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A : THE NORTH CAROLINIAN. ' . . J J . ' ..in .1 - , ' . - ; i ' ' mmmmmmmmim 1 rrv -,; I A i t I THE NORTH CAROLINIAN (-&iu: 7 -. - .5vi.Uv : f f oaaa nWv " : I I - r- ESTABLISHED IX 1S69. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. IHce, Ncr'.h Carolinian Building, Main Street, One door etat'of AVbcmre House. Terms. $1.00 a Year, in Advance. If not paid In advance $1.50 will be charged. HATES OP ADVERTIMSOi Oopsqimre, one insert Ion. tl. 01 ; two Inser tion. $1.50 ;on! month, $2.00 ; throe month, 4.( 0; six mouths, $8 00; one year, tl2.00. For larger a v rlis juiea; 8 liberal contracts. Will t'R m t'l'-. Business Note in 'oc-il fonmn.ten writs a line. l-l.i.uar)- Notices, llva cms a line. PALEMON JOHN. Editor and Proprietor. Devoted to the Interests of the City, the County and the District. VE&BIS Sl.00 a refcr.in Advance. VOLUME XXXI. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1900. NUMBER 52. THE NORTH CAROLINIAN OB PRINTING estadliskm: It suppll-d with all tt rja!!tM for rtolt-f flrft-oiaw Joh Printing bnslne , n1 pronipt lr rxeeutea We Win Car-is. Vm'tln Car la. Bistnw Car'. B..I1 Cards, Fun-y Show Curd, Pouters, Handbill", Prorrn:r., Bill heads, Podger r.U of Fan. Win Crd, taw 0i an I roil.:, fc.Ute-i.M- s, Pm phlets. Circulars, Books, etc.. In tb lateat aud neatrat stylee an I at tu lo-n-et p'ie-. Orders by mail will receive prompt a.u-ut io. 1 " : Yinrr nniTTinnnnn iirrnnnn i ' ( 11 i i REWARDING OUR HEROES. A rich man's little daughter Left her nurse and strayed away, : And ran out upon the car track, . . Where she loitered long at pMSy, ! Caring nothing tor the trolley As It whirred around the bend, ; Knowing nothing of the angel That was waiting to descend. i The rich man stood and trembled I With his darling on his breast, And tho motormun was lamled -!. And his hands were proudly pressed ! By a hair's breadth he had saved her He had acted just in time 'And the people .called him noble, And pronounced his deed sublime. The rich man gave him money, ' Gave him land and gave him praise, Gave him presents for his children, - Made him glad in many ways. And, at night, knelt with his darling And implored the Lord to guijde The brave motorman from danger And to save him when he died. The rich man's little daughter Lay upon her bed one day. And her lips were parched with fever, And all hope had ebbed away, . But a doctor watched and waited, Watched through weary nights.and won Back the little1 maiden's rosea Ere his trying task was done. He had left his bed at midnight, He had watched with weary eyes ; He had braved the ftereei-f weather, Sighing when he heard her sighs, And he gloried in bis triumph When he saw her smiles como back, Even as he smiled who saved hor When she played upon tho track. But no crowd pressed round the doctor, And no happy cheers were heard; He had done a thing that's common, Nothing thrilling had occurred. And the rich man fumed like fury When he got the doctor's bill,. Which he called an outrage lawyers Have the matter going still. -8. E. Riser, in Chicago Times-Herald. t The Matter of a Ring. Young T'r. jlenderson read with surprise Miss Harrington's note ask ing him to cajl that saine evening. Only that moi'iiing the twain, agree ing that what they had considered a life engagement was all a mistake and would better be ended, had parted, and the doctor was at a loss to ac count for this recall. "What can she want?" ho mut tered. "I thought wo said all there was to say this morning more, too, maybe "and 1 don't know of any more gifts to bo returned," and he smiled grimly at the miscellaneous assort ment of package- oil Lis centre table. "Can he be trying to make it up?" and, though knowing the thought to be preposterous, he was conscious of a thrill. Miss Harrington received him in a small room, almost a den.opeuing? out of the library; it was here that they had passed their happiest hours. She did not offer to shake hands, 'and he caught himself thinking how very be coming that cool 1jttlo bow of hers was; he had never noticed it before. "Of course yon were surprised at my asking you to call," she began, and then pan sod. for him to, deny it, which he, with even the slightest regard for . truth for truth's sake,' could not do. "J)o you know w;hy have sent for you?" Miss Harringtoii asked, indig nation growing stronger in her, voice. Considering thafe only that morning he had been convinced that her favor or disfavor could never more be to him a matter of concern, he now felt a strange sorrow, almost fear, at her evident anger; he paused a moment to draw in with a long whiff the warmth and coziness'of this little room they ; had sjient some delightful evenings i 1 . - ! ,.An;nn uere; men, in answer iu ujei ijumuuu,. t he made the brilliant remark that he Bupposed'she wanted to see him. Kbe looked at him scornfully. ."No," she declared, "I did not wish to see yon. I am. leaving the zitv tomorrow morning; so are you, in r another directiou. I have something of yours.pomething you hiid forgotten, which I thought too valuable to send I you' by mail or messenger, so there re mained nothing but for you to; come , - in person and get it." The doctor shook his head sadly. "I'm I'm sorry,", he faltered, apol ogetically, "but I can't imagine what 1 you mean," - , There is some scorn too great for words for a time at least. Miss Harringtoii walked swiftly across the room to the mangel, and re- tniiiin.?. nlaced on the table a small red plush case; opened, this showed a handsome diamond ring within. Step- nine, back from the table, she clasped her hauds behind her. and. looked at him without a word. He stared with puckered brows, . first at the ring, then at the girl. "Our engagement', ring!" she an ; Quunced finally, when the silence had lasted as long as she could stand. ' "Oh, surely not!" he answered quickly. "You gave me that this morning :" "And you thought so little of it, it was to you a matter of such little im portance, that you went "off and forgot it, left it lying here on the table," she interrupted. "i beg your pardon. I have a dis tinct recollection of taking it with me." To himself he Avas saying, "I always knew you were pretty, but not this pretty." "You are certainlv mistaken." said the girl. "I remember distinctly placing it in mv right baud lower vest pocket. and he clasped his hand to the spot indicated. i ' "That is impossible." Did you ever hear two children dis puting? "I did." "Yort didn't. "I did." "You didn't." It came to T)i- ' TTnml nr'son that thev were fast annroachingr that stage. He pulled himself together to crush her with one fine masculine stroke. "I have too much respectMiss Har rington," he sanl, with greatdignity, "not only for vour feelings," but for . my own, to treat so lightly jas you have insinuated the seal of pur en gagement. Had I been so carfeless as to forgot it, as you charge, I boncede that voif would have a right to con- ' aider yourself slighted, if not in ' suited, but if you knew the tine state ; of my heart you would instantly real ize that your charge is absurd. A mo ment's consideration should have con vinced vou of this, or if your knowl edge of me was not sufficient a simple Tamination of this rintr. to descend in material thinsrs. should have been .I But, womanlike, yoli rush ahead, act I ing on mere impulse, and, or course, ! blundered." ' He picked up the ring, a handsome diamond solitaire, to point out to her wherein she had been so foolish. His i face wore a sarcastic, withering smile, ;! but as he glanced at the inner surface of the ring, his expression slowly . froze, for there staved him in the face this legend: "A. H. M. H." : "And what did "A. HI M. H." stand for but "Arthur Henderson Mary Harrington?" Seeing his surprise, his dismay, the girl laughed grimly. "Now." she said, "I suppose even your shall we sav assurance will hardlv nevrnit von to denv longer that , L . , ; vou forgot your enagement ring. He was still staring at tlie ring with Miss Harrington took a step back ward, and with a little bow said: "I I elieve I remarked earlier in this interview, Dr. Henderson, that my 'only purpose in sending for you was to restore to you your property." At this curt dismissal the doctor' rose quickly to his feet, coloring slightly. '"I am goiug," he said, but he made no move in that direction. Instead he leaned both hands on the edge of the table and stared fixedly across it at Miss Harrington. His brow was puckered up in deep wrinkles, but whether he was thinking of the girl or the ring cannot be said with cer tainty. "I am going," he repeated, "but but I don't unde stand it. I was angry this morning,! admit, and acted foolishly-" he paused to mutter to himself in a kind of wonder, "Lord, what an awful ass I must have been to let this girl get away wheu I had her" "but when you Landed me my ring it gave me a shock, made me real ize tLen. as I Lad not before, what we wore doing. Had I not felt that it was too late I would then and there Lave retracted and apologized for every Lasty " "You are pleading, then. I am to understand," she, broke in, cuttingly, "the severe shock as your excuse for forgetting the i;ing, that it so be numbed, 'paralyzed your senses that yon failed to think of it at all until showed it to you a moment ago." 1 "No," he continued, stubbornly, I' am not prepared to admit that I forgot it. " I remember so well am so abso lntely certain that I took it home "Dr. Henderson! xler voice in dicated impatience, scorn, indigua- tion, exasperation and perhaps several other strong emotions. 'tDr. Hender son, this would be amusing, ridiculous, were it hot so insulting. I found the ring on the table, so you cannot pos sibly have taken it with you. I think we might as well make an end of this interview." When she commenced speaking the doctor had stopped.- Hut he had not been listening; he had been thinking. Now he went on slowly, as though she had not interrupted him: "I took it home, straight home I laid it on the table while I filled and li'ghtetLjiny pipe I had it in my hand for almost an hour while I was smok ing and thinking" he was impressive ly laying off to her with his linger each link of his chain of retrospection "I then locked it in a small safe I have in my bedroom. When I started here this evening"-i-his face broke into a triumphant smile 1 put it in my left hand lower vest pocket, and here she is," and sure enough he pulled out a ring. : He picked up the other, and, hold ing them together, carefully compared them. Thev were exactly alike in every particular, size, shape, setting biilliancy-ftadcn-both were engraved letters, "A. H. M. H. He passed them across to Miss Har rington, whose turn it now was to show astonishment. I T don't understand it," Bhe faltered. Nor I," said Dr. Henderson,steru- ly. "l'ou seem to have a plurality of engagement rings- to keep a stock on hand, as it were. : The ghl flushed. . "Of course you know that I never l ad but one engagement ring, she said. She was stooping to defend herself. so the doctor w.eut on the more se verely. "Indeed! Yet here are two. I can not undertake to say how many more you may have with your initials H. M. ' in them. 1 suppose t bat even your shall we say assurance will hardly permit vou to say tnat i was the eiver of both. Ihe rather un-. usual circumstance of two of your riauces having the same initials has probably been the cause of your mis takea very natural one under the circumstances. I do not know who the other- shall I say lucky? fellow Oh! A. H.' might be son. 'Mr. Higginson's name ia Talbot, as you very well know," the girl put iu. 'Hum well maj'be it is. . I don t -.. , .1 :. .are It uoesn t maiie buy uui-ieu.. hn the other fellow is or are. ihe fact remains that yon baa otner en gagement-rings at the same time you had mine. Why vou chose to add in sult to injury by trying to make out that. T was the faithless one I cannot imagine. Such brazen " "Dr. Henderson, your conduct is v 11- T .11 1.-a tnanHa lnsuneraDie. - j. m uci jom .moim. no longer." "Can vou deny what I have said? "Of course I can, and do. I know .... nr of this other ring you have brought. It has your initials, 'A. H O ' , TT . T A in it, too, rememuer. now am a io know that it is not cne you intended for some other girl who happens to l,vmv initials? Trobably you were on vour way to sea ner wuen you goi, w mr nnta " Just here the library door opened, and Miss Harrington's younger brother Gus appeared. Gus was a ooUputa senior, a class of young men not often thrown off their dignity, but the belligerent attitude of the two oc cupants ot tbe room visioiy maniou .lii-i- "I beg your pardon," be faltered "I er did not know anyone was in here. I was looking for er some thing I thought I had left iu here." He drew back as though to leave the room, and then his gaze falling on the plush case in his sister's hand, he stopped. "Why, that's the very thing I was lookiug for," he said, coming forward, a slight flush on his face, and taking it from her unresisting hand. "ray, yonng man," asked the doc tor suddenly seeing a lght, "is thai ring yours?" Mr. Harrington drew himself up tc his full height and answered with dig nity : "It is." "Well, that's all right,," began the doctor, "when " "Whv. what a e vou going to dc with a ling like that, Gus?" eagerlj asked his sister. - "What does a man usually do with a ring like this?" asked Mr. Harring ton, in reply. t-tretcbing himsell another inch. "I am going to give it to the young lady I intend to marry. "Oh, Gus, is it Marv Harbison?" Yes." he admitted, the dignified senior disappearing in tne nappy, proud boy. "How did you know?" 'Then, my dear sir, said tlie doc tor, with a relieved laugh, "I suppose the 'A. H.' M.A.' in that ring stands for Augustus Harrington Mary Harbison?"' "And I supposed of course that it was for Mary Harrington," laughed the yonng lady of that name. "Humph!" sniffed her brother con temptuously. "Think you are the only girl in the United States named Mary?" and then, feeling that he was not being treated with proper dignity, he stalked from the room. When Gus shut tLe door, somewhat loudly, Dr. Henderson and Miss Har rington were standing at opposite f-ides of the table, but before he could have taken two steps this wa3 altered. The doctor marched boldly round to her side. "None but the b ave deserve the fair." he muttered. "And this looks to me like an opportunity to undo mj fool work of this morning. I'll make a try for it, anyhow. Mary," he said aloud,ta.ing her hand in his, "I have acted very foolishly today; you have been foolish; we have beeu very fool ish. Hasn't it lasted long enough? love vou ah! until this day I did not realize hou much I loved you; I don't believe I could bear many such days as this has been, dear and you love me, I kuow you do. Come," and he liftel her hands and clasped them around lm neck; "let me put this ring back on your, finger where it be longs before it causes more trouble." "But how can you, with my bauds up there at the back of your neck?" she asked. ' "Well" and he paused a moment to look down into a pair of beautiful . - 1 i 11 11 Ll. A eyes, to consider, ana to wen, iuai is a problem; just let your hands sta where they are, for tne present, ana we will attend to the ring later on. "All right," she said. And so it was. Portland Transcript THEY SHOULD LIKE IT. CRUMBLING AT THE POLICY THAI ENRICHES THEM. Free Trade NwipP Proprietor OntM to Admire tlie "Ilnley-McKlnlej Chtnece Wll." For It H Brou.ht Them Much Prosperity. The American Protective Tarifl League exists for the purpose of pre venting the disturbance pf one'brick in our Dingley-McKinley Chinese wall. And the Eepublicao party is its servant New York Wotfd. For this concise stattnent of its aims and purposes, no lss than for the exalted compliment regarding the successful manner in which those aims and purposes are realized, ihe Ameri can Protective Tariff Leagui is under obligations. The World i. substan tially correct as to the first statement, f. . . im - ll - but it is ratber too nattering s iom, second. The Republican pii ty is the servant of nobody, except tbe voters who comprise it. The American Pro tective Tariff League is proud to be reckoned as a co-worker with the L.e publican party for the success of Re publican principles and policies in general, but with particular reierence to "preventing the disturbance of one brick in our Dingley-McKinley Chi nese wall" by any save the skillful and scientific workmen of the Republican party. It labored hard to save the peo ple cf this country from tne disastrous - ill SRYAN'S FOOLISH CLAPiRAP. Artfully Framed Pbracca Which Appeal to People olj Limited Intelligence. We are informed by tbe press dis patches that Mr. Bryau is suffering irom. a severe sore throat and has been almost unable; to I speak daring bis tour of Pacificj Coast cities. We re gret Mr. Bryan's physical misfortune, but cannot but feel that he is alone responsible foil his condition. It seemi wholly natural that a sore throat GMT MIIM DEAL. f he Pennsylvania Company Acquires the Long Island Road. 8IG IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE. W 01EEFOL HEW SHELL. No Armor in the World Able to With - stand It. would at least get such preaching into Mr. Bryan has dresses in Oregon We have no way of ensue from an-effect to queer doctrines as ue ia the form of speech, been delivering ad- and Washington judging his posi tion, except from" bis public utter ances. These are supposed to Lava a meaning, otherwise a phonograph would serve hjs purpose and save him from tbe physical weakness he is now suffering. Let us examine bis doo trines in the light of extracts from the Hptjckeo he has been making in Wash ington, j "The Republican party has done nothing since 1896," Bays Mr. Bryan.- It is hardly possible that Mr. Bryan expects thinking j people to swallow such palpable absurdity. The Re publican partyihas passed the Dingley Tariff bill, mastered the markets of j the world, started the furnaces in the idle mills of the nation, passed the financial bill, ; freed Cuba and con quered Spain. Of the minor achieve ments it is not necessary to speak. 1 A WILL REVOLUTIONIZE WARSHIPS. BOY CONFESSES Young Garrabrandt Killed Henry Maa1? For Three Dollars. -URED VICTIM TO THE CELLAR. pie cf this country irom in casus us & - feS869 ta k hone8uy results of the bungling botchwork of thoat whea he m.ke the Cleveland-Wilson crew, 1893-1897, B,ntf,mAnt.q ! QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A scientist has calculated that the eyelids of the average man open and shut no fewer than 4,000,000 times in the course of a single year of his ex istence, j A young mau in Buffalo, N. Yr., from some impulsive freak, took it into his head to save all his cents. He wearied after two yeirs, when he -rot 2100 of them, and tried to sell them, but nobody would buy them, even at 80 cebts on the dollar. A little Plvmouth rock pullet in M, M.PooJe's hen house, at Springfield, Mass., tho othor day, laid an egg that measured 9 inches in circumference lengthwise and 7 1-2 inches around Inside of the mammoth egg was an ordinary sized egg with a perfect shell on it. The-trrnte egg bad a double yolk. Wheu two Chinamen meet they shake hands. That is to say, each shakes and squeezes his own hands aud covers his head. If the meeting is after a long parting, after the hand shaking is over the friends rub shoul ers till they are tired. Instead of inquiring after one another's health; it is ettiquette to say: "Have you eaten your rice? Where are you ? What is vour business there: vwt- did von pav for your shoes' How eld are you? Ab Higgin- It is noted that of 34 great battles, 12 were fought on Sunday, six oe Thursday, five on Wednesday, two on Vvidftv. while Mondav luesday and Saturday claim three apiece. Among the Sunday battles were Waterloo, Inkerman and tha fall of Delhi; Grave lotte and Omdurman happened on Thursday; Tel-el-Kebir, the battle ol Mma and Balaklava came on Wednes day: Trafalgar was won on Tuesday, Se bastopol on Friday, and the battles of 1 ... -r-l 1 k Alm.nro and Aim. iviea were iougu- on Saturday. One of the most curious charities iD Surrey, England, has just been dis tributed in tbe village ot wotton. in 1718 a resident named William Glan ville died, leaving a will which directed that he should be buried in the cburch- vard "six yards underground; and . ... . - 1 .! 1 1- - .l that 41) sbiiungs apiece snouiu ue paio annually to five poor boys of the parish, who, on the anniversary ol his death, witu tneir nanus lam uu iue gravestone, should repeat by heart the Lord s prayer, tbe creed, ana tne commandments, read I Corinthians, j . and write two verses of the chapter. Later the number oi Doys participating in tbe charity has been increased irom nve o seiej. im. sar 16 boys offered to compete, but onlv 11 attended. lbe nrst seven were successful, and the unsuccessful bovs were each presented with half a " ..... .. . crown, while tbe nve non-compeuiors received two shillings each. who disturbed the bricks in the wall with consequeuces so dire and devas tating. The Tariff League strove strenuously in 189G to secure the dis missal of the Cleveland-Wilson gang of wall-destroyers and the employ ment of the right sort of workmen to repair "the imminent deadly breach." In some measure as the result of the Tariff League's efforts the-bad work men were "fired," good workmen were taken on in their places, and the wall was put in splendid condition once more. Some openings were left, through which to send to the outside world a hitherto unprecedented vol ume of the surplus products of our factories and farms, but good care was taken to so adjust the appertures in the wall as to greatly diminish the in coming volume of the surplus pro ducts of foreign factories and farms, so that the first full year of the recon structed wall yielded a trade balanco of $615,000,000. Was not this good workmanship? The people of the United States seem to like it. The proprietor of the New York World undoubtedly Hk6s it. Only a few clays ago he said in his paper: The tide of spring business pros perity is best measured iu tho World. Its Sunday edition yesterday con tained 294. columns of paid adver tising, an increaee of columns over last year. i The New YorK Herald and me isew York Journal proprietors also liKe the wall built by Republican mechan ics, for in the Herald we find this: While 14 columns of paid adver tisements were received too late ior insertion, the Easter editiou of tbe Herald yesterday contained 62o col umns of paid advertisements, of which 306 columns were in the main edition and 20 columns in the Brooklyn sec tion. I r! This exceeds the Herald's boat pre vious advertising record for any Eas ter edition by 44i columns, and also exceeds by 24 J columns its own pre vious high water advertising mark above referred to. And in the Journal this enthusiastic tribute to the efficiency of tbe wall as a prosperity promoter: We congratulate uotu oi our con temporaries ; on breaking tneir own records, and thank them in advance for the reciprocal congratulations tney will doubtless extend to the Journal upon its success on the same occasion in breaking all records m newspaper bistory with 360 columns of advertis inga gain of lo7i columns over iu Bame issue last year. All tbree of these flourishing puou cations profess to hate the, Republican tariff wall; but down deep in their hearts that is, down deep in their counting rooms they really like that wall very much indeed. They ought to like it, and Mr. Pulitzer, Mr. Ben nett and Mr. Hearst ought to love most warmly the organization that "exists for the purpose of preventing tbe disturbance of one brick" in that magnificent wall. The American Protective Tariff League works hard and earnestly for that purpose; it works for the benefit of all the people of our blessed country, Messrs. Pulit zer, Bennett and Hearst not excepted. such absurd statements Again, Mr. Bryan says: "The Re publican party- dare not measure life by trade; they dare not measure1 a quart of blood! by the dollar." I No one but (Mr. Bryan has had the hardihood to suggest that any Ameri can citizen wants to measure life by the dollar,, This talk sounds very mucb like "tbe cross of gold" style of oratory used by Mr. Bryan four years ago in appeals to the prejudices of the unemployed, who have since found ample employment under Re publican administration of national affairs. j "I am opposed," says Mr. Bryan, "to-admitting 10,000,000 Malays to American citizenship." So is 'every other honest American. The Democrats are trying to expend the Constitution over the new posses sions and thus make citizens of the Malays. The Republican party is op posing the very thiug that Mr. Bryan is denouncing, j one of Mr. Bryan's fa- clay we are drifting away aration of Independence But here is vorites: "To- from the Dec! to monarchy.' I I The man who deliberately uses tbe word "monarchv" in connection with any possible future of the United States must be j branded as a dema gogue, pure and simple. The time has passed in this country when fbe voters can be fooled by such litter mces. The American citizen is al fijys ready to listen to appeals to his intelligence, out he canuot be fooled by such clapti'ap oratory, even from 30 eminent i source as Mr. Bryan. Mr. Bryan's utterances are an insult to tbe intelligence and patriotism of the American people. Denver Tjimes. PennylTaala Railroad' New Plan Outlined Ferry Connection from Jer sey City to Bay Ridge and TnnneW to Follow, an Official Say-Xo TUouahtol ' Villi Montana: Poiut for Ocean Liners. Pkiladklpbih (Special). An exeoutlva officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in Ktatlncr the nnrnose of that company Id acquiring control of the Long Island ttoad, said that the traffic of Brooklyn, with it more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, has been almost entirely confined to the East Rivet fronts AH of the freight i brought by the railways to that city as well as that taken from,there for distribution through"?, the country bas been carried on floats or light ers between terminal points of the differ ent railways and the piers and freight yards along the East River. Not only, he said, are these facilities limited and crovrd ed, but business and manufacturing Indus tries have necessarily beab confined to the very restricted district along the water. - On the other hand, tne tracKs oi tne l.ouk Island Railroad form a belt line extending around the outskirts of tae built-up part ot Brooklyn from tne Thirty-fourth Street Ferry to Bay Ridge, with lines Into the various centres of the city. These llDes, he went on to say, afford the means ot es tablishing freight depots, yards for car load deliveries, and coal and lumber yards conveniently situated and of unlimited ca pacity. They also afford opportunities, which will no doubt be extensively availed of, for the erection of manufactories of all kinds requiring direct rail connections. When the new freight terminus of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Greenville, asec-. tlon of Jersey City, opposite Bay Ridge, la completed, connection with the Long Isl and system will be made at Bay Ridge by a comparatively short car float ferry. Mean while the present transfer barges at Jersey filtvwill he nsed. but ultimately a tunnel from Staten Island toBay Ridge may be built. In that case traffic between tte Pennsylvania Railroad lines and New Eng land would lass through the tunnel and over the Lone Island track9 and the pro posed bridge at Ward's Island to a connec tion with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. There has been no thought of using Moo tank Point, the official concluded, as a sailing port for steamers of the American Line. As a matter ot fact, he said, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Is not in terested as a shareholder or otherwise In the International Navigation Company, or the "American Llne, as It Is usually called. It is not believed that passengors would make the rail journey to Montauk rolnt to s-ve two or three hours at the most when they can much more comforta bly board the steamers at the piers in-New Xork City. Fads Concerning the Invention of an American Naval Officer Laid Before Ihe Senate In Secret Setlon Projectile Fired Thronch Fourteen Inches of Har-eyUed IMate Secret Well Ooarde.1 OarrabranJt Pnnn.leil Toujig Maa to Death With a Piece or Lead IM charged From Factory tlsVfanle.l Vic tim's Vf agvs lo Take Ham Whea Ar retted lie MaJe a Full Cd-.folou. BIG STORM IN TEXAS. THE OLD STORY. Democrats R.-ljIus on Itonetition of tlie Stupendous Folly of Senator J. K. Jones, chairman of the Democratic National; (Jominittee, 5Ix Churches Blown Down and the Dam age lo Crops Is Great. San Antonio, Texas (Special). A de structive cyclone wrecked the San Antonio Loan and Trust Company's flve-story steel building. The loss 13 about $70,000. The wind's velocity was sixty miles an hour. ' The storm extended i over nearly the whole ot Texas, coming from west to east. The rain was very heavy and the wind was terrific, rising to sixty, miles an hour at some places. ', ' . i The greatest damage has been to crops. Corn, wheat and oats were beaten down and fruit trees shaken and , bent, losing much ot their fruit. Reports from a score or more towns In this part of the State are to the effect that many buildings were Injured by the wind. No less than six churches have been blown down, and the damage to residences and farm houses Is great.. Washington, D. C. (Special). Some facts almost startling In their linportaucn have been laid before the Senate la secret legis lative session at the olose of the regular open session. They related. It Is under stood, to the Invention by a prominent offl csr of the United States Navy ot a shel' superior in every essential quality to,.any now tn use by thl9 or any other Govern ment. The quality of penetratlou possessed by the shell is said to be so great that no 1 armor now manufactured iu the United States or abroad has sufficient redstanee to withstand it. With one of these shells, developed by the Naval Ordnance Bureau, a six-lucU naval rifle plugged a clean hole through a plate ot Harveyized armor fourteen Inches thick. This marvelous achievement whs witnessed by Assistant Secretary Hockntt, for whom the trial was made Rt ludlau Head. The guu was charged with smoke less powder enough to give the shell a ve locity of 250 feet per second, or twenty five per cent, above ordinary proof veloc- " The facts, which were In possession of only a few Senators, were deemed so Im portant -that the Seuate decided toNson sider them iu secret session. Mr. Tillman ssked lor a secret session in order that he might explain to the Senate why he de sired the armor plate matter to be dis ?ussed In secret. When the doors were closed, he explalne 1 ;hat several days ago he had offered a res olution Crtlliuif upon the Secretary of tho Navy to send to the Senate for Us infornia- j tlon the details of tests, made by the De partment's officials, of armor plate at In dian Head. No answer to that Inquiry Das been received, and in all human probabil ity none will be received. It seems that Mr. Tillman called at the Navy Department, and was Informed that It would be unwise at this time to make public the details of the.tests he had asked for, as it would place In the bands, not only of the Senate, but of represeuatlyes of foreign Governments, information that properly belonged exclusively to the United States. .' A prominent official of the Navy Depart ment said it is understood that the teats of all sorts of armor, Including the Krupp armor, had been made, with a view of as certaining their effectiveness against a new shell that had been Invented by an officer ot the navy. No piece of armor submitted to the test, it is understood, was able to withstand the teat. The shell, llred from high-power guns, ptuiotratied the armor al 1 most as bullets llred from a Krag-Jorgeu-l-.sen rifle would penetrate green wood, the ! -difference being that tho armor plates split from tho point or impact, it is sum tins was true of the Krupp armor, as well as of the other armor tested. Feeling that more or less of the matter concerning the te?t9 recently made by tho Government would be used in the debate upon the armor question, Mr. Tllman sug gested that It would bo desirnlile to con sider the subject in secret. Th' Senate agreed with him, and the armor-plate mat ter was discussed behind closed doors. Jirsii Cirr, N- J. tSpeclan, -acgered j lecause he. had 1ot I ts Ue tn a larcp ', fchade factory, at.vl ds!riag to get the 3 wages for the wet-k Uraita by the boy who had made hba U) his place, young John Garrabrandt tilled Henry Maa in tho coal j bin of the tenement. houi In which the I Garrabrandta lived In this city. Garra brandt was traced to Nyaok, N. Y., by Jer- sey City detective, aud was Hrri'Mted there at the home' of a relative, Mrs. Primrose- j He was so frightened when the police of- j ficers routed him out cf bed Hint lie at j once confessed having killed young Maui". ; As ho would have rein ted a Mtnplo story of an everyday occurrence, (iurriibr-indt told how he had murdered his compunion in cold blood. Not nn angry word was spoken before the crime. "My name N John Gtirrabrantlt," said.' the boy, when the police were ready to tale his confession. ' "I will be uiueleen vars old on June 13. I tMe with my father and mother. ! I left home nt nix o'.-i-u-k Saturday morning and went to New York City. I knew Hetirv Miias. I used to work with blin at Sharp ft Allen", .7S and 80 Murray street, New York City: "I was discharged three or four week ago because the ios couldn't tniMt tne around. He said Henry Maa told him I threatened to shoot a Kirl there. "I was going up Murray street about half-past seveu Saturlay morning, when i mot Jlaas at Sharp A Allen's door. 1 asked him If he could get oft nt twelve o'clock Ho said 'Yes.' 1 met Mm nt live minutes past twelve o'clock. He was going to Ca nal street to deliver some boe. I went with him. He delivered the boxes aud wo went back to the store. "Ue went upstairs, and when he cafne. down told ine lie had his pay tX . We took the Barclay flreet ferry mid walked from Hobokeu to" Jersey City, and went to my house. ! ; " "I went down to the cellaraud went luto the woodshed and got ti piece ot lend with a leather strap to 'it. which I used as a sluugsliot, 'and., pulpit In my pocket. 1 made it. ! What Ihe Kid YVnt. A Strange Happening. Pa." said little Harry, "after ma bit her thumb with the hammer today she says she suffered uutold agony for 10 minutes." "My, my, my!" exclaimed the boy s father. "Wonders '11 never cease. TUnt's the first time she ever let any thing go uutold that long. "Chicago Times-Herald. says: "The conditions now remind me of the conditions in 1392 j more than anyothsr time I have ever seeu." The Senator appears te ni?d satisfac tion in this fact, his satisfaction; being based largely : on the circumstance that the cou itry elected the free trade candidate iu the election of thafci year. If Chairmar Jones were a mau who reasoned deeply, however, he would i,nniffl n different feelins. in re spect to thf situation. The resem-' blance between 1892 and 1900 con sists in tbe fact that both of these vears mark the periods of wonderful prosperity. And, incidentally, it may be remarked that there is a fuither resemblance in that both yeais are years having a protective tariff in force. Thepe is a fundamental; differ ence, though, in this viz., that in 1900 the pebplehave the experience of 1892 to guide them. lnlSb-S, connaent in their busline bs success and prosper ity, they risked an experiment with free tiade, having been assured by Mr. Cleveland aud his supporters that the adoctio'n of that policy would in- srease theif already remarkable pros perity. Hbw far short of fulfillment those promises fell the people of the country, wbo struggled through f out years of free trade misgovernment and through ' tbe bard and poverty stricken ddys of the Wilson law.know. They are not likely to walk into the same trap again. The very fact that business conditions now arejso like those of 1892 is the: strongest reason why the voters will not do as they did in 1892. phen they threw away their r.rnar.nritv!: now thev want to keep it. Therefore they will vote to keep the protective tariff. Chairman Jones would do well not to let hope run too hi"b. It 3 bound to have a fall, J. - ,V Death In Tornado. EllinVood, Kan. (Spefcial). Logan town ship was struck by a tornado and George Helfrich and his wife, Who lived on a farm. Ar inarnntlv killed. Their home was completely destroyed. . M wo oiners oi iumi t0n street, ana a wagon loan oi jiouee RIOTING IN ST. LOUIS. Striking Street C.ir Men Ue Clubs and Stouea SIny Arrests Made. St. Lotris, Mo. (Special). In accordance with the decision reached by tho St. Louts Transit Company's employes a general' strike was inaugurated on the entire sys tem at daybreak Tiiesday. From time to time during the afternoon and night at tempts were made to operate the cars, but in nearly every caso resulted in attacks on the crews by crowds along the stn'.ets, practically stoppiug traffic.; A riot call was turned In during the day from the corner of Broadway and Washing- hnnsehold were badly hurt, sustaining broken ones. Hundreds oft cattle and horses were killed. f First Governor of Hawaii. First Get tlie Facts Straight. It is a' question how much of the popular feeling on this subject has been worked up secretly by certain commercial interests, which had pre pared for a handsome speculation by accumulating a stock of Porto Rican products, whose American price would be increased by the abolition of duties on imports for that island. ! The only people really interested are those who brought up sugar and tobacco, and who are holding them for the rise that wnnld follow such a law: and the only stagnation of trade is that caused by this Belflsb interest. It is just as well to get the facts straight before rush ing off into a sentimental outcry against the President in this matter. Toledo Blad. turned out to keep order, but their efforts were In vain. At this point a moiorinnu was hit over tho head with a club, a piece of brickbat struck him In the mouth, laeer- ating his lip, aud his nose was nunhe i oy a stone. The motorman mil ins car uuu ran into a saloon for protection, i inaiiy the motormau returned, and, amid a shower ofstone3and mud, succeeded in getting his car away from the crowd. In the afternoon two enrs were sent east from the Lindoll Line sheds at Taylor and Finney avenues. When the cars reached Finney and Newstead avenues, a crowd of strikers gathered about them and made threatening demonstrations. The mounted police made a vigorous effort to drive the crowd away. In the attempt Sergeant Hickman struck a man three times with his sabro, painfully injuring him. The crowd broke all the windows In the cars and otherwise damaged them. Numerous arrests were made. EDWARD CLIFFORD HANCED. a itovei fence. j it is said that in lellowstone para there is a fence which is composed en tirely of the horns of the elk and in eludes over three hundred selected specimens; None of them hasdess than twelve and very many have' fourteen noints. They were gathered in June; 1895-, by a party of gentlemen wh found them during a four days' hunt all cf them within a radius of ten miles of the Mammoth Hot Spring? Yellowstone Park contains nearly three thousand elk. They, shed thei horns in March, and during this tim are very shv and ouier . . . j Where Tommy Got His Name. " Every British reader should know the origin i of the sobriquet "Tommy Atkins." Tommy Atkins j was th6 name of a sentry who, when the Euro peans in Lucknow were flying for the residency, from the mutineers, refused to leave his post, and so perished. After that it became the fashion to speak of a conspicuously heroic soldier in the fights with the rebels as "a Tnmmv Atkins" ' Drop. I " -The colonel's been getting the drop on somebody, I guess." "Yes; he evident has a 8ANF0BD : B. DOLE. President McKInlev has appointed him Governor of Hawaii under the law reoently passed by Congress providing a territona i f - . . . 1 TT..tlnn form ot gpvernmenc ior iue nu Islands. . Shot Three Brothers J. W. Miller shot and killed W. T. and L. 0. Linton outright and latauy wounaeu. Edgar Linton at Buffalo. Texas. The three brothers went to tne omca wuero .nuini ia employed, ana began aDustng mm. amor ted their language with the above fa tal results. He reiusea to .ten me cause o- tbe trouble. - - . ', Four Filipino Towns Taken. Four towns on the island of Marlnduque, P. I., have bepa taken by two companies of the Twenty-ninth Infnntry under Colonel Hardin. The few armed Insurgents took to the mountains. One company was left to garrison the island and the other went to Masbete. Havana Police to Be Overhauled. The police force of Havana, Cuba, will soon havg an overhauling, particularly the secret service branch, which has done virtually nothing. Robberies take place, nightlyj but the thleves-are not arrested; murders are committed, yet the murderers are at -large. The ordinary police have shown striking incapacity and abuse of authority. General Wood has issued an order forbidding the police to carry re volvers during the day. Superintendent Wattson's Murderer Die Alter Many Slays. Jersey Citt, N. J. (Special). Edward Clifford, who. on March 5. 18'J6, shot aud killed William G. W.itlson, Division Super intendent of the West Shore Railroad, at Weehawken was hanged iu the Hudson County Jail. , Clifford was sentenced on September 13, 1896, to be hanged on February 1G, 18'JS. He was reprieved to March 16, and since then his execution has beeu i postponed four times by btays. On Monday night Chancellor Magie re fused to grant a writ of error or to certify the fact in writing, so that counsel was unable to take an. appeal. Counsel then applied to Governor Yoorhees for a re prieve, but he also refused to interfere. New Name For a Territory. 1 Congressman Moon, of Tennessee, ha Introduced a bill providing a terrltoria form of government for the Indian Ter ritory, under tne name oi jeiiersou i rltory. - Forest Fires In Slaryland. Many thousands of acres around Cumber land, Md., are swept by forest fires and 500,000 worth of timber has been der stroyed, together with three school-house? and many barns. Chinese Attack the British. A large body of Chinese attacked th( camp of the Boundary Commission and wounded Major Penrose and four members of the Chinese regiment. Tho latter, which was recruited in the vicinity of Wei-Hal-Wel aod drilled by British officers, be-. baved very steadily. Th attackers wer repulsed with a loss of thirty killed. The outbreak is attributed to Chinese officials. I put It In my" pocket to hit Henry Jlinus j With It. l:vnnen iovii mere n, tew 111111 UteH, when Henry came down. . 1 told Mm 1 had something for Mm behind a barrel In the corner.i. j i "He went to reach for It and I hit Mm with the piece of lend on his head,' near the ear. lie fell down, and I hit Mm ngitln on the hrnid when he was down. Ho struggled to get up. i After th first blow I10 hollered and begged ine not to kill him. Then 1 hit him agitln on the head. Alter that h sald nothing. M "I then 1 tied ' ;hU hands with 11 piece of tar cord that was lying 011 tlie floor.' I took his inioni'y 13 -wlileh wm In nn envelope, ; froml tho inside pocket of hi1 coat. ' j M "When Henry hollered Mrs. Ooylo came down Into the celler and whistled through the tube to my mother's arartmoulH. She said:- P ''.'if " 'Your celiac door Is open and the koy Is in tho lock. "I then went lupstnlrs. cloning the cellar door, but klid not lock it. I, went to my! mother's ! rooms and told 1 her I had j killed Ifeiny j Mnas In the woodshed.! Mother and I went down to Mr;'. Coyle's rnnm. mil Mini flrxt floor 11111I in V .mother H told Mrs. Coyle i had killed Maa's'dowu iu the woodshed ! "Mrs. Ooylo Asked inn what I was going to do, mid I said I didn't, fc-now. My inotln-r told mo to go away. !. Mrs. -Coy to. said eho mustn't tell her husband or any one. -l-.il -f ' "Mrs. Coyle said I bad better wait untiV night 11 lid place, the body Alongside tli railroad track jnnr pooplo w mid think be was killed by a train. I went down to tlia oellar and looked the door, j "I wanted to give the key to my moil or, but she wouldn't take it. I went out and saw a pollcom in coining out of 11 cellar at Seventeenth and Grove streets. I got scared and went and took a train at Nyack, N. Y., and went to the housoi.of Mrs. Prim rose. 1 told Mamie Primrose Unit I bnd killed the boy,! and she told tile to say noth ing to her mother about it."i "Why did you ask Henry into the col lar?" Inquired Chief Murpby. "I hadn't been working hII the week. My father thought I was working and I wan ed to get some money to bring homo-" "Did you upsmilt him for tlie purpose of getting this money?" j "I wanted to get the money without killing blin, but ho died from t!io crack on the head. n 1 . After tho boy liad been locked up Chief Murphy caused the arrest ii Mrs. Giirrii-.j brandt and Mrs. Coyle as nqcessorics after j the fact. They were released on hall. - I Mr. Sharp, of the firm for which the boys I wotked, bays that bo disiihurged Gurra- j brandt partly because of tli revolver and j partly because he was a "cigarette fiend." When he found the boy carried a revolver j he took the weapon from liiin, aud has it: Still." I TRAIN ROBBERY NEAR TACOMA. j . - - I I Passengers Forced to Jump From Mov. lug Cars and Two Are Shot. Tacoma, Wash. (Hpcclall.- Slx highway. man boarded a t Northern Pacific local trnin near .North Yakimaj o few days ago They compelled the pasbengors to line iy with arms uplifted, after which the thieves robbed them, obtaining watches, rings an J nearly tC00 In money. r The victims were the.ni made to jump, the robbers shooting at tlaem and beating them with their weapons Fred Booker and John Clernau were sihot, but will re cover. , : 1 ; f NO MINISTER AT CONSTAMTINOPLE . Mr. Straus Not lo Ueliiirii Tntll Indein i nlly Claims are fettled, Washisotox, D. C. ( .Special). It U au thoritatively announced! that until tne pending issue relative to the payment of the American Indemnity iclafms is settled to the satis faction of the State Iepart ment, no United Stutes Minister will at tend at the Turkish etpital. and Mr. Straus's leave of absence wilt rem tla a It is now, Indefinite ih length. Cost of tne South. Alrlcau Wa.. ' The war is now costing England $750 pel minute. much, and buy any 1 Journal ! drop too nobody ever knew him to liauor himself! "Detroit Sweden Preparlne For Home Defence. ttotn houses of the Swedish Parliament have voted a large sum for borne defence. Newsy Gleanlnrt. A destructive disease is provalent in Nic aragua's coffee plantations. The German sqsar syndicate is said to have reached an agreement . for tno. next five years. ' - Mail advices from China stated that the natives in the interior were preparing for an uprising. Citizens ot New Hampshire will present a bronze tablet to the battleship Kearsage. A Chicago jury has decided that a woman cannot be a vatrraut because woman was not made to workv Great un9asluess and' bitterness is felt among the Sioux ludinus in North Dakota 'Ver rtiA nollew of the Indian R.re A New Way to Build a Navy. An Imperial lrade just issued by th Sultan of Turkey orders contracts to b signed with foreign shipbuilders for reno vating eight antiquated ironclads. Boer-British War Notes. Horse sickness is prevalent ia General Buller's camp at Ladysmlth. Large quantities of gunpowder are going to the Boers as sacks ot meal. Some American scouts who were cap tured by the Boers have been shot. The passes trom Natal into the Free State are said to be well-guarded by tbj Boers. The corporation of Scarborough, Eng land, has decided to na n. anew thorough fare "Ladysmith avenue." k Lord Roberts reports persistent Bier at tacks oa the British at Tab.. NoUu." Tu burghers made a daring but futile attempt to capture a British convo- The Bisinc In K.iljaila. ! The rising of peasants In- the vi Inily o" ilUBtehuk. Bulgaria, assumed'- alarming proportions. The r.enunts have succeedeO in disarming some troops, and have used rifles against others. Two o!flcers.nd fif teen men have beeu killed or wounded, ant" about the same number iof peusant. j Dole Named aa G Sanford B. Dole, t Hawaii, has been no McKinley avernor of lwalli ie acting President of ml hate 1 by Presldcnl to be tlik flfrt Governor of tli. lslands under the new law. The liabor World. By the piece-work ytera the Jersey Cit lathers make 3.50 lor nine hours' worn a day. f . : : ' ' " ; ' ' Over half thejob printing offices at De troit, Mch., were tied up by a pressmen s strike. i j ' i The request of street railway employees at Ifc-troit, Mich., for higher waives has beeh reinsed. j j " . The Woodslde Cottou Mills, to work 10, 000 spindles and 350 operatives, will bo lo cated at Gainesville, Ga. j .The cutters employed in the collar and cuff factories In Troy, N. Y., have applied to tbe American Federation ot Labor tor a. charter. hi apparently nothing at all to say. V s '."
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