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W F ll hi P P a 1.00 a Year, In Advance. 'FOR COUNTRY, FOR GOD, AND EOR TRUTH. Single Copy, 5 Cents yol. xi. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1900. NO 33. jL f I a ) Big Democratic Majority. TIIK A3ll!NI)Hi:flT OABIIIKS BY CO,00 IM AJOHITY-TATB X'lCK IST A CI.OSK SICCONI). Hverjbotly SaliKtit'd Willi Jtlie Out t'oine IMerkleiiburs tho Ilannet Comity, 4;lviii a Majority of 3,5O0 The Xrro iiocn Out of Politics Forever. Raleigh, August 2. Fasquo tank county claims to have gone Democratic on entire ticket. The Republicans concede Bertie county t the Democrats. VVance County gives Democratic majority of four hundred to five hundred. Wake county gives Democratic majority of at least 1500. About 15 negroes 'voted for the amend ment. Seven precincts in Anson county claims to have gone Demo cratic on entire ticket from 1200 to 1500 majority. Granville county democratic for the couuty and state ticket. . Brunswick about evenly divided, figures not obtainable. Conservative estimate of New Hanover gives Aycock and the amendment 3,000 majority. , Only two negroes voted in the city of nmington. 4Cl'itt county claims large demo cratic majority for whole ticket. Martin county gives 800 Demo cratic majority, Lenoir county claims 900 for state and amendment. Orange county reports 200 for legislature and amendment. Beaufort county advices indicate Democratic majority for whole ticket. Johnson county claims 2,000 to 2,500 majority for tho whole ticket and amendment. Six precincts in Anson county give the amendment 1,20a majority. Other precincts not heard from. but 1,400 is claimed. Catawba county claims 300 Dem ocratic majority. Ferson county estimated 350 to 500 democratic majority. In Davidson both sides claim tho county. Republicans claim 400, Democrats between 300 and 500 Tho amendment ran behind the State ticket. Northampton county reports the election of full Democratic ticket. Rowan county reports a probable result of 1,000 Democratic major ity and 1,300 for amendment. Latest from Harnett county gives 400 democratic majority. " Martin county1 gives democratic majority of 1083 for entire ticket and amendment. Rowan will have 1G00 democratic majority. Beaufort county is safe for dem- ocrayby about 1500. Iredell county for the amend ment by GOO. State ticket demo cratic by 800 majority. Wake county goes democratic by 2000. Edgecombe goes democratic by 3000 majority. The estimated majority for. the amendment and democratic ticket in Mecklenburg is 3500. Fasquotank county gives amend ment and state democratic ticket 200. , New Hanover, one vote against the amendment, Majority for white supremacy, 2,9G9i Washington county is Democratic by 400 to 500. - ' Forsyth county goes Democratic by 500. McDowell county goes Demo cratic by from 250 to 300 majority. Cumberland county will have a majority for Democracy and the amendment of 1,000 to 1,200. Semi-oflicial returns from eigh teen counties in the State indicate an increase of 50 per cent, over the Charlotte Observer's forecast. -. If this vote is maintained the amend ment and State ticket will carry by CO. 000 majority. Granville county gives G00 demo cratic majority. Oxford township gives Aycock 300 -majority. Two years ago this county gave a fusion majority. The amendment will ,pro'bably run 100 behind thetickeU Greene county gives 500 majority for the amendment and the demo cratic ticket. Wilson county reports indicate 1,200 to 1,500 hundred majority for democratic ticket and the amendment. A gain of over one thousand over last election. Granville county goes Democratic the entire state and for the amend ment. Brunswick county about evenly divided for the amendment and Democratic ticket, figures not ob tainable. , Fitt county gives 750 majority for amendment, The town of Greenville gives 450 majority a" gain of 400 over last election. Guilford county is close but the entire democratic ticket and amendment is safe by 80 majority. Seven townships in Bertie county gives 1000 majority for the amend ment and democratic ticket. It is claimed that other townships will increase this. Returns at Raleigh, atl2 o'cloce from ; forty-eight counties gave Democratic majority of 59,900. New Hanover county gives entire Democratic ticket and amendment over d,uuu maionty. JNot more than 20 Fusiouist and anti-amend ment votes cast in the courty. Wilkes will elect Green, Demo crat, to the Legislature. The bal ance of ticket will be Republican. Chairman Simmons retired short ly after midnight satisfied with the result. He said: The Democratic majority will exceed 50,000. I think we will secure thrcefourths of tlj,p legislature. Craven county and city of. New born will give a Democratic major ity of about 15000. Every indication is for at least 50,000 majority for . white Supre macy. - Davidson is democratic by small majority. Edgecombe will have over 3,000. Caswell is Democratic by smal majority. Anson will have near 2000 ma jority. Folk county is Republican by very small majority. Alamance also Democratic by about lo0. Raleigh, N. C, August 3. The democrats rejoiced quietly all over North Carolina today. The compu ation of returns tonight shows that democratic majorities aggregate 64.GS and lusion majorities 5,125, making the net democratic majority 59,553. There will be contests in several coun ties, there being gross irregularities in Randolph and Harnett and smaller ones in Wilkes and Chatham. In the latter county, at Congressman Atwater'a pre cinct, a fusion stronghold, the fusionists, finding they were being outvoted, as saulted the election officer?, smashed the ballot boxes and burned the ballots. This is the only outrago which occured in the state eo far as known. The returns show to the senate there are elected thirty-eight democrats and nine 'fusionists, with three seats doubt ful, and to the house mnety-hve Demo crats and thirteen fusionists, while twelve seats ire m doubt. There was some talk today about na tional politics. This grew out of a ru mor that Senator Butler had declared North Carolina's electoral yotes should be cast for McKinley. Chairman Sim mons naid at democratic headquarters tonight that the state's vote would be cast for Bryan beyond perad venture. Mecklenburg, Edgcombe ; and Robe son are the banner counties bo far as the vote on the constitutional amend ment is ' concerned. Each gave it 3,500 majority, New Hanover ranking second with 3,016. There will be only two populists in the legislature, both from Senator Butler's county, Sampson. Senator Butler is heie. He has kept very quiet to-day. The local military ordered on duty Tuesday afternoon by Governor Russell was relieved from duty at noon to-day. Senator Butler said this afternoon election returns were not di finite enough for an estimate by counties, and added: "Every negro county has gone Dem ocratic and the majority for the consti tutional amendment can be anything desired. Certificates of election will be given, I should say, to seventy Demo cratic representatives and thirty to thirty-five Democratic senators. Of course it could be more, because steal ing capacity is unlimited." The Senator says he expects to spend next week fishing and resting atter his campaign,' which is the most disastrous on record ia North Carolina. The News learns that the Pacolet mill at Facolet, S. C, which is the third largest mill in the South, is to change its class of goods. It has been shipping its out put to China, and therefore find it necessary to make a change of goods suitable for this and other countries. The change of g'xxls means a change of machinery. Ihe mill of course will be forced to shut down when the change is made. SuiM-tHicatloiiUt Cliiircli I5tirncl. Pucktown, Term., Dispatch,. The enraged people at Shoal Creek, N. C, destroyed the church of the Sanctifieationists to-day. Rev. Guy Brogan, a Methodust minister, preach ed to the crowd while the building burning, and encouraged its destruc tion. The man who is too poor to lend his friends money wUlneverhave many ene mies. Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. Uuanes. BILL AUI'iij LKTrFH. It is good for a man to travel and study geography without a book. 1 am down here in the wiregrass talking to the people living along the line from Cordele to Savannah. This is a new road to me. It is only ten years old and is called the "Sam" road. The seaboard has got it now. Sal has bought Sam and is running him. If railroads have sex the feminine is ahead. Some mighty big things are feminine. Ships are called she, but that they say is because the rigging costs more than the hull. An old man showed me the spot at Mt. Vernon where the old log school house stood in which my father taught school some eighty years ago. Father used to tell us his varied experience there. How some bad boys had run three teachers off in succession and broke up the schools and how reluctant ly he undertook the work of reforming them. He had about sixty scholars, boys and girls, and their ages ranged from eight to eighteen years. The old est boy was six feet tall, a sapliug with long arms and legs, a red head and freckled face. He was the ringleader in running the teachers off and father was cautioned about him. The first day he made them a good, friendly talk, told them he came to do them good, to teach them books and morals and manners, and he wanted them to obey the rules and help him to make the school a success, i ou can't afford, he said, to grow np without some edu cation. No nice young man would marry the girls, and no smart girl would marry an uneducated boy. Now, boys, wheu you come into school afterdiuner I want you to come in good order. Don't rush and crowd the doorway like you did this morning. You ran over a little girl and threw her down and hurt her. Be quiet aud orderly and come in two or three at a time, and befoie you take your seat make a little bow to me That's nice; that's good manners. I will like that and I want all of you boys and girls to do that. Will you do it ? If you will nlease hold up your hands. All hands went up promptly except those of Bill Jenkins, the red-headed rebel. Next morning he declined to make a bow, but looked sour and de fiant. When school turned out that evening, father heard him say: "I'll be durned if I'll make- a bow to any yankee." Next morning two other big boys failed to bow. Bill Jenkins had worked on them. That evening father told Bill to stay in a little while, as he wished to see him after school broke up. He stayed and the door was shut. The other boys peeped through the cracks between the logs to . Bee and to hear what was going on. Father talk ed to Jenkins kindly and told him of the bad example he was setting and so forth, and begged him to conform to the rules. "Now said he, "William, will you promise to make a bow to me tomorrow morning?" "No. I'll be durned if I do," said Jenkins. That settled it. The crisis that father had dreaded had come. He got between Jenkins and the door and Baid firmly: "Well, sir, you have got to do one of three things. You have got to bow, or quit school, or take a whipping. Which will you do? "I'll be gol durned if I'll do airy one, said Bill, Father s hick ory was wit in his reach between two logs. He seized it and began on Jen kins with stinging strokes and Jenkins made for him with long arms, and used cuss words abundant. They fought like wild cats, turned over ben ches, broke the water bucket and for ten minutes the conflict raged, for fath er was stout and was in the right and kept the hickory going and fended off the strokes of Bill's long arms. After a while they clinched and father got him down between two puncheon seats and pummelled him good. He hollered enough and to let him up, and after they got their breath father said : ' 'Now, Jenkins, what will you do." He blub bered out: "I'm gwine home and stay there. I'll be gol durned if I'm gwine toschiolto you any more." "Well, why didn't you Bay that at first and save the whipping?" Eaid father. All this time there were a hundred eyes peeping through the cracks between the logs, but not a word was said. Jenkins never came, back and the crisis was over, irom that time on tor two years there was a good, orderly school aud my father's reputation was made. The yankee had whipped Bill Jenkins and that settled him in the favor of his pat rons. I wish everybody could visit the little village of Longpond. It is in the coun try, eight miles from Mt. Vernon, and eight miles from a railroad. I never was in a better settement of farming people. I Bpoke there in the day time and those country people came from far and near and spread before us the finest picnic dinner I ever saw. It is a Scotch settlement, and their fathers and grand fathers all came from Ronesou county, in North Carolina. , At least three fourths of the names begin with the prefix of Mc. I made a memorandum of the many Mcs I was introduced to all different such as iMcArthur, Mc- ( Re, McAllister, MeLung, McNair, McLaurin, McLumore," McUulfie, Mc Duflie, McConnel, McDonald, McDan- iel and so forth. There were thirty-! seven of them and many of these had sons and brothers and kindred of the same name, and so it was Mc some thing everywhere. If a man's name begins with Mc in that region it is a guaranteo of good stock. It is a fine farming region and these people are al most all farmers. I never saw finer corn or cotton in upper Georgia. The women, matrons and maidens were til well and neatly dressed and were good looking, good size and healthy. They could handle their skirts' as gracefully as a city lady and as my old friend Bill Rainey used to say, "Major, these wom en are well coupled and stand up square on their paster joints." Rainey had dealt in horses for fifty years and trdki-d horse talk about women and everything else. He was a genuine David Haruci. I have most pleasing recollections of Longpond and its people, My next call was to Hagan-Claxton, a double town only three milts apait, but whose people work in harmony and have a very fine - high school and school buildiDg called the Ilagi:i-Clax.t -u. institute, that is just midway between them and is sustained by both. The teachers' convention was in session there about a hundred teachers form Tattnall and other counties aud I say truthfully I never looked upon a more thoughtful, intelligent aud earnest body of teachers, both men ami women. By request I made some fatherly remarks to them and then hud to stand up and receive a hearty hand shake from every one. That night 1 gave my lecture "Behind the Scenes," in the beautiful large hall where -150 good people from the twin towns ai d adjacent country had gathered. How easy it is for a lecturer or a preacher to please and magnetize a large audience when they are packed cloie together. Thestaudard of teaching israising higher in this region. The county school commissioners are good scholars, graduates of our colleges, and they are exacting hi their examinations. Nine teen applicants were rejected recently in one county. This is an interesting region and farming is easy and prosperous. The long staple cotton is grown here. I did no know until now that the , bloorn was first yellow a bright canary and then turned red. Tne seed are black and are roll d out instead of being ginned out. It is harder to pick this cotton from the bolls and seventy-five pounds is a good day's work. It is now 20 cents a pound Sugarcane abouudi here, ami ia the most luxuriant crop I know of. B it it is the turpentine and lumber busi ness that scatters money so freely in all this region. I visited the Perkins mills. They are up to date in all respects and cut aud kiln, dry and dress 75,000 feet iu a day, aud give employment to several hundred hands. Pine lands are now bringing f S to10 an acre for the timber and the owner keeps the land after the pines are cut away. It is right sad to ee'e llnse beautiful forests passing away, but thi.3 is destiny. While sojourning here I was the guebt of Judge Williams. I felt very much at home, for his lovely wife and twelve children adorn the large, inviting home. These children are from two to twenty years and are well behaved, obedient and kept their fa.es clean." The two younger ones began to call me grandpa as soon as I arrived. Leant -ful fruit abounds and I get as much of it as I wish and it keeps me in goo 1 health. Yesterday I visited McRae-Helens, the twin city. McRae is the boy and Helena the girl, and they get along m harmony like Winston-Salem in North Carolina. There is but one college and one of the newspapers is The Twine City News, published by two of those Scotchmen Mcintosh and McRae. This is a new, lively aud progressisve town adorned with pleasant homes and cultured people. It is high dry aud gently rolling and quite a resort sick and tired people. 1 forgot to mention that Ilagm-Jlaxton, the ether twin towns have no corporation and don't want any. No. mayor or aldermen, no marshal or police. It is like Pelzer, in Souta Carolina. Judge Williams said whv should the good people of h town require these omeials. any morel than the good people ia the country. If they behav-a they are needed and they do behave here. I've been living here six years and have not yet heard of a tight or even a quarrel, and if a blind tiger or one that wasn't blind should come here we would strap him over a log and run hi.n off in two boars This Scotch blooded stock has ramified all over this region and m ike laws for themselves when nec-sarv. I met Rev. Mr. Walker, of McRae-lLiena, taday and he told me he had twenty- seven McRaes in his church bo k and half the other names began with Mc. Tattnall county was named for Jor.sdah Tattnall, who was governor jo!: cm hundred years ago. -His soon Josi-h, was in the United States navy and commanded the Cram pus, a man of war. In 1858, while Ivigland was fighting China, Tattnall wa ordered there to watch and pr t-ct American interest. Rut to prese rve a strict neutrality. 1 1 is vess-l got standee! ou a rock in the China teas and he was in distress until an V. iiditdt man of war canm to -his. relief and hejed him off. Soon fur this th- Chinese were getting the best of the li,;!,! andTattnal! pitched iu and helped the hnglhh to whip the m. For thi- he was courtmnrtialed when he came home ind when nsked whv he did it answered : It wau gratitude to our kindnd. I couldent held it, for 'blood is thicker than water.' That reply acquitted him and mad.1 him famous. Uo t. Al l . OIIAJI,i:V A ft II TBIK !' ; I. Ilrry N(3IlutI Ilwrl? Story of n Siros '('rial. St. Lou l.s Ue public. -.. Harry StiUw, 11 Edwards author of "Two Runaways - and Other Stories," has recently brought out a new volume of Mories, called "His De fence and Other S'ories." TLey are very good stories, tne-c written by Mr. Harry Siillwell Edwards. He vritv-r of the South, and his negro ftcrics t.re a delight. OiiO of the shorlest is er tilled, "Charley and the Tcs'-um." It seems the.t Charley Brood had been arrested f' r larceny, the particular chnrgf? i iw z that he had stolen a 'ooh 8uni and etet 1 In. p. the property of Peter Thompson.' "Charley having de manded that he be tried by a jury of his peers, the Justice, with that accom odating spirit peculiar to some' back woods oiii'.-er?. had cnih.d in hx colored gentlemen as a jury, arraigned the prin oner, and put the prosecutor under oath to tell the tru'h the whole truth, en 1 nothing but the trut;i." Peter Thompson's story was that he had set the trap, had found it mining the nest day, and had found On a it y Brood carrying a bag in v. h . h hu found his trap and a 'possum. Ounrif'V came forward smiiinlv. 'Hit'. den lake dis, Jucdge," he be gan. 'I ain't no town merger, an' I'm proud or de troof. Dese hji'h town niggers,' and a'l eyes were di rected towards the la e witness ky low as how dey own de whole worF an' ev'rythin' dat wears hair er feather fuin hen-roos' ter 'possum boiler. Dey am' sat isf y en town; d ey m u s ' come do w n hyad an' bre'k nrs de ole-lime huntiu' an' dey nets. Ef dey'd come lak or white man an' hunt wi' er do: an' g io, hit'd bin diff'uut. and foiks'd had Home 'pec'ferem. Ala' dat so, I'.ic' Fin;: ei?" This appeal to the prejudices of the country negro had an immediate effect upon the jury. " 'Hit she? cde tr ef,' replied Ein gal; and his companions seemed to co incide with him. The prisoner c r. tinued: " Mcedge, I s-crtoc like 'possnco i:-er-se.'f, but I ciu't S"t no trap. I hunt ini w.d de dog an' de torch, laker mar.. Dat night I was out trj in' ter show er fool puppv how ter trail, an' bimcty he opened up an' lit out. I sez ter mers'f: 'Charley, you gwine ter ha'i 'possum ft,r dinner" 'An' 'l.o'U df.t time I des nakhully laugh out loud.' "You gwine ter hah hnrbeeuo 'jor sum," sez I. Juedge, I t-ee dat 'p' sum right fo' metn de d;sh brown ail cber." A flight shudder shook the form c l' the Reverend Septimus Smith, and a momentary sensation swaved the ether jurymen. It was as a little breeze wan dering among sleepy rushes. " 'l seed dem split sweet 'tatersroun' dat 'possum lak or yalkr-hau berry chain roun' er higg r gal's reck. 1 seed de brown gravy Icakiri' do-.vi a sides as 'e lay clere cry in' f-r joy nil ol. er, an' or jag er 'sinimon beer ' "'Hvahl' Hvah! Hyah! Ihah hb! Hvah! Hvah! Hvahl Hoo-ee-e!" This explosion came from Fo g 1 Caw Scotland, who doubled up, and would have failed out of fhe chair hut lor tho restraining b'vd of his next neighbor. The s -nsaii-ui vas complete; the llltl-' breez had become a whirlwind. The court administered a ponderous rebuke, and the Witness proceeded : " 'Jlit was des o.tt way, jueugc; an' I hope yo' Honor :u' Dor k liar I tr Une' Finger fer his natehul f. 'cause las' 'possum I tate, bit war lixe 1 up an'. on es taole lak I tell ytr. An' dey'd le dere mvre cfUnor it -hit warn for dse hyah 1. i;.-illy town ;;..;. my dey traps." ' "'Goon with vo'ur story. T!e hi- Judgj rapped, tho ta'dc wit! knuckles. Jo( clge, dat time do fool puppy was plum out or hearin, an' I knowed he: done struck er fox.' Hit w;n do July WimkI on 'em. I 'gin ter look roun"' for home, 'cause day breakin, when I stumble on SjohK'p'u', isn' bh'ss .Ooru, den was de possum sottin' right fo' mo. I sez: "Charley, by ah pos.su m de Lord sont yer." I'ussum ho sottin' up dere by 'isse'f, an' i y. s h or shinin'. I sez, 'Huh! dis po-,;um he sick! No, possum ain' sick; lie do too fat ter irabbid. I sho' car, dis po-sum.' De u 1 ! .". k i ig'in. Dab. now! r.i-.-uni hitch en er trap! I say ter ineise'i", "Charley, dis ain" yo possum dis stum-body else s pus-inn! You ain gwito' Ck 'n'er loan's no--sum. is yi'iV ' D'-n I say: 'No, con; I ain gwine tek dis-. hyah p 's.-uui! What 1 want wid 'n'o man's po--- sum?" an' walk m' tor io as--'!': i i nged all -a roun " 'I git 'ooie .in' dell I klildri o:l', r sirvg- 'Kaivoon tail am ; I 111 ! 1 ual eh u 1 1 v ioi .;. i eu k , a n I in .1. hit's i a- !'- troof, dat lii ll' ! pes; i.ni s tin n ick ttero "ti an - . . no 1 eithr lan k di o: swamp, so eol' i J at t r,i p !o 'k i ("u foe I .-eo y ic r 'ho - 'way out en do v '. an' - ui-, an' y b-.-iu' an' do P.,!--n do dead t roes. I "Chancy, you uor ; a ( oy i - i : - ei - i i. u- - C'e o.'Iilhtel-j a' O r .e r o';'. tin' V, u i n let" dat little' possum out h ah nil by c yer? Siuno : 'i:n, sho'," Don a - tor, amuon"? esse t wi ( ei 4 -n 'll' le o,' ti I .-. : "Win Did do man woa' sot dat trap raise 'im? Does dat man own dis hyah lan'? Does 'e own de holler tree dis hvah po' littl' wand'rin' possum born en? No, 'e don',' sez I. "Possum is es own boss." Den I go back an' look 'im en de eye, an I say: "Littl' 'possum, you col' ain't yer?" An' bless goodness, he smile cl'ar back twell es jaw-toed shine. An' I sez: "Does yer wan'ter git en Charley's warm buy an' go long back ter sleep?" an 'e smile crgin. An' I sez: "All right, but how 'bout dat trap?" An Jucdge, den dnt possum look se'ious, an' lay es nose down on es leg. " I tell Jim den: "Little 'possum, Charley ain' gwine lef yer out hyah en de col,' an' you bin up all night. He gwine terdrap yer on de dag, 'cause you yo' own boss an' kin come an' go, but es you fetch dat trap erlong, hit's you own 'sponsibleness. Char ley ain' got no business ter tech 'n're man's trap. But I gwine shet bofe eyes, an' dere won' be witnuss.' " 'Den de 'possum be smile erway bade erg'in an' 1 drap 'im en de bag, bofo eyes shot. An', Juedge, dat's do laud's troof. I ain' tech dat trap. Dero hit ez down dere on de flo, wi' de 'possum ban' still on hit. I ftin git or smell er dat 'possum, an' I ain stole notion'!' "There was a murmur of applause as Charley concluded, but this was quickly repressed. The Justice, putting on his glasses, read the. law as to wild animals to the iury and explained what was meant by larceny; and the jury retired. When they returned they brought in a verdict of 'not guilty,' This was ex plained afterwards by the Reverend Septimus Smith. He said that the jury was clearly of the opinion that a possum was no man's property until actually stolen in his possession, and that if the trap was stolen, it had been stok n by the 'possum, and not by Charlpy JJrood." fl;:(l. r ;! Sanw)'.'' Raleigh Car. Charlotte Observer. Senator Butler to-day wrote the fol lowing letter, signing it as Populist Stato chairman, to Congressman Bella my, at Wilmington: "You are quoted in tiie morning papers as saying in a speech at Wilmington yesterday that the Democrats should 'forcibly expel' me from the State, or that some One else should do it. Da you mean that one man should do it? Do you "mean that one man should undertake it, on that a cowardly, lawless mob should do it? Now, if you think I should be ex pelkd from the State, I suggest that you undertake the job yourself. You are one man and I am one man. If you mean what you say, and have any courage (except when vou have a mob of real shirts behind you), I suggest, that you proceed to Raleigh, and begin, the e xpelling business at occe. If you; have not the courage to undertake this job, then I suggest that you have the' decency to keep your mouth shut." The report of the Southern Rail way company for the year ending June "o..h had been made public and shows pome interesting figures. The actual' amount of gross earnings ws $:1.1G'J, oOO, an increaae of $:5,47o,()00, or over 10 p"r co ut,. compared wdth the previous year. Tho net earnings estimated for the name period were $'J.."(V.),000. The net earrings for the eleven months ending May Hist show an increase of S 12.000, and it is believed that for the year the increase will be $900,000. An interesting fact is that the gain is on more mileage than was operated during the year ending June lSUO.1 After deducting interest and rental a bahuce is estimated of f :.J,82.'i,000, wrie 1 1 would be equal to net earnings' ef 5 -2 pier cent on the preferred stock of tr e company. The former policy of the company in maintaining the phys-ieal condition of the system and in carrying out extensive improvements charged to expenses has been continued. G. e.rge Gould attended a meeting of the Union Paciiie Railroad directors a t'.- 7 days ago and lighted a cigsrettep. "Drop that cigarette," said Chairman liar: imau. "1 have issued an order foibiddirg employes to smoke cigarettes. You n re an employe; you get 110 for attending one (if these meetings. You, too, M r. Si biff," addressing another mi!He main director who was toying m:i a lighted perfecto. "We directois nitrH not make rules for employes aud t 'ion reak them ourselves." The dis ti :t,ii:.-u,ul employes quietly obeyed is. A patent medicine advertisement is heiry; pul ished in a number of news-;,.- . - aia ;- a "white man turning ytliow." Tuere is nothing very re-m-u-kah! about that. In this neigh 1. d and througnout North Oaro ': , e. pi raily there are a number of whit ' men turning black, and some ot them ;-.:; illy smell like a negro. After I y voto for negro supremacy their nose. will begin to flatten. Just watch iTii. -I.e eksviile Gazette. . loiiitid I'araijraipli. The sentence s of a grammatical judge are not always correct. A Si Louis heiress is, sd tender hearted that she can't bo induced to sli ike a match. A man slJom walks erect when 8'ruti-ned by circuni'ftances. AltK.nuh a woman's "ce is her own, she df isn't always own it. J W-hen a girt is woM-ped up in herself she is able to go by the males.