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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
THE STUFF OF WHICH NORTH
CAROLINA SOLDIERS WE'RE
MADE.

In the "Appomattox Edition" of
The News and Observer, issued Oh
Tuesday we had something to say
of General Grimes, of General Cox,
of General Roberts and others who as
officers were conspicuous examples of
North Carolina valor and hcroism
during the war. OF such was the army
of Northern Virginia composed. In
the ranks there were as splendid ex-
amples Of true manhood as could be
found among the officers. The private
was as worthy OF the praise of pos
terity as the officers who were chosen
to direct and lead them. We make
now an extract from the Wilmington
Journal, OF September 10, 1863, which
illustrates the spirit of the North Car
DINA soldiers. The clipping is an fol-
lows:
SPIRIT OF OUR TROOPS.
1--WE are permitted to make the fol-
lowing extract from a letter received
by one of our most worthy citizens,
from his son in the army of Virginia.
1t breathes the same noble spirit which
we are sure animateS the bosomS
OF nlne-tentnS Oh ola Arson BlOi-
ious sons who are breasting the storm
of war at different points of our be-
leagucred Confederacy. Here is the
extract:
TT appears. dear father that the
war bears heavily upon you and
mother. Out of your six boys who
enlisted under the banner of the
South, / alone remain to bear the
name of the family under that flag.
Robert, Sydney and Hampton sleep in
soldiers graves, martyrs to the cause
of liberty! William, cripple for life,
will shoulder his musket no more
and We will not be able to serve again
soon, if ever | intend to follow our
blood-stained but glorious banner un-
til / meet the fate of my brothers, or
see it wave over a free people.
you all at home must not get out
of heart-the darkest hour is the hour
just before day. Bear your troubles
the best you can. and trust to "A
higher power for support, and all win
be WE'LL
title spirit illustrated by tho
above extract from a letter written
Just after the disastrous battle of
gettysburg, shows what stuff the
North Carolina soldiers were made of.
In the history of the world there were
no more noble heroes than those who
by their valOr and con-
Stancy and endurance the spirit of our
North Carolina people,"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
MORNING TONIC.
cietv in New York;

jefferson Davis is not often quoted
i'm great gatherings in this country
He cannot be said to be a popular
memory. His name and his figure
somehow loom up unpleasantly in
the midst of old passions, stern and
umbending; but to me, at least, very
clean and erect and stainless; and
this makes this little speech, the last
he ever made in his life, to some
young men at a convention in a Mis-
sssippi town, very touching. Said
this broken man of destiny and fate:
The faces / see before me are
those of young men. Had you not
been this [ would not have appeared
alone in a defense of our Southland.
but for love of her l break my silence
and speak to you. The past is dead;
let it bury it's dead; its hopes and
aspirations Before you lies the flu
ture full of golden promise; full of
recomnense for noble endeavor; full
of national glory. before which the
world will stand amazed. Let me be-
secch you to lay aside all rancor and.
all bitter sectional feeling and take
your places in the ranks of those
who will bring about Cancellation. out
of which will be raised reunited
country
do not some of the mists about
that stern and erect figure blow away
before the patience and sweetness of
these words?"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
MAYOR POWELL COMMENDED.

Mayor Powell's course in beginning
the enforcement of the new vagrant
law against the gamblers and thigh
flyer Migrants has won for him wide
and deserved commentator. The
sporty gents alone condemn his &C
ton. The New Bern Journal calls
upon the authorities of that city to
emulate the good example of Raj
eigh's mayor and says:
Raleigh is vigorously enforcing the
vagrancy law, and in consequence
many of her undesirable citizens are
taking themselves to more restful
fields or are going to work. OF course
some that leave will tramp from place
to place and picking up a living in
any old way, but most likely it will be
by stealing. Therefore it behooves
other communities to look out for
such tramps and either make them
go to work at once or otherwise en-
force the vagrancy law, lest these
parasites fasten themselves perma-
nently. A rigid enforcement of the
vagrancy law in New Bern would
have a wholesome effect There are
a great many habitual idlers here that
seldom, if ever, did a days work for
themselves or to the betterment of
the community, yet these same people
often live off their relatives, whose
bounty being solicited as aims, is gem
erously bestowed by benevolent
public"
Under the new charter the enforce
ment of this new law and all ordi-
nances and laws against crime will be
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
Decided in Poetry.
(The Green Bag.)


I'm the case Of Harvey Steel Com
pany versus United States, the court
of claims recently rendered judg-
mont. by a majority of four of the five
Judges, the majority opinion being
written by Mott. chief justice, and q
dissenting opinion by Wright, justice.
The following lines are dedicated to
Mr. Justice Wright:)
That Wright is Wright and MOTT IS
Mott,
Iogicians must concede.
That Mott is right and Wright is not,
Four judges have decreed.
That Mott is right and Wright is not,
We all must now agree;
Then Mott is right and Wright is Mott,
The same thing, to t,
If Mott is Mott and Wright is Mott
Ii comes without a wrench
THAT we have not. if not two Motifs
Five judges on the bench.
IL only four, as shown before,
And three agree with Mott.
The judgment is unanimous,
And Wright's dissent is naught
The knot is Mott not Mott?
But is Wright right or not?
Is Mott not right? What right has
Wright
To write that Mott is not?
Do, / do right to write to Wright
This most unrighteous rot2
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
Spirit of the Press
The Power of the Press.

VIM S. Pearson.
The average citizen is lost when
without his paper. 1t has come to be
a part and often the best part of the
breakfast table. 1t is the inseparable
companion of the railway journey. 1t
is the unfailing staple of conversation.
Women learn from it how to array
themselves and where to buy the arr
ray, mankind information tending to
show how to pay for the array. The
children feed upon a varying success
sion of new Crusoes and Aladdirs.
The politician finds from it that the
other fellow has the appointment, the
preacher that a new missionary field
has opened for his labor. Presidents
and cabinets are made and unmade
by it, The stoutest brigandage of
wealth must at last succumb to its
deep mouthed, sleuth hound bay in
pursuit 1t is an arbiter more pow.
erful than courts and the unjust judge
fears it, when he may fear naught
else. Legislative bodies look to it
when they would know the temper of
the voters. before it's united disap-
prevail a national loan falls fiat and
armies thin by desertion or are pow
erless for successful battle. Priest
ridden Russia so long in fear of it is
reluctantly opening its gates to that
breath of freedom, which is it's own
life. Censored or uncenSored it
makes its way mole like into the
darkest corners of tyranny and
speaks the word of hope to every
struggling soul.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
TEXAS APPROVES.

The news of the Greensboro
blanket" has Travelled far. 1t seems
that it had been advertised as the be-
ginning of like feeds which were to
be gotten up to entice Democrats to
the Republican pie counter. 1t went
up like rocket; it came down like a
stick
The News and Observer has received
many letter of congratulation for the
exposition it made of the effort to
make the Republican party respect
able by inviting moonshiners and
Others to quit drinking "moonshine"
out of q gourd and sip champagne out
of cut glass. That was the evolution
that was expected to catch Democrats.
Among other letters received of APP
prevail of the course of this paper we
take the liberty of quoting two extracts
from Col. r. NJ. Johnston, editor of the
Houston (Texas) Post, one of the
greatest newspapers in the country.
He writes
Permit me to congratulate you on
your article on the Greensboro ban
quet. 1t was certainly to the point
and just what ought to have been
printed under the circumstances. For
one, l resent this talk INDUCED by
some people to the effect that the
Southern white people should become
Republicans in order to get into the
so-calied band wagon.
When a man is Democrat from
principle, and is any kind of a man at
all, it must be offensive to him to be
told that he ought to compromise and
abandon his principles for some sup
posed commercial advantage.
"It afforded me pleasure to repro
duce your splendid article on the ed-
toriaI page of The Post"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
Double Dangers Confront Young Men
of The South.

Richmond News-Leader.
The young man of the South today
has double dangers between which he
must steer his course. On the one
side is adherence to old ways and ira
ditions which will make him useless if
not ridiculous; on the other is disre
gard of the old traditions and devo-
ton to commercialism which will de-
stroy his manhood and character and
make him a mere trickster and trader
or charlatan. The combination of the
best of the old life with the purpose
and capacity to meet the requirements
of the new is the ideal toward which
we should work and when it is attain
ed must make magnificent character
to crown and glorify whatever achieve
ment fate or opportunity may give, to
dignity and sanctify any failure. 1t
is possible to have men alert, ener-
getic laborious, skilled, strong and
sturdy and yet chivalric, kindly, hold
ing to the highest and purest stand
ards Of honor and ethics and striving
toward the noblest purposes of life.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
The Long Dormant Public Conscience
IS Aroused.

Savannah Morning News.
1t has only been a few weeks since
young midshipman deserted from
the navy because he alleged he COULD
not lead a Christian life in the asso-
Citations he found in the service. Then
we had the protest of a great many
ministers against the acceptance of
John d. Rockefeller's money for the
propagation of the Christian faith. on
the ground that his money was faint
ed" and now we hear of a young man
who has refused to be educated in a
college because, he says, the endow-
ments of practically all of the Ameri-
can colleges were given by men who
were not as good as they ought to
be-" What does all of this mean
Were the ministers representative, and
the two young men merely lazy? Or
do their actions forecast a remarka-
bic awakening Of the public con-
science?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
SULLY GIVES ADVICE TO FARM
ERS.

The farmers of the South have a
very kind feeling for Daniel j. Sully.
There is no doubt that his brilliant
bulling of the market last year put
many thousand dollars in the pockets
of the farmers of the South. When
financial reverses came to him, there
were many farmers in the South who
would gladly have "chipped in" If it
had been possible to help him tide over
his financial difficulties.
Mr.. Sully's past shows that his adj
vice to farmers put money in their
pockets. He is now giving good adj
vice to the farmers of the South-ad-
vice that is approved by all the best
farmers in the South and the Wisest
cotton men in the country. Here is his
letter, tersely expressed.
To the Cotton Growers of the South.
If you wish to win your battle and
obtain a fair price for your cotton,
you must reduce your acreage very
considerably.
You have surprised the world by
the manner in which you have held
your cotton. Surprise it again by cut
ting down your acreage.
Do not be led astray by the present
steadiness Of prices.
Three causes have contributed to
bring about this rise of more than one
cent pound.
First. The urgent need and demand
arising from an unprecedented con-
Second. Your courage and wisdom
in making the buyer meet your terms.
Third The belief that you would
cut your acreage to such an extent
that the supplies from this crop and
the growth of 1905-O6 would make
commercial crop no larger than the
world needs.
The first two causes lose their force
the moment it is know that there is
a prospect for a moderately large crop
next year. Even if the mills take 49,
600, 900 bales during the current sea-
son, this would leave a carry-over OF
/ 100000 bales. Hence the necessity
cf smaller crop this year.
Do not let any rise in prices be-
tween now and the end of the plant
ing season deter you from reducing
your acreage.
Such an advance would be merely
that you were making the
decrease which your friends have adj
vised you to make.
If the June reports of the govern
ment show that you have failed to
make sufficient reduction the only per-
sons who would be gamers by the adj
vance would be the spectators, who
sell out their futures at a profit.
The price Of the cotton you produce
will be regulated by the actual, not
the expected, reduction.
Don't depend on your neighbOr to do
the reducing.
In this matter of acreage reduction
bear in mind three suggestions:
Don't rely on bad weather to cut
down the crop. G-1
Don't put a large acreage into cotton
simply because it is too late to plant
corn or other diversified crops.
1t would be far better to let part
of your land lie idle than to run the
risk of raising a crop so large as to.
make possibly another period of low
priced cotton.
| am making this appeal to you be-
cause / regard the next few weeks as
critical to the South and because / be-
levc that every man who is interest
ed in the welfare of the South should
urge the importance of reduction
in acreage.
DANIEL j. SULLY.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16

in the hands of the Police Justice.
The necessity of electing man to
that office who has the courage to ex-
ecute the laws and knowledge of the
law is of the highest Importance. The
good work begun in Raleigh will be
worthless unless the Police Justice
vigorously continues it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
MIR. BROWN TO SPEAK IN
MICHIGAN.

President Joseph G. Brown. of the
Citizens National Bank of Raleigh.
has been invited to address the Bank
ers' Association of Michigan at it's
meeting in Detroit on April the 18th
and has accepted. The subject on
which Mr.. Brown will speak will be
1.-THE New South and he will treat it
in a. way both to enlighten and de-
light the Westerners. President Brown,
who has a national reputation both
as banker and a clever speaker,
never fails to honor his State when he
appears, as he frequently does, at inn
portant foreign gatherings of intluen-
tial men.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16

pealed to by a warm friend to save a
townsman and the appeal touched his
heart, and in response to it he under
took the mission to Washington.
Upon reflection We feel sure that the
Governor will see that he has made a
mistake mistake that he would not
have made if he had taken time for
reflection.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16

'"The solid South makes the South
the target, and forbids her taking rank
in the counsels of the nation, says a
Republican. Southerners have you
ever thought of the fact that the sol
id North and West has practically re-
NAMED as much intact the past ten
years as the South? If they have q
right to remain solid. why have we
not the sams right?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
New Bern Beats A. & NJ. second.

New Bern, N. c.. April t5.-The sec
end game of ball between the a. q M
College and New Bern Military Acad
envy was pulled off this afternoon at
the Athletic Park. The day was dis
agreeable. with rain falling, but 1t did
not stop the ball players, for they wad-
ed through mud and water to cross
tho slab. Considering the weather -
was a good game. The home team
won out by a score of to 8.
Batteries: A. g. M. College, Temple
and Hodges; New Bern Military Acad-
emy, Howe and Armstrong.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16

Asheville may get new railroad BY
the purchase of the Tennessee Central
Railroad, and the Seaboard Air Line
by the Frisco road, says the AsheVllie
Citizen
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16

The Southport, Wilmington & Dur
ham road is in contemplation. This
will be line direct from a seaport to
Durham, and that will eventually be
part of the Norfolk & Western, and
a great through line from tide water
TO the coal fields of Virginia and West
Virginia.-Durham Sun.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16

The receipts of the Warrenton Rail-
road for the month of March were the
largest in the history of the road
Warren Record.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16

Punishment may hobble along on
but it gets there by and BY
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
.X-RAY WONDERS
Of A MAGIC GLASS
Mr.. D. H. Millions Baf-
fling Scientific Freak.
OPTICAL ILLUSION7
WeII..-Maybe. But, Gazing in the Re.
Election of an Ordinary Bureau
Mirror, One Sees Apparently
His Own Bones and Literal
Iy Looks Through Himself.

One stands before the mirror of an
ordinary bureau and looks at himself
in the glass.
The sight is one to make for a
belief in miracles, to cause one to rub
ones eyes and look again. About the
arms and the legs one sees the shad-
owy outlines of clothing, with dark
streak as of bone running in the mid
die of the hazy vision of what you
expected to see of yourself.
This is strange thing. You look
intently, fiXedly. The impression re-
mains. You TURF your eyes away
from this mystical glass and look
again, quickly. At the first glance
there is the ordinary impression, but
it only lasts for moment. Through
the reflection in the glass, making a
faint grey shadow of your clothes,
are the black and wonderfully dimin-
ished lines of your framel
If one had not heard before of the
magic glass, if he had not gone, a
doubling Thomas, in response to ru-
mors of the wonders to be seen in 1T,
there would be the one deduction in
slant upon the discovery: This is
an X-Ray!'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
A Strange Power.

But how, and why? The glass is
nothing except what others of its class
might be expected to be. 1t is
merely an ordinary mirror; set IN an
ordinary frame on tasteful but not
expensive dresser. At close range one
observes nothing extraordinary eth
er in the glass itself or the reflection
which it affords. 1t is only when one
backs away a distance, with the light
at his back that the mystery is APP
parent. From that pose, however, the
glass and the things it does to the
vision are inexpliCable.
What strange property does the
glass possess? Are the bones that you
see really the bones beneath your
skin, viewed through the clothing and
their husk of fesh-or do you mere
", think that YOU see them? Evident
ly there are two elements in the re-
fiectioh: you see your clothes, you see
the faint shadow of what you think is
aesh beneath it, like the substance
behind the cloud presentment OF a
ghost, one sees what looks like the
frame on which the body is built.
If this ordinary looking glass has
not in some strange and unknown way
the same power as the X-Ray, illus
trated, instead of on q sensitized plate
by refection-why it is travelling
under false pretenses!
Thrown back upon what one has
heard of the X Rays and the reason
of their phenomena and finding his
preconceiYed knowledge at fault with
the actual thing under his eye. there
is only one vague recourse left to the
doubter-and that is optical delu-
sion" In what? All, there is the point
at which ones wisdom evaporates.
The glass is before one. Even while
he pirates of optical delusion ne secs
with his own eyes the black bones
of his arm the curved bones of his
foot; through the outline of his shoe
he observes the mating on the floor
One must accept the glass and its
marvels whatever they may mean.
whether the property is that of the
X-Ray or simply the ability to make
one see what he does not see. Equally
wonderful is the glass which does the
fri
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-16
Discovery Of Queer Property.

Discovery of Queer Property.
The mirror referred to is owned by
Mr.. ID. II. Milton, Chief Clerk in the
office of Insurance Commissioner
Young. IT does the double duty of
mystifying visitors and serving as
part of the furniture in one of the
bed rooms in his home on Salisbury
street Just south Of the Presbyterian
church. It's purchase did not depend
upon its peculiarities. 1t was bought
for a bureau and for years it remained
an ordinary article of furniture, no
one guessing for q moment the curious
power which it possessed. The mir
ror was bought from the store in
Raleigh of the late A. S. Campbell.
Where it came from is not known. Its
peculiar quality was discovered only
as late as Governor Glenn's inaugu-
ration is January, and then by acci-
dent.
Mr.. Millions son, r. III. Milton, of
Reidsville, the superintendent of the
water-works and gas plant of that
city, was attending the Inauguration
and was visiting his father. Being
tired and suffering from headache,
the son lay down on a bed near the
bureau in which the mirror is set as
a glass. His father was in the room
and gave him a tablet. Suddenly the
son Idl5cd IllAiSCll III bCds l. cS1iASi'
said he, keep still a minute. | see
the mating through your shoe in the
glass; l can see right through your
Ieg!"
Il know you don't drink" replied
the father, and l didn't think that
tablet would go to your head 50
quickly"
Tablet nothingt" replied the son.
You lie here and look at me-"
The father and son changed places.
For once in his life-if he might be-
lieve his eyes-the father saw through
the son.
Has Stood All Tests.
Since then the mirror has been sub
iected to all sorts Of tests without its
secret being betrayed 1t was thought
at first that possibly here was some re-
laion between its position in the room
and the light that would operate in
some way to give an illusion. This was
speedily done away with by the shift
ing of the mirror. The power-or the
ilIusion-remained as before, wherever
the glass was placed. Experiments
showed even stronger powers than that
first noticed. Behind an arm or q leg,
a hand may be seen readily, visible
only through those portions of the
limb which are covered with flesh.
Standing before a machine, the IRON
pedal is plainly visible in the mirror
with the legs of a man intervening.
Gazed at in the glass the head takes
on a most peculiar double quality it's
natural size included in hazy outlines
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Hipnotisno

FL del mes pasado la Srte. Luella
IIuestis y su madre fueron halladas
:en estado de; ashxia producida por
gas Desde entonces hasta el "a, en-
que falleci6 la joven, nj ella nj su ma
DIRE salieron del estado comatoso en-
que fueron haliadas. Ell case atrajo
la atenci6n de la ciencia mGdica.
Ell professor Quackenbos, que es una
celebrldad en- estas M terias, opinaba
que era un case de hipnotismo mutuo,
y+que las dos saldrisn del trance Q
moririan al mismo tempo
Sin embargo, murio la joven los
pocos dias, como queda dicho Y aun
no sabemos que ia madre haya muer-
to nj saldo del estado comatoso