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. . - y . - . ' - - - . . . - - -. ' eSsn? TiftonGa.,' instead of Voting saloons I J ' wii abfs lettbis. IxanoLD ladyinthew : 4 .: 'f " V hi V: re ' , : - t ' ' if 1 fpAtUlXjl fJS 9 X 0 By Samuel -I. . - SAMUEL, '.TAYliOR Wiv born in Anm in. fiR34,x Ka. . c-Iniiso9 of 'his time, m it uslnir ; opifimi if U- moat- wonderful man ,that-fJ eyer.met.'A -The;stanza. T Mnrv. Tito hast Irnnivn nAonk '"T'ho lma fl-fi" lf7fthj.Ajipient, Maitar - T rryos' nrgthC3flld7rdbfd:n;alba Asrifrflt,had en. a,Chr4stian "-mir ss6ult t. a It2tth JVoifhVe had eatV And . round ahd round it -flew STOaViceMid split with a thunder-fit 3 .Thehelmsman steered u us througn iAndff jODdSflth -wind gprang-jup ; behind; r ., " '' . D-'-Thrf Vilbatrois didfdllow.; i And every, day,, fox Jood ,or pliy " Camtb"the 'idiriner's h611o! 1 .f.;r .In mist, or .cloucU on mast or shroud. lti oerched MriVesbers:iiiine:i? " A if . smoke white, s - now rose upon tne rigni the sea came he, tStiirhld in tnist, aAd on.ahelef t i . JPent down into Vhe sea. tAhdlih goodtsouth wJnd stilllew behind; Btft-no swee i&ird did 'follow, JNor any .day-fgr food ftr.. play Caine to thV'mariner's' hollo. And IiacLdone a hellish, thing,. Akd irwbuid workt ?ehtiwoe'; For all averred I-had -killed the bird MTha,t made the breeze to blow! Ah,kJ,wretch! said they, the bird to Thatmaae thebreeze to b THEWEEyTTLES H FlfOFtEN0Err 1 Sfejoilv J;KnHnnBM3. mTiSjr'- &y 1 CFINDf JJ Hecfcllnrga Big alr.- " WHa?prottase:to JSethe biggestandi most successful Agricultural, Jais and tember 8Qth and OcBeflsf 2nd and fcSrd.rytnitfg'will be oh abig scale, in lie'epiiSgc 0tht) the reputation: 'of the progressive city pf Charlotte, The fairy grounas,. Duuqings . anq race jtracK are well afcratfged1 ,nd-eleintl appiointed . and.an be easl :" reacli4 Jyr a double electric 3urine whifeiwiUlarnolvisitor8 at ttgeslthYaibads'wiU offer! greaUre4ucec)ra:M5, kwiun The Jair will be kept open &i night, the grounds ahd Vuildin' being lights ed by a system" pTT "eleSCnc arc lights. .Therciied will'closefabpufril o'clock eachgbwijhp fna,ghific$nt display of firework,4ollowing: a band concert. -1 IT -T: Bidder. si. SiraamrnxB; Ky. Sept, l-Fiflher at largfefhcehasbeen in Lawre jcehurgand tried sbefqre Judge Davis, ;in44.heCou JudgrefeurneAayerdict of guilty and t on the blpck and sold intoU aervitudes.by the ehen ff. .if a purchasercanbe J ound. The ofildaJsanUyknowf.whafe to; do in tne event oino sale. r- Thd t)ldet tresbyterlarfChiircli GraCri4kaWesbyterYan"C in passairas jjorit townsnip, uranyuie rcouhtyiyJs..the, oldest Presbyterian Church In the State. , rThe recprd show that int'175Q the fiirst celebration of the Ix)rdfiupperm celebrated lnrtms-ttnxhrEffcai now being fnade by4he earnest Chris?4 . uu lauuepi inis cixuronpmsBuiias ,, with -which-to. repair -nd spreservet ihis old historic building. - Vi ;- ; r Littie minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds , rise above it. -Washington Irving, v "i ; v juace meei in me nisiory or ix onn varu-i Una,; wMleheia" hrlotte W SepJ 190r Jor vagraney, andfwhok nad been nervibuue ior s penuu ux ivycivb uioama. theMghestpWale-win M?pu t hVA (US poet, philosopher, i Devonshire in 1772 and died In Ubn- ' .was on of ?thei ifiTeateatnliterarv? but marred bis life by his habit ffW.ordsworth v called QOleridffe th4l q '; - Kq ?r.s J. .N6 litf br-vedl0c9 CfodV'owtt headf Tle,glpriQUS sun.uprtst ;-V hrS Thel aH averred I had killed the'bP i ,it Tfuit. brought, the fog-4ana misV f f Twas rieht. said they, sueh birds Xo S ' That -brine the f os and. mist. .... " " - 5 The fair breeze blew, .thewhife. fpanv, 'flew, '' .,t'.'.;.-' :' " The -furrowjf allowed ffeer si;t nr,We were the first that everturst Into that7 silent rsea i !W4? JDown dropt the breeze, the sails dropt Twas sad as Sad could be; An rt We fid "sneak- onl to 5 break ;.f The-silence of tne.sea, , , All in , hot and coppersky '5 i -i- i xne biooay sun, at noon, .:t Nq bigger, than thnoon. I)ay1,afteriday,dayfafteryaay,io ii-? We stuck.-r-nor breath nor motion; AsMle as-a painted ship :sm :f I ' Upon a painted ocean , . Water, -water everywhere , ; , And all the boards did shrink; 4Watteri water- everywhere, - 3 J !" s " Nor any drop to, drink. The very deep did, rot: O Christ!, f P? That"ever this should be! " U fjf jc ea,f snmy anings aia crawi wwn "egsij About,aboi;t, in reel, and rout, , , j5 The death-flresr danced at night; TaylotColeridge , ft 1 5- V! iff i 2 r4t rTheyswater; ;like ;Wltoh's-?Oils, , . ? f j. ! i'li' Burht ' green, and blue, and white. M .1- - mWVTyr il WATCHMAN. j j i -If rice ot Coal Advancing. V i CJharlotte.Observer. f , - .., Consumers of steam coal in Qharlotte. """"" mnssiAA uuuW " ou.ouwim rnce of 20 cents net ton. The Birmmer-1 K 1 a -r-f j i . .T .--.-5-- in Atla!hta,: in KnoxviUegnd1 eveh in Birmingham, ' anoT its comment is that "this must be a sympathetic advance, for th"ere)Jis nothing' else to base a rise in prices, upon" r And yet,- as. it icon tinues, it is difficult to trace, the bond of sympathy, for the soft "coal of the South' ahd the -hard coal of the 'North- Where the strike prevails,fare not rivals. Indeed, there seems . no more , reason why J the price ' of bituminous coal should go upfbecau8e" the mihefsPf;ani; thracite cpaj-are- on; strike than 'that jthe price of oranges should gp?up be cause IembhV are high," for pne' quality bf coal cannot begeHeraUy' subsfatuted coar cannon oe generauy suosututea for another. ? iThe, hard pai ; isr;not I adooted to sfeam nurnoaes and the use I F a x x - i pi 8Qif ppai . (ior me. is noi auowea m Lte ..fSi; owff vv" i0 nv oiiunw u suming cehtres.tJ Bdt is hardly" worth while to' discuss- theories ih the' 'pres ence ;pf a condition Consutfiers pf. steam coal, in Charlotte and elsewhere, are to pay higher prices, but they are CPmfprted'by nch such'; situation as is 'before the pepple; especially the? poor people, .of the cities,, who see. . the prices 1 .'of fuel cpal going f sky high, "with the . 1 , v. ...a. ' Til- II. I strike still lnprogress and -a coal ' fam ine not impossibleT-and'airthis ib the immediate presence of a long winter. - fc, ',') -,., , , t Elglltjflve Ponnda Cotton OA Five Charlotte Observer. . Mr. Pat Mungo, the president of j Clear1 'Creek r nrovince; ' was f in ' "Char-1 ottew yjesteray. o.fle-' says that thd People, out.his whjijnptbeepidmng. nucK of anything since that . terrible ail itornif ex'cept'rmnknpcorh stMkii f hd pickingaip icottonroff sthe rdtf&dvj .8 an evidence- Ol..tne navop - wrpugnt I v the storm. Mr. Munsro savs that one 1 Of hia neighbors nicked a field of five I 1 teres and got 85 pounds ipf the staple. I A 'But if crops fail," . said Mr. Mungo, we nave plenty of sold to fall back on. All we have to do is to dig for it." - ; I Atlanta Journal: i'&s a'CteorHan like" allotHef Geri'4 iansiIfeennterested intever' itf terests" th&rp60ttle-of the'CapitaLCity-of 3)Uhns.fa5iipinfavor and, against, the S I O" TJW w i legal phases of any-question that is be 4r j fprjelhebebutthettt are "other quesaons oroaaer ana aeeper man any legal questibn irivblvedJ I come up! t6' hat I sav byassettine that; the !Meth4 odist.chnrch is not to blame when- one of its , members commits a. crime,?! great or small. A Masonic, lodge is, not to be h.eld responsible if one of - its - members .violates the sacred oatVt of a Mason. If one or'a dozen people get drunk in Atlanta today, Atlanta jnay not be re sponsible for, that, but there is a point where responsibility attaches and inev itably . settles down. . I repeat, the Methodist church is. I not responsible; When one of its members gets dVunk or steals' something," ' but the Methodist church is responsible to God and man - - ".li 'irrTiMf-j J. z responsible for 'the bad conduct of one of its members; but that lodge is re- sponsible, world without end 'for who they maker worshipful master of the lodge. Atlanta may or may not be : to blame for the crowd -that files into Judge Briles' court every morning, and from" the. court to the stockade, but At lanta is everlastingly responsible to God and man for who she puts, ast her su preme executive. ,. , ' 5 ,( There ought ': to be ' three 1 distinct Hphases Of eligibility of at candidate. Jb irst, mental ' fatness ; secondly, moral tness,' and thirdly, legal ! fitness ; ; and they ought ioijcomein .that border in telligence, uprightness first, and lastly, I. qualified legal" fitness. - A - man who will get , drunk is no more tit to be mayor of a city like Atlanta than a pig ' a a m a. 1 is fit to preside at a feast of angels. inf heaven. A disao nte character has no more place at the executive . head of a great city than he has in a pulpit preaching the gosptel. ' A" tree is known by its fruits. Senator Ben Hill once said : ' 'A' man who is politically POr- nipt cannot be privately "pure.-' ' f Atlanta will go to the devil- fast enough with her best citizens in au thority, but God has said '.'when the wicked .rule the people mourn,'' and wnne Atlanta is suDmitting tne nnoa tlon of eligibility of candidates to the V finest legal talent it is well enough - for them to submit some questions to God'a old book, called the Bible, and let the Usrht of its truth shine upon taste, candidates.' Every man ? to" his but' I Won't vote for a man who is , not as pure as his wife: and I won't Vote for a man who will stand on the streets and curse. I don't care what else , he is or ain't, if he .does either -one of these three things I will not stultify my manhood and sense of right-by giving him my endoremeht at the polls. I am not championing any candidate or fighting any candidate. I am stating some great principles;pf right. . I know F am stating principles that, the voters of Atlanta in the interest of home and their children had better, hear and heed. I am not saying, anybody's than to have a man as chief executive who would dishonor the homes and the morals of the- town. Atlanta has been kicked and cuffed and bought and bossed at the polls by contending Jnfiato onH ama Airtxr .ifi. :. ...I - - .Jl; -? 1 fAUlllVldUOf UUUXA CU1AIVOV UUJ IlliiUC, AO A V t-vIt ri ana it - t-?1 aliviAaf anvfVtinrr i a I spectabie at tne pons tnere, but sne is paying for it and she will still pay dear for all the influences ?which have cor rupted her municipal life, or bull-dozed bought, or debauched her officials. If ,we got a drunkard or. a blasphemer or a dissolute character, in. the' name of God let's .put . him. behind Atlanta'i barroom screens, whiskey barrels and beef kegs, and bide him from the gaze of maii', and hot elevate him to a Position where' he is" constantly on the exhibit not only of ? his own deformities, but also Pf the'ehoice of the people who placed him there, v-.-.- ; ' : - But run who you please gentlemen, and elect who jrou please : as. mayor, -1 can stand it if y0u can.. ;I am od rnMes m. jLi? 0iAa, ' - . .h ?r- , , . J rM ti TiaTro ib t n ex rvi rr w nan nn ca ann anr. can bave is the big head lines and f , w nt nria tKftf ,w;a rtdntft tatisi lai KUoij, that yototUnta papeis you -gel; your monkVt tho fork nf fhVi rw-ilo V-&- I see Americus has gone back! 'from prohibition to saloons, f "The dog ito his vomit and the sow to her wallow in the mire.", I -have some fittle jespect fro a f Aror. that i iroof oftoK iraor ofiw. I in to Vote it out and fails, but I have 11 in . C .. 1 .that will put it Put and then deliberate -waw K V- W vwkyya M a a.a..aa.apa. mWm n . . . a aa a a a a a a aai a . . . - a. sa. a a a a a a a a a a m a a a a a a. ar a ly vote the dirty saloons bacX in, their community to " debauch 7 their1, negroes and wreek the hom es of- the-white peo ple. immmU. thou8ajid;douar?i clPse up every night at 10U3O.is the sa. loon law, for: Americus. . Atlanta xjias the same,, and . Atlanta, .boasts.; pf the best reeulated I Saloons in the Umted SfAliep.'il jjl Jew. 10 knos,' ruin -W'thobfii of-llftii wad ' Khew aP thei ime: time thatthe are I the best .regulated saloons inthe worldt -xur. wuviuu.jav wnwewh Thedifference-between sentiment that ifi .&JfB- Ucensee- saloohalidh sentiment that f&SfM i)etpite bind;tigers--one is "mean and spective candidates for the mayoralitv, . ztTjf t " J: ,,s -j . .r i2Hrnuv&?J fzsuiij& i that, - T I consider. any iioree thief in the 1 drunk or been drinking; tnat anybody's -w, sing on ner; sne ought to ne .adopted Uhairman Simmons tells your .corres- .-.;7. dissolute or been dissolute. I am talk- a stop and the busy nwoot of .a great na- ag the successor to Winnie Davis, -the pondent he. is particularly pleased at ing facts about candidates, fitness for b.011 s industry was stuled. JAUas a aughter pf the. Confederacy. My the political outlook' and regards the ' i V' oflBce in this country where we profess silent, never, to be forgotten tnbute to good friend, Joe Brown; has written a party as now; strohger than ever before. " ' lo be Christian and decent. " Atlanta the memory of the j nations chief .as parody on that song, and the last line There is no independent movement, so H had better nfivfir havft another mavor his body was lpwered mto its last, rest- I 1 '- m ' ' . - II A Vt W ..A Wm-mTm-K WmmAm f W mTXm .W Wm A Ifl fl tit W A "fc. I . . ' ' m I - men. it woma noi uikc uumiuu.y . wngine iH auo wnuueau uifc mere to vote every cursed saloon out of "the world. We only know a little of the effects of the well-regulated saloons of Atlanta by the unfortunate gang brought up before Judge Uroyies, and that's just a drop in the bucket. back, has takerr the vise step" of 'visit iner the blind timers Tin "the town and &Pa8 Vr ihxee w sitclear -KSS?r jfWf?8? "v uwua miuuj iuwUj w& lir -u ' any inan hatI vote for .or favor a bring.it home and , look at it. Suppose I have got two near neigh bors,, the one on my .right, is a ' horse thief, and the. one pn my left is zhah who.YOtes,forand,fo8ters saloons.. -It you ask me r which . I., regard the best neighbor and .citizen , I will '. say the horse thief every pop. , You say .why ? I reply, because if ; the horse thief breaks down. my barn-door and steals my horse tonight and runs away, with him, lean get another horse : tomor row' for a hundred dollars; ; but - if the other neighbor. votes the saloon upon my. town and debauches my boy . and breaks the heart of my wife and damns my. poor, boy in hell forever, let's t see you fix that up for a hundred dollars. J. am a. peculiar American citizen. ; I think more of my boy.than 1 do of my I more of a horse thief, as a citizen, than T I u ' J " X " t V i Wi going to fight them and say just what X gentlemanly please on this subject. First,-1 am sure I am right, and se condly, I am going to say it and take the consequences.. I'd . rather go around with my mouth in a poultice all the time, and pull the poultice down and " shoot them again; than to go around with a well mouth like many a preacher in this country is doing, afraid to condemn the wrong and speak his honest sentiments. Yours, . r :, Sam P. Jonesw ' McKlnley Was Shot a Tear Ago. So Fresh in mind of , the public are the shooting and death of President WiUiam ; McKinley ; that few! persons 1 prupauiy , reauz mat me iaiai ounei wasr fired : the . first Friday . in, Septem ber, a year ago. - Much has happened in the affairs of the non;einc;the;news shock ing trageHyrw 3 to the ittttermost parts of the World though a year in itself is a small thine in the history, jpraafiphSfc r,s" 7 Uhfi that .Ji riday-J-it was September 6 the President bf-the United States. m the! best of health and enioyiher the . - s .. ..... . m w connaence ana Respect notpniy pi jus countrymen, utpri other countries, was shPoWn in thempleof Music of, thefAmericanxposition at Buffalok The 'details, of the brave fight he made forilifeOoiftBe tireless efforts -of ine surgeons, ana oi-now.he oiea early I C. ;. . v-. ' , " . . ' - 1 "u '"unua6 w oefttemoer -a,- ttirj '8 will not; purs heidone' vwiU linger in., the minds of 'all until this generation has passedway' ' ; ., ; .. Kings , and, Emperors hastened to send messages v" of -sympathy to the stricken widow,- who ,hpw .lives in th.3 quiet of her country, home at' Canton;" O., and the whole nation mourned with a feeling:bf personal Joss. -'Z--. y'-h' For five minutes every 6eam,?"every vehicle in this city and throughput' the ing place in Canton. This new President, Theodore Kopse- velt, by a strange coincidence,' almost on the anniversary pf his I predecessor's I ! assassination, narrowly escaped death 1U tnelXOUeV; aCCldenS, UeaT imiSneia "ITifaaa Relatl ve of . DanleL Boo ne. . Salisbury Cor. Charlotte Observer. ... Apropos the article on ; the adven tures of Daniel Boone and, Ms friend, Uenton, in to-day's Observer,: it may be of interest to state what is generally un known' that the noted . pioneer and frontiersm.an left descendants who are now living near his old home in this State. ' He spent his early manhood, before hisJ first journey into 'Kentucky in Davie county then a part of Rowan, where his father had moved from : the eastern part of the Btate. - "The rains of of the cabin in which the .family hyed are still, shown. This spot is on the l?? ne snort owtance aDove me riunctaon of the South Yadkin at what is Yadkin river, a short distance above the oHl callpirl TWnfiR Fol- r Hto: vonntr l " " - j i w1" mjuriiw uu vwtuuv DaAvi A nA CM AMMAif Am tatner 01 several, children., vvnen ne was rtjauy tu muvtj-ms lauiiiy hj. jwu tucky after nis hrst prolonged and per- nous siay ne leit Denina a uaugnier, Hannah, who was married to James enxy. ivnry uiig, xauuiui lUameU XVCrUfl, UY l1? bada datrghterriShza, who married Jno. M. Summers, and is now living four miles north of Mocksville on the Fjarmington road. - She is 60 years of ;ase and is . the - mother of I several grown children, ; ;, This , line of descent is Authentic beyond dispute, as there are old people still ; living who remem ber Hannah Boone and her . parentage as told to them. ' - - - phairman Simmons says he hag no id ihat ther Bepubiicans' wiU caxry a single congressional 5 district. All the statement ox" hints that they will carry the ninth She characterizes as absurd will be even fewer BepubUcan members of the Legislature then there were at the last term. No man f&ifa of success who conauers ) himself . " Atlanta. Constitution.' r. i-T What, a mmmnfiAH' -. , TV-a schools have opened tEe'-wIhter feessiori ,i ! mm . VlyIA. ' ' Hundreds of children are sroin&r 4o and x -i i.j, i. - STrS- liaXeibet.hurntfH the5fafce washed'ahdfthe '-hlin rushed. 31ie boys have a' new suit and the girls ne oaresse,iahd j IV lookahke everything and j everybody is - working fdrthe hildren- Merchahb mis. chaMcsdoctorslawy and farmers Beem tolbeivbusy in their trftflH"ftTlf1 TiffiMirSTlH.f hilt hAhinrl VitTvir All is the welfare and happiness of theif I j - children. We have t but tine , scholar how a- sweet-" errand child, who has Tisen - to; a. higher . grade i and? has ; to sumn ner young :minai so soive inei when she thought that:th eh mieht -mazes and mystenes ot Latin andalge- he near-but she looked fnrwrH ;k - bra, but she will doCit., Qur schools have good teacher, and with help at gie hf thirtyo possible for Aheteachertogivemore than a few minutes to each; one, but I sometimes give an hour to , ourt little VI &l ai ghSh?fe?lS iteeMt whereJight to give her grandpais good'forBiitfi8fJuft self to herfmotherinWery way that for even me to fall into line withnew was..p6ssible;:And in that unmeasured books and master, them.. . vT?he first eery ice there .came an unexpected joy, Latin book I readFwas'i tsimplettle kh .enthusiasm that lifted it.'hn one caueajJttistpriag eacra j ana line first Una tiro a llllciia proa tn f naolom of first line was "Peus creavit Caelem et dodcreated know the new ones. Just so with alge bra. -Old Jeremiah -Day - is iead - and now Ihiere is hew book and new rules, and they are harder to me." ; How we bid men-ddJove toCtallcover -the good old ways of fifty and sixty years ago, Captain Calhoun was' telling- yesterj day how pld 3em,an mauled knowledge into the brain 'through the shanks and iorgotteil some of the lickings that good oldNprtoh"'gayehlfprt I was full of mischief. J Professor Ronald Johnston is here now bn'avisit. He taught here many years, and ,most -all these young married 'men carry hia marks, for he is 'a Scotchman and has a fitchman'saih in Solomon and jthel rPd. In 1861 he joined the J confeder ate army, and when the war-was : over resumed his school and lias,, now been teaching over fifty years f Hp is t fit successor to Beman and Isham and Touchiebut has gentled down a good deal and ;loves to pet his grandchildren. I was ruminating about these school books. and:their cost. It took;' $4t.to buy four little books for the hew grade and I know it is too much, andAre joice to see. that a company has beep I I ViVU fcw 0sJ VU(H fm V formed to publish southern school books in a southern t5ity?and?keep";oUr money? at hornet ; trejolce that Dr I. Wilham Jones: has published & school history of the rUnited States that is-' -'ac! ceptable to our people, i He is a grand I VAX bVUMVUlUU ITAU1VUV SA CAAAV TV IvlX old gentleman without fear and with- out reproach, and has, done more to preserve our gc 3d name, and our re- cprd than any other man. His ' biog raphy of Jefferson Davis and of Robert E. Lee should be in every household. Even Teddy, who claims -to be ar his torian, ought to Tead that of Mr. Davis and repent and retract and apologize before he is set down as. an arch calum niatpr. of a true patriot and a noble man. This reminds me of that . brave girl, Laura Talbert Gait, who refused to sing "Marching Through Georgia" in the Louisville public school. Bles- "As too nront. t Vi ioxM"rrr fVim-kiiyK Georgia." , .-- . ;' f;-'- tI have lost some of my irespect for the city of Louisville as a southern city since that infamous song is allowed to tnno n thoir rtuhlin ahVtla - , t..a ? flxj j But I am comforted every day with letters of inquiry about the roster that Georgia is going .' to - make and about Jjidge-Walter Clark's books and how to get them. - Here is a beautiful letter from Hon. ,P. T; Turnley , mayor of the city of Highland Park, Ulsi He is 81 years old but does hot look rit m? his handsome photograph. 1 He was born and reared in Tennessee and graduated at West 1 Point in 1845. Stonewall Jackson was his roommate: : Generals D. R. Jones and William Montgomery Gardner his classmates. That is get ting pretty close to us, for D. B. Jon Was bur brigadier for! a while, and Gard ner was our colonel. ; ; Mr.. Turnley wants those books and I ' wish to sy. here that the bobks: must be ordered rnni tut o Rh'il .tAt Hhrart : ti?' v. i xt r - k -i j nHiMi vii . j. - nKini m m.iiii Liinv c.w 1 1 h, pnt hv exnrefla. but not nrenaid. aa hT- f iAtti- f rnW r.w Nich ols, of Jesnnl Ga. ..who also' sends his interesting hook. "A Soldier's Storv of Lawt0n Gordon Evans Brigade." That's rieht. 3 If we can find one man in every regiment who, will write its V, tTT.WP! Will . OOn ITftt . OHr ' rOStftr started; on' a North CaroUna basis. t 9 But I am not well and must forbear for this time. - Bill.Abp. 'f i ;-.. To, Nortbt CaroUna5redlt Yorxville, S. C, Teoman. . -The last Legislature of the State , of North Carolina appropriated $250,000 or-a quarter of a million dollars, for the better care of the insane of the State those ixxr unfortunate '.waifs, derelicts upon the tide of time, mariners withr out chart or mpass thr'radder ? tijpon the rough sea Pf mortality,' who cannot help themselves. ' How striking is the comparison with the rather miserly con duct of our own State! . It is a notori ous fact that South Carolina's - lunatic asylum is crowded, its means limited, and those who have it in charge have a serious responsibility in devising ways and means that the dignity and honor of the State might not be brought low. the heavens and the earth in six days. ftThe;mathTgrfJoved flowers, and 4tBe I know nhe whole" chapter, now, but daughter movd " her ; flowers to the that book is put of print j and;'! .don't mother's rooni.-and kebt them-bloom- sJ--- .5 - I . mf - m.mmm'-. AM f f VI V A Wf 'M W V . TUB OliO IN TUB WINDOW . t , '1 - -lf i ??i r i v. Vnnth'a Companion: A ? t . i U ;Thiaif theiBtoryof a mother and daughter who xanie under the shadow a iV th fyfnif in ' I . r nv" " uxu ri ft-nd tthft rifl.ricriSt.vr nrKr I ter f ound Jy w their relations out me muiuei iubi iuu u Dully to walk ""-' .-si.? -sxi . - and jthelhfirmities of years grew more heavy, upon her, so that the pendulum Of her life swung daily between her bed and her chair in the . window anJ1 na farther.' - .. . Her daughter up o4h is,.lime.iiad en- I J .n-.A i -I i . ii tv t-n a- ia.j;ft3 iuc2unii'Aii .inmnm sequent upon her mother's eood h'paltH ' but now there remained 6nlf the 'daily I theS end should rcome. She was sad J sinking of the heart to thfirwKn; of years pf unvarying, service, tftHlhg " - Not without heartarns 'anrlm Jmr'tv itigs, but with courage and filial affec- tiorr iheyoungeirwomftn" tooltip her " duty. Nor was she content with that form ' of mihistration which' mp9,M tdMdgeryahaiin respohse"i tol which I t r i.:f..l i .. I pvptv hftauHftil trait kiarkcdlsnv4d'' iteelfl " - ing-in-the window. - After a time the window becameCfl6ralrb0wer3hd"Tn" uie ueuicr Nit a .quipeujy oiu laay in white, looking down upon; the streets f -HEt-was beautiful to see her thererand to-witness her interest n the ?activ ties wnich'sha could jaot share3be looked down with a smile on the clerks hurry- ... ' i 1 1 il I ing by to business, and the young men their hats. She always waved her fan lcldren Jahd 3these "even though they did hot know her name, knew- and loved the window. U Backint -the hPuseand putof sight, f the J daughter' devoted herself to hpr I d ail v Warps .ireioicincriiT Mmnthd comfort of heart and bodv. and the years f or this continued for years sped' f astr"""' t-- . A little whilet ago the chair became empty; and since then the bell has often been rung by unknown people who say, beg your pardon, but where is the flearl --ofd' vlady I who sat V among-, "the: - flowers?" '.:.:- ; 1 Each 'day the daughter is learning j C thatjtoscorespf. people her mother's life, and her own, have been a daily bfehldlction. 1 It yhaa 'come tor me tq say to them," said she, "not to think of the vision of my mother las if it had gone, but as if she still looks down and Bmiles upon us from a higher window, and among flowers that ido not wither. To me; at least, it seems so; and in the light of that smile I shall live; hence I 1 1 LT 1 1 L. I IT forth 99 ;) A r The home seems empty now, for what might . have been a burden had become an abiding joy f Are there not many, homes that need just this lesson-of un measured love, to perfect mutual sym pathy; of ; enthusiastic : self -giving, to i make inspiration of drudgery; to save future regret, and to make the; sorrow of the hPnie a blessing? .-.:. v v '.-" :-. -:" v-'i "' ' . .'-s:K "x. Demoerati Will Sweep ihe State. Baleigh, Sept. 12. Democratic Stal e ties, and in each, case the dissatisfac tioh is due to local causes entirely, He . says there , ia.np general . movement- , no movement with a head. He regards -ex-Cpngressman J .W , Atwater-. as an emissary, going' about , seeking, to . de- , velop ; and' foster any ; independent;; movement or i meetings pr demonstra- -ji tion.; He is informed that in a western i county a republican .of .high position went to one , of f the democrats who failed to get .nominated, and v who ; he-' thought was dissatisfied, and assured him that if-he would run aa a -independent candidate all his expenses would be:paid:The-" senators says he has no idea the democrats Will - fail' to carry ;- all t the congressional districts. All the statements -or hints, that 'they e will not carry the ninth ? he character- izes absurd."? He is also confident that there will 1 be 1 even f ewef republicans -members of the legislature than -''there" were at the last isessidh. ...-.-It is asserted with much positiveness by some ' of - the democrats "who took part in' the? independent mass meeting or, eounty ; convention: here Saturday, that if republicans are going to " figure' in it they will drop ,ut , ... lift tf lJrAll.e , ''' r. ; In .his 'contest - with, the lynching - spirit,' on the other hand, the Goverhor 'r has not been' successful. His heavy reward for the, Salisbury rynchers has ?i t; resulted Un: nothing,. ,Jpown in .his. home county (Wayne) a week or two" ago there was a lynching1 for the name-'v less j cnine,; ;ne ;corpner'Sr jury ;not -, only reported nothiner aeaihst the mob but declared that -its members -"would have been recreant to their duty", had . they hot lynched the negro. And " the Duplin County grand jury went out of its. way to endorse this report of a coro ner's jary lp hpth?r; bounty. "All , this r goet to show how firmly entrenched is the lynching spirit and how slow must be the work of bringing about that rev erence for law that will make mob vio lence .; impossible. Everv stumbling block that retards the progress of jus tice must be removed, and every good citizen must feel it his duty to preach . obedience to law and order. -at 'A i- 1 a J ' . . - 4
The Chronicle (Wilkesboro, N.C.)
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Sept. 17, 1902, edition 1
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