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FURNITURE

Will give special attd(
dertaking branch of our busrness
grades of Burial Outfits, from the ~
est Coffin to the finest Casket. WIZ
ty years experience, we claim to
good Judgment in the selection of
mings and finishing outfits. 0rdq
be sent by telephone from any seq
this and adjoining counties
HANDMADE FURNI
is preferred by many over I'll
trashy factory work. We are s.
business, and, if you want S
work, come and see us.
We are grateful to our friep
patronage, and We will do
please and to give satisfactA
Very respeG
r IT o. II Z
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
THE SOUTH DAKOTA CASE.

BY a vote of to the Supreme Court
of the United States decided that the State
must pay South Dakota the sum for
which the suit was brought. 1t made no
decree for the payment of the bonds held
by Schafer & Co., who presented South
Dakota with ten bonds upon condition
that the suit should be brought. The story
of the origin of this suit forever damns
Daniel l.. Russell and Marion Butler
When they get the pieces of silver coming
to them for the betrayal of the State
that had chosen them to look afer its
affairs, they ought to have the decency
to follow the example of their predecessor
and go and hang themselves.
The State of North Carolina will pay
the pound of flesh denominated in the
bond, but it will not permit the shedding
of one drop of blood beside. In the set
Element OF those bonds in 1879, the State
recognized its obligation to pay twenty
five cents on the dollar to redeem them,
except about $275,000. Of the outstanding
bonds practically all-certainly 1924, 900
are owned by Schafer. In the South Da-
kota suit they asked to be made parties
and presented their claim for $s47, 100, OF
which 1924, GOO was principal and the bal
ance interest. The court gave them no
decree, and so they stand practically where
they did before except that they have given
away to South Dakota ten OF their. bonds,
unless they had a private agreement with
South Dakota to divide the spoils
Schafer G. Co. now have an opportunity
to make reputation as philanthropists.
AS long as they hold the bonds they can
get nothing more than heretofore,
and have the right to redeem
them only at twenty-five cents on the dol
lar But when they donate them to a
sovereign State, that State may sue as
long as the court is constituted as at
present, and can get decree by a vote of
to to compel the State TO pay. Now
is the chance for Utah, Colorado and
other Western States to apply to Schafer
& Co. to rival Rockefeller IN endowing
State colleges.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
Mr.. GODFREY GETS HIS MONEY.

The whole State is familiar with the
Godfrey bond transaction-how the thief
who blew open his safe at Jcnesboro and
stole $500 in cash and $4,000 in North
Carolina per cent bonds has managed TO
escape detection and how he held Up Mr.
Godfrey in the middle of the read, so to
speak, and compelled him to pay 81 600
for the return of the $4,000 worth of
bonds.
This paper has, from the first, demand
ed that every dollar of that money be
returned to Mr.. Godfrey. at Wake SUI
perior court, $500 of the $1,000 extorted
was returned, and then the matter drag
ged it's slow length along. Every day
this paper has declared that the other
$500 must be returned. Yesterday,
through his attorney, Mr.. Jones, of colds
bcro, who claims to have obtained the
bonds by lending an unknown man named
Staunton $500, paid Mr.. Godfrey in person
the $500 which was paid him by Mr.. God
frey He was doubtless advised that it
was neither prudent nor healthy to retain
the money belonging to Mr.. Godfrey, un.
der all the attendant circumstances. The
repayment of this money shows what
sound public opinion may accomplish.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02

Rider IN his Great Feat of Trust Busting
while the trusts will go on doing legally
what they are now doing illegally. This
is a particularly pleasing programme since
the amendment is such "a little one"
Who will dare say there is anything
wrong is that smooth sounding word
reasonable? AND who dare to stand up
for an unreasonable law? The whole
thing is sugar-coated and the powers that
be are evidently ready to let it go down
without even making n WY tac3.
Of course the trust magnates feel sure
controlling a chancellor when necessary to
declare that their operations in restraint
Of trade are not unreasonable and the
law will then be an absolute dead letter.
Il is almost impossible now to convict a
trust under present laws. With the
Foraker amenGment, the trusts would be
completely in the saddle and the hope Of
ever checking them would be greatly di-
minished.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
FABIUS WILL HAVE TO QUIT.

If Mr.. Fab Busbee does not intend to
try any cases where the News and Obser-
yer circulates, ne will have to quit prac-
ticing in North Carolina, for the Old Re-
liable circulates from Murphy to Manteo.
Sometime ago he wanted to have case
moved from Wake because of the News
and Observers big circulation and great
influence. Yesterday in Wayne court he
wanted to postpone the rotten tie case
because the News and Observer on Sun
day morning printed true story of the
pened to have case that is against JUS
tice, as the rotten tie case, in Dare, he
would want it pushed off into the ocean
to get away from the sphere of the News
and Observers influence. But even there
he would find its saving influence that
would be against the Southern Railways
policy of almost numbering a good man
and. refusing to pay proper compensation
The able judge refused to continue
The truth is, that Mr. Busbee, like
other lawyers who have bad case or an
unholy cause, wish to get away from the
Spirit of Justice and Fairness. 1t is be-
cause the News and Observer stands for
these that lawyers with bad cases rail out
at it. The News and Observer will con-
tinue at the old stand against wrongs
as long as any railroad almost murder
men and refuses to make ample reoara-
ton, as long as men rob others and keep
their stolen property, as long as trusts
practices extortion upon the people.
The News and Observer is here to
stay. If Mr.. Bushels clients cannot car
ry their unjust cases into the Federal
courts, and he cannot practice in counties
where the Old Reliable is strongly in
trenched in the hearts of men who love
Justice, he will have to find another voca-
fi0n
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
WHY DID WE CHOOSE The PANAMA
ROUTE?

The American people have never been
given satisfactory explanation of the
sudden shift from the Nicaragua route to
the Panama route by those responsible
for the change in a night. In 1900 both
the Republican and Democratic conven-
items declared in favor OF the Nicaragua
canal. Nobody heard of the Panama
canal except as they heard of the sean
dals attendant upon it. emanating from
Paris. AS suddenly as u summer cloud,
Panama burst on the vision. Mr.. Hanna,
who had been understood to oppose any
canal at all, is the reputed father Of
the Panama idea. The House unanimously
voted for Nicaragua. The Senate
refused to concur. 1t is gencr
ally believed that the railroad
lobby responsible for changing from Mica
ragua to Panama, made the change think.
ing that Senator Morgan would never
agree to change, but, with renuncio-
ton worthy Of all praise, Senator Nor
gan voted for Panama when he saw i
was Panama or. nothing, and the railroad
lobby found that their trick would not
work. They had two purposes in view
in pressing Panama: 1. To prevent agree
ment upon any route; 2. If that failed,
to secure the route that would afford
least competition with the trans-conti
mental railways.
In an article full of sense in Every
body's Magazine, Hon. John Sharpe " /
Jams, the Democratic leader of
House, writing upon this phase of the
canal question, said:
THE great trans-continental railways,
however, all Of their henchmen and a
great many innocent persons who have
been misled by them--have DETECTED pub
lie opinion toward Panama, because Pan
anna, being so very much further in
distance and in time necessary f)r in
tercoastal voyages, furnishes very much
less competition to them in their trans
continental business than canal at Mica
ragua would
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02

slight symptoms of indigestion grow to
disease of the stomach, involving the
other organs of digestion and nutrition.
Indigestion and other forms OF stonl-
ach vtrouble" are perfectly and per-
rnanently cured by the use of DR.. Pierce s
Golden Medical Discovery. 1t strength
ems the whole body by enabling the per-
feet digestion and assimilation OF tood.
$4,000 FORFEIT will be paid by the
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Proprietors, Buffalo, n. ", if they cannot
show the original signature OF the inoi-
yidual volunteering the testimonial below,
and also of the writers OF every tesu-
1norial among the thousands Which they
are constantly publishing, thus proving
their genuineneSs.
III have been suffering for about sght years"
writes Mrs H Pierce of Millsprlng2 KY nave
had several doctors to treat ne-sohle loi ,Slndle
weakness ana others for stomach trouble put
received no relief When wrote you for ADVICE
was hardly able TO work, and you ADVISED NE
what to do. took nine bottles, hve OF Golden
Medical Discovery four of Favor1te Prescrlp-
tio,, also two walls of the Pellets. Dr Plerce's
medicines will do all that you claim lot them
Believe would have been III my grave IL mad
not taken them"
DR.. Pierce's Medical Adviser IS sent free
on receipt of stamps to pay expense of
mailing 0RI1. Send 2I one-cent stamps for
the book in paper covers, or 81 stamps for
the cloth bound volume. Address Dr. Z. V.
Pierce, Buffalo, \. Y.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
HOW THE JUSTICES STOOD.

During the second argument oil the
South Dakota suit, the editor OF this pa
Pc, happened to be in Washington aud
heard portion of the argument. From
the questions asked by the learned Judges,
the attorneys for the State, the members
Of Congress from North Carolina, and the
newspaper men who had neen following
the case, as we'll as the impression lnadc
upon this writer, this forecast was made
at the time in the News and Observer,
by Mr. f. L. Merritt, its correspondent:
Chief Justice Fuller, Justices White. Nc
Kenna and Day would hold with the
State of North Carolina. II was believed
also that Justice Holmes would be
found standing against the carrying out
os this fraud on the jurisdiction. He de-
cided with South Dakota, and that lost
North Carolina the case. The prediction
in this paper failed only as to him. The
Justices who decided for South Dakota
were Justices Brewer Harlan. Brown
Shiras and Holmes.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
A PAYING BUSINESS.

Every once and a while We are told,
particularly after a big fire, that the
fire insurance companies do not make any
money. The figures given in our Green's
bcro letter today shows that fire insur-
ance is a paying business.
The North Carolina companies at
Greensboro, of which Mr.. A. w McAllis-
ter is manager, have been doing business
nine years In that time they have taken
in as premiums $714,672 and have paid out
in losses $225,9S7, leaving profit, less ex-
penses, of s9SS,6S5.
That is a very fine showing, speaks vol
umes for the conservative management Of
these North Carolina companies, and
shows that there is money in fire insur-
ance.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02

ital stock from 900 to 100000. Last
years business was double that of the
previous one.
The failure of Baxter 6, Co, stock brok-
ers, who had an office here, from what
can be learned, will affect but few traders
here. The largest single account so far
known is one for three hundred dollars,
due Mr.. Garland Daniels. the manager
of the new stock brokers' office recent
ly opened here by Heath & Co. Saturday
night Mr.. Daniels secured an attachment
of the firms bank account in the Green's
boro National Bank for $500. Mr.. Eugene
West ATTACHED the furniture in the Of
flee for a debt of $40.
TWO lots OF cotton were purchased in
Greensboro yesterday for more than IS
cents, One lot brought 1914, the other
1913. An extract from letter received
here last night from gentleman who is
In Shreveport, La, on a short trip South
contains this paragraph: THE people
here have gone crazy on cotton. All bus
mess except dealing III cotton futures is
almost suspended. You hear plenty of
them predict 25 cents cotton with the
greatest assurance. and some Of them are
banking on it. And there is no doubt
but what many of them in this section
are fairly rolling in wealth. One man
gave an order some time ago for $4,000
bales and has now a profit OF 81 a bale
on the lot"
Assistant District Attorney A. H.
Price, who was here yesterday, talked
right out in meeting when asked about
the report that he was a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Congress
in the Eighth District. He said that he
was NOT with an emphasis that sound
ed like he meant it. He declared that
for the present, at least, and he hoped
forever, he was not in politics.
Several important matters were heard
before Judge Boyd upon the opening of
the district and circuit court OF 3 o'clock
Saturday afternoon. The first case was
the granting of a discharge in bankrupt
cy to the firm OF Dodson Brothers, Of
Pilot Mountain, and to J. c., z. NJ. and,
w G. Dodson as individuals.
Hearing was had upon a bench warrant
issued from the District Court Judge OF
the 5th Revenue District of Kentucky
for the taking OF T. NJ Angle, rectifyer
ard distiller and J. S. Davis, a govern
ment storekeeper and gauger OF Milton,
under an indictment for making false re-
turns and entries of whislcey packages,
and stamps and defrauding the govern
ment. 1t appearing that the defendants
were also indicted in the Federal Court
in Greensboro for defrauding the gov
eminent. the hearing on the bench war
rant was continued until the trial of the
case here The defendants were required
to give justified bond in the sum Of two
thousan- dollars each for their appear
ance.
Rev. DR.. H. W, Battle leaves tonight
for Wake Forest, where during the week
he will deliver series of lectures to the
theological class at the college on 1.-THE
making and delivery of sermons AS the
admirable pastor of the First Baptist
church in Greensboro, DR.. Battle mas re-
cenly accepted an invitation to preach the
annual sermon for the Missionary Society
of the Baptist Female University at Raj
eigh the third Sunday in May.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
THE INSURANCE PAID.
How the Home Companies do Bus
ness. Bakers Failure Affects Few.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Greensboro, n. c., Feb. 1.-The Greens
boro fire insurance companies III seven
hours after the adjusters had agreed upon
the amount of loss due by the olheleu, !,
companies on the Normal ana INDUSTRIAL
College fire, sent their proportiahte par!
Of the amount, 15,524.50, to DR. MciVer
to be forwarded to the State treasurer
An idea of the volume Of business ooAe
by these home companies can De gained
from recent statement Of MI. a. !" !.
McAiister, the manager, showing that
since the establishment OF the hrst one
nine years ago, they have pala OUT on
losses $225. 9S7 and have taken In on prem,
iums $714,672. The business mas increased
until the premium receipts now are $780,
coo per annum and the surplus 10 poncy
holders last year was increased from s42S'-
458 to $504.Oe1.
The wholesale dry goods corporation Of
]. w. Scott & Co, Of this city, has ap-
Piled for new charter increasing its cap.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
Sale of Bonds

BY authority of a judgment Of the su-
perior Court Of Wake County, made at
January Term, 1904, in an action entitled
Mechanics Dimes Savings Bank VS.. San
ford Furniture Manufacturing Company
and others, we will, as commissioner, on
Saturday, February goth, 1904, at u
o'clock NJ, at the Court House door OF
Wake county, Raleigh, N. c., sell to
the highest bidder for cash six bonds. OF
the Sanford Furniture Manufacturing
Company, Sanford, n G., each Of the de-
nomination of $500, maturing April LIST,
1907, bearing 6 per cent per annum pay
able sami-annually, said bonds beng
numbered from rs to 80 inclusive. For
further particulars, apply to
w. n. JONES,
d. e. NEWER,
Commissioners.
Raleigh, n. c. 1-Sl-tds
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
Beauty OF skin
PURITY BLOOD
Ancient and Modern ideas ON
These Interesting
Subjects.
UP-TO.DATE METHODS
Fer Purifying and Beautifying
the Skin, Scalp, Hair
and Hands.

Socrates called beauty short-lived
tyranny, Plato privilege of nature,
Theocritus, a delightful prejudice,
Theophrastus silent cheat, Carneades
q solitary kingdom, Homer a glorious
gift of nature, Ovid favor of the
gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty
was better than all the letters of rec
concentration in the world, and yet
none of these distinguished authorities
has left US even a hint of how beauty
is to be perpetuated, or the ravages of
age and disease dehed. Time soon
blends the lily and the rose into the
pallor Of age, disease dots the fair face
with cutaneous designations and
crimsonS the Roman nose with insight
ly flushes, moth, if not rust, corrupts
the glory of eyes, teeth, and lips yet
beautiful by defacing the complexion,
and fills the sensitive soul with agony.
1t such be the unhappy condition of
one afflicted with slight skin blemishes.
what must be the feelings of those in
whom torturing humors have for
years run riot, covering the skin with
scales and sores and charging the
blood with poisonous elements to be-
come part or the system until death?
IL is In the treatment of torturing,
dlsnguring humorS and affections of
the skin, scalp and blood, with loss of
mar, that the Cuticura remedies have
achieved their greatest success. Orig
mai IN composition, scientifically COM
pounded, absolutely pure, unchange-
able in any climate, always ready, and
agreeable to the most delicate and sen.
siitlve, they present to young and old
the most successful curatives of mod.
ern times.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

Having qualified as Executor Of D. =,
Upchurch, deceased, late of Wake count,
N. c., this is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate Of said deceased
70 exhibit them to the undersigned on
or before the 2Srd day of November
1904, or This notice will Le pleaded in
oar OF recovery. All persons indebted
sale estate will please make immediate
pay1nent.
]. ALoNZO AUSTIN,
Executor of D. l.. Upchurch.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02

Once in a
while some one
vino has travel
ed to the very
e d ge of the
danger line of
S t 0 III a C h dis
ease stops just
in time to save
his health. But
the majority OF
people go across
the line, and
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
PENSION TRA|NMEN
A. C. | Will Take Care OF
Employees.
All Men in Service Reaching the Age
Limit of Seventy Years Will
Draw Monthly Pensions
Hereafter.

Yesterday the Atlantic Coast Line es-
tablished at the general offices OF the road
at Wilmington a pension bureau for sup
erannuated employees. This is an lnno-
walton in North Carolina and IS the sub
iect of much interest
The regulations OF the department. pre-
scribe that the benefits of the pension
system shall apply only to those persons
who have been required to give their en-
tire time to the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
road Company, or to that company and
some other company jointly. In case of
such joint employment the board OF pen
sions shall decide the amount OF the en-
ployee's monthly pay that shall be used
in determining the monthly pension al
lowance.
All officers and employees who have at
tanned the age of seventy years shall be
retired and such Of them as have been
ten years in the service shall be pensloned.
Locomotive engineers and firemen, conduc-
tors, fiagmen, brakemen, yardmasters,
switchmen, bridge foremen, section fore
men and supervisors who have attained the
age of sixty-fve years may be retired, and
such of them as have been ten years IN
the service shall be pensioned when re-
tired.
Such action on the part of this company
is in striking contrast to that OF certain
railroad companies OF the North that will
not employ men over thirty-fve years Of
age. and when man becomes old IN the
service, ask him to step out of his place
and make room for the younger set The
Atlantic Coast Line has for many years
maintained a hospital at Waycross for
the care of its employees while unable to
work from illness.
This hospital, it is true, has been sup
ported by a monthly contribution from
each employee, yet it has been of meal
culable benefit to hundreds of employees.
Along with the establishment Of the pen
sion bureau certain stipulations are to be
adhered to in the future: g
No person inexperienced in railway
work over thirty-five years old, and no
experienced person ever forty-ive years
old shall hereafter be taken into service,
provided, however, that in the discretion
of the president persons may temporarily
be taken into the service irrespective OF
age, for period net exceeding SIX months,
and that this period may be extended, II
necessary, to complete the work for
which such persons were originally en-
gagged; provided, also that with the ap-
proval Of the board of directors, persons
may be employed indefinitely, irrespective
of age limit, where the service to be rend-
cred requires professional or other special
qualifications
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Having qualified as administrator of the
estate of B. f. Sanderlin, notice is hereby
5lVen to all persons having claims against
us estate to present the same to the
undersigned within the time required by
aW, or notice will be pleaded in bar OF
heir recovery.
J. D. SANDERLIN, Administrator.
December %, 1903.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
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Executor of D. L. Upchurch
NOTICE.

THE Directors of the North Carolina
Railroad Company have declared an an
nual dividend on the capital stock of the
company. OF 7 per cent, payable semi
annuaIly on the 1st of February and 1st
of August, 1904. The books of the com
oany will be closed for the transfer Of
stock from January 10th, to February
list. 1904.
d. H. MCLEAN,
Secretary and Treasurer.
January 6. 1904. 1-S-t d.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
JUST NV THNHE.

A motor1nan ii Chicago ran his car
onto the approach of an open bridge but
stopped it with the fender actually over
hanging the gulf below. He wouldn't
want to repeat the experiment because
the chances are that he'd never again
have the same good fortune.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02

North Carolina will soon begin to pay
for educating South Dakota boys and
girls-thanks to Chief Justice Russell
and Marion Butler.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-02
A MORNING TONIC.
Samuel / Tilden.l

The greatest audacity in the right is
the highest wisdom, and in the long run Is
the most consummate prudence.