I .ME Pa 77 it vi ' Eicry Good Id , , Is a stepping stone ( , . wealth,., . RESS. T THfc WEATHER: ' Fair end warm.' ' " ( ' I I 1 1 I 1 1 I I'll t . I I I I I I ' I I I I . t i i 1 1 1 i i . i 1 1 1 P . - . i ... ' i n J , ; , .i 1 1 p. if . . i ; t 1 ' . i M I... i I. i.i i i i ii . i i .i j '' ..... , , . ; , . . , ... I ' ' ' PUBLISHED EiZERY HFTERNOON EXCEPT SlNDHV. VOL. Vr-NO. 146. KINSTON, O," THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1902, ,: , PRICE TWO 0ENT& v.. PRITCHARD TO BEffl KfflSTOlt COJTEST BETWEEH POLITICAL GIUTS Hon. Loch: Craig Will Uphold The Tenets of Democracy. The Greatest Campaign Event That Ever Happened In KlBton . Will Attract Thousands Here Next Monday Itauee of ' The Campalsm to be Amicably DUcoeaed -Special Raih-ond Bate. ' Monday next will be the biggest day In Ktnsloo's political history. . . Here lb Klnston on that day Senator inter i;. rriicnara ana . oeuaiweu-us Locke Craig jwjlt begin their mighty straggle to win the heart ftnd the iotee of the men of .North Carolina Senator Pritehard la the moat famous republican in the atate, and thousand will flock to see and hear him but of mere curiosity; Be ia the prealdent'a faetotom curiosity; He H the prealdent'a laowram and U auppoaed to, be conducting the campaign along Jlnea laid out at Oyster Bav. Be la a masmetlo man and will be gnat drawing card. : But with all hla magnetlani fnd with the" Influence pt the national,!, administration back of Urn, dempQratp are conflden that he has un dertaken a task that win put an end to hla political power in the, state. Pritehard' opponent, the champion damocraeY. la Bon. Locke Craig,, a man thoroughly grounded In the political history and situation of the country and master of ereiy detoU,'6! ?1 . P"0 lina politics, wth thia or;. a founda tion be Is equipped with a fund of.force- fol eloquence and logic that win meei ail assaults of the' enemy and .carry coiv vfrtlnn tn avnrr donbtlnv heart. ; . It will be' a battle between polltfcal and oratorical iriants such as men seldom have opportunity to eee .and hear, and aa this will be their Only meeting' In this part of the atate. and arrangements are being made, lor Pcla .rayroaa laree, r.,i3. i neat fomc&aia and, republican auch a waa never aeen In thia city,' and the crowd will be enormous, i J II the weather 1 propitious: cn ; ipeax lng will take place from a platform In the court house square, and should it be stormy the debate will beheld Inside. Ndannonuoemen has let been made ot the hot; pnt, it -wiu proDapyf Degm I0000' ?? before speaking. The exact time will be announced aa aoon aa learned. V ' THE WRITERS. i'-.i.,,-'-' ' ' ":rt i T . i .1 it . . ? V, "J Emlle Zola did not learn to read until he waa eight year: old, and la a self educated, man. his mother being Indif ferent as to whether or not he attended school. Hamlin Garland has a genuine In dian topee at Eagle's Nest camp, Ore gon, I1L It was made for the anthor by Cheyenne women and is eighteen feet in diameter, ' ' Ella Wheeler Wilcox bas challenged John A. Joyce of Washington to prove that she did not Write the' poem "Soli tude" and will give blm. $5,000 if he succeeds. "Colonel" Joyce claims the authorship. - Budyard Kipling, according to Bur mese natives, made bad breaks in his "Road to Mandalay"; poem by. Speak ing of flying fishes playing where no flying fish is ever' seen and by de scribing the sea as east of the Moul mein pagoda, whereas it is due west. LAW POINTS. One who has purchased In good fait!) without aclual notice mortgaged chat tels from a mortgageor In possession Is held. In Dean versus Cushman (Maine. 63 L. R. A. SOO). not to be liable for conversion without demand or refusal. That the Impulse to steai Is inspired Dy avarice or greed Is held, in state versus McCullough (Iowa, 55 I R. A. 378). not to preclude the defense of in sanity If the will power is weakened to such an extent as to leave the af f icted one powerless to control the im pulse, ii:e courts nave ueciuea in.it wtere mortpnped property is purcLase-1 et a foreclosure by tbe mortsae arl p..: i for an increased price suret-s c:i r '- secun 1 ty the niortjrn?e are int :; tied tj I.ave tbe proceeds of tl:e l,...t;T !y on any deficiency !.:a n CURRENT COMMENT; . The aunstroke crop seeing to be a fail ure this year.--Toledo Bee. ' T "v Cuba la finding out that It la mighty expensive ' to keep house, Toledo Blade.' ' ' " Verily ' the war Is over. Arrange menta are being made for' a World's fair ' at Johannesburg. Minneapolis Tunes.' " - There Is a great deal of advantage In being a member of royalty. It en titles a man to the distinction of rac ing yachts with an American million-W.-Washington Star. , ' ' " . Hiding in an automobile going at a milt H mlndte oh1 country" roads ls. a new Way to' commit suicide, but is too expeoslv lever to become the favorite method. Louisville Post , ' " ' -; TnT time , pjust Inevitably come,' If Canada1 persists In her role of spoiled chlld whefa Great Britain will find the turning1 down' of Canada the' only al ternative A tb" war with 'the United StateaWashmgtoii Post' Vtr: ; 5 'finsaia' will not take' her troops out of Manchuria because the country la nheanesa causea ier to tnj wbole country to prevent the Chlt'esfe taking anything Portland uiieMu wiiu VUiueB rouuera, , hub- (Ore.) JoutnaL ' THRONE LIGHTS.., 'The thlnese emperor 1s having" bulit for blm a new palace at Paotlngfu to contain 600 rooms, t v ,! !The Munich Geographical society has Just elected Princess Theresa of Bavaria an honorary member ;for her' achievements In the line of exploration and travel 'The princess was born in 1850. '-.,.,. j ' i ' . " ' , Xoung King1 Alfonso of Spain wants a Paris ballet at Madrid.- HO is said to regard classical dances as ther highest of allithe theatrical arts and bb re-' quested' JH. Gallhardi director? of tbe Paris Opera, ten bring to Madrid the best corps de ballet In Paris. ;i . 'The king of Uganda Is not six yeard old. His . namet la Dandl Chus tor iu Enrilsh -f Da vid ;tana.'Chhateliife w name 'which bas been borne for many years by Uganda kmgsi He is an in-1 teaigent jirue; reupw,, nnougo? ratner telllgent little; fellow, though ' rather At present his "saiary't from the- Brit ish government is $3,500 a year, v ;.- CHU RCH - AN D CLE RQY. Every fhurch ln' Washington, tnd.",' has been provided with telephonic con nectiona. and people are1 able to listen .to sermon while at home. The Rev. StephSO O. Betiton' Of Pall hary of the-board tof manager of the aiissioiinry society 'or- me uexnouisr Episcopal church. The Rev. Dr.' 8. E. Young, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of "Pittsburg, - has organised religious services for each' of the parks of the city.i On n late Sunday 80,000 people. It la estimated, were In attendance, The Rev.' Walter" B. Calley of Bop- ton, who has been made general secre tary of th Baptist Young People's Uh ion of America, ' will' establish head quarters In Chicago. He Is a Crorer graduate, and his first pastorate was In Bethlehem, Pa. PERT PERSONALS. Many sins are laid at Morgan's door. but no one has yet accused him of tail ing tod much. Baltimore American Alfred Austin ls accused of playing the Bute. ' Perhaps that is the reason his poetry trills instead of thrills. Washlcgton Post j - Carrie Chapman Cart says that nine- tenths of the criminals are men. Thlii is mild. She might have said, that nine-tenths of the men are criminals. THE WEELim.ES AT THE BENEFIT'S WILL BE6EHERAL ILL HELP THE LAKTERI CARIIYAL It WiU ImproYB Tb Little Ones And " ' Male Them Ambitious Will Train Them to Promptness and 4 Obedience and Their Work will Help to t Perpetuate the" Pabllo Library, Which ' W1U Fid Tbelr latelleoa' ta Tears to Come. Cow ttTtrlm the tiSterns. - One of the greatest pleasures of child hood la to "dress up and make believe;" and the little f olka who are taktrig - part In the lantern carnival like the Idea of pretending, for a lew hctira that they are th characters about whom they have heard and read all their ;Ilve.t: v':' 'H 1 know It takea aome sacrifice on the ' - . . .. m xl and the money they apend will be used to keen ui) th library, which 14 Intended to benefit these children, who see only the fun In it now. We do not ask the mothers to go to any great expanse, the : rery eheapeat mutflrlftl is to be used for the costumes W do not want the littiechlldren dressed In the long'' trails; but In the fainfliar styles bf the' Mother Goose, and other nursery books . Some of the little ; Ones ,hare been drilled two weeks and it is too fcad to hive them drop out ndfr, because It la hard to mpplythfeir places, and then- we hive depended on them and taken pains to1 drill them, and If we oould get others id take their places the same work Would I have to be done all 6ver? Fleasd do not let the children atbp ho W H tat verybody try to make the carnl; vai a success aaa is win b ymtmuiv the'ehUdren and benefit the town.' Tt at 1 way! beneflW chfldreil to be' trained lor ese pWeislOda, forth the sacrifice to aee them enjoy themselves. P6 not fall aehtnebfl(iren to tU the nWraala and 'don't maM ' tUm aidp. Wis Intend to have it all over as quickly as possible. We expect the weather to tie just warm enough to suit an outdoor festiraftaajihl ls tobe by the ftlme he ltarha kn fln(Jaiiaiid rbaflT for hie and we want all the Indians, all the and little girls to meet at the hour ap- pointed f6r tnem'to'driU. Il ls a part of a' ihUd' education to teach it to keep a I Wromlse or anaDDointment.andit should never be allowed 'to thinti that it la nbi ka resnonalbla about such thinsrs aa an adult la, 8ome of na have to sacrifice a m w . I great deal, to teach the children, and I believe the children appreciate it. '".' 'i ' V ' L. A. . ... ,. i Editor Fbeb Press: Please say to the ladles who have undertaken to deco rate the lanterns, that they are expected to use their own taste in arranging the colors. They may use any colors that will show well when lighted, any trans parent picture that is appropriate and any original idea that will vary the ad vertisement and suit the business !adv4r- tised. About slxtyof these lanterns have been distributed this morning. The tops are to be covered with paste board or wrapping paper bo that it may be tied at one end aod held by a string at the other two corners in Order to light the candles, For a bilious attack take Chsmberltn's Stomach and Liver Tablets and a quick cure is certain. ; h or sale by J. h,. Hood. VIENNA ARSENAL -1 part oi tne mowers wu people, but it is' narmfess amusement; it does not cost at much W k circus ticket. ( : ' , 1 1 k .i I MISS MAUDB ADAMS. y 1 v America's theatergoers tenet eseeedintrlT the f ailnre of the health of Maude Adam, probably (Jw nat popular ol eo state Morites. . Mis Adams bas com to Fiom in searob of health and all of her f ntare engagements have been eanoelea. It is believe that her breakdown will be only temporary, c ' . 4- Items About People iWhoXome and fro Mr. W. Ck Slaughter went to Goldsboro this morning, Rt,', ,,,. UH tt f,,.it' Mr. E.; W. Biuell, ' of Goldsboro, spent today lp lnston. Miss Lucy Harvey returned from a visit to Goidsboro yesterday.'; Ttfr. T. WTLynch returnid Ironfabusl iwta Up to Kswl Vbrk yefcterday: . I Uessr;j.ftfihManorGeoi hi KDpat- rlck.went to Iew Berq hl m,qrnlng; ; j Mr., Julia French went to Jaspen Craven cou'nyktb visit her sgn yesterday, J Mr. vi., a. Vf ooven, 01 w arsaw, was ui trains. ' ' 1 I"1 A) IKS'll r. , 1 i i' v . - v- s Ji i Ira. a A. Kornegay, jof .Goldsboro morning to tisk ai Mrs. a. r. .'.Mre." Fannie' Richardson, of Dover, came up thia morhlng to visit friends t this place. Mr. W. T. Hnntor returned from visit to her parents at South Washlng ,,'n VMAra. ' . ' ' f a w-rf ....... , r-fln H Allan wltnrnad from Lhm bsrton yesterday afternoon, where hs had been to preside at Robeson court, Mrs, M. E. Rogers came from Apex yesterday afternoon,' and will spend the winter with her son, Mr. J. J. Rogers, Mrs. B. C. Bailey went to Morehead City yesterday afternoon to ; visit her brother-in-law. Dr. Mclntyre, who is very slfk. Miss Lucy Brook returned yesterday afternoon, and will teach In the Elnston graded ecbool, which commences iiext ! Monday. Mr. E. L.' Miller and wife of Seneca Kansas, came yesterday afternoon,, and will visit at Dr. A. B. Millet's, and Dr. H. O. Ilyatt's for some time. . , RESACA. ' Sept. 15th.. Misses Ada and Cella Mawxell left tc day or Raleigh, where they go to at tend school. . Mr. Willie Mawxell leaves tomorrow for hfs home In Atlanta, Ga. - r- M ins Lola Worley ol Pink 11111 was visiting friends In this community Satur day.' r:;r-i',:- The nicnic at Hebron last Friday was largely attended and enjoyed oy ail. Mr. and Mrs. J R. Smith visited rel atives In Jones county Saturday. Independent Ticket la Jones. The so-called "independents held a connty convention in Jones county Mon day and nominated a ticket. The per sonnel of the ticket shows In Jones, as everywhere else, that It Is the same old repul f trtjand not1 independents" aa tbey ciil t?.ems-lves. There were on tie t'cltt it puL'icans, popuh'sts and reruL&ia. f otiisc h Trouble. "I have 1 atm'-lled with my tom- ch f'Tti i . -t f ! "r years," va 1. L. Heach, r.f ( r ."oclr l'r.n, L etT:"...-lit l -: - 1 ' i t : . ' Sent to Jail. Calvin Clement wa remanded to Jail la default of bond for Ihis appearance at tha nets term of th SuDerlor court, be tng tried before Mayo? Webb thia niorn-lng- on si tat warrant charging him with manalabgutef, In that bt was grossly negligent In handling th pistol In Tnompson room the bfter day and that he did unlawfully point a pistol at ThomDsohand another maid Inthe ro&n) The statute of North Carolina make It a misdemeanor' td 5 pcftht ' ptttol at another, whether' It la loaded to not; Clement i laid 'against; ; evidence arising to show nialice and Intent on bis Prt ; . , Miss Eva Aldrtdoe. wnd hsi been visit ing relatives and friend, returned to her horn laat Huaaay at urenuai. v. : Mr. Rov Brown and sister, Mies Elvie, srent the evening with Mia Lula John son last Sunday. , .ar! vr 't Miss Rachel Brown, who had been visit ing her uncle, Mr. Ed. Corle,, returned to her hdme last Thursday. ' ' Mr. J. C. Kennedy spent the evening with Mr. Elgine Brown last Sundays ' s Weareorry to ay that ther are a few on the sick list tills week , , u ,, . . Grettlag Baady. , , , - A number of the business men are put ting a new dress" on their store fronts. Among the number are A. Schultt, who has completely remodeled the whole front of hi store; painting it? white ex cept th columns, which are painted with silver and trimmed with gold. ElDsteln Bros, are giving the front of their big Store a new drees,1 which nraatly fm p roves the appearance, and J. M. Stephen. son, who Is also painting the front of his sfiore and generally Improving tbe in terior. These Improvements add greatly to the appearance of these business houms. and will surely bring large re turns for the outlay, v : , Short Locals. Cotton sold at 8.today. . Subscribers to the telephone system will please add the following to their list: No. 188, J. R. BaiP residence; No, 180, E. B. Whitehurst's market; No. 190, T. E. Roberts & Cf steminery; No. 182, Central market. ! There wa a large sea turtle on the ex' preM car going west this morning that attracted considerable attention , from tne bystanders, it was alive but per fectly helpless, as It was on Its back and could not turn over. The turtle would probably ' weigh a hundred and fifty pounds, and was on Its way to tbe northern markets.' ' ' ' ' " ; Oir Mental Tralta. To our parents, says an expert, we are Indebted for half our mental traits; to pur grandparents, one-fourth; to our great-grandparents, one-eighth, aod so forta. . ; Thn Philadelphia Mint. Before a burglar could tunnel into the money vaults of ttse Philadelphia mint be would have to pierce a solid rock so full of veins of water that the Smallest opening Is immediately flood ed. The gold vaults are of steel seven inches thick, and the silver la pro tected by one Inch of steeL Cork. All the cork used in the" world in a year wel-'as Just over 1.000 tons. It cor.ics from France. Spain. Portugal. Italy ar.l north Africa. FRESH FACTS III A FEW LINES Items of Interest to Male and Female : Two little storks have been -hatched at Kew gardens. , ; : v . . The champion wrestler of Webb City, Mc, ia a blind man. ; : Pittsburg ablp more than 12,000,000 ton of coal annually. n The gross tonnage of Pittsburg prod ucts exceed 46,000,000. ; . , Licenses have been taken out for 1,250,000 bicycles In Franca. Tugboat owners on (he Rhine hive combined to raise towage rates. ' There- are- now some six European In tbe Buddhist priesthood In Burma. : Deep sea water for study la procured by meana of specially prepared bot tle. : v-i, ' S ;'' India rubber and gutta percha tree have been discovered In German New Guinea. i .j.--- A calf with two tongues 1a now in the possession of a farmer at Boasert, north Wales. In, the United Kingdom last year 4,627 persona were killed while at work and 107,290 others Injured. : .', In London 10,400 laborers on the av erage find employment : dally at the docks and principal wharfs. . , Tbe processes now in use for collect- lng tin from the waste of sheet tin by electrolysis Is comparatively costly. . Leeds, England, possesses a factory chimney modeled on the beautiful cam panile designed by Giotto at Florence. ' Instruction In the art of reading rail tray time tablea Ja now being given to hla pupils by a schoolmaster In Silesia. One Australian - syndicate has of -fered General De Wet 260 weekly and expenses for a lecturing tour lmAns tralla. ' u ,. .. . . Seattle's export to 'Japan'' are now ,: about 15,000,000 per anfaum, which Is eleven,, time what they were six years.. t Four tona la tbe weight of a twenty foot grampus which baa been captured by the crew of an Irish fishing boat off Kin sale. ; M v Gaelic la the only language spoken by 9.442 InhabltanU of Galway, 2,458 Of whom are between three and eight een year of age. . - ,t : Cheap aoft gooda made In Belgium and Switzerland are rapidly . ousting Manchester (England) fabrics from the Mozambique market ,,.-. - Three hundred and fifteen shoals In various parts of the world were de clared dangerous ;to navigation last year by British admiralty eurveyora. J Dumfries has Just revived the sn- ; dent system of shooting for the Siller gun presented to the trades of tbe town by King James VI. of Scotland. Between 7.000 and 8,000 packages of home grown 'figs are now being dis patched, every week from Worthing, .. which la the center of: the English fig growing Industry. ' j . ; - .--Germany : furnishes more than one' fourth of the foreign born Immigration to this country, 25.8 per cent; Ireland ia . next with 15.6 per cent, and England follows with 8.1 per cent ... Notices of dismissal have been served on the colliers in the Bochum and ; Dortmund districts, Westphalia, where It has been decided to restrict the out put of coal. Lectures on tbe editing and publish-, lng of newspapers will be given at the -High School For Journalists, which Is to be opened in tbe autumn at the Cnl-. versity of Bern. .' The spirits monopoly bas been ex tended throughout the greater part of central Asia and the northern Cau casua All efforts to Introduce local option in European Russia have failed.-' In its upper reaches the river Rhone has risen a yard in one day. In the Yaud canton the snakes which have been ousted from their holes by the : floods are so numerous as to constitute a plague. The commission appointed to reap portion Oklahoma has announced the total population of the territory to be 600,000, with one representative for every 22,000 people and one senator for very 43,000. c-.l -:; .,' . : ' The great advantages that have ac- . crued to California cities from using " oil to lay the dust instead of water are being recognized by many cities, and especially in those in which the supply of water la rather limited.- An "armored waistcoat; price, 32 shillings; carriage paid," has been in vented by a French tradesman at CbarIeviHe,-who recommends It espe cially for the use of embassadors and . members of parliament. , journalists and others exposed to danger. II le life Saved r-T Ch-.ni- '' (ollt, I iiolra and l;rr m-a i.run-.l-. "B. L. r ver, a w '1 know n cm r r r f town, cvs be ti-'-v.-pfi...- '- ( , ' r j f 1 1 . v '

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