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ELEVATOR VOL. 1. ELM CITY, N. C., FRmAY.^HARCH 14,1002. NO. 31. I.AY1NG VP TRKASITRE. Charlotte ObSOTver. The statement was made by a Npw York paper the other day that Rus^ll Sage, the financier, was at his office alone during the bad weather, none of his clerks being willing to brave the sleet and slush. Mr. Sage did his usual day’s work alone. He :s 85 years of age, and owing to the fact that he is worth something like f50,000,000 it is not iinpe»til!ejthat he made every day count.' ^liis man probably has the worst name among New York’s rich citizcns—the name of being extremely selfish and to close to even eat enough. The latter charge is probably an exag geration, but even if in a measure tarue, there are two sides to the question. Men of the Sage type must in the first place be able to do something or th3y will never become rich men. In their youth they assume the habits of thrift and economy and in later years they cannot depart from them. For in stance, if Russell Sage had not gone to to his office on the day in question he would probably have been one of the most miserable men in New York. The fact that hQ, does not need to make more money does not figure in the case, for there is where the pleasure comes, and if the stories of Mr. Sage’s economy are even in a measure true it is because in saving a few dollars on a suit of clothes he is gratifying a passson which is as exacting as a passion could be. One man takes pleasure in saving and making, while another enjoys spend ing.. The man who enjoys laying up treasure is no more to be condemned than he who spends all that comes his way—provided, of course, that honesty and fairness are preserved. Tillman Speakti to tlic Irtnli. Senator Tillman recently spoke to the Irish, of New York, and among othei;'things he said: “Pam no orator and if I have any claim to it, it is because I speak the truth and fight the devil with fire.” “Well,” came a voice from the audi ence, “if you’re not an orator, you’re a good fighter.” A little latersaid: “I was afraid I would have to postpone my visit be cause of an incident you all probably recently read about, that occurred to me in Washington, but one of your committee came to Washington and with his Irish eloquence made me promise to be on hand unless I was in jail. Now, here I am, so take a good look at me, for I am going to talk plainly.” The Senator launched into an attack upon England for trampling under the Irish. “For long centuries the Irish have been trampletl ujwn and murder ed by the EngUsh,” said he, “and it may not be amiss to here state that bickerings and petty squabbles among Ireland’s own sons have been responsi ble for her conditions tp-day. They make grand soldiers for her away from home but fail to show their qualities in her own behalf.” Turning from this subject, he said in strenuous tones: “If being a flunkey and aping nobility and establishing a system that is akin to England’s policy is making Tories of us, then I think we are there at last, or at le^st the govern ment at W’^ashington has got there. England,” continued the Senator, “can squint and shake its tlmmbe iU us and say “your work in the Philippine is b^ as our^ in the Transvaal.” Why have we got such a government? There is the rub. Why do you pass resolu tions such as you have to-night and on other occasions, and then go out and vote for those who are stifling liberty at W’^ashingtcn ? We are losing our love for our institutions, and if we con tinue thus we will go the way of other republics.” Senator Tillman then said the Ameri can people were slaves to partyism and could get along without a “boss,” who, he predicted, in time would betray the people. Some flood Advice From Dr. mills. Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, in his sermon last Sunday night, gave scathing rebuke to the parents of young boys and girls who permit their chil dren to choose for themselves whether they shall go to church and Sunday school. He also said: “Another peril is the tendency of Americans to turn night into day. All the wreckage of life are in the night time. If we could only go back to old fashioned candles and bed at 8 o’clock we would soon^et back to virtue and integrity. Men and women, if you want to ruin your children, turn them loose in the streets at night. Give them parties when they are 10 and 12 years old, give the boys dress suits, the girls party dresses, teach the latter to count their little lovers before they are 12, and then God pity the man who marries one of these unmarried widows of 15. SAn JONKS ON THE D18PENSARX AND OTHBR BIATTBRS. Country Weehllea- Charles N. Kent. Of the 14,827 weeklies about 12,000 are denominated country weeklies. The remainder includes class journals of various kinds, together with weekly issues from some of the larger daily offices. These country weeklies have a value greatly beyond the conception of any one who has not given to the mat te careful consid ;ration. They occupy a place in country homes as close and influential as tluit of the country doc tor. Noihing has been found to sup plant them, and nothing ever will found to do so. They tell the story of local happening so dear to local read ers without which the week’s record is never complete. Fifty millions of peo ple live outside the larger cities— oO,000,000 of country people. It is the Iwal country weekly which reaches them. Atlanta Journal. I told you BO, about that dispensary fight in Rome. I knew ten days ago, before the election, how the thing was going. I tell you when that liquor crowd begins to rear and talk ateut fighting you may know they are beat every time. When the thing is going their way they are shouting _ happy, but wben they see and know it is going the other way they rear and pitch and cues and say they are going to take no more sass, they wiU die first; but they take it and don’t die. I suppose the saloon keepers of Rome and Sister Lovejoy mitst feel very bad over the defeat of the saloons in Floyd county. They all did what they could to defeat this dispensary and perpetuate the saloons. I am glad th^ busied, though I want it distintly understood I un not the champion, and never will be, of the dispensary, but I know as well as I know my name that morally, socially and from every standpoint of decency a dispensary is better than a saloon. First, it takes the liquor interest out of the hanis of barkeepers, whose greed for gain makes them ransack the earth for victims to their traffic, and also makes them potent factors in the poli tics of the town and county. No com munity knows this better than the people of Floyd county, for the whisky gang of Rome has been the most potent factor in the politics of that county for years and years. When you take a bar keeper’s barroom away from him he is like a negro at a white primary—ho just ain’t in it. The lonesomest human being I ever saw was a colored brotlier who in former years had done business at the polls, to see him standing off on the day of the white primary, lonesome, woe-begone, feeling like his day had passed. I heard when I was in Chattanooga the other day that some of the Rome saloon keepers had been up there look ing for places to set up. I heard also that they had been down to Atlanta looking around, and when you break them up in one place it is lik^running the “soiled doves” out of one city they flock to another, and they are just as much “Soiled doves” in one city a;* in another. A man who has long fol lowed the liquor trade and traffic soon comes to believe that he can’t make a living at anything else, and many of them say, “If I could make a living at anything else I would not keep a sa loon,” and my only reply to them is that whenever the day came with me that 1 conld not make a living without getting behind a counter and dishing out damnation at ten cents a drink to my neighbors I would go deliberately out to the corporate limits and bio n my brains out. A suicide is a better citi zen than a saloon keeper, dead or alive. I understand that some of the saloon keepers are nosing around in Bartow now seeing if there ain’t an opening over here, since the supreme court knocked out our prohibition law, and there are a lot of us mad about that yet, and while we have no law against the sale of liquor, we want them to un derstand we have got a sentiment here in Bartow county against it, a majority of the good i^ple of this county at the polls have said they didn’t want any whisky sold in this county, and the red-nosed supreme vC&urt may reverse that decision in a legal sense, but they can’t do it in a moral sense.. If any fellow has the temerity to put up a sa loon anywhere in this county and a crowd of kuklux comes up here from Mexico or comes over from Australia and takes him out in the woods and fixes him so he will have to stand up and eat for the next three months, I will have at least more respect for that crowd from Mexico or Australia tban I have for the supreme court of Georgia, least so far as the temperance ques tion is concerned in Bartow TOunty. I have been thinking sometime I would take a day o& and go down to Atlanta and examine the color of the noses of our supreme court judges. They many be all lily white, some of them may be pale pink and others blood red. I will not know definitely until I take a day off and see. Woe be to the man who goes against the sentijnent of the decent element of a community. Sentiment Is like the atmosphere about us—wholesome and harmless until storm centers are stirred and the cyclone appears in the air, and righteous indignation or right sen timent stirred to its highest pitch is but a moral cyclone before which every thing whirls and moves. I live in Bar tow county, I have lived here from childhood, by blind tigers, dispensaries or saloons, and if any little town or corner of this county thinks they can set up in that business we will meet them at the tank—that ia if the court knows herself, and she think she do. I can’t believe that a license can be gotten in this county for a barroom though they are talldng it in big shape over at Emerson, but I don’t believe the council of that town will turn that traffic loose upon the homes this county to wreck our boys and ruin our citizens for the pitiful sum that they will get out of it; but perchance they do, then we will call election for this county forthwith, not for a diepensary, but for what we had before the supreme court got in its licks upon us. My advice to the Rome saloon keepers and the saloon gang is: Quiet down, boys, take your medicine like a man and retire grace fully. Seab is in the saddle, the dis- pensary will do business, and do it better than ever you did it and do it more decently than you ever did it. They will sell better liquor and sell it cheaper. As far as the morality of the quM- tion is concerned, when any coinmii' nity licenses a bar they are a party to it with all that the barroom means, and .they turn ther-thing over to another Mito Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the] man to do what he can with it, but a President, wiU not attend the corona-1 dispensary is in the hands of the tion of King Edward. Icounly. They tdoee at sundown, thqr open at sunup. They violate no law, they haye no interest in the violation of law, drunkards and minors cannot buy it. I regretted very much that my own sickness prevent^ me from being pres ent at the Guerry meeting in Atlanta the other night. I am a Gu«rry man. I keep saying thiU Guerry is for some thing and Guerry is agin something, and I am for everything he is for and I am agin everything he is agin. He stands for something, l e stands agunst something, but when I look at Terrell I think of the fellow who was bragging on the train that he could tell any-^ body’s politics by their looks. They said well try your hand on this crowd. He looked at one gentleman and said: “You are a gold bug.” Yes, sir,” he replied, “That’s my sentiments.” He turned to another and said, “You area free silver man.” “Yes,” he said, “and I am not ashamed of it, either.” Pointing to another he said: “You are a prohibitionist.” He replied, “Yes, sir, I voted that ticket. eight years straight.” He then ])ointed to a lean, cadaverous looking fellow and said: “You are a populist.” The pJor fellow raised up and said: “You are a liar; I have been sick.” I wish I had Candi date Terrell before that fellow just to have him guess at Terrell’s politics. I guess Terrell would have been to him like fellow who when one mac said, “I have been married three times, gentlemen—the first time I married for money, the second time for beauty and the third time for intellect, and in the three wives I got the world, the flesh and the devil.” The otlier fellow said: “By hoky, what of that, I got them all in one.” I think Candidate Terrell is a goldbug, free-silverite, prohibitionist, populist, or Candidate Guerry had him about right when he said he was “the two-eyed pigeon of the plow boy roost.” A fellow that’s everything aint nothing, and a fellow that’s noth ing is everj’thing. That’s what I have got agin Candidate Terrell. I am sometimes asked what I think of Candidate Guerry’s chances. If Candidates Terrell, Estill and Smith all run, then I say Candidate Guerry stands a first-class chance, for the three candidates he opposes stand on about the same platform. If he is clccted, whenever you want anything done, instead of doing it they will point their finger at the platform and say, ‘ ‘Look at that. Them’s my sentiments.” I-ike the fellow who found it in his cold room at night too hard to kneel down and pray. Finally he decided that he would write out his prayer and tack it on the wall, and every night after that he would undress and point up at the prayer and say, “Lord, these are my sentiments.” and hop into the bed and go to s’eep. I wouldn’i give a chew of tobacco foi a plattorm. A platform is i.ke the thermometer when the old fel low standing up by t lie bridge in Rome, looking down at ihe Oostanaula river frozen over and the boys skating on the ice, said, “Well look at that; that beats anything since the cold Friday of ’43. Somebody asked was it pretty cold then. Yes,” he said, “that was the coldest time I ever saw. I went to my barn that morning and picked up my hatful of rat tails that had frozen off, and sir, the limbs friz off the trees all around the woods.” Somebody asked How did the thermometer stand?’ Why,” said he, “the darned old thing wouldn’t stand at all; you had to lay it down and build a fire on it to make it work at all.” You want a brave, true, heroic, brainy fellow to build a fire under the platform and make it work. Guerry will do that, gentleman. He is the bnuniest, brav eet fellow who has stood on the hust ings in Georgia in my day, and that’s what we need as an executive—a brainy, brave fellow, who stands by principle and right. Yours, Sam p. JoNEi, AWtrm i.BTri Hydrophobia Patients Cnredi Baltimore Hpccial to Elalelirb Post. Willie Patterson aged 7 years, the years, son of Thomas S. B. Patterson, of Statesville, N. C., and Rathy Warren j^ed 10 years, of the same place, who have beea at the Pasteur Institute, this city, since February 13, under treat ment for aggravated cases of dog bites, were dismissed from the institution to- ^y. They were subjected to the most intense treatment by the director of the institute, Prof. Nathaniel G. Kierle, on account of the serious nature of their many wounds, and are now pronounced as immune from hydrophobia. Both boys were bitten in a horrible manner about the face, neck and head by a ferocious dog, which belonged to a neighbor of Mr. Patterson, while the lads were rollicking in the yards of their rerpective homes. Several days elapsed before they were sent to the Pasteur Hospital, this city, by their at- ten^ng physician, and their wounds had^is^ially heal^. The close prox imity of the wounds to the brain caused Professor Kier'e considerable anxiety and he greatly feared for the ultimate recovery of the lads Mr. Patterson, the father of one of the boys, who has been in the city since the arrival of the boys, left with them today. Willie Patterson became ill few days after his reception in the hos pital, and developed peculiar symptoms in the right side, which tend^ to in' crease the fears of Professor Kierle The little fellow was then removed to a ward in the city hospital and his ill ness was diagnosed as appendicitis Four days later, however, he .admitted to bis father th«t he only bruised his side on the bed post while wrestling with his playmate. He would not tell 'Professor Kierle because he feared that heSrould be subjected to other medi cal treatment mgre severe than the in jection of the virus. Speedy recovery then followed. Tonday the two boys left the Pasteur Hospital for their homes, hapiner and healthier ^an vhen they anived. Atlanta Constltatlon. I was ruminating about the fight. It is common prc^)erty and.eyciyl^y has the right to talk about it. Tillman did wrong' in jumjnng over three desks to strike KcLaurin. About one desk was the limit of property. Three desks gives a man time to cool and that makes it against the law to fight. As to the lime and plac^ that is of no con sequence now. Theip was a time in the days of Webster and Calhoun Jtom Benton and Henry Clay wlxen the United States senate was as e«^ed al most as a church', but now a Igw ma jority of its members get their ilraoes bj conduct infinitely more di^^racefiil than fighting. Bribery and corruption have got so common that a man can’t get there without using a big pile of money and making a Icrf: of promises. Of com-se, I do not include our south ern senators, for they haven’t got the money. If we had some millionaires in Georgia, Clay and Bacon would have to step down and out. And I am not so di^sted with 'Hllman for fighting in the senate chamber. He had reason to believe that his partner-had received promises, and I reckon he had. He certainly had great expectations oi> he would not have flopped over to ihe re publicans so suddenly. Politicians have to be paid for their votes. Till man is a true man, but he is not a great and good man. I admire him for traits in his character. He cannot be bribed or intimidated. He dares to say what he believes and he uses his pitchfork with impunity. He is impet uous and combative, but he is sincere and everybody admires a sincere man. Sincere is one of the strongest ami best words in our language. It literally means unsealed—without wax—for in the olden times letters were sealed with wax, but if it contained no secrets it was not sealed at all, for wax cost money. Tillman is a bold, defiant, stubborn man, but he is not great. A great man like Webst3r or Calhoun would have said toMcLaurin, “Well,sir, if I am a liar I deserve the epithet. If I am not, then you deseiTe it, but I shall not stoop to give it.” I wish we were all that great. This thing of resenting the charge of Ijing with a blow is a strange perversion of pro priety. A man may gain his ends by cheating, swindling, over-reaching hy pocrisy, bribery or concealing the truth, but you must not call him a liar. He may break alt the command ments, but dont call him a liar, though that is not in the Decalogue. Ali that I regret about the fight is that Spooner did not call Tillman a li:ir and get mauled for it before McLaurin came in. I want somebody to whip Spooner. He was the teaser that brought on the fight- and was delighted that it occurred between the two Carolina senators. With his party it is no crime to shoot down tea, thousand Filipinos, who re fuse to give up their country, but it shocks them awfully to have a little fracas in the senate chamber. Well, there are some great men and there are many good men, but ^eat- ness and goodness are rarely coinbined. Addison says it takes both to make a man complete. Such for example, as Washington and Robert E. Lee. Job says great men are not always wise and he might have added most of them are mean, selfish, heartless and ambitious. Lord Bacon, for instance, who took bribes while on the bench, and Crom well and Napoleon. Webster was a very great man and long has been my ideal of greatness. He was called the Godlike, but sometimes his human na ture overcame him. And so with Henry Clay and Bob Toombs. The great weakness of the people is idolatry. Partisan or sectional or religious idol atry. Every man who climbs high up where the people can see him is either a saint or a sinner, according to our politics, our section, our creed. One man idolizes the character of Lincoln or of Grant, apother holds both of them in contempt. I suppose that three-fourths of the northern people pay homage to the memory of old John Brown for what they call his good in tentions, and every northern history and encyclopedia apologizes for him and even so good a man as McKinley excused himself for not attending the reinterment of his bones, on the ground that the pressure of official duties would not permit him to leave Washington. Most northern men still denounce John C. Calhoun as the author of secession and justify Sherman in burning Colum bia. Here in Georgia this idolatry is already taking shape in our silly hur rahs for out candidate for governor. But, as usual, the loudest shouters have axes to grind and are diligently en gaged in setting traps to catch the people. But this is the shadowy side of politics and I won’t ruminate any further about it. If the ground was dry enough I would work some in the garden, and not brood over things that will soon pass away. I thought that spring had come two weeks ^o, and I exclaimed Wailgentle spring.” But she didn’t hail—she only sleeted—and they say that old winter is lingering in her lap— the old rascal. He ought to be ashamed of himself. My best relief and comfort is to play with the grand children. Our little girl of 5 has had her little feelings hurt, and is very in di^nmt at what her Cousin Will said She told me about it: “Grandpa, I told Cousin Will that when he got to be a man And I got to be a young lady he must m try me, and what do you think he said?” “I don’t snow. What did he say?” * ‘Why, he said he would see about it. Wasn’t that mean? He ought to be ^lad to marry me. If he don’t mind I will marry my Cousin Ralph; and then I reckon he won’t see about it. He’s mean, ain’t he, grandpa?” Another little chap was saying his prayers the other night and pray^ for God to bl grandma and grandpa and Aunt Maiy Cousin John and several others, and tiien he said: “That's all Lord- Aint that ail, papa?” “No you didn’t pray for your Cousin Jenny.” “No, papa, I won’t pray f» her, ahe’s mean; I wish God would send a cow to butt hCT over.” All of our little ones are go ing^ school now, and feel their con- ^oRice. I’m taking more interest in our public school then I ever did. Our 12-year-old, who lives with us, is absobed in her studies, and love her books and her teacher, and is proud when she gets marked perf^ or away up in thenineties. Of course I help her with her sums every night, fttr some of them are very hard, and sorter strain my old mind. There are fifty-thre« pupils in her grade (the sixth), and yes- t«^y forty-six of them had the sums done correctly, and when the teach» asked those who had no help to hoM their hands up not a hand was held up. They all had help. That makes forty- seven teachers for one grade, and I am pleased to be one of them. I wish that the school teachers of these childr'-n could realize how much influence the have over their pupils. The teache. can make the school life of a pupil pleasant or miserable, and I am glad to believe that our teachers are kind and conscientious. I have several grand children there, and I take note of their progress. The days of old Isham are past. The old man was a stern and ri^d dis ciplinarian. He wore slippers in the school room, and sometimes would slip up behind a boy who was making horses or dogs on his slate and would suddenly mash the boy’s face down on the slate and rub the picture out with his nose. He used to have fights with the big boys, and loved to maul obedience into their rebellious souls. And there was Beman and Judge Warner and my father and William H. Seward, all yankees who had to subdue the big boys by hard fighting, and if a teacher couldn’t whip a boy and subdue him h^ was turned off as incompetent. My opinion is that I got most too much whipping when I was a school boy. I still remember how John Norton whipped me on a boil and bursted it. and I ran home yelling and my mother cried as she doctored it up and mv father made me go back. But John Norton was a go^ tcacher, and he had a hard time with Jim Wilson and Jim Craig and Jim Wardlaw and my broth er Jim a- d Jim Alexander, the doctor who died ?ist fall in Atlanta, and sev eral other Jims. I never knew a boy named Jim who wiisn’t develish at school. Verily there is something in a name, and no'v Jim Smith is going to run for governor. Better not tell a lie him; he would jump over forty desks to whip a man. Bill Arp. Klntls OB R*nU Delivery. Washington, MarchC.- Rcpres‘»nta- tive Kluttz to-day spoke in opposition to the proposition to place the rural "free delivery service upon a contract basis. His speech was spoken of in high terms and was listened to atten tively by members on both sides of the chamber. “The question for this House ought to bo,” said Mr. Kluttz, not whether this scrvice can be pared down in cost, but rather how it can be made more efficient. I grant that if it is to be crippled, or relegated to the secondary place to even the discredited star system, let go to the lowest bidder and simply at the least cost, without r^ard to either acceptability or effi ciency, there may be merit in the gen tleman’s bill. But if it is to maintain the enviable reputation which it has already made; if it is to give the rural population the very best and promptest mail service, it must have no such friendly knock-out drops, administered to it. I do not believe that under the proposed contract system an equally efficient scrvice could be given for less than the present cost.” sbhbrai. RBwa. President Roosevelt has dedded to send a special commission to Rome to n^otiate with the Vatican for the pur chase of the property of the friars in the Philippines. Admiral Schley and Capt. Hobson were visitors at the Charieston exposi tion last week. They were the guests of the Daughters of tiie Revolution and both made addresses. ^ After a chorus of negroes had sung for Prince Henry at Nashville, Tenn., last Sunday, he asked the purport of the songs. Being told that they were re- ▼inri hynns, he wanted to know what revival hymns are. The five-stcry building on Canal street,. New York, occuined by the As ter Press 'Printing Company, was wrecked by an explosion Monday. Consuela Durranto, who leaped from a window of an a^ISning house, was kiUed. Prince Henry visited the naval academy at Annapolis and other points last week. Sunday he visited Chatta nooga and Lookout Mountain and made short stops at Nashville and Louisville, Ky., and went from the lat ter idace to Indiamqiolis. It looks as if the trade for the prop erty and concessions of the Panama Canal Company were off. The owners have gotten huffy and the sub-commit tee of the Senate inter-oceanic commit tee yesterday reported adversely on the Panama proposition. Doubtless this re^rt will be adopted and the Nicara guan route will again come into favor. Out of all the discussion and n^tia- tion it is to hoped, especially for the South’s sake, an isthmian canal will come.—Charlotte Observer. Last summer Clifton Gholston shot his employer, J. D. Collins, at Spartan burg, S. C. Mr. Collins recove^ and young Gholdston, accompanied by his father, returned ^m Chattanooga fw trial in court this week. Collins, a(^ companied by friends, met him at the train and attacked Gholdston, who ran begging that Collins be not allowed tp kill him. When Collins was about to get hold of him with a pair of brass knucks the elder Gholdston hit him a heavy blow ani the policemen took charge of all. Collins gave bond. ’ FiiEktliMe ■■ tbe Traasvaal. In the battle near Klerksdrop, Tians- vaal, in which it had previously been reported that the Boers captured a con voy, it is now admitted that they cap- tun^ 467 men .tnd wounded about 100, As they captured nr wounded the two chief officers, full particulars of the dead and wounded are yet to come. Lord Kitchener has been having an' other “round-up” in the northeastern part of the Orange State. He brought the movement to a head February 27, the anniversary of the famous Boer victory at Majuba Hill and General Cronje’s surrender at Paardeberg. The British commander reports over 600 Boers “killed "or captured,'’ besides great numbers of cattle and sheep. General De Wet and President Steyn w^re witbiu the lines of the “round up,” but, as usual, escaped. la TlUmaa fJraayy (^LUMBiA, S. C., Marche.—The lateit incident in the THlman-MeLatirin in cident has stirred South flamniin*. m much as any former sensation. The report^ninted this morning that Senator Tillman had intimated to Senator Platt, of New York, that it might be nn- I^easant, if not dangerous, fw President Roosevelt to visit ChaiiestCMi, was staggoing. During the day something in the way of confirmation was received. Oorenor McSweeney dedared, however, he could not believe Senator Tiltanao hud made such a snggestitm. The onljr feeling ever entertained against the IMrident was in connection with the Booker Washington incident, and that had passed away. “There is now,” said the governor, “no warrant whatever to bcdieve there will be the slightest discoorteqr shown the president. He will be honored m the chief executive of the great nation. The State will say in the momfng: “Is 'nilman insane, oe drank with pride and egotism? We had not notice^ the slightest feding againjit tha pres ident becanse of withdrawing his invi tation to Ullman.” Ratlves Killed, by Desreca. Manila, March 6.—A court martial has been ordered to try Major Littletor, W. T. Waller and Lieutenant John H. A. Day, of the Marine Corps, on March 17 next, on the charge of executin natives of the island of Samar without trial. Some of the circumstances are peculiarly atrocious. One native was tied to a tree and publicly shot in the thigh. The next day the man ^as shot in the aims. The third day he was shot in the body and the fourth day the native was killed. Friends of the two officers attribute their actions to loss of mind, due to the privations which they suffered in the island of Samar. Nccro««’ State Convention. A state convention of n^roes has been called at Raleigh for April 15. The call is signed by Henry E. Hi^ns, R. H. W. Leak and S. G. Dewsom. They say there is lack of understanding among the leaders and no organization, and that the meeting is to more greatly stimulate improvement in industral and educational conditions. They say this is a year of doubt and uncertainty and that the negroes are waiting to see what is their future hope politically, that only the most conservative men should be selected as del^ates. Major JcBktM D«*eli Sword Bxeept From Roosevelt. W’akrenton' Va., March 1.—Major Micah J. Jenkins h:is declined to accept the sword which it was proposed to have the President present to him at Cliarloston, S. C. M.ajor Jenkins, who is a member of the faculty of the Beth el Military Academy here, has sent the following tel^ram to Lient. Governor Ullman, of South Carolina: You are represented in the jiress as having tele graphed President Roosevelt, at the re quest of subscribers to the swc^ recently offered me through you, requesting him to withdraw acceptance to present same. If this is so, I must decline un der these drcumstanccs to accept sword Ob the I'ree MAmt, Some years ago there was a toll gate on a plank road leading to Elmwood cemetery, Detroit. All funerals were allowed to pass along this road without paying. One day Dr. Pierce, a well-known physician, while paying his toll, jok ingly remarked to the gatekeeper: ‘ ‘Considering the benevolent character f our profession, I think you ought to let us pass free of charge.” “No, no, doctor,” said the gate keeper; “we can’t afford that. You send too many deadheads tjirough as it The partial failure of the Maine ic- crops is given as the reason for the an nouncement of the American Ice Com pany that the price of ice had been ad vanced five cents a hundred-weight. The new schedule goes into effect im mediately. Mrs. Gadd—Dear me, I’ve had such a discouraging, hard day of it, making calls. Mr. Gadd—^hat was the difficulty? Mrs. Gadd—Why, I found nearly every one of them at home. It v» reported.that a citiien of Ral eigh, worth $10,000, has stipulated in his will that his coffin is not to cost over $20 and that only $10 shall be given to any child of his who drinks whiskey or smokes dgarettes. The proprietors of Mexican Mustang liniment have issued an Almanac for 1902, especially adi^ted for this State, called “The Old Nwth State Almanac.** The calculations are all made for thi* State only, and consequently are much more reliable than ay general alma nac can be, and is deservedly more sought after than the old style alma nacs, like Grier’s and others, whoae calculations are supposed to cover sev eral States and sometimes the whde country. Ihe Garden Remarks have been pre pared by the most experienced agricol- tural experts in the State and are npio date. The weather predictions are based not upon mere guess-work but upon the Signal Reports from the sta tion at Washington. The Almanac also contains a Court Calendar for every circuit in the State, the names of the Judges and the time of holding court. Altogether, it contains so much of in terest to residents of this State that we advise everyone to look it over care fully. lliey also publish an Afro-American Almanac for the Negroes. Both Alma nacs can be had free at the drag Btme and of general dealers, or th^ will be sent free on application to Lyon Mana- facturing Co., 43 South fifth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Be sure and secure one before the suj^ly is exhausted. Bara BaraeA ky LIclitnlBC. Charlotte Obaerver. The bam of Mr. T. W. Mann, a well known farmer of Morning Star town ship, was struck by lightning Thursday night and the building and all its con tents, except six bales of cotton, were destroyed. The fire was not discovered until about 3 o’clock Friday morning, when it was too late to save anything except the cotton. The loss indndes 250 bushels of com, 160 bushels ci wheat and Mr. Mann’s forming imide- ments, and is estimated at $900. The insurance amoimts to only $350. Loc OaMn PklloMpkr. Atlanta OonaUtation. Ef some folks knowed de world wax turnin' roun’ de’d spend a Ufetime makin’ breaks to stop it. You can’t reason wid a mule, an’ de mo’ yon beats him de tougher he gits. He’s des nachully ag’in the govern ment. ' Sometime a cydone’s a Uet^’, kaie hit splits de wood des de propa siae fv kindlin’. The number of lives lost in the ava- lanches that swept down the sidea of Smuggler mountain in Golorado, is now estimated from 20 tior 25. Foc^ teen men are known to have hem killed and 12 badly injur^ persona are in the hospital, w^e several other men who were hurt are at thdr homes. It is believed that few if any more bo^IlM can be recover until the snow mdta.*' ' Tke Preaident WUl Attend. Washington, March 8.—A dd^- tion of dtizens from Charleston had conference with President Roosevelt to day in regard to his attending the Charleston Exposition. The dd^ation strongly urged the Prmdent to ke^ his engagement to visit the exponlion and assiu^ him a most cordial wel come. The President told thetlel^^- tion that if nothing intervened to prevent he would take great pleasure in visiting Charleston nd the exposition some time in the near future. The New York Price Current says a number of New England canitalists are contemplating a trip to Chariotte within the next few weeks for the purpose of making a thorough investig^on of the water powers along the streams adjacent to that dty, with the view of engagii^ in the co ton manufacturing business. Harriet—Sadie’s husband never gets exdted, never fights back, and she simply cannot make him cross. Ebtelle—Yes. The horrid thing. He is simply exasperating. Easter may fall as early as Match 21 and as late as Ai»il 25, a period of five weeks intervening b^ween the two —Mr. J. G. Walser has been apfiomt- ed postmaster at Lexingtmi. A Norfolk dispatch of the Mifc that dty is practically in the handKPC a mob of 5,000 strike e^pathixeni^ that the police are practically powerieiil/ / Some violence has occurred but noth ing very serious has yet occurred. Martial law will be declared if the ez- dtement does not subside. An Indian, Oklohoma, correqx>ndent of the St. Louis Advocate, writes: **Dr. J. T. Bagwell, who served Ilrst church. Fort Smith, several years ago, is now preaching for our people in Atoka. The church and commanity are de lighted with his sermons,** —The salaries of the niral free ddir- ery carriers in North Carolina have b^n increased 20 per cent. This means that the carriers will receive $600 per year instead of-^$500, as here tofore decided upon. No one who knows South Oarcdina hospitality and courtesy will for a moment fear that President Booserdt will be dther assaulted or insolted on hiw coming visit to the Charieston Ex position. J. P. Mwgan has given $2,000,000 to the University of the South at Sewa* nee, Tenn. This is one of the foremost institutions in the South, having an average attendance of 600 students. The latest prediction is of ttuoug^ sleeping cars from New York to Paris in 1907 via the Trans-Alaskan railroad, and the New York WorU prononnoes them a (Mrc^tal^ty. Her Father: “You most never see my danghter agian.” Gawley: “Well, I’d joat as lief do my courting in the dark.** - —Mr. W. C. Maxwell, of Charlotte, is a candidate fv Congress in the ninth district. ,