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V" 4. f I J it it, ' ..i PUBLISHED EERY v HF?TERMOON EXCEPT SUNDPCY. VOL. V. NO. 210. KniSTON, N. O, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1002. price two crarra , r ' .1 li LIL, OLD 1I0RTH STATE HEtfS A1ID-G0SSIP ODD AID IITEBESTIXS HiPPEIUGS. " BaWl corresiM.iideot Wilmington Messenger: Tbers hsstbna f r been raised ' for "the ' orphanage ; here 1 58,000. Rev. J,B Harley.tb agent, will make tbe reDort to the Methodist conference at Wilmington. A great work Is being done. In the spring the spacious main building will be read for occupancy, Asbeboro Courier: Oni July 5th Mr. B. Slack, of Richmond township, sent ut a cotton bloom. Tuesday he sent us an ' other taken from the same field on No vember 22nd, tour months and 18 days later, : It Is something quite remarkable for the same field of cotton to be in bloom twice from the same planting and , nearly five months apart. " "Raleigh Post: Curator Brimley of the State Museum has a very large .pet bull j snake in bis office and when his snake ship is hungry be is generally allowed to : stay and eat a rat or two. Capturing a . very large rat a day or two ago Mr. ' Brimley made sure the snake was in ' - good fighting brim by having him thor oughly warmed up until he was lithe as rammer time and the tongue ran out and ' slicked back", like greased light- ning, and the rat was thrown to him. . After a short scrimmage the snake sur- rendered with the rat on his back biting bim fiercely.' ;,.Mr, Brimley says it was a ' decided and positive victory for the' rat. - Wilmington Messenger: Mr. Charles Blizzard, a farmer who resides at Still " Bluff,' Fender county, is the fortunate owner of twQ smart cats that he would not part with for lots of money. : He has , trained them to catch and destroy cnt -worms , among his cabbage. .When he goes Into the cabbage's patch they" go , . with him and each destroys more worms than be does. The worms burroughat ; the base of tbe cabbage, and the cats can tell wherever there Is a; worm. They go from stalk to stalk and very rapidly clean out the worms. It Is pnrt to tbem bnt death to the worm. They do not tail to kill all that they do not eat. , - v Special ' to the Charlotte Observer: High Point, Pea 2. Authentic lnforma- tlon given your correspondent to-night says that a large silk mtU will be estav llehed here; The promoters' of the ent-r-prlse are from New Jersey, some of whom ' were here yesterday; A lot i? has been ' bought upon which to erect the pU fit and other steps taken which bespeak the materialization of the enterpr pe. The capital stock will be large arid folly ample tor big business. Mole definite 1 formation cannot be secured to-night. Followingthis information there cones from a reliable source the news that next spring a company from another state will erect a factory here, for the manu facture of trolley cars. The plans have been made and settled upon -for some time and everything will be in readiness at that time. Wilmington, Dec. 2. While adjusting - the spring to a trolley pole on top of a car of "the street railway company last night, Conductor W. E. Beaton was ac cidentia thrown by an assistant on a heavily charged wire. He was badly burned about the nose and eyes and may lose his sight. His right hand was also burned to a crisp. The shock from the current pitched the man headlong from the car and he would have been seriously Injured by a fall to the brick pavement, had not a policeman seen the accident and darted from the crowd about the junction in time to catch the injured con ductor before be struck the cobblestones. Tbe officer, who la a man of small phys ique, was warmly commended by the crowd for his heroism. Th3 injured man was tent on another car to his hom, where he was resting very well this morning. . . v . Letter to Tboma Greed , Kington, N. C. DiabSih: You'J efrlie it rich If you cotljf.nja wy to f' 4a your costo irrs U l..r t t!.:-e, far 1. .sr.. t, and make t'a ! ! ' S t! 't or f --a tfes as 1 ' i"1's- i't f 9 t' f a j-rn O i I I ' ; f ) , , f ;p r 1 t 1 v i . j ( t ' ' r '. t . 7 v . j ; QRAINQdS. ' December 9, 1901, Caps. W. J. Parker west to Willi am stnn today. .; t . : Mr. and Mrs. F. Dopree left this morn ing for Everett and will return tomor row. Several from here are attending court at Snow HM this week ' Mr. J. E. Cameron add family have left as ana moved to uaieign. Rev. 8. W. Sumrell will preach for us anotner year at Betnei. ' Miss Bessie Jackson went to Kinston today to spend a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Seth Speight, of Hyco, spent Sonday at theirtather'e, Mr. B. P. Speight. Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Cobb Whitfield, at Qulnerly, made us a short but pleasant call Saturday night on their, way home f sam Quvan U rWi n rmm Mr. Fells Plttman has bought a lot hereon tfailroad street and bas begun work on a dwelling and will move here about the first ol January. We welcome Mr. W. . Hamilton back to our midst, after an absence of two years in that thriving little town of Wln- A ;. Queer Tale of hp? Scottish Witchcraft In a recently published book on Scotch witches appears tbe following story: A shepherd In Entail, after kindling in tbe evening a cheerful fire, threw him elf en a heather bed. : About twenty cats entered and sat around the fire. holding up their paws end warm inV themselves. One went to the r window, put a black cap on its head. cried "Hur rah for London!" and vanished. Tbe other cats, one by. one, did the same. y- The cap of the last fell off. ' and the shepherd caught it put it on bis own head, cried "Hurrah for Lon don!" - and fol lowed, lie found himself ' In Lonx don . immediate ly. He got drunk and. being found in a helpless con dition, was taken before" 'Judge and was sentenc ed to be hanged. Wbeni the rope bad been; fixed about his neck. be asked to wear the cap, as It was a present from his mother. - The- favor was, granted, and, fixing the -cap, be cried, SHurrah for Kintaiir ; He Im mediately disappeared. ' Hla reappear auce Id Klntall with a gallows rope about bisr neck" greatly surprised bis friends. , 1 Witches, some Scotch peasants be lieve, often assume the shape of a bare and In this form take milk from tbe Udders of cows. When caught thus, the hare becomes a woman.' . When a witch assumes this shape, it is dangerous to fire at her without putting silver a six pence or a button of that metal In the gun. ; If the . hare fired at was, as in deed it often was, a witch In disguise, the gun burst and the shot came back and . killed the person firing, or some mischance followed. Old women used therefore to recommend hat a sixpence be put in tbe gun when firing at a bare". A tailor in tbe island of Lewis, Scot land, saw his wife and a number of other women disappear up tbe chim ney of a farmhouse, and from their excursion they returned with a great catch of fish, The tailor proposed that be should accompany the party the next time they, went fishing, and the women coif&nted. To the number of eighteen tbe witches went to sea on a line of Worsted thread, the tailor's wife being, left ashore to hold tbe ball or end of the line In her hand. Tbe tailor persuaded her to go with the rest and leave bim in charge of the line. She went, and the tailor paid out more line till be thought the witches far enough out at sea. lie then cut the thread and allowed tbe whole lot to drown. CHICAGO SERVANT Chicago housewives say servant. must hold diplomas. Meantime the re tain';):? of servants continues to he less a matter of diploma tlsan of diplomacy. -New York WorU. Tl t (" ' - I"t;;j wives' a? hi inn will i Cvrt;:'. . ti 3 c-f f.T: r tr.a ' at', a. t j t rv:.' i ' ' . I'i v'n v.'.'A c:i:ry 1) V. e ::. f t 3 ' ,,'. fflSS UGUILLA1I T0II0RR0U MIGHT. AUSPICIES DAUGHTERS COXFEDEeIcI EDtertaluEcnt Postponed From Toilet ' Owing to tno Weatner. : The entertainment which was to have been given by Miss Georgia Bay McMlll an, reader, in the opera bouse it - light has' been postponed until tomorrow night owing to the weather prevailing and the fact that the entertainment was not announced early enough to properly advertise it 'by tonight. " The entertainment ..will begin , in1 the opera house promptly , tomorrow ufght at 8:30 o'clock "sharp" as Miss McMill an states it. It Js given under the aus pices of the local chapter of the Daught ers of the Confederacy. Seats are no w on sale at Woodley's" drug store, the price being 75 cents for reserved seats and 50 cents tor general admission tickets. CLIt dren admitted for 25 cents. t'v Miss; McMillan needs no introduction to those who attended the performance of the Atlantic Bympbony company here sometime ago. it was owing to toe favorable Impression made at that tlme.J that Miss McMIIllan was secured by tbe Oanghtera to . give an ; entertainment under their auspices. She Is par excel lence in elocution without question, far surpassing any one of similar work who has ever performed in Kinston. Those who attend will not only aid a worthy cause but will get value In return. As a reader she excels any I have ever heard. Even a blind man would enjoy and be delighted with her elocution v Chas. n. Smith (Bill Arp ) :;n hJm' Kr,.M rftT,tratfcompfty'a tnanl, this city, In Jannary MCI. .swat avswav w-w "-.' - -" f ' . . Veterane bad prepared the Lnmlerton ' .Mr. Leys was manager of adepart people foralh treat, and their ic-' 52' a,n-( wewlto t.t.y.lm. thaa ailMd.Tbe be $25,000 a year. - .'..P-V-'J- tations were "more than realised. The Bobeeohlan, Lumberton, N. C. tVuon Tobacco Tniai. v - - i War oa the tobacco rinet, which doml naies tbe tobweo trade, with a capital of nearly $75,000,000, has been begun iu this city. w ' The retail tobacco dealers are organ iziDg ; ;for a fight to a finish; 250 of the largest dealer in Greater New York have combined lor united action, Wlthin forty-eight hours they will have 2o0 more members in that organuation. The first steps were taken' today when the dealers met and formed the Greater Mw Vnrk TtatAil TnhReeo DealBrs' asao' ciatlon. The fight will be the greatest . -, . j ever wageaoetween.mau oea.ers ana trusr. xam new orgamiuuou wui uautif . directly with the United Cigar Stores company, which is backed by tbe Ameri can Tobacco company.! The .cigar com pany is establishing stores throughout the country. The fight is to be carried into all the big cities of the conntry; Three methods of fighting the trusts will be adopted. They are; The formation of a stock company to secure the benefits of co-operation. The issuing of coupons for gifts similar to those issued by the Cnlt'd Cigar Stores company. The enlisting of the entire power of organized labor in the battle. New Orleans Times-Demo e rat's New York Correspondent. Slore than seven times the distance round the earth bus been 'walked by a Dover (England) 'postman named Edt n Uearn, who has Just retired after forty years' service. In the lower depths of the ocean some of the' fishes go blind, while oth ers develop huge eyes. Some' are so constructed that., they can swallow fishes much larger than thni selves. In consequence of the demolition of Newgate, London, It has been dccldeti to reinter In Bow cemetery the eighty- two criminals who have suffered, tb last penalty of the law at tbe Old Bailey. ' - To get a free passage from the Ken- go to Europe a negro showed himmli' away In a cask on board tbe Belgian steamer Philipperllle. . When the cask was opened on the voyage home, tin man was found to have been suffocat ed. . The French industry of raising flow ers for tbe manufacture of . perfum , has been greatly Injured by the chem ical odors and srt!2cial ethereal oils f roJueol In Germany, bs the lattpr seli ft a Yor rr' end are hnrCly diet i a- y ' 'i fi i t' e t . .'..;. J. T. I" : :ri L . C '. .rovered that DPRISIHG OF ' 1'-' r V -;r--.': "J " - THE TURKS. I0LICT mOCITIES ox chrstiahs. Cost Horrible Keisures Used to Inflict ; I Pita by the Barbarians Vienna, Dec. 2. The Evening, Post a ftutgarian paper, today prints a story of farther horrible atrocities inflicted on Macedonian Christians Joy Turks. Ac cording to the Poet : the Turks among other things, place red" hot iron caps on the beads of Christians, pour, burning petroleum over their test and in some cases bind sixty or seventy prisoners to gether and leave ;them to starve. The paper irlvee some particular cases , of cruelty infltctea y. tne lurxisn emis earlee In their effort to stamp out ' Chris tianity 1n Macedonia. It says: "A priest- naped 8teafo, In the village of Padesh, m ba forced to drink filth from a chalice. Tne sisters of a Bavatia Magdaexpired as the rranlti of unmentionable tortures. Elder Ntcholal, of the village of Leshko, alter being forced to witness the torture of both his daughters' among the joang women,' was ; himself roaetd to death. the inhabitants . of villages of Kards- hago, Qoyndag, and Klessora have fled to the bills to avoid the Turks and -are now dying there of cold and hunger.', j 100,OOOFora Wfc. ' i New tork. Dec. 2.-A verdict for 1100, t)00 damages were brought in today by the fury in the suit of Mrs.'. Jennie M, jJ" h Hudson River company. Mrs. Leys sued for 1250.000 for the death of her hus- . ' - ,' - i ' v ' f 4 . ' "... . . " . " band, wpo was Kiuea in aeouision in sne : Too DBt'For the Doc'. ' Raymond Uitcbcock says that' while he was lying in a Philadelphia hospital convh leaping from an operation for tt) VpendlcItiBitone " of .those fool JTriendV who always say the wrong thing in tbe wrong place called on ' him and told him "the: following story ' to cheor him up: i ,- , . , . . , . ' . Philadelphia'e most famous appendi citis expert ! has a dog of which lie thinks, a great, deal which had a Iop- ' gjed walk A' friend asked the doctor on one occasion tbe cause of this. "Why," was the reply, "he's got ap- pendlcitis." . "Theft1 why -don't you operate mi , WS5,'laer,ed ne i . "What, operate on that dogl Whv. thflt dog8 worth 100New Tort: CommerciaL r On or Secretary Saaw'a Stories. A man loved, two girls.", One was beautiful, and the other was plain, bnt t fine singer. Having beard the axiom that beauty ia but skin deep, the ninu took heed and married the plain girl. One morning he awoke and glanced nt his sleeping wife. Her homeliness wttr- Increased by a falling moutb and a re sounding noee. As be gazed a doubt on the wisdom of bis choice assailed the man and grew to such proportions thut m alarm for bis marital felicity h : shook the sleeping woman by the aim and cried to ber, "For heaven's ntil.c, Lib, wake np and sing sometbJng."-j Philadelphia Telegraph. . - " . Verbena. It is said that if one saves and sows his Own verbeiia seed It will run out In a couple of seasons and' the majority of the flowers become a dull purple, tbe original color in the wild state of tbe plant ' ' " , Ecuador's Voleaaoes. ' Ecuador has a record in volcanoes, three active, five dormant, twelve ex tinct Eleven of : these peaks have never been climbed. -v Wewfoaadland Gaate Laws. . . In Newfoundland the game laws are framed to give the natives great liber ty, the open season extending from July 15 to Oct 1 and from Oct 20 until Feb. 1. , Gladtolas Bnlbs. All gladiolus bulbs should be taken cp in the fall and saved from frost un til i 'anting time in the spring, and the I'tile bulbs that form at the root of the old bulb are more certain to grow If kci t over a whole season before plant ing cut Crooad C!as Imltatloa. To lm!iate ground plass dissolve en- ! I it "h a i: cry i a I": r . i. Ii.l E ' :. t f r a TLe rit- ' I.-!..-!:;-.- v tr I Of 1 i Lost la the Deitrt : ; ' With Canteens Ecpty ' i'; t , M;j Tr.::"l" . .v. tr' i While attempting to go by foot from Femur to Ooldstone, In California, a few weeks ago with only five quarts of water between them Frank Bmith and C H.' Johnson, miners, narrowly ea caped death from thirst In the desert i Tbey were warned that they could not cover the distance, twenty-six miles, with so scant a supply of water, but the morning was cool and the at-' tnoepbere to clear that the mountains did, not look more thaw a Uozou miles away, " and tbey : felt sure . that' thy could make tbe trip in a few hours if unhampered with heavy canteens and other luggage. . y'fr ,. Hour ; after V hour.' they trudged through the heavy sand, but the moun tains seemed as far off as ever. The day proved much warmer than they expected, and before they bad proceed. ad a douen miles their canteens were empty., , ' , .;.'.' , v. . At last seeing that both would cer talnly perish If be remained to help bis demented companion along any farther. Johnson left Smith to continue his aim less wanderings alone and struck Bp through the pass in tbe hope of reach big camp before be, too, should be over come by the delirium. . ; Night had fallen by the time John son reached " the end of the wagbn road, from which a steep and tortuous trail leads up he mountain side .to Camp Goldstone, where there Is a well of delicious water, food and shelter. Inch py Inch he crept on with the one thought of reaching water, that now seemed within his grasp. With an almost superhuman effort he pressed on and was guided more by instinct than reason to the, door of the Provl denee Gold and Copper company's din ing ball, outside of which a . large olla filled With' water frdm the deep well in an adjacent canyon was stationed. He threw bis arms about, the oils and em braced it; then fell' upon his lack, ut teHhg strange, incoherent sounds; .y When Johnson's thirst was quenched. he told about having left his compan ion. Smith; wandering In a delirium oh the other Jlde of the pass. Superin tendeiit Bera hastily saddled a mule and,; filling n canteen-.witb water,?aet off to'tbe 'rescue.- v'j'-r'-i OV -Ab hour later .Berg1 found the man stumbling" bout In the tower end of tne pass m a stooping posture ana witn arms extendeif and drooping' like "the .wings of a ; wounded bird, ; He was laughing s a ml crying by turns and making 'disconnected and Incoherent sounds as thousb carrying on a conver sation with himself la some outlandish tongue. He had made Just half a mile .IT BEBO HELP THB CAVTE&X BEHIND IIIM. In the four hours. Holding the canteen behind him. Berg accosted tbe ujifor tunate: - i ' "now would you like to have a drink r . - - ' Tbe man gave a startled look, then rushed toward bis rescuer wltb a gur gle of delight r :. : The superintendent had to restrain the , poor fellow or he would have drunk himself to death. He bugged the cool, moist canteen to bis breast and fondled It as the most precious thing be bad ever possessed. In a day or two Smith and Johnson had Quite recovered from their terrible experience. ', d. - r. w.:i 3 t .. I . , '.4,: MA 1 i . . r Ii '.It.- : 1 1 - til ' T " tt L :. -j. s:. . - 1. -. a r rT ' t .. 1- lor r 1 '9. G0YER1I1IE11T ; '. COTTOlIiREPOR?. ESTIMATE. CROP 10,S0,C;t BILES. Faiorable Weatter Eai increased Crop ' From Prevloas Iadlcaticns. ' 1 Washington, D. Cv Dec. 8.-The statbrtl canjof tie Department of Agriculture esti mate tb actual growth of cotton in the United States In the year l02-'O3 as 10,427,000 bales of an average net weight of 490.7 pounds. - - : The area picked or to be picked is esti mated at 27,114,103 acres, a reduction o( 764,227 acres, or 2.74 per cent, from the acreage planted. The total produc tion of lint cotton is estimated at 5,111, 870,028 pounds, an average of 188.5 pounds per acre. r t The estimated production by ttates,m ponndsof lint cotton per acre is as fol lows: 1 , M , STATES. ' v Pounds. Virginia, 248 288 199 165 120 144 220 262 148 268 252 S52 282 244 North Carolina. Sou til CftTOllOA Georgia Florida Alabama.............,..... MlMiMlppi.......,......... Ixiulslana. iiiltmiti(NiMtai Texas, lKese"asv'sae4 Arkansas Tennessee Mlseouri. MS Qklahoma. Indian Territory The phenomenally favorable weather that baa prevailed almost continuously for some weeks past throughout a large portion of the cotton belt has made a substantial addition to tbe cotton crop as Indicated on October 8. All the eight Stater which at that date report a con dition'hlgher than at the corresponding date last year have still further improved their positions, w h!le two ( Louisiana and Mississippi) of the five states that compared; unfavorably with the year 1901 jnpw report "lightly higher ; averr3e yields per acre than a year ago, leaving only Texas,IGeorgia and Alabama with an unfavorable showing. The commercial crop will consist of the above mentioned 10,427,000 bales, to gether with 151,592 bales brought for ward from last year", about 250,000 bales of listers and sample cotton, as much of the crop of 1903 as may be mar ketadjbetore September 1 1903, less 198, 190 bales of tie present crop marketed before September 1, 1902 so and much of this same crop as may be carried for ward to tha tear 180.V047 , j Correapondeaee With tke Dead, There has arisen In St Petersburg, says Science Siftings; a new Lucian by whose Intermediation bereaved mortals can bold -dialogues with the dead. ; He Is the editor of a spiritualistic journal and, bos a column heuded "From the Other World." In it appear signed communications from tbe dead in reply to queries from tbe living. Any sub scriber can' send a letter to a dead per son on forwarding to the editor .4 copecks, which are equal to about 9 halfpence. , The dead seem to be prompt corre spondents, for no Inquirer, has to wait more than a week for a letter to come from the. other world. The daily mails from heaven afe always on time: 1 ::' : -r " Aa Ivftl TnonnM. ' . ' "Do you believe we will ever open . tommunicsttpn with Mars?" . . ? ' "Sure.. I don't care If they do, old man, but what 1 fear, Is that tbey mlgbt extend their, communications to Mars-ln-law'Baltlmore News. ' A Leanoa Front Swallown. . A colony : of bank ; swallows some years ago taught a young but observ ing engineer how to Vulld a tunne. which his more learned superiors had refused to undertake. Bavorr Catleta. ' ' Mix a teacupful of fine breadcrumbs. two teaspoonfuls of chopped parsley, a teaepoonful of chopped onion and half a teaspoonful of chopped herbs togeth er. Season with pepper and salt Roil the cutlets in beaten eggs, then in the above mixture as quickly as possible. Put by for an hour. Fry in boiling fat . ViHiai Ia Raasia.' Museums are in much favor in Rus sia. Even in Siberia nearly every town of 10.000 inhabitants baa one The mu seum of Irkutsk-Is-nearly a century eld. -'- ' - - --' . P.. r r a w'l It, v . j ( - e-1 I ?-.v-i l:;. o t - tU k f.r a r,Ar.r.3 c&.ii:.;nt;C:----rt."-,F ' lrarti do 1 ' n I"? .5 i rpiitf It r i i t s.r8 ii. T. I ' i: j. Forr.'ely J. il. 1