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0 II Jr II 1 WILMINGTON, N. C, SUN! A Y, MAY 9, 1897. vol. x. no. uo. PEICii 5 GENTS. 1 r a. a ... fi (i - ?1 1 " l X i ' . 1 i! If. .1 TBB MAYOBALTY TJROUBLE. i The Old Heard of Aldermen Meet and Eleet Offlce-Demaad to bfiMade on the New Board and Officers and If They do Hot Come Down Legal Steps Will be Taken Against Them. At a regular meeting of the old board f aldermea (the Karriss board), held n Friday evening, the 7th instant, the following officers were elected: City Clerk "and Treasurer W. H "Northrop, Jr. 1 Chief of Police (previously elected) It. B. Clowe. ' T Superintendent of Streets Harry Hill. M ! "i We uaderstand Alderman W. C. Von Glahn Is elated for chief of the fire de partment. I The ffloera elected will prepare bonds at onee and present them to the proper officials for approval. Demand will then be made on the officers now hold ing the respective positions. If not surrendered,- legal action will be taken to oust the present officials. Like elections will be made by the board ef ell other of the officials and policemen and like action taken, if the present incumbents do not surrender. We are informed that the supreme court has decided that officials, who oc cupy public offices, after any court has held adversely to their right of office, are not defacto officials. Conse quently their elections or acts are void. On this' theory, the courts will be asked to enjoin the Wright officers from hold ing the offices and arrest and bail pro ceedings! will be resorted to, if neces sary. The United States Court, .r In accordance with Judge Purnell's order, the United States district court convened yesterday at 10 o'clock. United States Marshal O. J. Carroll, of Raieigk, amd Clerk W. H. Shaw were at their posts. The only case tried, that of Miles 4- Lawson, Henry Stickney, James S. Boyce, and Ira" Cannon, seamen, and James Gaskill and Thomas Dinsmore, of Philadelphia, against the American' schooner R. Q. Graham. Til seamen libeled the schooner for wages, and Messrs. Gaskill and Dinsmore for ad vancing money and furnishing sup plies. The seamen were represented - by Messrs. Ricaud & Bryan, and the pther plxintiffs by Col. Thomas-Evans. ' Judge Purnell issued an order for the sale of the vessel, as well be seen in our Advertising columns. The court took a recess till tomor row at 19 a. m. Dropped Dead Last Night. Archie Leak, a colored man about 35 years of age, expired suddenly last night about 10 o'clock at 208 Bruns wick street. While walking up the hill from Nntt street, he experienced a shortness of breath and called on a col ored woman for ! assistance. She took him by the arm and started with -him to a physician, but he became so ill she started into a house with him. When they 4got on the piazza, he dropped dowif and expired without uttering 4 word. Coroner Jacobs was notified and he went over and had the body removed to Undertaker Evans' establishment where Dr. J. C. Shapard, county su perintendent of health, will make -an examination today. It is supposed that death was caused from heart disease. Leak was a wood sawyer, but none last night could tell where he resides,. It Is not known whether he has a f am ' ily or not. ' Convention Excursions to the Seaside. ' Although the First Baptist church was well filled yesterday afternoon to hear the interesting-discussion on the Sunday school report, there was a full quorum of delegates who went to Wrights ville beach at 2:30 p. m. to look upon the ocean. It was a revelation of wonder and beauty to the "much water" loving Baptists, several of whom put on bathing suits and plunged into the, surf. All were highly de lighted and declared that they we're going to arrange to make a longer visit and bring their families here, as it ,-vvould be a paradise to the little folks who could play in the sand. ' f Tomorrow morning at 9: 30 o'clock the delegates are Inviied to take an ex cursion, to Carolina Beach and other points mn the steamer Wilmington. mm Absolutely Purov, Celebrated for tta great leavening strength and heal thfulness. Assures the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. Royal Bakta" "Powder Co New York. UNION OP FORCES. Proposed basis of agreement between the Baptist Young People's union of America and the Baptist Young Peo ple's union, auiliary to the South ern Baptist convention: In our judgment the interests of our j common cause will be best subserved by a union of the forces of the Baptist Young People's association-of America and the Baptist Young People's union, auxiliary to the Southern Baptist con vention. To this end we agree: 1. That The Baptist Union, published at Chicago, shall be the organ of the B. Y. P. U. A. and the B. Y. P. U. A. S. B. C. In order that the work of the B Y. P. U. A. S. B. C. shall be ade quately presented, space not to exceed one page per week, shall be allotted in the Baptist Union to the publication of news and other items to be furnish ed by the secretary of the B. Y P. U. A. S. B. C, who shall be an associate editor. Said material to be distributed in the columns of thef paper 'according to its nature. 2. Adoption of the Christian Culturo Courses. The B. Y. P. U. A. S. B. C. to adopt the Christian Culture courses as published in the Baptist Union with the proviso that if it seems advisdble to the executive committee of the B. Y. P. U. A. S. B. C, alternative topics on the work of the boards of the S. B. C shall be allowed. 3. The B. Y. P. U. A. S. B. C. agrees to press the interest of the Christian Culture Courses and the circulation of the Baptist Union with all possible vigor, receiving for this service com pensation to be hereafter agreed upon. 4. In order to the preservation ofthe autonomy alike of the B. Y. P. U. A. and the B. Y. P. U. A. S. B. C. be merged the adjustment-of relations with the existing department of the Green we advise: ' That the department of the Green and the B. Y. P. U. A. S. B. C. be merg ed into one body to be known as the B. Y. JP. U. A. S. B. C, which sha develop the work of the young people in the territory of the S. B. C. and further to the best of its ability the interests of both. The plans of merging shall be, aa fast as vacancies occur in the repre sentation of states, within the S. B. C, on the; board of managers of the B. Y; P. U. A., these vacancies be filled with the representatives of said states , on the board of managers of the B. Y. P. U. A. S. B. C, to be elected in accord ance with the provisions of the consti tution. The work of the department of the Green being merged in that of the B. Y. P. U. A. S. B. C, the executive committtee of the latter be recognized as the representatives Ofthe B. Y. P. U. A. in the territory of the S. B. C Upon the foregoing this conference is unanimously agreed. t E. E. CHIVERS, L. O. DAWSON, J,OHN D. JORDAN, CHARLES M. NESS, Sec, IRA M. PRICE, Chairman. . RESOLUTIONS OF ACCEPTANCE. The board of manag"ers of the B. Y. P. U. Aux. S. B. C. recommend the ac ceptance ofthe basis of agreement with the B. Y". P. U. A. as set forth in the attached report of a conference held in Chattanooga, March .24, 1897, with the following statement of interpreta tion, and with the understanding that if there should be a desire on the part of either organization to abrogate it, it shall be after six months notice in writing. 1. It is to cause no change in our present constitution. 2. In acting as the representative of the B. Y. P. U. A. the executive com mittee of the B. Y. P. U. S. B.C, it is understood to consider all questions presented by that body as between eaual bodies with the full freedom1 of action. 3. It is understood that this agreement leaves the field of the S. B. C. to the en the entire, complete and unmolested control of the B. Y. P. U. A. S. B. C, both as to the general management of the work and as to its own annual meetings. 4. In making the Baptist Union the organ of the B. Y. P. U. A. S. B. C. no restrictions are thereby to be placed on the fullest use and commendation of the state denominational papers in car rying on the work of the B. Y. P. U. A SBC (Signed) L. O. DAWSON, Presidents W W. GAINES, Secretary.- Dr. Jones Tonight. The sermon of Rev. J. Wm. Jones, D, D., before the confederate ceterans, wblch was to have been delivered at 5 o'clock this afternoon, will be delivered at -8 p. m, at the First .Presbyterian church. There will be no procession by the military and civic organizations, as at first arranged. All are invited. Dr. Jones' subject will be "The Chris tion Character of Robert E. Lee." Cape Fear Camp No. 254, U. C: V., and Geo. Davis Camp, Sons of Veterans, will at tend. ; v The public isbvited. The Uniforms Are Here. President James W. Monroe, of the Second Regiment band, wore a broad smile yesterday. The reason was that twenty-two bright, beautiful new uni forms arrived for the band, to be used by them tomorrow at the memorial ex ercises. President Monroe requests the mem bers of the band to meet him at the band room tomorrow at 3:30 p. m. pre paratory to going to Oakdale ceme tery to participate in the memorial ex ercises. An iBTltaUon to the Southern Baptist Con. vention. - c Southport, N. C, May 8. Brethren of The Convention: Those who cannot go to Southport Tuesday can go Monday, but remem ber that we are prepared to give a hundred dinner Tuesday and there will be a special excursion that day. You are welcome" to our hospitality. You may let me have your names. J. J. ADAMS, Pastor Southport Baptist Church. . "WHO KNOWS THE. AUTHOR OI? THIS L1TTLEOEM? In Rev. J. C. Hiden's -"Notes and Comments," in The Christian Index, is the following paragraph: "In the stirring days of 1861, while campaigning in the . Alleghenies, . in what is now West Virginia, I came to a deserted house which had probably been a confederate states postoffice. We were quite near the enemy, and a large pile of mail matter had been dumped loosely on the floor, as the mail carrier was not ambitious to come to closer quarters with "our friends, the enemy." Among the loose mass was an attractive-looking magazine, and I picked it up to while away a brief rest ing spell on a very hard march. While glancing over the pages my eyes were soon caught by. the following little gem of a poem, which I then and there committed to memory: " 'Chisel in hand stood the sculptor-boy. With his marble block before him, And his face lit up with a smile of joy As an angel dream passed o'er him. He carved it then on the yielding stone, With many a sharp incision; " With heaven's own light the sculpture shone, He had caught that angel visidn. Seulptors of life we are as we stand, With our souls uncarved before us, Waiting the hour, when, at God's com mand, Our life-dream shall pass o'er us; If we carve it then on the yielding stone, With many a sharp incision, That heavenly beauty shall be our own, Our lives that angel vision "My recollection is that the little poem had no signature, and I have often wondered who wrote it. Can any reader of this paper give the name of the author?" And from the same source comes this bit of verbal criticism: "It is not proper to say, 'Directly after this he heard of his son's death,' because the word 'directly has no ref erence to. time. 'Immediately, or ,'at once, or 'instantly should frequently be used where 'directly is employed to denote time. The very form of the word directly' shows that it has ref erence to straightness of course. It is from 'rego to draw a straight line-whence, generally, to make straight, to rule. "It is not proper to say 'No less than 300 people came here today,' because 'les is the comparative of. 'little,' and has reference to quantity, ana, not to number, and 'no fewer than 300' is correct. "It is inelegant, if not incorrect, to say 'the caption of our article,' when you are referring to the title or head ing of an editorial.. The word 'caption' is not from 'caput' a head but from 'captio,' a. very different word. It la a vulgarism to apply 'captions to tne title of an article in a newspaper. 'Caption' is properly applied to 'that part of a legal instrument as a com mission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when and by what authority it was taken, found or executed.' Bou vier applies the word to the act of tak ing or arresting a person by judicial process; but in this sense it is rare. "I am not here correcting a school boy's 'composition.' Every one of the blunders here referred to I have found in editorials written by two or more distinguished doctors of divinity, and printed in one of the most prominent and wdely circulated religious papers in the south. Writing English is one of the fine arts." A HYMN. Composed by J. B. Taylor, pastor, And affectionately dedicated to the members of the First Baptist church and congregation Wilmington, N. C. Sung May 15th, 1881, the Sunday suc ceeding the . long-to-be-remembered one, when over $6,000 was subscribed to pay off the indebtedness on the church building. v Tuner-Ariel. With grateful hearts we meet this day, For we have rollecythe load away . Which on us, long has pressed. Our earnest prayers have now been heard. For we believed the Heavenly Word, And God our efforts blest. Yes, he has smiled upon our aim And to our succor surely came True to his promise given; Oh, may we tryst Him more and more, Untli our earthly lives are o'er, And we are safe in heaven. Come and adore our glorious Lord, And let us speak his praise abroad, For all his wondrous love; We 11 sound aloud His saving grace, And urge the lost to seek God's face, And live with him above. God give us love and burning zeal, To us His glorious truth reveal, - And we shall faithful prove. May many now without, soon come That they may seek the heavenly home, And taste redeeming love. Then jet us. tell to all around That mercy free doth now abound, That Christ will give them rest. Yes, brethren, let us earnest be. For soon we'll reach Eternity, And be forever blest. A Flourishing College In the Blue Grass In another column will be seen the advertisement of Georgetown college, of Georgetown, Ky., one of the oldest and best known Baptist colleges of the south. Its representative in the con vention. Rev. W. B. Crump ton, speaks in glowing, terms of the glories of the Blue Grass region in the heart of 'which his college is located. It draws its patronage from all parts of the south and some from the region north of the Ohio. - - "The Projectoscope." Only two more days to see this wonderful machine. Monday night and "Bargain matinee" Tuesday, at 3 o'clock. 10 cents to all, Last performance Tuesday evening- at 8:15. .... ' . - " w THE RUSSELL DIRECTORS ! I OF NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD ELECT NORMENT PRESIDENT. The Meeting of the Directors Treasurer and Secretary Baffin Refuses to Surren der His Books A Salt Over Payment for Charts for Pnbiie Schools Raleigh's New Board of Aldermen. Make a Stir Among City Officers. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, . N. C, May 8. Dr. R. M. Norment, president of, Governor Rus sell's board of directors of the North1 Carolina railway, returned this after noon from Burlington and was inter viewed. He said: "We organized. I was elected president, E. S. Walton secretary , and treasurer. The latter will take office as soon as he qualifies and gives bond, which is $75,000. We made a demand through, a committee oh Secretary and Treasurer Ruff in for his books. He was very courteous, but said President Alexander and his at torneys advises him to deliver nothing. I think he intends to hold on until the 1 regular meeting in July. In fact, some private stockholders intimate to me that they expect to participate in the annual meeting, July 6th. Treasurer r Ruffin gave us a printed copy of by- laws. This says the president's salary is $2,500. I thought only $1,200, had been paid. I conferred with the j governor this afternoon and will em- i ploy as counsel Charles A. Cook, A. C. Avery and John W. Graham." This afternoon the team of the agri cultural and mechanical college de feated Guilford college base ball team here 9 to ?, The state superintendent of public in struction asked the attorney general's opinion on a case coming up in Lincoln j Batteries: Wilson and Simmer; Cal county, where the commissioners in J lahan and Anson. Umpire, McDonald, open session refused to allow an order i Boston, May 8. Klobendenz was as far s,hnni ohrt, r,aid r rathBr 1 wild as a hawk today and practically the order that they should not be paid, and after adjournment one commission er, being misled Dy cnart agents, sign-" ed the order thus making a majority of the board, the order having already been signed by tlie chairman. The at torney general says: It would seem that the board of education, after having disallowed the order given by a school committee in open session, would be slow to approve the same as individuals and should they do so would be culpable to- a very great ex- , tent; but I am unable to see any rea- ! son why the board of education, or a ' majority thereof may hot, either in open session or as individuals, approve an order given by the school committee for school apparatus. The law does not require or direct that this approval shall be made in , any particular way or at any particular time." i The board of aldermen gave a general j shake up to the city officers last night. ' James W. Norwood was elected chief of police, vice Charles D. Heart who is made assistant chief and given two months leave of absence. He is very sick. The police force, which num bered only fourteen, was reduced to twelve, and two of the very best po licemen were dropped, to the greatj sur prise of the public. It is stated that one alderman stated that he wnted one dropped because he watch I bar rooms too closely. Louis Mahler was re-elected chief of the fire department. Cotton Futures. (Special to The Messenger.) r , New York, May 8. A statistical posi tion so strong as to furnish a convinc ing argument in favor of higher prices to bulls and bears alike and the prom ise, very distant it is true, but almost implicitly believed by the cotton trade o the world, of the production of a crop, the like of which has never been seen, are the opposing forces in the cotton market at present. It must not be forgotten in weighing these factors that one of them is an existing condi tion, while all the contingencies of the season are against the rais ng of a monster crop. Today the mar iet show ed more life and the week closes with the loss made in the early part of it substantially recovered. Liverpool ad vanced 2-64d this morning. Our mar ket opened a little higher, August sell ing on the first call at 7.43. The Chronicle's report on the; progress of the crop was rather favorable, but in spite of this the buyers outnumbered the sellers and the marker sec rLy im proved all day. August advanced to 7.49 and closed at 7.48 to 7.49, with the tone of the marketsteady. The bureau report to be issued on Monday will deal with the proportion of the chop planted up to the 1st of May. It will probably have little effect on the market either way. The strength of the statistical position is so pronounced as to almost entirely eliminate the probability of any considerable short interest being created in the summer . months and prices for them will probably closely reflect the shifting aspect of the daily short demand. The short interest In the late months, however, is very large and the first note of alarm about thq growing crop would, we think, un doubtedly be the signal for a rapid riso in the price of cotton.) At the moment all the southern advices indicate the prevalence of satisfactory conditions, Until there Is some positive sign of a refusal of consumers to continue taking 'actual cotton we see no cause to modi fy our expectations of still higher prices, RIORDAN & CO. t The man who refuses to walk In the light as God gives it has only himself to blame for what happens in the dark. Base Ball. 1 .rmiaaeipnia. May The Phillies were ueieaiea ior xne xnira successive time by Baltimore this afternoon, but. j unlikethe two preceding defeats, this t was accompanied by no disgrace. Tay- lor pitched a superb game, holding the Champions down to six hits and giving only one base on balls, but the errors of the men behind him more than nulli fied his good work. Score: R. H. E. Baltimore 2 1001000 x A 6 0 Philadelphia ..0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 9 0 Batteries: Hoffer and Clark; Taylor and Boyle. Umpire, Lynch; time, 2:15. I Louisville, May 8. The Browns play ed like champions today and outplayed the Colonels at every point. Attendance 3,500. Score: ' R. H E St. Louis 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 x 4 3 . 4 Louisville 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 02 .12 0 Batteries: Herman and.. Dexter; Hutchison and McFarland. "Umpire, Sheridan; time,' 1:50. I Pittsburg, May 8. The Pirates closed the series of three defeats for the Reds today with a fine exhibition of ball playing. Attendance 6,400. Score: i . R. H. E. Pittsburg: .,...1 4 0 0 1 1 2 0 x 9 12 1 Cincinnati ....0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0-:l 8 2 ! Batteries: Hawley and Merritt; Da mann and Schriever. Umpire, McDer mott; time, 1:50. New'York, May. 8. "Roaring Bill" jenneay was mainly ten a tyi ainiTT racnnoihiA today between. the Greater New York representatives in the first series. He WaS T113 and made two coetlyxerrors. R H E. New York" 2 1 2 3 0 0 0 1 x 9 16 2 Brooklyn .....0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 05 9 2 Batteries: Russie and Warner: Ken nedy and Grim. Umpire, Emslie; time, 2:00. Cleveland, May 8. Chicago had much the better of today's game until the ninth inning, when the Indians made a I rally and pounded out three runs. 5 Score: ! Cleveland ....0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 37 14 5 HHairn AA9AAAAA A ft Mi 1 presented the game to the Senators. Attendance 4,500. Score: R. H. E. Washington ..2 0 1 0 3 0 4 0 010 6 Boston ........2 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 1- 9 8 1 Batteries: King, German and Far ; rell; Kbobendanz and Ganzell. Umpire j Hurst. .. " At Richmond R. H. E. Richmond .....00 0 2 1 2 0 1 0- Norfolk 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 17 8 7 Supremacy of the White Man. Wilmington, N. C, May 8. Editors Messenger: In one of the speeches tonight at the home mission board mass meeting, a statement was made that should not be left unmodified. It was declared that the negro as good as the white man feel that they are on the same plane, the negroes as good as the white man and the white man no better, than the negro. This unqualified statement is untrue and its proclamation is unsafe. But a few years after the surrender at Appomattox and long before its anni versary began to be celebrated by lay ing tear-wet flowers alike on the graves of the Blue and the Gray, the Rev. Dr. I. T. Tichenor, the present secretary of the southern home mission board, its George Washington and-its Julius Cae sar, appeared before the northern Bap tists, assembled in convention at Chic ago, because requested to speak briefly on the condition and prospects of the negro in the southern states. The in vitation had beeH given with great hes itation but not so was it accepted. Fearlessly and faithfully did Dr. Tich enor give his true relation, but when he said, "The negro as developed by the Christian slaveholders of the southern states of the United States of America is the highest type of negro the world has ever known." the great hall was filled with hisses and five minutes elapsed before order was restored. At that moment Dr. Tichenor raised him self to his full height . and heroically added: "And the fact cannot be" changed by your hisses or your bayo-1 nets." -- It Is desired to emphasize EeTeMLhe indisputable and ineradicable trtith that the white man's white face is the parchment on which God has written In letters of Heaven's dazzling light : the white man's patent of nobility, his right of eminent domain in this world. There are principalities and powers, amjels and archangels in the Heaven lies, and there are divinely appointed orders in the earthly places. Of these latter the white man's is the first and highest. We must not by word or work pull the white man down but by all legitimate means and chiefly by the , Gospel, we must lift the negro up. The Christ was and is a white man. and white men, and only white men, were His Apostles. Until there shall be no more sickness and no more death, until the heavens shall be folded up and pass away and be no more, and mayhap forevermore, the white man's pre-eminence will stand in unchanging and un changable majesty and so .it ought to stand. All history and all philosophy, science and art, land and sea, hear and approve and unite in one deep and grand, Amen! May the white man realize and ful fill his glorious possibilities! May he never again by committing the sin of amalgamation bring1 upon his country a desolating flood of blood flowing from a thousand fratricidal fields of battle! Not slavery but amalgamation, with Its horrible handmaids, fornication and ; adultery, was the mother of our four years of war and our ten years of re construction, with all their damnations, i This is the very sin for which the del- uge came in the days of Noah "The I sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, etc." And that the negro may become .all the white man, Christ Jesus, has given him the power and- the opportunity of being, is the truest prayer any man can offer for him. HUGH F. OLIVER, of South Carolina. A CABINET CRISIS. GERMAN NEWSPAPERS ULLi OK " RUMORS OF TIIE KIND. Resignations of Two ofthe Ministers in tbe Hands of the Emperor Resentment Orear the Dingier Bill he Emperor Urged Take Retaliatory Measures -The Empez or Expresses Indignation at Refusal eJT Reichstag to Tote Funds for Increase) 4T the Navy. ' (Copyrighted by the Associated Presa Berlin, May 6. Throughout the week: the entire press has been full of ru mors of a cabinet crisis, and the wildest and most conflicting rumors and state ments have been published on the sub ject. The Associated . Press' learns om reliable authority that the facts in tlm case are as follows: The resignation of the imperial chan cellor, Prince Hohenlohe, and the. min ister of foreign affairs. Baron Marsclial. von BieberstehV- have been in the hands of the emperor for weeks, but no action has yet been taken. On Wed nesday His Majesty had a long convex . sation with Prince Hohenlohe, and, later, he received Baron Marschal vor Bieberstein. .Upon this occasion tbe foreign, domestic and political situa tion was discussed. Regarding the in ternational troubles, - the Prussian law of associations and the military triato bills were discussed, but no agreement was reached. The emperor also spoke of the determined opposition to the policy of Baron Marschal von Bieber- stein upon . the part of the agrarians the conservatives and even the nation al liberals and quoted the' interpella -tion of the government on the subject of the Dingley bill in support of his re-, marks. Just for the moment, it is cer tain the present cabinet will retain : their posts. Both Prince Hohenlohe and Baron Marschal von Bieberstein will wait for a more opportune time; to press their resignations. The Dingley bill debate in the reicn-. stag has attracted much attention throughout the empire and the news papers are full , of it. The - whole agra--rian party still urges the government i to declare a tariff war against tne United states before, or Immediately after the Dingley bill becomes a Iaw Even a considerable portion of the in dustrial classes of . Germany favors such a plan. The government has re ceived memorials from the chambers off" commerce of Dusseldorf, Crefeld, Aixla. Chapelle and Mayence, protesting against the Dingley bill and urging re talliation. The government, however will not yield to this pressure, espe cially as it is doubtful whether the reichstag will sanction such a violent policy, c the-ceTitrer being thus far no re committal and the liberals, radical, and socialists being opposed to any tariff war with the United States. Thlst f act, however, adds fresh fuel to thve agrarian, keen hostility to the present . cabinet and especially to their hostility -against Baron Marschal von Bieber stein, and they are using their -means to hasten the fall of the latter, though the emperor and Prince Hohenlohe sup port him. On Wednesday, after the maneuvers -on the Bornsted fields, near Pbtsdam In: which five regiments of the guard tooJfc part, the emperor had the troops form n square and addressed them, expressing his satisfaction at their efficiency ana equipment, and his indignant regret at the fact that the reichstag would .not. grant the means for rendering the Ger man navy as formidable. On Tuesday, after reviewing the entire garrison of Stettin, the emperor made a similar ad dress to the troops, sharply rebuking? . the reichstag for its unpatriotic con duct. i .' While visiting the industrial scncoY of Berlin, this week, the emperor pre sented a number of books to the school library and Inscribed on a fly leaf the motto: "My strength belongs to- th- world and to the fatherland." The emperor's recent decree to mini miz duels in the army has Just been enforced for the first time in the case of Landrath and Von Roell, in Posen,. and the two officers settled their dis pute amicably by a council of honor. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. AH druggists refund the money If it fails to ciir 25c " The LongeTity of Woman. A report from the office ofthe reg istrar general of England shows that there are more female than male cen tenarians. Out of 1,000,000 people, 22S women reach the age of 100 years, whQe only 82 . men round out the century- Now, the great conundrum which f proposed is. "Why is this so?" Ac cording to the popular superstition, it takes much longer for a woman to reach even the age of 50 than It takes ' for a man to reach that age. If this is true it makes the showing all the more remarkable. It has even been asserted that the average life of the marrtedl man is longer than the average life of the single man. The fact, however, iss. denied by the end man of the minstrelsw. who says that the life of the married man is not really longer, but onlj? seems so. So far, there is no satisfactory ex planatlon of . the original proposition: why more women live to be 100. Some say it is because women are less addict, ed to tobacco and strong, drink; others: say that it is because it is more healthy to spend money than it Is to earn IV- . and so on. It may be many of the men who would live to be 100 are killedL at an early age in casualties to whlchr. women are not exposed. It may be that tight lacing' is a life preserver . and it may be not a fact, after all. Pos sibly the English registrar general may ' be mistaken. . -The situation is replete- with possibilities. Baltimore Sun. n , Fire at Wilson Last Night. Wilson, N. C, May 8. Tonight at 11:30 o'clock the Immense tobacco prize house of Briggs& Fleming, six-storien high, was discovered to be on .fire ir the sixth story. The fire had gained too much headway for the fire depart ment to extinguish It. The - building cost $15,000. It was full of tobaecc . valued at $70,000, partly covered by In ; sUrance. The cause of the firp un known. 7 ,t ; :-"
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