North Carolina Newspapers

imN OLD FAVORITE X W . W F T.t . " IN VICT US By Willilm E. Henley ' t ' - t "WILLIAM EltNEST HENLEY, borii'In Gloucester, Eng- laiid, on Aug. 23, 1849, long prominent In English letters as a poet,- essayist novelist and dramatist, now resides in London. : His pdems are full of depth ;and beauty, asd,"now and agaone comes on a perfect song," 'says a recent reviewer. J . - -- I w 1 4 r For" my i TJT of the night that cover; me, - ' , Black as the pit from Pol to Pole. : , thank whatever gods may he. For" my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance :-. I have not winced nor cried aloud, tinder the bludgednlngs of chance - My head is bloody, but unbowed. THE WEELITTLES FIND THE PROHIBITION IN CUMBERLAND. News and Observer. I Six years ago every saloon in Cum berland county was closed and a dis Four years ago there was a big fight in the Legislature over a bill to abolish the dispensary and restore license. jt was defeated. Two years ago, under -the leadership of Senator James D. Mj- :ieiu, a ueieriuiueu enori was iuaue i abolish the dispensary. The House d T;n -j -a - i i. j J.L. f eated the bill. Later Mr. McKeitha introduced a bill to establish pro hib tion in. Cumberland, coupled with proposition that in November, 190 the voters of Cumberland should vote 'Prohibition'' or "License." Most ojf the Prohibitionists and advocates of thfe u . ii -Lin, i 1J cause tney tnougnt it would result l restoring license at the election. , Prohibition went into effect in Jul 1901. It has worked so well that at th election on Tuesday, the people, bv a -overwhelming majority, voted to co tinue Cumberland a dry county. Th vote was: Prohibition 1.931: Lieens 612, a majority of 1,319. This is the most significant electio held iq JN orth Carolina this year. Tu sentiment against the saloon has bee gteadily growihg in North Carolina Prohibition has - been successful ; i uumoenana county, oecause it em! braced the whole county, because pub lie "sentiment was behind it, and be cause the officers sought to enforce th law- 1 here needs only an. an ti -jug amendment to the law in Cumberland to make its violation comparative in frequent. r Prohibitionjr or a dispensary regula 4-SMt TYtavrai 1 J in- tyi Aaf V v nrn rt 4-i sn r. North Carolina, and the number o cuuuut auuuBiiiuir me saloon wii steadily increase. The result in Cum 1 1 I r II - - ; i jl oerianu win give a great impetus to s uoon restriction in other counties. Drouth and Famine In India. 'i no rrrn I a r.i rn rt rha ealf.nnvovnnl native states of India has decreased, i is stated, 3,500,000 in the last 10 years owing to plague and famine, while th6 popu'ation of the states under direct British rule has increased by 7,000,000 Prom this the British press draws the inference that the famines . are not due to me augiu-iuuiau government, ou to the failure of the customary rains The Government's large extension o i. it i t j: '.,-... irrigation in the parched - areas, and iti construction of railways have served tq' lesson rho .rrtr f 01 In too onH tr 1aci-.4 their bad effect when thev come. j It is due to the railroads that food could be delivered wherever needed, and thai nououyuiarveu mai asKeu neip. Mil . lions, were fed for long periods. The recent good rains promise an 'end of the scarcity' of grain. - Tommy sat way back in church with his mamma. It was ' his first experi ence. L.very thing was, wonderful- to him..; By and by the collection was taicen, ; out .imagine . the- surprise .; o Tommy's mother when the f usher LKM06U ! nuu uutre- iiai xuuimy Bay "No, thank yout I've . got some money oimyownr'- - The poker player often realizes : tha ... b. uuuar in me nana is worm two in the pot. ... .- - i tkvmrXM iS--r ' &0t Srte Slices , - Beyond this place of "wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me' unafraid. -0 It matters not how strait the gate," ; How charged with punishments the scroll, " - '- ' I am the master of my fate; ' I am the' captain of my soul. - IN SWITZERLAND. CARETAKER. Serious Attaelt on Kissing. Lincoln, Neb., Dispatch. " The habit of indiscriminately kissing at alt is to be tabooed by the doctors who compose the Missouri Valley Homeopathic Medical Association, which Has been holding its annual ses sion here. In the opinion of the majority of those present the habit is dangerous and to be condemned, no matter Jiow great the provocation. In a discussion this morning Dr E. G. Linn, oOIount Pleasant, la., rebuk ed all kissers, and declared that oscula tory exercises of all, sorts promoted dis ease and sometimes caused deaths, The members who listened to the statement "of Dr. Linn seemed to agree with him. Both the sly token of affec tion between sweethearts and kisses delivered by fond parents were roundly scored. ? Dr. L. C. Voss, of Columbus,, Neb., brought the subject up in his paper on sanitary science and made it the featn of his address. The doctor insist. . that the habit was as unhygienic as l was pleasant, and not: only dwelt upoa the enormity of the promiscuous public Smack, but tabooed that private home consumption variety. ' The speaker insisted that skin diseases, tuberculosis; and the majority of infectious diseases were more often sown broadcast through the kiss than through any other means, and, while the doctor spoke of no substitute for; the fatal kiss, he intimated that the handshake was the hvgienic salutation. , The anti-kissingispeech received the- hearty support of those present, and nods of assent followed the speakers words., x The association did not see fit to offi cially condemn kissing, but individ ually the doctors discussed the matter and agreed to think it over, and at a later date, perhaps, put their school of medicine on record. ' Cornstalks for Forage Purposes. Savannah News. A new industry is springing up in Georgia. It is utilization of cornstalks for forage purposes. Cornstalks are abundant on every farm and have proven one of the very best foods that can be raised. Dr. Hunnicutt advises every community to get a shredder and shred these stalks. It would be better than a mower. He says: - . 'There is one crop quite abundant' upon every farm. We refer to the cornstalk; crop. After thorough investigation we find no good reason" "to take back or modify anything that we have said on the sub ject of shxedding or .making hay: from cornstalks. The hay is as good as any we can make and cattle do as well when feed upon it. Every man who has pull ed fodder has made a , great mistake'. He has lost time- and. money and-in-jured'his corn. But it . is not . too late to use the stalks. : The hay will be about as good without the fodder. You' have only lost time and labor. If the stalks are cut and shredded the stalk and shuck will make good feed. - On every farm there -are tons of stalks. They have a money value and a food value." - - - . - ; yi - It is reported that cholera is making fearful ravagesr in the : Philippines. Seventy-five ; thousand cases have been reported since March. ' - i . - - . . - Atlanta Constitution.' Lord Bacon said, "Wives are young men s mistresses, companions. for mid- aie age and old men's nurses."- There is truth in that and my wife is nursing me now. Our girls liave gone off, one to a. wedding and the other to : Atlanta on a visit, I told them to go, for they. uau Deen penned - up nere with me for four long j months and their . mother said, she -would take care of me until they returned. I get along pretty well auring me day,- but at night my, cough is distressin g and my - wife has to- dose me with irarious remedies until I get to Bieep. xue , rain nas come at last and punfaed the air and I feel better. ' Yes, we two are alone in a great big house. one sits in her accustomed corner and sews most all day long, while I sit op posite in mine and write or read aloud to her and when meal time comes she sits at one end of the table and I at the other, and that's all. - Old father Gibbons came 9 miles yesterday to see me and to invite me and my wife to his birthday dinner. Wext week, he will be 89 years old and still gets about lively And takes a com fort in meeting his friends and abusing the yankees. It is hard to n construct these old veterans,, especially when they come from Virginia. He and his brother moved to Georgia just after the close of the war. He settled in this county on a good farm and his brother located in Rome. I never was at the bid. gentleman's house but once and that was in 1866. His brother was a game man and had been a colonel in the confederate army. When the car pet-naggers ana mean niggers overrun their section and plundered every rebel's home the colonel organized a band of avengers and played kuklux among them and whipred them and ran them off and later they came back with fed eral officers and the colonel and his Tand had to leave to save their lives. Not long after the colonel had settled in Rome the Virginia carpet-baggers got a military order for his arresfc-and trans portation to Virginia for , trial, A deputy marshal -and another fellow came secretly to Rome, biirthe colonel had already been advised of their com ing and sov one dark night about o'clock he came to my house and told me his peril and said he could go to his brothers place in this county and hide out until the pursuit had blowed over. So I hitched my horse to our rockaway and we left in haste. I knew the road to Kingston and he knew the rest of the way. It was about 3 o'clock when we reached the place and saw the gin . . 1 r m i mi nouse out in tne neia. mere we stopped and he took refuge in it and told me to tie my horse out in the bushes and then go down and rouse up i.is brother. This is the old man that asked us to come and dine with him. When I knocked at the door he came in his night clothes and said, '.':Who is that and what do you want ?" I whispered my business and told him to talk lowj for we didn' t want . the family or the negroes to know anything.. He put on his clothes , and went to his brother and 1 got in my conveyance and made for Rome, where I arrived about sunrise. The colonel kept hid in the gin house under the cotton for nearly a month and then dared to re turn for the; officers iiad departed. I never see this fine old Virginia gentle man but what T think of that ride and the narrow escape his brother made. Verily : reconstruction was worse than war. Jtsut it is an over now, manic tne good 'Lord, and we -can hold our re unions ana carry our battle-torn ban ners and build our monuments and lay the corner.8tone for Winnie Davis and lynch the brutes that assault our wives and daughters and as Governor Oates said to our defamers in congress,. "What are you going to do about it ?" And as for lynching, I repeat what I have said before, "Let the good work go on. Lynch 'em ! Hang 'em I Shoot 'em ! Burn .'em . Israel rutnam went into a cave with a torch to shoot the wolf that had devoured the lambs of his flock, ahd just so I would lynch the brutes who outrage our women.-. He is not a human. He is a brute, a beast and all these demonstrations by gover nors and judges and sheriffs are hypo critical and perfunctory. In their breasts they rejoice in the lynching. And there is another set of hypocrites who infest our southern land. I mean those who for the sake of hithy lucre and nothing else invite Roosevelt to visit their city and they promise him an ovation. He comes nearer being a figure-head of a president than any we have ever had. He is a confirmed slanderer of a great and good man and he knew he slandered him and will not retract or apologize. Our women have just laid a corner stone for a monu ment to his lamented daughter and our veterans and members of the legisia- ture approved it by their presence, and yet some of the same creatures would invite Roosevelt to 1 Savannah and Ma con and Augusta: I . wouldn't invite any man to my town whom I wouldn't invite to my house and no man who fought for the lost cause or. respects Mr. Davis would s do that. : There is more patriotism to-day among our . women than among our men. A friend wrote me from Atlanta that he was going to have 5,000 copies of General Jackson's great, .speech on- the "Wanderer" printed in pamphlet for distribution at a small cost among our people ! have promised to help him advertise it, but had no - idea that -he could sell or hardly; give . away, a , thousand copies, for our old men and cultured Inen and patriots were ".'nearly' all dead and this generation does not care whether : Gen eral Jackson made a speech or.not, : I asked a college man if he had ever read it and he seemed surprised and asked who was General Jackson, r Our people who Jbaye grown sup since the war have" fallen into northern lines and are for mnnAv. Mnnfiv' is ' their. amhitinrK I their idol. Morgan, and Rockefeller have 1 done .more to corrupt the young men- 'Of i thia " country than all . other oauses combined. . Those - who :. are smart are looking for some short cut to fortune -some . scheme, some .tricky way. to. shear the Iambs and get ' some- Doay s money ior notnmg.- xnis is sad, but it is. the truth. . - Well, the election is over and we are justwhere we were. We didn't expect anything else. Senator Morgan can take' comfort; for he said long ago that it was best to let the f republicans have the house- as long as- they . had? the rsenate.s Give them rore. all the-.TODe.' and let the country see where they will run -1 to ' and by . the i next presidential election the people will be alarmed and turn the rascals out. So mote it be. ! -BillAep.. 'SIeepIig: Beanly in Illinois Awaaes North Am jrican. Miss Dora Meek quarreled with her sweetheart on Sunday, September 28, and then went to sleep. She slumbered until. Saturday r October 18, and then regained consciousness. Every remedy known to science was tried in an effort to awaken her and failed. , , During the entire time of her sleep her pulse and respiration were normal. The pupils of her eyes retained their normal condition. : . . What puzzled the physicians was her wonderful power of resistance to the remedies that usually brousrht such cases to an end. Ammenia fumes, ice applied, to her back, smart shippings, all were endured without flinching. Not once did she give signs of knowing what was being done, yet later develop ments show that she was largely con scious of what went on about her. . -As she tells it now, she was conscious much of the time, but when every thing was quiet her mind would wander. All of the time she was help less ahd uuable to make a sign. During her sleep she had many wonderful dreams. The history of the case goes back several years. She had an aunt, ac cording to reports, who was the victim of a long sleep and never fully recovered her mental strength. The girls father bai an attack of yellow fever in his soldier days, and his nerves had never recovered entirely. . -Two years ago the girl quarreled with her sweetheart. The next morning she was found in a wood lying by a log, al most frozen and in a sleep similar to the recent one. Drs. Laswell, of Alma, and Murfin, of Patoka, treated her and brought her out after almost a week This last time she quarreled with her sweetheart on the Saturday "before she went -to sleep. ' " Tne Renaissance of Clevelandlsm Progressive Farmer. One of the features of the recent campaign has4 been the re-appearance of Groter Cleveland as a Democratic leader. For the first" time since Bry an's nomination he made a campaign speech for his party. We shall not b surprised if a formidable effort is made to secure his nomination of President! two years hence. On last , Tuesday night we heard two Democratic lawyers of mora than ordinary prominence declare for him. The great obstacle in the way of a Cleveland boom by -the anti-Bryan element is the "ho-third-term" precedent that hot even Grant himself was unable to. break. It iff in teresting, therefore, to see that in a re cent New York special to the Rich mond Dispatch, Mr. Cleveland (all the while protesting that he was not a candidate) was quoted as saying:. "Recognizing the fact that, through President twice, I did not have two suc cessive terms, and that the precedent set by the Father of his Country related entirely to the holding, in a continued succession, three terms as iresident, l do not see that the precedent relates to me at all, or that if I were called upon by my fellow-citizens even twenty years from now, I could not serve yet another term as President of the United State's without violating the precedent very properly, set as a safeguard by our great est American." Deserted by Bride on Wedding Trip. North American. " Deserted by his bride of five days, Robert H. Lamed, of Lansing, has re turned to his home in that city., Mrs. Lamed was Miss Fannie Ide, . She is a niece of Governor Bliss, and has been member of his household for several years. . After an engagement of six months they were married two weeks ago at Saginaw. It was announced at the lme that the governor was building a handsome residence at Lansing as a bridal gift to the young couple. The friends of Mr. Lamed were somewhat surprised to see him back in Lansing last Thursday, as it had been announced that the bridal tour was to extend over a month. When it was earned that. Mrs. Lamed had , not re turned the surprise deepened. Then Lamed told his story, and now it is the gossip of the capital. -' . The bride deserted her husband at the Wayne Hotel here, while on the wedding trip: He found I a note from his wife on the dresser in their room saying,. "We've made a mistake. Bet ter now. than later." Setting the matter Dlgbt. "Areyoii a native of this town?" asked traveler ; of a resident .of a sleepy little Southern hamlet. - " "Ami what?", -- Are you a native of "the town ?" . . ; VHey?" : -.Are you a native of this place?' At that moment his wife, tall-, ahd sallow and gaunt appeared at the open door of the , cabin, :' and- taking horpipe from between her, teeth, said acridly - - - Ain t.. ye;. got ;no sense, Jim? lie means wuz . ye iivin nere wnen ; you wuzborn,or wuz jre born before , yon begun hvin here ? Understand ? Jiow answer him." ' . .. . SCTTLERS FOIl THE SOUTH. Sabsiantlal Results of many Tear' ?r . " - Work for Immigration '' Manufacturers' Record. " M: .V. Richards, the land and indus trial agent of the Southern Railway Co. , is a worker rather than a talker. But a few days ago the writer meeting Mr. Richards for an hour or two oh the cars while passing tbrougb the Carolinas, turned naturally to a discussion of the progress of the South, and without at tempting to quote his exact words, some of the points made by Mr. Rich ards may be summed up as follows: -"At last, after many years of seed- sowing, often under great discourage ment, the couth is beginning to reap the harvest. '. To ' get capital to come South was for, a long time difficult pro position, but it was much more difficult to induce oeople to locate here. To the great mass of Northern; and Western people the. South was an unknown region; So deep were the prejudices against this section , that the people were more inclined to accept every false "or . sensational statement against the South than to believe any good of it The men who in the early days blazed their way through the forests, crossed the Alleghanies and opened up the West and the men who later pressed on from Ohio and Indians and Illinois to Iowa and Minnesota and the Dakota 3 were not in one sense greater pioneers than were the men who twenty, fifteen or even ten years ago moved from the West and the North to the South That the anticipated -dangers were never encountered by the latter does not alter the case. They thought they were going into a far and dangerous land, and except for those who, driven by an inhospitable climate at home, sought health here the majority of the oeople who formerly came might, if you use the word in its better sense? be called adventurers. Pioneers they cer tainly were, and very generally in the same financial conditionof the pioneers who made possible the crea tion of the mighty West. Some of them succeeded and some failed,' but back in the North and West, whence they came, the failures were promptly widely heralded, while not so much was heard about the "successes. But- after a while the story of the men who! had come South, often with no capital but brains and Drawn, was toia dslck. at nome, at nrst with some skepticism, since there was still a disinclination to believe that any good could come out of the South. Now, thought, these reports are being everywhere accepted, jsaen are saying if John Doe could go .South and suc ceed, purely we can do so. And just about the time when this conviction was speading over the country the great prosperity of the West caused such an enormous f advance in the price of farm lands that every Western paper is filled with stories of farmers selling their high-priced land at $50, $75 and $100 an acre and moving South, where they can buy cheap land -and thus repeat the success made in the West. At least 100 Western farmers1 are today going oyer the country tributary to the South ern Railway between Washington and the Saluda river looking for farms, while we have j list soli to a Western man" for $35,000 cash a noted Virginia farm. Along other parts of the road the same activity in hunting for good farms is going on. But it is not aione farmers who are moving this way in great numbers. Timber-buyers, lumber-operators, pleasure-seekers having a competence, and who want now to make a permanent home, in a section having such a genial climate as much of the South, and many others are mov ing this way. The immigration and industrial development work of the Southern Railway has grown so rapidly that is is difficult to keep up with the enquiries from prospective settlers." Thinking over Mr. Richards' enthu siastic talk about the great southward movement of population, the writer could not but-recall the long and often times weary fight of the pioneers in the endeavor to press upon the world's at tention the claims of this section, the doubt which even Southern people had of these efforts ever being crowned with success, of the time when the Southern Railway managers determined to take an active part in this work, and called to this uphill' fight Mr. Richards, a Western man, whose father, like so many others, had gone from Virginia to make a home in the then almost un known West and whose son- was de stined to play such a prominent part in bringing to Virginia people from all the West, which he was so closely iden tified. This work of the Southern Rail way Co.; has been aggressively pushed. for some years, the managers of tnis company realizing that immediate re sults could not be secured, but now the whole South is beginning to reap the benefits from the hundreds of thou sands of dollars thus expended! lhe seed have been sown sometimes in un promising soil; sometimes in good, butlhe seed-sowing has never ceas a, and often the upromismg soil has yeilded even a larger harvest than that what was supposed to be tne most xer tile. The Southern . Railway CO., through its industrial and immigration bureau, has done a great work for the South. ' ' s . "You are in my pew, sir," .said Mr. Upjohn, stiffly. i Thfir T am sittinsr iii the seat of the scornful!" replied the. stranger, getting out of it with alacrity,-. and taking a seat further back in the church. - ; - A young lady attending college wrote tn her narents that she had fallen , in love with ping-pong. Immediately her father replied : . 'Give hi m. up I No Chinaman marries i into this iamuy i In very truth," I can't decide - . Just what's the charm of lovely Jinty. "3he is an angel 1" one man cried. Anotheraaid: ' 'She's devilish pretty I' ' HUIIAIFIXEE FIAIL DELIVERY It Ext nIo to be Completed In ' 'Tlirtw l'ears. ' . A. W. "Machen,-' General Superin tendent of the Free Delivery system, in his report for the fiscal : year 1902, estimates that ' within the next three years, when the extension of the rural free delivery service is completed, there will be 40,000 carriers employed, who will cover a territory of 700,000 square miles and make necessary an annual appropriation of about - $24,000,000. The territory of the JUnijted States avail able for rural free delivery embraces about 1,000,000 square , miles, or one third of the country's ? area, including Alaska, and the 11,650 routes now in operation cover a little more than 300, 000 square miles, so that .almost one third of the available territory has been provided with service. ". ' - . Mr.; Maphen says that while for the last five years the annual increase in the appropriations for the rural services has averaged over 200 per cent, in two or three years, when the complete ex tension shall have been effected," the rate of increase ought not to exceed 8 or 9 per cent., the rate maintained in the older branches of the service.-; The report says: - " The sooner the service is completed, the mora quickly will the. full effect of its influence on the postal ..revenue be felt. Hereafter the extension of the service should be made at the rate of 12,000 routes a year until it becomes universal. To do this the Department will require such largely increased ap propriations that: the annual postal defi cits for the ensuing two or three years will probably reach $8,000,000 or $10, 000,000, if not more, but once the ser vice is thoroughly organized, the pat ronage from 20,000,000 of our people Who have thus far had little opportunity to enjoy the full benefits of the mail service will increase to such . marked degree, that the additional revenue de rived will soon reduce - the present figures, if not entirely wipe them . out. Ah additional approprition of $500, 000 is asked for the current year to en able the Department to carry oufr its plans for the uninterrupted extension of the service. " On July 1, 1901, 4,301? rural routes were in operation, and during the year 4,165 routes were established , the ser vice practically doubling itself in twelve months. On July 1, 1901, the num ber of petitions for routes received at the Department since the establishment of the first route in 1896 reached 10,243 while during the year : 1902, 12,403 petitions were filed, exceeding by over 2,000" the total number filed during the preceding four shears;. Since July 1, 1902, about 2,400 petitions have been received or about 600 a month -a large average for this season of the year. .--k'.:.-:'K ? ': The observations made by, the De partment of the : working of the rural free delivery system in Carroll county, Maryland, where a complete and model system is in operation, shows that rural free , delivery causes a "healthy and steady increase in the gross receipts of the post offices in the locality in which free delivery is general, and is also re sponsible for a portion of the increased revenues of the larger offices accruing from the stimulated, use of the mails by merchants and others who are now able to reach patrons of rural free delivery throughout the country. . .. Supti Machen recommends that rural carriers be authorized to pay money orders to , patrons as well as" to issue them. In several localities postmasters have at their own risk permitted rural carriers to pay money orders. .. The in novation has proved most satisfactory and in no case has there been. a wrong payment of money by the carrier or loss to the postmaster on account of the practice. : - , i : yki01 ti ' ? ' :, ' Mr. Machen' recommends that fif en daj s' annual leave . be granted rural carriers and . that substitute car riers be paid a fixed living salary in place of the $l'a year they now receive from the. Government. The Hell Will Make Us Dance to tne music. Statesvllle Landmark. The. Bell Telephone Company, one of the biggest monopolies of its kind in the couutry, is gradually absorbing all the independent 'phone lines in this section. If has obtained : control of most of the independent lines in upper South Carolina,' and the exchanges at Gastonia, King's Mountain , Bessemer City, Lincolnton, Cherry ville . and Shelby have been consolidated and are now practically controlled by the Bell. Time was when the Bell company con- trouea everyming and tne smaller towns and rural communities were deprived of the advantages of 'phone service be cause they could not pay-the 'price. The independent concerns came in and have covered ; the rural communities with lines.. Now: when the Bell gets the music. , An Election Joke. 'A good story is being told in connec tion 'with the election - in1 Anderson county South . Carolina. ; The. man agers; at the country precincts were greatly distressed .when they looked over the ballots that had been furnish ed them and found none, bearing the name of the Hon. A, C. Latimer, for United. States': Senator. The managers began telephoning to , the Commis sioners of Elections at the court house asking what was the matter.' "It's all a trick," said; one. excited manager over the phone. fit's a trick of them durn McLaurinites to cheat ' Latimer out of his seat." It took a good deal of time and talk to persuade thegentle man that United States Senators are not elected by the people direct, ' but by the General Assembly? and that Mr. Latimer was just as safe as if his name appeared on every ballot that went into the box. -