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THE ELM CITY ELEVATOR VOL. 1. ELM CITY, N. C., FRIPAX MAY 16, 1902. NO. 40. BILL ARP*S LETTEK. Atlanta Constitution. A good merchant will count his money and balance his cash at the close of every day. It is a good plan for everybody to review the day’s work and count up the good of it and the bad of it. Give the Lord credit for all the blessings enjoyed, not forgetting health and food and raiment, sunshine and shower, good neighbors and good schools and liberty of conscience. These are capital stock and do not vary much with the passing days. But in every ose’s daily life and in our daily busi ness there is an ever changing multi tude of little things—little pleasures and little pains and these should be footed up and balanced. What good have I done, what pleasure have I received and given to others today should be a question every night. For as the poet saith: “Lost” is a sad word—one day lost shortens life that much, but how many people lose almost every day. No char ity, no kind words or pleasant smiles— no sympathy for the poor, but go along through life for themselves only, or per haps muttering that selfish prayer, “I^rd bless me and my wife—my son John and his wife, us four and no more.” I verily believe that selfish ness is the most universal sin of man kind. How is it possible for a very rich man to covet more when there are thousands near him who live and lan guish in misery and want I cannot un derstand. It was a sweet lady who wrote the “Emigrants’ Lament” and said: “I’m very lonely now, Mary, Fortbe poor make no new friends. But oh, they love the better far The few ®ur Father aends." These milhonaries deserve little credit for their gifts to colleges and libraries, while the poor Are starving in the great cities and are penned up in garrets and hovels and earning a scanty living by working for the rich. I was ruminat ing about this when I read that Mr. Holderby, that consecrated minister in Atlanta, was getting up an ice fund for the poor. What a blessing that will be to the tired toilers who can only afford the tepid water that comes from the city hydrants. How refreshing to the sick who languish on hard beds and have no comforts that the rich enjoy. The poor we have always with us and most of them will suffer rather than beg. Mr. Holderby is always doing good and can balance hia boolu every night and lie dowii' to pleasant dreams. Educa tion is a good thing and we are grati fied at the recent movements of north ern philanthropists, but a movement to lift up the poor and give them a chance would be a more blessed thing than to educate them in books. Peter C!ooper and George Peabody have a higher seat in heaven than Rockefeller and Car negie will ever reach. George Peabody built whole blocks of tenement houses in London for the poor. The rooms were all ventilated and supplied wilh pure cold water and the windows looked out upon grassy lawns and flowers and shade trees. There were bath rooms attached to every tenement, and a few pretty chromos on the walls and the rent charged was only a pittance— enough to make repairs and pay the taxes. This was doing more for the poor then education could do. A clean shirt and a comfortable home will lift a boy up quicker than books. It has been said that a right hungry .nan can’t get religion, and I reckon a .lungry child can’t study to do much good. Education is not always had in the schools. It is the life work of every one. Education comes by contract, by absorption from others, by reading and thinUng, and by experience and obser vation. Some of the greatest men in the United States never had a year’s schooling; and my own observation has been that not more than ten college boys in a hundred made good use of their education. They lived and died and made no sign. But for the sake of the ten we must give the ninety a chance. These northern gentleman who met in Athens seem intensely in earnest and their speeches were in good tone and in good temper. Judge Bleckley’s speech was the shortest and best of all. “We will receive it not as a charity, ’but as a measure of justice,” and Mr. Baldwin said, “Yes, that’s it, justice,” and I suppose implied that they owed us a debt and were going to pay it. That came pretty near being an apology. Well, just let them shell out the money and we will dispense with the apology. This morning I had a backset. The old mare got into my garden and tramp ed around and wallowed in three places—on my strawberry bed and on my squash b^ and onion bed. Dig ging wouldn’t pacify me. It didn’t let my choler down. I will set that down at one hundred on the debit side. But my daughter, who went to Charleston and had a two weeks’ vacation from the care of her children, returned safe and refreshed. I set that down at one hundred to balance off the old mare’s trespass on my garden. Another mar ried daughter, who has been sick for a month, has recovered and can now take up her bed and walk. She came up to spend the day a,nd brought her children. Put that down at two hun- diod. A dear sister who lives at Col lege Park is coming to see us tomorrow. That news is worth a credit of fifty; The mail has brought good, (dieerful letters from two of the far-away-bc^s. That is worth fifty. A good neighbor sent me some fine tosnato plantp; that is twenty-five; and it is worth twenty- five to look at my strawberry garden, and I look several times a day. A visit- iiig friend said it was worth twenty-five a day to see the long trains go by with their double engines. I can sit on my veranda and count the cars, from forty sixty on every train, and not strain i»y imnd. Every evenfng after school 18 out a dozen or more chilcfren gather in my lawn under the big oak trees and play tennis and hide and seek, and romp and swing, and it Is wortk twenty- five to see them so happy. There are three roses in bloom this momicg, the first of the spring, and that is worth ten. Then again I read Fathei Keiley’s memorial speech in Savannah, and it comfcnrted me to find one man bold enough to tell the two highest officials in the nation what they had done and what he thought of them. I will put that speech and the pleasure of reading it at one hundred. From the window where I wrote I can see the workmen raising the beautiful Corin thian caps to the top of the tall majes tic marble columns of the new court house. The building grows into beauty every day and I am proud of it even though it will cost me a little more tax money, I put down the daily sight of it at ten. Then there are my strawberry vines loaded with ripening fruit. I will put them down again. One qf our boys wrote me that he was coming home to see us, but I must promise not to take him to see the strawberries more than seven times a day. Now see. how the account stands with all these credits and only one dis count for the old mare. Verily the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places. Bill Arp. Tell Colonel Bedding that with the help of the children I luve whipped the fight on the potato bugs. Paal Leleentcr For* KUled. New York, May 8.—^Paul Leicester Ford, the novelist, was shot and killed to-day by his brother, Malcolm Web ster Ford, writer and athlete, who im mediately sent a bullet into his own his own breast, dying instantly. The shooting occurred at 10:20 a. m. in the handsome new mansion which Paul Leicester Ford had built at 37 East Seventy-seventh street, and had occu pied for one year. At the time of the shooting there were in the house be sides the two brothers, Mrs. Paul Leicester Ford, Miss Elizabeth K. Hall, the novelist’s secretary, and the ser vants. The novelist was sitting at his desk in one corner of his library, a large attractively appointed room at the back of the house on the second floor. It is supposed he was busily engaged at some literary task. Miss H^ was at her desk in another corner of the' room about 30 feet from Mr. Ford. Mrs. Paul Leicester Ford was in her own room at the front of the house on the third floor. The murder and suicide were not known to the coroner until about 2:30 p. m. and not to the police until 4:25 p. m. Dr. Baruch said that the time between 10:20 a. m. and 2:80 p. m. passed so rapidly that no one in the house realiz^ it. Most of the time was occupied in trying to telephone to the father of Mrs. Paul Leicester Ford, Edward H. Kidder, of Brooklyn, who was the first person to arrive after the physicians. Mr. Kidder refused to make any statement in regard to the shooting ex cept a brief memorandum which was given to the police. In this it was said that the cause of the shooting could only be surmised. Information from other sources makes it appear that Malcolm Ford called to get money from his brother, and meeting with a refusal, shot him. Dr. Baruch said that the murder was the result of temporary mental aberra tion on the part of Malcolm. Ford, due to nervous exhaustion. 1BT CLARK SHOW BIS LBTTBRS. SENATOR TRBPS R^mBHBRT. Bowed under his 72 .''ean of busy life Senator George Gi ^iiam Vest, Missouri, one of the o ’lest men in Congress and a man who lias serrei continuously in the Senate since 1879, insists that he shall not miss a day’s proceedings of the body to which he belongs, and no matter what the state of the weather may be how bad he may feel, Mr. Vest is ioand in his seat on the Democratic side ere^ morning. He is serving his last tenn in Congress, having announoed that next year he will retire. He is fteUe and desites that the remainder of his.days shall be spent in the quiet of his home and away from the moil and toil of the strenuous life of the modem public man. In finishing his career Mr. Vest wiU retire with the admiration and respect of every man who knows him. The other day, while in a reminis cent mood, he told an amusing inci dent connected with his introduction to politics: It was away back in the ’50’s,” said Mr. Vest, “and I was a young chap then, just having been adi^tted to the bar and having decided to launch my self from the ways of the quiet life of a country lawyer into the troublous seas of state politics. I recall the incident well. During a State campaign I was scheduled as one of the speakers at a county seat political speaking bee, and, of course, I jHrimed myself for the effort The BTMtona of Jndce Clark In tbe Batebelor Letter Pointed Ont. Oor. Charlotte Observer. Raleigh, May 8.—^This evening Major James W. Wilson arrived here. He was interviewed and said: “Some two or three weeks ago I felt it my duty to myself and also to the Democratic party to make a statement relative to Judge Clark’s Democracy %nd fitn^ to sit upon the Supreme Court bench, and stated that if Judge Clark denied the ch^es I made proof would be forthcoming. I made t.hin bold chf^e because I knew Democrats of the highest standing had knowledge of the facts. After a great deal of eva sions of the main charge and efforts to becloud the issue. Judge Clark was foroed to call upon Governor Russell fof letters which contained proofs of these charges, and I am imformed to-day that copies of these letters were fur nished Judge Clark with an offer to allow comparison with the originals for verification. “Now, proofs of these two charges on these two points of material questions are in Judge Clark’s hands. If he prints the letters, as he has promised to do, the public will fell that my charges were under-statements rather than over-statements. If he does not print these letters it will be a confession of guilt u^n his part. Let Ji^ge Claik show lus letters. He has been tr}dng to becloud the issue by abusing Gov ernor Russell, with whom he was ex tremely thick five years ago, as is shown in this confidential correspondence; -he has been abusing Capt. Day, when Capt. Day appeared for Governor Rus sell and Judge Clark in their efforts to remove me. Judge Clark seems now to have a poor opinion of the friends with whom he was so thick in 1897. “It makes no difference who brought these letters out, or in whose hands they are. The question is did Judge Clark write them ? If he did he is guilty of instigating suits, concealing his con nection with them and then sitting in judgement upon them. He must stand or fall by his letters. They are his utterances, no matter who handled them since. “Judge Clark does not deny that he nad friends to ask Gov. Russell to a^>- appoint him Chief Justice a year and a half ago; he does not deny that he asked Dr. Thompson to intero.de for him ; he does not deny that he was in correspondence and in conference with leading Populists. He fills nearly six columns of paper witli evasions and ef forts to becloud the controversy, but there are mighty few direct denials in these six columns. He did not deny because he knew the proofs would be forthcoming. “With this statement I am done. If the people want a Chief Justice who will uphold the traditions of the bench like Taylor, Ruffin, Smith, Merrimon, and, if he were not living, I would say Shepherd, they can easily find the man. On the contrary, if they want a Popu list, policical manipulator, a man who stirs up litigation, conceals his connec tion with it and then sits upon the case, they have the opportunity. That man is at hand—Walter Clark.” Tke Head Walter'* Tl»a. One of the moat expensive restau* rants in New York is conducted, so far as its observing patrons can tell, on a unique system of tips. The bead wait er of the room devoted to the use of the men quests makes it a point to be come acquainted with them, find out their names and becomes genial in the half respectful, half presuming way Uiat 80 frequently passes for good na ture among employees of the kind in this country. Naturally he receives liberal fees from bis clientele, which is made up of rich men able to pay high prices for the extra service they re ceive. When there is no financial response of this kind to the waiter’s advances, his cordiality diminishes. The waiters under him do,. with unusual willing ness, the head waiter’s bidding. They are evidently indifferent as to tlielr own succeu In the matter of fees. It Is only the good will of the head waiter that appears to be the goal of all their efforts. Such unselflshnesa astonishes regular patrons of the restaurant, and one in particular undertook to discover the reason of this attitude of the waiters toward their chief. He learned after awhile that the tips the head waiter received were large enough to enable him to give the waiters a part of his earnings for attending with particular care to his patrons, who, as a rule, con fine their contributions to the bead waiter. The guests who fall to. take advantage of the head waiter's over tures to friendliness are not likely to fare well in that restaurant, where the waiters, certain of a fee from the man over them, an* indifferent to the guests not included nmong the list of his pa trons.—Kew York Sun. At the Wayne County Democratic Convention in Illinois resolutions were -presented which failed to mention W. J. Bryan. A delegate from Barefoot .township asked why, and the conven tion added a clause reaffirming its allegiance to the Kansas City platform and Bryan. People who say nothing can offend as deeply as people who say too much. The young man who has to scratch for a living seldom sows wild oats. A sweetheart is a charming fancy, but a wife is very apt to be a solemn fact. A city of 20,000 Destroyed. St. Thomas, D. W. I., May 8, 7 p. m.—^The British steamer Roddam, Captain Freeman, which left St. Lucia Wednesday for Martinique, returned there at 5 o’clock this afternoon, bring ing a report that the town of St. Pierre, Martinique, has been totally destroyed by volcanic disturbances in the island, ^most all the inhabitants of St. Pierre are said tc have been killed. The Rod dam reports that all the shipping in the port has also i>een destroyed. The Quel>ec Steamship Company’s steamer Roraimi is mentioned as lost with all on board. The Roddam was almost completely wrecked. Her cap tain was seriously burned and 17 of her crew are dead. St. Thomas, D. W. I., May 9.—It is now estimated that 40,000 persons per ished to a result of the volcanic erup tion in the island of Martinique. If Onllty He Should Not Be Nominated Stanly Enterprise. * Unless Judge Clark satisfactorily re futes the charges, certainly the Demo cratic party has but one thing to do— that is refuse to consider his name in the convention. Major Wilson is too well known and has too much at stake to make idle charges of so grave a nature, and is too old to be governed l»y feelings of mal ice. He challenges Judge Clark to de ny a single one of the charges, and promises, if he does, to produce proof at once. The question is one beyond mere party consideration. If Judge Clark is guilty of the charges, the party has suf fered enough at his hands already and insult should not be added to injury to an outraged people by placing such a man on the highest seat of our Supreme court. Under such circumstances, any Democrat who would support liim has •no regard for questions moral and is neither loyal to party nor State. We have been openly opposed to Judge Clark from the l)eginning. His character is emblazoned on scores of his public acts, and while he has done much good along certain lines, the “Mr. Hyde” in his nature has overridden the good, and the man at last shines forth in his true light. ’Tis sad, but true. If nominated, he can not be elected, and the Democratic party can not af ford to jeopar^e its ticket by having his name on it. of my life. It was my initial appear ance as a stump orator, and I was desirous of making a good impression. I was given a front seat on the platform and everything went off smoothly until it came my turn to speak. I was an nounced to the gathered multitude in great fashion, .^sing with dignity and holding liis hand aloft to quiet the murmurs of approval which hiad fol lowed the remarks of the man who precded me, the announcer bellowed forth something to this effect: “Fellow-Citizens: The next speaker who will address you probably ne^s no introduction to this community, be is young, yet he is well known; in fact, every one knows liim. His words stand as emblazoned in fire; his logic is incontrovertible; his arguments stand uaimpeached; his principles face you as those of a giant. The truths he utters are the stanchions of this State. “ ‘Fellow-citziens, I have the honor and the pleasure of introducing to you that distinguished young barrister, Mr. “Here he hesitated. He looked at me and then at the crowd. ‘Fellow- oitizens,’ he repeated, 1 have the honor of introducing’ Again he hesita ted, and finally in sheer desperation he turned to me and, in a voice loud enough to be heard by the audience, asked: “Confound it! What’s your name, anyway. I’ve clean forgotten it.’ “The result may be easily imagined. Everybody laughed, and it broke me up completely, 'i&e ‘great’ speech I had prepared and memorized for the occa sion escaped my mind like a single, stray thought. 1 made an effort to talk, but it was of.no avail, It was a long time before I recovered from the blow, for the joke was on me. I out lived it a few years later, however, and was elected to the State Legislature.” The CleanInK orthe Vatican. The Vatican has recently been over hauled for the first time in four hundred years; and out of the eleven thousand rooms, including the P(^’s private apartments, the picture galleries, the library, the museums of sculpture and archaeology, the casino, the Sistine and other chapels, and the barracks of the Swiss Gua^, over ten tons of dirt were taken every day for the first twelve or thirteen weeks, and in large propor tions also during the remaining five months. This will seem incredible no doubt to many persons who have visited a portion of these premises. Indeed, it was not until the Pope began study bac teriology, that he appreciated that there was any dirt whatever there. In this great undertaking over five thousand people were em^oyed, and one thousand loaves of bread a day were consumed in the cleaning of wall paper alone. Eight thousand brooms, two thousand scrubbing brushes, five thousand pounds of soap went in a week. The bread was used in such quan tities that to economize a bakeiy was established. The overseer of this work might have economized still more if, for the Italian product, they had sut>- stituted Fairbank’s Gold Dust washing powder and Fairy Soap. That is wherein American housekeepers have the advantage. “Let the Gold Dust twins do your work." THR BXIT OF AH IRCIRATB. Atlanta Constttntlon. It was an unlucky day for North Carolina when, in 1873, a streak of cholera ran through east Tennessee and chased Jeter C. Pritchard across the mountains into the state of Buncombe. Jete had been rcdler-boy and office “devil” for George Graham, publisher of The Jonesboro- Flag, but when he struck “the land of the sky” he took on higher ambitions. He climbed through the degrees from a revenue raider to a lawyer’s license and then pushed onward until in less than twen ty-five years he found himself in the senate of the United States! His career in that body has not been toilliant by any means. Hiw abilities are of the commonplace order and his grasp of national questions no larger than that of the average southern re publican politician. Up to date he has been as harmless as he was helpless. Being void of the sense to make a statesman he was also void of the skill to become a marplot and a peril. North Carolina has had to tolerate him just as the senate has had to suffer him— because there was no legal escape from him. But now Jeter is nearly up to the jumping off place. Having recovered from the follies' of populo-republican fusion the reunited democracy of North Carolina is prepared to retire Pritchard from the senate and send him back to the valley village in the western part of the state ifrhere he “fits best.” He is not likely to trouble the state, or the United States senate, a second term, unless the president shall find him some federal job that will further per petrate him upon the public purse and patience. The caliber and character of Pritch ard reveal themselves in the indecent speech that he made in the senate on Friday. He could not consent to leave that exalted ixxiy without showing his venom against the people of the state. With evident gusto he revamped the miserable bloody shirt slanders of the past and heai)cd them afresh upon the state that has honored him and that he dishonors. Upon the flimsiest of partisan hearsay he has sought to pil lory North Carolina to the objurga tions of the world for crimes and in humanities that never happened—that were bora in frenzied imaginations and nursed in hearts of hate. It will not be difficult to brand those charges as ,the lies they are and their authors as the parians to truth that all men know them to be. This latest speech by Pritchard vin dicates the wisdom of the people of North Carolina in repudiating both him and the party that is godfather to him. He is unworthy to named in the same breath witii. the honorable men who have given illustrious service to that state and to the nation in her behalf. Three tornadoes simultanously swept through three counties in central Iowa Thur^y night, resulting in serious in juries to 12 persons and over $50,000 damages taproperty and growing crops. Little Rock, Ark., May 6.—Gov ernor Jefferson Davis today pardoned Thompson, a negro, bn condition that Thompson go to Massachusetts within the next 30 days with the intention of becoming a citizen of that State. Thompson was convicted of assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to three years in prison. The Governor makes the following endorsement on the application for pardon: “Having just returned from the North and hav ing heard many expressions of sym pathy by the citizens of Mas^husetts for what they were pleased to call the poor, oppressed negro of the South, and desiring that they shall have an opportunity to reform a certain por tion of the negro population of our State, therefore. I, Jefferson Davis. Governor of the State of Arkansas, by virtue of the constitution and authority vested in me by the constitution and laws of Arkansas do grant unto Aairew Thompson, a ne^, a full ILnd free pardon on oonditioo that he become withip the next 30 days a citizen of Massachusetts.” Union officers have little hope of averting the strike of the 147,000 Penn sylvania anthracite coal miners. A Strange Proposlilon. Balelffh Post. From the Greensboro Record of yes terday we get the following most re- tnarluble statement: “Some strange things take place oc casionally and may be they aie neces sary, though they ought not to be. For instance we see a petition being circulatrd, urging the Messrs. Cone to build another big mill here, and the signers thereto pledge themselves to see that the owners are treated as individ uals and not as a corporation. Why should such a pledge be necessary ? It no doubt is, or the business associations, with which bodies it originated, would not circulate the paper. Such being the case, is it not a reflection on the community, on the State, to acknowl edge that we are dealing unjustly with any business? What every man or every corporation wants is to be treated white, to use a street expression. When Mr. Cone and his associates get this they will be satisfied. Has he, for in stance, been so treated?” The comments of the Record are per tinent. Here is a recognition, an ac knowledgement by the “business asso ciations” of Greensboro and other citi zens who have signed the paper that under the laws as now administered in North Carolina and by virtue of the vicious crusade which has been persis- tentiy prosecuted by demagogues, busi ness associations, corporations, are not treated as they should be and as com mon justice as well as good policy would require. And yet some people affect to surprised at the desire of those who only have the welfare of the State at heart to have on the Supreme Court bench not only men learned in the law but such only as command and are entitled to command, the con fidence of the public, all interests, cor porate as well as individual. Death of Admiral Sampson. Washington, May 6.—Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, retired, died at his home in this city at 5 o’clock this aftarnoon. The immediate cause of his death was a severe cerebral hemor rhage. He had been in a semi-con scious state for several days and this afternoon suiEfered a severe 'cerebral hemorrhage. At the bedside when ad miral breathed his last were Mrs. Samp son, Mrs. Lieutenant Cluverius, the admiral’s married daughter; Admiral Sampson’s two young sons, Ralph and Harold Sampson, Dr. Dixon and the attending physician and nurses and at tendants. Mrs. Sampson had broken down under the severe strain, and was quite ill all during the day. But for the critical condition of the admiral she would have been confined to her bed. The Law In the Way-. “All I demand for my client,” shouted the barrister, in the voice of a man who was paid for it, ‘is justice. “I am very sorry I can't accomodate you,” rejdied the Judge, “but the law won’t allow me to give Mm more than two years.” !■ RRAL TBSTS OV HAHHOOB. News and ObMrrer. Much has been written about the re markable will of Cedi Shodes, particu larly that portion in which he liberally endows s^olarships (some of them worth $1,500 a year) to be given to selected young men from the British ralonies. from ewery SUte and Territory in the United States and from Giennany. His conviction was that “a good under standing between Bngland, Germany and the United States will secure the peace of the world, uid educational re lations form the strongest tie.” There are many who r^;axd his whole plan as chimeric^ and impracticaUe, but even if they ate right there is one portion of the will that deserves to be studied. The number of scholarships is limited and the methods prescribed for giving them to^licants is the most interesting and instructive portion of the will. No method of selection for posi tions in the dvil service, in the naval or military academy has ever been free from valid objections. It is safe to say that no perfect plan can be devised or^ any plan th^ would be free from criti cism. But Mr. Rhodes has outlined a plan for giving out the scholarships, which possesses much merit. The wis dom of the plan depends largely upon its execution. Here are the require ments fM* securing these scholarships. 1. “Literary and scholastic attain ments”—to count for four-tenths in the rating. . “A love for success in manly out door sports” -to count for one-tenth in the rating. 3- “Qualities of manhood, such as truth, courage, devotion to duty, sym pathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellow ship”—to count for three-tenths in the rating. 4. “ExhiUdon of moral fHoe of char acter and instincts to lead and to take an interest in one’s fellows”—^to count for two-tenths in the rating. A life-time of experience taught Mr. Rhodes that these combined qualities make the strongest of men, and he wishes the youtlu who are to be educa ted by his munificence to possess them before they are admitted to Oxford If a genius like Cecil Rhodes could apply the tests he has required, his plan would have a fair trial under favoring circumstances, but as the testa are to be applied by many men of widely differ ing views, its application is one of great delicacy and difficulty. It will be a comparatively easy matter to ascertain the “literary and scholastic attain ments,” but who can fathom the pos session of the other even more import ant qualities required? “A love for and success in manly outdoor spmts” can also be fairly well known, but it will take long and intimate acquaint ance with the aj^licants to be able to rate them on the poosoomon of those finer qualities which are the real tests of manhood. STATB HBWB. The Atlantic Hotel at Mordiead CSU is now the property of the Atlantio A North Carolina Raikoad Cranpany. Asheville is to have an nwirM»h fmm, a branch of the California and Fluids farms. At it wiU be thirty-two birds. There are 9 acres land. George Vanderbilt is preparing to in stall on his estate at Biltmoie, N. C., a dairy which, it is said, when com pleted will be the finest in the worid. The campaign is yet young but there -re just 22 announcements candid ates for office in UnSon ooonty in the last issue of the Monroe Enquire. Governor Aycock has (^eied $800 reward for the apprehenaon of the in- cendi^ who burned the graded scho(d building recentiy in Lexington. Mr. Victor Brown, of Sharon town ship, Mecklenburg county, met with a serious accident on Monday. He was ploughing and gmng home rode a mole which became frightened and tan. Mr. Brown was struck by a limb ami gen- ously hurt. George A. Thompson, aged 68 yean, farmer and an ex-confederate soldier, fell dead on the second. Hiw funeral took place next day and was laigdy at tended, as the deceased many friends. In the absence of a preacher, his neighbor and friend, Thomas J. Poe, a^ 70 years, also an ez-confted- ate, conducted the services. Directly after the ceremonies Poe, too, fell dead. There was considerable excitement on account of Poe’s sudden dea^. It Cared Him. AshevUle Gaxette. Col. V. S. Lusk tells To^to the fol lowing story, which accorduig to him, is a true one: A pallid, emaciated individual came to Asheville and on alighting from the train was at once captured, as a stnmg and healthy man, not to speidc of a skeleton, would have been by a aht- quitous hack driver. ‘Can you take me to the sanita rium ?” ^e weak stranger ingnirHH. ‘Yes, sah,” was the reply. So the invalid got into the hack, and the driver started. They journeyed and journeyed, and the man dropped into a state of weary semi-conscioiuness. Finally he was aroused by the yehide stopping. He looked around, and found that he and the driver were ak>ne in the midst of tombs. As soon as he recovered from the shock he ftyftleimaH, “You !! xxx !!! black idiot, what in the Sam Harry have you brought me here for?” “Why-why, boss ^dn’t you say to fetch you to de simmyterry?” said the driver. And they say the invalid was so badly scared he dedded he had bettei get well, and did so, and returned to his home in three weeks. J. B'. Dnke*s Rlc Park. SoMERvnxE, N. J. May 2.—^The Urg- est private collection of bronze statuary and bases imported into the United States has just arrived here at the estate of James B. Duke. The collection numbers about two hundred ineces and filled several freight cars. It was made by Mr. Duke in the course of a recent visit abroad and is to be used in his plan to turn his 1,600-acre farm in to a public pleasure garden. Mr. Duke settied here aboutten years ago. He has built fifteen miles of drives about his place and a great con servatory, which he has thrown open to the public. Hu farm has been trans formed into a great park of lakes and wooded lawns by landscape gardeners. Mr. Duke has recentiy built a public boulevard leading to his place at the end of which be is errecting a fountain of stone and bronze to oost $80,000. He is also interested in colonizing the Raritan Valley near his estate with wealthy peo^de who are his intimate friends. He has been instrumental in transferring “Chetolah,” the summer place of Alfred De Cordova, to the hus band of Amelia Kngham, the actress. Two large farms adjoining “Ghetolah” which Iwve recentiy been bought with such secrecy that the former owners have been kept in ignorance of the real purchaser will be turned over, it is now understood, to Benjamin IXike, the tobacco magnate’s brother. Negotia tions are pending for the purctiase of other large tracts ai land in the ndgh- borhood. Know a Lot After the rarer la Ont. “It is mighty queer,’’says the Scran ton Gaiette, **how some people wiU Tire up on their hind feet and paw the air when some item of news happens to be a littie off on facts; yet these same people would not tell you the iton if you asked for it before the pi^ was printed. There are some people from whem you could not 'draw a local with a corkscrew—they absolutely don't know any news. Bat after the paper comes out they will say that you ate misinformed about some local hai^)en- ing and wonder why you can’t get things straight. IMd Rot speak for 40 Year*. John H Barger, aged 60 years, died at his home at Fetersharg, Ind., last week after s short illness. Burger was a tailor and owned one of the largest stores in Petersburg. About forty years &go he was engaged to marry a prominent young lady at Petersbury, and she jilt^ him on the day set for the weddiiq;. Burger made a solemn vow that he woolid never speak to any one. From that day to the time of his death he kq>t his oath, and passed his friends on the streets without the slightest recognition. The poor benighted Hindoo, He does the best he kiodoo. He sticks to his caste from first to hist. And for his pants makes his skindoo. Helianrtn Kjiocks n Hbm Rowa. , May 9.—^There was an exdting scene in the lobby of a hotel here to-night, in which Senates Mo- Laurin, of South Carolinian, figured. The Senator was sitting in the dining room with a gentieman, when he be* came the object of some offenuTe at tention from a man, whose nama the Senator refuses to disdose, and who, the Senator says, was under the influ ence of liquor at the time. Shortly after this ^e Senator and his left the dining room and went to the cigar stand. While standing there the man who had followed the from the dining room approached him, whereupon Mr. McLfuirin knn»lr^ him down. The man’s friends came to his assistance and ended the scene bgr hustling him away. The Senator waa not struck. There were no t J. F. Anrttnat l.encth Vreo. Salisbury, May 6.—^The case of State vs. Austin, which has attntcted a good deal of interest, was ended this iSter- noon in the Superior Court by the en try of a plea of nolo contendere, by counsel for the defendant and ac cepted by the solodtdr and counsd foe the prosecution. Austin, it will be re membered, came here about a year ago and started a labor organ called The Broad Axe. He had a rather exdting career until his landlord, who is a merchant, brought a charge of tilltap- ping against him. He was convicted of lan^yin the Superior Court last August, but was granted a new tiial an rpp^. The case was continued from the February term and came to an en4 to-day with the result already stated. Austin has never ceased to jvoteet hia innocence and his conduct sinoe the charge was brought, tho^h 'maned bgr a sensational outbreak in court apcm the occasion of his conviction, has caused a change of o{Hnion on the part of many who at first believed Mm guilty. Schler sveake of Admiral aamfn. Admiral Schley made the fOUowinf statement r^;arding the death of Ad miral Sampson. “I r^;ret veiy much the death of Admiral Sampwn, and I sympathise with his family. No one has ever heard me utter one unkind word about him. “On account of his death I have re quested my friends in Baltimore to postpone the delivery to me, which was intended to have taken place to-ni^^t, is the Cristobal Colon service ot silver, and they have accepted my request.’* Mr. Waters, of Philadelphia, has ap plied for a franchise iot a street raU> way at High Point, which town is tbe center of the woodworking industry in North Caroling having thirty or m»e factories. It is asserted that the {dan is to connect High Point, Greensboro and Winston-Salem by dectric lines, all operated by this syndicate. No man was ever so much in love that it interfered with his a|^[Wttte. 1-*.-.: mrnmm
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