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THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER, SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1897. CONDITION OF THE STATE OUARD THOMAS EDISON A MINES NOW THE PENSION INFAMY. NO BAD POSTAGE STAMPS 8 Major Hayea Payglta Great Compliment in His Official Report An official statement of the condition and efficiency for service of the orga nized militia of North Carolina has Just been Issued by the government. In it is a most interesting and valuable statement of the condition of the North Carolina State Guard in 1896, by Major ,E. M. Hayes, of the Seventh Cavalry, United States Army. In summing up this statement, Major Hayes says: "The only change in the organization of the guard since my last report has been the disbandment of one company and the acceptance of three new com panies, which has increased the numer ical strength of the guard about 100 officers and men. The condition of the guard has been very much improved, and Is now better than at any time since its organization In 1876. The sup ply department has been organized and more systematic methods of Issuing stores have been adopted, which have to a great extent contributed to the present excellent condition of the guard. I wish to call attention to be successful practice march by the Fourth Regiment, from Statesville to Charlotte, September 11 to 17, distance about 53 miles. This is the first instance that a march of this kind has been un dertaken by State troops In the South since the war, and considering the fact that officers and men had to furnish all their own supplies and voluntarily give un their respective - business occupa tions for the time, It shows an earnest patriotic spirit, and ambition that is highly to be commended. It has ex cited the ambition of the other regi ments to do similar work, and it is be lieved that practice marches will take the place of all forms of encampments in the future. In view of this evidence of love of the State, and the personal sacrifice made by both officers and men so willingly and liberally, it is true, without question, that it is the duty of the State to increase its meagre ap portionment to the State guard at least sufficient to provide subsistahce for the troops on practice marches and en campments and thus make some remu neration for the time taken from teir i i T nafcAnallv tfvcfif V as to UUS1HC7SS. J- iMii jviiu..ij - the soldiery conduct and cheerful spirit of the regiment on the march, being present with them, and of the gradual improvement from day to day in the duties of the soldier in active service which, after all, is the only test by which a soldier can be judged. " It gives me pleasure to acknowledge the many kind courtesies extended to jne by the State officials and officers of the State guard, and to testify to the most gratifying harmony and co operation existing throughout all de partments of the State guard to me in the exercise of my duties." A Sepctator at the Convention (Eufala. (Fla.), Times.) "Wilmington, the tar-heel city by the sea, is unbounded in " her hospitality. "We went there expecting to pay our way but if all were as fortunate as the spectator the entertainment was not only free but effectionately charmingly cordial. It was apprehended that so small a city could not entertain the great body of delegates and visitors, but all were' most royally and delight fully cared for. Some of us will never forget the friendships, the real Chris tian friendships, there formed. And not last nor least appreciated was the cor dial reception and . constant attention given the body and delegates by that sterling .newspaper, The "Wilmington Messenger. It was unceasing in its at tentions and they were. most highly appreciated by all. The Spectator was peculiarly fortun ate In his temporary home and home companions. Accidentlly meeting Mr. B. G. "Worth, of Wilmington, he very kindly and cordially invited me home with him. As I told him afterwards, I was a stranger and he took me in. And no man was ever taken into d more delightful home or into the midst of more pleasant companionship. There were four of us visitors. First and least was Professor Thomas Hume, of the University of North Carolina, an ele gant gentleman and probably the most scholarly delegate to the convention. He was full of quiet humor and a most charming companion. Second, and-next to the least was my friend Dr. Pickard, of Louisville, Ky. Indecent Salaries. (Nashville Sun.) The population of the three states of Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina is practically the same in number, char acter and situation, and there is no rea son why there should be more litigation in Tennessee than in the other two. The comparative population (Federal census OI iBaUJ cUlU its 5 1 Cfiaic iiiiuuaiijr a.vi iu the judges in each of the three states will more clearly appear from the follow ing! North Carolina Population, 1,617,947; number of judges, 17; salary aggregate, 546.750. , Georgia Population, 1,837,353: number of judges, 26; salary aggregate, $55,000. Tennessee Population, 1,767,518: num-. ber of judges, 46; salary aggregate, $123, 000. . Georgia, with a larger population and more wealth than Tennessee, pays. $68,000 a year less In the way of judicial salaries, while North Carolina, with a little less population, pays $76,250 less. Tea, if our figures and information are correct, the unfortunate taxpayers of Tennessee, under the separate law and equity system are forced every year to pay judicial sal aries exceeding the combined amounts paid for the same purpose by the people of both the states of Georgia and North Carolina, by the neat sum of $21,250, an amount nearly equal the alleged expense of the constitutional convention of 1876. TYn-nr fknA frTT St.Tn1r k Tf fpTl "Note He is a little curly-haired, rosy cheeked member of a boy choir. He had been having some trouble with a high note, but on this occasion sang it out with a clearness and vigor which surprised and delighted all his family. "That was splendid," said the leader of the choir. "You have been taking my advice and practicing." "I don't understand now else you ac- complished it.' "Well, I'll tell you. came to that note I Shu Just before 1 my eyes and mftfle believe I was at a ball game and saw Cartwright steal a base." Wash ington Star. An Introduction. A clergyman who had travelled much in the south told of Dr. Dashiel's re ception in a large negro church down that way. The doctor was prominent throughout the whole church so the pastor thought he was telling the truth when he introduced the stranger as follows: "Breddern and sisters, I now hab de honnah ob intrjuding to yoh de Rebberend Doctor Dashiel, who am de sounding brass and de tinking cym bal ob de Metodlst church." Buffalo Express, Learei His laboratory in Search of "the Dust" - From the New York Press. He Is "Thomas A. Edison, miner," now. His general address Is neither Llewellyn Park nor the , laboratory at Orange, but the iron ore mines at the "place which used to be called "Ogden," but which has been rechristened "Edison," N. J. "Oh, yes," he said the other day, "I get home once in awhile. As a rule I come Mondays." It must be said that Orange and the laboratory are feeling the effects of Mr. Edison's change of base of activ ity. The old laboratory, the scene of so many triumphs, is a lonesome spot now adays. The working force is small, and the people of Orange bewail that the glory has departed from them. But the sun will shine on them again sooner or later. It is impossible to divorce Edison from his first love, pure electrical science, and this flirtation with mining is being carried on because he believes that there Is money in it. As he himself would say, in his graphic and direct language, he is "out for the dust" this time. Edison is most sanguine as to the success of his mining mills. "In June they will be start ed up full blast," he said to a Press re porter. "We'll have the largest mill of the kind In the world." , Mr. Edison explained how masses of gneiss rock containing crystals of mag netic iron ore were blasted out and crush ed, and how the crystals were separated by a magnetic separator. "Then," he added, "the crystals are put in the form of bricks by the machinery, and sent to the furnace for the purpose of being made into pig iron. The process is simple enough in its results, but it is difficult in practice. Thirty-one mills have been started heretofore in the United States. Every one of them has been a failure Oh, I know when I started what I had to buck against. "What, in your experience up to date, is the greatest electrical discovery, leav ing aside the telegraph and the tele' phone?" he was asked. "The greatest thing out is the Roent gen ray, so far," said Mr. Edison en thusiastically. "It is an undoubted bene fit to mankind. Its real humane and scientific value has now been demonstrat ed repeatedly. The surgeons are all get tine and usiner the apparatus, and so, are all the hospitals, and are using them for practical application almost , every day." Have you any Dran-new eiectncai m ventions, or plans for any?" "Yes," was the reply, 1 have got a number of things that are new ; but that I am not quite ready to say anything about. I'd like to get them all right first and talk afterward." - "What do you thinkof the talk about a method of transmitting telegraphic mes sages without wires?. Is such a means of communication liKely to go beyond exper iment? Is it practical and practicable?" "Transmitting without wires?" said Mr. Edison, his blue eyes sparkling. "Why, pioneered that business. I was the first one in this country who ever tried it. We had it practicallly for a number of years on the Lehigh Valley railroad on the passenger trains for experiment, and reg ularly on the construction trams.. We were able to 'jump' messages as far as 200 feet. Then the messages would be run along the wire for fifty miles. In this way messages were exchanged while the train was in motion. One was sent from New York to London and return. The static electric wave was what was used. "As far back as 1880 we tried a unmber of experiments in this line at Menlo park with kites The scheme I had was to tele graph at' sea, the idea being to have a sail or flag, with tinsel woven in it, and to connect that down to the deck. The object was to see how far one could signal at sea from the top of the mast of a ship to another ship; but the land experiments were tried with the kites. We had a fine wire through the kite string and thin tin foil on the kite. Then, away across on some hills, we had a man stationed with a hoop covered with paper in metallic foil. We exchanged signals there about ... one and three-quarter miles that is the limit we got without proper apparatus. With apparatus we could possibly have gone three, or four or five miles. At sea, with powerful apparatus, I could not see why they should not go fifteen or twenty miles The electric static charge would - run up and lump in all directions. M. A. Preece of the British postofflce telegraph, has been trying some experiments.-He has ob tained better results than I did. I also see that an Italian has been trying it. His results were not any better than Mr Preece' s, if as good." Mr. Edison does not believe in the possi bility of telegraphing without wires to il limitable distances. ".Because, ne saia, "according to natural law there must be a limit. When you go twice as far away you have got four times the area. When you double the diameter of the thing you have made four times the area. A pound of butter covers so much surface spread a certain thickness. If the surface is dou bled in width the butter goes very thin when you spread it out. "Theoretically, if you throw a stone into the air you disturb the whole world you have thrown it out of the center of grav ity. But practically the effect does not amount to much is not noticeable. And so you may send out one of those electric waves, and' perhaps it may go all over the world, but practically it grows so weak that after a certain distance it be comes ineffective." There is a good deal of food for thought and speculation in the fact that this Pro tean genius of an Edison is only 50 years old, and that his strength, physical and mental, "is as the strength of ten." What new surprises will he give to the world before the end of this old nineteenth cen tury? A Boys' Hard Fight With Owls. Martin E. Simson, aged 13, son of Chas. Sim son, a well-to- do farmer living near Willow Springs, is certain to lose the sight of one eye as the result of an en counter with two large owls in a stretch of woodland near the drainage canal on Sunday afternoon, and it is no certain whether the sight of his other eye can be saved. On Sunday young Simson went on a hunting trip down the Desplaines river. In abatch of woodland between Willow Springs and Lamont he saw a huge owl perched high up in a tree, and brought It to the ground with a well directed shot. Supposing it to be dead he reached down to pick it up when the bird, which was only slightly disabled, made a fierce at tack upon him, and before he could de fend himself fastened its talons into the flesh of the right hand. Another owl.ap parently the mate of the injured one, just then appeared upon the scene, fas tened its claws in the boy's uplifted arm and with its beak destroyed his right eye at a single stroke. The lad fought des perately for his life, and succeeded in freeing himself from his tormentors long enough to sieze his gun, which was upon the ground unloaded. With this he quick ly despatched the injured bird, and finally succeeded in beating off its infurated mate.' Blinded with blood, which flowed from a dozen cuts and deep scratches upon his face, the boy finally reached a neighbor ing farmhouse, where his wounds were dressed, and he was sent home. Americon Apples in Europe The American apple is par excellence, carrying all before it in Austria-Hungary, but the supply, which may be safely chronicled as enormous, in nowise satis fies the demand. There was an overwhel ming invasion of the fruit in the Euro pean markets at the begining of last autumn, when the belief prevailed that the trans-oceanic stranger would last out the winter. Cargoes, however, continued to arrive throughout the winter, and were snatched up with all dispatch. It is now anticipated that last year's crops will jcontinue to supply the market until this VMr's omrvs nrriw. Austrian cultivators I n,,ro1ltr nnmnlnln nlaa ' hat al. ' f-v,..v. ,3,. n nutiimn LUUUKU LilU 11UU1C ui taat aukkiuiu was extremely scarce, they look to aplen tiful harvest this- year, which, owing to the inferiority of the home product, will be unable to compete with the superior American imports. Philadelphia Public Ledger. ""'".'' It.WlllfProbably Increase to SI 75.000,000 by the Year I90O (From the Galveston News.) There is light ahead; not for us, how ever, but for our grandchildren, their children and their children's children. We who today contribute of our brain and brawn to the sum of the nation's energy and Intelligence may only see the faint glow of this beacon of promise. The light will shine in effulg- mxjii xrrose wno come alter us. MLet us be grateful for the glow, how ever, ami xo joi. jr. u. Ains worth, of the war department, who directs our gaze to it The colonel has complied some curious statistics of mortality among the survivors of the union arm ies in the civil war. He finds that there are now 1,005,628 survivors. This num ber will decrease as follows: Year. Survivors. 1900. ............999,939 1905..... ... 820,687; 1810.... 26,231 - 1920 251,727 1930. 37,033 1940 340 1945.. 0 Thus it will be seen that the last union survivor of that mighty conflict will disappear eighty years after the war closed and forty-eight years from the present time. This is an especially interesting calculation in view of the vast sum which the nation spends an nually for pensions. The annual sum of such expenditures is now $140,000, 000. Col. Ainsworth informs us that three are at present 760,000 who might be added, and many of whom, doubt less will be added during the present administration. Col. Ainsworth shows also that there was 219,000 widows on the rolls, who draw more than one fourth of the $140,000,000 annually. Therefore as the unpensioned veteran ana widows grow older their Infirmities will increase and they will doubtless have their names enrolled on the pen sion lists. It is apparent, then, that we have not yet reached high water mark in pension expenditures, and it is quite probable that by 1900- our annual pen sion bill wlil be approximately $175,000, 000. Col. Ainsworth says that the mortal ity among old soldiers is not greater but much less, than among the average of men. He accounts for this by "the laws which give them preference in public employment, by the soldiers' homes where life is carefully prolonged, by the posts and other benevolent organi zations that look after the wants of the sick and needy, and finally and chiefly by the superior advantages his pen sion gives the old soldier over the ordi nary citizen," The colonel is undoubt edly sound in his argument.' When it takes eighty years to wipe out a list of pensioners who quit war at average of considerably over 20 years of age there is evidently som e influence exerted upon their lives strong enough to over come the wounds and "chronic diseases" incident to the war. Truly it seems that the civil war was a veritable foun tain of youth to those union soldiers who survived It. But the "light ahead" is the reflection that in time the enor mous "pension burden which now weighs so heavily upon the producing masses will be forever lifted. Ait the beginning of the next century the ag gregate pension cost of the civil war will have reached the total of $2,500, 000,000. If Col Ainsworth's figures may be taken as a basis we may approxi mate the entire pension expense of the war. At the rate of $150 per capita of pensioners per annum from 1900 to 1905, the government will spend a total of $750,000,000; 820,000 pensioners from 1905 to 1910, $615,000,000; 626,000 from 1910 to 1920, $939,000,000; 251,000 from 1920 to 1930, $376,500,000; 37,000 from 1930 to 1940, $45, 500,000; 340 from 1940 to 1945, $5,100,000. Summing we find the pension bill to be: From 1865 to 1890, $2,500,000,000; from 1900 to 1945, $2,731,000,000; total, $5,'230, 000,000. Add. to this the actual cost of the war to the northern states, and we have a total of nearly $12,000,000,000. This is nearly one and one-half times the assessed values of the entire union in 1860, and six times the assessed value of the seceding states. "When we can comprehend these enormous figures it seems beyond dispute that while the union armies saved the union it was at a cost far in excess of the money value of the country at time of the con flict. Free Electricty The latest Utopian scheme is that of a Detroit engineer, who suggests that everybody is provided with free elec tricity. He says that the aggregate of the suffering endured by the poor from want of sufficient fuel and light, is a matter for the grave consideration of municipalities, and that free electricity is an even greater boon to the populace than free water. The idea of making the homes of the poor warm, light and cheery through the cold months of "Winter, and cool and wholesome in summer, through the advantages of electric light, heat and cooking, is most attractive; but the question of how it is to be done is another matter. "Wa ter distribution in most cities is an ex pensive thing, and electricity costs money to manufacture. Some body must pay for these things, and the payment would probably have to be met by local taxation. In the city of Detroit there are over 200,000 inhabi tants, and the cost of supplying these with a moderate supply of free electric ity would be, at. a rough estimate, $10, 000,000 a year. This additional burden of taxes would take the romance out of even more seductive schemes thai that proposed. - The South. The New Orleans Picayune regards the worst of the flood in the Mississippi val ley as over, and takes a hopeful view of the outlook. It says: "All the crop indi cations are favorable. Even In the por tions of the Mississippi valley which have been under water there is now prospect that the water will recede rapidly enough to permit of a crop being planted. Else where in the vallley cotton, though slight ly late, is doing well, with every indica tion of an increased acreage. In the terri tory immediately tributary to New Or leans the crops all promise very well. The sugar-cane prospect never was bet ter, as there is not only a larger acreage under cultivation than last year, but the cane is making excellent progress. .Rice is also doing well, with a larger ' acreage planted in the river section, which al ways furnishes the most reliable crop. "With so excellent an outlook for the leading crops of the territory immediate ly tributary to this city, there is no rea son why business snouia not prove satis taftfYTV TIOW that the feaiS Of OVerflOW n t-o en lvslrt i n er Or rrourse. mpro nn nts not n ' - : ' In the interior and here, will be timid for some little time longer, or until the river has receded to a normal stage; but the really uneasy feeling , has passed, and a steady Improvement may be looked for daily from now on." Collectors Are Curious CranVs Resort to Peculiar Methods Curiously enough, counterfeiters do not find it profitable to ply their voca tion in the postal service, for, accord ing to an official of the postofflce de partment who has been In the service for over 20 years, there have been no' counterfeiting of stamps during that period. The official referred to has been identified with the third assist ant's office for many years and he is familiar with almost ' every detail In relation to' the stamps question. He has a large fund of anecdote on the sub ject of stamp collectors, which he gives out in homeopathic doses when not too busy with the routine business of his office. , There are several thrifty stamp col lectors in New York who make hand some Incomes from buying and selling stamps. A few years ago the postmas ter general ordered a reprint of an obsolete design of a five-cent stamped envelope. It was a mistake on the part of the department and as soon as it was discovered all Of these envelopes, about 10, 000 . in number, were called In. A stamp collector in New York In some way learned that these envelopes were soon to be called in, so he bought 1,500 of them before the postmaster had time to send them back to the department. After all the others had been called in he had a monopoly of the issue and he was selling them freely at five dollars each to "stamp cranks." He paid but five cents apiece for them, hence hfs profit was enormous. There is another incident where a stamp collector learned that there would be a short issue of a certain de nomination put in circulation, so he went to the contractor and purchased $10,000 worth of the new issue. He at tempted to sell them at greatly ad vanced prices and complaint was made to the department. An investigation was ordered and the result was an un limited number was ordered to be printed and the man who had invested in $10,000 worth was so badly stuck that he appealed to the department to redeem those he had not sold. "Stamp collectors are a queer lot," continued the official, "for there are many of them in the business who will resort to almost any means to get hold of a rare issue. They keep a sharp lookout for all changes made in the quality of paper used in the manufac ture of stamped envelopes and they manage to find out every time When a change in any design of stamp is con templated." New York Times. Two Pictures 'We were sitting in the large assem bly hall of one of the public schools of Wilmington recently, when the chil dren were coming together to begin their day's learning. Through two doors on opposite sides of the room fil after file of little ones (averaging less than ten years of age) marched in per fect order to their seats. At the sight of .the hundreds of sweet cheerful faces one sitting by us whispered as if to himself, "The breath of the school children is the life of the' nation." At a word from their masterly superin tendent they arose in a body, and in beautiful unison prayed the "Lord's Prayer." Then they sang "My country 'tis of thee," and a little later Carolina Carolina, heaven's blessings attend her." It was most beautiful; the order the brightness, the sweetness, the in nocence, and the promise of those chlN dren. In their hearts the seeds of relig ion and patriotism are being richly sown while their minds are developing in culture. If 'there is a pessimist in the world, he ought to see a sight like this. And yet, alas, the very beauty of the picture makes another dark one, darker though let us be quick to say, it also feeds hope to the sOul even as we behold the greater darkness. Be yond the sound of the locomotive, in the fields, about the little homes, every where in North Carolina, there are children yes, six hundred thousand children who are not praying the "Lord's Prayer," and singing patriotic songs in the morning, and who are not developing their minds; their lot is neither blessed nor beautful. SO me of them are in schools; but such schools, poor cabins, uninviting walls, rough seats, teachers untrained ;some of them are chopping cotton, some are shut up in the .factories, their bodies and minds and souls condemned to slow, but sure and cruel death; some of them are idle, unthinking, ignorant of the hope there, is in them, blind to their country's need of their betterment; all all, six hundred thousand children, the flower in which sleeps the North Caro-. lina of twenty years hence, are without schools of any kind nine long, forgetful months every year. Can one be expect ed to write of anything else so long as the children of the plain people are so miserably uncared for, when the way of betterment is so possible? North Carolina does not know what she Is doing. In a few towns she is sowing good seed, but throughout the length and breadth of the state the devil is sowing tares; and the reaping must come. Men and brethren, this matter is with us; we are responsible; it is our state. We must reconstruct, and build stronger and greater the temple of North Carolina's 'hope, our public school system. Biblical Recorder. Did Not Know Mr. Hobart. A well dressed, distinguished looking gentleman, with an air of business, but noticeably a disinclination to intrude upon any one's privacy or for a moment disturb the methodical operation of Uncle Sam's financial institution, entered the treasury building Tuesday. By inquiry of a watchman he readily found his way to the ante-room of the secretary. Two or three other callers were there, and the newcomer paused unnoticed. The private secretary, absorbed in thought, gave him no greeting; ipfact, barely glanced at him. Presently the silence was broken. "May I see Secretary Gage?" inquired the unnoticed visitor, in polite, business like manner. No; it's Impossible. Can't see him. He is busy and must not be disturbed." The private secretary apparently took no interest in the identity of the caller, and there was a certain brusqueness of tone that emphasized the impossibility of disturbing his chief. Another pause ensued. The private secretary was again ab sorbed in deep thought. "May I trouble you to hand Mr. Gage my card when he is at leisure?" inter rupted the visitor, most politely. "Certainly, sir," said the private secre tary, taking the card, but not looking at it. - Thereupon the well dressed, distinguish ed looking- gentleman made his exit. If his temper was in the slightest degree ruffled, neither his face nor his manner betrayed it. After he had gone it occurred to the private secretary to look at the card. He picked it up and started as he read: "Garret A. Hobart." Then the private secretary once more became absorbed in thought a train of thought, however, - wholly unlike that which occupied him during the vice president's call. A neat note of explanation and apology was subsequently sent to Mr. Hobart. And so it always goes until the newness of things wears off. i RALEIGH. N. C. 0)ftfiinOivinl ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. ORGANDIES. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies.. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. org!andies. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. organdies. THE SHOWING OF THIN. 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