North Carolina Newspapers

: EVENING TIMES ery Afternoon Except Sunday. visitor, Press I Pubiishins; C 401IN C DKEWRY, President. ... W. SIMPSON, JR. .';...' .Editor. C -GRGE B. GRATER Publisher. Tull Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. v The Evening Times Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Newspapers in Circulation. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (In advance.) One copy one ytar $4.00 One copy three months 1-00 One copy one week .......... -10 Entered through Raleigh, N. C, postofflce as mnil matter of the sec ond class, in accordance with the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1906. THE SQUEAL OP A BULLY. - Knowing the character of the man, and realizing how desperate he is be cause he cannot whip the people of Wake county into line to vote as he would dictate, we are not surprised at Josenhus Daniels IUQ ttVWva makes upon the ministers and citizens who were not ashamed to sign a card for one who had lived among them and who had earned their respect. The saintly hypocrite must have been ashamed of his own screed, for he would not dignify it by giving it a place on his editorial page, though it had the ear-marks of the cowardly boss who is losing his grip at his home and who will continue to lose it by reason of the unjust and outrageous charges made against Buch men as Dr. Mar shall, Dr. PIttenger, Dr. Moment, Dr. Ivey, Mayor Johnson. Mr. Alf Thomp son, Mr. Joseph G. Drown, Dr. Eveiitt, Mr, James A. Briggs and others. The gentlemen who signed that card are not politicians; they are temperance men and their friends will resent most bit terly the accusation that they were not of sound mind and that they were play things and tools in the hands of the bar-room element of Raleigh. He might write until his eyes are blind, but he can never convince one man in this county or state that those gentle men had "lined up" with the saloons. It was a base slander and a slander which could emanate from none save the boss who is so bitterly despised. At every opportunity we shall ham mer home the fact that the animosity of Josephus Daniels toward John C. Drewry is due to the lalter's connection with a rival newspaper. He overlooks everything else but that. The Evening Times would have lived peacefully with him had ho not sought months ago to injure it by slander. Today he seeks to Blander the ministers and .the temper ance men by claiming that they are the puppets of the saloon. But the thing will react. It has al ready done that. The bully is without courage, and the tyrant siiucals when his grip is weak. Tho.-.'vs .and Ob server '' 'has done much to merit the hatred of honest people, but in its whole career we doubt if it ever stooped so low before that it would fling mud at the Man of God. Yellow Journals Hereabout. Rollo Ogden, editor of the New York Evening Post, writes on "Some Aspects of Journalism" in the Atlantic Monthly for July, and he completely answers the statement of many newspapers that they are sensational and yellow and indecent because the public de mands that sort of thing.' He says it is an insult to the public that such charges should be made, for the reason that the public has power sufficient to cast out the offending member. The Evening Post is not a yellow journal. If is as different from that class as night is from day, and while it is often wrong it is clean. Mr, Ogden is a vet eran In the service. lKcwise ne is 'scholar, and what he writes naturally Commands attention. Among other things he says: -' "I would urge, no exculpation for the editor who exploits crime, scatters filth and infects the community with moral poison. The original responsibility Is his, and it is a fearful one. But it is Miot solely his. The basest and most demoralizing Journal that lives, lives by public approval or tolerance. Its read ers and advertisers have its life In their hands, At a word from them it would either reform or die. They have the power of 'recall' over it, as it is by some proposed to grant the people a power of recall over bad representa tives in legislature or. congress. The very dependence of the press upon support gives its patrons the power of life and death over It. Advertisers are known to go to a newspaper offieo to seek favors, sometimes improper, often Innocent. Why . should they and mere readers, too, not exercise their Implied right to protest against vulgarity, the exaggeration of the trivial, hysteria, indecency. Immorality, In the newspa per which they aqe asked to buy or to patronize? To a journalist of the offen sive class they could say: 'You excuse yourself by alleging that you simply Bive what the public demands; but we sa"y that your very assertion is an in sult to us and an outrage upon the pub lic. You say that . nobody protests against your course; well, we are here to protest. You point to your sales; we tell you that, unless you mend your columns, we will buy no more." .There Iks here, I am persuaded, a vast un used power for the toning up of our journalism. At any nte the reform of a free press in a free people can be brought about only by some such re action of the medium upon the instru ment. Legislation direct would be powerless." The south as a rule is free of the yellows, but they are sometimes found at our door so vile and indecent that they are unfit for a woman to read. And yet they are edited by men who profess to be moral, who shout loud and lustily of their purity, who boast of their religion. Henry Scott, the mutineer, who was hanged yesterday at Wilmington, imi''e a dying confession in which he claims that he alone was guilty of the brutal murder aboard the schooner Harry Berwind last October. Two other ne groes, Adams and Sawyer, are under sentence to die August 17. and it is said that an effort will be made to have President Roosevelt pardon them. The president will simply have to put a value on the words of Scott. It is hard to believe that a man would face his Maker with a lie on his lips. Our Washington correspondent says today that President . Roosevelt is thinking seriously of advocating the revision of the tariff, and while it may not be possible to fathom the mind of the president, it is likely that he will shout that way when he sees the masses will stand with Bryan on that sort of a platform. But it will not be revised if the republicans are confi dent of victory two years hence with out it. An expert in the department of agri culture has figured it out that if all the people of the world were civilized to the clothes-wearing point it would require 42,000.000 bales of cotton of 500 pounds each to hide their nakedness. He seems to think that the south can not produce the necessary amount be cause of the labor shortage and other things. Still, he may "find comfort in the thought that the south will have its labor betoit tne whole world is civilized. Mr. Tom Taggart makes a most plausible statement concerning his con nection with a gambling resort in In diana. He claims that he was raided by Mr. Hearst and the latter's corre spondents. In a word, he says he is a good, moral man; but he is a mighty poor chairman for the democratic party. He proved that two years ago. Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture is a great optimist. Not long ago he predicted that there' would be no more crop disasters and now he declares that the American meat in dustry is in its infancy. . From all ac counts many of us thought it was dead. These are hard days for the trust magnates and robbers. The ice men, the oil men, the fertilizer men, the tobacco men and a host of others are on the anxious bench, waiting for the lightning to strike or for the storm to blow over. Let us hop that the lightning will strike. Mr. Lumpkin, who entered the race for the senate against Mr. Tillman in South Carolina, has withdrawn as sud denly as he went in. Appreciating the national holiday he went up like the rocket and came down like the stick. While the News and Observer Is tell ing its readers what The Evening Times thinks of some men, it ought by all means to tell them what The Even ing Times thinks of the News and Ob server and its editor. North Carolina did not think much of Judge Parker's Charlotte speech that a southern man be nominated by the democrats. The convention, however, met the judge half way by putting Mr. Aycock on the ticket. Managers of the trans-Atlantic steamship lines are racing these days for speed records, and while they ad mit that there Is more or less risk about it, there Is no danger that a ship will, jump the track. The highest compliment the editor of this newspaper ever received is the suggestion from the News and Ob server that he be fired. The German kaiser Is being Ameri canized. He became a grandfather -on July 4. Merits OirtyCwtenpfc ! Mr. Josephus Daniels, without speci fying a single fact in support of his statement, attacks in his paper Willis G. Briggs and seeks to discredit his reports of the discussions by the can didates In this county. Mr. Briggs needs no defence before the good peo ple of this city. There is not, we be lieve, a reputable man in Raleigh who will not give Mr. Briggs the credit for being truthful and accurate in his newspaper work. This is the enviable reputation he has built up in his eight years, newspaper work in North Caro lina. His character and standing be fore the people of this city is too firmly established for it to lie within the power of Mr. Daniels to discredit him and make the people here believe that ho would be untruthful. On the other hand, there are not half a dozen dis interested men in Raleigh who today would be willing to make affidavit that the paper published by Mr. Dan iels does not color its local columns and pervert the news to suit the de signs of the editor. The city editor of The Times is per fectly willing to stand before his home folk, who have known him all his life and know that he does not lie, and face with the contempt' every honest man must feel, the vituperations of one who maliciously misrepresented the Gnldsboro speech of the president of a Methodist college, who hounded and attacked for Weeks the pastor of a Baptist church in this city, who has been denounced by the editor of The Biblical Recorder for "hectoring the religious denominations," who has been characterized as unfair and more than unfair by the editor of The Christian Advocate, and who today is covertly seeking to belie some of the most saintly and beloved pastors of Chris tian churches inthis city and have the public believe that these godly men have aligned themselves with the l'w and the vicious. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Automobile clothes will never be as useful for other things as yachting out fits. ,"'. It's awful poor judgment to tell a girl she is pretty when another one 'can hear you. If a man doesn't try to cheat some body at something, sooner or later he gets the reputation 'for being iiueer in his head. . Why should anybody think it queer that women should be so fond of pet dogs when we see the kind of men they can love? From the New York Press. R-Kcvciigc! "You say your landlady feeds you on nothing but tough roosters with spurs an inch long?" "Yep, that's the '. kind of spring chicken we get." "But I should think you would all strike and refuse to eat it." "We're glad to eat it. You sec, she gets a coon full of old warriors and they begin to crow about two o'clock every morning and keep every boarder awake until daylight; this makes us so ferociouslyangry that wo would not eat them, tit eat them alive if they were served that way."- Houston Post. To the Democratic' Voters of Wake County, Raleigh, N. C, June 21, 1906. We hereby announce our candidacy for re-election to the position of County Commissioners of Wake county, subject to the action of the Democratic Pri mary. We have served you to the best of our ability during our term of office. We have tried to be economical in the administration of your affairs without being penurious. Every member of this board is a business man, and the same time spent in their business would have been more remunerative to them than their service as Commissioners. We had Intended at the close of this term to retire from office and not solicit your support for re-election, but many of you have advised ti3 that we could not afford to do so; that our record was one that the county was proud of, and that we would b- doing ourselves and the county an injustice not to consent to serve another term. We have yielded to their demand, and If you see fit to nominate and elect us," we promise a faithful, economical, business adminis tration, one that the county will not be ashamed of. Respectfully, L. H. ADAMS, J. T. BROUGHTON, J. T. EDWARDS. S. W. TERRELL, W. F. UTLEY. 21-30d EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Having qualified as excutor of Wiley Clopton, deceased, late of Wake county, I hereby notify all persons .having claims against his estate to present them to me for set tlement on or before the 25th tlay of June, 1907. (Persons indebted to the estate will please make payment. ; W. D. PEED, Executor. J. H. FLEMING, Attorney. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. Halvng qualified as administrator of Mrs. Florence Hood, deceased, late of Wake county, N. C, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 9th day: of June, 1908 or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. AH persons indebted to said estate wl please make Immediate payment. This the 2 3rd day of June, 1906. J. H. ANDERSON, Administrator. TOOK KEELEY IS WELL Five years ago' ' I was almost a wreck, without money and without friendss,'. caused by habitual drink ing. My employers prevailed on me to go to Greensboro and take the Keeley Treatment, and after a course of four weeks I was entirely cured of this . terrible habit, and I firmly believe it is a permanent euro. Since my graduation I have held a nice position all the time, and have been a very happy man, to say nothing cf the happiness or my family. 1 will always be under lasting obligations to Keeley and it will be my pleasure always to advise and urge all those addicted to strong drink to take this treatment. R. L. HAPPEN. Winston, N. C, Dec. 1, 1904. If you have friends who might be benefited by this treatment send their names to the Keeley Institute, Greensboro, N. C. i Prof. H. L. Fairchild of the Univer sity of Rochester. secivtai-y of the 'Zoological Society of America,- will I spend the summer on the Pacific Coast and thereafter attend the International Geological Concress in the City of Mexico. Office State Text-Book Commission, Raleigh, N. C, Juno 21, 1306. In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 89, Sections 4O3T-40S4, inclusive. revisal of 1905, sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of State until 12 o'clock, noon, Tuesday. July 10, 1906, for furnishing books for the Public Schools of the State of North Carolina for the period of five years. The following branches of study are in cluded in the nubile school curriculum: ! Orthography, Defining, Reading, Writ ing, Drawing, Arithmetic, Geography. Grammar, Language Lessons, History of Norh Carolina, containing the Con stitution of the State, History of the United States, Physiology, Hygiene. Nature and Effect of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics, Elements of Civil Gov ernment, Elements of Agriculture, Theory and Practice of Teaching. Bids will be made on books for sepa rate branches and shall state specifical ly and definitely the price at which such book will be furnished all ex pense, Including freight, express charges or postage in placing the books in the hands of patrons to be borne by the contractor or contractors. Accompany each bid, but under sep arate cover, shall be ten or more speci men copies of each and every book proposed to be furnished, and each bid der shall deposit with the Treiisurer of the State such sum of money as the State Text-Book 'Commission may re quire, not less than $f(H),00 or more than ttjOO.OO, according to the number of bonks each bidder may propose to supply, such deposit to be forfeited ab solutely to the State if the'blddcr mak ing the deposit of any sum shall fall oi refuse, in case of acceptance of his bid ,to make and execute such contract and bond as required by law within thirty days after notification of the ac ceptance of his bid Bytho8tate Text Book Commission as provided in said act. '-.-.-;" At twelve o'clock, noon, Tuesday, July 10,.19nti, the State Text-Book Com mission will meet in the Executive Of fice in the city of .Raleigh and take out such samples or specimen copies submitted, upon which the bids are based, and submit; and refer them to the Sub-Commission. All bids will be opened on Monday, August 13, 1906, at twelve o'clock, noon. In the office of the Governor of North Carolina and in the presence of the Text-Book Commission; and while the same is in executive ession. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. The successful bidder or Bidders shaH maintain in each county in the State provided the Commission shall deem it advisable and so demand; not less than one, and as many more agencies as the Commission shall order to be located at such points as the County" Board of Education may recommend for the dis tribution of the books to the patrons, and every contractor shall keep on hand at all times at every establish ed agency an ample supply of books to meet all demands of purchasers, or the contractor ,if 'the Commission shall deem It advisable, shall be permitted to make arrangements with merchants or others for the handling and distribu tion of the books, and parties living in a county where no agency.Jias been es tablished, or no arrangements made for distribution may order the same from one of the contractors and it shall be the duty of the contractor or contract ors to deliver any book or books so or dered to the person ordering vto his postomce address, ; frelgnll .express, postage, or other charges prepaid at the retail contract price, provided the price of the book or books so ordered shall be paid in advance. Each persi n, firm or corporation, to whom a contract is awarded shall be required to take up and receive the books now In use in the State In ex change for new booHSKHTtheianft sub ject at a price of not less than fifty per cent of the contract price of such new book or books at any time within twelve months after-the 'date of the contract. Each person or publisher, submitting a bid or bids for supplying any book or books, shall state in such bid or proposal the exchange price at which such book or books shall be fur nished. No bid will be received, for furnishing books at a greater price than .the' same books are now furnished .by the bid der to any State, County or school dis trict in the United States under like conditions prevailing In this State and under the act above mentioned. All contractors will be required to print plainly cn the back of each book the contract price, as well as the ex change price at which it is contracted to be furnished, but the books sub mitted as specimen copies shall not have the price printed on them. R. B. GLENNv President. J. Y. JOYNER, Secretary. I ...tone:... of 6 Artistic STIEFF Just as Pure as the Prima Donna's Voice INVESTIGATE! STIEEF, 00 GRANBY STREET GEO. S. NUSSEAR, Manager NORFOLK, VA. Send for special price list and descriptive booklet Uye Original Reliable ALWAYS HIGH GRADE Possess marked and manifold '.merit, and wear equal to the world's best .makes. A postal will bring you cat alogue, terms and prices. Address mil i us, IJALEIGH, N. C. ) JUNKETS MAKE.. DAINTY DELICIOUS DESERTS OR ICE CREAM. . . .. Ten Tablets Ten Cents Easy to use, harmless and preferable to anything else of I ho kind. WK SKLL LINCOLN" LITIIIA ' WATER.-' . J R FERRALL & GO LEADING GROCERS. STOP? IV AT CITY CAFE and get a nice juicy steak. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Ice Cream and Cold Drinks Served. Nice Line Cigars and Candy. PROMPT ATTENTION. 119 E. Main Street, DURHAM. N. C. The bell that announced independ" enre did not bring better n-ws than this if heeded." ' When yon put your savings away givo more thought to the probability of getting it back when you want it. The interest in this bank may be a little smaller than yon will be promised through other investments, but it is steady and certain. The man with the Bank Account Is the man that is really independent. Mechanics Dime Saving Bank. igHQNINGER j PIANOS r 'Until September 1st our Store 01 close every afteriflW 'ftflrtjfo -Saturdays at 0 o'clock. We ask our patrons and customed Uf fqt kitj'ff (hopping early In the day. ) Our store will be open and ready for' bitAness overy morning at 7:30 o'cloclu ' . ; - ,- - . ." - -:' .:'. '. - , J Is ' . ''. . DOBBINFERRALL COMPANY 123-125 Fayettevi lie St. North Carolina's Leading Second Weeh OUR GREAT JULY XLEARANCF SALE See these great bargains a few from amongst the many this great big July Cle arance Sale offers. They are values of exceptional merit, and being entirely new goods right at the height of the season, they are doubly import ant. We are exceedingly pi eased to place them before our customers and the public come and see them, v Sec the Rig Special Tublo of Cot ton, Linen and Silk and Cotton Stud's at half prices, including Organdies, Voiles, Batistes, Silk Mulls, Madras Cloths,. Eolicnes, Linen Suitings, etc. This is the most interesting table to every bargain, seeker we ever made 11 10c. goods are only . . . . . ... .5r. 15c. goods are only ......... 7,&c. 20c. goods are only . . ..... .122C. 25c. goods are only 10e 35c. goods are ouly ........ 17JijC. 50c, goods are only . . . . . . . . .U5c. See the Special Table of Dig I'loiv ei-printed Ratistes. Worth 10c. at only Oc a yard. See Dig Special Sale of Ladies' Tailor-made Coat Suits ut 1-tt oil'. Just the very styles needed for moun tain or seashore. "Ready-to" Wear" Wash Suits nt 1-3 off. N '-,' "Reudy-to-Wenr" Lingerie Waists at 1-3 off. "Roady-to-Wear" Silk Dresses at 1-3 off. . No extra charges made for any ne cessary alterations to the Suits. See the Special Tuble of Silks. Several hundred yards from the reg ular stork beautiful stylish Silks most of them In street shades. For mer value $1.00 and $1.23 a yard at only 59c. Also a Special Table of Colored Crepe de Chines. An attractive as" sort men t of colors as well as Ivory and Cream. Value 75c. and $1.00, at only 50c. yard. See the Big Special Table of Silk and Wool Ends at only 25c a yard. There are big bargains on this table. There is a positive saving in every thing bought at this great July Clearance Sale-a saving no one can af ford to miss. ; ; We give Dobbin & Ferrall's Gold Trading Stampsi "Good as gold" -and July Bargains, too. ' DOBBIN FERRALL CO. J , , ' 1 Dry Goods Store in general and ask them to RIG SALE Ladies1 ready made Cambric Night Gowns. Sizes 15 and 10 at Hih: and $1.19. The materials would cost more. These are Mill ICnds, being made up and sold for a price. A big bargain ut tliat. See the Rig Special Tuble of Black uud Colored Dress Goods 1-3 on the regular prices. Buy ahead of your fall needs from this table. You will not regret it later 011 in the season. Big Special Sale Summer Printed Wash Fabrics. . .5c. Beautiful Batistes. 7c. Sheer Lawns. . .(lc. Big Flower Organdies. 10c. Sheer French Butisttfs. Every piece offered is desirable and in active demand. .The sale prices sound ridiculously low,' but the goods are. right hi every particular. N re strictions as to quantities. CoW early to avoid the great crowds suV to be in uttenduncc and to get a clinic f "s prettiest! of some of the season's washable fabrics. , Big White Bargains. ; Regular wholesale, case price -more than we ask you at retail. Yfli A wide Linenc Shirting 8 l-3c. a yard. . .Yard wide Butcher's Linenc, 10c. a yard. Yard wide Linenc Sheeting, 12 l-'-V a yard. 40-inch Persian Lawns, worth 5r. for 15c. a yard. ,. 40-inch Sheer Lawns, 10c. 40-lniIi, liatistes, 12 l-2c. 18c. Dotted Swiss Muslins, only 10c. See special table. 15c. Madras, 10c.