Hlje Herald price one dollar per tkar. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies thk i cents. VOL. 20. SMITI1FIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1901. NO. 19. GENERAL NEWS. A Partial List of the Week's Hap- , peninus Throughout the t Country. t A mob of negroes atCourtland, Ala., lynched a negro last Tues- 1 day. Fifteen hundred miners at i Wilkesbarre, Pa., have been or- j Uered out because of a wage dis- ] pute. ( A movement has been set on 1 foot by the tobacco men of Rich- 1 mond to form a National Tobac- 1 co Association. Out of the 1,818 miles of rail- j way tract laid in this country so , far this year 1,275 was in the , south and southwest. The Chicago Tribune which keeps tab on such things figures i out the casualties on the Fourth at 25 killed and 1,813 injured by I explosive patriotism. 1 There was a violenteartlujuake shock in the city of Mexico on Saturday night, electric and tele graph poles swaying back and forth as if in a high wind. Prayers were offered for rain in i the churches of Missouri last week i and Sunday was set apart by the Governor as a day of , special supplication to the Almighty. A dispatch from Pekin says: It 1 is reported that the Russians are rapidly completing the Manchu rian railway, and will employ 50,000 troops for the defense of the line. According to the Associated Press reports there were during the hot spell 4,478 prostrations from heat, 1,283 of which were fatal. Rut few of these were in the southern states. As a result ot [secretary w 11 son's recent visit to North Caro lina, he will recommend to con press the purchase of about 2,000,000 acres of forest land in the Appalachian mountains. Severe fighting according to a dispatch to the Daily Express from Lourenzo Marques, has taken placebetwen Machadodorp and Lydenburg, the Boss being defeated with at least fifty killed. The French colony in the city of Mexico last week brilliantly celebrated the fall of the Bastile Paris. The great key to this fa mous prison lies, or did lie for many years, in a glass case at Mount Vernon. The combine of light oilcloth companies of the country, to be known as the Standard Table Oilcloth company, was effected Wednesday under the laws of New Jersey. The capital stock is $10,000,000. The Charleston Mining and Manufacturing Company, of Charleston, S. C., a large fertil izer concern, yesterday filed no tice with the Secretary of State of the increaseof itseapital stock from one to three million dollars. Zanesville, Ohio, was strangely invaded one day last week swarms of June bugs, worse than a grasshopper plague, putting out city lights, infesting the hotels and other buildings, and covering floors to the depth of several inches. An explosion in the smelter of the Kansas City Consolidated Smcltering company at EI Paso, Texas, damaged the projierty to the extent of $125,000. An ac cumulation of gas caused the ex Elosion. Thirteen Mexicans were urned, three of whom will prob ably die. A dispatch from London says that more than one hundred tier sons, including troops and police, were wounded Monday in an en counter at Lemburg, growing out of an attempt by the police | to stop street parades neld in demonstration on behalf of the unemployed. Boiling of the remains of I^ee Wing, a murdered Chinese, to as certain if bulletsfrom I>ee Look'B pistol had entered his body, has been completed. Fourteen large buckshot and one 44-calibre bul let were found when the mass was strained. This bullet is said to fit Loo's revolver. The Tallest Nan. This Confederate veteran, the | ;allest man in the Southern army, jerved continuously with Par ion's Brigade of Missouri Caval ry and although 7 feet 7% inches n height, he was wounded only ' nice in all the campaigns of that lard-fighting command. His life has been one of advent ure. When gold was discovered n California he left his home Tn Morgan county to become a sol lier of fortune. After prospect ing a year he returned via Pana- ' ma,Cuba and New < Irleans aboai d the steamer Falcon, which ran the ft auntlet of Spanish warships near Cuba. The episode resulted in an international discussion, which came near resulting in a war between the United States nnd Spain. When the Civil War became imminent he was among the tirst volunteers to enlist in the Con federate Army. He was with fieneral Marma hike's division of Parson's Brigade from Elkhorn to the surrender of the Brigade at Shreveport, La., June 5), 18(55. His extraordinary height made him a mark for bund reds of sharp shooters, but a happy destiny seemed to guide his movements and the only injury he sustained was a wound received in an active engagement at Poison Springs, Ark. Mr. Thurston removed to Titus county, Texas, in 1871, where he has since resided. He "wears the belt" as probably the tallest man in the united States, as be is nearlv 8 inches higher than Por ter, the Kentucky giant, and 5 inches taller than .lack Shields, the Hunt county, Texas, giant, who was for several vears with Barnum's Museum in New York. (The tall man mentioned in the above clipping is the same man who heaaed the parade at the Memphis reunion of which ex-; Sheriff Powell wrote last week.? Ed.) Christianity and History. Christianity has dominated all modern history. Its morality, based on the loving kindness of an Eternal Father and the mys tic brotherhood with the God Man, has renovated the face of the earth. It has set (irmly the cornerstone for all future civ ilization, the conviction of acom mou humanity that has been deeply rooted in us by no stoic ism, but by the story of Jesus Christ and by the lives and deaths of countless Christian men and women. It has clarified at once the sense of sin and the reasons for hope. It has touched the deepest springs of efficient con viction: preached successfully, in season and out of season, of mercy .and justice and peace; af fected intimately every function of domestic life; thrown a shelter ing view of sanctity about maid and mother and home; stood out against the fierce ambitions and illicit loves of rulers, and the low passions of the multitude. It lias healed and cleansed whole legislations, and "filled out with a vivifying spirit" the noble but inorganic letter of great maxims that a Seneca or an Epictetus might utter, but could not cause to live. It has distinctly raised the social and civil life of all civilized humankind. It bears wit hin itself the antidote of a cer tain divine presence, whereby it overcomes forever those germs of decay and change that cause the death of all other societies. Its earliest writers and exponents had a subtle sense of its true character when they took over trom paganism and applied to the work of Jesus the symbolic myth of the phoenix, emblem of a native, organic, and inde structible vitality.?Cardinal Gib bons in The North American Review. Charles A. Peabody, a distin guished jurist, died last week at nis home in New York from ex haustion, caused by the intense heat. He was 87 years old. For the last six months he had been suffering from the general weak ness incident to his advanced WEEKLY CROP REPORT. general Outlook Continues Very Un promising?Scarcely Halt Crop. Gloomy report? auto crop con ditions continue to be received here, and there seems almost no snd of the tidings ofdamagedone by the heavy rains of the past few days. The weekly crop bulletin for North Carolina, issued by the I 'nited States climate ami crop service, gives a general summary, which presents in a comprehen sive way the crop conditions throughout the State. It is as follows: The weather during the past week was favorable for crops throughout a large portion of the western district, and along the northern border of the State j until Saturday. The most im portant feature was the devel opment of two storms on the North Carolina coast. The first was confined to the immediate coast, and caused heavy rains in the east on the 8th, and some damage to crops by high north east winds. A local very heavy and damaging rain also occurred on that date over several wes tern counties, chiefly Davie Lin coln, Mecklenburg, Catawba and Iredell. The second storm start ed near Wilmington, Friday, the 12th, and the ram area gradu ally spread over the entire State, bringing on the average about three inches of precipitation and causing freshets in the rivers. The temperature during the week was about normal, and no extremely high maxim were re ported. The amount of sunshine was deficient. In many western and northern counties crops made favorable progress, but in the east and south too much rain interfered again with farm work, and has started grass to growing rapidly in most all crops, bottom lands are in very bad condition, and hardly any results are expected from them. The weather has been a little cool for cotton, and the rainy, damp conditions since the 12th is causing it to develop too much weed. Corn on uplands is doing well, and in all sections where it was suffering from drought the crop was improved by rain. Chinch bugs are doing some damage in a few counties. Tobacco is growing fast, and there is some fear of its taking on a second growth. Cutting and curing are proceeding slowly in the east, and topping is genral in the central portion. Peanuts and sweet potatoes are good. Tresliing wheat continues. A little wheat left in the shock was damaged by excessive moisture. Field peas aie growing nicely. Some nay was saved during the week, and meadows are in fine condition, but the work notv awaits drier weather. Grapes appear to be rotting badly, and the rainfall has been too much for melons. Melons are ripening and some are coming into mar ket. The general outlook for crops continues unpromi|||ng. Russia and Japan Ready to Engage in War at Once. ' London, July 15.?Explana tion of the great military activity in Russia is given in a brief tele gram from Russo-Scandinavian press agency in St. Petersburg. The message stated that the Russian government has ordered railways to hold themselves in readiness to transport troops on four hours' notice and that war with Japan was imminent. The relations between Russia and Japan have been strained to the breaking point for some time. "I am indebted to One Minute Cough Cure for my present good health and my life. I was treated in vain by doctors for lung trouble following la srripjte. I took One MinuteCougnCure and recovered my health."?r. E. H. Wise, Madison, lingla^t Tues day on account of high water. Mr. Beth I'arrish.wf Dunn, who has been visiting relatives in this section, returned home Tuesday. We are sorry to say thefarmors are very much disheartened by the rain. \\ e had the largest rain Monday we have had since May. A mad dog bit the 10-year old son of J. It. ilogan, of LaUrange, Sunday afternoon. Mr. H >gwi left Monday for Baltimore to pot his boy under the Pasteur treat ment. There were 50 applications for the position of professor of agri culture at the Agricultural and Mechanical College. The state charters the Iteston North Carolina Lumber Com pany, of Woodlawn, McDowell county, capital #125,000 also theTravara Cotton Mills Com pany, of (iraham, capital #100, 000. The Governor pardons Ransom Brodie, convicted 7 years ago of nianSiuwughter. He killed an other negro about a dog. New evidence was discovered greatly in his favor. The jury on mines and mining for the Pan-American exposition was named today. Professor 3. A. Holmes, state geologist of North Carolina, is one of the five persons named. Raleigh News and Observer: Mr. R. H. Perry, a farmer who lives five miles northeast of Ral eigh, had three quarters of an acre in strawberries this year. He gathered thirty-five barrels and sold them for $?'{()!>.54. This was not, mind you, in that section of eastern North Carolina where strawberries ripen early enough to be in demand for the tables of the metropolitan epicure, but hi the higher altitude around Ra leigh where berries ripen too late for the northern demand. The tnule that plows five days and a half in the week, goes to town 011 Saturday and hauls home boxmeat to feed the famitv and baled hay to feed himself while driven by a master crazed with mean whiskey, and must plav buggy horse 011 Sunday at a Maud S. gate, may be said to have a pretty hard time.?Fre mont Visitor. Oriental advices give details of a terrible destruction of hu man life in Northern Java last, month by a sudden and terrific outburst of the volcano Kloet. For fifty miles around coffee plantations were destroyed bv showers of ashes with g -eat streams of lava and hot mud. Fifteen thousand acres of wheat went up in flames at Great Bend, Kan., one day last week. The fire was started by an unknown man throwing a lighted cigar in to a field of wheatstubble. Rough ly estimated, the loss in wheat will aggregate 300,000 bush els nearly all of which was in stack. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve should be promptly applied to cuts, burns and scalds. It soothes and quickly heals the injured part. There are worthless < otiu terfeits. Be sure to get BeWitt's. Hood Bros., Hare & Son. J. R. I .ed better. Littleton Female College i < at tracting much attention just now and President Rhodes is doing much toward solving the problem of the education of young women in the South. Man perfected by society Is '4e beet of all animals; he is the must ! terrible of all when he lives -vilfc ? out law and without justice:? Aristotle.