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ln County News. TWICE A WEEK Hew to the Line. Let the Chivs Fall as they May. Stnte Libra n- AK 5 CENTS PER COPY. - " ' ' ' " ' ' ' ; ' ' . - 1 ' 1 " 1 1 1 1 i Vol.1. LINCOLNTON, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1907. No. 67, i ... -. . ................ ' ..... 1 , i 1 i ... , STATE PROHIBITION. An Increasing lendency mat wayvp parent In North Carolina Glenn Out Herods Anti-Saloon League President Bailey In Hi Advocacy Of Prohibition. Recent developments indicate that when the next session of the state legislature shall have comple ted its work there w ill be a new and rigid law ou the statute books, absolutely prohibiting both the manufacture and sale of all intoxi cating spirits within the state of North Carolina, and this is the first time within the present gen eration when there has been a prospect of such a thing. There have been several local option elections held during the last two weeks in important towns of the state, and in every instance the liquor interests and the "wet" crowd have lost out. Warrentou was the last place where such an election was held (last Saturday), and the victory of the temperance .. - . TOT A people was complete, not even the municipal liqjor dispensary being allowed to do business there. A telegram to Governor Glenn, re ceived the night of the victory, from the leaders of the dry element stilted: . "Your speech and influence turned the scale and gave us the victory." The governor went to Warrentou a few days before the election and made a strong prohibition speech, having been prevented from ac cepting the invitation extended him earlier by the press of busi ness entailed by his scrap with the railroads. ; GOVERNOR GLEA3. IS Xli. u."" - STATES SENATE AH A PROIII- . BITIONIST. According to predictions oi some eo'dd fudges of political mm cations, it is this question of state prohibition that is probably going to laud Governor Glenn in the senate at Washington, if he gats there at all, as the successor of the present Senator Overman 18 mouths hence. Governor Glenn has within the last year or two become by selec tion on his own part the chief of the state prohibition apostles in North Carolina. Last fall he went farther than tne president oi me : -saloon league would go, and, at the Presbyterian church at Raleigh he delivered 'an address in which he declared for state prohibition. There are sections of the state and " towns in the state in - which prohibition is not yet backed by public sentiment, where the major itv is ODDOsed to it, on the r 11CCUUUI UlilU IV ltuiu iiu.v erly enforced if adopted by the state at large, or if the legislature made a law compulsory against the will of the majority in those com munities, and that the democratic party stands pledged to local op tion on the policy of rule by the majority. ANTI-SALOON PRESIDENT OPPOSED, The president of the State Anti Saloon League is Josiah William Bailev? who for the last ten years has been a leading churchman of the state and the editor of the Bap tist organ of the state, the Biblical Recorder, of Raleigh. ' President Bailey is still opposed to legislating prohibition for a com munity where the majority of the people of such community, be it state or county or town, are op posed to prohibition. Governor nUnn iioo enmn.capri the nnti -saloon VJXC u w i'J"v chief in his zeal to accomplish ab-. solute prohibition laws for the whole state, and would have the legislature enact a law, as has just been done by the Georgia legisla ture, putting the ban on liquor in i ronntv and town in North Carolina. NOW IN FIVE-SIXTHS OF STATE. The sentiment against the liquor evil has made a marvelous growth in North Carolina of recent years, as it has in many of the other southern states, and astonishing progress has been made by the prohibition element of the people, and that without the formation of any separate and distinct political party to accomplish their purposes, both of the old parties, and espe cially the Democratic party, being used to carry on the policy of wiping out the traffic in liquor and stopping its manufacture. So much has been accomplished through local option that Presi dent Bailey and other anti-saloon league workers of long stauding and unquestioned devotion to the cause of true temperance are loth to depart from that method, fully believing as they state, that it will be only a few years at best when public sentiment in every county and town will cause prohibition to be adopted through the local op tion process of eliminating the li quor traffic. There is not a licensed saloon or bar in Raleigh, Charlotte, Greens boro, Durham, Newbern, Oxford, Henderson or in most of the towns of the state today. Saloons obtain still at Asheville, Winston, Wil mington and Salisbury, alone of all the important towus, and the prediction is freely made that they will be abolished in Asheville within a year and will be driven out of their last hold within three or four years, even if local option alone accomplishes it, and even there is no state prohibition law enacted or election ordered oh, the question of state prohibition. ' ' Friends of Governor Glenn' ex press the opinion that he has'late ly renewed his demand for state prohibition through legislative enactment, or at least means to de mand that the next legislature shall provide for a state election on the question, and has recently ex pressed his regret at not having pursued his : individual course marked out before the last legisla ture, instead of allowing the sub ject to remain in abeyance at the request and advice of certain par ty leaders and managers, that he is the logical and natural leader of this movement. That being so, if the plans of the state prohibitionists are what a po litical leader here tells me they are, aud the plan of selecting as the candidates of the Democratic party for representatives of J,heir counties in the general assembly next year only men who arc known to be in favor of state prohibitory liquor law succeeds, it looks like it will naturally follow that when these same legislators -come to the matter Of selecting a man to rep resent the state in the United States senate, and knowing that their prohibition leader is ambi tious for the place, that many, if not most of them will turn to Gov ernor Glenn (at that time out of the gubernatorial office hardly two mouths) and cast their votes for him to succeed the present Senator Lee S. Overman, not being espe cially identified with the state prohibition movement. Whether or not Glenn could muster a sufficient number of ad herentsjiuder such conditions will very materially depend upon the success of the plan to "put none but state prohibitionists in the next legislature. " . TO VOTE OUT DISPENSARIES. In Raleigh and several other towns which have abolished the open saloon the municipal liquor dispensary is in existence. This is not true of Durham and Char lotte,, and Greensboro and some other of the non-saloon towns, however big a business in inter state traffic the express company may do, and absolute prohibition prevails at those places, so far as the sale of liquor is concerned, Now a movement is on foot here to abolish the Raleigh dispensary, which was created by the temper auce people as a makeshift four years ago, because sentiment was not ripe here for absolute prohibi tion, although opposed to the open saloon.' . The Raleigh dispensary sells more than 250,000 worth of liquor annually. A big part of that is net profit, no license fees being re quired, aud, consequently the rate of municipal taxation has been cut down materially. If the dispensa ry is abolished the tax will have to be increased and that is a fact that will probably cause its reten tion. Raleigh Special to Richmond Journal. DREAM OF AUTOMOBOATIST. I'd love to lioat In a motor boat, The automobile of the sea; - To run down whales. And scrape the scales Of the shad and the C. 0,D. I'd love to scoot . 'With a honking toot Through waves that are scraping the sky And scare the shark In the fathoms dark Where the cables supinely lie. I'd love to speed Thro' dank seaweed, Over coral and reef and rocks, Till the old sardine In the waters green Was frightened half out of his box. v I'd love to dash With a roar and a splash Through the ocean so vast and cool, And break up the class As I noisily pass In the Porpoise's Saline School. I've had my day In the usual way In my little red car so free, -- And now I wish ,;..,..,1 'Mid the. waves and fish To do just the same at seal Harper's Magazine. A Human Tigress. New Bern, N. C, Aug. 22 News conies from Jones Bay, or Hobucken, Pamlico county, of , the brutal murder of two little negro children, by an infuriated woman. Saturday the two children, whose names were not learned, were playing before the door of Barbara Tatum, who lived near their own, when the woman came out aud ordered them to leave. The children didn't leave at once, which made the woman mad, and she ran into the house and caught up a gun and . deliberately shot them4joth down as theylwere i'un ning away. One of the children lived -about four hours after the shooting, and and died. The other still had life at last accounts but is not expected to recover. ... . The woman, who is a negro, was soon arrested and carried to Bay boro, where she is now lodged in jail. The Dead Came To Life. A remarkable case of the dead returning to life was furnished by John A. Hall, a railroad man, who came here from Sabctha, Kan., re cently, to look for work. He drop ped uuconscious in the yards and was found apparently dead. He was taken to the morgue and left on a table all night ' -: The coroner decided upon a post mortem to deterinine thecauseof death and left his assistant to do the work. No sooner had the point of the surgeon's knife touched the body than it suddenly began to sit up on the table. "You needn't cut me open," said Hall. "I'll answer any ques tions you ask me." Hall exclaimed that he had not lain senseless at all, but knew all that had been going on. He heard all that was said about a post-mortem, but was unable to make a sound of any kind. "About that time," said Hall, I was doing some hard thinking. " TYPICAL MOONSHINERS. Prohibition Laws and Race Question Have Practically Exterminated Them The picturesque but vicious moonshiner and his one-time pros perous and illicit business are rapidly becoming memories of the past. ' They are giving the Federal authorities little or no trouble nowadii ys. Curiously enough it is not the rifle of the revenue of ficer that is putting an end to this unlawful industry, but the force of public sentiment. Prohibition laws and the race question have practicallyexterminated the South ern moonshiner. There has never been a more attractive personality to the writer of fiction or the author of melo drama than the rugged moonshiner living on the craggy mountain side, with his primitive still hid den far back iu the underbrush. He has invariably been made an object for the admiration and sympathy of those who , came iu contact with him through these mediums. A learned professor of the University of Chicago once said that the Cumberland Mountain region of Kentucky and Tennessee, where the moonshiner abounds, afforded one of the most fertile fields for the truthful portrayal of real American descendants of Scotch-Irish parentage of early deep religious convictions, singing gar bled ballads of the old Scottish border and relating traditional le gends from Erin's Isle. here sprung the heroes of King's Moun tain and here the Federal govern ment found its sole solace among the Southern States in the bloody days of the civil war. There is another side to this un usual type of American. Perhaps the first moonshiners in the United States were those who fomented the whisky rebellion in Western Pennsylvania in the first adminis tration of President Washington. This rebellion was broken only af ter the use of Federal troops, There never has been occasion since to use an entire army, for the sup pression of moonshiners, but armed revenue officers have never ceased to patrol the lone mountain trails in search of illicit stills, nor have they succeeded in overcoming that dogged resistance to , internal revenue' laws which came about through the eternal belief in near ly all moonshiniug localities that what is right for the father is right for the sou." - '-;- In this connection it must, be noted! that the " feudistsof "Ken tucky have in many instances been numbered among the ranks of the moonshiners and have won for-themselves-" the reputation among revenue officers of being among the fairest and most danger ous pack of moonshiners in exis tence. It may be added also that they have at tu.ics evinced such a high regard for the enforcement of the revenue law that they have been found enlisted under the revenue banner, for the sole pur pose of slaying lawfully their malignant enemy. Those who have gone forth to fight the battles of the revenue law among the moonshiners of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee thc3iwiMittersjL9 Mountain districts of Alabama, and the "blockaders" of South Carolina and Georgia know them all to be of one type and character istic, namely, human wolves. Only when forced to fight in the open does the ordinary moon shiner, by whatever name he may be known, do so. This "hero" finds his favorate fighting ground behind a convicnt rock or 1 tree, which he has gained preferably without the knowledge of his victim. Since 1876, when the revenue officers began their work among them, fifty-four of these agents of the government have been killed and ninety-four wounded.: Many of the victims never saw the men who fired on them. This does not include marshals and deputy mar shals who were killed in making arrests. No instance is known of a revenue agent being taken pris oner by moonshiners, the favorite method of the latter being to slay and have the matter quickly over with. John Carver, a posseman, killed in a raid iu the Smoky Mountains district along the bor der line of Tennessee and North Carolina, in 1904, was the hist revenue officer to give up his life in the fight against moonshiners. The government keeps no record of moonshiners killed. Brooklyn Eagle, ; Glenn Tells of Negro Man's Faithful . ness. Norfolk, Aug. 19. Governor Glenn made an effective speech to the colored people at the exposi tion on Negro Day at Jamestown, Among other things he said: "I want to tell you all that I feel very close in many respects to the colored people of my State. I was raised on a plantation. My father never owned any slaves, but after my father's death, I liv ed with my uncle, who owned three or four hundred slaves who were my companions, my play mates, my friends. Whenever I meet them, we meet and greet each other as friends. There is a story that I have told to my own state and I find no timidity in telling it here, that makes me feel especially kind to the colored race when they are trying to do their duty. "There was a Confederate7 cap tain who went to the war in 1861, and carried with him his faithful servant, Mack. On the 14th of September, 1862, at the beginning of the battle of South Mountain, this Confederate captain called to his side his faithful servant, gave him his watch, some trinkets and 397 and a letter to his mistress telling him to watch , him during the battle, saying: 'If you see me fall, see me decently buried aud give these to my wife, "On the day of the battle, be hind crags and cliffs the faithful servant watched his master, and just as the sun, with all its splen dor rnd grandeur, was resting be: hind the western horizon, he saw him fall. He immediately .hasten: ed to his side, and. pillowing his head on his arm saw the life-slow-ly leave . his body, ('ailing to mind the last wishes of his master, he buried him with the aid of three other-privates-of-h isregk ment, not in a coffin, but only Avith his soldier's garb as a shroud and a grave dug with soldiers bay onets. Footsore and weary that colored man walked 500 - miles, fording rivers and creeks, often begging his bread, to the home of his mistress, and gave her the watch, trinkets and letter and $397, not having spent one single dime, and then he carried out his sacred promise to look after his three little boys. "He cared for them two years, when his Master called him - home to his place in haven, where he met the master he so dearly loved. That captain was my father. I am one of the little boys that Mack used to nurse and watch over. Could I be unkind to the race that Mack belonged to? Fordid it Almighty God. "North Carolina has been true to her people white and black. I can prove it by Commissioners Williamson and Hunter. It is in our state here where ralations are most pleasant From Main to Florida, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, as well as the New England States, it is seen here to day that North Carolina was the only State that loved the colored man so well as to give him 85,000 to make this exhibit. We have given it because they are worthy of it, because they have our respect. This shows the colored man's am bition to take his place in the great destiny of men. All colored men should try to lift their race and themselves to something higher and better. When one sees how step by step they have gone up, sees the furniture, see3 the paintings, sees the handiwork here produced by them in this nation, the greatest of nations. I want you to do your part in the nation in which God has placed you, and let the world be better for you having done something for your race, for the white race, for humanity and for your God. "I wish you God speed in your efforts and in your work to help your race rise. We must work side by side, and act our part so that in the end God will ra , . 'Well done, thou good and faith ful servant.' We want you to go on and still forward to greater things than you have accomplish ed today." Lowesville News. We had one of the saddest fun erals Sunday that has been here for sometime. Mr. Houston Calvin Jones, formerly of Lowesville died with typhoid fever at Mt Holly. N. C, Aug 17 at 4:30 o'clock a. m. About two years ago his fath er moved from here to Mt. Holly tor school purposes. Mr. Houston Calvin Jones went to school at Rutherford College two years, and . took a business course at Mt. Hol ly under Prof. Scott and had just finished when taken down with fever. He-was 23 years, 10 months and 28 days old. This country has lost one of her best and loving young men. He was loved and liked by those who knew, him, and was without a doubt one of the best young christian gentlemen that Lincoln County had. There was betwoen four and seven huu-' dred people at this funeral. Mr. O. A, Gillcland of Camden, Ark., has come in to spend a few weeks with his father, Mr. II. A. Gillcland. ". Mr. W, A. Lockman, is on the sick list this week. Messrs. O. A. Gillcland and E. M. Lowe, left for Charlotte Sunday niorningjospcnd a few day&MrT Webb Henkle left for Rutherford College Friday morning - to-go- to- school, also Miss Mary Kincaid. There is lots of sickness among the people around here. '.. Iil.l'K Beit.. Will Return to Charlotte. . Judge Frank I. . Osborne, who for the past year has been prac ticing law in New York City with his brother, James W. Osborne, formerly assistant District At torney of New York, will return to Charlotte at an early date,. Af ter September 15th he will be actively connected with the legal department of the Southern Power Company, whose main Southern offices are in this ; city-. Judge Osborne is an attorney of wide reputation." He is noted for his shrewdness and exceptional ability as a criminal lawyer. Examinations for A. & M. College. The next session of the Agric ultural & Mechanical College w ill begin Thursday, September 5th. Entrance examinations will be held at the College in West Ral eigh, Wednesday, 9 a. m., Sep tember 4th. New applicants for admission will be examined then, and .applicants who failed to pass the July, examinations at the County Seats may try again at the College. ... r- t, u u I - -') k 1: V.