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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
ANOTHER GOOD MAN TALKING
NONSENSE.

The less a. man knows about the
negro problem, the more he talks
about it and the surer he is he is the
only man who fully understands it.
The latest example of this is Rev. DIR.
Dean Richmond Rabbit, an Episco-
pal clergyman of Brooklyn, who has
been in Washington to tell about the
true solution of the negro problem.
He says it is for the negro to leave
the South and settle in the North.
Booker Washington, Joseph G.
Price and every other capable leader
of the negro race has given to the
members of his race contrary advice,
told them to remain in the South, and
that among Southern people they
would End their best friends.
And the negroes know that Booker
Washington has a better opportunity
to understand the true situation in
the South. His advice is therefore
worth ten times more than Dean
Barrett's for the Brooklyn preacher
is talking theoretically while the Ala
bama teacher is talking from per-
sonal knowledge.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
is TT A CASE OF CAUSE AND
EFFECT?

One of the best local papers in
North Carolina is the Burlington
News and it's editor is a model man
in his private life-sober and free
from vice of any kind. Therefore it
was rather surprising to read the fol-
lowing on the leading editorial in the
current issue of the News: Z
THE people of Burlington are 'd-n
tired of some things too
That was about the hottest and
shortest editorial of the year. proving
that brevity ''gits thar" when an edi-
tor is aroused. Why does this calm
and model young man thus drop into
semi profanity in the first lines of his
editorial page? That question would
not down but careful reading of the
local column of the News seemed to
furnish an answer in the following
local paragraph:
1--WE had the grippe last week, anu
a friend of ours sent us little good
rye-16 years of age. We bought q
pound of rock candy and went home
and fixed up to paralyZe the grippe.
Our four-year-old boy ate up the rock
candy and the old lady drank up the
liquor. We are strictly in favor of
temperance now. Jug law and ALL"
In view of the provocation. who
can find the heart to blame the editor
for one prcfane "d-n?" No doubt
the Recor ling Angel dropped tear
and blotted it out.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
Spirit of the Press
North Carolina Leads, as Usual.

North Carolina Leads, as Usual.
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The first State, other than Virginia,
to practically endorse the proposed
jamestown Exposition, and to come
to the aid of Virginia in properly cele-
brating the three hundredth anniver-
sary of the settlement of this country
by white people is North Carolina.
The Legislature of that State in its
closing hours passed bill appropriate
ing money to enable the Old North
State to have a home at jamestown
and make an exhibit at the great Ex-
position that is sure to be held in
1907.
Virginia has always looked to
North Carolina for aid and comfort,
and has never looked in vain. In
1875 North Caroinians held con-
vention at Hillsboro, in the month of
August, and by act of that convention
the people of that State seeded"
threw off the British yoke and at once
the Carolinians prepared for serious
business Colonel afterwards Gen
eraD Robert Howe quickly raised re-
quirement of thousand men, and by
the first of October. had marched to
the defense of Norfolk. soon to be
menaced by the British. Thus it hap
pellSu tIldIf tie ITSL lIOOpo AAOlAl NC
yond Virginia borders to come to the
defense of Virginia in 1875 came from
the heart of North Carolina.
Again, in 1851 the first soldiers from
beyond the State line to come UP to
Virginia's defense. were the men of
Colonel afterwards GeneraD d. H.
Hills regiment, who received their
first baptism of fire at Bethel.
Again in the dark days of Virginia's
second reconstruction. when parti-
san majority in the Senate of the
United States was Investigating the
so-called "Danville riot" and striving
to humiliate some of the best and
noblest of the Virginia manhood, and
at a period when that manhood was
for the time being without a repre-
sentative in the Senate the peerless
Zebulon B. Vance, of North Carolina,
became the champion of insulted Vir-
ginians, and students of history know
how well and hoy faithfully he stood
by them.
And, now again, and in yet differ
ent way, North Carolina comes up to
the help of he Old Dominion.
Hurrah for the old North State, for
ever!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

haven for quick divorces, and in
proof of that claim prints this record
for one day: Total number of cases
heard, IA; average time in which each
was disposed of, IA minutes. 3S 81
seconds; total time consumed 205
minutes. North Carolina can beat
that record. 1T is said that some
months ago five divorces were granted
in Wake county in five minutes. In
Guilford Superior Court less than a
year ago this writer witnessed a di-
vorce trial that lasted less than five
minutes. The usual procedure, so we
are told, is for divorce cases to be
tried while waiting on witnesses for
some important easel
The new divorce laws will do much
good but we venture to suggest to
Superior Court Judges that if they will
refuse to permit divorce cases to be
railroaded through they will be doinS
a high public service. No divorce
ought TO be granted without full
hearing and careful examination. No
case can be tried and sifted in few
moments. The hasty trials are desired
by parties wishing to shut off thor
ough investigation. Judges should not
permit haste in these matters more
important than any suit for money or
land or any criminal action.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
THE LATE SENATOR BATE.

One by one the great Southern
statesmen who served their State with
distinction in the Confederate army
are passing away. Vest and Vance
and Ransom have gone to their re-,
ward. Yesterday Senator Bate, of
Tennessee was called to his reward.
He had been Judge, Governor, Senator,
General. He served his country in
every position to which he was called
with fidelity and ability. He enjoyed
the confidence of Tennessee to the
fullest degree, and though feeble
health has of late impaired his eff
cheney, he was recently reelected for
a six years term. No man could defeat
him in Tennessee. He was courag-
cous, honest, sincere and splendid
type of the incorruptible statesmen of
the old school.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
CITY SHOULD OWN WATER.
Every Candidate Should State How He
Stands on Municipal Ownership.

To the Editor: I was very glad to
see that in a short editorial this morn
ing you took strong ground in favor
of 'city ownership" of the water
works | have for many years been
an earnest advocate of municipal own
ership of public utilities, and, in 1893
introduced in our ward primary a res
olution looking to this end, which at
ter being amended so as to apply only
to the waterWorks was unanimously
adopted. The present mayor, who
was a candidate for the Democratic
nomination, in a public letter, advocat-
ed this measure and, in my opinion,
secured the nomination on this issue.
That was the last heard of the mat
ter. Although under the ordinance
granting the franchise to the Water
Company, the city could have pur-
chased the waterworks, no step in this
direction has been taken.
The present franchise expires in No
vember, 1905, and the next mayor and
board of aldermen will be confronted
with the question as to what policy
shall be pursued by the city. 1t is
important, therefore, that no one shall
be nominated for mayor or alderman
who is not heartily and sincerely in
favor of this important public utility.
The people of the whole city are deep
~ interested in the matter. The
health of the people is largely depend
ent on the abundant use of water, and
1t is the duty of the city to see that 1t
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
DIVORCES WHILE YOU WAIT.

No single piece of legislation in a
decade has been so generally approved
as the Eller- McNinch-Bi law that
passed the General Assembly 1t goes
back to The Code, with an improve
ment on The Code causes for divorce
first unsuccessfully offered by Mr..
Biggs in the House and later success
fully by Mr.. Eller in the Senate. I'M
der that law we shall see the number
of divorces steadily decrease in North
Carolina. AS showing the need of bet
ter divorce laws, the following is taken
from the Burlington News:
divorces while you wait--this
seemed to be the order of business in
the court room last Monday morning.
We stepped in the court room for
about fifteen minutes and heard three
divorce cases disposed Of Two were
granted divorce, and the third failed
on technical grounds, and will have
another chance, when she will get it.
The two women VINO got the divorces
were very pretty. young girls of not
more than twenty years of age, both
of whom, as we understood 1t, married
brothers, and had lived together only
q few years We do not believe in di-
vorce laws that will bind people to-
gether in spite CT everything else. but
we do not believe in allowing divorces
on just any ground. There is a safe
middle ground
1t is not alone in North Carolina
that divorces are granted while you
walt The New York World is of the
opinion that New York City is the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
THE CITY SHOULD OWN IT'S
WATER.

When Mayor Powell was first
candidate for mayor he ran upon a
platform that the city should own
the water-works system. 1t was
sensible and solid platform. But the
people did not require the aldermen
chosen to define their position upon
municipal ownership of water and so
nothing has been done.
The present franchise of the Wake
Water Company expires in November,
1906, and the next mayor and board
of aldermen must settle the question
whether the city shall own its wa
ter or extend the franchise. Else
where we print a communication from
Mr. Ed. Chambers Smith urging that
every candidate for mayor and alder
man define his position upon this inn
portant queStion-by far the most inn
portant one that will concern Raleigh
during the next city administration.
No man ought to be elected as mayor
or member of the board of aldermen
who does not stand for city ownership
Oh WdLeI. Acl OH SoiAoAuoeSo oPSeNAA
out
The time ought to be ended when
voters in Raleigh will vote for man
because he is "a clever fellow or be-
cause he trades with me-" or lis kin
to my wife, or 'belongs to my lodge
or my church. As long as such coli
siderations prevail in any city the gov
eminent will be weak and without a
policy that makes for city progress.
The only man worthy to be trusted
with these responsible positions is 4
man who has positive views upon this
chief question and who will give ex-
preston to these views. Let the
voters take no pig in bag" Let
every candidate declare his position.
and stand or fall by it. If none of
the present candidates will take up the
fight of the people for a system that
will give cheaper water, let the pro-
gressiye men of the city bring out a
candidate who will do so.
P. $40 man should beknom-
mated for mayor or aldermen who
is interested himself or by his
family in any corporation dependent
upon franchises from the city.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

How often do we hear women say: II
seems as though my back would break, +"
or Don't speak to me, / am all out OF
sorts?" These significant remarks prove
that the system requires attention.
Backache and " the blues" are direct
symptoms of an inward trouble which
will sooner or later declare itself. 1t
may be caused by diseased kidneys or
some uterine arrangement. Nature
requires assistance and at once, and
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Com
pound instantly asserts its curative
powers in all those peculiar ailments OF
women. 1t has been the standby OF
intelligent American women for twenty
years, and the ablest specialists agree
that it is the most universally success
full remedy for woman's ills known to
medicine.
The following letters from Mrs.
Holmes and Mrs. Cotrely are among
the many thousands which Mrs. Pink
ham has received this year from those
whom she has relieved.
Surely such testimony is convincing.
Mrs. j. G. Holmes, of Larimore, North
Dakota, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
q have suffered everything with backache
and womb trouble-I let the trouble run on
until my system was in such condition that
was unable to be about, and then it was
commenced to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. If l had only known how
much suffering would have saved, should
have taken it months sooner-for few
weeks treatment made me well and strong.
My backaches and headachesare all gone and
/ suffer no pain at my menstrual periods
whereas before l took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound / suffered intense pain. !"
Mrs. Emma Cotrely, 100 East 18th
Street, New York City, writes:
ask Mrs. Pinkham'S AdYiCe-A Won
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
ONLY BIG AND HONEST MEN
SHOULD GO ON THE BENCH.


"Mr. Dayton is not a big enough
man to be a judge" is the reason
Senator Bailey gives for his objection
to the confirmation of the new-ap-
pointee for Federal judge in West
Virginia.
That is an objection that is sell
dom heard, but is it not the most valid
sort of an objection? If it had pre-
vailed hitherto. the South would have
been saved some precious little fellows
who are rafting around on the bench.
There is need for stressing the objec-
ion of Senator Bailey. The dispo-
sition to overlook bigness of intellect
in making appointments to the bench
is too prevalent. Some people seem
to think that character or industry
makes up for mental Submarines. 1t
is great mistake. The BENCH ought
to be one place to which no man ex-
cept big man will be called.
In the case of Mr.. Dayton he is
essentially a small bore and crafty
politician who has obtained a pull
by his political success and for that
reason, and that reason alone, is ele-
waited to the bench. According to the
news from Washington, his first act
will be to appoint as clerk a man OBJ
noxious to the West Virginia Senators,
named by certain corporations to
which he owes obligations. Accord
ing to the Washington Post, some
West Virginia Republicans are COM
menting upon "the character of the
Presidents judicial appointment
when he is pounding Congress for
legislation against powerful corpora
tions." If Mr.. Dayton proposes to let
great corporations name his clerk
and is himself under obligations to
them the President is most inconsis-
tent in asking Congress to enact leg
islation to check powerful corpora
tons and then appoint men to the
bench who will construe away the
statutes of Congress- The Interstate
Commerce Commission act was
pretty good law when it was enacted,
but successive presidents have packed
the bench with railroad lawyers who
have construed away all it's powers
and left it a mere skeleton. If Mr..
Roosevelt is in earnest in desiring real
effective legislation upon railroad
rates and he succeeds in getting such a
law through the corporation-Senate
he will undo all that he is working
for if he appoints to the bench men
who are under obligations to great
corporations. They will interpret
any law he can have passed to mean
nothing and render it null and void.
The greatest menace today to the
proper regulation of great corpora
tons and the suppression of trusts is
to be found in the lower Federal
court judges. Most of them owe
their appointment to great railroad
corporation, or a trust, or both. Who
can expect righteous judgments from
such judicial officers?
The Senators who call public at
tention to the antecedents of men
named for judicial positions and OPP
pose the elevation of small men to
the bench are doing public service
that deserves public commentator.
Only big men and honest men
ought to be elevated to the bench.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

is supplied at a rate in the reach Of
all.
The present tendency is strongly to-
wards municipal ownership and Raj
eigh should not be behind. II the
matter is agitated our people will not
support for mayor or alderman any
man who is not a known advocate OF
the measure They must also be men
who will do things after they they get
in.
Respectfully,
ED. CHAMBERS SMITH.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
BETTER OBEY THE LAW.

The two bucket shops" or Eek
changes" Cone is tweedledee and the
other is tweedledum) will obey the
law and shut up shop. The one in
Raleigh will decline to take new or.
ders. Others are waiting for legal
advice.
Everybody in North Carolina knows
the intention of the General Assem-
bly,. 1t was to shut up these shops.
At the same time it was not the i'm
tention of the Legislature to prevent
wholesale merchants from obtaining
quotations necessary in their business.
The suggestion THAT this law is I'M
constitutional because it is class leg
islation will not hold. The men in
charge of these, shops had better shut
up and go into a better business.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
TO Christcn New Hotel.
lsnecial to News and observer.

Especial to News and Observer.)
Reidsville, n. c., March 9.-On the
18th instant the new Hotel Rocking
ham will be christened with much
eclat. Miss Kate Haigh will break &
bottle of mineral water. Governor
Glenn is to make the principal adj
dress. ]. S. Carr, J. p. Caldwell and
George X Vanderbilt will be among
those present
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
Better Than Asked For.

Raleigh Christian Advocate.
We frankly confess that the advo-
cas- of better divorce law have got
ten from the last Legislature better
law than we had hoped for. The
Eller bill, seems to be stronger than
the McNinch bill for which it was sub
stituted. All laws enacted since 1883
have been repealed.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
MORNING TONIC.
loliver Wendell Holmes.)

Don't fatter yourselves that friend
ship authorizes you to say disagree
able things to your intimates. On
the contrary, the nearer you come
into relation with a person. the more
necessary do tact and courtesy be-
come Except in cases of necessity
which are rare, leave your friend TO
learn unpleasant truths from his enc
mics; they are ready enough to tell
them. Good breeding never forgets
that amour propre is universal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
Car Load of Poetry.
(Wilkesboro ChronicIe.)


As soon as the roads will permit the
hauling of such heavy articles, we
have arrangements made to fill our
office and adjoining buildings with
fresh lot of spring poetry of the latest
and most attractive qualities and
styles. Call on us when iii need of
anything in this line
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
Found Dead in Min.

Especial to News and Observer.)
Kinston, N. c., March 9.-Mr Lewis
Taylor, aged about sixty years, an en-
ployee of The Kinston Cotton Mills
was found dead in the waste room of
the mills this afternoon about six
o'clock.
The man MAD been dead but a short
while when found and his death was
apparently due to natural causes He
leaves a iarpn family.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
wilson BucIset shops viii CIose.
(WiIson Times.

While some other bucket shops and
exchange representatives in the State
we understand will contest the Wood
ard anti-bucket shop BILL we under
stand the two here will not do so, but
are merely continuing business for the
present until they close out the trade
they already have on hand.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

Those negroes who called to urge
the President to send commission to
the South to ascertain if qualified
negroes are denied suffrage are try
ing to make more trouble for Mr..
Roosevelt Commissions of that char
acter only increase the Democratic
majority!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

The President announces one day
that he will appoint a negro to a
big office in New York, and
the next days appoints a Democrat
ex-Congressman Carter Tate-Assist-
ant District Attorney Of the Northern
district of Georgia. He expects to
catch 'em comm and gwine."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

Alice Wade, the little daughter of
Captain and Mrs. c. M. Faircloth, was
right much burned about the face
and hands on Friday, the End, by
striking some matches she had gotten
hold of while at play Her dress anu
apron were burned entirely off, and
it is probable that a wooden shirt,
which did not catch, saved her life,
DR.. Holmes was called and thinks she
Will recover all right-CHnton Demo
crat.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
Administrator Notice.

Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of Charles Hilman Hus-
keith. late of Wake county. this is to
notify all persons having claims
against said estate to present the same
to me on or before the 10th day or
December 1906, or this notice viii be
plead in bar of their recovery
ELIAS II, HUSKETH.
Administrator.
Raleigh. N. c.. Dec. 10. 104. 9
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
One as Bad as the Other.
Norfolk Pilot-Virgfnian.

North Carolina solons are very
much after the bucket shop men in
that State. When they get through
with the bucket shop men they might
find time to attend to the engaging
game of poker that usually RACES in
the hotels of small country towns in
that State on Sundays.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

The Norfolk Landmark says that
the late Judge Reagan did not favor
giving the Interstate Commerce Com
mission power to fix rates when the
commission was established. But he
did later favor giving that power to
the Texas Commission and resigned
his seat in the Senate to become the
head of that commission.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

Having qualified as administrators of
the estate of the late G. A. Bell, Of this
county, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the said estate
to present the same to me on or before
the 18th day of November, 1905. or
this notice will be plead in bar Of their
recovery. All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate set
tlement.
J.H. GRIFFIN, Adm'a..
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

The big Stick" policy has given us
a billion and a half dollar Congress
and insured a deficiency But colon
ialism comes high, you knew!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

The naturalization of insurance
companies is not merely to escape the
nine millions paid in State taxes. 1t
is to escape all taxes and supervision.
The great companies would name the
man appointed to supervise the COM
panies and it would be a farce.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

Fender county is model. There
was not a single case on the criminal
docl-et for Solicitor Duffy to prose-
cute -Is week. Old North Carolina
is getting better and Fender stands
among the best counties in the matter
of crime.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
Gilbert is Right.
Asheville Citizen.

ASheVlIIe CITIZEN.
Ebert Hubbard says that no man
can ever succeed who hopes to get
a better position by dragging down
the reputation of another, and the
average reader will agree that Ebert
is right
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10

There were eighty-six conversions
as the result of a notable revival held
by Rev VIM Black in the Presby-
terrain church at GreenVille.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
Corporation Commission Ought to Cut
Down Intra State Rates.
Greensboro Telegram.

Greensboro Telegram.
The business men of Danville are
complaining of freight rate discrimi-
nations and are going to take their
troubles to the State Railroad Com
mission. What are Greensboro's
business men going to do about theirs?