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HE PROVES TOO MUCH.
Governor Shaw, of Iowa, is one of
the gentleman whose names have
been "mentioned" as likely to come
before the next Republican conven
tion as a candidate for the Presden
tiai nomination. He made a speech
in St. Louis a short while ago in
which he gave the ship subsidy
scheme the following boost:
"In forty years our foreign com
merce has increased fourfold, and
yet the aggregate tonnage carried in
American vessels has decreased two
thirds. We have four times as much
freight to carry as we had forty years
ago, but we actually carry only one
third as much as we carried forty"
years ago. We have the best coast
wise and lake trade in the world.
This is because it has been protected.
We have allowed no ship owned by a
foreigner or built in a foreign country
to register at our ports or to float our
flag in the coastwise trade. The De
troit river carries more American
freight than all the foreign tonnage
that enters Liverpool or New York, or
both combined, and every pound floats
the American flag, and underneath
every ton is a vessel buitby American
labor. A statute signed by President
Washington, which in all these years
has never been successfully assailed,
created an American monopoly of our
coast wise and lake trade, but instead
of resulting in advanced rates it has
produced the cheapest freightage in
the world. The rate on some classes
has decreased over 80 per cent, in
thirty years."
It may be incidentally remarked
'that the ship subsidy business is
not very popular among the farmers
of the Haweye State, and hence it
is necessary to make some special
effort to work tbem up to favoring
ship subsidies. Coming from a
Western man, the great industry
of whose State is agriculture, this
speech ia hailed with rejoicing by
the subsidy boomers, one of which,
the Philadelphia Press, thus com
ments upon it:
"The Governor demonstrated in this
and in other ways the tremendous im
portance of -applying the protective
principle to the shipping in the foreign
trade, the same as is now and always
has been done with the shipping in the
coastwise trade. This protected coast
wise shipping is the most prosperous
in the world, and freight rates have
been reduced, as the Governor says,
so as to give 'the cheapest freightage
in the world.' If the protective prin
ciple had been applied to our shipping
in the foreign trade, as proposed by
the Frye bill, the country would not
now be in the disgraceful and humi
liatine position of carrvine only one-
third as much of its foreign freight as
it carried forty years ago, although
we have four times as much freight of
that kind to carry as we had then."
- While the Governor was thus
boosting ship subsidies under the
delusive plea of protection to our
shipping wasn't he 'proving too
much and showing that we were get
ting along pretty well without a sea
going merchant marine? There are
two reasons given for asking Gov
ernment subsidy to American ships,
first to facilitate the expansion of
our commerce, second to foster our
, shipbuilding industry..
f Assuming that they are honest in
this doesn't Governor Shaw hit the
former, although unintentionally, a
hard rap when he asserts that with-
' omt a sea-going marine our com
merce has increased fourfold in forty
years while our sea going shipping
has dwindled away to almost noth
ing? Forty years ago American ships
carried 85 per cent, of our commerce
while now they carry only one-third
as much as they did then. It doesn't
seem from this that our commerce
has suffered much for the want of
American ships. In all this discus
sion it has not yet been shown that
any cargo, of American exportable
products was ever left on this side
for want of transportation. Some
time ago there was some advance in
freights, attributed to the fact that
so many English ships were drawn
off to do transport service to South
Africa, but that was only for a short
while. Now freights are down and
there are more ships than cargoes.
. But why has our merchant marine
Tanished from the seas? The Re
publican party has been in power
almost continuously all that time'
and has had the shaping of our
national policies. Why did it per
mit the decay of our merchant
marine? U will not do to say that
it was driven from the seas by Con
federate cruisers because that is nbfr
true, and if it were, there have been
no Confederate cruisers afloat for
thirty-five years. The fact is that
the sailing vessel was relegated to a
large extent' by the iron steamers
that put in an appearance in Eng-
VOL. XXXIII.
land about 1858, and the Republi
can tariff makers were so anxious to
favor certain industries they made
the duties so high on iron and
steel, of which we then produced
comparatively little, that we could
not build iron ships and thus Great
Britain got control of the sea carry
ing business. But now we produce
iron and steel more cheaply than
this can be done in Europe and can
therefore build ships as cheaply if
not more cheaply than they can be
built in England. This is posi
tively asserted by ship builders and
yet they have the gall to demand
subsidies to foster the fihrp building
industry . of this country, when
every ship yard in the country is
full of. work and are building more
ships than any country in the world
except Great Britain.
The Governor calls attention to
the low freight rates on our lakes
and coastwise carriers and attributes
this to the fact that they are pro
tected by the laws which prohibit
foreign ships from engaging in the
lake or coastwise trade. But these
laws do not prohibit foreigners from
owning lake and coast vessels and
sailing them under the American
flag and reaping the benefit of this
protection, while they send their
earnings to be invested as they see
fit, just as millions of foreign money
is invested in other protected indus
tries, and in our railroads, the divi
dends on which go to Europe.
But if protection has given such
low freight service by our lake and
coastwise vessels, how is it with our
railroads? They are not reaping the
benefit of any protective legisla
tion,, but the carriage rates for both
passengers and freight have been
steadily reduced by them until they
now give the American people the
cheapest service in the world. What
did this? The answer is competi
tion, one line competing with an
other, and this is precisely what
has given the cheap service on our
lake and coastwise vessels. There
was business for them to do.
They competed with each other
and with the railroads, this compe
tition put rates down, and as the
rates went down business increased
and the competition and rate reduc
ing continued. Protection had
nothing to do with it. It was simp
ly business and competition, as it
was with the railroads and as it
has been with other indus
tries whose products have been
n.VipftnanArl Hv lmnrnved mathods. I
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and by competition,
When they can show by some
positive assertion based on plausible
ground that an American merchant I
marine is necessary to the preserva
tion or expansion of our commerce,
or that our farmers would get
cheaper freight rates for what they
export, they might talk with some
show of reason to farmers and ask
them to favor ship subsidies, but
thev should not put forward mere
assumptions and spread, eagle ora
tory as substitutes for argument and
fact, and try
with these.
to humbug people
OPPOSED TO REVISION.
A Washington dispatch published
yesterday states that Representative
Payne, Chairman of the Houbo
Ways and Means Committee, and
Representative Steele, also a mem
ber of the committee, had a confer
ence with the President in which
the subject of tariff revision came
up. Mr. Payne declared that he
was opposed to any tariff revision at
this time, and that he disagreed
entirely with the views of Represen
tative Babcock who favors revision
on certain lines.
There are a good many Republi
can Representatives and Senators
who are opposed to any "revision at
this time" but they do not intimate
when the time will come when they
will be in favor of it, whether next
year, the year after or ten years
hence. They say we are on the high
tide of prosperity now, that any
"attempt at tariff revision will unset
tle business and therefore we had
better let the tariff alone.
But wouldn't this apply to any
other year as well? If there be dan
ger of disturbing business now by
touching the tariff, when there is a
Republican President and a Repub
lican Congress, which would touch it
lightly, would not there be as much
if not more danger of disturbing
business a year or two years hence,
when business" might not be so pros
perous and when there might be a
Congress which would not touch it
so lightly? Do they want to wait
until business reverses come before
thev attempt to reduce duties?
They seem to be acting upon the
principle of "letting well enough
which is one of the cam-
paign maxims of Senator Hanna.
But why are they not consistent in
this and apply it to the ship subsidy
scheme? Thev boast of the splen
did progress we have made in in
creasing our commerce, and yet they
insist on taxing the American peo
ple $9,000,000 a year for twenty
years, and there is no telling how
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long after that, to build ships osten
sibly to help our commerce along.
But if Mr. Payne is opposed to
tariff revision and entirely disagrees
with Representative Babcock, how
are we going to have the reciprocity
and the reduction of duties "where
high protection is no longer neces
sary" which the late President Mc-
Kinley advocated in his Buffalo
speech? The indications are- that
the Republican statesmen are play
ing "craps" with reciprocity and go
ing square .back on Mr. McKinley.
AN ENGLISHMAN'S GRAND
ornvwv
RfraifF Vaa sfmilr a a A "L I
by wMch tMa countryj hifl
could turn the tables on EuroDean
countries, and monopolize the busi
ness of cotton manufacturing and
the business of building cotton spin
ning and weaving machinery. He
has written up his scheme for one
of the London papers in a letter,
from which the New York Sun
.makes a few extracts. He starts out
with the following introductory re
marks:
If the - American bull knew his
own strength he would not condescend
to haggle with Germany, France,
Switzerland, Italy and other countries
over the admission of American pork.
The American Government need only
point to the expediency of aa export
tax on cotton wool,"
- A tax of twopence a pound on
cotton, he says, would not only
bring the Government about $160,
000,000 revenue annually, but would
do a good deal more than that, which
he tells in the following extract:
"It would stop the addition of a
single spindle or of a single loom to
the now existing machinery of JIjU
rope. This machinery is chiefly made
in England, Germany and Switzerland,
and these makers would have to trans
fer their entire plants to America.
What that would mean to the Ameri
can iron and steel industry any one
can guess. Considering what the cot
ton industry means to Europe, other
far-reaching results would be inevita
ble.
"Why does not Jonathan see all
that? Because his natural resources
and the cotton crop is one of them
are still greater than his much vaunt
ed intelligence. If any one can refute
my above statements, I am at bis dis
posal." From Mr. Strain's view this is.
a splendid scheme, ana ne is no
doubt surprised that it has escaped
Jonathan. But unfortunately for
his scheme, even if Jonathan did
catch on to it, there is an insur
mountable obstacle in the way
which would prevent the scheme
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irom working, ana xna, is ,ne con-
sututionai provision wmcn declares
that "No tax or duty shall be laid
on articles exported from any
State," which has held good ever
since the adoption of the constu-
tion. Mr. Streiff is in the position
of some inventors who work for
months on an invention and then
discover that they had overlooked
some .important principle or part
that made all their work worthless.
The Republican statesmen have
been so much in favoi of taxation,
especially the taxation of articles
produced in the South, that we have
no doubt whatever that they would
have whacked an export tax on
cotton long ago if this constitutional
inhibition were not in the way, but
that was so plain and mandatory
that there was no way of getting
around it.
James McCormack, of Colorado,
had - gold be-spangled locks but
didn't know it till a barber imparted
the information. He was about to
start East and concluded he would
shave up and tune up to make him
self more presentable. In manipu
lating his hair the barber discovered
that it was covered with gold dust
and announced that discovery to the
gentleman in the chair, Mr. Mc
remembered that he had been in a
the habit of washing his face and
wetting his hair in a stream in
Summit county and concluded that
the gold in his hair must have come
from that stream, so he made a bee
line back and staked off a placer
which he says is worth from $150,
000 to $500,000.
The New York Journal, in aT re
cent issue, published a number of
letters from prominent white and
colored men of the South giving
their views, by request -of the
Journal, on the subject of negro
education, among them Bishop
Dudley, colored, of Kentucky, who
touched a vital point when he said
a negro "whose intelligence' had
been sharpened by the training of
the school room, but whose moral
nature is undeveloped, is but a more
dangerous animal." There is abund
ant evidence of that.
A Georgia State Senator from
Lumpkin county says he is sure
there are diamonds in that county
because one was found there some
time ago. A diamond was found in
this State once valued, we have heard,
at $30,000,but if any have been found
since that has been successfully kept
a secret. But as we find nearly every
thing else in the way of precious
.1.11.1 ham in no reason
wnv we
hnnld not Dick up a diamond 'occa
should noi pica: up a ui
sionauy.
WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 15,
JURY SAYS GUILTY.
Hauser Sentenced to Ten Years
in the State, Penitentiary in
' the Superior Court.
APPEAL TO HIGHER TRIBUNAL
Bond Fixed at $2,000 and Prisoner Went
to Jail Recommendation to Mercy.
Other Proceedings Saturday.
Adjourned for the Term.
r
I Alter a bcuiuua huu ramer Beu ac
tional trial lasting four days in the
a.. : n l tt tt at a:.
watchmaker and jeWeller. was Satur-
day evening at 6 o'clock found guilty
of having set fire to and burned ' his
store, on Market street, on Sunday
night, August 11th last. The verdict
was reached by the jury after four and
a half hours' deliberation and was
rendered by the foreman, Mr. J. G.
Barrentine, with a recommendation to
the mercy of the court. The session
was about to be adjourned when the
jury came in, and judgment was not
passed upon the defendant by Judge
Allen until 9 o'clock, after a recess
for supper bad been taken until 8:30
o'clock. The prisoner was sentenced
to a term of ten years in the State
penitentiary. An appeal to the Su
preme Court was taken and appear
ance bond was fixed at $2,000, which
Hauser could not give and was re
manded to jail.
The verdict of the jury and the sen
tence by J udge . Allen were received
by the prisoner, although a man of 51
years of age, without the slightest
visible emotion, and, with a quick and
steady tread he followed Jailor Capps
to a cell, when court had adjourned.
The court room was crowded with
people and every word spoken by
counsel or by Judge Allen in passing
sentence was received with the utmost
silence until the case was ended and
the prisoner led away.
The court opened yesterday morning
at 9:30 o'clock and Hon. Jno. D. Bel
lamy occupied two hours in a most
earnest and eloquent appeal for his
client. He was followed by Marsden
Bellamy, Esq, in a speech of the
same length which was clear, logical,
and an able presentation of the law
and facts.
Judge Allen's charge to the jury
was a splendid exposition of the law
as to the evidence and contentions on
.both sides, which were entered into
elaborately. He explained the rule as
to the presumption of innocence and
the doctrine of reasonable doubt; that
a reasonable doubt was not a mere
possibility or imaginary doubt, but a
fair doubt based on reason and com
mon sense ; that the jury should dis
inguish between evidence producing
a mere suspicion and that producing
conviction beyond a reasonable doubt.
Upon this point he enlarged and
stated that if only a suspicion rested
in their minds, the defendant should
be acquitted, but if the evidence went
further and produced conviction be
yond a reasonable doubt, it was their
duty to find defendant guilty; other
wise, not guilty.
He explained that the case in hear
ing was one of circumstantial evi
dence and that every fact necessary
for the conclusion sought to be estab
lished must be proven by the same
degree of evidence as if the whole case
depended upon it; that circumstantial
evidence is recognized by the law as a
means of ascertaining the truth and
when properly understood and ap
plied, it is as satisfactory as any other
evidence. When relied upon to con
vict it should exclude every reason
able doubt as to the prisoner's guilt
and every other reasonable hypothesis
consistent with his innocence,
Two suggestions, Judge Allen said,
have been made by the defence as
reasonable suppositions consistent
with his innocence,- viz,, that some
enemy of defendant may have entered
the front door and made the prepara
tions found in the store; another is that
some enemy may have entered from
the top through the skylight If either
of these was a reasonable hypothesis
deductible from the evidence, the de
fendant is entitled to acquittal; but if
not reasonable and is a mere possi
bility, then the jury should not ac
quit on that ground, but proceed to de
termine whether all the evidence sat
isfied them fully of the defendant's
guilt or not.
The members of the jury retired
with the qase upon conclusion of the
able charge and were continuously in
the room until 6 P. M except at the
dinner hoar. Late in the afternoon
they asked to be allowed to visit the
store, but it was . explained that the
nlaee had been overhauled and - was
now occupied by another tenant,
whereupon the idea was abandoned,
When the verdict had been rendered
Judge Allen stated a recess would be
taken until 8:30 P. M. and the prisoner
would be in custody of the sheriff.
Upon the convening of the night ses
sion, Hon. Jno. D. Bellamy moved
for a , hew trial 'on an error of the
court in admitting certain evidence
and excluding other. The motion
was promptly .overruled by Judge
Allen, from' which ruling the defend
ant appealed. Judge Allen stated that
he would be glad to hear from coun
sel as to judgment and Hon. Jno.' D.
Bellamy made an earnest appeal for
his client, BayinFltha--under the cir
cumstances helped theNMurt would
make the sentences light as possible;
that conviction was Ion purely circum
stantial evidence; that Hauser was a
mon nf irood character, and had
reached an age which would
appeal to the mercy of the court; that
- he was not a bad man; harmless, a.d
accusation had ever
been brought against him ; that he
believed the jury's recommendation
to mercy had meant a compromise
verdict and that men who believed
him innocent had yielded only for the
recommendation. In reply to a ques
tion by Judge Allen he stated that
Hauser was 51 years old.
Marsden Bellamy, Esq., for the
State, stated that His Honor was ac
quainted with all the facts in the case;
the statute required a sentence from 5
to 40 years and that he had a very
wide latitude. He left it entirely in
the court's hands.
Brooke G. Empie, Esq., for the de
fence, said all the circumstances ap
pealed to the mercy of the court; the
defendant was far from his native
home, without friends, and had an
invalid wife; that Chief Schnibben
and Aldermen Harriss and Bailey,
who had been active in ferreting out
the case, were on the side of mercy
and he hoped His Honor would deal
leniently with the prisoner.
In passing sentence Judge Allen
spoke feelingly and said it was one of
the hardest dutie of his office to pass
sentence; that it was hard to tell just
what sentence to impose; that so much
is to be taken into consideration, his
influence, his age and perhaps a great
many other things of which nothing
was known. He said the ugliest fea
ture of the crime was the utter disre
gard of life in using the high explo
sives and that he believed he would be
doing violence to the law if he made the
sentence the minimum. The clerk was
then instructed to enter a judgment of
ten years. '
The case is one which has attracted a
great deal of attention here and else
where. Various comments are made
upon the verdict. Chief Schnibben is
commended for the prompt and effi
cient investigation he made and
State Fire Insurance Commission'
er Young, who assisted, is also
given credit for the manner in
which he protected the interests of the
State. The attorneys on both sides
also received great credit for the mas
terly way in which the case has
bsen fought.
The court term expired by limita
tion Saturday night, and Judge Allen,
who is always popular in Wilming
ton, left the city Sunday morning for
Goldsboro, thence to Aulander, where
he will hold court this week, ex
changing terms with Judge Win
ston, who goes to Lenoir county. The
following other proceedings were had
yesterday whia the jury was out in the
musercase:
Moses King, judgment changed by
judge to so days on roads; Uommis-
sioners to hire out at expiration or
that time to pay costs.
Robert Jenkins and Sallie Lilly, f.
and a., defendants recognized for ap
pearance at next term.
Nathan Hawkins, larceny, 12 months
on public roads.
John Williams, attempt at store
breaking. 18 months on public roads.
m. liner and Hector McLiaucniin,
burglary, formally arraigned in court
and case continued.
Ingram Howe, assault with deadly
weapon, 30 days on publio roads.
FATALLY WOUNDED HIS WIFE
Negro in Eastern Section of City Quar
relled and Fired Simply to "Frighten
Her" Captored
Frank Myers, colored, aged 29 years
and employed at the Champion Com
press, shot and, it is thought, fatally
wounded his wife at their home on
Red Cross between Seventh and
Eighth streets, yesterday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock. The ball penetrated the
woman's face near the cheek bone and
has not yet been located by the sur
geons. The woman is at the Memorial
Hospital and Myers is locked in a cell
at the station house, thanks to the
cleverness of Chief of Police Fur
long, Capt. Williams and a squad of
policemen, who gave pursuit soon
after the shooting. - !
Myers confessed his guilt Immedi
ately upon his capture and says the
shooting was the result of a prolonged
domestic quarrel. He pointed the pistol
at his wife and pulled the trigger.
thinking he wauld frighten her, as a
spring in the weapon was broken and
he had no Idea, it would fire. That
was his statement to a reporter from
his cell door last night.
A m ma am mm n rt Vi . I .lint (ka mnm n w
the negro fled in the direction of the
County Home and was quickly fol
lowed by Chief Furlong and the other
officers, who brought him to bay in a
thick swamp near the County Home.
The swamp was surrounded and Chief
Furlong and his men made the negro
come out. He offered no resistance.
A pistol be carried with him was
thrown away when the officers were
close upon him, and it was not recov
ered. In the party besides Chief Fur
long and Capt. Williams were officers
Woebse, L. M. Smith, Leon George
and H. W. Howell.
Reply to an inquiry at the Hospital
this morning elicited the information
that death might result to the woman
at any moment.
Not a College President's Son,
Representing himself to be a son of
Rev. Dr. John O. Kilgo, president of
Trinity College, a lad apparently not
over 15 years of age, visiteda number
of residences in the city about a month
ago and canvassed for a "Ladies
Home Companion" for which he re
ceived a large number of subscriptions,
offering as a premium and inducement
for cash payment an atlas. The two
were sold for $1.50 and it ia said he
received a number of subscriptions
from which the subscribers thus far
have heard nothing. A letter to Dur
ham brings the information that Dr.
Kilgo has no such son and the young
I fellow is branded as an impostor.
1901.
NEGRO MET DEATH.
Frank Bowen, Colored, Buried
Alive Yesterday Afternoon
in Fertilizer Material.
AT POWERS & GIBBS' FACTORY
Partition Gave Way Precipitating Upon
Him Mass of Fish Scrap Removed
to Hospital in Wilmlof too, Bat
Died Within an Hoar.
Frank Bowen, colored, aged about
40 years and employed by the Powers
& Gibbs Company, was' buried be
neath a mass of fish scrap and kainit
at the factory up the river about 5:30
o'clock yesterday afternoon and he
received internal injuries from which
he died about an hour after reaching
the Memorial Hospital in this city last
night about 7:30 o'clock.
oowen with other laborers were
working near a wood partition in the
factory building, against which were
piled hundreds of tons of fish scrap
and other fertilizer material in bulk,
the form in which it was unloaded
from vessels. The mass was perhaps
twelve or fifteen feet high and in some
unaccountable manner the partition
gave way and the great bulk, with the
plank of the enclosure, was precipi
tated upon the negro's head and body.
completely burying him. It was five
or ten minutes before he could be
taken from beneath the mass and con
sciousness was not regained while he
lived.
Dr. F. H. Russell, of Wilmington,
was called to the scene and administer
ed such temporary relief as was pos
sible and ordered the wounded man to
be brought to the hospital as quickly
as could be done. Accompanied by
Dr. Russell the negro was brought to
the city on the steam tug Navassa,
and an examination at the hospital
disclosed the fact that many of his
ribs and breast were crushed in and
his head was severely bruised. ' He
died of internal injuries before any
permanent measures could be taken to
relieve him.
The negro lived at East Arcadia, on
the Carolina Central railroad, and has
a wife and three grown children. The
remains will probably be sent there to
day for interment.
LUMBER MEN AT RED SPRINGS.
Declared in Favor of American Markets
for American Manufacturers.
Among other things the South At
lantic Liumoer Association in session
at Red Springs last week adopted re
solutions endorsing the policy of Amer-
can markets for American manufac
turers and producers and favoring the
present tariff on lumber by appointing
a committee to attend the proposed rec
iprocity conference of manufacturers
in Washington D. O., Nov. 19th. The
committee is composed of Z.W. White
head, of the Southern Milling and
Lumber Journal, D. W. Alderman,
Alcolu, S. C. ; W. F. Williams. Red
Springs, N. C. ; John A. Arringdale,
Wilmington, N. C, and Ernest Wil
liams, Lynchburg, Va., alternates;
R. W. Livermore and A. B.
Pearsall, Red Springs; W. L. Rankin,
Mar's Bluff,. S.O.; John T. Denny,
Rennert, N. C. and John D. Angier,
Cary, N. C.
Resolutions were also passed con
cerning the present car shortage, ect.,
and other 1 matters of importance to
the trade gone over and discussed at
some length. Those present reported
a good average volume of business
on hand and in sight, with the out
look encouraging for the future.
How to Malce Strawberry Sorbet.
Mash a quart of ripe strawberries
and press through a sieve. Dissolve
one and a half cupfuls of BUgar in
three pints of water and add the
juice pf one lemon. Add this to the
fruit; cover and stand In a cool place
for two hours. " Strain into a freezer
and work for 15 minutes; then add half
a pint of good claret and work for 10
or 15 minutes longer. Serve in long
stemmed glasses. The sorbet must not
be frozen stiff, but rather of a creamy
consistency and Ice cold.
Bow to Make Ozimaloo.
Peel a dozen white onions, cover With
cold water and steep for an hour. Then
boil until soft, mash them and add to.
an equal quantity of mashed white po
tatoes. Add two or three well beaten
eggs, about a cup of milk do not have
the mixture too soft and salt, pepper
and nutmeg to taste. Whip the mix
ture until quite light, turn Into a bak
ing dish and bake in a quick oven half
an hour. When done, pour a little
melted butter or gravy over the top.
How to Halce Tomato Sauce.
Simmer 20 minutes in a saucepan one
pint of tomatoes with a bay leaf, five
whole cloves, a blade of mace, a little
parsley and a slice of onion. Mix to
gether two tablespoonfuls of butter
with two of flour in a saucepan, stir
until smooth; then add a cupful of the
tomato liquor, a little salt and butter
and mix all thoroughly with the tomato
and cook until slightly thickened.' This
is delicious with chops and other meat
It may 4e heated over.
How to Hake Orange Salad.
Soak one-half box of gelatin In one
half cupful of cold water, add one cup
ful boiling water, juice of two lemons,
one Dint orange juice, two tablespoon
fuls sugar and stir until dissolved and
Strain. When set, unmold on a bed of
green salad, fill the center with orange
pulp freed from seeds and memprane.
Place an orange cut Into eighths so as
to represent a lily and serve very cold.
A rich and dainty dish.
Wherein It Failed: "Why
didn't the tenor sing to-night! He
has such a sympathetic voice.
"Well, the reason he didn't sing was
that his voice wasn't sympathetic
enough to touch the manager for a
week's salary overdue." Philadel
phia Evening Bulletin.
NO. 3
BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS
Petition Filed by T. L. Covington ft Co., of
Rockiogbim A Condemned Man Re
spitedState Prison Farms
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, November 9. Proceed
ings in voluntary bankruptcy were
filed here to-day by T. L. Covington &
Co., of Rockingham, Richmond coun
ty. Liabilities are $22,500 and assets
$18,850. Individual and partnership
schedules are filed. There are eighty
seven creditors, liabilities ranging in
from $1.25 to $2,000. The principal
creditors in Rockingham named are H.
O. Watson, $2,000; Bank of Pee Dee,
$1,407; JohnS. Covington, $864; Jas.
A. Covington, $600; Mrs. R. A. Cov
Covington.
The Governor to night respited Drew
Vaughan, colored, until December 9th.
Yaughan was under sentence for exe
cution Monday for the murder of John
Barton, in Hertford county. Claims
are set up that there is not evidence to
justify the execution. The respite is
to allow time for the Governor to in
vestieate the merits of the case.
J. G. Hackett, of the board of di
rectors of the State's prison, said to
night that the board has decided to
abandon the Tillery and Anson State
farms and only cultivate in future the
Caledonia farm. The lease on the
Tillery farm -has expired, and the
State will sub-let the Anson farm un
til that lease expires.
Col. Julian 8. Carr announces a
long committee on raising funds to
erect a monument to Sir Walter Ral
eigh. Among the committee are Dr.
Kingsbury, Wilmington; R. B. Creecy,
Elizabeth City; Frank Ward, Eden
ton; Graham Daves, George Stover,
Newborn; E. B. Borden, Goldsboro;
Wharton J. Green, Fayetteville. Gen.
Carr will present a contribution box
to the city of Raleigh, the ceremony
to be held on Thursday, Nov. 21st. .
CORPORATION COMMISSION.
New Freight Tariff On the S A: L. Re
duction About 20 Per Cent On Caro
lina Centrals-Marriage.
Special Star 2'elegram.
Raleigh, N. C, November 7. At
ten o'clock this morning Miss Kate
Elliott, of Fayetteville, sister of Mrs.
Franklin McNeill, was united in mar
riage to Mr. J. M. Davis, of Linden,
Harnett county. The very quiet wed
ding was at the residence of Hon.
Franklin McNeill, chairman of the
corporation commission. The cere
mony was by Dr. Eugene Daniels,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church. Mr. and Mrs. Davis left at
once for the home of the groom.
The Corporation Commission has, is
sued an order adopting a new tariff for
freight on the Seaboard Air Line mak
ing an average reduction of ten per
cent, on freight. The reduction on the
Carolina Central is about twenty per
cent. The commission now has under
consideration an application! for stand
ard passenger rates on branch lines of
the Atlantic Coast Line, against
which Mr. H. M. Emerson presented
strong argument Wednesday.
Articles of agreement for merger
and consolidation of railroads consti
tuting the Seaboard Air Line Railway
system were filed at 12 noon . to-day.
Copies were filed simultaneously in
four States Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia. Author
izes one hundred million dollars
capital,
LACE CURTAINS.
Hew to Do Them Vp Without the Aid
of ft Stretcher.
Wash your curtains and put them
through a well made but rather thin
boiled starch in which you have dis
solved a teaspoonfnl of salt, says a
Boston Globe correspondent. Dry them
thoroughly; then as thoroughly dampen
them with lukewarm water; roll up in
clean towels until they are damp all
oyer alike. Now, if you have a room
with a carpet on the floor so much the
better. If not, spread a thick blanket
and over that a large clean sheet.
Stretch it smoothly and tack firmly to
the floor with ordinary tacks, but don't
hammer them so hard that you can't
easily withdraw them when you're
through.
Now, if your curtains are ready
spread them one at a time on the sheet.
Begin at the top and pin right across,
being sure your curtain is straight, then
across the bottom. When you come to
do the sides, smooth your curtain from
the center to the edge before putting in
the pins. If the edge of your curtain is
scalloped, put pins in each one after
smoothing it into shape with your
hands. By the time you have it pinned
down you'll find the constant stroking
has almost dried your curtain, and all
that Is necessary is to go over it with
Irons, not too hot, until quite dry. Take
out your pins, lift your curtain, and if
you have as good luck as I always have
you'll find it very much like a new one
and not pulled to pieces on a frame.
I How to Cook Rice, Mexican Style.
-i Wash one large cupful of rice and
spread it out on a dish until thoroughly
dry. Put a scant tablespoonf ul of good
lard in a frying pan and let it heat.
Add the dry rice and stir constantly
until the rice becomes opaque, but not
brown. Each grain will then 1ae sep
arate. Have ready two-thlrdsof a cup
ful of tomato rubbed smooth, a small
onion and a sprig of parsley chopped
One and a small fig of garlic if desired.
Add these to the rice and stir it thor
oughly over a low fire. Add two cup
fuls of either soup stock or water and
season with salt. On top of the rice
lay a large green chill pepper from
which the veins and the seeds have
been carefully removed. Cover the
dish and allow to simmer gently for 35
or 40 minutes. If the rice is found to
he uncooked, add a little hot water and
continue the cooking, but do not stir
the mixture.
A bill was introduced in the lower
house of the OnnroHa TiHalatnrA vm.
I terday prohibiting divorces in Georgia.
MRITS TURPENTINE.
fTarboro Southerner: Charles
Bennett, a negro, while playing
'craps' in the woods near Qoldsboro
fell dead. Some of the other players
were so frightened that they ran a
great distance. 1
Winston Journal: Dr. T. L.
Cook, of be ?mth Arte, raised 85
bushels of corn. 33 bushels of wheat
ai d a fair cr. p of leaf tobacc from an
acre and a half of Und this season. He
has given bigger farmers a valuable
pointer.
Washington Gazette: We are
told more second crop potatoes have
been raised in this county this fail
than ever known, and the farmers are
receiving a better price for them than
for those they shipped in June and
July.
Fayetteville Observer: Mr.
John BIuh president of the Aberdeen
and Rockfish Railroad, is one of the
8tate's moat remarkable business men.
So far as we know, he is the only man
that has ever successfully undertaken
the construction of a railroad alone.
Thirty odd miles of this road has al
ready been completed, and the work
of construction is still in progress.
Columbus News: . Last Friday
night about 9 o'clock Mr. Eli Memory's
house, containing all his household and
kitchen furniture, clothing, etc, was
totally destroyed by fire. It will be re
membered by many that only a few
years ago Mr. Memory was burned out.
It is supposed that the fire originated
from a defective stove flue. There was
no insurance on the building. Only a
few articles were saved from the fire.
Greensboro Telegram: Since.
the failure of their attorney to secure
the necessary bondsmen for their re-
'ease. the gold brick men, and in par
ticular Howard, have seemed to grow
despondent and to lose hope of their
ultimate release. Thursday Mrs.
Howard gave her husband a curtain
lecture about his conduct and the old
miner broke down and cnea like a
chif d. He seems to realize for the first
time that ne is nxiy to serve nis iun
term in the State's penitentiary.
4- Greenville Reflector: Mr. W.
H. Gray, of Carolina township, culti
vated a one horse crop, having aeven
-acres in tobacco, nine acres in cotton,
one acre in potatoes, besides what he
puts in corn. For his tobacco he re
ceived $850, for his cotton $200, for his
potatoes $112, making a total of $1,162,
and be has on hand 45 barrels of corn
and 5 stacks of fodder. This is what
we call a fine result for a one horse
crop, and shows that farming will pay
when properly done.
Greensboro Rectrd: The young
white man, Ernest Causey, from High
Point, who was convicted for house
breaking before Judge Shaw in Supe
rior Court here three weeks ago and
sentenced to three years on the coun
ty roads, and who made his escape
from' Guilford county jail last Sun
day a week ago by sawing a steel bar
in two, was captured in Hagerstown,
Md., Thursday evening by the chief of
police of tbat place.
Rocky Mount Motor: Mr. R.
Thomas Fisher, who is au Edgecombe
farmer in Us fullest sense, made this
year 35 bales of cotton an 40 acres and
100 barrels corn on 30 acres. (Jasn
receipts of 5 acres of tobacco .were
$400 and over. Besides the above, farm
supplies for next year in the way of
meat, peas, oats, etc., were also raised.
Those who know say many il
licit distilleries are running full blast
in these two counties. They make from
four to six gallons of so-called corn
whiskey from the bushel of erain and
give it "snap and go" by adding con
centrated lye, buck eyes, copperas and
strychnine, it's the stun; tbat makes
widows and orphans and fattens grave
yards.
Sanford Express: Mr. George
Gilmore says he raised 75 bushels of po
tatoes this year on a quarter of an acre
of land. This is at the rate of 300 bu
shels per acre, the greatest yield we
have so far beard of. At 50 cents per
bushel Mr Gilmore would realize the
nice sum or $150 from one acre of
land. This beats raising cotton all
hollow. The great scarcity of
cars is causing a great deal of incon
venience to lumber mills and other
-manufacturing establishments in this
section. The Sanford Sash & Blind
Company have of late been unable to
make prompt shipments due to a lack
of -cars. It is said there are thousands
of feet of lumber at the mills around
Raeford awaiting shipment.
IN PITIABLE CONDITION
Latest Advices From Miss Stone, the Cap
tive American Missionary Exposed
to Hardship and Suffering.
By Cable to the hoi nina star.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 9. In the
latest letter received from Miss Ellen
M Stone, the captive American mis
sionary says she is exposed to much
hardship and suffering owing to the
constant movement of the band over,
hills and ravines, notwithstanding the
rigors of the winter. . In conseauence
I of this activity, which has lately been
increased by the Bulgarian troops, the
condition of Madame Tsilka, Miss
Stone's companion, is even more piti
able, owing to her expected accouche
ment.
The belief that Miss Stone is con
cealed in a village is thus discredited,
as is the reported birth of a child to
uadame Tsilka. The monastery of
Rilo was searched -by the authorities,
as the prisoners were reported to be
concealed there. Troops are ' also
searching' the neighboring hills.
Uonsul Uen. Dickinson conferred
to-day with M. Daneff, at the Bulga
rian foreign office, and it is under
stood that Mr. Dickinson made repre
sentations against the movements of
the troops.
MARYLAND'S SENATOR.
Gorman Will be the Only Candidate Be
fore the Democratic Csucus.
By Telegraph to the Morning star.
Baltimore. Nov. 9 Chairman Mur
ray Vandiver, of the Democratic State
Central Committee, in an interview to-"
night said:
I "Arthur Pue Gorman will be the;
next United States Senator fron
Maryland. He will be the only can
didate before the Democratic caucus. .
xne only other name tbat has been
mentioned in connection with the
candidacy for the Senate is that of
vrwv. ouiuu. a. uiuro irieuu 01 vne
, governor said to-day that he would
uui permi uu uaiuo iu wo presented uo
the caucus.
If it be poetry, as I think it
is, to go out tomorrow with all our
doors open and all our moral enginery
m piay, reaoy to see me miracle that
the sun will bring up. over the rivers
and the hills once more, ready to lear
the lesson of the earth a work to do
and manly strength to do it ready to
sympathise with and worship all that
is worthy of our sympathy and
homage, ready to grow more God-like
in our reverence for God if this be
poetry, then fifty voems may becin
I to-morrow, with earth's grand music
for all them to sing to, and heaven at
last to crown the victor with a sweet
"Well done." Phillips Brooks.