North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE TWO ... XXX Cj XIX J AAi wnm w - - . tlbe Attorning 3tar. Founded In 1867. WH.LIAM H. BERNARD. Owner and Editor. WILMINGTON N. C. Entered as second-class matter at tlie poetofflce at Wlllmngton. N. C nder the Act of Congress of March 1879. Sunday, November 3, 1907. DEEP WATER NEEDED IN OUR BUSINESS. This country would present a most peculiar anomaly if hard times could continue with millions of bales of cot ten and bushels of wheat for sale and badly wanted in Europe, where the gold is waiting for these great money getting American products. In Texas the railroads can't haul the cotton fast enough, and at New Orleans thou sands of bales of cotton for export are hung up for lack of cash to han dle it. It doesn't look like a panic would last long with a money crop like that waiting to be sold to place millions of dollars in circulation. The same conditions as to cotton prevail as to wheat. The railroads can't haul the immense quantity bought for export to Europe. Wheat shipments bound for the ports for ex port to Europe are so tremendous that the railroads refuse to make con tracts for hauling, for the reason that their equipment is not capable of do ing it. The New . York Journal of Commerce of Friday says the excuse given by the railroad managers for refusing for the present to enter into new contracts for hauling grain from, Buffalo to the Eastern seaports and market centres is that so much has accumulated at that point that they are unable to handle it expeditiously with their present equipmenL They must clear off what they have already contracted to deliver and see their way clear before making further con tracts. The trafflic manager of the New York Central is quoted as say ing that his company has 4,000,000 bushels of grain awaiting shipment at Buffalo, of which 960,000 bushels are for New York, 2,160,000 for Boston and 600,000 for interior mills, and that it requires 3,000 cars 4 to move it. The company cannot handle this at once and pile up new orders without sac rificing other traffic. The CentraJ has the bulk of the Boston and New Eng land traffic to handle and is leaving the other trunk lines to take care of most of that for New York, but the Erie and the Lackawanna are in the same congested condition and are also refnsine to make new contracts for delivery. Here is a situation where the rail roads don't have to compete with each other for traffic but all have more than they can do. The lines are con gested with wheat, and it shows that we need more wheat export points reached by railroads that do not get any of this wheat traffic and which could relieve the strain on the North ern railroads by bringing wheat to Wilmington, for instance, for export. Thi3 is one of the possibilities for Wilmington when the South &West- ern Railroad is completed and we get that thirty-foot channel from Wil mington out to sea. It is true that the South & Western is designed to reach the coal fields, but It also will give Wilmington direct and short connec tion with the grain and meat produo ing country. To read about that glut of wheat at Buffalo, it would look like New York needs more railroads and more ca nals, or else she will have to divide her wheat export business with other ports. The railroads and the Erie canal fail .to meet the demands of transportation, and it causes the Jour nal of Commerce to remark: "The railroads have not cars enough available and were overwhelmed with a congestion at the Buffalo elevators. Our poor, crippled waterway. Is Inca pable of doing much to.relieve the sit uation and" It will make a serious dif ference with the proportion of the grain traffic that will reach New York this season. The block at. Buffalo will have a material effect in checking its course through the lakes, and in turning it toward other routes to the seacoast. it will assist efforts to dl vert.it to the Gulf and to the Canada routes." With deep water at Wilmington we could go into the diverting business when the South & Western Railroad gives us the connection and we are not so sure but what we could do it with deep water and the rail connec tions already in existence. We scarcely know the possibility of our Southern ports. They are bound come day to be of tremendous Impor tance, and the Government should give them deep, water facilities to re lieve already congested, ports. We see that foreign commerce . is nbw at a standstill when we can't get our. ex- ports away at a time r when foreign - gold . is; needed to relieve the : money .situation: Let; Congress give 'the .country ports If It wants the ' com- merce of the country enlarged or even taken care of, in Its presentj 'ptopor tlons. It is quite opportune that a State meeting is to be held in Wil mington next Tuesday in the interest of deep water; and we do not think there was ever a better time to show Mr. John A. Fox, spcial director of the Rivers and Harbors Congress, that we will enthusiastically back him In his crusade for improvement of wa terways and ports especially that of Wilmington. KNICKERBOCKER WILL PAY OUT. During the week the directors of the suspended Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York, have fiad a committee checking up the books of the company. Mr. Perm, one of the committee, states that the exeamina tion of the books shows that every depositor of the banks will' be paid in full,- if an experienced banker Is chosen as one of the three receivers of the institution. The commitee has found that the Knickerbocker owes its depositors $48,387,000, while the assets are said to exceed $56,000,000. The company owes a balance to the National Bank of Commerce, however, of $2,412,000. It is understood that the work of the committee also shows that on October 22, when the institution suspended, the company held $2,000,000 real es tate and carried $3,158,000 in bonds and mortgages. There was on hand cash to the amount of $1,121,000; there was due the Knickerbocker from other banks $2,817,000, and there were demand loans to the amount of $10,399,000, which are said to be abso lutely good. There was $9,130,000, carried as investment in high grade stocks which, on Thursday's market -value, showed a shrinkage of less than $2,000,000. The remainder of the assets, it is said, consisted of $28,758,000, of which $16,000,000 consists of loans on underwriting various companies a'nd $12,700,000 in time loans to responsi ble persons. This brought the grand total of assets up to about $57,000,000. What a pity that a bank which is really solvent had to suspend during a period like that which has just oc curred in New York. The Knicker bocker was one of the big concerns of New York and at a critical time it was caught without enough cash to keep its head above water. This bank was largely interested in North Caro lina, an j in other Southern States, and as we have seen that it has embar rassed, temporarily at least, some of those interests, and in one instance in North Carolina has caused the expen diture of thousands of dollars a month to cease, it shows that the Star was correct when it remarked that it was idle to go to claiming the financial in dependence of the South. We may have plenty of money and then suffer terribly from any prolonged financial distress in one of the money centres like New York. The drop in the price of cotton shows us how we can again lose out, not to mention the suspen sion of that big Steel Company at Birmingham and the fact that cotton export business at New Orleans is practically tied up by the money strin gency. These are only a few instances In which the South has suffered from the panic in New York, which has been called "local," but we can easily see that when the nerve centre was hit, the nerves as far away as New Or leans and Texas were hurt. The trou ble may be only temporary let us hope that it is but the whole coun try has felt the effect of it. With tremendous crops of cotton, wheat and other products, and business in good condition throughout the coun try, there is every reason to believe that the trouble is only temporary. THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS. The Review of Reviews for Novem ber has ' been received. This great magazine is always freighted with things of world-wide interest and the present number emphasizes the fact. It ocupies a broad field and fills it with the .most conspicuous ability. No feature of the publication is so illuminating and instructive on current events and present day know ledge than the editorials of Dr. Al bert Shaw, the erudite editor. He has only 46 of these editorial discussions in the November number and they have not only . the quality of being brief, but they inform us on practically every question of importance now calling for public attention. There are more than a score of leading articles by able contributors and the variety and value of the subjects discussed makes the publication one truly in teresting and indispensable to the reader. There are ther features,, in cluding, illustrations, .that, make the magazine . complete. The subscription price is $3.00 a year, and thQ price per copy 25 cents." Address the Review of Reviews Co., 13 Astor Place, New York. . . . ' " CURRENT COMMENT. Senator . Morgan missed . a good deal of f im by dying before i was dis covered -that - the Panama' , Canal as now being constructed will be too nar rowWashlngton PosfcX . : : r-Mr; Roosevelt 'Crusneslttnfeimale factors xot great 4 wealtK , agalnfitl the walL Mr. Cortelyoxi pads, the wall and gently detaches the malefactor It is A MYSTERY - Two msn were fishing on a Raft and one pf them fell off into the Water. The one who didn't fall off called to his Companion who was fluttering irv the Water, and told him to be Careful and not get his Feet Wet. The idea was that wet feet will produce cold and perhaps Pneumonia. It was well meant advice, and if this had I h&m a True Story it would have gone on ,t3 say that the Man in .the water who was floundering for his life replied that wet feet would make no dif ference as he had a bottle of Gowan's Pneumonia Cure in his Pocket, which Cures all Coughs and Colds and anything where inflammation i v t. -ntsvrt wTiatVior fho mnral to this is not to fall ovsr- 18 lilt? 11UUU1C i.ivjrr numv - , , J J i Ti a xt a q V.nflo of finwan'a in VOUr Docket IS Still SjHLOUaeQ in mystery. a pretty, pretty game. Richmond Times-Dispatch. The 15-year-old Pennsylvania boy who has .killed five bears in ten days within old-fashion3d rfleis too young to realize that he has committed lese majeste of fhe worst kind. Washing ton Post. It is reported that the exhibits in the N-sgro Building at the Jamestown Exposition may be removed to Rich mond and permanently preserved. We hope that this will be done. The Ne gro (Building Is one of the most at tractive in the exposition grouiads. and the exhibits are a fine tribute to the skill and enterprise of the negro race. They should by all means be 'as sembled at th'a State capital and kept there as a valuable object lesson and an incentive to endeavor. Richmond Times-Dispatch. The "Wilmington Star has a fine opinion of Charlotte maidens. It says: "A young man at Rock Hill, S. C, has 'lost his mind' over a Charlotte girl. It should be stated that a young fel low doesn't have to be at all weak minded to get unbalanced when a Queen City beauty is the cause of mental aberration." True. Before the superabundant, overpowering all-pervading influence of a Quesn City queen even the mbst erudite grow daffy, even as do the weak of mind. Strange, it sesms, and yet not so much so, when the cause Is considered. Charlotte Evening News. The percentage of young women who are working their way through colleges throughout the country com pares favorably, with the self-supporting students at men's colleges. At girls, there are at least 250 dependent on their own exertions to pay their tuition expenses. They act as wait resses and stenographers. They darn stockings, shampoo the hair of more fortunate girls, cook, sew, act as tu tors, and, in short, perform any ser vice that is honorable and possible to achieve their object. Westeyan, Barn ard, Ann Arbor, also have their quota of hard-working, self-respecting and self-supporting students. Such young women leave quite as dep and lasting an impression on the life of the nation as the men. New York American, Months of work by nearly three thousand clerks and special agents of th-s Census Bureau has resulted in the information that approximately 1,300, 000 maried couples asked for legal separation during the ten years from 1897 to 1906, or at the rate of 130,000 a year. Publication will be made in a few months of the reasons givn in the complaints on which these divor ces were asked. It is estimated that two-thirds of the cases were success ful. Tb3 census was taken under m resolution of the last Consress and the figures are expected to start re newed discussion of the divorce evu in the United Stafcss. There are about 40,000 cases yet to be investigated by by the Census Bureau, Which will com plete what is known as the field work. New York World. TWINKLINGS. Loraine Is it true 'that you are engaged to Fred? Clarice No; I have notiven him a definite answer yet. I want to wait and see how he looks after the football season is over. Judge. Mrs. Blink Men act so silly when they are making love. When my hus band proposed to me he made a per fect, fool of himself. Her Dear Frtend Yes, that's what everybody said at the time. Cleveland Leader. jMr. Microbe Horrible catastro phe! Ten million lives lost! Mrs. Mi crobe-Goodness , gracious, Mike! What happened? Mr. Microbe-' xne Jfirst National Bank, without a word of warning, sterilized a dollar bill. Puck. "Gracious!" exclaimed Mrs. Schop pen. "Ive lost my pocketbook." "Never mind, dear," replied; her hus band.. "IH get ybu anotifer . pocket book and you can easily collect more dress goods samples." Philadelphia Press. . .. , r fThis is a . sad case," said' the asylum, attendant pausing "before a padded cell.- Thers is no hdpefor the patient .whatever." "What's the trou ble with hiinT. asked-the visitor. "He thinks, he understands a. railroad time table." Milwaukee Sentinel. - --"Nero. fiddled while :Roma burn? ed!" exclaimed the student!. ."Well," replied: Mr. Growcher, "that's better than the custom many violinists have of: : practicing at a time when every thing .'is nice and quiet otherwise." Washington Star. -"That's a" fine looking girl who just passed, said the : absent-minded man. "I think . she's a stenographer somewhere. OH, come to think ot it, she's yours; isn't she ?? . "No," replied the young merchant," disconsolately. "I asked hef to be yesterday, but she said she was already engaged." Phil a delphia -Press. -It Was at a reunion of a gallant Irish ; regiment, and ' in" due' course ' a member r rose to express Ills carefully rpb?flfed aentlmenrl "Here's '.. to thf ould ' Fifty-hIhth,M he began; hotryV'th last in th'. field an';th' first to lave ut t: "Ye muddler !" shonted - a 'conipatriot,: Springing; ; to hf s feet, "Here's ;"to th buld ' Fifty-ninth; equll to -: none!" Youth's ;ConipaIonA;-AS'::S-1 4 " Susy's Opinion of Her Father. Before Susy began, the biography she let fall a remark now and then concerning my character which show ed that she had it under observation. In the record which we kept of the children's sayings there is an instance of this. She was twelve years old at the time. We had established a rule that each member of the family must bring a fact to breakfast a fact drawn from a book or from any other source; any fact would answer. Susy's first contribution was in substance as follows: Two great, exiles and former opponents in war met, in Ephesus, Scipio and Hannibal. Scipio asked Hannibal to name the greatest gen eral the world had produced. "Alexander," and he explained why. "And the next greatest?" "Pyrrhus," and he explained why. "But where do you place yourself, then?" "If I had conquered you, I would place myself before the others." : Susy's grave comment was: "That atfricted me. It was Just like papa, he Is so frank about his books." , So frank in admiring them, she meant. From "Mark Twain's Auto biography" in North American Be view. Impossible. A year or so ago an American stu dent In Berlin was attending a lecture In a room drowsily close through lack of ventilation. To keep awake he be gan whispering to a German at his side the story of Mark Twain about the man who lived all his life in a chronic fear of fresh air. The relatives of this man, as is well known, ' decided after his death to have his remains cremat ed, and the climax of the story occurs when the" undertaker, opening the door of the oven to see whether incineration fvras complete, was appalled to hear the corpse speak out and' request him to close the door and shut off the draft. The American sjrft&ig the joke as ef fectively as he could, but never a smile was his reward. ,Hii German friend, remained for several moments in a per plexed study; then he leaned over to the American and said: "But how could that be? The man was dead!" Har per's Weekly. Power of Falling Water. It is perfectly well known to every one that water, constantly dropping upon a stone will wear it away, and there is a trite old proverb regarding this fact. The force of a single drop of water falling from a height is not great, but the results of this tiny blow- when it is many times repeated are astounding. There is a story of one poor wretch who was bound with his back to a stone wall and had a stream of water "of the bigness of a man's finger" directed on 'to his bare head, the water falling from a height of about eighteen feet. The receptacle from which this apparently harmless stream trickled was a barrel holding only twenty gallons, but before the water had more than half run out the man was dead, with a hole in his skull which exposed the brain. Popular Me chanics. All She Had In the absence of his wife and. the illness of the. servant Mr. Taylor un dertookto help three-year-old Marjory to dress. He had succeeded in -getting, her arms in the sleeves and through the armholes of her garments and had buttoned -her into them. Then he told her to put on her shoes herself, and he would button them. He soon discov ered that she was -vainly striving to put a, left shoe on her right foot. "Why," Marjory," he said Impatiently, "don't you know; any better than that? You are putting your shoes on the wrong feet." ' VDey's all de foots I dot, papa," re plied Marjory tearfully .Youth's Com panion. Climbing a Water Stair. : 15veri a steamboat, can climb a hill by ; going up one step at a Jtime. This re markable performance 7can be wit nessed severarttinje daflyj'dnring the season of navigation," beside, the' Vrang waterfall in the Bandak Norsje canal, Norway. , Alb this ; point; falls in the river, prevent the passage of boats up or down, and a" canal has been built round theTapids and falls, i The' ascent is 'made thrdugh a series of locks which accommodate one boat at a time, and in passing from the lower to the upper lock the boat is lifted' about ninety feet. Spider -Talk.,., (In the kindergarten during a natu ral history lesson,) - Teacher So you see .one of the differences between us and animals is that we can talki Iit- tlfeBoy (of 1 three) Spiders; can talk. Teacher No,; dear; spiders ae very, jelever llttle Cinsects, but 'the -can't ttdk, Little y Well, tiien, Jw did .tbj;.'spider say, : Wlil ;you :colme into my parlor?".. -; 8TATEMENT CONDITION The Llurcliison of Wilmington, N. C. At the close of business October national Bank 1st,? 1907. y RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts ... ; $2,100,519 60 U. S. Bonds (at par)..'.. 350,060 60 Bank Building . . . . .... 25,000 00 Cash .. .. .. ........ 942,318 21 $3,417,837 81 LIABILITIES. i Capital .... . . ......$ 500,000 (N5 Surplus and Net Profits. . 239,195 69 Circulation .. .. . . .. 300,000 00 Deposits . . . . . . ., . . . .. 2,278,642 12 U. S. Bond Account .... 100,000 00 $3,417,837 81 DEPOSITS October 1st, 1905, $1,763,509 62 October 1st, 1906, $2,041,773 43 October 1st, 1907, $2,278,642 12 oc 5-tf GUION & DAVIS, Barbers and Hair Dressers. Are vill at the old stand, He. 1 iouth Front street, where they ar prepared, as usual, to erre the public in the. beat styl. Everything necet sary to the comfort and eampleto mm.1 'faction of our patrsm X. i- ."I j l B THORPE & CO. inc. Coal. Lime. v Builders' Supplies. Wood. Cement. SPECIAL. 1200 Sacks Wood Fibre Wall Plaster. 300 thousand Shingles; ail sizes. 125 thousand Standard Laths. We respectfully solicit your patronage. Viz HAVE YOU AN . EDISON PHONOGRAPH? If not, why not? You certainly want the best if you want any, and the Edison Phonograph is the best in every way, and is the only machine by which you can make any desired rec ord successfully. The Edison Gold Moulded Records are superior to all others, having that true musical qual ity which is the delight of all music lovers. Hear them and be convinced. Every Record on Edison Catalog. J. W. ROBINSON & CO. 205 Princess St. oct 22 tf of Becoming Dependent upon the bounty of your friends or relatives if you have a Savings Ac county of .your own. This thomght alone ought , to make every man or woman feel the neces sity tf saving and depositing regularly at . this bank! 3 . NOW, while you've health is the time to build YOUR BANK AC COUNT! Can we help you witi?. 4 per cent in terest compounded quarterly. ; ' . 5 - tic Matt f. J. iHeytri PrptidtntiiMiBM Southern ;BIda."; 2 Oca. Postofflca Atlan Trust 5 Bankina Co MmM Coast Schedule in Effect August 27th7l - V irOTIGHf . The arrivals and departures ar en as Information, as well aa L"' tions with other companies; but vals and' connections ar not tee. raara. " - NORTHBOUND. Xv. Wllmingfon. . ! J9.40 amFhi1 At. 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J'k'villej Ar. Tampa I 7:15 pm 11:00pm NORTHBOUND. Dally. Dafly ....I 9:00 TMnllrt'M uv. lamtua . . . ... . T m 10:20 am u. j -uttJun vine A . T - T lt 9:30 amj 1:41 pm 7:35 nm at. aavannan 11:59 am. -L.V. uuariesTom .. 5:57 pm 5 20 am v Columbia I 4:80 pml 1:00 am Ar. Florence. . ... .1 7:84 pm 8:51 im Ar. Wilmington....! 1:10 amf 1:20 pn BETWEEN WILMINGTON AND MJ. Westbound. Eaatbouni . ' Dai iv. rjii Lv. Wilminjrton I 8:40 amlAr. s-ft . Lv. Favetteville 112:10 nmlAr. Ar. Sanford .....I 1:40 nmlLv. iuam BETWEE2I WlLlfmcSTOJr AND KIW 1 BEBIf. , . DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. " ' North- South . bound. bound. Lv. Wilmington.. 13: 20 pml 1:00 pa Ar. Newbern' ... .7:00 panjLv 9:35 atf .. Tralaa No. 43 and 41 carry Pollau Sleeping Cars between Wilmlnrtoa u4 WasbJjisrtoiif eeneetlns with Penaarl. vaala R R. for all points east, sJm ke tween WllmlBflrton and Norfolk. Trains No. 48 and 49 carry Pnllmu Parlor Care between Wilmington ut Norfolk.. , T. C WHITE, Gei. ral Pasaensrer Agent W. J. RAIG, Passensrer Trafflo Manatee. The Southern Bank A Bank For Ml People As an Incentive to Saw f what nruilrl fw mnro norsnasive thl"' Drettv woman a fiancee, for ins Women are pretty good savers -tjjj the man who. provides for future days by saving when the sua siu . . . . ...... trnTT This is prooaDiy a nmi xo WMl am OAf tiav oirlnc 'Cfit t&6 b h?r nanlr nfTfirrta vnn every and offers ybu every inducement CaiilavSs&TrostCi Big White Building, corner Front v . -' Princess. For Gentlemen , of Good Taste San FUce high grade 7 5c Cigar Samuej Bear, Sr. I Sons. to -i-Wi -on 'i'M ARikfeY STREET. im v- WILMINGTON, H. C 9:03 Sf 11:28 ami 12:85 ami National se 3 tf; i . .