VOL. 1.
ELM CITYv N. C., FRTOAY, APRIL 18, 1902.
NO. 36.
Bring no vain eliaplet to niv grave.,
olioe when you nuttht, you could have blest
\ lonely lite, an aehiijg breast;
l-.iit not\iing nowcan help or save.
Your love, when needed. \Vas not given;
And now wlto cares ? Life’s Iwnds are riven.
11.
sued oVr my dust no fruitless tears.
Vli, oni-e your pity had been sweet
To Weedins hands and weary feet, ^
Tliroiisjh all tUe joyless, bitter yeare!
Nav. weep not for the niiKht have been;
c:od’.s r.iin will keep my graj e plot green,
nu
Br.-athe o’er me, dead, no word of praise,
oiioe. living, I hart leapt toiiw -
Tlie tones of love, the voice of che^r
Malve uuisic tUr«»gliJtty
r.iit now! the wind alone may swptp
Over the daisies where 1 sleep.
IV,
0 idle tears, O wrath too late.
1 eare not now; the need is o’er;
Mv day is past—1 feel no more
Tlie stress, the heat, the chill, the hate.
() Love, in life ye came not nigh; .
And now! ’twere well to piiss me bj%
—I.wngman’s iv|agazine.
New.York Press..
Many proveiba (ure the wit^f one and
the wiedomifrf none.
You don’t have to wait bo long to be
sorry as you do to be sure.
It is better to take pride in your de>
scendante than in your ancestors.
If a woman lamrn beautifvl she can
marry riches and they buy luck.
A woman cries either because she
his Unreason or wants to have one.
Getting on in the world means get
ting nouad the people of the world.
The dandruff in some people’s hair
torwcark tiaotfgh teto thffr teww.
The sins of the second and third gen
erations xre visited. upon tho family
■11.1. ARr>B 1.BTTBR.
Atlanta Ck>iuttCation.
“I.AZIN ESS A BKSETHJIG S1JI.»
Bi«1i»P Foiirler ClVe« a WarMlnc to
Voans mimlBtera.
Not doctrinal questions, nor those of
discipline, but laziness, pure and simple,
was recently declared by Bishop 5pwler
in his address to six appli^nts for
membership into the New York Con
ference of the- Methodist Episcopal
Church, to be to-day the undying cause
of the failure of many preachers of the
Gospel, and the one temptation which
they must fight against most earnestly.
No life was so conducive to laziness as
the ministry, he asserted. - '
“If during the six days of the week,”
said Bishop Fowler, “you only pur as
much life, .?eal and energy into your
work as the business man does you will
surely win.”
Grace Church was crowed to the
doors to-day at the third days session of
the Methodist Episcopal Conference,
and m^ny women were present to hear
the words of advice the presiding Bishop
had to give to the probationers who
were about to be admitted to orders.
“We take you,” he said, ‘when you
are hardly known to anybody except
yourself. For two years you have been
allowed to practice on the people, and
now you come seeking full authoriza
tion. We have not held you to very
strict account. We ha.ve treated you
much aa a new farm hand is treated.
When he comes in from plowing the
farmer does not ask him how much he
has plowed, but how much he h^s wor
ried to the steers.”
Continuing, the speaker said that
what was most needed in the Methodist
Episcopal Church was preaching on
doctrine.
“The principal doctrine needed for
this century and generation is the doc
trine of sin,” he said. “We’ve had
altogether too much of goody-goody
}>reaching and the good Lord and infi
nite mercy. Why,'at the present day,
if a man walks passably straight^ keeps
his face ctes^n and his boots polished he
is darned worthy of entrance through
the gates of heaven.
“Wake up this city to the terrible,
infinite horrible, condition of sin and
you will have men and women crowd
ing around your alters seeking grace.
“Preach good sermons even if you
have to steal the stuff out of some book
and acknowledge it afterward.”
Bishop Fowler then cautioned his
hearers to discriminate between sancti
fication and “crank-tification,” the
formed he defined as consecration unto
God, the latter as godliness tamed sour.
“And when godliness is sour,” he
added, “you can be sure it is not true
godliness. Sanctification is critical to
itself, charitable to others; crank-tifica
tion is charitable to itself and critical
to others.
“If I had to choose between a person
who was pious and lacked common
sense and a man who was sensable but
lackin^^ in piety,” said Bishop Fowler,
“I would take the latter, for the
former’s piety would be but pierverted
while the sensible man would surely be
come pious in time.”
Calomel settles a good many heart
problems that otherwise would be un-
solvable.
The man who doesn’t owe some of
his success to some woman hasn’t had
any.
Any woman ^n love a man if he
can make Ler believe other women
wo aid like to love him only he won’t let
them.
The respect which a many men
have for themselves isthe inverse
ratio to the respect which others have
for them.
Mirroi« would be a bad thing to have
in a theatre, because the women in the
audience are expected to look at the
people on the stage.
Women admire the heroes of fiction,
because there was never a novel where
one of them found fault with the way
the cook got the breakfast.
It is queer that no matter how rich
you are you can’t buy happiness, but no
matter how poor you are, you can get
all the unhappiness you want for
nothing.
Women never leam discretion from
experience; no matter how often they
wtdk into a predicament they will do it
again just to see if the same thing will
happ^.
Brother Dlcltey'a S«Tlne«.
Atlanta Constitution.
Some folks holds dat Adam wuz a red
man; but he wuzn’t i^h ez well read ez
some er dese young niggers what knows
it all.
De befo’ de war nigger is a-dyin’ out
in dis country; but bless God, ez he
gwine he got faith enough ter holler
“Halleluyer!”
De Bible say dat Satan is de prince er
de powers er de air, en I reckon dat’s de
reason w’y, w’en hell gits too hot fer
’im, he hops inter a cyclone ter cool
off.
£f dis worl’ is lak a circus, or a the
ater show whar de po’ folks hez ter look
on f’um de gallery, praise God dey’s
nigher ter heaven up dar dan de rich
mens in de pit!
“Odd,” says a critic, “that manyi a
man in the ‘Uten^ swim’ can’t swim
a Uck without a life preserver!”
£f we could git hdt er de angels we’d
clip dey wings fer feathers fer de Easter
hats.
Ef some folks would change roun’
en dress up dey hearts on Easter de
worl’ wouldn’t know ’em.
In dis day en time some er de
churches is fixed so fine you can’t see
God thoo de stained winders.
We hear ’bout lots er folks dyin’
wid des a hope er heaven. ’Pears ter
me, w’en a man gits dat fur along, he
orter know fer sartin des whar he’s
gwine.
most go to the temple of VMta asd get
I a, new solely.
Of ootitse idl Qtma itonee.^boat the
Fire and "water and air. The three I gods are BupmtitiotfB, hot they an
Jhings that cost the least and are thelfucinating ones and utd Homer atill
most necesaary to our existence are the I stand* as the greatest poet, and ranki
most dangerous when unrestrained. *■ the equal of Bhikec^eue fx Milton.
Last Sabbath evening my wife and 11 ThiU reretenee for sacred fire is not jet
walked down to Jessie’s house to com-1 extingfuiihed, and it it said that the
fort her in her sick bed, and play with 1 Rouumi Catta)lic mesthood bom can-
the little girls and help nurse the little dlee in their cathedials day and night
baby boy. Suddenly the fire beU gave because the oc^m wai handed down
an alarm and my wife walked out on I from the aiMsent churches and tiioae
the veranda to find out where the fire I churches probaMy got it from Gredan
was. In a moment she came hurrying | and Roman mythology. Anyhow, we
back and almost streamed, “It’s our I know that the Jem had great
ItousoR-it’s our house; piirquick. Oh! I ence for fire, for they had to use it in
I threw the ha^ down on their saerifloee and God appeared to
the floor—no, I didn’t, either—and de-1 Moses in a homing bosh and desoended
parted those coasts with alacrity. Fire-1 on Mt. ffinai in fire and the Isndites
men and people were hurrying that I w^ guided throo|^ the wilderness by
way. I struck a fox trot for awhile, I a pillar of fire by night, and fire came
but soon relaxed into a fast walk* and down from heaven . and destroyed
then a slow pull up the hill, for I felt] Sodom and Gomorrah «nd many otiier
my iMlpitation coming on. Before II important events were marked by
reach^ the mansion I met some of I In our yoimg#ays when there were no
the advance guard returning, who said I matches it was no sore or certam thing
the fife was out. «6o I sat down on the to find fire on the
front steps to blow for a minute. When [cold mcHming that
I went through the hall to the kitchen Uie live chunk that ^ buried in the
where the commotion was, I found our ashes at bed time went oat or burned
‘daughters and some good friends still out, and then one Of the boys had to
drenching the smoking walls and pour-1 go to a neighbor’s and borrof^ fire. It
ing v^tpr down the flue up in the was always called borrowing fw it
rett. The accumulated so^ of twenty I was reaaonaUy ejgpeoted that the n«gh-
yeai# caught on fire and somehow bor would sometimes find himself in
got to the lathing and then to the ceil-1 the same condition. TheQherokee In-
ing .'and dropped down to the floor. I dians made fire by rubbing two hard
Nobody was at home. The cook was I dry sticks to^thor with great rapidity,
in her cabin adeep. Her little boy was I have seen little Indian Iwys do it very
sitting on the back steps and when our quickly, and 1 tried to imitate them,
girls arrived he very quietly pointed to but failed. -
the kitchen and said: “Dar’s a fire in But if the good purt vestal fire came
dar.” Then they heard the cracking I from heaven I reckon old Satan got
flames and saw smoke pouring through I some of it when he fell and took it
a broken pane. On opening the door down below. That’s the kind that opn-
they were astounded, for the whole I cerns us most^ The old preacher who
room seemed ablaze. One ran to the used to go around preaching about the
front door and screamed “Fire, fire, I “Mountains of Hepsidam where the
fire,” and the other went to the tele- lion roareth and the' whangdoodle
phone and then they flew to the water mourneth for ito first bom, and he
faucet and good neighbors gathered in I pUy^ on a harp of a thousand strings
and filled the buckets and went'to work. —spirila of just men made perfect,”
They were just in time, for a delay of al*o had a few broken remarks about
ten minutes would have caused the loss I fire. “My impertinent hearers, there
of the house and all of our time hon- are several kinde of fire. There are
ored furniture and pictures and books fox fire and camp fire and fire and fall
and my wife’s fine clothes and golden back, but the kind that consams you
wedding presents. When I left Jessie’s most are the fire that is not squenched
house my wife hailed me on the run I and is called hell fire ft» short,
and said save something, but I am not I ■Biu. Axp.
certain whether it was her fine dresses
in the wardrobe or her silverware in I Wade Hamptoa Pamm Away,
the dark closet or her Bible. I reckon | Colombia, S. C., April 11.—General
OvvotvA fcy m aaaAy mat WiMrs
•ace tke HfaMarl Blver
it was the Bible that she has read a yfade Hampton died this morning at 9
chapter in every night for all th^ long o’clock from valvular disease of the
years. I had a good old Baptist aunt heart. The general had Just passed his
in Bome and when her house caught g4th birthday. Twice this winter he
on fire away in the night and the fire-1 hu had attains that have greatly weak-
men came running she ran out in her Lned him, but he rallied' won^rfully
night clothes and begged them to save I both pccaaioaa. He was out driving
her Christian Index. She had a stock I ^ ,igo, but it was evident his
of them and treasured them more than I strength was deserting him.
anything else The Governor issued this prodama
Our good old professor, (Carles F. ||jon:
McCoy, of Franklin College, used to >Whereas, the Hon.WadeHampton,
lecture to us students, and his favorite former Governor of South Carolina
subject was “The Regularity of Irr^fu- United States Senator, ^ed at his
lar Things,” and he satisfied me that home in Cc4umbia this morning at 10
the longer my houfe escaped a fire the minutes before 9 o’clock, full of years
more I was Uable to have one. The I of honor; therefore. I, M. B. Mc-
chances against me increased as the Sweeny, Governor of Soutii Carolina,
years rtdled on, and so I have been ex- of his services to his people
pecting a fire. The insurance compa- his country through his long and
nies understand this and base all their honored career, and in further reoogni-
calculations and rates upon it. They ^on of his broad statesmanship and
wiU fell you what is the averse life of nobility of character and his high
a dwelling, a store, a gin, a planing patriotism and devotion to duty and
mill or a church. The professor illus- his State, do request that on to-morrow,
trated with a dice box and said if you Saturday, all puUic offices in the State
cast the dice a doz^n times the six spot of gouth Carolina be closed, and as a
might come up three or four times in i fur her testimonial to his worth that
-A great deal of unnecesMry sym- g„ccession and the ace several times, Lhe flags of the State and of the United,
pathy Is wasted upon the circus man jhe dice a thousand g^tes be put at half mast on the State
times, each number from one to six capitol all other puUic bniktiogs
would show up about an equal number (;he State and remain in that position
of times. That is according to the cal- funeral services are held.”
dilation of chances and proves the reg-1 xhe family objected to a State fu
ularity of irregular things. So it is ueraL Bdls were tolled in all the
with the rainfall which, however un- towns when the news was received and
certain in its coming, amounts to I many schools were closed,
about the same every year. Since 1883
Among the many tragedies that
have reddened the hirtQiy of Montana
the stray of how a half million dollars
in gold dust and nup^ts was lost in
the Missouri river thirty-six yean ago
is pertiafis the most wonderful. It has
to do with the snuffing out of a seore
of fives and the lost of a treasure in the
sombre waters of the Missouri, whete the
eddy was crimscmed with the life Uood
of the unfortunate miners, who had
won fojrtune and were returning to their
ltTed ones back in dvilization.
That tteimcious cargo of yellow dust
is a reality there is not the slightest
doubt, where it rests beneath the quick-
sands there is Imt one man call tefl. He
h^>es some day to find the sunken
scow with its guttering wealth, but the
ever «h*nging eddies in the treacherous
channel of the river have erased the
evidences in the sand and his chances
of again finding the QX>t rest entirely
on his recollection of the place as it
was described and pointed out to him
by one now long since dead.
J. D. Emerson, of Basin, one of
Montana’s eariiest pioneers, is the only
person in the worid that knows the trae
story of the tragedy that cost twenty
miners their lives and their fortunes.
In 1865 a party of miners started
from Virginia C&ty fOr their homes in
the East, with the accumulated savings
of several years of hard work. Of the
yast army of plac^ miners that invad
ed the primordial wildness of the treas
ure gulches of the territmy, few were
fortunate enough to find great wealth.
This ill-fated score one day decided
that enough gold had been dug, and
started down the Missouri River for
home. A rade scow was built, stanch
and rough, which was to take them
down, the river to civilization. In the
bottom of the'scow in watertight com
partments lay the wealth of each man
securely tied in sacks of buckskia and
marked with the names of the owner.
floor of boards hid the treasure of
gold dust and nuggets above this floor
were packed the rifles, ammunition aad
provisions of the voyi^ers.
The journey down the Missouri from
Fwt Benton was fou^ with thrilling
adventure. As the boat was carried
along further and further into the land
the hostle Sioux, traveling became
dangerous that for several hundreds
of miles, the little band concealed the
scow in the bushes by day and journey
ed only by night.
At last when but two day« distant
from old Fort Rice, danger was thought
to have been pused an4- the vc^agers
pushed boldly out by d^. Floating on
the turlnd waters of the river with
scarcely a sound marring the silence,
the crack of a rifle on the bank came
like a thunderbolt from a sky of blue.
Ctosely following the shot one of the
men in the scow leaped to his feet, gave
drowned and Mr. fiosmon, saved h&n
only by the greatest eOort. With their
boat sunk in the middle of the rivw it
was f(^y to think of going further, so
th^ turned their faoea toinud the fo^
The old Quaker nevw fully recov«ed
from tiie hardships of the trip,
tie with the water and the te^ous walk
back. Soon after he sickened and died,
but made Mr. Emerson pronuse that if
he should ever find the gold he would
share it with Pc^’s family.
Yean have passed and the course of
the river has changed, until to-day a
broad sandy flat, covered with a sparse
growth of ^tonwoo^trees, mariu the
spot where the treaHffe boat was sank.
Men have searched and Aig, but with
out success. The he^t of the land
overiooking the bend in thcujiver, the
clump of trees and the'general i^^tear-
ance of the {dace still remain fr^ in
Mr. Emerson's m^ as it was pointed
out to him by Richard P^ and he
h(^>es to find the pla^e again sooM^aj.
Tw* CIreaa reats.
who stands up proudly in spangled
tights 'and lets another cirens man
bring down a sledge hammer upon a
rock placed upon his heed with force
enough to break It,” says an old cireus
mad. “This is spectacular, but is en
tirely painless and calls for no gerat
strength or endurance. Upon the cra
nium of the strong man is p^ an iron ^ United States Aer*a«e of 0*u«n tm Row Fr-
contrivance weighing about 150 pounds averaged $105,000,000 a year, the' — _
TUe Cireat Tobacco War.
Richmond, A.pril 7.—A copy of the
charter of the Imperial Tobacco Com
pany of Great Britian and Ireland, to
gether with the articles of the associa
tion and a power of attorney to James
MacDonald to represent the corpora
tion in this country, was filed in the
Chancery Court here to-day. The pri
mary object of the association is to ac
quire and take over certain of the prin
cipal tohacco manufacturing concerns
in the United Kingdom, to carry on
not only the business of manufacturers
but that also of planters and growers,
exporters, importers and merchants.
The company may prepare for mar
ket, manufacture, buy and sell tobacco,
together with machinery, and may
own tobacco, saloons, cafeg, or carry
on the business of refreshment con
tractors and licensed vituallers. They
may charter ships and vessels; may
undertake all kinds of financial guar
antee and- indemnity business, as well
as all kinds of agency busing; the
company may lay out land for building
purix>se8j may acquire licenses and
enter into agreement with governtnents
or authorities, supreme, municipal or
local. The capital stock of the com
pany is £6,000,000.
Oaslit tu Be tlie Law Kverywhcre.
Asheville Citizen.
Kentucky’s highest court has just
decided that in case of total destruction
by fire the full amount of the insurance
policy must be paid, regardless' of any
stioulation in the policy contrary to
this rule, and that the actuaflosB must
be paid where the property is damaged
to an extent less than the amount of
the policy. This is not the law in some
other States, but it ought to be.-
and provided with cushions both above
and where it rests upon the head. A
pretty good sized rock is used, and the
hammer is a heavy one, so you can see
that the blow that cracks the rock is
really a serious one. But most of the
force is tal^en up by the rock and the
rest by the iron and cushions, while
the only sensation felt by the subject
is a gentle tap.
“No more dlfflculf than this is
act whereby the hero of the canvas
tent permits a rock to be broken upon
his chest with a blow from a sledge
hammer. So long as the ® is inai me suppucu aubiu wim i ^ _ onUook A «"*n acreage is
is free and does not rest a^tost a^ garden and Abel with I ^ g^th fc» the
solid object the trick is si^ knives to sacrifice the firstUngs of his i«onn»
pie. A little niustratlon: Take a but there are Indian tribes in our
day and negroes in Africa and Esqui
maux in the Arctic regions who have
lowest being $100,000,000,and the high-1 Amil 8.—Eariy cotton
rat $110,^,000, and 7®* ^ planting in ttie South Atiantic section
loMmC^cago donewas$200^,000. by two drawbacks, the
But where did fire come from and weather and the unsuitable condi-
whogave it and whe^ There is no ground for work and an
mention of fire in the Mosaic account ^ discouragement to farmen is their
of the creation nor for two thousand ^ ^ this season,
yean after it. Until after the fl^
there was not much ne^f fire, for the previous stetements of tardiness in
people were not pemi^ to^t m^t. 'reparation of lands and indiffer-
Their food was the fraite of the earth. part of the fimnen of some
ButI r^kon they ^d bfve^ fire and j^^^^ing cotton at all.
blacksmith shops and made hammera „ f^era are planting other
and hoes and nails. The pi^umption ^jton owing to the
is that the Cr^tor supphed Ad«»m wiJ outiook. A small ac
—It is stated that General Manager
Ackert, of the Southern, has given or
ders that all trains must run on time.
The result of this order is apparent in
the improvement of the time on which
the trains run.
up and let it Ue freely in your hand
and hit It smm^ly with a hammer. It
Is difficult to hurt yonr hand, and the
thicker the board the less the
tion. But now put your hand on the
table and hit the board. Hurts, doesn’t
it^ Well, it’s the same with the rock'
on the chest’
It is said that the Tnnity Church
Corporation, of New York, has refused
an offer of $5,000,000 for its church
property in the down-town section of
the city. The square is in the business
district of the metropolis and is occu
pied by St. Paul’s chtirch and a grave
yard. The dead which lie there proba-
hlp occupy the most valuable ground
in the United States used for a simito
purpose, from a mere commercial
standpoint. Every man is said to be
entitled to six feet of ground as his last
resting place, btll it is given to but few
of them to Bleep in such high-priced lo
cations as those occupied by &e silent
tenants of St. Paul’s church yard.—
Charlotte Observer.
“I have been feeling that the devil ie
present in this meeting to-day,” said
the minister. .
“Amen!” aried and old brother from
a far corner. “You got hijn in cl^
quarter. Lock the doora, and give him
where he come from.” /,
Akoat tha Llwlt.
"Bllklns. whst Is the most OK>r^-
sons having grown over tbe bead of
their father, wbo is of small stature.
Hla FIrat
Civil Service Examiner—What
no knowledge of ^n or its ui«. A.
thousand yean before Chnst Homer * ^ ^
wrote that Jupiter only possessed the • ““'Ins-1 guess K*s wbea a w
element that we call fire and when man
wascrea^man herefu^togivehim. ^ outgrown
fire But Prometheus stole from heaven I J revamped for the
stsrrChe'xre;! “hTt ■“
sent eagles, to eat his liver out and
as they eat it by day the liver grew
again by night, but finally he was un-1 you know about Budapest?
chained and the eagles driven away.. Applicant For rosltlon on Police
It seems that Prometheus was a friend'
to mankind and by command of Jupi
ter actually creat^ man out of the
mud that was left after the flood—not
Noah’s flood, but the flood of Deucal
ion, away back in the ages. He was a
god nearly as powerful as Jupiter and
was always in a quarrel with him. He
taught mankind architecture, wtron-
omy, figures, mediciue, navigation
and all the arts tha.t adorn life. At
Athens and other ancient cities, tem
ples were built to his honor. They be
lieved that the very fire that he brought
down from heaven was still preserved
and was always burning on an alto m
the temple of Vesta. It is called the
sacred fire—^the Vestal fire—the fire o'
the hearthstone and must not be al
low^ to go out. If it does go out from
accident even the fewnily who loses it
Force—Budapi>st Is the name of a cat
tle disease, it la nsoally fatal!—Cbt
cago Tribune.
Her Akc.
Judge-How ohl are yoni madam?
Witness (besUatiugly)-I am
is, 1-
Judge—Out with It! The longer you
wait the older you will grow.
thnt
Tw* at ■ Kla^
Guest-What a splendid dinnerl
don’t often get as go^ a meal as this.
Little WilUe (son of the host)-We
don^t either.
The word **mlle^ comes from ttie Lat
In ‘'mille.” a thonsand. A tho
paces of a^marehlng soldier made the
Boroaomlle.
■.Ike AaaUMT KMCk Ar*mm.
Rku>ino, Pa., April 7.—^M.. and
Mn. Henry Daubert, old residents of
Emans, Lehigh county, have separated
after living together 24 years and nus-
ing a large family. Mrs. Danbert’s
fint husbi^, whom she had kmg be
lieved to be dead, has appeared and
Claimft her as his lawful wife.
The first husband’s name is J. A.
Gilman. He and his wife were married
in New York, and after a few yean he
went to Doylestown, Pa., to work. He
became ill and his wife was inframed
by letter that he wm dead.
After a few yean she married Dau-
hart. Gilman was not dead, but his
illness caused him to lose his mi
which was a bluk fur neariy 20 yean.
Then he recovoed his reason, but
memory was gone on many pcwts.
He inherited 1^,000 from a relative
and for several yean searched for his
wife.
He found her a few di^rs ago, and
she will retum to him, though she and
her second husband have always lived
hap(^y, and their hearts are almost
broken at the thoughto of separation.
a sharp mp for breath and plunged
overbCNud, his life’s blood dying the
dark waten a crimson hue.
From out of the bushes came a rat
tling fiire which splashed the water and
Int Uttie pieces out .of tiie wood of the
boat. The current was swift at this
Mint, and m handling rifles in the boat
ooked not to the steering oar. With
crashing sound the scow went full
upon a rock and the rush of water
through a hole in the square prow
showed that this was to be the - last
stand of the littie party of fighters.
The story of how the minen fought
until dusk, wounded and sorely pres^.
a tale of trilling heroism. When
their ammunition itave out the red foes
on the shore were quick to see the ad
vantage and swam out to finish their
bloody work.
In the littie band of white meik there
was a Frenchman who had taken unto
himwalf a %oux maiden for a bride.
When the last rush came and the glit
tering scaljHug knives r^den^ in the
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North
News and Observer, Stti.
This is North Candina week at the
Charleston Exposition. The Governor
the State and bis staff, the State
offidak, the officen of the Board
A^culture, the Commissionen
[minted by the Ctovemor to the Ohi^
eston Exposition, the Adjutant Gen-
wal and his staff, and a portion of the
State Guard, tog^er with many pi^-
otic citizens, leave this morning
for Charleston
North Carolina has the best exhilat
at the Cbarieston Exposition of any
South«m State. It is anrang^ with ex
quisite taste and is so attractive that it
commands the attention of all visiton
to the Exposition.
The trend of immigration must be
toward the South. “Go South, young
man” will be heeded by thousands in
the over-crowded North within the
next few yean. The Southem State
that advertises its resources that are
awaiting development better than any
other Srathem State is the common
wealth that will receive the largest dass
of desirable immitprants and the largest
investment of capital.
horrid work, she begx^ ^or the life of
her husband and it was granted her.
The bodies of the white men were
stripped and thrown into the eddy, and
after the scow had been looted of rifles
and provisions it was pushed in the
swift whirling stream and the weight of
the gold carried it to the bottom. The
Tndianw suspected not the existence of
the white men’s wealth and the scow
with its precious load rested upon the
sandy bottom of the Missouri.
The Frenchman, whose name was
Pierre Lavalle, soon after left the In
dians and enlisted with the’soldien at
Fort Rice so that he might be near the
spot where the treasure was lost.
Some months later he confided his
secret to an cdd Quaker named Rtcha^
Pope, and the old man’s son. Together
the tluee went up the river from Fort
Rice to the fatal spot to find the sunken
Where the boat had sunk a sand
bar formed and they dug beneath the
gravd and found the prow. A barking
of an Indian dog and the zip of a bullet
warned them that the white men’s foe
on the opposite side of th3 river
and they at once ran through the woods.
A running fight followed and Lavalle
IS killed.
In 1867. two yean after of the loss of
the scow, J. D. Emerson, now the agent
for the N(Mrthan Pacific at Basin, was
working for the Northwestern Fur Com
pany. He was at F(»t Benton and one
day when he met Richard Pope. The
old man’s son had died of fever and he
the sole person in the world that
knew of the existence of the gold. The
(M win was without money and wish
ed to get back to his home in Ohio.
Mr. Emerson wss on his way down to
Omaha and offered the Quaker poasi^.
On the way down the river he told
Emerwn the story of the gold in the
river. A fleet of boats were going down
the^ver at that time, so it was dedded
to stop at Fort Rice and come back
alone. They sarted back from the fni,
a distance oi twenty miles. When ten
miles from the place the boat qnrang a
leak and before they could reach the
bank it had sunk. P^ was nearly
Tke MiatalKa mt tka ralas\BMr.
Nordehskjold found that the whUs
bears generally went through a isof
performance of stalking bis saOots^
clearly oa the mistaken condnaion
they were seals. As the men wen
ck>tiied partly In sealakln, tt waa a vecy
natural mistake. But the tartercst el
story lies in the generallsatfcw
made by the bear. The bear said:
*^here are two or thiw seals, eM'
standing op on its flippers'In a very
Bual way. 1 wlU thcfeiMe atalli
Q unseen as long as 1 can and
when they see me pretend to be dotng
something else.”
So the men, with tbetr guns aai
lances, who wanted to shpot the beat
had the pleasure of seeing hhn eaMal>
ly crawling t>ehlnd rocks and Ice hmn* -
mocks, making long detours thia way
that and every now aad tbm
clambering-np-a ttek.and peeping can*
tlonsly over to see If the seals had
gone. On' the open snow Om beat
would saunter off tai anotiier dIrsetlOB
and then, falling flat, push hlmseU
along on his bdly, with his great tnmt
paws covering his black mnssle, the
only thing not matching the snow
about him. Just as the bear thonght
he had got his "seaT* the latter Ored
and shot him, a victim of analogy.
—Spectator,
Nor do Norwegian hotels themsdvea
yon. Built of wood, tbdr
!rit IlM In the fire escape, which is to
found in the chief room upon every
At Visnes I spoit a happy
night answering the questicms otmiecw
ous travelers who came from hour to
see If the fire escape In my
room was working properly. Angry
aasnrances were powerless to oonvlnee
timid If ancient ladies. Did I really
the rope would work? Was then
any danger? Had I tried tlie contrlT-
ance myself? Bxcellent sonlst As tt
the printed notice were not enoo^I
Ah. that printed notice! I have a
copr of it by me aa 1 write. It la the
complete instruction In wngHah to the
traveler threatened by fire In a wooden
hotel in Norway. Let me give It yon as
I found it:
“Fire escape to throw out the win
dow.
*TThe plaited snotter shall be fonnd
In every room.
“To Increase the hurry let down the
body one by one until all shall be Mt
**N. B.—The cord shall put out tiia
ground from the shoulder therenndee.'*
—Lcmdon MaiL
A fireat HarAirara CaasMaa.
New Yokk, April 9.—^Authoritative
announcement of & consolidation of the
great hardware interests in the country
in a combination c^ntalised at $120,-
000,000 will be made by The Iron
in its currents issue to-morrow. The
consolidation embraces the Simmons
Hardware Company, at St. Louis,
Bindley Hardware Company, of Pitts
burg; William Bingham Company, of
Clevehmd; Supplee Hardware Company,
of Philadelphia; Pacific Hardware and
Steel Company, of Duluth; Bigdow A
Dowse Company, of Boston; VanCamp
Hudware Company, of Indiam^x^;
George Etiich Hardware Company, of
Denver; Janney, Semple, ffill & Co., of
Minneapolis, and foity other houses,
representiog nearly every importent
trade centre of the count^. N^otia-
tions are still pending with other houses,
and it is expected there will be further
accessions to the number already named
in tiie combination.
*7t la commonly supposed that ^
men who work in the mines or thodh
whose occnpations necessltato tbs
breathing of poisonous fumes and gaass
are the shortest lived,’* said a ptomi*
nent physician. **Thls Is a mlataks^
and tt will surprise many to leam that
the highest death rate Is fonnd among
a class who breathe In the swestsat
odors—florlstA
**The reason is a simple one. Tbeflor*
1st lives at once in the torrM and tlM
frigid zone, from a greenhouse atmoa-
phere of nearly 100 degrees In the win
ter months he must step out Into oos
that Is neviy always bdow freealng
t and often bdow sera In som*
he has change to encounter, too, as
In the spring aad falL By force of hab^
It he grows cardess and often works
without bis c«iat in the hot, artUdal at>
id this Increases the dan*
to which he is exposed. lAmgs
and throat and stomach diseases, as
well as rbeumatism. find in the florist
the least resistance.”—Galveston New»
N«gr« Wke Skota Wklto Ham Vaken
Vr*m JmU Mrwnc
Lynchbdbo, Va., April 6.
Carter, a young n^:ro, was taken from
jail at Amhmt Court House last night
and lynched. On Thursday Garter w«it
to the home of Don Thomas and, call
ing him out, shot him several times.
Thomas ran back into the house and
fastened the door, but the negro forced
an entrance and fired two mme balls
into Thomas.
Carter was arrested and placed in jail.
Last night a mob, 200 ‘strong, com
pelled the jailer to surrender the pris
oner, and, taking him to the nearest
tree, they swung him to a limb and
then ridded him wiUi bullets.
Thomas is alive and may recover.
CHARiiOTTE, April 6.—An athvn^
is dty tonight tnmed over to an
officer fifty-five pearls and seven dia
monds.
These are the jewels lost bjr Mn.
Harriet Blaine Beal, on a sleeiHng car
between tl^ dty and Jacksonville some
weeks ago. A messenger stsrted U.
Wsshington tonight with the prtqperty.
It is ssid the jewels were {voduced by
a railroad employee who was on the
car occui^ by Mrs. BeaL He sur-
rendoed tiiem on the ptmnise of im
munity ftom pnblidty and prosecntion.
The value the necklace ahme is
placed at 16,000.
No can fly backwards vrithont
turning; the dragon fly, however, oan
do this, and can oatstrip the awaUow in
ipeed.
**Thls Is a remarkably healthy dt
late, they say.” said the eastemee.
‘You’re right thar,” said Arlaona AL
**B”r Instance, not long ago a tendertoet
with a weak chest an’ a pale face drsp*
ped inter the Miners’ Ddl^t. called ma
a liar an* o* course 1 had to dean iww
*Bont two months after a big sunlmtl
cowboy stopped me on the street, wiped
the earth up with me an’ slammsd W
up in a tree to recuperate. Same
r. dImate In the world, pud."
Indianapdla Sun.
tmes—Tes, 1 guess it Is tme that II
te the little thhigs that count.
Howee-Bo yon have eome to that
eondnslon, have yimt
Bames—Tes. Too see, I was walk*
Ing with Tedworth, and be said tt ha
ahonld find a million doUaife hs^d ^va
h»lf- Presently be picked vp a
dime, and when I asked him to ahara
tt with me be abased me like a plck>
pocket.—Boston Transcript
GiMialasc Uckt Wmr.
One wbo says she baa tried It rseoa
mends naphtha tot cleaning light ftv.
She saya: Poor naphtha aver tha twt,
then fluff and pat the artlde netll the
soil has been worked out, and when
thla ta done press the naphtha oat by
drawtog the hand firmly over the far.
Then shake and bang In the air to dry.
Be careful of fire.
wiir c—
Casey—Costigan got his life iMnwd
for tin clnta^ -•
Conroy-How was that?
Casey—He borrowed tin efaita ar tV
foreman, and the foreman wooTt p«t
him on a dangerous Job aa long as be
owes him tin dntal—Puck.
Brackett—They say yoo are flnaadal*
ly embarrassed. Do yoo owe a very .
large amount?
Crackett—I don*t owe anything, hot
there are seversl people who owa OBO,
■nd I haven’t the conrage to aak fjpr tt
—Boston Transcript
In IdSB Captam Thomas Claf«% Ik
company with John Wlntbrop aad ot^
srs. pot in operstlon an **lrao worksT* at
New Haven, Oobn. This enterprise sos>
braced a blaat fomace aad « rsiksry