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TT YiTTT T7.TT VTA ''rTr' I f II B ll I I III S I., X If - "PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST tO : TflATJ .WHICH IS GOOD", VOL- IV. DUNN. N., C. WEDNESDAY,. JUNE JOl 1896. . NO.;23i : 4 LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. CLEANINGS FROM 3IANY POINTS Important Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Biefly Told. .; Southern News Notes. Daniel S. Fiekert-U, a native of North Carolina, whs found 'dead in Washing tos, I. C., Tuesday. Most of the business' portion of the town of Parslie, Accomac county, Va., was destroyed by fire Tuesday. The lov'is about $30,000 and the insurance aUut $20,000,- ' Secretary Hoke Smith has appointed T. I). Loach, of lexoft, principal ex aminer, ar;tl.I. I Wo-.tteo, of Georgia, chief A diviMon m the .Bureau of Pen- A f-tu.lent narr.ed Eeeves, attending the rati uK .unitary senool at Ander son. S. C shot himself through the h- tit T ne-.day ni.:ht uith a pistol. The i'. e no idea what prompted tli ;: . I lie Ton in snee Coal, Iron and Bail ie' 1 3 Jit A its miners two and oae-half cents a t :: fr..:u :n.-t vear s schedule. Other Al;il r;:u;i operators will grant a like TLfs. I- Barrett, president of the IJdi k cf Kentucky, at Louisville, and the ri ex.teht Lacker in the State, died Khortiy after noon Tuesday. He was 71 ears old and bad been president of the bank 'since 1865. .He was one of the richest men in the State. The Travelers' Protective Association - - -j -w.vv v uiuac v.ar on tne railroad companies. The National convention, in secret session, adopted a resolution looking to seoure !;gi.-lation in the several States fixing the tare for all. passengers at 2 cents a mile. Northern News Items. Miss Helen M. Gould has Bent $100,- 000 to the St. Louis sufferers. The March-Davis Cycle Co., at Chi cago, has assigned. Assets $60,000; liabilities $70,000. ' ': Tuesday the T. P. A-of America met in its seventh annual convention at Terre Kuute, Ind. At Chicago there is a lockout at the. Trorks of the Illinois Si.ee! Works and 1.500 men are thrown out of employ ment therebv. At Boston, Mass., " Tuesday, . Fred Schude, of Herndon, Va., in the inter collegiate bicycle meet, won the 2-mile handicap. Time, 4 minutes and 36 teconds. v At St. Louis . Tuesdav the lower hon.se of the municipal assembly pas sed the bill appropriating $100,000 for the relief of the tornado sufferers.1 The general fund footing 'that night as 3129,000. George Eczmay, aged 35, a Russian Jew, wns in a Polish saloon in Water- bnry, Con., last Saturday night, when he drank three pints of beer and three elapses cf whiskey in five minutes on a wfiser. He was taken to his home Uhtre he died fifteen minutes later. The Supreme Court of Ohio decided Ithat Miss Xellia G. Kobinson, a lawyer of Lincinnsiti, could not be appointed a notary republic. She has now ap pliel to the Supreme Court of the United States for a decision on the Ique.-tion, and the ca6e will be consider ed by Justice Harlan. ' Washington. Treasury gold reserve at the clene of i iisiuess June 4th, stood.at $106,498,- POtr. The withdrawals were 825.700. Miss Julia Stevenson, the Vice- Presidenfs eldest daughter, was mar- Iried Tuesday to Rev. Martin D. Har- Idin. of Kentnekv. Iint Director Preston has dismissed Wtigb. Clerk Chanfrau of the New Or- 'cmi;s n int for embezzlement and di- Irtctt-d that he be prosecuted. The present exti-nt of his known peculation hs 'f;ti ' :n cold. Foreign. Sir Georcre Johnson, rihvsician - ex faJ !10rl! nur v tr iha IliiDAn ia rlaaii r,en. Fitzhu.gh Lee, who was a etks ago appointed as consul to Ha- fina, C uba, to succeed Ramon O. Wil- Jms, arrived at his post of duty Wed- sebdav. A dispatch from London says; The rouble in the executive council in the -Transvaal is Wnmim n(nto TYr. W Leyds the Secretary of State, and ' ice President Joubert onnose Presi dent Krueger, who is in favor of the institution of reforms and the adoption ci a peaceful policy. THK REPORT DENIED. A Dispatch Says tne Reform Leaders Have Not Been Released. ThMispmeh from Pretoria. EDgland, puV hshel in the Tall Mall Gazette Friday na nfincing that the four leaders , ol the j.ohinnesburg' reform eommittee, . George F--rar, Lionel rhillips. Col. Frances Bhode n3 . Johi Hays Hammond, whose sentence to i ,-ath was recently commuted to im t n-Tint has been released oh parole : " l have beea untrue. A dlsruitch r-m rrtorii. which was sent from that ' 1 .SH-V!S. poa the authority of th Dig- K "J5 N-ffa thnf i. v. .... .Ml. ..'0r'? Crmmittee leaders has been poetpoued ecntivc council. FltzhughGeU Down to Business. . for on 1 -i. . ... . . r.u.l uener&i x liznugn iiee tuuku Captain General Weyler Friday. The Inter- iW W.. - a T 1 . . . A. 1 . " o corcuai. xn ine course oi iuo cuu J'rjatlon General Lee touched upon the case " l)awley. the correspondent of Harper's klv. -vrhn mrraetaA turn Anxr p cr and l now confined In Moro castle. General Bylr, it is paid, promised that a prompt -nvestigatlon would be made into the matter. L oeuered that Dawley will be soon re "M4 oa condltloa .that h leaya the lalaad. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. P. M. Arthur has been re-elected chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers by a vote of 326 to 86 for Haberstick, of "Wisconsin. Secretary Hoke Smith has appointed T. D. Loach, of Texas principal examiner, and J. P. Wooten, of Georgia, chief of divisions in. the bureau of pensions. The Russo-China bank has obtained a concession from the Chinese govern ment for the construction of a railway from Manchuria to Peking. Tho capital will be 100,000,000 roubles. Latex reports says that the dis aster on the Hodynsky plain at Mos cow on the occasion of the distribution of free food and drink to the populace, 3,873 persons were killed and 4,000 injured. A Havana dispatch says that a train which left San Nicolas with a number of workmen on board to repair damages along the line of the railroad is reported to have been blown up with dynamite. Several workmen were injured. Daniel Williams was blasting in a well at Watkinsville, Stokes county, N. C, and while being drawn out of the well was overcome by gas and fell to the bottom, a distance of about 30 feet, bursting his brains out on the rocks. The French government is in receipt of information that the French expe dition which recently left Salaga eu route for the Niger, has been routed by the natives. Three Europeans and many natives belonging to the expedi tion were killed by poisoned arrows. The grand jury investigation of the Deposit Bank of Midway, Ky., resulted in eight indictments being brought against ex.-Cashier Wm. Shipp and ex Book Keeper Charles Stone, chargiug larceny, embezzlement, swearing to false statements and making false en triea. . . A BULLION A WEEK. That is the Way Capital Is Being In vested In Southern Cotton 31 ills. The Industrial progress of the South dur ing the last week, as shown by the reports of the Manufacturers' Record, has been contin ued with the aotivity that has been prevailing for the last year. While there has been a decrease in the number of new industries announced, the character of these is such as assL-ts in the upbuilding and permanent prosperity of this section. Especially in the establishment of plants for manufacturing for the market the South's great staple is the activity In new companies marked, and tni3 has been the rule for several years. The cotton mills reported for the week ending June 5, for instance, will require the investment of capital to the extent of about 900,000. Some of the more lmpcrtant "announce ments of the week follow: The Warren Man ufacturing Company of Graniteville, 8. C, has abr ut completed arrangements for the erection of a 2,000 spindle mill; the ftnoxville "Woollen Mills havo placed an order for 5.000 spindles for an addition now building; the Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ga., has decided to erect a 1 150. 000 woollen mill; Howard Cole, of Shreveport, La. , has closed a deal for the erection of a $10,000 spindlo mill; Atlanta Earties will bnild a 8,000 spindle mill at ithia Springs, Ga.; a $10,000 knitting mill company is forming at Florence, S. C.; the Eflrd Manufacturing Company of Albemarle, N. C. has organized to erect a mill of $75,000 capital stock. Other enterprises in varied manufacturing lines were: la Alabama a company at Mont gomery to introduce a new dry kiln; In Flor ida, the Havana Cigar and Cigarette Com pany, of Tallahassee, with capital oi tl0,000j in Georgia, the new Georgia Car and Manu facturing Company, of Savannah, has been fully organized and will erect a plant having a capital of $50,000; Borne Boiling Mill, at Borne; a cotton tie producer to resume oper ations; in Louisiana, Buebe! Brush Company, of New Orleans, capital $7,000, incorporated to manufacture; in Shreveport arrangements completed for the establishment of a found ery plan by Texas foundery men; In Missis sippi, a t25,000 cotton seed oil mill contract ed for at Clarksdale; in North Carolina, the Gastonia Tanning Company will build -a new plant at Gastonia; in South Carolina, the city of Laurens voted 50,000 in bonds for water works and electric lights; the Plumber Elevator company, of Columbia, organized with capital of 8100, 000, to make elevators, etc.; Sumter Cotton Seed Oil Company, of Sumter, will let a contract for a 30-ton mill to cost 518,000; in Tennessee, at Sherwood, the Gager Lime Works are to double thir plant, making the production over 1.000 barrels da-iy: in Texas, the Southern v Transportation Com pany, of Houston, capital $250,000, to oper ate steamboats, and the Walter Hafner Jewelry Company, of Hillsboro, capital $20. 000; Bagley Lumber Compaq, of Winsboro, capital f50,000,both incorporated in Virginia; Atlantic Water Front Company, of Norfolk, capital $40,000, incorporated. FITZHUGH LEE IN HAVANA. A Warm Reception Accorded to the New Consul General. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, recently appointed United States Consul General in succession to Mr. Baymond O. Williams, resigned, ar rived at Havana Wednesday by the Ward Line steamer Mascotte. The steamer was met by a gaily decorated tug upon which were Messrs. Williaus and Springer, Benor Zaldo, representing the Captain General and the agent of the Ward Line. The party boarded the Mascotte and extended a cordial welcome to Gen. Lee. Gen. Bradley Tyler Johnson, and a number of other Americans and a large crowd of people awaited Gen. Lee, ashore. - On the wharf Gen. Lee was received most respectfully. There was no demonstrations and he entered a handsome carriage with the coachman and footman in Senor Zaldo's liv ery and was driven to the hotel Ynglaterra where Mr. Williams had previously secured a fine suit of rooms for his successor. Gen. Ie partook of coflee and then retired for a short rest, as he was very tired in conse quence of the rough passage from Key West here. . Gen. Lee has already made quite a favora ble Impression by his quit, gentlemanly be havior and pleasant conversation. ' The correspondent of the Associated Press was among those who went to meet Gen. Lee and was the only newspaper representa tive who was enabled to do so. It ia understood that Gen. Johnson is very much pleased with the reception which has been accorded him by Capt. General Weyler. Nominations by the President. At Washington, D. C, Saturday the Senate confirmed the following nominations : David N. Burke, of New York, consul general at Tangier, Morocco; George F. Smlthers, of Delaware, consul at ;hung King, China; Abraham B. Serven, of New York, chief ex aminer from the civil service commission; A. G Maylie, special examiner of drugs, medl elaef and chemicals at New Orleans, NO CHANCE TO CHEAT. Conductors to Carry "Register and' Fare Collector." The nickel-In-the-slot 'machine Is about to enter a new field in Detroit. It Is to assist street car conductors iu their work, and is called a "register and fare collector." It is a nickel plated contrivance which : will nans around the conductor's neck. Fingers that itch for Illegitimate coin will not touch the fares. The conductor will present his machine In the passenger's face In hold-up fashion, and the pas senger will transfer his 5-cent piece from his pocket to the machine. The coin will rattle down into its depths until a little bell will jingle. This will Inform the passenger that his fare U recorded In due and proper form. He will sit down assured that It will reach the coffers of the company Instead of the pocket of the conductor. The con ductor will be ordered to finger neither' the coin nor the ticket. They pass di rectly from the hand of the passenger Into the slot. Once within the machine they cannot be shaken out. When they finally drop through Into the receiver at the base of the device they are reg istered. At the end. of the route It Is the company's cashier and not the con ductor who unlocks the slot machine and takes out the receiver. He has In his possession keys marked with each conductor's name and number. The register Is reset, another receiver Is attached,- and the conductor sets on his way. The Detroit conductors are objecting to the use of the new device, because they say that it brands them as thieves; but the officers of the company assure them it is for the purpose of curing losses from carelessness quite as much as from dishonesty. The company av erages $20,000 each year in losses from both these sources. Besides the 6lot machine which the Detroit company is to confer upon all Its conductors, the man who calls out "Fare!" will be loaded down with an other device. This Is the. change box, built on the plan of the dime banks, which were popular a few years ago. This Is merely a contrivance to get out of the difficulty of diving Into the pock et after change. The company has been Investigating all sorts and man ners of contrivances to dismay klepto mania on the part of the conductor, but the register is the Invention regarded as the safest, however Irksome It may be for the conductor to wear it. "Lord Beresford" Divorced. Judge Beekman in the Supreme Court has rendered a decree of divorce in the-case of Mrs. Maud Lasoelles against her husband, Sidney Lasoelles, alias Lord Beresford. The action was begun several months ago and was undefended. Sidney Lascelles out a wide swath in social circles in New York some years ago. He man aged to obtain entrance to some of thd most exclusive households and his society was courted by the social lights of the Four Hundred. The man was an impostor, but it Was a long time before he was found out, and not until he had swindled many New Yorkers to the extent of thousands. In 1890, while be was making a tour of Continental Europe, Lascelles met Miss Maud Lillienthal, an heiress to an estate worth $8,000,000. She became infatuated with him and on February 2. 1891, they were married in Beaver, Pa. But his spirit of ad venture was not eradicated, and gradually, though not in need of money, he relapsed into his old practices of swindling. In Borne, Ga., he gave a draft for 250 on the Bank of London to a victim. It was cashed without question, but was later returned stamped "no food." In the meantime he fled to New ork, where he was arrested and extradited. He was .sentenced to six years imprisonment and farmed out with a number ol convicts to a lumber company. After a month he man aged to escape, and fled to Americus, Ga. There he found shelter in a disorderly house, where he was finally captured. This esca- Sade caused his wife to sue for a divorce, lough she bad forgiven him all before this. THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. There Will Be 15,000 Seat in the Coliseum Seating Capacity. The Democratic national sub-committee concluded its business Monday in Chicago, III. The local committee is still short four teen thousand dollars of the guaranteed sub scriptions. The money will be forthcoming from the guarantors if not from the sub scribers. . " There will be fifteen thousand seats in the part of the Coliseum which Is to be used for the convention. The speaker's plat form ' with the accompanying seats for the press will be on the east side of the hall, midway. On eaoh tide and in front will ra diate in amphitheatre form, with a gradual rise, the thousands of seats for delegates and spectators extending to a line level with the galleries. Only a few seats are to be put in the galleries because the committee consid ers 15,000 a big audience to handle, consider ing the animation which is expected to per meate the deliberations of the Democratic host. Drummers Elect Officers. The national convention of Travelers' Pro tective Association of America, whioh met in Terre Haute, Ind., adjourned to meet in Nashville, Tenn., ia 1897. J. A Lee, of Mis souri, was eleeoted president; E. E. Smith, of Atlanta, was unanimously elected chair man of the national railroad committee, and instructed to take up the question of freight and passenger ta rifts in aad out of legislative hails. Two thousand dollars were put at his disposal with which to begin the campUign of investigation and legislation. Bav. Alonxo Monk, of Macon, Ga.. was elected national chaplain. 1TBEET C&L CONTJTJCTOB'S SLOT MACHTlfB NORTH STATE CULLINGS. OCCURRENCES WORTH NOTING FK03I ALL OVER THE STATE' Internal Revenue Collections. Cashier - Brenize-, of Collector Rogers' office, at Asheville, reports that the revenue collections for the fifth district of North Carolina during the month of May were: Tobacco .$ 60,093 31 Spirits 38,433 12 Cigars... . 266 88 Cigarettes . . 299 50 Special taxH. . . .......... " 83 38 Miscellaneous 7,498 43 Total.... $106,679 74 These amounts were collected at the various offices as follows: WTinston. . $50,358 67 SUtesville 32,129 31 Asheville.. 16,806 36 Mt. Airy 7,385 40 Met Death on the Rail. Mr. A. L. Hicks, a fireman on the Southern railway, met his death at Morehead, X. C, Tuesday night. He was firing on a freight between Dan vilie and Charlotte that evening and upon reaching Morehead his train pulled into a siding to allow the north bound vestibuled train to pass. He took a seat on one of the cross-ties and while waiting fell asleep. He was probably instantly killed. $2,000 For a Monument to Vance. Mr. Geo. W. Pack, a wealthy citi zen of Cleveland, Ohio, who spends his winters in Asheville and has con siderable property in that city, has set wealthy North Carolinians a worthy example. He has made the offer of $2,000 for a monument to the late Senator Vance, the only condition named in the offer was that the loca tion of the monument should be iu front of the county court house. A Gift to Carolina's University. At the annual meeting of the Board of 'Trustees of the University of North Carolina Thursday Governor Carr pre sided and accepted from Mrs. Fred erick Baker, of New York, $3,000 for a commons hall, for the benefit of students of moderate means, so that they can obtain board at $8 per month.- An Injured Husband Slays the Invader of His Home. A chronio trouble came to ahead at Kittrell, Wednesday, when Edward Burwell, an employee of Mr. O. W. Blacknall, shot Rodney Grandy. Both are Negroes. Burwell found Grandy at his house, and used a double-barrelled shot-gun, firing both barrels at short range. The wounded man died during the night, leaving a wife and six small childi en. There has been a general book fight going on, , over the State, regarding the text-books to be used in the pub lic schools. The American Book Com pany, B. F. Johnson Publishing. Com pany, University Publishing Company, and Ginn & Co., are the houses in volved in the dispute. The American Book Company has been the victori ous one in having its books adopted in almost every county. . The following postmasters have been appointed in North Carolina: R. M. Gold at, Hodge's, Cleveland county, vice J. B. Price, removed; R. C. Meadows at Poor's Knob, Wilkes county, vice A. T. Weisiger R. L. Rogers at Rolesville, Wake county, vice Dr. L. B. Young; and C. A. Borders, at Stice, Cleveland county, vice A. B. Dorsey. The Rt. Rev. Joseph Blount Ches hire, Jr. D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, has sent all of the clergy of his jurisdiction an urgent ap peal in behalf of the missionary work of the Episcopal Church in the foreign and domestic field. The fourteenth annual convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union convened in the Central Metho dist Church at Raleigh Friday. Dele gates to the National Convention, to be held in St. Louis in October, were elected. In the Federal Court at Raleigh Charles F. Murphrey, a, young white man of good family, was sentenced to a year and a day in the Brooklyn peni tentiary for mail robbing. A desperate white man, Angus Brown, in jail at Murphy for the rape and attempted murder of a young mar ried woman' and a lynching is proba ble. Mrs. Margaret Hufiter committed suicide at her home, in Forsyth county, by hanging herself in her smokehouse. The cotton niillatMorganton, N. C, which has been shut down for a brief season, resumed operation last week. A Halifax county boy, 13 years old, has been lodged in the penitentiary under sentence of murder. A movement on food for the erection 'of another cotton factory at Tarboro. Rascally Bank Officers. The grand jury investigation of the Deposit Bank of Midway, Ky., scandal, resulted in eight indictments being brought against ex Cashier William Shipp and ex-Bookkeeper Charles Stone, charging larceny, embezzle ment, swearing to false statements and mak ing false entries. Both men have been among the most honored citizens of Kentucky. Shipp wis mayor of the city and both are elders in a church. When the Deposit sus pended and they were charged with embez zling $70,000 it created a tremendous sensation. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JUNE 14. Lesson Text: "Jesus Crucified," Luka xxlli., 33-4& CToiden Text; I Cor. xv-, 3 Com mentary. ' S3." There they crucified Him." Four Irords, but bow unutterably significant, who an measure it? Then the events betwe the passover and supper of tha evening be fore and this last and crowning event: Geth i lemane, the betrayal and arrest,' Peter's de lial, the long and weary and awful night md morning before the council, and Herod, ind Pilate; the mockery and the scourging, md now the crucifixion, and that between wo malefactors as if He, too, was one. Truly He was numbered with the transgres sors, and He complained not. Oh, my sou), t was all for thee! What thinkest thou of t, and of Him who was crucified on thy ac count? . 84. "Father, forgive them, for they know lot what they do.". This was His first utter ince from the cross. If we take the seven in order as we find them here and in verse 13, then John xix., 25-27; Math, xxvii., 46; John xix., 28 30; Luke xxiii.,46, we have suggested to us the great facts of forgive ness, glory, all that we need between for giveness and glory, His being forsaken that we might never be. His thirst and all that Is Implied in it. His finished work and then His pxit from the body to His Father. 35. "He saved others. Let Him save Him self If He be Christ, the chosen of God." Thus the people and the rulers derided Him. They were natural men, they understood not, therefore they talked foolishly. He could have saved Himself, for He said, '-No man taketh My ufe from Me. I lay it down of Myself" ( John x. , 18), but He could not save Himself and save others too. He laid down His life voluntarily that He might pave others. 36, 87. "If Thou be the King of the Jews, Save Thyself." Thus the soldiers also mocked Him, not knowing what they said. He would not save Himself, but He would save them if they would let Him, for had He not prayed for them even as they drove the nails into Hi3 hands Let us lay to heart His words, "He that saveth his life shall lose it, but he thatloseth his life for My sake, the same shall save it (Luke lx., 24). 33. "xnis istne iving oi tne jews." xnus. Pilate caused it to be written over Htm in the langnages of the world, Greek and Latin and Hebrew, and he would not alter it even to please the Jews. This was doubtless of God. for tha time will come when all the world shall see and acknowledge that this s ime Jesus, once crucified at the place of a skull, is the King of the Jew3. Then shall He also be King of lungs and Lord ot Lorcis. Without Him' all the things of earth are as empty as a skttll, nothing to them, all vanity and vexation of spirit, but in xlim and with Him all is peace and righteousness. 39. "And one of th malefactors which were hanged railed on Him, saying, If Thou be Chri3t save'Thyself.and us." Both Mat thew and Mark say that the thieves reviled Htm. Luke does not contradict that, for It rboth at first did it, he is correct in saying what one of them did so, and he doubtless frefers to the one- who persisted in doing so. To save Himself and them was impossible, but to give His life in order to save them was what He was doing. t 40. "Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art In the same condemnation?" When a malefactor turns preacher, something has happened to him, and in a short space of time something remarkable has couie to this thief. His eyes have been opene I to see that the One in the miist is more than He ap pears to be, and he has already in his heart believed upon llim ana received mm as Lord. 41. "And we indeed justly, for we receive the duo reward of eur deeis, but this man hath dore nothing amiss." Here is evidence of the new birth. He condemns himself and justiflw the Lord, whereas the carnal mind. whioais enmity against uoa, always justi fies itself and condemns God (Rom. viii., 7; Luke xvL, 15). He confesses ms sins and acknowledges that he is suffering only what he ju3tly deserves, while at the same time he testifies to the holiness of the One in the midst. This is the work of the Spirit of God. 42. "And he said unto Jesus, Lord re member me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom." No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Hpirit (I Cor. xii., 3). See, then, th9 Spirit's work in this man's heart. He believes that Jesus, though crucified as an evil doer, is the Lord of glory andthat He has a kingdom. 43. "And Jesus said unto him. Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with Me in paradise." What a joy to the penitent thief, his sins all gone, his bodily sufferin :s fo soon to be over, and that very day in glory with his Lord! Let us not modify or seek to alter the precious words. They are in perfect accord with other words of the book concerning the death of the righteous. "To die is gain." "To depart and be with Christ,, is far better." "Absent from the body, present with the Lorl (Ph;L I., .21, 23; II Cor. v., 8. But. says one, Jesus had not ascended tb the Father when He met Mary Magdalene on the morning of the re surrection (John xx., 17). therefore how could the thief be wita Him in paradise that day? He spoke to Mary of His ascend ing to the Father in His risen body, but as to His Spirit He was surely in paradise as soon as He died. 44. VAnd it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour." He was crucified at the third hour (Mark xv.. 25), or 9 in the morn ing, and from noon till 3 p. m. there was this awful darkness, for the prince of dark ness was doing his worst. It was his hour and the power of darkness. 45. "And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst." When the. Son of IUsrhteousness was suffer ing for the sins of tbe worid.it was surely meet that the sun in the heavens should re- Juse to shine. Just before He comes in His glory the sun and t. oon shall both be dark ened in the day of His wrath (Math, xxiv., 29. 30). The veil in the temple was a symbol of His body, for He hath opened for us a new and living way tnrougn tne ven tnax is to sav. His flesh (Hb. x.. 20). The veil was worked full of cherubim, and. when it wa3 rent th cherubim were rent also When He did. ail who believe in Him died. 46. "Father, into Thy nands I commend Mv Spirit." These were His iast words ultered with a lou I voice, so that He may be said to have died in His full strength. Thy did not take His life, He gave it up and He went out to God. Wisen Stepnea diea, ne said, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit" (Aots vii.. 59), and he went out to be with his Lord, more alive than he ever was before. while kind hands laid his body away till Jesus comes. Lesson Helper. Names on Medals Incorrectly Spelled. TthM been found that some of the names on the World's Fair medals are incorrectly spelled. These errors, however, are not chargeable to the treasury department, as the spelling In every Instance corresponds with that in the lists furnished bv the fair bureau of awards. In order to avoid any dissatisfaction on the part of exhibitors, the department announces that it will make the needed corrections iree oi cnarge u me ong inaJ medals axe returned. Wining and Dining FItz. A banquet was given Saturday night at the Hotel Inglaterra, Havanna, Cuba,-by the rep resentative of the London Times, In honor of General Fitzhugh Lee, the American con sul general. Among the invited guests were the British, French, Danish ana uerman consols, Vice-Consul Springer, prominent imMontB Ttritiah merchants and Ren or Du- bose. secretary of the Spanish legation at vraAuwgios. BILL ARP'S LETTER. HE IS IN FULL SYMPATHY WITH TUB SHOP GIRLS And Heartily Commends the Move ment for Their Relief. "- Let the good work go on. The shop girls of i Atlanta are now allowed to ait and rest their weary limbs for a brief time when not waiting on customers, and their working time is out at 6 o'clook in tha evening. Thia ' is a re- orm that means much to them, and our sympathetic people will all thank the Chamberlin house for starting it The girls have not demanded it, nor have they uttered a word of m complaint, but we know they get tired, very tired, and sometimes they are sick and some of them have work to do when they get home. But they never strike no, they had rather suffer and endure and always look cheery and try to be happy and contented. I have wondered why they did not organize and choose their leaders and sometimes get on a strike and walk out and make demands ou their' employers like the men do. No, they will not do that. It is not their nature, and for that reason, if no other, those who employ them should be all the more considerate. Every shop girl and every shop woman has an in dividual history, and could tell a tale of sorrow or misfortune, and some of them would be intensely sad and pa thetio if written and published. Many of them belong to that class who have seen better days many are orphans some have a widowed .mother or an in valid sister to support. All are depen dent and have no bright prospects of bettering their condition in the years to come. Some of them are not strong, and often go to their work with a headache, or a heart-ache but they must not complain sad faces or sick faces or very homely ones are not wanted. I know four sis ters who are shop girls at different places. The eldest is only sixteen. They have neither father nor mother nor brother, but they live together and work by day and comfort eaoh other by night. Some merchants are hard task- misters; "only a shop girl" is their motto, and their service is worth what it will bring that much and no more. They fix the price and keep it there. There is no promotion in wage. I I know one who kept a girl down to $20 -a month., fane was renned. diligent. conscientious and popular, and had been reared a lady in all respects, but she was only a shop girl, and out of meager wages must pay for her board and clothing. Not an hour did he ever lose but by arid by she was offer ed $30 by another house, and then. and not till then, did her employers propose to increase her wages to the same amount. Why did they not do it before? I knew another large, wealthy house that gept a young man for three years, promising at intervals to raise his wages, but it wat only a promise. At last he quit and sought other business, and then they offered him nearly double what he had been getting if be would come back. That is what the prophet calls "grinding the faces of the poor." Why wear a poor girl's life and health away by feeding her on hope unt- it turns to despair? Only a shop girl! A young lady who had once been in dependent was forced by the common calamity of these. hard times to become a shop girl and she told me that the hardest thing to bear was the etately coldness of her former friends the lack of familiar, social recognition ; when they traded at the counter they hardly knew her thej said good morn ing, but not in the Bweet old way. After Job had lost hia property, he 6aid: ."But now they that are younger than I hold me' in derision whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock." I It is the same old story of social in sincerity. A man never knows who are his friends until misfortune over takes him. Thank heaven ! there are some exceptions to this rule, and these shop girls do sometimes find some body to love them and share their sor rows. There is nothing more unbe coming to woman than her disposition to rule money into her social set and rule poverty out. No real, welbbred lady will do it. My observation is that this foolish vanity; is generally in dulged in by the shoddy aristocrats those who have nothing else to their credit except money tboee" whose fathers got rich by questionable means. Peachtree is lined with many such, and so are the fashionable quarters of all cities. This folly is mainly a feminine one; the men are not given to it; no man dares to snub another because of his poverty, or his humble origin. With men there is no aristocracy except that of intellect. It is re lated that when Douglas and Lin- ooln met for. the hustings,: Douglas, aristocrat, said he first time on the who was a great had not had the honor of an acquaintance with his op ponent, and, in fact, had seen him but once, and that was when he was selling whisky behind the bar in a cross-roads saloon. When old Abe rose to reply, he smiled from ear to ear, as he re marked. ; "That's so, my fellow citi zens. That is the only time I ever saw him until now. He was on one side of the bar and I wat on the other. He took a drink and I took the money. We are about even on that score." What's the difference? A nice, sweet, well-mannered girl or young woman who waits on the customers in a large dry goods house is on one side of - the counter and a rich aristocratic lady is on the other. One had money, the other had goods and they exchanged that's alL Which ! is ahead in the I comedy of life and which will be ahead when the play is ended and final judg ment is rendered? -- Witn one lue is a; fashionable farce: with the other a struggle' for bread. "Give us this dayM our daily bread is hex morning . The position of these working girls is a hard-one at best, but kind words and fair wages soften it down greatly.!. ,. They beg for' these places and get them, but why women should knot be . paid as much as men for similar ser vice I cannot understand. My infor mation: ia that they are paid about half and the exployer's excuse Is that competition is very great and as others ! eut rates they mast do so, too,, for la- bor is worth only what it will bring t and a woman's labor can be had cheap er than a man's. That is not a good "1 excuse. It is not to the interest of the 4 employer to get labor on such terms. - ? Twenty dollars a month will not keep" a young woman in good health and good clothes and leave anything for ' a -sick mother or a child,1 or for a doq- , tor's bill A big-bear ted, generous man will inquire into the condition of every female employe he has, and , as , far as possible make it his own oon- , cern. They are, as it were, his wards for the time, and he cannot escape the responsibility. t Before the war there were no shop girls, but for thirty years this great -transition has been going on, and now the south, like the north, .is full of working girls. The children and grandchildren of those who once wero proud and independent are now forced -to become their own bread winners. ' There is no perception for them. It ia . daily food for daily labor. The rich ; are growing richer by short cuts and questionable means, all of which in their last analysis come from the earn iugs of the toilers and grind the facet of the poor. Widows and orphans ? whose husbands and fathers left them stock or bonds in a great railroad have lived to see it wrecked by the unscru pulous schemers and by the time the wreckers had done with it their r stock and their bonds were worth- less. Daniel Webster got a fee of $10,000 for making.) a speech in the Myra Clark Gaines case, and it was noised by the" press as an enbr-' mous fee, ! but now a common lawyer gets $50,000 for bringing the money 5 of a wrecked railroad into court. An incorporated company accumulates a million dollars surplus and asks the court what to do with its There was no fight, no contest, but the lawyers, who took the decree are awarded' $75,000 for bringing the money into court. Receivers and lawyera prey upon the carcasses of corporations like, buzzards upon the carcasses of brutes, ? and but little is left for creditors or' stockholders. These are : tha things that fill the people wjth distrust and disgust and paralyze industry and in- i timidate capital I know a lady and" j she is sitting near me now whose father left her $10,000 of stock in a railroad in Alabama. It was good stock and had good prospects, bui the schemers got it into court and had a receiver, appointed and it was wrecked and cold, to tho bondholders for a song and she lost everv thing but j the certificate. When she comes across it now among her archives I hear her humming that 'sweet old song, "This world is all a fleet-"' ing show.' But let the working girls cheer up and always look on the bright side. If they can't get married let them look around and see how much miserv marriage brines how few wo- men are happily mated. Encourage oheerful disposition, and if you can't be happy, be as happy as; you can.. Trust in the Lord and do good. It is not all of life to live nor all of death to die. There are many blessings that cost us nothing. I never pass by my neighbor's (Mrs. Field's) front yard that is radiant with beautiful flowers but what I think how cheap they are to me. It is a good idea to sometimes think of that poor little' boy-whose mother covered him with straw one bits ter night and put an old window shutter on the ! straw to holdj it "down. "Mother," said he,: "it isent every little boy that has a shutter to hold down his straw, is it?" And there is some comfort in a Persian proverb that says ; "Blessed are they who have but little, for they j shall .net be en vied." Bill Anr, in Atlanta Constltu tion. Our Consul to Greece. Hon. Bobert L. Jenkins, the pewly ap pointed tJplted States Consul to Greece, has left for New York and will sail from, that city on the 13th instant for Naples. Mr. Jenkins iiid that, as soon as he enters npdn. his do iies, he would Inaagurate porous .efforts to turn the tide of commerce of ' that elaasto land from England to the United States. IT 19 ABSOLUTELY The Best SAVE EW1N9 MONEY MADE WE OD OTJU DEALERS can too machines cheaper tban y ea. eet lewer. The HEW. HOJIB in oar bit.ltat we mike cheaper klna, .neb as tH CUMAl other Hih Arm Full Nickel Wated Sevrlne Machines for $15.00 a4 up. Call n our aeeat or write us. JAp want your trade, rsd f f r!ce- trr have It, "We enallenge tfie World to produces BETTEB 50 SoWtn Machine for $50.00, or a belter $20. wlncMaehtneror $20:oOthaa you can hay from n, or oar Acent. j THE IEW HOME SEWI5G IISCEICO.: ' rOB BALE Of , I B.AINBY, & JQRPA ItusfrgtGj MM- .
The Democratic Banner (Dunn, N.C.)
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June 10, 1896, edition 1
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