VOL. XXVII.
RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 19 O 9.
No. 32
EDITORIAL BRIEFS
Strange that people never had pel
lagra or the hook worm until the
past few years.
Dr. Elliott hag discovered a new
religion. What we need la an awak
ening to the old religion.
Why don't the Democratic poli
ticians give us a downward revision
of the tax rate in this State?
Mr. Bryan has announced that he
will not be a candidate for Presi
dent not on the prohibition ticket.
Flying machines should be very
j.-pular with the Democratic politi
cians, as they are usually up in the
air.
Even if some of the Democratic
papers do not like the tariff that is
no excuse for misrepresenting it to
their readers.
If we did not have any better re-1
e '
:OrU on tne tarin question man Uie
tion the subject
An exchange wants to know what
has become of all our great men. At
I
m a "1 "1 1 I
last accounts x-uovernor uienn was
in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Wonder if any Republican would
be appointed census supervisor In
l
any of
vT-.vin citato f tho
111C kUl U KbCV IV'tJ A . bUW
Democratic politicians had the ap
pointing power?
A colored woman died in Lexing
ton, Kentucky, Saturday, after eat
ing five watermelons. Since the old
. , . . .
she died happy.
ine mocKing Dira nas aDout stop-
ped singing in North Carolina, but
you can frequently hear the sound of
tha r,ictri even nnitor npmn(r3tin
. 1 - f I
i ne ueiuocrais ciaiui iuj wu, xu-
troduce a model tariff bill if they
ever get in power again. Do they J
mpan that thev would re-enact the
Wilson-Gorman bill?
poor house in Pender County. The
prosperity wave has struck Pender I
and if she is appreciative, will go
uantunan nt Hmo
disease. Pellagra, causes insanity in
some cases. That's a tip for the de-
fense in the next prominent murder
case to be tried in this State.
Now that they have settled the
course of the automobile highway
through this State, let the enthusi
asts turn their efforts toward secur-
ing gooa roaas ior tne iarmers.
A New York undertaker finds fault
with the new tariff bill. He probably
has cause for complaint as people
will not want to die so long as they
can enjoy Republican prosperity.
How are they going to collect the
tariff duty on airships when they be
gin to fly into America from for
vsrn rniintripciT Will TTnolft Sam
, i
keep the custom house up in the air
to catch the high flyers?
Doubtless the law appears uneven I
to some of the offenders. In Golds-
boro the authorities bound a negro
over to court for raising a dollar bill, I
while in Raleigh, they send them to
jail because they can't raise one.
An exchange says that the reason
the Democratic politicians will not
n r0r,o0 lnh tr, rtQlT,
States is because they might pad the
returns. It is up to the Democratic
politicians to show they have no such
record if they can.
The Democratic politicians
now
say that if they can get control of
the National Government that they
will introduce a model tariff bill. I
Why didn't thev intrnw cr-h n
measure when- the subject was be-
luie egress tms summer. They
could have at least shown the public
what hey considered a mortal hm
Some specialist has counted them.
and has discovered six million and
six hundred thousand bacteria on an
ordinary house fly. We want some of
the Democratic politicians who have
figured out just when and why we
win uaye anotner panic to now take
this specialist's statement as a basis
and figure out just how many bac -
teria there are on all the flies In the
T,tv0rB it .
ployment for their time and talents.
ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY.
An Interesting and Intensely Pathetic
Story From Real Life, the Scenes
of Which Are Laid In Raleigh.
Henderson Gold Leaf.
The following intensely interesting
and pathetic story which wag pre
sumably written by a former Raleigh
newspaper man, now on the editorial
staff of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot,
and recently published in that paper,
will be read with interest by many
who are familiar with the circum
stances detailed:
In Oakwood Cemetery, at Raleigh,
N. C, stands a monument around
which lingers a romance , that links
together Pennsylvania and North
Carolina, Philadelphia and Raleigh,
Anglo-Saxon and Cherokee Indian.
Some years ago William Sloan, an
architect from Philadelphia, went to
Raleigh to design various public
buildings, and with him went as a
young man, Albert B. Bauer, one of
ni8 draughtsmen. At the same time
there was at the Oxford Orphanage
a Cherokee Indian girl, little Rachel
whose Cherokee name was "Unka,"
which means the White Bear. She
Virl 1nl lior mrktViOw at a vorv ao rlv
. r , . ,
aee. and her father, who was Dromi-
npnt In hU RpnHrTi sis n Masnn HiArt
while' she was quite young. She was
. . . . . ... . .
lateen unaer me protecting wing 01
the Masons and sent to their Orphan-
age, where she was carefully trained
onrl lot ay rrraTt t trv TOalofo-ti o a nrivota
B u ' " : & v
secretary to one of the leading Ma-
QQn Qf tQe gtate when SQe &nd
" -
Bauer met, they fell in love, and
neither being aware that the State
haw forbids the Intermarriage of
Cherokees and whites, they were
married.
Immediately they went to Phila
delphia on their honeymoon and re
mained there for seme time. They
were on the point of returning to
the State when they discovered that
they had unwittingly violated the
law and thev decided to remain in
rnuaaeipnia until some sort 01 an
merous friends took immediate steps
to secure the passage of a special act
legalizing their marriage. This was
done unanimously and soon after
they returned to Raleigh and made
their home
Thev DrosDered and surely no neo-
- -
I vfiara matprnitv fame, with fatal re
&nd then tne sorrowIng hu3.
band laid mother and babe in their
last sleep on one of the slopes of the
cemetery. In a most picturesque spot
I with etatolv nalra onH prnnofii 1 maer-
" I.- f
noua. sianuing near, uvtjr me grave
nt t Vi o wnman Yta had tnHtr1 Vio
raised a monument of his own de-
slgn It ls of brownstone, inlaid
with marble, and hearts, crosses and
inverted torches are emblems on the
various sides. It Is surrounded by
an eiquisiue uim uixs ui lue
l Enhesus. This was at once the work
and the gift of a Philadeiphia friend
of Bauer, himself an artist of much
ability. Within the pillared portico
of this stately structure, in the door
way, there is the photograph on por
celian of Bauer's lost love, the Cher
okee bride.
In letters of gold in a white mar
ble tablet in the brownstone is the
following Inscription:
"RACHEL BLYTH.
Wife of A. G. Bauer,
Died "January 0th, 1897,
Aged 26 Years,"
"True Worth is Being, Not Seeming."
At the foot of the grave, also in
golden letters, deeply cut in white
marble, are these words:
"The only amaranthine flower on
earth is virtue; the only lasting treas
ure truth."
I XT A t 1 . 1 V
upon a gumeu piate Deneatn tne
pnotograpll of Mrs: Bauer, which is
set in the snowy marble and as dis
tinct as if it were made yesterday, is
a tablet of gold on which is engraved
I l ii t
ia sraceiui script tnese lines irom
"In thy dark eyes splendor,
Where the warm light used to
dwell.
Weary looks, yet tender,
Speak their last farewell."
After this Bauer prospered and he
was m request tar and near, but one
Sunday morning, not responding to
a knock on his bed-room door, it was
forced, and there in his well-ordered
room, lying in bed undressed, in his
left nand a DOrtraIt of nls dead Dride
ana in nis rignt a revolver, ne lay in
his last slppn Tipath hart rnirp manv
. . .
of the nieht
nours peiore, m tne earner watcnes
There was merely a
line to say that he wished no longer
to live and that death had no terrors
r him, but only charm.
0akwoo and a was in
U place he had specifically reserved
and there beside his lost love he was
hurled away until the "Great Awak-
ening." On each anniversary of the
birthday of the Indian bride tender
hands lav upon her grave and his
the flowers she so loved hyacinths
Monument at Kings Mountain.
The.- Kings Mountain monument
will Yifk linvolloil nrt Ontntuir 7th
President Taft, the Governors of Ten
j nessee, North and South Carolina
1 and othe prominent men, have
agreed to be . present. The cost of
the monument was thirty thousand
dollars and it stands eighty-seven
I feet high. Shelby Aurora.
BILKINS IN JAVA
All Kinds of Fruit Known
to Man Grows on the
Island.
THE GREAT HINDOO TEMPLE
The Wonders of a Little Island King
dom The Dutch and How They
Manage Their Territorial Coun
tries A Land That ls Densely
Populated Where Volcanoes Give
Regular Performances A Won
derful Temple A Beautiful Gar
den Curioua Plants and Fruits.
Batavia, Java, Aug. 7, 1909.
Correspondence of The Causcasian
Enterprise. I did not Intend to visit this island
kingdom, for I thought maybe hit
wuz not worth puttin on brakes fer
a stop, fer hit iz hardly ever men
tioned in the newspapers, an' hit iz
not likely that one person in a hun
dred remembers they iz such a coun
try, or, if they do, they hev an idea
that Java is a little sandy spot in the
ocean an that hit lz ov no conse
quence. A trip thar will change your
mind.
Java iz a Dutch Island an' iz situ
ated near the Strait of Sunda. The
island, or the collection ov islands,
lz erbout six hundred miles long and
from 60 to one hundred and twenty
miles in width. Now you air ready
ter begin ter agree with me that
Java-is ov some importance. But
wait! Java hez a population ov near
ly twenty-eight millions ov people, I
am told, though hit seems improba
ble. Then hit hez thirty-eight active
volcanoes, awl doin' a large business.
No other small area ov the earth
can boast anything like that. Much
ov the country iz flat an so dry that
hit must be irrigated to produce at
awl, an' yet Java iz one ov the most
beautiful an' one ov the most pro
ductive sections ov the earth. There
iz a vast range ov mountains on the
sland and thirty-eight ov the high
est peaks air volcanoes, nine ov them
bein' visible from one spot. Az late-
y az 1883 one ov these volcanoes
caused the loss ov thirty-eight thou
sand lives. The eruption wuz so
violent at that time that the noise
could be 'heard two thousand miles
erway.
A railroad extends from Batavia
to Soeabaja, practically the entire
length ov the main island, a distance
ov about 400 miles. While Batavia
the normal capital ov Java, the
Governor lives at Buitenzorg, forty
miles away. At this city iz a vast
botanical garden which surrounds
the palace. This garden hardly hez
an equal in the world in the way ov
tropical vegetation. In this garden
iz a driveway, wide and smooth, an'
gigantic Kanari trees were set forty
feet apart on either side; that iz,
they air very large trees now. Climb
ing vines ov nearly every variety
hev bin trained on these trees an'
the vines an' the trees now exclude
the sun altogether. In fact, nature
seems ter hev tried herself in Java,
fer awlmost awl kinds ov pretty
trees an' flowers, includin' the palm,
grows here In profusion. The royal
palm, the cocoanut palm, the sago
palm an awl the known varieties
grow here in unlimited quantities. In
buildin' houses here the bamboo iz
used for frames an' floors an' the
palm leaves keep out the wind and
rain.
Sugar lz the chief lexport crop
raised in Java, followed by tea, cof
fee, and copra. The greatest crop
raised iz rice. But in Java, az in
Japan, rice iz the chief article ov
food and but little rice iz exported
Among the curious plants growin
in this country iz a variety ov water
li'y that hez leaves four feet wide
The papyrus from which the ancient
Egyptians made paper, grows in
Java, but iz not now found in Egypt
One tree found here hez leaves or
pods that look exactly like a tallow
candle. Java grows nearly awl ov
the fruits found in any tropical coun
try and a few not found elsewhere
One ov these, the mangosteen, iz
shaped like an orange, with a mor
sel ov pure white enclosed in a thick
hull which is very red. This fruit
hez a rich flavor and melts in your
mouth and leaves a pleasant mem
ory of manyflavors. The doekoe iz
another peculiar Javanese fruit, very
rich in flavor. The jamboa, or Java
nese apple, iz conical in shape and
looks like white wax. Jtidgin' from
the quantity an variety ov fruits
found in Java, one can awlmost im
agine that the Garden of Eden wuz
located here; in fact, I think hit
more than likely.
Java hez a rainfall that amounts
to more than ten feet per annum.
But the irrigation system lz so good
that the people in most sections air
perfectly Independent ov the seasons
The betel-met palm renders the
Malay independent ov the tobacco
trust, fer hits leaves air a very good
substitute. However, I prefer rea
terbacco.
While hit iz a fact that nature fur
nishes the most interestin' sites in
Java, az hit does In many other for
eign countries, no one should visit
Java without seein' Boro Boedoer,
the great Hindu temple near DJoKja
Karta, (look over the name ov that
(Continued on Page S.)
TEACHERS' TRAINING SCHOOL.
Chairman Jojroer Gives Out State
ment as to the Fitness of the Corps
of Instructors.
The Board of Trustees of the East
Carolina Teachers' Training School
deems itself fortunate In securing so
able a corps of teachers, and takes
pleasure in giving to the public the
following information:
President Robt. H. Wright was
reared in Sampson County, North
Carolina. Graduated with honor
from the University of North Caro
lina in 1897. After teaching in the
public and private schools of his na
tive State and South Carolina he did
a year of post-graduate work at John
Hopkins University, Baltimore. He
was then elected head of the Depart
ment of History, Civics and Eco
nomics In the Baltimore City College.
This position he held until 1906,
when he was elected principal of the
Eastern High School, Baltimore. He
filled this position with the greatest
acceptability for three years, resign
ing to accept the the Presidency of
the East Carolina Teachers Training
School. He has the highest recom
mendations from the most competent
judges acquainted with his work for
scholarship "and teaching ability. The
Board confidently commends him to
the fullest confidence of the people
of North Carolina.
Miss Mamie E. Jenkins, the teach
er of English Language and Litera
ture, is a graduate of Trinity College
and a M. A. of Columbia University,
New York City. Miss Jenkins has
taught in the rural and graded
schools of North Carolina, Martha
Washington College, Virginia, and
Grenada College, Miss. She Is a thor
ough student of the English language
and a teacher of marked ability. In
her we are sure that we have an ex
ceptionally competent teacher.
Miss Sallie Joyner Davis, the teach
er of History, is a full graduate of
the North Carolina State Normal and
ndustrial College, a post-graduate
student of Trinity College and of
University of Pennsylvania. She has
had experience as a teacher In the
public schools In North Carolina, and
as teacher of history in the Greens
boro Female College. Her scholar
ship and teaching ability are of ex
ceptionally high' order.
Miss Maria Daniel Graham, the
teacher of Mathematics, is a grad
uate of Peabody Normal College,
Nashville, Tenn., and has her Batch-
elor's degree from Teachers College,
Columbia University, New York City.
She has taught in the public and pri
vate schools of North Carolina and
her work has been most successful.
Her training and experience are such
as to make her entirely competent
for the work to which she has been
assigned.
Miss Birdie McKinney, the teacher
of Latin, is a full graduate of the
North Carolina State Normal and In
dustrial College. Since her gradua
tion she has been teaching in the
public schools of our State with
marked success. She is one of the
State's best teachers.
Mr. Herbert E. Austin, the teacher
of Science, Is a graduate of Worces
ter Polytechnic Institute. Did post
graduate work in Clarke University
and John Hopkins University. He
has had several years experience as
teacher of Science and Pedagogy in
he Maryland State Normal School,
Baltimore. This eminently qualifies
him for the position he is to hold.
Supt. W. H. Ragsdale, Lecturer on
Public School Administration, i3 a
graduate of Wake Forest College.
While in college he was a hard stu
dent, making the highest average in
his class. Since graduation he has
taught in the public and private
schools of Eastern North Carolina.
He has been Superintendent of Pitt
County schools since 1891, with the
exception of two years. For many
years he has been prominently iden
tified with the public school interests
of our State. He is well and favor
ably known in school circles. In his
selecton fOT this position, we have a
man who is a thorough master of the
public school situation in North Car
olina.
Mr. Claude W. Wilson will look
after the business interest of the
school and teach in the Department
of Pedagogy. He is a graduate of
Wake Forest College. Has snusual
business ability; is a thorough stud
ent of Pedagogy, and has taught in
the public and private schools of
North Carolina with marked success
Mrs. Kate R. Beckwith, the Lady
Principal, is a graduate of the Wo
man's College. Richmond, Va. She is
eminently qualified for the position
she is to fill. Having had expert
ence with this kind of work in Louis-
burg College, also as Dean (Lady
Principal) of Columbia College, S
C, and having had charge of the
branch school of Shorter College In
Florence, Italy. We deem ourselves
fortunate In securing the services of
such a woman as Lady Principal.
With this school located as it is:
and so admirably equipped in every
way, buildings, furnishings and
teaching staff we confidently expect
It to meet fully the demands for
which it was established.
J. Y. JOYNER.
Chairman.
- Oonfusional Democracy.
Clinton News-Dispatch.
The Democratic party will.be up
against it good and hard at their
next State Convention, when they
undertake to write a platform to suit
'em all. Guess it will be 'Confusion
al" Democracy.
THE CREESE TRIAL
Breese, Penland and Dicker
ton on Trial Charged With
Wrecking Atherflle Bank.
UAJ. BREESE OK THE STAND
Gives His Version of the Bogus
NotesNames of Several Promi
nent Persons Dragged Into tha
Case Defense Trying to Prove
Officer Was Cognisant of the Con
ditlon of the Bank Third Time
This Case Has Been Tried.
Asheville, Aug. 17. Resuming
the stand taken to-day in his own
defense. Major W. E. Breese. presi
dent of the First National Bank at
the time of its failure, told of the
business of the bank, of his borrow
ing money from the bank and, owing
to the panic, being unable to pay
back the money, being forced to put
in other notes as renewals. He told
of correspondence he had with the
Comptroller of the Currency regard
ing the conversion of the bank into
a State bank and reduction of Its
capital stock to $50,000 and the ex
planation of the so-called forged
note of W. W. Rollins. These were
the features of to-day's trial of
Breese, Penland and Dicker son,
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the bank.
Major Breese, in explaining about
the notes signed by Kemp, his negro
coachman, said that, being unable to
pay the money back to the bank, in
terest accumulated upon the notes
so that it was necessary to put in
notes to meet the accumulated in
terest, that he asked Kemp to sign
notes, as we realized we were close
to dangerous shores, and feeling my
own solvency and responsibility, Ij
did not feel like getting a solvent
man to sign the notes." Letters
were introduced showing statements!
Breese had made to other banks re
garding certain notes sent them, and
Breese said that statements were
true, that in cases where the signer
of the note was not go good, the en
dorsement of J. E. Dickerson & Com
pany made the notes amply good.
Relative to the Barker note and
the letter about Barker paying $300
on account, Judge Newman wanted
to know how it was when Barker did
not pay anything, Breese could say
that Barker had paid $300 on the
note. Major Breese said that It was
practical, that Barker t got money
from the bank to pay it, giving
new notes.
Relative to declaring a 4 per cent
dividend, upon motion of R. R.
Rawls, a director, and the reduction
of Penland's and Breese's salaries
15 per cent at the same meeting,
upon motion of Dickerson and
Breese, he said he owned $75,000
and Penland and Dickerson $98,000
and that his dividend of $2,316 was
put back into the bank. At several
times during the proceedings coun
sel got into wrangles regarding what
Holton termed Major Breese's at
tempt to argue to the Jury and also
admission of evidence.
Regarding the RolUns "forged"
note, Breese said he approached it
'with pain"; that Rollins was a
friend and former director of the
bank; said Rollins had loaned the
witness the use of his name and. had
signed notes for $7,000 and renew
als, which in time amounted to $10,-
000; that when the note which had
been discounted became due Rollins
was out of town; that he signed Rol
lins name to a note, made no pre
tense to disguise his handwriting.
and that he then wrote Rollins a
letter, saying that he had signed
Rollins' name. , Witness further tes
tified that when Rollins returned to
Asheville witness saw Rollins, ex
plained the matter and that Rollllns
signed a note in blank to take up the
note which Breese had signed Rol
lins' name to; the bank failed be
fore the alleged "forged" note be
came due.
Four Injured in a Boiler Explosion at
Mount Airy.
Mount Airy, N C, Aug. 12. A
boiler exploded yesterday at Pink
Ayer's place, five miles north of this
city, perhaps injuring Mallard Rum-
ley, whose skull was fractured. Syd
ney Lowe was frightfully Injured.
his face and body being fearfully la
cerated and burned. Ponce McMil
lan was seriously burned. Robert
Thomas wa3 burned about the body.
The first named will die.
The boiler was hurled one hundred
and ten yards from the mill and the
engine one hundred and five feet.
J. Hanes. aged twenty-five years,
was perhaps fatally stabbed last night
in this city.
Bert Mabry and Seek Boyd have
been arrested, charged with the
crime. The officers are looking for
two other parties. It Is. thought
Hanes will die, as one wound pene
trates the stomach.
Repudiates Its Representatives.
The Fayetteville Index rather in
Bists that those Senators and Con
gressmen who failed to live up to
their party platform be repudiated
by the Democrats, says the "Winston-
Salem Journal-
Yes, that's -what we are insisting
upon. Fayetteville Index.
GIVES THE Tit UTTI TO ITS HEAD
ERS.
Why The CmmcMm tsn I Appreciated
by It's Readers An lnlereUng
Letter from Werkrrllle.
Editor The Caucasian: Enclosed
find two dollars, for one dollar of
which please give me credit on my
subscription to your paper and the
other dollar ls to pay for a year's
subscription to the Caucasian for Mr.
H. C. Markham. of Weeksville, N. C.
Mr. Markham requests you to send
him also three or four back numbers
along with the paper as be wants to
read some of Major Biikics' letters
descriptive of the "Holy Land." etc.
I would be glad to know the real
name of Major Bilkins. if you are
allowed to state it. He is a won
derful writer, and an interesting man
and is giving the public, through
the Caucasian, some Interesting let
ters of what he sees in a strange
land. These letters alone are richly
worth a year's subscription to your
paper, to say nothing about the other
interesting matter the paper always
gives its readers each week.
I love the Caucasian, because it
gives news straight and manly, and
seeks to give the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth to
it's readers. Long may the editor
live, and be able to continue to pub
lish the old Caucasian, and expose
the incompetence of the Democratic
party, and the meanness of those who
pose as Republicans, but who are
worse than the Democrats because
they are hypocrites in a most deadly
form to the Republican party.
You cannot hit them too hard, and I
trust, through the able efforts of the
Caucasian and other good Influences,
they may be cast out, root and
branch, from the Republican party.
They are and have been a clog to its
growth for a long time. They are
cursing President Taft for appoint-
ng a Democrat in the First District
nstead of giving the judgeship to
some of them, but it serves some of
them right. I would have been glad
though, could the President have
seen fit to appoint some good Repub-
ican that the machine did not like.
t seems that would have been better
for Mr. Taft and the Republican
party, too, for it would not do to
admit that the Republican party in
this patriotic old State of North Car
olina does not have a single man that
s fit In every way to fill such a place
as' was given to Mr. Connor, a Dem
ocrat. Wishing the Caucasian much suc
cess, and praying without ceasing
that all traitors may soon be starved
out of the Republican party, and
good, honest men put In their places,
n order that the party may thrive
and grow and beable to sweep away
ike a cyclone the Democratic party
with all its bad deeds and! false
promises, I am,
Yours sincerely,
THOMAS MEADS.
Wakefield, N. C.
Strong Man Dies From Over-Exer
tion.
Greensboro, N. C, Aug. 13. A. J.
Vogt, foreman of the Greensboro
Terra Cotta Works, fell dead on the
factory grounds at noon in the pres
ence of several employes, to whom he
was exhibiting feats of strength. It
was at the'noon hour, and Vogt, who
s thirty-five years of age, and of fine
physical development, had a fifty
pound bar of steel with which he
was performing. He had held it
aloft ,wlth one hand, extended it
and then changing it to his left hand
stretched the bar out with this, and
before he had drawn his arm back
suddenly toppled over and was found
to be dead by his horrified compan
ions. The over-exertion had either
ruptured a blood vessel or broken
some muscle of the heart, and this
Is supposed to have been the cause
of death.
Murderer of Stanford White
Re
manded to the Asylum.
WThite Plains, N. Y., Aug 12.
Harry K. Thaw's latest attempt to
gain his liberty met with complete
and disheartening defeat to-day
when Supreme Court Justice Isaac
N. Mills dismissed the writ of habeas
corpus and declared that "the re
lease of the petitioner would be dan
gerous to the public peace and sa
fety." The signing' of an order
sending Thaw back to Matteawan ls
all that remains to complete the
failure of his latest appeal to the
courts.
There Is no crumb ot comfort for
Thaw in the 7,000 words opinion
handed down by Justice Mills to-day.
All the contentions of District At
torney Jerome are supported, and it
is declared that Thaw ls still insane.
and still as much a paranoiac as on
the day he shot Stanford White.
Stockholders Elect New President of
A.&S.C. Railroad.
Atlantic Hotel, Morehead City, N
C. Aug. 12. The annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Atlantic and
North Carolina. Railroad was held at
the Atlantic Hotel to-day. The elec
tlon of directors. Including two new
members,. Messrs. S. W. Ferebee, of
Stonewall, Pamlico County, and G
V. Richardson, of Dover, Mr. Fere
bee later being elected president.
Samuel M. Brinson, of New; Bern,
was elected attorney-general and
Charles Dewey and D. J. Broadhust
were re-elected expert and secretary
and treasurer respectively.
EIGHT ARE KILLED
And Fifty Injured in a Head
On Colluion Near Col
orada Springs,
PASSENGERS IN A PANIC
Northbound and StiathhoviMl i
ger Train, Running at Terrific
Speed, Meet on a Oar and IHw
trous Wreck Follow-fMrer KMr
Hundred IVtsengrr Were on lite
Train and the llirltrntrtti Fol
lowing the Accident wu lnderrtu
able lU-lief Train Hurried to th
Scene.
Colorado Spriugn. Col., Aug. 14.
tight are dead and fifty injured.
some fatally, as a result of a hefcdoa
collision between train No. S. north
bound, and train No. 1, southbound.
on the Denwr and Kio Grande at
Husted, thirteen miles north of Col
orado Springs thU tuorulng. The
trains, both running at ter r I tic peed.
met on a curve and tbt-ir crew bad
no opportunity to avert the colUaion.
Train No. b. drawn by two vnglnit.
telescoped the baggage car and
smoker of No. 1, aud all three n-
ginea went into the ditch.
With more than 400 pauengrri on
the two trains the excitement fol
lowing the accident was indescrib
able. Ail the pageugers were thrown
in a screaming mass ou the floors of
the cars and many were hurt in the
stampede to escape. The unhurt
rushed to the aid of the injured, but
so great was the confusion that it
required half an hour to clear tho
cars, which were enveloped in clouds
of fcteam from the engines.
Relief traius bearlug surgeons and
nurses were rubbed to the scene of
the wreck and the wounded were
brought to local hoKpltals.
It is said that officials of the road
place the blame of the wreck upon
the crew of train No. 8 who were or
dered to meet No. 1 at 1 lusted. It is
claimed the crew mistook a switch
engine and cars for No. 1 and be
lieved the track was clear.
The following are among the dead
and injured:
Frank M. Frederick. St. Louis. Mo.
C. S. Brown, Jerrlco Springs, Mo.
J. A. GoBsage. Husted, Colorado,
fireman No. 8.
B. F. Larkens, Colorado Springs,
Col.
J. K. Parker, Denver.
J. R. Parker, Chicago.
Two unidentified men.
The Heal Reform Force.
The Lincolnton Times. J
The following sensible excerpt is
taken from the Spartanburg Journal,
a Democratic paper, published In the
most ultra Democratic section in the
South. It is a strange thing to us that
sensible men will persistently cling to
a fetich that represents nothing be
lieving that the Dmeocratlc label
represents the Ideas of government
as enunciated by Thomas Jefferson.
"Real tariff revision downward
will come when it comes at all
through the Republican party. There
s a strong and growing minority in
that party, especially as represented
n the great Central and Middle West,
which Is the real reform force In this
country and ls accomplishing what
can be accomplished for the people.
The leaders of this faction are the
so-called "Insurgents" in the Repub
lican party in both houses of Con
gress. The Democratic party Is
wholly inefficient. It cannot accom
plish anything whether in or out of
power. It is made up of many dis
cordant elements, whose only cohe
sion comes from traditional opposi
tion to the Republican party. There
are in the Democratic party adher
ents of and subscribers to every
known political doctrine. No clear
and definite program can ever be
agreed on by such a heterogeneous,
confused and contradictory mass."
Winston Lady 8lH Her Cook.
Winston-Salem, N. C, Aug. 13.
Mrs. Fate Charles, wife Of a well-
known citizen, became angry with
her colored cook this afternoon and
shot her In the leg. Inflicting a pain
ful wound.
Mrs. Charles claims that the ne
gro woman ls a dope fiend, had In
sulted her mistress and threatened
to stop work, heavily indebted to
ner.
Mrs. Charles says she fired the pis
tol only to frighten the cook but one
ball took effect in the woman's limb.
Mrs. Charles summoned a physi
cian and had the wound dressed.
A warrant has been issued and the
case will likely go to the court for a
hearing.
Sayings From the Smart Set.
Domestic felicity cannot be pre
served in family Jars. -
If beauty ls skin deep, we should
not wonder If some matrimonial ven
tures look like skin games. V
You can seldom borrow money from
the man who has his price.
. No one cares much what you are
doing unless you try to hide It.
- Th. self-made man. would have
saved money if he had built himself
on his friend's estimate. September
Smart Set.