VOL. 1.
ELM CITY, N. C„ FRTOAY, MARCH 21, 1902.
m 32.
BILL ARJP’S LKTTElt.
Atlanta Constltation.
March has no friend. It is a disa
greeable, uncertain blustering month.
It was named for Mars, the God (A
War, who was the son of Jupiter and
was always hunting around for a fight.
He was believed to be the father of
Romulus, the founder Of the Boman
Empire, and hence was held in great
reverence by the Romams. March wae
named for him. Those old Greeks and
Romans had no weeks—nor days of the
week—no Sundays or Mondays or any
other day, lut they divided time by
Calends and Ides. The Oalends were
the fifteenth. All the intermediate
days were designated by these, as for
instance, the third day after the Cal
ends of May or the fifth day before the
Ides of March. The Roman senate
always began its sessions on the Ides of
the month, except that after Julius
Caesar was murdered the anniversaiy
of that day the Ides of March were
observed as a sacred day. I want the
young people to know and remember
that we got our months from Boman
mythology and the days of our weeks
from the Scandinavian mythology.
Now listen to a part of this wenderful
story, for it is cla^ioiCnd more fascinat
ing than the Arabian Nights. Two
thousand years i^o it was the faith and
religion of millions of people. Jupiter
was the god of the Greeks and the
Romans and Woden was the god of the
Norsemen &nd each had a son who was
the god of war. There was the son of
Woden. Wednesday was named for
Woden and it was originally Woden’s
day. Thursday was named for Thor
and Friday for his mother. Each of
these mythologies had a hades or infer
nal region for bad people and evil
spirits. Plato presided over the one
and a woman named Hela over the
other. That is where the word Hell
came from. It seems an awful thing to
put hell in chM’ge of a woman, but
they said that^ no man was as bad as a
bad woman. Her father was named
Loki and she had two brothers. One
was a serpent so big and so long that it
wrapped around the world and then
swallowed its own tail. The other
was a wolf, so strong that he broke the
strongest chains just like they were cob
webs. Then W(^en got the mountain
spirits to make another chain and they
made it of six things. The noise made
by a cat walking, the beard of a woman,
the roots of stones, the breath of fishes,
the smiles of bears and the spittle birds.
When the chain was finish^ it was as
small and smooth and soft as a silken
string, but no power on earth could
break it. And so they chained him
and killed him. But listen what kind
of a home Miss Hela had. Hunger
was her dining table. Starvation
was her knike. Delay was her man
servant—Sloth her maid servant. A
precipice was her door step, Care her
bed, and Anguish the curtains to her
bed chamber. No wonder she was
cruel and always wore a stern, unhapy
and forbidding countwiance.
This is just a sample of their mythol
ogy. It fills up several books. Now,
where in the world did that people get
all these wonderful stories ? Away back
in the ages they must have had poets
more imaginative than Homer. Some
of our most learned men say they got
the foundation of many of them from
the Bible. For the story goes that
away back in the ages the people got so
bad that Jupiter got dreadful mad with
them and resolved to destroy them
So he summoned all the gods to come
to him, and they came from all parts
the heavens, traveling on the milky way,
which is the street of the gods, and af
ter tAking counsel togethei;. they de
termined to destroy all mankind and
start with a new pair. So Jupiter was
about to launch a red h(Tt thunderbolt
at the earth and burn it up, but one of
the gods told him that he had better
not, for he might burn up heaven, too.
So he concluded to use water instead of
fire, and then came the flood which
drowned every human being except
Deucalion and his wife, jirho Were good
people. Thep escaped tS the top of
mountain call^ Parnassus and were
saved. That is very much like the Bible
story of the flood and of Noah and
Mount Ararat, And just so they got
Hercules from Samson and Vulcan
and Apollo from Jubal and Jubal Cain;
and the Dragon from the serpent that
tempted Eve, and the giants who tried
to scale the walls of heaven from Nim
rod and his tower. Every great heath
en god had a favorite son just as our
Christain God has a Son. There is
something sublime and comforting in
even believing or imagining that
great and good being is somewhere in
the heavens overruling the earth and
its people, prospering the good and
punishing the evil. The fact that this
^11 powerful being is invimble. makes
His existence the more impressive.
Jupiter sat enthroned on Mount Olym
pus, Woden had a beautiful place of
gold and silver at Valhalla and it coiUd
only be reached by walking on a rain
bow. And we pray to ourGrod, saying:
“Oh, Thou who dwellest in the heav
ens,” and not in the temples made
with hands. History gives no account
of any people who did not put their
trust in some God, and this proves our
confession of weakness and our need of
strength from some supemalural divin
ity. The more cultured and enlightened
we become the more conscious we are
of our weakness. Children' depend ab
solutely on their parents until afar up
in their teens. They do not need any
other God, but by and by the parents
pass away or fail to supply their increas
ing wants and then comes that feeling
of helplessness and the wants of a pro
tector. Beflection comes with age and
the more reflective a man becomes and
the more intelligent from study and
culture, the more he must realize his
ignorance and dependence. Therefore,
1 cannot understand how such a cul
tured gentleman as IngersoU can be so
irreverent, so careless and prayerlees
about his own existence, for he cuioot
by what power he raises his hand
or closes his eyes when he 'wills to do
He says he woidd hi^ve jdanned
many things very dUferent. He would
have n^ven a man -wings and &e power
to fly. He would have made health
catching instead ot disease. He would
have made infants oo^ proof and Uiey
should be as lively when bom as little
chicks when they come oat of the shell,,
and the okl men should always
be calm and serene. In fact, he woi;M
have made everybody hanpy during
life and every death » painless One.
He ought to have g^ • Uttle fsrther
and abolished death and ttaa created
more worlds for the never dying peofde
to live in. But we are hen* and have
to submit to things as we Sad them,
and, as Governor Oates eaid, ‘*Hi\
IngersoU, what are you gou^; to do
about itr’
And now I want thiw month March
to hurry up pass away. It isaggp-
vating my grippe and I feel more like
writing “an ode to melancholy.” It
contracts and withers my charity for
my fellow men. I don't care a cent
for Roosevelt and Tillman, nor^Spooner
n«r the Atlanta de^t. Bat as the old
Persian phophet said, “Even this shall
away.” Fifty-three yeara ago today
my wife and I were married, bat on
our account the weather was u lovely
Lapland m^t. I was one of ten
children—^my wife was one of ten, and
we have^ten, »nd they have twenty,
and no great calamity or affliction hath
befallen us, thanks to the good Lord
for His mercies. Bill Abp.
THE WILCOX TBIAI..
Vke Hls««rr >ke Crlau
cox to AecMcd of Ooi
H. S. O. B. In Charlotte Otiserver.
Plalp Talk) Tcry Plain.
Cbarlotte Observer.
This t^k about the consent of the
governed is, when you get to thebottom
of it, mostly rubbish. We peofde of
the South, for instance who have for
years been cheating niggers at Sections
and kept it up unS we concluded that
it was chei4)er to disfranchise them by
legal enactment, now shed crocodile
tears on account of the woes of the
Filipinos and aloud that all just
government derives its authority from
the consent of the governed. Bot!
The Soath didn’t consent to the gov
emment that'it got for several years
after the CSvil War. The Southern
niggers are not consenting to the gov
ernment they are getting now.
We tidk about the consent the
governed and taxation without repre
sentation, when these arguments run
our way; but we forget how often these
princijdes have been violated in oar own
country to-day with our approbation
and as the res^t of our own acts. Con
sent of the governed! Taxation without
representation I Bot!
The n^rc^ of the Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial Institute who were en
gaged the latter part of 1900 by the
German government to teach the natives
of T^land, German West Africa,
how to grow cotton, have, according to
the report of the ccdoni^ committee,
succeeded in producing cotton which is
graded on ihe Bremen exchange above
American middling.
TheTusk^ee negroes have demon
strated that the Itmd in Togoland is
suitable for cotton, which- there
great abundance. The only obs^e to
the commercial utilization of this pro
duct is transportation and e^iedaUy
gettin the bales to the coast. The
colonial committee has sent an expedi
tion of engineers to survey for a raihroad
from the coast town of Lome to Falime,
in the intericH’.
aimaioBs naMclac eoraiaa Boom.
Philadedphia, March 13.—^Infolr-
mation received here to-night is to the
effect that Senator Simmons, of North
Carolina, has taken charge of the Gor
man boom for Ptemdenl. He had a
long talk with the Marylander last
night and to-day canvassMl the con
gressional leaders in his favor. Ck>rman
and Btyan are in Washington to-night
conferring with the leaders^ regarding
the organization of the natimud cam-
pidgn committee to-morrow night.
Gorman’s friends are in large majority,
and it is possible the committeee may
finally renounce Bryan. A Gorman
Tnan will almost certainly be elected
chairman.
nUrtMlvpl LmaatlM BalMlac a Ral^
r»a«.
As MiasiflBeppiled in setting the best
metiiod for the utilizing of convict
labor in the south, so as to make it
ptofitable, she is now going to set ^e
pace in regard to the wooing of the
inhabitants of her insane a^lum. A
railroad is being constructed with the
patients of the insane asylum of the
state, and the road that is being built by
this unusual class of labcn is tluee miles
in length. It is the first road in the
state that was ever bailt by this class of
“I’m afraid Edward you’re marrying
me only because I’ve inherited $50,000
from my unde.”
“Why, Blanche, how can you think
that of me? Your unde is nothing to
me! I would mar^ you no matter from
whom you inherited the money.”
An editor in Knghamton, N. Y.,
took to jocularly addressing an old
citizen of his town^as “colonel” and
often referred to him in his newspaper
as “Colcmel Tvlar” until averybody
took it up and ^uted “Colonel T^ler."
This gurgling military sobriqaent pteas-
ed the red^ent immensdy and when
recently he passed from life it was
found that he had left a large fortune
to the humerous editor who had pro-
m(^ed him to his paeado-oolondcy.
Governor McBweeney, of South Caro
lina, has ordered an invMtigation of a
cha^ agunstaSpartimbaig magistrate
who ist^^ed to have aenttfaiee
phans to jail becaaae their parents’
death left ^emooiDMiiB of KifpMt
Elizabeth Cmr, March 13.-
Vnicox was pat up on trial for his' life
here at 2 o’clock to-day. The court
house was packed full of men. Not a
single woman was in attendance. Thp
audience was eager to hear what vas
going on bat was at no time agly or
IS. The r^^ar jurors were
called and 153 ot the venire. The State
set adde three without cause and the
defense 20. At 8:45 o’dock to-night
the la^t juror was chosen. Two nqproes
were among the twdve.
The trial-of Wilcox, charged with the
murder of Mias Nellie Oropsey, of this
place, on. the night of November 20,
1901, b^^ in earnest to-day. It is a
most interesting case on account of the
sodal position ^ the two families c(m-
oemed and the mystery that soiroundB
it.
Mr. James Wilcox, son of ex-Sheriff
Thos. P. Wilcox, of this county, went
to the home of Mr. William^H. Crop-
aey, a well-to-do truck farmer of th^
jdara, on the night of November the
aOth, to call on Miss Ella Maud, or
Nellie” Cropsey, to whom heluid been
paying considerable attention. When
be arrived at the Cropsey home, say
about 8 o’dock, the whole family was
ia the sitting room. Young Ray Craw
ford was there, calling on Miss Olive, a
sister of Miss Nellie. Soon after 9
o’clock all the qiembers of the house*
hold except Misses Nellie, Olive and
Carrie Oropsey retired. Later, Misa'
Carrie, a cousin of the other two girls,
who was down on a visit,^went to hee
room. This left the young men and
their respective lady friends together.
At 11 o’clock Wilcox, rising from his
ehair announced: “I must go home;
my mother will be uneasy if I stay out
after 11 o’clock.” This was said in i
jocular way. Continuing, Wilcox said
Miss Nellie, I would like to see you
in the hall.” He rolled a cigarette and
went out, accompanied by the girl. She
never seen after that by anybody,
except Wilcox, until her dead body was
fcund floating just beneath the surface
of the water in Pasquotank river, on
the morning of the 27th of December.
Miss Olive Cropsey bade Mr. Craw
ford good night and went up-stairs' to
her room, thinking that her sister had
already gone. That was about 30 min
utes after Nellie and Wilcox had gone
into the hall tc^ther. But not find
ing her up there she concluded that
she and Wilcox had crossed over to the
parlor and were still there. However,
when she had gone to bed, taken
short nap and iniked she missed Miss
N^e and gave the alarm. The entire
family was soon up and searching
everywhere. The efforts were in vain.
Somewhere about 1 o’clock Mr. Cropsey
went to the home of Wixcox’s fa^er,
aroused the young man and told him
that Nellie could not be found and ask
ed if he knew anything of her. Wilcox
answered that he did not know any
more than that he left her leaning
agunst the post of the porch crying
about 11 o’clock. Before the mayor of
the town Wilcox said that he did in
vite the giri out and she went on the
porch with him. There he handed her
a parasol, or an umbrella, that she had
given him, and a picture of herself.
She broke into a cry and declared that
she knew what that meant. He begged
her to go into the house out of the cold,
but she would not do so. He then told
she replied: “Go on.” He left her
crying.
In order to understand the evidence
that will be given in this trial one
should fix the location of the Cropsey
house in his mind. The house is about
half mile southeast of the court
house. To get there you mubt cross
Uber and Herrington creeks, two smaU
ICreams that empty into the Pasquo
tank river; then go out what is known
as Biverview avenue, the road tha
leads to, points in the southern part o
the county. This road, or avenue,
passes between the Cropsey home on
the r^ht and the river on the left. A
boy could stand on the front steps of
the Cropsey residence and throw a rock
across the road into the river. If a
straight hne 100 yards long were drawn
from the steps out over the river, and
then earned a sharp turn to the right,
down the river for alx>ut 100 yards, the
exact spot where the body was found
would*be covered. The place is near a
dump of small trees and abqut 80 yards
from the bank. The body of the girl
could have been taken there by a
strong man or been borne over in a
boat and dumped out, or possibly have
washed over there from some other
point in the river. In dther case the
dty might have slept on till morning
without the knowing that anything had
happened had it not b^n that the girl
was mimed. The Cropsey home is on
the very southeastern edge of the town.
It is next to the last house in the corpor
ate limits. It stands between two houses,
dther of which is ovor 100 paces amy
*nie street or rosta, there w^d be
from travelers as a general thing at thal
time of night. The place is dark' and
seduded after nightfall.
The body of 'Miss Cropsey was found
by two fishermen. They had started
down the river in a small boat. Among
other things the man who saw tha body
first said: “I observed something Uack
floating with the tide. The long tresses
ot hair could ^ ^n. The (v^y was
swii^iiig . face downwi^ with the
shouldera up and the 1^' dangling to
ward the bottom.”
The alarm was given and the body
taken oat-and examined by three phy
sidanir, who reported in piurt aa-^ows:
“The ganhents showed no nuu^s, of
violence. The ^darmia of face aod
head, together with the hair, were ped-
ed off. The face ind head were sw^en
and sodden. There were no external
marks ot violmce on the head or face.
Virginal examination show^ the nor
mal of viigtn. The body iras then laid
opmfrom clavicle to a^pyaia pabia
and a full examination taa^ of the
internal ,(«puia. Xhe.wdiBb was of a
normal virgin size and coiiriattncy, andr
upon vertical section, aboiped ita^ to
be entirdy empty.
“Th^atomach open M&w opened
emitted gas uid wae foaiS to oontaiii
about two ounces Of dav|c fluid and
solid subrtance. The^^ieanmoe of the
stomach and othw abdominal oigans
was noriflal.
‘The longs were ooUa^ied and free
from water.
Upon the section of tlM scalp all
around the head, one ind&. dbove the
brow, there was fOand Mi the left aidto,
at the juncture of the ■^BaatMaa por^
tion of Uie tenqmial ^liatal and
^ntal bones a da^ ^heoioTatiott of
the muacular aabstaaoe a^oat two Iqr
two inchea in extent uid ttua part was
visibly thickened. Ihe fnaaonlar sab-
stance at this pnnt section ex
uded about a half ounce «f Made fluid.
The bone beneath this contain was
discolored slightly Une. There was no
other abnom^ty in any- part of the
scalp, which waa oomplimy diaaected.
There waa no bacture disooved at any
point of ^e cranium.’*
The rqport of the conmCT’sjaiy read:
We, the coroner^a juif, havinc been
duly summonod and sworn by Or. I.
Fearing to inquire into what caused the
death of Ella M. Cropeey, do ho^
^port that» from the investigation
made by three phystdaaa of Elisabeth
CS^ and from thw fin#9g, and also
from our present observation, that said
Ella M. (^psey came to her death by
being stricken a Mow on the left temple
andby being drowned in Paaqaotaok
river.”
No one was charged With killing her,
but it was urged tha* the charges
aga^t Wilcox, then in custody, be in-
vesti^ted.
This ease rests here. It is the diity
of the court to try the
the facts. It is certain that Miss Crop
sey did -not die fron% a blow and
drowning, too. She dieS fnmi. one »
the other bat not both, ai the craoner's
jury found. Her body had no water
in it. /
James Wilcox is a man of about 28
years. He has not lived a model life,
yet there are no grave charges against
his past. His looks are nc* prepos-
sessmg. He has the oo«|ntenance of a
cold-hearted, stidid man. But he can
not be convicted on his looks. The evi
dence made puUic up to this time is
drcumstahtial. It is said that the solic
itor has convindng evidence that will
be brought out at the proper time. This
remains to be seen.
The people hare are. divided. The
great majority bdieve flKSt the young
man is guilty of mordAJ' Many do not
think t^t he can be convicted on the
evidence.
Did Wilcox kill the giri with a black
jack or some other Uunt we^ioa or did
she commit suiddef This is the ques
tion. The jury must hear the evid^ce
and rend» a verdict. The prisoner has
“I will be tried by my God and
my country.
Euzabetk Ctt¥; Malrik 14.—The
Wilcox trial is well under way. The
jurors have been sdect^ and ^e wit
nesses are being heard. The defense
has done well in choosing the jurymen.
Nine of the twdve are intelligent-look-
ing young men. Several of them seem
to be of the same sodal position as the
prisoner. The negroes two them,
are of the ante-bellum type, each being
between SO and 60 years old. Th^ are
honest, good-loddng, full-Uoodsd Afri
cans. Pendleton B^ht, the twelfth
jurror, does not appear to be a man of
much intelligence. The jury is in
charge of Deputy Sheriff L. J. Brichard
The coroner testified that Miss Crt^
s^ came to her death by a blow. He
said that death was not caused by
drowning. His examination was fol-
BAU JVHBS A»TIOB T*
■BM.
lowed by a most rigid and trying 3
examination by Mr. Aydlett. At ti
he had the witness all to pieces, but on
the whole the statements made earlier
in the day was adhered to. The last
hour of the examination was tedious
and uninteresting. The most minute
details were gone into. If this is kept
up it will take sev^al weeks to ^ the
case. Dr. rearing’s testimony is. that
of a medical expert The case hangs
on the main points (rf^ hia evidence.
Waa Miss Cropsey killed luid thrown in
the river or did she drown 7 That is the
important question.
Two of Wilcox’s sisters and a cousin
and four of Miss Oropsey’s Mters were
in the court to-day.
“Are you sure these oonets are
unl»eakabler” asked the doubting cus-
I have been wearing a pw myscU
for a year,” said the shop girl, “ana
they are not broken yet. And,” i
continued, Uushing, “I’m engaged.”
Ex-Beinesentative Wm. M. Moody,
of Mass., has aocH>ted the Secretary
ship of thelTaTy> which as has been
announced, would soon be resigned by
Secretary Long. Secretary Long on the
10th handed in his reng^on to '
President to take effect May 1st.
Marconi, the inventor of wirdess
tel^raphy, reodved a meaaage
week in mid-ooean. He annoanoes
that in the three months he will be
ready to transmit commradal aaessages
without wires as fir^ular business. He
is only twen^-eyen years of age.
—This compodto regiment to go to
Charieetonin April will haTfrcompanie,
from 'Wibnii^tox^f OonoMd, '^H^natona
Charlotte, Darham, Waahiiwtoii, Qin-
ton, EdenU«,^Baleigh, HandiBtsoD, Ox
ford and Barlingtfm. They will be ac
companied by A band from Asheville.
scared yoa so7 You are
out «f bnath.”
“I joat crossed the street in front of
a cross^ed bicyclist who waa in
harry.”
CKves me jroar attention, yoang man
I’ve beeira yoang man; now I am an
old mao,, so to qieak. Admitting yoar
inteOigeim I daim that experience
and ooeorvation have hdped me to see
some tiiinga that aimple intelligenoe
does not observe. There are'two w6r&
which cover three wwUs, ^poess and
bilure. God has endowed yOu with
voliticai, and that means chmce, and
choice means, simidy, I’ll take tius,
you may have that. C&oioe meansalao
more thinga are offered U
thore waa only one thing in nght then
i^ HobsM's choice.
If one is a good thing and the otlMr
bad, then choose the good. If both
are good, then take the gOoder. If both
are bad then take ndther. Not like
one of the candidates for governor of
Georgia lyud flie otho: day: “Of two
evi^ I never take the greater.” That’s
xditics, pure and aimiMe and the devil
ia running that whde buaineaa.
Beal aucceaa haa ita foundations just
like the house we live in, and the very
basis of success is good character.. Jub
•ore' as Uiat the constitution foUowa
the ^ag, so good character must lead
^e way in all succeaaful unbertakings.
The young man who thinks he muat
drink wh&y and “cuaa” to hdp you
make a man of himself i» a fool to be-
fn witii. If I were running a aaloon
would want a decent, sober barkeeper.
I was not long finding a place of trust
and honw for a young man of my
town, some time ago, when I said to a
leading railroad official with whom I
wanted to place him, “that he was not
only lni|^t and effident and trustworthy
but that he was as dean in his life as
hia sweet Chiiatian mother. He haa
never touched whisky, wine or boa,
swore an oath or hsm^ed a deck of
cards.” “Send him to me,” said the
oflSdal, and that young man has been
promoted the tt^ time in twelve
months, and I dare say, will yet be pres
ident of that great railroad system. It
pays to be decent it never pays to be
other wise. The boy who knows how
to be a gentieman, and knows how to
keep from bdng a dog, is in poesesdon
of the knowle^ which makes him
master of the dtuation.
No use tdking, young man, about
your having self-control and will power.
The way to keep dean is not to mb up
against the things that will “smut yon.”
I don’t carc how much you may boast
of power, whiskey will make yoa
drunk.
Agun, God nor man can ever help
you to be someboiy, until you make
up your mind that you will be ot die,
do or die.
This message to you, young man,
was in^>ired a notice of that great
est living taanist, Paderewski, which I
saw in the Kansas City Journal of yes
terday. 'ihe artide was headed. “Pad
erewski’s Success Achieved Through
Mudi Hard Work.” His redtal is to
occur here in Convention hall, March
17th. I quote from the notice as fol
lows:
“Paderewski has simply come to be
the dominant figure in the world of
munc, a dominancy acquired by years
of patient struggle and stoical endu
rance of povert9k.and privation. The
success achieved by Paderewski is not
the result of chance, but the outcome
of sweat and suffering, heart-burnings
and humiliations.”
The press has given to the worid the
story of his life: how at ninteen years
of 1^, he'^softened the sting of poverty
by maraymg a giri equally aa poor. It
is now ahnost impossiUe to estimate
Paperewski’s wealth, ffis first tour of
Amratica netted him $108,000; his
second $181,000. . This is the fifth, and
each mfinwftrting one haa marked afinan-
dal gain over £e preceding one. When
it is considered thiu in all the European
countries Paderewski in equally a fa-
VOTite, it will be seen that his ten'years
of success have netted him millions.
Even with all his immense charities
and open-handed generouty, he has
not been able to deqiateh all his wealth.
He has a magnificent home in Poland
and Switzerland and princdy apart
ments in Paris. The newspapers no
longer busy themsdves with his flame-
colored hair, or melancholy eyes or how
he qspears on the stage, or how he holds
hia knife at the table. But now they tell
as of hia borough deep knowled^ of
the innermost secrets and feelings of
the “1^0 soul,” and his own ac
quaintance with tiie hopes and fears,
sorroira and suffering that fill every
human life. Now the {Hress make it
for him to do what no other man
0«n do.
Paderewski made up his mind that
he woald wear the crowns of Cho{^,
Bubenstdn and with his mind made up
he worked and suffered and persevered
un^ he has as surdy won as that he
wears their crowns. Young man, tius
not only holds good with Paderewski,
but it’s true of all great men, from
Adam down to 'Paderewski. Work,
pmeverance, suffering, lluow to the
winds all easy jobs. A thing that
easy done is not wHrth doi^. ^e
thing you do that call fte brain swekt,
soul sweat and - bo^ ^eat are the
thinga that make success not only pos-
uble but sure.
An idle head is the devil’s work
diop.” Yes, and an idle boy is the
devil’s saddle hwse, aad. the devil ia
most generally in the saddle, too.
Shun i^eness like you would a saloon
or they are two Uiings that get mighty
hi^ m short acquaintance.
Again, take care of your integrity.
When it becomes necessary in your life
for yoa to tell a lie, then you need to
go back and start life over again. ^Too
can’t build m a lie. 'Diere is but one
thing in the wovld that will fit down m
alie, and that is anotbw lie.
Agairt, if you would auccecd, be a
gentiranan. Kindneaa aad courteqr
eoat bat little, bot thqr are compankHis
of good fdkmship and furnish a store
hoase for friends, and yoa wiU need
friends, just as yoa need air and water.
Again, avoid all |?unea of dumce, from
craps to cotton futures. They destroy
yoor taste for honest toil, just as ydkm
back novds destroy all taste for useful
knowMro. A ddlar earned hf aweat
and toil is worth a.ndllion won oa pats
and calls.
Again, cherish (Mily the friendship
and companionship at good men and
nen. Be as careful ot yoar com
pany as yoa are of yoar destiny.
Again, many, yoang man, marry.
The old questfon pretty neariy covers
the ground, “Are yoa a married man
or a dogf’ God’s best gift to a little
boy is a good mother. God’s best gift
to a young man is a good wife. There
are too many young men pos^wning
marriage unffl ^ey ^ve a competency
to support a wife decently, as t^y say.
That won’t do, young mot. Yoa are
as foolish as the fdlow who ia waiting
until he gds good before he joins the
diurch. I was basted when I married
and if my daddy or daddy-in-law,
dther, ever gave me or my wife a cent
we lost it befnre we got home. Don’t
ever wait to perform a good deed. .Too
many old maids these days, and when
ever I see an old maid I know some man
has failed to do his duty.
Again, yoang man, stidc to the UUe
your mother and the God ot your
father, for it is religum that must give
solid comfort while we live and it ia
religion must snj^y sdid o(xntort
when we die.
Don’t be ^q>tical, agnoatical or
jaaaddcal in re^on.
Read your BiUe every day.
down morning and night and pray to
God. Obaerve these thii^ and yoa
will succeed in your calling as Pade
rewski has in hiiB. If yon don’t, yoa
will wind up in the end a Bewskqpady
Your friend. Sam P. Jons.
N. C. (Sark, of Chicago, the head of
amatrimonial and Intro&ction bureau,
has been arrested for frandulent use ot
the mails. Mr. D. H. Britt, of this
county, on recd^ of some the cir
culars ot the company, sent them five
dollars as requir^ in return for
which he was to be i^aoedin ccHrrespcni-
dence with a yrang lady reputed to be
wealthy, good-looUng to enter the
matrimonial state. In rsfdy he re-
cdved a photograph with the name and
address of a young Asheville widow.
Lonng no time he wrote her at mce.
The young lady, sarprised at recdinng
a letter from an entire stranger, replied,
stating that she knew notb^ ot the
matrimonial bureau and the statement
as to her wealth was untrue, vrhich (rf
course dosed the correspondence.
Mr. Britt had of codrse entertained
the matter purdy for amusement and
had no serious intentions whatever ex
cept the enjoyment of the correspon
dence b^^ under such rather unusual
circumstances. He« has, however,
served the paUic a good tom in bdng
the means of expodng fraudulent in
stitution.
A a««« !■ A CkUA*a TkrMt V«r nve
SalWMUTBaa.
Capt. Charles M. Hoideriite had an
experience Thursday night that will
forevermme serve as a warning to
who cany Utdikeys. Capt. Hendarlita
ode of the beat managers of men ia -
wredc that the soudiem haa on its
system and it has beak rtanarked that
1m could accomplish more woric in less
tune then any one in his poaitiMi
could be found, Thia weA when the
Boathera waa atraining every nerve to
dear the Weatem track k aa to rnsn^a
thecmeraticm of traina betwe» Asheville
andOiattanooga Oapt. Hendartite wm
ordered to the aceae of tiie waahooL
He labored diligentfy and the
was rqwired days before the ioathem
had expected it would be. Oapt. Hai^
derlite retamed home Tharsday night
or to be accurate, early Friday mom-
ng) and used his night key. Groping
in the darkness in hia hallway he en
countered a acreen and atnmU^ The
echo of the noiae prodooei by tlie ool-
Enon had hardly died away when the
report of apiatol waa heard in Mra.
Henderlite’a room and twoliidletB went
crsahing throagh the door in the direc
tion where Ca^ Henderiite had atom-
Ued. He announced hia proaence aad
ities ceased. Mrs. Hendeilita
bdieved that burghers had entered tiie
house when she fired throagh the door.
It is an almost unheard of thing for
jury to hold prayer before retnming
verdict, but this is what ha^^ened in
the jury room and what was dcme by
the twdve men just before they retnrn-
ed the verdict that gave liiaa Mattie
Baker $2,600 for having her hand man
gled in one of the madiines of the Bal-
eigh Cotton Mills. It will be reoaOed
that the jury was locked ap in this
case on Thursday from haU-fiast 6 in
the afternoon until half-past 10 at ni^
and considerable diffic^ty waa exper
ienced in reaching a verdict. When
all had finally agreed, Fxemen lliomp-
son ^aest^ Jarjrman Herndon to
lead in prayer, which he did vrith mudi
and. jreverent
from all present. The jury then filled
into the court room and i
verdict.
A perEiramon seed that had been in
the windpipb ot a 5-year-dd diild tar
five months was coughed out yesterday,
leaving the child in a fearful state of
weakness and emaciation.
The little aufferer ia tiie daughter
Mr. J. F. Freeman, who livea near
Woodleaf, and about five months ago
the trouble with her throat began.
Eight physicians treated the child and
an X ray was brought into service but
the seed could not be located. Yester
day cough symp and a whiskey toddy
were given ^e suffering child. It b^
gan couglung and in a short while spit
out the seed. The little one had be
come fearfully weak throagh the long
period of suffoing and aa soon as it was
relieved it fdl into a deep sleep and
was still deeping this momii^.
Mr. Freeman on one occasion walked
almost continuously day and night fbr
ten days with the ^d.
At a certain baU in the country the
other evening a gentieman undotook
to introduce a companion to a youn(;
^t somewhat stout lady, who seemet
to be pining far a dance.
No tha^, old fellow; I don’t care
to waltz with a cart.”
A “cart” is understood in the district
referred to as a partner who does not
do her share of the dandng, bat has to
be dmwn round.
A few evenings later the same yoang
lady, who had overheard the ctmversa-
tion, behdd the young man seddi
introduction and askmg if he mi{^t
have* the honw, ete.
No, thank you,” she rejdied; “I
may be a cart, but I am not a dcnikey
Arrived at New York cm the Kron
prinz Wilhelm Sunday, Fefanrary 28.
fUilw fOr Germany on the Dutschland
today.
He traveled 4,630 miles and went
through to State of New Ya^, New
Jersey, Pennaylvania, Ddaware, Mary
land, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, In
^ian^, nUmns, Miaaoari, Wjaconrin
Hia trip extended aa far aouth
Chattanooga, aa ter weat aa Milwaukee
and as far east as Boston.
Estimated cost of entertaining the
Prince, ^5,000.
Astmylstdd of a Boston lai^er
whose quick wit never deserted him,
dther in the coartroom or dsewhere.
One day a dieirt entered hia oflBce,
and thnnring bade hia coat.
Why, yoar rffice, air, ia as hot
an oveni”
“Why sboaldn’iit bet” waa the cafan
“It’s here that I make my
A SaUMin W*iM.
Gecnge—No matter how things go
the poor always suffer.
Jack—Yes, the nabobs who own
railroads don’t thing anything of ran*
ning over a poor man’s horse.
“Ves, and the man who can afford
to own a horse runa down the poor
fellow on a bicyde.”
“Jnat V>. And the fdlow m the
biqrete runa down the poor chiuB ^rtio
haa to walk.”
‘That’a it. And the man who .walks
atamblea against the poor cri{^ iriio
goes on cratohes.”
“That’s the way. And the cri^^
on cmtches spen^ most of his tune
jamming his stick down on other peo
ple’s corns. It’s a sadly sdfish wcxld.'*
areeairiboro Place fs»rl
whent^
todeS-
diM t£9
UttletoB News Beporter.
The time ia not fai; diatant when i
executive committee will:
natetime and place for hdd^
next Democratic convention.
borO aeema ro be the moat favored place
for &at aaaemUy aa it has a haU ampty
solBdent to accommodate the conven*
tium with the b^ hotd facilities in the
s, and a hospitality that woald
make the stranger fed tl^ he waa for
tunate in being with such pec^e.
»ea« Mem BMttM t* ISO Paa
nearly every railroad in thia country
have i^noved areaolntion adopted at
the latest national convention allowing
150 pounds of baggage free to eadi
corpse transported on the required fare.
Under aigeiueral ruling of the paasangar
d^Murtmentaof all raihoada adead man
must have a paaaenger ticket and his
tii^et ia now entitied to the same bag*
gage privileges as though the ti^et
was hdd by a live man.
liberty dbr. AanelMroCoaitar.
A young man named Butkr, livinf j
lar here, jwed the United Statsa J
army about two years ago, is now at#
home with lus health rained. He baa
been in Porto Bico and got in such bad
health he had to come home, wa
time will be oat in three months, aad
he aaya Unde Sam may hMdc for
another aoldier boy to take his place,
as it isn’t ao aweet to die ft* thow we
don’t love^ '
Governor Tkft’a plan for the govern*
ment ci the Philinpinea, aa outlined be*
fore the Senate Committee, on Monday, .
is to give the pec^)le a qualified suf
frage, with gradual growth in popular
government. He says the natives have
no idea of government, or of the differ*
to another nation and deptndence. if
the government were now^ tamed- over
to the people, he says it would be
nothing less than absdute oUgardiy.
The leadera have been fighting the
United States for power to rale add
oppnmt not f(» the good of the people.
A London dispatch of the 7th says
>e steamw Weasland, of the American
M tom nverpool to PhibvW-
obia, strode the British steam*
yacht Harmonidea whidi sank.
; the Weaslaad took all on board save
and a HtUe giri who wen
drowned by »me means, nisrewaa
no panic or disntder. -
The next atate fair at Baleigh wffl
begin October 27. Preparationa are in
nSma to make U greater than ever.
fair aeveral yeara bem atonee to
Utfgeat and most anceesaful of aU to
fain south of Maryland.