VOL. 1.
ELM CITY, N. C„ FMDAT, JUNE 27,1902.
NO:46.
ABr»S liBTTBR.
Atlanta Constitution.
If anyone else was concerned I woald
not write this sick letter, but it raay
benefit others who are similarly affected.
1 have been a very nek man and hardly
expected to see my next birthday,
which is to-day, the 15th, but I have
scuffled through'and am now on the up
grade. One of my far-away boys wired
me to work on my stomach and 1
would g«t well. He might as well have
wired: “Keep on living and you will
keep living on.”
“Noit wasn’t the stomach. It was
higher up where the left ventricle of
the heart had got walled in and the
troubl^was what the doctor calls Ihe
a'ngin^ pectoris, and my left arm was
helpless. Fot two days and nights I
suffered more of real f^ny than I ever
suffered in al! my life. Ocr doctor boy
was here from Florida, and knew ex
actly what was the matter, and I took
all his medicine, but got little rdief,
aud 1 was willing to die to get out of
pain. Finally h^e gave me morphine
in both arms aad I went off to sleep
and rest. Tho4e^morphine dreams and
visions are always a mirade to me. I
thought^hat in his talk about my
trouble he. called it angelina pectoris,
for I don’t hear well now, and I got the
refrain on my mind; that pretty verse
from Goldsmith “Hermit:”
“Tuin^ Angelina—ever dear—
Hy charmer tom to see,
Tnine own, thine long-lost William here.
Kestored to hraren and thee.”
Ever and anon I t?culd hear it raining
on the tin' roof, but it didn’t rain a
drop. All night long I was murmur
ing “Turn Angelina, ever dear.” I
couldn’t stop it nor think of anything
else to say, but I wasn’t restored—next
day I got some better and as I hadn’t
taken any nourishment for three or
four days I craved something acid, and
like a foolish boy ate a small piece of
huckleberry pie for supper, which they
told me not to do. That set the dogs
to barking about midnight and set me
back just where I had been, and the
doctor’s work all had to be done over
again. Emetics and hot baths and
hot water bags and more morphine
finally brought relief. That night after
supper the young p^ple had the din
ing table cleared off and were playing
that pretty little childish game c^led
ping pong or ding dong or sing song O'
Hong Kong, or. some outlandiish name
with its tinkling balls, and so 1 got up
another refrain and was murmuring
ping pong, ding dong and ding dong
bell all night. One of my boys who is
always punning, told his mother that the
huckleberry pie business waa simply a
case of too much pie-eaty, t yd they
tried to make me smile, rfut they
couldn’t. I was past all wit and humor
and puns and jokes. But I am done
with huckleberry pie and huckleberry
cordial and Huckleberry Finn and any
other huckleberry. Only last Saturday
my only brother died suddenly of heart
failure away off from homp. His time
was not out, for he was nearly twenty
years younger than I am, and now,
alas! I have no brother, and he waa
always a good brother to me. But
almost everybody is threatened with
heart failure now, and eo I am looking
out for it, but don’t want it to come
along the Angelina line. Tlie heart is
the most wonderful and mystsrious
organ of our anatomy. It is called the
seat of affections, the desires, the emo
tions. The organ of love and hate and
joy, but it is not. It is mentioned in
the Bible more than six hundred times,
and always in connection with ourgood
or bad traits, but it has nothing to do
with feeling or = emotion or character.
It is nothing but a fleshy, pulpy organ
ism, a mechanical cbntrivance, and
has to be carefully nursed or it will
rebel. It is the engine that drives the
whole anatomical machine. If over
worked or overfed with ice or tobacco
or anything else it will work on faith
fully until it can’t work any longer,
and then gets discouraged and dies sud
denly at its post. The book says that
but little was known to medical science
concerning the heart until the eigh
teenth century, and that with the last
fifty years many books have been writ
ten, and now no part of the human
system is better understood or more
satisfactorily treated. The disease call
ed angina ptctoris is declared to be the
most dangerous to which it is subject
because of its distressing pain and a
sense of impending death. If I had
read that while I was suffering I
should have surrendered, but the doc
tor wouldn’t tell me nor let me read it.
He says it is better to minify rather
than magnify the apprehensions of his
patients. But the young people ought
to be told, told often and earnestly that
they can’t fool with the heart. A boy
who smokes cigarettes on the sly is
storing up trouble that will surely come
home and sap his manhood and shorten
his life. This is so well known now
that good men will not employ boys
who smoke. One vice calls for another
and a news mana^r told me the other
day that one of his newsboys skipped
some of his patrons every week so as to
have a paper or two to sell and get
money to buy cigarettes. Of course he
discharged Mm.
It is pleasant entertainment to listen
to a doctor tell his varied experiences
and this one uttered a truth the other
day that ought to provoke serious
thought in every parent’s bo'om. He
says that his greatest foe in the treat
ment of diseases of children is their dis
obedience to their parents and it is
most generally the mother’s fault.
They will do things and eat things that
are forbidden, but she loves the little
dears so much she overlooks their dis
obedience and so when they get sick
they^ will not take the physiaan’s
medicines without force or a struggle
and if the doctor is not there to force it
the mother lets the time pass rather
than hear the screams or cries of the
child. Not half the parents enforce
obedience from their cl^dren. Prompt
and willing obedience should be the
first lesson taught a child. Their hap
piness depends on it and so does t£e
mother’s peace.
We old-fashioned people have but
little patience with a generation that
is trying to reform the world with new
methods—abolishing the ways of their
forefathers—^raising children ob love
instead of discipline and filling all the
8cho^ in the land with athletic sports
and intercollegiate contests. What
honor, wh^t ipanliBess, is there in
Ucking a ball or batting one or wrest
ling or rowing a boat? These sports
have gotten to be the most imp(Hrtant
part of tihe curricultun and fill the daily
papem wiUi pctures and thrilling re
ports of the games. It is all an “igius
fatuus” that fools the boys and mum
them think they have acquired ua
education. When th^ went to c^ege
thm parents had fond hopes to them—
when they colne but that hope is gone,
for they are unfit for business or the
duties of life.
While 1 was half recovering from the
morphine state I got to ruminating
about the value of things and I com
pared good health and domestic happi
ness and the love and devotion of wife
and children with fame and power and
wealth 'and ambition and the very
thought of them sickened me.
1 wouldn’t give a good shower of
rain just now for Roosevelt and all he
has got or ever expects to be. But I
love Roosevelt because he hates Miles,
and I love Miles because he hates
Roosevelt and I despise them both—
“Turn Angelina”—ping pong. And
last of all came Satan. Tliey are for
war. They kill a thousand negroes to
our one. They make a land desolate
and call it p^ce. They have trampled
the love of liberty in the dust and all
for lust of power and place. A woman
from Kansas City sends me a paper
with a speech of a Grand Army of the
Republic orator on Decoration day in
which he says that he wishes every
confederate monument was buried in
the bottomless ocean and other vin
dictive things, and she wants me to
answer it. No, it is no use. That
Grand Army of the Republic is full of
just such contemptible creatures and I
can’t answer them all. It is a standing
curse to the peace of the land. Let the
ball roll on. Turn Angelina-^ping
pong, ding dong, ding dong bell.*' We
will survive the wreck of matter and
the crush of worlds. And so I went off
to sleep murmuring, there is no Grand
Army. It is a two for a nickel or four
to one concern. If I couldn’t fight
better than that Iki apologize and hide
out. Some of them down here in At
lanta would like to make friends, but
they have never apologized and the
way they do reminds me of the old
couplet:
“I know that yon say that you love me,
Bnt why did you kick me down stairs?”
Kng — pong —ding — dong— Turn,
Angelina—Wish'! was well enough to
work in my garden. Bill Arp.
WhT He Snliried.
Atlanta Constitntion.
The “latest and best drummer story”
was told at the Kimball house last
night by one of the knights of the grip,
who haa spent the best part of his life
in sleeping coaches and country
taverns. '
“I witnessed a most amusing scene
on a train a few weeks ago,” he said to
a group of listeners. “A. young man
got on the train who had just started
out to be a travelling salesman. He
had all sorts of grips and a full supply
of railroad literature. At the next
station a farmer boarded the train. He
had an old carpet bag and looked fresh
from the fields. The farmer left the
coach door open and the young drum
mer looked up from hia magazine and
exclaimed;
“Why don’t you shut that door?
You look like you were raised in a
stable. ’
'The countryman sat down across
the aisle and one seat in front of the
young *nan and in a few seconds began
to sniffle, as if he was weeping.
‘ ‘Say, old man, have I hurt your
feelings?’ called out the youth. ‘If I
have, I am sorry, for of course I did
really mean that you were raised in
a stable.”
‘ ‘But I was raised in a stable,’ the
farmer repUed sadly, ‘and it makes me
honiesick every time I see a jackass.’
‘I don’t believe the young fellow
ever spoke again or left his seat until
he was ready to get off the train.”
SOT AV09C1L AT OOOLBUBBB.
ArrAI.ACHlAII KA»K.
Only One Store Left In Alexander City
Alexander City, Ala., June 14.—
The destructive fire which swept over
this town yesterday, consuming almost
the entire business portic»n of the town
and destroying several residences, en
tailed a loss of $278,000, covered by
$123,000 insurance. Only one store of
the 50 buildings remains standing.
The inhabitants were left without shelt
er or provisions during last night
Trains arriving in Alexander City to
day brought provisions to the fire-strick
en people and there will be no further
danger of a famine. The business men
of the city, many of whom lost all their
properly, say they will rebuild the town
and will begin the work as soon as the
hungry and destitute are made com
fortable.
The Postoffice Department has under
consideration charges against two
North Carolina postmasters. Several
days ago Seym ur Hancock, New
Berne’s postmaster, was charg^ with
gambling. Inspectors have just com
pleted an investigation of charges
against Postmaster Burton, at Weldon
who is declared to be guilty of the same
offense. The Hancock case is being
held in abeyance and Postmaster Gen
eral Payne will discuss the Burton case
with Senator Pritchard.
H. 8. G. B. In Charlotte Obaerver.
From a wilderness of Times «nd tarees
Coolemee has benn ooBverted a pros
perous cotton mill TiUage. Threeyeus
ago the first work was b^n on the
Ooolemee Ootton Mill; today the Tillage
has a population of 1,200 souls the
mill em^oys 400 opeiratiTes. M oper
ates 40,000 BpindkM and 1,480 looms.
The main building is 576 feet k)og and
194 wide, three st-:>tie8 hig^. It is a
haivlsome structore ud is beratifolljr
situated on the east banks of the South
Yadkin river. The tenement houses
here. 858 in all, are pretty and oom-
fortt^le. They have three, four, five,
and nx rooms. The tract of land
owned by the mill company
I,700 acres. Mr. W. A. Eiwin, ,oi
Burtum, one of the Tery foremost twi|i
men in the State, is {ffesi&M of the
company. He is doing everything
possible to make Coolemee an ideal
ootton mill settlement. The location
was made attractive by nature and the
wcwk done by the company has been of
the most substantial kind. Theidam
across the river cost $85,000 and ir ten
feet high. A steel bridge is now
being built across the Yadkin, just be
low the mill building, and it will connect
Davie and Rowan counties. Three
hundred tenement houses will
erected on the Rowan side in the near
future. The present mill building will
then be enlarged.
The educational mass meeting, or
rally, held here to-day, was for the pur
pose of getting the null people interest
ed in the school. It is the intention of
the mill owners to orect a fine building
and establish and maintain a first-class
graded school.
During the morning a pig race, a bag
race and a game of b^ were indulged
in by local enthusiasts. At 2 o’clock
in the afternoon the exercises proper of
the day b^n. A concert was given
by the Salisbury band, a most excellent
aggregation of musicians. Gov. C. B.
Aycock, Prof. J. Y. JSyner, Mr. T. B.
Bailey and others spoke. The atten
dance was fairly good. Twelve hund-
dred or more seats in front of the stand
were occuiued.
T. B. Bailey, Esq., of Mocksville,
introduced Gk>vernur Aycock.
Governor Aycock said: “I lyp modest
m^ but I like to hear these good
things that are said about me by my
friends, whether they are so or not.
“I am glad to be with you. I am
under a pledge to be with'you when
ever I can. I was here two years
ago, asking for your votes. I declar
ed to you that if I should be chosen
Governor of the State that the entire
four years of my office should be spent
in working for the education of the
children. You voted fbr me and elected
me. I am doing my best to redeem
my pledge. It delights me to keep it.
We have always tidked about education
and it is time that we redeem our pledg
es. You have met here today to show
your willingness to redeem those
pledges.
We have a ^eat State—the great
est in the Union in some respects.
Our people have always been conserv
ative. We were last to go into the
Union and iut to come out. We hesi
tated about going out of the Union be
fore the civil war but we were the last
to quit fighting. We love to fight.
We are strong where we have been'
taught, but we have not been taught
well in some things.
Massachusetts built churches and
school houses. She educated all of her
children. We educated the few. Mas
sachusetts has grown enormously rich
while we are the poorest State in the
American Union. South Carolina
saves us from being the most illiterate
State. Our negroes are better educated
than those of ^uth Carolina. That is
all that keeps us from being the most
illiterate and at the bottom. The lack'
of education makes us poor.
Why are we poor? Are we lazy ?
Yes, reasonably so. I know you, for I
kA)w myself. We are not so awfully
lazy for we will do what we know how
to do. We fight because we know how
to fight. We are thriftlen; but not
more so than our neighbors. ^We are
not lawless. It is not laziness, thrift
lessness, not lawlessness that makes us
poor, but ineffideni^ has kept us back.
We just don’t know. We have been
buying educated brains from Massa-^
chusetts. We must educate all of our
people. That is what I am in favor of
and that is the view that most of our
people are talking of it. We must
make the average high. That is what
we are trying to do.
■It will take money to do this. That
is what hurts. You have been with me
up to this time but you will grow' cold
now. I know you. North Carolinians
do not like to let money go. It takes
him five minutes to pay his taxes to
the sheriff. There was never a fight
fought out for education except along
the line of taxation, i^ranny can nev
er enslave an educated peofde.
‘I came here to urge you to send
your children to school. Work your
self and educate your boys and girls.
Send him in rags and patches. Cast
aside false pride. Don’t sit and whittle
on white pine, but go to work and give
your children a chance.
“Occasionally there is a parent who
cannot send his child to school. This
is work for the Church and the good
workers of the community. Take up
the case and help the child. Provide
for the parent.
“The public school will do away with
the State militia. It will create the
feeling of broth«ly love.
. “We want to educate men to work
not atray from work. The man who
knows how to work does ten times as
much as the man who does not.”
H. £. C. B.
“What a lot of sour old maids there
are in your Ladies’ Aid Sodety.”
“Yes, we’re thinking of calling it
the Lemonade Scdety. ’'
It was a little sarprisiii^ to lMrnfrom
oar Washington eorre^ndent-a lew
di^ 1^ that a 8oath«m Sanator was
hanging up the AMtalachian puk bill.
It was more sorpristng still to kam la-
tor that this Senatw was Mr. Sate, of
Tennessee. This park, if estaUished,
will lie in the Anwlaehiaa range of the
Statea of Virginia, Notth a^ Soath
Gandina, Georgia, Alabama, and Ten*
nessee, imd embrace two million acres
of l«id which will be oaied for and
protected by th$ govemmeat. It is al
most inconodTat^ that a Senakv ot
one of the States immediatdy intonated
shouM block the progress of this —
whidi, by the way, canies ^ appro
priation of $5,000,000 for tte porchase
the land*—when loany BeiuUws of
States remote aie eamei^ in icTor of
the local benefits which it would confer
bat because it is a great national entw-
prise. In view of idl the facts, and of
the further f^ that the L^iislature of
Senator Bate’s State has dedared in fu
ror of this propodtion, it would be in
teresting to see fuller statranent than
has yet appeared of the ground Of his
objection.
- It may be added that it is doubtful if
the people of piedmont and western
North Carolina are aUve to the imp rt-
ance of this pai^ propodtion. All
sdentific testimony agrees that the dis
astrous floo^ which these sections
have recently suffered were due to the
destruction of the forests. But for it
we would not have had the recent
stories of ruined crops and ruined lands
nor the present spectade of sandy
wastes on creeks and rivers instead of
the fertile bottoms, coTered with waving
grain or rich green grass upon which
sleek cattle fed, on which the eye has
been wont to feast. The work of de-
forestration goes on i^iaoe, and unless
it is stopped there will be recurrence of
floods and accompanying destruction.
Anything that is calculated to modify
their energy should be hailed as a b^
neficence; and this is the practical view
of the Appalachian national park prop
odtion for the readers of The Observer.
It is a dazzling idea, that of a great
park of two million acres—more of it in
North Carolina than in any other State
—cared for, protected and beautified by
the government, a perpetual reservation,
a pleasure ground for the people. But
ours in the more utilitarian view. This
reserve is needed as a protection to the
lower country against the forces of
nature.
Bones of a RfaMo^lan VaMrtheH In
Chantaa^na Conntjr.
Dunkirk, N. Y., June 20.—Bones
of a prehistoric mast^on were unearth
ed at Westfidd, Chautauqua county,
this morning, on the grounds of Mrs.
Alice Pea^k. Work had been begun
on a low swampy spot to transform it
into a'fish pond. A trench two feet
deep had b^n dug when the first piece
of tone was struck. Careful digging
afterward brought to light the following
bones from different parts of the skde-
ton of an animal of gigantic size:
Shoulder blade, with socket for articu
lation of foreleg; hip bone; section of
spiiml column containing four verte-
rse; sections of both extremities of
spinal column; knee cap, nine ribs and
some other bones. The ribs are 4 feet
3 in'-hee Iqng and 4 inches wide. Two
mastodon skeletons have been previous
ly found in thisc>unty, one at Sheridan
and one at Jamestown, but both ad
vanced in decay.
Body Hnrled Prona « oAn.
Newport, Tpjw., June 20.—To-day
while bringing the body of the small
son of Hunley LaRue from Parrotts-
ville, where he had died .while vidting
his relatives. Undertaker J. H. Walker
suffered a painful and peculiar acd-
dent.
He had started down a long hill,‘with
the coffin containing the b^y indde
the hearse, when some part of the
hearse suddenly bn^e and it toppled
over, throwing the casket oat and spill
ing the renuuns on the ground. The
undertaker was caught under the wreck
and dragged to the bottom of the hill
by the horses that at once ran.
The funeral procesdon following was
compelled to view the horrible sight
without being able to furnish aid. Un
dertaker Wa&er was seriously injured
about the head and body and is in a
very precarious condition.
Another casket and hearse were ob
tained and the funeral continued.
There are said to be some perscHis
who yet think Populist votes wUl be
needed by the Democmts this year, to
«hdp out,” as th^ pot it. Democrats
will find this a broken reed to lean upon.
A pretty girl with big soft eyes can
teach a man anything in the world but
common sense.
After a man has gambled in matri
mony, Wdl street and horse radng are
tame speculations.
The trouble with great .moral forces
is that they don’t ti^e care of the rent
and the butcher’s bill.
The bachelor who dreams of slippers
and an open fire comes to rubber
boots and lugging in coal for the kitch
en range.
Tke Klnc Haa PneMaaonia.
London, June 17.—England’s acute
alarm over the King’s illness has not
lessened by Mntradictory semi-official
reports. Rumor now says he is th eat-
ened with pneumonia and the an
nouncement that he will not attend the
Ascot races to-day, farther a^ed un
easiness.
Later it was annouced officially that
the King was better; that he passed a
good night.
A New Title for cleTcJand.
Phiiadelphia, June 17.—^For the
fiist time in the United States the
honorary degree of doctor of\ juriqim-
dence was confdrred to-day at the
Augastiniaa College of St. Thomas of
Villanova. The redfnent was former
Preddent Qevdand, who had already
had the degree of LL. D. 'oonfenred oa
him by PrinoetM UniTeisi^.
THB PABI
AHB TBBIB
m*AI».
The recent action Of the Moore oounfy
Democratic conTention in endorsing
Jai^(^k continues, to famish the
sobject for occadonal manjtfiitationfl of
glee on the part ot his friends, who con
strue it as a rebuke to Mr. Henry A.
Page. It perhaps made bat little dif
ference to Mr. Page or his railroad
whether the Moore county Democrats
end»sed or repudiated Judge CSark,
bat it is a matter of great moment to
the Democratic party and the people of
the State are la^ whether pr^odice
reason and equity shall gorem in North
Cart^na. Mr. Page and his associates,
by hmest efforts, with no captal to be-
^ with, haTe gradually tailt ap a
raiboad, whidi ia entirely Amed by
memben oi the Page fa^y. There
is no eTldence that anybody was eTer
oppressed by ^ road, while m the
other hand great benefits haTe been
brought about by its construction. The
owners and eTerybody connected with
it are North Carolinians, and yet ever
since is began to show net earni«gjB it
has beoi, uong with all other corpora
tions, an object of attack by the Pop
ulist politician. As fw baiSIf as the first
rdgn of Marion Butler and his crowd
this Pa^ road was made the subject of
denunciation. This rdlroad, which has
been constructed through the pine
forests of Moore county, through the
efforts of North Carolina brains and
manhood, with money made by natives
of the State, in the county where it was
operating, was not paying its em^oyes
suffident wages; it was hauling people
free; it did not pay enough taxeS; or
this or that was wrong. It is not known
that its employes are comfduning of
insuffident compensation; Judge
Clark’s charge against it of free passes
turns out to have been based upon the
fact that it carried an indigent, dck
man and his family effects from one
point to another at a reduced rate; if it
is not taxed enough that is the fault of
the corporation commission which is
elected by the people—the road pays
whatever taxes are assessed against it.
We submit that there is little encour
agement to other North- Cuolinians to
undertake public enterprises when they
see how these Page people are hounded.
They have been puUic benefactors—
while helping themselves they have
done a great deal for others, and they and
their interprises are entitled to noth
ing but commendation. In addition to
the above recited and other reasons for
public praise of them, it ia to be added
that their b^tsof thought and life are
purely democratic. When theis road
was not as long as it is now, and when
they did not need to employ many en
gineers,^enry A. Page or one of his
brothers took the throttle whenever an
engineer was sick, made his run for
him until he recovered, and when the
engineer received his check at the end
of the month he found that he had lost
no time aud that his illness had cost
him nothing in wages.
This is the class of men whom certain
politidans are bedding up to public
scorn in order to try to justify the
notorious acts of a Populist judge.
Mr. Hulton, tlie lnjare« PlreaMB,
CBOMt Bcm«mber How Re
Waa Hart.
'eensboro Telegram. 14th.
United States District Attorney Hol
ton was telling some days ago of the
remarkable condition of his ne^ew,
A. £. Holton, Jr., who was injured
near High Point some weeks ago by
jumi»ng out of the cabooae of a runa
way en^ne, striking upon his head and
escaping death by a miracle, as the
engine was wildly careering at the rate
of a mile a minute. The young man
was moved from Lexington to his home
in Yadkin county Wednesday. He
seems to have recovered so far as any
phydcal ailment is concerned, but Mr.
Holton says he does not seem to have
any recollection whatever of the catas
trophe except that he quietly relates it
as an attack upon him by three men
who were so much stronger than he
hat they won the fight.
The other day he had writton out the
name of the engineer on the engine
several times, and was looking over it,
holding it in his fingers and closely
scanning the names he had written in
a neat hand, spelt all right and punc
tuated properly. Finally he passed the
slip over to his uncle and said, “Do
you know who that man is, and why I
have written his name so many times?”
Questioning does not seem to have any
effect in impressing the real cause of
his acddent, and he knows his relatives,
and all new-made acquaintances, but
seems hazy in r^;ard to the event.
Mr. Holton says the doctor thinks a
smidl clot has formed in a portion of
the young man’s brain which will soon
vanish, and his-past be as clear to him
as ever. It is certainly strange that
he can remember his education and
forget the events so intimately connect
ed with his acddent.
Bev. Geo. H. Detwiler preached a
rmon yesterday momii^ which will
not soon be foiiiottcm by those present.
During the course of his renuuks the
preached said: “The greatest tempta
tion my 1^ at times is to quit the
church with her OTerbardening load of
thecdogy and dogma—leaTe the palpit
and go.oat to woric where sin reallyis.”
The text was Bomans, 7 cSu^iter and
19 Terse. “J-or the good that I would
I do not, bat the eril whidti I would
not, that I do.”
The speaker reTrawed the different
theories and doctrines dealing with sin
in man, from that of total de^yity to
that which makes sin almost» necessity
of iidman natare.
Dr. Detwiler said & part: “You can
nerer do the wocid any good by con
demning it. There is too much con
demnation in the world already. What
the world wants is sjrmpatiiy. Some of
you think that I ought always to be
harping on what you must not
cards ai^ dandng and going to {days.
You can neTer help a aan in any other
way. You mast see something good
in him. I haTe told you that I do not
tell eTeiything but I am gmng to say
somelMngjaow which some of you may
not wish to hear bat h comes from the
bottom of my heart and I say it after
due deUberation: *The greatest struggle
and temptation—one which at times
tears my heart—is that I should giTe
up the chureh andleaTe this pulpit and
{datform, and go out into the world
idiere sin and sorrow and suffering
are.’
eizii^ his ministerial coat the
spe^ersaid: “I fed sometimes like
tearing this thing off and patting on
the clothes of the laboring man and
then go out into the world'where real
■ is.
'I tdl you Ghristanity in Charlotte
IS a sham. You are living sham lives.
“How many of you have ever gone
out after the poor and suffering, and
have sought out the dck ones and hdp-
ed them in their diitress? If any of
you have done these things I wish you
would come and tdl me about it. Oh,
I am not tdking about coming here to
church and paying your money to its
support. You could mighty easily get
another jmacher to stand in my place
here tor the salary I am getting and
ny nice things to yov, but I am speak
ing what I believe to te the truth.
“The great festering wound of sode-
ty is out there in the worid to be heal
ed. My God, help us to see our duty.”
Patal Wreck Rear Shalhy.
Shelby, June 19.—As the mixed
train passenger and frdght, leaving
here this morning at 9 o’clock for
Marion, on the South Carolina A
Georgia Extendon Railroad, was cross
ing a trestle 260 feet long and 75 f^
high over the rivei*, two miles nnth of
this place, just beyond the highest
point, the trestle gave way and the
coach and four freight can went down,
completely destroying cars and coach.
Some 15 passengers were on board. Mr.
Lee Grigg of tlm place, was
Several otherff were shaken up and
bruised, induding the CMidnctor, Mr.
Ed. Tturner, who is recdving treatment
hare at the Central Hotd.
Rev. Dr. J. Knox Montgomery, of
Chicago, has aocq>ted the call to the
First Assodate Reformed Presbyterian
diureh of Chariotte and will enter upon
the duties of the pastorate the first
Sunday in August
The indicatiMis are that th« hill te
the relief of Cuba is dead. The lepab-
lican insurgents Jiave whippedthe^it
sgainst tiie preddent and the leaden of
■le party.
The bodies of seven Amerieaa
Mdidn, recently o^tured in the Philip
pines, have been fband hewn
limb. The bodies were so motilaled m
as to be unrecognisable.
The Preddent Friday sent a messiM
9 Congress urging that body to aiakie
tariff  coooessioiis to Caha, or ia
other words to pass the Oahan teetoro-
dty bill which has been hui^ in tiie
Senate for some time.
Bear Admiral Dewey is to go to mm
with the most pow»M fleet
has ever turned out. He will be in su
preme command and will engage in
maneuvering or naval driu in the Weat
Indies next winto'.
Mrs. Louis Westrop, of Oopiak
county, MissisdpjH, in a fit of inanity
Uttt Monday killed her six dnldien,
burned her home and fled. She wm
pursued, and when found shot henalf
with the rifle previoudy
The strike dtuation in West Viiginia
and Pennsylvania is growing mort
serious. Some shots have been ex
changed and at moments grea^>iolMioe
seems ready to break oat. Non-tuuoii
men m fc^idden to work in sinne of
t^ mines by union men armed with
rifles and work is' being entered wit^
News and Ohaerver.
Some peofde call it “the Salisbury
lynching.” The true name is “the
Salisbury murder.” »
The murder committed by a mob in
Salisbi^ last Wednes^y wss the most
indefeiidUe in the history of the ^ate.
The two negroes who were murdered
had committed the henious crime of
murder, Ivit nothing worse. They had
not be^ guilty of the graver crimes
which is often followed by lynching.
They had been aj^rehended, they were
ic the custody of the officers of the law,
and the evidence against them would
have secured thdr legal executioo.
If lynching is ever excusable—and it is
never to be defended and to.be excused
only, if at all, when men are moved to
righteous wrath in the hour of the
namdess criine b^>re the culprit is in
jail. In the Salistfuy case the n^roes
had murdered the woman and deserTed
to be hung by due process of law, but
they had been captared, were in jail,
and their murder was deserTing of the
severest censure.
The crime of Wednesday morning is
without the least sembUnce of pallikti»i
or excuse. It was miuder, none the
less premeditated beeame committed
by a company of men instead of a
dngle individuaL The crime of the
negroes was gross and would have re
sulted in Ic^al execution. The crime
of the mob was an attack upon dvil-
ization, a reproach to our belief in law
and order, and is a st^n upon our
Cr^mmonwealth. It was without pro
vocation, excuse or palliatii^.
After Mr. Cleveland had been elected
the first time a crowd of exdted and
h^py Frankfort Democrats, loaded
with liquor and armed with a brass
band, were parading the streets. Fin
ally a happy thought struck them.
Thqr conduded to go and aerenwde
Cadddock, the Nestor of Democracy.
They immediatdy headed for his red-
dence, and when it was reached, com
menced a perfect bedlam of noise and
confudon amidst cries of, “Craddock,
Craddock, Craddock.”
At l«i^ the old man i^peared on
the balcony. He had not gone be
yond the expressimi, “Fellow dtizens,
before the crowd Iwoke loose. He es-
fayed seversl times to speak without
success, by reason of which he became
exasperate.
At length the crowjd quieted suffic
iently for his vmce to iae heard, but his
patience by this time was entirely ex
hausted.
“Fdlow dtizens,” he began for the
Dkst time, while the sarcasm of his re
marks was illy concealed, “Democrats,
hoodlums, diuned fools, blatherskites,
I bid you good jiight,’*-
New London correspondence Ral
eigh Post: “Last Saturday iiight
“Aunt” Riah Parker, aoolered woman,
living aloue about one mile from town,
heard a calf bloating piteoudy. She
arose and went to the bam to leacn the
trouble. When she arrived at the
ham she saw her cow walking off up
the road. Sie started to run after the
cow when she saw a man who had been
leading her drop the line and run into
the woods. She was )ust in time to
OBIIBKAl. IIBWa.
It is announced that the Pkeaideiit
^ make a trip throi^ the Boath in
October.
The recent illness of Mn. Baasevelt
..u more serious than reported. Ihero
will be no interesting event at the irtifts
knnsA
You can hardly imagine a Ixty say
ing: “I am going to be a seooikhsfaMi
n. I don’t want to be
and get the good jobs, the hi|^ W.
Second-dtts jobs are good Annng^ for
me.” Such a boy^ would be regarded
M lacking in good sense, if not in san
ity. You can get to be a srrnnd rlsas
man, howeTer, by not trying to he a
first-dass one. Thousands do , aO
the time, so that second-class men are
a drug on the maritet.
Second-dass things are Hily waited
when first-dass can’t be Yoa
wear first-dass clothes if yoa .nay
for them, eat first-dass butUv, first rCs
meat, and first-dass bresd, or. If yoa
don’t, you wish you couli^
class men are no more
any other second-class
They we taken and used when the b^
ter article is scarce or is too high pririad
for the occadon. For work that rnailj
amounts to anything, first-dass —*iy
are wanted.
Many things make second-dass men.
A man menaced by disdpatum, whose
understanding is dull and dow, wiioae
growth has been stunted, is a secoiid*
class man, if, indeed, he is not thhd-
e. A man who, through his amaa^
mentsin his hours, exhaustshia stiMigtli
and Titality, vitiates his Mood, wnaia
his nerves till his limbs trasble like
leaves in the wind, ia only half &
and could in no sense ' ” '
Everybody knows the
make these second-dass rharsfitfirisliiti
Boys smoke dgarettes to be smart and
imitate older boys. Then they kMp
on because they have created an ap
petite as nnnatmal as it is hajmftil-
Men get drunk for all sorts of reaaoas ;
but, whatever the reason t^ oaonot
remiw first-dass menjuad drink. Dia>
dpation in other forms is pursoed bo*
cause of pleasures to be- MTed, bat
the surest consequence is that of be
coming second-class, bdow the stai|-
dard of the best men for any porposa.
Evwy fault you attow to become #
habit, to get control over yoa, he^ io
make you second-class, and pals joH
at a disadvantage in the race for hoao^
podtion, wealth, and hi^>pineas. Oaie^
lessness as to h^th fills the ranks qjf
the inferior. The submerged ciasseb
that the economists talk aboot ar6
thoee that are bdow the hi^-waisr
mark of the best manhood andwomaa*
hood. Sometime they are sen^-ialt
or third-rate people because thOse who'
are respondble for their being and their
care during thdr minor yean were so*
before them, but more aiid more &i it.
becoming one’s own fault if, all
through hfe, he remains second-daas.
Education of scnne sort, and even a
iwetty good sort, is posa^ to practi
cally everyone in our land. Failure Io
get the bSst education snifarible;
whether it be in books or in '
training, is sure to rel^;ate one to
ranks of the second-da^
Phydcians never were able to ad'
vance one g|^od reason for refttsiM lo
advertise innewspiqieTsaad msfsnnH
The one they use, that qoMka pay
for puUidty, is UlogicsL ^ pvity. of.
reasoning, the honest merchant or
manufacturer should dedine to bay
newsp^)er space becsnse there an oa-
scrupulous merchants and manufac
turers who also sdTertise. The repat-
able phyddan, by his own conftMd^sn,
keeps out of print, learing to thie
charlatan all the ^endid benefits p^
lidty and permitting him to deoeive
the people at pleasure. Inddeatslty.
reporters know tiiat phyddaaa an oaly
too ready to give their namtis and
address fat puUication in any cast
deserving of newspaper memtioa in
which their {xofessiona] sstrioea haia
been called into requlsitkm.—^Fdnlen
Ink.
One of the sights ak>ng the Carolina
Central Railway is the abandoned
“State farm” near Wadesboro. TUa
is one of the w(»st ‘‘Tentares’* the pea*
itentiaiy ever made. In the vast ana
of once cultiTated land then an now
only two or three little “potdiea^’ineid*
tiTaticm.