North Carolina Newspapers

Wat Witzkfy Jto. WILLIAM H.BEBNAB; Friday, Decbjibb 27, 1901 'PK0TECTI0HI8M GONE MAD." When the Philippine tariff bill was under disou8sion in the House of Representatives, we called attention-to and commented upon Borne of the duties imposed uponsome of the principal products of the islands for which there is a demand in this country. Those duties are practi cally" prohibitory and will make commerce between those islands and this country impossible, while the f ramers of th,at tariff pretend a de sire to promote trade with them A strange way to encourage trade when article! shipped from this country are subjected to fifty per cent, less duty than Philippine products shipped to this country are, that is if similar articles are produced in this country. Those things which -i nvnnt- an'A are uut gtunu iu uuio wuuuji uu, therefore, do not compete with our products are admitted on a low duty or free. But such articles are mostly of a perishable nature which, would not stand transportation across the Pacific. As a tariff intended to regulate trade or to raise revenue, this Phil ippine tariff would be a farce, if it wasn't something worse. The Hon; partisan press of the country is al most solid against it, and denounce i. " ,3 ma Anlv not unjust to the people of the Philipp ines, but as an inexcusable discrimi nation between them and our other late acquisitions. The New York rloTr lofferu from r-itizpris comment lug upon ims iarui, pu.iipeu uuu last Saturday on which it editorially comments as follows: "The letters received by the Herald about the proposed reimposition of the full Dingley duties upon importations from the Philippines reflect keen and widespread feelmg of opposition "A correspondent whose views are presented in another column this morning contends that as the Supreme Court has decided that the Philippine Archipelago is not a foreign country, and since it belongs to the United States, its products should be admitted free, like those of Hawaii and Puerto liico. ' "What chance is tnere that the ar rogant high protectionist majority in " Congress will heed the appeal for a redaction of the duty on Cuban sugar and tobacco wben it arbitrarily lm poses a practically prohibitive duty -upon similar proaucis irom tne rnuip pines? Governor Wood urged that : the Cubans be permitted to freely ex change their sugar and tobacco for the necessaries of life which we produce urged it not only on grounds of hu manity, but as necessary to the preser vjUion of peace in the island; and President Roosevelt indorsed this with the statement that 'we are bound- by every consideration of honor and ex pediency to do this. - "Yet in the closing argument which preceded the passage of the Philippine Tariff bill in the House on Wednesday evening Mr. Dalzell. of Pennsylvania. who is a member of the Committee on Rules, declared that so long as his party remained in power there would not be. either by revision or by reciprocity.any modification of the Dingley tariff that would work injury to any one American industry. The applause with which this suggestive statement was greeted by the Republicans indi - cates that the majority is opposed to any relaxation of the 'protection' en joynedby favored interests through the measures proposed by Represen tative Babcock or through reciprocity treaties so strongly J advocated by President McKinley, and that, in face of Impending starvation and insur rection in Cuba, there will be no con cession which could offend - the do mestic sugar and tobacco interests. "The treatment of the Philipines is - peculiarly harsh and mischievous. Only six weeks ago the tariff framed by Governor Taft and his associates oa tbe commission went into effect It provides not only for import duties in tbe archipelago, hut also for export duties on hemp, to bacco and sugar. Having im posed these , taxes, the commission in the annual report, just published m wasmngion, 'earnestly recom mends' that tbe Dingley duty on these products arriving from the Philippines be cut down one-half, urging that this would increase trade with the (Juited States and 'strengthen the bonds be tween the Filipino and American peo ples." During the last fiscal year we got but one-tenth of the trade with the islands, our total both ways falling uurt oi d,duu,uuu. "For what are we every year spend ing eighty or ninetv millions and sac. rificing thousands of human lives in the archipelago if we are-to prohibit trade with it? And is it not virtually prohibiting trade to impose an export tax on sugar, tobacco or hemp at Ma nila and then at New York demand mat it snail pay full Dingley duties, as if they originated in-some foreign country in which we have no interest? "ine argument that this is neces sary to procure revenue with which to cerry out public works in the Philip pines is naicuious. wnere is there venae to come from if the commerce from which it might be derived is thus suppressed? The correspondent wh rise letter we print this morning makes the startling statement that consumers of cordage and the farmers who use binding twine in the United States are Pjing 12 millions a year over the normal prices because of the higher prices of hemp. It is impossible to Convince the AmNMn nannl- Vio V. inhuman and disastrous policy of the majority in Congress is inspired by any loftier motives than to serve cer tain powerful protected interest. It is f rotectionism gone mad with the pride bat goeth before destruction and the naugnty spirit that precedes a fall.' i If there is anything to which the Republican party is thoroughly com mitted and to which it will stick , tenaciously it is protection, not aim' ply protection against "the pauper labor" of foreign countries, of which we heard so much in 1890, when the McKinley tariff bill was under dis cussion, but protection high enough to prevent the competition of any loreign products which might com pete in the home market with the products of this country. And ve they have the cheek to talk about reciprocity, "the handmaiden o: protection." The writer of the communication on which the .fleraZi, comments calls attention to the recommendation of Mr. Roosevtlt in behalf - of Cuba, hntu will le remembered in this noncection that the late President McKinley as urgently appealed to Congress in behalf of rorto twco and pointed out our "plain duty" to those people, and men congress threw those,5!plain duty" recommen dations into the waste basket and AviAd dntiea uDon Porto Bican pro ducts coming to thii country, al though at that time the trade or the island was paralyzed, as a result of the war, and the change of sov ereignty. McKinley's plea for Porto Rico had no more effect on them when it came into contact with the. protected interests than the whistling of the wind would have had, and neither will President Roosevelt's plea for Cuba have, for the sugar and tobacco men have entered theirf protest, as they have against sugar,' tobaceo, hemp, &c., from the Phil ippines. What mockery to talk about en couraging the development of those islands when they deliberately ana in the face of most earnest protests and arguments , against the injus tice of it pass tariff laws to make development impossible. What man with sense enough to keep out of the fire would invest money in industrial enterprises there when a tariff wall is raised against the pro ducts of those islands wmch would effectually keep them out of our markets? Americans will not go there with their money and energy to ha discriminated against as if they were foreigners imng in a zor eign country, but still under the American flag. These tariff tinkers act on the principle that the Philippines are something to be squeezed like an or ange, get all that is. to be gotten out of them regardless of our "high aims," ' our elevating endeavors, all of which are to' culminate in that beautiful fruition commonally called "benevolent assimilation, which has had some pretty rough knocks since Mr. McKmleyinvented.it. "High aims," elevating endeavor and benevolent assimilation don' count for much when they run up against the political interests which chip in to Republican campaign funds. NO PEACE Iff SIGHT. The extraordinary activity and boldness shown by the .Boers of late, the numerous fights with the British, the aggressiveness they show and the obstinacy with which they contest every foot of ground have convinced the British people and the Government that the pros pect for peace in -South Africa is remote, and this is not a nice thing for the British people to contem plate about Christmas time,. when the average Englishman wants to be merry. The Government has been trying to delude them with reports tha the Boers could not possibly hold out much longer, and that it was only a question of a little time when they would accept the terms tha might be offered and lay down their arms, bjat that day seems as far off now as it did twelve months ago, when the' end of the war was thought or represented to be in sight. Now fifteen thousand more troops are to be sent asxTapidly as possible, which is probably more men than the Boers have under arms. Tbe remarkable thing about this fighting and holding out by the Boers against such superior numbers is where they get the arms and war supplies, as they have no ships to run blockades and no factories to manufacture them, and yet it is said they are well supplied with them Some of them can be accounted for by the captures they make from the British, but those would not be suffi cient for them to wage the harassing war they are waging. Another re markable think about it is how when their commanders are killed, wound ed or captured, others apparently equally as able, bold and resourceful are found to take their places, al though they are an agricultural and pastoral people, who made no study of war and knew nothing about it be fore they were forced into it. But they have displayed, wonderful man agement, and have taught the British commanders a good many things in the art of war that we didn't know and their commanders will probably have to learn a great deal more be fore they complete the task assigned to tnem. A Chattanooga man claims, after working sixteen years on it, tq'have invented an apparatus which wil locate ships at sea, at a distance o sixty miles apart, and by which they can speak with each other as people on land speak over a tele phone. There is a Kansas man who labors under the hallucination that he is the husband of Miss Helen Gould But as Helen doesn't share in tha hallucination it doesn't help thi Kansas man's bank account much Catarrh Cannot be Oured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh fa a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you maw rase uiiwiuu remedies. Hail's Ca tarrh Core Is taken Internally, and acts di rectly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Core Is not a quack medicine. It was prescnoea oj ona or tne Dees pnymcians in this country for years, and Is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, com bined with the best blood nnrlflera. actio? di rectly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect uuwuiuBuun oi tue two mgreaienis is wnat pro- uuraB Buoa woouenm reBuus in caring; uaiarrn. miu iw mbwuuiuiui tree. F.J. CHENEY CO., Props., Toledo, O bom by imurgwta, price 750. HaU's Family Pills are tbe best. II II Life Saved by Paine's Celery Compound NATIONAL LODGE, Amalgamated m of Iron, Steel and Tin workers ot tne United States. GENERAL OFFICE, Blssell Block. -407 Seventh" Avenue. PITTSBURG, Paw, October 16, 1901. t ioaa t ..a .nmnoiiui n ahanrinn prostration consequent upon exposure, hard study and overwork. A number of physicians declared I would never recover, but I tried Paine a celery compound and in less than a year increased in weight from 141 1-Z to 215 pounds. ... , ., ,'::. During tne recent strike or tne steei woraera, anauic m jw j vf-" and fearing : recurrence of my former trouble, I returned to my former friend, Paine's celery compound, and already am feeling more vigorous and able to meet and discbarge the duties of my office. n xoursiruiy, i. ii. dqi iwwom. : Much so called overwork of business men ia the overwork of worry, care, anxiety, haste. These make the severest drafts on the vitality. Those wbo suffer from nervous debility, mental depression, sleeplessness, or dyspepsia, find Paine a celery compouna a powerim resiurauye rejuwws u and kidneys, cleanses the blood, and feeds the nerves and nerve centers all over the body. Recovery from diseases of the liver, kidneys and stomach by tbe aid of Paine's celery compound is lasting. It is the greatest of all modern restorative agents. - , - Paine's celery compouna is prescrioea oy pajsicians wno umer iu muj other thiDgs bnt agree in estimating highly the greatest of remedies for caring diseases of the kidneys, rheumatism, gout, dyspepsia, Bright's disease and stomach disorders due to a deranged nervous system. . COMING THIS WAY. North Carolinians are not of an excitable temperament and main tain their mental equilibrium when other people would run wild. If the gold discoveries that are made in this State from time to tim'e were made in Borne Northern State there would be. thousands of people out with pick and shovel and washers, and yet these discoveries cause scarcely a ripple of excitement even in the neighborhood where they are made. The same is true of other precious minerals and .stones, of which some very valuable finds have been made. , The oil fever has spread from Texas to Louisiana, -Alabama. Mississippi, Georgia and other States, but it is only recently that our people have begun to show any interest in prospecting for oil, and that is very little. It is reported that companies have been organized to bore in Graven county, and also in Buncombe, in opposite extremes of the StateT Referring to this the Winston Journal says: "Geologists and oil ologistshave al ways contended that was every rea son for suspecting the presence of oil and gas on the east slope of the Appa lachian mountains as on the west. The geological formation is practical ly the same and outside of an actual test by deep drilling there is no way to determine the question. "There is at Walnut dove the same coal formation that exists throughout the West Virginia oil and gas fields and there isn't a practical oil man in this country that wouldn't argue that the territory north and east of Wins ton was 'greasy.' " North Carolina was probably the first State in the Sonth in which an effort was made to "strike oil" just after the war. In 1866 a company was organized in Greensboro which employed some expert well borers from the oil field in Pennsylvania, and they began operations near Mad ison, in Rockingham county, but they had the misfortune to select a spot underiayed by an almost impen etrable sand stone which none of the steel drills of that day were a match for. The boring stopped there in that rock, and the company concluded it was too big a job. But the "indications" were considered good. Fortunately for experimen ters the whole State is not under laid with that kind of rock, and Borne persevering borer may yet go deep enough and strike the oil-bearing strata. ' ENTERTAINMENT AT ASHT0N. Excellent Programme Observed by Pupils of Miss Williams' Excellent School. Special Star Correspondence.' BuBOA'W, N. 0., Dec 23. At Ash ton, near this place, on Friday even ing a most en joyable entertainment was given at Maple Hill school, under the direction of Miss Bennie Williams, who has been the teacher of this school for several years. A splendid programme was carried out with great credit to both Miss Williams and the children. It opened with the singing of "Old North State:" followed by the recitation, "Little Dots," by Miss Rosa, Hocutt: dialogues, "A Birthday Party ;'f "Three Smart Girls;" "Coming to an Understanding," and exercises by the little children, "Way Down Upon the Sewanee Bibber." Next came the dialogues, "Making Jolly for the Minister," 'Advertising For a Servant," and Taking the Census." "The Raven" was beautifully recited by Miss Annice Butts, and "When the Mists Have Rolled Away" was sung as a closing number. - Each point was carried out with perfection, and all were greatly ap plauded and complimented for their work, which showed they had been skillfully trained by their teacher. Armeria In Port. The lighthouse tender Armeria, of this lighthouse district, was in port yesterday. The Armeria is here on her quarterly visit. She takes supplies to lighthouses, lightships, etc., all along the coast , Association m - bit mofeasion. because ' of nervous FARMERS STILL IN HOPE. Recent Cold Soap May Not Have Dose So - Much Damage io Qeorgia and Florida. Savannah Morning News A Farmers about the city have not yet been able to determine definitely tbe extent of the damage done their crops by tbe 'cold snap. Some damage of course has been done, but tbe growers still hope it will be comparatively smalL A day or two of warmer weather will be needed to reveal the extent of the loss. Cabbage- is the principal crop now in the fields, though there are small crops also of beets, carrots, turnips and the like, intended for sale in the local market Tbe crops for the most part are hardy ones, and there is some hope that the loss to the growers will not be large. It is feared, however, that they will suffer heavily. The reports received by the South ern Express Company and the rail roads from Georgia and Florida indi cate that the vegetables were frozen and that they will not recover from the cold. The spell of low tempera ture continued too long to admit of the vegetation recovering. . At Tampa the temperature fell as low as 24 degrees. Such cold as that, if it lasts long, is too much for vege tables. Oranges, too, could' not with stand it, and the fruit was frozen on the trees. The trees themselves, offi cials said, were not killed. POPULAR YOUNG 0RQANIST. Miss Ola Mitchell to be Presented With a Hsndsome Qold Watch To-day. Miss Ola Mitchell, the popular and highly esteemed young organist of the Brooklyn Baptist Church, has a most pleasant surprise in store. Early this morning at the residence of Rev. J. J. Payseur, her brother-in-law, she will be presented with a gift from the mem bers of the church, a handsomely en graved gold Elgin watch and brooch to match, in token of their love and fond appreciation of her faithful ser vices as organist Mrs. W. B. Duke conceived the idea and it was through her efforts that the money for the gift was collected: Mrs. Duke will make the presentation this morning on behalf of tbe congrega tion. Miss Mitchell is a music pupil of Miss Cannie Chasten, and graduated from the Tileston High 8chool in the class of 1901. The gift is a merited recognition of, her faithful services to the churcb. VERY SMALL BLAZE. Lamp Upset In Residence On Grace Street A Good Joke On tbe Chief The fire department was called out at 8 o'clock last night by an alarm from box 25. The cause was the up setting of a lamp in the residence at No. 213 Grace street, occupied by W. D. Hall and owned by Mrs. H. L. Sloan. Damage to furniture, $15; to the building, $10. Chief Schnibben comes in as the subject of a good joke. Yesterday afternoon, between 4, and 5 o'clock, he turned in an alarm from box 1:24, at the Cape Fear Lumber Com pany, it being the custom to turn in one round each afternoon as a test Bnt on this particular occasion tbe Chief did not succeed in getting the "shut off" plug in and a regular alarm was sounded. After a -long run to the box tbe several companies were informed by Chief -Schnibben that it was an accident and they could return. Mgbt Was Her Terror. "I would cough nearly all night long," writes Mrs. Cbas, Applegate, of Alexandia, Ind.. "and could hardly get any sleep. I had consumption so bad that if I walked a block I would cough frightfully and spit blood, but wben all other medicine failed, three $1.00 bottles of Dr. King's New Dis covery wholly cured me and I gained 58 pounds.'.' It's absolutely guaran teed to cure Coughs, Colds, LaQrippe, Bronchitis and all Throat and Lung Troubles. Price 50o and $1.00. Trial bottles free at R. R Bellamy's drug store. - f The Kind You Have Always Bought Bean the SHOT IN SELF DEFENCE I Walter Silva and Bud Green Were Severely Wounded Last Night. ; BROKE INT0CH APMAN'S STORE The Two Men, Crazed With Drink, Tried to Pwt tbe Place On the Bum and the Proprietor Fired ::- j Into Them. Wahrr ilvsa vyoaog white man who ha pueared so conspicuously in the City andpriminal Courts for the past year or two, was shot about 6:80 o'clock yesterday evening by James Chapman atthelalter'sstoreat 8econd and Brunswick streets, and he is now at the City Hospital in a serious con dition. J ; . Silva and an infamous negro named "Bud" Green went to Chapman's grocery and saloon and began raising a disturbance. Both were under the influence of whiskey. Chapman found it necessary to put them out of the Store twice on account of their dis order, and the third time he put them out he locked the door. The men be came desperate at this juncture and attempted to break in at the door and window. Chapman warned them and told them if they broke in and attempt ed to do him any harm he would resort to his - pistol. ' The door was then smashed in and as the two men made for him.Cbapman fired at them. Silva fell with a 38-calibre bullet in his head, and tbe negro after giving a yell which signified that he was shot, jumped out of the store. The police were notified immediately and Chapman was taken to the City Hall and Silva, wbo was unconscious, was carried to the hospital . Chapman was recognized for his appearance, as he acted wholly in self-defence. A telephone message from tbe hos pital at midnight informed us that Suva was resting more easily, me dui let did not break the skull, and unless there was ' concussion, he would probably recover. However, his true condition cannot be ascertaind before to-day. . Silva was sent to the county roads at the last term of the Su prior Court for thiriy days, he having been found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. His time expired to-day and he came to the city from Castle Haynesand be gan drinking with the negro "Bud' Green, who is serving out a sentence on the roads. Tbe negro came in cart and bad a box of Christmas goods for Mr. Shear- in, who is in charge of the stockade. He has disappeared, but the mule and cart were found at Eleventh and Cas tle streets. On the bundles was found a few traces of blood, which would in dicate that the negro were wounded and probably fell from the cart. Chief Furlong had his men on a close lookout fpr the desperado last night but up to an early hour this morning he bad not been found. Both 8ilva and Green are men of very bad reputations and Chapman is not blamed for using the defense which he did. Mr. Sam J. Springer. Mr. Samuel J. Springer, son of Mr. J. A. Springer, has been admitted to membership in the firm of Messrs. J. A. Springer & Co., wholesale and re tail coal dealers, on North Water street For some time past Mr. Springer has been bookkeeper for the firm and the announcement that he has been admit ted into the firm is an acknowledge ment of his business ability and it will be gratifying news to his many friends. Stevedoring Without License. Capt H. L. Philpot, of the schooner W. P. Hood, andTJohn Hurst color ed, were bound over to court by Jus tice Fowler yesterday on tbe charge of stevedoring without license. The former gave a $50 bond, with Mr. W. N. Harrisa as security, and the latter was recognized. The -warrant was sworn out by Mr. Hans A.'Kure. A Monster Tramp. The British steamship Qymeric 2,598 tons, Captain Thomson, arrived yesterday from Baltimore and was docked at the Champion Compress. She is a monster tramp steamer and is the largest vessel that has visited this port this season. She came light from Baltimore. Even n nt Have Their Caes. Life's monotonies are a blessing, and not, in disguise, for they contribute di rectly to longevity, health and happi ness. Tbe long lived man is not the adventurer, the explorer, the plunger, the man who has worries, but he who takes tbe world as he finds It and slips along through life with as little friction as possible, forms easy going habits, sticks to them and cares not one straw for the opinions of men who say that he is In a rut. He Is bealthy because he has peace of mind and regularity of life: he is happy because he is healthy and in a good, smooth, comfortable rut, which he prefers to the macadam on the sides of the road. Goldsmith's pas tor, who had spiritual charge of the de serted village, who ne'er had changed, nor wished to change his place, is an exoellent example of the man who makes the most possible out of the mo notonies of life, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. : Peasant Cos tain pa la Irclaad. . A certain number of peasants in the wilder and remoter districts of Ireland still wear something like a national costume. About Lough Mask plenty of the lasses are to be seen in picturesque red petticoats that artist? loved to bring into their sketches of Irish life. A sprinkling of the old high bats may be seen. The older fishermen wear them, but the younger school shun such antiquated headgear, as the English peasaut of today does the smock frock. London Express. Hatchxcbubbeb, ala June 80, 1875. Dr. O. J. Momn Dear Blr: I can assure you that your TKETBINA. (Teething Powders) Is indispensable to as, and In no single instance bas it ever proved a failure. We have tried soothing medicines, and everything known to us and "xld women," and your Teethlntr Pow ders are pre-eminently aBucoees and blessing to mothers and children. Yours truly, etc, j. m. DsLacnr. W- Fruit. Its quality influences the selling price. J Profitable fruit growing insured only when enough actual is in the fertilizer. Neither quantity nor good quality . possible without Potash. Write far our frtt bookl giving details. GERMAN KALI WORKS.? 93.noi5sa sc. new a vk -'j CHRISTMAS WEDDINGS. Two Popular Youof Couples Plighted -Their Troths at the Hymeneal Altar. A pretty home wedding was cele brant! at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at tbe residence of Mrs. Ida Ward. The contracting parties were Miss Liliie Ward and Mr. William Pleasant McGlaughon, two ' popular young people of this city. The bride was becomingly aitirea in white organdie, daintily trimmed with ribbon and chiffon. Miss Daisy King and Mr. Hersey McGUughoo,- brother of the groom, were attendants. The house, which was elaborately decorated for the occasion, presented an unusually festive appearance. Rev. J. N. Cole, pastor of Grace M. E.jChurch, performed the ceremony in the presence of a large company of warm friends, after which a very de lightful repast- was served. Many beautiful and useful presents attested tbe popularity of the happy youog couple. Tbpy left on the seven o'clock train for Norfolk to spend their honeymoon They will be at home after January 1st at 813 North Fourth street At one o'clock at the same home, Mr. Ed. Franck, of Richlands, was married to Miss Hattie Wilkins, who has been boarding with Mrs. Ward for a long time... They were served with a sumptuous dinner, and left on the 2:25 train for the groom's home in Onslow county. Mclntyre-Loftin. At 8 o'clock to-morrow morning Miss Daisy Mclntyre and Mr. Joseph Loftin will be united in marriage by Rev. Calvin S. Black well. D. D. Tbey will leave at 9:30 on the W. & W. train on a bridal tour. POPULAR SCIENCE. Mercury's year is ouly 88 days, that of Venus 223 days and of Mars 687 days, Cumulus, or thunder clouds, rarely rise over two miles. Seven miles is the outside height for any cloud. The edge of the moon ia so broken by peaks, ridges and vallevs that the length of totality during a solar eclipse is affected, by tlrem." The Bun's lieat tal&e rrom llie eartn 9Tnnnnnn Ln. ; m- do the same work artiticially a cube of coal 200 miles deep, wide and high would nave to be burned every second The archaic, wasteful "beehive" oven process of making charcoal has been superseded in many parts of Germanr by modern methods which save all the ammonia, gas. tar and other products or tne wood. A human body contains some of the small things of nature. The blood, for example, is a colorless liouid iu which little red globules are floating. Every arop or It contains about a million of the globules, and they are susceDtlble or division into smaller globules still. Ma k. tne tbe Blind See. Success in desjKrate cases bv con servative treatment is the lesson often repeated and yet never quite sufficient ly learned by any physician or surgeon, The Infinite Ingenuity behind the heal ing processes, the never renounced struggle toward normality, Is an ever renewed source of wonder. All that is needed to elicit It is confidence In It, delay in doing anything radical, watch fulness to follow up the hints to action as they begin to show themselves. We know of a living and bappy pa tient who ten years ago had albuminu ric retinitis from long existing Bright's disease despite what all the textbooks say as to "two years" in such cases, "Don't do the irrevocable thing until forced to do it" is the warning that has saved many organs and lives. Above all, never proceed with surgery ("the despair of medicine") until physi ologic and medical methods have been exhausted. The Wiener Klinischer Wochenschrlft tells of the success of Herr Heller, di rector of an asylum for the blind. In educating the remnant of visual power retained by a "blind" child. There was only perception of light Iu a uarrowed field left, but this by education waa made to yield such indications to the eager, mind that after 14 months of en deavor the boy has very useful vision, can distinguish colors and forms and even can read. There are possibly thousands ofblind people who have renounced vision in stead of cultivating it to a degree that would render the blind types useless. American Medicine. CHARLESTON'S EXPOSITION Live Stock Exhibit to Open in January. Largest Ever Held ia the South By Telegraph to tne Horning Bt&r Charleston, S. C , Dec 24 The exhibit of live stock at the exposi tion will be the largest ever held in the Hflllth It will niun nn .Tan nam 6th and will continue until January 80th. Already 1.000 entries have been made, and in the Mmmtitlnn manv of the moat famnn hanla in the United States will be represented. xne entries so tar made come from seventeen States. Money premiums amounting to 15.000. whfoh ia nn on deposit at the Bank of Charleston. win oe paia to tne successful contes tants. Geowa F. Wmtnn: nf 7an. bilt'a Biltmora stock farm ia in ihin oi tne uve stock Department. "ay He Was Tortured. "I suffered such naina fmm mmm T could hardly walk," writes H. Robin- TTII1.1 V . .m -Z on, xuiisooroufrn, ins., "but Buck- 1 - -. -a m . m. - ien a arnica aive completely cured them." Acta like ' maris nn mraina bruises! cuts, sores, scalds, burns. boils, ul8ers. Perfect healer of skin diseases and piles.: Cure guaranteed by R. B. Bellamy. 25o. t Potash BURNED TO DEATD. Child of a Colored Carpenter Horribly. Roasted in Fire f Sunday Night. : ITS PARENTS AT CHURCH. Third Casualty of Its Kind la Wilmlaftoa Wltnla a Week Coroner's lovestlxa. . tloa Poaad Unnecessary and - Remains Ordered Barted - A two-year old child of Wm. Jor dan, s well known colored carpenter. was horribly burned to death Sunday night about 10:30 o'clock, .while the parents were at church. ' Jordan lives at No. 180 South Twelfth j street, and Sunda night he and his: wife went away, leavin tne young child and two others, aged ten and twelve yearn respectively, to keep the house. The older children were instructed to remain awake with' the two-year old, but they soon became tired and went to bed in another room of the house, . hanging their clothes on chairs near the fire-place. The younger child was left in his crib, alao near the fire, and the natural pre sumption, from the arrangement of things after the blaze, is that , the clothes on the chairs took fire and communicated it to the crib and then to the' walls ad joining. The child was. burned badly on the right side of the face and on the atom ach. Colored people living near dis covered the fire and attempted to en ter the house, but the smoke was too suffocating and an alarm was aent in to the department at 10 :34 o'clock from box 53, Twelfth and Market streets. It is possible that the child may have been suffocit-d before it was so badly burned. . The children sleeping in tbe adjoining room were unharmed. Dr. C. D. Bell, the coroner, was summoned to make an investigation into the circumstances of the death of the child, but an inquest was' thought unnecessary and tbe remains were turned over-to the parents for burial. It is a strange coincidence that within the past week three children have been burned to death, much under the"aame circumstances, and all of them about tbe same age. The house at which the fire occurred Sunday night was owned and occu pied by Jordan, and the property loss was about $35. It was fully covered by insurance, with CoL Walker Tay lor $250 on the building and $50 on furniture. ROOSEVELT AND HIS CABINET Opinion Expressed That Gov. Shaw Will Accept the Treasary Portfolio Will Secretary Wilson Remain ? By Telegrapu to the Mernins Btar Washington, Dec. 34. The cabi net was in session a little over an hour to day. Practically no business was transacted, the time being , occu pied in felicitations of the season. The President did not mention the fact that he had tendered the treasury port folio to Governor Shaw at the meeting, but privately talked with Secretary Wilson about the matter, the latter expressing the opinion that Governor Shaw would accept. If Governor 8haw accepts, Secretary Gage will suit the incoming secretary's conven ience about relinquishing his portfolio to bim. Whenever Governor Shaw is ready to assume the duties of the position Secretary Gage will turn over the administration of the treasury to him. Secretary Gage has not yet an nounced what his plans for the future are. If Governor Shaw goes into the cabinet the question has been raised as to whether Secretary Wilson, who also comes from Iowa, will remain. On this point a cabinet officer is quo ted as saying that the President is par ticularly desirous that Secretary Wil son shall continue in the cabinet. His work in the Department of Agricult ure is highly appreciated by the farm ers of the country and tbe President does not desire to lose bim. RESULT OP MENTAL STRAIN. Lawyer Became Deranged and Shot aad Seriously Wounded a Client. By Telegraph to tbe Morning star. Birmingham, Ala., December 24. W. M. Little, a lawyer, former consul to Honduras under Cleveland, shot and seriously wounded William L. Dodd, president of the Southern Mu tual Aid Association, to-day. Little had been representing Mr. Dodd, who is on trial on the charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes in con nection with the Birmingham De benture Redemption Company. Little became deranged as the result of men tal strain in conducting the case, and he entered Dodd's room declaring that he (Little) was going to die. A pistol lay on a table and Little seized it and emptied every chamber at Dodd and his brother, James L. Dodd. Only one bullet took effect. Dodd will recover. Little comes of a prominent North Carolina family. Henderson Gold Leaf: What appears to have been a deliberate case of murder was committed at the Stew art Contracting Company's granite quarry near Greystone Monday night A uegro woman named Louisa Dur ham was shot and killed by Anthony Williams, also colored. It appears that the woman was sitting in her door "mouthing" about some body having taken her child, when Will iams called out, "Youd n b h, if you don't shut up I'll kill you," at the same time firing off his pistol The bal; took effect in the woman's body, killing her. The man waa arrested and a nreHminarw trial viu KaM Kufn.n Justice of the Peace T. L. Jones, who oounu wuuams over to the next court without bail The Beat Prescription ror Malaria Chills and Fevers is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic It ia aimnlw and quinine inot tasteless form. No cure, no pay, irice. 50c. satutb DO YOU SHOOT? If you do you should send your name and address on a postal card for a (GU N CATALOG U . I It illustrates and describes all the ifrrin f Ammunition, and contains much valuable' Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Rain and' have bo effect oa harnen treated with Eureka Har ness Oil. It re- situ the keenethe er toft and able. Stitches do not break. Mo roneh face to chafe and cat. The harness not only keeps looking, like new, but wears twice 1 as iongby the use of Eureka Harness OU. Sold ' ererywhere in cans all sins. Made by Standard Oil Company. AGAINST THfc RAILROADS. Interstate Commerce Decision in Case of v Wholesale Lumber Dealers Versns the N. & W. and Other Roads. By Telegraph to the Horning; star. .-Washington, Dec. 25. Tne Inter State Commerce Commission to-daj, In an nnlninn hv ntiairmnn - . r - "-""KM. rendered its decision in the case of tb National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association versus the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company and others. Tbe following important facts appear in. the decision: Lumber in carloads is shipped from pointslin West Virginia and South western Virginia to New York City over the Norfolk and Western railway to Hagerstown, and thence via the PAnttavlvnnia railroad tn deaHnaHn.. and over the Norfolk and Western to Shenandoah Junction and thence via the Baltimore and Ohio railroad undrr rates made by adding these of the N. & W. to Hagerstown and Shenandoah Junction a specific or arbitrary rate or thirteen cents per 100 pounds charged by the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & . . J ; 1 . 1 m m, . juik9 rcafoi;, vvtjr sucroiruiu. All is specific rate was advanced from 12 to 13 cents in 1893 and the N. & W. charges were generally in creased in 1899 and 1900 about, cents per 100 pounds. Much lewfr rates on competing lumber have been and are maintained from neighboring points in the same shipping section to New York by the Baltimore and Ohio and by the Chesapeake and. Ohio rail way, connecting with the Baltimore and Ohio at Staunton and the Pennsy 1 sylvania railroad at Washington. The Norfolk and -Western line is consider ably longer than the Chesapeake atid Ohio line but present rates by the Nor folk and Western yield higher rates Sir ton per mile than those of th hesapeake and Ohio line. The rales fromN. &.W. points to Philadelphia, Pa., are six cents lower than those for the ninety miles greater distance to New York, while on the C. & O. th difference in favor of Philadelphia, against New York is only two cents. Upon all the facts and circumstances the commission' holds that the through rates complained of are unreasonable and unlawful, and that there should be an aggregate reduction in the through rates of . 2)4 cents per 100 pounds. MACLAY DISCHARGED. He Refused to Resign His Position in tbe Brooklyn Navy Yard. By Telegraph to the Horning star. Washington, D. C, Dec 24. Secretary Long has discharged Edgar Stanton Maclay from his position as a skilled laborer In the Brooklyn navy yard, Mr. Maclay having refused to resign when requested to do so. Mr. Maclay is the author of a naval history, and its last volume sharply criticised Admiral Fchley and de nounced him as a caitiff, poltroon and coward. Secretary Long's action was taken by direction of tbe President and fol lowed a conference between the Presi dent and the secretary who took to the White House with him a letter from Maclay in response to the request for his resignation sent by the secretary last Saturday. In this letter Maclay submitted that he could not be remov ed or be compelled to resign without definite charges being made against him and without having an opportu -nity to answer those charges. Al though the civil service rules give em ployes of the public service the oppor tunity of answering charges that may be preferred against them, the Presi dent exercised his prerogatives in the present instance and directed Maclay 'B removal, it being held that the lauer was aware un-officially if not official ly of the reasons which actuated tbe executive in taking the course deUr mined upon. FATAL SH00TIN0 AFFAIR. A Bystander Killed and Another Non-Participant Mortally Wounded, Br Telegrapb to tbe Morning star. Dalhart, Texas, December S3. Que man was killed and another mor tally wounded during a fight at a rail road depot here to-day in. which Deputy Sheriff John L. Sullivan and V, E. Gammack attempted to arrest Thomas Myers and. Al. Timmerman on a charge of murder. When Sullivan ordered Myers and Timmerman to sur render it is claimed one of them at tempted to draw a revolver, and then the shooting began. Gus Berk, a by stander, was killed, and Paul Hinnin ger, another non-participant, was mor tally wounded, while Myers, one of the men wanted, was shot in the chin. At the coroner's inquest Sullivan was exonerated from all blame. Ten cents will but trial size of Ely's Cream Balm; enough to con vince you that it is the greatest of remedies for nasal catarrh or cold in the head. Full size 50 cents. All drug gists. We mail it ElyBbos., 56 Warren street, New York. 163 8econd street, Albany, N. Y. Messrs, Jly Bros. -I suffered great ly with catarrh and tried different remedies without effect After using one bottle of Cream Balm I found re lief and I cannot praise too highly such a remedy. Miss Cora Willard. September 27th, 1899. 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