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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
THE COLORED PEOPLE TUMBLE.
And One Man Thinks His Race is Hoo
dOed on the Show Question.

Especial to News and Observer
High Point, n. c., Aug. 31.-While
the A. G.. Allen New Orleans Minstrel
was giving performance here last
night that section of seats occupied
by the colored people gave way pre-
cipitating the whole bunch to the
ground below. For a while all was
CONSERVATION but order was finally re-
stored and the show proceeded. This
makes the second time this year such
thing has happened, the first time q t
Rabbit Foot show, and when the
negroes believed it was a put up job
because the local ball team had won
over the visitors in a game of ball the
afternoon of the show. Last night the
seats tumbled all of a sudden and the
negroes do not know what to think
of it, One old witch believing-negro
remarked that his race was hoodooed
on the show question and that he
never expected to attend another show.
1t was rather expected that the
school board at its final meeting last
night would adopt the one session plan
but after considerable discussion it
was decided not to change.
Rev. S. B. Turrentine, presiding
elder of Greensboro district, met with
Washington Street NJ. E. Church last
night and conducted the quarterly
meeting.
Mr. A. c. Markley has begun work
on his property in the western part OF
the city, known as the Williams place.
Paved side walks will be put down all
through this valuable real estate ana
small parks will be made for public
use. The identifying of this proper
ty and inhabiting same will add no lit
tie to the wealth and growth of the
civ
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
PUBLIC SPEAKING.
Announcement of Dates for Educa'
tional Addresses.

j. Y. JOyner: .. .,
Southport, Brunswick county, Sep
TENDER a.
! Winterville, Columbus county, Sep
TENDER 5.
evergreen, Columbus county, Sep
Chadbourne, Columbus county, Sep
TENDER 6.
Clarendon, Columbus county, Sep
TENDER T.
Mt. Tabor, Columbus county, Sep
tember Z.
Dunn, Harnett county, September s.
Camden Court House, Camden coun-
ty, September IL.
Flat Rock. Franklin county, Septem-
Der 81.
Dunn, Harnett county, September &.
Shiloh, Camden county, Sept IL.
II. B. White: .
Holly Springs, Wake county, August
31st.
j. Il. Carlyle:
oxford. Granville county, Sept. 2.
X. ID. w. COnnOr: .,
oxford. Granville county. Sept. 2.
r. G.. Brooks and w. ID. Carmichael:
New Hope Township, Wayne county,
August %.
Pike and Buck Swamp Townships,
Wayne county. August 29.
Brogden Township. Wayne county,
August 30. A.,
Fork Township, Wayne county, Au-
gust 81.
Graham Township, Wayne county,
September /.
RIB. White Reucdy School.
House, Davidson county, Septeh-
Der 5th.
Davidson Academy, September D.
Jackson Hill, September Ith.
Cedar Grove, September 9Th.
Cotton Grove, September 9TH.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO PETI-
TTON UNLESS THEY COULD
VOTE.

The people of Raleigh were greatly
surprised to learn yesterday that the
For Saloon" people expect to ask the
Board of Aldermen to order an cleo
ton upon the petition of men who, If
the election should be ordered, could
not participate in it because they have
not paid their poll-taxes. Section 4,
Article s, of the Constitution of North
Carolina provides that before any per-
son shall be entitled to vote he shall
have paid on or before the first day
of May of the year in which he pro-
poses to vote his poll-tax for the pre-
vious year" And yet it is gravely ar
gued that a person who could not
vote in a dispensary election can petit
ton and order an election which is not
desired by one-third of the men who
would be qualified to vote in the cleo
ton. If that is the law, it is an alb
surd, dangerous and unwise law.
A man may register without paying
the poll-tax, but he cannot vote untlf
he pays it. He cannot be considered
voter in any sense until he pays
his poll-tax, and the spirit of the Con-
tsitution is that he shall have no voice
i'm the election. 1t is contrary to JUS
tice and common sense that ne can
count on a petition to order an cleo
ton in which the Constitution OF the
State SAYS he shall not vote.
OF course lawyers differ in their
opinion as to the statute and plausible
arguments can be made in favor OF
letting a man petition to secure an
election in which he has for the time
being disfranchised himself There
may be legal technicalities that VIII
support that view, but the reason and
common sense view is that If man
cannot vote in an election he cannot
he counted to call an election Tor
which legal voters do not petition.
The News and Observer believes that
whenever one-third of the legal voters
in Raleigh-men who can vote II the
election is ordered-petition for an
election, it ought to be granted With
ont a moments delay. But we DO
not believe that men liable for poll-taX
and not excused by the county COM
missioners have any more right to be
counted to order an election in Raj
eigh than residents of another town
ship or town.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
Spirit of the Press.
A Gross Miscarriage of and Traversty
on Justice.
Chatham Record.

Chatham Record.
That was a gross miscarriage OF
Justice at Guilford Superior court last
week, in the suit of w. G. Osborne
against Nj. T. Leach and the News
and Observer Publishing Company
The jury rendered verdict for
$4,000 i'm favor of the plaintiff, but
the Judge reduced it to $4,000 and
he would have been fully justified in
reducing it to much smaller sum.
The most disgraceful and outrage
Gus feature of the trial Gf true as
|reported) is that on the first ballot
half of the jurors were in favor OF
giving the plaintiff only a penny and
costs. and were finally Influenced to
give $4,000 by being told that the de-
PENDANTS were rich and the money
would be brought from another city
and be spent in their community.
This suit was a civil action for libel,
alleged to have been published in the
News and Observer at the instigation
of Mr. Leach. The jury evidently dis
regarded the instructions of the judge,
who charged Gas is the law that the
2faintiff could not recover punitive
damages, but only actual or cOmpen-
Isatory damages No fair minded
man can read the evidence in this
case without being shocked at the
verdict. and such a traversity on JUS
tice is sufficient to shake everybody
confidence in our time honored SyS-
tenn of jury trials.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
EVENING SESSION.
An Interesting Program Arranged for
Today.

A delightful evening was enjoyed
by the farmers. and entertaining and
| instructive lectures were heard in the
auditorium at the college.
Mr.. r. B. Parker, secretary of the
Farmers state Alliance, spoke on
alfalfa Growing" subject of which
he is master.
Mr.. F. T. Meacham, of Statesville,
well known to the farmers of North
Carolina, spNpke appreciatively on
Wheat Culture" a subject with
which he was Familiarity acquainted,
and his address was of great bene-
fit to the farmers, as evidenced by the
close attention they paid him.
Prof. w. f. Massey spoke on Life
in the Soil He said in part:
"a fertile soil which abounds in mi
a living soil while the rundown soil
is literally dead soil. because these
forms of life have been starved out,
while such a soil may show on
chemical analysis that it contains an
abundance of plant food which is in
such a condition that plant roots cam
not use it, and hence it is common to
call it worn out soil. But if left to
nature she vii! with the broom
sedge and the pine tree bring back to
the worn soil the conditions that
again in the soil by furnishing anew
the organic decay that greedy man
has robbed if of. We cannot wait for
the broom sedge and pine tree, and it is
the part of the farmer to learn to eff
feet these new soil conditions in a
more speedy way.
$50 much has been said of late
about bacteria that the word has at
least become familiar to almost every
one and my purpose is to speak to
these living things, and their use in
agriculture The bacterium is the
smallest of all known plants; in fact
there may be some so small that the
highest power of our best miscrope
have not found them, and they may
be found responsible for things found
in the soil that are as yet unaccount-
ed for. We know certain forms are
doing one work in the soil and others
doing another, but neither does the
work of the other One form of bac-
terra bCakst down the organic mat
ter buried IN the soil. and thus re-
leases ammonia. Another form feeds
on ammonia and reduces it. to a nj
trite, while third form takes up
the nitrites and forms nitric acids,
which at once seeks a base in the soil
either lime or pot ash, and the result
is nitrate, and it is found that our
crops never use ammonia until it has
been reduced to the form of a nitrate,
and then it is so soluble that it is
washed from the soil, if not taken up
by plants. The importance of hui
Continued on Page Seven.E
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
Temperance in Cleveland County.
PRESBYTERIAN standard.)

For three days last week, Shelby
and Cleveland COUNTY celebrated
"Home Coming" The town was
thronged ding these days with from
1000 to 5000 people in holiday spirit.
There was not the slightest disorder.
No arrests made. l did not see
a man intoxicated and several careful
observers of such things told me they
saw none. | do not claim there was
no Observation-Disclosures there was.
But it was not seen or learned of men.
This speaks well for the sobriety and
orderliness of the people of this coun-
ty, and it also shows that prohibition
does prohibit. Those three days
crowds of orderly, sober people is the
best prohibition lecture Shelby mas
heard in many moon.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
Constantly Performing a Real Service
i'm q Good Cause.

Roanoke-Chow Times.
The recent educational edition of
the Raleigh News and Observer con-
tanned more valuable and interesting
information than any newspaper we
remember to have seen before. We
wish copy of it could be placed into
every North Carolina home. The
News and Observer. is intensely patri-
otic and is constantly performing real
service in good cause.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
A CURIOUS MISTAKE.
Italians Shipped to PittsbOro VINO
Were Intended for Pittsburg.
(Chatham Record.)

Last weeks Record mentioned that
five Italians had come here by mis-
take for Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Strange to say three more Italians
came here on last Thursday in the
same way, and did not have money
enough to buy tickets to take them
much beyond Raleigh. 1t is a great
hardship on those poor foreigners for
such = mistake to be made.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
Education i'm Japan.
Boston TRANSCRIPT.

The JaDanese official white Book"
records 27,12S public schools now be-
ing conducted in the empire by some
thing over 100000 teachers and with
more than 100000 pupils. This
represents an enrolment of 1926 per
cent of al Japanese children of
school age, and is an increase of
about 33 per cent in the last decade.
To public school nation like ours the
moral of such a growth is sufficient
Obvious.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

If the registration books can be
purged by the aldermen to take off
parties who cannot vote for other rea-
sons, why cannot they be purged of
persons not permitted to vote by the
State Constitution?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

plauded in the Farmers Congress
yesterday when he declared that the
people of North Carolina are de-
termined to replace saloons with
schools and. to. put books in the place
of bottles. The temperance senti-
ment is deep and is growing.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

Technicalities ought not to weigh.
Is it right to permit man to count
on a petition to order an election In
which the State Constitution says he
has no right to vote? If that is true,
the man who shuns paying poll-taX
has rights that enable him to force
voters against their will to hold an
election.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

Mr.. White is evidently over-much
in love with himself and praises his
diplomacy extravagantly. IT he keeps
that up, he will lose all he has gained
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

The whitewash brush is working
over time in the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

If a man who cannot vote can call
an election, why may not women just
as we'll be given the right of petition?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

If a man is permitted to order an
election in which he cannot particl-
pate, what is to prevent dishonest reg
istrars looking ahead froan padding
the books in the May elections in or
der to enable non-voters to force an
election upon voters?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

The Morehead Coaster is four years
old 1t is a credit to Editor McCul-
len and to the town.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

Dowie goes Roosevelt one better IN
tho war against race suicide. He
has issued an order that each married
couple in Zion city shall once in each
year report to him, bringing for his
inspection a newborn babe. At that
rate of increase in the blrth-rate,
Zion City will rapidly increase it's
population, if the married couples obey
Dowie's latest command.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
Japan was Badly Deceived.

COIumDld STATE.
Japan has been badly deceived into
believing that she would gain more
through magnaninity than through
Justice She has listened to the whin
ing pleas of sentimentalists, instead
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

Elections are called for voters. None
except voters ought to be permitted to
call an election.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
LittlctOn Female College.

last
Eocuhon Hot
heat ectric and
%
of public
September
addres j. RHODES. A NJ,
sdentL n
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
MORNING TONIC.
(Eranklin.0

(Franklin.)
To be thrown upon ones own re-
sources is to be cast into the very lap
Of fortune.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

Japan's getting one-half of the
Island of Sakhalin is of the highest
Importance and worth millions to win.
The fisheries are the chief source or
wealth and japan viii. make them
rival those oe Newfoundland. Those
fisheries will also furnish fertilizer
which Jpaan needs. The island is
rich in timber, in OIL and coal ana
is as big as Belgium and Holland to-
gether. bearing the same relation 10
Russian possessions in the Orient that
Lone Island does to the United States
or the Isle of Wight to England.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

Nov. good digestion waits on ap-
petite, and health on both.
| If it doesn't, try Burdock blood Bit
ters.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
THE FARMERS CONVENTION.

The farmers convention, composed
of intelligent tillers of the soil from
all parts of the State of North Caro-
is the backbone of the common
wealth. Their presence in Raleigh
at this time is good for them and good
for the capital city which gives to each
and every member its most cordial
welcome.
Never were gatherings of farmers
so significant as at the present time.
never were they so capable of doing
things and of getting an audience from
the rest of the world. The farmer
is at last coming into his own, is be-
ginning to WELD that industrial as
which his labors and the benefit
which the world derives from them
entitle him. Time was when the farm
er was quiescent, when he was poor
and unable to help himself, when he
was the feather of market caprice
and the bound-slave of his creditors.
Happily, all that is changed. The
farmer is not only self-assertive but
he has learned that he has the power
to make his words heard and to en-
force his views. With prosperity has
come independence. The day has
passed when the farmer is obliged
to sell at any price. He is taking ais
turn in making conditions and in. fixing
for his own products their just value
incidentally, theresult of his progress
while lettering his condition improves
that of the people among whom he
lives of all classes and professions as
no other cause can. On the prosperity
of the farmer hangs that of the Whole
country There are none except me
disappointed among beaten spectators
tn beerude his success or fail to re-
ioicc in his victories
Just now triumphant from the win
ming of the long battle for fair prices
for cotton, the farmers are in a happy
and a hopeful mood and everybody is
glad that they are. In the holdlng oil
conventions, in the tightening OF the
cords of common interests and mutual
help they are doing themselves anu
the country lasting service.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
THE FRANCIS billiard SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA.


History and Btbl:
the
lights baths $4,000
N. c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

mistake would be far reaching in its
effect.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
Room for Medicine Hat.

Medicine Hat is one Of the towns-pardon
US, cities!-in the Canadian northwest which
is making a great bid just now for its share
Of the present boom in Canada. The mayor
OF Medicine Hat goes so far as TO advertise
the merits OF that noble city in some Cana
dian papers. Its virtues are dwelt upon In
these advertisements at great length, AMI
particular stress is laid upon the fact that
an abundant supply Of natural gas makes
Medicine Hat particularly favorable place
for the location of manufacturing plants
Somehow we seem 10 have heard the name
OF Medicine Hat before. II our memory
does not fail us, this Is the place where
the weather man says the cold waves come
from. When the mercury sinks TO zero In
, the Ohio valley this considerable gentleman
sometimes calls our attention 20 the fact
that Il is 20 degrees below at Medicine
Hat" This does not seem so bad in August,
but Il must be a pretty cold reality In jan
uary.
Medicine Hat deserves its growing fame.
Strange that in his reference to the many
advantages OF his growing city the mayor
OF Medicine Hat never alludes TO the cold
wave industry.-Cincinnad Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
DR.. BYE CURES CANCER
A QUARTER OF a cENruRY,s MARVELLOUS RECORD.

majority of doctors cling TO the knife
hence the great number of failures
TO cure TIRE KNIFE CANNOT
CURE CANCER The ONLY proven
cure is the wonderful COMBINATION
OIL TREATMENT used by DIR. Bye.
This treatment is mild, safe and does
away with painful, dangerous opera
tiOns. DIR. Bye makes a candid state
ment 20 all sufferers from Cancer
read his words of hope.
subject Of Cancer and Tumors is world
wide; he Is universally recognized as the
worlds foremost Specialist In this line
and his words to the afflicted are worthy
of the careful consideration Of every one
interested.
No need OF cutting off womans breast
or a mans check or nose I'm vain at
ing burning plasters to the flesh and tor
turing those already weak from suffering.
Soothing, balmy, aromatic oils give safe
speedy and certain cure The most horri-
bic forms of cancer Of the face, breast,
womb. mouth and stomach, large tumOrs,
ugly ulcers, fstula, catarrh. terrible skin
diseases, are all successfully treated by
the application OF various forms Of sooth-
ing oils.
Dr. Bye says: Cancer is a durable
disease, | have proven this to be a fact
i'm many thousands OF cases. II is not
the Combination oil Treatment which
not only destroys the life Of the Cancer
and removes Il but also drives every
vestige of poison from the system. l can
that the result of my treatment will he
successful Cases given up by other ply
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

No woman can look beautiful without
GOOD health, A wOman's good health
depends on those organs peculiarly femi-
pine, and which so often become disor-
dered, causing misery and dragging-down
pain. Natures laws are perfect, health
endureS 4 you. obey them, but disease
follows disobedience. The distressing
complaints OF women are often brought
about by catching cold at a critical
period, breathing foul indoors air and
long hours of work and nervous tension.
Go straight 10 Nature for the cuTe-tO
the forest DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription e Natures cure for the dis
tresslng complaints OF women. Prof.
King, NJ. D., In his American Dispense
tory, says Of Black COhOsh or Black
Snake root sour early American In
dlans set . high value on this root in
diseases OF women. IL Is surpassed by
no other drug, On oOngesttUe conditions
Of the ports tDheTe there are dragging
pains aud tenderness"
bady's Slipper root Is a Vnerve stimulApt
and tonic, Improving both circulation and
nutrition OF the nerve oanters-faVoring
sleep and cheerful condition Of the mind;
OF service IN mental depression, nervous
headAeha, Irregularities Of women with
dsspOndency. r-PTof. king. Besides the
above ingredients there Are-GOlden Seal,
Pisrce's Favorite Prescription.
DR.. P!ercs's Common Sense Medical
Advisor will be sent free, paper bound, for
81 Ons- cent stamps, or cloth bound for 81
stamps: ovsr iooq pages and snd iilustreted-
DR.. Piercs's Pleasant Pellets should be
used with ufavOrtte Prescription when
OVcr \ Laxative u inquired
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
Clerical Teddy.

Some forty years ago, perhaps less, a
learned clergyman Of Scotland was chosen
the head of one of the leading colleges of
the United States. The day OF his inaugn-
ration was exceedingly warm and the rev
erend gentleman walked to the chapel
where a large and select audience awaited
his appearance. Wiping the parspiratio
from his brow, the learned doctor ex-
planned: The weather Is very hot and the
whusky"-here a look Of disgust as broad
as his pronunciation came over his rugged
features-"and the whusky II was very
mean" Perhaps the good old man had
been given some Of that Peoria abomina-
ton and had sailed into It as he had been
accustomed TO imbibe his native Scotch.
Though this president OF a great Presby-
terrain college would have his whusky he
made HIS college the equal In standing Of
any other In America, and the youth into
whom DR.. McCosh could not implant some
character was hopeless.-savoyard In
Washington Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

was brought to Kansas City by Col. ]. c.
Addie, Of Kansas City. a test case, the
Colonel having heard 50 much of the won
derful cures Of DR.. Bye. Mrs. Darrow Is u
years old and was suffering from a cancer
under the ear, as large as a silver dollar.
A great deal of interest was manifested in
her case and the outcome looked forward
to with eagernesS After taking the treat
ment, she was entirely cured, and re
turned to her home in the best OF health.
Mrs. DaTrows address is 5l2 Pere Mar
quette ST., Big Rapids Mich.
Over a quarter of century DIR.
BYE has demonstrated beyond a shad-
ow of a doubt that CANCER and IT,
MORS are Durable DISEASES. The
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
On PacIAc Coast.

san Francisco-If the number OF prop
erly qualified young men making applica-
ton for positions through the Remington
employment department In San Francisco
had been twice as large as II was last
year, We could have placed them all in
deLirable stenOgraphic positions. Short-
hand makes Il easy for a young man 10
secure position near the manager OF head
OF denarumenL and the groWiIlz tendency
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

Gustave II. Oleson and d. Percy Jameson,
formerly with Hayden Bros, have opened
a new tailoring establishment az 2O7 South
Fourteenth street, under the firm name Of
The London TailOrs. They will be pleased
to meet their old friends and show them
an excellent line OF imported and domestic
WOolenH,
Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03

sicians are often cured at home; In fact
the majority OF cases l treat, are thos'
at n distance"