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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
APPRECIATED COMMENTATOR.

The best test of the general accept
ability or usefulness of a newspaper is
it's circulation. The News and Obser-
YER is the only newspaper in North
CAROLINA, daily or weekly, that has ten
thousand subscribers. Evidence of
appreciation of the paper stimulates
the management to steadily increasing
efforts to make the paper worthy of
it's large and growing subscription list.
If Raleigh had as good a train sched-
ule going North as it enjoys East, the
circulation would grow with great ra-
pidity. But it grows gratifyingly in
Mr~nhy and all intermediate points as
wei as at Manteo and all intermediate
points.
The editor wishes to thank many
subscribers for appreciative words
about the excellence of Sundays pa
per. One of the first men in North
Carolina. who knows as well what
makes a good paper as any man in the
State says in private letter received
on yesterday:
81 wish to express my qualification
at the real value and substantial use
fulness of The News and Observer.
1t is seldom that any issue is made
that does not contain some article
worth filing away. In particular, 1 APP
plauded to the echo your remarks
on the Greensboro speeches.
I'm Sundays paper the historical ar
ticle on Sherman is of such value that
it ought to be put in the libraries.
While among other articles / thor
oughly enjoyed Cicero Harris on the
Editors.
THE editorial on Insurance is wor~
thy of receiving the best attention OF
our statesmen"
The article on Sherman's march
through North Carolina, SO justly and
so highly commended. was written by
Rev. Marion T. Plyer. pastor of the
Methodist church at Chapel Hill, who
is a careful student and a scholarly
writer, as we'll as able minister of the
gospel.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

there is a square DEAL, and they do
say that by square deal Tom means
that having been punished by being
kept outside the breastworks eight
years because he preferred Reed to
Mckinley and because he favored the
Constitutional Amendment. he wants
a place at the pie-counter. He evil
IDENTIFY thinks he is going to get it
for he says: "this we are assured and
from the men whose guiding hands
are on the wheel, we shall receive"
This assurance is gratifying. We are
his talented father as minister to
Peru or succeed to the ermine as
judge in Florida, province that the
Republican national administration
enough to hold judicial stations, be-
cause it imports them from other
states. We rather guess that it will
be the Florida judgeship. for the
mind of Thomas the Second seems to
be fixed Floridaward as this para
graph from his speech would indicate:
81 heard suggestion the other
day that we set aside one of the
smaller Philippine islands, and colon
ize the remnants of Democracy there.
1t is not necessary. We are rapidly
forcing them South, and will soon
have them, in the language of an old
darkey, 'curtailed in their action to
the Everglades of Florida"
If Thomas the Second is to rule
over Florida, we thank him for agree
ing to send all the Democrats to that
State instead of to the Philippine Is
lands, and we trust he will be kind
to the remnant"
The speech of Mr.. Settle was, after
his square deal' peroration, devoted
to showing that the Democrats could
be licked in North Carolina If the Re-
publicans would quit fighting each
other and concentrate on fighting
Democrats. AS long as there is any
Federal pie in prospect, the Demo-
Gratis are safe! A North Carolina Re-
publican never sees anything beyond
Federal patronage and "fy-blowing"
the fellow who is in his way.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
WHAT OF COTTON?

The Census Report on cotton will be
issued today and the whole cotton
world is looking forward to it with
much interest. The farmers in some
sections have of late been selling more
freely on the rise in price, but the
bulk of the farmers are declining to
sell and standing by the agreement to
hold and plant a small crop. Therein
their judgment is approved by many
business men. Writing of the situation
and the outlook, j. H. Parker & Co.,
says:
Crop preparations are still back
ward, but weather reports for the
week are decidedly more favorable,
ana planting operations have made
considerable progress. Reports from
manufacturing centerS, both in Europe
and this country, continue to be most
encouraging and many of our domestic
mills have sold their product six
months in advance, while English
mills, in some instances, have sold
their output one year in advance, and,
to this extent, are snorC OF the actual
cotton. The prosperous outlook for
the mills the coming year is so encour-
aging that we cannot but believe that
continue so active for the next two or
three months, at least until something
definite is knowns as to the next crop,
that the present level of prices will be
sustained, and in case of a backward
start and unfavorable weather in the
months of May and June, a very de-
Cided advance over the present level
of prices is more than probable Pend
ind developments as to the next crop
there would seem to be no reason for
the holders of the balance of this crop
to change the attitude they have
maintained since the first of the year
as it has worked so far so successful
ly in their interests. The Census Re-
port to be issued on Tuesday next is
looked forward to with considerable
interest, but If it does not give an
amount ginned exceeding 10 IL mill
lion bales, we thing it will have pra-
Totally no effect upon the course of
the prices. We are likely TO have a
narrow, fluctuating marked pending
further developments, with profession
al scalping operations predominating,
but we can see no basis, owing to the
strong spot situation, and the large
consumption, to justify more than
temporary declines, and believe that
there is little risk in buying around
the present level of prices with the
prospects of substantial advance"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

walls of business and by neglect of symp-
toms which have been warning him q
year past, that his stomach was failing
in it's duties"
The symptoms of a diSordered stomach
are, among others, variable appetite, sour
rlslngs, heartburn, undue fullness after
eating, dull headache, dingy complexion,
discolored eye, fluctuations in physical
strength, nervousness, sleeplessneSS de-
pondency. No person will have all these
symptoms at once.
The restoration of the stomach to sound
health, begins with the first dose of Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. The
cure progresses until the functions of the
stomach are in healthy operation. Then
the nerves are quiet and strong, the APP
petite healthtul, the sleep restful, the eye
bright, the complexion clear.
vPlease accept my thanks for the benefit
which my child received from your mcdi-
cine" writes Mrs. w. A. Morgan. OF Silica.
Mo- "He had been troubled for nearly q
year with liver complaint. indigestion and
constipation. | gave him your Golden
Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets,
and they did him great good. | gave him
the Discovery about eight months, and
several Walls OF the Pellets. He seems to
be perfectly well now"
If you want a cure accept no substitute
for "Golden Medical Discovery"
~,srco.a These ORIGINAL Little Liver
bsNSSCs Pills, first put up by old DIR.
NeWeN@ T. " Pierce over 40 years ago.
have been much initiated but
never equaled. They're made of purely veg
etable. concentrated and refined medicinal
principles, extracted from native American
roots and plants. They speedily relieve and
cure foul, torpid and deranged StOmachs
Livers and Bowels and their attendant dis
treSSful ailments. One or two q laxative,
three or four cathartic.
49,. 80
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
Big Lettuce Crop.
(Fayetteville Observer

The reporter hears from all the
growers fine accounts of the spring
lettuce crop, and the yield promises
to be not only very large but excel
lent in quality. A recent walk through
the small but beautiful truck farm
of Capt. j. M. Wright on Ramsey
street was very interesting. Besides
cabbage, onions, beets, etc, Capt.
Wright has planted 1900 lettuce
plants, but, making liberal allowances
for all sorts of loss and accident, he
calculates on 10000 heads for mar
ket
The average farmer will be sur
prised to learn, though, that Capt.
Wright has already put on his lettuce
beds, much less than an acre i'm ex-
tent, 1000 pounds of fertilizer
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

provides the remedy of the law; there
remains the duty of its enforcement
by men who place their duties to the
entire public above the fear of the
making of a class of enemies.
Aside from the usual provisions re-
garding persons strolling about in
idleness, ETC., the act contains these
two trenchant provisions, as to those
who shall be deemed Migrants under
the law:
Persons leading an idle, immoral
or prohlgate life, who have no prop
erty to- support them, and who are
able TO work. and who do not work.
professional gamblers living in
idleness."
1t is we'll known that Raleigh and
almost every other city of any size
has within its population a goodly
number of gentlemen who fall under
these two provisions. The fault of
the vagrancy law hitherto has been
that money was the only test-the
strolling mechanic, lettering about
town in the hope of a job, might be
punished, the tramp caught in the
slip-knot of the law, might be sent
to the roads for vagrancy for want
of better charge to be proved; but
the daytime idler the man with the
cigar with the prominent red band,
the fellow of the white vest and the
pointed patent leather shoes and the
carnation in his button hole and the
perfume on his handkerchief and the
devil of wise dissipation in his eye
has been let alone, because he has the
price! 1t is easy to see which class of
citizen is the most dangerous. Granted
that both look ultimately to robbery of
one sort or another for support, the
very clothes themselves of the flash
sport show the greater capacity for
evil to the community that lies in his
walk through life. The law having
removed the distinction between pow
erty-stricken and successful vice and
idleness it is the duty of the city au-
thorities to make it a working rather
than a printed principle.
Harsh as it may southland it is
here given in the interest of a spur to
public decency and enforcement of
the law-there are today at least a
dozen well known characters in Raj
eigh who are supported solely through
the earnings of the shame of aban-
doned women.
There are a good handful of men
who openly parade the streets, the
places and the gambling
rooms of Raleigh, who depend for
their existence solely on the playing
of cards or other games either of
chance or in which they possess a
special ability.
Any wen informed citizen can cata-
logue a dozen of these gentry at
thought of the facts here given. Pre-
sumably the police know them also.
If they do not the languid ease with
which they lean against the corners
of the buildings in the hours when
busy men are at work would be suffi-
cient indication of their personality.
And the flagrancy of their conduct
is only equalled by the prosperity of
the brood. The suckers will continue
to exist, but for q place in which
everybody's business is so we'll known
as that of Raleigh, it is a disgrace
that, with the machinery of the law
at hand, the city by the keeping off of
hands from the human spiders who in
fest her streets should contribute to
the drawing of their blood.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

The newest enterprise at Winter
Vile is the Pitt County Oil Mills, and
it is doing fine business. We were
shown through the plant and its
working was very interesting. Some
thing like 10000 is invested in this
plant and It means much for the
town. GreenVille Reflector.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
TOM WANTS A SQUARE DEAL

One by one the speeches, spoken
and unspoken, of the famous gather
ing of Tar Heel pie-hunters is get
ting into print. The sympathizers are
giving them out on the installment
plan.
Tom Settles speech was on 1.-THE
Party's Opportunity in North Caro-
lima" In a sentence his column long
speech could be summed up in the
words 1T has no opportunity unless
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

Justice Brewers speech, overruled
by the Supreme Court of the United
States, is now taking a second round
in the liquor newspapers. Now sup
pose they print the decision of the
Supreme Court which knocked Justice
Brewers speech into smithereens! But
they'll not do it!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
A-wantin' of no Hard Feelings.

Charlotte Observer.)
The Observer is requested to print
the following:
Messrs. A. c.. Mangum, G.. F. Bason.
and G. d. Holland, Gastonia, N. c.:
Dea" Sirs:-Replying to your let
ctr of the 22nd instant. 1 will state
that l was not correctly reported in
the article mentioned, and that in
what / did say on the occasion, / had
no reference to either of you.
Yours truly,
o. r. MASON.
Gastonia, March 25, 1905.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
seTIIEN LET THE JACkASSES
BRAY"
lRhamkatte Roaster.l

"Dooley," said Mr.. Hennessy, "phat
makes some iv them harp 50 on tn
MISTAKES iv tn Legislachoore? ?"
1T is simple. me by; tn ar-re look
in ahead; they ar-re dreamin' iv tn
tonne when two shtrong parthies will
wrestle with ach ither in tn fight FIR
tn shpoils. Ye know, Hennessy emmy
Legislachoore, be it's very MATCHBOX,
will make MISTAKES. There niver will
be wan thot kin place livery man. TIL
pigs would fly loike tn bur-ruds if
wan should meet an tn Durham
Hearald wouldn't find meetrial FIR
pungent parygraffs- TIL cows would
take their places alongside tn
supraner in tn church quires Nv tn
Independent Dimycratic organ or
pianer, as tn case mebbe, didn't pour
out its wrath upon tn onforchunatc
heads Nv tn members. TIL truth w
tn matther is, Tennessee, tn human
race is wan iv tn dimndest fool insti-
tutions thot is now extant. Ye PLACE
wan iv it's Numbers an three iv thin
will sler yure head frum we body. If
we PLACE three iv thin, wan will blow
We up with itor-glycerine, an If We
PLACE all iv thin We will be astracised
because We ar-re just. TIL o'ny thing
We kin do is to do PLAT We think will
be somewhere in tn township iv roight
an thin let tn jackasses bray till they
contract complicated gastritis. TIL
Independent Dimycrat palmer, or or
gan, as the case mebbe, is wan iv tn
most valyable assets iv tn Republican
partly in tn Shtate We cant guide
yureself be their utterances, because
they ar-re foriver on tn side iv whis-
key an frayum iv shpach whin tn
fraydum iv shpach is agin tn Dimy-
crat partly. TIL Legislachoore did, OF
am thinkin', PLAT it thot CONSTRUCTED
tn roight an tn proper thing to do.
If it had its failins, PLACE yure homer,
whin did liver a Legislachoore meet in
tn Shtate thot didn't hev it's failins?
1t is tn saddest iv commentaries on a
mons intelligence to criticize tn law
maxim power, FIR tn rayson thot emmy
fool kin set off an look on an tell We
how to do a thing betther than We kin
do it yureSelf. 1t is tn nachoor iv
tn ass to bray an a fool to harp on
tn MISTAKES iv tn Legislachoore. TIL
Legislachoore just returned to it's hap
by home is wan iv tn same kind thot
has been meetin in North Caliner FIR
tn last siven hundred years an the
o'ny thing thot was excipshunal about
it was thot there was more asses
brayin' at it thin liver was known
oafure."
befure."
thot?" asked Mr.. Hennesy.
BE jabbers, Hennessy an its SIM
pie. TIL popylashun has increased"
said Mr.. Dooley
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

The next Board of Aldermen of
Raleigh will have to settle the water
question for this city because the
franchise of the water company ex-
pires next year. 1t is important to
have no man as Alderman who has
any direct or indirect interest in the
water company. The city will need
clear heads interested only for the
good OF the city.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

cate showed that
death resulted
from typhoid
fever. The doctor
himself said to a
d: vt h at
man was a suicide.
He had a splendid
constitu tfon. /
could. have pulled
him through if his
stomach had been
sound. But he
ruined his stomach
by hasty meals,
Snatcled in inter-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

There has not been day in North
Carolina since 1870 when the Repub-
lican party was not wholly dominated
by revenue officers. That was prob
ably why Yerkes, the head "docdler''
was brought down to crack the whip.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

Mr. Ed Clark is the first one of the
rtuck farmers of New Bern if not in
this section at large to ship lettuce to
Northern cities. He has sent con-
siderable quantity during the past few
days. The prices range from $3.50
to $500 per basket.-New Bern Jour
nal!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
good Of the city.

If Judge Pritchard undertakes to
jail everybody who has expressed con-
tempt for some act or decree of Judge
Purnell, the jails and penitentiaries
will have to be greatly enlarged
Rhamkatte Rooster.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

The Southern Railway acts always
upon one consistent motto: 1--WE want
the earth with a barbcd wire fence
around it, and the people be H.. -"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
A MORNING TONIC.
(Sidney Smith.1

If it be my lot TO crawl. will crawl
contentedly; if to fly. ] will fly with al
acrity; but as long as / can possibly
avoid it l will never be unhappy. II
with a pleasant wife, three children
and many friends who wish me we'll
cannot be happy, am very silly, fool
ish fellow. and what becomes OF me
is of very little consequence.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

A woman never appreciates the abb
solute simplicity of man until she ac-
cidentaly discovers that, like life, he is
all vanity.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
A CREAMY FOOD

SCOTS Emulsion is cod
liver oil prepared as a food
not a food like bread or meat,
but more like cream; in fact,
it is the cream of cod liver
oil. At the same time it is a
blood-maker, a nerve tonic
and a fesh-builder. But
principally it is food for tired
and weak digestions, for all
who are fat-starved and thin.
tits pleasant to take; children
like it and ask for more.
Well send you sample, free
SCOTT g. BOVINE, 400 Pearl Street. New York
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

The Democrats could afford to pay
the bill if the Tar-Heel CLUB banquet
will hold another banquet and get
Yerkes and Dixon to crate.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

The Washington correspondent OF
the Richmond Dispatch says the Re-
publicans returning from the Green's
boro pow-wow said it was "a frost"
They were Hospitality entertained but
got no comfort in a political way.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

A rich man died the other day. He died
IN the very midsummer of life, and he left
Instantly $l000,OOO. The doctors certif
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

1t is not recorded that Judge Alpha
bet Robinson spoke at Greensboro. The
last time he spoke in a Republican
gathering in Greensboro he was Kissed
because he spoke truly of an honored
North Carolinian the convention was
abusing, and because he protested
against tying the Republican party to
the Whiskey jug. Perhaps the mana
gers thought it best to muzzle him
this time for fear he might tell other
unpalatable truths.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

Railway to show it's contempt for
North Carolina, which pays its hun
dreds of thousands of dollars annually,
by rushing into the Federal court. Any
ordinary litigant has to try title l.
land in the orderly way. The Southern
seeks to try it in the Federal court.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28

When we had negro rule in North
Carolina, Blackburn and the other
Lilly White Radicals" denied it. Now
that the Democrats have put an end
to it. they say that the Republican
party can be trusted now that there lis
no danger of negro domination"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-28
STATE NEWS.

Gastonia, March IS. 1905.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16

attention of others in the building; but there was
only way out, and that was via a smashed lock.
AT last he succeeded He opened the door and
looked into the darkness of the staircase far
the light burning within served to umine it. No
one appeared. Evidently the occupants of the
remaining flats either had not heard the racket
were wise people who minded their business
He turned out the gas and CROPPED slow passage
down the stairs. He had difficulty in reaching
the street. Out of curiosity he walked toward
Shaftesbury-ave. and looked at the house named
on the newspaper wrapper. AS he surmised, it
dingy shop, devoted to the sale of Continental
journals and a miscellaneous assortment of other
goods which no reasonable being ever could wish to
purchase. He did not know how tired he was until
he reached his rooms. Then it needed an effort
to undress before he fell asleep.
With the morning more fixed determine
ton to free himself from the which beset him
during these final hours of spoiled holiday. He
wrote to birmingham brief summary of events
since they parted, posted the letter, and left
Charing Cross Station by the eleven "A NJ. train for
Paris.
Three days later he joined P. & o. steamer at
Marseilles and found himself in the familiar environ
ment of Anglo-India utterly cut off, as it seemed,
from all further participation in the lives of either
Lady Ermyntrude Grandson her high-paced
Russian
1t is in such wise that man plans his future
needless of the oft-repeaed lesson that the build
ing of castles, or it may be dungeons, in Spain is
a fantastic operation at the best.
Certainly young officer returning to his Indian
regiment without special ties powerful home
influence at work on his behalf, reasonably might
expect that the next fortnight would him
nearing the Coral Strand and learning once more
how to make life comfortable in temperature of
a hundred-and anything.
But minor light of the Foreign Office
suddenly woke up to the fact that Russia and
Persia had appointed Boundary Commission to
determine certain disputed frontier lines the
southeast corner of the Caspian.
The way of the Russian bear toward the Persian
lamb is suspciously akin to that of the wolf in
the fable, SO Whitehall thought it would be good