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VOL IV.
DUNN, N., C. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12, 1896
NO. 36.
REV. DR. TALHAGE. I
i
rilE NOTED DEVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON. "
j ; '" When shall I a wako?
- again."
I will ueX.
'i auinsi.ht intohu-naa nature such
'inr ?aeT?r ohedt 8otomon, to
my text, sketches the mental operations e!
ne who, having stepped aside from the
path of rectitude, desires to return. With
a wish for something better he says:" "When
thall I awake? When shall I come out of
tbis horrid nightmare of iniquity?" But
pe zel upon by uneradicated habit, and
forced down hill by h?s passions, he cries
cut:. VI will seek it yet again. , I will try it
occe more."
Oar libraries are adornod with an elegant
literature pointing out all the dangers and
r ente of life complete maps of the voyage
shewing all the rocks, the quicksands, the
Saoals. But suppose a maa has already made
shipwreck; suppose he is already off the
track: suppose he has already gone astray
how is he to get back? That is a field com
paratively untouched. I propose to address
myself this evening to such. There ae those
In this audience who, with every paision of
their agonized sou are ready to hear this
discussion. They compare themselves with
what they were ten yars ago, and cry out
from the bondage in'which they are Incar
cerated. Habit is a tast raa3ter. As long as we
obey it it does not chastise us; but let us re
sist, and we find we are to be lashed with
scorpion whips and bound with ship cab'le
an I thrown into the tralrk of bone-brakin-'
Jucernauts. During the war of 1812 there
was a ship set on fire just above Niagara
Falls, an1 then, cut loose from its moorings
it came ou down through the night and
tossed over the falls. It w.is said to' have
teen a seen brilliant beyond all descrip
tion. Well, there are thousand? of men on
fire or evil habit, coming down through the
rapuls, and through the awful night of
temptation; toward the eternal plunge Oh
how hard it is to arrest them! God eajy can
arr-st them.
Suppose a man, after five, or ten, or twenty
venrs of evil doing resolves to do right
"Why. all the forces of darkness nre allied
against him. He cannot sleep nights. He
gets down on his knees in the midnight, and
cries. '-God help me!" He bites hU lip, he
grinds his teeth; he clenches his fist in a
determination to keep his purpose. He dare
not look at the bottles in the windows of a
wine store. It Is one long, bitter, exhaus
tive, hand-to-hand fight with an inflamed,
tantal zing and merciless habit. When he
thinks he is entirely free the old inclinations
pounce upon him likea pack of hounds, with
their muzzles tearinjr away at the flanks of
one poor reindeer. In Paris there is a sculp
tured representation of Bacchus, the god of
rave ry. He is riding on a panther at full
leip. Oh, how suggestive! Let every one
who is speedine on ba i ways understand he
is not riding a docile and well broken steed
but he is riding a monstr, wild and blood
thirsty, going at a death leap.
How many l here are who resolve on a bet
ter life, and say, "When shall I awake?" but,
seized on by their old habits, cry, "I will
try it ouce more. 1 wilt seek it y again."
Years a?o there were some Princeton stu-
dents who were skating, and the ice was
very ih:n, and some one warned the com
pany back from the air hole, and finally
waruedlhem entirely to leave the place.
But one young man, with bravado, after all
the rest had stopped, cried out. "One round"
more!" He swep't around and went down,
and was brought out a corpse. Mv friends,
there are thousands and tens of thousands
ot men losing their sonls in that way. . It Is
the '-one round more."
If a man wants to return from evil prac
tices, society repulses him. Desiring to re
form he says, "Now I will shake off my old
associates and I will find Christian com
panionship." And he appears at the church
door some Sabbath day and the usher greets
him with a look as much as to say, "Why,
you here! You are the last man 1 ever ex
pected to see at church! Come, take this
seat right down by thn door," instead of say
ing, "Rood morning! I am glad you are
here. Come. I will give you a first-rate seat
-right up by the pul pit." Well, the prodigal,
not yet discouraged, enters a prayer meeting,
and some Christian man, with more zeal than
common sense, says, "Glad to see you; the
dying thief was snved and I suppose there is
mercy for you." The young man, disgusted,
chilled, throws, himself on his dignity, re--solved
he will never enter the house of God.
again.
Perbaps not quite fully discouraged about
refotmation, he sidle3 up by some highly re
spectable man he used to know, going down
the street, and immediately the respectable
man has an errand down some other street
Well, the prodigal, wishing to return, takes
some member of a Christian association by
the hand, or tries to. The Christian young
man looks at him, looks at the faded apparel
and the marks of dissipation; instead of eiv-'
tng him a warm grip of the hand, he offers
him the tip ends of the long fingers of the
left hand, which is equal to striking a man
In the face. Oh! how few Christian people
understanl how much force and gospel
there is in a good honest handshaking.
Sometimes, when you have felt the need of
encouragement, and some Christian man has
taken you heartily by the hand, have you
not felt thrilling through every fibre of your
body, mind and soul an encouragement that
was just what you needed? You do not know
anything at ail about this unless you know
when a man trjes to return from evil courses
he runs against" repulsions Innumerable.
We say of some man, he lives a block or
two from the church, or half a mile from the
church. There are people In our crowded
cities who live a thousand miles from church.
Vast deserts of indifference betweem them
and the house of God. The fact Is, we must
keep our respectability, though thousands
and tens of thousands perish. Christ sat
with publicans and sinners.. But if there
. comes to the house of God a man with marks
of dissipation upon - him, the people almost
throw tip their hands in horror, as much as
to fay. "Isn't it shocking!" How these
dainty, fastidious Christians In all our
churches are going to get Into heaven I don't
know, unless they have an especial train of
cars, cushioned and upholstered, each one a
car to himself. They cannot go with publi
cans and sinners.
Oh! ye who curl your lip of scorn at the
lalleu, I tejl your plainly, if you had been
surrounded by the same influences, instead
oi sitting to-day amid the cultured, and the
reSaed and the Christian, you would have
rn crouching wretoh, covered with filth
&na abomination. It is not because you are
ay better, but because the mercy of God has
protected you. Who are you that, brought
,U.P ,n Christian circles and watched byChris
Parentage, you should be so hard on the
First of all, my brother, throw yourself on
? Qo t0 Him frankly and earnestly and
mthese nabito you have, and ask Him
"there is any help in all the resources of
omnipotent love to give it to you. Do not
go with a long rigmarole people call prayer,
m&de up of "ohs" and "ahs and 'forever
and ever, amens!" Go to God and cry for
e p help! help! and if you cannot cry for
lp, Just look and live.
I remember in the . late war, I was at
A&tietam, and I went into the bospitals af
ter the battle and said to a man: "Where
are you hurt?'1 He made no answer, but
held up his arm, swollen and splintered. I
aaw where he was hurt. The simple fact is,
' when a man has a wounded soul, all he has
to do is to hold it up before a sympathetic
Lord and get it healed. It does not take any
long prayer. Just hold up the wound. Oh,
it is no small thing when a man is nervous
and weak and exhausted, coming from his
vil ways, to feel that God puts two omnip
otent arms around him and says: "Young
nan, I will stand by you. The mountains
may depart, and the hills be removed, but I
Will never fall you." -.
Uessed be God for such a gospel as this.
AoiSlaMi. T tl wiU aot enough to .
r,s.22tft2 i
SeISi . WPW was opened during .
wiU DeYh,JLtifrim CMM "There
ru "three hundred wounded men to-nlsrht
nJ??1 of themT and &
tyh2? ere went in tome twwty or
thirty mea and women to look after thw
poor woudedfeiWJL. thVclme, .Smt
from one part of the land, some from an-'
r? ne JC61 tfcer this man was
from Oregon, or from Maeeaahusetts, or from
Minnesota, or from New York. There was a
wounded soldier, and the only quesUoIwa!
how to take off the rags thi most g?ly
IKSiE? bmdaK9. ana administer the
coraiai. And when a soul cornea to God, He
does not ask where you came from, or what
yj3"066 J"- Healing for all your
wounds. Pardon for all your guilt. Com
fort for aU your troubles.
Then, also, I counsel you if you want to
get back to quit all your bad associations.
One unholy intimacy will All your soul with '
moral distemper. In all the ages of the
church there has not been an instance whera
a man kept one evil associate and was re
formed. ,
When a man deliberately chooses bad as- :
soclation because he likes it, that man has
started on the road down. Oh, I do not care
what you call it, that association will des
poil your soul. After you are destroyed, I
body, mind and soul, what will they do for !
you? what will they do for your family? They ,
ui ivo gnu cent to support your chil
aren arter you are ueaa.-" They wm nor weep
one tear at your burial . They will ohuckle
over your damnation.
I had a rare friend at the West. He was
full of welcome when I went there to live.
He -had splendid personal appearance. There
is not a grander looking person in this house
to-day than he was; and to this grand per
sonal appearance he added all geniality and
all kindness of soul tender as a child,
a beautiful and loving nature, and I loved
him as a brother; but I saw evil people com
ing up around him, evil men coming up
from bad places of amusement, and they
seized hold of his social and genial nature,
and they began to drag him down, and the
went further and further.
I used to say to him. "Now, why don't you
stop these bad habits and become a Chris
tian?" for I talked with him just as I would
talk with a brother, and he understood me.
ana 1 understood him l said, "Why don't
you give up these things and become a Chris
tian?" "Oh." he said to me one day, lean
ing over his counter just after I had assed
him for a hundred dollars to help eduoate a
young man for the ministry, and- he had
given me the money before I had the story
half told "if it will do the young man any
good, here is a hundred dollars." Bight
after that conversation I said, "Now, you
are a splendid fellow; why don't you give
up your bad habits and be a Christian?"
"Oh," he said, as the tears ran down his
cheeks, "I can't I should like to be a Chris
tian. You see, I have got these habits on me
so. sir, I can't get rid of them. I have been
going wrong longer than you would think
for, and I can't stop."
8ometimes, in the moments of repentance,
he would go to his home and embrace his
little girl of eight years convulsively to his
heart, and he would cover her with adorn
ments and strew toys and pictures all about
her. and then from her beautiful presence
the beautful presence of his little ohild he
would go to the intoxicating cup, and to the
house of shame, as a fool to the correction
stocks; and there these bad men kept push
ing him on. a ship, full-winged, crashing
into the breakers.
I was caUed to his deathbed. I hastened,
and when1 I got into the room I was sur
prised to find him in full everyday dress, ly
ing on the top of the couch. I put out ray
hand and he greeted me very cordially. He
said: "Now, Mr. Taimage, sit down right
there." I sat down and he said: "Last
night, just where you sit now, I saw my
mother, though she has been dead twenty
years yes, sir; just where you sit now sho
sat. I couldn't have been mistaken. I was
as1 wide awake as I am now. She sat just
where you sit. Wife, I wish you would take
these strings off that they are weaving
around me; I wish you would take them off;
they annoy me very muon in this conversa
tion." I saw he was in delirium. His wife
said: "There is nothing there, my dear; there
is nothing there."
Then he resumed the conversation, and
satd: "Yes, my mother sat just where you
sit now. I knew her. She had the same
spectacles, and the same cap and the same
apron, and the same dress. It must have
been her, just as she looked twenty years
ago she has been dead now twenty ears.
And sitting there she said to me, 'Boswell, 1
wish you would do tetter;' and I got up out
of bed, and I knelt beside her and 6aid,
Mother, I wish I could I wish I oould do
better; I would like to do better. Won't you
help me? You used to help me. Why can't
you help me now, mother? But soon I
said. "Now we will pray." I knelt to pray.
He did not realize anything I satd, I sup
pose. Then I got up and said "Good-by!
gpod-by!" That night he went to God.
Arrangements for the obsequies were be
ing made, and they said, "Oh. it won't do to
bring him to the church; he has been so dis
solute." I Bald, "Bring him, bring him; he I
stood by me when he was alive, and I'll J
stand by him when he is dead. Bring him
into the church." The Sabbath came. As I
stood in the pulpit and saw his body coming
up the aisle, i felt as if I could weep tears of
blood. I stood there that day and I said,
'iTbis man had his virtues, and a good many
of them: he had his faults, and a good many
of them; but let that man in this assembly
wh6 is without sin oast the first stone on this
coffin lid."
On the one side of the pulpit sat the beau
tiful child, as radiant and sweet faced as any
child that sat at your table this morning.
She knew not the sorrows of an orphan
child; she was not old enough to realize
them. Sometimes when I think of that awful
scene, her face haunts me like a beautiful
face through a horrid dream. On the other
side of the pulpit sat the man who had de
stroyed him. They had put the wormwood
and the gall into that orphan's cup. They
pushed him off the precipice. I stood there
and told them that there was a God and a
judgment and a hell for those who destroyed
their fellows. Did they weep? Oh, no, not
one tear. Did they sigh reoentlngly? Not one
sigh. Did they say, "What a pity that we
destroyed him?" Oh, no. ' They sat and
gazed at the coffin as vultures at the carcass
of a lamb whose heart they had ripped out.
That night,t hough my friend lay in Oak wood
Cemetery, I heard afterward that these men
went right on with their in! equities, destroy
dnff themselves and destrovine other.
Gather up all the energies ot body, mind
and soul, and appealing to God for success,
declare this day everlasting war against all
drinking habits, all gaming practices, all
houses of sin. Half-and-half work wlti
amount to nothing. It must be a Waterloo.
Shrink back now, and you are lost! Push
on, and you are saved! A Spartan General
fell at the very moment ot victory, but he
dipped his finger in his blood and wrote on
a rook, near which he was dying, "Sparta
has conquered." Though your struggle to
get rid of sin may seem to be almost a death
struggle, you can dip your finger in
your own blood and write on the Rock oi
Ages "Tictory through our Lord Jesus
Christ!"
Ob, what glorious news it would be for
some of these young men to send home to
their parents in the country! They go to
the postofflce every day or .to see if there
are any letters irom yuu. auw uiw
they are to hear! Nothing would please
theexhalf so much as the news you might
send home to-morrow that you had given
your heart to God. I know how it is in the
country. The night comes on. The cattle
stand under the rack through which burst
the trusses ot hay. The horses, just having
frUxed up through the meadow at the night
fall.' stand knee deep in the bright stra
that invites them to Ue down and rest. The
porch of the hovel Is full of fowl. In the
old farm house at night no candle ii
lighted, for the flames clap bauds about tht
great backlog, and shake the shadow oi
the group up and down the wall. Father
and mother sit there for half an hour, say
ing nothing. I wonder what they are think
ing oft Arter a while the father breaks the
silence and says: "Welt, I wonder where
"ur boy fa In town to-ntirht?" And the
mother answers: "In no bad place. I war- '
rant you we always could trust him when
he was home, and since he has been away
there have been so many praveis offered for
him we can trust him still. Then at 8
o'clock for they retire early in the country
at 8 o'clock they kneel down and com
rmead youta.tbat God who watches in coun
try and la town, oh the land and on the
sea.
Some one said to a Grecian General:
"What was the proudest moment of your
life?" He thought a moment, and said:
"The proudest moment of my life was when
I sent word home to my parents that I had
gained the victory." And the proudest and
most brilliant moment in your life will be
the moment when you can send word to
your parents in the country that you have
conquered your evil habits by the grace of
God, and become eternal victor.
Oh! despise not paternal anxiety. The
time will come when you have neither
father nor mother, and you will go around
the place where they use 1 to watch you, and
find them gone from the house, and gone
from the field, and gone from the neighbor
hood. Cry as loud for forgiveness as you
may over the mound in the churchyard thy
will not answer. Dead! Dead! And then
you will take out the white lock of hair that
was cut from your mother's brow just before
they buried her, and you will take the
cane with which your father use! to walk,
and you will tninic ana mine, ana wisn mat
you had done just as then wanted you to,
and would give the world if you had never
thrust a pang through their dear old hearts.
God pity the young man who has brought
disgrace on his father's name! God pity the
young man who . has broken his .mother's
heart! Better if he had never been born
better if. in the first hour of his life, instead
of being laid againt the warm bosom of ma
ternal tenderness, he had been coffined and
sepulchred! There is no balm powerful
enough to heal the heart of one who has
brought parents to a sorrowful grav. and
who wanders about through the dismal cem
etery, rending the hair and wringing the
hands, and crying: "Mother! mother!" Oh,
that to-day, by all the memories of the past,
and by all the hopes ot the future, you
would yield your heart to God! May your
father's God and your mother's God be
your God forever!
REY. TALHAGE
ON SILYER
IE SEES RENEWED PKOSPKRITT
IN ITS VICTORY.
Re Gives His Views Freely. But is Not
Partisan. Says the South is Al
" most to a Man in Favor of the
White MetaL
If the silver people win, 1 believe there
will be such a revival in business, such a
booming in industries, which are now inac
tive, and such a general shaking up of com
mercial interests that the country will be
sure to prosper."
These words were spoken by the Bev. Dr.
T. De Witt Taimage, at Easthampton, L. L,
after a long tour of the Southern States.
The reverend gentleman Is a keen observer
and caa see which way the wind blows as
quickly and with as much certainty as the
.ihrewdest of politicians.' He does not only
preach to the people, but he mingles with
.ulem, feeling the popular pulse and search
ing the hearts of his countrymen.
Dr. Taimage arrived at Easthampton on
Friday last from Chautauqua, where he had
attended an educational convention. Not
only in the big cities did the Doctor mingle
with the residents, but in remote and sparse
ly populated districts and in minor townships
and villages. -
"During my entire trip," he said, "I did
not find more than one or two men who-were
not eilverites. The unanimity was astound
ing. The sentiment down South is univer
sally for the white metal. Bryan and Bewail
will get a very large vote from that section
of the country."
Dr. Taimage is too little or too much of a
politician to come out flat-footed for free sil
ver, but his . utterances are perhaps suffl--clently
significant to show the tendencies of
his personal feelings.
"My associations and training and my
political affiliations of the past place me on
the side of a single standard," he cautiously
Mid and then as a twinkle came into his eye
he added: "But I certainly believe that in
stead of disaster and ruin following in the
wake of the silver movement, the opposite
will be the result.
"I am not advocating that side of the polit
ical question," said the diplomatic divine,
"but I do not believe, with a good many of
my Christian friends, that in the success of
that movement the country will greatly suf
fer. "This is a strong nation," he added. "We
nre engaged in a great political campaign,
.ind it will ill benefit me to be a strong par
tisan on either side. There are honest, Chris
Clan, patriotic men on both sides, and the life
of the country and welfare of its intarests
will be a great incentive to ,lead men in the
Tight direction. I have great faith in the
people of tljis country, and it is a fact .that
the people of a vast Soithern and Western
tract are vehemently in favor of silver."
STARVATION FEARED.
Thousands of Miners Idle and Their
Families Are "Destitute.
A desperate state of affairs exists on the
Gogebic Bange, in Northern Michigan.
Where 8,000 iron miners were once employed
at an average of tL75 a day, now only 1,000
have employment at 1 1 a day, and the unem
ployed find themselves on the verge of star
vation. ' All the mines except two have shut
down, and some of them have withdrawn
their pumps.
Merchants have refused credit to the un
employed, and before winter thousands
will lack food to le&p from starving.
Few of the residents along the Gogebio
Range have recoverec. from the panic of
1893, and most, of then are still in debt.
Those who am still -to ployed have their
salaries, drawn by the merchants with whom
they deal, who, after deducting a share of the
debt, turn the balance over. Under this sys
tem the people are almc st penniless most of
the time. To 'the idle ones the merchants
have refused credit, because they see no
prospect of their securing employment.
Many of the mining companies have al
lowed the idle to plant potatoes on the spare
lands, but the army worm now swarms in
that part of the State and is destroying the
crops.
No relief can be expected from Gogebic
County, because the treasury is depleted. All
the taxpayers have' organised and have re
fused to pay taxes, and consequently the Poor
Commissioners are without funds. Unless
outside assistance comes there will be starv
ing families on the range.
3IW, TToad T gave my mrsrrxna -
beautiful pipe to-day. Mrs. Tortd
Which room are you going to haug it
In? Judge. .
"Uncle Bob, what is a pedestrian?"
"Why, he's the fellow wha makes a
row when a bicycle runs over Ulm."
CMnra F.tfTtrrl . - - .
RILL AEP'S LETTER.
rilE BIAJOU REMARKS ON THE
flOTNESSOFTHK WEATHER.
Retrospection, Politically and Other
wise, of Old Times.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth
in an aged bosom. The republicans
are making much ado about something
that Mr. Bryan said about the supreme
court, and even, some of j the Georgia
lawyers oriticised him severely and de
fended the court as the best bulwark
of our liberties, and spoke of it aa the
high tribunal that stood like a wall to
protect people against the assaults of
passion aid prejudice. All that is
very pretty to a young man, but old
men have more memory and leas confi
dence. There was a time, a good long
time, when the court had the respect
and the reverence 'of the nation, es
pecially of the south, when John Mar
shall and Koger B. Taney, two south
erners, were the chief justices for a
period of nearly sixty years, but soon
after Taney died partisan politics and
sectional prejudice crept into the court
and it is there yet. It has been only
twenty years since members of that
court ruled Mr. Tilden out of the
presidency and seated Hayes, as clear
an act of legal fraud as was ever per
petrated by the most unscrupulous
politicians. Law is said to be; the
perfection of human reason. Then
how is it that in such great questions
republican judges decide one way and
the democrats the ether? It is right
melancholy to recall , that stupendous
farce seven democrats and eight re
publicans all under .path! to do justice
in this great question, and yet they
drew the party lines to a man. That
Tilden was elected all parties now ad
mit and history has so recorded. He
was cheated ont of the high office by
three members of that supreme court. I
This is the same court that decided the
income tax unconstitutional, Why-1
wouldn't trust such a oourt with any
case that involved great : corporations
or sectional questions. Ever since Joe -Bradley
was a young man, and up to
1870 he was. president or director of
two railroads and' several great in-
6urance companies. He j couldent tote
fair with them on one side and the
people on the other to say o his life. .
No, I am like Mr"Bryan. I've lost
cojfldence in the; integrity of that
court. I will not say that its members
can be bought witti mohey.but their ;
wills, are molded by undue influence
and ought to be broken, j That income
tax was a fair and just! measure and
would have put into the treasury near
forty millions of dollars! and no doubt
faved the government from the dis
grace of that bond business.
But I didn't start to write on poli
tics. The weather is too hot to think ,
about anything that excites indigna
tion. We old chaps here in Carters
ville have been going to school every
night for a week, preparing for the
deestrict skule 6how that was to come
off. The ladies got it up and then
levied on ia and put the oldest men
and women in an infant class, and we
had to $oe a chalk mark; and learn our
a b c on a blackboard, and be taught
to sing "I want to be an angel" and
we had to speak a speech like we used
to'speak it away back in tho 30's aud
40's. Some of us had to walk up. and'
be licked for our mischief, and we had !
a recess and played many, many stars ,
with the girls and I got kissed several
times and po forh. The nigi.ts were
hot, but we had fun, lots of fun- -old
fashioned, innocent fun. j Old people nre
never so happy as when recalling the
memories of the old school days. Thr.t
is about as far back as we can go, and
it is a big landmark in life's history.
Shakespeare tells of the whining
schoolboy creeping unwillingly intoj
school. That was a true picture some-;
times, but as a general thing, we were
glad to go. Charles Lamb writes oi ;
his joyful school days. ! It was a most ;
delightful mixture. - With a mother to
help us get our lessons and a father to
encourage and a teacher to praise us ,
when we did well, the daily task was
not hard, and then the surroundings,
the frolics, the recess, the din
ner i bucket, the good time going
home in the evening, the pretty
branches we had to cross, the red gul-;
lies where we' got chalk, the walnut
trees over in the field and the chestnut
trees on the hill and then there were
persimmons and blackhaws and may-;
pops not far away. We had townball
at noon, glorious old townball that has
been debased and degraded into base
ball. We used to give good balls to
the batter and wanted him to hit it and
knock it a mile if he could. Then there
was our old-fashioned shinny that was
akin to the modern golf. It was a hard
game and kept us with bruised shins .
and bloody toes, and gradually fell in
to a state of inocuous desuetude.
And there were some pretty girls to
look on and admire, and we had our
sweethearts and loved to 6tand by:
them at the Friday evening spelling,
and sometimes ventured to hold their .
hands on the sly, and would purposely
misspell the word to let them get
above. This was chivalry, pure and
simple. Then came Saturday, a long,
long, happy day, when we gathered
chinquapins and chestnuts or went to
the mill and went in washing while
waiting for the grist j Sometimes w,e
didn't wait for the grist, but ran pony
races home and went back in the after
noon for another frolic.
It is still memory's delight to recall
those delightful days, and it is no won
der that the poets have written about
them ; and one of them says:
"How dear to my heart are the eoencs of my
childhood." . p -
The next era that stands out most
prominent i? t&at of the lover. Sfcajte-
speare knew all about that, too, and drew
the picture, no doubt, from hip own ex
perience, when he was dying for pretty
Ann Hathaway. Every man and wo
man could write a story of love's young
dream if they would, and some of them
would be sad, very sad. I wish that
every lad and lassie had a lover not
a transient one, who, like the butterfly,
sips the honey from one flower and
then seeks another but a true, fond
lover who chooses a willing mate and
ticks. The true, confiding lovfof a
young couple who are .mated, as well
as married, is the moct beautiful thing
in life. Bill Abp, in Atlanta Consti
tution. . I
WEATHER-CROP BULLETIN
I
Or the North Carolina Climate and
Crop Service. J
Below is Section Director H. B.
Battle's weekly climate and crop ser
vice report for the past week, as re
ported by one or more correspondents:
Eastern District. The past week
has been extremely hot and dry; bene
ficial showers oocurred at a few points.
In the north portion of the district
crops are generally reported as. im
proved; elsewhere all crops are suffer
ing for want of rain. Cotton my still
be considered fine; it is now open
ing and picking is
off. There were more
not far
reports
leaves
heat and
maturing
of shedding bolls and
than last week, caused by
drought; the crop , is now
very rapidly. Old corn was ripe be
fore the drought set in, but late corn
is needing rain badly and j has fired
considerably. Fodder is now being
pulled aud stacked.. Tobacco is being
cured rapidly; much of it becoming
parched. Farmers are planting turnip ,
seed now. Peanuts, sweet j potatoes,
peas and rice promise abundant yields.
. Central District Extreme heat
and great dryness prevailed this week,1
with decidedly unfavorable influence:
on all crops. Good rains occurred in
portions of Alamance, Randolph, Rich
mond and Rockingham on Thursday, '
and - a damaging local wind-btorm in
Chatham and Orange; elsewhere rain
is badly required. A great decline in
the condition of cotton is taking place;
some rust and much shedding of bolls
and leaves reported; plants look wilted;
opening fast in south. Corn crop good;
much fodder pulled. Late corn needs
rain badly, and is firing. Tobacco also
firing, and curing is forced in some
sections nearly ' a month .earlier than
usual. Sowing turnip seed interrupted.
Some cabbage bursting open. Sweet
potatoes and peas not injured.
Western District. The effect of
the hot, dry weather . has not . been so
injurious to crops in this district, and
in the west has been quite favorable,
but a good season is needed.1 Cotton
on sandy land has been injured, but
generally it is doing well and blooming
freely; much less shedding is reported
than from other districts. Early and
late corn needs rain; there is some fir
ing; fodder-pulling will begin next
week. Curing tobacco has only begun
in a few sections yet; the drought pre
vents spreading, and some damage by
flea-bugs is still reported. Sweet po
tatoes and peas doing well. Turnip
seed being planted and land prepared
for wheat. In extreme west saving
oats and hay still progressing.
If ESBITT GIVES ADVICE.
Tells Farmers of the South How to Foil
Plans of the Cotton Tie Trust.
Southern farmers may inaugurate an effec
tive fight on the cotton tie trust. The farm
ers are in arms as a result of the increase in
the price of cotton ties, which amounts to 100
per cent. In the aggregate, this added price
will take thousands of dollars out of the
pockets ot the cotton raisers. The farmers
are looking for effective measures to prevent
being squeezed by the trust that has been
formed. The following address, Issued by
Commissioner of Agriculture B. T. Nesbitt,
suggests a remedy.' ,
To Farmers of Georgia and of the South:
A few years ago we were confronted by a
gigantic monopoly, the bagging trust, which
endeavored to force from farmers thousands
ot dollars, which in their depressed condition
they could ill afford to lose. By united effort
among farmers this evil was averted and the
huge octopus which bad fastened itself on
the agricultural industry was destroyed. To
day we are confronted by a similar trouble.
The manufacturers of cotton ties have form
ed another grand combination ; and without
any reason, except to gratify, an unlawful
greed, have entered into an agreement to ad
vance the price of their goods 100 per cent
If the price of iron had advanced there
might be some reason for this action, but
iron was never cheaper, and the same must
be said of coal and labor. i ' ;
The fact is simply that an effort is being
made to force the farmers of the South to
contribute millions of dollars to swell the
profits of a powerful combination of manu
facturers, i I
-fhe farmers are in good condition just now
to fight this trust They have their provis
ions, there are few debts to be met until later;
therefore, no pressing necessity to force their
cotton on the market I would advise that
they hold meetings in every section of the
South and denounce this effort to defraud
them of their earnings At the same time,
let them advise together as to the best metn
od of meeting this new enemy. ! In the mean
time, the department which I represent will
make every effort to investigate such substi
tutes for cotton ties as will meet the require
ments cf durability rnd safety.
Money for Cuba.
The Cuban junta in the United States has
raised a fund amounting to (375.000. Part
of the money has been changed into gold
and is now on shipboard bound for Cuba,
where it will be placed in the hands of offi
cers commanding the insurgent army. The
balance has been retained by the heads of
the junta in Philadelphia and New York,
who will hold it in a way that it will serve
the Cuban cause. The contribution were as
follows: Jacksonville and other sections of
Florida, 100,000: New York and Brooklyn.
$50,000: Philadelphia. t25,000; Baltimore,
10,000; Washington. tlO.OOO; Savaanah.Ga.,
15,000; New Or lean, $10,000; Chicago and
and the West, $100,000: and from a number
of Southern points, $60,000.
Those dreading hay fever the coming
.summer, may prepare to "meet and
probably vanquish that unpleasant en
emy by buying a nasal atomizer, and
getting ready a mixture formed of ten
grains of menthol, ten grains of eucal
yptol snd two ounces cf btrscicl. !
HEWS OF
THE
WORLD.
ARRANGED PARAGRAPHIC ALLY
FOR THE BUSY READER.
Happening Both Home and Foreign
aa Taken From the Latest Dis
patches. Notes From the South.
At high Springs, Fla., two mea wars
injured in a boiler explosion.
The entire business portion oi Con
cord, Tenn., has been wiped ont by
Are. -
Near Clay; Ky., Tom Brown, an in
sane husband, butchered his whole
family. He used an ax.
Two Kentucky farmers quarrelled
about a protracted meeting in the
neighborhood and stabbed each other
to death. -
Near Scottsboro, Ala , Tuesday, Miss
Donie Proctor and Maynard Oovans
were instantly killed by lightning dur
ing a storm, i
At Lafayette, Ala., Populists and
Democrats fight over the election re
turns, resulting in the death of one
and the wounding of five.
At Roanoke, Va., three boys, James
Peage, Wiley Ludwig and Clarence
Barrick, aged 12, 14 and 15 years respectively,-
were 'drowned in Roanoke
river while bathing.
Throughout the North
Much damage has been done in
Michigan by forest fires.
The Brilliant Tube and Iron Works
at Brilliant, O., have assigned, throw
ing 500 hands out of work.
Sprange, Smith &. Co., large plate
and window glass manufacturers, of
Chicago, HI., has failed.
Application for receivers for F. X.
Mailer, bicyele manufacturer, of
Brooklyn, N. T. has been made; liabil
ities. $19,206.
Arlington Mills, at Lawrence, Mass. ,,
will shut down August 12 for five and a
half weeks; about 2,500 operatives will
be thrown out of employment.
Dawes, the Indian Commissioner is
now at work in the Indian Territory.
It is expected that he will complete
his labors in December.
Two members of the Berkeley (Cal. )
Athletic Club have decided to crawl on
heir hands and kveee fronr San Fran
eisco, CaL, to New-York.
Despatches from all cities in Wiscon
sin and Northern Michigan tell of ex
treme heat' followed at several points
by severe wind and thunder storms; the
temperature ranged from 96 to 102 de
grees. Dundon & Bergin, lumber dealers of
Columbus, O., assigned Wednesday to
Henry J. Careh for $300,000 Assets
estimated at $200,000. Liabilities not
known, but supposed to be less than
assets.
A ballistic plate, weighing 21 tons, a
part of the side armor of the Bussian
battleship, Bostilar, has been shipped
by tho Bethlehem Iron Company,
Bethlehem, Pa., to Admiral Virch
owsky, commander of Utj port of St.
Petersburg.
At Chicago Judge Windes refused to
permit Mrs. E. D. Michner and Mrs.
M. F. Stafford to seiveas jurors in the
Criminal Court. These are the women
who were conditionally accepted by
Judge Horton and who were directed
to appear for service in Judge Windes
court
Happenings at Washington.
Postmaster General Wilson has de
cided not to take any part in" the com
ing campaign. He will sail for Europe
on October 12, and will remain for
about' two months. He will be ac
companied by his wife.
The President has made the follow
ing appointments: Charles E. Banks,
surgeon of the marine hospital corps;
Walter B. Baker, of Mississippi, Con
sul at Sargua la Grande, ,Cnba; Joseph
Hance, of New York, Consul at Cen
tenas, Cnba. ; . '
Judge Cole, of the District Supreme
Court at Washington, has refused to
grant naturalization papers to two
young Italians. He held that no one
who is ignorant of the constitution of
the United States is competent or en
titled to be admitted to citizenship.
:!
What the Cable Brings.
The editors of two daily papers in
Havana, Cuba, fought a duel with
swords; one of them was wounded.
At Neath, seven miles from Swansea,
Wales, forty miners were entombed in
the Bryncococh pit Wednesday by an
explosion.
The House of Lords by a vote of 25
to 19 adopted the amendment to the
Irish Laborers' bill in opposition to
the government
Matthew Iemairilan, the Armenian
patriarch, has resigned and the Sultan
has accepted his resignation, since
the Armenian massacres there has been
a continued conflict between the Porte
snd the patriarch, and it has been 're
peatedly fetated that there was a gov
ernment conspiracy to forco him to re
tire from his office.
Consul Lee at Work.
United States Consul General Lee h9 re
eimed his efforts to secure the transfer of
the men captured on the filibustering: schoon
er Competitor to better quarters than those
they now occupy. Several ot the prisoners
are III and have requested that they be sup-
Eried with food of a better quality than they
ave heretofore been Riven. The consul gen
eral proposes that the friends of the prison
ers in the United 8tates be allowed to con
tribute funds with which to procure necessi
ties for the m nrtonel mn.
WORTH STATE
CULLI1IGS.
AILROAO PROPERTY.
Assessed Value la Principal Counties
and Towns.
Chief Clerk Brown, of the Railroad
Commission has completed the list of
railroad property in i the State, by
counties and towns, as assessed for
taxation by the commissioners. Of
the oountiea containing railroad prop
erty Halifax, has the most and Wake
next, with Guilford a close third.
The assessed valuation, in round
numbers, of the leading counties is as
follows:
Buncombe 491,282
Chatham 411,663
Columbus.... 765,514
Cumberland. 692,911
Durham.... 443.432
Forsyth. . . 898,250
Halifax. 957,527
Guilford 830,823
Johnston. 735,510 ,
Mecklenburg. 811,4C3
Moore. 562,344
New Hanover... 404,254
Northampton i. ..... 475,455
Pender.... 613,163
Biohmond . 620,055
Robeson... 814,457
Rockingham. 456,178
rVake 951,355
Wayne 627,903'
Granville 340,319
Of the towns Charlotte has the most,
Greensboro second and Raleigh third.
The railroad property in . the leading
cities is as follows:
Charlotte ........ ...... 121,965
Durham...... 40,060
Goldsboro. . . , i ; 92,070
Greensboro 113,472
Henderson.. 47,000
Raleigh J ..... . 102,147
Salisbury 69,995
Weldon 45,865
Wilmington. . 58,232
Winston ..... ....... ... 33,033
FRIENDS YEARLY MEETING.
Distinguished Visitors from the North
and Across the Waters.
The 198th meeting of the Society of.
Friends met in session at High Point
tbis week and was well attended. :
Among the most prominent visitors
were J. Walter Malone and .wife,
Cleveland, O.jLenaE. Hobson, Illi
nois, and Asahel Hussey, Indiana,
'James R. Jones, postortf the Friends
church at Greensboro, extended a warm
welcome to the visiting friends in be
half of the Yearly Meeting . President
L. L. Hobbs, of Guilford College, pre
sided. State Treasurer Worth made
an address, and Dr. S. B. Weeks made
an extended address upon the early
history of the Friends in North Caro
lina. Up to the Cary rebellion, the
Quakers had the largest religious or
ganization in the State.
Revenue Collections for July.
Cashier Br enizer, of Collector
Rogers' office, reports that the revenue
collections for the fifth district of
North Carofbsa during the nionth of
July were: r ; ' jl , '"
Tobacco...; i. $ 71,855.05
Spirits.... ..... 40,845.42
Cigars and cigarettes. . . . . . 506.64
Snuff 158.82
Special tax 5,922.60
Miscellaneous ............ 1,882.85
Total.... ....$121,172.28
These amounts were collected at the
various offices as follows:
Winston.... .... ..$59,992.80
Statesville. 34,117.77
Afcheville .......... L .... . 19,289.97
Mt Airy... .'. 7,771,74
" - '
The University of the South, at Se
wauee, Tenn., has conferred its high
efct honorary degree," that of- D. C. L. -(Doctor
of the Civil Laws), upon Pro.
Ed wiu A. Alderman, the newly elected
President q! the University of North
Carolina. '
Judge Raesell will open his cam
paign at Hendersonville on the 23rd
inst. There will be a barbecue and
Senator Pritchard will also speak.
This year there are 'only four bond
ed brandy distilleries in Surry county.
Last year there were over 200. Scar
city of fruit is the cause.
Near Mt. Airy, George Law was
tabbed fatally by Bob Gravely, both
white. Corn liquor was the cause of
the trouble.
At Cabarrus Superior court, Frank
Howard was sentenced to be Lung Au
gust 28th for arson. :
Poke Berries Make Him Blue,
Joseph Scboenelberg, a coal miner, living
along the Pan-Handle Railroad, near IXans
fleld, Pa., dieted himself on poke berries to
reduce his weight because be tipped the beam
at 312 pounds and had to quit work on ac
count of being too stout The berries were
great flesh reducers, but they gave Schoenel-.
berg's body a blue tinge. The chaige of
color was first noticed la his nose; then it
appeared on bis face and body. ; This alarm
ed Schoenelber, who consulted a physician.
The latter advised blm to qait eating the ber
ries, but giving the prescription was easier
than taking. Schnenelberg says he can't
quit, and he is becoming bluer every day.
; Fertilizer Works Destroyed.
At Philadelphia, Pa,, Tuesday, the main
building of the extensive phosphate and fer
tiliser works of the Baugh A Sons Company'
vras destroyed by fire. A large quantity of
costly grinding machinery and considerable
stock in the various processes of manufacture
son fined the names to one building'. 8u perin
tendent Wells estimated the company's loss
$200,000, which is partly covered by in
surance. A huge vat of grease boiling over
into a fire started the flames.
""The English company owning Middies
"borough, Ey.. figured their 1 iul worth tSj.
:3.CC3 ia 1SCL Now it ipp irs ia the fcal