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WASHINGTON LETTER. Senator Uav Talks ot the Ship Sub sidies?Rural 1-ree Delivery and Cuban Reciprocity. Kev'ular Correapoudence. Washington, March 10th, 1902. ? < hi Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Senator Alexander S. Clay, of (ieorgia, presented in an able and com prehensive manner the Demo cratic attitude toward the ship, subsidy bill, but the length of his speech precludes the pos sibility of giving even an epitome in this letter. At my request, however, Senator Clay consented to make the following brief state ment for your readers: "My opposition to the meas ure, 111 which 1 am supported by ! the eutire Democratic minority of the Committee on Commerce, is based on the fact that it will increase the expense of trans-1 {?ortiug the foreign mails from H,8(K(,000 to upwards of 00(),(t(Kt without securing to the government any adequate re turn. I desire to see the mail service of the Dinted States as perfect as that of any country in the world, but this (till does not provide for the establishment of a single route, nor for the con struction of a single new shin. By the provisions of the bill this greatly increased sum will be paid to the owners of ships al ready in commission and sailing over routes now established. II L1IVI1? IS lit-fn ui iii^iciujcu facilties fur transporting the mails why haw not the Post-j master General been called before the committee as an expert wit ness, to indicate in what direc tion the increased funds may be best expended? "As to the simple subsidy pro vision of the bill, there is no ne-, cessity for such legislation. Our shipping trade is constantly in creasing. We retain, by statute, all of the coastwise trade for our vessels and as, in the past that has been the most profitable, i has absorbed every increase in American shipping, but there are now ample vessels engaged in'it and the attention of American ship owners is naturally turning to the foreign trade. Our ship yards have orders exceeding their utmost capacity. Our vast min eral resources, our improved methods of production and the superior productivity of the American laborer and artisan combined, more than counterbal ance any difference there may ex ist between American and foreign wages, and without this unneces sary and extravagant legislation the American shipping industry will, in the near future, lead the world in its field as do \merican industries in other lines "There is one important point, j however, which should not be lost sight of. The most serious detriment with which the Ameri can ship owner has to contend is the fact that our tariff duties rob him of so large a share of the profits on the cargoes which he must necessarily carry 011 his re turn trips from foreign waters. If our Republican friends honest ly desire to benefit American Bhip owners, let them revise the tariff and so modify or remove this serious obstacle. Thecoast wise shipper carries his cargoes in both directions without let or hindrance by tariff duties and his profits are eminently satis factory. Taking a lesson from this, the majority can materially aid our foreign commerce and simultaneously benefit American consumers without the expendi ture of one penny of the funds in the United States Treasury." Senator Clay was followed on Friday by Senator Manna, who, with a sledge hammer style of oratory, reiterated all the Re publican sophist lies in regard to protection and claimed taat be cause in the past it had been the Koliey of the government to uild up hot-house industries there must be no deviation from that policy The debate on this bill will continue until the 17th, inst., when a vote will be taken. Senator Vest will address the Senate on the subject soon, if ins health will permit. The bill re ported bv the Senate Committee on Judiciary for the protection of the 1'resident has also received some consideration. It isoppos ed by many of the Meritocratic members on the ground that it is contrary to the constitution in that it is an extension of the law against treason and is a vio lation of the rights of the sov ereign states. The week in the House has been devoted to the considera tion of the rural free delivery bill. The billas reported not only provides for the establishment on a jiermaneut basis of this form of postal service but goes, further and instructs that the routes shall he carried by the lowest bidder, bids to be adver tised for, etc. This clause is op posed by many members of both parties and lias been the occasion of prolonged debate. Mr. Wil liams, of Mississippi, tells me that he is confident that the ser vice can be carried on moreequit ably and economically on a con tract basis. He further claims that the funds appropriated for this purpose will reach farther if the contract system is employed Mr. Swanson, of Virginia, is, on the other hand, strongly opposed to the innovation as he fears tIn service will not prove as compe tent or as generally satisfactory as would be the case were salaried employees to carry the mails The question will come to a vote today. The irrigation bill, which pass ed the Senate, has been favora bly reported by the committee on irrigation but Representative] Xewlands t"lls me that he will not push its consideration at this time as some work remains to be done before, in his judg ment, the House will be prepared to vote intelligently on the mat ter. Senator llansbrough re rently expressed gratification at j the general support the measure had received in the Senate and told me that he felt that it could be in no more competent hands, than those of Representative Xewlands, in the House. "Mr. Xewlands is remarkably well posted on i he subject," said the Senator, "and will give his best efforts in securing its enact ment." The Republicans are as bauly j divided as ever on the subject of Cuban reciprocity and there! seems little likelihood of any im mediate settlement of the ques tion. The President has made public statement to the effect ' that he has not changed his po sition in the slightest degree and < the House leaders are doing his bidding to the best of their abili ty but the revolt, led by Mr. 'Sawney, of Minnesota, appears to be gaining rather than losing strength and there is growing a general sentiment in favor of other tariff revision. It is confi dently believed, by those who oppose the Ways and Means bill, which concedes 20 per cent, to Cuba, that if that bill ever gets to the Senate that body will so amend it as to reduce the sched ules along several lines and that they regard with terror. Al readv the session gives promise of lasting far into the summer and the members who will stand lor reelection in the fall regard any movement that will detain them in Washington with the greatest apprehension. The Part "3" Has Played. Charlie Johnson, colored, of Raleigh, was made the father of triplets last week. The figure has played a prominent part in Johnson's history, according to his employer, who makes this statement: "Charles .Johnson was born 011 the third day of the third month of 1839. His father had three wives and he was the third son of the third wife. He worked for my family and was a trusted servant for 33 years. He has killed three men, tried for his life three times, and came out acquitted in three cases. He killed a man in the year 1893, and was acquitted on theground 1 ui;..... :.. ....if .1.. ( 11 ? t L nit- nan in nrn ur fense. In 1883 he killed a man accidentally and was freed. In 1893 he was attacked by a plas terer, whom he cut in the back with a cotton hook. The wound was in the shape of a figure 3 and he died in ?'$ days. He has been married three times. He is now (53 years old, and this wife, which is histhird, is 83. He has had 33 children, all boys, except the last, which were triplets."? Kinston Free Press. Can't keep It Secret. The splendid work of I)r. Kind's New Life Pills is daily coming to light. No such grand remedy for Liver and Dowel troubles was ever known before. Thousands bless them for curing Constipa tion, Sick Headache, Biliousness,! Jaundice and Indigestion. Try them 2.~>c at Hood Bros, drug store. When Sir James Simpson, the well known discoverer of chloro form was once questioned as to t he greatest discovery he thought lie had ever made, lie replied, "That I have a Savior." You Know W6at You are Taking. When you take Grove's Taste less Chill Tonic because the form ula is plainly printed on evety bottle showing that it is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay. ."Oc. | Veterans Go To Dallas. (ifii. Carr has issued a pam phlet containing full particulars of the arrangements for North Carolina veterans who intend participating in the grand re union. The convention begins at Dallas, Tex., Tuesday morn ing, April 22, and will close Fri day, April 25, 1902. "Taking it lor granted that we will enjoy the benefits hereto fore extended, t he transportation charges will most probably be as follows: From Kaleigh and re turn, about ^25; from Greens boro and return, about $23.50; from Charlotte and return, about ?22. "Provided we can secure a number sufficiently large to war rant doing so, a North Carolina veterans' train will be run direct1 from Raleigh through to Dallas without cliauge, over the South ern Railway. It is proposed that we shall leave Raleigh Sat urday. April 19, at 3:50 p. m.,| arriving at New Orleans Sunday at 8:30 p. m.; Houston, Tex., Monday at 9 a. m., and Dallas, Tex., Monday at 8 p. m. On the train will be splendid day cars, besides Pullman caraccommoda tions for all who wish reserva tion berths, provided they take j the precaution to write to Mr. j Gowen Dusenberry, agent at [ Durham, or to Mr. It L. Vernon, traveling passenger agent, at Charlotte. The tickets will lie sold to veterans or to anv mem ber of their family, or to any friend who wants to take advant age of the reduced rates. G\/nforona nn fholt' irnotiilu nail ? ClCl (inn wt tuv.11 11 IV uuo V.IH1 return pretty much as they please. Returning, the North Carolina train will leave Dallas Saturday night, April 25. "The advantages of going to Dallas on this train are that you go through without change, and can have your meals served on the Pullman if you prefer, and you will perhaps be with a larger crowd of veterans enroute. Mr. ("has. L. Martin, secretary of the Texas Reunion Associa tion, writes me under date of t ebruary 5 as follows: "It is our purpose to put into camp at the fair grouuds all Confederates who will go. These we will com fortably feed and lodge free of cost on the best that Texas af fords. On the last day of the convention the veterans will be furnished barbecued buffalo." The Best Prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. Nocure?no pay. Price 50c. You Can See In Charleston, S. C. The greatest Southern Exposi tion. Three of the oldest churches in America. Two of the historic fortresses of the world, Moultrie and Sum ter. The best harbor south of New York on the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Historic mansions which were old at the Declaration of Inde pendence. Streets paved and houses built with material brought from England. The site of the new United States Naval Station at Chicora I ? 1. I tU'K. The most beautiful cemetery in the United States. The only tea farm in America, where tea is grown for sale. The most beautiful Magnolia and Azalea garden in America, Magnolia-on-the-Ashley. The handsomest Government building in the South, if not in America. The only city in the United States which has preserved its ancient beauties and peculiarities intact, and having a style of architecture peculiar its own. The city which was in the past and will be in the future, the great port of entry of the South Atlantic Coast. Practically Starving. "After using a few bottles of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure my wife received perfect and permanent relief from a severe and chronic case of stomach trouble," says ?I. It. Holly, real estate, insurance and loan agent, of Macomb, 111. "before using Kodol Dyspepsia Cure she could not eat an ordin ary meal without intense suffer ing. She is now entirely cured. Several physicians- and many remedies liad failed to give relief." You don't have to diet. Kat any good food you want, but don't overload tlie stomach. Kodol DysjK'psia Cure will always digest it for you. benson Drug Co., Hood Bros., J. It. l>edbetter, Hare A Son. Magnmcent Revenge. While Robert Stewart was gov eruor of Missouri a steamboat I matt was brought ui from the penitentiary as an applicant for a pardon. He was a large, pow erful fellow, and when the gov ernor looked at him he seemed strangely affected. He scruti nized him long and closely. Fi nally he signed the document that restored the prisoner to lib erty. ltefore he handed it to him he said: ' You will commit some other crime and be in the peni tentiary again, I fear." The man solemnly promised that he would not. The govern or looked doubtful, mused a few minutes and said: "You will go back on the river and be a mate again, I sup pose?" The man replied that he would. "Well, I want you to promise me one thing," resumed the gov ernor. "1 want you to pledge your word that when you are mate again you will never take a billet of wood in your hand and drive a sick boy out of a bunk to help you load your boat on a stormy night." The steamboat man said he would not and inquired what the governor meant by asking him such a question. The governor replied: "be- 1 canse some day that boy may 1 become a governor, and you may 1 want him to pardon you for a ^ crime. One dark, stormy night, e many years ago. you stopped f vour boat on the Mississippi t river to take on a load of wood, t There was a boy on board who was working his passage from f New Orleans to St. Louis, but he i was very sick with fever and was f lying in a bunk. You had plenty 1 of men to do the work, but you > went to that boy with a stick of | wood in jour hand and drove him with blows and curses out into the wretched night and kept him toiling like a slave until the load was completed. I was that boy. Hete is your pardon, i Never again be guiltv of such j brutality." The man, cowering and hiding , his face, went out without a word. | What a noble revenge that was and what a lesson to a bully!? Success. The Old Huguenot Church. No visitor to Charleston who has an appreciation for the old|> and venerable in religion,or sym- ' pathy for the struggles of our * ancestors in their search for re- ] ligious and political freedom, can ' afford to pass w ithout a visit,the ' old Huguenot Church on Queen ( and Church Streets. It is the ( sole surviving sanctuary of its I kind in America, and still has | in daily use the Huguenot Lit- L urgy, framed upon that of the ( episcopal Church. Among the t first settlers of the Carolina l Province were French Protest- ' : ants, but immediately after the j I revocation of the Ildict of Nan- ] tes, in 1685, a large body emi- i grated to Charleston, and the ? j records of this congregation g' \ back to 1686. Its first pastorji was eiias Prioleau, the present \ incumbent ("has. C. Yedder, who | was installed in 1866, and still presides over a faithful flock, af ter thirty-six years of service for the Master. The church itself, is a fine relic of a bygone style in , sacred architecture, and with its . j groined and vaulted ceiling, mu- . ral entablatures, hanginggallery and carved screen, will well re- , nnv a visir. In the old church I ,/ ? I ^ yard may be read names that , were as a trumpet call, in the j da.'"' of persecution. Would Smash the Club. If members of the "Hay Fever Association" would use Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption, the club would go to pieces, for it always cures this malady, ?and Asthma, the kind that battles the doctors?it whol ly drives from thesystem. Thous ands of once-hopeless sufferers from Consumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis owe their lives and health to it. It conquers Crip, saves little ones from Croup and Whooping Cough and is posi. tively guaranteed for all Throat and Lung troubles. 50c, fi.OO. Trial bottles free at Hood Bros. Put a seal upon your lips and forget what youhavedone. After vou have been kind, after love lias stolen forth into the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and say nothing about it. Love hides even from itself.? Prof. Pruin mond. Stops the Cough and Works oil the Cold Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tab lets cure a cold in one day. No i Cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents.* Pay Your Poll Tax. Every person in North Carolina iable to |h>11 tax must pay it by he first of next May. if he does lot then he cannot vote this ear. This is in accordance with he suffrage amendment to our Hate constitution, and every ?oter ought to know it. There will be an entire new reg st ration this year, and no man an vote unless he registers, and 10 man can register unless he >ays his poll tax by the first day ?f May. This payment of poll ax is required because heretofore here have been thousands of ne :roes in North Carolina who vote it every election without ever laying one cent of tax. This is tot right, and it is surprising hat any white man should say t is right. According to the constitution if North Carolina (as framed by he Republicans in 18(>8) atleast hree-fourths of the poll tax must >e applied to the public schools, j ind as the negroes have the ben fit of the public schools equally vith the whites they ought to be equired to pay their poll tax or lot vote. Is not this right? But it is argued that this re (uirement may disfranchise some vhite men, because the law must ipply to whites and blacks alike, fes, the constitution of the "nited States as amended by the iepublicans tries to make a ne ^ro the equal of the white man in ivery respect. Republicans there ore should not find fault with his feature of the law which they hpttltttal VPU tioi ?owwilT'l'' But 110 white man need bedif ranehised on this account, and f he is disfranchised it is his own ault. The constitution exprese y authorizes the county cotninis lioners to exempt anybody from >oll tax on account of "poverty ind infirmity." Therefore any nan who is too poor and infirm to pay his poll tax can and will tie exempted, and any man who s not too poor and infirm to jay his poll tax ought not to be illowed to vote until he does pav t! The poll tax which is required to be paid by the first day of lext May is the tax that was lue last September, so that eight nonths indulgence is given eve ?ybody.?Pittsboro Itecord. Lockjaw From Cobwebs. Cobwebs put on a cut lately ?ave a woman lockjaw. Millions enow that the best thing to put jnacutis Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the infallible healer of Wounds, ['leers, Sores, Skin Eruptions, [funis, Scalds and Piles. It cures tir no pay. 25c at Hood Bros, li ug store. Finish every day and be de ne with it. You have done what you ?ould. Some blunders and ab surdities, no doubt, crept in; orget them as soon as you can. Fo-in or row is a new day; begin it ?ell and serenely, and with too tiigh a spirit to be cumbered w ith your old nonsense. This day is ill that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and in vitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.?Ralph Waldo Emerson. A Month of Sundays. As each dav of the week is ob served as Sunday by some na tion, a month of Sundays is just m ordinary month. The first lay of the week is our Christian ?Sunday; Monday is the sacred lay of Persians; Wednesday of he Assyrians; Thursday of the Egyptians; Friday of the Turks, ind Saturday is the Sabbath of the Jews.?Ex. How's Your STOMRCH? Does It properly Digest wholesome and nvjtritiovis food? Good Digestion is necessary to 1 perfec t health. Perfect health is essential to happi ness. If Dyspepsia has a hold upon yon, you are unfit for life's work. Cast off this dread disease. Coleman's Gtiacra.nfee will positively cure all forms of in digestion and dyspepsia. Hundreds of users attest its curative powers. It will do for you what it has done for others. One dose gives relief. PRICK 60c. A BOTTLE. If your druggist doesn't sell it get another druggist. COLEMAN REMEDY CO.. taurine, ?l? 0. S. ?. For Sale by Hood lirothers. And Benson Drug Compny. Hackney Bugles. I am still selling the CelebA . .1 HACKNEY BUGGIES AND WA ,0*S. Any one wishing to buy is a^ki t?. my prices before buying. George W. Johns) t, J.'7-lm. BENSON. ( Houses for R( n,j If you want to rent any kind of a house in Smith field please let me know it. J. /W. BEAT r% SMITHFIKl H C. "new fir;1 I.W.JONES. MM. iNES We have formed a co irl n r ship and have rented "?frr< recently occupied by M W f). Lindsay and will carry a Stock d! Groceries Snuff, Cigars, Tobacco . W We ask your patronage. JONES & JOVES. CLAYTON. N W. (i. Yelvington li.. I r^r< stock of heavy clothn, I m, which you can buy ver ?>) n. he wishes to make n - h i Spring- stock. IMPORTAINTTO fUM In view of the fart that i not ?. . t ally undei.tood that the - C < ) 1: highly protected from fo t 1 tion bv an import duty ani ' t* r ? raiatd in this United Sts' li cr ? year fallen much below ' o sumption, the The Carolina R OF GOLDSBORO In order to encourage th .ltl\a < f Rice on a larger scale th. i: has t - fore been done, is now pr | eil t s CONTRACTS with Plat n -t 1 Carolina for their cr- ps Rh b f may raise during the yei ' ? t: i most liberal terms. Parties Interested, who -h t. 1 ? themselves of this offer, a cos n ' cate with us and we will I , plot a i giving full particulars. Respectfully, CAROLINA RICi HI1, GOLDS!- ? J. 23?3m. ? THE SUN' i BALTIMORE, i. The Paper of the P For the Peo id With l e Honest In Motive Fearless in Expres Sound In Pi i !? While maintaining unimi ; ' "h standards of private life ;t i y 1 which it has upheld unfalt ' n 'ft than sixty four years. 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