THE ELM CITY
VOL. 1.
F.T,\f CITY, N. C., FRTOAY, JULY 11,1902.
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Atlanta Constitution.
How the old people clinK to the
stories and traditions that charmed thdr
childhood. Good old Mother Akin
came to see me and to comfort me in
my sickness. She has had her share
of trouble, but is always bright and
cheerful and brings sunshine with her.
Somehow the story of William Tell
came up, and when I remarked that it
was now generally set down amoiig the
critics as a myth or a pretfy fable she
said “she would not read any such
heartless scandals nor did she believe
them. The world is full ot these ioon-
oclasts who would breakup every idol
that we have worshiped. The story of
William Tell is one that is fit to be
believed and handed down from gener
ation to generation. Voltaire stared
that fable theory because he did not
like the Swiss. Many books have been
written on both sides, but the old
family traditions that have come down
to u3 for 600 years are still as nmdh
the faith of the Swiss peofde as is their
religion. William TeU is as much to
day their national hero and the founder
of their republic as Washington is of
ours and the little chap^ on the lake
where he was drowned is still preserved
to commemorate him.”
Well, whether it is a fact or a fable it
is one of the prettiest stories ever told
and ought to be repeated to the children
of every household. It was in the
fourteenth century when Austria had
overridden and conquered Switzerland
and had stationed her tyrant biuliffo
ia every canton to subdue and humUe
the people that one Gessler placed the
ducd cap upon a pole in the public
place and ordered every one who passed
to uncover hia head and bow to it. Tdl
refused and was seized and condemned
to death, but as he was known to be
the best bowman in Switzerland he
offered the alternative of shooting an
apple from his son’s head. The boy
was his idol and he begged for some
other alternative, but Gessler refused.
Sixty yards was measured off, the boy
stationed and the apple placed. Gessler
and his cohorts looked on while Tdl
bowed his knees in prayer. Rising he
looked to heaven and then let fly the
arrow and pierced the ap^e in its cen
ter. The boy ran to his father and
leaped into his arms, and another ar
row that had been conceiled fell upon
the ground. “What was that arrow
for?” said Gessler. “To shoot you,
you brute, had I slain my son.” For
that he was condemned to prison and
Gessler took him in a boat on the lake,
but a violent storm came up and Tell
was unchained to steer the boat. He
made for the shore, leaped to a rock
and with a pole shoved the boat back
into the stormy waters. Hurryini;
along the lake he procured a bow an [
arrows from a countryman and shot
Gessler as the boat passed. "Tell’s
Leap” and “Tell’s Rock” are still
known to every child in Switzerland.
Later on he lost his life while saving a
lad from drowning. What is unreas
onable about this story? We had a
Cieasler in Bome at the close of the
civil war. His name was de la Mesa, a
Spaniard who came over to fight for
pay. He did not hoist the du^ cap,
but he stretched the flag over the dde-
walk and our female Tells (some of
whom are living yet) would not walk
under it, but crossed over to the other
side. Then he stretohed another across
the whole street and they walked
around the block. It was not so much
of disrespect to the flag as it was con
tempt for the foreigner who unfurled
it. He refused to let our wives and
daughters receive or mail letters unless
they came before him and took an
ironclad oath of allegiance. He had
ten of our young men and several
young ladies arrested for acting in a
tableau to raise a little money to replace
pews in the churches. The pews had
all been taken out and made into
troughs to feed their horses in. He
was forewarned that night by a negro
that if he did’t release those giris he
would be killed befoie morning, and he
would have been. Yes, “Leopard
Spots” were all around here just as
they were in North Carolina. We had
Gesslers and we had Tells, too.
But I was ruminating about Switzer
land, that historical and wonderful coun
try. Now, children and young people,
listen. It is only a little scrap of
country about one-fourth the size of
Georgia, and nearly half of that is taken
up by lakes and mountains. The most
beautiful lakes in the world. Lake La-
cerne (that’s Tell's); Lake Gteneva
(that’s Calvin’s); liike Wenner and
Wetter—and just think of the grand
old mountains—the Alps and the Jura
and the Jungfrau. Think of the hos
pice of the good St. Bernard, where
they kept that fine breed of dogs who
were trained to gu out in the most fear
ful storms in search of lost travelers
and carry food and wine to them and
bring them safely to the hosiHce. One
of my first books had a picture of two
of tbese noble dogs digging in the snow
for a man and feeding him almost
dead. One of the dogs had a bottle
strapped ^und hix neck and the other
a basket of food. In another fiicture
little boy was on a dog’s back and
arms around his neck and the dog was
barking at the dtior uf the hospice
admission Those pictures and
stories about them were as dear to
as the story of William Teil.
But think of little Switzerland, with
its population of three million people
and all at work except the babies
About half are shepherds and herdsmen
on the mountain slopes and benches,
raising sheep and milch cows, and ii
the year 1900 they sold ovtsr ten million
dollm worth of butt» and cheese
Down in the valleys and around the
lakes are many towns and little cities
that hum like bee hives, for nimU
fingers are making watehes, jewelryi
hair work, lace, silk and cotton fabricfr-
as fine as gossamer and hundreds
other little things which, taken all
together, made the commerce of that
initor ooTered and snow ci^ped
republic nearly douUethe oommetoe
•ay othtt country according to p(^la-
AU the children from 6 to 12 years
have to go to school part of every year,
and hor young men have to be taught
]iartoftwo yean in miHtary tactics.
' rhere is no standing army, but every
dtiaen is • willing and ready soldier to
defmd his coun^. Its government
a r^HiUic divided into twenty-two
cantons (nr oounties, and to maintain
tha rqMiUic th^ have been fighting all
contiguous nations, for nearly six
hun£ed years uid ^ve whipped er^
b^tle th^ fought. Austria, PmsBia,
Mazimillian and at lastSoni^iarte tried
to subdue that people, but faiM utterly.
They never had an «rmy of over 80.000,
and defeated Prussia with 60,000 in
seven latched batUea. Austria de
manded 20,000 Swiss soldietB to
her fight Turkey. Switierland refused
to furnish them, and that Iwouj^t on a
war, and Switz^and whijqped it. We
see by the New Toric papers that they
have completed the new government
buildings at Berne, and the pictures of
them are lovdy and the ^ple are
proud and had a great festival when
they were opened for business. Grand
country—-great people. John Calvin
1^ his mark upon (hem, for of all the
twenty-two cantons only three have
k^ allegiance to the Roman GthoUc
church. But all ate devoted Christians,
and on every Christmas day and every
Easter mom the young men and
maidens come bipi^gdown die moim-
tain paths Binging their Christmas or
Easter carols and making the cliffs and
valUeys echo with their songs.
But it is said that their young men
fight for pay and are mercenary sol
diers. Yes, but they choose the side
th^ believe to be right. They would
not fight for Austria against the Turks,
n»r would they fight* for Bonaparte,
n» for England against the Boers.
And now the civilized world has let
them alone and the little republic has
had peace for nearly a hundred years.
Bill Abf.
muVewt.
years,
were few in the soutti, aod vrtien the
operatives were not of suflBcient num-
to be of importance in political
combats, the poUtician and the agitatw
interest ia their
welfare. Tb the former th^ could not
furnish enough votes to insure his
election, and to the latter th^ were
few in number and too poor in
purse to inovide him with income
enough to meet his living ezpoises
' to pay f(K his dgars aid whisky.
But now these ccmditions have iduuiged.
The mill (^lerativea fq[iiesent hnndieds
thousands (rf votes, and
income of millons erf dollars. They
are no longer the small, insignificant
class mce were, and bow the poli-
ticiaa and the agitator become very
much interested in these
“The Jeffcnoa BlMe.*’
Ralelcrb CtarlsUan Advocate.
The “Jefferson Bible” will soon be
on the market. Its very name will
doubtless influence many prople to buy
it with the expectation of securing the
Word of God illuminated by helpful
sidelights thrown upon it by Thomas
Jefferson. But in this they will be
mistaken. They will secure only the
coltection of the moral teachings ot the
New Testaments minus the miracles
and all statements that would imply
that Jesus Christ was more than a great,
pK>d man. Thomas Jefferson did not
>elieve in the divinity of Christ and
ridi»led the miracles of the Bible.
What good can his “Bible” do that
cannot be done by King James’ ver
sion? In the latter we have the moral
teachings, and much more. If we wish
to compare these moral teachings with
those of the historical religionists we
can do so without resorting to a com-
>ilation by a mui who did not believe
Jesus Christ as the Son of God.
We are glad that Congrm, which
passed a bill for the publication of the
Jefferson Bible,” in order that there
might be a complete coUection of the
writings of Thomas Jefferson, has re-
cc^^iized its mistake, and now sees that
it transcended all constitutional prerog
atives in ordering the publication of a
book which invades the domain of re
ligion.
The book can do no good. It is ca-
paUe of doing harm. The Congrra-
sional Library will not suffer by its
absence. Every man and woman can
afford to be without it. It has slept in
retirement for a hundred years. Let it
continue to sleep.
Aaiacrty for naiimaos.
The new law for Civil Government in
the Fhilipi^es is expected to go into
effect by July 4, and on that day the
President hopes to issue a proclamation
described as follows: The prodama-
tion is based on the general objects of
the Philippine Government bill, name
ly, to restore peace in the Archipdago
and substitate a civil for a military
regime. The proclamation will declare
that a state of peace now exists in the
Philippine Islands, save in parts of the
Archipelago where the Minadanao or
Pagan tribes are giving the United
States a great amount of trouble, and
will declare in effect that with the trans
fer of the government of the Archipd-
ago from a military to a civil status, all
those arrested and held for political
offenses shall be restored to liberty,
granted full amnesty and allowed to
participate in the civil government that
is to be inaugurated on the islands.
I&IUMI 15» WoBBde^l *9.
Utica, N. Y., July 5.—On an elec
tric rulroad near Gloversv>lle last nischt
there was a collision between two cars
crowded with passengers, by which 15
persons were killed and 29 injured. For
a distance of four miles north of Gluv-
ersville, the mountail lake railway, an
electric riad, connects Gloverville with
a popular place of resort. Last nighi
the cars were filled with peofJe coming
home. At 10:30 p. m., at a distance
of about 2i miles iiorth of Gluversville,
there was a collision between two cars,
They came together head on with ter
rific velocity. As a result the 15 per
sons were killed otiright and 29 injured,
the latter more or less seriously. As it
was a holiday there were many business
men among those on the cars.
“Papa,” said the sweet girl graduate,
“wasn’t my commencement gown i
whooporino? I had the other girls skin
ned alive!”
“And this is the prl,” said i.«pa,
sadly, “whose |n»duating essay was ‘An
Appeal for Higher Standard of Thought
and Exiweirsion. I”
Virtue is the only immortal thing
th4t belongs to mortality.—Seneca.
BTIM.
and “downtrodden” peofde; one who
wuifeB thdr votes, the other wants their
money. These men, the pditidan and
the agitator, wH*k hand in hand, their
interests are mutual and th^ naturally
drift together.
The agitator and the extreme labor
paper are forerunners. Their part of
the work is to lead the mill operatives
into discontent and enmity toward their
emptoyers, and to make them believe
they are the most of^iressed pec^ on
earth. This once accompUshed, the
operatives dissatisfied and alienated
from thdr former friends, the time has
come for a political Moses to lead the
children out of the wildemeHi. The
p^tidan smnely bobs up, inndai^
his undying love for Uie laboring
masses and his abhorrence of
man that employs labor, and inoposes
to sacrifice his dear sweet sdf that the
workingman may have life and liberty.
The agitator pushes him along, en
dorses him in stirring qieeches, and
the labw paper, which is often owned
and controlled by the politician,
dorses this great and good man and
urges its followers to vote for him.
The circuit is then complete. If Mr.
Politician gets votes enough to pull
him through, and land him in Congress
or some other good place, the dear
peojde who furnish the votes finally
realize that all the good has gone the
way 7f the politidan and agitator and
that the only thing left to them is a
morsel of discontent and enmity and
disappointment.
Some may say this h mere faiugr.
But it is not. It is truth. In both the
Carolinas to-day these two evils are
getting m thdr work. Agitaton are
sowing the seeds of discontent^ among
the working pec^le, and politicians are
rimng up in ^)en antagonism ^ against
the manufacturers, who have invested
thdr money in the mills that give em
ployment to the thousands of our peo
ple.
These politicians represent the vicious
element of office seeker, who are will
ing to resort to any kind of methods to
get elected. They appear to have the
idea that mill operatives do not have
sense enough to think for themselves,
and that all that is necessary to ^
(heir votes is to abuse and antagonize
their employers, and indulge in a lot
or buncombe about the slavery of the
working man and the tryanny of capi
tal.
This may, and does, appeid to a few,
but the lai^ and more intelligent dass
of mill operatives in the south know
that the interests of the emidoyer and
em^oyee are identical, and that the
person who proposes to aid the laboring
man by tearing down the man who
gives him employment, is either a fool
or a knave.
They know that the real friend of la
bor encourages industrial development
and the establishment of factories and
mills for the employment of labor. In
telligent mill opoativea are not to be
deceiv^ and duped by the pditician
who furnishes money to start up so-
called labor papers, and then have those
liapers boom him for office. Just such
deception is going on here in North
Carolina. All politicians do not be
long to this class. Of course all ot
them are out for office and emoluments
but like men in all other professioiu
some are frank and honest with thdr
constituents; th^ endeavor to fulfill
their j^edges to the pe(^e, and to have
such laws enacted as will be most bene
ficial to the masses. Others are simply
out for gain, and resort to all kinds of
hypocrisy and deceitful methods to get
people to vote for them.
Any one who watches these things
can see that these methods are bang
put into operation. The politician and
the agitator have their plans laid to
capture some plums through the med
ium of the workingman's vote. B
nut deceived. Keep your eyes open
lest you become the victim of these
companion evils.
Congress has adjourned jmd the event
has no greater aignifieaiM» to our own
people Stma it has to the inhabitants ol
Cuba. They have sinoeifay 80, whm
they assumed the sovwc%nty and cm-
-tarol of their owq furtnnes* leated their
hopes of hdp in maintaining their
exiateikoe apoa the prompt
action of the Americaa congress.
The whde worid know* that the soo-
cess of Cuban indqieiideMe rests upon
the snfficiet^ ot eeonooic^ oon£-
tionslnthe idaad to fumiBh'support
tot its administntion. AU the world
also knows that when we withdrew from
the island forty days ago we did not
leave afbixs in Cote in thitt oondition.
We left tiiem, indeed, wtthftpnustically
baakTOt ttmmaf,» ^inirtiing reve
nue aoa without a market offoi^ pro
fit for the great staple upon whoee re-
turns the labor, the revenues and the
very existence of the Cuban govern
ment must depend.
It may be asked whether the United
States is under obligation to make Cuba
self-supptnting? So far as our inresi-
dents and ^cial representatives could
do so, th^ led tiie Cuban people to be
lieve that we would guarantee the suffi
ciency of their government by helpful
concessions in our tariff sohedules. Bat
for those asMirances it is as certain as
can be that the Cuban constitutional
convention would never have adopted
the Platt resolation, making enwmously
valuable concessions to us and limiting
the power of the Cuban government to
negotiate for other fordgn hdp.
^e moral obligation upon us to al
low Cuban ^oducts preferential and
profitable entry into oar markets could
not be stronger by treaty than it is by
our own pledges ot honor. AUthishas
been made plain to congress and the
country, and yet congress has refused,
at the dictation of the protection trusts,
to redeem our pledges of honM and ad
journs leaving Cuba shorn and starving
at our threslurid.
And what can Cuba do? She cannot
ask help from others—for we will not
permit It. She has asked it of us—and
we have refused it. She cannot save
herself, for her planters are creditiess,
her industries palsied, her labor on the
edge of starvation, her government
without sufficient revenues uid the
spirit at revolution already rearing its
bydra-heads from Havana to Santiago.
Quintin Banderas is already crying “a
la manigua!” and Juan Gualberto
Gomes is solidif^g the blacks a^nst
the government in a perilous race issue.
Will Cuba ask to be annexed to the
United .States? We think not. It
would be wnih their heads to the Cuban
congressman to propose it! And we do
not bdieve, from whiU has been said by
the republican leaders in »ngress, that
they would consent to take Cbha under
contract. They do not desire to pro
mise Cuba statehood, autonomy ot ter
ritorial government. That they want
Cuba we do not doubt for an instant.
But they want Cuba to first fail in
taining self-government, to fall into the
throes of revcdution. Then the United
States can step in and take the island
without bond ot mortgage, pledge or
promise, and administer it as congrM
elects; as Porto Rico and the Philip
pines are held today. And that is the
republican way out—and in—^for Cuba!
Hmorlc OlA N«rth OatvltM ■»
In a reference to a historic dd bed
owned by a gentieman in Bristol, Tenn.,
one in which LaFayetteand other revo-
lutionarj and colonial dignitaries slept
at one time and another, the editor of
the Freeport, 111., Journal makes tbe
following statement which will be of in
terest here:
“Tbe editor of this paper owns an old
fashioned four post b^tead on which
Gener^ LaFayette slt^t during his visit
to America in 1824. The bedstead was
then owned by Mr. White, at Raleigh,
N. C. It has also been occu|Med by
many distinguished gentlemen, by
Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, President
James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson.
It was so high that it originally had a
pair of stairs, with four steps, to enable
a person to get into bed—but the ceil
ing of our house was so low tiiat we
had to Aaw off the bottoms of the posts
to get the bedstead into the room.”
Reports of the condition King
Edward, of Engla^ad, continue favor
able. He is of course by no means out
of danger but the indications axe that
he wiU get well.
A dtspateh from Butier, Ohio, gives
an account of the annual meeting
convention ot “The Old Muds of Syca
more Valley.” The assodation is de
scribed as a very jovial one, having
seventy-five membexs in good standing
The £ief object of the meeting seems
to ^ve been the exchange of congrata-
lations that they have up to this time
eec^ted man. Th^ allowed the im
pression to be made upon the public
mind that this achievement has been
attended with considerakle difficulty
and each one gave instances of mascu
line tempters who had essayed to “out
argue them.” But each one of the
seventy-five wise v^ns was equal to
the occasion and triumphed gloriously.
In the parable of the ten virgins in
Scripture it has always been a matter of
suT]»ise that so lar:^ a proportion of
them should have been wise,fOT the BiUe
te^ us that five of them were wise and
only five were fooUsh. Now we have
still greater miracle in the Sycamore
Valley Club, where there are seventy-
five virgins and all of them wise. Their
wisdom consists, it is declared, in not
hHving married.
The report of the old maids’ conven
tion shows tha4 the proceedings were
very lively. Each member was dressed
in &e most coquettish and becoming
iner, and, notwithstanding the
hearts they had broken as they journey
ed down life s hill, they were happy
and cardess, not “cn>py and hairiess,
as old maids used to be. They played
ping pong, posUJffice, croquet and
various games of a “sentimental char-
sr.” The only really serious thing
they did was to* offer prayers for thdr
unhappy sistm who have been led
the hymeneal altar.
Gtovernor Aycock has received an ap
plication for the pardon ot Bichat
Blanton, one of the three n^iroes
sentenced to be hanged at Salisbury
July 8.
neming, the other negro convicted
of the same crime of assault, admits
his guilt, but swears Blanton is innocent.
Flying says he was the only person
present when the crime was committed
“My dariing little wife,” says a hus
band, “you will be pleased to hear
have just insured my life.”
“Yes, of course,” sajrs the wife
“there it is again—anciher pn
howutteriyadfish and inconsidente men
are. Alwa^ thinking of themsdi
NaturaUy, it never oonmed to you
iniore my fife.”
TBB liAWW MliAT.
Ihe best editorial that we have read
many months a|^[)eax8 in this week’s
Charity and Children. It does not ap-
[Kove or endorse or palliate the Salis-
gory lynching, it upholds the hands of
the Governor and other officers of the
law in trying to i^^wehend and bring
trial the men who took the law into
their own hands, but it also pcwts out
of the causes that tends to lessen
reqiect for the law. We quote tiieedi
toml in full:
We ate glad that GovemcHr Ayewk
went to the limit of the lawsin ofteing
rewards for the Salisbury lynching mob
who committed so gr^ aa outrage
upon law and order and common d»
oency Butbdund sil tius unreason
ing passion aa^ tNrutality', there Um a
cause lor much 01 the violmce we have
suffered at tiie haods ot heedless mobs.
At this very hour there lies in the
Rowan county jail three crunioals who
ought to have been hung long ago.
Two of them are in prison for the
namdess crime, and the other for
cold blooded a murder as was ever com
mitted. Their cases have been
from court to court, for one
technical reason and another, until the
puUic have turned away diq^usted at
the interminaUe dday, and the evil
thought in men’s hearts of i^pealing
to lynch law, which is always prompt,
took deeper root, until as in, the recent
defdorable oooorrence, it comidetdy
dominated the natures ot enough reck
less men to outrage tbe law and cfo-
grace the community. It is a pity
that so many lof^holes are allowed in
the processes our courts for guilty
wretehes to esca^. The sentiment
that every man is entitied to a fair
hearing (a who^me and just SMiti-
ment) is abused by sharp lawym, who
secure delays, sometimes on the most
trivial grounds. The fires of passion
i;rowapaoe. Justice is not met^ out.
J’atience wears to a fimssle, some hot*
■pur gives'the word, and then—the de
luge. If the sickening delay in the ex
ecution of the law could be avoided and
prompt and qieedy trials secured, much
of the ground on which lynchers stand
would be out from under their feet.”
Instead of ignoring criticisms of this
character, it would be wdl if the Bar
Association, when it meets at Asheville
next week would consider how the
law’s delay that is comjdained of can
be reinedied. This paper waged afight
in the last Legislature to change the
law which gives the accused an undue
advantage over the State, but most of
the lawyers fought it and defeated it.
It is a duty incumbent uptm the bar
to lead in the direction of such changes
as will put an end to the dehial of jus
tice in many cases. The lawyers ale
the proper men to lead in the needed
reforms. The profesaon is compos^,
in the msin of honorable kud patrioUc
gentiemen who stand for an honest ad
ministration of justice. It will not do
for them to of^Kise the necessary
changes by saying, “All is well,” when
the people see that guilty men often go
unpunished.
WAsnRffrM'a soi.n w
llATMB.
It is said these rules were written by
Washington when he was 18 years old.
When you speak of God w his at
tributes let it be seriously, inrevoence.
Honor and obey your natural parmts
although they are poor.
In your ai^iard be modest and
deavw to accomodate nature
than to |»ocure admirationrkeeptpthe
fashions of your equals, such as an
dvil and orderiy with respect to time
and place.
TItink before yon speak; pronounce
not imperfectly nor bring out yooc.
words too hastily but orderly and dis-
tineUy.
Undertake not what you cannot p^
form, but be careful to keepyour prom-
M.
Be not tedious in discourse; make
not many digressions nor repeat often
the same manner of discourse.
Let your countenance be pleasant,
but in serious matters somewhat grave.
Associate yourself with men of gpod
quality, if you esteem your reputation;
to it is better to be alone thfin in bad
cmnpany.
Be not hasty to bdieve flying reports
to the disparagement of any.
Be not apt to release news if you
know not the truth thereof. In dis
coursing of things yon have heard
name not your author always. A secret
Hon. Charles H^ Mebane has been
re-elected Pnsident of Catawba Colkge,
and has accepted.
The King’s Daughters in NorthOsro-
Ima have decided toundertake to estab
lish a Reformatory fbr youthful
Hb:
The conditim of tiie crofis through
out the State continues to be good.
Tobapeo, ccxn and tetton are ^oach
unuraally jwomising.
Hon. John S. Hendoson is a candi-
te for the Democratic nomination
for State Senator from Rowan. He
served in the last Senate.
Every action in company ought to
be with some s^ of respect to those
In the imsence of others, sing not to
yourself with a humming noise,
drum with your fingers (» feet.
Sleep not when others speak; sit not
when others stand; q>eak not when you
should bold your peace; jog not the
ble or desk on wtuch another reads or
writes; lean not on any one.
Read no letters, books or papers
company, but when there is necessity
fw doing it, you must ask leave.
Be not curious to know the affairs of
othm, ndther apjnoach to those that
speak in private.
Make no show taking great de
light in your victuals; feed not with
greediness; lean not on the table;
ndthor find foult with what you eat.
Be not forward, but friendly «id
courteous; the first to salute, hewr and
answer; and be not pensive when it is
time to converse.
Show not yourself glad at the mis
fortune of anotha, though he be your
enemy.
Lato to keep alive in your breast
that littie spark of celestial fire—con-
sdence.
Mhwrt Bale* tor li«aK o*aU«rta.
Forget litUe annoyances.
When good comes to any one, re
joice.
When anyone suffers, speak a word
of sympathy.
Tell ndther your own faults nor
those of others.
Have a place for evoy thing and
everything in its place.
Hide your own trouUes, but watck
to hdp others out of theirs.
Never mterrupt any conversations,
but watoh patientiy your turn to qpeak.
Look for beauty in everything, and
take a cheerful view of every event.
Carefully clean the dust and mud
from your feet on entering the house.
Always speak politdy and kindly to
servants.
When inclined to give angry answer,
press your lips together and say the al
phabet.
When pained by an unkind word or
deed ask yourself: “Have I never done
an ill and desired forgiveness.”
Two
At the Confederate Soldiers home at
Raldgh last ^eek two inmates, James
Pittman and Pittman Harris, couans,
from Franklin county, quarreled about
a pencil which one said the other had
A desperate fight followed in their
om. Harris, the larger and stronger,
bad Kttman down when the latter drew
his knife and cut Harris’ throat. The
gash is 6 inches long and may prove
tal.
Pittman declares he cut in self-de
fense. He is under confinonent to his
quarters until the rer-ult of the injury
iscertained. The executive board
investigated today. The fight caused a
sensation amoung the ninety inmates
present.
Girl .TwHipa IBM Well.
Mi— Beulah Lamont, of Durham, on
account of the crudty of her sistrrwith
whom she lived, one day last week
sprang into a wdl 65 feet deep. Her
^ter screamed for help, then attempted
to leap into the wdl. Th*re was 16
feet of water in the well. Miss Lamont
never lost consdousness. A young
9 slid down the rope and sav^ her.
She is not yet out of danger.
Four speculators go into partnership
with 2 theatrical managers, and, after
raising the price of seats 50 per cent.,
agree to give the theatrical managers
half the profits. The speculators then
go into partnership with 3 other specu
lators, agreeing to divide profits with
them. What proportion of the in
creased profits n^l be divided among
the 7 ticket speculators and the 2
theatrical managers.
Two men, W. S. Schley and W. T.
Sampson, start out to secure friends and
enemies. For every friend that Schley
gets in one week Sampson makes 1&1-2
enemies, and for every friend that
Sampson gets in 1 week Schley makes
1A3-4 enemies. How numy enemies
and friends will each have at the end of
40 weeks?
Three Christian Sdentist healers,
charging $3 a vidt, lose 10 cases out
of every 12, and 2 doctors, charging $5
a visit, lose 18 cases out ot every 20.
How much money will be made by 10
Christian Sdence healers and 8 doctors
in 99 cases, and how many patients
will be left to tell the tale ?
Two historical novelist reputation
pass each other in oj^xmte directions.
One has a lei^[th of 40 «eeks and t
speed of 3 quires and 4 sheets an hour.
The othtr ^ a length of 38 weeks and
speed of 2 quires and 12 sheets an hour.
How long will they be in passing ?
noBt Pelee StUl Aetlve.
Fobt de France, June 30.—The new
summit of Mont Pelee was reach
the first time on June 20 by Edmund
C. Hov^, Asdstant Curator of the
American Museum of Natural History,
New York, and Gerge Carroll Curtis.
A caim was built on the top.
The mountain has been lowered and
old Lake Palmistes has been entirely
destroyed. The highest point of the
new crater rises 4,200 feet by the ane
roid barometer. A large fragmental
cone occupies the southwestmi part.
The cratw is bdching out incandes
cent boulders, ashes and mud by adeep
narrow lip into a ravine on the leeward
ode.
The first recorded ascents from the
leewud nde were on June 24 and 26.
The caim was built at an altitade of
8,700 feet on a ridge ascending from
St. Pierre.
The crater is in constant eruption.
The ascents were rendered posmUe a
strong southeast wind, which carried
the showers of ashes to the northward.
A fierce rush of mud was witnessed in
the eruption of the 24th. A gorge 60
feet deep was filled with mud to
depth ot 15 feet in one hour.
Jesse Miller,
II fcom a frdght ear at Bpenmr Sun
day and was badly, perhaps fatally,
injured. Miller was taken to Salisbury
and given medical attention.
fifty nine bars, two Inrewanes and
one whdesale liquor house have been
licensed in Wilmington. The multi-
plidty of barrooms is exidained by the
fact that the dty license tax is only $22
per month.
The Salisbury Sun sayv five n^;ro
prisoners eseapied from j^ in Lexi^
ton about 4 o’clock Fri^y morning by
making a hole through the wall. A
white inwnor was dioked to {Htevent
hi» mafcing a.n alarm.
The prsddent Tuesday nominated
Spencer B. Adams, of North Carolina,
chief judge, and Walter L. Weaver, of
Ohio, and H. S. Foote, of CUifomia,
associate judges, of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw CStizenship Court.
The tobacco crop in this state will be
a handsome one. The weather last
week was particularly ben^dal. Th«e .
is an increase in acreage. Dry weather
has made the crop condderably smaller
than it would have b^n with perfect
conditions.
The Oxford Orphan Aqrlum, the
Presbytman Theol^cal Seminary in
Virginia and Davi^n CoU^ were
recendy left property in Minneapolis,
for which $24,000 is offered. This
otter is now accepted by all and each
gets $8,000.
One man was mortally injured and
several others badly hurt at Chariotte
Sunday evenii^. A delivery wagon
was struck by a C. C. & A. train; the
driver, Matthew Clark, was mortally
hurt; Alonzo Hall, a small nq;ro boy,
painfully bruii^ and yard conduc
tor Allison was struck and hurl
At a meeting of the Shelby District
Conference flaUirday, at Stanly Ckeek,
Gbston county, a resolution was drawn
up and signed by all the membera
to the effect that they would quit
using tobacco in every shape and fcnm,
recommended to the State Conference
that any apfdicant for license who used
tobacco sho^d be refused adnusdon.
A Pla«ae *r
Ctay Connty Oosrier.
We hear great complaint of the dam
age being done to horses and cattie
by an unusual number of “gnats” that
infest the county this year. They ap
pear to be more uinoymg than ever
fore known, and exist in gre^r armies
than ever heard of, which is due no
doubt to the reckless and wanton des
truction of the birds.
People of good sense are these whose
opinions agree with ooxs.
HI* dtCMt Over.
Governor S — was a splendid
lawyer, being especially noted for his
success in criminal cases, almost always
clearing his client. He ww once coun-
sd for a man accused of hwse-stealing.
He made a long, eloquent and tfmch
ing speech. The jury retired, but
tarn^ in a few moments, and, with
tears in thdr eyes proclaimed the man
“not guilty.” An old acquaintance
stef^ed up to the i«isoner, and
“Jem, the danger is passed; and now
honor bright, didn’t you steal that
hone?” To which Jem rq4ied: “Wdl,
Tom, I’ve all ak»g thought I took that
hone; but su>6e I’ve heard tiie Gov
scncr’s qteeoh, I don’t bdiere I did ‘
The Southern Railway Tuesday took
charge of the South Carolina & Georgia .
Extendon Railway, which runs from
Camden, S. C., to Marion, and is 175
miles long, llie Southern was empow
ered by an act of the last Legiduture -of
South Cardina to purchase the road.
It will pve the Southern the shortest
tion be tween Asheville and
Charieston.
Two Japanese, special i^rats for their
^vemment, are now in this state look
ing into agricultural m^hods. One is
in the Wilson section, tbo other in tbe
Oxford section, looking at the tobacco.
They will also examine and report on
the modli of cultivation of othn crops,
particularly upland lowland rice tea,
ete. They go to South Cardina and
then to Gwrgia.
MMgaat HIU tm «ke W«rl«.
KAksAS Cmr, June 29.—The Star
says: “The largest cotton mill in the
world is to be b^t within 20 miles of
s (Sty. Ten million dollars is to
be invested, $3,100,000 of which has
already been subscribed by Eastern and
Western men. W. B. Smith-Whsley,
jnesident of the Olymi^ and Granny
Ck>tton Mills, of Columl^ S.t)., is to
be imddent and general manager oi
the enterprise, ^e mill wUl have
500,000 spindles and 12,000 looms. It
will employ.4,000 op^«tives and have
a pay roll of $2,450,000 a year. Tbe
cj^Mudty of the mill will be 170,000
bales of cotton a year, with an ou^t
of 75,000,000 pounds finished cloth.
The value of the output will amount to
$12,750,000. The mill will be revdu-
tionary in its construction. Electridty
will be used as the motive power and
several new devices will be installed.
There will be four mill buildings cover*
ing ui aggr^;ate of 2,000 acres of
ground.
Stebliko, hi., July 2.—^The funerd
of Mrs. John Sebert, of Mount M»ri8,
near here was delayed to-day imtil the
mourners could adjourn to a comfidd
and administer a coat of tar and feath
ers to the husband and sister of the
dead woman. Then the funeral pro
ceeded. but the two were to have been
chief mourners mete absent.
The house was filled with sorrowing
neighbors when some of them discov*
ered Kebert in another room, hugging
and kissing Mrs. Theodore Wolfe. Tbe
crowd quickly dragged the couple to the
ccHnfidd. A plentiful supply of tar
was poured over the victims and the
feathers from a pillow were emptied »
each. Then the two were driven from
the village and (xdered never to return.
Mrs. Siebert died ot consumption uid
during the two years ot her sickness, it
is allied that her husband was con
tinually making love to his wife’s sister.
Mrs. Boylin, wife of Mr. J. O. Boylin,
of the Wadesboro Messmger,
diei at the home of her brother. Dr.
M. P. Blair, in Tk^, Montgomery
county, We^esday morning. Sli«
went to Troy on a vidt about a mmtli
ago and was taken ill thexe.