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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-15

three are so big of statue that their
enlistment in a cause is such as to
raise a cloud which it would be dang
erous to poke for the lightnings that
1t holds, or are they so small as to
make the move to totter on its legs,
had they been named? Were they
the parasites OF stern deeds, hanging
to the skirts OF revolution? Or. in
the turmoil OF a fierce meeting in !
room with folding bed against the
wall and a chairman sitting on the
wash stand, were they of an insignifi-
canoe which caused them to be for
COTTON by the heads of an epoch?
These be questions on which hang
events like icicles TO the ears of the
Washington statute. Revolution. by
the way, has always had over a hears:
of fire a face of ice. The combina-
ton is fraught with dangers that arc
the greater because invisible. The red
figure of disaster crackles stiffiy, or
lies most quiescent before it flames
to life. Watch out. Whether it be
held in a hall or a bed room-and who
knows which ?-the seven" mean
business.
Tonight was the night, to which the
signal flashed. There are forty of the
committee. How much has swelied
the seven--including the three of mys-
terry?
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MARION WILL STAY WET.
HOnsc Liquor Traffic Committee De-
cideS IL * Big Enough TO Look
After Itself.

The House Committee on Liquor
Traffic yesterday afternoon decided
unanimously TO make an unfayorable
report on the bill introduced by Mr..
Morphew, of Mcdowell, by request
prohibiting the sale of liquor by re-
tail In the town of Marion and in
crcasing the taxes on the distilleries
and wholesalers doing business in that
town.
There was a great deal of speaking
In the course OF which the political
situation in Marion was dragged into
the controversy and tho statement
made by Editor Woods of the Marion
News that Mcdowell county was one
of the most corrupt in the State and
that an honest ballot in Marion was an
mposSibility.
MED by several of the opponents OF
the bill, and it appeared during the
course Of the discussion that both
sides of the controversy had petitions
signed by n majority Of the qualified
voters of the town.
Marion has 4 population OF over fiji
teen hundred people and as late as
October 1903. held an election in ac-
cordance with the Watts act at which
The advocates of license of distilleries
Wholesalers and retailers won a decis-
i've victory.
Every latitude was given 80 both
sides to express their views and al
the end the committee voted as q man
for an uufavorable report, the idea
as expressed by Mr.. McNinch being
that il the people of community OF
the size of Marion could not rid
themselves OF the liquor traffic under
the provisions of the Watts act, scnti-
ment was not such as 10 render ans
Legislative action effective.
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BACK IN GLOOM
CO PLANS OF SEVEN
No Details Of Meeting to
Rebuke Simmons
THREE OF MYSTERY
Not Even the Forgotten Participants o.
Saturday Nights Meeting May be
Found. What Are the Porents
Hanging in The Balance
Of Toniqh's Convention?

Diligent enquiry yesterday failed to
ascertain any further details regard
ing the meeting of the State Execu-
tive Committee arranged for by the
Committee OF Seven" at the Satur-
day nights meeting at the Marlboro
House. which is to convene for the
purpose Of rebuking Senator Simmons
for his zeal in temperance legislation
in the State.
AS from the first intimation OF the
meeting and it's objects. those who are
supposed to be in a position to tell Of
the plans of the seven were yesterday
still modestly 10th to talk. IT any
thing, they were even more ret1cenr
than on the previous day. News OF
the meeting was as snow on a radla-
tor. The plans Of what Will be a his
torical political campaign were as
tenuous as the realms of ether red
ding the light of Mars. 1t was-one
had only TO be in sight 10 feel the
strain of the situation to know that
big things were terminating, and big
plans in eSse: but where and When
and how were terms that had no
meaning and no substance to the plod-
ding rabble or the inquisitive rev.
The temperature has fallen. SHRINK
has turned a pale green in its anxiety:
fate quivers in the midst and waits.
wHntonly, to strike and relieve tn"
situation OF its suspense. But, emerg-
ed for an instant to show the purple
OF its threat. the dire Truth has
haughtily gone again behind its Vel.
of silence.
1t is plain that when the blow falls.
il VIII be cataclysmatic. Death VIII
be painless, although destruction be
sure. The hurt is in the wait for the
measure OF the torment.
Nothing, absolutely nothing. could
one discover as to the meeting tonight.
though there were plenty to ask. Not
even is it known where the committee
will sit. Inquiry at the Academy or
Music revealed the fact that the hall
was engaged for a strolling beauty
named "Glittering Gloria" the meas
ure of whose politics Is song and love.
Al the Metropolitan Hall 1t was
learned that no arrangements had
been made At the Marlborough.
where almost everything is known.
there was a desert of Ignorance.
Even the missing three of the meet
ing are still lost. IT is they who are
perhaps the most fascinating of the
statesmen who met to make revised
edition of the senior Senator. Why
have they not disclosed themselves
The four gentlemen named yesterday
went about in becoming diftidence and
wisdom There was no intimation OF
the three. That they were there IS
the sum of knowledge. They are
more than enigmatic mysteries: like
the Sphinx. they are the question OF
the age. Who are they and wnas
goes on from their hidden inteliigen
cies? What tragic personalities are
theirs like the dire courts speaking
their sentence from the hanging cur
tain of black that concealed the faces
struck with the gloom of their duty
And what purports this shrinking
from the public view? Is it that the
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bacco in the east end of the factory
whore the fire started was practically
destroyed q large number Of hogs
heads filled with leaf in other parts
Of the building We're saved. 1t is
thought the fire originated from hot
box on q drying machine which was
in operation. The loss, which is sew
erai thousand dollars, is covered by
insurance. The automatic dryer and
other machinery used by the FIRM was
practically ruined, and tho loss on this
IL larger than on the leaf tobacco. The
firm has secured other quarters and
will continue business without inter
ruptiun.
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THINK 1T OVER.
Something You Can See I'm Any Itcs-
taurant or Cafe.

A physician puts the query: Have
YOU never noticed in any large reStau-
rant at lunch or dinner time the large
number of hearty, vigorous Old men
at the tables: men whose ages run
from 60 TO 80 years; many OF them
bald and all perhaps gray, Dut none
of them feeble or senile?
Perhaps the spectacle is so common
as to have escaped your observation
or comment, but nevertheless II is
an object lesson which means some
thing.
1T you will notice what these hearty
old fellows are eating you Viii obSetSc
that they arc not munching bran
crackers nor gingeriy picking theii
way through menu card OF new IAN
glcd health foods; on the contrary
they seem 10 prefer juicy roast OF
beef, a properly turned loir of mutton.
and even the deadly broiled lobster
is mt altogether ignored.
The point of all this is that rigor-
Gus old age depends upon good diges-
ton and plenty of wholesome food.
and not upon dieting and an endcaVor
to live upon bran crackers.
There Is a certain class of food
cranks who seem to believe that meat
coffee. and many other good Things
are rank poisonS but these cadaver-
walking condemnation of their own
theories.
The matter in nutshell is that ii
the stomach secreteS the natural di-
FESTIVE iuices in sufficient quantities
any wholesome food will be proipptlv
digested. If The stomach does not do
So. aud certain, foods cause distress,
on. or two Of Stuasts Dyspepsia Tab
lets. after c;lel, meal will remove al!
difficulty becausc they supply just
what every weak stomach lacks. pep
sin, hydro-chloric acid diastase and
NIX.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets do not
act upon the howels and in fact re
pot strictly q medicine. as they act
almost entirely upo; the food eaten
digesting il thoroughly. and thus gives
y nuch-necdcd rest and giving an APP
petite for the next meal.
OF pnoptr who travel nine. out 81
TEN use Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
lSnowiag them 10 he perfectly safe &c
use 3, any time and also having founc
ont by experience that they are /;
s,,feg,Iar.. against indigestion III an,
form. allI eating. As they have TO. q
ail hours and al kinds of food. tn
tta~eliug public fer years have pinnet
their faith 20 Stusrts Tablets.
All druggists sell them az 81 cent
for full-.ized packages. and any drug
,.iSt from Maine to California, IL hi
epinion were asked. Nill say that Stu
arts Dyspepsia Tablets is the mos
popular aud sl,ceessful remedy for an
stomach trouble.
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BOTH TO HANG THURSDAY.
Mrs. Edwards and Greason, the Negro,
Unless the BOardsof PauoHs
Acts
tBy the Associated Press.

Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. 13.T-Jnless
the Board OF Pardons. which meets in
Harrisburg on Wednesday recon-
mends the Communication OF the death
sentences Of Mrs. Kate Edwards aud
samuel GreGscn, colored Of 8erks
county, the woman and her accom-
plce will be hanged on Thursday Of
this week IL the Reading jail for the
murder of John Edwards, her nus
band.
The case came before the Supreme
court finally today on two petitions,
one blythe woman, in which she held
Greason blameless of the murder OF
her husband and prayed that he be
given new trial and another by
GreaSon in which he asked for re-
opening Of his case on the ground
of newly discovered evidence. EOth
petitions were refused, only three OF
the seven members of the court voting
in favor Of the petitions. There vas
no opinion filed, the papers simply
being endorsed refused"
The newly. discovered evidence re-
ferrcd to IN the Greason petition was
the confession OF Mrs. Edwards in
which she stated that Greason had
10 connection with the crime th2t
she killed her husband and that her
daughter Mary assisted her in throw
ing her husbands body into a cisterR.
Counsel for Greason confidently eX-
pcctcd that the Supreme court would
reopen the case and Mrs. Edwards
counsel was relying upon Snch a con-
tingency to save his clients life. Had
the case been rc-opened the woman
would have been renrieved in order TO
testify III favor of the colored man,
but rs the matter now stands only the
/ Board OF PardonS can save Mrs. I'D
wards from the scaffold Governor
Penny packer has refused to interfere
| unless he receives u recommendation
| from The Pardon Board and this does
not meet until twenty-four hours pre-
yious to tho time set for the eIeru'
| ton.
The case has been before The BOARD
sever;L times and each time Il pardon
| was refused.
| CoHnsel for Mrs. Edwards today
! which she tells of the brutal murder
| on the porch Sin Il drunken slcep anc
struck him severed times on the lieao
| with hammer He raised himselt
/ to sitting posture aud then r0liat
into the yard where | again strict
| him with The hammer several times.
/ She then relates how her daughter as
| sisted her TO throw the body into :
cisterr and the rieans taken to ctcanSs
the porch and her dress OF blood
! stains.
Mrs. edwards prison born chill
vas taken from the Reading iail 30
day i MAS brought TO this city an,
later left for Washington
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The motion WAS put and cariied.
Anti-Jug Law.

Tia House bill TO repeal chapter
$40, Public Laws of 1893. popula riy
known as the Anti-Jag Law, with the
exception OF the counties of Cleveland
Cab#yrus. Mitchell and CASTOR. WAS
considered. Amendments providing
that the counties, Of Yancey. Madison,
Rutherford aud Caldwell to the others
excepted were added.
the hill passed the House without
amendments, the Senate placing them
on the Bill.
Mir. Gillian stated that the general
Anti-Jug Law had passed the House
yesterday, and suggested that this hi
oc leid up until the other should have
gone through.
Mr.. FOushec moved That the bill e.
over till Thursday, when the commit
tee could act upon this bill ntelii-
gently
Mr.. Gillam made the motion that
q Subcommittee be appointed 10 COIL
slider the bill. and Mr. Fousaec Nitb-
drew. MS motion.
Mr. Gilliam's molten carried, and
She chair appointed ~ q %ni-oor.miI-
rec. Alr .;ilIian Mr.. I'oGshec and Mr
Long, of Ircdcll.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-15
HEAVY ovERCoAT SAVED HIM.
Thomas Mcpherson Shoots al ClaHde
itclfc as ihc latter Gees by.
Especial TO News and ObserverD

Especial 10 News ana Observer
Elizabeth city, \. G.. Feb. IL
Thomas Mcpherson attempted TO Kill
Claude Relfe yesterday at Canland,
this county, by shooting him with a
gun loaded with bird shot. Helfc
wore a heavy overcoat and the shot
took no effect Both of them were
participants in the feudist fight of
several weeks ago, being among the
leaders on cstcla side and it is alleged
that after Tho fight Mcpherson vowed
that he would shoot Iielfe WEan he
had an opportunity.
Relic had to pass McPherson's nome
in going To his Wrrk. McI~herSon saw
him coming. got his gun and bla2cd
away. the load striking him with the
effect stated. vt oc!oc,; he had not
hcpn arrested
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STANCILS NOT GUILTY.
S,Kb Is the Verdict Rendered IL the
Jury After But = Few Minutes OF
Delibcration.
tspecial to News and Observer,

(sSpeciaI 10 News and ObserVcr.)
Wilson, n. c., Feb. li.--After pow
erful speech by all the attorneys or
both sides aud an able charge pH
Judge Council. the jury Wen, out ~
a:tT tins evening and returned at 5 -
3n,A reinrncd the verdict of ret guilty
iii the case OF State We. SAM aud lsieh-
ard Stancil for the killing OF ". I.
Harrison. The length Of time taken
was less than ,as expected. but near
y every one expected the verdict Is
given by the jury.
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BURY-SPENCER LINE.
Providence Men Bug III Interest and
VIII Complete it at Once.
lSnncial 10 News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer)
SALISBURY. y. c., Feb. 14.-Tne sal
isbury ana Spencer Railway Company
sold an interest In it's system here
Yesterday, the consideration being one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The purchaser is the American Gas
and Electric Co. of Providence, r. l.,
and it is stated that the line now I'M
DER construction between Salisbury
and Spencer VIII be completed and put
into operation at once and an electric
light s>,stem vii! also be Installed in
Speppar
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ELECTRIC LINE TO NORFOLK.
The Probabilities Are That Elizabeth
City VIII Soon be Thus
Connected.
(special to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer)
Elizabeth City, y. c.. Feb. 1i.-An
electric car line may be operated be-
tween Elizabeth City and Norfolk in
the near future. Every possible cf-
fort is being made by the Norfolk
Railway and Light Cortpnry. wh:rh
owns and operates the street car lines
of Norfolk. to secure 4 franchise to
construct and operate IL trolley system
in this city and its representatives
nave inade a propositions 10 the Board
or Aldermen. The final decisions is
awaited With intense interest The
line win be extended 10 Norfolk after
being in operation some time. 1t is
;iso their purpose TO extend branch
line ii q southeriy direction, taking IN
Weewsviiie and other points.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-15
CUGEIN AMI COLl,AIAN'S LOSS
Rear END OF Building Quilted by Fire,
Diner Quarters Secured

Especial 80 News and Observer
Winston salcr2, Y. G, Feb. 1.-THE
rear end Of the brick building OF
Chestnut street. occupied by CurYin
and Coleman Brothers. dealers ill leaf
tobacco, was Quilted by fire this morn-
ing. 'i1ilc first floor N the front part
Of toe building was slightly damaged
by water, and a quantity of leaf to-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-15

Don't think because n woman is
'utsroken that She can be outtalkcd,'
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Rauner Democratic Precinct.
lsnecial tn News and observer.

Especial to News and Observer
Fayetteville, \. c., Feb. 14.-Cabiu
Branch precinct in QueWhiffie town
shin. Ihich voted the Democratic
ticket unanimously at the last cleo
ton will receive the banner promised
the precinct i'm Cumberland making
the largest Democratic gains. This
precinct more than doubled it's vote.
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London. Feb. H. TUESDAY "a
dispatch from Kobe. japan. - the
EXPIRES reports that the steamer Ma
toriSaWa collided with the haroor
works At Osaka OH Sunday and sunk
aud that 81 persons were drowned.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-10
YVES rMINSTER.

Mrs. l.. C. Richardson visited in Spring
field this week.
G. b. Hall has returned from New
York.
]. II. Holton has returned from a
western trip.
S. NJ. Nutting and c. II. Walker have
returned from Washington.
On account of the illness of Rev. C. II.
DeBevoise, Rev. Mr.. Barnard supplied
the pulpit last Sunday
Several new grip victims are reported,
but nearly all the sufferers are slowly
recovering. If the spot on the sun OBJ
served on Feb. 10 has any influence upon
the climate changes on the earth to pro-
duce grip, it is hoped that a period of
more than IL years will intervene between
this strange phenomenon and the next.
Mrs. l., A. Pierce was the recipient of
handsome book case and an orange
spoon of old colonial pattern last Friday
from her junior Christian Endeavor So
ciety. The presentation was made by the
president of the society, and after n short
call the juniors went their ways, happier
for having brought sunshine to one who
has deep interest in their lives.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-10
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL
CHURCH AND FRATERNITY.

Sunday service of First Church Of
Christ, Scientist. begins at lO.45 a. m
Wednesday evening service at 100 p. m
Market block.
The meeting OF the Alliance Study class
will be held in the Unitarian parsonage
Monday evening, March 10. at 7.30 o'clock
The subject will be The Mob at Thes-
salonica."
Unitarian church, Rev. f. Q. S. Osgood,
pastor. Service every Sunday at 1890;
Sunday school at Has. Theme for next
Sunday, Jesus at the River Jordan -
All are welcome.
At the Adventist Christian church.
Sunday school. noon: preaching at 2.3O
and 9. p. m. by Harry Miller, who comes
well recommended Thursday evening
prayer meeting. 40.
Centre Congregational church. Rev. II.
r. Miles. pastor. The morning service at
1890 will be addressed by Rev. r. A.
Hume, ID. D., of India. Sunday school at
noon. Union young peoples missionary
service in the Baptist church at $50 d.
m. address by DIR, Barbour of the Ban
list board of missions and DR.. Hume
First Baptist church. George b. Law
son, minister. Morning worship 10 80:
sermon by DR.. Thomas S. Barbour
foreign secretary of the missionary
union. Bible school 10 m, Christian
Endeavor meeting at 6, evening service
at Z union missionary rally. with ad-
dress by DR.. r. A. Hume of the Congre-
gational board and DR.. Thomas S. Bar
bour OF the Baptist union.
DIR. r. A. Hume of India, who will
speak at the Congregational church Sun
day morning, was chairman of the com
mlttee to distribute English and American
reiief funds in the Ahmednagar district
during the recent famine. The work was
done so efficiently that the British an
thorities bestowed the Victoria cross up-
on DIR. Hume, an honor that has been
shown to very few foreigners
A missionary rally under the auspices
OF the young peoples societies of the
congregational churches will be held in
Ine latter church Sunday evening at Z. 80
The speakers will be DIR. r. A. Hume of
the American board, who has done a re-
markable work at Ahmednagar. and DIR
I. S. Barbour of the Missionary union
VINO has recently returned from a visit
to missions in the Philippines, Japan and
Shina, All OF the young peoples So
eieues have been invited to attend the
meeting. INC
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-10
COMMUNICATIONS.
Reply to c. H. Davenport.

Mr.. Editor
In your last issue you made some re-
marks that were untrue about the con-
ditions, on which my license was granted.
You stated that my liquor license was
granted by the license commissioners Of
the state of New Hampshire with the I'M
Outstanding that no liquor should be sold
to people who were "blacklisted" in Brat
tleboro That statement was absolutely
false. and there were no conditions at
tached to my license, other than the laws
of the State of New Hampshire. l have
made my own blacklist and have an
established rule, in conducting my bust
ness, not to sell liquor to any man, whose
wife has requested me not to do so.
want no mans money who neglects his
family for the saloon, and it is not nee
essary to legally" notify me. to have
such people "blackisted." n request is all
/ ask, and such request is cheerfully and
willingly granted. Let any woman who
does not want her husband to purchase
liquor at my place of business ask me
not to sell him LIQUOR and l will see that
such request is carried out at once
There is a clause in the license law of
New Hampshire which gives certain peo-
pile the right to put names on n black
list for liquor dealers. 1 have never had
one name given me, and II cannot prove
that l have two men "blaclIlisted" for
every one that is on the alleged Brattle-
boro blacklist" / will agree to forfeit
$500 to any charitable institution you
may name.
FRED C. GALE
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-03-10
WESTMINSTER WEST.

Several members of John Hitchcock S
family are i'll with measles.
Mrs. A. S. Hall returned last week to
her home in Winchester, Mass.
Frank Smith of Springfield, Mass, is
visiting at his fathers, ]. o. Smiths.
Ralph Harlow who is attending school
in Brattleboro, has been i'll with grip
Miss May Goodhue visited her sister,
Mrs A. F. Schwenk, in Brattleboro last
week.
Mrs. Mary Buxton has returned from a
ten days visit in Keene and Saxtons
River.
Mrs. Florence Edison of Bellows Falls
was at her fathers, j. l.. Ormsby's from
Friday until Wednesday,
The ladies served dinner at noon in the
church vestry on town meeting day to
about 100 persons, netting the society
$3.50.
Ezra Fisher, who has lived on the Will
bur place in SaXtons River several years,
is moving to Seymour Minard's farm, re-
Gently vacated by Clarence Woodland.
The meeting for election of town Off
GERS was held in this parish Tuesday.
The weather was favorable for a good at
tendance, and things passed off harmoni-
ously. A vote of 81 to for no license
was passed. Many of the old officers were
elected e. G. Butterfield declined to
serve longer as road commissioner, and
c. e. Peck was elected to fill the office