THE ELM CITY ELEVATOR
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VOL. 1.
ELM CITY, N. C„ FMDAY, MARCH 28,1902.
NO. 33.
Wilcox Fonnd
Elizabeth City, N. C., March 22.—
“Guilty of murder in the first degree,”
said the jury of Jim Wilcox.' He stood
up and heard his doom fearlessly. His
nerve still did not forsake him. It was
10:10 o’clock.
Several hundred people followed
Judge Jones, who told the sheriff to ask
the jury if they had agreed. The i«i8-
oner was there, hands folded, com
posed, scanning the faces of the jurors.
C]erk Jennings asked if they had
agreed. Derickson was named as fore
man. Wilcox stood up and held up
his right hand.
No man in the building was more
brave than he. I was watching his
face four feet away, as the foreman
Slid the words that meant death. Not
a muscle of his face moved. Other people
in the room were nervous. Some cried.
Lawyei: Aydlett shed tears. It was a
solemn scene there in the yellow glow
of the oil light. The Judge said April
25 was the time Wilcox should die, be
tween 10 and 3 o’clock.
Elizabeth City, March 20.—Solici
tor George W. Ward spoke eloquently
and ably for the State in the morning,
and Mr. Aydlett concluded for the de
fense in the afternoon. Over a hundred
men and women marched out of the
court room, by pre-arrangement as an
expression of feeling against the defen
dant, when Mr. Ay^ett began his
speech.
The ill-timed demonstration in the
court house is calculated to hurt the
fair name of the town. It had been
worked up but to an extent fiailed.
Something over 100 people, among the
number about 20 women, marched out.
I cannoi believe that the better class of
people endorse such conduct. A re
action is bound to follow. A boy rang
the fire bell soon after the exodus and
several hundred more poured out.
There was no fire. It seems to have
been part of the programe. The good
men who believe Wilcox guilty and
want to see him hanged.condemn it.
Elizabeth City, March 21.—^The
jury took the Wilcox case at 4:80 this
afternoon, after hearing the charge of
Judge Jones and the t^ious,reading of
the evidence. It is understood that
hi&honor will not receive the verdict
tonight even if one shall be reached.
The city is qniet.
GENEBAIj news.
North Dakota and' the Canadian
Northwest are in the throes of a terrific
blizzard, three continental railroad line
being tied up.
Former President Grover Cleveland,
who is now the only living ex-President
of the United States, was 65 years old
Tuesday.
While playing cow last week the 4
year-old child of Charles Haners, of
Parker’s Glen, N. Y., was almost butch
ered by his older broth.
The street ^ar strike in Norfolk seems
to have entirley collapsed. Yesterday
tne cars were operated regularly and fJl
the military companies were withdrawn.
Fire broke out at Hoboken, New
York, on Tuesday, the 18th, about the
piers and among the vessels. It start
ed among the cotton on the piers and
caught the steamer “British Queen,”
which was totally lost. Sever^ other
vessels were damaged. The loss is es
timated at about a million dollars.
' ‘‘Tfred of Being Licked.**
Trojan’s Notion.
The paper over in Norfolk, Mr.
Sapp’s Pilot, used a fitting expression,
“The Democrats are getting tired of
being licked. ” Though it does ap
pear as if they would be getting used
to it’by this time. The party has had
but one President since Buchanan.
And it will not have another one un
til they drop Mr. Bryan. One thing
good, however, about the party is
this, that whether successful in mak
ing a home run, it does well as a short
stop. But any way Mr. Sapp’s idea
is good. Still, even though the Re
publicans do stay in pretty well,
things are not so terribly distressing as
they might be. One thing is certain,
the law of gravitation in the material
universe is still in good shape and so
long as that keeps intact we will go
on our way rejoicing and hope for the
best. Providence and gravitation are
one and the same. It is a good prov
idence that has brought us safe thus
far. And if the Republicans were
the worst of men, the Bible says
“Fret not thyself becauise of evil do
ers, neither be thou envious against
the workers of iniquity.” The na
tional Democratic party will never
win until it has laid aside some of the
weights which has handicapped it.
It courted Populism. With itself in
the arms of an erratic leader it was
shorn of its strength in the same de
gree that Samson lost his power when
he placed his head in the lap of De
lilab. She fannied the Nazarite to
sleep and the host of God was deliv
ered into the hands of the uncircum
cised. So one man who, perhaps
never voted a national Democratic
ticket by his winning ways captured
the whole business and still clings to
the wreck he wrought. It is com
mendable, though, that he is willing
to go down with the ship he scuttled.
71111617 Trntlk*.
Every tickle makes us chuckle,
A little widow is a dangerous thing.
You can’t eat your cake and keep "
If it’s your wife’s first attempt,keep x«
Never put a ^ft cigar in your mouth
Make love while the moon shines
He is a wise man who never lets mo
wife know he can piit up shelves as
well as a carpenter.
WHO CBVC1FIE1» GHlftlSTT
Uabbi Blncliy of Says It
Was Mot the Hebrew Peorle, bat
tlie Priest* aad the Romans.
CblcaKO Recora-Herald.
‘The crucifixion of Christ was the
result of a conspiracy between the pilfer
ing, parasitical priests and th^ allies,
the Romans authorities. This combi
nation of hypocritical priests and cor
rupt ^vemment officials Tvas as great
drain upon the people of these days
as are the modem capitains of our mo
nopolized industries. Hence they
branded him anarchist and put him to
a most ignominous death.”
Thus concluded Dr. Emil G. Hirsch
in his address on “Why Was Jesus
Crucified?” delivered to a la]^ audi-
at Templa Israel, Forty-fourth
street and St. Lawrence avenue, last
night.
‘Christ touched the greedy, material
istic prests in a tender s^t,” said Dr.
Hirsch, “when, on entering the temple.
He overturned their table and drove
the money-chaagers out, exclaiming
that His house was to be a house of
prayer and not a den for thieves. The
priests ^enceforth saw in the courage
ous Na«urene an enemy whose truthful
tongue should be forever stilled by
death.
One has but to read the Bible intel
ligently to leam conclusively that the
Jews had absolutely no part in the
legalized murder of Christ. The very
word ‘crucify’ is not known in the Jew
ish language. Crucifixion upon the
cross was the Roman method of execu
tion. The trial of Jesus was in viola
tion of every established Jewish law.
Christ was crucified on the eve of the
Passover festival, we are told by the
Bible in one place. In another the
time is said to have been on the day of
the festival. It is a principle of Jewish
law that an execution cannot take place
either on the eve orthe day the Pass-
over festival, nor upon the Sabbath
day.
What is more, no man could be put
to death, according to the Jewish Law,
save on the tesUmony of two witnesses,
and capital sentence was never passed
then unless these two witnesses showed
that they had previously had cogni
zance of the crime and warned the per
son against oommittiiig it.
It was not a crime among the
Pharisees for a man to claim to be thew
Son of God. Every man was confiider-
ed to be the son of CkM), and in that
age hundreds claimed the power- of
healing by the laying on of hands.
Many even claimed to have restored
persons from the dead. Christ’s ideas
were akin to those of the Pharisees who
sought to establish a national indepen
dence for their race. They were nation
alists, similar to the Zionists of to-day.
The priests were antagonistic to the
national ideas of the Pharisees. The
temple at the time was a vast slaughter
house—a house of blood, made so by
the levitical laws.
‘The Roman empire, the historical
robber of all ages, lent its soldiers to
the priests to force the collection of
their unjust revenue. Hence the lust
for ^Id was directiy responsible for the
crucifixion of Christ, who denounced
the greed.
“Yet, in the face of this abundance
of evidence showing who the real mur
derers of Christ were, the boys of the
streets of the world to-day cry out at
the passing Jews, ‘Christ killer!’ ”
Trojan’s Notion.
Apropos of the mention that life is
a game reminds me of a night some
time ago in the sitting room of a ho
tel in a North Carolina town where I
was waiting for a midnight train. At
one table were four young men play
ing a game of car^. The termin
ology used from time to time led me
to understand that the game was “set
back.” They were nice looking
young men of the traveling i>eT8ua-
sion. They didn’t say any bad words
and there was nothing in them shock
ing to me. But I did pray in my way
that not one of the crowd should ever
have a “set-back” in life. But even
though they don’t hamue the cards
themselves there is many a “set
back” in life’s game. However, it
does turn out often that a “set-back'
is sometimes beneficial and an inspira
tion that nerves one to start again
and many behold a winning hand.
At another table there sat one man
playing a game by himself. He ap
peared to enjoy it. For an hour or
two he manipulated the cards. As
he walked put of the room I saw a
paper in his pocket with these words
printed at the top, “Christian Advo
cate.” Perhaps this brother is a con
stant reader of this claep of literature
He looked like a good man. But he
playeil soltaire. So do we all in a
sense. If not with cards then by
other means. We know that every
man who wins in the game, or strug
gle, must do a lot of playing by him
self. He must be alone to think out
the problem, to untangle the threads.
May the Lord help the solitary
workers!
A Topeka man started recently on a
trip to Paris, Rome and Cairo. Some
bachelor friends accompanied him
far as Kansas City. His entire baggage
consisted of one small valise. Curious
to know what his equipment was, one
of the friends opened the valise and
found that it contained one night shirt,
one collar, one pair of SQCks and twp
quart botties of whvhey. It is strange
hpw some men will Igad themselves
down with clothing that way.
Jane: “That Mr. Shallowpate is at
he door. Shall I tell him that you
are engaged?”
Mina I^kie: “Show him into the
parlor, Jane.”
“Yes’m.”
“And, Jane, after he lap his box of
chooolatM on the mantdpiece tell him
I’m out.”
Bli.li ABF>S 1.BTTBK.
Atlanta Constttatlon.
I believe the millennium craze has
subsided for awhile. Within my r^l-
lection it bobbed up three (M* four times
and excite good people all over the
country, for good people wish it to come
and live in hope and expectation. I^e-
member when William Miller, of Mass
achusetts, had all New England excited,
for he was a very learned man and a
sincere Christian and believed all that
Jie professed. For ten years ho exhort
ed ^e people to be ready for the com
ing of Chrut in 1843 and even fixed the
day when they would see ffim descend
ing from heaven in magnificent glory
and esobrted by Moses and Elijah and
a retinue of angels. He had over 50,-
000 devoted converts and the night be
fore the promised day they arrayed
themselves in white taimeat and sang
and shouted and prayed until morning
and then climbed the high hills and the
tree tope and the spires of the churches
to meet Him as He neared the earth.
But He didnt come and it nearly broke
theu hearts and they liked to have per
ished to death, for they had given away
all their earthly possessions.
Next came Dr. John Cummings, a
very learned minister of London, who
wrote a book on it and fixed the
millennial year at 1863. We were fight
ing over here about that time and the
millennium had to be postponed. The
millennium means the reign of Christ
upon the earth for a thousand years,
when everybody will be good and there
shall be no more death nor pain nor
sorrow, and there has hot been a cent
ury since His crucifixion that the religi
ous people have not been looking for
His coming. The Christians got their
belief from the prophedes of D^el and
from St. John and St. Peter and later
on from Irenaeus and Justin Martyr
and they dehghted themselves with
dreams of glory that was near at hand.
Some of them declared there would be
no more winters, no more nights and
everlasting wells would run with honey
and milk and wine. Jerusalem would
be rebuilt and the fruits of the earth
would be colossal and never dying. One
notable writer said that every gra^ vine
would have 10,000 branches and every
branch 10,000 shoots and every shoot
10.000 bunt^es and every bunch 10,000
grapes and every grape would make 25
gallons of'wine. Good gracious! how
thirsty that fellow must have been.
But the millennium dident come and
by and by Origen, a very wise and good
man, came along in the third century
and declared that there would be no
such grapes, but that Christ’s coming
would be altogether spiritual. Still His
coming kept on being predicted and
when the refwmatio% of Luther and
Calvin came about tHey said that the
pope TTOB the anti-Christ and the millen
nium was near at hand. Next came
Oliver Cromwell, who excited his fellow-
eis with a prediction of the millennium
and so it goes on and on and now it is
about time for another just as soon as
we have done killing off the Philippines
and England has killed out all the Boers.
Well, now all these niminations about
the millennium were provoked by what
1 have been reading about the recent
discoveries of oil all over the country.
One t)iought brings on another and if
the coming of C^st is near at hand
and His reign is to be a spiritual one for
a thousand years and there is to be no
winter or night or sickness or pain or
sorrow we won’t need all this oil, neither
for fuel or light. And so I don’t believe
the millennium is very near. If all the
people are to be converted and become
good it will be a long time off, for it is
a slow process and all the coal and oil
that is in the bowels of the earth will be
needed. It wasent put there for noth
ing. Missionary work is going on
more rapidly then ever before, but it is
like a drop in a bucket of water. We
have got 20,000 missionaries in heathen
lands and tiiey are aided by 80,000 na
tive preachers and teachers, but these
100.000 will have to convert an average
for each of ten- a year to make a mU-
lion, and there are over a thousand mil
lions of heathens now and more coming
on. But they do not convert half a
million a year, for the last report gives
only 4,000,000 all told. Last year we
spent $20,000,000 on them and have
now over 1,000,000 children going to
Christian schools and have 23,000
churches and over 1,000 secondary
schools besides medical collies and
training schools and hospitals and asy
lums for orphans and the blind and the
insane and the lepers. They have al
most everything tixat we have got and
now have protection in Constantinople
and Pekin and Beirut and other great
heathen centers. The work they have
done in the last ten years is ama^g
and the abduction of Miss Stone has in
creased their zeal. Thirty million dol
lars has been promised for this year
and they say that if we cannot convert
them we can at least civilize them and
teach them the doctrine of a clean shirt
and a comfortable home, and these are
the first lessons in religion. The last
official report tells us ^t more than
half the pupils are girls. For centuries
womfen and girls have been under the
ban and were of no more consequence
in the household than dogs or b^ts of
burden, but now they are being lifted
up and treated with humanity and re
spect. If the work of our missionaries
accomplished no other good but the
rescuing of women from the degradation
of ages it is worth ten times its cost.
Cost! what is the coat but the surplus of
our wealth, and that surplus is not ours,
but Gtod’s, Libraries and colleges are
good things to build up and foster, but
how much do the miUioniures give to
the cause of missions? Most of this
charity we are told came from those
who are not worth one-tenth of a mil-
hon. It is a lamentable fact that the
more « man has the more he wants and
the less he gives atfoy in proportion to
his wealth. The parable of Dives and
Lazarus was intended to alarm the rich
and selfish, but most of them say give
me a litUe more money and I will ti^e
the risk of losing heaven. Paul said to
^Hmothy: “Gair ia^not godineas, bat
godliness with contentment is great
gain. We brought nothing into this
world, and it is obtain we can carry
nothing out and they who would be
rich fall into temptation and into fbol-
ish and heartful lusts that cast men in
to perdition. The love of money is the
root of jdl evil.” There is a sermon to
ive by," but it is hard to do. Somehow
I can’t help wishing I had a little more
then I have got—not for myself, bat
my wife would like a carriage and
horses and ride azpand and take the
grand children, and she would like to
have some money of hvown to give
away and buy little presents without
asking me ev^ now and then for a
dollar or two. She does hate todo that
and I don’t let her when I have any to
spare. Bax Abp.
Tlieai a Cluiaee.
K;ioxTlUe.8eixtlnel.
It is astonishing how the public looks
jipon the newspaper fta a free horse to
be ridden to death. People will pay
money for a ban^ for lights, janitor,
go to a job printing office and buy
thousands of dodgers, pay boys to de
liver them, pay performers in the enter
tainment, if they are professionals, or
pay some manager to get up the affair
and give him a large p«»entage of the
receipts, pay all their bills—in fact, pay
for ev«ything except that which is most
valuable to them—to wit, newspaper ad
vertising. And if the newspaper is un
willing to devote nu»« notice to such
entertainment than liberal news notices
it comes in for mutih abuse. And yet
why should not the newspaper charge
for its advertising space just as the
owner of the hall chai^ges for its rent,
the bill-boatd man.chtuges for the use
of his bill-boards, the lithographers:
charge for furnishing posters, the job
printing office charges for-the dodgers,
and the outside parties charge for their
services?
The newspaper has only two sources
of revenue. One is subsciption, the
other advertising. The subscriptions
to newspapers are so cheap that they
little more than pay the cost of white
paper.
A Bsk la Bla Kar for Yfars.
Oreenabm Beoord.
A gentieman from the eastern part
of the State called on Dr. Baum yester
day and told him that he had been
troubled with his ear for many years;
that he had an idea that something
was in it, but that a number of phy
sicians had examined it and said he
was wrong. At times he suffered
greatly from il and wanted him to ex
amine him. Dr» Baum makes a
specialty of the eye, ear and throat
and he made the examination asked,
finding and removing what is known
as a ground beetie bug. The patient
said he remembered distinctly that one
day he was reading when something
flew in his ear, but he at first thought
it did not remain, but flew away. Soon
after this he experienced trouble. This,
he says, was 25 years ago.
A MMIe Pccallar, t« Be Sare.
Barllngton Hew*.
During court at Graham last week
Judge Neal fined two of our dtizens for
caring on a convosation in a whisper
while court was in session and threat
ened to fine any man who should so
much as eat a peanut in the court room,
and at Hillsboro Monday he sent a man
under the influence of whiskey to jail.
These things were all right. We l^eve
in heepng order and preserving tLe
dignity of the court, but—
In Greensboro a few weeks ago Law
yers King and Barringer, during the
trial of a case, became engaged in a
heated conversation and wound up by
filling the air with flying law books,
ink botties, etc., etc., and the judge
failed to see any violation laws of order
of the court room, or any insult to the
dignity of the bench.
IBVKBS WOHAH*a PBITOLITT.
Bev. Peter* aaye Social Pieaaaree
Har navy Urea.
DMbH Waat the Job.
A bookseller in Cleveland advertised
for a porter. A big, muscular Irishman
walkeid into the shop and glanced
around; finally his eye rested on a big
sign over a table with books: '‘Dickens’
works all this week for $4.” The Irish
man eyed it thoughtfully, then edged
toward the front door. The floor'Walker
asked pleasanUy if there was something
he wanted; and 'the applicant remarked
with a backward glanpe toward the
*(H come in t’ git th’ job, but
Oi’U not care f’r it. Diclrens kin
wurnick all th’ week f’r four dollars if
he wants to. Oi’U not.” And the vis
itor strode vigorously out.
Fooled th« People tor tt Veara.
Pktebsbubo, Va., March. 21.—^Et-
trick, a small manofacturing villi^
near this dty, had a genuine sensation
today in the discovery that John Green,
a person who has posed before the
world for 85 yearsas a married man,
was awoman.
She died this morning from a com
plication of diseases, in the 75th year of
ker a^, and the discovery wiis made
by neighbors who were called in to pre
pare the remains for burial. The wo
man came to the village from Raleigh,
N. C., atout two months ago, and be
longed to the laboring class,
Hortcnce-Htad.
The Elberton, Ga., Star says that
haM times have overtaken some people
in that section, and gives the following
from the record:
“One n^pH> includes in a mortgage
•one daai^ter, named Laara, 15 years
old.’ Another one mortgages a bowl
and latcher, three straw ticlu, ten bed
quilts, ten she^, three sets pillow
cases, set kniyes and fraks, set of spoons,
three
"The Woman of the World” was the
topic of Rev. Dr. Madison C. Peters’
sormon at Immanuel Baptist Tabw-
nacle, his text being “She that liveth
in pleasure is dead while she liveth”—
I Hm., T, 6. Among other things. Dr.
Peters said:
Not lightheartedness but frivolity is
here condemned. One of the joys of
earth is themirth of womanhood, but
the sad thing is that the blight of
frivolity is crushing out so many fine
possibilities and noble aspirations after
an unselfish life. The pleasure spoken
of here need not be sinful; it may in
itself be harmless, but the danger is that
a woman may so surrender herself,
body and soul, to the finified fooleries
of fashion and the supreme demands of
social life that her existence will soon
be turned into a living death. We
have no sympathy with those who twist
and pervert the word of God unto tm-
necess^ rules for interference with
Christian liberty and conduct. Yon
need not wear sad unsmiling looks.
Yoaflife need not be set to the tune of
the ‘Dead March in Saul.’ Every
woman’s mission is to be the bright
phantom of delight that God made her.
But there is danger that ‘trifles light as
air’ may absorb her life.
•This pursuit ot pleasure, falsely so-
called, is nothing more nor less than
female dissipation. Is that a hard
characterization ? I confess I know of
no other word than dinipatioh, which
implies the fault of character I wish to
warn you against. ■ I see in society dead
men and women behind glittering dia
monds, dazzling robes and empty
laughs—dea(| women—dead to high
aim; dead to leal purpose; dead to her
children—she dismisses them to the
care of servants that her round of gaiety
may be continued uninterrupted.
“A great and increasing evil among
us is the attempt to live in a slyle be
yond our financial ability as well as
station in life. This spirit of social
rivalry and envious .extravagance is
rapidly developing an extravagance
among us which is demoralizing society
and injuring the rising generation by
the contempt which it throws upon
those sober virtues of diligence and
economy so characteristic of our fathers
and mothers.
“Yet I believe that in many instances
the men are to blame for the do-noth
ing lives of their wives. They make
their homes mere places to eat and
sleep. Many of our rich women are
practically deprived of the society of
their husbands, and, not knowing how
to use their time, they find themselves
seeking pleasure elwwhcre than at
home, and before they know it they
find home, if not disagreeable, at least
lonesome, and they are brought to a
state of mind that engage? all their
faculties is discovering modes of enjoy
ment, rather than methods of useful
ness.
“How the dissipations of fashionable
life sacrifice health! It is quite a lux
ury to see a society woman of 35 in the
enjoyment of vigorous health, with a
frnh natural color. Even our school
girls often do double duty in the after
noon that the evening may be given to
pleasure.
“Permit me to make a few sugges
tions: Have an aim that is worthy of
all that is deepest and strongest in
woman’s nature. Beauty in drees is a
good thing. The sloven is a sinner.
Be careful to have your dress and all
its belongings well chosen and in good
taste. You-owe this to the man you
love. You owe it to God who has put
robes of beauty and glory upon all his
works; but do not give drew your best
thoughts, the most of your money, and
for it n^lect the culture of the mind
and the claims of others on your ser
vice. Care more for disi>osition than
for iress; be disturbed less over an ill
fitting bonnet than a forgotten God.
“Goethe said, ‘What the women
leave unfinished in our moral educa
tion, the children complete in us.’
Children are the incarnations of the
smile of God—God’s apostles sent forth
day by day to breach love and joy. If
you have no child, go out and adopt
one, and you will have a fountain of
love, a be^ of light and a fresh flower
in your heart and home. Determine
to be a goixl mother and a useful wife.
Make home a sea^of holiness and hap
piness.
“If you fill that sphere with an in
fluence sweet and saca^d, your mission
in life is worthy the incarnation of an
angel. The strength and stability of
our republic lie in well-trained families.
The home has ever been the nursery of
great men. (3od give us mothers who
shall realize that the mightiest sphere
of influence and sweetest spot on earth
is home!”
—Dr. Robt P. Pell, of CbhimlM,
has been decte^ ftmdent of Converse
GoU^ at Spartimbaix.
'Speaking of narrow escapes,” ob
served Mr. Chugwater, reaching for his
second cup of coffee, “did I teU you I
was in a train the other day that came
within three feet of being run into by
another train goin^ at fuU speed?”
“For mercy’s sa^ke, not” exclaimed
Mrs. Chugwater, * ‘Bow did it haiqpen?”
“The tnun that came so near run
ning into ours,” he rejoined, buttering
another round of toast, “was on the
other track and going the other way.”
It was several minutes before Mrs.
Chugwater broke loose, but when she
did she made up for lost time.
irhat*s IB m IlaaMt
Tesa—^I’ve written Mame Woodby an
invitation to my tea. I suppose I must.
Jess--YeB, but you’ve spelled her name
“M-a-m-e.” Tess—That’s so. She spells
it “M-a-y-m-e,” doesn’t she? Jes
Oh, no; she did three months ago; bat
it’s “M-a-i-g-h-m-e” now.
nc PBBBiBBmns i.awii or bas-
TBB HmBAT.
Everybody knows that the White
House is the home of the President of
the United States and his family and
that the greatest men in all the w(^d
are glad to be recdved there as visitors.
But how many of you know that R—tAf
Monday is Childrai’s Day at the White
House?
Every yew on that day all the child
ren in the aty of Washington, rich or
poor, are invited to (day Easter egg
games on the President’s lawn. It is a
beautiful, green, sk))Hng lawn—^for the
White house is on top of a hill—and
you may be sure that the children love
to play there.
From early in the morning until late
at night they keep ccnning and coming,
big children and fittie children, hopping
and skif^anglhid jami^g, all carrying
littie baskets, ready for the big
Hunt.
For, hidden in the grasses and under
the bushes, and everywhere, are great
Easter eg^ of ev^ shade and hue.
And don’t the chil^n scramUe for
them until the baskets are all filled!
I once heard a Senator say that you
could hear the haimy laughter three
bk)cksQff.
Then, after the baskets are filled full
of brignt c^ored eg^, the real fun be
gins. The egg rdling ! Two children
stand together on the top of the big
hill and each rolls dovra an Easter egg.
The owners run down the hill almost
ipidly as the eggs themselves.
Then they pickfup their and com
pare them. The own» of the egg that
is hurt less than the other by the fall
gets both ^s.
Then they play “cock.” I suppose
that ev^ boy has played that game at
one time or other. £«;h child holds
an egg in his hand so that only Uie
small end is visible. Then the two
players knock thdr eggs together as
ha^ as they can until one egg is
cracked. Then the one who holds the
strongest egg wins the enured one and
dther puts it in the basket or eats it
right away.
When an egg Iveaks another it is
called the “cock of one,” when it has
broken two it is called the “cock of
two,” and so on. If an egg laeaks the
'cock one,” then the victorious one is
called the “cock of two”-Hhe number
of the broken u always added to
the winning ^g’s score.
At about half-past ane o’clock the
Tifsident gives a reception and hun-
d.tds and hundreds of children give up
tiieir iday^or a littie while to shake
hands with him.
Prestdoit Roosevelt mU enjoy this
ceremony, for it is said that nobody
likes children better than “Teddy”
does.
Hallea Gaae at White Hoaee.
Washingtoit, Match 20.—^A del^i^
tion from Chariotte composed of Messrs.
E. A. Smith, George B. Hias,*J. P.
Wilson and W. T. Jordan, ci^ed on
Postmaster General Payne this after
noon, accompanied by Senator Pritch
ard, and ask^ for Mullen’s retention
as postmaster at Chariotte. Every mem
ber of the party, including Mr. Mullen
himf>elf, had something to say to Gen
eral Payne, tnrhom th^ gave assur
ance that the postmaster did not drink
habitually, and that they had every
reason to lielieve he would not do so
again. Upon receiving these assurances,
together with the statements that the
business men of Charlotte desired to see
Mullen retained, Gteneral Payne agreed
to lay the facts as they had been pre
sent^ to him bef(»e the President.
Thus the whole matter will be placed in
the hands of the Chief Executive, who
may be asked to render a decision to
morrow. John M. Sharpe, one.of the
applicants for the Charlotte postoffice,
is here.
Hethodlata, North aad Soath.
Baltimore, March 21,—^The first ses
sion of a joint commission representing
the Methodist Episcopal Church and
the Methodist EpiacopidChurch, South,
began to-day at the Women’s CoU^
in this dty. The conference is private,
A member of the commission of the
Northern Imnch of the Church said
today that the result of the conference
will undoubtedly be far reaching, and
that it will be impossible to predict the
scope of the genc^ result. Following
are some of the items that will Iw
brought up for consideration:
Unification of minion woric in all
foreign fields; strengthening the vari
ous posts of the two Churches by
thorough organization and equipment;
the establishment of a joint theokigical
seminary in the foreign field: a
propoution to cstaUish a joint book
concern and publishing house in
China; the establishment of secular
and regions pi^iers in the foreign
fields.
For impersonating a ghost as a joke,
Truman Meta^,a young Sullivan coun
ty farmer, residing at Weymart Centre,
N. Y,, has been compelled to pay deariy.
On Friday night when his frien^ Frank
Chipman, whom he knew to be super
stitious, was returning home driving a
Slated horse, Metzgar, enshroaded in
a white sheet and a ghastly mask,
wnped out in a lonesome qiot in the
oadway and uttered an unearthly yell.
The result was that the horse became
unmanageaUe, and the driver was
thrown into the ditch, tweaking one
arm and otherwise injuring himself.
The affrighted horse alter wrecking the
wagon ruiched home, Metsgar, horri
fied at what had h^ipened, threw off
his disguise an4 assisted Chipman and
secured medical aid. He has settied
the damage to the wagon and
doctor’s bill Iqr the payment of
A PBBCMV8 HBHOBT.
Tontb’s Oompankm.
No heritage which a son can poMM
is worthy to be compared tor a moment
with the blessed consciousness of hav
ing done all that he could to
fother and mother happy dnring'.their
lifetime. ^ impressive little irtory to
which nothing need be added was lo-
centiy told by a man whose form is
now bent and wjlioee hair is white with
years.
Whra he was a boy of twdve he was
retunung one evening from the hay*'
field, where he had been at woric wimsh
daybreak, when his fathw met him
with a request that he go to town toT do
an errand for him.
Any one who has lived on a farm,
and who knows what a. day’s work,
“from stinup to sundown,” means in
haying time, will understand how the
bpy felt.
“I was tired, dusty and hungry,”
sai^the rfd man. “It was two miles
to town. I wanted to get my supper, and
dress for the singing class.
“My first imimlse was to refuse, and
to do it harshly, for I was angry
he should ask me after my long day’s
work. If I did refuse, he would go
himself. He was a gentie, patient old
man. But stMnething stopped me—
one of God’s good angels, I thinlr,
“ ‘Of course, father, I’U go,’ I said,,
heartily, giving my scythe to one of the
men. He gave me the package.
“ ‘Thank you, Jim,’ he said. I was
going myself, but somehow I don’t feel
very strong to-day.’
“He walked with me to the road that
turned off to the town, and as he left
me he put his hand on my am and
said again, ‘Thank you, my son.
You’ve always been a good boy to me,
Jim.’
“I hurried into town and back again.
When I came near the house I saw
that something unuraal had hppened.
All of the farm-hands were gathered
about the door, instead of being at the
milking or other chores. As I came
near, one of the men turned to me with
the tears rolling down his face.
“ ‘Your father,’ he said, ’is dead.
He fell just as he reached the house.
The last words he spoke were to yoa.*
“I am an old man now, bat I have
thanked God over and over again in all
the years that have passed since that
uour for those last words of my father
—‘You’ve always been a good boy
to me!’ ”
Raleigh Ow. Atlanta Oonatltatkm.'
'There is trouble in Bladen county be
cause of the unlawful acts of a number
of pec^le in cutting and destroying the
wire fence between that county and^
Columbus.
In the latter county there is no stock
law and cattie run at la^. Kaden
has the stock law and built a 40-mile
wire fence along the Columbus line.
The people who oppose the stock law
have cut 10 mile of this fence and are
now destroying other sections of it.
They tnis week, after cutting a couple
of miles of it, posted notices stating
that any persons who repaired the fence
would be “given rooms in h—^l.”
Gtovemer Aycock, upon infnmatitm
of this, often $200 for information
which will lead to the conviction of any
of the fence cutters. Most of the latter
live in a part of the county known aa
“the neck,” and are described byla
native as -‘half savages,” They hafo
bought r^:ular fence cutting tools.
The output of gold at Johannesbur]g
shows a fair increase, the product in
February, according to the report (d the
Transvaal Chamber of Commerce, hav
ing been about $1,620,000, again aboat
$1,420,000, in Jan^ and $800,000
inDecembw, This is at a rate of about
$19,500,000 a year, supposing that the
[HOgressive increase of output month
t>y month should cease. When the
war b^an the product was something
over $80,000,000 a year. As the suiq;>ly
of lator obtained from Portuguese East
Africa increases the mines expand ex
pand their operations, so that the out
put a year hence may wdl apinoximate
the maximum. In some reqiects the
conditions of cheap production are
more favorable then they ever were
before. Supplies, such as dynamite,
are lower in price, and railway rates aad
duties are fairly satisfactory to the
mining interests.
JudgeChariesA, Moore, of Ashville,
will be a candidate for Associate Justice
of the Saprane Qoqrt.
Advices from Asheville state that
rights of way are be^ taken fora road
to lead from Asheville to Rutherford-
ton, a distance of 30 mike. It is ru
mored that the road is to be built in
the intoest of the Seaboard Air line,
as the western terminus of the Sea
board’s ^^mington, Chariotte and
Rutherfordton line.
For a number of years there have
been rumors to the effect that the Sea
board wished to get an entry into Ashe-
vUle, but they have been discredited m
account of the indirectness ot the line
by B^therfcndton eitho' to the sooth w
the east, and the expensive duuraeter of
the work which woald be entailed by
tiie construction of the road.
The inesenceof Miss Maty Johnston,
author of '*Aadrqr,“ in John H^ins
infirmary ia sajid to be due to the fact
the! she is having nerves kitted in her
head toobta relief from s^ere head
orcottoB ou.
A Charlotte manufacturer said re-
centiy: “For a long, long time, after
cotton oil was put upon the market, it
was the fashion to Mdl it by someother
name. There is a company now in
Savannah, Ga., putting the oil on the
market for cooking purposes and for
salad purposes, without any ptetence
that it is anytUng bat eotton seed
In this way the oil is going all ri|^
land is finding a good maik^ Thia
pioneer company is the Western Oil
;Comiikny, ei Savannah.”
—J. M. Brown, Esq., o Albemarle,
has been af^xwted by Hon. Theo. F,
Klutts as his private aeoetaiy.