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I i..lllli..llllBlll..lll.lll..il!!l1..ll!l.iiSi.. .Jiui.n "'' ; f Borrowing your !- nci -l.bor's r :-renJ r SMk n Mb a r l-'MV II J I ii yoa Know . - -I your subscrip- tlon is due. Dont be a "dead-beat." I - - i t .cribs -fjr- Vc . . ,:f. II. V. Li. CXZ. Tl-xor and Proprietor. Subscription, $1.00 a Year. VOL. VIII. : NASHVILLE. N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902. NO. 22. I, 1 :icasl Cards. F. A. Wooward. - - W. L Thorp. :::.r.D & thorp. - Counselor! and Attorneys at Law, V Rocky Mount, N C jjeca ft CCCLEt, .. Counsellor! anl Attorneys at L. . JTASHTILLIt. K. 0 ' (J" Prwtice irt' State : tnd Femoral - Court. OiUcein prnmljary room.. V a f. e:.:mi:0N, ; . DENTAL SURGEON, - ' Rocky Mount. N. C. Offloe orer Kyier drug store. JCIIM T. STRICKLAND, : . ;, Physician and Burg-eon. NABIIYIIXE, K. C. ' Office at M. C. Yarboro & Co's Drug " Store. JitSTn & CHANTHAM. rr ; , ATT0B5IT8-AT-IiAW, ; . NASHVILLE, N. C. Money to loan on good security. 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Vuv . ..... - ; ... m., Rd tsnr.ru?! s -n K. 711 at 1 '!, l ft. m on, -ITC. W.T n. ia J,; t SEf'sJKjf - bq tea r.aa na wfi am m rl a J.T WeMon . 11 W M ....... At Bucky Mt 1 10 a . teaveTarboro 1 -T.3 . n UKirlir Ht IW'MM. I JW g ErV-Hnon M ll III tM ' I H 11 10 ... 41 IX T M I M FH A M BILL inn LETTER. Atlanta Contltutlon, : : It is utterly imrxxwitM for ft man to eraxp the horrow of Al&rtinique. Et frindivii,nl eaec haa ta heartrending anguish iiu there are 40,000 of them, and 1,000 more at Bt. Vincent. Here are SIX) in the coal mine near Knoi ville and 8,000 mournert outaide, and every day tIl of some new disaster. The world seem to be getting used to calamities and torrible things. They are now a big part of the battle of life and if we are not reconciled to tt we do not stop a ruormmt to pondor the utf or iog Hid dims thai is f'ingon.- Ko, wc cannot take it in and the head line in the daily papers are all that we have time or inclination to read. Laat night my wife and I read the pitiful story of Captain Freeman, of the Rod dam, as he told it at the hoepiUl at St. Lncia while tenderltyjying upon pillows his face ard hands charred and black ened, bis flesh raw ind his eye balls bloody, and how one after another of his crew sank in a fiery death until there were seventeen of them dead upon the deck,-and this was the only vessel of the sixteen that brought away a living soul. Oh, it was horrible and filled our hearts with sorrow and our eyes with tears. But this was only one case and there are thousands who would have had as pitiful a tale to tell if they had lived to tell it.- It is good for ut that we cannot know but a small part of the horrors of Martinique and Bt. Vincent and on the seas ana liven one case is enough. One case of a mother trying to save her child on a burning boat on the Mississippi river a few weeks ago saddened us all, but the memory of such things soon passes away and we forget it until another comes. Only last week the papers told of a man, a brute, who got angry witn his little boy of 6 years and after slap ping him to the floor picked him up bod.lv and raised him above his head and dashed him down and crushed the life out of his little body and bis moth er picked him up a corpse, while the life blood SDOUted from His mourn ana nose. The recital made me tick nd sad. The little boy, I believe, is in heaven, but the poor heart-broken mother has to stay to keep guard over the other . three. Mercuul father, when will these things cease to be. when will woman learn that it 4s better to live and die single than to chain herself to a man whose character for loving kindness has not been establish ed in the community!1 Girls, let me beseech you - to take no chances. Be a shop girl, a typewriter, a seamstress,- a book agent or anything tnat is pure and honest rather than the wife of a heartless brute and the mother of his children. ; Take no chances. The young men of this generation are a hard lot not more than two in ten are fit to marry. Count them up in your own community and ask your brother about them. How many aoes ne Know who he would be willing .for bis sister to marry. v,r.. v. .'"Si-' But I was ruminating about these horrible disasters and the grief that follows in their wake. Death is not so terrible a thing. Very often it comes in mercy and is a blessing. A peace ful death to the sged is a triumphant change the end of trouble and the be ginning of happiness. But it is the time and manner of death. ' Fitz Greene Halleck never wrote a more beautiful verse than his apostrophe to death: "Comewnen the blMsed teali . . That clone the pestilence are broke And orowded 01 ties wall lis itroUe; j Come In conxumptlon' Kliastiv form, The earthquake1 ihock. the ocean's storm And thou art terrible the tear. ' The groan, the knell, the pall, the bierj .; And all we know or dream or tear Of agony are thine." It looke like .some of these awful things are getting close to us. These Windward islands are on our side of the world, and not so far away. Even now the wind is blowing their ashes on Ourconsts, and the earth is quaking un , r 1 ioilJa. The exposition of the c: il r ' if s at ITnoxvlIIj is t'.e first hor ror 0 tLst kia-i in our sout. .land,, and no j -n can picture tho scene of those iutprvonr 1 r""n I wriifr? tbofr last I,,-.-' j Viw; to v ivs and cL!'J. -i tl.cy i j - J f- livu.kttv 7 f..e L01J have Bury i poa the 1 snJ temper the rind to tlie shorn lamb. To all who re in Trail and all who are bereaved, a would breathe the poor fisherman's .'or: "Cli Lord, good Lord, I am a Lf;..' ,1 uwn roorman a fool to speak to TIu a I am too old, too old my la 'a are drowned I've buried my poor wife my L 'Ms lasoics died so long ago that I forgot what t'.ey were like. I I now they went to IVe; but I forget "r little fact 3, thor;,li I r:' d them . T' ciful' Lord, plc.u3 coiv.fort 1 ! .ei.nivy hearts.'" I can 's Jt voi' I have no 1 t 0 old; but, good I, mi V -i all."; 1. ; iti r-"'e of sad :' :. . ., . 1 : "Tt is ' "'rtJt '' - i'-.'T it lo .. II I- .'rii. . -1 f . 'iv.. the Lord pity us all is my prayer, and we all die the death of the righteous and our last end be like His. Bill Aud i: QUAINT tin IIOCSTON, His rietareeciae Attllj4 In TKe ValteAl Stale Senate. O. Orow in Saturday Bveulns t'ott. . ': Gen. 6am Houston," of Texan, was the most picturesque figurv in tho S- ate during my first year'i aervi e at the Capitol. Like Ilentou, be was very food of yoon nien, wiii i.ino to cmut me !.'on.if thj bojs." Only those who were yf'Ungtr in th forties can realiw the interest peu,Ie flt in Ucus ton in the days when his part in the struggle for the indnpendtiuoe f T"xas was still fresh in the public nunu. Visitors to the Senate chamber in variably asked to have him pointed out to them, and they , were never disap pointed in their hero, for he was large of frame, of stately carriage and dig nified demeanor and had s lionlike countenance. ' : Always unconventional in dress, he would now and then appear at the Cap itol wearing 'a vast sombrero and a Mexican blanket, a sort of ornamental bed quilt with a slit in the middle, through which the wearer's head was thrust, leaving the blanket to hang In folds around the body. His principal employment in the Senate was whit tling pine sticks, of which he seemed to have an unlimited supply. It was only at rare intervals that he broke the silence, but when he did speak he always proved himself capable of con tributing his quoaa of sound and ; pa triotic advice to the deliberations of the Senate."" .''' No passage in Houston's career was nobler than the heroic stand against disunion which marked its close, while of his kindliness of nature and gener ous helpfulness to those in distress one could recall stories sufficient to. fill a volume. . ; f Near Quincy, 111. , there was a stretch of country known'ASlthe -'Indian tract" to which Houston held title, ft fact many of the settlers thereon, a care less pioneer brood, failed to search Out. One of them called upon William &A. Richardson, long a member of the House from Quincy district and sub sequently A Senator from bis state, confided to him that he had inad- verently settled upon 160 acres of Howe ton's land and that all he was worth stood in improvements on it. He wanted Richardson to see Houston and make the best terms ihat he could. Richardson upon his return to Wash- ington told Houston the story and asked what be would take for a quit claim deed to the 160 acres. - "What sort of a man is this con stituent of yours who has blundered upon my landr' asked Houston. "A good, square honest man." was the rerly. " ',-'' ' When I turn him off my land I reckon he and his family will be beg gars T" Richardson nodded. "What's this farm worth now?" asked Houston. "Improvements and all, about 16.000." Was the response. "What was the bare place worth when you fellows went on ltT". queried Houston. ' , : ; "About 5 an acre; $800 in all," an swered Richardson. V 1 "Tell him to send me $800 and I'll make him a deed." 1 In due time the $800 reached Wash. ington in the shape of a New York draft. Richardson sought Houston, who, having executed a deed, took the draft and endorsed it -. "You say this tnan of yours is a good man?" he asked thoughtfully. "Couldn't be a better one," was the emphatio answer. "Send him back thk draft and tell him Sam Houston has changed his mind.1 What can you euy a good sad die house for in that county ?" He was told that f 200 would do it. "wen, then," er 11 Houston, "write to your fcinnd and tdl him to buy a first-class fMMa horae, alout four years old, and kep him for me.. When Congress k " lu. us I will go home with you ' and 1 ti e horse down to Texas." ' V. 'I out dlay the man in Illinois received back bis draft and bought a a saddle horse the best he could find. Just before adjournment Houston sought Richardson. "You say the fellow who's got my horse is a tiptop good fellow?" Richardson again de clared him one of the best in bis dis trict. "Well," said Houston, with a s!h, "I should have liked first rate to sue him and also, my horse, but as af fairs turn out I must go straight to Texfls. When you got home go over ar.J s"e t'.is man and tell him to sell t' b 1 3 mid do what he pleases with t'j-: . And, by the way Rich ar.l a, I ' ' '.1 you would write and t. !1 me if it v a a good horse or not." Li' '?C tt 1 sl.cut in her bed, 1 ' " - tt t 1 pwv-n, v.1 ' ;h was beam- ' ' V r n - h the curtainlesg I ing unable to r, she cliifiped her r ( -i 1 s .id: "Please, ; r 1 " j bo I can go mVSIDENT ROOSEVELT AND HI! CALLERS. The strain of seven months in the White house has robbed Theodore Roosevelt of none of that remarkable force and vigot for which he has long been noted, says the Washington cor respondent of the Brooklyn Eagle. His face is aglow with the ruddy color of health, his eyes are bright and clear and his step has that spring and buoy ancy that indicate perfect physical con dition. The President employs no useless frills in learning what his callers want. He walks directly to the nearest one inside the the room,- extends his arm and gives the visitor a good West ern handshake, at the same time smil-, ing broadly. The caller drops his voice and begins talking earnestly. In a few seconds the President breaks in, speak ing clearly And concisely and with marked emphasis. . "Now, my dear sir; you must make your application in writing. I have so many matters, to think about that it is a phjsical impossibility to retain all theee things in my mind. Put it in writing and send it to me at once, and I will see what can be done." He shakes hands again, bows and moves along to the next group. This is headed by a Southera member of Congress, and with him are s husband and wife and a daughter. "Mr. Presi dent," says the Representative, "this is Mr. Blank, the editor of the biggest paper in our State, and this is Mrs. Blank and their daughter." . The biggest editor in the State mur murs a few nice things to the President and says he hopes tke Piesident rill come "down and visit our way," President Roosevelt is pleased, and his beaming face shows it. "I think you: I thank you. I greatly appreciate that, Mr. Blank," he says in a way that warms the Southern editor up. President Roosevelt has acquired that important and absolutely necessary knack of greeting a caller, ascertaining his business, disposing of it and bowing him out without loss of time and with out giving offense to the visitor. Here is a longwinded man with no mission at all except to talk to the Chief Execu tive and take up his time, "I juBt called," he starts in, "to pay my respects, and ' "I am delighted to see you," inter rupts the President, with emphasis on each word. "I should have been sorry Wfniss you." With that he smiles pleasently, bows and moves on to the next visitor. This happens to be a stranger, a tall man with a 10-year-old son. . "I am Mr. Blank," said the tall man "Did you get my letter?" The President repeats the name and then admits that he does not believe that he has received the letter in que tion. : ' v -'" "It contained a poem that I wrote about vou." savs the caller. "I dare sav that Mr. Cortelyou has it." "Oh, I am so glad to have a poet call to see me," says the President." , Then he stoops over, pats the boy on the head and shakes his little hand. "And this is your little boy? - How are you, young man? I hope you are feeling well this bright day. . Had to Walk Like Elephants. New fork Sun. . Hundreds of the pupils attending the Brooklyn pumic scnoois came late rMnnt.lv hecanse thev stopped to look at the parade of Forepaugh and Sells Brothers circus, wnion is in urooiuyn ior a wees. In one of the schools a . teacher rap rtaA a. Alius nf crirln to order and said: "Now I want to know how many of you waited to-day to see tne ele phants?" ,r Believing they would be asked to tell what they knew about elephants, all but five in the class raised their hands. "Well," said the teacher. "I want each one of you to get down on your ' m 11 . - . - 1 bands, ana Knees ana wane in swgie me aoouc me room line etepnnani. f!nmn now. iret down." . ' j . Weeping, the girls got down on their hands ami lrnpa and nroeeeded to orawl. While they were doing this the . 1 . 11 ' I 1 W - ' .1 L teacner caueu upon vue uyo guu uu had not stopped to see the circus to look upon the show in the classroom. "Step right up and Bee the ele phants," said the teacher. "See how clumsily some of them "hobble." : ' Around and around they crawled, weeping aloud. Many of them went home at noon and told their parents ahnnt, It ' One little eirl said in the afternoon that she had ashed her father if the teacher could not be punished?" "And what did vour father sav asked one of the children. - - "He said the teacher could be -arrested for cruelty to animals," , replied tne utue gin. The Pastor's Delicacy. A woman member of a fashionable church had gone to her pastor with the complaint that she was greatly disturbed bv one of her neighbors. ; "Do you know," Bhe said, "that the man in the pew behind ours .destroys all my devotional feelings when he tries to sing? Couldn't you ask him to chanTO his pew? . : "Veil, answered the pastor rellect- ively, "I fM a little d 'Mary on that , SOUTH EH W EPrCATlOW. Baltimore gun. ., 1. From time to time there have been commendable efforts on the part of northern men to promote education in the South by supplementing the vast contributions of the Southern poo. pie toward the building up of public schools, colleges and other agencies of enlightenment and progress. George Peabody for example, left s fund of $3,600,000 for educational purposes, most of which is available. In the thirty-four years that have elapsed since the organization of the Peabody trust $2,744,755 has been spent in the training of teachers and furthering the establishment of publio schools. The J. F. Slater fund of $1,500,000 exists to "uplift the emancipated population of the Southern States," and $500,000 of its income has been spent in helping negro schools, such as those at Hamp ton, Tuskegee, Tongaloo, Miss., etc. Recently an additional - agency, s 'Southern luiucation Board," has been organized to employ a fund of $1,000, 000 in "awakening and informing publio opinion and securing additional legislation and revenues for the better ment of public schools in the South." The objects of all these funds are com mendable, though the theories on which they are applied are sometimes mis taken, as is natural with boards of trustees so constituted as to see facte from the remote and biased Northern point of view. Not frequently the situation in the South as respects illiteracy, taxation tor school purposes, school attendance, etc., is misrepresented in an in just and offensive manner by Northern friends of "Southern education.,' It was re cently stated, for example, in the world's Work that adult white illiter acy is as great as it was before the Civil War in the ten Southern States South of the Potomac and east of the Mis sissippi. This is shown by the Manu facturer's Record to be an invidous statement, since it implies a worse state of things than really exists, and to be fair should have been accompanied by a statement of the fact that in Massa chusetts also illiteracy is greater than it formerly was. The article in the World's Work took Hawkins county, Tennessee, as s terrible example and as part of an argument to prove . that the ten Southern States give an inad equate amount of their means and energy to education.' ' But by compar ing the educational statistics of Haw kins county and the District of Co lumbia the Record shows that, after all, Hawkins county does pretty, well and excels the District in its percent ages of enrollment of children, at tendance and money raised by local taxation for each dollar of assessed valuation. Hawkins county spends 5.1 mills per dollar of assessed valua tion on its schools, as against 8.8 mills per dollar raised by taxes for the schools of the District of Columbia. In view of the fact that Hawkins is a rural county . of wide . area, sprawling over mountains and badly ; supplied with roads, the attendance is positively creditable, in contrast with that Of the District, where streets, roads and wealth are abundant. The Record's conclu sion is that "the educational energy the desire to support to support schools of the people of Hawkins county is to that of the District as 100 to 73, and the desire to attend school as 100 to 81." Not that the people of the Dis trict of Columbia are deficient. They do very well. But in the points men tioned Hawkins county taken as a type of the deplorably neglectful Southern county does better in pro. portion to its means. In short, South ern counties and the Southern States do the best they can for education and should get fuller credit than they do for their "educational energy." Peace Agreement Fixe. , London, May 29. The British cabi net, which was specially summoned last night, was in session this morning for little over an hour. It is generally accepted, however, that the session, though brief, sufficed to put the final touches on. the agreement . which will terminate the war. The Colonial Sec retary Joseph Chamberlain was suffi ciently recovered from his indisposition to attend what is already designated as the "peace" cabinet. 1 Pretoria May 29. Lord Milner, the British high commissioner, left Pretoria for Johannesburg' this morn ing. The Boer delegates have also left this city and have returned to Vereeniging, Transvaal,' the scene of the peace conference between the Boer delegations. The question of the re tention of arms has been settled in & manner favorable to the Boers, whose contention that the occupants of Out lying farms would be exposed; to dan ger from attacks on the part of na tives or wild beasts was held to be well grounded. - . Advice Wanted. Young Man I came to ask you for the hand of your daughter, sir. . Old Man Cthe father of scvenl Which one of my' daughters, your j manr Young Man That's another tl.ir,' I want to ask you. Now, as a id v ' ii h one would you a Jvi o ivn t LEADING HOTELS. IIotolAVooclwurd MR?. W. R. WINTSEAD, Proprietress TABLE FIRST-CLASS. Omnibus meets all trains. . ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. ' . 0veiir? Hotel, Cuisine unexcelled. Vegetables and Fruit In season. Table, First-Class. RATES: $2.00 PER DAY. BOARD BY DAY, WEEK OR EOSTH . J.J.SPIVEY, Proprietor! SPKMO HOPS, W. C. ColliiiM Hotel, .- . ' . " Table Excellent V Hons8 Centrally Located, . Rates $160 Per Cay. CUT RATES FOR 8TEADY DOAROERS. - - ' ... ..' '. When in Nashville call and be well served Special attention paid to transient guests. Bonitz Hotel, WILMINGTON, N.C Formerly Commercial, corner '' Second and Market Streets." . . In business centre of city. " : Rates; One Dollar Per Day . Special Bates by tne Weet - J. W. BONITZ, PROPRIETOR, . Formerly of Goldsboro. N. C. In. I. H. Griffin, Proprietresi. ' ROCKY MOUNT, ', - -:: . N. C: Recently Renovated .s3 E.pl to. lie ,Pe.!::. Bates, $2.00 a Day. EVERY CONVENIENCE ANC COUR TESY ASSURED. THE PUBLIC. Convenient to all trains and business, part of city. HOTEL HILLIARD, ' 8. R. BILLIARD, Proprietor. NASHVILLE, N. C. . ..' . This wellknown Travelers' Home ha been re-opened and is now ready to re ceive the transient trade. ; . Rates) $2.00 Per Day. Free 8am pie 'Rooms. Comfortable v Rooms. Polite and Attentive MM, Strvrjis.'"' Every effort put fortn for Ui eptei-tain . meet of J Uubj NASH COUNTY D1R ECTCMY ; , OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT. V Mayor , - , Samuel S. Gay ; Commissioners. ' . 'u. J. M. Williams, M. C. Yarboro, L. M Conyers.J. A. Strickland. CHURCHES.'. Methodist Rev. T. M. Benson, pn' or, services Is: 3rd and 4-th Sunday i. s, and itrd Sunday at 11 oVUxk, n. m. Praver meetingeveryWednc"-, mv Baptist Rev. W. C. Norn ', services 2nd Sunday (morniii"!) i 1 Sunday School at 3 p. tn. 1 1 . r 1 ins Thursday evening. Primitive Baptist LUlor I I. B. ford, pastor, services on 4th usu!,y ; " Saturday be tore at 11 o'cUxk, n. in. COUNTY COVE! NT. Sheria; - '. Clork Superior Court, V'. :-.i of Dcds, . T -' Ti -r, v r i . iT, .'omit v r . Puhert Fitz 1 the finn' i Francigc' ..cure, ( , ully p.s 1 f o: 1 have t x i r -Hi. 1- tt I t l you what I !.:. ' t !.) I ni!Ut k hifi to join t!:c On' "1 f
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