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'.V.J.'-' THE ASHEBORO COUR X Issued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. $1.00 Per Year VOL. XXVIII. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY AUGUST 27, 190?. 9. ER. Bryant. President J. I. Cole, Cashier DcLiik of Randlemtvn, Randleman N. C. Capital paid in, ' Protection to depositors, $20,000 40.000 ninufvrmiK: 8. 0. Ncwlin, A. N ll.,lla. W. T. Hrvunt, C. U Lindsey, N. N. Ncwlin, J. II. Colo, S. Riyunt II 0 Barker ami YY K. liarweu. BRITTAIN & ORISON, AT TORNtYS AT-LAW, Aaheboro. - North Carolina. TJRAt'TICK I" -'"ls Kl"" 1 ! J. jolnl'lIC i-.uim. Colin. Pnimi niuiill" ileml hi liwlinv"' iilrsiml". HAMMER & SPENCE, Attorneys at - Law E. MOFFITT, Attorney - at Law, ASHEBORO. N. C. O.L. 8APP, Attorney-Jit-Law. frsswo U BUW aaa rsdsral Ovuta. Oorpontioa, Oonasroial and Pf bihUf. All baaUaai pitmyll Hsoasata. : Dress Shirts : GENTLEMEN! If you wiuit a Nieo Dress Shirt for 60 cents m good an you have been paying 75 ctnta to $1 for, Come U) see ua ijuick. We itre Headquarters for Shirts, Collars, Cuffs and Neckties. Come! Yours truly,' W. D. STEDMAN CEL CO JUST A HINT t About Hardware! 4 We carry in stock cutlery, spoons, hammers, hatchets, hinges, cow uml trace chain, curry combs, brushes, locks, shears, scissors, halters, hanie strings, forks, hoes, shovels, spades, drags, rakes, saws, baskets, buckets, nails, horse shot s ami a good many other useful articles. If you arc in need of any of the above named articles, or anylhiug else, call on J. F. IIEITMAN, General Mdsc Trinity, N. C. Mason's, fruit jars atid rubbers. NEW THINGS IN CLOTHING! lbe ,Drixtoa These cuu represent some of the new things that we are now opening an direct from tho manufacturers. Call in and a tho latest and best in men's wearables, THE MERITT-J0HN50N CO. 808 8. Elm St. Greensboro, N. C, J3he University Or NORTH CAROLINA. Academic Department, Law Medicine, Pharmacy. JZi to Mrlm and B mm s.uitaw. Urn lor Mni. MrTnaim. insTawrroit. M-w TTrml. Wf Wnrts, CntmJ H- fa mhpsa, UtiMf y.Ihhw. ru term, m " kiu. a. c WASHIN0T0N LETTER. The Cleveland Propaganda in New Jersey Roosevelt's Social Equality Doc trine Attain Put In Practice. specltil nrrvioinlciii Courier. Wellington, 1). C, AuSust 2a. I have just returned from a week's visit to the state of New Jersey. I visited ninny points in the statu and talked with a number of the leading Democrats. I talked with men who were true to the ticket in the year of lsuu unit l'JOU una with Democrats of the old Cleveland regime. In this wav I came very neur getting a correct consensus of opinion ar.u clear estimate of political conditions in that state. 1 found out some tilings not generally known to the public, and some things that t lie beiuocraU of tho country ought to know. In tlio Inst place 1 aseer tuiiicd beyond all cavil, beyond the pciudveiiture of a doubt, that there is u (irover Cleveland propaganda ict i very at woik all over the i'.ast. I learned it from tho lips of a man high up in the councils of that propaganda, a man that declares Cleveland is the only man who can carry the .hast, that he is a camli date ana that the game is being played for the purposo of again placing the name of Cleveland at the head of the Democratic ticket. This man, my informunt, formerly was in the United States Senate, lie does not prefer Cleveland personally. lie does not like him. lie prefers another man, but he says that Cleve land is the only man who can carry tlio states of the East that we must have in order to win. fie says that Cleveland has built up a certain class of voters in the East, an independent class, the "coin muter" class who live m the small towns of Jersey ami all of whom have money and are the Pharisees, the holier-than-thou of politics, and who will not vote for any man who is ldcntiticd with any tiolitical organization, and that those are the men who are clamoring for the reuoui 1 nation ot Air Cleveland, and that we will see tho entire East 011 lire for Mr Cleveland" before the next couveiitiou meets. All this may be so and it may not. I found very little of this seutiuienc among some of the other so-called "reorga- nizcrs" to whom I talked during my trip in tho slate of Jersey. Those men were divided among several whoso names have been mentioned as the most available man for the Democratic leader in tho campaign of 1904, all of them acceptable to tho element which left tho party in those years when the party needed them so bndljr, but hardly a man no ceptable to the meu who remained staunch and true so the party, the rent bulk of the Democratic voters in those sUitcs. I did hud, however, when I visited the city of New York, that the statement made to me by the listiiigtushcd gentlemen concerning the Cleveland propaganda and its activity was absolutely correct. I found that V illium C H hitney was one of the men actively engaged in fostering llio thing, that the Civic Federation, with Mark llanua at its head and Kalph Kaslcy as Secictary, u as another of the forces that was pushing this "good thing" along. They are now at woik employing meu to Ihxwi and boost the Cleveland ime. One of those men is my per sonal friend and l.saw and talked to him, and he admitted the whole thing. Now then, whether this is on tho level and that tney are really in earnest concerning Cleve land and so blindeu oy ine glamour f money that they cannot see the utter futility of again trying to place his name on a Democratic ticket, or whether, as I suggested some time ago, this is simply an attempt to conjure with the name of Cleveland until the rauk and tile ot tue party, the tru Democrats of the country, in disgust and desperation t ry out to the gilded leaders of the East, "Give us anybody but Cleveland," and they then present to them the real choice of this element, cannot definitely be decided ut this time. My own opin ion, from all I have seen, inclines strongly to belief in the latter propo sition, tot I cannot understand how sane Democrats or men calling them selves Democrats can believe that the name of Giovcr Clcvclaud can again sway a Democratic national conven tion. That is one side of this picture. Hero is the other: I met men all over that state who areas good Dem ocrats, as ever walked in shoe leather. They are sterling, true, patriotic Democrats and men of the people. They are the intellectual equals of any set of men 1 ever met; they are hard students 01 pouueat economy and can eive a reason for the faith that is in them with any man in the country; they are the bone and sinew of tho party in that state and the men who for years kept the state in tho Democratic column and who fought like tigers for the ticket in 1896 aud 1900. They are Democrats from principle and are not held to the parry by the cohesive power of public plunder. These men were overwhelmed by the avalanche of commercialism m the years of 1896 and 19on aid had tbennmortal ichor hammered ont of them by the tol lowers of the Cleveland fetish. It iu enough to discourage any set of men on the face of the earth who were in politics for pelf and not for principle. Nothing daunted, these men are again on the bring line with their faces to the foe they say they will tight to a finish, and 1 am cer tain they will do so. It has cost these men something to be Democrats in New Jersey and I take my bat oft to them. They are twanging a very different string on the Democratic hsrp. They say they will have none ot me reactionary, reorganising, sislaut Ilepublicau crowd who threw down tho party in 189b and 1900; that rather than vote for G rover Cleveland or any man who left the party or who, even, was lukewarm in those ycars when Democratic workers Wt'r at a pjeiniu. they will go fish ing on election day; that they do not infiuiil to swim devil lor wiicn or barter their principles for a barren victory. They say they have can vassed" the entire field of Democratic possibilities aud of probabilities for the year 191)4, and of the entire num ber of men mentioned in that con nection, the name of William Ran dolph Hearst, of New York, is the only one who was absolutely true to the ticket when Democrats were needed, tho only man who fought savagely for tho ticket, the only man who is not it some way tied up to the Wall street irang. tho trusts or tho cormorant corporations of the country. 7 This then, makes tue une oi ue marcation in the state of perennial politics. One side is lined up with Grover Cleveland and tho other with Will iam Randolph Hearst One side panders to the trnsts and illegal cor porations of tho country in order to obtain the wherewithal to fill the campaign coffers, while the other stands pat with the people and in a fight to a finith to crush tho criminal trusts of the country. This, as nearly as I can get it, is an absolutely correct estimate of the conditions that exist in the stale of New Jersey today, a state, by the way that the Democrats must carry iu 1904 in order to w in . at the polls. The Democrats of the country arejen titled to this information. If the ticht all over the country is to be along the lines as exemplified by the conditions that obtain in New Jer sey, they may draw their own con clusions and line up according to their desires and their piedilections as Democrats. President Hoosevelt has again shown that he intends to make the negro tho social equal of the white man if it be in his powon to do so. while he is tho President ot tne United States. His latest action has stirred up the national capital as nothing else has done lor a long time. A few days ago it was intend ed to give the white children an out ing and permission was granted for tneui to have tne grounus luiiiiuiaic lv back of the White Houee for their play ground. Some of the table furniture from the White House was to bo used for them from which to eat their lunch and the Marine Baud was ordered to make music for them. The managers or llitf outing ore de lighted with the arrangement, and the littlo fellows were in the seventh heaven of expectation. When the President learned that only white children were included in the pro gramme ho issued orders that all children, including negro children, were to be given the same privileges and allowed to mix and mingle free ly with the white children and eat with them from the White House tables, or else the whole thing was off. That settled it and the white children hunted other quarters for their outing. People may draw their own conclusions. CHAHLKS A. EDWAKDS. As to Offices and Resirnior Thereof. 'Phi is from The Ashtboro Cou rier, the editor of which is the solic itor of his district. "Comment is seen in some pujiers on the fact that tho clerk of the Su perior Court of Baden county has resinned. Many seem to make strange of this. It is a fact that there are only a few counties in this Stat where there is more man a uare nv- tdbe made out of the olhc of clerk of the Sucrior Court. For the reasou that the law is not clear as it should be as to some questions of costs, too much is charged by some clerks and too little by others. There is an opportunity fcr a clerk to collect illegal fees if he is dispos ed to do so. There is little pay in the office in most counties. It is not the resigning of the pay but the resigning of the office that overcomes one like a summer clojid and excites one's special wonder. There are but few county officers in the State who could not make more in pursuit of their ordinary vocations than they make by holding office. There is hardly a estate omcer ai Raleigh or a judge on the bench of the Supreme or Superior Court who is not holding his job at a financial sacrifice. Few of them in town, county or State sre after the office, for tho average American citizen dearly loves an office, and therefore the wonder that one resigus aier having realized his ambition. Hold ing office, working on a newspapei and tunning ona railroad are three things that men will do wnen tney might do better, and it is always matter of surprise when a man quits any of the three except when he is obliged to. Charlotte Observer. Store Robbed at Hamlet. Last Thursday uight the store of W K Land & Co. at Hamlet, N. C. was broken into and goods amount ing to over fifty dollars were stolen, Oue of the thieves, Howard Smith, colored, vas caught at Kockingham tha next day. lie attempted to sell a watch to J D Cameron there who recognized the watch as one belong ing to W R Land & Co., and was re ported as stolen. Smith was arrest ed and is now in jail. A Hint Is Merchants. Good roads make even trade throughout the year. M. Hayes, of Southern R, R., Raleigh. RALEIGH LETTER. Two Slate Fairs la Raleigh The Move Against the Tobacco Trust. Ualeich.N. C. Auc. 24. 1903. For the first time, there will be two State Fairs in progress at the same time at ltaleigh during the mouth of veiooer. jui iney wiii.iioi conuici. Instead of interfering with one another each will help the other, and the two will draw the largest crowds of people that have ever gathered in the State's capital city on a like occasion, and no visitor can afford to miss either of ilwhfg af fairs. The regular State Fair of (he N. C. Agl. Society opens as usual on the third week in Octolier, gin ning tins year on the lllth, and uugiug uy wnni i see, ami am told ly beefy l'oeue, another record breaking event is in prospect. For 1 or o years each rair has surpassed its immediate predecessor ami this years exhibition may eclipse all others, though it does seem almost impossible to surpass the last few held, they were so excellent and so largely attended. One of the new features this year will be the big "captive balloon" by which visitors may make ascensions several hun dred feet in the air and return safely to earth. The other is the great Masonic Fair, which is to be a state event under direction of the Grand Ixxlge of North Carolina, with Col Noble b Martin, who had much valuable experience in other States, as general manager. He has already arrived in Raleigh aud with a corps of as sistants is now actively working up the practical details. 1 lie object of this undertaking' is to raise the balance necessary to secure the erec tion of the splendid projected Ma sonic Temple, to lie built in this city on one of the most beautiful sites on t he principal business street. About $20,000 is needed, $90,000 having ul ready been secured or pledged, through the sale of stock. uraud Secretary John C Drewrv has been made treasurer of the Ma sonic Fair committee. He is one of the most enthusiastic and devoted of Masons and no one iu the State has been more actively efficient in furthering the cause of tho temple. He has sent out pledge cards to all of the 14,000 Masons of K. C, urging all to give something, how ever small the amount, in either money or goods of any kind, towards making the Fair and Ba.aara finan cial success. Donations in merchan dise or farm products of any kind m ooW lor DMh ltrii,. Ttc Fair, and applied to the temple fund. The fair will be in progress two weeks Aug. 12 to 24, inclusive. This Masonic Fair will be one of the most unique and pleasure-affording events ever held in N. C. lucre will be present some of the brightest mid most distinguished Masons in the U. S. and some of the greatest Masonic orators, including that now most eminent of all Masons, Congressman Kichiirdson of Tennessee. The city of Raleigh has given the "use of its most beautiful Nash Park, forming an entire city block, opposite the union depot, and it will be the rendezvous of thou sands, an immense tent covering a largo portion of the park The meeting of the tobacco farm ers last Friday at Rocky Mount was a pronounced success, nearly three thousand being present and repres enting most of the various tobacco growing counties. Col John S Cuhiugliam presided and there were many speakers, all of whom de nounced the methods of the ioIkicco trust, und agreed that the time had arrived when the growers are bound to adopt measures of self defense. Several plans were submitted or sug gested, that proposed by Secretary of State Bryan Grimes In-ing finally adopted as the most feasible and ef fective. This plan provides for the organization of local toliaeco corpora tions at ull the tobacco markets to 1m? composed of stock holders, the shares being sold at five dollars each, and farmers w ho cannot pay cash for stock may buy it with tobacco. These local companies are to buy the efferings of tobmvo on the warehouse floors in the usual way, thus insur ing a buyer to compete with the trust's buyer on all the markets. The tolwicco so liought is to lie stored away and kept for a rise in the mar ket "or manufactured by the local companfcs, w hich are authorized to build independent factories, etc., us they shall deem best and most profit able. The tobacco producers, ware housemen and others interested be lieve that this mod? of procedure will prove effective, and that next year, if not before, the trust will lie forced to pay a good price for all the bright tobacco it w.ll be able to se cure. It is hoped, however, that Virginia aud South Carolina growers will join hands iu carrying out this program, thus controlling practical ly the entire territory In which this character of tobacco is grow n. Governor Avcock is In Ashevill this week, where he v, ill review the 1st regiment of State troops in camp there, Raleigh is warming up to the dis pensary fight. Election comes off Oct. 15. Next month Evaugelist George Stuart will sv,ak here in favor of the dispensary. LLEWXAM. Let's Try to be Part ol the 25 Per Cent. As to the kind of rod3, I believe our bones will be tndor the ground long before von have 2o per cent ot the roads in North Carolina macad amixed. W. II. Moore, President National (rood Roads Asftciation, at Raleigh. Educational Notes. A successful manufacturer, who is interested in a large number of cot ton mills in the State, was in the office of the State Siipeiiiideut of Iustruc tion a few days ago and re qnested Superintendent Joyner to recommend a suitable person to sup erintend the graded school recently established iu his town. He suid his factory interest would pav about eighty pei cent of the taxes for the support of the school, but experience had taught him that it is cheaper to educate the children into usefulness than to pay thcii lines in tho police courts. lie said, "as a business pro position it costs less to provide schools than to employ extra police and pav tne court lines. In one district in Randolph county where an election for schools was pending, the opposition approached one honest old tenant who worked night and day to keep body and soul together and asked him if he intend ed to v:,ito for the tax, asking linn at the same tinio how he could afford to pay an extra tax when he could barely support his family. His re ply was that he certainly intended to vote ton the schools; "for," said he, "if such an opportunity hud been given me when 1 was a bov I would not now be doing the work of a ne gro, and hiy family would be better off." A campaign for better education has been completed in Lincoln coun ty. Sujierintendent Heafner has shown much wisdom iu arranging his rallies by townships and especial ly in organizing the school officers and in preparing the way for the speakers. Imuicuse crowds gather ed at all the appointments except in one place where there was a mis understanding as to the date; and in each of the five districts, before the meeting closed, the people came to gether and signed a petition asking for an election. When the matter was presented to them they were easily convinced that it is the duty of the community to provide for the education of all "the children in the community. Prof. John E. Uay, who has just returned to Raleigh, after a two weeks educational campaign, says he has never seen the people so easily aroused on any other question as that of the duty of the community to pro vide for the education of all the children in the community. This enthusiasm is not confined to any section of the State. The fol lowing counties have carried elec tions for schools during the present vear: Alamance in ciht districts. WifcU ill one, vavinoi w uu, o.j well in one, Catawba in one, Chero kee in one, Chowan iu one, Cleve land in one, Cumbejland in t wo, Dup lin in one, Gaston in" two, Gates in one, .lolinston in two, umoir in one, Martin in one, Nash in one, Orange in one, Pitt in three, Randolph in two, Polk in one, Richmond in one, Robeson iu three, Rutherford in one, Surry in one, Tyrrell iu one, Union m four, Washington in two, Wilkes in two, Wilson in one and Yadkin in two. Wherever a local tax district is es tablished it stands as a complete ar gument that carries conviction to other districts as show n by the large number of districts where local taxa tion is now pending. Currituck is preparing to vote in four districts, Duplin in three, S'inipson m one, Union in one, Dare in sixteen, Wake in one, Northampton in seven, Cabarrus in eight, Burke in two, Guilford in one whole township, Randolph in three districts, Gaston iu one, Nash in two, Vance in one, Lincoln in live, Orange in one, Hali fax in one. Beaufort in two, Rock ingham in three, Gates in one, l'or- svth in one. adkin iu one and Cleveland in several. Durham & Charlotte Railroad. The right-of-way for the Durham c& Charlotte railroad has been secur ed through the town with one oi two exceptions. Proceedings will lie instituted soon to condemn the balance. dipt Tull went to Gulf today to arrange to bring his force here next week, to liegin grading from lure to Greensboro. The road is built from thn-e miles this side of Gulf, iu this county, to within four miles of Troy, Montgomery county. 1 hiriy-tour miles of this is iu operation. There are 150 hands at work on it. Fifty on this end near Gulf and one hun dred near Troy. Capt Tull exjx-cts to move the Gulf force here next week, and hopes to bring the larger from Troy in the fall. Chat ham Observer. Deserted a Dying Husband. A very heartless action on the part of a wife and mother, added to criminal conduct on her part, has just been brought to light iu Union county. An old man was deserted on his death bed by his wife who is indicted in the Superior Court ot the county for immoral conduct with her husband s son. W hen tne neichlwrs eatheied in they found the old man. 70 rears of age, dving, and only two or three little children wuo had also been deserted, to wait upon him. He died Tuesday afternoon. His wife doserted him the day before. At the same time the man with whom she was indicted left his fami ly aud neither has since been heard of. The old man and his sou mar ried sisters. So the heartless woman and her partner iu criminality bear the relation of step-son and step mother, and brother and sister-iu law. ITEMS OF NEWS. Items of General Interest on Different Subjects. There are 23 prisoners in Salisbury jail. The I C Share distillery Co. has been incorporated at Shore, N. C. Thieves stole $15 from the dwell ing of John Adams near Thoma.s- ville Aug 10th. Mr 1) E Gillespie the aged father-in-law of Prof LecT lilair died re cently in Greensboro. Miss Puttie Newlin und Miss Zilla Smith will establish a ladies empor i u m at High Point. Four preachers, two men and two women were arrested and lined as i nuisance at Southern Puns last week A white man, a human brute, is in jail at Wilson, .. ('., for outiirg- li is own little daughter near Lucuma. The Classis of the Reformed Church 1ms decided to locate the Nazareth Orphan Home at Crescent in Rowan county. There were 45 prisoners in jail at Greensboro last Monday morning awaiting trial at the beginning of court Monday morning. ('has Shliford who shot aud killed Mr Alex Allien on the 9th instant, was captured in Texas lasl week and ircugut to Charlotte lor trial. A prisoner contracted a contag ious disease in tho jail at Marshall last week. The jail was quarantin ed and Judge Jones adjourned court. J Talniage Prevette a youth of IS and Miss Nellie Beiibow, aged l'i years, a niece of -the late Col r Henderson eloped and were married in South Carolina last week. Mr. J. II. West, bill poster from GreeiisWo, was recently arrested at the instance of the Messiek t.roccry for leaving the Stale with intention to iletraml creditors. .Mr. est was promptly released. There is a large coffin prepared at Mooresville for a dving man whose. ordinary weight is J(Ki lbs. He has dropsy and his size is much nicreusei.. The collin is six feet two inches long, four feet wide and 2S inches i.eep. C H Barnes, cashier High Point Branch Wachovia loaii & Trust Co., was stricken with appendicitis yes terday noon and was taken lo Giveus boio "b Dr J L Moore for an opera tion by DrJ W Dong. High l'oinl Enterpiise. by K D Steele, of High Point, lias purchased of the Ben bow estate the Round Knob hotel property, in western North Carolina, ami will add extensive improvements, making it an all-year resort. It is understood that om friend, Lieutenant Governor W i Turner, of Stntesville, is in the field for the Democratic nomination for Governor for next term. There's not many people in the State that could heat Bill Turner running the Governor's office in the right way.- Wilkeshor Chronicle. Mr J C Meckins who hud located iu Gieeiisboro left his law practice there hist year ami purchased u farm of 2000 acres at Palmyra in Halifax county. This year he has 1000 acres in cultivation. There are 350 acres in cotton, 2M acres in peanuts and 2(10 acres in corn, ami 12" colored persons on the farm. Mr Reuben Boles, an employee of the Standard Chair Co., happ ned to a very painful accident, not serious however, Tuesday. ime aujumu: a belt to one of the machines a piece of wood was suddenly caught and hurled with terrilic force against ills bodv inflicting a very painful wound. Thoma?ville correspondent Lex ington Dispatch. The body of the unknown man found in the adkin river mar Yadkin College on Aug otli was ex humed last week and identified by relatives. Ills name was Kd Brewer of Concord, N. C. lie had left home on Friday before for v oolee- mee. wiicniouini in uu- ". ... phvsicmus said he had ''ecu d-au TO-hours. There was a gash on bis head and his shirt was saturated with blood. His jackets were turn- d wrong side out. W hen last seen alive be was leaving a bar room in Salisbury to cati-h a tram. The Dispatch says that the efcape of Lee Mvers flom the chain gang in lA'xington township was due to care lessness of guard Parrell who had been warned only a few hours before the escape of the serious charge of bur rhiiY against him at the approai bing term of court when he aid Pleas Oaks, J., would be tiied for burglar ixintr a student's home at Yadkin Collesre. He was serving a sentence of one year for larceny .The escape was made by permitting -Myers to cluing' his convict clothes and put on cili a -ns' clothes to visit his wife at i near by house. The Woild, in announcing Mr, Pulitzer's intention to give $2,000, 000 for founding a school of journal ism at Columbia university, says: At the time of the last census there were iu the United States 114,073 lawyers and 30,098 persons classed as journalists. The legal professou was provided w itn rccruns uy law schools with 1,106 professors a::d instructors. For a fair proportion there should have been at least 2G colleges of journalism with faculties 291 strong. There was not one. Not a tingle ouo of the 30.O9K newspaper men and woman in tne country nw enjoyed what a lawyer would call a systematic proiessiuuui ukui ub. ; Bill Arp's Humor. 'jd'e Sun, lay's Atlanta Constitu tion conlains sotuu Bill Arp Stories 'told by Eli Perkins and called up I now by Bill Arp's critical condition: In the "Kings of Pluttorni and Pulpit" Eli Perkins writes the fol lowing breezy introduction, rehears ling some interesting stories of Bill Arp iu presenting one of his lec tures: Thu whole life of Bill Arp has been humorous and no man will slop work quicker and more cheerfully than ho to hear a good joke. When I asked him oue day if he really ever killed many yankees, he said: "Well, f don't want to boast about myself, but 1 killed as many of them as'they did of me." Speaking of pensions one day, Mr. Arp said every yankey soldier ought to have a pension. "But they were not all injured in the iirmv, were I hey?" 1 asked. "Yes. they, all dnl so much hard lying about us poor rebels that they trained then' consciences. Bill Arp tells of an occurrence in New York when he came here to lec- v iu Chickeiing hall. He said he was standing on the step? oi ine Astor house one afternoon when a man with a dc.idedlv military bear ing hobbled up. He greeted mv friend as lie pass ed. That's a line soldierly looking chap." I said. l es; he s a Veteran Colonel Tones, of the G. A. R." Did he lose his leg on the battle field:-" "Yes: at Gettysburg." "-vh! Repelling Pickett's charge, 1 suppose. "iSo; a monument tell on it. Thev tell this story in Rome, Ga., about the major. They say that in the summer ot lStl3 liiH Atp was m the Uiclimoiid hospital. The hospital was crowded with sick and dying soldieis, and the Richmond ladies visited it daily, carrying w ith them lelicacies of every kind, and did ull they could to cheer and comfort the ulfcring. On one occasion a pretty Mi-s of lii was distributing llowcrs ind speaking gentle words of encour- yineiit to those around her, when she overheard a soldier exclaim, "Oh mv Lord:" Jt was Bill Arp. Stepping to his bedside to rebuke him for his piofanily, she remarked: Indutl hear von call upon the name of the Lord? 1 am one His laughters. Is there anything I can isk li:iu for you':" lin king up into her blight, sweet face. Rill replied: "1 don't know ,t , ,,.,., ,1.1 ,1,. tmiletlimir for ii.m i' I wasn't married." "Well," said idle, "what is it:-" liaising bis eves to hers and ex tending Ins hand, he said: "As you a daughter of the Lord, if 1 wasii t married. 1 d get you to ask Him if He wouldn't make me Hls ou in law. Sam Jones on Lynching. 1 notice picsidchts. governors and hei ill's are all writing letters on Ivm-hiiig, etc. But it does seem to ine that the only cure for Iviu lnng 1 burning is iu the cure and stop 'c of the cause for lynching. Rape means rope and lielid and lire illiterate ami associate alike. iio- nor Vales savs better kill a thou sand of the mob than surrender the victim. He can't be found at the apitol of the state, when sheriff want-i bun, much less in the lore- nt of sheriff's posse defending the ictim from the mob. We clout want him to be a candidate fur gov- rnoi any more, lie puls Illinois in the doubtful column, etc. J he pre-idi nt may write mid governors talk and pulpits protest, but the mailer is now just where it was 40 s ago. and will ivmaiu statu quo, for all lime to come. Rape means rope, lieuds and tire. One and in separable. 1 said that much to a rejioi ter the other day and the papers have gixeii me some flick jaw for ad vocating lynching. But 1 am not in uihoeutc ol lynching and never was anv more than l am oi iooui- icho, but 1 know when I get my feet wet and cold I have the toothache v pop. Cause and effect was what 1 was talking about. 1 am oa s old, born, biead and buttered in the South, and 1 never saw a mob inbled nor the victim of a mob. I am opiwvcd tu mob law and I inn pp.isrd to lobbying and boodle and . l ihev go on all the same, and all the time. Remove the cause and the fleet will follow on the next train. Sav Jones. Desperado Captured. Antony Ray, a desperate negro und reputed leader of 'a gang of out laws in Qui liiltlc township, Cumber land Co., was arrested latnj week bv Deputy Mieritl .MonughaiL. and u iossc. 1 he ollicers tiumped tnrougn swamps for live miles with a negro to guide t hem. Arriving at Kay S bouse, they broke down the door and crept in. "liny was sitting wrapped hp in a corner with a double-barren ed shot-iron on his knees. It was close quarters for Monagbaii but the gun missed tire and alter a tew uiows on the head liav sunmittitl to Nervous Headache. "! lD.Pn Without any diNurmsKK WJ rumiiH by a (Summit two uf A,,,Ww Capudine , (Liquid.) 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