North Carolina Newspapers

PUBLISHED EMERY KFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDHY, ; VOJLV-NO. 219. KINSTON, N: OV MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1002. PRICE TWO OI2TIB. OLD HORTH STATE Mi AlUf GdSSIP ,i.V;. ODD UD IITERESTIKG HiPPEMGS. AehevUksN. C Deo. 13. A shooting affray followed by a number a arrests, occured today In the centre of the bull nets emotion of Asheville. Two negroes walked Into a white restaurant and were ' ato cj Ordered to remove their hat a. One - . of the negroes reached for bis gun, where,: noon the oroorletor and two white natrons began shooting. One of the negroes was shot four times, not how . ever, fatally. . Greensboro, N. C, Dec. 13. Bishop '" the drummer, who Is wanted for murder la Charlotte, -was well known here, where - in some circles be passed off. a a single man. He pa'd attention to a yoong la day here Until one' night, she having heard that he had a wife and child, received him In the parlor, stated this discovery to him and ordered him our He went. Reldsville, N. C, Deo 13 The reel. . ' dence of Mr. Thomas Carroll, just ont of 'the northwestern limits, fwae burned to the ground one day this Week. . Mr. Car roll was away and his aged ife, being , alone, did not save anything at all There ,. was no Insurance and the old couple, with toeir faces turned to wards life's sun eel are left In a bad condition. Mr.' Car roll is barely able to provide comforts for himself and wife under favorable clr cumetances, and now that they are be reft of their home, the battle will be much harder." ''-Vw n-V t M fi ' Rutberfordton, N. C. Dec. 13. Sad news comes to the effect that Wirti, the nineteen-year-old son of Mr. A. D. K, ; Wallace, formely chief clerk In the secre tary of State' office at Raleigh. was shot Id the right breast and Instantly killed, by lit fourteen-year-old brother " Alfred fn their home three miles fromhre at 9 o'clock this morning; Their older brutner bad just stepped out of the rooui when the shot was lired. Y ung Wal lace ca toe rnnnlDg dot. turf- room ecreamir g be bad killed hl '' r, that . he did' not know Lhe gun a Im.W. lie is ' crazed 'with grief ' ovr the V Vi affair: '., ' . J, v Elizabeth City, Dec. IS. A report has gained circulation to the effect that Mr. Cropey will produce new witnesses aBd additional evidence at the beginning ol the trial of James Wilcox for the murder of his daughter, "Nellie. Mr. Cropsey when , interviewed, said there was was no truth in , the statement. Bald he "I cannot account for the origin of such a , report. I remember being approached by a reporter in Norfolk, Va., who asked me why Cale Parker's wife was not put . on the stand at the last trial. I told him she was ill at the time, Probbably the ; reporter drew the - conclusion that ' she would be put on the next trial and gave the publication to his suspicion." j When asked If Parker's wife would give J any additional evidence Mr Cropsey said ' no. - . '',"' Greensboro, i.. C, Dec. 13. Tuesday night two women arrived here on a train from the west and registered at the Mo i Adoo Hotel as Mies Bernlce Wayne, of Mobile, Ala., and Mies Maude Blanding. of Cincinnati, Ohio. Information .reached the ; proprietor Wednesday 1 morning, which caused htm to notify them to leave, j which the did in short order. Chief of Police Scott had received a wire from Asheville of two women wanted there, one of them being described as 38 years oil. It now developes from the name of a nian whom the women repeatedly, In quired for here, "that they were the two young Kuykendafl and Jones girls, aged 18 and 14 years oil, who mysteriously disappeared from their home in Asheville on Tuesday.:: Had not the police been mlsl-ad by description of t o other par ties, they could have beea easily recured here. The girls were modestly dressed, and one of them looked like a matured woman. The hand writing on the reg ister, however,- ia that of school girls There are t wo uncalled 'or telegrams at the hotel now for the man the girls weie noxtous to see. He was In the city that day and notified the Western Ualononice to send any telegrams for him to tbe Me Adoo. It is eappcwd..that after tJw girls lrffi tlte hotrd, they met this man, an 1 he m ver Cfti:e bark. At AsLevt"e, warrai ts ..,r Wn iipue.l for two men, cha;-J iui Hh.iDCtii n of t!-e vr; j. r'fi (i. r to le fit ;", rN, wbo Ere ro : . r no m d wo'u!.I ,i-t-m to i j t ' t w !lh t- 1 -tr.,i! 'r; I-iic.kte o TOLD OF AUTHORS. War Burt la Met ' rsda v Tkrwasa-Mair , UBpecial Correspondence. la New York, Dec 9. James M. Barrle la persons non grate in Thrums, or Gb riemuir, which you must pronounce Kirriemuir if you do not wish to be re garded askance by the Thrum "fowkJ Barrle drew from life and must share the opprobrium that attaches to pro saic things In the minds of theprosaie people picturea.. . ,-v. . - "Do I ken Jeems Barrle Y'. said the old Janitor of the town hall. "Oh, aye. I ken 'im as I kent his father an' Blith er a fore 'im. "Ilave you read his books t" "Oh.nye!" There was a reservation In the tone which piqued the visitor's curiosity, "Don't you like them?" "I'm nae thlnkln niuckle aboot them. Hey't I know moiiy a istory that my gran'mlther' told me that'd be better than ony o' Jwma Barrio's."' " Glrrleniuir is a weaving town. That Is how Barlie happened to' call It Thrums, ' The thrums are tbe ends of , "HAVa TOO BEAD HIS, BOOKS?" the threuds .which remain In the loom '.after the fiu4sJted,,web la cu out." They go only to the nigbitg, and that seems to be at the bottom of the village griev ance against Barrle. The pride of the natives seems touched because, as they Insist, tbs-y have been represented as thrums a thing useless and worthless. . No amount of argument can make them see It In any other light; hence Barrle's unpopularity In this own town. , Perhaps .Mr. Barrle doesn't care; per haps, he does. The author of "Senti mental Tommy" ia quite a philosopher, lie can be delightfully whimsical at times, too-alinost as whimsical as in . his latest story, , "The Tittle White Bird.", It la told of Mr. Barrle that on meet ing a famous'fellow author for the first - time he responded to the other's compli ments .by saying: . "It'a all very well to be able to write books, but cap you waggle your ears?" The ability to do so is one of Mr. Bar rle's many accomplishments. When the late Henry Drutnmond was lecturing to a class or students on natural science, ho mentioned' that tbe power of moving ' the scalp and ears was one of the few characteristics of our simian ancestors occurring occasionally in men, and im mediately several of the students gave practical demonstration of it, much to Drumuioiul's delight ; .. ; ' The?popijIarlty of the very common, place nursery; Jingle, "Mary had a lit tie lamb," is one of the mysteries of American; literature - Nevertheless, it is popular. Therefore there ore many peo pie,' no doubt, who will Welcome a book purporting to give the true story of the real. Mary and the real lamb as told by Mary herself and by the," latter's friend and biographer, Fannie M. Diekereon. : Mary, It appears, was one Mary Saw-; yer, who subsequently became Mrs. Co lumbus -Tyler and died In Boston- at the age of eighty-three on Dec, 11, 188D. , The Incident celebrated in the jingle occurred in the scuoolhouse at Sterling, Mass. It was seized upon and verslSed by a "bright young man" named John Roulstone, who hnppened to be visiting the school at the time. He, however, wrote only the first three stanzas. "In 1821) In a book of poems published by Mrs. Sarah Joseph three stanzas were addtnl to these;" hence the pocin in its entirety as it Is known to young and old even to this day. . MIsa Dickerson has made one- odd mistake. For Mrs. Sarah Joseph read Mrs. Sarah Josephs Hale, a famous American' bluestocking and -philanthropist of the first half of the nine t(H"ith century. r lajlolas Ft n I !. All i' " '. s Lull's should be taken l? S-i t f 'I i.:,l saved from frot-t uu 1 1 I '. :.'- : t' ill the Fpriuir, and t'.:e I ' ; ; .-t f :a at the roi.-t cf t' i 1 ! ; i ... ; - i , i : sin t .tow if 1 ,!iviri;. j It fore 1 Ut.t- I I ill 1 MI CONSOLS : ORDERED nOIIE. YEKEZDEU SEYEES HEH RELATIONS. Senators and RepresentaUfes it Wash ington Getting Iniloas. Washington, Dec. 13. One more step toward the complete severance of rela tions between Veneiuela and the alites who are seeking to punish her was taken today, in the withdrawal of the Veruiu- elan consul from Port-of Spain, Trinidad, by orders of his government. Notice of the fact came to the State Departnwut from United States Consul Smith, at p. .ft of-Spain. It is presumed that 7cneiu la has sent out similar orders to all of her other consols In British and German p ' seeslona to withdraw from their p.i. Thote withdrawals would not be 'p"i tlculaiiy serious, but from the fact lii i they indicate a purpose on the pan of President Castro to proceed to extremes in his quarrel with the allies. -.The State Department has not been advised of the rejection of President Castro's propo to arbitrate the dispute' a transmitted through Minister Bowen. 1 Secretary Hay bad a busy time today conferring with senators aid r pren- tatives who already are beginning to show anxletytaa to the Veneiuelan m atioo. - No one waa able to suggest how tbe attitude of the State Department could be Improved at this moment, ' Mr. XL O. Wilson's Lecture. Mr. E. G. Wilson, college secretary of the Young Men's Christian Assocbv ion of North and South Carolina-came 8 nrday in ' the Interest f association work and left this morning for Greenv IK He win return tonight and probac y spend tomorrow toKlnston.Vp'y'S;;' Mr. Wilson spoke Sundav night In the Christian church to a full house on "The Obligations of , Christian Toung Men and Women to tl Cause .f Christ in non Christian LandsV i-, -o -, He made a strong plea for more prayer, for more money,' for more men and women to help bring the wirld to Christ. Never before In th hiory of Christianity baa there ben sw'u nn opportunity t6 advance our civllit .ti-.n, t advnoce our Christianity ax : now;; t liinw nations which we call heathen nations are now in an Indifferent state and therefore hold their doors wide open for tbe reception of a new truth, a new life. A call be de fined as a need with the ability of a per son to fill tbe need. Accordingly tbe problem with each young man and woman was tot whether he ia called to go but whether he ia called to stay. . v Mr, Wilson himself will soon leave for a foreign field. His address was considered one of the strongest made lately in King ston and is tnougnt to have created a more practical interest in the wide mle aionary movement. - To the ST. C. Division U. D. C. , During my absence from the State un til January 15th, I have asked Mrs. Gar. land Jones, Second Vice-President, to act for me In any matters pertaining to State "division work. Mrs F. A. Olds, President North Carolina Division United Daughters of the Confedrracy, . Letter to Xu Harvey & Son:- ' ' ' . ' , . Klnston, N. C. Peak Slits: Your business, is when a nouse ourns uown, to give tbe owner some money to build a new one. It is a good business. Queer tbat the world got on so wen witnout it. ,w ; We paint the one that burnt down and the new one too. ; Wnat is better we paint those tbat don't burn down. '-, You insure, tbe houses that burr.; we insure tne nomrs tnat don t. lrn l ave the ashes and smoke; all tbe houses am ours. ' ' . We paint Lead and Z oc; I)evoe. We sell the paint to palnten-: we don't paint Lead and oil is tbe old-foehton paint. Devoe Is sine ground in with the lend and linseed oil; the best- paint in the world; and tbe cheapest, because it takrs fwer gallons than mtxd paints and It wears twice as loDg as lead aud oil. No body wants poor pAtnt; there's lots of itH tnonifh In the world. A. M. Griffon. Plalnfleld. N. J. wrlt?s: Mr. A iron Hip gins, of PlainnVld, alwais used 15 gallonr of mixed paint for bin home. Last spring hi bonirbt 15 gl lonsuf Pevoe and had 4 irailone 1- ft. Yonrs tnilv, F, W. DbvokACo, Xew York. P. S. B. W. Canady & Boa . sell our paint. Vhat In Name? Everythln? is fn the l)Rm w ben It comes to Wib L A , 1 ; Jp E. C. DrWitt & To. Of i:Ue-o, d'- -iirffci, ini Tfurn B.'O, how to i t'iitls a n -.: v, fr, .in W ;t.-h I ! - ? r 1' i, -. J'or I r P.: .1 ! r .TrP 1 t f ' -j i .--r t.r, fir.il a 1 I TO 1 A-S ! - t v J. GREAT DISPLAY OF . HOLIDAY GOODS. S0XETH1I& THAT WILL PLEASE ILL. Christina? Trad& Heavier Than Ever . Before ud Larger Stocks. :i ,; ,, ; 'V Tbe Christmas holidays are drawing near and tbe evidences are to be seen on very bqpd. A stroll through the bust, ness portion of the city Impresses one with tlie idea that he la in tbe home of Old Santa Clans, surely. The ever en terprislng merchants of Kioston have thia year outdone themselves In the selec tion and purchase of their stock of holi day novelties and a moie varied display hiw uevjer before been wen In our city, 1'he unusually heavy purchases of holi day gouda, thus early is strong proof tuattite me'.chauts made no mistake In ttwtr ? large purchases for the holiday trade. The Yuktide Is essentially a eeason of rejoicing and gift giving and something uitable and appropriate lor persons of every walk and station of life may be found in the various places in the city. - For those wishing to purchase presents that are substantial for friends of pract. cal tarn of mind, the dry goods and Jew elry stores offer a more varied selection than ever before, and to those affecting theaisthetlo the drugstores and other places are offering effects in paintings, bric-a-brac and other novelties that wlM aurefy satisfy the: moat fastidious and critfual. At the jewelry stores the never-7 vaeant . display rooms would Indicate that prosperous local conditiosa thia year will cause a greater outlay In tbe costly presents tLan ever before. -; As for Sauta Claua' quarters, they are places of delight to the joung folks who are living In a constant delirium ol anticipation for the pleasures soon feu be theirs. The frultera and confectlonera bare a larger and more varied stock than ever befoie, but of course, the busy time with them has not come yet, but next week will find their branch of the holiday trade "up tu their ears" in business, and a much iwavktr trade thaa nsual ia expected and wn uddubtediy-.bw realiwd.. .o ; Christmas la In the atmospheni and ia easily noticed in the expectant faces of a prosperous community, who are making their preparations to enjoy it in a waT best suited to their tastes. F Out of town people are coming in thia week to make their holiday purchase and the streets will be a scene of activity all tbe week. Drcaiw of Rlshteoasaeas, ' Tbere is the dream of rlphteousness. This Is the dream of moral sentiment, and. pursuing It, man becomes a Chris tian. So long as this hunger for some thing better further on is a passion and tbe days are full, of zest and fresh feeling, so long manhood Is safe and the life waxes in strength., but when these Ideals are dimmea, when their outlines lose clearness, then peril draw near Oftrntliiica this deterioration Is niicmmciouft. The soul lives by the if.vlne uiH!i;ia that falls from heaven. li-.-v Ur ,". 1) llillls. Congregatlonal-t-t. l'riKUl." . , i '-. rivor and ObllKatlona." -'Tan'., iiri no favors la God's world b?it Involv iiIko; sreatcr obligations. Iac irivi!"'e Me njoy meuns anotbr eritiut.v. Wverv iwwcr we obtain im- l-t'W's up;:! tia mnie new responsibility 'fhei-r Is no sucb tbinit as eqiinilty In life,' ;NaUir did not fashion" ail flow-' or and trees alike.' Its beauty consists In If variety of form and color, In its eontrasts of high and low, of strong and ferble. - Neither are all men mojur fd aiikt physically or Intellectually; otherwise human existence would be bereft of all charm, of all ambition. R.ev. Kaufman Kohler, Hebrew, New Turk. .. . Ton (Crael.-' ". - ' "Yes. M'iss Bearenyellougb's poodle died yesterday.; It was awfully pa thetic. , She kissed it goodby." "Kissed it. eh? Well er was that before or after the doctors had aban doned hope?" Baltimore News. If you feel 111 and need a pill Whv not pnrchae the best? -De Wirt's Early Risers - t Are little surprisers, ' ' I ake one they do the rest. W. n. Howell. Houston, Tex , writes I have used Little Farlr Riser Pills In mv family for constipation, sick headache. t. To their use I am indebted for the health of my family. J. E. Hood. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For several months our vonntrer brouther ha4 been troubled with Indiges tion, lie trl. il several remed'es bat sot no hr;;-;t from tVui. We purchased on e ti'C viiberl'i'n'eS'tonuM'hand Liver TK f.i I be '!.. -peed tnking them. In!.ie i! i-ty (,iv t e lift l p!n,.d forty pouruis i i 1 i. is now ftil'y rcovred. We ( TV;' H g )i i 1 t -Hils Ol t he Tablets rifily m 1 ; " -, bants, I-r? Br.i'ieh, i!o l.rt 1 v J. !;. Ho- d. . . Summer Sejiool for Taaohera. Tbe mbbw echool for tsaehera at the A. ft II. College baa been organised and below we give the personnel of tbe man agement, which In itaelf la a guarantse of Its snoeesa, also a list of Instrndona la given and the accommodations etc.. No oonoi a greas won wui Deaccompuanea by thia tnatltntion..- ? 1 t . . ; i Geo. T. Winston, A. If., LL. D., Presi dent; Charles J. Parker, Secretary ; Chaa. W. Burkett, M. S ; Ph. D., Dean of Indus trial Department; Edward P, Mote. A M., T)ean of Norma) and Literary De partment. . - Instruction will be given in 1. Agriculture and Nature Study. 2. MnnualTralnlng. S. Common School Branches and Ped ag"gv. . 4. Model Practice School (Methods and Management.) 5. Colleas and H'nh S lioal Branches (Languages, Literature and Mathemat ica) 6. Child 8tudy, Kindergarten and Na ture Stndy In reference tf Child Study, 7. Music, (Vocal and Instrumental, In eluding especially Sight Singing and Cho mo). ' ' Seejion begins June 15th and ends July Itth. Board and lodging in the College bulHtngs, for entire session, only flO. New dining hall with accommodations for six hundred, new kitchen with steam e ioklng, assembly ball seating one thou sand, separate dormitories for ladies, with bath and sanitary ' conveniences. Those who prefer may board and lodge elsewhere. Electric ears from College dMre to all parts of the elty every fifteen minute. The College Is an elevated ground overlooking the city, with cool braesea all summer. Pullen Park and the "wild woods" Immediately adjacent. : Circulars with full Hat of students and of faculty will soon be Issued. Address President Winston or Secretary Parker, Y. M. O. A. Organized A Toung Men'a Christian Association waa - nrwun'a -A ,-.nndav..- afternoon at Rhode- School Ith'ahout flftren mem bers. This number win be doubled or probably trebled when a thorough can vass of tbe school la made; as many of the young n who ' will probably join were spending 8undv at their homes In the country nearby, The officers el eted are as I'uAo we: Johnson, of Lenoir county, prealdent; Douplae Ellebe, of South Carolina,' vice president, Fred Spencer, of Hyde county, secretary and treasurer. - Prof. Ellerbe was elected as the member of tbe advisory committee from the faculty. The occasion of this movement yesterday was tbe visit of Mr. E. 0. Wilson, secretary of the Y. M. C. A of North and South Carolina. lie made a strong talk fully explaining the Y. If. C, A. movement among the colleger. Prof. Bhodea and Prof. Ellerbe, and, in fact, all tbe faculty are In strong sym patby with this new move of the stu dents In organising the association. . FEMININE CHAT. Frau Frledrlch Materna, the original Branhllde, bas lost all her money and la obliged to give music lessons in Vienna. ' Mrs, Pbebe Hearst's gifts for archae ology and anthropology at the Univer sity of California amounted to $111,000 during the last academic year. Miss Ltezie Sherman, the' only un Carried daughter of the late General W. T. Sherman, will hot return to Wash ington this winter, but will remain hi raris. " Miss Emma D. Sedgwick, in the office of the quartermaster ireneral. Washing ton,, has juRt celebrated the fortieth an niversary of her entrance In the scrv Jce of the war department. ' 7 ' Dr. Sara B. Ellison of .ew York Is considered to have the fiu.st librafy of books on ronjuring nd magic in tbe cxiuntry, representing many 'years of search and labor on the part of its own er. , ... Miss Norn Stanton Blatch, grand daughter of the late Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was the only woman to take up civil engineering at Cornell univer sity. Shei will carry on her grandmoth er's life work.-' ' ;:v-W; Under the will of Jane Anne Maid atone Smith, recently filed In Philadel phia, several valuable paintings In cluding portraits of Queen Matilda of Denmark and Marie Antoinette, are de vised to tbe Duke of Argyll in trust for King Edward. : The Comtcsse de Castellane, formerly Miss Anna Gould." bas n magiiiflcciit collection of jewela, among wbii-b Is a tiara of diamonds, emeralds und sap phires once belonging to ex-Queen isa tella of Spain. It was purchased by the comtesse for f 125.000. Miss Mildred Ilowells, daughter of William Dean Ilowells, who is to mar ry David Fairchild, entomologist of the Smithsonian institute, has been the es- pi'cial companion or ber father and in her childhood figured In two or three Mien's storks, which be wrote for a Juvenile magazine. , - , FTESH FACTS : : ni A' FEWLniES I JJJg fjf 1ITEREST TO STESBODT J Overworked seamstresses to 'Berlin are to benefit' by a legacy of $250,000 -left by a. German bookseller named Bahn. ; y V ";r?s ;r.,'A- ; . Aa the hay crop to Lapland has been a total failure, the peasants are slaugh tering their cattle, entire carcasses be ing sold for aa little as $15. :;.jv A French statistician estimates the number of cows in the clvtllxed world at 63,880.000 and tbe amount of butter Uiey yield at 2,640,000 tons a year. Six thousand cartridges, several, rK" Acs and a number of pompom and Uf teen poquder shells have tnen dug up near Klerksdorp, western Transvaal. , First class briquettes are sold In Ber lin and Germany generally for $3.17 a ton, and this la the highest price known since they became an article of com merce, f'i-'-f i-'A't'iXli)'''''1 Five thousand dollars has been paid for the drinking glass used by the late empress of Austria white taking the waters at - Luugen-Schwalbach, near Wiesbaden. , . ; : Six employees of a Barrow (England) engineering firm :have received prizes ranging from $3 to $50 for' suggestions tending to the more economical produc tion of work. ' ' , Becent ' legislation In some of tbe peach statea compels the removal of the pink tarlatan netting which does so much to give an attractive color to the green and unripe fruit and fool the buyer, r. i'l'.i'. f-i-r' fib. The National museum at Belgrade haa come into possession of a collection of 68,000 Roman copper coins recently unearthed near a Servian village. The oldest of them were In the time of Car acalla. y-'f - Experiments conducted In California and recently reported to tbe Botanical Society of America , Indicate that bees are active agents in tbe spread of pear blight at the period when tbe trees are in -bloom. i-, H l&.-tjlj :-A --i':ii".i.;" ; Seventy sepulchral urns containing old coin and other relics dating from the Augustan epoch have been discov ered at Aqulleia, the ancient .Roman tower near Trlcst which was destroyed by Attlla - t Treasury figures show deposits In the hanks and trust concerae of iie couti-' try aggregating $8,000,000,000. or about $108 per capita. The total 'of available cash In the country Is something more than $2,500,000,000, or less than $30 per capita, ! -. . i t s English firms are trying to secure a market for soap In India, but up to the present time that country has remained practically soapiest indeed, through out Hindustan soap is regarded as rather a curiosity and rarely If ever kept lu stock by the native storekeeper. Hannibal, Mo., has a Tower of Babel.' ' Fourteen languages are spoken at' the , cement plant there. Among the work men are Austnans, rows Spaniards, Italians, Koumanlans, Slavs, Greeks, Hungarians, Russians, Frenchmtn, Germans, Irishmen, Chinamen and Amerlcaufl. IHflinftnV': la ' (vrariiinllv - ltHiriaiift'-ir her old time fortresses. The old fortifi cations of Mainz and of Cologne have been torn down, and now It Is the turn of Ulm, In whose old tower the capitu lation of 1805 took place. Part of the walls of Mets have disappeared, and at Thlonville they are tearing down 1 Vauban's famous ramLarts. ) ,; ; The latest development of sciw pro pellers la due to Mr. C. X Parsons. TTio lilndes ft ra rfven rediieed nlteh 'to. . wr4 tholr tlps,..!maU vama being aho provided oa the propelljir cone', and the effect is'to admit of high spei'd with out, captivation ;aiKl tp. give a greater. mean i thrust than v possible with blades of constant or Increasing flitch. s Dr. Calvello, an Jtalian, has discov ereil that fl ner emit of prsoiw tt thyme and 18 per . cent of essence of geranium make ao excellent disinfect ant when freeby osed for the hands of ' enter largely into the-composition of , eau de cologne, it follows that this scent is a good antiseptic for ordinary ' purposes. --' : -:- -' . ,.: : , Outside Stcrnoway, in the Island of Lewis,; Is a farmer who brings his horse and cart Into the. town of St or no way on market days. Whenever he reaches the Inn a quart of beer in pewter Is placed hefore bis steed, who drinks It leisurely without ever spilling ' a single drop, and no amount of per suasion will ever Induce Mr. Horse to "have another." a temperate example which might well be followed by bis masters. - . ; The Gorman Samoan company, with the permission uf.the government, de- slljns to import Chinese laborers to work on the plantations In ktanioa, ou . which cocoa Is chiefly grown. The company has engaged a former con tractor of the New Guinea company to proceed to southern China and engajre agricultural laborers. The proltabili- tics are that native labor will be whol ly displaced by Chinamen. The t'.cr taan conccsslonnaircs End they can get more work out of Cii'maTik'u.