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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1900.
NO 37.
MRS. WILSON IN JAPAN.
The AVI fo of a Southern ITIethodiMt
IliNhon Telia ol Condition!.
Baltimore Sun.
Koue, Japan, Aug. 1. Japan, ac
cording to the patriotic Japanese, is
situated at the summit of the globe.
In the beginning, when the earth was
separated from the heavens, Japan
was found immediately opposite the
sun. Perhaps that was the reason
they call her the Land of the Rising
Sun. I can imagine no better reason,
except the beauty of the country and
the long, long range of mountains
clothed with a verdure that reminds
one of a covering of velvet, reaching
from base to summit, all the way
from northeast to southwest.
The Japanese believe themselves
descended from the gods, and hence
their continued certainty of superior
ity over other nations. They assure
us of the celestial origin of the Mika
do, and hence his name, Son o
Heaven. Their "Jiook of Traditions'
is the "Dawn of History" to the na
tive mind. :
In this mv second visit to the beau
tif ul islands I see signs of a new J a
nan, whose annals must be written
by some ready hand.
Woman does not live the secluded
life common, in other Oriental lands
Hence wo see on every hand many
pretty young women as weil as beau
tiiul children. The old women nave
no beauty, but we see as many attrac
tive faces from 20 years of age down
to boyhood as upon any street in on
native city: , With a friend I called
upon a young Japanese lady, as love
lv in appearance as anyone l ever
saw. She was handsomely dressed
according to the fashion of her coun
try, but received us with bare feet
They do not wear shoes in their
homes. Neither do foreigners tread
their handsome lacquer floors until
the shoe is removed. Thus our pretty
hostess received us. we having left
our boots on the outside of the door
My friend knew her well and asked
to see the baby, which was a fine boy
of 10 months. After her servants had
served us with refreshments we made
our salaams and departed. '
The heads or little children are
shaved in curious circles and bald
spots, the meaning of which is un
known to me, although 1 suppose
some rule regulates the fashion. Baby
traverses the streets strapped to moth
er's back and appears happy. Some
of the older ones climb to the should
ers for a better yiew of what is going
on. It often happens that the older
brother or sister is the custodian of
baby, and should a game be on hand
neither nurse or little one is discom
posed by the extra burden on the one
hand or the jostling on the other.
In the shops here and tnere are
very beautiful curios ivories, deco
rated china, bronzes, silks, embroid
eries. The work of old Japan is fast
growing less. They say the foreign
demand no longer calls for ancient
lacquer and the other elegant pro
ductions of the olden days. It is al
most impossible to find an old piece
of Satsuma; the new taken its place
The carvings, whether new or old, are
more beautiful than any in our own
country.
The peripatetic vender of sweets ant:
more wholesome eatables is seen on
the right and the left, while the elat
ter of the wooden clogs upon the feet
of young and old, high and low, is
heard at all hours, for many streets
are cemented or paved with stones
The houses are mostly small (there
are not many wealthy people in Ja
pan and the residences of such are en
closed so that the passerby may not
have full view) and immediately up
on the street. . The four sides are
made to slide back so that a stranger
may well say that they are composed
only of roof and foundation, or lloor
One mav see all that is going on in
the house.
The Japanese are said to be cleanly
in their habits, the taking of a hot
bath beinsr the daily custom of each
member of the family. The little home
is frequently scrubbed and is quite
orderly. The poorest have a bed of
flowers or a table of plants at the
front. They may be beggars, but they
seem to have the artistic sense. I
traveled 17 hours on a railroad a week
ago, "and I noticed all the way vil
lages of thatched roofs with the bor
der of growing flowers on the top
ridge. It is really very beautiful.
The people as a rule are poor, gentle
and polite. All classes are very punc
tilious in matters of etiquette. If I
may judge them by their e very-day
manners I would say they will march
to battle only in the most polite order.
They are more accustomed to for
eigners than a dozen years ago; travel
has increased so that I am not so
much an object of curiosity as former
ly. I remember that villages turned
out to seethe queer-looking beings
that passed this way 12 years ago.
Maidens and old women (with their
black teeth, a hideous fashion that
originated, I was told, in the jealousy
of husbands who were determined
that no other man should admire the
women already married), men and
childred followed us by the score, not
certain as to what order we belonged.
It is different today. Perhaps further
oh I may find the same interest. I
remember on one day I was engaged
in a piece of needlework upon a "ko-
joki," a small steamer on the Inland
Sea. In a most good-natured way my
serving was taken from me and passed
around among the purious company
on deck, for buttons, button-holes,
needles and fashion were all new to
them. Seeing their good temper, I
was not discomposed and in due time
my work was returned with many
salaams.
The position of a wife is not as try
ing apparently as in other Eastern
countries. She must be subject to
her husband, and yet is not as abso
lutely so as in some other lands.
There are seven causes for divorce,
two of which I recollect, namely,1 if
the wife talks much and if she is dis
obedient to her mother-in-law. Sec
ond marriages are allowed, but not
always encouraged. One of the his
torians mentions a young widow who
resisted a second marriage. She said
that a little swallow outside her win
dow lost her mate the summer before
When winter came she went south
ward as always. The spring time
brought the same bird back, but she
came alone. Her argument was con
elusive.
The artistic sense is well developed
in Japan. I suppose.no people have
afforded greater pleasure on this line
than these. Fuiiama, an extinct vol
cano, figures in all their drawings and
paintings.,' There is scarcely a piece
of their artwork in which Fugi does
not appear. It is a perfect cone and
there is no higher volcano in the
world. The Dutch described it long
before Commodore Ferry opened Ja
nan to the commerce of the world
Two hundred and fifty years ago Hoi
land had some business relations with
this country. Fuji was then active
and one of their writers spoke of the
"whirling flames of lire" that issued
from her summit. We can scarcely
wonder that a heathen people wor
shipped the great Fujiama, for it was
to them the most terrible emblem of
power. They knew none greater
Filcrims still visit the crater to wor
ship the sunrise.
The Japanese are gregarious. Along
the range of mountains we rarely see
a single house, but large villages
nestle among the hills. Evil has of
ten lurked near, and so, both for safe
ty and because they possess social na
tures, they live in communities. It
seems a contradiction to this that
there are temples in solitary places
on mountain tops or in secluded
clumps of trees. Pilgrimages are made
to these shrines. Buddhism taught
that in the fullness of life there is
fullness of sorrow and that only in
solitude can nature be mastered and
man ascend to the lofty heights of
perfection.
Until recently every inch of ground
even to the tops of the high peaks
was put under cultivation. The peo
pie were agricultural, and to feed 40,
000.000 people it was needful that
there be no waste. But manufactur
ing establishments are increasing and
there is more money. They still raise
all that the land is capable of, but
there are waste places to be seen.
Ilice was and is the staple of food
but they are finding out that a sturdy
race must have nitogenous foods, and
the imports are increasing. Last year
the sugar brought into the country
amounted in value to $17,000,000.
The emergencies ot every-uay lite in
creases and men and women must
have a new reserve of strength.
The city oi Kobe, where l at pres
ent am resting, owes its importance
to its foreign commerce. The same
can be said of Yokahama. Both were
small fishing villages, and not so long
ago. Kobe is a great importing point
because Oska is very near, which is
the distributing city of all this region
The trade of, Kobe is larger than Yo
kohama, though the latter is an ex
port emporium, erpecially of silks
I can say but little ot the situation
in China in fact, nothing. No one
can forecast the future. The outlook
is disheartening. The fear is that i
bloody year is ahead.
Japanese transports have been em
ployed by the Minister in Tokio at
Government expense to convey refu
gees from China to Japan, Consul;
and Governors in China having ad
vised all foreigners, especially women
and children, to leave the country.
Foreigners left in Shanghai have been
organized (they are volunteers) into a
remment and are drilled lor the de
fense of their homes. A proclama
tion was issued by the same Minister
at Tokio and Lyon (American) at
Kobe calling upon American citizens
residing in Japan to open their homes
and otherwise provide for refugees.
The American and British Ministers
in Tokio have issued public announce
ment by the press and over their own
signatures asking for subscriptions to
fund for the succor of those who
may be in need by reason of Chinese
looting and similar cause.
Our Minister, Mr. Buck, of Geor
gia, is not behind in tins lanoroi love.
Mrs. Lyon and other ladies of our
legation are active in all these
plans for the comfort of refugees,
many ot whom nave arnveu, anu oi
whom others are on the way. An
American transport left Yokohama on
July 10 carrying missionary families
back to Canada and the United States,
charging only the absolute cost of
food. Among these passengers was a
lady with her small children, whose
husband, at this time, is still shut up
in Pekin. ,
Let me note that our Minister at
Tokio, Mr. Buck, was the first to issue
a Thanksgiving proclamation, follow
ing that of the President of the Uni
ted States. The day, I am informed,
was well kept by Amcrian residents
in Japan by church observance. More
anon ! Mrs. A. W. Wilson.
ATTENTION TO DETAILS.
Baltimore Sun.
It would be erroneous to ascribe to
any one quality or habit the success at
tained by men eminent in business, in
the professions or in politics, but the
ability to grasp details and to under
stand their relations is among the most
important. The great men of the world
seem to pay very little attention to de
tails, but that is because they have
mastered them; not because they give
them uo thought. When a great en
gineer projects a new construction he
prepares only a general plan, leaving
to his assistants the work of drawing
the details; but he would not be a great
engineer if he did not have such
thorough knowledge of details as to be
able to draw his plans with reference to
them. They can be worked out
leisure, provided the general design i8
practicable. The lawyer of the first
rank has no time to look up precedents
and decisions, but as he is a master of
principles and has a broad knowledge
of details, he can outline a case and
leave to his assistants the task of find
ing the decisions which support it. In
all callings and professions the man of
broad views who seems to give little at
tention to details is always one who has
obtained a mastery of details by giving
to them close attention during the for
mative period. Striking examples of
this are to be seen in works of art. The
master is one who, with a thorough
knowledge of drawing, canafford to
dispense with details in producing his
effects. Those who imitate his mere
style without his skill sever achieve
success. The capacity to study details
is a measure, in fact, of one a mental
ability. It may be applied to any
school. The pupil who can give atten
tion to details, master principles and
escape mental confusion is sure to be
come learned. Years ago mathematics
was made the test of mental ability, es
peciallv in England. It is not alto
gether a fair test, for there are lines of
mental activity which do not demand
the possession of the mathematical fac
ulty, but it is as good as any one test
can be. To succeed in mathematics
requires close attention to detail, as
well as reasoning powers. It is a most
useful study, for the reason that it
trains one to be attentive as well as to
use the principles of logic. The good
mathematicians in a class of young
people are necessarily attentive; if they
advance to the higher grades it may
safely be assumed that they have clear
heads and logical minds. Skill in
mathematics is therefore a rough meas
ure of capacity to learn, bat it is not
the only measure. Its foundation is
attention to details and principles, and
this is the foundation of success in
nearly all undertakings. The capacity
to master details may be developed by
study. Some men have this capacity
as a gift of nature, others are obliged to
acquire it if they would achieve suc
cess, and to some it is a laborious task;
but the young should disabuse their
minds of the idea that they can become
eminent in any business or profession
without serving an apprenticeship
The brilliant musician gives no thought
to the scales he practiced day after day
for years, but it is because of such prac
tice that he is now able to astonish his
auditors with his skill. He gaye atten
tion to details and mastered them and
has now become a great player. The
successful business or professional man
has practiced his scales in a similar
manner and now apparently gives no
more attention to details than the mu
sician to his early exercises.
Till" Bum)- world.
Youth's Companion.
There are times when progress moves
so rapidly that it taxes a man s strength
to keep abreaet of civilization. Many
of us can sympathize with an unhappy
looking English farmer, who always
shook his head when the word ''pro
gress" was mentioned.
"What are you so low about, my
friend ?" some one asked him.
"Why," said he, "what wi' faith and
gas and balloons and steam-ingines
a-booming and a fizzling through the
warld and what wi' th' 'arth a-going
round once in twenty-four hours, I'm
fairly muzzled and stagnated."
Itrother Dickey on the Hot Wave.
Atlanta Constitution.
I don't niin' de hot weather. I knows
one t'ing, an dat is de hottes' weather
is comin ter some folks hereafter.
De worl' may be roun', or de worl'
may be flat: All I knows is, I'm in it
twell de Ladw say, "Come higher!
Ef you fall by de wavside de bes'
'ing you kin do is ter git up en shake
yo'se'f, en take a fresh holt.
Sinners is alius got a excuse fer dey
sins. i)e righteous don t have ter make
no excuse.
The Light That Failed.
She Left her husband, has she?
Why she used to say ho was the light
of her existence.
He Yes, but the light began to go
out at night.
THE PENSION PROBLEM.
Baltimore Sun.
The statement just put forth by the
Pension Office, though intended fcr a
campaign document, makes melancholy
reading for the patriot who is indiffer
ent to the exigencies of politicalparties.
It is in effect a boast that the present
Administration is wasting more money
than its predecessors in passing doubtful
claims and is second only to the Harri
son administration m the amountwasted
in one year. This, it is thought, will
win yotes, but it ought among a really
patriotic people to repel them. It is
boasted, for example, that the number
of pensioners on the rolls of the office
was swelled from 991,519 in 1899 to
1,036,803 in 1900, deaths and marriages
being credited with evidently unwel
come reductions that bring the net in
crease for the year down to 2,010. Al
ways lax and worked in the interest of
doubtful claims, the Pension Officer
compares its present administration
with that of Cleveland's term to show
how much easier it is to get a pension
now. In Cleveland's first year 31 J per
cent, of all claims made for pensions,
it is stated, were allowed, but in Me
Kmley's first year 52 per cent, were
allowed! In President Harrison's last
year, when a Presidential election was
impending, $150,800,538 was given in
pensions. This was the highwater mark
of pension bribery of voters. Mr.
Cleveland in his first year without re
jecting a single meritorious claim re
duced this figure to $139,980,020. A
fully rational system would doubtless
have reduced it a hundred millions
more. This is suggested by the state
ment of the Pension Office that between
1309 and 1881, when the really meri
torious claims were more numerous
than now, or than they were in 1894,
the average yearly outgo for pensions
was but $31,321,176. It is made a
merit of the present Administration
that it one year worked the largest to
ex-soldiers up to $144,051,779. This is
more than all other nations in the
world put together distribute in pensions.
Not only do we excel in the amount
of our reckless waste in this item of ex
penditure, but also in the proportion of
revenue devoted to pensions and other
military expenditures. In the year
ended June 30. 1897, before the war
with Spain and the increased taxes due
to that adventure, the outgo on pen
sions was 40 per cent, of our total reve
nues. Of every $100 collected from the
taxpayers $40 went to the pensioners.
In that year the expenditure for the
army was 14 per cent, and for the navy
10 per cent, of our total revenue, mak
ing our total military expenditure for
unproductive purposes 04 per cent, of
our total income. The recent wars and
war taxes, by increasing the revenue
and by increasing the expenditure for
army and navy, have altered the pro
portions, in lby the revenue was
$347,721,705; in 1900 it was $508,988,
94S. While the army and navy to
gether in the former vear cost $S3,500,
000, or 24 per cent, of total revenue, in
the latter year the army and navy to
gether cost as much as $190,743,980,
or 33 i per cent, of the total revenue.
Pensions in 1900 cost $138,402,172, or
24 per cent., the smaller per centage
being the result of the increased reve
nue caused by increased taxation. Our
total expenditure for military purposes
accordingly in 1900 classing pensions
with army and navy expenditures was
$329,250,000, or 57 J per cent, of our
total reyenue. VThat we spend for war
purposes alone in 1900, it will be ob
served, is but 18J millions less than the
total of our revenue three years ago.
Keyerting to the item of pensions,
the Pension Office boasts that from
July, 1805, to June 30, 1900, the pen
sion business has cost $2,012,329,090,
to which vast total must be added $47,-
885,382 spent on soldiers' homes. The
public debt and the aggregate of inter
est on it, together with war claims,
must be added to the pension outgo in
making out the bill for the preservation
of the Union. It is being fully paid,
leaving nothing due by way of grati
tude for patriotic self-sacrifice. It is,
however, open to doubt whether the
idea that self-sacrifice is no part of the
duty of the patriot is a good one.
!fr. ltryan I In Groun.
Atlanta Constitution.
Every day it becomes more evident
that Mr. Bryan has grown with the last
four years.
The Pittsburg Post declares that he
has not lost his hold upon the people.
In the four years since the struggle of
1890 he has traversed the country from
end to end, addressing thousands upon
thousands of listeners of every shade of
political belief and the result is an
overwhelming confidence in his di wn
right and upright sincerity of purpose.
And his many frank utterances as
appearing in print have only tended to
strenghen that confidence. Honesty
and sincerity, then, are generally re-1
cognized as making up a large part of
Mr. Bryan s character.
All of which is true. It was com
plained during the Democratic nation
al convention that there was but one
voice that of Mr, Bryan. The com
plaint might have gone further and
included all conventions. There was
not one held in which Mr. Bryan's per
sonality was not felt.
Bryan is the great American of to-day.
The end
of the maiden's prayer-
A-men.
WILL VOTE FOR Hit VAN.
Ex-Senator Sharp, of Iredell Given
It ea no n tor Action.
Ex-State Senator A. C. Sharp, of Ire
dell, long a leading Republican of the
Seventh district, will vote for Bryan
and Stevenson and for Hon. Theo. F.
Kluttz for CongresB. In an interview
in the laBt issue of the Statesville Mas
cot, Mr. Sharpe gives his reasons
that will cause many men of other
parties to vote the Democratic National
ticket this year Mr. Sharpe s reason
are thus given :
"First The Republican party has
always been unjust in its treatment of
the South, and at the present time it is
highly important for North Carolina
that we have a friendly national ad
ministration. This necessity is accent
uated by the threat in the Republican
national platform to reduce Southern
representation in the electoral college
and Congress and the menace of a
Federal election law contained in that
platform. At thia time when we have
so recently adopted the constitutional
amendment an unfriendly Federal Ad
ministration, Buch as McKinley's has
proven itself to be by reason of the ap
pointment of so many negroes to office
in North Carolina and other Southern
States, can nullify to a large extent the
benefits sought in the amendment. As
a Southern man who believes the South
the eqaal of any other part Of the com
mon country and who believes in white
officers, State and Federal, I can do
nothing less than support the Demo
cratic candidates tor President and
Congress.
''Second After reading Mr. Bryan's
speech of acceptance I am thoroughly
convinced that the danger of imperial
ism and millitarism is a present danger
which threatens the fundamental prin
ciples of the Government. The foreign
policy of the present administration,
with itij foicible acquisition of foreign
territory and the forcible subjection of
alien peoples to our laws, is contrary to
eyery teaching of the fathers and cal
culated to embroil our country in
foreign wars. When Mr. McKinley
went into office he found an army of
27,000 men, while the peace footing of
the array is now 100,000 men, an in
crease of nearly four-fold. The great
advantage which our country has pos
sessed over the countries of the old
world has been in the fact that the in
dustries of our country have not had
saddled upon them a large, useless, un
productive army to feed, clothe, equip
and pay. That advantage we possess
no longer, and unless a halt is called in
the present imperialistic and military
tendencies of the Republican party the
recent increase in the army is but "a
starter" to what we may expect in the
near future. In my judgment the
paramount issue in American politics
today is imperialism and its necessary
militarism, and on it I agree perfectly
with the Democratic platform and Mr.
J. Bryan, that party's great leader. I
shall take great pleasure in voting for
Bryan and Stevenson and Theodore F.
Kluttz and will do all in my power, for
their election."
Rutler Not Ait Alliaiicemaii.
GoLDShoiiO, Aug. 25. Thos. B. Par
ker, secretary of the State Alliance, Mt
for his home in Hillsboro to-day. He
has been spending a few days here
looking after his farming interests and
also attending a meeting of Wayne
County Alliance. I inquired how the
Alliance was getting along and what
were its prospects. Secretary Parker
replied : "Good ; from letters received
by me within the past two weeks from
prominent farmers, ex-alliancemen,
from different sections of the State, I
am satisfied the Alliance can easily be
re-organized throughout the State."
He also said that much of the opposi
tion to the Alliance had died out.
"How about politics in the Alli
ance ?" asked The Observer corres
pondent. He replied : "If you could
have been at the State meeting held at
Hillsboro last week you would ask no
such question. The members met
there as brethren and politics cut no
figure, aB evidence the president, sec
retary, and assistant lecturer for the
ensuring year are Democrats, but that
fact did not affect them, as it was bare
ly thought of. The object is to benefit
the farmers of the State and through
them the State at large. Its purposes
are to build up -and net to pull down."
"What are you going to do with
Butler," was asked ?.
"Butler?" replied Parker, "Why he
has not belonged to the Alliance in
tive years. That is the trouble with
people. They blame the Alliance for
the acts of persona who are or have
been members instead of the man."
Trying to lies the tliiefttlon.
Henderson villa Hbstlcr.
Other newspapers may do as they
pleas; The Hustler proposes to de
nounce every proinisition having the
semblance of negro office-holding about
it. Richmond Pearson is now drawing
the salary, by virtue of a negro Con
gressman's vote which rightfully be
longs to W. T. Crawford. Is not this a
national affair ? And have not the Re
publicans of the Ninth district should
ered this steal and appealed to the
honest yoemanry of the mountains for
endorsement ? The resolutions adopted
at Waynesville, by the convention which
nominated Mr, Moody, would indicate
that they haye. Then what is the use
of trying to beg the question ?
TART, TERSE AND TIMELY.
Mr. McKinley lost an 'opportunity to
do something that would have been
both right and popular when he failed
to order the American troops out of
China as soon as the Americans in Pe
kin were out of danger.
A'bright young Republican journalist
has discovered that Jowa is safe for Mc
Kinley. He should now go to Vermont
and study the situation.
Oh no ! The Republicans are not
afraid of the issue of imperialism; they
refuse to discuss it simply because they
have no rational defense for it to offer
the people.
The Democratic managers Bhould en
deavor to keep Hanna on the stump for
McKinley; as a Democratic vote-maker
he is a howling success.
It is not surprising that there is no
Republican enthusiasm for McKinley
and Roosevelt. The average American,
no matter what his politics may be, is
not likely to enthuse over the prospect
of turning the country into an empire.
Generations of liberty and a personal
share in making the government has
made him value a republic at its true
worth. -
There may be a connection between
the report that Andy Carnegie will op
pose McKinley and the giving out by
the administration of that big contract
for armor.
The coal miners and mill operatives
who are on half time will not enthuse
over Republican prosperity talk.
At last the administration has official
ly confessed that the statement some
months ago of its intention to bring the
volunteers home from the Philippines
was a lie, and stated that none of them
are to be brought home this year.
It is said that a Republican poll of
Indiana fchow9 a majority of 18,000 for
Bryan and Stevenson. Perhaps Boas
Hanna will revive the old Dudley
"blocks of five" game to try to carry
the State.
The establishment of a branch of the
national headquarters in New York
City shows that the Democratic man
agers do not regard the east as "the
enemy's country." The Republicans
may experience some disagreeable sur
prises m the east when the votes are
counted.
Col. Bryan's speeches are more in de
mand every day. That is because he
talks as the plain people of this country
think.
A cablegram says, "England is for
McKinley." Of course it is. It would
be very ungrateful if it wasn't.
SteveiiMou Endored.
Chicago. Auer 27. At a meeting of
the People's party national committee
to-day, the declination of Charles A.
Towne as the vice presidential nominee
ot the party, after a long debate, was
accepted, and the name of Adlai R.
Stevenson was put in its place. In the
beginning there were three courses ad
vocated by different members of the
committee, viz : To nominate a Pop
ulist, to leave the place blank, or, last
ly, to endorse Mr. Stevenson. Senator
Marion Butler, chairman of the com
mittee, in a warm speech of
length, advocated leaving the place
blank, contending that Brvan and
Stevenson would receive more Ponulist
votes than if a candidate for Vice
President was not named, but on this
no vote was taken.
A motion was made to endorse Mr.
Stevenson. For this motion Mr Wash
burn, of Massachusets. moved as a sub
stitute that a Populist be placed on the
ticket. The substitute was lost on a
call of the roll by a vote of 24 ayes to
1 nay 8. Ihe original motion waa then
adopted by a viva voce vote. There
were 124 members of the committee
present, or represented by proxy.
Ilryan'N Pastor Anked to Retdzn.
Richmond Times.
A special from Lincoln, Neb., says
that Rev. William N. Hindman, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church, of
which Hon. Wm. J. Bryan is a mem
ber, has been asked to resign. Pastor
Hindman was formerly a Republican,
but latterly he has followed Mr. Bryan's
le idership in politics. A majority of
the congregation, like a majority of the
people of Lincoln, are Republicans, but
it is denied that politics has entered
into the church.
Mr. Bryan's name has not been con
nected with the controversy in a per
sonal way, but friends of Dr. Hindman
believe Mr. Bryan will champion his
pastor's retention.
TI19 charges against Mr. Hindman,
so far as can be learned, are worldliness
and lack of projier attention to pastoral
duties, but no specifications are given.
The Earth Burning Vp.
Haloigh Correspondent.
Dr. William R. Capehart, of the State
board of agriculture, arrived here to
day, from Bertie county, and says
enormous fires in Hyde county con
tinue, and are destroying trees and soil.
The soil is pithy and burns like tinder.
One farm valued at $10,000 is so burned
away that its owner says it is not now
worth $100. Fire is burning far
underneath the surface in many places.
Dr. Capehart is informed that as a
farmer was driving along a highway the
soil gave way under bim and he and
his horse fell into a pit and were burned
to death. The smoke extends many
miles at sea and by obscuring the light
at Oregon Inlet has caused two wrecks
in a fortnight.