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would lain Fnu Auto Driyer,.

Albany. Feb. THE Senate Internal
Affairs Committee to-daydecided TO report
favorably Senator Saxe's bill providing
a term Of imprisonment as well as tine for
all violations OF the automobile speed law.
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COLONIAL MUSIC HALL

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nd Rcri7r lc Sreoianles Evoninzs 10 ocn.a %
II Ma inee, Tue.d4ys. 1hursda. and Sat .rdaYs-
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IRVING PLACE THEATRE. tArrvcli per
fnrmances Of Mss wANSESCU. To night s2n.
Hebbel's Trsgedv. "C Ee~ und sein Ring"
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novel which will arouse considerable
interest is annour ced by Revell for spring
publication under the title Of For a Free
Conscience 1t is written by "a new author
Lydia c. Wood. and deals with the romance
and struggle Of early Quaker life. The
members Of that small but disproportion-
ately influential society. who have felt
dissatisfied with what they consider the
misrepresentation Of their position in Dr.
Mitchell's Hugh Wynne.' will find In this
novel that the largest justice is done the
Friends those adherents OF the simple
life, before the simple life became fash
ionable fad.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-08

Although Bob, Son Of Battle was printed
in 1898 Il has just gone into the eleventh
large edition There are many interesting
facts connected with the publication of
this classic OF dog life. and one OF the most
singular is that on the noors in Yorkshire,
where the sheepdog trials are the most
important festivals Of the year, the book is
scarcely known at all. Possibly the people
are too busy having the sheepdog trials
TO read about them, and certainly they
gather in large numbers to see the tests
Of skill which are described so graphically
in the book Some nine years ago the
author. a young British officer, Alfred
Ollvant, had the misfortune TO be so Sc
verely injured by his horse that for two
years he was unable to leave his bed.
Having spent much time among sheepdogs
on the English hills during boyhood he
naturally turned to this subject for diversion
and wrote the story OF collie named Bob,
which Ia known as Aud Bob in England
and Bob. Son OF Battle in America. When
tho book was frst brought out here the
advance sale was less than $40 copies and
the book itself apparently made no i'm
pression II is little wonder that Mr.. Rad
clyfIe Dugnore. the famous nature pho
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01
FRANK PAGE LIBRARY.

The gift of a three thousand dollar
Miss Mary Page, in memory of her
father. the late Mr.. A. T. Page, is a
memorial that is the fittest made in
recent years. When Mr.. Page began
building his railroad through Moore
county to Aberdeen. the saw mills
were regarded as worthless, but for
the timber He was the pioneer in
that section and did much for its de-
velopment. His home at Aberdeen
was the centre of cheer and hospitali-
ty of the true North Carolina kind.
He may be said to have been the
father of the present pleasant and
growing village. The employees on the
Page, road and the Blue road make
Aberdeen their headquarters, and with
the other citizens and their families
viii highly prize a public library, ana
douby so because it is i'm memory OF
The pioneer railroad builder in Moore
county.
Mr.. Frank Page was d man of ro-
bust character-enterpris beyond
his fellows, faithful to every trust a
man of spotlcss character, aud Il man
who lived above the fogs in public
Iuty and in private thinking" The
memorial is a fitting one.
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no EXCUSE FOR IT.

The High Point people complain
that while the Southern now moves
freight from High Point, local ship
mcnts to and beyond Greensboro are
"deIaved a week a. least" There is
no excuse for this except that the
money made by the railroad is used
for other purposes than to take care
of the local traffic Last year the
Southern earned neary twenty-five per
cent. on the North Carolina Railroad.
The service has not been improved as
such earnings would require
The remedy is for President Spencer
to devote more time to running trains
than running Congress and his subor-
Cinates to devote more time to looking
after the interests of shippers and
merchants. and less time to looking
after politics.
There is no excuse for the delays
and the injury to business caused by
the Southern's lack of equipment and
men to promptly handle the local bus
mess of High Point, Winston Salem,
and other progressive towns on its
lines except that through business and
a desire TO shcw big earnings dominate
the management.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01

Mr.. King, of the w. ii. AlIlg Drug
Co. saws: "There is nothing like Vinof
for growing children. 1t makes new
vitality. sound flesh and muscle tissue,
and rich, pure. red blood, and many let
tiers have been received from grateful
fathers and mothers whose children
owe their health. and even lie, to
Einol
THE reason Vinol is so far superior
to All other tonics and COD liver oil
PREPARATIONS for children Is because 1t
contains in a concentrated FORM. all
of the strengthening, BODYBUILDING
elements of cod liver OIL actually
taken from fresh Gods llvers put With
out a droo of oil or grease: ana 1t does
not upset their weak. deicate stom-
achs like old-fashioned cod llVer oil
ard emulsions but is easily assimi-
lated. and is so delicious thaI children
all love it, - -
Continued Mr.. King: We cannot
recommend Vinoi too higfiy Tor puny
weak, and ailing children 10 pulid up
the rundown. overworked tired and
debilitated. or to give renewed vitality
TO the aged So sure arc W VI what
i will do that we cheer1ully refund
the money i'm every case where II tails
w H. King Drug Co.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01
GOOD BY. MIR. MAN.

Women have invaded almost every
field of human effort and shown ca
pacity to win success in every calling
and profession. AS they have taken
the places of men in stores and in
offices, the world has been coming to
the conclusion that ultimately women
would have charge of the indoor work
of life and that men would do the out
door work. But now comes Mrs.
Theodosia Beacham. of Kilby Station,
Virginia, who has become a contractor
to build railroads. She is now COM
pleting her contract to build the
Tidewater road near Suffolk. A CORE
spondent of the Richmond Times
Dispatch visited her and here is where
he found her:
Standing erect on little knoll, sur
rounded by a small army of workmen
and mules, Mrs. Beacham was passing
out orders rapidly and with clear,
resonant voice. that was as command
ing as it was distinct-here to drivers
of scraping machines, there to the
ploughmen. some of whom drove SIX
mules to one plough; yonder to those
who fell the trees just ahead. dyna-
hitting the big stumps and removing
the shrubbery.
1T was a busy mountaineering
and almost fascinating to the unfamil-
lar Standing there in the fastness of
the forest. a long way removed from
any other female. Mrs. Beacham ruled
as with a master-hand. There was no
no loud talking; there was
hardly a word spoken except when or
ders were passed. The dense woods
were fast being transformed into
road that will be fit for the hauling of
Pullman cars"
Mrs. Beacham has been taking con
tracts for railroad construction for
more than twenty years and she makes
annually over $4,000 and is truly a
remarkable woman. She goes next
month to Tennessee to help on a mill
lion dollar contract awarded by the
Southern to William J. oliver.
The success of Mrs Beacham sug
gests that she is the very person to
be put in charge of the construction
of the Panama Canal. Two men put in
charge FLEW the COOP" it was neces-
sary to stand over other men with
guns to make them dig, and the work
Tags for master-hand to do the work.
Mr. Man has so far failed. Mr.. Roose-
welt: Why not turn it over to Mrs.
Beacham and quit worrying?
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gins. In a few cases this has proved
the undoing of the mill owner. But
such sDeculatiOnS were confined TO Il
small minority of the cotton manufac-
turers of the South.
MIR. Brown gives a conservative
view of the situation, and as he is
in position 20 write knowingly on
the subject, his opinions have indis-
puta bic weight. las conclusion is
that the great majority of the mills
of the South have been operated on
sound business principles and that
they have duly provided for deprecia-
ton of plant. White there have been
a few failures. and while the develop
ments in a recent conspicuous case
in the South have caused unfavorabie
criticism. ne suggests that it is not
fair to visit the SINS of the few upon
the heads of all the cotton manufac-
turers in the South. The manufac-
turers of the South have profited by
the mistakes, and in some instances.
perhaps, the recklessn esS, of those
who failed in an industry which has
brought wealth to many others. While
not hesitating to point out plumbers
DDS. Mr.. Brown is clearly convinced
of the solidity and stability of the
cotton manufacturing industry Of
Dixie and of it's continued expansion.
Nevertheless, he does not shrink
from warning the managers of fac
tories in the South of the necessity
for keeping out Of the whirlpool of
cotton speculation. 1t is a warning
which they should heed. Legitimate
industry has nothing TO do with spec
ulatiOn
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The Status of tn" Cotton Industry in
the South.
Baltimore Sun.


The sun publishes today a high y
interesting letter Irom Mr. Joseph q.
Brown. President of the Cluzens
National Bank, of KaleIgn, n. g., on
the agricultural ana industrial pros
perity OF the Southern states. 1t IL
gratifying TO learn from such excel
lent authority that the prosperity OF
the South rests upon SOMA fOunda-
uon. The financial condition of
Dixie. writes MIR. brown, gives con-
nrmatlon TO the claim that the people
of this section are constantly grow
ing III wealth. There mas been a no
Iable increase In the resources OF
the banks. The manner OF living of
the people has changed radically. The
old-tlme log huts nave given place
IN many cases to spacious IarmhouSeS
The cattle and horses on the farms
are of better stock than in the past.
there are more school houses and
q larger attendance OF pupils. The
civiiiZlng power of the almighty dot
lar" is to be seen everywhere Ill
Dixie Farm products are more varied
than ever before. Clearly there has
been an awakening in the South, ana
intelligence and enterprise are dis
played on every hand.
AS all know who are familiar with
conditions in the South, the chief
source of the wealth of that section
is it's cotton fields and cotton mills,
The development of the cotton manu-
featuring industry has been phenom-
email, consequently doubts have been
suggested in some quarters as to its
stability. and it has even been init
mated that the industry might be
overdone. The methods pursued il.
financing some of the mills in the
early stages Of the industry have
been called into question. Mr.. Brown,
whose reputation as a financier eX-
tends beyond his native State, ex-
plains that in the beginning of cotton
manufacture in the South "the lack
of capital necessitated small mills. In
these plants were invested every avail
able dollar leaving nothing for the
working capital. Excessive loans were
resorted to. something for the com
pIetion of the plants and quite gen
orally for working capital. In some
instances he states, this has been
avoided by the issuance of preferred
stock: in other cases the lack was
supplied by issuing bonds, which have
rested like an incubus on the mills,
retarding, though not preventing,
their growth" But according to the
North Carolina banker, these difficult
ties have been overcome in many
cases ''and there are now in North
and South Carolina and in other sec
tons of the South not a few great
mills whose unsupported credit is
ample for their needs and justly en-
titles them to the use of the vast sums
Of money necessary to store large sup
plies of cotton or to carry their manu-
featured product i'm the mill and in
process of marketing" Mr. Brown
does not conceal the fact that there
have been speculative tendencies on
the part of some mill owners. They
have been led to the all-too-easy
methods of buying for future deliv-
cry, covering their contracts by mar
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01
HOW LONG WILL THEY SUBMIT?

Referring to the admission of SUI
perintendent Copeman that the South
crn Railway needs more yard room at
Winston-S Salem, the Winston Sentinel
says:
when . man has to work "a to 36
hours. or possibly more, without sleep,
sometimes If is only natural TO sup
pose that he does not feel as capable
as; he might otherwise"
The whole trouble with the South
ern Railways failure to give prompt
and good service is that It will not
spend enough money to secure such
service. 1t sends it's money to New
York to show big earning and boom
watered stock: it subsidies newspa-
pers; it hires a multitude of lawyers
and law agents; mostly for political
service; and pays absurdly high sal
aries to the chief officials, out of the
twenty-five per cent. 1t makes on the
North Carolina and some other lines
But it pays too low wages to the men
who 20 the work and REQUIRES such
long hours as to make some of its men
unable to do their best work. 1t COM
pels its laboriEg employees and shippers
to li-e hard and suffer inconvenience
and delay in order 10 make big
showing and control politics and news
papers. How long will flesh and blood
stand over-work at small wages? How
long will shippers submit to have their
business injured?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01
PARTY NOMINATIONS AND THE
BOSS.

The only hope of good government
in country where party rule prevails
is for the nominees to be named by
the action of conventions or primaries
in which the will of the majority OF
the party is fairly ascertained. When-
ever anv machine or boss picks out
the candidates that moment blow is
struck at popular government. Inc
best service any man can render MS
party is TO fight for the principle that
every voter must have equal will IN
nominations The party that turns
over 20 am man or set of men the
right to select candidates is sowing
the seed of party dissensiOn and party
disruption.
What is the trouble in the Demo-
cratic party in New York today? 1t
is not that there is objection to the
men named as candidates, but to the
belief that they have been named
by the head of Tammany
and that their obligations to Murphy
are so great that they could not serve
all the public # the interests of Muir
phy and the people should conflict
The best argument made by Mr.. Je-
rome a remarkable man whose pub
lie career has made him a figure of
national interest. is his attack upon
the system by which "The Boss of
Tammany names the ticket. and Odell
(not a citizen of New York City, head
of the Republican party in New York
State, names the Republican nomi-
nees. If that is true, is there any
wonder that the people will fight for
the right to name their candidates?
Here is an extract-specially good
from Jerome's latest speech:
Il think all men of this city bear
me out that it is true not only here,
but practically true all over the land
that this sinister influence has come
between the free convention of the
people and their public servant. With
what result? The public servant all
over the land no longer feels himself
responsible to the people; he has
come to feel that his Dreferment is
taken at the hands of someone other
than the people.
'As Tennyson says of Launcelot:
His honor rooted in dishOnor stood,
And faith unfaithfui kept him falsely
true,
so it is with our public officers, TAX
ing their Office not at your hand.
Their honor rooted in dishonor stands,
and faith unfaithful keeps them false
ly true. to the man that created them,
the boss
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01
Colored Mill Labor.
Salisbury Post.


Concord special says that the
Coleman cotton mill at Concord, the
first in the South to be operated by
negro labor and which cost Warren
Coleman, wealthy negro, the accu
mutation of a life time. is to resume
operation, colored labor being given
another trial
This second experiment will be at
tended with even more interest than
the first. Coleman was in the first in
stance, hampered by poor manage
ment and season of depression
among the cotton mills, to say MOTH
ing of the raw labor employed. Upon
whether or not the last named disad
vantage can be overcome depends in
a great measure the success or fall
ure of this venture.
We have never believed the negro
tempermentally fitted for mill work. 1t
does not harmonic with his inclina-
ton of physical development
This latest trial however, is worth
the while in that in all likelihood it
will determine for many years to come
the fitness of the negro for this char
acter of labor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01
OUGHT TO DEMAND REFORMS.

VIII the Equitab BILE policy-holders in
North Carolina hold a meeting to eX-
press themselves? Yesterdays Char
lotte> Observer said:
Some time ago Mr.. r. NJ. Nelson,
of Ellington, y. c.. wrote to Mr..
Cleveland about Equitable affairs and
he suggested the propriety of a meet
ing of the policy-holders in North
Carolina. To this he further suggested
that as North Carolina had a director
i'm the person of Mr.. d. A. Tompkins,
that the policy-h olders invite him to
this meeting and through him present
to the trustees or to the directors of
the society," such matters as they might
wish to present. The probabilities are
that the main thing to be done would
be to have the policy-holders send
proxies to the trustees authorizing the
trustees to exercise their best judgment
in selecting directors for the manage
ment of the society,"" There follows
the form of proXy.]
If the main thing to be done would
be to have the policy-holders send
proxies to the trustees" the meeting
will be a miserable fiasco. If they
wish to send proxies to Mr. Ryan's
dummy trustees. they can do that with
al two cent postage stamp. If they
wish to say, to quote Director Temp
kins. that the crimes of which the
officers were guilty were merely "un-
intentional irregularities" they can so
stultify themselves without paying
railroad fare to Charlotte.
If there is any necessity for a meet
ing OF the policy-holders in North
Carolina at all it is to call upon the
Insurance Commissioner. as soon as
the Investigations in New York are
completed, to see to it that the Equit-
able treats it's policy holders right, and
divide to them this year their proper
ton of the surplus and hereafter to
annually distribute the money that is
earned. They could also demand to
know how much of their money has
been used in uolitics and to insist
that the present excessive and extrava-
CANT salaries be reduced, and that no
rebates be given.
Unless something practical and eff
fectiye like that is TO be done, there is
no sense in a meeting of the policy
holders Director Tompkins can hook
after the "unintentional Irregularities
by which stockholders are denied their
just returns from the money they have
paid into the treasury of thC com
pany
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01
ASHAMED OF THE SMITHS.

A young man in Atlanta by the
lame of Cuyfer Smith has gone be-
fore the courts and secured decree
changing his name to Cruger Smith
Cuyler. On that very day there was
great gathering of Smiths at the
Macon Fair addressed by Mayor Smith
and President Smith of the Macon
Fair. They seemed proud of the name
Smith, for Hoke says it comes from
mite" and means to do something
and do it with all their might. No
doubt the Smiths-(and their num-
Der is almost as numerous as the
sands on the seashore) -are glad to
be rid of a man who preferred to
bear the name Cuyler than plain
Smith.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01

The law that gives the prosecuting
officer one-tenth of forfeited bonds
does not apply TO the city attorney of
Raleigh. He is paid a stated salary
ard can have no interest in any fees
or penalties. The law that governs
Us to the prosecuting attorney in Raj
eigh ought to apply to all prosecuting
attorneys. They ought to be paid an
annual salary. and all fees and penal
ties should GO into the treasury.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01

The President is back in Washing
ton He found the South twenty years
ahead of him in favoring government
regulation of railroad rates. 1t was
anything but "the enemy's country
upon that proposition. The South
looks to see the President use all his
strenuosity to see the measure pas
sed so it will give relief.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01

As long as pick-pockets can put up
small bonds and skip. North Carolina
will be a favorte State for them. Give
them little gold brick" justice and
ness
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01
You Don't Say SO.
salisbury Post.
,1.gNI

Salisbury Post.
If Mr. William r. Hearst didn't have
a hand in that Washington Post deal
appearances are entlrely deceptive.
Hearst's own paper, the New York
American. is hardly more partial to
his candidacy than the Post. Is it
among the political possibilities that
= McLean-Hearst combine is on foot?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01
MORNING TONIC.
(PhiIliuS BroOks.)

Many man has a blind notion of
stewardship about his property, but
very few have it about their knoWl-
edge.
One grows tired of seeing cultivated
people with all their culture cursed by
selfishneSS.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-01
The Law Ought to DE Changed 50 that
Hangin. Would be the Punishment.

Wilmington Messenger.
The News and Observer. referring
to the case OF the negro brute who at
tempted a criminal assault on the lit
tie girl at Wallace last sunday, says
that fortunately the Evidence OF ms
guilt is compIete and that while there
is no punishment severe enough for a
brute of his type" the hanging shoald