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I . I . I I . I . 1 . . T EYery Good ad ' "5 THE WEATHER : f ' la a stepping stone to wealth. . Showersfollowed by T cooler. r i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i i i . I 1 1 t I I 1 1 I 1 PUBLISHED EVERY KFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDRY, VOL. V. NO. 138. E3NSTON, N. 0, .TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER , 9. :i902. PRICE TWO CENTS t' The ff HOT SHOT FOR IHDEPEHDEHTS CLAUDE KITCHEN TURHS THE GDIS DnpUu County Ticket Leaies lo . Ei- V.'cnsrftr Independentlsm.t t , : . Conjrreumaa Kitchen Shoir that the He . pnblicane are Behind the Movement and ( t, that It UXrffed br ' Disappointed Offiee-Seekers-IIon. T. A. Daniel Doe , the Same lo GoldaboroDapUn' Ticket. Scotland Neck', 8ept. 8. Hon. Claude ' ' ' . Kitchen addressed a large crowd ot dtl- ieni here. He spoke tor about an hour and a hall and devoted the entire time to a discussion of the so-called independ- v " ; ; ent:, democratic movement In Halifax - county.! Mr. i Kitchen, showed by the most , logical argument and conclusions that the Interests o! the republican party ar behind the movement,' although - - those in the county who are promoting It do not know It. He argued that if the . i(; j leaders of the movement do not land In the republican party tney will reverse all experience and history In politics. . Then Mr. Kitchlu very ingeniously put ,v : to rest the Independents on the ground , of their argument that they wish a ''new deal'? whereby those who have been in " ';. office some time shall step aside and let ; in some who have not held office. . The most ; nominated on the independent ' ticket In this county are old office-holders of one kind or another. ' , . Goldsboro, 8ept 8. At the dinner re cess of court today a goodly crowd of democrats assembled in the court house - and heard with great pleasure and enthu- slaem some ringing democratic doctrine ' that will set the pace for the county can vass soon to open. The meetingwas presided over by Hon. v . jr. A. uanieis. chairman 01 tne county , democratic executive committee, who in - ' traduced as the first speaker Hon, Armls tead Jones of Raleigh, solicitor of this . judicial district,' who made a stirring speech, which was applauded to the echo. J Mr. Jones was followed by Senator John E. Woodard of Wilso'n, a popular favorite every where.' In introducing Mr. Woodard, Chairman Daniels addressed himself to .the Independent, movement and to those so-called Jeffersonian demc-r 1 ' . crate who had gotten to be such good democrats that they had ' to leave the democratic party and go over and join . the old moss-back , republican, .party in order to give vent to their slmon pure i" democracy. Mr. Woodard outlined the t . policy of the republican campaign as in . dicatad by Senator Prttchard, whom he showed upas the 'boss of his party in ' this state. Eenansvllle, Sept. 8. The Duplin county democratic convention met here today and nominated a full legislative ' , i and county ticket. The primaries were . held Saturday and only a light vote was cast, it being the first time regular pri maries have been held in this county. ( The following ticket was nominated D. 8. Kennedy, Senate; J. W. Greshaoi, V House; H. D. Wallace, clerk; Lebnidae , Middleton, sheriff; C. S. Carr, register of deeds; Frank Potter, surveyor, and Jacob 0. Carr, M. W. Brown and M. F '' Westbrook. commissioners. ; ,t The ticket is well distributed through " out the county and is averyeon'serva- : tlve and strong one. The liquor question has been raised to some extent in the r . . campaign, but this Is neither a wet nor dry ticket and will give general satisfac tion. Tbera will be no , excuse for inde pendentlsm in Duplin, and a lar6e demo ' cratlc majority may be expected in No . vember. ' .. ;"-:: "':"-'';' " . '. LaanANas. September 9. Mr. and lira. Walter Carter of Paring Core returned to tlieir bornes today p'vr v!j1i:22 Llr. and Mrs. &hade oot:n. ' iiicn 1 s cpeih-I a pr.r: I" j 1 t T J( to- e. TS T i a T.!.yt3 I. r i v ,.t l J MERE MEN. Ilenry L. Schmets of Hampton, Vs, has toeen selected s the president of the Jamestown Exposition company, Chief of PoUee Francis rXeiII of Chicago has one of the most remark nble collections of Irish music extant Its collecting has been bis bobby for pnny years. Charles N. Hen-eld, governor of South Dakota, Is of .Norwegian an iraium, la wi .Aurwcgiuu nu- uiestry and Is the third Norwegian- American to occupy tne office or gov ernor of 'that State.' 'V'J 0f:-A Charles Tw Terkes Is credited with laying that men are in their apprentice ship until tuey reach vtbe tfge of forty, and that a business "man is not ripe until he is ten years older than that Governor Crane of Massachusetts dis likes -public speaking and, though he is always Interesting in bis addresses, considers the necessity for their deliv ery one of the most trying features of public life. , -, r, t I Thomas Lewis, a twentyrflve-year-old Liberlan negro, is studying medicine and surgery in the Emergency hospital at Detroit He went there from Phila delphia and says his father Is chief of a tribe in Africa, "Count A. Quadt charge d'affaires of the German embsssy, acting on in structlons from Berlin, has invited the United States to a conference next spring which shall take steps for a thorough study of earthquakes. Dr. Henry G. Moore of Wabash, Ind, has an old battlefiag In bis possession said to have been carried by General Anthony, Wayne (Mad Anthony) during bis campaign through northern Ohio and Indiana, toward the close of the eighteenth century. E.. J..: Wendell of New York recently purchased for $506 a playbill of the Nassau Street theater for the even Ing l of I Nov. 12, i 1753, When j '&in Richard' III."i was acted by Rigby, Lewis , Hallam. Master Hallam and others. This is the earliest known playbill. .i BETWEEN TH E H EATS. Texas, the gray mare Ben Rennick started at Hartford, was timed a mile In 2:14. That was her first start r. The only harness racing . circuit in Vermont has Just been organized at St Johnsbury. Seven tracks are in cluded In the list" " ' '' ! The . black trotting, gelding Alcy, which was expelled at Readville last fall, recently broke off a part of his hoof at Albany and cannot be started for some time, , . ,.' George B. - Woodin of Boston - hi.s purchased of Clem Beacby, Lexington, the three-year-old., trotting filly Dode. by Mownette. Sha is eligible to the Kentucky Futurity. , One of the most noticeable things this season is Geers' apparent change In methods. It used to be good betting that he would lay up the first one or two heats. Now it is good betting be will not, , . , j , r ! f,. . , Frank Doble has turned San Telmo, by Arlon, back to his owners, the Bar" rv brothers, of Boston. This horse will soon have a world's record to his cred it that of having more drivers than any other horse in the country. ' THE NEW CUBA. Cuba wants money. - She is not unlike other debutantes. Baltimore Amerl can. k ..-. ' ;;-,- , If the Cubans , succeed in floating that big loan, they will be fully con vinced that they are really in the na tion business. -Pittsburg Times.. ; Cuba is to borrow $4,000,000 for agri cultural relief and $30,000,000 to settle with the army of liberation. This Is Just the beginning.1 It will not be long before Cuba Is owned by the bondhold ers. Galveston News. t ' Cuba, with .a population less "than Tennessee by half a million people, is about to acquire a public debt of $35, 000,000, witft moire in prospect. 8hrewd and long sighted observers see the fin ish of the young republic, and that too. not far ahead. Chattanooga Times. PERT PERSONALS. Captain Ilobson is destined to be come a very rich man. lie saves some- thins nearly every day. Kt Louis Globe-Democrat TLe lion. Tr. Dovery of New York known as the Lind'ey !cr.I f' raooolorry. Eal- Murray cf .1. fc r. C :. 1 'y ti s I, , tJ 1? -.1 f 1 t f J t : " 1 V 3 1 , S f L i 1 i f 1 t TWO Y0D11G UEH DIE TOGETHER 1 SEFSATIOHAL DOUBLE SUICIDE i JOB r ThltfDBll Mfl Ot S Gr mn. 'DOTfir . .. - , - t Easiness sen, iaie rnson.'- - . First Attempt irnsacceeafiil. Bat tit the . Second, Both Paeeed Into the Unknown Within a Few Honrs of Each Other-. ; Griffin l)laappotnted tn Love, But Ko , Special Cause KaownCfor Thlapea. " ' JoaThigpen and Otis Griffin committed suicide fast night at Dover by drinking Scheldam schnapps with possibly some other drug in it The eause, though not ascribed by the victims themselves, Is said to have been disappointment in love affairs, i From the meager facts gath I erjd it seems that It was a eonsplracy on cne pan oi insaeceasea tona inemseroe of the burden "of life, and their persistent efforts prove their remarkable determi nation to do . so, as they had mae re peated attempts to kill themselves on Sunday night and yesterday morning, or so It is Inferred by the people at Dover, who heard one of the men-remark to the other yesterday, "We failed the last time,? but "JL hope we will be more suc- ! cessful next time It Is said 'that Mr. Griffin was7 be trothed to a young lady who married another young man recently, and since that time he has been Very ' despondent, and was heard to remark, on learning of the marriage of his fiance: ''My life isn't worth, two cents, now.'?;s Mfc Thlg-; pen was very intimate with Mr. Griffin, and It is supposed that, having a griev ance against fate himself, he was easily induced to join the conspiracy, " The ratal dose was supposed to have been taken yesterday motaing, as symp toms of .narcotic poisoning developed during the day, and medical assistance was called, which, in, the person of Dr. Bay Pollock, fought a valiant fight lot the Uves of both men, but could not over- come the effect r the powerfr irug, "ture succumbed to the awful hand of fats and both men died during the night, Mr. Thlgpen about 10 o'clock and Mr. Griffin about 2:80 o'clock, i , - 1 Dr. C. L. Prldgen was seat for lata last night, but did not arrive till just about the time that Mr. Griffin expired. Both parties were conscious the greater part, of the time, but expressed no desire to recover, except Mr. Griffin, who, attar hear 'ng of the death of Mr. Thtgpen, asked the ' doctor- to help him all he could. Neither would ascribe any reason for their rash act. - " Both Mr. Griffin and Mr. Thlgpen were b'gly respected young business men of Dover and enjoyed the respect and confi dence ot the entire .community. Mr, Griffin was a partner of the firm of Hawkins & Griffin and Mr. Thlgpen was in charge of Mr. W. M. Tyndall's store at that place. ' ': ' : ; The Mecklenbnrg- Fair, What promises to be the biggest and most successful agricultural fair and race meet iu the history of North Carolina will be held In Charlotte on September 30th and October 1st, 2nd and 8rd. Everything win be ' on a big scale, in keeping with the reputation of the pro gressive city of Charlotte. The fair grounds, buildings! and race track are well arranged and elegantly appointed and can be easily reached by a double electric car line which will land visitors at the gates, ill the railroads will offer greatly reduced rates. The fair will be kept open at night, the grounds and buildings being' lighted : by ' a systsm of ejectric arc lights. The exercises w'H close about 11 o ciocK each night with a magnificent display of fireworks, follow ing a band concert. ,..' An Oily Fraud. Eale!h Times: A preparation of gaso line and rosin is bete sold in th?s state for Hawed o!L TLIa fsau3 cr.se to i'bt tl.?a morn'rar at tLe stta erperlaietit .ii'.on. T71.c-a't't:!c a. Id wcj c spiled ta tie coLkits of a bott'e ':.,!.'. a eta- m fwr i -'ys'a t; re v as n :.r. " hjs' 'if ' t cf c i ( ! t' la I" IT -m' i : 4 ' - eruption f 3 1 U C r t n:j 3 I I -Li THE WEELITTLES LEAVE SPAIN. A, Ush loort look Al . CibrAU'Jr before j rrtrtf aeprrurv iot - oirtaer i klirnea. Oen)rinenb platr a w. J mmm , , -fsu 1 ' 1 V t FIND THEIR A "Personal Klndnew" to Dane Hinu Greensboro, Sept.' 8. This even ing Chief Scott received this letter from W, G.; Baldwin of Baldwin's Detective agency, Roanoke, in which he says: 'I see by papers that you have J. W.-Woody arrested tor rape. Please do me the per so al kindness to hang him. ; This scoun drel stole a sample annual pass off bul letin board of the N.& A, B. B. and tried to pass as one of my men. My brother caught him and beat him almost to death. We gave, him, ninety days on chain gang. He escaped and we caught bim a: second time. He served out his time, i He has a wife at Sword's Creek and another at Richmond, Va, I know them both. If I can help you in any way ill this case let me know. I wonld go 500 miles to tie the rope around his neck." President la Asheville Today. ; Asheville; 8ept 8.T"Mrresldent--a4fny 0(CUrimgitorigW UH, been ptnceuttoj his party, will leave Knox villa at 8 o'clock tonight, spend the night at Hot Springs in cars side tracked there, arrive in Asheville at 8:30 and be met by a .re ception committee. They will be escerted by military, mounted police and citizens from the station to the public square where the president will speak. PEN, CHISEL AND BRUSH. Mrs. Sara Greene Wright, the New York sculptor, is said to be the only woman who can model children. from life. - The model children In Sunday school books are not drawn from life. Franz Muller, the Vienna artist, has Just received $200 damages for a bro ken finger naiL t Muller is Inordinately vain, it is Said, of his nails. A jealous acquaintance broke one of the nails, and tie artist sued. Mr. B. B. Farley of Philadelphia is in Minneapolis for the summer and while there will do some portrait work. He expects to return home In the early fall to finish a commission upon which work was begun early in the spring. Mrs. Frances :C Hodgson Burnett Townsend has left the sanitarium Where she went to rest nerves worn by the strain of hard work and has taken a cottage at Kasthampton for the summer. There she is working up on ner next novel. "The Destiny of Bettina," and between whiles making a garden. , COLLEGE AND SCHOOL ' The Baron de Hlrscb school fund in Galicia maintains fifty schools. , The number . of teachers amounts to 247, and there are 5,634 pupils.- ; r-'; Woodrow Wilson, the new president of Princeton university, now pleasant ly recalls for the encouragement of the mass of mankind that when be was graduated he managed to rank .only about No. 40 in a class of 125. President Remsen has announced Cat the endowment fund of $1,000,000 for which the friends of Johns Hop kins university have been earnestly worL:;:j for the last few months has t-fa completed. This puts the unlver- rpon an assured financial basis. C of instruction for children v, . 3 r ' ' t r tave teen etartel In varl- f .i mna schools. ,. In Perl! a six f " .a r','?ri"od ty the r"r!c!p-al I !' t ' .: ati-. n d-?vote t-( If e tours a v ; t t: : work. Oca aria ta:f : f tl.e cLUli-ta attc.i C. w i , - ft -'. t i i t m i C0 it. t 1 r . - - .--.if, B v. - 1111 SPANISH GUIDE. f fv-iifcl bttbfcYBUO GLEANINGS. One of the favorite beverageHtl!n7.S&' Pierre was cocoauut milk a tvnr- mixed in the shelL " , o-wooiie Nearly every house and hufelbtSahraJf has a clock, and most of thenyr ( American manuiaciure. - tiaair mopl The English acknowledge that Amer icans are the only people whpjkr?yi. how to make buckwheat cakes, (.g ? A German chemist has discoy'fwi perfect substitute for rubber Jljft jl resilient and self closing and prtitl4MiT The largest number of irnmigrangi arrive at New. York on any one, (toy was 6,213, which was the tIO'10'( iviuj a ui luia j ear. iu.i u wa luio j bua One of the greatest drawbacks tit Mexico Is the scarcity of fuel. txoffirP-U reliable! 3 M-lLyVeWrail been are placed In the probable discoverro'lH oil In paying quantities. k '-' aWMtfiato An electrical apparatus lor inewnwi every cabin ion the. new ilamtwi American liner Blncher. 1 -1 1 I Three ancient Roman weights, wji recently found at Rome. They we green marble, with bronze ban and Drove that tne Roman Douna.tvas equal to three-quarters of a poEtfii i avoirdupois. - CURRENT COMMENT. ' 11 The north pole continues to malnkl tain Its splendid : isolation. Boston- Transcript . , , i It must be admitted that "the boys in olive dr.abM doesn't sound so well from a poetic standpoint Sioux City Jour nal. , - ' England is drinking California wine with "California" on the label and like wise on the cork. Will the 'invasion" never end? Minneapolis Times. .When Porto' Ricans lead Americans in a civil service examination relating to the geography of the United States, it seems about time to keep some of our teachers at borne. Boston Tran script '. , V: . The listing of Russian bonds on the New York Stock Exchange Is a land mark in our financial progress that is worthy- of note. Weary of financing vast domestic undertakings, our money kings are ready to lend cash and cred it to the entire world on good security. be it undetstoocL-rPhiladelpbla Rec ord. , . . .',' CHURCH AND CLERGY. , In connection with bis jubilee the pope gave his benediction to 40,000 people who assembled at the Vatican from all "parts of Italy.L; i ! ; v j ; ; Dr. J. R, Goddard, a veteran. Baptist missionary in eastern China, has trans lated the Old Testament into the Ro manized Nlngpo colloquial. This com pletes the Bible in the Ningpo dialect The beautiful ' church of Neusen- stamm, near Frankfurt-am-Main, Ger many, built In 1764 by the Countess Mary Theresa Schoenborn, wis re cently destroyed by lightning striking the spire, , -: , . .-.,'; . - Dr. John Clifford, the famous Eng lish preacher, began life in a lace fac tory when eleven years old. lie worked at first as en ordinary hand and when sixteen was a manager in the lace mending department Later be was made a bookkeeper by bis employ er, and tt!s gave bim bis first oppor turdfy cf rial r 3.' - . 7r.2:iZ LIGHTS. 1 t I ' " 3 cf Italy la tslL r -1 a;; 4 a . decided Ll-.nJ. TV l 3 1 -9 1. " a a C : i t' '3 1 !i r cr f ? f t:.s D;u-1..- t 3 er ': : r j t f 1 . 1 t j 1 r lilt 'I t j I .ve c TILIELY TOPICS TERSELY TREATED Short Local Stories, Editorial; Votes. Experience keeps a dear school and every pupil foots his own tuition bills. , The brave deserve the fair. , They are -something alike. One laces powder In war; the other powders her face in peace. H Father Is getting better," said a little tour-year-old to the Inquiring minister. " He's beginning to swear again." . -. . You say, madam," said a lawyer to woman In the witness chair, ? that the ' defendant is a sort of a relation of your. Will you please explain what you mean by that? just how yon are related to the defendant?" "Well It'a like this; His first wife's cousin and my second husband's first wife's iannKnarried brothersnamed JW'A&ey''were Aonafnal tJ mwtnnflVVk4Qt anna TVav ' ,us illDltnJflf iana SrMmfPWrfPAm otn- tifpgf " "Iae weresetQBxuocHsuiB, ana ms stepmoiheilulurriedi mdiusbana's e'fpp jitlwr,(UaiWfaltieVara mjf Joiner ars 4 out just 1 'looked on him as Atnrtlof a cousin." Man is borafclfilf .ftftU:k about .died, and Ms brqtnfef Joe. and my hfrs- rs. I ain't never jHinierti out iust how - the telephone wheatKtUr is delay or tilia'go&etMfyii4h'd8tt'i 4n middle age,remett't?? hen Jones had tyhutf itarbutfdii Pna itTsros IA V H it wi I .rnaiMi s 10 say tne iPPwfiyBi(r0,Rjl!?i9glco'l We kick when tbettratads late or when be service tim'imVfaVMttiar. and . M a century agoytwre no trains as au, ana it nas oniy ncen aaont nau a , Tclntury since train service was common icking r. about .the duwt. And we 1 never KciaVuMJiKS atkm, ana yet tl may'surpriee yOTJloile an we could no fwore Hve wlntocjW.'"Z3ja without awr. .,,: itHMU 10 ie)srsJl loTl Without dust-UmaivUr would lose ost cf its beaomsiTraiAuld be no gorgeous BunBVtS'ftotr&vrynTie world 'onid wtfgsr ZjiA bf nothing but Kjnn.V JnuUght I nothing but WHrW jnulght and jet idHack shadowj5.Ta(o iWyWHillmPoday- likht, because wiiR"lbV he ' " JdOect the light mul'ttMGtiVrays, sun lUms Taaiiltaintally invisible and Jlght would not . penetrate beyond the places directly open to the sun's rays. There would be a dazzling globe of fire glowwg ouefnirJrriDle 'blackness, in place of our : present beautiful summer sky. ItCwould be a world of harsh con trasts, of hideous glare and darkness. ( It is the dust which diffuses the light and heat the sun showers upon us. i In a darkened room you can see the motes as they dance in the path of the beams of , light . Were it not for them, those beams would be invisible, save w here they ,;, struck some solid body. Dust causes diffused daylight and gives . ps .those restful half-tones. It Is the cause of the sky being blue. .. r . Had you, to live in a dustless world yog would require special houses built lb that you would not be blinded when the sun shone in ; so that youcould see when the sun did not shine uv The stars would ' be plainly visible In the noontide sky throughout the whale t wenty-four hpure, , la fact, Vegetables, and animals also, ' ; would; be quite unlike those .we now, possess. . . ' . i. ', , , , , , . Thlsisnotall. The clouds owe their existence to dust. You would live In a cloudless, a mistless, fogless world. ? This means more than you may think at first sight. ; It means that no man's life would be safe from drowning. - As things are, now, the , vapors high above condense around the particles of dust, and tall as rain. . This vapor is ao- eumilating eonstantIy,and is formed into clouds as constantly, 80 we get the gen. From A dustless sky the water would ' fall In crushing masses, , with a violence now unheard of. Instead of rain there would be waterspouts and watery -traction. . Tt-a tls ws.tar would cocs down la torrsrts, in so"l blocks. Put for d.rt you m'-bt be drowned at y r.'nctj. - Yon owe yttr ll.'a to 11, rrschas you tasy eratlematlje ft et xcs jri'lits prc-::nce U too ecz-;':- "5. . ; , . i i , : - f 3 eow wtea yea c?s ycrr Cz--1 I- . tct lo?9 y:-?f -'..:?, I -S r ' 1 cw y : r i: e 1 1 it
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