"FOR GOD ,FOR COUNTRY, AND EOR TRUTH."
Single Copy, 6 Cents
VOL. XI.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1900.
NO 44,
1.00 a Year, in Advance.
THIS MOW itit ya n.
Louisville Courier Journal,
In 18'JG there was precipitated upon
the people a signal and a real crisis.
It greatly simplified and curtailed the
freedom of action and choice among
thoughtful, patriotic citizens. Owing
to circumstances verv rtlain to see. but
not necessary to recall, the conservative
elements of the Democratic party went
to the rear, and the radical elements
t came to the front. The currency was
in imminent peril. The public order
was menaced. The public credit waa
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. invoiveu. j ne country iuu not want
( McKinley, but was afraid of Bryan.
'wit finally took McKinley as a choice of
!, j . evils. -
Fouryearshavecomeand gone. They
have carried the usual charges with
them. They have brought new ques
t tions upon the scene, and along with
these have raised up new duties. They
have considerably modified the older
issues.' There need be no more fear of
a Mexicanization of the currency than
there is of the re-eBtablishineut of
African slavery. He who thinks eo is
either the dupe of his own fancies, or
else a credulous listener o partisan
harangues.
The two actual and present dan
, gers that beset the country arise out
of the proposed disposition of the foreign
territories under oar control as a con
sequence of the war with Spain and the
. domestic circumstances of so strength
Wening the hands of the party in power,
4-and of fostering the organized forced
existing through its favor, as will lift it
out of reach of the people and make
its ultimate dispossession difficult, if
not impossible, as the result of the
pressure of public oj.iuion and by the
agency of a free and peaceful ballot.
On these accounts the Courier-Journal,
Rpfiinc nn r.n.iiRrt fnr fllarm iinnn flno
vanishing lines of 1S0G, accepts Mr.
. Bryan in spite of many differences of
opinion, in preference to Mr. McKinley,
-.and the considerations which have
moyed us have" prevailed with the great
body of the more conservative Demo
crats led by men like Olney and Cock
ran and Wilson. If Mr. Bryan were
the same man he was in 189G, we
would prefer him to Mr. McKinley, be
cause he would be poworless to carry
out any of the vagaries by which he
then seemed to be bound But he is
not the same man.
He has had four years of experience
a great matter at his time of life. The
conditions back of him and about him
are whollv changed. Both his added
years and the increased sense of respon
sibility arising. out of them and out cf
his larger5 perspective especially the
elevating and broadening force of his
larger following give to his candidacy
a character it lacked before.
He is admitted an honest man, a
clean man, and a man of ability and
courage. His election will call a halt
upon that rampant partyisin which, if
it be not checked, will presently so in
trench itself in power as to dt-fv eiec
tion. Mr. McKinley may be all that
Mr. Bryan is, and more, but Mr. Mc-
- . Kinlcy may be all that Mr. Brvan is,
i and more, but Mr. McKinley is the
creature of his environment. He is the
representative of a ring of officeholders,
terests of the preferred classes the ag
gregations of vast wealth to keep them
in power, and who, intrusted with four
struct out of Cuba, Forto Rico and the
. v . i - - j r
Philippines, such a political and money
making machine as will for at least
another generation make them masters
of the situation, at home and abroad
This is even a greater peril to the coun
try than was Free-Silver at Sixteen to
Une tour years ago, ami, as a conse
quence, conservative men of all classes,
who are not hide-bound to party are
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and acting with the Democrats.
The Cost of Hie Standi nr Army.
TCsli mates nrenared bv the War D
partment on the basis of an army of
100,000 men and by the Navy Depart
. ment, put the total cost of the military
and naval system 01 mo unueu otaiea
at !f;200.0n0.000 duriner the next fiscal
year. According to existing law, the
present army strength will lapse on July
1 next, the army reverting to its former
strength of 25,000. Hence, unless there
is affirmative legislation by Congress at
its session beginning in December to
, maintain the increase in the army in
whole or in part, the expenses will, on
! the first day of July next, be reduced
very largely. There was appropriated
for the army for the present fiscal year
$114,000,000. When the army con
sisted of 25,000 men it required only
about $20,000,000 a year to support it.
If Mr. McKinley is re-elected Congress
will. rightly construe this fact into a de
mand by 4 the , American people for a
large-standing army, and the increase
to 100,000 men will be authorized and
made permanent. If Mr. Bryan is
elected Congress will conclude that the
people are opposed to a large army, and
no legislation increasing it will be pass
ed.' and on July 1, 1001, the regular
army will resume its former proportions
and the expenses of maintaining it will
drop to the old estimates, a saviugof at
eaBt $88,000,000 a year being effectd.
"Call no man happy," says Solon,
'till he is dead." "Call no man un
happy,"" Socrates added, till he is married."
TWO YFSS1HCTK.
8he wns a women, worn and thin,
Whom the world condemned for a RinRlo sin;
They cast her out on the Kind's hlpthway
And passed her by as they went to pray.
Ho was a man, and more to blame,
llut the world spared him a breath of shame.
Her.eat.li his feet he saw her lie,
llut raised his head aud passed her by.
They were the peoplo who went to pray
At the temple of God on holy day.
They scorned the woman, forwave tho man;
It was over thus since tho wovld began.
Time passed on and the woman died,
On tho Cross of Shame she was crucified;
llut the world was stern and would not yield;
And they buried her in the Potter's Field.
The man died, too, and they buried him,
In a casket of cloth, with a silver rim,
Add said, as they turned from his grave
away,
"We have burled an honest man to-day."
Two mortals, knocking at Heaven's gate,
Stood face to faco to imjuiro their fate.
Ho carried a passport with earthly sign,
llut she a pardon from .Love Divine.
Old ye who Judge 'twixt virtue and vice,
Which, think you, entered to l'aradlse?
Not ho who the world had said would w-in,
For the woman alone was ushered in.
HILL AUF'S LKTTUR.
Old Laddie is dead. Our good old
dog. We ne'er shall see him more. He
died last Sunday at 10 o'clock ; we buried
him at 4.
Laddie was seventeen years old. We
raised him from puppyhood to doghood
and all those years he seemed like one
of the family. He loved us all and wa
loved him, for he was affectionate, good
mannered, dignified, courageous and
very handsome. He never sought a
fight with another dog, but never de
clined one and always come off the
victor. His face and neck and feet
and part of his tail were white; his hair
long and glossy and his eves were am
ber or rather a brilliant yellow sapphire
In truth, he was a very handsome dog
and . came from well-bred stock, his
graudaire having been sold for $500 in
Montgomery. He was known as a
shepherd dog a Scotch collie and
knew his duties and qualities by instinct
and inheritance. We did not have to
train him to go after the sheep or the
cattle and bring them home. When I
left the farm and moved to town he
seemed lost and unhappy for awhile
but soon adapted himself to the little
grandchildren and followed them
around, and during his last illness,
when he couldent walk, it would please
him for me to lift him up to the , sand
bed, where the children were playing.
The smaller the children the stronger
his love for them. They were the sheep
and he was the good shepherd.
We did not send his carcass to the
potter's field. I dug a shapely grave
down in the corner of the garden, then
lifted his dead body gently into the
wheelbarrow and rolled it to the place.
The wheelbarrow was the hearse. I
was the horse and five of the grandchil
deen were the escort. When all was
ready my wife and daughters came
down to the funeral and we buried
Laddie and mounded up his grave and
placed a board with his name and age
upon it at the head and another at the
foot. Tne little children plucked some
green asparagus nearby aud some Texas
pinks and roses and slowly and sadly
we went away as mourners. Dogs
have a curious and interesting history.
In ancient times they were under the
ban of Jewish contempt and were pro
nounced and denounced as unclean by
the Mosaic law. Not a good word is
said of them in all scripture. "The
price of a dog is an abomination to the
Lord," saith Moses. Job saith: ''I dis
dained to Bet their fathers with the dogs
of my flock." "Am I a dog?" "Be
ware of dogs." "For without are dogs
and scoerers and idolaters and murder
era and whosoever loveth and maketh
a lie." But surely they must have had
some good reputable dogs, or they
would have killed off the breed. It was
the moan, thievish trilling dogs that
gave a bad name to all the race, just as
they do now.
Cuvier says that dogs in general are
the most contemptible of all domestic
animate, but that the improved species
are the most useful and complete con
micst ever made by man. All their
faculties are adapted to profit and
pleasure and protection. Barbarous
nations owe much of their better nature
to tho possession of the dog.
Cuvier says that the principal and
best species are indigenous to certain
countries. Such as the snepherd to
Arabia, the Esquimaux and Newfound
land to Siberia, St. Bernard to the Alps,
etc. But dogs have got mixed and
croFsed into all sorts of formB and
fashions, like the Cubans in Cuba.
They now range from the little pug
aLd rat terrier and benchleg fice, up to
the boar hound of Germany and the
mastiff ai d drover's dog of southern
Europe. Pointers and setters and
spaniels and the long-eared hound have
come in later by training and breeding,
but most of the different kind of dogs
are degraded mongrels. But a dog is a
dog and every man and boy loves his
own and will defend him. "Love me
love my dog," is a proverb 350 years
old. Alexander Stephens was asked
what waa the secret of hia attachment
to a dirty little snarling dog that fol
lowed him around. He replied. "Well,
I hardly know, but I reckon I love the
little dog because he loves me." That
was reasun enough. He had neither
wife nor children to love him, and so
be concentrated on the dog, but still
his friends thought he might have
chosen a more attractive one.
The poorer a man is and the more
friendless, the stronger in bis attach
ment to his dog, and the dog seems to
reciprocate and will not desert his mas
ter. A nigger's hound is as happy and
contented asa fine lady's poodle. Pope
says:
"Lo, the poor Tndian! whose untutored mind
Sees God ii clouds or hears Him in the
wind.
lint thinks admitted to the heavenly sky,
His faithful dog shall bear 1 tin company."
We have had but five dogs in fifty
years at our housa and they were all
good dogs, faithful dogs and loved the
children. Of course, I dont include
the yaller pup that we hap not long ago
and were raising to take Laddie's place.
He was an ignominious fraud. He
stole everything that was in sight and
in reach. One day the pantry door was
left open and he carried off half of a
boiled ham. He stole eggs and butter
aud carried off hats and bcoks and bon
nets and kept us continually clarmed.
One day our old peach man, who lives
sixteen miles away, came up with a
load of fruit and I gently persuaded him
that he needed a smart dog, ho he tied
him in his wagon and hauled him
home. I asked him the other day how
the purp was getting on. "Fust rate,"
he said. "When I got him home that
night J turned him loose and fed him,
and the next morning he beat me up
and run six chickens before breakfast
and chawed on 'em. I give him a
decent licking and reformed him. That
night he followed the boys to the woods
and caught a possum and he's gettm'
to be a fine dog." He dident have
room enough here in town to expand
As a general rule women are not fond
of dogs. They prefer cats. The dogs
are in the way and take up too much
room, and are always scratching for
lleas and when bad weather comeB they
track up the house and want to lie by
the fire.
My old friend Foote told me that he
and his old 'oman had lived together
fifty-two years and there was never a
cross word or a hard thought between
them about anything excepting dogs
"I waa fond of does," said he, "and
my wife despised 'em and just as soon
as they followed me into the house she
would take the broom or something and
maul 'em out, especially in muddy
weather, for she waa a powerful neat
housekeeper and I wasnt.
"How many dogs did you keep, Mr,
Foote?"
''Well, you see in my younger days
I was powerful fond of fox hunting and
I kept four good fox dogs most of the
time and then I bad a squirrel dog and
a rabbit dog and a 'possum dog and a
pinter. That's reasonable, I thought,
but my wife didnt and she used to let
me know it sometimes.
But our good old dog is dead and we
all miss him. Nobody ever Btruck him
a lick, or had to say a cross word to
him. He was a dog, but he was a
gentleman in all his deportment.
wonder where I can get a good young
dog to raise to take his place. The
winter is coming on and as soon as the
chicken thieves find out that Laddie is
dead they will come prowling around
Higher education hasnt stopped the
niggers from stealing chickens.
Bill Arp.
ltiliville Literal' Nolen.
Atlanta Constitution.
A hot Oyster Supper was given for the.
benefit of the Billville library Tuesday
evening, lucre were present 3even oys
ters, six ladies and five authors.
While one of our leading authors was
peacefully sweating out a new novel in
the autumn woods, he was savagely at
tacked by five wildcats. W e don t know
what his novel was called, as it is now
in the wildcats.
Another autnor, well known in our
midst, went to New York tho other day
and caught the appendicitis. While at
home he never aspired to more than
common chills and fever.
The History of Billville will soon be
issued in book form. The town was
originally named for Colonel Bill, and
the bills have been coming in eversmce,
with painful regularity, on the first of
each month.
While splitting rails the other lay our
leading poet Bnagged his writing-hand
so severely that he cannot lift a glass of
Bourbon to his lips without assistance.
While our leading novelist was dig
ging a well for the town council he was
savagely attacked by five large snakes.
It is not known who let the liquor down
to him.
Seventeen historical novels are being
written by prominent Billville authors.
They have hired three men, at a dollar
a day, to manufacture the history.
At the author s meeting, recently, two
men were struck over the head with a
literary club, and it is said that litera
ture has been running in their heads
ever since.
Joint Sherman In Very III.
Washington. October 17. Ex-Sena
tor John Sherman is dangerously ill at
hia residence in this city. The attack
has taken the form of general collapse,
in part due to the general debility in
cident to old age, and to the effect of
the serious which he suffered while on
a trip to the West Indies two years ago.
He ueyer fully recovered from that ill
ness.
W. V. Powell, who lor seven years
has been erand president of the Order
of Railway Telegraphers, has been
expelled from the organization on
charges of unbecoming conduct.
IUGGING FOK Itl Itli:i TKKAS
IRK ON NORTH CAROLINA
PLANTATION.
An interesting story of buried treas
ure is told by the Fort Mill, S. C, Times.
It says:
"About the middle of April, 1S65,
the Bank of Charlotte had in its vaults
$40,000 in gold and silver. It was ap
prehended that General Sherman would
raid the city and capture the money,
and the cashier and teller took it to the
country in four boxes for safe keeping.
They became nervoua and returned to
the city, where they told Col. J. Harvey
Wilson, a director of the bank, that he
must make Bome arrangements to take
care of the specie. Colonel Wilson call
ed to his assistance Captain S. E. White,
of this place, who was feeble from Bick
ness and recruiting at his father's home
in Charlotte. These two procured a ve
hicle and brought the money to the old
White mansion, just outside Fort Mill.
There was difficulty in finding utensils
with which to bury the treasure, and as
they did not want to arouse anybody,
Captain White took a fire shovel and
going to a secluded spot on the planta
tion did the best he could to Becrete the
boxes in a branch. Next morning,
fearing that be had not succeeded in
his work on account of extreme dark
ness, the captain went to investigate
and found that he had failed to cover
the boxe3 entirely. Hrving a better
tool to work with, he moved the boxes
and hid them so he thought they could
not be found; but the labor and want
of sleep rendered him unfit to return to
Charlotte with Colenel Wilson, who had
started to return on horseback. After
proceeding a short dietauce on his jour
ney, some soldiers of rerguson's cm
mand wanted to take the colonel's horse
and he returned to the White mansion
where Captain White and the soldiers
bad an altercation about the horse
Captain Robert Fullwood, ft venerable
neighbor, walked to the captain's side
and raising his cane told the soldiers
that they could not deprive him of many
days and that they would only get the
horse over his dead body. This feeble
resistance would probably have been
overcome by the soldiers; but just then
Captain John Muis rode up at the head
of his cavalry company, and seeing the
situation, called to Captain White and
asked if be was in trouble. On receiv
ing a reply Captain Mills formed his
men for action and dispersed the mob
But they had a mean revenge, for that
night they burned the White ginhouse
with over 100 bales of cotton.
"During the past two years Captain
White has received three letters pur
porting to come from some one in Char
lotte, telling him treasure was hidden
on his place, and offering to find it for
a certain consideration; but no reply
was vouchsafed, for the captain knew
that in July, 1S65, Colonel Wilson and
other directors took the money back to
Charlotte. However, on White's return
from western North Carolina, it waa
found that during his absence someone
had dug around one or two pillars in
the cellar at the mansion, which has
been for some time occupied. It is sup
posed that his correspondent took ad
vantage of his absence and searched on
his own account for the treasure. It is
needless to say that the fellow had hia
work for nothing. It is not known
whether the writer of the three lettere
is a white man or a negro."
Half Meet For the Callow.
Charlotte Observer.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
is quoted as having said in a recent
speech at Canton, 111., that "if the peo
ple knew the villainy that waa perpe
trated in Congress by the corporations
and trusts they would march to Wash
ington and hang half the members." A
stream can rise no higher than its
fountain, and the members of Cougress
cannot fairly be assumed to be any
better than the average of those who
elect them. That they are worse is
hardly supposable, for, to do them jus
tice, in selecting those who are to rep
resent them at Washington the people
generally fall upon men who are fair
types of the average of themselves.
This will not be disputed. If, therefore,
it is true, as we are left to infer from
the above quotation, that half the
members of Congress ought to be hang
ed, then it follows that those who elect
them ought also to be hanged, and if
this is true it followB that self-government
i3 a failure. But if the soundness
of this reasoning ia denied, and we are
told that the representatives are worse
than those they represent, and that the
electors should be spared the gallows
or the lamp-post, we would ask what
then, becomes of the fundamental prop
osition that the voice of the people' ia
the voice is God 1 It is lnconceivaole
that ' He, speaking through them,
should send to the seat of government
to represent them a lot of men, half of
whom deserved to be gibbeted. Yet
Senator Tillman says so, and the Sen
ator is an honorable man. It ia all too
deep for us. We sometimes haven't a
very high opinion ourselves of the Con
gress of the United States, but it had
never occurred to us that it was as bad
as the senior Senator from South Caro-
ina says.
Ctrtainly no Republican will charge
that Harvard University is an anarehie
tic institution. Yet the announcement
is made that nearly all of the members
of the Harvard faculty will vote for
Bryan .
FOC'R KNIOMIICS OF MAN.
Aristocracy, MIHtarim, Slavery and
Imperialism.
David Starr Jordan, President of Stanford
University.
There are four enemies that have
stood in the path of man. These are
aristocracy, militarism, slavery and
imperialism. There are various other
enemies, but those are the four arch
enemies in the political sense. They
all spring out of the idea that man be
longs not to himself, but that he be
longs, body and soul, to Homebody or
something else which owns him. TheBe
four enemies, in a dangerous garb,
confront the United States today.
Schiller says that the tyrants reach
hands to each other that they reach
to each other the hands. They stand
tpgether now. These four stand to
gether now. Wherever there ia one,
the other is. Aristocracy, slavery,
militarism and imperialism. They
reach eath other's hands.
They all have their fair, attractive
side. They are defended sometimes at
the fireside. Slavery was discussed and
defended from many a pulpit in New
England.
Aristocracy has its fair side.
The foundation of a quality is aris
tocracy, the foundation of our liberty is
rebellion against it the very thing we
came here for.
There is a fair side of slavery and a
fair side of militarism. How clean the
streets can be kept under military dis
cipline and how free from noise! How
easily people can be sent to bed at
dark if it be desired !
There ia a fair side of imperialism.
You will find in many places that nine-
tenths of the people believe it is a good
thing for the world. Maybe it is, but
when we come to read hiBtory from the
one side to the other we will find ' that
the British people have been debauched
by their course in India and that Hin
doos have been cursed. You will find
that the Englisn people have been
cursed. You will find that the English
people have been turned from being a
strong, freedom-loving people. You
will fiud also that the heart's blood has
gone out of Great Britain as it has gone
out of all countries which have engaged
in constant wars.
We know how Napoleon depopulated
France by his wars. We know of the
murders of the nobility, the murders of
the peasantry, and the reBult in France
today. In 1630, when the Philippine
question was a burning one in Spain,
La Puente, an Augustinian friar, ex
pressed his opinion of the whole thing
when he said :
"Against the gain of redeemed souls
1 place the cost in loss of armadas and
of soldiers and friars sent to the Philip
pines, and these 1 count the chief loss
that while mines give silver and forests
giVe lumber only, Sf.ain gives Spaniards,
and she shall give so many of them that
some day she shall be left childless and
forced to bring up strangers' children
instead of her own."
It is better that we should be just and
faithful to our own principles and to
the principles of God and that we Bhould
in our laws be no respecters of persons,
because if m our lawB we are respecters
of persons, we must go the way of
empire, as all empire has gone.
The best way ia which the growth of
any man or nation has ever been pro
moted has been self-government, Dem
ocratically looking after its own affairs.
We do not expect that self-government
will always be good government. Men
learn not by their successes, but by mis
takes. It is absolutely impossible for
any republic to conduct any affairs weli
except its own.
A Noble Charity.
Richmond Evening News.
It is understood that General Julian
S. Carr, of North Carolina, has con
tracted with the Lafferty Mill to supply
every Southern Methodist minister with
the famous "Complete Flour," and
every minister of every denomination
in North Caroltna at the cost of pro
duction. General Carr's use of the flour, tally
ing with the opinions of a long array
of bankers, jurists, physicians, presi
dents of colleges, ministers as to its
value for brain workers and persons
with impaired digestion led him to put
it into thousands of parsonages.
The Lailerty Mill was forced to du
plicate its machinery for triturating the
germ and oxygenizing the products as
the whole wheat berry is used. A
superbly engraved booklet with portrait
of General Carr and their scientific
method of milling has been issued by
the Laffertys.
The Rule of Three.
Three things to govern Temper,
tongue and conduct.
Three things to love Courage, gentle
ness and ingratitude.
Three things to hate Cruelty, arro
gance and ingratitude.
Three things to delight m-Frankness,
freedom and beauty.
Three things to wish for Health,
friends and a cheerful spirit.
Three things to avoid Idleness,
loquacity and tiippaut jesting.
Three things to hght for Honor,
country and home.
Three things to admire Intellectual
power, dignity and gracefulness.
Three things to think about Lite,
death and eternity.
TART, TEHSK AND TIMELY.
Mr. Richard Croker, who is manag
ing the Democratic campaign in New
York City, expresses satisfaction with
the registration, and still says the city
will give Bryan and Stevenson 100,000
majority.
Really Mr. Payne, boss Hanna's sub
stitute at Republican headquarters, must
be losing his grip. He actually con
cedes Bryan 115 electoral votes, and de
clares that he he has even chances for
carrying Delaware, Kentucky, Mary
land', Nebraska, Nevada and Utah, and
six out of a possible ten chances to carry
Colorado, Idaho and Missouri. Every
one of these States will be found in the
Bryan column.
Mr. McKinley shudders every time
the wind blows from the direction of the
Ben Harrison ice wagon.
Democrats have nothing to fear from
Republican brag and bluster and every
thing to fear from Hanna's corruption
fund. "
Republicans try to explain the notice
able slump in business, in many sec
tions, by charging it the uncertainty of
the campaign, and in the next breath
they say there is no uncertainty about
the result of the campaign.
Teddy has grown so big, in his own
estimation, that he is likely to order the
widening of the doorway of the private
car in which he travels. It really puz
zles him to understand how he can still
get through the doorway.
Representative Sulzer, 6f New York,
said to an Illinois audience the other
day: "Put it down as I give it to you.
New York is as surely Democratic this
year as Georgia."
Boss Hanna's "full dinner pail" is
the most so did argument ever advanced
in an American political campaign.
Followed to its logical conclusion it
would mean that the voters of the
country would not object to the estab
lishment of an empire with a moneyed
aristocracy, so long as they are well fed.
It is in keeping with the party which
relies upon buying another Presidential
?lection. If accepted, it would make
stomach instead of brain and conscience,
the power which controls voters.
Cotton Crop Not Short.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 18. A. J.
Buston of Liverpool, Eng., one of the
best known cotton experts in the world
reached here to day after making his
usual tour through the Southern States
for the purpose of examining the cotton
crop and telegraphed the result of hia
examination to the Manchester Guardi
an and Liverpool Courier. Mr. Buston
is of the opinion that the cotton crop
will not be as small as latelay estimated
but will mount up to 10,250,000 bales
and may be higher if there is a late
f'06t. He says:
"One thing that impressed me em
phatically as I journeyed through the
various States was the cry: "Scarcity
of labor.' Everywhere I went I was
told that the farmers were short of hands.
I cannot understand the reason why
there should be scarcity of labor. The
wages are reasonable $3 per day at
almost all the plantations and it is
surprising that more people don t take
advantage of this splendid opportunity. ' '
A Preacher Holds Services With Gun
lu Hand and Wouude Intruder.
New Orleans Dispatch. .
A young man named Simpson an
nounced his determination to break up
the holiness meeting being conducted
by Parson Howell in the woods near
Many, this State. Howell heard of
Simpson's intention and held services
last night with a muzzle-loading shot
gun on his shouldder, explaining to his
ilock that he had come prepared to pro
tect them. Simpson bore down on the
assemblage during prayer and an
nounced his presence with a , whoop.
Howell stopped in the middle of a sen
tence, raised hie gun, pulled the trigger
and then continued his prayer. After
the "Amen" the congregation picked
up Simpson and found that both his
legs had been peppered with squirrel
shot.
A Great Campaign.
Statesvllle Mascot.
Hon. Theo. F. Klutlz, our nominee
for re-election to Congress, is making a
great campaign. His speeches are on
the. high plane which should be expect
ed from a member of Congress. He
deals frankly and fairly with every
question, seeking to win only upon the
merits of his party. No district has
a more worthy representative and this
one neyer had one who was abler or more
faithful. Iredell Democrats, see to it
that hia majority in the county is a
great one.
A Letter From Georgia.
Dear William; This is to let you
know that your gran'mother is dead an'
cotton haa riz: also that your Uncle
Dick is no more, an' cotton still risin';
an' also to inform you that the gal you
waz to marry is done married, an'
thar s no tellin whar cotton will fetch
up at ef it keeps a-risin'!
I place the philosophy of Franklin
against the sordid doctrine of those who .
would put a price upon the head of an
American Boldier and justify a war of
conquest upon the ground that it will
pay. The Democratic party is in favor
of the expansion of trade. It would
extend our trade by every legitimate
and peaceful means, but it is not wiling
to make merchandise ot human oiooa-
W. J. Bryan.