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The San Francisco call., 1899-09-08

ONDON, Sept. 8.-A special dis
patch to the Morning Post from
Pietermaritzburg says that the
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-08

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-20
REMARKABLE RESCUE.

Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield, Ills.,
makes the statement that she caught
cold, which settled on her lungs; she
was treated for Il month by her family
physician, but grew worse. He tod 1er
she was hopeless victim. Her druggist
suggested Dr. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption; she bought bottle
and to her delight found herself baac-
fitted from first dose. She continued us
use and after taking six bottles foua
herself sound and well now she does
her own homework, and is as well as
she ever was.-Free trial bottles of this
Great Discovery at all Drug Stores.
Only 80 cents and S1.00; every bottle
guaranteed
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-20

Little neglected scratches and wounds
frequently result in blood poisoning.
Better heal them quickly with De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve, a thoroughly
anti-septic application with record of
always curing piles, old ulcers, sores,
cuts, wounds and skin diseases. J. Hal
Bobbitt and Henry T. Hicks.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-20

can committee for some years. ] don
think as many as ffteenI think he was
formerly Il Democrat and came into
the Republican party about 1891 | think.
Q. Did not other Republicans in
Richmond county, including Mr.. W. +.
Long. follow Mr.. Morrison III his oppo-
sition to Mr.. Dockery.
4. Mr.. Long and Mr.. Morrison are the
only two of which | know anything;
both Of them wdfe asgirants for the
postoffice.
o. Did you ever hear either one Of
them say that their reason for not sup
uorting Mr. Dockery was because they
failed to get the postoffice?
4. No sir; they never said any such
thing to me.
with 50 unworthy motive for their
uolitica conduct when You do not know
that fact!
A. Circumstances point to the fact
that the charge is true. They We're
Repuhlicans until the postoflicc matter
bad been settled; just as soon as that
was decided they turned over.
After discursive examination into
witness campaign work counsel re-
turned to the question of intimidation:
q. Please state on" l'ehocrat WIZ
within your own knowledge li'iiioa''u
n Rcpnbican. give his name, the name
of the Republican and the time and
place.
a. Wen. If 1t Is to name any particular
Democrat. | decline to answer IT,
q. DID you ever near with your own
ears one Democrat threaten or lltllil'-
date Il Republican?
n. Yes, SIR
=. W no was me- ana what ana ne
say!
y. don t know the language used l. n
ticularly. but II was said they Intended
to carry the election II they had to XII
every negro to do II.
q. Who was the person VINO sa'd
this!
~ | decline to answer.
.. 10 whom was II SAID!
a. 70 hlySelf on SeNer'ii occasiohS'
.. i'ld you Vote?
a. | qua.
9. Dld you vote the hepnplical tieN-
ct!
a. an.
q. so that the statement TINS DFiho
crat mace TO you dld NOT prevent wy
from voting!
n. IL ana not.
=. IIease stare the name Oh some
other Repubhcan to whom any threat
or intimidation was made?
\. man. Randall Smith, by name
was whipped severely and told that II
he voted he would be Killed l dia
not near TINS SAID to Randall, put
| was sent by leading democrats 60
Randails house to assure hlm thar nc
would not be further molested saw
sears on him that he said were caused
by the punishment he received. lie did
not vote
y. GIVE me the names OF the negroes
un the registration books i'll MaXton vino
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-20

OF all sad words of tongue or pen
the sadest are these, "Where have you
been from your wife.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-20
CROSS-EXAMINATION

Cross-eXamined by Mr.. G. NJ Busbee
for contestee, witness said he was
a colored man, had resided in Maxton
for thirteen years, had edited paper
there for nearly eight years.
O. What contributions did you re-
ceive during 1893 from the Republican
party or any individual for personal or
political purposes!
A. | am unable to say From time to
time | issued great many more papers
than ut other times. Those special is
sues would often contain a write up of
some candidate who would order some
hundreds of copies of the paper. As TO
receiving money from the Republican
party as an organization or any COM
mittee / never received n single cent
directly. | spent more in the campaign
Of my own personal means than / re-
ceived from any source.
q. You have been pretty active in
politics?
A. No. sir. | never was much of a
politician.
O. Was not the failure Of the Fusion
lists to carry the 9th district somewhat
attributable to your lack of interest?
A. 1t was not, sir.
| q. What was the aggregate vote of
! Robeson county in the Congressional
election of 1896?
| Question objected to by counsel of
contestant.
| A. | do not call to mind the figures
now; something like 5000.
( q. Was it not 5,1II, that is for Mar
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09
MIDSUMMER.

A power is on the earth and in the air,
From which the vital spirit shrinks
afraid,
And shelters him, in hooks of deepest
shade.
From the hot stream and from the fiery
glare.
Look forth upon the earth-her thousand
plants
Are smitten; even the dark, sun-loving
maize
Faints in the field beneath the torrid
blaze;
The herd beside the shaded fountain
pants;
For life is driven from all the landscape
brown.
The bird has sought his tree, the snake
his den,
The trout floats dead in the not stream,
and men
Drop by the sunstroke in the populous
town:
AS II the Day OF fire had dawned, and
sent
Its deadly breath into the Armament.
William Cullen Bryant.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09
A Hint from the Fatherland.

The remark Of Baron Won Stengel,
second in rank among Germany's dele
gates at the recent peace conference,
that a good sword is the best pro-
tector OF a country's rights" contains
enough Of truth in it to warrant in
telligent recognition of it by advocates
of peace. AS applied to our own
country, the barons remarks warns us
not simply to prepare for a particular
war. as our authorities are now doing
with reference to the Philippines, but
10 so arrange our military and naval
affairs with regard to the future that
as eventualities shall arise we will be
equally ready for them whether the
theater of their occurrence is near to
our own shores or in islands or along
mainands thousands of miles re-
moved.
In the European sense mlitarism is
a danger which does not exist for
Americans, Those who are depicting
its horrors for the purpose of inhuenc-
ing public opinion in the United States
are setting up scarecrow for fools.
The American who imagines that in
This land of instructive democracy,
where each man is by heredlty jealous
Of his sovereign rights, n condition
could arise such as is now threatening
the future of France-a condition in
which the army battles with the re-
public for the mastery of the country
condition which as in she continent
tai nations causes the individual SOL
dier TO look with contempt on the in
diVidual civilian and forces the civilian,
under pains and penalties, to give to
the soldier at every meeting the salute
Of homage and the right of way--such
an American utterly misunderstands
the character OF his countrymen
Many of the rhetorcians now solemnly
exhorting the American people to shun
the pitfalls of Imperialism are un-
dOubtedly sincere, but we must be
charitable enough to believe that they
are also a little cracked in the upper
story.
The danger confronting the United
States is exactly opposite in character
It is the danger Of falling to profit by
the teachings OF the costly experiences
of the past few months. The reserve
forces Of our democracy can be trusted
to take effectual care of any embryonic
Napoleons who may develop among
the ranks of our future soldiers or
sailors; but these reserve forces can
not so easily improvise trained SOL
diers and sailors, together with the
tools of their profession, when, as in
February of last year, the need for
them becomes suddenly apparent to
every observer, Swelled heads in uni
forms are quickly reduced when reduc-
.tlon is necessary for the public well
fare; but seaworthy battleships, mod
ernized coast defences. rifles and ord
nance are not made in a day or a year
and the nation which puts OF the start
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09

in their manufacture until need for
their use has forced recognition from
every obtusa mind in the nation over
which an alert and resourceful aptag-
onist ought to have an emphatic ad-
vantage.
Let us look, for a moment, at what
oil persons concede to be undeniable
facts in our international position. In
this hemisphere our fiat has the prac-
tical effect Of law. We are legally
commissioned guardians of Porto Rico
and Cuba; and the Monroe doctrine
has given us a measure of RESPONSE
billty ir the foreign diplomacy of She
Central and South American repub-
lies. Toward the North Pole we have
Alaska, only Just beginning to breed
for us international disputes. In the
Pacific we have Hawaii and Guam
for a certainty and whatever shall be
the form OF the ultimate adjustment
Of the Philippine problem the fact of It,,
already clear, will be an American
supremacy and responsibility, opening
new vistas of opportunity and risk.
As our merchants go for trade to the
fast multiplying ports of the Orient,
and as the communications of our
foreign commerce carry us farther into
fields hitherto untitled, the rivalrles
and frictions will inevitably arise
which give employment to statesman
ship and compllcate the problem of
preserving an unbroken peace. AS
these unavoidable risks of an expand
ing national vitality augment so
must augment our precautions against
injustice or loss. 1t Is not as n her
nit power which seeks the solitudes
and dwells in senle self-communion
that the United States is to figure in
thes annals of the Twentieth century,
but as the maturing giant taking hold
| of duty and destiny as both unfold,
fearlessly and unabashed. There are
| living nations and dying nations, but
| the United States is not headed toward
a funeral.
Let us, then, be for all that MAKES
| for wise and noble peace, whether
through arbitration or through the
good sword" but let us spurn with
| contempt the doctrinaire type of peace
which degenerates into unfitness for
worldly responsibilities.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09
ARMY OFFICERS CALLED MR. u
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
People who are not versed in matters
of army usage often ask why certain
army officers are addressed as Mister"
and not by their titles. To the men who
enter the service from West Point the
custom is well understood, because they
know that, no matter how much authori-
~ they may have, or how gay their uni
form may be, they are simply "misters"
until they wear two bars on their shoul-
der straps. A recent occurrence in the
Army Building illustrated the matter. A
man who had been field officer in the
volunteer service in the war with SPAN
had been appointed TO a lieutenancy in
the new volunteer army, and called at
one of the offices at the headquarters on
a matter Of business. There the Of
ilcer in charge presented him to United
States army officer
Major Blank. allow me to present Mr..
SmiIh-Mr. Smith, Major Blank"
The volunteer officer limited in a modest
way, when the major had withdrawn,
that 1t might have been well to let the
fact be known that he also was an army
officer. "Oh that's all right" said the
officer who had acted as host "every-
body is mister until he is captain"
Even in service the first and second
lieutenants are addressed "mister" by
officers of higher rank The custom is
so general that it is rot unusual for lieu
tenants in the regular service TO have
their visiting cards engraved with the
Mr." prefiXed
The officer in the regular service also
shows a preference for civilians dress
which the volunteer officer does not al
ways share. When not on duty, at home
on leave or on his way to post the reg
ular officer usually wears no part of his
uniform, and prefers to appear as an
ordinary citizen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09
The Republican State Ticket.

(From the Philadelphia Inquirer)
The utter unfairness of the insurgent
and Democratic press in Philadelphia
is again apparent. A day or two ago
Senator Quay went to Atlantic City
for the sole purpose of angling for
sheepshead. Senator Penrose goes to
Atlantic City when he can get a day
off. Insurance Commissioner Durham
has been in the habit of going there
for years. Attorney General Elkin
has been going there at the end of the
week throughout the summer. The
mere fact that Quay went there the
other day was sufficient excuse for the
reporters of the insurgent and DEM
ocratic papers to organize a clearing
house and swap news and to lift the
event into one Of political importance
and to tell their readers that a confer
ence was on for drawing up a slate
for the coming state convention.
A reporter on an insurgent newspa-
per is playing In extremely hard luck
these days. He must magnify and he
must lie outright to satisfy his en-
ployers, Therefore we have been given
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
American Negroes for Cuba.
From the Chicago Record.

from the Chicago Record.
A Cuban newspaper published at Man
zanillo is much concerned about the pos
from the United States. In Cuba and
Puerto Rico negro immigration Is looked
on much as Chinese immigration Is re-
garded In the United States. For years
there has been an influx of negroes, es-
pecially into Puerto Rico, and these, by
their superior strength and industry, are
crowding out the white laborer and
threaten to dominate the island. These
negroes, however, do not come from the
United States, but from Haiti, the Danish
West Indies, Jamaica and other neigh
| boring islands. Even the negroes of Key
West generally are from the Antilles and
not from the United States. Any pro-
| position to take American negroes to
| colonize them has some elements of abb
| surdity about 1t, which the Cubans are
not yet sufficiently Americanized to un-
| derstand. The negro of the south does
| not want to go to Cuba. He is almost
| too well contented where he is and with
his own prospects for advancement. In
| America no law exists and none can be
enacted or even thought of that could be
| used to transplant the negro in Cuba
| against his will Therefore nothing is
| likely to take him there except the in
| ducements held out by the Cubans them.
| selves. -As the prosperity of Cuba re-
| turns the Cubans may find that the
| American negro of the south and his
| mule are exactly what are needed to de-
velop the resources OF the fertile island
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09
Labor's Friends to Labor's Rescue.

The announcement of Mayor Jones,
OF Toledo, that he will tonight lee
ture before the striking street car
employees Of Cleveland, O., with the
intention of trying to persuade them
20 abandon their use of the boycott,
shows that labor's real friends are at
last coming to labor's rescue Labor's
real friends seem at times to be some
what slow in catching UP with the
procession; at the start off it is usual
ly the hothcads and cranks who catch
labor's ears and fill them full of VIC
ious suggestion and unwise prompt
ings; but with labor. as with capital,
truth and justice generally win out
before the race is ended.
The boycott is unnecessary where
labors cause is just and where it is
necessary to bolster up n declining
strike it usually is ineffective. Where
a cause of labor appeals directly and
on its obvious merits to public SYM
pathy a formal boycott is superfluous
because public opinion will voluntar-
lily organize its own boycott. If pub
lie opinion cannot be induced to CO.
operate with labor by the moral sua-
sion arising from q just grievance in
telligently presented, it cannot be CO.
creed by skull and cross-bones, pla-
cards and anonymous threats. Pub
lie opinion in such matters SITS as a
larger jury and will not submit to
intimidation from any source.
Mayor Jones should tell the strikers
of Cleveland. and the lesson should
apply elsewhere that the best thing
shat labor can do, in the street car
business or in any other business, is
to attend strictly to business. living
within it's income whether that be
great or small and every month put
ting something aside for rainy day
The laBorer who does this, who is
temperate. frugal studious and will
ing to give back full value for the
wage he receives, may, of course,
meet with misfortunes. since these are
an inevitable risk of life, but the
chances are that in the long run he
will find small necessity for walking
delegates, boYcottS or other incidents
of economic strife to enable him tc
secure in proportion to his ability and
skill, steady work at fair wages, sub
ject only to the unpreVentible Varia-
tions in market conditions, which af-
feet employer and employc alike and
which no labor organization can pre-
vent
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09

columns of falsehood about confer
ences and agreements, and we have
had the ticket all made up for us. The
political clearing house is exceedingly
versatile. What 1t says one day 1t de-
nies the next. 1t will give out a state
mont in all soberness and falsify II In
the course of the next twenty-four
hours. Consequently, while we have
been informed that at regular con-
ference everything was arranged, we
are now informed that the slate is
subject to revision.
Now, as a matter of fact, there has
been no conference. The Republican
state ticket is not settled. 1t is true
that the Philadelphia delegates--or at
least the great majority of them, for
the Martin contingent will not count
Will ask that Josiah X, Adams be
nominated for Superior court Judge
Colonel Hawkins, had he lived, would
have been nominated for state treas
. urer. But he is dead, and If Lieuten-
ant Colonel Barnett cares for the Of
flee only an insurgent would deny him
the honor. SO far as the Supreme
court is concerned, the contest for the
vacancy is still open, as 1t always has
been. There is no agreement. There
has been no conference, and there will
be none today, and that is the whole
truth about the matter.
The Republican state convention will
nominate a strong ticket, and the COM
bined influences and falsehoods and
hypocritical demonstrations of the in
surgents and Democrats will be power
less to harm 1t.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09
Men Who Can Do Things.

These are the days when a good
many men holding positions of execu-
tive responsibility in various CONNER
cial or Industrial enterprises are liable
to feel like agreeing with c. p. Hunt
ington that the American young man
Is over r-eduCated. Such a feeling is the
natural result of receiving, in vacation
time, from pupils in the schools or from
recent graduates numerous applica-
tions for positions which do not involve
the necessity of manual labor and few
for positions which do.
Mr.. Huntington of course was wrong
80 far as he has been understood as
counseling against education. There
cannot be too much education of the
right kind but the right kind will not
turn out graduates who feel that hand
labor is less dignified than the ill-paid
inferior type of labor of the brain, or
that the opportunity opening to the
educated mechanic is unworthy of the
holder of a high school or college
diploma.
An education in books is useful but
there is still greater need for an edu-
cation of the common sense, to the
end that the overcrowded lower ranks
Of the so-called learned professions
(Which, by the way, are professions
that mostly live upon the misfortunes
of other people, may be thinned out
and some of the starving thousands
who ,1pV hop1no than, ba mt 10
direction of earning an honest living
by the healthy sweat of their brow.
An education is wanted which will
teach not only the ethical absurdity of
the social discrimination now existing
to the disadvantage of the mechanical
vocations. but also the economic fallacy
of it. We are becoming of a sudden
a great exporting nation; We are far
on our way to become in a literal sense
the workshop of the world. 1t is not
lawyers or doctors or dentists or clerks
who will reap the great business prizes
of the next century; but the intellectual
mechanic, who shall master the in
tricacies of industrial production and
develop the executive skill to turn them
| to the best account.
Already our great industries are on
the lookout for such men. They can
hire all the lawyers they need at their
own price They don't have difficulty
| in employing doctors or accountants or
| journalists or stenOgraphers. The So
| called "genteer' vocations yield an
| abundance Of good material ready at
| hand for the signal of command. 1t is
the man with grease on his elbows the
| Clear-brained, sharp-eyed fellow who
| can take hold of machinery and men
and do things who is the scarce and
precious article in this year OF grace;
and schools which fail to correct the
delusion that the mechanic crafts are
to be despised are missing their mark
! by very decided margin.
|
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09
Worth a Trial.
From the Philadelphia Record.

In the face of DIR. Doty's recent favor
able report upon the Sanarelli serum and
of the one cure seemingly effected
through its agency on Swinburne Island,
comes a declaration from DR.. J. b. de
Lacerdo. of Rio Janeiro, that expert
ments with the South American scien-
lists therapeutic discovery at San
Paulo Brazil, have determined it to be
neither curative nor preventive. In
the absence of details, this unauthenti-
Gated statement cannot as vet be ac-
cepted. 1t would seem, however as
though the Federal government should
institute a thorough trial of the Sanarelli
'icteroide" serum, or yellow fever anti
toxin, upon its own account, when a def
mite solution might be expeditiously
achieved.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09
Gold Is Expensive.
From the Detroit Tribune.

Klondike stories have been plentiful
from the beginning of the stampede,
illustrative of the doctrine that the gold
of the world has always cost more than
ii is worth. The Klondike gold has been
an expensive luxury, considering alone
the suffering that has been endured in
getting it, The latest heartrending story
is that of Mrs. II. w. Bens, who has just
returned to her home in Bay City. She
reports that of an expedition of thirteen
persons into the interior OF the Kotzebue
sound country, including her own hus-
band. she is the only survivor. Scurvy,
freezing and exposure were the principal
causes of suffering.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09
Considered Seriously.
From the Rochester Post Express.

Whatever may be thought about Mr..
Astor's renunciation of his American
citizenship and naturalization as a sub
ject of the British queen, nothing but
condemnation can be bestowed upon the
attempt made in New York city last
evening to insult him. Only crowd of
rufllans, led by a ruffian, would have felt
called upon to burn him in effigy in a
public square. II Mr. Astor prefers to be
n British subject to an American citizen.
1t is his business alone. 1Ie Is guilty of
nothing reasonable, or even discredita-
BILE, or that requires public condemna-
tion. People are constantly changing their
allegiance. Englishmen become American
citizens, and Americans citizens become
British subjects. But no one thinks Of
reprobating them, or burning them in
effigy.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-09
That Wicked Tariff.
From the Denver Times

The wicked Dingley tariff is working
havoc. In the fiscal year just closed all
the countries of the world, with the eX-
ception of four, which reduced their Inn
ports Of breadstuffs, largely increased
their purchases in the United States. The
sales of manufactured articles to all parts
of the world has been beyond all prece-
dent. Democratic leaders have gotten
beyond trying to "explain"