WITCHES rY3E 3UHEJ h OEiLfitf
Wonderful Story of Mrs. Mary Webster and
Her Eii! Practices at Old Hadley, Mass.
There sed to be witches up in
this the river country, (South Had
ley, Mass,,) but none have -been
seen lately. I believe the last case
known was at Old Hadley, a few
miles up the river, where in 1600
Mrs. Mary Webster cast an evil
eye upon her neighbors and their
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chief. The chronicles which re
port her trial show that cows on
their way home would stop in
front of her house and stand there
trembling, to the terror of the
children who drove them, until
she allowed them to pass on. A
load of hay was upset by her and
restorbd to its normal position
without help from human hands,
according to the testimony of the
driver. One day when she entered
the door of a neighbor's house the
baby was lifted three feet from
the cradle by an unseen power
and hung suspended in the air for
several moments. A hen flew
down the chimney and dropped
into a pot of boiling water and
various other things happened un
der her influence, She was the
cause of an epidemic among sheep
and chickens, and finarry the ex
asperated citizens appealed to
Philip Smith, senior deacon in the
Congregational church, "a man
for devotion, sanctity, gravity,
and all that was honest, exceeding
exemplary' who arrested her and
"haled her down to Boston," where
she was tried, acquitted from lack
of evidence and returned to Old
Hadley in a vindicative disposi
tion, where she ' 'encompassed and
murdered her accuser "with an
hideous witchcraft."
. Shortly after her return Deacon
Smith "began to be very yahtud
inarious, and. after wonderful
manifestations in the sick room,
died, and his body was found full
of holes that seemed to be made
with awls." The details of this
sickness and death are related
with comments in the chronicles
of the parish.
The night the deacon died
a
number of young men dragged the
witch from her house and hangsd
her to a tree in her orchard. Then
they cut her body down and buried
it in the snow,, but, according to
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the records, she survived the ven
gence of this vigilance committee,
and on the following morning was
found at her cabin as usual. The
miraculous manner in which
she escaped death was con
clusive proof that she was a witch,
but it is very likely that the young
men in their excitement let her
down from the tree before life
was extinct and that she was re
suscitated by the burial in the
snow. She-lived eleven years af
ter this incident, and.boie the
blame of all the calamities that
happened in the neighborhood of
Hadley, even a flood of the Con
necticut liiver, which she predict
ed. The first case of witchcraft in
. New England was at Salem, but
at Springfield, where in 1651
Hugh Parsons and his wife were
accused of and tried for practic
ing the arts of Satan. Mrs. Par
sons exercised evil spirits which
entered into the bodies of Martha
and Rebecca Moxon,, daughters of
a well-to-do citizen of Springfield,
and did many other acts which
showed conclusively that she was
a witch. While in one of her
tantums in March, 1651, Mrs. Par
sons killed her own infant, and
when arrested the poor demented
creature confessed to an intimacy
wiih the devil ; indeed, she boasted
of it. She was taken to Boston,
tried and condemned to death,
but was reprieved and imprisoned
for further investigation. As her
case is not mentioned again in the
records, it is nrobable that she
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died in prison. In the following
year her .husband was tried for
witchcraft, and the jury brought
in a verdict of guilty, which was
set aside by the Great and Gen
eral Court. W. E. Curtis in the
Chicago Record-Herald,
Hard Times in Kansas.
The old days of grasshoppers and
drouth are almost forgotten in the
prosperous Kansas of today; al
though a citizen of Codell, Earl
Shamburg, has not yet forgotten
a hard time he encountered. . He
a it li . KTarap nrriTn rtnfc end A iortniiT.
Hi aged by coughing night and day,
and could find no relief until I
tried Dr. King's New Discovery.
It took less than one bottle to
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'HUMAN INTERESf" GALORE.
A Good Story of a Succored Family ever
Smitten, and the Gratitude of Warmer.
Following is from the Troutman
correspondence of the Statesville
JLandmark:
Sam Bustle dropped around
some two weeks ago and request
ed me to write a piece to the pa
pers forim. "I don't want an
ordinary stereotyped card of
thanks," said he, "but I want
you to write a long piece - and
tell everybody, if you can,
how sincerely thankful I am for
their service to me during our
siege of fever. It began in May
and lasted till the middle of Au
gust. You may say what you
please about the world going daffy
about money and worshipping
and studying money, but it is not
true. The world is getting better
every day audi ,have had ample
proof of this. Why, when my
folks began to get sick and the
grass began to grow in my crop,
and when I w as all wrapped up in
anxiety and going from' one bed
to another caring for my dear
ones and no time to study crops,
what did they do but to drop in
and take hold and plant and dig
and plow the cotton and corn and
gather in and thresh the wheat.
Yes, they came from 6very direc
tion and leut a hand. There were
men of affairs with lots of busi
ness of their own, who hitched up
their wagons and came with wagon
loads ot laborers, and there were
men who didn't even know me
who came with their sons and
noed in tne crops. And tne wo-
men, Diess em, wnen tney came
to the houe they pushed up their
sleeves and lent : a hand toward
caring for the sick and cooking
for the well in bearing testimony
for the Lord, as Preacher Sowers
says, by doing the thousand and
one things which need to be done
in a large family, where the
mother is hovering between this
world and the next and four or
five others at the same time are
lying extremely ill. That was a
maifestation of a wholesome reli
gion which is good to live and die
by. Seven of us had fever and
you who have had one or two cases
at once can get just a bare inkling
of what a serious time it was with
us in the very busiest time of the
farming season, with all these
sick ones.
".But they worked out our crop
and cared for us in a spirit of
neighborliness and our hearts are
just overflowing with thankfulness
which we can't express. Yes, the
world is getting better every day
and this community is filled with
some ot the best people who ever
breathed Gd's pure air or ever
tendered a cup of cold water in His
namev"
Publishers, push out some poli
tics and give Sam room for this
long piece. 'Tisn't often a family
is up against it so tough as he was
this summer and he has got to
have a long, long say or burst
Samaritans to Sam, yon stand
thanked one and all. Your bread
is out on the waters and the great
I Apx will put His hand on it and
direct its course and after many
days it will return to you with
interest. Your kindness to this
humble-hearted man will not go
unrewarded.
Lutheran Missionary Society Elects Officers
At a recent convention of the
Woman's Home and Foreign Mis
sionary Society held in Charlotte,
the following officers were elected :
Prsident, Mrs, J. A. Linn,
Rockwell; first vice president,
Mrs. J. Q. Wertz, Salisbury; sec
ond vice president, Miss Ella B.
Shirey, Hickory; third vice presi
dent, Mrs. J. H, C. Fisher, Mt.
Pleasant; recording secretary,
Miss Constance Cline, Concord;
corresponding secrets ry, Miss
Mary Brown, China Grove ; honor
ary treasurer, Mrs. P. N. Heilig,
Salisbury; active treasurer, Mrs.
A. W. Winecoff, Salisbury ; gen
eral secretary of children's work,
Mrs. R. C. Holland, Charlotte.
A committee, consisting of Mrs.
A. W. Winecoff, . Mrs. M. M.
Kinard and Miss Constance Cline,
was appointed to confer with" a
committee from the Synods of
North Carolina and select plans
for the building of a church at
High Point.
Obstinate cases of constipation
and nasty, mean headaches
promptly disappears when you
take De Witt's Little Early Riser
Pills. Sold by James Plummer
and all druggists'.
NO OFF YEARS NOW.
We U sed to Hate Tbem Bat Now the Can-
1 dldate Giles Us No fast. "
We are getting farther and far
ther away from the good old plan
of letting the office seek the man.
Eighteen monthr-in advance of
time for the convention the can
didates for Governor were out on
the campaign displaying their
wares. Office-seeking has come to
be a scientific' business and is now
regarded as the proper thing to
do.- The Congressman-elect irom
the sixth district ha3 not yet
taken his seat, but here comes an
announcement from a candidate
that he will be in the the race for
the position two years hence.
And so it goes. The people who are
the masters of the situation, and
who are supposed to choose their
servants, sit back and obey
orders. .s It would be a wholesome
lesson to perennial and premature
candidates if a few slates were
smashed when the convention
meets. ,It would clarify the at
mosphere somewhat and stop this
perpetual disturbance. Years
ago we had what was known as
"off yeara" in politics; we do not
have them now. The candidate
is eternally before us. The pot is
always boiling. The strife within
party linos is often strenuous than
that without. Great social, eco
nomic, and even moral questions
are settled according to the bear
ing they will have on the politi
cal situation. If the element of
politics were eliminated from the
SouthheiPailway embrSglio we
have no doubt an amicable adjust
ment would have fcbeen reached
without resort to the courts. The
candidate is a very clever man,
and most accommodating withal,
but he is a general disturber of
the peace nevertheless. We wish
we had less of him. He is cer
tainly too much in evidence. He
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can oe controlled n tne people
desire to contol him. No man
has any claim upon the suffrage
of the citizens. Nobody has ever
earned an office certainly those
have not who claim to have done
ma t 1
so. The very best man ior al
most any position is not the man
who nominates himself, but he
whom the -people nominate.
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We are still in the Bing and bigger than ever. Our
great success since we have .been in Salisbury is due to our
Motto, No Misrepresentation, and always hate in stock what
we advertise in the newspapers. Treat the customers polite
ly and least, but not last, give the best values for the least
money. We have livesd up to all these facts, hence our
success.
We again carry the largest stock of Ladies' Ready-to-
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We have made great purchases tfiis season for the Cash
in Ladies' and. Children's Cloaks and Ladies' Skirts and we
know we can save you money. Je are also headquarters
for T1ating, Carpets, Art Squares, Rugs, and if
in need of any of these articles we can positively make it
intrfesting for you. . .
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We offer you no Leaders in order to sell you, but dlaim to give you the Lowest
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Give us t call when in Town'and we shall convince you that what we tell you
is correct.
Dave estireoelhef,
Tne Mayor Proved Himself as Bad as the
.;; . Woman He Fined. . . ' . -
Because Mayor Graham did not
think that there was sufficient evi
dence to fine John W Shepherd on
the charge of disorderly conduct
and cursing Mrs. Shepherd, prose
cuting witness, told the court that
it was 'a-- 'dirty trick" in discharg
ing the hubby, and she was at Once
attached for contempt of court and
fined $5 and cost, a total of $7 50.
Mrs. Shepherd had her husband
arrested on the charge named and-
then appeared in court as witness
against him. The mayor looked
into the facts of the case and fin
ally discharged Shepherd. The
wife -witness then left the court
room and when she reached the
door she said in a voice sufficiently
loud to be heard by the court and
ocners in tne room that it was a
"dirty trick." Mayor Graham in
structed an officer to bring her
back into the court room and after
looking into the matter the fine
was imposed and she was placed
in the hands of the chief of police
until it was paid, which was
promptly done. Special to Char
lotte Observer.
The Man and the Position.
The real man of size is deter
mined by measuring bim as he
stands apart from the accident
of position. Among the accidents
and misfits which one encounters
in the course of human events is
the small man in the large posi
tion. Such a man in such a posi
tion sometimes seems big for a
brief day, because of conuectidn
with a large position. He comes
into the position by accident.
He most probably regards it as a
providence and according to the
divine fitness of things. If he
does not invest himself with all the
importance attaching to his posi
tion it is a wonder.
So small is he as compared with
his position, that he is absolutely
dependent on the position for
power nd prestige. He must do
business on the credit of his posi
tion. His glory is reflected glory
of his posit'on's sake. The way
lid shrinks when separated from
his position is pathetic.
We have known men to go down
from positions where accident had
temporarily placed them, who en
deavored to use the prestige of
that former position to advance
them in ther own little schemes.
When a man is not bigger than
his position he is too small for it.
Only small men have to depend
on large positions for their own
largeness. Word and Way.
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Big AdTertising Bills.
Attorneys for the State of
North Carolina today placed in
evidence before the standing mas
ter in the rate case the result of
of their examination of the books
of the Southern Railway. Among
this appeared . several vouches
showing the Southern's payments
to newspapers for advertisements
and other purposes.
The most striking item was that
to The Raleigh Evening Times,
aggregating $6,000 for the year
1906. These vouches were for "ad
vertising" and "special notices."
Two were paid to John C. Drewry
as president of the Visitor Pub
liCbinss Compang Company, which
publishes The Times, each voucher
being for $2,000.
- The State's attorneys also pJaced
in evidence for comparison the
vouchers of payments to The
Charlotte Observer for advertis
ins and special notices and those
o m.
of the Washington Post. The
Observer s vouchers for the year
1906 aggregate $252, and the
Washington Post's $1,032
Washington Special to Charlotte
Observer.
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"Our Say So" is all the guarantee you need. If we
sell you a watch which we tell you is "so and so," and
if that watch doesn't carry out our promises why it
simply means a new one in its place without cost to
you, provided, of course, that you give it decent treats
ment.
Careful handling, and occasional cleaning. If it
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away the golden moments, why we have a repair de
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COST! Think of it. If
ytu need a wagon now or
expect to need one later you
will make money by pur
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investigatejve can show yon
where you are saving at
least 15 percent., and a lit
tle later, more than that
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is that we desire to discontinne handling tvPo-horse wagons
and confine ourselves to the sale of Oi.e-horse Wagons fine
and medium grade Buggies and Carriages, Mantels, Tile and
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