North Carolina Newspapers

jhe TKEceMij Mint. W ILLIAM H. BEBNABD Editor and Proprietor. . WILMINGTON, N. C. Friday, - - May 31, 1901. GREAT MANY "WHYS." vThe Republican papers of the North are just now giving a good deal of attention to the South, a different kind from that they gave it a few years ago. The immediate cause of this attention is the move ment inaugurated by' Senator Mc Laurin, of South Carolina, -to en tice Democrats from their own par ty and make them allies of the Re publican party by endorsing its pol icies -and voting for them, while still calling themselves Democrats, as Mr. McLaurin does, or "Com mercial Democrats," as the gentle man who introduced Senator Mc Laurin at Gaff ney called them. That's what Senator McLaurin thinks they ought to do, what he is trying to persuade them to do, and that's what the Republican leaders and organs in the North would like to have them do. These leaders and organs would not care what name they did it un der, whether these allies called themselves McLaurin Democrats, Protection Democrats, McKinley Democrats, Commercial Democrats, or any other kind of Democrat, provided they kicked against the Democratic party and helped keep the Republican party in power. In commenting upon an inter view of Senator Carmack, of Ten nessee, in which he spoke of the McLaurin movement, the Philadel phia Press puts the case thus: "The idea.' said Senator Carmack, of Tennessee, in a Washington interview, which has been widely commented upon, 'that the South is about to make a tumultuous rush for the Republican party is pure nonsense." "Nobody is asking the 'South to make a tumultuous rush' or any other of 'rush' to the Republican party. No body expects it. This country is not made up of a 'Southland 'North,' or of any other section. This is a coun of States and citizens, an indissoluble union of indestructible States, gov erned by their free citizen. "These citizens in Southern States, by the hundred thousand, believe in ine gold standard. They want protec tion. They back expansion. They uppori a vigorous foreign policv, They want a StrOMS f0At Than loyed to see the flag crowning the wans or Feking. They want it to stay in the Philippines. They desire Cuba to be kept free from yellow fever. They have ho place nor patience for any claim of 'sover eignty' which will bring disease to our Gulf ports. They want a sound bank ing Bystem. They prefer a bank cir culation to either more silver or more legal tender notes. They are in favor of having their rivers and harbors im proved. - "All these things citizens of the Southern States desire. There is scarcely a single Southern State to day which has not a white majority in favor of this platform, and taking all legal voters the majority for these principles would be overwhelming. Then why not vote for it? Why not support it? 'Call the party what you will. Oiveitwhat name you please. But stand for the principles you believe m. Vote for them. Send men to Congress to vote for them. Give the country security. "Southern business needs it So do Southern railroads. Southern enter prises languish for security. Free , silver would bankrupt the South. Wildcat banks would ruin itr busi ness. Yellow fever rife again in Cuba would infect Southern ports with pestilence once more. Southern man ufacturers need a foreign market. Ex pansion brings one. This is a unique combination of assumption and fact, of truth and error, of frankness and duplicity, some of which is in striking con trast to the tone used towards the South but a few short years ago, but it assumes too much in sumiosinir that average Southern intelligence cannot see through all this and de-1 tectihe motive and the sophistry in I it. Nobody, as it says, expects the South to make a "tumultuous" or any other kind of a rush to the Re publican party. The South, which has resisted overtures and ; tempta-1 woub Deiore, is too well known and understood to justify any expecta- I tion of that kind, but the Republi-1 uan leaders do hope .and perhaps ex pect that enough Democrats may be persuaded by Missionary, McLaurin and his assistants to vote with the Republicans to give the Republican party a stronger and more respecta ble foothold in the South and : J-ZrB0 "t0mcar h tb they would rZ S mairity of one even tter of giving SSr 7 U8e the eiPlaDation of the more ob of gmng Republican support to jectionable cW. HW0a tw snr.n wir ,&nn t x . - , 1 run for office, feeling that by thus doing they were strengthening the Republican party and securing more support for these Republi can policies. -It may be incident ally remarked that organs like the Press have been somewhat tardy in discovering, or at least acknowl edging, thatthis conntryis not made up of a "South" and '-North" or of any other section, a fact which representatives of the South have been insisting upon for years before they could get the organs referred to to acknowledge it. For years; Presidential campaign after cam paign, they harped;on the sectional line, and either scolded or pitied the "benighted" South which per sisted in being Democratic and re fusing to admit the divine orisrin of - j-rcmuurttia as mi&rnt the Republican party and the divine inspiration of tariff protection and such other policies as that party stood for. Now, however, it is expedient to break the "solid South", for they haye no assurance that there may not be trouble, and party divisions in the North which might jeopardize the hold the Re- publican party has 'on the national Government and hence it would be a good thing to divide the South and get some votes to offset - the votes lost in the North v As for be ing especially interested in the pro gress and prosperity of the South any more now than they were a few years ago when they were scolding it and considering the ways and means of neutralizing its political power as some of them are threat ening to do now by reducing its representation in Congress and in the electoral college, is mere moon shine through which any one can see. While, as we have remarked, there are some true statements j in the editorial from the Press, mnch of it is mere assumption without foun dation, and would be more correctly stated if put in the negative form. While there may be, and doubtless are, some persons in the South in favor of all these things the Press says, there are incomparably more who are not in favor of them as the Press and the party for which it speaks understands them. The mass of the white people of the South are practically honest and sincere and are opposed to the policies of the Republican party on the tariff pro tection, money, expansion, etc., as wrong in principle and not to be endorsed from selfish motives, the only motive that could influence'any Democrat to endorse them. If Mr. McLaurin proposes to travel- that road they will let him go with a very small company. ' A COMING EMPIRE. There is a coming empire in the South Pacific, which has not attrac ted as much attention as it would perhaps, of the states composing it were not British colonies. But it is growing all the same, and stead ily and surely approaching the time when it will take the reins in its own hands, declare, its indepen dence and take its place among the the nations as one of the world powers. The following, which we clip from the Atlanta Constitution, gives some idea of the resources and growth of this comparatively little known but richly endowed country, a continent, which for a long time, was classed as an isljhd: "Last year the total value of the products of Australia amounted to $550,000,000, apportioned as follows: Pastoral, $150,000,000; agricultural, $140,000,000; mineral, $10C,000,000, and manufacturing, $160,000,000. "Australia's wool crop alone amounted last year to $100,000,000. No country on the globe has embark ed more extensively in sheep raising man Australia, ana sne is reaping magnificent results from her enter prise in this respect. Her ranches last year-contained 100,000,000 head of sheep. . "In deposits of gold and silver Aus tralia is fabulously rich. In 1850 the value of her gold output has aggre gated $1,800,000,000, and since 1880 the value of her silver output has reached $150,000,000. She is much richer in gold than in silver. Her silver deposits were not discovered until comparatively recent years., "Australia's climate is varied in character and favorable alike to agri cultural and manufacturing opera tions. If she continues to develop at the present rate there is no telling what condition of prosperity she will ultimately reach. "Recently the colonies of Australia have federated into one general gov ernment and this political change has brought about many internal improve ments. Numerous railway systems in tersect each other, each doing an im- mense business and each being impor tant factors in building up domestic interests. "Australia is no longer sparsely set tled. From every quarter of the globe streams of immigrants have swelled her population until in many localities she has become as densely populated as some of the districts of England." The majority of the people there are of English and Irish blood, with ftN the characteristic energy, push and pluck of these races, with the additional advantages of more indi vidual freedom and opportunity to strike out for self-betterment with out the incubus of a privileged aris- tocrac7 or handicapping landlord- 18m t0 keep them down. It would be SJ to suppose that such a peo- People, with such a country, such resources and such possibilities will be content to long remain an pendage of England. ap- THE AMENDMENT ACCEPTED- Although the Piatt amendment was accepted by the Cuban conven- factthatitwas carried by . ucu uuo acceptance was a matter of "neces sity and not of choice. It was not accepted willingly but because the more thoughtful and conservative members , of the convention con cluded that in as much as Cuba was in no condition to contend with the United States it was good policy to accept the amendment and thus settle, as far as that might do it, the relations between that country and this. Under the circumstances they acted wisely, for if the amend ment had been rejected American occupation would be indefinite, whereas with the acceptance there would be no plausible excuse for prolonging that occupancy and the CnhATia urill j. . . . .1 their own affairB. x ovuuur, get control of I Practically Cuba does hot get inde pendence. It gets self government under a substantial American pro tectorate! this country securing cer tain rights and privileges in consid eration, as it were, of the part it took in securing the "independence" which Cuba does not get. This country, or rather the administra- m ft aomiigton, was in a pobi- won 10 dictate its terms, which it -rr did, and succeeded in bavin those terms accepted! simply because Cnba was not in aVposrtion to reject them. While we admit that the men who framed the clauses in the Piatt amendment showed shrewdness in the concessions demanded, conces sions which will in the long run be beneficial both to this country and to Cuba, still there is little glory in thus taking advantage of opportun ity to dictate to a weaker people whose only alternative was to accept or submit to worse. For all practical purposes this country has, with this amendment accepted, virtually as much control over Cuba as if it was annexed. STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS Gov. Ay cock Makes Appointments The A. & M. College Sweeping Changes in the Management. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C, May 28. Trustees of the A. & M. College, in annual meeting to night, ordered sweeping changes in the management of the institution Instructorships are abol ished in five departments English, civil engineering, mechanical engi neering, physics and electric depart ment. The change is in order that the college expenses shall be gotten within range of appropriations of the last General Assembly. Governor Ayeock appoints as State Board of Elections: Wilson G. Lamb, Martin county; Robert T. Clay well. Burke; R. A. Doughton, Alleghany; Clarence Call, Wilkes; A. B. Free man, Henderson. Walter B. Neal is commissioned judge and L. D. Robinson, of Anson county, solicitor for the Eighth dis tricL ' EXPOSITION VIA A. C. L. Round Trip Rates Offered Very Low and tbe Service Unsurpassed. Round trip tickets will be on sale by the Atlantic Coast Line to Buffalo, N Y., on account of the Pan-American Exposition, at the following rates, the first named being "Class A," and sold daily May 10th to Sept 30th, in clusive, nnal limit JNov. 3rd, 1901, to be good going and returning same route and limited to continuous pass age in the same direction, and the second named being "Class B," sold aaiiy may luin to (date to be an nounced later), final limit 15 days from date of sale, to be good going and returning same route and limited to continuous passage in each direc tion, requiring? deposit with and vali dation by joint agent at Buffalo. Augusta, Ga., Barnwell, Ben net ts ville Camden, Florence, Laurens, Marion, Newberry, Orangeburg, Sum ter, Prosperity, Cberaw, Clinton, Columbia, Darlington, Denmark, Dil lap, S. C, Wilmington, Rowland, Wadesboro, Pembroke, Maxton and Gibson, N. C, $37.10 and $33.15; Charleston, S. (X, $4L90 and $36.05; Emporia, Va., $28.20 and $25.00; Fay etieville, $35.90 and $32.10; Golds boro, N. C, $33.40 and $29.70; Green- vuie, xm. v., 3Z.8U and $28.80; Hope Mills, N. C, $36.25 and $32.45; James ville, N. C, $34.40 and $29.75; Kins ton, N. C, $34.20 and $30.15; Lanes, 8 C, $39.50 and $35.30; Petersburg, Va., $25.85 and $22.95; Plymouth, N. C, $35 and $30.45; Rocky Mount, N. O., $31.35 and $27. 65 : Selma. N. C $33145 and 29 7n. Tarboro, N. C, $32 20 and 28.50; Washington. N. C, $33.35 and $29.60; Weldon, $29.50 and $25.85; Wilson, $32.20 and $28 50. HAD FUN WITH THE CONDUCTOR. After An-hllp the Cond actor Had I nn With the ftirl. There me six New York schoolgirls who tide on the Sixth avenue cars every day whose special mission in life-seems to be to have fun with the trolley conduct ors. The other day when the conductor came for the fare one of them opened her purse and began slowly and laboriously to count out 30 pennies, which she drop ped one by one into his outstretched hand, while her companions giggled glee fully at the look of surprise that gradu ally spread over his face. But he wag equal to the emergency and said politely, .rhank you, miss," as he went away. They wanted transfers for Fifty-ninth street, and when they got them each one put h;rs In her mouth and began to chew it up. Then each transfer was rolled into a small ball, and sharp teeth went, to work to make it a hard ball at that. By this time the passengers were all in terested, and the girls were wild with en joyment. When they got on the Fifty ninth street car, they became sober as Judges. Each one looked wonderfully in nocent as she dropped something like a small pill into the conductor's hand. Ho took the first one, turned it over and then looked at the girl who had given It to him. Next he spread it out. transfer fashion, and then the next girl dropped a ball Into his hand. He went through the same performance, and so on as if it was the usual way transfers were given him. Ihe girls couldn't stand it, and they bmst out laughing, but his undertaker like gravity was not disturbed. His time came a little later. They Waned 6et off at Seventy-second street They stood up In a body and mo tioned, but the car sped on as if shot out of a catapult. When they had gone four squares beyond their destination, it oc curred to one of them to ring the bell. She got off, and the conductor laid a de taining hand on the arm of the next girl as he jerked the bell. He let them off one at a time, and not until the car got to Eighty-third street did the last one leave. New York World. mFl". one ?f tte 0,de8t known metals. The Chinese have used it in the fabrica tion 01 tneir brasses and bronzes from nine immemorial. The number of Buddhists is computed to be 455,000,000. Rocky Mount Argonaut: Our town and the surrounding country were shocked last Thursday morning to learn of the sudden death of ex Mayor J. H. Baker, which sad event occurred at nis nome in this city on Wednesday night, May 15th, of pneu monia. Seventeen memberships in the New York Produce Exchange were sold at auction yesterday. The highest price paid was $300 and the lowest 1225. T.A.B illlll. M WW. . l . 1 . 1 1 . 1 . . a murjioi 000m was on, tne mem- berships sold as high as $1,000 each. - How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Beward for HaTOXScSe- ,hat eaMot 66 cnr $ F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, o. We. the undersigned, bate known w 1 ney for the last M years ana believe him per fectly honorable In U bnelness transactions ana financially able to carry out anyobSSa ttons made by their firm. uca west & Truax. Wholesale Dtaralsts, Toledo o it, mfVJSS?tarrh 0111 1-8 ! taken Internally, act fa2Ml E2? JJSS?m 1 mwoK' out- by all Droi- f-'.E wie. Bold 1 Family Puis are the best IRRIGATION SUPPLIES. Pumping: From Wells and Streams, The Various Motors In Use. - Sinking wells - Into water bearing strata to secure Irrigation supplies Is being resorted to as never before. Newer and broader conceptions of the relation of subterranean water to irri gation have recently prevailed, says Professor E. J. Wlckson of California. This follows because it may be much cheaper to raise water to adjacent tow ers than to catch it In a remote ravine and pipe it for miles. However this may be, irrigation undertakings have been recently established very largely upon wells and pumps or upon flowing wells wherever they could be had. In California during the last three years there have been perhaps ten times as many pumping outfits set up for irrigation 'as had been employed during the whole earlier irrigation de velopment of the state. Large irriga tion companies , sank groups of wells and pumped from them into their dis tributing ditches and flumes when, for lack of rain, their immense reservoirs went dry. Individual irrigators sank wells and bought pumping plants when the ditch water failed and have now learned the superiority of the home supply, to be drawn upon just when It can be used to the best advantage. Large-regions which had never se cured irrigation systems were forced by drought to seek water, and, having found it below ground in ample quan tities, they will not fail In the future to ivae Irrigation as a supplement to the rainfall. Over large areas of the country wind mills are used as motors for irrigation pumps. They unquestionably serve an excellent purpose, under favorable cir cumstances, up to the limits of their capacity, but Irrigation for fruit grow- i ing, except In the family garden or on small areas of small fruits, is proceed ing upon the basis of motors of higher efficiency. Gasoline engines are being used even up to a capacity of 5,000 gallons of water per minute, but the ordinary plants are less than one-tenth of that. Crude oil engines are also used, and steam plants using small stationary and portable engines are pressed Into service, while electric mo tors along long power circuits from generators at waterfalls or other great sources of power are being fully em ployed. Instances of the profitable em ployment of all these agencies are abundant all through the fruit growing districts of the arid region. Where large streams are adjacent to fruit lands and diversion at a sum clently high level is not practicable ele vation by pump to a proper point for gravity flow or direct application from the discharge pipe of the pump is being largely resorted to. On the river bank lands In California very large steam and gasoline pumps are used both for drainage and Irrigation at different seasons of the year, as either Is desir able. Recently capacious pumpln. plants Installed upon barges have been used for custom pumping, delivering water to riverside orchards. TT 1 I . njurauiic rams are aiso useo to a limited extent where conditions favor them. A very lnterestiag way for taking water for Irrigation when the river is running high between levels which pro tect reclaimed land Is the use of si phons over the crowns of the levees. To cut the levee would be dangerous, and flood gates are few, but water can be delivered here and there by siphons as desired. Made of galvanized iron strong enough to resist the pressure, the air is exhausted by a pump, and the water flows over. Some of the si phons are two feet in diameter and de liver a large stream, though smaller pipes are generally employed. WIS HARD PROBLEM. 'Am Obstreperous Wife and an Insur ance Policy In Her Name. It happened in an insurance office. The caller, who was a large man wltb very red whiskers, came in and intro duced himself as Mr. So-and-so, who had tanen out a life policy for ? 10,000 about iour years before. i remember," said the man at the wmaow. T 1 1 1L ,. . x uuu me poncy maae out to my wife that is, I had it made payable to ner. v en, 1 want It changed. We've had a falling out, and she's gone back home, and so, of course, I don't want to carry that policy In her name any lon ger." "In that case the thing yon want to do is to-nave ner formally transfer the pol ity 10 you. wnais sue got, to do with it? Ton know that I took out that policy and that I ve made all the payments, carried . in ner name just to make it easy for her to collect in case I died. Now I want to take It out of her name. We've dis solved partnership." wnat you want her to do is to have uer sign oTer the policy to you." one wouida't sign over anything. Why can t you just change this policy and put it In my name?" "She is the policyholder, and so far as the face of the policy shows you have no rights whatever. So far as the reading Of the policy goes to show you have no .uwresi m tne policy except as the person upon whose death the payment of the yuuey is contingent." (irPL i ., . aum is, tne only thing J can do in tbe rivuung iq go ana ale t Tl. 1 .1 . ... -.v.tv . ,ine only tnm yu can do ""'v" 'a ny way affect the opera tion; of this policy." it i a.e, 1 suppose she gets the money. 'f8:,If "he can P'oduce the policy." 'Well, she can't because I've got it locked np But it ain't worth anything w w as 11 leuua now, is it? "Nothing whatever " i, It t p pay,n on it.i though, I lose tu- luut x put in. "You lose all except a surrender value. y? ?'t collect that. The policy holder is the only one who may claim uinu v . "What in thunder can I do?" vxo ana mate an arrangement with your wife." "Po you know my wife?" "Then yon don't know what you're sug- " rceuia 10 me tne only thing I can do at present is to nnA !,-?.. and keep her out of that $10,000 until my iflWTPr Ofln tamo J ' have a talk with her.-New York Tehv " Harvesting;. A HfH olrl orwl , . . . walk out on Union street the other day and as they walked the aunt eaught her a'.' uer aunr wai a m ",1L lu unarp eage of her shoe heel and tore off several inches of lace "Won't you tear it off for me," dear?" ouc aun. 1 caunoi mend it now " The accommodating little girl dropped on her knee and for several minutes there was a sound as of tearing goods really much more tearing than was neces sary to remove a piece of lace only half an Inch wide. "Haven't you finished yet?" finally ask ed the aunt. - J'V sai? little rising weari ty. "I was taking aU this off. I wanted enough for my ' doll's skirt while I was It do." Memphis Scimitar.. wouldn't She Meant Becoming;, Her mother was trying on her new spring hat, and Eleanor looked on ad miringly. , v "Mamma," she said, "yonr hat la SKJ5 bejgolng.'' It. GODNTYBONDED DEBT Statement of Outstanding New Hanover Bonds for New Court House. MANY HAVE BEEN REDEEMED Of the Original Issue of $50,000 There Is Yet $42,000 for Payment, flie Balk of Which is Not Dae Until 1907. The Denomination?, Etc. In view of the fact ; that the people of New Hanover are soon to vote up on the question of the issuance of $50,000 boifds for public road improvement and in the light of the further fact that exaggerated state ments are being made as to the amount of the present outstanding bonded in debtedness of the county, the follow ing statement of the bonds issued for the building of the new court house as officially prepared by Mr. Owen Fennell, clerk of the Finance Commit tee of the Board of Commissioners, will be read with interest: STATEMENT OF BONDED INDEBTEDNESS. Nos. 1 to 20, inclusive, $100 -denomination, due 1902. . $ 2.000.00 Nos. 1 to 12 inclu&ive, $500 denomination, due 1902.. 6,000.00 Total $8,000.00 Nos. 1 to 10 inclusiv $500 due 1902: redeemei 5,000.00 Due 1902, $ 3,000.00 Nos. 21 to 40 inclusive, $100, due 1907... 2.000.00 Nos. 13 to 32 inclusive, $500 aue, iao7 10,000.00 Total $12,000.00 Nob. 33 to 40 inclusive, due iy07 ; redeemed : 800. 00 Due Jan. 1907, $11,200.00 Nos. 41 to 70 inclusive, $100, due 1912 3,000.00 Nos. 33 to 56 inclusive, $500, due 1912 12,000.00 Total $15,000.00 Nos. 41 to 52,$100, redeemed 200.00 Nos. 44 to 53,$100, redeemed 1,000.00 Nos. 59 to 68, $100, redeemed 1,000.00 Due Jan. 1912 $12,800.00 Nos. 71 to 100 inclusive,$100, due 1917 3,000.00 Nos. 57 to 80 inclusive, $500, due 1917 12,000.00 Due Jan. 1917 $15,000.00 It will therefore be seen that of tbe $50,000 issue for the new court house, $8,000 of the same have been re duced and $42,000 is still outstanding and due as follows: Jan. 1902, $3,000; Jan. 1907, $11,200; Jan. 1912, $12,800; Jan. 1917, $15,000. EFFECTS OF THE FLOOD. A. & Y. and W. & W. Trains Were Tied Up Yesterday On Account of Wash onts Schedules Resumed. Passenger and freight traffic between Wilmington and Fayetteville on the A. & Y. trans were at a standstill yes terday ou account of the submersion of nearly half a mile of the track be yond Hilton bridge and just as the A. & Y. track branches off from that of the W. C. & A. The submerged sec tion of the track is just beyond the confluence of the Cape Fear and Northeast rivers and the lands there abouts being yery low the wafer by reason of the floods in the up country broke across the old rice fields in that vicinity and completely covered the rails at some points washing the earth from unuer the cross-ties. The train for Fayetteville went out as usual yesterday morning but soon had to return and a force of trackmen were put to work at repairing the damage. Other attempts to get out were made yesterday afternoon and last night. but to no avail. The train, hower.will likely resume its regular schedule to day. - Train 49 from the north last night did not get in at all from Goldsboro and points north on account of the washout of a trestle just beyond the Neuse river bridge, two miles this side of Goldsboro. It was expected, how ever, that the train would get in this morning about 4 o'clock. DROPPED DEAD IN DRUG STORE. Yonof Mr. George Evans Pell Dead While Waiting for Prescription Yesterday. George Evans, a young white man aged 23 years and a resident of Middle Sound, dropped dead yesterday morn ing about 10:30 o'clock fir front of Hardin's Palace Pharmacy, whither he had gone for medjeine to relieve a severe pain in his chest, about which he informed Mr. C. H. Edens, with whom he was talking a few minutes before. He purchased a box of tablets from Mr. Hardin and went out, but soon came back and complained of intense suffering. . He sat down on some bags of set-d at the front of the store, and vbile Mr. 0nmer, one of the clerks in the store, was preparing a prescription for him he toppled over and died almost instantly. Dr. C. D. Bell, the coroner, was summoned and he pronounced the' death as a result of heart disease. The body was taken to the Undertaking establishment of Mr. W. E. Yodd. where it was prepared for burial and from whence it was taken to the home of his sister, Mrs. L. J. Mason, on Middle uound, for interment to day. Tne Floods Are General. Mr. R. R. Stone, who got home Sun day from Memphis, says the floods by rain appear to be general from here to Chattanooga, Tenn. The whole face of tne earth, ne says, is covered by water and the damage to cotton and other crops is appalling. The farmers are very much discouraged and are necessarily badly 'Un the grass " Mr. Stone is a very observant man when it 1 comes to growing crops and his opinion that there has been much damage car ries with it much weight ISneeeas Worth Knowing-. 40 yean success in tbe South, proves Hnehea' Tonic a great remedy for Chills ana all ittalartal Fevers. Better than Quinine. Onarir,S2iiV? At Druggiata. 50c ana s 1.00 bottles. t HOW TO GAIN FLESH Persons have been known to gain a pound a day by taking an ounce of Scott's emulslcn. It is strange, but it often happens. Somehow the ounce pro duces the" "pound ; it seems to start the digestive machinery going , properly, so that the patient is able to .digest and absorb his ordinary food, which he could not do before, and that is the way the gain is made. A certain amount of flesh is necessary for health.; if you have not got it you can get it by taking Scott's Emulsion. You will find it just as use ful in summer as in winter, and if you are thriving upon it don't stop because the weather is warm. If you have not tried -it, send for free sample its agreeable taste will surprise you. SCOTT fi BOWNE, Chemists, 409-415 Pearl Street, New York. ZX. and $1.00 ; all druggists. ROYAL ARCANUM COUNCILS. Will Celebrate Twenty-fourth Aoolversary of Founding of the Order. Corntiu.i Harnett and Carolina Councils, Royal Arcanum, of this city, are arranging to celebrate in fitting style on Thursday, June . 20th, the twenty-fourth anniversary of the founding of the order in America. The celebration will most probably be in the nature of an excursion down the river on the steamer Wil mington, with stops at all points of interest along the route and a big col lation at Southport. Cornelius Harnett Council has appointed its committee of arrangements as follows: Capt. J. C. Morrison (chairman), Messrs. W. H. Turlington and B. J. Jacobs. Caro lina Council will make its appoint ment Monday night. The Royal Arcanum both in the State and nation have recently had a great impetus in the way of member ship and the anniversary celebration all over the world will be more elabo rate this year than ever. THE STRAWBERRY IS PASSINQ. End of Season is Approaching, and Prices Are Beginning to Droop. The day of the luscious stra wberry for this season, at least, is about over, that stage having about approached when it is no longer profitable to ship them North. The markets are flooded, it is said, and the prices are now very low not high enough in many in stances to pay much more than trans portatton charges. Several commis sion houses have already advised no further shipments and the decline of the season is evidenced by the car loads of pickers that are returning each day from up the Wilmington and Wel don railroad. This week will wind up the crop, which though short, has been fairly remunerative to the grower. Yester day the shipments showed a decided falling off from the days of the week previous. Messenger Boy Ron Over. Barnett Duke, a Western Union messenger boy, while riding his bicycle in the vicinity of Third and Market streets yesterday morning about 10 o'clock, was run over and painfully bruised by a horse attached to a buggy and being driven by Miss Shepard, a daughter of Dr. Jos. C. Shepard. Tbe accident could not have' been averted by either Miss Shepard or the boy and is just such a one as is likely to occur at any time. The little fellow after temporary medical attention by Dr. W. E. Storm was taken to his home at No. 219 Hanover street, where at last accounts he was doing very well. Death of Mr. Theodore Seasons. The Star regrets to learn from a correspondent at Klondyke, N. C, of the death yesterday morning of Mr. Theodore Sessoms, one of the best, known citizens of Bladen county. His death occurred of paralysis at 2:45.1 o'clock A. M. at his residence in Lake Creek township, aged 51 years, 7 months and 23 days. The funeral will probably be held to-day. Porthcominf Marriage. Announcement has been made of the forthcoming marriage on the evening of June 12th, of Miss Francis Hamilton Meade, of Birmingham, Ala., to Mr. Arthur Williams Belden, formerly of Wilmington and a son of. Capt. Louis Belden, but now a dis tinguished chemist at one of the large manufacturing enterprises of Bir mingham. s He Fooled tbe Surgeons. All doctors told Renick Hamilton, of West Jefferson, O , after suffering 18 months from Rectal Fistula, he would die unless a costlv operation was performed ; but he cured himself with five boxes of bucklen's Arnica Salve, the surest Pile cure on Earth, and the best Salve in the World. 25 cents a box. Sold by R. R. Bellamy, Druggist. y f A Crazy Spaniard. Philip Vink, an aged Spaniard, was placed in jail yesterday on account, of his insanity. He was taken in charge by Deputy Harvey Cox and a com mission of lunacy passed upon his mental condition. He will be taken to Raleigh for treatment as soon as the Hospital authorities are heard from. Shallotte Presbyterian Church. The Presbyterians of " Shallotte, N. C, have recently completed a very haadsome church. Rev. P. ti Morton will begin a series of revival services in th exarch to-morrow. He will leave w umingjon to day to conduct the services. J. Q. Carr, Esq., is attending to aome professional duties in Duplin county this week. THE HEAVY RAINFALL Interesting Report by Climate and Crop Service Depart ment, Weather Bureau. NORTH CAROLINA SECTION. For Week Ended Monday, May 27(b, the Average Pall Was Five Inches for the State The General Sum mary of the Results The following report for the North Carolina Section, Climate and . Crop service, U. S. Weather Bureau, was issued yesterday, covering the week ended, Monday, May 27th: All minor features of the crop con ditions during the past week are over shadowed by the tremendous Io3s re sulting from the heavv rainfall on the 21st and 22nd. The storm ap peared on the coast of Texas on the morning of tbe 19th, crossed the Gulf States, and thence passed northward over central and western North Caro lina. Tne characteristic feature of the storm was the extensive area cov ered by the excessive Drecipitation, which averaged oyer 5.00 inches for the State, as compared with a normal for the wees: of only one inch. At some points the downpour was ex ceedingly heavy; Marion, McDowell county, reported 7.25 inches in 24 hours; Statesville, Iredell, 7.40; Chapel Hill and Durham, 5.60; the rainfall diminished eastward to about normal near tbe coast The damage causedby the beating rains, high winds and subsequent floods in every creek and river, to farm4- lands, crops, barns, mills, bridges, and railroads cannot at present be estimated. Space will not permit a detailed account here of the loss reported, which seems to have been greatest in McDowell, Bun combe, and Mitchell counties in the west, and Orange and Durham in the central section, but most other coun ties, except in the extreme east por tion, suffered a proportional loss. Up lands were badly washed, in some in stances wnoie acres swept perfectly clear; an unusuallv laree area, nf lrtnr. lands was submerged, and in the west particularly immense crops of tbe nnest wneat were covered with sedi ment or totally destroyed. Corn and cotton in tne bottoms were very small and most of it will have to be re planted, which will be the third re planting in many places. The floods in the Yadkin, Catawba and most other western rivers, as weli as mne Roanoke and Cape Fear, td u uiku as, or nigner, man pre viously recorded. The dykes pro tecting the State farms on the. lower Roanoke were broken. The temperature was slicrhtlv normal until the latter part of the weex, which was again ram v and cool. Crops have become very grassy, and na mey are sin 1 DacKward and small tney need working to prevent being Bwoiaerea oy me grasa and weeds. a. period or warm, clear weather is needed to dispel the present gloomy UUllOOK. Wheat and oats generally remain in excellent cocaiiion, and where only beaten down will recover. Many iavuraoie reports were received from sou mem and eastern counties. Cotton has a fairly good stand, though is dying in consequence of loo much rain and cold weather; chopping has ueen mucn aeiayed. flowing corn, setting tobacco, and planting peanuts, have made but little headway this wee. Fruit is dropping considerably. It is worthy of remark that a large number of correspondents report a scarcity of labor. , Rainfall for the week at selected stations (in inches): Goldsboro 1.14, Greensboro 4 04, Lumber ton 6.98, Newborn 2 28, Weldon 2.76. Charlotte 4 90. Wilmington 2.80, Raleigh 4 33. Southport 3 21, Auburn 6 48, Saxon 5.13, Chapel Hill 8.68, Monroe 3.90, Marion 9.53, Statesville 8.14, Patter son 7.99, Brewers 7.00. THE SOUTHERN'S MACHINISTS Believed That a General Strike Wilt Averted by Another Conference Wltb Officials. be By Teiegrapb to the Herning 8 tar. Washington, May 29. Vice Pres ident Gannon, of the Southern Rail way, to day said that so far none of me macbinists of that system had stopped work except those at Charles ton and that he had taken no steps to fill the places of theCharleston men, thinking it probable that they would return to work. Mr. Gannon has sent out a notice to be posted on the doors of the machine shops of the line, giving some of the details of the conference Monday with the committee representing the ma chinists and explaining the differences which developed over tbe demand for a nine-hour day. KnOxville, Tenn., May 29. Presi dent B. F. Henry of the Southern Railway machinists, said to-day that he believed the machinists would "come to terms without a strike after another conference with Mr.Gannon." A built tin was posted at the Lons dale shops here, asking the men to take no action jintil full report of the coming conference. President Henry said he had order- eu ine inariesion men to return to work, as their going out was due to a misquotation of a telegram. He has received reports from machinists at Salisbury, Knoxville and Charleston that they have voted to strike. Monroe Journal: Mr. Gillam Pressly, of Vance township, died Mon day, May 27th at the age of 73 years. He had been in bad health for some time. The Journal has been in forrnrd that a silk m&nufantnroK ..vhn owi s a mill in this State-desirts to bu:id another, and has expressed a de sire to come to Monroe. A cow belonging to Mr. Wm. Tomberlin of east Monroe township, was killed by iigntning ounoay. Several cows were standing near a wire fetce, when a tree also near the fence but over a hundred yards away from the cows, wa struck. The current ran tbe wire and the cOw dropped instantly. Others as near to the fence as this one,' were not injured. Two hundred Boers have sur rendered at Palapye, Bechunaland, and fortytwo wagon loads of men, women and children have surrendered at Fort Tuli, Rhodesia. 4 nl7 rj p H L Ly FACTORY LOADED IWills Insist upon having them, take no ofbem and yoa ALL DEALERS To produce the best result in fruit, vegetable or grain th fertilizer used must contain enough 'Potash. For partic ulars see our pamphlets. y send thfem free. fiF.RMAW IT att nuKKS 93 Nassau St., New York. THE A. & JVt. COLLEQeT Chanies Made by the Board of Trustees Committees Appointed by Board of Agriculture Marshall Case. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C, May 28.-The against A. J. Marshall, for fcom,tef feiting, came up in the Federal Court to-day and an order was entered that "defendant go without da . clerk directed to reinstate tke case on the docket if requested by the district attorney and issue capias for defend ant." This action means anal h. ' donment of the prosecution. The trustees of the A. & M. Ooli. at a meeting to-day abolished the pro fessorship of animal industry j charge of Prof. Johnson. The chair of Agriculture was declared &. Prof. Irby. the will make contest before the Board r,f Agriculture. The resiimatmn nf W. Thompson, Commissioner of Im migration, was accepted. No suc cessor electedet. The following committees were ap pointed by the Board of Agriculture: Executive S. L. Patterson, J. & Cunningham, W. A. Graham, E. L Partridge, L G. Waugh Finance S. L. Patterson, J. B. Cof field, A. T. McCullum, J. P. McRse, William Dunn. ' Quarantine regulations A. A. Can non, C. N. Allen, S. L. Patterson. 1 CHINA AGREES TO PAY INDEMNITY. Government Porced to Yield to Demands of the Powers Foreign Troops to Evacuate. By Telegraph to tne Morume star. Washington, May 29. Tue De. partment of State has been informed reliably that the Chinese government has issued a decree agreeing to pay an indemnity of 450,000,000 taels, eouiva lent to about $337,000,000 at the pres enl rate pf exchange. It is known noW that the whole Bubject of indem rBtty will be closed up before the end of the present month. If that is not done and evacuation is not under waj on a large scale, hen the Chinese gov ernment must be assessed tl. 000. 000 each day after June 1st, next to com pensate tne powers for the mainten ance of their military forces in China. Under this whip the Chinese govern ment has been forced to vield. It is not known that the Powers have agreed on the form and extent of the guarantee, but now that the amount " of indemnity is fixed, not muqh diffi culty is expected on this score: ine United States ffovernment has not taken part in the selection of military commandant to succeed Field Marshal Count Yon Waldersee in the supreme command at Pekin. Having dispensed with our military force in China, the United States is not con cerned in the personality of the mili tary chief. Our legation guard will not owe allegiance or obedience to any. foreign commander, but will be answerable solely to the United States minister in charge. In the event of common peril the several legation guards may Unite for the common de fence, in which case they may select their own leader as they did during the defence of tbe legationers last year Charlotte Observer: Jake Mc Dowell, aged about 16 years, was Mon day shot and killed by his father, Mack McDowell, at their home Dear -Marietta, Rutherford county. Tbe father claims that the shooting was in self-defence. It is said that the dead boy had driven his brother from the field in which they were working and beaten him until he was almost uncon cious. Later, when they met at their home a second attack waa made upon the boy by Jake, when a third brother interfered. When this occurred Jake demanded that his father give him hit Eistohthat he intended to kill the rother who had interfered. The father refused to let him have the weapon, wherepon Jake secured an axe and followed his father, declaring that be would split his head open if he did npi give him the pistol. The father, fear ing that the son would fulfill Jis threat, pulled the pistol and fired one shot at him, the ball taking effect in the right lung. While the father was gone after a nhrsicinn tn attend his son he was arrested and brought here to jail. He says he saved his life by taking that of his son. Mack Mc Dowell is about 45 years old and farmer. Life and Death FIgkt. Mr. W. A. Hines of Manchester, la., writing of his almost miraculous escape from death, says: "Exposure after measles induced serious lune trouble, which ended in Consumption. I had frequent hemorrhages and coughed night and day. All my doc tors said I must soon die. Then I be gan to use Dr. King's New DisooverT for Consumption, which "completely cured me. I would not be without it even if it cost $5.00 a bottle. Hun dreds have used it on my recommend ation and all say it never fails to cure Throat, Chest and Lung troubles. Regular size 50 cents and $1 00. Trial bottles 10 cents at R. R. BkllamT s Drug Store. t ES TEfo) SHOTGUN SHEUSjll will pet the bet ihelli that money can buy. KEEP THEM. y'T!iS'f!lifif'yifltl.t.t!rlt.iifi