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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1901.
NO. 50.
STATE NEWS.
TKo Wat a 11 era Donrwrfit RAVfl thft file-
! f OkS j - - - -
pant mansion of Mr. Moses H. Cone, at
fii"" uj"Q'-'" "
Blowine Rock, is about Completed.
cost about $75,000.
Senator Marion Butler will go to
Ruleltrh March 5. and Bays he will de
vote all his time to the practice of law
and his newspaper, the Caucasian.
The Danville Bee Bays: "There was
nnfft talk of imneaching Governor Kus
doI! nt "Wnrth Carolina, but he escaped.
and "went out of office in a blaze of
glory."
A movement has been sprung m
Albemarle for a dispensary, and an
-application will probably be made t
the present Legislature for its establish
, meat.
Tho nnlnnnfl are ae-ain ODen in Greens
boro. The bars closed just nine months
ago to make room . for tne dispensary.
Since that time there has been no end
of agitation of the liquor question.
The Legislature gives the superior
courts jurisdiction of the offense of
r.rueltv to - animals. Heretofore this
has been entirely in the jurisdiction of
magistrates, and the enforcement of the
law has been very poor.
A pamphlet entitled "Forty Years
a Pastor," being "an account of the
proceedings of the fortieth anniversary
celebration 01 tne pastorate 01 me xvev.
Jethro Rumple, D. D., of the First
IlCOUj ICilaii VIAVAiVl vy Kjw.tvvvnj -v
vember 18-20, 1900." has been issued,
mt i v. ...iLA.IItna n - nAvt tin
Xue pOolomce auiuuiiiion WC bOl' nu-
ly making things lively for negro post
moatero m AAHtern North Carol 'na
Quite lately several have been arrested
been drotDed. It is
significant that in no cases baye the
vacancies been niiea Dy negroes
The Southern Railway Company has
gained a damage suit. The ureensboro
Telegram gays that it happened Wed
nesday when the jury brought in a ver
Aint nf Tin damages for Mis Anna
"Fun na.. of Reidsvilfe. who sued for $2,
000. She waB hurt while stepping off a
train in Salisbury.
One of the mOBt brutal murders that
was ever committed in Rowan county
occurred near Spencer Saturday night
nniiard Cox. of Winston, was
shot and killed by Sam Malonej of
DflviA nnuntv. both colored, jviaione
not content with shooting his victim
tuo rtrnororod him out from under a
church where he had crawled to die
and stamped him. (.. .
Some time ago it was announced that
Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of the
Qfoto Mnrmnl and Ttidiistrial College.
K3bb 4.wfc""A - ' '
would undertake to raise an endowment
fund nf $100,000 for the institution by
securing 1,000 subscriptions of $100
each. Already quite a numoer oi bud
scriptions have ben received, and the
indications are that the entire amount
will be raised during the present year.
As the Southern fast mail train. No.
35, southbound, was passing between
Soencer. Saturday night
parties standing upon an embankment
abOUt On lue level Wliu mo ja,i nmuuno
fired a shot gun at the train and also
threw a large piece of scrap Iron through
a window. The shot shattered a win
dow of the day coach. No one was in
jured, but a passenger in the day coach
had a narrow escape. ; There is no clue
to the miscreants. ,' ,
Captain W. H.'Kitchin died at Scot
land Neck last Saturday night, at 9
o'clock. He had been ill for about two
wpeka with nneumohia. Captain Kit-
chin was well known throughout the
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state, and his deatn win De greauy re
gretted. He was held in high esteem,
being elected first to the state legislature
and afterwards to congress. He was
the fathefof Hon. W. W. Kitchin, con
gressman from the fourth district, and
of Hon. Claude Kitchin, in congress
from the second district of this state.
Caring for the Veteran.
North Carolina Confederate Veterans'
Association in session at Raleigh last
week unanimously adopted the reports
of committees and memorialized the
legislature to apppropriate $20,000 for
the maintenance of the soldiers' home
here and $5,000 for new buildings and
the preservation and repair of the pres
ent ones; that' the pension tax be in
creased from 3 i-;3 per cent to 5 cents
on property; that all confederate soldiers
with honorable records, who have reach
ed the age of seventy, not able to
support themselves and are not v nth
$500, and all widows of confederate
soldiers who were married prior to the
close of the war have reached the age
of sixty-five who, for any cause, are un
able to support themselves and are not
worth $500 shall be ennlled on the pen
sion list," that there be no further pen
sion legislation ;. that the state be asked
to publish p. new and correct record of
North Carolina, troops jn confederate
servjceC the present one being incom
pjeteatul with many errors.
It is expected that in Stokes county
the tobacco acreage will be reduced
one-third. Many tobacco growers are
leaving the country and going to the
cotton mill towns. Another cause of
the decline of the tobacco-growing in
dustry is the buying out by the trust of
so many of the principal factories at the
various markets. , !
BILL ARP ON IGNORANCE.
The Ilartow Philosopher Write of
the Schools and Paper.
Sixty years ago there was some ex
cuse for ignorance; we had but few
schools in this southern land and not
a dozen newspapers in the state.
There were not half as many reading
books in all our town as I have now
in my small library of 400 volumes.
In our schools we had a blue back
spelling book, Smiley's arithmetic,
Murray's grammar, Smith's geogra
phy and the English reader. To
master these was considered a good
old field education. I have on my
shelf a copy of that same old English
reader. A good lady sent it to me
not long ago, and I almost wept over
its delightful pages for there is no
school book now published that has
so choice a selection of varied reading
both in prose and poetry. I have a
letter from an old gentleman in
Florida asking where he will find a
little poem that his mother taught
him and some of which he has for
gotten. "It begins," he said,
''Pity the sorrows or a poor man."
I do not know where he will find it,
except in the old English reader. It
was written in 1709 by Thomas Moss,
and was quoted by Dr. Johnson and
Goldsmith. Both loved the pathetic,
and nothing more pathetic was ever
written.
Pltv the sorrows of a Door old man
V hose trembling limbs have bora him to
your door,
Whose days are dwindled to the shortest
span;
Ahl give relief and Heaven will bless your
store.
Those tattered clothes my poverty bespeak;
xnose noary iocks proclaim my jengtnenea
Tears.
And many a furrow In my grief-worn cheek
t lias been the channel to a flood or tears.
Oh. take me to your hosoltable home.
Keen blows the wind and piercing Is the
coia;
Short Is my passage to the friendly tomb,'
For 1 am poor and miserably old.
These are some of the verses, and
in another occurs the line often
quoted:
"A pampered menial drove me from
the door."
This copy of Murray's English
reader was printed in London two
years before Queen Victoria was
born. It was the text book in most
of the schools when I was a hoy, and
from it we got our speeches and learn
ed how to bow and gesture and give
accent and emphasis. This book,
with the teacher's aid, gave us an
idea of elocution and how to read
impressively, and I wish it was in
all our schools today. We have good
scholars, but very few good readers
It is rare to find a preacher who can
emphasize his text on a chapter or a
hymn. Every college, and especially
every theological seminary, should
have a professorship of reading and
speaking. I remember hearing an
eloquent divine preach a sermon from
the text, "My sin is ever before me,".
and such was his utterance of that
lamentation of David and such his
profound and solemn rendering of
the enduring consequences ot sin,
that all his hearers were deeply im
pressed. "My sin is ever before me"
still rings in our memories.
I said that sixty years ago there
was some excuse for ignorance, but
nevertheless, that age and these
schools produced many very notable
men. The young people were eager
for knowledge. A newi book was a
treasure in the house, and there was
more time, more leisure, and Solomon
says that "in leasure there is wisdom."
But now tne books, are almost m
the way. They crowd us and sur
round us, and "the cry is still they
come. Young people read an aver
age of two or thiee a week, and for
cet the contents in a month. There
are magazines in every household,
and they contain ou. best literature
instructive and entertaining; news
papers flood the country by the mil
lions. The New York World boasts
that it published 240 million copies
last year. Every county in our state
has a county newspaper, and the
editor of the Carrollton paper says
the children read a great deal more
than their fathers did and keep up
with wars and politics and murders
and suicides.
Then what is the matter. Bishop
Candler wrote an excellent and in
structive article recently on "The
passing of great men." He never
writes anything that does not give us
food for thought, and I am thankful
that he has not passed. Yet the day
of great men has passed, not only in
Georgia, but in all the south. Elo
quence in the pulpit, the forum and
the counties of the nation forty and
fifty years ago was our pride and our
boast, when we had among our
preachers such noble and true men
as George Pierce, Dr. Means, Long
street, Jesse Mercer, Nathan Craw
ford, Dr. Tucker, Bishop .Elliott and
Beckwith, Joseph Stiles, Dr. Nixson,
Dr. Goulding, and such lawyers and
statesmen as Forsyth, Troup, the two
Cobbs, Jenkins, Toombs, Stephens,
Johnson, Walter Colquit and Ben
Hill. There are twenty names given,
and many more might be added, and
it is a lamentable truth that their
equals do not exist in Georgia today.
This decay of great men is apparent
in every southern state, and as for
the north, there is nothing there now
but plutocracy who buy their way
into public office and defy trial or
criticism. The struggle for money is
the curse of the age. It has smoth
ered the nobler aspirations -of our
nature. "Get money; get money
honestly if thou canst, but at all
events get money" is now the motto.
The common people want some, and
the plutocrats want more. The masses
of the people are on a-strain. I am
one of them, and I know how it is,
for I have been on a strain ever since
the war. It is buckle and tongue to
keep in hailing distance of society.
So many of our class have a rich man's
ways and a poor man's purse that we
have to hang on to the ragged edge
of gentility. There are so many
things nowadays that we are just
obliged to have things that did not
exist in our antebellum days. Our
boys must go to college to get smat
tering of books and a full text of ath
letics. Our girls must go to get polish
and make college friends and receive
visits and . return visits after they
graduate, and it takes money for
clothes and money for railroad fare,
and every now and then a girl gets
married and chooses her college mates
for her attendants, and that takes
more clothes and a wedding present,
and so forth, and so, fifth and sixth,
and so on.
Oh, my country! When will this
strain stop? There ought to be a
miser in every family, or a rich old
bachelor uncle who carried a big life
insurance, and would die just at the
right time and leave a fortune to his
impecunious sisters or his nieces!
Why, if I had a good bank account to
draw on, I could write a more cheer
ful letter and take a hopeful view of
things and keep calm and serene; but
as it is, I find myself lampooning
those West Point cadets, and I want
those ringleaders Barry, and Dock
ery, and Dual handed down to
posterity as the champion hazers, and
their names put in a catalogue along
side of the duke of Alva to illustrate
human brutality. But I didn't mean
to say anything hard about the Tech
boys who have been suspended. I
have great hope for that institution,
and admiration for the manner in
which the boys received their disci
pline. Nobody thinks any less of
them, for there was nothing mean or
cruel. in their thoughtless conduct,
and every outside father sustains Mr.
Lyman Hall and the faculty. Of
course their mothers are deeply ag
grieved. They always are when their
sons are punished; that is a natural
and beautiful trait in a mother's
character. She clings to her boys,
regardless of whether they are right
or wrong. She is like a tigress when
robbed of her whelps. 1 have re
ceived several letters from the moth
ers of those boys, and they defend
them with earnest indignation. One
of them concludes with, "Now, I am
the mother ot one of those boys you
wrote about, and if you wish to play
Diogenes, bring on your cane." But
we have made friends, for she is a
lady and a mother, and the poet says:
"A mother Is a mother still,
' The noblest thing alive."
But I am not Diogenes, and it was
not the mother, but the father that
he caned, and I have not received a
line from any of them.
Bill Aep.
P. S. We see that General Charles
King, of the United States army, is
not only apologizing for the West
Point hazing, but is defending them,
and says it doesn't matter much, for
boy will be boys. He writes in the
Saturday Evening Post, and it is the
poorest effort to excuse brutality I
ever read. I reckon he was well paid
for it.
N. B. Judge Fite requests me to
let everybody know that Bartow
county is on the up grade and is going
to build a thirty thousand dollar
courthouse this year. We are out of
debt, and have a good pile of money
in the bank. B. A.
Mr. Nation Victorious.
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 7. City Attor
ney Gregg to-day dismissed the charge
held against Mrs. Nation for smasning
the Senate saloon, on Tuesday. "The
city has no ordinance covering the do
struclion of personal property," he said,
"but under the laws of Kansas the
State can prosecut; Mrs. Nation, if
what she destroyed can be proved per
sonal property."
Mrs. Nation thanked him and then
faced the women who had crowed' the
court room. She began to sing "iTaise
God from Whom All Blessings Flow."
The court room was temporarily turned
into a praise meeting.
Hospital for Negroes.
Messrs. Washington Duke and B.
N. Duke have gwen $5,000 to
the colored race at Durham with
which to establish ' a hospital. For
some time the leaders of the race in
Durham have been agitating the matter
with the result that the Messrs. Duke
have become interested and given the
amount named. Work will begin in
the near future and a first class hospital
will be erected in jthe southern part of
the city. The amount given by the
MesssrB. Duke will be supplemented by
other private donations. The cost of
erecting the building and equipping the
same will be from $7,000 to $10,000.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Southern Railroad Company has
secured control of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad Company.
The rumor that Emperor William will
mediate between Great Britain and the
Boers is renewed.
Seven thousand men are reported to
have been killed or wounded in a battle
with rebels in Abyssinia.
Gastonia has five well developed
cases of smallpox, pronounced so to be
by the city physicians.
Temperance workers in Charleston are
trying to get Mrs. Nation to come here
to smash the blind tigers.
It is very probable that an extra ses
sion of Congress will be called to con
vene immediately after March 4, when
the present session ends.
A special from London says King Ed
ward is doomed to die with cancer of
'he throat. Most distinguished special
ists declare his days are numbered.
Ex-Congressman George D. Tillman
died after a long illness, at his home at
Clark's Hill, m Edgefield county, S. C,
on the 2nd in the 76th year of his age
He was a brother of Senator Tillman
and was a member of Congress from
1876 to 1893, when he was succeeded
by the incumbent, Hon. J. W. Talbert.
The body of , the dead Queen of
England was carried from Cowea to
Windsor through London the latter part
of last week and laid to rest Saturday
Three millon people lined the course
of the procession, and an array was
required to maintain order. Seldom,
if ever, has there been such a funeral.
The announcement comes from
Memphis, Tenn., that Robert R.
Church, believed to be one of the wealth
iest colored men in the South, has con
tributed $1,000 for the entertainment
of the Confederate Veterans at their
annual reunion in that city in May
next. Church was born a slave in Mis
sissippi and spent his early days on a
Mississippi steamboat, of which his
master was the owner and captain.
The House of Congress Saturday
passed an omnibus bill carrying 191
claims for stores and supplies taken by
the Union army during the c.a.1 war.
The claims were passed on by the Court
of Claims, agregating $344,480. and
practically all the beneficiaries reside in
the South. The bill to amend the
Chinese exclusion act with a view to
preventing the fraudulent entry of
of Chinese into the United States was
passed, as were several other bills of
minor importance.
Since the aeatli of Queen Victoria, it
has come to light that many London
tradesmen and other speculators
throughout the United Kingdon have
been gambling on their sovereign's
chances of life. Millions of dollars
have been carried on Her Maiesty's life
in British insurance companies, these
companies eagerly writing the Insurance
without, it is of course need 'ess to say,
requiring any examination of fde
Queen's physical condition and for the
benefit of persons wholly unknown to
her. The New York Commercial right
ly calls this "a gruesome business," and
notes with much satisfaction that the
American companies doing business in
London, "even under the temptation
of big premiums and the acceptance of
these by their British comoetitDrs,
steadfastly refused to gamble on the
Father Creecy on the Legislature.
Elizabeth City Economist.
Our old friend London's capacious
English whiskers have not unduly taxed
the fertility of his editorial libel bill
until we can see its head sticking out of
the legislative rubbish heap, and
snapping its eyes with joy. London is
old and ha3 given the brotherhood the
privilege of saying cuss words with im
punity. Meoklenbarg is a great county. It
was first to shake off the British lion,
and now it takes the lead in the North
Carolina House in declaring its indepen
dence of dogs. Kipling, or some other
wild poet, Bays:
"He Who kicks my dog
Has got me to kick."
We've got no dog. Our dog "kicked
the bucket' ' last year. So Sid Alexander
may kick my dog in North Carolina
with no fear of a counter kick from ua.
Kick on Sid A. We'll never say "hold,
enough," for we won t be in tnis ngnt
against a "down dog."
A bill has been introduced in the
House to prevent hunting on the lands
of another without a written permission,
and Senator Morton, who surely never
went ''coon hunting," wants lo amend
the bill by making it apply only to
"coon and 'possum" hunters. Now, we
nrotest. Wa nrotest as one who once
wore the presidential honor of a "Coon
and Possum Club." We appeal to Tom
Riddick and all and all the other X.a of
the venerable club to stand around
Morton with clinched fists, and when
Morton kicks our coon let him know
he's cot us all to kick. And we truesa
he'll Bneak off with his tail twixt his
leee. like a coon dog that got bit by a
coon in a death grapple.
The wrongs of other people arc con
tinually getting mixed up with our
rights.
RECOMitlENDS IMPEACHMENT.
The Committee Against the Judges
Vote on the Resolution 22 to 10.
Raleigh, Feb. 7. At 12:30 this
morning (Friday), after a long session
the House judiciary committee, 37
members present, adopted a resolution
in favor of impeaching Judges Furchea
and Douglas, by a vote of 22 to : 10,
some not voting. The resolution will
be reported favorably to-morrow
Speeches against impeachment were
made by Connor, Whitaker, of Guil
ford, and Ebbs, the latter a Republican,
and in favor of impeachment by Roun-
tree, opainhour and others. . .
It is learned that th9 committee has
been all the while fully twp to one in
favor of impeachment. Some who had
not previously expressed themselves
did so to-mght.
The resolution of impeachment will
be made the special order for next
lhursday at 11 o'clock. All who voted
in favor of the resolution based their
action entirely on the report of the Bub-
committee, which was unanimous and
which was signed by the five members
of the sub-committee Allen, Connor,
Craig, Spainhour, and Graham. Among
those voting for impeachment were Al
len, Rountree Craig, Winston, Hoey,
Spainhour, Graham, Robinson, Carlton,
Shannonhose, Duls, Wilson, Stewart,
Hayes, Guttis, Harris, 'Lawrence,
Blount, Nicholson, McKethan. The
latter and Carlton spoke in favor of im
peachment.
An interesting fact in connection with
any impeachment of this character is
that if the Senate finds the accused
guilty, there are two punishments
one, removal from office and the other
forfeiture of citizenship and deprivation
of the right to hold office, either of
which, or both, may be inflicted.
The resolution adopted to-night is
simply to report the Craig resolution of
impeachment favorably. The Republi
cans were given until next Thursday to
hie a minority report. The Democrats
will not sign this minority report, but
eserve the right to oppose the Craig
resolution and offer a substitute therefor
if they see fit, when the matter corres
up in the House. If the House adopts
the resolution and presents it to the
Senate, Judges Furches and Douglas
will cease to perform the functions un
til the termination of the trial.
Judge Connor to-night read the reso
lution of condemnation of the judges'
conduct which he had prepared, but
did not ask it3 consideration or insist
upon its adoption, as there was no di i
position to support it, lines being clearly
drawn either for impeachment or against
it.
Gentlemen who came in from various
parts of the State speak of the im
peachment matter. Your correspondent
asks que3,:.ons riht and left and can
say frankly not one person has as yet
been found who favored it. A Demo
crat from the west: "I am against it.
I oppose jumping on the under dog'
in the fight. That's what the Supreme
Court is. Already sympathy w being
expressed for the judges." A veteran
ex-chairrnan said he considered it ill
advised and had heard no one com
mend it. A newspaper man Baidit had
been a hasty affair; that the impeach
ment of Holden was considered in cau
cus a fortnight and many of the ablest
lawyers were asked to attend the cau
cus and give their views-
Four Expelled for Hazing.
John Hicks, a cadet from Rockdole,
Tex., at the Virginia Military Institu?3,
at Lexington Va., and a member of the
third class, has been expelled from the
institue, primarily for hazing. He was
in the act of striking a fourth classman
plebe after the manner of "bucking," a
sport in vogue here many years, when
an inspector ordered him to his room,
under close confinement. Soon after,
Hicks broke bis arrest and his expul
sion followed for this act, but the haz
ing caused his misfortune and his ex
pulsion from the "West Point of the
South."
His application for reinstatement was
refused by Gen. Shipp, the superinten
dent, and he has gone to his home.
Hicks is the fourth student expelled
from the Virginia Military Institute
for hazing during the present session,
three being sent away at one time dur
ing the past fall.
Indorses Ittrs. Nation.
Speaking of the 'saloon-smashing
work of Mrs. Carrie Nation, Mrs.
Martha J. Skinner, president of the W.
C. T. U. of Cincinnati, said law week:
"My heart is with Mrs. Nation. She
is in the light, and doing a grand thing
for Kansas. A few years ago the tem
perance union started a praying cru
sade. That failed, and now it is time
to take up the sword. Understand, I
do not saction lawlessness. Mi3.
Nation's method could not be employ
ed in Chincinnati, for our saloons are
licensed; but in Kansas she has the law
with her. If the Governor and officers
of that great State refuse to execute its
laws it is the duty of its citizens to
demand and see to their enforcement."
The most important case on the civil
docket at Iredell court this week is B.
'. Lone against the Southern Railway
for $50,000 damages for killing his son
at University Station in 1899.
When a man can't do anything else
he can develop into a chronic kicker.
TEN DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS.
Speaker Moore's Bill for a RedUtrlct
- of the State.
Another bill redistricting the State
for the election of Congressmen was
introduced in the House last week, ts
author is Speaker Moore, and the text
of the bill is as follows:
"An act to apportion the several Con
gressional districts:
"The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
'Section 1. That for the purpose of
selecting Representatives of the Con
gress of the United States the State of
North Carolina shall be divided into ten
districts as follows:
First Beaufort, Camden, Chowan,
Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde,
Mrtin, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Per
qu'mans, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washington.
Second Bertie, Edgecombe, Gran
ville, Halifax, Northampton, Vance,
Warren and Wilson.
Third Carteret, Craven, Duplin.
Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Pender.
Sampson and Wayne.
Fourth Chatham, Franklin, John
ston, Nash, Randolph and Wake.
fifth Alamance, Caswell, Durham.
Guilford, Orange, Person, Rockingham
and Stokes.
Sixth Bladen, Brunswick, Colum
bus, Cumberland, Harnet, Moore. New
Hanover and Robeson.
Seventh Davidson, Davie. Forsyth.
Montgomery, Richmond, Rowan. Scot
land, Stanly, Surry and Yadkin.
Eighth Alexander, Alleghany, An
son, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Iredell,
union, Watauga and Wilkes.
Ninth Burke, Catawba, Gaston. Lin
coln, Mecklenburg, Madison, Mitchell
and Yancey.
Tenth Buncombe, Cherokee. Clav.
Cleveland, Graham, Haywood, Hender
son, Jackson, Macon, McDowell, Polk.
Avuiuenora, swam ana xransyivama.
Section 2. That this act shall be in
force from and after its ratification."
This bill, Mr. Moore says, makes all
the ten districts Democratic as the fol
lowing statistics, ba?ed on the recent
census and vote for Ay cock,' show:
Districts .... Population Dem. Mai.
First 181.063 7.633
Second . . . . ..' 181.766 16.056
Third ..... 180,336 8,050
Fourth ...... 189,614 5,914
Fifth 180.404 2.473
Sixth ..... 186,623 8,942
Seventh . . . . 199,253 4,238
Eighth 194,829 . 2,557
Ninth . . . . . 193,830 2,114
Tenth 201,077 2,589
No Cigarettes in Tennessee.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 31. To
bacco dealers in this city have received
notice of the final passage of the anti
cigarette bill and its signature by the
governor.
They will discontinue sale and return
their stock on hand to the manufac
turers. It is stated that the Bale of cigarettes
is practically stopped all over the state.
Intimations are given that the con
stitutionality of the law will be tested.
Cleveland's Hope.
Grover Cleveland has sent a letter to
the Jackson County Democratic Club,
of Kansas City, regretting his inability
te attend its meeting and speak on the
subject: "Democracy Its Past and
Future." He says:
"May I join you iri the expression of
a hope that the addresses, your club
contemplates along the line suggested
will bear good truit in shaping the policy
of the party in the next campaign?
May I beg to go farther, and add the
hope that the policy will be such as' to
lead to a restoration of Democratic
sympathy ?"
Born With a Set of Teeth.
George Russell, of Kentuckv. is the
father of a midget daughter that weighs
less than two pounds. The remarkable
thing about the child is that it was born
with a full set of teeth. .
The child is well formed, has dark
brown eyes and hair, and well develop
ed and pretty features. In spite of its
small size the child gives no evidence
of unusual weakness, and the several
phsiciana who have been called in de
clare tnat ii win live.
All Roads Lead to High point.
Highpoint, N. C, will be the scene
of much activity and great interest on
Feb. 20-22. Our State Sunday School
Convention will be held there on these
dates, and the entire International party
of five workers, every person a special
ist, including a Primary worker, will be
present. There is a great interest
throughout tne State in this meeting,
and there will no doubt be many hun
dreds of earnest Sunday School workers
who will make the pilgrimage to the
Convention at this time. It is certainly
an opportunity of a life time to hear five
Sunday School specialists at one meet
ing. Programs may be had of J. W.
Bryan, Goldsboro. N. C.
Dewey Compelled to Bat Much Dough'
A special to The World from Wash
ington says:
Admiral Dewey was asked if he had
been hazed while at Annapolis.
Well." said he. "If eating doueh
chewing the end of a hawser, going
around wun a sningie down my men,
drinking vinegar without putting my
nose in the glass and such other trifle
is being hazed, I shouldn't wonder if
was."