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TAN NTERPRIS VOL. VII. ALBEMARLE, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1898. NO. 11. HE LY KfcD HOT SERMON ItV SAM .KINKS. Macon, Cla. Nov. 14 In a drench ing rain through muddy streets tiro thousand people crowded into the pro hibition tent here yesterday afternoon to hear Sam Jones preach to men only, and while they laughed and cried alternately at the speaker's wit and pathos, the ruin beat through the leak ing tent and a flood tide poured under the tent flaps and covered the sawdust floor with an inch of water. "Hit's cr raining now," said Mr. Jones, as the steady stream of men poured into the tent, "and jou might just as well enjoy it while vou can, for hit's er going to be powerful dry in Ma con in two weeks." This introductory remark caught the crowd and the audience answered th3 preacher with a mighty outburst of applause. The sermon was even more unique than Sam Jones usually preachep on his "men only" occasion?. It was unusual in many respects, and sandwiched among the jokes and stories was a vast deal of good, solid advice. On the platform were many of the meat prominent people of Mncon. "Now, bud," said Mr. Jones, "just enjoy the drenching as best you can, for, old fellow, you can't tin joy drinking much longer. I ain'tgot nothing to do with the rain; I ain't a running of the weather,but I'm a running of the mouth-end of this here prohibition cam paign, do vou hear mc? Rlees God for the rain. "The tent leaks like the band, but it's a dry crowd, ain't it? "You fellows out there just do the holding and I'll do the skinning and I promise you I'll make hide go down on I the market. Mr. Jones told the audience he had not begun his sermon, but whs just warming up the crowd. Mr. Tillman and the choir then sang a song. "Whiskev Shops Must ti Somebody in the audience said "Let her go, Gallagher," and everybody laughed. ' "Now, fellows we are going to take up a collection for the campaign fund I want you to go down into jour pockets and give twenty-five and fifty cents each. Say, I think there must have been a Btranger iu town last night, 'cause somebody put a dollar in the basket." The money contributed will be used in paying the expenses of the prohibi tion campaign. "Here are some good, dry scats over here," said Mr. Jones to several gentle men who were standing where the wa ter was falling, "You fellows what are going to vote for whiskey can stay out "'ttieru in th4rin'-.. " -"' ' ' "I want the prayers and sympathy of everybody in this tent. I am frail as the frailest man in the tiearing of my voice as frail and weak as any mortal man alive. My heart beats for humanity and during the fifty-one years rf my life I have alway made it a rule to fight for the botto-n dog. "If you want to find Sum Jones, al way go and scratch under the bottom dog and if Sam Jones ain't there you can just say ho has gone to dinner and will lie back in a few minutes. I'm for the under dog and always will hear me, bud? "I never call names, but I call you by your numbers andwhen I touch a fellow's number you will hear his bell ring. "1 ain't got nothing qgainst anybody in Macon. Now, listen, bud. Not a thing. I love eyery one of you poor boyB and I've got the best feelings iu the world for you. "I feel like the boy felt when his sweetheart told him she would have him, and he said hedidn'thavo nuthin' agin nobody. That's the way I feel today. "One time I was sick and I went to the doctor. I told him I was sick and he told me I was billious. He gave me two or three pills to take and the next morning I went to htm and told him the pills liked to have killed me. "It wasn't the pills,' the doctor said it was your condition.' 'Now, here, bud, you needn't get mad at anything I say. It won't be the medicine it'll be the condition of your syBtem. "Now, here, if you can't stand the I naked, Gqil's truth rubbed in and still I love the rubber, then you might just as well get out before I begin, for I II make it hot before I get done with you. "Don't you come snubbing around after iU all over and tell Sam Jones your feelings are hurt. Why did you bring your feelings to meeting, you fool you. Why didn't you leave your feelings at home for your wife to nurse while you went out to get courage? "I've got three questions I want to ask you. "Jurat, 'Do you kuow what you re talking about? "I'm posted on this prohibition ques tion, do you hear me? and I don't mean to say anything C don't mean. During my twenty-six years I lin't never tuck nothing back. I just won't tuck it back nohow. A fellow tol 1 me once that if I didn't tuck something back I had paid, that he would mash me into the earth. J told him to just go ahead and mash, as I had never been mashed be fore and wanted to see how it felt. "You can hear lots of people talk about making anybody leave town, but when a committee is wanted to make the man leave town, you won't serve on the comuiitiee, now will you? No. , I know you ain't er going to make no man leave when he ia a telling the truth. "I'm powerful careful what I say. If I tell a lie on you it hurts Sam Jones, but when I tell the truth it hurts you, and you are the fellow I am after hurt ingdo you hear that? "The second question is, 'Do you mean kindly to me what you Bay?' "The third question is, 'Do you live as you pray?' "I Jive just what I preach. There aint never a lie been told on me that I didn't jump up and crack im beds together and say, 'Thank (Sod', that's a lie.' "I am honest, that's what . I am, bud, and my wife aint no cleaner than I am. I aint jitrfect, though, and can't be when I talk to the crowds that I have to. Could 1? Mr. Jones then announced his text, "Escajie for thy Life." "We all love life, he said, "and all of us fear death. All that a man Iims, that will be give for his lite. "There are things that will di troy the body and things that will preserve the body. There are poisonous sub stances that will kill the body and there are certain things that will deve lop the body. There are many death producers and when we nro told to 'escape for our life,' we just must escape. "There ain't but one thing that will destroy man's moral life and that is sin. I don't need no Rible to tell me that sin is ruining the moral life of families and cities. "When I see a red-nosed drunkard reeling back and forth and wasting his life away and drugging others along with him, I say 'Poor fellow; sin lias got in its work with him. When I see the frail figure of a prostitute, with shame written on her countenance, then I say, 'Miserable creature, sin has get in his work with you.' Wrecked by sin, damned by sin it's the one thing that will wreck moral life." Mr. Jones then told the story of his visit to the home of a lady in Carters ville. He received an urgent note from her early one morning asking him to go to her house ns soon as he could. "I hurried to the homo and a sad faced wife and six pitiful children grouped around me. The wife couldn't speak, she was so full of tears, but she led me into the bouse, and there 1 iy her husband, blcared-eyed and bloated dead drunk. "Listen here, brother, sin wasn't, only dragging that man to hell, but it' was carrying with it a sweet wife and children to poverty and pauperism. "Yet there are some of you miserable people who say, 'If I want to drink, it ain't any of Sam Jones' business.' You lying scoundrel, yon. "Ain't it your mother' business and your wife's business and your children's business and your sweetheart's busi ness? Aint it, you flop-eared dog. Tell me it's nobody's business. Hear me now "Say ncre, you 'isten now. There was a man in St. Louis who was asked to give $100 with which to aid the prohibi tion fight, ile B;ud be dido t drink, and his wife didn't drink, and his only child, a daughter didn't drink, and bo refused to make tue contribution, saying it wasn t his business if anybody else got drunk. Ihe next morning this same man walked down to the depot to meet the 15. and (). train. The train was due at S o'clock but it did not come at that time. The man waited live minutes, then ten and thirty minutes, when he asked the train dispatcher why the train was late. There has been an awful wreck,' said the dispatcher. My God! my wife and daughter are on that train!' screamed the thor oughly frantic man. He went to the scene of the wreck on a last train. J lie nrst person nc saw was the body of the drunken en gineer, covered with blood. He found the bodies of his wife and daughter fearfully and horribly mangled. The next day he gave $1,000 to the prohibi tion cause, but his delay had cost him his family and fortune and happiness. Here, you little narrow-eyed, pigeon- tocd, box-ankled, poodle-head thing, what do you mean when you tell me it ain't my business and your business when anybody drinks? You are so little that when you die they won't have to bury you, for there won't be euough of you to stink. Anything that curses my wne, my child, my mother, my homo and my country is my business, and thank God for it, too, that 1 know it's my business. "Yes, and some of you little scoun drels will say : 'Sam Jones, you don't live in Macon and ain't in this fight.' "No, I don't live in Macon and I thank God I don't. If the devil finds out you Macon people ain't got what he wants you oruer it tor mm. The only difference between Macon and hell is that there are some good people in Macon and you've got a river down here, and hell aiu't got either. "The devil gets anything in Macon he wants by a two-thirdB mayority. Now ain't that so? If a man should run for mayor of Macon with the ten commandments as his platform and another man should run with Macou's ast history and record as his platform he would win by two to one over the good man. "I ain't got any hope for this country until the good people get in front. "And you little dog prohibitionist out there in front of me. You are running with your tail between your legs. "Curl your tail upon your back, hold your head up and be a man. I'd rather cut mv tail off than to be running around with it between my legs. And you little flop-eared tiaund, you, what er you want to cups ior, anyhow? You dirty-mouihed dog if you want to get cured ot cussing nisi go home and get your wife and your mother to cuss gome. That'll cure you that 11 puke a dog 1 mean n n puke you. "I know a man who used to cuss an the time. He would go home and cuss everything and everybody. Oue day he went home and dinner wasn't ready. Ain't that damned dinner reaoy yet?' he roared to his wife. she soon returned. " 'No,thedamn d dinner aiu't ready,' she said' 'lire's gone to hell ami dam nation is to play.' "The man was dumfounded; but it cund him and he ain't cussed a cuss since. "1 want a cussing car on the rail roads. We've got a baggage car, and a mail car and an express car and a sleeping car, but I want a cussing car on every railroad so they can run black mouthed ens-ing dogs into it for the protection of the decent people." I.m-k-Jiiw. IMlOIl. Vnlit.h's ( 'mi) Loik-.Iaw, or tetanus, is a disease which fortunately, is more read about than teen; yet it is not very rare, at least in its mild form. It occurs more frequently in children than in older people, and oftener in boys than in girls; but this is probably only because boys are more liable to cut and scratch themselves, for it is after such injuries that lockjaw usually occurs, The disease is more common in some countries than in others, England be ing one of the countries, and Cuban an other, in which it prevails to a much greater extent than in the I'nited Stales. Here, too, some stab sand some jiortions of stales have anunenviahleprceminence in this regard. The trouble usually begins with a stiffness and tendency to contraction in the muscles which bring the teeth to gether, and with the progress of the disease it becomes impossible to open the mouth .-.nice the popular name, "lock-jaw." The other muscles of the face soon become affected iu Ihe same way, and after them the muscles of the neck, the trunk and the extremities. According as;one or another set of mus cles is the strongest or most firmly con tracted, the arms and legs will be thrown into constrained positions, and the body will be bent forward, or backward, or to one side. When these sjiasms which aro us u.illy painful are very severe and re cur frequently or even become continu ous, tetanus is usually fatal. Fortu nately, however, this is the less com mon form of the disease. In the usual milder variety the spasms are less se vere and less frequent, and soon, with proper cure, 'begin to become less and less marked until they finally cease en tirely. Lockjaw is caused by a poison excret ed by a microbe which is found in the soil, especially in that near stables and in manure heap'. This poison, which is somewhat like strychnine iu its effectais absorbed in- to llie system uirougn n wound maue with a lusty nail or other dirty objects, or through a wound which has been soiled with earth or hound up with a dirty rag. Sometimes, especially in tropical countries like Cuba, the disease comes on after a wetting or a sudden chill, even when there is no wound of the skin so far as can he seen, or it may follow insect bites. A person with lockjaw must keep perfectly quiet and shielded from any thing that may bring on a paroxysm, such as a touch, a jolt of the bed, or even a strong draught of air. The The treatment belongs entirely to the physician, for tetanus is too serious a malady and too rapid in its course to permit of any experimenting with do mestic remedies. The fal cases usually last only four or five dayb, but the milder forms may continue for two waeeks be fore recovery is complete. Crime ill Tills Stall'. News mid Oliservcr. The Attorney General lias completed the summary of the criminal statistics for the ten years ending last June. For purpose of comparison the summary of the number of trials, etc., since 181K) year by year, also appears in his re port. The increase in crime, except in one period, about keeps pace with the increase in population. Tho report of the year ending June 20, 189S, shows that there were il,72'.l actions, of which 5,015 were against negroes, and 42 against Indians; 0,011 against males; 718 against females. There were li,2oS convictions, l.O'.Hl acquittals and nol pros, was entered in 1,71)1 cases. Ihe percentage of white crime was not quite 52 per cent; that of negro crime a trille over -IS per cent. The number of cases tried for various crimes was as follows: Assault and battery, (i(i0; abandonment, 55; abor tion, 5; assault with a deadly weapon, 1,032; affray, 1,022; simple assault, 414; assault, with intent to commit rape, 27; arson, 10; attempt to bum houses, 1; bigamy, 10; burglary in the lirst degree, IS; second degree, 21; carrying concealed weapon, 042; cruelty to animals, 55; forgery, 5.".; gambling, 300; house-breaking. 21; incest, 8; lar ceny, 1,107; libel, 7; manslaughter, 12; murder in the first degree, 45; second degree, 21; perjury, 57; rape, 23; riot, 3; robbery, 12; Blander, 41!; seduc tion, 135. ' lteariy to Go. "Well, Uncle Jim," said the lawyer, "the doctor Bay's there's no hope for you." "Yes, sub; dey tells me I gwine toe croBS over." "Have you made your will?" "Yes, sub; I done will to go." ' "I mean," said the lawyer, in an explanatory way, "have you anything to leave. "Oh, yea suh," explained the old man, joyfully; "two wives and de rheumatism." Had .Not lord Ir. "Have you ever noticed that men and their wives generally grow to look alike after they have been married for a few years?" -. "Oh, yes. JJotli ot them nearly always have the same sad expression." "Poor woman martyr, too, went out into the kitchen and II ILL AK1-S LETTKR. Only a reminiscence. The veterans do not naturally love to recall the dark side of the civil war. They do not "nurse their wrath to keep it warm, as did Tarn O'Shanter's witch. They are too busy in making a living to spare much time to memories of marches and battles and hard-tack and ragged cloth es. Jiut they do indulge in little war incidents and accidents when they meet a comrade and somethirg reminds them of something. The four-year war was full of heroism and thrilling events, but 1 believe the aftermath, the patching up of iKace, was more proyoking and discouraging and of longer continuance tnan the war itself. "As iron shariM'iM'th iron ho doe a man's face Nliui'iM'ii t lie lace ol 111 fried. Jt is only a reminiscence that 1 am going to relate. I met tho old gentle man yesterday, and as wegrasied hands our minds and memories went ba k to the troubled days of 18115 when first we met, one dark and dreary night. "Who is that ?" he said cautiously as I knock ed at the door. "Talk low, said I "they are after your brother to take him back to Virginia and try him for kukluxing those scroundrels. I have brought him over here and bid him in vour ginimuse loft, under the straw. Don't let anybody but your wife know where he is. It was about daybreak, and the old gentleman Was in his night clothes. "Lord, help us, said lie. "Are vou telling me the truth? Who are you ? I-et me light a caudle When he brought it he unlocked the door and opened it just enough for him to see my face, and for me to see him and his double-barreled gun that was near his hand. "Who are you ?" he repeated. When I whisjiered my name he grasped my hand eargerly, for he kuew that I was his brother's counsellor and friend. Hurriedly he put on his clothes, and we went a blind path to the ginhoii8e, which was nearly a quar ter of a mile away. Not a soul was stirring, not a dog barked. "Good Lord," said he, "has it come to this. Those villains whom my brother help ed to whip and made them leave the country up in Virginia wore worse than the tories of the old revolution. They robbed and plundered our jieople, and had negroes to help them, and we ap pealed in vain to the yankee ollicers for protection. Our wives and our daugh ters wero in continual daouer, and we had to kuklux those scoundrels or leave the country ourselves." It was in June, 18(io, while I was liv ing in Home, that I was aroused from sleep about midnight and learned from my irgmia friend that he was in great peril, and wanted assistance and ad- A warriuiUbailleau.. issued for him in Virginia and sent to the federal provost marshal at Rome, and he was to be arrested in the morning aud sent back for trial. Ho briefly related the circumstances, and told me he had a brother living in Bartow county, about eighteen miles distant; but nobody in Koine knew him, nor was his brother implicated iu the kuklux business, and ho might be concealed on hia brother's farm somewhere until the federal sol diers left here. "All right," said I; "go back at once and get you a change of clothing and meet me at Norton s corner. It did not take nio long to hitch my horse to the little rock-away and drive down to Broad street and take him in. We took roundanee on the soldiers' quar ters and wero soon out of the town and on the road to old CaBSville. The night was dark and misty, but we had a good horse, and in about three hours we were nearing tho farm. When oppo site the ginhouse we stopped to recon noitre. We had not passed a man on the road, nor seen a light in anybody's house. So we left that we were safe so far. Driving out to a secluded place we hitched the horse, and then made haste for the ginhouse. The way was clear and the place comfortable. Leav ing the brothers to arrange their plans, I drove on to CaBsviile and thence back to Home in time for breakfast. There was quite a stir in the town that day, for it was foon noised around that one of our citixeiis was wanted and could not be found. A lieutenant in blue had a squad of Dutchmen moving stealthily around as if in search of somebody. At night they watched the the house from a hack alley, but saw no sign. For a month or more the in quisition was kept up, Hia wife and son and daughter and myself and wife exchanged significant glances when we met, but there was no Bign or conversa tion on that subject. In course of time these soldiers were withdrawn. Civil law was restored and one morning about sunrise my friend surprised his family by walking in to breakfast. Ad vices from Virginia told how the prose cutor had got into trouble acd left the country for bis country's good. Strange to say, the man who informed my friend about the wirrant was a negro a negro of mixed blood a middle man, who in those perilous and exciting times did his utmost to keep peace and good will between the races. . He was raised by the Berriens, of Savannah, and was highioned and well educated and of good principles. The provost marshal made a confidant of him, sup posing that he was on their Bide and frequently took his advice where there was a conlliet between the whites and the blacks. But for him I would my self have been sent a prisoner to Louis ville and been punished as mayor for permitting a confederate Hag to be dis played oue night at a play in the city hall. Those were the times that tried men's souls and 8oles. How old Father Time does mellow us down. That old flag can be displayed now at a tableau and give no offense. Now we can have confederate reunions and can build monuments to confederate heroes and even the north pays honor and tribute to our loyalty, and the blue and the gray fight side by side by side in de fense of our country. Time is good doctor, but be ia alow, awful slow. We fought four years, but it took longer than that to make peace. V e tough four months this time, but how long i will take to make peace no man can tell. Two thousand years ago a Latin poet wrote about a great conquerer and said he made a solitude and called peace, I reckon that is what the Span lards think of us. We destroyed thei navv and took all their islands and cal it jieace. But one thing iscertain: The electiois over and we will now have po litical peace. Of course, we have all felt excited and anxious aliout ourstate elec tions, but happily it is all over and no body feels aggrieved. We have a good governor and be has a good cabinet and our members of the legislature are un usually select and so our ship will sai on smooth waters unless old Satan doing like be did iu Job's day "going to ami fro in the earth and walking up and down in it." I wonder if he lsd ing that all the time pretty much. Bii.i, Aur. MuhIciU DlllTtK. Don't yell. Don't Bing through your no?e. Don't sing through your teeth. Don't keep time with your feet. Don't imagine that noise is music. Don't bend your book open back wards. Don't le afraid to open your mouth wide. Don't forget that singing is praising God. Don't look all around the room while singing. Don t try to sing louder than every body else. Don t crowd nor drag the time. Fol low the leader. Don't mix up singing with whisper ing, or anvthing else. Don t hold on to the last note after everybody else stops. Don t loose time in finding the place after it is announced. Don't keep your eyes riveted on the book. Watch the leader. Don't throw your singing book on the lloor. Be kind to it. Don't fail to sing with all your soul and a good, round voice. Don t look to ace whether others are singing, bing yourself. Don't strip or begin to eing in the middle of a sentence or verse. Don't forget to sing with tho spirit and tho understanding also. Don t forget that it is just aa bad to sing a line as to speak it. Don't "dog-ear or deface the singing book. It can't defend itself. Don't stick up your nose and refuse to sing because you don't like the iece. Don't try to sing praises to God with gum in your mouth-, much lesa tobacco-. Don I forget tnat re.il music comes from the heart and uot simply froth the lips. Don t try to m ike everybody else think that you are the best singer in the school. Don't forget to look happy when you sing. Sweet words and a aour face do not mix well. Dou't sing pieces simply because they are pretty, but for the appropriateness of the words. JJon t tail to make the words sung the sentiment of your heart while sing ing. It is mockery to sing praises with the mouth while tho heart is far away. North Carolina's Advance. Atlanta Journal. The progress of North Carolina as a mnufaeturiug state has been truly re markable. Only a few years ago Bhe was far out-classed by both Georgia and South Carolina in cotton manufactures; now she has both the greatest number of cotton mills and is the largest producer cotton goods among the Southern states. North Carolina is rich in water power, but no richer than Georgia, aud she produces nothing like so much cotton as Georgia. Her rapid advance in cotton manufactures ia therefore all tho more creditable to her. North Carolina baa also made much progress in woolen manufactures. The textile manufactures in that state are enterprising men and their success has encouraged the investment of capital in various industries. Now that North Carolina has thrrwn off the miserable misgovernment which has alllicted her for several years past, we may expict to see her advance even more rapidly in material development and prosperity. The atate ia very rich in natural resonrcea and wo are glad to see bo line a prospect of their develop ment. (iood for Twenty-five Year. HnlclKh Post . Colonel Thomas B. Keogh, a promi nent Republican of North Carolina, was in Washington City, says a dispatch from that place, on his way North on business. He is a former chairman of the North Carolina Republican State Committee, and whs also t one time secretary of the National Republican Committee. Speaking of the situation in the North State to a Carolina citizen, now residing here, he said : "First, the Democrats are in the sad dle, and they will keep their bxita in the stirrups for twenty-five years to come. "Second, my advice to the negroes is they they make money and keep out of polities. "Third, the Senatorshipin succession to Marion Butler, Populist, lies between Chairman F. M. Simmons, of the Dem ocratic State Committee and Julian S. Carr, the wealthy tobacconist, of Dur ham. Ransom ia not in the race." I'rewenre of M lud "I went down on my knees to Miss Sinks when I prop-wed to her." "How did she take it?" "She asked me not to move until she got her kodak." I'OPI LISTS HCAKI K IN NORTH CAROLINA. Cor. A tlatita Constitution. R.u.kioii, N. C, Nov. 27. As is well known, the i'opulist party in North Carolina has simply ceased to exist With the Republican leaders the ques tion is what has become of their party? Colonel Keogh, who ought to know, says the Democrats are in the saddle for twenty-five years. The Republi cans in not a few cases appear to think the elimination of the negro vote their only hope. This means that they fa vor a "lilly-white" Republican party. Senator I'ritchard favored that plan ten years ago. It was thought he still favored it, so your correspondent asked liim tl.o question. He Bays in reply that "the Republican party wants in its ranks all persona to whom the constitu tion guarantees the franchise." But other Republicans say that they will never vote for a negro or lor any party which puts a negro on its ticket. There is nn end to negro olhee holding in the State. The holding of ofhee, the desire lor it and the solidarity of his vote are the three things which have arrayed the white men against the negroes It was said directly after tho election that next August there would be a pop ular vote on disfranchisement of igno rant voters, but it now appears that there cannot bo a constitutional con vention or a popular vote before 1900 ends. Kx-Senator Jnrvis declares that no convention can be called until the people have sanctioned it and that their judgment cannot be taken before the general election in November, l'JOO; while on the other hand, should the legislature, at ila session which begins next January, propose any alteration in the constitution it cannot be passed upon by the people beforo the general election in l'JOO. This makes one thing quite clear and that is there will bo no constitutional amendment In stead, tho legislature will enact a care ful election law. This is the opinion f Democratic State Chairman F. M. Minmons. Ho said bo in response to a direct question. He gays he favora the election law plan. Ihe direct aim and purpose is to protect tho eastern and other counties in which the negroes ireponderato, from black domination. A county government law will still further carry out the plan. The Su premo Court has decided that the legis- ature can provide one kind of govern ment for one county and another for another county. For instance, for a negro county the legislature can elect magistrates and the latter can then elect county commissioners and other offi cers. Senator Butler before the elec tion acknowledged that this could be done. Tho Republican and Populist State ertivlrnren say they oonferrrdjaud agreed that it must and should be done. But the mass of the white voters did not believe the fusionists would do this. They knew the Democrats would. It explains the big vote. the Democratic papers are prompt in their expressions of thanks to the white Republicans and the Populists who at the white men s call came forward and made victory certain. One of the leading Republican papers, in fact, tho organ of the eastern Republi cans, puts the case very well indeed. It say a: "It was not in the full such a Demo cratic victory, for it is conceded that but lor the aid rendered by thousands of white Kopublicans all over the State, who felt that the time had come to teach tho negro oflice-soeker who dom inated conventions a salutary lesson, tho result would have been different." Senator Butler declared himself for a constitutional convention. That to the mind of tho average Democrat is reason enough for not having any con vention. Tho hatred of Butler in so great that it passes description. It ia only equaled by the hatred felt forGov cruor Russell. No men in all North Carolina are to-day more friendless than Butler and Russell and they are painfully awnre of it. Their only hope ; in retirement from politics. Strange things may happen in the next two years, but surely none so strange as their return to any sort of favor with any party. The sentiment is strong against the negro in politics; it is far stronger against his white advisers. Uusually alter a campaign there is oblivion ao far as things done during the campaign are concerned, but this time there is manifest a disposition to hold the lead ers of negroes to strict accountability and to punish frauds perpetrated dur ing the campaign. The Republicans posed as the parly of "ballot box purity," yet there is no telling how many frauds it perpetrated. Mitchell county is the stronghold of white Re publicanism. It is a striking com mentary that it is tho worst county in the State, and that though it is said that there have been within its borders over 150 murders since 18G5, there has not been a legal execution. At one precinct in Mitchell the election man agers were drunk on election day and did not count the ballots until the day following, and then the number was greater than the precinct registration. Governor Russell absolutely refuses to talk about the result of the election, of the riot at Wilmington (or rather the revolution there), or of the threat of Governor Tanner, of Illinois, in refus ing to allow negro laborers to enter that State. To all inquiries the governor replies that tho time has not come for him to talk. Wilmington "blazed the way" in regard to getting rid of negro office holders and of negro insolence. borne towns followed its lead. It was thought Newbern would do so, but so far all is quiet there, the whites making the expatriated Wilmington agitators move on. It now turns out that one of these was Manly, a brother of the Wil mington editor, and that this Manly is the fellow who was set upon tnd beaten in the poatoffice at Norfolk. Senator Butler has retired from the newspaper life, it is learned. He con-, tents himself now with attacking "mo nojiolies." He thinks this to be the issue in the next campaign. Ex-Senator Jarvis says the people of this State will, in 1100, be called on to pass upon great national questions. Senator I'ritchard will this week issue an ad dress to the Republican party. He will give his views on its future policy and will say lie believes it has a future. He knows full well that if the race issue is ever again made thousands of the best men of his party will again antag onize the negro. There is no little comment on the ac tion of the Republicans in coming for ward after the election and saying, as the organ of Piedmont, S. C, put it, that "the i:egro as a race has never benefited the Republican party." Thia is truly a "deathbed repentance." The president of the State association of Young Men's Republican Clubs cornea forward and says that the mass of the white people of the State have declared that the negro must be eliminated from politics in North Carolina, and that the Republicans are merely bowing to the popular will. For saying this he was rebuked by the Republican pelitician who manages that party's affairs in this end of North Carolina. There is yet the negro labor problem at Wilmington. Politically, there is now no trouble. The discharge of ne gro labor has been in progress for weeks and the demand is made that it be con tinued. White laborers have for years protested that negro labor made their own of less value. Then there are two tests at Wilmington, one made, the other being made. And scores of citi zens and towns are watching Wilming ton to see its methods of management. 1 he Populists, save a few stranded leaders, appear to be delighted that the Democrats, by their aid, carried the day in the State. They had the best ot all opportunities to get back in line, and they certainly availed themselves of it Public School Reforms. Jonesboro Progress., , . . .. Among other questi&ns of greater or less importance with which the next Legislature will have to deal is that of increasing the efficiency of our public schoola. The very first thing they wiil do Will be to repeal the present law which requires mixed school commit tees, and then enact a law giving each race the control of its own schools. The present law is unsatisfactory to , both races, and was instrumental, as rriuch as any one thing, in causing the recent overthrow of those who are re sponsible for its presence on the statute books of our State. Then they ought to consider means to pay better salaries to the teachers. There is no profession that requires so elaborate preparation and thorough training as teaching, that does not offer five fold greater inducement in the way -of remuneration. And so long as the remains so inadequate will the rate of teachers remain low. i In connection with this there, is an other reform that should receive atten tion from the next General Assembly. There should be some legislation re garding the discrimination against lady teachers in the salaries paid. To re fuse equal compensation to women who must have the same qualifications and perform the same duties as men, is vitally unjust Another question that is attracting attention now is whether attendance upon the public schools should be made compulsory. Both sides of this ques tion are espoused by some of the most prominent educators of the State. For our part we see no objection to it But the next Legislature will probably be the ablest body of men that ever met in Raleigh, and will doubtless be able to satisfactorily dispose of any question that may confront it. Elegiac Comment. "What do you think of that?" in-. quired Settler, as he called the atten tion of the tourist to a tombstone in scription. The tourist turned his eves as directed aad read: "Here lies the body of Samuel Proctor, Who lived aud died without doctor." "What do I think of it? he returned, after a brief interval of contemplation. "i think the greatest wonder is that he died at all." Lore at rint Sight. Friend So yours was a case of love at first sight? Mrs. Getthere Yes, indeed. I fell desperately in lovo with my dear hus- nanu tne moment i set eyes upon him. I remember it as distinctly as if it were yesterday. I was walking with papa on the beach at Long Branch, when suddenly papa stopped, and, pointing him out, said: "There, my dear, is a man worth ten millions." Concord Bu 7, IBS Population. Concord primes. Mr. C. Holshouaer recently com pleted a census of the town, and his work shows that we have a population of 7,156. The last census in 1896 gave us a little over 6,000. Our population consists of 5,348 white and 1,808 blacks. The total number of school children is 2,498, of which 1,989 are white and 509 colored. . K educed Ratea (or Christmas Holiday. All railroads in the State have agreed to sell tickets for the Christmas holidays oetween an points at a round tno rate a fare and a third. Students returning home for the holidays will be given the same rate, but their tickets will be lim ited to the day before the various school close and one day after they are opened. The North Carolina M-CicV-t Protestant conference, in se-i:,.n nj ; erty last week, has accepted ' to hold the next session with Fr!-i. church in Stanly county. Ti.e s Wednesday after the third S November, 1899.
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