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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-15

Miss Lucy Odell. of Norfolk, and Mr..
Chas. Webb. TO add to the delight or
the guests hot chocolate was served by
Miss Davis. of Richmond, and MIR.
Percy Leggett.
The guests We're ushered into the
dining room by Mrs. Chas. Wallace.
Mrs. Klein, and Mrs. Herbert where
many delicacies We're served, the. final
being ice cream and cake.
Those who were received in the
arlors were Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. Webb,
Jr>. Mr.. and Mrs. George Dill Mrs.
win Webb and Mrs. Dill.
AS the guests entered the home they
registered in the handsome bridal
book in charge of Miss Grace Made
Icine Wallace.
The event was one. the enjoyment
Of which viii not soon be forgotten
and its complete success proves Mrs
Webb as one of the most accomplish
ed and charming hostesses i'm More
head (itV
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were in attendance: Mrs. Wilson G..
/ amb, Mrs. Mary E. Peele, Mrs. f. F.
Bullock, Mrs Fabius Lee MinSa, OF
Norfolk; Miss Maye Lamb and Mr..
Thad Lawrence, Miss Eliza Lamb and
Mr.. Albion Dunn. of Scotland Neck
Mss Ruth Matthews and Mr.. Harry
Eiggs. Miss Carrie Biggs and Mr.. II. Il.
CCWper, Mrs. Clareree A. Jeffries and
Mr.. Jeffries, Miss Henrietta Peele and
Tn Wilson G.. Lamb. Jr., Miss Laura
Jones and Mr.. Kader Crawford, Mrs.
}. Paul SIMPSON and Mr.. Simpson, Miss
Nora FoWdcn anG Mr.. Fountain Lips
ccmbe Mrs. Arthur 5. Terry and Mr..
'i,rIy, Mrs. RaWleign Carter ana Nh.
Carter, Mrs. Dennis ). BiggS and Mr..
Biggs. Miss Marina Whitley and Mr..
Don Goodwin. Miss Annye Peele and
Mr.. Grover HarGison, Miss Annahnll"
Everette and Mr.. Dillon Simpson, Miss
julia Myres and Mr.. c. II. Hassell
Miss Victoria Martin and Mr.. Il. Frank
Goodwin.
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DIR. Hume Lectures.

Oxford, n. O., Dec. Especial. -
DIR. Thos. Hume, of Chapel Hill, nav
ing come by invitation of the Shakes
pearc Club, to whom he lectures every,
year. The lecture was in the chapet
OF Francis Willard school and select
audience listened with pleasure TO the
lecture CT the distinguished visitor,
who chose for his subject, IAN Esti-
mate of the Earlier Work of Shakes
peare in dramatizing historical per-
sons and events.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-15
Cure for Asthma and Hay Fever

The statements published below con-
firm the claim of DR.. Schiffmann that
his remedy is an absolute cure for Asthma
and Hay Fever.
Mrs. Mary Zachery, Pleasant Hill, La,
says: II have found your Asthma Cure q
permanent cure for Asthma, for which
used it years ago. / have never had the
slightest return of the trouble since. /
have also found your remedy excellent In
Bronchial affections"
A Hay Fever sufferer writes: 81 have
had Hay Fever for IA years. bought a
package of your remedy (Schiffmann'
Asthma Cure), of our druggist and due to
its use this is the first summer that have
not been troubled" Mrs. Frank Guilfogle,
6237 Ridge avenue, Roxboro, Philadelphia.
Sold by druggists at soc and s1.O0.
Send &c stamp to DR.. r. Schiffmann.
Box 800. st. Paul, Mimi, for free sam
pie package.
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The Atlanta Constitution has the
following:
Miss Julia Porter's luncheon yester-
day at her home on Peachtree street
was pretty compliment to Miss Mar
guerite McPheeters, of Raleigh, \. c..
and to Miss Eliza Carter, the guest
of Miss Anaise Cay.
Pink roses and narcissus were used
in decorating the table, Il tall vase of
these flowers forming the center piece.
Miss Porter received her guests n a
dainty gown of blue silk net lace.
The guests invited to meet Miss Nc
Pheeters and Miss Carter We're: Miss
COrdella Gray. Miss Anaise Cay. Miss
Florence Jackson. Miss May DuBiGlon
ana Miss Louise Black.
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Long-Smith.

Oxford. N. c., Dec. 14.-(Special.)-
A quiet home marriage was solemniz-
ed Tuesday eevning at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. r. 7. Smith, when their
daughter. Miss Elizabeth Thorpe
Smith became the bride Of Mr.. Ed
ward Long, of Louisburg, n. c. Rev.
George Tolson ofiiciated. A few
friends witnessed the ceremony. They
will reside in Oxford, where the groom
is engaged in business.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G.. Shirley spent Il
Cay in Oxford with Judge and Mrs.
Graham on their return from a trip to
Cuba and Southern points of interest
They left Tuesday for their home near
Baltimore Md
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A Brilliant Reception.

Morehead. Dec. 14.-One of the most
beautiful and elaborate wedding recep-
tons was given last Friday night oy
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Webb, Jr., to Mr.
and Mrs. George w. Dill. The recep-
ton was at the lovely home of Mr. and
Mrs. Alex III. Webb, Jr.. which was
most artistically decorated for tie
event. The broad reception hall was
a scene of loneliness to the guests the
color scheme being green ana white
Within this beautiful reception hal,
delightful fruit punch was served by
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-15
At New York Last Night.

Col. Robert Bingham left yesterday
for New York, where he will be one
of the speakers at the annual banquet
of the Southern society of that city,
to e given at the Waldorf "Wednesday
evening. The other speakers will be
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York, ex-
District Attorney Graham. of Phila-
delphia. and President Alderman OF
the University of Observation-Disclosures
NeWs.CaZette
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=
Observation-Disclosures.
Resolutions i'm Memory of Mrs. ID. Ill.
Hill and Officers Elected.

The Johnston-P ettigrew Chapter,
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. w.
/. Register.
The meeting was well attended,
eighteen ladies' being present. The
chapter passed appropriate resolu-
lions concerning the death of Mrs. d..
II. Hill. These will be published
Sunday.
The present officers of the chapter
were all reelected. being Mrs Leo
d. Heartt, president; Miss Kate Nc
Kimmon, firse vice-presdent; Mrs
Garland Jones, second Vice-presldeat
Mrs A r. Stronach, treasurer; Mrs.
Franklin McNeill, secretary; Mrs. e.
F. MOffitt historian.
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Resolutions asset.

The Johnston ettigrew Charter OF
the United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy met yesterday afternoon with
Mrs. w. I. Register and passed reso-
buttons concerning the death OF MRS
ID. H. Hill The resolutions will be
prepared for publication Sunday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-15
LITTLE BOpEEp BLANKETS.

North Carolina, Wake County. In the
Superior Court, j. e. Latham &
Company, VS.. Juanita Cotton Mills
ct al.
Notice to the creditors of the Juanits
Cotton Mills.
In pursuance of an order of the
Superior Court of Wake County, n
c., entered at the October term, 1904
of said court, in the case of j. E
Latham & Co., VS.. the Juanita Cotton
Mills ct al, all the creditors Of the
Juanita Cotton Mills are hereby mott
fed and required to file their claims
duly verified, with us in the city OF
Raleigh, n. c., on or before the 18th
day of December, 1904 SO that the
same can be properly inquired ints
and passed upon.
FRANK A. DANIELS,
CLAUDE B. BARBEE
Receivers of the Juanita Cotton Mills
Raleigh, N. c., October 81, 1904.
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A Monday Night Dance.

Williamson, N. c.. Dec. IA
Especial. MIR. and Mrs. Dennis S.
Biggs entertained at a dance on Mon
day evening from to IL in honor of
Mr.. and Mrs. Rawleigh Carter. Miss
Bonner and Mr.. Charles Chase. OF
Lancaster, Virginia.
The following ladies and gentlemen
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
Spirit of the Press.
There Is Some Nefarious Work Some
where"
Charlotte News.

Charlotte News.
The news comes that a Philadelphia
company has made a new offer for
the lease of the Atlantic q North Car
DINA Railroad. The recent order of
Judge Purnell forbids any disposition
of the property before the receiver
ship is settled. If, by any miracle of
a miscarriage of justice, the receiver
should be appointed, under all the cir
cumstances of his appointment the
prospect to the State and the private
stockholders of getting six per cent.
on their investment would probably
go glimmering. There is some ne
farious work somewhere in this second
attack upon the railroad and the
amazing thing about it is the stand
that is being taken by papers sup
tposed ITO be patriotic, against the
State and its interests and in favor of
every swashbuckler that comes along
and harps upon the run down condi-
ton of the road.
1T is naught, it is naught. saith the
buyer''-it is the Scripture proverb.
This is the first recorded instance
when the seller of a property worth
some million and a half dollars has
been constantly crying: ut is naught,
it is naught.' ConScript Fathers,
friends, consider. The State of North
Carolina owns tWo-thrds of that rail-
road. We, the people of North Caro-
lima, own it. The better terms we get
for a sale or a lease of the road, the
better for the people. OF course the
fraction of benefit to one man is not
very large, but it is large in the ag-
gregate. Six per cent. on million
dollars is a good round sum. And
yet see what some of our North Caro-
lima editors have been doing.
min
and ridicule upon the road itself. They
have published every canard that
would help to depreciate the value of
the property in the eyes of a prospec-
tive buyer or lessor. To listen to some
of them, it would be a dangerous
thing for anybody to take the property
as free gift.
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DETAILS OF TIE DISGRACEFUL
DECKER.

We publish elsewhere, the details OF
the disgracefui combinations and
events which cdlninatcd in the ,iomi-
nation OF the Republican State Com
vention by the distillers and the rove
nue. officers. 1t is a chapter that Will
.'arpall the most confident optimist in
the purity and stability of our boosted
plan of representative government" as
reputable Republican puts it, Ii
shows that the Republican party OF
1901 has touched "a lower depth than ii
ever reached even i'm the damnable
days of 1891 and 1896 when the eX-
cesses and crimes and scandals pro-
duced a revolution among the decent
men i'm North Carolina. Then the ne
stink. He was, as is now seen, acting
as the instrument of the distillcrs and
the revenue gang, but having to beas
all the blame for the diabolical scha he
of his white pals. Now since the negro
has been eliminated from the ReDubIi-
can State Convention, the gang stand
exposed i'm their rottenness without be-
III" aDlc 10 throw all their sins upon
their negro associates.
An able and careful correspondent
of The News and Observer has been i'm
possession of most of the information
published in our Greensboro letter
since the Republican State Convention
held its session. 1t has been withheld
until now SO that it could be verified.
The full inside story of that convcn-
ton, the most disgracefuI ever held 10y
any party i'm North Carolina. will APP
pear week by week in these columns,
and will show why ii is that the com
ing of the much alIIed-about ''respec-
table Republican party in North Caro-
lima has been postponed until the
gang OF dishonest distillers, revenue
officers, pap-sucl<ers, and ringsters
have been driven from the party. To-
day they are i'm control and decent Re
publicans are crying out against the
prostitution of their party to the M,se
ends detailed in our Greensboro story,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
DIR. Charles Baskerville.
(For the News and Observer

(For the News and Observer
Herr Professor Baskervitch,
You have leased a lofty niche
In the golden Hall of Fame;
And upon its sacred wall
Science chisels deep your name,
SO the Future will recall
How you reached that hallowed spot
BY finding out what once was not.
Dear old Charlie Baskerville,
All your chums at Chapel Hill
Share with joy your glad success,
AS we did in student days;
And we lovingly confess
CTho grim Fate our own delays)
Yours to us is much the same
If we had found the Hall of Fame.
PERRIN BUSBEE.
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NO REFLECTION UPON THEM.

The suggestion in The News and
Observer that years ago certain rar-
ties "HIGHER up may have been
trying TO get control of the A and n.
G. r. r., by buying the States STOCK
has been construed into reelection
upon Mr.. w. j. Edwards and his assn
ciates who several years ago tried to
buy the States stock in the 4. and n.
G. r. II. No such inference was in
tended. We are in position to know
that neither Mr. Edwards nor his $3.50
ciates knew anything about the S134,
900 of bonds that had not been funded,
and were greatly put out when they
ascertained that the bonds were still
outstanding Immediately they atan-
doned their effort to purchase the
property thus showing that they had
no Interior motive. We have never in
timated that any of the parties desir-
ing i'm good faith to lease the road
from its owners in a regular and legiti-
mate way were inspired by influences
"HIGHER UP"
1t may be that this recent deviltry
was not inspired from 'HIGHER Up
and has had no connection with the
outstanding bonds And again it may
be that such parties may be interested.
1t is we'll enough for the State to take
no chances of possible sale through
receivership or otherwise.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
THE LEAsE-THEN AND NOW.

There is opposition along the line
of the A. and N c. r. r. to any lease
of the road to the Atlantic Coast Line
because it is now the chief competitor
of the A. and n. C. r. r. The people
feel that if the Atlantic Coast Line
leases the road, that section will be
forever without competition, particu-
larly if, as is believed, the Norfolk
and Southern has fallen into the hands
of the Atlantic Coast Line. In $780,
however, it seems that the stockhold-
ers offered to lease to that company
then called the Wilmington and We'll
don railroad. At a meeting of the
stockholders, held on November 23rd,
1880, at New Bern, the following reso-
luton, offered by Mr.. Joshua a. Bray,
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the
stockholders of the Atlantic and North
Carolina railroad, in special meeting
assembled, that their road should be
leased to the Wilmington and Weldon
railroad, or other corporation or in
dividuals upon such terms and condi
lions as may seem best to the private
stockholders and to the State
The following resolution was Of
fered by Maj. John Hughes:
Resolved, That with the lights now
before us, we desire to express prefer
ence for the proposition for lease
of this road to r. r.. Bridgers and j.
F. Divine, for the sum of thirty-three
thousand dollars per annum, provided
that the Wilmington and Weldon rail-
road shall become security for the
payment of the rental
Upon the vote on that resolution,
1924 votes were aye and 3S5 no. The
lease to that company for some cause
never materialiZed.
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In The Devil of a Fix.
Lincoln Journal.

The hearing of the case against the
Lumberton bar, for contempt, is set
for this week. Judge PEBBLES him
self will preside. In the aftidavits filed
by the lawyers many startling things
are charged. If these charges are
sustained the Judge will probably be
impeached. Using the words of the
man who had been on a drunk when
he awoke and saw a monkey perched
on the foot of his bed, if these affida-
Wits are true the Judge sis in devil
of a fix" but if they are not the
lawyers "are in a devil of a fix
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
THE SPECIALIST AND OLD PRAC-
TITIONER.

The tendency in law and in medi-
cine and all the professions is toward
specialization 1t is a natural tenden-
CIV and in the great cities one that is
inevitable. But the new school that
undertakes the old-fashioned general
practitioner in law and medicine in
order to put specialists on pedestal.
proceeds upon a misconception of the
accurate knowledge and breadth of the
general practitioner. The best thing
ever written by Judge Tourgee-and
he wrote much that shows talent OF a
very high order-was his series OF
sketches in with Gauge and Swal-
low" in which very interesting legal
controversies and cases in court are
told. In one of these stories he con-
trasts the city specialist, almost per-
feet in one branch of law, with the
North Carolina lawyer whose prac-
tise embraced almost every phase of
the law. His tribute to the learning,
readiness, breadth, and versatility of
the general practitioner is the best
ever paid to the country lawyer. The
late Hon. John Manning said that a
history of the great lawyers of North
Carolina would show that most of
them had lived in villages. The prin-
ciple of law can be mastered in rural
home as well as in a city, and, except
corporation practise, almost every sort
of case is heard IN a country court
as in city tribunal.
The same thing is true, in less
measure, with the doctor. Many OF
the greatest physicians have lived in
villages or in the country. The Medi-
cal Record in a recent article, writing
of specialists and general practitioners,
paid high compliment to what it
terms 'the old time doctors" those
who receive scant remuneration for
their skill, and who emphasize the
practical rather than the theoretical
side of medicine. OF the good ac-
complished by the general practition-
err, the Medical Record says:
ITO his credit also be it said he has
learned by long and-often painful eX-
perience the limit of his talents. In
such respects he may be an example
for his more pretentiously expert
brother. who is constantly striving af-
ter impossblties and rislling the APP
pication of every new fad to the sup
posed needs of his trusting victims.
He may be a trifla slow in adopting
new ideas, but what he loses in one
direction he may gain in another.
Even here he is safe in being reason
ably conservative.
1.-The durable diseases are as safe
i'm his hands as in those of the most
noted experts, and as for the incur
able maladies. the time element per-
haps is the only one that appeals alike
TO the small and large fee man. One
perhaps may appear to do more than
the other, but the general result is
quite sure to equal the ordinary statis-
teal level of a general and well-regu-
lated mortality.
'"Thus what is really necessary for
actually preserving and prolonging
life is as much within reach of the
ordinary working private as within
that of his presumably ranking con-
frere.'
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Doctors Greeted by Capital
City.
Continued from Page Ihree')

aspect than the scientific ana economic
consideration of methods anu means
Tor the prevention and cure 81
culosls or consumption. Moi il1s
been said and written OF till9 9upJecl
IN the last two decades tnal an olllel
medical subjects put togetne1
To-day we stand facing tne vital
statistics of the world when Ten US
that two millions Of people uIe an
nually from this frightful 9Iouls Sc
that this migration into eternity goes
on at the rate Of 3 900 for Canada and
$780, 900 for the United states yedrly:
Every day 5000 and each minute cl oI
the day two persons fall from Ihls
enemy. Eminent men VINO IidEe peeil
engaged in pathological WoIh loI tlle
last twenty years have come " me
conclusion that SO per cent Oh lhe en-
tire population of the civilized world
over the age of IS, is tainted Win tu-
bercul0sis in either it's latent OF actiVe
form. That it is the cause Oh one
third of all deaths that occur between
the ages of IS and As, the petloa OF
usefulness or the productive PERIOD.
These facts prove that tuberculosis is
more q social problem than purely
medical one. AS a social propleh II
makes it a matter of grave concern
to all members of society; us preVa-
lence depends largely on social condl-
tons; in turn it aggravates soclal evils
and its practical eradication depends
upon social activity.
1T is estimated on statistical eX-
perience that of the eighty millions
of population in this country, ten mil
lions of the people are doomed to die
of consumption, who might otherwise
survive for many years. Every year
we pay tribute to this disease I'm the
form of sacrifice, a hundred thousand
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
Evidence For Judge PEBBLES.
lGoldshoro Argus.O

c. CT. PEBBLES, Esq, an attorney
from Jackson, Northampton county
and nephew of Judge r. b. PEBBLES
was in Goldsboro today, and returned
to his home this afternoon. Before
leaving, Mr.. PEBBLES secured an affi-
davit from the members of this bar
setting forth the facts that at both
terms of court held in this city Judge
PEBBLES gave entire satisfaction to the
members of the bar, having presided
with dignity and ability and was cour-
teoCs to all.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
OTHERS SAY 90 etaoiMra shtaroir
Atlantic Coast Lines large Gift.

Wilmington Dispatch.
The Atlantic Coast Lines gift of S.
600 to the aged father of Section Fore
man Murray, who was killed near
Savannah during the trackmen's
strike, was very handsome act and
shows the generosity of the company
towards it faithful employees. Section
Foreman Murray, it will be remem-
bered, refused to quit work and join
the strikers. 1t is believed he was
killed by strikers or sympathizers
with the strike. The Coast Line spent
a large sum of money trying to appre-
bend the murderer, but so far has
failed. The dead mas was the only
support of an aged father who had
spent his life in railroad work. The
company will not allow him to suffer
and the five thousand dollars given
him will make his last days comfort
able.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
| But Reynolds Will Not Let Loose of
The Post Office Teat.
Madison Record.

Governor Reynolds once remarked
that we had a lot of nerve to start a
Democratic paper in Madison, which
was perhaps true. 1t now appears to
US that the Governor has been using
a large sized screw driver and has
screwed his nerve up to a pretty high
pitch in venturing to run for Con-
greSS in the Fifth District.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
Very Different Sort of Man.

CnafIOIle News.
We have a President Harper in
North Carolina now, recently elected
head of the Atlantic Christian College,
at Wilson. He hasn't the Rockefeller
money behind him, but we suspect
he has just as much brains as the Chi
cago Harper, whose aggregation of
freaks are constantly contributing to
the gayety of nations.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25

cit is not necessary to call ON the
State Medical Society to diagnose the
McBee- Finch Cuyler disease" said
leading doctor yesterday. "The News
and Observer has, correctly diagnozed
their case They have the "HIGlitis
up, rabies and drastic treatment is
necessary '-Rhamkatt Rooster.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25

Not the least attractive parsonage
at the Worlds Fair will be John Low
low, the famous clown of John Robin
cons circus. He is on exhibition at
Block 46, Varied Industries Building.
Every North Carolinian going to the
Worlds Fair will feel more at home
when he sees John LowIow. But the
ring and the saW-dust will be miss
ingi
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
MORNING TONIC.
H.eipbton Parks.}

eTbis man sought neither riches nor
honor but gave himself for Others.
Fifty years from now his name may
be a faint memory but | think he
was one of those whom God depends
upon to keep the world good, ana to
bless little children by his gentleness
and purity and cheerfulness.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
A PERFECT MILK FOOD

is Rorden's Peerless Brand Evaporated
Cream. 1t has n delightful. natural fla
vor and is superior to the richest raw
cream. with the added insurance of being
sterile. Always carried by soldiers, sail.
ors, hunters, campers and explorers. 1t
has become a household necessity.