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WILLIAM H. BBBN1BD Bdltor nd Proprietor. Fkidat, Makch 7, 1902 TAB 8H1PPIHQ BILL LAUHCHED The promoter! of the ship sob sidj scheme have at last aecared for it the riht of way in the Senate Its sponsor, Senator Frje, launched it Monday, aud led the debate with a strong: plea for subsidies, not only as a matter of good policy but of abso lute necessity. . We call it a strong plea because he said about all that could be said in favor of it, and took great care to steer around the prin- cipal objections to it. k ' In the course of his speech Sena tor Frye took much for granted that was true and much for granted that was not true. He took for would be no need of subsidies to en courage the building of ships or to entice capital into the ocean carry ing business. Wherever there might be a demand for ships American capital would put the ships provided they conld have them built as reason ably as their foreign competitors can. . The difference in operating ex penses may be something, but . not enough to make it impracticable for American ships to take their place on the seas and compete with the foreign ships. If there be a differ ence in wages, dec, . that would be bnt temporary for the higher wages paid on American ships would soon draw to them the sailors of other nations and the , shipmasters of those nations would be compelled in Belf defence to put wages up to the American standard. . It is deceit or nonsense to pretend, as Senator Frye does, that the millions his bill proposes to pay in (minted that tha crfiftt industrial progress of this country is directly f sidies are necessary to offset the the result of the tariff nrotection. u,uer W8KBB ana uw greater cobs which is not true. That this pro tection may ' have stimulated some manufacturing industries may be and doubtless is true, but the fact remains that this country has been making steady progress industrially ever since it began manufacturing, and the further fact remains that the progress made is more the re salt of superior advantages, the abundance of raw materials and the genius, energy and resourceful ness of the American people than of any legislative bolstering. In proportion to national wealth and population this country never made more industrial and commer cial progress than it made in the decade from 1850 to 1860, which was a "tariff for revenue only" era and came as near free trade as it is possible to come when any tariff duties are levied. Senator Frye alleges that it was the want of protection that swept from the seas the American fighters took part in it, the fighting merchant marine, which up to 1858 was at several points simultaneously, was the second on the main, and an(J the nnsuspectiog Britons were of operating American . ships, and enable Americans to keep upon the seas the ships they might put there. CELEBRATING MAJTJBA. General Kitchener suppressed as long as he could the details of the disaster to the British troops on the 25 th of February. I seems that he had planned a grand round up of the Boers on that day, to celebrate the anniverBay of the battle of Ma j aba Hill, but possibly the Boers may have gotten some hints of this, for they seem to have been doing Bome planning, too, as a result of which the celebration didn't pan out jast as Kitchener had calcu lated, for instead of a Boer round up and a British victory it was a British round up and a British dis aster. That it was a well planned attack by the Boers, is shown by the fact that a number of their leading turned over our carrying trade to ships which sail under foreign flags. That is not true; but if he bad said that protection to other industries was a great and one of the most potent factors in bringing about this result he would have spoken the troth. . Up to I860 we had the finest sail ing vessels on the seas, royal sailers, as awif t as the wind, and manned by Americans ships that any na tion might have been proud of. Ttoey were the planning of Amer ican genius and the handiwork of American skill. Oar ship yards, although wages were higher then than they were in European yards, as they are now, could build ships cheaper than they could be built in -Earope, because we had an abun dance of ship-building timber, which European countries did not have; but when the iron and steel steamer began to be substituted. for the wooden Bailer, the conditions changed and European countries which had good supplies of iron took tha lead of us in the building of that kind of vessels. At that time this country was a comparatively small Iron or steel manufacturer, but Great Britain, with her iron and coal mines and blast furnaces, was a great iron and steel producer and easily took the lead as an iron and steel ship builder. - At that time our iron manufac turers were novices in the workiog of that metal, and to favor them and protect them from the wealthier and more skilful manufacturers of Great Britain, which was then the great iron producing country, the Repub licans,' when they got control of Congress, adopted the policy of tariff protection and levied high duties on iron, steel and the manu factures thereof. This made it im possible for American ship builders to- import the structural iron or sieei wnicn they could not procure taken completely by surprise. According to Kitchener's first re port it was a British victory, the Boers only having succeeded in cap turing some "empty" wagons and two gnns, which were afterwards recaptured, to offset which the British captured a number of Boers, some 28,000 head of cattle and a lot of sheep, which is accounted for by the ruse of the Boers, who gath ered these cattle and sheep, drove them before them into the British lines and made their attack on the convoy under cover of the cattle. There was no statement in Kitch ener's report as to the number of British soldiers killed, wounded and taken prisoners, and this statement might not have been made yet if it bad not been for questions asked in Parliament when the dispatch about the fight was read. It now seems that the Boers, the number of whom engaged is estimated at from 1,200 to 1,700, killed, wounded and captured 632 British soldiers, about half as many as the Boers engaged, from which it would seem that the Boers did some pretty strenuous work and some characteristically good shooting. It was one of the worst set-backs the British have had since the war began, and is proof conclusive that the Boers are very far from being the conquered people they have so frequently been represented to be, and that there is lots of fight in them yet, notwithstanding Kitch ener's hundreds of block houses and miles of wire fences. KOBE ABOUT SILK CULTURE. As we have made some reference In these columns to silk culture and as it is a matter in which the farm ers of our State are interested, we copy the following, which we find I the Fayetteville Odserver, addressed to Secretary Rose, of the Fayette ville Chamber of Commerce: ' "N. O. Department of Agriculture, "Baleirh. N. O . Feb 28. 1902 "Dear Sir; The Department i in re ceipt of a great many letter cffering lands supposed to be suitable for grow. lng the mulberry lor sus-worms, we wish to sty that there is at present little demand for small farms for silk trowing. The only way to make such lands profitable is to utilize the mul berry leaTe for feeding worms and raisins silk. The new silk company will purchase for cash all the cocooos that can be produced tn the State. 8ilk-growing communities are always prosperous. Lands in the silk-growing regions of Italy, no better than ours. sell for from $300 to $500 per acre. The labor utilized in producing silk is chiefl y that of the young, the aged and the infirm. By growing silk it will be possible to add as much as $3,000,000 per year to tne income or tne country people of the State, without drawing jipon the labor needed in making any crop commonly grown in this State. "I unhesitatingly advise all who have land suitable for growing the Chinese mulberry to plant at least 100 trees of tbat or tne Downing everbearing or Moretti varieties.' The trees must be three years old before they can be used to feed worms. The Downing must be grafted, but the others ' grow rapidly from root ,or wood cuttings. The young stock should be grown one year in tbe nursery and must be cultivated like the peach tree. 'It is likely that the new silk com psny will supply eggs of the silk worm free or cbarge to those who have mul berry leaves upon which to feed them and who wish to grow eocoons for the company. "If you desire to attempt this busi nets let us know and we will inform the company. Very truly. Gbbald McOabthy, Bioicgst The fact that the mulberry will thrive in North Carolina and that silk can be successfully produced has already been ' demonstrated. 1 here is no question about that. The only question is whether people who have land at their disposal will take interest enongh in it to give it a trial. We believe if they did they would find that it would pay, and add another profitable feature to the industry of the farm. Silk manufacturing has made great progress in this country with in the past twenty years, but nearly all of the raw silk is imported, while it is possible to produce in this country all that is required, even if the manufacturing industry con tinues to increase as it promises to. As far as we know there are silk manufactories in only two Southern States North Carolina and Vir ginia, about $135,000 being invested in this State, anl between $100,000 ane $500,000 in Virginia. ' TOE COUNTY BONDS. DR C PAWESEXTREM Sale of $50,000 in Road Certifi cates Consummated by Com missioners Yesterday. MONEY IS NOW AVAILABLE Coaofy Tresrarer H. McL. Qreea Has Exe cuted Bond of WO.CtJO for the, Asooait ia Trist Proceeds of theSsle $5!,t8S& ' New Hanover's $50,000 road bonds were yesterday received from the engraver by Chairman D.- Mo- Eacbern of the Board of County Com missioners, and after the signatures of himself and Register of Deeds W. H. Biddle were affixed, they were deliv ered to the purchaser. Mr. Jno. 8. Armstrong, and the proceeds of the sale delivered to County Treasurer H. McL. Green. : The bonds are 60 in number and Chairman McEachern and Register Biddle had all they wanted to io for a while in properly signing them. " At tached to each bond is fifty coupons evidencing the semi-annual install ments of interest amounting to $83 60 each. These are' affixed with fac simile signatures while the bond itself is signed in actual writing. The net proceeds of the sale were $51,688 63. of which $50,000 is the par value of the bonds; $1313.50 is the premium paid and $378 03 is for inter est that has accrued since Jan. 1st to March 4th, the date of the consum mation of the sale. County Treasurer II. McL. Green yesterday afternoon executed a bond of $80,000 for the safe-keeping of the fund and the money was turned over to him. He will deposit all of it, except a small working fund, in tbe savings banks of the city at 4 per cent inter est, thereby counterbalancing in a measure the 4 per cent interest which the county has to pay on the bonds. Mr. Green's bondsmen are Messrs. Jno. 8. Armstrong and J. W. Nor wood, each of whom justified in the sum of $80,000. Chairman McEachern says there is no call for an immediate large expen diture or the bond fund, but tbat the money will be used as fast as is prac ticable to give the county an adequate and thoroughly up-to-date system of public roads. Repot It lis a Dying Conditio! st Home ef Bis Faileir TBoeifct ke Has V::r--S' Smallpox ' -;' - ;;J ' News reached the City yesterday of the critical illness of Dr. O. T. Hawes of this city at the home of his father,, eight miles from Rose Hill, In Duplin county. Dr. Hawes is' not' expected to live and was reported by telegraph yesterday in a dying condition. He left Wilmington Sunday a week ago to accompany his father to Balti' more for an operation for appendicitis, but before he could leave with his parent, he was himself taken ill with lagrippe which later developed into pneumonia, and to add to the already serious complication, he contracted smallpox, which makes his condition, indeed, very grave. Dr. Hawes is receiving the best at tention from, three physicians and a nurse, but his" friends here have almost given up hope. He is a mem ber of Jefferson Lodge No. 61, E. of P., of this city, and yesterday Dr. J. N. Johnson, formerly of Wilmington, telegraphed to Mr. E. H. Man son of his condition. Jefferson Lodge at once took steps to - provide all " the comforts possible for the distressed member. Dr. Hawes' friends here hardly believe that he could have con tracted smallpox, although it is so diagnosed by the county physician of Duplin. He had visited a couple of his friends here who had chicken pox just before leaving ten days ago, and it is believed almost to a certainty that he is suffering ith the less Thru lent disease. However, the health authorities here decided to take . no risks and yesterday afternoon Capt. Robert Green thoroughly . fumigated his room at Mr. EL 8. Lathrop's resi dence. No. 213 North Fifth street, and also his dental office in the Masonic Temple. Capt. Green is also taking more than the ordinary precaution - in watching for the disease here and tbe first case, if there should be any, will be promptly quarantined. A telegram from Dr. J. N. Johnson last night to Chancellor Commander Anson AllJgood, of Jefferson Lodge No. 61, K. of P., stated that there was no change in the condition of Dr. Hawes. He was was not expected to live through the night BAD YEAR FOR VESSELS. Corn remove's from the soil large quantities of I NO PASSENGERS WERE CARRIED. Street Cars ia Norfolk Guarded by Troops Run ; Yester day at Long Intervals. P0taSh. I SITUATION ; GROWS GRAVER. ." The fertilizer, ap plied, must furnish enough Potash, or the land will lose its pro? during power. Read carefully our books on crops sent frtt. GERMAN KALI WORKS. , 93 Nassau St., New York. TOKYO A CITY OF PLEASURE. In Is SMALL STEAM YACHT BURNED. CURRENT COMMENT A little three old tot, in Colorado, daughter of a ranchman, wandered from home a few days ago, and after a bunt of nine hours was found at one o'clock in the night standing in a ditch, up to her knees in mud,, surrounded by coyotes, and wasn't even afraid. A hundred men or more, were scouring the wilderness at home, and as wooden sail ships of the prairie looking for her. One oi tbe remarkable things about it is that the party who found her were directed to where she was by a woman at a farm house who had been aroused from her. slnmbers by the hunters, and who told them when they had made known their business that she had Jast seen that child in a dream, and directed them to the place where she dreamed she saw her. coma not comnete with j- MUM steam ships, our yards were soon forced out of buildiog ships for ocean traffio and the business passed over to British yards. That was the cause of the decline of the American merchant marine; it wasn't lack of protection to our shipping, -as Senator Frye alleges, bnt too much protection given to the "in fant" iron industry, which acted as prohibition on the imports of foreign iron or steel. But this condition no longer, ob tains, for as the conditions were re versed in 1858 when the iron ship took the place of the wooden ship so are they reversed again, this time in favor of our ship builders, for now our iron and steel producers can Governor Taft lavs three years is about as long as an Ameri can can endure the Philippine cli mate, cut, no matter, we are not in the Philippines for onr health. Atlanta Journal, JJem. -King George and Queen Olga, of Greece, went down to the dock at Piraeus on the arrival of the steamer Celtic with a large nartv of Americans aboard, and shook hands with many of them. The American sovereign is receiving recognition from his European brethren nowa days m a way to satisfy his pride. DTooKiyn uitzen, Uem. As the Sherman Anti-Trust law is a penal statute, and must therefore be construed strictly, the organizers of the Northern Securi ties company express a great deal of confidence that the act cannot be ap plied to their case. There is not in tbe Sherman act.from beginning to end a provision defining a mertrr.w 1 .1 t . . - - -- aim me aeienaanta say that men can not be convicted of a penal offence mat is not cieariy denned in the law. raiiaaelpfiia Record, Dem. a.ny Droad8ide, sweeping measure to promote irrigation in the rar west now would innre to the benefit Of the land-trrahhflra ntnno Time will come when national aid may be necessary in reclaiming some of those vast desert wastes, but it is uoiyet. we exclude the Chinese and we decoy all the Europeaa im migrants to the West nnder the promise of a farm without cost, until the farmers of tho Est are at the point of desperation for lack of labor and superabundance of West ern competition on farms which cost their owners nothing. Jack tOTuvill Times-Union, Dem. Out of the many millions of buffa loes which once herded on the Western plains there are said to be but about 800 left. There is a movement on foot now to purchase some and put them on reservations to prevent their total extermination. The mil lions Wfim alan rrV. it.. ies more cheaply hides and for the amusement of the uau kubj can oe maae in Europe. I hunter. and our ship builders, if they were dealt fairly with by the iron and steel makers, could build iron and steel ships for less money than they can be built in European yards, not withstanding the higher wages paid In this country. Here again the protection which 8enator Frye lauds as the great in dustrial upbuilder, operated against the rehabilitation of the American merchant marine as it operated in the destruction of the merchant ma rine nearly forty years ago.- If these iron and steel makers dealt as fairly with our own ship builders as they do with foreign purchases of their manufactures, or as European iron and steel makers do with their ship builders, there Chaplaincies iu the TJ. S. navy must be soft snaps. There are four hundred applications for a vacancy created by the resignation of a chaplain who wasn't satisfied with the salary. $100 Beward, $100. patient itreortnbybaiatni no th n.irn Fton and a.totng7 nssiff lu rt The proprietor he so mne fatuTn Us enra pt powers, ins, the, effw on? HuSdred d3 K&l! U iiu. to cure- W& Bstt'atauiyftlsiarattebtvt. t. General Msasfsr Barr Cornier Mr. L B. Rogers, chairman of the Produce Exchange committee on double daily passeoger service between Wilmington and . Hamlet, yesterday received a letter under date cf March 8rd, from Vice President and General Manager J. M. Barr.-of the 8ea board Air Line, statlog that both he and bis traffio : manager have appointments which will prevent their coming to Wilmington before March lSih, but that the will be here on that day certain and will be clad to meet the joint committee in regard to the extra service wanted over his road. The letter was written, by Mr. Barr before the Produce Exchange managers met on Tuesday and manifested impa tience at his coming;. The letter was evidently delayed In transit. Ice frra the Kennebec The schooner Albert T, Stearns, 488 tons, Captain Bunker, is on its way to this port and will arrive about next Monday with a cargo of 824 tons of Kennebec river natural ice for the Independent Ice Company, of this city. It will be discharged at the A. O. Li. wharf, and will be used by the Independent Company in filling Its large contracts with the Fruit Growers' Express for stocking the strawberry icing stations at Faisou, Mount Olive, Warsaw, Teachey's and Chad bourn. In the meantime, the factory of the company here is tuning job! a large I product of excellent quality, . uUch!alta" Partially Destroyed fcy Fire Early Last Mffct. Tbe little steam yacht Lachiquita. 10 tons, Capt. E O. Wood berry, used as a transfer boat by the Pittsburg Lumber Company between Wilming ton and it mill up the river, was par tially burned last night about 8:30 j o'clock while tied up at Grace street dock, where she bad been left by the master about 6.30 o'clock. The blaze started in some pine wood by heat from the boiler near which it was piled. The department responded to an alarm from box 25 and although the blaze had communicated iUelf to the wharf it was quickly extinguished. The yacht was valued at $2,600 and the loss by fire was only about 1300 upon which there was no insurance. It was owned jointly by Mr. W. T. Mercer and a Mr. Grady, who recently moved to the city and is employed by the Pittsburg Lumber Co. The boat is 88 feet in length and 8 feet 10 inches I in width. SUPREME COURT CASES. Fifth District Matters Arjses Is Rslelih Yesterday WUsjiaftoa Utlgsats. ISbpeeiai Star Telegram.) RjOJiiaH. N. C., March 4. Cases from the Fifth District were argued in tbe Bopreme Court to-day as follows: Barns vs. Railroad, by L. V. Grady, by brief for plaintiff, Junius Davis for defendant; 8ilea vs. Hawley, by F. R. Cooper, bv brief, for olaintiff. J D Kerr for defendant: Tucker vs. Winders, by Stevens. Beasley and Weeks, for olaintiff Marion Butler and J. O. Crr br brief for defendant: Meares vs. Whitehead. ftwo casta) bv E K. Bryan and Bellamy & Pescbau for plaintiff, Junius Davis and Bonn tree & Car for defendant : Tbomason vs. Railroad, bv R. G Grady for plaintiff, A. B. Andrews, Jr., and F EL Btib-e, by brief, .for defendant; Hampbrey vs Taylor br W. D. Mc- Iver for appellee; Ezx-11 vs. Lumber Co., by Stevens for plaintiff, Allen for defendant. Threatened to Kill a Wonsa. Edward Washington, colored, was sent to jail by Justice Fowler yester day in default of $50 bond for his ap pearance at tne Superior Court to an swer the chsrge of assault with deadly weapon. From the preliminary trial it developed that be went to the house of Tina Wright, colored, in "Brook lyn, Monday and threatened her life. He was armed with an old-fashioned musket and approaching the woman he drew the ram rod from the stock. carefully showed her that the gun was uued with "four fingers1' of ammuni tion and levelled it at her head, at the same time "breaking the news gent ly" that he was going- to kill her. Washington said he was drunk and didn't know what he was doing. Fire at the Fnltoo Honie. The fire at 3:31 o'clock yeaterdsT morning wss in the kitchen of the Fulton House, a four-story brick building, No. 22-24 North Front street It is owned jointly bv Mr. W. A. French and the Fulton estate and the damage to the building was about $25. Messrs. O. P. Cazaux A Co., who have a crockery store on one of the first floors, suffered a loss to some extent by smoke. The flames originated from hot ashes taken from the stove in tb kitchen. Job CmIaH Have stood it If he'd had Itehinv Pii. ti..- terribly annoying; but Bucklen'n Ar- VLmu.re worst case of hu- ti j i,,OMCM thousands. Pesdeitoa Brothers Have Ssffered Heavy Lasses This Winter. Capt G. D. Pendleton, of the 'firm of Pendleton Bros., New York, who is here looking after the distressed schooner Mary L. Crosby, which has repair d and will be ready to sail next week, vtsterday received a telegram from Bermuda, W. L, saying tbat his company's barque C. C. Dixon, with a cargo of salt, bound from Turk's Island to Baltimore, was totally dis masted in the recent storms on tha Atlantic. . She will tow to Baltimore for repairs. He also received a telegram Tues day night from Nova Scotia, saying that the schooner Laura, owned by the same firm, bad been abandoned at sea and tbe crew was picked up and carried to Nova Scotia. The vessel was bound from Savannah to New York with a cargo of lumber. Tbe firm of Pendleton Bros, oper ates about 100 sailing vessels, and Captain Pendleton says this has been the worst Winter in years for ship wrecks. To lavestlg ate a Collision. Capts. J. T. Borden and F. B. Rice, government steamboat boiler and hull inspectors, were here yesterday on their way from Charleston to Newbern to investigate a collision in Pamlico Sound, about two weeks ago of the steamer OcracoJce and schooner Maria. They will return here to-morrow and inspect the tugs Alexander Jones and Imperial. ADRIFT TWENTY-NINE DAYS. 8ome Ways ' Japan's Capital More Fascinating Than Paris. Of all the lands in the world none exerts the peculiar . fascination of Japan. Others have equal beauty of scenery, greater grandeur, more noble works of art, more interesting problems of society, writes David Starr J ordan in The Humanitarian. But none possesses an equal fascina tion. No one who has been in the real Japan which lies outside the treaty ports and the foreign hotels and railways ever could or ever would forget his experience. No one, if he could, would ever, fail to return. ' The great secret of this charm lies with the plople themselves. They have made a fine art of per sonal relations. Their acts are those of good taste and good humor. Two. cities of about the same size and relative importance are- Paris and Tokyo. No two could show a greater contrast in spirit. Both are in a sense cities of pleasure. Tokyo is a city of continual joyousness, lit tle pleasures drawn from simple things, which leave no sting and draw nothing from future happi ness. Paris is feverish and feels the "difference in the morning" and the " "hard, fierce lust and cruel deed" which go with the search for pleasure that draws on the future for the joys of the present. No one who catches the spirit of Paris can fail to miss the underlying sadness, the pity of it all. The spirit of Tokyo not of all Tokyo, but of its life as a whole is aa fresh as the song of birds, as "sweet as children's prattle is," and it is good to be tinder its spell. The Murderer and Captain Byrnes. McGUiin was a young ruffian who had murdered a saloon keeper at a midnight raid on his place. He was the fellow who the night before he was hanged invited the chief of detectives to "come over to the wake. They'll have a devil of a time." - For six months Byrnes had tried everything to bring the crime home to him, but in vain. At last he sent out and had McGloin and his two "pals" arrested, but so that none of them knew of the plight of the others. McGloin was taken to Mulberry street, and orders were given to bring the others in at a certain hour fifteen or twenty min utes apart. Byrnes put McGloin at the win? dow in his office while he questioned him. Nothing could be got out of him. As he sat there a door was banged below. Looking out, he saw one of his friends led across the yard in charge of policemen. Byrnes, watching him narrowly, saw his theek blanch, but still his nerve held. Fifteen minutes passed; an other door banged. The murderer, looking out, saw his other pal led in a prisoner, Four Additions! Coopsales of Militia Or dered Ont Bsyonets Used Arrival " "'j'- of Men Proa Ksoxvtlle to fake Place ef Strikers. ' . bv TeleaTaDn to tne surninc war " Nobfolk. - Va. , March' 5. Street cars, guarded by troops, were run at long intervals here to day but no pas sengers were carried. All was quiet this morning and Mayor Beamon stated that there ia no necessity yet for declaring martial law. Four additional companies of tbe Seventy-first infantry have been ordered out, and' this will place tbe entire command in the field, two battalions being already in service. The striker were busy last night barricading the tracks, but this morn Ing the obstructions were removed-by the troops. At midnight the soldiers were called upon to disperse a mob at Church and Carotte streets. Baro nets were used but it is not known that there were any casualties. W. B. Bu dolph.Tom Murray and Samuel Ayres, white, and Tom Jenkins, colored, were arrested before daylight this morning by a detachment of tbe Huntington B fles, of Newport News,for tearing up street car tracks at the corner of Holt and Church streets. An officer of tbe company stated that an attempt at dy namiting the tracks had been made but tbe police denied this. Tne Suffolk military arrived this af ternoon and on the same train were fifteen strike-breakers from Knoxville. The men were taken to the barn by tbe troops. The arrival of the imported men intensifies the feeling and the sit uation grows graver. . The electrical workers have gone out on a sympathetic strike. All otherem ployes of tbe Norfolk Bail way and Light Company's gas. electric liarht and oiner plants, nave been ordered out bv me uenirai laoor union. General Manager C. Brooks John ston, of the 8treet Railway Com Dan v. to night addressed a letter to the com mittee of tbe Central Labor Union. stating tbat he would meet that body and tbe committee of strikers. This is tne first concession made by. either aide. The letter also states tbat tbe company would take back all old men. now out, who would sign within the next twenty-four hours, provided they would work with the non union men. Tbe strikers heldfe meeting, which lasted until long after midnight and unanimously and positively decided not to accept the conditions imposed by Mr. Johnston in his letter. The city ia quiet to-night, but tbe authorities expect trouble to-morrow. Eeoxvuxe, Tens., March 5. A number of Knoxville conductors and. motormen employed by the Knoxville Traction Company have been sent to Norfolk to take the plces of the Nor folk (Vi.) Kail way and Light Comoa ny's strikers, tbe two roads belonging to tne ssme syndicate. Soft Harness -Ton can maka your bar iwa aa soft as a glovs and aa tough aa wire by nalog- EUREKA Har. OH. Yon can lengthen IU lids make It last twine aa long aa it ordinarily woold. . EUREKA Ilcmess Oil makes a mot lanktnar if sees like new. Hade of pure. Deary bodied oil, es pecially prepared to wltb stand the weatner. Bold everywhere: to rans all alsea. Jl Mads bf STANDARD OIL CO. ADVANCED PRICES FOR SPOT COTTON. Theodore H Price Adheres to His Belief la a Crop ol 9,500,000 Bakt;Tbst Cot. ton at Nine Cents Is Very Cheap. BOER DELEGATES CALL ' ON THE PRESIDENT. Had Conference With Secretary Hsy In formed That This Goverameat Would Not Interfere la the Strof fte, Bt Telegraph to the Morning star. "Washington, March 5. Messrs. Wolmarans and Weasels, the Boer representatives who came to the United States from Europe for the purpose of conferring with the Secretary of 8tate, have accomplished their purpose. It was distinctly understand' that t.. T- . uoers were to oe received aa nrivat citizens and not in an officialHssptcity Secretary Hay talked to th :t -T Bsrie Cardeass Picked Up and Towed to Newport News. By Telegraph to the Morning star. Newport Nkws, Va March S Tbe bsrge Cardenas, which broke adrift from , the tug Cuba with the barge Mataozason tbe night or Feb. ruary 2nd, was towed in here tbia morning by the Cnba which nicked her up at Fire Iiland light, the Carde nas having been adrirt for twenty-nine days. During that time she went as far as Bermuda and drifted and sailed over a zig-sag course totally at the mercy of the winds. Her last run be fore making the light was for 150 miles. All of the crew are well and the ship but little damaged. HEAVY" SNOW STORM. la Westers North CaroIIas, Virrjala sod Tesnest ee-Rsilrosd Traffic Delayed. Bj Telegraph to tha Morning Btar. Roanoke, Va., March 5. A heavy snow fell throughout Southwest Vir ginia this morning. Beporta received here show the fall to be from three to sixteen inches deep, tbe greatest fail being In tbe Shenandoah valley. Bail- road tramo is being delayed. ASHEyiLLE,N. C.r March 5. Snow has fallen steadily here since last night. Knoxville, Tknn , March 5 Snow fell here all day. It is expected this snow, together with a bard rain last night, will cause another rise in the river. Free Bleed Care. " We recommend Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B ) for all blood troubles, such as ulcers, eating sores, scrofula, ec zema, itching humors, pimples, boils, carbuncles, blood poison, aching Done-, i catering sores, cancer, catarrh, rheumatism. Botanic Blood Balm cures all malignant blood or skin diseases, especially advised for old, deep-seated eases. It cures when all else fails. Heals every sore or pimple, stops all aches and pains by giving a healthy blood supply. Thoroughly tested for 80 years. Thousands cured. At drug stores. $1 per large -bottle. Our readers will receive a trial treat. For IoiuriM PinT. I war reaaers win receive a trial treat- !. iv. th?'baIniiT; Slfir wisrJt Tr,itin Dp- Price , a Jm"B5J i:S2S LBhJ . Scribe r boms oy it. a. UXLLAJty. trouble and free medical advice giyen. anuiuai Mat avi UHCV, prepaid. - f The chief nodded. "Squealed, both." It was a lie, and it cost the man bis life. "The jig is up, then," he said and told the story that brought him to the gallows. Jacob Biis in Outlook. . Worse Yet. A young man with a tallowy com- lexion, blotched face and slender egs called at a doctor's office to consult him. i "Doctor," he said, "I've heard there's 6uch a thing as tobacco heart. I wish you would tell me if you think that's what I've got." The physician listened to a state ment of his symptoms in detail, noted the yellow stain on his fingers and replied: "No, young man, it isn't 'tobacco hearf that ails you. It is worse than that. It -is cigarette brain." Youth's Companion." Durham Herald: There was a murder in Wake county, dm? tha' Durham county line at an early hour last ounaay evening, the particulars of which reached Durham yesterday morning. Tne man killed was John Morgan and tho murderer is Ed HIcka Both were negroes. The murderer baa made bis escape and up lo the laat in formation from the section be had not been arrested Since Sunday morning Durham has been shsken by tbe com- I miion or mysterious crimes, tbe like of which the city never experienced before. 8ince early 8unday and more especially since Sunday evening the people bave been in a fever of excite ment Sunday morning a man who gave his nsme as Ous Miller, a Ger man, was found in an almost uncon scious condition in the northern part of the city. His head was beat and cut, nis sauii oroken and he had been robbed. Before the news of the bold crime had spread over the city James E Lee, ticket agent for the Southern road, was sand bagged in earlv twi light Sunday evening; money taken :m.i,his ??ket; bi keys secured, and the safe in the office of the South ern road robbed. Greenville Reflector: Monday r Bui! were playing in front of their home, on Second stVee? when in some way Bennie, aged four SB." Cl0tWn 0D A" wiVh i SXLiTJf ,Cm, of lhe little boy attracted the attention nf ih who was in th J:v: baby, and she ran out and met him as lfTJ AZiaS lw,ds the house and put out the fire. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey bed just gone to the river to look at the water, but returned in a few "H na were terribly shocked at the accident with which the little boy had met. Physicians were summoned M,dT,er7t.h,n? P"iWe was done for the child, but he died Tuesday morn in. - . - The principal object of Ithe daWat. was to induce the United 8tatea m.. ernment to do something to terminate the present bloody struggle in Suth Africa. The Secretary of State heard them attentively and promised to con sider their representations and to do whatever he could to ameliorate the conditions in South Africa. Rut h. pointed out that tbe President was tbe prime authority in such matters and he recommended that the Boers see Mr. Roosevelt and ascertain his views. A matter of complaint by the dele gates was the shipment of horses, mules and provisions from the United States to the British forces in South Africa. Secretary Hay went over this subject very carefully with them, cit ing authorities aud precedents, which a R?in.teL ou.t copchNWely establish ed the lack of authority on the part of the general government to stop the American farmer from shipping his provisions and the stock raiser from selling his produce anywhere in the world where they could get the best price. He also pointed out that the gov ernment's attitude in this, as in other mstters connected with the 8outh African war, has been strictly neutral' and that the government has done uwiumg to prevent shipments of com modities to tbe Boer forces. Later in the day, Messrs. Wol mrl) fnd Wessels, accompanied by Dr Frederick Mueller, of tbe Orange Free State, called at the White House. They were received by President uoosevelt in the library and remained with him about fifteen minutes. They d Private citizens and not in their official capacity as Boer repre sent ativeo. F Mf. KoiMTeIt listened attentively to what they bad to aay and then inform ed them that this government cannot and will not interfere in the struggle. Waahinorton PsAIMao0i fill. 1 .f rMt extent. Court con--JnA.bil!chaTK.in Wilcox with the imn!i , ii. r a8 DH,,Do ond we are ln IrBd ht motion will be made to remove the case to another county for trial. It has been suggested that Beau fort would be preferred. Tits Bast Prescription for malaria Chills and Fevers is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic It is simplyiron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure, no pay. Price. 60c. satuth By Telegraph to tne stornins Btar. New York. March 15 Within the past few days tbe cotton market has commenced to make some recognition of tbe facta underlying tbe situation, and tbe highest prices estsblished thus far Ibis season have been recorded. It appears more and more evident however, that the advance bss but j is't commenced. 8o- deep-seated was ih; belief abroad in the lsrge crop esti mate of Neil and others thst until re cently the foreign trade bss steadfast ly refused to believe, the evidence put before them In convincing facts that the American croo was a very short nn. Ia a day or two, however, their stti tuae seems to have changed. The firmness of Southern holdings and uo willingness to sell siceot at full have been the most convincing arpu ' ment that could be offered, and Ei rope now, finding tbat it is .unlikely to secure the balance of its supply of cotton at present prices, is eagerly advancing its bids in an effort to s . cure wbat is needed. It is obvious , tnat Europe will require from March first, out of this year's crop, 1.800,000 bales. It is equally obvious tbat America requires at least as much if not more; 3,600.000 bales is therefore alow estimste of the cotton that must be in hatid by the world's spinners in order to avoid stoppage of their ma chinery. Tne stocks at the South ern ports and interior towns at the "commencement of the month were approximately 1,800, 000 bales. A minimum estimate of tbe stocks necessary in America to the conduct of business at tbe end of tbe year is 150, Oyo. Less tbsn this means tbe closest corner the world has ever known. If Jhis crop Is even 10 000,000 bsles (and Isdbere to my belief that it is only about 9 500,000 bales yesr weight) there la to sight from March 1st a maximum of 1.500,000. Assuming, therefore, a crop of 10,000,000 w have a maximum -supply of only 2 650.000 bales uh which to meet a minimum demand of 600,000 Under these circumalaiiC believe tbat cotton at. nine cents a pound is very cheap and that eveu at ten cents a pound the legitimate de mand for it from spinners who mut bave it, wilt be more eager tbau it is at present. So far as the speculative market is concerned August is lotu callythe month in which the strin gency will be most acutely felt, and I venture the opinion tbat August con tracts which are now Belling at a d count of some fifteen points as com pared with July, will ultimately prov to be the cheapest on the list. Thkodobb H. Price SNOW STORM IN NEW YORK. Traffic Delayed Tetefrsph Service De morallxed Wires Down lo. All Di rections Locsl Trains Stalled. By Telegraph to tha Horning atar. - New Yomc, March S.Another snow storm which threatened to do much damag started this miming. The snow was wet .and heavy snd caused much inconvenience and con siderable delay to traffic on elevated and surface lines. On the j-iver tbo weather wss so thick tbat ferry boats were unable to run at mt, h. v,i r . - uu iia&i Speed. The SnOW WSS ICRnmninlaH hi a moderate wind. Th mn. ain shortly before noon and was followed by sleet A total depth of six inches vi auyw oaa raiien. Telegraphic service was further de moralized by the storm. The Western Union Company lost twenty out of vmFa T'E betwn New York and S LUde,,pb d ten wires south of Philadelphia. The company reported that it wss losing wires in all direc tions on account of tbe heavy snow, which In some localities was followed by sleet Between Easton and Wil liamaport. Pa., twenty miles of West r5l Union poles are down. The train service on the New York Slnn Wb,cb, WM disorganised by the floods, wss further impeded by the snow. Local trains, which up to to day were operated on time, were de- 'in7 th-e lnow- AU trough trains on railroads having terminals in Jer sey Oily were late in arriving. Many h?-L xrmiiD," 00 h9 Pennsylvania, Le bigh Valley and Central railroad of New Jersey are stalled in Peonsyl Tsnia, and ss a result there is likely to be a scarcity of coal, particularly of tbe small varieties. , BANK BUKOURIZED. i, Vsslt Blown Opea sod $10,000 in Cash and Bonds Stolen. By Telegraph to the Moraine Btar. Washington Ind , March 5 The First National Bank of Montgomery, eight miles east of this city, was burg larized last night, tbe vault blown open by dynamite and $10,000 in cash and bonds stolen. Citisens heard five distinct explosions, but feared to at- ; tacx the robbers, who had each sp- proach under guard . The robbers s caped on a hand car. The loss is cov ered by Insurance. What is heredity, mammaF" asked tbe little girl, spelling the word put through her falling tears, and waiting to write down the. meaning. 1' M8-;'. how ah" I explain it? Uh, ' said the mother, "something you the small child wrote down on her paper or home lessons: "Heredity BsaBsasaSSBBSjSJBBBJB ; : Z" wDNd! from'yiJrSpE SIN A L Lrb A I? I BE RS ' SSSsJrfi so.loilded with either Black or Smokeless Powder always give enure satisfaction. They are made and loaded in a wrr2v,?5Mner' bT exact machinery opersted by-skilled experts. , THEY SHOOT WHERE YOU HOLD ALWAYS ASK FOR THEM
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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