THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1905. H. A. LONDON, Editor. The members of the Le imamrnra cannot draw any pay after next Sunday, but they caunot adjourn then without leaving incomplete! their most important work. In deed so far behind are many of the most important bills that an additional ' week must be spent by our legislators at Baleigh without -any compensation. This is hard on many of them, who cannot well afford to incuT this expense. No doubt the most complaint will, be made by those members who have done the least work. That is us ually the case. In nearly every legislative body most of the work is done by a few men, while the majority are idling away their time. Iu this Legislature there seems to be fewer of the latter kind than in most Legislatures. Particular care and caution should be exercised during the closing days of the session, in or der to prevent the passage of some objectionable bill. Too often in the great rush near the end of a Bession some "sneak bill" is slip ped through. Both branches of the General Assembly are now holding night sessions, and local , bills are rushed through with, electric velocity. No bill should: be passed now that has not been j considered by a committee. Only : in this way can a "sueak bill" be exposed and its passage prevented. Tht Senate has passed the two House "anti-jug-law" bills. One amends the act passed by the last Legislature, which was intended to apply to only four couuties, so as to make it apply ouly to those counties instead of to the entire State, as it was construed by tho Supreme Court. The other bill puts the anti-jug law on the entire State, except the counties named therein as excepted. The big fight over the Ward bill resulted in a great victory for its advocates at the meeting of the House committee, which voted for it 27 to 4. This meeting attracted more interest than the meeting of any other committee en any other bill. It was held in the. Hull of the House of Representatives, which was crowded to its utmost capacity by a most deeply inter ested audience. Speeches in favor f the bill were made by Josephns Daniels, James H, Pou, B. B. White and H. A. London, and speeches against it were made by Cyrus B, Watson and 11. N. Hacket. After many delays, and a desper ate fight by Glenn Williams to save his distillery, this bill was passed by the House on last Tues day. It goes into effect next Jauusry. The House has passed the Sen ate bill (and it is now a law) al lowing railroad companies to make uch advertising contracts with newspapers in exchange for trans portation as they may mutually agree upon. This law does not allow free passes (as was thought by many at first) but merely allows railroad companies to issue passes to editors in payment for adver tising. Its chief champion in the House war that public spirited and patriotic Carolinian, 'Col. John S. Cunningham. The House has passed the bill to reduce the passenger rates on xailroads a quarter of a cent a mile on first and second class tickets. The majority for it was over two to one, but it will not probably pass the Senate. ; This is lower . than the railroad rates in any of the States adjoining this State. The Senatecommittee has reported uaauimously against it. .r A very just bill passed by the House is the .one. requiring rail road companies to pay stock law tax in all stock law territory trav ersed by; tlieir roads. The Senate ought to pass this bill promptly, for there is no reason why a rail road company should escape this tax any more than any farmer or other, owner of real estate. An unsuccessful attempt was made by t he. attorneys of the railroads, at the vjmeeting- of 5 the House com mittee, to amend this bill, by shift ing the burden of proof as to neg ligence? when stock are killed by trains in stock law territory. We are pleased to note that ihere will be no bond issue, as was urged by some. So opposed is a majority of the Senate to a bond issue, that so meritorious a meas ure as the bill to erect a Hall of Records was defeated in that body because it provided for the issue of $100,000 worth of bonds with which to erect it. The Millennium must be Dear. It certainly seems ..so ..since Con grese has passed by a .unanimous vote a bill authorizing the return to the Southern States of their Confederate battle flags, which wAm cantured during the war, Ever since their capture these flags momns uu iu i i i manAi H,Jtlve 3amb wulch compels hasty have been in the custody of the , nd .j. Jeeisltion the War Department at Washington, j nesect Of.ork that ought to be This action of Congress is in ; done and the careless performance Hfrikinsr and most nleasing con fn tlm vmionf nnnnaifmn iliflli nmin(,p4 President Cleveland in ! P"pnation bills providing mil- freight, including 20,000 bales of denounced 1 resident demand in UQQg of dollar8 are rushed turougu cotton, were-destroyed, together 1887 for proposing just such ac- Uie closing hours of a Congress with a large dumber of small resi tion. by Congress. He was accus-with less consideration than should dences. The fire was still raging ed of disloyalty to the Union and all such rot, when he urged Con gress to return these flags, and now this is done without a dis senting vote or voice.- And thus again is Cleveland justified and proved to "have been right! :'. The impeachment trial of Judge Swayne was a regular farce t and its result was well known long before the Senate, on last Mon day, formally acquitted him. That he is unfit to be a Judge aU fair minded men must admit, but. if he was impeached there were too many other Federal Judges equal ly liable to impeachment. . ,., We are pleased to note that our good friend, Mr. J. B. W hi taker Jr., has again ut on the editorial harness, after resting for a year or more. He is now editor of the Mill News, recently established at Greensboro, and we wish him the great success which he so much deserves. The sudden disappearance of the eight-year old sou of Senator Beasley is as sad as it is strange. Iu broad daylight he seems to have bi?en kidnapped in sight of his home and school-house, and disappears as if the earth had swallowed him. The Japanese-Russian War. From Ttx Charlotte ObaerTer, rb. 27 ih. Jsews of sh;irp fighting in the' Far East has during the past week been combined with numerous re ports of movements toward peace. The rumors have had it that both sides were getting ready to make known their terms, and it was even stated toward the latteri part of the week that Japan had made some kind of a peace offer through Un i ted 53 ta tes offi cial i; 'X his; ho w ever, is strongly" denied by the Tokio government. ; To sum up the entire peace talk, it appears thiit there is little in it so far as any likelihood of immediate result is concerned. That Japan is pre pared to continue the contest for at least another year seems cer tain, and Russia will endeavor to hold her own as long as possible, unless she sees some good "way, to save her face in the meantime. .Russia's prestige as a fighting natiou is practically gone even now, her name in connection with warfare does not have the same harsh sound that it possessed prior to the outbreak of the pres ent struggle, but there is yet a good deal of difference between having her soldiers whipped on the held and having to ask fox ;, peace, or even accept the terms, of an apparently magnanimous foe. The situation can hardly become much worse for liussia so far as things at home are concerned, and the Czar, would doubtless . rather h ive history record the fact that Japan overcame Russia after two years or more than for it to be stated that his cotiutry accepted psace aftei fighting but little more than a year. . V. The signs of increasing activity 1C wuu.uiM . iu iuc ukjicb .im.uox Kjn rBuiUai.v! ?the ;aPanese too.k. Beresneff ; run, aner severe ngnting, tue riussiaus, accoraing to St. ireters burg advices, being largely on t nutn bered. The Japs; ie ia stated, advanced over their own dead : in spite of exploding surface mines and barbed wire entanglements. The movement toward Japanese possession of Vladivbstock is said to be fairly uuder way. The last division of the llussian second Pa cific squadron has passed through the North Sea enroute to the; Far East, but even if it continues on its way, it has yet some : three months of travel ahead of it. ' : 'c- A Brutal Father. 8rolal to News and ObnorTcr. ' : - Wilkesboro, N. C, Feb., 26.1 John Moore (Rooster John), of the Brushy Mountains, has been put in jail here charged with causing the death of Ids little five-year-old daughter. The evidence of the mother of the child is that Moore came home oh the 15th full of liquor. He gave the child some whiskey and afterward beat and slapped her and in other ways treated her roughly. She died next morning. Moore says he does not remember doing a thing to the child and denies hurting her in any way. A dispatch, from Columbits, Miss,, says that Henry H. Hum phries, a prominent young busi ness man of Columbus, was acci dentally drowned iu the Tombigbee riyer Sunday, Washington Letter. irromour Reul O wrwiHB0"M.I ' Washington, Feb. 23, 1905. Congress is now engaged in the usual Titanic struggle, of, crowd ing into the last two weeks of the session all the work that has been Orleans, swept !t lie riyer front to . : neglected through the -previous night and - wiioed out 'the vast I ll 1 J.l. in 1i..1rk I rf i-rwk thsifr nhnitln cnm m a lwl tlm . w i.w.a iv " - " - . . utmost care and precision. Ap- properly be given to billsappro- priatiug hundreds and great noli- cies are initiated on the assurance upper end of the Illinois Central of a few men that they are judic- property. It lias mt been de ious or necessary. The occasion; termined whether there has been ot all this is the constant fear that any loss of life;'--The oreah-going improper legislation will be enact- shipping seems to have escaped ed under the spur of local demand, seriojis - damage. .A' number of that members of Congress unabie, firemen and "employes of the docks or 4 unwilling, to rise above the were injured. 'Actual estimates of petty considerations of their own the losses ware impossible tonight, political features, will loot the though tbermay exceed $5,000,000. national treasury and that under r The Stesant docks extend the lash of -agitators legislation froi anue altaost,to inimical to the interests of thepoieoui-oebua dlstauce of great corporations wi be forced Uweive 8quar; Ttie wharves be upon the statutes I he leaders tween thos two points were cov iu both houses of Con-ress per- ered: with mites - of trackage, and mit, therefore, a waste of time -steeland jn sheds ran the whole throughout the session 4n order distance. The two-grain elevators that they may have the excuse of were 6f th mosfc medfemc6n8trnc. "lack of time for not passing he tion, the upper one having a ca private bi 1 of this that or the paeityof a million bushels. Thous other member, instead of denounc- ands Qf bushes of corn, several lug lue uuut-sueu f" Uicaa.u,c if it be unworthy, or of passing the public bill, if worthy, regard less of the prebsure of lobb'ist or capitalist. I No more striking instance of ill considered legislation has been furnished in recent years than is presented by the naval appropria-; tion bill of this session. Earlj-.in ine session ivuuucaU8 i Democra s declared that the con-. dition of the nations finances ; would not permit of the construe- tion of more great battleships at enormous cost, and it was gener-; allv accepted that none, or nt most nnir one. would be authorized at 1 1 i t.i : li -11 thia session ot Congress. The President, however, who: is. de- Vin mno . waier rauss .ami termined to have his "big stick", nve-extinguishing apparatus, but policy carried out, has demanded tl Wa Rra:i 1 fc the bsgiuniug, that not less than three big battle-!aIn,ost instantly got beyond cou fi,v. A fi,A HniwuT'troi. commaiiicatiug. through the this week passed a biJl providing for two, all that the Pppcifiunt really expected. Now the Senate "Ponse or tue nre aepartment was committee on naval affairs has de- prompt, but. because of the fact termined to follow the lead of the j'11 the terminals, were maccessi House, not because it believes l,,p. "w,r tr tracks, the engines that the country can afford to, ot , found dithculty in reachinsr the ou?ht to, build two ships, but be-.flAmes. In half aa hour the fire cause the time is so limited that 'covered two squares and the lower greatest expedition can be effected by accepting the House bill and refraining from crossing the will of the 'President. - Fortunately the Senate does not expire with the Congress aud for that reason the. San i)o;iiiti"o n - t treaty will not be rushed through l"Ued out into the river. j while the hands of the big Senate' At ti,e 8ilme t,,nP switch ennine! clock are turned bick in a lu li- were rushed to the wharves an.t crous attemiJt to establish the fact hundreds of box cars loaded with that the hour of 12 o'clock noon 'freight were drawn to pouits above on March 4 has not arrived. Sen-' tIie upper end of the terminals be ator Bacon, the leading Democrat fre"tli tire reached them. Many on the committee on Foreign Ke-junndreds more, however, were lations, has given notice that the consumed. San Domingan treaty cannot be The wind was blowing down the ratified at this session of Congress river ind the'" blaze spread with aud the time is so short that no j great speed in that direction. By difficulty will be experienced iu , 9 o'clock the lower elevator aud pi eventing the approval of the! sheds aud wharves from Amelia convention. Instead, the treaty, ' street to Louisiana avenue, a dis or protocol, will be considered tance of six squares, had falleu in. during the special session of the Seuatft which invarjablv follows !au?u"ai. V " which is held for the purpose of conhrming the cabinet and other i : .1 i : ..i : i : j iiuuiiniiiinu ine uvniy iu- augurated President always sends swept to complete destruction to the Senate. many cottages of the poorer classes, Rarel' has the Senate seemed the occupants In a great many m prepared to judge of a great prob-: stances losing all they possessed, lem so. nearly on its merits as in! With the wind, in a favorable di- the case of the San Domingan treaty. There are no party lines vililtorl l?onnll tia cf:itiili uii 1-1 porters of the Administration, wou-id be willing to vote for rati fication without .due consideration iini mauy Republican " and all Democratic .Senators . Avill insist on fUll and free discussion of the policy which the San Domingan pact yould inaugurate before they will cast an affirmative vote there- for. While the discussion of the uau xywmiugau treaty win, . oi course, be in seciet session, it is reasonable to assume that the Washington correspondents will secure fairly accurate reports of the debate and it promises to furn ish some instructive and interest ing reading, 'All hope of railway rate legisla tion for this session of Congress has been abandoned, due largely to the philandering tactics of the "Honorable" Steven 13. Elkins, the chairman of the Senate committee ou Interstate Commerce. Mr. El kins is a prominent -railway man who contributed upwards of $S0, 000 to the campaign fund which resulted in electing hira to the United States Senate and his con ception of his duty is not in the line of any curtailment of the profits now paid him by his vari ous railway investments. There does seem, however, to be. good reason to expect some adequate legislation of this character at the special session of Congress which President Roosevelt pro poses to call next October, wheth er Mr. ElkinsV committee recom mends it or not. Hon. George Howard, of Tar- boro, died last week aged 75 years ,r Great (Wharf Fire. New Orleans,: Feb: 26. ire in volving millions of dollars loss in jphyslcar)r6erty1a'nd'rthat"strikes a seriousl ! if tiemoorarv. blow at the immensfl pxbort trade of New I . : : '.' 1 1' - Til: ireignt terminals oitne iiimois Central RaiJroHd, known as the Stuyvesant docks Nearly a dozen squares of "modern wharves and flight sheds two magnificent ni'nlA.'.vtU'.T Lnna nf l-..l .ed CarS and vast- Quantities of js;jhj cicyaiuiB) yjuiiuicvia w i ijuu furiously at midnight, at which time it ' had ' Almost reached the hnnrlrpd"' thrniaRArl naf.lrsicrM nf i !"eed5oifS rVioile xkldtieieht filled the o Sd s S PracticaHaTtl handleft- ,.,00 i.unarA oi,;.,o t fiJ docks. The docks and ments have been under construe-! turn for ten years past, elaborate tensjon9 aUtV ilimeuse iovest. rneuts ljaviuirbeen mad. " r . , , ... f -The fire was discovered shortly f 7 " ul"cfk' Ifc ,was sul to hae resulted from a journal that ljrtd m)t been snfhcieutly oiled. A he I. whole'. plant was equipped The , -', a to the, lower elevator ana some or, tue siieas. lue rc- ivatr was iiractically consumed, t lie fire sweeing up aud down the river. As soon as it liecanie known that t lie scene of the tire was the Stuyvesant .dot-ks, , harbor tns liasteupil to the wharves, and ves - seisTiiai were inooreti mere were Fortuuately, Louisiana avenue is a a very broad thoroughfare., and t l . . i ..r iz i. . "c VV. 7 'I.rau--U lUH mi; utf- yond that, point ,nto a residence section was; checked. Between niwwe jmiiji, imweer, ine nuiies rection, the river boats, the ployes of the Toad and the fire de energies in effort to save the upper elevator between Austerlitz "lTdif8l5flt-PJft.;tV-ritQ . hcheck the fire at that point. The fire, iliowevef;; -gradually worked pastHhe JWnt occupied by ' r elevator. ''Heroically, the for '-; kept at work,' but ultimately th. ! wore bate abd'. the big- stef structure, cQvered;yith corrugate iron,5 .suddenly". burst info flame?- at , iu;ou ami in a nau uour was a con FmRMERS' : ' : The Greatest Cotton Fertilizer Made. Used by over T5,000 Planters Each Year in See that the P. plete wreck, . At midnight ; more .than, nine squares of the terminals had been completely destroyed, and it seem ed unlikely that the fire would be checked until it reached Napoleon avenue, which also is a very broad street. During the fire a heavy wind blew, and 'the blaze was of indescribable fury, carrying brands to great distances, driving back the crowds of sisrht-seers. Im mense pieces of corrugated iron, torn from the sides of the upper elevator were carried through the air as if they were feathers, and, dropping iu every direction, con stantly endangered the lives of firemen and spectators. : The weather was bright and warm, 50,000 people visited the scene during the progress of the fire, Aside from the tremendous loss involved in the.destruction of property, the fire is a calamity to New Orleaus in the; temporary abatement of the immense export business of the Illinois Central, partly in the matter of grain ship1 ments. . ... . Lesses In JapaqeseRussian War. rrnm Tiie Kaieign roei. ., . The exact figuresTas to losses and expense of the Japahese-Jlus-sian war; haAe been hard to secure. The Boston Traveler, in a com parative estimate of losses, says that in the first year of the war the total, casualty list on both sides, is set down at 240,000, of whom 40,000 were killed or drown- over Ellen Thompf O i, a three--ed at sea, irrespective of those, year old child, while on the pas- ' T were'n P"rner8- 'The fi" ! mvs for the Mc"an campaign ' are ?iveu HS 57'250 JilPanese and T uuu auu . i'neiy. sians were killed or wounded, aud 32,000 Russians captured. In ad dition to tlvs, 1,799 Japanese and 2,527 Russians were lost at sea. Of superior officers, the Russians have-lost eight geuerals (includ ing Count Keller and General T7 1 1 ... ... ,1 , 1 ...... ' , . , rairals surrendered at Port Ar- thnr. So far as is known the Jap- anese have only lost two generals. Iu regard to material, the Rns- siaus have iost eight liaudred ami twenty guns, seven battleships,- of-othr vessfJs, of -a total -value-of 82,500,000, -while the-Japanese have lost fifteen guns, one hattle Hhi, four protected ' t-i uisers fii-d two coast defense ships. Finally, the total cist of the war is esti ma.ed it SSOO.000,000, of whtih 535,tK)0,OUO fails to Russia. - Fighting on. a large scale is in t progress between-the Russian and j ! j .ip.iIiese armi,,s iu Manchuria . r :;:r Treatment rjf "neu- - I'lieuuioiii.-i is too . 'dangerous- h disease for "aiivone to atit-n.'pt to doi-tor hiiust If, although he may" have the proper remedies at hand. A phvsician should always le call ed. It sho'ild le home in mind, however, that pneumonia always results from a cold or from an at tack of the grip.'aud by the proper treatment of these aiseases a threatened attack- of pneumonia may he warded off. .-There is no question whatever ahout this, .as (luring the thirtv years and mure that Ohainlerlaiij's though 'lieme- dv has b-en used, we- have vet to ,;a of :, si ,p t.asp f,f ;i ,.o!(i n. . r k f t .ip !l;;vi ,,.s,iI(ri; - . -- . ,.,. in pneuiitouia wn.n tl:is reuiHf was used. If is also used lv phv siciaus in the treatment of puen monia with the lest results. Dr. W. J. Smith, of Sanders, Ala., who is also a druggist, sr.vs of it: f em"haw been selling Chamberlain's CongHiemedy and prescribing it i nse it in casPS nHf pneu. ,.. ... .,1 bpst results," Sold by '.'ii. R. t:ik:.- a , . -" -.-: ' . ""' '1. ;';T6':-Ciii tdce Laxative Brdmo Qmnme TaMets. Seven MSSott boxes soli in past 1 2 raonths. TMs Signature, BONE TRADE MARK Trade Mark is oa S.ROYSTER NORFOLK, VA., For Sale hv JrOt? AtWatet Mercantile Co. . Tiny Woman to be Exhibited. Special io Charlotte Obaervor. - Winstori-Salem, Feb. 27. Mr. F, F; Thomas, of this city, has se cured for a tour through the North the smallest woman in the world. He says that the little woman, whose home is in Iredell county, is 22 years old, 22 inches in heigrht and weighs only 27 pounds. Mr. Thomas expects to start on his trip April 10.. He is placing the little woman with a large amusement company. 'Ina" is the name of the little woman, and'she isaid to be quite hand some. She is well educated, has fair complexion, blue eyes," blonde hair and a pretty figure . Inflammatory Rheumatism Cured. ' William Shaffei a brakeinan -of Denriisoh, Ohio, was confined to ins ueu ior several weeics wnn m flammktory rheunuitism. . "I used many remedies,", he says. "Final ly I srnt to McCaw's drug- store for a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, at which: tirae.I was unable to use hand, or, foot, and in one week's time was able to go to work as happy as a- Ciam." For sale by vjt. xv. jruiiington. -Murdered the Child? Clarksburg, W. Va. , Feb." 25.' An almost incredible; story has reached' this city from: Webster county. Elizabeth Dauarherty, Early Daugherty and Mary T.homp son are said to h ve Quarrelled Camden. It was stated that ftt a point in Webster couuty.where the quarrel occurred they took the : , crushing.it gainst arock -anrt killing it instantlv. ? l ne two sranuv.7 me two injailin Webster women are now county. A Guaranteed Cure For Piles. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pro truding Piles. Druggists refund money if Pazo Ointment fails to cure any case, no mtter of how , long standing, in 6 to 14 days.; rirst application give3 ease and rest. 50c. 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OF ought to riead THE CHATHAM RECORD which for has been doing; its utmost to' fcifld up our grand old county. - Ti-iE-iiECOttD Is the "OLD RELIABLE," that can be depended on not only for the but for its advocacy of all , measures that will best promote the prosper ity of all Hie people. CfilBL i Only 3 cetats a week Crt Crip IB TV Days. oa every box. 25c the States of None Genuine Without it 181,