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The Chronicle,
- . . . WILKIESBORO, Nr C.
JOHN. , -t'-
Fellers 'taint no use in talkln' :
Of what a man can do; -
He's just as game as you are, :
And a whole lot gamer, too. -. i :
Drat me, boys, I fought him, l '
Fought him ttard for years, . ::
Ana every time I harvested -I
reaped fa salty tears.
Sometimes twlxt me and him ; -
Twas simply nip and tuck,
And then again, sometimes ;
: Confound my measly luck! -
He'd sprawl me out: and then
Well, I know the feller's game,
Ie tried him, boys, and Know it;
Sometimes youll say the same.
He'll get the man he tackles -As
sure as you are born
John, you know. I'm speaking of,
Old John Barleycorn. :
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
THE SWEETEST SONG.
J That sone Is sweetest, bravest. best.'
vvmcn piucks me inisue-DarD 01 care
From a despondent brother's breast,
.r? ' And plants a sDrls of heart's-ease there.
. - Andrew Downing.
t
BISnOP NEUin ANN'S BODS'
miFIED.
MUM
Philadelphia, April 22. When the
Ecclesiastical Court that is investigating
mi. -r i -r . . aT ' -T
': i
Neumann, who is proposed for saint
hood, to-day in the basement of St,
-Peter's Church opened the coffin that
: held his corpse forty years, there jvas
f found a solid, mummified body, almost
in a perfect state of preservation.
There is a legend of the Catholic
Church' that bodies of saints when ex
humed after many' years show extraor
dinary preservation. The purpose of
to-day's exhumation was to identify jthe
.- - body for certification to Borne and to
report on the condition of the body.
- The Rev Joseph Wissel, pastor of St.
Peter 8 and a member of the court, in
a statement made after the examina
tion said: I
"Thft crffin was more or leaadacaved
but the body, attired in the Bishop's
vestments, was mummified. '; The face
was a little sunken and out of natural
shape, but the rest of the body was! in
a remarkable state of preservation
The hands, folded across the breast,
were perfect, and the feet equally i so,
the flesh being hark and solid, though
of a dark gray color. There was no
odor whatever. The Bishop's massive
cross lay on his breast and the Episco
capal- ring was on his finger. The
body was placed in a new coffin, sealed
up and replaced in the vault.
As to details of the examination by
the doctors all were sworn to secrecy
The complete report of the mvestiga
7 tion will be forwarded to Borne, along
with reports of miracles performed f by
the dead bishop. There are fifty mirac
ulous cures reported of persons who only
visited the tomb and prayed .
The ceremony was the first of the
kind ever performed in America. Be
sides the five members of the court,
with Bishop Prendergast as President
Judge, two promoters or "Devil's lAd-
vocates," and four substitute judges,
there were present four doctors.
Bishop Neumann was born in Bohe
mia in 1811 and came to America when
twenty-three years of age. He I was
made bishop of this diocese in 1852.
He died suddenly in 1860.
Chancres In tne International Itev-
enne Law to o Into Effect
on July 1.
. ' Th fnllnwinc international revenue
chances are made in the law now in
- force:
Taxes repealed on and after July 1,
1902. are as follows: Special taxes of
bankers; brokers; dealers in grain,
securities, etc., under Par. 8, Sec 8,
. act of March 2, 1901, (brokers' class 2);
pawn-brokers; custom house brokers;
proprietors of theaters, etc.; proprietors
of circuses; proprietors of public exhi
bitions or shows for money ; proprietors
of bowling alleys or billiard rooms;
dealers in leaf tobacco; dealers in) to
bacco; manufactures of tobacco; manu
facturers of cigars.
- Stamp taxes on instruments, papers
or documents; deliveries or transfers of
stock, and sales and agreements of sale
or agreements to sell stocks, products
or merchandise (schedule A); wnes
(schedule 8);' seats in the parlor- or
palace cars, and berths in sleeping cars,
f Taxes on legacies and distributive
shares of personal property. -
Excise taxes on persons, forms, com
panies and corporations engaged in! re
fining petroleum and sugar.
Taxes reduced: On fermented liquors
the tax is reduced to $1 per barrel on
snuff and tobacco the tax is reduced to
6 cents per pound. The tax on cigar
ettes weichinc more than three pounds
per thousand is reduced to $3 pertljiou-4
Band. A drawback or re Date is auqwea
on all original and unbroken factory
r packages of smoking, and manufactured
tobacco and snuff .held by the manu
factures or dealers on July 1, 1902, - to
the amount of difference between the
higher rate paid and the tax imp sed
by this act.
To Raise Railroad Ties. -
New Orleans, April L 25.-Johr ; P.
Brown, ' Secretary of the International
Society of Arboriculture, has just com
pleted tne planting of ssoU,uuu catair a
trees for the Illinois Central Railroad on
its reservation, at Harahan, above New
Orleans. . The' plantation covers 250
acres. . j. . -
The ' Illinois Central Bailroad has
lately had great difficulty in securing
railroads ties and proposes to raise them,
v The Harahan plantation will," it is
calculated, provide within fifteen years
300,000 of the best ties that . can be
raised. - . -
It Was.
; "Is .this a fast train?"' asked a
sehger,- .who was tired of .'sitting
pas-
Sat a
station' at which the train was not
sup-
potseu. VJ BUJU. I
J A i. 1
'Of course it is," was the conductors
"Ply- - I- "
, "I thought so. Would you mind
my getting out to see what it is fast; to?" j
BILL ABP5 LETTER. ;
Atlanta Constitution": ; -: . .
.... . 'f . i'-T. . J i - -. :
As old Uncle Bob Rogers said, "The
southrrn people are the most forgiveness
people in the world." They will suffer
more and suffer longer, and- then
their enemy, smiles on 'em and feeds
'em with a little sugar; they will lick
his hand -and forgive him. ? -
I was ruminating about this when I
read of the president's visit , to Charles
ton, and the grand ovation they gave
him. It hasn't been two months since
he said in public at a banquet that our
secession was anarchy: ' It hasn't been
very long since he wrote in his life o
Tom Benton this sentence, "Before Jef
ferson Davis took his place among the
arch traitors, he had already been known
as one of the chief repudiators of his
state, and it was not unnatural that to
dishonesty he should add treachery to
the public." Mississippi did repudiate
her public debt, and so did Michigan
and some other northern states, but Mr,
Roosevelt singles out a southern state
to give a slam at Mr. Davis and the
soutn. jx ow tne irutn is max mx. jjavis
had nothing in the world to do with it
It was done before he came into public
life or had anything to do with publio
affairs. I reckon Roosevelt got it from
John Stuart Mill's slanderous history
when he says "Mr. Davis was governor
of Mississippi, and when the legislature
passed a bill to pay the repudiated bonds
he vetoed it." What a monstrous he
Mr. Davis never was governor of Mis
sissippi, and no such bill was ever pass
ed. Again Mr. Roosevelt says in his
book. "The moral difference between
Benedict Arnold on the one hand and
Aaron Burr or Jefferson Davis on the
other is the difference between a poli
tician who sells his vote for money and
one who supports a bad measure to get
a high political position. What ma
lignant venom there must be in a man
who would class Jefferson Davis with
Arnold and Burr; what amazing igno
ranee of historical facts to call him an
arch traitor and a chief repudiator when
at the very time of the repudiation" he
was organizing a regiment to fight the
battles of his country on the soil of
Mexico. There he was desperately
wounded, and for five years went on
crutches. Our southern people regard
Jefferson Davis with emotions of the
highest admiration, and I have supreme
contempt for the ignorant or malignant
historians and politicians who assail
him. It gratifies me immensely that
the president and General Miles, have
fallen out, and that Miles got the worst
of it, though I don't know who deserves
the most scorn, the president for slan
dering Mr. Davis or Miles for putting
shankles on him.
Now if Roosevelt was man enough to
retract' what he wrote and ascribe it to
ignorance or misinformation, he could
restore himself to some extent to the
favor of our people, for, it is a fact that
we areithe most forgiveness people on the
eaith, but I have never yet known a
Yankee politician to apologize for any
thing he did. They are the saints. The
G. A. R.'s invite our boys to banquet
with them, but they don t apologize, and
they wouldn t vote us a pension to save
our lives. I don't understand the pres
ident, and my opinion is he don't under
stand himself. I don't believe he has
mind enough to know his own mind
If he is really for civil war reform and
an honest government, what did he turn
out Evans for and put in a hgurehead
unless it was to tickle the G. A. R.'s
(grab all rascals) and get their influence
in the next nominating convention. Per
haps he is himself the man "who sup
ports a bad measure to get high political
LHSBXblUU. TT CXI, Ul VASUAOO OUT DUii VI t
guivcan get a pension now and some who
never had a gun. I believe a-confederate
soldier can get one by greasing the pen
sion agent. Only last week one of our
esteemed fellow-citizens had business
that called him to a city in New York
state and on being introduced to the
pension agent as Captain he was asked
what service h was in. He replied, "In
Virginia army." "So was I," said the
agent. "Have you gotten a pension?"
No," said the captain. "Well, let me
make out your application; it is time
you had one," The captain humored
him for some time while he was filling
up the blank. "Were you at the sur
render?" said he. "I was," said the
captain. "Whose command were you
in then?" said the agent. "General
Wade Hampton's," said the captain.
'The devil you say; you were a rebel,
then. Gentlemen, here is the first rebel
I have ever made out a pension claim
or and he looks like such a gentleman.
I've a good notion to send it up and get
him one." The captain says he could
have gotten one as easy as falling off a
og, if he had lust lied a little. Newt
Tumlin told me a long time ago that
the only way to get even with the re
public was to grease 'em or jme 'em,
but it was safer to do both.
, But our people 'will forgive Teddy if
he will apologize for the past ' and be
have in the future. - He has some good
traits which he inherited from l his
mother, but his impulses and emotions
are not well balanced. : His gun goes
off half cocked and he shoots with the
doubleswabbles. I think he has about
et the nigger alone and so has the
north generally.. We lynched ,one in
Rome the other day and I have never
seen anv mention of it in their papers.
Our governor didn't even offer a reward
nor has the circuit judge made any fuss
about it. I reckon the towns and cities
will now sympathize with the country
people, for the crime in this case - was
committed in the very center of the city
and so was the lynching' and I nobody
was disguised. : I have been in favor of
of lynching ever since they I burned
that negro in Dallas Tex.,-and 1 am
still. When they lynch one they ought
to pick out about a dozen bad ones and
whip them and .make them . leave the
country. - That's the way they do in
Texas. -Every community is in danger
from mean, idle negroes. Whose wife
or daughter will be the next victim?
If Teddy had lived in Rome, I wonder
what he would have done. I believe he
would have joined the lynchers. Why
not? ide is killing them .by the thou
sanas in tne irniiippines for - no crime
except loving their coutry, v Our so
called, soldiers are putting them to tor
ture of the most horrible kind, and
burning their townr, and call it war for
the honor of the -flag. It makes the
blood boil to read about it. They learned
all this from Sherman during our civi
war, and have improved upon the lesson
that he taught them. But I won
ruminate about it any longer. It makes
me heart sick' to ponder.' upon the
iniquities of this administration. Those
I ten million negroes cost us $2 .a head
and it has already, cost us $200 a head
to subdue them,' and we have hardly
begun. Let me go out and dig some
in the garden. - Bill Arp.
P. S. Ail old soldier, C. W. Shipp
of Water Valley, Miss., sends me his
photo as he lies in bed, where he has
been for twenty-two years, paralyzed
from wounds received at the battle of
of Franklin. He enlisted in company
G, First Mississippi infantry: was in
fight at Fort Donaldson and Fort Hud
son, and followed Hood from . Atlanta
to Tennessee; was wounded at battle of
Franklin and taken prisoner. He has
written a poem and dedicated it to
his comrades. 'His home has an old
debt of $400 hanging over it, and will be
sold before long. How many of the vet
erans who are going to Dallas will send
him a dollar or half a dollar to save his
old home? He will send each one his
picture and a copy of poem. ' B. A.
P. S. I. receive letters every mai.
asking questions or wanting favors of
some sort. I answer those that have
stamps inclosed. B. A.
Tbe Neceslty of a Whipping Post.
Subscriber in Atlanta Journal.
. I heard a young negr some time ago
bragging on the fact that he had been in
the chamgang six times (he was in
crowd of negroes), and always had
plenty to eat and some pretty striped
clothes to wear, while the common run
of darkies were always dressed in rags
and were hungry most of the time
This fellow is in again - now for his
seventh time. Another negro was ar
rested here today for taking some cake
and other eatables out of a house last
night.
When he was questioned as to why he
did it be said he couldn't get any job
and he wanted something: to eat. He
said if he succeded in stealing it with
out being caught up with it was all
right and if he was caught it didn't
make much difference as he would be
fed when they put him in the chain-
gang.
Now these are only fair representatives
of large numbers of the race.
If they don t mind going in the chain
gang it is certainly no punishment to
send them there and how can you keep
down crime if it is not punished?
To my mind the old old-time whip
ping post fill the exactly.
If these voune imps were given a
good, sound whipping for these little of
fenses, I thing it would put a stop to
the greater part of this-petty thieving
and I am sure you would not hear one
of the culprits boasting of the fact after
the operation.
As for them having to steal to get
something to eat, this is not necessary
at all. A good hand has no trouble in
getting a 10b. It is iust these lazy "no
account" darkevs that don t want to
work which have no work to do.
Mississippi's Primary Law,
New Orleans States.
According to the terms of the primary
Election bill recently passed by the Mis
sissippi Legislature, nominating con ven
tions will become things of, the past
in that state witn tne exception oniy
that such assemblages are to be held
everv four years to name delegates to
the national conventions and to name
candidates for Presidential Electors. All
other nominations will be made by pri
mary elections. In this way United
States Senators are to be chosen, which
is one of the best features of the law, as
heir election is by the vote of the peo
ple and thus large corporations are de
prived of the opportunity of "working
the Legislature" and securing the elec
tion of a candidate who will be more
than willing to serve them in the United
States Senate. The Primary elections
are to be governed by the regular elec
tion laws of the State, the county exe
cutive committees of the different polit
ical parties having the functions of
county election commissioners and ap
pointing the ofheers to have charge of
the primaries.
The bill also outlines the manner in
which the State and county executive
committees are to be chosen and care-
ully defines their powers. Participation
in the primary of a political party is re
stricted to voters who have affiliated
with that party for two years or who are
admitted by the terms of the State Com
mittee. - The expense of these primaries
to be ' borne by each party and the
printing of ballots, receiving the vote
and making returns of the vote are
carefully guarded by strict regulations.
Southern man In Tne Cabinet.
Washington Special.
A strong combination is pushing for
MihTnfit nlane a Southern "man in the
present administration. The matter was
aid before the President this morning
Senator Pritchard and Kepresenta-
iv TUap.khnrn and Moodv. of North
Carolina. They had a talk of some length
on tne suujwi, pumuug uui w iuc xiwj
idpnt the fact that one-third of the
country in point of population isignor-
. m a m J ....
in the cabinet representation, y
Amnn? the names considered in this
connection have been H. Clay Evans,
the Pension commissioner; senator mt
Laurin. of South Carolina: Captain.
Charles Price, of Salisbury, N. C; di:
vision counsel Of the Southern Bail way
Judge Bynum, of ureensboro, jn.
.Rnwmnr W. O. Bradlev. of Ken-
tnr.fcv. and even Senator Pritchard him
self has been spoken of, but he will not
consider the proposition. ,
WHAT HAVE THE HEBBEWS AO
COJIIP1.ISHEJD t V
Israel ZangwlU, In May Success."
Even if the Jews succeed as - indivi
duals, they fail miserably as a people,
Eleven millions of human atoms seat
tered incoherent! v throughout the
world, devoid of any common territory
or common power; unable to concen
trate their force in any desired direc
tion: devoid of a national art, and
almost destitute of a contemporary fit
erature: even their ancient unity of
religion broken into a dozen fragments;
half; their number crowded into the
Pale in Russia, congested in towns, and
forbidden even the fields of the Pale
itself: while hundreds of thousands of
others are almost denied, in Roumania,
the. ordinary rights of animals; liable,
even when thev are prospering under
nominal equality, as in France and Ger
many, and also, now, in England, to
perpetual backwashes of anti-Semitism;
excluded in free America from the gen
era! social life; the .serfs of the world,
fighting, at one time, on the Boer side,
at another time on the English side,
next for the French, and then for the
Germans, the Jews present anything
but a picture of a successful people
As Max Nordau pointed out in his
great speech at the last Zionist Congress,
even the Eskimos are better off in their
huts amid the snow.
Their very religion at once the
cause and the compensation of their
isolation, is lost to - the Jews by the
impossibility of reconciling its observ
ances, especially the observance of the
Sabbath, with the necessities of a
fiercely competitive civilization. If
observed, it tends not only to render
the struggle for life still severer, but
also to shut them out from many forms
of industrial activity, and thus cramps
the whole people by confining them to
comparatively few occupations.
But, leaving on one side the people
as a, whole, the idea that the Jews suc
ceed as individuals is equally illusory.
As already stated half the Jews of the
world live in Russia, and, according to
the most recent statistics the value of
the average possessions of a Russian
Jew is under five dollars. The average
Roumanian Jew has not even one dol
lar; n Persia, Morocco, Algeria, and
the East generally, there is nothing but
a mass of swarming poverty varied, as
in Palestine, by perpetual mendicity.
In the sweat-shops of London and New
York, the Jews as a rule, are the vic
tims. Whence, then, comes the singular
illusion that the Jew does succeed? It
dates from those dark ages when every
Jew was shut out from the arts and
crafts by his inability to take the Chris
tian oaths of the guilds which united
and restricted them, and was forced,
moreover, by more direct legislation,
into a few sordid occupations. His sole
status was in the money he could ac
quire. Having no defensive army, he
owed his existence to the bare sinews of
war. He was thus necessarily driven
into the important role of the world's
financier and mend of the money
lender and spendthrift.
Kerosene in "Water Core."
San Francisco, April 25. The
horrors of the tortures inflicted by
American soldiers to extort confessions
from Filipino prisoners accumulate
with- investigation .
The "water cure, it is learned from
soldiers, was used with variations cal
culated to increase the agonies of the
victim. Sometimes kerosene or cocoa
nut oil was substituted for water. Here
is the statement of W. H. Clark, a
returned soldier of the Eighteenth
Infantry:
"The water cure has been admin
istered to thousands of natives in the
Philippines, at least in Panay. We
did not do it in the spirit of
malevolence, but the water cure is
the surest remedy for non communica
tiveness and mendacity which has yet
been discovered in the Philippines.
That is probably a relic of the Spanish
Inquisition.
Of the effect upon the subject Clark
says:
' 'Well, they usually get sick and some
of them never recover from their sick
ness. Of course we never torture any
Filipinos to death, but the only way to
get along with them is to administer
the water cure.
Politics In tne Rural Free Delivery
Service.
Washington Cor. Charlotte Observer.
The charge made by Representative
Kitchin, that politics was too often seen
in the operation of the rural free deliv
ery service, is receiving some official
confirmation. Information has reached
the civil service commission that certain
postmasters have failed to notify appli
cants for the position of carrier in the
service to appear for the examinations
prescribed, and it is charged that the
purpose of such omission has been
political. The commission has announ
ced that all cases which come to its
notice where postmasters fail to nqtify
applicants will be investigated, and if
this has been done purposely the com
mission will recommend the removal of
any postmaster so offending.
Boys and Girls In tne Bible.
What is the first Bible story about a
boy? -
What boy had a present of a beauti
ful coat from his father?
What became of his coat? What be
came of the boy?
What girl.kept watch of a little babe
who afterwards became a mighty ruler?
How were many boys and girls saved
rom death while many others were
slain? - " - ;
What boys were blessed by Jacob? '
What girl caused the recovery of
her master from a fearful disease?-
What boy - became king when eight
years oiar ,
What girl did Jesus taite by tne nauar
UP TO JUDGE CLARK.
Salisbury Sun. -
The charges :,made , against Judge
Walter Clark- by o Mai. J. W. Wilson
constitute the greatest political sensa
tion of the past two years. ' On account
of the standing , and high reputation
Judge Clark owes it to himself and bis
friends to deny inese cnarges u mey
a"re untrue. The most serious of the
fourteen specific charges are: - -
During the Fusion regime did any
one ever hear him speak, or hear of his
speaking a word of encouragement for
the Democracy?
In 1896,1 when the - Democratic Con
vention sent a committee to ask him
to lead the party, did he not refuse,
unless it was agreed that he shouia re-
main on the bench, drawing his salary,
until the election was held and it was non Baldwin, . But his article contains
known whether he was elected or not? some very suggestive thoughts upon
. .In 1895 did he not suggest to leading child labor and other evils of our prob
Populists and members of the Fusion lem of cotton mill labor. Unf6rtunately
Legislature ' 'that the man who received there can be no just denial of the state-
all the votes of all the parties was the
logical candidate for the Senator to be
chosen by the Fusion Legislature?"
Did he not advise Governor Russell
to remove the Railroad Commissioners,
and did he not prepare an order for
their removal, and did he not after
wards sit in judgment on their appeal?
Did he not confer with Mr, John H
Pearson and get his consent to accept
the place before Russell removed me,
and did he not advise Russell that
Pearson would accept ?
After Judge Faircloth died, and be
fore he was buried, did he not ask Dr.
Cyrus Thompson to see Governor Rus
sell on the train going to Goldsboro to
attend Judge Faircloth's funeral, and
ask the Republican Governor to appoint
him Chief Justice ?
During the years 1895-'96-'97 and 98
did he not suggest many political edi
torials to Butler's Caucasian, and re
quest Mr. Cade, the editor, to burn the
copy?
After the Democratic Convention
held m May, 3898, refused to accept
JButier's Jb usion scheme did he not say
xne uemocracy can t win. it was
sold out, and has elected Simmons, a
tool of the railroads, Chairman. It will
be beaten worse than ever?"
Judge Clark should explain.
A Sensible man.
Charlotte Observer.
xne mooresviiie .Enterprise tells an
interesting story of a sensible Cabarrus
county farmer who was in its town last
week and had a conversation .with its
editor on local and general politics. His
countrymen have for several years
sought to have this farmer come out for
the office of sheriff, but to no avail.
The Enterprise continues:
"He. hold that his farm pays him
fairly good returns in other words he
is prosperous in his present occupation.
In case he should be elected to a county
office, the duties would require at least
two years to become acquainted with
the routine work and at the same time
unfit him for the occupation he now
follows. After two years the routine
office-holding agitation would oust him
and leave him in town out of employ
ment and a party victim, witji no pros
pects of a future political career. He
says he will stay on the farm where he
knows that his job will last, and if the
seasons are favorable he will continue
to prosper and live content."
There are not many, men who take
this vie.w of the subject of office-hold-
mg, ana yet it is undoubtedly the cor
rect view. Holding office is the poorest
business in the world unless a man
could follow it steadily, as a life-time
occupation, and this fe w men are per
mitted to do. This Cabarrus man is
wise in seeing the end from the begin
ning: fortunate in being able to realize
that in the outcome there is nothing in
it for him except disappointment and
loss.
-A monument to Hampton.
Baltimore Sun.
Already a movement has been started
in
bouth Carolina for the erection of a
monument to the late Gen. Wade
nampton. ana it is expected that in a
few days an organization will be per
fected for a thorough canvass of the
State for funds. It is expected the
Daughters of the Cdnfederacv in South
Carolina will take an active part m e-
curing the money necessarv for the erec-
tion of a monument worthy alike of the i
State and the grand old man whose life j
has just closed. Several liberal sub
scriptions have already been tendered.
One Confederate camp at: Charleston.
wnicn naa recently votea :piiu lor a
projected collation, promptly abandoned
the collation and unanimously decided
to transfer the money to the Hampton
monument fund. The Charleston Even-
ing I'ost expresses a preference for, an I
equestrian statue, with the figure of the
heroic Ha rem ton as he annearpd in Con-
federate gray, commanding the Cavalrv
of the Confederate Armv of North rn I
Virginia.
Arcoeu's Talk The Feature
Athens. Ga. . April 25. The elo
quent address of Governor C.13. Aycock,
oi North Carolina, was the feature of !
the forenoon session of the Southern i
Educational Conference. . Governor
Aycock's subject "was "Education 'and i
the Voluntary Tax." He was repeatedly!
interrupted by applause and when - he !
ceased speaking the entire audience
rose to cheer him. Governor Aycock I
said that the State of North Carolina
had determined that every child of the i
State, whjte and black, should be edu
cated. If there were some who did not
think the negroes ought to be educated,
he did not agree with them.: No an-
eaucatea iorce, ne saia, couia ao as
good work as one - that had ' been
trained. The speaker's closing ? words
to the audience and . to the Northern
visitors told how the North and the
South, once contending for union and
maepenaence, were now united in a
more glorious independence than had I
ever before been enjoyed. ' v
A. NOVEL mj LL IDEA.
Atlanta Journal.
Rev, Jesse Annon Baldwin, who lived
I in Charlotte,' N. C, Beveral years, has a
I novel plan for solving the problem of
i cotton mill labor in .the south. His
i scheme is set forth in an article which
j appears in Gunton's Magazine for April
i xi pruviueB zor cuuou mm 10 De inn
in connection with a boarding school.
I lhe school he would divide into two
I classes or hands, one to go to school in
the morning and the other in the after-
J noon. 1 hose who worked in the morn
ing would go to school in the afternoon
and vice versa. . -
This idea will not impress the average
reader as.being practical and we do ..nut
expect to see a boarding house, cotton
mill on the plan of the Rev. Jesse An-
ment of this writer that:
'The men whorprojected and built
cotton mills were public benefactors in
that they gave poor people work. But
much of the praise that would otherwise
be their due must be withheld because
the conditions of labor have not been
such in most cases as to make the
workers stronger and better."
Mr. Baldwin does not place all the
blame for the evils of child labor in
mills upon - employers but says that
much of it must be borne by lazy, and
besotted fathers and mothers who arc
defective in the parental instinct.
.Lmployers will always be found who
will get labor as cheaply as iwssible re
gardless of moral considerations and un
til the employment of children in mills
is forbidden by law not very" much can
be accomplished by expatiating on its
fearful effects upo'n the young bodies,
minds and souls.
An Old Story Re-Told. -
Charlotte Observer.
There is no explanation of this thing
that we call public opinion. Gen.
Wade Hampton came out of the war
between the States with the record of
a dashing' cavalry leader and when
political conditions in South Carolina
became intolerable he was turned to as
the Moses to deliver his people. He
did so and became quite as great a hero
in peace as he had been in war. From
the governorship he went easily to the
Senate, but after he had had leng and
honorable, service in that body the
wind veered and he was displaced.
Though he had not changed by so
much as a hair s breadth something
was the matter and -he was in disfavor.
Those who had in former vears
raved and shouted ; at his name,
looked at him askance he was a
fallen idol. From that time he
lived in dignified retirement. ' He
dies and again becomes hero. All
his people mourn him. and lone-
before he is dust a' movement for a
monument by popular subscription is
well under way. It is the old. story of
the time of the Christ: "Hosanna r
to-day: "Crucify him l" to-morrow.
These popular waves are unexplain
able. They are like the wind which
bloweth where it hsteth no man knows
whence it cometh and whither it goeth.
But it was ever so and will be ever so.
We see an expression of it, in modified
form, in the case of a man in the
nation now, and in that of another
man in this State; the reaction from a
period of intense dislike of them is not
complete but it has jset
in unmistak-
ably.
World's Fair Dividend.
Chicago, April 28. The $450,000
which remains in the treasury of the
World's Columbian Exposition Com
pany probably will be divided next week
among the 20,000 snareholders.
The dividend, it is estimated, will be
about 45 cents a share. Shares- were
sold for $10. About one-fourth of the
20,000 stockholders held one share each.
The city will get about $235,000 as its
dividend On the $5,000,000 bond
issue.
The bonds have been tied up by liti
gation. About 200 suits were brought
t for damages, the claims aggregating
nearly $500,000. Most of the- cases
were decided against the complainants,
judgements being secured for less than
$15,000 of the entire amouut.
And Old-Tiniejr In Trouble.
And old-time darkey, who had gotten
into trouble, sent the following letters
to one of his "white folks:"
"Marse Bill-I is goin ter Jale Kaze
dey mistaken me fer de Bite man. You
know me. lieas see ae JLriai Jeage en
tell 'im who is I, en 'bout what time he
gwine-ter sen' me ter de Penitenshery
xer ae ymner Juan, j&i ne aon i sen me
Bite off, you'll mebbe have time ter git
me out. I ' is so innercent dat I is
hongry all de time. Tell de Trial jeddge
what he mean by it. en how come, ef
! you please,' suh."
Woman Dies from a Cat scratch.
Norwich, N. Y Special.
Mrs. Lee Hitchcock was playing with
the family cat and held up a piece of
meat for it. r In jumping the cat caught
its claws in Mrs. . Hitchcock's ankle,
making a slight scratch. :
Nothing ; was thought of the wound
until a few days later, when the ankle
and leg began to be painful and a doc
tor was summoned. -Mrs. Hitchcock
was beyOnd help, when he arrived and
died in great agony. "
Dcalh Take Faith chrit.
Columbia, 8. C, April 21. (Special.)
At Florence last night Bev. K. W.
Gresg, an evangelist, died at the home
of State Constable Rowland.
Mr. Gregg was a firm believer in
faith cure and refused during his two
weeks' illness of typhoid-pneumonia to
taxe a drop of medicine.
He consented only once to see a phy
sician, but would accept neither physic
nor nourishment. :