The - Eyenino Free
PVBLISHED EiCERY 7X FTER NOON EXC E PT SUNDRY.
Vol. IV No. 2552
KINSTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUABY 22, 1902.
Price Two Cents
STATE NEWS
Interesting North Carolina Ztema
In Condensed Form.
. ' While Bernard has dropped out of the
race for district attorney, ex-Gov. Russell
is still fighting Skinner lor the position.
The plant of the 8now Basket Co., at
: High Point, was destroyed by fire Tues-
day. Jbosa f iu,uw, insurance sa,ouu,
The gin at the Caledonia State convict
farm on the ttoanoke river was burned
Saturday night. Not much cotton was
destroyed, It la said
Railway officials say the statements by
' the coal companies that there Is a "fam
ine" of cars, are fakes pare and simple,
gotten .up by tne companies lor their own
purposes.
A special from Salisbury says: The three
negroes who broke down the door in the
bouse ol Mrs. Jbivengood ana assaulted
ner nave been captured and placed in jail,
They tell contradictory stories.
A Washington dispatch says: Word
has just been received here of the death
Saturday in North Carolina of Daniel R.
Goodloe, in the 89th year of his age. He
was marshal of the district of North Car
olina during reconstruction days.
Mount Olive Advertiser: The Wayne
. county board of education at tbetr meet
ing last Monday appropriated two dol
lars for every child of school age in the
nnnt.y tiw Mount Ullve treaded acnooi
will receive from this source f 1,300,
Fayetteville Observer, Jan. 20: At 10
o'clock this morninnr fire broke out on
the roof of the office building of the Fay
etteville cotton seed ou mill, out was
confined to that building by the lire bri
gade of the mill. The roof was entirely
consumed and considerable dam aye done
to the body of the building. The fire
originated from a spark on the roof.
Gov. A j cock says emphatically that he
Is not a candidate for the senate to suc
ceed Pritchard; that the fact that the po
sition is going to some one in tne west,
nd that is as it should be. He told a
; e porter, however, that he would like to
be a senator, "but it Is not at this time;
that desire will have' to await a more fit
ting season."
.," The State superintendent of public in
struction, alter a conference with, tne
governor and attorney general, decides
that county boards of education shall re
serve from the public school fund such
earns as they may deem necessary to pay
the. county superintendent and school
board and other necessary expenses. In
cluding school houses, before they make
apportionment oi the rands. r,
Wilmington Star: Ex-Gov. D. L. Bus-
eell on Monday declined the appointment
to the office of collector of tne port of
Wilmlnstoo. which was tendered him on
last Thursday and which be had nnder
careful consideration since that time. He
telegraphed yesterday to his law partner,
John H. Gore, Jr., that he would not ac
cept the place, and that Mr. B. F. Keith,
.of Wilmington, would later be ap-
' pointed. .
Winston Journal: The Journal re
ceived a- message from the Wlnston
Sakm ladies In Washington yesterday
After He Comes
he has a hard enough time. Every,
thing that the expectant mother
can do to help her child she should
do. One of the greatest blessings
she can give him la health; but to
do this, she must have health her
4
self. She should use every means
to improve her physical condition.
She should, by ail means, supply
herself with ,
Mother's
Friend. 1
It will take, her
through the crisis
. easily and
quickly. It is a
liniment which
gives strength
and vigor to the
muscles. . Com
mon sense will
show you
that the
stronrr the
muscles are,
which bear the
strain, the less
pain there will be.
2 A woman living in Fort Wayne,
2 Ind., says: "Mother's Friend did
2 wonders for tne. Praise God for
2 your liniment. . .
JJ Read this from Hunel, CaL
4 " Mother's Friend is a blessing to
all women who undergo nature's
ordeal of childbirth."
m Get Mother's Meed at the
drvj store. $1 per bottle.
'I r.:z cncnuD rrciuicnco
t A'Jc.-.ta, Ca.
' W. ''''''
i yyJLW
announcing that Wo Ting Fang,' the
Chinese minister, bad granted them an
nonra interview ana conditionally prom
ised to attend the Academy centennial.
They have received assurance from Sec
retary Long, of the navy, Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson, , Attorney General
Knox and Capt. Richmond Pearson Hob
eon, the hero of the Merrimae, that they
will be present during the celebration.
Newborn Journal: v Capt. Joe Gaakill.
who has just returned from a business
trip in Hyde county, reports that the
farmers in that county are atill losing
their horses, by death. In the same mys
terious way. Some of the farmers give
the reason for the horses dying, as- the
result ol mosquito bites received last fall,
while otters say it la due to the Jeed.
Whatever the cause the farmers are still
losing their animals and their condition
is very serious, as they mast have horses
to make crops this year, and most of
them have no money to pay lor horses.
Capt. Gaakill states that the pea Crop
was the only crop raised and this vine is
being extensively used for forage for
stock.
Watteraon Thinks Young Xewipaper Mea
Are Inaccurate.
Washington Post.
"The most needed thing In American
journalism," said Uol. Henry Watteraon
the veteran editor of the Louie vllle
Courier-Journal, at the New Willard last
evenlnsr, "la accuracy. It seems to me
the boys show a lamentable disposition
nowadays to let the most Important
points ol a newspaper story slip through
tneir finger. The seem to lack
knowledge of general subjects which is
absolutely essential in printing the Dews
in a manner that treats subscribers
fairly. The patrons of the newspaper
the people who buy it deserve better
treatment. There is an implied contract
between them and the publishers that
tney snail receive lor their money all the
news, the accurate news, and no inac
curate news.
"The most important subject to be
mastered by tne reporter la that em
bracing biographies. The history of the
men of the world who have been promi
nent should be at the writer's finger
ends. - It I ever - establish a school of
journalism I shall make a course In biog-
rapny tne most important feature.
Another good book .. for reporters to
study ia Webster's Unabridged Diction
ary, xou would be surprised how much
yon can learn by readinsr It. : I would
advise all reporters to read a page of
tne dictionary every aay. in a very
ahort time hla vocabulary would be
greatly increased."
Says Lincoln Didn't Offer to Par 'or
Slave.
Wilmington Masscoger.
There la no little ignorance and mis
representation as to the supposed offer
of Abe Lincoln to pay for the slavee at a
price oi fouu a head. Thie ia lie and
has had life enough. The Richmond Die-
Datch considers the matter and iatr:
"in jjecemDer, aaoa, m nis message
to congress, ne recommended that con
greea should propose an amendment to
tue coubuiuliou proviamg ior a gr&auai
abolition of slavery, and that the United
States flrovernment should assume the
cost and issue bonds to pay the debt.
fJonjrress never adopted tne suggestion
"At toe uampton Koads conference tne
president said he would be willing to be
taxed to remunerate the southern people
for their slaves. He represented that
men in high station in the north were of
like opinion with blm on this Question.
But on tnis subject we quote irom
Alexander Stpphetfe ' History of the
United States. Appendix, paste 1009 'he
could give no assurance; enter Into no
stipulation. , V -
, Canal Commission Beport.
The presldentMondaysent to conirress.
with a message simply ot transmittal.
the supplemental report of the Isthmian
canal commission, in which it ia unani
mously recommended that the oner ol
tne new ranama Canal company to eell
all of ita right, property and unfinished
wore to the united states lor f 40.0W,
000 be accepted. ; '-'V
The offer received from the new Pan
ama Canal company to convey all its
property, including all its Interests in the
Panama canal, to the United States will
make the estimated cost of the two
canals as follows: Nicaragua, , $189,-
V9,vwT ranama, f is-i,Z33,35.
The report concludes as follows:
"After considering the changed condi
tions that nowexist and all the tacts and
circumstances upon which lta present
judgment must be based, the commission
w oi iue opinion mat tne moat practica
ble and feasible route for an Isthmian
canal, to be nnder the control, manage
ment and ownership of the United States.
Is that known as the Panama route.
The report la signed by the entire com
mission. . -
Kf Wonder Rnaaln I X-nrnmtt
Russia, with her population of 120',
000,000, has only 748 newspapers, but
little more than half the number pub
lished In the state of Pennpylvania,
which is 1.430. Of the 743 there are
CSS printed in Russian. 69 in Polish.
44 in German. 9 in French. 5 in Ar
menian and 2 in Hebrew. No English
newspaper appears in the lift
ABSORBED IN WHIST.
A Oante
That Coat General Donhl
Amr Fortnnn. . v.
Not many years ago a famous whist
game was played at Sudbury, Vt, two
of the sitters in being Ueneral Double-
day and Henry Dater of the, well known
firm of Dater, Thompson & Oo. It was
something like 0 or 10 cents a corner;
to yon see it was easy for a man to lose
as much as 1.90 in an afternoon. . flay
began after .the Sudbury dinner hour.
half past 1, and lasted until teattme.
The old roosters became so wrapped up
in the game that nothing short oi an
earthquake could have disturbed them.
Brokers in New York could do nothing
to ahake the interest :
The game was played at the time of
the historic Hannibal and St Joe cor
ner, engineered by Kennedy, Hutchin
son & Ca, In the interest of their client
John Duff of Boston. Doubled&y was
selling the stock short through Van
Schaick & Co., and at a quarter to 2 on
the eventful day he received a telegram
from hla brokers advising him of the
situation. The game was stopped just
long enough for him to read it and lay
itasida In 20 minutes a second dis
patch arrived, was read and cast aside.
Donbleday was winning . at the rate of
85 cents an hour. What did he care
about Hannibal and St Joef Later In
the afternoon a third summons came
from Van Schaick & Co., and at
o'clock a fourth. Then Donbleday arose
and remarked: "Gentlemen, I have en
joyed the game My winnings are ex
actly $1.65. I must say good afternoon.
as it is necessary for me to take the first
train for New York.' The next morn
ing his brokers informed him that he
could settle for $100,000. At the time
the first telegram was sent he; could
have settled for $25,000, at the time of
the second for $50,000, the third 'for
$75,000. He had ample warning,' but
in the thick of the Sudbury game of
whist he believed the rise was only a
threatening flurry. -New York Press.
SCOTCH SIMPLICITY.
'V
Th Musk, the - BwUlna; Areli I tt
; -a4 Conaelene Stricken Lna;"
: The Scotch are fond of telling atoriea
which illustrate the peculiar simplicity
of mind of their country people, v This
simplicity at least eaves them from
wicked guila .
One of these, stories relates that an
honest mason once had a contract to
build a small house of stone. He came
early and began from the inside to lay
the atone, working very fast At noon
his young son brought him his dinner.
neeoinir over the wall as he handed the
basket to hla father. With honest pride
in his eye, the mason looked over to the
ooy. - ' .
WeeL : Jock, boo d'ye think I'm
gettin on?", he asked
"Ye're getting on famous, feyther,'
answered Jock, looking at the solid
wall, in which there was no break.
"But hoo d'ye get oott" : ;
5 The mason looked around. It was
true. . He had provided the house with
no door at all, and he was on the insida
He looked kindly and very admiringly
at the boyaii ;V'?j-ti.,.:;Kw fi-
Mon Jock, ye've a grand heid on
ye!" he exclaimed. 'Ye'll be an archi
tect yet as sure aa yer feyther' a a ma
son!" ' , .
Another story shows how unsuccess
ful aa a thief the rustic Scot may be.
Two young plowmen went into a gar
den at night to steal gooseberries. The
bushes surrounded a plot of potatoes,
and aa one of the lads groped about he
got a handful of potato plums, which
he quickly put into his mouth. Then he
gasped to his comrade: , r ? -
"Oh. Jock. Tin poisoned 1 1 For ony
hkb, tmuve me mruugu uie uougo again.
: - - -v . : a, i a! l a
for X waudna like to dee i' the auld
man's gairden (''-Youth's Companion.
. Tobacco In Enalnnd, 1S43. .
' When I was a lad, fully half the pop
ulation of both sexes, rich as well as
poor, the banker equally with the work
ingman. were anuff takers, r. My first
schoolmaster alwaya carried his eriufl
loose in his waistcoat pocket and in
numerable were his dips into it with
two fingers and a thumb In the course
of the day, while the big gauffered frill
which protruded from the bosom of hit
shirt was alwaya thickly sprinkled with
it We used to notice that he nevei
seemed to relish one of his huge pinchei
so much as immediately after having
administered a sound castigation to
some recalcitrant pupil
On the other hand, there was little oi
nc$open air smoking, except in the case
of laboring men going to. or from their
work. In this respect lucif er matchet
have something to answer for; but foi
them the practice of outdoor smoking
would never have grown to its present
enormous proportions. vhambers
Journal
? Tna Gcrntna Polle.
'A atranger in Germany soon makes
the acquaintance of the police, little
aa be may desire It Ton have benn in
Germany a week, more or less, when
the policeman calls. At first yon can
cot believe that be is really after you,
and then, your mind runs back guiltily
over your past He takes out his little
book one of a small library of little
books which he carries in hla blouse
and Inquires your age, your nationality
and how long you intend to stay.
., You learn subsequently that a record
of every person In the empire ia care
fully kept with full details as to bis
occupation, material wealth and social
standing. If you move Into a new
house, you must notify the police: if
you move out you must notify the po
lice; If you hire a servant girl, you
must purchase a yellow blank and re
port the fact the girl also making a
report When she leaves, you must
end in a green blank stating why she
Is dismissed, where she la going and
aoon.
If you fall in any of these multitu
dinous requirements of the govern
mentand I have mentioned only a
few of them there is a fine to pay,
each fine graduated to the enormity
of the offense. There are offenses
graded as low as 2 cents. Independent
. When Tim Bingi Henvllr.
Time Is never wasted until It "hangs
heavily on our bands." when you are
neither working nor enjoying yourself.
There may be times when it suits
one'a mood-to "loaf and lnvfte one's'
80ul,,' but they are rare nowadaya. If
you don't believe It constfr how the
average citizen spends his vacation.
Most people work harder and econo
mize their vacation time more grudg
ingly in getting the most out of it than
they do In any other part of the year.
They bate to lose a minute of enjoy
ment Of course there are times every day
when time seems absolutely wasted,
and these are , the times when men's
tempera are : on edge , and things go
crosswiaev 0 Chief among) thia . list of
wasted and "monotonous Intervale B
the time spent in watting for a car. In
traveling on It after you get It In wait
ing for meals, in fuming over dilatory
appointments or by reaching there too
aoon. Other Instances are where the
bore buttonholes you and Insists with
excessive eloquence In stringing a
three line Item Into a two column tale.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Hnoje Spider Wove Them.
Every one who owns a little strip of
garden knows what It la to clear away
spider webs, a matter of small did
culty and lightly performed, but a pop
ular;: naturalist who lately returned
from the great woods of Central Amer
ica came across spiders webs of such
strength, and huge, dimensions that
they ; were positive obstacles In bis
path. . Needless to say. the tenants of
these webs were of a monstrous size.
"I measured one of these fabrics,"
he says, "it bad a diameter of more
than , six ; feet without including the
long ) brace threads- that run out like
forestays to the extremity of the sur
rounding branches. I then took a nuni
ber of Wild lemons and flung them
against the center with all my might
The web stopped every one. It la no
wonder that when a bird becomes en
tangled in the meshes the huge spider
is able to make a breakfast oS him.1
.':'''':';:mw i - -stf-
AA tTn expected CaJL '
i 4,Yon are just going out, I see"
; "Yes, an important engagement
What waa it yon wanted?
' "It waa about that little debt X owe
"Ah, yea I Take a seat
"I was going to ask yon for a little
delay".,-
"Oh excuse me. . but I n already
late. 7 - - - ;!
"I say, I was going to ask yon for a
little delay when I met a fellow who
paid up what he owed me, and"
"Why on earth don t yonsitdownl
Will yon take a glass of winet" Paris
Figaro. .
V Faith In Anything;.
"Aunt Josephine is a thorough skep
tic." : : V:-:- '
"She ist" '.'-..V;,.v;.
"Yea ; she puts mucilage on the back
of every postage stamp she
Chicaaro Record.
From The Report
of the dealers In thia city, we think no
proprietary medicine has a larger sale
than Painkiller. Its valuable properties
aa a speedy cure for pain can not fail to
be generally appreciated, in case of acd-
Ann: an A 1 .-r a rtr V rt 4 voarilnav
diarrhoea, cholera morbus. Montreal
Star. Avoid substitutes, there Is but
onePainkir, Terry Davis'. Price 25c
and 60c
GENERAL NEWS.
Matters of Interest Oondenaed Into
Brief Paragraphs.
Admiral and Mrs. 8chley left Savannah
Monday for Washington after a viait of
ten days.
The appeal of Admiral Schley to the
president has been prepared by hla law
yers and sent to the president.
TheCaffrey Sugar Refining company,
of New Orleans, and the Franklin and
Abbeville railroad are placed in the hands
of a receiver.
Gen. Bell, commander of Batangas
province, Island of Luton, haa deter
mined to out aside leniency and beirin the
enforcement of war measures In vigorous
fashion. .
Senator Vest haa Introduced in the '
senate as a substitute for the abip sub
sidy bill, hla bill of the last congresa, re
pealing the law prohibiting the purchase
of foreign built ships.
A wall of the Smithfleld flax mills,
at Belfast Ireland, Monday collapsed,
burying the operatives, who included
many women. Ten bodies, so far, have
been extricated from the ruina.
Near Chase City, Va , Monday, Howard
Hayes, a prominent young man, was
killed bv the accidental diHCharge of a
gun in the hands of hi friend, J. B. Fal
son, while returning from hunting.
The city council of Chattanooga has
voted to accept the proposition of An
drew Carnegie to give $50,000 to estab
lish a library there, provided the city
would expend $5,000 annually in ita
maintenance.
It haa been decided in Berlin that Prince
Henry will viait Chicago, Milwaukee,
Niagara Falls and Boston. The prince
will sro to Washington on the 26th, the-
launching, official reception and banquet
having previously taken place.
A dispatch from Cradock, Cape Colony,
says: weasel a command oi xtoera on
Saturday last cut up a patrol of fifty men
belonging to the local town guard on the
Tarkaatad road. A few stragglers have
returned. The remainder ot the party
are missing.
A dispatch from New Orleans says:
P. G. Tbebaud, of New York, fully iden
tified T. E. Manners, the prisoner in the
jail at Gretna as Edouard Hern, Jr., his
late valet, who robbed the Tbebaud
mansion in New York of $50,000 worth
of diamonds and jewelry.
Early Monday morning Frank Duncan,
a notorious safe-blower nnder sentence
for murder, and three other prisoners,
made their escape from the Jefferson
county, Ala, jail by sawing through
numerous bars and cutting the lock off
the outer gate of the prison yard. '
Herbert H. Matton, ahier First
National Bank of Great Falls, Mont,
baa been arrested and lodged in jail,
charged with embezzlement of thebank'a
funds. Bis shortage, it Is said, will foot
up $175,000. Speculation, it is said,
was the cause ot the defalcation. The
bank la strong financially and ia in no
danger of embarrassment. ,
The ways and means committee of
congress has decided to report a bill re
ducing the revenue taxes. It is proposed
to reduce the tax on beer from $1.60 to
$1.00, as was the tax before the last
war, and also reduce the tax on tea.
The total reduction in revenues on, beer
would be $31,000,000. The reduction
on tea would asgiegate about $8,000,
000. . (;v:;.r;:- .v;wU- ' ""
A dispatch from Hambleton, W. Ya.,
says: About 4 o'clot k Tuesday morning
the camp oj the Otter Creek Boom and
Lumber company, several milea from
here, caught fire and was destroyed.
An explosion la believed to have started
tbeHames, which spread with fearful
rapidity. There Were forty men Bleeping '
in the camp and of these seven periobed.
The surrounding forest caught fire from
the conflagration.
A dispatch from Walsenburg, Col., 20tb,
says: A courier haa just reached here
from Pletou, a coal mining camp located
three miles from- Walsenburg, bringing
news that a terrible explosion had oc-'
curred in one ot the mine operated by
the Colorado Fuel and Iron company at
that place thia morning, In which alx '
men were Instantly killed and ten or
more wounded, many of thdm perhaps
fatally. The mine Immediately caught
fire and now is a seething furnace.
Prince Henry, of Germany, will arrive :
In this country Feb. 24th, and will start
tor his home on March the 8th. It is
part of the plan to have the entertain
ment afforded the . prince : national
in character: and the participants shall "
not be limited to any one strain of blood
or race, une ineansl attaining tnis result
will be to make hla reception aa formal -
aa possible so that it will be drawn upon
official lines and there win be a consider
able appearance of the military element
where feasible. .
DON'T
TOBACCO SPIT
and SHIOKU
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