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_T ie Gastonia _ _ _ _ _ D*Toto<' to tkia rroteotion ot fiomt And cx&o Intofta «f tb Comntf Vok. XIX. , Uastoula, N. 0., August IS, ISOS. MAJOR JONES TRAVELS FIFTY YEARS AGO. By Major Joseph Jones of Qeorgla. LRTTEB IV. i ClURUMTOa, if. U.. Moy 15. To Mr. Thompson—I ui rlv litre lest evenin' ’bout 3 o'clock, rite side up, nil 1 safe and aouud. Kora daylight yeeler day murnin* the ulggei at tins hotel in Augualy nocked ms up, and told me : omnibus for lli* rallroda was waitin’| for me. 1 wasn't no llrno gctlin’ ml* dy. end In a few minks l wss rid in | over the brldi} wh it I.iitenaot Odin i clurud so quick wlien ho got loose from | the Telega. on my way to the Oirullua , rallrode. I never was in vbs land o( sblvlky before, aod had a good deal of curiosi ty to see what kind of a place It was whar the people lived what they say all BDoeusevery time Mr. Calhoun takes snuff—and whar (ieneral KiUledruui’s rucu was born *'aitli arms In Uier bauds,” reddy and lermlned to lake Texas from the Mexicans, whether or uo. Well, my opinion Is, it Mr. Dick ens was to mm Hamburg lie wuuldn’t Qnd Ute earns fault with it that lie did with Boston. The white and red point in Hamburg wouldn't hurt his rye* much, aud when he went to sleep at night he might bs monstrous certain that he’d find It Ihar to the morula. The fact is, Hamburg is like the Irish man’s horse—It is lltlla hut It's ould. It was blit long before the .'bwl, aud is gut the merits of eutiokuly In every old shingle, evry unnailed clapboard, ovry broken uauc of glass. Doa’t misunderstand me, Mr. Thompson; t ain't like some travelcia into foreign parts, what takes pains to humbug tner readers’ bout every grate city they visit. Jest ua if nobouy was over tbar before. Not by no Dieaas. When 1 say llimburg waa Wit Just be fore tbe Hood, I don't mean tlie (trod that drowned out all creation ccpt old lather Noey aotl lua cargo of vaimiLi, hut I mean the flood of 1S40. what over flowed the whole country from Sliooif’a Heights to tbe Saud Illlla lu (Jeorgia. seUin tbe fences and gluliuuaet u uluuusin and duncln hsuda-all-tuunu with the pig |«n* nnd chicken coops of a thousand river plaolullon. Tbe old est inhabitants of Hamburg Is all nulydeiuvlana, aud some of Mm l* «posed to be ambGblotu. History don't give any satisfactory account of whar they cum from, but it's generally believed that the illustrious fouuder nf the city Is one of the same Dutch of wlist tuck Holland. He's a monstrous man In bis way, and though hn didn't btld s ark—cause be bad uo warnm be forehand—he blit a brlgd what's stood s thousand thunderstorms and fieshcta nnd all the floods tause the days of Noey couldn’t tear it up. It was very early in the nfornin when wo dmv through the city to tire depo, and 1 couldn’t form much of a opinion 'bout tbe. bisneas of the place. At that lime o' day It waa monstrous still and looked very tench like a barn yard does when ther’s hawks about. Just before we got to the depo’ see the man what's captain of omnibus, scabs, "Major, I'll taka your faro. If you please," Cum to dud out, he moant a hritf a dollar, for carryln me nnd my baggage to tbe raltrode. Liu’s n monstrous clever little man; but a terrible polltishsn—so 1 paid him. and ho soon aot us down on tbeplatform by tlio oars. Time was a considerable bustle aud fuss boat the depu, gettln reddy to start. The passengers was gettlb their tickets and iher checks for Ibetr bag gage, wbat soma feller* was oocklo about like tliey would tsar tbe bide off evry trunk ther was tbar, sUnsin ’em awap In the oars—some people wu runnia about btddin good-by with liter friends, aud tcllln ’em Dot to forget a heap of thing*, and sum was klckln np a rumpus cause tliey couldn't see tber trunks after they was put la the cars. Blraeby tvry thing eras Axed, sod here cum Old Bselxsbah, with hll Am, smoke, sot bags and thuodemtluns, to carry us to Cbarlstoo. When I taw that everlastin. black, ugly thing cum chug up agin the ear* fur ’em to tackle it no, nialn aud fryin.and amokin like n Mir kill, 1 thought how If I wu a hose or a mule I'd lake my hat off to it. If there aver was* thing what deserve* a vote of thank* from all the pullin Roneiatkm ol animal*. I think It’s the locomotive engine. J«st to think, the amount of bos Hash it ha* saved non It tuck to oarryln the mail*. A loco motive always seems to me to cum uearer a livln animal Umii any other machine Invented by man, specially nenae tbey’vo got to hollefln at the oow* when they git on tbe traok It’s a monstrous fractious, spiteful, bead strong sort of a creeter. and sometimes It take* It luto Its bed to mo off the track, but generally apukln It’s jet* about a* governable a* »ny other team, and don’t tnke no more to feed it *• oordta to Us siss and strength. 1 can’t belo but have a sort of leelto for *00, and I wouldn’t uo more think or maklD ’em go without gtvln ’em plenty of wood and water than 1 would of makin my horses work wtthoat givln 'em plenty of our n and rodder. Llh I ling 1 went the bell. “All aboard,” au Use captain, and tbe next mlntt away we went with Ui* thunder lnest ratUin, puffin and >1101110 1 over did beet. In a few iniolle Hamburg wuout of atglit and the pin* true went daneing slung behind us, as ir tber roots couldn’t hold ’em hi tbe ground when tliey saw u* coming among -am. Thcr ain't nothin mneb lo Interest the trawler on the re I trod b from Hem Utrg to Uharletonj and if n inau eaa't rtml no eompony In lila thoughts he’s monstrous apt lo t« Joessome, Along at iltsfuat tfcer wasn’t many paaerngam and mast of them was prsethoni wliat tmd baan up to August; to teod a ooa rent too. They was tlie dr;rat ant of old codgers I e;ar met with, til the joltle of the aara abuafc op ther Ideas a little, and then they fell to dlsputia about religion llko all rati:. After awhlln ono old feller, What had tils lied tied np with a rod col ton handkerchief, and didn’t belong tn the same church with the reel of ’em, mixed in with 'em, and in about flTo'mlqlts they got iotoone of the haMBrkind of nrgy uiinta ’bout sprlnRTu and illppln. The old hardshell laid about him like rath, nud the louder the racket and the more dust the cere made. Uio louder the old feller Ured away at ’em. and whenever lie slopped for bretij twn™r three of the .other* was down on him like a Yankee thiasbtn machine. They kep up one ever-laatiu airing argytnrnt •tout forty-Sre tulles lnng, and to them wlml eot a little ways off from 'am. sod could hoar a fow word* now and then, it aoundrd racily like * regu'ar cuuln match; and sumlluie* they’d look at one another like they meant lest what they aed. Dimabythe old hardehell caved lu for want of btoth, and all the real of Use way Im was hockin sod hernia sod try In tn git the dust anti Sluder* out of hU windpipe. Evry now and lben wo stopped and luck in more passm-gars. 'Bout half way to Clnrlston urn tuck In two lady* aud a llttln baby One wss a old lady, and site held the little hoy which was a bullfal little feller, ’bout the size of my llttln Henry In her lap. The other was a lit odeum youug gull, and she w*a ciyiu. You know how butlfnl a pretty woman look* wben she's crrln. oui you Know him’* the vary timo no grnileman ought to star* at Vat Well, she tried to dry her oyoi h* fail a« alia could, bat every uow and llien Uib tour* would bnst out aglu iu grate big drapv. and tlien abe’d put her handkorehef to her face. Sumtlmv* !.ho would look at a ring bbe had on her Roger, aud then llut tears would oua aglu I felt mouitrou* Surry for her. but X tried not In let her sea uni IcKikm at her. Tlimeby a »ort of skiin' mllk-looktn teller cum and luck a scat rite close by he', mid looked her rite (pang in the face, like he w»* gwinu to eat her up. The poro gall hadn’t a very strong sluinmlck, X sposo, and lurued away from him. He fuller'd her, aud •lie turned back again, and vhar he waa •gin, with bis everlaatlD sheep's eye*, lookin her rlt* In the face. Think* i, dr»l your Impereuce. I wish that gall wna my cousin. Jualthen she looked up to me us much as lo any, Mir. did yon ever see such Insurance t and X looked buck to her. as much as lo say. No, Mias. I’ll be drat If I evor did, aud tbs next rnlnit X gin tho feller a sort of a cross cut look, as much as to say ho was a Infernal impertent puppy. Tie looked bunk that he begged my par don, ha didu’t know ahe was anything to lue; then f iookod a klckin at him, if he didu’t look out, and ho looked to Idler way a little while, and than luck blmselt Into another car. The young lady sot Char a mlnit or two, then looked the sweeleat kind of u thank you, air, to me, and went and lack a sent by tlie side of the okl lsdy. They talked together, and looked over now and then towards me. Nothing didn't turn up of Interest on the way, end blmeby I begun to see eigua of lha town. Tlie closer we got to Chariston, the thicker the planta tions aud houses begun to git. Ill me by I could see tlie steeples; and In a few miolta more we wasrolliu along among the Iiltlo old frame houses tin we got to the depot. And now the I an commenced. Sleh » ererlullo rumpus I neror soed before. Moon ss the gates wm open here cum a gang of fellers with whips In their hands, poppin and slapptn about ’inong the passeugers, axio us to go here and go thar, and wbar’a our baggage, and If we wae gwlne to the boat, and mors'a twenty thousand other questions before wo could answer the fnst one. Ttie Drat thing r knowd a feller bed use of my trunks cue wsy and another one bad tother carrying It off In another dlrec tloo, while two more was pullln the life out of my oarpet bug to see which should hnse It. I shuck the two fel lers off my trunks monstrous quick, snd was Jest gwlne to tackle the chaps *.*■*.. *?d “7 °»'P« b«* when who should I see but my old friend. 11111 Wiley, wbat used to lire op to the old Planters’ Hotel; In Mndisoo. you know. ’•Why, hellow, Mujer,” sen be. "is that you 7” "1 biters It Is, Mr. Wiley,** set I, “bnt thar ain’t no tellln bow long 1*11 laet, If I don’t git away from tbrsM audacious scamps.” "Well,” aea be, “M.Jer, Jett pint 7J«J* baggage to Patrick here, and tben foHftr me,” I stow'd ’em to Patrick, tod then went with Mr. Wller and got into the omnibus, what tock me, with m wholo .1 otb*r Passengers, to the Uharl ston Hotel. When I got thar. they jued me to put my name down In a big book, and then It tuck ms ’bout n o»er tc git the dust snd smoke off my fitoe. As toon ss t wae done within lie re cum thrw, or four niggers with little short-handled brooms, and brgor. to sweep tho rery life out of me. I |n>l lered at >m sod ax’d ’em what in u,. aniwiiiiv r they oml; but they jut thrashed awuy n* hard m (bey could lick It—Arat at n>« and than on their htnda — keeping op lbs .devllaheat drumrulo I ever beard; end tha more I twisted and turned to try to git not nf liter way, the harder they krp at It. Blwalw I sent one of 'ran a Ilk aside of hie had, what put a (tup to bla fun, sin! the rest tuct (lie him ; but ooe Ull yallrr fatler, what waitlsd lo make a raw extra nourishes, got a kick )*at as l^aeln. that raised him right off the d/tor, f never did see tha like of am In all any born days. I do batieva thee d have e bruah at e man If they lutd to throw hi an down and bold him. Mr. Wiley said It was all right, sod that they was only trylo lo git the dost off mo. That all mo light lie, hut I don’t ten no eensc In brushln the broth out of a feller If lui la got n little dust on hi* olotbsr. In the afternoon 1 lack a walk over th* city to look at tba Qoo bltdlna aud the ships. I tell you what, CbarUton aint no fool o, a city. Meeting street, mid Klug street, and Market street, Is very hns und hu* got some monstrous baudsum Kldhi* In ’nm. The bo«t pstrt of tbs slrset* Is ton narrow aud crooked, but Meeting street is a buti fu) width, and from the Charlstou Ho tel down to th* boy has got turn as pretty views as I ever seod lu suy plc Ci-r. Alter tee I weut down to tlm place they call the Battery. The wind wasbtowln' monstrous stiff aud lltn waves from the tea cum rollin'In aud ■1 sailin' tha uasty salt wateV *11 over me. ft was a very lonetutn place aud smelled like a old ahot-gun what hadot been oloaned out for a long time. They toll me lieia Its uateral for the ana to small so, and that people soon glta use toll, sotliey don’t mind it The place made me feel sort o' soilsn, colly and I started to go to the hotel. It was sum time before 1 could go to the hotel. It wns sum time before 1 o<uld Und tbo way, and as I wie walkin’ along In Uio moon light I passed loU of ladle* and gentlemou. I hi-ird sum •wret f«m*h voters aud saw sum bull ful faces which made me think of Miiry, and by the time I got tb tha ho tel I w*» homesick as the mischief. I weut to my room and trlod to go to sleep; but tber was a company of mid shipmen and nay? olHcers lu the nest room what bad Jest com iiome from a ioog voyage, amt they was drlnkln' wloo and siegin' "Wo Won't Go Home Til MomlnV* aud maUla* tf)»e«ohe«, and breakln’ glass**, so I couldn’t sleep a bit, and tbe merrier I hey was the worse I fell. •inw morolu’ I lack another walk to look at tl>« aoldiera. They bad a geu end musterin’ of the ahlvelry hare to l>urjr a_ otflaer, nnrt I tell you irhat'a a fact, Charlston cuo parade a pretty re spectable allowin' of the nation’s bull wotka. There wa* sum fuatrato com panyi end a good many flue-lookin' officers among ’em. The Governor vw that in hi* regimenuli, bat I couldu’t tee General Ktttledrum. Ther was one little officer Umr what hnd ao mach military aperlt in him that It put him completely nut of sh»j». lie didn’t stick more’u 'bout three fee,out of Ills hoots, and be looked like a jack-knife that was opened to far that it bent oyer hick. It's a Ur rlblu pity that lie couldn’t grow a lit tie bigger or simmer down bte speril u little more, foe the (word is certainly too much for the ekabbard. They say Imi’i a rustv*te officer, only he’s a little ont of proportion The fact ia, we may nay what we please, and laugh at much aa we'ye a mind to ’bout T'aro line sklvolry, but ther ain’t uo mistake about It. Carolina la h gallant little state, hud every son arm's got’* a sol dier. I’d like t-i etay in Cbarlslon two or three days, but I baint got time now. when I cum back Trota New York I'll kuow more about cities, and tbeo I cua make up my mind better about Charlston. I’m gwine to Wilmington in Hie steamboat this a'temoon. Par vidin’ she don’t butt her bller nor git Wow’d to buUyback by sum bomtuablo huirycane, you will hear from me agin anon. Ho no more from your Irltad lllv*ch' r< • t Jo* j0NE» bought me a hickory •tick what I’in gwlue totoat, nnd it won’t be woll for these fellers to como pollin’ aud heulln’ 'bout my baggage and brushln’ all Uie button* off my clotha, wharever I atop in futuer. You know I'm a peareabV man, but I can’t wand ev'ryUdng. (To be continued next week.) A Mcnrvr AllttiLta Jotinitil. Agulualdo, tho lead of the Philip pine Insurrection, ii a hard case. ||, is n»rly as tomli ns tho tmtie Cu ban Insurgent, and that is pottiug it pretty strong. fill* tame Aguinsldo Is threatening mischief to our troops la the l’hilp~ I’*®**, •,’1* w°uld, no doubt, sooomplhh it If ho could. r Fortunately we have there just the men to deal with Agulualdo. We all know Dewey. General Merrill u a man of equal nerve. Xeltber of these men will stand any fool lanes* from the puffed up Insurgent buss. Dewer long ago advised against sending him morn hi ms. The rifle* we gave him may yet be used against our troop# This would bs dastardly ingratitude but hardly worse than the prevtous cooduct of Agnlnaldo. Re gave Spain assurance* that he was bent upon tlm suppression of the Insurrection, wlicro uwmi Spain placed in Hong Kong 000. 000 peeetas to his credit. He prompt ly took tho money and used it la equippiog troops to light Spain. This wa*an sot of scoundrellsso to which Agnlnaldo lisa given a repetition In accepting our aid sod then Ihrsatlen lng US. Hut after all, this brutal fallow la only following his teaching, ft* has •H '«*»oui from Spain and ha believes that deoslt and traaohary are the cornerstone* of auoocst. Spain lias been lilt mistress ever since he was boro oud he bas Inarned all her scurvy trlsks, H* may bluster and sputter tml we will give him the msdlclne that will settle him at the proper time. Wl.n ilmmm «k« MimU V.t Km> Ov»r w , l«H»k*«t. WlltOkijftOn (bar T.I«aUn«nt II rtlisnii Ihlrikt toms of (Wyera’a ihlpi oun I* Ml«*d by u'iiig air haga and pontoon a litre It a chanoo to ulllln Hrnalni Hilly Mawm «onw otliar winding ataUaoi«M. The Hev. W. It Ooatlcy, ef muck er*, Oa., while attend log to Me pae torn! dull** at F.llenvood, that atate, waa attacked by oholarn aterhna lie aaya : "By oltanoo I happened to get liold of a hottla of Cham bet tain'a Cob Cholora and iMarrhooa lleetody, and t think It waa the mmot of wiring mr life. It rellared moot one* " Kor ■ale try J. B. flurry * Co. I WHITE WINGS OP PEACE. mMM'1'AX.tTln* by iba IPBMMIUMXr. **»!• alnniy Over (bibb, bail CHto< IHM« ■**« *b>l Olbrr l.l.nrtt lii Ik* Wmi Jndlm «nd Owe of Ike IbilntuM •• Ulr (’allart (lain—Xnallb U k( bi«a|ilMl and Him by Tkl» Cobb try llbUl dal. llournl-Tyraiy 1. ba XbdalbUbd In I'arlrOnnlbilwm la XmI la lh. yauA anil Kaa Jam Wiltilulb »bji In *rr,v*d® HriaUb nr Xrbbumilan. Wahuinotox, Aug. 11.—Au official alateinaut fur preae publication, letting out lUe proviriuna of Uin peace proto col, waa read and upnroved at the citbi nat bunion to day. I c wan prepared l»y Secretary Day, the purpose being to make It public Immrdlalely niter Uw required atgualuren bad been affixed to the protocol. It doca not give the text of tha dueumeut. but detalla ita main polnla and pruvlalona, olilota are as followa: 1—That Spnlu will relinquish all claims of sovereignty over the ittlo to Cuba. rtint Torto Itieosnd other Span, ish islands in the West Indies and an island in the Ladrouet, io La selected by tbe United Stales, alia)) be ceded to tbe Utter. ft—That the United Statea will oc copy and hokl the city, bay and harbor of Manilla, pending the conclusion of a trnaty of p^aco wiilen shall determine the control, disposition and govern ment of tlte PblDipplnas. d-—Thst Cuba, i’ortu Woo aud oili er Spanish iaUnda in tbe West Indies •ball be immediately evacuated aud that (lie commissioners to ba appointed within ten days, alia!'. within 110 days from tire stanlng of 111* protocol, meet at Havana aud 5m Juan, rvapvotfully, to arrange and execute th* details of the evacuation. 5- — That IQs United Sletee and Spain will each appoint nut mure than (lye com tries loners in uagullela and con clude a treaty of peace. Tho cotnmie miasionera ar* to meet at Tarls not la tar than tlis 1st of October. 0.—Ou the signing of tbe protocol, hostilities will be su*j«eudcd and notice to that effect will ho given at soon ■>* possible by each government to tiiclr c immuodera of its military and naval forces As soon ms the peace protocol w*« slgued, the l'resIdsnL sent for Secre tary Alger, decrcury iymg aud Gsunr ul Gothic, aud by hu directiou, orders to ness* iioaiihlios f.irtliwltli were sent to General* Mllt-a. Merritt and Shut ter, to Admirals JUcwty and Simpson, and military commanders generally. Tlir order sent to General Merritt to suspend UOBlililu-t *»i *- follows : “Adjahtnt General'a Office, '‘Washington, D. C., Aug. 12, 1898. "Msrrllt, Manila : "The President directs that all latll tery operations agslast thu one rey be suspended. Peace negotiations are nearlug completion, a protocol haviug just been signed by representative* ut tlie two countries. Von will Inform the commanders of the Spanish force* Io the Pnilipplues of Uicsm instruction* Further orders will follow. Acknowl edge receipt. “H. U. UOBBIH. A.Ujt. Q*n.” “Bj order of tho HmojIuji of War.*1 Tbe orders sent to Oen--ral Miles and General Studter were identical with the above save as to Dames. As the order states, farther instruc tions will be tent toench general. Gen eral Merritt will ho directed to confur with the rtpenlsb ojttitMndant at Ma nila to carry out the terms of tbe pro tocol and to occupy Manila immediate ly. General Miles will put himself In communication with tlm cliiof authori ty in l’orto Qloo fur tbs purpose o£ havlug the Spanish forces turn over Ban Juan aod other point* to him pre paratory to evacuation. Owing to conditions in Cuba the orders to Geoeral Bbafter to be neat here after will be much different than those to other generals. Tbe Navy Dopartroeot Is also preparing or ders to aU oommandsr* on lloea simi lar to the War Department order. The President bsa Issue the follow ing proclamation : lly tbe Presldoot of the United States of AnMtiC* A Proclamation : Whereas, By a protocol, concluded and signed Angnst 12, iro3, by Wil liam It Day. Secretory or State of the United State*, and HI* Rxoellenev, Julea C'amhon, ambassador extraordi nary and minister plsmpotontlary «if tho ropobllo of Frsnos. at Watbingtou. respectively representing for this pur pose tbo government of the United Slates sod tbe go?*rnmerit of Spots, tbe United States and Spniu lutvs for mally agreed upon the terms on which negotiations for the establishment of peace between tbe two oountrlce shall be underteksn. and, Whereas, Ills said protocol agreed that upon Its ooodosloo and signature, hos tilities between the two ooontrloe shall ho suspended aud that notice to that effect shall be given as toon as possible by each government to tho commanders of its military and naval force*; Now, therefore. I. William MnKInley President of the United Htetes, do, In aooordenee with the ollpalatleu of the protocol, declare and ptoclalai oa tlie part of tho Uolted States, a suspension of hostllltleo. and do liereby command that orders bo Immediately given ihinorb the proper channels to the oormaandsn or tho military and naval force* of tbo United Btetev to abstain from all set* Isconelstont with this iwofllitmatlon. ] In wluxna wliereor, I hav« hereunto I art my land and dll Mid U,a cam of ! Ilia United Slatai to ba afBxod. I)«**ie nt tho Ulty of Waablugtcn Util I till day of .Vofosi, In Iho year of oar f'.rd. I8W. and of U« lndapendenoe of the United States tho mrd WILLIAM 5f« Kixr.sv. Ily I ha ltattdent. William B. Hat, Mae. of NUIa. A ojpy of the yraoUrearloft has boon cabl'd to our army tin*) oary com mandora. Mv»li' *«l eabfo her cum nt tad era Ilka IMtrootlone. ! IBB WAR WILL DO GOOD. 1 ______ AW MEK* Nt'ftMIIIXM A»TU THE xri»Ni. i _ An|l»Aa>«rl<.> » Winner »||| hmn )tM Hrkmr la wmar tm IIiDIh ike hkpli tf niku I'AiiHlrlik-miyrit. bimaoim iw tlit l«enl AeMmaana MU Arp In AtUinU Gunetilutlon. IS tbl* WAT wa* wafted fir baiunl ly’a lake—Unit la, for Uia purpoaa of funding the stnrelng Cub«ne- nf oourae It hit failed of tie purpoeea, for the* Uaeo not bocn feed. Bat even though oar government made a blunder lu aa klgufug a eaua»—a caaua brill—uid In ktead of feeding Uia aiarvlng have killed a UiottAKud bimolardi afar off In the Philippine*. and H.000 more at fern lingo, DrvertboJeM the war teem* to bate Uvn the culmination .of many grievance* ntid baa Already reiulted In locaUmauio good. W beUwr It be man Ifeat destiny or the will of Ood and the fulUlloaeot of prophecy, we cannot tell, but can only »ay, aa of uid, "It this thing be of man It will coma to aaugbt,bat ir It com* from Ood wt cennot flgbt egmlcet it." Ooe thing Is certain. It bn exalted tha uroneia. i»e gemas ana ura resource* or the American People nor* thau anything that ha* aver happened. Tht United 8utea now *taiid acknowledged by the great power* of the world a* rqnal to any of them, aud her only rival haa •ofloiled Imr head la fraternal union. At a bouquet given tbe other day In Briiitii Col umbi* to L?rd and Ladv Aberdeen, lion. Mr. Mackintosh. the lieutenant governor, paid to Ameri can* the following beautiful ulbata : "To oar American friend* who are Dreamt wa oannot refrain from extend Uig our congratulations for the leeeol achievement* of their army aod navy white waging a white men'* war for tlui extension of modern elvlllaitlan. and ne Imptor* them to case their In Uueucw for n white man’s polioy of dii Anglo-American alliance, (baud cheers.) Three can be re legitimate civilisation where a Bible U carried In one band aud a drawn a word in the other. When the great BoglWli apeak mg uallona link their fortune* togeth er, then the srar drum will throb no longer and Urn battle dag wUI bn furled and a union be perfected that will be Mtnoliuned and blessed by the Al nlglilT- (Immense applause. 1 Then will be wptteu by augsl Huger* the brightest page In history, on which will be recorded the union of the pow ers owning the same origin, speaking Ura Mata language, but long severed by paaalun nod prejudice* for which the older must accept responsibility. (Ap plause.) Then will be eeUtillihad the greatest confodnraliou of freameu the world hsa over dreataod of, Eieh star npuu the flag of the United Stole* will thto repretent a clvllislag power and each Uritlab colony an auxiliary foroe, nil working together In ooncert-all honoring tbe flag of uar fathers and ull revering Uio banner of liberty and patriot! *m. (1-nud cheering.) Mr. M ayor and gentlemen, I give you Iho stars aud slripea and the t alon Jack. I-ong may their varying tints reunite and form In henvea’s light one arch of peace." “Iient tliat fine ? (Jouldlt have been better ealdV Are we not all fOI that—mi alliance with grain] old Eng land. our mother from whom we have l«en Iona eeUanged-a white raee who onw nika for «u alliaoca with the white race of till* country for the CbrtatUo civilization of the woild. Oar recent vlotorlee on tea and land have done this. Old solid, etnrdy England lias long had donbta of our ability and our statesmanship. Site hae b«n prejudiced agatuit oar re publtCAD , form of government, but t* now convinced a ad converted, and U forced to admit that tha people can be trotted to govern thrmSBlyes. But Um ■treis and emphasis that Mr. Mackin tosh pays to • white man's gortrn raeat mult be a withering rebuke to Mr. McKinley, who (till aeeks to hu miliate our people by plaeing the ne gro over u*. The Sew York Hrru ie now the moot infuriated organ of tit* Republican party, and la a reoeut Issue says: “We want do possession or eontrol of the Philippine Istands or of aay other Islands that have a hy brid, moogrel. Isahw* population, ft wnuld cost tis millions of mono) and a century nf time to civilian them sad educate them to the binning* nf good govern moot. Right hem within our owu domain we find It impossible to control and regelate the oonduot nf same of our own people, fur In Mouth Carolina and Georgia we cannot punish llie people for killing one negro post master and maiming another." Iient that fu^y That party Mill aeeks to humiliate tsa with llm negro and to keep up U.e strife. We were hoping that this war would wipe aut all this bitternraa, and If It did it was a war worth fighting; bat It loooks now Ilka politics Is shaping itself to continue the sectional strife. Mr. HemphtU has been Invited np north to make a speech on fraternal union, sod maybe he can stop this agitation and help to giro us restart.«l pesos, but I am afraid not. If It were loft to the Mi dlers, we would bare a white man's government such as Mr. Maokiatosh deal rad, but already tbc contention has begun—wIiom war ts It-who kilted oock rohls-what patty Is to have the Doll Ural lament of Lhe wlorv T But wo »h*ll *M Wbll HI win MO. T*>e araohe link not olcoral * wnr yrt. It boot ho that Ponca io (tin nfur off, •nd If tho prmelwn who ore writing Iho iwophMlco ora not mistaken, tho wnr hoe Jaat began. Tho fifth rial of hh John la uot gear poured oot. Tho prrnchere noma* me. Wkoa I wm a yoong man Napoleon Uooapnrta wm claimed ni dm Waal, and lit* number wMalx hundred and «1*ty and ah. Tlmy found tho number by firing a numerical value to each letler of Me name, and then added them all to gvttior and actually >M a«kl their rum to bo WV lint now lire (toman Catholic church la mmI In In the tenet, •nd tbla war will nut cad until the l*opn and hla church ora all aa klbl laWd and then comaa the newt rial whtoh la to be pound out on Turkey aod ihat kingdom la to to annihilate?. 1 beard a proaober aay about tka Uw Um lata elrll war began that if U abould torn out that the Lord wu not ou oar aide he would forswear Me IW lfeien. But be Hved to aee bia boyea Ideated and did sut forswear bla re ligion either. Built humbled blaa end teak away Ml conceit. Out whether the war meat go on or net X will pray for poeoa, for I know that poaea to a Hamad tfalug. Beam at houa aai peace abroad. We west no war tor glory when it la all mired up with teen. Let ua atop it Jaat aa aooo aa ntMilblo irrn-ihwnr at no nranhir Bismarck la daed and not Ktem^i died be aald: “I taka uo comfort la anything that I have done. I have provoked and fought Hum ware, to which there wart killed 80,000 men and which brought rivers of taara. I uuw believe tbaee wan could bars been honorably avoided and 1 have oo pleasure la the memory of them. But 1 bay* made my peace with God and have hla forgiveseae ” What an admlaalou tor an old mao, a gnat man to make. How different from that of Gladatona. St. Louis ItepuUls. Tb« educational value to tbe United States of tbe 00 days of tnt Just passed has never been equaled by nay nation In n similar period. Tbe pacijlitr exi seoclee of Its conduct, coupled with tbe pees seel on of hitherto undreamed of fuelUllei for aeqalrleg nows almost simultaneously fro* all quarters at the bM>v, have enabled tbe American pub lic to keep step with the program of events while absorbing an enormous naMoot ef varied Information (n geog raphy, sociology, seieooe and Interna tional politics. The charts of the war girdle tbe world. Every port la tbs Mediterra nean. every island in Atlantia nod Cnrribsnn waters, baa bean looatsd, measured, studied and described. Their names are now as familiar to tbe reading schoolboy as to the boerv vet eran who romambare tbe Mexican war. The cruisers of Carvers* squadron alone wea worth much aa a stady of tbe geography of tbe Atlanta Ocean, and Camara naa supple mettled It with a moat Interesting but otherwise fruit less tour of Um mid-walsre of Lite Old World. TU* movement* of Dewey sod U«n t»Jo in U>« Orlrnt have mad* us famil iar with every hurlnr from tii* Gulf of Sort to tu* Qofclea Gate, end from ttaa Yellow Sea to tbe Sooth Pacific. The presence of habitable Manila which few bad avor board of, the origin anil customs of tlw peoples,tbe poeaiblliUas of future development, the lasonroe*. wealth aud aonnselbtll'.y of a world prastically unknown tu Amerlaaus anlll tbrua uoullia »gu. have all beeu rxpiolted In Um printed pate. Interest has been luterteiHed by tlw mute which brought Uteui to promluuoe and tbe result into wbinb they aiy enter. Tim power of exploityea, Uie weight of araour wod gun-metal, tbe apued of ships Sad projectiles, tbe trajectory of missiles of various weights. climatic conditions, military hygiene, the nutri tive values of campaign commissaries, the nice points of oeval sod military stratagem, tbe meaning and value of treaties, tbe relative wealth of nations and the biographies of tbs wen wbo have made and are makiog glorious history for our dag are but a few of the topics for study which 00 days of war liav* afforded the people of the Ualtad States. With quick lotelllgeno* they have seined the opportunity and they will never forget the lesson* whioh an punetoatod with heroic deeds, empha sized by successive victoria* sod illu minated with bald platans of Ameri cas prs-etn Issue* is Intelligence, wealth, valor sod magnsmlty. Will We — same ■■ywuftlt ter Ike Okn BMW UdHItnore Sun. It U out of lb« coapllealioot of the Cuban basioeu wo boro mixed our telvee au in that than It a debt of eooit tdOO/XXX.000 contracted bv Spain on (/'aba’s aooonnt, and tbs Interest on tbit debt tint been paid hitherto out of rerenoe derived now Cuba. Tbo la land ia the security for the principal and interest of this large sum. which represented by bonds boid chiefly In Fraaoe. At debt follow* territory, tf wt annex Cuba wa btoomo. according to lotcroetioual usage, liable for tbo debt. If we interfireby force te maka (Jobs free, we tUU taeor a moral obli gation, nod all the wort becanae tbt freedom of Cobs wu tbo a rewad ob ject of oar war. nut au ineideatal re tail. It would aoV, therefore, be nec essarily a hostile act on tbo part of Franoc to ask our gorernmeot Ita In tentions with regard to the Oabao debt. It may not unreasonably be an •umed that our gorernrnaot, In under taking to aktf the political tuiut of Cuba, took late oonrldendow all the egoitlae of the ahasUoo. Spain baa lU) now paid tbt latmat on tbo Caban bond* la geld. Sloes tbs rerenoe ef Cuba hat beta rtdeotd by the war abe bat paid la depreciated pesetas. Without Caban rtraaue Spain could pay Nothing. She la, in fact, bankrupt; and no Indemnity nan be txlreoced from bar. Bran If the Span lab gortrnment tftouM agree to promise aa Indemnity It would oarer be paid. France aad other countries that bold Cuban beads will, Die ref ere, be llkel* to think that, their eeouritlca liartog been rendered wnrthkta by owr ; net. we are tndtr' a morel. If not a • Itgal, nhUgallea to make good their I low. We may refuse to tie IA but ! should we not lota Mends by cu> fating t_ ia> Bmm m*mn*r «a nu. Mr. Jolt* Uathkaa, avail kaowa ■Uwk dtalar of 1’ulaUit. Kj„ aajra: I “Altar Mffrrtnc far ovar a weak wfeli , dux, «u4 lay pfcyalclaa hart a* faUad to ' rUtara —■ I vavadvlat* ta lo Cfeaaa ! bar lam* Oalk, Ukolara and lAarrhoaa naoady, and bar* Uw ptruara of ate* Uvf Uw t Uw baK af aaw botUa cat ad •a." Far ia)a by J. K Oarry * On. ' office-Bek an m4 tar tta Myw ot flNOdtDf gfl MMBtlllii MMBpUM* None of thoeooffioare an farmers. In f tba place ot a ameU Miaaangar boy at •II or HO par Booth, no odfear baa baan pieced at a eatery at $1,000 a year. Tba cfalaf ot tha ilipartBato, who haa nothin* to do bat Ufa hi* mb* oaaaatOMur, draw* a Bhar at 11,8(XX And. MBahow, mow, ha fa to gatfi.WO. Two weak* ago double ap proprlattona ot fonder years waa made. Where la It to go ? •‘Froa IBM to 1807 I wb aapacta tendentof tba Btatopatotatoiary. 1 took the plane with aoab ntaetonor, as 1 kuaw U waa hard to BU. Wa data now that the Peaooratle aw agamant waa wtaa, eeoaomtaei and anoeanfoL The luetitolkm tally eoy ported ttaalf. Wa made Urn aaaey to ran It by our own (Forte. It waa nr ganlsed ua work 11 ka • aaw maehlna. A man could hara tat In Nawtoa and managed it. Too crowd that haa It now should have managed It anaeBi fully and with new. Hat they were not out V> onioag* It for tba beat In ternet of tba Steia, bo« for purpose* at greed and gain. 1 lay U ha* baan aa*uaged dieUooeetly by the fuelonleta. i can. una will, pruve II. I taw cm I know the tecta f Writ, it la Uwfolto ■w tyke to war. 1 am efato to eatob Dili facte. When tba tana at Wedm boru, Antou conuty, waa Uutaod over by Uie Democratic party to the fMi Co lds 100 bales of cotton fH |o)dMMB| Me effects. That eocton waaaoM tor Ifi.Sid and a fraction. It was paid far part in cheeks aad pact la cask. Tba cheeka art aoooaeted for sad the each la not. If hat never beso accounted tor. IVliere it KI One of Um Demo cratic officers on retiring owed 111.57 to the penitentiary. Tie paid tba amount la a cheek. Be waa sated to pay It in money, do be did. There la ■o record of the nay moot of the debt oo Uie tiooka. An m nlie ud a debt of *37 and Urn books do not show it. An officer collected a debt from sr.Aor»‘!i«sss» Um peelteatiary triad to ooOset it again In the year, and tba old dark mewed that it had already bean paid. Oa being naked about tba matter by U e bookkeeper tba effiaar aald: ‘Charge that to me.’ “Tba boanoka farms wan toraad ever with CM bale* of ootteo an bead in 1SW7. la a few daye tteiapirlo taadeot of tea penitentiary aald tea cotton to a friend and a near neighbor for about *1 ocate a pouod, when oat toe waa bringing about seals In Norfolk. Tbe fast ef the sale and the knot of tba porobmw bote wen cm tooled. Hut 1 uaoarUleed the toots in Uie ease. Why wooW ha aoH It to hia friend at this reduced prise T Later to bought Urge gweatitim of fertiitears from tbo aaaaa maw at *t a toe met* than otter dsoiere stead. Why all thl» ? What la babied It f Thoaot . of tbe LiwtilaUN of 1*03 ranealte *«— law of lXTbiriigr tbt ftomiar* of tbo peaiteutiary power to laam MW farms. Hot la 1807 too aaeao Uw was re enacted. Wubtbla obaage IteOov wuor of tbo State and Uie aopotia wndcat of tbo penitentiary wongUow power to leaaa the toads, etc. Aoou traciwee made tar tee hmtf tea Grimm leads, oner Hatoigh, Upeu lepremeUUow of Um MfmMoodtM of tee peulbenUan aad emtaia mam tore of Um board thto oeotmat W**' a*nailed et eoet to Um peuHretlary, lor tea reaooo given that there were ec ooartoto to operate Ode load. Tba Gaatto Uayno farm wm very aaaa pur ebaoad by a mamter often hoard. aad at am towed to Um pmWnltwj, u mtbor with eortaia rieo torn* on Um Uma Tear, g mi telly known m tba iti'.vaA sta Pusrjs&ts pmdforwy other land* MM by the wuhmUoey. X do net my that the Sovei nor la MtUag Um rental. Dual temgtoa who* faota I am aattala of. Tim board of dimeter. tuMMiiAJ
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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Aug. 18, 1898, edition 1
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