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THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN
THESE famous lbi«i frcoi Mt X scane 7. of “Aa Tou ZJlw It** an
spoken by JaquM. son of Sir Rdaaa D* Bota and brother of Orlando^
the hero of the play. "Am Tou Uka IV* waa llrat printed aevan jreute
after the death of. ShalceqMara. Soma of the incidenta of the ^ay
are deriv^ from a romance by IlMnnaa l«dse printed in IBM.
LL th« w^d*8 a stage
And all tlie and women merely players;
They hare tb^ exits and their entraneta.
And »0 man in his time plays many parts.
His acts beins seTW ages. Atllrst the inftt&t,
MMrliac apd, poking In th« irarse's arms;
Then thtf irUning sel»odtt>^ with his satdid
And riiining morniBg fao^ creeping like snail
UawilliBgly to school; and th«i the lOTW,
Sighing like furnace, with a woefnl ballad
Made to his mistress* eyibrow; tlmn a soldier,
Foil of strange oaths and.bearded like a pard.
Jealous in honmr, sodden and quick in quarrel.
Seeking the b^blo r^itation
Eren in the ^sannon’s month; and then the Jostles;
In fair, round belly with go^ capm lined,
^th eyes severe and beard of formal cot.
Fall of wise saws and modeni instances—
And so he plays his paH; the rixth age shifts
Into the lean and sUwered pantaloon.
With ipectades « nose and pooch on side.
His youthful hose, well sared, a world too wide
For his shrank shsnk, and his big, manly Toice
Taming again toward cbildisb treble, pipes
And whistles in his soond. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange, eventful history.
Is second diildishness and m«e oblivion—
Sans teetl^ sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
THE BCBA;li nAll, DBLIVSBY
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Baltimore Sun.,\ ' -
It baa been announced in the news
columns of Sun^ thst an agent of
the general pDstoffioe is in WafsUngton
county, Maryland, itfranpng fp? ‘‘rural
free delivery” of mail. In the neigh
boring counties of Frederick and Car
roll the system has already been estab
lished and is. in qn^tion. It seems
to be the determinanbn of the depart
ment to extend it generally.
The revenues of the Uiiited States
Fostoffice Department fall several mil
lion dollars short ,ol i^ing expenses,
and the wisdom Of’ptltting: the enor
mous cost of .thefree d^very system
upon the taxpayers of the country, to be
added to the teost of nedessaries of life,
may well be doubted. JSven if the
postal revenues^ere sufficient to jjostify
the expenditiuw, it is hkely that the
people would prefer to have them ap
plied to a reduction iq letter postage.
Every reduction which has ever been
made,from the time the cost sending
a letter was 25 cents, down to thereduc-
tion from 8 cents to 2 cents, has short
ly resulted in an increase ,of revenues.
It is believed by some that 2 cents an
ounce is the minimum which would
afford a profit. But this is far from
certain. A cent an ounce is 16 cents a
pound, which seems to be a ve^ iair
price for carrying matter. Or, if it »
too low, the weight of letters to be car
ried for 1 cent might be ^uced to a
half ounce. At the premnt rate the
carriage of .lettm is enormoudy profit
able, and the surplus revenues coming
from it are devot^ to paying for the
transportation of mail matter which
does not pay its own way. As far as
7/e have been able to see. there has
never been any strong poptdar demand
for rural free delivery. In some cases
it has been forced upon communities
against their own protest. There are
instances where the mail reaches a
village before 8 o’clock in the morning
and the Cahi^ does not come along
until 11. In ca^ like that, where the
village postpffice has been closed, the
free deliveiy is 'progressiDg backward.
A glance at the map of Washington
county shows that it is gndironed with
railroads, every one of whiich brings an
early mail from Baltimore. There is
scarcely farmhouse in that fine county
more than'a few miles from a railroad
station or from a postoffice served
quickly from a distributing office on the
railroad, and the quickest Way to get
the mail is to Bend to th^ nearest office
for it. This has never been considered
a hardship. The courtry poetoffice is
usually located in the country store, to
which the neighbors go for their sup
plies. These country stores are great
conveniences, and should the rural
delivery systemi result in breiEUcing
many of them up the people will find
when too late that they have paid too
dear for their whistle. But the great
danger connected with the rural de
livery system is one which the resident
of the city finds it difficult to fully
understand. That danger conrasts in
the ease with which the s^tem can be
converted into a gigantic and most
effective political propaganda. Which
ever party has possession (rf the Federal
(iovernment will be enabled to employ
a« carriers men belonging to that party,
rfcommended.and appointed for politi
cal reasons. These active and intelli
gent man, visiting almost every house
in the United States, brought, in d^y
contract with the people—acting, it
may be, as agents for the sale and dis
tribution of partisan newspapers—these
men working to rebun their job, can
exercise a political power which may
make it practically impoesi^ for the
people to vote one party out and put
the other in, even if the welfare of the
country should demand it.
In short, where the majority of the
IxK>ple demand the free delivery of their
letters and papers as a coQvenience,
and not simply as a novelty or a “fad,"
and the conditions are favorable, then
the free delivery should be established.
But it should not be forced upon people
who do not want it and to whom it will
be an inconvenience and a step ba^-
ward. The Poatmaster-Qenoal in his
report two years ago, almost at the
begmmng of the free deliveiy
ment, said that the extension of the
system had resulted in closing many
postoffices, but upon the urgent re
quest of the patrons a number of these
offices'have been r&«staUished, and
many m»e requests for re-establish-
meat were on file in the departmwit
Thir shows conclusively that after a
fair ti^ these people preferred their
poetoffices to mail carriers. Of course
the system is popular among thousands
who want the jdaces of carriers and
among Congressmen who want the
_ Kmage. But the whcde matter, be
fore it goes any father, is well wo^y
of a searching inquiry by a committee
o|-Congprees.
Tou di*8 Companion.
The great and constantly increasing
prevalence of deafness ^ould make
parents and all those having charge-of
the. young very careful in the tieatoient
of the ears. M«njr cases of deafness in
adult life could be traced back to one of
sevc^ easily preventable causes, if sll
were known;
First, mistaken ideas as to cleanliness
are fruitful of mischief. The old rule
that while the outside ear must be kept
clean, the inside ear will take care of
itself is a good one. Nature provides a
secretion—the natural wax—to this
end. There are also tiny, fine Hairs at
the entrance to the canal the work of
which is-to act as sentinels against dust
anddirt.
: The wax itself is bitt^ in taste, and
is a guard against insects. Only by
rare accident would an insect enter the
ear, and wnen in it would be quite as
anxious for release as its unwilling host.
When this accident does occur a Uttle
sweet oil should be poured in to drive
the insect out.
The faithful but ignorant nurse
should be instructed not to roll up oor-
ners of wash-rags and towels and force
them into the opening. Even if no
further harm is done some water wU
almost certainly find entrance, and this
is not only dangerous in itself, tot
tends to injure the protective qosUties
of the wax.
Another great fault is the i^oring
of the dai^er signal of earache in chil
dren. In former days, when less was
known about the treatment of the ears
and when there were no spedalists, the
administration of some pain-reliever,
such as hot applications or laudanum
water, and the ignoring of the reason
hfthind the sche were more excusable
than they would be to-day. To te-
lieve the pain is well so far as it goes ;
but at the same time a specialist should
be counted as to what lurks behind
the pain. Many parents who wotild
t-hinlr it a shame to let a littie child
suffer from toothache and not take it
to the dentist will watoh some poor
littie helpless sufferer grow up on ear
ache, as it were, and seem to regard it
as some mysterious insult on the part
of nature. Most of nature’s insults are
patient, faithful warnings in disguise,
ttnH thia is especially true of ear symp
toms in the young.
I don’t know whether I can write a
letter or not. 1 will try. The effwt
will kec^ me from thinking about my-
sdf. F«r a month I have been play
ing “Billy in the low grounds,” but 1
have a good doctor who has nursed me
night and day and cheered me ap and
oomforted me and I am on the up
grade, though as the GecMgia cradcom
■ay, “I am powerful weak.” This doc-
Ux is my son and he aays he has not
f»gotten how his mothor aiRl I nursed
him tor three long months in Florida
and saved his life and now I shall noc
die if he can hdp it I take all his
medicine, quinine, strychnine, calomd,
qpirits of nitre and capsules without
number, and tonics, too, and if I get
well l will never k»owwhat otved me,
bot he will. Wl^ woald the wnffi do
without docUnst Kiqg Sdmrd and I
wmild have died last week.
About twenty years ago I had a qtell
like this one, tot I had been working
in tlie water all day trying to dam up
the l»anch in the meadow so that the
children could go in bathing. That
night I like to have died and old I>r.
Kirk was sent for and worked on me
for three or four days and got me u]
again. My wife told me then that if
didn't be more careful of myaelf
wouldn’t live out half of my dajrs. She
told me the same thing the other day,
and she knows. Old Dr. Kirk is i
trump. He was our family doctor an
til he got old and tired and moved away
to live with his children. Before hie
moved to this place from South Caro*
> had a love scrape over there,
and he had a rival, too, and they fell
out. The girl wouldn’t have either
one of them and the other fellow heard
that the doctor had told storim on him
to the giri and so aftw the doctor had
loctUted here his rival wrote to him and
demanded a retraxit or else a fight.
The doctor wrote him a stinger and refus
ed to make a retraxit, but would accept
his challenge and fight him until Hades
froze over, and as the fighting code
gave the challenged psr^ choice fd
weapons and time and pl^ and dis
tance he should choose rifles at long
range and the next 29th day of Feb
ruary as the time and the other fellow
must stay whme he wss and shoot over
this way and he (the doctor) would sUy
here and shoot over that way and both
must aim high so as not to hit anybody
between them.
3at I must stop now and take breath
A good long breath is what 1
The old woman was asked what this dis
ease her husband died of and she said
the doctors differed about it, but
always believed he died for lack of
breath. I don’t want to go that way. I
was ruminating aboat these {^Tsidans,
for doct(» is not the {Hoper name. Doc
tor means a teacher of anything
whether it be scienoe or art or law ot
pharmacy or theology. Physician is
the right word. It is a very ancient
name for the prtrfeeaion. The ittUe
tells how Joseph got the physioiAns to
embalm his old fathw, tmt I do nMr
think it wss a very po]^ar profession
among the Jews, for it is mentioned
only two or three times and with doubt
ful favor. King Asa had a disease in
iiis feet and would not call upon the
Lord for relief, but sent for a physician,
and he died and slept with his fathers
Then there was a woman who had an
issue of Uood for twdve yean and had
suffered much from many physidans
and spent all she had and was nothing
better,but ra:her grew worse. The Jews
unto this d*y do not give much patron-
immune, Imt he wasn’t. He toidc the
fever right away and died. Itis a curi
ous coincidence that three doctors frcMn
our town went to Savannah to fig^tthe
fever and every oneof them took it and
died.
But I wss ruminatii^ aboat the aui-
faring and agony that the advance in
sorgeiy and physic has saved mankind
and I r^(Hce that Crawford Long h«
been given the first {dace in the Hail
of Fame. I was at scho(^ in Athens
when his discovery was made, bat the
magnitade of it was not realised until
long after. I was one of the first to
have a tooth extracted by the use of
his lethean.
Let me rest a while, for i am weak
and nervous and, as Byron said—
My viaicms flit leas palpaUy twfoM me.*'
I have just enjoyed a good, long lei:
ter from my old sehobl mate, NAthsn
Onwfnrd, of Ltnt^nton. He is the
honored school commissioner of the
county and will die in J>amess, i
reckon. He is in his eightieth year,
but we were classmates, for he was one
of those sure and sk>w boys, while I
was {wecocious and uncertain. ' Only
three of as left now, tot Tom Alexan^
d» is living at Bome. Nathan writes
good, old-fsshioned, cheerful letter,
and says he never stole Frank Alex
ander's watermelons, and hints that it
#as Overton Young and a boy my
name. The only reascm he didn’t ste^
I was that he boarded with Mr.
Alexander and got (denty without steel
ing. It is too late now for him to
assume a sainty morality, for Tom and
I still live to testify. But it was a good
letter and the memory of Nat Oraw^
ford is always comforting and refresh
ing. Now, for a good long rest.
Biix Abp.
Tke ConveBtloa anil Tlekeft
Greensboro {teoord.
The ticket nominated is, in the main,
what was expected; that is to say, Hon.
Walter Clark was nominaled for chief
justice, which was known weeks ago.
The associate justices were in some
doubt, but the nominees are pure men,
capable in every sense, and the voters
of North Carolina will raify the nomi
nations made.- That there are many
Democrats in the State who will not
vote for Judge Clark is well known.
This itf" a right they have. But under
the circumstances they are still go(^
Democrats. Men have a right to their
opinions and while the vote for his
nomination was practically overwhelm^
ing, these men are honest in thdr posi
tion. We taJce it that there were few
pn.ytifipR*'"C ^ convention who will
fM.il to vote tar aim. Outside, however,
there are no doubt some who will not
support him, yet as for the balance of
the ticket they will vote and work for it.
Freddie—When do you call a woman
a grasswider, dad?
Cobwigger-^When the gtam i
over her husband.
age to phraiciaos or quack medicine
I never knew but one Jew doctor,
though there are a few very emioent
ones in the large cities, for whatever a
learned Jew does he does wdl. There
is a doctor Jacobi in New York dty
who stands at the head of the profes-
non and is consulted by the rich and
great men of the nation,
Now, let me stop for another good
long breath. When I was a boy we
didn’t ^ve bat one doctw in the town
and he weighed 800 pounds and was
never in s hurry. He left little babies
around ever and anon and when one
came to our house our old cook told us
where he got them and she slyly point
ed to his oorporosity. He had a littie
office on the street and a few shelves
with botties on them containing calo
mel, salts and castor oil, senna and
cammomile and Peruvian bark, balsam
of copaiba, and such simple things and
in the corner was a skeleton in a box
that stood upright, with • screw in the
skull, and sometimes the little, long
door was opraand we school diildren
could peep in and then run for our
lives. It wss an awfal dght But ^e
old doctor got too old and fot to practice
and sent to New York for his nei^ew.
Dr. Phik> D. Wildman, a student
Valentine Mott, the great New York
physidan and surgeon. He was as
smart as his tutor and went to cutting
y.n«i alaahing OUT pwple just like kill
ing hogs. He straightened cross ^es
and sewed up hsir bps and cut stones
out of bladders. The agcmizing screams
of poOT little John Thompson, my
school mate, still haunt me, for he was
simply dying of stone in the Madder
and the doctor cut it out. It was as
large as a pigeon egg, and the littie boy
got weU. My brother and Jim Craig
studied under Wildman, and when they
wanted a stiff they would go (mt to the
•p^wllaniT grave ya^ in the night and
dig up a fresh buried corpse and haul it
to a littie room back of their office and
cat it up and boil it down and' make
a skBleton of the tones. I went wi&
thgm one night and hdped them to dig
up a negroTw somebody rocked us as
we were taking it oat ai^ we had to
run ftvoor lives, for they threatened
to shoot. That satisfied me with the
business and 1 never went again.
But our little town wasn’t enough
for Wldman and eo he moved to
Columbus and made a great repatation.
About that time the yellow fevervisited
Savannah, and ?HUman b^eved he
coold stamp it out and that he was an
Poller After S4 Vewr^
An unusual case of insurance refund
ment took place at Carbondale, 111.,
reeentiy, when a representative oi an
old insurance company presented
check to Philip Temple, a conducts
on the Gale branch of the Illinois Cen
tral, amounting to $674.73.
The family had supposed since 1808
that nothing was coming to them and
had not only forgotten ^e inddent but
had lost the policy. Besides the Temple
settiement the following former red-
dents of this dty who carried policies
at the same time will receive refund
ments as soon as thdr present reddence
is known: John Hessick, last heard
from at Florence, Colo., $1,000; David
Johnson, last known at Be^ord, Ind.,
$440.03; Frauds A. Yost, last known
irt Louisville, Ky., $400, aod JiMnes
Franks, last known at Houston, Mo.
$927.
GKoannOBO, N. C., July 16.—The
North Carolina DemoenUie State Gem-
vention met in the CSty Hall here at
no(m today, every county m Uie State
being represented.
T& foUowiiq; tidEet was nominated:
For Chief Jakiee of tl
Coart—^Walter Cbtk, of Wake.
For Assonate Jastice of the Supreme
Court (representing western section)
Platt D. Walker, of Mecklenbarg.
For Associate Jastice /eastern section)
H. G. Connor, of Wilson.
mer lieuL-Gov. Chaites M.
Stedman, in behatt oi Greensbtvo,
made a fended addrew of wekiome.
In calling the convention to order
Senator F. M. Wgimope, .who u also
chairman of the eseeutive committee
and bead of 0M pioU in die State,
made a fmeebii qieeoh, ^lelending the
amendsoent to the Constitatacn reeentiy
9d whidi prevents ignorant
negroes from voting. He said in pan:
The justios and'wisdom of the
amendment are no longer a question
for debate, but have bera setti^ by a
majority of 50,000, and white sni»em-
a^ has been written in the oiganic law
' the State. The question which now
confronts us is. Shall this decree ot the
white pejt^le remain written in the
Constitutitm, or shall it be expanged
from the Conrtitation, and if exponged
oy whom and how? We do not want
anothw so-called n^ro eatadym io
North Carolina. If our adversaries wiU
accept the amendment in good faith
we will not have another.
“I hope tbia convention wUl invite
and challenge the BepaUicans to de
clare officially and unequivOfCi^y in
thdr platform whether th^ accept the
amendment aa a final settlement of the
vexed and dangerous question of negro
saffrage. We are told that the negro
out of politics. We sre told that the
Democrats have promiaed freedom of
throught and action. If the negro is
out of politics he Is out tbrongh the
amendment. Whatever we have prom-
» t*i independence was predicated
upon the assamption of the permanency
of that measure, and we cannot and
wiU not permit Bq[>ublican party to ap
peal to and use the amendment to
divide the white ^ple so long as that
party refuses to give the people a pos-
tive and straightfoward assurance of
bona fide acceptance of that
Wadesboto Messenger and IntelUgencer.
The fact that Senator Pritehard has
succeeded ia gating a bill through
Clongress providing for making eligible
to the pension list soldiers who deserted
from the Confederate army and pined
the Union forces, should ^mn him in
the estimation of every true Southern
white man. In every age and country
the deserter has received the just con
tempt of all men. So heinous has the
crime always been coosidered that the
Minishmen of death has been universal-
iy pronounced against the culprit when
^[>prehended. In having a law passed
rewarding persons who have beon
guilty of this, the greatest of all crimes,
Seoat(Hr Pritchard has insulted eveiy
soldier who worthily wore the gray and
ev«y woman who toiled through f^
long years of extraordinary privation
for the cause she loved.
Slist !■ the momtu.
CiUBLOTTB, July 18.—very pecu
liar shooting scrape took place just
south ot the dty t^y between J. A.
Price and J. C. Cathey. Price called
Cathey into his room and the door was
dosed. Soon two instol shots were
heard, and friends rushing in, found
Price shot in the chest and mouth.
Cathey cliums that Price got him into
his room and said to him “Now d—^n
you, I got you where I want you
Cathey did not deny the deed but went
to a ’phone and told the chief of police
that he was coming up town to give
himself up, which he did. Cathey waa
latter rel^ised under a thousand dollar
bond. No cause has yet been given for
the affair. Price’s inju^ bdng in the
mouth renders it imposnUe for him to
talk. His injuries, however, are not
veiy serious.
CfviUxe« Coi
Stranger—You Iwd a good many
lynchings here in fwmerdays, I under
stand.
Western C5ti*en—That’s
long, long ago. We are dvilixed now.
Stranger—No more mob law, eh ?
Western Citizen—^No, indeed. When
a fdlow butehers a family now^
quietiy issue a warrant for him, arrest
Mm if our police h^^n to stumble
over him, put him into an extra com
fortable mU, send him dainties and
flowers, postpone tiie case until some of
the witnesses die off, grant him new
trials and so on until everybody
fwgotton the crime and then we let
him go.
Tke BerakUMMS Mmj Oflfier liladaai
PmtteraoB for OMel Jaattee.
It is given out here today that the
Republicans will offer .Mr. Lindsay
Pattonon, a prominent lawyer here,
the nominatian for Chief Justice of the
North Candina Supreme Court When
questioned aboat the rumor today Mr.
Patterson admitted that he had heard
such a rqxMTt bat stated that he knew
nothing official.
Mr. Pattnson was first a BepaUican,
but became a Democrat when Preaidaai
Oeveland was first nominated,
waa a candidate for presidential elector
on'thePahne^Badcner ticket in 1896.
Better eat stale bread than be ill-fared.
Judge Walter (Sark, who is
tor Cbxei Justice, served sevoal terms
on the Saperior Court bendi and is
now serving his second term as Asso
ciate Justice of the Sufneme Court, be
ing dected the last time by the unuii-
mous vote of all political par*ies.
This is the fint time the Democratic
State convention has ever met in any
other town than Raleigh, the capital.
A Soatkora Bov's Coasvlatatto Vosa*
Postmastei^General Payne has re-
cdved a letter from a youthful swain in
far off Miasisdpiit who protests against
the enforcement of thiU crud section
ot the Postal Regulations whidi, abetted
by parental objections, makes it impos-
dble for him to «Mrrespoad with his
bestgirL The letter fdkms:
Dear Sir: I have aomethiog I wiab
on wuU give me some information on.
wrmted a call box No. 14 from a
Postmaster’s clerk, June, the 21st, and
told him I wanted it fMr my girl, as her
parents won’t aUow me to go with her
and I want to write t> her and I would
address them to her in name box No.
14, and now Miss Peari Nasors comes
up and says she can’t allow this, as it
is against the Postal Laws and I wish
you would tell me if she is safe in
tdUng me this. The giri is not of i^,
but it seems to me I could rent her a
box and have the mail pot in it. I
would ai^iredato anything yoa woold
do for me in this matter and hoping
you will answer in some way I will
close. Respectfully,
The lettw was typewritten in Uue,
on yellow paper, and was signed in red
ink. “Alltheworid loves a lover,”
said Mr. Payne, after he had read the.
above remarkaUe plea," “but I can't
see just what 1 can do fbr Willy. I
think I’ll write and tdl him to try and
make a hit with his giri’s ‘prents.’ ”
And Mr. Payne turned regretfully to
more serious matters.
The Observer is iafwij
Repobiicm WiU nomiaaaa a ftdl 4
ticket in MeckleidNiif and will i
▼igoroas campaign.
The Cooleemee OoCton MSI
dooble the o^Mdty tiik swiw
ing total equipment of 1.800 Im
40,000 spindka.
Two of the foar Ctaviriar
ludgea appointed by Gor.
been tamed down by Hm OMaoinlie
conventioas of their dis|Kiota, ««D
have been nominated.
Mr. M. D. Goodman, of TteolMMb
k)st a valuable 400-poaiid horn m 1km
nth. Itdied with agmSoMetf
hydrophobia..
hog waa billan by a Unqr haft
nothingwas thoogh* «C it uilB two
days ago whes the hog hjwtm
nddied.
Mr. BaneaYoang. oneof OttviiM
county's substantial (
near the river, lost hia
while woridng at li
bine. Mr. Young wm «—the
threaher when he saddealy tnniM ia a
dased manner and pat bii haad to hit
L Partaes near him qaBBMoaed
him and found that his aaiM was a
‘The refusal by the BepubUcans
under the dcumstances to give such
assurance discloses a sinister purpose
with reference to that measure, which,
for sepiet reasons, they are unwilling to
admit. We have the right, and it is
our duty, in myiudgment, under theee
xizcomstances to say to' the Republican
party, 'You are demanding a change
of polidee and conditions in North
Carolina on account of the amendment.
We demand that your d^ne you at
titude toward the meaaure. If you
accept it, sav so. It you prc^Mse to
attack the amendment, now or here
after, say so in terms whioh means yes
or no.’
An answer which means either yee
or no^ or neither, as future expediengr
may suggest, will not be accepted.
Until this answer is forthcoming, until
the amendment is accepted as a finality
by all parties or until it is judicially
edablished, if it is to be attacked it will
be the duty of the people to continue
to stand U^ether f(ff its protection and
thdr {Mrotection.”
Formor State Senator A. M. Scales
waa pdected as temporvjr chairman
and qmke brie^.
Lieut.-Gov. W. D. Tamer, of Ireddl,
was made permanent chairman, and F.
B. Arendell, of Wake; George P.
Pell, of Ashe, aod Walter Muii^y, of
Rowan, aeoretarief.
The State executive Committee, as
dected, is as fdlows;
W. G. Lamb, W. B. Rodman, L. L.
Smith, George W. Ward, M. J. Haw
kins, £. L. Travis, W. H. Powell, L. V.
Morrow, E. M. Koonoe, J. A. Bryan,
S, O. Middleton, Nathan O. Berry, J,
R. Young, E. C. Beddingfield, R. H.
Hayee, E. S. Abell, J. S. Manning,
H. S. Royster, R. D. Reid, J. J. Nelson,
J. B. Underwood, D. E. Cowan, A. W.
McLean, D. H. MoLean,D. E. Mclver,
W. L. Parsons, J. R. Blair, N. G. WU-
liams, Paul B. Means, R. N. Hackett,
T. C. linn, J. B. Lewrllyn, R. R. Hay,
W. H. H. Williams, Heriot Clawson.
W. C. Erwin, John C. Mills, M. L.
Shipman, C. A. Webb and W. £. Moon.
Congressman CSaude Kitchen pla^
in nomination for Chief Justice Walter
Churk, of Wske, preeent
iustice. This waa leconded by N. B.
Broughton, of Wake. Qabamisooanty
cast a number, of votes for Judge M.
H. Justice, when Mr. Justice's son
announced, that his &ther
not a candidate, and dedred his friends
to vote for Qark. The roll-call reeult
ed in Clark recdviug 1>141 votes. Jus
tice 28, James E. Shepherd 8, H. G.
Conner 1, not voting 48.
A motim was made to make the
nomination unanimous, bot it waa ob
jected to and was not pressed.
A Utter fight had been made on
Judge dark, on account of his alibied
leamng toward P^Nilism and bis hos
tility to corporations.
Ilatt D. Walker, of Charlotte; Charles
A. Moore, of Asheville; James A. Lock
hart, of WadeslKm), sad 0. H. Arm
field, of Statesville were placed in nomi
nation tot Aasodate Justice, to fill the
vacancy from the western part of the
State. Walker was nominated on the
third ballot recdving 714 votes. He is
an able lawyer, but has never
held pdUic office.
For the Associate Justioeship to rep
resent the Eastern seotlon of tiie State
H. G. ConnoiTof ^niaon, and Gewge
H. Brown, of Beaoftirt, were placed in
nominatim. Mr. Connor faa
nated on the first baUot by a majority
of five'votes.
Mr. Connor was formeriy i^peaker of
theHooseand is regarded as one of
the alilBst attorneys in the Slate.
cap* ■ohMas Speaks a rroverk.
Cliariotto Observer.
There ought to be an ai^urobative
response all over N(»tii Carolina .to the
speech made by Ci^>t. F. C. Rc^bins,
of Davidson, when he took the chair.
Thursday, to predde over the seventii
congresdonal district convention at
Monroe. Under the stress of dream-
stances, he said, some ot our beat men
have in the pa^ been compelled to
wink at certain dection methods which
are no longer necessary and whioh
should pass away with the necesnty
for them. It is true, and one of the
pleas from the east in behalf of the
constitutional amendment was put upon
the gi'ound that its men were tiaad of
having to practice devious devices in the
In an editorial in this paper
yesterday Senatw Hanna was quoted
as having said in his qteech in ta.yor
of Cuban reoiprodty, that whether or
not we oweCuba anything, we certainly
owe acnnething to ourselves. The par-
alld may be ai^lied and enJai;^.
The white people certainly owe the
iblican party of Nor^ Carcdina
nothing, but they just as certainty, owe
themsdves sometning; and that, som
thing, applied to the esse in hand, is
to promote parity in dections—to aee
to it that hereafter these are without
the taint fraud.
It ia
way haa secured, or wffl seeare, the
Ohio River ft (%aiieston Bailraad and
will extend it firom Wnnlsdals. N. CL,
to Marum, N. C., to cooaect wift tta
main line between AsheviHs and Balia-
bury, in order to have a coal raad a«v>
er its Washington aad CaroHaa «id«
without the kmg haal fcom ttia JcBeo
district throng Knoxville.
The coiporstion nommisiion haa iMt
to the Auditor its sssnssmMit oi taOmam
pn^ierties for the correat year. This
is aa foUows: Soathem. $16M«77;
Atiantic Coast line, $18,978,410. Sea
board Air line, $8,712,728; miaeaBa-
neons roada, $4,195,526; total 4tS,70B»-
371, which is $160,715 men lhaa ift
was last year. Thia doea
railways, steamboat Baea, ele.
oaon Weor Soepeoaere If Coat Io liofll
or.
New Tort Son.
A man wearing both suqwnders
and belt entered one of the mos> farh-
ionable restaurants on Broadway on
Wedneedaw evening with his coat
thrown over his arm. He sat down at
a table, shifted his coat to his other
arm and looked aA>ond, aaw half a
dosen men in shirt waists and without
s. This decided him that he need
not don his sack, but he aoon found
that bis deddon waa all wrong. A
waiter iq^noached him and told him
p^tdy that he would have to wear his
coat if he wanted to be served there.
How is that?” heasked. “Do you
make exceptions in favor of certain
pmons? . Those fellows over there are
eating without thdr coats.”
Yes, but it is your suspenders,'’
said the waiter in a whispM. “If you
will retire and remove your suqienden
it wiU be aU right.”
After a moment of thought the patron
conduded to put on his coat, although
it was the hottest nif^t in the year.
One very cold day last winteraikMr
eased woman pai^ in her aioraiaf
walk along a Philadelphia slwet, anil
gased sternly at an ice wagon that
drawn up bedde the caib. She
there for aome time.
Apparendy a reporter lor the
stood also, aind watched aad
moved of comae not by eariosity,
by a sentiment of dnty, aad of ntiHga
tion to let the people at ttie dty hwNr
what was going on. At att ^veata, ha
reporto that the ieemaa mmm oat of
the boose, and die said :
“Driver, why don't yoa btaakatyow
h(»aee?*’
“Becanse, lady, ttie ooiap’ay don’t
furnish me no Uankela,** retamed Um
driver.
“Then yoa should cover them with
with your coat I” the Mid, aa*
verdy.
“All right, ma'am,** lepBed the
driver, with a smile. “Yoa fimaw
yonr sealsltin coat for the nigh hsai,
an' rnpntmyoveBooatoatheoaoae.**
From all parte of Mimiasippi Saoad
and the bays and bayooa ott the Looia*
ianaandMiMiaiipia coaat ooom
derful stcrieeof the nnprnnwlwlndaalii
neas4}f the Gulf watera aad of the ap*
pearance of deep-water fiah hllhTlo
unknown there. At Horn Isiaad, Har-
0., annmber of devfl
fish, one of them measuring thirty ImI
from tip to tip, have been hot
by fiahermen. There has aln I
invasion of man-eating shaiks.
A party of
lasaslairaUon On tke Is
Immigration to this country is on
the increase, The total for the year
494,808 aa against 888,931 and
841,712 for the two fiscal yean preced
ing. The Norfolk Virginia-Pilot, com
menting upon theae statiatica, myn that
the greater part of theee immigrants
ire £dn’t want, they bdng largdy
Polea, Hungarians, Italians and Rus
sians, and notes farther that New YmIt
and Penntylvania seem to catch, the
greater part of them. Continues The
Virginian-Pitot:
The almoat anarchistic conditions
that prevail in the coal r^ons are the
direct product of the polity that permits
tlua nndesitable class of immigrants to
land in the country, because pauper
laber is demanded by the coal ^iersr
t«s. Ignorant, restless, susiadous and
defiant of law, they are the raw mate
rial out of which firebrand aptators
create criminala. A half million in
crease of that sort of dtisenship every
year is putting a pretty tng strain on
American institutions.
It is for a fact.
little Fkane—Ma, If I ever get mar^
ried will I get a huaband like pa?
Mother—Yes, dear,
little Flosde—And if I don't get
married will I be an dd maid like
Aunt Kate?
Mother-Yea, Fkmie.
little Flossie Creflectivdy). It's
tou|^ world for as wmnen ain’t it, Ma?
Orieana while fishing reeea^ at Bkfe
Island faatened their three boats la.
gether and steadied them with a haasy
anch(v. A aharfc became entaaglgd |g
the anchor, carried all three boiSi nait
to sea and finally wreAed thcaa on dM
shore. The fiahomen nanoi^ (
with their livea. They are aU
nent socially and in dnbJlife ^ Keir
Orieans.
Dr. E. H. DiOard, thecUaepoaaa
who created audi a swnsatioB hm asv*
eral months ago, died in Daavihe laat
week after a short illness Readsnof
this paper win remember that this oM
ro some time ago came heae ftnai
Anatralia and by his ahreadnM Ml ^
dty with a gnat deal aaoia wmmm
He claimed that he had a Mf talBM
acroas the wateis and his aloay waa ha>
Bd by not a few. He ftdtad weam
ot people, bat aome of hia cradHow aaa
of the (^linion that tiie fortnaa ia
in Australia and wiU be forthooaaiac
Mr. W. B. Troy infocoMaaOhaMTCr
reporter of a fierce fight that oeeanad
between two «npk)yea of the OharioMa
Roof and Paving COmpaay a fsw 4^fs
ago. Whileoneof themhyinahaary
drnnken aleep the other acnaad a
monkey wrendi tightly on has aoas.
The nervea of the intoiicaled oaalla*
man stampeded immediately after ha
awaked and he wieatled wUh tha mam-
key wrench for ten minutes bafon 1m
succeeded in freeing his noaa. Tkaaha
went for his tortarsr aad foMhthiaa hi
a bkMd-tiiinty ftwhion antiliyalaadart
The OomptroUer of the
rendered a deeirion holdi^ Itet 1
the law of Congress the ~
Par-
cdve any part of the i^ipraptlalioa by
Coagreas for the ■xpotoioa aalS a
contract Shan have heeadgaadly tha
directora ot the eonpa^y, biadiK
themaehea to doee Ibel*