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DAILY EDITION. 18.00 Per Annum, In Advance. 3.00 '.or 8 Monthi, In Advance. I 1.60 for 3 Monthi, In Advanoe, WEEKLY EDITION, f i. oo, per Annum, In Advance. OLD SERIESVOL LXXIII IfO 4,133 FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, AUQUST 5, 1909. NEW SERIES VOL. XXV--S0. 3,363 LIE FoloyV Honey and Tar not only gtops chronic coughs that weaken the constitution and develop Into consump tion, but heal and strengthens the lungs. It affords comfort and relief In the -worst cases of chronic bronchitis, asthma, hay fever and lung trouble. McDuffle Drug Store (0. 0. Souders, Prop.) ,,,,;-v,'''-'.;:';5:'v:'.; . , ',' " 1 "," , ' ManZan . Is good for any klnil of Piles. It stops Inflammation, creates a normal circulation, thus reducing the Piles, and heals the parts affect ed. ManZan may be conveniently and easily applied ,s the tube In which it Is put up has a small, patent nozzle at tached. Sold by MacKethan & Co. The best pills made are DeWltt's Little Early Risers, the .famous little liver pills. " They are small, gentle, pleasant, easy to take and act prompt ly. They are sold by Armfleld Orug '.CO. V ' ' vl:'-:- ' ' A book on Rheumatism, by Dr. Shoop, of Racine,' Wis.; tells some plain truths, and In a plain and prac tical way. Get this, booklet,' and a free trial treatment of ' Dr.' Snoop's Rheu matic Remedy for some disheartened sufferer in your vicinity. Make watafiil a Y A annvafttaHvA folatlff ftf some one who is discounted because of the failures of others to help him. Help me to make this test, ana 1 11 certainly help your suffering friend. B. B. Sedberry'a Son. , 1 . :; W. W BAKER,-' . " ' CIVIL ENGINEER, Land Surveying . and , Munlolpal En glneerlng,. ovsr Qhuford a Rogers' Btore, Fayettevllle, N. C. Q. K. NIMOCKS, . Attorney and Connaellor-at-Law. ' . Rooms 1 and 8 K. of P.. Building. ' -: Fayettevllle - - N. C. . , :: t 'Phone 229. " H. McD. ROBINSON, ATTORNEY-At-LAW ANO NOTARY ''PUBLIC. Offices: National Bank Building, Fay ettevllle, N. C. -Special attention given to corpora tion matters, collecting and conveyanc ing. .Does general practice. . Prompt and exact. : -: -y- - H. S. AVERITT, Attorncy-at-Law, Notary Public .OfficeThornton Building Hay Street, Fayettevllle, N. C , V.C. BOLLARD, Attorney and Counsellor I ; - auuaw, . Notary Public, Surveyor, . Office K. of P. Building, r . FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. DR. WM. S. TORDANT" Physician and Surgeon. " - Office In Palace. Pharmacy. - Hours: 9 to .12 and I to S. , j ' ' ' - - - y - . - Dr. E. L. HUNTER, Dentist, .- North-east Corner Market 8quare. Fayettevllle, N. C. ' Dr. A. S. CROM ARTIE, DENTIST, Office In MacKethan Building, 102, 1-2 . Person, street. : J "v;4:." fhone 338. , Fayettevllle, N. C Q. B. Patterson, D. DS. i . , j ' " ' . J. H, Judd, D. DS, f. Drs. Patterson & judd, . Offioes 219 1-2 Hay Street, over Dunn & Co.'s 8torer 'Phone 55. - E.J.S SCOFIELD.M.D., Offer Mm nrfifetu tonal iarvlcaa to tha citizen, of Fayettevllle and surround- Ing country. . Office with Dr. J. ,H. Marsh, 249 Hay Street," 'Phone 77; Residence, St Luke's Hospital, , Phone DR E. J; CARSON, -'.V' OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, : Office in residence 842 Gillespie Street 'Phone 160. ' Chronic Diseases a Specialty, i Public Accountant. ; . Auditing of Partnership, Corpora tion and Public Accounts a specialty. Would leave city for a tew days at a time. . Refers to County Authorities, D. H. Ray, Esq., and Dr. H. W. Lilly. " - W. N. THAINQHAST, SR. ., September 19th. Phone 252. jMJIltlf Mil i lls I am here tor business. Let me hare a chance at your work. Twenty years' experience. '"Large or small eontracts appreciated. 1 All . work guaranteed. 'Phone 65-J, 828 Ramsey Street . . . DAN J. HUMPHREY. MacKETHANLWTRUSTCO.1 Market BQoara. ATaniviii,.e. .. i i - ' Loaaa nexottatwl and ruianuad. Mania ana uiiaieai onniiu. M.,. ...mlnl KnnfdlvtnflM Dial. Inauruc piamiuaM takan and loaned hen , E. B. lUoKSTSAS, Att'T. i. v 1300. Farm E0 acr... housa and .1.1 barn.-. $300, Small .farm mile north city, 75. lot Cool Spring street $150, Tenement lot Rowan street. $400. House and lot Blue street. $225. Tract 81 acres mile Victory Mill. ; , . $150. Lot Mecbanlo street ' $600. Housq corner lot MechanU street. $60. lot Manchester street " 1300. Each 2 lots Arsenal Hay- j 'mount. - . - .. ;.y: $16 each 10 lots Fayhope. $85. Share JaFayette Auditorium Pimm ms ..PROTECTION BREAKING DOWN OF ITS OWN WEIGHT. H looks as If we are at the begin ning of 'the end of Protection when the 'protectionists are quarreling aqiu.uK iinsiniioiveii. we pupiiputsu yen- torday the complaint of President Mil ler, of the Cotton Manufacturers' As sociation; and now comes to us a , marked copy of the. Baltimore Manu facturers' Record, a strong protection ist Journal, which contains a letter from its editor to the President com plaining of his attitude of discrimina tion , against the South. The letter concludes . with this remarkable sen tence; A .'v';'' :. "Justice demands that either a pro tective tarin snouw protect an, or eise that there should be no protective tar iff.'' '";( '? V: :j r ,' ' Now, Is not that, capital? It gives tieV, whole Republican i case away. What the' writer meant, of course, was that Jill, of the protected Interests should be equally protected. What the Democrats say Is that all the peo- P! houW be equally protected. When all the people are equally protected the doctrine of protection as preached by the ,'RepublfcanS and by Mr. Cleve landviz:' In the Republican platform of .1908, guaranteeing "reasonable pro fits" .to the manufacturers, while leav ing the people at large without such guarantee: in Mr. Cleveland s mes sage, December 6, 1887,- insuring "mod' erately profitable returns to 'our manufacturing Interests," while leav ing the people at large without such Insurance when : all the people aro equally protected the doctrine of pro tection, as preached by the Republi cans and by Mr. Cleveland, Is replaced by the time-honored doctrine of tho Democratic party: "equal rights to all, special privileges to none"! . - ; The letter of the editor of the Manu facturers' Record follows: An Appeal to the President for Jus- ' tlce to the South. ' , . Baltimore, July 22, 1909. To The President, - Washinrton. D. C: . If It be true; as .'claimed by many papers, that you are-seeking to- Influ ence tariff legislation in favor of free Iron ore, coal, lumber, etc., I beg to suggest the .following for your con sideration: , i;:-:'!..!' K The South, so long handicapped by the financial difficulties following the War and by adverse legislation, has in recent years, under the existing tariff policy, -' been making great industrial DroKress.: its Droswrity is now seri ously threatened by tariff legislation. It asks for no favors not- granted to other sections, but it earnestly protests at being 'sacrificed for the benefit of special interests in other sections. 1 1t Is a producer of things -erroneously called raw materials, sucn as iron ore, coal, lumber,, etc. -To the miner cf ore and coal and timber men tneir out put Is as much the product of labor as 1b the steel rail or the watcn spring. The South has aright to ask that what It produces should receive the same measure of protection as given to -the oroducts of other sections. There Is as much reason for making free tex tile machinery for the benefit of South. ern cotton mills, free steel rails for the benefit of railroads as there is for making free iron ore for the ben eflt of the rail mills and the textile- machinery builders. Does not fairness to all sections and to all people in the United States demand equality In pro tection, that one section should not be sacrificed to enrich special interests In others? What vast stores of ore reaching In to billions of tons awaiting utilization; with three times "as much coal as Great Britain. Germany and France availa ble for development; with nearly ono- half of the standing timber in the uni ted States, the South has resources enough for an industrial development greater than mat ot the wnoie country I todav to its own enrichment and to .1"JS what value to the. South or to the country at large If unutilized, and if their further development Is to be halted bv the free imoortatton of such materials mined or manufactured by i.kn. Malvln nntv a nit tAnr.fi com- pared wltn the wages ?M. m,i!8 gdverse tariff legislation to meet this pauper labor of foreign ' fomP"Uon' It can ouiy uu bu vj iMivut5-. - prices ot Its own labor to the almost starvation wages of foreign ore ana coal miners, i . ; U ..-. . - TTnrtAr th-drawback orovision of the 0-iff mrh .Availed raw materials' as enter into the manufacture ot goods exported have been admittea vinuauy free ot duty. That drawback has been n initintiiw to nroducers of "such "ma terial in this country, but that injus tice is as nothing compared with the Inlustice of admitting free of duty these so-called raw materials- wniie 1 caped from being sunk py tne japan-maintaJnina- duties noon the stoducts I ee. The Jana had proved the efflclen- In the manufacture or wmcn wey are T....i.a .ismituli that nlthar a nrotecUve tariff should protect sii. w else that there should be no protect - Ive tariff. ; t - "." prrvuATtn H. EDMONDS. " witnT. Mamifaoturera' Record. tub . r.OMlNQ . CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL RIVER9 AND HARBORS BONIinH" " ... j- - Cantaln Ellison, Secretary ot the Na - tlonal Rivers and Harbor. writes to Director Haie, 01 tne ooutu indications point to an even greater . .. convention ot the Congress this De- nBmber than last " A recent Washing- " . - . . . ton press dispatch lh this connecuon is Interesting. : t: V T ; J with President Taft the central ng-1 company naa m amy vu . -With wsioem iu ji.MDta nf I ,.iort ftftBiiv. I landed in San Fran- ure us an uio -.-- . w molnff watorwaympvu-, m rrw- bere ot t e;'r,, Vnd ?.on' moat nota- r? that i nr0Kiiiy.nuuui organisation. : - ho , m addition w '" ;"T3d.. has accepted an invlUtloa to address the gathering, such distinguished x yy.t.. a ,of,v nf War Dickinson. ...t. nr lnoraasea wawsiwnj """ lies , , Gov. Judson narmon, n wu. -T.. , nrnstorff. the German Ambassador, have Indicated a desire to participate ntar. ' preside" hV wnareaV and vlous meetings of U .congress wa has pledged himself to the movement H? has but recently taken occasion to express himself opoh the general po Icy of conservation ot the nation's nafc procements at the head of the list Secretary Dickinson Is greatly Im pressed with the necessity of deepen ing the rivers and harbors. Upon him as Secretary of War would fall the duty of carrying out any concerted plan tor waterway - improvements. Governor Harmon takes bis place with 1. .. . 1 1 i . 1 - . . the movement.: Count von Bernstorff comes from the country that probably Knows more, or waterway .improve-. menu than any other, ber rivers and harbors enjoying a higher grade of de velopment than any in tho. world. This commerce Is developed and controlled by the central Government and Its en couragement has proved a great suc cess.- : - : ....... In Issuing the call for the convention President Ransdell declares .that the people have come to know more of the possibilities of waterway ' improve ments In the last 12 months than they ever knew . before. ,- The press, be points out, with hardly an exception has taken Its place on the side 0' fthe Improvement of waterways, and the people are clamoring for actios; on the part of Congress, which, on an unoffi cial canvass, Is said to be In favor of such improvements. The question of devising ways and means, it Is set forth, has been debated for a year and opinion seems to be ap proaching agreement upon the matter of issuing bonds. The idea of the or- Su benefit and rDosteri should accordtaelySav fo7lt Attention Is dl- nal is being built on bond Issues, as also are great private enterprises, such aa. .railroads, as an argument in favor of a bond Issue for improving, the wat erways. 1 MACK PRIOGEON HOME AGAIN. 1 Mr. Mack Prldgeon, who has wander- ed far and wide, is back In Cumber land, county, his native heath. Ap pended Is an interview with him pub lished In the Cleburne (Texas) Re view, In 1907, the year after the great earthquake and fires In San Francisco, California. He was terribly burned In an explosion at the time of the earth duake. His face and hands bear frightful scars. -A very singular feat ure of his case la the fact that, al though he lost the power to close his erellda. he is able to sleeD with his - - - 1 eyes open. This is ouzzllnc: to sclen- tific men. Mr. Prldgeon will speak Friday eve ning at 8 o'clock at the store at Holt- Morgan Mill. He is authorized to so licit subscriptions to the Observer. King of Travelers Cleburne -. Man Travels .Seventy-Four Thousand Miles by Ship Route Fate ' Leads I r 11. '. rs 1 b.u I Him Merry Chase Mr. Mack Prld geon Lands In Cleburne As A Safe Refuge 'After Miles ot Travel. There are people In Cleburne who believe they are good travelers. The Review man, . who recently traveled over 4.000 miles, imagined that he had seen some ot the earth, but on Wednes day Mr. H. W. Wiseman located a man that' had the Review man skinned by at least 70,000 miles. In fact this man. who is Mr. Mack Prldgeon, has more than passed around the earth's sur face three times. Mr. Wiseman brought the mam around to the court bouse and within a few minutes the Review man had a brief report of the wanderings of this king of travelers. Not only Is Mr. Prldgeon the king of travelers but he holds the lacol rec ord for traveling the longest distance without having money with which 10 pay bis fare. After traveling 74,uuu miles .by water, he boarded a wheat car on the Pacific slope - and came to Fort Worth,. Texas. : wnen ne boarded the wheat car he only had cents In money. When he landed In Fort Worth he had more than he han started with." Thinking that his Btory would be ot interest to Review readers he was asked to relate it briefly He said: My name is Prld geon Mack Prldgeon. They caU me 'Mack.' and let it go at mat. 1 neipea put up the Santa Fe shops in this city in 1898. In the tail 1 woncea tor Air. Kellev. then later I ran the round bale gin in this city; then I went to 8hreve- port. La., where I woraea tor me nan sas City, Pittsburg ft Gulf Railroad. Then I went to Coffeyville, Kansas. At the latter nlace I took the agency for eleven daily papers, published in St Louis and Kansas. . I did well at this business., Then I went to Bait Lake. Utah, and then to San Francis co, and then to Shanghai, China, and Yokohama, Japan, - men 10 vanuju, Canton, China. This latter place has coDulatlon of 6.000,000 people. 1 gaw , cloctt there which was said to h 900 old. About 1,500,- 1 000 ot Canton'a population live. In sam- I nana or skiffs along the river. I then I went to Hons Kong. Chtna. While at this place I saw Queen Victoria's peak mountain about three-quarters ot mlla h Hong Kong us m hbbu- quarters or tne jungusn governmBiw, m . . n a - . Ok.Knh.r whan tne iar casi- 1 w t du.ui Japan and Russia-were fighting. I saw the three, out of ten ships, which es- 1 0y or their, marirsmansmp, as mo Mr I ahins innoil HIta atrtnra thnre be- m( M many projecoie aoies in uiem. 1 Tnis nght was in Permocnia straignis. J The Permocnia lsiana is waenj uirw lourtns or tne tjmneso ve iaiou After this little fight,, the Japanese "got it in for the United States because the latter ordered her not to fire on a particular Russian ship, which would involve Bome international quosuon. ITO.. Toon AKA nnf flra hilt thfiV Wished 1 J, HO ajnjw wau aw n 1 tQ very much. They then thought - -. r then went to niiam inland. The neoDle of this la- " - . - -.. . . , . land Beyer fuss ahout tne styles m clothing. They go nked. 1 i aese peo- P 1 l??-. Hiin luuinuBi ALwa a- n r 1 1 Ba)led back t0 gan Francisco. I w j with an English opera company. . This r.:;; f.Tw 1 th i9iB. OnJulvlSor I nn Jiilv 11th. 1905. Vi7h i wVnt to work for the Golden GaTe Metal Polish co. I was working for this company at the outbreak ! quak,s tlaoe. . - . n oi Anrit 19 t :15 p. m. The iidVnt hanpened to me while I was acc ent "appenen to Du,idlngs in San Francisco. , It was hoped to stop the spread ot the fire by blowing down ha hnltdlna. r " .-" "I was opening a 25-pound package of white smokeless powder when a nark fell IB It 1 was attempung uj - when exploglon red I must have been blown ver, or red ,1 ,n n mv head. I was immediately Uken to the hospital, and remained thnre for four mourns, iw ment and the city took xharga ot fairs and I had the treatment of a j baby. I mean by that that I was treat ed nicely. I have one of the relief cards used to draw ratrona, wnicn is now an Interesting souvenir. "Immediately after' getting out 01 the hospital, I left for Fort Worth, Tex., and later came to Cleburne. I started with 35 cents in my pocket. I bad practically no money and no cloth es. . I landed in Fort Worth in a car of wheat, and my thirty-five cents had grown to sixty cents. Botn 01 my hands were tied up. It wa son Aug.- 3, 1907. that I landed -in Fort Worth. Since landing In Cleburne I have se cured employment witn mt. w. t. Howell and am getting along allrlght." The face of Mr. Prldgeon is badly scarred up as a result of the explo sion. His ears were badly burned. He does not now look like the same, but he is not cast down. He has had a rich experience and one that will last him until his dying day, yet there was much pleasure mixed up with bis wanderings and these will be cheer lshed as long as the thread of life shall hold him . on. this sphere or trouDie and tribulations. ? .... , MAJOR 8TEDMAN. Charleston News and Courier. ' Governor Kitehln, of North Caro lina, has appointed Major Charles M. Stedman, of -Greensboro, to be pres- laent " th North CarolIna RaUr0il1 Company, and we are glad of it No of that Commonwealth, and received less, than this most distinguished and worthy man. WISE WORD8 AND 80UND DEMO CRACY FROM THE MAXTON 8COTTI8H CHIEF. m - No apology Is due Col. Bryan for op posing free barley. He was not com manded to favor it. His "glass nouse walls are thick enough to permit him to indulge in rock-throwing at those who side-stepped the party pledges Ys there were a few Democrats In Conin-ess who failed to keep the par ty Dlednes. But what of the Republi cans? It requires a knowledge 01 hleher mathematics to rightly find the proportion. Nearly the whole Re publican lump is ieavenea wiin Droit- en promises, Remibllcans are placing in their Ticron books the votes of Democratic . . . . Senatonrand uongressmen in Deuaii of the "interests" of their states,: as things to be remembered. The trouble Is that so far as these men are concerned they can never give a sat isfactory answer on the stump to me Charge of being near-Kepuhiicans wnen casting .those votes. . ( Judze Pritchard enloined the Com missioner of Agriculture from inspect- , oii untQ the matter is adjusted. . 0 ... - . The agents are in the field however to see that the tax of hail a cent per gal lon Is nald. This gives the oil com panies a chance to work ore tne near oil tney nave Deen supplying iuo mm with in this state and others so un wise as to have deferred passing an Inspection law, until eyes without number have been made detective, oy It.: Those editors who get on the fence and crow "free barley" In Justifica tion of Senator Simmons have round out that it is a constituent of beer not "near beer, however. The "Interests" are said .to crowd the Congressional lobbies now like apuvantrar hlrria . iiurround carrion. he battle la on but the result can but be disastrous to the consumer. 8hould Qo. Some of our Southern papers ought to be possessed of the fear that 11 the South cannot get an equat show ing by Democratic insistence under the circumstances it migm oe tempieu to go into the Republican party as a protest against folly. Wilmington Star. That is It Bud. That Is -where all who believe In Republican policies should eo. It will be clear sailing for the Democratic party when all who favdV Republican policies are witnin the Republican fold. It Is the enemy In camp that has made the Democratic- party the party of defeat rather than that of . victory ror so many aecaaes. Tht Law of Compensation. Congressman Cowles, who owes his position as a member of . Congress from the 8th District ot North Carolina to the "Commercial apirit" which caused Democratic papers and Con gressmen to fall, has lntroaucea a "little bill" to re-enact a part of the reconstruction acts, with the hope of thus gaining control of the-State for the Republicans. Thus k Is that the )aw ot compensation comes in to more than counter-act the mistaKes 01 lem- ocratlo Congressmen from this State. Principle to the Tall Timber. The Washington Star says: "They . nnnHnar Thnmu JAffArilOll. , An- I drew jacka0n Samuel J. Tilden and i n. riov.loTiH nn "nnmoo.ratic Frln cinies.' ) The principles are all right but when we "face a condition and not a theory", the Democrats of This Day and Time have to act accordingly. The fCharlottel Observer thinks that a laree majority ot the papers and a majority of the people approve 01 1 mo kuvu X ;7 tv.1 ana eenaior omuuuua ui " platform -pledge. Of course the Ob server's desire is father to the thought -yet if It were true, it would not Jus tify .the act;;;-; '".-! --- The Republican conferees on he Tariff bill have been quarreling or pretending to quarrel over that pretty kettle of fish and president Tait is looked to .as umpire. Whatever the end, the special interests will be safe and the "dear people" will foot the bills that make them prosperous. The 1 vuuia - UlBklCI uiviw - 1 whole matter proved a monstrous . d DUgne88 outrage. Remein- Dep that both parties are piedged to a downward revision of the tariff, and the neoole chose the Republicans because they thought tney couia give them : relief misplaced confidence so often given and as often violated. When will the people rule? If the conseuuences ot Democracy were not no so serious,- it would be amusing in the extreme to note the attempt of the near Republican pap ers, and those Democratto Journals that have learned to sneese when the 1 former take snuff, to make; sensible readers believe that the Democratic platform meant that If a majority Of the votes were cast lor Bryan ana Kern, aaainst Taft and Sherman, contained Democratto sentiments; but if Brvan was defeated by Taft. then in that vent Its pledges should seek the tall timber and Aldrlch should be the exponent of true Democracy. That Is the logic oi their contention, sup- elemented by the cry "xou are mioi erant you are a Digot you censun these men tor not keeping a defeated tM party's pledges." FLORA MacDONALD. The revival of the story ot Flora MacDonald and of Liberty Point in the Civic Association lectures, follow ed by the; Liberty. Point Celebration, the other day, has caused renewed In terest to be taken In these historic possessions of Fayettevllle; and many are the , articles in the press which have been evoked by it The latest Is the following very interest ing story which we find In the Whlto vllle News-Reporter of which Mr. T. L. Gantt (a kinsman, by the way, we believe, of Chief Justice Gantt ot Mis souri) is the editor: ' , 8tory of Flora ' MacDonald A Breif History of the Scottish Highlanders Who 8ettled In this Section. We are indebted to Mr. C. K. Coun cil, ot Wananlsh, for a very interest ing account of Flora MacDonald, the Scottish heroine, who saved Charles Kdward, designated in England as the Young. Pretender, after the defeat at Culloden, and when be was so hotly pei-sued by the troops of George II. And this narrative will be of espe cial interest to the people of our sec tion, as Flora MacDonald afterwards married and emigrated to America and settled where the town of Fayette vllle now stands. She afterwards mo ved to another part ot- Cumberland county, and we understand that, the house in which she lived Is yet stand- Uig, or was a few years ago. The Scotch who settled on the 'Cape Fear river, and whose descendants now reside In this part of our State, were loyal to the Stuarts, and had to flee their native land to escape the vengeance of the then ruling dynasty the Dutch House of Hanover. Thoy came here imbued with the theory of the divine right of Kings; and while Flora MacDonald had loaned her aid to the Stuarts against George II, when he was succeeded by George III, and Who forced the colonists into rebell ion. Flora was still loyal to royallty, aud assisted what was then known as the Tories; but when the struggling colonists got in the ascendancy, they made it so hot for Flora and other Tory leaders that she again fled across the Atlantic and spent her remaining days on one ot those little islands off the west coast of Scotland. But near ly, if not all the Scotch who settlsd on the Cape Fear belonged to the same clan, and were related. The McLeods and MacDonalds were closely related. Cumberland county was named for the Duke ot Cumberland, son of George II, who lead the victorious English troops at Culloden, and because of his blood-thirsty brutality to the follow ers of. the vanquished prince, was known as "The Butcher." It does seem the irony of fate that the children of those loyal and brave Highlanders should reside in a county bearing the odious name of the op pressor of their forefathers, and that some of them should afterwards es pouse the cause and do battle for the brother of 'The Butcher" and victor of Culloden." The Scotch that settled in this sec tion' were from the Highlands or the Western Isles, a cold and bleak coun try, wrapped In snow or mist A brav er or hardier race of people never lived, and from them sprang the Mo, Gregor, the Gentle Lochiel, the great est and wisest soldier and statesman of his day, tho McDonald, so treacher ously assassinated at Glencoe, with many of his family, and that undying name, Douglas. The Caledonian High landers stopped the march of the Ro man legions;, they deified the power of England; and barefooted and with their claymores, vanquished McKay (himself a. brave Highlander) and his veteran troops, at Killlekrankie. was not until the reign of Queen Ann when England and Scotland became one country, by treaty, that the brave Highlanders succumbed; and it was then with the pick-axe of the road- builder and not by arms or conquest. And It was as much against annexa tion with England, as loyalty to the House of Stuart, that they enlisted in the army of the Pretender. But when the government ot Great Britain was once settled, England bad not more loyal or braver subjects than these same Highlanders, and they be came leaders in every movement where courage, endurance, perserva ance and mental ability were needed. It . was a Highland regiment whose bagpipes heralded relief to the besieg ed earrlson of Lucknow; Mungo Park and Bruce, the one to penetrate fur thest into Darkest Africa, and tho other to first discover the source the White Nile, as likewise our own Paul Jones, were born beneath tne shadow of those hills of Scotland and its purple heather. The Scotch who settled on the Cape Fear had been for generations at dead ly feud with the Campbells, known as Anrvle. "Fair and false as a Camp bell," was their slogan. These Hign- landers had plundered, and burned Inverness, the ancestral home of the Argyles, and had executed two heads of the family and driven another into exile. With the revolution that made outcasts of the Stuart and placed the Prince of Orange, William I, upon the throne of England restored the Ar gyles to power, and who in turn be gan to "Wreak vengeance against his Highland neighbors, tne Macs. So when Prince Charles Edward, arandson o'f James II, landed on the Vest coast of Scotland with a few fol lowers, to recover a crown worn oy 300 Kings of his blood, and the Duke of Argyle represented the reigning dy nasty, those Highlanders sent the tiery cross througn - tneir mountains ana flocked by thousands to the Stuart standard. ., . We will only briefly touch upon the history of that period, In order to lead Flora MacDonald. The unorganised and crudely armed troops ot the Pre tender met their, startling success. With their inherent courage and dash the Highlanders won victory after vic tory over the English troops, until the British flag floated over but two or three places norm ox tne twiyae. it was then decided to Invade England and without opposition this Highland army had advanced within a day's march of London. The pretender con fidently expected to gather strong re inforcements from the friends ot his family in England, but he was griev ously disappointed. " In the meantime three overpowering armies were sur rounding him, when a retreat ' back into Scotland was decided on. The Highlanders succeeded In escaping the enemy, but were overtaken at Cul loden, not far from Edinburgh, by the Duke of Cumberland with a superior force, well armed and provisioned. Be sides being outnumbered, the Prince's troons were worn out with their long march, were poorly armed and with out food. ' The Scottish officers coun selled a retreat Into the Highlands, where the war might be prolonged until spring and a fresh army raised. But the Pretender refused to heed this wise advice, and it was decided . to make a night attack. But it misera bly miscarried, and after straggling around all night the Prince marched wearied soldiers back to Cullo den, where they were attacked by the Duke and his fresn troops while the Pretender's army was forming in line of battle.. There could be but one ter mination to such an unequal contest. Those Highlanders fought like heroes, but were crushlngly defeated. Then followed such a scene of carnage as will ever remain a blot upon civilized England. The Duke of Cumberland was a brave soldier, but his thirst for blood was Insatiate. His troops re fused quarter to the vanquished, and the fleeing Highlanders were followed up and shot down and hacked to pie ces. And the slaughter did not stop here, but the prisons were packed and the air poisoned with the decaying car casses of the dundreds executed and left hanging on the gallows and limbs of trees. The followers of the Preten der were pursued into their mountain fastnesses with fire and sword, and trailed by bloodhounds to the caverns which many had sought conceal ment Thousands of these fugitives escaped in friendly ships to the colo nies, and among them some of those Scotchmen who settled on the Cape Fear river, and whose descendants are today among our best and most pro gressive and honored citizens. When you find a man with a Mac to his name you can eet it down as an as sured fact that his ancestor came from the Scottish Highlands, that he fought under Charles Edward at Cull oden, and fled to America to escaoe the vengeance of the House of Han over. These Highlanders, bred in a barren mountain country, have ever been noted for their thrift. You never knew one to be a beggar, and they need only half a chance to prosper. Before their bleak mountains were de veloped and transformed into one vt the most prosperous portions of tho British Isles, these Highlanders lived on oat meal, and cakes of dried blood drawn from their little black cattle When starting on a foray or to meet the Roman legions or invading army of King Edward, all the Highlanders did was to throw on the plaid of their clan, take up their short sword (the claymore), fill their sack at their waist with raw oat meal, and which they moistened with water and ate while on the march, and became in an hour an invincible army composed of the finest and bravest irregular troops the world knew. If victorious, these clans at once dispersed to carry the plunder to their mountain fastnesses; if de feated, to lnstanty rally and attack the enemy as vigorously in the next mountain pass. And yet with their extreme poverty Louis XIV was never prouder or more haughty than a Highland chieftian in his hut, with a spread of oat meal, a home-brewed drink, and perahps a scant supply of beef driven from some lowland pasture. These Scottish High landers were born soldiers and lead ers of men and gentlemen by nature. When Lochiel visited France, he was pronounced by that discrimina ting nation the most chivalrous an-1 polished gentleman of the age. But not so wUh the ungrateful Stuarts, for when Lochiel paid his court to James II, the King exclaimed, "Keep' your hands On your pocket-books, gentle men, for bere comes the King ot thieves!" A Highlander considered It beneath his dignity to labor, but it was thought highly commendable to organize a foray into the lowlands or across the English border, against which people they had been at war for centuries, and burn and plunder their homes and drive off their nocks No Quarter was asked or shown in these raids. The Scottish Highlanders were an entirely different race and people from the Lowlanders. Robert "Burns be longed to a Highland family, but Sir Walter Scott whose gifted pen has done eo much to immortalize his coun try, was of Lowland descent and his ancestors had always been at deadly strife with the Highland clans. But this sketch -is growing too long and we must return to Charles Edward and Flora MacDonald. But it may be instructive to the school children of this seotton to know the story of the Scottish families who are now living among us: and the descendants of these old Highland exiles have just cause to be proud of the courage and self-sacrificing loyalty of their ancos try, who helped to carve our great nation from a wilderness. It was natural that a Scottish High lander should be loyal to the House cf Stuart, as ungrateful as that family proved itself to be, for as already sta ted it had furnished Scotland with an unbroken reign of 300 Kings, among the number the heroic Robert Bruce who, with William Wallace, drove proud Edward across the Border and was to Scotland what Washington was to our own republic But the race had deteriorated through intermarriage and became egotistical, tyrannical and cowardly. Volumes of romance have be wo ven around "Bonnie Prince Charley,' but history-shows him to have been ton. and utterly lacking in either per severance. Judgment or courage. At Culloden. when hundreds of brave Hlarhlandcre were dying for his cause. Lord Elko, a brave Highland chieftain dashed up to the Prince and pointing to his clan, urged him to lead those brave Highlanders to either victory or a soldier's death. But Instead cf sharing the fate of his heroic fol lowers, the Pretender put spurs to his horse and disgracefully fled the field, followed by the execrations of Lord Elko, and who cursed him as an Ital ian coward: and while Lord isiko es caped to France he would never again speak to Prince Charles Edward. The Engllsn government, alter me defeat at Culloden, guarded every port and offered a reward of 30,000 pounds ($150,000) for the apprehension of the Pretender and made It high treason to harbor or aid him to escape For nearly six months the fugitive wandered around, often starving and In rags, sometimes hid in mountain caverns and again in wretched hovels; and while that reward would have en riched an 'entire clan, and to aid the Prince meant ruin and death, not a Highlander could be found to betray their dangerous guest, ine rre'.eu der finally made his way , to those is lands off the west coast of Scotland, with the hone of finding a French ves sel. Here lived the MacDonalds, Mc Leods and other names so familiar in our section. We will now let Mr. Council recount the romantic story Flora MacDonald: -a- a This Scottish heroine signed her name "Flory," Instead ot the more classical orthography, says Sir Waltar Scott "Her marriage contract, which is in my possession, bears the name sDelled Flory." She was bom in Millbury, Isle of Skye, one of the Hebrides, a group cf islands on the west coast ot Scotland, In 1720. . Her romantic adventures In asalatlnar Charles Edward, grandson of James II, to escape from the troops ot the Duke of Cumberland alter nis hopes to ascend the English throne were destroyed on the field of Cull oden (16th April, 1746,) has furnished favorite theme lor Scottish' song and story. The Pretender had sought concealment in the Highlands ot Scot land. A price of 30,000 pounds, about $150,000, had. been eet upon his head, and he, was hunted from mountain to dell,' and from crag to cavern. Escape seemed impossible. " Flora was on a visit to this part ot Scotland from Millbury, on her return from Edinburgh, and it was suggested that the Prince be arrayed in woman's clothes and return with Flora as a waiting maid. But the Step seemed dangerous, as every pass was guarded by the English troops. Capt Hugh MacDonald, Flora's . future father-in-law, was one of the officers engaged In the search, and It was from him she obtained passports for herself and a boy companion, Nelll MacDonald, and for "Betty Burke," a stout Irish woman,, and three others. They em barked on June 28th, 1749, from Ulst for the Isle of Skye, and landed in Kil bride in the parish of Kilmulr, and stopped at the house of Sir Alexander MacDonald, the Laird of Sleite. The Laird was absent, and there were some English officers in the house, who were in search of the Royal fugitive. Lady MacDonald advised that Flora and her suite continue their journey forth with to Kingsbury. . They reached their destination with out incident Next morning Flora par ted with the Prince at Partaree. Gentle maiden, faithful and true, I hope we will meet again in the Palace Royal, were the Princes farewell words. He finally escaped with Nelll MacDonald to France. 'Bonnie Fnnce Charlie never ,-e- turned. He died in France in 1788, a physical and moral wreck. It Is stated that he was very ungrateful to the girl who risked so much to shield him. A son of Neill MacDonald was a distinguished officer in the French Revolution was a Marshal under the great Napoleon, and for gallantry was created the Duke of Tarantum. The English government was greatly Incensed that Charles should escape due not to arms or Intrigue, but to Woman's tact and woman s tenderness alone. Flora was arrested with Malcom Mc- Leod, whose pack the Prince had car ried, and McKinnon, of Stralth, who had received him from McLeod and MacDonald, of Kingsbury. Flora was kept a prisoner on vari ous naval vessels for more than a year, until July 1747, when she was transferred to the Tower of London and held to be tried for high treason. But the chivalrous daring of the ad venture created a strong feeling In her favor. She had never been an ad vocate of the Pretender's claim to the crown, nor were she of his religious faith. When asked by the King, Geor ge II, "How dare you succor the en emy of my crown and kingdom," she replied: I only did what I would do for your Majesty in the same condition re lieve distress, The impulsive humanity of woman for distress was her only crime. No evidence was produced against ber. She was set at liberty and sent back home by Lady Primrose with Malcom McLeod the Jacobite ladies (friends of the Stuart family) of London pre senting her with a purse of 5,000 pounds. Flora MacDonald ts described by Baswell as "a little woman of genteel appearance and uncommonly mild and well bred. Four years after her re turn she was married to Allan Mac Donald. In 1747, Nelll MacDonald, from the West of Scotland, purchased lands near Cross Creek, North Carolina, and set tled there with about 600 Highlanders; and to this flourishing colony Flora and her husband emigrated in 1774, and settled in the town of Cross Creek on the right hand going from the old market house to the court house, Just as you cross the creek. The first name of the settlement was Camp bellton, then Cross Creek, and in 1784 was changed to Fayetteville, in honor of Marques de LaFayette, Tho MacDonalds did not stay long in Fayetteville. They moved to Came ron, about 20 miles away. The troub les of the Revolution had just begun. The people found no trouble with the law, but the manner In which the law was administered. The descendants of the sturdy pioneers, who had cast their lot in wilderness when Crom- well s government was overthrown a century before, had stood all the op pression they intended to. The military organization of the State had been effected by the friends of Liberty. The Chief of the Clan Mac Donald had accepted a commission rs General from the Royal Governor, Martin, In the service ot his Majesty, George III The wild notes of the Scottish pib roch united with the English bugle on Feb. 1st 1776. Gen. MacDonald Is sued his proclamation to all true and loyal Highlanders to join his standard at Cross Creek to march to unite with Gen Clinton and Gov. Martin. On their way down they were met near the mouth of Moore's creek by the forces of Caswell and Llllingston, and after a desperate engagement, a second Culloden awarded the misguided highlanders. General MacDonald was taken prisoner, as also Allen, the hus band of Flora, who was a Captain. Capt. McLeod and Capt Campbell were killed and the rest taken pris oners One authority says Capt McLeod left his bride, a daughter of Flora, ft tho altar, to fight for his King. Allen MacDonald was confined a prisoner In Halifax Jail. After his re lease, broken down in hopes, their property plundered, their lands con fiscated, he and Flora returned to Scotland. On their passage home they encountered a French man-of-war (England and France Were at war ut the time), and an action ensued. The heroic woman remained on deck du ring the fight and encouraged the men. The enemy were beaten off, but in the bustle of battle. Flora was thrown down and sustained a broken arm. With the shrewdness of her country, she is, said to have remarked: "I have hazarded my life for the House of Stuart and the House of Hanover, and I do not see that I am a great gainer of either." ..-..w.)fn!s: Shw -dted 4th of March, 1790. Her shroud was made ot sheets in which Charles Edward, the Pretender, had slept at Kingsbury, which, with woman's- romantic temper, she had pre served in all her wanderings for this express purpose. I am indebted to Rev. A. McFadyen, the. venerable and venerated Presbyte rian Divine of Bladen county, for much of -the above data. Also see "Defence of North Carolina" by" J." Seawell Jones: "Women of the Revolution,' by Mrs. EllioU "Baswell'ft Life of Dr. Johnson;" Sketches of North Caro lina," by W. H. Foots 148; "William son'8 History of North Carolina,',' 11-80, and "'Whalen's History of North Caro- Una.'1 H-12. FAYETTEVILLE MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS Strictly First-class Work. CALL AT MY YARD OR WRITE FOR PRICES. RE8PECTFULLY, E. L. REM8BURQ, . PROPRIETOR, . - FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. ' 119 MAXWELL 8T. OPPOSITE F. I. L. I. ARMORY. - TURNIP SEED WOOD'S NEW CROP IMPROVED YELLOW RUTA BAGA and other varieties just received at BUY LUCAS TINTED GL083 PAINT FOR QUALITY, COVERING CAPACITY, DURABILITY. SOLD ONLY BY 8. 1. Stirn's Si. I M. 1 1 mm Now Has His Office At Cook's Drug Store Office Phone, 141. Residence Phone, 470. MacKethan'a 'ON THE SQUARE.'' 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