'FOR COUNTRY, FOR GOD, AND EOR TRUTH." Single Copy, 6 Cents. VOL. XI. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1900. NO.. 21. 1.00 a Year, in Advance. ABOUT WOMEN. One woman has put several ounces of wisdom into a truly womanly post script. She has returned from a year of Europe. In writing a note to a woman friend she used up the space of the note proper in urging an early visit. "Do come soon." she said. Then as an afterthought she added, "I will not give you a detailed ac count of my travels." Max O'liell, a man so spiritual that heSan divine the recesses of even a woman's heart, puts into the mouth of the happy wife, in his latest sketch, the following definition of happiness: "To be loved by a husband of whom you are proud. To be rich enough to afford all the necessary, comforts of life. To be poor enough to make " pulling together ,a necessity." Such is Lord Kitchener's reputa tion as a woman hater that the queen herself felt called upon to ask him during a recent audience, if what she had heard of him was true that he did not care for any woman. lie re plied that it was true with one ex ception. The queen asked him to ' tell the name of the exception and . the gallant warrior replied, "Your Majesty." The queen was amused but she was also pleased. If that charming woman, the late Kate Field, did not marry, it was as suredly not because she did not have hany admirers. A Washington lady Smas in her possession a little old bit ' 0t yellow paper upon which is penj cileda boyish scrawl. It was pre served by Miss Field from her little girl days. The scrawl runs thus : "wont yue mete me down by The Gate after school You nowe I Love yue." On the other side of the bit of pa per is the address thus : "Miss Kate Field, Esq., last seat next. to the Door goin out." It must have been like a breath of the forgotten perfume of yesteryears when the clever, kindly woman hap pened upon this little old piece of yellowish paper on a rainy afternoon of rumaging. Mrs. Sallie Marshall Hardy, who is a descendant of Chief Justice Mar shall, visited the Supreme Court Chambers in Washington recently and was introduced to Justice Harlan by a functionary of the court, says the Chicaso News. She was then seated under the bust of her distin cuished ancestor, and Justice Har lan whispered to Chief Justice Fuller "That little woman there under Marshall's bust is his great-grand daughter." The Chief Justice looked toward the little woman and then said : "Tell her I am afraid the bust may fall on her." "I'm not afraid," replied Mrs Hardy; "nothing on earth could please me so much as to have my great-grandfather's head fall on my shoulders." Catchy Sayings By Traveling Men. Talkative Fafcts. You cannot serve God and womeft Of two evils' choose the prettier. Where there's a wont there's a way. Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder. Whosoever thy hand findest to do, do with thy might. The wages of sin alimony. lie who loves and runs away May live to love another day. Some schemes are like mouse traps, easy to enter, but not easy to get - out of. Thank heaven for the law that has a sucker born every minute. A still man is dangerous. Censure and disgrace never cured evil habits, but multiplies them. To counteract an evil propensity we must take awav the opportunity for its exercise. It's hard work getting to heaven "without a good wife to steer you. Mark Hanna has put up the sign, "Traveling men will please keep off the earth. Home is where we are treated best and grumble most. "Business lies are lust as black as any other. Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. The Mayor of Atlanta Water. Again In Hot Atlanta, May 7. The city council tonight adopted a resolution calling upon Mayor James G. Woodward to resign his office. The resolution was the culmination of a sensational sermon last night by Rev. L. G. Broughton, in which the minister made a violent at tack ou the mayor's personal habits. The resolution call upon the mayor to resign before the next meeting of the council, two weeks from to-day. The leader of the opposition to Mr. Wood ward says he is in honor bound, under the terms of a statement made last Bummer, to resign. The mayor to-night declined to say what his action would be. His term expires January 1, next. As a matter of precaution for the health of the city of Salisbury and county of Rowan, the Board of Health of Rowan county declare it unwise to have any large gathering in our city on account of the prevalence of smallpox in. other sections. ASTRONOMICAL EVENT. A Total Eclipse of the 1900. Sun May 0th Mary Proctor In New York Herald. The astronomical event of 1900 will be a total eclipBe of the evn, which oc curs on May 20th, and will be visible through the Southern States. The cen tral pathway of darkness, wherein the eclipse will be total, is fifty-hve miles wide and extends from New Orleans to Raleigh, and after leaving Virginia trails over the Atlantic Ocean and south easterly across .Portugal. Spain and Northern Africa. The duration of total eclipse varies from one minute and fifteen seconds in Louisiana to one minute and and forty five seconds in North Carolina. Along the lines on each Bide of the central line, as shown in the map, the sun will remain hidden for only an instant. (See trot. Tood s "New Astronomy," p. m. Astronomers are making arrangements to observe this glorious spectacle, and H is to be hoped that their efforts may be crowned with success. A total eclipse of the sun takes place when the moon, coming between the sun and the earth, hides the light of the moon and causes darkness for a few moments wherever the shadow trails, The moon being an opaque body casts a shadow, and since the moon is sphere the shadow presents the appear ance of a long, narrow cone, stretching away into space. The tip of the shadow trails eastwardly along the earth, and as the earth is moving in the same direc tion the tip of the shadow may be com pared to the point of a lead pencil marking a line on a whirling ball, repre senting the earth. The densest part of the shadow wherein the eclipse is total, is called the umbra, and rarely exceed 160 miles in width, while on each side of it is a less dense shadow, from which the sun's light is only partly hidden, and this called the penumbra. The shadow glides through space at a rate exceeding 2,000 miles an hour, and as the earth is turning or rotating in the same direc tion at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour the greatest velocity oi the moon's shadow will be 1,000 miles an hour. To aa observer the shadow seems to ad vance with lightning rapidity, and some times it Beems to travel in wavy bands the waves being a few inches broad and several feet apart, rushing along with the velocity of an express train. Professor Langley in his "New As tronomy" giyes an account of an ob server who describes the terrifying ad vance of the shadow as overwhelming He was on the Superba, at Turin, at the time, and he remarks, "I felt al most giddy for a moment, as if the massive building under me bowed on the Bide of the coming shadow." Frequently the effect upon the be holder is of something material sweep ing over the earth from the west and with considerable speed. Another obseryer said that at the ap proach of the waves of shadow he found himself listening for the rushing noise of a mighty wind. It has also been noticed that the shadows of the leayes are sickle-shaped during the waning light of the sun lust before totality. While awe-inspiring, yet a total eclipse of the sun is most impressive with the swift onrush of darkness from the west, the flickering quiver of the last-expiring gleams of sunlight and the sudden fall of night when the silvery radiance of the corona, or crown of glory, surrounding the sun becomes visible, the dazzling glare of that lumi nary being hidden by the dark globe of the moon. As the moon approaches the point when it will be exactly between the sun and the earth a peculiar darkness creeps over that part of the earth m the neigh borhood of the shadow, and the light of the sun grows dim. The sky assumes an ashen hue, as before a storm, and the air becomes decidedly chilly. Flowers close their petals, as at night, and others that give forth their fra grance at night are sweetly perceptible as long as the sun is obscured. Even the birds are deceived by the unusual appearance of the sky, and fly home to their nests in the trees. Legs Broken, for love. Logansport, Ind., May 7. The vaunted feat of Leander in swimming the Hellespont to win the fair Helen is eclipsed by Hbe martyrdom of Louis Hoen, who had his legs broken to take the bows out of them because his sweet heart objected to curved lower extre mities. Hoen is wealthy and he is handsome of face, but was afflicted with a pair of bow legs. He loved a lair young wo man and she loved him, but could not gain her consent to take Hoen as a husband that is, with his deformity unchanged. Hoen was determined to win his lady love at any cost, so he appealed to a Logansport surgeon, who consented to straighten the defectiye limbs. The flesh was cut away from the bones and the latter were fractured with a chisel. Both legs were, put into plaster casts and the bones have almost knitted together again. The operation was ex tremely painful. Hoen will be one inch taller when he is able to walk and his extremities will be as comely as those of the average man. In Chili masons get forty-seven cents a day. THE IlUslI DOCTOK, II a mors of His Practice In a' Remote Country District. There are two enemies bard to con quer in this country of the young, says a writer in the Nineteenth Century. One is belief in witchcraft, the other a love for "matter out of place." In my district the people really believe in Leprechauns, or little people. They still visit a wizened witch doctor to have "dead hands" exorcised from bewitch butter, and they hunt mythical hares as often as living red games. Quite lately I was asked to visit maiden of half a century who was pos sessed with a "demmur." Now I know Lizzie Redmond is only suffering from loneliness, pure and simple. Her tiny shanty, dumped down in a narow boreen, is surrounded by acres of golden gorse, miles of peat land and ftajds of silky bog cotton. No neighbor, however enlivens gray existence for poor Lizzie, Whatever is nonunderstandable to the unprofessional mind in Sallyboggin is called a demmur," and is treated as profession of the Evil One. Hence found Lizzie lying on the mud floor of her cabin in a "stripped" condition On her naked breast was a penny. On the penny an end of candle. Over both penny and candle rested an inverted tumbler. A "wise woman" was stand ing gazing earnestly at her handiwork and muttering a charm. "Ah! doctor, darlint," screamed Lizzie, triumphantly, as I entered the room, "it's a live demmur! And the wise woman has located it, doctor dear. See it a-leppin' an a-risin into the glass." I took in the matter at a glance. The wise woman had first exhausted the air by lighting her candle end and immedi ately covering it with a tumbler. This oi course, acted as a kind of cupping glass, and flesh rose into the vacuum in vain l demonstrated on my own arm (burning a hole in my shirt sleeve aa I did so). Lizzie saw the" "too, too solid flesh" thereon following the law of suction as well as the demmur under the breast bone. But she clung to the belief in the wise woman, and I was dismissed with ignominy. In Ireland we do not take offense at this kind of treatment. I wrote to Lizzie's landlord, Lord C , saying the woman was growing "softe," and by return post received a 1 not to pay ex penses of a change for her. A short spell in Dublin worked wonders. The demmur no longer set her heart a gallopin', and "the joulting of the train stopped the beatin' ov hpr poolse. My skill was equally slighted by an other patient. She told me her liver was troubling her, pointing at the same time to a spot high up undr her left arm. "God bless us, woman!" roared, "your liver does not lie there "I thiDk I ought to know where my own liver lies," was her dignifaed, in sulted reply. "Haven't 1 suffered from it these twelve years?" A third patient was more grande dame than either of these twain. On being called in my "token" being a certain red ticket I asked: "And what's the matter with you, Mrs, Doolan?" "I'm thinkin' that's for you to tell me," was the haughty response, just as if she were paying me a five-guinea fee, I have, of course, a due circle of pa tients who firmly believe in every bolus given by any Esculapius. To one such went my friend, the vicar, lately. "How ars you to-day, Mrs. Neale?" was the question addressed sympath etically to the greatest grumbler in Sallyboggin. "Ah! very, very bad. 'Tis thedeges tion. vour reverence! Like a hive of bees a-buzzin' an' a-buzziu' in my buzzum." "Is it always the same?" inquired the vicar, his eyes twinkling, but with immovable face (for we learn to com pose our countenances in Ireland). "Nay, not at all, your reverence. 'Tia often like a load ov ricks, a-poundin' an' a-poundin'. But " and the wrinkled smoke-grimed old fsce brightened "but the doctor God bless him is af ter eivin' me a description, and if it don't cure me, he'll describe me agin." The Verble Ileal Estate Brought $31,000. Salisbury, May 8. The commission er's sale of the real estate of the late John H. Verble was concluded this morning, the aggregate of the bids, be ing $31,000. The largest single items were disposed of to-day. These were the livery stable occupied by E. K, James, $6,000 bought by P. H. Thcmp. son, and Moyle'a bar building, $4,920, bought by James Moy le. All bids are left open for a 10 percent, increase un til the 18th inst. The Windsor (Bertie county) Ledger recently had the following paragraph: At Windsor court last week a judge, jury, seven lawyers ana tniriy-nine wit nesses were engaged lor four whole days deciding to whom a $4 hog belonged. No danger of losiDg liberty in a countrj as free as this. The humblest gets his rights. This $4 sow stands for the right of property, which is always held sacred here in North Carolina. The Populist national convention met at Sioux Falls, S. D., yesterday Senator Butler, who is chairman ot tne national committee, and others from the State are in attendance. The conyention is expected to nominate Bryan by accla mation, but who will be nominated for Vice President is not known. DILL. AllP'S LETTEK, Of course Atlanta will raise the money to uniform the poor old confederate vet erans and pay their way to Louisville. That battalion of one- armed one-legged, one-eyed heroes of the lost cause will be the most significant feature of the reunion and will make more lasting impression upon the rising generation than anything else. "That is genuine," .1 Ml mi l-a .11 iney win say. xnose old fellows were certainly there and they have not re pented of it. In fact, they are proud of it. It will teach the youth of the other side that our boys were terribly in earnest ana that neither time nor poverty has obliterated a single feeling or emotion that possessed them when they faced the guns of the enemy nearly forty years ago. They are established in the faith and will die, not believing they were right, but knowing it. That word "believiDg" is a misnomer, a kind of compromise. It does not fit us. We knew we were right then and we know it yet. A good many of their soldier boys believed they were right and knew no better, for their politicians fooled them, but more than half of them dident believe anything about it and dident care, for they were hirelings and fought for $10 a month and nothing else. They were hungry. It seems to me if I was a northern man I would say to my people "We can't do any thing with those confederate veterans just let tnem alone. They were con quered and that's all. We piled four to one on them and wore them out, and that's all, but such fighters the world never saw. They never had but 700,000 men in the field, all told, from the beginning to the end of the war, and they have put a million of our folks on the pension rolls, besides all that they killed. Good gracious, boys! Let's quit talking and quit bragging, and when them fellows down south want a reunion let's bid them godspeed and say, 'Go it, boys! We are betting on you. Get together by your campfires, as it were, and retell your old war stories, and let the tears from your old watery eyes glisten again, and after it is all over then go back home and tell it all to your wiyes and children, and then yes, and then and then lay down and die.'" Well, that's just what the old vets are doing. They are dying pretty fast now and there will hardly be enough left for another reunion. Our hope and faith is that our boys will keep the campfires burning and gather around them and tell what their fathers did. Let those memories survive the flight of time, just like the historic and heroic deeds we read of. The older the better. We have in our family an old paper that gives an account of the battle of Lexington during the first revolution and along the margin across the top are pictured seventeen coffins, and on each coffin is a name, and one of these names is very dear to us, for it is the name of an ancestor who fell in that fight. That ancestor never fought for a juster cause or on greater provocation than we did, and our children should be proud of it. An bo let the old battle scarred veter ans go to Louisville and have perhaps their last lovefeast. Atlanta will, raise that mo ley. We love to look over the published names of the contributors and to rejoice that there are noble men and women left who may have forgiven but have not forgotten, we measure people by their charities, their willing responses when called on for a cause like this, and I would be ashamed to see my name in the column with less than a dollar attached to it. If I could- ent give more than a dime or 25 cents, I would say mark it cash and go on. A. man who can't afford to give a dollar should not be called on. Louisville is going to give a royal welcome to "the veterans and I hope every one who can go will go. Louis ville is the most intensely southern city in the union more so than Nashville or Chattanooga or Atlanta, or even Charleston and its people never do things in a half-hearted or penurious way. The last time I was there I saw the blue and the gray each about 300 strong sitting in the same hall listening to an address for the benefit of confed erate veterans. Yes, the Bame kind of veterans we wish to uniform and send there. These federal soldiers came out and paid their money to show their sympathy for the cause, of the poor soldier. That sympathy has existed in all civilized nations and Sterne never wrote a more touching thing than when he wrote about Uncle Toby, who when told that a poor soldier was dying at his gate, seized his crutch and hurried to him, exclaiming in his emotion, "He shall not die, 'by God!"' That oath was set down upon the book, but an angel dropped a tear upou it and blotted it out forever. So go ahead, Captain Dearing, and ask for the money, and am sure it will come. Atlanta never fails in a cause like that. I am an optimist now. The. spring has come at last and the birds are sing ing and the roses are in bloom, and the sweet little children are all so happy, it makes an old man happy, too. Our ittle ones help me to pick the straw berries every day and it pleases them to take a sugared dish full to the sick folks near by, and to tell how pleaued they were to get them. How charming it is to witness the daily expansion of their minds and hearts and emotions, and isten to their losing prattle. The little i five-year-old looked ,with aetonishmenf at our turkey gobbler a a. he gobbled an, said, "Gran'ma, he must be sick, I reckon, for I think he is vomiting." They entertain me every day and won't let me look on the dark side. The fact is, there is no shadow over this blessed region, for we have peace and plenty. No famines like they have in India. No war like that which rages in the Trans vaal and the Philippines, no floods nor cloud burst, no mine explosions, no pestilence, no great calamity of any kind, and all our citizens, both black and white, are peaceful and law-abiding. Some dirty scoundrel did Bteai poor old Widow Holmes' well rope last night, but that's the only devilment I have heard of in a long time. So mote it be. Bill Arp. Suicide in Charlotte. Charlotte, N. C, May 5. Samuel H. Hawkins, Jr.. wheu. fired a bullet into his brain yesterday in his room in this city, died this afternoon at 2:20 o'clock. Mr. Hawkins went to the Buford hotel early yesterdayynorning and was assigned to a room, and the clerk says he appeared to be in a normal condi tion. About 11 o'clock yesterday morn ing a shot was heard in the hotel and on looking through the transom of his room, a eery ant saw the unfortunate man lying across the bed with blood flowing from a wound in his head. He had a 32 calibre pistol firmly gripped in his hand. The door was bolted. It was forced open and doctors summoned. The ball was found to have entered the right ear, passing around the brain and lodging over the left ear. Efforts were made to remove the ballet, but it could not be found. After being unconscious for about five hours, Mr. Hawkins, about 5:30, became fully conscious and talked freely with several friends in hia room. He said he felt pain about his head and when Rev. Dr. Hoffman, of the Epis copal church, told him that he was going to die, he simply remarked: "Is that so?" he then repeated a prayer after the rector. In explanation as to the cause of his act, Mr. Hawkins said that he had undergone more than any of his friends imagined, and could stand it no longer. All the trouble that his friends know anything of is that he had worried a great deal over some annoyance he had caused his friends by his indiscreet i actions some months ago, and it is sup posed that he had brooded over the matter until he was prompted to end bis life. TlUman's Retort to a Hiss. Ann Arbor, Mich., April 29. Sena' tor Tillman of South Carolina lectured here last night under the auspices of the Good Government League, his sub ject being "The Race Question in the South." The incident of the evening was his diatribe against the negroes. The audi ence was composed of students. Di rectly in front and alone sat a colored student, and the Senator looked at him in making his remarks. "lou Bcratch one of these colored graduates under the skin," he said, "and you will find the savage. His education is like a coat of paint, like his skin." There were hisses from several parts of the house. Senator Tillman smiled and retorted! "You must excuse me for my frank ness. lbere is nothing ot hatred in my nature for the negroes. When that man who hissed gets ready to give his daughter in marriage to a negro and proves by his actions, and not by his hisses, that he means business, I will apologize, and not before." The applause which greeted this re tort was tremendous, and there was no more hissing during the evening. North Carolina Colleges Desire to Up hold Athletics. Charlotte, N. C, May 7. Repre sentatives of a number of North Caro lina colleges and high schools met at Durham Saturday afternoon and organ ized an association to eliminate profes sionals or paid men from participation in college athletic contests. Stilgent resolutions to this effect were passed. The University of North Carolina was represented at the meeting, but refused to join the organization. The following colleges and high schools joined the association: Trinity college, Wake lorest, Elon college, Guilford college, the Agricul tural and Mechanical college, Oak Ridge institute, Homer's echool, the Trinity Park High school, Whitsett in stitute and the William Bingham school. Minister lillls a Stenographer. Charleston, S. C, May 4. One of the moBt seneational homicides in the history of Bamberg, this State, occurred there this morning at 10 o'clock, when Rev. E. Johnson, pastor of the Baptist church, shot and almost instantly killed W. T. Bellinger, stenographer of this judicial district. Trouble between the two began yesterday over the run ning o' a line fence between the prem ises of John R. Bellinger, father of -the deceased, and the Baptist parsonage, at which time, it is eai 4. "vda were passed. Jls' AV Bel i: 'J ' linger.' ven' THE SOUTH AFKICAM WAR. - Baltimore Sun, 7th. '- Lord Roberts keeps hammering away. Hia latest move is to carry the crossing of the Vet river, 55 miles north of Bloeraf oatein and 200 miles short of his goal Pretoria. NewB of this was cabled by the British commander-in-chief in a dispatch made public" by the London War Office yesterday. Boers are on the north bank of the Vet in considerable force. Their object seems to be to delay Lord Roberta aa much as possible until he reaches Kroonstad, 60 miles north of his pres ent position, when they are expected to make a determined stand. There was a long battle at the Vet river before the BritiBh crossed. It is believed in London that the crossing of the Vet was not effected without considerable loss. Loid Rob erts cables: "Our casualties, I hope are not numerous." As he advances Lord Roberts opens the railroad behind him. Trains are already running aa far north as Brand fort. Winburg, an important place, has aleo been occupied by the British. General Barton's brigade, which crossed the Vaal river at Winsorton, Cape Colony, continues to push on, but is compelled to fight hard for all it gains. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Lorenzo Marquez gives uncon firmed rumors that Mafeking has been relieved and that 3,000 Boers, under General Lemner, have been captured at Fourteen Streams. As Lemner was fighting last week near Thaba Nchu, in an entirely different field of operations, the report of his capture is open to great doubt. Baltimore Sun. 8th. Lord Roberts is playing the same game of war that defeated Cronje and won Bloemfontein using great masses of men with skillful strategy to crush the Boers. Dispatches sta,te that he is able to op pose five British to one Boer at every point where there is fighting, and so his progress is rapid. His latest success is the occupation of Smaldeel, an im portant strategic point nine miles north of the Vet river and 63 miles north of Bloemfontein. - From Smaldeel a branch railroad runs to Winburg, 29 miles eastward, which town has been occupied by Gen eral Hamilton. By seizing this road the British commander-in-chief is able to put himself in an exceedingly advan tageous position for the advance on Kroonstad, his next move. After his fast progress of the last few days a halt is likely, so that the immense British force may be consolidated in positions where each division can protect the others. According to a dispatch from Smal deel, the British advance had a tempor ary Bet-back. Lord Roberts' troops ad vanced from Tafelkop in two strong columns, but the Boer general Delarey repulse one of them. This success for the burghers was futile, however, as the other British column outflanked them and forced them to retire. A scheme of the Free Staters which, had it not been discovered, would have enabled them to strike serious blows has been unearthed by the British. At almost every farm house Mauser and Martini rifles, with large supplies of ammunition, have been concealed. Aa Lord Roberts advanced the Free Staters were to rise as an army in his rear and threaten his communications. Did any one ever meet the man who bought a brownstone house with the money he saved on cigars ? Look In Your Mirror ,Do you see sparkling: eyes, a healthy, tinted skin, a sweet expression and a grate ful form f These attractions are the result of good health, if they are absent, thsre Is nearly always some disorder of the dis tinctly feminine organs present. Healthy menstrual orrtna mean health mnA H...... everywhere. makes women beautiful and healthy. it stnkea at the root of . all their trouble. There is no menstrual dis order, ache or pain which it will not ture. it is ior tne oua - -.ri fj;e busy wife and the mat the change of life rrisia in a wot strength