"FOR COUNTRY, FOR GOD, AND EOR TRUTH."
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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1900.
NO 42,
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WHS. W. II. KKLTON ON ll UM
SCHOOLS; rOJII'llliSOIIY AT
TEWItAWCK IfAVOHIiD.
Atlanta Journal.
The editor of the Thomasville News
takes issue with me concerning my for
mer article, and says: "Mrs. Felton it
in error" when I made free to critisc
the general indifference of parents aud
euardians to the advantages of our
public school s vetem.
The Thornasville News decides that
the difficulty is owing to our inferior
teachers poor teach, poor attendance!
I am acquainted witn the workings
of the State Normal school at Athene,
,-nnd it does appear that we can have
tl&achers fully prepared and qualified to
conduct public schools in the country
if even small effort is made on this
line, and our county Bchool commit
Bioners are much to blame if they do
not require teachers to be qualified
before they are given a license to teach
iu any public school. Far better; to
allow a school term to lapse thau to
entraee and pay a person to teach who
is not nrenared to do eood work as a
t acher.
A good teacher should always be paid
a liberal Balary, but there are many
who are teaching who could not make
half of their present salary at any other
business they might engage iu. There
is great hue aud cry about poor pay for
the teachers, and there are said to be
somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000
teachers drawing nay from the state's
.-treasury. .
fi "But the pay, small as it is in some
localities, beats a poor farm to death as
a reward for labor.
A young man from an adjoining
county called at our house some months
aeo. He had been teaching a five-
months school at $10 a month in the
county I live iu, and received $200 iD
cash for his five month's work. He
laughingly remarked that his father
had encouraged him to countinue, be
cause he had made much more clear
money at teaching in five months than
his father's farm bad cleared in 12
mouths with harder woik.
It should be a first class country teach
er who is paid $40 a month. A .poor
young man or woman who can earn $40
a month is doing well, and "doing well
is hard to beat."
I am not convinced with the reason
ing of the able News editor.
We might have schools at every road
crossing, and good teachers ready to
t)ach, but the fact remains that parents
and guardians recognize no personal
obligation to make the roll of pupils
what such payment from the state de
mands, or what our legislators expected
when they decided to offer to them
"free, gratis, for nothing," the benefits
of free schooling. The taxpayers are
bearing enormous burdens to supply
money for these public schools. This
money is obliged to come, or every dol
lars worth of the tax payer's property is
subject to levy and sale. This school
tax is collectable at the end of the law.
Now will the editor ot The News tell
its readers what pecuniary obligation
rests upon the patrons of these schools
to carry out the Btate's intention to ed
ucate all the children comprised in
school ages ?
I have personal knowledge of a school,
where an excellent teacher was engaged
to teach a country school. He waa
promised fifteen regular pupils but the
indifference of us patrons was so greai
that he had serious difficulty in getting
fifteen to attend. At different times
during the four months thirty-tw o names
wore on the roll but the attendance
averaged lees than half that num' er
in four months. The school com mis
sioner was very kind to the ieopie in
this vicinity. He did his very best to
encourage the patrons to patronize an
excellent teacher, but there waa no im
provement at the end of four months
and the teacher gave up his task, to go
to a larger school in another state, with
better salary attached. Here, the state
has been liberal, the teacher was ex-
c p'.ionally well prepared, the necessity
was great, and the Uilliculty lay exactly
where I declared it to be, in the neglect
or indifference of the pationr.
No system of public school instruction
Ciu become stable and permanent with
out compulsory education. In the ver
nature of things this neceseity exists.
When the state puts its iron hand in
your pocket and forcibly extracts a part
of your income for the payment of
teachers, to instruct the indigent, thai
money should be scrupulously applied
to the purpose as explained and there
should be equal force applied On purenb
to oblige the pupils to attend, aftei
such school money haa been forcibly
taken and applied to the purpose a?
designed. Otherwise, this demand for
school money becomes simple tyranny
Vh are Ditchine this good money intt.
a bole clear out of Bight. It is like
pouring water on the Band the money
is spent and no sign remains.
I understand the inability of appre
ciative patrons to inspire negligent
neighixrs to patronize a school. It
does seem a pity that really anxious
parents and guardians should be denier!
free schools because numb-scull patrons
have no interest in keeping their chil
dren at school ;yet, on the other hand,
it ia a shame and injustice that people
should be sued and sold out by the
sheriff to raise the school tax money
for a topu'atioii who are too indifferent
to receive or accept the benefit of this
wonderful opportunity.
If somebody would take the trouble
to count up the tax money expended
in Georgia's public sehofl system, since
the experiment was made in the state,
it would startle the commonwealth.
For over thirty yea rsthe children of white
and Mark have been granted public
school education in Georgia, yet the
chaingang convicts have grown from
350, in 1874, to nearly 3,000, in 1900.
The difficulty lies exactly in the open
disregarii shown by the people who
should senel their children to school and
who fail to compel their attendance.
There is no proper appreciation of the
benefit. Reform must come at this
point to make the system a success.
Partiwau IMohiiiicmw.
News and Observer.
Sixteen negroes have been summoned
by Holtou to give evidence agaict the
Democratic registrars at Greensboro
Why ? ; Hoi ton hopes to scare Demo
crats so that they will let unqualified
negroes vole in the November election
There is another reason : Butler is bust
ly engaged preparing trumped-up
charges against the Democrats which
he will present to the Senate at its next
session. Jle knows be must walk the
plank, but he wishes to make fair
weather with the Republicans by giving
them some basis upon which to begin
I heir crusade against full Southern
representation in Congress and in the
electoral college.
mis is the game the usioni8ts are
trying to play. In the first place, the
Democrats will hold the election in No
vember as they held it in August. No
arrests or futile threats of punishment
will force them to let unqualified ne
groes vcte. They have made up their
minds on that score and will not be
moved from it. In the second place
the scare of loss of representation doeB
not scare the people of North Carolina
1 hey know that under the Constitution
Massachusetts and other States that
limit suffrage must also lose, and that
there are many obstacles in the way of
carrying out the plan of cutting down
Southern representation. They will
fight that as they fought the Force Bill
and if ehey should lose they will accept
their defeat as they accepted the bitter
ness of reconstuction and labor and
wait until they can make the cruel act
return to injure those who forced uni
versal suffrage for the negro, which, af
ter a time resulted in an injury to the
national Republican party.
"Ucddln' Up" in China.
Charlotte Observer.
One of the most vexed que- stions
for
settlement in China is that of indemni
ties to be paid. Itlay, one of the least
involved and interested powers, wants
$8,750,000 indemnity. If her claim is
just, with this amount as a basis it has
been calculated that Japan should have
Zo times, Kusaia lo times, Great Bri
tain, Germany and the United States
10 times, as much, and that all togeth
er it would take $000,000,000 to assuage
the mental anguish that the Boxer riots
have inflicted upon the nation. I
would tax China grievously to pay this
sum. Something like $"1,500,000 is
about all she can Btand, it is said, if the
money is to be raised from the customs
duties. Sir Robert Hart, the great
mathematical and methodical English
man, who is in charge of the Chinese
customs, collects now a 5 per cent, ad
valorem duty on all imports into China,
The collections eaeily suffice to pay the
interest on China 8 debt to all quarters
of the globe from which she has bor
rowed money. But if this ad valorem
tarifl is increased to an amount requisite
to raise more than the above mentioned
f 1.500, 000, it would amout to a prohi
bitive tariff, would drive away the
argosies of commerce, close up the
avenues ofrevenue and kill the goos
that lays the golden egg. buch, at
least, is the calculation of The New
York gun.
The Chinese, we believe, are already
heavily taxed for raising their internal
re venue, which moneys, we suppose,
are used to pay royalty and run the
government. But perhaps part of her
indemnity will have to come this way
uie indemnity plan is generally re
garded as the way around annexation
and slicing up and of maintaining the
"open door." However, Chinese ports
or Chinese provinces will, presumably,
have to be occupied as security for
promised indemnities. Who, then, will
occupy what and for how long? In
deed, to use the phrase of the country-house-wife,
"retldin' up" in China is a
ticklish job.
Fraiikn Had Iti-on Indicted.
Raleigh, N. C, September 27. The
rand jury of the superior court here
today returned a true bill agaiDSt ex
Slate Stoiator J. A. Franks, of Swain
ounty, for perjury. The case is a sen
sational one. Franks is a republican
aud was a member of the state election
board. Two years ago a man named
George W. Justice came here from
Asheville as a lawy er, stole a number
of lawbooks from the courthouse and
was arrested on the charge of larceny.
Franks became his security, giving
justified bond for $50, and swearing he
was worth that much in excess of all in-
lebtedness. Justice fled the state and
went to Alabama, forfeiting his bail.
An execution sent to Swain county for
the amount of Franks's security was re
turned with the statement that he wrp
worth nothing. The bill against him
which the grand juty today returned as
true wxs drawn last July. All efforts
to induce the authorities of Alabama to
arrest Justice haye failed. j
RILL ARPS L UTT 12 U .
Uncle Sam is dead. Good old Sam
Pitts. He never changed his name
when freedom came. "My old master
was a good man," he said. "Dar was
good ieople den and bad people jes'
like dar is now black and white, but
de black has got wusser and wusser
since dey got free. Effen a black man
had a good master be was mighty well
off, for he didn't have no sponsibility.
Effen I bin sho of a good master and
my wife and children been sho of one
and we all live together ontill we die . I
wouldn't keer anything bout freedom.
Niggers got too much freedom any
how. My old master used to make
der nigger gals get married and take a
man and stick to him, but nowadays
dey don't marry at all hardly. I got a
lot of grandchildren what haint got no
daddy to speak of and I don't know my
sons-in-law. Dey don't come about in
daytime. Dats what killed my old wo
man. She jea bo mortified and so
shamed she never got over it. So many
spurious children all round callin' her
granny. Effen a white woman do dat
way she is disgraced, but a black oman
don't keer; she shine as big as ever and
dey don't turn her out?n de church.
In de old times she got a whippin and
dey ort to have it yet. White folks dun
quit whippin bad niggers; dey send em
to chaingang, and dey don't keer for
dat. I hear dat dar is four or five
thousand in dar from Georgy. How'b
dat dident have nary one before de
war. Gwine to school too mirch I tpek
and work too little. Don't know what
is gwine to come of all dese growin' up
niggers. Dar is a dozen or more round
de depot or trampin' around town doin
nothin' all de time livin' offen dey
mammies and smokia' dese little paper
Beegars."
Old Uncle Sam didn't talk much, but
sometimes he would lean upon his hoe
or his ax and "spress his feelins." It
did him good. He has been chopping
my wood and helping me in the garden
for thirteen years and we will miss him
He fell down paralyzed with his hoe in
his hand. He was "the man with the
hoe" to the very last, but he never was
poor, for he made a good living and had
many friends and owned a comfortable
house and lot. They sent to my wife
for some grave clothes and he will be
buried in a right decent suit of mine
and we will go to his funeral.
I was ruminating bout this good old
nesro who had seen thirty-three years
of slavery and thirty-Beven of freedom
and knew the good and the bad of both
conditions and then my thought wan
dered to the malignity of those who
have slandered us so long without a
cause. Here is a book of poems by
John G. Whittier and thirty seyen of
them are pitiful appeals for the poor
slave and invoking heaven s curses upon
his master. He knew no more abo t
slavery as it really was than he did about
Barbara Freitche and he fed the yourg
people of New England upon poetic li' 8
for thirty years ani instilled into their
hearts that hatred from which they have
never recovered. Strange it is that
smart people will write about things
they have never seen. Now, the idea
of an uneducated negro slave getting
down on his knees and making an
apostrophe to the north star and yet
that is the title of one of the poems
The Slave's Apostrophe to the North
Star." That nigger was posBum hunt
ing right then, but the poet makes him
to say:
'Star or the North, T look to thee,
"Thy light und truth shall set me free."
But enough of this. The question
still survives what will become of the
negro. And that other question looms
up before us, what will we do with 10,-
000,000 more of them over in the
Philippines? A more senseless war was
never waged. It was conceived in sin
and is being carried on in iniquity.
Prosperity! Yes, it is war that glossfs
ver Buffering aud death and grief with
a coat of prosperity. But it is nothing
but a coat. War always produces a
semblance of prosperity, for armies
havstobe fed and clothed and equipped.
Ships have to be built and cannon
made and a thousand things lollateral
to these show activity and give employ
ment to labor and to capital. This
activity began with the Cuban era
broglio and etill goes on, but in the
long run somebody will have to foot
the money bill. The bill for blood and
suffering will never be paid. Who
w ints the war but contractors who are
growing rich from their profit? When
I was last in Texas I heard a cattle man
say he hoped that Russia and England
would get up a ngbt, for he had 100,-
000 held of cattle that would go up 50
per cent in a day. Daily wages dont
20 up, but everything the laborer is
obliged to consume has advanced. How
bout cleak hire, male and female, in
the towns and cities. How about child
labor in the factories not all the fac
tories, but in most of them, for there
are not many Gunby Jordans at the
head of southern cotton mills. What
a beautiful tribute bis people paid him
n Columbus when he returned from
Europe. What a tou.hing ovation
those factory workers gave him. Why
can't the owners of every mill do the
lame by their operatives and secure
their love, which is worth more than a
crown of gold. I read in an Atlanta
paper about a woor woman who swore
her son would not be nine years old
until next Christmas, but her husbane.
certified to the superintendent of the
mill that he was eleven bo as to get him
a place, for no boy under ten would be
employed.
Later News has just come that old
Uncle Sam is not yet dead. They be
gan to dress him for the grave and
suddenly he showed a sign of life.
Maybe he will live to have his obituary
read to qim who knows. I read my
own many years ago in a western paper
when the original Bill Arp died in Texas
and the editor thought it was I. But
Uncle Sam will hardly live through the
night. Bill Arp.
P. S. That multitudious poem has
not ceased to come. Yesterday brought
a cpy from Minnesota and one from
the state of Washington. Only 347
have been received up to date. I can
hardly find thanks to go round.
B. A.
The Situation.
WashlnRton Times.
Reports from the Middle West are of
the most encouraging nature to the sup
porters of Bryan and Stevenson. Mr.
Hanna is foreed to admit that Indiana
is "very doubtful," So is Illinois.
Michigan is by no means as safe as
could be wished by Mr. McKinley's
political managers, and even Wisconsin
is "demanding attention."
In New York the Democracy is more
thoroughly united than it has been for a
dozen years, if we are to accept the
statement of representative leaders there.
Richard Croker pledges a hundred
inoueana majority lor the ticket in
Greater New i ork, and if he is able
with the aid of Tammany to make good
this pledge there is no reason why the
thirty-six electoral votes of the Empir
State should not be given to Bryan
xne circumstance that tour years ago
McKinley carried rew York by aplural
ity of two hundred and sixty-eight thou
sand is not an Insuperable barrier to
Democratic success there this year
me voters ot that state are more
changable than the voters of any other
part of the country, and it is quite as
probable that a big majority can be
reversed as that a small one may be.
It is a fact of vast significance that
Democratic voters gave Mr. McKinley
his enormous majority in 1896, and
ueraocrats can take away as well as
give.
Blood hounds from the penitentiary
were put on his track and an exciting
chase ensued. He was discovered in a
tree on the outskirts of the town, and
was taken below to his victim, who posi
tively identified him.
The negro was taken to the edge of
the village, and, suxrounded by the mob,
shivered with fear. The preparations
for death were quickly made. A rope
was fiuDe over the limb of a big oak
and the men stood ready to lend a hand
at the rope.
Then a halt was called and the manner
of death discussed by the mob. To
decide the matter a vote was taken and
the balloting showed a majority of the
crowd to favor death at the stake. The
stake was prepared and the negro was
bound to it with chains. Pine knots
were piled about him and the flames
were fired by the husband of the negro s
victim. As the flames reached to the
wretch's llesh his wild cries upon God
for mercy and help could be heard for
miles. The crowd looked on, deaf to
his criea, and in an hour the negro was
reduced to ashes.
Towneend, before being bound, con
fessed the crime, and said he waa also
imi-licated with Alex. Floyd, who was
hung a couple of weeks ago for an at
tempted assault on Miss Kate Pearson.
As this is the second white woman
assaulted in this vicinity within a month,
it is believed there is a conspiracy
among the negroes.
$672,470.20 lor SHltt-ren.
- Austin, Texas, Sept. 30. Governor
Sayers today prepared the following
statement relative to the Texas flood
sufferers:
The amount of money received by me
up to 12 o'clock noon of September 30,
1900, for the benefit of the storm suffer
ers on the Texas coast is $G72,47G 20.
This sum includes $3,892 59 that re
mained in my hands of the fund contri
bution for the relief of the Brazos River
Valley sufferers last year. It also in
cludes all drafts and authorizations to
draw and which are in transit and are
yet uncollected.
"This statement, it must be borne in
mind, only embraces moneys and re
mittances that have been made to me
directly and also amounts for which I
have been authorized to draw.
"During the present week I will sub
mit to the people of the United States a
complete itemized statement of the en
tire fund that has come into my hands,
giving the amount and source of each
contribution and also the manner in
which the sum total received by me has
been expended and distributed.
"Every portion of the storm-striken
district is being provided for."
The South Carolinians should not
complain because many North Caro
linians voted in their recent primaries.
We believe in reciprocity up here. In
many of our elections we have had the
issistance of South Carolina talent; but
it was always black, and inasmuch as
ve lent the South Carolinians white
nen to heip them out in their recent
.;onteet our neighbbors over the line
seem to have the better of the proposi
tion. Charlotte Observer.
STATE NEWS.
The Winston registrar cases are to be
tried before Judge Boyd at the October
term of the Federal Court in Greensboro.
Mr. H. T. King, editor of King's
Weekly, of Greenville, had his hand
badly mashed Friday by getting it caught
in his newspaper press.
John Farren, colored, who has been
in the penetentiary for lees than a year
for killing a negro woman of Salisbury,
has been pardoned by Gov. Russell.
The hangman got in his work at
Clinton and at Tarboro last Friday.
At Clinton Archie Kinaaula paid the
penalty for the murder of Jno. C. Her
ring, Oct. 27, 1898. At Tarboro, on
the same day, Chauncey Davis was
hanged for the burning of a residence,
May 8, 1899.
Senator Butler ia the most progressive
kicker in North Carolina. He . ia ar
ranging an indignation meeting cam
paign. Of course he iB exceedingly in
dignant losing one's grip on a $5,000
job, with absolutely nothing in prospect,
is enough to beget indignation. Ala
mance Gleaner.
The prize family, for size, in North
Carolina, has just moved to Greensboro,
and settled at Proximity. The family
consists a husband, a wife and 21 chil
dren. The head of the family, A. M
Farrington, was, until recently,
widower with a number of children
He married a widow with several chil
dren, thus gaining the distinction of be
ing the head of the largest family in the
State.
Mr. R. F. Black, of Light, this county
comes to the front with the biggest snake
Btory of the Beason. Mr. Black says
that one day laBt week he discovered
an enormous chicken snake in bis hen
ery. He shot and killed it, and say
by actual measurement the snake was
10 feet long. It had devoured two half
grown chickens before it was killed
Lexington Dispatch.
Col. A. W. Shaffer, of the State Board
of Health, is making an examination
of the water supplies of leading towns
in the State. Col. Shaffer, who is one
of the director? of the Board is making
an these examinations under the direc
tion of the State Board of Health for
the ascertaining the existence of disease
geirms, if any such exist. The analysis
is made by the State bacteriologist.
C. M. Ray, who is one of the editors
of the Mill News published in Charlotte,
will be sued for libel by Rev. J. F. Aus
tin, who has been a prominent labor
organizer in this State. In an editorial
published recently some very serious
charges were made against Austin by
the Mill News, and he was spoken of
as one of the most dangerous lecturers
because he was capable of as much
meanness as aeyone in the crowd.
The Central Carolina fair, at Greene
boro, promises to be a big affair. It
will be opened formally October 9 by
Judge James E. Boyd. Its greatest
novelty will be the dog show, the first
yet given in this State. George Gould,
Pierre Lorillard, Mackey and other
Northern sportsmen, who have exten
sive kennels and control many thous
and acres of land near Greensboro, have
joined the local sportsmen in making
the dog show notable.
The Greensboro Water Supply Com
pany is in .the hands of a receiver. This
action was taken before Judge James E.
Boyd, of the United States Circuit Court,
sitting at chambers in that city Satur
day morning, and was brought about
at the instance of Guaradian Trust and
BoodineCo,, of Baltimore, holders of
$110,000 bonds of the water supply
company, insolvency is charged in
that the company has not paid the in
terest on its bonds. Mr. R. R. King is
appointed receiver by Judge Boyd.
Mr. Woodson Daniel, who lives in
Davidson county, was in Lexington a
few days ago, wearing a pair of pants
which he has owned and worn a good
deal every years for 60 years. He
bought them in Mr. John Murphy's
store in Salisbury sometime during the
fall of the year before the Tippecanoe
campaign in 1840, that being the fall of
30. Mr. Daniel is 82 years old and
rode a mule from his home, 18 miles
distant, and back in the afternoon. The
pants are navy blue with a small bronze
Bilk check. It is yet very strong goods.
He said it sold for $1 per yard.
Weaterit Democrats Koaxt Wolcotl.
Victor, Colo., Sept. 29. The Demo
cratic county convention and club of
Victor, Colorado, adopted the following
resolutions unanimously:
"Whereas, Governor Roosevelt and
party were not received in Victor with
the tolerance and courtesy due to the
governor of a sister state therefore.
Resolved, lb at we, the Democrats of
Victor in conyention assembled deploie
the spirit of intolerance and discourte y
displayed on that occasion and disave w
all responsibility for the disturbance of
the speakers in a public . hall and for
the subsequent violence indulged in by
members of the Republican marchirg
club; further,
Resolved. That we also deplore the
folly that induced the Republicans of
Colorado to provoke the disorder by
bringing Governor Roosevelt to this
city under the auspices of the cordially
detested traitor and renegade. Senator
Edward O. Wolcott,"
The man Kmsaule, upon whom the
sentence of the law executed at Clinton
Friday had better reasons than he knew
for his objections to being hanged by a
Populist Bheriff. A horrible, sickening
botch was made of the business. It
was Lord Bacon who wrote: "I think
. -i u i . 1 ; t
uatUIU uvs UiC glean ntvug it -
should be so long in dying as I was in
being born." It was not nature, but
the Bheriff of Sampson, who inflicted
upon this murderer some such punish
ment as the wiee man desired to be
spared. Nine minutes at the first
attempt and eight at the second, with
the interval between the two added,
must have meant the better part of a
half-hour consumed in transferring
this wretch from this world to another.
Charlotte Obeerver.
A Letter From Home.
Atlanta Constitution.
William, this is wrote to you to let
you know that cotton is 10 cents an' the
sheriff has levied on all you made.
Also to inform you that your two mules
has been took for a note you didn't pay,
an' that your house ketched on fire an'
burned down Wednesday. Also to say
that gold has been found on your place,
and your creditors arediggin' of. Hopin'
this will find you enjoyin'all happiness,
an' that you will have a merry Christ
mas, when it comes, I remain, dear
William, the same as ever."
GENERAL NEWS.
The enrollment at West Point Mil
itary Academy this year ia the largest
in its history 428 cadets with still 53
vacancies.
The first record of death in a football
game thia season has been made in
Chicago. The returns may now be ex-
peuicu iu (juujc iu ui a iivciy rate.
After a quarrel which has exteuded
over two weeks, two young men of
prominent families, of East Point, a su
burb of Atlanta.met Friday evening and
fought with pistols. One of the men,
Sheffield Harrington, was shot in four
places, and the other, Walter Hudson,
waa wounded once. Both are believed
to be fatally wounded.
"Society in Wyoming haa hit upon
a novel amusement, says the Washing
ton Times. The entertainment ia called
an 'onion sociable,' Six young ladies
take an onion into a room, and after
one of them has taken a bite out of it a
young man is admitted. If after kisB
ing them all, he faila to tell which of
them bit the onion all the girls are
obliged to kiss him."
Head of Mormon Church and Ilia
Wives.
Salt Lake. Utah, Dispatch, Sept. 27.
Three of the sons of President Snow,
of the Mormon Church, have filed
information in the church courts charg
ing that their father has refused and
neglected to support his legal wife, their
mother. They declare that she is in
destitute circumstances and that the
favorite wife, with whom (h nrPQuUnt
lives, ia conspiring and exercising undus
influence to induce Snow to deed bis
property to her and her children to the
exclusion of his other wiyes and children.
All Snow s wives except one live in
hovels while the favorite occupies with
him. a palatial residence and has
numerous servants, horses and carriages.
The "Cltjr of Charlotte" Burned.
Kingston, O., Oct. 1. The private
car of the North Carolina Exposition
finrriTMinxr- holnnoinor In that Btata
1 j i -e-5 v vui. Kjvatc, nao
burned to the ground here this morn-,
ing. William Jiason, the manager, and
an assistant were awakened by a dog
and barely escaped with their lives.
The car contained exhibits of the min
eral and agricultural resources of North
Carolina, and waa valued at $18,000.
A Homicide In Stanly.
Albemarle, Oct. 2. Last night about
8 o'clock Frank Swarengen, who lives
near Porter's, eight miles from Albe
marle, became involved in a row with
Will Hinson, which cost him his life.
Swarengen was ehot by Hinson five
times, dying in an hour and a half
after the shooting. It seems that both
men were partners in a government
distillery and a dispute over some
whiBkey was the cause of the homicide.
Hinson did not attempt to escape, but
was arrested by tne snenff.
NecentMary With Low Shoe.
"I don't see why you have to have
such expensive silk stockings," he
growled.
Purely as a matter of economy." she
rephed sweetly.
"Economy 1 W here does the-econo-
my come .2 ?"
"Why, yo-i dear, blind old fellow 1"
she exclaimed. "'Haven't vou ever no
ticed that with low shoes and beautiful
silk stockings a woman's skirts never
drag in the dust and the mud T"
Clear Yourself or Get Out.
Winston-Salem, N. C, Sept. 29.
United States District Attorney Holton
ia quoted today with having told Mr.
Blackburn, the assistant difsHct at
torney, that he must either prove the
charges made against him (Blackburn)
by the Wilkesboro Chronicle false or
withdraw from the Congressional race.
Love alone interprets all life.