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VOL. 20. SMITIIFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1901. NO. 40.
ROANOKE ISLAND.
The Classic Land of all English
America, Which will Live as the
Mother-Earth ot American
Liberty.
Extract from the "Picturesque
History of North Carolina" by
Joseph Sea well Jones, re-printed
at this time by request of the
State Literary and Historical
Association:
I ha ve never wandered over the
island ot Roanoke without a feel
ing of melancholy, as intense as
that of Byron whilst contem
plating the fallen greatness of
Greece. The days of her glory
are over, and gone with those be
yond the flood; but still she is to
me an island of the heart, for her
shores are the graves of the war
like and the wise. The native In
dian built his Maclucomack on
her hills; and there, too. stood
the city of Raleigh, the birth-place
of the Anglo-American; and thus
was Roanoke known long before
the beach of Jamestown was set
tled or the rock of Plymouth con
secrated. She is the classic land
of all English America, and will
live in the future story of our re
public as the mother-earth of
American liberty. The illustrious
names of Raleigh, of Cavendish,
of Greenville and of Drake?the
heroes of the reign of Elizabeth
are a part and portion of her his
tory. Hariot, the mathematician
. 1 t,i , 11.i .i ir,, fnr
anu piuiunupuci ui uuv up,\., >v/>
the spac e of a whole year studied
its natural resources and Indian
history; and nearly two hundred
and fifty years since gave to the
world a hook unequalled for the
accuracy and the interest of its
details. It would seem, indeed,
as if the chivalry and learning of
that age had contributed this
splendid representation, to give
a dazzling brilliancy to the early
history of that State on whose
shores the Hag of England was
first unfurled, and in whose val
leys, and over whose hills, the
mountain goddess Liberty first
shouted the cry of American In
dependence. Hear witness, Meck
lenburg, on the 20th of .May,
177").
Hut it is not historic associa
tion alone which makes sacred
the shores and the vine-clad for
ests of Roanoke. Nature seems
to have exerted herself to adorn
it as the Eden of the New World.
The richest garniture of flowers,
the sweetest minstrelsy of birds,
are there. In traversing the
northern section of the island, in
the spring time of the year, dow
ers and sweet-scented herbs, in
the wildest luxuriance, are strewn
along your winding way, wel
coming you with their fragrance
to their cherished isle. The wild
rose bush, which at times springs
up into nurseries of one hundred
yards in extent, '"bloom blush
ing" to the song of the thousand
birds that are basking in ligr
bowers. The mocking-bird, too,
whatever ornithologists may say
of its "chimney habits, ' makes
this liis favorite haunt: anil 1
myself have seen him pillowed on
the highest cluster of roses, and
swinging with his weight to the
slender tree, as lie warbled out
his most, exquisite song. It may
be, however, that Roanoke is the
very spot where, in the imitation
of the Eastern queen of song, the
mockingbird feh in love with the
rose.
There are stately pine forests
extending along the centre of the
island; but, the most beautiful of
its trees are what are commonly
called dogwood, the laurel, and
a delicate species of the white
oak. 1 have seen a forest com
posed of these trees, the branches
and limbs of which were literally
intertwisted and knitted together
by the embraces of the Roanoke
vine, which here, in its native
garden,grows with extraordinary
exuberance.
Within the deep shadesof these
reclining vintages, the spirit of
solitude at times reigns in undis
turbed majesty. At midday,
when the,heat of the summer's
sun is too glowing for exertion,
there is not the chirp of a bird to
break the solemnity of the snot.
The long and slender vine snake,
which at other hours is seen in
dustriously threading his way
through the mazes o! the vintage,
has now suspended himself on a
twig, an l hangs as idle and as
still as a black silk cord. If you
hear the tread of footsteps, it is
not of man, hut the stealthy re
treat of an unsuspecting fawn,
which hath slept too long, and
which now, like a woodland
nymph, hies away on the ap
proach of man. But in t he morn
ing and in the evening this scene
of quiet and of repose is all
changed. It is then the granary
of the island, and the birds have
all assembled and are warbling
in bacchanal confusion their
morning or evening hymn. The
scenery of Roanoke is neither
grand nor sublime. There are 110
Alpine summits to mingle with
clouds, but a series of gentle un
dulations, and a few abrupt hills.
In the valleys of which the richly
dressed scenery I have described
may be found. If it should ever
be the lot of the reader to stroll
under the vintage shades of
Roanoke?made impervious to
the rays of the sun by the rich
foliage and clustering grapes
above him?he will not venture
to discredit the highly wrought
sketches of Hariot, nor mock the
humbler enthusiasm of the vol
ume now before liiin 1 remember
once to have stood upon the
loftiest eminence of the island,
and to have watched t he progress
of a sunset It was on a sum
mer's eve which had been made
peculiarly clear by a violent
tnunaer squall tne preceding
night, and not a film of a cloud
or a vapor was to be seen about
the horizon or in the blue vault
of heaven. There was not a
breath of air to stir the slender
leaf of the few lofty pines that
straggled around nie, and even
the mocking bird seemed to have
huslied his capricious song, to en
joy the intense feeling of the mo
ment. To the westward qf the
island, the waters of the Albe
marle crept sluggishly along;
and in the winding current of the
swash several vessels stood, with
outspread but motionless wings.
Away down to the south, the
Pamlico spread itself out, like an
ocean of molten gold, gleaming
along the banks of the Chika
maeomico and llatteras; and,
contrasted with tiiis, were the
dark waters which separate Roan
oke from the sea-beach, and which
were now shaded from the tints
of the sunset by the whole entent
of the island.
A sea of glory streamed along
the narrow ridge?dividing the
island waters from the ocean;
and beyond this the boundless
Atlantic heaved her chafed bosom
of sapphire and of gold against
the base of yon stormy cape. I
enjoyed and lived in that sunset
and twilight hour. I thought of
the glorious destiny of the land
on which 1 trod?as glorious as
the waters and the earth then
around me. 1 thought of the
genius and thedeathof Raleigh?
of the heroic devotedness of
Greenville?of the gallantry of
Cavendish and Drake?of the
1 . V I i .i id, ?t' ? lio iinlJo
1 *'?I IIIIII^ *u tun nu?\/i lur m/wn
ness of Manteo, the Lord of
Roanoke?of the adventurous
expedition of Sir Ralph Lane up
tin- river Moratook?of the snv
nge array of the bloodthirsty
Wingina?of the melancholy fate
of the last of the Raleigh colo
nies?and 1 then thought of those
exquisite lines of Byron,
"Shrine of the mig-hty. ran it he
That this is all remains of thee?"
Disappointment.
Intimate Friend?flow did you
enjoy your visit to Japan?
Congressman I'hresh?Oh.
there's no special distinction in a
public man traveling through
that country. The blamed heath
ens are so polite that they call
everything "honorable" from a
shoe peg to a mountain.?Chicago
Tribune.
Foils A Deadly Attack.
"My wife was so ill that good
physicians were unable to help
her," writes M. M Austin,of Win
chester. Ind., "but was complete
ly cured by Br. King's New Life
Bills." They work wonders in
stomach and liver troubles. Cure
constipntion, sick headache. 2.">c.
at Hood Bros, drug store.
STATE NEWS.
Sbort Items ol Interest Clipped and
Culled From Our State
Exchanges.
A number of norihern capital
ists arc prospecting for oil near
Asheville.
President Roosevelt has ap
pointed VV. W. Rollins to be
postmaster at Asheville.
(iov. Ay cock has changed
"North Carolina Week" at the
Charleston exposition from Jan
uary 20th to April 7th.
Governor Aycock has appoin
ted .Judge Thomas It. 1'urnell
chairman of the McKinley fund
committee for this State.
W. M. Mitchell, of Guilford
county, has been appointed a
clerk in the war department at
Washington at a salary of $1,
000 per year.
For this season up to Decem
ber 1st, 11,218,958 pounds ot
leaf tobacco have been sold on
the Wilson market against 11,
281,R30 pounds for same period
last year.
State Auditor Dixon says the
pension warrants will be sent out
December loth. State Treasurer
Lacy says he is accumulating
funds so as to be able to meet
them promptly. The total this
year is almost exactly $200,000.
Senators Prichard anu Sim
mons and Congressman Kiteiiin
have asked the librarian ol
Congress to appoint Mrs. Bo.ykin,
widow of the late Judge B oykin
to a place in the library, and it is
believed that the appointment
will be made as soon as there is
a vacancy.
James McNeill, a white farmer
of Wake county, in a fit of jeal
ousy about a neighbor, attacked
his wife like a madman, beat her
to the floor, brusing her seriously,
then shot her. She threw her
arm up and the bullet struck it,
and this saved her life. She is in
the hospital at Raleigh. McNeill
is in jail.
The grand jury of Durham \
Superior Court last week reported
that they found a disgraceful
condition of affairs at the Dur
ham county home. They recom
mended that houses and bedding
be cleaned and kept clean and
that charges of gross immorality
he investigated. Judge Shaw
ordered an investigation.
Fred L. Merritt, so long with
the Raleigh News and Observer,
and now managing editor of the
Norfolk Virginian and Pilot, will,
about January 1st. becomeeditor
of the AshevilleCitizen,now owned
by Mr. Havland, who is a mil
lionaire, a well known newspaper
developer und editor of the Pro
vidence (R. I.) Journal.
A. I. Britt, the keeper of Robe
son county's chain gang, was
accidentally killed Sunday after
noon, near Red Springs. He was
..i ... i: :*.u t.: . i. . .i. . 1.1... .
si niciiug w 11 11 iiis unviv id i lie m e
resting on hiss gun and the fire
heated the gun, causing it to
discharge. The shot took effect
in the back and ranged upward,
lie lived four hours after the
accident.
Yard Helms, aged about 4~>
years, was burned to death near
Cherryville Monday. He was
drunk and asked a passingfriend
to build him a tire in his house
(he being in bed). The man built
the fire and left. About an hour
afterwards lie returned and found
Helms about 200 yards from his
house dead?burned beyond
recognition. All his clothing was
burned off except a thread or
two around the waist.
Business enterprises in North
Carolina are continually being
established despite the hard
times. Monday the Secretary of
State chartered four corporations
as follows: The Hose Mercantile
Company, of Henderson, with an
authorized capital of #1(5.000;
the Carolina Sizing Company, of
Charlotte, capital, #10,000; the
Bostick & Cole Company, of Mt.
Olive, capital, #8,000; The Peo
ples Investment Company, of
Ttaleigh, capital. #100,000. The
last-named company is a negro
concern.
The State superintendent of
public instruction has made up
the figures showing the year's
receipts foreducationul purposes.
They are as follows: From poll
tax $.'{47,404, general property
tax $">21,(558, special local tax
on property $15,544, and on
polls $4 44, tines, etc., $2.4,411;
liquor licenses $79,270; from
State out of general fund $101,
401; total $1, 101,740.
The State Hoard of Agriculture
has decideti to build two new
buildings at the A. and M. Col
lege in place of Watauga hall,
the one recently burneu. One
budding will be used for a dornu
tory and the other for a dinning
room and assembly hall. For
this purpose $20,000 will be
borrowed and this with the $(>,
000 insurance on the burned
building will be used to erect 4 he
new buildings, which will be con
structed as rapidly as possible
Wake Forest won the cup
from Trinity in the debate Friday
night. This is the fifth annual
debate between representatives of
Trinity and Wake Forest, tip*
prize beitiga handsome silver cup
donated bv the lialeigh Chamber
of Com nerce. The cup was won
in 1897 by Wake Forest;in 1898
Trinity was successful; in 1899
Wake Forest again won the
trophy, and in 1900 it went over
to Trinity. The query for debate
in the contest. Friday night was
"Resolved, That North Carolina
should adopt the principle of
compulsory education." Wake
Forest hal the affirmative side of
the question.
In the M. E. conference Friday,
in session at Fayetteville, the
vote whereby the name of T.J.
Gattis was not referred to the
committee on conference rela
tions, on motion of W. S. Roan,
was reconsidered. Mr. Roan
then moved the reference of the
name to the superannuated
relations. Mess Roan, Cole and
Nash made earnest speeches,
tilled with the spirit ot brotherly
kindness, in support of the mo
tion. Dr. t'ates also made one
of the best of talks, saying that,
although M r. Gattis had declaired
he could not get justice, we will
show him that he is mistaken.
The name ofT. J. Gattis was then
referred.
About Children's Reading.
What should children between
six and twelve years of age read?
Answers to this question have
lately been given by Kate Douglas
Wiggin, Mary Ma pes Dodge, Ed
Ward Everett Male, Horace E.
S udder, Agnes Repplier, Tudor
.leaks and others, together with
some extremely sensible and in
teresting suggestions as to the
principles underlying the choice
of children's books. Here is a
single typical list from the ten
included in the article which The
Outlook publishes in its Annual
Rook Number. The list is that
furnished by Mrs. Marv Mapes
Dodge, editor of Saint Nicholas.
i. "wiice in wonoerianu. n.
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. ?'!.
Hawthorne's "Wonder Book"
(or the "Tanglewood Tales'"),
?i. "Gulliver's Travels." o. Kip
ling's "Junele Books" (orSeton
Thoinpson's "Wild Animals I
Have Known," or Harris's "Fa
de |{.'inns") 6. Dana's "Two
Years Before the Mast" (or Nau
sea s "Farthest North," or Ken
nan's "Tent Life in Siberia"). 7.
Scott's "Ivanhoe" (or Howard
Pvle's "Robin Hood,"or Lanier's
" The Boy's King Arthur"). 8
Gibson's "Lye-Spy," or some
other good nature-book. !).
Cooper's " Leather Stocking
Tales" (or Stevenson's "Kid
napped"). 10 Scndder's "Child
ren's Book" (or Miss Repplier's
"Book of Famous Verse").
The White House Baby.
The December "National's"
frontispiece is a full-page half
tone engraving from a portrait of
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and the
White House baby. The picture
is wholly charming. The babe,
bright-eyed and alert, seems
ready to leap from the mother's
arms?presumably to see what
the photographer is doing with
that funny black box.
GENERAL NEWS.
A Partial List of the * Week's Hap
penings Throughout the
tountrv.
Thirty-nine prisoners escaped
fro in jail at Birmingham, Ala.,
Sunday, by digging through a
back wall with pocket knives.
Booker T. Washington was re
fused rooms at three hotels in
Springfield, Mass., Saturday.
The hotel men claim it was lack
of room.
Berry Howell, under indictment
for complicity in the assassina
tion of the late Governor Widiatn
(ioebell was arrested at l'ineville,
Ky., Saturday.
Carrie Nation, the Kansas joint
smasher, announces the suspen
sion of her paper, the Smashers'
Mail. The paper was started
about a year ago. She says it
did not pay.
Representative Taylor, of Ohio,
lias introduced in the House a
bill to pension Mrs. Mckinley at
the rate of $5,000 a year, begin
ning Sept. 14, 15)01, the date of i
the death of the late President.
Senators McLaurin and Till
man hud a heated argument iu
the Senate Monday, which follow
ed McLaurin's attempt to explain
his political position. Tillman
backed McLaurin down by offer
ing to again resign.
Throa trcro biHarl rtttrl
38 injured as the result of ahead
end collision between two passen
ger trains on the St. Louis Iron
Mountain and Southern railroad
one and one-half miles south of
Malvern, Ark., Thursday.
The transport Sheridan arrived
in port at San Francisco Monday
and reports that 1,555 soldiers
whose time of enlistment expired
during the voyage from Manilla,
practically took charge of the
boat and ran things to suit them
selves.
The town of Wayne, the county
sea* of Wayne county, W. Va ,
was almost wiped out by a tire,
which broke out shortly after
midnight Monday and raged
until after daylight in the morn
ing. The losses will aggregate
#40,000, with little insurance.
President Roosevelt Saturday
signed the first bill sent to him
by Congress. It was the act to
admit free of duty and to permit
the transfer of foreign exhibits
from the Pan-American Exposi
tion to the South Carolina Inter
State and West Indian Exposi
tion at Charleston, S. C.
Miss Maude Wilcutt stood in a
telegraph office at Rio wing (ireen,
Ivy., Saturday and became the
bride of I)r. J. W. Simmons,
of Piaster, Texas. They were
married by wire. The questions
were asked from the Texas end
by a justice of the peaceand were
answered by Miss Willcutt.
! he tobacco storage warehouses
of John E. Hughes &. Co., and
the American Tobacco Company
at Danville, were burned Friday
morning. The fire started in the
engine room of the Hughes fac
tory. The buildings were packed
with loose leaf. The loss is es
timated at $200,000; insurance
$150,000.
Saul I'oydras, a negro, who cut
Chief Deputy Richard and wife
seriously Thursday night, was
lynched at LakejCharles, La , Sat
urday. I'oydras was|arrested at
Welsh and the officers were about
to lodge him in the parish prison
when the mob overpowered the
guard, and took charge of I'oy
dras and hanged him to au
electric light pole.
Andrew M. Lawrence, managing
editor of Hearst'sChicago Ameri
can and H .S.Canfield, a reporter,
who were sentenced recently by
.fudge Haucoy to 40 and30 days
days respectively for contempt
of court, were discharged from
custody by Judge Dunne, Satur
day. In granting a writ of
' habeas corpus to the relators the
court said that the case hinged
on whether the case on which
theCnicago Ameiican commented
i had iieen disposed of by Judge
Hanecy or was still pending.
Judge Dunne held that the case
had been disposed of.
THE HOUSE COMMIT TEES.
North Carolina Members Considered
in the Distribution.?Black
burn t-avored.
A Washington special to the
Raleigh I'ost says: The North
Carolina members as a rule fared
well in committee assignments.
They are on these committees:
Bellamy?Manufacturers, Irri
gation of Arid Lands, Education.
Blackburn? District of Colum
bia, Elections No.
Kitchin (Claude)?Expenditures
State Department, Claims.
Kitchin? (W. \V.)?Naval Af
fairs.
Kluttz-Manufaeturers, Census.
\Ioodv ? Agricultare. Election
of President and Vice-President.
Pou?Reform in the Civil Ser
vice, Expenditures in the Treas
ury Department.
Small?Merchant Marine and
Fisheries, Expenditures on Public
Buildings.
Thomas?Public Buildings and
Grounds.
In the assignments W. W.
Kitchin, Klutfz. Small, Thomas
and Blackburn fared best. Sena
tor 1 Tit chard put in an oar for
Blackburn, and as he was poten
tial in Henderson's first election
as Speaker, his woi d had weight.
The Census Committee will be
one of the most important in this
Congress, while Naval Affairs and
Public Buildings too will figure
largely in the public eye. The
Merchant Marine will have the
shib-subsidy bill before it. For
new members Claude Kitchin,
Pou and Moody did quite well.
Where the Preachers are Stationed.
Raleigh District.
J. T. Gibbs, Presiding Elder.
Raleigh, Edenton Street.?G. F.
Smith.
Raleigh, Central? G?. T. Adams
and .1. O. Guthrie.
Raleigh, Epworth?J. M. Cul
breth.
Cary Circuit?A. L. Ormond.
Clayton?G. VV Fisher.
Smithtield?K. D. Holmes.
Kenly?G. B. Starling.
Millbrook?N. L. Seabolt.
Youngsville?G. R. Rood.
Franklinton?J. H. Shore.
Louisburg? M. T. Plyler.
Tar Itiver?R. H. Broom.
Granville?W. H. Puckett.
Oxford Station?A M. McCul
len
Oxford Circuit?J. I>. Pegram.
Editor R. C. Advocate?T. N.
Ivev.
Brooklyn and Macedonia?M.
M. McFarland.
Supt. Methodis; Orphanage?
.1. W. Jenkins.
Chaplain U. S. Navy?W. E. Ed
mundson.
Agent Methodist Orphanage?
J. B. Hurley.
The Money Pledged.
Last Friday at Winston Gov
ernor Aycock made an address
before the baptist State Conven
tion. His subject was education.
He made an appeal for money to
pay the debt of $42,000on the
Baptist Female Fniversity. At
the close of his address a collec
tion was taken and the money
raised, or pledged. It is said that
it wasoneof the greatest speeches
the Governor ever made.
Senator Martin Tuesday intro
duced a bill for a memorial bridge
across the Potomac river at
Washington at a cost of five
million dollars.
At a session of the privy coun
cil King Edward definitely fixed
June 20, 15)02, as the date for
his coronation. It was also
decided that Parliament will meet
January Kith.
The U. S. Treasury officials
have decided to anticipate the
interest due on January 1st and
next Saturday Fnited States
Treasurer Roberts will mail
checks covering interest amount
ing to |4,000,742.
The three-masted schooner
Joel Cook, with lumber from
Savannah, Ga., arrived at Balti
more Tuesday morning,after tea
days of the worst weather at sea
that Captain Ft azier has experi
enced in fortv-seven rears,
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