven thousand
dollars by MI Mark Morgan to the Red
Springs Seminary, Rev. Z. r.. Law says
in the Robesonian of April 1st: I'VE are
not aware that any man in the State ever
gave before so larga-a sum for the educa-
ton of its young women" We are sur
prised at a statement like this coming
from man of Mr.. Laws information.
The late Dennis Simmons gave $4,000 to
the Baptist Female University, Judge
Faircloth made a like donation, and Mrs.
Virginia Swepson, who was one of the
noblest women of the State, also be-
queathed more than three times as much
to the University as Mr. Morgan gave
the Seminary. Even these may not be
the largest sums that have been given to
colleges for women by citizens Of North
Carolina, but we DO not recall any larger
ones.
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THE MABEL PAGE MURDER MYSTERY IN WESTON MASS


fifteen minutes walk from the nearest Miss Page at
in
found and there definite The
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REAR ADMIRAL WALKER, RETIRED, HEAD OF THE NEW
PANAMA CANAL CONFESSION.

President Roosevelt undertake the
peculiarly fitted for the which
that the
Walker. for
his disregard appointed
+ the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-09
FoR CHILD TRAVELLERS.


Suggestion THAT Special Cars For
Exclusive Occupancy he Provided.
An editorial writer ia the New York
Post makes a suggestion that Will com
mand much appreciation from the trav-
cling public. says the Boston Herald
It is that the railroad companies on
trunk lines where there is much travel
provide special car for children in
which they can be cared for by their
parents and nurses, aided by some
motherly experienced woman compe-
tent for the business, or left entirely to
official care. Two good objects would
thus be accomplished The children
would have a good time aud people
travelling without children would be
much relieved. Here is the suggestion
The walls Of the car should De padded
and the windows set high enough to insure
abundant ventilation without the danger
that any spirited youngater might climb
out and be Killed As rule, children do
not care for scenery. There should be a
few simple bits OF gynlnastic apparatus
swing a hobby horse a skipping rope
and a stock Of strong toys and indestruc-
tible picture books Instead Of a porter
there should be installed IN command 0f
this domain patient, resourceful moth
erly woman 70 perform the double func-
ton of nurse and mistress Of the revels
suggesting new forms Of entertainment
having an eye 10 the safety Of the weaker
In contact with the stronger children.
acting as umpire In controversies and as
emergency surgeon for the petty wounds
OF play and tucking the tired and sleepy
ones into little cribs in a compartment in
one end OF the car,
All the considerations affecting this
innovation are thoughtfully worked
out and its great advantages are set
forth with excellent humor. Ii Is pre-
dicted that the company which estab-
fishes such ear, which, Ike d sleeping
car or parlor eur, would command spe-
cial rates, would soon become popular
Whether the writer would have a strict
requirement that all children should
be transported in the special car pro-
yided for them is not stated This is
delicate point. Perhaps the important
object. the relief of those who do not
relish travelling with children, could be
accomplished by running special cars
TO which children are not admitted. ac-
cordlng to the rule Of some New York
apartment houses.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-09

Elk Senator Henry q. Davis Of West
virginia. the Democratic vice presi
Dental nominee, seems never to have
calculated against an age limit. says
Melville DAVIDSON Post in Harper's
Weekly. One afternoon IN the present
summer he was walking through the
grounds Of his beautiful estate at the
town Of Elkins, where he resides He
was accompanied by one of his superin
tendents. and the conversation ran
upon the growth Of trees These North
Carolina popIars," said the ex-senator,
''grow rapidly, but they are poor trees
at the end why don't you try some
harder treesg' responded the superin-
tendent, = have thought about the
locust" ex-senator Davis answered
"Let me see, locust grows about
twenty-five inches in twenty years,
and then muslngly, II think shall put
some out"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-09
Dogs wIth souls.

DR.. Richard Hodgson OF Boston, sec
rotary Of the Society For Psychological
Research, in an interview the other
day declared that dogs had souls as
well as human beings and that the
lower animals had mind pictures Of
things and events just as clearly as hu-
man beings, says the New York Trib-
une. There is, however" he says
some doubt as to their power 70 com
municate these pictures to human be-
ings by telepathy With Rider Hag
CARDS dog. / think it was case Of
clairvoyance in which his sublimal self
witnessed the very accident to the
dog.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-09

1t Is announced at Montreal that a
new Cunard liner to ply between New
York and Queenstown will be built Mt
-on.Tyne, says an Ottawa
dispatch to the New York Tribune. 1t
will be the largest vessel ever put in
the water from any shlpyard II viii
take over two years to build, there be-
ing more work On il than on q first
class battleship 1t will have turbine
engines and will cross the Atlantic IN
less than i've days The length will
be 100 feet, breadth 81 feet. depth 81
feet, guaranteed speed twenty-five
knots. 1t will accommodate 1900 pas
snnrprs
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A REPUTATION
SAVED

lOriginaLl
Not the martial music. dress parade.
guard mounting. indeed any or all the
fascinating attendants Of military life.
can relieve the tedium that comes over
a remote post when the inmates have
once seen enough Of one another. So
thought pretty Mrs. Gessnor, the young
wife Of Lieutenant Earl Gessnor, and
when 1t was announced that her hus-
bands chum at West Point was com
ing to join them she was greatly
pleased.
For week after Whites arrival
he and his friend Gessnor were in
separable. then Gessnor was ordered
away on special duty to be gone
several weeks He told White that his
wife, who was city bred, found II dull
at the post and charged him to keep
her In spirits.
White began by acceding to his
friends request, but soon discovered
that Mrs. Gessnor was being carried
off her feet in a mad passion for him.
Reserve, even hauteuE on his part
availed nothing to check her. To avoid
trouble he secured an order Temporal
rily taking him away from the post.
One morning he rode away on horse
back. Mrs. Gessnor called for her
horse and rode after him to bring him
back. Whether her recklessness had
suddenly become apparent to her and
she feared hts absence might attract
attention to her folly or whether She
could not endure his III opinion, she
did not know herself. She was shoot
ing Ike a shuttle from one emotion
to another.
There was at the post Mrs Major
Walsh, who had long known and looked
upon Lieutenant White with covetous
eyes. It so happened that on the MORN
ing Of Whites departure Mrs. Walsh
was being driven by an orderly In a
blackboard on the road be had taken.
and she suddenly came upon him plead
ing with Mrs Gessnor, who sat in the
saddle irresolute That threw the win
ming cards INTO the hanus OF Mrs.
Walsh. Conscious Of her advantage
she was In no haste She waited until
Gessnor had returned and White had
returned. then opened distressing fire
on White.
White was no fool. Moreover, he had
a cool head. The problem before him
was to save Mrs. Gessnor from the con-
sequences Of her rashness, himself from
the charge If taking advantage Of d
brother officer through his wife and to
save the friendship existing between
himself and Gessnor. This problem he
considered for hours, and it seemed to
him that every move he might make
must be Id the wrong direction How
ever, he formed a plan and set about
putting II into operation He convinced
Mrs Walsh that he was not In love
with her rival but was In love with
her. 1t is not difficult for us to be-
lleve what We want to believe, and the
drst part of the propcsition was as true
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-09
NOVEL CHICKEN HATCHER.
Ohio Man UtiIines the Heat Generate
ed by Bees.


ed by Bees.
Henry Decker Of HartsgroYe, o., has
a new and novel way Of Matching
chickens and enjoys the reputation Of
being the first man to use this kind Of
an incubator says Geneva (O1 spe-
cial dispatch to the Chicago Inter
Ocean He uses the heat generated
by bees and says that be can hatch
100 chicks from 100 fertile eggs in
nineteen days.
This beats the old hen by two days.
and every farmer who knows how to
handle bees might profit By this sug-
gestlon. IL one colony Of bees can be
made to do the incubating work of
eight or nine hens, and also produce
from 14o to 400 pounds Of honey
which Mr.. Decker says Is possible--it
viii not be long until bees are CON
sidered as indispensable to the farmer
as rural mail delivery and telephone
service.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-09
RADlUM ROULETTE.
Game That Is Played In the Dark
Amid Ghnsffy Silence

GH1hS AOAt IS A7AAy&U IN the DMFE
Amid CHASTITY silence.
RadIum roulette Is the latest rage
among sporty folk, says the New York
Journal. The idea was imported to
New York from Paris recently, and the
man who brought it to New York,
guest of well known uptown hotel,
said that II has proved the biggest
winner in the way Of an innovation
that New York has known IN years
Radium roulette is ordinary roulette.
except that the apparatus Is washed In
radium solution, and the game is
played In room in which there il
not a ray OF light
In the midst Of the darkness the
wheel shines brightly. and rays shoot
out and are lost In darkness An UNI
seen hand casts the siiyery ball on the
wheel, and as the wheel turns IL re-
sembes d mass Of molten silver Tiny
sparks mark the course Of the ball us ii
bounds round and round and finally
splashes into one of the glimmering
pockets.
The players have luminous chips,
and the unseen cronpier rakes them In
or hands them out All during the
play there IS the most CHASTITY silence
No player speaks-that is part Of
the game. Ennuied Paris has found a
thrill In 1t that has excited the bIase
rounder, and Ia New York city 1t IL
expected that similar result will fol
low
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The Times Daily Short Story.

as the latter part was false. Mrs Cess
nor was much liked by the ladies OF
the post and was above suspicion. while
Mrs. Walsh was neither liked nor trust
ed. So far so good
But White could not long be devoted
to the latter He must find means al
once to spike the gun with which she
would Kill Mrs. Gessnor. There was
also an enemy in his rear in Mrs, Cess
nor, who, despite her perilous position,
could not bear to see the man she
adored devoted to her enemy. He had
two women TO manage, both Of whom
were IN love with him and either of
whom was liable to commit harikari
to injure the other
One night the officers Of the post got
up a masquerade. Ii was in the warm
season and there was to be dancing on
the parade as well as in the officers
mess hall The weather was superb
and the moon at the full. No fancy cos
tunes could be procured at an army
post, far from civilization. so the la
dies made up a number Of dominos Of
different colors which were to be used
instead.
During the festivities Lieutenant
Gessnor noticed a masculine figure in
a yellow domino and feminine figure
in a red domino go out into the open.
At the same time a figure Ia a white
domino slipped up beside Gessnor aud
whispered. watch the red
Gessnor followed the couple out on to
the yeranda and on to the parade.
There they danced in set that was
forming as they arrived after which
they strolled about, getting farther and
farther from the masqueraders TIL they
reached a eiump Of trees back Of the
officers quarters and sat down on a
rustic bench
Though the couple were in shadow
Gessnor could see them plainly from a
distance Suddenly he saw the man
take the woman in bis arms and raise
her mask for a kiss. Infatuated, Cess
nor rushed forward. tore off the wom-
ans mask and revealed Mrs, Major
Walsh
Gessnor, declining to look into the
identity Of the man. turned on his heel
and left them.
Such was the result OF Lieutenant
Whites plot He had learned the color
Of Mrs Walsh's domino, then instruct
ed Mrs. Gessnor 70 tell her husband
that she would wear red one herself,
but to put on a white one instead 1t
was Mrs Gessnor who had whispered
the words in her husbands ear. They
had compromised her enemy and res
rned her from peril
The next dap White at his own request
teceiyed an order from the eommandant
to report at Washington. where be
was assigned 70 duty. Both Mrs.
gSessnor and Mrs Walsh bore an I'M
blemished reputation 50 far as Lieu
tenant White was concerned, but the
garrison was surprised at Mrs. Walsh's
departure, soon after Whites going.
for San Francisco, where her husband
afterward Joined her, reporting for du-
ty at a post near BY
MARY COOLIDGE.