flTHB RALEIGH ifiVKNO tlMES, WMtfESPAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1906. ...a... --T THE EVENING TIMES Every Afternoon Except Sunday. ThTitoTPresa i JOHN C. DUE WHY, President. R. W. SIMPSON, JR. Editor. GEORGE & GRATER Publisher. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. The Evening Times Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Newspapers in Circulation. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (In advance.) One copy one year $4.00 One copy three months 1.00 One copy one week 10 Entered through Raleigh. N. 0., postofflce as mail matter of the sec ond class, in accordance with the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. trades rutygy C5gClE 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 els, cause chronic constipation. Doan's 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 : THE : MECKLENBURG MINER AL WATERS, CHASE CITY, VA. 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. Send in your subscription now to The Evening Times and receive the old rates of $4.00 per year. THE ALL 'ROUND EST PIANO In all the Round World Is Uhe Artistic STIEFF Ask those who know a thing or two about PIANOS, what they think of the STIEFF ask In par ticular about its TONE. INVESTIGATE! STIEFF, 00 GKANB Y ST. Norfolk. Va. GEO. S. NUSSEAR, Mgr. Send for descriptive booklet and special price list. 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. When You Buy a Piano you want an in vestment which is np to date, has the best of workmnnship and material in its construction, lias an even scale and good tone quality. 15he SHONINGER has nil of these essential quali ties. Tliat's why you should investigate before you buy any other Piano. Sold by ) RALEIGH, N .0 Sensation Cut : : Plug : : : Is one of the Most Popular Brands of Smoking Tobacco on the market. The smell of "Sensation" smoke is as pleasant as a ten cent Cigar. The trade furnished by J. R. FERRALL & CO. LEADING GROCERS. Raleigh's Best Barbers OTEY and Son Yarborough House HI OK c. DOBBIN COMPANY 123-125 Fayetteville St. September THE CARPET :0: -:0: Our September Great Car 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. COME AND SEE US. :0:-:0: 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. :0: :0:- DOBBIN FERRALL CO. We give Dobbin A Ferrall's Gold Trading Stamps good aa gold. Wa prepay express or freight charges on all mail cash orders of 95,00 or FI MONTH n D