The times., 1900-12-21
IN THE HOTEL CORRIDORS.

| 0'ftvrrell. Of Virginia. at the Raleigh
last night. so l viii tell you something
OF the great peanut industry that is be-
ing developed N Virginia. The acreage
in this crop for the coming season prom
ises to be the largest in the history OF
the State. This is due to the fact that
In the past year. the farmers have re-
ceived better prices for the product and
| the demand Is constantly increasing IL
has recently been discovered that the oil
| from the peanut is equal to the olive oil
| imported from Sunny Italy. Already en-
terprises are being established for de-
veloping this industry. In a few years
\ the Americans will be able to manufac-
ture their own olive oil.' only Il viii be
peanut oil. After the oil has been pressed
| from the nut the meal that remains has
| been found to be useful for many pur-
poses and furnishes one of the most Iii-
| tritious kinds OF food that can be fed to
| stock OF all kinds. The hull of the nut,
| SO it is claimed, is now being expert
mented with for the purpose Of reducing
1t to paper pulp. This promises TO meet
| with success. The high price Of white
| paper at the present time and the de-
| crease In our forests will certainly. IL
the plan OF reducing the peanut she'll
to pulp, should be successful. tend
| to make the old Virginia goober'
staple article OF commerce. So you
see We don't need gold mines in Virginia.
! We are going to depend upon the pea
nut to bring US in a large revenue"
| Edgar II. Young Of Lucknow, Canada. is
at the Raleigh. He is in the city for a
few days sightseeing before returning to
the Dominion. For several weeks past ne
| has been travelling through the South and
East, and is now working his way back to
| his Canadian home Il don't see how
America can consistently hold colonial pos
| sessions" he said. Back in 1776 this
country fought for emancipation from the
| mother country. Now this country Is try
ing to hold the Philippines and your other
dependencies in the seif-same bondage.
America must get back to first principles
| il she wishes to retain the old-fashioned
\ ideas that were established by your fore
| fathers
| President O'Brien, Of the National
| Pilots Association, who is at the Arling-
! ton. in speaking of the life of the pilots
of the present day, and the old-time
| coaster, said: The pilots OF today en-
! dure none of the hardships that were
borne by their predecessors years ago.
! Now every harbor in the United States
| all work in harmony. Gne vessel fur
| nishes accommodation for all. and re-
mains continually al the outer bar or en-
trance of the harbor. When a vessel is
sighted the commodore designates one of
| his men to take the vessel in. All fees
are turned into the treasury of the local
association and divided rro rata among
the members of the association. These
| vessels used by the pilots are fitted up in
luxurious style and are built with COM
bined purpose of speed, stability. and
comfort. The men have good sleep
ing berths. and a cook furnishes meals at
any hour during the day. In the old days,
before organization. things were entirely
different. Every man was for himself,
and the competition was great 1t was a
free fight between the Individual pilots to
secure a vessel. On this account the men
sometimes went as far as 200 miles from
shore looking for craft 10 bring in.
| Their boats were necessarily small, as no
| man was able to purchase a eouimodious
and seaworthy vessel Frequently pilots
have been known to brave all kinds of
storms in little boats that were fit for no
other purpose than harbor use. These
men frequently operated these little boats
alone, and on boarding a vessel towed the
littie craft behind. Sometimes they would
be out for several days without securing
a job. and in that time sleep was praeti-
full to keep afoat. Then, again. some
times two of these little boats would
sight a vessel at the same time and / tell
you the modern cup defenders never put
up prcttier race. Things are different
now, however; we have organized; We
have little trust of our own
THE Porto Rican emigrants to Hawaii
are having rather hard time" said
James T. Sullivan, of San Francisco, at
the Normandie. "A few weeks ago
party of about 125 landed at Los Angeles
en- route for Honolulu. They were side
tracked, and remained there for a long
time. They had nothing to eat until the
Humane Society took the matter in
charge and supplied them with food.
There is no telling just where the matter
would have stopped if the police and Fed
eral authorities had not come to the res
cue. When the humane officers had sup
piled the food for these emigrants they at
once notified the police. Then the matter
was taken up under police supervision
do not know who was In charge Of the
party, but | do know that a great deal OF
trouble has been caused and that the end
is far of. The deplorable condition of
these emigrants will be investigated, and
If there is any way of bringing the perpe-
traitors to time the local police authori-
ties OF Los Angeles will surely do So"
James Z. Denton, one of the Oldest
miners in this country. has Just returned
from the Klondike. and is registered at
the ST. James. In speaking of his ex-
perienees he said: The Klondike is un-
doubtedly one of the richest mining re-
gions in the world. No one knows the
true value of the country in all kinds of
mineral products, as 1t has not yet been
properly developed What the mining in
terest needs more than anything else is
improved machinery and better facilities
for transportation. / suppose that / am
one of the Oldest miners that went to the
klondike and certainly know what mining
is. as served my apprenticeship in Call
fornia in 1919. The scenes In the Klon-
dixie do not begin to compare with those
of the early days of California This, to
my mind, certainly proves that the world
is becoming more civilized In the cid
days of 1S49. seldom a night passed but
what one or TWO men were killed and bar
room fights and brawls were TOO numerous
10 notice. In the Klondike things have
been different. Seldom is there disturb
ance of any kind and the big gambling of
the old days is never seen. While there
has been plenty of liquor in the Klondike
and some drunkenness | have never wit
messed the wild carousals of the old Cali
fornia days. | believe that in few wears
when the Klondike is properly developed
it will be one of the greatest commercial
communities OF the northern frontier.
There is talk of establishing schools and
religious and social gatherings are already
being held