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AN OLD
BATTLE HYMN
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Julia
JULIA WARD JIOWB was born in New York city May :
27, 1819. At the age of seventeen she was an anonymous
contributor to the New York Magazine. She married
Dr. Samuel G. Jlowe of Boston in 1843. . Her first book
of poems, "Passion" Flowers," : ' was published without
signature in 1854 and was followed in 1857 by a second
volume, c Her third volume of poetry, published in 1868, :
contained the p0em printed below, which was written in
beleaguered Washington ..; in November, 1861, and first
given to the public in the pages of the Atlantic Monthly
for February, '1862.
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INB eyes have seen
He is trampling out
are Btored; .
He" hath loosed the
- sword; ' . - -
Hls : truth is marching ;on.
m
I have seen him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded him an altar in the evening dews Aand damps;
I can read his righteous sentence
His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel, writ jln burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel
;: Since God is marching on."
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of jmen before his judgment seat.
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea .
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me.
As ha died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, .
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While God is marching on. j
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A Yriiimplial Areli for Schley.
Baltimore Sun.
The incorporation of an association
to erect a memorial in this city to
Admiral Schley is a very proper move
ment, and the people of Maryland
;" should see to it that the association
does not lack funds to put their design
into execution. It is the purpose jof
Hhe association, as announced in The
Sun today,' to erect a triumphal arih
commemorative of the achievements of
Admiral Schley and.- his officers and
men at the battle " of Santiago. Tb!is
arch is to be of artistic design and
placed in some conspicuous position in
ithis city among the people by whom
: the herdTof Santiago is known and bp
loved. A place is to be provided cm
the arch upon which at some future
day a statue of the Admiral may be
I erected. Many of the leading citizens
of Baltimore are identified with the as-
- sociatioi, which assures the success of
the movement.
As soon as the news of the remakable
victory of our navy over the Spanish dff
Santiago reached the United States the
y people, knowing that Schley was there
in command and that he was in the
thick of the hght, hailed him as the
successful commander and the hero of
the most signal victories in history
Notwithstanding the machinations of la
clique of bureau chiefs and. clerks, the
people of the whole United States, with
that : unerring instinct upon which
' popular government largely rests, have
continued to honor Schley down to th'e
present time. And in all the trying
times since the conclusion of the war,
amid all the provocations and all the
vituperation and malignity of which he
has been the object, in all this time the
Admiral has never uttered one word or
done one deed which tended in any dej
gree to diminish the love and confi
dence ,of the people. Admiral I Schley
is a son of Maryland and a member of
for many generations been identified
with tke State. . He entered the navy
half a century ago and has given all
these years of his life to the service o:
his country. The record that he has
made in that half a century, indeperi
dent of his great achievement at Santi
ago, carneu mm w iue uiguwst nui& 111
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the service, and now furnishes a - com
piete answer to the charges and inu
endoes of his enemies. It is entirely
j State should see that the memory 01
his service to the country , should be
: kept alive in imperishable stone. v;
y i. MdeEv:.7'i;::;:'.r,,
.The diffident young-man had wanted
to propose to the girl, but for the life oi
him he did not know how. to go about
: it. . ' Be read books on the subject and
sought information from men who had
naa experience out.wnue me uieoneg
were admirable in every . instance, he
found, to his sorrow, that the practice
thereof was quite' a different thing,
. He was walking with her one- even
ing; thinking over these things, when
'her shoe became untied. She stuck
-out her pretty little foot with a smile,
looked down at it, and he fell on his
knees and tied the : lace. . Then he
walked on with her, and the shoe be
came "untied again. The third time it
happened he was as ready as before.-
- "Seerif you can't tie' a knot that will
stick, she said, as he worked away.
atit. - .
!h '"TT..t-il J - i. ., i -J 1 ' . TT!
xxe luuj&eu. up i uer tenueriy. xxia
chance had come. "If I can't I know
a man wno can," ne at once said. ,
"Do you want him.; to tie it?" she
asked, "coquettishly. i- "")w:----;."Yes,,,
he rephed. s , -
. She jerked her foot away. .
; H "It's the minister" he said, and he
: 8miledsto -himself as he finished the:
"work. - '
It was easy after that, and the banns
were -proclaimed -on three following
Sundays. 7' - . t .
-: VSay, mister,' began
"can't yer spare a": poor
the t beggar,
a": poor teller a tew
cents for a night's lodgin'?": "Sorry,
mypoor man," replied the baker, , 'but
I knead all the dough I have.'V: , r
FAVORITE
OF THE REPUBLIC
Ward How . . . . f-.
the glory of the coming of the Lord;
She vintage where the grapes of wrath
ateful lightning of his terrible) swift
by the dim and flaring lamps
Smith Smym HUI Will Get It.
Goldsboro Cor. Charlotte Observer.
Craven county has within her con
fines an astrologer of note in the person
of Isaac Hughes Smith, familiarly
known in legislative circles as "the
colored gentleman from Graven."
smith is also a noted politician and in
Newbern, his home town, runs a bank
ing and loan establishent. Knowing
of the accuracy of his previous fore
casts, I dropped in on him in his pri
vate office the other day and sought
knowledge. I had heard the occasion
of a banquet given in his honor by
Recorder Taylor, in 1892, at Washings
ton, D. C, how Isaac told the assembled
guests, who were all Beid men, that
McKinley would be the Republican
nominee and sweep the country. I
had heard of his subsequent prediction
of McKinley's election for the second
term, also of his private notes of warn
ing to the President to avoid crowds;
that the planets foreboded to His Excel
lency impending danger and the like.
So I concluded to have him set at rest
this uncertainty as to who would be the
next national standard-bearers and
which of the parties would triumph in
the next national election. I asked
Smith who would be the Democratic
nominee in 1893 and quickly came the
answer: . ,
'David B. Hill, of Albany. ' '
"Who the Republican nominee?"
"Roosevelt, most assuredly." .
"Now, Smith, which of these gentle
men will be elected?" . I asked, and in
no uncertain tone came the reply:
"David B. Hill."
"Do you really think so?"
"No, sir, I don't think so, I know it;
fate has decreed it and no power on
earth can prevent it."
Emboldened by such positiveness I
asked,' ''Will . Wm. Jennings Bryan
ever be President?" To my surprise
Smith replied: "Yes, in 1912, but all
depends upon Bryan's attitude to the
Democracy in 1903 and f 1907. Fate
has decreed that Bryan shall be Pres
ident in 1912, but it is possible for
Bryan's will power to defeat the decree
of fate."
Wilcox is Jolly.
Elizabeth City Economist.
A reporter of the Economist called ca
James Wilcox recently at the " count
jail and held quite a lengthy conversa
tion with him. He was looking well,
with his hair nicely brushed and had
just "been shaven. He said that r his
health had been very good all the sum
mer. When asked by the reporter if it
was not: very hot in jail he said some
days it was, .but when- he got .very
warm he resorted to his bath tub and
"covered up in water,"
Wilcox conversed very freely on dif
ferent subjects, and seems jolly and in
good spirits. - He said among other
joking remarks," "I : intended going
down to Nags Head last Sunday on the
excursion, but it was jso hot I didn't
want to dress." He was asked if he
was annoyed by; visitors, and said he
didn't 'mind to have people call that he
knew, but did not like for strangers to
call just through curiosity. He said he
had : a card printed and put on the
corner of his cell with the words, i "the
side show is closed," and kept it there
about a month for -the benefit of
strangers. He eats and sleeps well, and
says his-digestion is very good, and he
spends his : time" mostly " reading. He
said he had read over one hundred and
fifty books besides newspapers, since he
has been in jaiL i He still has that very
indifferent appearance as to his "pend
ing fate. , - - " , I : . 1 .
- Wilcox's case will be taken up by the
Supreme' court on the last Monday ?, in
this "month when it will be , decided
whether he will get a new trial or not.
Not a Single r Negro . Voter. .
Z Opelika, Ala., July 31.rThe county
registrars closed their i work in : this
copnty here to-night. Two : thousand
three hundred and seventy-eight whites
were registered. : Four" negroes, I who
held discharges from 1 the army,; but
had not paid their poll taxes were not
allowed to register. Therefore' Lee
county is without a single colored voter.
DILI ABP8 LKTTEn.
Atlanta Constitution. . .. -"
Dog days. . So many of the young
people write to me about dog days that
I will answer briefly - that there are no
dogrdays. v It is nothing but a supersti
tion that has come - down to us from
the ancients. The Dog star or Sirius
has its time to- appear in ; the heavens
and rise and set like other stars but it
is a very irregular time and so what we
call dog days may begin the first of July
or many days later. ' The rising of
Sirius in a line with the sup begins now
on: the 3d : of July and will continue
until the 11th of August. Those forty
days were believed; by tthe ancients to
bring very hot and sultry ; weather and
many malignant diseases,' but this has
been disproved by modern astronomy,
for the ' appearance of Sirius is. very
uncertain and in the course of time it
will rise in the winter. Now a little
more about this wonderful star. You
know that we have eight planets that
belong to our, solar system. They all
revolve around the sun just as the earth
does and the nearer the planet is to the
sun the faster- it travels. - Neptune is
16,000,000 miles distant and it takes
165 years to get around. , T
But Sirius is away outside of our
solar system and is 120,000,000,000 of
miles from us and gives 400 times more
light than our sun. It is the largest
and brightest star in the heavens. It is
called the Dog star because it appears
to be in the , tail of the constellation
that the ancients named Major Canis
or the Big Dog. They were -a smart
people and we still keep their map .of
the heavens and their names of the
stars, but they had no telescopes and
did not know that there were any stars
or suns except those we see with the
naked eye. -
But .now young people listen. It is
now established and proven that there
are millions' of stars and solar systems
afar off in space and that ours is the
smallest and the most insignificant of
them all. We are nothing and less
than nothing in the scale of existence.
It has always been a mystery to me why
the Creator of the boundless universe,
that has no limit, should have chosen
this little world of ours for His greatest
work, the Creation of man in His own
image, a little lower than the angels,
man who sinned and fell and was re
deemed by the sacrifice of the Son of
God. I don't understand it. I cannot
comprehend it. This little world is
not bigger than ajcannon ball compared
with some of the planets and stars afar
out in space. It has but one little
moon that does not condecend to show
us but one side of its anatomy. The
other night we went out to Mr. Gran
ger's beautiful home to look at the full
moon .through his great telescope that
cost $5,000 and is' mounted in a high
observatory with a dome that revolves
as the earth revolves. It was a mag
nificent spectacle but the view of. Jupi
ter with four moons and Saturn with
his rainbow ring and seven moons was
much more beautiful and impressive.
Of course those planets must be inhab
ited, for the Creator would not have
surrounded a dead world with such
luminous and beautiful ' satellites. We
don't know anything hardly and it fills
me with disgust to see young men
strutting around like peacocks acting
liKe they made themselves and knew
everything and expected to live always
when the truth is they don't know
where they came from nor where they
are going and can't add an hour or a
day to their existence.' I have but little
hope for a vain or a conceited man and
a vain woman is no better. A conceit
ed man is close Km to an iaiot and a
woman vain of -her beauty should some
times remember that she had no hand
in creating it for it was God given or
inherited. ' 'Oh ! why should the spirit
of mortal be proud?" . Of all the faults
of which humanity is guilty that of self
conceit is the last to be forgiven and
the hardest to reform. .
I ruminated on this yesterday when
I read what Roosevelt said in his speech
at West Point. The editor who pub
lishes it speaks of him as our well
meaning but impulsive president.. He
should have said our : "conceited and
erratic president." In speaking of the
great men whom West Point had grad
uated, he said, "I claim to be a his
torian and X speak what I know to be
true-that West Point has , turned out
more great men - and more statesmen
than any other institution in the United
States." It was self-conceit and ignor
ance that provoked such a monstrous
absurdity, for Colonel Sprague, of Yale
college, has recently challenged him to
the proof and has shown beyond all
cavil that Yale can number 10 times
the great men that West Point can
number. Among them 1,383 ministers
of the gospel 78 justices of supreme
courts, 17 chief justices, 546 doctors, 39
governors of states and 38 United States
senators besides -these Yale has . sent
forth an army of educators, established
480 colleges, 160 for women and 8,000
high schools while West Point has sent
out none but soldiers.
Teddy ought to be ashamed of him
self,- but he will not be. , He is not yet
ashamed that in his so-called history he
called Mr. Davis an arch traitor and
repudiator and told what, he did when
governor of Mississippi, etc. His. atten
tion has been called to these malignant
calumnies against a great statesman
and whose curriculum-tat .West Point
that he ordained when secretary of war
is 8 till in force and who never was a
member of the legislature nor governor
of Mississippi. ; No, he is too conceited
to take back anything or to ' apologize
for his mistakes. The man he slander
ed was dead when : he published those
lies, but his widow lives and there are
thousands of x veterans r all over ; the
south who cherish his memory and
who now hold his slanderer in supreme
contempt. Yet he claims to" be a ' his
torian! When a gentleman finds that
he has unwittingly wronged another he
hastens to apologize, but a conceited
idiot rolls the morsel under his tongue
and chews it as a cow chews and ' swal
lows her" cud. - He feeds on his con
ceit. , . - Bell Ap.
"P. S. All hail to Evan Howell The
f soldier, the editor, the friend in need.
l nave Knowa mm mnmaieiy since mo
childhood, v His good father was mar
ried in my town and I think l am the
onlv living- man who was at ' the r wed
ding, though I was then but a child. All
hail to my friends He has the right to
run for mayor and Atlanta will honor
herself by electing him. : U. A.
; FHat Do Yon Know?
Washington Times." - -' r
Here are gome questions about things
you have seen every day; and - all your
life." v If you .are a wonder you may
possibly answer one or two of the
queries offhand. Otherwise not.
What are the exact .words on a 2-cent
stamp, and in which direction is the
face on it turned?
- In what direction is the face turned
on a cent? On a quarter? On a dime?
How many foes has a cat on each
fore foot ? On each hind foot ?
Which way does the crescent : moon
turn? . To the right or left?
What color are your employer's
eyes? The eyes of the man at the next
desk?
Write down,: offhand, the figures on
the face of your watch. The odds are
that you will make at least two mistakes
in doing this.
Your watch, has some words 1 written
or printed on its face. You have seen
these words a thousand times. Write
them out cprectly. Few can do this.
Also what is the number in the case of
your watch? . - - ' -How
high (in inches) is a silk hat ?
How many teeth have you?r . .
What are the words of a policeman's
shield? ;
How many buttons has the vest
shirt waist you are wearing ?
or
How many stairs are there in the
first flight at your house ?
How many steps lead from the street
to the front door of your house or flat?
What is the name, signed" in fac
simile, on any $1, $2, $5 or $10 bill
you ever saw? You've read dozens of
those names. Can you remember one?
Brother Dickey on "Insomnia."
"So many rich mens is kilin' deyse'f
dese days kaze dey can t sleep, said
Isrother Dickey, "en des how come,
hit's hard ter tell. Yit, atter all, de po'
mens ain't better off in dat respect dan
what de rich mens is. De rich man
can't sleep kaze he 'fraid dat endurin
ae mgnt stoats is wine ter take a
tumble en fall on him; en de po' man
can't sleep, kaze de bailiff is on his
do'step, en snorin' so loud dat he kees
de whole house awake! De fac is,
hit's worry what's de ruination er 'all er
us. Some folks even worry ' bout gwine
ter heaven, dey. so 'fraid dey won't be
enough milk en honey ter go roun'; en
some worry 'bout gwinede yuther way,
kaze dey ain't no good at shovelin' coal,
en ain't had no experience in de fire
department. Ez fer me, I don't worry
'bout nothin'; en nothin' kin wake me
out er my sleep 'cept thunder en a call
ter preach. But come ter think er it,
dey s too much sleep in dis won , any
how. Hit's pull Dick en pull devil, en
keep wide awake, ef you wants ter make
n. livinM"
Too Rftueh. Por Oellef In Tennetue.
Sweetwater Telephone. ,
One of the brethren went to Knox
ville last August and fell by the wayside
he got down there. After several
months the news of his fall reached his
rural home, and he was brought up be
fore the church.
"Brethren," he said, "I admit I got
drunk in Knoxville last August, but I
didn't mean to do it. How I have suf
fered in my conscience and in my pride,
God-alone knows, and I trust He has
forgiven me. Brethern, I want you to
forgive me. I didn't go to get drunk.
I took a glass or two of light wine with
a friend, and later took a bottle of beer
on ice, and then"
"Brethren,'? interrupted a good old
brother in the amen corner, "I would
be willing to forgive the. brother for his
fall if he would make a clean breast of
it and tell the truth. But I move r we
turn him out for. lying. He has lied to
us. wno ever neara oi ice in. August; -
And they turned him out because be
dar6d to say that he had seen ice in
August. ;
We All itlake Them,
Youth's Companion.
A Massachusetts firm prints this para
graph at the : top : of its ; letter . head :
"Errors--We make them; so does every
m 11 ma
one. we wm cueenuiiy correct tnem
if you will write to us. " Try to , write
good naturedly if you can, but write to
us anyway. Do not complain to some
one else first or let the matter pass.
We want first opportunity to make
right any: injustice we may do." The
little sermon deserves a wide ' audience.
Few people that have not had occasion
at some time in their lives to regret the
sending of a .harsh or hasty note of
complaint. -It may be necessary to as
sert one's rights" in subsequent letters,
but there is no better rule of correspon
dence than to make the first one good
natured. .
Death Caused by Hat Pins In Her
ftomaeb. -
Providence. R.X, Special. - . : -, " - .
Leona Jeodie,'for two years a novice
at a convent in Flushing, L. I., is dead
after" a long and mysterious illness
which had baffled medical science. An
autopsy was performed and in the re
gion of : the heart, : and ; piercing .-, the
pericardium, was found a headless steel
hat-pin four and a quarter inches long.
In the stomach was found part 'of an
other hat-pin one and a quarter inches
long, headless. . - -.
; The young woman had ' complained
of pains in the stomach since 1896 j
but she died without having mentioned
the cause of her illness. -
TnnrnaaCS DLACK DOITS
i. anfMufnl Plot to Blow CP' the
. - BrltlH ' Powder - Train Near
Coneord.
Charlotte Observer. '
V Few incidents in t history- have given
rise to wider differences of opinion and
more heated debates among historians
than the uprising of the North Carolina
Regulators. ; : No man can saieiy set nim
self up as a judge of other men's mo
tives, whether ? he ; lives . contempora
neously with them or whether he comes
after. In the former case he is - more
than apt to be controlled and. influenc
ed bv prejudice either in favor of or ad
verse to the motives he would judge.
and hence impartiality, is r impossible;
in the latter case he meets with nothing
but cold facts and it is impossible to
say which of these facts best illustrates
the motives of the actor which actions
came spontaneously without outside in-
nuence; wiiwu were uuiureu.' uy
events over - which the actor had no
control. . Tha judgement of history is
therefore always a colored one. r But
One thing can be relied upon with cer
tainty Whenever Tthe : vast majority
of the people of a community either ac
tively or passively take' theirs stand
firmly for or against ai certain move
ment we may be reasonably ' assured
that were all the truth ; known, there
would Je found something back r of
their position which would vindicate
their actions, it matters little whither
they may lead; for the final outcome of
such a movement may generally be
laid at the door of those who oppose it,
especially if this opposition be a strong
er lorce ' man mat coniroiung me
movement itself.
That such was the case with the
much-praised and overly-abused Regu
lators, we are not at liberty - to doubt.
The large number" of the inhabitants
who took part in theup-nsing , repre-;
sents a still larger number wno gave
their sympathy and moral support pas
sively. Even no small part of the'men
the government led against the Regula
tors after the latter had been guilty of
many excessively improper lacts or
rather should we not say driven to these
acts? showed their, sympathy for the
position taken, by their rebellious coun
trymen by, their refusal to hre upon
them until compelled to do so in self
deience: Alter tne regulators were
defeated,, their enemies, determined to
hunt them down, were unable to collect
bands sufficient for the purpose which
did not include many secret friends of
the fugitives to whom they rarely failed
to give timely warning by which they
might escape. We have as a result of
this condition many stories of daring
deeds and fortitude thrilling with in
terest and having a certain historical
value. - . !
Not the least interesting of these sto
ries is that of "The Black Boys of Ca
barrus" as narrated by i Wheeler. In
making his preparations for marching
against the Regulators, liovernor Tryon
several wagons loads of gunpowder J
had ordered from Charleston, S. C
hints, blankets, etc. They were sent
to Charlotte to be forwarded from that
place to Hillsboro, the seat of govern
ment, It was with great difficulty that
Col. Moses Alexander, one of Tryon's
best officers "who had charge of the
transportation of these supplies, could
obtain wagons sufficient to send them
on, so. much in sympathy with the
Regulators were the inhabitants of that
region. - The friends of the Regulators
were on the alert to prevent the supplies
from reaching the Governor,
A small party from that part of
Mecklenburg county which afterwards
in 1792 went to form Cabarrus, consist
ing of three brothers, James, William
and John White, together with Robert
Caruthers, Robert Davis, Benj. Cochran,
and two half brothers, James Ashmore
and Joshua Hadley, undertook the
task of stopping the wagons. "Accord
ingly they bound themselves by a most
solemn oath to remain true to each
other, to see the : business through to
the end and never to divulge the secret
on each other, followed by an invoca
tion of the direst evil upon the head of
him who should betray his comrades.
This done they blacked their skins so
as to coqeeal their identity and late in
the afternoon set out on their expedi
tion. Traveling with all possible speed
they overtook the wagons about ; mid
way between Charlotte and Concord,
encamped on the side of what was then
called Phifer's Hill. .
Immediately the attack was begun.
They drove off with ease the few wag
oners who had been left to guard the
supplies and to give the alarm in case,
of attack, "who were taken so completely
by surprise that they thought only of
tneir own saiety. xne ..wagons were
overthrown; - the kegs stove in;
tne j
powder, etc, thrown into a . large
rule: 1
and the blankets, torn into strops, were I
used to make a train of powder to the
pile, into which Major White fired his
pistol. The explosion was of ' course
tremendous and every , article - of the
supplies destroyed ;
Such an outrage against His Majes
ty's authority could not be passed ; over
without the most searching investiga
tions Threats availing nothing, -Gov
ernor Tryon offered ; a pardon tox any
one who would turn King's evidence
against the rest. ' - Unf otunately it is
almost impossible to - get - together
into any secret enterprise of danger . a
body of men without including at least
one J udas. lne : isiack - xoys were
peculiarly unfortunate in having two.
Ashmore and 1. Hadley, desirous
availing themselves of the pardon, " set
out unknown to each other, to betray
their companions. Accidentally- they
met on the threshold of Go. Alexander's
house." Each met the other shame
facedly. Not a word was spoken by
either; a glance was enough, k They
understood each other. ' The
cowardly I
spunt tnat zouna a ' loaging ; place in
their ' hearts found each - in the
other a kindred spirit and drew
them together with irresistible magne
tism. CoL Alexander listened atten-
tively to their narrative, and when it
was finished rose to his feet, opensd the
door, and in a witberingly contemptu
tone said: " : r-.
."Much against jny feelings, I am
compelled by the Governor's proclama
tion to grant you your pardons. If jus
tice were done, hanging would be too
good for such treacherous dogs. But
rest assured there is: a 'justice that pun
ishes the traitor. Go; if you ever again
cross my path I'll crush you as I would
The two wretches reured, crestfallen.
As he was in duty bound to do, Col.
Alexander raised a guard and set out
for the home of the Whites, which
stood on the bank of Rocky river. Ca
ruthers, who was a brother-in-law of
the White boy 8, was there at the time.
Before they were aware of their danger
the house was surrounded. Fortunate
ly among the guards were several men
who were in sympathy with the Regu
lators," and so did not wish to see the
Black Boys captured.: One of them
was ordered by Col. Alexander to
stand guard at the door, j ; He purposely
moved slowly to obey the order, since
he was under no military obligation to
follow the commands of the officer, i.
"Take all day, will you," angrily ex
claimed the colonel. " ' '1 11 have you
lashed like a dog if the rascals escape. ' '
A quarrel, with the consequent delay,
was just what the ' guard wanted. He
replied hotly, - "Get somebody else to do
your dirty work if my way don' t suit
you." . ,
seeing his chance another of the
guards passing Mrs. White, whispered
to her:
"Tell 'em to make a break through
the door -I' not see 'em quick. "
Mrs. White was not slow to execute
the command. Caruthers, the first to
receive the warning, sprang through
the door and dashed for the river. He
was pursued by the other guards but
was in the river before they could catch
up with him. In the meantime the
White boys I taking - advantage v of the
confusion , left the other side of the
house and was soon lost in the woods.
Chagrined and angered at his failure,
Col. Alexander became all the more
determined to capture the Black Boys.
Soon after this some of the band were
in the field harvesting their crop. The
Royalists hearing of their whereabouts
collected a band to capture them . As
they rode into the field lone of the sup
posed Royalists gave a secret signal to
the fugitives to warn them of their
danger. ; Springing on their horses they
dashecLaway in flight. All succeeded
I easily in eluding their pursuers except
Robert Davis. " He was closely followed
and was in imminent danger of being
captured. Not paying as strict atten
tion as he should have done to the route
he was taking, he soon , found himself
in a dangerous situation. J Close at his
heels rode his enemies ; before him was
the river, its banks steep and high. To
turn was to ride into the arms of his
pursuers; to dash over the banks, 30
feet in height, ' seemed instant death.
Davis Tooked to the right and to the left
for an avenue of escape. Every way was
closed. His foes were, close upon him.
Not a friend, who could render aid, was
in sight. As his enemies closed nearer
upon him, his imagination perhaps
pictured a gallows. A glance down the
the steep rugged bank and his mind was
made up. .. . Better death in an effort to
escape than ; death on the gallows.
Gathering his reins, without the trem
onng oi a muscle, ne gave the com
mand to his horse. The animal leaped
into' the air, landed safely ' into the
stream and bore his master in safety to
the opposite bank where his foes dared
not follow.
So'by the assistance of neighbors and
by their own daring and vigilance, the
Black. Boys managed to keep clear of
their . enemies, who finally becoming
weary, of fruitless pursuits, gave them
up as a vain task. With the exception
of the two traitors, all of those engaged
in the adventure of the Black Boys of
Cabarrus afterwards served with
brayery and credit in the army of the
Revolution.
In the case of the traitors Providence
clearly showed a hand by sending upon
tnem the evils they had invoked upon
their own heads by the betrayal of com
panions. .: Ashmore is said to have fled
the country; lived a wretched life, and
died as miserably as he lived, without
comforts and without mends. Wheeler
says that be himself knew Hadley. He
remained I in the country a drunkard
and a brute. For his brutal treatment
of his family; his neighbors, attired, in
female dress, went to his house, drag
ged him out of bed,- and on his bare
back gave him a severe beating. "He
continued through ,life the same miser-
aoie wretcn, ana aied without , any
friendly hand to sustain him or eye, to
JJeU did Col. Alexander say, to them,
"There is a justice which punishes the
traitor.
R. D, W. Conker.
, .Wilson, N. C.
Ocauly of old Age.
Old age is a part of the schemes of
life, which was designed to be beautiful -
from beginning to end. It is the close -of
a 8ym phony, beautiful in its incep
tion, rolling on grandly and terminat
ing in a climax of sublimity. It is
harmonious and admirable according
to the scheme of nature. The charms
of infancy, the hopes of the spring of
youth; the vigor of manhood-and the
serenity and tranquility, the wisdom
and peace jof. old age all these together
-1 constitute the true human life, with its
beginning, middle and end a glorious
! epoch. Henry Ward Beech er.
Stole Klnyr Edward IXabbltn. .
London, Aug. 7. A man of the
name of Wooton was arranged before a
AIagi8trate yesterday on the charge of
poaching in Windsor Park, taking rab-
bits belonging to the King. He plead
ed in defence that he went into the
park to sleep and the rabits ran into his
pocket and were suffocated.
Despite this defence he was sentenced
1 to two month's imprisonment. v-