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GOLDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1901.
VOL. XIY. NO. 27.
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The Forsaken GraTe Yard.
No eostly granite marks the graves,
Xo fresh cut flowers grace,
No new made footprints in the clay
To tell a well loved place;
Only a few old tottering stones
Grown weary with tiie years.
With faded letters worn and dim
Hut more with rain than tears.
Across a grave with sunken breast
A timid wild rose creeps;
Who knows but 'iieath its perfumed
leaves
A pitying heart it keeps!
Sometimes a wild bird rests upon
A crumbling rock and sings;
Who knows but from a pitying heart
That tender note he brings?
Here lies a grave so short and small,
'Twould touch a mother's heart;
Within some breast at some sweet time
It held a larger part
And here around a faded name
Are green and clinging vines;
Who knows with what a pitying touch
The tender ivy twines?
And here's a long and narrow grave,
With naught to mark the place
Except a blue forget me uot
That lifts its dainty face;
But who can say it blooms less fair
Upon the pauper's bed
Than where you tottering stone is seen
Above his neighbor's head?
The wind blows sadly through the pines;
Alone, it seems to sigh.
Forgotten, whisper low the leaves
That rustle softly by.
But ah! we do not need to lie
Beneath a stone to be
Forgotten and alone; perhaps
They live in memory.
What Can a Woman Do
She can lauh with her lips, make
a man think she is the merriest crick
et in the world, while her eyes is full
of unshed tears and her heart is beat
ing as if it would burst.
She can forgive a great sin like an
angel, and nag a man about a pretty
vice like an importation from the
lower regions.
She can fix over old frocks and
wear them with a cheerful heart that
she may help somebody, and she can
spend the first money that she really
feels that she can fise for herself, in
going to a matinee and on sweets,
when she knows she needs a pair of
shoes.
She can quiet a baby with one or
two reassuring pats when a man
might almost knock the life out of it,
give it a whole bottle soothing syrup.
and it would still be open-eyed and
aggressive.
They can employ a whole day look-
i.ig for a couple of braces for jack,
and yet in the time of trouble she
could buy a mourning outfit in half
an hour, and her needle would fly as
if guided by electricity in sewing on
a bridal gown or a shroud for some
body's baby.
She can cry out her troubles on a
man's shoulder and feel a relief that
is only possible for masculine help,
and ten minutes later she can laugh
in that man's face aud wonder what
men were made for.
She can be brave in time of mental
trouble; she can stand by and hold
the hand of some one who is suffer
ing from some physical trouble, and
yet she will scream as if about to be
killed at the suggestion of some
mouse or beetle.
The Magic of SeU Confidence.
A man's success in life is usually
in proportion to his confidence in
himself and the energy and persis
tence with which he pursues his aim.
In this competing age there is little
hope for the man who does not thor
oughly believe iu himself. The man
who can be easily discouraged or
turned aside from his purpose, the
man who has no iron in his blood will
never win.
Half the giant's strength is in the
conviction that he is a giant. The
strength of a muscle is enhanced a
hundredfold by the will power. The
same muscle wheu removed from the
giant's arm, when divorced from the
force of the mighty will, can sustain
but a fraction of the weight it did be
fore it was disconnected.
What miracles confidence has
wrought! What impossible deeds it
has helped to perform! It took Na
poleon over the Alps in midwinter;
it took Farragut and Dewey past the
cannons, torpedoes and mines of the
enemy; it led Nelson and Grant to
victory; it has been the great tonic
iu the world of discovery, invention
and art.
The man without self confidence
and an iron will is the plaything of
chance, the puppet of his environ
ment, the slave of circumstances.
With these he is king, ever master of
the situation.
Social Philosophy.
No woman's children were ever so
much trouble that it influenced her
younger sisters to be maids.
Every man makes the mistake of
thinking he can fool his wife as easily
as he used to fool his mother.
Before marriage they go to the
kind and after marriage they go only
when the kind he likes is given.
The Lord surely doesn't exact it of
any girl that she say her prayers
regularly wheu on her honeymoon.
A Good Cough Medicine for Children.
'I have no hesitancy in recommend
ing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,"
says F. I'. Moran. a well known and
popular baker, of Petersburg. Va. "We
have given it to our children when
troubled with bad coughs, also whoop
ing cough, aud it has always given per-
: feet SallStaCUOU. ll oa leLuiuna-uu
! to me by a druggist as the best cough
j medicine for children as it contained no
1 opium or other harmful drug." Soldliy
M. E. Uobinson & Bro., J. F. Miller's
I Drug Store, Goklsboro; J. K. Smith, Mt.
Olive.
'0 GOOD IX XEGR0."
So Says A Free Born Son of Hani in His
Book Arp Discourses On It.
The race problem has bobbed up
again at the north. The Hon. Wil
liam Hannibal Thomas out-Herods
Herod in his denunciation of the ne
gro and The New York Sun seems to
indorse him. Thomas is a negro free
born in Ohio, but came down to
South Carolina and served in the
carpetbag legislature during the re
construction period and afterwards
held judicial office and says in the
preface to his book that he has been
studying the negro for thirty years
and is more and more confirmed in
his opinion that there is no good in
him neither socially, morally, in
dustrially or politically. His re
markable book has recently issued
from th',e well-known press of the
Macraillan Co., in New Y'ork, and
The New York Sun devotes a good
part of a page in reviewing it. The
author says the race is slowly but
surely degenerating that the negro
is by nature a savage with an inborn
ferocity and knows no such emotion
as mercy that be is a beast in his
domestic relations and will sell the
virtue of his wife or his daughters
and lose no social position among his
people or in his church. That the
negro preachers are the worst of the.
race. They stalk into negro sanctu
aries, overshadow the pews, invade
the precincts of domestic life and de
spoil the family and yoke virgin in-
noceuse with brazen guilt. That the
negro churches are debauching ren
dezvous. That negro religion is a
farce and worthless to reform or re
generate them, and the most heinous
crimes are committed by those who
read and write and are members of
negro churches.
He says that the negro is a brute
in the commission of crime and is a
craven coward after it is committed
and wheu caught and punished be
lieves himself a martyr, and if he es
capes the gallows would repeat his
crime with no sense of wroug doing.
He has no conception of virtue or
truth, no fear of hell or damnation,
but with the hangman's rope around
his neck is going straight to heaven.
The author mildly condemns lynch
ing for certain outrages, not because
it is cruel or illegal, but because it
does not deter other negroes from
similar outrages. He says, however,
that he has not yet fouud than an in
nocent man has ever been lynched.
He advocates force as the only prac
tical remedy for the negro force
control subjection to the white
race, not in a state of slavery as be
fore the war, but in one of fear and
obedience. He goes still further and
suggests the extermination of the in
ferior elements of the race because it
is better to have individual extermi
nation than race extinction. But
space forbids more of these anathe
mas and the wonder is that the book
was written by a negro of the north
and that a reputable pu'ishing house
would chaperon it before northern
people and that a northern editor,
who has been for years and years
lampooning the southern people
about the negro, should now give this
book his quasi indorsement. What
does all this mean? We knew that
they did not love the negro at Akron
and Pana, nor in the slums of New
York city, but we thought he was
still safe in the sanctum sanctorum
of republican editors. What is be
hind this new departure?
An agent has recently been to our
town distributing sensational circu
lars about a new book just issued iu
St. Louis in which theauthor asserts
that the negro is a beast and he tries
to prove it by the Bible as well as by
scientific research. This book is but
a revival of a former book called
"Ariel," and published about thirty
years ago. It is rethreshing of old
straw, but seems to be a brand new
doctrine up north aud has the in
dorsement of numerous preachers
and college professors. One preach
er up in Maine says that if it had
been written forty years ago there
would have been no civil war, for
their people would not have fought
for the freedom of a lot of beasts.
Then again I see in a recent editorial
in a republican paper an evidence of
weakness and reaction about the
negro and the editor asks, "Can it
be possible' that the two hundred
millions of money sent by the north
to educate the southern negro has all
been wasted?" Apologies are now
in order. In addition to all this it
has been asserted by those who know
that Mr. McKinley has changed
front and that no more negroes will
be appointed to office. Is the north
about to abandon the negro and turn
him over to the mercy of his former
masters? If so, the negro will be
the gainer, and so will the south.
That is all we have asked for all
these years just to be let alone.
They were our negroes before the
war and they are our negroes yet.
We don't give them office nor allow
them to sit ou our juries, nor ride in
our cars, nor End lodging in our
hotels, nor take pews in our churches,
and but for northern interference
they would not have been allowed to
vote, either state or national or mu
nicipal, but we pay them for their
labor and give them a fair education.
But for fear of shocking our northern
friends the whipping post would have
long since been the force that Thom
as says must be used and then the
5,000 that are in the state and county
chain gangs of Georgia would have
been reduced to 500 or a less num
ber. A bad negro who fears not God
nor regards man, cares not a great
deal for the gallows and less for the
chaingang, and nothing for a term in
jail, but he does dread a good whip
ping. We old masters all remember
that. One good whipping will last a
negro for years. The chaingang ef
fects no reform and does not last six
months. But the average negro does
not need corporal punishment often:
he needs a boss.
Thomas is right when he declares
that triey are getting worse instead
of better, especially in the towns and
cities. Read the Atlanta papers and
ask the Atlanta police. Ask Judge
Broyles to compare the records of
his court. Ask the judge and solici
tor of any court. They are growing
worse everywhere, except on the
farms and plantations, where they
are controlled by landlords, who are
nearly as much their masters as in
the olden times. If they don't use
physical force they exercise a will
power that exacts the utmost obedi
ence. The landlord is the boss.
Thomas is right when he asserts that
they have no conception of domestic
virtue and morality. They seldom
marry according to law, but just
take up and quit when they feel like
it.
There are more negro children in
this town and every other town who
are born out of wedlock than those
who are born in it. Neither man
nor w ife uor church members loses
caste for notorious infidelity to the
marriage relation. As Thomas says
most of the preachers are ou that
line. Eight negro preachers are now
in our chaingang and as many more
in the county gangs. I asked a ne
gro the other day what they turned
their preacher off for, and he said
"it were for some onreglarities."
Some of our negro school teachers
get the same reputation and have to
step down and out. We had one
here a few years ago who was highly
educated and wrote a beautiful let
ter, but he got to kidnaping little
things and ran away in the night and
dident stop until he got to Africa
and was made a bishop.
But Thomas does not tell us how
to exterminate them, nor where to
draw the line between the inferior
classes and those who shall be al
lowed to live and multiply. He ex
hausts his indignation without de
lining the mode and manner of the
remedy. I suppose we might trans
port the men and boys to the Philip
pines and turn the army loose upon
them, but that would be expensive,
or we might drive them out west
and let them starve to death or be
killed off by the Indians. Anyway
would satisfy Thomas if it extermi
nated all the bad ones. We are do
ing reasonably well on that line, for;
besides the lynchings for the usual
crime, which I hope will be kept up
diligently, we have retired about 5,
000 to private life in .the chaingangs
of Georgia, and 15,000 more in other
southern states. That amounts to a
partial extermination and is better,
for we get their labor during the
process. We ought to take up every
trifling vagabond and send him there,
for idleness is the parent of vice and
crime. If he had done something
send him for doing it and if he hadent
done anything then send him for do
ing nothing. And as for those snatch
thieves who are pursuing and rob
bing the ladies of Atlanta I wouldent
send them to the chaingang until
they bad been whipped once a week
for a month. Force is the thing
the force of a cowhide on the naked
skin. That is the remedy for black
and white in Delaware, and neither
a snatch thief nor a bank robber
dares to stop in the state. They
hurry through to another state where
there is no whipping post. When we
get a legislature that has got wisdom
and moral courage enough to exter
minate the dogs and protect the
sheep they will re-establish the whip
ping post.
But about the Beasty book that
says the negro has no soul. I sup
pose it was manufactured to sell and
fool somebody. As my nigger Bob
once said to Nabor Freeman: "Effen
a white man got a soul and a nigger
haint got no soul how about a mel
later?" That's a conundrum. And
how about the Indians and Chinese
and Cubans and the Arabs. How
much coloring does it take to germi-
CONTIXNED OX SECOND PAGE.
Remarkable Cares of Rheumatism.
From The Vindicator, Rutherfordton. N. C.
The editor of the Vindicator has had
occasion to test the efficacy of Chamber
lain's Pain Balm twice with the most
remarkable results in each case. First,
with rheumatism in the shoulder from
which he suffered excruciating pain for
ten days, which was relieved with two
applications of Pain Balm, rubbine the
I parts afflicted and realizing instant ben
1 etit and entire relief in a very short
time. Second, in rheumatism in thigh
I joint, almost prostrating him with se
vere paiu, which was relieved by two
i applications, rubbing with the liniment
j on retiring at night, and getting up free
! from pain, tor sale by Al. .h.. Kobinson
j & Bro., J. r . Miller s Drug Store, Golds
1 boro; J. It. Smith, Mt. Olive.
AT HOME AND ABKOAD.
The News From Eierywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
Failure of the natural gas supply
tied up business at East Liverpool,
O., Tuesday.
To escape testifying in a murder
trial George Terry, of Newtown, O.,
killed himself Monday.
Two men and sixteen horses were
burned to death in a stable at Brook
lyn, N. Y., Sunday night. '
A folding bed shut on Miss Ollie
Hartsough, of Cnicago, 111., Tues
day, crushing her skull and killing
her.
In an interview at Memphis, Tenn.,
Tuesday, George J. Gould said he
expected yet bigger combinations
than have been formed.
Three negroes were hanged at
Richmond, Ark., Friday, for mur
dering Edwards Evans, white, and
Frank Hopson, colored.
The Prohibition State Convention
at Kalamazoo, Mich., this week, re
fused to indorse the saloon-smashing
crusade of Carrie Nation.
Two men were drowned at Ter
rell, Tex., Saturday by a cloudburst.
The country was flooded, and the
streams overflowed a large district.
For committing a criminal assault
upon a white woman, Will Davis,
colored, was shot to death by a mob
near Shreveport, La., Tuesday night.
The Indiana Senate killed the res
olution amending the constitution to
extend right of suffrage to women.
The House had passed the resolu
tion. Governor Dockery, of Missouri.has
signed the bill punishing kidnapping
for ransom by death. The bill has
an emergency clause and is therefore
a law.
The Delaware Legislature ad
journed Friday evening, leaving two
vacancies in the United States Sen
ate. The Montana Legislature elec
ted Paris Gibson, a Democrat.
A tornado Saturday afternoon de
molished half of the town of Willis
Point, Tex. Four people were killed
and about twenty injured. The pro
perty loss is placed at $500,000.
F5v men wprs hadlr scalded. rnn
fatally, by the blowing out of two!
testing tubes connected with a bat
tery of boilers at the American Iron
Works, Pittsburg, Pa., Saturday.
In a dispute over the firm's books
Monday at Chicago, 111., Charles
Merrill, tea merchant, was shot in
the head by John Correa, his book
keeper, who then committed suicide.
Fire at Sebree, Ky., Friday night,
destroyed a large portion of Sebree,
including half a dozen small business
houses and several residences. Es
timated loss $75,000; partially in
sured.
A heavy wind and rain storm pre
vailed at Memphis, Tenn., Saturday
night, and much damage was
wrought. Culverts were washed out
and fences and small trees suffered
severely.
Jacob Muller, formerly a well-
known grand opera singer in Europe
and America, died suddenly Sunday
at San Francisco, Cal., just before
the beginningof a performance given
for his benefit.
The Treasury Department has is
sued a warrant in favor of Admiral
George Dewey for $9,570 on account
of prize money found to be due him
by the Court of Claims for the de
struction of t,he Spanish fleet in Ma
nila harbor, Mayl, 1898.
William L. Mott, who was await
ing trial for the murder of two wo
men last October, committed suicide
Tuesday evening in his cell in the
county jail at Lascaster, Pa., by
hanging. Mott was 29 years old,
and his home was in Norfolk, Va.,
where his wife and four children re
side.
Six masked men made an unsuc
cessful attempt to rob the Citizens'
Bank at Perrysburg, O., early Sa
turday morning. They exploded
dynamite twice to gain entrance to
the bank from an adjoining store
and were almost into the bank when
they were discovered by awakened
citizens.
Foreign Affairs.
Bombay shows a decline in popu
lation of 50,000 in ten years.
Turkey's warlike preparations cre
ate increasing alarm in Bulgaria.
Portugal has ordered a war ship
to Oporto, in view of threatened
riots.
A new Cabinet, with Senor Sagas
ta as Premier, has been formed in
Spain.
The Portuguese Government is
preparing measures against the re
ligious associations.
Twelve Irish members of the House
of Commons were suspended Mon
day, but refused to leave and a free
fight resulted.
Ten persons were killed and many
injured Tuesday by an explosion of
fire damp in the Consolidation mine
at Gelsenkirchen, Prussia.
Emperor William, who was struck
by a piece of iron thrown by Die
trich Weiland in Bremen, Tuesday,
was severely cut on the face.
Blasted a Young Girl's Life.
An ugly story comes from the
southern part of Guilford county.
By his dastardly conduct, a young
man is reported to have blasted the
life of an orphan girl, brought dis
grace upon his family and caused
himself to be bound over to the next
term of Guilford Superior Court on
a charge of seduction. The facts, as
reported are as follows : Years ago
an orphan girl, whose parents were
highly respectable people, was adop
ted into a well-known family resid
ing some miles south of Greensboro.
She was regarded as virtually a
member of the family and bore a
spotless reputation in a discrimina
ting Quaker community. About a
year ago the neighborhood was
thrown into a furor of excitement
when it was learned that she had
given birth to an illegitimate child.
In the family was a son some five
or six years older than the girl, and
to him was generally accredited- the
parentage of the child nor was the
charge tdenied. His parents gave
the neighbors to understand that
the unfortunate girl should be pro
tected and cared for and would re
main in their family. This some
what allayed the feeling against the
young man and the matter was
dropped for the time. . Later, how
ever, the seducer was married to a
young lady in another neighborhood.
After the marriage neither the young
man nor his wife would visit the for
mer's parents on account of the
presence in the family of the orphan
girl and her illegitimate child. A
short time ago the girl, with her in
fant, was sent to Randolph county
to live with relatives. Then it was
that the neighborhood took a hand in
the affair. They did uot propose to
sit idly by and see the girl turned
out of the family in which she bad
been ruined, and legal proceedings
were instituted against her seducer.
The young man was indicted and
bound over to court under a bond of
$1,000, which he gave. During the
investigation the girl testified that
she bad been ruined by the yo-ng
man before she had reached the age
of consent 14 years. If the matter
is not compromised, the trial, which
will be one of the most sensational
ever beard in Guilford county, will
come up during the May term of
court.
An Editor's Desk.
Carlton M. Herrick, who was own
er of the Patterson (N. J.) Guardian
for 27 years, was an editor of the old
school. His desk was sacred, and
nobody about the establishment as
sumed to disturb it in any way.
When, in 1899, Mr. Herrick disposed
of his interests in The Guardian and
started to clean up his desk, the
news spread about, and employees
and former employees of the office
and many of those who had long been
out of the place hustled back to take
a look. Calendars 25 years old were
unearthed, and there are persons in
Paterson who have a few souvenirs
from the desk that held the old
"truck" and saw so many men go up
and down in the newspaper business.
Mr. Herrick removed part of the old
books home. In the collection were
tickets to see theatrical stars who
years before had started for the great
beyond. Mr. Herrick never gave any
explanation of his holding things on
the old desk for so many years.
Chinese Personals. .
Advertising rates in native Chi
nese papers are low, and the columns
are freely used in all personal mat
ters. Here is the concluding portion of
an announcement inserted by a jil
ted swain whose ladylove eloped with
one Chou Ling:
"I cannot control my wrath and
bitterness. My loved one has, it is
plain, been enticed away by this ras
cal's deceit. How, I wonder, can a
mere tailor's dummy like this sue
ceed in winning her? Surely he has
not law or justice before his eyes,
It is on this account that I am ad
vertising. Should any kind hearted
gentleman give me information of
her whereabouts by letter I will re
ward him with $20. Should he bring
her back to her parents I will joy
fully give him $40. I will most cer
tainly not eat my words. His kind
ness and benevolence for a myriad
generations, to all eternity, shall
not be forgotten."
Girls Who Make Poor Wires.
It is the worshipped daughter, who
has been taught that her whims and
wishes are supreme in a household,
who makes marriage a failure all
her life. She has had her way in
things great and small; and when
she desired dresses, pleasures or
journeys, which were beyond the
family purse she carried the day with
tears or sulks, or, posing as a mar
tyr. The parents sacrificed and suf
fered for her sake, hoping finally to
see her well married. The average
man is blind to the faultsof a pretty
girl. He thinks her little pettish
ways are mere girlish moods; but
when she becomes his wife and re
veals her selfish and cruel nature, be
is grieved and hurt to think fate has
been so unkind to him. The result is
a divorce and gossip her finish.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A Summary of Current Events for the
Past Seven Days.
A family of 13 members in Union
county are sick with measles.
The penitentiary board has decid
ed to abandon the State farm in An
son county. It is said the farm does
not pay.
Dave Murdoc, colored, was shot
dead near Laurinburg, Wednesday
night, by some one on the outside
with a rifle.
The State Auditor has found some
old war books that are valuable.
They contain lists of deserters from
the civil war and one of these books
show that twenty deserters have been
drawing pensions for several years.
An aged colored woman, Maria
Townseod, was burned to death in
Anson county, Thursday, her cloth
ing becoming ignited while standing
before the fire. Her daughter-in-law
was painfully burned while trying to
extinguish the fire.
Papers of incorporation have been
taken out for the Neuse Milling Co.,
of Kinston, to manufacture meal
and flour and the "buying of hay,
grain, wood and coal, the capital
stock being $3,300, with privilege of
increasing to $10,000.
Rowan county was swept Sunday
and Monday by the greatest forest
fire in the history of the county, per
haps. The fire started in Morgan
township, sweeping across 1,000
acres of thickly timbered land burn
ing everything in its track.
Tom Harrison, a farmer, was kill
ed by a Southern Railway train near
Reidsville, Saturday night. A bot
tle half filled with whiskey was found
on his person, and it is supposed that
while under the influence of liquor,
he fell asleep upon the track.
The boiler at the saw-mill of Wash
G. Faulkner, in Warren county, ex
ploded Monday, killing his son
Charles, aged 20. Albert, his oldest
son, was, painfully scalded and
burned. Mr. Faulkner and his
youngest son were hit in the back
by either a piece of iron or wood,
which knocked both senseless, but
the wounds will not prove fatal.
One of the largest fires in the his
tory of High Point occurred Wed
nesday afternoon about 2:15 o'clock.
Most of the buildings burned were
frame structures and, fanned by
March winds, the fire was intensely
hot and made rapid progress. It
originated from a gas tank on a pea
nut parcher in the store of Alf Fra
ley, under the Edwards House, a
large frame building. Estimated
loss about $30,000.
James Martindale, a white man,
aged 26 years, was taken from jail
at Carthage, Thursday night, and
hanged in the outskirts of the town.
A few weeks ago he outraged Mrs.
Henry Brewer, a young married wo
man, while on her way to teach
school. Since then the fact devel
oped that two 3 ears ago Martindale
had outraged a young sister of his
wife, and this added to the intensity
of the feeling against him.
Charles Wilson was burned to
death at his home at Institute, Le
noir county, Tuesday night. Mr.
Wilson went home that night in a
state of intoxication and his conduct
was such as to frighten his wife,
who took her four children and left
the house, going over to a neighbor's
to spend the night. It is not known
how he caught on fire, but it is sup
posed that he laid down in front of
the fire and rolled in it or a spark
popped on his clothing.
The explosion of a dynamite cap
Sunday morning cost Daniel Freeze,
of Cannonville, Cabarrus county, the
loss of the thumb and two fingers of
one hand. He was picking the cap
to pieces, and at the same time warn
ing his children, from whom he had
taken it, of the danger of playing
with such things. He laid the cap
on the stove after taking out the fuse
and his own carelessness caused him
a fearful hurt that may serve to im
pressliis children with the necessity
of still greater caution.
There was an extra car attached
to passenger train No. 34, which ar
rived in Charlotte Wednesday night
over the Southern Railway from At
lanta. It was a Pullman sleeper,
and its occupants were insane sol
diers who were being brought home
from the Philippines. They were
landed at San Francisco a few days
ago and were there placed in the car
which was carrying them through
to Washington. The car contained
a sergeant and 16 privates, every
one of them crazy. Five of the men
were handcuffed.
The seven-year-old daughter of
Thomas R. Tyndall, in Greene coun
ty, was burned to death Thursday
About 8 o'clock in the morning the
little girl started down in the field to
where her father was at work. The
child was carrying some matches to
Mr. Tyndall to start a fire with
When about 150 yards from the house
the clothing of the little girl caught
fire. She ran back to the house, but
when she reached it her clothes were
burned entirely off. The little suf
ferer died at 3 o'clock in the after
noon, after terrible agony.
This Breaks the Record.
One of the most unique divorce
suits on record has just been settled
in Savannah, Ga. It was one of those
cases where a divorce coupon should
have gone with the marriage certifi
cate. The case tried was that of James
A. Kesler against Minnie Kesler.
On the stand the plaintiff said he
married the defendant October 3,
1897. The plaintiff is an elderly man,
and the defendant, it appears, is
quite a young woman. She made no
answer or objection to the suit and
was not present in court-w hile it was
being tried.
One hour after the knot had been
tied, according to the statement of
the plaintiff, his wife deserted him.
She first touched him for $50, for the
alleged purpose of making some pur
chases, and he sat down in the hotel
where the honeymoon was to hae
begun and awaited her return. Kes
ler was of the opinion that if he had
not got tired and given up, he would
have been waiting there yet, and
been just as far from seeing his wife.
She never showed up.
The jury thought that under the
circumstances the plaintiff was en
titled to a first verdict of total di
vorce, and one was granted in his
favor.
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