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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-06-22
Grades in Navy.
Atlanta Journal.

The average citizen Is muea more
fssniliar With the grades 10 our army
skan Sfth shosa 10 the navy. The
army nipgles. more with the people
shsa sbe aavy, who're Representatives.
ars seldom seen except incur seacossl
seisies, hut it Is veil % understand Hhsl
abe grades IN the mar are
TIE sere 90 sdmifsis Or vice cd
sirsis Ia our navy nn.il tho Civil war
Fkese grades wers created then q.
rswasds sDf disting guishsd naval service.
S:iast s. The rank Of ge0ersl and lseuten-
apt general we're established for distin-
aussbed sersics 10 the army
TIE Usited States h&ye hsd but two
admsrals, ftss Dasid 6 Fatragut, and
shss Dadd B Potter ooly three wise
sdnirsl Farrag Porter and Audrew
81 Foots & s.
as rsDk Of rear admiral has existed
"a svsf sipas the establishment Of our
nasy, q has the rank Of major geoer-
,sl ID our army The ranks in the navy
md she army correspond as folloss:
Navy. Army.
Admirs. General.
ice admiral Lieutenant general.
Rsas admiral Major general.
Commedors Brigadier general.
y,anaaia Colonel.
cSnnsoder Lieu.e1sn. colonel.
Lieut. oonnsndes Major.
sLisussnaas Captain
Enaipn LieusenaDt
Emo when fs had 90 admiral Of
stIhe nasy and gerersi Of the army,
the3 dsd not connsod the entire army
aad navy except under .be direction Of
ths prssidept who, under the constita-
tion; q tho commander iy chief of both.
TIE psysi of6ser Of highess rank 6as
coumsnd 81 the deet-or squadron With
uhish Sc Is present. juss es she ranking
|srmy of6eer commands the sreors With
spbom be is ID the field or In camp.
TIC sea forces Of the Goi,ed States
isonsisi, Fret. the entire navJ; seooud.
IS flesi; third, ) eqaad.or; fourth, siugls
vessels, .ecording TO their s;zs aud
power a rear admiral commands 3
Aces, IS : nsjor gensral commands =
di;sisior 4 commodore commands . s
sqssdroD. ss ) brigsdier general COM
msnds brigade. a captain com-
paods 5 chip Of the largest sizs, as
colonel commands regiment Com
mspaers ccnmsnd vessels Of the sec
a1d slass and the cm.ers ct minor
rank have appropriate Commando
douo tosshe smsiiess Graf, in the navy.
II shs skseeoe Of rear admirals. com
o.,d.:ss command Hesss aud squad
ross. The command Of navy ysrds
,csorrespcods 70 the command Of arny
feDsrsments.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
PERSONAL.

Mr.. r. A. p. Cooley, of the Nash bar
is in the city.
Mrs. r. w. Hodges has gone down tC
Norfolk for a few days.
Mrs +. o. Moring has returned from
a visit to friends in Carthage.
DIR. Edward Everett Hale is spending
some time at Pinehurst.
Mr.. Theo. Dobbin is confined to his
home by sickness.
Mrs. l.. J. Hay and Miss Enrol Hay
of Hickory, are in the city, the guests
of Mrs. Il. 7. Hay.
The condition of Miss Sallie Jones, OF
Itittleton, N c., who has been so i'll i'll
this city, is slightly improved.
Mrs. Sallie III. .Myrick, of Littleton,
is in the city the guest of her brother.
Mr.. John Beckham. on North Salisbury
street.
News comes from Pittsboro that Mr..
l.. ]. HaTghton, one Of the first men
Of his county, is critically i'll from a
strike of paralysis.
Messrs. f. NJ. Hodges and ]. +.
Taylor, who are at the head of the new
cotton mill to be erected TN Kinston.
visited the Raleigh cotton mills this
week. The Free Press says they were
well pleased at the result Of their in
vestigations, and feel surer than ever
that the Kinston cotton mills will be a
very profitable enterprise
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
DEMOCRAT GETS THE GLORY.
The Populist Getting in Hole and
the Republican Getting Left.

The Populist Getting in a Hole and
the Republican Getting Left.
And so the United States Supreme
court has decided against the Wilson's
in the Railroad Commission case,' said
a prominent Republican of more than
State reputation yesterday. THE only
objection have to the new Commission
is THAT Mr. Pearson, the Democrat on
the board, is getting all the glory and
the credit for anything done in behalf
of the people. But IN this case he de-
serves it. OF course OuT man, DIR. Alb
bolt, is toting the corporation end OF
the log, while our Populist friend. Mr..
Caldwell, is occupying the usual middle
ground-neither fish nor fowl nor good
red herring"
Then this Republican, who is an
able lawyer, went on to say that the
judgment proposed by Mr.. Pearson and
rejected by Mr.. Caldwell and Mr.. Alb
bott in the rate decision, was perfectly
regular, ably drawn and just such pal
per as should have been adopted if the
Commission had had any desire to make
out n case before the courts.
AS it stands now" he continued.
1.-The Commission is bound to lose its
case and the railroads and Caldwell
will never be able to convince the world
that he's not a party to- the deal. That
is why / say the Democrats are the
aOnly people getting anything out of this
new Commission.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
FREE PILLS.

Send your address to II. r. Bucklen &
Co, Chicago, and get a free sample box
of DIR. Kings New Life Pills. A trial
will convince you of their merits. These
pills are easy in action and are particu.
larly effective in the cure of Constipa.
ton and Sick Headache. For Malaria
and Liver troubles they have been
proved invaluable. They are guaranteed
to be perfectly free from every deleter-
ious substance and to be purely vege,
table. They do not weaken by THEN
action, but by giving tone to the stomach
and bowels greatly invigorate the sys,
TEN. Regular size % cents per box
Sold by all druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24

Synopsis of the Weather.-The barom-
eter is highest in the southwest, lower
in the southeast and northwest, and
lowest i'm the northeast. Snow contin-
ues at number of stations in the Cen
trail and Upper Mississippi valley, and
rain on the North Atlantic coast.
The hot wave evidently reached its
maximum (SS at Raleigh and Augusta
today, and unless something unusual
occurs it will be closely followed by n
cold wave This cold wave has already
reached Buffalo, where the thermometer
at 8 n. M, Wednesday, was 30, Detroit,
Chicago and St. Louis the same, and
Cincinnati 81.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
ABOUT A. & NJ c. r. r. EARNINGS


Mr.. J. f. Mewborne. of kinSton, a di-
rector of the A. & n. G. II. r., denies
the report that he stated that the road
was earning or ) per cent. He says,
however, that he did state that it was
earning over Per cent, that the conn
try along its line was rapidly improv-
ing, and that with these developments
The road was almost certain to earn very
much more than 2la per cent. At no
time has Mr.. Mewborne pretended to
represent the board Of directors in OppOs-
ing The lease.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
PEN DIRECTORS NOT PLEAsED

There is more trouble in store for
Governor Russell with his directors of
public institutions. Ever since he has
been in office he has had trouble with
them. Somebody is continually resign,
ing. Now practically the whole direc-
torate of the penitentiary threatens to
throw up the sponge. The Republican
contingent il especially dissatisfied with
the dictatorial spirit assumed by His
Excellency. Then they are not pleased
with his systematic appointment of
Populists to the Offices connected with
the penitentiary. A Republican yester.
day gave the names of two Republican,
members of the board who, he said, had
told him they were going to resign and
that there were other members who
would follow their example.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
A. B. StrOnaCh.
WHAT is NBW HAVE AND WE SELL THE NEW AT
LOWER PRICES THAN OTHERS SELL TIIE OLD
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT.

Our dress goods stock will be found near perfect as
lit is possible to make it. Handsome and dreSsY fabrics,
Invited your attention to- Goods that those who apprec
ate stylish things that adapted for the correct gown
will be interested in. Then again. these goods were bought
goods business as we do we can afford to do it small
profits, those who investigate these 1903 offerings will
find out to their advantage You invited to come and
see this Stock Of course we would like to have you buy
from u.s. yet you just welcome whether you do 50
or not Even for some good reason you can not buy
con 20 seasons wear and the poper prices and have
your merchant get them for you.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
AN ITALIAN IN DISTRESS.

Mr.. A. Dughi has succeeded in find
ing Felice Blazetta, the Italian whC
was reported from Greensboro recently
as in a most destitute and pitiable con
Ct.tion and unable to speak or under
stand a word of English. Blazetta is
now in the Yadkin county home; and
has been there for some time. MIR.
Dughi will proOably go to Yadkinyilc
in few days to talk with Blazetta,
find out about where his peope are and
do all he can to help him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
DOES HE MEAN PRITCHARDITEs
IL Butler Objecting to Their Presence IN
POplIlist Councils!

I'm this weeks editorial in the Cauca-
sian. Senator Butler says the fophhs'S
are more sincere than Democrats ana
adds:
There is no question that the RANK
and file of the Peoples party solldly ana
earnestly endorse the sentiment OF liloSe
addresses. Even the recent unofficial
conference held in Raleigh, (which can
moi. no said 10 have been truly repreSen-
tatiye of the party. and which certainly
contained some parties claiming to repre-
sent certain counties when indeed they
have no following among Populists IN
such counties. and certainly could not
be elected as delegates representing the
POpulists Of their county, endorsed these
addresses Thy a vote of more than two TO
one"
Is this a lick at the pritchardites?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24

MISS JONES ON ART.-The Wash
ington Pest says of Miss Jones's lecture
on American Art, at the New Library
THE lecture is superbly illustrated and
intensely interesting" She will begin Il
series of lectures at st. Mary's on the
Goth.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
MR.. ST. JOHNS APPEAL.

In Opposition to a Reduction of Pas
senger Rates in Pamphlet Form.
The readers of this paper will recall
the original argument made before the
Railroad Commission by Mr.. e. st.
John, ce-president of the SeaIbOard Air
Line, in opposition to reduction of pas
senger rates. Mr.. st. Johns second APP
peal, made on March 18th, has been pub
hshed in pamphlet form, and is clear
and able presentation Of his side of the
question.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
THE WEATHER TO-DAY.

For North Carolina: Threatening
weather; probably with showers in the
interior; colder; winds becoming north
erly.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vicinity
to O'Clock tonight: Fair; decidedly
colder. Killing frost Thursday night.
Local data for Raleigh: Maximum
temperature 81 minimum temperature,
81; mean, "A; rainfall, 0.
The following table gives data at Sc
lected stations at 8 o'clock p. m. yes
terdav.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24

A prominent success for cure of cold
and bronchitiS-Mrs Lizzie NJ. Meers,
North Evanston. HIS, writes:-"We
have used DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup for
every cold we have had; we are also
subject to bronchitis in very cold
weather and it has been successful in
all cases"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

PAINES CELERY COMPOUND
Ablest Journalist in the United States.
PACIEIC life INSURANCE co =
Statement.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-24
BUTLER AGAINST RUSSELL.
He Says the Reduction of Rates Wa
Fair and Righteous.

The Caucasian has a column and a
half editorial this week on the Nebras-
ka decision, saying that 'abstractly it is
eminently fair and just" and says 'the
action of the North Carolina Railroad
Commission in reducing passenger rates
TO 212 and 2 cents per mile in this State
was flair and righteous" This para.
graph will choke Governor Russell.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

The butchers and meat dealers OF
Berlin complain that 81, 664, 900 worth
of meats we're imported into Germany
in 1896, principally from the United
States, and at prices with which they
are unable to compete. They there
fore petition the government to open
the frontiers to the free importation
of animals and meats from European
countries, and to restrict by all prac-
ticable means the import of meats
from America, which is steadily in
creasing from year to year. Even in
the matter of apples the Yankees have
seized the market, and last year there
were landed at the single port OF
Hamburg before November 1S, 64,-
53S barrels. In short, American COM
petition is now spoken of in Europe
as the transatlantic danger"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

The latest advices from Pekin
brought new stories illustrating the
arrogance of the European govern
ments in their treatment of China.
Until recently all business with for
eign nations was transacted at the
tsung-liyamen, and the members OF
the diplomatic corps visited that place
almost daily whenever they had busl-
ness with the government. But the
German minister compelled Weng
Tung Ho, Chang Yen Yuen and other
members of the yamen to come to his
legation for the purpose of discussing
the demands of the kaiser's govern
ment for indemnity for the death of
the Jesuit missionaries and other
matters relating to the occupation of
Kiao- Chou. This is the first time
such humiliation has ever been i'm
posed.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

Two years ago Kansas colony con-
sisting of about dozen persons sold
out all their property and set forth
with the proceeds to the Holy Land,
for the purpose of rebuilding Jerusa-
lem in preparation for the second
coming of Christ. The fund all told
consisted of about $40, 900, and it
must have required faith as grain of
mustard seed to believe that such a
sum would be sufficient to make the
towers of imperial Salem again rise
crowned with light and restore the
splendors of Solomon's Temple. The
experiment has, of course, turned out
failure, announces the New York
Tribune, and the colonists are to re.
turn to Kansas, leaving Jerusalem tc
its natural processes of growth and
decay, as they ought to have done
from the beginning. In starting life
over again in the homes they aban.
doned they are not likely to find the
experience acquired in their pious ex-
lie worth anything like the money it
cost them,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
100000 in Elephant Tusks.

Zanzibar is to the trade in ivory
what Cape Town is to the diamond
business. Many carloads of mann
moth tusks are shipped from Zanzi.
bar each month of the year, and native
merchants have grown immensely
wealthy in the business of gathering
and shipping the elephants contribu-
ton to the worlds commerce.
The largest shipment of ivory tusks
ever sent from Zanzibar was trans
ported on the sailing vessel Madeira
to Alden and thence by steamer to
New York. The value OF the shipment
amounted to nearly 500, 600, and con.
sisted of 355 magnificent tusks, weigh
ing 22,3O7 pounds. Enough billiard
balls could be made from this pile of
tusks on which to roll the New York
postoffice from the Battery to Harlem.
New York Journal.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

There are floating stories occasion
ally of frog farms here and there, but
all apocryphai, Forest and Stream
says, if by farming be meant the arti-
icial propagation of frogs as fishes are
propagated in hatcheries, and reared
through the successive stages from the
eggs to maturity. NJ. F. Chamber.
lain of the United States fish commits
sion says that while the value of frogs
as food is now thoroughly recognize d
IN this country, to such degree, in
deed, that the United States consum es
more frogs than are eaten in any other
country, not excepting France itself,
human ingenuity has not as yet de-
vised method of carrying artificial
cultivation beyond the larval stage.
tits comparatively easy to stock pond
with breeding frogs or with tadpoles.
They may be protected against their
natural enemies, but the insurmount.
able trouble is to furnish food for the
young frogs. Live food is absolutely re-
quisite, but there is no practical de-
vice to furnish insects.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Dutch omnibuses are fitted with let.
ter boxes.
Birmingham turns out five tons of
hairpins every week.
One of the German cities boasts
street laid with rubber.
Six thousand people sleep in the
open air in London every night.
Over one thousand children are born
yearly in the London warehouses;.
Two thousand two hundred trains
leave London ordinarily every twenty
four hours.
Nearly 5000, 900 worth of proprie.
tary medicines are exported from the
United Kingdom each year.
There are nearly 10, hounds
maintained in the United Kingdom ex'
cluslvely for hunting purposes.
Kerosene from Sumatra is entering
the markets of the far East in compe.
tition with the Russian oil.
In Berlin and Leipsic cyclometers
are attached to cabs, so that the occu.
pant may know his legal fare.
There are 305 miles of street rail.
ways in st. Louis now, and they carry
100, 900, 600 passengers year.
Great preparations are being made
for the Stock Growers convention to
be held in Denver on January 25th.
1t is stated that sharks have now
penetrated into the Mediterranean
through the Suez canal from the Red
sea.
In France there have been found
only two criminals whose measure
ments by the Bertillon system coin
! cided.
The Adams homestead at Quincy,
Miss. has been restored under the
direction of the Quincy Historical
society.
The oldest living clergyman of the
Church of England, the Rev. Edward
Allen of Tiverton, Devon, recently
celebrated his hundredth birthday.
A substitute for honey has been in
troduced in Germany under the name
of sugar-honey, and consists of sugar,
water, minute amounts of mineral sub.
stances and free acid.
In the British Lord Chamberlain g
department the position of chimney.
sweeper is held by woman, and the
Office of statuary mason is also filled
by member of the fair sex.
Marie Antoinette was the first per-
son who broke the absurd fashion OF
dressing infant boys as droll minia-
lures of their fathers. She attired the
unfortunate dauphin in simple blue
jacket and trousers.
Signor Tosti, the famous composer,
after hard days work, either teach
ing his many royal pupils or in com.
posing, seeks recreation at his favor
ite amusement of upholstering. The
greater part of the chairs and the
whole of his wife's boudoir have thus
been upholstered by Signor Tosti.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

One of Germany's leading statisti-
clans has come to the conclusion that
in order to live long it is necessary to
be married. Out of every seventy
men who reach the age of sixty he
finds that forty eight are married
men and only twenty-five bachelors.
This German statistician, whose name
is DR.. Schwartz, further finds that
between the ages of thirty and forty.
five the mortality among bachelors is
twenty-seven per cent. while among
married men it is only eighteen per
cent. DR.. Schwartz has proved that
it is absolutely necessary to be mar
ried if man wishes to become CEN
tenarian, for of fifty proved centenari
ans whom the doctor has examined
not one was bachelor. 1t is true
that there were no married men, either
for all the old men were widowers.
These facts ara now established. To
live long a man must be married, and
then become widower at some period
of his life, which has not yet been as
certained. Evidently, if DR.. Schwartz
discovers the exact length married
life should continue he will have
aolved the problem of old age.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

Famine and pestilence are raging
in Russia again, on a scale far more
serious than in India year ago.
Those who charged the Indian woes
against the British government will
please take notice, says the New York
Tribune. AS for the scourges of Rus.
sia, there is indisputable evidence that
they are really the fault of the govern
ment in refusing to permit the people to
become educated and thus able to till
their land better and improve their
sanitary condition. 1t insists that
they shall remain in ignorance and
squalor, and the result is that they
are dying like flies in a frost.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

'tWon't you shake hands with me?''
he asked, in some discontinue.
IT didn't suppose you cared to
shake hands with . regular Amnzon,"
said Miss Una, sarcastically.
cit was foolish speech" said Ha.
ven, vehemently, ''and I've been sorry
for it score of times since it was
spoken!'
Una turned to him with q smile
that illuminated her piquant face.
''In that case it shall be forgotten"
said she. ''And I'm very glad that
old Hans brought the ladder here to
look for my poll-parrot that has been
lost these two days."
II wonder if I couldn't help find
it?" said Mr.. Haven, eagerly.
81 don't know" said Una, demurely.
''You might try"
They did try. The parrot was not
found, for he had been stolen by a
tramp who slept in the Jocelyn barn
two nights before. But Mr.. Haven
and Miss Jocelyn became excellent
friends in the progress of the quest.
Una forgave him his city-bred preju.
dices, and he began to see things
through the medium of her clear and
brilliant eyes. They had called her a
child, but she was such a bright, orig
inal sort of child!
And one evening, about fortnight
subsequently, Mr.. Haven astonished
his sister by saying, abruptly:
"Well, Polly" (the name he always
used when he was in an especially
good humor), 81 have piece of news
for you. I have proposed to Miss
Jocelyn, and she has been graciously
pleased to accept me-.
Mary clasped her hands in delight.
"Oh, Juniusp' she cried, rapturous-
ly.
'But not your Miss Jocelyn," he
added-''not the one like an exagger.
ated wax doll. It is Una that mean
my dark-eyed queen of the brunettes
my little compound of fire and dew
and sparkle!"
"Oh," said Mary, IT am sure I'm
very glad!"
Rut she thought, and SO did Miss
Ellice Jocelyn, that there was no ac-
counting for the erratic direction
taken by the current Of true love-
Saturday Night.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

The United States supreme court
recently decided n case that may have
marked influence toward the dis.
couragement of suicide. It was con.
fronted with the question whether the
heirs of sane man, who had COM
mitted suicide, could recover on an
insurance policy taken out by the man
upon his own life. The court ruled
in the negative, thus in the particular
case in point barring the heirs from
m enormous sum of money to the ex-
tent of which various companies had
insured the life of the suicide. The
courts reasoning is sound and based
apon recognition of the best public
policy with regard to the treatment Of
suicides. Is was held that to compel
the payment of such policies would be
to put premium upon self-destruc.
tion by offering degree of incentive
to discourage men whose sole hesi-
tancn about committing suicide might
spring from the fear of leaving desti-
tute those dependent upon them. If,
by insuring their lives heavily and
paying tithe of the premium required
by the companies they could make
sure of the support of these survivors
this bar to suicide, which may be, fairly
considered as influencing many men
to prevent their self-destruction, would
he withdrawn.