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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-23
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Still Commenting on Panama
Purchase Policy.
MCKINLEY MEMORIAL
TWO TRUSTEES APPOINTED TO
FILL VACANCIES.
Admiral Dewey Has Fun Over His
Physicians Order and Its Re
sulting Correspondence.
MCKINLEY MEMORIAL

/ cannot see any reason why the ques-
ton of the purchase of canal supplies
should come up in the next session of Con-
gress at ALL" said Senator Hopkins of IL
linois after call at the White House to-
day. Il do not suppose there will be one
dozen men in the Senate and House who
will differ from the President and Secre-
tary Taft in the least. There has been a
great hullabaloo about nothing and it's
absurd The construction of the isthmian
canal is not domestic affair. 1t is a great
international undertaking. We are going
to build the canal with foreign labor and
yet there is no objection to this. China
men, Japs, Jamaicans and anybody that
can stand the climate will be employed. So
will the administration buy abroad if abso-
lutely necessary. But 1 venture the pre-
diction that not per cent of the goods to
be purchased will be from abroad, and
probably not that much. The admnistra-
ton will not go abroad unless compelled,
and that may be depended upon. l do
not believe all this talk will be dignified
when Congress is called into session.
Purchase of Supplies Abroad
''The attitude of the administration on the
purchase of supplies for the Panama canal
is all right when the price of goods abroad
is less than the difference between the cost
OF the same goods in this country after the
customs duty is added; it is all wrong
when the price of foreign goods Is greater
than the difference that is represented by
the customs duty
This was the view taken by Representa-
tive Tawney of Minnesota today, when he
was on his way from the White House after
a call upon the President. 1.-THE customs
law enacted eight years ago was intended
to protect American labor. The customs
duty imposed on various goods represented
the difference between the price of The
goods abroad and at home and that differ
ence was in favor of labor. Consequently
the price of goods in this country ought
not to be greater than the price abroad
plus the customs duty
How about the case of steel rails =. hich
are reputed to be sold abroad in competi-
ton With foregn-made rails and at a fig
ure far below their price in this country?"
"If it is true that the price of steel rails
in the United States is far above the differ
ence in the prices abroad, with the addi-
ton of the customs duty, then the admin
istration has been eminently correct as to
that particular article and will be upheld
by the country. But 1 do not believe that
any goods ought to be bought abroad where
the price here is not greater than when the
customs rates are added. We cannot af-
ford to fix one price at which the govern
ment can buy and make the citizen pay
another. That would not be sensible nor
good policy'
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-07-04

a called meeting THURSDAY afternoon
at 4 80 O'Clock at the home OF Mrs.
c. C. Croker. Business Of import
ance demands attention aud al mem
beers are requested, p attend
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Or A. Graeay went TO Fort
Worth tais morning
Miss Annie Kennedy has returned
from d visit 20 HilIsboco
j. Stephens Of Rock Island. Texas.
IS here On d prospecting trip.
Masca Pa5ter Oh was a pay.ersy,
10 Fort Worth this morning
Tom ChatfiaEd vent 10 Fort Worth
today CO attend the baseball game
C " Kent left this morning for
Mineral wells to spend several days
Miss Queen ColIey OF Italy is in
the city. the guest of Mrs Cole
Bailey on Marvin Avenue.
Dr. C W Simpson and Dr.. Leon
ard kepltnger went 70 Midlothian
this morning to attend a meeting OF
the Ellis Counts Medical Society
Mrs, Joe Wiley and daughter. Vera.
left this morning for Moody where
they Will make their future home
M. Wiley has a position with
flour mill at that place
Mr. john NJ Jordan. q prosper
Gus merchant Of Dublin. vas here
today looking through Trinity Uni
versity with A yteH Of sending his
daughter to school here next year
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Bryan or College and return
SETS, account Texas Farmers Con
gress at A. Il N College ON sale
July "a. Is anu IS Limit July %.
Buffalo. N Z. and return. S3g.4o.
account Grand Lodge B P O. K On
sale July 6. 7. 3. and limit July Is
or August 4 1905
Baltimore. Md AMI return. $50 05
account United Society Of Christian
Endeavorers. On sale July > and
3, limit July Is OF August Jlst
Asbury Park. N ana return
$44 so, on sale June % % so.
and July l.. limit Aug 81
Knoxville, Tenn. Juae IL. 10. 20.
"a. IS, July 1. s. 2 and Is. Rate
S2S.05 limit Is days from iAte or
sale Extension to Septembec 80
granted
Nashville Tenn June IL. "a. 20.
81. July I. 2 and ? Rate g2t3Q.
limit 90 days from date Of sale
Knoxville Tenn and return
xsS.0b. account summer school on
safe LEM Is, -. 20. - AID Is, Also
July 1. =, =. AID Is Limit { days
Limit csn be made uD 20 and 20 lad
Ing Septemter 30
Very low round trap ratss % Los
Angeles. San Franclsco and Portland
For Information rsgarding rates.
rostes. etc "a an point Gail IA or
phoae g. Kennedy. Ticket Agent
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-07-04

Last aiKhf about ! ocaock off
GERS w.re called "a the residence of
negro ~oman n freedman. wh0
stated that somebody had left = asax
IT clothing belonging To q pmFsoa
Of the femGalne swnder 0n her poFeh
sh@ wAnted the officers to take tha
fhinRa away ~ she dAda't wmns II
10 appear that shw h@d h@@n maaang
! raid on sama@ LADY fFtend'a earl
rob~ Aheu TIE MaK wmm sfo1wnt
20 tae city aud Examined Il was
foand Is oontaan a hat. salk shlFts
w2Aaa salts cellar and u&ANT @Enals
Articles me ussfgt 10 sslll - p<s@s
.@Meton af sa@ affzeerm.
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a large crowd went from lWaxa
hachie to Ennis this morning to at
tend the fourth of July CelebratioD
in progress there today. !
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-07-04

The Sewing Circle will meet with
Miss Stella Jennings tomorrow after
noon at 4 O'Clock All members are
urged 10 come.
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NAa.awllle Tenn r1uni trip.
So 10 ss~liing iates JuiF Z . lni
Baltimore ami esturn t8nDt. sslI
saE aatsss July T. 2 tnd
Bsffaio amt return "a %. ssillag
datss ImlY . AMI
Assbary PARK = T rsuad trim
SO 50. seiliaK iAf~s Tua. 60. -
Aad 10 aud July
lseav~r Col r9uat trtn So so
g~slitsg aAtss June 90 Aaa gufv
and
"a t~satN ana esa $3.50 xpIE.
lmE aAte@ Gan~ 10 - smptssnlss. 90
Rssv farfnrf fafBrFnat4na tAG 40
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DAMAGED BY WATER.
service of Independent Telephone
Company Interrupted.

A terrific rain storm visited Waxa-
hachie yesterday afternoon between
4 and O'Clock. Dark and angry
looking clouds began milling in
the vest and for a while IL looked
very much like strong gale would
break over the city. but the rain
Was accompanied only by slight
Wind. For several minutes the pre-
cipltation Was very heavy and the
storm cutters were taxed to their
fullest capacity 20 carry off the
water
The local exchange OF the Ellis
County independent Telephone Com
pany Mas badly damaged by a leak
ing roof The room ccupied by the
exchange was floode.i sith water and
for five or ten M htes the local
service vas INTERRUPTED The toll
board ~as put oas4 0f business. but
Manager HeCanlesg soon had tenn
pOrary connection made 80 that the
service could be resumed Both
the local and toll boards were work
ing In very satisfactory manner
this morning
The millinery stock OF Miss ReA-
gan. ~hieh occupied the first fioaw
of the building @as alao damaged
by the water A large auEnher nj
hats w~Fe almost completely ruined
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DFfnw i.&Eaue~ Fruit syrup xlw~a
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The Shakespeare Club wiz have
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j r King has moved his Singer
sewing machine office from Earleys
grocery store TO KembleB Eros. fur
nituTr store. TSP
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atsd Bans ~al occupy the present 40Arters oi
NatiymAl Bars ard tire ofacsrs RID drectasw
r.
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A representative Of the company
from whom the street roller was
bought arrived in the city last night
and today sgpertntended the work
of unloading the big machine. The
city has SIX days ia which to give
the roller a thorough test before &c
Cepting or rejecting it.
The news & observer., 1905-12-31
EDWARD EVERETT AS A SPEAKER
By DIR. T. B. Kingsbury.

eloquence. | went expecting to hear
an orator overfiowing with high. com
manding eloquence and of intense pas
sion and power, thrilling. compelling
attention and interest, and lifting the
soul into unwonted ecstacy and adj
miration. / went expecting to hear
an orator-a Clay, an S. S. Prentiss, a
McDuffie. Gen. Clingman told me
thirty years ago that he was the
greatest orator he ever heard in the
u. S. House), Vance. Henry A..
Wise. and l only heard a consummate
eSsayist, pronouncing in formal, even
artificial, elocutiOnary style, a most
exqusitely arranged production. very
beautiful, artistic, fiowery, and grace
full. But as to eloquenee I heard none
of II, save when our great North Car
Gilman, Mr.. Badger, so happily,
superbly and thrillingly introduced
the gifted and distinguished Boston,
ian to the audience. If i try Mr..
Everett by any standard of eloquence
known in our Southland. then he was
no orator. He had none of the air,
so divine and true and rare, which en-
ables the speaker to arouse,t to subdue,
to lead captive at will an eager, ex-
|. .pectant audience; he had none of the
magnetism of high oratory which
fires and inspires, and but little of
that pathos which melts the soul. and
evokes tears. 1t was alike destitute
Of humor as of pathos. The grafton
glittered with fine rhetorical jewels; it
was like a palace of ice in the sun
| light-very brilliant, but very cold;
but unlike the palace, it die not
melt.
After hearing Mr.. Everett, and see
ing how much he was lauded as the
greatest living orator, / concluded
| that either the South had no orators
or the North had none. But i had
/ Choate Henry Ward Beecher, and
| others of high repute for eloquence
then. If Mr. Everett was their COM
| pletest representative of an orator.
then, / felt certain, that eloquence
of speech and, action was at low ebb
among the Yankees If the South's 5
| then best orators could eXtemporize
| such an effort as the one l heard
! Everett pronounce, and should deliver
| Ii in their earnest, impaSsioned way.
| they would ovcrwhelm their hearers,
and lead them captive at their will.
i But you could sit perfectly passive
and unmoved by Mr.. Everett's owery
! rounded, elegant periods as they fell
! freez ng from his lips without any
! emotion whatever. The enchanter' 5
wand was lacking.
One other remark. Before he closed
! his two hours address, | became
| really worried with his mincings and
! pirouettngs. Instead of walking the
/ stage as Mr. Clay SO impressively did.
! or turning from right to left with easy
! grace, when he wished to change his
1 posture, he did il with all the arti-
| flee OF an expert in dancing by alter
nately placing the heels and toes to-
! gether as / remember TO have seen
my dancing teacher in my boyhood.
| Mr.. Swan, do more than sixty years
since. But enough. Some forty years
ago Rev DR.. Fuller a native of Souti,
! Carolina / believe, but long a famous
/ Baptist pulpit orator of Baltimore,
heard Mr.. Everett deliver his Wash
| ington oration in that city. He heard
The news & observer., 1905-12-31

In an oration / delivered in 1881,
before the Methodists of Roanoke Cir
cult, the oldest in North Carolina, and
at their request, upon the late Rev.
Thomas G.. Lowe, the greatest natural
orator, so far as / am informed ever
born I'm North Carolina, | referred at
some length to the oration of Hon.
Edward Everett upon George Wash
ington, the Father of his country"
have not read what / said in perhaps
twenty years. and / do not recall a
line OF it. The other day in writing
of Mr. Badger, / again referred to
Mr.. Everett's once very celebrated
Grafton. When he began to deliver 1T
i'm American cities, both North and
South, a great deal was written con-
cerning it, and there were both exalt
ed praise bestowed and criticism some
what adverse. / wish to refer to 1t
again now. / remember that / went
from Oxford to Raleigh to hear it in
the summer of 1859. 1t cost quite
ten dollars to obtain the privilege of
hearing the very eminent Bostonian
utter with mellfluous accent his hon
led phrases. He was really then the
lion Of the whole country-"the ma
tons guest" He was greatly honored
courted lauded. Every body talked OF
Everett. and every body who could,
hurried to cities to hear this man OF
distinction and culture. 1t was at that
period when Bonner, the New York
newspaper publisher, had put his
hand upon the nation pulse, and
prescribed dose of Everett to be re-
peated through fifty-two weeks. The
remedy appeared to be violent. but it
really did but little harm, the doses
being so highly diluted. The patient
soon recovered from the richly oiled
nostrum., Everett's newspaper articles
obtained for him but little reputation
or glory. although they filled the cof-
fers of the publisher But now let
me turn to the Grafton.
/ went, | paid, / listened, I gazed,
and / criticized to myself. I bcheld q
fine looking, elegantly dressed speak
er, of commanding personality, quite
graceful. with the posturing and
movement of a dancing master, full Of
artifice, precision of mannerism, and
evidently trained in elocutionary
tricks. That is what / saw Now for
what / heard. His voice was good,
somewhat sonorous, ore rotundo as
recall it, well modulated and at times
tiute-like. He pronounced distinctly
each syllable, spoke with considerable
ease and occasional emphasis, but
spoke without that electrical kindling
passion and penetration which stir the
blood and send it careeing through
the veins. 1t was nice, felicitous. pre-
else, graceful declamation-that was
all. The matter was better 1t was
very like all of Mr.. Everett's very re-
markable addresses (and / have read
them all with no little pleasure) -
very rhetorical, very elegant, very
beautiful at times. and always inter-
esting to read. His description Of
Blenheim Castle, the yer famous
home of the Duke of Marlborough
Great Britain's greatest military
genius was exceedingly graphic, i'm
pressiye. even fascinating and splendid
and altogether. the best passage in his
Grafton. But after all, / was much
disappointed. There was really no
The news & observer., 1905-12-31

versity begins January 2, 1906. Great
success and blessing attend it! May it
soon nave 1000 studeats. Let excelsior
be the cry.
| have before seen the Confederate
Handbook which states that it is
"a reliable reference and a safe guide
to all interested in Confederate his
tory" 1t is endorsed by Generals John
B. Gordon. stephen ID. Lee Clement
A. Evans. and others. 1t is in no
sense q North Carolina production.
Col. Robert G. Wood. of the Confede
rate States Army Cavalry. prepared it.
He Is Louisianian. II gives the fol-
lowing as to troops furnished by North
Carolina in the great war: Officers
killed, 677; men killed, 13,S45; total,
14,552. Died of wounds, officers. $50;
men, 4,S21; total, 5,151. Died of dis
ease, officers, Sal; men, 20,161, total,
20,602. Total losses by North Caro-
lima, 40.305. The United States gov
ernment's published Records of the
war gives the figures at about 41,000.
Most men of intelligence and fairness
would consider that tremendous loss
by a State that had but 115, 369 mill
tary population in 1860, the year be-
fore the war. See page 23 of the
Hand Book. The State furnished in
all quite 125,000 soldiers-probably
nearer 10000. And yet North Caro-
lima IS responsible for the failure of
the war, and the defeat of the Confed-
eracy because it did not furnish a.
500 more men than the above. That is
a pity if true. But it is not true. 1t
is monstrously absurd. Look at the
negro troops furnished: Georgia,
3.48G; Virginia. 5,723; Tennessee, 20,-
133 Total, 29.342. North Carolina
furnished 5,035. Suppose the 29,342
had not been furnished would it not
have contributed to the success of the
Confederacy? The idea of a State that
lost more men than Virginia. Georgia,
and Tennessee combined-their loss
being 36,473, all combined. against
North Cardinals loss of 40,315. and
still our dear old State is to be held
responsible for the failure of the Con-
federacy is the charge and 1t is a SUI
preme blunder. And Vance is to be
held responsible. Everybody knows
that Vance was the greatest war Gov
ernor as viewed by his services-he
was so great he was imprisoned by the
Yankees-and the most popular man
North Carolina ever had, if not its
greatest. as many men of ability edu-
cation information, and service be-
lieve is to be branded as "the cause of
the failure of the Confederacy. 1t Is
a shameful, ignorant charge. What
will the contemporaries, friends. ad-
mirers and supporters Of the illus
trious Vance say. TO such an accusation
of failure if not of traitorism to the
cause? From the way North Caro-
lima has been blamed. misrepresented,
slandered, since 1852 until 1905. 1T
really looks as if it should have done
all the fighting and received as re-
ward "all the cussing."
Wilmington, n. &.
The news & observer., 1905-12-31
@9s,kSAA SCENIC ROUTE
sS;S;T;4ssaasITo s:sS;;;4 - THE WEST

SOUTHERN RY. TRAINS leaving
Raleigh S:45 a. M, and Durham 1000
a. m, arrives Greensboro 1853 a. m,
and Lynchburg 1857 p. M; connects
with G. & o., leaving Lynchburg 4:lO
.. m, daily (will wait 80 minutes for
connection, if passengers are reported)
and arrives Va. Hot Springs 1910 p.
$50 .. M. ST. Louis 6:2S p. m.
Parlor Car Lynchburg to Clifton
Forge.
Pullman Sleeping Cars Clifton Forge
to Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago anu
ST Louis. connecting at these cities for
all points in Northwest. West and
Southwest.
S. A. l.. TRAIN, leaving Raleigh II:
SO a. M, daily, and Durham 1880 a.
M, except Sunday, arrives Richmond,
4:55 D. M. and connects with G. q o.,
leaving 1900 p. M, with Pullman
Sleeping Car to Cincinnati and Cincin-
natl to Chicago and st. Louis.
For Rates. Tickets, Pullman, Reser-
vatons and detailed information, ap-
ply to your ticket agent, or address
w. O. Warthen, ID. p. A., c. & Q. Ky.
Richmond, Va.
H. w. FULLER. G.. +. r.
The news & observer., 1905-12-31
..ROYSTER'S CANDY.

TastiIy hacked In boxes or baskets. 1t
will satisfy her to know it's Registers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-27

cities has been increasing, TWO years
ago an estimate of the number Of Amer
leans living in London was made and
the number was shown to be $4,000
We II, 900 in Paris.
There are according to the last esti'
mates 25, 900 Americans residing in
London permanently, 10000 in Paris,
5000 each in Rome and Berlin. $500
in Munich, 1900 in Florence and 1000
in Venice.
There are at all times between 100.
600 and $50, 200 Americans resident in
European cities, apart from the mum.
Der of Americans who make a sum
mer trip to Europe and come under
the designation of either transients or
travellers. Most European countries do
not include in the censu of inhabi.
tants taken unnaturalized foreigners,
and for that reason the figures of the
number of Americans are not always
easy to get. Ten per cent. of the pop
ulation of Paris. exclusive of tran
sients, is made up of foreigners-250,-
600 foreigners constantly in Paris, OF
whom 10000 are Americans.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-27
AND JONES GOT HIS RAISE
Smart Trick Of His Friend Willie
Unexpectedly Helped Him
to Get It.

"rhc question is said the youne
man. according to the New York Sun
whether the Joke is on me or Jones.
YOU see. Jones came to me.
II ought 10 have my pay raised
FIVE a week. says he, but | hate to
tackle the boss. How would you so
about it?'
why don't you write to HIM, say
ing that Mr.. Jones' is a deserving
yourg man. who has done good work
for the firm. and ought to have his
pay raised FIVE dollars a week. says
]. Then sign 1t Lewis JARVIS" and
send it in
by ioyc that's q great idea says
he. ! though he'd take it as a joke,
Of course Bat that pisht Jones came
up to ne, erinning al over
"'Well, / sent that Lewis Jarvis let
ter says he. Sent it through the
mail. too
Say. / felt rotten. Here I'd LED
a young and inexperienced man like
Jones to set gay with The boss, and
maybe ruined all his prospects. | lay
awake half that night. and the more
! thought, the more it seemed TO me-
that 1t was going to be mp TO Willie
to TESS up and save the job for
Jones.
Il didn't see Jones until noon
next day. He came to me with his
hand out.
"'Say!' says he, the boss thinks it's
the greatest ever! He's showing 1t to
the big boss now, and they're split
ting their sides. And he made the
raise $780,"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-27
commission
THE ROMANCE OF A BRITISH
SOUTH AFRICAN CoLoNIsI.
Gave His Brother in London Orders
to Select and Send Him a Vile
lis Now Happily
Married.

A lonely man was John Stobbs. To
him life in the solitary little station on
the Uganda railway had become we'll
nigh intolerable. The days dawned
fierce and warm, and the black station
porters went about their work obllVi-
Gus of the torrid heat, whilst he' the
Englishman in charge. sweltered ana
longed for the cool country lanes OF MS
English home.
Company there was none lo Jonh
Stobbs it seemed as if he mad peen
buried alive. so entirely was he shut
out of the world.
Then the idea came-came one night
as the mosquitoes hummed about his
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-27

so your wife objects to your play
ing the races?"
Eyes. She is afraid that if keep
on she will have to resign from her
bridge-whist club."-Washington Star.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-27
WHEN ON BUSINESS BENT

speed and promptness are usually
considered first in travelling. At the
same time there is no reason why a
little pleasure should not be inject
ed into the necessary journey as
well; you will be all the better able
to successfully accomplish your mis-
sion for the relaxation. The Michi-
gan Central, THE Niagara Falls
Route is noted for the high speed
of its trains and for the fact that
they arrive and depart at the adver-
tised time. The service and comfort
is the finest and greatest in the land
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-27
Big Banana Cared

A record cargo of bananas was landaa
at Manchester, England. recently. com
sisting Of $1,000 punches. They wsra
from Costa Rica.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-27

The AdirOndaclSs in September
are well worth a visit If only to
breathe the exhilarating atmosphere
and see the glory of the autumn col
oring. Reduced rates at hotels.
The superior train service of the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad will
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-27

A month later, John Stobbs. thoughts
Of his lonely life all gone, a happy
man, left his lonely station, and, de-
spite the tropical heat of the carriage,
enjoyed his ride to Mombasa to meet
his bride as he never remembered hav-
ing enjoyed a railway journey before.
At Mombasa they met and, surpris-
ing as 1t seems, were married within
an hour Of their first meeting.