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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
Cash quotations were as follows:

Cash quotations were aS IOllOWS.
Flour was steady oco winter in paten,
patents l,sta 's' sooss.7o, straights saOs 10,
i. 10, bakers 2.509S. 20,wheat spring No. 9selCO
i9,4 No. yellow az, oats No No ,ol s7 ~
rye No. 2 $50, cd feeding barley 3l@3o
fair to choice mailing $3.50, fax seed No;
III. No. / northwestern 1872, prime timothy
seed 1850. mess pork per Dbl I2.70t@l2 z. 10
larn per IOOtb 6.s!%@5S5, short ribs, sides
~ short clear sides (boxed) 7.2o@7.5o
whiskey basis of high wines LIS, clover con-
tract grade l0.75@ll.OO
New York Provisions.
New York July H. Flour dull, winter
patents SIe0a5.2O Minnesota patents 4S5G5.l0,
do bakers, si.OO@.42o. straights 475@4;99
Rye flour firm, fair to good ioo@i21'
Corn Corn meal quiet, yellow western llO@12
kiln dried 3.00@3.l0
Rye nom, No. 2 western, 70.
Barley slow, ceiling 1871 mailing 55@6l.
July SsT, sepfem Der 9os5. December Sy3z
Corn steady, No. 2 5s14, July 1875, September
Oats dull. mixed 26as2, 43k@i5H
Beef ffirm, family 95Oalo5o. @mess So
$50: packet 9.00@l0., beef hams 2l.5Dn2i00
Cut meats steady, picked bellies S1569,
nirlsled shoulders 6La4a, picked hams s1a9TJ15!
Lard duh, western steamed 7.;5 June RIO
NO. Z Hfn, Tenneu SOW, cOnIlHehI fto
compound 57s@6H.
Pork firm family lI.500li.50, short clear
l3.5001 10 90 mess 14.000l425
Tallow dull, city (S2 per pkg),4A country
Rosin Steady, strained common to good
2956g3.00.
Turpentine steady, 56h@57.
Rice quiet, domestic fair To extra 31sF9oH,
Japan nom.
Moasses quiet, New Orleans open kettle
good to choice 3lNs57.
Coffee spot Rio steady, No. invoice Z u. mild
firm, cOrdova 1902
Sugar raw nom. fair refining u, centrltu-
gal 81 test l5-l6@3, moasses sugar < q
refined quiet, confectioners A, 80 mold A
$40, cnt loaf 5.75, crushed $40, powdered 5.lo,
graduated 5.0l, cubes D 30.
Butter firm, creamery CON- TO extra HGl74,
state daIrv l2Gl7.
Eggs firm, state ana rem. NEARBY
fancy selec ed white 23612i, Southern l5@E. do
interiors l3@l4.
Cheese easy, state, full cream
small. white fancy; s@, small colored
fancy aGK fair 10 good ~.
Potatoes weak, Long Island l.Ald2.W. Jersey
|. 10000, Norfolk I.50a2.00, Jersey JweetS l.2)
Mi.76.
Peanut, firm, fancy hand-picked d@14 ,other
domestic 314n6k.
Cabbage stea iy, Long Island lG0@2.0O@3.O0.
southern bbl. or crate 10
Cotton by steam To Liverpool 10.
Cotton seed oil 'naril-t easy, mod. business,
crude f. o. b. mills nom, prime summer yellow
1R@4. Off summer yellow nominal, prime,
white 32hfG, prime winter ye low 81 9.S
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
DESTINY IN WAiSTCOAT.

The easygoing Harvard undergrad
uate. left to himself on questions of
dress. will not understand the misery
of his counterpart at oxford. When
the exam. period approached a week
or so ago, those in power issued an
edict prescribing the dress to be worn
in the examinationroom to include a
black coat and n black waistcoat, in
addition to the white tie and the
gown. The British public itself was
appalled, at such puritan severity. 1t
was the black waistcoat, a thing that
all civilization is allowed to doff in
summer, that melted rebellion. Why.
4 mans chances in life might be i'm.
paired because the warmth of a waist
coat, gratuitously imposed upon hin,
prevented him from doing full justice
to his views on the synthetic unity of
Appreciation. 1t might ruin state
Boston Transcript
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
Unwelcome Chinese,

Bathoen, chief of all the Bang
waketse tribes of British Bechuana
land, has sent to the colonial secre,
tary at London a remarkable protest
against the importation of Chinese
labor into the Transvaal.
In it the Bangwaketse chief calls
the attention of the British colonial
office to the fact that the natives of
South Africa get their living by work,
ing in the diamond and gold mines,
and he asks:
IF the Chinese come into South
Africa. what will become of us?''
With the money earned in the mines.
he says, the natives feed and clothe
their children and pay the hut tax
and if these Asiatics," as he calls
them, are allowed to come into South
Africa it will be an exceedingly grave
matter.
Poverty" he declares, will be
great, and the government will not be
able to get the hut tax from any
of us, as there will be NO work for
u.s." He. therefore. is opposed to the
importation OF Chinese into South
Africa.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
AMH THE WOpLD'S
BEST WpITERS\
eAd
VALUE OF A SUNNY SOUL.

The world is too full of sadness and
sorrow, misery and sickness: it needs
more sunshine: it needs cheerful lives
which radiate gladness; it needs en-
couragers who will lift and not bear
down, who will encourage, not dis
courage.
Who can estimate the value OF n
sunny soul who scatters gladness and
good cheer wherever he goes, instead
of gloom and sadness? Everybody Is
attracted to these cheerful faces and
sunny lives, and repealed by the
gloomy, the morose and the sad. We
envy people who radiate cheer wher-
ever they go and fling out gladness
from every pore. Money, houses and
lands look contemplate beside such
a disposition. The ability to radiate
sunshine is greater power than
beauty, or than mere mental accom-
DlishmentS.-SucceS
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
THE "THIRTEEN" SUPERSTITION

Col. John McElroy, an adept in war
statistics, contributes figures to show
that the silly superstition attach
ing to the number thirteen finds no
justification in the records of the civil
war. 1T is in evidence just now in
the tiresome clatter about the repub-
lican convention being the thirteenth
in the history of the organization. +"
The war records show, according to
Col. McElroy's curious deductions.
that the total loss of the thirty-one
regiments and batteries bearing the
designation thirteen was 5.504, that
of the same number of regiments and
batteries numbered twelve was G.775.
while that of those numbered fourteen
was 1915. Not a regiment or bat
tery bearing the number thirteen had
any special i'll luck, while most Of
them escaped with small loss.-Phila.
delphia Ledger.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
WOMEN AND WORK.

The census returns OF the United
States show very clearly that women
are pressing forward more and more
into professions and positions former
~ held by men, and this in our opin-
ION. is an excellent sign, although in
some branches of labor there is an
outcry against this usurpation of what
Is termed mans prerOgative. What
women more particularly require is
training from an early age which will
enable them to take their own part in
the battle of life when through the
death of those on whom they were de-
pendent, or through misfortune, it be-
comes incumbent on them to provide
for themselves. This early training is
a matter which does not appear to
receive the attention and considera.
ton that it ought, for how many wom-
en- are there who can, for example,
compute interest intelligently and ac-
curately; how many are there who are
capable of managing their own af-
fairs, or their own property, if they
have any, with anything like business
capacity? The education of woman
is not complete unless she has as part
Of her equipment a knowledge of at
least the rudiments of business. Woln-
en- who are blessed with fair share
of worldly goods need this knowledge
hardly less than those who have to
make their own way in the world, and
who have not the protection and
guardianship of husband and father
for such women can never be sure
that they may not at any moment be
celled upon to earn their own liveli.
hOOd.-HOw to Live.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
LET NOISE BE ABOLISHED.

The next advance in comfortable
livelihood which science has in store
for humanity is the abolishment Of
noise. We expect to see in the near
future the ingenuity and skill Of man
displayed in an attempt to still the
rear and crash Of city life.
What a benefcence it would be II
noise could be dspelled or even miti-
gated, in city and town! The rum
BILE of wagons of every description.
the grind and jostle of street cars,
the screech and toot of horn and whis-
tie. all this din that makes it neces-
sary for vendors of all sorts to shrek
in order to attract attention.
The noise of the city is driving
thousands of people mad and shorten
ing the lives of multitude OF others.
1t is the noise Of the city that gives
the country it's chief attraction. The
stiffness of the country. what bene-
diction it is after months OF city en-
perience. To sleep in country
house where all is still. where silence
is unbroken save by the baying of
a dog or Che cry of some night bird!
Stiffness is marvellous luxury to
the denizens Of the city. There must
be some way to put a quietus to this
intolerable pandemonium. - Medical
Talk
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
Milk Caused Wrinkles.

A writer on beauty in one of the
society papers urges her readers
never to wash the face with soap and
water, as being certain destruction
to fine complexion. cannot in
dorse this view.
Cleanliness is absolutely necessary
to the beauty and delicacy OF the tex
ture OF the skin. If soap is not liked.
at least oatmeal should take its
place, and pure or distilled water in
variably be used. l once saw the re-
suit of only washing the fact with
milk in a lady who started life with
a good complexion, but before sne
reached middle age had lost all fresh
ness. and showed a faded skin coy
cred with fine wrinkles. Nothing
equals the complexion of the country
woman who rises early. is much in
the open air, and bathes freely in cold
water. The homely idea of washing
in the dew of the morning as an aid
to beauty is simply practical way of
expressing this fact.-Lady Greville IN
London Graphic.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
WOMAN AND MAN.

DR.. Lyman Abbott. in the Worlds
Work, says that doubtless the enlarge
ment of woman's educational and in
dustrial opportunities has been ac-
companied by some intellectual errors
and some practical evils. The most
serious of these errors is the opinion
that equality of character involves
identity of function that because
woman is the equal of man, therefore
she is to do the same things which
he does. Those of us who have been
interested in claiming and pressing
for woman this larger life do not deny
there are distinctive feminine and
masculine spheres of activity, and
that each sex renders the best service
to society within its appropriate
sphere. What we object to is the en-
deavOr of the male philosopher to
evolve woman's sphere out of his own
consciousness, and shut her up with
in it; what we insist on is that both
sexes shall have equal liberty and
equal larseness of life, and that each
shall fiad its appropriate sphere for
itself
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
Municipal Street Cara.

1Le ssport Of the tramways commit
tee oi he Nottingham tEngD Council
snow hat during the year ending
March 5lst last the roads earned a net
prom Of ten per cent. amounting to
x6s''yn This will be applied to a re-
ductlou Of city taxes. The electric
strest ar service having now been OPP
erath1 by the city for over three years
VIII a handsome profit each year. and
VIII satisfaction to the people using 1t.
Cons. Mahin pronounces the under
taklHs success.
A rare feature of this city operation
OF surface ears is the diminished acci-
deht list During the year the total
nun beer Of miles travelled by the cars
was -sl2, 900 Yet in all this great dis
tahce travelled, largely through busy
thorolghtares. of which some are very
narfnW. not one person was killed by
Delhs nun over. knocked down or col
lloec with. OF forty-six pedestrians
VINO We're knocked down by or fell in
iron O. car, all were either thrown
ciea! OF the car or picked up on the
life guard without suffering serious in
Jury. twenty collisions occurred be-
tween cars and cyclists. while three
cyclists fell from their machines imme-
daley in front of moving cars and
wers picked up on the lifeguards un-
hurt
One death and injuries-some very
trlnlng to 3G7 persons resulted from
attempts to board or leave moving cars.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
MAcAULAY ON SUNDAY REST.


Speaking on The ten hours bill"
Lord Macaulay sad: I'VE are not
poorer, but richer, because we have,
through many ages, rested from cur
labor one day in seven. That day is
rot lost While industry is suspended.
while the plow lies in the furrow,
while the exchange is silent, while no
smoke ascends from the factory, a
process is going on quite as important
to the wealth of nations as any proc
oss which is performed on more busy
days. Man, the machine of ma
chines-the machine, compared with
which all the contrivances of the
Watts and Arkwrights are worthless
is repairing and winding up. so that
he returns to his labors on the Mon
day with clearer intellect with live
lier spirits, with renewed corporal
yigOr"
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
NEW TRICK ON sARkEEPER.
Ring Of Butter in the Pitcher Keeps
the Foam Down on the Beer.

inc VodH Oo"u on tne oSS''
The barkeeper stopped long enough
to fill a 'growler," or glass pitcher.
with beer, looked at it suspiciously
and then swore. When his good ma
ture returned he explained:
did you notice how little foam
there was on that pitcher OF beer!
Well | got worked for about twice
as much as we usually sell for q
dime. The trick is very simple. Be-
fore those people sent in that pitcher
they drew a ring around the inside
of it with butter or something Of that
kind.
What difference does that make!
Why. it acts this way: Most OF the
GROWERS we send out of here are about
one-third beer and the rest -oam, but
with one of these creased pitchers
it is all the other way.
when you draw the beer into one
of these the stuff fats very quickly.
AS the beer hits that ring it drops
down. 1t doesn't spoil the beer.
either. When the beer is poured In
to glasses it will have all the original
life in it, just as if fresh from the
keg."
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
ORATOSI IN THE CAMPAIGN.

Oratory Is compelling force In
political campaign is duly appre-
ctated by the party managers, who
are on the lookout for every resource
that will add 10 their votegetting
power. The 'spe!lbirder" who is
clever enough to size up the temper
If his audience and who knows just
vhat to say TO tie ones about him on
any and all occasions IS supposed to
be worth ali his services cost the
campaign committee. AS student
C the subject has put it, the most
convincing address is one that has
"profundity without obscurity, per-
spicuity without proiNty, ornament
without glare. terseness without bar
renness. comprehension without di-
gression. and n great number of other
things without a great number of
other things" But speaker with
and without all these things is rare
specimen. There IS never near
enough of him to go around.-Bosto1
Herald.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
GIVE vEeETARlANIsM A TRIAL

If YOU were in a cannibal country,
how would you like to be the canni-
balee? TO be fed and fatted and slain
and spitted to decorate the interior
of your big brother? Well, Mr.. Ed
win Markham has told us in poem
that he reads to everybody and every
body reads, that man is Brother to
the Ok. Shall we carve our brother?
No, not by the ox-eyes or cow-eyes
of Juno. AS for the sheep, how can
anybody see one without thinking of
lord chancellor? Now. we shouldn't
care to eat lord chancellor, especial
ly a particularly tough one like Eldon
or Brougham.
The pig hath devil. The pig is
unclean. He is too bad to eat. Yet
there are pigs that do great service
and are too good to eat; those sa-
gacious, epicurean noses that hunt the
truffles. OF course, nobody but Prod
igal Son eats veal.
Is there anything in the vegetarian
philosophy? Let's find out. Is it meat
that makes you snap and bite at the
breakfast table? Is it meat that
makes you an afIliction unto the wife
of your bosom? Feed upon salads.
like NebuchadnezZar. Eat berries
with the birds. If worst comes to
worst, buckle your belt tighter. For
tunately, everybody has a belt to
buckle these days. Let us be mild
eyed, but not melancholy. Lotus-eat-
ers, and no longer ferocious carni-
YureS-NeW York Sun
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
Love Immortal.

Churches, nay, I count you vain
Lifting high a gloomy spire,
Like some frozen form of pain
Aching up to meet desire?
Standing from Gods poor apart
Granite walls and granite heart!
Sects. ye have your day, and die.
Eddies in the stream of truth
The great current sweeping by,
Leaves you SWirled in shapes uncOuth:
Born to writhe, and CLINT. and WOO
Broken mirrors of the Blue.
Crccds! o captured heavenly bird.
Fluttering heart and folded wing!
snail ye see those piniors stirred?
Can your Gagged Creation sing?
VIII ye herald as your prize
What was bred TO soar the skies?
Rites and pomp. what part have ye
In the service of the heart?
Rituals are but mummery.
Faiths white flame is snuffed by art
Candles be but wick and wax.
Aims have grown the temple-tax.
Yet the East Is red with dawn,
Like cross where one hath bled!
And upon that splendor drawn
Gentle eyes ana arms outspread-
See that figure stretched above!-
AS God lives! its name is Love!
Love that lights the freless brands.
Love that cares for world and wren.
Bleeding from the broken hands
Crowned with thorns that conquer
Only Loves great eyes inspire
Church, sect, creed to glow with fire.
Then our lips shall have no sneer
For the spire. the mosque, the ark
Broken symbols shall be dear
II they point us through the dark:
Who have grown the sons of truth!
Laws and scripture served our youth.
Frederic Lawrence Knowles.
1t Was Good Money.
An illustration of how thoroughly
some coins so out of circulation was
furnished by an incident in street
car yesterday. A Sedate man sat
reading his newspaper when the con-
ductor touched his arm for his fare.
Without looking up he handed over
four coins. After scrutinizing them
the conductor said: Cant take en-"
The man simply looked up.
your fare, please" said the con.
ductor.
Il offered you my full fare" said
the man.
Then the conductor began to get
mad.
You mustn't attempt to put off any
foreign coins on me-" he replied pick
ing out one of the pieces and shaking
it at the man.
Then the passenger said to his
neighbOr at his elbow: "Is that a
good coin?"
"A good United States coin," said
the man addressed.
The conductor took the piece, look
ed it over carefully. and said: We'll.
I'll be darned. That's one on me. |
never saw one before"
1t was a 2 cent piece.-New York
Sun.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
Still More Evidence.

Bay City. H.. August s (SpeciaD.-
MIR. +. Henley of this city adds his
evidence to that published almost
daily mat a sure cure for Rheuma.
tism Is now before the American peo-
pie and that that cure is Dodd's Kid.
ney Pills. Mr.. Henley had Acute
Rheumatism. He has used Dodd's
Kidney pills. He says OF the result:
AFTER suffering for sixteen years
with Rheumatism and using numer-
GUS medicines for rheumatism and
NOR medicines prescribed by doc
tors | at last tried Dodd's Kidney
Pills with the result that l got more
bentft from them than all the others
put together.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills were the only
thing to give me relief, and | recon-
mend them to all suffering from
Acute rheumatism
Rheumatism is caused by Uric Acid
in the blood. Healthy kidneys take
all the Uric Acid out of the blood
Dodds Kidney Pills make healthy kid
neys.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
CHARACTER TO THE FRONT.

The keynote Of all the addresses
that have been made lately at college
commencement and at meetings of
business mems associations has been
the development of character. 1t is
remarkable how this word "charac-
ter" runs through all the recent
speeches and papers. 1t is as it, by
common impulse, our intellectual lead
ers had stopped talking about this or
that economic problem. this or that
political issue, and this or that means
of attaining success in life. and had
returned to the development of char
acter as the one solution * all ma
tional problems.-Wall Stree. !ourna.,
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12

san Francisco and Los Angeles
spi return, $40; via Portland in one
direction, and either Shasta Route"
or o. X. Il n. steamer between Port
land and San Francisco, only $11
extra.
Tickets sold August 10th to Sep
tember 1lth, inclusive; final return
limit October 23d.
To Portland. Seattle. Tacoma.
Vancouver. or Victoria, and return.
one fare for the round trip. Tick
Its sold August 10Th to 18Th, inclus-
i've: final return limit sixty days
from date of sale.
Free side trip ogden to Salt Lake
city and return, on any of these
tickets.
Very liberal stop-overs allowed on
any of the above tickets and the
Union Pacific gives you quicker time
and better service than any other
line.
For full Information call on Union
Pacific agent or address f. r. Grif-
I'M, General Agent, 941 Seventeenth
street. Denver.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
Do Your Feet Ache and Buyn7

Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot
Ease. a powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and
Bunions. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress Allen s. Olmstcd, LeRoy, N. Y.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
Why II Is the Best

IS because made by an entirely differ
ent process. Defiance Starch is un-
like any other. better and one-third
more for 10 cents.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
Defiance Starch

should be In every household, none so
good, besides OF. more for 10 cents
than any other brand of cold water
starch.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12

A miracle working doctor advertises
as personal visit" Doubtless.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12

Poor Jim! He dassen't call his soul
his own any more" What? | didn't [
know that poor old Jim was married.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12

In country where every man carries
revolver it is only natural for revolu-
tions to occur
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12

A pretty girl is willing to admit that
homely girl Is sensible.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-12
UNION PACIFIC PACIFIC COAST

Some people tell fortunes by cards
but more lose fortunes by them.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-12-15

to sell his fields by the bagful tells
how such soil spread on the land will
do wonders.
A long time ago it was conceived
that the fatal disease of calf-scours
was contracted through the fresh ma
vel-cord of the new born calf. The
remedy. was simple-bathe the cord
as soon after birth as possible with
carbolic acid, and the trouble was
headed off. Some one did this, and
all calves did not die. They do not
all contract the disease, and occasion
ally one survives. The acid treat
ment was announced as a sure cure,
and it answers even yet for carpet
breeders to advise as a safe method
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-12-15

of treatment, but real breeders know
The other day a man who had a
nice lot of newborn calves in a
public sale is reported to have said,
Keep corn meal out of your preg-
nant cows, and you will have good
calves" What nonsense! How is
corn meal, fed in moderation with
other feeds, going to unfavorably af-
feet the unborn offspring? What good
to the American farmer is the COW
and calf that the pregnant COW may
not eat the most digestible, most as
similable and most palatable food of
which we know?
This sort of talk against corn as
general feed for our domestic ami
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-12-15
Learned Wrong

There are many things about farm
practices and in animal husbandry re-
earding which we may jump to con-
oiuslons- and be wrong. The one
experience has an element of uncer-
tainty.
One mans land is slow to grow
oioVer. He applies lime, and clover
srows, and 10! the doctrine of lime
LOT clover is preached increasingly.
incubation of the soil with certain
bacteria for certain crops is much
'aiked of. and some fellow who wants
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-12-15

mails has had it's day and has done
its damage. 1 do not say a man may
not raise good calves with her best
feed-corn meal-eliminated from
the ration of the dam, but other
things being equal, l will undertake
to produce equally as good with corn
forming over half the ration.
1t is well that we farmers be alert
and receptive to everything new that
promises to be valuable, but let us
always test new things with a dose
or good common sense before we ad-
NIT them to our articles of faith. Be-
fore we go to the trouble to learn
thing, let us make sure that the
thing is true and worth learning.