North Carolina Newspapers

C 7 ' nr. . m lU ill ItC JAMES C. DOYLIN, Publisher. NEW SERIES--VOL I3.--N0. 18. The Wadesboro Messenger and Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, 1888. Wadesboro, N. C, Thursday. November 10, 1898. PRICE, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. WHOLE "UVUBER 929 -Case of Poisoning Hood's Sarsaparllla Drives the Pol son from' the System, Quiets the Nerves, Relieves Dyspepsia and Catarrh"." " While in the irmj I was poisoned In wardly with poison oak, and I did not get wall for 15 years. My blood became ao affected that I was taken with a hacking eongh, and I was thought to be going Into consumption. I took many different medlelnes without avail, and finally re solved to try Hood's Sarsaparllla. When I had finished taking the first bottle the pimples began to disappear from my body, and after I had taken three bottles I was welL I have also suffered with ca tarrh in -ffee head and have been taking Hood's Sarsaparllla for this trouble, and it helps me. In fact I take it for all ail ments and believe it has no equal as a blood purifier. It quiets the nerves and gives refreshing sleep. It has relieved me of dyspepsia and built me up." J. L Hoixiday, Williamston, South Carolina. Hood's Sarsaparllla Is the best in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Bold by all druggists. ; $1 ; six for $5. H rrA ' a Dillc cure Liver Ills; easy to 1 1UUU a fll l-take, easy to operate. 25a R. T. Bk.ifETT, Jno. T. Bknnktt Crawford D. Bknnktt. ; Bennett & Bennett, Attorneys-at-Law. Wadesboro, - - N. C Last room on the right in the court house. Will practice in all the courts of the State. Special attention given to the examination and investigation of Titles to Real Estate, drawing ' Deeds and other instruments, Col lection of Claims, the Managing of Estate for Oaardiaus, Administrators and Execu tors, and the Foreclosure of Mortgages. Will attend the courts of Stanly and Mont gomory Bounties. Prompt attention given to all business in trusted to them. Covington & Red wine, Monroe, N. C. L. Caudle, Wadesboro, N. C. T. Covington, Redwine & Caudle, ATTORNEYS - AT - UW, WADESBORO, N. C. Practice in all the State, and United States Courts. Special attention will be given to exami nation and investigation of titles to Real Estate, the drafting of deeds, mortgages, and other legal instruments; the collect ion of claims, and mangementof estates for Guardians, Administrators, and Executors. Commercial, Railroad, Corporation and Insurance Law. Continuous and painstaking attenl ion will be given to all legal business. Office in the Smith building. W.A: INGRAM, M.D. SURGEON, yVADESBORO, - - - X. c. Railroad calls by wire promptly attended Office opposite National Hotel. W. F. GRAY, D. D. 8.. (Oflice ia Smith & L dnlap Building. Wadesboro, North Carolina ALL OPERATIONS W ARRANTED. WHOOPING One of the most distressing sights is to see a child almost choking with the dreadful whooping-cough. Give the child Dr. John W. Bull's Cough Syrup, relief will be obtained at once and the Bofferer will soon be cured. COUCH SYRUP Cures Whooping-Cough quickly. Doses are small and pleasant to take. Doctors recommend it. Price 25 cts. At all druggists. It rests with yon whether yon continue ,,- ene-klllinsr tobacco habit. NO-TO-BAOTt ' 1 remores the desire for tobaeco, vith-T 1 S 1 out Berroan dixtress, expels nicq-fj .1 1 wt tine, panfie the blood, re-Mf M I k SXXwS -tore lost mauhood,T 1 1 100 boxes andpoeketT VI HXjIOTOBK! from J ryljour own druggist, who t II 1 1 fL"Ml Touch for as. Take ft with VJ IV'AJ'' will, patiently, persistently. One I lli bo' 'j nsually cures; 3 boxes, !., jmaranteed toenre, or we refund money. ' atsrUnr 1 s U., Ckleaf, srtrl, lert. I 7 fpecullax 111a. The 1 A J right remedy for I VV I (babies Ills especially I I f Jwornn and stomach Cm disorders la Frey's Vermifuge ) hat cured children for GO year. Send 'for Ulna, book about the ilia and the remedy. Oae battle sstlM few S ssnt. Lis. FBTt Baltunon, Sa. STEPTOE'S CASK COLLAPSES. A. S. MOBISON, DEALER Itf IS 2 O O C9 I j4 Ex-Vongrgman Kftelil.il and Others) Acquitted ofCoereing at Sleitro Teacher. Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 3. There was great in'erest in the hearing in the Su preme Courtroom here this evening of the charge by a negro republican regis trar, B. B. Steptoe, of Roseneath precinct, Halifax county, that ex-Congres3tnan "Buck" Kitchin, Claude Kitchin, Dr. A. 0. Liverman, John Gray and E. T. White head had broken down his door, entered, and made him resign as registrar of elec tions.. . The accused men all arrived in the afternoon before Judge Montgomery's bench warrant was served on them by the sheriff. Democratic State Chairman Simmons was present with them. F. H. Busbee and W. A. Dunn appeared as counsel for them, while John W. Graham and Charles A. Cook appeared for Re publican State Chairman Holton. Mr. Ilolton was present. With the accused came thirteen prom inent democrats 1 f Halifax county. Steptoe was the sole witness for the prosecution. His counsel said o.her wit nesses had been summoned, but had failed to appear. Steptoe said he was a teacher. He is coal black and about forty-five years old. Last Saturday, he stated, Claude Kitchin told him that he had been sent by a club of 165 white men to say that if there was any trouble on election day, or if any houses were burn ed, the negro leaders would be responsi ble, and that Stept . e was one of the lea ders; that on the night of the same Satur day, between 10 and 11 o'clock, people came to his bouse and called him; that his wife asked who was outside and was told "nobody to hurt uim;" that his wife said he was away, that he crawled under the house through a hole in the floor; that with a beam the rear door was broken and men with a gun looked for him, found him, aud that the first man he saw was Captain "Buck" Kitchin; that they made a light and were not disguised; that he asked Captain Kitchin ; to help him; that his wife scream ed and one man choked her and said if she did not hush he would kill her; that Captain Kitchin said he had been sent by a club to have.Steptoe write his resigna tion as registrar, Steptoe said all right and Claude Kitchin told him how to write it; that they swore if he told what had happened they would kill him if it took a dozen years to do it; that Claude Kitchin told him, "If you dou't sign it we will kill you, and if I thought you'd tell I would kill you." Steptoe swore he would not tell. A cross-examation of Steptoe revealed the fact that two weeks ago he came here to ask the Goveror and State Chairman Holton to send troops to Halifax; that he did this after a metting of negroes who had adopted resolutions. He said that up to the time when he and two other negro committeemen came here to ask for protection no one had interferred with him. He did not see Holton, he said, but did see Augustus M. Moore, who was in charge of republican headquarters dur ing Holton's absence, andalso talked with other republicans. Steptoe was asked if he was paying the lawyers for the prosecution in the present case, and replied no, that he was not able to pay them, but that Holton had agreed to pro vide counsel. Steptoe was asked if Claude Kitchin hod not toM him last Saturday, at Step toe's, schoolhouse, that negroes had held secret meetings and threatened to do in jury to white peisons and their property. Here Steptoe wandered in his evidence. He said his township had a white major ity. He acknowledged that after his first visit to Raleigh Claude Kitchin had charg ed him with coming here after troops, and he had said he came to see his daughter He said Captain Kitchin had made him write out his resignation, and yet two days ago he said here that Claude Kit chin made him write it. Captain Kitchin was put on the stand and swore he never saw Steptoe before to-day, so far as he knew, and never spoke to him; never was at his house. Claude Kitchin said hi saw Steptoe last Saturday; spoke of the strained rela tion of the races in Halifax and of the secret meetings of negroes; said Steptoe had attended these and done all he could to arouse the' negroes against the whites, and also that he kne v Steptoe, David Smith and Stuart . Hardy had gone to Raleigh as a committee to ask for troops for Halifax; that in the secret meetings resolutions against white men and their property had been passed; that the white people wanted to have peace between the races, and so had appointed two men, one a preacher, to keep allwhites twenty five yards from thpolU while negro men voted; that Steptoe admitted some very rampant resolutions had been passed against white people and their property, but declared he voted against them, that - . 1 oiepioe saia ne aia not want to be a poll-holder or a register and intended to resign. Kitchin said he made no attempt to force him to resign. He swore he was not at bteptoe'a house Saturday night, nor did he know of any one going, there He told Judge Montgomery he had not determined to suppress the negro vote. dui naa sougnt to prevent a race conflict. The other accused men all swore they had never been to Steptoe's house. They were an in ocotiana necK Saturday night. Haifa dozen witnesses ; testified to the good character of the accused. As soon as this evidence was inJudge Montgomery said: "The defendants are discharged." Steptoe's plan had failed. . Watches, Clocks, Eye-Glasses, Spec tacles and Jewelry of all kinds re paired on short notice. . Inspected Watcnes for S. A. L. R. 1L four years. - Fourteen years experience. - Can he found in Caraway's store on Wade street. . Life insurance is a good thing but hoalih insurance, by keeping the blood pure with Hood's Sarsaparilla, is better. Stimulate the stomach, . rouse the liver, cure bilious- QJ I 1 ness, headache, dizziness, I III our stomach, cods tl patina, U III etc Price 23 cents. Sold by all. druggists. The onijr WU to take with Hood's SarujMulUs, BIL A BP'S LETTER. Thirty years is the average life of a generation. Within that time there is almost an entire change in the population of a town or cty or community. Death plays the surest hand. Removals come next, and of the rest the children have grown to be men and women, and they are as good as new, for we old people now them not, neither do they know us. Often do young people say to me, "Why I am a grandchild to your old friend." Yes, a fries d who has perhaps been dead for a score of years, and I had almost forgotten that he ever lived. I lived in Rome twenty seven years, but now, I am a stranger in that city. I was" ruminat ing about this because I happened to ask Major Foute yesterday how many of his comrades he remembered. He shook his empty sleeve and pondered. "Thirty five years ago," he said "I could call the roll of a hundred men in my company, but now I d ) not believe 1 could name over twenty without a strain of mind and memory. Most all of them are dead, and you know that when a man, a com mon man, dies he seems to drop out of thought or recollection. Only great men or notable men or heroes are remem bered long." How, then, ia a catalogue or list or ros ter of our Confederte soldiers to be ob tained? The Legislature passed a law providing that the ordinaries of each county should make a list for his county and get information from any source pos sible, and I suppose they are doing this, but of course it will be imperfect and in complete. Gel. Avery exhausted all sources at his command in 1SS0 anl tab ulated only the officers. Of this list, he says: "It is admittedly iucomplete and painfully imperfect." A generation changes in thirty years, but our regiments and companies chang ed so radically in four years that they can hardly be identified even by their sur viving comrades. I find in Col. Avery's table that Company A, First Georgia Regiment, that went into service com manded by Captain H. D. D. Twiggs, had twelve Captains, almost every company had two or more. The Fourteenth Reg iment had four colonels, five lieutenant colonels, four majors and twenty cap tains. The Twenty-second regiment had twenty-four captains; the Twenty-sixth had twenty-seven captains; the Eighth cavalry had thirty-one, and the Ninth had thirty -six. Of course the .privates suffered more frequent changes than the officers and the men are few who went in at the beginning of the war and came out at its close. But even those few can not remember all the changes the killed in battle, the dead from other causes, the discharged, the transfers to other companies and the recruits that continu ally came to fill up Ihe ranks. Then there were some few deserters and thou sands of prisoners taken many of whom died in prison and were forgotten by their comrades. Georgia sent to the field sixty-six regimeuts and twenty-five battalions of infantry, eleven regiments and thirty battalions of cavalry and twenty-eight battalions of artillery. Of all those who served as volunteers during the first two years it is estimated that not oyer 20 per cent are living. Only five regiments brought back the same colo nels they took out. No; the lists are lost and will never be made complete, but much can yet be done to approximate them, and it should be done quickly and put in book or pam phlet form and distributed. I was rumi nating "about this because that great hearted woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Gabbett, of Atlanta, the widow of a Confederate who fell in battle, has volunteered to ex ecute the resolution of the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy to present badges or crosses of honor to the veterans or their widows and families, and this gxd woman is now perplexed to find them. Well she may be. Hardly a week passes that I do not receive letters from Georgia soldiers or their widows wri.teu from the western states wanting to know about our pension law3. Even their kindred here in Georgia do not know where they are, for they keep moving and leave no sign behind. But Mrs. Gabbet must not be discouraged, for there are a few thou sand within her reach and her work will be grateful to them. Then let ns be up and doing before it is too late. Let the veterans consider it and take action that will result in system atic methods. Tb.3 time will come, in fact, it has already come, when the child will feel proud that its father or grand father or uncle was a Confederate sol dier. As the years roll on the halo grows brighter. It is like the revolution of 1776. We have preserved in our family a Bos ton newspaper of that year. It is in mourning, and across the top are little cuts of cofhns seveuteen black coffins, with the names under them that fell at Lexington. My great grand-father's name is there, and I am proud of it, and we veterans believe that the cause for which we fought was just as holy as that. This is our faith. And now I am pleased to see that my friend Dr. Catching, of Atlanta, has been inspired to write a book of Confederate memories not his own : memories, but those of other people veterans and their wives and widows. It is not to be the lamentations of Jeremiah, but an enter taining and instructive compendium of how we lived and got along during the latter part of the warrwhen the blockade was on us, and we had eaten up and worn out everything in all this southern land. He wants everybody who was in the war and has a story to tell that is funny or fantastic or pathetic or mixed, to write it down and send it to him to be put ia the book. My wife says she went through enough to make a hook of her own, and our good neighbor, M s Aiken, has long since told us enough to make two or three books. But of course they must make selections and mix np smiles with tears. iuch a book would be a treasure in the family and would keep the children quiet of a winter "night, as grandpa read to them these stories of the war. I tell you, my young friends of this generation you don't know anything about the pov erty of our people in 1864 and 1865. It was just awful to experience, and it was sub lime to witness the heroism with which our wives and m thers and sisters endur ed it It makes me smile now to recall the shabby ge iteel that hung around fe male garments and children's clothes and cracked-up table ware and patched car pets. Why, there wasn't a circus nor a monkey show nor a pound of sure enough coffee nor a lump of sugar nor a stick of candy nor any store clothes in all the Confederacy; no, not even a dose of cas tor oil to follow np the green apples that the boys had overloaded their stomachs with. Talk about your tan shoes! Why, we didn't have any other sort. Old fath er Jinks made shoes for my boys and my wife, too, out of calf skins that had beea tanned in a tub, and the calf's hair was sticking out in patches, but they were good, if not pretty. I never see a pair of red shoes new but they remind me of the war, and of poverty. I would't wear them. I made a boat in January, 1865, that didn't have a nail in" it, for there were no nails. I bored holes 'with a brace and bit and pegged it together with wooden pins, and it never leaked a drop. De Foe wrote "Robinson Crusoe" and Dr. Goulding wrote the "Young Marocn ers," and they are excellent books, but authors had to strain their minds to make fiction read like facts. But Dr. Catching won't have to strain anything to make facts read like fiction. So let ns all send him a sketch from our own experience and I have no doubt he will give us a de lightful book. It is to be a labor, of love with him, for he says he has no idea that there is any money in it. He ha3 con templated such a book for a long time, and his heart is set oa it. Not long ago Dr. Joe Jacobs gave us a most delightful sketch about how IfiardQtors and drug gists had to find substitutes for medicine during those blockade days when a pound ot opium sold for $5,000 in Confederate money Bill Abp. A Nice Little Romance. Charlie Meadows,, a member of the Hospital Corps at Fort McPherson, re ceived an honorable discharge from the service of Uncle Sam today. Behind Meadows release there is a nice little ronance. While Fort McPher son was filled up with the sick and wounded from Santiago field young Meadows fell in love with and married Miss Bessie Deihl, a pretty little nurse, who came to McPherson from -a good home in Louisville to help care for the sick soldiers. It was a secret wedding, because the army rules forbid married women from being in the Hospital Corps. The story leaked out after a week, and the bride was summarily dismissed. She was allowed to remain in her quar ters for a time, however, by kind-hearted Major Taylor, the surgeon in charge. Then Meadows applied for his discharge. He preferred his brideto a place in the Hospital Corps. Twice he was refused discharge.. It looked gloomy far the young pair, when the bride betook herself back to Louisville and enlisted the services x of Congressman Evans. He interceded for them and secured the groom's release. Tuesday night the happy pair left for Illinois, followed by the congratulations of the whole post, to spend their delayed honeymoon with the family of the groom who is a young man of intelligence and good standing "at his home. Atlanta Constitution. A Prosperous Keutockian. One citizen of Hancock county, Ky., is enjoying a season of prosper ity, if the following item from the Hawesville Plaindealer is to be be lieved "As far as heard from, this coun ty has produced no mammoth pump kins, abnormal sweet potatoes"- freaks of any kind, but a poor man fell sick last week and word was given out-that he was short on ra tions, and the next morning his back yard was filled with cabbage, pumpkins, sweet aud Irish potatoes aud a two-sjallon jug of whisky. He sold his find to the grocer, paid his doctor's bill and will keep the liq uor to treat his friends. He says he hopes he will never know another day of wellness." In 1887 Mr. Thomas Mcintosh, of Allen town, Tenn.. had an attack of dysentery which became chronic "1 was treated by the best physicians in East Tennessee with out a cure," he says. "Finally 1 tried Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After usinjr about twelve bottles 1 was cured sound and well." For sale by jas. a. liaruison. General Debility and Loss of Flesh Scott's Emulsion has been the standard remedy tor nearly a quarter of a century. Phvsicians readily admit that they obtain re sults from it that they cannot get from any other flesh-forming; food There are many other prepara tions on the market that pretend 10 00 wnat SCOTT'S ErjuEjjSon does, but they fail to perform it The pure Norwegian Cod-liver Oil made into a delightful cream, skill fully blended with the Hypophos--phites of Lime and Soda, which are such valuable tonics, makes this preparation an ideal one and checks the wasting tendency, and the atient almost immedtate y commences to put on flesh and gain a strength wutui surprises mem. Be sure you get SCOTT'S Emulsion. Ses that tlkt man na nsn sx on tb wrapper. x 50c. and Si.oo, all dniggiits. SCOTT a.BOWNE, Chemist, Kw York. WESLEY'S LEfTEB TO WIFE. HIS Ah Approaching Sale unTeiis the Great Methodist's Married tile. London Telegraph. All the world knows t tat John Wes ley's marriage was more or less a failure, and Eome very interesting letters bearing on the subject will be Bold at Messrs Sotheby's next month. They extend from ihe year 1751 to 1778. The Earliest is dated from Tetsworth, March 27, I75. and that is written in a very affectionate style: '(), how can we prafce God enough for making us helpsmeet for each other. I am utterly astonished at His goodness. Seven years later he iras writing in a very different strain. The letter from - which we extract a few lines is dated Norwich, December 23, 1757. "I was much concerned ye night be fore I left London at your unkind and unjust accusatiin. You accused me of unkindness; cruelty, and what not. And why so? Because I insist on choosing my own company! Because I insist by conversing, by speaking or writing, with those whom I (not you) judge proper. For more than seven years this has been bone of contention between yon aad me, and it is so still. D or 1 win not, 1 cannot, give it up. But then you will rage and fret, and call me names." Nineteen years later (September 1st, 1777), the reverend gentleman again re turned to the attack: "Some years since, without my consent and knowledge, yon left me and settled at Newcastle. I re- celyed you again, without any terms, nay, without any acknowledgement you had gone wrong. Two years ago you left me again, without my consent or knowledge. A few days since I met you and (to my great supprise) you seemed willing to return But, it may be asked what reparation are you either able or willing to make?" Writing eleven months later from Bris - tol (October 2,1778) he observes: "As it is doubtful, considering your age and mine, wheather we may meet any more in this world, I think it right to tell you my mind once for all withouteither anger or bitterness." After alluding to the fact that his wife left him without his con sent or knowledge, he goes on to ob serve; "Ever since (and, indeed, long beiore) you have made my faults the constant matter of your conversation. Now, sup pose a husband has many faults, is it the part oi a prudent wile to publish or to conceal them? You have published (my real or supposed) faults, not to one or two intimates only (though, perhaps that would have beea toa much), but to all Bristol, to all London to all Ireland. Yea, you did whatever in you lay to publish it to all the world, thereby desig- ing to put a sword into my enemies hands.' " The apostle of Methodism concludes thus: "If you were to live a thousand years you could not undo the mischief you have done. And till you have done all you can toward it I bid you farewell" TILT THE HAT UP PRECIOUS METALS. Manx of Them Far More Valua ble Than Gold -Uall.au. 93,250 Per Ounce. Washi igtin Star. "The majority of people when asked to name the most precious metala usually mention gold as first, platinum as second and silver as third,'r said the proprietor of a large assay and refining establishment in New York to the writer recently. "If asked to name others some might add nickel and a few aluminum to the list. Now, let us see how near the truth they would be. Gold is worth about $250 per pound troy, platinum $130 and silver about $12. Nickel is worth 60 cents and pure aluminum from 50 cents to $2 to the troy pound. "We will now compare these prices with those of the rarer and less well known metals. To take them in alphabetical order, barium, the me tal which Davy isolated from its ore, baryte, in 1808, sells for $950 a pound, when it is sold at all, and cadcium is worth $1,800 a pound. Cirium is a shade higher; its cost is $160 an eucce, or $1,920 per pound. These begin to look like fabulous prices, but they do not reach the highest point, chromium being $200. Cabal t falls to about half the price of silver, while didymium, the metal isolated by Masander, ia the same price as calcium. Then comes gal lium, which is worth $3,250 an ounce, With this metal the high est price is reached, and it may well be called the rarest and most pre cious of metals. "Glucium is worth $250 per ounce, indium $150, iridium $658 a pound, janthanium $175 and lithium $160 per ounce. Nidium costs $128 per ounce, osmium, palladium platinum, potassium and rhodium bring, respectively, $940, $400, $130, $32 and $512 per pound. Strontium costs $128 an ounce, tan taum $144, tilurinm $9, thorium $272, vanadium $320, yttrium $144 and zinconium $250 an ounce. "Thus we see that the commonly received opinion as to what are the most precious metals is quite erron eous. Barium is more than four times as valuable as gold, and gallium more than 162 times as costly, while many of the other metals mentioned are twice and thrice as valuable. Alumiuum, which cost $8 and $9 a pound in 1890, is now produced as cheaply as iron, zinc, lead and copper." AMBITIOUS PROJECT. Northern Methodist Chareh Will Try to Raise Twealy Million Dollars. Springfield. Mass., Nov. 2 The mem bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be asked within a short time to con tribute $ 20,000,000 for a "twentieth-century thank offering" fund. It will be devoted to charitable and educational in stitutions now maintained by the Metho dist church, and will be the grandest contribution any organization has ever undertaken for tbe benefit of human kind. The offering is intended to be an expression of thanks of the people of the Methodist Church for the completion of tweaty centuries rf Christianity, and this method is believed by the bishops to be the most appropriate expression possible of that sentiment. The invitation will reach from one corner of the world to the most remote one. It will extend over Europe, and the followers of John Wes ley will see this twentieth century crown ing the effort of the founder of Method ism. G$Q7$&s Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Fashion Decrees That Women Should Wear It Away Back On The Head. Women's hats are changing in the tip of 'em. For months we have been wear ing our "lids" away down over our noses, a trick that made many a hat look as it it had been left hanging over the brink by a landslide. Women may wear their hats that way now if they want to, which is a kindly permission of fashion-makers, but other cants are new er, rue most sf.riaiug ot these puts me hat back on the head, leaving the front hair in plain view aud necessitating a deal of care of it. Though half of the top of the head i3 bared by some of these models, they do not suggest that the hat is about 10 slip off backward. This look is avoided by clever tricks of trimming generally by small plumes spreading to the sides, or by perky wired bows that stand up straight. These somehow make plain that the hat is in the place intended for it, but their arrangements are frequently so fantastic as to make these small hats quite a stiking as a full. sized picture hat. Another tip that is in revival is that which pushes the hat coquettishly up from one' side. In some models this is done extravagantly, for, of coarse, some women will at once overao such a trick once it is permitted to do it at all. Even whan done in moderation it demands glissy hair carefully cared for and arranged. Cincinnati Enquirer. A Peculiar Case. Exchange, liss Elmire Marie Carpentier, in New Orleans, the last sixteen years of whose life have furnished an scientific problem, is dead. When nine years old she began to sleep longer than was normal, and at the death of her little brother, to whom she was passionately devoted, her sleep ing spells began to be more prolonged. She was eighteen years old at that time. Then she had an attack of fever and fell into a trance which has lasted for sixteen years, with intermissions of two hours daily, when she was fed. During these intermissions she wa in the full posses sion of her (acuities and appreciated her condition. Miss Carpentier was a daugh ter of Abnoir S. Carpentier, of Laboit & Carpentier, one of the wealthiest com mission houses in New Orleans during the antebellum days. The war swept away their fortune, aud her father died, leaving the family's circumstances very sadly altered. For three days before her death Miss Carpentier evinced no sign of her usual wakening, and Dr. U. J. Lopez was called in. It was hard to determine if life was really extinct, for her condition while in the trances was deathlike. Every test was resorted to before her burial. The case has attracted widespread atten tion in the medical fraternity. During the sixteen years of her trance she was awake 11,680 hours; unconscious 140,160 hours. She was conscious one year and ten months out of sixteen years. Cuba in the Future. New York Tribune-. The Cuban question having been settled, so far as the Peace Commis sion at Paris can settle it, the fact may as well be recognized that Cuba may decide to have no other govern ment than that of the United States. Her people will unquestionably be made free to decide what sort of government they will have. The decision will be by the people, and not by a few delegates said to repre sent an army corps of insurgents. The United States has not incurred great expense and some loss of life in order to secure freedom for cer tain armed band of insurgents, but for the people of Cuba. The possi bility, if not the probability, thus confronts ns that, when the people of Cuba decides at all, they may de mand the permanent settled, abso lutely free and progressive govern ment which the United States only can give. Now let the real division of popu lar feeling in Cuba be considered. Every Spauiard, and every resident not of Cuban birth, will naturally prefer government by the United States to government by Cuban in surgents, who will at least be sup posed to have more or less vindictive feeling. Native born Cubans, who have estates to cultivate or business interests of any kind, will naturally prefer to any other the more endur ing and powerful government which the United States can give. A part, not a small part, of the Cuban in surgents themselves already mani fest the same choice. There are about as many factious among them as there are leaders, but it is natu ral that many of each faction would rather be ruled by the United States than any other faction. Under the circumstances, it appears problemat ic whether a government of Cubans by Cubans can be established with the consent of the inhabitants. If not, the alternative for them will be government by the United States: Since the United States will have no power to reject their decision, being in any case bound to secure for the island a government upright and trustworthy in its dealings with oth er uatious, it appears not altogether improbable that, without intention or choice, the United States will be compelled to accept entire responsi bility for the f utre government of Cuba as apart of the national do main. A New Derivation From The Writings ofa British Officer In the Last Cenlary. A collector of rare books in Korth Caro lina, says the Indianapolis Journal, has recently called attention to a derivation ot" the word "Vankee" which seems likely to be the correct one. The new derivationof the word is based on a statement in a work entitled "Travels Through the Interior Tarts of America, in n a Series of Letters by an Officer of the British Army." Tbe author was Lieut. Thomasr Aubrey, of the British army, who was taken prisoner at the battle of Saratoga and sent with other prisoners-to Charlottes ville, Va., for Sitte-keeinft- Here he ming led with the neighboring planters and rode about the country. The letters began Au gust 8, 17T6, and ran to October Srt, 1731. In one written from Cambridge, Mas., November 25, 1777, occurs the following: "The lower classes of these Yankees apropos it may not be amiss here just to observe to you the etymology f this term, is derived from a Chereokee word, eankke, which signifies cowant and slave. This epithet of Yankee was bestowed upon the nhabitants of New England by the Vir ginians for not - assisting them in a war with the Cherokees, and they have always been in derision by it. But tile name has been more pievalent since ttie commence ment of hostilities. The soldiers at Boston used it as a term of reproach, but after the affair at Bunker Hill the Americans gloried nit. 'Yankee Daodle' i now their paean. a favorite ot favonties. pla yel in their aruij , esteemed as warlike as the "Grenadier's March.' " As this was written in 1777 it comes pret ty near bein contemporaneous evidence, and as Lieutenant Aubrey had spent con siderable time in Virginia he may have obtained his information from trustworthy sources. If there is or was such a word iu the Cherokee language as eankke, signify ing coward, the evidence would seem to be almost conclusive. - . Justly Offended. Detroit Free Pre-s. No wonder the Colonel got mad. He was shot in the leg at Satiagond or com ing home was aeserveaiy a nero. tie was met by one ot these fussy old chaps who likes to hear himself talk and w ho broke out with: " W hy Colonel, I that youHmp. What's the matter?" 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