(jtTAR ANTBED. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE CITY .ECOND PART -rr Twelve CHAE pase 9-12- VOL. XXIII. CHARLOTTE, N. C, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1902, NO. 5327 LOTTIE NEWS. Pages iil OF THE WAR How Money From Bank of Charlotte Was Saved ED NEAR FORT MILL Three Months After its Burial Money Was Bug Up and Sestored to the Bank - Searching Parties Have Since Dug in Vain Tor the Valuable Treasure About the year 1865 Charlotte, N. C, was only beginning to be consid ered us a point of future importance. Xo more stores or other buildings encumbered the earth there than -would have been expected in a county seat of any large thriving county, such as old Mecklenburg, the birthplace of the "hornet's nest." Then, or shortly afterwards, was established the Bank of Charlotte, which continued in busi ness until near the end of the great civil war, when it had on hand some $.000 m specie. When the peerless Lee surrendered and the Federals were swarming over the south and the officers of this bank became very uneasy about that coin in their possession, and they secreted it somewhere in the neigh borhood of Charlotte. It was not long before Johnson surrendered; Stone man captured Salisbury (40 miles north of Charlotte), while a detach ment of his corps was going down the south side of Catawba river to de stroy the railroad bridge at Nation Ford, 20 miles southwest of Charlotte, and three miles from Fort Mill, S. C. The bank officers became alarmed for htemselves and for their treasure, because they doubted not that they would be tortured into a betrayal of the hiding place of the money or be killed if they did not reveal it when Stnneman's men should take the town. The specie mostly silver had been packed in four strong boxes, but where should they put the boxes? After consultation they turned over. their funds to Hon. J. Harvey Wilson (one of the directors), with a request to take what steps he might deem best for the concealment thereof. Mr. Wilson accepted the responsible trust, but it was uncertain where to go, how to go, or whom he could .get to assist him. His nephew, Captain W , had returned the previous day from the surrender worn out and broken in health, To this nephew he went with his troubles. The captain was sick and could ill bear a trip across the coun try, but after repeated importunities, he agreed to assist his uncle in the unwelcome employment. After night fall these two men placed the four boxes in Captain W s' buggy and went toward Fort Mill, S. C, in the dark, cold and rain. Let it be remembered that such a journey undertaken at such a time, was not only uncomfortable, but at tended with danger. Many straggling soldiers were returning from the front, discontented, morose, and often des perate bands of marauders under guise of soldiers plundered defense less homes, and any of these might be very well pleased to capture such a booty; besides it was not impossible that they might meet some of Stone man's men. However, all things con sidered, it was probably safer to un dertake such an enterprise at night than in daylight. After a toilsome journey over bad roads, in the dark and rain, they ar rived at a point about one mile above Fort Mill, 17 miles from their starting Point. Here they stopped. Mr. Wilson remained in the buggy, while the cap tain should go to his father's old home for a tool to bury the money. The lat ter did not want to arouse any one lest his mission should be detected. Finding nothine outside h went, into the mansion, got the fire shovel and returned to his uncle. rri. i . j-iie uoxes were then taken to a lonely spot and buried in the edge ol a branch, after which our travelers sought rest in the old mansion about - a. m. Next mornins the caDtain f ear mg that the work done in the dark mignt be incomplete rode by a cinriui tons route to the nlace of conceal went. Looking around to be sure that ne was not observed, he built over the spot an irregular brush heap of such "'-it,ns and bushes as were convenient and returned to the house by a dif- ient route. iur. Wilson oQT.tcwi v. norse belonging to the captain, bat jjaa not gone far before he was popped by some men claiming to be- --'6 io Ferguson's brigade, a part of uers command, who had been e'Uiting their horses in Georgia -'se men wanted to take Mr. Wil ,on s horse, and would have done so iari he not ridden toward General e,gnson about the matter. They Jn got back to the old mansion, nere Mr. Wilson rode into the yard. VT of the men followed and in wed on taking the horse. Captain vvuson seeing his uncle's trouble, Of H Ut t0k hld f 0ne' rein hnui e bndle' while a Westerner was in ' ,Tg tne other. Altercation fol enM Vn Which the caPtain threat himti shoot- The Westerners told fatal such a case would only prove umboTed. h WaS hPelessly Just th(i& Captain oRbert Fullwood, a neighbor, came upon . the scene, steadying by a good walking stick his footsteps, tottering under the load of three score years and ten, and in quired the nature of the trouble. This old man, full of righteous indignation, seized the bridle and exclaimed, "I know this young man; his father was my lifelong friend. I love my country, I love her laws; you can't cheat me out of many days, and I am ready to die right here and now before you shall rob him of his horse." fi i j wjmzmm St"v ' i l-f- flIC " " :' 0-: ttJs W1( . v.'.v.w. v. This -bold act and speech of the aged farmer rather staggered trie mob, but they would prooaDiy nav taken the horse had there not been another and opportune entrance on the stage. Cant. John Mills, formerly a South Carolinian and a friend of the cap tain's family, rode up at the head of his company of Alabamians, called his men to "attention," told the would be robbers to disperse before he should arrest them, said he would have them shot unless they abandon ed their prey. They sullenly departed vowing ven geance. Shortly afterward the young captain saw smoke and learned that the railroad bridge was burned by 300 i s "a Si I - MILLIONS FOR BUILDING AND In the past thiry years over $20,000,- 00 has been given to the American As sociations for buildings and for en dowment purposes, which was given stability , to the Associations, and has led in each Association to an Increase in the amount annually secured for current expenses. Many State Young Mea's Christian Association committees are gathering endowment funds. The Massachusetts State Committee has se cured a building worth nearly $200,000, the income of which goes toward the support of the state work there. Last year was' the Jubilee year of the Young Men's Christian Associations and the movement for a partial endow ment of their International Committee received impulse from the promise of $250,000 from one of the best fiends of the movement. Now the total of $1,1)00, 000 has been pledged. Of this amount six persons gave $632,000. Only 150 per sons besides Association secretaries were asked to subscribe, and 56 ot these contributed. However, the "Robert R. McBurney Fund of $3,700 also included in the total amount, was given by 55 employed officers of the Associations. For more than tenears there has been an agitation m favor of endowment to make partal provision for the supervisory work ot their In ternational Committee, to which much of the great Young Men s Christian As sociation development throughout the WThde payment of subscriptions to this aaa nno onrinwmant was begun in July but little financial relief will come. JUlJf, out ,Taor frnm this ctothe sommiuw j "v.." i M5ffM 0 utiS of Stoneman's men. He hastened to Ferguson and offered to lead his com mand to a place where they could capture the whole outfit, but the gen eral declined to act. That night our two travelers re turned to Charlotte worn out and sick. The kitchen at the old home stead was set on fire, but extinguish ed, though the ginhouse with 120 bales of cotton, 2,000 bushels of seed; all the machinery in it was burned to the ground. Was it "vengeance?" About three months after the bid den treasure was exhumed and re stored to the bank. Some persons have of late dug about the old home stead supposedly for this money, be ing ignorant of its recovery. Sam P, Massey in The. Sunny South. ENDOWMENT I source, as less than one-fourth of the $150,000. necessary to maintain the in ternational work can come from the income from this endowment after it is fully paid in and invested. It is a good beginning, and will bring some future relief to the committee, which receive constant calls for. extension and increase- of force on account of the growth of the Association movement throughout America and the world. irr.irnr.M mi ligrmmCTimr-WTtfffhyTg - , i i iii yUEEN AND SOME CORONATION DETAILS. (Copyright, 1902, by W. R. Hearst.) At the top of tliis picture is shown an invitation of the Earl Marshal to the coronation in Westminster Abbey. At the bottom is the picture of Queen Alexandra in a little outing hat. At the left is Westminster Abbey, with a temporary addition, in which the King and Queen will dress for the coronation. In the centre is the great review ing stand in Trafalgar Square. Below is one of the coronation gi ft boxes, which are scattered all over the kingdom. , H AYTI'S PER ARMY A QUEER AFFAIR According to a telegram Haiti is at war apparently with itself and the Haitian army is on the rampage. Haiti is chieby remarkable by reason of its being a military republic, with an army of 4,000 generals and 4,000 pri vates a general to each Tommv. The enerals are extraordinary men in more than one sense of the " word. There is one who commands a large province m the republic, who is the lowest of the neoDle. who can neither read nor write, and who is nev ertheless a great revolutionary power. This man General Johannis Merister is obliged to ask one man to read to him, and yet in his hands are the ilves an ddeaths of the people over whom he rules. Every third man you meet in Haiti is a general, but it is only every tenth general who gets paid; it has to be conceded that each general does his bst to pay himself. The authorized rate of pay is 140 annually for a gen eral of division and 105 for a brigad ier. A captain is passing rich on 12 a year; a private thinks himself for tunate if he receives 2 10 shillings during the same period. "Branc," once said a private in the i hearing of a well-known English jour nalist, "Blanc, I am a soldier; give me 10 centimes." j "You have your pay." "My general has taken my pay. I am a poor man and a soldier. , Give me 10 centimes." "How long have you been a soldier?" "Three years." ' "When did you have your pay last?" "'Very long ago, and I am hungry. Give me 10 centimes. Merci." The aHitiah soldier's uniform is a fearful and wonderful thing. Let us re review a regiment on parade. Some of them are shod in dried grass slippers. They wear a little blue cap with a red band. One man, perhaps, is wearing a shabby pair of old tweed trousers, and slung by a hemp rope over his should ers is an old-fashioned flintlock gun The officer who commands the regi ment is brandishing t rusty swort. A general has but little sense of jus tice. An unfortunate Swiss went out shooting once in Haiti without a pass port. "Who are you?" said the general when the poor man was brought berore him. -. "I am a foreigner." ; "What nationality? "Swiss." The general turned to his secretary. "Have the Swiss a navy?" "No, my general." "Then put the brute in prison." The army, it goes without saying, is miserably housed. In Port au Prince, the capital of aHiti, you will find , a post of soldiers every 50 or 100 yards. They live in wretched guard rooms, which are merely long hovels, with piazzas raised ttwo feet above the street. Below flows an open drain. The men themselves drink, smoke and gamble all the weary day. But they have a good idea of them selves. Two Haitian generals, discus sing a review in which they had just A BOUFFE- taken part, thus expressed themselves: "Without question the most magnifi- cent spectacle that one could have seen." Yes, indeed, our army is composed of brave men. Do you not think so? turning to a traveling Englishman. He (diplomatically choosing his words): "I have seen none like it. The army of Haiti is one that depends upon its officers; an army without officers, what is it?" "The army of Haiti has never been conquered. The French were here; we drove them out. - The English fought with us; where are they? ,Bue we we we we are here always; we have never been conquered." You must never allow a smile to cross your face however tempted you may be to laugh if you meet a Hai tian soldier. A European diplomatist landed once at Port au Prince and on his way from the ship he fell in with what he imagined to be a tattered mountebank carrying a rifle. He smiled, for the black man's pompous solemnity was immensely funny. At once the negro's" face changed. "You laugh at me? You laugh at me?" he cried furiously. He was a soldier of the republic; his Angers flew to his cartridges . and the visitor waited for no more, but fled up the street. The Haitian soldier needs but the license of a political strife to laah him into frenzy. No wonder that the Ame rican Consul-General at Port au Prince telegraphed to his Government to send a man-of-war without delay. Given political troubles and a modicum of shooting in thes treets, and a man such as we have just described, with intense irascibility of temper and thousands of companions like himself, he would be come a very perilous and terrible ele ment m the general anarchy. The ailitian army in peace times may be like that upon a comic opera stage, but wiven a war, it would be come a hotbed of tragedy. London Express. ALPHABET ON A PINHEAD. The Work of a Gloversville, New York Man. William L. McLean, of Gloversville N. Y., has engraved on the head of an ordinary brass pin the entire alphabe in script, initial letters. The work was done with an ordinary engraving tool with the aid of a powerful magnifying glass. The alphabet is arranged in two cir cles around the pin, four leters which. it was impossible to include in them being placed in the centre. No part o one letter touches another. 1 In the first circle are all the letters up to and including M. A smaller cir cle contains the leters which follow, up to V, while in the centre are the re maining four letters. A few years ago Mf. McLean, en graved the Lord's Grayer on a. silver 5-ceut piece. F EATflF MIND READER German-American Who Has Remarkable Powers GIFT OF MENTAL SIGHT Unable to Explain His Peculiar Talent Though He Says it Came to Him When a Boy Some of His Tricks at Second Sight Which Look Snper Natural Bat Come Easy to Him Among the delegates to the American Boilermakers' Convention, recently held here, was one of the most remark able ' experts in "second-sight," or-mind-reading, or whatever one may choose to call it, that this country can boast. He is Bert Reese, a resident of Chicago, who is well known throuhgout the West for his peculiar mental pow ers, but who has, as yet; been little heard of in the East. Since he does not make any parade of his powers and does not in any way attempt to explain them so marvelously mysterious gifts, or flaunt them before people in the snow line, it is not improper to say something about him. Mr. Reese is a German somewhat past middle age and his appearance would indicate a well-fed and easy-going mer chant or tradesman. Just what to call his remarkable gift of mental sight he and others are at a loss to know. It came to him, so he says, when he was a mere boy, and since that tim he has been able to perform, with some slight mental strain, the most unusual and astouding feats of mind-reading. That is hardly the name of them, because, withouut asking one to , fix one's thoughts on any particular event, he can instantly tell to the remotest detail just what has taken place in a man's life, and where and when. Just before the convention met I met Mr. Reese and he gave me an exhibi tion of his powers, which was quite be yond anything, that even the most fer tile imagination could conjure. He had never seen me before, so far as I know and, I certainly had never laid eyes on hdm until that moment. He did not even know my name, and, as we were in the presence of a third party whose repu tation for honesty and strict adherence to the truth cannot be questioned, there was no room-ion the. jJctuibt which un-... consciously spread over me as I become acquainted with the marvelous ability of this man. Tearing a piece of paper Into five pieces, he asked me to go to another part of the hotel and write on one of the sups the maiden name of my mother; ori another the name of one of my schoolteachers, and on the re maining any three questions I might desire to ask. This I did, taking care to remove myself in such manner a.to admit in no way of his knowing where was. I then folded each slip of paper and, holding them in my clasped hand, returned to where he ' sat with my friend. He asked me to hand two of the slips to tne third party, to hold two of them myself and to place th fifth in my pocket. I did not have any idea what was written on the slips, as they were divided, so it was impossible for me to influence his mind by my thoughts. Taking oue of the slips from my hand, he placed it against his forehead without unfolding, and asked me to put my finger on it for a moment. Meantime on a piece of paper he had written a line of strange characters, which were absolutely meaningless to my friend and myself. Looking at this ' inscription while the paper was held against his forehead, he immediately said: "Where was I on December 25 1901?" That was one of the questions I had written. Handing the paper to my friend, it was opened, and there were the words Mr. Reese had repeated. The exact contents of the other four papers were read off in less, time than the telling takes, and without him in any way touching any of them. He sim ply asked that a closed hand, contain ing the paper, be held toward him for a brief space, and then, evidently sun eringsome mental strain, he would ut ter the question or the name without the last hesitation. In the case of my mother's maiden name he handed pen cil and paper to my friend and asked him to write down the letters as he spoke. It is not an extremely common name, but without hesitancy he spelled it absolutely correct. When I asked him how he accounted for this remarkable gift he shrugged his shoulders and proclaimed his absoluute ignorance. He said: "I have not the least idea how I am enabled to do it. The strange power came to me when I was about 8 years old, and since then I have been able with only a slight mental exertion to perform some of the most remarkable mental feats that could be imagined. I do not know anything about the source of this power. All that I do know is that I see as plainly as! I see you events that have transpired in other people's lives, and such questions as you have written on these slips , of paper are as clear to my mind's eye as they are to your actual seeing organs. I told the president of the Boilermakers' Associ- and whom I knew nothing save, his later business career, exactly the place and manner in which he earned his first dollar. ; Of course, he was some what surprised, and it was just as, hard for me to know I could do this as for him to understand my ability. ,