"FOR COUNTRY, FOR GOD, AND EOR TRUTH."
Single Copy, B Cents.
VOL. XL
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1900.
NO. 23.
l.OO a Year, In Advance.
I!ILI AIIP'S LKTTIilt.
The papers tell us that there are yet
over 300 conventions to be held this
year in these United States. It looks
like public affairs, political, religious,
agricultural and financial are in a
very unsettled condition. I wish they
would settle something. There is the
Philippine war, the Porto Rico tangle,
the Cuban I'ostal steal, the negro
problem, female suffrage and women's
hats in the churches. There is the
nrohibition ouestion. the rresbvterian
creed, the serm theory, the strikes
among the laborers, the trust mon
opolies and who are to be the running
mates for Bryan and Mckinley. Ihen
there are side shows of many kinds,
but nothing gets settled. When our
old cook got sick and my wife asked
her if she knew where we could
get another she said, "Norne, I don't;
cooks is eittin' pow'ful scace. Better
git a settled 'oman if you can find one
dese young, onsettlcd niggers ain't
no count sense freedom cum." Looks
like there is nothing settled nowadays,
neither labor, nor cooks, nor women,
nor men, nor theories, nor great pub
lic questions. Well, one thing has
been settled at last and that is "the
Barbara Freetchiemyth." The Bos
ton'Transcript of last Wednesday has
three columns on the subject and
gives up and says this is a finality. It
publishes a letter from General Hen
ry Kyd Douglass, of Stonewall Jack
son's staff, which disproves the whole
ridiculous story and closes by saying,
"We men of the South set no limit to
the noetic laudation of a woman, be
she old or young, nor are we disposed
to hold an admirer strictly responsible
for the accuracy of his language, but
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande
the name of our Christian soldier,
Stonewall Jackson, is sacred. Lift up
your monuments to your own heroes
and heroines and you will hear no
word of protest from us, but do not
cast yourchippings and spawlson the
grave of Stonewall Jackson." But
that is only one thing settled. One
slander nailed and it has taken thirty
years to do that. We thought that
Ben Hill had nailed the Anderson
. ville slander in his great speech
against Blaine, but that bobs up every
little while and has to be nailed again.
1 know a lady, ana she is a lady in
manners and morals, who really be
lieves that the Federal prisoners at
Andersonville were made to drink
melted lead when they begged for
water. She was told that thirty-five
years ago and cant get over it.
We cant do anything with those
people. They fought us from preju
dice and have since been spending
millions of money on the negro from
prejudice. Every black scoundrel who
has been lynched down south was the
victim of their false teachings and
will continue to be thank the good
Lord for His mercies. Ten years ago
I wrote my first philippic against the
brutes and advocated a summary
vengeance and I stand by it and re
ioico whenever a lynching occurs for
an outrage upon defenseless women.
If there is anything worse than lynch
ing I'm for that. Let the north howl
if they want to, the procession will
proceed all the same. The farce at
Montgomery settled nothing. The
negro is here to stay and he has got
to behave himself as a good citizen or
take the consequences. The south
needs him and if his presence keeps
away the horde of foreigners that Eu
rope is anxious to get rid of, it is a
blessing. What is the matter with
the negro? 1 dont know of a race
conflict in this region except in the
large cities, which are a pestilence to
good morals, truth and the industry
of the race is improving in the rural
districts, where the white race is in
the majority. A few months ago
there was a call from Mississippi for
negro labor and about a hundred
went from this neighborhood and very
soon they were missed and our farm
ers began to make a fuss about it, but
there was no Pegleg Williams " con
cerned in it and nobody to get mad
with. One of my neighbors who had
often declared that he wished they
were all out of the country got mad
about this sudden exodus, and said
he couldent hire a man to break up
Ins garden. We are hard to please
and lay too much blame on the ne
gro. I read about a young preacher
who just spread himself abusing the
other denominations and he was told
that it wouldent do, for the members
were all mixed up bymarriage and
lie was giving great offense. "What
shall I do?" he asked. "I am obliged
to abuse somebody or the people wont
come out to hear me." His friend
replied, "Well, then you had better
pitch into the Jews. They have got
no friends and are not kin to any
body but themselves." Just so, we
blame the negro with the sins and
corrupt methods of the politician, the
politician who. buys his vote with
money or whiskey. The smart man
who buys is worse than the ignorant
negro who sells his vote. When
Stephen A. Douglas ran against Lin
coln for Congress he tried to degrade
him in a public speech by saying that
the first time he ever saw his oppo
nent he was keeping a saloon in a
one-horse-town. "Yes," replied Lin
coln, "I remember that. I was on
one side of the counter and youwere
on the other. I was selling and you
were drinking." That is about the
parallel between the politician and
the negro. I do not feel satisfied with
the sweeping exclusion of the present
white primary law. I know a dozen
negroes in this town who are morally,
intelligently and industrially quali
fied to vote and I know two dozen
white men who are not. It seems to
me we might have a commission to
select deserving negroes and place
their name on the registration list
This would stimulate others to good
behavior. It would have a tendency
to elevate good negroes, whereas the
present law cuts off all hope and all
ambition. But 1 wouldent give one
of them a public office and no friend
of the. south would make him a post
master or a census taker.
But there is nothing settled. The
Philippine war has almost ceased to
be discussed by the American people
We have ceased to feel any interest in
it. It is none of our war. It is the
Republican politicians' war and has
cost thousands of Uvea and millions
of money. Recruiting officers in
veigled hundreds of our foolish boys
into it and their distressed mothers
cant hear a word from them and fear
they are dead, and I reckon they are.
Some of them write to me, thinking
I can do something or give them
comfort, but alas 1 I cannot. McKin
ley dont care, so he is re-elected.
Here is a letter that came today from
a heart broken mother, Mrs. Alice A.
Kibler, of Valdosta, whose son, S. B.
Kibler, went to Manila with the
Eleventh United States volunteer
cavalry, troop K. Can anybody re
lieve her mind? She gets no answer
to her letters. Oh, these dear, old
long-suffering mothers. Their grief
is a bigger thing than imperialism. It
was just that way with our boys in
Cuba. Their mothers could not hear
from them. The officers of every com
pany should be required to make a
report of every private once a month
to his parents or wife or guardian.
Well, our State and county primary
is over and now we will have peace
until the next one. I voted for seven
county officers and only two of them
were nominated. I reckon my little
grandchild was right when I put her
dress on wrong side before. "Gan'
pa, you havent got very much sense,
have you ?" But then I console my
self with the scriptural injunction fol
low not a multitude to do evil. I'll
go out in the garden and pick straw
berries awhile and try to be calm and
serene. - Bill Aep.
P. S. As to that hat question in
the churches, it can be proven either
way by St. Paul, but he had no wife
and advised people not to marry. I
dont consider him good authority,
Admiral Ieivey Never was a Can
didate. .Washinsrton Special, 18th, to Atlanta Journal
Since the Admiral and Mrs. Dewey
returned from the South it has been
persistently rumored that the admiral
would "withdraw" from the race for
President. This rumor was not based
upon any expression from Admiral
Dewey, but upon his failure to make
any announcement of his plans or po
litical convictions.
Yesterday Mrs. Dewey stated to a
friend at the home of her mother, Mrs.
McLean, that she would not have her
husband President of the United States
if it was in her power to prevent it.
To-day Admiral Dawey was asked
for a positive statement as to his inten
tions. ,; He said :
"I shall not withdraw, as has been
stated, for the reason that I have never
entered the race. I merely stated that
if the pepple of this country wanted me
for President I would not decline the
confidence imposed. That is all. I say
so yet, and in saying so I am by no
means a candidate in the sense that
term is used in politics I am happy
and contented as I am. I know that I
have the love of the American people.
I have been honored already be yond the
ordinary aspirations or ambitions of I
man, and 1 am not a self-constituted
seeker after any recognition. I shall
always do mv plain duty in whatever
capacity my services may be required
by my countrymen. In saying that
would accept the presidency if called
upon to do bo, I only answered publicly
the queries of a greatnumber of friends
That does not place me in the position
of making a political tight for the office.
I trust the people will understand my
position."
Under' Italian Hand,
Statesville Landmark.
The followirg paragraph is from the
platform adopted by the national con
vention which nominated Bryan and
Towne at Sioux Falls last Thursday:
"Believing that the elective franchise
and untrammeled ballot are essential to
a government of, for and by the people,
the People's party condemns the whole
sale system of disfranchisement by
coercion and intimidation, adopted in
some States, as unrepublican and un
democratic. And we declare it to be
the duty of the several State Legislatures
to take such action as will secure a full,
free and fair ballot and an honest count."
This is evidence of Mr. Butler's fine
Italian haDd, and this section of the
piatform is intended for au attack on
the Democratic party of North Carolina.
She Papa says if we get married he'll
pay half the expenses of furnishing.
He Well, what about the other half?"
Ill L ICS FOlt A WlfB
There Are Seventeen ol'Tlicm Recom
mended to Her Attention.
Many persona unable to read that
most interesting book, "The Romance
of Isabel, Lady Burton," may like to
see the rules she wrote upon her mar
riage in her diary for her own guidance
in the new relation rules to whose ob
servance she believed much of her sub
sequent happiness was due :
First Let your husband find in you
a companion, friend and adviser an
confidante, that he may miss nothing at
home.
Second Be a careful nurse when he
is ailing, that he may never be in low
spirits about his health without a seri
0U3 cause.
Third Make his home snug. If it
be ever so small and poor, there can al
ways be a certain chic about it. Men
are always ashamed of a poverty-striek
en home, and therefore prefer the club
Attend much to his creature comforts
allow Bmoking or anything else ; for if
you do not somebody else will. Make
it yourself cheerful and attractive, and
draw relations and intimates about him
and the etvle of society (literati) that
suits him.
uourin improve and educate your
self ' in every way, that you may enter
l uto his pursuits and keep pace with the
times.
Fifth Be prepared at any moment to
follow him at an hour s notice and
rough it like a man.
Sixth Do not try to hide your affec
tion for him, but let him see and feel it
in eyery action. Never refuse him
anything he asks. Observe a certain
amount of reserve and delicacy before
him. Keep up the honeymoon ro
mance, whether at home or in the
desert. At the same time do not make
prudish bothers, which only disgust
and are not true modesty. Do not make
th9 mistake of neglecting your personal
appearance, but try to look and dress
well to please his eye.
Seyenth Perpetually work up hie
interest with the world, whether for pub
Jishing or for appointments. Let him
feel when he has to go away that he
leaves a second self i i charge of his af
fairs at home, so that if sometimes he
is obliged to leave you behind he may
have nothing of anxiety on his mind
Take an interest in everything that in
terests him. To be companionable
woman must learn what interests her
husband, and, if it is only planting tur
nips, she must try to understand tur
nips.
Eighth Never confide your domestic
affairs to your female friends.
jNintn Hide his taults from every
one and bacic him up through every
difficulty and trouble.
Tenth Never permit any one to
speak disrespectfully of him before vou
and if any one does, no matter how dif
ficult, leave the room. Never permit
am one to tell you anything about him
especially of bis conduct with regard to
other women. Is ever hurt his feelings
by a rude remark or jest. Never answer
when he finds fault, and never roproaoh
him when he is in the wrong, especially
when he tells you of it, nor take ad
vantage of it when you are angry, and
always keep his heart up when he has
made a failure.
Eleventh Keep all disagreements for
your own room, and never let others
find them out.
Twelfth Never ask him to do any
thing for instance with regard to visit
ing other women, or any one you par
ticularly dislike; trust him and tell him
everything, except another person 8
secret.
Thirteenth Do not bother him with
religious talk; be religious yourself and
give good example; take life seriously
and earnestly; pray tor and procure
prayers for him and do all you can for
him without his knowing it, and let all
your life be something that will win
mercy from God for him. You might
try to say a little prayer with him every
night before laying (sic) down to sleep,
and gently draw him to be good to the
poor and more gentle and forbearing to
others.
Fourteenth Cultivate your own good
health, spirits and nerves, to enable you
to carry out your misBion.
Fifteenth Never open his letters,
nor appear inquisitive about anything
he does not volunteer to tell you.
Sixteenth Never interfere between
htm and his family; encourage their
being with him, and forward everything
he wishes to do for fhenr - and treat
them in every respect (so far as They
will Jet you) as if they were your own.
Seventeeth Keep every thing going,
and let nothing ever be at a. standstill.
If Mr. Pearson ia really "conscien
tious" as to his title seat in Congress,
in recognition of the universal opinion
among honest people to the contrary,
he should follow the example of Mr.
Bacon of Georgia, resign at once and
appeal to the people of the district at
the next election. His resignation
would compel an election, and the
people could say in November whether
or not they prefer him or Mr. Crawford
to represent them. Now let the Duke
come to the scratch in a w..y that can
settle the matter beyond dispute. He
surely cannot be afraid to trust the
people. Raleigh Post.
The News and Observer has received
a this year a corn tassel, about six
inches long, from Mr. J. G. Siyter, of
Dunn. This is the first of the season.
It I KM: IlEADING.
Prof. Thwlns Find "Ignorance
About the Itlble'' a Cirowlng Phe
nomenon. Baltimore Sun.
In a recent issue of The Century
Magazine "Ignorance about the Bible"
is found by Rev. Dr. C. F. Thwing to
be a growing phenomenon. The young
men and young women of the present
generation are far less familiar with the
Bible than were their fathers and moth
er i at the same age. They do not read
the Bible as much and are not obtain
ing equally the literary benefit had from
constant acquaintance with its admir
able English. This conclusion is derived
from the result of test examinations set
for boys in an Ohio university and for
girls in an eastern woman's college.
Twenty-two passages containing simple
Biblical allusions were selected from
Tennyson's poems and a freshman class
of 34 men and a likeclass of 51 women
were asked to explain them. The men
were from northern Ohio, central New
York and western Pennsylvania; the
women from New England. They were
representatives of fannies in the enjoy
ment of average incomes and 'had op
portunities above the average. With
one exception all had ecclesiastical con
nections. Yet the men answered but
415 per cent of the questions correctly
and the women 49 per cent. Only one
a young woman answered all the
questions correctly.
Of the 85 students hardly over 20
knew anything of "thecrown of thorns;"
40 were ignorant of Cain, Esau, Ruth
and the tomb in which Christ was laid;
30 did not recognize the incident of
Moses' striking a rock for water or Ja
cob's wrestling with an angel; G6 re
membered nothing of Jonah's gourd,
while an allusion to Hezekiah floored
7o. The girls were pretty well ud on
the story of Lot's wife, but of the 34
men only 22 bore it in their memories.
This same number of male students
were stunned by a question relating to
"pearls and swine," and 40 of the girls
missed a reference to the guilt of Iscar
iot. One of the answers, indeed, made
the amazing statement that Iscariot
meant the cross, while another told of
Ruth "grieving for her children." These
were surpassed in an answer which
seems t J assume that Jonah'8 gourd was
the emetic that caused "the whale" to
cast Jonah ashore. Taking the answers
together, they appear to Dr. Thwing to
justify the conclusion that the present
generation are growing up to paganism.
ine .Bioie, he thinks, is no longer a
force in American literature and theolo
gy. "loung people do not read it
much, or if they do are not impressed
by it."
The cause of thii state of things the
learnei doctor finds in the fact that
young people nowadays have a great
deal of reading matter thrown in their
way perhaps too much. "The world
has become, h8 savs, "a world of
books, a world of magazines and a world
of newspapers." Many persons under
tO years of age can recall a time when
the Bible, ''Pilgrim's Progress" and
Fox's "Christian Martyrs" constituted
50 percent, of the family library. A
weekly newspaper and a Patent Office
report were the only other interesting
literature in easy reach. Now this la all
changed; books, magazines and papers
of all sorts are abundant and cheap, so
that the Bible has many rivals. The
removal of the Bible from the public
schools, diminished attendance at
church on Sunday, decline of family
prayers, ommission of grace at meals
these are other signs of the times. The
Sunday-school does not, the doctor
thinks, take the place of home instruc
tion as to the contents of the Bible.
The tendency, he says, is toward wor
ship of the Divine person, reducing the
Bible to the leyel of other books. The
Bible, in short, does not hold the place
t deserves in the instruction of the
young at the present time.
Holton's Hackdown.
Charlotte News.
On the 9th of May Chairman Sim
mons wrote a letter to Uhairman liol
ton requesting that arrangements be
made for a joint canvass of the State by
the Democratic and Republican candi
dates for State offices. After waitine
two weeks and thinking the matter
over, the Republican chiarman haa at
last replied, declining the joint canvass.
His letter is a literary freak. He does
not discuss the point at issue at all, but
quotes from various speeches of politi
cians in the campaign of 1898, and
then -appends thia highly original para
graph.
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that rottof
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throned in
Mr. HoltoV
to discuss thfc k
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mau s letter is a virtu ;
ment of the fact.
In the race for
11.1 MII1II
V
always results in a tie
THE SOUTH AFRICAN AVAIL
Baltimore Sun, 18th.
At last the Transvaal has been invad
ed in force by the British. General Sir
Archibald Hunter, who it was rumored
had gone to the relief of Maf eking, has
really been marching up the Vaal val
ley.. Lord Roberts reports that Hunter
has occupied Christiana, a few miles
north of the Vaal and about 220 milea
southwest of Pretoria.
It will be remembered that some time
ago Lord Roberts asked the garrison at
Mafeking to hold out until May 18
That day has arrived, and London mo
mentarily expects to hear but haa not
heard of the garrison a relief. Re
ports that Colonel Baden-Powell re
pulsed the recent attack, capturing
Commandant Eloff and 90 other Boers
are now given full credence in the Brit
ish capital.
General Buller has occupied Dann
hauser, 12 miles north of Glencoe
Natal, and is preesingon toward Laing'a
isek, to which place the Boers are re
treating. He estimates at 7,000 the
number of burghers who have been re
tiring from the Biggarsberg mountains
A dispatch from"Vredefort, Orange
Free State, says the Americans who are
hghtine with the Boers have been losing
heavily. It also Btatea that Col. Blake's
Irish Corps was captured at Kroonetad
Col. Y. F. Blake ia an American, and
his corps has done some of the hardest
fighting in the war. The capture of this
body of men has not been reported from
any other source.
Baltimore Sun, 21.
Peace rumors are flying fast in Lon
don as a sequel to the delirioua rejoic
ing over the relief of Mafeking. One
of the reports is that a telegram, ad
dressed personally to Premier Salisbury
by President Kruger, has been received
at the Foreign Office proposing terms of
peace. The message, it is said, ia
"couched in an exceedingly humble
strain."
Official confirmation of Mafeking's
relief has not yet beeu received from
British sources, but that the town iafree
is not doubted. It is rumored at Lo
renzo Marquez that the relief column
captured the entire besieging force, with
its cannon.
At Pretoria it is said the Boers will
defend Johannesburg and that they are
rallying around General Botha for fur
ther fighting. A report cornea from
Durban that there is a plot at the
Transvaal capital to oust President
Kruger and surrender the Transvaal to
Lord Roberts.
Baltimore Sun, 22nd.
Details of Mafeking's relief are slow
ly beginning to arrive in London. The
relief column, it is now learned, entei
ed the town last Friday, though the
actual work of relief, it is believed, was
accomplished before.
It was a race for the British to get
there. The troops marched so Bwiftly
that a body of Boers sent to intercept
them was surprised and had to chase
the British so as to head them off.
Finally the burghers got the lead and
attacked the relief force, but were re
pulsed, and the march continued.
Lord Roberts cables from Kroonstad
that Col. B. T. Mahon commanded the
relief column. The column advanced
from the south and consisted of a com
posite lorce ot z.auu men, which was
joined by Colonel Plumer from the
north with about 1,500 more. The
junction was effected at Jammasibi.
Colonel Baden-Powell, the resource
ful commander at Mafeking, proved his
skill to the last. Lord Roberts cables
that in the assault May 13, when the
Boers occupied the Kaffir village, near
the main town, thev were surrounded
Of the burghers 108, including Com
mandant Eloff, a grandson of President
kruger, were captured and 29 were lef
behind dead or wounded. The others
retreated.
Mafeking will be used by Lord Rob-
-erts as a base from which to threaten
Johannesburg. He ia hurrying troops
to the lately besieged town. Roberts
cavalry have advanced close to the Vaal
from the South. In Natal Buller de
lays while the railroad ie being repaired.
It is said that the Boers still hold
Laing's nek. They are also likely to
make a stand at Klip Riversberg, south
of Johannesburg.
President Kruger, it is stated in Lon
don, b8 made no recent overtures for
peace.
Five TIioiiKand People Lynch a Negro
Pueplo, Colo., May 23. A mob of
five thousand lynched Calvin Kimblern,
a negro who assaulted and murdered
two litile white girls who were inmates
of the Pueblo Orphans , Home. The
lynching was at half-past 1 o'clock this
morning. Women cheered. as the negro
l morn
g from the telegraph pole. Officials
Grande ordered all trains to be
est the 8t
stations for fear a mob
train and seize the
iofd ties on the
3 before thev
They
.his
GENERAL NEWS.
Death invaded the American Metho
dist Episcopalian Conference in session
at Columbia, Ohio, Saturday, claiming
Rev. R. M. Cheeks, editor of The South
ern Christian Recorder, of Atlanta,
dying of locomotar ataxia.
The Presbytery of Washington has
drafted an overture to the general as
sembly of the PreBbyterian church for
the adoption of the creed now in use
by the free church of England as a sub
stitute for the present confession of faith.
The government has decided to aban
don Port Royal, S. C, aa a naval station
and establish a station at Charleston.
After spending great sums of money at
Port Royal it has been decided that the
place will not answer for a naval station.
Its abandonment means a clear loss of
more than $1,000,000 to the gov
ernment. The Rowan Granite Company was
chartered Monday. The incorporators
are E. B. C. Hambley, Geo. J. Whit
ney and T. L. Stevenson. The com
pany is organized for quarrying granite
and other rock. It ia chartered for six
ty years, and the capital stock is $100,
000. Its place of business is in Salis
bury. Roy Wilson White, instructor in the
law department of the University of
Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, was
found dying late Saturday night. He
expired, shortly after being removed to
the Presbyterian Hospital, without re
covering consciousness. His murder
is proncunced the most brutal, as well
as the most mysterious, which has con
fronted the police in recent years.
The Rockingham Anglo Saxon re
ports that at Hamlet Tuesday night
King Strickland, an employ of therail
road yard there, shot John Galvin, an
engineer. Galvin was passing Strick
land's house when the latter hailed him
and shot at him with a shot gun. The
load took effect in both Garvin's legs,
one of them being broken. His in
juries are serious but are not expected
to prove fatal unless blood poisoning
ensues, btrickiand is in jail at .Rock
ingham. It ia said that he alleges in
sults to his wife as a cause for hia action.
A municipal Election May Be Taken
Into the Courts.
Raleigh Correspondence Henderson Herald.
There is a report current here that at
the municipal election Monday in the
town of Hendersonville the Democratic
officers held the election under the gen
eral election law enacted by the Legis
lature at the session of 1899. A num
ber of people are 6aid to have been re
jected under the operations of this law
who were entitled to register under the
election law which applies to towns and
cities. The attention of United States
District Attorney Holton has been call
ed to the Hendersonville election and
he proposes to indict the offenders un
der the United States statue which was
lately invoked in Kentucky before Judge
Walter Jvans. An effort will be made
to get an adjudication on this
question before the August election. If
this view can be made to hold before
the United States Court it will give those
tribunals jurisdiction over the election
officers throughout the State. This is
the object sought by the Republicans
and Populists.
The Mooresville correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer says that during the
Btorm Thursday night lighting struck
a tree standing near a hog pen at Tri
angle, in Lincoln county, and killed six
noera that were in the pen. The hoo-s
belonged to Mr. J. R. Cherry.
A Woman
Only Knows
what anffering from falling: of the
womb, whites, painful or Trreafular
menses, or any disease of the distinctly
feminine organs ia. Amp may sympa
thize or pity but he can not know the
ajfonlea she goes through the terrible
suffering-, no patiently borne, which
robs her of beauty, hope and happi
ness. Yet this suffering- really la
seedless. - t ,. -
McELREE'S
Wine oi Cc?C
7" - ,
will banish it. This medicine
cures all "female diseases "quick
ly and permanently. It does away
with humiliating physical exami
nations. The treatment may be
taken at home. Them is not con.
tinual expera" - "-'-". rh
Bunere."
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