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stabled :august 30, icqo A THE HERO HOBSQN'3 ANCES TORS. He Comes From a Long Line of Brave and Illustrious Tar Heels They Fought Gallantly on Revolutionary BattlefieldsThe Women of His Fam ily Were Not Less Brave Than the Men. A distinguished lady of Alabama, who ia one of the descandanta of the ancestors of Lieutenant Hob30n, writes as follows: It is seldom a man is ahero in an instant; his act is the outcome of years of high thinking and noble purpo3e. When to these is added the inspira tion of a heroic ance3try, and the op portunity comes, the world's hero etep3 on the stage aud history is en riched by another grand act in the drama of life. Richard Hobson'a early years were a preparation for his famous deed. H3 wa3 ever the q'liet, resolut9, purposeful, intrepid youth and man. His ancestors on his father's eide enroll not only the names of gal lant men, but bravo women. Some account of the3e will doubtless prove interesting at the present time. "Among these illustrious women his grandmother, Turner, was pre-eminent. Endowed with a patriotic spirit, she took a brave part in the revolu tionary war. She was quite famous in her day and rendered material aid to the causa of independence. Like our, own Clara Barton, she followed where the battle was fought to bind up the broken limbs and stanch the bleeding wounds. Hsr name was Karen Happock (thorn of beauty), of Norman extraction. She claimed de scent from William the Conqueror, and certainly she inherited his un daunted spirit. She was the wife of James Turner, of Maryland, and was known and loved among the soldiers as 'Granny Turner.1 ON REVOLUTIONARY BATTLEFIELDS. "As she sent forth her sons and grand3on3 to their country's defense, she gave them her promise to be with them in their hour of need. Hearing of the gathering of the hostile armies in North Carolina and realizing that a bloody battle mu3t ensure, she packed her saddle bags with such simple medi cines and remedies as she could com mand, mounted her horse and rode alone from her Maryland home to Greensboro, N. C. She reached there just after the famous battle of Guilford Court HiU3e. Her son had been left on the field of battle. She sought him among the dead and dying, and, find ing him desperately wounded, she bore him to a cabin near by. With ekill beyond that of a p lysician of her time she placed above nis wounds tubs filled with cold water, whose perfora ted bottoms allowed the cooling streams to fl)w constantly over the fevered wound9; it was as effica cious as the ice pack of modern ecience. Here alone see kept her faithful vigil, and had the joy o! re storing her son to her country's ser vice. Oae of her grandsons had en tered the army at eighteen years of age. He came with the Virginia con tingent into the Carolinas provicus to the bloody battles of the Cow per a and Kings's Mountains, in which en gagements he participated, and he was with Morgan in his famous retreat across the three rivers of North Caro lina. "When peace epread her white wings over the land this gallant soldier married Obedience Motley, of Amelia Court House, Va. This isaue of this marriage gave to North Carolina some of her most gifted sons and daugh ters, the moat noted of whom were John M. Morehead, one of North Caro lina's great governors ; James T. More head, a distinguished lawyer, and Abraham Morehead, author of The Hills of Dan,' and other poems, whose untimely death cut short hopes of high literary attainment. The women of this family were scarcely less gifted, and the third sister, who mirried Au gustu3 Hobsoa, is the grandmother of our hero. She is still living at the old homestead ia Yidkin Valley, N. C. Though nearly 90 years of age she re retains full possession of all her men tal faculties, but is totally blind. 'I remember an amusing story that was told of her during the civil war, in which courage and nerve saved her home from pillage by a party of Kirk patrick'a raiiera. She met these law less boys at her threshold, a switch in hand, and threatened to 4wear the last one of them out if they dared to come into the house.' Deciding that dis cretion was the better part of valor, the boys laughed and eaid they would leave if old miss would give them some buttermilk. AN INDUSTRIOUS OLD DAME. "His great grandmother, Ooedience Motley Morehead, I remember quite well. Her majestic appearance and venerable age were so awe inspiring that I could never breathe freely in her presence. She survived thxee wars. During the civil war,when her dull ears caught the sound of battle, so familiar to her youth, failing faculties revived and she would tell us stories of the revolution ary days. As she talked her hands were never idle, and a pair of socks a day for the soldiers was her self ap pointed task. There was a sly decep tion practiced about these same socks, which we never regretted. At the ap pointed time the socks were toed eff and finished, som3tim33 with and sometimes without heels. Some days the socks would be loag and another day short, but the age dimmed eyes were never the wiser, nor did she ever know how each night the day's work was raveled out and the thread care fully re wcund into balls for the next day's knitting. Woe betide the mai den that sat in her august presence with idle hands. 48he was the daughter of Capt. James Motley, who had served under Col. James Washington during the French Indian wars, and wa3 with htm at the tiro 9 of Braddock's defeat. "Capt. Motley, being too old to take active service in the war of indepen denco, sent six sons into the army. It touched us deeply to hear of the suf ferings of his wife and little children, often left alone with the servants and ever dreading the coming of the red coats Alas I not enemies, but friends, so called, brought to them the saddest of all disasters. Oae day there came riding into the yard a troop of drunken, reckless Tories, led by a neighbor and professed friend of the Motleys, who, knowing the loyalty and patriotism of the father and sons, determined to wreck vengeance upon the innocent children and the wife and mother. The latter was very ill and helpless, caring for an infant only a few weeks old. "After demanding the whereabouts of the husband and sons this man made the servants give food and drink to his fallows ; then, going to the bed side of the sick woman and calling out, "She is in a fever and I will bleed her,' plunged his knife into the feeble veins despite the remonstrances of the mother and the agonized en treaties of the frightened children. They saw the life blood spouting from the arm of their mother as she fainted away, this picture was maeiiDiy stamped upon grandmother's mind and the memory of he? motherless childhood wa3 so vivid she could never upon an orphan without tears. "The tories left the place, and faith f ul Nurse Rachel applied restoratives and brought back to temporary life he dying mother. The father on his return was overcome with grief and in wrath stared at once to wreck ven geance on his wife's murderer. She called him back to her. and pleading for mercy upon her slayer, she be sought him io remember the little one soon to be motherless. He put aside nis wrath to soothe the last hours of his loved one. COALS OF FIRE. "But there came a day of retribu tion. 'Vengaance is mine; I will re pay, saith tne L ra.' L mg years af ter, when little Ooedience Motley, one of the cildren left nioinerieaa by this foul deed, had become a wife and mother, with a home of her own, the door of which ever stood open to the knock of the stranger of the tale of woe, there came one dreary winter evening a party of travelers, asking a night's shelter and rest, bed peaking favor especially for an aged eicit intn, who was lying in the conveyance. Tne husband, with his wonted hospitality, bade them welcome, and soon all were busy providing for the comfort of the guests. The sick man was borne into the 'great room' ahd his couch placed before a brazing fire; the supper wa3 made aeady and eaten, when my grand father called his wife aside and said tenderly: 'Biddy, whom do 5 01 sup pose you have fed and nourished? The sick man is-' 'Wnatl my mother's murderer!' she gasped, and as the vis ion of that dreadful deed rose before her, mind, she cried in agony, Take him away; he must not shall not stay under my rool! Oh I mother, mother I' When the first bitterness was past, the loving, merciful words of her husbacd prevailed, and with hiavy heart she went to her household duties. "Liter in the evening she went into the room where the sick man was and sympathized with him as he tula of his weariness and pain ; she then asked if ne remembered Capt. Motley, and leading up to the incident of his wife's sickness and bleeding to death by the hands of a tory, she turned upon him m me luiiueaa of ner long suppressed emotions and exclaimed, 'I am that womau'u daugtuer, and you are my tnctaer'a murderer I May God forgive you and ma&e it possible for me to do sol Tne poor pcetea hid his face under the bedclothes and remorsefully cried out to her not to look npon him, that his punishment was 'greater than he could bear. THE LATER GENERATIONS "None of Hobson's ancestors wcu'd J ever receive a pension or grant of land from their country, bo impoverished by war. The motto they gave their children, as they went forth in the world, was 4Death before dishonor.' "On the side of his mother Hobson can also boast of distinguished ances tors. No man holds a higher place in the admiration of his fellow citizens than his grandfather, Chief Justice Pearson, of North Carolina. His de cisions for nearly or quite a quarter of a century that he held the position of chief justice of the Supremo Court of that state mark him as the greatest common law juris! of his day. That his intellectual power has not skipped a generation its attested by the fact that the eon of the famous chief jus tice is now a distinguished congress man from North Carolina. Thus Bob son, in offering his life to his country, is bearing out his heredity a hero de scended from heroes and heroines." Baltimore Sun. SALES DECREASED. Cig&rettes Have Fallen in Amazing Manner- 60,000,000 Less a Year. The Rileigh Times Visitor says: Clerk Hall, of the Labor Commis sioners' is compiling some interest ing figures for Mr. Hamrick's next report, and has made a singular dis covery which will doubtless cause much discussion. He finds from reports in the Eastern Federal District of Njrth Carolina that the manufacture of all tobacco stuffs has increased except cigarettes, which have decreased about sixty mil lions. This is according to the revenue department figures ahd is, therefore, reliable. Clerk Hall baa asked a number of well informed their opinion as to the cause of such a phenomenal decrease in the manufacture of cigarettes and he finds that a majority agree with him that the anti cigarette laws in the West and the bitterly-waged fight against the weed in the other Spates has aff jcted the sale and yet he fiads many who think that the new tax that earn ed the increase in price to the re tailer has been the chief cause in de creasing the demand. A number of merchants in every town have stopped Belling cigarettes on account of the small profit since the new tax took effect. However, there are those who say this cannot be the cause for decrease in cigarettes since cigars and snuff have increased and on both there is about the same tax Clerk Hall gives the figures for the year as it wculd end November 1, 1897, and the next year which ended June 14, 1898. as follows : .1837. 1898. Plug and smoking tobacco . . 12 015 675 15.129 770 Cigars. . . . 4 812 976 7,191736 Cigarettes . . 335,913,400 275 520,000 SnuflE .... 52,750 56723 The figures furnish food for reflec tion, and every man wiil have an opin ion of his own on the subject. In annexing Hawaii we have annex ed a number of institutions that are worth preserving and perhaps imita ting- For instance, we have now a complete postal savings bank system, and that is highly successful, as all postal savings bank system are. We ought to keep that in efficient opera tion and study its workings carefully. The next report of the Postmaster G neral should contain some valuable information on that point. Again, we have annexed an income tax. Hawaiian (aw taxes all incomes of over $2,000 at the rate 1 per cent, a year. Honolulu will be a good place for our statesmen to visit. The money spent on "j mketing trips" m that di rection would no5 be wasted. New York Journal. Sherman said; "War is hell," and many who have never given the mat ter much thought are beginning to think he was right, since their pocket books are being hit. N. A. Horticul turist. McClure's Magazine for August con eludes a series entitled the Remin iecences of Charles A. Dana that are of thrilling interest. The imprisonment of Jiffjrson Davis is fully explained, and the placing of fetters on tne limbs of the defenceless old man by General Nilaon A. Miles, now commander of the American army, is a stigma that the capture of Porto Rico wih not wipe away. Ii i3 truj General Miles had authority from tne Secretary of War to put Mr. Davie in irons if he deemed it necessary for the security of his prisouer, but it was not necessary, and the reader is forced to the conclusion that it was done to humiliate a heart broken man already overburdened. It would have been an outrage to have treated Cervera with unneceesay cruel ty, Spaniard as he is; much more so an American citizen and a gentleman, albeit a "rebel," falsely so called. Charity and Cnildren, (.OFFICIAL) NATIONAL ALLIANCE DEMANDS. m Adopted at Washington, D. C, February 6, 1896. Whereas, The Declaration of Inde pendence, as a basis for a Republican form of Government that might be progressive and perpetual, states: "That all men are created equM; that they are endowed with certain in alienable rights ; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness; that to secure these rights, gov ernments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the governed." We hold, therefore, that to restore and preserve these rights under a Republican form of government, pri vate monopolies of public necessities for speculative purposes, whether of the means of production, distribution or exchange, should be prohibited, and whenever any such public necessity or utility becomes a monopoly in private hands, the people of the municipality, state or union, as the case may be, shall appropriate the same by right of eminent domain, paying a just value therefor, and operate them for, and in the interest of, the whole people. FINANCE. We demand a national currency, safe, sound and flexible; issued by the general government only ; a full legal tender for all debts and receivable for all dues, and an equitable and efficient means of distribution of this currency, directly to the people, at the minimum of expense and without the interven tion of banking corporations and in sufficient volume to transact the busi ness of the country on a cash basis. (a) We demand the free and unlim ited coinage of silver and gold at the legal ratio of 16 to 1. (6) We demand a graduated income tax. (a) The government shall purchase or construct and operate a sufficient mileage of railroads to effectually con trol all rates of transportation on a just and equitable basis. (6) The telegraph and telephone, like the postoffice system, being a ne cessity for the transmission of intelli gence, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people. LAND. We demand that no land shall be held by corporations for speculative purposes or by railroads in excess of their needs aa carriers, and all lands now owned by aliens should be re- claimed by the government ana neia for actual settlers only. EXEOTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS. We demand the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. That each State shall be di vided into two districts of nearly equal voting population, and that Senators from each shall be elected by the people of the district. DISTRICT LEGISLATION. (c) That our national legislation shall be so framed in the future as not to build up one industry at the expense of another. (d) We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all National and State revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the govern ment economically and honestly ad ministered. (e) We demand that postal savings banks be established by the govern ment for the safe deposit of savings of the people, and to facilitate ex change. () We are unalterably opposed to the issue, by the United States, of in terest bearing bonds, and demand the payment of all coin obligations of the United States, as provided by existing laws, in either gold or silver coin, at the option of the government and not at the option of the creditor. . TRANSPORTATION. Relying upon the good, common sense of the American people, and be lieving that a majority of them, when uninfluenced by party prejudice, wili vote right on all questions submitted to them on their merit ; and, further, tc effectually annihilate the pernicious lobby in legislation, we demand direct legislation by means of the initiative and referendum. GOOD EVIDENCE. New York, March 3, 1898 The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, n. a Dear Sir: As strong evidence of our opinion concerning your paper as an advertising medium, we simply mention that we have always had it on our list and our advertisement has never failed to be in a single issue dur ing the season of advertising. Yours very truly, German Kali Wobks. ENTIRELY SATISIFED. Office of 8. W. Smith Breeder and Shipper, of Thorough- bred and Imported Stock. 1 Cochranville, Pa , Feb. 23. '98 J The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, N. C. Dear Sir: Since I have been adver tising through your columns I have been entirely satisfied with the results and the amount of inquiries received from the add running ia your columns is equal to any of same circulation that I have on my list and I am con fident we have sold as much stock through your medium as any other the same circulation Wishing you success with your paper and that it may still press still further out, I remain, Very respectfully, 8. W. Smith. HP rgLr. 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