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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

tional campaign? 1t will be just one thing
ana that is the railroad question, and of
course closely allied with that will be the
question OF the trusts. l made twenty
speeches in the Senate in which L showed
tlat railroad discrimination was RESPONSE
Die Tor the growth of trusts Some people
VINO wanted TO talk tariff insisted that the
tafiII was responsible for these trusts The
tariH gives equal advantages to every one
ANY man may start a business and get the
advantages of the tariff no matter how
small ne Is. But with railroad discrimina-
ton II is different. The discrimination
never comes to the benefit of the little fell
low III Is for the big fellow and the big
teiloW constantly grows bigger under H.
Ii President Roosevelt can cure this
eVh without government ownership no one
VIII be more glad to see that result than
VIII be- He is not disposed to sanction
government ownership and | hone he will
De able to cure the evil without it. But /
snail be surprised if he is able to do II
FROM my point of view there is only one
way TO deal with that question and that
is to have the government own the rail
roads and run them. Not ONLY is there
the evil of discrimina ton, but the rates
III many cases are eXtortionate They
should be lowered. The government is fully
able to handle this question and il sbould
do it. - '0iN
III 1t is not cured by the time the next
national campaign is fought then this will
pe the one absorbing question that We will
nave TO dea! with. The people have got
10 nave a cure for the evil They are NOT
so particular about how the cure is to he
accomplished, but there must be a cure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
Theater Reform in England.


This is the age of reforms in the theater.
The public has got the idea firmly fixed
in its head that there is something exceed
ingly wrong with the British drama, and
suggestions for its improvement crop up
every day. The latest suggestion is that.
instead of having one play lasting from
8:15 to IL %, Is the custom at present.
we should have three short plays in the
same space of time. There Is a good deal
to be said for this The tastes of the pres
ent generation appear to be very much in
the direction of brevity, as far as their en-
tertainments are concerned. Our novels are
little more than a third as long those
of fifty years ago. A new journalism has
sprung up, consisting mainly of short para
graphs and scraps of information. There
certainly seems no reason why the stage
should not give way to the demand for
breVity AS long as have dramatists
capable of giving us three-hour plays, and
not merely two-hour plays with sixty min
utes' padding to fill them out the old sys
tenn may be allowed to continue. But with
nearly every fresh play that is produced the
complaint of thinness is heard The critics
have generally a good word for the first
act and sometimes for the second; but the
third act is nearly always weak and disap-
pointing. A good one-act play is always
entertaining. and it seems pity, therefore,
that these cannot become fashionable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
How Bridge" Came to London.

The advent of the game of bridge to Lon
don was this wise. One afternoon the
customary rubber of whist was being
played at the Portland Club. which has
long been the recognized headquarters of
scientific card games. Among the players
was Lord Brougham. who had recently re-
turned from the south of Europe When It
came to his turn to deal he omitted to turn
up the last trump card. placing it face
downward on his own pack and his oppo-
nents claimed a misdeal in accordance with
partner. saying, Il am very sorry, but 1
forgot that | was not playing bridge"
Bridge" said the others what Is
BRIDGE? To which he replied that it was
by far the best card game ever invented.
After the rubber was over some one sug-
gested that Lord Brougham should show
them this wonderful game which he at
once proceeded to do, and from that day
onward bridge was established fact at
very soon travelled to the Turf Club. where
1t met with still warmer welcome than at
the Portland; after this it spread to other
clubs, and wherever ii was once intro
duced 1t was welcomed with open arms as
a delightful change from the stereotyped
methods and precise formulate of semitic
whist 1t was some years before bridge
became popular in country houses and be-
fore ladies discovered that it was a game
eminentiy suited to their capabilities. but
when once the discovery was made IL
spread like wildfire until at the present day
II Is played in all societies and by all class
and II is quite the exception NOWADAYS to
find any one who Is not bridge player of
some sort.
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unintelligentiy administered.

unintelligentiy administered.
In Switzerland and France the population
is permanent and more or less prosperous
and contented by reason of the fact that It
is practical for the thrifty peasant with
small capital to become freeholder and
achieve more or less Independence through
the cultivation of his own ground. Emil
grafton Is sure barometer Of the local
conditions concerning land ownership IN
every European country. and the degree OF
disaster which has come to each of these
countries from causes arising from the land
may be measured by the outflow Of popula-
ton.
Canada has learned well the lesson to be
found in the present condition In western
United States, and has confined her free
lands to actual homesteaders. That this
course has made the settlement of the
northwest territory slow as compared with
the settlement of Minnesota, the Dakotas
and other American states is undoubtedly
true. but there is small chance that the
Canadians will be confronted in the future
with the discovery of great frauds in the
disposal of their public lands or will find
that a few cattle and sheep men have APP
prOpriated to themselves vast areas which
otherwise would have supported prosperous
communities of home builders. Within the
United States can be found an example
of the benefits to come from a practical
exercise of the homes tead theory for in
Oklahoma none but homesteaders were al
lowed to settle, and within less than nfteen
years great community of freeholders has
ton for statehood.
Every check which the United States
government now places upon the fraudulent
acquisition of the public lands and every
acre which is returned to the pubic do
main as having been acquired by fraud by
private individuals is not only the rectifica-
ton OF previous errors, but in a degree rem
ders the question of land ownership less
serious to coming generations of Ameri-
cans. 1t mag seem a long look into the
future to predict the necessity of govern
America, but it will be required in course
of time If it is true that history repeats
itself. The evils of the large stock ranches
In the west are already recognized, and in
the state of Texas. where there has been
no government land the evils of tenantry
are almost acute In certain sections as
in the cd world countries. The tenant
farmer is not an optimistic citizen, and at
present. he is actively engaged in shaking
the foundations of the thrones of Europe
j. D. WHELPLEY.
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diet vs.. Drugs
People Are Finding that
Proper Food is Better
Than Medicine.

A distinguished physician in a re-
cent lecture before a class in an
Eastern Medical College said: 'It
is my settled conviction that ninety
per cent OF all human ailments arise
primarily from the stomach. Prop
er diet would nearly put the physi-
clan out OF business.
If you desire clear head and a
strong body, the moral is plain that
you must eat only the most nutri-
tious and healthful foods.
All physicians and food experts
agree that faxed wheat properly
manufactured is an ideal food.
Egg-O-See is the purest, daintiest
and the most wholesome of all
faxed wheat foods. 1t is the whole
grain OF the best white wheat thor
oughly steam cooked and then
crisped delicious brown and prop
erly favored There is health, ap-
petizing enjoyment and economy in
every package.
Nearly everybody eats it now"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
At a Maori Feast.
Sew Zealand Letter in London Outlook


l was greatly pleased with the nose
rubbing which had never seen before.
One old woman in wonderful striped gar
ments, very stately and solemn and carry
Ing a fine green weri, battle-ax shaped
Ike round fan, came down the street and
stopped whenever she woman she
knew, took her left hand in her own left.
made beautiful bow, leaned over her, and
gently, very gently, touched noses, 1 as
sure you it was most impressive.
The Maori girls did pretty welcoming
dance. singing and dancing slowly back
ward all the way till We got to the inelo-
sure around the meeting house (whare
Then the older people cut amazing capers.
most repulsve faces you ever saw by way
of welcome to their chief Chairs were put
for us on the veranda of the WHARF. which
was prettily decorated with beautiful
palms
After some time of this and the presenta-
ton of mats, etc. We were invited into the
WHARF to lunch. 1t was laid most correctly
on big tables with cloths. but the menu
consisted of roast duck, chicken, beef and
sucking pig and, so it said potatoes. peas.
and knemaros (sweet potatoes), cooked In
a Maori oven. 1 chose cold duck with peas
and potatoes. The duck arrived quickly,
but the Maori girl who brought 1t said with
broad smiles: THE potatoes aren't cooked
yeti" So my lunch consisted of duck,
bread and two oranges. Just as / finished
the potatoes arrived in pretty plated green
fax baskets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
SIZE OF THE CIGAR.
The Average Length Four or Five
Inches-Long Cigars Fad Now.

Tioih tne NeW York
Two smokers stood in one of The cigar
saops in the vicinity of the stock exchange
during the rest hour. 'tYou have all sizes
OF cigars. said one of the sn4o ers as he
surveyed the stock. Then these uuestions
and answers followed
I'm length" replied the shopkeener "tho
average cigar is from four to live inches"
Has the size of cigar anything to do
with the price,"
Sometimes. Not always The stoeie 10
longer than the average length and every
body knows what a stogie COSTS They are
seven inches long
L have another cigar the same length as
a stogle which sells three for a dollar
The cigar that sells three for a half is about
five and half inches long, but il is thicker
than the cigar of the same length that sells
lot ~ cents straight or Is cents straight"
cigar"
'All depends on the tobacco. One cigar
that sells for 10 cents weighs about one
fourth OF an ounce. Another the same
size, weighs an eighth of an ounce and
stun another of the same size, that sells at
the same price. weighs half an ounce The
brand that sells three for dollar is the
same weight"
Il suppose there are fads in sizes OF
cigars, just as there are fads in fashion?'
well, you're on Just at prcsen. the fad
seems to be long cigars of the panatela
shape They are all prices, too, from }
cents up
Isn't 1t a fact that the average smoker
1 don't mean men who run to fancy prices
and buy by the box-buys the scent cigar"
More scent cigars are sold than former
ly, the shopkeeper replied. The scent
panatela shape, for instance. We sold for
10 cents straight when paid Guty-I am
referring to Porto Rico cigars
Il have one customer who used to buy
them by the box at 81. When the duty
was taken off l gave him one of the brand
one day and told him it was a new d
cent cigar that I had just put IN the
market. He smoked about half of IL and
said 1t was enough and he wanted his old
smoke Then l told him it was the same.
less the duty
Then what happened"
What usually happens? You smokers
think you know more about cigars than We
who make them. That man wouldn't have
1T. He insisted on smoking a 10-cent
straight. and l gave it to him. Price Is
what governed him, just as 1t governs most
men when they buy. The average man is
not much of a bargain hunter
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Badly Brought Up Soldiers.
n the La Macedonia of Paris.


During official massacre at the village
of Kouklish the Turkish cornmandant-a fat
major-siept and smoked in the shade of a
tree near the scene of carnage. The trum-
pet sounded for the assault, and the sol
diers proceeded to rob, kill. burn and vio-
late. The trumpet next sounded the re-
treat, but the troop refused to obey. and
the fat major continued to sleep and smoke
When spoken to about the excuses of his
men, he replied: What can one do?
They are so badly brought up"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

Rev. Stewart Dingwafl Fordyce Salnond.
principal of the United Free Church Col
lege, professor of systematic theology and
exegesis of the epistles in that institution,
and the author of many religious works,
died at Aberdeen, Scotland. Thursday. He
was born in 1888
Harry B. Hull. q brother of Frederick B.
Hull. of North Carolina. died In Bellevue
Hospital, New York. Thursday, after q two
days illness Of pneumonia,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

County Prosecutor Keller of Cleveland
issued subpoenas for a number of promi
nent local coal dealers to appear before
the grand jury next Monday TO testify in
connection with an Investigation into the
charge that q combine known as the Cleve-
land Retail Coal Dealers Association regu-
lates prices In this city.
Miss Fanny Rice, the actress. was grant
ed an absolute divorce from her husband.
George w. Purdy, at Jacksonville. Fla.
The decree of the court grants her the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

Private advices from Ottawa state that
appointed governor Of the Yukon territory.
with residence at Dawson, at a salary of
Loco q year. He replaces Governor Cong
In the federal parliament and was defeated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

Former Senator Marion Butler. formerly
national chairman of the populist party,
was In the city today. He has apart
ments at the Cairo and Office in this city.
but he lives most of the time in New York.
taking run occasionally to his plantation
In North Carolina.
your party is not having much show In
these times of prosperity" remarked Star
reporter to the former senator.
My party he repeated with a perpiexed
look. 81 voted for Roosevelt, as did every
other populist hav4heard from, and we
are not likely to be for any one else, at
least for the next three years.
What will be the issue In the next ma
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sided.

Emigration from Germany has subsidized
until but few native Germans are seeking
homes elsewhere. Such Germans as do
emigrate come from sections of the empire
where the land question again enters into
the economies of the people and where
labor and small farming are rendered un-
profitable by reason of large land holdings
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-01
VISITS CONEY ISLAND HOSPITAL
Tho President Comments Sea Air
Treatment of Bone tuberculosis.

New York, July 2S.-President Roos-
evelt made a visit to Coney Island TO-
day to inspect the institutions cstah-
lished there by the city of New York
to improve the condition Of the poor.
The President was accompanied by
Mrs. Roosevelt and Jacob Riis. The
trip from Oyster Bay to Seagate was
made on the naval yacht Sylph. The
President, Mrs. Roosevelt and their
party called at the Sea Breeze home,
an institution for patients who are at
f1icted with tuberculosis Of the bone
The party made d complete tour of the
ward and had Il CHEEKY word for all of
the patients. The President returned
to Oyster Bay on the Sylph.
Oyster Bay, July ~2S.-TOnight the
President distated a statement con-
corning his trip to Coney Island and
his reasons for taking it. The state
1nent cOmmends the sea air treatment
of bone tuberculosis, and says the
President was greatly impressed with
the work being done at the COney Is
land hospital. The statement con-
CludeS:
ION the way home the Sylph went
up the Hudson and when We passed
til ebattleships, | signalled them no to
salute, but [ did want to see the for
midable squadron which | believe to
be collectively and individually as fine
a fighting feet as the finest in the
world. l was immensely pleased at
the way in which Admiral Evans and
the officers under him have performed
their duty in m%anoeuvering this great
fleet, and also with the target practice
and tactical efficiency shown by the
feet manoeuvers. | feel that every
American should be proud Of that
splendid fleet"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-01
FOR UNIFORM DIyoCE LAWS
Meeting to he Held in Washington at
an E.ariy Day-SaiuabIc Material
Concerning North Carolina Troops
i'm the Civil War
Especial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh, y. &. July ZS-Coyernor
Glenn has a letter from Governor Pen
nypackcr, of Pennsylvania, saying that
delegates are being appointed 10 at
tend a meeting a. ali early day Ct
Washington to memorialize Congress
for a Rational i3w t o secure Uniform
lty OF divorce laws. J. Crawford Bigas.
Esq, of Durham Informed Governor
Glenn that in his opinion this move
ment ought to he taken up in connrc-
ton with the meeting Of the American
Bar Association soon to be held at AS
bury Park. which viii consider this
very matter. Mr.. Biggs, F. II. BusDee.
Clement Manly cnd 4. E. Andrews, Jr.,
are delegates to his meeting of the BAR
association. Governor Glenn has ap-
pointed them delegates to the meeting
at Washington and has SO notified Gov.
ernor Pennypacaer.
The state charters the Bank of Ahos-
kie, conercial and savings, capital
stock S12, 800, and authorized the Cner-
ryville Bank, OF CASTOR county, to in
crease it's capital to $40, 900 and gives it
leave to further increase i. to $25, 0Gt.
Major. James H. Fotte of Wilkes
boro, during the val prepared a roll Of
honor OF North Carolina troops in the
Confederate service. This roll was a
basis for the roster Of North Carolina
troops which Major Moore prepared
and will be also a basis of the corrected
roster to be furnished the United
States war department for publication.
Major Foote kepL as part of his records
clippings about North Carolinians from
Virginia papers md these fill very
large size of an ordinary newspaper
This book he TO-DAY sent to Secretary of
State Grimes who placed it in the state
library. 1t furnishes q mass Of invai-
liable material.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-01
JURY IN RAWLINGS CASE
Nine Panels Were Exhausted-Wit
nesses for tho State Examined
Threats Against the Carter Family

Ealdosta, Ga, July 2S.-After ex-
hausting nine panels a jury in the case
of J. G.. Rawlings, charged with insti-
eating the murder of the Carter chill
dren, was secured at moo today and
in the afternoon witnesses for the state
were examined. Besides those who
testified in the cases of Milton Rawl-
incs and Jesse and Leonard Rawlings
and Alf Moore. a number of others
were sworn. These testified to threats
which Rawlings made. Rev. Mr.. Ramp,
the Methodist preacher who tried to
bring about peace between Carter and
Rawlings, said that the latter would
not hear to peace overtures, and that
if Carter put him under Il peace war
rant he would crawl to his house and
shoot him through a crack.
Rev. Noah Tyler. Il Baptist minister,
testified to nearly the same thing Joe
Caddy said that Rawlings talked TO
him OF his troubles with Carter and
said that the only thing 10 do was TO
Kill the whole family, from the babies
up.
At 40 o'clock tonight a reeess was
taken until tomorrow.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-01
AFRAID OF YELLOW FEVER
Adopts a Strict Quarantine
Against New Orleans.

Memphis. Tenn. July 2S.-Bv q vote
of 9 TO 5. the executive council of
Memphis went on record late today as
favoring a strict quarantine against
New Orleans and other fever infected
l.uints. The quarantine will become
Immediately. Inspectors
have been appointed. md every rail-
road train from the south will be
Closely Carvassed before arriving in
Memphis. Boats will also be INSPECTED
and no Tcrson from f~ever-infected
points viii be allowed to land in the
city limits.
The action Of the authorities in es-
tahlishing q quarantine was brought
about by two meetings here today.
The fist was held in the Merchants
exchange. About 400 representative
citizens were present. and resolutions
were adopted urging the local author
tiles. to establish a quarantine. Later
in The dav the Memphis cotton tx
change took formal action. endorsing
the resolution adopted at the Mcr-
chants exchange.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-01
FIRE ON A WHITE: STAI: LINER
The Big Shin TeutOnic Threatened
With Observation-Disclosures Will
Amount to SIS O

New York, July 2S.-Fire which
threatened destruction to the steam
ship Teutonic, of the White Star Line,
lying at her pier in the North river, at
the foot of Eleventh street, broke out
early tonight and before it was extin-
Suished did damage amounting to more
than $1,000.
In the electrical room in which the
fire started, nearly all of the machin-
cry was damaged and the entire cleo
trio working of the ship was interrupt
ed. Water poured into the room and
ran down into the engines, and it is
thought that they are also damaged.
During the fire, three members of the
crew found themselves hemmed in by
the flames and were carried to the
pier in an unconscious condition by the
flremen. The fireboat Mcclellan and
the fire engine threw water on the
flames for more than an hour. The
fire was caused by carelessness in the
use of sulphur in disinfecting the
electricians o
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-01
YOUNG BOY SHOOTS HIMSELF
Youth Of Years Receives
Wound That Nav Prove Fatal.
Shooting thought f.. Have nen
Accidental.
Especial TO Tie Messenger,

Greensboro, \ L. July 2o-This
morning II s O'Clock Mr.. II Mrs. J.
u. Nicholson. living on West Market
street. Were startled by the report Of q
pistol hot in the bedroom upstairs Of
their adopted son Esa ballard N:cho,-
son. Il youth O. seventeen years. Upon
hurrying there, they found the young
man lying PROSTATE and unconscious
on the floor, with blood gushing from
his head aud face. Doctors Were inn
nlediateiy summoned. and very prompt
attention given by four physicians. At
- o'clock he was still unconscious, not
hopeless.
From the course the pistol "a took,
tie physicians say ii must have been
occidental. They think the young man
lad reached under his pillow TO get his
pistol out before coming to breakfast
and that ne must have dropped il, dis
charging it. or unconsciously pulled
the s-elf-cocking trigger, causing it to
explode. The ball entered the right
cheek. pIoughed upwards, q through
the left eye. lodging under or III the
lift temple. No Ii can he assigned
Tor anything but an accident, as the
young man was in good health and had
every reason 10 enjoy life. He had
been clerking for Paris and KlutZ,
druggists, up 10 two weeks ago when
he retired TO go on 4 summer trip later.
One Of his companions says that some
tlcee weeks ago young Nicholson ask
eel him TO loan him his pistol. lie did
O do so then, it not being accessible,
but that Nicholson insisting for SereTa!
days, he gave him The key 70 his room.
he went there and got it, and he had
thought no more OF it.
The pistol which was discharged this
morning was the one borrowed.
The whole community is in sympa-
thy with the victim II his family.
He was Il popular young man with all.
He is from Franklin county, is n ne
phew Of Chief Justice Walter Clark, of
Raleigh. and had been adopted and
raised by his aunt, Mrs. J. ". Nicllol-
son, Of this city, who has no children
Young Nicholson Is resting quietly
tonight, the physician giving out
hopes of recovery. The surgical opera
ton relieved the hemmorrhage, and the
ball was extracted. The left eye was
also removed. He became conscious
ana remains so. but he has been IN
able to explain the accident seeming ig-
nOrant of it.