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VOL. 76 NO. 38.
DURHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1896.
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ABSOLUTELY PUCE
Where the Ark of Gopher Rested
.At 'act we Btood upon the
summit of Ararat but the sud
no longer pierced the white va
pi r; a fierce gale drdve across
the forbidden region and whip
pod the ey straining to distin
guish the limits of snow and
c.cud. ; Vague forms hurried
past on the wings of the whirl
wind; is place of the 'and scape
of the land of promise we search
ed dense banks of fog.
We were standing on the spot
whera the A rk of Gopher rested,
where first the patriarch ulight
ed on the 'face of an earth re
newed. Before him lay the val
leys of six hundred years of sor
row; the airiest pinniclo sup
ported him, a boundless hope
filled his eyes.' The pulse of life
beat strong and fresh around
him; the busy swarms thrilled
with sweet freedom ', elect of all
living things. In the settling
exhalations stood the -bow of
many colors, eternal token of
God's covenant with man.
The peaks which rose on the
distant borderland where silence
had first faltered iuto speech
were wrapped about the wreaths
of fancy, a palpable world of
cloud. Did we fix our feet upon
one of these solid landmarks to
wish the vague away, to see the
hard summits stark and naked
and all the floating realm ot
mystery flown? The truth is
firm and it is well to truth trans
figured as the snow distils in
gend begins; but the legend it
self is the truth transfigured as
the suow distils into cloud. The
reality of life speaks in every
sylable of that solemn, stately
tale; divine hope bursting the
bonds of matter to compromise
with despair. Ana the ancient
: mountain summons the spirits
about him and veils a futile
frown as the rising sun illumines
:he valleys of Asia and the life
of man lies bare.- H. F. D.
Lynch in Scribner'a.
Comments on Congress.
'.The free silver people who
"have been in session at Wash
jngtoa represent nobody but
themselvee. and they do this
with very little ability. Chica
go Timed Herald.
Vnor that the senate has
shown that it is capable of do
lag business by disposing of
sixty five bills in one day, the
country has a right to expect a
eo-d deal more than it has been
receiving from this venerable
Jbody. Detroit Free Press.
That Peffer funeral bill be-
tfnt to have a startling resem
blance to a corpse. Detroit
Free Press.
It is pretty hard for John
Bull to see aright when some
senator's fist Is thrust under bis
nose every day. Indianapolis
News.
Surprised at Ransom.
When ex-Senator Ransom
was appointed minister to Mex
ico, an old colored man in North
Carolina who knew him said:
"And sodeyhas p'inted Mars
Matt minister, baa deyf Well,
Pse 'stonished at dat. Ob cose
do trtneral am a good man, and
I ain't got nothin' to say aginst
tiim.but still it beats roe to thin
he'd turn preacher in hi ole
.dars. But he is a powerru
talkeri it. Matt Is, and I'll bet
-.all de cotton 1 raise dis year dat
hfl'll convert a wagon load
dinners eber time be gits tntode
pulpit." Greensboro Record.
A 6t Louis man was present
at his divorced wife's wedding
and gave her away. It is no
wonder she got a divorce from
ucb a man.
Woman Killed and Mutilated.
I. Cincinnati,. Feb. 2. A trage
dy, after the manner of Jack
the Ripper occurred on , th
Alexandria, road in a lonely
part of the Kentucky higMands,
about a mile south of Fort
Thomas; about " midnight Inst
night.. The victim was a wo
man: . Her headless bod y was
found this morning terribly
mutilated. ? No one kno ws yet
either murderer 'p. or victim.
Bloodhounds are on the track
of the fiend tonight.' All search
today for the head of the wo
man has proven fruitless. , It is
conjectured she is an abandoned
woraau from Cincinnati. - but
efforts to discover absentees in
that class have failed.
The only clew to the persons
in the tragedy is the fact that a
Fort Thomas soldier saw a man
and a woman trudging along
the Alexandria pike last night,
and a sergeant later heard the
voice of a woman screaming
about midnight.- Otherwise tae
affair is wholly mysterious.
The Clark Cssa Again.
The Mast issue of the Chapel
Hill News has another long ac
count of the brutal and inhu
man treatment of John Clark
to Nancy Ivy, an account of
which was copied from the
News and appeared in the Her
ald not long since.
The News says the first ac
count was not as bad as has
since appeared, and gives addi
tional particulars that, if true,
are a blotto the fair pages of
North Carolina history. , While
the Ivy woman, it is said, had
strayed from the patf s of virtue
and fallen from the high pinni-
cle on which woman is held.
the treatment she is reported to
have received at the hands of
this man, belongs to the Dark
Ages and not to this, the closing
days of one of the moBt enlight
ened century s the world ever
saw.
If C lark had treated a dumb
brute as ho is reported to have
treated this woman, who held
life as dear as any of ns, he
would have been arrested and
fined. In this case a full inves
tigation should be had and the
perpetrator of such a heinous
deed dealt with according to
the crime he has committed.
Appeal to the President.
Nearly all of the Bishops of
the Protestant Episcopal church
in America have signed a peti
tion and sent it to President
Cleveland asking that theUnitcd
States take action in the Arme
nian matter. The last paragraph
ot the appeal says: "We feel
profoundly that our , nation
should cease to recognize the
Turkish government as a civi
lized power so long as its bar
barous treatment of the Arme
nians continues, and that
it
should bring evety influence to
bear upon the civilized nations
of Europe which may cause
them to present a united front
in demanding that such atroci
lies cease at once and forever."
The Turkish government, who
have sanctioned the slaughter
Ingot the helpless Armenians
by hundreds and thousands.
does not deserve the name of
nation. It should be blotted off
the face of the earth.
The Obstacle.
In a horse talk an enthusiast
expressed the belief that soon ft
horse would trot a milo in two
minutes. To this another re
marked: "There ain't but one
reason why a boss can't trot
milnin two minute."
"What Is that?"'
"Why, the distance is too
long for so short a time." Shoe
aud Leather licportor.
Peace Congresses.
Half a century ago some hun
dreds of good men aud women on
both suits of the Atlantic believed
that the dawn of universal' and
perpetual peace had come, says the
Washington t'ost. Arbitration
was -to be substituted lor war.
Swords were to be beaten into
plowshares and spears into prun
ing hooks, and the nations, instead
of expending blood aud treasure in
wars, were to dwell t cether in the
bones of an all-embracing fratemi
ty, devoting their energies and
material resources to the arts ol
peace, i Those excellent - people
held peace congresses and K,rnm
ate a comprehensive plan lor the
amicable adjustment o! all interna
tional' disputes. . They had the
support of the press and the pulpit,
and the good wishes of statesmen.
The idea was so grandly beneficent
that no one cared to oppose it.
But the booming of field artillery
and the broadsides of ships of wai
broke in upon this beautiful dream
and thoroughly demonstrated its
mpracticabihty. Since then war
has devastated all quarters of the
globe, and the closing years of the
nineteenth century . of the era of
the Prince of Peace find all Europe
an armed camp and all other coun
tries depending "on war as the
means of settling international dis
agreements
The only movement tnat . died
out so disappointingly decades ago
is now revived. Ve are assured
by the Boston Traveler that "the
movement for the constitution of a
permanent to hear and decide all
controversies between nations gains
teadily in strength, and that
'eminent men, of all shades of be
lief on other subjects, on both
sides of the ocean, approve it, and
sooner or later it must be an ac
complished fact, or some existing
nationalities must be crushed out
of existence " The heart of the
Hockies, as represented by the
Denver Times, responds to the
voice of the Atlantic coast with
the declaration that "arbitration
should be the only medium for set
tlement of the present misunder
standings and a permanent court
or board should be agreed upon by
all powers. Representatives of ail
the leading nations of the world
should be chosen to sit in conven
tion or in a court before which all
controversies should be brought.
With such a body, formed of the
men most eminent in the nations
that they represent, the idea of li
cecsed murder and bloodshed
would become a thing of the past
which has tolerated many cruel
and brutal customs."
The above is sll very nice, but
something Is due to cold reason
Hard facts have their place in the
discussion also. In this connec
tion we quote a very sensible arti
cle from the Sioux City Journal
"It is mere waste of time for
those few zealous gentlemen who
are beginning to concern them
selves in the matter to be prating
of getting around the Venezuelan
difficulty by an agreement between
Great Britain and United States to
arbitrate all differences which do
not yield to diplomacy. The pro
position is useless. It is tmpossl
lie. We Americans will not ar
bitrate all differences with Great
Britain. We would be idiots and
fools to enter into such an agree
mcnt. Take the Monroe doctrine.
for example, how conld we arbi
trate that? Why, we have decided
that tor ourselAcs, just as we de
cided on the Dccl iration of Inde
pendence. There is noth icg to ar
bitrate. The only thing lor Great
Britain to do is to recognize the
Monroe doctrine, to adjust itself
to it, to obey it. If Great Britain
will not do this, then it becomes a
question of might. Thete is noth
ing for it but toczbt. li we are
mightier, the Monroe doctrine will
stand, if Creat Britain, then that
doctrine will fill. Besides, who
would be the arbitrator ? Certainly
none ol the European powers, for
s sense it is antagonistic to all
of them, at least in their notions of
their interests."
15,000 Thrown out ef Work.
Sbamokix, Pa. Feb. 2. Fif
teen thousand men and boys In
the western anthracite coal
fields received orders today not
to report for duty at the mines
until further notice, as the
Reading coilcrles have been
shut down for an Indefinite
period.
It was stated tonight by a
prominent official that three
quarters time 'would be the
order when work was resumed.
. JUdicai. students at Athens
do not like for women to bo ad
mitted to the University. An
Arcadian "recently shot stu
dent from Asia Minor in a quar
rel over the question.
Our Forests, .
. Tlio proceedings of tlio Amcii-
enn
1 11 it
Forewlry Appoeintion, which
111 annua
convention in
Wellington City J.t-t week, will
bo of interest in U junta of the
conntnv Excellent work tins al
ready been done, by tin- society,
for tlmmgh its efforts tin: reckless
devastation of our great forests ha
In en 1 nitlv cheeked and btens have
been taken to rpak new. timber
grow in place of that hewn down.
Uy meat's of the dLemfi iiMon o
literature beiiring upon the t-ub-
jeet the association l.nf awakened
and filtered interest 'iii the matter
of forest culture. ;..
. Nature had endowed this couu-
try with truly magnificent forests,
and with "proper care; tle supply
of timber from them would have
lasted for an indefinite period.
Hut the forests have teen debilcd
with the ruth!esnes9 of-fandal-ism,
and their store is perilously
near the liuo of exhaustion.' The
association has succeeded in caus
ing the reservation of ..western tim
ber lands and the enactment of
laws looking to their preservation.
In this it hasbeeu coinbated by
the speculators and timber ban
dit, but yet has done much, and
one object of its annual gatherings
is to make its efforts in this par
ticular more effective.
Aside from ' the immediately
practical object of the preservation
of forests, the, association devotes
itself to encouraging the planting
of trees of every description.. In
this .it ought to have the active
co-ojratiou of practical scientist
aud sanitarian, who can appreci
ate the importance of forest growth
from a hvgicnic point view.; It
might be a good idea to imitate
the example of Germany, France,
aud cither European countries in
establishing -school where the
science and art of forestry are
taught both theoretically and prac
tically They ought rto elaborate
tho precept-that; for every tree
hewn down another should Im
planted. The institution of Arbor
Day should 1 advocated in every
state and every county of it. It
has brought in vogue a custom as
beautiful as it is useful.
',. The work and influence of the
American Forestry Association,
already potent in many dire lions,
can and should be extended still
further. The society has an al
most unlimited field of uscfulne-f
lcfore it , -
About three years ago John
Pearson, of liosark. W. Va.,
married Mies Anna Lewly. Af
ter .ft honeymoon of ' three
months Pearson went hunting
one day, and failing to return
in a reasonable time was mourn
ed as dead. About three months
820 Mrs. Pearson was married
again to Franklin Seals, a well
to do young man living near her
borne. j.
They lived most happily till a
few days since, when rearson
put in hi appearance The wo
man explained the situation to
him and ordered him to leave
and not annoy ber further, but
Pearson was not to be put off
that way and declared his in
ten tion of relieving the blga-
mot's aspect of the woman s
situation by murdering the new
husband on sight. Seals was
wart ed and kept away til
Pearson could ho persuaded to
act reasonably. The two bus
bands are to meet, both agree
ing to see "his ife" In the
meantime, and see if some ami
cable arrangement cannot be
devised to be acted upon. Bal
tiraorc American.
Little Mamie read on her Sun
day school card: "God makes
preserves and keeps u." Look
big up suddenly, she said: "Mam
ma. what do you s pose he docs
with them all r"
"With what, my dear?"
"Why, ail those preserves."
Philadelphia American.
patient Doctor, ', why do my
teeth decay o rapidly?
Dentist Yoa have such a sweet
voice. .
j. Good Stories.
The following is a good one told
on'a rich Admiral in Washington,
and a handsome young fellow who
was seeking his daughters liana
in marriage. The Admiral told
him that he had nothing but a
salary and could hardly Rupport
himself, much less a wife,.' where
upon the" young-fellow icj lied: ;.
''Well, Mr .-'Admiral,' what : vui
say, is true. Put when you mar
ried you vyerj only a midshipman
h even a smaller salary than
niin. How did you get along?''
asked the ensign, who believed he
had made i be most diplomatic of
defenses. But not so. The crafty
old sea dog thundered forth: -
"I lived on my father inlaw fcr
the first ten years, but I'll be d d
it you are going to do. it!" ,
The following story comes from
the west which reads more like
Arabian Nights tbaa it does a re
ality The story goes on to say
that fifty j ears ago W.' S. M. Sor
rel saw the picture of an unknown
young woman, and made a vow
that be wonld marry her or no
body. Years passed without bis
being able to discover the original
of the picture, but he kept his vow.
lie went to Golden, Co'o., and
became wealthy, and three years
ago h" accidentally discovered
that the lady was Mrs. Acken, of
4t. Augustine, Fla., and that her
husband was living. Soon after
ward, however, Tier husband left
her, and she got a divorce from
him a few days ago. Almost im
mediately afterwards she was mar
ried to the man who has been lov-
ing her all these fifty years. He
is 78 and she is 74.
Not long ago a lady, calling on
another, noticed the absence of a
cherished parrot, and Jskcd what
had become of it.
"Oh, I had to give her away."
'-Give ber away? And you
thought so much of her!''
"Yes; but you know I taught
ber to ask roe in the morning
Did you sleep well?" and she
was sucb a dear, laitlilul utile
thing that she used to wake me up
all night long asking me if I slept
well. Nothing could cure ber of
it she was so morbidly conscien
ttous and so at last, I had to
give her to a night editor of our
acquaintance.
The question aa to whether
snakes have feet has always
been a mooted one, but it seems
to have been settled by a farm
er near Sylvania, Ga. He was
clearing up and burning off a
piece of ground and killed
medium size snake, which he
threw into a burning brush
heap. To his amazement four
feet immediately came out from
the under part of the snake's
body. The feet were small, but
the explain how it is that the
reptiles are enabled to travel
along so fast over the ground
This phenomenon was reen by
several persons, but, unfortu
nately, the snake was consumed
by the fire before the farmer
thought of drawing it out for
preservation. Atlanta Consti
tution.
A cojunlry rrinister tn a cer.
tain town took permanent leave
of his congregation in the fel
lowing pathetic manner: -
"Brethren and sisters, I come
to say good by. I don't think
God loves this church, because
none of you ever die. 1 don t
think you love each other, be
cause I never marry any of you
I don t thinlc yon love me, be
came you nave not pam my
salary. Your donations are
moidly fruit and wormy apples
and 'by fr rrtnts ye snai
know them.' Brothers, l am
trying away to a better place,
I have been called to ne cnapiain
of a penitentiary. Where I go
ya cannot come, but I go to pre.
pare a place for you, and may
tli? Lord have mercy on your
minis. Good by."
Tiik improved Catling gun is
hard to face. It is operated by
an electric motor and Is capable
of f ring 1,800 shots a minute
It tins made its appearance just
In time to be another argument
against war. .
GOTO THE RACKET
HEADQUARTERS FOR '
LOW CASH PRICES.
Uuy vour Dixie Plows
Farming Tools from a man
. T W 1 ,
x-nence Having eervea ins nppreniicesnip on uie iariu,
:ie knows what suits the farmers. - ... .
' A dollar saved is a dollar
and Black Seed Oats at rock
- 1 00 barrels Seed Irish Potatoes going low down.
" 700 barrels Flour libught before the advance.
Come to see me ; before : you buy your goods. Your
'riend, . ' -
W. H. PROCTOR,
DURHAM, N. C.
The Fee System. .
The Raleigh News and Obser
ver of yesterday morning, in
speaking of the tee system now in
rorceMn regard to revenue omcera,
says that there ought ; to be ; no
sympathy with that sentiment
that regards'all enforcemenv or
the penalties for violating the re
venue laws as persecution. "Neith
er ought there to be anything but
condemnation, says the .News
and Observer, "for ah enforcement
of the law for the sole "purp08 of
adding to the emoluments of the
marshals, their deputies and the
commissioners. Ail sucn prose
cution is, in reality, persecution,
and officials guilty of it are un
worthy to hold positions ot trust.
t case is now pending in Lmrham
in which a inuu is accused of of
fering a deputy marshal 5 if be
would not give some certain wit
nesses names to District Attorney
Aycock, at the last term of the
federal court
"There is little doubt that in
North Carolina there have been
many frivolous prosecutions in
spired by the desire to secure fees.
The late Senator Vance thundered
his severot phillipics against such
unfaithful public servants." The
Clint n Democrat of this week
ays:
- There are not a few instances
in which deputy marshals abuse
their office in order to obtain the
lees allowed under the law. Men
are jerked up upon slight 'pre
texts and brought before tmted
States commissioners, when if
there were no fees for the mar
shals such would not be the case.
Commissioners have also been
working the business for the fees.
Recently three mcu were up be
fore a commissioner for some vio
lation of the revenue laws. The
evidence' was identical against
each of the three men and the
whole matter could have beeu
srttlcd in a trial ol less than an
hour. The commissioner wanted
to mnke t5 a 4ay for three days
out of the cam, and so he gave
three separate trials, on three se
parate days, putting the govern
mcnt to exnse and bringing
scandal uiou the judicial function
in order to make there
have been other continuances al
most a flagrant, and in some in
stances marshals and commission
era have seemed to bo working to
incrftn-e prosecutions and increase
their. fees. At the last term of
the federal court, Judge Seymour
and District Attorney Aycock is
sued instructions to tho commis
sioners sud marshals which sub
stantially directed them to excr
eta greater enre (0 avoid frivolous
prosecutions, and to administer
the duties of their ofhee with no
regard to fees. This admonition
is having a good effect, and e
61 sure if revenue omciais are
guilty of continued activity hi in
crease the emolument of their poj
sitions, these officials, whose sole
desire is to execute the law, wil
tale stringent means to stop it.
, The whole system is wrong. It
hns not only worked badly in
North Carolina, but in other states
as well. All heeded officials ought
and Plow Castings, Hoes and
who knows good tools by ex-
J ... 1 . ' A 1 . -
made. 2,000 bushels JV hit
bottom prices. . - , ,
10 oe paia a salary, ana me in- -centive
to frivolous prosecutions
removea.
. All Sorts.
An Euglish judge decides that ,
throwing rice at a newly-married
couple is an assault, whether the
eyes of either of them are put out
or not :
A Missouri farmer figured it'
out one rainy day, that be had -
walked 300 miles in cultivating .
one acre of corn. lie . thereupon
sold his farm and -moved to a'
town, where he walked 600 miles
to find a job.
A boy of fourteen and a girl of
eleven were recently married iu
Johnson county, Ga., -with the
lull consent of their parents. -
lb San Francisco a seventeen-
year-old husband recently ob
tained absolute divorce from his
sixteen-year-old wife, lie was
employed as a messenger boy.
A Chicago man says he con
tracted to , murder a reputable-
citizen, whom he had never met,
for (90. Such a fellow is too en
terprising to be at large.
A young man, fresh from col
lege, wore as a scarfpin a jewelled
gold potata bug. One day be
called the attention of an old
German bookseller to it, asking,
"Isn't that pretty, Dutchy?" Ja,
ja," was the reply. "Dot ih der
piggee pug vu uer acuiuaiivsh
botato I baf cfer tecn.n Muucie
(Ind.) News." . ; -
The following is a description
by the late Eugene Field of Emma
AbDou s singe mss:
Ah, that k im that long, low,
languishing, limpid, liquid, lin
gering nisa! 'Twas not a tender
kiss, nor a fervent kiss, nor a
boisterous kiss, nor a paroxysmal .
kiss, nor a nervous kiss, nor a
fraternal kiss, nor a gingerly kiss,
nor a diffuse kiss, nor a concen
trated kiss, nor a diffident kixs,
nor a popgun kiss 'twas a calm,
holy, ecstatic outbreaking of two
fond and trusting hearts, an in
termingling of two gentle souls
sanctified by love, a communion
of the iutangible means, a blend
ing of heart with heaven, in
which the latter had a manifest
preponderance.
Atizona Is bragging about a
natural bridge winch spans a,
canyon five hundred feet wide.
which bridge Is a marvel of
proportion aud symmetry, and
as level as a shell road on ton.
ery will rely upon the healing
of the wound in his head. He
is internally injured also. I be
lieve I can bring him around all
right, but it will be a scratch'
A sam pli of the northerners
professed 'friendship" for the
negro Is shown tn Fitzgerald,
by northern men. There they
do not tolerate negroes in any
capacity. In a population of
6,000 there are but five negroes,
and a committe has been ap
pointed to '
leave.
'encourage" them to