The Semi-Weekly Messenger from Wilmington, North Carolina • Page 2

THtt SEMI-WEEKJLV MESSENGER: FiUDAV. .1 ULY 2 lM)l'. KDITOIl VIEW OF TI1XS MX CBEATEAT. and then- results, together with minute treatment of the powers In the several divisions of the state, in which are described the water-powers already developed, ajid the possibilities of those which are stEl going to waste. A large plate map shows the location of cotton mills operated by team-power and those operated wholly or partly by water-power, and also the undeveloped water-powers.

The concluding paper is a treatise on electric-power transmission This report cannot fail to impart useful and desirable information. North Carolina isvery rich in water-power, and It is doubtful, to say the least, if any southern state rivais it. 1 UREVITIK If the editor of the Herald is correct In his judgment them we are "clean out of it." fTo write like Dr. Moore and Dr. Alderman amounts to a very great deal in our opinion, in an? age of limping prose and banality.

By the way the Raleigh News and Observer strangely misunderstood the Messenger. It says we -named "the five ablest men during the last fifty years," and asks "where, is Vance?" We were writing of men cinder fifty years of age. The Charlotte Observer set "the ball in motion." We might add, if the News and Observer were right, and where are Badger" and Benton and the other most famous men who 'have lived in the last fifty years." Suppose the Raleigh contemporary names its "six greatest men" under fifty years of age. NOIIlil AllOU Newton EnterpTSeT A great many farmers are selling, their wheat this year from the thresher. They ting 70 cents per bushel.

Mr. Geo. JL. War lick the last ten cUyshas been boring on an average of 1000 a day. He baa, we believ.e, the only grain elevator fa the state.

Greensboro Telegram: W. C. Bain, of this city, has been awarded the contract for the ercetion of the big hoterat Pinehurst, N. C. for James, W.

Tufts, of Boston. The building Is to be modern throughout and when completed will have cost about 1125,000. E. E. Bain, lumber dealer of this place, will furnish the lumber for the structure, about one and a half million feet of which will be required, Kinston Free Press: We learn that Mr.

T. L. Turnage, of Dongola. Pitt county, has received a letter from Elijah Joyner now in jil at Raleigh for the murder of MrTurnage's nephew and the burning of his store, saying that Cephas Langley also Raleigh, jail charged with the same crime, had nothing to do with the murder. Joyner says he desires to tell the truth about the matter, and no one except himself had any connection with the crime.

Greensboro Telegram: O. T. Glascock Son. founders, are taxed to There may be and Is lynching blood In the south, but, thank Heaven, it is never fired against a man who worships in his own way, especially when his rltea and ceremonies are not violative of publ ks decency. -Durham Sun.

The sudden scarcity of news from the Phillipines means that McKinley has scented the general dissatisfaction at the course of events at the eat of war and well, the blue pencil man has received his orders. Greensboro Telegram. Notwithstanding the horrible crime and the equally horrible punishment of Sam Hose, such, crimes seem on the increase in Georgia and Alabama, and lynchlngs do not appear to retard they. And the question that is bothering the better class of both races is that if lynching will not stop it, what will. Durham Herald.

People are writing more letters, or there are more people to write, or possibly both these causes have contributed in making the postage stamp sales throughout the country during the fiscal year Just closed the largest in the history of the government. The sales of ordinary stamps aggregated with a total valuation of This is an increase of more than 120,000,000 in unmber and in value over last year. This means almost two' additional letters for every Inhabitant of the United States over last year. Ashevllle Citizen. This is the money loving age.

Everything is subordinated to it. But after will come an age of love for mankind, when deceit and hypocrisy will be done away with, when It will be the desire of men to speak well of their neighbors, and love for humanity will be more general in our country. A higher and purer literature will then exist, and men will stop in their mad race and worship of money to pay tribute to intrinsic worth and scholarly attainments. After all, we will be better and purer for having been tried In' the fire of destiny, and) we will then learn that the getting of is not the only thing in life. Wilson News.

On 'Monday Mr. James H. Cory, who lives about six miles from town brought a lot of 1,000 pounds of country bacon to' town and soMi it to J. C. Cobb Son.

This is not the only meat Mr. Cory has sold recently, for he has been frequently bringing some along when he comes to town. The man who lives that way, with plenty of meat for his home use and a good supply to 'turn into cash, don't have to bother his head much about what the trusts and combines are doing. That is really the way to farm, raise plenty to eat and have some to spare, Greenville Reflector. President Furman of the newly organized Democratic Press Club, or Association, has appointed a good committee to draft a constitution for the government of the permanent body, which it is designed to inaugurate.

There were those who thought there was no special reason why a democratic association should be formed in addition to, the present excellent state association. That would be eminently true if the new organization should fail to adopt, as the first article of its faith, the principles of democracy as authoritively laidi down in the national and state democratic platforms. Fayetteville Observer. Fortunately no federal judge can interfere with or enjoin the taxing power of the state. The railroad attorneys, who have been given life seats on the federal bench have not hesitated) to usurp great powers, especially in "usurping (as Judge Caldwell of the United States circuit bench recently said) the right to substitute their own ers among the American blacks.

There la another negro who Is teaching who ia. not only of good attainments, but la decidedly intelligent, of wide outlook, and with courage of Ho has charge of the' chair of mathematics In Howard college, Washington He delivered the address to The graduating class some weeks ago. We saw an extract In the Washington Post from which we copy a large part, as It is wise and appropriate to' the "Do not waste time complaining against the existing order of society. Enter a manly protest against all forms of wrong and injustice, but do not pass your days in wailful lachrymations against the regulations of acivilization whose grandeur you have done to make, and whose severities you are doing nothing to mollify Leave that jto the Ignorant demagogue. Bring your knowledge of history and human nature to bear upon the situation.

I have already pointed! out to you that the adjustment of man's relation to man constitutes one of the primary problems of life. Where this adjustment is complicated by diverse physical peculiarities and by different inherited or acquired characteristics, the problem becomes one of the greatest intricacy that has ever taxed human wisdom and patience for solution. Race prejudice is as much a fact as the law of gravitation, and it would be as suicidal to Ignore the operation of the one as that of the other. Mournful complaint Is as impotent as an infant crying against the fury of the wind. Do not be discouraged, then, that all the wrongs jof the universe are not righted at your bidding.

The 'great humanitarian movement which has been sweeping over the civilized world from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present time, manifesting itself in political revolutions, im social and moral reforms, "and in works of love and mercy, affords the amplest assurance that all worthy elements of the population will ultimately be admitted to share in the privileges and blessings of civilization according to the measure of their merit." There are both wisdom and thought in that excellent extract. It is indeed "an enlightened code," as the Post characterized it, that is laid down for the benefit and final upbuilding pt at least a part of his race that part which shall really learn the lessons of history, and are moved1 upon by the influences and examples of civilization. The negroes were liberated and clothed with great'civic powers and opportunities before they were remotely equipped for such a perillous advancement. They were made law makers before they knew the first letter in the alphabet of civics, Indeed, after thirty-three years of freedom, not many of the race have yet got beyond the letter A in said alphabet. Some, like Miller and President Washington, have made noble progress, and are wise and enlightened men.

They are to be honored and regarded' with appreciation and sympathy. They are race builders. They are seeking diligently to help their people to a clearer comprehension of the situation a completer understanding of their relations to government, to society, to the developing of national prowess and glory. They are trying to correct false, misleading, absurd notions, and to impress upon the negro race upon what lines of activity it must move if it is ever respected, and trusted. They are in their re-, siective spheres doing a most noble and commendable service to their race and the country at large.

We copy in part the Post's excellent comment on Prof essoir Miller's appeal: "He tells them that they cannot expect to enter jnto a social scheme which they have done nothing to establish and perfect, and to modify it to suit their views. They must do as other aces have had to do since beginning of the world "deal with primary conditions," waste not their time "in useless complaint agains the narrowness of their opportunities and the misery of lot," but "go into the wood country and cut down for themselves." They have to be pioneers, to acquire the faculty of the initiative, of construction, of leadership. They cannot invade a civilization which others have created- and undertaken to regulate it to their taste. They must accept the conditions the Anglo-Saxons have established or establish' conditions of their own. The world is wide.

This country is wide. There Is room for everybody. Let the negro act for himself and make his place in the equation of human progress." fTh accomplished editor of the.Mor-gakton Herald, Colonel W. S. Pearson, 'writes a column upon a recent editorial in the Messenger id which the five foremost men in the state were and a sixth one was presented! as having no peer among, men.

of equal or less advantages all not more than fifty years of age. We wrote am we caw it. 1 With us learning, culture, literary style, genlus.even, count for a grea deal. We did not undertake to write of journalists or lawyers, as we did not know enough of ether calling to write intelligently or dogmatically. iWe i know of some who have impressed) us among the men lxro less than a half century ago.

Colonel Pearson estimates North Carolinians from an- altogether different ptanding-point from our own, and names men for the first places to whom it would' not occur to us to refer as of a rank to sit with" the others in State's Pantheon of immortals, if that he the destiny of any. "Doctors will differ" is an old adage applicable to. medical gentlemen. Editors differand even the best critical minds in letters antagonize vehemently as to authorsr-even as to men of supreme genius. We lately read from a distinguished professor in a northern university, as well as one of the most aggressive and interesting of the critics, that Balzac the French novelist, "was a greater genius than Shakespeare.

Another critic put him far above Scott, Thackeray, George Hugo, George Sand, Daudet and the whole tribe of novelists of the -world. Others might name his equal, or possibly his master. What we wrote was not in antagonism to, any one, or -from undue partiality, tor we have no personal acquaintance with at least two, and no special fondness for one ipr two named. We essayed to be candid, catholic in Judgment, and to name those who had impressed us above all others. In but two instances could any change of person admiration affection hold good.

We have surely no norsnnal rlislilrp trt thnsft named! bV Pearson as his choiceas the ablest. We would judge men of our state as we would) judge men of letters. according to merit as we discovered it, without partiality or personal prejudice. As we said we pretend to no'sort of in-, fallibility in any thing. 'Some men impress us by their fine culture, their wide range of knowledge, their profound learning, their beautiful and artistic giftsof their wealth of -thought and their delightful style.

Such men must always rank high in -vt in? r- TH o-w rioa 1mm on CDIV above men 'learned in but one profession' and not endowed with thcjse faculties (Of mind that make men memorable Above their fellows. In Boston the and famous men were the literati. Such men as Rufus Choate had rare gifts in oratory and rhetoric aside from professional endowments. We must admit that while we have no personal antipathy. to Senator Fritchard, whom we have never seen, we have abomination onjy for his political principles," arid selfish, partisan manoeuvres.

He has not struck us as an intellectual and richly cultivated man fit. for companionship with Moore and Taylor and Alderman. Possibly we underestimate mm. in pontics as they go now he seems to be a decided success. In statesmanship we think he has no rank.

CpJonel Pearson names as "the best naix-oozen tne H. Busbee, F. M. Simmons, Geo. Winston, Senator Pritchard, Dr.

P. X. Miiphy, and Editor Caldwell of the Observer. Judge Clark, Frank Osborne and J. S.

Carr have recently turned fifty years of age or we should consider them. We much' regret that Editor Page is not In our list; we tried to fetch him in but could not! If his uncle, the Rev. Jesse, were a younger tnan and the case had been his, we be---Iieve our trouble would have been lessened." 1 I Of those mentioned we would not hesitate a moment to say that Judge Clark is the ablest, best furnished and wisest. We have heard that Mr. Osborne was highly gifted almost something of genius, but rather erratic in judgment, and not a wise or safe leader.

We had not the faintest desire or iwirposa to depreciate his giftsHe did not occur to us, and he may be so royally endowed! as to be classified with the five scholars and gifted men we named. We did not write of lawyers because we know so little of the pres-' ent bar, and specially the under fifty years of age. It is pleasant to be assured that North Carolina is so rich in men of parts. If all the editors would name their six favorites for the first places; what a magnificent gallery! of great men North Carolina would; have. Well, we wrote first as we thought, and we see no reason why we should take down any name and substitute another name.

But we are open to, conviction. It is very certain that there are five men who are of the first rank above all others. Gen. Butler has kicked clean over. He protests against Bryan and the Chicago platform.

He has been a long time learning his mind. There are 1,000 Oregon volunteers who have just returned from the slaughtering of the innocents in the Philippines. They are reported as saying "that all that our troops had done 'did not seem to. make a lasting that the natives are intensely hostile Americans; that men are necessary to subdue Luzon alone We give Senator Morgan the benefit of the following as given in an interview by the New York Tribune: "Senator Morgan does not say that Bryan Is not a fit man to nominate, but he intimates that one holding the views Mr. Bryan does on expansion is hardly the man to lead in the fight; but he is willing to-leave the nomination to the convention." So it is anti-expansion that pinches and renders unfit for a democratic nomination in the mind of the Alabama senator.

There were six deaths, the Tribune, says, in New York City as "the result of fool noise making on the Fourth of July." 81 HE PEACE CONFERENCE All tbe Protocol's tleceired by Secret tarr Hav Approval to be Cabled. Our llepreseututives Kloudlke Gold Output Washington, July 17. Secretary Hay has received all of the protocols of The Hague peace conference proceedings. Included among the papers is the draft of the arbitration and mediation treaty which is regarded as the most important achievement of the conference. Thp document, like all of the proceedings, is in French, the diplomatic language always used on such occasionsj and translations are now being made at the state department.

As there is occasion for the utmost haste in completing the wyork of the conference, our government has concluded not to depend upon the slow going mails to communicate to its delegates its approval of their work, but will by cable empower them to sign the protocols in he name of the United States. The treaties- will, of course, have to be submitted to the senate for its approval. Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, assistant secretary of the returned today from a month's trip through the west on business connected with the government mints assay offices.

He states that what appears to be a conservative estimate bf the amount of gold which "wiJ come out of the Klondike' this summer is $18,000,000. Major General Miles called on the president for about fifteen minutes this afternoon. It was explained that the visit was occasioned by Geheral Miles' position as acting secretary of war, and that the matters under discussion related merely to routine business of the war department. Assistant Comptroller Mitchell has decided that a family of a soldier who died during the last war, while on his one or two months' furlough in anticipation of his discharge under order No. 130 of the war department, is not entitled to receive the one or two months' extra pay or any part thereof as provided by the act of March 3, 1899.

The contributions today to the Dewey home fund amounted to $144, making $14,480 in all. A PBCDLUR TRUiKDY One Yoiins tlonfes the Ittnrder of Another While Attempting to Frishten Him He iheu uempU Suicide Chester, July 17. Harry Chadwicfc, 24 years of-age, of New Britain, was murdered last night by Joseph Hough, 30 years of. age, who then attempted to kill himself by cutting his throat. Chadwick's body has not been found and the details of the tragedy are not fully known.

Chadwick came here Saturday night to visit Miss Mary Smith, to whom he was paying attention. Hough, who boarded with the Smith family was also enamored of the young woman. Late this afternoon It was stated that Hough had admitted' to 'Alden Smith, a brother of the girl, that vhe killed Chadwick and threw his body into the river. He is said to have stated he thought to scare Chadwick and that an altercation resulted, during which Chadwicfc drew a razor andi cut him on the side of the face. He then choked Chadwick until he was supposed to be unconscious," but found he was dead.

He then dragged the young man's body to the river.i where he threw it in. Riding home he took his own razor from a drawer Intending to commit suicide, when he felt nimself growing faint and? called for help. When the family entered the room a razor was found in his hand. He is in a critical condition. It is believed that Hough left the house before Chadwick, and waited for him at the top of a hill up which.

Chadwick would be obliged to walk. It is believed that an altercation took place during which the younger man was killed and hir body was then dragged to the river where from a row boat It was thrown overboard. The river is now being dragged for the body. Chester, July 17. Hough, who was better tonight, made a full confession to the coroner.

To prevcsi La Grippe take a dose or two Dr. attentive Nenioe daily HO FOLK. Judge Matthew L. McCorkle, whose death was recently announced, was a native of Catawba county, and was born on 7th November 1817, of Irish parentage. He was educated at Davidson college graduating In 1838.

He read law, was a captain in the great war, was in the state sen and a member of the constitutional convene tion of 1875. Governor Fowle appointed him to the superior court bench in 1890. We did not know' him personally. He was respected highly as a man of character, as a good citizen, as an honest, upright judge. North Carolina is proud that has such men still living.

The Raleigh News and Observer says of him: "He was a country lawyer of the old school a race of men who have stood always for the best traditions and the truest progress. His mantle falls upon worthy sons. They will deserve the state's gratitude if they serve their, country and their God as faithfully as their venerable father." Thewife of John F. Butt, who served Bladen street church faithfully and has many warm friends in Wilmington, is deadaged 62. She was his devoted help-meet.

His friends sympathize with him. in his sad bereavement President Edwin A. Alderman is in Charlotte. He has his noble university upon his heart and wherever he goes he never loses sight of its interest It was said of Queen. Mary of England (she of the "bloody" name) that if her heart were opened after she had died "Calais" would be found written upon it.

'Dr. Alderman is profoundly absorbed in the success and usefulness of the venerable university that has so flourished under his presidency. The Charlotte Observer says: "He will be glad tq see any young men. who are thinking of going to the university, at his room at the Buford. It is a pleasure and a delight to hear Dr.

Alderman talk university. He is wide-awake to its interest and has many new ideas for the future good of the school. There are few more schol-arly-or able men in the state than Dr. Alderman. The state is fortunate in having such a man at the head of her institution of learning." The Fayetteville Observer of 14th inst, copies a long article that appeared in the Wilmington Herald on 3rd-March 1856, giving an elaborate' account of the "First Celebration of the Anniversary of the Battle of Moore's Creek' not many miles distant, from this city.

It was fought on 27th February 1776. Among the several members attending the late Press convention we had the pleasure of seeing in the Messenger office were two editors that we have known well for quite twenty-five or thirty years Bob Fur'man, of the Raleigh Daily Post and James A. Robinson, of the Durham Daily Sun. They are in manhood's prime and evidently are fairing well in the newspaper business. We knew Jim when a youth a printer boy.

He is now publishing a brightjiseful, popular daily. lAs to our friend Bob he is conducting one of the leading dailies in the. state. We were glad to meet them again. In the Raleigh News and Observer of 9th July an excellent paper prepared by ex-Judge H.

G. Connor, of Wilson, appeared. It is a calm discussion the proposed constitutional amendment It is marked with his usua lucidity and simplicity of statement, and is an interesting contribution to ihe accumulating material for the campaign of 1900, already comprehensive and most valuable. Some of Judge Connor's points are important and essential to the discussion. ANOTUBH WI TEACHKU AMONG Ns.GitOBS.

Some of the negroes who teach, must command the respect and attention of educated whites. President Booker T. Washington so generally and favorably known, is one of these. He is perhaps the foremost man of his race in America. He is certainly a wise, well-balanced man, and graspsjthe racial question as but few of his own race have been able to do.

The Messenger has before copied some of his most sensible opinions, and must respect the man who hows so much abilty as to rise above the ordinary narrow, false views of even the avouched or assumed lead- their utmost capacity to keep up witn orders. For the past three weeks it has been necessary, for them to cast every day in order to turn out the extra amount of work and during that time many a ton of Iron has been melted "and cast Into various shapes. The Greensboro Furniture Company is testing its capacity at present, filling an order from Maxwlel Maxwell for twelve car loads of urniture of different grades. The entire order will be shipped by the same train to Maxwell Maxwell's stores at Charlotte, Knox- ville and Augusta. Fayetteville Observer: Fayetteville is aid to be considerably above tidewater, yet this is not literally true.

In one of our artesian wells that of Captain Ray, on Green street the tide ebbs and flows regularly with the stages of the moon. At high tide the water overflows with a considerable stream; at low tide the stream Is a mere dribble, though it never does entirely ceasa its flow; This well is something over 200 feet in depth, which is just about our elevation above the eea, so that the bottom off the well is about on a level with the surface of the sea. Is there some subterranean connection between the sea and the body of water which lies under Fayetteville at a depth of 200 feet? That is a question ror me scienusts. Goldsboro Argus: Wnat came near being a shocking and fatal accident was averted only by the merest chance at the Chestnut street crossing, when the trains arrived at noon today. Tho Raleigh train and the Wilmington and Weldon train came up to their stopping place side by side, the Raleigh train barely a car length behind the other.

At the abovecrosslng a white girl, about 16 year old, and her mother with an infant In her arms, came to the rear platform of the rear of the Wilmington and Weldon train, and the girl deliberately stepped off the mov ing train, and towards the moving Raleigh train, and of course was thrown flat, on the ground, and In scrambling to get her footing she barely escaped the wheels of the Raleigh car. Her mother with the Infant was just in the act of stepping off also, when a grabbed her and held her. Oxford Ledger: Judge Brown will hear at chambers at Oxford July 28th the interesting case growing out of judgment of the superior court In the sun or an ice company against tne Seaboard Air Line for the alleged burning of Its factory It will be remembered that a verdict for $20,000 damages was (given In Wake superior court and that the railroad appealed but its attorneys did not file the appeal papers in time, according to "the claim A. A. mm ill i lit an i ova rtn st a.

A very unfortunate affair occurred In Fishing Creek township Friday between two brothers, Charley and Kit Hester. They are progressive farmers and farm together, and reports have it that they got into, a dispute about some fertilizer and came to blows when Mr. Kit Hester drew his knife and stabbed his brother in the breast and back and cut him across the shoulders, Inflicting serious wounds. Charlotte Observer: Col. B.

B. Terry and Col. T. A. Austin reubll-jin nA populist magistrates, respectively fused yesterday on the sidewalks In front of Woodall Shepards.

Col. Terry was walking along serenely, when Colonel Austin, approaching from the rear, struck him a blow that felled him to th ground. He then -stamped the feathers off Ool. B. B.

and probably would have finished him entirely if Policeman Cro-well had not appeared on the scene and taken Ool. "Pop." off to headquarters. Salisbury, July 13. Dr. I.

W.Janea, of Zeb, reports that last night 'on his way home from town he was held up and robbed by three men who boarded his buggy, one of them getting hhn by the throat from behind and the other two presenting pistols In his face. They got $10, a silver-watch bearing the own. era initials and a Docket-bmk contain- ing some notes and receipts. Wades- Dora, juiy 13. Last night, between 1 i and 2 o'clock fire broke out In the new I passenger waiting and baggage rooms V.

me aearoara Air line and the At lantic toast JLlne systems. The flames soon spread to the frel'-t depot and warehouse of the Seaboard, of which, with all of their contents, were completely destroyed. Fortunately the wind blew the flames away from the Atlantic Coast Line warehouse, or it also would have been burn d. The loss-was great. Several of the merchants had goods stored in the burned warehouse all of which were lost.

One car of meat belonging to Mr. W. P. Parsons, was burned. Eleven bales of cotton, the property of Mr.

J. T. Allen, were also burned. The Wadesboro Cotton 31111s Company, the Wadesboro Silk Mills and iiargrave Leak were the heaviectrr, losers. A tenant house belonging to S10, Covington, was also burned.

He bad no insurance I have been unable Lto learn the amount of Insurance E. The ioss ia estimated at $10,000 i Slelt Ileaameltea The curse of overworked womankind, are quickly and surely cured by Karl l275Iot great blood Money refunded if not tatlsfactory. Price 25 ctJ. and ctfc For lalety Bellamy. opinion of the reasonableness of rates for that of the legislature or a commission created1 by law." But no railroad judge has so far dared to invade state sovereignty as to substitute himself for the taxing power of the state.

Should any dare to do' so, we are sure our commission will take the case to the supreme court at Washington who will sit down upon the would-be Satrap. The usurpations of the federal judges have been more numerous in North Carolina than anywhere else in the union because there has not been any firmness displayed by our state authorities in taking the cases up to the United States supreme court. Raleigh News and Observer. Wonders never cease. The boldest imagination can hardly picture what a day may bring forth in these piping times of trusts and "Christian Education," with a big E.

We dare say that no reader of the Biblical Recorder thought four or five years ago that editor Bailey would in the month of June, 1899, throw up his hat for Trinity college and open the flood-gates of his salivary glands to cover the Dukes with slobber for giving a small part of their ill-gotten wealth to that institution. It seems but yesterday that he dipped his pen, in vitirol and spread his blistering invective all about and demanded that Duke's robbery of the people should be stopped. Trust apologists were divided) into two classes, those who own stock and those who have received trust favors or hope to. Today he view with Kilgo and Ivey in his adulation of the Dukes in fact, spreads it on thicker than any trust organ in the state has yet been able to do. That our readers may see what a bad case of the slobbers he has developed, we will copy his remarkable editorial of last week in full.

Webster's (Reidsville) Weekly. K1GHIT 111 VK Its AND POWEBS WATER I The water-powers of North Carolina are known to be great. There are quite i eighty rivers in this state. In the west where probably more than half of these arto be found the power musfbe in- creased by reason of the mountains and the hills. Prof.

J. A. Holmes, who is now visiting Wilmington, has done a great deal in giving' practical information as to the various rivers and resources. is atthe head of the geological survey and has been assisted by C. F.

Von Hermann of the United States Weather Bureau, Prof. George F. Swain of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E. W. flyers, B.

Lewis and J. W. Gore, professor of physics in University of North Carolina. The bulletin Issued by the C. 'Survey is worthy of attention arid gives a view of what has been so well accomplished.

A great deal of work has done within a few years, I and the discussions in the report Show I mudh of the "general physiographic features of the state fts con-! dition as affecting water-power, the flow of streams, geologic distribution of 1 water-power, stream measurements TTonXry It If Shilch's Cough and Consumption Cure, which is eolrt for the small price of 15 50 cts. anC J1.00, does not cure tae the bottle bk and we will refund your money. Sold for over fifty years on this guarantee. Price 25 cts. and 60 eta.

For Bale by R. R. Bellamy. Open to Army and Navy Officers Atlanta, July 17. The board of trustees of the Georgia school of technology has decided that officers of the army and navy of the United States will be permitted to take the courses of study at the Institution free of charge.

President Hall noUfled. the war and navy departments and a letter was received from Secretary Long thanking Mr. Hall for the cqurtesy extended by the school and etating that the action of the trustees would be published In the department..