North Carolina Newspapers

BIlllMilllli. VOL.' II. -NO. 32. P1TTSBORO, N. 0., WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1903. $2.03 ATeir. If I V f i Ill 8 tf, newsy items uicanea from jjj ..... "Murphy to flanteo. Winston Tobacco Figures. Winston-Salem, Special. The total quantity of manufactured tobacco pro duced In this city during January. . ..February, March, April, May and June, of this year, was 12,62,953 "pounds, 'an Increase for the period of ".'.1903, of .638,358 pounds. The stamp ales at the revenue office Jor June ag gregated $151,712.61, divided as 'fob iows: For tobacco, $130,733.59; for spirits. ?29,9C3.52. The leaf sales on the 'Winston market for June aggregate 676,970 -pounds. It brought $59,269.56, an average of about 9 cents per pound. The total sales for nine months of this tobacco year amount to 19,293.253 pounds. Very little of the old crop re mains unsold. However, with the primings of the new crop, the sales this year will pass the 20.000,000 mark. Toxaway Recelve'shp.l Asheville, Special. C. W. R. Bade mer and wife and U. T. Prr, In be half ct Uuri-elv an J alt otlvr f lock ht.Wkrs, and creditors of th Toraw-iy Company. Instituted prootte.lings -against the Toxaway Company and J. Frank ;ays. manager, pi-oiag that z tf.i-.it. u receiver be ap,--luted for the Toxaway Company u iul July 8", on wr.'ch nate the defendant! should Ter and show cairae why r. pcrnianent r" tr f.hould not :e ap Hi..tou. Tin ccr-s plaint was filed on nctvtisii of h Itaving been alleged that the stock holders holding - the controlling in terest worked adversely to the In herent of smaller shareholders. The proceedings were stopped and the re ceiver discharged when a certified check for the amount of. estimated tajKsg? Mas given the complainants. Attempted Suicide. AshevilK Special -Oliver Ciddon, a highly respected, though eccentric, -l;ia:en of the northern section cf this city, drank laudanum with suicidal in tent. Thursday afternoon. The ciroum staiioj which led Mr. Gibbon to this act of attempted self -destruction are extraordinary. It appears that he, to gether with Mia. Ciddon and a half dozen neighbors, were summoned to the police court during the forenoon to give testimony concerning the con duct cf lioys who were arrested on the charge of crying out and throwing stone into the yards and sometimes into tie house of people who lived in the vicinity of East and Seney fctrert. During the examination of witnesses Mrs. Ciddon was called to the. stand and was. closely cross-examined by tho attorney representing the young defendants. Mrs. Ciddon riad nf-er been in court before and the ordeal proved very embarasslng for htr and her husband. Mr. Ciddon, who suffers from nervous disease, braided much over this experience and the annoyance he had suffered from some of the boys of the neighbor hood and sought to end his .trouble at once. He drank a full ounce bottle of the drug and for a time It seemed that ho could not recover, but' physicians statedjater that he had an even chrnce of recovery. North State Notes. The North Carolina Press Associa tion closed Its sessions at Wrights Tine Heath last Thursday, The follow ing officers for the year were Chosen: President, H. B. Varner. Lexington Dispatch; first vice president, Benja min Bell, Wilmington Messenger; sec ond vice president. Rev. P. R. Law, Lumberton Robesonlan; third vice president. J. I). Bivins, Albemarle En terpriae: secretary an J treasurer, J. B. Shcn ill. Concord Times; historian. J. A. Robinson, Dm ham Sun; orator, H. F. Beaslc-y, Monroe Journal; poet A. B. Carter. Salisbury Sun; executlvn comrnktio. 11. B. Varner, chairman, J: 11. Sliorili, secretary. II. A. Umdon, J. D. Bivins. W. C. Dowd, J. A. Thomas W. Fi Marshall; delegates to National Editorial Association: Thad R. Man ning, D. T. Edwards. P. R. Law. W. F. Marshall, J. A. Robinson; alternates" J'. I. Gold, J. W. Noell. J. V Liucko. A. Johnson, A. B. Carter, R. F. Beats ley. . Mr. Frank D. BowiC if the ' Depart ment of Commerce of the United Stated, Is at Klnston, collecting data" of the resources, etc., of Lenoir coun ty aul the town cf KJaston. for a ftatiHytcal report by tho department, to .show the wealth- of the United Stutt 4. ' ' FrtyMteville. Special. At Hope MIIla In Cumberland county, a heavy p:uk ase cf machinery fell on Barney Autry a wagon driver, (rushing In his skull killing blm almost Instantly." A gcod deal bus been said recently about the ntMtisdo of tho Internal Rev enue Department with reference to the operation of the Watts law. and the Impression has obtained In some . In stances that conflict might result be tween the State and Federal' authori ties a a result of the operation or the new lav. The Federal government has no desire or disposition to Interefer with the operation of the Watts law. The man who, violates Its provisions will receive no comfort from (hat source, it was explained today that tho Federal government docs not license Baloons and distilleries. Tho "State exercises that function and au thorizes them to do- business. The - . m . . Mtiiuui nut's . mi nirtner i W?" lvy a tax on such institutions. V vjjcf8 the licensing in the llt- LYNCHING IN UNION Orderly Body of Citizens Hanged a f Self-Confessed Brute. John Osborne, the negro who as saulted Mrs. Lizzie Went, of Union county, Sunday night, was taken from two constables Thursday night and hanged to a tree. Just before his death be confessed his guilt. The evidence against Osborne was entirely circumstantial, but It was so complete In Its entirety as to leave no loom for doubt aa to his guilt. Though Osborne worked for Mr. Joe Riggers, who lived ten miles away from where Mrs. Wentz lived, near In dian Trail, he was the first man and the only man upon whom suspicion fell; and within 48 hours after the crime was committed this suspicion came to be a beucf In the minds of all people--whlte and colored who lived in the neighborhood of where the crime was committed. He bad a bad character generally speaking and few years ago had been charged with attempting to assault another white woman,' a Mre. Hargett, but. apart from his previous bad record, the evi dence connecting him with the assault on Mrs. Wentz became insistently cumulative and vividly strong. STRONG CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVI DKNCE. It was proven that on the nigat the crime was committed Osborne had ridden a mule within a quarter of a mile of Mrs. Wentz's home, and he was tracked from where he had hitched the mule to the home of his victim. In his Sunday vest pocket was ft und a small piece of string that Mrs. Wentz recognized as the same bit of twine that she had kept in a match box In her house. She remembered that in looking for money the negro ! ad struck a number of matches. And n the pockets of Osborne was foi-nd too, money that it was alleged he must have taken from Mrs. Went In the preliminary, trial tnat was l iven Osborne at the hom? of Mrs " euta Thursday evening rr.ore thai "'I witnesses testified, and the test! niony, linked together, left the colcred ''tnetses standing up in the sha' grove- and de'-'arini, that th prisoner Mas niltv. THE OPINION OF A MOTHFR. Even Osborne's own mother, w:io came to the scene, yelled aloud: "John, you know - you are gutity. Good-bye. There ain't nothin' for you to do but pray." When the prosecution, which,' as It presented by Mr. Plum mer Stewart, ot this city, a nephew of Mrs. Wentz, had finished, there waa a muttered sentiment In the outskirts of the ciowd that boded 111 for the prisoner. The manner of the deed bad been t-uch as to arouse to anger the most c nservative people in the audience. Mrs. Wentz is 64 years old; a feeble timid woman, who lives alone sav ing tl.e presence of an aged negro wo man, who lives in a but in the yard. It as tho, voice of this negress thai Osborne had imitated, crying that he was illto let him in the house. When the door had been open-'d he had clutched Mrs. Wentz by the throat, and had become a fiend in violence end horrid language. Such little money as he could find less tnan a dollar In all he had taken with him. A NERVOUS COLLAPSE. Before his accusers the criminal al most 'collapsed In his excessive fright, j He was young only 24 years old and black as the pure Ethiopian typo, but his 'politeness, his pager desire to propitiate everyone who came near him would have been pttlable If it had not been ghastly. Just -before he Mas arrested he had come tremb!Jii5 like a reed in tho wind to Mr. Plumnier Stewart and had begged to be allowed to shake hands. Fawning like a whip ped cur he maintained until death this pttiitule of extreme humility and irourtesy. , . ., THE LYNCHING. Aft'T the concSiiiiion of the evidence, 'Piiuire Broom, the magistrate " whe I'ondiicted the investigation, ordered that Osborne be committed to Jail in Union county to await trial at the next term of the Superior Court. ' Constables Frank Kestah and Luke Mortem put Osborne in a buggy tie tween them, intending to go to In dian Trail and take tiie train from there to Monroe. Before tho officers had proceeded tMO- miles they were surrounded by a party of several hun dred men. including a number of ne groes. The coustables resisted when ordered to surrender their prisoner, but were overpowered, Keslah being pinned to the earth In the clutches of two members of the mob. At this time several pistol shots wero fired by men in the mob. ,, Terrorized, pleading, M'eeping. peni tent, Osborne Mas dragged from the buggy, to an oak tree tKht stands by the side of tho thoroughfare. ' One end of the rope was tied around his neck. The other end waa taker, by a man who climbed the tree and lowered the rope over a limb. In a moment the bands of the mob had caught tho loose end of the rope and Osborne was swinging In -the air. So far there Is no indication that an effort " win be made to prosecute the lynchers. STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION Editors Enjoyed Refreshing Breesei of Old Ocean. . Wilmington. Special. President W. F. Marshall, of Gastonla. called to or der the thirty-flrst annual convention of the North Carolina Press Associa tion In the assembly room of the Sea shore Hotel at Wrightsvllle Beach at 11 o'clock ( Wednesday morning. The attendance is not ao largo as usual, but the editors there and their friends appear to be enjoying the outing at the beach very much. The welcome address in behalf of the chamber of commerce upon the Invitation of which the convention is here this year was made by Iredell Meares. Esq. A patriotic and very cordial response M-as made by R, F. Beasley, of The Monroe Journal. The devotional exer cises were by Rev. P. R. Law, of The 1-umberi.on Jlobesonian. President Marsnal! presented his annual report, which was an able paper, important suggestions embodied therein will be discussed by the editors. To Rsise floney for Exhibit. There was a conference at the Gov ernors office regarding ways ana means of raising money by private subscription for an exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition. Present. Governor Arcoek. Hugh Chatham, of Elkin; L. Banks Holt, of , Graham; (Robert N. Page, of Blscoe: Garland E. Webb, of Winston; J. G. Hackett, of Wllkesboro: J. J. Thomas and F. B. Arndell, of Ral eigh. It was the sense of the meeting that $50,000 ought thus to be raised. It v.as shown that there are 6,000 indus trial plants in N'orth Carolina, the an nual output being worth $00,000,000. The only question In the minds of the F.tnt!emen who attended this confer ence with the Governor is Mhether 2:u manufacturers shall be asked to give $200 each ahd also make exhibits or whether 100 shall be asked to give $200 tsch and also make exhibits or whether 100 shall be asked to give $500 each and c;ake exhibits. It was decided to put an agent In the field to canvass the Siate and raise the $50,000 needed. There is a determination on the part of a! Uo make the great exhibit at St. Ix)iiis. It Is learned that large sums are iromised by manufacturers at Various places in the State. The Governor re ceived today letters from D. A. Tomp kins, of Charlotte; J. W. Grainger, of Kinston; J. A. Long, of Roxboro, and North an O' Berry, of Goldsboro, regret ting their Inability to be present, and pledging their hearty aid In every way. Valuable Oo!d Deposit. Salisbury. Special. Mf. Frank II. Mauney. of Gold Hill, a mining man of many years' experience and one of the leading citizen of the community in which he lives, said regarding the rich ?trike recently made by the Whltuey Reduction Company at the Barringer mine, that he believed it to be by far the greatest ever made In a Southern state. He was convinced that large bodies of the ore are worth as high as 50.000 a ton and that half a million dollars is now Immediately In sight. Mr. Mauney would not hazard an opin ion as to the continued yield of the ein beyond this point, but said that it miaht be Immense. He was greatly Impressed by the presence in the ore masses ot nearly pure gold larger han a man's fist. Especially because he Whitney people do not court pub licity or care about issuing statements. Wednesday afternoon the ;twtfoot Hn M-hich yields this extremly rich re Mas struck by a second level from the pnralel shaft at a depth of slightly mo.e than 100 feet, ail trie indications for a much greater depth continuing cod. The vein Mas first struck at a depth of 33 feet. i A Destructive Fir. Halt ih, Srieclal.-Greenvillc. N. C, Is on fire; The flames started at a quarter to 1 o'clock ahd the fire is now under full hcadM-ay. No corcct esti mate can be made of the looses, but it la believed that 'they are already rbout $200,000. The fire started in a small restaurant and tho buildings al ready consumed are the maritot bouse. Farmers' M-are house. Oorrian Sc Wrights- tobacco factory, Jordan's tobacco factory, residences of Mr-. Nellie Harris, Zeno Moore and sev eral' smaller' bulldlhg-5. The hi at is so intense thst the- lire department can not, copo M-lth the flames. There is, be sides, liO adequate water rvs'em of water, works. At this hour the Chris tian church and King's i Hotel are threatened Mith destruction. At 2: SO the tire was under control. Baptist Young People's Union. Atlanta, Special. Preparations for entertaining Mie Baptist Young Peo ple's Union of America, which will meet In annual session in Atlanta July !'12, are complete. Cool Meather is looked for during the convention. A chorus of a thousand voice's trained by Professor Porter Mill render musical rejections during tho sessions of th j e convention. The headquarter of the gUharing will be at Piedmont Hotel Tho auditorium at Plednont Park, with a mating capacity of 6,000' to 3.000 people, will be used for the daily K.RKinn ' M.BB1UUB. . GERMANY WON AUTO RACE The International Contest in Ireland Fteo From, Fatalities. Jntxr, fh Trinnrr. Rod. S6S 1-8 Mile. la Ten tiaur nl rirtenn Minute 111. Americans Xi-t I'lmccd. P.allyflianiion, Ireland. Germany's rcjircsci.talive. M. Jcnutzy, won the in ternal iounl auto mec. beating out tlit most tin ring chauffeurs of America, England aud Fraree. Jrnafzy covered the 3J8' miles In teu hours and fifteen iiunuicrt, sometimes utriving bis ina- c-bine at a rate of septy miles n boor. He was fortunate In nut having a mishap of any kind.' Bene De Kuyff, one of the French represf-niatives, got second place, al though he crossed the fininh line two minutes ahead of Jenatzy, bnt in actual racing time the Genua u wou the race by three minutes. M. Gabriel, another of the French team, finished third. Alexander Wlnton. L. P. Mooers and Percy Ow-en. the American representa tives, did not finish. Wintou was con sidered one of the most dangerous com petitors, but he really was out of the race before be started. His machine went wrong, and he started forty inin tites after his scheduled time." This practically put blm out of the race. Mooers. too. had trouble at the start. He got his machine runnin-r at tep speed niter going ten miles and was rapidly making up the time lost when nis machine broke down at Athy, four hours after the start. Foxhall Kerne represented Germnnv in the rate. He was well un with the leaders when be discovered that cue of the axles of his machine was In dan ger of breaking, aud he was compelled to drop out. He had covered 100 miles In four hours and twenty-six minutes. making the best time for the first tour of the course. There were several accidents, but nothing of a serious nature. Stocks and Jarrott were in smash-upg and ineir cars wrecked. Jarrott smashed his machine turning a sham corner. Stocks ran into a fence, but escaped with slialit injuries. At first it was believed that Jarrott and bis mate wero badly Injured, but it is said that a dis located shoulder is the extent of his in- Juries. Baron Drcaturs. who was directlr behind Jarrott, uarrowly escaped col liding with the wreck.- He slowed up to learn the extent of the damage mid lost considerable time. He lost a few- seconds more when be readied the grand stand, where 'be slowed down to tell of the accldmt. The best time for one mile M-as made ny.Cabfiel. when he cut loose. after passing -the stand the second time around, and ran a mile in fiftv-nve sec- ends. Gabriel and Rene De Knvff won the $1MK) team prize offered by Scott Montagu. M. I The course was in the form of n figure eight, the loM'er. or eastern cir cuit, having a circumference of about forty-sir miles, and the upper or M-est- ein circuit, fifty-eight miles. The jour-uev-consistfd of three times around tho entire figure and once aroma! the west, pro circuit, making a total of 3(W'j miles. The start and finish were at the In tersection of the two parts of the eiifht. st a cross road corner Just outside Bai lysbaniion. The course led through the ioM-ns of Kilcullen. Kildare. Monnstere vln. Balibritns. Stradbally. Ballvnnu. Athy. Carow, Castle Dermot and Balll- tore. The cars eLiring the race crossed the Jlartlng point seven timeThe auto mobile club erected nn enclosure at the cross roads, and one or more of the competitors were almost always in sight of the enclosure. AN ASSISTANT FOR SCHWAB. Believed Ha Will Booa ICedga Presidency of Steel Triint. New- York City.-William E. Corev. President of the Ctirnegio Steel Com- iiuiy. Mas appointed by the Flounce onunittee or the I'nited States Ste'd orporatiou as assistant to President ehwub with full powers. It M-ns ofilcially :m ii oil n cod that Mr. Corey Is to perform the active duties of the I'rcKidmey, aud Wall Street Hikes tills to inoMii the eventual re tirement "of Mr. Schwab ns licml of Mr. Morgan's billion dollar trust. Strong intimations to that cfi'ect More heard in financial circles. A representative of Mr; Schwab gave out -the following stiifcmenl: " "Mr. Si-liv.ii!) Mill not resicn Hie Presidency of the Falted Sliites Steel Corporation. Mr. Torey will be ,-in As sistant to Mr. .Schwab, us lie bus been the list tllteeu yejirs, iitid wiil '"carry out Mr.- Schwab's policies, relieving Mr. Scliwub of a l(tn;e nciss of eiouil. Mr. Schwab ami Mr. Covey are old persons! and business friend". Mr. Ne-bwub selected Mr. Corey for' this work. Mr. Schwab will t;ii;e a vnca tlon of -a month eir two in this eottiurv. He Is not critically 111, but helmpiy tieedx Vest." POSTAL SERVICE DEEP IN DEBT. Deficit For I.nt Yer Increased Nearly ,000.000 Over lVOI. ' Washington, D. C. The Postofllee Department failed by Ji.Gn.l'oa of meeting its expenses In the year ending June :io. The deficit for 1IHW was $2. Dtil.170. the Increase during the last year being attributed to the great ex tension of the rural delivery service. though the deficiency several weeks ago in that brunch ms fixed at Jl!T.- (NH. ihe receipts for the year were i:.M,2(W,U0l, the expenditure $138,835,. 811", , .;-. :. . WMT WIM Baai.nd. More tnnn flf,y Haitians have been laptciiced to perpetual banishment. a i ! BILL ARP. KiniKSS1ian(ftKSaKKraa1i1iS It is now many weeks since the good St. Valentine told the birds to mate and the girls and boys to go M-ooing. SL Patrick bas been out and shook his shelalah at the snakes, but still gen tle spring keeps on flirting and fool ing with old man winter and makes him believe she is in love Mith him. But she lsent. May and December oever mare, nor March and November. It is against the older of nature. We Did people can look and linger and ad mire, but that is ail. We have sailed down the river and ' encountered its perils. Its rcefg and rocks and shoals and quicksands, but. strange to say, we give no warning. Maybe it is be cause we know that warning will do no good; maybe, because mlsely loves company; maybe, because it is the or der of nature, the flat of the Almighty. Verily the young people would mata and marry and launch their boat and sail down that river if they knew there was a Scylla and Charybdis at every bend and leviathans, and maelstroms and cataracts all the way down. Poor, trusting, suffering woman. What perils. M-hat trials, what afflictions does tho maternal instinct bring upon you! Close up by us. while I write, is a beautiful young mother lingering in the grasp of death dying that her first born child may live. There is nothing more touching, more pitiful, more heroic in nature. There is noth ing that a man is called upon to en dure that compares with the death of mother in childbirth. But there is a brighter side a more charming, comforting picture- of life married life, domestic life when the good mother is a matron, and looks with pride upon her childien and grandchildren as they come and go lovingly before her. What calm seren ity hovers over her matronly face. V. hat sweet content, what grateful rest rest from her labors, her pains, her care and anxiety. Well may she "xclaim M-ith Paul: "I have fought a good fight: I have kept the faith; I have finished my course. Henceforth there is laid up for me a ' crown of righteousness." To every lad and las?ie there is a period of life not always thrilling or tragical, but highly emotional and sen sational. Of course. I mean the period of loveyoung love or love's young dream, which sometimes runs smooth and sometimes don't. What a luxury it would be to look behind the curtain and se just what love has felt and suf fered and enjoyed. Such a kaleido scope M-ould have a world of eager Icokers, for the old are as fascinated with stories of love and courtship as the middle-aged and young. In look ing over the daily cr weekly paper we may skip the displayed heading of war in Servia or riots n London or cy clones in Oregon, but any little para graph that has love in it arrests the eye and demands attention. Children go to schexd tos tudy 'books, but by the time they are in their teens they begin to mix a little timid, cautious love with their other studies. A sweetheart is a blessed thing for a boy. It straightens him up and washes his face and greases his hair and brushes his teeth and stimulates his ambition to excel and be somebody. Jerusalem! How I did luxrlate and palpitate and concentrate toward the first little school girl I ever loved. She was as pretty as a pink and as sweet as a daisy, and one day at recess, when no body was looking I caught her on the stairs and kissed her. . She was dread fully frightened, but not mad. ph. no; not mad. She ran away M'ith blushes on her cheek, and more than once that een!ng I saw her glance at me from behind her bock and wondering If I Mould ever be so rash aain. And now, Mr. Editor, It a thousand of your patrons peruse these random memories, nine hundred of them en finish up the chapter from their own unwritten book. Who has not loved Mho has not stolen a kl?s, Mho Iiar not caught its palpitating thrill and felt like Jacob when he lifted up his voire and Weit? Oh. Rachel, beautiful and well favored, no wonder th:it Jacob m atcrjed thy sheep and then kissed :hce. for tlicre was no one to molest or mane thee afraid. That memorable kl is row four thousand years old. and baa passed into history as classic and pure, but I have had them. and . so have you. dear reader, just as swrct and potil-'.n-eniring. nnd never said anything about It io anybody. Ours was a mixed schoid. and every Friday the larser boys and girls had to etand up in line and spell and define. My sweetheart stood h";id meat generally, and fc.i I Mas stimulat ed to gel next to her. and I did. and my right hand slyly, fur.nd her left, and M-e both were, happy. But time and circumstances separated us. and M-e both found new loves she mnrried another feller and was content, and so did 1, but neither of us have forjudt-n the stolen kiss or that tender iililldish love that made our' school days happy. But love becomes more earnest aner awhile more intense, more frantic the young man means business and so docs the maiden. Like the turtle-doves In the spring' of the year, they are looking around for a mate. This is na ture, and it is right. God said, "it is not good for man to be alone; I will make a helpmate for him' And so he made Eve tf help meet tile expenses, and that la what a wife ought to do now, but. a good many of them don't. They help make them, but they don't help meet them, and that Is why the youhg men have almost quit marrying. The rich girls won't have them, and the poor girls are trying to keep up Mith the rich, and so tho turtle-doves mate more slowly and marry with more alacrity then they do now. It is not vanity to say that I could have married half a dozen nice girls, and my w could have had choice of a dozen clev prosperous youths as likely as myse Cupid just roosted around those M-ex and shot his arrows right and le Sometimes he shoots a young man si then waits days and weeks before ! shoots the girl he Is after. This kee tne poor reiiew on tne warpath, ar frantic and rampant, and Cupid laugl But he was clever to me, for as ne as I can Judge be let fly both arro at once and plugged my girl and n simultaneously, and with a center shif My wife denies this, but r have told so often I believe it. There was no ski raishlng on my part. I never did shot with a scattering gun. Marrying w cheap in those days. My recollection that it'eost me only about $45 twent five for clothes, ten for a ring and te more to the preacher. It didn't ct: anybody else anything to speak of, f there -ere nn verirtlnfr nrpspnln Thr tomfoolery wasn't invented. We didn go to Niagara or anywhere right awaj but we went to work. A month or a later we did take a little trip to Tallc lah Falls and look at the water tun, ble over the roe-ks, but that didn't cot! but a few dollars and made no sensa; tlon outside the family. My thoughtfti Mife had enough nice clothes to I her two years when I married her, an they were long afterwards cut up ani cut down for the children, and ther are- some precious fragments bi away in the old trunk now. The b( trunk aud of common size, was sum cient then for a traveling wardrobe fo a lady of the land. My father an mother and two children made a jour ney by sea to Boston with one trunl and a valise, and came back to Georgii by land, in a carriage, but not loni since I sawjj delicate female traveling with twoTreinks four times as large and ribbed with iron, and fastened with three massive locks, and said she was not happy. Oh my country! That girl was too much in love with her clothe' to love a man. and nobody but a for-i tune-hunter would dare to marry herJ Young man, hfM-are of trunks! Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. The Home of "Sparrow Jack." Th re is a little old house in Ger mantown. at the northwest corner of Main and - Upsal streets, that is in a certain sense historical. . In thU hoiwa. some ' thirty-fivj years ago. lived ' Sparrow Jack," and the build ing, therefore, has the name of "Spar row Jack's home." Jack M-as an Eng lishman. John Bardsley, and through the influence of William F. Smith,, a GermantoM-n councilman, he was snt to England to bring over a lot of Eng lish sparrows, the Idea being that tfce sparrows M-ould destroy the caterpil lars that infested the .trees. The fM' sparrows Bardsley imported are tiie ancestors of the millions that now thrive in Philadelphia. The im porter was highly praised, for - his work during the first year or two, and his nickname of "Sparrow Jack" was a title of honor in M hich he took great pride. Later on. how-eVer, as the sparrows began to become a nuisance, the nickname came to "have a re proachful significance and in the end it became a1, term of opprobium.- Lighthouses of the World. There are now between 3,500 3,600 lighthouses in the M-orld. and SOUTHERN RAILWAY. THE STANDARD RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH. DIRECT LINE TO ALL POINTS Ct Texas, California, Florida, Cuba and Porto Rico, Strictly first-class equipment on all Through and Local Trains, and Pullman Palace Sleeping' cars on all nicrhfc trains. Fast and safe sched ules. Travel by the SOUTHERN anil you are assured a 8ufe, Comfortable and, Expedi tious Journey. ' " Apply to Ticket Agents for Tables, Rate ami general information, or address 8. II. HARDWICK, (J. P. A., s Washington, D. CL R. L. VERNON, T. P, A., Charlotte, N. O F. R. DARBY, 0, P. & T. A., Ashville, N. a XO TROCBLK TO AXSWXB tjCESTIONS.. ;