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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-26

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The news & observer., 1897-03-07

the removal of his yarn, warp and twine
mill to Concord or some other Suthern
city. The matter lis not yet been definitely
settled.
Lexington-Flour Mill.-F. T.. Hedrick.
NJ. X. and l.. II. Rothrock will establish
a 60barrel -four mill; building three
stories high, 30x50 feet, has been erected
and ma achnery ordered.
Gold Mines in North Carolina.-A
company, with capital stock of 100000,
has been organized recently for the pur-
pose of developing gold mines in Neck
lenburg and other counties of North
Carolina. The company is known as the
Pittsburg Gold Reduction Co, and b.
Donovan, of Pittsburg, Pa, is president;
j. a. Campbell, of Wheeling, w. Va.
ice-president; A. w. Kennedy. of Pitts
burg, secretary treasurer. T. III. b.
Haase will be manager of the company.
located at Charlotte, n G.
Pilot Mounta;n-Fl Flour Mills. HI.
Venable will equip a short-system flour
mill.
Roanoke Rapids-Oil Mill.-H. L. and
E. L. Driscoll are building a sassafras-
oil mill, not a cottonseed-oil mill. as re-
Gently stated.
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
"A LADY OF MANOR"
Something About Mrs. Cotton, of North
j Carolina.
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Something About Mrs. Cotton, of North
Carolina.
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philadelphia Record)
A Washington correspondent OF the
Baltimore Sun writes The address be-
fore the Congress of Mothers which
seemed to excite most interest and to
elicit most applause was that of Mrs.
SalEe A. Cotton, of Falkland, n. c. Mrs.
Cotton is the lady OF the manor" ON a
plantation of about 5000 acres of land
along the Tar River, Upon this planta-
ton hundreds of negroes have their homes
and their employment. There is a large
mansion in which Mr.. and Mrs. Cotton
continue the hospitality and entertain
ments which belonged Ito ante-bellum
times. The great change which has TAX
en place is that the negroes are free in
stead Of slaves, a change for which Mrs.
Gotten says she is very thankful
Speaking of the rearing of children
in the South, Mrs. Gotten said: 'tThe
people of the South are a very religious
and reverent people, and ! think, per-
haps, religion is more of a feature Of the
education of children in the Southern
slavery the abundance of servants gave
the mistress of the plantation ample
time 10 devote to the training OF her
children, and she did it well, and the
custom still lasts. She also considered
herself responsible to large extent for
the slaves ON the place / fear THAI
since the negroes are free this feeling
of responsibility has ceased to exist ex-
cept as regards house servants"
Mrs. Cotten's address was full of good
sense and sparkling with wit. II am
not" she said, in favor of female suf-
frage. There is great demand for it
by some, and the time may come when
this may be added to our other respon-
sibilities. But we must never fail TO
realize that the training of the voter is a
far more important duty than voting"
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
A GRATEFUL TENANT.

From Harper's Round Tablc)
Mr.. Ford has some houses in Brooklyn.
one of which he rented to Mr.. Stone. d
mason. For three months Mr. Ford fail
ed 10 collect the rent, and at last resolved
to send Mr.. Stone adrift
But if | am put out Mr. Ford" said
Stone, Il can't move my duds. have no
money"
Mr. Ford, being tender-hearted. gave
him two dollars, and Stone moved out
Shortly aftmward Mr.. Ford appointed an
agent to attend to his rents Everything
went right until one day Mr. Ford found
that the rent of certain house remained
unpaid
THE tenant is all right, sir" said the
agent. Hes a good man of the name of
Stone, a mason and he'll pay in day or
two
The owner called upon the backward
tenant, and found that he was the same
Stone that he had evicted some months
before
How is it you're back here again?"
said Mr. Ford.
Really" said Stone, II couldn't think
OF patronizing another landlord. You had
been kind to me, and felt grateful"
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
HE GOT HIM.
(Greensboro Record. J


Seeing Rev. C. A. G. Thomas here the
other day gentleman was reminded OF
an incident that happened to him at Fay
etteville soon after he went there.
A man came there and opened what
is known, or what he called a stock ex-
change, but. Brother Thomas contended
that it was bucket shop" one of these
gambling concerns about which some OF
our own people are supposed to know
something
The man resented the imputation and
quite controversy arose, which was
kept up for long time. Finally, Mr..
Thomas charged the man had served a
term in the penitentiary in some State
and proved it, after which the bucket
shop man departed for new fields.
Mr.. Thomas was pastor Of the Baptist
church at this place for long time, and
is known as a fighter from way back,
but he is unlike many men of this kind,
for when he finds he is wrong he will at
once make all the amends required. On
the other hand if he lis in the right you
can't shake him-he's too 'hefty"
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
THE SPLITTING HABIT.
(From Harper's Weekly.)

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When Sir Richard Burton visited. an
disguise, the exclusive city of Harar. and
was carried before the Amir, he obsery-
ed, among other things, that though the
Amir expectorated with royal freedom. he
was not provided with a spittoon. but spat
upon the robes of his attendant cham
berlains. 1t is matter of very general
and familiar remark that he average Am
elTcan spits quite as freely and with al
most as much autOcratic carelessness as
uhe Amir of Harar. Ii he does not in
uenuonaliy spit ON the clothes of his
nelghbors, he spits with magnificent in
difference to has neighbors' reasonable
desire to keep clear of his expectoratsons.
lie spits wherever he happens to be-
on the pavement, on the floors of public
buildings, in halls, entries, and eleya-
tors, and especially in all public convey
ances,
There Is movement afoot to amend
this very objectionable habit. and espe-
cially to put a stop to the abominable
practice OF splitting i'm street cars. I'm
New York the Board of Health has for
hidden it, and its notices are posted in the
surface cars. The Boards mandate is
not as yet eHectual, but the public has
begun to be familiar with it, and through
it many citizens have for the first time
had it suggested to them that miscel-
laneous splitting is not nice. Conductors
of street cars are bound to enforce the
splitting ordinance if their attention is
called to a violation of it. Commission
er Roosevelt says that the police WELL
help them, and that presently a number
Of policemen viii be detailed expressly
to see that the ordinance is obeyed. 1t is
important that public opinion should sus-
tain the police IN this undertaking. Con
slider the 'brutishness of the splitting habit
as it exists in this country. Every de-
cent citizen should do what me can to
amend it, both by correcting his own
habits. if they need it, and by supporting
the enforcement Of the law.
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
DIR. BROUGHTON AND CIGAR
ETTES.


DIR. J.. G. Broughton is conducting a
series of meetings DIN Atlanta. In a ser
mon on the Prodigal Son, a night or two
since, he said among other things: LET
me say that / regard the cigarette habit
almost as great an evil as the whiskey
habit / speak from the standpoint of a
physician. If you will smoke, smoke
a pipe or a cigar, you can't inhale that
smoke. When you inhale cigarette
smoke you are drawing into your lungs,
nicotine, alcohol, opium and arsenic and
you medical students before me know
how these poisons are found an every man
who fs cigarette smoker and ON whom
a post mortem is performed.
i verify believe that cigarette smok-
ing is one OF the greatest evils that ex-
lists and thousands are going down every
year to premature graves, their lungs
eaten away, or else they fall victims
to catarrhal pthisis. / believe there
ought to be law passed making man
manufacturing cigarettes or selling them
guilty or murder.
The man who makes cigarette. and
the man who sells it, is guilty of murder
indirectly, and the man who smokes
them Is a suicide
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
BILL ALR[P ON PIRIg91ID[ENT9
The Andrews Marriage
hief
THE FELLOW SERVANT ACT Be
COMES A LAW.

&C.. w. Tillett in Charlotte Observer
1t is with much pleasure that we have
noted that the Legislature of our State
has passed the "fellow-servant act" 1t
is most remarkable occurrence that
statute working such a radical change in
the existing law should have passed both
branches of the General Assembly by a
unanimous vote. We doubt if such a
thing has ever occurred before i'm the his.
ory of legislation. 1t is all the more
ereditable to the present Legislature that
this can be said of it.
Under the act it is now the law in this
State that all the employees of a railroad
company can in cases of injury by the
negligence of any other employe, get the
rights which have so long been denied
them by ''court-made" law.
Lit has been argued by the representa-
tIyes of the railroad companies that the
act referred to is ''class legislation" This
| IS very specious plea, but when it is
analyzed there is nothing in it, Glass
Legislation, properly so called, is the pas
sage of statute which imposes certain
burdens or confers certain rights upon one
class Of citizens to the exclusion Of others.
That principle has nothing to. do with
this question, which is a question of
righting wrongs; and while it is true that
| it would have been more in accordance
with ideas of justice to have righted the
wrongs entirely, yet if that were not pos
sible, it was still advisable to right the
wrong in so far as it could be done. In
other words law should be passed re-
quiring the employers, whether railroad
lcopmanies or others, to be responsible to
their employees for acts of negligence com
mitted by any other employe. 1t is well
known that all reforms work gradually
and slowly, and the passing of this act ap-
plying the true principle to railroad COM
panies, is the first step in righting the
wrong.
Much credit is due to Mr.. Hartness.
the member from Iredell county, who in
trduced the bill and followed it up so
closely, and also to Mr. B. r. Lacy and
others who appeared before the commit
tees and set forth so clearly the justice
of the law
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
HOW THE COAL TRUST RoBs
New York WORLDLY


Senator Lexow had before his commit
tee yesterday some of the Witnesses nam
ed by the World as able to substantiate
its charges in regard to the Coal Trust
They did substantiate the charges In
every essential particular.
Samuel Sloan, President of the Della.
ware, Lackawanna and Western Rail
road, and E. B. Thomas, President of the
Erie, were two of the witnesses named
They admitted these facts, as repeated
in the World yesterday:
i. That at a meeting of the coal-road
magnates in this city ON January %
1896, an agreement was made as to the
amount of coal to be brought to mar
ket, each road getting its allotment, as
narrated by the World at the time.
2 That the sole object Of this agree
ment was to stife competition, restrict
production and put up prices of consum-
ers.
3. That after this conference the price
of coal was four times raised, % cents
q ton each time, the total increase being
thus 81 per ton.
4. That the output of anthracite was re
duced 100000 tons for 1896, compared
with that OF 1895, TO support the arbi-
trary advance in price.
Upon the basis of 100000 tons mar
keted, the extra price realized by the
members of the combine as the result OF
their arrangements" was $4,000, 900.
IL this operation was not conspiracy
in restraint of trade" and a robbery of the
people by unjust exaction then these
words have no 1nfsq ming
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
A REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.

Washington, March 5.-The Republi-
cans of the House, anticipating the ex-
ira session of Congress, have arranged
TO hold caucus ON the evening of Satur-
day. March 13. The call was issued this
morning by Representatives Grosyenor,
the chairman of the caucus. The Speak
ership viii be decided upon then, and prob
ably there will be no opposition to the re-
election of Reed. The method Of putting
the tariff bill through the House and pos
sfbly the question of organizing com
mittees may be considered.
The news & observer., 1897-03-07

pie who simply have enough 10 live upon
It's strange that the rich do not realize
what they miss. There is nothing half
so fine in life as to make somebody else
happy. And it's a good thing that, even
if the rest of us haven't so very much,
most of us do give a pleasure here and
a pleasure there and realize all the de-
light of generosity. Did you ever try this
delight? Now, if you are a little blase; if
you are tired of all your luxuries; all
your enjoyments, share them with some
body. You will then find that they will
have a new taste. BAB.
The news & observer., 1897-03-07

day of the wedding there drove up a most
beautiful brougham and the footman,
ringing the bell, presented note for the
bride-to-be; inside was q card telling
from what loving relative the carriage,
the horses and the men, whose wages
were paid for a year, had come. In ad-
dition to the carriage itself there was all
the little belongings which theta shiona-
BILE woman demands for her little bou-
doir ON wheels At one side is little
round place, holding am English umbrel-
Ia, closely strapped and with jade
handle; in its padded case is the silver
frame mirror and larger case which fits
ON the front of the brougham, and is ad-
Unstable, because my little lady would
not wish these things to become contain
mated by the stable, holds first two beau
tiful cut-glass bottles with silver tops,
one filled with a favorite toilet water, the
other holding ammonia. Then there is
vinaigrette, card case, a mote book
tiny, fashionable directory, pin-cushion,
a little silver box filled with hairpins, a
tiny brush, a small comb, and, just under
this, the regulation carriage clock. The
cases are of leather with the monogram in
silver upon them. Then there is the box
to hold hot water If any lady's feet are
cold, the small basket in which packages
are to he put, and the collection of ivory
bells, that, by being pushed once, or twice,
or three times, or whatever the calls
might be, warn the coachman that he is
to go to the right, or the left, to stop,
or to go ahead, to obey, indeed, what
ever may be the caprice of his mistress.
The regulation brougham, that is, the
original one, having seat in front, has
long ago gone out of fashion, and the
tiny little carriage, with room for two
occupants, and everything that could be
needed by them in its proper place, is the
acme of luxury on wheels.
As | said, never wonder at woman
economizing in gowns that she may keep
her carriage. My only regret is that car
riages, or rather the keeping of them,
require so much money. But what a
contrast the carriage of to-day is as COM
pared with the heavy, unwieldly coach of
a century ago! Take UP your Thack-
cray, or your Dickens, those Illustrated
by the men who lived when they did,
for | am one of the people who wouldn't
give straw for the new illustrations
of my fayoTite authors, and look at the
carriage in which Becky Sharp threw the
dictionary at her abhorred school mis-
tress; hunt up the coach in which Mr..
PicSwick rode, and compare them with
the carriages of to-day; yet they were
used not century ago, but within our
own time.
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
[BAfB TALKS OF 7H][S
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She is Opinions on Subject

Especial Correspondence of The Republic.)
New York. Feb 24-An item in a pri-
vate letter from Paris reads: The most
remarkable costume at the opera this
winter was of that of an extremely fash
ionable woman who fore black satin
gown trimmed with black chiffon and
much black Jet the bodice being cut
very low in the neck and not a jewel up
on it. The hair was dressed in puffs and
curls and surmounted by huge turban Of
white crepe that had long ends flowing
at one side and bunch Of three white
plumes at the other. The effect was not
beautiful. bat it was startling. The black
ness Of the gown, the witenesses of the
neck, and then, this remarkable head
dress, made the wearer really the OBJ
served of all observers" Does this mean
that the horrible turban is to come to us 7?
If you have any doubt as to it's hideous-
ness, you need only take up a book Of
history that is illustrated and see how
Nine. de Stael and the ladies of her
time looked in their Oriental coiffure. At
the famous costume ball, young married
wamon, who went as the Princess de
Lamballe, wore kind Of a plated hat of
pink crepe, with long streamers of crepe
at the back a black ostrich tip, fas-
tened with a jewel, just near the front.
As the evening wore on this headdress
lost its poise, got decidedly to one side,
and gave to its wearer, happy in her
ignorance, a very dissipater and rakish
look. The huge headdress making the
head seem small and taking away from
the expression by belittling the features
is not to be welcomed.
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
AS BAD AS THE HAT.

AT the theaters many ladies who were
unbonnetted have Worn feathers and ril,-
hor bows in their hair that got exactly
into ones line of vision and were quite
as offensive as the big hat. Personally,
don't object to a big hat, provided it has
not high arrangements of plumes or
ribbon loops that bob here and there, and
have way of coming between the hero
and heroine and suggesting that they are
the black obstacles keeping these true
lovers apart. | have known a small bon
net with a tall aigrette upon it interfere
with melodrama to such an extent that
one did not know whether the heroine
kissed the devoted adorer or whether she
tickled his face with what seemd like a
feather duster 1t isn't the size of a
bonnet or hat that makes it offensive, it's
the absolute satanic ability of some spe
.cial decoration to get into the way and
make seeing IN impossibility and hearing
tantalizing condition. / do feel sorry
for the woman wno has to hold her best
hat in her lap while independent men
crowd past her. ] do feel sorry for the
woman who takes off her hat, knowing
that her hair is not too well arranged,
and that where she had expected to look
very smart she absolutely looks dowdy.
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
cUssING US OUT.
Little Mexico is Now Talking About
Licking Uncle Sam.


st. Louis, March "a special from
Guadalajara, Mexico, says. Almost a
warlike spirit is aroused among the people
Of Mexico, by the coming of Messrs
Bridee Stone and Pierce, of Boston, to
enter into negotiations with the Mexican
Government for the areturn of the flags
captured by the Mexican troops in the
war Of 1S47. The newspapers of the re-
public are induIging in irltemperate Ian
guage regarding the mission Of the gentle
men, and they are denouncing America
and Americans in most incendiary Ian
guage, going so far as to demand of the
United States at the cannon's mouth, if
necessary, a return of all the territory
taken from Mexico. They specify Carl
fornia, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Arizona
New Mexico and Texas, as the property
which has been Stolen from this conn
try.
So strong is the sentiment against the
Americans that the ladies are openly in
suited in the streets and stores, and If
their escorts resent the offense they are
dragged off to Jail and fined.
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
NORTH CAROLINA INDUSTRIAL,
NOTES.
(Manufactnrer,s Record J

The Taylorsvile Cotton Mills, Of Tay-
lorsyIble, N. c., has recently completed It's
stone mill building, and will soon install
an equipment of machinery. Mr.. u. T..
Alspaugh is president of the company.
The enlargement TO the Henderson
Cotton Mills, of Henderson, n. c., noted
last week. has already been built, and
sevenfy-two looms will be installed The
machinery to be needed has been or
dered.
Concord-Cotbon Mill-H N. Randall,
of South Woodstock, Conn.,, contemplates
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
NEW LETTERS OF EDWARD Glib
BON.
Mr.. Frederic Harrison, in the March
Forum.

Gibbons Letters, now first publish
ed, are most pleasant reading; and they
throw new light ON the character of the
historian and his age. The fierce light
that beats upon" a great name now re-
veals to us the historian as one of the
most genial, affectionate, sane, and COM
tented natures in literary history-with
a genius for friendship, indulging almost
to fault toward failings, gently fond of
all pleasant things and people, and will
ing to put up with much for the sake
of an easy life. Never was any man
less heroic, who less pretended to the
heroic, with more perfectly worldly
ideals, and q more instructive repugnance
to any enthusiasm A cosmopolitan
philosophe of the eighteenth century to
the bone, with all the optimism, the cool
brain, the apOlausticism, the insensibility
to the moral and spiritual reformation
to come, which mark the sliterary aristo-
crat of the time. We are not likely now
to oyer-rate the good sense and good ma
ture Of such men. We see all their blind
ness, their grossness, their egoism. But
their culture and their balance of mind
still interest us. Horace lifefldu. g..
still interest us. The life they led fas-
cinates us in way, as does the life of
Horace and Of Pliny Peace to their
ashes! Let US utter q half-pagan sigh
over the classical urn, sacred to the Dis
Manlbus of the historian Of Rome.
The news & observer., 1897-03-07
THE WHIsKEY COMBINE.
The Rothscholds Said to be Going Into
the Liquor Business.

Louisville, KY, March 5.--The fate of
the big whiskey combine rests with the
committee of three, Messr II. III. Sherley,
G. r. Moorman and j. B. Wathen, APP
pointed at the conference held in this city
yesterday. 1T develops that the eastern
syndicate is willing to put $4,000, 900 into
the enterprise and it is alleged that the
Rothschilds have a hand in the matter.
The committee viii meet to-day to devise
the plan. 1t will be submitted within the
next two weeks.