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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-24
LOW MOB IN A CARNIVAL.

Therefore we have high and noisy car
niyal. in which a mob of questionable
people in fancy garb chases itself UP
and down and round about and sings
and shouts ard falls down and dances
and romps. to the ecstatic satisfaction
of the stage manager.
During all this some dummies known
Ivy courtesy as characters speak things
TO each other at intervals. but most of
their conversation is fortunately lost
in the Babel Fortunately because what
little does leak through is of such a ma
ture as would not pass muster in re-
spectacle society.
Then. of sudden. the clatter ceases
as per direction Of the aforementioned
stake manager-and we know that it is
time for the piece de resistance And
here it comes-on the balcony. Shrouded
like ghost. 1t is Sapho. Fanny lie
Grand,
ASTERISKS ARE NECESSARY.
Everyone is glad to see Fanny, and
they say things to her which must be
indicated by asterislls in the eXpnrgated
editions. Fanny is unclOthed like a
Grecian goddess. except that she is en-
blazoned with jewels. She had a languor-
Gus leer in her eyes and she wears Il.
wreath of laurel. which betokens the
championship of depravity.
She glides around with insinuating ac-
ton and makes gestures like the Java
nese dlncers. She stands on a pedes-
tai and recites in fervid tones something
about 1.-THE moron, in a s-w-o-o-n." Here
the far-sighted stage MANAGER burns in
cense. which lends more wanton atmos-
phere to the scene. and a susceptible an
dience gets the fumes up its nose and be-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-24
COMPARATIVE COTTON STATE.
MENT.

New York. Feb 23.-For the week
ending Friday, February 23rd. 1900:
Net receipts mt all United States ports
during week, 1S1, $50; net receipts at all
United States ports during same week
last year. S1,502 total receipts to this
date, 5,327 ,622: total receipts to same
date last year. 7,0G3, 243: exports for the
week, 221.S36; exports for the same
week last year. 111.011 total exports to
this date, 3,796,2S3: total exports TO
same date Last year, 5,701, 455: stock
at all United States ports, 1.017.S
stock at all United States ports same
time last year. 1884; stock at all in
terror towns. 51S,071; stock Mt all interior
towns same time last year. 452, AGO; stock
at Liverpool, ego. 600; stock at LiverpooI
same time last year, 1901 900; stock or
American afoat for Great Britain 190,-
600; stock of American afoat for Grehr
Britain same time last year, 100000.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-24

clearings at the principal cities of the
United States for the week ending Feb
ruary 22nd were 81 $50, 2So,S de-
crease 16 per cent.
Outside of New York city $510,296,-
S44; decrease IA per cent.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
ENGLAND A GOOD BUYER.


England buys 60 per cent of all the
products which the American farmer
sends abroad. says Consular Agent Z.
l.. Harris, at Eibenstock, in report to
the state department. treating upon
the extent of United States trade with
Great Britain. England. he says, is our
best customer for foodstuffs, and the
British colonies present the greatest
field for our manufactured products.
Mr.. Harris provides table for the fis-
cal year 1s9S'99, showing that of our
principal products. England bought in
round numbers $73,oOO.OOO worth, or
70 per cent. more than all the rest OF
Europe combined.
In concluding, Consular Agent Har-
ris states that Great Britain has never
shown the enmity toward our home
products Of corn. wheat. flour. beef and
pork which has been evident in other
European nations. and that the value of
England's market cannot be over
estimated
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
MAN WITH BROKEN NECK.


That ii is possible to save the life OF
a man with a broken neck is made man
fest in the remarkable case of Walter
Il. Duryea. who is now almost fully re-
covered and who is to be removed from
Roosevelt hospital to his home in Glen
Cove.
MIR. Duryeu is the son of wealthy
manufacturer. Last August he was
bathing at Oyster bay and dived from
dancing pavilion into shallow water.
His head struck bottom. and when he
was pulled ashore it was found that his
neck had been broken. He was brought
TO New York, placed in the Roosevelt
hospital and was operated upon by DIR.
Able, the well-known surgeon.
| Medical men in all parts of the world
! have been eagerly awaiting results.
The young man was very feeble for
months after the operation. OF late.
however, his Improvement has been
quite rapid, and he is now able to use
his hands even to the extent of writ
ing. DR.. Able believes that his wonder
full patient will entirely recover. and
that thus another triumph will be
scored for modern surgery.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
Signal Corps Connecting Entire
Visayan Group by Wire.
Nearly 1000 Miles OF Telegraph wi~e
Already Laid with 100 First-CIas.
Telegraph Omces-Further
Work Planned.

A new progress map of signal corps
telegraph lines and cables in the Phil
ippines, just prepared under the direc-
ton of Gen. A. w. Greeley, is of especial
interest at this time. 1t shows not only
the system as it existed on March 81,
but also projected military telegraph
lines and cables now in process of con-
struction.
Telegraphic communication between
Manila and the south has been entirely
dependent upon the English cable to
the Visayan Island of Panay, Negros
and Cebu. This cable, which was
broken by an earthquake on April IA,
has not yet been repaired, and the long
interruption emphasizes the great mil
itary Importance of the alternate tel
egraph route to the southern islands
from Manila, which is now being con-
structed by the signal corps. The sys-
tenn recommended by Gen. Macarthur
has been fully approved by Secretary
Root, and will be pushed to rapid COM
pletion.
1t is expected that the entire Visay-
an group will be connected by mill
tary lines before July, and that the
southern system of cables and land
lines will be in operation by the end of
the rainy season. The extent and mag
nitude of the telegraph and cable oper-
ations of the signal corps in the Phil
iPpnes is hardly realized or known.
There are 100 first-class telegraph of
fees, manned by nearly 200 skilled op-
orator who handle by telegraph on
the Island of Luzon alone about 300 900
words each day. In addition. there are
about $50 long-distance telephone sta
tions in operation in various parts of
the archipelago.
The work of the signal corps, when
completed, will stretch through nearly
IA degrees of latitude. Six signal corps
cables are now in operation, and in all
probability the cables and land lines
which were nearly 2 1000 miles in length
on March l will aggregate at present
$500 miles. While some branches are
for strictly military purposes. the most
of these lines are permanent structures
which will have very important bear
ing in the development of the trade re-
lations of the various islands.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
WEDS HIS NURSE.
Kenosha Man, Now Fighting In south
Africa, Surprises His
Friends,

The Kenosha CWis.) friends of
Charles j. Spruce, Kenosha man who
is fighting with the British army in
South Africa and who was decorate ed
recently with the Victoria cross, were
surprised the other morning when the
relatives of Spruce in Kenosha received
letter from him announcing his mar
riage to a young woman of Johannes
burg who had recently been nurse
with the British army.
The story of the wedding was the
old romance of the battlefield. Two
years ago Spruce was taken i'll and was
sent to the hospital, and fell in love
with the young woman who attended
him during his illness. In connection
with the announcement of his we'd
ding Mr.. Spruce writes that he will
retire from the army in the near future
and go to London for brief visit and
then retHrn to Kenosha.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
MINOR GIRL BECOMES A WIFE.
Persistent Indiana Groom Carries on
BIushinE Fourtccn-Yenr-
Old Bride.

There was a sensation the other ait
ernoon at Milford, north of Wabash.
Ind, when Stephen Bird, aged "a, and
whose home is at Britton, Mich,
eloped from the town with Elsie Shire.
man, aged Ia. The young man had
been paying marked attention to the
girl, and the parents of the latter
were much incensed and ordered him
to remain away from the house. Bird
went to Warsaw and obtained a Ii
cense. He then met the girl at the
home of his brother and Kev. j. W..
Keifer performed the ceremony. The
groom, fearing trouble, had hired a
double rig and Immediately after the
nuptials the pair jumped into the car
riage and were driven pell-mell to
New Paris, "A station on the Wabash
road. to take the train. They encoun-
tered the girls father on the highway.
he having learned of the ruse, but
when he in whirlwind of passion
tried to stop the horses they whipped
up and went by him like a flash.
Shireman says he will kill Bird on
sight and threatens to prosecute the
minister who performed the ceremony
and the official who issued the license,
as his daughter is under age.
William l.. Taylor, attorney general
of Indiana, whose attention has been
called to the frequent marriages of
mere children in the state within the
last three months, has issued an opin-
ion holding that county clerk is pro-
hibited from licensing man under
IS or girl under 16 to wed. The
clerk may issue license for persons
under those ages and the law does not
reach the parties, though the clerk
may be prosecuted If parental consent
has not been obtained. The attorney
general rules that the license to per-
sons under 1s and 1G is not prima fa-
Gle evidence that the parties can be
married. and both the clerk and the
officiating minister may he convicted
of Il misdCmcanor.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
The Leader
Corner Putnam and Front Streets, First Floor.

graduated last year from Princeton;
G. l.. Denny, of indianapolis. senior
in the university, and +. B. Meigs, of
Philadelphia, also n senior. The stu
dents are going for good time and
expect to travel in the wagon all sum-
mer. They intend to make their first
long stop at Yellowstone national park,
where several weeks will be spent In
hunting wild animals with cameras.
with which the expedition is well
equipped. The wagon was built es-
pecially for the purpose and will con-
stitute living-room. kitchen and bed
room, Guns and fishing tackle have
been provided in abundance and three
dogs will act as. mascots and afford
amusement. After the stay in Yellow
stone park the party will go to San
Francisco.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21

down the nuts. but The upper limbs
generally escape because too slender.
Pangle found that the rains insured an
unusually heavy crop of good quality
this year. Before he left Brazil an
American in communication with the
natives had agreed to send him mon
keys as needed, 1t only remained for
Pangle to say when" He immediate
ly set about getting Il corner on all the
pecan trees within 20 miles of Marble
Falls. He contracted to take the crop
of numerous groves. On the Colorado
bottom he found pecan trees scattered
over several thousand acres of land
owned by n cattle syndicate and got
the crop for n song. These are the tall
est trees In Texas. and the nuts are the
largest of the kind in the world.
Pangle cabled his agent in Brazil to
ship him 100 monkeys. Twenty-Five
were sent from Rio Janeiro in charge
Of Brazilian keeper, and all but three
came through alive and well. Pangle
astonished the people of Marble Falls
one day by turning his strange troop
'''pN ~ thN l'piN pd' n 'hoHt VI lht
spectators saw only lot of scamper-
ing. chattering, tail twisting animals
cutting many laughable monkey
shine, but it was an anxious hour for
Pangle, Would the monkeys redeem
their promise and make his corner on
pecan trees go or would they fall back
into their primitive ways and make
him the laughing stock of all Texas?
The Brazilian sent several of the
baby faced animals into tall pecan
tree in the plaza and went through his
repertory of Uhistling, clucking. ges-
ticulating and shouting to make them
gather the nuts. For time they paid
no attention to him, and it looked as
though Pangle had paid big price for
the cap and bells. but that was prOba-
bly, because the joy of being again free
among the trees dcafened the monkeys
to the call of duty. 1t was only for Il
short time, however. for their nut wise
ways soon came back to the simians,
and they began to pick the green pc
cans. AS they dropped a shower OF
nuts to the ground the crowd greeted
the performance with cheers, and re-
sponsive chattering came back from
the topmost boughs.
Many Texans are now more than
half convinced that Pangle is genius.
He has 70 more monkeys on the way
and is confident he will have fortune
gathered in with his pecans before
Christmas. Heretofore abost half the
crop of nuts has been lost. He thinks
he has solved the problem of prevent
ing that loss. and in Imagination he al
ready sees himself "the pecan king of
Texas"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
FINDS BIG PEARL IN MUSSEL
A Fresh water Clam Digger at Lynx
vile, Wis, Opens
+ Rare Prize.

As far as known the largest and most
valuable pearl ever found was taken
from clam by John Haymondat Lynx
vile, Wis, recently. The pearl weighs
12O grains and is valued at more than
$4,000, as Raymond has been offered
this amount for his jewel, but refused
TO take it,
He has fine collection of pearls,
which he has found along The Missis-
sippi river while digging for clam
shells, and says he is going to take
them to the Paris exposition. Hay
mond was at one time an engineer in
the employ of the Milwaukee company,
and it is said he lost his position and
went to digging clans for living.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
MONKEYS AS LkBORERS
How a Texas Man Is Testing
Them on His Farm.
USES THE BEASTS TO PICK PEOANs

John Par lie Now Expects to Secure
the Finest Nuts From Tops of His
Trees which Were Formerly Lost.
Has Imported IA Lot of Trained
Brazilian Simians.
John Pangle of Marble Falls, Tex, is
either genius or fool. There is Il
great difference of opinion on that
point in Texas. On one side is Pangle,
on the other all his neighbors. Pangle
insists monkeys can be trained to gath
er pecans. Other Texans laugh at him.
Pangle has imported a big troop of
simians from Brazil to save his reputa-
tion and according to Del Rio CTex.)
dispatch to the Chicago Times Herald,
Is spending hundreds of dollars to de-
eide the issue. 1t should be understood
incidentally that he was led into this
novel enterprise by the hope of maxim!
his fortune. I'm have the laugh on
'em ye," he says.
Pangle recently made a. Journey
through South America, and, being Il
Yankee, he had his eyes open fer good
things" While travelling through Bra
I'll he met tribe of natives that had
trained monkeys to gather certain
kinds of nuts and berries from tall
trees. This novel labor saving inven-
tion suggested an idea to Pangle He
recalled the pecan groves of Texas. He
remembered how tall the trees grew
and how the sweetest nuts We're gener-
ally lost because they grew on the top
most branches and defied even the
brayest of Texas boys. If monkeys
will gather nuts in Brazil, why not in
Texas? He saw no reason why they
should lose their slmian senses by emf
grating from South to North America.
IL Texas had the nuts, it was as sure u
winner as two and two make four"
So he came home to survey the pecan
groves He found the Colorado bottom
dotted with pecan trees growing some
of the finest nuts in the world. They
have come to be one of the most impor-
tant products of the Lone Star State,
and the industry of gathering them
puts large sums in circulation among
the poor class of inhabitants. Unfor
tunately the largest and best nuts are
on the topmost branches. 1t is neces-
cosy :" c''mh the trees and thrash
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
The PARAMOUNT ISSUE
FULL DINNER PAIL.

The Democrats are discovering that
Mr.. Bryan's paramount issue" is not
so paramount as it was, especially with
the working men, and they manifest
symptoms of uneasiness with regard
to the interest taken by the people at
large who are in the habit Of doing
steady days work and carry dinner
buckets to save time, at the impression
the phase full diner pail seems to
have made. Evidently the discovery
is that q great many working men
have prejudices against further Demo-
cratic experiments with the bread and
butter of the men of labor ana their
families. Bryan missionaries have
started out to undertake to relieve the
bearers of the full dinner pail" of the
sense of satisfaction they have been
getting from the assurance that the
dinner bucket contains a square
meal" something that satisfies a man
at work, and the point they are at
tempting to make is that the contents
of the dinner pail cost more than they
formerly did.
They are quite elaborate with fig
ures, but it, to all appearances, re-
quires a great deal of ingenutyto show
that the dinner is more costly than
it was, at least enough to take the
bloom off the bucket.
The accurate and thorough analysis
of the cost of a good dinner, and the
variations in the price of its compon-
ent parts, is no small job. There are
general principles of application that
should be discussed. 1t is important
to get the exact ratio between wages
and dinners as it stands now and as
it did when Cleveland experiment was
to lose employment.
When they had lost their jobs, very
often it wasn't the question of the
cost of a meal, a good one or a poor
one, that was uppermost. The real
difficulty was to be employed to make
an income. The issue is not whether
the percentage of cost were higher or
lower than at other times. AS the case
stands an enormous number of people
are now employed who lacked occupa-
tion a few years ago when the hard
times pinched, and it is wise and well
for them to count tbe cost of every
thing that they consume, food and
clothing and all the items, and pay
ment CT compensation regular and as
sured, close calculations may be made.
One of the most difficult things in the
world is to ascertain the exact cost of
any product.
Mr. Bryan's first candidacy was in
the midst of hard times His cry was
that in order to give relief the price of
silver must be higher and there ought
to be great deal more of it coined.
The fact that there were about $780,
100000 tsilver) that people did not
care to take out, made no impression
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21

upon his mind. Free coinage so as to
double the price Of the metal, was his
cure for hard times.
The people have ascer;ained frcm
their experience that his silver stories
were sophistical. They did not pan
out. Times grew better. Gold was
abundant for all useful purposes. and
there is more gold in the treasury new
than ever 1t isn't scarce in the world.
1t is reliable, no discount on it. no trib-
ute paid to Europe for it. Europe bor-
rows our gold and money is cheaper
than ever; that is the interest on /; is
lower That means capital is cheap.
All these things are aginst Mr.. Bryan.
He wants a change of venue. He wants
the presidential question decided by a
state of affairs outside our own coun-
try. He doesn't seem to be flourishing
even on that. He neglected silver,
which was the money of his soul. in
his acceptance speech and now talks
"bOHI II as a Slut-SHON. II is very
stale talk. quite perfunctory.
He isn't undertaking to make the
fight on the silver issue. and so is
chattering about Republican inconsis-
tency on the silver question. What's
it his business whether REPUBLICANS are
consistent or not? Money is at least
good. The arly years of Mr. Bryan's
public life were spent in fighting pro-
lection. Is he fighting it now as he
did? Is he consistent in painful de-
gree? The protection of our home in
dustries was an abominaton in his
sight, yet he has allowed the wind to
blow him away from his free trade the
ory. The swarming people of Europe
are near at hand. They are quite close
neighbors.
1t costs very little more to cross the
Atlantic ocean with manufactured arti-
cles than it does to cross the Hudson
river or the Mississippi river. The
time of voyages is so short and the
freights so low that the Europeans are
at our doors with their goods. Our pol
icy of protection makes the markets at
home the best in the world, and we de-
sire to give our own people the great
est possible advantages. The men who
live and labor here, pay for their food
! and clothing, and pay their taxes, are
the preferred people under the protec.
| tive system.
The farmer and the mechanic. the
people of the wheat fields and the corr
fields and those of the manufacture.
and cities, presently adjust their re
lations almost automatically in goods
There are advances in prices and ther,
are betterments In goods. Very little
can be done by legislation to regulate
prices. The intelligence of the people
is tn best regulation. They regulate
these things among themselves and are
capable of it. as they are capable OF
self-government."
MURAT HALSTEAD.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
Duke of Fife.

Queen Victoria has secured the So
cial position Of some of her great
grandchildren by making a new grant
of the dukedom of Fife to the prince of
Wales son-in-law and creating him earl
of Macduff in the peerage of the United
Kingdom. The earldnm and dukedom,
In default of male issue by Princess
Louise of Wales, go to each daughter
they have or may have and her male
successfully according to priority of
birth
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
B. & c. S-W. RY
TIMS TABLE.

TsmS TABLE.
Trains Ar-'Ve mt ana Depart M Unio..
station.
ARRIVE WESTWARD. DEPAR:
IL am-Athens. Chillicothe. II 4Opl:
Cincinnati Louisville,
Louis and all POI is
West South and S-wesL
'1@ 30 m-Beipre, Athens. Chill 3 90 n
m-Helpre. Athens. Chill . D aOaru
AZ , III icothe Cincinnati and
sunday Louisville. Si Louis
only and all points west and
II. 55 pm-BeIpre. Park4rsbnrg. o5pn
Chillioothe. cincinnati
and way stations.
O5 p m-B elpre, pa rkers. t 2Opu
burg. Chillicothe. Gin
cinnati, Louisville. st.
Louis, Chicago and all
points west. south and
southwest.
go a m-Parkersburg and Belpre Loca
EASTWARD.
- % m-Belpre, Parkersburg, 10 90 N
Salem. Cor n wallis,
Clarkt burg, Grafton,
and All way stations.
'l2 90 p m-Belpre, Parkersburg, 81 O5 p III
Grafton, Washington,
Baltimore. Phil 'delpn.
Ia and New York.
l1a m Pa rkersburg. wash. o 1Op III
in' ton, B imore,
Ph'ladelDhia and New York
'lo 10 m--ParKersDnrg, Wash. Ill 40 p IL.
lnSton. Baltimore Phil.
adelphia, New York
Roston and all points east.
~'Daily Except Sunday.
All trains OF Marietta District run to Park
ersburg.
For through tickets to all points in the
United States. Canada and Mexico, with de
tailed information as to rates routes sleeping
accommodations ETC., please call on
Ss:--
y. NJ PAYNE, Ticket Agent, Marietta, O..
II BROWN Passenger Agt., Marietta, q.
o; P.McCARTY. Genl Passenger Agent
in"inuati.O
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
Doesn't Go Far Enough.

Edith Sessions Tupper has written
an article in which she tells men how
to act after marrying rich women. If
Edith will now pitch in and tell men
how TO arrange the prelminaries, the
Times Herald, of Chicago, is confident
it can safely predict an immense cir
culation for her pamphlet.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
TOWARD MARIETTA.

For further information call on or
address G. NJ. Payne, Ticket Agent,
Union Depot.
7. d. DALE, Receiver.
VIM. NJ. MORSE, Superintendent
H. c. VINCENT, General Passenger
Agent.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-21
OUTING TRIP BY WAGON.
Chicago student at Princeton Starts
Ont on Novel Vncn-
tiOn Trip.

James W. Thorne, of Chicago,
senior in Princeton, left Princeton
the other morning IN covered wagon
for the far west. lie will start on the
journey alone, but will he Joined later
L. John g. Ralston, of Chicago. who