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DIR. ELIOT FOR STRENUOUS LIFE.
breaches to Harvard Freshmen on
Value of Capacity for Rapid.
Intense Work

Cambridge! Oct Tt is a very
safe protective rule TO live today as if
you were going to marry a pure wo-
nan within month. That rule YOU
viii find safeguard for life. 1t is a
good rule early to work to learn how
to work hard. 1t is a good rule never
20 take four minutes TO do what you
can well accomplish three minutes.
Or TO take four years to do what you
can well accomplish in three years.
1t is good rule to live intensely. And
It is a good rule to live today ana
very day like man of honor"
Such was the advice given TO the
1909 freshman class of Harvard by
President Charles w. Eliot in the
Harvard Union in an address.
LAS an indispensable foundation
for solid, durable satisfactions," he
said. ''a. young man ought first to be
l clean. wholesome, vigorous animal.
That is the foundation for everything
else
The second thing necessary is a
strong mental grip, a wholesome ca
pacity fer hard mental work. rhe
great difference between the privi-
legged class of educated men TO which
you belong, and the great majority of
Jther people is that The educated class
lives. by the exercise of mental not
GhJsical powers.
The third thing necessary lisa spot
less reputation. This only comes by
living with honor on honor: by be-
Inning to live SO now. There are
Kings an honorable man won't do,
can't do. He will mover do wrong or
degrade woman. He will never OPP
IresS or cheat a person weaker or
Hoorer. He is honest sincere. candid,
generous. 1t isn't enough TO be hon
est A honorable man must be hon
est not with money alone, but in
Judgment is most important
Judgments, judgments of women, men.
history and the prospects of mankind
evidence shows that honor comes, not
in the favorable Judgment of our eld-
ers, but of our contemporaries This
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The Outing Magazine for DC. ober.

The first number of the new volume
number HLVII, of The Outing Maya
zine, II it is to set the standard for
those to come afterward, presages a
goodly amount of unusual literature
on topics ranging from one end or
the globe to the other, as is the Gus
eom of the magazine in question.
The piece de resistance of this
number is, We suppose, the opening
chapters of Alfred Henry Lewis new
story, The Throwback,' which is to
appear in serial during the year.
Throwback, We find, means a de-
generate backsiider-andi is. in this
case, applied to certain young Alan
Gordon, by his father. who views his
sons incorrigibility as a sign of alta
vism. One would hazard a guess that
The Throwback" will be the best
among many good men who will play
a part in this story. We find Mr..
Lewis writing from start with that
virility that is his foremost character
iStic
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negroes, society people and clerks
That senator's son and the Whole FAM
lily and the neighbors. must have been
up all night catching mice and rats.
and II took nine boys and three SER
wants TO carry the baskets and traps
and bags of mice and rats I passed
them all in and lined up on a front
seat to wait for the elephant stunt.
and when the thing was ripe we were
To empty the whole mess of yernia
into the ring.
| felt as though something was
wrong, cause | saw the new moon
over my left shoulder the night before
and now wish | had died before this
thing happened. When the japanese
jugglers went out of the ring l knew
that was the cue for the elephants to
come in, and when the dressing room
curtain was pulled aside and old Boil
var came out at the head of the hero.
and they marched around the outside
of the ring clear around the tent. my
heart jumped up into my throat, and
| felt sick.
The senator's boy said: when
these rats and things begin to chase
your old elephants, you won't be able
TO see their tails for the dust they Will
kick up
Then | thought of the money pa had
given me TO bet and l offered to bet It
ALL and a negro produced funds and
took my bets like a bookmaker
Well, after doing a turn arounI the
big ring. the trainer steered the ee-
plants into the middle ring. and the
gl eat audience leaned forward IL
catch every trick the elephants did
Us boys held on to the bags that the
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greatest coward. and the behemoth OF
molly Writ is next" The senator's son
said elephants were such towards
they were afraid of mice and turn
them loose in the ring and the eIe-
plants would stampede. and he would
bet five dollars on it. | excused my
self for moment and told pa what
the senator's son offered to bet, and
pa said: Here's $50 and you can
take ali the bets you can get. Why.
this herd of elephants would walk on
mice. and ratss too. You bet with
him and tell him TO bring along all
the rats and mice he cant find in the
White House, and you can turn them
into the ring Monday afternoon when
the elephants do their turn, and if
an elephant bats an eye 1 will eat
his ears for mushrooms
/ went back to young Mr.. Senator
and took his bet, and told him l had
plenty more money to bet the same
way, and he said the next afternoon
he would come With his mice and rats.
and Il lot of money to bet that you
couldn't hold the flock of elephants
with log chains when he opened his
bag of rats and mice.
Well. how ii got into the papers
do not know, but the next morning
they all said an interesting experiment
NOulu We lilc HCAI iIlc1Iiooli ct
the great and only circus to deter
mine once and for all whether ele-
plants We're afraid of mice, and that
a senator's son and son of one OF
the proprietors of the show would
conduct the experiment by turning
loose a lot of mice and rats in the
rings al precisely $3.50 p. m.
Well you never saw such a crowd
in Il circus as we had that afternoon.
IL seemed as though the whole popu-
lation turned out, foreign ministers,
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Two Persons.
lPhiladalnhia .Press.l

" iIllduclpIlld -
Yes, she's married TO real estate
agent and a good honest Fellow, too.
My gracious! Bigamy
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swatted pa clear across the ring.
/ The elephants followed Bolivar 10
the main entrance ca IN elephant try
ing to walk on the hAals II the one
i.lead of him, and al the circus
hands trying To head off the elephants
but they wouldn't heal Oft They wera
simpIy scared TO death. and they
broke out the side Of the tenn near
the lemonade stand and WcGt .whOOp-
ing but into the open air and free
dom, while the audience yeile|, With
joy.
! Young Mr.. Senator said to nc.
WHAT do you think of rAe elephants
now -
/ told him to take his r1oney and
be darned.
The audience was gettingq nervous,
so the band struck up "A Hot Time in
the Old Town." and they were quiet
ing down as the curtain to the dress
ing room raised on the horses for the
chariot race came out. Just then =
woman with red socks got up on a
chair in the press seats and pulled Inc
dress away up and yelled "Kats:'' and
another woman screamed and jumped
up on seat with her clothes at half
mast, and yelled that there We're .,lice
on the seats. In less than two MN
utes every woman in the audience,
and the bearded women, and the fat
woman, were standing up on some
thing, holding up their dresses and
shaking their skirts and screaming,
ana wnen the fat woman fell into the
arms of the bearded woman IN
faint, and the bearded woman drop
ed the fat woman, pa told the bearded
woman he was ashamed al her for
screaming, cause she ought to be more
of a man than that
Well, every mouse ana r:tt in the
bunch seemed to be looking for wo-
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WHAT SULPHUR DOES.
For the Human Body i'm Health and
Disease.

The mention of sulphur will recall
to many of us the early days when
our mothers and grandmothers gave
US our daily dose of sulphur and mo-
lasses every spring and fall.
1t was the universal spring and fall
s'blood purifier" tonic and cure"all
and mind you, this old-fashioned rem
edy was not without merit.
The idea was good, but the remedy
was crude and unpalatable, and a
large quantity had to be taken to get
any effect
Nowadays we get all the beneficial
effects Of sulphur in a palatable, con-
centrated form, so that a single grain
is far more effective than a table,
spoonful of the crude sulphur.
In recent years, research and eX-
pertinent have proven that the best
ulphur for medicinal use is that OBJ
tanned from Calcium Calcium Sui
phide) and sold in drugs stores under
the name of Stuart's Calcium Waters.
they are small chocolate coated pei
lets and contain the active medicinal
principle of sulphur in a highly con-
entrated, effective form.
Few people are aware of the value
# this form of sulphur in restoring
md maintaining bodily vigor and
lealth; sulphur acts directly on The
yer, and excretory organs and pGri-
fies and enriches the blood by the
prompt elimination of waste material.
Our grandmothers knew this when
hey dosed us with sulphur and mo-
asses every spring and fall, but the
rudity and impurity of ordinary flow
n of sulphur were often worse than
the disease, and cannot compare with
the modern concentrated preparations
Of sulphur, of which Stuart's Calcium
Waters is undoubtedly the best and
most widely used.
They are the natural antidote for
liver and kidney troubles and cure
constipation and purify the blood in
q way that often surprises patient
and physician alike.
DIR. r. NJ. wilkins while experiment.
ing with sulphur remedies soon found
that the sulphur from Calcium was
superior to any other form. He says:
For liver, kidney and blood troubles,
especially when resulting from consti-
patton or malaria, / have been sur
prised at the results obtained from
Stuart's Calcium Waters. In patients
suffering from boils and pimples and
even deep-seated carbuncles l have
repeatedly seen them dry up and dis
appear in four or five days, leaving
the skin clear and smooth. Although
Stuart's Calcium Waters is pro-
prietary article, and sold by druggists,
and for that reason tabooed by many
physicians, yet l know of nothing so
safe and reliable for constipation, liver
and kidney troubles and especially in
all forms of skin disease as this rem
edy"
At any rate people who are tired
Of pills, cathartics and so-called blood
purifiers" will find in Stuart's Cal
cium Waters q far safer, more palat-
a Die and effective preparation.
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-aen to scream at them, and there
was no use trying 20 run a shJW with
such an excited audience so pa had
the band to play Good Night La
dies" and he announced that the per-
torrance might be considered over for
the AFTERNOON. Everybody made a
rush for the exits. Each woman held
up her skirts and fairl- gailoped to
get away from the mice and rats.
They all got out of the tent finally,
and then the managers had a meet
ing TO find out what started the
trouble, and what was best TO do
front seat, thinking over the scene
Of the afternoon, and wondering what
the young senator's son would do
with the money he won from me, and
whether he had depopulated the
White House of rats and mice, 50 the
President would notice it. l was
thinking about elephants and wonder
ing if they were towards by nature or
had acquired cowardice by associating
with mankind when pa came along
and sit down by me, a picture of de-
spair, cause Bolivar had fractured
one of his ribs and the fat woman
had paralyzed his knees sitting on his
lap While they brought her to after
she tainted when she thought a rat
was climbing into her sock.
Pa sighed. and said: "Hennery
wanted an exciting life, to keep me
from brooding over advancing age,
and / chose the circus business. but /
find it is rather too strenuous for me.
Each day something occurs to try my
nerves. | do not claim that YOU are to
blame for ii all, but l think could
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enjoy my position with the show if
you would take the first train that
goes north and leave me for awhile.
What / need is rest. Go, boy, go!"
l felt sorry for pa but | put my
arm around him, and / said: PA, do
not fear. l will never desert you, un-
til the season is over. Wherever you
go, / will go, and ! will keep you
awake, don't fear Now that We are
going into the sunny South, where
every man may have it in for you
cause you were a Yankee soldier, |
will stay by you, and there will b.
things doing that will make You think
the past has been n sweet dream. See.
pal"
Pa sighed again and said: "This s
too mnchv' and he rushed off IL find
he elephants.
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Butler and Russell. of Course. I'm
less Pettigrew Down.
baskerville Gazette-News.

The Salisbury Post thinks the In
dustrial News might relieve the situa-
ton by inducing Mr. Butler to name,
from his point of view. the probable
successors of Senators OVerman and
simmons.
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CURE SICK HEADACHE.
@fl SCENIC ROUTE
$ssSS;;4ssS TO THE WEST

SOUTHERN .RY. TRAIN. ;eavins
Raleigh $40 a. sm.. and Durham $3.50
a. M, arrives Greensboro IL noon ano
Lynchburg 3:45 p. M; connects with
Q. d o., leaving Lynchburg 4:40 ?. m
daily Twill wait 80 minutes for connec-
ton, II passengers are reporter ano
arrives Va. Hot Springs TO- ,. m.
Cincinnati a. M, Chicago $3.50 p. M
st. Louis 6:2S p m.
Parlor Car Lynchburs to Clfton
Forge.
Pullman Sleeping Cars. Clifton Forge
to Cincinnati Louisville, CLicago ano
st. Louis, connecting at these cities tol
all points in Northwest, West anc
Southwest.
S. A. l.. TRAIN, leaving Raleigh
1850 a. M. and Durham loud a. IN.
arrives Richmond ASS p. IN, and con.
meets with C. & o., leaving lO'4o
M, with Pullman Sleeping Car to Cln.
cinnati and Cincinnati TO chicago ano
st Louis.
For Rates, Tickets, Pullman Reser'
vations and detailed Information ap'
ply to your ticket agent. or aooreS
W. o. Warthen, D. P. A., Z. q y. Ky
H. w. FULLER, @. P. A.
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Many a man gets a reputation for
being good natured because he is too
lazy TO stand up for his rights.
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Mutual jealousy is a case or two
Tools with but a single thought.
The news & observer., 1905-12-17
Other Cotton Markets,
port Tone. Middling. Receit:
Stocks and Bonds

New York, Dec. 16.-There was con-
siderable confusion in .he prices move
ment during today's active stock mar
ket and sentiment in speculative
circles was considerably unsettled as
the result There were spots of pro-
gressive strength still. principally
amongst industrial stocks and some of
the high grade railroads of which the
floating supply is small On the other
hand there was active liquidation
manifest at one or two points. notably
in Southern Pacific and in the Rock
Island and affiliated stocks. The Off
cial intimation that the Rock Island
preferred dividend was to be suspend
ed in January was the sufficient ex-
planation of the weakness in the Rock
Island shares. The heavy selling of
Southern Pacific was attributed to sue
cessive holders who had counted on an
early ablishment of dividend pay
ments on that stock and who found
cause for the abandonment of their
hopes, in the language of the annual
The news & observer., 1905-12-17
New York Provisions.

New York. Dec. Flour duh: winter
patents l.2oca S: Minnesota patents a.es@S.OO
10 bakers 5f!@9.F0. straights 5.2s@S.S0:
Rye flour STEADY, fair to good 3.9o94.S0;
.hoice 30 fancy 4.s09f1e0
Buck wheat fonr steady. .210d2.2o.
Buckwheat dull. e3.
Corn meal steady. fine white ana yeHOW
.OarSe. rs.
Rye nominal. No. 2 " estern S.
BARLEY steady. feeding al, mailing, 4laS2
= Corn 70 steady. No , sS Jan. 81, May 5O'4. July
5Oss. Sept. s04a, Dec. IS.
Oats steady, mixed 27d 37H.
Beefsteady family ii. S0a $50; packet 1000
Ii so: mess 960a 10 so: ! eef hams 20. S0d 200
Cut meats quiet. picked bellies Sh2(d va.
picllled shoulders 6i2f1?. picked hams 9AmA
Lard steady. Western steamed 77S0 I90,
refined easy, continent SOC. compound $3.50 y.
Pork steady family 1880. short clear 1880
Hi700. mess i5.00di5.lS.
TalIow steady q per pllg) 4ia country a'a(a =
RoSin steady. strained common TO good 3-41.
Turpentine quiet 6U@oI15.
Rice quiet domestic fair to extra 1905.
MolaSSeS firm, New Orleans 30@3S. good TO
choice 29G3S
Coffee spot RIO steady No. Invoice rs,
mild quiet cordova 9a<MI2at.
Sugar raw steady. fair refining 318. centrifugal
}6-test 328 moasseS sugar 9fs rehhed
$40. crushed $40 powdered $50, granulated
no cubes f95 F..
Butter steady creamery common to extra.
t6d "a state DAIRY l01Eo, WeSIeTn IdcLOIS Ao1 HJ,
Cheese steady large. cOlored white Sept.
i3t, do late made average best l2fp24. Skins
Eggs weak nearby fancy selected 80.
Southern 2lG3O. - =
Potatoes irish quiet sweets dull. foreign
/ 6S0p1 80 Southern sweets dull so n 90 per bbl.
Peanuts STEADY. facy hand-picked 4f2(g4.
lther domestic 2A@5.
Cabbage quiet, foreign 1Sa25 per ton. small
domestic 1913.
Cotton by steam to Liverpool ESQ.,.
Cotton seed oil was steady wltha hght trade,
foLTO tkRfrpl IlfflTn 81 N
,Siaa29 prime white. 3ll2. prime winter yel-
low 3lt2.
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CALL MAMMOTH CONVENTION.
TION
Cotton Farmers TO Discuss Matters Of
Vital Interest to Them.
President Harvle Jordan has issue

President Harvie Jordan has issued
= call for a convention to be held in
the CITY of New Orleans, La, on Jan
uary 18th, 18th and l3th,t 1906. of
the cotton producers, brokers, mer-
chants and representatives of the bus
iness interests. All Agricultural or
ganizations are invited to send dele
gates. No restrictions on number of
delegates to be appointed.
The county meetings are to be held
throughout all the cotton States on
SATURDAY.. December 23rd, 1905, for
the purpose Of appointing Or electing
county delegates.
Heads of tho various Statc agricul-
tural organizations, and Farmers Un-
ons can appoint delegates from the
state large.
Discuss ion will cover the impor-
tance of holding the balance of the
unsold crop for fifteen cents, building
warehouses. These and other matters
CT vital importance need the attention
of the people.
Hold your county meetings on De
cember 23rd. elect strong delegations.
and send list of names to the general
office Of Southern Cotton Association.
$40 Empire Building, Atlanta. Ga.
Ra lroad rates viii be one fare for
the round trip from all sections Of the
bet.
Yours truly,
JOHN s. CUNNINGHAM.
President n. G. Div sion Southern Cot
ton Association.
State papers please copy.
The news & observer., 1905-12-17
Sale Of Valuable City Property.

BY authority Of judgment of the
Superior Court for Wake. en-
tered at October term, 1905, in al
action entitled w. A. MCGOWAN and
wife VS.. P. W. MCGOWAN and others
the undersigned commissioners will,
on Monday, January 1st, 1906, at IL
o'clock m. at the Court House door
of Wake County, Raleigh, n. c.. sell
to the highest bidder at public auc-
ton for cash that valuable city prop
erty, known as the Mctiowan proper
ty, near the Academy of Music, FROM
ing Sc feet and inches on South
Salisbury street and running back
west in rectangular shape 1876 feet,
bounded on the north by the lot OF
]. A. Bragassa and wife, on the east
by said Salisbury street, on the south
by the livery stable lot Of j. r.
Holder and on the west by the lot OF
C. +. Edwards and others. Sale made
for division and between tenants in
common. Said lot will be sub-divideu
and sold by the commissioners and
then sold as whole. the commits
sioners reporting to the court the
highest price thus obtained.
G. M. BUSBEE,
w NJ JONES,
11-19-t d. r. Commissioners
The news & observer., 1905-12-17

report TO the stockholders. In the
body of the list there WAS evidence OF
rec selling to take profits under cover
Of the various points of strength. The
losing was irregular and not far from
the low level. The banks showed t II
establishment of a surplus in re-
serves amounting to nearly S4.OO0.00o
The cash increase of $3,120,S00 proved
about as expected. Yesterdays pay
ments Of January 1 government inter-
est and of important dividends in
the $10,000.000 Standard Oil
disbursements will accrue to the bene-
fit of next weeks market and figure
IN next weeks bank statement But
I very heavy demand has developed
Cor rcmittances to London by next
Wednesdays steamer, which is the last
to reach London in time for the end
year settlements. There arc large
of exchange bills maturing at
this time which We're put out early
n the period of hirhcr money to take
1dvantage of tho profitable rate here.
Tho possibility of gold going out next
-veCk is therefore under discussion.
rctar eaIes of bonds (par value) ST.
$4,000.
The news & observer., 1905-12-17
A CONFUSION OF
PRICE CURRENTS
Speculation in Stocks
Rather Unsettled.
THE CLOSE VERY LOW
Cotton After Sagging Off Two OF
Three Points From The Opening
figures Shows Little Feature.
A BulIish Report is Ex-
peCted Monday.
tBy the Associated Press.) }


New York Dec. 16.-The week
ended quietly in the dry goods mar
ket today out while certain instances
of offerings of nearly deliveries were
slightly freer, yet the situation in the
spot goods was generally steady with
offers independent on account of raw
material conditions. Advices from al,
sections indicated satisfactory trade at
second hands and very cncouragine
outlook.
New York Cotton.
New York, Dec. 16.-The cotton
market opened quiet and steady a.
unchanged prices to an advance of 3
points in keeping with the steady
cables. Trading was very quiet ali
through the early session, but after
sagging off or points from the
opening figures the market showed lit
tie or no feature. Private cables fror
Liverpool attributed the steadinesf.
there to American buying and expec-
tations of a bul!ish National Ginners'
report on Monday. The weather was
moro favorable.
Receipts today 1851 bales at tn"
ports. against 36.694 last week an"
35.411 last year. For the week (esti
matedD 100000. against 256,717 last
week and 301,61S last year. Today's
receipts at New Orleans 6,436. against
S.015 last year and at Houston 4,306.
against 6,924 last year.
Me- York. Dec. 1S.-Spot closed quiet,
iiddng uplands 1920: niddling gulf II IS
:, >S 200 bales. Cotton futures opened steady
a closed dullet.
The news & observer., 1905-12-17
New Orleans Cotton.

New Orleans. Dec. 16.-Spot cotton
steady, sales $50 bales, including 500
to arrive Delivered on contracts. 300.
Quotations 1-16 higher: middlinG
IL 1915
Futures opened steady with prices ;
to 4 points above yesterdays finals
There were frequent narrow f1uctua-
tions, the entire range of the day not
exceeding IL points. The trading was
light on the Saturday and half holt
day January opened 3 points up at
11.95, declined to 11.90 and finally
advanced to 1901 to 1902. Evening
ND by shorts caused the advance. The
market closed very firm at the top,
the list showing net gains of points.
New Orleans. Dec. t6.-Cottcn futures closed
The news & observer., 1905-12-17
Accnt cf SoutIlcrn Resigns.

(Srecial to News and Ob5erverfD
Spencer. n. c., Dec. 16.-Mr. Isaaf
Pearson Caldwell. who for the pas
year has been agent for the Southern
Railway Company, at Spencer, has
rendered his resignation as such to
take effect as sooa as his successor
can he checked ir.o Office at this
place Mr.. Caldwell. whose services
in Spencer have been highly salts
factory to the railway company. is to
be transferred to Gastonia as agent for
the same road at that point and eX-
nccts to go to that place on the goth
inst. Mr.. w. W. Duncan. formerly
agent for the Southern at Blacksburg,
S. c., succeeds Mr. Caldwell as agent
at Spencer. and VII take charge OF
the office on tho 18TH inst.