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THE CAUGA JL NO Vol. Xf. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MAY 23. 1901, No 23 mum m m m a ARE "HUE THE FACTS? A FA KM Kit WHITES A LET TIM IN WHICH HE ASKS FUR EXPLANATIONS. SCORES THF LOOTERS 30UNDLY. WEMT BRAVELY TO CEATN. WHY PSIEST8 NEttttlAIIY. 04- - - ui nuw a i (plMi Tko WMrt I k Aataorttr olrea bj a Catholic IM raalaaaaeat to Which vine For Clerical CeJibec. , T1"' AtUnUCon.titution. Lou .,n eCourler.Joirnl erical CellUcy" was the sub- "In the four yean I served in the ject of Rev. J. A. Iteia's remark at army of northern Virginia "nald the the service of the ifrt old Cou federate, rJlOUEY FOR EDUCATION. And Tell What la IHaraaaffd (landrail Auioaf tbe Laboring People I'romleee Not Kept-Ha Wanta lare I'olltlra and J'ura' Ma. The Charlotte Observer, in Sun day'. edition printed the following communication: Owing to Henator McLaurin's change of front the family racket commences. 1 am now approaching my lifty-llrst birthday and never knew as mucii political independ ence. Ileing reared and now resid ing in a rural district, 1 am posted on Hentimeiit the ol'the laboring clans ofjieopU. 1 have always adhered strictly to lemocratic principles, notwithstanding liutler & Co. disor ganiiug our order, which wan in tended for a good purpoHe. The negro is now out of it, and unless there is Home Hutifactory explana tion concerning the doings of the last Iiegiiduture we can never line up our men again. I will give you a rt of what Is discussed generally among laboring jieople, and at all erws roads gather ings: They promised us to educate oar children. J nstead they appropriate! half a million for colleges, high In stitutions, etc. We are not able to board our children, consequently we ly tax and do not get a cent of that. Then for seven-tenths of the chil dreu, they give us the pitiful sum of $200,000, provided we iy one third, w hich we are not able to do. In case we were able, it would be too much like buying the cart and no horse to pull it. What account are hooks to Illustrate children with out an instructor? We have lots of large families that don't know 15 from the nearest crosH-rouds. We have one good old neighbor who claims he knows the alphattct as good as any one, but says they have such strange names he can't recollect them. There is another great stir about the lmeachment and the cost of $20,000 wo are to be taxed to pay. They claim it was simply a conspir acy of Mr. Craig's to get in the United States beuate. They are pledging themselves by all the gods and high heaven not to support any man who gains his political notorie ty at the expense of the tax-payers. The people are are not at all satis lied with creating so many new of fices after they pledged themselves to economize. Worse than all, the promoters of these new offices filled them themselves. Governor Aycock ia not adding any laurels to hla crown by ignoring all claims to a nice by anti-impeachment men. lion. J. A. Lockhart's claim for judgeship should have been favorably considered. He Is a pure, upright gentleman of the highest type. The time is nearing when the peo ple are going to call the man instead of the man calling the people. These political tricksters, gagging con ventions, making forcible nomina tions by scheming with money and other means will soon be a thing ot the past. We want pure politics and above all pure men. The Fed eral Court excused us for our past doings, and now our dealings are with our own color, and for Qod's sake, and for peace, let's have a fair fight. Unless there is something done the recent political blunders will disorganize and ruin our party, Mr. kl!tor, I am not a writer merely an illiterate farmer. If you see fit publish this; if not, file it and in 10 days after next general election refer to it and see if it is in accord with tbe sentiment of the voters of North Carolina. Farmer. Spencer, N.C., May 18, 1901. in a reminiscent mood. "I saw more men killed than I'd care to count. In the course of the war, three out of the four men who were tent mates with me were killed. Each one went down within ten feet of me, one with his bead torn away by a shell, the second with a mlnle ball that tore a great hole in his jugular vein and the third from an over-dose of bayonet. When we got at close quarter with the Yankees one afternoon at Seven I'lnes my command lost 68 per cent, in one battle, and as we usually came pretty near evening things up ith the other fellows I have been a witness at a pretty fair share of violent demises. 'In battle, after a man gets over his first scare at going into the line of fire, the brute in him usually makes him forget that he Is a cow ard. When he sees the fellow next to him fail, he sorter feels sorry and has a pretty strong desire to come to close quarters with the man that did it and let a little daylight Into him. Fighting as we had to, I got so that I could see a man killed in battle with as little worry as if he had been a partridge. But there is one incident that happened near the end of the war that keeps coming back to mem ory, and every time I think of it I wish I had been somewhere else on .the morning it happened. u ou know, near the close of the war the poor, half-starved devils got to deserting pretty frequently. It was war and there was but one way to remedy it a wooden croes, the deserter and squad. One morning I left my command and started over to talk to some old friends in a Mississippi regiment. I got about half of the dist ranee when I ran Into a little body of ltin, Two of them had their eyes blindfolded and their arms tied behind them. The first felow couldn't have been more than 25. He was tall, straight as an arrow, with dark, cuilintr brown hair, and his face was the the service of the Sacred Heart church yesterday evening. The speaker took for his text the first epistle of St. Paul to Corinth ians, 7:27: "He that Is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God," and showed in a most convincing manner the reason why Catholic priests are forbidden by their church to marry. Clerical celibacy," he said, "in the Catholic church is regarded by non-Catholics w ith feelings of both admiration and dislike. They can not or pretend not to be able to un derstand how a priest can lead a pure life outside the state of matri mony. Their idea Is that & good wife is a positive help to a minister; that she will make him better and more zealous than he would be with out her. St. Paul, however, it must be admitted by Bible Christians, is something of an authority on this subject, and he says: 'He that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife, and he is divided.' "No one can fail to see that an unmarried man is more absolutely free to attend to his work than one who has the care of a family, and also that he can afford to work for a smaller salary, so that a body of unmarried clergy can be supported with less demand on the money of the people than would be required If they were married. "The church does not assert that this practice is of divine precept or that jt is otherwise than a discipline of her own. And her reasons are, THE BEQUESTS OF A WEAL THY WOMAN FOR WAKE FOREST COLLEGE AND THE BAPTIST UNIVERSITY. S50.000 FOR GOOD INSTITUTICXS. The ThomaaviUe Orphanage Get fl.SOO -Tbe Woau'i Baptlet Mleatonar So ciety la tilvaa ai.OOO-Ketate Worth About S200.000. Mrs. Virginia B. Swepson, a wealthy lady of Raleigh, died at her home In the city on May 15th. Her estate was worth perhaps $200,000. Her last will and testament was filed in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court on last Friday, and was found to contain handsome be quests to some of the educational in stitutions in the state. The will was made in August, 1897. To Wake Forest College is given twenty-one shares of the pre ferred stock and twenty-one shares of the common stock, and $4,000 (par value) of bonds of the Southern Railway Company; also $2,000 (par value) North Carolina Railway Co. stock, and $5,000 (par value) of Vir ginia Cotton mill bonds and a $3,500 note. The bonds and stocks given to Wake Forest College are worth on the markets $18,432 as follows: Twenty-one shares, preferred stock, Southern Railway, $1,701. Two shares, common stock, South- first.- that, thv mtorht. uprvn ftnri the flrlntr with unriividaH haartaanH Hhortv f ern Railway, $567 " I " - I tt u i ,ln , action, rebuke vice where it Is to be rebuked without cousidering if the persons aimed at are rich or poor and if his income Is to suffer by his action. Second, that being called to the altar, they should lead a higher life, that of sacrifice, which is holier than that of marriage. The modern pnest, just as the ancient, follows in the footsteps of John, the beloved disciple of our Lord, He devotes himself to a nobler cause than the of handsomest and the saddest I ever amassing of worldly goods that his family may live in comfort. His bride is the church, the kindly mother of the poor, who are his family. A man who takes such obligations knowingly and with comprehension of their beauty and grandeur will not lightly renounce saw. lie was walking quietly and steady. I couldn't see his eyes, but not a muscle of his face was twitch ing, and his feet were planted fairly and squarely on the ground. I no ticed that he wore the uniform of a captain. "The second fellow had . to be held up by four men. Every few steps ho would fall to the ground perfectly limp and, it seemed, life less. When the men would get him up he would scream and cry like a scared child. He was a great, big, raw-boned North Carolinian, and his terror would have been dis gusting if it hadn't been so pitiable. "I followed the little procession for a hundred yards to where the line of crosses stood. The captain was to be shot first. As they placed him with his back to the cross he said: 4Men, you know me. I've led you in thirty fights, and you've never seen me shy from a gun muz zle yet, have you? I just want you to take this bandage off my eyes, and as long as I've got to die let me die like a man. I've given you the order to fire many a time, and I'd like to give my last order, if you'll let me.' The lieutenant hesitated, and then he said: 'Jack, I'll do it, if I get shot for it.' They unbound his eyes. He straightened himself for a minute, took a long look all about him, and then facing his men said in as steady a voice as I ever listened to: Readyl Aim! Fire!' "They fired, and he pitched straight forward his full length, dead before he struck the ground. Then they tried to bind the Tar Heel to the cross, but he writhed and moaned and twisted away from it like a snake with broken back. They gave it up, and he was shot while crawling along on the ground, screaming out prayers for mercy. "I heard afterward that the cap- tain,hearing that his old mother was dying, had asked leave to go to his worth bonds Southern Railway, $4,464. Two thousand dollars worth stock, N. C. R. R., $3,200. Five thousand dollars worth Vir ginia Mill Bonds, $5,000. A note, $3,500. Total, $18,432. The Baptist Female University is given $2,500 in cash and three shares of the residue of the estate. The attorney for the executor, says that a ninth would be from $6,000 to $10,000, and he thought a safe estimate was $7,500, which would make three ninths $22,500. Add to that the $2,500 in cash, and the gift to the Baptist Female University is $25,000. Other bequests in the will are as follows: To the Thomasville Orphanage is I Tr,n In OTsnn.. .v1 CI AAA In them, and I dare to assert that ifT , UUUUUi the pope of to-day would grant liberty to his clergy to marry, not ten out of 10,000 would avail them selves of this permission, remember ing the words of St. Paul to Tim othy 2:24: "No man, being a sol dier of God, entangleth himself with worldly business that he may please him to whom he had engaged him self." To the Woman's Missionary Boci ety (Baptist) is given $1,000 in bonds To the Swepsonville Church is given $2,000 in bonds. The balance of the estate, after deducting some small gifts, is divi ded among a large number of Mrs. Swepson's kinspeople. ctSFtAcsaisieuT kssits. UaheaHhjr le al Maaiatetate. Political fttayattoa aad difference Wan Meeel Charlotte Obeenrer. Birmingham, Ala., held a muni cipal election last Monday. There was only one ticket In the field, that of coarse democratic, and out of a total of 8,000 votes in the city only 261 were polled. This does not in dicate the highest state of political healthfulneaa. It is not beat for politics to stagnate In a community or state, and this Is one of the evil that has come of negro disfranchi nient in the South. In a recent publication we see the statement that in last November's election in Mississippi out of a voting strength of 320,000 only 59,000 votes were cast, and in the town of Kudora, where a mayor, marshal, treasurer and four aldermen were to be elect ed, there were eight voters, seven of whom were candidates. In Louis iana In November there were 61,000 votes and in South Carolina 50,000. This is the voting strength, or less, of the average congressional district of the ounty. It Is no wonder that the democratic papers of South Carolina were not long ago crying out for a "respectable" Republican party in that state. We trust that our North Carolina politics will not be taken with this dry rot as the result of negro dis franchisement. It is not likely to be, either, for there is a considerable white republican element in this state and in the west, at least, it will continue to infuse sonie Interest in public affairs. Besides there is a spirit of aggressive independence among the North Carolina democrats which does not obtain among those of any other Southern state, from and fact there is reason for the belief that there will continue to be a good deal of life in our politics. There may be, doubtless will be, renewed efforts to hobble the anti-machine element by the legalized primary or some such scheme, but in that case there will be an exodus, due to the spirit of aggressive independence among North Carolina democrats above refurred to, and in this case political contests will go on with in creasing merriment. BUSINESS OR PRAYER. DR. KILGO OF TRINITY DE CLARES THAT 0I WILL GET INTO CHINA THROUGH THE BUSINESS SPIRIT. MEN OF BIOAO IDEAS HEEDED. Indepeetfaac of 1 kocfct Ilaaapaeed-Bjr Both Political noealaaUoeal laBnacw -aad Soriaty Have Ttaaed Me llaa Km Ibarra tic STtiu Asa iLesna. SAYS HUSBAND SHOULD HANC. Wife Refnaes to Sign Petition to Have Uia Sentence Commuted. BUILDING BATTLESHIPS. Which May be Blown np With a Quart of Exploeivea. Central Farmer. Still the expense of building big battle ships goes on without ceasing, though it is proven with all certain Another "Nigger Yeller." John B. Cleveland, of Spartan burg, a prominent cotton man, said at Charleston the other day that the people of his section, where the mills flourished, will break away from the old Democratic party when the negro question is eliminated. Ex Heaven and earth 1 Haven't they ty that ten years hence not one of &ot rid of "negro domination" in the big ships will be worth the room she occupies on the dark, blue sea. With submarine boats which can, without showing a sign, approach within striking distance of a floating fortress; with balloons which may be guided in any direction, and with explosives, a quart of which will split the biggest ship asunder, what folly can be ranker than to wring the pockets of the taxpayers for money to build those floating ceme teries. Truly Congress, which ought to be made up of men of wisdom, can hardly be classed higher than a home for feeble-minded when it permits such senseless and useless extravagance. South Carolina yet ? They disfran chised the negro years ago and he has long since ceased to be a voter. We thought they had "white su premacy" in its purity down there. If the "negro question" has not yet been "eliminated" when will it be? What is the hope of its elimination? Charlotte Observer. Be- DONT KNOW EACH OTHER. North and South Have Been Misrepre sented by Schemera. Mr. Robert O. Offden. of Phila- home, which was only twelve miles delphia, was the moving spirit of to Gatesville, twenty miles away away, we neeaea every man tnen, th ftdiieational conference which Eloped in Her Night Gown Boy a hind Loved Fun. Lynchburg Adyance. Tuesday 15-year-old Lucy Beale eluded a watchman stationed by her father, escaped through a window in stocking feet and joined her lov er, William Biddle, with whom she eloped to Gatesville, N. C. After jumping from a window she went to James Lewis' home a mile away, where Harvey Biddle, the bridegroom's brother, had taken her clothes. She dressed while driving Terra Alta, W. Va., Special, 12th, to Washington Post. One morning last November David A. Nine was sitting in his barn, with a hired man, husking corn, when J. Wesley Beatty, the husband of Nine's sister, came up with a shot gun and shot Nine dead. The men were both wealthy, about 65 years old, and had been fast friends till Nine had Beatty's son fined for stealing cider. Beatty es caped, but 10 days later surrender ed, was tried, and condemned to die. He is now at Moundsville awaiting execution. Friends of Beatty circulated a petition to the Governor for sent ence to life imprisonment. Friends of the dead man circulated a counter-petition, asking that the law take its course. Surprise was expressed when Mrs. Beatty refused to sign the first petition, but it was increas ed when she signed the second. Owing to criticism of her act, Mrs. Beatty yesterday gave out a public statement. She says her husband has always possessed a violent temper; that on mare than one occasion he had struck her, and that but for bis threats to murder her she would have separated from him twenty years ago. She says he had murder in his heart against every one who offended him, and that death is his just desert. She says her brother, who was killed, was a kind-hearted, generous man, who had done much for Beatty, and but for him Beatty would have been in trouble long since. She has no regrets. In an interview a few days ago Beatty said in his cell at Mounds ville that his wife had expected him to kill Nine and had driven him to do it. Greensboro, N. C, May 17. I.ai night Rev. Dr. John C. Kilgo ad dressed a meeting in thi city of a few friends of Trinity College and Greensboro Female College. Ten years ago. Dr. Kilgo said, Trinity had an endowment of 250; today it is $333,750. Ten years ago there were but ten buildings. There are now twenty-one, and preperations are being made to erect a library building at a cost of $1,000. During the pat decade the faculty has been increased from nine to twenty-nine men, of which nineteen were trained at Trinity. This wan a record that no other institution in the South could show. There are now 280 students in the college and high school. In speaking of the trials and diffi culties that had beset the college, Dr. Kilgo said he thanked God that Trinity had some enemies. When certain men realized that they could no longer use the college as a politi cal football and to advance their sel fish ends, their wrath boiled and they set about to cut the throats of the men who had brought about the change. He said one great drawback to Southern colleges had been an at mosphere of provincialism surround ing the institutions, making it din cult to train men fitted for the re sponsibilities of broad and aggress ive leadership. If a spirit of inde pendence began to assert itself in a State institution, the wrath of a dominant political party miht be invoked and a legislature stood rea dy to threaten the withdrawal of an appropriation. If an instructor stood up for the truth as he saw it and ad vanced a new idea, he had his mouth closed, and young citizens sent to the college for instruction had set before them an example of free speech suppressed. The same condi tions have existed in the denomina tional institutions, and out of this atmosphere the world, the church and society have gotten timid men. Sieaking of the poverty with which church colleges had been af flicted, Dr. Kilgo said the worst form of tyranny in the worid was the tyranny of dollars, whether it be a lack of them or a multiplication of them. Speaking of the influence of commerce on life, he said: "The broadest spirit in this country today is the business spirit; not the relig ious or political spirit. Civilization is now engaged in a great fight for supremacy in the celestial empire tell you that God will go into China through the cotton factory, the rail road and the telegraph quicker than through the prayer meeting." Dr. Kilgo said it took him eight een months to induce Mr. Washing ton Duke to do anything for Trinity College. He found that the only idea with which Mr. Duke had any sympathy was the idea of a f see in stitution, an institution so free that a student might hold to any relig ion or political" belief he saw fit, so long as he believed what he did well enough to tolerate the belief of oth ers. Mr. Duke wished to assist in freeing the fettered thought and spirit of the Sonthern manhood, and he had given Trinity College more than $500,000. Car K to AlkMf. week th tnMLy- ol th atrtvtrar tlnm of Albany vraloai rtrtke. They demanded pay at tb rat of twenty mil r hoar. Tli nmipanlra rrr Jow to rva, and the mmlt a a ) cart tea "IU up" of th car for on day. Th txutnirav, a UMial, nought to - duct bulnai with urw ur non-union mjJoywis and thru ftvoiiM riot Uvnt od. If rrU are true, lndmoaIum rrtgnrd Miprrme for tue days. The city had to I put under martial law. The "pcwwdiugV of a lay arr rvjrted by telegram aa follow a: "Thrw turn fatally wuutxlM. huudmla uf other with hruart head and cut tanv; rant running tuerrly as arwnabs w ith ihj lrvms the city under martial ruW with it clllr-enit In a frviiiy uf exetteim-ut. and the city aulhorilit-w and h-adrr of the -trlkent trylug to g-t tlx rail way company to route to an amica ble settlement, waft th altualloit when ilarknew put an end to the Htrife growing cut of the ntrvrt-tar ft r ike to-night. Tbiwe fatally uounded an- Wil liam WaUh, a njt-rchaut, and li'my Smith, a merchant, both idiot by National Guardsmen, and William Mai shall, a non union tuuturmin, whM skull la fractured. Neither of the men had Uo guilty of any ofTenoc, but wen caught in a crowd, wuiv lueuiber of which had Moned the Guanhim-u, and by mbcliaort were hit. The disturbance was not a serious one, and "murder" is the title applied by Inflamed citizen to the shooting. The Ciuardsmau neemed to have but followed their duty aa nuldler, aft they were under order to ho't, atwaulted. THOUSANDS OK STRIKE. MACHINISTS ALUiYKKTHK OH'XTUY I-IY IMIWN TIIEIK TiHiLS AMI WAIT. f 01 A OOtt DAT Cf ItSf K?3t. m .Ha ja nrii II Mafcla ! la aanaa rw c tm n, -trw to --lit . If THE TOUR ABAHD0RE0. Ta Iraidea Cat skort Ilia tlaoatal Trlp-Mra, McKtaloy'a lUaaaa About the first of May President McKiuley, Mrs. McKlniey, and niemlers of the cabinet started ou a grand tour of the country, intend ing to be gone seven weeka, and to travel about twelve thousand mile. No other President ever undertook so extensive a trip while in office, and no President lias ever met with such receptions aad ovations as have been given him. But in California lat week Mm. McKlniey became seriously 111, and it was thought at one time tdie could not poHrtible recover. Hope had been practically abandoned. On lastThura day morning she sank rapidly, and it was feared she would die before restoratives could lie administered, but she reionded to the owerful heart stimulants that were given to her, and during the day Improved to such an extent that hojie of her recovery, slight though it was, re vived. The new treatment for low vitality, salt injection into the vein. was administered and the responded to the treatment. Since then she has grown much better, but her Hlnet is of such a nature that the President has atn- doncd the contemplated tour, and will return to Washington by hhortest route as soon as Mrs. Kinley can be moved. COLD HUSBAHDS ARD WIVES. LITERARY NOTKS. ( Wliere lie Was Really Hit. During a recent case a lawyer of the bullying type wasexaminjngthe prosecutor, who charged the defend ant with assault and battery. Lawyer: Where did the defend ant strike you?" Witness: "He struck me on the bridge lawyer (sharply interrupting): "How is that? You said a while ago that he struek you on the bal cony." Witness: "So he did, sir. I'm telling you no lie." Lawyer: "Did he strike you more than once?" Witness: "Only once, sir, and I was satisfied with that." lawyer: "How, then, could he strike you on the bridge and on the balcony at the same time, and with one blow?" Witness: "He did it. anyhow. sir." Magistrate (Interrupting): "On wnai Daiconyv" Witness: "The balcony of the hotel, your worship." Magistrate: "But on what bridee? Witness: "The bridge of my nose, sir. Had the gentleman waited, I'd ha told him myself." and the permit was refused. He siippea away, dui Dei ore negot oacK Grant made one of his attacks on our lines. The captain's company went into action for the first time without him at the head of it. He returned for a court-martial. De serting had become too common for any excuse to be taken for it, and crude and prejudiced opinions. The he was ordered to be shot the next best people of the North and South morning. By some chance a detail d0 not know each other. The two of his own company was selected aections have been too much reore- for the work. By another chance I sented by persons who had merely nappenea 10 see mm snot, x wisn x i private ends to serve. There may hadn't." Take an uneducated American and a a no win steal a horse; educate him ana ne will steal a railroad Her bert Spencer, was held in Winston-Salem some weeks ago, and since his return home he has written a letter to the Gov ernor which he says: "In this period of development concerning popular education, espe cially in the Southern country, we must expect the expression of many Water Tranaporatlon Half That of Rail road Lines. Washington, May 14. W. L. Galliaudue, president of the Old Dominion Steamship Line, testified them to tneir utm06t during little fragment of active life that re- have been men, like myself, who were disposed to live too much in the past. I hope, that, so far an I am concerned, I have faced to the front with hope and confidence in the fu ture, and although my opportunities for usefulness are limited, I mean to before the industrial commission to day concerning coastwise transporta tion. He said that as generally reckoned the cost of water transpro- tation Is about half that of the rail roads. He explained the fact that mains to me. Found Gold in Horse's Foot. Manteo, N. C. A unique occur-1 of my trousers." to make the elopers believe the father was in pursuit. A magistrate was gotten out of bed and performed the cere mony at 2:30 a. m. How he Succeeded. The fact that success is mainly due to the hard work has been ex pressed in many different ways, but one of the best was that recently employed by a very successful com mercial traveler. He was talking with a companion, a rather lazy fellow, when the latter exclaimed: "I declare. Jack, I don't under stand why you always succeed in selling more goods than I do." "I'll tell you why it is," replied Jack; "but," he added, "it's a trade secret, and you mustn't tell it to everybody." "Of course I woundn't do such a thing!" was the answer. "Well, then," said Jack, impres sively, "I succeed because, when I'm doing business, I wear out the soles of my shoes more than the seat Calamet NORTH CAROLINA PROGRESS. K" Romance of tbe Great Wheat Corner Wheat speculation, love and busi ness are the motives of a great serial story by Merwin-Webster, authors of The Short Line War, which will be begun in The Saturday Evening Post of May 25 Ex-President Cleveland will con tribute to the following issue (June 1 ) an able paper on the The Waste of Public Money. In this article Mr. Cleveland sounds 'a warning Oen. Cox Telle of It in Waahtarton The Talk About tbe Negro Mb at be Abandoned Washington Post. "I never saw so much life and spirit in North Carolina as at pre sent," said General William R. Cox, of that State, former Secretary of I note asainst National extravagance the United States Senate, at the I and the criminally reckless expend! Shoreham. "We are moving for-1 ture of public money. ward wonderfully.. At the narrows of the Dan River it is proposed to build three dams that will cost a million dollars, and I have heard it said that they will have an electric power plant there to Niagara Falls. "The negro was never the domi nant issue in North Carolina, in spite of all the hurrah, but he has been a very aggressive issue. Now he is eliminated from politics, and there is a marked change in our Sent Jo nee Haapina Oplniona Coneeralaa Certain Kind a of Married People. "A man who will neglect his wife deserves to be strung up in a court house and covered with tcandal. A woman who will neglect her hus band fur anything or anybody de serves all the scandal hhe get. I pity a warm hearted, genial man who has married a cold-blooded wo man. I have shaken bands with a few cold-blooded women, and I had as soon shake a dead flnhV tall. And a warm hearted loving wife with an old husband as cold as a dog' none! I had rather be every old maid In Georgia than the wife of a tomb stone. I believe In a man loving his wife and showing her that he loves ber and telling loves her. Some men their wives once in three months. I believe every man ought to go home every day and put his arm around his wife and kiss her and tell ber that she Is the dearest, best, pretti est, sweetest thing In the world. Of course, some fellows would have to tell a lie to say it, but that sort of a lie is harmless and wholesome." Organic! let- U tutVinr, eu ef fort IhU Wt-.-k Uiallffhtly WaaaiO lie lurdfi. lUslwrrn f.ty mmmdI and fifty thousand uteiilnlu, tl ia eluiaUd, v,utrt a trik la dlf frnttt rte of Hie rouutry Uat Muu day aa a recall of the rt-fW! 4 raj iJojrrrs to grant thrlr tWiaoda nr a nil hour working day with tm hour e llrorta from all or Ih country loer that umo hat (ult ork, althJKh thrr hat tri many coumMdou on the )rt of In dividual Mn4ojrr. In New York and xlrlolty b. tueen 2,.''t and a.ooo mt-u rr calM out lat Monday. AuuHig Urn lio w hern tlu tlrtuaud of the tuarhinUlN Werw refuel and tle inn quit arw th Urj-r manufartur Ingroiiorrn in all lio of iiirrhau Uin. The Hoe Prlutlug Prr Comioy wa w -tiling to cooord 11m demand of the nitti fur a nine hour day, hut wihl to atmaW an old trimnrol which waa made three ytwre ago, whereby the com any tiouod lllf to employ only union n-n. Th men would not agree to tbla and went on a atrike tht morning. Among tbe big firm that have rooredM the tuen'a drtuando, r which had already granted th mrci the nine hour day, are tlte WraUru I.I-lrlc Company and Ue Wextlug houiea Klevtrlc Vuiaoy. TIm General Klwtrlc Comjany f rVhe neclady, liaa roiwrded It tnen .'.. houm work with wlxty hour y per Week. Thin ha been agroxl to for the prom-ut and until a final agreement In readied. The number of men out on the Mrlke In various cltli la given: At Han Franrlan 2,.r00, Philadelphia Cincin nati 2,r00, KanaaaClty Ma, Chica go, Milwaukee, IndlanajlU, Dun kirk, N. V., Schenectady, lUltlmorw, Itctroit, Richmond 1,000 each. Cleveland 1,200, York, la., 2,0O0, Vllkeberre, Pa., l.Jion, Scran too. Pa., 5,000, Toledo, Ohio, GOO, Hart ford, Conn., too. New Haven, 100, Wilmington, 11., Sin, PltUburg, Pa., 100, Trenton, N. J ir4, lUy City, Mich., 000, Norfolk, Va,8oi. Atlanta and Meouu, OaM loo, Peter tHirg, Va., 2o. Thin in atttrikcof inu hini.Uonly, and involve about one third of all there are In the country. The other two third mainly hav miuM tba conuwdona they wantl in the mat ter of nine bourn a day. Other labor union are w atching the otrike with My&iithy, and will probably aid the rnachiubta, If nw sary, A movement ia on foot under which the carpenter uniorw all over the country will atrike for a nine hour day on May 30th, Jut a tl machiniaU did on May ITOth Preaident 0'Connll, on hehalfof the htrikeni made thl atatement: "We are demanding a nine hour day universally throughout tba trade, with an Increaw of wag KufBcertt to overcome tbe Iom of tle hour In time; regulation of the ap prenlieehhip aystem in arr-ordanre with the nu tuber of Journey ntea machlni-ta employed, and the num ber that thai I be employed; agree ments aa to arbitration of all dis pute that may arie In tbe future; the right of the machlnUta to be represented by a committee; and agreement that there shall tie ab- ber that he wilutely no discrimination against don't kiss I niachlnlftn because of their member ship in the anion. the Me sas, i oovooo C3TTCS C3CX CSS PAST. AUrnXaaatrafHUli ladede t'uat I aa a Ti Coteeebia. W, C. Boawawvflle Orange, (ia. Poo a. Ala. i Sent New York, May 14. Official an nouncement was made to-day of the formation of a company which will acquire the larger cotton dock man ufacturing concerns of the country. Tbe new company will be known aa tbe United States Cotton Duck Cor- Fla The work of I portion, and will be organlxxl un der the lawsof New Jersey. It will have an authorised capital of $25,- 000.000 of 6 per cent, cumulative LABORERS FLOCK TO JACKSCaVlLU However. No Work for Oat- eklre-S106.722.7S So Far Received by the BeU-f Aeeociacioev. Jacksonville, the relief association continues to UOTT CREATES A STIR. a differential granted in favor of all rence is reported from Roanoke water transportation as aeainst rail Island. The story goes that one of transportation between New York the resident citizens, Mr. Charles and Richmond, while none is grant- Meekins, recently bought a horse in I Thirty Merchanta indicted for Failure ed between New York and Norfolk. Elizabeth City and after bringing it w bv savin? that the apparent dis- home and using it for some time Winston-Salem, N. C, May 16. crimination Is due to Norfolk's had occasion to removesome "caked" Solicitor Mott, of the Superior court, nroTtmUv to New York. There is dirt from the hollow of the horse's has created a stir here by having no actual competition between the foot, when to his surprise he found thirty merchants indicted for failing coast steamship lines and between a ten dollar gold coin imbedded in I to make returns of purchases for tax , those lines and the railroad lines. . the accumulated dirt. Ution. .. ' - i . . - storms. In Everybody's Magazine Eugene P. Lyle describes the pro cess of shooting away hail storms by means of large cannon as utilized in southern France and Lombardy, where hitherto these visitations must learn a new lesson. They could no longer go on the stump and talk about the negro. They must study economical questions and be prepared to discuss them." General Cox added that In spite of the activity of our ia. ixa, z j. xx mw a . a agriculturalists m ueviaiug ujeuuuu-1 move moothly. An address was cal protections against natural cat- o the oeoDle of Jacksonville. rival that at amJtie8Lthe farme dt v'inef"? calling on them to work with unity preferred stock and 125,000,000 of isu oi xuxopo uiwu y- m tne restoration or me cuy, sxaiing i common stock. Tbe total Issue of vice against the ravages oi nail that the demands on the relief asso-1 r. rr rpnt mnaM - - aT - ar ciation's resources will be heavy and I wm be fie. 100.000. which includes that they must be husbanded and I provided for the exchange of urging unemployed worklngmen to I both hwies of the Mount Vernoo- apply for employment, first with j Woodberry Cotton Duck Company private parties and if unsraeasrm, then to tbe labor bureau of the asso- Annovance is caused by I and expensive. The article is ex-1 boring men flocking in from other ceedlngly interesting and is folly I cities, seeking work. This Is in all Illustrated with photographs show- caaeH refused by the association, ing the form of artillery used. work being reserved for needy citi sens of the city. r tVT have proved Immensely destructive I nation town elections. I told some of the! : , . aauon. young Democratic orators that they and $10,000,000 common stock, making a total of $26,100,000. Arrested. After 28 Y Jackson, Mich-, May 17 .Sheriff Goodfellew. of Coleman, Texas, ar rested A. P. Brady, a Jackson mer- - - . . I A. A M I , , i -i. mJt There is a necnliar form of aeera- Three car-loads or mattresses, one cntmwamj ior w"""1 he heard I vation to stout ladies In noticing the I carload of cots and one carload of I umxCciem ZT isnay little of the Populists in North Caro-1 sylph-like proportions of fon mUaneous ama were -f--1 rZTZ Una these days, and stated his ap- plate women as usually shown in looay irom m w 71JT eTT7nv Wv V? i i i.i . 4 a.m. ,MiHnra tk0 TfeitnA. of onmmeroa and Merchants Asso-1 witnesses are all dead ana a eonvio- factor in making North Carolina ator for June devotes an entire elation. The total cash fimd so far tion Is not .T?6 one of thefarmost States in the artieleto sketching and describing! received by the relief association is to do and has a wlft and fivetidld- TJnion. styles for stout women. $10-722.76. . - irenhere.