TBBIR FRiriTS TB SHAII
Concord Times.
“Sam Jones, who is going out of
style in the more intelligent commu
nities, succeeded in drawing a big
crowd at Wilkesboro, N, C., last week.
He seems to have had with him an
^^finanii.1 amount of low and vulgar talk.
After reading the report of one of his
“sermons” we are ready to say that
worse than anything else that has been
lodged against the people of Wilkes is
the fact that they stood still and let
this man defame them and their fa
thers. This craven lack of self-respect
is worse than making whiskey.- Think
of a man allowing another man in pul
pit or out, to talk to him in the man
ner as Jones is reported in the Char
lotte Observer to have talked to the
Wilkes people.”
We are surprised to find the above in
the Biblical Recorder, of Raleigh. "Ed-
itor Bailey is a man of bright parts,
wide knowledge, and generally sound
and correct views, and this is why we
are surprised. Sam Jones’ style is
peculiar, very peculiar; he says many
tKinga which many think he should
not say; but, “by their fruits ye shall
know them,” and judged by this, the
Bible standard, Sam Jones will, we
think, come at the last day bringing
his thousands of sheaves with him when
many big doctors of divinity and edi
tors of big church papers will come
bearing only a few straggling straws
from the harvest field. That the Re
corder may see what the people of Wilkes
county really think of Sam Jones after
his terrible philippic as above, we clip
the following from extracts from a spe
cial from Wilkesboro in Tuesday’s
Charlotte Observer, reporting the close
of the meetings:
“The greatest meeting ever held in
this section of the country closed to
day. Thousands of people have flocked
to the tent in North Wi^esboro to hear
the noted evangelists, Sam P. Jones
and George R. Stuart, preach. The
primary result of the meeting is the
abolishment of the liquor industry in
this county. The liquor business is
gone; there is no doubt about it. Wilkes
is no longer the “land of com liquor
and applejack.”
“Near the close of his sermon Mr.
Stuart said: ‘Every person who has a
handkerchief get it ready. Lying there
on the lounge I took my handkerchief
from my pocket, and, waving it, while
tears of gratitude ran down my cheeks,
I said: ‘Wife, the day is coming when
the pure white banner of temperance
will wave its graceful folds over the
downfall of every saloon in glorious old
America.’ Those of you who will enter
the battle of the white flag, work for
victory, and shout in triumph, let us
hail the oncoming victory by waving
our handkerchiefs.’ At least nine-
tenths of the people present raised their
handkerchiefs and waved for a mo
ment or two, then the congregation
burst into applause and the handclaps
rang for several seconds. Such a sight
was never seen in Wilkes county be
fore. Some of the biggest liquor dis
tillers and dealers in the county openly
said that they never intended to make
or deal in any liquor. Everybody real
izes that the liquor traffic is a thing of
the past m old Wilkes.”
Charlotte Observer.
Parliment has voted a gift of $250,-
000 to Lord Kitchener for his South
African service. Lord Roberts got
$500,000, although he had the easier
part of the job; but no matter about
that. What we started out to speak of
was the tribute of Sir Henry Campbell-
l^nCTman, leader of the Liberal oppo
sition in the Commons, to Lord Kitch
ener, when he seconded that motion
for making this grant. He said that
Lord Kitchener was both a soldier and a
statesman. This is the very truth
though the hero of Khartoum and
South Africa is little thought of in the
latter capacity. But his conduct of the
peace negotations was altogether states
manlike. It would be in the interests
of both peace and process if he could
be reined in service in the new Boer
colonies of the British crown during the
reconstruction period. His tactful way
of deaUng with the Dutch farmers is
shown by the address he made to their
leaders at the conclusion of the peace
negotiations. He said if he had been
one of them he would have been proud
of &e record they made in the field
during the war just ended, and the say
ing pleased tha gruff Dutchmen so
much that one of their number made
a sp^h of appreciation and of testi
monial of the character of their great
foe of a few weeks before. Kitchen
er’s tact would adjust things in the
Dutch colonies of South Africa quicker
than the reconstruction methods of any
other Englishman, and Mr. Chamber-
lain would be wise to keep him there
for awhile.
At Tbe Srneslst’s.
A man afflicted with deafness took
a prescription to a Topeka druggist,
who fiUed it vith care and in the latest
style. The deaf man asked the price,
when the following talk occurred:
^gpst (leaning on the counter and
smiling in a won’t-you-pay-up sort of a
manner)—The price is 75 cents.
Deaf Customer—Five cents. Here
It IS.
Druggest^ a louder voice)—Seventy-
five cents, please.
Deaf Customer—WeU, there’s your 5
cents. ^
Druggist (in a very loud voice and
ve^firm manner)—I said 75 cents.
Deaf Customer (getting angry)—Well
what more do you want? I just gave
you your 5 cents.
Druggist (sotto voice)—WeU, go to
thunder with your medicine. I made
3 cents anyway.
Tfco Only oicarettc Smoker.
This paxapaph concerning Hon.
Spe^r Blackburn, is from the pen of
toe Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun;
^ncer Blackburn, Representative
in Congi^ from North Carolina, and
a ^pubhcan, enjoys the distinciion of
temg the only man holding a seat in
cigarettes.
Mr. Blackburn hkes his cigarette and
may frequently be seen in his seat in the
Mt of paper
Mr Seated nSr
^. Blackburn i^present&tive Ernest
F. Ach^n, of Washington, Pa., who
>^®^er hav
ing taken a dnnk or smoked in his life
Bed I8 the nnptlal color In China. The
coolies that carry tbe bride In her Utter
are dressed in red, and they beer a
dwarf (oange tree loaded with frolt
and coin. The bride’s comimrtmeiitB
are finished in red trimmings, preaents
are carried on red trays, the bannen
borne In the procession are originally
crimson, which are brightened by the
rosy glow of the lanterns. Red umbreL
las are carried, and illuminated signi
blare in color. The can^y itself la
decorated according to the wealth and
the taste of the bride’s famUy. A poor
woman is carried to her wedding feast
in a plain clialr painted red. If th«
family has wealth or rank, the palan
quin is very ornate, decorated with
dragon heads. The Chinese skill In
working silk ot gold cord is displayed
In an artistic manner. When the bride
appears, she wears a red v^l, and the
letters to tier ancestors, whose blessing
is invoked, are written on red paper.
The bride genially wears a crown
adorned with tinsel and mock Jewels,
an idea which is much more prevalent
in Sweden.—Woman’s Home Compan
ion.
A BlilltMrT Order Im EmerseBer.
Captain Verne M. Bouvle, who raised
and commanded a company In an Ohio
regiment in tbe Spanish-American war,
told of a very unusual order he beard
given by an officer of a Missouri regi
ment at Camp Meade.
“The Missourian’s company was com
ing down a muddy i^d,” said Captain
Bouvie, “and presently they came to a
place where only two abreast could
pass. The company was in a column
of fours, and tbe problem of getting
them past puzxled their commander
completely. Tbe correct order was
‘Bight,, by twos.’ After some hesita
tion he shouted peremptorily:
“ ‘Gee round that puddle T
“Tbe company had evidently been
better drilled than their commander,
for they broke into a column of twos.
When they had passed tbe water, I lis
tened eagerly for the next command.
After some delay the officer shouted
sharply:
“ ‘Twos inter fours, right smart;
git!’ ”
Eleetrle Skeelca.
It is generally supposed that electric
shocks at 500 volts will Invariably
prove fatal, but that such is not tbe
case was proved tbe other day by a
member of tbe Institution of Electric
al Engineers, who stated that even
with wetted tMX>ts he liad stood on tbe
rails of tbe City and South London
railway, sat on tbe live conductor and
slapped the runnhig rails with bare
hands. He further said tliat. provided
tbe day were dry and tbe skin not
moist, it was quite safe for tbe aver
age person to handle live wires. One
man fell on a cable carrying a current
of 6,000 volts and escaped with only a
few burns. Another man was rendered
unconscious by a two thousand volt
current, but was soon restored unhurt
A one hundred volt current has been
known to cause death, but such a case
is quite a rare occurrence. — London
Globe.
Deeldedlr CmreMo»«ble.
Clara—Men are tbe most impatient
creatures. Harry knows that I have an
offer from Mr. Oldcbap, who is Just
rolliDg In wealth, yet Harry is Just aa
unreasonable 'and babyish as if he
thought I rea’.ly cared for that old gray-
head. Harry is so ugly about it that
he won’t do me the smallest favor.
Mother—What did you ask Harry t«
do?
Clara—I merely asked him to wait
and be my second husband.—New York
Weekly.
He Kaew It.
He was t>e1ng gently chaffed atiout
his stammering. He took tbe badinage
with customary good nature.
“T-t-tbat’s r-rigbt, t>-b-l)-l)oys!” be
smiled. “I’m a s-s-stammerer all right
Wb-wh-wby! Wb-when I w-w-w
wa— When I w-ant vinegar for n
my s-s-s-saiad, I c-c-call for s-s-sweet
cider, and it’s v-vinegar b-b-by the
ti-time 1 g-g-get it!" —San Francisco
Bulletin.
A Vomg Otaaer.
During tbe bard drinking days in
Scotland a country friend, calling at
the door of Lord Hermand’s bouse in
Edinburgh at 4 o’clock in tbe after
noon, was infonned by tbe servant tliat
the Judge was at dinner.
“But 1 thought his lordship did not
dine^ll 5 o’clock.”
“No more be does,” said the servant,
“but this is yesterday's dinnerP*
Foreth««sht.
“Why, I didn’t know yon bad weak
eyes, MortimerP exclaimed bis yerj
best girL
“I haven’t,” returned Mortimer ear
nestly. “I have come to ask your fa
ther for your band tonight, and it is a
state prison offense to strike a person
wearing glasses in tbe eye.”—Brooklyn
Eagle.
lloapro*re»BfTe.
Parmer Dnnk-Tbat 'ere hired man of
yourn is pretty slow, ain’t btf Bary?
Farmer Hombeak—Ynss; he’s too
slow to make a snccecnfal pa]lb>arer.-
Jndge.
"BpItavkT.**
A man may be simply mnlisb during
his lifetime, but in tbe obituary notice
it is always said that be bad tbe cour
age of bis colVictions.—Denver Post
TroMble.
The man who borrows money bor
rows trouble.. The man who lonflf
money doesn’t need to borrow trouble.
-Somerville (Mass.) JoiunaL
When a sick man notices that his
wife curls her hair only Just before tbe
doctor comes^ be is not sick enough to
be dangerous.—Atchison Qfobe.
Brown County Uemocrat.
He kissed the baby and rubbed
he^ of Sam and Sue, he swore
twins were beautiful and wished he had
two—but that doesn’t count He asked
^ut the combread, which he vainly
med to chew, and forthwith bc^;ged for
the recipe, of course that tickled ma—
but that doesn’t count But just be
fore he left he stopped and winked,
clos^ up his jaw, and slipped out be
hind the barn, he took a drink wUh pa
—and thats what oouats.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
I.ESSON XII, SECOND QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, JUNE 22.
Text of the liMsea, Rom. xtll, 8-14.
Memorr Veraea, 12-14—Golden Text,
Rom. xlU, 12—Commentarr Prepi
ed by Re-r. D. M. Stearaa.
ICopyrlght, 1908, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
8. Owe no man anything but to love one
another, for he that lovetb another hath
fulfilled the law.
We are asked to turn aside from our
studies in tbe Acts to what tbe com
mittee term a temperance lesson, but
those who are acquainted with our
lesson notes know that we never turn
aside from tbe gospel of the grace of
God and tbe glory of God for any oth
er topic, believing that the gospel In
cludes all else and that temperance
means tbe fullest possible self control
and self renunciation in every form.
Our lesson is a part of tbe practical
portion of this epistle, tieginnlnr with
chapter xii, 1, “I beseech you .lere-
fore, brethren, by the mercies of God,"
and all that follows is enjoined upon
the believer because of tbe free Justi
fication by grace given to the penitent
sinner -through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus (Rom. ill, 24). Apart
from tbe redemption tliat is in Ciirist
no amount of so called temperance
counts for anything in the light of
eternity, but when through His blood
we enter into the place of “no con
demnation and no separation” (Rom.
viii, 1, 38. 39). then God expects us to
walk no longer after tbe flesh, but aft
er tbe Spirit and to let Him fulfill in
us tbe righteousness of tbe Ww (Bom.
viii, 4).
•. Thou Shalt love thy neighbor aa thy
self.
This is the Lord’s own summary of
what is called tbe second table of tbe
law or our duty to our fellow man
(Matt, xxll, 36-40). Some one has said
that love is tbe law itself in manifold
action, an obligation never fully dis
charged. It certainly was fulfilled per
fectly in our Lord Jesus Christ and
He is the end of tbe law for righteous
ness to every one that believetb (Rom.
X, 4). When He set the law, the Ten
Commandments, before any one, say
ing, “This do and thou shalt live,” He
was endeavoring to convince him of
sin that be might turn to Him for
righteousness, for tbe law cannot give
life, and by the deeds of tbe law no
one is justified, because be cannot
fully keep tbe law, so that the law
simply shuts one’s mouth and sends
guilty and lost to Christ (Rom. ill, 10,
20; Jas. 11, 10; Gal. iii, 21-24).
10. Love worketh no 111 to his neighbor;
therefore love Is the fulfllUng of the law.
Love studies to please and therefore
cannot injure. The man who takes an
other's money and for it gives him that
which destroys bis reason and beggars
himself and his family is not showing
any love, but the most Intense selfish
ness. He is saying. “I must have this
man’s money, no matter what becomes
of him.”
11. And that knowing the time, that
now It is high time to awake out of sleep.
A condition of indifference to things
that should interest us is a state of
sleep. Tbe most remarkable instances
of the sleep of believers is that of Pe
ter, James and John, heavy with sleep
on the Mount of Transfiguration in tbe
presence of His glory and actually
Bleeping in tbe presence of His great
agony in Gethsemane. Think also of
tbe sleep of Samson In tbe lap of De
lilah and its consequences to him, and
of tbe storm at sea when tbe heathen
cried to their gods and the only man
on tbe ship who knew the living and
true God was fast asleep, and tbe cap
tain bad to awaken him, saying, “What
meanest thou, O sleeper?” Does It not
seem as if millions of heathen perish
ing in their blindness are crying to tbe
church today in the same words?
U. The night is far spent, the day Is at
hand. Let us therefore cast off the works
of darkness and let us put on the armor
of light.
We were once darkness, but now we
are light in the Lord, and we should
walk as children of light (Eph. v, 8).
Light has no fellowship with darkness.
God is light and in Him is no darkness
at all. If we say we have fellowship
with Him and walk in darkness, we
lie and do not speak the truth. Let w
therefore walk in the light as He is in
tbe light ai Cor. vi, 14; I John i, 5-7).
Although we have entered into the
twentieth century since Christ came, it
is still the world’s night and
amount of progress can bring the day
which awaits His coming.
13. Let us walk honestly aa In the day.
not In rioting and drunkei teaa, not
chambering and wantonnesa, . ^ tn strife
and envying.
These are varied forms of intemper
ance, impurity and passion to all of
which tbe t>ellever is to reckon him
self dead. Now, we are to watch and
be sober, putting on tbe breastplate of
faith and love and for a helmet tbe
hope of salvation (I Thesa v. 6,
Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
we are to live soberly, righteously and
godly in this present world, looking for
our Lord Jesus, who gave Himself for
w that He might redeem us from all
Iniquity and purify unto Himself a
people for His own possession (Tit li.
12-14).
14. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ
and make not provision for the flesh to
fulfill the lusts thereof.
We are said in Gal. iii, 27, to have
put on Christ in Eph. iv, 22-24, to put
off the old man wUch is corrupt and
put on the new man which, after God,
is created In righteousaess and true
iness. So also in Col. iii, 9, 10. We
are In Christ and Christ is in us; the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit have come
to dwell in us (John xvli, 21, 26; xiv,
17, 23), and all they ask is that we
yield fully to them, that they may fill
us with joy and peace and manifest
the life of Jesus in us.
A Pretty Good Reaaon.
D'lrham Herald.
A man that we could not conscien
tiously support in the conventions we
could not support at the polls and this
is one of the r^uons why we hold off.
—^The battle of Big Bethel, one of
the earliest engagements of the war,
was fought June 10, 1861, near Hamp-
where Gen. Pierce, with some
3,500 Federals, was badly beaten by
Magruder with only 1,800 Confederates
who were fighting behind breastworks.
Two WaMM aaA Tw« SaraUa.
A large steamer was once wrecked
because one of the sailon was nam«l
West The vessel was outward bound
from Botterdam, and tbe sailor was on
deck poltshing some brasswortc. Sud
denly the captain called him and
him to go below. The second officer on
the bridge beard tbe captain call out
the man’s name and thought it was an
jbrder to change tbe course of tbe vessel
to west He did so, and tbe result was
that the ship ran on to a dangerous
shoaL That name cost tbe owners of
the vessel the sum of $500,000.
During the Afghan war of 18T9
small British detachment gained a vic
tory over a large body of tbe enemy by
a mistaken order. A private nam«d
Vance, who bad distinguished himself
by several acts of bravery, was a great
favorite with one of the officers, and
during a skirmish tbe officer wanted
lilm to carry a dispatch to. tbe colonel
in command of another detachment
The man was only a few yards away,
and he called out “Vance!” at the top
of his voice. The men thought he bad
given the order “Advance!” and imme
diately rushed forward with such dash
and spirit that tbe enemy broke and
fled.
Ifoaatroaa Force of Toraadoes.
Much has been said about electricitjr
as a factor for destructiveness In tbe
various gyrating stormclouds imown
as-cyclones, drechoes and tornadoes.
In all of this voluminous mass of so
called scieirtific opinions and deduc
tions one fact seems to have been en
tirely overlooked—vis, the almost re
sistless force of wind when moving
with high velocity. When the veloc
ity is but fifty miles an hour, tbe pres
sure of air in motion is equal to twelve
pounds to the square foot and when
this velocity rises to a hundred miles
per hour its force rises to the equivalent
of 49.2 pounds to the square foot the
augmentation of force being always
proportional to the square of tbe ve
locity.
It needs no further elaboration
amplification of this statement to con
vey to the intelligent reader an idea
of the monstrous mechanical force
which such a rapid traveling mass of
air must have, a power great enough
to tear down any structure that has
yet been built by man or to uproot
whole forests of the largest trees now
growing on tbe surface of the earth.
Whnt’a la a IVamef
“I became very much interested in a
chance companion on a railway train,”
said a New York clergyman. “He was
plainly of Italian birth or extractimi,
and 60 I remarked to him:
“ ‘Where were you born?*
“ ‘In Genoa,’ replied the young man.
“ ‘And what is your name?*
** ‘Patrick Murphy.’
“ ‘How in the world did you get that
name?’ I asked instinctively.
“ ‘I took it’ replied the young man.
“ ‘Why did you choose such a name?
“ ‘Because I wanted people to tiiink I
was an American,’ was his reply.”
An Interrnpttoa.
The prayer meeting was held at good
Brother W.’s bouse jou the bill. The
meeting had progressed, and prayer
and remarks and hymns had occupied
the time. The hour of closing bad al
most arrived. The dominie in a low
vrfce said: “Now there is Just a mo
ment left. Isn’t there some one who
would like to fill in that moment before
we close?” There was dead silence
when in the twinkling of an eye the
door on the clock flew open, and out
popped the head of a little bird, which
said, “Cuekoqr’—Homiletic Review.
Praaea.
Dr. Hausen, writing on the subject of
prunes, says: “A pound of prunes ia
equivalent as food to a gallon ot milk
and costs but a quarter as much. It li
alraut eiuivalent to a pound of bread,
but is far more healthful. Considered
from an economic standpoint no fresh
meat, fish, milk or eggs can lie provided
for the same moderate cost, and nona
of them contains, even approximately,
tbe same aggregate of nutritive ele
ments.”
Doaslaa JTerroId la School.
Douglas Jerrold wrote “Black Eyed
asan” when he was twenty-one and
contributed to Punch the immensely
popular “Caudle Lectures” not long
afterward. But at nine years of ag«
young Jerrold had been scarcely able td
read, and it was not until he was ap
prenticed to a printer, after serving foi
some time as a midshipman at sea, that
he showed- either desire or capacity tm
intellectual improvement
Two Mladedaeaa.
High mindedness and right minded
ness may profitably be supplemented by
“two mindedness,” which has been de
fined as tbe habit of taklfig into ac
count what is urged on lM>th sides and
trying to combine tbe essential parta
of tbe two opposing arguments into
one higher truth. Magnanimity, hon
esty, breadth—a trio of qualities wortb
possessing and tbe last by no means
tbe least
Plaelac tke trmpatky.
Grimes—Doesn’t It disgust yon see
a youngster trying to make a man of
himself by imitating the wiles of bis
elders?
Harris—Not at alL I cannot help
sympathizing with tbe boy, be evi
dently so thoroughly enjoys making a
fool of himself.-Boston Transcript
Forvot HImaolf.
She—My husband is a brute.
Friend—All men are brutes, my dear.
She—Mine is simply abominable! 1
asked him if be did not think you as
pretty as I, and he said “Yes.”—New
York Weekly.
Nothing ia so grand as truth; noth
ing so forcible, nothing so moral—Lan-
dor.
“You remember, of course, the last
time the 17 years locusts were here?”
said he.
“Sir!” was her only answer. He
hM been trying ever since to discern
why she broke the engagement.
A man by the name of Williams
^b^ to death Lafayette Ruth near
Miilboro, Randolph county, Wednes
day evening. Williams made his es
cape. Com liquor was the principal
ingredient in the tow.
Hick»t, June 7.—iii which
Oi|Hd part was the romantic
senntion last erening, which
watehed with a great d^ of interest,
—The chamg of the fair ommtry maid
en, Miss Lola Ward, by Will Winkler,
and Frof. J. Louis Bolick, her two lor-
en, who had followed her to town,
where she had oome to advise with
friends as to the choice betwe^ the
two. The boys, who were both equipped
with license, were greatly agitated
during the few hours she was deciding
whose better half she would be. The
dednon was finally in favor of Will
Winkler, her old and long-time lover,
who had deferred the proposal on ac
count of his bashfulness. At early
twilight, the couple honied to the par
sonage, where they were made husband
and wife by Bev. Mr. Boone.
diately th^eafter, the groom with his
blushing and seemingly happy l»ide,
made his departure, leaving the pro
fessor, who is now consoling himself
with the thought “that there are new
er fields with pastures green.” Wink
ler is the oldest son of a well-to-do
Burke county farmer.
QaeaMoM ta Anthaaetic
Oblo State JoomaL
A. and B. are good friends, who live
next door to each other. A. bought
his daughter a jHano for $500. How
much would B. give if some one would
steal the i^no; also how long will A.
and B. remain on speaking terms ?
A man dies leaving a will. How
many hiwyers will be required to break
the will and how long will it be before
the lawyers own the estate of the de-
ased?
A doctor calls on hia patient three
times a day. How long will the
patient live and how much will the
doctor make out of the patient before
he dies?
How long can a half-horse-power
man run a four-horse-power lawn
mowar?
Mary haa three green apples and
Johnnie has seven. If Mary eats all
of her green apples and Johnnie eats
all of his green apples, at what hour
will the funerals take phM»?
ptlata to Batakliali fireat Sckool
i»r Bays la the West.
News and Obberver.
It is now reported that it is to be a
great industrial school for boys which
is in contemplation by Bev. O. L.
i^ngfield, whose able work made pos
sible the Baptist Female UniT^wty.
This will be an important movement
of the Baptists of the State. Some ten
thousand acres have been obtained in
Yancey county, near Bamardsville and
but a short distance from Mount
MitcheU.
The plan is under the auspices of the
Sdhthem Baptist Convention and it has
an ideal worker in Bev. O. L. String-
field, who is to lead the movement.
He feels that the project is a feasible
one and that success will come in the
effort to establish a great manual and
industrial school in Western North
Carolina.
Boy IHea froaa Ovenrtady aad I
■nploBM WIU he Barled With aii
New York Son.
Fifteen-year-old John Dan, who
stood at the head of the graduating
class of Public School No 6, Hoboken,
died at his home in that city on Tues
day. He was to have been val^ctorian
at the commencement exercises of the
class. Excessive study aggravated an
affection of the heart, and when the
examination at the school was over a
week ago he was obliged to take to hie
bed.
He kept crying for his diploma and
at the meeting of the commission of
public instruction Monday night the
docomCkt was made oat and ^iven to
his teacher to iM«sent to him. He died
a few moments before the teacher leach
ed his home. The diploma will be
buried #ith him.
Talae of ilarth Carollaa Faraai
Paras rrodaeta.
The agricultural report for North
Carolina made public today by the cen
sus bureau shows that June 1, 1900,
the farms of the State numbered 224,-
637 and had a value of $194,655,920;
of this amount $52,700,080 represents
value of buildings and $141,975,840
the value of lands and improvements
other than buildings; value of farm
implements and machinery, $907,600;
live stock, $30,106,178; total value of
farm property, $283,834,693; value of
farm products for '98 ’99, $309,6i
which $20,684, 727 represents the vtdue
of animal products and $68,624,911
value of crops, including forest products.
The total value of ttam products for
99 exceeds that for ’89 by $39,329,180.
A Peeallar WtU.
Wasblogton Messenger.
In a will presented to Clerk of the
Court L. B. Mayo several days ago for
probate, the testator directs her execu*
tor to pay over to each one of her rela
tives five cents as a keep sake, for fear
they may think she had forgotten them
at the time the paper was written. An
other peculiwity of the will is, although
she had two children they were includ
ed in the five cent donation, and she
willed all of her real and personal prop
erty to a lady with whom she had been
living since the death of her husband.
History tells us that an old Roman
Senator for many years concluded all
his speeches with this phrase, “Car
thago delenda est’’—“Carthago must
be destroyed.” Some modem letter
writers, one at katt, have changed the
phrase by substituting “Haec” for “Car
thago,’! 80 that the conclusion of his
letters w *^Haec delenda eat/' This
mwt be dettroyed.—The Concord Times.
A 6-year-old girl living on West Mul
berry street, like many older persons,
becomes much alarmed at thunder.
What’s that, mamma?” she exdaim-
^ TCDeixtly during a storm. With the
idea of impressing her, the mother
repKedr*—‘Th«*8 God speaking to
you.’; Iiistantly the litde one replied:
*^^Sh you would tell Him not to talk
so loud. Fm not deaf.”
Members of the IHukm Andnbon
Society, after yean rf^attempted motal
soasion, has began aggresaive aetioii to
stop the sale in Ghic^ of bards and
iphimage for milUnerj parpoiet. The
akion was ta!ken after conference with
^ate and Government officials and
with the directCHS of kindred soci
ail over tee United States.
Lart w^k there was mailed a notice
and a warning to every nailliner and U
ev^ dealer in millineiy goods in Chi
cago. The notice calls attention to the
law, which is quoted, bat the meat
the -communication is near its «
where wholesalers and retailers alike
are told that unless they comply with
the statute pros^tion will f^w.
The law on l»rds for milinery pur
poses midces necessaiy only the proof
that a dead or a part of it ia held
in possession. The only inrds which
may legally be used to trim bonnets aie
those enumerated in the law. It makes
no difference whether (he bird was
killed in IlUnc^ or not. That point
has been passed upon-* by the Illinw
Supreme Court
The act known as the Lacey law,
Government statute forbidi^Bng the
transportittion frond State to State of an
imals or lurds killed illegally, coold
easily be invoked were the State law not
as strong as it is.
Mhe Shawed Him Ber Wark.
The woman had her arms in the tub,
and was fiercely scrubbing one dirty
garment after another. Book agents
don’t often penetrate to that part of
Chic^;o, but this one £d. He knocked
on the front door and he was tired,
and then he went around to the back
door. The woman was boblwg ap and
down over the washboard.
“Good morning, madam,” said the
bo(A ^nt, pleasantiy.
‘Gro^ momin’,” said the woman
shortiy.
‘Heasant day,” observed the book
agent, sparring for «n opening.
‘Good enough,” answered the wo-
n.
‘Excuse me, madam,” said the botdc
%gent, “but I have here a work that
would hke to show you.”
“Have you?” answered the woman.
Well, I’ve got a lot of work that I’d
like to show you.” She took one soapy
hand out of the tub imd waved it at
great pile of dirty dothes.'
‘That’s my work,” went on the
woman. “If your work can beat that,
all right; if it can’t, why skip out’
The book agent i^ppi^.
PhUadelptala Times.
That Camden is as wide awake as the
rest on the world is shown by an inci
dent which occurred a few days ago in
that town. The woman of the house
was called to the door and found
man there, with whom^ she held the
following conversation:
'Mad^, I have called for the suit
of clothes to be pressed and brushed.
“What suit?”
“Your husband’s Sunday suit He
called at the shop going down this
morning.”
“And he said to let you have it?*
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Did he appear in good health and
spirits?”
“Why, certainly.”
“And look and act naturaUyf’
‘*Ot course, but why do you ask?”
“Because my hnsband has been dead
for 12 years and I had some curiomty
on the subjcct”
Perhaps I’ve made a mistake.”
Perhaps you have. The man you
saw going out of here this moming is
my brother. Good morning.”
And the man left.
Dlda’t Dare to BKiak It.
Among other things found in an old
scrapbook ^ich has recently oome to
Ught is an amusing anecdote of Wen
dell Phillips, taken from a copy of the
Bichmond l^patch at the close of the
Civil war:
The distingubhed abolitionist went
to Charleston, S. C., once, before he
was very well known, and put up at a
hotel. He had breakfast served in
room, and was waited upon by a slave.
Mr. Phillips seized the opportunity
to represent to the n^ro in a pathetic
way that he regarded him as a man and
brother, and more than that, that he
himself was an ablitionist.
The negro, however, seemed more
anxious about his breakfast than he
was about his podtion in the social
scale or the condition of his soul, and
finally Mr. Phillips became discouraged
and told him to go away, saying that
he could not bear to be waited on by a
alave.
‘You must ’scuse me, massa,’
the n^ro; ‘I is ’bliged to sUj here
’cause I’m ’sponsible for de silver*
ware.”
News and Observer.
€ten. Maximo Gomez, the gallant old
I»triot of Cuba is to the fore in an ac
tion which more than ever stamps him
as a trae lover of his country and enti-
titied to be classed with the patriots.
The Cuban Congress has b^re it a
r^lution which carries with it a pm-
sion of $6,000 a year for the acknowl
edged leader of the Cuban revolution.
When he learned of thi« Gk>mez
promptly published a letter declining to
accept the pension and asked his friends
to vote agunst the resolution.
He considers Cuba yet in no condition
to reward those men whose fortunes
and lives were devoted to her and does
not want to be specially favored, declar
ing that he will wait with the others till
Cuba can meet all just demands for ser
vices rendered.
It is no more than might have been
expected from the great Cuban, and
this commendaUe sot will still further
endear him to the people who know
what his life has done for Cuban
independence.
Fri&y night at Mt Olive, in Wayne
«5ounty, Frank "Winn killed Chas.
Wi^, his cousin, by beating him cn
the head with a dub. Both are ool-
idfed and had home good charactori.
I The murdner was arrested.
I»NDOK, June 6.—In Connection
with the Martinique disaster, letters
which are arriving here describe the
n^^roes of that island as holding
orgies becaase the whites are all dead.
The n^;roes say they have elected a
negro governor who coantenances all
excesses. Many of them are said to
have enriched themselves kqr looting.
—Bev. J. L. Murphy, of Hickory,
has been chosen President of Catawba
Coll^ to succeed Mr. Mebone. This
is a fine selection.
woman passed. Without provocaHA
Moon caned the officers and J"
hiid dr.. . ptaol ,„d
at Jackson. The Utter drew k-
i^poa aad fired, killing Moore, -ivf
officer wu exonerated on the
of^deftaoe. Moorewasadefi>e?ate
and dangeroos character. **
SEABO^Rn
Mm LIKE RMtLWMY.
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