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SI 1 II "11 II ! V LVv- wn.SCitKASING CIRCULATION. "TRUE TO OURSELVES. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." AN EXCELLENT ADVERTISING MEDIUM VOL. 17 SMITHFIELD, NC. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1898. NO. 21 t PRICE S2.25-READ ON! V''. 083. Itr:is TriU'.iirtiWIiitoRi s t-i. i I. .NfettJ. m .h in M, 4.-, 4S nd ;"j . h !fn;ih T" ineh-a. It ha .'inl t-i 1 ir. two inoll lirsa i 1 o.ti". lu. Ik-J reti. at from 6 to liuv f l' e n.akr anl mitp ihe Trwt ns " ir-ft--. Our Cat at pinn are in lor I lf tski! ir. timplnr Miim ! f Ku insure, I: aiirli, Cinckt-ry ):,'! "w, Mirroi-a, r-nvt . ICifi-ii-cra-t r, linn Oarriaict, I mi, luklh jr. f,'., ;irv n'ai't ! i'i ks. Our I. ih.i.-rn'ifMHl Carrn t Cata) gt.ti ch.iw ir.a nit tf-His in h i J r i 'it e l cohxals a'-ofrw: if Ci:r-t SMimile an wanted :!i.i;iuv.ias'iin -. 5r. p a m t at h i mi.'v -nr' ar 1 rriurm hrr lh rn Ir Ithl lti in ! ii pn-rlunni f nrprln. I trf nrt fnrilrm Kiis muvnuilnir to $9 mh1 vr. Julius Hines & Son HALTIMOUK, MD. The Reporter's Revenere. If there is one thing more than another that the fecund, fertile an i fantastically fanciful report er d en't have any use on earth t.ir. it is the fatal blue pencil of t'ic editor w:o shapes the desti :re of the rising reporter. On t other and, there is nothing q i u so delightful to the editor i:i theory and practice as the h ue pe icil. With it, sitting in hi esv chair and poising it al -n the lines of the enthusias f.c and prolihc youth, he can h irpoon iancy after fancy of the ciUo.v reporter and vank them i"ta oblivion; with it he can f jicture the swelling sentiment or a whole corps of reporters and make the lurid description of a hre look like a last winter's ah piU: with it but way dweli upon a subject so 9ad? Suffice it th it the blue pencil is one of the most deadly tools known to modern journalistic literature. Hi: the blue pencil gets a jar sometimes. On tbe occasion narrated in this chronicle the editor was puching bolts through the best pi:ce of work they ouag reportei , j nt appointed to the staff from tie hind tier of counties, was s ire he had ever doue, and tbe hdples victim sat writing in tbe comer watching him at this in fernal orgy. Ha!" saddenlv exclaimed tbe editor with a tearful jib at the sheet before him and glancing over at the reporter, "you speak hire, sir," he went on savage ly. ' of the teeming canal!" "Yes, sir," trembled the re po'ter. "Is that what vou mean?" "Y.s.Mr." "Oj, you do, do you? A teem- r- -r canal?" "Yes. sir." "Well, I never heard of a teem- r z c ina'?" Si. sir?" "No. Vi 1 you be kind enotrgh to explain, sir, with what a ca ll -tl does its teeming?" The idea, like all great ones, c i me with a rush to the report er, an he saw his chance to rise on the wreck of the editor to the position of tunny man. "Yes sir." he hesitated a mo ment before taking the fatal leap "Ah, indeed will you? Will you be kind enough then to tell me?" and the e fitor poked the h!ue pencil yiciously into the of frri'lin passage. "Yes, sir; mules," responded the raw reporter innocently, "v u've beard of canal mules, haven't you?" and the editor was brave enough to admit that he hid and to ask tbe reporter out to lunch with him, though the reporter never thought of thit kind of teeming when he wrote the article. Washington Star. Mighty Tired of Fusion. "The trend of the sentiment is toward the Democratic party," prominent minister remarked yesterday. "I have been pretty much all over the State recently and I have come to that conclu ion I stayed with a Populist ii Granville county tbe other f'sht, and he said he was tired jf fusing with Republicans and risers. He declared if tbefusion Rang got in control of his party, a it now looks like they arr. he would not follow them. The a n? sentiment prevails in other sections of the State. Concord Standard. There are 27 royal families in i-urode, two-thirds of which arc yf f;erman origin. The Progress of the Rule of the Negro. When the Democratic Part rui iut ui power it was rare that a negro office-holder could be found in the State; and when one was lound, it was in a po Miion ana under circumstances wvbK-h did not make bira obnox lous to the white people, and wiiicd did not create within him a desire to rule over and dooii nate the white man. In the four years of Republican Fusion legislation, and in the year and a half of the Republi can Populist Fusion administra tion, wonderful, strides have been made in conferring office upon the negro, and in setting nun up to rule over white men T"i I I - , . cisewnere in tnis book we have told in detail hnnr tbe town of Greenville was turned over to the negroes; and we have alo spoken in a general wey of the nomination ol the negio in Wilmington andNewberne, both of whicn cities are now under his control, or under the control ol white men dominated by the negro. To show the progress being made in establishing the negro as a ruler in various and sundry positions in tbe State, we give a ust of offices held by him, select- it eu irom a lew counties among tne counties ot tne Mate as a . - .... sample, by way of illustration la Craven Couuty there are L'6 negro magistrates, 13 negro school committeemen, -A negro Deputy bheritN, 1 County Com missioner, 1 jailor, 2 constables, 1 Register ot Deeds, 2 Deputy Registers of Deeds, 1 Coroner. In the ciiy of Xewberne there are 5 regro policeman, 1 Citv At torney, 3 City Couticilmen, 1 cemetery sexton, besides the negro engineer and other ne groes employed in the public buildings. In Columbus County there are 17 negro school committeemen, 5 negro magistrates, and 2 oe gro postmasters. In Hertford there are 6 negro magistrates, 1 constable, 10 ne gro school committeemen, 2 ne gro postmasters, audi negro on the Board of Education. In Chowan there are 2 negro aldermen, 8 school committee iiien, 1 County Commissioner, and 1 member ot Board of Edu cation. In Pasquotank there are 3 ne gro magistrates, 1 policeman, cn 1 5 school committeemen. In Perquimans there arc 6 ne gro magistrates, 10 school com mitteemen, 1 member Board ot Education, 1 County Commis sioner, and 1 town constable. In Jones there are 3 negro nagistrates, 12 negro school committeemen, in fivetownships there being 2 negroes on each committee. In Hjde there are 8 school committeemen. negro In BeauroTt there is 1 negro school committeeman in each township. In Caswell there are 7 negro magistrates, 1 negro school committeeman in each township, 1 negro Deputy Sheriff. In Wayne there are 6 negro magistrates, 2 negro postmas ters, 3 negro aldermen, 1 clerk in the Goldsboro post-office. In Nash there are 3 negro mag istrates, and 11 school commit teemen. In Carteret, 1 negro town commissioner. In Edgecombe there are negro postmasters in the towns of Rocky Mount, Battleboro and Lawrence; there are 35 negro magistrates and 8 negro con stables, besides a large number of negro school committeemen. In Montgomery there are 4 negro school committeemen. In Richmond there are 10 ne gro magistrates, 23 negro school committeemen, two negroes be ing on every school committee (except one, where there is a va cancy), 1 negro on the Board of Education, 1 Deputy Sheriff, and 3 negro road overseers. From these sample counties, taken indiscriminately from the central and eastern sections, any one can see how the negro is progressing as a ruler of white men. Elsewhere in this book we have laid stress on the fact that under the Republican-Populist Fusion the share of the negro in the pie was the local offices. The above illustrations show bow true this is. And m another place we hare suggested that as the States to the south of ns have put up a barrier agaiast the uegro, and the States to the north of us won't give him any thing. North Carolina is the only St te holding OHt to him the allurements of office, and thus invites him to come here and agitate foroffice; and. unless there is some change, if the ne gro progresses in office-holding in the future as in the last two or three years, it will not be long before he is in absolute con trol. This progress has been made under Republican administra tion of affairs, with the aid of tbe Populist ; and it is safe to conclude that if the Republican t artv is continued in power, this progress ot the negro as an office-holder will continue to go on. The white people who have aided in bringing about these things were once much opposed to negro rule. But they have; become familiar to it, and ap parently do not object to it. And the longer they are familiar to it, tbe less they will object to it. They do not seem to object even now to negro school com mitteemen havirg supervision of white schools; in many cases there being two negroes to one white man over the schools where the sons and daughters of white men are taught. We do not see how any white man can approve of that. But by degrees the white men who have aided the Republicans in bringing ail this to pass, have become hab ituated to it. And in some counties we ob serve, as in Richmond, there are negro overseers of the public roads. The white men of those down trodden communities be ing obliged to go out and work the public roads under negro overseers. We cannot express our abhor recce of all these things. Will the white men give it their coun tenanced Under Democratic rule such things could never have come to pass, and it is only by putting the Democrats again in control that what has been done can oe undone, and tnese out rages on the white school chil dren and the white men of these counties be remedied. Demo cratic Hand Book. Sir H. Kitchener. It is a relief to turn from China to Egypt, where one laborious ,ind silent strategist at tbe mouth of the Atbara affluent to the Nile is approaching the day of his supreme triumph, and organizing national revenge for the memory of Gordon. Sir Her bert Kitchener is not a popular general. He keeps aloof from societv and cultivates no ac quaintances. He exacts from each one of his subordinates the very highest standard of good work. If that standard is not attained the unfortunate officer is quickly sent back to Cairo or to England. When, however, the general's expectations are ful filled, staff officers know that they will receive due reward for energetic and tactful laoor. Kitchener exacts from no one as much as from himsell. Indefat igable by dav and night, with an iron constitution, taciturn, am bitious, and proud, he is truly a man of blood and iron. Few people know him well. Those who have gained his confidence regard him with unbounded en tbusiasmi. Thev believe him to hf ranahe of everything. tiisT ambitons are enormous, and he is now maiked out as the Eng lish generalissimo of the future. His victory at Khartoum win revive the fading reputation of ministers. It stands in need of a tonic, ine casualty list is ex pected to be very heavv in the fi nal battle, and much anxiety is felt as to whether sufficient white troops are provided. Lord Charles Beresford tells me tbat the 4 butcher's bill may be la mentably high.London Letter in Harper's Weekly. A Good Motto. The editor of a western paper gets off the following trite bit of advice: "Our motto: 'Lie, steal, drink and swear.' When you Jir' let it be down to pleasant dreams; when yon steal, let it be away from immoral companions; when yon drink, let it be pure cold water; when you swear, wear that vou will patronize your home paper, pay your sub scription, and not send your job . r 1 - T? vvvrtm " " J Join your Townsbip Club! The Modern Jonah. Tohn Townsend of 302 West Seventy-third street gives infor mation that tbe story of the sailor, James Bartley, supposed to have ben swallowed by a whale and rescued alive, was printed in detail in The Mercury of South Yarmouth, England, in October, 1801. Bartley sailed on the Star of the East and is supposed to have met with his adventure in the vicinity of the. Falkland islands. Air. lownsnena says; 1 1 - TV . 1 V the story is a good seaman s yarn, whether one chooses to be neve it or not. According to the story, which is told in great detail, the ship sighted a whale one morning on her starboard quarter. Two boats were manned, and in a short time one was near enough to spear the whale, which was an unusually large one. The hsh made a ternfi': fight. Both boats got spears fastened in it and were draerered some three miles. "Finally, when the whale came to the surface, it managed to strike one of the boats with its nose. The boat was upset. One man was drowned, and an other, named James Bartley, dis appeared. It was supposed at the time that he, too, had been drowned. "The whale gave up at last and was taken back to the side of the ship. The crew went to work with axes aud spades to secure the fat. They worked all day and a part of the night and resumed operations the next forenoon. They had no v reached the stomach and were clearing it to hoist it on deck when they were startled to notice some thing inside of it which gave spasmodic signs of life. "The vast pouch was hoisted to the deck and cut open, and in side was found the missing sail or, doubled up and unconscious. "He was laid out on dck and treated to a bath of sea water, which soon rtyived him, but his mind was not clear, and he was placed in the captain's quarters, where he remained two weeks a raving lunatic, lie was carefully treated by the captain and offi cers of the ship, and be finally began to get possession of his senses. At tbe end of the third j week he had entirely recovered from bis shock and resumed his duties. "During the brief the whale's belly Bartley's skin, where it was exposed to the ac tion of the gastric juices, under went a striking change. His face and hands were bleached to a deathly whiteness, aud the skin was wrinkled, giving the man the appearance of having bcerr parboiled. "Bartley affirmed that hecould probably have lived inside of his house of flesh until he starved, for he lost his senses through fright and not through lack of air. He says that he remembers the sensation of being lifted into the air by the nose of the whale and of falling into the water. Then there was a fearful rushing sound, which he believed to be tbe beating of the water by the whale's tail. Then he was en compassed by a fearful darkness, and he felt himself slipping along a smooth passage of some sort that seemed to move and carry him forward. "This sensation lasted but an instant. Then he felt that he bad more room. He felt about him, and his bands came in con tact with a vielding, slimy sub- stance tnat seemea to snrinK from Ihs touch. It finally dawneilon him that he had been swallowed by the whale, and he was overcome.with horror at bis situation. He could breathe easi ly, but the heat was terrible. It was not of a scorching, stilling nature, but it seemed to open the pores of his skin and draw out his vitality. "He became very weak and grew sick at the stomach. He knew that there was no hope of escape from his strange prison. Death stared him in the face, and he tried to look at it bravely, but the awful quiet, the fearful darkness, the horrible knowledge of his euvironment and the terri ble heat finally overcame him. and he must have fainted, for he next remembered being in the captain's cabin. The account further says: "The healtn of the man does not seem to have been affected. He is in splendid spirits and appar ently enjoys all the blessings of life that come in his way. xhe whaling captains say they never knew a parallel case. They say that it frequently occurs that men arc swallowed by whales who become infuriated by the pain of the harpoon and attack the boats, but they have never known a man to go through the ordeal that Bartley did and come out alive." New York Times. Dynamite-Guns in Puerto Rico. The efficacy of dynamite-guns for artillery purposes had a striking illustration here day be' lore yesterday. Under order's of General Brooke, the engineering corps was sent forward on the road to Cayey, supported by a battalion of the Fourth Ohio volunteers under command ol Colonel Coit, to examine an im portant bridge on the main road to San Juan. It was reported that the bridge was mined, and that it was to be blown up to check our advance. Our forces marched slowly, with only an advance guard thrown out. It was impossible to deploy skirmishers, because of the nature of the country. A high mountain embankment ran along our left, and a sudden de scent of nearlv 500 feet was on tbe right of the road. The sol diers had gone about three miles along the steadily ascending road, and were within half a mile of the bridge, to reach which was the object ol the ex pedition. There was a sharp turn in the road, and when the troops were about three hun dred yards beyond it, in tbe most exposed place mtt thus far, there was a shrill whistling ot bullets. The Spanish force was in ambush and knew the range. The spot in the road was visi ble trom all the surrounding hills. Our men could not tell where the bullets came from. Fortunately there was a small ditch three feet wide and two teet deep on the side of the road, and the troops threw themselves eim!l into it. It was impossi ble to fix the stronghold oi the Spaniards. After a few minutes our men crawled back to tbe turn in the road and awaited de velopments. The enemy kept up an incessant fire for an hour, the United States forces during that time not tiring a shot. Soon Colonel Coit found an opening in tbe hills to tbe lett. He sent some troops toward it, and formed a firing line up the steep ascent. Meantime messen gers had been sent to the rear to bring up the dynamite-guns of tbe command. The men of the firing line did some shooting, but it was not of serious effect. fhe ambush of the Spaniards was found after a time, and the dynamite guns arrived within two hours. They were quickly placed in position on tbe edge of road. Almost at once the Span iards ceased firingr. Evidently they saw the "earthquake-hurl- ers. three shots were nred at the enemy. The explosions that followed were most destructive, and the Spaniards disappeared. Our small advance was checked. The dynamite guns had such a moral effect, however, that we practically won the day. There seems to be no doubt that here after their place in warlare will be recognized as established. It is like taking one s life in his hands to go out af.er dark. More than one person has been wounded or killed by our own outposts. An outpost of the Third Illinois was killed by an outpost of the rourtn Pennsyl vania recently. The unfortunate man was ouneo in tee irrotest- ant cemetery here. Ihere are many fever-stricken soldiers in our camps. me iced vross so ciety ot Guayama has provided splendidly for some of them. The food furnished by tbat society is excellent, and the hospital is well ppointed. Harper's Weekly. Col. W. F. Green, a prominent citizen of Franklin county, died Saturday morning. He had rep resented his county several times in the Legislature. For broken surfaces, sores, in sect bites, burns, skin diseases and especially pilees there is one reliable remedy, De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve When you call lor DeWitt's don't accept counter feits or frauds. You will not be disappointed with DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. T- R. Led better, I. W. Benson, Hood Bros. Earthquakes have killed 13, 000,000 people. GENERAL. NEWS- Tbe Democrats of Nevada. after rejecting'a fusion proposi tion from tbe Populist, have put out a straight ticket. Three Filipinos appointed by Aguinaldo have left Hong Kong to confer with President McKin lev upon the future of the Philip pice Islands. Gen. Cassius M. Clay, of Ken tucky has been granted a di vorce from bis girl wife, Dora Richardson Clay. The General, being about 90, is almost too old to marry again. Australian advices say an im mense sensation has been created all over Australia by the discov ery near Lake Wynne of a gold nugget weighing 115 pounds and valued at $32,000. Col. Theodore Roosevelt au thorized the announcement that he will accept the nomination for Governor of New York should it be tendered him by the conven tion of the party to be held at baratoga. The Austrian Empress, Eliza beth, was assassinated at Gene va, Switzerland, Saturday after noon by an Italian anarchist. The Emperor Francis Joseph was overwhelmed when he received the sad news. The Peace Commission is now complete. It is as follows: Sec retary W. R. Day, Chairman, Senator Davis, of Minnesota, Frye of Maine, Gray of Dela ware, and Whitelaw Reid, ot New York. The commission will soon sail for Paris. The destitution among the Cubans is still appalling. Gen eral Wood issued fifty-two thousand free rations one day last week. The capacity of the free supply depots is not great enough to meet thedemand, and a new one is to be established shortly. The War Department has re ceived official information that yellow fever has broken out among the troops at Ponce. Four cases have been reported and one death hasoccured. The medical department is surprised to learn of the outbreak, for yel low jacn does not usually pre vail there It is not believed tbat the disease will become epidemic. The Navy Department has definitely determined to send the battleships Iowa and Oregon around into the Pacific for sta tion in Hawaiian waters. With these vessels at Honolulu they will !e i.i excellent position to respond to a call from Manila if matters there assume a critical condition through European in terference. The ships cannot get away before Oct. 1st, but they will make a quick trip around South America, being accompanied by four fast colliers. Joseph Leiter has cleared up his famous wheat deal. Every creditor has been paid, obliga tions to banks whose assistance was enlisted have been canceled and 14-.000.000 bushels of wheat have been liquidated since the announcement of the voluntary assignment nearly three months ago. This has been done only by great sacri fice, including tha giving of mortgages on property belong ing to the Leiter estate aggre gating nearly $5,500,000 in yalue. The President has decided that the proposed ivestigation of the army administration shall be made by a civil board, the mem bers of whichhave had experi ence in military affairs. Satur day afternoon he sent to General John M. Schofield, General John B. Gordon, General Grenville M. Dodge. President Gilman, of Johns Flopkins University, Gen eral Charles F. Manderson, Rob ert 1. .Lincoln. Liameia. Lamont, Dr. W. W. Keen, and Colonel James A. Sexton, messages ask ing each to render the country a seryice by becoming a member of a committee to examine the con duct of the commissary, quar termaster and medical bureaus of the War Department during the war, and inquire into the ex tent, causes and treatment ot sickness in tbe field and camps. More than twenty million free samples of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve have been distributed by the manufacturers. What better proof ot their confidence in it's merits do you wantr it cures piles, burns, scalds, sores, in the shortest space of time. Hood Bros., J. R. Ledbetter, J. W. Ben son. Pure Elections. The Fusionists on tbe hust ings made a great cry in favor of pure elections. But by their fruit, ye shall know them. But few men in North Caroli na stand as high as Needham B. Broughton. As a good citizen, a kind man, an honor to his race and people, he has hosts of friends all over the State. Against his inclinations, his friends and neighbers in Wake persuaded him to stand for the Legislature. He yielded to their solicitations. When the result of the election was announced, it was said that his competitor, Jim Young, a negro, had eigh teen majority, but it was posi tively known that some mistakes bad been made in the hurry of election night and that Brough ton s vote was more than the e!ection returns footed up. The ballots under the law had been carefully sealed up as they were counted and had been turned over to Dan II. Young, the Re publican County Clerk, for safe keeping. On Broughton's demand, in the presence of representatives of both sides, Clerk Dan H. Young opened the boxes and counted the ballots over again leisurely and correctly. Dan Young counted 4,719 votes for Broughton; there were besides two votes for Broughton at Franklin precinct that were not counted because these ballots contained also tbe names of the Justices. And there were 'two other votes tor Broughton at Apex precinct not counted be cause these ballots contained the names of the constable. There was a vote cast at Mark's Creek for N. B. Brot. That also ought to have been counted for him; and there was a vote cast at Holly Springs and three at Wakefield for him that were not counted. Adding these, and not counting any other votes claim ed by bim, he had 4,728 votes. The Clerk found that James Young had 4,721 votes; but Broughton showed by evidence that five convicts had voted for Young, and that their votes ought not to be counted. That left Jim Young with only 4,716 votes. And yet the Fusionists, to a man, voted to seat Jim Young and not to let N. B. Broughton, who had the majori ty of the people on his side, have the seat as the representatiye of the people! It was a clear case of stealing aseat in the Legislature for a negro man to represent a county in which the negro race is in the minont3'. But the negro, Jim Young, was a Fusionist, and the Populist in the House voted' to give him Broughton's seat just as they voted for gold-bugs on other occasions. What a hollow pretense and mockery is the claim of the Fu sionists that they propose to have pure elections! The idea that North Carolina is to look to the negroes and their white allies for pure elections is so ab surd, that were it not so con temptible and disgusting, one might laugh at it; but it is too disgusting for tbat. Let the white men of North Carolina re buke such a claim. Democratic Hand Book. The Difference. It seems almost incredible, and yet it is true, that the expenses of our State government for the last three years under "Fusion" rule were nearly four hundred thousand dollars more than for the preceeding three years under Democratic rule. In order that our readers may see that this statement is not "a Democratic lie," we will publish the official figures as published in tbe Reports of the State Audi tor as follows: Expense for 1S02, $1,057,033.00 1.310.644.10 1,105,020.25 Total for three years, $3,573,201.05 Now let us see what the ex penses have been the last three years: Exjhnse for 105. " 1 WO, f 1,349,335. 05 1.241,500 27 1,304,044.29 Total for three years, 3,950,050.21 Subtracting one amount from the other leaves a diflerence of $3SG.748.2G in favor of the last three years under Democratic rule, and yet the "reformers" ac cused the Democrats of extrava gance! Now, haven't the "reformers" reduced expenses with a ven geance? Louisburg Times. Royal makes the food pure, wbuliwuu and delicto. POWDER Absolutely Pur wovnt BKiwn pownrii ro., Hfw vrtwt," A Kind Deed Rewarded; "I was running a paper down in Tennessee then," prefaced the ex-newspaper man, whose only work now is to collect what other people owe him in tbe way of rents and interest. "One of the fine looking women you find in the mountains of that region walked into the office one after noon and said: 'Be youins the editor?' "Upon being informed that I enjoyed that distinction, she looked me over as though great ly disappointed, and then told a long story ol petty domestic difficuties that had led to the disappearance of her husband about two weeks before. ' Now she wanted to put in a nice ad vertisement telling that he was forgiven and that she longed to have him at home. How much would you charge her? "Two dollars an inch," I an swered. "Taking a pencil and a sheet of copy paper she figured labori ously for pretty near an hour. At length she tore the paper into shreds and was deliberatelv walking out of the office when I asked her if she thought the charge was too high. "'I don t reckon I know any thing 'bout your business, suh. jut I never see that much money letter lone handlin' of it. Joe's wuth it, but I couldn't never buy him back at them figures. He's six three in his bare feet, suh, Joe is. At $2 a inch I make it $150. I'll just have to go and git his trail and foller.' "I didn't even smile, gentle men. There was something noble in his resignation. I ad vertised 'Joe,' got other papers to copy and rounded him up. One morning there was a ten gallon keg of moonshine whis key at my kitchen door and I did not advertise for an owner." Ex. The Finest Battleships. Washington, D. C, Sept. 8. The three new battleships will be built on Crams' model, sub mitted with tbe bids the other day, and will make over 18 knots an hour, with 10,000 horse-power and 12,500 tons, and they will be 16 feet longer than tbe original department model, which was designed for 16 knots. The Board of Construction agreed unanimously to-day to recommend that the original de sign submitted by tbe Cramps be made the type for the new battleships, and that the Cramps, the Union Iron Works and the Newport News Compa ny should each get a contract for one of the ships on that ba sis, the understanding being that all three firms would take such contracts and execute them for less than $3,000,000 apiece. THE FINEST IN THE WOHLD. The naval experts say that these ships will be the finest in the world when completed. The world taught them the possi bilities of the battleship in the way of speed, and this is why they have gradually increased the rate demanded of the con tractors. The department standard was 16 knots, with encouragement to bidders to make 17 or over, and then the bidders were en couraged to make 18 or over, and now this is required on tbe Cramp model, which seems te tbe experts tole better than the department model, as well as better than the models smbmit ted by the other contractors, and it will be used for all the battleships of the near future. Roberts' Tasteless Chill Tonic at 25 cents per bottle is guar anteed. No cure, no pay. The best on the market and as pleasant as a Florida orange. At Hood Brothers.
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