VOL. L
ELM CiTY, N. C., FKTOAY, MAY 9, 1902.
NO. 39.
MFFEBENCES.
My neighbor lives n the liin.
And I in the valley dwell.
My neighbor must look down on me,
I must look up—ah, weU.
My neighbor lives on the hill.
And I in the valley dwell.
My neighbor reads and prajrs.
And I—I laugh. God wot.
And sing like a bird when the grass is green,
In my small garden plot;
But ah, he reads ^nd prays.
And I-I laugh. God wot- '
His face • » book of woe.
And mine is a song of glee;
A slave he is to the great “They say.”
But I am bold and free; '
No wonder he smacks of woe.
And I have the tang of glee.
My neighbor thinks me a fool.
•‘The sanie to yourself,” say I;
“Why. take your iKwks and take your prayers,
Give me the open sk-y;”
My neighbor thinks me a fool,
“Tlie same to yourself,” say I.
—Paul l^urence Dunbar, in Lippincott’s.
READS LIKE A ROMANCE
Story ot Loire, JTIoonttlilne And Trag
edy Partly Conflrined.'
Baltimore San.
A thrilling story,involving love, mur
der, moonshine distilling, a jail delivery
and other romantic feature^ all group
ed around the name of an Sieged Bal
timorean, and which is, at least in part,
confirmed by persons here, was pub
lished Thursda.'’ in a Washington news
paper.
No such name as that of the hero of
the romance can be found in the City
Directory, but the statement in the
story that the heroine spent several
years at the House of the Good Shep
herd in this city is substantiated by one
of the sisters at the institution. Accord
ing to the story, the couple have just
been married and have come to Balti
more.
The romance began eight years ago
in Tryon City, N. C. The hero, whose
name is given as Ralph Redmond, was
then a moonshiner, without knowledge
of his sweetheart. Miss Parris, who wag
admittedly the belle of the tow.n and
had many admirers. When only
school girl she met Redmond, and as a
result both fell madly in love. Th? re
was opposition which only fanned the
BILl. ARP’S LETTER.
Atlanta Constttution.
I am trying Colonel Bedding’s
to exterminate the potato bugs,
says begin early and watch for the fire*
ones that come. Make an inspection
every morning and kill the large striped
ones before they lay their eggs. My
crop is about six inches high. 1 have
six long rows in the garden and the
other morning I found the pesky thing
had come. I killed about thirty and
then told'the children—the grand-chil-
dren I mean—that I would pay them ft
nickel for every dozen bugs they found.
That evening they killed sixty and next
morning forty, and this morning fif
teen, and this evening ten. So the
three little girls brought me in debt
sixty cents and feel rich. The bargain
is that they are to pay me back for all
1 find and 1 have not found but five
yet, ^though I didn’t look very care
fully. Ojiildren like to work for money
just like grOwn folks. I remember well
th« first half dcdlar I ever earned. My
father was clearing land ani told me I
might have the saplings if 1 would trim
them up and pile the bresh .and I
might have the wagon and team to
haul them to town and sell them. I
had the evenings after school and
Saturdays to work and soon had a load
ready and sold it to our school teacher
for a silverhalf dollar. I was rich, and
as I drove home I felt of it in my
pocket every little while to be sure that
it was there. I like to reward these
little chaps, for it does them so much
good and makes them love me. The
love of an innocent child is the purest
on earth except the love of a mother.
1 have no greater comfort now than
the glad smile of a little one that jumps
into my arms whenever I come. It
Hatters my vanity, for though I am old
and ugly the little one will hug me and
pat my wrinkled cheeks and turn away
from those who are young and hand
some. The greatest inducement for
parent to be a Christian is to secure the
salvation of their children and meet
them in heaven, for it is said in the
scriptures in tluw places “Believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou snalt be
saved—thou and thine house.” It was
said by Paul and by Peter and the
Spirit, “thou and thine house.” So let
the good mother not despair of her
flame that had smrfdered in the hearts
of the young people. Another suitor I wicked son who went unrepentant to
for the hand of the pretty young wo- his death and may these words always
man appeared in the person of William comfort her, “thou and thine house."
Johnson, who, meeting with a rebuff,
conceived a feeling of jealousy toward
the dashing Redmond, and to be re^
venged gave information which led to
the young moonshiner’s arrest. He
was, however, forcibly rescued from the
jail by a kinsman and 20 of his friends.
A price was set on him by the law, and
it was only by stealth that he could go
down from his mountain retreat to see
his sweetheart.
The desperate rival now began to try
to destroy the character of the heroine
by slander. She sent him a note to
call on her, met him on the front porch
and plung^ a penknife into his breast^,
killing him instantly. * She was indict
ed for murder, pleaded guilty to murder
in the second degree and was sentenced
to 15 years in the penitentiary. The
hero went to the city in which. is the
penitentiary, secured work and was
able to have an interview with his
sweetheart.
Through the kindly offices of the
King’s Daughters of Raleigh a pardon
was secured for Miss Parris, under the
proviso that she'come to Baltimore and
enter the House of Gk)od’"Shepherd,
th^re to remain until she was declared
to be worthy of release. In the mean
time influential friends had been at
work in Redmond’s behalf, and the
pending indictments against him were
quashed. He followed his girl sweet
heart to Baltimore and secured employ
ment, waiting for her restoration to
freedom. After eight yeajs of waiting
she was liberated, and the two were
married.
Redmond, it was stated, has bought
a home somewhere in this city, fur
nished it,and now all is in readiness for
the home-coming of this couple.
A reporter for the sun visited the
the house of the Good Shepherd yester-
■day and there learned that Miss Parris
had once been an inmate of the institu
tion. One of the sisters in charge said:
“Yes, as much likS fiction as that
story appears, it is nevertheless in many
details true. Lou Parris did kill John
son, although I honestly believe it was
done both in defence of her Ufe and of
her honor. She was imprisoned, re
leased and brought here. She told me
her story repeatedly, and we all guarded
her secret zealously while here. She
was tractable and we had little trouble
with her during the five years she was
here. She learned of her mother’s ill
ness and was overjoyed to receive a let
ter from the Sheriff who brought her
here granting her release.
“This was four years ago. Before
leaving she confided her secret to one
of the other giris, and before many
hours it was known to every girl in the
house. They affected to be afraid and
shunned her, and this made her both
miserable- and callous. Since she left I
have heard indirectly of her twice
First I heard she was dead. Two years
»go this report was contradicted.
“I don’t believe she will come to
Baltimore to live, because she is fond
of her old mother, who I am certain
still lives.” 4
Boy Wbo Was Hypnotized Im a Rav
Ine jRanlac.
Pottsvllle, Pa,. Dlspatcb,
Edwin Reber, a 14-year-old boy, who
was placed in a hypnotic tran» Wed
nesday, with the result tl^t liis vind:
was unbalanced, to-day became so
violently insane that it was necessary
to remove him, in chains, to the
Schuylkill County Hospital for the in
sane. The boy in his frenzy beg^i hia
hypnotizer to allow his mind to resume
ite normal sway. Tlie attencKng-phya-
cian says the boy csnnot recover unlew
the traveling salesman who hypnotized
Jiim can be found.
For the sake of ten pood people the
Lord would have saved Sodom and for
the sake of good parents He w^ill save
the children.
Last year my potato crop was seri
ously damaged by these bugs, and by
the paris green, too, for I used to much
of it, and so I am tsdcing Colonel Red
ding’s advice and killing off the big
striped beetles before they lay their
patches of yellow eggs on the under
side of the leaves. I instructed the
children to look for eggs and they
found only to leaves with eggs on them
With a little sharpened stick they dug
around the base or every plant, and
there found most of the beetles, but I
am already satisfied with the experi
ment, and hope that I will not have to
use paris green at all. I shall coutinue
my bargain with children, even if it is
expensive. I overheard them plotting
this evening about going to the drag
store to-morrow and buying some ice
cream, and they agreed to take two
saucers apiece These little girls are
great inventions, and I love to watch
them and then ruminate and ponder
why it was that children, especially
boys, get more se^lfish and deceitful as
they grow older. The devil seems to
let them alone until they get weaned
from their mother.
The good and the bad are strangely
mixed in this world. New plagues and
pestilences keep on coming, both on
animal and vegetables life, but a kind
Providence has provided remedies and
given us minds to find them. But I
have found no way to keep the pigeons
from preying upon my young peas
thtey peep out of the ground. They
utterly destroyed mjr first planting and
have begun on the second We have
had a flock for many years, and
never knew them to trouble the garden
before. I say, Colonel Redding, what
must I do about it? My wife says cover
them with brush, and I will if I can
find the brush. The English sparrows
do leave us most of the crop, but the
pigeons don’t leave us anything. Reck
on I will have to turn the boys loose
on them. The beans, onions and early
corn are all right yet, and the straw
berries seem to have no enemies.
They make a beautiful show, and give
us great comfort. .
In a week or two we will have ripe
fruit in abundance and shall send some
to the preachers. Brother Yarbrough
says he does not think it any harm to
send good things to a preacher even on
Sunday. Strawberry culture is spread
ing rapidly in our town and some of the
neighbors are trying it as a business for
profit. Dr. Felton, Jr., has put out
thirty thousand plants the last season
It was |^aa«k Walton, the greftt fisher
man, who wrote in his book on angling
“Dr. Butler said that doubtless God
could have made a better berry than
the strawberry, but doubtless God n6ver
did,’ and so I say that God never made
a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation
than angling.” My good friends. Dr.
Benham and Col. Murphy, hewtily en
dorse Walton on fishing and will sit in
a boat half a day in a summer’s sun
and watch the corks ruminate and not
catch enough fish for supper. If I was
as fond of it as they are I think,
would move to Florida and stay there
I have caught more fish there in one
day^ thaH in all my life up here in
jiorth Georgia.
I did not go to Dallas. The long
spell of grippe left me too dilapidated
Ijo travel thM fat ipid give i«) my home
habit^*ndifemfo|l8, 'but I read tbout
the great reunion wj*h keien satisfac
tion. Thari i« life in tl?e yet,
and love for the “Lost Cause” in the
hearts of our peopte, the coiifeder»teB
and their children and children’s chil;
dren. May it never be extinguished.
‘Bt Biii Abp.
eiKNERAL •'
A tornado pawed over Glenrbse, a
small town in Sommillecoim^^exite,
between 5 and 6 o’clock Modoay eve
ning, killing seven persons, injuring 40
more and demolishing mo^ property.
There is a negro in Saluda county,
South Carolina, who can neither re^
nor write, but who goes to sleeps regu
larly and each time gives out a text
and preaches a sermon. He has baffled
the physicians there.
The German Lutheran Synodical
Conferance of America will meet in St.
John’s church, Milwaukee, July 23.
This will be the most complete Luther
an gathering of the year in America
and all the Synods of the country will
be represented. The conference num
bers more than 2,000 members and is
the largest Lutheran body in America.
After five years’ acute suffering from
an injury toithe spine, caused by a fool
ish practical joke. Miss Ida May Hub-
bell, of New Haven Conn., died on the
^th in the hospital. Miss Hubbell was
25 years old and the daughter of Gould
T. Hubbell, of that city. Five yeare
ago at a party someone drew a chair
from under her as she was about to sit
down. From acute spinal injury the
trouble developed into creeping para
lysis.
Woe* or Gold-Seekera.
The rush to the Thunder Mountain
gold fields in Idaho has assumed- almost
alarming proportions.
In addition to the tales of suffering of
individuals who joined the all too early
stampede to the new El Dorado come
accounts of parties of men snowbound
and enduring almost untold hardships.
James Kinsay volunteered to return
from a party of 36 on the Sputh Fork
Salmon. For days he floundered
through the soft snow, climbing snow-
covert mountains and swimming
rivers. For six miles he wandered over
a field of ice dnee deep at some places.
At one place he sank to his hips. He
arrived at Warren almost dead, and a
relief party went out with supplies,
having seilboats in which to cross
streams.
There are over 500 men snowbound
at Singiser, but food can now be packed
that far on sleds.
Among those who have jumped from
poverty to wealth through selling Thun
der Mountain claims is Leland Way land
and his 16-year-old son Nash. Last
summer they packed provisions to the
Dewey mine for the few men working
there. They cleared $500 in 40 days
that way. As a pastime they locatt
several claims. iJter the boom started
they opened up the claims and found
them very promising. Wayland has
since sold $167,000 worth of claims, his
last deal involving three for $40,000.
One of nr. Rlntz’a Stories.
Washington Post.
Mr. Klutz, of North Carolina, read
the story of Gen. Funston’s inter\'iew
the other morning, following the Pres
ident’s order that the hero must stop
talking, and refusing him a leave of
absence to attend a banquet at Boston.
Then he leaned again the desk at the
telegraph office in the capitol and
chuckled.
That’s just like the story of Harry
Jones, down in my country, who was a
very enthusiastic Whig in his day,” ob
served the North Carolinian. “Jones
had for a tenant a fellow named Tay
lor, and when a big Whig meeting was
to be held in the neighborhood he want
ed this attendant to attend.
Taylor said would go, but his
wife heard of it. He changed his
clothes, or started to do so, and just as
he was jumping into a clean shirt she
made for him, both arms being ex
tended.
Yer ain’t goin’ to no Whig meetin’
to get drunk and come hcmie and beat
yer wife, no, yer ain’t,’ she exclaimed,
as she belabored him.
Mary,’ pleaded this tenant, caught
in so helpless a position, ‘don’t make
sech a gol durned fuss about it. I war
jes thinking that I didn’t keer power
ful heap about goin’ anyway.’ ”
CAST A BBTIli OUT 0V A HAH.
GREEHfflOBO, Aiffil 29.—The fire-
baptized holinwwi peofde continae to
e^^dte a good deal ot interest and cuti-
osity here. Latge crowds attend the
continuous perfbnnances at the tent on
South Elm street, and, with the excep
tion of those who are attracted by'
curiosity, the hearers do not hesitate to
^ve full vent to their fedings. Thore
is no restraint. Everything is free and
easy, and every member ot the sancti
fied band is expected to give proof of
his baptism by fire. ' Hmaghoat the
day and the greater part of the night
the sound of |neaching, praying, sing
ing and shouting may be h«ud in the
vicinity of thet tent. Were it not for
the pity of the thing, the performance
would be as amusing as a circus or a
minstrel. ,The preachen make all
kinds of strange and ridiculous state
ments and the deluded followers do all
kinds of strange things. When a call
is made for those who wish to receive
the ^ptism of fire, there is a grand
rush for the “mourners’ bench,” and
after a goodly crowd has been corraled,
the preachers set themselves to the task
of “bringing the mourners through.”
Grabbing a mourning woman by the
hands, one of the leaderswill command
her to look up and see the “light.” If
she is a little slow in catching a glimpse
of glory she is told to look higher and
shout ^oud. When she has been in
duced to make a few ejaculations, she
may be|embraced by the preacher and
led across the rostrum in a kind of
negro cakewalk, to the accompaniment
of loud and g^e^ul shouts on the part
of the congr^tion. The exfntement
reached the dimax last night, when
Rev. Thomas C. Hodgin cast a devil
out of a seeker for light. While the
poor seeker lay on the ground, wringing
and moaning like one possessed, the
preacher, with shouts akin to thow in
dulged in by a crowd of boys on a rab
bit hunt, chas^ the devil across the
fellows anatomy until it was finally
located in his head. With a glad cry
of conquest, the Rev. Mr. Hodgin an
nounce that he had the devil. For a
brief moment he held the tmible mon
ster above his head for the gaze of the
awe-stricken congregation, after which
he gleefully threw it upon the platform.
It struck the loose boards with the dull
thud of an ordinary stone, bat, to the
bewildered hoUaess people, it was a real,
live devil.
The holiness people are not all igno
rant and superstitious people, though a
large majority of them probably belong
to that class. Among the most earnest
and excited se4ers after the baptism of
fire a few nighto ago was a- Methodist
minister, a memb» of the Western
North Carolina Conference and pastor
of a charge in Stokes county. I do not
know that his spirit received a touch
of the oivine flre, but it is said that no
one cried louder than he for the light.
Another one of the seekers is a young
preacher from the eastern part of the
State, a member of one of the best
families in Sampson county.
This morning Edward Hayes, a
young man from Reedy Fork, Davidson
county, who came here to attend the
holiness meeting, was placed in jail on
account of violent insanity. He was ac
companied by his mother and his broth
er-in-law, Walter P.'rryman. It seems
that young Haynes ium been subject to
epileptic fits to some tim^ Ilk broth
er-in-law stated that the l^embers of
the family bdtoved he could be healed
by Rev. 8e(h 0. Bees and the other
holiness preachers, and it was this rea
son that he was l»oaght here. When
young Hajmes slight^ from tbe train
he was viidait, and when his brother-
in-law and two policemen took charge
of him he fought like a demon. It was
necessary to hudcidf him and bind his
arms and legs with xopes in order to ^t
him to jail. Mrs. Haynes pleaded with
the officers to take bier son to the holi
ness tent that he might be healed. One
of the preachers came to the jail and
said the young man could be healed if
removed to the tenl^ but he would not
attempt to effect a cure in the jail.
When asked jbe meaning of his action,
young Haynes said: “The blessed holy
Jesus told me to do all I did.”
■TATB NBWB.
Mr. T. B. Bailey, of Mocksville, has
announced that lie will be a caniidate
tor the Democratic nomination for
judge.
Joe and Henry Lowrence are on ti^
at Charlotte chiurged with the homicide
of Alexander Gibson near Huntersville,
the night of the 10th of Janoary. They
were acquitted.
Mr. W. L. litaker, a brakeman on
gthe Southern Railway, had the.mis
fortune Friday night to get his 1^
crushed at the ankle. He is now in
the Private Hospital at Charlotteu Hr.
Litaker livea.at Salisbury, where he has
a wife and one small daughter.
Evidences are all but conclusive that
some one is endeavoring to destroy the
town of Thomasville by fire. Nearly
twenty houses* have been fired in three
months, and the entire population is
alarmed. A negro barber is under ar
rest. The State Insurance Department
is investigating.
Ilie Southern Baptist Convention,
which meets in Asheville May 9, prom
ises to be the most lai^ly attended of
any of the late conventions. The ses
sions will be in the new auditorium,
seating several thousand people. Gov
ernor W. J. Northen, of Georgia, will
call the convention to order. It is said
he will decline re-election.
The Asheville Citizen says that Hon
Lock Craige has made a trip through,
the Eighth congressional district and
adds: Mr. Craige says that it is the
opinion in most section, of the State
where he has been that Linney will be
nominated for Congress by the Repub
licans instead of Blackburn, though
the fight between the two will be very
warm and not altogether pleasent.
Albemarle Correspondence Chark>tte
Observer: Mr. B. Blalock, who lives
seven miles from here on the Yadkin,
plowed up an Indian relic in his field a
few days ago that is a curiosity. It is
a figure of a woman delicately carved
out of flint rock. Every feature u
plainly discemable and the figure^ is
mounted on a stone pedestal which
would make it a valuable and novel
paper weight. Even the face of the
woman is colorcd red. The relic shows
that the Indians had sculptors in their
tribes long before the foot of man had
trodden in this country. «
St. liontM Expottltion Poatponed.
St. Louib, May 1.—^The following
statement was given out thi^ ev jning by
President David R. Francis, of the
Louisiana Purchase Elxposition Com
pany: “The sundry civil dill which
passed the House several weeks ago,
and is now before the Senate, contains
■an appropriation of $1,048,000 to pro
vide for a government building at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It was
deemed advisable to have-the date of the
fair definitely fixed in that bill, in the
event any change frona 1903 should be
decided upon.
“For many months past the fair vir
tually has been postponed for. one year.
A decided majority of the directors pre
fer 1904, and have for six months or
more. The repeated request of both
domestic and foreign exhibitors for
postponement, advices from foreign
governments that they had not suffi
cient time in which to make prejpara-
tions for a representative exhibit in
1903, and the fact that the general pub
lic have for months pwt considered
postponement a- foregone conclusion,
were some reason* that moved the ex
ecutive committee-to authorize me to
inform the national commission tbat
any action of Cong^ress changing the
time of the exposition from 1903 to
1904 would be acceptable.”
B. B. !•. Banek Bealcma.
Nobfofk, May 2.—B. E. L. Bunch,
general passenger agent of the Seaboard
Air line, has tendered his resignation.
He^l^terwinato his eomwation
the system immediately and will go
East in another service. The fennoonce-
ment of the successor of Mr. Bun(^
has not yet been made.
Once upon a. time a postmaster who
lived in a Kansas, town was seated
in his office reading postal cards,
when a native cydcme suddenly came
his way. 'Bie wind carried him
through an east window, and in the
direction of a chestnut grove, three
miles distant.
In a few seconds he was safely seated
in the top of a high tree, busy picking
chestnut bum dbtof hn hair and cloth
ing, when he saw what he had suddenly
left coming directiy toward him,
“I declare,” he exclaimed, ••there
comes the old shanty looking for me.”
Moral—Sometimes the office seeks
the man.
An ImpowrtUe Peraon.
Mrs. Que^: *Isn’t she a memberof
your club?’’^
Mrs. Gada^t: Wot any more. We
had to get rfd 6f herr or 4he wotdd have
disorganized us.”
Mrs. Queery^ “You don’t say?”
Mrs. Gadabout: “Yes. At one ot
oar sessions w€ were discussing the ser-
vant-girl question, and she said the
best way to so*ve the proUem was fOr
an of us to stajjr home and do our own
work."
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BAtTuco^ May 2.—Ciongressman
Amos J. CttiniiunflB, of York, died
at 10:15 o’doek to»p>ght, at Christ’s
Church Homoi in tiiis dty. The cause
of death wasr' ^eomonia,. incident to
an operatiofi. Tke J&
.yffp and jx>uain, Chiw. BT. Cummings,
werp At wten. came.
^After a^Wbman u hMt sfew hesitates
for the purpose of deliberating.
Blcrontbine teCuntral Cotton.
CIIARIXJTTE, N. C., April 29.—It is
learned here to-day that the big scheme
for pleasing all of the southern cotton
mill warehouses is being pushed by a
big Cincinnati firm. The Cindnati'
Export and Storage Company are the
parties interested. They have.already
done considerable business in that line
in the south among cotton mils and
now-are endeavoring to obtain leases on
cotton warehouses of the cotton dealers
in all of the large centers wherever cot
ton is concentrated. This company, is
being backed by the Union Trust Comt
pany, also of Cincinnati, which has
ample finandal means.
It is stated that the main object of
the company is to hold cotton in the
south and then exports the same to
England when it is to their fiancial ad
vantage, and also to dispose of cotton
in the south.
It is predicted by a well known Char
lotte cotton dealer that southern mills
will in all probability have to buy from
New York or New Orieans as they did
several years ago, before the summer is
over, if they continue to run.
The Cincinnati Export Storage Com
pany during the past season has held
leases on a numter of cotton mill ware
houses. It appears that the company
had reprosentatives in North Carolina
some weeks ago working up the
project.
The Trinity Colleee Banqnet.
Charlotte OtMorver.
The banquet given in this dty Mon
day night by a number of the Metho
dists of Charlotte to representatives of
Trinity College was a significant and
interesting event. Three better ban
quet speeches were never heard in Char
lotte than those of Mr. Jas. H. South
gate. Dr. Edwia Mims and Dr. John
C. Kilgo, and all who listened to them
hung uiK>n the words of the speakers.
Trinity has a splendid endewment fund
and a faculty which in ability and fit
ness for its work is not surpassed by
that of any educational institution in
the South. It stands not only for a
high standard of education as it is to be
hi^ from the books, but for freedom of
intellect and breadth of thought and its
influence is telling and will tell u^n
the intellectual life as upon the religi
ous thoughts of the state. It was an
inspiration to thosOrho heard the ^n
tiemen who spoke for it Monday night
to listen to them as they told of the
lines upon which th«4r institution
moves and of theis ideals of college life
and education. There were none who
attended this banquet and heard these
speeches in whose minds Trinity Col
lege will not hereafter occupy a higher
niche. They were stimulate by what
they heard and encouraged to hope for
better things for their State. The oc
casion was one to be marked with
white stone.
“So Jade IS m^med, abt JJo yoa
thipk he’ll geti^iu;vdl wi|h his wifef
‘•I’m quite suM^e will. Thegr
in tbe same cfaofrfor tw6 yeHk mdioat
qoarrdling
Don’t think tor a monunt that you
have met all the idiotsibete are in the
Be Mire you have the proper bait
irhen you fish for comidiments.
V Ai|»
III BBVOATMR.
The North has for some
contributed laige sums of niii||^^OT
educating the ookwed po|Milatioi|.^ the
South. Of courae, when com
pare'the'aggrqiate contributions with
the enormous oolorad population of the
Southern States, it aeem^ like a drop in
the bucket. Still it kxdu as if the
Northern pet^ have some seiM of
fulfilling what is deariy amoral obliga
tion. Af^er the war was over and the
South was left crashed and Ideeding
and impoverished, the NcMrth for several
years maintuned an army in the con
quered States to keep the white people
in subjection while they were robbed
by the caipet-baggers of nractieally all
that the war tiM spared. -T^iat the
palmer-worm left tbe locusts ate. WhUe
the people of the South were in this
condition of abject poverty the right to
vote was confer^ upon the n^:ro. All
through the States the n^^o p(^[>ula-
tion is proportionately laige, and
seme of them and in many of the
c(Hinties in excess of the white popula
tion. They had no property and not
one in a thousand paid a cent of taxes.
And yet the white people, as poor si
they were, fdt that an obligation to
educate these peofde rested upon them.
They fdt they had to do it in sdf-pro-
tection if for no other reason. At any
rate they bravely assumed the obliga
tion, notwithstanding the fact tha^^e
conduct of a great mass of the n^^roes
since the war has not been good. Many
have been lawless, a great proportion
has been indispos^ to engage in hon
est labor, and politically the entire race
has been arrayed In solid and hostile
ranks against their white fellow dtizens,
who were all the while taxing them
selves heavily forthdr benefit, and have
persisted in this policy through all dis
couragements and difficulties. The
amount of money expended by the
South for educating the n^ro is enor
mous. Fe(^e mention Mr. Bocke-
feller’s reputed gift of $1,000,000 as if
it were such a sum as wc^d cover the
whole field. It is a fact that the pub
lic schools of Maryland suffer for lack
of suffident fun^ and in some of
the counties they can be kept open
only seven and a half months in ,the
year. And yet the Sta& of Maryland
spend not far from $3,000,000 a year
on the public schools, or at leasts
$2,500,000. It is a well-knoi^ fact
that the cost of education per capita is
greater in communities wh^ the p(^-
lation-is widdy scattered; as is the
case all through the South.
An unfortunate thing about Nofth-
em oontributiofU to Southern education
is that it is so n^ed as not to relieve
the Southmi whites erf any of the bur
den, and this Uie Nmrth owes it to the
South to do. For the North, after ren
dering Uie South too weak to sustain
the burdoi of n^ro education, put it
on them. AU the contributions which
come from the North seem to be devot
ed to the higher education of the n^ro,
and comparatively few of them are in
position to take advantage of the bene
fit of their collies.
Upon this point Mr. CSark Howell
made an address on Thursday before
the Conference for Education in the
South, which is wdl worthy of atten
tion. The white and the colmed child
share equally in the advantages of tiie
public schools, and after they pass
through the prim^ or grami
school grade the white child’s educa
tion has to stop for lack of fodlities for
higher education, while the n^[roiwi»l
can go to the advanced scho(d NUtained
by the Northem people. Northern
philanthropy has expended its energies
almost exclusivdy for the benefit of one
race, as Mr. Howell declares, overiook-
ing the greater necessities of the other.
As a rei^t of this, Mr. Howell con.
tinned, vast armies of poor white boys,
who could not hdp themselves since
the Cival War, hare been working out
their own salvation against odds which
have required superhuman endurance
to surmount. In many of the dties of
the South the most imposing school
buildings are those for the exclusive
benefit of the n^ro. In many parts
of the South the children of the poorer
white people are driven to the fairies
to work, while the colored children are
at school. It'is predicted by some that
in a generation or two in some ccHumu-
nities the educational tests for the ballot
will operate most severely against the
white man rather than against the
black man.
PaltkftUy Bnt nay Be Bleefcedlen*.
lwo»women in Norway have gained
another victory. For many years they
have been waging war against the use
of the word “otey” in the maniage
service of flie Norwe^an Church
Their labors have at length been crowned
with partial auceess. The Parliament in
Christiania has nded.tfxat thfe me of the
olmoxious Word shall henceforth not be
obligatory upon the bride, but only
^onal. The bride is to be free dther
to say she will be “faithful or obedient
or simply to say that she will be “faith
ful,” as she prefm.
Stinging and caustic were alhuioiw
to President BelMevdt and Gcasiid
Miles made by Bi|^tBev. B. J.
bishop of the . Catholic dioosae, in Im
memorial addra befon' the oonfedst^
ate veterans atSaTBBfiidi:
references to the Fkeddent and i
Miles were as loUavsi.
“It is true that the gentleman who ^
now happens to sil in :the prMidtirfU ”
chair at WasMagton haywritten
President DavuT: 'Btibr^XeAcson Da.Tii •
took his place among archtraitota, etc., 'i
it was not unnatural that to dishoiMity
he should add treachery to the pabBfe.
The moral diffoence between Beaedi^ :
Arnold, on the one hand, and Aanai
Burr and Jefferson Davis on the othisr
is the difference between a pcAticaa
who sells his vote for money and one
who supports a bad measure to get hij^
political romtion.’
“When Mr. Davis was living and a
prisoner a fellow named Miles plaoed
shackles on him in prison, though then
was no necessity for it, and no one
but a tMTute would have done it. Bo| I
have never heard that Miles alter Hr.
Davis’ death maligned his character— '
that spedes of the envenomed malirtw
was reserved for the recreant son ot m
southern woman—the rough rider* of
repuUican polities, the aoddenqr of
1903, the lightning change artist the
white house, who can hc^nob with the
kaiser’s brother and sit cheek by Jowl
with an Alabama wto cair in*
dulge in meaningless platitudes while
south, on the bntvery and common
heriti^ of southern heroes and de
nounce them before the Gnmd Armyas
anarchists; Who can profess a
American spM, which tomds section
alism as a crime, and land the tojpdty
of our veterans of 1861-65 to the con
stitution and reunited country, while
the damning evidence of his own writ
ten word shows that he compared 'the
noblest Roman of them all’—JeffeiMm
Davis—to a Benedict Arnold.
“Jefferson Davis was a statesman, a -
soldier and man of high character, »
senator, a calwet officer, a preddoit,
not put m office by .a bullet, but hr
baUot.
‘ ‘Theodore Roosevelt’s titie to immor
tal fame will rest on shooting beasta
and {Hofiting by tbe murderous act of ~a
reprobate who shot a man.”
When Abiidiam Lincoln was a
young man his prodigious strength mmI
his skUl in wrei^ling were matters of
note throughout central Illinots. Few
indeed were the men who could boast
of having laid him on hi* back.
Somewhere along in the thii4lw
there was a case on trial in one of the
drcuit courts in that section, in which
an effort was made to impeach the
testimony of one of the witnesses. The
evidence was conflicting. Some would
believe the witness on Mth and othen
would not.
At jast a middle-aged man with A
determined expression of oountenanee
was called to the stand. The usual
question was jHit touching the repntar
tion of tbe witness for truth and
veracity:
“Would you bdieve him on oathf'
“No, I wouldn’t,” he answered, and
before the lawyer on the of^tosite nde
could interpose lie gave his reason:
I heerd him bniij||»U^’ ofofr tha^lip^
inoom i
throwed Abe lancM
square rassk^”
No other witnesses were called. The
attempt to impeach was suocessfuL
Tke PrealAent Bmoiv.
Clerk—^You can’t get a room for him
here. He’s drunk.
Wytte (suppcNrting his weary friend)—
I know he is. What of that?
Cerk—fscomfuUy)—^This is a temper
ance hotd.
Wytte—^Well, he’s too drunk to
know the difference.
In a town in Eastern North Ckrolina
some years agoa man attended a “holi
ness meeting’’ and professed to have
been sanctified. Afterwards when he
was guilty of moral lapse, a friend said
to him: “That proves you were mis
taken when you protest sanctifica
tion.” To his surprise, the man replied:
“No. it does not prove thatat all. If I
had done the thing you ^eak ot before
I was sanctified, it would have,been
gin to me, bnt now that I am sanctified
nothing that I do is sinfnl”.
An Irishman who was to undergo a
trial in court was being comforted Iqr
his iniest.
“Keep up your heart, Dennis, my.
boy; take my word ftnr it, you’ll get
justice.’*
“Truth, yomr reveMnce,” replied
Dennis, in an undectone, *aad that’s
just what I’m afraid of.”
in a fkir an*
At one time some years ago Fteaident
Roosevelt prided himself on on hia
dvil-service reform prind|4es, aud he
has been cespected for the reooM he
made when Civil Service Commissionar.
But his permitting or encouiging Mr..^
ENans to re s.‘gn ^m the Pensicm Bo-*'
reau and his appointment of J. B. Oark-
son, who is repirded as a spoUitaan, to
the post of Surveyor of Onstoms detnd,
he opinion of many, from hia repu
tation. “He has done things of lato,”
says the New York Evening Popt,
which arouse the apfireheni£>n that
he is inclined to take the wrong palli.
He has practically removed a Pensioa
Commissioner whose only offense was
protecting the interests of the Gorem-
ment, when a courageous patriot would
have told Mr. Evans that he m'nst slay
at his post He has paid conqiicnoas
honor to one of the most notmioiw
spoilsmen in the country 1^ appointing
as Surveyor of Customs the same James
S. Clarkson whom, when (Svil Serrioe
Commissioner a doaen years ago, Ym*
expec^ as so shamdess that he would
‘fail in his duty’ if he did..not show
himself ‘hostile to Mr. Oaricson and
theidea which Mr- Oarkson repreaenta.*
Grover Cleveland would not have done
dther of these thinn.”
It is to be noted that ;STen jtq[Kih-
licans b^n now to commend our on^
living ex-President.
Qharies Major, authw of that faad-
nating romance ot the daya ot Hemj
VUI., “When Knighthood Waa in
Flowers,” has chosen for the time of
his second distinctive novd, DoroUiy
Vernon, of Haddon Hall, tbe period
when Mary Queen of Soots secret^ en
tered England ostendbly to sedc the
protection of Qcieen fSisabeth bat, aa
her enemies eoiAived to prove, in r»>
ality, to plot for the Enf^h throne.
But the story itself de«la li^^itlj ifatnk-
ii^ly with theae roj^al penonj^fes.
Others much more intmesting persona
hold tiie stage, ffiere aie two' pairs of
delightful lovsr% and oomrt
men and ladiea ^o mpan onch
to the reader. ,