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VOL. n.
i^^AAAAAAAAAAAJ
an old PAVORitE
battle hymn of tne republic
9r Wwd Bow*
JUL.IA WARD HOWB was ham In New Tork dty May
27, IM*. At tlM«9s of MTvntMn ah* was an anonjrmo^
contributor t» the New Tork Ma«aa1ne. She marrl«d
Dr. Samud a. Howe of Boston In IMS. Her first book
of poem% "Passion Flowers.” was puUlshed witbout
■icnature in UM and was followed in 1867 by a second
volume. Her third volume of poetry, publish^ in U68,
contained thajpoed printed below, which waa written in
beleasnered wadiinKton in Noyember, USl, and first
given to the pid>Ho in the pages of the Atlantip Monthly
for ~ ■
M
INE eyes hav# seen the fi0brj of the cQming'of iJm Lord;.
He is trampllBg eat the tlnt&i^ wli^ the grapes of wratU
are 8t»e^;
He hath loowif tKe fat»fid Hghtning of Us terrible, swift
sword;
His trath is marching vn.
I have seen him in tiie wat^ fires of a hundred droling camps;
They hare builded Urn an altac in tbe erenlng dews and damps;
I can read liis righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps—
His day is marching on.
I hare read a fiery goq>el writ in burnished rows of steel:
“As ye deal with my contemners, so with yon my grace shall deal.
Let the Hero, bom of woman, ernsh the serpent with his keel.
Since Gtod Is marcliing ».'*
He has sounded forth the tr^pet that shall nerer call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts men before his judgment seat.
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answo: him; be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In tbe beauty of the lilies Christ was tXHrn across the sea
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me.
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
£LM C
iQ histnry twre giv«i
1^10 wider dtMsremjeB of opiniofi a^
toore healed defai^ uno&g hisforiaiis
man tbe ttpriain^ the North Gan^^
logulators. No man eeniayy ^ hii»-
ap as a judge of other men’s
I, whether he Mvea «NiteBip(»%
neously wiA tfaena or whether he «om«
after. In the former case he is mcm
tq>t to be oontrdled and infloenor
^ by pr^udioe dCh6r.in fayot of or a4-
terse to the motires he would judg#.
aiul hence in&partiality is impoesil^;
i]^ the latter case he meets with nothing
hut oold facts an(^ it is impoosihle to
lay which of these facts h^, illiiatratik
^e motive of the actm>-^liidi acttpa
Ppg da^. fi* Bsasy of the young
write, to jM about il^ daj^ that
: wffl answer l»i«By that t&re are no
dof Aiys. R Ife nbthtng bat a sopeniti*
to us from
tba andmti. Iba Dog star
has its time to unear in .4he
and rise and set UiEe oth« jtsn. bat it
is a very irregular time and so what we
«all dog days may begin the first of July
or mi^ di^ later: The rising of
Qicias in a line with the sunbei^ now
on the 8d of July and will oontiniie
until the 11th Aiignst. - Those forty
days were bdiM«d by the anaents to
bring very hoi ind salivy ireatherand
mafg mwligniwtiiwssos, battfafahas
A Trlnmplial Areli Tor Sehley.
Baltimore Sun.
The incorporation of an association
to erect a memorial in this eiW to
Admiral Schley is a very prbper inbve-
ment, and the people of Marybmd
should see to it that the acnociation
does not lack funds to pdt their deugn
into execution. It is the purpose of
the association, as announo^ in The
Sun today, to erect a triumphal arch
commemorative of the achievements of
Admiral Schley and his officers and
men at the battle of Santiago. This
arch is to be of artistic deu^ and
placed in some conspicuous position in
this city among the people by whom
the hero of Santii^ is known and be
loved. A place is to be provided on
the arch upon which at some future
day a statue of the Admiral may be
erected. Many of the leading citizens
of Baltimore are identified with the as-
Bociatiop, which assures the sncoees of
the movement.
As soon as the news of theremakable
victory of our navy over the Spanish off
Santiago reached the United States the
people, knowing that Schley was there
in command and that he was in the
thick of the fight, hailed him as the
successful commander and the hero of
the most signal victories in history.
Notwithstanding the machinations of a
clique of bureau chiefs and clerks, the
people of the whole United States, with
that unerring instinct upon which
popular government largely rests, have
continu^ to honor Schley down to tiie
present time. And in iJl the trying
times since tbe conclusion of the war,
amid all the provocations and all the
vituperation and malignity of which he
has been the object, in all this time the
Admiral has never uttered one word or
done one deed which tended in any de
gree to diminish the love and confi
dence of the people. Admiral Schley
is a son of Maryland and a member of
an honored Maryland family which has
for many generations been identified
with tke State. He entered the navy
half a century ago and has given all
these years of his Hfe to the service of
his country. The record that he has
made in that half a century, indepen
dent of his great achievement at Santi
ago, carried him to the highest rank in
the service, and now furnishes a com
plete answer to the charges and ind-
endoes of his enemies. It is entirdy
fitting that Maryland—Schley's native
State—should see that the memory of
his service to the country should be
kept alive in imperishable stone.
Smitb Says HUl Will Oe« It.
Goldsboro Cor. Cbarlotte Observer.
Graven county has within her con
fines an astrok)^ of note in the pe^n
ot Isaac Hughes Smith, familiarly
known in legislative circles as'“the
colored gentieman from Craven.”
Smith is aJk) a noted politician and in
Newbem, his home town, runs a bank
ing and loan establishent. Knowing
of the accuracy of his previous fore
casts, I dropp^ in on him in his pri
vate office tiie other day and sought
knowledge. I had heard the occasion
of a banquet given in his honor by
Recorder Taylor, in 1892, at Washing
ton, D. C.,^owIsaac told the assembled
guests, who were all Beid men, that
McKinley would be the Republican
nominee and sweep the county. I
had heard of his subsequent prediction
of McKinley’s election for the second
term, idso of hn private notes of warn
ing to the President to' stvoid crowds;
that the planets foreboded to His Excd-
lency impending danger and the like.
So I concluded to have him set at rest
this uncertainty as to who would be the
next national standard-bearers and
which of the parties would triumph in
the next national election. I ask^
Smith who would be the Democratic
nominee in 1893 and quickly came the
“David B. HiU, of Albany.”
“Who the Republican nominee?”
“Roosevelt, most assuredly.”
“Now, Smith, which of these gentie-
men will be elected?” I asked, and in;
no uncoiain tone came the reply:
“David B. HiU.”
“Do you really think so?”
“No, sir, I don’t think so, I know it;
fate has decreed it and no power on
earth can prevent it.”
Emboldened by such positiveness I
asked, “Will Wm. Jennings Bryan
ever be President?” To my surprise
Smith replied: “Yes, in 1912, but all
depends upon Bryan’s attitude to the
Democracy in 1903 and 1907. Fate
has decreed that Bryan shall be Pres
ident in 1912, but it is possible for
Bryan’s will power to defeat the decree
of fate.”
oil On
Oil in various forms has been tried
of late in several countries to produce
firm dust-free road surfaces, and is re
ported upon with curiously favorable
unanimity. In America heavy unre
fined petroleum heated to 80° C. pro
duced an excellent surface; with Ultle
dust in summer and no mud in winter.
The petroleum was durable and found
to be cheaper than watering. In Al
giers olive oil and napththa have been
in use since 1896. Dr. Guglielminetti,
the Lancet reports, has induced the
authorities of Monte Carlo to make an
experiment with coal tar, which like
wise seems to have given satisfaction.
The material took a long time to dry,
in the end “became so hard and com
pact that it was difficult to break up.
After 40 days’ traffic it was damaged,
and had resisted the wear and tear of
wheeled traffic.*’ Apparentiy the
expense of this process is very moderate.
Extensive u e of the motor car in the
Riviera makes the settlingof the “dust
plague” a matter of moment.
EUleigh Cor. Cbarlotte Observer.
It will be readily recalled that last
year when the Legislature was in ses-
rioQ, there was plenty of talk about a
bill to regulate the labor of children in
factories. Many thought then and
think now such a bill ought to have
been passed. But a great number ^ of
the mills prepared an agreement, which
they submitted, to the Legislature.
That agre^ent was accepted. It was
spread upon the journals. It is a very
solemn pledge and covenant. Who
has broken it? There have been
mors from time to time that some
the mills were violating i^. T^y The
Observer correspondent asked Labor
Commissioner Varner what were the
facts in the case. He repli^: “A
number of the mills have not lived up
to the i^reement.” It is not an agre-
able piece of news to print. People
will ask which mills violated it, and
that will certainly be an interesting
queition.
Tbe Will of ProvldeBce.
Senator Burrows says he has a new
story, and heife it is:
“There is an old darkey who works
for me. He lost bis wife— No. 4—the
other day, and I was sympathizing irith
him that they would meet in heaven,
etc., when the old fellow broke in:
“I know dat, Mars Burrows, I know
dat. I ain’t makin’ no objections. It
were de act of a all-wise and unscrup
ulous Providence.’ ”
irire of Semtor PrItcliarA Passes
Away at mtmore.
Asheville, N. C., Aug. 2.—The
death of Mrs. J. C. Pritchard, wife of
Senator Pritchard, occured this morn
ing at the Clarence Barker Hoflintal
Biltmore. Cancer was the cause of
death. An operation performed
month or two ago brought only tempo
rary reUef. About a week ago she was
t^ain taken seriously ill and was
mediately brought to the Clarence
Parker Hospital for treatment. It was
fraud that in another operation lay her
one chance of -recovery and it was
performed yesterday morning. It
thought that Mn. Pritchard was doing
well after the operation until late last
night #hen she was found to be siiik-
ing rairidly. Her husband was _ with
her, a few relatives and dose friends
Rhft was unconscious for an hour or two
before her death.
flnence; which were colored by foreign
events over which the actor had no
oontroL The judgement of history is
tiierefore always a colored one. But
one thing can te relied upon with cer
tainty. WhsBCfer the vast majHity
ot the people of aoommnnity either ac
tively at pas^yely take their stand
fimuy for (Hr against a certain move
ment we may be reasonabiy assured
that were all the truth known, there
would be found something back
thor poatimi which would vindicate
their actions, it matters littie whither
they may lead; for the final outcome of
such a movement may generally be
laid at the door of those who oppose it,
especially if this opposition be a strong
er force than that contrcdling the
movement itself.
That such was the case with the
much-praised and overiy-abused R^[u-
lators, we are not at lib^y to doubt.
The large number of the inhabitants
who took part in the up-rising repre
sents a still larger number who gave
their sympathy and moral support pas
sively. Even no smaB part of the men
the government led i^ainst the Begula-
tcws after the latter had bera guilty of
many exoesnvdy imiMopra tacts—or
rather should we not say dnven to these
acts?—showed thw sympatiiy for the
position taken by their rebellioos ooun
trymen by* their refusal to fire upon
them until compelled to do so in self-
After the Regolators were
defeated, their enemies, determined to
hunt them down, were onahle to collect
bands sufficient fbr the purpose which
did not include many secret friends of
the fugitives to whom they rarely failed
to give timely warning by which they
might esci^. We have as a result of
this condition anny stories of daring
deeds and for^ude thnlfihg with in-^
terest and hamog a certain historical
value.'
Not tiie l^t ijBteresting of these sto
ries is that of “^e Black Boys of (k-
barrus” ^ narrated by Wheeler,
m^ng his preparations for marching
against the E^uhitorB, Governor Tryon
had ofdnred from Charleston, 8. C.
several wagons loads of gunpowder,
ffinte, blankets, etc. They were sent
to Charlotte to be forwarded from that
place to Hillsboro, the seat of govern
ment, It was with great difficulty that
CoL Moses Alexander, one of T^n’s
best officers who had charge of the
transportation of these buh>1&, could
obtain wagcms sufficiMit to send them
on, so much in qrmpathy with the
R^^ulators were the inhatntants of that
r^on. The firiends of the Regulators
were on the alert to prevent the supidies
from reaching the Ooyemor.
A small party from that part of
Mecklenburg county which afterwards
in 1792 went to fmrm Cabarrus, consist
ing of three brothers, James, \^^Uiam
and John White, tog^her with Robert
Caruthers, Robert Davis, Benj. Cochran,
and two half Imthers, James Ashmore
and Joshua Hadley, undertook the
task of stopping the wagons. Accord
ingly they bound themselves by a most
solemn oath to remain true to each
other, to see the business through to
the end and nev«r to divulge the secret
on each other, followed by an invoca
tion oi the direst evil upon the head d
him who dioidd betray his comiades
This done they blacked their skins so
as to conceal their identity and late in
the afternoon set out on their expedi
tion. Traveling with all possible speed
they overtook thie wagons about mid
way between Chariotte and Concord,
encamped on the side of what was then
called Phifer’s HiU.
Immediately the Attack was b^un
They drove off with ease the few wag
oners who had been left to guard the
supplies and to give the alarm in case
of attack, who were taken so completely
by surprise that they thought only, of
thmr own safety. The wagons were
overthrown; the kegs stove in; the
powder, etc., thrown into a large
and^e blankets, tom into strops, were
used to make a train of powder to the
pile, into which Major White fired his
pistoL The explosion was of oDurae
tremendous and every article of the
su]^lies destroyed.
Such an outrage against His Majes
ty’s authority co^ not be _
witlioui the most searchii^ invest^ar
Threats availing nothing. Gov-
Ibyon offered a pardon to any
one who would turn King’s evidence
against the rest. Unlotnnatdy it
almost imposriUe to get together
into any secret enterprise (rf dangex
body of men without including at least
one Judas. The Kack Boys
peculiarly unfortunate in having two
Ashmore and Hadley;
0., FRJDAtv AUGUST 15. IMS.
tively to their nanat»fe, fad when itr
was finished rose to his fe^ ^iensd the
door, and in a witheriaf^ eontempta-
tone said:
Modi against my feelings, I am
compelled by the Govema^a prodama-
tion to gnuityon yourpaidons. If jos-
tice were done, hanging would be too
good for such treacherqqe dqgs. Bat
rest sssoi^ there is a justioe that -pun
ishes the traitor. Go; if fwever again
cross my path I’U omsh yw as I would
asnpent. Thedooriso|ien.” .
The two wretches retira4*:0iesUaUen.
As he was in duty bound to Col.
Alexander raised a guard aid. aet out
for the home of the Whites, whieh
stood eti the bMnk of Bocky rivar. >Ga-
ruther% wbo was a bfottMK-u^^W.
the White boys, wss there ai jfinie.
Before they were aware of
the house was sunmuided^
ly amongjthe gtuuds were SOTenJ men
in sg^pathy with the Re^
latoff, and so did not wish to see the
KadcBoys captured. One of them
was ordwed bgr 4kL Alexander to
stand guard at the door. He porposdy
moved dowly to obey the order, since
under no military obligation to
follow the commands of the c^Scer.
‘Take all day, will you,” angrily ex
claimed the colonel “I’ll have you
lashed like a d^ if this rascals escape.
A quarrd, witii the consequent delay,
was just what the guard wanted. He
replied hotiy, “Get somebody else to do
your dirty woric if my way don’t suit
you.”
Seeing his chance another of the
guards passing Mrs. White, whispered
to her:
*Tell ’em to make a break—through
the door—r not see ’em—quick."
Mrs. White was not slow to execute
the command. Caruthers, the first to
receive the warning, sprang through
the do(» and dashed fbr the river. He
was pursued by the other gua^ but
was in the river before they could catch
up with him. In the meantime the
White boys taking advanUge of the
confusion, left the other side of the
house and was soon lost in the woods.
Chagrined and angered at his fkilare,
Col. Alexander became all the more
determined to capture the Black Boys.
Soon after this some of the hand were
in the fidd harvesting their crop. The
Royalists hearing of thdr whembouts
c(^lected a band to cai>ture th«n. As
they rode into the fidd one of the sup-
poei^ Royalists gave a secret signal to
the fugitives to warn them of their
danger. Springing on their horses they
dashed away in flight. All succeeded
easily in eluding tl^r pursuers except
Robert Davis. He was closdy follow^
and was in imminent danger of being
captured. Not paying as strict atten
tion as he should have done to the route
he WSS taking, he soon found himself
in a dangerous situation. CAose at his
beds rode his enemies; before him was
the river, its banks steep and high. To
turn was to ride into the arms of his
pursuers; to dash over the banks, 80
feet in height, seemed instant death.
Davis look^ to the right and to the left
for an avenue of esci^. Every way waa
dosed. His foes were dose upon him.
Not a friend, who could render aid, was
in sight. As his enemies dosed nearer
upon him, his imagination perhi^ps
pictured a gallows. A glance down the
the steep rugg;ed bMik and his mind was
made up. Better death in an effbrt to
eeo^ than death on the gallows.
Gathering his rdns, without the trem-
Uir^ of a musde, he gave the com
mand to his horse. The animal leaped
into the air, landed safely into the
stream and bore lus master in safety to
the oi^msite bank where his foes dared
not follow.
So by the aadstanoe of n^hbors and
by tiidr own daring and vigilance, the
Black Boys managed to keep dear of
their enemies, who finally becoming
weary of fruitiess pursuits, gave them
up as a vain task. With the exception
ot the two traitors, all of those engaged
in the adventure of the BladTBoys of
Cabarrus afterwards served with
bravery and credit in the army at the
Revolution.
In the case of the traitors Providence
deariy showed a hand by sending upon
them the evils th^ had invoked upon
their own heads by the betrayal of com
panions. Ashmore is said to have fled
the country, lived a wretched life, and
died as miserably as he lived, without
comforts and without friends. Wheeler
says that he himself knew Hadley. He
remained in the country a drunkard
and a brute. For his brutal treatment
of his family, his neighbors, attired in
female drees, went to his house, drag
1^ him out of bed, and on his bare
jack gave him a severe beating. “He
continued through life the same miser-
aUe wretch, and died without any
friendly hand to sustain him or e^e to
pity.”
Well did Col. Alexander say, to them,
'There is a justice which punishes the
traitor.” R. D. W. Conneb.
Wflson, N. C.
wm.
and chews it as a cow chews and swal-
jom her o^|d. He feeds on his con-
it. Biu.Asp.
P. S.—All hail to Evan Howdl—The
addier, the editor, the friend in need.
I ^ve known him intimatdy since his
childhood. His good father was mar
ried in my town and I tUi^ I am diQ
onlj^fiidnlf man who was irt the wed
ding, thon^ I was then but a chikL All
hail to mjr fnend. He Imw the right to
run for mayor and Atlanta will honor
hersdf by electing him. B. A.
A director of the pentfeeolianr /Pf*
they expect it to mate«M,OOd iSoW
this year. pSiM
amount it has ever
desirous of
availing themsdves of the pardon,
out unknown to each other, to hrtnqr
their companions. Acddentally* they
met on the threshold of CoL Alexandnr’s
hdise. Each met the other shs
faeedly^ Not a w»d was spoken
eidler; a glance was enough. They
understood each othtf. The cowardly
sMi that found a lodging place
th^r hearts found ea» in the
other a kindred qiirit aqd
tiiiifcn together with iiredstiUe magno-
tisia. OdI. Alexander liateoed
lonth's Companitm.
A Massachsetlp firm prlnti thia fiurar
gra^at ttie t(^ M its letter head:
Errors—^We make than; sodoesevery
one. We will cheerfoUy correoi thaoa
if you will write to. us. Try to write
good naturedly if you can, but writp to
us anyway. Do not complain to some
one else first or let the matter pasa.
We waot first opportunity to make
right any injustice we may do.” The
little Armon deserves a mde andlMoe.
'few peo{^ that have not had occasion'
at some lime in their Kves to r^ret the
|iendingicrf a hazah-ur hasty aot»
^mpUint. It may bfrnecepsaiy to as-
aert «xie^s rights in subsequrat letlpn»
but there is no better rule of correspcMi-
dence than to make the first one good
James P. Bakw, a switehman on the
Ihxithem Railway shot himai
fioase of Eoima Williams in Charlotte
last Saturday aflenKxm atl2‘.SOo*do^
^e died from the effects of the jroond.
«t at. Peter’s Hof^tsl.
oncertain and in ttie course of time it
will rise in the winter: Now a
more ahottt thia wonderful star. You
know that we have eight playlets that
bddng to our solar eystem. They all
revolve around the sun just as the earth
does and the nearor the planet is to the
sun the faster it travels.. Neptune is
16,000,000 miles distant and it
165 yean to get around.
But ffirius is away outside of our
solar system andis 120,000,000,000 of
miles from us and gives400 times more
light than our son. It ia the largest
and brightest jitar in the heavens. It is
called the D(^ star because it appears
to be in the tail of the constdhUion
that theandents named Major Canis
or the Big Dog. They were a smart
people and we still keep thdr mi^ of
the heavens and thdr names of the
stars, but they had no tdeeoopes and
did not know that there were any stars
or suns except those we see with the
naked eye.
But now young people listen. It is
now establsAed and proven that there
are miUions of stars and solar s^tems
afar off in space and that ours is the
smallest and the most insigiuficant of
them all. We are nothing and less
than nothing in the scale of eristoice.
It has always been a mystery to me why
the Creator of the boundless universe,
that has no limit, should have chosen
this littie worid of ours for His greatest
work, the Creation of man in His own
image, a littie lower than the angds,
man who sinned and fell and was re
deemed by the sacrifice' of the Son of
God. I don’t understand it I cannot
comimhend it. This littie wcnld is
not bigger than alcannon ball compared
with some of the planets and stars afar
out in space. It has but one little
moon that does not condecend to show
us but onedde ot its anatomy. Hie
other night we went out to Mr. Gran
ger’s beautiful home to look at the fuU
moon through his great tdescope that
cost $5,000--^d is mounted in a high
observatory with a dome that revolves
as the earth revolves. It
nifioent spectacle but the view of Jujh-
ter with four moons and Saturn with
bis rainbow ring and seven moons was
much more beratiful and impressive.
Of course those planets must be inhab
ited, for the Creator would not have
surrounded a dead worid with such
luminous and beautifhl satellites. We
don’t know anything hardly and it
me with disgust to see yoong men
strutting around like peacocks—acting
lice they made themsdves and knew
everythmg and expected to live always
—when the truth is they don’t know
where they came from nor where they
are gmng and can’t add an hour or
day to thdr existence. I have but littie
hope for a vain or a conceited man and
a vain woman is no better. A conceit
ed man is dose kin to an idiot and
woman vain of her beauty should some
times remember that she had no hand
in creating it for it was God given
inherited. “Oh! why should Ae spirit
of mortal be pro^?" Of all the teults
of which humanity is guilty that of self
concdt is the last to be forgiven and
the hardest to reform.
I ruminated on this yesterday ^rhen
I read what Roosevdt said in his speech
at West Point. The editor who pub-
lishee it speaks of him as our well
meaning but impulsive i»eddent. He
should have said our “concdted and
erratic president.” In speaking of the
great men whom West Pdnt had gn^-
uiUed, he said, “I claim to be a his
torian and I speak wLat I know to be
true that West Point has turned out
more great men and more statesmen
the-n any other institotim in the United
It was self-conceit and ignor
ance that provoked stich a monstrous
absurdity, for Colond Sprague, of Tale
coll^, hiu recently ehallenged him to
the proof and has shown beyond all
cavil tlMt Yale can number 10 times
the great men that West Point can
number. Among them 1,883 ministers
of the gospd—78 justices of supreme
courts, 17 chief justices, 546 doctors, 89
governors of states and 88 United States
senators—beddes these Yale has sent
forth an army of educators, established
480 colleges, 160 for women and 8,000
high schools while West Point has sent
«Nit none but soldiers.
Teddy ought to be ashamed of him
Self, but he wiU not be.- He is not yet
ashamed that in his so-called history he
M^ed Mr. Davis an arch traitrar and
rqpudiator and tdd what he did when
governor of Mississli^, etc. ffis atten
tion has been called to these malignant
jcalumnies agaii^ a great statesman
and whose curriculum at West Pwt
that he ordained when secretary of war
is still in force and who never was a
member of the kgidatnre nor governor
of MississiHiL No, ha is too cdtadted
to take back anything or to ^[lologiae
for his mistakes. ^Hie man he slander
ed * ■ ■ ■ _ ‘
Ues, bat has widow lives and there are
tboosands of veteraas all over the
south who cherish
who now hold his slanderer in soimme
ttefeoQtempt. Yet he daims to be a his
torian! When a gentieman fin^ tiiat
he has unwittingly wroi^ed another he
Passlac *r «hs
Houston Post: A wrihter in The
New York Mail and Express calls atten
tion to the disappearance of the dude.
The man of faahion is still with us, but
but he is of the athletic sort nowadays,
audnctof thejBMoidte type to whieh
fhe dude bdonged. The dude was the
descendant ot the Uood, tbe bode, the
incroyahle, the macaroni, the beau, the
fop, the dandy and the swdl who de
listed past generations. He dressed
as his i^ecessors did in the height of
fsshion, usually going a good deal
beyond it to attain what he bdieved
was an aristocratic a|^>earance. His
oners were of the blase kind, affect
ed to give him what he bdieved waa an
air of superi»ity. Instead of being
aesthetically beautiful, the dude was
Jhe VanoB awaty
cans md in conveation a^ IS
m. at the court hoose Sstiudajr.
tiMeaeepiioB of me wMlBr
took hqt little part in the
the coBventioiis «
nvdy (rfcokMed n
Nine new rural fi«e dsiiwfy nalip
have been added to the nnmbsr in tftii
Staie. This makea iocty^iiiia Mit
roBtn for Jnlyir and inoraaMa tte fMlI
only weak. The stage docnr Johnny is
still with us. He is a college bcqr usual
ly and is harmless. We have older
men who are dubmen and men dder
still who are roues. But the {H«vailing
type of fashion, young and old, no
longer resonbles the dude. The man
of fashion nowadays is athletic, broad-
shouldered, an outdoor man with
on his cheeks and the sun and wind in
his manner and in the sparkle of
eye. What has brought about the
change, and why has the dude disan-
peared? The writer in The Mail and
Express gives the credit to the American
giri. “I,” says the American giri
“with my littie wish, I killed Cock
RotMu.” Surdy this is a wonderful
illustration of the power of woman and
the way of a man with
which King Solomon found too wonder
ful for him. “Cherchez la femme,'
the French say—“Look for the
Greater proUems
that of the dii^pearance of the dude
are solved by the implication of the
rule of this Gallic proverb.
Wnmt W Tan Knawff
53155
Here are some questions about things
you have seen every day and all your
ife. If you are a wonder you may
posnbly answer one two of fhe
queries offhand. Otherwise not. '
What are the exact words on a 2-cent
stamp, and in which direction is the
face on it turned?
In what direction is the face tamed
on a cent? On a quarter? On a dime?
How many toee has a cat on each
fore foot? On each hind foot?
Which way does the crescent moon
turn ? To the right or left?
What color are your employer’s
eyes? The eyes of the man at the next
desk?
Write down, offhand, the figures on
the face of your watch. The odds are
that you will make at least two mistakes
in doing this.
Your watch has some words written
or printed on its face. Yon have sera
\hese words a thousand times. Write
them out corectiy. Few can do this.
Also what is the number in the case of
your watch?
How high (in inches) is a silk hat?
How many teeth have you ?
What are the words of a policeman’s
shidd?
How many buttons has the vest or
shirt waist you are wearing? •
How many stairs are there in the
first flight atjrour house?
How many steps lead from the street
to the front door of your house or fiat?
What is the name, signed in fac
simile, on any $1, $2, ^ or 910
you ever saw? You’ve read dosens of
those namee. Can you remember one?
carriers alone in North Osrnliiia.
The erand Chapter of Boyal Anh
Masons of North CaroBnahave daeidad
toeducate a h(ty at Ae Agrienllnialaad
Mechanical G^ege. Tl^ hafva aslsal*
ed a hul now in the 0£tord-^)iphHa
Aeylum, Eston Benno, a cr^pla.
Young Renno will enter the eoDefa in
September. He n said to be very tft
and bright.
CuratOr%imlqrtf theState Unaeuw,
» recdved a lag rattkanaH tnm
Macon county. He will kaspU .alhe
in the Museum, for several
then kill skin anh stuff iL The anakia
is neariy four feet long and has ei|^t
's. It is of the I.
the Banded rattler and* is in
condition.
Jacob Hicks, the oldei
living, who ran the fint
tween Greensboro and Winston, died
in Greensboro last Friday. Be waa
visiting his daughter, Mia. LUakar.
He learned to read and write irtMttOVSV
sixty-four years dd, when orden waaa
given for all who could not to ntira
from the service.
Dr. Gatling, the famoos invanlor of
the rapid fire gun, is jnst completing
the inventim (rf an aotomobila plow»
which dispenses with the polUnf o tiia
bdl cord over tiie back of a psatif—
mnl^ enabling the farmer to dt in tiw
carriage and drive the ma«hina aD cmK
the fi^ with ashemuch eaae aadoca ia
B re^ang machine.
It is estimated that dz thoosaad peo
ple attended tiie annnal pionie of
Barium E^[irings Orphanage at Moflasa
ville last Thursday. Prof, Alex Gra*
ham, of Chariotte, delivered the oration
of the day. Hon. Lee 8.
who was xi the program,
to attend on account of
ersl hundred dollars were reaSaad for
the orphanage frbm the sale of hmdwa
and refreshments.
While on his way to the depot at
Derita, a station.a few milea north of
Chariotte. to take a train for Ohaiiotla
late last Friday night, Muzray AkoE*
ander, a young white man Kvaa
there, was held up by two bnriy negroes.
The n^;roes qirai^ from undSTBtnali
skirtii^ the road a short diatanoe Uom
the station, and me grabbed the yooaf
man by the throat. The other nagio
started to assist his companion, iriien
Alexander polled his pistd and ired it
point blank at the negro, whoaa Uaek
fingers encircled his throat, With a
groan the wounded negro sank back
into the arms of his companioa and
Alexander ran for his life.
■latoB'sasi
Sweetwater TeleidKme.
One of the brethren went to Knox-
vilte last August and fell by the waydde
—^hegot down there. After several
mon^ the news of his fall reached his
rural home, and he was hrongbt up be
fore the church.
Brethren,” he said, “I admit I got
drunk in Knoxville last August, but I
didn’t mean to do it. How I have suf
fered in my consdenceand in my pride,
God alone knows, and I trust He has
fcxgiven me. Brethem, I want you to
forgive me. I didn’t go to get drunk.
I took a glass or two of light wine with
a friend, and later took a bottie of beer
on ice, and then”—^
“Brethren,” interrupted a good old
Inrother in the amm comer, “I would
be wiffing to forgive the^kMrother for his
fall if he would make a dean breast of
it and tdl the truth. But I move we
turn him out for lying. He has lied to
us. Who ever heard of ice in August?’
And they turned him out becsose he
dared to say that he had seen ice
August. '
•eatk Cawsea ky Ha( Plas im I
Piovldeaee. B. I., Special.
Leona Jeodie, for two years a norice
at a convent in Flushing, L. I., is dead
after a long and myrterious Ulness
which had baffled medical sdence. A^
autopey was performed and in the re
gion of the heart, and pierdng the
pericardium, waa found aheadlesssted
hat-pin four and a quarter inches long.
In the stomach was found part of an-
otiier hat-i^ one and a quarter indies
long, headleas.
The young woman had complained
of pains in the stomach since 1896,
hut she died without having aoentioned
the canae of her iUness.
Governor Aycodc to-day disjpoaad oC
an extremdy intereat^ caae by eom-.
mnting to Ufe imprisDiunant in tta ,
penitentiary the death sentence ai
Richard Haton, odored, who waa
conricted of and-aanlsnead ta ha.
hanged at SaUdNuy. Biffihaid Haas*
ing, convicted at tfa« same time, waa
bulged and on the scaffold dedared
baton’s innocence. Oofvenior Ajmdk
^ys in lus roaaona for
His guilt is too onoertain to
his execution. Hie evidenoe
him was that of the woman iriio only
saw him in the nnoertain H|^ throngn
an open do(». At first she failed to
identify him and the ofBeer tamed him
looee on her statement. He proved an
aliU by a witneas who proved a food
icter. The trial fudge eamestly
recommds the comasatatioa, aaid
says that but for an impfiedondMdaaA*
ing that the sentence would be com
muted to life impriaonment, ha lAmld
have set the verdiet aaide. Bbton
proved a good character on the triid.
Ifany of the lawyers and other zepn*
table dtizens of the county reeoauaand
the commutation and moat of thaas
express grave doubt aato his gidlt.**
—There has been about fifty people
hastens to jqpolo0iae, but a oonedted strudc dead by Hghtning in N«tiiCuo-
iffiot rdls the moiad nnd« his tongue I Una in the pak month.
Lohdoh, Aug. 7.—A man of
name of Wootcm waa arranged before a
Magistrate yeeterday on the ehaife af
poai^ng in Windsor Park, taking tab*
iHts betonging to the King. He plead
ed in defence that he went into tike
park to deep and the rabita ran into hia
po^et and were snffoeatad.
Deqpite thisdefenoehe waa aanlsMad~
to two month’s I
A magarine called Suooeaihaa basa
engaged in the profitable diveraoa of
finding out who are tiie fifty greatsat
hving Americans. The list wwaada
up throng^ the medhua of a piiaaaon*
test. Theodore Booeevelt, Qaaaar
Caevdand, Vt^Uian J. Bkyan and Cbkt
Justice Mdville Fuller cwnpoae tibe M
of statesmen. The list of siaealers ia
made up oi ei|^t diatingniahed naaaaik
All but one belong north of Maaoa
and Dixon’s line, and the one sdected
from the South is BodurT. Wariiiai*
ton. TheaeyeUow journal psiae eea-
tests are invaiiahty pwdaetiia a(
wMiderful, not to say fusairiih, rsaalls.
Success’ list of 1^ of the grsatear is a
marveL Ithaanot attracted near aa
Charlotte Obeerver.