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Oh, life too brief for sighing, and life too brief for song: And the green world at our feet, dear; ami overhead the sky And Love that says good morning, only to weep goodbye! Fkaxk L. Stanton. A Minister's Conclusion As To Marriage. The heart, mind and soul of the Rev. Jacob Schlegel, of Greater New York, are under the weight of a grievous burden of responsibility. It is even inferred that the sharp and cruel tooth of remorse is gnawing at his vitals. The Re Jacob Schlegel has in point of fact performed the marriage ceremony no less than three thousaud times, and he is not at all certain that he has not been an ac tive agency for the promotion of the unhappiness of six thousand people. The reverened minister makes no mention of any decline in the size of the matrimonial fee, and it is not fair to attribute his pessimism to any such cause as that. He says that long years of close observation have convinced him finally that marriage a failure and that a young man married is a young man marred. He makes the shocking statement that the cause of marital misery is the girls. "The girls," he said "I do not like them. They will insist upon having so much. If their hus bands make $10 a week" they will have a hired girl." The women will not for a moment admit the truth of this, but there is a grain of truth in the chaff of it after all. When a young woman marries a poor young mau as a rule she never stops to think of bread and butter, of Easter bonnets and garments, and olive yards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men servants and women servants, nor of the future. Her mind is filled with the contemplation of the paragon that is going to be hers her very own. Her fancy elopes from sordid surroundings and disports itself in places whtre life is all poetry and weariness a name. Theu some day she wakes up, rubs her eyes and finds herself among the realities of life. She finds that her paragon is not just what she pictured him to be. He seems to have changed since they used to swing ou the front gate together or keep steady com pany in the parlor on Sunday even ings, lie does not can tier pet names half as often. He is perhaps lazy and a little selfish. Possibly he is fond of beer and spends more than his share of the weekly stipend iu his own pleasure. He doesn't take the same unstinted delight in her company, and goes out in the even ings and leaves her alone. She gets tired, and when he comes home she tells him her troubles and complains and possibly reproaches him, and that makes him tired and causes him to go ofteuer and stay longer. Dif ferences arise, and then they begin to wish they had not married. That is evidently the kind of cou ple that the Kev. Mr. Schlegel had in mind. But there are some married people whose lives are one long sweet song and where the married ones get more and more fond of each other as their hair gets more and more gray; and the reverend gentleman is away off from the truth when he thinks that all single men and single women are happy men and women. It has often been observed that a bird out of the cage tries as hard to get in as the bird in the cage tries to get out. As a rule a man's a fool. When it's hot he wauts it cool; When it's cool lie wants it hot; Alwavs wanting what is not. Not Insultiii!? to a Kentucky Woman. Louisville, Ky., May 13. At Cen tral City, in this state, a novel de cision was handed down to-day by Police Judge Creel. Sara Searcy had entered the depot at that place and rnrliippfl a bottle of moonshine whisk v. There were several women in the waiting room, and he insisted that thev take a drink. Marshal Wooten arrested him and charged him with "insulting a woman." 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Theu lie Discourses On a South-Haling Sermon lly a Northern Preacher. "Fret not thyself because of evil doers. Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way and bringeth wicked devices to pass." There is good philosophy and much comfort in that psalm. Its frequent perusal will fortify us against trou ble and leave us calm and serene at least for a time. But I don't believe that David had as many things to exasperate him as we do. Now here is a Chicago religious paper sent to me to disturb my tranquility. It contains a sermon recently delivered by the editor to a large congregation of his followers and they said amen and amen at every malediction that he uttered against our people. I don't fret myself about what a nor thern preacher says nor a northern editor writes, but I don't like that amen and amen from the saints, and it grieves me to realize that the more malignant an editor is against us the more subscribers his paper gets. Now this Chicago editor says in his sermon : "If I were president when the next lynching takes place in the south I would put a cordon around that district and hang a hundred of them and I would shoot a hundred. Worthy of cannibals are the hor rible things carried on in the South. As sure as you live these eight mil lion negroes will one day burst loose. If it is to be blood for blood, then woe to you in the black belt. You southerners with your rebellious pride still left you lynch the poor ne gro for the very crime that your fathers committed on their slaves. There is one voice that will speak if all others are silent. (Applause.) When the time comes we will do more than speak. Oou will judge you you whited sepulcuers who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. have been told that I have lost friends at the south. I never had any. I ney were never worthy of my friendship. They are neither Chris tians nor good citizens. I hear the march of eight million Ethiopians, and it will be an awful day when they burst loose in the black belt." My wife says that I had better take the llowers out of the greenhouse and maybe that will relieve me. I see that the first rose of summer has come forth in all its crimson beauty. A pair of tiny sparrows are drinkiug at the fountain in the front yard. They are yellow and black, akin to the canaries. A mockingbird is sing ing in a neignoors garden, uur flock of pigeons is sailing around in graceful curves. The peacock is strutting and spreading his magnifi cent tail and is happy in his vanity. The dog lies lazily on the blue grass and everything is happy that God has made except some miserable peo ple who are never happy unless they are abusing something or finding fault with their neighbors. What a slack-trough the south is to that class up north. They can differ with each other in politics and the tariff and religion and the Philippine war, but when they get tired of quarreling they say, "Well, now, let's hold up awhile and abuse those nigger killers down south." That's a harmonizer. Another preacher, Dr. Gunsaulus, delivered the oration at Galena in honor of General Grant's birthday and made it appear that Grant was the author and finisher of emancipa tion and negro suffrage and it would be sacrilege to permit the ballot to be taken away from him while the shadow of that monument is over the nation. Oh, my country! What an idiot! Everybody who reads history knows that Grant was a slave owner and lived off the hire of his negroes up to the very day of their freedom and he uniformly declared he was not fighting for the negro, but for the union. Let the reverend gentleman read in Appleton's "Cyclopedia of American Biography" where General Grant's old father wrote to him at St. Louis in May 1SG0, that if he couldent live off the hire of his ne groes be had better move to Galena and work in the tanyard. But I will take a brief rest again in the garden, for my wife says the potato bu.s have come and I had better get ready to poison them. She says they are almost as pestiforous as yankee preachers and are much nearer to us. My garden is a clay subsoil and bakes very quickly after a rain, and it keeps me moving quite lively to pre vent a crust that will not let the lit tle plants come up. It has always been a mystery to me how a little tender plant can upheave a clod that will weigh half a pound. But about those preachers who are so distressed about the negro. I wish to remark that the same paper that gave Dr. Gunsaulus's sentiments about the negro had in the next col umn in large head lines a press dis patch from Connellsville, Pa., an ac count of a fiendish crime committed by eight negroes upon Mr. McMillan and his wife, shooting him and sub jecting her to an outrage worse than death and left them both for dead. I hope the posse has got the negroes nnd lvnched them bv this time. Do you reckon I would have refused to help lynch the brutes if I had been there and if that Chicago preacher had been there and refused a helping hand I would have said, "Now, boys, let's hang him up by the legs to give him time to. repent the cowardly dog who would not avenge a woman's honor." That's my faith and part of my religion, and I've been on that line ever since these outrages begun. I rejoice over every lynching of a brute and our woods are full of good citizens of the same mind. Govern or Chandler may purge his own re cord about lynching and denounce that Philadelphia editor who lied on him, but I am not governor and am not a target to be shot at and I am free to say that a man who would wait for the slow, uncertain process of the law and the courts to avenge our wives and daughters is no man ' at all and has my scorn and con tempt. I think I had better read a psalm or go out and plant some more beans for my wife says she wants a succession of crops of all these leguminous vegetables. I think that is what she called them. It is that same puritanical set of preachers who brought on the war and we thought the next generation would have more sense and let us alone since slavery was abolished, but like fathers, like sons, and they are yet miserable as long as Morde cai is sitting at the gate. Some of our writers and orators declare that peace and brotherly love now pre vails, but it is like the game of "three card moute," now you see it and now you don't see it. Henry Grady made a great speech in Boston and fairly captured his audience, but in less than two weeks the Boston preach ers were ceiittling his etlort and howling at the South for its bad j faith to the fifteenth amendment, i The race problem is still their capi tal stock and it has spread from New England to Chicago and the great west. The G. A. R.'s have appointed a committee to write Lp a history of the civil war, and the next thing will be to force it into the pub lic schools. The G. A. R's.area power in the land and their creed is to draw more pensions and bigger ones, but l can t understand now they can look a confederate soldier in the face and boast of anything. If it took four of us to whip one of them I'd never brag about it nor ask for a pension, and it it was given me, i wouiu conscientiously ptfur it buck in the jug. When God created Adam He planted a garden for him and put him in it to keep it and dress it and that was innocent and manly, and so I will go out and dig some and turn the hydrant loose, for it is aw ful dry. Wish I could turn it loose on those preachers. Since Bishop Candler exclaimed in big head lines, "Oh, for one more breath of Puri tanism!" I've been perusing histo ry. Of course he dident mean those Puritans who came to New England and went to importing negroes and robbing the Indians and burning witches. Mr. Stedman and Miss Hutchinson have eleven volumes of American literature and the second is devoted to those horrible witch craft times when Increase Mather and Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall and other saints had helpless women arrested and tried and hung for withcraft. The whole procedure is in this volume and it makes the heart sick to read how the poor creatures begged for their lives and in their last moments on the gallows denied their guilt. How as many as eight were hung at one time and many more at various times, and how old Judge Sewall afterwards re pented and the twelve jurymen re pented and published their repen tance and asked God to forgive their great sin, etc. One woman, Mary Watkius, who was a hired servant, a white woman, was tried, but the evidence was not quite sufficient to convict, and so they did not hang her, but seut her off to Virginia to be sold as a slave. This is only a little scrap of New England history, and if any of their descendants is ashamed of it they have never said so to me. Those northern brethren are awful slow on apologies. But I must go and stick the sweet peas and hurry up the flowers for the June wedding. Our neighbor's pretty daughter is to be married and they are singing to me "Bring Rowers, briug flowers, for the bride to wear. They are born to blush iu her shining hair. Bill Arp. Fanned by a 35-mile-an-hour wind, fire Monday afternoon swept the west bank of the Rouge river, in Del Ray, a suburb to the south of De troit, Mich., for three-quarters of a mile, and destroyed over $S75,000 worth of property. Beware of a Coagh. A cough is not a disease but a symp tom. Consumption and bronehits, which are the most dangerous and fatal dis eases, have for their first indication a persistent cough, and if proj)erly treated as goon as this cough appears are easily cured. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has proved wonderfully successful, and gained its wide reputation and extensive sale by its success in curing the diseases which cause coughing. If it is not ben eficial it will not cost you a cent. For sale by M. K. Robinson & liro., J. F. Miller's Drug Store, Goldsboro; J. li. Smith, Mt. Olive. AT HOME AND ABROAD. The Sews From Ererjwhere (.'athered and Condensed. Missouri will take the space given up by Maryland at the Buffalo Ex position. During a thunder storm al Cor dele, Ga., Monday, two ladies and a negro were killed. A boiler explosion at Lead, S. D., Saturday, killed one man and in jured seven others. The steel combine is planning to reduce expenses by centralizing and abandoning many plants. After a quarrel with her husband Mrs. Ralph Vannanler, of Blystone, Pa., committed suicide Monday with poison. The Canton State Bank, of Can ton, S. D., failed to open its doors Saturday. No statement of its con dition has been made. Dr. Thomas E. Eldridge, a Phila delphia physician, was jailed there Saturday, charged with hiring a man to blow up his wife with dynamite. The boiler of a locomotive on the Huntington and Broadtop Mountain Railroad exploded at Mount Dallas, Pa., Friday, instantly killing four men. While standing in the door of their home near Brosville, Va., Tuesday morning, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hai ley were struck by lightning and icilled. Samuel Flower, paying teller of ihe Hibernia National Bank, of New Orleans, La., was arrested there Monday charged with a shortage of $30,000. A fire which originated in one of the storage compartments of the Unlon Compress Company's build- ing, at Augusta, Ga., Thursday noon, burned cotton valued at over f150,000. A dilapidated two-story frame building collapsed in Chicago, Satur day, killing one child and injuring fifteen others. In their eagerness to procure firewood chopped thft sup ports from beneath the rotten struc ture. Two women were burned to death and a number of persons were in jured in a fire which started in the five-story apartment house at Lex ington avenue and Sixtieth street New York, early Thursday morning. The loss by fire was $20,000. While inspecting a portion of his brewery in which was a large kettle af boiling beer, Samuel Bolton, Jr., of Troy, N. Y., accidentally fell headlong into the kettle Friday noon. When discovered the flesh was boiled and the body presented a horrible appearance. A Burlington fast passenger train struck a construction train at Thay er, la , Monday. Robert Brown, an engineer, was killed, and Simon McKenna fatally hurt. Twentj'-five passengers and trainmen were in jured, two or three fatally. Both engines, the baggage car, the smok ing car and three chair cars were wrecked. The body of 12-year old Willie Mc- Cormick, who disappeared from his home, at High Bridge, New York, six weeks ago, was found Friday, floating on the surface of Cromwell's creek, not far from the McCormick home. The father and sister of the boy identified the body by the clothes. It is believed he was acci dentally drowned. Capt. R. Henry Matthews and Mrs. Susie Sadler have been com mitted to jail at Isle of Wight, Va., without bail, on the charge of hav ing poisoned Mrs. Sarah E. Mat thews, wife and sister, respectively, i of the accused, lne woman con spired with Matthews to murder her sister with strychniue, that they might live together thereafter. Jesse King, a young farmer resid ing near Milheim, Pa., ended hi three months' stormy marital expe rience with a double tragedy Mon day morniug. He first shot and mortally wounded his young bride Soon afterwards he shot himself through the heart while standing in the road within sight of his stagger ing, bleeding wife, in order to avoid arrest. Foreign Affairs. A revolution has broken out Santo Domingo. Bloody riots have been renewed at Barcelona, Spain Conflicts between French and Chi nese are reported from Southern China. Census returns show the popula tion of England and Wales to be 32,. 525,716. American cavalry defeated a su perior force of Filipinos near Balay- an, Luzon, Monday. General Chaffee's troops have evacuated all parts of Pekin except the Forbidden City. A dispatch from Constantinople announces the wholesale shooting of revolutionary Macedonians, includ ing women. The London War Office announces the total British deaths in the South , African War as 14,978, besides men I invalided home. Financial and Commercial. Special Correspondence. New York, May 14, 1001. The Stock Exchange has been a storm centre and the point of gene ral business interest during the past week. The wild excitement in the share markets has had a quietiug ef fect upon all other speculations as well as upon some legitimate enter prises the successful progress of which is dependent upon stable con ditions in the financial markets. But the merchandise distribution has been generally active, and there has been no slackening of the industrial output. There has been no appre ciable gain io the textile production, but conditions in some branches of the trade are a little more encour aging, the growth of export busi ness in cotton goods being a favora ble feature. Pig iran output has passed all previous records, but has not yet caught up to- the demand. The building and allied trades con tinue to show exceptional activity. Crop advices of the week have been generally favorable, and the effects of a late planting season in many sections are being rapidly overcome. Business failures during the past week, according to R. G. Dun & Co., numbered 187 in the United States and 2G tn Canada, against 192 in this country and 15 in Cana da during the corresponding week last vear. Cotton prices show a net decline of 1-1C of a cent per pound, but the latest figures are J of a cent above the lowest touched during the week. Depressing factors have been the unsatisfactory condition of the cot ton goods trade and the big roceipts of cotton. The latter are largely in excess af all previous expectation for the time of j-ear; and while ex ports are about equal to the receipts at ports, the demand from spinners continues light and the large Amer ican and Indian movement is steady increasing the world's visible supply. The cotton goods trade is generally very quiet. A fairly sustained de mand for export grades is the most encouraging feature. Ihe larger takings of exporters have relieved the market sufficiently to admit of a recovery of J to of a cent per yard from recent lowest prices for certain makes. The whole line of home trade cottons, however, is I moving slowly, and even the lower j prices lately named on Fall River mill products have failed to quicken business. The price situation is un satisfactory to makers who are try ing to sell goods made from cotton costing around 10 cents per pound to buyers whose ideas of value are based on the present cost of the sta ple. Rose As From the Dead. . Philadelphia, Pa., May 14. Al bert Sahina, Jr., who had been given up as dead, surprised his parents at No. 1193 Chestnut street, Camden, yesterday, by walking in upon them Sahina was a member of Company I, Twenty-eighth Regiment, united o . . i . Tr l. L oiates vuiuuieer ju.auiry, Wu.u has just been mustered out after twenty-two months of service in the Philippine Islands, and he corres ponded with bis parents up to about two months ago, when he was taken ill. A comrade wrote for him for a time, but finally Mr. and Mrs. Sa hina ceased to receive any letters and gave up their son as dead. When the bronzed soldier walked into his home yesterday his mother and sis ters screamed and cried for joy, and friends and neighbors, hearing of the return, organized an impromptu re ception. Of 20 young people who started from College Point, L. I., Saturday night on a "starlight" ride, two were killed, five are in a hospital and four wf. nllnwMl to lpav( the hosnital after having their wounds dressed. A trolley car collision was the cause. ROYAL Baking Powder is indispen sable to the preparation of the finest cake, hot-breads, rolls and muffins. Housekeepers are sometimes importuned to buy other powders because they are " cheap." Housekeepers should stop and think. If such powders are lower priced, are they not inferior ? Is it economy to spoil your digestion to save a few pennies ? The "Royal Baker and Pastry Cook " containing over 800 most practical and valuable cooking re ceipts free to every patron. Send postal card with your full address. ROYAL BAKING POWDCR CO., ALL OVER THE STATE. A Summary of Current Events for tb I'atit Seven Daja. The sales of fertilizers in the State this season, as shown by the records of the Agricultural Department, have increased about 23 per cent, over last year. While bathing in Buffalo creek, Cabarrus county, Sunday, Lester Walter, aged 23, was seized with cramp and drowned before help could reach him. Eighty weavers of the Southern cotton mills at Bessemer City, Gas ton county, have struck because the managers refused to comply with certain demands. Fire which broke out in a ware house of the North State Improve ment Company ou the London Wksrf, at Wilmington, Friday night, caused an aggregate loss of about $80,000. Private R. M. Brown, of the Franklinton Guards, won the gold medal in the prize drill at Raleigh on Friday. There were twenty-six com petitors, every company in the State Guard being represented. B. L. Roberts, aged 30, a yard switchman for the Southern Railway, was caught between two express cars attached to a northbound passenger train, at Charlotte, Friday morning, and almost instantly killed. During the hailstorm in Gaston county Thursday afternoon two col ored men were killed by lightning at King's Mountain. They were John Ferguson and a grown son, who were stauding in the door of their home. They were lying side by 6ide dead when found. The home and household proper ty of Reed Joyce, colored, near Ger manton, Stokes county, were de stroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon. His youngest child was burned to death. Joyce and bis wife were in the field at work. They left their children at the house. Sevea white and seven colored boys, who were charged with seining and fishing in the water-works pond at Greensboro a few day's ago, were tried before the mayor Monday. He ordered one of the officers to admin ister a sound thrashing to each, which was accordingly done. Forest fires have been raging for ! ieu ua ,u . j : ir-:n .. -l . I WIW,UB' e"oris ' ve made, several hundred people work ing day and night, the fires are still beyond control. Great damage has been done to timber land and fenc ing. Besides several dwellings, barns and outhouses have been burned. Donald McKenzie, a prominent citizen of Morganton, committed sui cide Saturday. He had retired from business, and having a large family and his financial transaction not proving satisfactory it is believed that these matters preyed on him too heavily, causing the unbalanced j extremity. He used a pistol as a j means. i . mnr(W wat rrmmitterl in Jefferson, Ashe county, Monday morning by George Phillips. It seems that he is in a demented condition. He met an old man by the name of Ashley and in a secluded place at tacked and killed him. He then took the old man to a mill-pond and bap tized the corpse three times. Phillips was arrested about noon and placed in jail. Vance Pearson, aged 40, a cotton mill employe of Shelby, was acci dentally killed Wednesday evening, while attempting to clean out some trash in the water-wheel, when the water came dashing in and knocked j him off and he went down under the j wheel and on out with the current, and before he could be rescued he i was drowned. He was also bruised considerably, a gash being cut in the back of his head. Alum is used in some baking pow ders and in most of the so-called phosphate powders, because it is cheap, and makes a cheaper powder. But alum isa corrosive poison w hich, taken in food, acts injuriously upon the stomach, liver and kidneys. 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. Death From Eating Tainted Meat. Mr. W. A. Beck, of Jerusalem, Davie county, was iu Salisbury sev eral weeks ago and like many coun try people who remain in the city all day or come to town without a lunch, went into one of the filthy negro lunch stands on Council street to get his dinner and having called for beef was' served some that had become tainted and should not have been eaten, but which was realized too late. Mr. Beck became sick at once and said to a friend he knew the meat was the cause. It bad a pecu liar flavor. Mr. Beck went home and continued to grow worse. A physi cian was called iu and corroborated the statement that the meat being spoiled was the cause of his illness. This was three or more weeks ago, and Mr. Beck died a few days later, his body becoming purple-spotted just after death. I,000 For Shouting "Boo!" New Haven, Conn., May 14. When Miss Ethel Bartholomew, aged 17 years, of Wallingford, Conn., was nearly scared to death by Charles J. Parmelee, a prosperous farmer of that to wn on Feb. 5, 1900, he said it was all done for a joke. He chased Miss Bartholomew for some distance. He took a short cut and hid behind a tree. Then when Miss Bartholomew was near him he jumped up in front of her like a jack-in-the-box and shouted "boo." The girl has hyster ia yet from her experience. She sued Parmelee for $10,000 and her father joined with her in the case. To-day Judge George W. Wheeler of the Su perior Court here awarded Miss Bar tholomew $700, and her father $300. Killed Father and Herself. St. Louis, Mo., May 14. Ida M. Baare shot and killed her father, Gustave Baare, to-night and then killed herself. She was 20 years old. Baare came home drunk and began to abuse his wife, finally beating her. He then weut to bed. The daughter. who owned a notion store, adjoining the-Baare residence, was summoned home by her mother. She got a re volver and entering the father's bed room shot the sleeping roan through the head. She then turned the pis tol against her own head, pulled the trigger and dropped dead. Spring Medicine la of the greatest importance. This is the most critical season of the year, from a health standpoint. It is the time when you imperatively need Hood's Sarsaparilla. It will give you a good appetite, purify and enrich your blood, build up and steady your nerves, overcome that tired feeling, give mental and digestive strength in short, will vitalize your whole being, and put you in perfect health. Don't delay taking it. Don't experiment with others. 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