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THE MONROE JOURNAL. VOLUME XIV. NO. 48 MONROE, N.C., TUESDAY MARCH 3, 1908. One Dollar a Year ii to j MARCH JL23A5 6L 8 010 UI21314 l5ff 17 18 19 itfET 221232425262728 291031 "j IRELAND See "The Clani man" Greatest of Historical Dramas Returns for l-'arewell Engagement. If you are a lover of good plays, do not fail to go to see ''TneClans mau" oa its return for a farewell engagement at the Academy of Mu sic, Charlotte, N. C, on Tuesday, March 10th, in at i line ami uight 1)1' all the many offerings at this the atre, this is undoubtedly the great eMt and grandest of the whole sea rod. Governor Koht. II. (Slenn of North Carolina advised every 111:111 and woman, especially those of the younger generation, to witness it, and hundreds of other leaders ol Southern public opinion any the same thing. Crowded audiences and enormous enthusiasm murk the progress of ''The Clansman" every where. Until this play was written many persons supposed that the South had no answer to make to the in numerable libels and calumnies heaped upon her by Northern wri ters. Hut "The Clansman" not iu fierce white light the exact truth about the doings of the Kn Klux Klan-and the ltcconst ruction of forty years ago. It opened the eyes of both the South aud the North. It showed that what the Southern people really did was to save white civilization from barbarism and anarchy; that the South would have heeu weltering in negroid mongel ism but for the heroic work of the Ku Klux Klan. Aside from its po litical features "Tho Clansman'' is a most beautiful aud thrilling drama. The ladies enjoy it as uiiich as, or even more than, the men be cause of its engrossing love story. The hero of the play is a South Carolinian and a Ku Klux Klan leader. He falls in love with the pretty daughther of a Northern fa natic who baa come South to organ ize the negrot agaiust their white superiors. Ben Cameron courts the daughter aud firmly opposes every move of the deluded aud miserable father. Id theeud be wins the girl's baud and saves them both from the clutches of the negro Lieutenant Governor of the State. Under Ben's leadership the Ku Klux drive the carpetbaggers and bad negroes out of the State and restore the old re gime. Thrills, tears aud laughter are wonderfully commingled in this master play. The darky comedy is rich and the live of Uncle Noise and Aunt Eve aud the thieving propensities and gullibility of Aleck, the negro High Sheriff of the county, convulse the audience. A word should be said about the appearance of the Ku Klux iu this play. Every detail is historically accurate. The ghostly costumes, weird ritual and white robed steeds of the order are reproduced exact ly as they were In the year 1867. The Ku Klux Klan cavalry dash across the stage with startling real ism. The High Court of the Klan sentences a self confessed criminal to death. Those who attend the play next week will see the origi nal company of forty people direct from New York city and a splen did new production with magniH cent scenery, costumes and electri cal e Meets. I'atrous are advised to send in their orders for seata, ac companied by remittance, to Man ager John L. Crovo, Academy of Music, Charlotte, X. C, and tick els of the kiud desired will be promptly forwarded. The prices of seats range from 50 cents to fl.50 at the eveuing performance, and are 50, 75 cents and f 1.00 at the matinee. Aged Lady Chopped to Death With an Axe. CultimMl ll.lfb. th. to cliarlulte (llarwr Sitting quietly at her patchwork in her home two miles west of Cayce, in Iexington county, this morning, white haired Mrs. Paul D. Kllisor was sud leuly struck down from be hind by a negro burglar armed with her husband's axe. The point of the heavy weapon sank deep into the skull mid death was probably instan taneous. Catching up the pitiful, wasted body the assassin forced it into a clothes basket near at hand and tossed over it the quilts from the bed. Then, catching up Mr. Ellisor's shotgun and one of his coats, the murderer lied. The crime was not discovered un til an hour or more afterwards. Mr. Kllisor had gone to New Brookland at an early hour to sell vegetables, leaving Mrs. Kllisor alone in the lit tle three-room house. Ho returned to the house about 9 o'clock and found hi daughter and several friends sitting upon the doorstep, waiting his return. The house was locked up, and all supposed that Mrs. Kllisor had closed it to run over to a neighbor's. After waiting around tho premises for some time they be camo alarmed and forced the door, to find the reality far worse than anything they could have feared. Two negroes were arrested and one confessed. They were taken to the South Carolina penitentiary for safe keeping. This ii whit if on. Jake Moore, State warden ol Georgia, says of Kodol For Dyspepsia: "E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago, HI. Dear Sirs: I have suf fered mora than twenty year from indigestion. About eighteen months ago 1 had grown 10 much worse that I could not digest a crust of com bread and could not retain anything 00 my stomach. 1 loat as pounds; in fact I made up my mind that I could not live but a short time wheua friend of mine recommeuded Kodol. I consented to try it to please him and I was better in one day. I now weigh mors than I ever did in my lift and am in better health than for many year. Kodol did it. 1 keep a bottle constantly, and write this hoping that humanity may be benefitted. Yours very truly, Jake C. Moore, Atlanta, Aug. io, 1904." Sold by English Drug Co. Local Items 0! Interest Most pecplo know that if they have been ick they need Scott's Emut jlon to bring back health and strength. But the strongest point about Scott S Emu fa fon is that you don't have to be ick to get result from it It keeps up the athlete's strength, puts fat on thin people, makes a fretful baby happy, brings color to a pale girl's cheeks, and pre vents coughs, colds and consumption. Food in concentrated form fof sick and well, young and old, rich and poor. And it contains no drugs and no alcohol ALL DRUOQISTSi BOo. AND SI.OO, Calling on Rontevett and Taft. H v. arM ! ktll(ilaarrr. When Judge Jaturs K. Boyd of nrMtnalmriB vuhfrt Amu tint Ai'ii u-kii. ii...u.ii,.im.!,l.J Mr. a It kubauka, who has ... .v.. i 1 1 . . 1.. lived iu Monroe some time, has Secretary TafL He carried out bis mo ,0 r&nA. promise Monday morning and Mr. Jaliau C Bnndy, who fat had a good time, shaking hands clerk at the Carolina Hotel at Kork and hobnobbing with distinguished! Hill, visited his parents, Mr. aud gentlemen. Much to my surprise and pleasure rretiideut Koosevelt recalled me and said that he was glad to see the Tar Heels and iu dicated that the color in our facva waa a good advertisement for the climate of the Old North State, Messrs. Koosevelt aud Taft were very agreeable. The former greet ed us with his famous emphatic grin aud the latter with a niellos smile. The Executive office, which eon tains the President's room and the Cabinet room, is west of the White House. It was there that we saw the Chief Executive of the nation. As we walked to the door, having entered the grounds through the west gate on i'eunsplvauia avenue. we passed a number of newspaer men and other callers who were waiting to see Becietary Loch. Judge Boyd was greeted at the in side door by the keeper as "Judge'' and told to walk in. We were ushered into Mr. Loeb's office aud asked to be seated uutil our turn. Recognizing my companion, Mr. Loebsaid,"Howdoyou do, Judget" Two seconds later we were in vited iuto the President's room, where a number of gentlemen weie waiting to pans the time of day. Talking to Mr. Koosevelt, when we passed in, waa an old gentleman, with long white beard and attract ive face. I took him to be a man of 70 years. His hair was gray, hut his eye keen and alert and his body vigorous. I had seen him many times at the Capitol and, wherever he went, old frieuds greeted hint cordially. I wondered who he was, but had never taken the trouble to inquire. His large black hat, his white vest and his ponderous walking caue interested me. I had become attached to him without connecting him with any name. "That's former Senator Stewart of Nevada," said Judge Boyd. The President was leaning to ward the old gentleman and listen ing intently. Shortly after we ar rived Mr. Stewart told Mr. Koose velt goodbye aud departed. It was then that our tnrn came, for when the President saw Judge Boyd he said: "Judge, I'm glad to see yon." They shook hands aud I was intro duced, a few pleasantries passed and we departed. Mr. Koosevelt is s good hand shaker; he gives you a good grip. Having seen me at four of his re ceptions and at Vice President Fairbanks' home, he knew my face and name. He declared that he was always glad to see Tar Heels. Leaving the White House we went to the War Department to call on Mr. Taft, We did not have the good fortune there that we bad bad across the street, for it begins to look as if the next dispenser of good things would lie the Big Sec retary and the waiting line to get at him is a very long one. We had to stand a half hour before we could go in. Judge Boyd became tired, but I did not niiud it, for the room was full of interesting peo ple, and on the walls were portraits of former Secretaries of War. Actoiig them those of Grant, Sher man, Sheridan and Davis. I look ed at these aud the callers. Mem bers of Congress on business er- rattns seemed to have the right of way. The pale, cold-faced little man who tells yon when you may go into the Secretary's room is se vere, if not fierce. I should be afraid of him if I were in Mr. Taft's place. Mr. Taft is all right He is as genial and as hospitable as an old time Southerner. It was: "How are you, Judget I'm glad to see yon," when we passed out of the bands of the Sec retary. The big man seemed so warm aud gentle in comparison with the one who turned us in that I felt as if I should like to embrace him. While talking with Judge Boyd of the pleasure of being on the bench, Mr. Taft reared back in his chair and smiled. Mr. Taft is a big man any way you take him. He has a great frame and a great mind. At close range he is very attractive. His head is massive and well shaped aud bis eyes clear and soft. His hair is light iu color and fine. The thin locks on the top of the head are as light as silk. "Every time I see a Federal jndge," said Mr. Taft to Judge Boyd, "I envy him." Kodol is today the best known aud most reliable remedy for all disorders ol the stomach, such as dyspepsia, beaitborn, sour stomach and belching of gaa. Kodol contains the same juices found in a healthy stomach. Kodol is pleasant to take. It is guaranteed to give relief and ia told here by English Drug Company. They Come Not Back. Arabian PfOTtrb. There are four things that come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglect ed opportunity. Thousands PcrUh. Thousands perish every rear from consumption resulting fiom a cold, Foley's Hooey and Tar cures the most obstinate racking coogbs sod eipel tbs cold from' your system and pre vents consumption and pneumonia. It bas cured many cases of incipient consumption. Mrs. a R Buudy, last week. Mr. Ernest Barrett was last week elected night policeman over some twelve or fifteen competitors, and is now on duty. Farmers say that there has been lens farm work done this winter than for many years past The bad weather has simply paralyzed work. Mr. 8. T. Howie of this county, who bas been with the F. W. Woolwor'h Co. of Ieuusylvania for some time, bas been promoted to tho management of the conipa uy's store at Monongohela. Mr. J. P. Belk, who has been running a grocery store next to the Euiiuirer office for several mouths, will in a few days move his stock of goods to Belt's mill in Lanes Creek township. Mr. J. S. Miller, who lives near Piueville, in all probability has the deepest well to be found anywhere iu this section of the Carolina Some time ago he began digging a well on his farm and is still "(leg ging away at it" The well is al ready more than ISO feet deep, and not a drop of wuter bas yet award ed his efforts. The M. K. Lee Mercantile Com pany, who were recently burned out at Marshville, have not as yet beguu to rebuild, but they have made arrangements to handle fer tilizers, heavy groceries, etc. They are using their metal covered ware house at the preecut for groceries, heavy hardware, etc. While they have made no steps as yet to re build, it is understood that their work of rebuilding will begin soon. Mr. John K. Crowell, a well known citizen of the Weddington neighborhood, died Sunday night about 1 :.')() o'clock, after a brief ill ness of about oue week. His death was due to a complication of dis eases, lbe funeral and burial took place at Weddington Methodist church Tnesday afternoon in the presence of a large gathering of neighbors and friends of the de ceased, and was conducted by Kev. . K. Aberualhy, pastor or the Weddington circuit. Mr. Crowell was a good citizen and is survived by a wife and three sons. Mr. J. Ellis Simpson died at his home in New Salem township Feb ruary 1'Jnd of pneumonia. He had heen in bad health for the past two years, bnt be had pueumonia but live days. Deceased was a sou of the late Mr. Elijah Simpson. He married Miss Dmcilla Griffin, a daughter of Mr. J. Oj. Griffin of east Monroe township, who with three sons and two daughters sur vive him. Mr. Simpson was a good and honest clliieu, a splendid tanner aud was popular in hia com munity. Married at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. E. Cary, in Jackson township, by II. A. Nor wood, Esq., on Feb. 19th, Mr. S. B. McWhorter aud Miss Eliza Cary. The attendants were Mr. J. J. McWhorter and Miss Josie Carnes, Mr. Dock Helms and Miss Belinda McWhorter, Mr. J. P. Sliced and Miss Julia Glenn. Im mediately after the ceremony the contracting parties together with a goodly number of relatives and frieuds repaired to the hospitable home of the groom's father. Mr. George McWhorter, where a table bountifully laden with with good things awaited them. After the feast the remainder of the evening was spent in innocent plays aud sweet musia furnished by Miss Jane McWhorter. The groom is a pros perous young rarmer or Jackson township. The bride is one of Jackson's most popular yonng ladies. Mr. Henry II. Milton and Miss Annie Smith were married Wed nesday at the residence of the bride's parents, Dr. aud Mrs. II. I Smith, on Houston street Kev, Geo. P. Steveus, uncle of the bride, performed the marriage service. Mr. Walter Milanu, brother of the groom, was bent man and Mi I Bertha Smith, sister of the bride. was maid of honor. Mr. Howard Smith, brother of the bride, gave her away. MuwGntceSmith played the wedding march. Only a few relatives aud near frieuds of the contracting parties were present. Mr. Miltou is an employe of the Heath Hardware Company. He came to Mourue from Albemarle several years ago and has made many frieuds here. Mrs. Milton is au exceedingly bright and at tractive lady aud has as many fiieuds as she has acquaintances. After their marriage Sir. and Mrs. Milton left for Albemarle where tbey will speud a few days with relative. A Letter from a I'nion County Man in Florida. TJ tlit Editor of The Jturn! : As I am from old I'nion county, thought probably a few liues from this part of the couutry would tie of iuterest to the many readers of The Journal. I have drifted until I have landed in Florida, the laud where the "Sweet Magnolia Blooms" and where the sweet fra graucc of a thousand (lowers ride ou every breeze. I am now iu Ozoua, Fla , a small village situated on the west coast of Florida, aliout tweuty miles from Tampa, but only six miles from Tampa Bay. It is right on the Gulf of Mexico, or rather ou the hay, for Hog Island separates it from the main gulf which is a great protection iu time of a storm. This island is about four miles wide and twenty miles lung. It is a very beautiful place for here we find growing the stately pines aud spread i ng pal met toes, w it h t be love liest tllowers that ever grew in Florida soil. The twittering birds, the running fox, the jumping squir rel, the screaming eagle, thceplash ing waters npou the beach, coup led with the lovely breeze which is always blowing across it, make it a luxury to the mind of the weary. It is owned by the government aud can lie homesteaded, though there is uo one living on the island at present. It was said to be once iu babitated by wild people. U.ona ships nothing by water hut docs her part by rail. There are three large packing houses here where as many as two hundred and seventy five cars are loaded with fruits and vegetables and sent out every year. It is also a great w in ter resort for Northern people, who come here to escape the cold weath er of the North. Along this coast the largest or ange growers in the State aie to be found. Every farmer bas a grove iu which he grows oranges, grape fruit, lemons, tangerines, mange ines, guava, kutmiuatsaud various other eit'iis fruits for the market Largo is the largest shipping point ou the west coast, shipping annu ally more than three bundled aud seventy live car loads of fruits and vegetables. This has beeu a very unfavorable season for orange men iu this State owing to the money panic. No where in the world can be found a healthier or more perfect climate. Frost and ice seldom!)' forms aud never but littleata time. At times the sun shines very hot, but there is nearly always a study breeze comiug from the gulf which keeps the atmosphere cool aud pleasant This couutry here is level and sandy, scarcely any clay to tie seen. There are places about called "deer sinks" surrounded by palniettocs and said to be made by deer in search for salt The people seem to be prosperous and take life easy; no worry about tomorrow. Labor is scarce and hard to manage. That is one of the great hindrances to the South today. But while we need laborers to carry on the many vast and growing enterprises, still we need laliorers who are willing to work and be trusted. In almost every great enterprise help is want ed to carry on the work. But while labor is needed it must be the right kind, for the world doesn't ask who you are but what you can do. K. AI.ONZO r.l'BANKrt, Sutherland, Uillsboro Co., Fia. w5 Look at your label, please. If it is behind this date, March 1, 1908, we are ex pecting to hear from you. MR. TILLET ON LYING AND GRAFT IN NORTH CAROLINA. t Mr.Chas. W. Tillot, the well known Charlotte lawyer, made an address recently to students of Trinity Col lege. It was a notable one, coming from a speaker of snch known worth and judgment His subject was a very common one, just plain "Lying," and it waa not a flowery piece of ora tory. It bristled with stern truths and hard common sense in every paragraph. On account of its length it is impossible to reproduce the en tire address, but a few extracts there from will prove of interest. They are taken from the Charlotte Obser ver of Sunday. As to the beginnings of this great evil in the lives of people, be says: "What is the matter with the mor al condition of the country?" I give this answer, Lying including all forms of deception ia domestic and social life and all forms of cheating and defrauding in business life. This is the ono over-shadowing, crying evil of the day. "How does it come about? We be gin by teaching our children to be liars. .My nurse tells my little four-year-old girl a lie in order to get her to go to bed at night, and it does not take her long to find out that it is a lio. We sneer at littlo George Wash ington and 'The Hatchet Episode,' and we smile approvingly at the lit tle white lies that ladies tell in social life. All of these things tend to bring tho truth into disrepute. The evil has found its culmination in commercial life until it would per haps not be an exaggerated state ment to say that tho average busi ness man does not hesitate to lie and deceive in a business transaction. "The temptation to lie affects every one of us, and the man who says be is not alTected by it is either a blind ed enthusiast or he is a sniveling hypocrite and liar when he talks that way. The preachers on Sunday morning have before them in the pews a church full of liars, but the trouble is that some of our preachers do not see things as we in the pew see them." There is a difference between be ing "sorter" honest and really hon est. Listen: "I heard a prominent business man say some time ago, 'It is so hard to be honest' When I looked surprised he replied, "Oh, 1 don't mean sorter honest, 1 mean really honest' He was everlastingly right. 'Honesty is the best policy,' and most of us are honest enough when we are in the limelight, but I am talking tonight about being honest in the inmost re cesses of the soul, where no eyes but God's can penetrate, and of being honest in social and business trans actions where there is no danger of the exposure of a dishonest act. "Most all of our churches have men sitting up in the amen corners whose business lives are filled with lying and deception, and yet there they git with solemn faces, wearing black gloves, ready to act as pall bearers to bear out the corpse of the little girl when God shall strike her dead for dancing as the minister pours his denunciation upon this evil." The appalling prevalence of graft (only another form of lying) in thii country, he describes as follows: "I am not a pessimist, but I am absolutely appalled at the spirit of Where the finest biscuit, cake, hot-breads, crusls or puddings are required lloyal is indispensable. Ml Si 0 IS! J Baiting Powder Absolutely Pure Not only for rich or fine food or for special times or service. Royal is equally valuable in the preparation of plain, substantial, every-day foods, for all occa sions. It makes the food more taity, nutritious and wholesome. I AM Is: i graft that is taking possession of the land. We aie astounded at the rev-1 elations made in reference to the big insurance companies in New York! when it was found that men in high ' position had been using their posi lions of trust in these insurance com-1 panics to further their own avaricious ends at the expense of the company, j but we needn t look up to New lork i or cast our eves across the contineut I at Sau Francisco, to see signs of this graft They are all around us. If you go out from your home to travel for a night and ask a Pullman con ductor for a lower berth, he will tell , you that he has none. But if you watch closely there is something in his manner to indicate that one might be found, and a dollar or two placed t in his palm will ordinarily cause him to discover that he really had one that he had overlooked." i North Carolina is no better than ! the rest of the country; graft has in terwoven itself with every liber of its being. Here is what the speaker had to say along this line: ' I don't want to be guilty of any sensational, yellow journalistic per formance here tonight, but I could shake the Old North State from cen tre to circumfereuce by telling a few things that I know which have come to me in a professional way. Fortu nately for me the law does not per mit me to disclose what my clients tell me, and so you needn't try to have me up in the courts to make me tell their names, fori am not go ing to do it 1 am not talking about people away oil in New lork or San rrancisco, but I am talking about people that we all know. If I should call the names connected with the incidents I have just related and ask all those who knew them to stand up, I expect three fourths of the audience would rise. I could go on and multiply these incidents until midnight, but this will suffice. The evil is spread all over the country." The man who does not pay his honest debts that is the man who can and purposely neglects them or refuses to pay is one of the worst of liars, and the speaker paid his re spects to this class in the following language: "So I say to my preacher friends, take this for a text, 'Owe no man anything.' It may be that you are embarrassed because your stingy members haven't paid your salary and you haven't paid your debts, but if you are in a position to do so, preach a sermon on debt paying, and let these amen corner men under stand that a man who gets ten pounds of sugar at a grocery store and can by any sort of sacrifice pay for it and don't do so, is not only a liar but he is a dishonest man in the sight of Uod. "Or if you want to have a rather warm time, about the first Sunday in' .lime take as a text the words of Christ himself, 'liender under Caesar the thing ttiat are Caesar's,' and preach a sermon on listing property for taxes, licad your people the oath that a man tskes when be lists his property. I was informed the other day that a Methodist preacher in a certain county had made the biggest return of household furniture of any body in the county. Now, wasn't that ludicrous? It was all the result of a debauched public conscience that needs to be aroused. The Lucky Quarter Is the oue you pay out for a box of Dr. King's New Life Tills. They bring you the health that's more precious than jewels. Try them for headache, biliousness, constipation and malaria. If they disappoint yon tho price will be cheerfully re- liiudcd at hngliHU Drug t o.'s. Appreciation. KiniT4on. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten pathway to his door. Mr. John Kiha of Yining, Ia., savs: 1 have bten selling De Witt's Kiduiy and Bladder Pills for about a year and they give better satisfaction than any pill 1 ever sold. There are a dozen people here who have used them aud they give perfect aatisfactioa in every caee. I have used themselves mvself Ih fine results." Sold by Euglish Drug Company. Why Not? Hnry Prmumniiit. "I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other than we are. llow much the world needs it: How easy it is done!" A Life at Stake. Your life may lie at stake when you notice auy sign of kidney or bladdur trouble, as liright's disease and diabe tes start with a slight irregularity that coultl be quickly cured by Foley's Kid- uey Remedy, Lomnience taking it at the fir it sign of danger. English Drug Company. The True American. r-P-ltltMll KKY!t. "Americanism is not a matter of birthplafe, of ancestry, of creed, of occupation; Americanism is a matter of the spirit within man's soul." Best Healer in the World. Kev. . Slarbird of East Raymond, Me., says: "I have used Bucklen's Arnica Salve for several years, ou my old army wound and other ob stinate sores, and find it the best healer in the world. I use it, too, with great success in my veterinary business." 1'rio '.'."ic, at English Drug Company's. !ijThe Beauty Chorus and Patti Rosa with the Lyman Twins in the Big Fun Show. 18 People--14 Whistling Song Hits. Opera House Tuesday, March 10
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