tonje fioniti W^wer.
ESTBLISHED IN 1878’
HILLSBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 12, U 00.
NEW SERIES-VOL. XIX. NO. 13.
Rins forth your triumphs, Easter bells,
jfill earth shall learn the story:
veet is the news y ur music tells.
He lives, the King of Glory!
The Lamb, who was for sinners slain,
Comes forth from death in might to reign.
Behold, from winter’s thrall set free,
The lilies fair are springing;
Their radiant bloom, in holy glee
The waking earth is bringing,
A tribute to the Lamb once slain,
Now raised in endless might to reign.
Heliveg the rae« of man to bless,
To banish care and sadness,
All griefs to heal, ail wrongs redress,
To till the earth with gladness.
The Lamb, who was for sinners slain,
Doth now for man’s redemption reign!
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OME over here, said
Olivia, and I will
tell you an Easter
tale. There was
once a woman who
had an only daugh
ter that was very
small and pale and
altogether some
what different from
other children.
When she took the
little one out for a
walk the people stood an ' looked at
the child and whispered among them
selves. When the little girl asked her
mother why the people looked at her
so strangely the mother always re
plied, “It is because you have on such
abeautiful new dress.” Thereupon
the little one was contented. As soon,
however, as they returned home the
mother would clasp her little daugh
ter in her arms, kiss her again and
againandsay: “You sweet little angel,
what would become of you if I were
to die? Noone, noteven your father,
knows what a dear little angel you
ai-el”
Some time afterward the mother be
came suddenly sick and she died on
the ninth day. Thereupon the father
of the little girl threw himself in de
spair on the deathbed and asked to be
buried with his wife. His friends,
however, spoke to him and comforted
him, and so he left his wife’s body,
and a year later he took unto himself
another wife, who was lovelier, young
er and richer than his first wife, but
by no means as good.
And from the day that her mother
died the little girl spent her whole
time from morning till evening seated
at the window sill in the sitting room,
since there was no one who would
take her out for a walk. She had be
come even paler than before and she
had not grown at all during the latter
years.
When her new mother came to the
house she said to herself: “Now I will
go out walking again in the city and
on the beautiful promenades where
the sun shines so brightly, where
there are so many lovely shrubs and
flowers and where there is such a
crowd of handsomely dressed people.”
For she lived in a narrow little alley,
in which the sun seldom shone, and
when she sat on the window sill she
saw only a little bit of the blue sky—
a bit not larger than a pocket hand
kerchief. Her new mother went out
nearly every day in the forenoon and
afternoon, and each time she wore a
very beautiful dress, much more
beautiful than any dress the first
mother had ever owned. But she
never took the little girl with her.
Finally the child took heart, and
one day she earnestly begged her new
mother to take her out with her. The
mother, however, refused bluntly,
saying: “You are not smart enough.
What would the people think if they
were to see me with you? You are a
little humpback. Humpbacked chil
dren never go walking, but always
stay at home.”
Thereupon the little girl became very
quiet, and as soon as her new mother
had left the house she got on a chair
WAS HUMPBACKED.
n looked in a mirror and saw
8 indeed she was humpbacked,badly
« ^backed. Then she sat again on
^window sill and looked out into
Come forth ye souls, in glad new life.
This blessed Easter morning;
With bloom of love and beauty rife,
His grace be your adorning;
The Lamb, who once tor you was slain,
Doth bid you rise with him and reign.
the street and thought of her good old
mother, who, in spite of her hump
back, had taken her out walking every
day. The she thought again of her
hump.
VISIT OF THE ANGEL MOTHER.
“What is inside of it, I wonder!”
she said to herself.' “There must be
something inside of such a hump as
this is.”
Many a strange fancy entered her
little head and many an hour she
wiled away in wondering why her
back, instead of being straight like
the backs of other children, was dis
torted out of all shape by such an ug
ly hump. The stories of fairies which
her dear mother had told her came
back to her memory, and in childish
fashion she sometimes prayed that
some good fairy would come and take
away the burden that threatened to
blight her whole life.
Oh, if she were only like other
children! Was there one of them
who loved the sunshine and the flow
ers better than she, and yet among
them all was there one who saw so
little of the sunshine and the flowers
as she did? From her seat by the
window she saw the little ones play
ing in the narrow street, and as their
frequent peals of merry laughter came
to her ear, her question, “Why am I
not like other children?” became ever
more urgent.
So the summer passed, and when
winter came the little girl was still
pale and she had become so weak that
she could no longer sit on her window
sill, but was obliged to remain lying-
in bed, and, just when the snowdrops
were beginning to peep above ground,
the good old mother came to her one
night and told her how glorious and.
beautiful it was iu heaveu.
The following morning the child
was dead.
“‘Don’t weep, father” said her new
mother; “it is best for the poor child.”
And the girl’s father answered no
word, but simply nodded his head.
The little girl was buried, but op
Easter morn an angel with large whitt
wings like a swan flew down from
heaven, seated himself beside the
grave and knocked thereon, as though
THE transformation.
it were a door. And soon the little
girl came forth from the grave and the
angel told her that he had come to
take her to her mother in heaven.
Then the little girl asked in a tremb
ling voice whether even humpbacked
children could enter heaven. She
could not conceive such a thing possi
ble.
Yet the angel answered, “You dear,
good child, you are no longer hump
backed,” and with tho.se words he
passed his white hand over her back
and the ugly old ’hump fell off like a
great hollow shell, and this left her a
transformed being.
And what was in it? Two beautiful
white angel wings! The child spread
them out, as though she had always
known how to fly, and she flew with
the angel through the dazzling sun
light up into the blue sky. On the
loftiest seat in heaven sat her good
old mother awaiting her with out
stretched arms, and the child flew
stiaighi into her lap.—New York
Herald.
Origin of Easter Rabbits,
One of the quaint and interesting
features of our modern Easter carniva
is the appearance in shop windows,
side by side with the emblematic col
ored egg, of a pert tall-eared rabbit,
and those who cannot understand why
bunny should have a place in our
Easier decorations shrug their shoul
ders and think it a trick to please the
children. But the legend of the
Easter rabbit is one of the oldest in
mythology, and is mentioned in the
early folklore of South Germany.
Originally, it appears, the rabbit was
a bird, which the ancient Teutonic
goddess Ostara—goddess of the east
or of spring—transformed into a
'quadruped. For this reason the rab
bit or hare is grateful, and in remem
brance of its former condition as a
bird and as a swift messenger of
spring, and of the goddess whom it
served, is able to lay colored Easter
eggs on her festival in the spring
time, the colors illustrating the theory
that when it was a bird the rabbit laid
colored eggs, and an egg has always
been a symbol of the resurrection,
and, therefore, used as an illustra
tion at Easter.
The natives of the Philippines
manufacture a very gauzy, transpa
rent fabric for ladies’ dresses from
fibres of the pineapple leaf. It is
called pina cloth.
FUSION CONFERENCE
Leaders Planning to Unite Against
Honest Government.
THEIR SCHEME MAY NOT SUCCEED
When The White Men of the State
Register Their Opinions in the Com
ing Election.
Special Raleigh Correspondence.
The Republican and State Populist
chairmen were in conference (here last
night. The veil of secresy was cast
over the proceedings, but enough leak
ed out to show that the situation was
far from gratifying. With them some
of the machine men of both parties,
Revenue Collector Duncan, Marshall
Dockery, etc., of the Republicans,
Treasurer Worth, Auditor Ayer, etc.,
of the Populists.
A Republican said there was no sign
of activity in his parity anywhere in
the East, so far as he could discern.
He declared he did not know what
would be done as to a ticket; that at
Washington these things were regulat
ed; that Senator Pritchard would
really name the ticket.
Another Republican said he would
guess that a Winston-Salem man of
prominence would be put out as the
sound money and protective tariff can
didate of the opponents of the Demo
cratic party.
A Populist who attended the confer
ence said the Republicans would agree
to anything the Populists wanted;
that they were asking no questions;
that they need the Populists and must
have them.
The fusionists decide to put on their
“black list” State Superintendent Me
bane because he favors the franchise
amendment. The Republican machine
men are all especially incensed against
him.
Chairman Simmons, speaking about
tne blacklisting of Republican leaders
era who favor the amendment, said
that if that party takes the attitude oi
fighting Republicans who favor the
amendment it will array itself against
a large majority of its leaders and best
organizers in Eastern North Carolina,
men who have always voted the Repub
lican ticket. Chairman Simmons re
marked that Republican leaders tak
ing this view of favoring the amend
ment are to be found in county aftei
county in the East.
Republican State Chairman Holton
has issued his fifth campaign circular,
a four-page affair, in which he dwells
on what he terms Democratic pledges
not to take up the franchise matter.
He knows perfectly well that the Dem
ocrats said they would do preciselv
what they are doing, that is, leave the
question to be decided at the polls.
The local event of the week here was
the trial of Thomas Jones, the negro
extorter who murdered six members
of a negro family. The old, old plea of
insanity was the only defense.
Judge Dorsey Battle, of the Eastern
district criminal circuit, died yester
day. The governor immediately ten
dered the place to Charles A. Cook, o
Warren. The latter has not accepted
and intimates much doubt as to ac
ceptance. It is stated on Republican
authority that the legislature which
elected can fill the vacancy in June, sc
Cook would have only two months tc
serve.
The work of laying the foundation
for the Vance statue in the capita,
square is in progress. In ten days the
base will be in place, but not until Julj
4 will the staute be placed upon it.
The board of agriculture is sending
out through the State veterinarian
cloth (signs in great numbers setting
forth the law that “no cattle infectec
with ticks shall be allowed upon the
public roads in any stock law or no-
fence territory or be received in any
enclosure or stockyard therein.”
The White Man is capable of Self’
Governm nt.
Centuries of experience have quali
fied the Saxon race for self-govern
meat and the government of others
Through years of toil and trial, the\
reached the former; then througi.
years of toil, and strife and war, thej
reached the latter. The negro can no.
reverse 'the order or close his eyes and
blindly leap over centuries, of history
He must tread the same paths. The
guideposts are plain. First he mus
learn to govern self; then he may hop*,
to learn to govern others.
WHY THE WHITE MAN IS SU
PER! OR.
The white man, whether educated or
uneducated, knows as the average ne
gro voter does not know that race and
color in office and power will not hide
his crimes or protect him in violations
.•f the law. Negroes as a rule expect
their race and even their party to pro
tect them when arraigned before the
courts. They mistake liberty for li
cense and hence give their evil pro
pensities full sway. “License they
mean when they cry Liberty.” This is
one of the principal evidences of white
supehio-rity. Men way subscribe to the
but to call them by name.” This was
told me by the postmaster himself. To
test this matter of the constantly in
creasing insolence and disrespect to
wards the white people I have fre
quently in the last year called the at
tention of flriends to the fact that in
driving along the roads not one ne
gro in a hundred met would speak first.
They wait for the white person to
speak first or they do not speak at all.
I can give other instances in my own
experience and from my own observa
tion, but only mention these two to
call the attention of the better class of
negroes to the fact that the whole ten
dency of events is towards a wider
and wider separation of the races. It
does not take a prophet to foresee that
a continuation of this state of affairs
will end in a clash between the two
races. And it is then duty, and just as
incumbent upon the negroes as upon
the whites to endeavor to prevent this
clash. As to who will be the greatest
sufferers and who will be the surviv
ors, the good judgment of the negro
ought to teach him. The Bible speaks
of the folly of sowing the winds. The
'■harvest is reaped in the whirlwinds.
FALSEHOODS NAILED.
Who Are Entitledto Vote Under The
Amendment.
Wilmington Messenger.
An examination of the 4th and 5th
sections of the franchise amendment
to be voted upon in August next will
satisfy any one of ordinary sense that
two things are clear, are apparent.
First, all who read and write may vote
under the 4th section. Second that all
whites who cannot read and write may
vote under Lth section. And why?
Because it distinctly sets forth that
“no male person, who was on January
1, 18'67, or any time prior thereto, en
titled to vote under tne laws of any
State in the United States wherein ho
then resided, and no lineal descendant
of any such person, shall be denied the
1 right to register and vote at any elec
tion in the State by reason of his fail
ure to possess the educational quali
fication prescribed in section 4 o-i this
article: Provided he shall have regis
tered in accordance with the terms of
this article prior to December 1/
1908.” And that means simply that ail
the whites can vote under that section
for the plain reason that there is not
pa single white man in all the state
| whose father or grandfather could not
I vote in the year indicated, 1867. There
1 can be no possible disfranchisement of
the whites under that section, and all
the liars in the state cannot make any
other thing appear however much they
may lie.
In the amendment there is another
most-wise, fair, necessary provision. It
is compulsory to have each voter to
pay a poll tax. This is just an®
proper. All voters not otherwise ex
empt should pay something toward.!
the support of the state government.
The poll tax is the best way to reach
all, and, it is needed to carry on the
state government. The law makes
proper exemptions from the law gov
erning the poll tax. All persons over
fifty years of age and all persons who
are exempt by the county commission
ers will rot have to pay a poll tax.
The whites "re the burden bearers. DC
all taxes paid in 1898, 96 2-3 were paid
by the whites. Surely the negroes who
may vote should be forced by law to
pay something for that privilege, for
the privilege of citizenship, for the
support of the government. They are
Door citizens who do not help to sus
tain public government in some way.
No poll tax pNd no vote given. Here-
■tefore the regent as to poll tax eo’-
leetirv in the State has been greatly
abused.
declaration 'that “all men are created
equal” and yet not submit that it is
with the meaning of either the De
claration of Independence or the na-
ional constitution, that a weaker, less
ntelligent race shall administer their
Ufairs, for at the promulgation of
both those documents the negroes
ved here as slaves and were just as
"it for suffrage then as they were thirty
years ago.
THE EVIL INFLUENCE OF NEGRO
SUFFRAGE ON THE REPUBLI ¬
CAN PARTY.
The Republican party so (far as
North Carolina is concerned is divided
into two distinct and separate parts:
West and East and Black belts. The
average Western North Carolina Re
publican, and in this respect I am
sorry to say Senator Pritchard seems
but little better inforimed than the
average, but silly and incompletely
comprehends the situation in Eastern
North Carolina where the negroes,
ignorant and insolent, ate entirely n
control of all Republican conventions
and where every effort to better the
condition of affairs is counteracted by
Jie opposition of some black-hearted
white man w.th corrupt practices who
sees in added intelligence and reput
able work a diminution of his own
unscrupulously acquired power. A1-
Jioug-a (the Republican party has an
excellent plan of organization it is
scarcely ever followed on account of
-he ignorance and corruption of the
negro politicians who being numeri
cally stronger preside over white men,
call them to order at will and occas
ionally consent for them to be elected
delegates to a State Republican con
tention. The white Republican, If
honest, is entirely at their mercy and
under their control; if corrupt he must
purchase their votes and influence.
Jhis is not an overdrawn picture.
HOW OFFICE AFFECTS A NEGRO.
The negro originals nothing; he
merely imitates, and like most imi-
cators he does not distinguish between
.rue metal and the false and spurious.
So in the administration of any office
he loses sight of the responsibility and
considers only what he- thinks is the
added dignity and importance to him
self among his fellows. This causes
him to be impertinent and insolent to
the white people. In office he is an
entirely different individual as all the
people who have seen him in office
uno w.
Lastly, but of supreme importance,
s the effect the settlement of the race
question by the adoption of the amend
ment will have upon the progress cl
he State. And every intelligent voter
aught to regard it as a patriotic, and
'.or a partisan question.
Every voter—every white voter
mows that the cause of good govern
ment demands that the affairs of state
■e administered by white men because .
heirs is the property to be secured,!
.heirs the mind to originate, to plan
11 progressive movements and theirs
he strong arms to uphold the State in
lines of strife and war.
SCME OF THE BENEFITS.
To urge the adoption of the amend
ment is not an attack upon the pim
ple of majority rule. I believe in
majority rule, but for the good .of all
he people and the successful manage-
nent of 'the affairs of State that rule
oust be the rule of an intelligent ma-
oruty. And to secure such rule for-
ver what more potent than the incen
tive to all. men to secure an education
or their children furnished by the rati-
Ication of the amendment. Knowing
hat after 190'8 every man whether
white or black, not on 'the permanent
mil must conform to.the provisions of
he article there is a neat stimulus to
ill the children of the State to learn
o read and write at all hazards when
' hey become of age in the governmen-
al affairs of their State and country.
THE NEGRO VOTE THE CURSE
OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
It is no secret that the negro vote
s the curse of the Republican party in
he South, the open disgrace of all
itate conventions of the party and its
rurehasable quality a source of shame
wen to the great national conventions.
Not alone, however, at the negro
should the blame be directed, but also
it his white leader, who in corrupting
him or taking advantage of his corrup
tion is more criminal because more in
telligent.
WHITE MEN CAN’T STAY IN IT.
I will give one example which I do
lot doubt may b paralleled in a ma
jority of the counties of North Caro
lina east of Raleigh. In this county
(Pitt) in the eighties there were sev
eral hundred white Republicans,
"here can not be twenty-five counted
now.
A DISMAL PROSPECT.
If it is not blotted out I firmly be
lieve before very many years have
passed away the memory of the South-
rn white Republican party will be
mly a dream, a hideous dream in
.hich black specters hold ceaseless
orgies above the grave of men once
.romunent in the councils .of their
.States and country.
WIHAT WILL THE END BE?
Cn.e of the postoffices in this county
s kept by a middle age white man, a
merchant and a substantial citizen. A
hort while before the last electlion a
.egro boy, son of one of the negro
.chool teachers, walked into the pqst-
iffice, and called out: “John, is there
my mail for us.” The merchant asked
he boy to repeat his request, thinking
possibly*'he did not hear correctly,
but the bay went off without his mail,
•.nd soon returned with his mother, by
.utterance a school teacher. She was
very angry and demanded of the post
master what her boy had done. Upor
bis giving her a statement of the mat
er she replied: “Is that all? That 1
'll right! I teach all my children not
to ‘Mister’ the Joneses, the Browns
and all these white people around here,
Raleigh News and Observer: Con
gressman Atwater is in the city, hav
ing just returned from his home in
Chatham county, where he made two
telling speeches. “You may state that
Chatham is in line and will give a ma
jority for the amendment,” said Mr.
Atwater last night. “These meetings
did good. I am enlisted for the fight
for White supremacy and am ready to
fight for it anywhere and at any time.
I expect to speak in Franklin county
next month.
MIR. ATWATER’S VIEWS.
When questioned about his recent
speech-making, among his people. Mr.
Atwater said he had merely comedown
to the State to talk to his constituents
a little bit. He was sure that the boys
were all right, 'he said, but he had
been afraid' that some of them did not
understand matters just exactly. So he
had conversed with them for a few
minutes from a speaker’s stand, and
now 'there is no danger of their going
wrong.
“I told them the only thing there is
to tell,” he added simply, “I gave
them my word that none of the white
men would be disfranchised, and I told
them that the amendment only meant
'hart the negro would lie kept out of
politics in the future. It seems to me
that this is all that there is in our
fight.”
The most, in personal credit, that
the gentlemen from the fourth district
makes of his present position is to say
that the boys called him away from
.he plough to go to Congress. Some
where—'at the plough, maybe-he
’earned simplicity and wisdom. In
the great struggle that is now on the
’lands of his party he' begins and con
cludes his part by saying to his peo-
ole: “You won’t be hurt. We will
^et the negro out of politics. That’s
UI.” And “the boys” in the fourth
’istrict go back to ploughing—satis-
lecl, while their representative pro
ceeds by easy stages to Washington to
find ouE what the cor ressional boys
have done in his absence.