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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19
THE STORY OF SOLOMON.
Who Had Foot Whereof Har~eth a
Tale.

Tale.
ever hear of such q hoof?' said
the telegraph editor.
He was marveiling over that story
told by the WadeSboBo correspondent
of the man in Arson who caused a
rise in the price of wheat, oats ana
corn every time he happened to step
out of the highway and plant his foos
in some neighbours field. Was 1t q
dream or was that hazy memory OF
mournfully mooing kline far up in the
hills of Arson in some dim way really
connected with this story? Had some
body told him that 1t was only at GER
tain periods-when the man of feet
was in need of a new pair OF shoes
that the cows fed the county, lowing
their sorrows to unsympathetic wilds
HUH said the limo" operator
from Goldsboro. He cut short the
telegraph editors musings with snort
of disdain. HUH repeated he. Did
you ever hear of Solomon.
Man who wrote Proverbs?" VEN
tured the t. e.
Nav, he of the number seven
teens" said the limo.
"Whew! Wore number seventeen
shoes, you mean"
yep. After he was twenty-five
years old Covered the earth with
who was this Solomon, anyway
What was his other Nance"
Never had any so far as l know
| don't think he could have carried
that along with his feet. He got into
trouble and the police nabbed him. II
took one man to arrest him and three
to pull in his feet so they say
When he was taken into court most
of the loungers there crawled out of the
windows. They said they wanted tc
give his feet ROOM"
What did the authorities do with
him %
Put him in Jail and bankrupted the
town by buying him pair of shoes. :
Good Lord! Was he a white man? p
Nav, he was a blackfoot?"
What, an indiana
"Shucks, nav, a niger"
Smell of fish o.
What dye mean?"
Like your narrative. What became
of him?''
solomon? oh, he got away"
Thunder he did. With his feet 2
Both of them Don't know how i
was done, but IS fact. There was
some talk of calling in detectives tt
solve the mystery of the evanishmen
of them feet, but it was never done.
well I'll be hanged My Wades
boro correspondent had better shut III
shop
Sure. Tell him to hop off the
perch Wayne's got a niger with (
foot that'll darken the sunrise.''
Especially the sunrise of verify,
grinned the t. e.
"Sure!" said the limo affably
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19

most without opposition. and was eiec-
ted with the majority of 319. He
served on the committees on Railroads
and Corporation Commission, and APP
preparations. to work on the latter
committee he devoted much earnest
labor. He took a prominent stand
among the Republican members, and
was regarded as one of the best mcm-
bers of the minority in the Legisla-
ture. He did not actively participate
in the debates, but was interested in
many bills of Importance to his coun-
ty and section, and secured the pas
sage of several of them.
Mr.. Taylor is a farmer. and owns
several large farms. He was married
January IL, 1881. tc Miss Jennie Hol-
brook, of Allegheny county. His home
is ut Laurel Springs. Mr.. Taylor } Is
born August 8, 1861. in Ashe county
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19
GOOD MEN WANTED
Responsible Positions
Open For Right Kind.
IfYou Can Show Qualifications Nee
essary Positions Are Ready
For You at Once.

The man who drinks is not wanted
in any responsible position in life. 1t
is become to be understood that the
man who drinks will sometimes drink
to excess, and often when the greatest
emergency is presented.
Today there is a large percentage of
the most efficient genius and skill that
lis being ruined by the use of habitual
drink. These poor, but splendid men
are slaves, to their own establishment,
and still the demon is continuing to
fasten his unyielding fangs into their
very vitals. Many of them wish to
stop and get free again, but the power
of resistance is overcome, and naught
but wreck and ruin stare them in the
face. and horror is depicted upon
many a manly countenace who does
not know there is an absolute remedy
an absolute and perfect cure, where
hope and conscious happy satisfaction
reiens without a fear. The Kelley
cure is no myth; it is no dream; but a
most resplendent reality. a joy, where
sorrow was supreme heaven where
hell was a certainty in all it's hideous-
ness-happy home where despair oc-
cupied the throne. The Christian re-
ligion does not cope with the salvation
resistance has been shattered. Home
and friends are made happy by the one
months treatment with your splendid
panacea.
Would to God that l could burn it
into tn hearts and souls of men who
have become addicted. either from
social hereditary, or other causes, to
the liquor habit, to enter, if only for
a. visit, the scenes of your sanitarium,
and seee for themselves the blessing
you are bestowing upon stricken hu
mainly, that they might rise in their
might, and with the strength and
power you are daily and hourly giving
out, seize the golden opportunity
within the reach of all sufferers, and
become brave, strong, useful and eff
ficient workers in the great fields of
industries and professions that are
growing and browning this goth CEN
tury with such gorgeous wonderment
to the world of mankind. God bless
you and your splendid coterie of help
ers in this great and noble cause for
the redemption of fallen man.
ISAAC A. SUGG.
Greenville, n. c.. Dec. 9, 1904.
Send names of friends who might be
benefited to Kelley Institute, Green's
boro, N. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19
THE SIMPLE LIFE.
Ways That Are Pleasant and Paths
That Are Peace.

1t is the simple life that gives length
of days, serenity Of mind and body and
tranquility of soul.
Simple hopes and ambitions, bound
ed by the desire to do good to ones
neighbors. simple pleasures, habits.
food and drink.
Men die long before their time be-
cause they try to crowd too much into
their XperienceS-they climb too high
and fall too hard. A wise woman
writes of the good that a simple diet
has done her:
II have been using Grape-Nuts for
about six months. | began rather
sparingly, until | acquired such lik-
ing for it that for the last three
months / have depended upon it al
most entirely for my diet, eating
nothing else whatever. but Grape
Nuts for breakfast and supper, and l
believe / could eat it for dinner with
fruit and be satisfied without other
food, and feel much better and have
more strength to do my homework.
when / began the use of Grape
Nuts l was thin and weak. my muscles
were so soft that / was not able to do
any work. l weighed only 10S pounds.
Nothing that I ate did me any good. |
was going down hill rapidly. was nerV-
Gus and miserable. with no ambition
fer anything. MY condition improved
rapidly after l began to eat Grape
Nuts food 1t made me feel like a
new woman; my muscles got solid. my
figure rounded out. my weight in
creased to 126 pounds in few weeks,
my nerves grew steady and my mind
better and clearer. Ny friends tell me
they haven't seen me look so we'll for
years.
81 consider Grape-Nuts the best food
on the market. and shall never go
back to meats and white bread again.
Name given by Postum Co. Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Look in each pkg. for the little
book, "The Road to Wellville
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19
CAPT. ALEX. SPENCER DEAD.
Brave Member of Famous Granville
Greys Passes Away at Soldiers
Home.

At the Soldiers Home in Raleigh,
Captain Alexander Farrar Spencer, of
Company d. 18th North Carolina Vol
unteers, died at ten minutes after
seven O'Clock last evening. His COM
mand was the famous Granville
Grays," regiment that went through
the four years of war a way that grew
IN blood and in glory. At an old age.
Captain Spencer heard the taps with
a courage and confidence that was
the habit of a life time. passing out
to leave one more mark on the roll
of the deathless soldiery of the South,
prickcd with the star of sublime self
sacrifice.
Capt. Spencer was the son of Major
Abram Spencer one of the earliest
and wealthiest settlers of the town of
oxford. Capt. Spencer served through
out the war, taking part in all the
battles of his command till desper-
ately wounded by ball through the
neck in charging q battery at Cedar
Greek. October 10, 1864. He served
as a private till promoted from the
ranks to captain for gallantry on the
ield. The Captain from his youth had
been a man of almost reckless cour-
age. His adventures and accidents
would fill volume. He was douptless
the only man in North Carolina who
has twice been killed by lightning and
survived. Ruined financially by the
war he has since seen many viscitudes
and last fall i'm his old age, being near
Nv four score he took refuge in the
Home which the State offers to her
homeless veterans.
Funeral services will be held at $3.50
by Rev. Dr. Marshall. The pail bear
ers will be Messrs. C. w. Upchurch,
Samuel Francis. Josiah Rainey, j. P.
Weldon. r. b. Paschall, w. w. Moore;
and the interment in the Confederate
CapantarV
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19
WOMAN and
SOCIETY,".

The Ola Podrida Club will meet
with Mrs. Henry Litchford on Tues
day afternoon. March 21st, at four
o'clock
Mrs. Lynn Wilder has returned tc
the city after a two weeks visit TO her
home in Baltimore.
Mrs. Josephus Daniels who has
been i'll for a week, threatened with
an attack of appendicitis, is improv-
ing, but is still confined to her room
Miss Pattie Carroll. who has been
visiting her sister Mrs. Il. A. Carr,
of Durham, has returned to Raleigh
aud is at the home of her sister. Mrs.
w. p. Whitaker on Hillsboro street.
Miss Nellie Woodward, of VIII
n7ington, is visiting her sister. Mrs.
A. F. Bowen. in West Raleigh
Mr.. w. A. Belts is seriously III
at his home No. sos North Halifax
street
The Baraca class of the Baptist
Tabernacle viii hold special services
this morning. and be assisted by a
quartette CT young ladies from the
Baptist University.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19
DOES NOT FIX THE BLAME.
Report Follows Investigation of Vir-
ginia Nine Disaster.
(By the Associated Press. )

10y tic aSSOCidI6u GT6SS.J
Montgomery, Ala, March 17.-The
report of the Board of State Mine In
spectors to Acting Governor Cunning
ham, rgarding the explosion at Vir-
ginia mines on February 20, wherein
Ill miners lost their lives, was made
public today. The report says that
the accident was caused by dust
explosion caused by windy shot
that is that the tempting made in
preparation for a dynamite charge
was effectively arranged, causing
ignition of the gases in the shaft.
The report says that the latticing in
the mine. having been i'm operation
only about two years, was very poorly
constructed; that at intervals between
December Is, 1902, and December IL,
1904, dangerous accumulations of
dust had been reported and that re-
peated warnings had been given to the
operators The reports of the inspec-
tors did not fix the blame for the
accident upon any one.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19
Reoord Distinct,y Gnod.

CIeVeIand Star.
The record of the North Carolina
Legislature of the session of 1905 is
distinctly good. The Democratic par
ty can afford to go before the people
on this record and make good. The
legislation, in the main, was along
right lines.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19
S. 4. TAYLOR.

Senator From Allegheny County.
S. A. Taylor was one of the minority
of the Senate, and represented the
Thirty-Fifth District. and in 1904 he
won the nomination for Senator al
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19

Wadesboro, N. c.. March 18.-Eu-
gene, the two-year-old child of Mr..
and Mrs. E. e. McRae, of White
Store, was at the woodpile playing
with a sharp axe, when in some way
he managed to cut off all the fingers
of his right hand about the second
joint.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19
Dwyer Won Two Falls.
lBx the Associated Press

Birmingham, Ala, March I'm J..
Dryer won two out of three falls from
Jack Munro the we'll known pugilist
and wrestler, here, tonight
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19
j. A. HOLBRoOK.
Member of the House of Representa-
tiyes From Wilkes County.

John A. Holbrook, of Trap Hill wac
one of the most popular of the Repub-
lican members of the General As
sembiy, and took leading stand in
the minority. He served while he was
in Raleigh upon several of the i'm
portant committees Of the House, but
was unfortunately called away during
the session by the illness of a member
Of his family
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19

Capudine Cures Headaches and In
digestion-Effects immediate.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19

Capudine Cures Headaches and In
observation-disclosures immediate.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
LOOK TO YOUR SHERIFF.

Unhappily,it seems that President
Roosevelt's earnest and foreeful preach.
ing against lynching is not to mark the
disappearance of the practice. II is
worthy of note that before the Presi.
dent had fairly left the South an au-
trocious crime OF this sort had TO be
recorded in one of the states he visited,
and now, before the echoes of his voice
have fairly died away, comes word of
an attempt at lynching in Georgia,
which failed because one brave man
did his duty, and of another in Texas,
which succeeded because another sheriff
proved . craven. 1t is becoming more
and more evident that mere exhortation,
no matter where or by whom, will not
avail to abolish what is national, not
sectional, curse and disgrace. Appeals
made to reason and justice too frequent.
ly fail. Those made to fear rarely or
never do. 1t seems idle to tell people
the twice told tale that lynehing is NOR.
ally wrong or to argue again and again
that it is a social and political menace
of the first magnitude. Lynching goes
on just the same, and will go on until
mob after mob and community after
community has been made to realize
that it is dangerous and that he who
thus lawlessly seeks another's life is
more than likely to forfeit his own.
Communities that through wisdom or
chance elect sheriffs who can and will
shoot straight upon occasion will not be
disgraced by mob violence.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
"S0w'S EAR" POLITICS.

"You cannot make silk purse from
a sow's ear" Nor can you make a
decent, habitable, commendable place
for homes and business of city given
over to the rule of its slums. The
Democrats who are in charge of the
"Citizen's" campaign have not yet
to deny the soft impeachment
of their purpose to do this very thing,
and their denial has been 50 long com
ing, that its arrival now would be
hailed with derision and disgust. 1t is
an onerous task to lead forlorn hope,
but the ease and debonair style in
which the Democrats plunged into the
breach last Wednesday evening pre-
cludes all doubt of their having done
it unwittingly, and of their intention
to stay with it to the end. They are
wholly committed to the leadership and
the only fighting slogan at their com
mand, "oPEN UP THE TOWN"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
ELUSIVE STAPLE.

A wide variation has been witnessed
in the price of cotton within the las,
fortnight, and when permanent level
viii be found no man can say. The
staple forms magnificent market for
the trader just at present-for. without
a hint of news of any kind, range of
twenty points day is not surprising.
Notwithstanding the depression that oc.
casionally ensues, the South is reluctant
TO believe that the staple is destined to
settle down below the figure designated
as a minimum by the Asheville conven.
tion. Walter Clark, president of the
Mississippi division of the cotton asso.
citation, advises the planters Of his state
to hold on for higher price and they
will probably do 80. The fight that the
association determined upon is still be.
ing waged with yigor, with the ability
of the planters to maintain their posi-,
tion dependent upon the volume of
crop not yet known.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
NOT YET TOO LATE.

The citizens regime has one element
OF civic mismanagement to its discredit
1t has permitted the City of Astoria to
exceed its charter limit of Indebtedness
1t is several thousand dollars to the
bad, not enough as yet to impeach its
standing nor to vitiate the value of its
warrants, but just enough TO violate
the principle of safety and open an
avenue of injury that must be ad.
versely answered. 1t is dangerous
attitude, and must be reversed; not by
the reckless expedient of opening the
city" and enhancing its police revenues
and debauehing its public morale, but
by an honest system of retrenchment
in government expenditure all down the
line. The Republicans intend to do this
thing and to take the responsibility
without question. An honest city is as
good thing as an honest man.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
INDICTMENT WAS AMPLE.

II must have been made really worth
the while of the Budget to abandon its
serene and negative existance, and
plunge into the vortex of political dis.
cussion. The abnormal and innocuous
course it has followed so long, indeed
ever since it fell out with its Demo,
cratic friends, has been quite strain
upon its readers, and the new depar-
ture is made, no doubt, to afford its
clientele something to read besides the
reprinted stuff from the Portland press
that did not have to be credited to its
proper source because everyone was
aware of it as soon as il appeared in
the cute little Evening Budget. All
right, the more the merrier
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
GAY WINTER WINDOW BOXES.
A Plan to Have Flowers All Winter
Why House Plants Are Killed.

Perhaps the best, most seryiceable and
artistic way to keep winter plants Is in
window boxes, placed inside the window
and about six to twelve inches from the
glass. So far as the plants are con.
cerned any box will do, provided it is
well drained, but by all means have it
made to fit the window. Paint il bn the
outside in any color appropriate to the
surroundings. Ii should be six to eight
inches wide and six inches deep, with
several holes drilled in the bottom for
drainage. A tray or tin pan of CORES.
ponding size should be provided to catch
the water that soaks through, but the
box should not be set down tightly into
this. Allow enough space all round to
admit free circulation Of air. Small
blocks OF wood about an inch thick plac.
ed in the bottom of the pan will elevate
the box sufficiently. believe that this
one thing is responsible for more deaths
of house plants than all other neglect or
mismanagement.-J. I. Scott in the
Garden Magazine.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
KINGLY SCRUB.

Complaint is made in Europe Of the
manner in which young Alfonso Of
Spain is seeking bride, which strikes
the impartial observers as being too
much like the way a man would choose
a horse, The juvenile monarch, for he
is good deal of boy yet, is making
a tour of inspection of the Catholic
courts Of Europe, which his quite public
and the question is asked il II would
not be possible to arrange the prelimin.
aries of his probable marriage in more
delicate way, 50 as TO save the feelings
of the rjected princesses. Certainly no
self.respecting parent Of nobility, or any
other walks of life, would permit such
a proceeding in regard to his daughters,
but possibly the glitter of prospective
crown may blind some of the princes
and dukes TO the decencies of life.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
LEVY DENIES RUM0R.
Says Horn Will Not Retire from the
Northern Pacific,

st. Paul, Nov. &c. NJ. Levey, third
vice president Of the Northern Pacific
who is in st. Paul on one Of his period.
ical trips, denied emphatically tonight
the rumor that II. J. Horn, general
manager Of the Northern Pacific. was
going to leave.
"There is absolutely no truth in the
report at ALL" said Mr.. Levey.
Asked concernig the letting of the
contract for the extension between
Grangeville and Lewiston, Idaho, Mr..
Leyey stated that nothing had been
done as yet. The extnsion is an assnr.
ed fact, but the officials are still de.
liberating concerning the letting of the
contract.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
SCIPI0 HAS THE FLOOR.

The San Bernardino Times. Index ac.
cuses the Redlands Citrograph of pro.
Tossing umbrage" Fancy the radiant
and Useate Skipio Craig making an
empty profession of anything. He is
nothing less than outrageous. lie is
spreader and u reacher from away
back. and reformer for the fun of the
thing. lie is no idle professor. On the
contrary skip is the skippiest OF all
skippers, He prints the neatest paper
in the state on press alternately used
for pressing cider and baling hay, and
he gets good deal of gray matter in
it too, He profess anything Perish
the thought.-E.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
SPARE THIS AT LEAST.

A way to check depredations and pre-.
serve Niagara Falls for all time seems
open. The international Waterways
Commission, which recently sat in Buff
falo, recommended to the Governments
of the United States and Canada that
steps be taken to prevent the granting
of corporate rights and franchises for
the use of the waters of Niagara river
until the commission could collect in
formation and report fully on the mat
ter. Our Attomey-General, in answer
b the President, has suggested that,
through an agreement between the
United States and British Governments
to treat the river. falls and rapids as
under international jurisdiction. subor-
dinating the rights of New York and
Ontario to the National Governments,
the end could be accomplished. As
matter of fact, the boundary line runs
in the middle of the river and it should
therefore be an international not mere
ly an interstate, matter President
Roosevelt will doubtless make some
recommendations in his next message,
and we may be sure they will be prae-
tial.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
Mans Unreasonableness.

is often as great as woman's. But Thos
s. Austin. Mgr. Of the "Reublican" Of
Levenworth, Ind, was not unreason.
able, when he refused TO allow the doe.
tors to operate on his wife. for female
trouble, Instead" he says, I'VE con.
cluded to try Electric Bitters. Ny wife
was then so sick she could hardly leave
her bed, and five t5l physicians had
failed to relieve her. After taking Elec.
trio Bittsn, she was perfectly cured,
AMI can now perform all her household
d tea" Guaranteed by Charles Rogers,
druggist, price SOC. ....
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21

Consumption ruEs in our family
and through II lost my mother" write,
L. b. Reid. Of Harmony. Me. For IN,
past five years however. on the sligh,
est sign Of cough Of cold have taken
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con.
sumption which has saved me from
serious lung trouble" His mothers
death was sad loss 10 Mr.. Ricd. but hs
learned that lung trouble must not be
neglected, and how to cure II. Quickest
relief and cure for coughts and colds
Price SOC and sl.oo; guaranteed at
Charles Rogers drug store. Trial bottle
free. .-..
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21
SANS PEUR EFT SANS REPRocHE.

The Republicans Of Astoria have
enough sins of omission and commission
to answer for, one year with another,
Heaven knows, but the consensus of
its afrront and mi-demenor bears no
such strain as is now being perpetrated
by the Democrats and their allies,
namely, the subyersion of the city TO
the wanton rule Of the "Wide Open"
crowd,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21

Investigation reveals the great truth
that all the men in history or business
who woke to find themselves famous
did lot of hard work before going to
bed.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-11-21

When We look at Germany's new tar.
in, we can get some idea Of how the
United States tariff looks to the busi.
ness men of other countries.