Newspapers / The Kinston Free Press … / Nov. 22, 1900, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Kinston Free Press (Kinston, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
FlEE mi. NINO H 1, l. '..' published everV bubjsing except sundry. Vol. m-No. 197. KENSTON, N. 0.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1000. Price Two Cents. GENERAL HEWS. Matters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. Six persons were killed by a tornado in north Mississippi and Tennessee Tues day. During the last fiscal year the life sav Ing service saved 2,607 lives and f 7,500, 000 worth of property. - The Pioneer Bilk mill at Paterson, N - J., failed Tuesday. Assets - said, to be f 600,000; liabilities f 500,000. A Chicago mob made a desperate effort to lynch a negro, but tne negro was suc cessfully defended by 20 policemen. Tne new xork world publisnes a ru- ;" mor of the probable lease of the South em railway by the Pennsylvania system A noted former Filipino chief, with a body of picked Filipino soldiers, aided ' by American troops, is to be used to catcg Aguinaldo. Goy. Beckham and Miss Jean Raphael Fuqua were married at the First Pres byterian church at' Uwensboro, Ky Wednesday night. Representative Barry, of Kentucky . says this session of congress will pass a river and harbor appropriation bill car rying at least 40,000,000, The estimates of the department of Agriculture for appropriations for the nextnscai year aggregate $,tijy,uou, an increase of 10 per cent, over last year, In a cotton nickinir contest .at Good . Hope, Ga Monday last, Warner S. Hale feathered 732 pounds or the staple. Mis ' friends claim he has established a record Commander Lucien Younjr, captain o! the port of Havana, has called for pro posals for removing the wreck of the Maine from the bottom or Havana bar Mr. John E. Booker, editor of the Suf fblk.Herald and ex-member - of the -Tir- ginia general assembly, was stricken - with paralysis at his home in Suffolk Tuesday and died that night. I Admiral Endicott, chief of the bureau of dry docks and navy yards, in his an - nual report urges an -increase in the number of navy yards and dry docks for the accommodation of our rapidly grow ing navy. 1 ': '- The .trouble between cigar makers in - Tampa. Jbia., gets no better. The. Amer ican and Cuban workmen belong to dif ferent labor organizations, which are .trying to force out workmen of the rival organization.' ....,- - President R; W. Kent, of the Southern Baseball association, announces that the , circuit of the league has been - decided upon and will include Atlanta, Nashville, - Little Rock, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Bbreveport, Memphis and JNew, Orleans ' " Gen. Fitzbugh Lee. who has arrived in New York from Cubawill stay in that city for three or four days. After report ing at Washington he will go to Omaha - and take command of the department of Missouri to which be has been assumed. Charles' A. Clark "and ex-State Senator Francis Pons, engaged . in a sensational , street fight at Jacksonville, Fla. Pons , attacked Clark- with a stick, knocking bim to tne pavement. uarK a red five - shots at Pons, two of them taking effect, ' - Pons' wounds : are not necessarily fatal. ' Jack -Hanlon, of Philadelphia, threw op the sponge to Tom Corcoran, of 8a- vannah, after the ninth. round in- what - was to have been a 25 round fight; at tne theatre m savannah Tuesday night. Hanlon broke his hand.!: There was bad blood between the men and the fight was -furious. . - ' The Southern Inter-State Cotton Grow- era' association held its first convention in . Macon, Ga.; Tuesday. Hon. Hoke Smith, of Atlanta, made a sensible speech in which he advised farmers to put their cotton upon tbe market gradually in stead of rushing it .in in a couple - of months. - - . i , . . A construction train of the Southern : railway's new extension from Allendale to Hardeesville,' 8. C, was wrecked Tues day morning. v The tram was loaded with rails and other building materials. John Gozer, a time keeper, was instantly killed and Conductor W. C- Brice and . Fireman L. A. Brooks were seriously in jured by the flying rails. v i 'Duffereih Patuelle, chief . clerk of tbe : gold commissioner's office 'at Dawson, estimates the past season's Klon dike output of gold at 20,000.000, as against 317,000,000 for. 1899. Next year's gold ontput of the' Klondike, be thinks,will reach $23,000,000. Of this year's shipments of gold, United States Consul McCook has records of f 14,000, 000. - Capt "Carter, in San Francisco, from llagdalena" Bay, lower California, re ports that the first rain at Magdalena in eight years fell while he was there. This place is one of the mort arid in the world, being between tbo northern and southern rain belts. It has one of the L. t harbors on tbe Pacific coast and is a favorite pla-e for target practice by American warsLirs. trT r fer f he j-- j and j cure i Soi i by J. L. lioixL YOUR OWN VOICE. T 'Weald Be gnrprlaed If Ton Beard Its Exact Imitation. 'One of the strangest things in life," said an amateur philosopher of Camp street, "Is the fact.that we never really become acquainted with our physical selves. Here I have been living In this body of mine for nearly 50 years, yet have no idea how I look, bow 1 bear myself, what sort of an impression I make on' the' minds of others when they meet me in "dally intercourse. I don't even know how my own voice sounds, although I've been listening to it ever since I cap remember. Did you ever bear yourself talk In a phono graph? No? Well, try- It the next time you have a chance, and you will not only be astonished, but, what Is still stranger, you will be disappointed, probably a little shocked. Everybody bas that experience. "I supposed that 1 was perfectly fa miliar with my own voice and thought privately that it was rather agreeable. I had been told so plenty of times by other people and never knew that they were only 'Jollying' me until I made a phonographic 'record' and set It grind ing. At the first word I jumped back in dismay and nearly pulled my ears off In the listening tubes. " 'Merciful heavens r I said to myself. Is it possible I talk like thatf I thought there must be something the matter with the cylinder and called In a friend to hear It. He grinned with delight That's one of the most natu ral records I ever heard in my life,' he declared heartily, and I yearned for his gore, , ' -: "But as 1 Just remarked, everybody who tries the experiment bas the same experience. The voice is always abso lutely unfamiliar and , positively un pleasant Yet there is a certain some thing about it that differentiates. It from any other voice you ever heard In your life something ' indescribable that gives you a little secret thrill clear down to the soles of your, feet It Is the voice of the mysterious body which you ' inhabit and don't know." New Orleans Times-Democrat German lw of Libel. The German law of libel is a curiosi ty. An editor recently said in bis pa per that a certain gentleman "was an unmannerly boor," In consequence -of which a libel . action was brought against the paper. . Tbe evidence given seemed to show that the only fault with tbe expression was that it was not strong enough. ' The case was taken from court to court hx; the; usual way until it reached the highest tribunal. The final decision was that the editor would have been perfectly Justified if be had said that the plaintiff "had act ed like an unmannerly boor," but since be bad said that the plaintiff actually "was1 an ' unmannerly boor" he had committed libeL In Germany it Ijuli belous to call a man a pig or an ass, but if you combine the two and call a man' a pig ass then there is no libel, be cause such an animal does not exist The favorite combination among. Ger mans is, we believe, pig dog sebweine- hund. Chambers' Journal. -.. ' Oar Little Sticks. " - Ages age the Hindoo "medicine man" knew all about disease germs and mi crobes,' although he was Jeered at by western scientists because he called them "little worms." And after all when w moderns -"discovered", what be had known all, along we could find no better name for the new organisms than bacilli, which, being interpreted. Is "Uttle sticUs.L" . -,tv t'p t Date. : Enterprising AdrertlsVr Pardon me. sir, but I heard you tell the gentleman who Just loft that you "would wash your bands of the whole affair." ; ' - " ; -weur --'t. ,.. ztzyri "In case you do may i hope that you will try my patent soap?" Exchange.' A baby is like a crop of wheat It Is first cradled, then thrashed, and finally It becomes the flower of the- family. New York World. - ' -Fret ef Cnarce. . ' Any adnlt suffering from a cold settled on tbe breast, bropchitis. throat or lung troubles of and nature, who will call at emrle-aiarston Urns vo., will be pre sented with a sample bottle of Boncbee's German Symp, free of charge. Only one bottle given to one person, and dods to children without order from parents. Iso throat or Inn;? remedy ever had such sak as Boschee's German Syrup in all part of the civilized world. Twenty earsesro mu. ions of bottles were Riren way, Bed yonr crcrists will tell you s success was n;arv. , iu. It is rea.v Le oe!t Throat aad Ltir? Remedy jrn- ..t en ,.?r-i by f fcysiriir.?. One to :t I ctt!e will cur? or r rove its value. 11 ty d-TJers ia all c;vi.lzei countries. ETHICS OFJISinNG. A SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF THE ALLEGED CRUELTY OF, THE SPORT. The Creatnrea Are Moat Happy When They Are Uookedr-They Have tittle . Capacity For' Saflerlnu i sad Even Little Pleasare In Eating:. A little boy was fishing for the first time. With the customary luck of a beginner he had bass, and perch galore to answer tbe Invitation of his bait. Presently the impulses of the hu mane side of bis nature made a little hesitating protest against the more savage Instincts of the sportsmanlike side. The wriggling of the flsh when he caught them troubled him, and he sought to apologize to his conscience for the suffering boj was apparently In flicting, lie saldr VI think the reason they Jump so la that they are so glad to get out of that wet water." Curiously enough If we may accept the testimony of the scientists, the lit tle boy was quite right. A flsh Is never so happy as when be Is drawn out of the water. The air is to him quite all that laughing gas is to a human being, It gives him a hundred times more oxygen per second) than his gills ever got for him from the inhalation of wa ter. It makes him delightfully drunk en. It exhilarates, him. It fills him with a completeness of physical Joy the only Joy he Is capable of feeling- wholly unknown to him in bis native element He dies presently, it Is true, but he dies In an ecstasy of enjoyment Instead of dying hi his appointed fash Ion by suffocation in the maw of some bigger fish. ? In a footnote to the thirteenth canto of "Don Juan". Byron denounces tzaak Walton as a "sentimental savage" and characterizes fishing as fthe crudest, the coldest of pretended sports." That only shows how: little 'Byron .knew about-tbe matter!.? His sports Involved the sacrifice of women rather than worms. " v It Is time to set this matter of fish ing upon its moral legs, as it were, an end to be accomplished merely by tell ing the truth about It A fish Is the very lowest form of the vertebrates. It is incapable of any Joy except that of getting booked and thus drawn out of the water to which Its nature con demns It 'and for a time breathing the air that Intoxicates it In delightfully deadly fashion. It has, not even the in stinct of sexual association except in the'. case of a few rare species. It knows nothing of companionship,, for the scientists tell us that even when flsh 'swim In "schools" It ia only be cause they are engaged. In a common predatory pursuit of prey, "each endeav oring to snatch from the others the morsels they seek to swallow. fSo low In the scale is the fish that even in eating be has no pleasure ex cept that of distending his stomach. For the s scientists find no "taste gob lets"; at tbe base of his tongue, and ev ery! fisherman knows that the fish swallows his prey whole,: with no pos sibility 6t detecting Its flavor. ; And further, every fisherman who has. troll ed knows that tbe fish is so far an In discriminate gormand In his search for food that- hei will swallow a v coffee spoon with a bur attached as readily as the daintiest bait morsel that could be displayed in front of his greedy eyes and his rapacious mouth. ' ; ' v ' Still, again, every fish that is caught upon : a book gets only what be de serves. He is caught every, time in on attempt - to swallow some other . crea ture whole and digest It to t slow tor tured Indeed the entire life' of every fish Is passed in a ceaseless endeavor to catch and swallow other fish. So far as science can discover, fish of most species make no distinction even In fa vor of their own young, . their only ground of selection being a considera tion for their individual throats In the act of swallowing. On that account alone the severely splned sunfi&h es capes the predatory perch' and the bullhead the moment his "horns" are hard ceases to be in danger even from the most voracious of pickerel. ' 1 . The fisherman is not a monster of wanton cruelty. He is merely a de scendant of Adam exercising that "do inlnion" over Inferior creatures which God authorized him " to . exercise. George Cary Eggleston In New Tork World. , ; 1 ' Wanted m Big Collar." ; It was told of Daniel Webster that when be asked at a Boston haberdash er's one day for a collar or "dickey" the clerk took a critical lock at his cus tomer's neck and' then said: "We haven't got your size. You'll have to po to the next store around the corner j for it" TLat was a harness maker's j who mate a specialty of horse collars. I GRAB GAME IN SIGHT. Siloing of China May Begin Moat Any Time, Washington, Nov. 20. According to statements by state department officials this morning, Chinese negotiations have assumed a very serious aspect and the United States government has been placed in a critical position by the action of a majority of the powers. It was asserted today by a high official that from advices received this morning it is very evident ' that this government will be compelled to become a party to the partition of China or go without in demnity. Partition is now almost in evitable, it is asserted, unless by some unexpected change, the United States may succeed in causing a modification of the demands of the other powers. If the demands can be reduced to a rea sonable amount, there will be no trouble, but tbe powers are swelling the sums to exorbitant figures. While this govern ment has not set any maximum figures for indemnity, it will not be more than 150,000,000. Still, the other powers have pooled, and their totals amount to $500,000,000. which is more than dou ble what China can pay. Tbe scheme seems to be to make China give bonds for the indemnity, and as the pledges will be certain to go by default, the territory will be grabbed in a 'legal' manner. What Attracts Them. lit Is perfectly natural," said one whose own business takes him about more' or less, "that a man should be in terested wherever he may be In things pertaining to his -own business. I know I am In mine. When I strike a strange place, I like ,to go through the quarter where they carry on the business that I am engaged In and see how they run things In It there. But I have lately met with two illustrations of this sort of thing that seemed to me to be rather curious as well as Interesting. "Talking with a New York paint manufacturer about paint of a certain kind, the paint man said Incidentally that be had Been paint of that color on walls In Pompeii. Oddly enough, the other curious Illustration arose out of the same ancient city. A New Yorker engaged in the manufacture of lead pipe said, incidentally to ' something that be was telling me about lead pipe, that he had found in Pompeii lead pipe in fair condition, this pipe, while cov ered with" an incrustation that , had gathered upon it in the long time it bad been burled, yet cutting with as bright and perfect a cleavage as though it bad been made yesterday instead of many centuries ago. ' : L -: - - : ;r i "These two things interested some what the paint man and the lead man respectively, and they certainly inter ested me." New York Sun. ' ' V Snlphnr Dlstnff ctlon. To disinfect a room with-sulphur aft er washing all the surfaces In tut- room,1 tbe floors, walls and ceilings, bring in a washtub containing u few Inches of "water and several -brick.. Put the sulphur in an Iron kettle and place it on the bricks. Pour one pint of alcohol over the 'Sulphur and net It on fire.- Every crevice 'about the win dows and doors should lv stuffed with rags, the room tightly closed and left for a day and night About five ounces of sulphur should be used .for every hnndred cubic feet After the 2 hours have elapsed tbe floors and woodwork should be washed . with a- solution of carbolic acid and then with soap and water. - - " , " - ' Taet. , ' Miss Esther (who bas been handed a photograph) Ob, ; what an awfully homely creature! . " ' '- lane I am so glad.jrou think, it does not look a bit like me. Boston Tran script - . . '' I : Belated Kelt. . "What made that widow elope? Did her friends object to the match?" -. - "No, but she said her first marriage was so tame and uninteresting." Chi cago Becord.1; " v ' ( ' Tnere's t lot of things Ayer's Hsxr Vigor won't do. Tley trc just the things; yoo don t waat it to do. : But the things it will do will ccrtiinljr please ybc, swea ts stopping the htir from codcg out, restoring color, to gray lair, tad tailing the lair grow thick tad !oag Give it t good trial. If JOI So tot otrtr-lT the mflt Tw dwire from vso vt tlmViti-or, write tL Ikvtnr ai ont ft. he t.l yon Jort tb ncht Oiinstco. Adi;aa,Cz.J.C.ATE.iOil 1 It Worft I STATE MEWS. Interesting ' North Carolina Itema In Condensed Form. . George Byers, a young man of Hen dersonville, committed suicide there Sat urday night about 9 o'clock. His death, . was brought about by 60 grains of mor phine. He was about 19 years of age. During the recent senatorial campaign there was no little interest as to how ex-Senator Matt W. Ransom would vote. It is learned that be cast his vote at the primary for Richard II. Battle, of Raleigh. In other words he shot in the air ' juliu Price, while chopping saw-Iogs in Caldwell county recently, was caught under a log and badly crushed about the hips, in which position he van fastened for five hours before relief came to his assistance. He died a few days after tbe accident. 'The Rhoda Royal Shows had lots of fakirs with it at Ooldsboro last week, catching many suckers for $5 or more. A Greene county man was taken in by one of the sharpers for the snug sum of 75. his all, and he sat down and wept like a child over his loss. - ; Eliza Butler, colored, died at Charlotte; Tuesday from burns received Monday while using oil to start a fire. -The wpman poured oil on the fire, thinking; it was extinct, when the fire suddenly blazed up, communicating flames to the can which exploded, fatally burning the woman. Scotland Neck Commonwealth: On. Thursday, Nov. 15, Mr. James Simmons was killed near his borne at Dawsou by a limb from a falling tree. Simmons had gone into the woods with his two broth ers, bis father and some laborers to cut some timber. By some means he failed to observe the falling limb which struck him on the head, producing instant death. : Tbe trial of tbe famous case of Rev.' T. J. Gattis, the Charlotte Methodist ' preacher, against President Kilgo, of . Trinity College; Mr, B. N, Duke, the Dur ham millionaire, and Mr. W. R. Odell, the Concord manufacturer was begun in the superior court at Oxford Wednesday. A large number of witnesses f bas been , summoned, and the case will probably , be a prolonged orifciViV,. -.. - Four or five stores at Bethel, Pitt county, were robbed Tuesday night, the money drawers being broken open and some goods also being taken from each store, - Bloodhounds were- put on the robber's tracks and, ran the trail some distance down the railroad to a brick ' kiln, where a lot of discarded clothes ' were found and the dogs could not fol- - ' low the trail any further. A special from Reidsville says: Revenue , officers have in charge over 150 ' barrels of something supposed to be whiskey . which they located in a vacant building a few doors north Of the depot. An ef fort has been made to test tbe contents of tbe barrels, but there was no bead and therefore no test could be made. It is all funny ' business; no one claims the barrels or their contents and the , owner of the building knew nothing of the stuff being stored there. - , Raleigh News-Obserjrer: It is stated here, that the negro Knox, who was , taken out of Stanley county iail by a. mob, was not - lynched but is now in Union county jail. It is believed that -the mob that took him from jail at Albe marie was a friendly one, and that it '. liberated him, fearing, that on trial he -might give testimony damaging to cer tain other persons! The negro will pro bably not be taken back to Albemarle, but will be sent to Charlotte- for safe , keeping. :,:l'k,X ;'t ' A report whish the Salisbury Truth- Index says comes from a reliable source, , has it that the Southern Railway has ' under consideration the advisability, of : - . erecting a great central system of shops at Spencerin addition to the mammoth .. , shops already there.- The Idea is to fol low up the plan already adopted by the Pennsylvania and other biff roads of i" ' the country and consolidate the shops at - the various points on the system at one central point If this should be done, fully 5,000 men would, be employed at .. , the Spencer hops. t v ; - " ' ' On the 26th inst. the final hearing of tbe , . railroads' side of the notable tax assess- -: ment case, involving $10,000,000, will beein at Raleigh before Standing Mas ter Shepherd; that is, it will be the final ; hearing unless Judge Simonton allows . the railroads some time for rebuttal of the testimony which the State will offer. The State will have three montns time for its taking of testimony. There is considerable talk just now about the . postponement by the State's side of the - ' taking of testimony until after the legis lature adjourns, because of the fact that some of . the State s counsel are members of tbe legislature." "I ha used Chamberlain's Colic, Chol era and Diarrhoea Remedy and find it to be a great medicine," says Mr. r. ts. Phipos. of Poteau. Ark. . "It'cured me of bloody flux, I cannot speak too highly of it" This remedy always wins tne good opinion, if not praise, of those who use it Tbe quick cures which it effects even In tbe most severe cases make it a favor, ite everywhere. For sale by J. E. Hood
The Kinston Free Press (Kinston, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 22, 1900, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75