4 The News and Observer —BT— The lews and Obsener Publishing Co JOSEPHTJS DAKXELS, President. Office: News and Observer Building, Fayetteville Street. < COUNCIL > SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Per year *7.00 Biz months *.50 Always strictly In advance. OFLY FEWBPAPBR FRISTED At State Capital That Uses the ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT, Entered at the poatoffice at Raleigh. N. C., as second-class matter. WEDNESDAY February 4- 1303 A MOUSING TONIC. (Henry Van Dyke.) To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars: to h® satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and mean wfj. and to fear nothing except coward : • to governed by your admiration* rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his Kindness of heart and gentleness of man n®rs; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of <*biist; and to -pend as much time as you ran. with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors—th se are little guideposti cn the foot-path to peace. A JURY OF APO3TLES WOULDN'T SUIT THE SOUTHERN. A few month.- ago Mr. Fabius H Bus bee. attorney of the Southern Railway, made an affidavit that his railroad could not get justice in Wake, Granville. Franklin, Vance, Johnston. Harnett. Ghatham and Durham counties because of the tremendous influence exerted by the News and Observer, and therefore be wished to have cases removed to the Federal court. Facts were printed in this paper showing that Mr. Busbee was in error and that jurors in Wake and adjacent counties were so fair to the railroads that some attorneys complain ed that they wished to be so fair that juries were inclined to lean in favor of railroads. It seems that Mr. Busbee's l®gal su j r:or officer, (’apt. Charles Price, divi sion counsel of the Southern, has been mtk.ng lik- complaints of Mecklenburg juries. A recent local in the Charlotte Observer gives Mr. Price's complaint ?nd Col. Ham Jones' happy and effective an swer. We cuote: "In the Superior Court yesterday there was. a polite exchange of amenities be tween Col. H. C. Jones, of Jones and Tillett. and (’apt. Charles iMee, di x; ion counsel of the Southern Railway. Capt. Price, in moving to set aside the verdict for Sv' •< against the Southern in the Hartncss case, stated In his ar gument that it seemed that the only question considered by juries in actions against railroads was the amount oi damages: that they could hope nothing from juries,’ and that their only hope w*i in the judges. "Replying to this, Col. Jones expressed surprise that Capt. Price should make su< h a statement in this country, and said that in his 30 years practice he had found Mecklenburg juries absolutely fair in their verdicts. “Pointing to Capt. Price, Col. Jones sa:d: ” 'You know, or should remember, that the firs' ease e*ver tried in this court house was one against your railroad, and aft®r a hardly contested fight a Mecklenburg jury decided with you. At this term of court, in a case in which $33,000 was involved, a verdict was ren dired in favor of your company. •• ‘The trouble is these railroads are getting sensitive. If you had a jury of twelve apstles to sit upon their cases you would hear the same complaint of excessive damages, and a disregard of their rights. If they go head on and kill seme poor, unoffending person they sometimes compromise; but when all efforts fail to get a compromise and the case comes into court and the jury de cides against them, then they complain. Every la.wyer at this bar knows the difference between bringing suit and win ning ft.’ **Tl;e verdicts against the railroad wt re allowed to stand.” Col. Jones has spoken trulv in defense of juries. The truth is that Southern Railway lawyers are so accustomed to be treated ’as one of the family" in most Federal courts that when they get onlv justice, without any social privilege, in the State courts, they feel that they have been badly treated. Nothing but a Federal Judge, who owes his appoint ment to Southern Railway influence, who is ready to set aside verdicts or issue injunctions or do any other act to help them *:• th- re - - suits the Southern Railway lawyers. The remarks of Col. I Jones are timely. He made a hit—a " palpable hit—and one much needed in every county where Southern Railway lawyers make a habit of abusing the juries. I The New York papers say that the pelf'-* figure that » per cent of the colored girls imported to that erty from the South have be. n swindled by th* employment agencies On® or t»c manage of bureaus have been arrested for swindling them. NO SALOONS OR STILLS IN RU&AI DISTRICTS. The first step toward temperance l®g islation was taken yesterday in th< House Committee on Propositions an. Grievances. After a session of thre< hours, by the decisive vote of 1(5 to the Watts bill, with certain amend ments. was favorably reported to th. House. The London bill, which is pend ing in the Senate, was not before th committee. That will come up shortly. The Watts bill relates only to the ru ral district problem. It does not toucl the town and city problem which wil come up later. The London bill, witl few changes, will be considered by tht Senate committee, and will pass botl houses if the people who are in favor o' effective temperance legislation wil continue their active efforts. All friends of temperance legislatioi ought to work together harmoniously The first step is to pass the Watts bill It ought to be amended so as to ex elude the sale or manufacture in an: town of less than three hundred popula tion. The country still and the country saloon are the outposts of the whiske: evil. The Watts bill, reported favorablj by the committee, cuts up both by th. roots. The House ought not to hesitau a moment about parsing th® bill by a. large a majority as it went through th* committee. It will be a leng step for ward in temperance legislation and It ail the legislation needed as to countrj saloons and country stills. Then the legislation proposed in the London bil will come up for consideration and alst other legislation affecting the cities am towns. It would be a great mistake if the ad vocates of temperance legislation should take it for granted that the bill will pass the House easily. The opponents of all legislation on temperance are active, alert, resourceful, and they will briog every influence possible to b» ar to d®?®ti’ it. The friends of temperance legislation should be active in tb’eir efforts to secure the passage of the bill. A NATIONAL ANTI-JUG LAW. The Hepburn bill, which passed the House a few days ago, is one of the best measures that has passed either branch of Congress in many days. The Hepburn bill is really what we know in North Carolina as the Duplin county law na tionalized. It makes the selling of whis key from one State conform to the laws of the State in which the delivery is made. This law, if it passes the Senate, will do away with the original package decision which has done so much to neg ative the State prohibition and dispensary laws. In North Carolina the prohibition coun ties have all come to this Legislature demanding an anti-jug law They believe that when they vote prohibition they ought to be protected against having jugs shipped into their county. They are right about it. This General Assembly ought to pass an anti-jug law to apply to all prohibition territory, and will doubt less pass such an act. It is demanded by the people and there is no good reason why it should not pass unanimously. If the people of any community vote out whiskey they have a right to be protect ed against having it set in part at naught by express companies bringing in jugs. Tlie only argument that has been brought forth against an anti-jug bill has been that the Federal government would permit jugs to be brought in from other States. The passage of the Hep burn bill through the House answers that argument, and when it passes the Senate it utterly destroys it. The original pack age decision was a great blow to prohibi tion and whiskey regulation. The pass age of the Hepburn bill will be a long step forward for temperance legislation FAVORABLY REPORTED. The Fuller bill seems to be running in th< Senate as in the House. Before the House committee the vote was a tie and it was reported to the House ’‘without prejudice.” It passed by a vote of 71 to 38, every Republican except one voting with the railroad. The Senate committee yesterday by one majority voted to rep»ort the bill favor ably with some amendments. If the Senators vote as wisely as the House did, the bill will become a law by a vote of two to one. Its defeat would be a long step backward, and it is not con ceivable that a Legislature elected by men who framed the Democratic plat form at Greensboro and established the Corporation Commission should turn th® hands of the clock of progress ba®k wards- THE ESCAPE OF UTLEY. The escape of Utlev. recently sen tenced to thirty years’ imprisonment for murder in the second degree, from the jail in Fayetteville, has an ugly look. I tley has plenty of money, plenty of friends, aDd there is a well grounded sus picion that he used a golden key to ef fect his escape. It is a matter for immediate, thorough, and full investigation by th® authorities. The severest penalty should be visited upon the officers charged with his safe keeping. Action should be taken at once. The people of this State will not toler ate the carelessness, if nothing worse, of the sworn officials who permitted the escape of a rich murderer. THE NEWB AND OBSERVER. WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEB. 41 1903; Spirit of the Press. rOTHOS RETURN TO PUBLIC LIFE WELCOMED. Vsheville Citizen. What is this news from Raleigh? The lon. S. Otho Wilson placed in the fore rent of the fight against temperance egislation by the distillers? Thus once • gain is time wondrous kind to us. For nany years this erstwhile Middle-of-the toader has been in retirement. Far rom the maddening crowd he has de oted his uninterrupted time and bound ess talents to the manufacture or ooze. Amid the red hills of Rhamkatte hus Otho has both by nature and train ng fitted himself for leadership, and we •re rejoiced to know that he is to be •laced at a point of vantage in the fight vhere we may again catch at least a massing glimpse of his wi despreading icmbrcro and expansive “jim-swinger.’* Che tide of events has cast no more ncturesque and exhilarating spectacle ipon the surface o? the sea of politics ;nd we would not willingly lose it. lerc’s to Sokho! May he continue to ast the effulgence of his genius athwart üblic life! Without his Populism would lever have been half so gay, and with lim the temperance fight in th® Legis ature may not be wholly devoid of hu mor. EQUAL VALUATIONS. r arboro Southerner. All complaints of unequal and unfair valuation of real and personal property or taxation can be ended by the l®giida ure enacting the valuation rule of England. It is simple but ever so effec ive. It simply requires th’ owner to /alne his own property and then have i proviso, that if any one will ras® lh f s raluation. say 20 or 25 per cent, he can ay the money and tak® the property, or •Mjuire the owner to pay a penalty. Special taxes and privilege taxes would not be needed. There would be no more trouble ov r the valuation of railways. et< . All the Corpora lion Commission would have to do. would be to ascertain what the bonds, rertifleates of indebtedness, common stock, etc., sell at in the market. The total would be the value of th, road, in cluding that incorporal franchise. With such a law would not tax dodging cease ? LET US TREAT THE SOUTH FAIRLY. Leslie's Weekly. In theory, we of the North regard the negroes 33 entitled to equal rights. privi leges. and recognitions in politics and business with ourselves. Rut as a mat ter of fact we believe nothing of the kind. Our practices here, at least, are almost an antipodal distance from our theories. There are, in truth, few neighborhoods in the North wh®re a colored man in any conspicuous official position would be much more welcome than he is in the South. Especially would this be txu® in a small postoffice, the worst of all possible places to pet a person who, for any reason, is socially obnoxious. IT SETS THE P.U'E. Greensboro Telegram. The News and Observer said yesterday hat if Guilford county passed th® rrcs ent good roads law. they would set the pace for all other counties in North Car olina. This is no uncommon thing fer Guilford to do, in this county we ar® accustomed to set the pace for the rest o f the State, we like to lead, not to fol low. Greensboro has attracted the at tention of the whole South by her pro gressivenoss. and High Point is known all over the United States as a furnitur® manufacturing town. When one tak®s into consideration these facts is it any wonder that Guilford is getting a repu tation. THE LONDON LIBEL LAW. Greensboro Record. Virginia is working to s®cur® a libel law something like the one in this Stat® relating to newspapers. A newspaper man. H. A. London, drew the North Carolina bill and secured its passage and if he never does anything else he wilt be entitled to a monument, for the old law was simply terrible —unfair, unjust and without reason. No injustice is done either party under the new law what ever. BETTER SAVE THEIR MONEY. Washington Post. The negro employes of th® New York I'nion League Club are raising a fund to spend with the lawyers who are mak ing a specialty of testing the new \ ir ginia constitution. Perhaps it might be well for them to save their money. They may need it. as the sentiment in favor of employing only white servants in this exclusive Republican organization is by no means dead. It is liable to crop out again at any time. i GIVE US A LEGALIZED PRIMARY. Littleton News-Reporter. No matter who may be narn®d by th® caucus, th® News and Observer plants its®lf hereafter on a platform for se lecting United States Senator? by a pri mary in which every Democratic voter will have a voice. We see where you ar® right. Voters are becoming disgusted with the pres ent situation. SKETCH OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. Elizabeth Citv North Carolinian. Th® Raleigh News and Observer on Inst Sunday printed a very interesting sketch of President Johnson's ®arly lifo. Th® article was written by Mr. Charles Upchurch Harris, the bright young son of Hon. J. C. L Harris. AND SOMEBODY ‘ DONE.'' Atlanta Constitution The Boston Evening Transcript -wys: “When one concern can draw its check for $22,500,000. as J P- Morgan & <’o have done, it indicates that there's something doing." Rather, it indicates that 'something has already been did.” Want the Temperance Cartoon Once a Month To the Editor: Y'our Sunday's edi tion cf January 23t.h. which contained the cartoon on the whiskey traffic, the grandest thing 1 ever saw in this line. We think this is well worth the spare in your valuable (paper every Sunday, or at least please don't fail to let it appear once a month J. B. UPCHURCH Raleigh. N. C . Feb. 3. Under the Dome. A bill will be introduced in the Leg islature next week looking to the pro tection of the travelling public by re quiring railroads to have capable opera te rs at every station, who are not com pelled to work so many hours that they are worn out. Speaking about the need of such legislation, a bright and capable young man. who once acted as opera tor. but quit because of the long hours and poor pay. said. “While the attitude of certain rail reads in the State, regarding certain necessary improvements at certain sta tions, is being discussed, let me call at tention to one thing not only to the in terest of every citizen in North Carolina, but to a class of men who deserve more than ordinary consideration. I refer to the operators and agents along the lines of these roads. Let me note briefly the followin facts, to-wit: The operators and agents are worked longer hours and hav. greater responsibility comparative with their rate of pav than any in railroad service. In fact the office men in the railroad service are the hardest worked and receive l®ss consideration than even brakem* n. Conductors, engineers, flag men and brakemen all receive so much per hour, after they have been on duty twelve hours, and yet. the poor agent sits in his little den from seven in the morning until th® comoanv sees fit to ex cuse him. be that all night or what not He is then supposed to be on duty promptly next morning at seven o'clock sharp. Is this man fit for duty next day? Is it right and just that he should work all day and night without one cent of compensation, while on the other hand, the crews who hold him on duty re ceive over time? Is there no remedy for this? Shall not the day come wh®n oper ators will receive more consideration at the hands of these heartless creatures? They have been to their officials t:me and again and asked for the same consider ation that their brother engine®r. con ductor and flagmen, and even brakemen are favored with, and they are turned away. Why is this'’ Simply because on the one hand, the engineers and conduc tors have them by the nap of the neck: on the other, they have the agent and oj»erators. They know th® engineers can tie them uo any time. * They are or ganized. they make them come to terms. Hence they are the best paid m®n in tin service. Is a man fit to have trains load ed with human freight in his chare, who has been on duty twenty-four hours in succession, and yet this is the case. There are numbers of wrecks caused by the over-working of men, and yet Mr. Editor, the news is suppressed. These men have declared strikes and it has been of no avail, they have begged for help and their cries have been answered by a discharge. They have done everything under heaven to bring about amicable agreement and yet they have been in sulted. This condition of affairs has been going on since the strike on the South ern Railroad, about three years ago. These honest, worthy, brave men know they can never get any consideration at the bands of these roads (and especially •h« Southern Railroad!, as they now stand. We have faith in the people. We believe, through the columns of your paper, the people will hear our cries. We have faith in our cause. We know w® are right, and now what do we see' Th® good men ar® leaving th® service and going into other employment. YY hat does this mean? It means that there Is not to be found an extra good relief man on the Southern Railroad in North Car olina. Th® Seaboard road is pushed for men. I have been told that the A. C. L. have closed one of their offices, be ing unable to supply it with an opera tor Th® Southern Railroad has been without an agent at Mt. Airy. N. C.. for months, the road was forced to send an auditor from Washington City to carry on the work. With these good men leaving th® service quietly and with out any ado (for they know there is nothing to gain in strikes!, it simply means railroad? will work anybody, who can bluff the public. It simple means inexperienced boys to have un !®r their control trains which you and thousands of others are to ride on at the risk of life. Th® time was when railroads re quired their office men to stand an ex amination. but. alas! that has passed. Men are too scarce to force that rule. They cannot afford it. Little do the travelling public realize the danger they are in w hen on these roads. You ar*- helpless. Whv can t the strong arm of th® law come to our rescue? Why can t there be a law enacted regulating th* pay of operators ami other office men after they have worked twelve hours' It is due them. Why not to them as well as to engineers, conductors an! even negro brakemen. There is a rest less spirit among these men. bu: the* are not talking. Th® tide is rising. 1 an the Southern and others stem it ? YY e shall see.” Th® election of Senator Griffith, a Democrat, to the Senate from Madison Mitchell and Yancey so stunned th® Re publicans that they have not vet caught th®ir breath. The Record gives this bit of gossip: * It is said that William M. Buckner late candidate for State Senator, w.-. to Johnson City the next day aLer ~ a visitor to the General Assembly y •-- terday and occupied a seat in the Iloti during the morning. Y'esterday morning. * while Representa tive George L. Morton was busily engag ed in th® gallery, a roll-call vot® wa taken. After it was over. Mr. < urtis. o Buncombe, moved that th® g®ntb in? from New Hanover be permitted <.o vote. When the clerk called Mr. Mot to i name once more, that gentleman re sponded from his coveted point of '•an - age: “Th® gentleman from New Hanov®, is paired.” And be was. too, beautifully paired. Senator Godwin, of Harnett, has ;npro duced in the Senate a bilt which i» for the purpose of prohibiting the sat® and manufacture of liquor in Harnett county, to go into effect on the first May. 1203. , , It provides that it shall be unlaw ui to manufacture, barter, or sell an> spir- itious, vinous, malt, or fermented or other intoxicating’ liquors in Harnett county, all liquors, or mixtures thereof, that will produce intoxication to be con sidered as intoxicating liquors . The bill repeals all charter rights for the man ufacture or sale of liquor. The aft does not forbid the sale of li quor by a druggist for sickness, upon prescription of a regular practicing phy sician under North Carolina laws, for a sick person under his charge, but .for bids a druggist from filling such a pre scription but once- and requires a near prescription each time. If a druggist violates this it is a misdemeanor, and a physician who evades the provision of the act is to be guilty of a misdemeanor and is to forfeit his license to practice medicine in North Carolina. That act does not prohibit any person from manufacturing and selling wine or cider manufactured exclusively from grapes, berries or fruit grown on his own land, provided it is manufactured and sold on the premises where the fruits named are grown. The Senators, while in session yester day. were • kodaked” by a charming young lady . a visitor to the city. Just before adjournment and while the mov ers kindly “held up” their motions to ad journ, the young lady was escorted ba< k of the president's desk and took separate ‘ snap shots” of the two sides of the Sen ate. The pictures will be a pleasing souvenir of her visit to Raleigh by Miss Alberta James, of Washington. In the report of the committee hearing regarding the extension of the . orporate limits of Asheville, it was said that Mr. J. C. Curtis was reported as being op posed to the measure. Mr Curtis says that this is a mistake- He will not op pose the bill. £ Last Saturday Representative John <‘harU-s McNeill, of Scotland, road a pe tition in the House signed by fifty citi zens of the Northwestern portion of Robeson county, asking the General As sembly to cut off this part of Robeson and annex it to Scotland.. Representative Britt, of Robeson, said to an Observer man yesterday T hat Rob erson. it was true- was the largest county in the State, but the people of his coun ty did not approve of the above plan If anything Is done at all. be thinks it would be better to take a part of Cum berland. Moore and Roberson and form an entirely new county seat- WORDS OF WISDOM Cat Members of the Legislator* Out Them selv>* Like Mea To the Editor. 1 wish to express my gratification for the clarion tones in which your paper is speaking out on the vital question of temperance. Sunday*: issue was superb. It seems to have been a general un derstanding for some time now that the present Legislature would enact sonic wholesome laws in obedience to the large popular demand, that has been steadil) growing among us. We sanguinely ex pect and anticipate those laws. I do not believe in radical measures even for we seldom or never benefit any good cause by them, but today there .s a vast multitude, in the food oil State, determined that this monster evil shall Lx- wounded unto death. And that leg islator who fails them today and who goes before the people of any county ?n this commonwealth two years hence, asking their suffrage, is going to see the hand-writing on many a wall The fight is on and he would better go slow who would first cry, ‘•enough.” Therefore, let our representatives quit themselves like men. Let them legislate wisely, and let the people read a real manhood between the lines of legislation and in the language of Holy Writ the verdict of the people will be, “say ye to the righteous it shall be well with him.” 1 would not frame a bill. The best things often have to be gotten at slow ly. But let our representatives be men. Let the lobbyist be shrewd and let them turn to the sacred precincts of their own consciences and do right. If the London bill is not the right ‘hing. let us have what is right and all the people will say, amen. There is a great deal of hackneyed whiskey sentiment abroad in the land that a conscientious legislator cannot afford to pander to. On the other hand fanaticism in our own ranks would ulti mately injure our cause. I am quite confident that all that we ought to hope for ultimately, can not be accomplished now. Legislation that by very much outstrips the public conscience is large ly futile and ineffective. Well, sir, I do not know what is best. I am a tem perance man warp and woof and am ready to endorse any and all wise legis lation that tends to save our grand old Commonwealth from this and everythinc ‘hat is a menace to her civil and moral •'rogress. K. D. HOLMES. A STEOFO ABOUMIST laloors Help to Make the Need for a Reform atory. To the Editor: There »a? one argu ment in favor of the London bill that -hould have been made before the com mittee that I do not remember hearing during the debate. There seem- 1 to be a general and grow - ing demand for a Reformatory for the youthful criminals of the State. It ap cals to the humanity of every citizen. \nd yet. would it not be far wiser to •ernow the agencies which produce oung criminals as well is older ones by the enactment of such measures as .hall forever iboli ; h the open saloon and he country distillery; and put away th’ omptation from our youth. An once of s he London bill would be worth far mere than a pound of the Reformatory. However, if, in their inscrutable wis ir-m, our Legislators should prefer the 'resent conditions which surround and neouraze the Honor traffic: by all means let them make large and libera! vppropriatlcns for a Reformatory. A. F. JOHNSON. Clinton. N. C. February 3. I**o3. Call Dr. Blackwell. Norfolk. V.1., Feb. 2.—As was expected, the First Baptist church here yesterday ailed the Rev. Calvin S. Blackwell, of Wilmington. N. C.. and it is believed that he w ill accept. The church now paws its castor $1,500, but Dr. Blackwell will like, ly get more. j SMOKE “La Josephine,” 5c Cigars. Among the Railroads. The people of Lenoir are alarmed over the rumored intention of the Carolina and Northwestern leaving them two miles off the main line of their road when it is extended across the moun tains, and will endeavor to have the Legislature to prohibit this unjust act to the town that has given the road its best patronage. It would be a great blow to Lenoir to be thus side-tracked, for Newton knows what that means. We were left o£f the main line until the Legislature compelled the road to come through the town. But will the C. and X W. ever cross the mountains’ We have been hearing this until It has become a joke.—Newton Enterprise. i The New Rem Journal gives the fol lowing full account of the improvements that are being made on the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad: “Long before the summer season takes the crowds to the seashore, that part of the A. S: N C. railroad below this city will have reached that good condition shown by the road between New Bern and Goldsboro. While there will be no ticeable improvements of all kinds, it will be especially shown in the road bed- Work has been going on steadily in this direction, in fact a grading force has been employed for the last eighteen months. “In years past there was a very bad stretch of road through a three mile po coson below Havelock. The weight of an engine would cause the cross ti~« to sink into the mud. This bad stretch has now been ballasted, the ties raised, and dit< hes dug to carry off the water. Ixing stretches of the road have been sand or gravel ballasted this winter and the werk is being continued ‘ The new station at is com pleted and is not only a much needed convenience but an ornament. “Tho similar stations at Oroat-m and Havelock have been built abcut two years. “The next improvement in order is the station at Newport- The present build ing w ill be converted entirely into a passenger station. The platform above will be widened- the open shed now cov ering a portion of it w ill be moved back and partly enclosed for freight and truck, with doors at the end. and the plat form will be extended along the track for a distance of 40 feet. The business at this point has wonderfully developed due partly to the example of the fruit and truck farm of G. N. Ives Son, which has started others to trucking. “A trestle that crosses Scott's creek has been rebuilt. It was declared by some that there was “no bottom” in this creek to drive piles into. President Bry an ordered <>o foot piles to be driven and if that wouldn't do to splice them and keep a driving. The first blow of the 1-nvy trip hammer sept the m down If feet but at "0 to feet depth bottom was found. is now a strong safe trestle across this creek. “At ?!ooumb's creek, just above Have lock. the engines will soon be supplied with the juniper water from the creek. This water is splendid for boilers and will add years to their service- A 30,000 gallon tank has been built of the best materials and a pump house is being built to contain the engine, a line of pipe running into the creek. “The section masters will have houses built at the middle of the sections, in stead of having to traverse the entire section, they can reach any point on their beat by half the distance. New mile posts are being placed along the right of way. ‘‘All these improvements are conducted under the personal supervision of Presi dent Bryan When the “Vance" is seen going up or down the road it can be safe ly guessed that the President is headed for some point where work is being done. His energy and determination is a won der even to those who know him well.” Meets Hearty Approval of Honest Men. To the Editor: Your editorial on the liquor traffic in the Sundav edition Is simply surerb. A1 * the good people if the State rejoice that we have one patx »- at the capi’al of the State that does not fear to stand up for what is right ir respective of any opinion that may rise ' against it. Your sentiifients expressed about th-' attorneys of the liquor deal ers will meet the hearty approval of every honest man in the State. You are doing more for Democracy of the State than all of the hired attorneys to gether. With the multitude of papers that will dodge an issue for spar of of fending a certain class in society. Let all the distillers and saloon keepers go cut of the party if they so desire. Just so they go out of business. I would re joice to see our party go before the people rid of the nefarious influence of the whiskey traffic. We can gain a vic tory not only for clean and honest gov ernment. but also for the happiness of our homes, a victory for all that makes life worth th" living on earth. Fight on. and the News and Observer will be the grandest paper in our country. 3. Should be Enacted Into Law. To the Editor: The daily News ami Observer is to be commended and con gra ulated for the great and glorious v ork it has been doing in behalf of the great temperance cause in North Caro i:i.a. All of the best women, and the l est manhood are in full accord with ihj News and Observer. The London bul now pending before the Legislature for the regulation of the liquor traffic, is a fair and good bill and should be en acted into law without any change chat, ever. Wishing the News and Observer much success, I am. with high regards, Truly yours, A. B. HUNTER. SR Warrenton, N. C.. Feb, 3, 1303. “ORIS” ASK THE LAWYER. ( I I ■ fl Morphine ac-l Whist< Jill HJI haNtstmated without pom 1 I X* 111 |ll| o*-confinement, cure c .r U I JUI JS aotred -•? Sanitarium 1 ■ pay. B. H v:: . a 6 Co., Dnwer V. Anstell.Ga- Koraeitreat went sen if ©referred. Ccrr*'-'v>rj-Imc , “ fid ! %* con *"r For LaGrinreand Influenza use CHENEY’S tXPECTO RANT, TUTILLIONS u*e CrncrkA Soap, as *** slsted by Cuticuea Ointml.w, for preserving, purifying and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp, and the stop ping of falling hair, for softening, whitening and soothing red. rough and sore hands, for baby rashes, itching and chafings, and for all purposes of the toilet, bath and nursery. Millions of Women use CtTtCURA Soap in baths for annoving irritations and inflammations, in washes for ulcerative perspiration, weaknesses, and for many sanative, anti-cntic purposes which readily suggest themselves. Sold everywhere. ~?.**** DR. HAPPOBtT Durham, - - N. C. '-»& Refracting Optician Glasses made to fit all sights by one who is well known and reliable; one who under stands the even their defeers and their rela tion to human ills- Office 115 \\ Mam bt f- ts-iush taWVfi9YAL ?!LLh , s, tat i-afr Crault*. -K * \rr. -a s*-, e !«.!*-. »•»< i'r-J-rtat t »( r rrtICHKSTEIfS I.M.LISH Ki:t> Haiti »*■•» « Xm —i -' . V. ‘ V 1 ,lr rt-» atSfr. Rt-f».'tt t»4 ItiiU {' J '• c* Data, a/ at juiir i»r34Efi«i. *C •*« t a ! W Jg tv' I’urtlrulm-*. Te*ti»»nlaU i V Sc »6l r f»v i«! 1 1 > ti: t-risc » ( hlrkratar lAttilrtl la, Wbus- tbit S»rrr. Uiuliact pe’ 1,.'. P*. NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY— In Superior Court. H. H. Harris, Admr. of F. L. B. Harris, Assignee of J. A. Vann, Mortgagee, vs. S. C. Vann. J. T. Vann, L. L. Vann, M. E. Vann, et al —Notice. The above defendants, J. T. Varna. L. L Vann and M. E. Vann will take notico that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Wake county to surcharge and falsify the executors’ account and to foreclose a mortgage upon real estate, and the said defendants will further take notice that they are required to appear at the next term of the Superior court of said county to be held on the third Monday in March, 1903, at the court house la said county, in Raleigh. N. C.. and answer or demur to the complaint in said action cr the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint. This January 13th, 1303. W. M. RUSS, C. S. C., Wake County. EXECUTOR S NOTICE. Having qualified as executor of the es tate of R. G. Temple, deceased. I hereby notify all persons having claims against said R. G. Temple estate to present the same to me on or before the 27th day of January. 1904, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. AH persons in debted to said R. G. Temple will please make immediate payment to me. W. D. PARTIN, Executor. January 27. ll>o3. 1-27-law-fiw J Wood’s Si" I I Best for Iha “Sunny South.” S WOOD 5 HEW SEED 300 X FOR 1903 ■ (mailed free on request), is full of 9 g-•• • thine: and :.!l a’*out | Sav’:.:, L-uta f r Farm a.ntl Garden. Jjj Wood’s Trade nark Brand 5 ’ 8 GRASS AND CLOVER SEEDS I an' tho ih'st, qualities obtainable, a Write for i>m*es and our Seed I 80-»k giving full information. I I.W, WOOD & SONS, I Scsdsmcn* Richmond, Va. SALE OF VALUABLE LAND. By virtue of a decree of the Superior court of Wane county, made and en tered ca the sth day of January. 1?03, in a civil action therein pending, enti tled. Mrs. Mary E. Partin, administra trix of E. K. Partin, deceased, against S. G. Wilborn and his wife. E. J. Wil born, being number li*s summons docket of said court. I will offer for sale t'* the highest bidder for cash, at the cour house door in the city of Raleigh- N. C., on Monday, the 23rd day of February, IPO3, at 12 o'clock m., the following de scribed tract of land to-wit: Situated in Middle Creek townaihp. said county and State, adjoining the lands of Barney Jones. D. H. Smith and others and more fully described as follows: Beginning at a stake Barney Jones’ corner, thence East SO poles to a stake in said Barney Jones’ line, thence South 70 poles to a stake in rinthia Balle r.tine’s line, thence West with said line so poles to a white oak in D. H. Smith’s line, thence North 7n poles to the beginning, containing thirty-five acre® more or less. WILLIAM B. JONES. Commissioner. NOTICE. This is to notify the pe 0 pl»> of North Carolina that Mr. J. A. Massey, of East rmrham. N. C-, is no longer authorized to solicit business for The Washington Life Insurance Company. J. O. GUTHRIE. G. A. NOTICE. Application will be made to the Gen eral Assembly to incorporate Wendell, the limits to extend one quarter of a mile in eery direction from the Academy. l-21-30t NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that, application will be made to tho General Assembly to amend the charter of the town of Ran dieman.