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WAS RELICS.
It is a somewhat remarkable fact
that nearly all the systems or public
policies, nationally speaking, which
tre the fruit of Republican legisla
tioo, are relics of the war which was
fougbLjind ended over thirty-two
years ago, and there is not one of
tbem from which the country as a
thole does not suffer. Up to the
time of the adoption of the Morrill
tariff a war measure we had equit
able and non-sectional tariffs. There
guy have been some fault round
lith some of them, the duties may
hive been considered excessive, but
there were none of them which were
got the essence of equity compared
tith the tariffs we bave had since
the Morr.il tariff was enacted. That
fas ostensibly for revenue for war
purposes, but the schemers used the
tar necessity as a dodge to ran the
duties up to give them "protection,"
aid there never was a tariff enacted
since that they didn't do some
scheming to hold the protection
i they bad or to get more. They have
id average ot three times as much
bow as they had under the Morrill
riff. The grip they got during the
iar, when they had practically no
apposition and no attention was
paid to what they were doing, they
I lave held ever since, and instead of
I growing weaker it has been grow
ig stronger.
It never showed itself stronger
I than it did in the movement to nomi
nate McKtnley in which a prominent
Manufacturer, Mark Hanna, led,
lith scores ot manufacturers backing
uqa both with their influence and
i;y, which exercises a persuasive
Influence in Republican politics and
on the result ot Republican conven-
Hanna and his lieutenants
nceeded, McKinlev won. the Re-
ibllcan party was installed in power
ud we have the mot exorbitant,
lost indefensible and most sectional
ariff we ever had. A relic of a sys
em brought forth in the throes of
iar more than thirty-two years ago.
The money system, which like the
iresent tariff system has grown worse
ritb time, like the tariff was the
reason of the same period and
egotten of the same causes. We
kare the greenbacks with us as con
itant reminders, but they, as the re-
alt of circumstances, have rendered
Dine service, after the necessity for
rbich they were created had disap
eared. We have also the na
Ittonal bank system created to
meet an emergency. These banks
I filled the ob j ect for which they were
created and survived the emergency,
land have outlived the originally con
templated period of their existence
lUader the circumstances they filled
a want and still fail it to some extent.
Like the tariff they were sectional
and are still sectional. They bave
their strength in the North and
through this strength they control
the system throughout the country
and exert their influence to control
the financial Dolicies of the nation.
It was to make way for these that
the State banks were taxed oat of
existence and it is to favor these that
Ithetaxon the bank note is main
tained. The svstem was sectional in
ts origin and is sectional now. The
North gets the benefit of it and is sup
Plied with all the circulating medium
t needs.but the South and the more
Parsely populated Western States
Iwffer because they cannot have these
hinlcs iti stimr.isnr number, nor
ther banks, which are practically
outlawed, under the present currency
'ystem, which Originated under An
entirely different state of affairs from
fhat which we have now. In other
ds it'is a currency system devised
n times of war perpetuated in times
peace when the conditions are
entirely different, and for which It is
totally inadequate. The national
banks may fill the bill for the
Wealthy States where money is cen-
o and plentiful, and while they
may be accenrahle to those
States, but they do, not fill the bill
forthe COUntrv at Wra and It is
just nor wise to compel the
At large to depend upon
ne for its banking facilities.
are sections which cannot
national banks in such number
as Won M Jk -ia
supply them with
' u j j i v ineui willi lug
ssary volume of currency, but
A 'f permi tPsssl. have other banks
ca could do am and these sec-
netthr
wuntr
mem ajl
m urra r
av
oo should not be deprived of that
irT w-w-w- , . i
AAlA.
right oat of deference to a system I
PiY,3CU IOr a certain emenrencv
uu waico exists to day as a relic of
war legislation.
There is no question that the oen-
slon system is another relic and a
monstrous one -of that same legis-
suon, grown in proportions like
Jonah's gourd. It didn't, like the
gourd, grow in a night, but has kept
on growing night and day all the
time until it has exceeded in pro
portions all the prophetic estimates
of the most liberal prognosticators
before the billion dollar atate.
men began to show their
liberality (with other people's money)
to the "defenders of the flag." That
is sectional, and is perpetuated with
its monstrosities for the same reason
that the tariff and the national
bank system are, because the North
reaps the benefit of it and gets back
in addition to what it pays the bulk
of the one-third which the South
pays. At least nine tenths of the
$141,000,000 which will be paid
in pensions this fiscal
v -
will go lato circulation in the
North, and hence the little protest
that goes ont from that section
against this outrageous plundering
by which the Sooth suffers for the
benefit of other sections.
These are three of the relics of
war legislation, and there are others
such as bounties, and subsidies, and
land grants, etc., but these three are
enough to show the character of the
statesmanship which has since 1861
controlled the destinies of this coun
try and is now controlling them.
MINOR MBHTIOS
We made some reference yester
day to the American Cotton grow
ers Protective Association, orsran
zed last Monday at Memphis, and
commended it objects Another
commendable thing about it is the
declaration that 'This organization
shall take no part in State, National
of local politics and will permit no
person to use it for personal ad
vancement or political purpose.'
This is eminently level beaded, and
shows that tb gentlemen who are in
the lead in tats movement have not
oeen listless observers ot passing
events. The Farmers Alliance start
ed oat all right and was fall of good
promise until aspiring members
swung it into politics and then the
wedge entered that split it and de
prived it of the power to be fur
ther useful. Sight was lost of
its original purpose, the co
operative schemes which, if car-
tied out, would have profited
its membejs much, fell through, and
the men who were active in the work
of elevating the agricultural indus
try and benefitting the followers of
the plow became absorbed in their
own personal schemes of advance
ment and worked the order for their
own bnefit. With this example be
fore them, with the practical failure
of one of the most promising move
ments for the farmers of the coun
try, the organisers of this Associa
tion have shown their good sense by
ruling politics out of it. The men
who loin It will be interested in
politics, as they and all good citi
z ens should be, bat they will not, un
less false to it, run the organization
in their Own interests nor in the in
terests of those who may run them.
s
Some of the German papers seem
to be exercised over the possibility
of an Anglo Japanese American
alliance on the Chinese land grab
bine question. An alliance between
England and Japan is not at all im
probable, and that the United States
might join in is possible, but not at
all probable, fur while the United
States, from a tradestandpoint, are
very much interested in that
dissecting operation, they haven t
the remotest intention of getting
mixed up in it. They haven't yet
forgotten the counsel of the gentle
man who ont them up in business
advising them to "beware of entang
ling foreign alliances," and they are
not in the very best kind of a fix to
be tangled in that way even if they
were disposed to forget the parting
injunction of a counsellor for whose
judgment and wisdom they profess
a great deal of respect. They will,
therefore, pursue the usual coarse in
such cases of laying low and saying
nothing while the royal grabbers on
the other side are punching each
other over the plunder, and will sup
ply them with all the shooting stuff
and incidentals of such rackets as
they may need, and so conduct bnsi
ness as to keep on as business like
and friendly terms with all of them as
possible.
The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Ledger wrote a short
while ago that the President bad un
der advisement the pleadings of the
anti-civil service agitators to revoke
President Cleveland's last order ex
tending the civil service. Since then
the Cabinet has had the matter un
der consideration, and it was re
ported that that the conclusion ar
rived at was to stand by "the prin
ciple of the civil service." They
couldn't have said less than that if
they said anything at all, for there
isn't one of them, including the
kickers, who doesn't profess loyalty
iu -me pnnciDie 01 tne civ ser-
to "the nrineinle" of the riwii
vice. The; kickers contend that
when their friends and strikers are
kept oat and the other fellows are
kept in "the principle" is violated.
But the reports come in such shape
now as to leave little doubt that not
Withstanding bis devotion to "the
principle" of civil service, the Presi
dent will acquiesce in the demands of
the kickers, who have enlisted that
powerful recruit, Mark Hanna, and
will let down the bars to about 45,000
places that the loyal supporters of
these kicking statesmen are hanker -
ingfor. Bat as this isn't our fight
we are not losing any sleep over it,
nor worrying in advance over what
Mr. McKinley may do or not do.
A Pennsylvania cripple who
walked on crutches all the way
from his to wa to Tope k a, Kansas, to
marry the woman he land won
tnrough a matrimonial agency, got
kicked when his betrothed saw him
She was no spring pullet bat a sage
widow of 60 summers who didn't coq-
tract for a 33 -year old youth and a
pair of cratches. He is doing the
kicking now and has hired a lawyer
to get him some damages. It took
him 36 days to amble oat to the
kicking place.
There are said to be only fourteen
surviving veterans of the war of
1812, but there are 3,387 widows of
soldiers of 1812 drawing pensions.
With this as a starter some clever
ngurer might figure out how many
widows of the late "onpleasantness"
we will have on the pension lists
eighty-five years hence.
The town of Friedenvilie, in Penn
sylvania, claims to have twenty per
sons who are over 90 years of age
and five who are over a hundred.
That's one of those nice, quiet towns
where people don't bustle around
enough to wear and tear soon. Bnt
then maybe they have some accom
plished liars up there
Much ado has been made over the
killing of Ruiz, who was caught in
side of the Cuban lines as an em is
sary of autonomy. Bat it seems that
instead of being lured to his death,
as Maceo was. he penetrated the
lines after repeated warnings and
full knowledge of what his fate
would be if caught.
Mayor Strong, of New York, had
103 invitations to dine this year and
accepted thirty-one of them. He Is
going around on a pair of crutches
while be nurses a large sized case of
gout. If he had attended all of
them he might be going around on
wheels.
They are beginning to find some
use for the rabbit in Virginia besides
hunting it for sport. About $10,000
worth of them have been shipped
from the Northern Neck this sea
son and about 20,003, which sold for
$2,000, from one county.
A California paper informs us
that "Durrant has been sentenced to
be hanged four times." They haven't
hanged bim the first time yet, bnt
by the time they have swung bim
four times the presumption is that
California justice will be appeased.
There is aa increasing demand In
Europe for gold. Germany is adding
to her stock as other Governments
are. If this keeps on they will be
drawing on this country before long
and then the tapping of the Treasury
will begin. L
Thb Star greets its readers this
morning and wishes them a merry
and a happy Christmas and a pros-
Derous and a happy New Year. It
would not wish them less, it could
not wish them more.
A St. Louis man who is credited
with having four hearts, died recent
ly. What use he bad for so many
hearts, is not stated. Lucky for him
he didn't have four livers to tussle
with. -, .
The Chinese brag on having in
vented gun powder. But they never
learned how to use it. and that's
what's the matter with China now.
The Governor of Kansas wants a
little irrigating canal from Moptana
down through Texas, a length of
1,700 miles. It will cost only $360,
000,000.
Snain Is horrified at the fate of
Ruiz. Bat Spain wasn't horrified at
m .
the fate of the many thonsands of
Cubans who perished under Weyler'
savagery.
If Weyler is hankering for a vindi
cation let bim show up his bank
books and explain how he got his
money.
An Illinois man, who is sentenced
to be banged, wants to make it a
social affair and asks to take his
swing in evening dress.
England will oppose the partition
of China "unless she is consulted,'
which is to say nnlesss he gets a
pretty big chunk herself.
Hon. Adlai Stevenson declines to
discuss the results of tbe monetary
commission. There is nothing to
discuss.
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31 1897.
WHITE. MAN ARRESTED.
Cbaraed With Betes an E loaned
Mnr-
flerer From Scuta Carolina.
Deputy Sheriff J. P. Fiyon yesterday
afternoon arretted a young white man
who gives his name as Oacar Edwards
on a warrant from Jastiee McGowan's
court alleging that Edwards is an escaped
murderer from the South Carolina peoi
tentiary. The arrest was made upon in
formation received and upon Edward's
appearance exactly answering to tbe de
scription ol the escaped convict. A Star
representative gathered yesterday after
noon that last February In York county,
South Carolina, two men and a woman
were tried for killing a man, and that
tbe woman was acquitted and the two
men were sentenced to life imprison
ment in the State prison, but both men
toon afterwards made their escape. Ed
wards, it was alleged, is one cf the es
caped murderets. who went by the name
ot Djniel F. Luckey.
Edwards stated that he was bora in
Bladen county, this state, and has never
in his life been further south than Hub,
N. C ; that last February he was at the
home of bit parents in Abbottsburg,
t p ittiog rails, and returned to this city
last October, and that he and his wife
no reside corner of Seventh and Cattle
treeta. He further stated that several
years ago he worked for the Wilmington
Street Railway Company, this city, and
that he it well known here. The charge
that he it an escaped murderer or con
vict he denies.
The accuted was committed to jail to
await a further investigation at to his
identity.
Dr. Blue Moaoum Jjp,
Mr. Gso. T. Brown, ot the tobacco
firm of Brown & Williamson, of Win
ston, arrived in the city last night to
claim tbe ownership of Dr. Blue Moun
tain Joe's tent, which was being held by
the sheriff to satisfy a judgment of $213 18
and the usual court costs. Mr. Brown
at once secured counsel, and yetteiday
afternoon gave 1600 bond to stay tbe exe
cution and tale of the tent until the mat
ter it settled. Upon furnlthine the bond
required, the sheriff relinquished potsei
sion of the tent which wat again last
night, after sever a! days of decided
gtoom, brilliantly illuminated, and one
of Dr. Blue Mountain Joe't fine per
formancet wat presented before tbe au
dience.
Mr. Brown returned to Winston last
.night.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Mi. Ocs'tr Way Aoetdeotally Shot at Bdctt'a
4 HUl.
Mr. Doxler Foy, tbe ton ol Mr. F. M.
Foy, of Scott's Hill, wat accidentally
shot and seriously injured yetteiday.
The particulars of tbe accident could
not be learned, as tbe only information
was in the thane of a telegram calling
Dr. J. C Shepard. Later Dr. Shepard
telegraphed Dr. F. H. Rustell to come
to assiat him in performing an opera
tion.
Neither Dr. Rustell nor Dr. Shepard
will get back before tbit morning. It is
thought by young Mr. Foy's friends
that bit ic juries, while quite serious, are
not fatal.
Cotton Beasip a Will Be Xianer than Srar
Before.
The weekly ttatement of cotton and
naval stores, appearing in another column,
shows that the receipts of cotton for the
week ending yesterday were 11.893 bales
These figures are considerably above
those for the corresponding week of
180S, when the receipts were only 7,598.
The season's receipts are 259,687, against
208 09s up to the corresponding date
laat year. There it no doubt now that
the receipts of cotton at tbe port of Wil
mington for the aeason of 1897 -'93 will
be considerably in excess of the receipts
for any previous year
British 8taamhlpi Claaxod and In Port
The British steamer Magdala, Capt.
Reid, was cleared yesterday for Bre
men. Germany, by Mettrt. Alex. Spruot
& Son. with a cargo of cotton, valued at
$350 822. Tbit is the tecond cargo of
cntoh that the Magdala hat taken ont.
Taere are ttill in port four steamships.
three Brltith and one Norwegian
Work on tba Xltcd-Hub Branon.
Dr. O F. Nxoa. who has been sta
tioned at Elrod, has been transferred to
Castle Haynet, and it in tbe city on bit
wav to that place. He savs that there
are 108 convicts at work on the new
branch of th : A C L, and that it has
been completed to a paint seven miles
from E rod.
RALEIGH NEWS BUDGET.
Christmas Travel Poioenus ef Cores in
State Insane Asylums Attracts Atten
tion Veterans In the Soldier' Home
The Park Hotel Management.
Special Star Corrtsflondtnct.
Raleigh, N. C December 24,
Christmas travelling wat never better
with tbe railroads; all traint are loaded
to their capacity and some of them are
thrown off their schedules.
The percentage of enret of patients
at the Morganton and central tnaane
asylnms In this State has been so large
at to attract attention m other Statet.
Morganton has a percentage ol 58 and
and the Raleigh asylum 54. A Matta
cbutetts insanity expert writes hereto
know if the statistics are accurate.
There are now 102 veterans in tbe
Soldiers' Home here. Daring tbe year
sixtv have been denied admission owing
to the inadequate accommodations. The
showing ol tne institution is maeea ex
cellent.
One of tbe most remarkable condi
tioos existing in the State wat recently
developed by a member of the Board ot
Charities. It has been ascertained that
in one county the poor were farmed ont
to the highest bidder at $2 12. The
board decided at its meeting nere to
make a thorough In vestigasion of the
matter.
There is another chanse in tbe Park
Hotel management. Mr. R. V. High
lands, the present manacer, severs bit
connection to-day.
Tbe Academy of Music will close after
the 88th. "Never Again" it the last at
traction that will appear there.
GREAT FIRE IN CHICAGO
THE MAMMOTH COLISEUM BUILDING
TOTALLY DESTROYED.
A Nomb'i of i- ecp'e Tbonaht to Hive Lost
Their Xttvaa-Tutal Low on 8oU)ln
aid Contents $478,000.
By Telegraph to she Morning Star.
CHICAGO. December 24 Fire to
night destroyed the Coliseum building,
la which the Democratic National Con
vention was held laat year. The fire
waa one of the quickest ever teen in
Chicago. From the time when the fire
was originated, by tbe crossing of two
eleetrie light wires, until tbe Coliseum
was a pile of twitted iron and hoi bricks
was not over twenty minutes. The
OUilding had been rented far an exbibi
tion ol a manufacturers' exhibition and
wat filled from end to end with booths,
all of which were destroyed with all of
tneir contents.
.? i. is tuapoef vni a nurnDsr ol pec
pie were lost in the fUmes, and although
no o jaies nave oeen recovered, the fol
lowing people are missiag and have un
doubtedly perished : Girl named Pau
line, surname not known, teen to enter
tbe burning building in tearch of her
mother, whom she said wat imprisoned
oy the flimet. The girl and her mother
were employed in the Irish village, the
former as a dancer, and the latter doing
cnoret. i
Two women, dancers in the Midway
exhibit; teen in the building just before
it collapsed.
Two men, teen in tbe centre ot tbe
building during the fire by firemen.
u. uacaayi ana ms too, conducted a
sausage booth in the biilding; Ladanyi
entered tbe structure daring the fire to
search for his son, whom be declared
wat penned in by the flames and never
hat since been teen. Both lived at the
Columbian Central apartment building.
A number of people were injured.
Tbe fire originated in a booth which
wat used for an exhibition of X rays,
Two men were examining their Roent
gen machine when they were startled by
a sizzling noise bebind tbem, and upon
turning taw a part of their exhibit
ablaze. Crote electric wiret which were
over the exhibit are thought to have
canted tbe fi lmet. They at first tried
to smother the flames, but before they
tecured water and cloth the fire bad
spread throughout the entire booth
Money, realizing that be and hit partner
would be unable to cope with the flimet,
then made an endeavor to save some oi
the most valuable of tbe X ray para
phernalia. Running to the machine he
grasped two Crookes tabes and then
witn Kooertson began fighting bis wav
out of the building. B if ore he reached
an exit tbe tubes, which be held in both
hit handt, exploded, severely lacerating
hit hands. His hair alto caught fire and
be waa severely burned about tbe bead
Robertson wat burned about the face.
About three hundred people were in
the building at the time of the fire, and
at tbe first alarm there wat a ruth for
safety. Fortunately the aialet were
wide, and owing to the comparatively
small number of people in tbe building
there wat little difficulty in reaching tbe
doors. Most of those endeavoring to
escape ran to a large door on the east
s de of the building which is wide
enough to admit a team of horses and
wagon.
A crowd of fully. 200 people gathered
before the door whfeb wat found to be
locked, and at the fire wat roaring
through the building with great apeed
it seemed for a few momenta as though
none ef thtae would be able to escape.
vV. T- Wheeler, a Watchman, taw the
trouble and 'an to open tbe door, but
the crowd wat packed in front of it to
closely that he had the greatest difficulty
in opening it. Once it swung aside,
however, tbe crowd wat in the open air
in a few teconds. During the jam at
this point, teveral people were badly
crushed, but none were seriously in
j ured. Tbe balance of tbe people made
their way through the other doors, and
several who were caught in the balcony
were compelled to jump to tbe ground
from the roof. Tbe balcony is lined with
windows that swing outwards, and they
had no trouble in getting upon the roof
and from there to the ground was not
great.
Tne firemen were at band before ail ol
the people were out, and before they
made any enort to ngnt the names tbey
devoted their attention to clearing the
hall of the people. By the time they
were ready to pour water on tbe fire it
was useless to do anything as the fire
spread with sucb , rapidity that there
waa no chance whatever ol saving tbe
building after it bad once got beyond
the confines of the booth in which it
started. Within ten minutes after tbe
fire began the roof was ablaze and in a
very abort time after the fire bad ap
peared on the top of the building. One
of the large arcbea that spanned the
building gave way with a tremendous re
port, and then another and then another.
each one going down with a sound like
t he report of a cannon. The building
fell very quickly, at alter tbe first arcb
went down the weight was too great for
the arches next to it, and all collapsed.
It took not over twenty minutes to make
a complete ruin of tbe building. Nothing
further is known ol tbose supposed to be
lost.
The Coliseum cost $250 000, and was
twice as large as tbe Madison Square
Garden building of New York. It had
a floor space of seven acres, including
the ground and gallery floors, was 770
feet long by three hundred wide, and
contained 2,500,000 pounds of steel
1.200,000 feet of timber and 8,000 000
bricks. On August 21st, 1898. the first
Coliseum, then in the course of con
struction, was wrecked, entailing a lots
of $125,000:
The arena was only equalled in ex
tent by that of tbe Roman Coliseum.
Tbe building wat insure'd for $120,000,
the insurance being written in twenty
six different companies.
It it almott impossible to form any
idea of the lost to the exhibitors, at
there were about one hundred booths in
the place filled with all sons of goods
Tbe total loss on the building and con
tents is said to be $478,000; of this
amount $860,000 was the value of tbe
building, and 8128,000 the estimated
coat of the exhibits and material in tbe
exposition in progress in tbe building.
CUBAN FILIBUSTERS.
Preparations Staking for an Expsditlon from
ttoma Foist on the Florida Coast.
By Telegraph to the Morning Stat.
Washington, December 24. Acting
Secretary Spaulding to-day instructed
Treasury officers on the Florida coast to
prevent the departure of a filibustering
expedition which for some days has
been planned for Christmas or Sunday.
Reports received by tbe Department
from its officers locate tbe men, muni
tions and point of departure, unless tbit
latter shall be abrnptly changed, the
Department declines to state the points
at which preparations are making or
where the expedition will try to leave.
Prince B smarck, who for the past few
days has been ill. is now again enjoying
satisfactory health. He will spend
Christmas tfaietly with his family.
EASTERN SITUATION.
A JOINT NAVAL DEMONSTRATION
BY
ENGLAND AND JAPAN.
Ratta Preparer g Qa tert f r Trocpa at Pert
A r but Bellf ved That O eat Britain Will
Actively Opnate Batata: tsatlon of Oo
rea and Northern Chios.
By Cable to the Morning Star.
London, December 14. The Daily
Mail publishes a dispatch tbit morning
from Tokio, which, it claims, evaded
active censorship. Tbe dispatch says; .
England and Japan, without enter
ing upon an actual alliance, have arrived
at a complete understanding which will
probably result in a j tint naval demon
stration at tbe entrance of the Gulf of
Pe-Chili,
In diplomatic circlet at Tokio tbe
probability of a cocflict it regarded as
extremely distant.
London, December 24 Russia, ac
cot ding to a special dispatch from
Shanghai, it preparing temporary
quarters for 10 000 troopi at Port
Arthur. She hat obtained a half
promise from the grand council at
Pkin to ditmisa Sir Robert Hart,
director of Chinese imperial maritime
customs and other high cuttomt offi
cial?, in addition to the British railway
officials and the German officers and in
structors. Fifty of tbe latter, the dis
patch says, received notice to dty (Fri
day) that they would be paid off at the
termination of their contracts.
Contrary to general report, tbe dis
patch asserts that there is good reason
to believe Great Britain will actively op
pose tbe Russiamzition of Corea and
Noitbern China.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Topio ol Ditoasaioo at a Cabinet Mac ting in
Washington No Possibility of aa
Angle-American- Japanese
Alliance,
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Washington, December 24 The
country's attitude tpward what appears
to be an effort on tbe part of tbe
Powera of Europe to dismember China
wat the principal topic of discussion at
to-day's meeting of tbe cabinet. All tbe
cabinet members were present, except
Secretary Alger, who it ill at hit home.
While no formal action was taken in tbe
absence of specific information at to the
intention of tbe Powers of Europe, it
was determined, aa a member of tbe
cabinet expressed it, "to keep a watch
fal eye upon the situation as it devel
oped, in order that full protection may
be given to the intereatt of tbe United
Statet in China as guaranteed by our
treaties with that country."
No disposition wat manifested to par
ticipate in an extension of territory at
the expense of China, bach a disposi
tion would be contrary to tbe Hitherto
expressed and well understood policy oi
this government, and is not contem
plated by the administration. It was
determined, however, to protect care
fully all interests and privtleget which
the United Statet now enjoys in China.
Incidentally, the question of American
relief to sufferer in Cuba arose, but in
tbe absence of official information from
the Spanish government, which bad
been expected but had not been re
ceived, no action of importance was
taken.
Tbe Cabinet underttanding at to the
attitude of tbe United Statet in the
Cbinete question promisee to have a
material influence In the development of
the Eastern situation. The diplomats
stationed here have eagerly awaited
tome intimation aa to the purpose of
thit Government, and the foreign press.
notably at London, Berlin and Vienna,
bave echoed tbe sentiments at those
cqurtt, that if tbe United Statet entered
the held, eitber singly or in coalition with
Great Britain and Japan, it would prove
a material fac or in the Chinese ques
tion. The general underttanding reached
to-day doubtlesa will be made known to
such foreign representatives as desire to
sound tbis Government, and tbe infor
mation in turn will reach the foreign offi
ces at j, on a on. tseriin, at. Peters
burg and elsewhere. It will be
a disappointment to some extent
to China, which has looked to
the United States as the nation occupy
ing a disinterested pisition, permitt ng
it to exert a strong uflaence in staying
the dismemberment of the Em p re.
China has made no advancet to this
Government, however, but has occupied
a passive attitude.
Tbe views expressed at tbe cabinet
put an end to any possibility of an
Anglo-American-Japanese alliance, such
as tbe foreign cables bave suggested.
ACETYLENE GAS EXPLOSION
Caused tbe Dote cf Two L-Vf t and $20000
Damage to Works In New Jersey.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
New York, December 24 A suc
cession of explosions at the United
Acetylene Liquifying Company's plant
in Jersey City to-day caused the loss of
two lives and $80,000 damage to tbe
works. The dead are Thomas Fowler,
the assistant engineer, and Max Grim.
There were only three other em
ployes in the building at tbe time of
the accident, and thsy received more or
iess injuries. Their names are Fred.
Burr, Fritz Epzol and Charles White.
Jamea Leeb, who wat working half a
block away, waa badly iojared by a piece
of the boiler. A fragment of the boiler
tore the roof from a trolley car tome
distance away..
It is said that the first explosion was
due to the boilen bursting, and as . the
fire spread to the various acid tanks
there was a succession of deafening re
ports. Near by buildings at well at the
Central Railroad trettle caught fire, but
tbe losses were not serious in these In-.
stances. Tbe machinery ot tbe local
electric lighting company was affected
by tbe jar, canting tbe electric light in
various buildings to go oat. Max Grim's
body was blown through a window and
torn to pieces. The body of Assistant
Engineer Fowler was found in the ruins
of the wrecked building.
4HE8TNUT STREET BANK.
The Examiner Befases to Stake 8 atement
Regarding Its Assets aad.Lisbslities,
Bv T elegraph to the Morning Star.
Philadelphia December 24. The
bank examiner and his assistants were
busily engaged to-day in going over the
books and accounts of tbe Chest
nut Street! National Bank. Tbe
examiner declines to make any ttate
ment regarding the assets and lia
bilities of the institution, but says be
will furnish a complete statement when
hit investigations are completed. Every
effort it being made by President Sing
erly and the directors of the bank to ad -just
the accounts of tbe bank insucb a
manner that creditors will receive every
dollar which is due tbem.
Heidlebacb. Ickeiheimerdt Company
New York City, announce tbat they
have $500,000 in gold leaving London
to-day consigned to them.
THE TRADE SITUATION.
Quittnete rr-.yUta in Wholesale L nes-A
Heavy H Uday Trade la Nearly All
Stations of the Country
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
New York. December 24. Brad
streets ol to morrow will say:
Quietness in wholesale lines, but pro
nounced and notable activity in retail
trade, bave been tbe salient features
in tbit week's trade situation. Price
changes, which are numerous, are large
ly in an upward direction, and the year'
draws to a Close with results as a who e
fully eoualiiOK and in many instances
surpassing early expectations.
Perhaps the most notable feature has
been the unanimity with which the
trade reports from all parts ol the conn-
try, with some few exceptions, point to
a very heavy holiday trade, in nearly all
cases comparing favorably with recent
preceding years. Reports are that stocks
of these goods bave been heavily re
duced. Particularly prominent in re
porting a good retail, tra'3e in 'the West
arc Chicago, it Louis and Kansas City.
At the South. New Orleans reports
retailers reaping a harvest, and Decem
ber trade larger than usual. Similarly
good reports come from Nashville, Sav-
onnab and Memphis, but collections and
ausiness would be larger were it not for
the low price of cotton.
At tbe.East, seasonable conditions pre
vail, wholesale trade being quiet and hoi
iday business active. No improvement
is noted in tbe cotton goods situation
and wage reductiont teem imminent.
Good businett bat been done in boots
and shoes and shipments are far ahead
of last year.
Commercial failures in the United
States remain about normal. The total
for this week amount to 280. f s com
pared with 283 in the previous week, but
is smaller than the total in 1885, when
818 were reported. There are thirty
business failures reported in the Do
minion tbis week, against forty-three
last week.
MOVEMENT OF COTTON.
The World's Vltlbla ttapply Beoelpts a
W. S. Pcite The Exports and Stcoks.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
New Orleans, December 84. Sec
retary Hester's weekly cotton statement
shows the amount brought into sight
was 448.568 bales, against 409.000 las;
year; thus far in December, 1.575 979
against 1,984,718 last year. Tbe total
movement for tbe 115 days of the sea
son, 8 831 568 bales, against 6 083.614
last year and 4698190 year before last
Since September 1st, receipts at all
United States ports were 5.985,447 bales.
against 4.708,089 bales laat year, 8,254,-
269 year before last and 5,018,519 aame
time in 1884. Overland to Northern
mil's and Canada, 694 864 bales, igainst
586 875 last year; Interior stocks in ex
'cess of those beid at tbe close of the
commercial year, 570,125, against 441,
897 last year; Southern mill takings, ex
elusive of tbe amount consumed at
Southern outportt, 481,760 bales, against
415.860 laat year.
Exports for tbe Week were 278,958
against 896 557 last year and for tbe tea-
son 8,561.769, against 8.168,865 last year,
an increase of 889 900 Including s'ocxs
left over, the suooly to date is 6 978 190,
against 6426,168 last year.
Tne world s total visible supply is
4,146 455 against 4.178 975 last year, ol
which 8 927 455 against 8 869 775 bales
last year were American.
THE EXPRESS ROBBERY
The $10,000 Bobbery Still An Unsolved
Mystery.
Columbia Stale, Dec 24th
When Assistant General Superin
tendent Leary was seen laat night and
asked what progress bad been made
towards the solution of the $10 000 rob
bery mystery, be quietly responded:
'There it nothing new." He went on
to say that hit men were at work on the
case, but there had absolutely been no
developments. The police are assisting
in the effort to locate the stolen money
and the thief. The thief may be caught
in quick order, and then again it may
be tbat he will never be cangbt; it it
simply impossible to tell what tbe re
suit of tbe efforts tbat are being made
will be.
A report tbat was current vesterday
to the effect tbat the package had been
found at a small station where it bad
been tent by mistake proved upon in
quiry to be untrue
A SCHOONER WRECKED.
She Cleared from Wilmington With Cargo
Of Lumber.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
I Cape Henry, Va., December 24.
The three-masted schooner Samuel
Hall, Captain Mumford, from Wilming
ton. N. C, to New York, loaded wltb
lumber, went ashore at Chicacomico
life saving station between four and five
o'clock thit morning. The crew of
' seven waa saved. Tbe vessel it in good
condition, but probably will be a total
lots.
CURRENT COMMENT
Mr. Bynam doseu't mind tbe
comments of bis critics as long as he
is able to enjoy his breech-loading
sinecure. Washington Post, Ind.
Secretary Gage's currency
plan can be depended upon to fur
nish Congress with a punching bag
of no small proportions. New York
Journal, Dem.
The 600 employes of the Ko-
komo and El wood (Ind ) glass plants
have been forced to submit to tbe
proposition of their employers, and
they will return to work at less wages
than they were receiving. Another
instance of McKinley prosperity.
Louisville Dispatch, Dem.
Exports from the United
States have increased this year more
than 850,000,000, and those of
France by $42,000,000, while those
of Great Britain bave gone back
ward $23,000,000. Has England's
supremacy In manufa ;ture become a
vanishing quantity? Baltimore Her
old, Dem. i
Mr. Theodore C. Search in his
talk to the Manufacturers' Club said
that we have in this country nearly
70,000,000 consumers, with facilities
for supplying 100,000,000, and that
it is therefore necessary to secure
foreign consuming class of 30,000,-
000 to 40,000,000. But the stat emeu
at Washington, having done nothing
to encourage the shipping tbat wonld
carry focd for these millions abroad,
are now cudgeling their brains to
keep out of the country the consum
ers who are necessary to its perman
ent prosperity. Philadelphia Record,
Dem.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
BOVAL BAKING POWOER CO.. NEW YORK.
ACTOR AND ACTRESS.'
He stood mxni tho shore of Loch Glas
Dhu gazing In rapt admiration on the
broad, dark stretch of glassy waters, on
the bare mountains whose bases were laved
by those waters, but whose peaks cleft the '
clouds, and he listened to the soughing of
the wind among the pines around him. j( '
He heard the plash of sculls. A boat ad
vanced, propelled by a sunburned, gray
eyed girl of for hpr sex robust build. ;
Lassie, ' ' shouted the young man In the
knickerbocker Buit, "if you'll pull me
across tho loch I'll give you a shilling. "
"Into tho boatle, then, wi' ye," she said
as she backed her tiny craft to Where he
stood.
For awhile he gazed from the stern
sheets on his trim waterwoman. Silently
puffing his pipe, he became conscious that
the sunburned face was a perfect oval, that
the eyes were shaded with long, sweeping
lashes, their brows beautifully penciled,
the nose straight as though cut In marblo
saw that the chin had a delicious dimple
and that the mouth was averitable Cupid's
bow in coral, revealing when the lips part
ed two rows of - pearl..
And she beheld a manly, gentlemanlike
young fellow of some 25 years, good look- ,
ing, fairly well dressed, with a genial
smile on his Hps and a good humored
twinkle in his eyes. 'X,.. -
You live on the loch side, lassieF ' he
said Interrogatively, and she answered:
"Aye. An do ye?"
No; wish I did, " he replied. "I'm pet
ting up at McTavish's cot for trout fish
ing." I
Some head gillie s daughter, " he de- ,
cided. '
"A London bank clerk or lawyer taking
a holiday," she soliloquized.
The keel grated on the other shore.
"Here you are, lassie!" said ho. "A
bright new one. ' ' And ho slippew a white
shilling, new from tho mint, into her
"Thantl I - '
She looked at it a moment, then said
with a demure courtesy: j
"Thank yo kindly, 'sir. I'll prize it" !
A day or so later they met again, he
armed with his rod and tackle. Onoe
again he hailed her.
1 ' They tell me the trout swarm under
the lee of that Islet, " he said. "Will you
take me over?" j
"That will I," she replied. "But te
best spot for them is by yon eddy, ten
yards ayint the loch o' the island;"
The sport was excellent. Again and
again he landed the silvery, glittering and
-wriggling trout and salmon. And the
lassie proved herself a useful as well as an
ardent fisherwoman, handling the net with
a smartness evidently born of long experi
ence and giving shrewd suggestions in the
matter of hooks, flies and bait.
"What's your name, lassie?" he asked.
"Jeannie. What mightyours be?"
"Ferrers." &c. '
They chatted on various subjects', and
Ferrers was now and then startled at the
familiarity evinced by his Gaelic compan
ion with subjects ignorance as to which
could easily have been pardoned.
"You're most awfully kind, ' ' he replied.
Then a little awkwardly, as sho sculled
back to the shore, "Will you come again
tomorrow?"
"I'm thinking I'll no bo able tae," she
replied.
"That's a pity. I go to town the day j
after.- I've taken up a deal of your time,
fill III ill 1 I've had tho use of your boat, and 1
through your assistance I've had excellent
sport er here's a sovereign for tho use
of the boat." ' 1
"Nae, nae. I'll no tak a bawbee frae
ye. " And In a moment she was bounding
up the narrow mountain path like a young
roe.
One night some two years after the inci
dent already related abovo young Lord
Castletou lounged into Lady Diana Van
sittart's ballroom with the nonchalance ,
Which was his distinguished characteristic.
His hostess accorded him a gracious
greeting.
"Ah, Castleton, back from the east
tired of shooting tigers?"
' Tired of everything, Lady Dl" then
hastily ' 'except, of course, of the pleasure
of seeing you. "
"Prettily put, but an afterthought." Her
charming ladyship laughed. "Why don't
you marry some nice girl and settle down?' '
'Afraid I should soon be more tired of
that than anything," drawled his lordship.
"I've met heaps of nice girls, but none I
shouldn't in time, I think, get tired of,"
and he added mentally, " except' one." j
"Let me introduce you to one," said
Lady Diana. "One who is seldom seen in
London society, one who is as tender,
good, gentle and wise as she Is wealthy,
highborn and influential aoottish chief-
tainess who spends her timet mostly in the
wildness of her native glens and mountains
among her cottars and her crofters, who
love her with all the devotion of the high-
landers of old days. '
They cross the ballroom. Lady Diana
approaches a girl who is surrounded by a
bevy of admirers-old and young
' Let me introduce, ' she whispers, ' Lady
Jane Carmichael Lord Castleton."
"What an actress you'd have made!" he
said an hour later.
It was the wedding of the season, and'
Lady Diana to this day claims that but for
her they never would have met, and that
it is the most successful match she ever
made. London News.
: Smoking the Navrgileh.
A Greek thus tells how the- nargileh la
smoked by his brethren: '
"Only pure tobacco is used in the nar
gileh. It is grown expressly for the purpose
in Persia. The weed, there is called tum
beky. This kind of tobacco is first washed
two or three times by tho man who keeps
the restaurant. He puts it under a faucet
and squeezes the juice out. Otherwise the
tobacco would be too strong. Then, when
the smoke ot it is drawn through the wa
ter, the tobacco having, of course, been
dried first, all the nicotine is deposited in
the water, and a delightful and innocuous
smoke is the result ' ' New York Tribune.
The golden age of woman was the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries of French
history. During all this time France was
practically ruled by a succession of bril
liant and able women.
Strictly Accurate.
"I shot a turkey onoe," said the return
ed traveler, "so big that it took five men
to hold him."
After the usual expressions had been
passed round he continued:
"I meant to hold him after he was cook
ed." Odds and Ends.
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