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There is a firmer who 1b YT , .
Knouch to take his E i v
Vul studv nature with his II
Ami thfnk of what he CC.
1 u bears the chatter jof the JJ
As they each other TT '
AnJ sees that when a tree DKK
1 1 makes a home for BB.
A voke of oxen he will UU, vil ft
With many haw and 00 J r
Ami their mistakes he will XQQ
When plowing tor his PP. , -
He little buys not much he sellst
And therefore little owes.
And when he hoes his soil by spells
He also sous us nose: f j f
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RAM JOHEr KfUfOf.
1 HIUURKW BOR5 IS A TREE. ,
Kanily of Brglit Up las Tm
Traak la-Taiiin.,,Vw
It is not an ancestral mansion, though
it has been some 500 years in building.
The beginning oi,il was. a eiunlj sap
teresting and remarkable "TeYelation J ' , J1
and IB Written hv an enthnaia; ' :
mirerofMr. Lincoln, and establishes' Recently at one of bis meetings Rev.
bevond aaeation hU nAtArnitv AKi-.. Sam Jones bre&ched from the text,
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i t uy uu jfuu wait, piace juur uuhj ti
God," and the following is a brief mm-
but one letter on that line and that wo.) ,kj. i.i?..l,en . , I iWliMn a V,. . OT-.t nntfon
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om ftnaut torn federal soldier who in town aiid- featnm: Bath mti2 M decide inwr .selecUon of the road
we are to travel inroagn me, ana wa
devil tells us that, it is a momentous
Suestions, But)"?7 muBt-not jjet the
evil get'the best of us and. 'make us
believe this, for the only thing to do is
to make a decision, and, thero.i noth
ing momentous about it. Some 6f you
brethren say, 'Mr. Jones, I am care
fully, (Jonaidering this m alter before I
take the step' but it taket no consider
ing, for the man who says. this is the
most ridiculous Bight the devil, can pre
sent before God. Then some -of our
brethren say,,Mr. Jones, I am waitifig
nntU the church gets right before I take
the step;' and the man who says this
reminds me of the men who went out
to cut down a tree and refused to strike
a big lick until he sweated. Wanted
to sweat before, be did the work.
Brother.'" moral 'perspiration is moral
A aORTUBRJI wash mwi.
"HHrWMkw IbtWK 114 Bmi
I CaaaM r Wttl I WuU liar
have been written but on its partus! I
believe that it is better , for the whole
truth to be told than that this remark
able man's genesis should continue to
be uncertain and u,nknown. . . - . I
1 am . now Irvine to solve another
u? M inenuiy ana msiM l would game heiVht .nH hM k-.. .
r ?i Rn WW it him 8hapely limbs. J 7
lt'-Bl'Ta -iSebooiVof 175 page.r.wa.
frSedK' li (L.n0w wmes written by James U. Cathey. Bryson
rWnl rK B N- G, and is kin4 in motive and
tei??!?'rto .ow.-jUbl cjasrfcj In sfyle. 1 tnoSiht whec I first
vuiracHiDtt.m nmirannniTA nrwin t i j :hl.. ' . .r. . .
.nr k vL 'Yu ZTJ,: . rr..r " pernaps u naa neuer not
in giving the negro the right of suffer-get-
baLUe doeseat apoligize. He was
one of the prime leaders in the whole
i tKUiHeBS and speaks of it as a mistake.
ft was no mistake. It was malicidas
ling, funding in a uny cove ngB-m " waj uowwni ne ey sort problem; the problem .of bow best to
the side oi an xaisi l enneeeee moun- j " " ulu "u n 01KB V"y 1 destroy; the potato bug or1 beetle. Last
tain, liy ana Dy me sapimg pecameia jm wvui kuvX anew nut; uiue year i tried pans green and-was bot
Lis; lllow tree. i Notwithstondiog the b0at us and nothing aboty the negro, satisfied. I am now knocking them off
hollow tree was so mgs-tau nwrn miatvu)u,ns.iJBPW "ense ana morainr and erening and hoeing the
lie stretched at length lnitand there was I w canaor. tie came aown to Texas ground around the plants, and think
an outer shell pf sound. vood and i " J" ? inveBugaie ana .went I have whipped the fight.' This Will do
plenty of vigorous leafyughs fori homeandwjotea letter in which he for the garden, .baC not lot' the field,
shade. The hollow itself was rain kndj e negrd was not fit for the balbt Professor Btarnes will tell us a ''better
storm proof, so a couple of the moun-1 .a norur naa made an egreg- way I hope, for he is a scientific genius
... a - w i u nn b ri ii aw m aw a m b. . - . -
5 Ji ' i- " t V - ? v " ana the most enthusiasUc experimenter
uwrai (wugNRtuut' it vsme preuy
nearib -. -
iivw, misiaKB aoesent involve anv
moral turpitude, but a malicious blunder
does.: The.' time has passed ; for any
more truckling. The stage of despera
tion is upon r the , south and i political
humility to the north has passed.; ,We
' Ja 1 7-. . " HTtl Mble for every outrage and every lvnch- this little farm and irarden and orchard raen d Georgia. They will sit them to the level of the savages. They
ii -. i. t TInM - . ..... . . ud on Saturdav nieuis ana piayeucner thvlrM with an nneon
ri --". i . m AMoum i were ail mine. aiy amotuoa is not , , . . . " ,, . i ir "T .
Age, a neero paper that is published bv i
,r.tefopH7S W. APiedgef. UihcW. but 'to benTfit the rpepTby improved JJ&.TJlt
ince to the ee GeneraSv wous article from the New Yora papers methods and by regies for the failures P1 anV
-fLSSi SrSrfSSi tto:M-d and disaster, that are incident to, the to Ah.
tain folk toox up tneir anpue w j j
They did not bother about furniture.
There was no room: for it, . even in a
hollow tree measuring seven feet
iiToss. The roan put dovn a floor o:
puneheons that is, rough 4 slabs A split
from smaller tree trunks. For ;a bed
they had dry leaves, ' and for covering
skins of various animals .round about.
The woman knew how to dresa them
Indian fashion, sd they served in large
part for clothes, as well as cover, f i ; ? 3
An ax, a rifle, a bullet pouch, a pow
der horn, a hunting knife, an iron pot
a water pail, a jug, two or three big
eoiirds. a
summed up the family's movable pos-
sesions. Cooking was- done gypsy
fashion
the entrance
the tH)t sat leside the hre simmering
and stewing. The only bread was ash
cake. For drinking there was a choice
of sassafras tea, unsweetened," and
moonshine whiskey, . ; !
The man, of course, was a moon
shiner. He was also a dead Bhot
.particularly in the case oi a revenue
otticer. He was able thus to feed his
family by working about half the time.
His wife looked after the clothing, ex
changing surplus peltry
f.r coarse cloth, salt and
nearest crossroads store,.
away. ' '' ' ; '
Eleven children were born "in the
hollow tree and grew up into strapping
.men and women. One of the boys
stood G feet 9 inches when be could
he persuaded to stand t all- Usually
he carried himself in rather the shape
of a crescent. Each of the eleven
was cradled in the half of a smaller
hollow treeV smoothed but Inside with
the ax and imbedded with leaves. It
did not need rockers, rocking itself at
the slightest touch. As the big tree
lreame crowded,-hollow logs were
sought, one for each child, chopped
into convenient lengths, and dragged
close about the fire. - Into their open
ends the bigger children crept, feet
foremost, turned their heads to the fire
and slept snug through all sorts of
weather. Of course the logs were only
for etorms and severe weather. When
it was fine the whole family slept out
dixrs. It was- presumably a . happy
family, and certainly a healthy one,
thoueh.it went barefoot the year round
horror and make! one feel that any
means thai is tfiectaal to prevent aucb
crimes is justified.' Ooe forxts the
monstrousress of the Ram Hose lynch
ing and only wonders wbetbefc it was
expedient."
: The Kew York Herald baa sent Rev. I A comspondent of the Boston Tran-
George 1L. Hepworth to Georgia to in- script, who baa been studying tb oe-
gro question iu iu eoam not anogeuMT
from a standpoint friendly to that sec
tion, is compelled to make the following
I have ever met. Last; Week I visited
the experiment station- at Athens, of
which he has charge, and was delighted
with the progress he has made on the
university farm. - lie is absorbed in his
work and I am sure he will make it a
great success.
, "How jsit,'said I to him, "thatyoq
determination. You say, If I join
now and don't feel right, I am a hypo
crite.' Waiting for a feeling! Friends,
there is nothing in the Bible that says,
'Whosoever feels.' Don't want to come
into the church simply because you
sister, I want to
don't feel like it: and
ask were ypu a hypocrite when you got Hgion, law, even civilization.
breakfast and didn t leei like iu sight of.
"Some of our boarding bouse women
will say, 'I don't feel like coming into
vestigale the causes of the lyinchlng of
8am Hose. In his first letter be tell
of the hideousneaa and brutality of the
crime of Hose, and its retribotioo. He
says that the retribution, terrible - as it
was,. was nataraL. and. that be cannot
tell what he might hare done if be bad
been there. Then be follows this up in
a judical tone, showing that for , the
good of the Sooth and the whole Land
some remedy for lynching should be
devised. The letter is in part as fol
lows: 1 '
"The people of Georgia are willing to
be Judeed, provided toe. Judgment is
iost,. and are more . ready to .accuse
themselves than we are to accuse Ihem
They take as grave a view of Ibe situa
tion as we of the North do, aad as earn
estly seek a remedy for existing evils as
the spirit of progress could desire.
"The case of 8am' Hose, alias Thomas
Wilkes has one peculiarity namely,
that it cannot be dupicated in the his
tory of this or any other country.- His
crime was unique in its bideoosrtes.
Its atrocity was simply unthinkable.
There was venireance in the air. Re-
was lost
ght of. .. The populace was fraoctic.
admission in a recent letter:
. "The people of the North have a very
imperfect idea of the negro, as a rule,
and do not half weigh the burden aad
annoyance to the couth which bis pres
ence to aucn large numbers necessarily
constitutes, iloch of the Northern
ericicumi of 8oothern affairs is unintel
ligent. This is apparent to every man
on the border line who has any op-'
pcrtaoity wbalvet too ace both ndes."
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J.lilc3 the fcxxl mora delkSous aodv.x!csoc
T "" f' n wm
etodeots at rriacetoa sXUcked a
parade of Tawsee BUl's WUd West show
oo the 13lh and a pitched battle took
placo, in which many were Injured.
that you do not own and never will?"
He smiled and said: . .
'Six years' work in this business at
Urimn and here has created within me
there is no lack
of feeling when it comes to tattling and
playing cards.
'"Now, I don't know much about the
boarding house women up here, but I
have never felt that humility, but our L h Anhn.;..t;A 'mAik.nr the church;' but, sister.
: : , W ; 1 J t l J . . I . . . I rf frtrvlinr. it tfmH
(uuucuiui mr protcuu it ana tneq to
get something from the public crib by
pretending wo were humble! when we
were not. ' v . .-' . '
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The truth is that the north is respoh- an absorbing love for it, and I fed like know aU about the Ijoarding house wo- degrade those who inflict it, and bong ,Uol tlwa directly across the
for no one could tell whose family might
next be devastated. The heir of popular
passion broke loose, ine man was
chased by whites, by blacks, by a blood
bound at last caught. Was any tor
ture too great? They lost sight of the
fact that some methods of punishment
Fwt KlMTt Wlatw ntaato. , .
Betlew of Kertew., . x ,
On. reviewing the Impreesiona of a
tour nearly all around this island, by
railroad and carriage and cross the
island over the neat military road, the
first and perhaps the last are of the de
lighlfulneas of the climate and the
beauty of scenery. The extraordinarily
equable temperature rs doe to the pre
valence of the tradewiods; for Porto
Rico lies far out in the ocean, east of
Hayti, and 1,000 miles east of Havana.
In our midwinter the thermometer
stands every day 80" in the shade and
goes down to about 70 at night, or in
' the bills to CO. In the summer a tem
pera tore of 90 is reached, but never
more than 02. There is thus no win
ter. All the year around the army of
ficers attend receptions in their whits
linen suits, and ooly te thinnest nn-
der-frarmenU can be worn. The coo
twice a year
snuff at the
fifteen miles
Pledger writes to The New York Sun
that he is shocked at Governor Candler's
utterances and he says the good negroes
at the south are opposed to these out
rages on our women. 'The -paper is
pregnant with comment "on the lynch
ing. I reckon that is all right, for the
liberty of the press must not be re
stricted. But nevertheless these utter
ances from Pledger's paper go through
the educated negro element and settle
its convictions and thereby, comes some
more outrages and some more lynch
inga. , New York niggers come out in
their papers and advise the shotgun
and the torch iu retaliation, "and those
things are copied hi the nigger papers
at the south. . ; -"
But here is the comfort: Uncle' Sam
is still helping me in my garden and
doesent know and doesent care anything
about all this business. He says he
was born a slave and for - thirty .years
has been a. freeman and has always
found that if a colored 7 man done . his
duty the white man done hiB. Uncle
Sam has a large family and through
these republican influences they have
been corrupted and demoralized and he
has a lot of grandchildren who don't
know their own father and the old man
is grieved. "
I was ruminating about all this and
how these negroes have all been fooled
about Grant and Lincoln being their
friends and were fighting to free them,
when there is not a word of . truth
in it. ; Neither of them - cared a conti
npntal dime for the neero and both of
profession."
He has now ten pupils under him
and expects to have half a hundred in
August. I hope the state will encourage
him in his good work, for like Smith
son, his desire is to disseminate know
ledge among men. Bux Asp.
and whist and oo. 8unday night they I trolled thirst for revenee. They thooebt
will sit up and sing, 'Come, Ye Angel ef their wives and daughters and their
were blood beat in their veins like a pent up
heaven, if I tempest. God nitv them. God fonrire
there was a low place in the fence they them. They were not men; they were
MorMla tor ta PaatatiLS.
New York Press.
Marriages wouldn't be failures if men
weren't.
would jump out, come back and finish
that game Monday night. Haven't got
feeling! Ill tell you how to get feeling.
Just undo the wrong things you have
done. You sisters who have been tal
king about your neighbors, just go to
them and ask forgiveness for it and
vou will have feeling; and you city
officials, iuitt go to the violators of law
in this city and tell them they must
shut up shop and obey law and order
and youll have feeling enough to run
a dirty dog Uke you. v-
'George says that the clergy and the
maniacs. Their fury knew no bonds.
The calm second thought has come.
I can assure yon that everybody con
cerned regrets the part be took in that
tragedy. Tnere were, perhaps, five
thousand people on the scene, and ex
cesses are easily resorted to by a crowd.
What a dozen men can't do a thousand
can. Numbers fan a flame into a con-
: . The only really fascinating girls you
ever see are on the calendars.
The averasre marriage degenerates I thinking people of the city indorse his
into either a familv or a foundline I editorial, but he is mistaken. The
asylum.
Probably when his father fell on the
prodigal son's neck he jumped on it
real hard.
Every new leaf a man turns over the
devil lays on top of the pile under the
grid he is saving for him.
thinking men may indorse it, but they
are the men thinking bow they are go
ing to get out of this business. If he
will get just one clergyman to sign a
petition indorsing his editorial, that's
all I want Why, brethren, there
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UUfc U OIU IDWTiUiru, vio,a, uauiu
flagratioo. I have talked with all
classes of the people here in Atlanta,
learned and illterate, poor and rich, and
not a man has expressed aoy opinion
save one of regret.
"We shall be greatly puxiled uak-es
we can fully grasp the social situation
here, which is very different from any
thing to be found in 4he North. I am
not at all sure that we should not our
selves have pursued the same course un
der the circumstancea. The cry which
made the welkin ring was 'We must
nmtafi rm ariaaa an1 anirhfra ' Uui
When it is said by a woman that her peg-legged negro preacher who would t k to be prohlem. n m.
wife or mother or sister had been out
raged by a double-dyed villian, I can't
tell vou what I would or would not da
When the matter is brought home to
yourself you reconixe its horror. There
are no lengths to which you would not
go in the way of punishment. It is
easy to condemn when a thousand miles
away, but bard to condemn when oo
the spot with a like fate staring you io
the face. I neither plead nor excuse; I
simply say that I also am human.
"Ninety per cent, ol the negroes
have the entire confidence of their em-
island. Jo winter toe moisture carried
from the sea condenses iolo an occa
sional little shower, more frequent tn
the hills, and all day cumulus clouds ars
scattered about the borixon or afford a
few minute' shade from the bright son.
The air is absolutely clear, with no
smoke, base, or dost. The heavier
summer showers and the moisture of
the air ia win vr (about 75 per cent of
saturation) with occasional spits of rain
keeps the streams full and the ground
even io what the people would call a dry
season. The winters are moat dehghl
ful, and the island ought to become,
like Bermuda, a favorite winter resort
for invalids.
hair "falls to her knees,'! she generally
means when she bends over.
When a girl thinks she has a preti
foot she will generally find it is muddy
most everywhere.
A hen has a right to cackle when she
lays an egg; she has sense enough never
to lay three at a time.
A good woman's love is like a star.
The only reason it doesn't always shine
is because it is higher than the clouds.
When a man swears off for any other
reason but to please his wife he is apt to
really think he is in earnest.
The average man would lust as uel
indorse it Waiting for the church to
get right. Brother, the way to get the
church right is to go into it ana neip
make it right, Then some of you say,
'Mr. Jones. I am waiting until I am
prepared to come into the church,' and
friends, vou remind me of the poor,
long. lank. lean, hungry beggar, who,
when you offered him a biscuit, re
fused it. saying his hands were dirty
and he was not fit to take it, and when
vou told him to wash his hands he
said he wasn't fit to wash. Waiting to
get fit. Then some of you say you are
not fit to get bt. men some oi you
nlnvart TVia im ranArlAl because
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and never so much as heard of hygiene, them were more wuwrueuuuu. hear a girl gargie ner inroat as io near sy j. am wuuS .u j i - M law-abiding citizen. They
oodgrew up innocent of own successes man anymmgeise. J" her sing a thing with thrills in it at a i get out oi my way, uuu J 7 , have pro
The whole brood grew up
'contact with doctors, ministers, or
schoolmasters. As , the owner of a
simmer cottage down the valley Baid
iiK'ii discovering them: "The truth is,
they don't know enough ta ever be
sick." V - ';"
. Punishing 8kn galeide.
Miles Salisbury, a resident of Nor
wich, Conn., had a tiff with his -wife
and determined to play a practical
joke on her. Obtaining an ounce bot
tle of carbolic acid he smeared a por
tion of, the poison upon bis heavy
growth of whiskers, staggered into the
niom where his employer was sitting,
tiro1 : Hfo. had taken
tKot hU wifa fa thn rame reason she was sent away
ill I H J IKf tlUlU ill lift CWSa.OV .ucv a - i
he informed. The employer called from the paternal homestead 1 to keep
two doctors by telephone and produced peace in the family,. The father of her
hi cupful of mustard and warm water, child had great regard .for her and
vi th matter was nlaced with his relatives in Kentucky,
' iivn iouuj y CTsen i.v i j ,
Iwifg taken seriously he weakened and
I Have had ereat regard lor uncoin.
He was a much better man than his
party and his death was a, calamity to
the south. I have recently received
little volume entitled "The Genesis ot
Abraham Lincoln."- It is carefully and
affectionately written by James H.
Cathey, of western North Carolina, and
its unprejudicel perusal will convince
any man that ADranam uuwiu woo
the son of Abraham Eoloe, and that
Naiwv Hanks was a" good orphan girl
.kn aneA in Enloe's family. ' The
affidavits and other evidences establish
this beyoud dispute. Old father Abra
ham Enloe was a second Abraham and
ohnrot. mruvrt. - I that the only way a person canoe in
" The reason why childhood v so happy your way is to bo ahead of you? Do
isn't because grown-up people were you understand? And some of you
once children, but because children people, who are waiting for the church
have never been grown up. to get right, will be frying in hell a
C thdusand years before the church gets
right- ' Brother, make the start today.
a ca.-i.hm s-- Listen, friends, my hope is in God. If
Iouisviue Post. my hope was in the church, in the
"Did you ever know a man who preacher, in angels, in wife or in chil
could sneeze loud enough to break up a dren, the time might come when they
camp meeting, to stop the taking of would forsake me, but my hope is in
tp.uimonv in court, and cause a bellow- God. I know I am weak and I know
inr cow to stoD in disgust and wonder 1 1 am tempted, but my hope is in God,
what the noise was drowning, its thun-Und brother, the msn who places his
rleroua voice?" said an old fisherman I hone iu God will triumph over all
property interest of their own to
poor Nancy Hanks a second Hagar and last night
J i t .... I - i : :f-t kaf Kta inuwr
was entitled to. the cake and all the ac
cessoriep necessary to conduct an up-to-date
bakery, thegenUeman consented
to tell more his sneezing friend. ' ' He
where she afterwards married Thomas
t Rnm of the witnesses to
It a . . ia V, ' fT"! I x . ,,
declared it was an a joice. mm uw
ployer refused to believe and aid
w:i called, Salisbury being held while
the mixture was poured down his
ihroat. Then the two doctors arrived,
and in vain did the ioker sputter, kick
and -.protest Emetics were . forced
down his throat while Salisbury fought
like a tiger. At last worn out with his
struggles and protestations i he sue-
i i a. a J a iL ! Vt e
uinoeu, ana i.ne aociors muiuugire - hiU,
h sinking put a stomach pumpdowu acknowledgment of the chUd s paternity
hi-i throat and worked . it vigorously.
This caused the patient to nearly faint
away and he. was given heroic treat
ment to revive him. At last the doc
tors had time to look into Salisbury's
mouth and found that he had taken
no poison. The physicians left in dis
ini.i i. nt ; ..;n unnira snmA time to
re.-r.',re Salisbury to bis normal condi- 8tory current that Lincoln was the
tlO.ll.
said:
While fishing in a
temptation and evil. Listen, brother,
the way is open for you and don't stop
and hesitate, but make the start, live a
grand, pure, noble, Christian life and
God will help you and save you. Just
say, 'I will join the church and die in
the church, and it will help you. My
mountain town I message is delivered. Now, if the feel-
tho f J-ts are now ninety years old and in Eastern Kentucky last fall I went to ings of any person here have been hurt
guard, and a man who has a few hun
dred dollars worth of property at stake
is conservative. But the 5 per cent of
felloas who are not only ignorant,' but
vicious, who know no restraint and will
commit crime without compunction,
have ample opportunity to perpetrate
deeds of daring deviltry, and as at pre
sent constituted the people of the region
are powerless to protect themselves, and
live in the continual consciousness of
insecurity.
"A woman dare not trust berst-lf at
any distance from her home after dark.
With nine men out of every ten whom
she may meet she will be as safe as at
her own fireside. It is the unknown
tenth whom she fears. We can hardly
conceive of this state of affairs, but it is
the actual condition in many counties
in this Stale and in other State of the
South."
The following editorial comment oo
the recent lynching ia Georgia from
Tailtr Taavra la bm
narrodstmrg (K j.) Democrat. .
There lives in Washington county,
we are informed, six or seven miles
south of Springfield, one of the roost
eccentric human being, we fed war.
ranted in saying, in Kentucky. Shortly
before Abraham Lincoln was inaugu
rated President of the United Slatea, oo
the 4th of March, 1SC1, Bas'd Haydon
was to have married a young lady in
the neighborhood in which be now
lives, but before the day set for the
marrisge arrived she eloped with
another man. This weighed so on the
mind of her former admirer that be
went to his room in the second story of
the building and declared re woukl
never step on the earth again as long
as he should live, and though this was
nearly thirty-eight years ago, so far as
is known, he has never broken bis
word. He is the owner of a good farm
and employs a man to attend to bis
business, but bis employe ha at no
time been further than the door of bis
.
room; neither tiu anyone eise. tie
orders his clothes and other necessary
articles through hia assistant, who de
liver them st bis door. He is now
about sizty-year of age.
The reaideoca of Dr. L. C. BarveS.
test mile from Daiiou. Ga, was boned
recently,. and Dr.. Bagweil.' bis three
chUdrea aad the negro booaeksepar
wre burned to death. The fir U tsp
poeed to bar beea canard by. the ex
plosion of a lamp. . , ,
Admiral Dewey will return to the
United State at ooce. He will sail
from Manila next week oo the fiaphip
Olrmpia. A mrrrement ha been
started i a New York to ptzrebaa a
residence for the Admiral ia Washing
ton by national sabecriptioo.
An unknown man was struck by lb
KrrYork Central train on the 11 Ih
and burled with great force forty feet in
the air. . Ftter erbe was standing
near the tracks at the time. The
wiftfy moving body struck bim, knocked
him. down and broke hi arm. .The
stru(er had been kiOed LnstaaUy..
Tb Southern Bptj4 Convection, ia
session at Louisville, Ky elected ex
Gov. Northern, of Georgis, rvriot
The resignation of Dr. Whitet, presi
dent of the Theological Seminary, was
aecepted. Tm aocrptance of this resig
nation ha caused coach controversy,
the Church being divided oo the question.
Geo. Gotaes ha reaignad bis position
to act for theOubaaln the dUstriboUoo
of the $3,000,000 giving toOew. Brook
hi reason that certain Cuban feoeraJs
have formed cabal against him sod
that hi work ts hindered and be is
Ihoroorbly dagratted. Geo. Brook
sympathise with hire bet will proceed
l pay over to the meo the 973 vpirc
and disarm them aad will brook no
fooling. The troop wi3 be diaennrd.
A I Cienfata oa ifooday there came
near beiog a riot oo account of soro
boisterous Laborers who were Inenltiog
in their demands for some back pay.
The local police bad a sharp fir. hi to
arrest them la which ooe culprit was
killed and enteral persona were wooxnted
inctudiog a few members of the local
poCce.
It will be recalled that a few years
ago Rev. Dr. Brier, a prominent di
vine in the Northern leaby1arian
Church, esabraoad and promulgated
certain view regarding the Scriptures
which hia Church or a majority of it,
for be bad many sympathiser and fol
lower coc thieved tmortbodox. Hi
case attracted ewia aUeetioo bet was
finally eeUled by bis Wring the Preby
trrian Church. t. Brigr coenected
bimtelf with the ICpiacopai Chorea and
has become a minister la that Church,
having been ordaioed by Bishop Potter
in New York city Sunday. Many
Episcopal dergyraea protested violently
against the crdinatioo of Dr. Brvcgt,
holding, as the Ftescjteriaaa bad. that
hi yiew are not orthodox. Lot Vahcp
Potter accepted hia.
EJIuWlk CUg.Ca a.
The Observer acknowledge an Invi
tation to the commencement exercise
at Elizabeth College. Jon Sd to Clh.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached by Rev. J. A. More head, A.
M., president of tb Southern Lutheran
Theological Seminary, ML, Pleasant, 8.
C. The address before the missionary
society will be delivered by Rev. R. A.
Voder, A. M., president of the Lenoir j ported to the police
stxm 'lultni Owtra.
ATturra, May IS.- Winnie Roach, a
mulatto woman, came near beiat
lynched by aa an try mob of ioceoaed
negroes to-night The crime with which
she and her boabaad were charged was
brutally boruiog their four children
nearly to death by Igniting paper satur
ated with keroreoe, with which their
bodies had been wrapped. The man.
Lawrence Botch, ran away daring the
afternoon, when b beard that bis
treatment of Lb children bad been re-
kvB naaafd all desire to deceive anv-
i Th HwPiidants of this Enloe
. .
family are numerous and their testi
mony has been taken from North Caro
lina. Missouri and Texas, and all con
firm the story- All the very old people
in the western North Carolina were
familiar with the girl Nancy Hanks and
. l . tti ,.,;! and nLl man Enloe a
anrl hv he sent this modern xiagar
and her Isbmael away. '
But this is no new thing. During
the war it was talked of in the army
and Lincoln was denounced by the en-
. ... -i :.iiMittiiAh ho mflrriM.
tire ioau iarauy. iuw -iv
SB teen years ago, while 1 sojourned in agsunst the
wesSnKu Carolina, I found the turbance
. ... th.t r inn.in was the son "Two or
the village nearby one, rainy morning
to attend Circuit Court. . The Judge
was delivering an impressive charge to
the grand jury, and every ear was listen
ing to catch each word, when the still
ness of the court was broken by an un
earthly ker chew, ker-chew., ker-chew,
etc, etc., etc The judge was thunder
Btmo.k and ,inatantiy every eye was
turned toward the rear of the room,
where a little unobtrusive looking old
old farmer sat sneezing as if his head
were coming off. The Judge ordered
the sheriff to bring the intruder before
the bench. The offender came forward,
and the lodge had a fine entered
against the innocent cause of the dis-
by anything I have said, just come
down here and beg my pardon and I
will forgive you."
the sneezer' friends were
called, who testified to the man's good
character and high standing, but said
tv. -ruild hear him sneeze three miles
xt it- PthAv writes a prewy "" ? . 7. . -.a
i niiw. ia , . - . . i Mnmw mw iha vomr I inn uiu l iu kua
ir iTcvii T tj M I" - Mfltf I . AlO I L .Unt it llin n 8 BICUSC W I""' . -.
. . x,. .....j -. uuor. ovwu. - ---- v. AaoA-1 nezfir once broxe up a rampmwuug
. . lo. k this morning, in a tit of insan- truth ot hurt the diving.or the dead . 3n eneU.n& that he saw
Mother Slay Iter Cklld.
. . . 1 , i?nirw nd was named for
oi auiu.u - , Hv.
uiih -j . ' i-.,n
JLM I -" " -
' Bajrtag Paper.
'Here, boy, let me have a paper
"Can't.".
"Why not? You've got them. I
heard you crying them loud enough to
be heard to the city ball."
"Yes, but that was down t'other
block, ye know, where I hollered."
"What does that-' matter? Come,
now, nd fooling; hand me a paper; I'm
in a hurry."
Couldn't sell you a paper on this
here block, mister, 'cos it belongs to
Limpy. He's just up the furdest end
now. You'll meet him."
"And who is Limpy? And why does
he have this block?"
" 'Cos us other kids agreed to let him
have it Ye see, it's a good run on
'count of the offices all along, and the
noorchap is that lame he cant get
thecurentiserrffof Harper's Weekly is
also significant as indicating that the
people of the North are at last beginning
to understand the situation in the South.
Harper's Weekly says:
"Whatever any Northern reader may
feel about the burning of the negro Sam
Hose and the lynching of the negro
preacher Strickland, in Georgia, one
thing he should always bear in mioa,
that there is no vital difference between
the white man in the South and the
while man-in the North, and that what
white men do in Georgia white meo
from' New York, or Maaaachusetis. or
Minnesota wculd probably do io Georgia
under similar circumstance. A county
iu Georgia went stark ci sty over Sam
Hose.' Northern leader cannot under
stand it. A. letter. ba come to the
Weekly from a Georgia women which
tells a story of Sam Hoses crime
Collere. Hickory. Address before the
literary societies, by President Georj
B. Cromer, president Newberry CoUrge,
Newberry, 8. C
The programme of cornmeoceroent
week is as follows:
June 2d. at 8 o'clock, senior class dsy
exercises; 3d, at 8 o'clock, literary so
cieties' annual meeting;' 4th, at 11
o'clock, baccalaureate aormoh; 4lb,-4
8 o'clock, addree before the Mission sry
Society; 5th. afternoon, art reception;
5th, at 8 o clock, addree before Ih Hi
The woman bad been away from
home all day and did not know that her
cruelty bad been foond out She was
in the bouse when the snob gathered
and was ia the act of srrJyiar more
fir to oo of the children wbeo lb
crowd broke in. Telephone pit sirs
were sent to lb police statioo by white
people livieg io the neighborhood, who
said they telieved the womao was about
to be burned by th crowd. A wsgoo
load of ofikrr was sect to the place.
Ooe of th children bad all of the fieah
era TO raws.
Rowan county court house Is to be
remodeled and enlarged.
Only oo case of amaEpox nw re
main ia the city Omit of Raletfti.
The Bute cooveetioo of the W. C
T. U. win be hell. in QrtecJixrro, Jooe
Sod to fkh.
By a vote of 4 to 1 th town com
miaaiooers of Morgaatoo Lave rvfoaed
to iseoe lioacse to retail Iqoor.
During the storm last Friday night,
Lghung struck th Methodist church at
Bpeocer, setting It oo fire. The Came
wer extinguished before moch damage
was done.
- - i
The arret) lb annual coomeooamect
of the Stat Normal ' and Industrial
College. St Greeaboro, lake place oo
Tuesday and Wedoeavlsy, May 23rd
and 2tth.
There was a wholesale discharge of
smallpox patient aad surpecU from th
pest house and boos of detention at
Raleigh Saturday, forty beicg went to
their home a cared or beyood danger
of coolractiog or apreadisg th dianaae,
Thirty thoood crates of strawberrie
were hpped from points along the
Wilmington A Wsldoo Eailroad Tues
day. The berrie filed M rv-frlreralcr
cars aad were vmlned at 1100,000. This
is the largest day's shipment la th his
tory of th Industry.
Two negro meo oo Mr. J. B. t allaos's
place, near Uoatrrrrili, got Into a dis
pute Monday which coded tn Jiaa
Hsnss emptisg two loads of shot late
Doc Jots itoo'sleir. Dr. C E. rt aikrr
was sum mooed and b say the leg
will bar to be amputated.
The Salisbury Sun say that Jnls
Chambers, crored. who heed at Mr.
Pleas Barber, near Barber's Junction,
was found oo the railroad, deal, Son
day. It ia thought thai be went to aUrp
oo th track near Li bom Saturday
night and was kOd by a paaaieg train.
Jim itoberU, aa aged maa of Tancry
county, drank a half gaToo cf whiskey .
last Thursday niiht and dted from th
effects. It t said that be west to sieeo
a sooa a he draak the whiskey and
and could not be awakened. H bad
been a beary drinker far years.
Card are oat annonndng th mar
riaH c Mr. Ajlhox WDsdo Parka, . eoo
of Mr. A. D. Parks, oi &aXrr. and
Miss Mary Iaabe'La Davidaoo, of Hor
well, MarkWoborg county. The crre
mooy will Lake place at the borne of the
bride Thursday afternoon. May w-lb, at
S o'clock.
The Grand lodg ot Odd PeSoe. in
staaioo at Ealeiga last wek, elected the
following cAorT: Grand master, John
A. Etevena, of dir. loo; deputy grand
master, M. W. Jacobs, grand wardeo,
R. Morray; graad ecrvtary, B. H.
Woodell, of Baleigh; grand treavaorrr.
BichardJ. Jooea. The grand loCg
will meet at Winatoo next year.
Greccful Weekly as ys that la Greene
county Last week the wit of IliHiard
Anderson, coord, left ber J jmr-otd
child with ten children of rVoaaa Har
per, colored, aged svrea and sight year.
Wbeo the woman retorned the cLildrro
of the Harper woman bad beaten brr
child to death hat leg crushed its skull
with sticks.
la the breast ot sots of the negror
ia Wilmlcgloo savagery Is still alive.
This was exemplified lo the polk court
oo th 15th wbeo two negroes wrr
srraigued oo a charr of cUsarderfy con
duct by makieg dsxgeroo threats
sjrainst while apretnary and its edro
catn. Mayor Waddell seoleoced each
to tea days iarriaootnent and thro
look oocaatoo to warn the negroes
sgainst IndolgiDg la sorh talk, tailing
them U they did it would not be beaiiby
for them.
erary aocietirt; Cth, at 11 o'clock, com-1 burned from ber leg la aercral place
meocement exercise: us, uou cm , i ami wm bio. om vum uim
annual coo cert and reception. I burned.
TThe Tra! f WW la.
Lortoox, May 16. Andrew Carnegie
left London to-day for 8kibo Castle, bis
country seat io Scotland. In an iotrr
view be said :
"I am looking forward lo protection
io my Highland solitude from the array
ot mendicants which every lioor la iro.
DOrtuning me for subscription lo every
conceivsbl ol ject. Even wet I dis
posed to accede to iheee applications
for promiscuous sasistaoce, my reeuurce
for philanthropy have already been
fully hypothecated, and bombardiog
me with runner appeal is mrniy
... . t T - i ,aa America 's witn a Bneezius open, - i poor cnap is inai imo uvu.s
ity, Mr. Mary Foster, wife of John E tfaat Abrabam a hh0uld an enraged bovine stopa thunderous und lively like the rest of us, so we
Uer a farmer of Cool Spnng town, m08l remarkable man .and there should to look wonder at the that fir8t one caught sellin'
sum tliia onnntir nt. iViA throat OI DGT l- ttf.mrt to ClOUd the lite OI rcat ... ij , w. Aiiu I . . . ... ..ill. ,i a 9"
.' '...".-'. . :.. .- 00..-.--- . . i
J1'--months-old baby boy
Mid killed him instantly.
then cut her own throat with the razor,
hut not fatally. ; - '
Mm had been insane foramontu,
hut had improved and waa not violent
Her IiuhI and is a poor but respected
man. She will be arrestedLJas goon as
f-he can he moved, and it is hoped that
Mil- can be admitted tQ the hospital at
Morganton. .
I..u i? v kwm T n.. nastor of
IWiui'" .. . .
with a razor, hAro , Cicero says that the hrst law oi
The mother h;fltr.rv is that it should neither care to
a-a rf - fOAf Ttl
uva --
onvihantr that is false
Da J asj e .
say anything that is true.
It is, therefore, the V?? 1
:. uir nrnve that this won-
IQIH 11LI.IO uvw - X .
At man was not without
uok.m.
ancestors.
If he
Human who COUld make TO Ore noise
than a mad blL . But the old fellow
t couldn't hplp it, and the fi.ne was re
mitted." . -
Allwd Ills Dogs Bara,
Ttoaras. May 15. John Welch, who
lost fifty-five valuable dogs by the burn
His mother was flancy " of m-'kennels at Brighton last Fri-
WO: vr..---o k. - J
oo h ann of a worthy sire
is entitled to know who that sire was,
whence he came anu wu V""
. nr.?r tko .ntrlians of this history
,I1K UtOb l--Vi-"!-
North
nn hia lieat should be thrashed. See?
"Yes. I do Bee, So you have a sort
of brotherhood among yourselves?"
"Well, we're a goin' to look out Tor a
little cove what's lame, anyhow."
'There comes limpy now. He's a
fortunate boy to have such friends.'
aajp . a v
B . m I
Georgia understand, it. It is hardly a adding to the postal revenue.
letter that the Weekly may print but it
may all be believed, and it belie to an
understanding of what has happened.
No man who believed what this womao
believes and ba written about Hose and
Strickland and negroes of their class in
be surprised
Main Street Methodist Church Danville, oi ADrauu. ?r- . firJlt nle
. . i . a k I nrnMia a. nn nuuutcuo v tt- - . . -
.. I led in thA frfldv tlOSDllBI in . ,r.
savs that he was in the bouse ad-
imninir the kennels when the flames
i I iv..m .nil that ha micrVil havn
saved the whole lot He did not re- a chance tn the field,.
I? to"? LiS: The attorney, for the administrator of
uogs, m"jr J',i: toa- BfanWk. have, brouirht
would have narmea wi-"-. "for
t '
a., cied in the Urady iiospnai u - - - rtmen of weetern
Im.to n.. noo IV.O 15th inBt. 1 meu u .
V .:r. """""' r-7 -. n-dina. for the isn.oes were.- 6 , -th dtement.
e.eit home two wee R, r, jnfl,wial family and their oes- u-". ' ZkI h.7 hitn everrlhe
VT'A,n a Sudanis have intermarried witbrpany ' - 'm Welch deV killed at High Poiut last fall by a train
SkVnd SttS norpro- distinguished. Damsge. are plsced at w.
veedfartber. I propose to review tne ow ,
thn R-.uth would be surpneed at any
thing that might follow such a crime as
Hose committed. It msy be that noth
ing can justify such an orgy asters s held
over Hose, but there is plenty that can
The gentle-man bought two paper. tf?WnJr
.rwi Kid - aa-iaw 1Avn rjUULU Marcv0 e --i- J "
Xr 3 -aav-va . . a.
groe can only be rest nun ea irom nor
rible crime sgainst white women by
swift and terrible punishment We of
the North have little experience ot these
crimes, hot our blood circulate, and we
know what sort of dispooUons such
crime can arouse. To read th story
of Sam Hose's crime as our Georgia coin
him. and he went on his way
town, wondering how many men in
business would refuse to sell their wares
iu order to give a weak, halting brother
....tnet IK. Rnnlhnn Railway
bui. S" . "I , ... ; Ki. .W-r-
death of that young lady, wno wu ropuouemuw wn.- 7TZ
lUie inaiuerenca wj uiu utyw u4a-
inr or fate. It fills the mind with,
PtylU Kalltawt Aal
Kas.4ju City. May 1C The national
convention of Topnliet editor today,
by a large majority, declared against
further fusion with me uemocrauc
party and against -Bryan as a presi
dential candidate. Iguatiua Donnelly,
In a speech, said the Democratic party
deserved defeat In "J and Bryan would
te beaten if renominated. One editor
declared that if the PopulUt nominated
Bryan he would vote for Mckinley and
get a Getting gu a ready fur civil war.
Greensboro people are very moch "cut
up" over the recrat sate of the Cap
Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad to the
Southern, by the Atlao tie Coast Line.
Thev are now bottled op without com
petition. They say they
neat little sum for some
extend iu lint in there.
! Bv Tratta Mi tava Mot.a
Tin, w ...in. si m.
Ckartotle Otaaareee. tH.
The passenger train bet seen Charlotte
and Wiestoo, over th MooreevCle
Mockrville division, will begin regular
operations May Hib. The trairs will
be known as no. l aad la. ro. li
will be the train corning Iolo Chariot
aad No. 16 th outgoing train.
The schedule will be a follow:
Leave Charlotte at 9.18 a. re., leave
Derila at t 29; Croft at 9.3; Hooter
yille at 9.4?; Caldwell at 9.52; CDrneiios
at 9Jte; Davidaoo at 10.00; ML Moorne
at 10 06; MooresvUIe at 10,14; Ut IT-s
st 10.42; Barber Jonctkm at IOLO;
Woodiest at 11.10; MotksviU at 11 SO;
arrive 'at Wiostoo-Salem at 12-30 p, m.
Betnrnlog, leave VMnatoo Sadeea at
3 p. m.; MockaviUe at 8 05 p. m.;Wood
leaf at LS5; Barber Janet too at 6.34;
Mt Vila at 6. M; MooresviQ at 1J09;
Ut Mourne at 7.31; Dandaoo at "JtA;
Cornelia at 7.40; CaidweJl at 7.47;
Honlervrii: at 7Z3; Croft at 8.0C;
Deri U at 8.15. arrive at ChartoUs U 80
P u
N nUam Tolbert, a you eg maa tiring
near the Yadkin river, oo Mr. J. A.
Lndeick'a place, below Trading Ford,
Row a eoonty, was drowned oo the Ilia
by falliog loto the river. H wa ub
Jeet lo spaam and it is thought was
seized with ooe whu oo the river bank
lookiog after bah bask eta.
Mum Margarrt McCaU, who ia vUit-Ing-
Mies Janie I-rrin. mrriUy roo
tnbuted a "Joke" to Lifr. a New York
illastrate! puLlicatloTt. lit" ootorJy
acrrpteil the rxmtributioQ, but
the author a check for 5 lor it, The
lull owing is the article:
Smith "I have rrt sympathy foe
rmthern minm-XKr
Jonaw-How'a that?"
Scaith MWi Loth bare ao many
poor conoeciioria."
aw Cwasrx.
A negro who rcceriSy came over to
Georgia rrom Cnha, aad speak I!ciah
but imperfectly, becare in vol red ta a
quarrel with native colored ciliteo
horn be referred to a aaAfricaa."
Tand de Lewd," rryiied the Georgia
negro, "ef I Is ACkio, I ain't no S;u
leJ: eo what's mo. I aiot no blamed
black Philistine! J kin speak Nuoited
Stales I kinr
Theca- arainst P. P. II ed rick fur
lolling: A, D. hhopiiog i tvalitbory.
the chars Imtiz manslanghU-r. was
cnnclnll lat week. After beiAg out
abont fifWo minute the jury return
ed a verdict of "not gty."
While Mr. E. VI. Andrews was ae-
wceJd civ a aistinfl hi vrif oo the train la Ciuur
other road toilotte last Saturday some one stole a
If 125 diamond scarf pin from his scarf.
As proof cf the s sarrtioo that Monro
ta ooe of the most orderly town re lis
sis In the United Stales, The Tqiiirrr
show that the tvae ia the mayor s
court for the past year wrre ooly I ICC.
Uncolnton toU! In favor of
liquor Lkrnse at the recrnt mnsidravl
election out ort-ateu a rcrpas;UoQ lo
eetAbliah a grmilexl achooL No won
ur the town I dead.
Mr. Henry WITT, am s shot aad kied
two gray eac'ic oo bi tana near Aahe-
boro Saloriiy, meaaoneg srreo feet
each, from tip to tip. They are a vici-
oo lookiog pair of vuitaree.