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an old favorite
THE BRIDGE
Bj LonMlo»
the bridge which la the subject of the poem was the old one known
as West Boston bridge. In IjonsfeUow’s youth the bridee was probably
more generally a resort for moonllsht rumlnators, comparatively
speaking, than it has been of late year*, for then the only means of
transportation to and from Boston waa a coach, -and, as the fare was
3 cents, comparatively few people rode.
STCX)D on the bridge at midnight.
As the clocks were striking the hour.
And the moon rose o'er the city
Behind the dark church tower.
I saw in her bright reflection
In the waters under me.
Like a golden goblet falling
And sinking into the sea.
And far in the haxy distance
Of that lovely ni^t in June
The blaze of the flaming furnace
Gieamed redder than the moon.
Among the long, black rafters
The wavering shadows lay.
And the current that came from the
ocean
Seemed to lift and bear them away.
As, sweeping and eddying through
them.
Rose the belated tide.
And, streaming into the moonlight.
The seaweed floated wide.
And like those waters rushing
Among the wooden piers
A flood of thoughts came o’«r me
That filled my eyes with tears.
How often, oh, how often.
In the days that had gone by.
I had stood on that bridge at midnight
And gazed on that wave and sky!
How often, oh, hov{ often,
I had wished that the ebbing tide
VTould bear me away on its bosom
O’er the ocean wild ^nd wide!
For my heart was hot and resUess,
And my Ufa was full of care.
And the burden laid upon me
Seemed greatw than 1 could bear.
But now It has fallen from me^
It is tmrled In the sea.
And only the sorrow of others
Throws Its shadow over me.
Tet whMiever I cross the river
On Its bridge with wooden piers;
Uke the odw of brine from tiie ocean
Comes the thought of other years.
And I think how many thousands
Of care incumlaered men,
Each bearing his burden of sorrow.
Have crosaed the bridge since then.
X see the long procession •
Still passing to and fro.
The young heart hot and restless
And the old subdued and slow!
And forever and forever.
As long as the river flows.
As long as ttie heart has paission*.
As long as life has woes.
The moon and its broken reflection
And its shadows shall appear
As the symbol of love in heaven
And its wavering image here.
s.in JONES utkitesof bistbav*
ELS IN TIKGIKIA.
Atlanta Jouma
Since I wrote you last week I’ve
swung from Wisconsin to Viiginia and
back to Illinois. I spent three days
most pleasantly in the Shenandoah
valley with Bro. Stuart at the White
Post Camp-meeting. • That’s a fine
country and a finer people. We never
spent the time more pleasantly any
where. We were one day the guests at
Green way hall, the home of Lord Fair
fax of revolutionary days. He was the
owner of twelve or thirteen counties,
comprising about one-third of the state
of Virginia. He was lord of more than
he could survey and George Washing
ton was his surveyor. The story goea
that George Washington, when 16 years
of age, came to Lord Fairfax and asked
for ^rork saying that he had a widowed
mother to support and that Lord Fair
fax asked him what he could do, and
young Washington told him that he
could 8ur^'ey. Lord Fairfax gave him
constant employment in that capacity,
aud the story goes that most of the
deeds to property in that section has
the signature of George Washington
surveyor.
Tr^tion says Lord 'Fairfax was a
giant in statue and large in heart and
in his benefactions. He of courw re
mained loyal to England and his young
surveyor quit his service, joined the
American forces and when Washing
ton’s forces finally conquered Cornwall
and his army Loi^ Fairfax went into a
cabin on his magnificent estate, went
to bed and died, moaning over the
ingratitude of George Washington and
his country’s defeat. He died at the
age of 92. I suppose George Washing
ton was too busy to attend his funeral.
Te idea of a fellow who owned 18
counties going to bed at the vigerous
age of 92 ani dying over a little thing
like that. But George Washington
w^ent to bed and died sometime after
wards, reminding us that the “Path
of Glory leads but to the grave.” Lord
Fairfax was an old bachelor and left
the Greenway estate to the kindly
woman who kept house for him and
cared for him in his last, years. The
estate then fell into the hands of
Methodist preacher, Rev. Mr. Kennelly
and his daughter and grand-daughter
now reside there and they are most
splendid people. I was greatly inter
ested in the history and traditions of
tlie section. Bishop Meade lived in
this community and was a large land
owner. Churches and reridences a
hundred years old greet you on all sides
and some of the people look to be a
hundred.
We left those kindly people with
many regrets and many kindly memo
ries. George Stuart headed for High
Bridge, Ky., campmeeting and I for
Urbana, Ohio chautauqua.
In all my tour, nothing is so charm
ing as the great waving corn fields, like
a sea of green from Farkersbui^, W.
Va., to the Missouri river. The Shen
andoah valley is drought parched, like
most of the sections of the south. But
the corn and wheat belts have plenty
to share with us poor fellows in the
burn tup south land.
The Atlanta papers are forwarded to
me occasionally, and they are of much
interest to a wayfaring man if he is a
fool. I read with greediness any word
about the Atlanta “cow shed,’’ and the
pro8]T)ect8 for a new depot. I am sure
now that Allen D. will lose out, for he
is only goveruor and Samuel Spencer is
president, and he is presidentof more
than Allen D. is governor of.
If the governor, the state railroad
commissioners, the legislative commit
tee on union stat'ons and the city
counc' wiU step aside* I think day will
soon break. In about two mo^^ths more
the railroads in the south will all belong
to Morgan and Gates, and I know they
have the money to put up any sort of a
depot Atlanta wants.
It’s strange to me that Atlanta
not put Congressman Livingston onto
that depot question. They say Lon
can do anything they want done; why
not set Lon onto that while elsphant.
If he can’t do, try Charlie Brannan or
Joe HaU.
Well, our anion Tabernacle meeting
begins at Gartersville September 7th,
and closes September 15th. Charlie
Harmon will give us one fare round
trip rates as usual.
Evangelist Ostram, of Indiana; Pro
fessor Hillis, the sweet singer; Ihr.
Monk, George Stuart are slated as a
part of the working forces of the meet
ing. Providence permitting your Unde
Jones will be on hand with a few brief
short remarks. We hereby and hereon
invite every preacher and layman in
Georgia, Alabama, South CaioUna
and Tennessee, and every sinner in
Atlanta. (The Journal and Constita
tion forces included under this head
but I don’t want them all here the
same day.) The homes of Carterville
are thrown open in genuine hospitality
to an who come. Come, friends and
neighbors and enjoy the meetini; with
us, and pray that God may give us the
greatest meetings in the eighteen years
of Tabernacle meetings in Gartersville.
The political outlook doesn’st look
roseate to the Democrats. Hill, Bryan,
Cleveland and Waterson can’t harmon
ize. Jleally they don’t love each other
as the Bible enjoins. Don’t the Good
Book teU us to love our enemies.
Oh! these politicians, I’ve just learn
ed what a politician is. He is a fellow
with seven principles. Five loaves and
two fishes. That’s all.
I am attending the Illinois chatanqiu
this week. Next week I will be in
Michigan, West Virginia, New York
state and Indiana. I have four weeks
more of this work in August. Then
home for a three weeks rest, and the
Tabernacle meeting.
Wife and daughters soon grew tir^
of travehng, and now they are back in
old Georgia, with perhaps more sym
pathy for a poor fellow who has a ten
w^ks’ tour all in a hei^.
Captain Hobson is cutting quite
swath through the chatauquas this
year and Miss Stone is also on many of
the luts of attractions.
Sam p. Jones.
Not » Candidate Im 1904.
Wm. J. Bryan settled last week for
all time the rumors that he will be a
candidate for President in 1904, in an
interview, while on the way
Danville, 111., where he was to speak
at night. Col. Bryan, when shown
yesterday’s reports that he might again
be a candidate, was much nettied and
expressed himself in no uncertain man
ner. He said he wanted the matter
settled right now, so there could be no
further question. The Mason City
interview, he said was unreliable.
«I will not be a candidate for Presi
dentinl904,”saidMr. Bryan. “While
I would not promise never to be a can'
di^te again under any circumstances,
I have no plans looking to the future
nomination-ior any office. I am per
fectly content to do my work as.
private citisen and enjoy my editorial
work. I shall continue to advocate mth
tongue and pen reforms which I believe
to be necessary.”
Slekaess Conldn’c Down
Brewer's Curfew.
Little Jessie Jones learned the Ten
Commandments while she lay in bed
with mumps, and Lawrence Pool read
through the History of the Unit^
States during the first two weeks of ^
confinement with typhoid fever, irith
his temperature stan^ng around 103
George B. Hiss, president of
Southern Cotton Spinners’ Association,
in a letter to Hon. A. Y. Sigmon,
Hickory, announces that he will to
candidate for congress in ^ ninth
congressional district. This is the first
positive intimation thftt Mr, Hiss
friends have had 4hat he will be a can
didate.
big
wards a n^;ro who aiksd him a dvil
question. Ddianuauied, indeed! A«k
Tribble and Brown who fpve their shopa
the moil patiOBage. What ridicaloos
folly to demand leato in our chwchiM
for the nqiroes. Thqr teve chimhet
of thdr own that were MUt maanljr by
the charity of the whiltf^lplks. They
don’t want asata in coir diaidiM.
They have sclnxris of tiMirdwn that #e
Bopport, and thiey have ixoainons and
baseball and watermdons and funerals
and Daaghlenof ^n. CHi, Corshaine
on Sledd! I pity hii family and his
kindred. He thinks he has found a
mare’s nest, uid fw lade of something
fresh has raked ap Sam Hone again
He laments the lyiiohing8, .bat not the
ontiages, and he pnpoaea a remedy.
Mr. Sledd can set this down-that the
lynchings will not st(9 ontil the oot-
ragesdo. When a negro dsiwpsni ms
himsdf and beooooes a beast his ought
to be lyndied, whether itis Sanday or
Mcmday. Let the lyndiiiif ^ on
This is the sentimant of oar pe^e,
and let Bosimi andXhe Atlantic Month
ly and Sledd howL We ate nsed to
that Not long alyndnng
in Bcnne that was to my notion. Tlw
besst was strong up in str
the daytime and shot to pica
nobody was disgoiMd. The
lived there and the sheriff and the
town marshal and poUoemra and a
military company, and the' governor
wasn’t far away, but not^ s^ ss''
pay. That suits me exacfly.
Bill Arp.
little things fitet us more than
If I write that Neptune is nx-
teen hundred millions at miles from the
and it comes out in print sixteen
millions it worries me. If I write that
doctor sewed np hare lips and it
comin out hair Ups, I don't like it
type didn’t know that a rabbit
had a ^t under its nose. If I write
that I walked out into the garden to let
cholerdown, meuiing my anger,
the typo thinks I meant my shirtcollar,
and so changes the spelling to suit his
own idea. But since I read an editor’s
defense in a New Y»k pa^ I fed bet-
, f(»r he says it is amasing how few
these mistakes axe made in thegieat
dailies that have to be mshed through
with lightning q>eed. The constant
pressure on type setters and proof
readers is tremendous, but they razdy
make any serious blunders, and the
intelligent reader can ^nerally cor
rect them in his mind. And so I will
not worry any more about it There
are some other little things that are of
more consequence just now. Our cook
has quit, and so hjuB the house maid—
gone off to Bockmart iot a week or two
—gone to a house party, I think.
That is all right, for the oook has been
faithful a long time and needed rest.
is a good servant and keeps a dean
kitchen, and we have had a house par-
oursdves for several months. I have
l^n sick, but now we ate reduced to
the re^lu family of fi.ve and have but
littie to cook and can get along on two
meals a day. My wife arranged it for
me to fire up the stove and fill np the
ketUes and grind the coffee and put on
the hominy and then ring the bell for
the girls to get up and finish up the
Inrea^ast She said that if I fdt like
I might sweep out the hall and the
front veranda and settle np the front
room. Wdl of course, I had to split
up some kindling and bring in the stove
wood, but 1 am getting ak)ng fairiy
wdl and my wife thinks the exerdse is
doing me good. Last night she hinted
that the veranda was badly tracked np
since the rain and needed a good wash
ing. So this morning I turned loose
the hoeeinpe on it and she praised me
right smart and I t«ought her some
rosea from my garden. We let her
sleep until brenkfast is ready, for she
deans up hw room and makes up two
beds and then sews all day for the
grandchildren. But I want that edor^
ed house puty to toeak np as soon as
posdble, for I don’t hanker after this
morning business as a r^;ular Job.
Mrs Mimms says she likes it, and I
think she does. She has a good room
in the bade yard and good furniture
and a good handsome lamp'to r^ by,
and her littie grandson Kves with her,
and I don’t know of any ool«red woman
that has a better time. In fact, I
know of lots of good n^roes in town
who are contented with their situation
and will continue to if they are let
alone by the northern fanatics and
southern cranks.
What craze has come over that man
Sedd to cause him to write such a fool
niece for the Boston magazine? What
can it posnbly do, even if it was
true? But it is not true and only the
product of a diseased imi^nation. I
would write hard things about him but
f(w his family connections. For their
he had better have smothered his
feelings and his pen. The Atlantic
Monthly has never shown any love for
the south, and why he should adect
that as his orsran passeth comj»ehen-
sion. Professor Sledd says the negro is
an inferior race. Then why does
insist that we give him a (dace in our
own churches and hotds and raihroad
cars? ^
li was the irork of the tlreator that
miiiift him inferior, and he will remain
so —and ndther education
enation will ever change it so far as
social equality is concerned. Moses
violated the law of God when he mar
ried that Ethiopian woman, and he had
to discard her, and Aron and Miram
chided him for it long after
wards. Numbers, xii. The Story
goes, according to Joseph, that
Egyptians were at war with the Ethio
pians and had sufferedi^eat in every
battie untQ Pharaoh was advised that
no one could command his army sec-
cessfully but Moses. Bo Moses was
given command and he marched with
the army to the borders of £thi^
nd met the enemy and defeated them
then mardied on to Saba, the
royal city, and attacked the walls, and
Tharbis, the daughter of the King, saw
Moses from the window of her tower,
and he was sO handwme that she fdl
desperately in love with him and sent a
messenger to him to say th^ if he
would marry her she would surrender
the dty and army to him.
agreed to this and their marriage was
at once, consummated. Then Moses
rt>tumed with his victorious army to
E^t. He did not take with him his
Ethiopian wife, but not long aftor he
married Zipporah, the daughter
Jethro the Midianite.
So we must supoose that Moses mar
ried the Ethiopian princess a
measure and with no idea (rf
his promise. At any rate it caused
troude and shame in the family, and
so it has done ever since whenever
white person mates with a negro.
What a monstrous fdsehood to i
that the southern negro is dehumanized
Bight here in our town every negro
mechanic is employed at good wages.
Kacksmitks, carpenters, masons,
ers, draymen are all buqr. Cooks
a nd warshwoman find constant employ
ment-r-and they are not only contented
but eometimes dare to be menty and
laugh. Where did Sledd get all that
rot about kicking mad curnngand beat
ing the n^ro? We Aever heiff of such
treatment in this regic^. Mr. Milam,
truthful gentleman, w
keeps bun on the street, told me the
other day that he had heard bat one
oAth ottered by anybody wittiln a year,
and thatwM by
street in
A nrOBT
I«*w IB
Amon^ the many quaint stones that
are tdd in connection with Stonewall
Jadcson's brilliant campaign m the
Mienandoah Valley in 1^ thereisone
that always brings a smile to my face
when I think of it as told an old
“ex-Oonfed.,” who was attached to one
of the batteries ii his command dor-
ii^ thaf trying time.
VAMBBS rni.1. T»r.
14 Pers«M Hwrt KatM at
A tornado struck Catdina Beach, a
reaort fifteen miles bdow Wilmington
one night last week wrecking the OcMuiic
Hotel, an old structure used as a
pavilion by excursion parties and as a
hotd. Fourteen pmons out of eigh
teen in the buikling at the time of the
disaster were injured, several fMobably
fatally.
Refers came quickly, and worked
wind and tain with the night tiack
ink. Men and women cried to De
rdeased from their places of imprison
ment All wen got^ out in an hour,
except Hampton Smith, a young man,
who was i^ned down by an ice box
and timbers. It todc three houra to
cut him out and he bq;ged for those
trying to save him to kill him.
The injured were made ascomfNiable
as possifate, but there was not a doctor
on the beach, and tdephonic commun
ication with Wilmii^^n was cut off.
essengerwas sent to Vl^mington
on foot to get a passenger boat and
phyndans, but the storm had down so
y trees across the road that he made
slow progress. The wounded w
tenughttothe dty twdve hoots after
the aoddent and most of them n
sent to hosfHtals.
Klaser*s Heir Woald filT* Vy Tlir*M
'The Matin, which printed a story to
the effect that the German Crown
Prince had had a violent interview
with his fathor in which he expres^
desire to renoonce his rank and give
up his claim to the throne in order to
marry f(nr love, says Uiat Miss Gladys
Deaccm, daughter of the late Edwatd
Parker Deacon, is the object of the
yoong Prince’s affection.
The p^ier adds that Miss Deacon
told Prince Fredridc William that
woold never consent to a morganatic
alliance, and if he desired to marry her
11 teligioas and Iqpd oeranony
woold be necessary.
Three days after Miss Deacon's avow-
d the Crown Prince gave her a ting
which he had sworn to give to nobody
except his wife, it being a present he
had recdved from his grandmother,
the late Emiwess Fredrick.
Hlr. Jastlee Ctrar Umwagmm,
The PresidMit has received and
cepted the resignation of Mr. Justice
Gray of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of Mi
chusetts, has been appointed to fill the
vacancy.
Justice Gray’s redgnation has been
in the Preddent’s hands for about
month. The Justice had a stroke of
pardyds last January. %nce then he
has had another stroke. He is a man
of great nze, with a natural tendency
to appofdexy.
ladlaa Terrllarjr TalcaM.
Great exdtement has be
during the past month at Tusa, In
dian Tearitory, owing to the discovery
by surveydts working nwth of that
place, of cracks in ddes of monntdns, as
igh frcmi great pressuro under-
th. Gas escaped from the fissures
and a continud hisdng and roaring
could be heard. On the extreme top
of the highest hill there has been a
smdl voteano at work, raising up large
bowlders and tosdng them adde. Ex
parts state it is a great oil and gas
fidd, and that pressure from a great
dep^ has caused the commotion.
n the eariy qiring of that year Gen-
erd Jackson had raahed his **0(»nmis-
sary Generd” Banks—the commander
of the Fedeid -army in the valley—
throogh Winchester ahd Marti nsburg,
across the Botomao into Matyland, with
^ loss to the latter ot many men and
a large qoa^ty of nuHtaiy supplies,
and then leiawdy jvslBraad to Win
chester, where he waa not psnnitted to
remain kmg andistorbed by his ene-
OM. BaiScs, Shields and Fremont,
ajyrnaching from Uitee sides (north,
east and w^, endeavored to cut off
StonewsU’s repeat op the vaUey.
After leaving Windieater the Con-
federatea foUoi^ the tornptke—a first-
daai road through * Stroudsburg,
Woodstock, Edenb^, Mt Jadcson
and New Maiket, to Hatrisonborg,
where they left the tamiake and struck
out in the direction of the Bloe Moun
tains by way of Mt (^wftnd.
Between the condition of the i^e
and the red day tolid on which Jack
son's conmiand now found itsdf there
could be no oompaimn. Everytmng
on wheels stuck fast in the mud, and
the patience of officers and men were
alike tried to the utmost
The infantry and cavalty k^ out of
the mud road as much as possiUe,
seeking the fidds and threading their
wa> through the woods, where the
ground was not cot op so much. Not
withstanding the disheartening condi
tion of things, the toilsome march was
kq;>t ^ in the directi» of Port Bqmb-
lic, wi^ Banks and Fremont hanging
like boUdogs on'the rear, and Shields
poshing with all his might op the Lu-
ray Vafiey to ke^ Jadoran from cross
ing the river and reaching the {HOtec-
tionofthe *‘bnriy Bloe Bidge” after
his antidpated defeat by the two first-
named generals.
At a point on the road where it was
bdly deep to the hwses a twdvepoond
howitzer was stock fast, and the dis-
gosted artileryman strove in vdn with
whip and spor, fence rails, strong
Knglwih and every expedient that
goMed men coold think of to get the.
[Hece oot of the “doogh of despond. '
At this time some duraltymen dtting
on their lorses looked idly on, and con
Kxatnlated themsdves opnn having
four 1^ under them inst^ of
wheels, and a heavy ^ece of artillery
in their charge, which seemed to be
possessed of the devil of obstinacy
While the cavalrymen wen enjoying
the dtuation, dtting high and dry upon
thdr horses, and now and then crack
ing a joke at the expense of the mud-
bedabded gunnets, a rather qodnt-
looking officer, with an old slouched
cocked o’er his eye askew,” b
ed with his staff and quietly took
dtuation.
Then, toming to one of the cavalry
officras in command of the troop
the roaddde, he directed him to order
of his mm to dismoont and help
the gon oot of its onfnrtonatepodtion.
The response of the moonted men to
e order was very slow indeed; but
they recognized Stonewall as the officer
who had come to the rescue of tiie gun
and knew thwe was no hdp tor it
The struggle wss apparently vain,
and at length a thoroughly di^usted
cavalryman, with a hdt in his speech
and covered with mud turned viith
reproachful look to his bdoved generd
and sdd: “G-g-gen-Genetd, l-l-let’s
take u-u up a col-lec-tion f-f-for the
d-damn g-g-gun—^p-pay tar it and 1-1-
Ia&va Ut” ThA liorht 'RIdAr" did
A census boQetin recently publidied
shorn that the farm vdoes in the
United States are still immensdy
greats than those of any other kind
of pn^erty.
In 1900 the famtr property of the
United Statea, induding live sto^ and
machinery was vdoed at $20,514,001,-
6S8. These fa^ yielded in 1899 pro
ducts to the vdne of $4,739,11S;T52,
or 18.8 per cmt of thdr entire vdue.
This was, of edorse, the gross in
come. What the net income was can
not be stated, or even estimated, with
any degree of certsinty. Thecombined
fannos are still ahead of the gigantic
sted trast by about nineteen tHllioo
doUass, thoagh the trusts and other
foms ot sggragsted and organised
wedth ate makfa^ rsftd gains on the
totd of ,agtieahord vdoea.
The railroads repreasnt a greater in
vestment than luay other interest ex
cept the farms.
In 1900 the sorfsce rsilroads in the
United Statea wde vdoed 912,768,
910,887, or aboot three-fifths the
vdoe of an the farms, with their live
The gross income of the railroads in
1901 was $551,020,460 which was 4.2
percent on the nomind investment.
On account of the quantity of
water in it this is far in excess of ttie
actual investment
The farmers own more property now
than th^ ever owned befm and,
^nerally speddng, are probably in a
letter condition. But for the levy
which the jwotective tariff makes upon
them their condition would be much
better than it is.
If the farmers could buy tatiff-pro-
tected artides made in thdr own coun
try at the prices which are charged for
them in fbteign markets, tt^ net
mfits would be increased many mil-
ions every year.
And yet many termers vote to mdn-
tain a system that robs them of a large
percentage ot their earnings.
leave iti” The “Une light Elder” did
not pay much attention to the su^es-
tionof his profane foUowo*, further
than to give a few qmet orders to his
subordinate officers, and the gun
soon lumbering dong, and was at Port
Republic the next day in time for its
gunners to sav—
Moorkbville, Aug. 11.—Miss Ten
nessee White, of this place, was instant
ly killed in a runaway acci
this evening, her skull bdng fractured.
Miss White, in company with her
brother, Mr. Joe White, and Misses
Bertie White Atwell, of Bed Springs,
and Clara Starrette, of Mooresville,
were returning from Bock Si«ings
camp-meeting. As thdr vehide waa
crosdng the railroad hare a traoe Ixdce
and the h«8e tan. Miss White fdl
and fractured her skull, death molt
ing almost instantiy. The other occo-
pants of the vehide kept their seats
and esci^ed injury.
J. F. Austin, who was ccmvicted of
p«fjary at a recmtterm ofBanddph
court, has given bond, pending his
^q;>ed to &e Sapreme'coi^ threa
Asheville]
of theoatlaw
hisnistd apgahinwdtaadiih^^^m
behanged. ThM»y*a adwntaiiMdMe
he*escapedtam nteii on
the deeds of the dime no«d htm iato
the shade. His escape from the OMfOn
Penitentiaty was nrnnsnplMwi
after he had murdered the prhofi
guards. Frmn that time ontil ImmJs#
his life yesterday his earssr WM aiit
the typ^ rafflaa. Hedola iMMiiB
ctder to oonlinae hiaflighl»i
pentoly with his pa
conviot.who eaOMad^'
Oregon PenilMiBsty.
lod^ng at pistoPs pob*» ■»!
whole communifi^ The
yeUow-back fiction doer not
expldts of a hdo mote d
more depnved than Ikae^y.
According to his owa
Tracy waa onjostly eoaviolei oCa I
of which he waa innoBent He «Di|>
fessed, however, that he had htm •
thief and a murderer,
I«indides the pemtsirtiaQr «afe 1to
have
The only
possemed waa coorage,
fogitivefrtMnjostioe woold j
aMytoavdd captore. He
ninif to a remaifadile dsatee' aad
diq;>layed extraordinary BkiUuSdailiBK
pursuit But this is aboot aU that eaa
be sdd in his favor, and thoas who
woold exalt him into a ted haro iMvea
faulty conception of what
true manhood. He'
a repoldve type, a n
were stdned with the blood of iMin;
He seems to have met isarii
Ixavdy, bat if he had not kiWei Mas-i
self and had bera taken alive h*'«oiiU
have expiated his ctimes on the gallo—I
It does not rei|iiiie gAat coanfe to
commit soidde in sa^ '
nan hbwb.
■r. SmmOf ■awl^TewMa.
One of the first convictions onder the
eariy dodng wdinance in Charlotte
e aboot last week before the re
corder. Aconding to the officer's
watch, W. G. lin&mann was selling
beer at dghteen minotes past 9, whUe
Mr. Lindemann’s watch recorded a few
minutes primr to the donng hour. The
recorder accepted the mute evidence of
the poUceman’s timepece and imposed
a fine of $50.
A man by the name ot Hugo Bing-
well sdd to h^ve hailed from Charlotte,
committed soidde in New York
drowning Limself some ten days ago
He tried to invent an airship and fail
ing told a friend his intention and
huded his landlady his check book
with a $700 credit telling her she ccMild
have it He also destroyed his draw
ings and model. His body was found
on the 9th with weights ti^ round his
neck.
A storm at Chapd Hill Wednesday
destroyed the “Davie poplar” in the
campu of the Univerdty. The de
letion of this tree is a great loss
from a historic standpoint and the fsct
that it is no more will be heard with
much regret by all dd students erf the
University. It wss onder this tree that
the first meeting of the board of trus
tees was hdd more than a century ago
and its namb was in honor of Hm.
Wm. E. Davie.
There is some trouble on aceoont of
the Donocratic nMninatimw for Stale
Senator u the S4th
of Alexander, CddweD, Borin 1
Dowell counties. The nnwiBew asa
Mr. E. J. Justice, of MeDowell, mad
Judge A. C. Nvery, of Burke. Hie
troode bq;an in the McOoweQ priBM
ries where it is charged that Mr. Jw>
tioe ran thinga with a pretty highland.
As a rasab both of the lfoT>wnil -gn.
pers, the Demoo^ and the Bea%, jw>.
fuseto support Mr. JoatlM,. aiad ike
indications are that a good muriMr of
the Democrats of the ooanty'an wMi
them. Asian indicationa of the fad
ing devdoped the Marion New* of last
week, which had a four column eriti-
dsm of Mr. Justice, says aaaong oUmt
Perscmally
in Mr. Justice’s head ; politicaQy we'd
kill him dead aa a door nail, aa he
ou^ttobe. We know hia nndierit-
ableness, his domineering, tyrannifld
nature, and no doubt he would crash
us to death anyway. We oo|^*t to
breathe without his permlssmn.
On tc^ of this Mr. l4HRenee Wite*
fidd, ot Laamr, haeaanoaneadhiMsH
ate in the 84th dirtrict
mrrmrn B*osev«lt.
Mr. ^an has some questions he
wants Prudent Boosevdt to answer.
In last week’s Commoner he says:
Mr. Boosievdtissoon to start on one
of the most ambitious stumping tours
ever attempted by an occupant of the
White House. He will endeavor to de
fend his administration against the
criticism which has been directed
it, and he should be aided by
suggestions from his opponents. For
instance, Mr. Boosevdt might answer
the following questions:
« ‘Why not iqsply the Dedatation of
Independence to the FilifonoS?’ ‘Why
not b^n crimind action against the
Beef Trust millionaires as wdl as
agdnst small criminals?’ ‘Are you in
favor ot the Fowler dll with its ass^
ita Iwanch banXs and its re-
silver ddlatf' ‘Why not taae
the tariff off of trust made artides?*
**These qoeetions present issoes opon
whidi he should enl^hten the public.’
AwlytBK V*r Pcast
Washington, Aug. 11.—^The Com
missioner of Pendons to-day gave out
the statement that an etroneous impree-
don seems to exist among many
Confederate soldiers regarding the
interpretation to be put upon the recent
act of Congress relieving Union sddioa
the disdiility for having previously
served in the Confederate army.
The idea seems to prevail t^ under
the act the government is authorized to
pendon ex-Confederate soldiers, and
the result is that the pendon officer
bdng deluged with applications from
the former wearers of the gray. The
Commianoner expldned that ^e law in
question does not contemi^ate the pen
sioning of ex-Confederate sddiers, but
that it was designed sddy to remove
the disadlity which so long existed in
the case men who were imjHressed
into the Confederate service and later
joined the Union army.
Tlis Texas Cattan Jrap t* fee a
me Om.
Houston, Tex., Aug. 16—^In summar
izing repwts from its correspondents in
every cotton county in Texas, The Post
will state to-monow:
“It is an assured fact that a crop
fully equd to the one just marketed
has been made and can hardly be lost
except throufl^ an unpiecedented
swiesrf disaatOT. There ia a good
prospect that that crop will be excmed
and there ia even a promise that
bumper’ crop will be produced. There
has been an improvement during the
and
Nobfolk, Va.-, Ang. 11.-
ed to die fOT the murder of NeUieOr^
sey, at Biiabeth City, N. O., Hm
cox is sdd to be pv^ way onder the
suspense while his lifb is in the hands'
or the Suprane Ooart He has heitft,
it is stated, that he will not be ghea «
trial, and that even if be akonli
net one and be acquitted, he woaU be
ynched and the strain, it ia aHagsd,
has told (m his mind. It ia ako duam-
ed that he ia feigning inaanity Ib an af>
fort to escape the gaUowe. Ith alatai
that Wik»x, who is a dgarette ftaad,.
has been acting stiangely for sone tiise
and that recently having seat the Jdlor
for a match, he became srssfrsisi aft
the delay and threw a knile at hip,
almost severi^ his fingers. WilcoK
has many friends who beBeve him
goiltless and who vidt him
at the jaiL
Prarae fSsr VrMcht aad Cat llali
At one the Holiness meetings at
Danville recentiy earnest prayers were
offered invokii^ a droaght in that im
mediate sectkm, that the tobaooo crop
might be destnqred. These people look
opon the ose of tobacco as sinfol and
plMse it beiide drankmneM, gamUing
■mnd other evils. The droaght of many
weeks’ dotation in t^ immediate sec
tion wsa brcAen Ttte^y evening by a
refreshing shower, fdlowed Wedneeday
afternoon two additumd showers.
The fodish bark at tiuth
Via a stcanger to
The boll weevil and the
boll warm are ddng condderaUe dam
age in parta of the infected area, but
there seems to be more fear a theee
pests ttuui actod damage as yet
At presMit North Carolina is flooded
with speakers endeavoring to enUghtm
the people as to the benefits to be '
rived from levying spedd taxea for
edocationd porpoaes. Governor Ayco^
has been on the stomp now tor needy
a month. He, with other noted Noru
Osrdinans, come to Mecklenbaif this
week and severd edocationd rdliM will
be held. The people are responding to
the call that ia being made opon tl
and it ia generally thooght that the
spedd tax levy wOl cany by a laige
majMrity. Severd dectioas have been
held in this and adjoudng ooontiesand
withoata sin|^ ezeeptioa the wpeeul
tax has been voted by the people.
and N(Mrwood arrived in the eity
erday morning, beinging 460people,
^e visikxa fband plenty of amnse
ment aboat the dty and at latia PlHtk
daring the day and at 7 o’doek IsH far
thdr homes. There were too odditiee .
»ng the exrawsionists. One wm
Mr. S. C. lisk, of Gold HiU, who ^ 18'
years old and is 6 feet and %
The other wee sn
wearing a long linen dnatar and i
his hat wmnected with the lapd
duster Iqr a shoe string. He says fliat
he has worn the same hat, sliosalrtng
.dosterm87exearsions. HeelMM
tobeoco, smokes stogies and driake
whiskey and has never met with an ae*
ddent in his life.
J. S. Leaiy, a weO known eslssad
lawyer, wasaeviEr^ lebokad I7the»
corder in the Charlotte dty coart last
week. BeoorderShannonhqnse sdd that
he had reascm to bdieve that Laaiy hadT
feasiMi. When a witneei
opon to ccMToborate the reeotdsc’B stale*
ment Leary Toee to his feet Beendir
Shamicmhoaae said: *'I an> going to
tiy to stop this thing.**
“I have a tig^ here and I,aa
gm^to overstep that right,**
“If yon say anythiof mm I «fll
have yon pat oot,** anawssei Hbm
Aiid Leary took hie Mat.