North Carolina Newspapers

ARP ON ; MATRIMONY ; : - .V? - -o- - w-.- v.-" v, :-. the Philosopher Writes on a Serious - Subject BNTII PARTIES iECliRELY BOUND Arp Says flarrlage Is the Only Part nership That Cannot Be Dissolved ..-Responsibility. Married and gone. It is the same old story. Love and courtship. Then comes the engagement ring and a blessed in terval of fond hopes and happy dreams, and then the happy day is fixed the -amsnk-ious day that is never to be for gotten a day that brings happiness or misery ana Degms a new lire, men comes the license, the permit of the .la w which says you may marry, you may enter into bonds. The state ap proves it and the law allows it, and it will cost you only a dollar and a quar ter. Cheap isn't it? And yet it may be Trery dear. Then comes the minister, and the happy pair, stand up before him and make some solemn vows and listen to a prayer and a benediction, 'iind, they are one. In! a moment the trusting maid has lost her name and her free will, and is tied fast to a man. Well, he is tied fast, too, so it is all riht; all round, I reckon, but somehow JL always feel more concern about the ,rwoman tnan the man. She is a help less sort of a creaiure and takes the most risk, for she risks her all. I was ruminating over this, for there waa a marriage going on at our good friend Sam Jones house, and their pretty daughter, Laura, was changing iier name and her home on this the last day of the year and going off to live with a man she hasn't known very long; but I have diagnosed him from liis face and features and am satisfied with her choice. He is a big-hearted gimv :nan, or else the signs fail. I ranted to be present and give them my blessing, but was not well enough to go I've got the elephantio3is from my toes to my knees, and can hardly weander across the room, but I am al Arays interested in the marriages of our young people. It( is the most serious lmsiness in this life, and if the peril of it .was known beforehand many of the young people would hesitate to make the change. The chains of matrimony and not bonds of marriage are the vigil t words. When men make a part awrBhip they can't get along well if tiey art unlike in disposition, or in wsoral principle or in business ways, - Irat they can dissolve and separate at pleasure snd trv anoth er man. A man ana his wife ought to be alike, in al ' mdst everything. In some things folks like their opposites their counter- parts. A man with blue eyes goes dis . tracted over a pretty girl with hazel eyes I did, and I'm distractey yet . . iwun. iuiu uicui, uiuugn rve been doing that for flfty-foiir years. But in mental and emotional qualities and in tastes and habits and politics -and religion they should class- together. I never made any mistake about my choice of a partner for the dance of a life, but I've thought of it a thousand Inaes that if Mrs. Arp had known I loved codfish and got up by daybreak every morning, she never would have had me. It was nip and tuck to get fcer, anyhow, and that would have been the feather to break the camel's back. Well, I'm mortal glad she didn't know It, though I am free to say that if I had fcnown she slept until the second ring ing of the first bell for breakfast and 'wests lond, of raw -oysters, it would have had a dampening effect upon my ardor -or a few minutes, only a few, But I rnksnre seen some: mighty clever people . u oysters raw and sleep late in the ' :Jnrning, But still a man and his wife caun, harmonize and compromise a good tEra.uy of these things, and it is a beau tiful illustration of this to see Mrs. - Arp cooking codfish for me and fixing Jt Jill up so nice with eees and cream: and it is a touching evidence of my f f iradying devotion to her to see me ."' "wandering about the house lonely and Jorelorn every morning for an hour or two, and forbidding even the cat to heavily while she sleeps. - That codfish business comes , to me honestly -frit my father's side, and my mother !pTzup with it like a good, considerate Tife, and we children grew up with an3dea that it was good. I've heard of a young couple who got married and vrent off to Augusta on a tour, and the rellerj3uck his fork into a codfish ball aa-d took a bite. He choked it down like a hero; and when his beloved asked , him what was the matter, re plied: , "Don't say anything about it, .Mandy, but as sure as you are born , there is something dead in the "bread." Well; we can make compromises about all such things as habits and ; tastes, but there are some things that I :wuu;t compromise worth a cent. If a I -Sirl has been brought up to have a .stood deal of freedom, and thinks it no narm to go waltzing around with eve'ry gay, Lothario who loves to dance, ami after she gets a feller of her own, wants to keep at it and have polluted nms. around her waist; she had just as TPBll sing farewell to conjugal love and vficmestic " peaces for it is against the tarfler of nature;for a loving husband to .... .onouu it, auu Utf uugmn u uui auuvuer uusy year nas gone sone like the water that has passed over the dam gone never to return. X6 has carried many friends along with Ifcand left sad memories in the house liold, but on the whole it has been a pood year to us all and Providence has . beenkmd. i-&:Vh'M- ,' .Now is the time to look back and re vjew the past, as did old Janus, for ; TT-hom January was named. iHe was the X ,ffqtter, the gate keeper, of' heaven, and v.-ftad.two faces one to look bak and tne otnrr forward into the mysterious future. Numa Pompilius gave him his name and his high office, for he,was next in power to Jupiter. He added two months to the calendar and called one; January for, Janus and the other February for the m other of Mars. Until then there were but eight months? of forty-six. days each. Numa added two more, which gave them, thirtyrsix days each, and January was ' the ' fourth month and remained so formore than two thousand years. April was the first month and remained so until two hun dred yean ago. Why it was changed I cannot understand, for April Is much more like the beginning of a new year than January. April comes from aperio, to open the time when' the earth opens and the grass comes up and the flowers bloom and the birds sing. But the names of almost everything seem to comfort that old mythology, ' and we conform to that old" mythology, and we can't get rid of it. My great-grandfather lived and died under that old calendar when April-was the first month ot the, year. Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar-" stuck i n two more months and made the year of twelve months of thirty days each but April remained in the first month and ought to.be now. - ; .. : .. But whether Christmas Jie in Decern ber or in April, we love the old super stitions that cluster around this sea son of joy and gladness. I always thought it a pretty Idea for a man to be weighed every Christmas or New Year to put his acts and deeds in the balances, the good on one side and the bad on the other, and let him rise to heaven or fall below it as the scales might turn. This is not an orthodox doctrine, for it is said that one bad. deed Trill outweigh a thousand good ones. Nevertheless, Belschazar was weighed, and the scripture abound in such figures of speech. It will take mi racles of grace to save us, anyhow, arid we must all helD one another, for th devil is doing his best. David commit ted murder; Solemon worshiped idols; Cain killed his brother; Jacob cheated EsaU out of his birthright; Noah got drunk, and Peter denied his Master, but they all repented and got foregive ness; and if there is any difference be tween folks now and and folks then, I don't know it. Then let us all love our Maker and be good to oUr fellow-men. Bill Am in Atlanta Constitution. tyEWSY CLEANINGS; Several changes in the land laws of Alaska are proposed. .iii Cornell University's register show$ 2068 students enrolled. Liverpool lias just received its first consignment of mahogany from Aus tralia. ' Japan denies that she intends send ing naval squadrons to Esquimault and Europe. : There are twenty-one boys for every seventy-nine able seamen in the British Channel fleet. ; ' , Two women tramps passed through Nevada, Mo., a few days ago Tiding on the iron rods under a box car. The duty oir automobiles in Russia J ranges Between cignteen ana iu runies ($9.27 to $101.97) according to size. The railway bridge at Koksilah, B. C, has been washed away by aysnddcn rise'in the river due to heavy rain. .Exemption from military service on payment of a sum of money ; is to be abolished by the new Spanish ministry. All the coal mines west of Green Itiver in Kentucky have been pur chased for $8,000,000 by a syndicate, headed by J. Pierpont Morgan. According to a cablegram from Lon don, England is about to follow the lead of Russia, Italy, Belgium and France and have an automobile rail way.' In .Worcestershire, England, 499 women are engaged making anchors, while 708 others make needles and 1044 pails. Nearly all are married or widows. There were thirty-nine glass-making plants in operation in Ohio during the past year, employing 7049 hands and paying out $3,463,901 in wages, exclu sive of salaries paid office help. There is much anxiety felt in Mexico among the middle classes, including the wage-earners and salaried men, over the cost of living, which Is consid ered entirely out of proportion to the Incomes. He Was a Bright Boy- "I believe that, I have the brightest office boy in the city,' declared a gen tleman to a friend in the city. "That is a rather broad assertion," replied the friend. "What particular claim to brightness has your boy?" "Well, I have had lots of trouble with my office boys of late, and they have . been so decidedly unsatisfactory and worthless that I have had at least fifteen in "the past thirty days; 1 1 have kept a sign out on my door stating that I was inj need of a bright boy's services, for j the entire time, almost and it reads as follows: 'Boy Wanted About Sixteen Years.' The boy I have now was secured in. response to the sign and it was his answer. more than his appearance that secured him the .-place.' ; 4&z;?i;ll..l "How was that?", queried " the friehd, with some interest. , "The boy slouched Into the office and said he had read the sign. 'Do you want the place?' I asked him. -'Guess I do he replied, 'but I don't know that I would want it for the full sixteen years I employed him on the spot when I realized that I had omitted the comma, from the sign." Memphis Scimitar. ' To, be born without f humor ou.e loses two-thirds of life's enjoymeut. - - Newsv Items Gleaned Murphy to flanteo. ' - " - '"-v - Charged wtih secretly assaulting Police Sergeant W. G. Crabtree at a late hour Friday night, Daniel Hor ton, a well-known' young v J man who holds a position as clerk ,.. on Main, street of Durham, is under a, bond of $3,000. He is also Under an additional bond for $100 for carrying concealed weapons The alleged assault occurred on Main .street, near midnight and is the outcome of an old trouble. Hor tcn has tjeen, mad with tho officer for some time and on Christmas , day, they had a fisticuff on Main street, the fight, being a draw. Friday night lOfll cer Crabtree was standing on Main street when.ih 1 says that Jie noticed, two men coming" up the street, but paid no attention to them. The next thing he knew, so he says, was when he was struck in the back of the head with a pair of knucks. The blow dazed him and before he could recover Hor ton struck two other - blows on the back of the . head and one in the face. One wound two inches long was cut and there were other wounds and bruises.. In- his own defense Mr. Hor ton says that he did not assault the officer secretly. He says that he spoke to the officer and then struck him and that the first blow was in the face.' Mr. Crabtree says that the' first blow was in the back of the head. .While the assault was still in progress three police , officers, who were on the op posite side of the street, ran over antj placed Horton under arrest. He was locked up and remained in prison som two hours when the mayor agreed to bail him in the sum of $3,000 for secret assault and $100 for carry a concealed weapon. The rectory H of Grace Episcopal church, of Morganton, was entirely consumed "by fire Friday afternoon. The rector was occupied by the family of Archdeacon Walter Hugh son. Within the last few years the building was remodeled at a cost of $2,000. Friday morning one of the chimneys took fire, and a colored ser vant was lefjf on tb? premises. Mrst Hushson being absent, to see tnat no damage was done by the sparks. Three or four hours later flames burst from the roof and despite hard work on the part of the citizens and the State Hospital fire brigade, the build ing was burned to the ground. Prac tically all of the furniture and Mr. , Hughson's valuable library werfe saved, though considerably damaged. The loss on the building Is $2,500, with $600, insurance in the Georgfa Home. There was $1,000. insurance on the furniture in the Carolina Insur ance Company, of Wilmington. The annual meeting of the StaU Literary and Historical Association will be held on the evening of Jan uary 23rd, In the music hall of the Oliver Raney Library; The program is as follows: Opening address on the "Work and Possibilities of the As sociation," by President Henry G, Connor; report of the "Hall of His tory," by Fred A. Olds; "Rural Li braries in North Carolina" (a) extent and operation, by J. Y. Joyner; (b) utility and posibilities, by Mrs. Lind say Patterson; (c) discussion and sug gestlons; North Carolina biography for 1902 (a)-''History'' by D. R. Hill; (b) poetry, by H. J. Stockard; (c) periodical literatutve, by I. E. Avery. Claims of a State literature and his tory on our public schools; election of; officers ; organization of an au thors club in the association. Suspicion is directed toward a white man as being the one who as saulted Mrs. Lillian Spivey near Fair, view on September 29th. Sheriff Reed is now trying to find him. He escaped from Captain" Mclver's convict gang working on the, railroad in Mitchell county on September. 24th. The gov ernor has offered a reward of $30(f ior mm as an escaped convict. For this assault a negro, Rus Jenkins, was tried .and acquitted because the jury did not .beliave he was the man. Sheriff Reed and other officers never did think Jenkins was guilty, but thought the criminal was not a negro. The first ; circumstances after tht crime led to this belief. Mr. J. A. Abernethy, of Lincolnton, Saturday, sold the Lincoln Cotton Mills, located near that town, to Mr. R. C G. Love, of Gastonia, the amount Involved being, approximately $300. 000. ; " :-s . . . , Zeb Wilson, recently elected Stale Senator from Yancey jcounty, was k lied last Tuesday, at Bdrnsville by his brother, Hiram Wilson. It isr re ported that the brothers quarrelled in connection with the sale of a horse. Mr- E. S. Kelt, treasurer or the Charlotte council of the Royal Arcan um Saturday paid Mrs. Tom Wilson $3,000, the ' amount of Mr. Wilson's linsurance on the Arcanum. It was this ' Wilson who wa8 killed by. Arthur : U Bishop a few- weeks ago. Mrs. F. M. Johnson, of Asheville, was badly-burned Saturday evening by a boiler explosion. She had placed a boiler, a patent affair on the stove and sealed it, when the explosion oc curred. The contents of the boiling vessel vero thrown all , over Mrs. Johnson, inflicting serious injuries, but to what extent the physicians can not yet tU. Vestal Caudle a young boy of Char lotte, died Friday from the effects of a wound-received Christmas day from a toy pistol. ORIH SlfllE MflTTtKS a From ONLY (IIS CORPSE Dead and Decaying Body of a Pollcef . . man Found. Durham. Special-Newja reached here that the remains of John Rogers; a Doliceman- who' disappeared from his home at Virginia, on the ' Norfolk & Western road, some eight weeks ago; were found near that station oh Satur day by a party of hunters. The body was so badly decomposed that recogni tion was only possible by the" watch and clothe of the deceased. The story tbldme tonight is that j; about eight weeks ago a negro was killed in Vir ginia. His body was found in the ear ly morning and with the finding of the body Office John Rogers disappeared. It was generally supposed that Rogers killed him. Rogers had money in the bank and it was found that this had beentaken from deposit. , Lertheimembers.ofhis family re ceived a letter stating that Rogers had 'gbnetb'' Asheville and thaChe would not write again, but for them not to ba 'uneasy. :' ;--t. :! .... This prevented uneasiness on the part of the family until the dead body was found Saturday by hunters. The supposition is that Rogers killed the negro, drew his money and attempted to. get out of the country, but that he was run down by the friends of j the dead negror killed and then robbed. Rogers, it is said, was engaged - to a well known young lady' in the com munity. The whole matter, is wrapped in mystery. Silk mil For High Point. High Point, Special. -The large silk mill for thifi place! mention of which was made a few davs ago. Is a certain ty. Interested parties are; here and have bought five acres of ground from Mr. J. El wood Cox, on which to erect the plant. Work oc the buildings will commence at once; They; will be of briefc. The main biUdin will be two stories and probably of 600 feet in length. The location is. the Kendall property-in the southern part of town. It is a pr.'.vate company, the intereste J parties being Swiss peiple. A higher class of labor than is found in cotton factories wilt be employed, as it will be much nicer. The force of hands will be increased as they are educated in tne work; Over one thousand will be empl deohewyntehniBii, o,scmfwypmf w employed when the mill in full blast. The raw silk will be shipped here di rect from Japan and Italy and , manu factured in all grades of silks. This is another addition to High Point's di ver sified manufacturies, showing that many things are manufactured here be sides furniture and it is hailed with de light by all. ' Gould Gets Control. New York, Special. Announcement was made nere that Frank Gould had obtained control of the Virginia Pas senger, and Power Company, which operates a traction system in Rich mond, Va. The company has 122 miles of track, in Richmond, Manchester and Petersburg, including an electric line 22 miles long, between Manchester and Petersburg. The deal was consummat ed through the Merchants' Trust Com-: pany, of this city, which is! to be the fiscal agent and depositary of the com pany's funds; - - Hevy Eighting. j Caracas, By Cable. Barquisimeto, capital of the State of Lara, jwhich for some time past has been in the posses sion of the Venezuelan revolutionists, has been recaptured. The town of San Carlos and TinaquilloT have also been re-occupied by the government. The revolutionists at " Barquisimeto were under the command of Generals Solag nie and Penaloza. They evacuated the town after losing 112 men killed and 32! wounded. There was hard fighting in the streets of Barquisimeto for two lays. Cotton Fire at Winnsboro. Winnsboro, S. C, Special. About 1:30 new years morning fire was dis covered in the cotton on the south nln tf nrm at the freight depot. About sixtv :bals were badly damaged and om.r nearly destroyed. By hard ana qulclT"work the burning bales -were thrown from the platform,' thereby saving the large freight depot. The loss is covered by insurance. The oriein of the fire is not known. Fire at Gadsden. . . . . . , Gadsden, Ala., Special: Fire started' early Friday morning in a room over the Cudahy Packing, Company; and quickly spread to the railroad. Turren tine's wholesale grocery store and .Turrentine bottling works. Three stores with their contents .were de stroyed. The loss is estimated at $20, 000; partially Insured. Jos. Wilson, In whose room the fire is said to have originated, was burned to death and W. H. Gewin, who occupied - the room with him had a narrow escape. Aiiuiv.mo i,y x ru lessor 13 j, erford, reported to the Royal Soci of-Canada in Toronto, show that wonderful substance, radium, f which a constant, invisible em'ana? takes-place,' is capable of sending? rays through from eight, to ten inch of iron. The . ionization produced b the rays after emerging from the ir shows, Professor Rutherford says, they must" be regarded as' consist of negatively charged particles. s In the Dutch East Indies lives n cn cies of crabs which, are accustomed the purpose, is is believed, of feedij upon the fruit. Mr. C. P. Sluiter, Bantam, avers that he has seen tW crabs climb to the top qL trees f unv sixty ieet iu ueigui. tiuough lj could not see idainly what' they wei of captive specimens, that they opeuP(i young cocoauuts and devoured their contents. It - is doubtful if they caa break the shell of a ripe cocoanuf. Hay fever Ms a subject oC perennhi investigation. By inquiries among oo persons at North Sea resorts, Dr. Tliajst has confirmed the assumption that its chief peculiarity is an idiosyncrasy of the olfactory nerve in respect to the odors of certain flowers, and that the only places absolutely free from it are those, with scanty low vegetation without much blossoming. While no remedy will cure once for all in a few applications, the experience of these persons shows that it can be relieved and even cured by. local treatment. Physicists have concluded that the earth in its motion does not drag the ether along, with it, and thus each body on the earth's surface, in virtue of its motion with the earth, is tra. versed by a stream of ether. The question thus arises: Does light travel though such a body with the same speed along the stream of ether as it doej against it,, or across it? The ex periments of Michelsbn and Morley ia America lead to an affirmative answer for air. Lord Rayleigh, in England, has obtained the same answer as to liquids and is now ,engagecl on a re search in respect to the phenomena relating to solids. - - - - To an artist's eye the sharpness and the abundant details of what is ordi narily regarded as a fine photograph are things to be avoided. Amateur photographers sometimes share this impression, and seek, in various ways, to ; impart t breadth and : artistic feeling to the productions of their cameras. The late George M. Hopkins, widely known vf or his contributions to experi mental science, suggested a very sim ple method of obtaining a soft, ethereal effect in a photograph by means, of a translucent ground-glass slide through which; the exposure is made. In this manner a negative is obtainable from which the finer details have been cut out, ; while the lights and shades are mellowed and a broad effect is secured. Such photographs; when artist! ca?ry colored, produce nearly the impression of a painting. Ancient Bracelets Found. Four "magnificent bracelets belong ing to the Queen of King Zer, who reigned nearly 5000 B. C were among the discoveries made by Professor Petrie while excavating at Abydos, Egypt. The workmanship of these is most ingenious and delicate. The finest bracelet is formed of alternating plaques of gold and turquoise, each surmounted with the royal hawk and paneled to imitate the front of the tomb or palace. This bracelet consists of thirteen gold and fourteen turquoise plaques in the form of a facade, where upon was inscribed the name of the queen. The gold was worked by chisel and burnishing. The second bracelet had a centre piece of gold, with ame- thyst and turquoise heads and bands of braided gold wire. -The. fastening of the bracelet was by . loops and button of a hollow ball of gold, with a shank of gold wire fastened in It. The third bracelet is of spiral beads of gold and lazuli in three groups. Making the fourth bracelet are four f groups of hour-glass beads, amethyst between gold, with connections of gold and tur quoise. Cleveland Tlain Dealer. t- , j -r : : 4-::" ; "A Stlcnt Zone. ; "' That a powerful, alam like a fog siren can be" sounded without being: heard is shown by the investigations of E. P. Edwards on the English coast. At a distance of a mile froip the siren the sound began to die away, and be tween two and three miles it was en tirely inaudible, while beyond thre? miles it was' again plainly heard. This mysterious - "silent zone" - constantly changed in extent and position Hart ford Courant. ,; Th Oldest LesitUtor. Probably the oldest legislator in the world is M. de. hygesqr. zu Damro gaard, member , of the Danish Parlia ment. He is ninety-eeven. Her Bridal Veil and Shroud. The Japanese, 'girl's bridal veil is pnt away after the ceremonv. not to be ' used till her death, when it" becomes ner shroud. ... -.