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The Chronicle, WILKESBORO, N. C, MISAPPLIED SYMPATHY. Baltimore Sun. Sympathy with those in distress is a very human and a very admirable emo tion. "One touch of nature," says the poet-philosepher, "makes the whole world kin. It is difficult to understand, however, the grounds of the sympathy . which scores of women displayed for the Biddle brothers, the convicts who escaped from the Pittsburg jail and were shot and mortally wounded by the officers' who pursued and captured them. These men had done nothing heroic. They were criminals con victed of killing a man whose " house they had entered for purposes of bur glary. To this crime they had added another, a detective having been shot onn It-iiIxI livrnn. 1 i-l l they were arested last April. These men were desperadoes and seem to have .richly deserved the extreme pen alty of the law. They were tried, con victed and sentenced to death, and would have been hanged two weeks ago if they had not been respited by the Governor of Pennsylvania. Last Thursday, through the assistance of the wjie .oi me jau waraen, iney escapea from prison, hut were overtaken by the officers. In the fight which followed the convicts received wounds which proved mortal, while the woman, their accomplice, the victim of an extraordi nary infatuation, was shot either by the officers, by herself, or by one of the convicts. "Women," says a dispatch to The Sun, "especially sought admis sion to see the spectacle of the dying villains in jail. Sympathy was expressed on all sides for the dying murderers. Some women were even so oold as to lay their hands on the foreheads of the convicts, and few had any hesitancy in expressing sorrow lor mem." it is a sad thine for stronsr and healthv voting men, who ought to earn honest living, to take to burglary and murder. When they undertake to live at the expense of the lives and property of others they be come a menace to society, criminals of the most dangerous type, not heroes, and for its own protection society must make them pay the penalty of their murderous deeds. They had no sym pathy for the man whom they murdered in his own house, no sympathy for the detective whom they killed while he was trying to do his duty, no sympathy for the woman who left her home and children and freed the convicts to com mit other crimes against society. It is a sad story, a story of thrilling interest, a story as extraordinary as any to be found in the pages of fiction. But the central figures in this tragedy are not men over whom women should shed tears of maudlin isympathy. There was nothing fine or in spiring: in what thev had done. Thev were simnlv mufder- ers and burglars, not men of noble character and sturdy manhood Unjustly convicted of crime. The one person in the tragedy for whom sympathy might be felt is the woman who betrayed her husband and brought disgrace upon her children. Probably she will receive only the contempt of her sex, while the dashing cutthroats and theives will have barrels of tears wasted on them. It is a strange world, and of all the mysteries in it woman, is the greatest. Cherry Tree Men Under Bond. Eutherfoedton, Feb. 7. W. H.' Hester, H. L. Clower, C. D. Wilkie, G. Rollins and C. F. Geer, of the cherry tree concern, who have been on trial for the past two days charged with having used the . mails for fraudulent purposes, were bound in a bond of $1,000 each for their appearance at the next term of the Charlotte Federal 'Court. This makes T.1 of the cherry tree men who have been bound over, and there are yet other arrests to be made. District Attorney Hoi ton and C. E. Enteman left for Greensboro last ' evening. Elisha Garland, a young man from Bakersville, N. Cv may soon be sent to the penitentiary. A tew months ago he enlisted in , the army under circum stances that were entirely fraudulent. He forged the name of both his father and the witnesses to the enlistment papers, and a letter from Adjutant General Corbin to-day states that the young man will be tried by a general court martial. Corbin sent Moody sam ples of the writing of Garland's father showing both the signatures forged by his son and the genuine signatures. Garland is only 18 years of age and is of one of the best known families of Mitchell county. . The end of the Stanly and Wilkes bond cases is perhaps not yet. The counties have the right of appeal from the adverse decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Rich mond to the Supreme Court of the united States and the reasonable sun- position is that they will exercise it. ; It may take somewhat the course of the James-Howard case, from Rowan in which case has been established, the fact that there are endless chains in other tilings than cherry tree transac tions. unarlotte Observer. vRaleigh correspondence ; Charlotte Observer: A newspaper man, who was traveling on a free pass on a railway in this State, yesterday got a verdict for fo,LW damages for injuries sustained I " " acciqent, t tnough ( the pass ex pressly stated that the holder relin quished all right to damages. It was 'stated here today by an attorney in the case that the damages thus given bv j . ;".y I : jury exceeaea in amount the value of aii toe property owned by the jurors? I' Earth has nothing more tender than pious woman's hearLr Luther. ; THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VII, FIRST -QUARTER, INTER- IATIONAL SERIES, FEB. 16. . Text I of the Leaion, Act v, 25-42. Memory- Verses, 40-42 Golaen Text, Matt, -v, lO Commentary toy Her. D. M. Stearns. Prepareil Copyright, 1901, by American Press Association. zo. j"J3enoid, tne men wnom ye put in prison are standing in the temple and teach! ng tne people." This was the mes which was brought to the high sage priest , council and senate of the children of Israel as they waited to receive the prisoners whom they had arrested the evening before Multitudes of men and women were believing, and multitudes of eick and demon possessed people not only in Jerusalem, but .also! from the cities roundabout, were healed, f The work was going so grandly that the high priest and Sadducees simply could not stand it and I . j.i x, - i so put the apostles in prison. God, whose they were and -whom they served, sent an angel by night and released them from :J a t- 4.v,, u i.i- yuauii uu ucui mem w w Lcmyj w continue their ministry, and there they are found teaching, instead of m the pris on under the power of the authorities. They belonged to God. 26428. "Behold, ye have filled Jerusalem withj your doctrine and intend to bring this man's bloed upon us The high priest reminds them that they had been forbidden to teach in the name of Jesus and jthen adds this word, unintentionally giving good testimony to their zeal, but evidently forgetting that the people had cried. His blood be on us and on our children" (Matt, xxvii, 25). 29-32. "We ought to obey God rather thaq men." - Thus replied Peter and again accused them to their faces of be ing jthe murderers of Jesus, whom God raised from the dead and exalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a Sa viour to give repentance and forgiveness of sins even to such as they were. That. I it is not possible to please God and to please the world lying in the wicked one is seen in Gal. i, 10; Luke xvi, 13; Jas. iv, . inese apostles were in conscious partnership with the Holy Spirit, who wa m them and He the Spirit, was the speaker through their lips, even as Jesus had; said, "It is not ye that speak, but the jSpirit of your Father which speaketh in you" (Matt, x, 20). 66. wnen tney beard tnat, tney were cut to the heart and took counsel to slay them." Not only was the blood of Jesus upon them, but they were ready to bring upon themselves the blood of the apostles als6. Before they killed Jesus they de sired to kill Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead (John xii, 10). The truth of God when not meekly received makes manifest that "the carnal mind is enmity against God (Horn, vnu ). 6f, 65. "Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touch ing these men." The apostles, being sent out of the council for a little while, Gama liel a learned and honorable member, at whose feet Saul of Tarsus had beenedu- cated (chapter xxn, 3), thus begins to ad dress his brethren. He seems to have had something of the spirit of Joseph and Ji?odemus, who also were at one time members of the council (Mark xv, 43; Jotyn vii, 50). We do not know that he ever received Jesus as the Christ, but from the wisdom and spirit of this ad dress and on the supposition that Saul would seek the welfare of his teacher we may hope that he did. Or O im m , 1 -a ou, oi. oerore tnese days rose up lueudas, boasting himself to be some body." He quotes two cases of deceivers who for a time had quite a following, but in J each case the leaders perished,, and? their followers were dispersed. The mark of a deceiver is that "he boasts himself to be somebody," while a true fol lower of the Lord seeks to glorify God ony. 1 he antichrist shall do according to his own will and shall exalt himself and magnify himself (Dan. xi, 36), but the Lord Jesus Christ sought neither His own will nor His own glory (John vi, 68: vin, 50), and Paul, the great apostle, determined to know nothing but "Jesus .Christ and Him crucified," his mottoes being "Not I, but Christ," "Not 1, but the grace of God" (I Cor. ii, 2; xv, 10; Gal. ii, 20). 68. "it this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught." He may have remembered these words, "The Lord brngeth the counsel of the heathen to naught; He maketh the devices of the people of none effect" (Ps. xxxiii, 10; see also lsa. vin, v, 10, for very strong wjrds in this connection). It is a great comfort to the true believer to know that wey in at war against mm shall be as nothing and as a thing of naught and that no weapon formed against him can prosper (lsa. xli, 12; liv, 17). o. ir it De or uoa, ye cannot over- tnrow it, lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." It is written that "every purpose of the Lord shall be per formed." and "The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, sol shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand," and, again, "The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations" (Jen li, 29; lsa. xiv, 24; Pi, xxxiii, 11) 0. "They commanded that they should nqt speak in the name of Jesus." With the repetition of this ungodly and rebel lious command they are beaten and let get. How the devil hates that name at which every' knee shall yet bow and con cerning which every tongue shall yet con fetes that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the g!6ry of God the Father! (Phil, ii, 10, 11.) Jesus had told His disciples that they wbuld be delivered up to councils and be scourged and brought - before governors and kings for His sake (Matt, x, 17, 18) 41. "Rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for .Hig; name" What a glorious reality is the Lord Jesus to those who can take such treatment, not only without resentment, but even joy ful ly I Backs scourged and bleedine: full of pain physically, but full of joy inwardly now, great is the grace of God I . They were already tastinsr that- which PanI was afterward told concerning the5 great I things he must suffer for Christ's sake (chapter ix, 16). ; .V- ; - r . ,;.v; ; S2. 44 And daily In the temole and in every house they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.', Thus they obeyed Gpd rather than man and were rcidy for the next beating or imprisonment for so aomg whenever God might see fit to let "I1??116 - Peter and John said, they could not hpln Jninv (f t,:-u when tempted to speak no more in His name, they had such a burning fire with inj them that they were weary if they did not speak; or, like, Elihu, they : felt' that they would burst If they did not speak VAcU It, 20; Jer. xx, 9; Job xxxiJ, 18-20): BILL ABP8 LETTEB. Atlanta Constitution." I was ruminating about the little un pleasantness that is going on amongst our neighbors at Borne. My comfort is that it is notas big a thing as they think it is and will soon pass away. After the election is over the leaders will apologize Jail round and make friends and the dear people have time to reflect and wonder what, fools the leaders made of them. A friend writes me that there is nothing in it but ring politics who shall run the machine, who shall have the offices. Whiskey is in the background, but the main thing is office. As Leonard Morrow once said at a public speaking, "Boys, don't let 'em fool you. They are just side wipin' round huntin' the orthography of a little office." Carlisle said "Eng land has a population of 30,000,000 mdstly fools," and just 'so there are enough fools in every county or. com- I munity to elect a man if he can get them all. He is pretty safe if he can get a majority of them. MDispensarv I .... .... . . J i no aisoensarv. tnat is tne Question that is now stirring Home and Flovd county. Well, we know all about it here in Cartersville, for we tried the saloons for years and they did so much harm we abolished them and they will never come back here again never. Now we are trying the dispensary; in fact, we have two of them, one in Rome and the other in Atlanta. We wouldn't have one in our town or counljy for anything. The farther off the better. The easier whisky is to get the more will be drank. Dawson, in Terrell county, has had a dispensary for nearly four years. The sales for the first year were $26,000. The second year were $39,000, the third year $56,000 and this year will probably run to $75,000. You see, it takes the boys some time to find out how easy ij, is to get it, but the con sumption goes on and on, increasing and the people take comfort in that the profits increase their school fund and lessen their taxes. No matter if it im poverishes the poor and makes drunk ards of their young men. That is of no consequence. Now, our dispensaries are most too near. Lwish that the consumers had to get their supplies from Cincinnati or Baltimore. That would cut the jug business down one-half at least. The common people could' t wait so long and so nobody but uncommon people would get any hardly. It would be a long time between drinks, as the gov ernor of North Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina. There is bound to be some drinking going on if they knew that the world was going to be burned up tomorrow. "All we can do," said a good man to me yesterday, "is to maite it hard to get and regulate its sale and consumption." This man had had experience with young men who drank on the sly. He used to drink habitually himself, but found the habit was growingon him. He wanted it of tener and more of it, and so he quit short off two years ago. He said "that there was but little difference be tween open bar-rooms and the dispensa ry, so far as the better class of young men were concerned. A dollar bottle in a room with three or four friends was about as bad as the dollar spent for drinks in a bar-room." uui tne Dar-rooms are a nuisance in any town and a disgrace to its refine ment. If they are allowed at all they should be on some side street where ladies do. not frequent or have to Dass. Keep them out of sight and out of smell. Of course, the drinking habit cannot be stopped by law, nor can the sale of whisky be stopped as long as the goverment allows its manufacture: Our people can drive over to Cherokee and buy what they want from the govern ment distillery. There is no such thing as prohibition and never will be until the dawn of the millenium. This thing began with old Noah and had its ups and downs all through the Bible his tory. It .never was sanctioned. It never was prohibited except to the priests in the tabernacle. "Drink not in the tabernacle lest ye die," saith, Moses. All of those old time people kept some on tne sidebaord. Joseph and his brethren drank together and were merry, uavia speaks oi wine that maketh glad the heart of man toolomon says, "Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish and wine to those that be heavy of heart." But when he was sobering up from a spree he said, "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, for at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." I heard a judge of our circuit say that the wind up of a spree was the most wretched and forlorn mental con dition that could befall a man. Said he, ' 'Away in the dead of night I have gotten up and gone to the well in my night shirt and drank and drank of the cooling water until I could hold no more. I wanted to bite a branch in two and swallow the upper end." Nabal got drunk and became as a stone, and Benhadad and thirty-two kings all got drunk together after a battle. Jere miah, the prophet, tried to make the Rechabites drink wine with him, but they would not, for their father had enjoined them, and Jeremiah blessed them for obeying their father, and said, "Thus saith the Lord the house of Jona- dab, the son of Bechab, shall not want for a man to? stand before me forever. Zacharjah seems to have winked at the indulgance; for he said, "Corn shall make the young men cheerful and new wine the maids." I wonder if that was sure enougn a corn uquor. ine aged women were enjoined not to drink much wine, wherein is excess. King Ashashuerus got. drunk and: ordered Queen' Vashti to come before him and she refused, and did right and the old rascal deposed her. , Hosea saith that wine takes away the heart. ; Isaiah was hard i against it, and says;- "Their tables are full of - vomit : - and filthiness and there is noplace clean upon them." Habaknk says. "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink and putteth the bottle to him." But this is enough of scripture. From that day to this the excessive, ruse of spirituous liquor has gone on in all nations, carrying ruin in its train, . de grading kings and disgracing presidents and neither law nor precept nor preachers nor the" pleading of women. has been able to stop it. The "dispen sary-is more respectable in its surround ings than the saloon. There is no gather ing of roughs and toughs at its door and women can walk by without being insulted or disgusted as they pass. I do not believe that it lessens the use or abuse of whisky. Nothing will do that but home influence and religious train ing and public opinion. It takes every thing to combat it and keep it in check. I have before me the last official state ment of the dispensary business ' in South Carolina and it is amazing to see how it is growing. It is now the larg est and most important business in the state its aggregate sales for the past fiscal year being a little over $2,000,000, and. oyer $500,000 net profits, and of these profits and the stock on hand the school fund is entitled to $611,354tand the state has on hand $640,000 of stock. The profits pay hundreds of officials good salaries besides accumulating an enormous school fund. I have traveled' a good deal over the state and found public opinion much divided upon the questionable morality of the system. But it pays financially- and the ques tion of educating the negro with taxes from white people does not raise such a protest as long as the sale of whisky pays it, especially when the negro is the dispensary's very liberal customer. What about the part that woman is taking in this liquor business? What does all this mean that Bishop Cole man, of Delaware, has recently asserted in a public sermon preached in New Jersey. He says that the whiskey habit is actually decreasing among the men of the north, but it is rapidly in creasing among the women, not only the fashionable women, but the middle classes. His assertion caused a com mittee to be appointed who quietly fre quented the hotels and eating houpes and ladies' restaurants and a large majority of the women took wine or beer or whisky or cocktails with their meals, and very many took no meals and ordered drinks only. The com mittee unanimously reported that the bishop's assertion was the truth. If this be so, God help the country. Our southern women will be all that will save it. When I was a student in college at Athens in 1845 the wonderful discovery of Dr. Long and his use of anaesthesia was the talk of the town, and our pro fressor of chemistry, Dr. LeConte, made it the subject of a lecture to his class. In 1846 a dentist by. the name of Lombard came there and proposed to extract teeth without pain by the use of what he called mortus lethean. He extracted a jaw tooth for me and it was a success. But it was whispered around that Morton had stole Dr. Long's dis covery and process and as he was a Boston yankee the friends of Dr. Long were very indignant. Enough of this for the present. I only wished to say how gratified I was that the committee appointed to select our to greatest Georgians have given Dr. Long the first place. The medical world has done him honor in all countries and Morton and Jackson have been relegated to the rear, where they belonged. They were pirates. But about the second place the com mittee had better go slow and consider carefully when they meet again. They had better consult the old men and especially the veterans of the civil war. Some things are forgiven, but not for gotten. The veterans would not pre sume to say who should be selected, but only who should not. Bill Arp. Admiral Schley at Hickory and. Aslie ville. Hickory, Feb. 7. Admiral Schley was given a great ovation here this evening when he appeared on the rear platform of his private car to greet the large crowd of enthusiastic admirers who had gathered in the station yard to welcome him. Besides the fitting words of gratitude expressed for the admiration shown him, the naval hero spoke in the high est terms of nature's beauty along his journey's route through the mountains of western North Carolina. The admiral spoke of our beautiful country not being more advertised to the world, saying that its wonders should be known to all the outer world. The short stay here was taken up in hank-shaking, as both sexes were anxious to grasp the hand of the ad miral. Asheville, N. C, Feb. 7. Admiral Schley was given an ovation 'here this afternoon on his way from Knoxville to Washington. The tram stopped 20 minutes and during that time Mrs. Schley was presented with a large bou quet by local Knights Templar and the Admiral spoke briefly to the throng at the station. Robt. I. Durham tor Solicitor. Gastonia News. Kobt. L. Durham, Esq., of our town has announced hisi candidacy for the office of Solicitor in this the twelfth judicial district composed of the coun ties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Gaston, Lincoln and Cleveland. Mr. Durham has many friends all over" the district and will make a strong candidate. A number of years practice of his profes sion ana his application to business and his sober habits ought to eminent ly fit him for the office he seeks. The. only other candidate in the field so far announced is the present incumbent; J. L. Webb. , Esqi, of Shelby, and it is thought that he may withdraw. - To eat or drink too much, to plajrtoo much, to work too much, or to grumble too much all these are equally pent? - aous. John Wagstaffe. PREEDOfl FOB TnE FARMER. Atlanta Constitution, -' It is not too late in the season for southern farmers to forra. themselves, each into a committee of one. to strike for the freedom ., of their farms and themselves from the cormorant credit system. The south has not raised a crop since the civil war uporf a cash basis. The reasons preventing it are too well understood to need revamping now. The question that is pertinen t pivots on the present reasons why our farmers should begin the work of self emancipation from the old incubus policy. - ; v Much looking to that end has been accomplishpd in the past thirty years. Better farni methods and machinery have been gradually introduced by pro gressive farmers,crops have been rotated and intensification of cultivation prac ticed. The - results are seen in the larger 'percentage of farmers who are out of debt, who are farming on cash principles, raising home supplies and rationing their own employees. Lvery such one is the envy of his neighbors. They call him 'lucky" and let it go at that, without an effort to emulate him. We are convinced that -thousands of southern farmers can begin with the present season and in less then three years be their own bankers and inde pendent of supply house, western slaughter house and northwestern flour mills. They will be able to walk among their fellow-men unmortgaged and indifferent to the holder of the guano note and the date of delivery to the man with the store account! Plant corn! There is no better, healthier, cheaper food for the southern palate, blood and bones than good corn. Its value is surely appreciated, else we would not annually buy such tremen ous quantities of it out of western ele vators. Why not raise it at home? If some men can grow rich trading in it, with commissions, freights, insurance and interest added, why cannot the south ern farmer make the same money by raising it on his own cheaper lands and with the saving of all those incidental and price-enhancing charges? We insist that the highest wisdom and economy should determine every intelligent southern farmer to make himself inde pendent on the corn issus. Plant corn! . Sow oats! They are a necessary and valuable crop. Our lands will produce them with as much certainty as those of other sections of the country and surely with less cost then they can be imported from distant states. In the fourteen southern states, with nearly a third of the population of the union, and that population principally engaged in agriculture, we raise in 1900 only 83,998,256 bushels of oats. If we need oats in the same ratio as our fellow citizens generally, our share would be 269,000,000 bushels, and of that amount we raised less then one-third. There is one big sluice gate through which our southern money flows to enrich other sections. Sow oats! Make hay! It costs less money to encouree grass and cure it into hay than to kill it off the farm. The hay crop of the union is 50,000,000 tons. We do not raise one-fourth the hay in the south that we use. If a farm won't raise anything else it can be made tp raise hav.and hav rjavs a handsome dividend on the land and labor invest ed in its production. Make hay! The first crop of cotton, accompanied by sufficient food products and cereal crops for home use, that shall be raised in the south on a cash basis will imme diately double the value of every acre of farm laud in the section on which that feat , is possible. Every farmer who can perform the deed will find himself twice as rich in assets, credit and independence. The time is the present and the op portunity is one that has atthe end of it more hard, glittering, world-conquering gold than lies at the end of summer rainbow or the Skagway trail! Confidence of the right sort is very seldom misplaced in an editor, but when all sorts of news is wanted sup pressed from the paper for selfish rea sons arid no other", the editor is justified in "kicking." People read the papers not for information or news they ar already possessed of, but happenings they know not of. This is the editor's stock in trade and serves to make his paper interesting to the general public. The public look to him to find out by hook or crook anything that may be of interest in a general way to a commu nity. They don't want anything that has been retailed from mouth to mouth before it appears in their paper, else they sy, "Why don't you print some thing new ? We knew that some time ago," etc. On the other hand an in furiated subscriber called and says, "What did jou print that for ? I'll let you know when I want anything printed." Indeed, and is it only an editor's prerogative to print just what people call and want printed ? We had supposed such matter was what was known as an advertisement and was paid for at so much per line or inch. It seems as though the poor editor ia mistaken in all directions that he may think- news may be acceptable to all parties. Consequently, not being able to suit every one, we continue to do the best we can, - trusting to conse quences. Tryon Bee. 7 ! There Is such thing as riding a free horse t& death as Govenor Yates, of Illinois. learned. When he was elected! Governor the express company gave him a frank. : tie used it to ship all his fur niture to Springfield, but when recently he sought to jf rank his old cow through "dead head" he express company call ed a halt nd told the Governor that there was a Emit. Some folks will act the hog ;if they iget a chanced News .and Observer. " t Russia's CSlgantle Railroad. Age Herald. The Suez canal has , a future rival in the Nicaragua canal, and a present rival in the Siberian Hallway which will soon be opened for traffic from end to end. As ; soon as the : Manchurian branch: is completed fit. Petersburg and Pekin will be linked together. The other . cities of Europe will share of course in this great work, and no doubt very important . changes in the world's commerce will follow. In the couise of ten years Bussia has expended on this great road $172,525, 000, and the total cost will exceed $250,- 000,000. The distance from St. Peters burg to Vladivostock is ,6667 miles, to which must be added 1,019 miles more in order to reach Pekin from Harbui in all 7,686 miles, and yet the first class fare is to be but $128, the second class $87, and the third class $46. The light rails of the construction period are to be replaced at once with J heavy rails, and the entire roadbed and rolling stock are to be brought up to the high est European standard. Atpresent AJuXiv AS4 1 fWVA ACT HJT DltaiUV'I O V'l. sleighs, lut the road around the lake will be completed before the end of next year. . ' v. Asia will soon be well equipped with railroads, for the Germans are building a line from Constantinople to the Per sian Gulf, the Chinese will soon have an east and west linfi toiichinc tho western bounds of the empire, where it will meet Russian fines, and Bussia is connecting her Caspian territory with the Siberian railroad. The world grows smaller vear bv vear. and after a while South America and Siberia will be as accessible to the globe trotter or the commercial fluent as an American state is to-day. The St. LoiiU Rxpofeftlon. Cnarlotte Observer. T An interesting circular letter in be half of the St. Louis Fxposition, which is scheduled to be held in 1903, has been received from Drs. Wni. C. Green, Wm. McPheeters and Wm. Webb, Maj. Francis T. Bryan, Capt. Edmund T. Creecy and Messrs. Jesse M. Battle, : Kobt. B. Dula and Henry R. Strong all natives of North, Carolina now living in St. Louis. They are anxious that their t-x cu ni ..u i. : u: native oiate ouuuiu juul uiiess una up- portunity to show to the world her nat ural resources, her manufactures, her ' industries and the varied products of Vo-r fiiT'fi 1 a ar 1 " f V o fr f V air rnov . V-fck come known in every, quarter- of the globe," and these gentlemen add that "beipg on the ground and in close touch with the management of the fair we believe that we can render valuable assistance to the people at Jiome in this enterprise, and we are anxious to co operate with them in getting together a display that we cauld look upon with pride." , Accompanying this circular is "an other which gives some idea of the mag nitude of the scale upon which this ex-( position is planned. It "will be ap proximately twice as big as any former international exposition. The Centen nial Exposition at Philadelphia covered 236 acres, the Paris Exposition of 1899-1900, 336 acres, the Columbian ex position at Chicago 633 acres, the Pan American 350 acres. The St Louis World's Fair will cover 1200 acres. The construction cost of the Paris Exposition was $9,000,000, that of the Columbian .Exposition 18,622,WV ana tne total cost of the Pan-American Exposition was $10,000,000. The estimated cost of the St. Louis World's Fair will be $30, 000,000." These North Caroliua gentlemen resi dent in St. Louis will recognize a North Carolina phrase when wo remark that it is evident from the above figures that their adopted city intends next year, to "open tne Dig Diaae. Shiftless FpapJe, Charlotte Observer. There is not anything more pitiful then a small family of shiftless people, especially in an ad verse year. All hands lose the farmer and the man who fur nishes him supplies. There is no end of this hand-to-mouth, week-to-week sort of farming in this part of the State. A. mercnant nere wnose meiong dusi- A 1 .1 1 1 1 1 " np.ss has been the furnishing of food supplies, fertilizers, etc., to farmers "on time," called your correspondent s at tention the other day to a most miser able object and woe begone mule, which was tied to a awning post in front of the merchant's store. 'Look at that," ' said he. "That is all I get for $125. I furnished the stuff and took a mortgage on the mule and some other things. This is all that comes to me out of it." The mule was only half the usual size. In his eye was the look one sees m the oma rvf Hip "man with the hoe " in thfl picture so familiar, with brightness and hope faded out. The writer said to tne merchant: "How about the man who owned the mule? Let's talk about biro. What is his situation since yours is so bad?" The merchant 'really hadn't thought much of the other fellow. "He is here' he said. "He brought in the mule. He can live on the wind . i es it -must have taken something jnore substantial then wind to carry him along last year. "What will you do with the mule?" was asked. "Sell him for $10 or $15, ' ' was the reply. The poor beast looked on while the talk was in process. His side of the etoiy would , be interest ing. " ; The Kind She Wat After. "Lounges," echoed the salesman. "Yes, ma'am. This way please. What kind of lounge would you like?" "I'd like one," said the. sharp featured woman j "that can get right up and kick a man out of doors when he comes home and throws throws himself down on it with his muddy feet and growls and scolds because he has to wait two minntes;for his supper. That's the kind I'd like, but I'll have to take what I can get, I reckon. What's the price of this one with the green cover?"
The Chronicle (Wilkesboro, N.C.)
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