North Carolina Newspapers

Fisherman A- AND FARMER. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1901. GOES Pclatcs a Graphic Story of The Great Naval Engagement COURT ROOM PACKED WITH PEOPLE A Thrilling Account By the Admiral That is Straightforward and to the Point- Much Interest. Washington, 1). c. Special. The : y court of inquiry adjourned Fri- i; -t 3 : to p. m. This adjournment, 20 rmutes in advance of the usual time, v, i due to the fact that the admiral's n?.t h til become somewhat sensitive as a result of h;s continuous talking. I!, had made complaint to the court of condition of his throat Immedi v ' v after concluding his recital of story of the battle of Santiago, and : niral Dewey, who evidently himself ia noticed the difficulty, rcsponfeJ by - ring a willingness to a:ljourn the mrt. Mr. Rayner, however, expressed sire to proceed, saying that ha had i imber of questions which he wished to ask, anil Admiral Senley assented to his c xmsel's suggestion. A quarter of an hour later Admiral Dewey himself icnewed th" suggestion for an a 1 journmcnt and all concerned agree ng i i this proposition, the court adjourned until Monday at 1 1 o'clock. Wlmiral Schley then took the stand an'i resumed his stoiy. With the court's permission, he s.id he w uld go back to Cienfuegos, in order that his narrative might be clear. He said he had not bombarded the earthworks at Cienfuego3 because he was convinc ed that such bombardment wo Id te unavailing. Subsequent experience in the war. ho thought, bore out this opin ion. Admiral Schley was proceeding to saj thai a dispatch, No. 10, c ncsin ng which Lieutenant .March had t -stifle 1 (the dispatch containing positive In formation that the Spanish licet was in Santiago), was not rccsivea by him until June 10, when the judge advocate objected to the witness making an ar gumi nt. Mr. Rayner contended that Admiral Schley was not giving opin ion; that In1 was simply testifying to fa - within his knowledge. idmiral Dewey announc d the o "trt's derision as follows: "T! a eouit thinks it is eminently prop ; for the witness to make tho nt that the dispatch was dated Ma: -' and not received until June 10 then drop it. just g.ve the facts." To this Admiral Schley responded that th! te was all that he had in tied to do. Thirteen days had elaps befori he received the dispatch. i-eeding Admiral Schley testified ed tha he believed Captain Cotloa s statem nt r jarding the offer of Lieu t T.anl Field to go ashore at Santiago to learn positively whether the Span ih!i fleet was in Santiago was some what faulty, and he detailed some facts vi lating to Fi id's offer, which fixed his own impression of it in his mind. On Monday 31, after the bombardment f the (don and after Captain Cot to l had gone for Mine St. Nicholas with a reporl to the Department upon that subject. Admiral Schley testified that he sent Nunez, the pilot, we it ward to communicate with the insurgents. Nunez landed near Ascrederos, 15 or 1 mil s west of Santiago and joining some of the Cuban insurgents wen! into the interior. He returned June 1 or 2, with detailed information of the location of th Spanish ships in the harbor. "1 s nt him." added Adimral Schley, "to the commander-in-chief with that information." Once on board he had. he said, en gaged in a conversation with Captain now Admiral) Higginson, "1 was not excited," he went on, "nor nervous, for 1 need nor have undertaken the re connoissance if 1 had not desired ta do bo. 1 had some regard for these stand ing on the turrets, thinking they were Charleston Exposition Endorsed. Buffalo, Special.- The Executive C immis loners' Association, composed of commissioners to the Pan-American Exposition, from the various states, of which Joseph McMullen, of Minneapo lis, is chairman, have adopted resolu tions endorsing the Charleston Expo sition and advising all Pan-American Exposition exhibitors to exhibit there. Fire at Raleigh. Raleigh, N. C. Special. Friday morning at 4 o'clock, John Russ, 17 y ars of age, a negro boy sleeping in a restaurant booth on the midway at the State Fair, was burned to death. His legs and arms were completely! burned off. He went to sleep in the booth and the door had been locked outside. He beat frantically on the ; door, but the fierce flames drove the midway people back. Two other bo iths were, destroyed by fire, and Dr. W. White, of the Alligator Boy show, was robbed of $3-0. There is evidence of foul play. Convicted of Arson. Dallas. Tex.. Special. The jury in the case of C. H. Alexander, who was charged with arson, having employed a man to burn a building in this city in l cember, 1895, returned a verdict of guilty. The punishment being fixed at five years in the penitentiary. Alexander was once president of the Dallas Consolidated Electric Street Railway and at the present connected with a company holding shares in the Beaumont oil fields. Roosevelt's Coming Message. Washington. Special. The consul tations between the President and his cabinet officers at the cabinet meeting were especially full, owing to the de cision which Mr. Roosevelt has reach c . write all of his message to Con-gr-i ; and to do it on original lines. The President has determined to do aw'ay with the detailed statement of Urn affairs of each Department. H( m vi 'vote his message to such topics he chooses to lay particularly be l0re th - attention of Congress. ON STAND exposing themselves to danger from shock which was unnecessaiy to turn, though I was differently circumstanced and I so supposed mysolf. Com mander Potts is entirely in en or :n saying that I took advantage of cover. I did not do, for I -was not concerned about myself." Spiaking of the range of 7,000 yards, the admiral said thaf Commander Potts had himseif raj ort ed on that range and he had not kn wn for several days that the range had been altered. "The moment we began Bring," be went on, "the shore batteries respond ed. Some of them used smoke'ess pow der. There was quite a stream of pro jectiles and I was impressed with the idea that thry must be from gun G or 8-ineh calibre. The shot from the ro capa battery evidently reached the fleet. Some went over our ships and one went beyond and oyer the Vixen, which was half a miie dlstan . The strength of the batteries being estal -lished it would have b en military folly to have risked the battleship to further fire from these shore bitteries under my instructions. If we had los: one or two of our six or seven ve.-s s the loss would have been a very g a' disadvantage and it might hav inv.ted attack with disastrous results. 1 thought it better policy to save the ships for wider and b"tter servic?, an i subsequent events justified the decis ion." "1 saw Lieutenant Simpson's first shot and then I saw the first vessel ia the Spanish line take a rank sheer to the westward, leaving the Vs-iya coming straight on. Thf n the latter also turned to the westward. It was apparent that the original plan o; the Spaniards had failed. End that the Spanish fie-.t, in order and apparently at distance, had succeeded in pa si g the battleship line. A new feature of the fight became immediately apparent Captain Cook now gave the order t i port the helm. I did not. I should have done so in a second. I said to him, 'Is your helm aport?' and he replied, Tl is aport or hard aport I think the lat ter.' Coming to the turn of the Brooklyn Admiral Schley, speaking clearly and never hestitating for a word, said that be had never s-fn a ship turn more steadily. "The turn," he said, ' was absolutely continuous; there was no easing of the helm, and I nevi r saw the starboard side of the Texas. I am sure we were never neai er that ves el than GOO yards. We were never across her bow. She never entered into my head at all, as a menace or danger." He said the closest range wss !,10; yards. "We were sj clcse," he went o i. "that I remember I could see men on the Spanish ships running between tli ! superstructure; I could even s.e the daylight between their legs. During the turn Lieutenant Commander Ho ar son very properly made the obseiva .lcn that we would 'look out for the Texas, but theto was never any colloquy betweaa us never any colloquy of any charac ter between Hodgson and mysslf; first, because he was too good an offi cer to have so transgressed, an 1 sec ond, because if he had undertaken it, I would not have permitt d it. That is fiction: there- was no colloquy." At this point the admiral said the leading one of the Spanish shirs was on the Brooklyn's starboard bow and that not only all of the enemy's ships but the fnrts as well, were firing ap parently at the Brooklyn. "That mo meat and the next fifteen minutes were the most serious of the combat," he said, and he told how deafening was the noise of the guns. "The roar of the projectiles." he said, "was such as cm only be heard once, and once heard can never be forgotten. All four of the Spanish vessels were firing on the Brooklyn and none of the Spanish v ts sels at that time showed any injury. Then the thought passsd through my mind that they might get away and I feared we should have most of the fisht as I did not know that the battle ships could keep up their speed. I said to Cook that we would 'stay with this crew.' Almost a Row. Sr. Joseph, Mo., Special Prominent members of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, in convention her?, prevented a clash of the faction:? for and against admitting colored women to membership. A motion to post pone action on the subject until 111 e this afternoon was speedily carried. Before adjournment sine die. the convention decided to lay the matter over until the next annual convent! n. Of Oenerai Interest. It is said that Frank J. Gould, who is to marry Miss Helen Kelly, will abandon sports and will soon dispose of his kennel and show horses. A London cablegram states that King Edward was firmly opposed to the punishment of General Buller. John Redmond, in a speech at Cork, said he would unite the world-wide rate for Ireland's freedom. Plans to unite the steel manufac turers of England into a trust ar-3 con sidered futile. The Duke of Cornwall and York ar rived at St. John's, N. F. Signor Luzzati, an Italian economist predicts retaliation against Germany if a new tariff is enacted. Adjourned to November 7. Richmond, Special. The consticu tional convention wEfs in session only 23 minutes and after this brief sitting adjourned until Thursday. Novombei 7. in accordance with a resolution adopted several days ago. The amend incnt offered by Mr. Eggleston to the section relating to the clc'ti.n o. commissioners of revenue was Uiket up and rejected, but a motion to recon sider prevailed and the amendment is p.gain pending. Fatal Fire at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa., Special. Nineteen known dead and a property loss amounting to upwards of $500,000 is the awful result of a fire which oc curred Friday in the busines.5 section of this city. The number of injured is not known definitely, but fully a score of victims were treated at vari ous hospitals. Police and firemen are delving into the ruins in search oi bodies supposed to have been buried beneath the debris as it is feared that others besides the known dead may have lost their lives in the flaioe3. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL New Enterprises That Are Enriching Our Favored Section. The North Carolina Apple. The growth of apples for market has come to be a great and profitable in dustry in a number of counties in North Carolina, and there is every rea son why 100 bushels should be rai3?d where now only one bushel Is raised. It is a crop that can be grown with 5es3 labor than any other profitable crop and one which is as certain of sure returns in at least a large section of the State. A private letter to the ed itor of this paper from a friend in Wilkesboro gives this example of profit in apple-growing: "Our town is one of the leading pro duce points of the State. We have sev eral firms handling apples in largi quantities. A gentleman sold the apples on his orchard yesterday for $550, cash in advance, purchasers to take the fruit from the trees. It is a mountain farm and not considered very valuable at that. There is good money in orch ards here if properly looked after." The North Carolina exhibit of fin apples at Charleston will be one of the sights atthat great Southern Exposi tion. It will show the world what North Carolina orchards produce. Raleigh News and Observer. A Big Cotton Mill. The big now "Loray" mills at G-as-tonia. N. C, which have just complet ed a reorganization (this time being Incorporated under the laws of Maine), are now rapidly approaching comple tion. The capacity of the complete plant will be 50,000 spindles and about 1,700 looms and the inanagemen states that it is the intention to in stall about half that amount of ma chinery at first and sart the plant early in November, adding the remain der as soon as possible. The power plant is already completed, the water system perfected, the main building completed and partly equipped. This mill will be one of the best built and equipped as well as the largest mills, in North Carolina. President Georg? A. Gray is one of the ablest and most ex perienced mill men in the South, and that the mill will be a great success is generally predicted by Carolina mill men. American otton Reporter. Another Rice Mill T.i development of rire-mllling in Louisiana continues steadily. The lat est new mill to be completed in the State is that of the Iota Rice Milling Co.. at Iota, in Acadia parish. This plant made its initial run last week. Its capacity is 1,200 barrels of rice per twenty-four hours, the equipment of machinery being installed in a building three stories high, 44x50 feet; the rough warehouse is two stories high, 125x162 feet, while the clean warehouse is 82x1 ;'." feet in size. The quality and quantity of rice produced in the Iota district promise a successful existenca for the new plant. A State Su;ar Mill. The State of Texas will erect 8 sugar mill to cost from $150,000 to $203,000 on the Clemens farm, in Brazoria coun ty. The financial agent of the peniten tiary hoard has been authorized to take the necessary steps for establishing trie plant. Toe products of the State farm are pledged to pay for the mill. Industrial Miscellany. C. W. Tehault, of Norfolk, Va., pro moter of the Norfolk Shipbuilding & Pry Dock Co., has issued -a prospectus of th. e enterprise, announcement of which was made lest month. The cap:-ta-ization will be $5,000,000 instead of $2,000,000, ps was at first intended, and $1,000,000 have already been sub scrided. A tract of nrl on Hampton Roads has been secured as site for the plant, and steps are to be taken for completing ail the arrangements soon, so that active work on its construction may be commenced. Governor McSweeny of South Caro lina has been notified by a citizen of Hampton county that he has discovered a supposed phosphate deposit in that county. Samples of the rock have been sent to the State geologist for analy sis. It Is stated that a bill is being pre pared providing far the establishment of a branch in Macon. Ga., of the Stat School of Technology for the purpose f giving instruction in manufacturing kaolin and fire-clays. The bill will be introduced in the house by one of the representatives from Bibb county, and will call for an appropriation of $10. 000 which amount will be duplicated by Mecon citizens. Contract has been awarded for the construction of a bridge at Hinton, VV. Va., to cost about $45,000. This bridge will bo owned and operator1 by the Hinton-New River Bridge Co.. and it will be not only a source of revenue to its owner, but also enhance property values in the town and nearby county. The structure will be of stone and steel, 1200 feet long, with 18 foot road way, and be 60 feet above low water. The American Bridge Co., of New York was the successfvl bidder. Prospectors who have been examin ing the phosphate beds of the Sum ner Phosphate Co., in Sumner county, Tennessee, have found rock existing in larger quantities tnan at first sup posed. Textile Note5. Runnymede Hosiery Mills of Tar boro, N. C. will install a dyeing plant. J. M. Greenfield of Kernersville, N. C., will establish a knitting mill, and has already purchased the necessary machinery. The organization of a cotton mill company is proposed at Beaumont, Texas, by C. W. Ilowth. A $100,000 en tftraHsft "will be formulated. marietta (Ga.) Knitting Co. has de cided to purchase seventeen ad ditional knitting machines, which will increase its complement to 116 machines. W. H. Leak of Kernersville, N. C, will establish a knitting mill. Smitherman Cotton MJlls of Troy, NT. C. is reported as to install 100 looms. This plant now operates spin dies only, having 332S in position. The Newton (N. C.) Hosiery Mills has completed the installiation of its dyeing plant, and is now adding a 50 horse power engine and a large power press. MADE A BOLD DASH An Exciting- Chase in Nashville After Fxpress Robber. A BID MAN FLUSHED AND LOST. Clubs His Way Out From Policemen And Makes a Daring and Successful Break For Liberty. Nashville, Tcnn., Special. A des perate man fought his way clear ct two city detectives here Sunday ami after a thrilling chase made good his escape. In his race for liberty he utilized a two-horse wagon team, a horse and buggy, a riding horbe, all forcibly taken, while two dead Mood hounds mark the first portion of his trail. Officers believe the man is one of the gang that held up tho Great Northern express near Wagner, Mont., last June, hfs attempt to get change for a $20 bill of the series secure 1 in that robbery attracting attention of the police to him. Sunday morning a rawbone 1 man about 5 feat 10 inches high, with flo rid complexion, offered the bill in pay ment of a small purchase made in a store house on the public square. Dif ficulty in making tho changm caused the salesman to closely notice the bill, which proved to be on the Mon tana bank. The police were quietly notified, the clerk raeanwnrte delaying the matter of change. Detectives Dwyer and Dickens were soon on hand and approaching the man demanded hiti name. "Ferguson." was the re ply, and another question or two. Be tective Dwyer informed the man that he was under arrest. Quick as a Hash Ferguson had a revolver in eac h hand and started for the door. A hand-to-hand fight ensued, both officers grap pling with the stranger, who proved more than a match for them. Using his pistols as ciubs he fought his way to the door and flrd down the street. A passing ice wagon caught his atten tion and the negro occupants were soon cut of his way. Then at a fire engine clip the wagon was headed across the Cumberland river bridge into East Nashville, a fusiladc of shots following it. Out Woodland street went the man and a sudden turn into First stren brought tho wagon to grief. One of the horses fell and broke his leg. The figitive, however, was not to be de layed. Running across East street he held up an old negro who was driving in a buggy and the flight was contin ued. Out into the commons he sped. Once, the buggy overturned, but was quickly righted. Finally the tired horse was abandoned and after a dive into Shelby Park on foot, the supposed bandit .secured another horse hitched at a point near the park. Then, after a sensational ride, the horse was left and the flight continued on foot. Fur. ther out pursuers found two of their blood-hounds shot to deaih a short distance apart and niter that trace of the man was lost. The sheriff with a large posse is out scouring the errantry for the missing man. When the bug gy was abandoned th? man threw away a wallet containing $1 .C 40 in 10 and ?20 bilk; of the Montana bank. The money was recovered by Chief of Police Cnrran. Production of Precious Metals. Washington, D. C. Special. Direc tor Roberts, of the mint, has prepared a statement, showing the production of precious metals for the calendar year of 1900. It shows that tho pro duction of gold in the world was 12, 457. 2S7 ounces, of the value of $2Zi -514,700, a loss in value of $49,070,200 from 1399. The silver output o: the world amounted to 17S, 790.790 tine ounces, the large.it ever known. Official Records. Washington. Special General Fred C. Ainswouh, chic-;: of the Record and Pension Office, in his annual report to the Secreatry of War, says that the fiscal year has witnessed the practi cal completion of the work, so many years in progress, of the publication of the official records of the Union and Conlerierate armies during the civil war. They make a total of 125. 730 pages :f te;.t. Or. Rfxy's Report. Washington, Special. "In the line of duty, while receiving the people was shot by Leon F. Czolgosz" is the official statement filed with the sur geon toOi e-d of the nav.. by Dr. P M .Rixey, ir.edical insoocto . U. S. N., as the introduction fjr his report up on the wounding, illness and death of the late President AleKiiuey. The eause of death is thus stated: "Gan grene of both walls of s'oirach and larcreas, tollowing gunshot wound.' The report itself is remarkable for its exhibition in the clos-&t i-asible de tail of the exact stato of he patient during his mortal illness. Roosevelt's Forty-Third Birthday. Washington, Special. Sunday was the forty-third aniversary of the birth of President Roosevelt. Occurring on Sunday, there was no formai cele bration, and the day was spent ery quietly. Dr. Nichols, a friend from Baltimore, was at the White House a portion of the day, and at night Commander Cowles was a guest at dinner. Tho President attended re ligious services at Grace Reformed chuich as usual. Mill C'osed By a Strike. Troy, N. Y.. Special. The Mohawk Knitting Mil!, at Cobces. is idle, ow ing to a strike cf the knitters and winders. Saturday the men demand ed that a man who had been dis charged lor what they claim is a trivia! offense, be taken back. The demands of the men were refused! and they cuit work, causing a BUS tei.s:ou of ope ations and ihrowin:, out of employment about ZQ0 men n l women. STATE FAIR OPENED. Dpenlng Ceremonies in the Presence of a Large Crowd. j Raleigh. Special. The 41st annual j Stitj Fair began Tuesday, under the j most favorable ?uspices. as to weather, ! attendance and exhibits. It ranks as one of the best fairs ever held in the South. The procession, which was a very creditable one. second to none, es corted the Governor and Gen. Cox, the president of the fair, together with oth er State and city officials. In the pro cssion were a battalion of the Stat" Guard, the cadet battalion, 300 strong, cf the Agricultural and Mechanical College here, with its band and bugle corps, the fire department, etc. At tho grounds the Governor was introduced by General Cox and said: "The opening of the North Carolina State Fair at its forty -first annual ex hibition is a matter of no small signi ficance, 'e have entered upon a new century and 1 believe upon a new era. I am among the optimists who believe that the world grows better and that the future holds for our children a larger measure of usefulness, distinc tion, happiness arm success than the past has held for us. Born in the troublous times before the war, the as sociation which now conducts this fair maintained its organization ami mac's Its exhibits except for a few years du ring the war and the period immedi ately following. At the time of its bii th agriculture was almost the sol in !at try of the State. Today it is but one of three sisters argiculture, manufacture and commerce. We have made gre it progress in the years since the organ ization of the association which annu ally make the exhibition here and this fair has much to do with our progress. It brings our p&ople together, it shows them the things which have been done and stimulates them to doing other things. it makes as acquainted one with another. It shows to s me ex tent what statehood is and makes eac-'n man think more of the land of his na tivity. 'There are many problems before us; we shall solve them all, but we can only solve them by a sturdy adherence to our convictions of duty, by careful study, by thorough preparation and by a recognition of the divine right of the difference of opinion. By these means we shall not only remain what we have always been, an independent people, but we snail become a more creative people, capable of doing the thin-'9 whose performance we have heretofore merely celebrated. We shall not only grow the products of the farm, but we shall multiply those products manyfold by manufacture and shall increase theii value by commerce. "We are becoming more united and with the building of better road?, which is already assured, and by the education of all our people we shall be able to make our impress upon the public opinion of the nation. It is f i these purposes that we come together, not merely to see what has 1 een done but to consider the things which yet remain to be dene. We take courage in our past achievements and start intc the future with the hope of better things. We have a great State, a homo geneous people but with enough dif ference to bring about that d'versitv which is essential to the larges! growth. Knowing one another better realizing what our fathers have done appreciating the labors of the present let us strike out for greater things in the future and prove ourselves worth of the distinguished ancestry who have earned the plaudits of the world ii their deeds have not been celebrated as ihey should be. "With o heart full of hooe, with gratitude for the past, with apprecia tion for the present, with anticipation of a glorious future, I now formally de clare the forty-first annual fair oyn.' Presbyterian Synod Me;ts. Charlotte. Special The Synod cf North Carolina met Tuesday n ght in eighty-eighth annual session in the Second Presbyterian church of this tity. The attendance is large, both ministers and laymen being generally sm hand. The sessions will co'tinr 'hrough the week. Another Increase In Wages. Fall River, Mass., Special. Notices have been posted in the Iron Works Cotton Mills, increasing wages 0 re cent to take effect November 1. Th's is the second raise of 5 per cent, in these mills, which are owned by M. C. D. Borden, of New York, within a month. This unexpected ac.ion. it la feared, may precipitate another of tno frequent crises in the cotton manufac turing industry of Fall River, as the operatives of other mills have not yet recovered from the agitation caused by the announcement of the previous ad vance at the Iron Works Mills. Newspaper Mn Shoots Farmer. Pine Bluff. Ark.. Special. Carl S:ub blefield, one of the oldest and wealthi est residents of this city, was shot and instantly killed by Meyer Solmson, formerly city editor of the the Daily Graphic. The shooting, it is said, wa? the result of an attack made by S.ub blefi'. ld on Solsmon Sunday concerning an article Solmsin was alleged to have written while doine newspaper work Made Partial Confession. Middlesboro. Ky., Special. George Gray was arrested as principal and George Eaton, as an accomplice in the shooting and robbery of P. T. Colgan. paymaster of the Virginia Coal and Iron company, last Thursday at Mid dlesboro. Colgan was robbed while on his way to the furnace from the Manu facturers' bank. Eaton made a partial confession implicating three other men and a woman. It is said the woman has fled into Harlan county with the money. Eaton and Gray were placed in jail at Pinevllle. ARP HAS LOST FAITH He fs Inclined Just At Present To De Fighting Mad. WISHES DRANN WRE HERE NOW. Roosevelt-Washington Dinner Has Aroused the Anger of thi Bartow Philosopher. It looks now like my old fri n 1, Evan Howell has lost his Influcnca with the new president, and I have lust my faith. Hope and despair are some times not far apart. Last week I was sanguine, which means hopeful, nf dent: and now I am sanguinary, which means fighting mad. "This world is all a fie ting show. For man's delusion given; And you can't always sometimes most generally tell what is going 1 happen." The smartest doctor can't d; lgarse every case, nor cure a disease if the P3t:ent does not want to be cured. My idol is shattered. I wish that Braan was alive with his Iconoclast. May le he could do justice to the situation and save me the use of language. B ib Toombs said that the fanatai ism of our northern brethren about the negro fa tigued his indignation, an 1 ji s: so now oar contempt is getting tired. The day after I read about it I couldn't real'za it. nor did 1 believe it was as bad as pictured, and si I waited for lieht more light I had an Idea thai Booker Washington in some w. y happen, d in about dinner time, and Mr. Roosevelt, having mo;o heart than head, thcught ! 3sly asked hinj t s t down at his ta bic. I thought that maybe he sympa thized with tho man who had dene so much for his race and wrs tabooed everywhere by white people and h ;te's and churches an 1 white folks, cars and opera houses, anil so his hjart got the better of his head and he did it in haste and would repeat at his leisure I thought it was just one case, for t ie New York Press said it was unique. Then I remembered that Cleveland in vited the dusky quceri of the Sandwich islands to the white house, any may be Roosevelt looked up in Booker Washington as a kind of ambassador or chief of a foreign race, and I kept on thinking and hunting around for an explanation or palliation until it w s discovered that the case was n t unique, for he did a like thlug l:e'o"e at Albany, while be was governor, and that he sent his children to school with negro children at Oyster Bay. Then T gave it up. He has sadly disap pointed his friends an 1 dishonored th ' state his mother came from and de secrated the president's mansion. It is no longer the white house, but like the chameleon, takes any color that comes. Now I suppose that Miss Wash ington, who is at We'lesley college, will be a welcome visitor at the man sion during her vacation, and maybe Roosevelt's son will fall in love with her and marry her without having to elope. That is the tendency of this new departure this unique case. Bel a hopeful man, an optimist, should wait a few days and ruminate. Time is a srcod doctor and I am n d as mad this morning as I was last week. I think maybe that it Is not as bad a cas as I think it is. By nature I am a good deal like my good old kinl-heartol mother, who gently took everybody's part who was abused. One day my father came home very mad with a man who had mistreated him and when he related his grievance to mother she said: "Maybe the man didn't mean it and will make it a'l right after while." Father got irritat ed a little with mother and said: "Caroline, I believe you would defend the old devil if he wss hre on trial." And she said: "Well, I hava sometlm s 'bought that too much was la'd on him." I still bdieve that Rocseve't is n tu rally a good, big-hear' e l man and he didn't think that his off'c't-1 pes t 01 limited his private and domesiic r'ghts. The white house was h's h m h a cas;le and he could ask in or shut out whomsoever he pleased. He v;. s lorn and reared at the north, wh-re a to sl- rs'i and fantatical sympathy with the southern negro is almost nn'versa1. II mano;:oli;:ed the puss and the pi pit, 'hough they knew no more about th negro and his racial instinct than we know about Bulgaria and the Macedo nian bandits. What a st' ng folly i s that sympathy. Its tendency is t spoil the most contended and happiest race on earth. Sometimes I envy the n their merry nature. Book r Washing ton seems in earnest in his efforts t) r-ipvp.iB and refine his Dconle. bat 1 doubt whether he is really doing them any good. To labor is their nature and the higher c lucation unfits them for It. I suppose that Tuskegee has turned out 2.000 or 3,000 graduates, but where are they and what are they doing? We never hear of one in th s ie?ion snl 'ast year a professor from Tuscaloosa declared publicly in Atlanta tnac he had been in Ti slsegee and investigated and could hear of only about a dozen out of 1.200 who were at wjrk. The 1 est cf them come out mechanics or farmers, but they have been trans- j.me t into gen.lemen and are living of? of their kinfoiks. A few have teen sent to Africa to start the cott: n busi ness, and it is to be hoped that the others will go there and stay. Educa tion is not what the negro stands most in need cf. It is a nform In morals. It is the unprejudiced opinion of t' e most conservative observers that trey are the most thievish, unchaste raca upon the face of the ejrth. and they are infinitely worse now than they w- re when ia slavery. In lS7u there were but 200 negro convicts in our peniten tiary, and now there are 4,000 in Geor gia, and the number increases as the years roil on in spite of schools, col- ejes and millions of norihern m ney. The good negroes are on the farms and under the dominion of their landlords. It is safe to say tLat 75 per cent of the nproes about the towns and cities will steal, and tbat 50 par cent or tne negro children are born out of lawful wedlock. Two of our negro barbers decamped to Bessemer last week one has been keeping three wives and the other two, but they left them and took two new ones along with them. Wei have got so acccstcmed to this s a'e of negro morals that it excites no com ment. Some white men Will rob binl-:3 and abduct children and hold up tra n3 and embezzle money and cheat in trade 1 and run blind tige.s and moor.shiae' whiskey. But nearly a 1 ngro s :rvants will take little things little m: ny or , jewelry or a poir of sc'ssars or scan. pel envelopes or a little rice cr cffe.2 or sugar. They all do thie, and we subm t to It because they still make kind, good-natured servants and e re d them. And so the race probltm rks on. but I will prophesy same g.xxi to come from Roosevelt. He Is a cran's. a!out some things, but he is fear'.e I, independent, self-relant and will do just as he dogon pleases. Mythology tells us that King Augean had a lnr'l of 3.00 oxen, whose stab'ea hrd n t been cleaned out for thirty years, rn 1 Hercules came along one day and ro a whiff of the foul od rs and turnc 1 two rivers through th :n an 1 . i -d them out in a day. I b: lieve that R 0 I velt is for dean, honest work in government Cepartmenti and will clan out the Augean stables, if h - h s to turn the Potomac river thro ig them. For thirty v. ars the r t n h has nauseate! US. He has Just a p.ii.t ed Mr. Poulke to the head of th ilvil service commission. PouIk ha; 1 tag been the prosecutor of frauds, perju ries and evasions, the t rr.;r of p.-t-masters. the watchdog of pi bl c oftl cials, but he was h in limn.. ,1 ....1,.. elans. He will sweep the fleck now, fo he and tne prr.siiie.it are ot one rn n 1 on that law. The victors Will n n ge-r get all the spoils. But we want the president to let the negro alone. The race problem belongs to uh and will be settled on a wise and humane basis if the fool yankc? editors and preachc 1 will let us alone. But we will wait ; 11 I v. at, h an 1 some good people will p ay f . del v erance "deliver v from evil." I haven't given up Mr. Roosevelt y t II we could only get him down here fir two or thr. e years he would 1 c me a disgusted with the negro and so exac lag that they wouldn't hire t hi Our observation long Iuih been that t; e northern people who come south 1 1 live soon Ret th ir eyes opened and understand the situation. Not loi aga the liter of .1 Baptist paper In N York said that the sauth was nal re:d; for it now. but the t mt w mid s 1 n come when miscegenation would h found the hest lution of th? race, problem. And only las! w ek tho td -tor of a republican paper defended Mr. Roosevelt and said that in an ter g n eration social equality between the :a ces would be universal at t' e ou:h and it was well to start it at the white house, with such malignant fools w can do nothing, for they are t 0 far off. But they had better shinny 01 their own side. Bill Arp in Allan a Constitution. 1'. 8. 1 am gratified that Mis. Pa k and otheis have ome to the rescue of i Nancy Hart an-' have esteb'i ihed I: . as a fact and heroine in our hist ry . the revolution. We ought to have 1 aiau- lusioiian to record an 1 p eserve these things. Fifty vers from naw somebody will be saying that Bi I Aip was a myth, and I wouldn't li r it. B. A. We read that the American X. B Missionary Association at (hicigo have indorsed the president and c m mended social equality between the ra ces. It is about time now f r the bl e and the gray to embrace again. 1. r brotherly love continue. B. A. Later from the front. The unique las vanished and Roosevelt's capers have become multifarious, ubiquitous and ridiculous. Hope for a season bids the south farewell To your tents. Oh. Is-, o! flail off the do-s. I'm going out t work in my garden. B. A LABDR WOTi-D. 1- ranee t ars a jf nerai trike (' ih day la bore 1 coal miners. The average pay of tht is $1.50 per diem. The Rhenish Steel Works V 1 1 1 rc- duce wages ten per cent. The fatalities among coal miners arc said to be the greatest of any Indus try . Aboui 173,000 persons are employed in the Postal Department of (ire.?: Britain and Ireland. The eight-hour work day Is gaining in poularity, and its further adoption is being more generally urged. Three hundred longshoremen al Mo raine, Ohio, quit because of the ap pointment of unpopular foreman. Thirteen waiters at the Plaza Uo! '. New York City, who entered the coun try under contract, .are to be deported. There are several unions in New York City composed or clerks, o t lh.it class of labor H usually H)orly organized. The Saturday half holiday is being continued with beneficent effects through the year by many large em ployers of labor. it is said thai importanl labor legi latfon will be vigorously nrged when (he various State Legislature!) con vene for the winter k ssion. Employes of Western railroads rcre talking of forming 11 mutual benefit association to provide for themselves or their families in case of accident or death. The Black Diamond Coal Company settled the wage scab- with u.- meu at Coal Creek. Term., allowing Ihrec fifths of a cent a ton advance. Abu'.t j 1 X) men have returned to w 1 The average wages of male teachers in graded schools In Michigan last year were $7.8ii per month, and In un graded schools $29.03. Women teach ers in graded schools are paid on SO overage $43.50 per month, and in uu gruded schools sjj.T'-1. The Enemies of the Lobsters. Everything that swims is an enemy 1 1 the little embryo lobster, including him self for the larger cues eat the litt' ones in most wanton fa-hion. The lit'!-' fry lobsters shed their shells seventeen times on the average during the fir-: year of their existence. After they ar. five years old they shed them four time.; a year. The range of the lobster is about I DM miles, trom the straits of Belle I le on the north of Cape Hattcra- on the sooth, and fifty miles out to -ea. It was long a mooted question whether they went up and down the coast, like shad, mackerel blue fih. etc , or whether they remained stationary like the oy-ter and clam. This was settled by the fi-h conunis . ion in a very curious and interesting way. They attached a zinc tag to a lot of them at various points, and et them free. These tags were numbered, and a record kept of them in a look. Fisher men were given a prize if they won . return them to the commission by mail with a statement as to where an'i when found. By these means it was soon dis covered that they travel back and forte out to sea. instead of up and down th; coast. Tl e largest dtamoacl m the world i on in tnc posse -ion of ti e Rajah of Vlxtlan. It weighs 307 ca-ats. and ii brec limes ih size of tbe Kohtitqot ROOSEVELT A LL. P. Yale College Confers Honorary Decree Ipon the President. NAt.k TWAIN IS ALSO HONORED Mr. Roosevelt Was S.lccted to ThU Honor Before His i.lcation to the Presidency. New Haven, Coan., BpeeteL Rep resentatives of many psogSS and ( reeds, of the learned professions and Of the Industries and literature worn honored by Vale Culvers. ty Wehu day. and In turn paid homags to ths groat institution of learning, which celebrating the completion of the He, -ond century of its existence, .1- ties marched behind Yale'a colors, dele gates ti the gri.it festival, and partic ipated in the closing functions of the celebration. The closing eaen ise.s cf the bi -centennial were 0ffi tail) com memorative They were hi bl in the Hyperion Theatre. Classical music, v conunesaoratlve poem and a !: k fes tival hymn, both composed f r the 0 -castas, a commemorath s addreta iv David Brewer, Asso ate Justice of tin- United states Supreme Court, sad finally, the clothing with the hood of tlie honorary degreea of great nun. These constituted the day's exercises. President Roosevelt and party arr -. 1 at 9:30. Though the crowd at the statlo 1 here waa a one and dem onstrative in its weh ome to the Pros -dent, the police arrangements enabled ;!: ! party to leave the train and pas-, to carriages in wslting without din", culty. Presid nl Hadley of Vale, an 1 Mayor John 1' Studley, m re oa haul to receive the distinguished guest, and after an exchange f gre tings, briefly, the ride toward tic- University un pus was begun by way of st ue and Chapel streets. Th escort Included representation of the naval and mil' tary forces ot the state. Upon arrival at the aniius. the President was con d icte I to Battell 1 hspel, and after a brief rest there, was escorted to hit place in the a- identic pro. ilofl Pn eldent Roose !i and Pi esldent Hadb y in I'd the th sti e at 10: :". The Prea cent of th United Btati s was led by the University president t the at of honor di recti j behind the ra tor's desk. Pr sldent Hadley took his .- at beside him. On tins platform we-,- Jon Olm ati .1 mn II; Hay, Rlchar 1 , I lib f Just ce Mi Ivlll W P tiler Brewer, of the United ear- Court ; Presl lent Bliot, Pat ton, of Print stoa : an 1 .lust ic SI iles Supr if Harvard Paunce, of Brown ; Harper, of Chicago; Provost Harrison, of Pennsylvaaia,sad other college presidents, b sides liter ary men and ( hurcbmi n of dlotint ti m. Admiral Sampson, apparently la 111 health, did not entt r the pr 1 esse ton. He made bis way to his place through a side door and leaning on the arm of Prof w. w. Parnam, was shown to his Kent. When the Ioiik ed Prt sldent Ha . 11 1 wo and with list had been finish ley advanc d nt.-p grt '1 1 Impresalvenesa said: "Tin re yet remains one name. In an instant in gre it sudlenc wai sianding. The President of the United States also arose and ths theatre ring v, 1th chi ei s. The air was ills I with waving handkerchiefs and pro grammes. Remarking that .ale 1 a I chosen for the degree this candidate i ..Tore be became President, President Hsdley announced that all men were now doubly b n red by greel ng the man and the President u 1 bob t Yale. Specially ad Irs Blng President Roosevelt, President Hadley spoke ss follows: "Theodore R 1 v it. while you were yet s private clt sen we of fered you most worthily the deg: if LL. I. Since in His providence, it hai pl iged God t 1 give Ths tdore Roose v -it another tit! -. we give h m n that account a double portion or welcome He il a Harvard man by nurture, but we are proud to think th it In his d m oeratic spirit, bis bros I national aym- n.-ubies and. above all. bis clearness and to b nurltv and truth be will be glsd an b it I son of Yal . groes Mui d 1 I t . li Other. 111 1 . Air i ring e m out gp rJnl mania for c h other seems to bavo i.ii -a t be negroes wfco mm 1 diate counties mr ma, and In the loot 1 0 has rot bl 1 .1 b-m than mun bi ok live in lie r unding Bel wet ks then twenty negroes killed by ether blacks Three are reported on- being near Brown's station, .here a negro man met hh- paramour la ths cotton field end nulled oul a knife and stfibtrsd her nrongh the heart. The oth-r two occurred 01 man quan at a protra preacher 1 preacher U th- outside 1 Bt at h Bide, where a negro eled with a negro preacher et d meeting and called ths tut Of the church. The ft th" pulpit and WBCS OBJ tbey pulle 1 their pi ifo! . Convicted of Arson Dallas. Tex.. Special Tho Jury la in the as- of ' H, Alcxaoder, who was charged with a ton having -in ployed a mas to barn building in this city In December, ivj.',, returned a verdlet of guilty. The punishment being fixed at five years la the peni tentiary. Mexandi r was. onee presi dent of the Dallas Consolidated Ele trti Street Railway and is at present ((,'.iH'-:u- with a company holding 'iar. la the Beaumont oil fields. Two Pegufa'ors Killed. Knozville, Tenn., BpoeJaL A Bri tol, Tenn.. f.pceial tells of how a faih r end son in Diekinsoa county, Va., drove bach about . i "regulators" who uad warn d th" man of tii"ir visit The man and boy stationed taesaselvi s in the garret of th house and then the regulators opened lb they returned it with deadly aim. ArrlngtOO and Rob erta, two embers of tho party, were Instantly killed. The nam- of thff parties attackers have riot I-arned. vet be n Georgia Officers to Be Arrested. Atlanta. Special. Gov. Candler has acceded to the request of Governor Vycock. of North Carolina, that two Georgia officers, Sheriff Lovnlgood, of Fannin county, and his deputy, be sent to Murphy, N. C for trial bo ennae they crossed tho State line and ai rested an alleged criminal. The Georgia officers are charged with kidnapping and will, it is understood go without, a requisition. J