VOL. IX. NO. 42.
GREENSBORO. N. C. TUESDAY. JUNE 18, 1901
Price Five Cents.
SMOKE
DGOLEY's
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5 Cent Cigar.
RELIABLE VALUE.
UNION MADE.
SPECIAL NOTICES
All advertisements under this head 5
cents per line; no advertisement inserted
for less than 15 cents.
WANTED LADIES TO DO WRIT
ing at home. $20 per month and ex
penses. For full particulars send
self address an stamped envelope.
MRS. MOLLIE STEELE, Box 63,
Rock Hill, S. C.
WALL PAPERING AND HOUSE
painting, calsomning, will lurnish
you as good paper as any one in the
city with prices to suit. If you need
anything in either line, just drop
he a postal. R. E. ANDREWS. Lock
3ox 141, City.
BANANA AUCTION AT SOUTERN
depot from 5:30 to 8:30 this after
noon by C. W. JENNINGS.
FOR RENT HANDSOME 8-ROOM
residence on Summit avenue. City
water on premises. Bath room
range and other modern convenien
ces. Apply to Mrs. P. G. W., at 119
North Davie street. jl4-lwtf
UPHOLSTERING AND REPAIRING
neatly and promptly done. Mattress
es renovated or refilled. Work guar
anteeed. Best city references. J.
J. NICHOLS, 112 Lewis street, lm
CANVASSERS WANTED IN EACH
locality for reputable book; former
experience unnecessary; liberal com
missions. Write at once for infor
mation and territory. PORTSMOUTH
SUBSCRIPTION BOOK AGENCY,
Kirn Building, Portsmouth, Va. jl36t
TALKING ABOUT YOUR "SHINY
Shoes," we are selling a young man's
patent leather Oxford tie at three
dollars that beats anything you have
seen or read about for style and qual
ity. And our patent calf button
shoes at $3 and $3.50 are out of sight.
THACKER & BROCKMANN.
FOR RENT OFFICE, 331 SOUTH
Elm street, now occupied by Greens
boro Loan and Turst Company. Oc
cupancy given about July 1. Apply
to L. RICHARDSON DRUG CO. lwtf
THINK IT OVER; YOU CAN'T AF
ford to buy mantels that are not up-to-date
in style and quality. It's the
cheapest in the end you know that.
We have them and cheap ones too, if
vou want them. Phone 161.M'CLAM
ROCH BROS., the up-to-date fire
place people.
FOR RENT NICE 6-ROOM HOUSE
pleasant location for summer, good
water. Call at Dr. Moore's office or
704, Keogh street.
TURKISH BATHS MAY BE HAD
every Saturday afternoon or even
ing at 407 LIthia street Price 50
cents. m23-tf
1 SYKEST
ANTI
MALARIA
SURE CURE
AND PREVENT
ATIVE OF
emus
GUARANTEED.
50 CENTS A BOX.
Sykes Drug Co,
Ward's Old Stand.
CAPSULES
Wright's
Epsom
Water
The strongest
Epsom Water
in America
Pleasant to the taste
Agreeable to the Stomach
JL A Summers,
Proprietor,
Mooresburg, Term
Howard Gardner, ja
City Agent
EX. GOV. PIXGREE DYING.
IIi Wife and Daughter Tele
graphed to Not Come.
By Wire to The Telegram.
London, June 18. Hazen S. Pingree,
ex-Governor of Michigan, is dying at
the Grand Hotel. He has been ill more
than a week with acute peritonitis and
dysentery. All efforts to break the
disease are in vain. During the night
Mr. Pingree's condition took a turn
for the forse, and it was announced
this afternoon that no hope for his re
covery remained. His son has been
at the Governor's bedside through the
night and today. It is believed that
the end is not far off. Mrs. Pingree
and daughter have been cabled not to
come. They had hoped to reach the
Governor's bed side before the end, and
were to sai from New York on Wed
nesday.The doctors decided today that
the trip would be in vain as the Gov
ernor is fast nearing his end.
TS THE POLICE COURT.
Crowd of Young Fellows are
Fined, But Their Names are
Withheld.
The mayor had a small docket yes
terday. Among other cases disposed
of was Ike Dean, assault, $12; Ed
Wynne, larceny, bound over to court;
George Wells, disorderly conduct, $7.90.
Sam Harvey, drunk, $2.30.
Several young men of the city also
appeared before the mayor charged
with being drunk and disorderly on
the streets. Their names are with
held on acount of their families. They
were given a lecture by the mayor
and promised to not repeat the of
fense. A small tine was also imposed
upon each of them.
Elves In Tennessee.
The Charlotte News in speaking of a
former resident of this city says:
Mr. Charlton Younts sang with Try
on Street Methodist choir yesterday,
and added much to the music. He is
engaged in Y. M. C. A. work in Greens
boro. Mr. Younts has recently been a vis
itor in Greensboro, but is engaged at
present in Y. M. C. A. work in Mem
phis, Tennessee.
SOUTHSIDE LAWN PARTY.
Take in the event of the week the
Southside's lawn party Thursday even
ing. Always the biggest, the best, the
most enjoyable the Southside Hose
Company's annual lawn party. Re
member it Thursday night.
One more success at tournament and
the Southside boys keep the champion
ship belt for good. Help them in the
greatest effort of their lives by pat
ronizing their lawn party Thursday
night.
It's a backward season for crabs.
A man gets old; a woman gets aged.
If Christ came to earth there isn't
any proof that he's take all of the re
ligious reformers into partnership.
THE EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO.
VIRGINIA DELEGATE THINKS IT IS
OVERDONE IN THIS STATE.
Author of the Famous Nottoway Resolu
tions, that Have Figured in Virginia
Politics, Explains the Status South of
James River.
Washington Post.
Richmond, Va., June 15. Comforta
bly ensconced in a corner of the lobby
at Murphjr's were two delegates to the
constitutional convention from the sec
tion south of the James River who re
present ideas bound to be forcibly pre
sented before finis is written on the
important work of that body. The
yourger was Delegate Walter A. Wat
son, of Nottoway, who came to th-i
State senate ten years ago at the age
of twenty-four, hardly more than a
boy in appearance, but now recognized
in spite of his being one of the, junior
members of the convention, as having
great intellectual power. He was the
author of the Nottoway resolutions, al
ready famous in the politics of Vir
ginia, which precipitated the constitu
tional convention as an issue by vote of
tiie May convention in Norfolk last
year. Smooth shaven, compact in
figure, a student of history, and pos
sessed of an unusual command of good
English, he is the opposite in many
regards of his close friends, Dr. Thos.
Barnes, of Nansmond, tall, angular,
now past the meridian of life, quaint,
but keen in conversation, and wrell
versed in public affairs.
"To our people economy in govern
ment expenses is not the chief question
in this convention," said Mr. Watscn.
"The sentiment is Strang for restric
tion of suffrage, and I believe that sen
timent will be respected by the dele
gates who ere to frame a new cons
titution. The demand for it through
out Virginia is greater than many sup
pose at this time.
"Personally, I would like to see the
plowshare go deepe down into the sub
soil, but I recognize that what the
convention may decide to do will be
less radical than what the people in
my own locality favor. There is a
much stronger determination in the
conention to restrict suffrage than ap
pears on the surface, because most of
the delegates have refrained generally
from expressing their views on sub
jects that they will have to pass upon
officially.
"An educational qualification would
be only a temporary solution of this
race problem," continued Mr. Watson.
"To the negro, education is a different
thing than to a white. It is a fetish
or talisman, and he seeks to read and
write not that he may remain in the
fields and work intelligently, but that
he may go away to the city and live
by his wits. I have been Common
wealth's attorney in my county for
five years,and I assure you a very largo
proportion of the negroes I have prose
cuted for crime can read and write.
I mean to inquire of the warden over
here in our penitentiary how many
of the colored convicts there are illit
erate. I will wager that there are very
few of them, indeed.
"The present system of negro edu
cation is all wrong, and the taxes of
the white people go to support it. The
small farmers of Virginia, as is weil
known, pay the bulk of the taxes. On
them falls the burden of supporting
our state government. But the taxes
for school purposes are not paid chief
ly for white schools; a large portion
goes to the colored schools. The white
farmer takes his children out of school
at an early age to help him in plant
ing his crops and in doing other light
work; the negro children are pushed
in the schools to gain an elementary
education, not along practical lines,
that would make them more useful,
but to possess the accomplishment of
knojrfcg how to read and write."
'Do you mean to say that that is
iot beneficial to the negro?" was asked
of Mr. Watson.
"The kind of instruction they get is
wrong," he replied. "Children of the
lowest class of negroes are sent to
school to be taught by others of the
same class, and the learning they ac
quire helps them but little. More of
ten it ;does harm. You find few edu
cated negroes working on the -iarms
in Nottoway, owned by white, men.
few are dawdling along on land of
(Continued on sixth page.)
ATLANTA SPECIAL WRECKED.
A SEABOARD AIR LINE TRESTLE
GIVES WAY UNDER IT.
Several Passengers Quite Badly Hurf but
No One Was Killed The Accident Oc
curred Near Rockingham Sunday .Night
Hamlet, N. C, June 17. Last night
about 10 o'clock, the northbound Sea
board Air Line Atlanta special turned
broadside off a trestle into a pond
about a mile north of Rockingham.
There were on board about 25 or 30
passengers, all of whom were more or
less injured, several very seriously, and
two, a white man and a negro, proba
bly fatally. There were three ladies
and some children aboard, none of
whom were seriously hurt.
The engine and two mail cars passed
over in safety, but the combination
baggage and second, first-class and
two Pullmans turned over. On ac
count of the rains the piers of the
trestle gave way on the left side. At
the first crash all lights went out and
water rushed in waist deep through the
windows. Baggage-master Smith,
though seriously hurt himself, at once
thought of the freight following close
behind. He crawled out, and seizing
a lantern, hobbled dowTn the track and
flagged the freight, thereby preventing
a second catastrophe. When the
freight stopped he was lying on the
ground unable to rise, but still waving
his lantern. He fell time and time
time again before he succeeded in get
ting far enough back to flag the train.
He had to be carried back on a
stretcher.
The newsboy also did heroic work,
crawling through the cars helping the
passengers through the transom. A
relief train came with doctors, and
another from Rockingham. The hotel
was turned into a temporary hospital.
THEY ARE BRITISH SHIPS.
Piirchae of Foreign Craft by
American Roes Not Amer
icanize Them.
Philadelphia Press.
President Search ,of the National
Manufacture? s' Association, made use
of a happy illustration in ridiculing the
talk about the Leyland Line becoming
American because a controlling inter
est in it has been purchased by Amer
ican capitalists. If the Leyland Line
is American, under such circumstances,
then the American railroads in which
foreigners own controlling interest
are foreign roads. The controlling in
terest in the Erie Railroad Was long
held in England, but no one would
have been foolish enough to call it a
Britsh railroad. And the same thing
was true of other railroads.
The Leyland Line is a British line,
sailing under the British flag and man
ned by British crews. As Mr. Search
remarked, it is in no sense an Ameri
can line or helpful to the American
merchant marine. The British news
papers are beginning to rejoice in the
Amercian purchase of the stock of the
Leyland Line. The Iron and Coal
Trade Review, of London, says:
"If these ships had not been bought
here on Amercian account, others
would probably have been built in the
United States by American workmen
with American steel, and this country
would have been a loser of both,where
she is now a gainer. American ship
ping development on the ocean is
bound to come, and the more it comes
in this way the better we shall be
pleased."
This is the truth of the matter. The
more the United tSates develops its
shipping by investing money in .Brit
ish lines the better the Britishers will
be pleased. But the Amercians intend
to have ships of theirown built in Am
erican yards and manned by American
crews.
Sad Case of Lunacy.
Charlotte News.
A very distressing casa of lunacy
comes from .Clear Creek near the Sur
face Hill Mine. One -day last week
Frances Morgan, a daughter of Mrs.
Jane Morgan, went suddenly Jleranged
while working in the field aft'd is now
a raving maniac: PMgirl was appa
rently in her usual mind when she left
tiejiouse ii). the morning. She attract
ed the attention bf those working near
her in the field by screaming Several
ran to her, but she was so violent that
You Should
Reason With
Yourself
about the Half
Price C orset
Sale now going
on at our store
and take advan
tage of such
things. You
don't have the"
opportunity of
buying such
bargains often.-
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you please; but ,the goods
are the best of the kind
whichever you pick. Think
of the completeness in this
as well as the hundreds of
useful toilet articles we keep,
and whether for your own
use or a present we supply
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they could do nothing with her fox?
some time. She was finally overcome
and taken back to her home. Sh
seized an axe lying in the yard and at
tempted to kill one of the neighbors.
She is kept tied. An effort will be
made to get her in the asylum. No
cne can account for her sudden de
rangement.
Her screams can be heard" for half a-
mile.
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