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VOL. 1. ELM cmr, N. C., FBIDAY, MAY 30,1902. NO. 42. SAKE JONES IN CHAK1.0TTB. Tlte Devotees of Society Come In for a Fair Skare of His Attention. Chalotte Observer, of 21st. A large and interested audience filled the auditorum in tiie Y. M. C. building last night, when Bev. Sam- P.- Jonea lectured for the benefit of Bre vard Street Methodist church. He spoke for an hour aiid- a half, imd those who had heard him before said it was the same old Sam. , * J. D. McCall, Esq., introduced Mr. Jones, referring to him as, perhaps, the most origi^^ and interesting platform speakek in America, if not In the world. As a prelude to his address, Mr. Jones spoke of the wonderful growth and vigor of the city of Charlotte, evident on every hand. He said: “Charlotte is sprea^ng herself. You are going out, and, 1 am aoiry to say, going dowB> as deep as broad, with fair prospects of an increase in the ratio of the down ward course.” Mr. Jones announce as his subject, A Medley of Philosophy, Facts And Fun,” and said, in part: “Philosophy fqmii^es the best possi ble rule by which one can always -do the best po^bie thing at the best poe sible time. I am afraid a philosopher would feel mighty lone^me in this crowd. Now facts are the most tremen dous things in all the world. They are different from theory in every respect, I have been a theory chaser and once I was a young fool, but I have turned my back on theory and am relying on facts. We have too many theorists in the ministry. I don’t want a preacher to talk theology and ecclesiasticism to me, but I do want him to teU about the grace of God and show me his works by his faith. I don’t want a doctor to tell me about the theory of his profes sion, but I do want him to take me out to the cemetery and show me what he has done. The biggest fool in North Carolina is the man who will stand up and argue against facts, but most of you will do it. “Nowadays we pride ourselves on having a higher type of religion than that enjoyed by our forefathers. We brag about our enlightement and su perior culture having relegated to the rear the superstition and sentimental side of the religion of our fathers. And the country is overun by a horde of little gimlet-headed preachers—D. D’s, LL. D’s., Ph. D’s., A. B’s., A. M’s., A. S. S’s., etc. We have left the old landmarks and run off after., a lot of isms and such like. We have the- osophists, sanctificationists, spirit ualists and Christian Scientists. Now I wouldn’t hurt the feelings of a Christ- tian Scientist, for my father always told me never to hit a cripple or to hurt a fool, but I want to ask one question. Did Giod pass by Martin Luther, John Calvin, the Wesleys, Whi^eld and come down to Boston a few years ago and tell an old woman something that would enable her to put her picture on a spoon and sell it for 13?” Mr. Jones paid his respects to mod em society in his accustomed vigorous manner, saying he despised society “because it eats the heart out of a woman as whiskey saps the life out of a man.” According to his assertion, there is not a greater curse on earth than the society woman. “When God gives a man a good wife and 10 or 15 children,” said the speaker, “that man is blessed, but when the devU gives him a society woman and a poodle he is cheated.” Mr. Joofte reiterated some of his fa miliar anathemas against the politi cians, who, according to his theory, are responsible for most of the ill for tune that has befallen the country. He declared that the two last national political campaigns were fought on false theories and asserted that the peace and prosperity of this country depended solely and alone upon the honesty, uprightness, sobriety and integrity of the people. In spieaking of what he was pleai^ to term some of the recent political ^lacies, Mr. Jones said: “You free silver folks, if you don’t feel like fools, you don’t feel nat ural. I feel sorry for you Democrats; I do indeed. I used to be one, but I’m weUnow. But I ain’t a Bepublican any more than I’m a negro. What are you Democrats going to run on next time? You have stolen all the planks from the Populist platform, but I want to tell you that you will never put a President in the White House or get a majority in Congress until you discard every PopuUstic doctrine and go back to the principles of Jefferson or Jackson. You’ll never get .there so long as you keep following Br^an. Biyan don’t know how to “get there,” but he’s a mighty runner. You have had only one President since the war, and, notwithstanding the fact that he has done more for you than all other leaders, you’ve cussed him from Maine to California. You may get to heaven, but you’ll never get to Wash ington* * * *. If . this country ever goes down in death and Mood and ruin it will be under the scramble for office. You might take aU the office-holders in Charlotte and put them in i case, and if the devil were to come along and look at the collection, he would say, “Boys, that’s ahead of any thing I’ve got.” In the course of Ms remarks, in which he several times expressed the hope that his hearers would have no trouble in undeistanding him, Mr, Jones took a whirl at the 20th of May celebration in this city and the Elks. “Poor old Charlotte,” he said “you’ve had another 20th of May, wd God only knows what this day rolls up every yew. To-day I saw scores of bright ]^oung men reeling along the streets filled to tbe brim with the kind of mean Wh^key they deal out in this town. Tlie damnable, beer-g;uzs!hng Tjllra had the town last year. If I were asl^ed to ^y whether tfiy boy should joia the filkg or go to the penitentiary, I would choose the penitentiary for him ever time. In the pftnitentiyyy he would be forced to learn habits of sobri ety and indtwtiy, something no Elk iesses. If any of you Elks don’t ike what I am saying, just come up her^>ygu Uttle devils, ^oo. The Elks were incubated by an old brewer and hatdMd out in a beer k^. Most of tkem-ain’t p^ped yet; they just running out of the bung hole. What do Jroa Say to that yo9 pot-bellied Elk? An Elk'wlib didn’t driidc beer would be the loneeomest little devil oat of hell. You don'tjhaveany troubleunderstand- ing jne, do you? X^payiag-bia respects to the saloon business, Mr. Jones said: “Charlotte collects about 920,000.8 y^ in lioeiues from the saloons. That sum, when vided among’ the people of this city, amounts to about 66 cents a head. Think of it! You people in Charlotte are selling yourselves for 66 cents a head, 'wheu bogs are worth $10 each. Don’t you wi^ you were a' But then, I suspect the 66 cents is about all you are worth.' And you preachers are bought at the same rate. The trou ble with you old -deacons, elders and stewards is that you like &e stuff your selves. You are-diinking it, you old red-nosed devils.” Mr. Jones declared that the soda! worid was worse than the political world. Disobedience of children to their parents, cigarette smoking, card- playing and dancing were some of the things upon which he touched. He decided that the boy who couldn’t be stoppe4 frqm smoking cigarettes need ed killing and that the girl who couldn’t be stop)^ from dancing needed mammy. He said he Uked a horse that coukl make a mile in 2:80, but he preferred a girl who coulden’t make more than a mile a week. In closing Mr. Jones spoke of the country’s need of men rather than great industries, saying the nation could never develop without men and women of strength and character. He closed his address with a beautiful peroration on the love of a mother, the most lasting and beautiful thing on earth. SBOON0 BBUFnON OF nneh More Tlolent tlu a UTlBK Hammm B«lac saw Tlte New Ooetrlme of Hell. The Evuigellat. What the utter failure of the human sou^ to find God will mean is not clearly revealed in Scripture. The teachings of Paul and John, following Jewish lines, do not postulate anything but punishment until the “second death.” Sin is death. Unrighteousness is its own sure agony. Guilt is separation from Our Father. There is no life or pef^ save in love, holiness and without which no man can see the Lord. More we cannot say. More need not be said. More is, as a matter of fact, not now preach^ from any Protestant pulpit, liberal or conservative, save the most ignorant, where the material hell still holds sway. The life on the Bowery is Hell. The greed of Wall Street is Hell. The suspicions and criticisms of Christian brethren one of another are Hell. We have Hell in our hearts, and only God’s love can cast out Hell. That Hell should be an eternal disputant of Ck>d’s sovereign redemption; that the Cross of Christ should not save to the uttermost, seems hardly possible; yet we have no other message tlum to proclaim that unless men' take the Father at His word they must remain in the far country and feed the swine, and that every man goes to his own place. Ekoxvuxe, Tenn., May 21.—^The latest estimates as to loss of life in the Fraterville coal mine disaster at Coal Creek is 226, including contract miners, day laborers and boy heljwrs. At last reports 1^ bo^es had been removed from the mine. Not one per son has been recovered alive. The last find reported was that of 13 bodies in an entry. Five of the men had written letters, before life had be came extinct. One of these letters gave the time of day it was written as 2:30 o’clock Monday afternoon, thus indicating that these, and perhaps other entombed men, lived many hours after the terrible explosion, which occurred Monday morning at 7:30 o’clock. The letters gave a general suggestion of the suffmng that was undergone, indicating that the men were gradually being strangled to death by the foul, gaseous air that was. filling, the mine. One piteously read: “My God for another breath!” Fobt-db-Framob, Island of Martin ique, May 21.—Streams of frightened refugees have been pouring into Fort- de-France from idl the surrounding country. Th^ people are not def>ti- tute, but they are ter^fied. They want only one thing, and that ii to be taken far away from this idand, with which, they say, the gods «re angiy and which they will destroy by fire be fore it sinks und»c the sea. The con suls here and the officers of the war vessels in the harbor are waylaid by scores of persons erased by fear and bulging to be carried away. l^e United States steamer Dixie, Ci^tain Beny, from New York, arrived to-^y, after a quick and safe passage. The Dixie began langing her enormous- caigo of supplies early and the store houses on ^ore soon became congested. This is the greatest difficulty of the ad ministration. This morning the Umted States steamer Potomac, with the com manders of the war vessels now here, went to inspect St. Pierre. With the greatest difficulty the party succeed in making a landing. The effects of the outburst of yesterday were t^endous. The huge basalt towers of the cathedral were pulverized and the walls were hurled flat to the earth. The bombard ment of volcanic stones is not sufficient to account for this, and all evidences point to the passage of a furious blast of blazing gas, traveling at an enormous speed and with incalculable force. The deposit of boulders, ashes and angular stones is enormous. Not a living hu man being saw what hi^pened at St Pierre yesterday. This second eruption was many times more violent than that which effaced . Pierre and swept its people from the earth. Nor has all volcanic activity ceased. Vast columns of smoke and gas still pour from the great crater. New fissures have opened on the moun tain sides and are vomiting yellow whirlwinds, which rush intermittentiy, now from one point and now from an other. Boiling mud is also thrown out at times in torrents that reach the sea and produce small tidal waves. The correspondent of the Associated Press has bad an interview with M. Clerc, a member oi the Legislature of Martinique, who recently explored the vicinity of Mont Pelee. He said: started Friday last for Mont Pelee and accompanied by M. TelliameeChancele^ chief engineer of the sugar works, reached a height of 1,235 metres with out difficulty, and was able to ascertain that the present crater is about 300 metres in diameter. On the east it is overlooked by the Mont La Croix, the culminating point of the island, hav ing an altitude of 1,360 metres, which is completely crumbled and mined at its base, as a result of the volcanic action and might easily collapse. The ruins of the crater have very much changed in appearance and the heat where we stood was intense and the whole aspect of the mountain was terrifying. Stones fell around us, and we pick^ up lai^e pieces of sulphur, which, however, we were unable to re- The whole spot was charged with electricity, which became so vio lent'that we were obliged to retreat. Our descent from the mount. was more difficult than our ascent. A blinding rain of ashes fell upon us, and the engineer wu neariy kUled by large stone which fell near him. The recent rain of ashes and volcanic rocks weighing as much as 75 grammes, which have, fallen here caused so much consternation among the inhabitants of Fort-de-France that those who have not left the city are anxious to do so, and large numbers are emigrating to theisland of Guadeloupe, where it is estimated that 1,200 people from Martinique have ahre^y sought shelter.” I>e«erte4l from the Navy Bather than Aesoelate with a Nexro. Cbarlotte Observer. Officers Johnston and Crowell and Sergeant Orr yesterday arrested a white man named J. B. Ayers, who is a de serter from the United States navy. The officers.had been on the lookout for him for some time. Ayers is a Charlotte man and has a wife living here. He was enlisted in this city by Lieutenant Mitchell on the 29th of last March. He served only a short time, deserting on the 29th of April wb^e on the training ship Franklin, at Norfolk Va. Ayers is a fine spedmen of manhood and is quite intelligent. He stated to an Observer reporter yesterday that he liked the navy all right, but that the officers had made him eat And sleep next to a n^^, and that being a South erner he could not stand it. He. said that he was under the influence of liquor when he left. Two Now Blflhopa Klected. Dallas, May 22.—The General Con ference of the Methodist E{Mscopa4 0hurch to-^y elected Dr. E. E. Hoss, of Tennesseee, ful^ Dr. A. Coke Smith, of Virginia, bishops. Dr. Hoss ^ the ^tor of the official paper Of (be Methodists published at I^ashyille. paft TMt SUMcet Mr. Westside—Is stiB paying attention to your Sist^ Eastside—Naw—they’ve been mar ried this two moot’s! The New Methodlat BlahoiM. Baltimore Sun. Bev. Dr. Alexander Coke Smith has been one of the leaders of Methodism in Virginia for some years. His pres ent address is Norfolk, Va., and he is pastor of Ep^orth Church. Dr. Smith was bom in Sumter county, S. C., Sep tember 16, 1849. In 1872 he was grad uated from Wofford College at Spar tanburg. The degree of doctor of di vinity was conferred by Erskine Col lege at Due West, S. C., in 1887. Dr. Smith was professor of mental and moral philosophy . at • Wofford College from 1886 to 1890 and in the two years following he was professor of practical theology at Vanderbilt Uuni- versity, resigning to return to the min istry. At the Ecumenical Conference lield in Washington in 1891, Dr. Smith read an essay on “Christian Co-opera- tion.” He was appointed a fraternal delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canad, held at Toronto in 1898. When the Ecumeni cal Conference of. 1901 was held London he was named as a del^ate. Dr. Smith contributes “The Teachers' Meeting” to the Sunday-School Mag- ' ae of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He was sent to worth Church at Norfolk at the last meeting of the Virginia Conference. Ber. Dr. E. E. Hoss has been editor of the NashyUle Christian Advocate since 1890, his present term expiring this year. He is a native of Tennessee and was bom in Washington county April 14, 1849. He was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Emory and Henry College, having graduated from the latter institution when years old. After his ordination he held Qhiurges ip Knoxyille, Tenn., SanFran- (usco, Cs^., and ABhev^le, N. C. From 1876 to 1881, Dr. Hoss was president of the Martha Washington OoU^, Abingdon, Va., and later was head Emory and Heniy OoU^^ for four years. From 1885 to 1890 he was in the theological faculty of Vanderl^t Uniyernty. It is a fitting time to thii^k about volcanoes, earthquakes and other inter nal and infernal things that are going on in the bowds of the earth. We can see upward and outward to the staii. and planets for millionB and billions of mUes, but the inside of this Uttle world is all 4inknown. We live upon its cnut and ^ and sleep«addance and pcance and fight and talk war and politi« and trusts!with no thought of how near we are t^ the fires that aie homing Under us nor when they Will break oot and -oohsume us all, as fiiey certalnljr will some time according to Scriptore. Those infernal fires have been homing for thousands of yews, and tiie myin tery is, wh^ they have not tmmed to ttie surface long befoce this, ^ere does the heat all go, and whece. are the escapes—the chimni^y—the innd» and the ashes and b£a? Solely thece few volcanow cao’ttliaeha^ it alL The word ydcimo, «r toIcuiq, as it used to be.called, comes fronr Vokan, the god of fire, and the andents be lieved that the old fellow had his shops and furnaces down there, and some times when he bkmed the beUows too hard the fire bursted out through a hole in some mountain and the melted rock spouted up and ran over the tank and washed down in the form of lava, which is another Latin word and means to wash. Volcanoes are Vulcan’s chim neys, and as for back as we have his tory sacred or profane these chimneys have had their periodic discharges. Some writers believe that there was one these not far from Sodom and Ck)morrah, and those dties were des troyed just like Pompeii and Hercula neum, or more recentiy like St. Pierre in Martinique. A few years ^;o two ot my boys took a sea voyage from New York to Trini dad and stopped at all of those littie islands and historic points. Th^ told us of Martinique, where the Empress Josephine was bom Md lived until she was 15 years old and whose beautiful monument they saw. Unhappy lady! The world is still weeping for her. They climbed the heigbte of this same volcano and looked down into its cra ter, for it was quiet and peaceful and had not had an erap^ion for fifty years. The island is small, very small, not quiet as large as Bartow county, but but had a dense and mongrel popula tion of 180,000 people—chiefly Indians, negroes and Chinese. The whites numbered less than 10,000, dt whom only 1,200 were French. Just think of it. Our county is about 25 miles square and is quite thickly settled and has 25,000 people while Martinique has seven times as many and most of them are negroes. These nsgroes were all slaves until 1848. The Mve duefly on fmit and anything tbafroan piek.ap or steal. My boys amused themsdves throwing dimes into the water that was from 20 to 30 feet deep and the little negro boys would plunge in and dive to the bottom for the money and always got it. Then I got to ruminating about Vesuvius and Pompeii and Hercula neum. I used to sp^ a speech about ancient Greece and Rome and Thebes, and I always said Pompyeye and The- bees, for that was right &en, and so was Sisero for Cicero, but they have got new ways now and I don’t know where I am at. Vesuvius has been cutting up for more than two thousand years. It has had nine bad eraptions, but there are still people Uving on its dopes and cultivating them. Its enormous crater is 2 miles around and 2,000 feet deep, and the accumulated lava some times raises its brink 800 feet during an eraption. When Spartacus, the gladiator, besieged by the Romans he with his littie army of seventy men took refuge in that crater, for it was quiet then, and killed 3,000 Bomanslwho attacked them on Its brink. The great (xator, Cicero, had a beautiful villa at its base, but in the year 75 A. D. old Vulcan fired up his fumace and belched forth fire and smoke and lava and a^es and buried those two dties sixty-five feet deep and changed the sea shore and the river so that their mtes could nOt be found and when found by acddent they were two miles inland.. For three centuries excavations have been goin]; on and of late with great energy ant i the veritable homes of the cultured people have been found filled with ashes and dnders that have preserved them all these centuries. These homes and halls wd churches and temples have been cleaned out and even the paintings on the walls have been re stored and the beatiful marble sculpture cleaned and renewed just as it was when the awful calamity occurred. The celebrated sculptured figures of Laocoon and his sons strangled by e serpent was found there in p^ect con dition. In some of these beautiful homes of the wealthy the tables were set for a feast and in the temple were found the gold uid diver adomments that are usual in such places. In the Temple of Juno there were the corpses of 300 people who had fled there for safety, but Juno was powerless and they all perished just as did the 3,000 at St. Pierre who fled into the ^man CMho- lic cathedral. The fate of all these dties was very dmilar, for it was not lava that dis- troyed them, nor at St. Pieire, but a shower of dnders and ashes, and these are preservatives of anything that they ftot .to takeup (hat good dd bode of Bolwer’s, “The Last Daysof Pompeii,” and read it again. Bill Abp. Great changes in the sorfaoe of the islands in the Caribbean sea, as well as the sea itsdf, have been made by the volcanic eraptions in Maitjniqoe and ~ . >^noent. Notonly has the sea sunk to a greater deptl^ bat wide crerasses are cutting the islands into pieces. Part of Northern St. Vincent has droi^ied into ttkesea. New craters-haTe appeared in Mount Pdee, Martiniqoe. d^e eruption con- tinoes, but all. the sorriving reddents have fled from the vicinity. !there is a constant rain of dnders, asheis and lava. Ldoting of the dead in Si. Pierre has sumed larger tm^rtions. Thirty more arrests have been made for this It is rqx>rted that an English officer is one of the offenders. Mount Soufriere, St. Vincent, has ceased its eraptions, bat there are fears of a renewal. The volcanic U^e which occopied the top oi the mountain is bdieved to have disappeared. Many of the surviving victims have recdved njuries which cause excruciating pain. Lieut. B. B. McCormick, of the United States naval tug Potomac, which went to the scene, estimates the dead in St. Vincent at 1,700. A special cablegram of the 19th from St. Luda, in the. British West Indies, describes the searoh made in the ruins of St. Pierre, Martinique, by United States officers for the body of Consul Prentiss. A new and sudden eruption of Mount Pelee covered the rescuers. They were forced to wear camphor bandages or&r their mouths and re turned to thdr boats exhausted after a thrilling experience. Immense swarms of gerin-carrying flies have settled upon the city. The first steamships to arrive in the United States from the scene of de- stmction are the Etona and the Horace, which reached New York yesterday. Both touched at St. Luda and passed dose to the stricken islands, being coated with ashes from the volcanoes. Superstitious natives of St. Luda call the calamity a judgment from Heaven for St. Pierre’s wickedness. Graphic details of the eraption are given by men Fetumiug on the steam ships. Honey Baton By Bos la Gone. When we condder tUI such calamities a greatful fmd thoughtful people will be thanldul to our Heavenly Father that we live in a land remarkably free from calamity or affliction. I^o volcanoes hang their threatening p«dc8 over us or near us, no cyclones vidt us by day or by mght. Cadavaroos famine does not darken our households with awful distress, but we live in peace and in plenty and the lines have fallen unto us in {Peasant places. ^ It is a fitting time now for those who like to read romance that is founded on A letter was recdved at‘ the Unitied States Sobtreasury in Baltimore yester day from Mrs. I^edrick Imhoff, of West Randall street, whose pet dog on Tuesday chewed up and swsdlowed two $2 notes with the exception of a comer of one of them. Mrs. Imhoff wished to know lif she could be rdmburaed. She cannot. If half a tom note is presented it will be redeemed at half its face value, and full value will be given for two-thirds of a note. In certain cases of absolute loss, such as by fire, the United States Treiusurer may reimburse at his discre tion, but as a oondderable amount of red tape, affidavits and evidence of various kinds must be forthcoming these appeals are seldom attempted except in extraordinary cases. Lan«eearfce In Onhn»a Procreao. October 10, 1868—“Ten years’ war” for freedom b^an. February 10 1878-War ended by the “^compromise of Zanjon,” granting concesdons, but not independence, to the Cubans. February 24, 1895—New rebellion broke out. February 15,1898—BatUeship Maine mysterioudy blown up in Havana hubor. April 21, 1898—United States b^^ tr on Spain. Aueust 12, 1898—Peace protocol dgned. December 10,1898—^Treaty of Paris conduded, Spain relinquishing Cuba. May 20, 1902—Cuban Republic be gins its official existence. •nt Bye*. Lohovibw, Tez., May 22.—The cul mination of a man hunt which has been in progren siim last Saiorday, ihus reached to-day, when Dudley Mor gan, cokned, who assaulted Mrs. McKee, wife ol a Texas A Padfic fore man, at lAndng, T«„ iHu bumed at the stake near Landng. It was leamed this moming that the negro ha4 been ci^ttured and wsA being tiJceo ta Lan sing for identification and by 11 o’dock great throngs had gattmed at the Tjtfidng switdi and lookinqg over the ground dedded^to' make anangements to bum the h^jro about a 4uarteT of a mile away the line of > the county road. The pUce of execution dedded upon was an open plot, smooth and covered with grass,- beii^ hedged by high trees which ftsmedan (^tening 200 yMdswidetand.SOO yiwda long. The trees were lite^y Uned with people an hour before the negro arrived. At 11 o’clock the train t«ngu>g the n^ro and his captors arrived in Maisludl, near which place he wi^ captured and was met by a great crowd of people. Many mcHre bosMed the train at intermediate points and when it arrived TAiming' every car was crush^ and crowded. Waiting at Lansing was another large crowd from Longview and the sur rounding county. The iwisoner was taken from the train to the section house, which stands close to the track, and podtivdy identified by Mrs. McKee and several n^^roes who worked on the section with Morgan. The n^ro was escorted by 200 men armed with Winchesters to the place of execution. As he was chained to the stake he said he desired to make a The crowd surged around him and those in chaige tried in vun to make them stand back and keep quiet while the negro talked. The n^ro made a statement in which he implicated another negro named Frank lin Heard, saying he (Heard) was to get part of the money which was to be stolen. Morgan confessed to having com mitted the crime, and after being se curely chain^ to the stake with his hands and 1^ free, the members of mob b^n to take ties from a fire al ready. started and bum out his eyes. They held the homing timbers to neck and,- after boming his clothes off, to other parts of his body. The n^ro screamed in agony. He was tortu^ in a dow and jtainful manner, while the crowd clamored for still slower pun ishment. The negro begged piteoifely to be shot.. Mrs. McKee was brought to the scene in a carriage accompanied by four other women and an c^rt was made to get the carriage dose enough for her to see the n^i;ro. The crowd was so dense, however, that it was im- posdble. Persons held each other on their shoulders, taking tom about looking at the awful dght. The n^^o’s head finally dropp^ and the ties were piled around and over him. In half an hour only the trank of the n^ro remained. As soon as the heat would permit parts of his skull and body were gather^ up by some and Carried away. As the fire died down the 30wd took the two men who first caught the n^[ro and hdd them up over their hefids, while they held their Winchesters in their hands and were photographed. Sec^on Foreman McKee, husband of the woman assaulted, applied the match to the faggots. Many women were [Hresent from the surrounding country, t>ut owing to the great crush they had very litUe oj^rtunity to see the n^ro un^ the heat had di^ down. The r^- roads brought crowds to Longview Junc tion where they boarded trains for Lan dng. The eng^eer was forced at the point oi a Winchester to stop at the scene of the lynching, however, and the mob disembarked. tho nmwtaM* ‘ Pm«har«. New York Son, and. Senate Pritchard, of North n»«nKiwi ud Senator McLaorin, of Sooth Ohio- lina, met at Delmonico’s last night and^What they said to the AwmfMsn Adatic Association concerned the ssU- ing of the Sooth’s cotton doth to ttie Chinese, and other problems of state craft. Senator Pritchard, was not on the toast list, bat was asked to mak to ■The Preddent of the United States.” He said: While I am a Soothem and in fall sympathy witii the hopes and ai|ii* rations of the Southern people, it af- fo^ me great great pleitoe ».say to yoo to-ni{^t that iahhoaf^ tile dent of the United States hails from nerth of Mas(m and Dizon*s Unef it ii his desire and honest poipose to do ttiat which will promote the weUare of emy state in the Union. While many im in doubt in this country as to thepdipy of the United States with reqieot to the retention of the Philij^iine. j confidentiy believe that |n the iwyl the good judgment of the American pei^le will be that we shall retain those CtOTornor A^eock. Ghartotte OlMerver. In most agreeable terms the Colum bia State recentiy suggested Gov. Charles B. Aycock, of North Carolina, for the Democratic nomination for Vice- Preddent in 1904. In terms equtdly agreeable a correspendent of that paper, who dgns himself “Observer,” indorses the suggesteon in a half-column article. All this is the outcome of his speeches and general bearing in Charleston dur ing North Carolina week. It is most ^tifying to know that on that occa don he showed up so well in the eyes of the Preddent of the United States, of the South Carolinians and all vidtors. In a word, he made a hit. According to the compilers of the Chicago City Directory for 1902, that dty now has a popub^on df 2,149,000. The National Census Bureau of 1900 gave it 1,698,575. It is believed by Chicagoans that between 10 and 20 per cent, of the population was actu^y missed by the Ciovemment convassers. The directory oensu9 o| the same year made the 'dty*a pojtulation about 2,000,000. Boor War Becarde4 as Bn«e«. London, May 23.—The Associated Press has ev^ reason to bdieve peace in South Africa is jaactically secured. How soon it will be announc^ depends apparentiy more upon the convenience of the Bow leaders than upon the de dination of the Boer government. The private and (^dal advices recdved to night in London from South Africa all point to the same condudon. The de lay is technical, and to end the long war seems to be the desire of both ddes. The great problem with which the Southem people have had to deal in the past has been as to where, we ooold find an adequate market for raw ootton and the cotton fabrics of the Sooth; and I want to say to you to-night that the only hope for the Southem peqple in that respect is in the Orient, ai^ in* asmuch as the Philippine Ue in the pathway to the Orient, I cannot for the life of me understand how any Southem man who has the good of his country at heart can for one mmnsnt contemplate the idea of relinqoishing our jurisdiction over those Once we restore law and otdsr in those idands, as we certainly inll do, in my opinion the trade with ^ oot- dde world with the islands will trdile, and the Southem people will be the chief beneficiaries there of. Senator McLaurinsaidhereiiiesented the most intensdy Southem of aU the States now holdii^ interests in common with New York. He said: Before the war the South was almost purely an agricultural country. Now the manufacturer is coming down to the cotton fidds, and the planter pots his surplus money in mill stock. At no distance date the American planter and ootton manufacturer will control the market iOr American cotton and through that control and dictate the terms upon which the worid shall be clothed with this great Amsrioan pro duct. The day has passed when ssetion> alism can divide our politics, hndness and commerce. We understand that cotton growing and cotton manufacturing and all other Southem industries have a nstiopal and international importance and that the prosperity of the Sooth and the prosperity of the North are actoally inter-dependent and indivinUe. The United States has leamed of late years that it needs an ever widetung and expanding market for its ptodnolB, and it has found an important foreign outiet among the teeming millions of the Orient. The Asiatic market haa come into the field as one of the most prominent factors in the modem com- meroial proUem. And yet just as we were profitably devdoping thi« great market in Chma, a movement was in* stitated which, if soocessfol, woold have neutralized all the good resolts already obtained and paralyzed oor trade wiA China. I refer oi coarse to the recent attempt to enact a very drastic mesaoie of Chinese exdudon. A New Book Aaent BleetoA. Dallas, May 23.—The dection of connectional officers absorbed the in terest of the dd^ates at to-day’s ses- don of the Genial Conference of the Methodist Episcopd Church, South. The election of senior and junior book agents to-day caused spirit^ contests. R. G. Bidham, of Georgia, was dectet] to succeed Dr. J. D. BubM, of Nash ville, Tenn., as the book agent, and D. M. Smith, of the firm of Barbee A Smith, was re-elected as junior book agent. H. M. Dubose was sdected on the first ballot for the podtion of gen eral secretary of the Epworth League and editor of The Epworth Era. Dr. Lambuth was-elected misdonary secre tary with no oppodtion. At the after noon sesdon, D^. Winter, of Monterey, Mex., was elected editor of The Chris tian Advocate, and organ of the Church at Nashville, and Dr. J. J. TSgert was re-elected book editoc. and editor of The Review. Cbarlotte ObMrvsr. This, rdating to J. Stoliiw Morton, Secreta^ of A^cultore in Ueveland’a last cabinet, and at the time of hie death editor of The ConservatiTe^ oi Nebraska City, Neb., was foond in an exchange yesterday: When his wife died the late J. 8ler> ling Morton had erected over her grave a tombstone bearing the inso^ilian: “Caroline Erench, wife of J. Sterling Morton and mother of Jo >y, Fknl, Oul and Mark Morton.” “IK^y did yoo put the boys’ names inf” inqoiied a friend of him one day. ^ took my boys out to the cemetery,” said Mr. Morton, “and showed them their mother’s grave. ‘Boys,’ I said, 'your mother is buried here. If one of yoa does anything dishonorable or any* thing of which she would be if 3M were alivr, I will No Chance in Confeoolon. Jac^n, Miss., May21.—^The heavy suspense that has been over the Jack son Assembly for three days was re lieved when &e vote was at last taken at 1 o’dock this aftemoon and the As sembly by the dose vote of 92 and 81 dedd^ not to approve and send down to the Presbyteries for their approval the change in chapter 10, section 3, of the Confesnon which reads, “Elect in fants dying in infan7 are saved,” etc., and which the minority widied to change so as to read, “All infants dy ing in infancy are induded in the elec- tim of grace and are saved,” etc. A Hentomhlo Bay at Fort 4to Fraare. Last week there was a terrible panic at Fort de France, of strange dghts sddom seen in centuries. The new eraption of Moont Pelee had filled the heavens with fire, red-hot stones had s^ many houses aflame in the dty, which is ten miles from the volcano, and a rain of hot mud and ashes made breathing imposdUe. man—remarkaUe for his aUH^ hit foroe of character and hk odffiamlg tt, thought and meUiod. The :kBBiiBak above narrated ot him was tic, in that the manner of i lesson to his boys wi Than this there ooold have more impresdve warning against stuning thdr souls with dishonor, no higher incentive to cfxrect Uving. The story is one which deserves to be read in the schools and which parents emy* where might well Iving to the attention of their children. “Mamma,” said four-year*Al Bobby, “what is that white stoff on my berries?” “That is what we call whqiped cream,” answered nis mother. A few days later Bobby dined at a ndghbor’s and, being offeied some ordmary cream, he a&ed: “Haven’t you folks got any spanked cream?” ssid little Johnny at the breakfast taUe the other morning, “this is awfal dd batter, isn’t it?” “Why do yoo think it is old, deaif* asked his mother. “ ’Cause,” readied Johnny, Just found a gray hair in it.” In the search for h^yiness some people only socceed in flncUng fsnlt.
Elm City Elevator (Elm City, N.C.)
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