Newspaper Page Text
Jackson a bell company! TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. TILE DIEY MESSAGES by mall, taa rear, 17.00; alx months, 13.50; three caacthj, H.7i; one month. SO cents. "THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER Ctrft 1 Ps a papers), by mall, one year. LvC;-fix months. 60 cents, in advance. , fl. C. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24th, 190L PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND.' HIS OPPORTUNITY. President Roosevelt has good lineage. The Messenger has already told of his excellent Bulloch kin in Georgia, of which he i3 said to be very proud. His genealogy shows him on the mother's ' side, descended from President Archi bald Bulloch. His maternal ancestry came to Georgia from Virginia. He is also reported as having "royal blood on the maternal side," and on the father's - side "good knickerbocker stock"' that came from Holland. The Atlanta Daily News publishes three coats of arms tiro maternal and one paternal : "Two branches of th.se Bullochs now exist in Georgia. The younger branch, descended from the two marriages of r -r j-tj , T .. 1 1 . . 1 . J son of Captain James Bulloch and Anno - Irvine, the grandson of President Arch ibald Bulloch and his wife, Mary de Veaux; and the senior branch, rev: representing the head or tne ramiiy, descended from the eldest son of Cap tain James Bulloch (John Irvine Bui- aucn ) whip maiiicu uauunc vjiii- Charlotte Glen was descended on her mother's side from the Wymbarley and Noble Jones families: through her father. Judge John Glen, from the Glenns (or Glens) of "Bar," Linlith gow. Scotland, a family rit present rep resented in America by the descendants of this Charlotte Glen, of Georgia, of t: e late John Thomas Glann, of At ? nta. and the Glenns. of Baltimore ;. & Philadelphia." The president descends from the younger branch. The genealogy fills two columns in the News. But the country is much more interested in the descendant than in family trees. If the president measures up to public expec tations he would do most admirably . an! make an executive that will ren der him very popular and make him an hor.or to his country. The prevailing idoa in all parts of the country and ' arr.ong intelligent men in all parties, is, that he will prove to be an excellent president, not of the north or west or south, but of the entire United States. God grant the fulfillment of this happy expectation. A broad gauged president, a conservative, wise, patriotic chief of ficial is just what the times and the country call for. The south will treat ' him justly and favorably. The genuine, unfaltering democrats will accord him friendly support and confidence and will hejp to uphold his hands in all that is him see to it that he gives no continu ance to sectional antagonisms in any ... of its phases. He will not be prejudged but judged by the principles and deeds of his administration. The south is democratic largely. More than three :fourths of the intelligent white men sare generally democratic and opposed to the principles of the republican party as urged, declared and enforced for quite thirty-five years. The following we find in that able democratic expo nent, and it is to us in line with some thing we presented in an editorial of yesterday. It expresses the opinion no doubt of many unfaltering, moderate, "but resolute democrats. The Sun had not been received when the editorial in f The Messenger was written. It says: t "Differences of opinion there will be, ot course, and sturdv opposition from the south to measures providing for ship subsidies or for the retention of ueless . and oppressive tariff duties. The south also stands for the extension of constitutional government and re publican institution to our dependencies at the earliest possiDie opportunity. These are questions upon wrhlch the Umerican people are almost evenly .? ti on fho ohans- in adminlstra- ignJwlll not end the discussion upon niters, which, in the opinion of nearly -.' f Jt the voters of this country, involve h TiHnrinips. It would be a sad day A for th republic f there were no dis cussions of the issues which are con- stantly arising n tne policies ' government, regardless of their merit, wre carried out without dissent or pro - -tesi by the people and their representa tives in congress- An intelligent and vigorous opposition Is indispensable to :he efficiency of government under our free Institutions." STATISTICS OF LYNCSniGS. The Chicago Tribune republican, pub lishes annually its record of lynchings. Unless its statistics are more reliable - than others that appear the negro parson in London the other day for instance you can not safely build upon them. Many rapes occur in the south . of which The Tribune never learns, we cannot well . doubt. In sixteen years lynchings have occurred in every state but four, namely Delaware, Massachu setts. New Hampshire and Rhode Is land. Massachusetts is better behaved now than when it used to burn old wo men as witches. The Tribune reports 2,576 persons lynched in sixteen years. Of these 2.0S0 were In the south. But the north : with "comparatively few ni groes and no rapes hardly managed by industry", to hang 436. This will do for a" start. The hanged were divided into 51 women, :1,678 negroes, SOI white, 21 Indians, S Chinese, and 7 Mexicans. -Murder and rape were the excuses most .frequently, given for mob law, but 112 -other reasons . .were assigned, some of the most -extraordinarily petty nature, such as slapping a child, enticing away rjc servant, "unpopularity," voodooism, fete. The south lor the greater part confines, its operations to two deadly, J most infernal crimes rape ana murder A short "trial in the woods" a quick end follow when brutes who rape and murder are overhauled. In 1892 there were 236 lynchings reported the high est. There were 200 in 1833, 189 in 1894. and to 107 in 1839. In 1900 there were 115. and in the first nine months of 1501 there have already been 101. Of these victims of the present year. 76 were colored. 23 white. 1 Chinese, and one an Indian. Only 24 were murdered be cause of a charge of rape, and 27 be cause they had taken human life ille gally. If the north the good, pious, refined, merciful north that never sins and al ways deals lovingly with offenders had 8,000,000 of blacks and as many rapings of white women and children as occurs yearly in the south, it would easily distance the south and hangings and burnings would be of daily record. The north is very gentle and long suf fering. It takes it out sentimental vaporing and caustic censure of the south it loves to hate. The lynchings are very bad but murder and rapes are vastly worse. It is a great pity that the rapes and murders do not stop, then lynchings would disappear. The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle had this recently and it gives a correct view of the precise conditions In exposed local! ties, in the country generally and on the outskirts of villages and towns: "In parts of the south where convic tions have been secured In orderly pro cess the people live in daily fear, where as in those quarters where the lynch Ings have made their power felt -the white residents believe themselves safe. The condition is deplorable. The people visit upon law-breakers a worse break ing of the law. If the courts cannot be made efficient it may come to the pass that all negroes will require to re move from American soil, to which thoy were brought against their wills, and if they do not so remove that they wJll be expelled by force and shipped away to Africa." A HAPPY REPARTEE. "We read recently a clever "skit" in in the New York Evening Post. A northern man had been telling some marvellous yarns about southern peo ple, possibly believing all he told or heard. His production was quite worthy of northern ignorance and credulity. It is astonishing how eager the scribblers "up there" are to bur lesque the south and to bamboozle their receptive, gullible readers. Mun chausen, the German, has been dead a century or two, he only living in Eng lish fiction, but Munchausen, the northern man, is "live and kicking" and constantly making a fool of him self. The article we saw that struck us as good of its sort, and it very apt ly, amusingly exposed the tomfoolery of a writer by a broad piece of fun was an amusing exaggeration. It is head ed, "A dialogue in a Library," and the beginning is this: "Sir: The little boy had just arrived at New York from the south, and, af ter he had left the room, one of the party said it seemed so funny that he wore no shoes. "Not at all." said the North Caro linian. "Boys never wear shoes where he came from, and not until they get half-grown do they wear any clothes other than a single loose garment." "A gunny-sack, with a hole in the bottom for the head to go through, and the corners cut off for the arms," cor rected the Virginian; and no one crack ed a smile. "Why,( down in Duplin county, where I was raised," continued the North Carolinian.) evidently .encouraged by the corroboration he had received, and could depend upon receiving, from the Virginian, "they turned boys out to grass in the spring and did not see them any more until frost. Yes, sir, they just tethered them by the side of the swamp, so they could get water, and let them live on huckleberries." "That's so," said the Virginian. The North Carolinian seemed to think that, so long as he had let the cat out of the bag, he might as well go ahead and make a clean breast of it. "There are rings around my legs now showing how high the water in . our swamp used to rise, just like the rings you have seen around the lower part of trees that grow by the river's bank," he confessed. The New Yorkers were staring in open-mouthed wonder. Then spoke the Virginian. He told how the people in his country had run naked in the woods until they had be come a hairy race. That was too much for even a New York audience, and one of the men said he thought the Virginian ought to to be ashamed of himself for talking about his native land so." There is more, but this will do. It was ridicule of a fellow who produced a joke as to how southern people amused themselves by burning "niggers" not in vengeance at all for greatest crimes, but for pure amusement. The writer of the burlesque retort says: "And the worst of it is that a morn ing paper of today quotes a portion of Mr. "Mowbray's article, presumably glad to get from a respectable source something that can be twisted Into a semblance of corroboration of its own bigotted and biassed views, and actu ally comments on it as though it took it seriously The "retort courteous" is from the pen of a young North Carolinian for years resident in New York city, Mr. Francis B. Hays, born at Oxford, and son or the able and greatly venerated Mr. John B, Hays, who passed away a few weeks ago. J ridge Wilson's Sadden Death, Washington, September!. J eremiah Morrow Wilson, principal counsel for Rear Almiral Schley and one of the leading lawyers of Washington, died suddenly in his apartments in the Shoreham hotel shortly after 11 o'clock today. Heart failure, superinduced by an attack of acute indigestion, coupled with Bright's disease, caused his death. He leaves a son, Charles S. Wilson, who has been associated with him In the law. and a daughter, Mrs. William Haywood, of this city. Judge Wilson was a native of Ohio and was 73 years old. He served on the bench and in congress. AND COMMENT. kIn one of the four recent victories of the Boers Lieutenant Colonel and Hon. Andrew Murray and his adjutant. Cap tain Murray, were killed.. The British scouts lost heavily. 'But to offset, four victories by the Boers General Kitchen er reports 55 Boers captured on the 17th and 109 since. A dispatch from London of the 22nd said that "Lord Lovat's scouts who. Lord Kitchener reports, have lost heavily In a fight with the Boers, are one of the most noted of the irregular corps attached to the British army in South Africa, corresponding in some degree to the Rough Riders of the Spanish-American war." Colonel Mur ray was a meritorious officer and broth er of Earl of Mansfield and the heir presumptive to the earldom. He was 38 years old. The total Boer force now in the field is reported to be 11,000. Late advises are Interesting. For instance, "in Boer circles In Holland it Is asserted that everything Is prepared for a Dutch rising In both Cape Colony and Natal. A most alarming letter from Cape Town is published toclay by the Daily Express. The writer says: "The Boers are overrunning Cape Colony. They are on both the coast lines and within forty miles of Cape Town. Even the intelligence depart ment does not know how many colonial rebels have taken up arms in the last fortnight." If the heathen are not 'at our door" and all about it. what do you make of the case given in the Baltimore Sun, that a white girl in that city of 550,000 is utterly ignorant ot God. had never so much as heard of Him, but she once attended Sunday school. The Sun says that "there should be anybody liv ing in a city with mora than 400 church es within Its precincts who knows noth ing about God is almost incredible." A Virginian Methodist preacher told "us in 1862 that he found a family in the old county of Halifax, in that state, who were entirely ignorant of God, had no knowledge whatever of Jesus Christ and a future state. The late Rev. J, W. Crowder, of Raleigh told us about 1873 or '74, that he found in an eastern county in North Carolina beyond Ro anoke river we think, a family, in six miles of the county seat who were heathen, not knowing there was a God The Baltimore girl is twenty and named Emma Paul. The opinion is given that the anar chists will yet be reached. But at pres ent they are turned' loose in Chicago, In New Jersey the "Reds" will finally have to go it is believed. The legisla ture will soon deal with them by enact ing a law suited to their offense. It is said that the conspirators "will be treated as accessories before the fact, and the charge will be murder. If con victed they will suffer just the same punishment as if they were convicted of aiding or abetting in any ordinary case of murder." It is stated that the New Jersey people are much worked up and aro determined to rid their state of the presence of the red handed mur derers and conspirators. The evidence before the naval court of inquiry has about disposed of one or more charges brought against the modest, most meritorious Rear Admi ral Schley. The false report that he withdrew his squadron every night is shown to be a lie. Both Admiral Higgin son and Commander Schroeder testify in favor of Schley on this very import ant point. It is curious to know how that, lie was started. We cite this from a report in the Baltimore Sun of the 23rd: "Admiral F. J. Higginson, who was captain of the Massachusetts, and Commander Seaton Schroeder, who was its executive officer during this cam paign, .were on the witness stand yes terday, and both were positive that no such withdrawals as those mentioned ever took place. Admiral Higginson said that as captain of the Massachu setts he would certainly have been in formed of such an order and would have remembered the movement if it had taken place. The order and the movement would have been recorded In the log. He was satisfied that at no time did the squadron withdraw far ther than six or eight miles from the entrance of the harbor." The South Carolina people are active and earnest in pushing forward the exposition at Charleston to begin 1st of December. Its sucecss is believed to be assured and the people will be there to see the many interesting ob jects and things to be shown. We take it that North Carolina will be there in displays of products and in the persons of thousands of its citizens. There is no doubt that Wilmington "will put in its appearance" in a vein of curiosity, neighborly appreciation and true inter est in what concerns the south. The Midway show will be duly attended to. The News and Courier says: "Twenty-one acres of the exposition grounds have been reserved for this part of the show, and nearly every foot of this large area has already been taken. There will be camels and elephants, and gondolas, and whild Indians and buffalo and congresses of Oriental beauties and dancing girls who have taken medals at all the great expositions, and restaurants and re freshments without end." At Spring Valley, Illinois, twenty anarchists are armed with double-barrel shotguns and 1,000 rounds of am munition. They are guarding a notor ious anarchist newspaper office, called Lt'Aurore. A dispatch of the 22nd says: "Mea'nwhile fully 2,000 citizens of ad joining towns have sent word to the authorities here that they are ready at a moment's notice and are extremely anxious to start for this city and assist in exterminating the reds. The temper of the people is at the boiling point, the defiant attitude of the anarchists colony serving to increase the general anger. "John Cabilli. the editor of LAurore, has been in hiding every since a recent meeting gave . evidence of a desire to demolish his publication and adorn nim with a coat of tar and feathers." In the athletic contest of Harvard and Yale against Oxford and Cam bridge the former win six points to the tatter's three. tec prxcisn eate d TAT3 AUTJ EOSSE3. Accorng to London news the Bri tons ar much surprised and perplexed over reont developments in South Af rica- Tpey can not understand how a small ffrce of Boers can give so much unexpected and meet undesirable trouble: It confounds them. Out of seven recent engagements the Boers were victorious four times and in two or three days. They Inflicted a loss of 100 killed 250 wounded and many pris oners and guns. This loss added to General Botha's invasion with 2.000 men of Natal makes the outlook very unpleasant to the war-making British er. Th Baltimore Sun viewing the sit uation says that the "whole country, outside of narrow areas guarded by gar risons, as been desolated and the fam ilies of the Boers to keep them from starvinJ have been collected into ref ugee cimps. General Kitchener has made wilderness, but can not "call it peace" because the indefatigable en emy, deprived of supplies at home, pro ceeds t live off the untouched supplies of Cap Colony and Natal. The Trans vaal aid Orange Colony were desolat ed, it fc said, to keep out the fighting Boers. "Very well." the Boers reply grimly; the turn of the British colo nies hes now come." The recent losses are qiite equal to those sustained when the wsr began in the fall of 1899. The London correspondent of the Philadel phia jTimes gives a long account of Britist opinion and actual conditions at the seat of war. and the following is enterUining: "It'vould be a serious mistake to as sume :hat. because about 20,000 Boers are prisoners, it would be Impossible for battlts of the magnitude of the first struggles at the Tugela and Modder rivers to be repeated. The Boers In the past 3ar have probably recruited 5,000 coloniil Dutch, while the republican forces are now at their fullest available strength. Instead of. as originally, leav ing ore man of each family to reside on the farm. On the other hand. Lord Kitchener's army, although five tinmes the strength of General Buiier's first force, does not represent a proportion ately; greater combatant capacity. Be fore the invasion of the Boer Republics the total British force was available for seeking and engaging the Boers, but now nearly 3.000 miles of railway must be guarded so closely that adjoining posts must meet daily and nightly." It is difficult, it seems, to ascertain the actual fighting strength of the Boers It Is put from 11.00 to 20.000. We sus pect from the great number of Boer prisoners in the camp of the British, that the real strength does not much surpass, if any, 10.000 men. But they are brave, enterprising and dashing. England has many enemies as well as great possessions. It has a quarter of a million troops in Africa. A great war with & great power now would cause vast dismay, for it wouid compel the evacuation of two Dutch republics in Africa LY THE SUPREME COURT Opinions Flled-Fltth District Cases Argued State Board ot Embalmers ; (Special to the Messenger.) Raleigh, N. C, September 24. In the supreme court opinions were filed to day as follows: Cook vs. Bank, from Dare, error; Waynewright vs. Massen burg, from Franklin, former ruling af firmed; petition to rehear dismissed; Connor vs. Dillard, from Wilson, er ror; Ricks vs. Pope, from Edgecombe, reversed; Pender vs. Pender, from Edgecombe; no error; Blake vs. Rail road, from New Hanover, dismissed for failure to print records; Byrd vs. Byrd. from Sampson, new trial grant ed by consent of appellee; Chemical Company vs. Barber, from Onslow, docketed and dismissed under rule 17; Mallard vs. Manufacturing Company, from Duplin, docketed and dismissed under rule 17; Williams vs. Hill, from Duplin, docketed and dismissed under rule 17. " Cases from the Fifth district were argued as follows: State vs. New, by attorney general for state, J. D. Kerr for defendant; Mitchell vs. Baker, on motion to dismiss by Shepherd for plain tiff, Pou for defendant; Herring vs. Sutton, by Rose (by brief) for plaintiff. Shepherd for defendant; Wiliams vs. Rich, by H. E. Shaw for plaintiff, Shep herd for defendant; Barden vs. Pugh, by T. B. Womack and Ed C. Smith for plaintiff, J. L. Stewart and J. D. Kerr for defendant; Weeks vs. McPhil, by Cooper & Butler (by brief) for plain tiff, Allien, Kerr and Mordecai for de defendant. Applicants for law licence will be ex amined next Monday. There were thirty-two applicants for embalmers license before the board here and of these twenty-seven passed, though names are not yet made public. J. W. Harry is chairman of the board. B. W. Simpson secretary. The only other other member present was Dr. Richard H. Lewis.' The board meets here again next month during state fair. Wood's Seeds FOR FALL SOWING. T. W. Wood fe Sons Fall Catalogue, issued in August, tells all about GRASS and CLOVER SEEDS, Vetches. Crimson Clover, Seed Wheat, Oats, Rye, Barley, Rape, etc Also Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Hya- ' cinths, Tulips, and all -Bulbs, Seeds and ' Plants for Fall, planting. The information given in oar Fall Catalogue about different crops is from our customers and our. own practical experience. We are constantly in re ceipt of the most gratifying expressions as to the great value and the help that our Catalogue proves to Farmers and Gardeners everywhere. Catalogue mailed on request. Write for it and prices of any seeds desired. T.W. WOOD & SONS, Seed Growers & Merchants. RICHMOND, VA. LAB 6 EST SEED R0SSEI3 TCEC03TH. 4 A se 18 6t we sa wy 4w MA27DA2XU3 KEXTUSED In the Railway A esessment' CaseA City School Superintendent Gets a "Call Down" That Lone-Delayed Penitentiary Report. Messenger Bureau, Raleigh. X. C, September 24. Judge Robinson this morning re fused to grant the mandamus asked for by Senator Ward to compel the corporation commission to assess this year the intangible property of the rail ways. Ward appeals. lie went home to Plymouth today. The corporation commission is ad vised that about twenty-two miles of the twenty-eight miles of railway be tween Plymouth and Washington is completed and that all will be in opera tion by November 1st. B. A. Arm strong, of New Jersey, Is the president, The state supcrintedent of public In struction has written a very sharp let ter to the city school superintendent of a piedmont town who sent a boy home last month because he was in a shirt-waist. The state superintendent informed the town superintendent that the state had Jurisdiction of our city and town schools. The state chartered today the Moun tain Park hotel at Hot Springs, Madi son county lately purchased by Julian S. Carr. Howell Cobb and others are stockholders and the authorized capital is $125,000. Nathan O'Berrj't penitentiary direc tor and chairman of Its finance com mittee, is here and says he hopes and expects to place the long-looked for reports in the hands of the governor by the end of this week. Captain O'Berry says if the penitentiary can pull through this month it will not need any more money this year; as the cot ton of the present crop will be on sale He thinks it will pulf through without having to borrow. The cotton mill at Oxford is nearly ready to begin work. The extensive furniture factory there is doing well and making sales from Maine to Texas. It is said there is more building in Ox ford than at any time in twenty years past. Henry Perry, the white man who wa3 brought here yesterday, charged with outraging his 12 year old niece, was sent to jail by a magistrate who fixed the date of the preliminary hearing on October 7. This excited some com ment and the grand jury of the superior court, criminal term, now in session, took up the matter this morning and sent for witnesses. Some republicans are heard to say that they want ex-Governor Russell to be their nominee for chief justice, but it is practically certain Chief Justice Furches will get a renominatlon. Rus sell is here. He is engaged in prepar ing an important case. The state engineer, Mr. J. H. McRee. who has been surveying in Tyrrell county, finds there a cranberry bog, full of these valuable berries. He says he is informed that there are 3,000 acres in the bog. TIIE SWAMP LiANDS SUIT A Compromise Made and Case Settled. Improvement ot A. & X. C. Railroad (Special to the Messenger.) Raleigh, N. C, September 24. The case involving the option on states swamp lands did not go before Judge Robinson under mandamus proceed ings, but compromised in the govern or's office by the state board of edu cation and the attorney for K. S. Finch. The latter surrenders his option on all the lands, upon condition that the board sign deeds for two lots of land he has sold In Tyrell of 1,900 and 2,700 acres respectively, and permits him to sell 6,300 acres more In Tyrell lands, provided he does so and tenders the money before February next, when his option expires. This settles the case and a non suit is taken. The report made on the condition ot the Atlantic and North Carolina rail way today by the state board of inter nal improvements says the physical condition is good, with many improve ments; shops are greatly enlarged, several new warehouses have been built; the track is better; the financial status is now good; the debt incurred for much needed improvements is be ing paid off. There is large increase in receipts; the total two years ago was $187,000; this year it is $240,000. The board of Internal improvements elected the following directors of thte railway; Chas. M. Busbee, Raleigh; W. H. Smith, Goldsbcro; L. Harvey, Kin ston; J. C. Parker, Oliver; James A. Bryan and T. W. Dewey, New Bern; R. W. Taylor, Morehead City; I. G. Daniels, Bayboro. The board elected J. W. Grainger, of Klnston, state's Proxy. The directors will re-elect Jas. A. Bryan president of the road. Goldsboro, N. C, September 24. The personnel of the Atlantic and North Carolina directors, appointed today, carries asssurance of the re-election of Jas. A. Bryan as president. The direc tors, meet at New Bern Thursday. XORTII CAROLINA DAY To bo Held In the Pnblic Schools Mon day, October 14th Monday. October 14th. has been fixed as North Carolina day in the schools and the subject selected by Superinten dent of Public Instruction Toon is "The First Anglo-Saxon Settlement fh Amer ica," A programme of exercises for the day is being prepared and will be Is sued at an early date. The superinten dent invites a discussion of the general subject in the press for the information of the people and the schools preparing to take part. The act, authorizing the observance of the day. chapter 14, laws of 1901, follows: "That the 12th' of. October, in eaeh and every year to be called 'North Car olina day' may be devoted by appropri ate exercises In the nubile schools of the state to the consideration of some topic or topics of our state history to be selected by the superintendent of public instruction; provided, that if the said day shall fall on Saturday or Sunday, then the celebration shall occur on the Monday nex following provided, fur ther, that if the said day shall fall at a time when any such school may not be in session the celebration may be held within one month of the beginning of the time unless the superintendent of public instruction shall designate some other time." Tt3 fai Ta Bars Ksiyi Esfft Cumberland County Children Th. Bazaar or JTnlantsof PytJlIas-Cap Fear Electric Power Company, Etc Correspondence of the Messenger.) Fayettevllle, September it. There are,, by the last census, over 9.G00 children of both races of school age in Cumberland county, of whom there are Dl white in Cross - Creek township, and 1,030 black. The total school fund for Cumberland, available for the session of isol and 1502. Is $14, S91.43, which will run the public schools about 4 or 4H months. The large armory of the Fayettevllle Independent Light Infantry presents a beautiful appearance this morning profusely decorated with flags, wreaths and flowers, while a great amphitheatre in the immense floor space is taken up. with brilliantly colored fancy booths all in preparation for the Knights of Pythias bazaar which opens this even ing, to continue until the night of the T6th. The fair will offer everything which one can think of in the way of wares and merchandise, the tables will supply a bountious dinner at noon, and the programme for each evening will furnish a varied and attractive enter tainment. At the next meeting the board of al dermen will pass on the contract be tween the town of Fayettevllle and the Cape Fear Electric Power Company, the latter proposing to furnish,on or before January 1st, 1902. 100 horse pow er for electric street lighting at a rent al of $2,000 a year. To effect this the power company Captain R. P. Gray, Mr. W. M. Morgan, Mr. E. W. Cooke. Mr. Robert Strange, engineer, and other officials merit all praise, for the odds against them have been great, freshets raging in the Cape Fear almost without a break ever since last May. The officers and members of the Fay ettevllle Independent Eight Infantry publish a series of strong resolutions in tribute to the memory of the late president, through the committee. Major J. G. Hollingsworth, Messrs. N. II. McGeachey. E. E. Remsburg and E. R. McKelthan. The fall opening of the city graded schools yesterday was satisfactory in the large attendance of pupils in the different departments. The main building has been refitted throughout, presenting a handsome appearance in a new coat of paint, and there appears to be a conviction in the minds of all that Professor Jones, the new superin tendent, will do good work. The Donaldson-Davidson high school for boys is already open with a largo number on the rolls, including several boarders domiciled with Professor Simpson's family. The tax books for 1901 show an In crease of little over $50,000 In the valu tlon of town and county property. Listed and unlisted lands are valued at $1,399,978. corporations at $1,630,000 and town lots at $799,293. There are 1,392 horses, 2.077 mules. 7,110 cattle. 4,079 sheep, and 20,910 hogs. There was a pleasant german at Williams' hall last evening, danced to the fine music of Remsburg's orchestra. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Hodges, of Rich mond, Va., have been very cordially welcomed by many friends during their visit in the last day or two to this city. Dr. Hodges, now at the head of the Richmond medical college, is a native of Cumberland county, and was a prominent Fayettevllle physician for somes years. Miss Pauline Cameron, of Lake Wac camaw, is making a visit to Misses Margaret and Bessie McNeill. Her mother, Mrs. Kirkland, and her sister. Miss Mary Warren Cameron, will be here soon to spend the fall and winter at the Hotel LaFayette. Mrs. Henry C. McQueen, of Wilming ton, is on a visit to Mrs. A. S. Huske on Dick street. This is the place of Mrs. McQueen's birth, who is the daughter of the late Avon E. Hall, who resided for years on Haymount. Since the death of Mr. Jas. D. Nott. Mr. John Nott. his brother, has come out from Texas to be with the only sur viving sister, and in a few days the ar rival of Mr. Samuel Nott from Kerrs ville, Texas, will reunite brotherrs and sister to pass the evening of life on the old family homestead. Mrs. James White, of Danville, Va., Is on a visit to relatives here. Mr. H. O. Sldberry has gone to Nor folk to spend a few days with his daughter, Mrs. Townshend. At the farmers' meeting in the coun ty court house, of which. Mr. A. A. Mc Caskill was chairman and Mr. G. H. King secretary, Messrs. James Evans, D. B. Culbreth and T. R. Bullard were chosen delegates to the Alliance con vention In Raleigh tomorrow. To Get Up Collars and Cuff Prepare some good cold water starch by mixing smoothly about two table spoonfuls of starch with rather more than half a pint of cold water. Add to this a teaspoonful of powder borax dis solved in a little hot water. Stir a piece of yellow soap In the starch water until it becomes soapy, whm the piece of soap must be removed. This will help to prevent the starched linen from sticking to the hot Iron. The articles to be starched must be perfectly clean and drv before they are put into the starch. Dip them and rub them vigorously in the starch, so that it penetrates them thoroughly; Take them out, squeeze them to remove ex cess of moisture and roll them up sep arately and tightly In a clean cloth or towel. Leave them for about two hours. When ready to iron them, rub both sides of the articles with a clean, dry cloth to remove any grains of borax or starch remaining on their outer por tions. Iron first on the wrong side and finish off on the right, using firm, steady presure. Dry before a bright fire until all are perfectly stiff. Well Said The Raleigh Post of yesterday very truly says: "That is an exceedingly agreeable statement contained In the Post's Greensboro correspondence this morn ing. That the furniture for the offices of the new city hall in that city was made in High Point, and the carpets made in Greensboro. With furniture made at High Point, springs and mattresses at Goldsboro. blankets, counterpanes and eiderdowns at Mt. Airy, sheeting at Wilmington and carpets at Greensboro! And all of grades equal to any made in the United States! What a encouraging state of affairds for the young people who con templating embarking on the sea ot matrimony in the Old North State to know that they can get all things need ed, and of home make at that. The old state Is rapidly developing; along useful lines." Eaantfca 9