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FJ.M CITY, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 18,1902.
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‘ AN OLD FAVORITE \
UTTLC BREECHES
■gr Hv
DON’T go much on reHdon.
I never ain’t had'jM ahow.
But I’ve got a midWn' ticht crip, air.
On the handful o* thlnsa I know.
I don’t pan out an tlM presets
And frea will and that aort o’ thine,
But I b’UeTO In God and the anseli
£ver since one nl(ht last sprl^
I come Into town with some turnips.
And my litUe Gabe come aloov;
No four-year-old In the county
Could beat him for pretty and stn»v.
Peart and chippy and sussy.
Always ready to swear and flarht—
And I’d larnt him to chaw terbacker
Jest to keep his milk teeth white;
The snow came down like a blanket
As I passed by Tacgart's itore;
I went in for a ju« o’ molasses
And left the team at the door.
They scared at somethlns and started;
I heard one lltUe squall.
And hell-to-split oyer the prairie
Went team. Little Breeches and alL
i Hell-to-spllt over the prairie;
jy* I was almost froze with skeer,
ti But we rousted up some torches
*C And sarched for ’em far and near.
At last we struck horses and wagon
t Snowed under a soft, white mound.
Upset, dead beat, but ot little Qaba
It No hide nor hair was found.
5* And here all hope soured on me.
It Of my fellow critter’s aid;
I Jest flopped down on my marrow
bones
Crotch de^ in the snow and prayed.
• •*••••
By this the torches was played out.
And ma and Isrul Parr
Went off tor some wood to a sheepfold
That he said was somewhar thar.
Wa found it at last and a Uttle Aed
Where they ahut op tha iamba at
nlsht;
We looked in and seen them huddled
thar.
So warm and sleepy and white.
And thar aot Uttle Breeches and
chirped.
As peart as ever you see,
'*1 want a chaw o’ terbacker.
And that’s what’a the matter of ma.”
Th^ Jest stooped down and toted him
To whar it was safe and warm.
And I think that savin* a UtUe child
And fetching him to his own
la a dumed sight better business
Than loafing around the throne.
A WOHMKWli Mill* KBAM
MAT Tmm vAWnmm kh*wiii«i.t
MVBNV THB CIV«f.TVf
nlve Away $10,000,000 an4 Llvea la
Abraham Slimmer, a resident of
Wavrely, Iowa., who is reported to be
worth $10,000,000, intends to retire to
his woodshed, where he is fitting up an^
otVice, and spend the rest of his d^s in*
giving away his wealth. At the age of
73 Mr. Slimmer believes he has found
the best method of beneficence and
sharply criticizes the ways of Rockefeller.
In the last few years this philan
thropist has given many thousands for
hospitals all over the Middle West and
rarely does he permit it to be known
that he is the donor.
“My possessions are a trust fund,”
he says: “I accumulated them from
the masses and back to the masses they
shall go. And I make such conditions
that what I have to give #ill be there
and active for good in a thousand
years.
“I find it is a far harder task to give
away my money than it was for me to
earn it. If it were not for my con
science I could give it away or leave it
to some one or to some charitable insti
tution, but I have had a long business
experience and I find I can give it away
to better advantage than any one else.
I can do more good with it.”
Mr. Simmer’s largest benefience was
the deeding of his $50,000 home in thw
city to the Sisters of Mercy for a hospi
tal and Old People’s Home. Last week
he gave $5,000 to a lying-in hospital in
Chicago.
“Carnegie of the West” is a term
that has l^n applied to Mr. Slimmer.
“Rockefeller,” he says, “gives a
million today to some seat of learning,
contribution to its arrogance, and to
morrow he gets back by raimng the
price of the people’s fuel and light.
They tell me he is a suffering and his
stomach has failed him. If he will let
me get at his pocket for a while I
make him happy. I shall show him
where to do some good. Yes, Eocke-
feller is the greatest pauper I ever
knew.*.’
Naw York Wra-id. ,
If you write a sentence on a slip of
pi4>er, roll it up, and {dace it against
theforheadof Joi^hBdfl, a hotel pro
prietor of Baltimore, he will repeat the
sentence without a moment of heaita-
on.
The writing may be in a language
that Mr. Beis does not undersand, or
may be in symbols of whkb he is ig*
norant; nevertheleas he will translate it.
He tella persons of what they are
thinking, and altogether proves him
self to be a mental wonder, whose pow
ers have not yet been explained by
Ifnen of sdence.
Mr. Beis. so far from being a pro-
I fessional mindreader, or from seeking
to make money by his unosual powers,
shrinks from even private demonstra
tion of his gifts.
He suffers phyacally from the strain
and i^ows pate and
nervous with the first teat He is thir
ty-five years old, of ibedium height,
I dark of complexion and slender. He
is unable to tell how he does the
marvelous tilings.
Mr Beis owns the Gilsey House, in
Fayette street. Hegave an exhitntion
before a few oi his inmates the other
I afternoon, in the parlor oi his hotel.
There were present Dr. John T. Mc
Carthy and Dr. Bishop, members of
the Bmrd of Police surgeons.
On the occanon he asked one of the
witnesses to write three questions on];as
-many slips of papers while he retired
to another room. The witness did |so
and then rolTed the slips of paper and
thrust them into his pocket. Mr. !^is
then came into the room, and in quick,
sharp tones told the writer to remove
Coaple Silent 30 Tears.
Bordentown, Pa.. Special.
For twenty years John Stewart, oi I the j^pers from his pocket and place
this city, and his wife did not exchange them against his (Beis’s) head. This
a word. They lived in the same house, was done, and immediately Mr. Beis
sat at the same table and occasionally repeated the questions and returned
went out together, talked pleasantly to answers which were absolutely correct,
their freinds, but neither recognized even to the smallest detail,
the presence of the other. To-day John In a second experiment Dr. Bishop
Stewart laid his wife to rest. He gave wrote three questions on slips ci paper,
her a good burial, but shed not a single I On one dip was a prescription in Latin,
tear, and yielded not an inch from the I on the second the name of a member
pomtion he had taken a score of ybars of the doctor’s family, and on the thi^,
ago. I the question, “Where am 1 thinking
In 1882 MrsiStewart, after exhausting I of going to-night?'
all her powers of argument with her I Mr. Beis answered the Micond ques-
husband in trying to convert him from I tion by spelling out the full name of
atheism, turned suddenly to him and the doctor’s r^tive. To the question,
said; I “Where am I thinking of gtnng to-
‘^ohn. I’ll never speak to you again I night?” Mr. Beis repli^, “To a dance."
unm you admit there is a Gk)d.” I This the physician admitted to be
“All right, my dear,” he replied. I coirect. Mr. Beis then expressed
“I’ll never speak to you until you ad-1 pharmaceutical symbols the quantities
mit there id no Clod. | of each ingredient of the prescription
They continued to live t^ether and written^y the doctor,
each was devoted to the other in every- in doing this, Mr. Beis asked in ^ a
thing but speech. The cat was their very sharp tone, “Can any one write
medium of conversation. | Latin? I want to dictate, but not to Dr
“Puss,” Mrs. Stewart would remark
looking fixedly at the mouser, “I’m I Dr. McCarthy offered to do the
not well today. I need some of that I writing in Latin, ihe mind-reader
m^idne the doctor last prescribed for very slowly dictated the following,
me.’^ spelling out each ingredient:
Thereupon Stewart would get up with I “Salicylate of -soda, one dram
a look of sympathy and trot off to the I pyrophosphite of iron, one dram
druggist for the desired remedy. phosphate of soda, one ounce; aqua,
He refused, however, to have any re-1 six ounces; tablespoonfnl every four
ligious services at the burial of his wife, I hours.”
although her relatives pleaded with him Mr. Beis will soon give an exhibition
and told him that was what she would before leading New York physicians.
B. T. wnuams In AUanta Joo^aal.
Laymm aro dow to nndentand how
a lawyer may d^end the 'tuilty with
etery reason to believe ttia| he is.
In most cases the clioit states his
cause in the most favorabke light and
daims that he can {urove what he often
faU; todo. The lawyer, as he does with
reforenoe to'many of his feei, goes into
the case “on faith” and ftnds that he
has pursaed ashadow. He is naturally
a hope^ man and his teith is a sub
lime tribute to his honesty.
He could not decline to defend the
client without acting as. ju^ a^id jury
and pfiiming on guilt or innocenoe with
out having heard the evidenoe on both
sides.
When a lawyer takes a case where he
suspects ot reasonably bdieves his client
guilty he does not necessarily daim
that he is innocent, but he sta^ by
as his counsellOT and sees if he ii con
victed acoc»ding to the rales of evidence.
If these estaUished rules wexe not en
forced no innocent man would be safe,
for he might at any time be arraigned
and be convicted on suspidon. The
very rif^ts and liberties oS the free
man depend upon the enforcement of
the established laws, rules of evidence
and procedure.
Laymen are prone to say that lawyers
are liars, but in most cases the lawyer’s
duty is to puncture the lies oi witnesses
ta aigue their reasonableness to a jury.
He argues on probabilities and emerges
from a trial white as snow, when the
case itself is reeking with fraud and
the lies of dishonest witnessM as well
as litigants.
Editors have often accused the law
yers of taking liberties with truth and
hence the foUowing:
In editor lay on the lawyers bed,
Wlien no lawyer chanced to be mgh,
e thought to hlms^ as he lay on that
How easy lawyers lie."
The lawyer responded:
easy lawyers I
rhateverelsen
have desired.
In speaking of his remarcable powos
to the correspondent of The Monthly
World Magazine he said:
“I have possessed this gift for many
years, but of late it has become more
pronounced. I cannot give puUic
Stories of Children.
“Mamma,” ^id littie Tommy,
‘ ‘please get down on your hands and
knees.”
“What for, dear,” she asked.
“’Cause,” he replied, “I want to
draw an elephant and I’ve got to have
a model.”
Teacher (to juvenile class): Can any
of you tell me what imagination is ?
Small Willie :Yes’m; I can.
Teacher: Very well, Willie. What
is it?
Small Willie: It’s what makes you
think a bee’s sting is seven feet long.
“A woman glories in her hair,” said
the Sunday School teacher, quoting the
biblical statement. “Now who can tell
me what a man glories in?”
“In his baldheadedness.” replied a
small urchin at the foot of the class.
“Mamma,” began littie Edith, who
had been seeking information all morn
ing, “I just want to ask you— ”
“Oh, Edith!” interrupted the weary
mother, “don’t ask so mwy ques
tions.”
“But, mamma,” said the littie in
quisitor, “if I don’t ask questions what
can I ask?” ,
Wliat 8be Did Waa a Plenty. .
“Please tell the Court what you did.
between eight and nine o’clock on that
morning.”
“I gave the two children their break
fast, dressed them for school, made up
their lunches, washed the dishes, made
the beds, sort^ the soiled linen and put
it in the tubs, swept and dusted the
parlor, sewed a button on the children’s
'■lothes, interviewed the gas man,
grocer and butcher, put off the landlord.
Silt down to glance over the morning
paper, and then—
“That will do, madam.”
Miss Stone, the ransomed missionary,
may find out that there are worse
things than being kidnapped. Suit
has been brought against her in the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts f^.
$:>0,000 damages on account of alleged
breach of contract in regard to her
lectures. The alleged contract was
mado in March. 1902, and under it
Miss Stone was to deliver one hundred
lectures for the complainants in the
case. She subsequentiy made a con
tract with Major J. B. Pond, and is
now lecturing under that contract.
X.
A BensarkaMe IMseovery That Blay
BerolattonUe be World.
Cleveland, O., Dispatch.
Henry Sonder, a grocer at No. 9541 ^rformances, owing to th^ very bad
Payne avenue, has made a discovery, 1 effect it has on my health. For ‘this
which Uds fair to revolutionize the in- and other reason I do not care about
dustrial world and to solve the problem mack publidty,
of heat and light. Sonder lights with 1 «iDo you see the questions?” he
a gas he makes himself, and he has I agi^ed.
succeeded in interesting such men as I «iYes and no,” he said. “I see them
Alfred Deforest, secretary of the Amer-1 ^nd I don’t see them^ I could not,
ican Steel & Wire Company; John Van f^ the life of me, tell how I do the
Epps, manager of the Deleware & Hud* I readings. I am perfectiy willing to go
son Coal Company, and F. H. Green, before members of the John Hopkum
purchasing agent of the Lake Shore University, as it has been suggest^ to
Bailroad Company, to back him in the me to do, and have them make an
organization of a company. How effort to solve the mystery.”
Sonder makes the gas is a secret. It is, “The man is a phenomenon,” said
however, taken from the a^, and is I Dr. Bishop, “and for the benefit of
cheaper than coal, wood or oil for fud. I the whole medictd profession, which is
It will, it is claimed, displace coal in I interested in matters of this kind, I
the firing of locomotives and all- ste^ hope we can take him over to Johns
engines, as well as blast furnaces. With I Hopkins University for a mental test
a trunkful of chemicals, it is said, a before the learned physidans ^ere.
steamboat could be run from New York I “Whatever his power is, it
to Liverpool. The heat of this gas is doubt genuine
sufficient to melt copper in the open'
air. It gives off a light that is most i Answer for Tow
brilUant. The grocer is 43 years old.
He been working on this invention
for years.
How unjust has the public been in
many cases where there was an out
rageous miscarriage of justice, because
the jury was bia^ or prejudiced or
did not have sense enough to apidy the
law to the facts. The judge charges
the law impartially; each lawyer has
stated his side of his client’s cause and
the jury at last in a democratic govern
ment is the great repository of justice
and the righteous arbiters oi conflicting
rights, l^en who is to be blamed for
outrageous verdicts? Why, the jury,
not the court
No fear of public opinion should
deter a lawyer in defending his client.
If necessary he should (and I believe
most lasers of my acquaintance
would) risk his life in defense
client’s cause.
Lord Erskine, vindicating himself in
the defense of lliomas Paine, said:
“In every place where business or
pleasure coUects the puUic together day
after day, my name and character have
been the topic of injurious reflection.
And for what? Only for not having
shrank from the discharge of doty
which no mrsonal advantage recom'
mended, aim which a thousand difii-
culties repelled. * * * littie, in
deed, did tiiey know me who thought
that such cidamnies who would
fluence my conduct. I will forever, at
all haxards, assert the dignity, inde
pendence and integrity of the English
bar, without which impartial justice,
the most valuable part of the English
constitution, can have no existence.
From the moment that any advocate
can be permitted to say that he will or
will not stand between the crown and
the subject arraigned in the court
where he daily sits to practice, from
that moment the liberties of England
are at an end. If the advocate refuses
to defend from what he may think of
the charge or of the defense, he as
sumes the character of the judge—nay
he assumes it before the hour of judg
ment; and in proportion to his rank
and reputation, puts the heavy influ
ence of perh^ a mistaken opinion in
the scale against the accused, in whose
favor the benevolent prindple of En
gtish law makes all presumption, and
which commands the very judge to be
his coundL”
CVBB.
Experiments with dedrical curraats
for the treatment of connunpticm have
recentiy been made on a most elaborate
scate in London, and aococding to re
ports some remarkaUe results have
been aduevedl The experiments have
been conducted by Dr. T. J. Bol^-
ham, eminent surgeon, in the course
of his prilrate practice. He has had
fitted up most elaborate a{q[>^oes for
the pt^uction of electridty in the
particular form in which it is used, tiie
net tesults of which is that a current of
80,000 volts is i«odnoed of such small
quantities that tiie consumptive patient
many recdved it without &e slightest
injury.
By one method of this treatment the
patient is laid in a redihing podtion
upon a seat, and the chest is laid bare,
or partially bare. Hie back of the
chi^ is insulated, and thus when the
patient receives the current from the
electrical machine a comidete dectrical
circuit is established thn^h the floor.
The current is aj^ed from an dectri
cal t»ush held a few inches from the
body. When the apparatus is then set
working the dectridty is discharged
from the end the brush with a loud
crackling noise, a funt smdl as of
ozone, and the appearance of a number
of lines of electric^ blue fire. Thus is
the current passed through the chest, a
slight warmth onl;^ bdi^ expmen^
by the person recdving it. This is the
monopolar method. By the other
meth^, and the one which Mr. Boken-
ham IS inclined to favor, the patient,
in the same posture as before, dmply
takes hold of a handle like that of an
ordinary galvanic battery, and recdves
the 80,000 volts till he is what is des
cribed as supersaturated with dectridty.
He feels nothing whatever, but if an
attendant touches his skin, q[»arks fly
out in all directions When he is un-
dogoing this treatment Mr. Bcricenham
purpoeely.applies his finger to the most
affected parts of the chest, thus con
centrating^ the dectricity there for the
time bdng. By both ^stems the ap
plication l^ts for ten or fifteen minutes
at a-time, and the treatment is under
gone three or four times a wedc or
daily.
Mr. Bokenham’s experience is that
in very bad cases of consumption the
cough has been greatiy reduced, the
night sweats have dkappea^, the
ppetite has improved, and th«e has
b^n a great gain injreightand general
health, so that even if the consumption
bacilli have not been destroyed, it
certain that their virulence has been
brought under control, and the patient
has felt cured. The doubt entertained
by the phthisis specialists, who do not
question the temporary imim>vement,
is whether it is aaything but mere
exhilaration. Mr. .!^kenham, how
ever, has great faith in the future of
the system.
Appendicitis Is Not New.
Cleveland E*laln Dealer.
Wliat kind ot aehorch would oar church be.
If every member w«re Just like me?"
These lines rhyme wdl, surdy. They
I jingle like bells. Bepeat them; dng
them; whistie them. Every one “just
Why is it,” asked a man of a phy-luke me.” Such a churoh ought to
sidan, “toat ao many people are suffer- please me. Would it please the Mas-
ing these* days with appendidtis, and I ter ? What kind of a prayer-meeting
have to be operated upon, when there I should we have? Every member “just
didn’t use to be jmy of them?” like me.” How about Sunday-school?
My young f^nd,” the doctor an- And the school treasurer? How much
swered, “this dis^use has been in the I money would he have? “Just like
world ever since Adam was—perhaps me.” What would the unconverted
that story of his losing a rib may have I aay of such a chureh ? How soon
arisen because he was operated- on for I would God’s will be done on earth as it
appendidtis. When your grandfather ig in Heaven? ,
was a boy his neighbors had it all Let us say it, and dug it ji|^n,-and
around him, and so they did when you j each answer for himadf:
were a boy. But they called it inflam- «^vhat of a chnrch would our charch be,
mation of the bowels, stomach ache, lit every member were just like me?”
acute indigestion, liver trouble, or j
something of that sort. The patient White Caps occasionally do good
got well or he died, but no one ever work. A party of them at Perryville,
opened him when living to see what Ky., recentiy vidted the homes of a
the matter wass Perhaps it is as well I number of people and notified the occu-
that they did not, for much of the pants that they must go to work at
surgery of those days was more danger- j once or take| the consequences. There
ous than any disease.” 1 was sail to be a number of idlers about
j the village, still it was impoenble for
The aty of Baltimore has received j farmers to hire hands at g(^ ^^8®® ^
from the United States tareasury $104,- work in hay h^^. It is »id the
089.08, being in payments, principal, idlers immediately began to took for
and interest, of its War of 1812 cUim work.
F.U«r«B., .0-hoUo|^«I^
deto, b«t h. ne»« muka |
irdiff to
Kokert N. Pace NoaaMteA.
Monboe, July 11.—^When the result
of the ia08th ballot of the seventh con-
gresdonal district convention, meeting
here, was announced this afternoon, it
was found that of the 349 votes Mr.
Bobert N. Page, of Montgomery
county, had recdved 179.84. The
rthaiTman read the vote and d«>dared
that Mr. Page had been nominated
At 6 o’dock the convention adjourned
after having been in sesdon for
hours—two days and one night.
Ho BiaA Tli*nclis *r !«.
Did it ever occur to you that thou
sands of people on earth dieevery day?’*
asked the parson.
“Yes, parson, it has,” replied the
party addressed, “and, what is more,
it hu set me to thinking.”
“Indeed!” ^claimed the good man.
“And what has been the result of
yoiir meditations?”
“I have come to the condudon,”
answered the other; “that living is a
dangerous thing.”
Half a million of London’s dum-
dwdlers were King Edward’s guests on
the 5th. They were scattered in about
400 hallw and parks in various num
bers, the greater number of the royal
tenefidaries being at Stepheny, where
no less than 45,000 enjoyed a dinner
such as thqr sddom partake
Mr. Beader—“I see by the news-
BeflOMIons •( a Bnckelor.
New Twk Press.
Bread cast upon the waters comes
back to you very stale.
If it is a dn fw a woman to glory in
her beauty it is a beautiful sin.
The man in the moon is Mushing red
because he sees so many queer things.
The reason a hammock is so fasd-
nating for two is that it is built foe one.
Humor is like whisky in making a
person who uses too much of it very
wabbly.
Talk to a man about his budness
and you may get him to invest in
yours.
The very .freedom of action that
man gives up by getting married
a woman gains.
A woman always feels sorry for any
woman younger than she is who seems
to be ^tting old.
A girl kisses a man so as to make up
with him and he makes up with her so
as to kiss her.
After a man has been married too
long he doesn’t worry so much because
life is too short.
A widow can know more and let on
that she knows less than any other
creature on God’s footstool.
One way for an engaged man to save
money is to get married, so as to '
able to stop buying her presents.
nie difference tetween calomel and
whisky for a headache is that your wife
prefers that yoti take the first.
Some women are so queer about their
modesty that they pull down the blinds
after the lights are out.
It takes a red-headed {^1 to make
man think it isn’t a woman’s looks
that count so much, but a woman'
ways.
No matter how many times a girl
rehearses what she is going to say when
her sweetheart asks her to many him,
she never says it, because her lips are
too busy doing something dse.
BlAIfT AlLiaBNTa lISAaillABT.
Mew Toik World.
I may not have achieved anything
great in my life,” said a woman the
other day, “but I have brought up two
daughters who never talked about their
pains and aches.”
Maybe they haven’t any,” ventured
woman who has poor health.
‘Oh, I fancy they have their share,”
the first woman, pladdly.
‘One has enormous dentist’t bills, and
th^ are documentary evidence of a
certain amount of suffering, don’t you
think? The other is anything but
robust constitutionally, but she is sd
dom ill, because she takes care of h^
health instead of talking about it I
don’t think I have been an unsympa
thetic mother, and I fear 1 am not
made of Sputan material, but when
my girls got old enough to talk about
headaches and tootb^hes and ail
ments, real, exaggerated or imaginary,
made up my mind to discourage it at
e.
I refused to listen to accounts of
mysterious aches and sensations when
I had reason to believe they were the
outcome of too much introspection and
too littie exeroise. Fresh air and occu.
pcUion were the prescriptions for head
ache and bad temper, and a bread-and
milk supper and early to bed was the
treatment for other ailments. Beal
illness seldom comes unheralded, and
when the eyes keep bright, pulse regu
lar and i^^ietites g'od, there is scarce
ly anything that cannot be cured by
witch hasd or a good deep. We are a
busy family, and there is seldom an
hour of dr^ming for the ^Is. They
had plenty of pleasure, but it was active
and jolly rather than lewirdy. They
never got into the summer-piazza-com
plaining habit, because they were al
ways playing tennis, or sailing boats,
or reading Ux>ks. I suppose their edu
cation has beea sadly neglected as far
as fancy work is concerned, but the
hours which most women spend over
fancy work are to my idea like those
hours after dinner which Thackoray
says women always spend in discus
sing their diseases.”
A *Ben*’ Bntler Ane««*t«.
When General “Ben” Butier was in
college, it was not an uncommon thing
for the boys to steal dgns from over
shops in the town. On one occadon
carried to his room a brand new
sign which a shoemaker had just put
out to indicate his place of budness.
The-next morning the enn^ed shoe
maker, with an officer, went to the
students’ hall, suspecting that the boys
had been up to their old pranks again.
Butier learned that the shoemaker was
making a room-to-room search for the
sign, and it was only a matter of time
till his turn should come. So he threw
the dgn on the open fireplace and fell
down on his knees and began praying.
A loud knock soon came against the
bolted door. But hearing the occupant
engaged in prayer, the shoemaker and
officer waited till he should have finish
ed. Butler prayed long, with his eyes
upon the sign which was bdng nqtidly
consumed. When the last trace
the sign had disappeu«d, he conduded
his prayer, to the relief of his impatient
listeners on the outdde, by saying,
An evil and adulterous generation
seeketh after a sign; but there shall no
dgn be given.” The officer and shoe
maker then entered, but of course no
dgn was found.
The Democratic judicial convention
of the sixth district met at Smithfidd,
Thursdj^ and nominated by aodama-
W. B. Allen, rf Wayne, for judge.
A severe fire did great damage in
Clintm last Sunday. Forty-two build
ings were destroyed. The loss is
placed at $100,000 witii only $20,000
The condition of cotton throughout
the South is reported above the ten-
jear average. In North Carolina it is
letter thu in many years, perh^M u
good as it ever has been. In Texas
cotton has declined in condition 28
points.
llie man whose throat was cut last
week by his coudn, both being inmates
the Baldgh S(^ers’ Home, will
}ver. It is said that the man who
was cut was in the insane asylum there
two yean, and perhaps oc^ht not to be
in the Home at all.
At Wadesboro the two daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. George Harrington had
bathed on Saturday evening and left a
large bucket of water in a room that
they used for the purpose. Their 15-
months-old sister fell into the bucket
head foremost and was drowned.
T* Bresa Tastelnlly la Trne
Tailor-made clothing is often - the
most economical. It is very astonish
ing how quickly the quality of clothiuf;
is mated to its wearer. If it is of goo i
material, fits well, and is becoming to
he immediately partakes of its
sup^ority, which is manifested in his
increasing self-confidence, self-posses-
don, and feeling of well-being.
An ill-fitting and douchy suit will
often demoralize the best-meaning
man. The quality of his own system
and his own work will be affected
materially by the fitness and quality of
his attire. Good clothing mak^ him
fed conscious of a certain superiority
which would be imposdble without it.
This is espedally true with ladies.
Many a charming, entertaining lady,
when suddenly suriHised in her every
day attire, has been nonplussed and
dumbfounded.
The consciousness of being well and
fitting dressed has a magic power in
unlocking the tongue and increadng
the power of expresdon. It is a great
deal better to economize in other things
than to be too saving in your wardrobe.
A freight train parted
Spencer and Salisbury last Friday even
ing and the air brakes sto^^ the
parted car so suddenly that Mr. J^
Trexler and James Spruce who were
dtting on top were thrown to the
^und and severely hurt. Mr. Trexl«r
lad a 1^ broken.
Dr. K. P. Battle, in an address at
Chi^l Hill, speaking of North Carolina
IM years ago said the largest town in
was Wilmington, with a popula
tion of 1,689; next came Fayetteville
with 1,656 inhabitants; Baldgh had
669 people, Salisbury only 645 while
Charlotte was not mentioned in the
geography at alL
T. Vernon Smith, agent for the
Southern road at Elon College, has dis
appeared very mysterioudy and his
whereabouts are now unknown. He
left Elon on the eariy trun Friday
mining. The auditor of the company
has been in Elon since Friday and
most of his accounts have bem d^ked
and found to be correct. Itis said that
he raised tbe amount on express bills
and got money in this way—from the
people that he dealt with, but not from
e company.
Mr. J. B. Jackson, one of. th3 local
yard conductors of the Southern, was
killed by the switch engine on the dd-
ing of the Atherton mill just bdow
Charlotte Saturday afternoon. There
was a pile of wood near the dding and
the engine striking a piece of oak, the
part on which he stoop was shattered
and he was thrown on the ground
before the moving engine. He Strug
s' hertHcally to save himself but it
ran over him, crushing him in several
traces so that he died while bdng sent
to the hospital.
A horriUe story is told by the Dur
ham Herald in which Min Lamond in
a fit of desperation jumped into a well
one nieht last week with suiddal
intent. She fell about 50 feet into
water 15 feet deep. She was not much
hurt. There was a pipe in the wdl
and she dung to it till a young wan,
Harry Anderson, a stranger, asked to
be let down and he managed with great
difficulty to teing her out. The stmry
runs that her mairied sister, Mrs. lisk,
tmder whose care she was, abused and
reproached her so that life was unbear
able. This led to the desporate act.
—Bev. J. H. Wilson has accepted sessed with
the call tojhe pastorate of the Lutheran I were_goi^ to eat us aU up,
those Protestants who have been%M papers the Adventists preset that tiie
sessed with a fear that the Oathc^es world will oome to an end Friday.”
—Statesville I Mis. Beader.—**0h, dear, aad I
Church of Salisbury.
Landmark.
A naehlne W-Iiieh Actnally TalMu
A machine that will actually talk at
first hand without the use of a record
is bdng evolved by a
named Dr. Marage.
He claims that it is so neariy perfect
that it will pronounce the five vowels as
clearly and distinctiy as the human
ice.
Even at tiiis stage the machine is
daimed to have important uses, for
Dr. Man^ purposes to modity the
steam*us^ on shipboard 90 that they
wfflindtate the vowel sounds. Thus
ditterent phonetic syllables may be
obtained wUch^atn be used to form an
intemation^ alphab0.
The machine is of a very _
construction, having five dummy heads
attached to it, in each of whi^
pearfect moddof a person’s mouth while
u the act of pronouncing one of the
vowels. These fdse mouths ,have
(diable lips, perfect teeth, and, in fact,
are exact mechanical rej^oductions of
the human month. The sounds are
adiieved by pasdng oertaiu cunents of
air through &ese mouths, which are
J. ?7. _•
have nothing fit to wear!”
fitted with I
various combinations (
the
A Com Snap In lUlnola.
Alton Telefraph.
A cdd snap is as bad as the fishing
season for making liars. A West Alton
man says that a dtizen of that town
threw a cupful of water at a cat one
cold morning last manter. The water
froze into a chunk of ice in the air,
hit the cat on the head and broke
Then he tdls about a Unt ffill
woman who left a lamp burning all
night in the kitchen, and when she
tried to bk>w it out in the morning
found the flame frozen hard. She
broke it off and threw it into the wood
shed, where later it thawed out and set
the woodshed on fire.
As if those two were not enough he
winds up with the story of a St. Charlee
doctor, who just before he started out
on a drive took half a dozen good-sized
drinks of fine.^ bourbon. It wa
cold night, and his breath was frozen
into chunks. He put the chunks
into a pail when he got home and
thaw(d tiiem out, and had a quart of
pretty fair whiskey.
At the Democratic convention of the
second judical district, held at W» Ido
Wednesday, B. B. PeeUes, of Nw^
amptmi, was nominated Un Superior
Court judge by a large majority over
Judge F. D. Winston.
B*y« Vp A«a>a«t
A spedal from Greensboro to the
Baleigh News and Observer says:
“United States District Jud^ Boyd
is up i^^ainst a proportion he had not
bai^uned tor. At the recent term of
the Federal Court at Charlotte the
Amos Owen Cherry Tree crowd were
convicted of udng the United States
mails to defraud, and sentence waa
deferred until next term of court, until
it was seen whatthey would do towards
refunding some $84,000 oi ascertained
funds tiiey had cajoled out of trusting
women by thdr famous cherry tree
endless chain swindle. It seems that
there were thousands of women who
had not made their grievances knows,
but since reading ^e tmns of the
court, and hoping to get thdr money
back, they are row pouring out their
complaints to Judge Boyd. Here are
two specimens:
'Dear Judge Boyd: Doubtkas you
know that I am a poor giri and I vrish
you slso to know that that rascally
crowd in the Amos Owen cherry tree
scheme stole $12 rfmy hard earnings.”
etc.
“Judge Boyd: However repuldve it
is to me to have to confess it, I have
conduded to write you that my neces-
dties make it almost compulKvy for
me to tdl you that the Amos Owen
cherry tree thieves have $12 of my
money without a cent to rdmburse me
for the confidence I placed in their roey
promises. I had thought never to
speak of it, being ashamed of such an
entanglement, but have conduded that
you would be glad to be the means rf
restoring me the much needed funds
that were crudly seduced,’ ’etc.
Next week, now—in fact one week
from the day after to-morrow—the
DemocnUic State conventim will meet
at Greensboro. Judge(3ark already has
ennngh Totes instructed for him to ren
der the fact that he will be
nominated fw Chief Justice. Prof. J.
Y. Joyner, Superintendent of Public
Instruction, will be nominated for that
>ffice, having no (^^xidtion. As for
he rest, if it were prophesying The
Observer would say tiiat Judge Connor
and Mr. Walker will be nmninated for
Associate Justioes and Mr. Beddingfield
tor oofporation commiSBOnw.—Char-