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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28

rived so much benefit from it's use that
many. OF them have expressed the opin-
ion that it is superior to any mineral
water they have ever used (and several
or them have tried waters with State
and National reputation), and now
that the enterprising proprietors of the
property have added to the beauty of
the surroundings, for nature had done
more than her share in building an
elegant summer house over the spring,
one of the largest pavilions in the
State, nice place for refreshments of
different kinds, and a half dozen or
more powerful arc lights to transform
the nights into day, our people are
indeed fortunate, after waiting so long,
in having this health-giving, quiet,
restful resort almost at their door, for
after an hours pleasant ride you step
from the train with the spring only a
few yards off.
We deal in facts, not in fancies
when we say that no city has such a
beautiful, Combining such healthful-
ness) resort where we may spend the
day or evening with so much pleasure
and profit. We cannot speak with au-
thority, but the demand is becoming
SO great that we think ere another
summer comes a large hotel will be
needed to accommodate the crowds.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
Local Names.

People who are not familiar With
the character of trees and plants are
sometimes led into funny errors.
Many years ago, when the yellOWS first
began to show in the Maryland orch
ards, the growers were at a loss TO
account for the premature rlpenlnS
of the peaches. But they shipped the
premature peaches, and getting in on
q bare market the inferior fruit sold
for good prices. At that time the
writer had nursery in Maryland,
and one fall q farmer came to buy
some peaches. We gave him the list
of varieties to select from, but he
said, II see no 'Prematures' on the
list They always bring d good price
and I thought that l would plant
more Premature than anything
else" 1t was hard to convince him
that premature was merely an un-
healthy fruit of any variety. few
days ago a correspondent of The
Practical Farmer sent us clipping
from a daily paper in Philadelphia.
which stated that "scullion' onions
were commanding S25 barrel and
thai a certain gardener who had half
an acre of solutions had sold $4,000
punches for $1.25 to 81 per hundred
punches. This was, of course, far
less than $25 barrel, and it is like
ly that the paper misprinted $3.50
and made it SIS. The writer wanted
to know where he could get the seed
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
The Difficulty ofCommon Names for
Plants.

We are rather surprised that so
good a botanist as Prof. Bessey writes
in the Breeders Gazette about Can
ada" blue grass without giving it's
botanical name. These common
names are misleading, for what he
calls Canada blue grass is known in
other sections as Virginia blue grass,
and in others as English blue grass,
and it seems that the name Canada
has been applied to it more recently.
While giving the common name OF Il
locality it is always well to add the
botanical name to identify the plant.
We suppose that what is being called
Canada blue grass is Poa Compressa.
1t lis regarded in the Piedmont sec
ton of Virginia as a pest to the wheat
grower, for it is as aggressive as the
Bermuda and when it is in field the.
preparation of the soil for the wheat
crop merely spreads it, and If the field
is followed for wheat the second yea:
the blue grass will about take posses
sion of it. 1t is a fine pasture grass
for sections too far north or too eie-
waited for the Bermuda, and is good
soil binder and preventive of washing.
But in moist soils it is as trouble
some with small grain crops as Ber-
muda further South or with grass
further North. 1t would make fine
mixture with the Bermuda for per-
manent pasture in the South, as it
will hold it's own and keep green IL
winter when the Bermuda is brown.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
Mr.. David Duncan Critically I'll.

Mr.. David Duncan, who for several
years has been resident with his
family in Raleigh, and who held a
responsible position in the Revenue
Department here, is critically i'll at
his old home in Beaufort. n. c.
His brother, Collector E. c. Dun
can, returned early Sunday morning
from Chicago and learning of his
brothers turn for the worst, left on
the next train for the East, and is
now at his bedside. as are also his
wife and his father. Mr.. William Dun
can.
Mr.. Duncan, during his residence in
Raleigh has impressed all who have
met him personally or in q business
way with his never failing courtesy
and the brave and cheerful manner
in which he faced the trials of ill
health that would have soured man
of less noble spirit. There are hun
dreds in Raleigh and throughout the
State who will hope earnestly for his
early Improvement, and whose SYM
pathy goes out TO his wife, children
and relatives in the hour of their
great anxiety.
Mr.. Duncan is nephew of Mr..
John Duncan, of Raleigh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
An Opportunity for Successful Life In
Surance Men In North
Carolina

Any life insurance solicitor who is
successful and reliable, or any capable
reliable man who is willing to work
up to it, can secure from the Southern
Loan and Trust Company of Green's
boro, N. c., working contract pos
sessing all the advantages of general
agents contract With this contract
can be secured small or large territory
as desired, and such facilities as may
be necessary for financing the general
agency. No man need apply who is
not a worker and who can not give
satisfactory references.
The Southern Loan and Trust Com
pany has spared no pains or expense
to give it's patrons the best that there
is in life insurance. 1t is a legal re-
serve company with a cash capital
and surplus of over 1925, 100000. The
company has operated in only a few
counties in North Carolina, but in the
territory in which it has operated, has
written more business than any other
company. For further information,
address, A. w. McAlister, manager,
Greensboro, n. c.
5-27-1 a w-4w
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
IT'S COFFEE.
DIR. Chancellor's Experiments Explain
, a Point.

DR.. Chancellor's experiments show
that coffee maintains more uric acid
than any other food product in general
use. Uric acid is the chief cause of
rheumatism.
For several years the Postum Cereal
company has been receiving letters
from people who testified that their
rheumatism quickly disappeared when
they quit coffee and drank Postum.
and DR.. Chancellor's experiments ex-
plain these cures. A late writer says:
II was stricken with infiammatory
rheumatism about three years ago and
while sick drank neither tea nor cof
fee. When / got up again I wished to
drink coffee but it tasted SO dreadfully
bitter it showed my system had re-
volted against its use and when
forced some down it made me nervous
and sleepless.
zone day while calling on our min
listers wife she served some Postum
but / didn't know what it was and it
favored coffee so in looks 1 said to her:
THANK you but I'll have to refuse
the coffee" She answered:
MY dear. this is Postum Cereal, it
looks and tastes like coffee but it has
absolutely none of the i'll effects of
coffee. 1t is food drink. Won't you
try some?'
so / tried Postum and instead of
hurting me 1tsWOrked wonders Tor me
and I've been drinking it ever since.
even my husband has been weaned
away from his coffee. / just follow the
directions on the package and it makes
a clear, black food coffee with a rich
taste and since l have been drinking
il have had no return of my rheu-
matte toubles. We both enjoy splen-
did health now all the time Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich.
1t is fact that most rheumatics are
coffee drinkers, but anyone troubled
with rheumatism who will leave off
coffee and give Postum trial will find
a change from the old rheumatic
symptoms within a few weeks, yet
never miss the coffee after the first few
days.
OF course, there's reason
Look i'm each package for the IA
nous little book, 1.-The Road to Well
yille.'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
Fool Game Laws.

We agree with the Rural New
Yorker and the New York Farmer
that some of the game laws are fool
ish. To fine a man for shooting rob-
bins on his own trees, which they
are stripping Of fruit that he planted
the trees to secure, is silly and OPP
pressive. We are fond of birds, and
protect them, but a bird thief is as
bad as any other thief, and to pre-
vent a man from protecting his prop
erty from depreciation is to destroy
the right to property. Then rabbits
are protected in some States, when
if there was a premium on their
scalps they would hardly be missed.
In some counties in North Carolipa
rabbits are shipped by the thousands,
all through the cold season, and the
next winter there are just as many
thousands as ever. To forbid a far
mer from shooting rabbits that are
barking his young trees and eating
his cabbages, merely for the benefit
of a lot of idle fellows that want 70
tramp over his farm with gun and
dog, is little short of an outrage. The
farmer must feed the destructive
pests in order that the loafer may
have his sport. A test in court would
be desirable.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
TALKS WITH FARMERS.
BY Prof. w. F. Massey. in Practical Farmer.

of "sculion" onions. In our expert
ence it was common 10 call a thick
necked onion that Wouid not make "A
good bulb. but continued to grow and
run to seed. g scullion. But it seems
that the newspaper men call all greer
bunch onions scullions, as probably
most of those grown from sets will
be. We had to tell our friend that
there is no variety of onions called
solutions, and that $1,25 to 50 per
hundred was not a. wonderful price
for green onions, and that the man
who got 10000 punches from half an
acre must nave made them very
small. But what an ordinary news
PAPER reporter does not know about
gardening would fill a volume.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
Raleigh's Health and Pleasure Resort

Raleigh, after many years of wait
ing and yearning for some quiet,
healthful resort, convenient to the city,
has at last had an ideal place opened
to them in Chalybeate Springs. The
Retail Clerks Union have the honor of
having participated in the opening of
this resort, when on Thursday night
they carried happy party of two hum
dred and fifty on their moonlight pic
mic Every one enjoyed the trip to
the fullest extent, SO much so in fact,
that the managers are being impor-
tuned more and more every day to re-
peat it at an early date.
A number of our citizens who are
having the water from this spring
shipped to them regularly have de-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
TWO FIRES AVERTED
Tucker Building and Agri-
cultural Building.
Quick Work by Assistant Fire Chief
Croker Puts An End to the
Danger.

Raleigh was on the edge of two
fires last night around the midnight
hour. but happily escaped both of
them.
In each instance the cause was from
the gas jet At the Tucker Building
one had been left burning. At the
Agricultural building there was a
leak i'm the connection.
Shortly after half past eleven
o'clock Ferry Noble. the barber whose
shop is in the basement under the
Tucker Building Pharmacy sent up
wor to Mr.. NJ. II. Croker, III charge OF
the pharmacy that he thought theA.
was fire in the building down stairs.
Mr.. Crocker at once went down and
Investigated. He found smoke. which
he thought came from the room IN
which the elevator machinery was To-
Gated. Not being able to get in through
the door he cut away the wire gauze
over the transom and went in.
There was no fire to be found but
the indications showed that the
smoke was from the pharmacy. store
room adjoining the elevator room.
He hurried to his office, got the
news and rushed back to the sore
room next the barber shop in the
basement.
AS ne, entered he saw the trou-
ble 1t was from a gas heater End
he at once cut off the gas. The
colored porter who had during
the day been looking after the boil
ing of a chocolate syrup mixture had
left the gas burning. The mixture in
the porcelain vessel had dried out at
ter boiling over. the chocolate and SUI
gar being a black mass. The over
flow had given the burning jets
81, fa %
iron connection to the rubber tube
from the gas jet above and the
iron was red hot the burning sugar
and chocolate giving off heavy
smoke.
Fortunately the gas heater was on
a marble slab. this being on "a
wooden table The marble was very
hot, and as Mr.. Croker showed It
aside it broke. Water was brought
in buckets and this was quickly used,
the incipient stages of the fire being
stopped. The articles in the store
room are mineral waters, and ice
cream salt. no danger being in these
the only trouble being the wooden
table and the partitions. No alarm
was turned in.
The other fire that was averted was
at the Agricultural Building and the
alarm came from Box AZ corner Of
Edenton and Halifax streets. In the
chemical laboratory there was leak
i'm a gas jet connection which Mr..
Walter Green feared would result in
a fire. He could not at first stop it
ard the alarm was turned in, but be-
fore the fire companies arrived thu
danger was past. BY some flremen 1T
was understood that lamp had eX-
ploded at Mrs McKimmons' residence
adjoining the Agricultural building.
The response of the Rescue COM
ffsly %
men were asleep, but as the second
alarm sounded the horses came DASH
ing from the house, ten men on the,
wagon. Walter Green telephoned ct
this office last night to deny that he
was asleep, or smoking Stedman CT
CARS as the fremen said. He dA-
clarcd he was doing neither, but thar
if he mad been smoking it would Le
a Glenn cigar. though he would never
smoke Cleveland cigar.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28

When we were q boy the oranges
and lemons used We're from the Medi-
terranean. The Sicily growers thought
they had the trade of this country.
Now a Sicily orange is a rarity on
our markets. Since November last,
California has shipped 1892 car
loads of oranges and lemons, an in
crease of about 5000 over last year,
and nearly 1000 over the year before
that. And yet the orange shipments
are small when compared with the
immense grain and flour shipments
from the Pacific coast to oriental
countries. The Pacific is fast be-
coming an American ocean. When
Japan has flung open the door Rus
STA would close who can predict the
development of the Pacific coast.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
A PLEA OF INSANITY.
| Plan of Defense for the Negro Love
| Negro MasOns Secure Counsel.
Especial to News and Observer

Asheville, n. c.. June 25.-The ne
gro Tom Love, who is held under
serious charge, he having entered the
residence and room of Mrs. Rogers at
Waynesville Saturday night, is still in
Buncombe county Jail for safe keeping,
Love is a member of the colored Ma
sonic fraternity and is high up in the
order. Members of the order in this
city and in this section have visited
Love in his cell at the jail and will Sc
cure counsel to defend the prisoner
when he is arraigned for trial 1t is
learned that when Love is arraigned a
plea of insanity will be entered and an
effort will be made to show that he
was insane at the time he committed
the act, and that he is also at present
mentally unbalanced. The colored
Masons are taking great interest in
Loves behalf and have besought Sher-
if Reed to protect the prisoner from
any attempt that might be made TO
lynch him. 1t is expected that Love
will be confined in the Jail here until
the time of his trial arrives.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
Mr.. T. II. Busbee HonOred.

Mr. F. H. Busbee has been honored
with an invitation from the Bar AS
ISOLATION of Alabama to deliver an adj
dress at it's meeting to be held on
July Sth, and has accepted.
The Alabama bar, which is one of
the strongest and most learned in the
country has made i'm this instance a
happy and wise selection. Mr..
Busbae, besides being one of the
brightest minds that has ever added
prestige to the North Carolina law
yer, has the facility of speech and
the nimbleness of illustration and
anecdote to make him charming as a
lecturer. His address is sure to be
one that will be both learned and
,sprightly and Of a sort to add to his
wide and growing reputation as an
able lawyer and a pleasing wit
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
CRASH! THREE DEAD
The Explosion Of a Small
Bundle of Fire
works.
(By the Associated Press. }


Philadelphia, Pa, June 27.-Three
persons lost their lives and a half doZ-
en- others were injured late today as
the result of the explosion of a small
bundle of fireworks i'm the store room
of the Diamond Fireworks Company
at No. S26 Archer street The dead
are:
Jacob Jancovitcf, aged rs years.
o. Berman, %
Lena Sampson. 81
The cause of the fireworks eXplod-
ing is not known. Thomas Conway,
one of the fireman of the Fireworks
Company, was wrapping up small
bundle of fireworks for a customer
when it exploded.
Almost instantly the entire room full
of fireworks became ignited from fly
ing rockets and fire-crackerS. All the
employees on the first floor escaped
without serious injury. The front of
the first floor was blown out by the ex-
plosion of powder and soon the entire
building was in flames. Every effort
was made to rescue those on the third
floor Firemen climbed ladders in
the midst of the pyrotecnics. and fin
ally reached those on the third floor.
Miss Sampson and Jancovitch were
found alive, but died in a hospital.
Berman was dead when he was taken
from the building.
During the rescue three fremen
We're injured and three other persons
were also cut and burned. but their
injuries are not considered series.
The flames spread to the building
occupied by H. S. Kilner and Com
pan,y publishers of Catholic books,
and that occupied b VI. l.. Gibney &
Brothers, dealers in automobile sup
plies but did no serious damage. The
entire loss on all three buildings in
cludeS stock is estimated at 100000.
There was no insurance on the fire
yvOrkc bli Cb
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28

Few of us fully realize the great
extent of territory which the United
States got from Russia in Alaska.
North and south it extends 1876
miles, and the distance east and west
is about the same as the air line from
Savannah on the Atlantic coast to Los
Angeles in California. The extreme
western limit of the Aleutian Islands
is IN the same meridian of longitude
as New Zealand, and the western
limit of the main land is nearly as
far west as the Samoan Islands It's
great river, the Yukon, is the fifth
largest river in this hemisphere, and
is navigable in summer for over
5000 miles. The territory embraces
590,0 600 square miles.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
Cotton at Homo and Abroad.

Statistics show that the home con-
sumption of cotton is gaining fast
on the exports. Last year there were
G,20S, 1926 bales exported and 1922
1877 bales used in this country. The
current year there were 5,537, $50
bales exported and 3,55S,714 bales
used by home factories. The home
taking of cotton was largely checked
by unsettled prices and speculation.
There is good reason for English
manufactures to be scared about their
future cotton supply.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
Sealed Proposals Wanted.

Sealed proposals will be received
by the undersigned for certain ada
ditions and changes to the hall, dim
ing room and kitchin in the main
building of the Baptist University un-
til Friday, July 1st,, 1904, at noon.
Nhe plans and specifications for
said changes may be seen at the Of
flee of the architect, Charles w. Bar
rett or at my office in the Carolina
Trust Building. Right is reserved 70
reject any or all proposals.
CAREY j. HUNTER,
&c st Chairman Building Com
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
Puckett's Disinfectant

cures sore, tender itching, chatting,
burning or offensive feet caused Ivy
excessive perspiration. Price, 25c.,
at druggists, or by mail from Clark
Pickett, Raleigh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28

Mrs. James A. Arnold returned
yesterday from Warrenton, at which
place she attended the funeral OF her
father, Mr.. d. w. Harris.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28

Many a stern man who swears at his
office boy trembles when in the pres
ence of his wife.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
MD
81 lana RAIl.was
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE.

Between New York, Tampa, Atlanta
New Orleans and points South
and West.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28

Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping cars on
all through trains, New York to Atlanta,
Jacksonville and Tampa. Tickets on sale
to all points, Pullman reservations made
upon application to any Ticket Agent OF
this Company, or at the uptown tfcket
office, Marlborough House Building.
The Forrest City times., 1904-06-24
SERIOUS FIRE AT PATERSON
A Half MILLION Dollar Loss Among
the SILK and Velvet Wills of
Paterson, \. j.

Paterson. y. J., June pa loss that
is conserva,ively estimated at $500. 000
was caused by fire which started in
the lumber nlant of the p. S Van
Kirk company, corner of Fulton and
Straight streets. Within FIVE minutes
after the flames We're discovered they
had spread throughout the entire plant
from the lumber company Simultane-
ously with the arrival of the firemen
the coping on the roof of the |. A
Halls big SIX mill. on the opposite
side OF the street.. caught fire and tina.
structure was practically destroyed
Poor water service was accountable
Cor the spread of the flames to the Hall
mill. The firms burned out We're. |.
Hall & Co. lroad silk: Van Kirk Lum-
Der Co; Henry Doherty, silk: Olympic
Velvet Co, Paterson Silk Throwing
Co, Post < Sheldon, and several other
minor firms