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"ante of the Day-Wlij He is so
Very Grateful.
If I was a preacher and beliered like
General Breckinridge that this was God's
war and that God gave us the vi:tory, 1
Would . prerch a sermon to-day on
Thanksgiving, aad would read David's
song that he sang after his great victory
over the Phillutines, for it was the first
thanksgiving of that kind on record, and
seems to fit our case. "Thou hast given
me the necks cf mine enemies. I did
beat them as small as the,.dust of the
earth. Thou hast kept me to be the head
of the heathen, and a people that I knew
not shall serye me. Strangers shall sub
mit themselves unto me and shall be obe
dient nnto me. Thou has lifted me up
high above them that arose against me.
Therefore, will I give thanks unto Thee,
Oh Lord."
The observance of Thanksgiving Day
was a very ancient custom among the
Jews. Moses ordained, that all "the
tribes should gather three times a year
and bring offerings and give thanks to
God for his goodness. The word thanks
means grateful thought, an expression
of gratitude and the scriptures from
Genesis to Revelation give it the high
est importance as au acceptable sacri
fice. David's Psalms are pregnant with
gratitude and he urges it upon all pe
pie ia the most impressive language.
Ia the days of the apostles the giving of
thanks was a daily offering, not only in
the temple service, but at home and at
their meals. Even the Savior would not
distribute the loaves and fishes until He
had given thanks; nor did He pass the
cup at the last supper until he had given
thanks to the Father. Our custom of
saying 'grace at the table is as old as
history. It should be said seriously,
devoutly and from the heart as well as
tte tongue. "Why not? What good
thing have wej got that was not given
us by our Heavenly Father? What are
we, anyhow? We don't know where we
came from, nor whither are we going,
nor what shall be our future state. We
caunoT'aJd a year or a day to our ex
istence. We cannot forsee or prevent
the accidents of life. We cannot make
a single article of clothing or food. We
don't know the process by which the
grain germinates and grows or the
sheep takes oh wool or how the silk
worm weaves his cocoon. In fact we
are utterly helpless and dependent on
our Creator and should give thanks every
day and every hour, for ingratitude is
the basest of all sins. Milton says: "A
glutton ne'er looks to heayen during his
feast, but with base ingratitude crams
nimself and blasphemes his feeder."
Shakspeare says that "ingratitude is a
marble-hearted fiend" and "Blow, blow,
thou winter wind. Thou art not so cut
ting or uukind as man's ingratitude."
What a fool.is the man who is proud ol
his money or the woman who is vain of
her beauty, for neither was the author ol it
and neither gave any thanks toGod for it,
Humility to God is the fittest garment
for usall, and gratitude its best ornament.
"Humble yourselves under His mighty
hand," says St. Paul. A quaint old poet,
who died V50 years ago, said of the ; Sav
ior: "He was the best of men a soft,
meek, patient, humble spirit the first
true gentleman that ever breathe!.' v
But this is sermon enough for a lay
man to preach. Turl.ey time is near at
haoc1 aud all the et ceteras that surround
the feast we are to dine out to-day with
fifteen of my family. I am thankful that
they are all well enough to eat turkey and
the et ceteras, and all are fairly g"KoS
looking, except me, arid are loving and
kind. I am thankful that we live in this
goodly land and that no affliction or cal
amity has befallen us. I am thankful for
the abundant crops, including the 4-ceot
cotton, for it was Him who sent the sun
ihine and the rain that made it. 'Twas
not Him who fixed the price. I'm thank
ful for the fruits that feasted us and the
flowers that gla.lden our eyes, and the
birds that sing to us. And now how
bfautiful are, the fading leaves that min
gle their bright colors with the green,
pines Upon the dh-taut hills. As the poet
says,
"The world is very lovely; oh, my God.
I thank Thee that I live."
But amidst all our comforts and luxu
ries and pleasing emotions, the essence
of Thanksgiving -will be lost unless we
remember the poor and the distressed,
not only in our prayers, but in our deeds.
Our preacher has inviteijis all to bring
an offering for the orphans at Clinton
where we have two that our Sabbath
school maintains. That is practical
thanksgiving, for Solomon saith, "He
that giveth to the poor lendeth to the
Lord," and an old Scotch preacher ad
ded, "Now if you like the security, down
with the dust."
I'm thankful that this unhappy war is
over, if it is over, and I grieve-fr all
those who have suffered from it, whether
they be frieads or foes. '
But the turkey bell calls and I am
wanied to preside and say grace. I wish
that everybody had a turkey and et ceteras.'.'.:"
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A Girl Sfonrishetl Ou Poison
From Her Birth Strange Sto
rles Abo tit Foisouiug.
The art of poisoning, says a writer
in the London Chnrch Gazette, 11
we are to believe an eminent author
ity, must he reckoned among the
lost arts. It is not because we are
less coarse than our ancestors, and
carry on r refinement even into our
crimes; we are less unscrupulous or
cruel than oar forefathers were.
Though the toxicology of the an
cients were necessarily incomplete,
there is every reason to believe that
antiquity was acquainted with th
use of arsenic, opium, henbane and
prussic acid. The oldest poison in
uso was probably an importation of
serpen t-venom. Theophrastus speaks
of a poison made from ac
ODite, with rapid or slow effects in
accordance with the operator's wish
es. During the empire the removal
of inconvenient persons by means of
poison had become so common that
the Emperors had a number of men
in their service, whose duty it was to
taste all dishes put upon the imperi
al table, and no dinner was partaken
of without one of the court physi
cians- being present. One of the
most notorious poisoners of the day
was Locusta, the murderess of Clau
dius and . Britannicuv About the
year 661 15. (J., large numbers 01
women, belonging to the higher
classes of Roman society, were in
dicted for poisoning their husbands
(a modern instance of the epidemic
occurred of late years in Hungary.)
One hundred and seventy were con
victed and condemned.
The sixteenth and seventeenth cen
turies were the halcyon days of poi
soning. There is no doubt that Li
Sparo, and the, if possible, still more
wretched hag. La Toffania, were as
bad as you make them. The latter
is said to have caused the deaths of
over 600 persons. She used a prep
aration of arsenic, which she sold
under the name of "Acqu Toffan."
It was a slow poison, the victim
growing daily weaker aud gradually
dying from physical exhaustion. In
France the most notorious female
poisoners were Mine, de Brinvilliers,
(who was taught the secret of the
"successive power" by Ste. Croix,
which she successfully administered
to her father and brothers,) and the
still more notorious Lovoisin and
Lavigoreux, who being ostensibly
midwives, carried their poisons to
high and low married couples anx
ious to hasten the dissolution of the (
irksome tie or needy heirs wishful
to accelerate the departure of rich
relatives. A veritable mania for
poisoning appears to have set in to
ward the middle of the seventeenth
century.
In England poisoning was declar
ed, by an act passed in the reigu of
Henry VIII, to be high treason, and
those guilty of it were to be boiled
alive. The most notorious case, (the
poisoning of James I, by Buching
inghani, is only surmise,) of poison
ir.g was that of Sir Thomas Overby,
in the year 1613. He had incurred
the displeasure of Lord Rochester
and his wife, and they had both
vowed to be revenged 'on him. So
after they had got him committed to
the Tower, they set themselves to
poison his food by mixing arsenic
and cauthandes with it. For many
months, though suffering intensely,
he appears to have lingered on. At
last a stronger dose than usual put
an end to his miserable existence.
The guilty couple, to the King's ever
lasting disgrace, were released after
live years' imprisonment.
One of the most curious points
connected with poison is the fact
that nations and individuals have
been known to thrive on it. Mithri
dates, King of Pontus, had poison
for his daily food. In the Gesta
Romanorum we read that "the
Queen of the North, having heard
of ihe great proficiency which Alex
ander the Great made in learning,
under the tuition of Aristotle, nour
ished her daughter, from the cradle,
on a certain kind of deadly poison,
and whtn she grew up she was con
sidered so beautiful that the sight of
her alone affected many with mad
ness." The young lady was sent to
Alexander, who, of course, fell mad
ly in love with her. Aristotle, who
knew of .the plot, warned the King,
who, thereupoUjCommanded a crimi
nal whom he had condemned to death
to kiss the girl. Scarcely had the
man touched her ruby lips before
"his whole frame was impregnated
with poison, and he expired in the
greatest agony."
Iu the present day it is well known
that the peasant girls of Syria con
sume large quantities of arsenic to
add to their personal charms. It is
a common habit also among men. It
is said to improve the complexion,
to promote digestion and to strength
en the respiatory orgaus. The worst
of it is that when once yu have
commenced takiug the drug it means
death to leave it xff.
"ASSEXATIOS INEVITABLE."
Dr. Capote Says the Cubans Will
"Have a Republic for Only a
Short Time.
Havana, Cuba, Nov. 24. Domingo
Mendez Capote, late vice-president of the
Cuban republic, and now president of
the executive commission representing
the general assembly of the army and
practically- head of the provincial gov
ernment, expressed this morning his be
lief that the future of Cuba would inevit
ably be annexation to the United States.
This he declared was the natural out
come of recent events, but he denied that
the aspiration of independence which has
so long animated the Cuban people is
temporarily satisfied. They wish for a
short period at least to see their own flag
waving over free Cuba. They recognize
that annexation will come shortly, and by
the unanimous voice of the Cuban people
themselves, but they desire-to see the
cause for which they had fought crowned
with success.
"The provisional government has been
dissolved," Dr. Capote said in reply to a
question, "and the sole Cuban authority
now existing is tne general assembly of
the army. That assembly has elected my
colleagues and myself to carry on the
general business during its adjournment
and principally to take measures prepar
atory to disbanding the army. When the
commission which has gone to the United
States returns, which I expect will be in
about twenty days, the assembly will
again be called together for final disposi
tion of the question of abandonment.
"The object of this commission is two
fold. The first and most important will
be an endeavor to raise a sum to pay off
our troops, either wholly or in part. I
may say the United States government
will be asked to facilitate us in raising
this sum. We wiU endeavor to obtain
sufficieut to pay the army in full. If that
is impossible, we will distribute the sum
obtained pro rata and give notes for the
balance.
"A second object of the commission is
a political one, about which the only
statement I can make ithat it is to ob
tain an expression of the aims of the
United.States government with a view to
our hearty co operation in carrying them
out, also to put before the government
the views of Cuban leaders.
'The commission has not been author
ized to accede to any scheme of annexa
tion or anything save our complete inde
pendence. The desire for independence
has never been stronger among the Cu
ban people than at present Our feeling
in this respect is unshaken, and the coun
try, I believe, is with us. If a general
plebiscite were taken today, I believe 95
per cent, of the people of Cuba would
vote, for independence.
"At the same time we recognize that
annexation to the United States is inevit
able soon, but we desire first to see estab
lsshed that lor which we ha ye fought, the
republic of Cuba- W e believe the United
States is going to help us realize 'his
wish. We have faith in its good inten
tion and are willing to do everything in
our power to carry out its views. Wo
recognize our indebtedness to the Amer
ican people, and are quite willing to
leave our cause in their bands."
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A Taste ofthe Polsowed Chalice.
Baltimore Sun.
Now and then an incident happens m
the North which might set the people of
those State to thinking. If negroes were
to be wantonly shot down in Illinois for
no possible offense except that they had
some to seek work in response to an in
vitation, it was perhaps just as well that
the affair took place when it did. It was
fresh in the minds of the people when the
affairs . in' the Carolinas began. Some
time ago a negro was elected as a mem
ber of the Governor's council in Mtst
chusetts. It was a mere accident, but
the city of Ephesna was not in a greater
uproar when the craft of the silversmiths
was endangered than was the city of Boa
ton when the election returns in. Now
eomes a painful story from Massachusetts,
which was briefly reported in an Asso
ciated Press dispatch to The Sun yester
day, that merits m re extended notice,
and we allude to it again, not in any
spirit of triumph, but as an illustration-
A Boston paper gives the following ac
count of this affair:
; "Mrs. Kouise Butteiick, thirty-four
years old, is at the Lynn Hospital as the
result of a murderous assault committed
upon her Tuesday morning by an un
known colored man, who escaped to the
woods and is still at large. The affair
happened just before 10 o'clock, but the
police were not notified until two hours
later. Mrs. Butterick is the wife of Wil
liam H, Butterick, a laster, and lives on
Pleasant View avenue, near the Swamp
scott line, a section of the city difficult
of access and remote from many habi-1
tatious. Thire are woods all about the
house and only one or two dwellings
within sight of it.
"The woman's three children were at
school and she was alone in the house.
About 9.30 she heard some one outside j
the house. She went to the door and
saw a colored man, five feet ten inches in
height, light and st iut. He asked for a
drink of water. When she went into her
kitchin to get it he followed her. With
a yell he jumped upon her and struck her
on the head with a diamond-shaped piece
of rock weighing several pounds. I've
waited ten years to kill you,' he said-
Then he beat her on the head until the
scalp was almost a jelly. The walls of
the room were blood-spattered.
"He dragged the unconscious woman
to the front room and again jumped on
her. Two little boys who were in the
woods saw the man leave the house and
run into the woods, disappearing toward
Swampscott"
Now let the people of Boston multiply
this incident a thousand-fold. Let them
remember that, unlike those in the North
a greater portion of the Southern white
people live on farms in the country re
mote from neighbors and with no kind of
police protection. Let them consider that
instead of one or two negroes among a
thousand whites, in many counties and
in some States the negroes are in the ma
jority. Let theui further cousiler that
the white womta are necessarily left much
alone and unprotected ia the farmhouses
and that the public roads lealiu through
woodlands, with n habitations in sight
and with trequent travelers, are t o un
safe for unprotected women to go upon.
Some such considerations as these migh
lead the white peopla of the Njrth to
some kind of sympathy with the white
people of the South instead of indulging
in wholesale abuse aud lying accusation.
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Every-Day Philosophy.
The cheapest vase on the mantlepeace
never gets knocked off.
There is room at the top, but there is
shade and rest at the bottom.
Laughter is like playing a cornet
prettier to listen to than to look at.
When a woman wants to improve a
man's opinion of her she flatters him.
One form of conceit U to give your own
photograph as a Christmas present
When people take their own time they
generally take other people's time, too.
A pessimist won't even admit that tab
asco sauce comes up to his expecta
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He Discusses the Race Troubles
The Negro the Victim or
Demagogues Favors the Re
striction of Suffrage by a
Properly Qualification.
Baltimore, Nov- 25. Cardinal Gibbons,
in discussing the recent race troubles in
the South, said to a representative of the
Baltimore Sun, to-day: "In the history
of mankind it has been observed that
when two distinct raoes co-existed in the
same territory, one race has always ex
ercise! a certain supremicy over the
other. While this principle is admitted,
it is the manifest duty of every patriotic
statesman and Christian to see the races
should be friendly, harmonious and mu
tually beneficial.
"The race conflicts, antagonisms and
bloodshed which have recently occurred
in several States of the Uaion, can be
largely traced to two great causes the
one-sided and ill-directed system of ne
gro education, and the indiscriminate ex
ercise and consequent abuse of the ballot
box.
"The colored race," continued the car
dinal, "are naturally kind and gentle, af
fectionate and grateful, with religious
emotions easily aroused. But the educa
tion they are generally receiving is cal
culated to sharpen their mental faculties
at the expense of their religious and mor
al sense. It fosters ambition without sup
plying the means of gratifying it. It leeds
the head, while the heart is starved.
"No education is complete that does
not teach the science of self-restraint, and
this is found only in the decalogue and
the Gospels. But it is hard to get a hear
ing on the subject of popular education.
We must appeal from Peter drunk to Pe
ter sober.
"The abuses of the ballot-box are charg-
able more to white demagogues than to
the blacks themselves. The politicians
use the negro vote for their own selfish
purposes. I am persuaded that a restric
tion of suffrage by property qualification
would be 'a. wise mea:-ure. It would be
an incentive to industry, and a) m;a are
instinctively disposed to protect their
own property they will naturally vote for
those rulers and puplic officers who, in
their judgment, are more qualified to-pro-
tect their property from unjust and exor
bitant taxation and to promote the ma
terial prosperity of the Commonwealth."
To Cur Constipation' Forever.
Take Cascarets Caudy Cathartic. JOeorEe.
IX C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
Forty Thou iI.
Wilmingt .n Messenger.
There are about 40,000 negro vo
ters in North Carolina who do not
pay a poll tax or any other tax.
They live in the State, enjoy the
rights and privileges under the laws,
are employed by white voters most
of whom are Democrats and inva
riably vote against the personal in
terests, the business interests,of their
employers, and yet they do not con
tribute oneceut, one farthing.to the
support of the government munic
ipal or couuty or State uuder which
they live and toil and vote. Is it
right, is it moral, is it wise, is it just,
is it commendable that 40,000 ne
groes should vote to tax the white
buideu bearers who have uo public
burdens themselves? Is that a good
government, worthy to support and
praise that allows such a gross out
rage, such an oppression? Xo man
of sense aud honor can say it is right
and should be allowed. In this
State 40,000 black electors are the
law-makers and governors hitherto
under the combine who never give a
penny of their labor to carry on the
government of North Carolina un
der which "they live aud have their
being." Aud yet northern fanati
cism and political ranters declare
that this anomaly and outrage is all
right, and men whoseek to rid them
selves of the tyrauuy and insolent
abuse of office are assassins, murder
ers, aud savages. Out upon the fools
and slanders.
Let Chicago and Louisville or New
York or Boston have the experience
of Wilmington and they will make
it a pandemonium for the negroes.
Let Illinois or New York or Massa
chusetts have an ignoraut, besotted
population all united aud all paying
but 3 1-3 per cent, of the toUl taxes
of the State, and yet controlling,
elections and legislation government
and afflicting and injuring the white
men who pay 96 2-3 per cent, of the
taxes and in a week there would be
an uprising that would sweep out
forever the oppressors. They would
not stop to consider what McKinley
would say or what congress would do
or what pulpit-demagogues would
harangue, or what angry newspapers
would denounce. They would strike
hard and quick for rights and independence.
"Move on Joe."
Morganton Farmers' Friend.
In a certain part of this county in which
Republicanism is not popular, a friend of
ours wh professes the unpopular faith
went on electim day to interview the
sovereigns. He n ticed several voters
examining the limbs of his horse very
carefully and went ur to discover their
object. He was. asked it the horse was
stiff. "No," he replied. "Well,", sail
they, ' let us see ui:n tried between here
andtojvn." The hint was taken and no
better time has ever been made on that
road than was made the afternoon of
Noy.8th. ,
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ISAAC SMITH'S STAT EM EXT.
Craven's Sable Representative
Puts the Responsibility Tor the
Wilmington Trouble on the
Preachers.
Isaac H. Smith, the colored banker of
Newbern, who has been elected to repre
sent Craven county in the Legislature
has published a statement headed:
"YE GODS."
"GENRAL STATEMENT.
It bears en the Wilmington trouble and
is a literary curiosity. It gives good ad
vice to his race:
"I have studied for twenty years from
an ingeniou s, logical and philosophical
standpoint, tha appearance of God in
nature, the course pursued, the deferen
tial, loving care and respected protec
tion the white men of the earth give to
their fair women.
"I have decided that on this line the
white men make their appearance on the
scene as gods.
"Do you know, or has it ever occurred
to you, that thi3 is the first lesson for a
Christian, an intelligent, civic citizen
claims to represent and redact the image
of God, to learn?
"Then, whoever fell iu Wilmington,
upholding a pure and unadulterated wo
manhoods fell into the arms of Jesus.
1. It is true that the Manly editorial
was slanderous against the woman of the
gods.
2. It is equally true that the colored
ministers of Wilmington erred religious
ly and otherwise when they approved of
and endorsed the said slanderous edi
torial. 3. However, it is gratifying to learn
through the press that when the gods put
their governmeni in operation, through
and by it, ample and adequate protection
is now being given the men, women and
children ol my race.
"In the course ot thing3, it is approved
of by the law of nature, governing the
stupen ious sun, m xn and stars, that had
the olored ministers of Wilmington
pas3ed resolutions condemning the slan
derous editorial, I do not believe that
there would have been cause for the shed
ding of one drop ol blood, nor a single
life lost in the recent race trouble in Wil
mington, N. C.
"This one act on the part of the men
of God would have moulded an entirely
differeut sentiment; hence a differ
ent feeling, and therefore a different re
sult. "I trust this open statement may do
some good in the future.
"Isaac H. Smith.
"Newbern, N- U.
A Novel Advertisement.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
An original form of advertise
ment comes from Russia, where a
shopkeeper posted up the following
anuoucement:
"The reason why I have hitherto
been able to sell my goods so much
cheaper than anybody else is that I
am a bachelor and do not need to
make a profit for the maintenance of
a wife and children. It is now my
duty to inform the public that this
advantage will shortly be withdrawn
from them, as I am about to be mar
ried. They will, therefore, do well
to make their purchases at once at
the old rate."
The result was that there was
such a rush on the. shop that in the
course of a few days this shopkeep
er had made enough money to pay
the expenses of his wedding on a
very lavish scale.
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NO FEDERAL INTERFERENCE
Carolina Refugees Have Lost
Hope and are Trying to Make
Peace With Their Neighbors.
Wilmington Dispatch to The Baltimore
Sun, 22nd.
The refugees from South Carolina have
practically abandoned hope of Federal
interference in their cases aud are trying
to make peace with their neighbors. If
successful, they will return to their
homes.
All of those who came from South Car
olina to assist the Tolbert family in the
presentation of its claims to the Depart
ment of Justice have returned with the
exception of E. H. Deas, of Darlington,
R.R. and J. W. Tolbert with Messrs.
Henderson and Collins, their relatives,
are still here, awaiting a favorable oppor
tunity to return to South Carolina. They
have had enough of playing the part of
terror-strickers and greatly abused refu
gees before an unsympathetic adminis
tration. Realizing that the government
has no grounds on which to prosecute
their neighbors, and no warrant for send
ing troops to protect them, they will be
glad to return and live down the trou
ble. They will not agree to leave poli
tics alone in the future, but will doubt
less be more discreet in their utterances
and actions.
It is said that the Department of Jus
tice will at the December term of the Dis
trict Court at Raleigh, N. C, present bills
against certain men charged with driving
United States Commissioners Bunting
from Wilmington. The action will be
based on the ground that Buting as com
missioner of deeds is a United States of
ficial, and is prevented from attending to
his duties as a Federal officer. It is un
derstood that the indictments have al
ready been drawn.
The Dleat of a Bewildered
Goat.
Sampson Democrat.
We know of no one who has won
so signal a victory as Col. Andrews.
He has succeeded in capturing the
Democratic party, putting the Cleve
landites and his railroad arttorneys
in charge, and has taken over the
Legislature by a two-thirds majority
to himself and his allies. Marion
Butler.
As a matter of fact, Colonel An
drews may be disappointed at the re
sult of the election. He never had
a Legislature more to his liking
than the last one. The fusionista
composing it danced to his music
like monkeys. They did everything
he wanted them to do. Then, why
should Col. Andrews desire a change?
The last Legislature, which was of
Mr. .Butler's party, was the most
pliant tool of monopoly ever vest
ed with law-making power iu North
Carolina. Its conduct was due to
corruption or want of sense, per
haps both, and this fact caused
the people of North Carolina, at the
late election to rebuke fusion and
fusionists and bury them so deep"
that they will never bear the horn
blow. It may be said of the next
General Assembly that a legislative
body of more intelligence and in
tegrity will never have met in North
Carolina. The people need not
fear its actions. They look to it
for riddance from the evils which
fusion has fastened upon them. "
The Rev. Iri R. Hicks
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