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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-08-17

Emile Irenchey, who died at Alton Ill., aged
blind America Boston the
suggestion of Dr. Lafayette Mr. Tenchery
ability numbered among his friends Holmes
Longeow Prescott and Emerson 1t sad to that this
pioneer worthy field himself blind the last of his
life.
Despcablc business which degenerate persons
engaged when they slander Mrs Maud Booth the Saliva
ton army another proof the truth of the
old saying the those of evil
tongue
How times have changed and with them In the trying
days of 61-65 any Hon William Sprague would
without invitation join the Rhode Island boys in
blue in any function they might attend?
The Chicago packers seem Mayor
rather gngey The though he must the seeming
efforts the of knowing the majority
wished him
Possibly some generals leading the Russian in
Manchia regard the appointment of his born heir
rank of general reflection upon their efficiency
--------
Morocco having trouble with England and the Turk
controversy with Uncle Sam Russia and Japan
in their monopoly of the worlds attention
Fishing good up Maine and Billy Sheehan would
sport than attempting keep down
the Republican majority in September.
The Germans are doing things in South Africa they
the Dutch perhaps Chamberlain be doing
hard thinking on his account
Suzr optms MS pre1iction
that Parker will number of doubtful will greatly
trouble Chairman Cortelyou.
That society leader who has been discovered be
proves the diversions of society beyond under
standing
The remains Port Arthur fleet having strenuous
time of it between Oyama frying pan and Iogos fire.
1t too soninaw Ekns about today to drink
the toast that Congressman Williams will surely propose
The upward prices has reached the cranberry bogs
The sultan the modern Fabiu Cuncator, only more So
lloonh his actio is
! VvssaS Others {
Ase Saying pF 9%%sr' ~ a r p tins s nd % .rssss ssss
election dyg'cand Leader
OF tn - ~. -
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in the far naval 80
the world "'''' - '' - ~ N'
battles
has Just invited
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nove should enlist In the service OF
what rights Americans nave o
a shortum ume ago obtained
In
TO A IIudga porkar n
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
A Victim of Facilitating Conduct.

In an indianapolis family, in which
thirteen at the table is not allowed,
an informal dinner Of relatives re-
Gently was found to present the
alarming number. Big Robert said
he would stand up and dine from
the sideboard to quiet the nervous
women of the family, but a side Ia
BILE was speedily arranged for little
Robert, who seemed thoroughly
mystiiied and impatient with the
entire disturbance. Matters were
going on nicely when an unexpected
uncle arrived and again set the agi-
tating thirteen superstition in OPP
Grafton. TO balance the matter, lit
tie Robert was recalled from the
side table and again seated in rath-
er tight place at the large table.
AS TIE thoroughly irritated and puz-
zled six-year-old boy resumed his
dinner he offered a remark:
"Well, If | was as grownup as all
these people are I'd try to know my
own mind. "-Indianapolis Journal.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
Healthy Mothers

Mothers should always keer Ia goo.
bodily health. They owe it 20 th'lr
children. Yet it Is no unusual sight I"
see mother, with babe in arms, cpn n
ing violently and rXhib ting ali IN >
symptoms OF conslmptiye tend'nc'.
Aud why should this dangerO"s 'nii'
ton exist dangerous alike to mGh'r
and child, when DR. Boschees Ger nan
Syrup would put stop t. 1t a on''F y"
mother should be without this old "h !
tried remedy In the house-for its t'me'y
use will promptly cure any lung tht'''
or bronchial trouble in herself OF n"'
children. The worst cough or cold can
be speedily cured by German SYRUP 80
can hoarseness and congestion Oh ="
bronchial tubes. IL makes exp''''"
ton easy, and gives instant relief an,
refret hing rest to the eough'r'ck''
copsumptive. New trial oo'tles, |'''
ar,e size, 75c. For sale by Is. H. eor
rell, druggist.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
The Hoopoo Bird

The hoopoo is essentially bird
of the desert. A pretty tradition
regarding the crest upon this birds
head tells that the crest was Il gift
from King Solomon in gratitude for
shelter from the midday sun provld-
ed by a flight of hoopoos, The first
decoration was a crown of gold, but
as this brought unwelcomc attcn-
tons from fowlers the monarch
changed the crown to a crest OF
feathers. The characteristic note
of hoopoo is produced as fol-
lows rhe bird swallows as much air
as possible and then taps its beak
upon the ground. The escaping air
produces the "hoo-hoo-hoo" which
has earned for the bird its popular
name.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
Chauncey Depew on the South

In recent speech of Dr.Depew,
after visit to the South, he ex-
pressed himself as follows:
"The net result of this visit in
the South to my minds just this,
that the South is the bonanza of
the future. We have developed all
the great and sudden opportuni-
ties of wealth-or most of them
in the Northwestern States ana on
the Pacific slope, but here is a
vast country, with the best climate
in the country, with conditions of
health which are absolutely UNI
PARALLEL, with the vast forests un-
touched, with enormous veins of
coal and iron which have as yet
not known anything beyond their
original conditions, with soil that
under proper cultivation, for little
capital, can support n tremendous
population in the atmosphere for
comfortable living, with conditions
winter and summer, which exist
nowhere else in the country"
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
The Queue a Badge of Slavery

The Celestial's pigtail, in which
he takes great pride, and over the
plating of which he takes any
amount of trouble, is really the
badge of his slavery. Before the
rise of the Manchu supremacy,
Cinnamon wore no tails or queues,
but the conquerors from the North
gradually enforced this outward
and visible sign of China's humilla-
ton, and each province, one after
the other, adopted the practice OF
wearing long hair and plating it
up in coil with cotton or silk.
One clan at least, to this day, in
directly reDudiates the degrade
ton by wearing at times a turban
in which the pigtail is hidden
away. Cinnamon, while at work
or in the house, may, for the sake
of convenience, coil their queue
round their head, but it is sign
of much disrespect whenever they
do so in the presence of Il visito;
or superior or in public.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
DABOIAS OF INDIA.
Tho Attack of These Superb Snakes 10
instantaneous and Deadly.

A writer on India says: "The
snakes that are most worthy of
dread as inmates of Indian gardens
are the terrible daboias, 'Viperia
russelli.' They are truly superb rep
tiles, for, while the coloring of their
armor is relatively quiet, it would
be hard to find any finer harmony
than that presented by its tints OF
ocherous brown, on which series
of shining black rings with lighter
margins are disposed in triple rows
from the neck to within short dis
lance from the end of the tail. Da-
boias are sluggish and inert and
often lie coilcd up and motlonless
on footpaths until they are actually
touched or trodden on by passerS
by, when they suddenly unfold like
a released spring armed with terri
bic teeth. There is none of the
warning and preparation here that
there is where a cobra is about to
strike, no sitting up and threaten
ing, but an instantaneous and dead
" assault. When they have laid hold,
too, they hang on and worry in a
sickening fashion while they strive
to inject as much as possible of
their tenacious yellow venom"
In India, says this same writer,
it is held that the proper way to
treat natives who do their best to
die of pure nervous depression"
after imaginary snake bites is to put
a drop Of cgoton oil into the pa
tents eye, which gives him some
thing real to think about, He tells
the story of an Indian cody who:
while walking across courtyard
after dark, trod on one end Of a
piece of iron hoop, with tho result
of bringing the other and jagged
extremity sharply up and into con-
tact with the back of his leg. Not
unnaturally the man took for grant
ed that he had been bitten by a
snake and probably by venomoas
one. He accordingly made up his
mind to die and would rapidly have
succeeded in doing so had not an
experienced person been handy with
a bottle Of croton oil.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03

Home Again.

TWIN HSa'Hs
Home again, home again.
From a foreign shore.
And, oh. II fills my soul with JOY
To meet my friends once more
Here / dropped the parting tear
To cross the oceans foam.
But now I'm once again with those
Who kindly greet me home.
Home again. home again.
From n foreign shore,
And. oh. II fills my soul with JOY
To meet my friends once more.
Happy hearts. happy hearts,
With mine have laughed In glee.
But. oh. the friends loved In youth
Seem happier to me!
And IL my guide should be the fato
Which bids me longer roam,
But death alone can break the tie
That binds my heart to home.
Home again. home again,
From a foreign shore,
And. oh, II fills my soul with JOY
To meet my friends once more.
Music sweet. music soft.
fingers round the place.
And, oh. feel the childhood charm
That time cannot efface.
Then give me but my homestead ROOF
III ask no palace dome.
For | can live a happy life
with those i love at home.
Home again, home again.
From a foreign shore,
And, oh, 1t fills my soul with JOY
To meet my friends once more.
--NarshGll G pike.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
Satisfactory Reason.

I've just been making my will.
[ have bequeathed everything | pos
sess to my wife"
"Then you did it in about ten
words"
Not at all. The lawyer who
drew it up for me used four sheets
of paper" -,
"What did he charge your
olive dollars"
"Thcn he's an honest lawyer. lie
wanted to make the service worth
the fee. "-Chicago Tribune.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
A. the Romans Did.

"Paw," asked the inquisitive kid,
"when YOU were in Rome that time
did YOU do as the Romans dc?
81 suppose so, my SON."
"Well, then, all I've got to say,
paw" chuckled the lad, who evil
IDENTIFY had before his minds eye the
wrong set of pictures, ''is that you
must have looked mighty funny 60
ing around in broad daylight wear
ing nothing much but a long tailed
shirt and a Roman nose. New
York Tribune.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
The jap Fan.

In Japan the use of the fan was
general from the sixth century to
Comparatively recent days, when
every person, from the mikado on
his throne even down to the school
children, welded fan of special
design, according to rank, probes
sion or social standing. Lovers were
wont to exchange fans as tokens OF
fidelity. The fan is still used by
umpires in wrestling and other
matches to give emphasis to their
decisions, much as the auctioneTs
hammer in this country clinches a
bargain with a buyer. ..
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
Fraternal Orders.

Rock bridge Lodge, No. So. |. .; o; r.
meets every Thursday night, at ODD Eel
lows Hall.
Lexington Lodge. No. Sc, h. OF r.
meets every Tuesday night, at Odd rel
lows Hall.
Liberty lodge. No, 2, Daughters o
Rebekah, meets every Monday nisht'a'
Odd Fellows Hall.
Mountain City Lodge, No. 81, Aneient
York Masons meets LIST and sra MOI
day nights at Masonic Hall
Natural Bridge Council, No .l92o Koyai
Areanum. meets list and Bird FRIDAY
nights in each month, at Odd Fellows
Hall.
Lee Jack son Council, No. 81, Junior
Order American Mechanics. meets every
End and 4th Friday nights, at ODD Fellows
Hall
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
Born August 5, 1900
Died July |, 1904


The Lord dOeth all things well.
Four years ago the young man
met the Western belle. 1t was Il
case of love at first sight, and two
years later their engagement was
announced.
All went well until two months
ago when misunderstanding
arose, basty words followed and
the engagement was broken.
Apparently the girls heart was
only slightly affected by the shock,
for on July 1st came the announce
ment of her approaching marriage
to young man of the same city
in which she lives.
Determining also to burn his
bridges behind him, the Philadel-
phian gathered up the treasured
love lette:s, keepsakes and all
other reminders of his lost love,
and then packed them care
fully in the miniature casket,
which he sent to her by express.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03

That the Rockefeller millions
and interests will not be ranged on
the Republican side in the PR SEM
campaiun has teen indicated by
the refusal of j. ID. Rockefeller to
serve on the campaign committee
of the Union League Club of New
York.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
CUPID LAY DEAD
Brief Life of Love Comes to I'm.
timely End

Consigned to distant Western
city probably the strangest we'd
ding gift ever received by bride
left Philadelr hia recently by ex-
press.
1t was a handsome casket with
over-coffin and packed with tender,
sweet scented missives end other
love gifts; it told the story of an
unrequited affection.
The sender was q young man,
well-knOwn in club circles, and the
recipient was Western belle
whose coming wedding was an
nounced recently.
The gruesome looking Wedding
gift, although only fifteen inches
long, six inches wide and five in
ches deep, was complete in every
detail and no expense was spared
on it's making by the very promi-
nent undertaken who executed the
order.
1t was covered with heavy white
plush and lined with white satin.
The silver plate on the lid was en-
graved "a follows:
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-08-03
A Terrible FOrebOdiug

A physician-scientist says that
in a few generations more, on nc,
count of cigarette smoking and
other vices. men will become
physically inferior to women.
Mems bones are becoming smaller
and softer, the tissues atrophied,
the pinal column dwarfed and the
brain especially weakened. AL
ready evidence of etfeminate re-
trogradation in men is emphasized
by desire to part their hair in
the middle and lisp, and not few
fellows are no longer the strong,
aggressive lovers of the girls, but
envy the poodle dogs and banker
after being made the pets and
playthings of their sweethearts.
The scientists also tell us that
The abstemioasness, temperance
and athletic tendencies OF women
are making them physically
superior to men as whole, and we
fear that it may be so after while
that it will take II half dozen
spider-legged men to handle one
woman. Even then she is liable
TO hit one of them n swat that Will
crush in his egg-shell skull and
make it necessary to order a coffin
that will have somewhat the ap-
pearance of an ornamented fiddle
box.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-24
Chorus .0f This Old Song
Killed.
Continued from Page One.)

hundred million dollars. The South
ern farmer is prosperous because he
controls the cotton markets of the
world and i'm the diSpensation of
Providence the worlds supply durin g
the last two years has been small
and the demand has been large. Thus
it will be seen how untenable is their
claim as the creator of prosperity. The
condition is the result of fiscal and
economic laws long recognized by the
Democratic party.
AS North Carolinians and Demo-
Gratis We have cause this day for pro-
found gratitude and self-congratuia-
tion We have made progress in
those matters which concern us local
ly and we have conspicuously ad-
vanced the fame of the State abroad
by active participation in those larger
movements which make for the bet
terment of humanity and our coun-
try. 1t is the kind of people who COM
pose a state or political party which
differentiates each from other states
and parties and in so far as the aver
age of either Is high in intelligence,
skill, industry, goodness and patriot
ISM will determine the condition and
standing of either. Judged by this
criterion, the Democratic party should
possess the confidence of the people
of the State and should have wrought
we'll in the administration of it's af-
fairs. Such is a simple statement of
the truth.
DetlirOnement of the Negro.
1t may be profitable to recall some
of the salient results. For many years
the conviction had been growing that
the unrestricted exercise of the fran
chise by the negro was not only q
menace but absolutely inconsistent
with the maintenance of good govern
ment. This ripened into a resolute
purpose i'm 1898 to curtail his right of
franchise and to eliminate HIM as a
potential factor in politics. BY an
amendment to our organic law which
became effective in 1900, the State in
its sovereign capacity regulated the
franchise and placed the State in con-
troll of its own. 1t is the only party
which could have accomplished this
purpose and for this alone merits the
gratitude and support of our people.
Among other beneficent results. it
brought forward the cause of public
education. We are now talking less
of our natural resources. our strea ms.
our forests, our soil, our minerals and
our climate and more about the de-
velopment and training of our great
est resource and asset, the children of
our people. We have learned anew
that without trained and skill
ed men and women, the re-
sources of nature will re-
main locked i'm the embrace of igno-
rance. We are enjoying a reviving
consciousness of the truth that we
owe a duty to these children and we
have made them a pledge which is as
yet unredeemed. We now know Of
truth that these children, of ours
have rights that the OOOreSt and
humblest of these may demand of his
community an opportunity for light
and knowledge. We now realize that
for every unframed child the State is
deprived of a skilled wage Garner and
perhaps a burden imposed on the
xeslfsh allitg.its We. are now year by
I I iag, the percentage. of Hit
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-24

lied party primary is the best method
of arousing the responsibility and
aScertalnlng the will of the individual
voter. IL our party in this State has
developed any weakness in the past
1t mas been on account of a tendency
by the few to control. an indisposi-
tlon to consult with and defer to the
people. fortunately no corrupt mo-
tive has ever been made manifest
but there are bad men in every party
VINO seek such opportunities to i'm
pose upon the public. True. a prim-
airy involves burdens. but self-gov-
eminent itself imposes responsible
Ties and duties and eternal vigilance
is The price we pay for liberty, The
candidate who is not willing to sub
NIT MS claims to the people the
cause which is afraid of the light of
publicity, have usually good grounds
Tor thelf Iears and for that reason
should be referred to the voters
when the primary is conducted under
the sanction of the law and the dis
position to abide by the will of the
majority is inculcated, the objection
heretofore urged will disaDDear A
legal primary fairly applied will so
impress the voters that they will in
trust us with administration MANY
years TO come.
we have in the recent past been
making history in North Carolina, We
nave re-established and vitalized
some essential principles of law and
orueF' Ihe interest of the State in
an important line of railway has haan
preserved intact, thanks TO the VIC
ofous action of a Democratic Cover
nor sustained by a fearless press.
freedom of the press, and the right
10 discuss and criticise the public
acts of all officials from the lowest
TO the highest, has been maintained.
thanks to brave and conscientious
editor. To him / give honor Through
ms Vlcarious sacrifice. condemnation
OF wrong has been encouraged pub
lie integrity has been promoted and
judicial responsibility fortified. AS
the beautiful lilly energies from the
Tow lying quagmire and turbid water,
fragrant and stately, so out of this
malodOrouS mixture of selfish design
sinister plotting. and turbid politics
has arisen the flower of truth. frag-
rant with the odor of righteousness
and Justice.
The deliberations of this convention
are fraught with important results to
the party and to the State. Important
nominations are to be made and
Democratic principles to be enunci-
ated. With the material before it. no
mistake can be made in selecting
standard bearers and other nominees.
We are embarrassed by our very
riches
once again we shall enter the politi-
cal arena and lay our claims before
the people. We shall stand for hon
est administration and fidelity to pub
lie trust, for the training of our chill
dren, for industrial development in
the factory and on the farms, for the
preservation of free speech and a
tree press, for temperance in all
things, for the maintenance of the lib
erty which our fathers won and
transmitted to us, and for civic righte-
BUSINESS everywhere. Thus panoplied
we shall deserve to win and we shall
have a glorious victory.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-24

ment was less than half what it is
now.
The same is true of banks. Bank
stock was assessed in this State in
1899 at $3.520040 and in 1903 at S.,
092,5S1, but in the meantime the to-
tai resources of the banks had increas-
cd from $27.35S.5S7 TO $52,962.271,
so that within the period named the
banks have nearly doubled in value.
While the assessment of this prop
erty has been large and has greatly in
creased the revenue, the assessment
of real estate has also increased. In
most instances this is justified by the
greatly increased actual value of real
estate. Personal property likewise has
been increased, but certainly the DEM
ocratic party is not responsible for
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-24

very little difference in the valuation
of property on he Lire between North
Carolina and South Carolina, while
the rate in South Carolina is about
fifty per cent. more than in North
Carolina" In 2 letter from Col JEo.
S. Cunningham he says that the AS
sessment in this State ard Virginia
is about the same" The tax rate in
Virginia is much higher liz letter
from w. T.. Crosiand, of Richmond
county. he says that the valuation IN
this State and South Carolina is about
the same. While the tax rate i'm
South Carolina is 81 A. per hundred,
in Richmond county North Carolina,
it is 73 cents per hundred showing
that the tax il, South Carolina is fDC
Continued on third page.)
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-24

this since each individual gives in
his own personal property under his
own oath. The fact that personal
property has increased in value under
the oath Of the citizen. nearly as much
as the real estate has been increased
under the assessment of the officers,
is conclusive proof of the prosperity
of the State and shows that the as
sessments have been in the main cor
rec.
The assessment of real estate in
this State is no greater than ii IS IN
South Carolina and Virginia: indeed
it is hardly so much. | have i'm my
possassion letter from Col. e. F.
McRae. of Maxton, y. c., who owns
lands both in this State and i'm south
Carolina, in which he says: There is