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BBIKO YOTJB a tth. BEST ADYERTISINS UEDIUU - XK TBI 'NEonon sectioi; Job Printing TO THE HERALD OFFICE. ; First-Class Work at Lowest Prices. VOL. XV. NO. 43. MORGANTON, N. C. THURSDAY. JANUARY 18. 1900. 81 a Year, in Advance- I 0404046 ON GOOD TERMS. Differences Betweeo Genus) And "America Settled. - 5K0.VD .. PROTEST TO ENGlAND. Tbe Germans Tired of the Seizure of Their Ships and Merchandise as Contraband. BAD SEWEIAGE THE CAUSE. the Berlin, by Cable. The corrvpaudeat )t the Associated Press Interviewed the 'olted States Ambassador, Mr. An- :rew u. wcite.'about ice present tU- ftns of the relations betwoen Germany and the United States. Mr. White m!J: The Samoa question b:ween the United States and Germany, the insur ance and sundry minor matters hire been happily settled. The main ques tions which remain are the commer cial treaty and the proper Inspection of American meats. The former will be mainly considered at Washington. The latter must depend upon the ac tion of (be Reichstag. Though . tie Agrarian party shows bitter hostility to the alleviation of the present ar rangement, so oppresive to American interests. K is hoped that th proposal made in President McKIalcy's message for the appointment of a special com mission may be accepted. There is bo doubt that the government, apart from the Agrarian-, would be heartily glad to see some such fair settlement.' In the Diet the government's com plete moral defeat during the debate on the dismissal cf political officials for Totisg againrt the canal bill Is con sidered to be of great Importance to internal politics as it chows the Con servatives still intend to Utterly op- pose the Emperor, eptcia!Iy . oa the tew cana! bill mhkh does not please the Agrarians. In spite cf the fact that it contains enormous improvement projects for tbe Eastern provinces o.' Pru.-sla. The seizures cf German steamers by British warships have tad the effcrt of intensify!::? and generalising anti Prltlah sentiment la Germany. Count von Bae!ows speech at the laocchizg of ths Hamburg-American Line etaner DeutchlaaJ. e-peclally the teVms of friendship he devoted to the United States. !s much commented on by the German pre?s and with fw iwpiioM ppo Immljr. Committee's Final Report ou Epidemic The Directors cf the State Norma! and Industrial College adjourned Frl day night after thoroughly canvassing all the facts In regard to the late dis astrous epidemic of malarial and ty phoid fevers In that institution. The directors gave special attention, to ths qoeston as to when the doors of the collexe should ba re-Ooened to stu dents, and decided that It was best' to j Ox the date fcr Jan. 30th. The report of the board. Adopted after mature de liberation, is In foil as folio The State Normal and Industrial College, being a State institution, the public Is Interested In and entitled to Information relative to the re rent ep! demle of malarial and typhoid fever. resulting in eleven deaths at the col lege and thres at their homes after the students left the college. In view of the re-opening of the col lege on the 30th of January, we. the board of directors, mahe the following official report of the cause of the epl- cenuc ana tne remedies sppiiea as a precaution against further trouble. We have spared neither time nor ex pense In sernrlng the services of ths ben medical and sanitary experts lu aiding us in tracing the cause and re moving the difficulties. After a thorough investigaticn. we axe satisfied that we have located the :aue. , 1. We believe that the central well. ael to furnish water to the tables in the dining room, as shown by the bac teriologist's analysis, to be the cause. 2. That a leaking plumbing connec tion between the water closets and-the' main sewer under the dining room nr.x crested on unsanitary condition there and may bars contributed to the contamination, of the well located about 13 feel distant. A thorough examination by our selves nd the sanitary and medical experts fail to fix any other cause, as the entire premises otherwise were found in excellent sanitary condition. ' Tbe State board of health and the sanitary experts employed by us make the following recommendations: 1. That the three wells nearthe col lege buildings be filled and the city water csed. 2. That the entire sewerage system be Inspected by competent engineers, and any defects found be rexelied: tha: the diet adjacent to the leaking sewer-plp;s oilier the dinia; room annex oe removed and' the location thoroughly disinfect!. MATJIUEN IS CRAZY. MANAGER'S REPORT. SECRETARY REPLIES.! THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, Mr. Army Led To Destruction Madman. By a THERE ARE SOME EVIDENCES GIVEN. It Is Staled That He Has Been Re. called The London Press Repress lot the Facts. Prussia has row begun anointing fe uale factory inspectors. The budget roc.alss appropriations for thc-'r sal aries. I.tCO inarii each. . A test occurred recently In VilbeL c-ar Fraakfcrt, la the presence of many cCdals. of a newly Invented smokeless and ncl-e'fss powder.' The tst, however, turned out rather nrsat isfactory. The correspondent of the Associated Press learns from an. cClcial source that Germany has addressed a second protert to Great Britain, urgently rc . questing the release cf the German ttearser rJandcsrata. azd expressing astodUbrfent at th undue delry. The j protect spo demands guarantees from I physical rood It lea cf Crcat Britila against a recurrence cf I BMr perfect as such evident "wrongful and aggress ive application of a combattant's right against neutral's." It also requests Great Britain to de fine the meaning cf contraband In a rnatser acceptable to the nations not concerned in tie war. An Interpellation abovt the seizures will be Introduced the coming Friday la the Reictstag. News Notes. -Sensational testimony marked ths day's proceed'nes in the Clark bribery lavestigaticn. Several cf the Senator's letters were produced. ' The House cf Delegates' cf tbe St. Lrcis Uunicvpal Assembly barred from Its session citizens who came to pro teat against a failure to properly light the city. Jacb Helta sad Henry Kaiser, who bad ben convicted of the murder cf Edwin E. Brown, and eight times re prieved when abaci to te hanged, were pardoned at JeOer on City. Mo., hav ing been shown to be Innocent of the crime. . The Russian csw.ycar t celebrat ed by adherents of fh- Greek church la Philadelphia. The protest cf Governor Taylor, of Keatucky. er.Vnst t?. coan.'ttce wa.'rh Is to hear the content for hi seat was ovcrralei by ths committee. Five yachtsmen were poisoned by eaticg canned corn cn a cruise off At lmtic City. N. J., and two arc in a crit ical condition. The resignation of Governor Smith cf Maryland, .was presented to th' Houe and It gave rise to considerable discussion cn the question of a seed of a cslform system for the Cliing of va cancies. General Wbeaton's troops now occu py the entire province of Cavile. 3. That all the' buildings, rooms and furniture te disinfected, the waila rc caklmined. and Inslda wood work re painted. All cf the above rcrommen Jitlons hive been c-nl4 out. cr will bs before the da:e or the opening, and sa j.-citu 1 to the State Board cf . Health for i--tpectlca and approval, and In adl.tlcn thereto we are putting in a plant to filttr and sterilize the water to b? uf 1 for drinking purposes. Tbe mattresses . have" ben burre. ;cd (Iroa bedsteads placed la all rf the dormitories In lien of the wooi?n ones nied. The old bath tubs have be?n discarded, and modern ones substitut ed. The water closets have been re arranged and the whole premises over hauled anl placed. in first class f ar.I ury condition. Ail cf the above work has be?n uoce under the supervision and advice oi the best experts, iacludng the secre tory. th,e bacterial sgist and the rn gineer of the State Board or Heal. b. We feel safe in saylcg that the the Institution; human skill can teaks It. and the public eeti have to apprenensisn ox ruruer to i3:e. anu students can return to their work with i Ch?go, I1L, SpedaL A special cable to the Chicago Tribune from London says: Lieutenant General Lord Methten, commanding the column advancing to the relief of Kimberley, Is to be re Ileved of his command within two weeks. Later he will be sent to Cape Town and eventually ordered home. When he reaches England . he will bs retired. These facts have been con firmed by an official or the War Office. Lord Methuen's case Is a cad one. Ills constitution began to show signs or breaking down almost Immediately after he took command of his division. Three days after the battle of Belmont. Generat Wolseley s-uggeeted to ths War Office that Methuen be relieved. His advice was not heeded The wis dom of the aged but keen commander in-cn:er or the liritlsa army. Is now realized to the rullest extent by the War Office, who scoffed at his sugges tlon. Those who know the circumstances and the situation on Modder River rquslly well and who are willing to stste facts plainly, say that Methuen's mind Is unbalanced. Constant proof of this has been com leg to the notice of the oCJcials oLths War Office for two weeks past. The London press Is considerately suppressing the true state or affairs so far as Methuen's aliment Is concerned but the papers do not hesitate to print the hard facta about the battle- of Magersfonteln, which are Just reaching London through the malls, all of which go to show, in the language of an officer, that "the attack was that or a madman." The death or Lord Wauchope, com mander or the Black Watch, was one of the many sad results of that en gagement. Lord Wauchope, It is now well known, realized the futility or the assault as planned by Methuen. He argued strongly and expostulated' bit terly against it. Methuen, however, persisted and the two quarrelled over the matter tbe night before the battle which proved so disastrous to the Bri tish forces. A member or the Black Watch In a letter Just received, gives tbe details or the charge which led Wauchope to his death. He quotes the general's dying words words showing hv fully be realised the situation even In the hour of his death. The letter reads: "It was one or the darkest nights we erer saw. The rain fell In torrents and we west on and forward, falling, stumbling and slipping over necks and anthills. "It was Impossible to see where we were going. After we had been taken by surprise our right half battalion charged, but thien were mown down like grain before a reaper. General Wauchope was shot at the beginning or the charge. When he saw the mis take that had heppeced he shouted: "'Rally 'round me. Clack Watch, I fa not my fault "Then he fell, literalfy riddlC with, bullets.' Letters from men serving In the Modder River column (ell of the de moralization of the troops since "the commander'a Incapacitation. A Hghland Brigade man aays: There -Is not tbe slightest doubt Arendel Takes Very Qood 5howIfl. . The report of Mr. F. B.' AjendelL the manager -and purchasing; agent , or the Bute prison, to Superintendent Day, Is given herewith: . A report rrona me must necessarily embrace the business operations of the State's prison during the year :' Just closed, as shown by the tables and tab ulated statements which go tu you and to the board through the office of the clerk and book keeper. It has been necessary during the year to make large expenditures In the a ay or repairs and the permanent lm provements at the central prison and at the various farming camps, for the reason that, at the beginning of the year, almost every department at the central prison and at the ' Tsrious camps had been run down, and In many Instances the prisoners them selves did not have a change or cloth fug. "There, was but little new clothing at the central prison and no stripes from which to maka It. and it be came necessary at once to practically clothe the institution from beginning to end. I bare done my best during the year to keep down expenditures, bear ing In mind the necessity at all times of feeding well and clothing well the prisoners at the central prison and at the several camps, and while several requisitions have been cut down by me and many ethers disregarded entirely, I have never failed to respond prompt iy to any requisition for necessary clothrag or commissary supplies. This year's accounts are relatively larger than In former years ' because cf material advances In the price of almost every article purchased. In vlew-f these facts !t Is especially grat ifying to me. as it will no doubt be to every one connected with, the manage- ent of the institution, and to the pea. !e at large, to know that, -while our expenditures have been large, our earnings have been correspondingly large, and that the balance la on the right side of the ledger." Says the Treasury is $21,026,000 Ahead.' PRECEDENT AN ESTABLIS IED ONE Mr. Gage Shows That The Govern- 'mint Does Not Suffer Los By His Deposits In National City Bank, THE KEELEY TREATflENT. cffdnoM th rnii nrnrii.m h-. h9 inat Jietnuen nos lost tne connuecce niac lortncir coupon anu muli. In common with tbe people o! tbe 1 Difficulty Settled. Santo Domirgo (via Jlaytlca Cable, i The difficulty between .France and Santo Doming has txrja latisfactorl al'y arranged through tne Fretch ad miral and th- offl.-'alj cf Ine govern ment. Tie latter will pCbably Istie a proclamation tltankir.? fhc pub.lc for Its patriotic ftitas and declaring at the same time that thre was nt hi ten ticn to cffenl V.zzctn the ratrictlc demonstrate n. or t mole: Its representative. -A Commissioners Adjourn. New Orleans. La.. Special- The cot ton States association cf commission ers or agriculture concluded their work and adjourned. Tbe dsy for holding the next convention at Raleigh will be arranged by Commissioner Patterson. A resolution was adopted recommend rsg that the "Cotton exchange In con cert or action, fix and adopt uniform classification of, ccttoa, such as will corrcjpend. If possible. Yita.i&e clas IScatlon cf. Liverpool and the princi pal cotTa markets of "Europe." entire SUte the members of th botrd of directors bare felt the ue?pest sym pathy for those amcng rhe pjtrens, re latives and friends of the college upon whom the bond of. af flictl a has fallen so heavily. The course p irsurd I-y the President and Faculty In ail matters relating K the epidemic has our tbor-i.iqa enfor cement, and we have never been bettei satisfied with the work cf tboie ad ministering the affairs of th: college. All who hare taken the pains to learn the facta es they occurred are nnani moos In their praise of the wisdom and affection displayed by the entire man agement of the institution. C. II. MEEANE. President. J. M. SPArVHOUR, Secretary. II. G. CHATHAM. R. D. GILMER. W. D. TURNER. S. M. GATTI3. J, E. FOWLER. J. A. BLAIR. JOHN GRAHAM. State News Notes. Judge Walter Clark, of ths North Carolina Supreme Court, has bda elected vice president of the Nation! Anti-Trust League, which meets is Chicago la February. Cypress lumber Is now ISO a thcu toad. Six months ago it did rot ex ceed 330. All lumber has gone up it proportion and the dealers cannot kcet up with the demand. A four-yeir-old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Banks, or Salisbury, was given a tabIe?pconful or equal parts o! glycer ine and carbolic acid by mistake ror castor, oil and died from the effects cr the dose. The mistake was made by the colored servant giving Mrs. Banks the wrong bottle. The Wadesboro Messenger says the clothing cr the little three-year-old daughter or Mr. James Sings, or Anson. caught fire Tnesdsy, while she was playing aroung the fire, aad before it could be extinguished she was so bad ly burned that death resulted yester day. The child's mother was In the yard when the accident occurred. Hobart North, cf Shore. Yadkin county, was plsying with his father a few days sgo wban a piece of timber fell on the boy's head, killing him Instantly. Hutton and Bourbonnais have secur ed through the authorities at Wash- lag-ton. a 160,000 contract for boxes In which to store census reports. This firm also has the contract for supply ing the Blackwell Durham ' Jobacco Company wjtball the boxes they may oeed ror a period cr twelve months. This contract was formerly filled by northern mills. Hickory Press. or every man in the Highland Brigade. I am not going too far in saying that they are afraid to trut their lives with him." "Wauchope, no-' doubt, went out to find death." writes Sergeant Grey, "when such a disastrous fire was opened. He had previously shouted to the Argyll Highlanders: 'Don't blsme me for this. I received my orders and had to obey them.' With proper handling we could have cleared the Boers out In two hours. As It was we were taken Into a butcher shop and left there." Incidents Showing Its Tremsfldous Power For Qood. A few years ago, " writing of the Keeley Institute at Greenaborb. the News and Observer said: "The efficacy of the Keeley treatment and Its tre mendous power for good seems to ba thoroughly established." Last summer. upon taking the train at Creensboro, a, gentleman- who had long been addicted to drink, picked cp a large ran upon which the above extract from this pa per had been printed In bold letters. He finned himself and went his way, leaving the fan on the teat In the train But the words "The efflcacy of the Keeley treatment seems to be thoroughly established" had fixed themselves Indelibly on his memory and he could not rid himself of them. At length he went-to Greensboro, took ths treatment, and says that he owes his later success In btuicts to the treatment That Incident caused us to recall the -efficacy and "power for good" that the treatment has done ror men we have knox-n. In a few years more than sixty men from Wake county hare taken the Keeley treatment at Greensboro. Of that nu tribe r at least fifty have been permanently benefitted and some have become leaders la every good movement, showing that it is a "power of good." The Keeley cure does not claim to do anything but put the patient Just where he was before he formed the bs.'blt cf drink. Men who have bean fclaves to the drink habit find the crav ing gone: they realize that their will Is re-established - and that they have rfce power of self-control they had be fore they ever tasted whiskey. We give this voluntary and 'unpaid statement because a recent remarkable :nre of a bright attorney has come acder our observation, and we feel it a duty to commend an institution or Ireatment that saves brains and char icter from waste and degradation. Flalelgh News and Observer, January Duller Changes Base. London. By Cable. The War Office has received the following dispatch from General Buner. dated Spring field, Thursday. Jan. 11, at 9:20 p m "I occupied the south bank of the Tugela river at Potgleter'e "drift this morning and seized port. The river Is In flood. Tbe enemy Is strongly en trenched about four and a half miles to the north." State News Notes. Tbose who have ths new Arlington mills In charge Inform us that while It was their Intention to put the capital stock at $120,000, urgent requests for stock In the company necessitate their Increasing tbe capital stock at $130,009 Mr. Ragan has received letters from people as far south as Florida. This ia flattering to tee managers of the new company and also to the town of Gas ton ia. Gastonla Gazette. Washington, D. C, Special. -Secre tary Gage has sent to , Congress ' his replies' to the resolutions recently in troduced In the Senate 5y Mr. Allen. of Nebraska, and In the .Mouse by Mr. Sulzer, of New York. The text ol his reply, which Is an exhaustive ex position of the. management! of that branch or the Treasury finances under his administration relating to national depositaries, contains about 9,000 words, which is supplemented by spe cial reports from Department officials relative to special dnqulrlesj In the resolutions, including copies of over 1,000 letters on: the subject under con sideration. In summing up his reply to the Inquiries the Secretary says: 'First, That the reason ror utilizing national banks as depositaries for pub- Ik: moneys, as- authorized j by laws when the receipts of the Treas-ury were exceeding In expenditures, has been to avoid the disturbance to business, which tbe withdrawal of large sums of money from active circulation to the Treasury vaults must inevitably cause. The policy thus pursued by me has been the established policy of the gov ernment for many years, and a de parture from It under similar condi tions would certainly . cause disas trous results. I j f Second, The reason fori directing the Internal revenue receipts Into 'de poeitary banks at tas time Is that 'the revenues are nowiAVgely j exceeding disbursements from Month to month, and seem likely to do so for an tin- definite time. This condition would bh a menace to the madness world u:as -u ranee were not given that this sur plus would be diverted from the Treasury YauRs- to public deposl tarles, where, while secure to the gov ernment. It would .remain available o business use. i I Third, The reason ror directing' all of the internal revenue receipts to one depository was that It Is more conven lent to first collect the receipts at jnn merous offices Into one place, and make the desired distribution from it, than to give new institutions daily to 113 collectors.; The most convenient agency to effect such distribution .13 a bank which la a member of the New L York clearing house. 1.:1 " "Fourth, The reason for Selecting the National City Bank as such distri buting agent was that at the time the order was Issued It was one of but two banks which had offered bonds suffic ient to cover the amount of the daily deposit Its bond deposit was $1,000. 000. and that sf the Hanover National Bank $1,910,500. The National City Bank was. therefore, the cue most nat urally cba-en. i or the sixty-eight banks applying ror a share or the de posits, tbe National City Bank, 'the Hanover National Bank and three other applicants lor over $S00,000 each, are the only ones out or the 68 consti tuting group one, which have not been eupplied the full amount for which they had offered security. t "Fifth, The custom house property was sold to the National City Bank as the highest bidder on July 3, 1899. I7n der the terms of the sale it had ther option cf paying In cash all of the pur chase money at any time or any part of It might elect above $739,000, which sum It was absolutely obliged to pay. It exercised this option by choosing to to pay $3,215,000, leaving $50,000 yet due. No deed will be executed until full payment has been made. The pay. ment received was turned Into th? Treasury by deposit Into the National City Bank. It having been the estab lished custom or Treasury officials,, un der the counsel or their legal advisers, supported by decisions or the supreme court.. to consider moneys on deposit to the credit or the Treasurer or the United State? in designated depo&itarr les as moneys in the Treasury. Finely, under my administration of the Treasury-' department, no dis crimination in favor cf one bank ajrainct another has been made, gener ally speaking.; When an Increase' In depositary banks was desired, all have been Invited to qualify themselves; for receiving such money and have been equally and equitably considered1 In the Irrespective relations tc the Treas ury. - . ) . ' I ae South. - ' t The Norwegian steamer Ansgax has cleared at New Orleans for Kobe, Ja pan, with a cargo of 12,000 bales of cotton. ; - Judge O. W. Buchanan, of Columbia, S. C, severely scored for failure of duty a Jury which remained out for 3 days In the case of Prof. Mearee, char gea with the downfall of a girl. Anew cotton - mill, with a. capital stock or $300,0000is to be located at Honea Path, & C . ' " -. Counjeiftntn IL D. Darnell introduced a resolution at a meeting of the Roa noke, Va.. city council to prohibit the wearing of hats by either sex at thea tres and other. places cf amusement. The Lake Tracy Drainage and Im provement Company, of Lake Tracy, i-aae county, Fia., has been incor porated with a capital of. $50,000: The general oDiects are tne drainage and improvement of lands in that vicinity and building and operation of rail roads and canals, saw and . planing sums. - - . IT IS ALL THE SAME Bill Arp Writes a Chapter on the Sin : - of Stealing. . DIFFERENT NAMES FOR IT. Negroes "Take," i White Men "Get the Advantage" of One Another .and So It does. Urey Woodson, Democratic national committeeman from Kentucky, has said In an" "Interview In Chicago that William Gosbel will be seateda3 Gov ernor of Kentucky before February 1st- - ''.!.- The Columbus. Ga.. Power 3omnany has increased lt3 capital stock from $200,000 to $300,000 and the additional stock has all been taken. ' The fourth cotton mill to be organ ized In South Carolina this year is the Limestone, at Gaffney, capital $300,000. The North. The Cranston Hotel property at Highland Falls, N. Y.. has been se cured by the Missionary Sisters of St. Francis, and will be converted Into the Academy of Our Lady of Angela, i The manufacturing Jewellers of New England are using every mean3 to de feat the ratification of the reciprocity treaty between' this country . and France, which would lower the import duties on Jewelry. ", The trustees of the estate of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt have paid to Yale University the $100,000 , bequest left to the Institution. i i In a quarrel over the ownership of knifeWiliie Daggs, 8 years old, pro cured a shot gun and killed his sister. Lena, aged 12, at Evan3ville, 111. While en route to Jollet Penitentiary from Chicago, 111., Thomas Downes, a convict, leaped from a train in the darkness, but was recaptured. Believing that there! 13" discrimina tion against them, the colored business men of Chicago, III., will incorporate an insurance company exclusively for their race. - The Kentucky' Distilling Company, known as the Whisky Tryst, has mort gaged lis 38 distilleries In Kentucky to the Central -Trust Company of New York for $5,000,000, at 5 per cent. The New England Tobacco Growers convention adopted resolutions pro testing against any early admission of orto Rico as an integral part of the United States, as a forerunner of dis aster to our leaf tobacco Interests and favoring a constitutional amendment providing a colonial system and civil government of all insular possessions separate and distinct from the United States. - A Gardner, Me.,' Dispatch eays 'ice manufacturers are discussing tha pros pects that the American Ice Company, which now controls the natural i-e product' of New York, Pennsylvania snd Maine, may purchase artificial ice plants in Southern cities. An agent has visited the leading plants in the South to ascertain the capacity and value of each. The cities which It is proposed to first bring Into the com bine are Atlanta, Memphis, Mont gomery. Birmingham, Chattanooga and Nashville. ! - I have always contended that steal ing little things was the besetting sin or the megro and was a race traLL And that charting In a tsade was a race trait In Jews and Gentiles. We white folks da not call It cheating, but say he gat the advantage or he got the best of the bargain, but this advan tage is generally got 3y deception or a suppression of the truth. The negro smooths his sin over by calling It tak ing things Just as our cook once said to me when I complained about her stealing lard and flour and rica and such things: "Mr. Major, I don't think you miss what I takes." . Well, I didn't very much, for she never took much at a time, but It annoyed mo for her to think she was fooling me when she was'at. But that same negro would alt up all night with a sick member of the family and was always good and kind to our children.. Now the white man rarely steals anything amd the negro as rarely cheats you in a trade. Before he civil-war the negroes most frequent crime was stealing chickens and he-got so expert in that business that a law was passed making it a penal offense for anybody to buy chickens from a negro even though he had raised them 'in his own yard. .We could buy foot mats and brooms and baskets, but we must not tray chick ens. Law or no law, he continued ms midnight vocation, amd if, the com mand man t bad said thou sh ait not covet thy neighbor's chickens it would have been all the same to him. First cov&t and then steal was part of his religion. I was ruminating about this because I bought a turkey-yesterday from a negro for a very low price and I wo&cfrered where he got It. I didn't question him, for I didn't want to hurt his feelings. When I was in North Carolina a friend told me about an old darky who was on trial for stealing a turkey and the proof was positive, and yet he did not seem to be alarmed. His lawyer was discouraged and . said, "Uncle J2ck, it looks like they have got you." 'No, day slat-' Mas'; John; dey aint got mej yet and dey aint egwine to get me. Tell you how it is. Mas John. De Jedge seten, up dar .was my young master when de .war broke out and not gwhve to send me to de pen. No. sir; fee aint, he aint done for get wha I know.'' But Mas John had lost confldeince, fcr he knew that the Judge would do his duty and execute the law. In a short time the trial -was over and the judge asked Uncle Jack if he had anything to say In extenua tion cf his crimej The old gray-headed Captain Cothran was a good shot with a pistol and was proud of his skill, and eo the next evening Major Ayer bet him a quarter that he couldn't'. shoot that pig's eye ' out. He ' took tha - bet and won, and our faithful servant Tip dressed and ibaked it, and we feasted. The old man came prowling around er-ery day hunting for that pig, and it was harder to lie out of it than it was to steal It. But the morning we broke camp we sent Tip up there and paid the old woman two dollars and quieted our conscience. A fat 6hote was almost Irresistible. One time Georga Burnett and Tom Ayer killed one under simi lar circumstances and seat a q uarter to our mess. The old man missed his hog in dn.e time, and when he inquired of Burnett if they had sean it around, Burnett whispered to him that Cap tain StillweH's- mess had fresh pig for dinner yesterday but he musten tell who told him. I belonged to Stilwelrs mess and the first thing we knew Col onial Yeiser ihad us summoned . before htm to be tried on a charge of stealing the old man's pig. It was a kind of mock trial and resulted to convicting Burnett Lyer, and they had to pay for the pig. But I am pleased to say of our confederate soldiers that I never knew a case cf flagrant or cruel robbery or pillage, nor did I ever know or but one instance of a soldier vlolatfpg the sacred rights of a man's family... At Centerville the Louisiana Tigers, as -they were called, committed a shame ful outrage in the country he'.rby and were immediately arrested and tried that eveninv iid shot the next momin? at sunrise. Old Joe Jchnston beat lynch -law out of sitfnt when he had a sure . case. There are various kinds of steal ing, but most ageravatiner to . writers for the press Is the stealing bv the press. Two friends one i Birming ham and the other in Los Auigeles, California 'have recently sent me copies of papers published in their-towns- in "which the said papers have copied from the, Chicago In -r-Ocean the letter I wrote for the.Constituition about Pclzer. South Carolina. My name is not mentioned, nor 13 the letter credited to the Constitution, only a few Immaterial changes ; kave been made just enough to make 'it appear that the Inter-Ocean sent a reporter down there to write up the town. I have known, petty thieves stent to the cbaingang for doing things not half so mean as that Gill : Arp In . Atlanta Constitution. - man got up with; ing around upon Forego. Influenza has caused 193 deaths in a week In London. The American art Institute has been granted a permanent site for a building in Paris. ' French soldiers"! anti-army newspa pers have now been shut out all troops rendezvous.- M English life insurance companies are severely criticised for charging an ex tra 5 per cent, war risk. The London Authors,' Society will es tablish an Authors' Pension Fund to be available to applicants 60 years old or over. While walking alone at night, Misj Rachel Ferguson was knocked down and robbed at Toronto, and died soon afterward. An annex xA sixteen rooms will scon be completed at the Irsane asylum. It will be occupied by the oScscs cf ths Institution and by pay patients. In Honor of Mrs. Vance. Washington, D. C, Special. A large company, representative of the entire South, attended tbe ball given by the North Carolina Society of the District In aid of the General Robert E. Lee memorial monument fund. Tbe oc caslon aim was Intended as a compii ment to Mrs. Z. B. Vance, one of the society's members, who has been elect ed president of the Lee funds It was a brilliant success. The proposed monument Is to be erected near Fort Myer. on the heights overlooking Washington. Filipinos Stubborn 5 Land. Manila, By Cable. Colonel Eullard with the Thirty-ninth infantry, mov ing In three columns from Calamba. with two guns, attacked ten companies of insurgents strongly Intrenched on the Santa Tomas road. They resisted stubbornly, making three stands. Twenty-four of the rebels were killed and sixty prisoners were taken. The Filipinos retreated, carrying their wounded toward Lake Taal. One American was killed and two officers were slightly wouadsd Gen. Murray Dead. Richmond, Va.. Special. News has been received here of the death In Pe oria. 111. of General Dabney H. Maury, late of the Confederate army, and some time Minister to Columbia. Gen. Maunr Is particularly remembered In history for bis galant defense of Mo bile Bay. The remains will be brought to Fredericksburg. a., for Interment General Maury reached a very ad vanced age. Geaerols Roberts and Kitchener i hare arrived at Cape Town.. The revenue act requires that tele graph telephone "sleeping car, re frigerator car, express and dining car companies, etc., shall make reports ta the State Auditor during tbe first months of each year. Notices to them are cow being sent out, calling for th reports. The reports when received will be turned over to the corporation commission as a basis for the assess ment of these companies ror taxation. The penitentiary has sold 300 bale of cotton. It has remaining 1,700 bales;, all at Norfolk. " Dr. G. W. Long, or Graham, has re moved to Statcsville. He U one or the first physicians cf the State. The Secretary of State has granted charters to the following corporations Taylor-Cannady Buggy Company, of Oxford, capital ctock, $20,000; Incor porators. Siary C. Cannady, N. H. Can- nady. B. F. Taylor, C. W. Bryan, J. M. Currin, E. T. Whit?. H. G. Coop er. J. O. Hall, W. B. Ballon, Z. W. Lyon. Jr D. Bullock, J. H. Bullock, B. S. Royster. J. G. Hunt. S. W. Mi ner, J. B. Roller and S. II. Cannady. Power is given in the charter to dc about everything except preach the goeoel or conduct a theater- Tho Miller Dry Gcods Company of Charlotte, capital ttock. ' $10,000; In corporator. E. C. Miller. S. J. Lowe, W. C. White and W. K. NeaL The business proposed is conducting a wholesale and retail dry goods, fur nishing and f hoe store. The North Carolina Publishing com pany (publishers or the Rale'gh Post), Is allowed to increase its capital stock from $20,000 to $30,000. Drastic measures are being taken a- Yokohama to prevent the spread tho plague. i Boers May 5elze Durban. London. By Calble. The Times, In a special article, dealing with the Dela- gsa-Bay question, express the opinion that the endeavor of the Boers to overrun Natal lends confirmation j to the assertions made before the war by prominent Boers that they would seize uuroan as a port. Tne article pro ceeds to point out that by the through rate system, cpedally favorable " to Trarsvaal shipments over tha Dela goa-Transvaal. Railroad, German, ship owners have been a"ble to secure traffic with little risk of examination at the continental ports or at Delagoa bay. American Flour Released. J London, By Cable. The American flour seized off Delagoa Bay has been released. United States A-mh-ssd.oT Choate had an interview with the Mar quis cf Salisbury and received a ver bal reply to the representations of; the Washington government. The British note on this subject was sent later to the United States - embassy. ' The gist of It was cabled to Washington In brier, foodstuffs are not considered contraband or war unless ror j the enemy. I i 1, Telegraphic Briefs. ma . ion z-si.an dinar mvminr :ia. tween the State of Tennessee audi the United States , now seem to be in s fair way of settlement. The govern ment's claim aggregate about $3(KX0OO The claims or the Ftate amount tc about $1,200,000 ana' Include the! use or railroads during the war, on which the State had 'a lien, keeping prison era. the rent or -the penitentiary and !h ttllnd Asylum bulldingn. j I-e President has nominated Henry L. Howiscra, Albert Kantz. G;ol! C Reasey and Norman H.. Farauhar tc Miscellaneous. Captain Eckhoff. of the Dutch oil tank steamer La Hesbaye, In port at Baltimore,, reports having sighted an Iceberg, on which ; four polar bears were walking, off the Newfoundland Banks. Private David E. Ferrlck. Troop G, Fifth Cavalry, died onr Friday of ty phoid fever at San Juan, P. R. . j General Otis reports that Thomas Stacker. Troop K, Fourth Cavalry, was killed In action near Concepcion, No vember 11. f The Comptroller of the Treasury holds that under the personel act naval officers on leave are entitled to one- half shore pay. ' Colonel S. M. Whiteside, Tenth Cav alry, has been designated to act tem porarily as commander of the depart ment of Santiaga andPuerto Principe, Cuba. The Inability, of General Otis to bring th Filipino war to an end has given rise to the story .that hostiltie3 are being prolonged to carry out the political schemes or the administra tion. It Is said the idea is to adminis ter the crushing blow to Aguinaldo during the heat or the presidential campaign, thus arousing patriotism to the point or Toting for McKinley. 1 (Miss Cella Sherman Miles, daughter of the general commanding the army, and- Capt Samuel Reber, United States army, were married In Wash ington at noon Wednesday and left on a Southern tour. The wedding was an ultra-fashionable one. Two six-inch (bronze , Spanish can non, formerly a part of the. defences at Fort San Felipe, -Manila, and cap tured by Admiral Dewey at the battit of Manila bay, have been presented U the city of Atlanta to he used at th base of the monument which will -i erected to the mecacry of the la; Lieutenant Bntrnty. a grunt' and look- the fepectators. and then at the Judge said: "Nuffin' much Mas Judge, nuffin' much. Only dis, you know all about dot old war which we all got whooped and you haint forgot how I went out wid you to de army fo.' -you was a cappen and old master told me to go 'long and take keer of you, and you knows I did de very bes' I could for four mighty long years and Jiow one -time vou eot wounded and I staid by you ontell you was well again and how anoder time. you took the measles and me. too. and I stay by you and 11 us yen and how anoder time dem vAnlfMR ccteh me and I got away in da night and come back to you and how sometimes you get out of money and nnt tif an m fen to cat all at de Eme time and you call me up and say, 'Jack, you mns go out a foragin and get us ennvfin', and I go out late in.de night and bring you chicken ama ros tin' cars and one time I .bring you a turkey, and you jn-eber' ax me nuffin' about whar I got him and you oevcr giv me any money to buy him, ana you, Mas Jedge. You call it foragin' den, dictat you, Mas Jedge, and if, it w-asr farasM den! how cum it to ' ba stealin' now?" I We soldier's didn't steal much dor- imr fh rivtt w.ari but somietIme3 we wera sorelv tempted and fell. Some times we got awful tired of salt meat and longed for a; change of diet. I re member that when we camped near Orange courthouse there was a lovely little shote that took up where our horses were tethered. It belonged to a cross old man who lived on a hill nearby and Major Ayer rode np there one evening and tried to buy it. The old man refused in an Insolent manner, for he was a union man. man and was mad because our army had camped on his land and was cutting his timber. .V Edzeley's Woaderfo! Weil.' ' For many years Edgeley, N. DM has boasted of one of the finest flowing ar tesian wells In the State; The water" comes gushing out with high pressure in a stream as large as a man's arm? The well is 170 feet deep, and tho water is too saline for domestic use. A beautiful lake has been made at a small cost, which in the winter .time furnishes a splendid skating rink fdr the young people. The water has been placed under control, and is piped through the streets, affording a sys tem of waterworks, the most cheaply of any town in the country- , . For many years" it has been known that the water was mixed with gas, but no effort was made to separate tho two unETI last fall. C. J. Sturgeon, a druggist, has at last succeeded in ac complishing this after ' many experi ments, and now secures gas for light ing and heating purposes in his store and -residence. The separation of tho gas' is to be accomplished on a larger scale, and the streets and residences are to be lighted and the : business houses all heated at a minimum cost, from the same source that furnishes the town a free waterworks system .1 The well is onthe experimental farm, tinder control of the State Agricultur al College-. ; -. . ' - A number of the larger farms In the State are equipped with such wells. and In the future their farm houses may be lighted and heated at the cost of putting in gas pipes. St. Paul Flo- heer Press. ' . - ' . In modern times it is" iho'e races' whieh give most encouragement to athletics that are the most aggressive and. progressive in the struggle for political and commercial supremacy. The character and disposition of the whole Teutonic race is influenced by the tnrnvereins and the love of gym nasties which thope institutions in culcate for physical development. The Anglo-Saxon owes as much of his . success to the upbuilding of the body in the cricket field, on the yachting; courses, on tire grouse moors, the golf links, the football gridiron and the tenuis lawn as he does to any mental training which the best col- leges of his country have given him. These outdoor' pastimes strengthen the muscle, expand the Inngs, quick eu the sight and develop one's courage. . 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The News-Herald (Morganton, N.C.)
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