North Carolina Newspapers

PVERTYi THE NEWER wpaitu T tf locate"?? il has fome out as an ardent saper. 01 the value of poverty. -Daily J.he Lnj-j . cot garret loiS'mS ad hard wood , , The tatSrif biad and tho coe cold, 'tat he ty fiT t5?a11 the tores oi gold i,e m his suu-case totes. -JS th? rtoil?1 gildetl sofa and chair Tllt BhnHc "Sept odeii seat hei? m the arks where poverty" Pagne? fine4' thah "thfcham- 'Jvilfc0?,,,8 than ease: rain the drear of the sleet and the Iri winter to shiver and freeze! osSilV? ?re' ? withot at. AVith LrdWn frm forehead to toes. ' And bffi aAole t01your 8WoMen feet, aSesare th thingss thtlt the 4Ilion- their riches pile up- partly they d swap off their troubles and cares Ao go back to Poverty's Cup! AnX WllId sa" to the famished and Th T TW , peIes? down-trodden and sore, loin- "get your conditiou for- l(!lnil,5"ocIdns at ,asfc at your door. ' poverty s now a desirable "thins, 'if oniv tCreatu,re of ashes and dust"". 1 , L f mark?t yor asset von bring the torm of a Poverty Trust. John Kendrick Bangs, in Life. bout a Girl We Didn't Get.g By HELEN ROWLAND. OLLY sat on the other side "of the frlhla inntinnr ton 3 I She wore a ridiculous little show), about the size of a handkerchief, and a house wifely expression that she always dons on such occasions. Suddenly she looked up. Look! Quick! Out of the window, -.Tack. No, the other way. There she goes." . "By Jove, what a pretty girl!' I ex claimed. '-Who is she?" '"But you. were looking the wrong way," said Polly, -'and that wasn't the girl t meant." "I was looking at the girl across the street," I said, "andshe was quite the prettiest girl I have ever seen except one," I added, dutifully. Polly set the kettle down with a thump thati jarred the teacups. "Of course she was '" . she exclaimed. 'The girl across the street always is. There isirt a man living who doesn't worship some girl across the street. She's like the girl you couldn't get, the fish you didn't catch, and the cake you didn't eat." "Rut that girl! Why, Polly, she was Titian " "Per-oxide!" " and Gibson" 'Conceited!" ' " . ' and Burne-Jones -'Loud!" ' all in one!" Polly sighed as she turned to put a light under the ketile. "It's always that way." she said, re signedly. "The girl across the street, like the girl he didn't get. always is a man's ideaL If he never marries, he carries her-image about in his heart, or her photograph about in his pocket, tind uses it for a standard with which lo compare all the other women he .may meet.. If he does marry somebody -else she becomes a sweet memory that rises every time his wife burns the bis cuits or forgets to take her hair out of -v papers. Why is it?" and Polly tilfod her little nose upward until she looked almost dignified, "that the mere fact that a girl doesn't want to marry n man makes him wild to get her?" 'roily," said I, "do you remember whon you were a very little girl how you used to lie awake nights trying to catch Santa Clans? Do you recol lect how the jam on the top shelf was always the kind you liked best? Did you never long to see the other side of ilio'moou, or eat what wasn't good for you, or play with the naughty lit tle sirl whom you were forbidden to speak to? It's human nature. The illusive, the unattainable, the thing we cannot get always has been and always .will be the thing we want." Polly pushed back a little curl that will get into her eyes, and began cut ting lemon, meditatively. "Yes," she agreed, "but it's different -with a woman. She always feels a sort of resentment toward the man who won't fall in love with her. while a man rather respects a woman for re fusing him and admires her for snub bing him. The longer she remains oh the. other side of the street " "That is it," I broke in. "the longer -she remains on the other side iof ihe street. But I have" observed tl'iat it is generally very easy to cross over your self! and then " "And then she is no longer the girl across the street?" broke in Polly, -waving half a lemon triumphantly. 'Then she loses her illusion, her attrac tion. It is as if you had turned the limelight off the leading lady in the play. Her Titian hair becomes red: you observe that her nose turns up at the end; her diamonds are only paste and her figure is nothing more nor less than the result of wearing a straight front corset. The stock market falls, and you are glad to sell out your in terest in the girl at the very lowest figure. The very fact that she has succumbed to your entreaties or your fascinations, the very fact that she loves you, or is willing to flirt with -you'" m m m "Polly, will you put down that lemon 'i It is taking the color out of. me al ready?" PoJly subsided. "Let me ask you," I went on. seri ously, "why, if you girls know all this, do you so often cross the street your selves?" "What do you mean?" said Polly. "You send us sofa pillows," 1 re torted. ' . , Polly winced. "And necktie cases." I went on, "and invite us to violet teas." "Mr. Heavyfeather." said Polly, "will yon kindly pass the sugar?" I passed. Polly took two lumps with the dig nity of a Iragedy queen. "It is evident," she remarked, in a tone like the trickling of ice water, "that your charms have made you a victim of feminine attentions. But," she continued, "there are girls and girls. The kind to whom you have reference never were like the girl on the other side of the street. They never gave- you nor any other man an opportunity to observe them from a distance. "You never had any perspective on them at all. They were the nine girls out of ten. But there is always the tenth girl, and she is the girl across the street, the girl of whom you are never quite sure, the girl who , has eluded you. Can you not recollect, in all your varied and interesting career, apy woman who has escaped you, who has talked with you, flirted with you, chummed with you, but whom you have never gotten really near? Have you never known a woman who would be as interesting to you if 3011 had married her as she is now that you haven't got her?'-' I blew the smoke of my cigarette re flectively. It is always amusing to hear Polly talk sensibly, because well because her pompadour is fluffy and her nose is retrousse and in that nonsensical apron well "Ye'es," I began slowly; "now that you come to mention it, there was once a girl " "I don't ask for particulars, Mr. Heavyfeather." "The most beautiful girl I ever knew- " "Will you have some more tea Mr. Heavyfeather ?" "The cleverest -" "One lump, or two?" "The girl with the greatest amount of common sense " ' "Lemon?" "And she was the giii across " "I don't want to know!" "The girl across " "I won't listen!" "The girl across " Polly rose in righteous wrath. "The girl across the table." And the kettle bubbled merrily. Washington Post. Doing For the Pari-011. The old custom of having the minis ter and the . schoolteacher "board round" is not wholly forgotten, as is seen in an incident reported by the Florida Times Union. The parson is a successful circuit preacher, who in his younger days was sent as a missionary to Florida. The town was off from any railroad line, and was sparsely popu lated. The new minister gathered the people and told them that he intended to establish a church: that churches brought schools, schools settlers and settlers prosperity. "I have no money," he said, "but I intend that you people shall care for me. What can you do for the preach er? I don't intend to put the burden of my living on any one family, but upon all of you, turn and turn about I will not go. however, where the latch string is not hanging out of the door. What can you do for the preacher?" One "old lady, who had a dim recol lection of a Ismail church in the piny woods of Geergia when she was a girl, , - said: "I kin eat him. but I can't sleep him." "That's good," responded the parson. "Now. who's next?" "Well, if Sister Jenkins is gwine to eat him, I'll agree to sleep him, but I can't wash him." "That's good. Who next?" Here another sister spoke up: "Well, I reckon I can wash him, but I aiu t much on b'iled r:hirts." the parson the story does not state. Intelligence of Ant. The testing of the intelligence of ants is a favorite study of naturalists, and recently there have been published accounts of some interesting expei'i ments to determine the seat of the rec ognition sense. It is well known that ants, not only of one species, but of one community of the same species, are able to recognize one another, while to members of other colonies or species they are markedly hostile. In this last investigation the author rejects the theory that there is a "language sense" in the antennae of the ant, stating that these organs are employed in feel ing objects of all kinds, both animate and inanimate. He believes,, however, that the antennae have some sense of smell, and accordingly he anointed ants of one community with infusions made from their friends and foes. When an ointed with the former, the hostile ants were not attacked as long as the influ ence of the infusion persisted. . In fur ther corroboration of this theory it was found that when an ant was de prived of its antennae it would attack both friend and foe without discrimin ation. Harper's Weekly. Flaxseed Candy. Cook together in a porcelain or a bright tin saucepan one pound gann lated sugar, three-fourths of a cup of water and a tablespoonful of glycerine. Cook until nearly on the "crack," then add flaxseed in quantity to suit the taste. Pour into buttered pans and I when nearly cold mark into squares. FIGHT WAS FORCED Battle With the Moros Was Unavoidable i CONDITIONS NOW UNDERSTOOD Major Genral Wood Assumes Respon sibility for It Killing of Some of the Women Could not be Avoided. Manilla, By Cable. Major General. Wood, who has arrived, has announc ed ;tha,t he assumes full responsibility tor the fight against the Morns nt Dajo Hill near Jolo. He said that there was no wanton destruction of women and children in th ficht though many of them were killed bv force of necessity because the Moros used them as shields in the hand-to- hand fighting. Major General Wood declared that many of the women wore mail attire and their sex could not be distinguished. Another con fusing cause was the desperation with which the women fought, the priests having worked all of the Moros to a religious frenzy. Many of the Moros feigned death and butchered the Am erican hospital men who were reliev ing the wounded. General Wood said: ' Neither in this nor any fight has an American soldier killed a woman or child except in a close action when it was impossible to distinguish sex." Population of the Isle of Pines. Havana, By Cable. Dryden Fulton, who was appointed to take the census of the Isle of Pines, and who was ar rested by the Cuban authorities be cause he did not have their permis sion to, do so, arrived here recently. He says the census was practically completed before the Cubans stopped the work. He says there are less than 2,000 inhabitants on the Lsland and estimates the number of Cubans at 1,000 jnd actual Americans at about 700. He says that the number of male Cubans of voting age is 200 and that 49 voted in the last election. To Build Another Pier. Newport News, Special. -I fc is learned that the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway will shortly begin the erec tion of a new coal pier just north of pier 10. The output of coal this win ter has been large, and the company has found that the facilities of the terminal must be increased. For sev eral months the railway company has had a large force of men at work re newing timbers in the old coal piers. When the work is finished all three of the piers will be practically new. Two Women Killed. Philadelphia, Special. Two women were shot and killed in this city, one by her husband, Avho Avas jealous of his wife, and the other by her intend ed husband, who committed the deed because she would not consent to an immediate marriage. The mau who killed his wife is Geo. Jolmsoa, a Nor tveigian. Annie Margolies. aged 24, was killed by Max Sorffer, aged 22, who wanted to marry the woman im mediately. Sorffer then shot himself and is in a critical condition. $60,000 For University of Virginia. Richmond, Ya., Special Announce ment was made at the University of Virginia of a gift of $50,000 from Charles Steele, of J. Pierpoont Mor gan & Company, New York, and alum nus, and of $10,000 from Miss Helen Miller Gould, of New York. Both will be expended in ihe completion of the University Hospital, which, when finished will constitute a chain of five buildings. Miss Gould's gift is to pro vide a ward for colored patients at the hospital. Heavy Suit Against City. Columbia, Special. J. C. Stokes filed suit against the city of Columbia for $10,000 for injuries received on September 12, 1903, caused by an al leged defective street bridge. The complaint states that the plaintiff, while crossing a bridge on Divine street, near Assembly, fell through a plank bridge and broke his left leg, so that he is permanently crippled. The ease is docketed for the coming term of civil court. News Items. Secretary Bonaparte addressed the Swedish-American Republican Club, of Chicago, on the importance of keeping the navy ever ready. Anthony Comstock, the New York anti-vies agent, was struck in the eyes and on the nose by oppos ing counsel in a case, one of whose statements he had characterized as a lie. A Count Sent to Jail. Genoa, By Cable. On complaint of his wife who was Edith Van Buren and whose brothei is the American consul at Nice, Count Di Castelmen ardo, was convicted of adultry and sentenced to three months imprison ment and to pay the costs of the ac tion. The Count has taken an appeal from the verdict of the court. WITH THE LAWMAKERS What is Being Done Day by Day By the National House and Senate. Tillman Reports Rate Bill. ' I The Senate continued consideration of the railroad question by listening to the reading of a report on the House bill by Mr. Tillman and to a speech on that measure by Mr. Nel son. Mr. Tillman's report was read at the request of Mr. Aldrich, who said that he was curious to hear.'the opin ion of the South Carolina Senator. Brief attention was given to tJie message of the President transmitting the letter to the Secretary of War relative to the' recent Moro battle. Mr. Bacon spoke of the killing of the Moros as "slaughter" and Mr. Lodge depreeated criticism until the facts should be known. The House resolution giving the inter-State commerce commission au thority to administer oaths in con nection with its investigation of char ges of discrimination made against railroads was adopted without resort ing to the formality of requiring its reference to committee. Mr. Stone's resolution directing an inquiry into the Postoffice Department rulings on the admission of college publications to the mails as second class matter al so was adopted. A large number of private pension bills and some other semi-private bills were passed. MR. TILLMAN'S REPORT. The report of Mr. Tillman embodied the first clear and concise statement of the differences concerning court re view features and other proposed amendments that had made a unani mous report from the committee im- possible. Without hesitancv, the Senator de clared it to be his belief that the bill should be amended, but that amend ments should not be of a character to impair or prevent the accomplishment of the objects of the legislation, which are set forth best, he says, in the President's message to Congress. He emphasized the need of regarding the measure as non-partisian, but predict ed that the issue created will be para mount in the next presidential elec tion. ' Mr. Tillman prefaced his report by speaking of the peculiar circumstan ces ruling the committee's actions on the House bill, which made it an em barrassing task to submit views that would be concurred in by the com mittee as a whole. AN UNPRECEDENTED SITUA TION. " Instead of being amended in com mittee as is usual," the report said "so -as to command as a whole the endorsement and support" of a majori ty of its members, the bill was brought into the Senate hi a form not entirely satisfactoiy to more than two mem bers. "This lack of harmony among the supporters of the bill it would be speaking with more accuracy to say the supporters of the policy involved in the bill brings about the anomal ous situation in which a member of thev minority party in Congress is put in charge in the' Senate of proposed legislation which is generally regarded throughout the country as the cherish ed scheme of the President, with whose general policy and principles that member is not in accord. At the same time the bill is designated to carry into effect his own long cherished convictions and the thrice reiterated demands of the party , to which he belongs.' Emphasizing the claim that this condition is without precedent in leg islative history, Mr. Tiliman says it brings into prominence the fact that the legislation is nOn-partisan and is so recognizezd as a result of the un animous support given it by the mi nority in the House and the few op posing only seven in that entire bodv. PUBLIC DEMAND PASSIONATE. There would follow a "cyclone of passionate resentment," said Mr. Till man, in predicting what would be the result of failure on the part of Con gress to meet the widespread demand for railroad rate legislation. . He de clared that "woe will be the bar vest" of any member of the Senate or House whose Avork in formulating a bill to regulate railroads lacks earn estness or honesty of purpose and who shall seek to belittle the question or kill the bill by subterfuge and decep tion. The constitution gives to Con-, gress the power to regulate the rail roads, he; contended and there are many wrongs to right. The bill as it comes from the House Mr. Tillman characterized as loosely worded and capable of different in terpretations. "Massacre of Mt. Dajo." The additonal power which Presi dent Roosevelt sugested should be given the inter-State commerce com mission in making the special investi gation into the coal and oil industry as related to transportation was, giv en by the House in the passage of the Townsend resolution on that subject. The session, which "was ended at 3 0 'clock so that the Republican caucus might be held, was devoted to gener al debate on the legislative bill. Severe criticism of the recent bat tle in the Philippines was made by Mr. Jones of Virginia, who declarer! that the killing of women and children was a disgrace to the nation. Mr. Williams, the minority leader, faceti ously instructed" the Republicans on their causcus, and Mr. Keifer, oi Ohio, delivered a- speech in favor oi reducing Southern representation ir Congress. Seymour Barrington Hanged. St. Louis", Mo., Speciol. Seymour Barrington, the bogus "Lord," was executed by hanging at the Clayton jail for the murder of James P Mc Cann two years ago. Barrington had contemplated several times to break out jail, but his preparations were detected early enough in each case to prevent him from carrying out his intentions. He remained firm to the end. Convict Escapes. s Spartanburg, Special. Hicks Cald well, the negro convict who was bad ly injured in a fight with a fellow convict, and who has been under a doctor's treatment, stole a bicycle be longing to Captain Hembree and rode away from the camp in the rear of the court house. He also obtained posses sion, in the same way, of a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes belonging to one of the guards. Girl Gored To Death By Cow. Grafton, Special. Emma 'Summons daughter of Mrs. Mary Day, was gor ed to death by a vicious cow on the streets at Horton. Her father was one of the first settlers of Horton. He died several years ago, since which time the mother of the girl married Fitzgerald Day. -'Philadelphia's new Director oi Public Works annulled the Alteration plant contracts, involving millions oi dollars, awarded to D. J. Nichols. Off for Hot Springs. Pitsburg, Special. The Pittsburg Baseball Club was given an enthuies tic ovation, when it started for Hot Springs. In local r baseball circles there is the greatest confidence in the tean this year. It is considered ex ceptionally strong and it is ! believed that Pittsburg will jwin the league championship this year, unless some unexpected circumstatices should pre vent. NEWSY PERGONALS. Captain Stubbs,' secretary of Liver pool Orphan institution, is one of the few living persons who served on Nel son's flagship Victory. Geza von Fejercary, the recently ap pointed premier of the Hungarian cab inet, has received alomst every decora tion his country can bestow. Baron Takaki says four-fifths- of the Japanese boyssare now studying Eng lish, and that it will soon become the language of Japan and later of the world. A walnut tree and a pecan tree were planted upon the grave, at Austin, Texas, of Governor J. S. Hogg.. This was in compliance with his dying re quest. The Rev. Charles H. Poole, a Meth odist preacher and mission worker in Auckland, N. Z.. was recently elected a member of Parliament on the prohibi tion issue. Rufus Bullock, who was a recon struction Governor of Georgia, is spending his declining days at Al bion, N. Y.. his boyhood home. He is helpless from paralysis. Dr. Daniel Trembly McDougal, of New York, has accepted the appoint ment as director of the newly created department of the botanical research establishment by the Carnegie Insti tute of Washington, D. C. One hundred years ago Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, first saw the light of day in the village of Sharon. Vt. In commemoration of the event a handsome granite monument has just been erected at Sharon. There are four governors that served during the Civil War still living Wil liam Sprague, whose home is neaf Narragansett Pier, R. I.: Frederick Holbrook. of Braftleboro, Vt.; Samuel J. Crawford, of Kansas, and John J. Pettys, of Mississippi.' Major General Trotski, who was re cently made commander of St.Feters burg was born on July 20. 1847. Weather Man Saves Money. In spite of the standing jokes about the weather man, it is probable that for every dollar spent on the weather bureau $10 are saved, says Country Life in America. At the time of the Mississippi flood of 1897 $15,000,000. worth of live stock arfd other prop erty were saved as a result of warn ings issued a week ahead. Signals displayed for a single hurricane have detained in port vessels valued, with their cargoes, at $20,000,000. The West Indian stations, established in 1898, inform us of hurricanes as soon as they begin. The course of the hur ricane that caused the Galveston flood was charted for a week before it struck our shores for hurricanes move slowly. Eighty-five per cent of the forecasts now come true, and by the aid of rural free delivery 25, 000,000 forecast cards were distrib uted last year to farmers, many of whom could not have had them five years ago. Men who couldn't organize a peanut stand know just how the pastor should run the church. JUDGE HAMILTON BITTER Ereaking Silence at Last, iegislativ . Agent For the Big Insurance Com j?anies Appears Unexpectedly Be fore Investigating Committee and Pours a Flood of Denunciation Upon Officials "Who Drove McCaJI to His Grave." Albany, N. Y., Special. Andrew Hamilton appeared before the insur ance investigating committee and the silence which he has maintained, except for his statement brought from Paris by John C. McCall, ever since his name was first mentioned in the investigation in connection with the great sums of mony shown to have been paid him during the past 10 years on account of his legal and legislative work for the New York Life and other insurance companies. It would be difficult to exaggerate the sensation and by the speech which he made or the intensely dramatic character of the whole episode. His face was flushed and his voice tremb ling with passion, his arms upraised and his fists clenched. Judge Ham ilton poured forth a flood of denun ciation and invective upon the mem bers of the board of trustees of the New York Life Insurance Company, several of wjiom were present desig nating them "curs and traitors," and paying special attention to one un named, whom he described as "the Peeksniff of three administration, the confidant of the Beers scandal and author of the Beers position who ro tates through one administration and another, and thinks that he is going to be an indispensable member of yet another. ' ' RETORTS "YELLOW DOG." "And do you think," he demanded, "that the man who held the same re lation to Mr. Beers that I did to Mr. McCall could sit for 13 years since, and not know howp the expenditures that were made were to be, and were, disbursed ? Yet he and such like him sit, not judging me as peers, but judging me as conquerors, talking about 'yellow dogs.' " Judge Hamilton's attack upon the trustees of the New York Life was made the more dramatic by the fact that he immediately followed J. H. Mcintosh, general solicitor of that company, who had been eulogizing the members of that board and challeng ing any man to give reasons why they should be removed from office as con templated by the pending legislation. The only name he mentioned was that of the late President MeCall, in the reference to whom and to whose death he displayed marked emotion. He spoke of Mr. McCall as a victim, as having been shouldered with the blame -"the only one, the dead .man, killed, that they drove to his grave, and deserted," and declared that the memory of this man had appealed to him "to come down here and say something for him and just a word for myself." Judge Hamilton after stating that he would confine his remarks entirely to the New York Life Insurance Com pany, said he had high and loyal re speck for the other companies because "I have not yet found amongst them curs and traitors." Continuing he said : "I address you upon and in advo cacy of one bill solely, which I have not read, but the purport of which ap pears in the papers and I say that it is, your duty to report in favor of the measure that will remove the trustees of the New York Life Insurance Company upon November 21 next, ar-bitrarilj-. "1 look around this eourt and I see here many members of that board of trustees. I see amongst them men who have set and listened to the stories of my victories in their behalf, and applauded, and I "wonder whether it was like that line in Goldsmith, wheth er it was 'counterfeited glee,' or whether the' attitude that they have since taken has been one of counter feited honesty. SHOULD BE OUSTED FROM COM- 7 PANY. ' If, he-said, the board did not ap prove' his vouchers, "then the failed to perform their duty. And the rea son I came forward now is not to say, or not to apologize for these vouchers, but to say this, that these men with their responsibilities upon their shoulders and upon mine, they have something to account for. "They may talk about the 'yellow dog,' but the 'yellow dog' is a dog of courage and of loyalty, but the curs who stood around this funeral that has occurred, and the curs who know of these transactions and shrink into their shoes they are the curs and that is the reason that I come to speak before you and say that the great interest of two, billions of dollars of life insurance and four hundred, mil lions of dollars of assets can never be safely entrusted to the hands and administration of a lot of curs." To Discuss Yv M. C. A. Matters. Colorado Springs, Col., Special. Fnllv one hundred secretaries and prominent leaders of the Y. M. C. A. branches in this State, are in attend ance at the State Conference for the discussion of association matters which opened here. Every branch in the State is represented. An inter esting programme has been prepared and several distinguished . speakers will address the conference.