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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-13
Mount Airy Granite.
SPECIAL to News and ObserverD :

Especial to News and Observer)
Winston-Salem, n. c., Jan. 12.-Mr.
IC. W. Hinshdw. one of the largest
stockholders in the North Carolina
Granite Corporation, received Il tele-
gram today stating that his company
had Just been awarded the contract to
furnish stone for q new residence in
Cincinnati rRt q cost of $50, 900 The
granite CORPORATION now has $3.50, ,GOG
worth of contracts on hand.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-13
Wife of Ex-Mayor Miller Dead.

Especial to News and Obsever.)
AsheWIIe, n. c., Jan. 12.-Mrs Har-
riet NJ Miller. wife of eX-Mayor f. M.
Miller, died this morning about 1870
o'clock at her residence, 270 College
street, after long illness. Mrs. Mil
Ter had been a suffered from sciatic
rheumatism for more than year and
her death was due to this disease.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-13
FIRST GOLF TOURNAMENT.
Ii VIII bc a Mixed Forc5omcs and thc
Prizes Silver Cups.
Especial to News and Obser

NAoEVCIdI 10 NEWS anu UDStTNHt.J
kenilWorth Inn, BiltmOre \. c.,
!an. 13.-It has bccn decided that the
first golf tournament should be held
Februa1y ;. 1t will be a mixed fore
some and the prizes WI be silver cups.
a tournament viii he held each month
thereafter, at which similar prizes Will
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-13
To Life Imprisonment.
'By the ssociated Press.)

Nashville. Tenn, Jan. 12.-The SEN
tence of death imposed on Alex Ar
mour of Chattanooga, was commuted
TO life Imprisonment today by Cover
nor Frazer. Armour WAS charged
with the murder of an aged woman
fortune-teller some months ago. He
was 10 have been hanged tomorrow.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-13
sEABoARD REORGANIZATION.
The Plan Will be Made Public Today,
Ii Is Said.
lBv the Associated Press. J

New York, Jan. I2.-It was stated
today that the plan OF the reorganiza-
ton of the Seaboard Airline Com
pany will be made public tomorrow.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04
Queen Sells Milk and Butter.

Wilhelmina, Queen OF Holland, is
making money by selling milk and but
ter. As child Will nina kept chick
ems" She loved them dearly. had pet
names for most Of them, fed them to the
queer's taste QIterally), and quite incl
dentally made pocket money out of them.
Not long ago Prince Henry bought for
his royal wife several cows, which are
placed on the rich land adjoining the
palace at Loo. These prospered so Well
and their milk and butter added 50 much
to the delights OF the palace table, that
ness OF dairying.
The manager of her estates has since
visited all of the famous stock farms
of the country, and has purchased thirty
four of the best cows to be had in H0l-
land. These have joined their fellows
who led the way in the experiment and
dairy products are now on sale under the
palace auspices
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04
A COMMON THOUGHT.

Humanity. when measured In the mass,
A swarm of Nothings bound FOR Nowhere,
seems
Sprung from the ground. its energies rcnass
Into material monument. Earth teens
With glories turned scpulchral. She is
decked
With knocking ruins. architectural dreams
Of Wealth and Empire never to be wrt cked !:
From which the scholar gains conjectural
CLEANS
What more?-of races lost: the vile, the
brave,
The wise the beautiful, in ono vast grave.
If this, that seems were true: If human life
Stops here; comes here, in cerements to
be hid;
If the first spadeful on the colHn-Id
Sounds the last note; II the hearts mighty
strife
Against the dogma Of Eternal Death
Is valn--as 'sainst Il breeze an infants
breath:
Natheless, 'twere well to live; 10 hold the
hand
OF Love still closer To upbuild the earth
Into new forms of Beauty and expand
The Mind with Art with Music ana with
Alirth.
Horny Austin in The Century.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04
FRENCH RATS ARE WISE.
Defy Skill of Scientists to Exterminate
Them.

A serious invasion of field rats has oc-
Cured in the department of the Charcnte
and the Charente- Inferieure, France. The
pests came in droves numbering millions
Damage estimated n ,S2000,00O has been
done during the past few months to the
vineyards and stock generally.
In the hope of stemming the devasta-
ton the council general of Charente vot-
ed $4,000, which was spent in purehas-
ing and laying down a poisonous prep
aration supposed to be efiicacious in de-
stroylng the rodents. Great quantities
OF meal We're saturated with the poison
and scattered over the land infested ny
the vermin.
The results were satisfactory until a
few weeks ago, when the perpleXed vine
growers made the discovery that the rats
were carrying the impregnated oatmeal
into long rows of galleries which they
had scooped out underground.
The visitation is assuming serious pro-
portions in the Charente. At night it is
remarkable sight to watch the rats
leaving their subterranean ahodes in
shoals to so on foraging expeditions.
They have actually chewed away cot
tage at Ruffee.
1t was hoped that the arrival of snow
and frost would diminish the number
and ferocity of the rats, and Il professor
OF chemistry, NJ. Prioton, carried out ex-
periments to that end. The rats, how
ever, thriyed under the influence of the
cold as they did on the oatmeal.
The project of the Charente states that
100000 will be required to curtail the
dAso Sf lions
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

of another window shattered Across
adjacent fields two gashed faces dripped
at such intervals as man may cover in
mighty leaps The hold up was oyer
But what did AlcArdell care? Wedged
half way down his food-lift. he alter
nately cursed his girth and the impulse
that had led him to that false hope of
escape, and prayed forgiveness for his
profanity with the feryor of a man who
momentarily expects a tiger to reach
down and bite his head off Above the
din of battle he could hear Tim, his as
sistant reciting in a series of frenzied
bowls a catalogue of horrors to freeze the
blood. Tins voice seemed to come from
upstairs, but McArdell couldn't be sure
because Of the noise Of the fight.
mir. McArdel! Oh! Mr. McArdcll
Where are you?"
''Of course, he's dead Did you think
the tiger was pettin him, you fool?"
..Of course, nothin' It's the tige-
that's dead"
Come up. He's dead"
I'm the food-l lift"
By dint of much hauling and struggling
MrArdeil emerged His first glance fell
upon the corpse of Salamandcr stretched
on the floor. On it sat SQUAD O'Neill.
He was breathing very hard All about
was scattered the money dropped by the
robbers in their haste, and Tim was doing
The jig of jubilation among it. 1IcArdell
staggered over and laid a hand on the
striped body Of the tiger.
sSqua.s 4'Neill," said he, speak truth
to a man that's feared for his reason.
Is that Salamander?"
1t sure is" said SQUAD
Is he dead?"
Deader'n the ant Noah's elephant
stepped on
And you're aliyc?"
"An' dry"
MeArleIl wabbled over to the bar and
seok the biggest drink Of whisky he had
swallowed in ten years.
Hold hard" said SQUAD, rescntfully.
u need that worse'n you do"
Need nothing said McArdell- 'man
that can lick tiger hand to hand How d
you ever 10 it,"
well, he didn't fight back much"
"I}ida't fight back?7
No explained SQUAD; he couldn't.
You oGe. he's stuffed
Stuffed" yelled McArdcIl. How
could he roar if he was stuffed p
# did the roarin.' explained the con.
viyial Aleck, thrustine his head in at the
door It's t'irsty work, but for a long
drink | could roar s'more."
"an' put in the snarlin' an growlin',"
added SQUAD. Il didn't 90 fer to fool
you at &rst, Mae" he added earnestly.
II told you | was sent to get Salaman-
der, though | didn't tell that he died last
week and has been at the taxidermer's
ever since. . Illustrated Bits.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04
Almost Too Fat to Bury.

Considerable trouble was experienced
in the funeral and burial Of Mrs. VIII
425 pounds al her death. When the
easket was taken into the Liaue house
it was tipped up on edge, but when Ii
came lime to take the body from the
house it could not be gotten Though
any Of the doors. The windows
were tried with no better result.
Finally the castings OF Il window were
ripped off and the coffin barely squeezed
through. The great weight was too much
fer the hearers at the grave and when
the caSket was half way down it rot
away from thcln and fell some distance.
4 strap by which il was held had been
wound around one hand by bearer
and when it fell his hand was badly
torn By the strap
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04
Laborer Claims to Be Prince.

Michael Aierker. an Austrian laborer
employed in Aurora. ILL.,. as sorter in a
scrapyard, claims to lie the oldest son
and next heir to the. throne Of Emperor
Joseph Of the Austrian empire. Hertz
Hertzog Michael Aferker is the proper
manner to address this foreign ncbleman
He called the Emperor offering to give
up his rights to the throne tor cumSid-
Grafton Of $1,000o00. The cable cost
81 and was sent to his father" &C. ..
d." He anNiouSly awaits a reply. 4
year ago he cabled the Emperor for somt.
money and claims 10 have received word
from his father that 500 900 had been
sent him. but dcclar5s he never received
the money. lie is 81 years of age and
bases his claim upon his mother as au-
thority. He is acquainted with the EN-
peror and saw him before coming to
America.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04
THE NEW IMMIGRATION.
Coming of Rumanians, Magyars and
Lithuanians.

With the exception of the Bohemian,
the newer immigrants are mainly un-
skilled, 1lliterate peasants from the c0ua-
try districts, with little money in their
pockets. This does not necessarily mean.
however. that they are undesirable iIr-
migrants The illiterate. unskilled immi-
grant may be, i'll fact. Il more desirable
immigrant than the better educated.
skilled, or the still better educated. pro-
fessional business man. There may BE- "a
great demand here for unskiled labor
when skilled labor IS not needed in >uea
large quantities. Again, the moral Quaj:-
ties Of the untaught, but industrious, sim
ple-minded, unspoiled eouutryman may te
tar more wholesome for the communities
TO which he comes than those Of TIE
educated, t0wn-bred. unsuccessful bus
ness Or professional man. the miSl!t
skilled lahorer, or the actual loafar an
sharper of the cities, VINO comes oyec
here when home gets too hot for aim.
Rumanians, Magyars (Hungariansl aud
idthuaniaus are not racially Sl9ys, hu5
their coming to America and their aSs0-
Citations in Europe and on this continent
make il practicable to consider them
largely in the same group. NineJy-tAFen
per cent. Of the entire immigration goeS
10 the eleven states of Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York.
New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Maryland.
Ohio. West Virginia, Michigan and lil'-
uOiS.-C haritipS
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

When Or. c. ". Bryan of Reidin--
Cal. examined the ear of Joseph Bncher,
Il well-known business man Of keSWl>k-
ne whjstle5 with surprise. ana with req
-on. He found imbedded therein a grain
at wheat and, strange to relate, the
wheat was Sprouting. Further search
evealed pebble ea-eighth Of m incl
ang and onp-eighth of an inch wide Ae-
ord,u@ TO Bucher's best recollections the
oebble had been in his ear about twelve
wears. The grain CT wheat. the doctor
says, must have been in the ear about
twelvemonth
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04
THE SNOWFLAKE.


You caught with wintTy hand
A snowflake from the air,
And asked what sorrow planned
A star so frail ana rare.
From what white anvil fly
Such dreams diminutiye?-
Like love- / heard you sigh.
Too fragile winged to live
Yet while you bent and gazed
On that cold beauty, dear.
The star you caught and praised,
See, Turned into q tear.
And well love understands
How many ana many a star
Life seeks with feverlsh hands,
Swings white, in being afar.
And we. through sigh and tear
Grow wise, and learn again
The love that stoops not, dear.
Is the love that knows not pain.
Arthur Strlnger in Smart Set
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

There hes been gree. advance in the
gypsum Industry Of the GIFTED States IN
recent years, the output for 1903 having
exceeded 100000 tons. The expansion
has resulted mainly from the increased
demand for gypsum wall plasters which
have almost entirely supplanted the ordi-
nary lime pastcrs for modern structural
purposes. \ very large quantity is used
also in the manufacture of plaster of
paris and as fertilizer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

The religious revival in Wales has
Caught on so hard that even football
is dead. 4 correspondent Of the London
Express says: go into a shop for Il
cigar-the shopman is humming a hymn.
Take your ticket at station-thc book
ing agent is engaged in sacred song. As
you walk along the streets you meet
children trooping off to school They
are singing hYmns.'
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

The Paris automobile show this year
is the largest and most important that
has ever been held. Ten years ago, At
She first exhibition Of this Kind, there
were only 90 exhibitors; this year there
are over 5000 many that there was
not room for them all in the Grand Pa
lais, large as it is, and it has been found
necessary TO place nearly 200 exhibits in
the Conservatives which were built for
the exposition Of 1900.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

the bridges are built Of white marble.
In west Mexico is line with ebony
sleepers and ballast of silver ore drawn
from the mines beside the track. The
engineers constructing these railways had
no other material on the route, and
found it cheaper to use these seeming
extravagances than TO import the ordi-
nary material
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

There viii be opened soon on the Al
pine peak Of Ollen, on Monte Rosa, the
most elevated literary and scientific in
stitution in the world. Its altitude viii
be 10000 feet The library, which will
take the name Of Queen Margherita,
owes its organization to her majesty,
supported by ministers and many emin-
ent persons in Italy and abroad 1t
will comprise all the books, sculpture,
landscape and photographs obtainablc
relating 10 the Aims.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

Speaking in Exeter on November n
Rider Haggard said he had seen people
herdod together in England under condi-
tions to which Kaairstor wild African
tribes would not submit.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

The San Jose horiculturist who has
conceived the idea Of employing monkeys
to pick his prune crop, may be monkey
in-" with something full Of michief, as
did Milwaukeean who tried to combine
the rabbit business and Embarrassing. The
rabbits were all right but the trees suf-
fare4 from their teeth.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

The percentage of unemployed laborers
in England is very large. Information
from private sources puts the number in
October, 1903, at 100000, while some
press reports for the year estimate it TO
be as high as 100000. The statistics and
reports of the trade unions and other
sources are agreed that the number is Mt
least 100 per cent. greater than in 1903.
The percentage Of skilled workmen
among the number is greater than ever
before
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

The master tailors of Paris are bend
ing their intellects to the task Of devising
a suitable uniform for the President OF
France.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

Sir Alfred Jones stated at Il meeting Of
the Liverpool chamber OF commerce on
November % that it was expected this
year S750,0G0 worth of cotton would be
brought to England from Lagos, Africa.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

Fifteea high school pupils went out on
strike ut Charleston, H., because the
principal would not permit them 10
change their seats.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

German newspapers report that during
the year British East India imported
4.069,0 900 gallons Of beer. of which $780,
900 gallons came from England. In al
dition to this the 81 breweries in India
produced 6,474.S60 gallons.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

Finding a long rusty nail in his morn,
ing roll p Eicnnese citizen charged his
baker with endangering the public safety
The baker was fined "a.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

When witness in an English court
the other day remarked that it was
necessary tc sit ON a horses head when
he was down to keep him quiet the judge
replied: Nothing of the kind, People
don't seem to understand that the only
thing necessary is to get hold of his ear
and keep his nose up in the air, / have
seeH lady keep a horse quiet in that
way without Soiling her gloves
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

Great interest has been shown in Mex
leo in the announcement that Sl,0o0,OO0
has been put into an undertaking for the
manufacture Of artificial silk There are
many conjectures as to the method 10 be
employed IN making the silk.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

During the year 1903 $3,G0l325.3S
was sent, in postal orders from the
United States to Sweden and &l4N, 097.4S
from Sweden II the United state. leay-
ing balance OF 81, 175,227.90 il favor
Of Sweden. Since the postal money or
der system between lie United States
and Sweden has been In existence (Apr;.
/, 1880 there has been sent from the
United States to Sweden $19,004,S72
more than from Sweden to the United
States.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

The Soeieta Elettrotecnica Italiana of
Turin has invented and constructed de.
Vices for the application OF electric pow
err 10 p.ows and other farm machinery
The experiment Of blowing by electric
power Was recently made near that city
in the presence of representative men
from different parts of Italy, and, it s
reported, with gratifying success.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

seven-inch anchor stock that had
been fractured to provide subject, was
reunited in less than half minute ut
Cleveland by what is known as the Their
NIT welding process. This discovery will
enable marine engineers to repair all in
board fractures OF shafts, and thus reduce
the danger incident to such disablemcnt
at sea.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

Probably one Of the longest leases
known was granted for a small piece of
meadow land. some sixteen acres in eN-
tent, in Surrey, England. 1t is for the
term Ct 2900 years, and was granted on
ST. Gchaers day, in 1861, ut the sinsu-
Iar rental of "a red rose when demand
cd" 1t is not stipulated chat the rose
shall be the product of this land. which
is fortunate, for so such rose grows any
where on The siztocn acres.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

The total production of sugar through
out the world is about 100000 tons
per annum. OF this quantity nine
tenths are afforded by the su4ar-taue.
25.O00,00O tons of which are required to
produce the above quantity Of cane
sugar The total value Of the sugar io
the cane. if it could be extracted. woul ,
be about $2oooo0,o00, but one-half =.
lost ia the process of manufacture.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

At a cost of p cents japanese doe
tors can dress the wounds Of 800 men.
They use finely powdered charcoal OBJ
tanned by the slow combustion OF straw
in closed furnaces. Sachcts filed with
it are applied to the wounds, and its
antiseptic and absorbent qualities gen
orally effect a rapid cure.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

Hundreds OF engineers are graduating
from the schools of Germany who are
well prepared i'll the various branches Of
learning connected with manufactures
and are well fitted to construct or to di-
rect in 4 scientific manner large factories
in foreign countries. This may be at
tributed to the technical high schools OF
GERMANY
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

Recently the Southern Pacific COM
pany cut Wadsworth. New, off its main
line, and since then the residents have
been abandoning the town, the Piute
Indians taking possession, Now they
ss.4e t..ife&-sening to burn the place unless
the remaining white residents furnish
them with food ana money.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

In order that the old soldier who en-
tefs the National Soldiers Hone need
not be separated from his wife. il she
still lives, The ladies of the G. \. Il. in
California have undertaken to erect a
number OF cottages at SawtcIle, near the
Home, which viii lie turned over to the
married soldiers for their occupancy.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

Tie houses Of the Iothschds, it Is
said, are full Of secret safes and closets
Baron Alphonse has q big collection Of
art objects, and many OF the specimens
are kept in safes in the walls, which are
opened occasionally to show their treas
ures. but always kept locked when some
Of the family are not in the house
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

Working girls in Berlin average nine
hours and half each day, fer which
they grt about $50 a week. Only one
in five is able to have her own bedroom;
the others share their rooms with from
one to six other girls. Some of them
hardly know what a warm meal means.
rye bread being their nrineinal fogl.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

The rails OF the Mexican Gulf rail
road are laid on mahogany sieepers and