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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-06
Tour to st. Louis.

The Barracks have arranged with the
Seaboard for special cars to the
Worlds Fair on August 9th, and they
will have quite q movement from
North Carolina.
The National Baraca Convention
meets in st. Louis August 11th-12th,
and arrangements are being made for
this trip by Mr.. r. n. Simms, Vice
PRESIDENT, and Mr.. l.. w. Alderman
secretary, and Mr. w. A. Cooper. Cars
VIII be attached to other trains and
the lowest rates in effect at the time
Will be available for any who desire to
Joln the party. Special rates will be
arranged at hotels
lhose who desire to accompany this
party should address either of the
above gentlemen. or the undersigned
who will furnish complete informa-
ton. Z. Iii. Gattis, G. T.. & L. A.
u. T.. Smith, L. T.. 4.
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FAIR VIEW DAIRY.
RALEIGH, n. c.,
FOR SALE.

My entire herd of Jerseys, Guern-
seys, Oyrshires, HOlsteins and grades
from each. Also about 40 fine heiferS.
SharpIes Stear Turbine Separator;
Boilers, Churns, Butter Worker, Cans,
bottles, large refrigerator, Babcock
tester; milk wagons, etc. These are
all fine cows of large milk and butter
capacity. Out of SO head shown at
last Fair 35 took first premium. Have
always taken first premium over all
competitors in milk and butter test at
State Fair. All the above Will be sold
at private sale and at farmers prices.
Now is your chance for d valuable
COW or hcifer at low price. Two ex-
ira fine Jersey bulls included in above.
Il. G.. COWPER.
Proprietor.
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DODT
TRUCKING REPORT.
U. S. Agricultural Department to starr
Regular Reports on That I'M
pOrtant Southern Industry. -.

Commissioner Patterson yesterday
received letter from Hon. John III.
Small, member of Congress from the
First District. which gave the infor-
nation that he had been officially not-
fed that the United States Department
of Agriculture has determined next
year to inaugurate a series of regular
reports on the trucking industry.
MIR. Small quoted a letter from
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, say
ing in reply To his letter of July
Goth. Il have the honor to say that
we arc making arrangements looking
To reporting upon truck crops next
year, and hope to have everything in
readiness for work by the opening of
the coming season."
The reports, says Mr.. Patterson, will
prove of the greatest advantage 10 the
truckers of the State. whose business
has grown in the last few years 10
such large proportions. From the
time the season opens in Florida. on
UP by degrees to this State, the Caro-
lima trucker may keep himself reliably
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The BIOodhOundS Score.
(Wenterille NeMS.l

*. Benton. Tatom's township, was
robbed by a burglar recently, by
breaking into his house and forcing
open his trunk, taking 500 there from
BlOodhounds were put on the track of
the robber but did not succeed in
capturing him. There have been sew
.eral robberes committed of late in
Columbus, as robbers generally are
becoming enlightened to the fact that
there is plenty of money in this
county. If people continue to secret"
money about their homes and person
when there are so many good banks
in the county not much sympathy can
be expressed for them.
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$780, 900 ON NETCHER'S LIFE
Paid by The Mutual Lifc-ChicagO
Merchant Had Paid but One
Premium.

After taking out a life insurance pol
icys for 100000 last November in The
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York, Charles Netchcr, Chicago
merchant, died suddenly on June 20,
after an operation for appendicitis.
Yesterday the company paid his Wild
ow the amount of the policy. Netcher
had paid only one premium on the
policy, which was said to be the
largest carried by citizen of Chicago.
The Mutual always reinsures with
other companies all but 100000 Of
these large risks.-The New York
Sun, July 10.
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Personally Conducted Tour to The
Worlds Fair and Pacific Coast Via
S. A. l.. Railway.

The Seaboard announces personal
w conducted tour to the Worlds Fair,
Colorado. California and the Yellow
stone National Park and all points of
interest on the Pacific coast, leaving
North Carolina on August 10th, in
Pullman Sleeping Cars from Charlotte,
Raleigh and Wilmington. Round trip
Is DAYS tickets to ST. Louis $24.30; 60
dav tickets, 5000 Round trip from
North Carolina points to San Francis
co going one route and returning an
other. $65.25. Side-trip rate to the
Grand Canyon, $3.50; side-trip to the
Yellowstone National Park, $49.50,
which includes transportation all
through the Park and Hotel accommo-
dations&c. 1t will take one week to
make the trip through the Park.
Stop-over for one week will be ar
ranged at St. Louis, one going trip
and those not desiring to go further
will be looked after as we'll as the
California party, and special rates will
be arranged for them at the hotels in
ST Louis and Pullman provided for
their return. The California party
will remain in st. Louis one week and
then go West over the Iron Mountain
Route to Kansas City, the Santa Fe to
the Pacific Coast, stopping enroute at
the Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, San
Francisco and all points of interest
on the return party will stop at Og-
den Utah, the Yellowstone National
park. Salt Lake City, Denver, Colora-
do Springs, Pixies Peak, Garden of
the Gods and all points of interest in
Colorado.
The party will be in charge of DR..
VIM Black. of Davidson, N. c., who
has had quite a lot of experience in
travelling West and made a study Of
the points of interest. lie VIII give
his personal attention to the party,
the ladies will be especially looked
after.
For all information, itinerary of the
trip. please address DR.. VIM. Black,
Davidson, n. c., or G. Fl. Gattis, C.
p. & T. A., Raleigh, n. Z.
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High Praise of Able LAWYER.

Writing of the speech of Stephen
C. Bragaw, Esq, of the Washincton
bar the Gazette Messenger of that
place says "it was par excellence. .
and adds:
I'm passing a crowd of gentlemen
on the sidewalk we overheard them
complimenting this speech. one of the
elder remarked, he had never heard
it surpassed; another said. the Wash
ingtOn bar has not yet lost it's reputa-
ton it has Justly enjoyed for a half
century, of being one of the ablest bars
in North Carolina and it never Woul, 4
as long as its forum was composed O;
such an array of legal talent as com
posed the present bar"
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A PURIFYING POWER.
Inherent Qualities of HancocI<'s Liquid
Sulphur Make il a Household Aid.

est germicide. Thus it's use upon the.
face produces that most highly valued
result-a rare, clear, beautified COM
pleXiOn.
Added to the bath, Hancock s
Liquid sulphur cures diseases of the
skin and confers the benefit of lasting
health.
These ailments and many more are
conquered by the use. according to
directions, of IIancock's Liquid Sui
phur: acne, itch burns and scalds,
prickly heat diphtheria, catarrh,
canker and soreness of eyelids, mouth,
scalp, nose or throat.
At principal druggists. Send for
booklet to Hancock Liquid Sulphur
Co, altimore, Md.
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informed of prices and crop conditions
and be materially aided in disposing
of his crops TO the best advantage.
Another indirect but valuable Incl
dent Of the reports will be to call the
attention of agriculturalists all over
the country to the suitability of the
State as a trucking section.
Mr.. Patterson was highly pleased
with the news, which he considers of
much Importance, and says that the
credit of securing the reports should
be given to Senator Simmons and Con-
gresham SmaH. both of whom have
worked earnestly and insistently to
Dursuade the department to make the
departure.
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The Annual
Income

life that you would like
to leave your wife, and the
amount in cash you would like
to have returned to you, if you
survive the period of limited
payments--give these facts
and the ages of both, in writing
for terms on this contract,
devised and introduced by
The Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York.
This Company ranks
First-Iu Age.
Ffyst-In Assets.
First-In Amount Paid Policy-nolders
THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY OF New York,
RIcuARD A. MccuRDy. President.
III. II, WILCOX, General Agent,
Charlotte. n. 9.
HENRY e. BIGGS. District Supt.,
Raleigh, N. G.
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DR.. B. F. ARLINGTON.
DENTAL SPECIALIST
GoldSbOro, n. G..

Practice confined exclusively TO
treatment of diseased gums, specially
that troublesome and hurtful disease
spoken of as Pyorrhea AlveOlaris or
Riggs disease, but more generally
known and spoken of as scurVy. One
treatment ut one sitting is all that is
requisite for cure in the majority of
cases.
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Report on Revenue Department.

What ever it was that brought the
Hon. H. G.. Yerkes to Raleigh some
days ago, his visit did not cause Col
lector e. c. Duncan any trouble.
1t was learned yesterday that the
report of Examiner Balm, who it
Will be remembered was here going
through the department when Mr..
Yerkes turned up. has been received
and the grading of the office is THAT
is O. X
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FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
Will Meet~in Annual Session at Hills
boro on the Ninth.

The Farmers State Alliance will
meet in annual session at TiIIsboro
next Tuesday, the 9th.
ON Wednesday. the 10th. there will
be farmers picnic on the grounds at
alliance headquarters, and speaking
by Governor Aycock, superintendent
OF Public Instruction j. Y. Joyner.
Rev. c. e. Maddry, DR.. TAFT Butler,
ana others. A large crowd is expected
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Venable Tobacco Co. Dissolved.

Certificate of dissolution was filed
yesterday in the Secretary Of States
office by the Venable Tobacco Com
pany, which did large business in
Wilson, N. G.. The certificate was
signed by H. M. Victor, r. l., Dibrell
and S. w. Venable, Jr
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Eight and a Half Pound Cabbage.

Seventeen pounds of food for ten
cents is what d pleased purchaser eX-
hibited yesterday as he came out of
the city market. The dimes purchas-
ing power was represented by two
cabbages, which weighed together
seventeen pounds.
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Week End and Sunday Excursion
Rates Via Seaboard Air Line
Railway, to Resorts i'm North
Carolina and Virginia.

The Seaboard Air Line wishes to
announce that commencing today it
will sell round trip tickets to resorts
named below on Saturday, good, re-
turning Monday following date of
sale, with exceptions as noted below.
Ini1r 70
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be on sale for Fridays ana saturday
trains. Good returning Tuesday fol-
lowing date of sale.
For further information, call or ad-
dress
c.. H. GATTIS, C. p. & T. A.,
Raleigh, N. G.
z. p. SMITH, T. P. A.. Raleigh, N. G.
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Too often the price of liberty is
prohibitory.
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III had been a great sufferer from indigestion
for the last pine years" writes Mrs. Margaret
Single, of Owings Mills, Baltimore Co, Md.
Il I was such a wreck it seemed death near,
but today can say feel like another woman
have received much and lasting good from Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite
Description have taken twenty-five bottles in
all, and followed the advice of DR. Z. v Pierce,
and am happy to say that life is worth living
now. A thousand thanks for your treatment"
Do not be cajoled into trading sub
stance for a shadow. Any substitute
offered as "just as good" as Golden
Medical Discovery" is shadow of that
medicine. There are cures behind every
claim made for the "Discovery."
The Common Sense Medical Adviser,
1908 large pages, in paper covers, is sent
free On receipt of twenty-one one-cent
stamps to pay expense of mailing only.
Address DR.. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, n. Y.
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T HE girl in the hammock laid
her book face downward beside
her. a faint, skeptical smile

TS HE girl in the hammock laid
her book face downward beside
her. a faint, skeptical smile
4 visible about her mouth.
@"How do you go about it?"
was the question that her eyes asked
of the radiant landscape. IT'S all
very we'll to say that a woman, If she
have not hump upon her back, may
marry whom she will. But how would
she go about it?''
The scratching of a match broke
the summer stiffness and her medita-
tiuns were suddenly precipitated froni
the general to the concrete. She
glanced where a mans form bulked
in one of the huge wicker chairs.
with his hand forming a screen he
was lighting a fresh cigar. seemingly
Obvious to everything in life except
that and the Engineering Journal
which lay in his lap.
He was her brothers best friend
and she had known him for years,
not with much satisfaction, it must
be confessed, since he was VIGOROUSLY
a mans man." living in mans
world and regarding the rustic OF
L
same feeling that he did the hummins
of mosquito.
1t certainly would serve him right,
her thoughts ran on, If some lady
would just wind him round and round
her finger, make him fetch and carry
al her beck and call, reduce him to a
perfect mush of sentiment. Some
thing in her steady gaze caused him
to move uneasily. then look up.
did you speak,"
He had the perfunctory manner Of a
person who knows he must keep guard
over himself or he will be guilty of
some remissness. A heroic resolution
to do his duty was visible in his face.
NO" she drawled, IT didn't speak.
But il you don't mind very much
think 1 will. I'd like to ask you, for
instance, If you have ever had ladies'
day?"
"a ladies' day?" he repeated help
lessly, shaking of his eyeglasses with a
characteristic movement, while his tor
mentor watched him as IL he had been
some sort of a specimen that she had
impaled upon pin. Then light
dawned upon him.
You mean such as they have at the
clubs-a day when the place is given
up to your sex and other matters go to
the wall? Well. no. don't know that
/ ever have had"
Don't you think It IS timer she
ventured.
Possibly" he admitted. but he still
held the Journal in a way that SUE
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TEMPTING OF ADAM

where she's gone? Never before real
lied how interesting she is-for a girl
Had 1 ever had a ladies' day? Umphi
That was funny!" and he smiled at the
recollection OF 1t.
For the next two or three days she
avoided him as much as possible.
Il must give him plenty OF line"
she decided craftily, and never let
him suspect that he's taken the bait"
On the third day he proposed a long
tramp for her.
You don't want a silly thing like
me-" she protested with modest self
depreciation. I can't talk about
bridges and buttresses and caissons
and all those interesting things that
you know about. shall only bore
YOU"
What was it you said the other day
about the creature that tempted
Adam % was his laughing reply. Per
haps I want to take up a new line OF
study"
Il just made him think I was the
most dependent thing that ever lived"
that night. My tiInid little feet could
scarcely get over the ground without
help, and as for climbing fences"
She went off into a peal OF laughter
as she remembered how solicitous he
had been about her getting over a fence
that was in their way-and she, who
could turn a handspring as we'll as
either one of her brothers.
"Of course, I couldn't do 1t II really
liked him." she murmured. Then the
girl in the mirror averted her face
quickly. I'm just doing IL to give him
a much-needed lesson. you know" she
went on. This time the girl looked Into
her eyes for moment. After that she
threw herself on the bed and buried
hot face in the pillows.
AS the weeks went by the startling
conviction that there was one girl In
the world who never bored him. never
made him long TO escape and get back
to his own kind. came to be certainty
to the man.
They were standing under the big
apple tree in the back garden From
the ground she picked up one OF the
round. smooth apples and began to eat
IL. something in the action brought
back. to him the. conversation. they once
had about Adam, and he wondered how
he could ever have been so Grass, so
dense. He held out his hand.
please, Eve" he beseeched.
But you are not like ADAM" she
began, archly.
me he said meaningIy. ''he waited
for temptation. I-don't intend to
watt"
And that night she whispered to the
girl in the mirror, What Thackeray
says is truelD
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By Keith Gordon

gested a well-nigh unconquerable de-
sire to return to IL. She stretched out
her hand. Reluctantly he handed it
over.
Did it ever occur to you,'' she asked
handy, that the creature who tempt
ed Adam so successfully, who is at the
bottom of everything, as II were, must
be as-as intricate as your old engi-
neering problems?"
Il have always considered Adam
weak-very weak" was his evasive an
swer. Men aren't like that nowadays"
At these boastful words a resolution
that had been taking form In her mind
became full-hedged. She was inspired
with the sense of a mission. Her neg
lected sex should find an avenger in
her.
You think you wouldn't have eaten
of the apple, then?"
There was new note in her voice. 1t
was at the same time challenge and
an appeal.
AS If it were something absolutely
new it came to his mind that girls
were delicate. helpless creatures, and
wave of tenderness for the sex swept
over him. Still he was very positive
that he wouldn't have eaten the apple
and something in the soft, babyish,
yet dependent way in which she looked
e1t llIIi CduSeQ UlIl 10 explain at great
length why.
Has talked fifteen minutes by the
clock" she was thinking in high glee.
but outwardly she was all deferential.
honey-sweet attention.
I'm sure he wouldn't have yielded
If he'd been like you." was her earn
est comment when he finished speak
ing, and at the words he was con-
scious of a pleasant expansiveness. a
caressing sense of satisfaction as de-
lightful as ii was unusual. 1t was as
if he were growing taller, broader and
more severely strong before her very
eyes.
Go back to your reading. I'm not
going to bother you another minute"
She jumped up and, laying her hand
on his arm, finished ingenuously, You
don't mind my bothering you, do you?
A girl gets so tired of woman talk
A chat like this is like plunge in
cold stream" and she vanished into
the house and scurried to her room,
where she threw kiss to her image in
the mirror with the remark, you're
doing well for a beginner. my love-
Down on the broad piazza the man
had returned to the closely printed
columns before him, but after half
hour he gave UP.
I'm stale!" he murmured, throwing
the paper on the table. Wonder
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time TO save her"
The car sprang forward. The girl
closed her eyes suddenly. She had
never ridden so fast.
Accident" Kissed the mans voice
in her ear.
Yes. She fell and cut herself
was driving by in my pony cart when
I heard her groan. 1t was dreadful. l
had never seen blood before. you know
lust then Dr. Heron drove along He
said something about an artery and
went TO making bandages. II doa't
think I was much good turned so
faint Then he wanted TO drive back
TO Darlington for some things-and-I-
] was afraid TO stay alone with her He
wrote the list on d paper. and 1 was
just starting with the pony cart when
] heard your machine. The doctor says
she has just one chance in a hundred
You were the chance"
The car stopped at the top of the hill.
Brace yourself said the man curt
~. Then came the plunge downward
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across the ocean-perhaps," watching
the averted face closely, perhaps to
Sydney to see Jack"
With sharp cry of pain she turned
a white, frightened face to his.
Jack What do you know Of Jack?'
only good, dear one" soothingly,
your brother is well and doing finely
In his profession
do you know-all about Jack?" she
whispered.
Everything"
She was crying softly.
He put his arms about her and drew
her to him with tender, comforting
words.
''Lcok at me, sweetheart. Don't you
know who 1 am? Think of that last
day you saw Jack"
She gazed long and earnestly into his
face.
Not Robert Boylel" she cried at
last.
Robert MacNeal. Boyle" he an
swered slowly, with a certain pride of
ancestry in his voice. MY father
never forgave me, and so when
came West 1 reversed my name and
am known here as MacNeal Roberts.
Good old Converse and Eleanor are the
only ones who know the truth think
L lOVed you from IndL Gay when you
came to see Jack-you were so brave
ard true. When Dick Converse brought
his Roston bride home, and l learned
she was your friend, I asked her to
prevail upon you to visit her. meant
to win you if / could"
She touched his face softly with her
finger tips.
And you-you served
II served year in prison." firmly,
hence the white locks, sweetheart"
"A year that belonged to jack
she sobbed
There was no other way" he ar
gued earnestly. Jack wouldn't have
lived a month, shut UP there in prison.
It was only a bit of boyish bravado
anyway, but the authorities were de-
termined to make an example of some
college fellow. Jacks sudden sickness
gave me the chance to clear him, and
to help those stupid detectives prove
1t against me-they knew it was one
OF us. I've never regretted 1t, but that
is why / have no 'antecedents,' Agnes"
She put her arms about his neck and
held her face against his. You don't
need antecedents, dear: I love you for
what you are yourself"
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in the tender touch.
Il wish you'd go away" she plead
ed. Won't you go away while 1 think
it all out?'
The odd, boyish abruptness that had
so often amused her came back again.
Go away? Not muchl I'll stay
right here. l may be of great assist
ance to you in making up your mind"
She sat in troubled silence.
Presently he began speaking again.
low and tenderly. You have not said
that you love me, Agnes, but l believe
that you do"
something very like a sob in her
voice. Il have often wondered how it
would seem toto care so much for
some one as to wish to be with him al
ways-now I know
He controlled the wild impulses of
his impetuous heart. and only said
gently Il believe 1 can make you
happy"
There are some things" she in
terrupted speaking slowly and with
a painful effort, that 1t is only right
you should know. II think / am
older than you"
YES" he assented calmly, At knew
that
more than thirty questioningly.
I'm awfully sorry, dear, but you've
got to cut off ten years. I'll be TWEEN
ty-five next Thursday"
She gasped, recoiling as from a dash
of cold water. and covered her face
with slender, trembling hands.
It's a shame, isn't it, sweetheart %
coaxingly, but don't you mind. We
don't need to hang our family record
he Ia o4 he
gray hair is so deceiving no one will
suspect. Let's talk about the wedding
If it could be this week."
This week." in startled consterna-
ton. Who ever heard Of such a
thing7"
When a man has lived a whole
quarter Of a century. don't you think
he ought to have a birthday gift-the
one he wants? I want you, Agnes.
We can be married then-there is no
need of waiting. and Wen just run over
to Frisco, and take trip somewhere