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KINSTON. N. O.. TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1902.
Price Two Cents.
FRESH GOSSIP '
OF THE OLD
NORTH STATE.
v ' i' urn ' i in
Cd-Und Interesting- Happenings From
Every Section.
Arrangements for North Carolina
Veterans to Attend Confederate
Beunion at DaUas New England
Capitalists Coming to Prospect
for Cotton Mllle State Stories.
Gen. Carrhaa issued a' pamphlet con
taining full particulars of the arrange
ment for North Carolina veterans who
Intend participating in roe grana re
union. ; The convention begins at Dal
ian, Te x.t Tuesday morning, April, 22,
and will close Friday, April 25,1902.
, ' "Taking it for granted that we will en-
Joy the benefits heretofore extended, the
transportation charges will most prob
ably be as follows; From Raleigh and
return, about f 25; from Greensboro and
return, about f 23.50; from Charlotte
and return, about 22.
"Provided we can? secure a number
sufficiently large to warrant doing so,
as North Carolina veterans' train will be
ran direct from Raleigh through to Dal
las without change, over the Southern
Bail way. It is proposed that we shall
leave ' BaMgh Saturday, April 19, at
3:60 p. m., arriving at New Orleans Sun
day at 8:80 p. m.; Houston,; Tex., Mon
day at 9 a m., and Pallas, Tex., Mon
day at 8 p. in. On the train will be
eplendid day cars, besides Pullman car
accommodations for all who wish rese'r--ration
berths, provided they take tbe
precaution to write to Mr. Go wen Du
senberry, agent at Durham, or to Mr.
B. L. Vernon, traveling passenger agent,
at Charlotte. Tbe tickets will be sold to
. -veterans or to any member of their faml
rr.wto anv friend who wants to take
, Advantage of tbe reduced rates. '? ' '
i Veterans or their friends can return
the North Carolina train will leave Dal
las Saturday night, April 25. ;
"The advantages of going to Dallas on
, this train are that you go through with
out change, and can have your meals
served on the pullroan If you prefer, and
you will perhaps be with larger crowd
Mr. Chas. I. Martin, secretary of the
Texas Beunion association, writes me
under date of February 5 as follows;
"It Is our purpose to put Into camp at
tbe fair grounds all Confederates who
' will go.'-These we will comfortably feed
and lodge free of cose on the best that
Texas affords. On the last day of the
convention the veterans will be furnished
liarbecued buffalo.'"
Northern CpplUliaU Conine Soath. -Charlotte
News: The New Tort Pr os
Current says a number of New England
capitalists are eomtemplating a trip to
Charlotte within the next few weeks for
the purpose of making a thorough inves
tigation of the water 'powers along the
atreams adjacent to this city, with the
view of engaging in the cotton manufAC
turing business.; i A Ne ws man called ou
several prominent cotton mill men today
nd learned that the contemplated visit
of the New Englanders might mean much
for Charlotte. As has been stated before,
these - manufactorer have ; begun to
realize that northern mills cannot com
pete with southern mills on a number of
lines of goods. This is true because- tbe
southern mills are located in the cotton
fields and do not have to pay freight
charges for tie hauling of cotton. This
question, which has developed into a
very serious one, is now being considered
from the right view point that of dol
lars and cents. Just when these manu
facturers w&l arrive in Charlotte is not
definitely known. When they do come
Charlotte will give them a cordial wel
come and it is to be hoped many of them
may be lndured to build mills or take
stack in some already running.
; Benaiorahip. -
The question of nominating a Demo
cratic candidate for United States sena
tor to succeed Senator Pritchard, is now
beginning to be seriously dlacueeed. The
vrinctaal clans euiraestei are for the
tate convention to nominate, or to'
leave the eenatonship entirely to the!
legislature, or for each county to instruct j
Its representatives or hold a primary of .
the Democratic voters. Ti e last semis '
to End littl favor on hoeount of the last
primary fa'Iicgto work as emoottly as
was expected. j
Fattie Boral to the Deeth. j
A larr-" crowd icathre-l at a ehleatj
r lij'i f .. tt'emenf, a lot tioim r.wrt l:i J
' i c : :'ty. ' S-vf-jJ ti.i.j'J qunols
had been noted, when "Sandy" Owens
and Oscar 8mlth , became Involved.
Without much warning Smith cut loose
with a revolver and Owens fell, fatally
wounded. Almost Instantly a friend of
the Injured man struck Smith with a
knife and almost severed his bead from
his body.- He wlU likely die.
lis, Grippe QaJckiy Cared.
"In the winter of 1898 and 1899 1 was
taken down witii a severe attack of what
k called La GrioDS." savs F. I Hewett,
a prominent druggist oi wwuera. in
"The onlv medicine 1 used was two bot
ties of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It
broke up the cold and stopped tbe cough
iDg like magic, and I have nevr since
been troubled wwn unppe." unamoer
Iain's Cough Remedy can always be de
nuded noon to break una severe cold
and ward off any threatened attack of
pneumonia. It is pleasant to take, too,
which makes it the most desirable and
one of the most popular preparations in
uee for these ailments. For eale by J. E.
Hood.
War He Didn't Jaaaw,
Here Is one that a young man who
Knows a good story when he bears It
heard one railroad man tell another In
a depot up the line the other day:
"We picked up a new Irishman
somewhere up country an' set him to
work brakln' on a construction train
at 8 cents a mile for wages. One day
when him an me was on the train sha
got away on one of them mountain
grades, an the first thing we knowed
she was fijdn' down the track at about
ninety miles an hour, with nothin' in
sight but the ditch an the happy bunt-
In' grounds, when we come to the end.
I twisted 'em down as hard as I could
all along the tops, an' then of n sudden
I see Mike crawlia along toward the
end of one of the cars on all fours,
with his face the color of milk. I
thought he was gettin'ready to Jump,
an' I see his finish If he did.
"'Mike,' I says, for heaven's sake
dont Junior
"He clamps his fingers on tbe run
nin', board to give him a chance to
turn round an lookln at me con
temptuous, answers:
'Jump, Is ltr Do yea think I'd be
afther Jumpln an' me makin' money
as fast as I am?" Portland Orego-
A Botitoa Tra.aala.tlaa.
Xlttle. Emerson Mamma, I find no
marginal noteln elucidation of this ex
pression, which I observe frequently to
occur In my volume of "Fairy Tale
aawdcs," "With bated breath.' What
Is- the proper interpretation of the
phrase? ,
Mamma "With bated breath," my
son, commonly occurs In fairy tales.
Tour father often returns from plsca
torial excursions with bated breath.
The phrase in such instances, however.
has no significance as applying to the
bait employed to allure the fish, but Is
merely an i elastic term of dubious
meaning and suspicious origin, utilized,
as I have already intimated, simply be
cause of the sanction which It has gain
ed by customary usage in fairy tales
generally.' Do you comprehend, Emer
son?
Little Emerson Perfectly, mamma.
Judge. ..
Colacldeacea at bate. :
Attention has often been called to
the curious fact of the date Sept 8 fig
uring so largely In the history of Oliver
Cromwell. That very dominating man
was born on Sept 3, 1599; he Won tbe
battle of Dunbar Sept 3, 1050; that of
Worcester Sept SV 1051, and be died
Sept 3. 165a . But we have lately come
across some X coincidences , of dates
which, ' so far as . we know, have not
been noticed before. The number 88
seems to have bad fatal Influence on
tbe Stuarts. Bobert II., the first Stu
art king, died In 1388; James IL was
killed at the siege of Boxburgbe Cas
tle, 1488; Mary.. queen of Scots, was
beheaded In : Fotheringay, 1588 - (new
style); - James VII. (II. of . England)
was dethroned in J6S8; Bonny Prince
Charlie died in Rcme, 1788, and With
him died the last hopes of the Jacob
ites.
v" Fella Depravity.
"Oh, Horace," walled his young wife,
I have just Tound out that AJax, our
beautiful Angora cat has been leading
a double life!" V
"That makes eighteen, I suppose,"
said Horace. "What has he been do
ing?"
-- "You know I let him out every morn
ing, because be seems to want to go
and play out .of doors. Well, I have
discovered that he goes over to the
Robinsons and lets them feed him and
pet him." Chicago Tribune.
Via Cataa.
Fine china 'needs care In washing
and drying and should never be placed
In nervous or Indifferent hands. Treat
ed lovingly, china will last for years
and even generations. Only a piece
should be put in tbe tub at one time,
the soup should be made into suds be
fore putting anything In, and tbe wa
ter must be very warm, not hot Fi
nony rinse in water that's Just the
same warm. A good supply of fine,
soft totrcls la a necessity, and. thus
era'; pod. ti e wasliins t ch!na Is not
a hurJ task. China will sliine beauti
fully if wiped out cf clear warm wa-tfr.
RAMPANT RIVERS CAUSE
WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION.
titles and Conntry Flooded Trade
Piialjufl.
Central and Western North Caro
lina Buffered Greatlyr-Expreaa
Train Buried by the Flood In
Ne w York Senate BeglnaDebata
On Ship Subsid y BilL
Asheyflle, N. C, March 8. Reports
which reached here today from the wes
tern section of North Carolina are to the
effect that the damage to railroads and
country roads cansed by the recent storm
and flood is enormous, but It is known
that no lives were lost. : Several towns
In the western part of the State have
been cut oft entirely from communication
since last Thursday. The railway situa
tion is slightly improving and an ac
commodation train left for Marshall
this afternoon. The, railroads are em-'
ploying all possible means to hasten the'
repairing of their lines. J
Two of Mrs. George Vanderbilt'efavcr
ite horses perished In the v, flood at Bilt
more and several employes at the Vaat
derbilt home almost lost their lives be
fore being rescued by a ferry man.
Tarboro, N. C, March 8. The whole
of Edgecombe county is flooded. - The
river la at high water mark and still
rising. ,
The ri ver continues to rise here at the
rate of 1.1ft inches an hour. The danger
point for the Prince ville embankment has
been reached and a few Inches mors will
put the water over tbe road at the up
per end where it is lowest v
The Hood Elsewhere, " ''
Almost every southern and middle!
northern state snnereo.
1 Peterson, N. J., sustained greater loss
than by the recent : great firs which
swept that city. , ;
The New Tork Central railroad tracks
were submerged tea feet in some places?
Four express trains were stalled and the
water flowed , completely over them,
Pullman and other coaches being badly
battered by ice. Passengers were taken
out in boats. Not a train from the west
arrived at the Grand : Central Station
yesterday. Albany, N. T., is in darkness
and without street car service, owing to
the light and power plants being flooded.
' Three lives were lost near; Augusta.
Ga., by the flood in the Savannah river.
Train service to Atlanta was crippled
several days, but is now in operation.
The waters have subsided at Pittsburg
and the big iron and steel mills have
resumed. The loss there is estimated at
11,250,000. , .
la Congress Veaterdajr.
The senate began consideration of the
shipping bill. Mr. Frye held the floor
two hours in support of the bilL
It seemed to him, Mr. Frye said, that
the policy of protection had been vastly
beneficial to tbe American people, The
United States, be asserted, had no peer,
industrially, .Only .one ' Industry i bad
been without protection and without
protection for fifty years and with the
logical result. 1 The shipping interests of i
the country had been neglected In the'
giving of protection. This country had i
li
or cut it out anything so
if you need anything in the
Farm Implement Line
we have them here, and
Two Horse
Chilled
Boy Dixie, Atlaa end Crown Plows for one horse.
Cutaway Harrow:?, Spilicd Tooth and V-Ehapod
-
i . 7TO t 3
DlXO'rj G HOOKER;
Wo tract our customers.
permitted its Inferiors to seise upon the
pathways of ocean commerce almost
without a struggls.
"It seems, to me," said Mr. Frye, "that
that picture ought to humiliate and mor
tify beyond expression any patriotic clti
sen of the United States who glories In
tbe power and prosperity of his country.
It is not alone ; humiliating It is abso
lutely dangerous."
Mr. Frye asked who was going to carry
tbe 1487,000,000 of exports in the event
of a war between Germany and Great
Britian. "Why," said he, "the farmers
and the manufacturers and the wage
earners of the United States would pay a
penalty equal to that paid by either of
the contending parties."
31r; Frye declared that of all steamships
in tbe world of 14 knots and upward 80
per cent are subsidised by tbe countries
whose flags they ca rry. Of 1 6 knots and
upwards, he said all bot six in tbs world
are heavily subsidized by the country
whose flags tbey float. "Are we to sub
mit to this humiliating, wretched condi
tion of things?" said Mr. Frye.
The nations paying these subsidies, he
declared, did so for the purpose of ex
tending their trade and for nothing else.
'Trade can not precede ibe mail's, he
said. "The mall must precede the trade.
Mr. Frye said that in two years the
enactment of the pending bill would in
crease the expenditure In American ship
yards 140,000,000. In addition tbe mail
subsidies, amounting now to nearly 3,
000,000 a year, would act as an offset to
tbe amount of about f 6,000.000 paid in
subsidies to American shipping.
TUlmao-McLaBrln-BooaeTelt.
Tbs aftermath of the Tfllman-Me-Laurin
affair is simmering down. In
deed a good part of it seems to have
been newspaper Invention and unneces
sary official agitation. Roosevelt seems
never to have had a thought of abandon
ing his trip to the Charleston exposition
and going through the program laid, out
for him,' and Tillman and Piatt both
deny the reported meeting In New Tork
and their . denial Is supported, by the
fact that Tillman did not reach New
York until 24 honrs after the alleged In
terview. Furthermore, be disclaims any
such sentiments as are ascribed to him,
He says: "I am satisfied Roosevelt will
be treated with tbe utmost courtesy." So
now let us rest In peace;
BETTER PTJBLIC PROTBCTIOMy
A Plea that Doctors Bhoald fee salaried
V Officer.
The last and one of the greatest dis
coveries of medical science, that tbe
mosquito Is tbs sole carrier of yellow
fever gernu was worked In Cuba' by the
medical department of our army under
strict discipline. -
Tbe best minds of the tropics have for
centuries been trying to discover means
to control yellow; fever. T efforts
have been barren: of results, not from
lack of capacity or. earnestness, , but
simply from Inability to control condi
tions under which crucial scientific
methods could be tested,
Any doctor In private practice pos
sessed of sufficient natural ability to In
vestigate under , scientific methods
. T If !
you won't forget that
a few
South' Bend
Plows3 : ;
. !
usually has enough patients to engage
his time. The living he has to make
does not allow bun the leisure and be
does not have the means to conduct care
ful, painstaking and lengthy Investiga
tions. No matter how valuable theee
investigations might be to the race they
would have no monetary value to him,
because it Is contrary to tbe traditions
of the profession for a doctor to with
hold tor speculative purposes any knowl
edge he may gain.
The concerted and harmonious co-operation
of several men is usually neces
sary to the working out of scientific
problems, and at present it Is next to
impossible to And tbe required nnmbe
in any one locality who will labor u'n
selfishly and honestly together. One
can not spare the time, one has not tbe
capacity, one lacks enthusiasm and one
Is afraid somebody else will get all the
glory. Under other circumstance,
with nothing to keep them apart, these
same men would work conscientiously
over any subject to be investigated.
When we think over the vast amount
of medical knowledge the world has al
ready acquired, it seems wonderful that
under the conditions so much has been
accomplished. The hintory of medical
progress demonstrates that each advance
step has been the work of one man and
over ninety-nine per cent, df doctors are
mere followers of what some one else has
taught and not what tbey know them
selves.
Doctors are so uncertain of what they
do know and what they ought to know
by experience that they are' ever ready
to relinquish tried and unsuccessful meth-
oas to embrace some new fad or Idea.
When some fellow thinks be has found a
new remedy, he forthwith rushes into
print. The medical journals are filled
and the sews penetrates tbe utmost cor
ners of the earth, A million eager doc
tors go to pouring It down tbe throats
of their patients. Ninety-nine times out of
a hundred the remedy Is worthless, yet a
million doctors have had to find out tbs
fact for themselves by experimenting on
patients. This Is a bad state of affairs.
Tbe rank and file should never be allowed
to uee remedies or measures until they
hayt bee4td In the crncibl ,ct expe-
rience by well trained and accurate ob.
servers, men authorised and paid by the
government to ascertain facts. When
these facts are established beyond a
doubt, tbey can be given out as facts and
not as opinions.
The present spread of smallpox
throughout the State la due entirely to
tbe lack of professional and the personal
Interest of doctors. If all the doctors
were under government control when
the experts said a given disease was
smallpox it would have to be smallpox
and managed as smallpox.
It Is a pretty hard thing for a doctor
who feels uncertain as to whether a case
is smallpox or chicken pox to announce
that one of his best patrons has a dis
ease resembling smallpox. He naturally
does not want to expose his good friend
to the annoyance of quarantine, neither
does he want aO his other patients to
quit him and go to his competitor, as
tbey would while he was ? attending
smallpox, and probably remain with him
forever after. Doctors are human and
there are exceeding few who will not
hedge a little sometimes. . .
When the doctor is mads a salaried
civil officer, he will do his whole, dnty.
There will be no Inducement to shirk.
He will feel that his living will not be af
fected by the bad opinion of any one
man, but will recognise that he Is respon
sible to the public for Its ' welfare. If
every one who was sick was compelled
to call in a doctor and every doctor com
pelled to keep an accurate record and
make report to the proper authority of
every ease be saw, then, and not till then.
could smallpox or any disease be stamped
out. The ridding of the pauper and dead-
beat of disease is a matter of protection
to the public and this is one of tbe
reasons why all people should receive
medical service without fee.
H. O.Hyatt.
Kinston, N. C, Feb. 19, 1902. .
: Loaklaa- aad teelasv
There la much In knowing how to
ee sights. The discreet and skillful
person, when confronted with a varie
ty of attractions, will carefully select
those that are for him tbe best and
then will devise means to see them
with the least wear and tear. But
there are excitable people who set out
to see everything, tire themselves out
see only half of anything and are die-
satisfied In the end. A
Eaallr a Oaad Thlaa.
"Did yon say that hair restorer Is a
good thing?" asked the patron. '
Yes," answered the barber, with
some slight hesitation; It's a ' good
thing. We sell several bottles a week
at a dollar a bottle." ;
'But how do you know it's a good
thingr , .
'Because the profit on every bottle
is 73 cents." Washicgton Star. ,
TIMDERLAKE
IMPOSES JIN
irJfJOVATION.
Lenoir Conntj Lnjirs Generally Regard
It With DJsfaior.
Wants No Court Calendar for Civil
Docket Made Out Until He Is On
the Ground A Similar Order
Caused Trouble In Wilmington
and the Judge Receded.
A letter has been received by tbe clerk
of the tnperior court from Judge E. W.
Timberlake, who' holds court here next
week, asking that no court calendar be
made out for the civil docket until be
arrives, and stating that if one should be
desired then it could be made out and
published the first week of holding court,
which will be devoted to criminal cases,'
tbe eecond week to the civil docket.
Thlsie contrary toh the cuotom that
has heretofore prevailed and dissatisfac
tion is expressed by some of the lawyers
of the local bar.- Jodge 1 Timberlake
truck a difference some time aoro with
tbe Wilmington bar because of his re
fusal to have a calendar made out. In
that Instance tbe Wilmington bar with
drew from court and Judge Timberlake
was forced, in consequence, to try the
cases according to a calendar.
The local bar is very anxious to have the
civil docket cleared as far as possible at
the forthcoming term of court, as there
will not be another opportunity to try
civil cases until next November, and there
are several important cases to be Jieard.
A one week's term of court will be held
here In April, but no civil cases will be
heard at that term. There is much com
plaint SXDlMSBd. also, that torn farm, nf
court are held-within such a short upace
of time, and thereafter no more for seven
months. -' ' ' ,
It is hoped that it i will be possible to
have Judge Timberlake arrange a calen
dar for the civil docket tht will t .ati.
factory, as far as possible, to the bar aad
others concerned.. '
B PORTING GOSSIP.
Young Corbett, who Is matched "to
fight Terry McGovern in the fall, offers to
take on any of the other lightweights
previous to bla big flght. :
Bob Fitssimmons is now in active
training for his flght with Jeffries and
Is said to be showing up In his old time
form. Jeffries - expects to reach San
Francisco about the 15th and go into
training. . .
Jake Schaefer has accepted a challenge
from Maurice Tignaux to a match for
the world's billiard championship and
500 a side, to be played in Paris early
next April.
Billy Swift has made a contract to
flght Joe Walcott at ttw Chicago Ath- '
letie association within a short time.
Walcott has agreed to take Swift on at
catch weights. ' .
Twenty-five business men of Vancouver.
B. C, have formed a club and offered a,
purse of 125,000 for ; tbe Jeffries-Fits-slmmons
fight. Half the norse was
subscribed in ad hour.
The Philadelphia baseball dub will
arrive at WHsUinjrtin, N. C, on the 20th
with 80 men to train for the comfnar
season. The New lrk club will train'
on ite home grounds. i t
, Wr Beat FraaC . "' T .
XI was at Nantucket one summer thad
1 city visitor learned a new way ofi :
displaying one's personal adornment)
aunng a can upon one of the nattvaf
Nantucketers. It was a nice old ladyj l
who was entertaining the strangeraj
and she was very anxious that theyj
should see everything to advantage!
and that even she herself ahonld mika .
as good an appearance as possible. Un
fortunately she had not been forewarn-)
prepared for it.
re t t Ant. v - u
- vLAtj uiuwa iuu wnvmip
lng she said apologetically, "I should
have had on my best front. This la '
enly my second best, but you can see '
the other when yon go out; for I al
ways keep It in the front room." . . "
Swrely enough, on taking; their leave.
the visitors were piloted through the
trout room, ana mere in the Inside ov
tbe'melodeon, when a heavy green bal
rege veil was carefully lifted, a nicely!
waved hair piece was to be seen, the .
hostess best "front' , , 4
Qaita Technical. '
"The reason he is so irritable Is be
cause be la tetUEs," explained the
rona motner.
-Indeed." marked Sir. OldMtch.
wishing to rprr learned. Aod
When will It U ta'rinjr-SL Louis
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