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For u -v al fairbkother it SOME CYCLONES IN THE OLD DAYS wi a tornado on wheel out in In- . . . . T- caf ao. ;o ere ru ever vet ex- .- - f the ftflo-f. and if a man - v u -r fu!l-ircl one in motion he I, ,- ; v.Ar.: to cAUta. X numerous were - ... . T - 0-?i XI' t t ?rjfJil:A i ,? :vi-i th.rtr jtif ajro nun? pc-.c 1ti; -,;: they oHei ihc "cyc!tr.c ctlUr." V. i :.ir a a: lean xnrr.;y iown om p .? r-ifte;rc fciH jxf formal lr ir.ctn. r s K-i -- town c 4w a little or.e-torr . ."-'.. r fcuiUir:? Ikk!;Iv rncVeI ui oli c-. t! ha 4 rothinj: but wtJett ioan j .., 5- 4r?;fvi two jrr.ilc ilh a rr.an and hU ani ?ct down a cady a though rJ.tr uh;cr, under il. Ar.4 Miub fs' t l u t an ! o.r.c r, a man of etacity, t:hout wirAscs thai no type wn x l ' "n- We hac m the hub of a whet I cut o:l from the tr0- a ,:-rrr"' 4 if ior.f wt'.h a u. acJ rrK!hrr. i-.f a :- Ve I;turte4. Once in Mo- I ; l-o-m. we ur a cjcJmc taVe the t;n fe churxhr an 3 not another ; - - n i ii::ur!vL The rcateit cyclone ! - :v .-y cf Iowa wa m at Gfin- w"v;fc arr,e cich:v-oi4 retvrlr. at we re- r" r-.re. were KsHed and Korr inicred. dat a cyclone couM t heard the iy wtu!d carry a rjeen caf. ;f f t:r r..n jcu would cicTc an in r r-dhaped ckui. Urfrer thaa the .4:!o-n to a ntf aw, and the native ;; is! tok Rcticc. Often thev would rr the town roiMr a hundred feet r: J ftnkc the jfimc ac J literally tear ;:t a tnp ma)te three rnitet wide . iM r or rr.e !cr.. At VahirKton r Ucvuc. Ohio, in tJvA we aw a trip of r f -h:h had been cut down cleaner than itrr.ta.coU ha rij about a, r:?:c w:Jf ar.d th.'ee mi'e lon. Giant cut c:1 at the bat, rround lorn up. uc- r ".rc a rr-Uhtiet force than the ir.jcenuily of r;n ha ever jrttrn frorj ;eam or electricity. Hatly they are not at frequent a in 'er It i ald that thi ection ef '. -:h Carolina hat never been vitted by a "jf eve lone. Tornadoes which hae done - r. damage now and then vt;t u. Frank ','.'r.!.or once of the Danvi"e nejrte. now t the Richmond Ttme-D.atch. had a map -nfnr! why it wa impoSe fpr a cyclone ',,fi bu5:ne in the Picdn'.ont clion. Bat Uy about l?? several tin roofr. and a!! ; awnir-i: in Danville were r.on thrnuh v i f and Frank destroyed, the map and v -r laded that a cyclone wa wini. and that v - h!aweth where it Iitelh.So in trjinj: rule oure!re belivc that we are immune ' hid better at Ieat touch wood -when we -i' the assertion. Tfce Red Onion. ! U the red onion that wtr would in. T" . -jofi with the pep the tear fetching and ?" i rrath embracing onion. Not these etlem rr mton coming :n from Bermuda. o lame m- a babe could eat them and think them but the rrd-bfcwded onion, the orr v - red cr r; ue. the amc thin that . v.- 4 n:an!y man or a womanly woman. Fv fd rnioni aid to be fcarce-lhi town '-r ived an onion famine. We tried the .... m. m. M Uvlo secure a doicn noihinrdoinr. We i E n I that the crop wa short. But is it? ' '-'' when the men trying to fcet food " Vw York ent out to thirty-two slate what va. doinj:, the state repondmj: ' I to end al once to the jeat city f uar.d car of food, and in the item ; the statr proposed lo furnih eventy- a !v cf red nion. a against sven f vct'mv f r.on. Ixk I;k- if New r.'iofi a hurry-up call jjel mrventy- rad of rei onion from thirty-two ck or two of thm could be di av. d brought to Green .lWo. 5till wc . t f them. Cociolation. - atvay orrKlhin worc than what . a- ! it i lecaj cf lhi that prim jf-l laughing phiIoopher tell u lo . a--I b of hzYi heart. The obrvant ' th- Oxford Ledger find consolation t,-M;fit- thought: -'-g hi been made in ome town : " ? wcar oter the wire, jiggle or make a creech noc by " 'g t mouthpiece against the re s'. I.--- may o: hi telephone. iSlill. f ihr weet con-lition that one p the o?"-cr !ov and ihrow ihc o 's t' ft.ugh the n!:r.g cabinet. " it cun . No matter how manr f.v rr -i'f u with, r.d matter how much Ktr may impose, there i yet a J a r4i lo th;! :t. in wr.c way. hi I ! : r-?ide. H he can't cl a gallan Sacred fuari, and if he can't ; - " I he kick hi dog through "'J k. Ver-.ly. in thi world of woe I'ic w$'. alway be Consolation if ta find. 1..- ; W - - - -..ft- couft ir a tub. ixclb eorr cxxrf TVMILLION MEN GIVE THEIR LIVES The ofucial figure, as tabulated. how that since the war abroad began more than ten million men arc missing, cither deal or cap tured. Ten million men I Think of what a procession that would make. It would take week for them lo past in rericw twenty abreast. Think what an army that would be if marshaled under one Hag and marching aero one plain. Ten m:Uoh men rousing moit all cf ihcm killed and for what? And yet. and yet we are preparing for war. Vc are gelling ready to swell ihes figure be came our merchantmen mui traverse the ea wc mut not be coward; we must de fend our right. If America get into it good and deep hc will pav her part of the terrible loll. Perhap two million of our men will furnish fertilizer for mother earth, make desolate a million or more home, and all to sustain the glory of a llaC. to defend National honor. But il i our tak. our duty. 5cro that it must hap;-n. thi killing business if war arc on, and it rm that war musl be on. We arc walking the lght rope today we arc on the frontier, and tomorrow wc may be in the fray. And if il happen, the two mil lion men who may give their live will go joy ouJy and happily go a though to a wed d;ngfeat. Great thing i patriotism, snd the gun and the ilag-nd the martial rouMC feed it. If we declare war against Germany and get into it. we will all be for war. no mailer how we feel jul now; and then after awhile we will all be for Peace, and will bac to wait for it. o A Fine Tribute.' The late Journal, published at Kaleigh. pav thi splendid and just tribute to ihc laic Ccasar Cone. We copy it because it may be an inipiraiion to roung men just starting in the busines world: "A master builder of success laid aside hi y-qcarc and compa. when.Ceasar Cone passed sw-xyr - rfr la : d I Toundat Win -brry d rtd dee p with ihe primary virtue of honesiy, industry and thrift, and on this he reared a splendid structure of ucces. so that all men said be hMd the work of a master hand. And hi mighty work i enduring, because he built not for himclf alone, but for other. He did not undertake to repeal the divine decree- of labor, bul he multiplied opportunity for the worker and made it o that they could work in com fort and amid healthful surrounding. "NouonJy the pcop! of hi home tosvn of Grccnboro but the people of the whole stale mourn hi lo. He made hi gTcat wealth not by oppressing people, but by creating op portunity for them to live happier and more healthful Iise and to rie abote their former seise. He ennobled industry and showed that svhat people want i not charity bat justice and opportunity lo work. "To ihe Murdv virtue of hoacily, industry and thrift he aJded the more genilc one of sympathy and love of hi fellow men. regard le of creed or sect. He wa a Jew and wa an or. ameni to that moighty race which gave u our religion, our moral standard, our do mestic virtue and our highest ethics. He was, gentle and kind and generous, and the gu-od he did live after him and will grow to the end of time. Hi life should be a lesson to all young men. From his example they should learn that all permanent success must rest on the primary virtue." o ' The Fallen Ones. The Durham Herald pays ttentiwn. with some vigor, to the fact that a seventeen-year-old girl jhrow-n into the street wa forced to find lodgment in jail the other night because hc had no other place to sleep. The Salva tion Army could not care for her; the city hospitals cannot take ilk of her kind because of disease; and this tender twig, broken from Society, debased by man. wa forced to sleep, in a common jail. And yet belter the jail than the street. But certainly it i pitiful to think that wc allow a soul so youug to be lost to the world and God that wc arc willing to let the vulture continue to consume her; to make a human being, an infant so far as the law i concerned when it come to any other kind of a busines transaction, sleep in a jail in a Christian city. But it is ever thus, ha been ever tbu and will be ever thus until men awaken and understand that we arc not only our brothers keeper, but our sister's keeper a well. o At Nations And Cities FalL Wc read of Fgyrt and the glories of Alex andria, we read of the rise and fall of. the Uoman empire, wc read of the citie now wiped off the map and covered a hundred feet with mother carlh. and it is Interesting to note that Bagdad, which has just fallen, was in ihc year of about Soo easily ihc first city in ihc world in wealth and commerce. It bad two million foul within its confines, includ ing ir.bad the jailor and Hindbad the citi zen. The storie of the Arabian nights have much to do with Bagdad and to think that Ihe "British walk in and capture an old eastern city. King lary in the sun. Its life behind it. sugxcVs that all .thing decay. i CH.17, 1917. ' NEGROES AND THE ZASON The ncgToes arc stu South in large number, , the farmers in South O to wonder what .will h; dcring where they will u cror ad gather them. : Trie Columbia , State, strong, writes a remark; subject, an editorial that dare to print. It sizes up . thif r?itit be met. and a;.- i be leaving the r.- in crowds, and ;na are beginning n to them won help to get in the conservative and r editorial on the .'it?; papers would iisalion. however. thc article wc take the? v. particular para- K"pk: J ; -' 4 Men of common seiMc'. understand that thi Soulh Carolina mujte a state of law or in time lhat it will be Co state. Is there any man su'd i fool as to be lcc lhat a state can cxi . without law? I there any nun so ki'pld -as to fancy that the lynching of nff, criminals is a practice that shall be perpetuated? If you thought that you might be Ivnched by mistake wo$H you remain in South Carolina? Ask yr urself that ques tion if you dare. ' f If you were a negrtu you might be lynched by 'mistake. Innocent negroes base been. , " ,-' 1" If you thought that our brother or your on might be lynched for assault and battery, for larceny, for insolence, for hid ing under a dwelling hi use and thereby frightening its inmates, rhow long would you remain in South Carolina? No one knows better dan the State bow grave and vexing arc th problems caused by the presence of negTors in gTcat num ber. The State understands how crimes and even misdemeanors of negroes arouse how ihev infuriate the friends of 1 their victims and neighbors of their vic tim!'. ' V v , . But tins prpbtem iuHhg Jaced.' t 1 i ha louc solved; - - It cannot be solved in a lawless way. No problem ever was solved by mobs. No white man of common sense who wants to keen the peace, who wants his family to dwell in a civilized land, will live lUr- in s ttiir lhaf drnrnd UDOn mobs I fur protection. In the long run mobs are no less dan- ! gcrou to white men than to negroes, j Don't you know that if you come into i contact with a mob bent upon lynching yu must cither keep your mouth shut and f ilently admit that it is the master in South Carolina or you will be lynched, too? Kvcry lynching or attempt to lynch, under pre.Mrnt conditions, will drive addi lion;l thousand of them away. Wc have a statute prohibiting agents from enticing laborers to leave the state. One mob drives away more labor than a company of agents could enucc. The negroes know what is going on. Half of them can-read. Dozens of negro ncw.-papers and magazines arc circulating in South Carolina. t , The time is coming it has come when many a negro is doing what ou would do if white men, accused of crime. could have no certainty that they would . . i ' . f i . ... oc given a xnai oy a juj m toui i ui uw in South Carolina. The problem is coming home fast to every man who owns a farm in South Carolina. In other words, the State ably argues that if lynch law continues in the South it will nol be many years until Sambo disappears. Wc do not agrec'with the State in all it says, but it so plainly 5.ites the case that we must all pause and heed. North Carolina does not have many lynching, but to her shame she recently hanged a negro because he had of-' fered a gun to his son. As the State asks: Would white men live in a state where there wa a chance, and a large chance, of being hanged by a mob by mistake? As it further says, the negro knows what he is doing. As he becomes educated he thinks, and he is thinking in many instances that it is time to take to tall timber. The white, man should al ways remember that the law will, for the most part, lake care of all negro murderers or rav ihcr. He must remember that if to hang negroes indiscriminately becomes a popular pastime it will not be many years until unfor tunate white men will be treated in the same way. Sowing such seed must bring a ruiribus harvest. We quote the p2T2rriphs taken from the State editorial because they. may do some good. They may suggest to the white brother to lalk law and order-and to always insist upon it. Let all the negroes gq if they want to go, but let us all undertake to give them a bet ter excuse than that they arc escaping to save their lives that they fear, as they seem to fear in South Carolina, that they may be lynched by mistake. o Of course wc do not know anything about it. but it seems that Noah,, from reading tne deserintion of .the ark. Reeded an architect mighty badly. - . SATURDAY; AVE OJf SXXJC AT TBI XZWI STANDS AXD ON TBACSt THE WRONG MAN WAS CONVICTED That case reported from Mississippi of where a man named .Beard confessed on, his death bed that he was one of three men who murdered a man over twenty-five years ago, an innocent man having not only done time but narrowly escaped being hanged, is . another case to prove that circumstantial evidence is not a sure thing. The man who was convict ed of the crime of murder yet lives. He was tried and sentenced to be hanged. The gal lows was built and the noose put around the man's neck, but some way or another it slip ped and the unhappy wretch fell to the ground unhurt. A great crowd of people had assembled to witness the hanging;" and so many of them were filled with a dread super stition that something was wrong the author ities put the condemned man back in the jail. He was then sentenced to life imprisonment, and'aftcr serving his state many years was pardoned, and is yet living. Ordinarily that crowd witnessing the hang ing would have insisted upon tearing the man limb from limb because he had murdered a fellow citizen a jury had found. Ordi narily the noose would not have slipped. Or dinarily he would not have been pardoned. Ordinarily the man who assisted two other men commit the crime would not have con fessed. But this all happened, and those who want to say so can say it with propriety that in this instance it looked , like the hand of God was manifest. . o Government Ownership. Wc have always contended that govern ment ownership of railways and telegraphs and telephones would work a sad business in this country. We have time and again point ed out the reasons, but we do not think we ever presented the case as plainly as did Ivy L. Lee, of New York, who spoke the' other day in Kansas City. Mr. Lee said that if. the present kind of regulation wasn't stopped and practical,-nonrpolitical regulation brought in, trm-mmnt rt.-TvrKin wotild be inevitable. 4rexkt-tWWMa1?rncm rail- ... , - tiT. ...u . . - ways ana tne genera puDiic wouia siop in vesting in them. ' ; - "The fundamental weakness of the exist ing system," said Mr. Lee, "is that the gov ernment authorities, in response doubtless to public opinion, have exerted themselves to prevent railroads earning more than adequate return upon existing investment. "Private and unregulated ownership of railroads broke down in the United States not because it failed to provide adequate facilities, but because it developed incidental evils con trary to public interest. But with all its faults and no one will deny them unregu lated private ownership gave us a railroad system which, with the lowest capitalization per mile and paying the highest" wages, yet charged the lowest " freight rates of the rail roads of any great country in the world. "Railroad facilities are congested 2nd whol ly inadequate for the development of our commerce. Kailroaa. ouuaing in me unuea States is practically at a standstill; railroad improvements are being made on a hand-to-mouth basis. No comprehensive plans are being made to take care of the needs of the future. "This is not because the railroads do not know what is needed and arc not eager to go ahead. The fact is that railroad managers are 'chafing at the bit'; they know what ought to be done, but they are powerless to do it. And all of that for this obvious reason the rail roads cannot get the money." No cloubt if-we could have practical, non political, constructive regulation, as Mr. Lee suggests, there would be a new impetus in railway building, there would be a brighter day. But all is politics, and politics is after the railways. o . Right For Once. The Wilson Times records this item: Dr. L. J. Herring was recently called . to see a horse at Walstonburg,. the prop erty of Mr. Sam McKeel, that had been bitten by a mad dog while the iittle son . of Mr. McKeel was sitting: on the horse. The head of the dog was sent to Raleigh to Dr. Shore, who pronounced thfe animal afflicted with the. rabies, and Dr Herring . is giving the horse the Pasteur treatment. This is one time .that no mistake has been made concerning the horse because all horses ought naturally take the pasture treatment. But we'd like to see anvcnlargcd photograph of the rabies because some men of . eminence and renown, scientific men of world-wide rep utation, insist that there is no such thing. ' o Horrible. The story printed that in Austria parents are killing their children because there is no food seems almost beyond belief. If the food supply is that low and the soldier must be fed, even he cannot hope much longer for rations. Funny about the rumors arid stories. Ger many gives out her news that she has food supply for ten years; that she hasn't started the war yet; and other news comes, through roreign news agencies and apparently reliable, that the country is just about famished. And Mill IUC ESTABLISHED' MAY, 190a: , THE IS IN HARD The man who is a legislator, who gives up, , his time and gets less than enough to pay ex penses, even if he takes "plane bored," as Tom Bost says one member wanted, should at least be given a fair show. While he is at Raleigh battling for the rights of the oppressed people, neglecting his business at home arid attempt ing to better the condition of mankind on half rations unless he goes down Into his own pocket, the good people should be raising a -fund -to "buy him a slab of bacon upon his re turn home, instead of figuring out what kind j of false rumors they can put into circulation ' concerning him. We note that several legis lators in different sections through their local papers are now explaining that they didn't vote for certain bills or introduce certain bills as had been alleged. Representative Mat thews, from Mecklenburg, as -an illustration, has this in the Charlotte News: There appeared in your paper of March 9th an article, with the headlines "Mr. .... Matthews Busy Explaining," which is . somewhat misleading. I want to state that there was no explanation necessary , regarding this bill, because I have always stated that the bill was introduced by re- . quest and was. not to cover any specific case, and, believing the bill was a good . one and would have been a useful bill in almost any case under the present con stitutional amendment, I offered it cheer fully, and have -not yet changed my opin- . .ion. in regard to its usefulness. I have never' made the statement accredited to me. in the article' "that the graveyard bill was put through by me for a specific pur- r pose and to apply only to one case in which it was believed desirable to have' -the bodies of several colored persons re ' . moved." I have stated 'that it would cover such cases, regardless of colon I want to say that, still believing the law : was a good one and some day will have to , : be re-enacted,' I ,had no part in repealing same and have no apologies to make , fan . - 'wharT have done regarding fhis-bilfj:or- ' any other that I have introduced. - I notice also in your issue of the 7th instant the statement that I introduced a ' "bone-dry" bill in the house, but recalled . it from the senate for some purpose, you know not what. I want to state that I did recover my bill in the senate after it - had gone' its limit. Seeing' that it was go- - ing no further, I merely took charge of - - the same for my own records, which was , . in3io respect a withdrawal of the bill.,. And so runs the world away. ' The election is over and the legislature has adjourned, and it does look like the lawmaker should be" al lowed to rest in peace. . But-let a man once fall so low as to go to the legislature, and he goes through life branded like a Maverick on. the plains. He is pointed out as a man who once was4 in the legislature. Children tajk about him, and good citizens take delight in circulating scandalous stories about his con duct in the way of voting for hi lie which didn'L meet their approval. . . o ' A Pretty Fight -New York state is going .to again submit the suffrage questiorf to the voters of that, state. It was submitted two years sgo .and, defeated by a decisive majority.. But those wanting the women to enjoy the ballot are in sistent and it vill again go before the voters.; It is said that the next election will witness a pretty fight that there are anti-suffrage so cieties composed of women and that the. suf frage societies have gained great strength in the last two years, j If New York state comes rnto camp and women get the ballot, think of the great number of votes New York'-wili have in the next electoral college. Looks iike the South will be forced to. adopt the measure fn order ave votes to elect the President. Perhaps, nowevcr; by the time woman suf frage is nation, wide wc will be electing our Presidents by popular vote. . . , ' i : . o A Small Item, i L P. Morgan has just applied for and re ceived another life insurance policy of 'three million five hundred ; thousand dollars. He thinks maybe he will, need the money after he is gone, but that isn't it. ..He wants to leave a certain estate and this snug fortune of three million five hundred thousand, it is said, will take up what the " inheritance tax will cost. However he getsk. The policy will be hapi died by one company and then divided among eighteen others, five hundred thousand of it being the biggest risk assumed by, any one company. ' , . i : o Murphy In The Race. It is now officially announced from Salis bury that Mr. Walter Murphy, Speaker of the last House, will be a candidate for Congress from , the Eighth , district to succeed Farmer Bob Doughton. "Pete" is a campaigner, from . away back, and. unless Farmer Bob concludes to run for Governor, and we understand that bee is in his bonnet, there will be .3 campaign on worth while. Mr. Murphy is - one of the brightest men in the state, a politician andi :a lawyer, and when he goes hunting for ducks he doesn't use a brass band., . . 1 :: I :t' A ; LEGISLATOR i t inc rWWl ...'::! t I .. 1 ( , 1 1 t .. A. I 1 i - ..
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