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BILIj AKP’S
TKir TO
UNA.
N051T1I CAEO-
Hard, hard, indeed, is the contest for
freedom and the struggle for liberty.”
“There is ao rest for the wicked.” This
world is all a fleeting show and Jordan
is a hard road to travel, I believe!
There are other ejaculations I might
utter, for of late there has been trouble
on the .(^Id man’s mind. You see, I
w.'.s invited over here to talk: to these
jn'ople i-o a humorous and pbilosoj)hic
’.v.i v and my wif^aid as the larder was
getting low auil'uie girls needed some
liiore v<inter clothes, and the tax man
was' b^il'ing around and the grand-chil-
t’® expecting something for
Christinas, she thought I had better go.
So she picked fr.y valise with my best
clothes and fortified me with a little
(ir:;g Etor<' of camphorated oil and ilan-
nel nnd liv.-r medicine and paregoric
and cough drops and quinine and head
ache poxderi, and so forth and soon.
Wo kissed goodliy all round and I de
parted fecimg like I was being driven
off from lio:ne l.y sad necessity. I took
the Seaboard Air Line at Atlanta bound
for Charlotte, via iVXonroe, but our en-
gnie broke d.nvn at Greensboro about
dark and this dcL-.yed us three long,
di-pary hoars, and when we reached
Jlonroe ii was way after midnight and
the Charlotto train had gone. There
were three nice ladies aboard and sev
eral gentlemen, who were greatly dis
appointed, but the conductor was kind
and sympathetic and said there was a
circus train near by that was going t0“
Charlotts; right away and if we didn’t
mind riding thirty miles in .a cab, he
would got us the privilege. The ladies
said yes, and we did, too, and ciiinbed
in. It was as dark as Erebus. We
felt our way to find seats but there was
nothin?: but some long tool bo.xes whose
lids were hard and cold. There was no
fire and the wind blew through a brok
en glass on the back of my head. The
ladies chatted away merrily, for they
were going home, but I wasn’t and I
couldn’t chat to saye my life, for I was
very tired and thought of that good,
soft bed at home. By and by the con
ductor came in with a lantern and took
up our tickets and left us in the dark
again. About that time the animals
got restless and the lion gave an un
earthly howl. You see this was a
menagerie train.
“The animals went In two by two,
The elephant and tlie kangaroo,”
and every time the cars careened about
or swung round a curve we could hear
some devilish noise ahead of us. ‘'Oh,
mercy,” said the youngest girl, “sup-
'•p6^e*Ehey4)rcah cut!” “They v.uIp eat
the sweetest and tenderest first,” said I,
“Lions always do.” I pulled my cloak
up over the back of my head and rumi
nated. For two long hours we jogged
along, for the train was running slow to
suit the wild beasts and we were of no
consequence. It was near 3 o’clock
when we got to the suburbs of Charlotte
and stopped. Nobody was looking for
us nobody rushed forward- to meet us,
no porter nor hackman—no omnibus
or street cars, not even a wagon or an
ox cart or a darky. The moon had hid
herself to keep from seeing our misery,
but we seized our grips and wraps and
satchels and made a march for the elec
tric lights. My companions soon sepa
rated from me and I marched in single
file with my big valise full of clothes
and the drug store, and struggled for
three quarters of a mile up the long and
hard sidewalk. I am not used to arc
lights, and the flickering shadow of
every tree and telegraph pole looked
a man in ambush who w'as fixing to
hold me up. I had forgotten where
the hotels were, and unconsciously
passed them, for the doors were all shut
and there was no sign. By and by I
met a policeman and he conducted
me back to the hotel, and I was as
thankful as I was tired and humble.
My pitiful tone of voice secured me
l^inii attention and a bod. When a
man is far away from home his warm
est welcome is an inn. But I did not
rest well. A 10 o’clock supper, on
fried sausage and scrambled eggs, and
stale oysters, disturbed my corporosity
and I dreamed that the tiger got loose
and came prowling and howling around
the car and somehow I got a hatchet
oiit of the toolbox and lifted the young
lady through the port hole upon the
roof, and volunteered to defend her
with my life and my sacred honor. The
tiger made desperate leaps to get up
there, but every time be got a paw on
the eave, I cut_it off and let him fall
tee—
for they filled the courthouse that
night and gave me an ovation. The
old soldiers are thick in that region,
and they came out to hoar rne, and
some of us got together and tiilked of
old Bob Lee and .Toe Johnson and Gen
erals Early and Render and W’hiting
and Hoke and Ransom and Pettigrew
and Clingman and others. Tneir eyes
watered and their hearts burned within
them, and they got closer and closer
together. What a pcoph those tar-
heels are—these descendants of the
Scotch! About every other name is
Scotch, a McLane or McFall or Mc-
Lanrin or McArthur or McSomething-
else, aud then there are Alexanders
everywhere and Caldwells and Carlyles.
After the lecture we tad a musical at
the hotel by the gifted Gruber family,
who keep the hotel, Mr. Gruber and
Mrs. Uruber and their seven children.
I have heard much music during my
long life, but I never heard any better
anywhere. How the old man’s fingers
did dance upon the strings; how sweetly
did the still handsome matron sing the
“Last Bose of Summer” and other old-
time songs of Scotland! What delight
ful chords came from the piano under
the touch of the young ladies and the
sweet little black-eyed girl of only ten
summers! And when they played
“Home, Sweet Home,” with varia
tions, I cold hardly restrain ray tears.
I felt like we all ought to hold a seance it
w^e could with John Howard Payne and
tell him how the world loved him for
his song. I had sweet dreams that
night. I am still on the grand rounds
talking to the unpretending people of
this grand old state. It seems to have
got out, however, that I had joined
John Robinson’s circus and gone off
with it. Some of these mischievous
drummers told that. Yours on the
wing. Bill Arp.
How It’s pone.
If you want to know how to get your
wife to mend your clothes, find the se
cret in the following domestic incident :
“It’s strange I can’t get my wife to
mend my clothes,” remarked Mr. Bri
die, in tone of disgust. “I asked her^
to sew a button on this vest this morn
ing, and she hasn’t touched it.”
“You asked her?” said Mr. Norris,
with a slight shrug of bis shoulders.
“Yes ; what else should I do ?”
“You haven’t been married very
long, and perhaps you’ll take a pointer
from me,” answered Mr. Norris, with a
fatherly air. “Never ask a woman to
mend anything. That's fatal.”
“Why, what do you mean?”
“Do as I do. When I want a shirt
mended, for instance I take It in my
hand and hunt up my wite. ‘Where’s
that rag-bag Mrs. Norris ?’ 1 demand
in a stern voice.
“What do you want that rag-bag
for?” she demands suspiciously.
“I want to throw this shirt away.
It’s all worn out,” I reply.
“Let me see,” she demands.
But I put the garment behind my
back.
“No, my dear,” I answer, “There’s
no use of your attempting to do any
thing with it. It needs—”
“Let me see it,” she reiterates.
“But it’s all worn out, I tell you.”
“Now John you give me that shirt,”
she says in her most peremptory tone.
I hand over the shirt.
“Why, John Norris,” she cries, with
a womanly triumph, ‘‘this is a perfectly
good shirt. All it needs is—’ And
then she mends it.”
JONES
FKOM THE KLONDIKE
“Good-Bye.”
Did you ever hear two married wom
en take leave of each other at the gate
on a mild evening ? This is how they do
it. “Good-by !” “Good-by !” “Come
down and see us soon.” “I will. Good-
by.” “Good-by! Don’t forget to come
soon.” “No, I won’t. Don’t you for
got to come up.” “I won’t. Be sure
and bring Sarah Jane with you next
time.” “I will. I’d have brought her
this time but she v/asn’t very well. She
wanted to come awfully.” “Did she
now ? That was too bad ! Be sure and
bring her next time.” “I will; ard
you be sure and bring baby.” “I will;
I forgot to tell you that he’s cut anoth
er tooth !” “You don’t say so ! How
many has ho now ?” “Five. It makes
him awfully cross.” “I daresay it
does this tiot vreather. Well good-by !
Don’t forget to come down.” “No, I
won’t. Don’t you forget to come up.
Good-by !” And they separate.
T.'vo Gontlomaii Fi'oin tiie Gold PigglnKS
Tell:j About the Wt'atlier. j
He ha<l just returned from the top of i
the Chilkoot Pass and was apparently ]
glad of it. ’ I
“How was the weather when you i
left ?” inquired a friend. “Cold?”
“Yes, but not so bad as it will be]
along in January, after the mosquitoes
get out of the air and let the wind have
a chance. Then it gets good and cold.
A man told me who had wintered up
there seven years that it w<*s ^o cold in
January that they |'roze the flames of
their candles and sold them for straw
berries, He said thoy kept their .ires
over night by putting them out in the air
and letting them freeze and then thawed
them out in the morning. He said he
had seen four men die o! colic fro.m
eating whiskey that was frozen so hard
it would’nt thaw inside of them. He
said the cows all gave ice cream till they
froze to death. He said he knew a
clerk in a hotel on the Yukon that got
rich selling the diamonds he wore, said
diamonds being nothing on earth but
ice“crystals|thatldidn’t thaw till after the
clerk had got out of the country. He
said he had seen a man fall off the roof
of a barn and freeze so stiff before he
lit that he broke in two when he hit the
ground. He said he had seen smoke
freeze in a chimney till the fire
wouldn’t draw, and he knew of one
case where the smoke froze after it got
a hundred feet up and fell back on the
house, knocking a hole in the roof big
enough to drive a yoke of steers through.,
He said the reason the nights were so'
long in that country was that the dark
got froze so hard the daylight couldn’t
thaw its way through in less than six
months. He said—”
“Excuse me,” interrupted the friend,
“did this party have affidavits with
these statements ?”
“He said he had, but I guess he
must have froze to death hunting for
them, because he never came back
when I asked him to go after them for
me,” and the returned Chilkooter
smiled a smile that v/as childlike and
bland.
SO-.U6 of Sl'ij BrtgSit
Lectuiri
ififs In Ilia Curreiit
ABOUT “KSSOLUTIONS OF KESrECTS.’
Mooresville Recoril-
For the dead or living there neVer has
Here arc some of S5’m Jones’ witty been a greater farce than the Resolu-
sayings, as reported bylthe Citizen from tion of Respect business. We have
his lecture in Ashevillejlast week: noticed from time to time, of resolu-
This is a great old world, and I’m not tions being adopted and signed by com-
gqing to leave it on pjirpose. Here’s mittees that 'vere appointed to draft
one fellow who is not ioing to kill his them, when to our certain knowledge
fool self. i) there was not a word of truth in them.
I’ve no respect for gaowlers, therefore Itinerant preachers, sometimes, after
I don’t respect many pfople. This na- h,iving served their time^ out at certain
tion reminds me of a fijmilyof spoiled places, are followed by lying resolutions,
children. ,n»' They have been so faithful, which we
That philoaopl'Uf. '■"/i yet lived doubt not is perfectly true, and we will
who c.'in tell w'hid/estate to show our .high appreciation (?) of their
be hungry and fcive iBthirig to' eat 'or valued services by this mark of respect,
to have the colic from eating too miicb. While those deceitful papers are being
I want to give you the worth of your drawn, some, if not all, of the commit-
raoney if you’ve got any place to put it. are rejoicing because of the re-
Some of your doll.ir fellows, 1 expect, We are glad of a cjange.
paid too much. But if you haven’t got “The old preacher has become too
room for it you can just sit still and let stale, etc. 3'our T-eward for
it ran over preacher while he is among you
There is nothing in this world to and then these lying resolutions will
which I tip my hat with profounder re- deman.d.
spect than a genuine man. The only , The same may apply to resolutions
trouble about it is, I don’t have to tipit drafted m memory of the dead. _ While
it often. A man is bigger than a king ivjng; not a good word is spoKen to
—bigger than a president. IE there is j^elp the vfeary trave.er on his way, but
a man in politics I don’t know it. Take j death disrobes him of everything
North Carolina for example. ' earthly, a loving committee is appomted
A Boston man once asked me: “Does
the negro differ from the white man in
instinct?” I told him no, the difference
was mostly in the outstink.
Some old deacon who swindles you
will say ‘‘I’m obliged to live.” That’s
a lie—he can die any day he wants to.
Among the girls we need more honey
bees and fewer butterflies. I don’t ob
ject to bangs; I think bangs are becom
ing to women and mules.
When women get to cutting off the
tops of their dresses for the ballroom
and the bottoms for the bikes, I begin
to get frightened
Some say Sam Joneeis vulgar. When
they say I’m vuglar it's like the skunk
telling the ’possum his breath smells
bad.
It is a reversal of God’s order of things
when woman becomes the leader in
immodestv.
to draft resolutions and tell of all his
good deeds, and how it saddens our
hearts to give him up. Flowers are
heaped upon his mound, and by some
who never did otherwise than to throw
thorns and briers in his pathway while
he trop the paths of life. We do not
mean to say that all resolutions oE re
spect are insincere, but we firmly be
lieve that nine-tenths of them are
founded upon hypocrisy.
Many tombstones bear the impress
too, of falsehood upon their faces. If
we cannot conscientiously speak well of
the living or dead, it would be far bet
ter to say nothing at all than to place
on record a batch of falsehoods in the
shape of “Resolutions of Respect.”
“Taffy” is good and wholesome when
sincerely given, otherwise it is hurtful.
Let us try to be consistent upon this
j line.
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Good rains
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next
Jio uu ii.c old
over him at Salisbu^, where I was
billed to lecture that night. On my ar
rival I found that august body, the
Presbyterian synod in session. Preach
ers and elders innumerable were scat
tered among the good people all over
town. They were holding night ses
sions, and wouldn’t have adjourned for
McKinley or Grover Cleveland or the
yellow fever or a firo. But this was not
all, the Episcopal bishop was to lecture
oa the Holy Land, where he had been
recently, and I knew that I would fall
between and get smothered. Mr.
Marsh seemed to feel very bad, and
apologized by saying that when he
booked me did he not know of these
meetings. ‘‘Well,” said I, “the saints
•s^l ali-go'to" these meetings, but you
have sinners in this town.” He admit
ted that there were som.e. And so I
went ahead and lectured, and was sur
prised to see before me a select and cul
tured audience, select, and I hope elect
according to Presbyterian theology.
' So all is well that ends well. The
ne.xt evening found me at the nice little
town of Marion, in western North Caro
lina, away up in the land of the sky.
They are good people there, I know,
rn was Boriilo Mr. and Mrs.
‘ Waterman of South Byron, a
'ment about ten miles distant. The
vent of this youngster has caused a
considerable commotion iu and .around
that village. The reason is because
the child came into the world with a fine
growth of hair on its head. The capil
lary patch which covers the infant’s
head is six inches In length and quite
thick.
A resident of South Byron, who is in
clined to draw morals from all happen
ings, decrares that the phenomeoal
growth of hair ou this infant’s head is a
sure indication that a severe winter is
in prospect. So sure is this man of the
truth of his prognostications that he
spent all of Saturday in laying in an
extra supply of fuel for the coming
months.
A Lansuage Lesson.
A college professor, who prided him
self on his correct-English, heard his
..“I intended to tell Jane
to brhig a fresh bucket of water .
doubtless Si'ean a fmcket of
fr®h.water,” corrected the professor.
“L w’feyi woitM p»y-«Ima_ail.cntiop
to your rhetoric. Your mistakes are
curious.” A few moments later the
professor said: ‘‘Jly dear, that picture
would show to bet*er advantage if you
were to hang it over the clock.”
“Ah,” she replied quietly, “you
doubtless mean if I were to liang it
above the clock. If I were ,to bang it
over the clock we could not toll the
time. I wish you would be more care
ful with your rhetoric, my dear; your
mistakes are curious.”
And the professor all at once became
very much interested in his book.
jloliduy Kates.
The usual holiday rates will be good
this year all over the territory of the
Southeastern Passenger Association and
probably all the way to the Mississippi
river. Heretofore it has been customary
Id at the de-
Utttler'a lAwlo Hufl.
News and Observer, 20fch. ^
Senator Butler yestercly worked
nice little bluff on the crq
TOt^wgiting fo
Senator was goin^oii"cjis^““^ dou-k
Soathern traia. Therep i^eea much
said about pass-totera people
were wbnd'errng
going to do about it. io
riedly with his Bag, stl ^ up to the
Southern Eaihvay took
ISiiying Cotton Wliilo It Is I.ow,
The receivers of the Eagle and Phoa-
nix mills, at Columbus, Ga., are taking • to restrict the low rates to points within
advantage of the present low price of
cotton to buy a supply for the mills to
last until next fall. Eecently the re
ceivers borrowed money with which to
buy 4,000 bales and petitioned the Fed
eral Court for permission to make ar
rangements to get 7,000 bales more.
Saturday an order signed by .fudges
Newman and i'ardeo Avas received con
firming the action of the recesvers and
authorizing the borrowing of more
money with which to buy cotton. The
mills now consume between 1,300 and
1,400 bales of cotion per month.
a radius of three hundred miles.
Fourteen lines announce that they
will participate in holiday excursion
rates from points in Texas at a rate of
one standard first-class fare for the
round trip to destinations south of an
imagin.ary line along the northern
boundary of North Carolina and thence
across the states of Kentucky and Ten
nessee to Memphis.
The roads in this territory will run
home-si.ekers’ excursions on the first
and third Tuesdays in every month from
December 1st to May lat.
out a roll of money, hd \\ ^
bill to the agent with a A Vf*- change
it. While the agent was\“g the
Senator shifted some otheV'’''S® from
one pocket to another;
crowd behind him, whojP’-^^*^ hear
nothing of what passed,
was putting a ticket
Then he raked in the'
picked up his bag and.'’
tlie train.
“And so the Senate
ticket,” said several in t|
he did nothing of the ki
his pass. ‘ ^ .
Tne liop.-irt a Fabric^'
WIKSTOX, N. C., Nov. 2#
has bseu widely circulatpxl in
dividuals contiectlu^ Mril
,CD
(is pocket
j m change,
jried toward
buying a
icrowd—but
-he rode oa
nolds, the millionaire toi-,-
facturer of this city, alleged
social scantlal hero. , <
“The report is a fabrii^^ entirely,
and the first knowledge brought
to Winston from outside"raL^
started probably as a jo^if^
j suined serious proportio Jc]
knowu citizen today.
Mr. Reynolds is one < most
prominent citizens of this f
report does him a great it
bd a well
Disease Spread l>y Pejieils.
iNDi-iSAPOus, Nov. 19.—The health
authorities are making an investigation
of the rapid of diphtheria and
^ . r—rV™"g
; ,-Tiools opened Un Sep-
temben, and Vlieve that they have
found in the system f^Uowea
»r> the-HSQ'oi‘-lea<l pen
cils. All tlie pcii^iVia and pentiolders
are gathered together each day just be
fore dismissal and placed iu a box o^\
the teacher’s desk. The next moruihg
the [)encils and penholders aie redis
tributed, so that each child may get dif
ferent pencils and penliolders every day.
City Sanitarian Clark says that it is
second nature for children to place pen
holders in their mouths when at study,
and that thus disease may be commu
nicated from child to child. The City
Sanitarian is experimenting w'ith a pre
paration by which the pencils and pen
holders can be sterilized each day.
Youth’s Companion.
Thirty-five years ago there v/ere no
means of overland Communication be
tween our Pacific and Atlantic coasts,
except by a difficult and dangerous ride
across mountains and deserts.
With the outbreak or the Civil War,
the need of a closer military connection
with the Pacific became imperative; but
the risks of building a road through
long stretches of unsettled country made
the enterprise too ditlicult for private
capital, and its importance seemed to
justify making it a national under tak
ing. . ,
In 1862 Congress passed an act to
promote the construction of the Central
Pacific, Kansas Pacific and Union Pa
cific Railroads to make a continous line
from Omaha westward across the conti
nent. This act made large grants of
land to the railroads, -and directed the
issue of government bonds to aid in
their construction at the rate of from
sixteen thousand to forty-eight thousand
dollars a mile. The companies were to
make good to the government the prin
cipal and interest of these subsidy bonds,
and to ensure payment, the government
was given a first lien or mortgage on
the property of the r.iilroads.
Ttie roiids were completed in 1869.
The Union Pacific Hoad, extending
from Omaha to Ogden, Utah, was built
by an organization known as the Credit
iilobilier. This was composed mainly
of the incorporators of the railroad com
pany, and it made large profits out of
the construction. The distribution of
some of the shares among members of
Cangress, either as gifts or at a price be
low their real value, occasioned one of
the most serious scandals in our politi
cal history.
Altogether, about sixty million
dollars ol bonds were issued to aid ths
Pacific Railroads. The companies have
not met the government’s claims, a:^d
the difficulty ot enforcing payment has
been enhanced by an act, passed in
1864, which permitted the companies to
issue first-mortgage bonds to an
amount as large as their subsidies, a
proceeding which made the government
claim a second mortgage.
Repeated attempts to secure a settle
ment through Congress have failed, be
cause no agreement could be reached
between those who wanted to extend
the time of payment and those who be
lieved that tne government should take
possession of the delinquent roads and
operate tham.
Foreclosure proceedings in the courts
were therefore begun under the last ad-
niij-iistratioD, and are .being carried
through under the present. The Union
Pacific was first taken up, and tho road
has just been sold to the “reorganiza
tion committee,” which represents the
bondholders and stockholders of the
company, at a price—above the
amount of the first mortgage—large
enough to meet the entire claim of the
government.
This amount, which in round num
bers is fifty-eight million dollars, is
twelve million dollars larger than the
first bid of the committee. The com
mittee raised its bid four million dollars
when the government proposed to ap
peal from a court decision which di
minished the amount of property sub
ject to its claims, and it rassed its bid
eight million dollars more when the
government gave notice of its intention
to postpone the sale to admit other bid
ders. Under the price just p.aid, the
government receives baclc every dollar
of principal and interest which it has
paid out for the Union Pacific.
A date has been set for the sale of the
Kansas Pacific, and proceeding in the
case of the Central Pacific will be taken
later.
£=lCiV.iaut Tmio at a Mouro County Ilop.
Troy Troian.
The Trojan learns that our old neigh
bor, Jas. L. Currie, of Moore county,
had a “corn shucking” last Friday, and
as is his wont, he gave the youog folks
“a hop” and they hopped. Anil as the
report comes to us, as the night grew
on tliey grew so hilarious they conclud
ed to “put the shootin’ to the people”
and tliey shot. When the coasts had
cleared Jess Thomas had been shot in
tho hip, several others were powder
burnt and Kob Thomas’ clothes were
badly hacked by a knife and his head
terribly bi-uised by lilows inflicted with
a stick. We have not learned the
names of the participants other than
those meutioned above.
A Kat Attaclcs a Cliild.
McKeesport, Pa., Nov. 17.—Mrs.
Mary Kunkle, a widow residing ou
School alley, yesterday placed her 14-
months-old child iu a cradle and went
about attending to her household duties.
Mrs. Kunkle W'as suddenly attracted by
her child’s distressing screams, and, on
entering the room where the little one
was, found a big rat attacking the child.
The rat turned on Mrs. Kunkle, but
was finally driven off. The rodent had
bitten the child through the hand and
it almost bled to death before a doctor
could check tiie flow of blood. The rat
escaped.
^ Yiidkcw Kailroud Prosperous.
,Salisbury ^VorId. 3Uh.
I The Boar:! of Directors of the Yadkin
Kiiilroad met this morning in regular
finnual session. The election of officers
[took place with the following result:
^’resident. A, B, Anlrews; Vico Prcsi-
■dent, Theo. F. Kluttx; Secretary, U. W.
'Miller. The Yadkin is said to be one of
the most .orofitable bri»nch lines the
Southern now controls. Both the freight
and passenger traffic ar,’ highly satis
factorily and yield a good income to the
company over and above ail operating
expenses.
A New Gauio Liaw,
Book agents may be killed from Oc
tober 1 to September 1; Spring poets
from March 1 to June 1; ^ .ndal mong
ers April 1 to February 1; Unu.rella bor
rowers August 1 to November 1; and
from February 1 to May 1, while every
man who accepts a i.».) ,'oars but
when the bill is >)iac,;:-'e.i says, “I
never ordered it,” may be killed on
siglit without reserve or relief from val
uation or appraisement law}, and buried
face downward, without benefits or
clergy.
A Philiidnlpbia judge fined a man
$10 for spitting on another man’s front
door steps. In his charge to the jury
the judge said that in foreign countries
the habit of spitting on the sidewalk is
unknown and the only way to stop it in
this country is to have the offenders ar
rested for malicious mischief. “The
defendant,” he continued, “was a hog
iu spitting on the ste)) or sidewalk, in
stead of, as any gentleman would, over
the curbstone,”
The - Joarnai - Leads
IN riucE,'
m NEWS,
IN CIRCULA'riON,
IN ADVERTISING,
IN LIVE ISSUES,
IN UP-TO-DATE
JOUENALISM.
Sl-AIN COUNTS ON xUcHIJSI.E¥3 AID.
New Yorlc World.
The World is able to suv ou very high
authority that President McKinley will
tacitly approve the yirogramme for au
tonomy or home rule for Cuba which
Spain now promises.
Second—That the President will ex
press the hope that the Cubans will not
prolong their war for complete inde
pendence, but will accept instead a form
of autonomy.
Third—That if vhe Cubans (io not
heed this advice S;\aiu will be given
more time without interfer^^uce from the
United States, ,(
Fourth—The President says that he
ardently desives peace both at home.'and
abroad. “War scares” and “b'elliger-
ency resolutions” disturb business, re
tard prosperity,and do no good. A new
Congress is to be chosen next fall, and
everything depends on “good times,”
A season of peace “from Cuban sensa
tions” is therefo»e now almost certain.
Fifth—Spain has been informed of
McKinley’s hopes and plans, and as the
first eyidence of her own good inten
tions and good will she pardoned and
released yesterday the American crew of
the filibustering schooner Competitor
caught under arms off the Coast of
Cuba on April 15, 1896.
Cau’t Tas a Postmaster’s Salary.
Washington, Nov. 19.—The issue as
to whether a State or municipality can
levy an income tax on the salary or
compensation of a postmaster, a sub
ject of broad interest to the Federal ser
vice generally, was decided to-day in
an opinion rendered by Acting Assist
ant Attorney General Harrison J. Bar
rett, for the Postofhce Department.
The case arose on an inquiry from the
postmaster at Gastonia, N. C. It is
held that a State has no authority to
tax the emoluments paid to any officer
or agent which the United States may
“use and employ as necessary and
preper means to execute its sovereign
power.”
Mr. Barrett says ; “The govern
ment of the United States is supreme
within its sphere of action and any act
of a State or municipality which at
tempts to tax the emoluments paid to
the officers of the government is un
constitutional and void. If the power
existed in a State to tax the officers or
agents of the government, it could
thereby impair the power of the United
States in the execution of its sover
eignty. The postmaster at Gastonia,
therefore, cannot be required to pay a
tax upon the income of his office, either
to the State of iNorth Carolina or to the
municipality of Gastonia.
A Free Scliool li’igrht.
Daedenelle, Aek., Nov. 17--—A riot
occurred in the public school yesterday,
the result of which is that Prof. Dickson
is in a critical condition, a student
namee Alley is expelled and the student’s
father, F. A. Alley, is in jail. The
trouble started when Miss Jones, one of
the teachers, attempted to correct young
Alley for an infraction of rules. Alley
is 17 years old and Miss Jones thrashed
him. The boy took the punishment,
but resolved on revenge and at recess
set fire to the premises. For this Prof.
Dickson attempted to give the boy an
other thrashing. Alley resisted and in
the fight with Dickson had all the besjt
of it, beating the professor’s face into a
jelly and inflicting dangerous wounds.
A free fight ensued, and Alley’s father
came to his son’s rescue. Officers
stopped the fight and locked Alley, Sr.,
up in jail.
The Yield of Cotton Per Acre.
Washington, Nov. 12.—Preliminary
reports to the Statistican of the Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate an average
yield of 181.9 pounds of hnt cotton per
acre. The principal State averages as
follows: North Carolina, 184 pounds;
South Carolian, 189; Georgia, 178; Ala
bama, 155; Mississippi, 120; Louisiana,
245; Texas, 165. Arkansas, 215; Ten
nessee, 132; Oklahoma, 225; Indian
Territory, 300. In the main the crop
has been picked in excellent condition,-
the weather having been highly favor
able.
llauua Feels Safe.
Senator Hanna’s majority on joint
ballot in the new Ohio Legislature ia
now placed at 5 certain, and 15 if the
Cincinnati fusionists turn out to be Re
publicans. It is pretty safe, jjerhapa, to_
tr'iie'cau^'get"inna-
joritj of 5, he is pretty sure to get the
15. Ohio politicians are very practical
and like to get down off the fence on
the side where there is “something in
it” for them. And Senator Hanna is
probably the kind of politician to meet
their views^
The Human Body.
This will make good reading for the
man who is continually conijjlaining of
inefliicient teachers of our day. It is
from the Chenoa, 111., Gazette:
Not long since iu a Western school a
student’s examination paper contained
this marvelous budget: The human
body is divided into three parts: The
head, the chist and stummick. The
head contains the eyes and brain,’ if
any. The chiet contains the lungs and
a piece of liver. The stummick is de
voted to the bowels of w'hich there ia
five, a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w
and y.”
Chio.vgo,Nov. 20.—Belle Murry, aged
seventeeu years, daughter of A. Gordon
Murray, a prominent leader among
Scotchmenlin the United States, died
early this morning from fright. A bur
glar entered her room at midnight and
pointed a pistol at her. She became
unconscious and died from the effects
of the fright. The police now guard
the house.
—Salisbury is to have an electric rail
way, which will also be extended to the
new railway shops and the town of
Spencer, two miles away. Work will
tsegiu January 1,
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