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i Ths Chronicle; . ' . ,tflLKE$BOBO. N. C. J - Brides at Auction. u Within half a dozen miles' of Simla, the summer capital of ' India, therejis , annually' practiced one of the strangest of tne many strange customs - whifch . ooiain jn tne jcast. xms is . Know; i the annual ' marriage fair of the ' tribes, and is one of the most important of all the festivals.' , . You might imagine that the origin of this institution 7 wan to get husbands - for all the unattractive -. females. Tf the contrary, : however, the marriageable . maidens are usually more than com monly handsome v and well formed, ; though they areso scented with garlic ' that Europeaus ' might incline to tne opinion that distance lends encnant ment ' -' . ' V .'They' wear the most brilliantly-cpl- ored of costumes deep pinks, primitive I greets, and glaring yellows which are '- all in keeping with the gorgeous - tints one only sees beneath the Oriental sun. : In accord, too, is the . tinkling of the : silver bangles which they wear roubd ; their ankles. - J' They wear but the flimsiest of vels, ; throusrh which : their brilliant, black 'eves, with a heavv iet line d ved beneith ' them, gleam coquettishly. 1 -:-t To within quite recent times th maidens were openly sold to their future ; husbands; but during the last few years the commercial part of the ceremony has been carefully kept in ; the 1 back ground. - S Clever Story of a Man, a maid and jan Iron Kettle. J xlere is an ingenious Circassian story; A man was ' walking along one road, and a woman along another. The road XFE NEED A REFORM : SCHOOL ! More than one third of a million dol lars is annually expended in - the cost of criminal prosecutions 1 in the State of North Carolina to say nothing of more than $100,000 'expended for the State penetentiary, and the vast cost of the workhouses 1 and jails'. -A single workhouse in one county cost over 5,000 in 1898. - . 1 - - What is ; accomplished ? : The old criminals are kept from their nefarious avocation for awhile, and the younger are, taught . in these schools of crime how to be more expert and law-defying. ' , e begin at the wrong - end. ' The wrong-doer should be taken charge of when he .commences his career.; The only hope of purifying the stream is at the fountain head. ; The 'young offend er begins often in carelessness or ig norance; sometimes for want of live lihood or training to earn a living, and sometimes under the control of wicked and lawless parents or others. ,; Under the'direction of the Board of Public Charities, the writer, in the au tumn -of 1898, made an ivestigation 1 of records, so far as preserved of municipal ponce stations in tne oiate ior ine pre vious year. ' In Wilmington there were 636 commitments to lockup, of which 160 were minors of which 50 were 600, '.- of .which 50 f were minors. -In Asheville about 1,000," record of minors not being kept. ' Raleigh, f 1,350, of which 186 were' minors, and of these 43 were under 16 years of age. There is no space for further statistics, but these tell the story. ; ' . . ' . :.- - For two hundred years the jail has failed; now let usr try the reform school. ltwiil save, money (the least of ' all.) lives, property, character, ' happinees, : . STATE NEWS. . Rev. W. -H. McLaurin, who was nominated by the Prohibition party for congress; declines to make the race. N The Charlotte Observer estimates from talks with farmers, that where a farmer made 77 bales last year, he will make about 40 this year. Senator Jdarion Butler, whose term of office in the United States Senate, ex pires March 4, has announced his - in tention of ; making Raleigh- his future home. 'f ". j ;'"' ' The Greensboro Patriot says that ev ery available room at the Greensboro. Female College is occupied or engaged, and that the enrollment is very gratify ing. - v " - . .! ; . . Canton flannel is now manufactured by .' the Revolution Cotton v Mills - of Greensboro the first of , this class of goods ever manufactured south' of New England.', ' , '.' With cotton at 10$ cents, as against 6 last year at this time, and cotton seed at 24 J as against 12$ last year, the North Carolina farmer is doing pretty well, thank you.- 4 ' - -; THE SJJtfDAY SCHOOL. LESSON I, FOURTH QUARTFR, 1NTER NATIONAL SERIES, OCT. 7.' : It is reported that since the August In Washington 200, j election every operative, who ; voted the minors, in Wilson .uemocrauc ticKet at . Maiaen nas lost his job in the mills there, either volun tarily or by discharge, with one excep tion. - . . , - . r . . ' f r It is the- current comment of both Democrats and Republicans that they have never seen a duller national cam paign in this State than the one now in progress, vThera is no Vgingex" in it. The fact seems to be that the State cam paign was so lively as to make the na tional one seem flat incomparison. : , -finally united and the man and he woman, reaching the junction , at he same time, went on from there toget ler The man ; was carrying a large : i on keUle on his back; in one hand he held by the leg a live chicken; in ot ler a cane; and ; " he was leading a goat. J ust as they were coming to a deep dark ravine the woman said to the man: I .I am afraid to go through ithat dark ravine with you ; it is a lonely, place, j nd you might overpower me and kiss me by .force." . ' i . "If you are afraid of that," said ;be man, "you shouldn't have walked with me at all. Hew can I possibly over come you and kiss ycu by force when I have this great, iron kettle on my back, a cane in one hand' and a Uve V chicken in the other -and 'am leading a i goat? I might as well be tied hand and foot." "Yes," replied the woman, "but if you should sick your cane in the ground and tie the goat to it, and turn the ket . tie bottom side up and put the chicken under it, then you might wickedly dss me in spite of my resistance.?' ; r "Success to thy ingenuity, O worm ni" said the man : to himself. , 'I shc uld never have through t of this expedient.' ' And when they came to the ravine he s stuck his cane into the ground and the goat to it, gave the chicken to ? woman, saying, "Hold it while I some grass Jot the goat, 7 ; and peace, human souls How do we know that ? .Because 1 it .has become the refugeof civilization. Every enlightened country is increasing and enlarging them. They reduced the number of criminals in England ;10,000 in a single decade. . In the three States of the Union Where they have been best developed and cared for, crime is actually diminishing, while it is increas ing every where else, and in one State, denials to the contrary notwithstanding, it is advancing rapidly. :. y r ut uiaKes us Deneve i mt reform schools ? Because we have seen .them at their blessed work training and dis ciplining thesyoung; in one case twelve hundred happy children were snatched from the slums ? and police1 "courts of IN ew York ' City ; because every- State except half a dozen, maintains them, including of our Southern States Mary land, Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Virginia . and Georgia; be cause from correspondence by the writ er, nooody was found in public life in any State where a reform school exists to be filling to see it given up; because the U. S. Government itself for a nnm- with in- the best The recommendation of the Southern uotton bpmners Association that its members curtail their production of Text of tlte Leiion, Luke xlv, 1-14. - Sfemorjr Verses, 12-14 Golden Text, Janice Xlv, 11 'Commentary ; Pre I pared by the Her. D. M. Stearns. ' Copyright, 1900, by American Press Asso , - clatioti. ' r i. 'They watched .Him (The wicked watcheth the righteous and seeketh to slay him (Ps. xxxvii, 32). Remember al ways who Jesus was,. God manifest in the flesh, God the Great Creator of all things, on earth, in human form .to lire -the life that man should live and by taking man's place as a sinner against God and bearing that which was due to us for sin, provid ing for us the forgiveness of sins and the power to Jive the life that He requires. In the, gospels we see Him; coming to Israel as their Messiah, If perchance they will accept Him, that. He may set up on earth the kingdom of which the prophets had bpoken and fori which some devout ones were watching." (Luke il, 88; Acts i, 6), hut instead of receiving Him they hate Him and -watch Him and seek' to find something against Him that they may kill Him (Math, xii, John 16). 2.' Being anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power, He went about, doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil (Acts x, 38)," and every sick or suffering one with whom He came in contact gave Him an opportunity to show the work of God (John ix, 3; xi.4). He seems , to have , gone willingly where He was. Invited, but always, as when ' He was 12 years old, about His Father's business. He was always living before God and doing that which was pleasing in His sight.' ' ' v - ' r 3, 4. "He took him and healed him and let. him go. In chapter xiii, 14, we read that a 1 ruler of a synagogue was indig nant because Jesus , had healed on the yarns as much as possible for 60 days Sabbath day, so now He says tqthe'law- um uceu uuuipueu wiiu uy euougn mnis to bring about a reduction in the South ern output of about 40 per cent. $ Two large mills at Maiden,' have suspended altogether."' jtied the cut then lowering the kettle from his shoulders he wickedly kissed the woman; was afraid he would. as she . Saenieglons Words on a Bible! Louisville Dispatch. An .irreverent and sacrilegious work man caused no end of trouble for the congregation of and the contractor Who built the pew Trinity Methodist ch irch at Third and Guthrie streets. In the , Duuiuweet uurner 01 tne nanusometnew : edifice back of the pulpit ! is the pipe organ. Over the organ is an arch fand a dome. T In this dome is frescoed5 an open Bible, v This work was ;done aome weeks ago with great care and trouble. Scaffolding had to be built, and: the task, though difficult, wad excellently done.- Across the face of the ' Bible t were frescoed, according told irectlons, the words "Pax ,v Vobiscum.' But when the congregation - inspected ; the , new church, or surveyed fromtheii pewk the organ and the dome ? above they noticed under "PaxVobiscumV anbther inscription. One member provided him- , self with a pair of ? glasses and turned them on the inscription. To his hbrror he read.. "j?his was done in a hell of a rush." This - inscription : was' tight across the face of the Bible. The con tractor went to the trouble of erefcting new scaffolding and had ' the offensive inscription . erased. Eyery effort i has ber of years has maintained creasing efficiency One of districts of Columbia, -i ; - t ? ; In 1896-'97,; the last year- of full re ports, 83 reform schools in this country contained 21,243 pupils in school,. de partments and 11,657 learning M trades. The average number committed is about 9,000, and about 6,000. are annually returned. The, governmental reDort says:; "Of thoee released more than 75 per cent: are-self-supporting, leading useful hves, and are honest and respec table -citizens of the communities in which they live." - . ; In reply to the inquiry of the mayors and chiefs of police in any State, as to the best thing to be done to' prevent crime, and with ohewoice the answer is, ."Keep children from '. the streets alone at night, and institute a reform school.". -, ; . . . " : 'j-ne Judges of the State agree in the impcrtanceof this action, ; the leading religious bodies,-and the associations of teachers.' , t Let us give all our aid and influence to this effort to save the young. : Write to your member and ask him to consid er favorably the proposition.. ; ' " It may be modestly begun for $20,000 a year for two years, located on a farm, and supplied with workshops. ; Thus situated, it may. be largely self-supDOrt ing. Let us begin and test its value be fore the people. . , C. B. Denson, : ; Secretary State Board of Charities. v Prof. H. H. Ransom, who is principal of the Ball High School of Galveston, writes his wife and sister at Newton that aU the North Carohnians ; at Galveston are safe, but adds that more than 400 of his students lost their lives in the storm. . All of his property was totally ucsirujeu leaving mm uesutuie ana Tin want. ' . r The Asheville Citizen tells a thrilling incident of a negro man and woman crossing the river on a bridge when the horse took fright and backed, breaking the railing, when ail went plunging into the river twenty feet below." The horse swam oui wiw. tne ouggy and tne man got the woman to a sand bank, all with little hurt. ' - v:i: r t:- News comes that General Julian 8. Carr is making a great campaign in his senatorial ngnt. jtus mail daily, con sists fi of ' more than a hundred letters from business men thioughout the State,-all pledging their undivided sup port. One day recently some four or five hundred letters of the same character were received. , The annual report of the Peabody fund for the State has been completed by State Superintendent C. H. Mebane. The receipts were $4,450 and of this fz.UUO wasgiven to the Normal and luuusuuu juixege at vrreenBDoro tne re- jnainder to various schools. Then $600 was allowed for negro teachers', insti tutes. Of this latter sum $500 has been expended.- . Second Texai Flood. Dallas. Texas, Sept., .21. A cloud burst which occurred near Fort Worth ioaay is reported to nave caused great i loss or lire, and damage to property. A wall thirty feet .high said to be sweeping now down Trinity river; valley towards this city. t. It reports terror Among the innaDitaniB and says tney are lieeing to nign grounds, it is feared Handly, Arlington, and Grand Prarye will i be wiped out by : tne great . wall of water I that is rushing onward. ' It has carried other villages equally defenseless against i the . flood.' Already bodies have beeq I recQvered at Fort, Worth. . yers "and Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbaths day y But : they would not answer Him, so He just healed him and let him go. Every such miracle was a foreshadowing xt the ' kingdom where "the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick, and the people that dwell - therein shall be forgiven their ,iniquity." The. blind shall see,! the- deaf shall 1 hear, the lame shall leap as a hart, and the tongue of thj? dumb sing; joy and gladness shall prevail, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away (Isa. xxxiii, 24; xxxv, 5, 6, 10). ; 5, 6. "They could not answer Him again to these things. Sometimes they talked back to Him, and : very wickedly. while at others they seemed awed before I partment s : Killed By a Streetcar. ' ; Charlotte; -N. Sept. 22. -The first death eyer occurring here as the result of a street car accident happened Mo4igui wuen aosepn csossaman iim. : llow solemn It will be when His people stand before Him at His judgment seat, "and how much more- awful when the ungodly stand before the great white throne (Rom. xiv, 10; Rev. xx, 11); As to the Sabbath day, : they did not seem to distinguish and many today seem not to distinguishbetween man working and G6d working. Man is given ' six ' days in which" to do his ordinary works, but on the seventh God invites him to spend the day specially; with Him that He' may Jn a special manner bless him. God is ever working for the good of all His creatures, and happy are the people who allow Him to work in them aU His pleasure. . 7, Pre-eminence, or to be first among people, Is that which" many. love. Si The best clothing, the best home, , the best room, the best seat, the first place these are things ofttimes desired 'and sought for, and even in the church there is manr a Diotrephes who loves the pre-eminence instead of seeking in all things to give it to Him who alone deserves it (III John 9; Col. i, 18). Even at. the Passover and the supper on the night: before His crucifixion there was a strife among the apostles as to which of them should be accounted the. greatest (Luke, xxii, 24). How unlike Him whose they werel . . 8-10. Meekness and humility are rare graces and are the work of the Holy Spirit in us. That we should think some' thing 'of ourselves " and esteem ourselves better; than others Is natural, but in low liness of 'mind to esteem others better than ourselves (Phil, ii, 3) is. spiritual and Christlike. It is not for us to appoint ourselves places of honor, but rather for those who invite us. When the mother of James and John asked that her sons might sit on His right hand and on His left hand in His kingdom, He said that such positions would be given to those for whom ; they had . "been prepared by His Father (Math, xx, 20-23). 11. Not the exaltation of self, but the denial and humiliation of self is our busi ness here. The time is coming when all the loftiness and - haughtiness of man shall be brought down and laid low and the Lord alone shall be exalted, when at the name of J esus every knee shall bow and, every tongue r shall confess . that Je sus Christ is Lord, to the: glory- of God the Father (Isa. UV 11, 17r PhiL il, 10, 11). He,, 'when , on earthl never sought xiorssoiT spoils a good STorrr. Baltimore Sun. - , - , Lieutenant Hobson is quoted in dispatcn irom Vancouver, is. xj.. as stating that in the naval engagement near ; Manila" which" resulted . in the destruction of the Spanish squadron the enemy's ships were sunk by their own officers and not by the guns o Dewey's - fleet. "Our shell -fire," Lieutenant Hobson ,is reported to have said, "did very little damages The Spaniards pulled out the plug; and opened the valves. ' They sank the, ships themselves." A Washing-: ton dispatch to : the Philadelphia Public Ledger intimates that the Navy Department may call Lieuten ant Hobson to account for making a statement which : reflects upon Ad miral Dewey's conduct of : the battle of Manila Bay. ,-. If Lieutenant Hob son said no more than is attributed to him in the Vancouver dispatch, it is dimcult to "conceive how his ; re marks can be twisted into a reflection upon Dewey. Lieutenant Hobson; in the capacity of naval constructor, was sent ta Manila to superintend the work of raising the Spanish warships. lie nad tiie best of opportunities to ascertain the extent i of the damage done to the Spanish vessels by ' the guns oi tne American fleet, i If he found the hulls of these vessels prac tically intaot, thus showing ihat they nad sustained no ij uries below the waterline from the fire of our gunners, it is & fair inference Jthat theships were sunk by the order of the Spanish ofticersr Such orders would not have been given; however, unless the Spaniards felt that they were over matched and- unable to cope with the ships of the American fleet. Possibly if the Spanish squadron had been handled by better men Dewey would not have Von so easy a victory.' In view, of the superior personnel of the American fleet and the fact that our ships were in far ; better condition than those of the Spaniards, the de feat of the Spanish squadron was not such an extraordinary ': accomplish' ment. V All that the 'i Spaniards pos sessed was courage, for their gunners could not shoot and their ships, dur ing the Spanish-American War, were wretchedly handled in every;, engage ment. If Lieutenant Hobson said only what the Vancouver - dispatch represents him as stating, there seems to be no; reason why, the Navy De- should treat him with t Factories Ensaged In Their Political New. iTork Journal. ' The Hartford Post asserts that manv of the contracts now being made for next winter's business , are conditional on the .; re-election of McKiuley jt Bryan is elected the deals are off 'ru:. our contemporary thinks, "is not noli tics, but cold blooded business.? f; Oh, no.it is not business, but politics of . .-mm.. 1UU, xnere never is aPresidenUal campaign without thP same dodge. In 1884 the late P t Barnum announced that he would "sell all his property at Bridgeport for 50 cents od the dollar in case of CIpvo uu o wwuuu. vv Pen. Uieveland eicieu barnum was asked to good, r nut ne preferred to hold on to the property. In 1896 there was a general announcement on the part of factory - owners, that thev down in the event of Bryan's election and that if McKinley should be elected uiey . wouiu run on iuii time at increase wages. McKinley was eler.tort many of the factories that had mHa these promises shut down, and nf tu that, kept open a number reduced wages. , : : Pre-election threata and nromiapa politics. r Post-election rjerforman io uu8iucoor hub AtJDUDllCan mrlv never without its Barnum. was uia&g 18 Slost Famous St. Bernard of Switzer- wnm a uecord of 40 Live Saved ' .. 7- . ' ' Londoh Dispatch.-. . A monument is to 1 be erected on mountain m Switzerland to Barry, the most iamous oi ot. Jtsernard does. Barv in ten years saved forty lives. ; His most creditable achievement was when he found a child of ten yearsan the mmr succumbing to the fatal slumber which precedes deatn.- The dog first warmed the child with its breath and licked ir until it awoke, v Then by Ivinc on hi side the dog gave the child an obvious invitation to ride. The child mounted on ni8 uacK and xarry carried it to the convent.; - The dog's death was due to the timidity of an unknown man who fancied that his open mouth loooked threatening and hit the dog on the head, killing him. seventy.- The' indiscretions , which were charged against; him two years ago, due to the adulation of hero worshiping women, have been' for gotten by t.he ; public. If these in discretions made him unpopular with naval - officers there ought to ,' be a limit even to the,ir resentment and dislike. All that should , be remem bered now is that he challenged the admiration of the world bv a deed of startling bravery - at Santiago, for which he has never been rewarded. Perhaps ' he should not have said anything about the condition of the Spanish vessels at Manila "and ; the public should have been left to be; lie ve that our gunners riddled these ships with shot and shell and X sept them to the ' bottom "of Manila bay. But because he has shattered one of our dearest idols . he should not be punished with unnecessary harshness at the instance of officers who have never, been held up by ; romantic maidens and made to pay . osculatory toll; as the hero of the Merrimac ad venture was Lieutenant Hobson is a gallant officer - and v accomplished gentleman, and deserves X to be '', for given for the ? indiscretions of his ybuthl Perhaps some of the angry graybeards of the navy would have none as Jtiooson aid n tney nad ever been given the opportunity. ; - , ' , What OTr. Ilobso n Said. There is a disposition manifest, says the Chicago Tribune, to make a. needless fuss over the story told by Lieutenant Hobson . to the effect that Admiral Dewey's fleet did not sink three of the Spanish vessels in the memorable en gagement 'off Manila, but that they were sunk by the Spaniards themselves. It Is evident that Hobson, in what he said, had no intention of casting a slur at Admiral Dewey. He simply stated the condition of three of the vessels af ter they were raised. Their Upper works being ruined by Dewey's Bhells, the Spaniards sunk them because they were no longer tenable. , an been; made to discover the offending aged man living here iirnrlrman - Writ 4a 11 r T , Ian olottv! -m fi,u;tn workman, but to no avail Superintendent of Con vlct Camji Con Tlcted. of Manslaughter. . " ? - Chariotte, N. 0. ,: Sept. : 21 ' V. S. Stancill, superintendent of one , of the convict camps in Mecklenburg county was yesterdsy afternoon convicted in vrasion county court at Dallas,' N' O x ot. manslaughter, he having shot negro convict whom ; he was trying to an electric car while off. , .-. . ououauiaa leu me car oeiore it came to a stop, as a result of which he fell beneath the wheels and his leg was com pletely, severed.? He tiied shortly after ward; ; Sossaman was a man of family, and by trade a painter. ' , , :A V , f .was run over by "t""" f"uu iuureH anupun -V lit on the market iremarkinff that hft : gei coldn't sleep on cotton when r I 1L WAR bringing 11 cents a pound. He sold his "mattress'' to ., the Belmont Cotton Mills. Our informant didn't tell;US how long this creator of wealth I had been 'holding" his cotton. v r The newly elected Mayor ofacoun- The case presents some rather uhique jurney in that capacity through nhe features 8tancill. learning that the Placei - The townspeople had araanged t negro, who had some ? time previoulv that' from an arch ,of flowers 'under 5owpcu uum , uamp xn ,tnis ; county, w 111 u" was io pass a norai crown wuuijf, wcui mere tOI Bimuumeu s oy tne , . was in Gaston arrest mm. s stancill arrived at the house late at night and when he khock e& at the door the negro' jumped! from a window and ran. Stancill fited at vhim, but as "the ; negro disroneared h words, "ne Well Deserves It." But the wind blew awaythe crown, and when yf the ponipous Mayor . passed under the arch, to the great joy of those ' who had voted aeainst him- came on. back to this.city without know- onlv -a roPe with a noose , at: the end ing what had become of him. Tne next uay ine, negro was found in an uhoccu pied house badly injured ,1 and died a few hours later, and Stancill . was ar rested. The defendant' claimed that he did not intend to shoot W begro. dui omy nrea to ware him. Stancill oMaicu vu tug oupreiXJB COUrt. cotton Cotton is down a little and Ood3 up a little. The prospects are that they will get together, before a great T7hii3, though it will be" matter for re. fjret if this is at the expense of the price pf cotton. j ' ? out dangled there, ' with "He - Well Deserves It" .standing - out in , bold relief above it.. 1 . .2 , ; v t 1 w.l;-' ' The timid suitor had finallv stated his; case.- ' " : . s , H-m-ml" beean the erirl's fathp.r: lboking, at him sternly.. "Young man, can you support a family?" h 'Great heavens!" cried the vounar man, "have you lost your job?' ' . Couldn't Lose Him -on a Cotton Deal. Shelnv Aurora, , , ; ' -When the cotton market was coquet ting 'around the 11-cent ; mark a hust- ling resident of thi county emptied the His own will nor His- own glory (John vl,' so;, vni, OU), and We are here, that His life should be made, manifest' in ns (II Cor. iv, 10, 11). Blessed are the poor In spirit. . -Blessed are the meek. 12. Having spoken to the guests'; He now has a word for the man who invited Him. He ever has at heart the welfare of all " men. s He Is not willing that any should perish, and He desires not only to give life, but abundance of life. He de' sires not only that His redeemed ones be rewarded, but y that they have a full re ward (II Pet. ill, 0; John: x, 10; II John 3). - There vis no credit in doing good to those who can do the same to ns. or, as we say, "return the compliment,'! but If we do good and lend, hoping for noth- Ing again, then' our reward, shall be great iu heaven;' (Luke tS2-o)-gW: f ' ' 13, 14. ' "Recompensed at the resurrec tion of the just.' i When our Ird would assure John theBaptist that He was In deed the Christ, He told John's disciples, among other things,; to tell John that the poor had ? thev gospel preached to them (Luke yli, 22). If we .have the spirit of Christ, we- wUl live to give the gospel to every creature without special regard to the recompense we may herereceive f or our services, knowing? that In : the : resur rection morning He .who; judgeth -right-: eously will reward every . one according to his worts (Math. xvL 27! H BeV. xxlL Jones Says Bryan WlllBe Elected. . Chicago, Sept. 20. Senator J. K. Jones, chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee, returned from his Eastern scouting trip to-day and said: . "I am satisfied?, that Bryan will' be elected." ; i ' - " : He said : that Croker told him, he would carry -the city of New York for Bryan by a niajority ' of 100,000, and that every; vote above 70,000 would A study of the Porto Rican Act shows plainly the hypocrisy of the Republi cans in protesting against the restric tions of the suffrage in the south by an educational test. ; Official reports to the war Department show that'no less than 150,000 out of the .200,000 males of voting age in Porto Rico are de prived of the suffrage either by :educa--tional, or, worst of all, by property qualifications. The Republican act, passed last winter in the face of the united protests of that country, provides that: - "At such (all) elections all' citi zens of Porto' Rico shall be allowed to vote, who have been bona-fide residents for one year and who possess the other qualifications of voters, under the laws and military orders in: force March 1, 1900." To ascertain what the laws and and military orders in force March 1, 1900 one has only to look at paragraph 8, page 3, of General Orders No. 160, issued by General Davis, Military Com mander of Porto Rico, October 12, 1899, which says: An elector, to vote at such elections, shall possess the following qualifications: He must be a bona-fide ujie resment or tne municipality. He represent Bryan's majority in the State I must be over. 21 years of age on date of j n a T -. -. . ? I iction He must be a taxnaver in the municipality in which he votes at the date of this order; and he must . be Hon. H. G. Connor, of Wilson, . will not be a candidate for the United States Senate. ',1 ' - The Bogus Refugee. ', " : As might be expected the bogus Gal veston refdgee has commenced to make his appearance in the land and several of them, have already turned up ,at ? the mayor's office in. New Orleans askine for help. Those who haye been proven imposters have been dealt with severely' ill New Orleans and two or three of them are X now working'? : for the city. The , mayor? of 1 New Orleans hasj an nounced that all refugees from Galveston must produce a letter from Mayor Jones, nf fxalvAfltnn tn hnwr , tht. . tViow V.J.' " .j ; y V "(' Marc left that city and had suffered ny tl e Vorm. ' f - ' ' ; Richard Crokerhas not bet 1 $60,000 on , the election of Bryan with the expec tation of losing it. That is one of the numerous ttnngs worrying the Re publicans. , " , - A - ' ' w , . : -. ' - ; Now it is in Washington that a cry has gone rip asking the District Com missioners to suppress the hugging and love making that goes l on m public, especially in street cars,-- theatres ?and public parks, v And Congress I is not f n esssion either. '. -- - t s ; , j said senator J ones, has been of great benefit to the Democratic cause in . the Eastern States." ! The New York Demo crats in general seem to be pleased with the make-up of the Democratic .ticket, ne says, ana uoier s aezeat ior tne nomi nation for Governor has noV weakened the ticket, because Coler is working en thusiastically, for the ticket. Senatar Jones is sure former Secretary; Carlisle will not support Bryan. " .In commenting on the Eastern situa tion Senator Jones said: "I talked with people from Maryland, West Virginia and Delaware, and they seemed to be confident that the Democrats , would carry , those States. " . Senator JTones Baid . that -D. B. Hill will make speeches in the , 'West ' some time after October 10. V able to read and write ' Wh;ia . - r . . , numher of states, such as Massachusetts, ortn Carolina, Cqnnecticutj and Louis iana, have prescribed educational aual- ifications ; for voters ' , thh Republican measure enacted for Porto Pico is the first attempt in the history of our Re public to prescribe a property qualifica-' tion since Thomas Jefferson, the great champion of human rights, succeeded in giving to every man, rich and poor alike, the right to exercise .his elective franchise as a free American citizen. ' . Resulators Work Qutetly. : ;A telegram states tliat the old-fashior ed regulators are getting in their work at Waae8boro. The result is that : the neighborhood is now r minus several whose, absence, while ? desirable, could not have been secured possibly through legalchannels. ' , , - ' The regulators worked in a quiet and J arris Out as a Candidate. Raleigh. N. C. SentemhAr 21 Rr- l Senator Thomas J.Uarvis has announced his candidacy for United Stateseenator. This makes four candidates in the field, the others being Simmons, Carr and Wddell. Pressure is being brought to bear on "Henry G. Connor him to become a candidate. 12) and that not even solittle a matter oroerirmanner, simply gmng the un fes a cup of cold water given In His name desirable parties notice to leave and no w-.! tx wtumitieu. i xneciuzen8 of Wadesboro generally deplore the ne- sbaU lose its reward (Mark ix, 41). Note here that the first resurrection Is spoken or as a special one. the resurrection of I the just," and we are told in . Rev. xx, o, tliat the rest of the dead, the ungMly, shall not rise till after the thousand years. ; Note also that our 'rewards for service are not given at death, but at the resurrection, at Hia-conung (I Pet. y. : " . Jim Howard Oullty. Frankfort. Kv..- Sent' 26:Jim Howard, who has been on trial here, charged with the killing of Gov. Wil liam Goebel. was this mornirnr fnnnd cessity for the regulators, but hishlv ari-1 guilty of murder in the first df. . -.iiL.. r . ... . i : r , i - ... 0.wV. twfe Kit i.ub woric aone by them. Alto- , -,-. j!n'."Vfe. gether about five parties were notified that their departure was . desirable and all of them departed without causing ny trouDie px . Etopping to argue the question. - J jdge Powers, who was armointed Senator from Utah by the acting Demo cratic Governor whila : the Republican Governor was out of the State, has de cliscJi tho cppcintcient.
The Chronicle (Wilkesboro, N.C.)
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