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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
NATIONAL GUARD CONVENTION.
Naval Militia on Same Footing as
National Guard---The Program.

1t is expected that the Convention Of
National GuaIdsmen to be held in ST.
Augustine, Fla. January 20, 26 and y
will result among other things in putting
the naval militia on the same footing as
the National Guard in the way of all from
the U. S. Government which has hereto
fore only supplied them with arms.
A special from st. Augustine states
that the joint committee-civil and mill
tary-appointed to arrange for the en-
tertainment of the representatives of the
National Guard, who Will meet in con
vention there January %, 26 and q, have
announced a program as follows
Monday afternoon, drive over the city;
Mondy night, public reception in the
Cas.no Tuesday evening, smoker and
turtle stew in Bishops hall; Wednesday
evening, military ball in the Casino,
which will be the closing event.
Between 900 and 400 National Guards
men are looked for to attend the con-
vention.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
Real Estate Transfers.

The following transfers of real estate
were recorded yesterday in the office of
she Register of Deeds:
w. ! Maynard and his wife to G. F.
Sandy, for $48.50, a tract of land between
four and FIVE acres on the Apex road, ad-
joining the lands Of G. F. Sandy and
Fred Stephens.
George B. Calling and Ola M. Calling
to David P. Lane, for $155, lot o. SO, in
he plot OF the old Fair Grounds, just
cast of the corporate limits of Raleigh.
William f. Clark and wife to John D..
benson, for 1865, a tract OF 70 acres, on
Beaver Creek, in White Oak township, ad-
joining the lands of John P. Pearson and
II. J. Mills.
James Wiley Ray and wife and Sarah
A. Jackson and husband to s. N. Ray, for
$40, tract in New Light township, on
New Light Creek, adjoining the lands OF
H. C. and D. W. Hockaday, John Powell,
Priscey Bailey and Anderson Bailey.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
W. H. King Drug Co. Will Help Make
1t So for Every Man, Woman and
Child in Raleigh.

Health and strength means happiness.
If Won are not strong and healthy you
cannot be happy-you need Vlnol.
We ask Won to take our words for it
there is absolutely nothing known to
medicine that will purify and enrich the
blood build up health and strength for
every organ in the body like Vinol; sim
NV because Vinol contains in a concen-
trated form all of the vital principles
found in cod liver oil, without a drop of
the nauseating oil; and it is natures
grandest remedy for weakness and dis
ease.
VinoI contains no poisonous drugs, and
it is not a patent medicine. 1t IS now
recognized throughout the world as the
greatest strength creator for old people,
weak. sickly women and children, nurs-
ing mothers and after severe sick
ness.
Vinol cures hacking coughs, chronic
colds, bronchitics and all throat and lung
troubles. Vinol is unequalled to create
an appetite, to build UP those who are
run down, and make those who are too
thin lat, rosy and healthy.
C. F. Derby. of Bangor, Me, writes:
"Vinol is the best general tonic and
body strengthened l have ever found;
my family all take it, and have only
the strongest words OF praise to say
regarding it,
Mr.. j. B. Keener. deputy clerk of the
superior court, Atlanta, Ca, writes:
"Vinol is the ideal preparation of cod
liver oil; it purifies and enriches the
blood, induces good appetite, promotes
digestion and invigorates every organ Of
the body
We could quote from thousands of
such unsolicited testimonials, But we ask
every person in Raleigh to take our word
that Vinol is all we claim for it, if it
fails, we will refund your money with
out question. w H. King Drug Co.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19

sumed that consumption will approximate
that of 1923, crop of 1O,75O,OOO would
not be sufficient to keep the mills run
ming. Then arises the question as to
whether they could use 10. 75O. 600 Cor even
10,0Oo,000) at such prices as have prevail
ed since December The judgment of in
vestors on this point will be as good as
that of any one else.
The latest talk from bull leaders is
Seventeen cent cotton. Prior to Jan
uary LIST, it was Fifteen cent cotton
Many hundreds of Fifteen cent enthus-
lasts, with moderate margins, rushed in
to buy between fourteen and fourteen and
a hall cents, with view to riding the
crest of the Fifteen cent" wave. They
quickly found themselves floundering in
trough OF the cotton sea around 1850
all their profits and margins gone-no life
preservers furnished-and no big bull
captain to throw them a line They were
utterly swamped. There may be a sim.
liar occurrence under this seventeen
cent talk, though if there is, we should
think it would be among new contin-
gent of me too enthusiasts, and not
quite so many of them.
Wide and quick fluctuations continue
to be characteristic of the market The
situation IS one which cotton cannot be
brought to New York for delivery with
out loss; and until conditions are such
as will permit relivery here to an extent
that will be burdensome to speculative
buying, short sales cannot be regarded as
otherwise than being at the mercy of the
strong. long maniDulatiVe side The re-
cord of receipts for the past few DAYS
seems to be generally regarded as a
strong bullish factor
1t is all right to enter the market for
quick action. but we would strongly ad-
wise against putting too much blind
faith in predictions of leading bulls
Prices may reach the high limit mention
ed but the road to that point will doubt
less prove to be full of marked rises and
falls"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
IT PLAYS 'POSSUM
The Boil WeeviI Looks
Like the Doodle Bug.
North Carolina Cotton Seed Wanted
in Texas Because of ifs Early
Growth and Planters Willing
to Pay Fancy Prices.

AS told Of in the News and Observer
buying much more cotton seed in North
Carolina in order to head off the depre-
dations OF the boil WeeviI in that State.
Many car loads of cotton seed have
been shipped from this section and spe-
culators in Texas are getting fancy prices
there for the seed. Mr.. J. E. Jones, of
Dollas, has been in Raleigh for over a
month securing seed for Texas, and says
he has secured much excellent seed to
send to his home.
II am paying from $50 to $35 ton, or
from 10 to so cents bushel for the cot
ton seed l buy" said he yesterday. In
Texas some SPECTATORS are buying up
seed and are retailing it there for $1.25
Il. bushel or at about 500 a ton. Some
poor seed has been shipped at times, and
this has had to be sold to the oil mills
at any price obtainable, as it was not
fit for planting. The value OF North
Carolina seed is that it is at least 20 to so
days earlier in growth and by its use
we will head off the boil weevil. 1t is
the best preventive we know of. / find
that the price of seed Is constantly ad-
vancing because Of the demand, but we
don't minu paying fanny prizes if we get
good seed. We don't want inferior seed. -
1t is not alone the boil weevil that is
troubling the Texas cotton planter, so
Mr.. Jones says, but also the boil worm.
The boil weevil attacks the bud and the
square and commences to get in its work
about the first of July. With North
Carolina cotton seed bringing the crop a
month earlier it is hoped to escape the
attack on the cotton bud and the cotton
square The boil weevil. he says, is the
color of the ground spider, or the
doodle bug, as it is called. and it kills
the plant before the bloom comes.
This weevil. he reports. is ii the habit
of playing 'possum.' 1t is q sensitive
little insect and at the approach Of any
one it pretends to be dead and fall off
of the cotton plant. This tIicl, has be-
come known and the apparently lifelesS
weevil is known to be a very live fellow,
just waiting for the intruder to depart
50 as to get to work gain.
The boil worm has no regular season for
its work, but puts in an appearance
whenever the weather is wet. II comes
at this time and on the rich rich lands.
It is described as being like the corn
worm found in the roasting ear.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
Charlotte Union Depot.

The North Carolina Corporation Com
mission, Chairman Franklin Mcneil,
Messrs. S. L. Rogers and E. c. Bedding
Geld. with Mr. Fl. c. Brown, chief clerk,
and Miss Elsie Riddick, stenographer, left
yesterday for Charlotte.
The commission will meet in Char
lotte at ten O'Clock to take up the matter
of the Union depot for Charlotte, in which
both the Southern and Seaboard Air Line
Railways and the people of Charlotte are
to be heard The last meeting of the com
mission in Charlotte was held in the coun-
1y court house. but as court is now in ses-
sion the commission did not know yester-
day where it would sit.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
WORRY
A Sure Starter for III Health.

Useless worrying Ca form Of nervous
ness) is indirectly the result Through the
nerves. of improper feeding A furniture
man of Memphis says:
"About n year ago | was afflicted with
nervous spells, would worry so over tri-
vial things.
AZ went to consult one of the best ply
sicians in Memphis and he asked among
MANY questions if 1 drank coffee.
His advice was Go to some provi-
sion store and get box of Postum, drink
it in place of coffee and as you are con-
fined to YOUR desk to great extent try
and set out in the open air as much as
possible I followed his instructions re-
gardinS the Postum.
AIT that time my weight was 142 and I
was taking all kinds of drugs and medi-
cines TO brace NE up but all failed; today
7 v-o;pb 165 and all of my old troubles
.ro gone and all the credit is duo to hav-
mo followed this wise physicians advice
aud ont off the coffee and using Postum
in it's place.
81 now consider my health perfect. l
am wiling. to go before notary public
and testify that it was all due to my hav-
inc used Postum in place of coffee >
Name given by Postum CO, Battle
Creek, M:ch.
There's reason for quitting the drug
drink coffee. and there's a reason Tor
drinking Postum. Trial 10 days proves
them all
Iook in each package for copy of the
famous little book, "The Road to Well
VILE
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
AFTER ROCKEFELLER'S MONEY
Answering an Actress at Pinehurst
He. Saws '.You Can Have It.

Raleigh has had several multi-milllon-
arcs and billionaires passing through
lately, some headed for Pinehurst and
some going further South.
Sunday night or rather Monday morning
John D. Rockefeller was on the tram
en- route to Pinehurst. On Friday night
w. X. Vanderbilt had gone to the South
with the intention Of later coming back
to Pinehurst and Andrew Carnegie had
preceded him a day in trip South over
the Seaboard.
The advent Of Mr. Rockefeller in Pine
burst had its sensational side 20 it, an
event occurring that was greatly enjoyed
by those who had the pleasure of having
a conversation between the big moneyed
nan and an actress in a happy frame OF
mind.
This was Miss Belle Gaffney, who takes
the character of Mrs. Goldstein III ''The
Cay Mr.. Goldstein" company. She was
with the company here at its performances
Oh Saturday and was with it on its way
to Columbia on the SINE train with Mr..
Rockefeller. Looking out of the window
she saw that gentleman alight, and in
an instant was off the train, having rec
cgnized his familiar hald and shining
pate. AS she reched his side she eX-
claimed:
Hello, Mr. Rockefeller, I wish I had
ycur money"
The b,llionairo was not taken abacb
With twinkle in his eye ne said to
Tic fine looking woman
My dear madam, you can have it,
But just then the train was ready to
move OH and Miss Gaffney climbed aboard
without separating Nj. Rockefeller from
his wealth.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
RALEIGH COTTON MILLS.
Office Of the Raleigh Cotton Mills,
Raleigh. n. c., anuary IA, 100

Once OF The BaIe.gh Cotton MINIS
Raleigh, N. c., anuary IA, 1904.
A dividend of per cent on the capital
stock of the Raleigh Cotton Mills. paya-
bic February LIST, has this day been lie.
clared
The stock book will be closed uni
February 2nd. 1904.
The annual meeting Of the Stockholders
of the Raleigh Cotton Mills will be held
on January eth, one p. M, at the Mayors
Office, this city Business before the
meeting.
Reports of officers election of Directors
Amendment of Bylaws and such other
business as may be presented.
By order Of the BOARD Of Director.
ALT. A. THOMPSON, President.
1-17-10t
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
w. H. KING COMPANY SUCCESSFUL.
Induced DR.. Howard Company to Make
Special Price

After great deal OF effort and CORE
spondence, w. H. King Drug Company,
the popular druggists have succeeded in
getting the Dr. Howard Company to make
o special half price Introductory offer on
the regular fifty cent size CT their cele-
bratod specific for the cure OF constipation
and dyspepsia.
DR.. Roward's specific has been so re-
markably successful in curing constipa-
ton, dyspepsia and all liver troubles, that
w. II. King Drug Co. are willing to return
the price paid in every case where it does
not give relief.
So great is the demand for this specific,
that w. H. King Drug Co. have been
able to secure only a limited supply, and
every one who is troubled with dyspepsia,
constipation or liver trouble should call
upon them at once, or send % cents and
get sixty doses OF the best medicine ever
made, on this special half price offer.
with their personal guarantee to refund
the money if it does not cure.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
Woman Dies OF Burns.

Wilmington, NJ c., Jan. 1S.-Lucetta
Bowden colored woman forty-fve years
of age. fell asleep in front of fire at
her home in the northeast section Of the
city Sunday and awoke to find herself
completely enveloped with flames She
was taken to the hospital, where she died
today.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19

family blood faint.
Scrofula is bred i'll the
bone, is transmitted
from parent to child,
the seeds are planted in
infancy aud unless the
blood is purged and pu-
rifed and every atom OF
the taintreinoved Scrof-
ula is sure to develop at
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19
80: 49, Reflections s's.sss

Feeding and properly caring for horse
viii cost you more at homo than at
Woodall's stables. Experts handle horses
there. Prompt service. Ask any patron
Of Woodall's about his boarding stables
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19

You cant expect perfect deserts unless
you flavor them with Blue Ribbon va
nilla extract.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19

A bright, experienced stenographer who
can furnish excellent references desires a
position in Raleigh and requests letters
addressed to expert" care News and
Observer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-19

Scrofula manfests itself in many ways. Swelling O.
neck and throat Catarrh, weak eyes, white swelling oe
scesses skin eruption loss Of strength and weakness in
1t is miserable disease and traceabe in almost ever
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-11-10
TO STOP FILTRATION.

The Chesapeake and Potomac tele-
phone company has moved it's central
exchange to new and permanent
telephone building. The new plant is
provided with a device to stop ffirta-
tons. Stationed in the center of the
immense operating room the chief
operator can connect with any of the
boards and "butt in" on all f1irtations
with the telephone girl. Whenever
the assistant manager thinks one of
the girls is exchanging sweet nothings
with a subscriber he places his receiv-
er to the ear, puts plug in, and lis
tens. Having convinced himself as
to the transgression. he walks over
to the offending girl and advises her
the company can do without her SER
vices for week or so. It is always
suspension for the first violation Of
rules and dismissal afterward.--Wash-
ington Letter to the New York Times.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-11-10
Root Bought Farm to Own Tree.

All the country knows Elihu Root,
the lawyer, man of affairs, and cabinet
officer, but there are less-known sides
to his makeup which are, perhaps,
more indicative of the man himself,
and which are. too, more interesting
for the very reason that they are less
appreciated. For instance, he is
enough of a sentimentalist to have
bought a farm that he might own a.
certain tree
He was born in Cabinet Hall, one
of the buildings of Hamilton college,
New York, where his father, Oren
Root, was a professor. In his boy
hood years the two used to take long
walks together, and, time and again,
on their homeward way, it was under
a splendid hemlock on Kirkland farm
that they would rest. The hilltop
commanded a magnificent view of the
Oriskany valley, across to the Adiron-
dacks to the north, and often the
elder of the pedestrians would say,
as they started on again: Il wish
owned that tree"
In the years since there have been
many changes at Hamilton and in the
country round about, but the old hem
lock has remained untouched
the other day Elihu Root bought Kirk
land farm and the tree which, he de.
clares, has long been landmark in
mis- life.-Success.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-11-10

department so that true account may
DC rendered to tie tax payers of what
has become of the excess of taxes
since the Spanish war ended, to the
amount of s1,200,O00?
1t will from the figures given above
be observed that the expenditures for
u years preceding the Spanish war
amounted to s3,S75 100000. 1t now
appears certain that the expenditures of
eight years of war and warfare to
June 80, 1905, will exceed s4,200,OOO.-
900. Attention has been called to the
fact that the expenditures of eight
years of civil war and reconstruction
from June Both, 1866, to June Both,
1872, were ,900,O00,000, largely
paid in deprecated paper money at an
average of little over s600,000,000 a
year, reduced to gold at discount of
only 10 per cent disregarding fractions
$3.50, 100000 a year. 1t now appears
certain that the expenditures of the
present fiscal year ending June 3d.
1905. will exceed that amount and
may reach $500, 100000 or at least
5000, 900, 900 in excess of the normal
rate of $3.50 per head.
Brookline, Mass, Oct. Goth.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-11-10
PROFITS OF ORGAN GRINDING.
New York italians Who Make "Good
Money" Turning the Crank.

New York Sun.-The hand organ
drawn by a horse is, for the first
time this summer, perambulatins
over te Orange mountains and poking
into remote corners of Long Island
and New England. There are com
paratively few of them, for such an
orI'n is expensive, and the mainten,
ance of the horse argues a degree
of affluence not always existing
among organ grinders, although they
are class of people usually in easy
circumstances.
A building near the corner of Park
and Mulberry streets changed hands
six or seven years ago for $4,000.
The man who bought 1t had ground
hand organ in the streets of New
York for 25 years. He was an
Italian and had lived in Baxter street
all that time The building he pur-
chased is a tenement.house and he
goes out with the organ no more, de-
voting himself to the more eongenial
task of collecting rents.
Most Of the hand organ grinders in
New York live in Baxter street, and
they ere largely Genoese, particularly
the women. There are generally two
persons to each organ. occasionally
one or three. Every organ. big or
little, costs 81 a day to rent The
smallest organs, those carried on the
back. cost not less than $500; the
larger ones, which are far more
numerous. cost more in proportion.
Therefore, one may set 1t down that
every organ he sees is earning 81 a
day, or the interest on an invested
capital OF 5000. sometimes s40O or
$500.
In addition 1t is supporting from
one TO three persons, pretty good
Job for one little hand organ. As a
matter of fact, in good weather the
earnings of hand organ are SIS n
day, running up 10 Sc or 81. Rainy
! days are nearly a dead loss; but there
are not many days when 1t rains all
day. On rainy days also the organ
man is out nothing, as he does not
take out the organ. and consequently
does no pay for il, The owner keeps
them in repair without extra charge.
There are about dozen men in New
York who make a business OF renting
organs, all Italians.
One man who has an organ shop on
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-11-10
Mr.. LOVES GENERAL HUMoR.

Mr.. Robertus Love is Vice-President
of the American Press Humorists.
The following is an extract from an
address he delivered recently:
Il was born in Missouri, and am
proUder of it than Missouri is, SO far as
| have meen able to ascertain. Mis-
souri, has three preeminent natives.
Mark Twain is one of them. Mod
esty forbids me to complete the list.
However, may refer you to the story
of the three greatest liars. At a din
ner in the Lotus Club, or the Lambs
Club, or maybe it was the Poiicemens
CLUB, in New York, General Ben But
Ter remarked that he was personally
acquainted with the greatest liars in
America.
Name theml" shouted the company.
81 don't like to be personal in my
remarks" said the General, looking
cut of his funny eye at Eli Perkins,
who sat three seats away.
"Out with 'em," demanded the
crowd who are the three greatest
liars in American"
well, Mark Twain is one of them, ~
admitted the General, and Eli Per-
lins is the other two.'-Men and Wo.
men.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-11-10

expended for the Panama purchase
and for postal service. He did not
comprehend the official reports made
n his own name in his last treas
ury report for 1903. His assertion, II
made, has no foundation in fact. 1t
is not true.
Secretary Taft is reported to have
said that the cost of Is battleships not
yet ordered was included by me. This
assertion, if made, has no foundation in
fact. 1t is not true.
Secretary Hay is reported to have
said that if the future expenditures
should be again reduced to the normal
rate of So per head, less the reduction
Of the interest and pension charge OF
ever so cents per head, or to the nor
NAL rate of $3.50 per head, as proposed
by Judge Parker not in detail but in
fact, it would be necessary to nearly
disband the army and to lay up the
naval vessels in the dock yards. Such
statement, if made, has no founda
ton in fact. 1t is not true.
Taking no cognizance of the errors
OF Secretary Shaw and Secretary Taft
will now prove that Secretary Hay is
also in error if he made the statement
imputed to him in the report of his
speech.
For this purpose l will leave out
the administrations of Presidents
Hayes and Arthur and will base my
proof on the final account of the ex
penditures during the administrations
of President Cleveland's first term
Harrison and Cleveland's second terms
covering II years from June 80, 1885,
10 June 80, 1897, inclusive, during
which period the new navy so-callet
was constructed and completed, ant
the work on coastwise Notifications be
gun and carried out in part
During this period the total expendi
lures under the titles previously giver
were as follows: