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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-19

he says no overcharge was refunded
TO him, | believe what he says.
",The main question was, did Mr..
Cox appeal to the Commission for re-
lief? He did so and got the relief
he asked for and cannot deny this.
He did right in doing SO as the rates
complained of were excessive and he
knew where to get relief"
correspondence from Mr.. Cox.
The Corporation Commission is 4
Court of Record, and the records are
open to the public. To show that Mr..
Cox made complaint and followed up
his complaint to the Commission, a
News and Observer reporter went
through the correspondence of Mr..
Cox with the Commission, some of
the letters, of which are as follows;
High Point, n. c., Sept z, 1900.
CIR. H. C. Brown, Clerk r. r. Com
mission, Raleigh, N. c.
Dear Sir: I want to enter a COM
plant against the S. A. L. r. 4. Co.
for declining to give me rates on rough
logs from stations near Raleigh on
their line into Raleigh. The only rate
they name to me is about double what
the Southern or any other railway
company in the South charges me. II
| can get fifteen minutes to state my
case before the Railway Commission
at the time they next meet on October
3rd or 4th l would very much appre-
ciate it.
Awaiting your response, / am,
yours very truly,
"(S) j. ELWOOD COX.
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(signed) ~. ELWOOD cox"

In reply to the above letter, on No
vember 20, Mr. Brown wrote Mr..
Cox as follows:
Raleigh, Nov. 90, 1901.
"Mr. J. Elwood Cox, High Point, n. G.
Dear Sir: Replying to your favor.
"The Seaboard Air Line has with
drawn It's suit with reference to rate
on logs and as to all other rates,
which will be effective December 1st.
You should make out your claim for
over-charge on shipments since the
order of giving rate on logs was is
sued.
GIyar1y raOponffuIlv
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High Point. N. C., Nov. %, 1901.

High FONT, n. G, Nov. e, IyUI.
"Mr. Fl. c. Brown, Raleigh, N. G.
Dear Sir: I see from the paper
day before yesterday that the Sea-
board Air Line Railroad has with
drawn its suit from before the Su-
preme Court and made rate on logs
the samo as the Southern.
II would thank you to inform me if
this is correct, and if it applies all
over the State?
yours truly,
(Signed.) ~. ELWOOD cox"
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MORNING TONIC.
George Elliott

He is one of the few human beings
l have known who will often in the
heat of an argument see and straight
way confess that he is in the wrong,
instead of trying to shift his ground
or use any other device of vanity.
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High Point, N c., Nov. 81, 1900.
''Mr. H. c. Brown, Raleigh. N. C.
MY Dear Sir: l am in receipt of
your Circular No. IA, giving us log
rates for which l asked. Will you
please be kind enough to send me two
or three or more Of these circulars.
Thanking you very much, l am,
yours very truly,
(Signed.) ~. ELWOOD cox"
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every respectfully,
"H. c. BROWN, Clerk. "

On December 18th, 1900. Mr. Cox
appeared before the Commission and
it is noted that in his testimony on
page 46 of the record. he said Il
wrote Mr. Capps, had quite deal of
correspondence, and right here | will
say in a business of twenty years l
have never had a question of this
kind to arise but what | could adjust
1t, but he would not give US a salts
factory rate and we were driven to
this extremity"
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=
(Signed.) ~. ELWOOD COX.
High Point. N. c., Oct. 10. 1900.

High Point N. c., Oct. 10, 1900.
"Mr. H. c. Brown, Raleigh, N. c.
Dear Sir: Will you kindly let me
hear if anything has been done In re-
gard to the rates on logs into Raleigh
over the Seaboard Air Line. | would
have been cutting these logs some
time ago on their line if 1 could only
have gotten this rate adjusted.
yours very truly,
(Signed.) ~. ELWOOD cox"
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GOOD ADVICE FROM JAIL.


Mr.. J. NJ. Taylor, convicted at
Greensboro court of violating the in
ternal revenue law, has written a let
ter from the Wentworth Jail, in which
he gives some good advice, coupled
with high praise of Mr. Casper. He
says:
But it is my advice to the whiskey
people in North Carolina to get out of
the business now. You don't know
what hour these crank-minded Pro-
hibitionists are going to have you in
here to stay with these dirty, filthy
rogues, who are always proving the
country and stealing where they can,
and you must be lodged right up with
them and stay from good wife and
children at home and nearly lose all
that you have on account of a few in
dividuals.'
Mr.. Taylor feels very much ag
grieved because he has been put in
Jail with other law-breakers. In the
eyes of the law, a law-breaker is
law-breaker. The man who violates
the law must expect to pay the penal
ty. OF course there are grades in
crime, but no criminal is doing more
to corrupt society than those who
violate the internal revenue laws and
the temperance laws of the State. Too
long they have been treated as if they
were prosecuted. The time has come
when they must understand that if
they violate the law they will have to
suffer the penalties.
Not many years ago nan-we will
call him Jones-killed another in East
ern North Carolina. His lawyers
managed to get him off with imprison-
ment for twenty years. Some months
after his brother called to see the law
yer, and said:
81 have had letter from my BROTH
er who you got into the penitentiary
by appearing for him."
"Have you?" answered the lawyer,
ignoring the compliment to his ability
to land his clients in the penitentiary.
Yes said the man, land he does
not like it at all
rs that so % asked the bored law
yer.
Yes continued the brother edo
you KNOW Lney make MN associate
with fellows who We're sent there for
stealing"
as that so?" again queried the law
yer. $50 you think it a shame that a
man guilty of murder should be forced
to associate with thieveS?"
But the advice sent from Jail to
whiskey men is "to get out of the bust
ness now is the best advice that ever
issued from a Jail in North Carolina
1t is advice that most of them would
do well to take. 1t is an open secret
that most Of them violate the law and
the hour has struck in North Caro-
lima when those who violate the law
to debauch the youth of the State can
not do so with impunity. The Judge
who Furnishes them with imprison
ment is the only Judge who is doing
his duty, and the time has come when
public sentiment will not tolerate the
past Indifference to these violations of
the law.
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High Point, N. c., Oct. "a. 1900.
"Mr H. c. Brown, Raleigh, N. c.
Dear Sir: l hope you can get this
matter of rates on logs into Raleigh
adjusted at your next meeting or else
the season will be over and it will do
me no good.
yours very truly,
(Signed) ~. ELWOOD cox
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High Point N. c., Nov. II, 1900.
"Mr. H. c. Brown, Raleigh, N. c.
Dear Sir: Will you kindly inform
me on what date the Commission
meets again as / would like to APP
pear before it and present my COM
plant regarding rates on rough logs
into Raleigh over the Seaboard Air
inc
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only born diplomat can be frank
ana popular at the same time.
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yours very truly,
(Signed.) -. ELWOOD cox"
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-02-02

The readers of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that
is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the
only positive cure now known to the med
cal fraternity. Catarrh being a consti-
t~utional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally. acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient strength
BY building up the constitution n as.
sisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors nave so much faith in its
curative powers that they offer One Hun
bred Dollars for any case that IT fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo,
Ohio.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-02-02

AFRAID OF STRONG MEDICINES.
Many people suffer for years from rheu-
than take the strong medicines usually
given for rheumatism. not knowing that
quic- relief from pain may be had simply
by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm
and without taking any medicine inter-
nally. Rev. Amos Parker of Magnolia.
North Carolina, suffered for eight years
with a lame hip, due to severe rheumatic
pains. He has been permanently cured
by the free application OF Chamberlain's
Pain Balm. For sale by Brown Bros.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-02-02
GRAVE TROUBLE FoREsEEN.

1t needs but little foresight to tell Ina
when your stomach and liver are badly
affected grave trouble is ahead, unless
you take the proper medicine for YOU
disease, as Mrs. John A. Young, of Clay.
N. Y, did. She says: Il had neuralgia
of the liver and stomach, my heart was
weakened. and l could not eat. I was
very bad for a long time. but in Electric
Bitters | found just what l needed. for
they quickly relieved and cured me. Sold
under guarantee by Brown Bros, drug
gists, at soc a bottle.
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FRAUD EXPOSED.

A few counterfeiters have lately peeh
making and trying to sell limitations o.
Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds, and other med
iclnes, thereby defrauding the public
This is to warn you to beware of such
people. who seek to profit, through steal
ing the reputation of remedies "hlch
have been successfully curing disease
for over IS years. A sure protection, 10
you. is our nam on the wrapper. LOOK
for 1t, on all DR.. Kings, or Buckien 3
remedies, as all others are mere imita-
tions. II. e. BUCKLEN & Co, Chicago
III, and Windsor. Canada.
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GROUP

Begins with the symptoms of a common
cold; there is chiiiiness. sneezing, sor
throat. hot skin. quick pulse, hoarseness
and impeded respiration. Give frequent
small doses of Billiards. Horehound
Syrup (the child will cry for IT'D and at
the first sign of a Group cough apply
frequently Billiards. Snow Linlment to
the throat.
Mrs. A. vliet, New castle, Colo, writes.
March 10, 1902: II think Billiards. Hore-
hound Syrup a wonderful remedy and so
pleasant to take"
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CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REMED
THE MOTHERS IA ,ORITE.

The soothing and healing properties of
this remedy, It's pleasant taste ana
prompt ana permanent cures have made
1t a favorite with people everywhere. 1t
is especially priced by mothers of small
children, for colds, Group and whooping
cough. as 1t always affords quick relief,
and aas IL contains no opium or other
harmful drug. II may be given as conf
IDENTIFY to a baby as to an adult. For sale
by Brown Bros.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-02-02

The Democratic party has been claiming
and made a party fight in 1900 on the
Lincoln Democracy" The party is now
trying to make out that President Roose-
welt is a Democrat aud several members
of the national legislature have pledged
themselves to give him every support in
did its best to elect Judge Parker, a trust
candidate, to the Presidency last fall, but
failing in that the party leaders think
they see a chance of ''bettering their
condition by supporting Roosevelt.
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L. o. T. M.

l.. o. T. M.
ALMA HIVE NO. ar 'iiar reviews
OF Alma Hive No. . are held In Silver
State hall on the first and third Fridays
OF each month at 1880 y. m. All visiting
members are invited to attend.
CORNELIA Gunner, r. X.
PEARL GILBERT. l.. C.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-02-02

Seventeen days of the END session of
the Nevada Legislature have passed. The
members will have to get a move on II
remaining days. There are five SUNDAYS
and W~ashlngton's birthday to be deducte
from TIE thirty-thres days.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-02-02

BY a unanimous decision the United
States Supreme Court declared the beef
trust to be guilty of conspiracy in re-
straint of trade In fixing arbitrarily the
price of fresh meats. 1t simply affirmed
the decision of the lower court. Now the
nomical in saving the by products. will
have to quit skinning both the producer
and the consumer.
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AG1NIzING RuRNs

are instantly relieved, and perfectly
healed, by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. c.
Rivenbark. Jr, of Norfolk, Va, writes
burnt my knee dreadfuiiy; that 1t bis
tered all over. Bucklen's Arnica Salve
stopped thes pain and healed it without
a scar" Also heals all Wounds and sores.
25c at Brown Bros, druggists.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-02-02

The railroad transportation question
vada Legislature for February 10th.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-02-02

KNIGHTS OF PvTHIAS
IvANHoE LODGE NO. Is. X. OF .
Regular conventions helc o.. Monday
OF each week at their castle hall In the
silver State block.
w. l. sAMUELS. c. C.
c. u BROWN X. of r
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|. O. o. r.

i. y. q. r.
HUMBOLDT LODGE NO. 10. /. o. Q.
+. Meeting on first and third Thurs
day evenings In each month at hall In
silver State building. Visiting brothers
In good sts~dinx always welcome.
r. POULIN. n. q.
r. RAMDoHR. See.
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aociatlon by four Senators-French, EN-
mons, Wright and Bunkers. These men
are accused by one Corbin, Secretary OF
the Continental Building and Loan Asso-
citation, with soliciting money on their
promise Of a favorable report on that
concern which was under fire before he
Legislature. Corbin claims to have paid
these Senators marked bills and to have
trapped them completely. Corbin and his
business methods are not above reproach,
to say the least, and he may be kicking
up a muss simply to divert attention from
himself.
OF course an Investigation is in order
and a committee has been appointed to
inquire into the matter and find out
whether the accused Senators are emit
tied to a coat Of white wash or a suit of
prison clothes. 1t will probably take
weeks to "sift" the evidence and attend
to the lawyers points and objections, for
of course every accused Senator Is enti-
tied to be represented by counsel. Mean
while legislation is neglected and the
peoples time is frittered away. 1t all
tends to show how little of real impor-
lance the State Legislatures accomplish
and how expensive a luxury their biennial
meetings have grown to be.
However, If conviction should follow
this particular Investigation and the
methods of a certain class of so-called
building and loan associations should be
made plain to the people the results
would be worth all they wouid cost-but
such an outcome is extremely remote.
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cALIEcRNIA'S BIENNIAL SCANDAL.
The California Legislature is struggling
time Il takes the form OF alleged bribery
and blackmail OF a building and loan as
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-10-11
SELLING UNRlPE HONEY.
It Will Always Hurt the Business Of
the Honey Raiser as Well as th-
Honest Competitor.

The bee-keeper who places unrina
honey on the market, is not insurine
ais own business as honey producer.
but is 1njuring the business of everv-
1ne else who produces honey for tina
markets. Nectar not properly evapo-
rated and ripened is a long way OH
from being honey, in the sense thai
honey should be taken either for food
or medicine.
1t is a great pity, says the Mid
land Farmer, that all kinds of BUSH
ness have their scalpers who desire
to place their products on the market
unfinished and incomplete. For years
the producers Of farm butter have SUI
fered the loss of hundreds of Thousands
CT dollars from this cause alone, and
now the shiftless honey producer is
coming in for his share of the loss in
his great hurry to get his so-calletl
lHney upon the market before the bees
have had time to evaporate the water
Gerefrom and ripen it so that it may
be called honey. II consumers would
refuse to have thing to do with So
called honeys which do not weigh IL
pounds to the gallon. 1t might be that
the shiftless producer of nectar for
the market would be compelled to
keep his product until it was fully
ripene6.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-10-11
SAVING TOBACCO SEED.
Select the Best Of the Plants and M,-,r
Them So That They Will Not
Be Topped.

1t always pays to save the best
plants In field for seed plants. Dur
ing cultivation of the crop a constant
search for good plants should be made
ny the workers. When an especially
good plant is observed it should bs
marked by a stake or rag tied to the
plant, 30 that it may be easily found
and not topped by accident.
A good plan is to place a 12-pound
manila paper bag over the foWe:
heads of the selected seed plants be.
fore the first flower opens, suggests
w. ". Cobey, of the Maryland experi-
ment station Watch these bags care
fully and raise them up farther on tbs
growing stems, SO as to prevent in
jury from crowding in the bag during
he period of growth. At the, end OF
the season, when the seed pods are
ripe, cut OF plants near the ground.
and, without removing the bags, hang
up in a dry place. These bags protect
the seed from worms, insects. etc.
and also catch the seed which falls on
from early drying.
After the seed has been thoroughly
dried, shell it out and separate the
heavy seed for use. It will always
pay to separate the seed according to
weight. and use only the heaviest. 1t
seed is selected by this method and
sown along with seed selected in the
ordinary way, the advantage of this
method of selection will be quickly
recognized.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-10-11
HOW TO MANAGE.
Some Hints as to How to Imnrov.
the Quality Of Your Hens-Need
Care and Thought.

Select half dozen hens which sn;,
the eye-hens that sing and are ALWAYS
busy; breed to best full-blooded cock
AVAILABLE; keep in roomy breeding
Ten; give them special care: raise tina
tntire flock for ensuing year from this
pen; and keep this up from year to
year. sE
Stimulate hens to lay. Overhaul
their quarters and make warmer. air.
Ter. SUMMER; give variety of grains.
chiefly wheat: stiH meal mash onca
S day; make them scratch to get
grains; give fresh bone crushed small
enough to swallow whole, teaspoon
tul per day per hen. =
Amuse them by some ne~ feed, n
y cabbage head or boiled bone hung
up fo. thera to jump up ami pick: or
set a four-bushel box in tho pen hay-s
Ing clover chat in it and sprinkle
Of sunflower seed in the chat. They
won't lay while suffering from ennli.
Keep Smart Alec pullets, not vet
laying. apart from laying hens: Tor.
they know BY Instinct that meddlesoma
pullets win tear up their nests anr
ths expectsnt bug faster than they cany
esmako them, Aenee wont lay 6 On,
"a,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-10-11
PLANT OF A WRITER

I wish they wouldn't thank me when they
send my pieces back
And intimate in soothing terms It hurts
them worse than me.
They say its no reflection on its literary
merit
And wonder If it isn't what one of them
might be.
I know the man is busy, 80 never bother
him
With any but typewriter stuff. quite
straight and plain to read,
And on little card that's got my name and
address on 1t
I gently stick the postage stamps the
busy man may need.
They think they fool me, but they don't.
when they say they haven't space
And that they send back many things as
good as those they print;
Iney seem to want me to infer my writing
Is superior
To their little one-horse paper, but can
not take the hint.
Why isn't there an editor who'll say lust
what he means
And write exactly what he thinks instead
OF sweet regret?
There's lot Of us who really should be do
Ing something honest
Who put our trust in printed blanks. and
alas! are writing yet.
If they'd write Rot or "Beastly bad" on
my typewriter pages BE-.
They'd not get near so many things from
this Industrious hack.
I'd forgive candid statement on m I'd.
TORS real feeling,
But wish he wouldn't thank me when
he sends my pieces back.
Critic
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-10-11
Private Denny I. {: II
Hogan
T was when I commanded an army

7 was when commanded an army
post out on the border. Cornflelds
wave there now. n
We had been confined to the stockade
for so long that we felt desire to romp
across the prairie like young colts let
loose from the four walls of q gloomy
STALL There were women. a chile, Lieut..
Gilmore, myself and Denny Hogan, an
Old plains soldier, who came along to do
our driving.
The Indians were hostile: but We had
Just finished an active campaign against
them, so felt fairly safe in giving my
consent to Z drive and picnic beyond
the river.
1t was beautiful day with a moist.
soft breeze blowing from the south. It
was a merry party and we drove ON
and on over the springy buffalo grass
until the fort looked like q tiny toy
AFFAIR across the level prairie. About
IL o'clock we halted for luncheon be-
meath the shade of a clump of cotton
woods. Private Hogan hobbled the
horses, leaving the harness on, while
Lieut.. Elmore and assisted the ladies
with the luncheon.
Presently Hogan came back and. dis
regarding our cordial invitation to sit
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-10-11
SOMEWHAT OPEN QUESTION
The Chasm May Have Been Like
Aunt Elizabeth, Tride
Weary.

Ever since the time Of the famous
travelled parson" stay-at-home folks
have had their doubts at times about,
the desirability of having globe-trot-
tiers for friends and relatives. says the
New York Times.
Old Miss Stanton, after sending her
nephew Edward through college, next
supplied him with funds for a years
travel abroad. On his return the young
man was possessed by a praiseworthy
zeal to entertain his venerable and
generous aunt, as well as to make
plain to her that he had profted by
his advantages. Especially had he
during his visit of a month at Miss
Stanton's expatiated on the mag
nidcence of Switzerland's scenery, un-
til that lady found herself actually
cherishing grudge against the Alps.
There I stood, Aunt Elizabeth"
said the long-winded young man i'm
pressively, there I stood, and, be-
meath me that stupendous abyss was
yawning!"
The long suffering Old lady broke in
at this point.
Edward" she said crisply, "are you
prepared to say whether that abyss
was yawning before you got there, or
did it begin shortly afterward?"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-10-11

HANDY TENT FOR BEEKEEPER6.
and top bars are of pine of the same d.
mansions. The frame of the hinged. top
and the braces are made of lighter ma
terial.
The tent is five and one-half feet high,
three feet wide and four feet long. It IS
hinged together at each joint. The top
frame fits inside the framework of the
tent: being fastened down on with two
hooks inside. This holds the tent open
and In position. In the cut the top is
shown thrown back The covering is Of
strong cotton cloth, except a piece1S
inches vide Of wire netting on each side,
Which gives more light and air.