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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER5, 1906
Mr. Bryan just now is doubtless try
ing to get his ducks In a row again.
(Since writing this, we see the great
need of the phonetic spelling).
Mr. Douglas of Greensboro, candl
date for corporation commissioner on
the republican ticket, has published
his platform. It is between Ave and
six columns In newspaper type.
Mayor Dahlman of Omaha suggests
Governor Warfleld as the running
mate. The suggestion is good; many
citizens of wavering faith might sup
port the ticket, believing that the run
ning mate Is none other than Mr.
Belasco's star.
The Macon Telegraph is surprised
that the word tariff is not Included In
the list of those which are to be written
phonetically hereafter. It says we
might spell It tarif, but that would be
revision against which the president
and his party are standing pat.
China long ago solved the mystery,
or rather China long ago put an end
to robbery by bank presidents by chop
ping off the head of the offender. The
New York Herald statistics prove that
there have not been many crimes of
that sort In China In recent years.
The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch again
agitates the establishment of a parcel's
post, but how it can consistently do
so is more than we can understand.
The very principle of the thing is to
take rightful trade away from home
merchants. That of Itself is sufficient
to defeat the measure.
The city of Louisville Is undergoing
reform, in that liquor will not be sold
on Sunday unless the purchaser orders
a meal. The Cleveland Plain-Dealer
remarks that it is at once suggestive
of the famous Kentucky breakfast, a
sirlion steak, a bottle of whiskey and
a dog the dog to eat the steak.
Who knows but that after all the
democratic party will turn to the south
for its leader? A prophet in New
York contends that Mr. Bryan will not
be nominated, that Mr. Bailey of
Texas will be the man, with John
Sharp Williams as the running mate.
Next.
Mr. Cheatham is still catching It on
all sides, and the farmers, those, at
least who belong to the association,
are determined to have him ousted
because of his speculating tendencies.
When there is danger that the associa
tion may be disrupted if he remains
we do not see how it can afford to keep
him.
There is a justice of the peace in
Richmond who owns and operates a
licensed saloon as a side line and on
Sunday he was arrested for selling
liquor when all bars are supposed to
be closed. He was caught red handed,
there was no way by which he could
escape or deny the charge, and his one
excuse is that he had to make a living.
Very naturally, the Times-Dispatch
demands that he be dismissed from of
fice. The best thing to do is to make
it complete by revoking his license.
He ought to be forced to make a liv
ing some other way.
The president of a negro college In
South Carolina, supported by funds
from the north, has been forced to
leave without waiting to say good
afternoon to his friends. His Incen
diary utterances led to his hurried de
parture. It is claimed that in a speech
to a graduating class he remarked
that the conduct of the negroes was
sending white women to the kitchen
and that it would eventually drive
them to the wash-tub. Since this little
incident his scholars will doubtless be
good.
Most of us hereabout will be greatly
surprised if Harry Clark, the convict
of Lilllston fame, ever serves his full
sentence. He has a habit of escaping
and just as often he falls again into
the toils of the law. Doubtless he
has the sympathy of the criminally
inclined, but a man of his engaging i
j is
mannei'M should be more carefully
'Watched. He is on the roaUs for car-
rylng concealed weapons, but his con-
duct at the union depot when there
sr '
was indiscriminate shooting in the
presence of women and children Was
sufficient to demand the punishment
he received. One of these days he will
go again and without being captured.
Cotton still maintains its place as
king in our exports and this is a mat
ter in which we ought to be inter
ested, especially as it is distinctively
a southern product. The raw staple
and the finished product amounted to
more than four hundred million dol
lars. That was greater than anything
else. When it is remembered that the
south produces and sells it, we have
some Idea of our richness. We have
a monopoly, to be sure, but it is one
which comes to us by right and be
cause the south alone is the source of
supply.
North Carolina should be properly
and adequately represented at the
Jamestown exposition next year and
we believe that will be the case as we
have a commission which is capable
of making a proper display of our
worth and resources. The exposition,
while planned on a line somewhat dif
ferent from those heretofore, will be
carried out none the less on the same
scope. An excellent exhibit will prob
ably surprise our own people and
thousands from North Carolina will
attend.
Our Next Legislature.
Democrats of North Carolina seem to
have displayed rare and common sense
in the selection of men to represent
the various counties in the senate and
house of representatlces at the next
session. The conservative force will
more than offset the wild element
which believes in oppressing and tear
ing down, and there is no reason why
we should look for rabid or danger
ous legislation. There are evils which
must be remedied, to be sure, but we
doubt If there will be found an evi
dence or desire to ruin simply to sat
isfy the spleen of those whose bitter
ness and the cause thereof is not a
fit subject for the light of day.
So far as we can make out at the
present time practically every calling
and profession will be represented.
Men from every walk will sit in the
legislative halls. Some will be there,
perhaps, to look after various and
sundry interests, but on the whole the
general assembly will have no axe to
grind. During the campaign many
Idiotic doctrines were propounded, but
the agitation ended with the falling
of the ballots. Not many statesmen
are as reckless In harness as in the
days when they are fighting for the
honors.
But we do pot mean to say that the
latter element will be absent from the
law-making picture. Men of that type
will talk and Introduce bills, and If
they were in the majority, they might
not do that which would be best for
the state. What we do mean to say
Is that with so many representative
citizens there will be a toning down
which will be satisfying to the masses,
even if It shall be displeasing to the
demagogues. At all events, we may
expect that same amount of common
sense in the senate and house which
characterized the voice of the people
in primary and convention.
Secretary Root will be coming home
from his foreign trip very shortly and
some republicans who are not among
his ardent admirers are just a bit
afraid that there will be a tremendous
greeting for him when he lands. That,
according to our way of thinking, is
not likely. Mr. Root is away on a
government mission and he has been
accorded the honor due one of his ex
alted station, but he seldom makes
eyes at the grand stand. At the
moment Taft and Cannon loom up as
possibilities in the event that Mr.
Roosevelt abides bv his promise, al
though there are so many sudden
nances that the idol of today may not
be the Idol of tomorrow. Mr. Root is
a statesman. When it comes to ability
and brains there is no man in the re
publican party who can measure up
to him, not even the president himself.
No Cheaper Insurance.
This paper still receives inquiries
from different quarters as to whether
life insurance rates will be decreased.
To the well-informed this inquiry is a
foolish one, but to the uninformed the
hope for cheaper insurance is a fond
one.
So far as the gross rate is concerned
the Armstrong layvs will no doubt force
some companies to increase their rates
in order to get a larger loading. Some
companies, notably the Provident Life
& Trust, a most capably and honorably
managed company, have been giving
their policyholders the benefit of as low
rates as possible.
The company referred to reserves on
a 3 1-2 per cent basis, but still retains
Its old 4 1-2 per cent rates. It is a
splendid dividend payer. Now yvith the
restrictions of the new layvs it is most
difficult to see how this company can
squeeze through on Its present rates.
It looks as if all the companies will
have to adopt the 3 per cent rates.
Where is there any chance for rates
to go down? Mortality is a fixed quan
tity in life insurance calculations. It
is not likely that the mortality statis
tics will show any diminution in the
death rate. Men die now and will con
tinue so to do at about the same rate.
Take again the Interest factor. There
not a sign of safe investments yield
ing a higher return.
As to expenses, the honestly conduct-
ed companies have kept close to the
"ne- Tn old-fashioned companies .hare.
i - . . u rrv. - ,i,l 1 1 I,a
greater saving on part of extravagant
companies, but it will no.t , affect the
rate. They should pay better dividends
and thus reduce the cost. In this way
their insurance will more nearly reach
the cost of that of the conservative
companies.
If today there Is a demand for
"cheap" insurance the public has been
woefully misled. Fraternal and assess
ment insurance appears cheap, but It
is ephemeral. Such protection today
is no better than it has been in the
past. The road is strewn with hun
dreds of fraternal and assessment
wrecks. They were cheap while they
lasted, but their life was a temporary
one.
Good protection costs money. Every
dollar paid in premiums means that it
purchases insurance as good years from
today as at present. Dividends should
reduce the cost to as low a figure as
possible.
Permanency and safety cannot be
purchased at fraternal or assessment
rates. Western Underwriter.
BRYAN ANSWERS
CHINESE LETTERS.
William J. Bryan has written a little
book which has been published by Mr
Clure, Phillips & Co.. entitled "Letters
of a Chinese Official." It is a reply to
"Letters Prom a Chinese Official,"
which was widely commented upon in
America and Great Britain when pub
lished three years ago.
"Letters from a Chinese Official" was
a severe contrast of Chinese civilization
with that of England, and in an intro
duction the author applied to America
everything that he said about Eng
land. It was surmised at the time that
the letters were not those of an Orien
tal, and Mr. Bryan in a postscript to
his Introduction says he has learned
they were written by an Englishman
from material furnished by a Chinese.
Mr. Bryan has divided his book into
eight letters. The first deals with the
assertion made in the earlier book that
China's civilization is superior to that
of the United States.
"The picture that you draw is not
true to life: you hold up the best that
you can find in your country (or oven
better than you can find) and, compar
ing it with the worst that you can
find in Christian countries, you boast,
in a holler than thou spirit of supe
riority. It would not be fair to judge
China by her coolie class, although that
class constitutes a large element of her
population: neither is it fair to judge
her by her refined and polished diplo
mats who. while sneering at western
civilization, have liberally borrowed
from it; we must judge by the average
man which Chinese environment has
produced, and this average man does
not approach in mental strength, moral
stamina or high conception of life the
product of Christian civilization."
"You have condemned. I think Just
ly." Mr. Bryan says in another place,
"the opium war waged against you by-
England, but your protest would have
more weight if you did not devote so
much of the soil of China to the culti
vation of the poppy and If your coun
trymen did not carry the vice into
every country' Into which they go."
Ansyvering an argument against labor
savlng machinery, yvhlch. It was as
serted, was an incentive to a sordid
struggle for money. Mr. Bryan says:
"You complain that the spirit has
been lost In an unseemly scramble for
wealth. In this I am constrained to
believe you grievously err. I would
deny It if asserted of any of the Euro
pean nations, but I most earnestly dis
pute It in regard to my own country At
no time during a century have moral
forces been more potent than they are
in America today: at no time has the
conscience been more sensitive; at no
time has a larger percentage of the
people been engaged In altruistic wor."
Again Mr. Bryan observes: "No more
accurate distinction can be drawn be
tween China and the Western World
than yvhen you suggest that our nations
conceive that they have a mission to
redeem and civilize the world, while
your nation has no mission and is sat
isfied to solve Its own problems with
out burdening itself with the problems
of other people. Better." he holds, "is
the nation that goes forward in civiliz
ing work than a nation which, 'wrapped
in the contemplation of its own Immac
ulatenesB, sleeps the precious years
away, indifferent to the world's welfare
and unmindful of misery that might be
relieved." New York Herald.
Harsh physics react, weaken the bow
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Regulets operate easily, tone the stom
ach, cure constipation. 25c. Ask your
These Are a Few Bargains
31b. tomatoes 10c. can. Scotch her
rings 30 to 40 box 25c. Arbuckles cof
fee 16c. pound. Burkhadt lard. Cream
cheese 15c. pound. Roe herrings 25c.
dozen. Mackerel 5c. each. Table
peaches 31b cans 12&C. Soda 3c. pack
age. Meat 10c. pound. Standard gran
ulated sugar 5c, Breakfast strip
17c. Codfish 10c. pound. White fish
5c. pound.
These are a few bargains that J. B.
Green Co. are offering. It will pay you
to trade with them.
J. B. GREEN CO.
All 'Phones.
KEEP COOL.
Sunday Excursion Via Atlantic and
North Carolina Railway.
Now is the time during the "HOT
WEATHER" for a run down to More
head City and Beaufort and take a
dJp ln 0LD QCEAN and enjoy the
health-giving breezes.
All sorts of attractions: Fishing,
Boating, Bathing, Dancing, etc.
Exceedingly low rates. Excursions
every Sunday. Week-end tickets
sold every Saturday and Sunday
morning, good until the following
Monday, inclusive. Summer Tourist
Season Tickets good returning until
October 31st, 1906
fare.
Children half ,
TEN
EVIL BONDAGE
For ten years I was in bondage to
the demon, strong drink. I could
not go where it was and leave, a
sober man. ,, i would resolve not to
taste It, but these resolutions, with
hundreds of promises to my dear
wife, were broken. The last live
years that I drank It had such a hold
on me I could not resist the burning
desire, and, when I had taken one
drink, I would have gotten drunk
even If I had known it would have
been the death of me; nothing could
prevent It. The tears of my old
mother, the entreaties of my wife
and children were as naught cont
oured to the ever burning thirst
for whiskey. Love of wife, children
home, relatives, reputation, honor
and the hope of heaven Itself, all
tied before this, the greatest of hu
man destroyers. Yea, nothing could
stop me In my mad career of de
bauchery, for often in my soberest
moments would 1 resolve ;o never
again to touch the damnable stuff,
and In my misery would I pray for
strength which would enable me to
resist the hell born, hell supported
power of the demon alcohol. But
my disease was too deeply seated.
I could not of my own power cure
myself, and each day 1 grew worse.
My wife, children, mother and
friends alike had no hope- of my re
demption; and with many misgiv
ings, carried me to your institute in
Greansboro. In March 1903, I
came to you a poor besotted drunk
ard, and in one month I was dis
charged and returned home a sober
man. bringing sunshine and gladness
to those who loved me. cured of my
ayvful malady, and my life shall be a
monument of sobriety to the Ko 'ley
treatment.
1 would say to all who are in bon
dage to strong drink, whose lives
are being destroyed, to go to Keeley
and if you would bs saved, listen not
to liquor dealers and barroom loafer
when they tell you it will do you no
good: for they are agents of the dev
il; and their statements an as
false as hell itself. I speak from
experience when 1 tell you the treat
ment cured me. It can cure you.
It saved me from a drunkard's
grave and hell; and it will save you
f you desire to be saved and will
only give it a chance.
G. E. GARDNER.
Burnsville, N. C, Nov. 30, l'.tOl.
If you have friends who might be
benefitted b ythis treatment send
their name pto the Keeley Institute,
Greensboro, N. C.
Watch this Column Daily for a New
Testimonial as to the Wonderful
Cures Effected by
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Others tell what their Waters arc; we
show what ours do. These are no
Fancies. These are .Facts. Let
those who were Cured speak for
themselves. LISTEN!
Dr. H. H. Levy, 300 East Grace
street, Richmond, Va., Professor of
Medicine, Medical College of Virgin
la, on January 22, 1903, writes: . . .
I have found the Mecklenburg
Chloride of Calcium Water an ex
cellent alterative and, combined with
the Mecklenburg l.ithia Water, es
pecially effective in the cure of
Chronic Eczema.
Water for sale by all first-class drug
stores.
SALE OF VALUABLE
CITV PROPERTY.
By virtue of the powers contained in
a Judgment of the Superior Court of
Wake County, North Carolina, entered
on the 2nd day of July, 1906, in a
special proceeding therein pending, en
titled Mary C. Walker et als. ex parte,
and being No. 1310, Special Proceeding
Docket of said Court, I will offer for
sale at public out-cry, to the highest
bidder for cash, at the Court House
door In the City of Raleigh, N. C. on
Monday the 1st day of October, 1006,
the following described lots of land,
to-wlt:
Two certain lots of land ln the
North-eastern portion of the City of
Raleigh, Wake County, North Caro
lina, being known as lots Nos. 5 and
13 of block 4 in the addition to the
City of Raleigh, knoyvn as Idlewild, as
surveyed and mapped by A. W. Shaf
fer, yvhich said map is recorded in the
office of the Register of Deeds for
Wake County, in book 112, at page
432, and is hereto referred. Said lots
are more particularly described as fol
lows: Lot No. 5 of block 4, situated
on the East side of Seawell Avenue,
being a parallellogram in shape, front
ing 52Mj feet on said Avenue and run
ning back East 200 feet to an alley,
bounded on the North by lot No. 13,
and on the South by lot No. 7, in said
block 4. Lot No. 13, of block 4, sit
uated on the East side of Seawell
Avenue, being a parallellogram ln
shape, fronting 524 'feet on said Ave
nue, running back East 200 feet to an
alley, bounded on the North by lot
No. 11, and on the' South by lot No.
15, In said block 4.
WILLIAM B. JONES,
Commissioner.
This 25th day of ugust. 106.
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EST PIANO
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
N. B. Following schedule figures
published only as information, and are
not guaranteed:
Trains leave Raleigh:'
No. 1125:15 a. m. Daily for Goldsboro
and local stations.
No. 1177:50 a. m. -Dally for Richmond
and local stations.
Through coaches to Chase City and
Richmond :
No. 1078:45 a. m. Daily for Greens
boro and local stations.
Chase City, Richmond and local stations-
No. 10S 10:30 a. m. Dally for Golds
boro and all local points.
No. 1353:30 p. m. Dally for Greens
boro and intermediate stations.
No. 11111:50 p. in. Daily for Greens
boro and local points; carries Pull
man sleeper Raleigh to Greensboro.
Trains arrive Raleigh:
From Greensboro 5:15 a. m., 10:30 a. m.,
5:39 p. m.
From Goldsboro 8:45 a. m., 3:30 p. m.,
11:68 p . m.
From Richmond and Chase City 8:05
p. m.
H. B. SPENCER, Gen. Manager.
S. H. HARD WICK, Pass. Traffic
Manager.
W. H. TAYLOE, Gen. Pass. Agt.,
Washington, D. C.
T. E. GREEN, City Ticket Agent,
Raleigh, N. C.
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lias an even scale and good tone
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15he
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ties. Tliat's why you should
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pet, Art Square and
Rug Sale.
The biggest preparation has been made for this great
September Carpet, Art Square and Rug Sale. The great
est quantities and the most liberal assortments Mill
Bargain offerings and special purchase lots all new
goods, contracted for way back in early spring, long be
fore any advance in Carpet Wools, and during this Sep
tember Sale we will give our customers the advantages
of the low prices we obtained by our early buying, which
gives the customer a saving of at least 25 per cent on
every Carpet ,Art Square and Rug bought in this great
September Sale.
Anticipate your Fall and Winter wants this is the
Carpet Bargain Opportunity in the hitsory of our Store.
No Housekeeper within a radius of 100 miles of Raleigh
can afford to miss this great saving on Carpets, Squares
and Rugs.
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NOTICE.
We announce a continuation of our August House
keeping Dry Goods Sale. The Rains the last two weeks
in August prevented many out of town customers from
coming to Raleigh to take advantage of this great House
keeping Dry Goods Sale, and we feel that it is due them
that an opportunity be given them by continuing for a
limited time the AUGUST SALE PRICES on all the
Bargain Housekeeping Dry Goods.
We ask all Housekeepers in Raleigh or vicinity to
realize what the continuation of these Bargain Sale
prices on Housekeeping Dry Goods mean to them.
If they have Blankets, Quilts, Bed Comforts, Table
Linens, Curtains .Portieres, or other Household Dry
Goods to buy, they will save dollars by taking advantage
of this Bargain opportunity.. These Bargain prices can
not be continued indefinitely. Now is the time to buy.
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