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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
ARENDELL'S PLAN APPROVED
state Senator Thos. w Mason Urges
Concert of Action s,etyeen
Cotton Farmers

10 the Editor: / am requested to
thank your correspondent. Mr.. f. r
Arendell fer his timely suggestion i'm
your issue of December 9th, in which
NE advises the farmers:
FIRST To hold twenty per cent of
thIs years cotton crop until the price
advances to ten cents per pound, and,
second, to plant just twenty per cent
less cotton next year than they did
this year.
IN order to secure organization Mr..
Arendell proposes that each farmer
write to the Commissioner of Agri-
culture of his State, enclosing a post
age stamp requesting the commission
ers to enrol him as member of the
Cotton Growers Twenty per cent
Club, with his pledge OF honor that
ne VIII carry out in good faith the
purpose Of the organization
We heartily approve of this sugges-
ton and the proposed plan of organi-
cation. We believe that it is practi-
cable and, IT carrid out will go far to-
wards establishing that uniform and
reasonable price so desirable not ONLY
FOR the cotton growers, but also for
the manufacturers and for all those
varied interests which are so intimate
ly !nterWOVCn with it.
This plan is practicable, because our
twenty per cent of their cotton, if they
50 desire. nor is there any doubt that
they will cheerfully fall into line if
once the organization begins Many
of them. without any leadership or
concert of action, have already de-
clared their purpose TO resist the UNI
reasonable fall III price, which has
carried cotton below the line of profit.
We also believe that the proposed
plan is good and safe in principle, be-
cause it is now clearly demonstrated
that We have increased our cotton
acreage TOO greatly and a wise policy
suggests Il reasonable reduction.
Furthermore, Ne confidently believe
that such a concert of action would
do more good in behalf of the cotton
growers ana manufacturers, and of the
varied interests of our country. than
all the bollWeevil conventions or al
the work of our Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington, either or both
of them, have ever done, Or ever car
90. for us.
T$W. MASON
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
\ GOOD EXAMPLE,.

The cost of living has increased
very greatly. beloved, in these days OF
Dingley tariffs and trust extortions.
How many churches have thought
about this in fixing the salaries OF
their pastors? 1t will require at least
$1,000 to buy as much "vittles and
clothes as $500 would buy a few
years ago. Many preachers and 9TH
ers, who are paid salaries. have. found
that the decreased purchasing power
of the dollar has greatly reduced their
income.
The Gastonia Baptists have set al
the churches a good example by in
creasing by one hundred dollars the
salary of their minister. Rev. W. II
Reddish. Every congregation In th@
State financially able to do so ought Il
follow the example set by the Gastonii
Baptists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
III There are Any Such Inhuman Doc.
tors, They arc "a Disgrace to That
Noble Profession.
Marshville Home.

Marshville Home.
Referring to the notice of the life
and noble work of DR.. j. A. McRae.
which appeared in this paper last
week the News and Observer says:
I'm this age OF mad rushing after
wealth and in an era when get-r1ch-
quick seems to be the motto of 50
many people what a refreshing thing
it is to read of one who didn't attach
the commercial idea to his great call
ing! The good doctor who loves to
heal men and who never refuses
to go to see a patient because the
poverty of the patient makes the
pay uncertain is worthy of all thai
Ian MacLaren wrote of the great
hearted physician whose character Is
he greatest in modern literature. II
this may be said of good doctors OF
this kind what must we say When We
turn to the other extreme? HOW
about the financial doctors who Will
let an innocent child or woman lie
and die for want of medical attention
because they are not able to pay the
bills. or because a worthless husband
will not pay them!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
Tobacco Puffs.

The Kinston Free Press, making a
comparison of the tobacco SOLD TINS
year and last, gives the following:
1.-The tobacco board Of trade reports
sales on the local market Tor the
month of November aggregating
.i,S56,S43 pounds. For this amount OF
leaf the buyers spent $174,116.5a' an
average of nearly IA cents a
pound The sales for the whole sea-
son on this market. up to December
1st, have amounted to o,'fz,9f-
pounds. bringing S538, 1885, an aver
age of about. IA cents per pound
with these figures it is interesting
to compare the tobacco statistics Tor
similar periods last year During NO
vember. 1908, our market sold 5,3l ;
4S1 pounds. This amount pfoughs
S177,155.61, an average OF something
like 5 IL cents a pound. During the
whole of last season up to the close OF
November. 1903, this market sold D.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
MIR. BASS LAID TO REST.
Many Floral Tributcs-Odd Fellow,
Attend in Body.

Henderson. Dec THE funeral Of
Mr.. Disco Bass was held at the home
at p. m. yesterday, the Rev. l.. l..
Nash officiating, assisted by Rev. j. y.
Bundy.
The honorary uall-bearers and the
pail-bearers were selected from the
odd Fellows of which order he wa. {,
prominent member.
The Odd Fellows attended in a
body. A long procession OF relatives
and friends followed the deceased to
mis- last resting place in Elmwood
Cemetery.
The many beautiful floral tributes
attested the popularity of the de-
ceased.
Mr. Bass was native of Edgecombe
county. but has been a resident OF
Henderson for several years. He Vas
highly respected here. where ne had
grown up. He was just II years of
a~e. He had been, married about two
years and leaves a lovely ana devoted
wife and a bright and beautiful little
son.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
THE LAST STRONGHOLD.

Every county along the line of the
saloons and stills having been driven
out. except the county of Richmond Ii
has seemed to be the whiskey strong
hold OF the southern part of North
Carolina. but it will not harbor that
demoralizing traffic longer. The town
commissioners of Rockingham have
notified the saloon men that no sa-
loon will be licensed in that town
after the 31st day of December. 1t
will protect its youth from the demon
alizing temptation.
1t is also stated that a large ma
iority of the voters of Richmond coun-
ty have signed a petition prohibiting
the manufacture. sale or importation
of liquor in Richmond county. That is
a much needed law, not only for Rich
mond county, but for all the adjacent
counties, for the jug traffic at Ham
let demoralizes and debauches the
people Of adjacent counties. The town
of Hamlet is we'll located for big
loWn AS ioilS dS It's CiiicI liuu9'iS 10
the manufacture and sale of Whiskey
it will not attract the large invest
ment of capital in industrial enter
prses that mean healthy and perma-
nent prosperity.
The people of North Carolina are
resolved to put an end to the saloon
and still power for evil in North Car
DINA,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
WATCH HER GROW
Spring Hope is Heading
Rapidly Cityward.
As Shipping Point. Tobacco Market
and Place of General Business,
She Moves Steadily
Forward.
By I'll. II. HARDY.

Snring Hope. n. c., Dec. As the
train pulled into town few days ago
. travelling man said to me: Did you
know this is one of the best miami
towns in Eastern Carolina? Thefe Is
90 much or more business done mere
for the size of the town as any other
known of in this section of the state
II have watched the growth Oh
Spring Hope for several years anu
ye nv readily agreed to all my travelling
f. end said. In an interview with the
Coast Line agent / gather the follow
ing facts as to freight shipped in and
out of Spring Hope monthly. Up to
the first of December 1000 bales OF
cotton had been shipped. The town is
ola ssed as one of the largest fertilizer
distributing stations on this dlVlslon OF
the Coast Line; from $500 to S5,oo"
is paid into this office monthly Tor
freight received. and something over
81 600 per month of freight is shipped
aUav from this station, money for
which is collected at the destination,
From 35 to 40 cars of lumber are
shipped every month.
The streets and business houses OF
Spring Hope are now brilliantly lllum-
mated by electric lights, and the best
rart of it is no bonds We're issued ano
no credit asked TO get them. The
town had the money in its treasury,
paid down the cash, benefit of growth
all discount and owns a first class
plant for a town of this size.
A new graded school building is in
course of erect on. 1t is a two-story
brick. 54x100 feet. with four roms on
the lower floor and two above; besides
a large hall and cloak rooms. 1t VIII
cost over Sc, 900 when completed.
There have been about 140 hogs
heads of tobacco shipped from this
market this season, and though here,
as well as other tobacco sections of
Eastern Carolina, a large reduction in
the acreage this year. Spring Hope as
a tobacco market is holding up her
end of the line, and will continue to
do So
Wocdard & Copeland have complet-
ed and are occupying their large brick
store. Sanders & Sons also have built
large brick addition to their two
story brick store, which is being USED
as a furniture department. with a
most comfortable office in the rear.
There is a gentleman mere. ESQ we
are informed), prospecting the farm
lands with the view of buying for a
colony of about sixteen families of the
Friends or Quakers. The Friends are
good, honest people ana it is to be
hoped that these sixteen families viii
be added to the already good citizen
ship of Spring Hope and its surround
.ng country.
There is much guessing and speeu-
lating here as to whether or not the
Raleigh and Pamlico Road will come
w thin a few miles of Spring Hope, or
f there is any probability of the Coast
Line building from here to Raleigh
via Wakefield in the near future, and
what will be the effect on the bust
ness of Spring Hope
With the start she now has, I don t
| see what is to keep Spring Hope from
continuing to grow rapidly into q
hustling, busy little city.
The man who advertises for d wife
| will get a lot more replies than the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
Cured of Asthma
After Years of Terrible Suffering

Mary Josephine Bezy, Floyd Knob, Ind,
writes: after suffering untold agonies
for SO years from Asthma, | was cured by
Schitfmann's Asthma Cure. fused to be SO
bad that could not move without help, but
can now do all my own work" Another
writes: MY little boy7 years old has
been sufferer for several years, some
times so bad off thatwe couldnot hold him
IN bed, expecting any moment for him to
breathe his last. Doctors did him no good
ind we had almost given up indespair,
when through accident we heard of Schiff-
nann's Asthma Cure, tried it and it
almost Instantly relieved him" Mrs D. c..
Harris, Elbow 7. O., Va
Sold by all druggists at SOC and S100.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
Crime Cannot Be Avenged by Crime

'
The Charleston New and Courier.
in season and out Of season, pre&ches
strong lay sermons against lyncnlng z.
Can't we get it into the heads OF the
people that when they lynch crin1-
nal they make murderers OF them
selves? The man who makes cfiiih"
nal of himself in order to avenge a
crime doesn't wipe out the crime OF
the culprit but puts stain or CUNT
unon himself. The lyncher violates
the laws of God and State and does
violence to himself and his lnno-
cent posterity. Let us not permit the
crime of another to make criminals
of us. when the law is ready ana VIII
ing to relieve us of the STAN. eFliH'
cannot be avenged by crime.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
SCOTS EMULSION
Scots Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion

the old story, told times
without number and repeated
over and over again for the
last thirty years. But it's
always welcome story to
those in need of strength and
health, There's nothing in
the world that stops wasting
diseases as quickly as Scots
Emulsion.
Wen send you sample, free
SCOTT & BOVINE, 400 Pearl Street, Neg York
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
Corruption and Debauchery Could
Have Been Shown.

Durham Herald.
1t is to the credit of the Democrats
that they gave Mr.. Blackburn ms GER
tificate without question. Whether CT
not fraud could have been proven
they could have made trouble for MN
and he knows it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
\ Baptist Prophecy.
Biblical Recorder.

We nredict that Methodist preach
ers will vet arise who will resent the
rough treatment that they receive ~
the hands of their bishops. one lcan
power is bound to pass Wherever
Christianity takes hold.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
Took 33 Men and , Boys to Start It,

TAYLOR svlllc Scout.
The negine that has Deen eitSaSeu
in driving the merry-go-round is now
6rivinc. saw to cut up the wood in
town. Thirty-three men and three
bows witnessed the starting up OF the
wood-saWing machine
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
MORNING TONIC.
(.John Ruskin)

Not until we know all that Toe
knows can we estimate to the t.tii
the power and the sacredness OF soile
one life which may seem the hunln-
. lest in the world.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

Suppose Private Smith had mar
ried a negro woman of good character
what would have happened then? .he
question remains unset e1 because
the woman in question was Of shady
morals
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

5G7,467 pounds for $455,581.18. Thus
the average price for last season UP
! to December 1st, was about "a
| cents.
"In this way it appears that the av-
erage for this November almost
doubles the average for last Novem-
| her; and q similar proportion appears
between the average for this season
| and that for last season. Tobacco is
doing almost twice as well this year
as last Last season up to December
lst. sold 777,495 pounds more than
this but for $50, 0147S less money"
The Bureau of Statistics gives the
| following figures in connection with
our tobacco trade with Great Britain
according to data of the Bureau. the
| exports OF manufactured tobacco from
the United States to the United King
| dom during the years ended June 80
1902, 1903 and 1904 were as follows:
l1902. 19,045,928 pounds, valued at
| $9,422,336; 1903, l25,436,153 bounds,
valued at $13,555,279; 1904, S9,549,-
OIL pounds valued at $9,749,763."
| We hope the Free Press will now give
| the figures for 1902 ard 1901.
The Imperial Tobacco Company has
| just purchased two lots near the
Southern freight depot and will erect
| theron large modern equipped leaf
house and stemmcry for their growing
| business in Oxford, N. C. Colonel w.
| Il. Ballou, the able and most efficient
representative, closed the trade for
| the lots "a few days ago, and soon as
possible work will begin on the huge
| building. Tobacco Journal.
| ha u
| Morrow to the Monroe Journal. ito
know how much tobacco is used il?
| this county. Now, we don't claim to
sell but about half that is sold, and
We have shipped here already this
year four solid car loads and enough
| i'll broken cars to make two more.
Ali this was worth about $50, 900.
You can see from this that Union
county consumes lot of it,
/ about ninety per cent. of this years
| bright tobacco has been sold. About
70 per cent of the old belt tobaccos
/ have been marketed UP to this time.
with good seasons anG a continuation
OF good prices this crop will soon pass
| INTO MISREPRESENTATION Tobacco Jour
nal.
Tobacco men will awake some Of
these fine mornings and find that
| bright tobacco has advanced in
Lrices. There is already Il disposition
on the part of the foreign buyers to
TAKE 1t, while they can get it
Southern Tobacco Journal.
North Cato lina ranks second among
states as producer of chewing and
smoking tobacco, only one State
Mlssour4-manufactur mere North
aroma is fourth as manufacturer of
| cigarettes. ..s.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

They are going to have some more
politics in New York. Hearst is max
Jig a series of attacks on Mcclellan S
record as mayor and they say he is
getting ready to be labor candidate for
Cayoi.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

Mr.. Carnegie will not die dis
graced by wealth if Mrs. Chadwick
can keep OH borrowing money by the
use of his name.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

The President claims he has beer
then gives Crum Il fifth appointment
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

The r. j. Reynolds Company paid
as nigh as $24.0U per hundred for
sIn-cured tobacco on the Richmond
market last week
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

Last year North Carolina paid s4..
oo"1SZ as taxes on tobacco and eli.
6aretteS.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

Even the woman who is fond of
notoriety draws the line at wearing
her last years hat in order to OBJ
tain il.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
Spirit of the Press
AN Unsafe Leader. :

Fayetteville Observer.
Mr.. John Sharp Williams, the lead
or of the Democratic minority in the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

That was very generous gift wh'el
Mr.. S. c. Vann. of Frankiinton. made
to the Methodist Orphanage at the
his check for a round one thousand
dollars. He is q successful and wise
business man and he never invested
a thousand dollars in any way that
will pay larger and better dividends.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

In view of Andrew Carnegie's great
fear that he will die rich, the Mont
gomcry Advertiser suggests that he
employ his money in building hand
some depots in towns which are neg
lected by the railroads He could ''go
broke very soon that way.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

The New York Herald has made =
poll OF the Republican members o.
the. fifty eighth Congress to ascertain
if that party is really in favor Of q
revision of the tariff aifd it finds that
it is not. Of course not. The only
tariff revision that can be expected
from the Republican party IS to give
"a big slice to the ''fat-fryers in re-
turn for their camp aiSa contributions.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

The man who adyertises for a. wife
Will get a lot more replies than the
one who adYertises for ii cook.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

North Carolina ranks second an,,no
states as producer of chewing and
smoking tobacco, only one State
NJ lssour4--manufactu mere. -Nort!,
arolina is fourth as manufacturer of
cigarettes. ..:.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

Tobacco men will awake some Of
these fne mornings and find that
bright tobacco has advanced in
Lrlces. There is already Il disposition
on the part of the foreign buyers to
take it. while they can get it
Southern Tobacco Journal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

About ninety per cent. of this years
bright tobacco has been sold. About
70 per cent. of the old belt tobaccos
have been marketed up to this time
With good seasons anG a continuation
OF good prices, this crop Will soon pass
INTO history.-Southern Tobacco Jour
nal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-02
AGAIN THE BRIDGE CRUSH.
Cold Wind Dries Homegoers
Frantic-One Hurt.

The usual crush at the loops Of the Brook
Ign Bridge in the rush hours was made worse
yesterday afternoon by the bitter cold wind:
badly injured that he had to
be attended by ambulance surgeon. and
three others, who made themselves an annoy
ance to the passengers. were arrested.
The injured man was Deputy Sheriff Charles
Fagin. who on his way home to No. 3231h
Evergreen-ave.. Brooklyn. He tried to board a
De Kalb-ave- before 1t had swung around
the loop AS the car swept along he hung on,
though he had fallen and was dragged around
the loop until the car stopped. A policeman
picked him up and carried him 90 the bridge
hospital. A surgeon OF Hudson Street Hospi-
tai dressed his bruises and he went home
Soon after this Louis Mussig, sixteen years
old. OF No. 100 KnickerbOcker-ave. BROOKLYN,
tried to climb over the tsilboard OF car.
knocking down a girl and jostling several 9TH
When he caught. the police say. he
cursed them, he was handcuffed and taken
to the Oak-st. station. About five minutes later
boy and man pushed their way through the
crowd and climbed on a car which had not dis
charged its passengers. and. after sweeping sew
eral persons Oft their feet. were taken into Gus
tody. They gave their names as Martin Rosen-
bit, OF No. Odd Lynch-st.. and Norris Herman.
thirty-nine. a driver, OF No. 2Oo Moore-st.
BROOKLYN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-02
ONE PILOT ACCUSES ANOTHER.
Sandy Hook Association to Investigate Col
lision of Colorado and Boston City.

Crews Of the Merritt & Chapman wreckrG
barges were work all day yesterday breaking
the cargo OF the Bristol City liner Boston City.
which sunk Sunday noon by the Colorado. OF
the Wilson Line. After the cargo has been
saved an attempt is be made raise the
steamer. II II is successful she will probably be
brought to the city within week.
q. r. ROnayne, the pilot in charge OF the Eos
ton city at the time Of the collision. made a
port 20 Secretary Nash. OF the Sandy Hook Pilots
Association. agreeing substantially with the stories
told Sunday by the OF the Boston City. He
says that he vas on the bridge with Captain
Carey. Chief officer Wi1scoube and Second ON
Ger +. G. Davidson. when they the Inward
bound Colorado about half a mile away. The
Colorado sigualled for a German tank steamer
ahead ~ the Boston City TO go 70 port. and tho
two passed safely The Colorado then blew
whistle for the Boston City TO pass her the
port bow IL PUT wheel over 20 starboard,
and from TIE range l took with houscs on shore
! saw that our vessel answered 20 her helm" Ro-
nay ne says. 1t Gid not seem TO that the Coo
racO altered her cOHrs. IN accordance to sig
nails, and rang 10 ssOp the engines and go full
speed asteIH. We had barely gained sternway
when the Colorado struck US
ROnaync has made complaint against Pilot
Carr. Of the New-Jersry Pilots Associ l.iOn. who
was IN charge Of the Colorado. and the board OF
dent The hearing will probably DC held before
the sandy Hook association. After cling hts re-
port with s, cretaTy Nash. ROnayue went down tins
bay TO look over the wreck OF the Boston city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-02
TO BLOCK CANAL SALE.
Nezc MyUe Made By Stockholders of
Original Co 7ary.

Paris, Feb. IA numt2r ~- ~ stockholders
os The original Panama o., orppany have
signed petition to the j 1n,-.er Of Justice. NJ.
Vale praying for an iajLl1-Ion against NJ
Ciautron, the Iiquidator of the company. and the
appointn1ent of a new nquidator. on the ground
that NJ. Gautron is incompetent to protect their
interests. NJ Gautron holds sufficient stock of
the original company to have controlling voice
in the proposed sale OF the canal to the United
States.
In explanation of this action. sn American
official who assisted in the investigation OF the
cornpany's affairs made by Attorney General
Knox said tonight that this petition amounted
to nothing as the entire question had been fully
considered by the courts in the previous htisa-
ton between the old and new canal companies
The question was. therefore. one which had been
decided by a court of competent Jurisdiction;
and. moreover. the Minister OF Justice is in
favor of sustaining the regularity OF the COM
pany's present administration.