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It t ; ECHOES OF. PIONEER DAYS V-i EAST CAROLINA RICH IN UlbTOKY J Col. Olds Recapitulates tbe Incidents ana uisooverlea or ilia riigrimage ," ; Glimpses of Home of the Cliange- leas - Place Mingled ' With tho . Echoes, of Lonr-Gono Past. He , ' Finds the Wblri of a New Life s Something of Uie Progress and, De '''.t velopment of . the Section A Pay ; In Xldewete Virginia and Qnicid ,a ts . anrnejr Home. . - v r i Vs 'Correspondence of The ..Observer. tRaIelgb, Feb.f My, extended .tour of eastern North Carolina has come to an end and surely there 'new waa jnore," pleasant way to spend, the ;,glorlous month of January,. which in V th main was perfect la -It, weather r ' , end at -limes almost 5 ' summer-Hke, . with f rosea aud other Aflowers abloom ' ' at Boutbport ,and Wilmington and , , Wrightsvllle,- and with a. total escape & A, froms the snows1 and sleets ".which marked the latter part ' of the month h, ,.'ln the central and "western portion of H t the State. It la truly a far cry from the stately palmettoes at the mouth of the-. Cape year' rver, , where North , vuruuna is almost uvea oy ine son waters of the Gulf stream, to the lortl. est1 hills east of the Rockies. A . won derful State.-trulv i-' t . " Our placid , friends, ' the Spaniards, nave a proverb which; translated in to our more homely English, meana never do to-day what you can put oft until to-morrow. - That lathe gos pel in Manana land the- "land of to morrow." In my travels I found Man-r ena, land In North Carolina, at three places, one of these being 1 Ocraeoek, J another Bath and the third Roanoke - Island,' but of all ' Ooraeoke perhaps leads. The strenuous life Is unknown v ; to the dear Inhabitants of that Isle v. hd;t the ; rood peole on fx Isle - of ; lioanoke" have but little more knowl , edgejjof It.- At -Bath , they simply - sleep,, -while the., town Itself,' little . more than . a memory, doses In the aunahlnn... . ! Of all places m North Carolina .-which are memorials of the past St. Philip's . church and church years at Old Brunswick,: on the Cape Fear rlv below. Wilmlnaton. "easily ranks 1. flrsti That place la to ..North Caro line what Jamestown Is to Virginia. : The ruins of the church are- far more v imposing than the old tower which is all-that remalna at Jamestown, while ,, the splendor -of the tombs shows what the gentry of . the province were in those far off days. It is small wonder . that the Colonial Dames make an an nual pilgrimage to such a place. To go there gives the visitor - at once an Idea of . the cort of people who live : In the lower Cape Fear section, a sec tlon where there Is now. as there was then, the finest flavor or hospitality, , the very flower of hospitality, so to : speak. The hospitality of ' eastern North Carolina Is proverbial, . but in .that section it finds a most generous expression. " . '' The abandonment of. the street hous es and their splendid farms is one of the saddest things in eastern Nortn Carolina. These have, in a few cases, paaed Into new hands. Borne" of the mansions are. hut ruins now, while farms, once kept " like a garden, are almost a wilderness. At one farm there are the ruins of old canals which threaded It and along which passed the rich freighted boats of the owner, taking Its products to markets at . home and abroad, while " the drains are arched with brick, to avoid qulck aanda. Everything around these old places haa been eh formal- and so tately that one feels like treading lightly, and with uncovered head, as If In the very presence of the dead. Here Is a home, now in alien hands where in the stables the rich and hos pitable owner used to keep thirty rid ing horses, always ready for the use of his guests. The saddest things to see are the old cemeteries, with tombs tail and stately, blackened by age and tmeared for, surrounded by crumbling walls of brick or half broken iron en closures, with the trunks of great trees rising in their midst, the roots playing havoc with not a few of the v memorials. ji i ."WHIRL. OP NEW LIFE. 7 '"Wfngled wlth these echoes,- as one may say of a long-gone past, is the ' iWhlrl of a new life; the infusion of ;,,.rjew blood, for in that eastern section the greatest development In railways .. Is now taking place and along this line there are great movements, with an b ' : expenditure of money undreamed of a :yvfew years ago.. It Is the timber that : ' la being sought, mainly,, but , a ' little is H oare Is given to trucking areas and to ! i the fish and oysters of that wonderful section, But for the timber there Is a ? regular erase. People -make fortunes simply by buying lands and holding '. them, and the ' State Itself has . the . -. golden opportunity before it In hold lng Its own vast possessions. To the railways there are few problems In the j tv.wayot grading, the country being as b flat, as any floor, as a rule, the only ' I - question being the best methods of crossing the estuaries which come up Into the State like a series of Inverted -''Vs. The problem is to- get Just as '8 near .the Sound shores ' aa possible. Great force are behind the roads and - their building, and the gigantic spec 1 ter of the- Standard. Oil trust looms : vast like some of the dear old Arabian .Nights. There Is talk of a road to i Powell's Point, which Is" within 15 -miles pf Roanoke Island, There are all aorta of rumors about the owner- ship of the Suffolk and Carolina, which . , fs doing a tremendous amout or ouiia lnr and nushlng surveys In several dl- 4 sections, and .which has made heavy purchases of .material,''-steamers, etc' 1 . : There la one rumor that this road ' controls the Raleigh Pamlico Bound Line, which is under' course of con l tructlon; " tf', , -,-1 . -AROUND ROANOKE ISLAND. The last letter I wrote was dated at Manteo, the ounty seat of Roanoke w; my aide throughout my trip of almost va , months wa most-kind lir getting -me away Trom the island. Black Care bad no part in my Journeya ", . I -figures to myself that the best way " to leave the Island was on a sailing vessel In the same-method our early friends. Sir Walter Raleigh colonists ' made their appearance In that part of " the world, and so it came about that :.y6 I Wok what our forefathers, used to .-call the 'Oood Ship" HatUe Crlef, a fi trim aohooner, which after the modern " manner la also equipped with a couple yf of i "kickers,,-otherwise gasoline . en f glnes, very useful things indeed when the wind dies out or is adverse, life at. Manteo run on just as It did, let - ius say a couple of hundred years ago or thereabouts. The Hotel Tranquil is just as quiet as ever: with fis white f dove, wings ouUpread, in the dining - room and the scripture mottoes on the walls, mottoes full of meaning. .Mine Host A. C. Evans Is there, just as the - settlers found him when they came . down , into Chowan precinct some ' where about two centuries ago. -He is no older and no younger, . The people - of Roanoke Island have one streak of fortune, and can rather indulge In a smile -at the worry--ttt housekeepers and thst sort of folk in other parts of the State, where the problem of se .- curing t-elored labor is one of tb grav est which modern has to face. . The "unbleached domestic," fit ' I venture to call our fast disappearing friend the African,: does no figure in. the : dally lifs of the rood people of Roanoke Is landi "iThey work themselves when there Ja occasion for it, "and they know how to rest as well es any people: up on earth, after thay have done ths; ne cessary work. Their island is Border. ed on the east, at- Its northern end, by vast sand dunes or hllla which like those at Nag's Head, are at once the creation 'and the ,:eport of the wlnd, The; greatest 'of all these hills towers above the pines, and there is a. county law which forbids any one to climb' up the sides of 'this - or tq walk upon its top. since to do' this, would' set the shifty and treacherous and to Wow ing and so cause Irreparable damage, as in such case It woul move Inland, ana: overwpeim Toresi, zarm ana ouiia lng alike. Recently - & oarty of Pic nicer went pnthis great dune and were caught' there by the sherirr and ordered down The party asked If It could remain until the time came, to gc home, as It was bound to come down any way. and it was Immaterial when the . dissent ' was made, . The sheriff allowed It to remain and would not Impose the line, the plea being ig norance of the law-on tho "Subject, As we skirted the Island we passed near these sand hlUs, which great as they are, looked really small beside the mountainous ones at Nag's Head, some of the tatter being half a mile In length and the sun swinging boldly making them look " like mountains stripped by some convulsion of every vesture , of -herbage t and left as hare and grinning as any skeleton could be. Not Sodom nor Gomorrah could he more desolate than that place ghastly as any figment tof a dream, and with its loneliness accentuated by the mis erable buildings, unpainted and deso late which-tower at the foot of the hills. Along a sort of trench across the narrow beach you could see trie tumo ling waves of the roaring sea, curling green and breaking )n a smother of foam, while the spanking breese tore oft the crest and -blew them away like whiffs of faint "smoke into the brine, while where the. crlef blowed alona were the muddy waters of the sound, rich with the sediment brought down by the haughHly Roanoke river, a tribute from two States. ."BILL,. Tim BEAR HUNTER." I have said that fortune was most kind and aa soon . as I boarded the crlef she gave me a smile and Intro duced me to "BJir Basnlght, then Bear Hunter': made famous by the pen of Grandfather Creecy- Bill Is the Nim rod of North Carolina, and before hi facile tongue all other sportsmen, not failing to include the trusty and well- beloved ' Big Tom Wilson," 01 uranu father Mountain, looks small indeed. and jt may be said, parenthically that Mr. Basnlght makes the eminent Ger man writer Munchusem look like thir ty cents. Not since the golden days when Richard the -Lion-Hearted was King of Merrie England, and Robin Hood and his gray and daring out laws roamed Sherwood forest and shot at the fleeing deer and at the mark as well, has -any one been able to draw the long blow with suych dex terity as Bill Basnlght. With a tlm tdlty which was almost imploring he broke the news that during his event ful life of 60 odd years he had killed with his own hand 412 bear, not count tag those caught in traps and other wys. iuiu ine several vpienuiu ng forward and great areas were, as stories about his .- adventures with j nas been stated in previous letters, bears which are his favorite game, (found to be covered with lettuce beds. Once, said he,' a bearkt m tho northern Tyrrell counties had . him down and was on the point of eating, bis fact, when a brother rushed up and put shot in Bruin which ended him then I )n tnP northeast and the days of the and there. : There are, he says, btghAnt unless it be the gas-boat, is panthers yet remaining her and there in Tyrrell and Dare counties, but these are very timid and will only fight -nlhen cJ4sely foressed. These (differ from the smaller wild cat. His closest call, so far aa panters are concerned, he told about in this wise. He and his brother were' hunting in a canoe and were skirting the shore of a river or lake when they saw a big panther which ..was being chased by their dog. The animal crouched -on the shore and the mighty, hunter fired at it but the animal, he declares, "ducked" at the flash, and so was missed entirely. sprang Into the. water and swam out among some cypress leaves, was fired at again and for the second time didg- ed and so was unhurt. This made Basnlght thoroughly angry, and push ing the boat ap te the hank, he pur sued the panther, with only a knife in his hand. The panther, pressed by the-dogs too, crouched to spring, but luckily Mr Baanlght remembered what he had read about the power of th human eye upon animals and decided with his e,u!ck wit to use it on this beast . He returned the glare of the panther with Interest, say of the rate of about ten per cent and then sprang forward and with one sweep of the big bunting knife split the panther's Iwnti. '.. Ar.il 4 Aoi-i 1 In 4 at AtMwitm brain, but even then ' In Its dyOn agony it gave a leap and caught one of nls dogs which he mauled terribly In the few moments before death came. ' Mr. Basnlght told me that he knew there were man-eating sharks along the North Carolina coast be cause some 20 years ago he found on the shore below Neg'S Head the body or a. young -man wno. nad suaueniy disappeared "while bathing on that beach the day. before. He said 'the shark had bitten the body In the ab domen, there being the great oval marks of its many teeth, but that the ody'was too much, , for It did not hother.lt further after the one swift and horrible . crash. , ,. , PLAYGROUND OV THE SHAD. January was ended and the early shad were coming In, rather more nu merously than usual at this season in the upper waters The broad stretches of almost! fresh water are the play ground of this noble fish, which Is in such request? everywhere,- and v. there are miles of net stakes, which la Feb ruary will be hung with thousands of miles of seines and nets of all kinds, so thickly put out in those waters that it seem wonderful any fish at all can get up to the spawning grounds.1 One curious thing was observed In re gard to my tour, which embrace the whole sweep of the State from South port to Norfolk! this being the won derfully small amount of intercourse between - the people of i the ; various' towns. . For example ?. between Wi lmington and v Newborn:1 there Is no travel ave by' commercial men worth speaking of the people at ' Newbern very gravely told me, that the building of the , road from their; city . to- .Wil mington had Actually ; separated ' the places more and had hurt.. Newhsme by taking trade from- Its territory to Wilmington as (- deep-water point. Then there . is very : little v intercourse' between Washington and - Newbern; little indeed " between Edenton i and Washington, and certainly but a small amount between Elizabeth City "and Edenton. Ail that part of the world and -north' of Newbern move to Nor folk, which is . the Mecca., of north eastern North : Carolina. To be sure Norfolk, .though In- ..Vfrglnla, su i . ,H North Carolina town, and fully half of Its people are North Carolinian and fully two thirds of Its prosperity 1 ...... . . . f , ...... ,,. .... . ...... , . in, 1 ,-J'V ' . . ' 'V ... "V. 1 ..... - ' 1 L . i.1. FT '..t. One's lover tarries at the door, Eager In dreams of bliBS. Her eye Is UgHt, her heart Is love. Her lips are sweet to kiss. , Is due to North Carolina. So after one leaves NewDern, noriuoounu, most of the talk Is about lumber ana oysters and fish and truck, some about cotton and corn, but no ena or n about Norfolk. Boats point that way. trams rush there. The world Is on the moTfL and nothing: shows more plainly what North Carolina has lost by not . having anoiner nne wumr wav of Its own like the splendid one down the Cape Fear river to Wilming ton, which haa developed ana is aevei- oplng In such a marked desrree.' "ine influence of Norfolk is paramount uvbi swat urea of this State. The genial Norfolk people always speak of North ! Carolinians as "down nomers, -i cause the latter by no chance ever sav I North Carolina but always speak 4 of "down home- ine jest ai meir pense is to be sure a genial one. In the far southeastern part of the State, Around F&vflttevllle. Wilmington and Newbern lne earjy truck was go- rn tnir'tr wflM observed until the vcrv ! .hurbs of Norfolk were reached. aUt.. raiiwnv do most of the carrying nppttv nparlv at an end. ine aa boat Is pushing Us nose into every thing and its consumptive -cough is heard far and near. It tends to make residents of that section who are dis posed to be lasy, even lailer, this being a very natural result to be sure. It is nice to be able to loll in a boat, and "let the Gold Dust Twins do your work." STEPPING INTO THE; PAST. : What a trip mine was, all along the line, Fayettevllle, Southport, Wilming ton. Wrlghtsville,' Newberne, Waah t nn-.- Rath. Edenton, - Hertford. Ellaai ihth dinv. Roanoke Island, not to speak of side trips to other points of interest, wucn or me tour waa iiicpr etennlna back Into the past. Of course there are myths here and there, notable those about pirates, A.rttcularly about-that genial old murderer and blackguard Teach, of whom there must have been at least a dosen. if he had as many habita tions as tradition says he had. Col, Creasey la full of the notion that one of his places is near Elisabeth City, the lower floor being of brick and the upper of wood and the location night the water, xeacn us. in raci. the sort of a person who had to al L ways be ready to ? take water,; i The PKnnl tatiA .Awn t Kf 'hAtia 1M ft 11 f I A people Who own this house are quite wide awake ana not oniy cnarge an entrance fee, but also sell relics. By and by, as progress marches along, the people of Bath wfll prehaps awake to the fact that Teach is some thing of a bonanza and they may offer some relics too, and have a, cicerone to take visitors around to sea where he abode in their village. ' The people of Roanoke Island ire indulging in a sort of hope that Pres ident Kosevelt win go there during the Jamestown Exposition. They hope to turn an honest penny out of this exposition "by the way by having peo ple come, to their place. , Of course tnere is oniy tne outline or tne old fort to be seen, but . to - the student this, slight aa it is. is a nolnt of verv deep 'human interest, , though . to i be sure tne average ianaer cares notn lng for it. Some persons expect the government to mark the nld fort and perhaps to , erect some- great , monu ment there. 1 , J - -1 ! ; The Colonial Dames have not " the strength In the East which, they ought to have. There 'is really not a mem ber of the order - at Eden ton which is easily the most prominent of. the colonial towns In this State, ' and which has few , equals In , the entire country. One lady there said - she would -soon . toe ; a i Dame, ; It would certainly , appear .that this organisa tion would make a --- pilgrimage to Edenton,; and ft would be very easy for it on this occasion to go to Bath and also to Roanoke Island, and eer talnly In this vicinity Of paces It would find a world of things which It ought to see.- ' ""- i 'ti,!.,,, NORFOLK' NEW LIFE. - A I followed: the crowd and went to Norfolk, as "atl -Jhe world hr doing, and found that city brim full of new life. I had never had a satisfactory view of tbe place, but spent half an hour on top of .th new r sky-scraper and -saw a panorama we n .--worth go ins; all the way to, Norfolk to see. A view at- this shows what Norfolk is and what It Is to be in the neur years.-: A 'newspaper friend told me that within two years two and a half million dollars worth of buildings had been constructed in a distance of two squares of the Chamber of Commerce, and-1 counted' at lafrt " a score --nf large structures in1 course of erection. Oii-all.'sldes there whs talk of North Curolina j and Interest in the - James The other's sleeps beneath a stone. Cold as the stone he lies. Dust are his lips and dust his heart And ashes are his eyes. town Exposition, and in the annex ation of Portmouth and other out lying suburbs was found to be great. In other words the Greater Norfolk movement is In full swing. I spent several hours at the Navy Yard at Portmouth and saw the great dry dock In course of erection. I found it being built of cement, connected section by section on exactly the same plan used : In constructing -the sea-wall at Galveston Texus. 1 went on beard the torpedo boat Bagley, which was lying alongside the Bar ney and BIddle, all these are being stripped and -repaired before they go to the Philippines, the engines put a few months ago having been found defective. The Bagley Is the only tor pedo boat, by the way, which has me morials, these being of bronze, and placed on each slde of the conning tower, The devilish looking little boats, otherwise the submarines, were also visited, one of them1 be ing the Moccasin and the other the Holland. The naVy yard is a very busy place and the torpedo stations and the training school present scenes of much activity. Many North Carolinian's are employed there In various capacities and many of the sailors and marines are from this State. In fact the North Carolinian is very Sure to get the glad hand on all sides In Norfolk and Portsmouth. There used to be some Jealousy be tween Norfolk and Portmouth, but this is being kept down, and I was told a very good story to the effect that in a Norfolk theatre a verly large part of the patronage cornea from Portsmouth, and there Is a no tice posted behind the scenes, that the actor or actress who takes a fling at Portsmouth will be fined $25. It is very safe to say that no jokes and cracked on Portsmouth in that place. The home run to Raleigh from Portsmouth -Was made -on the swift Seaboard Air Line train, through a country which shows development at almost - every station. Everything shows bow North Carolina is going ahead. It -has passed Virginia in pop ulation and H is passing it In devel opment. No people are more hopeful than North Carolinians and most surely none have greater reason for nope. v FRED A. OLDS, Mark Twain's Newest Story. Speech at Tuskegee Meeting at New xorg. j.- "We all swear everybody, including tne ladles, including Dr. Parkhurst that strong and brave and'- excellent cltlsen, but superficially educated For it Is not the word that is the sin, It is the spirit back of the word. When' an irritated lady says 'Oh!' tho spirit hack of it says : 'damn,' and that is the way it is going to be re recorded against her. It always makes me sorry when I'hear a lady swear like that. But if she says 'damn.' and says it In an amiable, nice way, It Isn't gojng to be recorded at all. "The idea that no gentleman ever swears Is all wrong; he can swear and still bea gentleman if he does It in -a way. The historian, John Flske, whom I knew well and loved,, was a spotless and most noble and upright Christian gentleman, and yet he swore once. Not exactly that, maybe; aim hebut I will tell you about it.- , "One day when he was. deeply im mersed in his work his wife came In, much moved and profoundedly dis tressed, and. said, 1 am sorry to dis turb you. John, but I must, "Tor this Is a serious matter, and needs to be at tended to at once.' Then,, lamenting, she brought this accusation against their tittle son. She said: 'He has been saying his Aunt Mary Is a fool ' and his Aunt Martha' is a damned , fool V Mr. Flake reflected upon the- matter a minute, then aald: Oht -well, ' it's about the distinction S should . mak between them my self," , - ,-r ,ii ,, i i ... 1 1 V ' A' ROCK HILL BLIND TIGER. . Lrgleea Tom ' Phlfer, the Inveterate V Dispenser ;of . iihck wuwaey, Again . nn th rfuiln Oanr. - ---,, Correspondence of, The Observer. -Xi: - Rock Hl'.l, Fen .- j.om:: ramrf ine legless blind tiger, who; had almost finished a." 1100 fine ' Imposed epon hlmbv JMavor Roddey av" few month ago, hag gotten in' trouble.agaln. -, He was 'brought, before the mayor, the first of the week on the charge of storing contraband liquor. He was found guilty and sentenced to pay a One of $100 or serve, so days on the county chain gang. Tom has : beca brought before the mayor on simi lar charges, but ft la a well-known fact to the - officers ' thst Tom sells liquor, and it is an easy matter to convict-him. Tom, as stated before, t legless,, he.' having lost both limbs a number.. of years ago .In a .railroad accident. lie.- la now on the gang and will be a pretty good hand around the,, vamp. - 4 . , i,y ,s- y f - -r 4 ' I would now sing a sad. aad song In moralistic style. Had not this artist struck me dumb With tha old lady's smile. ANCIENT IEI8II STORIES TALES ON EARLY TRAVELERS Pas, and Jolin and Mike and Tim. Uie First Settlers. Furnished Fun ttd .Snort for ScIukiI Boy Iartie8 tBewbiskered Yarns Trotted Out gVthe :. Benefit of tle Coming . aeration Providence Township Youngsters ? Laughed at the Hi bernians' Expense A Number of interesting experiences Recalled. I have wondered where the Uncle Remus stories originated. Every old- """-' Ltt,ea uoout rer Rab bit, Brer Fox, Ole Sis Cow and other animals, and in the main they are the aame. Down in Providence townshln where I first saw the light, white boys tell Irish tales, the origin of which Is as much of a mystery as Is that of the negro's Brer Rabbit tales The following will illustrate What I mean bythe Providence Irish, tales. - ,PAT AND THE SQUIRREL. Pat . and John, two Irishmen, started out for a hunt. They were greenhorns I I ine? Business but had heard a great " T2" TrT'a Bports- Tne flt thing that the Hibernians saw was a squir rel and that proud little animal mounted a high limb near the tip top of a tall tree and barked at them Faith," said John. "I see the beast and he's shaking his tail at ye, Pat" "lis and begabbera. I'll climb- the tree and get him," declared Pat. Pat was in earnest for he shucked nls coat and started up the tree. He hugged the body to the first limbs and then the going was easy. Up and up he went, until he was close to the scoffing squirrel. u yie, you beast. I'll catch you and : me and John will ate you for dinner j you little switch tail." i But the squirrel was not uneasy for he knew-full well hie powers. He laughed in the face of the Irishman. nu iiinue reaoy to jump to a nearby tree when he got good and ready, pat did not know that the squirrels could leap from tree to tree or he would not have gone up the big oak. At the flroper time the squirrel walked out on the end of the limb and sprung into the air, landing on a tree ten feet awar. "O faith and begabbera, I can Jump too," said Pat as he crawled out on the limb after the squirrel. The Irishman made the leap but nev er landed In the tree. He went head foremost to the ground and broke his necfe . . . . . Thaf IS the story as I heard it. JOHN OOES DOWN IN THE . . WELL. , .One "fine day in May John and Pat were drawing water for the mules and horses, when the bucket broke loose from the chain and fell to the bottom of the well. Faith." said John, "and I will go after it. Pat you hold the windlass and I'll go down the rope." John was grit to the craw. He would always do, or die trying. Therefore, when he had shed his coat he caught tne wen rope ana swung in. But the rope , was . so slick that he soon saw that he was In danger of losing his hold and dropping in the well. . 'Hold, faith and begabbera. and the rope is suck," shouted John to Pat "Let: me spit on my, bands and then I can hold l,t." v John let go tft spit on his bands and went straight to the bottom of the well. i , ' ' , . OLLINO A LO3 DOWN A HILL, - Pat and John wanted to roll A big log;, down a steep hill hut did not care to et It go pell mail. They schemed to see what could be dona, Pat struck the first Idea. In a Joyful outburst he eald: "I have it John. I'll tie one end of the rope around my waist and the ether around the log and I'll, hold bach like a horse." .. . ' "Folne," said John. ', ' Pat fastened the rope aa he suggest ed and John "started - the og Tbe rope wrapped around the tog and pat was soon f rst on top and . then the log. -. John was left In .She f race hut 'When he found 'Pat he was try ing to locate himself, . , '-,' "Pat, and? wha4 did yoa let the log do you that ' way for t" asked John, v "Faith,: I was on VP lost much as the, log." -? - ';w ? . ,-vt 'V . n v' i.vv- ; fMTHE IRISHMEN HUNT' BIRDS." v pat and -John went, bird ' hunting, They walked' fori hours without see tkng Anything ., to : f hoot - at. Finall v, however, a big grasshopper' flew out of the weeds and lit on John's breast Seeing . the insect Pat stopped short and shouted:; "Hold John, : there'- a bird let- me shoot otmt'i , -. , John stood Still while Pat' took aim S nd Mred. John fell morially wouinled but I'at pounced on him saying , "Uet up you rascal. It's ray bird that you are trying to hide." THE DEER HUNT., : Pat and John joined a party of deer hunters and took stands. . The hounds started a big buck and carried him right by . Pat but .that individual did not shoot until: some time after the dogs passed. The boys went down to see if he had . killed any game. "Did you kill the deer. Pat V asked one of the huntera. . - , "I was just looking to see now." declared Pat as he graveled around on the bank of a little pond. "I saw the beast jump out here and heard htm say: Tat O'Reilly drop your gun' and I tried him a crack." " (Pat had shot a big bullfrog. "Pat, that was a frog. Didn't you see the deer pasa here ahead, of the hou)ids?" "No. faith, I couldn't see nothing for the calf with the chair on his head and a bunch of cotton on his back." "Why that was the deer, Pat." "It was a calf, faith, and I know it." JOHN FINDS A WATCH. Pat and John had not been In this country very long. In fact, they had not had time to settle. They were traveling about the country, trying to select a good location, where, they could labor and live. One fine day, as Pat and John were about to sep arate so that they might see different sections of this country, they met a stranger who told them that he had lost his watch on the way and asked them to look for It. When the two met again, after being apart for several hours, John yelled to Pat: "And faith, I found the watch." "Where Is It John," said Pat. "Here In ty pocket," said John. "What time have ye?" "It Is now two and scratching like the devil for three." said John, as he struggled to hold something in his coat socket. "Let me see the watch John," said Pat. "And sure," said John, as he drew out a live upland terrapin that he pick ed up In the road. The trouble with the Irishman was that he bad found the terrapin and mistaken It for a lost watch; the American had told him that it would be going "Tick, tock" when he came up on It, and the clawing of the ter rlpan had fooled htm. Pat had found the real watch, but when he heard Its peculiar ticking, de cided that he had found one of the ter rible enemies that beset travelers In those early days, and smashed it with a rock. THE HIBERNIANS AND THE MOSQUITOES. In keeping with those Providence tales is the oft-repeated story of Mike and Tim, two Irishmen who had just landed In this country, and the mos quitoes of the coast region. Mike and Tim started out for a tramp across the country. As soon as they left the boat and when overtaken by night, thev slipped Into an unoccupied house to sleep. Helng foot sore and tired they fell asleep early. The Innocent fellows never saw a mosquito or felt the sting or his bite. The only enemy they had In Ireland was England. As they lay side by side on the floor of the little cabin a swarm of the blood-thirsty pests bored away at their faces, hands and other nudn places. Pat was the first to wake, and hearlna the singing, he said to John: "Sav. John, wake up. We are back in Ire land, and the boys are playing a Jig for us." John, who had been sleeping but lightly for some time, heard the voice of his companion and stirred. Hut the boys found that they were not in Ireland but In the land of "sing ing flies." They got up and closed the door to shut out the light of the moon and, in that way, protect themselves from the mosquitoes. Just as Mike and Tim were about to t-. e 1... tAn 9 nsera.rfii1notisi a n"r.i,.Jh..,- x-ith roil .all- i ed in the window and began to circle round and round. "John." said Pat. "and it's no use now. The beast has gone out and got a torch and is hunting for us. We might as well stay awake and folght." If these yarns seem bewhlskered with age to some I shall not feel ag grieved for they are as ancient as the hills. But, they are addressed to the boy whose father is too busy to tell stories. In the days of long ago men had plenty of time to repeat the tales they had heard in their younger days but such is not the case now. The scramble for the almighty dollar Is too strenuous. RED BUCK. Why Hay Got No War News.. Boston Herald. In the summer of the commencement of the Russo-Jap war the late Secre tary of State John Hay came to his summer home at Lake Sunapee for a few days' rest. Naturally, It was Im portant for him to have close and con stant communication with the outside worlfl, and arrangements hed accord ingly been made for telegrams to he sent up to him from the telegraph office. . , As the situation 01 tne tuasirn i falrs became more tense and excltln Secretary Hay was expecting : very important communications, but none came. A day went by, and no word. The next morning a messenger was dispatched early to see if there was anv message. "No," said the operator, "there is bone." , , . "But has none come?" he was askeeo. "W-ll. one came yesterday, but there was no sense to it, so I did not send It up." IT WAS A GOOD JOKE. But Innocent Phtladelphlans .Would Like to See Perpetrator. Philadelphia Record.-' - - - HoudlrU, the handcuff king, was badly wanted on Tuesday evening by two wen known Pbiladelphlana Doc Quinn, of tho City SollcUor'a office, and Ed Smith., ci gar f dealer on Broad : street. above Fil bert. Quinn had stopped in Smith's place te purchase a eigar, when a stranger en tered and la a few moments led the uatr Into a conversation, over the feats of the famous lock defter. ' ' The stranger displayed a set of hand cuffs and claimed that, he was going to see t It Houdini could take them off bis wrists after -they had been lockedeifc. To how how . tightly they Sited fa- man's wrist the stranger persuader Quinn and Smith ! t allow atest. ; oh to have a bracelet locked .. 6a one of ': his wrists. Smith,' who stood .V- behind the counter, rsudily - eequlesced, - and Quinn ' followed suit. The euffs were clicked on lo ajlffy. Without more ado the stranger started out, 'bidding the two goodby, and stating that he would be back as soon as ho pro cured a- flrlnk. and would the gentlemen puma riew niiniv m inn mean tlm. Tha two. vlctirua thnnrht If a. mruA joke, but as the minutes peaxed they b n 10 (! auirmea. A' crowa collecteJ, ut the Joker .did not put In sn aiuur. anoe. ' , . t . It took a lovkamlth three hours to file the hlKhly tampered sttwl ln ordir to T ImS the men. It Was a iionl 1okv tlx victims explained vto their fi-lwmix. but thy are anxious to bvoine bttor ac quainted with the Joker. SUBKENDERED TO OCTOPUS NO . BIDDING ON CANAI $UPPIIL3 "Savoyard" Declares the Admlnlstra- tion Made an Abject Surrender to -the Tariff Barons Instead of Buying- Necessary' Material In tliw Open Markets of the 'World, Pri vate Contracts Were Made at Home . ' AH Other Issues Subsidiary to Tariff Reform, and on Thta Line ' the DemocraUo Party Mast Fight It Out Until Victory is Won.- - Correspondence of The Observer.",-. , ' Washington, Feb. J. Lasti summer' V the Roosevelt administration through 'P: the Secretary of War, announced that v it was going to engage the tariff octe;'. pus and it was heralded to the fartlf.. est extremity of the ' republic that W Buiys, mnienais ana supplies lor to "wv vfc vuuaiiuiiuiB fcllO 'IT JUlUmSi Co- . nal would be brought in the open mar-' kets of the world, and that if an--, American offered to sell his goods to ;; the government he must do it at nrices ' mat competed wita tree trade England and continental Europe, We all ' J-e-. member what a howl went up from' every tariff baron in the land. The standpatters were In a raae and , vereiy arraigned ine aaminiscrauon t for a free trader, but the Secretary -reiterated hjs resolution and was back-"' ed up by a statement from thA White i' House itself. i , Well, we have heard from the things ' again. Except Portland cement .' which could he had only from Great 'j'. Britlan and lead, everything that has ' -been bought for the canal haa heentfe, cement and lead that were obtained were purchased of an American !m- -porter. Instead of advertising for bids ess at home and abroad, circulars were "5 :: sent to domestic manufacturers and. dealers and private contracts were t'?' thus made. It was as comslete and as abiect surrender as ever was heard tst.'-v The Secretary had protested that- the'": administration was doing this great,;; work as the trustees of the American ieopie ana mat oramary justice ana ' common honesty required .that '.he !v should go Into the markets of the en--.."" tire world and buy where he could . buy cheapest. The Influence was ; that " I whilst the tariff barons were clothed ;i wlfh th nrl vllecra trt mh' tha rhnnli,;: they had no right to rob the govern- -' . ment; but it seems that the govern-' ment is as powerless in the presence nr i iih inn tt tt f . t. i . rn i a aa wnA inni- vldual. We have all heard of what a-' great fighter Roosevelt Is, but In this instance he fought and ran away that i ' he might live to fight another day. . y3! i ne raci is mat wnen Air. itoosevmi was elected Vice President he waa -j I , I I I a 1 . ... u nf a ..Iff wstfnwmnw , 1. n - Roger Q. Mills or William L. Wilson .' just as MoKlnley, the day he was nom- inated for President, was as srood t:: 16 to 1-er as Richard P. Bland or:;;!: Henry M. Teller. Secretary Taft Is , IIOI H. ntoviiu-pttiiri , UUL mJLIl IU9 President and the Secretary shrink::--: . . ... n ...... I . . . . t 1 . .-. (.,N nn knW.:,'.. ii u ii fk i. 1ii.i.f.. VFi. ...w li ii ikit iinvn.', ',. yielded their opinions to the demands '-. of the tariff barons. I doubt If tbe President would have been so timid If hs had not been so busy chasing thafc-isw . v. ., ......... . i. .nti..hjn tirri..w 1.,:.... ULIlt'l W.LUlUS. llld IRIIIUtUID. If iivu itv. . - chops off all the tentacles of that mon- -:p: eter quite likely he will chase the tariff . monopoly. He will find it a much tougher job, . Congress Is going to give him a rati- road bill just as soon aa the Unltad States Senate finds out the least : ha will put up with. That is what he'will get, and all he will get, and between - -now and the roses that come In Mav :''-. he will have plenty of opportunity to, J meditate on what Mr. Qrover Clev'-.;k landi' called "ncrfldv and dishonor.' .-' The House of Representatives will give him all he wants, and thank tbe -Lord that It Is rid of a most oneroue . responsibility. Not so tha SenateIt deliberates; It Is conservative; It never;:;if Jumps at a conclusion; It haa more : courage of conviction but there will". be a rate law, and It will prove dlsap- . pointing 10 ine people ana aggravating:. to the railroads, though it will hush V' the clamor for a season perhaps un- the railroads Is fundamental and until - all fhA .nmmlutlntu PnnvMH nan M.,.-.,. uie, win not vvLi.it i:itr rtturuua nura-.-r.:.. tlon. The railroad disease Is competl- -. tlon. The companies have to rob eom-:,: munlt am nhAPA It rinpa nir PTUr.. Tn compensate, for the losses where ,: It it does exists (Be sure the companies d---not rob the patrons because they .. want to. but because thev have to. -, Thar la thA uhnU rallrnnd niiMtlnn. V:k-- but not ten men In one hundred if so-'r-:-. many should read this win believe word of what I say about it. .?;:. t;t Indeed he that undertakes to destrov J the tariff octopus will have a much ' harder fight on his hands than tbe --- President Is making against the rail- :--roads. And no Republican Congress will even attempt to extract the on- - ; pression in monopoly mat luraa in , every tariff .schedule. TheJ believe In it. It la the fundamental unprlnci- ; pie of an unprincipled party. It forces . .- thA fnwrnmAnt tA run - I'ptfrr- IA Mtfrf, Paul when it does not owe Paul anv----. thing. On the contrary, Paul owes ;f tbe government. But the dogma of protection la firmly rooted in tha pub ; lie mind, and daily it grows stronger.' . The tariff league spends tens of thous-. , ands annually creating public opinion for tho tariff monopolies. It has un-' limited means at command "fat fryed out" the tariff barons. They have tha name of every man In at least 300 Congressional districts who will east.' his ill st vote this year. They have a note of the politics, the religion, th standing of his family. They -send him "literature" and gradually they . are making protectionists of young , Democrats. , Now let me tell, you the next Dem- ocratic victory gained In thta country will be exactly like the last, a victory for ' tariff Tttform.-.---All'LTetiier''-!asnea r" are not worth last year's bird' nest to tne 'uemocraiio parry. r araif thing radical and something unconsti tutional la to, be done the people are not going1' to detail the Democrat lo party to do it. v They -will Ardor the Republican party to perpetrate tha-j -enormity. - Why t Because the Repub lican party believe. In .that sort, of thing, which is entirely and thorough ly antl-r Democratic. , jror.i instance. ir the country should agree 4o Mr, Bry- . an's proposition of State ownership of steam rauroaas. tne nepumtcan party wilt be chosen t put the. thing into practical operations ' - , The: thine ror tne ueraocraiic party to do is to make It a tariff fbtht thM year,; next year and every other ye;i r nnttl victory ultimately comps. Prof, fleoree TrumtniN. LnM. p eonnectod with the philimopln-' -t wiit of Vale, will n-x nn-." i member' of the Adoll'rt K land, Ohio, faculty, lie 1 vv erul hooks on psychoid, y ai. 1 ! If'Soniettmes.'happe'' tJiit v la sot It hatches uut tuui ' Anv nun hne r i witu a nuine is to he 1.10 rd. No, Alotno. a man ln't 11" I'o became he In - : f .
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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