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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-22

DEIIvE.Ep BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 10
CEHTsA WEEK, accents MONTH, So FOR
Elk MONTHS, 81 A YEAR THE SAME TERMS
BYMAu.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-22

Some OF the leading banks Of Europe
lost much gold last year. The Bank
Of England lost s5O,Ooo,o 900, the Bank of
France $12, 500 900, the Bank of Germany
S12, 500, 900, the Bank of the Netherlands
$5,00O,o00. The United States has $92,-
100000 more than last year, Austria
Hungary has 100000 more and the
Bank of Russia has over $4,000, 900
more. Part of Russa's stock, however
was received from the government and
did not come from abroad. Russia is
getting together its gold to back it's
paper circulation-preparing for re-
sumption.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-22
An inauisitive man has been making

An inquisitiye man has been making
ton on. the part of the heroine, who he
found, behaved as follows: ''She threw
her eyes up to the ceiling. Then she
dropped them to the floor. Again she
raised them, and again lowered them"
''She made her eyes flash fire." Her
eyes burned" Her eyes froze." Her
eyes glowed like burning GOALS" She
cast her eyes on his chest-then drop
ped them to the fender" His eyes
crossed hers and greedily devoured
Them
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-22

THECARRINGToN PUBLISHING co.
OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-02-11
Written for THE CoMMoNwEALTH.)
THE TRUSTING PLACE.
A. E. ROBINSON.

l wander down the valley,
To a cottage meath the trees,
Where the brook1et's gentle ripple
MingIes with the hum of bees.
Thro' the summers golden beauty,
Thro' the fiower-fagrant air,
At the wltching hour IF twilight
You will always find me there.
There a maiden comes to meet me,
At this sweet and mystic hour;
Who is fairer than the lilies.
Or than any garden flower.
Tho she boasts 10 ancient lineage,
She has neither land nor gold,
Tho she bring no wedding dowry.
She is rich With wealth untold.
She is winsome, sweet and pretty,
Has willing heart and hand,
And ! deem these greater treasure
Than lineage, gold or land.
She has promised when the roses
Bloom again in early spring.:
/ may fetter her forever,
With a tiny wedding ring.
So l wander down the valley;
To IL sheltered spot serene,
Where the girl l love will meet me
Near the cottage by the stream.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-02-11
Riches in Stumps.
National Recorder.

National Recorder.
An estimate of the possible profit to
be realized in utilizing pine stumps and
pitchy waste may be made, by assum-
ing that every cord of fat pine will
yield forty bushels of the best quality
metallic charcoal, twenty gallons of tlr-
pentine, forty gallons of tar, forty gall
Ions OF tar oil, and sixty gallons of py-
roligneous acid. By process of redis-
tiliatlon this pyrollgneous acid will
yield one and one half to two gallons of
alcohol, with from tour to SIX gallons
of acetic acid, besides a quantity of
creosote. Calculating these first five
named products st the lowest usual
price, the returns from :.,cnrl will net
SIS. Young sap wood will Yield more
than one half this quantity Of prU:uct'.
A plant for this purpose can be built
in the shape Of retorts, each retort OF
sufficlen. size FOR one-half cord OF wood
at an outside expense OF, say $500.
The time required for each charge of
one-half cord of wood is eight hours,
each retort thus handling one and one
halt cords Of wood in twenty four
hours resulting therefore in some
$40 profit l,er day from a retort costing
not more than q coke oven.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-02-11

One of Nirginia's greatest and best
men was Prof. H. II. Harris, who died
at Lynchburg few days ago. He was
at the time of his death member Of
the faculty of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, at Louisville,
XIV. An interesting sketch of Prot.
Harris life appeared in the Richmond
Dispatch.
1t is worth much to read and know
OF men who give their lives to high
purpose and noble resolve with such
persistence that the fullness OF the
wears Of their labor bears beautiful
testimony to their usefulness.
We often wonder why all men do
not aspire to I've lives above reproach,
in favor with God and man, looking to
the final consummatlon Of things when
death levels all. The example in the
life of one good and useful man has in
it enough to inspire thousand youths
to live such lives themselves.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-02-11
RELIEF IN SIX HOURS.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the "NEw
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY
CURE" This new remedy is a great
surprise on account Of its exceeding
prom mptness in relieving pain in the
bladder, kidneys, back and every part
of the urinary passages in male or fe-
male. 1t relieves retention of water
and pain in passing it almost immedi-
ately. If you want quick relief and
cure this is your remedy.
Sold by e. I. Whitehead and Co,
Drneaists. Scotland Neck. N. G..
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-02-11
Carl SNYDER tells in Leslle's Week

Carl Snyder tells in Leslle's Weekly
how the Cuban insurgents are so sue
cessfi,l. It is by the use of dynamite
guns. The following is a partial de-
scriptlon of the gun:
"The gun itself consists OF little more
thar three light steel barrels, set par
.lIel with each other, the midole barre!
being considerably longer than the 9th
er two. The three are joined at their
extremities to make heightened coll
exactly like that of trombone.
at what answers to the mouth-piece
of the trombone Is breech mechanism
III which the blank cartridge of smoke
less powder is inserted. The long mid
de barrel has also breech mechanism
tor the admission of the projectlle car
rying the charge of nitro-gelatine.
When these two breeches are loaded,
closed and the gun is sighted, the Ian
yard is pulled and the powder cartridge
exploded. The charge Of the latter Is
delivered into the alr-chambers formed
by the two outer barrels, and compress
es the column of air which they con-
tain, so that the force of the explosion
is delivered from the left-hand barrel
into the middle chamber, just behind
the dynamite projectile, cushioned with
the column of compressed air.
"The force thus generated is equal to
from a thousand to fifteen hundred
pounds per square Inch, and is sufficient
to drlye tue proiectiie from mile to a
mile and half. There is a report a
little louder than that caused by the
explosion of toy balloon, and without
a particle OF smoke or flame the projec-
tile is sent flying on its deadly mission.
"There is so little recoil, and the gun
is so light, that it may be carted around
and fired from an express wagon. A
four-inch- calibre gun, capable OF throw
ing a thirty-two pound projectlle con-
tanning a charge of fourteen pounds OF
nitro gelatine mile and half, weighs
but a sin gle ton, while the two-and-a-
half-inch gun, such as the Cubans have
had, is SO light that it may be trans
ported on the backs of pair OF mules,
the gun itself weighing put two hun
dred and fifty pounds, and Its carriage
as much more. This sized gun throws
charge of four pounds of gelatine the
the distance of mile, and when mount
ed on wheels a single horse can dag il
rapidly from point to point.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-02-11
If YOU ARE HUSTLER i
YOU WILL
ADVERTISE
YOUR
Business.
SEND YouR ADVERTISEMENT IN Now.

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all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and
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worm titles, Spralns, and Swollen
Through, Coughs, Etc. Save 80 by
use of one bottle Warranted the
most wondrfui Rlemism Cme ever
known. Sold DO E. T. Whitehead &
Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, N. c.
10 ".
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-02-11

| Confucius, ages ago, suggested the
proper feeling you thinkers should have
in the presence of the proofs that both
church and school fall short of their
powers, Said he "In archery we have
something like the way of the superior
man. When the archer misses the
centre of the target he turns round and
seeks for the cause of his failure In
bimself."
1t will not do to cry out desperately
that immigration is the source of TAIL
ure, for many of the most conservative
elements in the community have come
recently from abroad. One E.r5sratlon
will suffice. The purest American
blood, undiluted Anglo-Saxon for two
centuries, can be found in the two rural
counties of Delaware. Yet in no re-
gions OF the country, even where En-
glish Is hardly spoken, would it be pos
sible to find more abuse of the voting
power.
1t will not do to cry out that popula-
ton has increased SO rapidly that it has
out run all attempts to cope with 1t );
for your agencies for good, your engines
for the destruction of evil have more
tnan kept up with it as a whole.
Far from it being a fact that evil
workers come alone from those that
Religion and Education have failed to
reach it is true that scholars, secular
and religious, are frequent among our
criminals, that some even drenched
with the dropplngs of the sanctuary
take their share in eyils of every de-
scrlptlon.
1t will net do to affirm the will of
God in the birth OF idiots and the devel-
opment of insanity, for Science will
dlsprove your qulbble. and affirm that
much if not all is preventible by sane
knowledge of the laws OF life subjects
that In your strange timidity you are
almost afraid to mention above YOUR
breath.
Is 1t not beyond all question, need |
for us to confess that a condition is !
before us instead of mere theory |
The condition is, that Notwithstanding |
torrents OF energy, ceaseIess streams of |
wealth, floods of effort-all grand, mag
there is much strangely
Ineffective about it all in lettering our
and uplifting the Individual
Standard of life. Let us look to our
methods and seek out their mistakes
ct US forsake enthusiasm for mere fig
Tres and grow solicitous for the living,
1uman thing back of the dry statistics
ct us, pygmies alone but almighty
lnitec, harness our moral and educa-
,ional Niagara, as our gift to the gener-
ltions of the coming century.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-02-11
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs ct Things
Present, Past and Future.

The capitol building at Harrisburg.
Pa, was burned last week. 1t was an
old building, having been first nsed In
1922. The General-Assemhy was in
session at the time of the conf1gration.
1t was so sudden and complete that it
defied the efforts of fire companies, and
little of the furniture in the building
was saved.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-02-11

| 1t was so sudden and complete that II
defied the efforts of fire companies, and
little of the furniture in the building
was saved.
Some of the vastness of the Niagara
Falls may be imagined from the follow
ing facts which we take from the Ma
tlonal Recorder:
zone hundred million tons of water
pour over Niagara Falls every hour
This is said to represent sixteen million
horse power. Some idea OF this enor-
nous amount of water may be had by
understanding that the coal produced
IN the world would not make enough OF
steam to pump stream OF equal size"
There is considerable speculation
now as to the makeup of President
McKinley's Cabinet. 1t has been sug-
gested that the South may be left out.
This, it seems to us, would be poor
politics if the President wishes to hold
on to the idea of "breaking the solid
South" After all the mistakes Cleye-
land has made, and alter all his hard
beaded wilfulness in certain matters,
be has shown himself a friend of the
South. He recognized the manhood
and ability in the Southern people in
, manner to make them remember at
east that part of his administration
pleasantly.
The record-union., 1897-10-01
LATE JAMES G. FAIRS ESTATE.
VIII Not Exceed at the Most Fif-
teen Million Dollars.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30-The
Call" will say that the appraisers of
the estate of the late James G.. Fair
have completed their task, and will
present their report to the Probata
Court in a few days
The report will show that the value
of the Fair estate has been very much
overTated. Instead of being valued at
from thirty to fifty millions the ap-
praisers say the official figures will be
about 10000, 900, and certainly not
more than $15,000,000 These figures
have been reached after seven months
Of continuous and careful work by the
appraisers.
Fairs fortune is invested for the
most part in real estate the greater
part of which is in this city, but the
principal item Of the estate consists of
four million dollars in bonds of the
South Pacific Coast Railroad, built by
Fair, but now a part of the Southern
Pacific system.
The valuation of the Fair estate is
significant in view of the testimony
given by Fair in a trial several years
ago in Yolo County, when in reply to
question, he said he was worth at least
thirty million dollars. 1t is evident
that in the last few years of his life
Fair sustained serious losses, the facts
concerning which are carefully con-
cealed
The record-union., 1897-10-01
NEW STEAMSHIP LINE.
Representatives OF Japanese Capt.
talists En- Route to This Country.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30.-Zachiro
Asano and II. Koboyaisha, japanese
capitalists, are expected from the Ori-
ent on the steamer China, about Octo-
ber 10Th, en- route to New York and
London on business connected with the
establishment of line of steamers be-
tween San Francisco and Yokohama
and Hongkong.
Mr.. Asano is President of the new
Japanese steamship company, the Tayo
Kaisen Kisha About seven months
ago Mr.. Asano was in this city, and
made an agreement with c. 2. Hunt
ington. on behalf of the Pacific Mail
Company, and with the Central Pacific
and Union Pacific people, on behalf of
the Occidental and Oriental Steamship
by which these steamer lines were to
act with his company in an Oriental
service from this port, each company
to put on three steamers. 1t is said
this plan has been opposed by the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the most pow
erful OF Japanese steamship companies
It runs vessels to Seattle in connection
with the Great Northern Railway. This
company wishes to join the service
from this port, and to discontinue its
Seattle service. Mr.. Huntington is
said to be very favorably disposed to-
ward it, on account of its strength in
Chinese and Japanese waters in collect
ing and distributing trans-Pacific bust
ness. It is possible that Mr.. Asano's
company may be induced to sell its
new vessels to the older company.
The record-union., 1897-10-01
TAMMANY's TICKET.
Robert A. Van Wyck Nominated
for MAYOR of New York.

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-The Demo-
cratic City Convention nominated these
candidates for officers of Greater New
York:
Mayor, Robert A Van Wyck of Man
haitian; Comptroller, Bird S. Coler of
Brooklyn; President of the Council,
Jacob Rupert, Jr., of Manhattan
The ticket had been agreed upon by
the Tammany Executive Committee
before the convention met, and the del
egates simply ratified the choice of
the leaders.
The platform makes no reference to
the Chicago platform, w. ]. Bryan or
free silver. It favors home rule and
the repeal of the Raines' law and other
restrictions on personal liberty, and de-
mauds dollar gas and municipal own
ership of franchises. The nominations
evoked disapproval rather than enthus-
iasm in the convention hall.
Richard Croker did not attend the
convention.
John C. Sheehan was loudly cheered
when he appeared. Mr.. Sheehan called
the convention to order.
Congressman Amos ]. Cummings was
Temporary Chairman.
Robert A. Van Wyck, the candidate
for Mayor, was born in this city forty
nine years ago. and his family has been
here for some two centuries. He was
graduated from the New York Law
School in 1872. Joined Tammany, left
it to go into the County Democracy,
then went back to the old organization.
He was elected to Justiceship in the
City Court in 1889. He is now Presid-
inc Ind rr
Bird S. Coler. the candidate for
Comptroller, is a Brooklyn banker. He
is, it is said, a free silver man, and
supported Bryan.
Jacob Rupert, Jr., the candidate for
President of the Council. was born in
this city in 1867, and is a son of Jacob
Rupert, the brewer. He has never run
for Office. In 1889 he was appointed a
Colonel on the staff Of Governor Hill.
NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-The Execu-
tive Committee Of the German>Ameri-
can Union tonight, after learning OF
the nomination of Robert A. Van Wyck
for Mayor by the Democratic conven-
ton, adopted resolutions indorsing the
candidacy OF Seth Low.
The record-union., 1897-10-01
PRESS ASSOCIATION.
The Annual Meeting Will be Held
at San Francisco Oct, 22d.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30-At a
meeting Of the Executive Committee of
the California Press Association, held
at the State Board of Trade rooms this
evening, the time and place for the an
nual business meeting of the association
was fixed for October 22d in San Fran
cisco.
1t was decided to have some social
features to add to the interest of the
meeting, and if the plans proposed are
carried out, the members will reach San
Francisco in time to take the S:14 Sau-
salito ferry for Tamalpias, to lunch on
the mountain at 8 o'clock, the return
to be made in time to allow the mem
bers to meet at s o'clock to transact
their business.
On the following day a trip will be
made over the San Francisco and
North Pacific Coast road to Ukiah.
The members of the committee pres
ent at the meeting were: E. B. Willis,
Sacramento Record Union;" c. NJ.
Francis, Napa Register" A. B. Lem
mon, Santa Rosa Republican" c. S.
Montgomery, Antioch Ledger" Rail
eigh Barcar, Vacaville Reporter" w.
D. Pennycock, Vallejo Chronicle"
The record-union., 1897-10-01
THUGS LANDED IN JAIL.
Attempted to Rob and Badly Beat
a Stevedore.

At 2 O'Clock this morning a steve
dore. known as "Joe," was knocked
down ard beaten by two men at Sec
ond and M streets, whose motive was
robbery. Joe fought with his antago-
nists and finally made his escape,
though not until he was badly battered
about the face and body with a coup
ling pin in the hands OF his assailants.
Joe recognized the two men as the
notorious Joe Soto and Pete Martini
and they were shortly after run down
and landed at the City Prison by Cap
tain Fisher and Officers Talbot and
Maley. In the company of the thugs
when arrested was also an ex-convict,
who was given notice to leave town
Immediately.
The record-union., 1897-10-01
THE INDIA WAR.
Campaign Against the Mohmands
Successfully Concluded.

SINILA, Sept. 30-The campaign
against the Mohmands has been sue
cessfully concluded, and nothing now
remains but to collect the fines. The
Upper Mohmands have been severely
punished, and the Lower Mohmands,
cowed by the success of the British
troops, are accepting the terms OF the
British.
Raiders are looting in the vicinity OF
Hangu.
Insurgent tribesmen attacked Sadda
yesterday, but were easily repulsed.
All the English have been removed to
places of safety in the Kurdum Valley.
The record-union., 1897-10-01
GUARDIAN APPOINTED.
A Young Millionaire Incompetent
to Manage His Estate.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30.-Henry
Y. Wetbeck, the wealthy but dissolute
son of millionaire banker and lum-
herman of Chicago, was to-day ad-
judged incompetent to manage his af-
fairs, and his wife, Mrs. RENE Witbeck,
was appointed his legal guardian.
His father entered into a contract
with him few years ago, by the terms
of which he turned his estate over to
his son, only reserving from it per-
sonal allowance of $500 per month. OF
late the youth has been on a protract-
ed debauch, and as a last resort his
wife was compelled to take this step.
The record-union., 1897-10-01

that would have enabled them to buy
at an additional profit were disap-
pointed, the market starting with De-
cember bringing S91ac and S9s4c, as
compared with S91sc at the close yes
terday. Liverpool commenced the
days trading at prices unchanged to
sd lower. Paris started at 10 CEN
times decline. These prices We're bet
ter than expected, in view of the ter
rife tumble in prices late in yester-
days market here.
The Price Current" said that the
drought conditions had been intensified
during the week, and complaints OF dry
pastures and of ground unfit for plow-
ing came from all over the West.
For a moment after the opening the
market hesitated. Then the shorts
concluded that the quicker they COW
cred the better it would be, and the
price of December, which had dropped
through neglect to S914c, went up with
a jump to 90c.
Chicago received 25S carloads, and
Minneapolis and Duluth 1,419. Some
offers in the pit of No. 2 spring wheat
at Soc for October delivery, at which
time the grade will be limited from the
regular tract grade, attracted general
attention from its discounting the
price at which it could be sold at the
time for September at Soc. This caused
the price of December to run down to
$3.50, but shortly afterward, when it
was announced that 250,OO0 bushels OF
No spring. which had been offered at
Soc, had been taken by shipping firm
for export, the spectators made haste
to buy back what they had been so
anxious to sell a short time before. The
price responded to the demand thus eX-
cited by another rise to 9014c
In addition to the local fresh pur-
chases for export, the clearances of
wheat and flour from Atlantic ports
for twenty-four hours amounted to
6S0,000 bushels Additional strength
was lent the market later by the six
cents premium which wheat was COM
manding at st. Louis over the Chi
cago price. December finally sold up
to 9034c under a vigorous demand, and
closed at 903s@90Ac.
The record-union., 1897-10-01
A Waitress Accidentally Killed.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 30.-Kitty
Wells, waitress in the Kama dance
hall, was instantly killed this after
noon by accidentally falling down a
fight of stairs in the lodging house at
$50 Push street. where she lived. Her
true name is said to be Theresa Morse
She came to this city from Stockton
about a year ago, having been divorced
from Ter husband. letter from her
mother. begging her to reform, was
found among her effects.
The record-union., 1897-10-01

PORT TOWNSEND, Sept. 30.-The
steamer City of Seattle left here at
o'clock this morning for Alaska, ana
only two hours later the City of Topeka
sailed for the same ports. The Seattle
carried eighty-ffve passengers, sixty OF
whom are bound for Skaguay. In the
Topekas list of sixty-eight passengers
We're four parties, including twenty
men for Copper River. One crowd con-
sisting of four men from Galveston,
Tex, carried fourteen tons of provis-
ions, a small stern wheel steamer, and
a whole arsenal of guns and revolvers.