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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-05
Legislation for the People

(Harvie Jordan in Atlanta Constitution
While it is true that the mission of
the agricultural writer is to devote his
pen and talents to writing and discus
sion of subjects pertaining to the differ
ent departments of the farmers life
work, nevertheless it is well at times
to leave these beaten pathways and turn
our attention to affairs of state govern
ment. A large majority of the popula-
ton OF this and other Southern States,
is found in the rural districts. hence,
the farmer is vitality interested in all
matters of legislation which affect him
and the general government of his State.
The agricultural classes contribute
largely to taxation, both for State and
county purposes, while upon the success
of the farmers depends the prosperity
of the States in which they reside.
The General Assembly of Georgia last
week convened in annual session and
many questions of Importance wilI' be up
for solution in which the general well
fare of the people of this State. espe
cially that of the farmers, is involved.
A matter of paramount Importance is
that of taxation. The tax rate of the
State is yet too high, Notwithstanding
that a considerable reduction from the
very high rate of 1898 has been secured
by curtailment of governmental ex-
penses and by the increase in the value
of property returned for taxes since that
year. The rate in 1898 was $500 on the
thousand, and for this year $500. If the
tax laws of the State were fully inforced
against all classes of property subject
to taxation under the constitution, the
maximum rate would not exceed 400 on
the thousand.
INTANGIBLE PROPERTY ESCAPES.
The escape of intangible property, that
is property which is not open to public
inspection, such as notes, money, bonds,
accounts. ETC., from taxation, makes the
burden doubly hard to bear upon the men
who own realty, livestock, ETC.. which
cannot be hidden from the eye of the pub
lie and the tax collector. Our constitu-
ton says that every species of property
having value is subject to taxation at
its fair and just valuation. except such
classes of property as are exempt by
the constitution, such as the property
of the State, churches, colleges and pub
lie libraries, etc. Nothing else of value
in the State is or can be exempt from
contributing its pro rata share TO the
burden of our State and county govern
ments.
1t is a notorious fact. however. that
only the tangible property of the people
is reached fully by the tax collectors.
Millions of dollars worth of notes, mer-
chandise, accounts, money bonds, stocks
and other property of value which can
be concealed, annually escapes the just
burden of taxation. Every dollar of tax
alton saved to the owners of this in
tangible property, who fail TO make full
and proper returns must be made out
OF an increased rate on the tangible
property which cannot escape. This
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hardly be expected As stated in previ-
Gus letters any increase in the crop over
that of last year must come mainly from
the State of Texas, for while it is con-
coded that there will be larger crops in
the States of Arkansas, and North and
South Carolina, yet this increase will be
more than Offset by the loss in the re-
naming States.
The Journal of Commerce and Com
mercial Bulletin has printed this week
reports from some 500 correspondents as
10 the condition of the crop, averaging the
date of October %. and in its summary
states that 169 expect a crop OF about the
same as last year, 29S expect an in
crease over last year, and $50 claim a
smaller crop. These reports would in
1icate that about 20 per cent of the crop
has already been picked. AS to the con-
dition of the crop 392 of the correspond
ents state that no change has taken
place since September, 421 report i'm
provement, and 1919 deterioration. All of
these reports indicate a slight prospect
of a top crop, unless frost should be de-
layed to a very late date. The reports of
this paper are in keeping with many pri-
vate reports being received here, espe-
cially in regard to the State of Texas,
where the boil weevils are still reported
as plentiful and damaging the new
growth The weekly crop weather report
stated that the weather had been favor
able for picking, and that it was nearing
completion in many sections. 1t stated
that there was fair prospect of a top
crop in the Northern portion of Texas if
there was no killing frost in the near
future, but that in the Central and South
ern portions of the State owing to boil
weevils and worms the top crop amount
ID to little or nothing. On Wednesday
and Thursday reports of the lowest tenn
peratures of the season were received
from all the States with the exception
of Texas. and these temperatures varied
from 80 to 3S. Their effect upon the
market was rather disappointing, mas
much as they caused no advance. but
their effect is likely to come later in ia
vorably influencing prices. Receipts for
the week are smaller by comparison
with those of last year, while the ex-
ports have continued on a very liberal
scale. Today the exports were $4,000
bales, while port receipts were only ST.
900 bales.
We regard the statistical position as
exceptionally strong, recalling that the
invisible stocks in the world were I'M
usually small on the first of September,
and the exports to date have no doubt
been needed TO meet the immediate re-
quirements rather than for future sup
plies. The immediate course of prices
will depend largely on weather condi-
hut consolidating OF
now 40 to 80 points below the high level
reached a month ago we can see no basis
for material decline, and believing that
this crop is only a moderate one we can
see little risk in buying around the pres
ent level of prices.
j. H. PARKER e CO.
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j. II. Parker & Co.'s
Weekly Market Letter

New York. Oct. 31.-The market has
been narrow and irregular, and the trans
actions smaller than for several weeks
mast. While the tendency has been
downward it has been more due to an
absence of support than to aggressive
short selling. The factors in the situa
ton have not changed materially eX-
cept a tendency on the part of local
operators to increase crop estimates
There is, however, a wide difference Of
opinion among conservative people on
this point We are still disposed to be-
lieye that this crop will prove only a
moderate, if not a smaller one than
last year. for the great majority of our
private reports indicate no material in
crease in the crop by reason OF the ia
vorable weather during the month of
October. This is especially true of
Texas. where we are led to believe the
new growth has come too late and can
not mature unless the weather should
continue warm and favorable until after
the first of December or later, which can
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STOCKS.
A STATE SCHOOL CONFERENCE

For the State Conference of County
School superintendent to be held in
Raleigh, N. c., November 1874, w. II.
FITZGERALD, commissioner, has issued the
following circular TO general passenger
agents to lines in the association,
composed of Southern Railway, Atlantic
Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line. in
GLIDING the c. and n. w, to announce
rates of round "trip tickets to Raleigh
and return from points within the State,
including Norfolk, Suffolk and Danville,
Va, account of the above occasion.
Tickets to be sold November 10th, 18th
and 18th, final limit November 18th,
1902 continuous passage in each direc-
ton.
The following total rates on this basis
will apply from functional points, viz:
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NAVAL STORES.

WILMINGTON, N. c, Nov. A. Tupentine
nothing dosing at ST; receipts 10.
Rosn firm at ST. 50ei 40; receipts 241
Crude. firm at Sis: receiptc 20 barrels.
Tar firm at 81 40; receipts "a.
SAvANNAH, Ga. Nov. a. Turpentine firm
at So! receipts go; sales aga; exports 700.
Rosin hrm: receipts 3, %; sales 1866;
exports 100000
QHote A. B. c, s1.3s; D.. si.3s; E.
ST +L; F. SI.45: G.. S1.55; H, $l.7S; L
200; X. $3.50; NJ. $500; n, $3.50; VIC,
S3.I5; WW$h1s.
CHARLESTON. S. G., Nov. 4.-Spirits tur-
pentine firm at az; receipts -; sales
exports
Kosin firm receipts -. +; sales IN; ex.
Quote A. B. c. D, E. s13s: =, St45, G.
S155; H. Sis; /, $40; K, $3.50; NJ. 500;
\. $3.50; VIC SIS; WV SAILS
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Among the Railroads.

Mr.. G. r. Ryan, General Passenger
Agent and Mr.. n. s. Leard, District
Passenger Agent of the Seaboard, have
been here to arrange for double daily
passenger service on the Seaboard Air
Line between Wilmington and Charlotte.
mixed freight and passenger train is 10
be run carrying a sleeper from Whining
ton to Charlotte, and from Charlotte TO
Wilmington The leaving time from This
city will be about 1880 p. m. and the ar
irving time about II p. m.-Wilmington
Messenger.
The machine shops of the East Caro-
lima Railway are nearing completion.
The Coast Line is putting in spur track
10 them -Tarboro Southerner.
A special from Knoxville, Tenn, says
1T is given out that the Southern Rail
way has bought practically all the mi
nority Of the stock of the Knoxville and
Ohio Railroad, extending from Knox
Vile to JeHco, sixty-five miles. This
stock was practically all held by the late
e ] Sanford, president Of the road, who
died last Monday. 1t is stated that ne
eotiations for the transfer We're pending
between Colonel Sanford and President
Spencer. previous to the formers death.
President Spencer was in Knoxville
Thursday and Friday, and it is under
stood the deal was then closed with the
trustees of the Sanford estate. 1t is
also reliably given out that the Southern
has purchased the Tennessee Northern,
eleven miles long, extending from I-aFol-
lette to LaFonette junction on the Knox
Vile and Ohio Also the Hartman and
Northeastern, twenty three miles long,
from Hartman to the State Coal Mines
at Petros'
Beginning yesterday the wholesale
merchants of the city are getting the ben
efits of low rates on sugar from Phila-
delphia and New York to this city. The
railroads and steamship companies are
doing the fighting, while the merchants
are loading their stocks of sugar TO the
maximum The Clyde Line of steamers
from New York and Philadelphia, has
notified the merchants of the city that the
rate on sugar from this date until fur
Their notice, will be twelve cents per bar
rel This is a reduction of eighteen cents
straight. the rate therefore having been
thirty cents The Richmond. Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railroad, which is a
competitor of the water lines. has made
a similar reduction, quoting a rate OF
twelve cents from New York and Phil
adelphia to Richmond No other road
has as yet reduced the freight rate, ana
it is not likely that any other roads will
get into the war. Richmond News.
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New York and
Northern and Eastern
Summer Resorts

Express steamships leave Norfolk, Va,
daily, except Sunday, at 700 p. m, for
New York direct, affording opportunity
for through passengers from the South,
Southwest and West to visit Richmond,
Old Point Comfort and Virginia Beach
en- route.
For tickets and general information ap-
ply to railroad ticket agents, or to NJ. B.
Crowell General Agent, Norfolk, Va; j.
E. Mayer, Agent, 1912 East Main St., Rich
mond, Va.
H. B. WALKER, Traffic Manager.
J. ]. BROWN, General Passenger Agt.
New York, N. Y.
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to check.
observation-disclosures
Agen Estate
ertyf
FINANCIAL for floating Corporations
and
Mills President Leo D. Heartt
Counsel
w. j.. G.
Petty and
q n.
Correspc
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The machine shops of the East Caro-
lima Railway are nearing completion.
The Coast Line is putting in spur track
10 them. -Tarboro Southerner.
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intangible property is largely owned by
men of wealth. hence the reason why
the heaviest burden of maintaining anu
supporting the various establishments OF
our government falls heaviest upon that
class of our people who have only mod-
crate means. and possess only tangible
property.
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Telegraphic Briefs.

Judge Shelby of the United States
Circuit court, has placed the Southern
Building and Loan Association, of Hunts
vile, Ala, one of the largest concerns
of the kind of the South in the hands of
Lawrence Cooper as receiver.
With the return of Secretary Hay to
Washington, Senior Conchas, the Colom-
blan Minister, may resume negotia tions
for canal treaty, which have been in
terrupted by complications arising out
of the situation on the Isthmus.
At Paris yesterday the seconds in the
Marquis De Dion and NJ. Gerault Rich
ard of the Petite Republique met and
agreed on the conditions of duel, to be
fought today. The place and hour of the
encounter have not yet been decided upon.
Thousands Of natives of Herschel Is
land and along the Arctic coast are dying
from measles. When the natives began
to wear civilized mans clothing and drink
whiskey, then began their decline. Dis
eases unheard of attacked them, and, not
knowing how to care for themselves the
people died rapidly.
Miss Laura Biggar, for whom a warrant
was issued for attempted fraud in con-
Rection with the will of the late million
aire Henry M, Bennett, appeared at the
sheriff's office in Freehold. n. j., yes
terday and announced that she desired
TO surrender herself. The sheriff de-
clined to take the responsibility of lock-
ing the would-be prisoner up until the
constable appeared with a warrant. Miss
Biggar waited until the constable arrived
with the warrant when the sheriff con-
scented to receive her as a prisoner.
The excitement Sunday over the. re-
ported fight of a peer to the continent.
was heightened yesterday by the an
nouncement that a well-known London
society man, Bernard Frazer, had been
sentenced. at the Norwich assizes, to ten
years penal servitude. With him was also
sentenced Arthur Thorold, the son of a
clergyman connected. as is Frazer, with
one of the oldest and proudest families
in the United Kingdom. The prisoners
were charged with carrying on regular
campaign to deprave the morals of youths
all over the country.
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Good Roads.

Prepared for the Southern Division
of the United States office OF
Public Road Inquiries, by j. A
Holmes, Special Agent, also Secretary
North Carolina Good Roads Associa-
tion.)
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Yesterdays Markets.
RALEIGH SPOT COTTON MARKET.
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL. Nov IA D. m. - Co0t0n Spot
moderate busineSs; American middling
fair 4,9s; good middling 400 mid!dling
4.3s ordinaey 4.26. The safes of the day
were 5000 bales. of which 500 We're for
speculation and export, and included Il o
American. RECEIPTS $4,000 bales, including
81, 400 American.
Futures opened easier. and closed quiet
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-07-04

The market place of st. Pierre was
one of the most picturesque features.
1t was in the middle of a square, and
in the very centre was most beautiful
fountain. COuntrywomen from the sur
rounding hills made daily pilgrimages
to the market place, dressed in gOr-
geous colors, to sell the produce of their
lands-oTanges, bananas, vanilla beans
and cocoa The fishermen We're accus-
toned to lift their boats bodily out of
the water and convert them into tenn
porary stalls where were sold the many
hued fish of the tropic sea.
Back from the city proper a mile OF
more by what was fine read lay the
little village of Morne Rouge, 1000 feet
up the mountain side. The village
shared the fate of st. Pierre, and it is
believed that no one of it's inhabitants
survives The road to Morne Rouge led
by the wonderful and natural botan.
zeal garden known as. the Jardin des
Plantes.
The natives Of Martinique, especially
the women, have been described by all
travellers as of remarkable beauty anC
symmetry of form and feature. They
mature early and live their lives rap
idly as is the case in all tropica
islands, but the women of MARTINIQUE
seem to be pre-eminent in p;ysica
perfection Cornilliac ascribes TIL
wonderful beauty, which is the rul
= rather than the exception in Marti
nlque, to the mixture OF Carib blooI
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only one that has met with success, is
now in operation at the Wexford cul
ture station. 1t has been successful
because it doesn't give the lobsterlingi
time or opportunity to fight or eat one
another.
AS soon as they are Matched the little
Holsters are placed in a big circular
net and let down under water along
side the Fish Commission boat. They
remain in the net until they are old
enough and wise enough to know bet
ter than to fight and devour one an
other, being constantly churned around
and around by a set of paddles in the
net worked by machinery from the
boat.
The churning process keeps the lob
sterlings constantly moving around
and around the net day and night If
the machinery was to stop the young
sters would promptly make for one
another and begin fighting. AS it is,
the machinery doesn't stop, and so the
Holsters have too much to do lodging
the paddles and trying to keep head
on with the current to engage in
pitched battle.
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edges, It's greatest width being fifteen
miles. AT the lower end o. this main
part the old Fort Royal Bay-since the
French Revolution called Fort de
France Bay-cuts in so deep as to come
within six miles of meeting the inlets
Of lie Robert and lie Francois on the
other side.
The whole area OF the island, near
400 square miles, is mountainous. Pc
sides Mont Pelee, there are farther
south and about midway of the oval
the three crests of Courbet, and all
along the great ridge are the black
and ragged cones of old volcanoes.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-07-04

Pierre, and at 6 o'clock the same even
Ing correspondent at Fort de France
communicated to the Harvard's COM
mander the fact that the Spanish tor
pedo boat destroyer FurOr had put into
Fort de France The destroyer turned
out to be the Terror instead of the
Furor but the important fact that Ger
vera was on this side of the ocean was
established.
The city of 81. Pierre had an APP
pearance of great solidity. 1t looked
as if it had been hewn out of the solid
rock of the mountains. The two-story
dwellings We're uniformly of stone,
with walls three feet thick. In the
upper city there We're many fountains
carrying excellent drinking water from
driven wells. The main thoroughfare
of the city was the Rue Victor Hugo.
The aristocratic quarter extended in
long line Of villas and country seats
through luxuriant growth of tropical
! foliage to the mountain village of
Morne Rogue, five miles away. Rue
Victor Hugo was the Broadway of st.
Pierre. In this narrow and slnuous
street, with its blocks of square stone
buildings, were the leading shops
st. Pierre had many images and sta
tues. One of the statues, the figure Of
gigantic "Christ," which stands on a
height and overlooks the bay, from
which it is easily visible. A great white
Virgin" surmounts the Nome d'Orange
to the south Of the city. Behind the
: city was the cemetery.
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stones of the pilgrims had long since
vanished into dust. The stone in ques-
ton, the only Mayfower gravestone in
existence rests over the grave Of Cap.
tain Richard Moore. ST., who came to
Plymouth in the Mayhower as boy
in Elder William Brewster's family,
and finally settled in Salem, where he
died at the age Of elghty-fOur in SOM
where about 1695-the dute is net 81 en-
on the tom ssecne.
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BAD LITTLE LoesTERs.
Pu=naelous youngsters That Long Con.
tinuaily For Fight.

uT uAGAuuS II 1uh&HASts 4hub Long NOMs
tinuaily For Fight.
Perpetual motion is the only saliva.
ton OF the baby lobster, says the New
York Journal That much has been
thoroughly demonstrated by n series
Of very interesting experiments con-
Quoted by the United States Fish Com
mission at the WEXFORD (R H. lobster
culture station
The explanation is exceedingly sim
pie. Lobsterlings, as the young lob
sters are called, are naturally born
fighters and cannibals They fight to
the death, and even eat their own little
brothers and sisters If they get a
chance. That is why Holsters are so
scarce.
Several schemes have been tried
tending to educate the lobsterling to
better things and to reserve the eat
ing Of mankind The latest, and the
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-07-04

The total population of the island is
reckoned at 175,00O, of whom 10000
are whites, $4,000 of Asiatic origin
and 10000 blacks of all shades from
ebony to light octoroon.
Martinique had two interesting
claims to distinction in that the En-.
press Josephine was born there as was
Nine. De Malntenon the latter passing
her girlhood on the island as FRANCHISE
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-07-04
Tie Kinr,s Coronation

most costly function Of modern times. win
be attended by people from all over tl'n
world, many Of whom will take the oceai
voyage as means Of improving their health
Many others, however, cannot afford an
ocean trip. but they can recover their health
II they win use Hostetters stomach Bltters,
he celebrated remedy for all stomach and
liver complaints. It win cure indigestion,
dyspepsia, constipation and biliousness. Be
sure to try It.
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The mountainous interior is torn and
gashed with ancient earthquake up
heavals, and there are perpendicular
cliffs, deep clafts and gorges, black
holes filled with water and swift tor.
rents dashing over precipices and fall.
ing into caverns-in a word, all the fan.
tastic savagery of volcanic scenery
but the whole covered with the rich
vardure of the tropics.
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A Mayfiowcr Tom bstone.

In the old Charter Street Cemetery
at Salem, Mass, is tombstone recent
ly identified as marking the grave OF
one of the passengers in the his.
torio Mayfower Prior to this discov.
cry it was believed that all the grave,
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-07-04
TransatIantique, Colonial Bank of Lon

TransatlantiQue Colonial Bank Of Lon
don and the Credit Foncier Colonial.
There were sixteen commission mer-
chants twelve dry goods stores, TWEEN
ty-two provision dealers, twenty-siX
rum manufacturers, eleven colonial
produce merchants, four brokers and
two hardware dealers.
The Island Of Martinique has the
same general characteristics as its
nearest neighbors, with some peculiari-
ties Of its own. It's extreme length is
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-07-04
Description
. Of Nor
tinique's
Destroyed
Metropolis.

Martinique became an interesting
point in this country during the recent
war with Spain. The first news Of the
arrival Of the Spanish feet of Admiral
Ceryera came from ST. Pierre. At $50
o'clock in the morning of May II, 1898,
the cruiser Harvard arrived at st.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-07-04

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Il ara sorry, doctor you were not
able 20 attend the church supper last
night It would have done you goo
to be there"
III has already done me 80
madam; have just prescribed ~
three Of the participants Richmond
Dispatcn.