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GOLDSBOKO, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1901.
VOL. XIY. NO. 20.
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S. COHN.
The Two Words.
One day a harsh word, rashly said.
Upon an evil journey sped.
And, like a sharp and cruel dart,
It pierced a fond and loving heart;
It turned a friend into a foe,
And everywhere brought pain and woe.
A kind word followed it one day,
Flew swiftly on its blessed way;
It healed the wound, it soothed the pain,
And friends of old were friends again;
It made the hate anil anger cease.
And everywhere brought joy and peace.
But yet the harsh word left a trace
The kind word could not quite efface;
And though the heart its love regained,
It bore a scar that long remained;
Friends could forgive;, but not forget,
Or lose the sense of keen regret.
()! if we would but learn to know
How swift and sure words can go.
How would we weigh with utmost care
Each thought before it sought the air,
Ami only speak the words that more
Like white-winged messengers of love!
Cheap Living for Others.
A dotnestic tragedy which will
make tender-hearted persons weep
is reported in a dispatch from Chic
ago. Recently a wise and cultured
woman of that city, after long re
search and profound meditatioD,
evelved a system of living which for
two persons costs only 17 ceDts a
day. A thrifty young mau of Chic
ago was deeply impressed by her
method of plaiu living . and high
thinking and immediately introduced
it into his own household. His wife
dutifully co operated with him, but
being only an ordinary housekeeper
found it impossible to provide their
table with luxuries three times a day
on a daily expenditure of 17 cents.
The thrifty young man, incensed at
his wife's poor management, resorted
ta a method of discipline which in
olden times was sanctioned by the
law. When his wife failed to provide
satisfactory food for his robust appe
tite, he promptly beat her, evidently
upon the theory that a sound drub
bing would increase the purchasing
power of his money. From time to
time the police were called in, when
the table was poorly supplied, to
save the wretched woman from her
husband's rude disciplinary treat
ment. Finally the man, disgusted
by his wife's failure to provide three
meals a day, deserted the unfortu
nate woman and left her to solve the
problem of how to live on nothing.
His base conduct led to his arrest,
and he is now living in jail at the ex
pense of the taxpayer, while his wife
is living on her neighbors' charity.
The failure of this unhappy couple
to adjust 1 heir wants and appetites
to a week'y expenditure of $1 has
rieved the charitable economists of
Chicago beyoud expression. For in
that great Western city the science
of how to live on nothing or next to
nothing and grow fat has reached a
remarkable development. By much
burning of midnight oil and deep
study, a system of plain living has
beeu evolved which is the wonder
and admiration of the good people of
Chicago. To such an extraordinary
degree of perfection has this system
been brought that it can now be de
monstrated by rows of figures art
fully arranged that a man can live on
nothing and give his neighbor a fine
lot of dainties every da'. The ex
perts who made this discovery de
clare that it is the miracle of the
age; that they have proved its prac
ticability beyond question, and that
everv familv in the land should rise
up and bless them for making the
domestic' problem so easy of solution.
And, indeed, if one will but read the
recipes for getting something out of
nothing which the experts give in
their cooker' book for the indigent,
the problem is a remarkably simple
ie.
The young man and his wife who
failed to satisfy their wants with $1
a week must have been guilty of the
wildest extravagance, for it is as
plain as day, according to the ex
perts, that a wise expenditure of
their weekly allowance would have
permitted them to live in compara
tive luxury and make a handsome de
posit every Saturday in the savings
bank. Some people will never learn
thrift, however, but will keep on
spending more than $1 a week, de
spite the convincing evidence of well
paid economists that one hundred
cents is an excessive weekly allow
ance for two grown persons with
healthy appetites. Nevertheless the
economists should not grow weary
of well doing, but should keep right
on educating the people how to live
comfortably on a few pennies a day
and buy Government bonds with
their savings. The masses love plain
living and high thinking, and prac
tice frugality quite as much as those
who instruct them in cheap domestic
economy.
Men yield to temptation and get
away just like they jump in and out
of a cold plunge because they know
what they are doing; women slide in
slowly, and before they find out it's
too late to climb back.
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BO WE (JROW W0KSE1
Arp Says the World is More Sinful Than
Lonjr Ago.
"Sorrow endureth for a night, but
joy cometh in the morning." I start
ed to write my weekly letter last
night, but I was not in a calm and
serene frame of mind and concluded
to put it off till morning. I had read
the morning paper that was unusu
ally full of crimes and sin and misery
and when the evening papers came
there was another catalogue of ca
lamities and I felt sad and depressed.
When will these things stop? But I
am no weeping prophet nor does the
public care to read the lamentations
of Jeremiah as a matter of choice.
And so I have waited until sleep and
rest revived me and the bright sun
of the morning dispelled the mists
and the gloom.
But how can an old man help com
paring the present with the past?
Memory is his capital stock and his
best recreation. If I was now in my
teens I would be better reconciled to
things as they are to modem man
ners aud customs and to the sin and
crime of this fast and reckless age.
Our young people cannot realize that
there ever was a better time and a
better people. Therefore they give
the morality of the past no thought
and the crime of the present no great
concern. They look upon the fearful
catalogue in the daily papers as our
normal condition and many join in it
to keep up with the procession.
Some apologists s-iy that there is
not much difference between now
and then, but that it appears so be
cause of the telegraph and the ten
thousand newspapers that spread the
news. The records of the courts tell
the truth and they prove according
to the white population of our state
there are ten murders to where there
was one fifty years ago. There are
twenty-five divorce cases to one and
in our cities there are forty times as
many burglaries, larcenies and shoot
ing scrapes. The number of suicides
does not appear in the courts, but
the increase is not less than a hun
dred to one. Jefferson said that the
influence of great cities was pestilen
tial to good morals. Just think of it.
In the little city of Atlanta there
were over 10,000 arrest during the
past year. The nineteenth ceutury
leaves us this record as a legacy and
our great concern, is what are we
going to do about it. Our lamenta
tion is that the people have gotten
used to it and reconciled to its con
tinuance. It is looked upon as the
normal condition of public morals
and huicau affairs. Old men, old
editors and oid preachers cry aloud
aud spare not, but the young gene
ration do not seem to be greatly con
cerned. Young men, young women
and even old women commit suicide
somewhere every day and the editors
tell us of it in the press dispatches
and pass on without comment. What
an awful condition of mental distress
it must be that provokes the delibe
rate sacrifice of one's own life. I fear
we are getting hardened to the pres
ence of crime hardened by daily
eontact with it; hardened like the
rich of New York are to the misery
and crime in her tenement houses
and to the miserab'e beggars on her
streets. They see them every day
and pass them by without a sign,
but they send large monies down
he-re to educate a lot of lazy negroes
they have never seen. What a fool,
what a fanatic, what a hypocrite is
human nature.
This reminds me to answer a letter
of inquiry from an old democrat who
lives in New Hampshire. He wishes
to know who was responsible for the
slave trade that peopled this country
with negroes. Some of his neigh
bors insist that the south did, while
the north protested against it and
New England was especially hostile
to it. ilHow long, an, Cataline, wilt
thou abuse our patience?" How long
will the descendants of the Puritans
cover up their own iniquity? My
friend will find in Appleton's Ameri
can Cyclopedia, fourteenth volume,
the best history of slavery and the
slave trade ever published. In that
he will find that slave traders from
Portugal brought the first cargo of
twenty negroes and landed them at
Jamestown, in Virginia, in 1C20.
Shortly after this most of the north
ern colonies engaged in it and Indi
ans were enslaved as well as negroes.
The son of King Philip was sold as a
slave at Plymouth in the year 10S0.
The slave trade between the north
ern colonies and Africa was carried
on with vigor until 1776. In that
year it was resolved by thecontinen
tal congress that no more slaves
should be imported. In 1733 con
gress extended the traffic to 1S0S,
but the state of Georgia refused to
ratify the extension and in 1798 en
acted the most prohibitory laws
against it.
The feeling against the traffic was
stronger in the southern states than
in the northern. Some of the north
ern states continued to carry it on
long after it had been prohibited.
And as late as 1S41 Judge Story, of
Massachusetts, charged the grand
jury of Boston that their people
were "steeped up to their eyebrows
in the infamous slave trade with
Africa." "But New England could
not make the service of the slaves
profitable and so sold them to Vir
ginia and the Carolinas and to South
America as late as 1849. When her
ships could no longer dodge the pur
suers from England and France and
traffic came to an end and then be
gan the howl of the abolitionists
against the south for keeping them
in slavery the very negroes whose
ancestors they sold to us. This is
history and it is also history that
after 1776 never did a slave ship land
on a southern coast save once, and
that was the case of the "Wanderer,"
who tried to land a cargo of 300 near
Savannah and was seized and confis
cated. This enough of slavery and those
responsible for it. The nineteenth
century has left us some good, some
signal blessings, and chief . among
them is the great advance in the so
cial condition of woman and the gen
eral recognition of her equality with
man in most all civil rights. Unless
she chaius herself to a brute she is
no longer a slave, but stands up side
by side with her husband. Her de
mands for herself and her children
now find a respectful audience iu
courts and legislatures (except, per
haps, that last miserable abortion
called the Georgia legislature), and
no great newspaper could pass with
out giving ag.ood part of its columns
for their pleasure and comfort. Wo
man is fast coming to the front as
mistress of the situation. In every
calling she has proved herself as in
telligent and as progressive as man
and infinitely his superior in public
morals and private virtue. When
she does come fully to the front she
wiil control legislation and then
whiskey, the curse of the country,
will be forever banished. Whiskey
is woman's greatest foe, the cause of
nearly all tyranny, infidelity and
crime that makes her existence mis
erable. She will not have to beg a
legislature to protect the factory
children, for then the children will
have sober fathers to protect them.
A good mother writes me from
Atlanta about the mutiny of the
Tech, and says that the trouble with
the boys of this day is the lack of
discipline at home. They are not!
taught obedience in their early youth
and they grow up without restraint
and imagine they know as much or
more than parents or teachers. That
is so, of course, and every parent
knows it, and that accounts for many
of the crimes and misdeeds that
bring trouble to parents. Instead of
children fearing their parents, most
parents fear their children, and
dread to have a rupture with them.
But they get paid for it sooner or
later. Diogenes heard a boy swear
ing on the street and. he hurried off
with his cane and found the father
and mauled him. If he was living
here now he would be kept busy
mauling parents, and I reckon the
fathers of those Tech boys would
catch a few strokes. If a teacher
has not the hearty co-operation of
the parent the boy had better be
sent home. Bill Arp.
Sam Jones on Kissing.
I see an Atlanta dentist has been
kissing a patron of his. What makes
some dentists do that way. Is there
peculiar temptations to a fellow who
fingers the mouth, to kiss the lips,
or is the devilment in the fellow in
born? I glory in the character of
the pure girl who resents such ad
vances and promptly reports the in
cident to her protectors.
Some girls don't care. They had
just as soon be kissed as not, and a
little sooner. They kissed poor Hob
son nearly to death and he is not
over it good now. I tip my hat to
modest womanhood. I hide my face
in the presence of immodest women.
The two pillars that uphold woman's
character are modesty and purity,
and when you knock either pillar out
then down comes the woman and if
the devil ever puts his foot on a wo
man once she never gets up any
more.
A modest woman dresses all the
way up to her neck and all the way
down to her feet. A modest woman
buttons her collar right up around
her neck; an immodest woman but
tons her collar around her waist. A
society woman in full evening dress
and full of wine is not in condition
to take good care of herself in my
judgment.
No policeman in Kokomo, Ind.,
can be induced to wear badge No. 3,
and that number has been dispensed
with by the authorities. It appears
that since the organization of the
department, nine years ago, every
No. 3 policeman has died within a
year after having begun to wear the
hoodoo badge.
A l'romlnent Chicago Woman Speaks.
Prof. Roxa Tvler, of Chicago, Vice
President Illinois Woman's Alliance, in
speaking of Chamberlain's Cough Rein
ed v. says: "I suffered with a severe
cold this winter which threatened to run
into pneumonia. I tried different rem
edies but I seemed to grow worse and
the medicine upset my stomach. A friend
advised nie to try Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy and I found it was pleasant to
take and it relieved me at once. 1 am
now entirelv recovered, saved a doctor's
bill, time and suffering, aud I will never
be without this splendid medicine again.
For sale bv M. L. Robinson iV liro., J. J
Miller's l')rug Store, Uoldsbor; J. R
Smith, Mt. Olive.
AT HOME AND ABROAD,
The Sews From Everywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
Business failures in the United
States for the past week numbered
325 against 322 last week.
Burglars' cracked the safe of the
People's Bank, at Livingston, Tenn.,
Sunday night, and stole $5,000.
The next Congress of Mothers will
open at Columbus, O., Tuesday,
May 21, 8 p. m., and close May 24.
The Western Union messenger
boys at Worcester, Mass., who are
paid $3 a week, have struck for $4.
An explosion of gas at the Came
ron colliery, near Shamokin, Pa.,
Saturday evening, killed five miners.
One battleship each will be built
t Newport News and Bath, Maine,
unuei- a decision reached by Secre
tary Long.
His wagon struck by a train at a
street crossing in Norristown, Pa.,
Monday morning, Henry Hathaway
was fatally injured.
As a result of the miners' strike,
Colorado is on the verge of a coal
famine, and a Legislative committee
will investigate the matter.
William Newfeld, who murdered
Mrs. Annie Kronman, at New York,
on August 7, 1899, was electrocuted
at Sing Sing, N. Y., Monday.
All social functions at the White
House have been suspended for the
season because of the President's
and Mrs. McKinley's indisposition.
As a result of a riot at Corbin,
Ky., Tuesday night, three persons
were killed, four others were wound
ed and a building wrecked by dyna
mite.
A fight with train robbers oc
curred on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at Rock wood, Pa., Fridaj',
in which one of the bandits was cap
tured.
The little son of Mrs. Bruce Board-
man, while playing with a revolver
at Olean, N. Y., Monday morning.
hot his mother, destroying the sight
of one eye.
The explosion of a lamp caused the
burning to death of Mrs. Mary Da
vis, aged 82, and her widowed daugh
ter, Mrs. John F. Crowell, aged 40,
at Reading, Pa., Saturday night.
In a head-on collision between
freight trains on the Grand Trunk
Railroad, at Lockes Mill, Me., Fri-
'ay, five men were killed and four
locomotives and 12 cars demolished.
daring thief entered the resi
dence of David Kemper, at Balti
more, Md., Friday night, while Mrs.
Kemper was entertaining a number
of friends, aud stole jewelry and dia
monds valtsed at $4,500.
Thinking the visitor a burglar,
Barney Pitts shot and killed John
Trotter, uuder his window, at Guth
rie, O. T., Saturday night, and then
found that Trotter was trying to
elope with his daughter.
One of the most stringent anti-
polygamy laws ever proposed was
introduced Wednesday in the Utah
Legislature. The bill provides a
maximum penalty of 20 years in the
penitentiary for any man having
more than one wife.
Five masked burglars horribly
tortured Martin Reich, an aged ped
dler, at Shamokin, Pa., Tuesday
night, in an effort to force him to
confess the hiding place of his money
that he will probably die. They
burned him from head to foot with
a red hot poker and stove lids and
then beat him into insensibility.
After a five days' trial at Pater-
son, N. J., for killing and maltreat
ing Jennie Bosschieter, the 17-year-
old mill girl, the three accused men,
Walter C. McAlister, Andrew J.
Campbell and William A. Death,
were on Fridaj' night found guilty of
murder in the second degree. The
maximum penalty is 30 years' im
prisonment at hard labor. N
Foreign Affairs.
Boer women are being kept in
British camps and if their husbands
are still fighting are put on a reduced
allowance.
Two wedding couples who were
sleighing in the Marmaros district,
in Roumania, were attacked and eat
en by wolves.
Ten persons were killed and many
were injured as the result of an ex
plosion in a hat factory at Denton,
England, Monday.
The Prussian Government has con
tracted for 255 locomotives, 505 pas
senger cars and 3900 freight cars,
costing $9,000,000.
At the christening of the steam
launch Florentina at Cannes, France,
Tuesday, 15 persons fell into the sea,
but all were rescued.
The British cruiser Sy belle, which
was wrecked in Lambert's Bay,
southern coast of Africa, three days
ago, has been abandoned.
Divorced women of Vienna have
formed a club to give legal aid to un
happy wives and to provide them
selves with home comforts.
United States marines will be
landed in Venezuela if the Govern
ment of that country forcibly expels
the New York and Bermudez Asphalt
Company from its concession.
National Capital Matters.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Jan. 22, 1901.
Senator Allen, just before the fill
buster against the Army Reorgani
zation bill was abandoned, made a
red hot speech against the McKin-
ley policy in the Philippines, which
made a large army necessary in
his own words : "I am opposed to
this bill, because its avowed purpose
is to provide soldiers to be sent to
the Philippines." He paid his com
pliments to Senator Hawley, who
had denounced the petition signed
by 2,000 Filipinos, presented to the
Senate by Senator Teller, as trea
sonable, by saying : "The flippan
cy with which the terms traitor aud
treason are being used these days is
getting to be a stench in the nos
trils of some of us." Incidentally
he gave the West Pointers io the
army a few side swipes and ex
pressed the opinion that the officers
who had never been to West Point
were among the best in the army.
Referring to the investigation now
being made in West Point by a com
mittee of the House, Mr. Allen said :
"Look at this investigation going on
now. This thing called hazing. Why,
the prize fighter is a gentleman, the
bull-baiter is a gentleman, when
compared with the cadets at West
Point. This hazing takes place with
in the knowledge of the officers at
that institution."
Representative Kitchin, of North
Carolina, has no fear that a cadet
appointed by him to West Point
will suffer anything by hazing or
fighting. He said on the subject :
"I've been hoping to hear that my
cadet had been 'called out.' I reck
on he's able to take care of himself,
jjjid I reckon also they will give him
a side berth. He's a graduate of one
of our North Carolina colleges, played
center rush on the football team, and
was captain of the baseball team.
Oh, he's a peach. He stands over
six feet high, weighs 180 pounds,
and comes of good fighting stock."
The nomination of the son of Jus
tice Harlan, of the Supreme Court,
to be Attorney-General of Porto
Rico, has not been confirmed yet by
the Senate. At a secret session
this week special offorts were made
to get Senator Pettigrew to with
draw his objection to action, but he
refused, declaring that he had no
doubt of young Mr. Harlan's per
sonal fitness for the position and no
personal objection to him; that his
opposition was based on higher
grounds the unfitness of the nomi
nation sof a son of a justice of the
Supreme Court at this time to such
a position. Mr. Pettigrew then said
a few words concerning the recent
nomination of a son of Justice Mc
Kenna to be major in the army,
jumping him over the heads of 118
lieutenants and captains; also of the
removal of a son of ex-President
Harrison, because his father had
dared to raise his voice in opposi
tion to the McKinley policy. Mr.
Pettigrew said : "I make no charge
against the Supreme Court, but I do
say that the appointment of the sons
of two of the members of that court
to important positions under the ad
ministration at this juncture of af
fairs in the Supreme Court is, to-say
the least, indecent." .
Senator Daniel, who objected when
Senator Morgan asked the unani
mous consent of the Senate to vote
on the Nicaragua Canal bill Febru
ary 11, says he objected because he
thought the question bad not been
sufficiently considered in its latest
phases, and from the present crowd
ed condition of Senate legislation he
was afraid that enough time would
not be allowed for debate upon the
canal bill if an hour was fixed for a
vote. Later Senator Morgan offered
a resolution declaring that neither
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty nor the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty, as amended
by the Senate, stand )n the way of
legislation providing for the con
struction of the Nicaragua Canal.
Tom Reed this week came out from
under cover and appeared before the
Senate Committee on Finance, which
is considering the bill reducing war
taxes that was passed by the House,
as attorney for the "poor downtrod
den" sellers of corporation stock,
whSTare crying for the taking off of
the tax of 2 cents upon each $100 of
the face value of stocks sold. Mr.
Reed's principal argument was that
the tax was in many cases more than
the selling value of stock. It struck
many as a poor argument, inasmuch
as stocks which are sold at less than
2 cents for each $100 of their face
value would seem to belong properly
to what are known as "wild cats,"
and should not be sold at all.
The threat of the Ship subsidy
press bureau to have the River and
Harbor bill held up in the Senate
until democratic Senators who are
interested in appropriations carried
by that bill allowed the Ship subsi
dy bill to be voted upon did not make
a dent in the opposition of demo
cratic Senators to the Ship subsidy
bill. Democratic Senators from
States along the Mississippi River
who were the ones aimed at by the
threat, say they can stand the fail
ure of the River and Harbor bill as
well as Republican Senators can, and
that no action will change their opposition.
ALL OVER Tl. STATE.
A Summary of Current Events for the
Past Seven Days.
A band of counterfeiters, three
white men and a negro, was arrested
at High Point, Monday.
The four-year-old son of Morris
Haskell was burned to death in Dur
ham, Saturday afternoon, during the
mother's temporary absence.
The Leading Racket Store, of Dur
ham, has gone into the hands of a
receiver with liabilities of $28,000 to
$30,000 and assets of $17,000 to $18,
000. The most disastrous Cre that ever
visited Graham occurred Friday
noon, when a dwelling heuse, milli
nery store, drug storoand telephone
exchange were burned.
In Moore county, Monday, a negro
named Alex Davis killed a white wo
man named Eliza Spain. The woman
was whipping Davis' dog, and he cut
her throat with a razor.
While attempting to cross the rail
road track at Lexington, Sunday
eveuing, A. J. Spurgeon was instant
ly killed by an outgoing freight
train. He was intoxicated.
The county commissioners of Samp
son county and the town council of
Clinton hare refused to grant li
quor license, and the county of
Sampson is now dry, so called.
At Tryon, Polk county, a few days
ago, a colored woman attempted to
extinguish a lamp by blowing down
the chimney. The lamp exploded
and the womau was burned to death.
Near Whitsctt, Guilford county,
Friday, Will Gibbons, colored, went
to the home of Mrs. Kate Albright
and criminally assaulted her in the
absence of her husband. The negro
escaped.
The store of Bullock Bros., ot Al-
fordsviile, Robeson county, was de
stroyed by fire Wednesday night,
causing an estimated loss of $11,
000 with insurance amounting to
$0,000. The origin of the fire is un
known, and L. II. Bullock, who slept
in the store, escaped with difficulty.
The Gaither cotton mills, a four-
story structure located on the south
fork of the Catawba river, collapsed
Thursday. No lives were lost, as
the plant was an old one and prac
tically abandoned. This was one of
the oldest cotton mills in North Car
olina, having been erected in 1851.
In the damage suit of Mrs. II. B.
Sprague, of Morganton, against the
Southern Railway, tried in the Fed
eral "Court at Asheville last week,
the plaintiff got a verdict for $5,
000. This suit was brought on ac
count of injuries received by plain
tiff on a train at Morganton several
years ago.
At Snow Hill, Christmas eve,
George W. Lindsay's horse was
frightened by the fireworks set off
in the streets and threw Mr. Lind
say. The latter has brought suit for
damages against the merchants who
sold the explosives, against the chief
of police and against the town of
Snow Hill.
An awful accident happened at the
veneer works in Thomasville, Wed
nesday afternoon. Five workmen,
all colored, fell into the steaming
tank. Yance Wells, who was scald
ed the worst, died soon after. The
others may recover. How any hu
man iife could escape iu that steam
ing, boiling vat is a miracle.
Luke Russell, of Institute, Lenoir
county, was shot from ambush Friday
morning while on his way toKinston
to attend the trial of his brother-in-law,
E. J. Kenned-, who was to have
been tried for bigamy that morning.
Kennedy recently married Russell's
sister and he (Russell), hearing that
Kennedy had a wife iu Florida, began
corresponding with parties in that
State. The correspondence resulted
in the indictment for bigamy. Rus
sell thinks Kennedy or some of Ken
nedy's friends or agents shot him.
Sunday morning before day the
only prisoner in Rutherford county
jail, Quince Whiteside, escaped in an
uncommon way. lie managed to
get on the roof from the chimney in
his cell and from the roof he jumped
to a pine tree and down to the
ground. The sheriff did not know
that he was gone until he went to
carry him his breakfast. Whiteside
was put in jail Saturday for waylay
ing and clubbing another negrtj near
Henrietta a few days ago. The ne
gro he clubbed is in a pretty bad
condition. About three weeks ago
all the prisoners confined in Ruther
ford jail escaped.
Tuesday of last week, two little
colored children were fighting at
their home on W. L. Kennedy's
place, near Falling Creek. Susan
Pool, an aunt of one of the children,
tried to stop the fight and in the ex
citement of the moment struck her
niece, Pearl Pool, on the head with
an iron tire poker. The girl was in
an unconscious condition most of the
time after she was hurt. Her pa
rents, however, did not think the
case serious until Thursday evening,
when they summoned' Dr. Ray Pol
lock. It was too late then to do any
good as the child died within a min
ute or two after the doctor reached
the house.
Wouldn't Marry Because He Drank.
Because he drank and because she
learned that on the morning of the
day upon which he was to wed, her
prospective groom was confined in
the station house as the result of
drunkenness, Miss Maggie Ormsby,
of Wilmington, cn Tuesday refused
to marry young George Vernon, who
had already procured a license from
the Register of Deeds and was in
waiting for the ceremony. She stated "
to him that if he loved whiskey bet
ter than he loved her, he must de
part, and despite his pleadings, he
was forced to go his way without his
bride. According to the Wilming
ton Star, Vernon does not appear to
be addicted to drink and has a very
pleasing appearance, but Miss Orms
by detected that he had been drink
ing when the hour for the marriage
came and his pleadings to the con
trary were without avail.
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