"FOR COUNTRY, FOR GOD, AND EOR TRUTH."
Single Copy, 6 Cents
VOL. XL
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1900.
NO 35.
1.00 a Year, In Advanee.
it ill Aiei"s letteis.
Thought moves swiftly1 these days.
How eager wc are for news. Two pa
pers a day and the people gather at
the postoilice waiting for them. And
when it comes it's all about war afar
off and crime at home. Murder, sui
cides, divorces, outrages by negroes,
lynehings and the Atlanta muddle
and Kentucky murder thrown in as a
side show. Some of the preachers are
taking a hand in the general melee
and are raising a racket in the name
of the Lord. How different is all this
from the good old times when wc got
the mail only twice a week and were
content to worship God on Sunday
and work on week days and had time
, to think and ponder and talk to our
neighbors. When two doctors were
enough for the community and they
had but a Ihtle shop full of medicine
and there were no drugstores and no
patent medicines, and Jim Alexander
and his brother, Tom, and Gib
Wright and Adam Jones and his
brother, Frank, and I, and some other
boys, who are now dead, never were
sick or took any medicine except salts
or castor oil for green apple colic.
What a glorious fellow was Bryant
Strickland, whose hearty laugh could
be heard across the town. He died
not long ago and left his hearty laugh
with bis boys. And good old George
Lester, who ran against Dr. Felton
for congress. There never was a bet
ter boy, nor a beter man, nor a better
friend. I loved him and still remem
ber how he and I searched over the
potatoe patch to find some remains
of the stars that fell in 1803. What a
change has come over the world, some
things for the better, some for the
worse, and we must take life and pro
gress as we find it. Pope said: "What
ever is, is right," but old men and
old women can t help looking back
ward and regretting that some things
have passed away. Of course, wo re
joice in the many comforts that in
vention has brought to us, but take
it all in all, the average of human
happiness remains about the same as
it was about sixty years ago. We had
more content then, more love and
fewer divorces and grass widows.
Children were more obedient to their
parents and there were no cigars or
cigarettes or Bull Durham tobacco or
Coca Cola or cocaine or hip pocket
pistols. Every town had one or two
saloons where a fiddle was played for
the old sots, but young men did not
go there. There was not a young man
in our town who ever took a drink of
whisky, but nowadays young men
consider it manly to smoke and drink,
and even some of the young Avomen
get drunk on the sly and vainly im
agine that nobody knows it. Our ne
gro slaves were contented and happy
and not an outrage was committed
from the Potomac to the Jtio Grande.
But now there are 24,000 of
them in the chaingangs of the South
ern States and 4,100 of them are in
Georgia. Who is responsible for all
this, and the lynehings that still go
on? Mistaken philanthropy and un-
mistaken malignity. If the South
had been let alone we would have
had gradual emancipation half a cen
tury ago when Henry Clay was its
advocate and Henry Clay whigs were
a power in the Southern States. Now
we are taking the back track and are
undoing what our enemies have done,
and I hope Georgia will follow North
Carolina's lead and that Mr. Hard-
wick will try his bill again at the next
legislature. I would amend it a little,
but in the main it is right. I would
encourage the negroes to a better citi
zenship, both morally and intellectu-
! ally. The county commissioners or
the grand jury should be authorized
to examine and make a selection ot
certain moral, industrious negroes
: and give them the right of suffrage.
: There are some in every community
. that I would trust. There are a dozen
or more in Cartersville, and every
community has a few. This would
create a caste or a social condition in
in the race that would have a good
influence. I would trust such men
as Professor Councill with any politi
cal privilege, and there are others.
Frank Carpenter is a great traveler
a diligent student and a great
writer. It is interesting to read from
his pen the true condition of the ne
gro in the Philippines. How the ne
gro captives are bought and sold, and
he was offered four likely ones for
$50 by a woman who claimed to be a
Mohammedan Christian. The boys
average $10 and a good looking girl
brings from $15 to $20. This traffic
has been going on for a hundred
years, but for the last half century
has been dull. New England slave
ships had to quit the business about
that time for the Brazil market was
. overstocked and English vessels were
.watching too closely. According to
history the last cargo was captured on
the coast of Madagascar in ' 1848. It
was a yankee craft and was fitted out
in Boston. That is why Chief Justice
Story charged the grand jury that
"Boston merchants were steeped to
their eyebrows in this infamous busi
ness." But this is all barred now by the
statute of limitations. Prof. Councill
believes it was ordained of God for
lhe good of the negro, even though
it was baptized in blood and inhu
manity. "Offenses must needs come,
but woe unto them by whom they
come."
But in some respects the South is
making good progress. Our manu
facturers are increasing in every State,
our agriculture is improving and our
fruit growing is advancing all along
the line. The diffusion of knowledge
is spreading from the towns to the
country hamlets and everybody takes
and reads' newspapers. Now if we can
stop these negro tramps who waylay
the highways and byways we will
have a good quiet, peaceable country
and can sit under our own vines and
shade trees and worship God accord
ing to our own conscience. Mean
niggers are our greatest curse and
there are thousands of them, for, as
my nigger, Bob, said when he had
served his term in the chaingang,
"dar is some as mean niggers in de
chaingang as dar is outer dar." That
is about the truth of it. If every nig
ger was put in who has been guilty
ot stealing there wouldn't bo enough
left to get up a baptizing or an excur
sion. Bill Aiip.
P. S. Let me correct the printer of
a former letter. I did not write that
General Jackson was a vice-president
nor that Grant ran with Colfax for
his second term. He ran with Wil
son. , " B. A.
An Axe to Grind.
Trojan in Charlotte Observer.
When Benjamin Franklin was a little
boy by the name of Bennie h rankhn he
was accosted one cold winter morning
by a man with an axe on his shoulder,
"My pretty boy," said he, ''has your
father a grindstone? " xes, sir," said
Bennie. "Youarea fine little fellow,"
said he, "will you let me grind my axe
on it?" Pleased with the compliment
of "fine little fellow," "Oh, yes, nit,"
he answered, it is down in the shop."
Patting the boy on the Bhoulder the
man said: "And will yoa, my man, get
me a little hot water?" He brought a
kettle full. "I am sure," continued
he, "You are one of the finest lada I
have ever seen ; will you just turn a
few minutes for me?" Pfeased with
the flattery the boy went to work and
toiled and tugged until he was almost
tired to death. The school bell rang
but he could not get away; his hands
were blistered and the axe not half
ground.
At length, however, it was sharpened
and the man turned to the boy saying:
"Now, you little rascal, you've played
truant; be off to school, or you'll rue
it."
"Alas! it is hard enough to turn a
grindstone, but now to be called a lit
tle rascal is too much." And when
Bennie became the wise Benjamin he
observed as follows : "It saukdeep into
my mind and often have I thouglit of
it since. When I see a merchant over
polite to his customers, methinks 'that
man has an axe to grind.'
"When I see a man who is in private
life a tyrant, flattering the people, and
making great attachment to liberty,
methinks, 'Look out, good people, that
fellow would set you turning grind
stones.' "
But after all it is but one of Trojan's
notions that few are the men without
an axe to grina. And when I see a
preacher who rubs his people down all
the time; who never sees any faults in
them especially the man with the
money, methinks that preacher has an
axe to grind. A.nd so in every depart
ment of life, and not forgetting the
politicians, it is not hard to spot the
fellow who has an axe to grind.
Chinese War Clones Mills.
Galveston, Tex., Aug.lL The Gal
veston cotton mills will shut down Sep
tember 1. How long the spinners will
be idle can only be determined by
trade conditions and solutions of the
intricate Chinese problem. It was with
great reluctance that the directors de
termined on this action, but owing to
demoralization of the cotton goods
trade, with no prospect of improvement
in the immediate future, there was no
other course open to them but to sus
pend operations until there is an im
provement in trade conditions and a de
mand for cotton fabrics.
The pay rolls of the mill last Satur
day contained 400 names. The opera
tives in each of the various departments
will be retained until their work is com
pleted, then idleness and suffering un
til the mills start up again, as their
salaries were not sufficient to provide
for such an emergency as a shut-down.
Yesterday the broker of the mills sold
300 bales of cotton which the mill had
on hand. A mouth or two from now
the mill people believe they can buy
300 bales of cotton of the new crop at
$5 a bale less than they got for the cot
ton they sold.
The Galveston mill people hoped the
Chinese imbroglio would be speedily
settled and thereupon the dry goods
demand would instantly revive. But,
as there is no sign of it, and as China
is a big customer of American mills, 00
per cent, of their product going there,
the directors followed the action of
other mills and decided to shut down
until there was an improvement in
trade conditions.
The national Secretary of Agriculture,
Hon. James Wilson, predicts that we
will have dollar wheat before the end of
the year. This will bo a great thing
for the Western farmer, who baa wheat
to sell, and will not be against the in
terest of the North Carolina farmer,
who made a fine crop this year and
therefore will not have buy flour.
A (EOItOIA ROY WHITES FKO.M i
Tin: 1'himiim:s of tub
iiaud conditions
there.
Atlanta Journal.
The following letter from a Georgia
boy, who has been in our army in the
PhilipineB for a year past, was received
recently by a relative 111 Atlanta: '
"The heat has been fearful here for
the past two months. We have had no
rain, with the exception of two light
showers, since last January, hence you
can imagine what a delightful climate
this is. By the time this letter reaches
you the season will have changed and we
will be having rain, rain, nothing but
rain, until long after Christmas. The
heat is bad, but Oh, my! how I do hate
to see the rainy season drawing near,
for it is almost unbearable for one to
stay in doors from day to day without
anything to amuse oneself. The quar
ters we have now are far from being as
comfortable as those we were in last
rainy season. Then we were dwelling
in a palace, but now we are shut up in
old bamboo barracks, which I fear the
first big rain and windstorm that comes
along will carry out into the bay, but I
would not care, if it would ouly float out
over the deep blue sea to far-away Amer
ica. I look for a great deal of trouble
here this rainy season with the 'niggers.'
They are already becoming quite active
in the interior. You see, so long as it
is dry they hide away in the mountains,
where it is impossible for us to get at
them, and when the rain comes and the
mud and water are so bad that our
troops can do but little toward' hunting
and following them, they come out to
give us battle, and after a few rounds
run away so fast that it is impossible
for our men to overtake them, and
thus it is and thus it will ever be.
"Th long-talked of and looked for
civil cemmision arrived in the bay last
Sunday morning on the transport Han
cock, but I do not look for them to ac
complish much. They say that they
come as men of peace, and therefore
they will only deal with the people in
those regions where peace has been re
stored. The question arises. 'Where
will they begin work?' Where is the
region on these islands where peace
reigns? Why! an American is not even
safe right here in Manila without his
side arms. We have been anticipating
an ouf break even in this city every
night for more than a month, hence
you can judge for yourself the condition
of affairs here. You people at home
little know what is going on in these
islands of the men that each day and
night, out in the malarial swamps and
Jungles, feel the sting of a Mauser or
the keen cut of a Bolo and all for what?
Why, the whole group of islands are not
worth one-half the American lives which
have been sacrificed and of those we are
losing every day. Not a day passes
but what you can pick up a daily paper
and read where some man or men have
been killed or wounded, and lots of them
are killed of which we never hear.
There was a time when I was proud to
say, I am an American.' But that
day has passed. I have seen too much
in the past 10 mouths. There is one
thing sure. These people are fighting
for their independence and they will
continue to fight as long as they live,
and when the old ones die or are killed
the young ones will step into their
places. There is not a native on these
islands, man, woman or child, who does
not hate the American people, and their
hatred will nver die out, but live on
forever."
Senator Itutler Tired.
Special to Charlotte Observer.
Washington, Aug. 15. If there is a
more tired statesman in the United
States than Senator Butler he has not
reached Washington. The latter ar
rived here this morning and registered
at the Ebbitt House. He had hardly
put his name to paper before reporters
were after him. He was not "in" fif
teen minutes after he arrived. At 5
o'clock he sent down word that he wa?
"tired" and when a number of report
ers called at 7:30 he was still "tired,"
according to the reports that the bell
boy of the Ebbitt brought down. Be
tween the time he landed here and 7:30
no one could say at the hotel where he
went. He could not be seen. He did
not go to Democratic headquarters, for
Chairman Richardson said he had not
seen him. Of course he may have gone
to Republican headquarters, but no one
who supposes that Senator Butler is
supporting Bryan would have inquired
there. His mission here is unknown.
Whether he is going to Chicago or not
is unknown. No one about his hotel
knows anything about him except that
be is "tired" and what makes him
"tired" is as much a mystery to the
people about the hotel as it is to the
newspaper people, The Washington Post,
the Associated press and your corre
spondent, as it is to anybody else. He
is not sick, that iB certain.
Butler reached here about li o'clock
and registered in a free, bold hand. He
went out immediately, and he could
not be found at the hotel. At 3 o'clock
he was "asleep or tired," as the bell
boy brought down the message after a
faint knock at the door without arous
ing any response. Why Senator Butler
was tired is a matter for speculation.
He is healthy, robust and is not as far
as known here, given to afternoon naps.
Still he was tired in the morning and
was still "tired" at 7:30 o'clock.
A fool at 20 may be wise at 40,
SELF-DECEPTION.
Baltimore Sun.
The advice of Polonius, "To thine
own self be true," may be interpreted in
various ways, but it ought always to in
clude a warning against self-deception.
Those who do wrong begin usually by
deceiving themselves. They may not
work themselves into the belief that
wrong is right, but they find excuses for
the wrong. When their conscience
warns them they plead that they are on
ly following a custom; that other peo
ple have committed the same offence
and yet have maintained their respecta
bility; or they declare that necessity
has driven them to some sharp prac
tice which is not illegal and therefore
not dishonest, or they indulge in other
sophistries to excuse themselves, not to
the world but to themselves. The nor
mally honest and upright man cannot
begin a course of wrong-doing without
first deceiving himself. His conscience
will not permit him to do anything that
is not honorable and upright until he
has stilled it in some way, and he be
gins by confusing the moral relations in
bis own mind.
The embezzeler is usually a man of
good reputation and presumably one of
moral training. If he were not he
would not occupy a position giving him
the opportunities to embezzle. He does
not begin by stealing outright; that
would shock his conscience. But he
deceives himself into the belief that
there is no great wrong in using money
intrusted to him for his own benefit
temprarily, fully intending to return it
all at the proper time, so that no one
shall be the loser, though he may be the
gainer. He argues to himself that there
can be no great wrong in this, since his
employer is not to suffer, and also be
cause he knows that such misuse of
trust funds has laid the foundation for
the fortunes of much-respected men.
Not until he has stilled his conscience
by this false argument is he prepared
to violate a trust, but having taken the
plunga he becomes lees and less scrupu
lous. Once in a great while such an em
bezzler escapes detection, restores the
money he wrongfully used and pro
vides himself with capital for other
ventures out of the profits of its use.
More often he loses the money of
others with which he has speculated,
is driven by what he calls necessity
to embezzle more, and when hope
lessly entangled is exposed, disgraced
and perhaps punished. The down
ward career is very rapid after the
first false step. Conscience grows cal
lous w hen its warnings are unheeded.
A crime which would appear revolting
to an honest man becomes merely a
daring venture to one who has al
ready sacrificed his honor and is only
striving to save a reputation that will
be lost by exposure. Men marvel
when they hear that "a good man has
gone wrong," because they know
nothing of the stages of his descent
from a high place. They see only a
man who one day is respected, the
next denounced as a thief. If they
could penetrate the mystery of his
fall they would probably find that for
months, of years, perhaps, ho had
sustained a false reputation, that his
fall was not sudden, but gradual, and
that he began by deceiving himself.
It is quite probable that no man
succeeds altogether in self-deception.
He knows, though others may not,
that he is not honorable or honest,
but he succeeds in stilling his con
science, and when he has done that
he is ready for any kind of of roguery.
The aim of the young man who wants
to live honoiably should be to keep
his conscience alive and extremely
sensitive. He should avoid every
form of selfdeception and ask himself
from time to time whether he has
been true to his own sense of honor.
If he has not he should resolutely
retrace his steps, not continue in them
with the blindness of a fatalist. "To
thine own self be true" should be the
guiding principle of every honorable
youth.
Mi lit M nifctw in Itiillrooiii.
Charleston, S. C, Aug. 15. The
shirt waist man has been officially and
socially welcomed to Charleston, the
most conservative city, perhaps, in the
country.
At a fashionable seaside hotel a ger
man was given last night complimentary
to visitors from Macon, Ga., and it was
annouueed that the affair would be
very "swell" in its way. There was a
large attendance, and the dancing hall
was beautifully decorated and lighted.
The hotel ia on the iront beach of Sul
livan's Island, and usually there ia a
stiff sea breeze, which makes the place
delightfully cool. The breeze last night
was dead, and it was oppressively warm.
There was talk at the german about
the shirtwaist man, and it was decided
to put the new scheme into effect. Ac
cordingly the young men departed and
returned in negligee, looking cool and
comfortable, even if they did appear in
costume weird for a ballroom. One
visitor wore duck trousers, white shoes,
a white stiff shirt and high standing
collar and was not adorned with a cra
vat. He was at home with the othtrs,
however, and with their coats discarded
the young men dacced away the better
part of the night. Now there ib a move
on foot here to make the shirtwaist man
a regular institution.
One hour in the future ia worth a
dozen in the past.
SAM JONES IN PHILADELPHIA.
New York, August 13. A Special
to The World from Philadelphia says:
Sam Jones, the evangelist, con
cluded his series of meetings at Na
tional Park Saturday. The Park
Association pays him $800 for the
work. He says that iie makes $30,-
000 a year and doesn't save a cent.
Here are some of his quaint sayings
culled from sermons which he has de
livered at the park:
Infidelity breaks down because it
has never tested the thing it denies.
Infidelity is just a great, big old
mouth -goin' around talkin'; if I
wanted to kill an infidel I'd just smash
his mouth.
I can understand Ingersoll because
he got $1,000 a night: but I never
could understand the poor little fool
that ran after him for nothin' and
boarded hisself.
An infidel came to me once and
said, "You've got somethin' I
haven't, and I want it." "All right,"
1 said, "you just keep your mouth
shut, and I guess 1 can pull you
through. You've pretty near talked
yourself into hell as it stands now."
So he said he would, and 1 went at
him, and every time he wanted to
speak I told him to keep his mouth
shut. And by keeping his mouth
shut he began to think, and as he
began to think he was a Christian.
A man isn't a sinner because he's
an infidel; he's an infidel because he's
a sinner.
If you'll get the devil out of you,
neighbor, you won't be long gettin'
Christ in; but you'll have a govern
ment job gettin' both in together.
God don't care about your head.
He wants your heart.
Faith is like hunger you don't get
it up; it gets itself up.
If you will God will, and if you
won't the devil will.
I despise one of those little "I-didn't-go-to-do-its."
1 prefer the
man who did it even when he didn't
want to do it.
Old adages are lies. They say all
comes to him who waits. Well, I
only know of one thing that comes to
the waiter, and that's gray hairs.
When you wanted to get married did
you wait for the woman to come along
and ask you? Maybe you wish now
you had. Like the man who said he
loved his wife at first, so he wanted
to eat her up; but now he'd lost his
appetite.
If a man'll do what Christ tells
him to do and doesn't get what Christ
said he'd get, then he's got the drop
on the universe.
Jesus Christ has put the platform
of his promise over the pool of life.
The infidel looks over the platform
and says there ain't no water there.
But the old sinner believes, and w-alks
on the platform, and his weight forces
the water up to him.
You've been sittin on the station
steps with a ticket for heaven ever
since you were born, with God Al
mighty s grand excursion train goin
by eyery day, and God sayin' 'All
aboard!" You heard him, but you
just set still.
If some ot you fellows uidn t tend
to your farms any better'n you tend
to your souls the weeds would get
your crops, the buzzards wouiu get
your mules and tne sheriff would get
you.'
Some men would like to come here
and get the grace of God and then go
to Washington Park and get drunk.
Other men don't want to be told to
keep decent. I told a man that once,
and he wanted to lick me. "Well,"
I said, "I'm opposed to lightin', but
if you start in to lick me I'll fix it so
I'll keep the flies off of you. And
then, if you do lick me, what do you
think 3'our wife'll say when you tell
her you did it because I wanted you
to keep decent and be good to your
family?"
The best religion in the world is the
kind you do, not the kind you talk or
sing about.
There were two nigger parsons, and
one said he just laid down on God's
promises, but the other said he did
the best he could, first. Just then a
mad bull came along and they both
took to the woods. When they were
safe Parson Green said: "Why, Par
son Johnson, why didn't you trust to
the Lord a promises?" "Because,"
said Parson Johnson, "I don't be
lieve those promises includes mad
bulls."
K'll lioiiM of a Haehelor.
New York Press.
It takes genius to be an old maid.
If women were really angels no man
would ever want to go to heaven.
Love is probably called "the tender
passion" because it takes legal tender.
If many poets could afford to fall in
love there would not be so much fool
poetry written about it.
To love a good woman is enough re
compense for all the ill that have been;
to be loved by her is enougn reward for
all the ilia that will be.
Modesty in a man is only instinctive;
in a woman, it is acquired.
Wdman is not a sex of her own; she
is only the female of man.
Wallpaper has probably caused more
enme in the human race than Here
dity.
No man ever felt like clinging to a
woman when she had on a "clinging"
dress.
THE SITUATION IN CHINA.
Baltimore Sun, 13th.
Hope of peace in China is dawning
at last. Minister Wu Ting-fang pre
sented to the State Department in
Washington yesterday an edict from
Emperor Kuaug Hsu appointing Li
Hung Chang Envoy Plenipotentiary to
propose "an immediate cessation of
hostile demonstrations." There had
been reports of this from Shanghai, but
Minister Wu's presentation of the edict
puts it in official form.
The edict says that Li is authorized
to conduct negotiations in behalf of
the Emperor for the settlement of what
ever questions may have to be dealt
with. The result of the negotiations is
to be reported to the Emperor for his
sanction. It is believed in Washington
that tnis indicates a decided willingness
by China to make concessions, and that
the allied armies may not enter Pekiu.
When they reach the east gate of Pekin,
it is hoped, the Chinese Government
will be willing to deliver the Ministers
and other foreigners to them, and Li
can then negotiate a basis of peace.
Acting Secretary of State Adee re-,..
plied to the edict promptly. He reiter
ates the demands previously made by
the United States for co-operation be
tween the Chinese Government and the
allied forces, and intimates that nego
tiations cannot be entered into until the
Chinese Government complies with
those demands. As China is expected
to comply soon, this obstacle ia in a
fair way of being removed.
One or more breaks may occur in
this program. The Russian Govern
ment, it ia announced from St. Peters
burg, has authorized M. De Giers, its
Minister, to leave Pekin under Chinese
escort, as proposed by the Chinese Gov
ernment. It is considered likely that
he has already left Pekin. Then, too,
there is the German punitive expedition,
which Emperor William has announced
will exact reparation for the murder of
Baron von Ketteler. iield Marshal
Count von Waldersee, when he arrives
in China, may find nothing but this
expedition to command.
A cablegram from Minister Conger,
dated August 4, and addressed to Gen
eral Chaffee, was received in Washing
ton yesterday. He says "We will hold
on until your arrival; hone it will be
soon.
Baltimore Sun, 14th.
The allies have made a distinct
advance in their march to Pekin. Gen.
Adna R. Chaffee, commander of the
United States forces in China, sent a
dispatch which was received by the
War department in Washington late
yesterday afternoon stating that he
arrived at Ho-Si-Wu last Thursday.
Ho-Si-Waia only 33 miles from Pekin..
At the same rate of progress the troops
should reach Pekin today or tomor
row.
The last previous definite news from
the allies put them at Yangtsun, IS
milee southeast of Ho-Si-Wu on
Monday of last week. Thus they cov
ered the IS miles in three days. They
have evidently left the railroad and
are proceeding along the main high
way to Pekin. Ho-Si-Wuis a city of
considerable size. Ching Chia Wan
and Tung Chow are the only other two
cities which the allies must pass before
reaching Pekin.
General Lmevitch, commander of the
Russian troops with the allies, sends an
official report to St. Petersburg estimat
ing that the Chinese had Jo.WU men
engaged in the battle of Peitsang and
20.000 in that of Yangtsun.
The text of the American reply to the
Chinese imperial edict appointing Li
Hung Chang to negotiate with the
powers for peace is made public in
Washington. It insists tbat China
shall aid in the delivery of the foreign
Ministers at Pekin from their present
position. The reply says: "We are
ready to enter into an agreement be
tween the powers and the Chinese Gov
ernment for a cessation of hostile
demonstrations on condition that &
sufficient body of the forces composing
the relief expedition shall be permitted
to enter Pekin unmolested and escort
the foreign Ministers and residents back
to Tientsin." In this attitude, it is
believed, the United States has the
support of all the other interested
powers Some well-informed dip'omats
consider the situation at Shanghai more
potent in grave possibilit'es than that
at Pekin. Russia, Germany and
France are believed to be firmly united
m seeking to prevent Great Britain from
asserting claim to exclusive rights
there and a general landing of troops is
in imminent prospect.
Crops are Being Parclied.
Salisbury Truth-Index, 10th.
Rowan countv is now suffering from
one of the most severe droughts that
that has visited u in recent years, xae
upper section of Rowan is a particu
larly heavy sufferer and from every
portion of that section cumes word that
the crops are already a failure.
Mr. Jacob Lipe, one of the beet farm
ers in the Atwell neighborhood, stated
to the Truth-Index representative yes
terday that everything was burned be
yond hope and that even a rain would
not save the crops in that vicinity now.
It has been several months since raiu.,.
to any extect has fallen in this section.
The county l elow CMliMmry m airo i-r1-ginmug
to suffer considerably ami un
a ram soon fdU the crops in tbar
action will al.jo be rv.iued.