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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1900.
NO 36.
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ifSt ITOKS, lli:T, I'OMTK S,
the iii;i:m: avaii, htc.
It is hard to find time in constant
travelling and lecturing to write letters
to the press and to frienda. Since my
last letter I have done much travelling
and speaking. I spent a week at Nation
al Park camp-meeting, near Philadel
phia, over on the Jersey eide of the Dela
ware. It was a week of sweltering heat,
and mosquitoes did not put iu their ap
pearance. If Jersey should stay the same tem
perature the year around, and a voice
should say from the skies, "All men who
do not repent shall go to jersey ana
stay forever," it would be incentive
enough to move me.
This camp ground id eight miles down
the Delaware river from Philadelphia
The meetings began a weeck before the
trolley line was fanished to the grounds
aud the hot weather, with want of fa
cilitica for getting there, Bhut off the
crowds for the first few days. I found
them a delightful people and enjoyed
my stay there except the neat.
I spent several days in Philadelphia
That is a unique city, and manufacture
ing center. They brew and drink more
beer, and manufacture and smoke more
cigars than any other town of its inches
though St, Louis claims the blue rib
bon a8 the home of the largest brewing
establishment in America, and Milwau-
kee with her beer has made herse'f
famous.
At this wriiinjr I am at Mountain
Lake Park, Md. This is perhaps the
most pleasant summer resort in Amer
ica. The thermometer ran up to 8
degr.-es a day or two last week here,
while it was 9 to 100 in Philadelphia
Coming out of the swclteung heat of
New Jersey last night, the first thing
thought of when I lauded here this
morning was my overcoat. The change
is like goiii' from the neat of summer
to the pleasant temperature of fall
The excursions bring in the crowds to
day from all directions on the B. and
O., and the country cousins are here
by the thousands in buggies, wagon3
and soon. Dr. Davidson ia supeiintend
ent of this chautauqua as we'l as the
Lexington (Ky.)chautauqua,Northamp -ton.
M-'Bs., and Melbourne, Fla. lie
is a whole team in himself, and it is al
ways a pleasure to meet him. Ihis is
a delightful place; I wish I could linger
here, but I go on to Cincinnati tonight
to fill chautauqua engagements rn Ohio,
Illinois and bo on.
Mingling with the masses 1 find that
the Chinese question is simmering
down. Some think that Russia is play
ing bide-and-scek, and when the pow
ers gather over there to squelch China,
that Russia and China will combine,
and if they do they can whip the bal
ance of the world. It would be a de
plorable state of things if this, however,
should prove correct, but thing3 look
now more favorable. ThiB much I am
sure : The United States had bett:r not
meddle with that matter much. I know
we want open doors to sell our wheat
and whisky, our bread and beef, our
pork and b3er, but we can do without
the Chinese market better than become
entangled in this embroglio.
Mr. Bryan'B speech of acceptance
pleases the Democrats and displeases
the Republicans, and it wrs a great
Bpeech and will catch many a vote.
believe the Prohibition party will poll
the biggest vote this fa1! it has polled in
years, and tnat vot3 will be taken large
ly from among the Republican ranks
Thousands of Christian men are disap
pointed with McKinley and his attitude
on the canteen question and they will
vote for Wooley. The Prohibitionists
are getting ready for a lively campaign
Thousands of men are disgusted with
the old rum-soaked parties, and, while
they see no hope for the succss of the
Prohibition ticket, yet the.T resentment
toward the old parties will drive them to
yote for Wooley. V ith millions of men,
if they would stop to think, all other
issues, such as free silver, imperialism,
et cetera, are but small issues compared
with the whiskey issue. It is to be eeen
y et what Chairman HannawiU say and
do when he opens his barrel. The race
will b;, closer this fall than it was four
years ago. Bryan's speech of accept
ance relegates 1G to 1 to the rear. It
seems the Republican party will force
him to discuss free silver, but if Bryan
is wise he will play on other issues.
There will be a mighty shaking among
the dry bones if Bryan Bhould be elect
ed, and for all any man kuows, he
may be.
From the standpoint of a Prohi
bitionist, I Bee no hope in the election
of the Democratic ticket for a curtail
ment of the liquor traffic, or a black
eye for the brewerB and disUllers. lhat
is the gang I want to see downed, for
they are running this government from
snout to tail. I am infoimed by Mr.
Dickey, chairman of the Prohibition
national committee, that this govern
ment now has agents in different heath
en countries looking after the kinds and
qualities of liquors and beers best
adapted to that country, and if that is
bo, I have no respect left for Uncle Sani.
I have known for a long time that he
was a greedy old devil, only requiring
f 1.15 on every gallon of whiskey dis
tilled aud f 2 on every barrel of beer.
With this put into his pocket, if he is
out hunting markets for whiskey and
beer, then he is a hopelesj old sinner
and deserves tobedamnec1, ei he wi'l be.
.
I go from here farther west, and will
be glad when the first of September wiJ.1
wind up my chautauqua engagements.
Brother Stewart, Tillman and myself
begn a series of meetings at Tocc "a,
Ga., in the tibernacle there the second
Sunday in beptember. Thence on to
other meetings, at Paris, Tenn., May
field, Ky.f Anniston, Ah,., etc.
It is pleasant to meet Georgia friends
here and there everywhere. I feel
akin to all Georgians when we meet
away from home. I love" old ' Georgy,
her red hills, her noble people, her
water jaelona and peaches,,
I suppose we will let our tabernacle
meeting at Cartersville go over until
another year. At least no 'date has
been named for it this year.
Yours,
SAk P. Jones.
P. S. Give ray love to all the fussing,
quarrelling gang of Atlanta and ?ll
them to hurry and get through, for its
going to be too hot where they are go
ing to fuss. S.'P. J,
Tlie Vanderbllt Forent.' r
Forest and Stream. t
The pisag forest has cosV'.VanderbHt
something like 1250,000, or ..about $2.50
an acre, lie has bought it in great or
small tracts as rapidly as possible, and
now hia rangers are the only denizens.
There are five of them, all picked men
of the mountains, of fine .... physique,
good liders and deadBhots. They must
keep open the roads and trails, see that
the boundary fence, 300 miles in length,
is all right; keep out poacneya, look af
ter the game and the trout and always
be on the alert for timber stealer.
There are 2G5 miles of trail inihis for
est, the trails leading alongside each
trout stream. There are 70 miles of
road passable for wagon. There are
miles of shooting paths, the latter 15
feet in width and cut out right and
left f.-om the roads. WThen deer are
driven they muBt cross these paths, and
by means of the latter alone can the
hunter see them in time to get a shot.
Though Mr. Vandeibilt is not a
sportsman, but a student, yet all things
are kept ready for him. His pleasure
is the pleasure of others. On his last
visit he only caught one Lout, nor did
he fire a gun. His wife was with him.
She is a good horsewoman and rode a
pony up. and down the steepest' trails.
Under protection native trout are rapid
ly restocking the streams without arti
ficial propagation.
At Biltmore Mr. Vanderbilt has an
ajooretum, one of the laigest. in the
world, and the pioneer in the United
States. This was formerly under the
direction of Gifford Pinchot, who is at
present head forester of the United
States; it ia now under the direction of
Dr. Schneck as forester. In thia. arbor
etum more than 300,000 trees .t, and
shrubs haye been planted. Pisgah for
est is the complement of the arboretum,
and in these wild woods Dr. Schenck
has a lodge where he spends much of
each summer with his class. In the
latter are often youths of wealth and
high social position who wish to study
forestry' a study which the United
States needs, since so many millions are
daily devoting tnemselves to the task of
forest destruction and so few to conser
vation. Negroes Ulobhed in New York tor
KtllioK a Policeman. ', .
New York Dispatch, loth.
A mob of several hundred persona
formed at 11 o'clock to-night, in front
of the home of Policeman Robert J.
Thoipe, of Thirty-8eventh street and
Ninth, avenue.to wreak vengeance upon
the negroes of that neighborhood be
cause one of the:r race had caused the
poH: sman's death. Thorpe was stabb
ed and bruised last Sunday night by
several negroes when he waa at a meet
ing to arrest a colored woman. The
man who inflicted most of the-injury
is said to be Arthur Harris, a negro
who came here several weekB ago from
Washington. In a few moments the
rnob to-night swelled to 1,500 people or
more, and as they became violent the
negroes fied in terror into any hiding
place they could find. The police re
seryea from four stations, numbering
400 in all, were ca'led out. The mob
of white men, which grew with great
rapidity, raged through the district,
and negroes, regardless of age or sex,
were indiscriminately attacked. Scores
were injured. It took the combined
effo; ta of the reserves, with as many
more policemen on regular patrol duty
in the lour precincts, to restore order.
Club were used until the policemen
were almost exhausted. Revolvers were
emptied into the air and in one or two
instances fired at the upper stories of the
negro tenements, from which the ne-
groea defensively fired bricks, paving
stones and other missiles.
Shirt AValat ITIan Won.
Nkw Yokk, August 21. The shirt
waist man won a famous victory at
Rockaway beach yesterday. Hereto
fore he has been barred in the dancing
pavillion on Philip's iron pier.
So many protest were made that Mr.
Phillips determined to let the women
patrons of the pavilion decide the mat
ter by ballot.
The voting began at 10 a. m. and at
z p. m. tno count was maue. bix nun-
dred ballots had been cast. Five hun
dred and ninety-three favored letting
the shirt waist man dance without his
coat. The other seven yoted against
the proposition.
CIIILO LAISOU IN FACTOIt i US.
Raleigh Post. '
The Springfield Republican under
takes to lecture us aa follows:
'The Governor-elect of North Caro
lina says that the cotton manufacturers
of the State are considering an agree
ment to 'dispense with the labor of
children under 12 years of age. But
how far will a voluntary agreement be
apt to hold so long as there is profit in
employing children under 12? The
situation in the South in this respect ;s
simply scandalous. It is said that in
some of the North Carolina mills chil
dren only eight or nine years old are
employed, even on the night shifts
working all night for 10 cents! If the
manufacturers are ready to make such
an agreement aa specified and stick by
it, why do they oppoae caild labor leg;s
lation, aa they have done iu both North
and South Carol1 na."
1 here ia no such "scandalous ' con
ditlon existing in North Carolina as the
above impves. The men who own and
direct the management of the mil's in
tb;s State, with very few exceptions, are
North Carolinians, and the exceptions
are imbued with the same instincts of
humanity that govern those native and
to the manor born, certainly so far as
child labor is concerned. Child labor
is employed in the mills for many rea
sons other than the "profits" that can
accrue from such labor. There is
class of labor children can j arform even
more conveniently than grown persons
while the latter are employed on more
important work.
It may be a sin or a misfortune that
children have to be fed and clothed,
but whichever it is, the daily experience
of older folks forces upon them this
irresistable fact. They are not allowed,
under existing laws, to go out as soon
as they are thrown upon the world to
work or starve, take possession of an
other's lands and mule and run a farm,
nor are they expected or permitted to
run for office. Still they must have
clothes and somethiug to eat. One of
the owners of two prosperous cotton
factories in this State today waa left an
o;phan under 12 years of age by the
death of his father, and nothing stood
between his widowed mother and s
other children younger than hirase'f
and starvation save a cotton mill, and
it was the sympathy of the owner there
of that gave the older children woik by
which the family could be kept together
and have the care of the mother.
Under such legislation as these North
ern mill men have, and are busying
themaelves through peripatetic labor
agitators to force the South to adopt,
this family and hundreds of others
would have been and would today be
scattered upon the earth to suffer, to
sin, to starve, to die. Clod knows, and
sincere, unselfish, philanthropic men
know, it is better to thus help these
otherwise helpless, women, widows, aud
children, or orphan children, than turn
them out upon the cold charity of a
world daily increasing in selfishness,
we fear, than to be importing foreigners
and giving them placrs that we have
plenty of people to fill, as the New
England mills are now doing.
Read the following, which we have
just clipped from a Northern exchange:
"An unusually large number of
foreign immigrants appear to be settling
at present in some parts of the New
England States, where they obtain work
in the cotfon mills and in connection
with other industries. Lafely, it is said
m Connecticut and Rhode Island, the
preference has been g'ven to Greeks
while in the Fall River mills a large
number of Portuguese and Poles have
found employment."
Th';eNew England mills are thus
practically importing these foreignera
and Living thein placea, of ourse at
lower wages, that thousands living iu
those Statsa re 1. Nearly if not all the
labor in our rr'lla ia of our own people;
and the children, such as are employed,
are the children of those otherwise un
able to support them, or are orphans
left helpless upon the world.
It is not a crime to be born poor in
N6rth Carona however inconvenient
too many of us know it to be. But
being born, some sort of a living, and
a decent manner of living, should be
given. And the mills in North Care
Jina, instead of contributing to a situa
tion that is "scandalous" have been a
Grd-send indeed to many hundreds of
women and children.
We have been told by mill managers
that they employed no more young
children than conditions of the chil
dren, not the mi'le required and they
were, when it could be done without
entailing suffering, dispensing with
them. A law, however, requiriug p'l
such to be discharged, and preyenting
employment of othera in tbe future,
would involve a cruel hardship upon
many and many an unfortunate. We
have heard of nothing in fie conduct
of any of oar mill men which would
ju8tify any legislative interference with
their management or which indicates
.they cannot settle this matter justly, as
each individual case may require.
These women and children are as much
en titled to consideration as men, who
are not only able to work where these
weaker ones are not, but who only
would be -benefited by the legislation
demanded for the disturbance of South
ern mills by Northern competitors.
! -There is always one girl in the party
that the chaperon is afraid will go and
te'l on her if she has anv fun at alt. .
ALLIED FOHCES ENTER
PEKIN.
Foreigner in the Location Rescued
from Their Perilous Pot.il Ion.
London, August 17. The mitaty
forces of the allied powers have entered
Pekinand saved themioisters and other
foreigners who have been bo long be
sieged by Boxers in the legations. The
backbone of Chinese resistance was evi
dently broken by the rapid advance and
continuous Buccee8 of the international
forces, for there waa no opposition o
their entering the imperial city. The
allies completed their relief march Au
gust 15 and are now in charge of t! e
foreigu diplomats.
The first definite news of the succesB
of the international relief expedition
came today by way of Berlin. The
German consul at Shanghai notified the
foreign office that the a'hes had entered
the walled city and Baved the ministers
and that this had been accomplished
without fighting. The German consul's
telegram follows :
"The allies entered Pekin without
any fighting. The embassies have been
relieved and the foreignera liberated and
safe."
Soon after the receipt of the dispatch
from Berlin, Dalziel'a newa agency pub
lished a telegram received from Shang
hai, dated August 17, 11:40, which says:
"lhe allies entered Pekin Wednes
day. It ia believed that Viceroy Yuan
Shin Kan's troops have gone to Shensi
to protect the Dowager Empreea during
her ihght."
A dispatch was also received by Reu-
ter s Telegram Company from Shan'
hai, confirming the statement that the
international army entered Pekin Wed
nesday. Still another Shanghai tele
gram states that Li Hung Chang an
nounces that he has received a tele
graphic dispatch to the effect that the
allied forces entered Pekin Wednesday,
August, 15 without opposition.
The EmpreaM EMcape.
Washington. Ausrust 20. The Stata
Department to-day issued the following
statement:
"The Acting Secretary of State makes
pub'-c the receipt of a telegram from
Consul General Goodnow, dated the
20th instant, reporting a statement of
the erovernor of San Tuner, that the
Empress left Pekin on the 13th. for Si
nan lu, in the province of .shensi, and
that Princes Chane and Tuan and
Viceroy Kang Yi are still in Pekin."
"binan ru appears to be another
phone' e version of the name of the
capital or hnensi, where there is an mi
perial palace. It is otherwise spelt Hsi
An, Si An and Si Ugan, the suffix "Fu"
denoting city which is a seat of ad
ministration. J'onjrer Cable People Sated.
Washington, August 21. The state
department makes public the following
extracts from a cablegram received last
night from Minister Conger:
"United States Legation, Pekin (Un
dated), via Che Foo Secretary of State,
Washington:, Saved. Relief arrived
today. Entered city with little trouble.
Do not yet know where impsrial family
is. Except deaths already repor , J all
Americans alive and well. Desperate
efforts made last night to exterminate us.
Conger, by Fowler, Che Foo."
Frietl ail Ens Anphalt.
Washington Cor. Chicago Times-Herald.
Dr. A. J. Shafhirt, proprietor of a
drugstore at North Capital and U
str?ets, Washington, fried an egg op
the asphalt pavement in front of hi?
pharmacy yesterday shortly before
noon.
The egg waa done to the turning poirt
in seven and a half miuutea after it was
broken on the concrete by Dr. Schaf
hirt. It waa then turned over, as a
cook llapa a pancake, and was thorough
ly cooked within 10 minutes.
A little negro who was among the
witnesses of the trick asked for the egg
after it had gone the rounds of curious
bystanders, and ate it with eyident
relish. A hundred or more employes
of the government pnn-ng office,
which is close by, watched the phar
macist overBee the eggfrying act.
Dr. Schafhirt had made the assertion
that judging from the heat registered
by thermometers standing in the sun it
was hot enough to cook an egg on the
pavement. Several friends who hap
pened to be in bis store chaffed and
"lolhed the doctor for making such a
suggestion, and finally he said he would
prove to the doubters that he knew
what he was talking about.
iV thermometer outside his store
under the rays at that moment regi :
tered 120 degrees. The doctor figured
that the radiation of the heat from the
concrete, which fairly sizzled under old
Sol's attentions, meant that the degree
of heat on the pavement itself was near j
to 150 degrees. Accordingly he took
an egg, and picking out a place that J
was without any protection i.'om the
rays of the sun tapped the shell and let
the contents fall on the tieiy concrete.
He held a watch wh'le the hot
asphalt underneath the egg and the
unrelenting rays of the sun over its sur
face gradually completed the frying
roceaa. The egg browned nicely and
did not have time to run over a large
surface of the street, aa at first feared
by the doctor.
In Austria at the present day the
public executioner wears a pair of new
white gloves every time he ia called up
on to carry out a capital sentence.
THE
THE Pit ICE OK COTTON.
Atlanta Journal.
When Hon. C. II. Jordarj, the agri
cultural editor of the Journal, several
montha ago predicted thttt cotton would
bring ten cents a pound this fall, there
waa skeptjcism in the minda of many
who had not given the subject study, and
eyen in the minds of some who had. A
number of farmer8 and fertilizer con
cern8 sold cotton for fall delivery at
about eight cents.
jnow it transpires that there ia more
faith in the Btaple, and the talk of t3n
cents has become common among
newspapers and people who have juat
waked up to the situation. No one can
predict with absolute certainty what the
market will be, but the general opinion
aa to the fall price of cotton is far above
that of two or three montha ago.
There is an impression abroad that
the demand for cotton will be seriously
curtailed by the war in China. Tbia
a popular impression calculated to effect
the price of the staple, but in well in
formed circlea it will not have much
effect, for general reasons, among which
are the following:
The amount of raw cotton purchased
by China in 1890 was 74.000 baies. but
her purchases of cotton goods amounted
to $3,oi,yi.. the amount or raw
cotton in these goods, added to that
taken in the raw state, will make about
G00, 000 balea of 500 pounds.
If ell of this trade were cut off by
the war thia year it would be offset
twice over by the failure of the crop in
India.
It is estimated that the cotton croD cf
India this year will be about one-fourth
of the average for the past five years
That average was about 1,900,000 bales
of 500 pounds each. This year the
official estimate of the director general
of statistics for India is about 500,000
bales of 500 pounds each.
This leaves a shortage of 1,400,000
bales in India. If the demand for cot
ton and cotton goods in China were
wholly cut off, the shortage of the crop
in India would offset it and still leave a
shoi tag? of 800,000 bales.
It is not likely that the Chinese de
mand wil' be entirely cut off. While
w?r is progressing in the province of Pe
Ohi Li, containing tbo citiea of Pekin
nd Tien Tsin, other provinces, with
the port! of Hong Kong, Canton and
Shanghai are open to trade.
The bulk of the imports goes through
Hong Kong, and there we have heard
of no check upon trade. It ia likely,
therefore, that most of the consumption
of cotton goods in China will be reported
the coming year. If the allied powers
speedily reduce the insuirecticn, which
has been called "an imperial riot,"
confined mostly to the province which
includes the capital and Tien Tsin, and
the progressive young emperor is placed
on th3 throne, the entire country will
be opened up and the foreign trade will
be immensely increased. The tendency
in that direction is shown by the fact
that it increased 25 per cent in the last
year reported, ending with 1899.
The chances are that after the curtail
ment of demand, if any, due to the war
in China, ia deducted, the crop failure
in India will have a shortage of bver a
million bales, so far as the continent of
Asia is concerned. With cotton con
sumption . ncreasing throughout the
ciyil'zed world, and in many parts
which are hardly civilized, there will be
a iarge relative shortage.
In this country the condition of the
growing crop was reported by the gov
ernment bureau of statistics at 7G, which
is lower than the condition of the crop
on August first for several years. The
crop promise of two or three weeks go
has not continued and untimel) drouth
following a wet season has done much
damage to the cotton in some eections.
Well informed opinion now look8 for
crop of about 10,250,000 in this
country and a crop in the rest of the
world far below that of recent years.
Under these circumstancea. with pros
perous times and a high level of pur
chasing power among the world a
workers, the price ought to be good.
Wit of lhe Indian.
Philadelphia Call.
There waa a lawyer in the Indian
country who had none too good a repu
tation for honesty. One of the abon-
ginea employed him to do a little legal
business. It was done to the client s
satisfaction, the fee duty paid, and a
receipt for it duly demanded.
"A receipt len t necessary, the law
yer said.
"But I want it, replied the red man.
There waa some argument, and the at
torney finally demanded his reason.
"Since becoming a Christian I have
been very careful in all my dealings,
that I may be ready for the judgment,"
answered the brave sententiously, "and
when that day comes I don't want to
take time to go to th3 bad place to get
my receipt from you.
The receipt waa made out and deliv
ered promptly.
Fire CaiiMed IS)' Ll:i.h nlnii.
Cuaki.otte, N. C , Aug. 22. AtS
o'clock tonight, during a errific electri
r ,1 sorm, Pghtning struck the big barn
of the Charlotte Gil and Fertilizer Works
and it we destroyd by fire. Great ex
citement prevailed for a time on account
cf fear that other buih'.nga might catch,
but further damage wf? avert J. The
building and content i, consisting of
large quantities of bundles of hay, were
consumed. The loas ia several thousand
dollars. j
FASTEST TRAINS IN THE WOHI.I.
What an EiiKliftli Expert OiM'Overed
in Examining Heading ltallroad
Schedule.
An English railway official realizing
that British railways were not up to
the standard of the French and Ameri
can railwaya, in the matter of fast train
eeivice, compiled for three of the most
prominent British companies, the North
Eastern, North British and Great
Northern, a table showing speeds of the
fastest scheduled trains in the " world
which, in the year 1899, run at the
ra' 3 of more than 55 miles an hour
from start to sfop. .
It is no surprise, , but a matter of
pride, that Pennsylvania furnishes the
astest trains in the world.
The table shows that the four fastest
trains in the world run between Phil
adelphia and Atlantic City, and of these
the two traina that head the list are
accorded to the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway, the Pennsylvania Rail
road following with the next two. The
table, as compiled by the unprejudiced
English railway official, shows that the
two trains over the P. & R. run from
Camdea to Atlantic City, a distance of
55 J miles, at the speed, from start to
atop, of 0G.G miles per hour. The
Pennsylvania Railroad trains, running
petween the same points, but with a
trackage of 59 miles, make G4.3 miles
per hour.
The Atlantic City schedules of the
Reading Railway for 1900 show an in
crease in the number of these fast traina
over the schedule from which the com
piler of the list got hi3 information.
During the summer of 1900 trains
made the Bame speed both ways, which
they did not do in 1S99. New engines
of greater steaming capacity have been
built. The Reading engines that haul
theBe trains are ponderous affaire,
weighing a total of 175,000 pounds.
The driving wheels are 7 feet in diam
eter and the trailers 4i feet.
ItellectioiiH of a Itaehelor.
New York I'ress.
Men who marry their first love-
generally end by being about aa happy
as those that win the first time they
play poker.
Selfishness probably never would have
existed if it weren't for love.
A woman can afford to forgive her
husband for everything except marry
ing her.
A baby a smile is the sweetast thing
in the world; it is a combination of con
tentment, idiocy, curdled milk and
gums.
If men were as noble and heroic aa
their wivea think they are there would
beao many monuments around that the
strrat care would all have to run under
ground.
No woman ever falls in loye without
a mental reservation.
Every married woman knows that
men are more romance than women.
Men are never as meek and humble
aa they look and women are more so.
A woman never forgiveB a man ,.or
his kiudnees in bringing her husband
home drunk.
A woman who gets to be 25 without
being a man is no longer a woman; she
is only a curio.
When a girl is too modest to let a
man tie her shoestrings she ought to be
made to go barefooted.
Probably be love of angels for man
is as tender and sweet as the love of aa
old maid for the new minister.
A woman's way of getting even with
her husband for showing her that she
was wrong is by not admitting it.
A man can t please all women part of
the time or one woman all of the time,
but he can always smile at all of their
babiea.
Probably women are so fond of babiea
becauae they always act like they knew
they could get anything they want if
they only made row enough.
The Electoral Vole.
A correspondent asks us to print the
electoral vote of each State. It is as
follows:
Alabama. 11: Arkansas. 8: California.
j J. 7
8; Colorado, 4; Connecticut, G; Dela
ware, o; Florida, 4; Ueorgia, j;; Idaho,
3: Illinois. 24: Indiana. 15: Iowa 13-
Kansas, 10; Kentucky, 13; Louisiana,
4; Maine, G; Maryland, 8; Massachu
setts, 15; Michigan, ii; Minnesota, 9;
Mississippi, 9; Missouri, 17; Montana,
3; Nebraska, 8; Nevada, 3; New Hamp
shire. 4: New Jersev. 10: New York. 3G-
North Carolina, 11; North Dakota, 3;
Ohio, 23; Oregon, 4; Pennsylvania, 32;
Rhode Island. 4: South Carolina. 9:
South Dakota, 4; Tennessee, 12; Texas,
15; Utah, 3; Vermont, 4; Virginia, 12;
Washington. 4: West Virginia. G: Wis
consin, 12; Wyoming, 3.
Yotinr Wan Killed at Spencer.
Salisbury, Au. 20. W. R. Thomp
son, of Danville, a brakeman on the
Southern Railway, waa instantly killed
at Spencer Saturday night while .riding
aa a passenger on No. 12, the north
bound local. The unfortunate young
man waa returning from Concord,
where he had been visiting. Wishing
to save himself a walk from the station,
he stepped from the train" as it passed
opposite hia boarding place at a consid
erable rat3 of speed. .No one on the
tain observed the accident, which was
the result of hia being throw between
the wheels in some way. Later, the
boby was discovered by the track, much
mangled. The remains were eent to
the home of the deceased yesterday
morning.