The Chronicle,
WILKESBORO, N. tC
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BILL ABFS LETTER.
Atlanta Constitution.
The cry is still
"they come," and
U36 V1CU.IHB WUtlUUC lW niiiv , i-i-ivy iwx
sympathy. I am sorry for them, "but I
am amazed at their stupidity and cre
dulity. Now here are two clever, needy
women in this community who sent
$25 each to one of these fakirs and
each sent him a list of twenty-five
names not subscribers, - but --names.
The women knew very well that no
body, wanted the; pape? and so they
begged or borrowed or made some sac
rifice to get "the money and went dili
gently to work writing letters and send
ing circulars to other women at other
places urging "them, to.join the scheme
and get a year's employment at $20 a
a " a " .asm t mis Ttrfi r r ma tsw
month. And these last women sent
$25 and each, go to. work writing to a
third set of women, and so it goes on
and on in an endless cnam, gro mug
longer and longer and widening and
branching out as it goes until, if it
keeps on, it will embrace the continent
and then cross the ocean and chain up
all Euro ne. That is the principle on
, v illi . 31 1 1
are based. Of course the chain will
- break sooner or later, and I am pleased
to learn that one of - them says that he
will have to surrender, but that he will
protect his agents. lie cannot do it.
His last circular tells his agents to stop
working in North Corolina, South Caro
lina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama,
for he has pretty well covered these
- states with agencies and now they must
work up the western and northwestern
states. And so I continue to receive
letters from Arkansas and Texas almost
every day asking about the scheme.
A poor woman writes me from Colora
do, Tex., that her little children picked
cotton tor raise the $25 for her invalid
sister who wanted to work and get the
monthly salary. She sent the money
and a list of names, for she could not
get a single subscriber, and the fakir
sent her a dollar and that is all she has
ever received, and she asks; "Is it pos
sible that any human being is mean
enough to rob a starving woman and
her little children? Is it possible that.
Bill Arp would raise up a boy like
that ?" No, he cannot protect his
agents. It would take Aladdin's lamp
to comply with his promises. He got
$50 -from these; two women in this
town. I don't know how many at
Kingston and Adairsville. He has
promised $175 to each, which makes
$350 for one town. No doubt he has
300 agents in Georgia and it will take
over $50,000 to pay them. Then mul
tiply that by four other states that he
says he has already covered. Of course
he can't pay his agents. But he pays
enough to get a few credentials. One
lady writes me from Milledgeville and
defends him and says he has paid her
and she believes he is an honest
man. Another writes from the same
county and say's he won't pay her any
thing and will not answer her letters.
It is to be hoped, however, that he will
refund $25 to 'each Itgent. But take
another view of this wonderful scheme.
There are fifty of his papers received here
at tnis office and not one of them rep
resents a subscriber. Our people took
them out for awhile, thinking they
were some of these sample copies that
. flood the country. But they have
found out better and refuse to take
them out, for they do not want them
and fear that somebody will be calling
for the money. Now, if our county is
an averagp, there has been sent xrom
the state to that one town from eight
tr ton fVirnTaanrt Hnllnra unn crnt. hnrb-
- nothing that anybody in Georgia wan ts .
Another paper writes me very tartly
about its scheme and advises, me to let
things alone that I do not understand.
The? publisher sends to me copies of his
circulars and asserts that it is nothing
like the other plan. Well, it is more
liberal, for it asks only $10 to get ten
subscribers and an agency and start the
chain and promises $24 a month for
every five agents secured in a month.
My wife had already received two let
ters urging her to take an agenc and
' make $24 a month so easy. Of course
she declined, for she didn't care to beg
any one, tonake a paper he didn't want,
nor: would she send- her own money
an A . liflf. rvf nomoa a.nrl wrif.A in nthp.T
women to come in the scheme.
' I will not say it is a fraud, for I have
reason to believe that the publisher is
"' honest and conscientious, but the
scheme is a delusion and a snare and
is in very bad company. The agents
can't get genuine subscribers and will
' send their own money and a list of
names.
; And there, .comes another scheme
from another. Georgia town. It says:
Send us $20 and we will employ you
at $20 a mOnth for twelve, months to
write five letters a day and get agents to
'1.' J 111 . AO i
(TVi& 'Vi uo auu TtXXX t?aJ TH aiCk.vlut iwt
-each over five in a month. Some of
- our agents get from ten to fifty new
A i - i kWf A
agents joaontniy ana mase irom juio
$110a month.- It whTtake only a few
minutes every day to write the letters."
That,beats the original. I reckon they
- gia-getting $20 a month. That takes
- $240,000 a year to pay them. Does
anybody ' believethat ? And jet this
investment company does not. seem to
have anything to sell, but will get you
a sewing-machine, a gold watch, a byke
1 or a , gunThey. refer you to a long ar
ray of references :
. . But Jiere. is one from North Carolina,
where the cherry trees gfowti ' 'Greatest
monemakihg'plan of the twentieth
century. -v. ' - . . .
r '$5 per day made at hofne mailing
circulars. . It breaks all records and the
mo ney comes rolling In.' These l&re
the headlines of "the offer. The body
of the circular is too- long And too . fas- j
cinating to copy It might injure A t-
T
lanta's shoe "trade to spread this kind
of news in your columns. " A lady
writing to me from Thomasville says
her neighbor, a good,"- sensible lady,
was induced by this circular to send
$3.50 to another lady, who was an end
le3s ."chain agent for this North Carolina
party, and got a pair of shoes she could
h ive bought at home for $2.50, and
she had to pay 45 cents express charges
u xn them. I have hunted for this
li tie North Carolina town all over the
nap and have not found it yet. I
reckon it is some little town that is yet
in the woods.
I am not through with these endless
chain frauds or delusions or snares,
b it will close with the most amusing
li :tle fake that has ever transpired in
this . region. A planter who lives in
o ir town says that one of his tenants
g 3t a circular- that came all the way
from that pious country where they
Used to sell nutmegs made of wood and
sed oats made of shoe pegs. The cir
cular said that any one remitting a
money order for $1.79 would have sent
to them a handsome set of oak finished
furniture. The credulous man would
not consult his landlord, but sent it,
abd as the circular said: 'Please men
tion the color of the upholstery that you
prefer," he wrote that he wanted green.
In due time he was notified that the
furniture had been shipped. So he
waited about ten days and then drove
ik with a two-horse wagon to receive
ii and haul it home. On inquiring at
the depot he found a little box and in
side was a miniature set of furniture
for a doll. The bedstead was 8 inches
long and the sofa 6. On the outside of
the box was 75 cents for freight, But
the upholstering was green and the
man smiled a sickly- grin and said:
iKjKJ am. J- s
Now, if there is anything for which
have a particular dislike it is a per
sonal controversy with my fellow-man.
was forced into this one to protect
my name and secure my peace, but if
ii shall result in protecting the depend
ent women of this land from the greed
ahd trick of strangers, I shall not re-gi-et
the controversy. The government
will take a hand in it after a while, but
that will not refund the money. A
Inderal court has already got the cherry
tree man in limbo.
j The United States postal law declares
that no newspapers shall be carried as
second-class matter unless they are for
legitimate subscribers who with their
own consent have paid or agree to pay
the subscription price. Lat the law be
enforced. Aill Aep.
I P. S. Later from the front. Since
ijpenned the above I have Teceived an
other letter that caps the climax.
Winsboro, S. C., Jan 2. To Bill
Arp: I used to admire you and banked
on your letter. You had my respect
and confidence to that extent that I
gave my daughter $25 to send to you
and get the monthly reward for writing
letters. That was more than two
months ago and you know the rest,
yjou grand old fraud. I hate to think
as meanly of any man as I now think
of you and your son. If you were
worth the powder and lead it would take
to kill you I'd have you both arrested,
you two-faced old hypocrite. If you
ever come tnis way, you old sinner,
what we will do for you will be a plenty,
etc., etc. - J. D. L.
That man had better refund that $25
or run away. B. A
Tne Scarcity of Good Horses.
Gharlotte Observer.
. j The local horse dealers say that good
hprses and mules are getting to be
scarce and that' the price paid for them
is higher than it has been for the last
2D years, notwithstanding the high
price of corn and other horse feed. They
explain it by the fact that the govern
ment has exported so many to the
Philippines and that England has also
drained the country to supply the de
mand in South Africa. They say that
good horses and mules are higher in
the West than they are here in fact,
that tney are as cneap nere as in any
part of the Union.
T
I Timber hunters have committed vast
depredations on the State lands during
the past 10 or 12 years. The State, un
der-the fusiorr regime had given an
option at 50 cents an acre to a man by
which he could pick out the best tim
bered lands, sell them and only pay for
what he sold. It appears that he sold
s(jme at $4 to $6 an acre and also a con
siderable part of the 3,000 acres of cran
berry bog. He sold the pick of the
timber land in Tyrrell county, what is
left to the State being of little value.
The State Board of Education forced
the holder of the option to surrender it,
but in order to avoid suit gave him
leave to sell 10,000 acres in Tyrrell
county and 55,000 in Carteret county.
His option covered over 60,000 acres.
The chapter of the United Daughters
o
the Confederacy, of .Lexington, iiy.,
are entirlev warranted in their request
to the manager of the opera house there
that he do not permit the production oi
UACle Tom's Cabin'; in it. it should
not be allowed to be played in any
ofera house in the South. The novel
from which the play is dramatized is a
lie in essence, designed without regard
td facts, to inflame the Northern mind
and neither novel nor; drama deserves
td find any comfort south of the sec
tional Une. Charlotte Observer.
Rev. J. T. Bagwell, D. D., has moved
td McAllister, Indian Territory. Dr.:
Bagwell Was a leading minister -in the
Methodist church: prior to his removal
tq Arkansas some years ago. Latterly
his health has been poor., f f j
Charlotte News : Mr. B. K. Blair,
who has for several years, -owned a half
interest in the Albemarle Drug Com
pany, at Albemarle, has disposed of
his stock. Mr. Horace Armheid Mr.
air's partner, is 'sole "owner of : the
business. ' 'r ' -; - o? 3-;; r -' '
. LESS. '
That coatless man puts a careless arm
- Bound the waist of the hatless girl,.
As over the dustless and mudless roads
In a horseless carriage- they whirl,
Like a heedless bullet from a hammerless gun,
By smokeless powder driven,
They fly to taste the speechless joy v -
By endless union given. .-.-Though
the only lunch his coinless purse
Affords to them the means
Is a tasteless meal of ooneless cod
With a side of stringless beans,
He puffs a tobaccoless cigarette,
And laughs a mirthless laugh
When pap tries to coax her back .
By wireless telegraph.
Boston Herald.
HOW TO GET WEALTH.
Early to bed,
Also to rise, y
May make a man both healthy and wise,
But if of wealth
He'd gain the prize
He musn't forget to advertise.
HIS PROPER FATE.
The man who complains of his victuals
And all his wife's cooking belictuals
Should be starved till he's thin
As a wooden ten pin
Like they used in the old game of skictuals.
GOD IN THE SCHOOLS.
Stroii a: Plea Against Effort to Expel
Religions Instruction Prom Tnese
Institutions.
Richmond State.
Really the effort to expel God Al
mighty from the public schools is being
carried too far. We note that some
where out West, in Chicago, we believe,
violent objection is made to the use of
the Lord's Prayer in the schools. What
offense there is in that invocation for
Gentile or Jew, Catholic, Protestant or
infidel, we are unable to understand.
Nothing can be more sublimely beauti
ful or more appropriate for all kinds of
men than the appeal to "our Father"
the father of all of us weak, erring
children of His, stumbling on in our
countless different ways into the dark
ness of the next hour, hoping and
fearing, enjoying and suffering and the
strongest and proudest of us needing
help so often. Certainly all may unite
in the prayer to the Unseen Power that
His name shall be hallowed, His king
dom shall come, His will shall be done;
that we may have each day our daily
bread, that our trespasses may be for
given as we forgive and that we may be
delivered from evil.
It would be better to have the ten
dency in the other direction. The fact
that the schools are for all the people
must be recognized and it is not right
that the children f any creed or form
of religious belief should be given cause
for offense or influenced against the
wishes of their parents. Yet there are
certain fundamental beliefs and senti
ments in which virtually all American
people are agreed and these should be
encouraged in the minds of children
instead of being excluded. There is a
common sense line easy to find between
religious freedom and no religion at all.
Because some citizens choose to believe
or try to believe that there is no God
is no reason why God should be banished
utterly from the schools their children
attend. The fact that we have some
Turkish citizens should not prevent us
from teaching that Mahomet was a
false prophet and that one wife ia, the
proper allowance for one man.
In these days of liberal thought aDd
mutual respect of honest men for each
other's opinions, it is not impossible
that eminent Protestants, Jews and
Catholics may some time get together
and agreed on some religious teaching
that all will be willing to have their
children instructed in. The theory is
that this matter should be left entirely
to the parents and the spiritual guides
chosen by them; which is a very poor
theory. As a matter of fact we are
raising a larg crop of trouble in many
parts of the country in the shape of
children who are taught to know a
great many things and the meaning
and beauty of nothing, who have
minds equipped after a fashion and
souls as empty and barren as those of
the most depraved heathens, and we
graduate them into the world with no
motive, hope, thought or conception
higher than the dollar or the passion,
to be rich men without bowels or an
archists with or without bombs.
Heart of tnis Slan on Ills Right Side.
A man with his heart on the right
side instead, of the left has just been
discovered by the medical board of
Bloomington 111. The man is George
W. Hurst, of Lexington, a veteran of
the civil war, who recently applied for
a pension. -
In the course of the physical exami
nation the physicians made the remark
able discovery that the applicant's
heart was on the right side, instead of
the left.
Hurst says that he never experienced
any discomfort or inconvenience as a
result of this unusual location of his
heart.
The pulsations are as even as those
of an ordinary man of his age, and
there appears to be nothing unusual
about the heart except its location. It
is normal in every other way.
The physicians say that the case is
extremely rare, and only a few are
known to the medical fraternity.
The President Is for Peaee Now.
Two Boston men who called on the
President last week took occasion to say
that they had heard that there might
be trouble with some foreign countries
over the Monroe Doctrine, and they
felt that they should express the hope
that the President would endeavor to
preserve peace.
"War? exclaimed the Jf resident.
'Do vou think I'm going to have a
war while I'm cooped up here in the
White House? Well, I guess not."
George E. Graham, war correspon
dent,' who i was aboard the . Brooklyn
during the Santiago battle, is to write a
book entitled "Schley and Santiago."
He will show that Sampson was not in
the fight.". , , .
A VICTIM OF RETRIBUTION.
Atlanta Constitution.
There is something pathetic about
the inglorious climax that has come Co
the career ,of Franklin J. Moses, one
of the reconstruction governors of
South Carolina. Once the chief mag
istrate of a great and proud original
state Of The union, thirty years after
wards we find him pitifully pleading to
a police magistrate in Boston for leni
ency, but sentenced to four months in
a penal institution for a petty swindle
His downward career has been constant
and punctual with pretty crimes and
police entanglements.
We recall the incident not purposely
to exult over the misfortune of one
who was a conspicuous and malfamous
factor in the oppression of the South
ern people . after the civil war. Our
reference to him is necessary because
he is a type. He was one of that
motley and malignant tribe that took
possession, by the grace of congress
and the power of bayonet-bearing batal
lions, of the state governments of the
south and organized misrule, plunder
and political oppression into a system
such as Christendom had never known
before, and that finally revolted the
conscience of the American people.
- Moses is an illustration of the retri
bution that moves with the certainty
and inexorableness of divine justice.
"The mills of the gods grind slowly,
But they grind exceeding fine !"
And he is the latest, if not the last of
all, to come as a mangled, broken,
helpless and hopeless grist from the
wheels of that awful machinery. Scores
of his colleagues in the disgraceful his
tory of that era of southern humilia
tion and spoliation have preceded him
in ruin and been consigned to the obli
vion of the ages. While their season
of ribald power, luxurious riot and
shameless rascalities was brief, gor
geous and amazing, they were finally
forced to flee from their f eastings and
take refuge in such safety as the places
that had spawned them would afford.
Even there they mostly found ostra
cism and suspicion and shrunk into
pauperism, vagabondage and shifty!
criminalism. If- it were worth the
while we might here recall the names,
once despicably familiar in southern
affairs, of such as have fallen upon
such miserable conclusions.
It is enough "to point a moral andJ
adorn the tale" to say that nearly all
these fellows met their full measures of
misery, odium and punishment, not in
the south, where they had earned their
infamy, but among the people from
whom they sprung and who once
thought them most fit and desirable
masters for southern people, upon
whom they were foisted by radicalism
and fastened in power by regiments of
troops. It is a sufficient vindication
of their repudiation and banishment
bv the south that they could not And
welcomes and honors at home.
There were some of the leaders of
that epoch who were not evil at heart.
They were mistaken, but not malig
nant. When they realized the true
characters and purpca?s of their co
partners they pulled out from the as
sociation and many have since become
useful and honored factors of purer
retrimes. But Moses remains the ulti
mate type and illustration of the men
who sowed hate and have reaped sell
havoc wherever they went.
Going: to the Coronation.
Baltimore Sun.
The President has selected Mr. White
law Reid, of New York, as the special
ambassador of the United States at the
coronation of King Edward VII next
June. Mr. Reid is the editor of the
New York Tribune, is recognized as a
yery good friend of Great Britain, hav
ing long exerted his influence to pro
mote cordial relations between the two
countries, and will for this reason and
doubtless for many others be persona
grata to the British people and the
Court of St. James. Gen. J. H. Wil
son, of Delaware, will attend the coro
nation as the representative of the
United States Army, while Captain
Charles E. Clark, who commanded the
battleship Oregon during the war with
Spain, will represent the American Navy.
Captain Clark is a gallant officer, well
worthy of the honor bestowed upon
him, but why should Admirals Dewey
and Schley have been overlooked and
why shonid Lieu tenant-General Miles
have been forgotten when the corona
tion honors were being distributed ?
Rip! Tear! As President Stepped on
Wife's Gown.
At the dinner given by Postmaster
General and Mrs. Smith at the 'Arling
ton in Washington last week President
and Mrs. Roosevelt arrived a little late.
In his hurry to reach the elevator the
president stepped upon the beautiful
trailing gown of Mrs. Roosevelt.. There
was a sound of ripping and tearing and
and then an awful silence. Mrs. Roose
velt gave her impetuous husband a re
proachful look, but not a word was
exchanged except the "Pardon me,
dear," of the president. With the as
sistance of a maid the robe was ad
justed. Mrs. Roosevelt's gown was one of
the most exquisite she has yet worn.
It was of fine French lace, with the
design outlined in silver and pearls.
Panels of turquoise velvet covered the
skirt and the corsage was of blue.
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Three negroes were blown to pieces
and seven others hurt ina dynamite
explosion at Karthaus, Clearfield
county, Pa., last week. The explosion
occurred in one of the shacks occupied
by negro laborers. They were thawing
dynamite at a wood stove
board Air-line, was run over by a shift
inir enffine at the Charlotte passenger
depot on the 16th. Bothi legs were so
badly mangled mat amputation was
ecessary. xae pauent was .. batten to
private hospital. ' .
SOUTH OUTGROWING NORTH.
For the First Time In Hie History- of
the Country tlso Soutli Is Growing
Faster Tlian tlio ftortli.
The Director of. the Census an
nounced last week the percentage of
increase of population in different parts
of the country, showing for the last
decade a rapid decrease from the - pre
vious rate of growth of population in
the, West, a less marked, but decided,
decrease in the North, and a, slight in
crease in the South. For the first time
in the history of this country the popu
lation of the South has increased some
what more rapidly than that of the
North. The East, geographically, is
included in the term North. The. rate
of growth in the North, West and
South is far more nearly the same than
it ever has been before. The official
announcement divides the country as
follows: West, from the Pacific to the
eastern boundry of Montana, Wyom
ing, Colorado and New Mexico, North
and South, the respective sides-of a
line formed by the Potomac and Ohio
rivers and the southern boundary of
Missouri and Kansas. The percentage
of increase from 1860 to 1880 was 61.9
in the North, 48.4 in the South .and
185.6 in the West, while in the last 20
years, iu-iyuu, it was 48. y in tne
North, 48.5 in the South and 131.5 in
the West.
Prior to the civil war, the Northern
States nearly doubled in population
with each 20 years, while in the South
ern States the increase of population
was only two-thirds as many. During
the last 20 years there has been no
substantial difference in the rate of
growth of the two sections. The per
centage of increase of growth of these
regions during each of the last two ten
year periods follows: 1880-90 North
24.8; South 20.1; West 71.3. 1890-
1900, North 19; South 22; West 31.9.
ii tne comparison is limited to tne
States east of the Mississippi river,
classing Minnesota and Loujsana with
the Western States, the result is slightly
different. It would show the increase
to be: 1880-90, North 10.1: South 16.
1890-1900, North 19.9; South 17.7.
When the Trans-Mississippi States
are omitted, the rate of growth in the
North is slightly greater than that in
the South, but the present difference
between the two sections in this re
spect is about one-half what it was be
tween 1880 and 1890, and less than one
seventh of what it was between 1850
and 1890. The frontier as a large erea
of rapid but intermittent growth, is no
longer an important factor in the prog
ress of American, population, and the
rate of growth in the several great
areas of the United States is now nearly
the same.
' Closet Boom,
Kansas City Journal.
A man who is building a new house
at Kinsley tells the local editor that he
is going to have enough closets in his
house,' or know the reason why. And
thereupon Senator F. Dumont Smith,
editor of the Mercury, discourses as
follows:
"Who has not gone to a closet to find
his best trousers, and after a wading
through for or five layers of feminine
garments finally given up the search in
despair? The writer lives in a house
that has seven closets, besides two small
rooms devoted to storage. In all this
vast array of closet room we have but
five wardrobe hooks to which we pre
tend to hold any sort of title of indi
vidual possession, and they are more
often than not invaded by garments
wholly foreign to our complexion and
build. It is idle to storm, swear, beg,
plead or cajole. The calm, sweet, smil
ing obstinacy of the eternal feminine
moves resistlessly on it3 way, absorbing
all the closet room, all the shelves,
drawers, cupboards, bureaus, dressers,
chiffoniers and even the floor space.
The only way that Mr. Hetzel will get
his rights will be to build a burglar
proof room, with a fire combination
lock on $."
A Kentucky Man Sees a Strange pic
ture on tlie Moon.
Inez, Kyr, Correspondence.
W. B. Copley, a prominent planter
and magistrate claims to have seen
strange pictures in the moon. On the
last full mdon he awoke before daylight
and saw the picture of a headless man
in the moon, ascending a mountain
and carrying a cross where the head
should have been. From the descrip
tion of the mountain it was an exact
picture of Calvary. He aroused his
wife, and she is a witness to the jsight.
He firmly believes that had it not be n
for the passage of Scripture which says
that "no man shall see the face of the
Lord and live" he would have had a
complete view of Calvary and the cruci
fied Savior. .
The Rock Hill, S. C, Herald says:
While Southern patriots are going wild
over "Philadelphia's Liberty Bell," the
Pennsylvania tourists pass in full view
of South Carolina's King's Mountain
without raising a hat or remembering
that what Gettysburg was to the Army
of the Potomac Kings Mountain was
to the American army, whose achieve
ment at that historic mountain made
the clanging of the old bell a possibility.
Reference made in this paper to a
report sent out by a staff correspondent
of the News and Observer to the effect
that the late Solicitor Rush, of Ashe
boro, died of smallpox. Mr. W. ,C.
Hammer, Mr. Rush's successor. ? in
office, wires the Salisbury Sun that the
report is not true. He says Mr. Rush
was exposed to the smallpox but that
he had been vaccinated about a year
ago. , . . -
Gen. Wade Hampton is still ill, but
his physician states that there is no
immediate danger. Gen. Hampton is
84 years old and has .been in feeble
health for - some weeksr , It is believed,
however, that his present illness is the
begining of the end. . :
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GEKEB4L NEWS.
The expenditures of Harvard Univer
sity, for the last college year were $321, -579
moire than its income.
By a unanimous vote the House
agreed to give Mrs. McKinley the free
mailing privilege during the remainder
of her life.
It is said the President is hearing
evidence f both friends and foes of
Schley before making his decision on
the latter's appeal. .
. President Roosevelt has maddened
the republicans of Mississippi by ap
pointing the body servant of Jefferson
Davis to a good position.
i Mrs. Susanna. Pennock, of St. Louis.
who is 21 years old and is now a patient
at the City Hospital, has given birth to
three pairs of twins in her brief life.
A poll of the Senate shows forty in
favor of Considering the Panama canal,
and thirty-one in favor of the Nicara
guan route. Senator-Teller alone is,
opposed to any Isthmian canal.
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Cleveland and Chicago capitalists
have secured concessions to builcT
trolley car lines from Cairo, Egypt, to
Mecca, . along the Red Sea, with a
branch line to Mount Sinai.
The medical students of Grant Uni-'
versity, a negro college at Chattanooga,
Tenn. , demand the retirement of Prof.
R. J. Cooke for his attack on the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
The Democratic caucus, of the Ken-
tucky Legislature has nominated ex-
Governor James B. McCreary for United
States Senator to succeed Senator -
Deboe; this-is equivalent to election.
The President last week sent to the
senate the name of David Aiken to
be postmaster at Geeenwood, S. C.
Aiken has been dead three weeks - but
the department had not been notified,
and his application papers received
favorable consideration.
Reports from a large section of south
west and central Texas tell of heavy
rains, ine drougnt had begun to be
destructive in much of the -territory
covered by these rains. In Neuves
county the downpour lasted for 16
hours, the first fain in more than a
year.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland is so
far recovered from the effects of his re
cent attack of pneumonia as to have
arranged for a hunting trip in the
South. He will leave his home at
Princeton (January 22, for ; an island .
off Georgetown, S. C, where, with a
party of friends, he will remain several
days. -''
Mrs. Ralph Webber, wife of the
superintendent of one of the depart
ments at the cotton mills at Lynchburg,
Va., was outraged and her throat cut by
an unknown negro Saturday morning.
The crime was committed shortly before
7 o'clock, before it was good daylight,
and after her husband had gone to the
mill. Her throat was cut almost from
ear to ear, but is thought she will re
cover. A Pennsylvania Railroad official has
compiled statistics showing that 150,000
freight cars were built in this country last
year. Notwithstanding this enormous
addition to the transportation facilities
of this country, it is estimated that the
railroads have lost more than $30,00Q,
000 because of the scarcity of freight
cars. Every railroad of importance in',
the United States has complained of a
shortage of fright cars.
A dispatch from Cleveland, O., tells
f the plans for an American company
to build electric lines along the Red Sea
to connect Mt. Sinai and Damascus. It
is added that already trolley .cars are
running from Jerusalem to Galilee, and
Lfor some years a steam road has been
in operation from Jaffa to Jerusalem.
It is also possible now to inspect the
pyramids of Egypt from a seat in a
trolley car manufactured in America.
One of the best-reared girls of Rich
mond, Va., was yesterday sent to the
House of Good Shepherd, in New York,
as incorrigible. The girl is only about
16 years old. Her parents thought it
best to send her to, some such institu
tion as she has just been committed to.
The jToung girl went away under the
charge of a policeman. There was a
stormy time at the house when the
officer went for his prisoner. She
would not consent to go until he had
threatened to call the station house
wagon.
Metnodlst
Almanac.
If you need a cq
mplete and correct
Almanac, and a
full and exhaustive
Methodist reference
book, you will find
both in the publication which lies before
us. It is the "JNorth Uarolina Method
ist Handbook and Almanac" the first ,
of ta kind ever brought out in the State.
We notice that in addition to a vast
fund of information, historical, biogra
phical, doctrinal, financial and statisti
cal, it contains a complete roll of
Methodist Sunday School Superinten
dents in the State. If we have ever had
one before, we are hot aware of it.
The Handbook is adorned with
numerous half tone engravings of
prominent men and buildings of North
Carolina Methodism. What strikes us'
especially is the picture of the oldest
Method ist preacher in North Carolina,,
who is nearly one-hundred years old,
and the picture of the house near
Loui8burg where the first Annuual Con
ference of organized Methodism in the
whole world was held in 1785. The
cover is of special electrotyped design;
Send 25 cents for a copy which - will be .
sent postpaid. .
Address T. N. Ivey, Editor, Raleigh,.
N. C. '
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. Misstress: "Mary, I saw the milkman
kiss you this morning, shall take the
milk in myself to-morrow."
-: Mary: . "Lor ; muml . It wouldn't
work. S'E wouldn't kiss you, anyway.' -
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