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Daniel in his speech at Lexington, Va., at the dedication of "Stonewall" Jack son-Memorial Hall, declared that had Lee and Jackson been alive and in London at the golden jubilee of the queen who rules 4UU,0U0,U00 of peo ple, "all would have stopped . to do them honor." On Wednesday, June 23rd, "Stone wall" Jackson-Memorial Hall was ded icated at Lexington, Va.. There were some most pleasing addresses, among which was one by Dr. Hunter Mc Guire of Richmond. He began by saying that he had been told by Brit sh officers that the greatest English' speaking generals in the last hundred years were Marlborough, Wellington, Washington, Lee and Jackson. They declared, said Dr. McGuire, that the campaign of Jackson in the Valley of Virginia was the first in which the world had known no blunders. Good home training will ten every where. We were recently in a crowd of people who were packed together promiscuously for a short while when a youth who perhaps thought that he would look more like a man if he would smoke, began to light a cigar. A small boy of nine or ten summers re marked to him that "it is impolite to smoke where there are ladies without their permission." The youth in ques tion could not deny the force of the small boy's remark, and it not being convenient for him to obtain permis sion of every lady in the crowd, he took the suggestion and put the cigar aside. Many people will recall the Charlie Ross mystery which excited the coun try nearly twenty-three years ago. His ather, Mr. Christian K. Boss, has re cently died. The circumstance of the 'ather's death, whose life has been writhed out under the shadow of a great affliction, leads the Philadelphia Bulletin to argue that had there been no demand for the punishment of lit tle Charlie's abductors, but simply a re ward for a return of the boy, the father would doubtless have had the comforts of his son's presence these past score of years. It thinks when the abduct ors learned that there was demand for their punishment they murdered the little fellow rather than take risk on their own punishment tor the crime. A grand reception was given to the Daughters of the Confederacy in Nash ville, Tenn., Ia3t week on the occasion of the reunion of Confederate Veterans. The correspondent to the Richmond Dispatch sent the following paragraph which may be of interest to North Car olinians : In the midst of the business of the as sociation the North Carolina delegation marched in, singing "The Old North State," a song composed by William Gaston.. The association was compell ed to suspend all business while the "Tarheels" V marched in and sang, and General Gordon cave a neat turn to the interruption by saying : .'North Carolina is entitled to interrupt any convention at any time, for she was not only among the foremost in the late war. but first in the revolution. A year before Jefferson penned his im mortal Declaration of Independence, North Carolina adopted the Mecklen burg Declaration. : So I propose three cheers for the 'Old North State These were given with a will, and then General Gordon said, "And now let North Carolina take her seat, and be quiet." OLD NEWSPAPERS FOB SALE. 40 cents per hundred. FEEBLE MINDED. A FAMILY HISTORY. " Some Rambling Thoughts. BY (Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.) Continuing our comments upon the question of the proper care of the fee ble-minded, let me, in order to empha size the demand for prompt and genera action, make a lengthy mention of some facts set forth by E. P. Bicknell Esq., Secretary of the Indiana State Board of Charities. I have no special reason for selecting Indiana above other States for all have the same condi tions to contend with but his state ments are near at hand where -I am writing this, and they speak with greater authority than my unsupported statements would do. : He says: "The great, threatening danger from the increase of feeble mindedness, is the frequency, almost certainty, with which it is passed from parent to children." "Take the fact that there are over 5,000 feeble-minded persons in Indiana to day, of whom about one-half are wo men, and think of that in its relation to the other fact that 100 feeble-mind ed women, of whom we have partial records, are the mothers of at least 149 feeble-minded children, and the real significance and danger of the situation begins to be apparent." He then gives many family histories in Indiana, one of which must be inserted here as a typical one, that ought to arouse my readers from any lethargy in regard to the subject and force them to a determi nation that such things must stop, and because they must, they can be made to. In one of the southern Indiana counties is a family, of which from one to six members have been in the poor asylums at all times for thirty and prob ably forty years. Many of the mem bers hate dierlr but thir.ilescenrlants have always been ready to take their places in the ranks of pauperism and vice. It is impossible to secure a com plete record of this family, but from the fragmentary history which is availa ble and which includes probably not more than half the whole number oi members, the following facts are taken : One of the oldest of the family now living was born in 1823. He is feeble minded. His first wife was feeble minded. Four children were the re sult of this marriage, two sons and two daughters. All were feeble-minded. These children were named Mary, Mar garet, Andrew and George Washington. The first wife died and in his old age this man married a second time, his second'choice being also, a feeble-minded woman. The two daughters who were born to the first wife of this man were, as I have said, feeble-minded. Both are living to-day and are inmates of the poor asylum. Neither has ever married. Mary has borne six or seven children. Two or three have been dead for years and their mental condition is not positively known. Two daughters now living are in the school for feeble minded, and a son, who died within a few years, was feeble-minded. A third daughter is feeble-minded and is the wife of a feeble-minded man. They are not in the poor asylum, but live in a neighboring county, where they are given assistance by a township trustee. This couple has one child, of whose mental condition I have no informa tion. The other sister, Margaret, has a daughter, feeble-minded and unmar ried, who works in another county, and a feeble-minded son now in the school for feeble-minded. This woman has also borne two or three other children now dead, but all said to haye been feeble-minded. Of the son, Andrew, we have no record. He is dead and probably died in youth. The son, George Washington, married a feeble minded woman and , a feeble-minded son was born to them. George Wash ington afterwards separated from his wife and" later married a second feeble minded woman. Before marriage this woman had borne an illegitimate child by George Washington. This child was also feeble-minded. It should be remembered that nearly all the persons referred to in this family record have been during the whole or a part of their lives a burden upon the community. Eyery member of the family, so far as known, has been feeble-minded. Prob ably one-half the members of the fam ily have been illegitimate.; Those .who haye entered into the marriage relation have had little or no respect for it, and Hall's Hair Benewer is pronounced the best preparation made for thicken ing the growth of the hair and restoring that which is gray to its orlgmaljBOlor. Sold by E. T. Whitehead fc Col, Scot land Neck, N. C. ' there is much doubt as to the legitima cy of the children born to married mothers. The history of this family is not closed. As it stands to-day, there are probably thirteen members support ed wholly or chiefly through- public funds. Hardly a year passes that other feeble-minded, illegitimate children are not born into the family. The burden upon the tax-payers grows greater and the curse of feeble-mi ndedness and illegitimacy spreads. It must be apparent now to all who read with head and heart in t combina tion, that this country cannot afford to have this taint of preventable; Imbecil ity gaining stronger and stronger hold upon our vitality. Broad plans', faith fully carried out must be adopted else the evil will grow beyond our control. In the first place all feeble-minded women, during the child-bearing age should be kept in institutions other than the poor asylums of townships. iNexi, inougn ieeDie-mmaea men are not likely to find wives among normal women, they ought, for their own sakes and for the sake or making . them pro ductive laborers, to be gathered with their kind in institutions where the whole plan is for the benefit of these defectives and where the constant watchfulness as to occupation makes work stimulating to the feeble intellect, Further, we must put away all senti mental protest against these thousands being forced to celibacy. Celibacy is the only way to stop this self-multiply ing stream. There are higher duties than reproducing our kind. The late war removed ten times ten thousand, and thousands beside, from life and all chance to marry, yet we admire them for their self surrender. The Catholic clergy forgo marriage in order-that they may be free to go here, there and every where at the call of sacred duty ; we ad mire them also. The highest duty of self is to serve society, and we merely wish to call these defectives to a grand er battle than any fought with weapons, a battle with insanity, pauperism, idio cy, illegitimacy and vice, waged by those who heretofore have, from no conscious fault of their own, been work ing entirely on behalf of these evils. Every State must bo arouseoihrough ts legislature to take action, based up on an intelligent understanding of the whole question. To this" sacred duty to generations yet unborn, I trust some of my readers will pledge themselves. The question of expense will solve itself, since we cannot choose whether or not we shall support the feeble-minded ; for we do now at expense individually greater than it could possibly be in a well ordered asylum village, with ample tillable ground around it. If these articles, last week's and this, have any merit it will be in their sug gest iveness merely. They are not com plete studies and could not well be in the limit of 2,000 words. Pictures on Bant Notes. Selected. An old woman in Scotland was living in . abject poverty. Her neighbors thought it strange, knowing that she had a son in America reputed to be in comfortable circumstances. One day one of them ventured to ask her about the matter. "Does your son ever send you any money?" "No," reluctantly answered the moth er : but eager to deiena mm against tne mplied charge of forgetfulness and in gratitude, she added, "But he writes me nice long letters and sends me pret ty pictures in almost every one of them." "Where are these pictures?" queried the visitor ; "may I see one of them ?" And the old woman went to the old Bible, and there between the leaves lay the "pictures" that her son had been sending from America through all these years. : " What were they? Nothing more nor less than bank notes, each for a considerable amount. During all this time of need the woman had had under hand a sum of money sufficient to sat- sfv her every want, and she did not know of it. She had looked at the pictures ; they had been to her remind ers of her far-off son, and evidence that he had not forgotten her, and that was all. Free Pills. Send your address to H." E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits, These pills are easy in action and are particularly, effective m the cure of Constipation and sick headache. For malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free - from every deleterious substance and to be Durely vegetable, lney ao not weak en by their action: but by giving tone . . ' . 1 jl . . z i to stomacn ana oowew gueauy invigo rate the system. Regular ze 25 cents per box. Sold by JS. T. Whitehead a Co. PIRATES OF CAROLINA. THE TERRORS OF TEE SEAS. These are now Things of the Past. W. C. Allen in Wilmington Messenger. PAET II. Restless and roving in his disposition Blackboard could not long remain con tented upon land. Accordingly to the sea he went with his followers, who were at all times under his guidance, Not long afterwards he returned to Bath ostensibly as a trader bringing French ship loaded with sugar and co coa. He claimed that he had found the vessel abandoned at sea, but there were no marks of violence by storm that would occasion such a belief. No apparent reason could be shown why a crew voluntarily should abandon a ves sel at sea in the excellent condition in which it was said to have been found. Governor Eden ordered a court of ad mirality with Tobias Knight as judge to sit in Bath to decide upon the mer- itg of the case. Evidence was taken from Blackboard himself and some of his gang in support of the falsehood about finding the vessel adrift. The court, in face of the notorious past rec ord of Teach and the witnesses, decided that the boat was a lawful prize and the property of Edward Teach, the finder. It seems strange that such a verdict could have been obtained from a court composed ot men who must have known the real character ot Black- beard. It is true that he had out wardly reformed, had given up the pre tention to piracy, and was trading os tensibly as a law abiding citizen. Williamson, in his history of North Carolina, published shortly after the events here described, makes a state ment, which, if true, will help to clear up the mystery of such a verdict. He says twenty barrels oi sugar and two bags of cocoa of the French ship were afterwards found in the larder of To bias Knight, the chief justice who sat upon the case. He could give no sat isfactory reason for their presence in his possession, and proceedings were Instituted against him aa being 'acces sory to pirates." He was tried but es caped conviction by the testimony of one witness, an. nmgnt, nowever, was shorn of his influence and no one m a 1 r 1 ever afterward had any commence in his integrity. Alter the condemnation ot the French ship by the court of admirality at Bath, Blackbeard remained in Pamlico river and vicinity to continue his nefarious work. He again threw off the mask and began the business of a freebooter with desire to conceal his purpose only so far as such conceal ment would contribute to his success. He had his hiding places all along the banks of the Pamlico river and sound. He brought his booty up to the town of Bath, and traded and trafficked with the people as if the whole town was in eague with him.. Sometimes for months he would live quietly at his home in Bath county ; then forsaking the land he would, ply his desperate calling on the sea capturing merchant vessels, killing the crews, robbing the cargoes, and destroying the rifled ves- j sels at sea. At last the people of the province, becoming indignant at the high hand- j ed acts of the great outlaw, and think ing that Governor Eden was a secret accomplice of the pirate, appealed to Governor Spotswood, of Virginia, tor protection. The appeal was not made in vain. The Virginian answered promptly that he would send ample force to bring the noted desperado to justice. At that time Captain Ellis Brand was the naval officer in com mand in Virginia waters with a small squadron under his immediate direc tion. Upon the application of Gov ernor Spotswood he detailed Lieuten ant Maynard with two sloops to go in pursuit of Teach, who was then in the neighborhood of Ocracoke. Maynard departed from James iver at once to perform his mission. Alter a few aays' sail he crossed the bar at Ocracoke and came in sight of Blackboard's ship, Queen Anne's Revenge, with its crew ot desperadoes. The pirate had been informed ot the coming of Maynard, but made no effort to escape, doubtless thinking that Maynard and his crew would soon be prisoners m his hands. As Maynard's boat came in gunshot Teach opened upon him with all his guns. Maynard replied with effect, and the battle soon became bloody. Maynard steered his vessel straight for the pirate, intending to board, but un fortunately ran aground. The pirate's fire then became galling. At one dip charge twenty of Maynard's men were swept from the deck into the sea. The young lieutenant saw that his antago nist had the advantage, and that his own boat would soon be disabled and captured unless some artifice could be successf ully put' into practice. As a desperate means of safety he re solved upon a bold stratagem. If the plan should be successful, it would be a decisive stroke ; if unsuccessful, it could only hasten the result. May nard therefore ordered all his crew to go below, and in a moment no one was left upon the deck but the dead and dying. Blackbeard supposing his en emy at his mercy approached the stranded vessel and prepared to board The two vessels were lashed together and blackbeard with twenty despera does armed to the teeth leaped on board to take possession. Instantly Maynard gave a signal and twenty doughty sailors rushed up the hatch way and lined themselves on deck. For an instant the two determined par ties stood eyeing each other. Black beard and his crowd were evidently sur prised at the artifice of their opponents. Only for an instant, however, was there a lull in the storm. Each party rushed upon the other and the deck speedily became slippery with blood. Each man singled out an opponent and the battle became an aggregate of duels. Blackbeard made for Maynard, and the young lieutenant accepted the chal lenge. They discharged their pistols without effect in each other's face and flung them away. Both then drew their daggers. Each glanced at the steel of the other and sprang to the combat like ferocious beasts. There was a pause among the other combat ants to see the issue between the com manders. The two circled around each other for a brief moment, and then each pounced upon the other. They clinched and rolled oyer upon the deck. They arose and continued the fight. Blackbeard had never before met a match. He had one now in the ath letic young lieutenant. Like an angry lion that is defeated in his object, Blackbeard gathered all his native forces together and made a final lunge at Maynard. The young man saw the glare of his opponent's eyes, and knew that that moment was the most critical of his life. He did not cringe, however, but met the pi rate in the full career of his onslaught. The blow of the freebooter was success fully parried and Blackbeard staggered. Before lie could reuuver ulmself, May nard's knife had found his vitals, and 9 the great corsair fell dead upon the deck. By this time all the pirates who had bearded the vessel were dead except seven. Ihey begged for mercy and obtained it. Maynard and his gallant crew then boarded the pirate vessel and breed the remainder ot the band to submit just as a burly negro was about to cast a firebrand into the magazine of powder to blow up the ship. The ne gro was seized and the catastrophe averted. The living members of the band, thirteen in all, were bound and confined as prisoners in the bold. Maynard ordered Blackboard's head to be cut from his shoulders. He had the ghastly object placed upon the bowsprit of his vessel, and with it sail ed up to Bath. While there he receiv ed the congratulations of many people who came to see the head of the man who had terrorized North Caroli na waters so long. After a short stay he sailed away to report at Williams burg, where he was received with great honor by Governor Spotswood and the council of State. The thirteen priso ners were shortly afterwards arraigned before the court ot the province of Vir ginia and given a fair trial, iney were all convicted and hanged. In the progress of the trial evidence was tak en from one man relative to the finding of the French ship mentioned in a for mer paragraph of this article- He des cribed how the boat was boarded, her crew put to death, and the prize se cured. Blackbeard, however, was be yond human punishment. Thus the southern colonies were rid of a band of outlaws that had exacted tribute from nearly all nations for thirty years. It has been often said that Black beard and bis gang buried quantities of gold and silver at different places along the shores of Pamlico river and gouud, 2Iany people have been so fool ish as to dig for these hidden treasures with the hope of attaining sudden wealth. The traveler along these local ities often sees excavations which are said to show the continued exertions of the money diggers. This is a waste of time for it is not at all probable that Teach ever buried any money ; or if he did resort to that, method ot conceal ment, it is very - unlikely that it re mained buried after his death. He had adherents upon land who assisted in the concealment of his stolen gains. As soon as Teach's death became known these land adherents made a division of the treasure in their hands, and dug up what was hidden, as was natural for them to do. r Health and happiness are relative conditions ; at any rate, there can be ittle happiness without health. To . . -. . .. give the Doay its iuii measure oi strength and energy, the blood should be kept pure and vigorus, by tne use of Ayer's Sarsapanlla. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co. Scotland Neck, N. C. DON'T SEND MY BOY WHERE YOUR GIRL CANT GO. Don't send my boy where your girl can't go, And say : "There's no danger for boys, you know, Because they all have their wild catj to sow." It is no more, right for my boy to be low Than your girl. Then please do not tell him so. This world's old lie is a boy's worst foe ; To hell or the kingdom they each must go. Don't send my boy where your girl can't go ; For a boy or a girl, sin is sin, you know ; And my baby boy's bands are as clean and white, And his heart is as pure as your girl's tonight. What sends thd soul of a girl to hell Will send the soul of my boy as well. Selected. Feminine Physical Culture. Ladies' Home Ideal. Girls have so many artificial re straints in childhood that they should correct them as soon as possible by a thorough and systematic course in gymnastics. Every good teacher of physical culture should understand a- natomy and hygiene, so that exercises may be given to girls and. women that will benfit and develop without harm ing them. The physical training of the sexes should be almost the same, but heavy work tor women should be ed up to gradually. 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