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V, 4 DAILY INDUSTRIAL NBWB, SATUBDAY, J ANUABY 20, 1906. Furnished Daily except Monday IBB INDUSTRIAL PUBUSBCIO Greensboro, North Carolina. CO. THOMAS & ROLLINS President eFCNCBR & ADAMS V.-Pre BOOT. . DOUGLAS 9a A Treae. TELEPHONES Court's Editorial Kooma. Room. ..1001 FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE ROBT D. DOUGLAS.... A. R, PARKHURST. JR. ,. Editor ..Mnc Editor Subscription Mx Dollars per Tear, payable monthly, quarterly or yearly A Printed Advertising -.ate Card may be had for the asking: all "Puta bte aovertlaeroenta are '""d.,.i tueae ratee only and every advertiser may rest aaeured that he la letting a equare deal Enured r i secoud-clam matter at the postoffk at Greensb ro, N. CL. nnder tbe act o tongresa of March 3. 1807. FREEDOM FOR TBS PMLIPPIHES AND FOR US. The metamorphosis of the Honorable WUliain tienrungs ,xju f American citizen into a full-fledged Piuiippine Datto has been the sub ject of many a jest, but the affair also has its serious side and may furnish the key which will solve two problems which have for some time been engross ing the attention of our ablest states men and political economists. The first of these problems is what to do with the Philippines, and the second is what to do with Air. Bryan and those of his followers who have failed to be convinced of the enormity of their here sies either by the force of logic or the trend of events. We have the Honor able William Jennings and we have the Philippines, and both are like the poor always with us and even more than the poor, always insistent on reminding us of the fact. But the solution now presents itself. We can raise Datto Bryan's title from that of an humble datto to Sultan, Ma harajah, grand mogul, prince of the land of silver, or anything else that strikes his fancy; make him ruler over all the islands of the Eastern sea; allow him to take Senator Benjamin Pitchfork Tillman, Governor James Knocker V'ar daman, Jefferson Arkansas Davis, Wil liam Randolph Hearst and any kindred spirits whom we ean persuade to go; de clare not only their independence, but so far as we are concerned, their com plete isolation, and then lean back, brsitbe a sigh of relief and console our selves with the thought that many things which have been can never be again. . Iu this short summary we have not, cf course, attempted to give the entire personnel of the coterie of congenial spirits, who would make these now dis turbed islands blossom like a field thick: sown with every variety of weed nor --n - I UwnAn fvAin a tilain will we attempt to even guess at the iconoclastic code of laws which would meet the necessities of the occasion. We will, however, venture to add that if William Hearst proves unequal to the task safroiiizing : the journalistic branch of this unique government North Carolina could have no room for doubts or misgivings to this score, by furnishing as her quota an editor who litis never been known to shirk when even the wildest of Mr. Bryan's vaga' rics needed a champion. This scheme may prove but a fond . aud fleeting dream, but we confess that it appeals both to our sense of the eter nal fitness of things and our desire to at one fell swoop eut from tbe body politic of our native land a bunch of dis turbing elements which heretofore we have simply borne with : as best we could. GREENSBORO'S CENTENNIAL. ' Expositions of various kinds tommem OTtive of great events are now tht or der of the day, and this brings to mind the fact that just two years hence Greensboro will see the one hundredth anniversary of her birth. In 1806 the county commissioners of Guilford county, under authority given by the Legislature, bought a tract of land as pearly as possible in the geo graphical center of the oounty, laid it out in streets and lots, sold the lots at publio auction, and built a court bouse in the center of .the new town. And . from this beginning sprang the city of Greensboro, Why ean we not We an exposition In 1708 North Carolinians are every day becoming more imbued with the spirit of Btatt pride and with an apprs ciatlon of tht greatness of the Old North State and what better opportunity could be presented for a sooting to gethtr of the people from every section and an exhibition of the resources ol the State than an exposition in honor of the centennial anniversary of the birth of the States mess progressive city? ' - This would, muire both work and rnonaybut it can be done; and the sub ject is bow suggested in order that the publio may consider tit matter, and if the scheme is thought feasible, begin active preparations. What do the peo ple think of it? TRUE DEMOCRATIC POLICY. Discussing the Republican revolt in Congress and the disposition of the in surgents "to oppose any measure in which the president is . known to ie strongly interested," the Brooklyn Times says that the Democrats eould not "be gTeatly blamed from the current stand point of party ethics if, for the sake of party advantages, they should disre gard the merits of the measure under dispute, and lend their support to the American mutineers, so as to weaken the majority." , Tbey would be open, however, to great blame from the standpoint of duty to the people of the country at large, and of failure of recognition of the in fluence calculated to inspire the masses with confidence in party and bear fruit in coming elections. Democratic oppo sition in Congress merely for the sake of opposition and baiting' the president is unwise, unpatriotic, short-sighted, and, as affects the future, bad politics. The minority can in no way compro mise itself or the party by sustaining presidential measures of merit that are not contrary to cardinal Democratic doctrine. But it can compromise both by pursuing the policy of unreasoning and petty partisan non-support of such measures and combining with the Re publican soreheads and would-be bull dozers of the administration to defeat them. It can materially weaken the prospects of the party by this latter course. Richmond Slews-Leader. A TYPICAX VARDAMAN PEKFORM- . ARCS. By his own admission the fact comes to light that Governor Vardaman, Miss issippi's notorious, if not famous, chief executive kicked and beat with a broom stick a convict whom tbe Governor said was guilty of an impudent remark while shining that .worthy' shoes. The first question that naturally oc curs to the reader is why was the con vict shining the Governor's shoes any way? Was it a part of his regular duty or simply an act of courtesy extended toward a gentleman with whom he felt a bond of sympathy existed? The dispatch does not teU us, and we must therefore remain in ignorance for Mississippi law is a rule unto itself, and reasoning by analogy will hardly fit the occasion. But the fact remains thai the Govern or used his boot and broom-stick and the aforesaid convict is now in the pris on hospital. There are numbers of men big and brave and loyal in both parties who are patiently fighting for the cause of the South, but their task will continue a difficult one as long as a Southern com monwealth elects such a man as Var daman to the highest office in its gift. It would seem that the next more in the investigation of affairs on the Isth mus of Panama is with the opposition. Mr. Poultney Blgelow came back from a flying trip with the most lurid of ac counts, but when haled before a com mittee of the Senate he positively and vehemently refused to give his sources ol information. He does not even say ho knows the facts himself. The determination of the State Fair Association to abolish gambling and fa kirs should not be sidetracked on ac count of jealousy over the fact that Greensboro did it first. . "Elijah" Dowie has been compelled to relinquish control of the purse strings of his remarkable community, and it would not surprise us if his future "revela tions" were of less frequency and less clearness. Nevada is determined to show that she is not behind her eastern sister States, Her latest is an extensive cam merce In bogus university degrees sold to all comers at bargain counter prices. Wireless telegraphy may be said to have fairly won its cause when the sta tion In Maine communicated with the big floating dock Dewey more than three thousand miles away. POINTS FROM PARAGRAPUERS. It is commonly chanicd, and belnved by many, that tue very rich men of tbo country have no more r-ul respect for the law than the wildest bomb-throwing anarchist. Mr. ltotmrs has dons mat he can to spread this heltaf. So doing, far more than any agitator can !o it, he places Samson hands on the pJDeis of the temple within which property rights are homed. When the lortuimta of this world ehow entail rcsprot fcr the law, what sin be expected of the unfortunate T J) ew xoni Globe, After taking the oath of office, United States Senator La Toilette, of Wlaoon sin, was assigned tbo obairmanship of the committee on Potomac River Front This ongbt to quiet him, down. Atlanta wosututwn. . . They are talking about creating: forty new justiceships in New York. What they need in the Empire Stats Is fewer lustiossmpa ana mora jusuoo. vwiss ton news and courier. Tha Hon. George Washington Plunkltt has re-emerged from tbe debris and says he Is still in politics. Like the Hon. Charles V. Murphy and tbe Boa. Pat rick McCerren, be fails to realist that a man, though not officially tagged by tha soroner, may yet ho deed. 'New York Tribune. ; inrTUALBskmT'is'im. ' THE AILING IMMIGRANT AIDS MEDICAL STUDENTS Swarms of South Europeans Who Never Get Farther Inland In America thao New York Furnish Physicians in that City a Splendid Field for Study of Diseases. 7 New York, January 19. With one of the busiest seasons behind them that has ever been known, the officials of the immigration department on Ellis Island, the great gateway to America for the invading host from the Old World, have now leisure enough to reflect upon what the year has brought forth. The full "statistics for the year will not be made up for some time yet, but the rst six months of 1905 have shown that Italy continues to hold her place at the head of the emigrating popula tions. From January until July 1st more tnan 184,000 Italians passed through the inspecting rooms of the Is- land on their way to become American citizens. Austria-Hungary follows with1" 147,867, and then in order come Kussia, Sweden and Germany. These, in many ways, are most unde sirable facts. His personal experience on ..His Island has led Dr. George W. Stoner, chief of the staff of medical ex aminers, to the belief that the immi grants from Southern Europe are far less fitted physically for useful citizen ship than those from the North. His opinion is corroborated not only by the work of the hospital on Ellis Island!) globe has been especially felt in itself but by reports from all the hos-!0" Britain, whose vast carrying trade pitals scattered over the city. The men'and widely scattered empire bring her irhn l.hr in Vow YnrU hosnitnls hAve'mto more direct contact with the trop- Knn.ianf nnmrtniiii ina tn invPKt iirate the subject, for ot the arrivals who are declared physically unfit for admission to this country, only about ten per cent, are deported. The other ninety per cent of sick, weak, or otherwise constitutionally un desirable additions are reluctantly ad mitted because they pass favorable edu cational examinations or have money or relatives already settled in tbe United States. Make Up Hospital Patients. It is this mass of unhealthy humanity pouring month after month into the most crowded quarters of the city, which furnishes the greater number of free dispensary and hospital patients, for not all of the ninety per cent ad mitted on the strength of their material resources find themselves able to keep their heads above water in the new land of promise. The healthiest of all Europe's races, the Swedes, rarely stay long in New York. Instead they ipass on to the homes of their feilow countrymen in the Northwest, usually to Minnesota. The Hungarians drift steadily toward the mining towns of Pennsylvania. But the great body of Italians gets no fur ther than New York. Here they over flow into the streets of the East Side from the swarming tenements in which they are herded until there are parts of the city which look more Neapolitan than Naples itself. Side by side with them dwell the ref ugees from the Russian Ghettoes, to whom life has hitherto meant nothing nui irri opi uiiuii aim even iivvr lunula little more than incessant dnidirerv in I sweat shops. llie problem to the sociologist is a grave one; to the physican it affords an education the value of which can hardlv be overestimated. No other city in the United States possesses such a wealth of material for demonstrations in the clinics by which medical instruc- ion, and especially advanced instruction, now chiefly given a fact for which other cities may be devoutly thankful. Out of 800,000 arrivals in 1904, 600,000 found their way into the country through Ellis Island, no other port of entry having one-tenth that number. An Unwelcome Distinction. It is rather an unwelcome distinction that is thus thrust upon New York, but it is made to serve a valuable purpose tn the dispensaries ot tbe hospitals. Among the many thousands of future citizens in the foreign quarters lie hid den many ailments barldy known as yet in this country, but against which phy sicians and medical inspectors alike must he prepared to wage continual war. Trachoma, for example, a dangerous and extremely contagious disease of the eye. i practically unknown among the old American eiuoK, mu iu swutuern curopejui nanus anu uiet mug presented. . : -i I. , a 1- o v 1 MEN AND WOMEW. Bishop and Mrs. Cranston are to be given a reception by tbe Washington Methodists. Harrison W. Weir, the well-known English artist, author and journalist, is dead. He was the last survivor of the original staff of the Illustrated London News. Thomas Garfield, the only brother of the martyred president, lives on a little farm ahout five miles from Hudsonville, Mich. He is 83 years of age and a typi cal farmer. Sir William GarsTint G. CM. 0., is famous as the compiler of the first bine book known in England's government circles. It dealt with his journey to the Dears or tne upper nue. Representatives huff of Pennsylvania j Haskins, of Vermont, and Cannon, of New York, so closely resemble one an other that only their most intimate friends can distinguish them apart. Edward de Mille Campbell, professor of chemical engineering and analytical enemistry in the University of Michigan, Is totally blind, yet in bis line he is considered one ot tht best authorities in the country. Speaker Cannon on Monday mads - appearance in tha House elad in his new suit of homespun, hand -woven leans. The fabrie was mads from the wool of South Carolina sheep by an old woman wno greauy aamirss the speaker, ai inougn Bne naa never seen him. ' Professor Willard.C. Fisher, of the De partment of economies and Social Sei nee at Wesleyan University, has been sleeted mayor of Mlddletown, C., by tbe laboring classes after a run marked oy the bitter opposition of the business and professional n or tat city, France has 7,000 miles of state owned and toll-free canals. it is so generally prevalent that parents who can possibly afford to pay for "tui tion, never think of sending their chil dren to public schools. The incessant vigilance of the immi gration inspectors has not entirely suc ceeded in shutting the gate against this malady, and eases of it crop up form time to time in the dispensary of the New York Postgraduate Medical School in the heart of the upper East Side. The spread of this disease throughout the country, the commissioner-general of immigration says in his last report, would work Incalculable harm to the public school system which has been so laboriously built up throughout the """-V To the advanced student of medicine in New York, the foreign population of this cit is useful in much the same way that the great commerce of Eng land is to his cousin in London. With the rapid commercial develop ment of the tropics in recent years and their increasing importance in the his tory of the world, the lack of adequate knowledge of the special ills that flesh is heir to in the wanner regions of Jcb than any other country with the possible exception of ourselves. Iwo years ago the situation was met by the establishment of the London - School of Tropical Medicine as a part of London University. Similar Move in America. With the American flag flying over the Philippines and Porto Rico, with Cu ba at our doors and the Panama canal still undug, a movement is now on foot to inaugurate similar work at the Post graduate Medical School and Hospital in this city . With a million or so of immigrants pouring into the country every year, how ever, American physicians do not have to look far from home for problems to tax their skill. The tenacity with which many of these new arrivals, with the poorest of physical foundations to begin with, cling to life in the face of pov erty, dirt, and hardship, is a puzzle. One well-known Chicago surgeon, who is now pursuing special work at the Post-Graduate, has declared that many of the lower classes of immigrants seem to have been made by long exposure im mune to the dangers of the dirt, just as negroes are immune to yellow fever. Kot Undesirable. To suppose, however, that all or even the great proportion of the new arrivals are undesirable would be a gross error. Throughout 1905 Ellis Island received daily thousands of sturdy workers to whom the new land offers boundless op portunity and who have the ability and the industry to seize it. The evil lies in the accumulation of the refuse of this n , i.l t i , H00 m the tagnant pools of New York's most crowded Quarters. Charitable organizations have noticed that any unusual wave of emigration from one ountry at once, throws upon their hands a vastly increased propor tion of this particular nationality. The explanation is simple. Ordinarily the immigrant has some notion of wliat he expects to do once he has arrived in the Land of Promise; but at all times there comes a great influx from some over DODulated reffion. a vast horde antuitorl by dim ideas of an overflowing home of plenty, without plans or resources. For them there is only one course to crowd into the sections of the city where their own people are already settled and to remain there imprisoned by their ignor ance of America, its language, its cus toms and its opportunities. This is the fate of the unfit and it is with the unfit that the physician has to do. in many of the clinics of the Post- Graduate Medical School, the lecturer must be prepared to talk to his phvsi eian-student in one language and to his patient in another a complcation which would be an intolerable nuisance were it not for the incalculable advantage derived from the variety of physique. i , f i- . . . . ; i " PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Claxton Wilstach has joined the Shu bert staff. - "Barbara Krietchie" Is being played in a western mock company. John Flood has joined the cast of "Be- ,,,r ,"d Aner" . successful Dietrich stein fane. DeWitt C; .lenninas has scored one of the pronounce. I hits of the presentation of "The Clansman." Leo Dictrichstuin and ' A. Baldwin Sloane are to write a musical piece to gether, which may be pronounced In the spring. Early in February Otis Skinner is to produce'in New lork "The Duel," which was the success of the Comedie Fran- calse lait season, ; Edna Wallace Hopper has received permission to appeal from the decision against her 'in the Dunsmuir will case to a higher Canadian court. Margaret Illlngton, Arthur Byron, Al Llpman and R. A. Roberta have been engaged among others for another com pany to present "The lion and the Mouse," Louis Telleux this week rounds out his thirty years' service as a musician with the United States Marine Band, and he will take advantage of tbe law which permits him to retire on a oen slon. He is a native- of Belgium and at one time was oornetlst in the Khedive of Egypt's orchestra, . , - 1 Alfred Sutro, an Englishman, who ten years ago retired from business to write plays, and who the last few months has leaped to the fore oi English dramatists, has arrived in New York. He says the eniei ooject oi nis visit is to make John D. Rockefeller the central figure of a jiuwvriiu American piay. EDITCSIAt CCrCZINT - " Ground for OytUnianv Virtue, charity, appreciating morals, individual and collective self-saorifioe from the broad, indispensable back ground of ours and of all races. But to tha great hurrying, scurrying publio, such topics are not of Intense interest Undoubtedly, tbey eould be mad so by a careful and skillful recital of an tha facts and conditions leading up to and governing the individual instance. The greatest tragedies in life and in litera ture are those silent chapters which end in the very crimes so dismally catalogued; or in the financial, indus trial or moral victories which arc ex ploited or not, according to their pic turesque features. We must, however, be in immediate contact and sympathy with all details bearing on these trage dies, or comedies, or melodramas, to appreciate them, or even read with un alloyed interest the various phsses of tneir Happening. We consider this inability of the press to record uniformly the nobler deeds of life to be responsible for the apparentlyl grewsouie showing society makes when its deeds are sougnt to be reduced to statistics. For ovenr nrudent develop ment of the Cory or Yerkes order, we believe there are 10,000 silent, dynamic deeds of heroism or abnegation, chroni cled only in the seared souls of the par ticipants or in these archives kept by a watchful heaven. For every thoft, for every murder, for every petty or glar ing bit of meanness, we are convinced there are scores of deeds of virtue and of self-mastery. That is why the mor bid rosters of the dying years do not impress us with a feeling of pessimism or distrust of the steadily onward march of humanity in the abstract. Atlanta Constitution. Value of Publicity. The committe on insurance of the New York Chamber of Commerce a few days ago submitted a report to the chamber iu wnicn it is aeciarea mat publicity is the only weapon which can be used successfully to combat the "spirit" of sordid commercialism which has clouded the judgment of those who heve been the custodians of large and important trust, causing them to deprt from the paths of rectitude and high honor which heretofore has characterised our mer chants and bankers," as revealed by the recent insurance investigation. The re port says that the very atmosphere of our commercial life has become impreg nated with an undue desire for wealth and power, a statement which, coming rrom such a source, deserves more than passing attention. I he report declares that while restric tive legislation may not be conducive' to the best administration, there should be a rigid requirement of publicity in re spect to ail the affairs of organisations of this character, requiring each com pany to publish its annual statement, with the details of its expenses and oth er items relating to the administration, and, further, that a semi-annual exami nation be made of all the details of the appropriations of funds used in corpora tions of this Kind. "Publicity," the re port goes on to say, "is really the best means of keeping those who hold fiduci ary positions under the eye of the pub lic Omaha Bee. Tht Americas Sweet Tooth. The people of the United States are getting a reputation as consumers of sweets. They do not equal the English people as eaters of sugar to the bead of poulatlon, but our 90,000,000, as a body consume more sugar than is done in any other nation on tht globe, our consumption being over 75 pounds per neau in a year, xne returns or the for eign sugar imported into this country during the year 1905 are not quite complete, but it will amount in value to not less than 1150,000,000, while the sugar produced in this country was of a vaiue oi about PA,uuu,U0u. According to tha government's re port the United States consumed last year about one-fourth of tbe sugar pro duction of the world. Nearly all the sugar brought into this countrv is nra- duoed from cane, and the United States' consumes fully one-half of tht cant su gar produced In tht world. Cant sugar is forming at present a larger propor tion of the world's sugar supply than during 1890-1902. Among tbe countries contibuting to the sugar consumption of the United States for tht fiscal year iima were: wins, x,ua,euu,H3y pounds) lava, 839,584.575 pounds t Hawaii, 832,. 72U8J pounds; Porto Rico, 871,318,903 nounas; uermany (principally beet eug ar), 205,084,302 pounds i West Indies, otner man t uba, x0s,63B,853 pounds i South America, 188,5574528 pounds; i nullum unnoi, ll,nl,i DOUnOS. V'..... ft wij Alaska Should Have It. Secretary Taft will lend the welsht of his Official Indorsement to the renuest mane oi uongress ror a decent appropria tlon for road purposes in Alaska bv Mai or Richardson, president of the military board of road commissioners of the ter ritory. Major Richardson thinks that a sum or certainly s 1,000,000 should be an prnpnated for this purpose and he shows conclusively that, in a dlstriot of such vast extent that little oan be aooomnish ed with the small amount now at tbe command of tht commission, an amount. oy toe way, whioii is furnished altogeth er by the people of Alaska themselves tnrougn a system or license taxation im posoo upon inem by Conarrsss. which has no counterpart in any othtr part of tht United States. .. . Congress has imposed special taxation upon the people of Alaska, in addition to tne regular federal taxation which the Alaskans pay in tht same proportion as people elsewhere. It refuses to give the people of Alaska a local government au thorised to pass laws and to levy tax atlon. The least it oan do therefore, is to furnish for tht people of Alaska tht road system which it refuses to furnish them with the machinery for creating , - ,l i u .ii . .1 i . . ,..e iu mhujwitii.--i uie rosv-inttlU' genoer, HALF THE WORLD WfWDEM how tht othtr half lives. These who use Bueklen'a Amies Salve never woa der if it will curt Cuts, Wounds, Bunts, Bores and all Bktn eruptions : they knot it win, Mrs. Grant Bhy, iiao E. Bey nolds street, Bmrlngfleld. 111. sarsi "I regard it one of the absolute totalities of housekeeping." Guaranteed by all oruggists. sac. . HUTTJAl BEN EXIT IS BEST. HEARD IN HOTEL FOYER; AND ON STREET CORNER A certain doctor . who employed an Irish eoachman was at one time keeping his team at tha livery stable. On going there one morning to start off on a trip ha discovered that his watch had run down. Upon inquiring the time one of the men standing around said it was 9 Ji'clock. The proprietor of tha stable ooked at his watch and declared that it was yet a quarter to nine and still an other said it was ten minutes past, "Its no use, Jim, we never could And out tha time from hese people. No two of their watohes seem to agree." "Two ave them," aald Jim, "faith and begorry, if I can sea that even won of them agrees." , . . ' A story is told about Chauneey M. De pew which will be rather amusing to those who know how important a man the Senator is, in his own estimation. He had been invited to address and as semblage at some town and had rent ed. He was very enthuastically receiv ed" on arrival and bis pride had all the food it could desire at the attentions heaped upon him. In the evening when the people had come together he was lead to a seat next to the mayor of the town, who was the chairman and toast master of the occasion. A banquet had been spread and every body was enjoy ing the feast to their heart's content, eating and drinking and talking with great gusto. In this way, fully two hours passed by and then the mayor leaned over and whispered to Mr. De pew. shall we let the crowd enjoy itself a little longer, or shall we now have your speech?" A very recently bereaved minister and a friend were in a cemetery and stood looking at the monument erected over the grave of the minister's wife. It was one of those occasions when even the most easy talker finds it difficult to know just what to say. In this case it was particularly, so as tne preacner nan been somewhat more than ordinarily hasty in procuring a second wife. Only a very few months had intervened be tween the burial of tbe first and his wedding the second. But there stood the noble monument, speaking for it self, words of love and devotion to num ber one. On it was inscribed these words: "The light had gone out from my life." The friend stood mutely easing at the granite slab for a few moments. ".naven t you lorgotten, my aear friend, to add a postscript to that in scription?" be asked. 'Postscript!" exclaimed the astonish- el minister, "pray, what postscript should I add?" "WelL I don't know, but I thoueht it might be a little appropriate if you should add: "But I have struck another match." e e . N. Of course, everybody knows that a certain grade of paper . is made from wooa. oome one not long ago reiatea an incident which he witnessed himself while at a little town in Germany, show ing that however smart people in this country may .be, that the Germans, at 1 .A ! ILL 1 least,, iu vuib diee, were miguijr ijuiu. GLEANED HERE AND THERE. Austrian and German chvsicians have fixed on oo free as one of the causes of epilepsy. The ocean voyage from Bremen to Sydney, in Australia, a distance of 13,- 177 sea miles, can now be made in 04 dsys. ; - . ' . Every line of Mrs. and Mr. William son's novel, "My Friend tht Chauffeur," was written out or doors at their de lightful home in the South of Franca, Japan'a government will realist $8,- 100,000 from tha salt of such merchant vessels seized uuring the war as it does not desirt to keep for its own auxiliary service. Tht lata Jacob Ljtt, who required a large fortune in a abort time, had tbt unique distinction in the theatrical bus iness of never having paid a royalty to an author. There art ten mountains in Italy, tbe height of which exceeds 10,000 feet. Tbe Monte Bianco, or Whita mountain, tn tht Central Alps, is the highest moun tain in tht kingdom. Some of the Japanese fishermen in Hawaii have built a sampan on the model which was in use in Japan about 800 B. C The; have put a gasoline engine in it and use It for fishing. The Sahara has over one-half the area of the United States. Its population is very small for its area. The Libyan and Nubian deserts are only a continuation of it to the Red Sea. Two highwaymen, mounted on bicy cles, have been sandbagging citizens with much success lately in San FranoUoo suburbs. They ride up noistltely, do their work easily, and escape easily. The late General Samuel J. Anderson, of Portland, Me., who died recently at the age of 81, ran as Democratic candi date for Congress against Thomas J). Reed and was only beaten by 60 votes. All parts df Africa, except Abyssinia, Morocco and Liberia, are controlled ui rectly by some European power, French Africa is about equal in area to half the United States. The Prussian minister of publio works has ordered that In future drivers and firemen on the state railways mutt be-j total abstainers. Intemperance has caused many accidents on Prussian railroads of law, . In tht church of Tasow, in the govern' men of Kursk, Russia, tht altar piece Is a painting of tht "Last Julgment the foreground being a vivid representation of hades. Conspicuous among tha lost ones la torment is 'ioistok Tht British consul general at Genoa alvooatas tht tstablUhing of a British chamber of oommeeet at that port for tht purpota of strengthsnisg English trade relations wita Italy and to auceessmuy compete witit other countries. He claims that such an institution would be very userui in aeweting agents ror British ex port firms and safeguarding them against swindling agents and nrma in Italy. The incident goes on to tell about some paper being made and a newspaper , printed in a most increditably1 short time. Four trees were felled In a certain forest. Tbey were hauled to a paper factory, striped of bark, manufactured into paper, the paper' was taken to a , newspaper office and a news sheet print ed in a half -hour more. - V see J. N. Thompson, night clerk at tht - Benbow, felt himself a few "night ago, . a very much aggrieved young man. He says: " ' .. : - ; "I did not take much stock in the man when he first approached the coun ter and, when he had registered I took a sort, of strange dislike to his name. He asked altogether too many questions about his . room and showed distinctly that he was built out of the first-class material of winch kickers are ' made. . When he started up to his room 1 had presentment that he and I were going to meet again before morning. . But, ., as one o'clock passed and two o'clock came I began to think that perhaps t was going to be mistaken. But no. At two-thirty he appealed before me and even his very presence, before "I saw him, gave mo a shook. The first thing he demanded was a rebate in his bill, I asked on what account. He stuttered, and stammered, and try as hard as I, could, I tailed to get any intelligent -reason for his demand. I asked him if the room was not all right, and he ' acknowledged that it was. He said the bed was comfortable enough, and that he bad experience" no trouble whatever in going to sleep. But he said that shortly after two o'clock he had awak ened and realized that something 'Was wrong. Well, what was the matter? 1 asked, and I put the question to him '' sharply. "Well," he replied, "it is just like this, . I don't feel as though I should pay full pries for a bod and then find out that I could not have even one dream." Col John M. Staples relates' a little incident which he witnessed one time in a justice's -court room. He says the Squire was a personal friend of his and he had just dropped in for a friendly chat. As they were sitting talking to gether in came a young man and woman, both of them blushing to the roots of . -their hair. With much stammering they managed to make the justice, under stand that tbey desired to be married. Finding tht license all correct, the Squire proceeded to tie the knot, and then thanked the bride-groom for the very moderate fee he gave. As they started to leave the room, the justice jumped up, bowingly, opened the door and handed the young wife an umbrella -and wished them all kinds of good luck. "Do you always do that. Inquired Col. Staples. "What," cried the Justice, "marry peo ple, why, of course." "No, not that," replied the Colonel, "but do you always give the bide an umbrella?" Tbe friend flushed, looked puttied for a minute and then inquired, ' "why wasn't that umbrella hers," he asked. "No," replied CoL John, "ft was mine." "LIKE MIST BEFORE THE RISING SUN" A Former Slave to Drink Thus Describes the Manner in Which His Crav ing Vanished. Writing of his experience, ba says: .. "I waa induced ahout seven years ago to take a course in your Institution, but I almost thought myself hopeless, as I ws a miserable wretch and a curse to myself and family; but, realizing the fact that unless something was done and dona quickly, my doom would be for ever sealed, and that a drunkard's grave would be tht final result, 1 took tht ad vice of my friends and entered your grand Institute, ond completed the course In about tour weeas; ana, to my surprise, I found that the great thirst and desire for strong drink had vanished 'Like mist before the rising sun,' and,, although it has bean several years since I took the treatment, I am still a new man, and have no desirt whatever for the hell-broth that came so near pulling me down to a devil's nell. Before taking your course 1 was not . the onlv one miserable, but my dear wift and children also were. After com pleting your course I returned to my home, and everything seemed chsnged. It seemed as though I had entered an. -other world, a real paradise, and a land ' of sunshine and flowers. I heartily rec ommend and beg any poor wretch, who it addicted to the liquor habit, to take a course at once in your great Institu tion, and tht result will be Inevitable and ha will thank hli God for such an institution. You will find the officers, msnsger, and physician as aina ana possible . will be done, for ypur comfort, and for a speedy cure. "I honestly believe that for ' kind treatment and speedy and lasting cure effected, this grand institution has no equal. Let the work go on and on, and I sincerely hope and pray that all men who are addicted to strong drink will go to the fountain, the Greensboro Keeley Institute, and be forever healed. "T. M SHEETS. - "Lexington, tf. C, Oct.30, 1904." Send names and addresses ot those who may be benefited to the Keeley In stitute, Greensboro, N. C. - , Edna May, who sails for London early In March to begin her starring season at tht Vaudeville Theatre, will .leave; tht important members of. her present , company on this side to appear later' when Hattla Williams opens In a, new musical comedy, j. Caro ivoma, who plays tbt part pf tha , jealous and vindictive ssnorita in "Mexi- . eana," combines tht gifts of singing, act:' Ing and musical composition to a nota ble degree. bt has attracted critical praise in the work she la doing in this production, for which she-received a flat tering offer. Her original work, which ' in its published form is very popular, is of one oPtht last sort and comprises a large number of songs well known ta tht music lovers of tbt day. . .
Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.)
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Jan. 20, 1906, edition 1
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