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AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.

When is a man drunk? When he
 falls down and holds on to the grass to keep from falling up. But that sure in-
 dication is not always present in case under consideration, and it is sometimes
 necessary to look for other signs. Judge
 Emmons, one of Boston's police com- missioners, has lately undertaken to say
 what drunkenness is. He told the po-
 lice that any man is drunk whose con-
 dition is abnormal through the volun-
 tary use of liquor." And he goes on to elucidate his meaning by saying that a man is drunk if his gait is unsteady, his utterance is not clear and his breath smells of liquor. He may be able to walk all right under these conditions, but all the same he is drunk and vio- lator of the law. This will seem to many rather sweeping. An interesting test for drunkenness was made the oth- CT day in Dublin. In order to ascertain whether a man was drunk or sober a magistrate in that city made him hop twelve feet on the right foot and the same distance on the left, and then
 stand on one leg for seven seconds and
 on the other for four The man stood the test, and the magistrate at once &C., | cepted it as a proof of his sobriety.
 It will, we suppose, continue to be diff | ficult to tell when some men are drunk,
 and the men themselves will continue to
 be very uncertain about it.
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THE NEW POPE.

Everybody seems to be pleased with the new Pope. Of course some are not as pleased as they feel obliged to seem, but there is good reason for the genu- inc pleasure of those who are really pleased. The election of Sarto came about because of the fact that he was not a leading candidate and because he was a good man to compromise on. He is 6s years old, in good health, hand some, able and tactful. He was born at Treviso on the 2d of June, 1885. He studied at the College of Castelfranco and at the Seminary of Padua. His first cure was in the parish of Tom bolo, from which in 1867 he was trans ferred to Salzano. The bishop of Ire viso noticing his talent appointed him canon of the cathedral of Treviso. He next became bishop of Mantua. In 1893 he was elected to the Venetian patri- archate. He was one of the most pop ular of the cardinals, and is much be- loved by the Venetians. He has been noted for his abstinence from aggres- sive action. and his influence has al- ways been exerted to keep the peace
 between the opposing factions. He has
 been a favorite with the Italian gov-
 ernment, and his election is considered
 likely to improve the relations between
 the government and the Vatican. While probably any of those voted for would have filled the great office we'll, it seems plain that the choice ! made was very wise one for the Church and the world in which the 1 Church plays so large a part.
 I
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Treatment of isavemen ts.

They took little gravel |:
 And they took little tar With various ingredients
 Imported from afar. They hammered 1t and rolled ie
 And when they went away ss They said they had a pavement
 That would last for many days But they came with picks and smote it
 To lay water main; 5.- And then they called the workmen
 To put it back again. To run a railway cable
 They took it up some mores And they put it back again
 Just where it was before. They took it up for conduits
 sTo run the telephone; And then they put it back again
 As hard as any stone. .. They took it up for wires
 To feed the 'lectric light, And then they put It back again,
 Which was no more than right Oh, the payement's full of furrowss
 There are patches everywhere: You'd like to ride upon It, :. M But it's seldom that you dares It's very handsome payement--
 A credit to the town; H# They're always diggin' of 1t up |, Or putin of it down. .. x,
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AnyERrIsINa RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each h. sertion Five Cents Word for full weex Display advertisements. per inch. one in, sertion, $1.20: each suDseduent insertion, v cents: one week, S3.20; one month. SID: one year. s4u
 Obituary Notices, Tn prose or verse, ID cents per line. Notices of Births. Mar.i- ages, Deaths. and Funeral. 50 censs eacn Local Notices. 15 cents per line
 Yearly advertisers are limited to tneit own immediate business fall matter to De unopjetcionable), and their contracts do noS Include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
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Count Tolstoi's latest contribution, which appears in Paris review, is pro- foundly pessimistic, as he holds the de- cline of liberty to be inevitably pro- gressive under all forms of govern nent, because of technical improve ments in the art and instruments of war, rendering impossible revolutions by force.
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The new printing office of the govern ment will be next to the largest in ex- istence. The building cost s2,500,0Oo. It has seven floors and about eighteen acres of floor space. It is well lighted by fifteen hundred windows, and the walls are lined with white enameled brick. There are nearly four thousand employees on the payroll of the printing office. The annual product costs about $5, ,750, 900.
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Booker T. Washington made these calm and sensible remarks in Bingham, Massachusetts, Sunday: In the present somewhat restless and sensitive condi- tion of the country with regard to all matters bearing upon the negro race it becomes the duty of all to be prudent, wise and at the same time courageous in advocating and doing that which will
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An important step in the progress of Japan Is apparently about to be taken in the compulsory teaching of the Ro- man alphabet, as well as a Romanized Japanese alphabet, in the government primary schools. This work has been done to some extent already in the uni- versailles, but if this proposal of the Ed- ucation department be adopted the Ro- manization of the Japanese language is not far distant, for the next generation of Japanese of all classes will be famil- far with the Latin alphabet. It is diffi- cult to realize all that this will mean to the nation. It will simplify political and commercial relations, and will rem der western thought and literature &C., cessible to the bulk of the people.
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It is related that many Chinamen fre- quent Philippine markets and are good patrons, as many have restaurants and need large supplies. A Chinaman usu-' ally buys number of eggs and always carries with him to market small tin pail of water to test their usefulness. If the egg falls to the bottom of the pail it is good; if it rises to the top 1t is bad and is refused, only to be carefully wiped off by the vendor and put back in stock to catch a customer without the pail,
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Tn statement issued to Mississippi Governor Longino says he is now ''ab- solutely certain" of his election to the United States Senate, in spite of the un- fair and mean methods resorted to by the Fernando De Sota Money contin- gent in their effort to beat him. He doesn't take back word he has said about the lynching mobs. Immigration. and capital will never flow into the State as they ought to until the mobs are put down, and the law is supreme. He reneWs his recommendations that officers who let the snobs take their prisoners from them be punished, and that the counties in which lynchings oc- cur be made responsible in damages to the families of the victims.
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A curious point arose in case in Manchester. England. A man named Hall was insured in an accident insur- ance company. One of the conditions was that notice of the illness should be received by the company within twenty one days Of its occurrence. MT. Hall was few days out with his notice. and he contended that the word occur renee" did not mean the beginning of an illness, but the whole period. Justice Bigham held that an illness occurred when it began; and gave judgment for the insurance company.
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There are no less than 2S7 industrial schools in the Kingdom of saxony, or one industrial school for every 14,641 people. These schools. are of five classes: Advanced Industrial Schools, Special Industrial Schools, Industrial Schools for Drawing and Painting, In- dustrial Schools for Women, Girls and Children, Industrial Primary or Con- tinuation Schools. Of the first class there are 12 schools in Saxony, of the special industrial schools there are 15O, of the schools for drawing and paint and children 21, and of the primary or continuation schools A.
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points for st. Paul, New York Central
and Union Pacific which were the most
conspicuous stocks in the trading. Gains
of a point or more were numerous
Bonds were steady and not very active,
Total sales (par value) $3.50, 900.
L. S. old As declined IA and the IS,
registered. and the new As, coupons, LIE
on the last call.
Total sales of stocks were 749, 400
shares, including: Atchison $500; Baltl-
more and Ohio 34,100; Erie 22,S00 Eric
first preferred $500; Louisville and Nash
VILE 5000; Manhattan 6.400; Missouri Pa
cific q, 800; N, Y. Central 45.100; Pennsyl-
yania 64 ,700; Reading 21,600; St Paul
"a 100; Southern Pacific 17,400; Southern
Railway IL 200; Texas Pacific 500;
Union Pacific 591O0; Wabash preferred
13 800: Amalgamated Copper $4,000;
American Smelling and Refining 5,40O;
Sugar 14.500; U. S. Steel 14,1Oo; U. S.
steel preferred 10, 100; Rock island 1860.
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] arrant g. Kings
Cotton Letter.
Especial to News and Observer.l


New York, March 31.-Heavy receipts
at Houston and Indifferent Liverpool adj
vices caused a wave of selling In the
early trading today, which carried August
down to 917, but at midday the estimates
for tomorrow's receipts at New Orleans
and Galveston were announced and as
they We're very light, the market quick
ly advanced fifteen points, and the New
England crowd were not active at all.
This is only an indication of what would
happen if they were inclined to force
matters. They have remained passive for
several days, hoping that a large short
interest would be created, and the ac-
ton of the market today confirms our
belief that there is accumulated con-
siderable short interest We expect to
see cotton selling in the near future
much higher than it has sold at any time
this season, and as We have frequently
pointed out, the conditions justify pur-
chases on every slight reaction. Mr.
Price is out today with probably the most
elaborate circular he ever issued, telling
of labor troubles, decline in the higher
class railroad securities, and other things
that should give an opportunity to cover
his short cotton, but it is significant that
every time he issues an elaborate bear
circular. the market advances sharply.
TARRANT & KING,
6S Broad Street.
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Tobacco Chat.

If we may trust the newspapers, j.
Pierpont Morgan is seeking to make moro
secure the power of the American To-
bacco Company under which name one
of the most grasping trusts does bust
ness. Mr. Morgan recently was in Cuba
and it is said while there he bought up
- the lands in the Vuelta Abajo dis
trict upon which is grown the finest
grade of leaf tobacco used in the manu-
facture of the best brands OF Havanna
cigars. The tobacco is known the world
over for its delightful aroma, and as no
product to equal it has ever been sue
cessfully cultivated in any other district
the acquisition of the property will give
the American combine an enormous adj
vantage in the cigar trade. The report
says that the purpose OF Mr.. Morgan's
purchase is said II be secure the Vuelta
Abajo tobacco excl lsively for the use OF
the factories of the American Cigar Com
pany, which is a branch of the American
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STOCKS.
Barbee g. Co.'s
Cotton Letter
Especial to News and Observer)

especial 10 news ana observer
New York, March 31-There were
more stop orders encountered this morn
ing and prices declined rapidly Then,
after everyone seemed to have sold out
shorts tried to cover and August shot up
to 9.32- This was quite to be expected
We all have seen this sort Of thing
and will see such things later. As long as
the May people hold on, drop of thirty
or forty points is all that can be expected
before the rally comes. There is no cot
ton here and as long as spot markets hold
firm there is every incentive for shorts
to run when the pool buys. For awhile
the tendency of the market should be to-
wards a gradually lower level. Factors
are against an advance But the pool
Will attempt to prevent a bad break and
for this reason August is to be sold on
bulges only. AS we have said for some
time this is a market to avoid on a
break. Everything pointed to a decline
this morning and common sense led one
to take in short cotton. On bulge over
$50 tomorrow for August we would let
August go again for a break. Receipts
are getting larger and weather should
bring about more new crop talk. But the
position is strong and a short seller in
May can easily find no cotton to deliver
when the time comes. The market is in
shape to bull easily when the May peo-
pie buy and for this reason we would
sell only on, the bulges
Cotton futures ranged today as fol-
lows.
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BALTIMORE PROVISIONS.
STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York, March 31.--The stock market
showed rather hesitating and irregular
tendency to recover today. The move
ment seemed based upon an assumption
that easier money conditions will follow
the arrangement of the April settlements.
The immediate money market was still
under the influence of the preparations
for these settlements and call loan rates
were very stiff all day. The Sub-Treas-
ury statement showed that the banks
have lost to that institution since the
last bank statement $2,445 900, and there
was q small credit balance in it's favor
at the clearing house this morning, but
the governments draft for SO, 1000, 600 was
presented at the Sub-Treasury during
the day by its fiscal agent aid was paid
out in cash for disbursement lii relief of
distress in the Philippines. The fiscal
agent through an Oriental branch is able
to dispense with a recourse to the ex
change market. The effect is to benefit
the New York money market and offset
the previous absorption by the SubTreas-
ury The payment over the counter OF
the Sub Treasury serves also TO allow
the amount to. figure in the average Of
the reserves Of the banks for one more
day than would an ordinary Sub-Treasury
operation. The disbursement of the gov
crnment in the payment on April first
will further relieve the drain into the
Sub Treasury. Foreign money market
showed the same spirit of expectancy of
easier conditions and discounts wete
quotably lower in Berlin. There was
occasional Interruptions to the advance
the most notable occurring after the
strong opening when a general attack
was made on the list. Sugar yielded
easily by reason of the reduction in prict
| of graduated grades and Amalgama-
ted was depressed on account of the vio-
| lent break in the London copper market
on account of the proposed $4,000, 900
| bend issue, but the weakness of thi:
grade OF securities was not as infuen,
| tial in shaping sentiment as the evidence
| that support was offered New York Cen
/ trail. PENNSYLVANIA. St Paul and the higl
| grade railroad stocks. Doubtless a de
| mand to cover shorts played part II
| the strength, but cessation of liquidation
in the high grade investment stocks af
! forded great relief to the sentiment o
depression lately prevalent in the mar
ket The fiurries in the call money mar
ket interrupted the advance but did no
| cause weakness. Call money rose to
per cent in the last hour but the tenn
norarv check to the advance was followe
Inv renewed strength and the closing wa
active and strong and at about the to
level. The days gains reached to =
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A cable message from Berlin says The
cigarette manufacturers of this city are
organizing to put up a strong fight against
the American Tobacco trust. Recently the
trust bought several large cigarette fac
tories in Dresden and tried to open a
market for their brands in Berlin and
other great cities, but the dealers were
loval to the German manufacturers and
refused to handle the trusts goods Then
the American company threatened to
swamp the market and give away their
brands of cigarettes There is little doubt
that the trust will eventually come out
victorious but it will cost it several
millions of marks, as the local manufac-
tprers are determined to fight to the last
ditch.
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PRICES OF COTTON
RAPIDLY ADVANCED
Fears That the Market Has
Been 0ver-Sold.
LARGE BUYING RESULTS
The Market is Finally Steady Net Six 10 TIN
Points hgher---Tne Stock Market Shows
an Irregular Tendency 10
r, cover.

New York. March 31.-The dry goods
market had been quiet both al first hands
and with jobbers. The strike has formed
the topic of conversation with both buy
ers and sellers but little effect has been
noticeable in the market with the excep-
tlon OF few buyers who have been on
the lookout to cover themselves on or
ders which are likely not to be deliv-
cred.
NEW YORK COTTON.
New York, March 31.-The cotton
opened steady at a decline of one point
to an advance of points, the betterment
being due to covering as a result of bet
ter Liverpool cables. These on the New
York close of Monday were due to show
a decline of partial points but were
about one point higher at the time OF the
local opening. This influence, however,
was soon Offset by the prospects for heavy
receipts owing to Unexpectedly heavy ar
rivals at New Orleans amounting TO 20
600 bales, against estimates OF 1880
bales and the total port receipts turned
out 81 ,903 bales, against 14.76l bales last
year The heavy movement and the bet
ter weather South brought about renewed
liquidation and bear pressure which car
ried values down Z to points on the
old crop positions and from to points
ON the new crop. At this level however,
the decline since the higher levels of last
week had been considerable and shorts
Necame apprehensive that the market had
seen oversold. The buying movement
thus started was encouraged by the firm
ness at New Orleans where leading in
terests were reported to be bidding for
large blocks of July and the moderate
estimates for tomorrow's receipts at lead
ing points On the advance buying or
ders were received from the South and
the commission houses turned buyers so
that prices were rapidly advanced Elk
ports were heavy, amounting to 1870
bales but just before the close there was
a little realizing which caused slight
back The market however. was
finally steady. net COLO points higher,
that level being within 1G4 points of the
best of the session. Total sales futures
estimated 900 bales.
~rw YoRK. Mar. 31-s'otton srot closed
qniet: m ddline nplands 9.o5; middlfng Sulls
10 20; sales 1866 iaes.
Futures open - ste dy
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON

New Orleans, March 31.-The spot cot
ton market today was very quiet. Quo
tations unchanged.
The future market was decidedly quiet.
At the opening prices were l to points
I'D. The fluctuations were numerous, but
the trend of prices was upward, the
board at the closing showing net gains
of IL points on May, June, July and
August. and s to points on the more
distant positions.
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NAVAL STORES.

WILMINGTON, N. C. Mar. 81 Tupentine
firm at o5, receipts casks
Rosin firm at 81 IS; receipts 40.
Crude, firm at 81. 4OIl 400: recelpts1. bar
rels
Tar firm at s1.6S: receipts Pol.
SAvANNAH, Ga Mar 81 Turpentihe firm
at oS: receipts 2se; sales =, exports
IiRosin Arm: receipts !, ST. sales 2,4s6;
exports 15,270.
Qnote A, 3. SOS; D. s2oS; r.
2.s5; X. So, 0: Nj. $3.50; N. $50; VIC
s3.sS: WV St2S.
CHARLESTON. s. c., Mar. 81 Spirits tur-
pentine hrm at Ga receipts -; sales ;
exports
Rosin firm receipts =; sales 49,. ex-
pouote a. r. CLOS; D. H.es: f. sI.os. y
y of, C. 2.loi II, 30; /, 2.7s: X. $40; NJ,
a 80; N $50: W q, SIS; WV, AIS
SMOKE ia Josephine" and Young
Fritz"
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NEW YORK MONEY.

NEW YORK. Mar. 81 p. m-CIoss money
on call strong 6Dl5 rer cent: Tine money
steady; 90 DAYS 81. per cent; 90 days So:
six months s6G5H; cent, Prime mercantile
paper Sh@G per cent sterling exchange
sesder with actual bushes in BANKERS
bills at 4S7Ggls1 % for demand at 4S3 T004S3. so
for 90 day bills Posted ra es 49, 0D4SS Com
mercial bills +S314Si; Barsilver 1914; Mex
IAN dollars 3Sn. Government bonds wax;
Raltroad londs steady.
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If Wisconsin persists in her direct as
sault upon our tobacco growers by pass
ing laws forbidding the sale of cigarettes
i'm that state the latter should demand
a law that viii prohibit the sale or use
OF Wisconsin beet sugar in this State.
There are thousands and thousands Of
farmers in North Carolina interested Iii
rectly in this very cigarette business
because of the very largely increased de-
mand created for the particular. and
most profitable class Of tobacco culu-
waited and grown by our farmers by this
particular character Of manufacture
Winston Journal.
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Tobacco Company. II these intentions are
carried out the independent clear Ha-
wanna factories in Tampa, Key West
New Orleans, New York and other cities
would have to look elsewhere for their
fine grade leaf tobacco The transaction,
il is said, involved several millions
Chicago Rural Voice.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

Chicago. March 3l-The prevailing
sentiment in the grain pits today seemed
to favor the bears although prices weak
ened. May wheat closing half cent lower
May corn down 3-sc and oats. l-498-8c
lower. May provisions closed from to
12he lower.
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Suspicion makes people try TO find out
the things they would rather not know
All well-groomed men DO not possess
horSe-sense
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srABoARD STOCKS AND BONDS.

BALTIMORE, Mar. 81 Seaboard Air Line
common 23&: preferred 3SA,
Bonds As. S5s4
Atlantic Coast Line. common. 100: pre-
ferred e..
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.rw ORLEANS. LA. Mar al Cotton futures
LIVERPOOL

TayERPooL. Mar 3t.-4n. m.-Cootou -Spot
O ie prices ppiuts lower; American mid
dljug So: tood uiidling SAB midduns
s3> good binary 500 OBITUARY 4.9i;
The safes OF the dsy were 1000 bales. o.
which 5000 we're for cnlation and ex-
r..~r end included $500 American. Re-
eeints IS 600 bales in nug 6 100 Amsri' ar .
. ures opened easier and closed barely
staady.
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! nc UATkGI CIUa6U AIbaUy'
BARBEE & co.
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OPENING IHIeBEsT.

Lending futures ranged as ronowsi