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BILI ABFS tiESTTBIl. . Atlanta Constitution. - ' - If anyone else was concerned I would " not write this sick letter, but it may benefit others who are similarly affected. I have been a very sick man and hardly expected to see my next birthday, which is to-day, the 15th, ; but I .have scuffled through andam now on the up grade. One of my far-away boys wired me to work on my stomach and I would get well. He might as well have wired : Keep on living and you will keep living on." - : ' "No it wasn't the stomach. It ' was higher up where the " left ventricle of the heart had got walled in and the trouble was. what the doctor calls the angina pectoris, and my s left arm was helpless. For; two days and nights I suffered more4f real agony than I ever suffered in all my life. jOur doctor boy was here from Florida, and knew ex actly what was the matter, and I took all his medicine, - but got little relief, and I was willing to die to get out of pain. Finally he gave me morphine in both arms and I went off to sleep and rest. Those morphine dreams and visions are always a miracle to me. I thought that in his talk about my trouble he called it angelina pectoris, for I don't hear well now, and I got the refrain On my mind, that pretty verse from Goldsmith 'Hermit ? "Turn, Angelina ever dear My charmer torn to Bee, Thine own, thine long-lost William here. Restored to heaven and thee." Ever and anon I could hear it raining on the tin roof y but it didn't rain a drop. All night long . I was murmur ing "Turn Angelina, ever dear." I & couldn't stop it nor think of anything else to say, but I wasn't restored next day I got some better and as I hadn't taken any nourishment for three" or four days I craved something acid, and like a foolish boy ate a small piece of huckleberry pie for supper, which they told me not to do. That set the dogs to barking about midnight and set me back just where I. had been, and the doctor's work all had to be done over again. Emetics and hot baths and hot water bags and more morphine finally brought relief. That night after supper the young people had the din ing table cleared off and were playing that pretty little childish game called ping pong or ding dong or sing song or Hong Kong, or some outlandish name with its tinkling balls, and so I got up another refrain and was murmuring ping pong, ding dong and ding dong bell all night. One of my boys .who is always punning, told his mother that the huckleberry pie business was simply a case of too much pie-eaty, and they tried to make me smile, but they couldn't. I was past all wit and humor and puns and jokes. But I am done with huckleberry pie and huckleberry cordial and Huckleberry Finn and any other huckleberry. Only last Saturday my only brother died suddenly of heart failure away off from home. His time was not out, for he was nearly twenty years, younger than I am, and now, alas! I have no brother, and he was always a good brother to me. But almost everybody is threatened with heart failure now, and so I am looking out for it, but don't want it to come along the Angelina line. The heart is the most wonderful and mysterious organ of our anatomy. It is called the seat of affections, the desires, the emotions.- The organ of love and hate and joy, but it is not. It is mentioned in - the Bible more than six hundred times; and always in connection with our good or bad traits, but it has nothing to do with feeling or emotion or character. : Ti J i a. XI t -l Afc 13 iiumiug uui a ueauy , puipy organ ism, a mechanical- contrivance, and has to be carefully nursed or it will rebel. ; It is the engine that drives the whole anatomical machine. If over- worked or overfed with ice or tobacco or anything else it will work on faith fully until it can't work any longer, and. then gets discouraged and dies sud- ' denly at its post. The book says that but little was known to medical science concerning the heart until the eigh- ,teenth century, and that with the last . fifty years many books have been writ ten, and now no part of the human .system is better understood or more satisfactorily treated. The disease call ed angina pectoris is declared jto be the most dangerous to which it ia subject because of its distressing pain and a c sense of impending death. If I had read that while I was suffering I -snouia nave surrendered, dul tne aoc tor wouldn't tell me nor let me read it. ; He says it is better to minify rather than magnify the apprehensions of his Inpatients. But the young people ought to.be told, told often and earnestly that they can't fool with the heart. A boy . who " smokes cigarettes on the sly is .storing up trouble that will surely come home and sap his manhood and shorten .. his life. This is so well known now that good men will not employ ; boys -who smoke." One vice calls for'another and a news manager told me the other day that one of his newsboys skipped . some of his patrons every, week so as to have a paper or two to sell and get money to buy cigarettes.. Of course he - discharged' him. :. , ' " It is pleasant entertainment to listen - to a doctor tell ' his varied experiences aU&4his one uttered a truth the -other - day that ought to provoke . serious thought in every parent's bosom: He says inas ms greatest roe in the treat- ment of diseases of children is their dis obedience to their parents and it is most generally, the mother's fault. They will do things and eat things that - are forbidden, but she loves the little dears so much she overlooks their dis- - obedience and so when they get f sick they -will, not take the physician's medicines without force or a struggle and if the doctor is not there to force it " the mother lets the time pass rather . ..than hear the screams or: cries of the - child. ONbt half the parents enforce : obedience from their children. ' Prompt and: willing obedience should be the - . r - t first lesson taught a child. Their hap piness depends on it and so does the mother s peace. J , We old-fashioned people have but little patience with l a generation that is trying to reform the world with new metnoos abolishing tne ways oi tneir orefathers raising children on love nstead Of discipline and filling all the chools in the land with -athletic sports nd intercollegiate contests." What honor, . what manliness, is there in kicking a ball or batting one or wrest ing or rowing a boat ? These sports lave gotten to be the most important rnrt of the curriculum and fill the daily mpers with pictures and thrilling re sorts of the games. It is all an '.'ignis atuus" that fools the boys and makes hem think they, have acquired an ;ducation. When they went to college heir parents had fond hopes to then vhen they come out that hope is gone, !or-they are unfit for business or the luties of life. ; While I was half recovering from the morphine state I got to ruminating ibout the value of things and I com )ared good healthand domestic happi less and the love and devotion of wife md children with fame .and power and wealth and ' ambition and the very hought of them sickened me. I wouldn't give a, good shower of ain just now for Roosevelt and all he las got or ever expects to 'be.. But I love Roosevelt because he hates Miles, jand I love Miles because he hates Roosevelt and I despise them both f'Turn Angelina' ' ping pong. And last of all came Satan. They are for war. Thev kill a thousand negroes to ur one. They make a land desolate nd call it peace. They have trampled he love of liberty in the dust and all for lust of power and place. A woman from Kansas City sends me a paper jwith a speech of a Grand Army of the Republic orator on Decoration day in which he says that he wishes every nfederate monument was buried in he bottomless ocean and other vin- etive things, and she wants me to nswer it. JNo, it is no use. lhat rand Army of the Republic is full of ust such contemptible creatures and I an t answer them all. "It is a standing urse to the peace of the land. Let the all roll on. Turn Angelina ping ong., ding dong, ding dong bell. We Will survive the wreck of matter and he crush of worlds. And so I went off sleep murmuring, there is no Grand rmy. it is a two for a nickel or four one concern. If I couldn't fiffht tetter than that I'd apologize and hide put; Some of them down here in At lanta would like to make friends, but mey have never apologized and the way they do reminds me of the old couplet : rl know that you say that you love me, nut wny am you kick me down stairsr' Ping pong din? dong Turn, Angelina Wish I was well enough to work in my garden. Bill Arp. Why He Sniffled. Atlanta Constitution. The "latest and best drummer story" :Was told at the Kimball house last night by one of the knights of the grip, Jwho has spent the best part of his life in sleeping coaches and country taverns. I "I witnessed a most amusing scene on a train a few weeks ago," he said to a group of listeners. "A young: man got on the train who . had just started out to be a travelling salesman. He had all sorts of grips and a full supply of railroad literature. At the next station a farmer boarded the train. He had an old carpet bag and looked fresh from the fields. The farmer left ,the coach door open and the young drum- jmer looked up from his magazine and exclaimed: " 'Why don't you shut that door? You look like you were raised in a stable.' "The countryman sat down across the aisle and one seat in front of the young man and in a few seconds began to sniffle, as if he was weeping. " 'Say, old man, have I hurt your feelings?' called out the youth. 'If I have, I am sorry, for of course I did not really mean that yOu were raised in a stable." " 'But I was raised in a stable,' the farmer replied sadly, 'and it makes me homesick every time I see a jackass.' "I don't believe the young fellow ever spoke again or left his seat until he was ready to get off the train." Craddock's Speech to the Hoodlums. After Mr. Cleveland had been elected the first time a crowd- of 'excited and happy Frankfort Democrats, loaded with liquor and armed with a brass band, were parading the streets. Fin ally a happy thought struck them. They concluded to go and serenade Cadddock, the Nestor of Democracy, They immediately headed for his resi dence, and when it was reached, com menced a perfect bedlam of noise and Confusion amidst cries of, " Craddock, Craddock, Craddock." At length the old man appeared on the balcony. He had not gone be yond he expression, "Fellow citizens," before the crowd broke loose. He es fayed several times to speak without success,' by reason of which he became exasperated. r. V: ;; I . At length the crowd quieted suffic iently for his voice to be heard, but his patience by this time was entirely ex hausted. "Fellow citizens," he began "for the last time while the sarcasm of his re marks was illy concealed, "Democrats, hoodlums, darned fools, blatherskites, I bid you good night,'! :'. Ripped Wide Open. . Gastonla Gazette. , , Don't call the Mecklenburg Democ racy tough. As some one remarked of the Democracy of . Norfolk, it splits easier than a two-dollar summer shirt. GOV. ACOCK AT COOLEHEE. H. B. C. B. In Charlotte Observer. , - ; From a wilderness of vines and trees Coolemee has benn converted a pros perous cotton mill village. Three years ago the first work was begun on the Coolemee Cotton Mill; today the village has a population of 1,200-souls and the mill employs 400 operatives. It oper ates 40,000 spindles and 1,480 looms. The main building is 576 feet long and 194 wide, three stories high. It is a handsome structure and is beautifully situated on the east banks of the South lyadkin river. The tenement houses here, 358 in aU, . are pretty and com fortable.. They have three, four, five, and six rooms. The tract of land owned by the mill company contains 1,700 acres. Mr. W. A. Erwin, of Durham, one of the very foremost mill men in the State, is president of the company. He is doing everything possible to make Coolemeean ideal cotton mill settlement. The location was made attractive by nature and the work done by the company has been of the most substantial kind. The dam across the river cost $35,000 and ii ten feet high. A steel bridge is now being built across the Yadkin, just be low the mill building, and it will connect Davie and Kowan counties. Three hundred tenement houses will be erected on the Rowan side in the near "future. The present mill building will then be enlarged. The educational mass meeting, or rally, held here to-day, was for the pur pose of getting the mill people interest ed in the school. It is the intention of the mill owners to erect afine building and establish and maintain a first-class graded school. During the morning a pig race, a bag race and a game of ball were indulged in by local enthusiasts. At 2 o'clock in the afternoonjhe exercises proper of the day began. A concert was given by the Salisbury band, a most excellent aggregation of musicians. Gov. C. B. Ay cock, Prof. J. Y. Joyner, Mr. T. B. Bailey and others spoke. The atten dance was fairly good. Twelve hund dred or more seats in front of the stand were occupred. T. B. Bailey, Esq., of Mocksville, introduced Governor Ay cock. Governor Ay cock said."I am modest man but I like to hear these good things that are said about me by my friends, whether they are so or not. "Iam glad to be with you. I am under a pledge to be with you when ever I can. I was here two years ago, asking for your votes. I declar ed to you that if I should be chosen Governor of- the State that the entire four years of my office should be Spent in working for the education of the children. You voted for me and elected me. I am doing my best to redeem my pledge. It delights me to keep it. We have always talked about education and it is time that we redeem our pledg es. You have met here today to show your willingness to redeem those pledges. "We have a great State the great est in the Union in some respects. Our people have always been conserv ative. We were last to go into the Union and last to come out. We hesi tated about going out of the Union be fore the civil war but we were the last to quit fighting. We love to fight. We are strong where we have been taught, but we have not been taught well in some things. "Massachusetts built churches and school houses. She educated all of her children. We educated the few. Mas sachusetts has grown enormously rich while we are the poorest State in the American Union. South Carolina saves us from being the most illiterate State. Our negroes are better educated than those of South Carolina. That is all that keeps us from being the most illiterate and at the bottom. The lack of education makes us poor. ' 'Why are we poor ? Are we lazy ? Yes, reasonably so. I know you, for I know myself. We are not so awfully lazy for we will do what we know how to do. We fight because we know how to fight. We are thriftless; but not more so than our neighbors. We are not lawless. It is not laziness, thrift lessness, not lawlessness that makes us poor, but inefficiency has kept us back. We just don't know. We have been buying educated brains from Massa chusetts. We must educate all of our people. That is what I am in favor of and that is the view that most of our people are talking of it. We must make the average high. That is what we are trying to do. ""It will take money to do this. That is what hurts. You have been with me up to this time but you will grow cold now. 1 know you. in orth Uarolinians do pot like to let money go. It takes him five minutes to pay his taxes to the sheriff. There was never a fight fought out for education except along the line of taxation. Tyranny can nev er enslave an educated people. "I came-here to urge you to send your children to school. Work your self and educate your boys and girls. Send him in rags and patches. Cast aside false pride. Don't sit and whittle on white pine, but go to work and give your children a chance, "Occasionally there is a parent who cannot send his child to school. This is work for the Church and the good workers of the community. Take up the case And help the child. Provide for the parent. . : "The public school will do away with the State, militia. It will create the feeling of brotherly love. ,'We want to educate .men to work -not away from work. . The man who knows how to work does ten times as much as the man who does not." H. E. C. B "Yes, papa, Jack says he expects his income will be doubled next year. "..-: ( rTVAf a rrnsvl SrilTI A 1.V - hfi TTiaV make i enough to support nimeu. THE PAGES AND THEIR HAIL- - ICO AD. Charlotte Observer. - The recent action of the Moore county Democratic ' convention in endorsing Judge Clark " continues to furnish the subject for occasional manifestations of glee on the part of his friends, who" con strue it as a rebuke to Mr. Henry A. Page. It perhaps made but little dif ference to Mr. Page or his railroad whether the Moore county Democrats endorsed or repudiated Judge Clark, but it is a matter of great . moment to the Democratic party and the people of the State are large. whether prejudice or reason and equity "Shall govern in North Carolina. Mr. Page and his associates, by honest efforts, with no capital to be gin with, have gradually built up a railroad, which is entirely owned by members of the Page family. There is no evidence that anybody was ever oppressed by this road, while on the other hand great benefits have been brought about by its construction. The owners and everybody- connected with it are North "Carolinians, and yet ever since is began to show net earnings it has been, along with all other corpora tions, an object of attack by the Pop ulist politician. As far back as the first reign of Marion Butler and his crowd this Page road was made the subject of denunciation. This railroad, which has been constructed through the pine forests of Moore county, through the efforts of North Carolina brains and manhood, with money made by natives of the State, in the county where it was operating, was not paying its employes sufficient wages; it was hauling people free; it did not pay enough taxes; or this or that was wrong. It is not known that its employes are com pi lining of insufficient compensation; Judge Clark's charge against it of free passes turns out to. have been based upon the fact that it carried an indigent, sick man and his family effects froth one point to another at a reduced rate; if it is not taxed enough that is the fault of the corporation commission which is elected by the people the road pays whatever taxes are assessed against it. We submit that there is little encour agement to other North Carolinians to j undertake public enterprises when they see how these Page people are hounded. They have been public benefactors while helping themselves they have done a great deal for others, and they and their interprises are entitled to noth ing but commendation. In addition to the above recited and other reasons for public praise of them, it is to be added that their habits of thought and life are purely democratic. When theis road was not as long as it is now, and when they did not need to employ many en gineers, Henry A. Page or one of his brothers took the throttle whenever an engineer was sick, made his run for him until he recovered, and when the engineer received his check at the end of the month he found that he had lost no time and that his illness had cost him nothing in wages. This is the class of men whom certain politicians are holding up to public scorn in order to try to justify the notorious acts of a Populist judge. Bones of a. JVIastodon Unearthed In Chautauqua County. Dunkirk, N.-Y., June 20. Bones of a prehistoric mastodon were unearth ed at Westfield, Chautauqua county,' this morning, on the grounds of Mrs. Alice Peacock. Work had been begun on a low swampy spot to transform it into a fish pond. A trench two. feet deep had been dug when the first piece of bone was struck. Careful digging afterward brought to light the following bones from different parts of the skele ton of an animal of gigantic size: Shoulder blade, with socket for articu lation of foreleg; hip bone; section of spinal column containing four verte brae; sections of both extremities of spinal column; knee cap, nine ribs and some other bones. The ribs are 4-feet 3 inches long and 4 inches wide. Two mastodon skeletons have been previous ly found in this county, one at Sheridan and one at Jamestown, but both ad vanced in decay. Body Hurled From Coffin. Newport, Tenn., June 20. To-day while bringing the body of the small son of Hunley LaRue from Parrotts ville, where he had died while visiting his relatives, Undertaker J. H. Walker suffered a painful and peculiar acci dent. He had started down a long hill, with the coffin containing the body inside the hearse, when some part of the hearse suddenly broke and .it toppled over, throwing the casket out and spill ing the remains on the ground. The undertaker was caught under the wreck and dragged to the bottom of the hill by the horses that at once ran. The funeral procession following was compelled to view the horrible sight without being able to furnish aid. Un dertaker Walker was seriously injured about the head and body and is in a very precarious condition. Another ca3ket and hearse were ob tained and the funeral continued. . Reflections of a BaeUelor. A pretty girl with big soft eyes can teach a man anything in the world but common sense. After a man has gambled in matri mony, Wall street and horse racing are tame speculations. ' The trouble with great moral forces is that they don't take care of the rent and the butcher's bill. 1 The bachelor who dreams of clippers and "an open" fire comes to rubber boots and lugging in coal for the kitch en range. - .. j - There are said to be some persons who yet think Populist votes will . be needed by the Democrats this year, to "help out," as they put it. -Democrats will find this a broken reed to lean upon. A MINISTER'S TEMPTATION. To Leave tne Ctaoreb and Devote III - -Lire to tne Needs of the World. .. Charlotte News- -" : ... ( Kev. Geo. H. Detwiler . . preached a sermon yesterday morning which : will not soon be forgptton by those present. During the course of his remarks the preached said : "The greatest tempta tion of my life at times is to quit the church- with her overburdening load of theology and dogma leave the pulpit and go out towork-where sinixeally is.!' The text was Romans, 7 chapter and 19 verse. "For the good that I would I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do." ' , The speaker reviewed the different theories and doctrines dealing with sin in man, from that of total depravity to that which makes sin almost a necessity of human nature.. Dr. Detwiler said in part: 4You can never do the world any good by . con demning it. There is too much con demnation in the world already. What the world wants is sympathy. Some of you think that I ought always to be harping on what you must not do cards and dancing and going to plays. You can never help'a nan in any other way. You must see something good in him. I have told you.that I do not tell everything but I am going to say something now which some of you may not'wish to hear but it comes from the bottom of my heart . and I say it after due deliberation: 'The greatest struggle and temptation one which at times tears my heart is that I should ""give up the church and leave this pulpit and platform, and go out into the world where sin and sorrow and suffering are.' Seizing his ministerial coat the speaker said: "I feel sometimes like tearing this thing off and putting on the clothes of the laboring man and then go out into the world where , real sin is. "I tell you Christanity in Charlotte is a sham. You are living sham lives. "How many of you have ever gone out after the poor and suffering, and have sought out the sick ones and help ed them in their distress? If any of you have done these things I wish you would come and tell me about it. Oh, I am not talking about coming here to church and paying your money to its support. You could mighty easily get another preacher to stand in my place here for the salary I am getting and say nice things to you, but I am speak ing what I believe to be the truth. "The great festering wound of socie ty is out there in the world to be heal ed. My God, help us to see our duty." Don't be a Second-Class Man. Success. ,, You can hardly imagine a boy say ing: "I am going to be a second-class man. I don't want to be first-class and get the good jobs, the high pay Second-class jobs are good enough for me." Such a boy would be regarded as lacking in good sense, if not in san ity. You can get to be a second-class man, however, by not trying to be a first-class one. Thousands do that all the time, so that second-class men are a drug on the market. Second-class things are only wanted when first-class can't be had. You wear first-class clothes if you can pay for them, eat first-class butter, first-class mea and first-class bread, or, if you don't, you wish you could. Second classmen are no more wanted than any other second-class commodity. They are taken and used when the bet ter article is scarce or is too high priced for the occasion. For work that really amounts to anything, first-class men are wanted. Many things make second-class men. A man menaced by dissipation, whose understanding is dull and slow, whose growth has been stunted, is a second class man, if, indeed, he is not third class. A man who, through his amuse ments in his hours, exhausts his strength and vitality, vitiates his blood, wears his nerves till his limbs tremble like leaves in the wind, is only half a man, and could in no sense be called first class. Everybody knows the things that make these second-class characteristics. Boys smoke cigarettes to be smart and imitate older boys. Then they keep on because they have created an ap petite as unnatural as it is harmful. Men get drunk for all sorts of reasons ; but, whatever the reason they cannot remain first-class men and drink. Dis sipation in other forms is pursued be-' cause of pleasures to be derived, but the surest consequence is that of be coming second-class, below the stan dard of the best men for any purpose. Every fault you allow to become a habit, to get control over you, helps to make you second-class, and puts you at a disadvantage in the race for honor, position, wealth, and happiness.. Care lessness as to health fills the ranks of the inferior. The submerged classes that the economists talk about are those that are below the high-water mark of the best manhood and woman hood. Sometime they are- second-rate or third-rate people because those who are responsible for their being and their care during their minor years were so before them, but more and more is it becoming one's own fault if, .all through life, he remains second-classl Education of some sort, and even a pretty good sort, is possible to practi cally, everyone in our land. Failure to get the best education available, whether it be in books or in business training, is sure to relegate one to the ranks of the second-class. - Charleston Exposition Deflelt. President Wagner, of the Charleston Exposition Company, has made a state ment before the House Committee on Industrial Arts and -Expositions, show ing that $150,000 is required to adjust the accounts of the exposition. The committee has not acted on the, plan for an appropriation .to make good this deficit. ; " THE APPALACHIAN PARK. Charlotte Observer. "It was a little surprising to learn from our . Wellington correspondent a Jew days ago that a Southern Senator was hanging up the Appalachian park bill. It was more surprising still to learn la ter that this Senator was Mr. . Bate, of Tennessee. This park, if established, will lie in the Appalachian range of the States of , Virginia, North and South C Wl mo HoArrri o A 1 o Ko m o on To r nessee, and embrace two million acres of land which .will be cared for and protected by, the government. It is al most inconceivable : that a Senator sof one of the States immediately interested should block the progress of this bill which, by the way, carries an appro priation of $5,000,000 for the purchase of the lands when many Senators of States remote, are earnestly in favor of the local benefits which it would confer but because it is a great national enter prise. In view of all the facts, and of the further fact that the Legislature of Senator Bate's State has declared in fa vor of this proposition, it would be in teresting to see fuller statement than Thus vAt. nrmparptl nf tV f PTOiind nf . his v x c - - - - objection. .- .' '' ' '' It may be added that it is doubtful if the people of piedmont and; western North Carolina are alive to the imp rt ance of this park proposition. All scientific testimony agree3 that the dis astrous floods which r these sections have recently suffered were due to the destruction of the forests. But for it .1-1 . K...1 ' 4 U . . WC TVUU1U UUV UAVO uu tuts icvtri stories of ruined crops and ruined lands nor the present spectacle of sandy wastes on creeks and rivers instead of the fertile bottoms, covered with waving grain or rich green grass upon which sleek cattle fed, on which the eye has been wont to feast. The work of de forestration goes on apace, and unices it is stopped there will be recurrence of floods and accompanying destruction. Anything that is calculated to modify their energy should be hailed as a be- of the Appalachian national park prop osition for the readers of The Observer. It is a dazzling idea, that of a great park of two million acres more of it in North Carolina than in any other Slate cared for, protected and beautified by the government, a perpetual reservation, a pleasure ground for the people. But ours in the more utilitarian view. This reserve is needed as a protection to the lower country against the forces . of nature. Didn't Happen In the SouthV News and Observer. The best people of the South and the North deplore acts of lawlessness, no matter by whom committed. - There is a town named El Dorado, in Illinois, in which lately a colored Normal and Industrial Institute, modeled on Booker Washington's school, has been es tablished. The white people were so hostile to the school that the trustees of the school are thinking about re moving it. A special from Carbonton says : : ' ' 'The teachers and pupils have fled from the place, fearing mob violence: The first commencement exercises were were to have been held tomorrow, but the buildings have been deserted, the windows smashed in and other damage inflicted. President Alstone and his family are supposed to be in Cairo." No charge of disorderly "conduct has been made against the school. The only basis of hostility seems to be that the school is for negroes. Contrast the action of the people of El Dorado, Illi nois, with that of the people of Raleigh, North Carolina. In addition to the public schools for negroes, the Baptist Mission Board and the Episcopal Mis sion Society each maintain a large school for -the negroes in : this city: There has never been any friction caused by these schools. The people of Baleigh have no feeling toward them except of good will and kindliness, and are incapable of the conduct displayed in Illinois. . The Southern people are the, truest and best friends of the negro, as some incident every day demonstrates". They Xlirow Dynamite Down a ITIlne Shaft and Kill five miners. Roanoke, Va.,' June 19, The bodies Of Henry Hairston and Pete Ilairston, two miners, reached here today from w liiiamscon, w. va., wnere they were killed by an explosion of dynamite . in ' a mine yesterday evening. Miners who accompanied the remains said that about 25 miners were at work in a mine near Williamston yesterday when strikers armed with : rifles demanded that they should come out. Upon the miners' refusal to obey their command mite into the shaft, which exploded, killing five of themen. As soon as the survivors came out of the shaft the strikers fired upon them, injuring several, but none was thought to be seriou8l hurt. A number have been arrested here today;, from the Chesapeake & Ohio fields in West Vir ginia. They say the trouble is not set tled by any means and that a great many men are leaving, and no one is taking their places. The Fear ol microbe. An H.D In London Times. , Everything we eat and drink and wear runs the gauntlet of germs to an extent which nervous persons had bet ter not -contemplate, v Far -too much fuss is -made of them. If we listened to all these scares there would be noth ing left to do but to get into a bath of carbolic acid and stop there until star vation freed us from the dangers of life. ' ' ! . The statement is now made that the Southern Railway will July 1, 'take over" the South Carolina & Georgia Ex tension Railroad. - i
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