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$1.00 a Year, In Advance. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH.' Single Copy, B Cents.' VOL XII. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY MARCH 29,1901. NO. 4. HILL AUP'S LETTER. 1 had a pleasant call to Florida, and have just returned. The rail- roads make it so easy for you now that even a veteran can travel if he has the money. I left home one morn ing after early breakfast, and was in Jacksonville that night to supper with my boy and his family, 415 miles in thirteen hours, and traveled over parts of four roads. It was a day light trip and I had . opportunity to notice the changes that latitude makes in vegetat on. This new route to Florida is a star line from Atlanta and the west. It includes the Nash ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, the Western and Atlantic, the Central to Macon, the Georgia and Florida Southern to Valdosta and the Atlan tic, Valdosta and Western to Jack sonville, the prettiest, cleanest and best regulated city in the south. All of them first-class roads, with parlor cars and dining cars and sleepers that run all the way through. They don't ax.-an tarrw of Taolrann trilli Knf tricar on and on to the jumping off place, if you wish to go there. Tint new road between Jacksonville and Valdosta has made this speed and comfort possible, for it has done away with the elbows at Tifion and Waycross. The great Plant system has no elbows after you get on it, but it is a long ways from Atlanta and the west. . The new road was just what our people wanted. It is first-class in all respects, and makes its 110 miles in less than three hours. I like these straight Florida railroads; they don't reel you about like our roads among the mountains, and they just glide along like a snake in the grass. These mountain roads swing an old ' man around the curves and strain his groin and loins and diaphragm and epigram and make him sore and stiff for two or three days after he get home, l can hardly navigate now and yet my wife wants me to plant some lettuce and beans and okra and work and work among the roses right away. Besides all this, the cook has quit, and I have got to get up by sun rise ana nre up tne stove ana put on the coffee and hominy and then call her to get up and cook the rest of the breakfast. I used to make the bis cuits, but I have struck on that; don't believe that a man's rough old horny hands were intended to mix up flour and milk and lard in biscuit dough.' My old friend judge Hillye ana juage unaerwooa were once walking along a side street in New iorK ana as tney passea a bakery they saw the bakers through the blinds, and they were treading dough in the long troughs with tbeir feet Judge Hillyer said: "Do you reckon their feet are clean?1' "Well, ves,' said unaerwooa, "i recicon they are by this time; they have been tread ing a good while." But I don't care an ace bout the cook quitting. It believe in self-maintenance I be lieve that every household should be raised to do their own work when it is necessary and I am proud to say that my wife and my children have never begged a cook to stay against her will. Honors are easy; let her go and rest if she wants to. The fact is, it suits me pretty well, for the cook ing is better and the things are cleaner and it saves money we get along on less victuals and can dine out witn our cnuuren every day or two. We can use bakers' bread and make toast and bake irish potatoes and fry eggs and get along fane with out a cook. But I was thinking about Florida fair Florida that Ponce de Leon found fifty years before the Pilgrims found Plymouth or John Smith found Jamestown. Fair Florida the Eldo rado of this continent. It has been hidden for all these years, but has been found. I never saw the like of north ern tourists, the hotels at Jackson ville are overrun, it takes several columns in the papers to give their names. These tourists are all rich, and spend their money freely. The men are fairly good-looking, but the women look tired and prematurely old. .Northern women will not com pare with southern women for beauty and refinement of manners: I have known this for fifty years. They have to work too hard; poor things, I am sorry for them. They have got noth ing but money. I walked round the St. James and Windsor and never saw a beautiiul woman; tney are mascu- lin and coarse, and not an angel among them. New England or New York or any of those cold, icy states won't produce fairies or sylphs or angelic creatures. You have to come as far south as Philadelphia and Balti more to find a beautiful woman, and they "are BCarce even there. You don't find them in plenty until you get down to Charleston and Savannah. Down here where I live they are near ly all good-looking and graceful and, as David Harum said, are coupled well and 6tand up square on their pasture joints and Btep like a deer. This is their good fortune, not only f ora herdity and climate, but be cause our men are more chivalric to their wives and daughters and do not work them so hard. A recent number of a New York paper says our long haired philanthropists are fearfully in earnest about the southern negroes, but you never hear of them regtiating the toil of a'woman clerk in a retail store. She rises at o o clock every morning, cooka her own breakfast and SDehds a nickel for car fare; she attends to all receipts and shipments, she keeps the books and balances the cash; she is not allowed one second for luncheon, and never eats in the middle of the day. She does not go home till after 7 and on Saturday nights till after 12 o'clock. Her salary is $7 a week. She is bright and interesting, and of good family For her $ 7 a week she labors never less than ninety and often one hun dred hours, and this is about 8 cents an hour. There is no hope for this girl except in matrimony, and the right man will not find her. And yet these northern philan thropists will skip over them all and, like Ogden & Co., make a tour down south to see how the negro is getting on the best contented race upon the earth. From Jacksonville I dropped down to High Springs, where the good ladies of the New Century Club were call ing me. I had a delightful an ova tion of young maids and matrons and old veterans whose gray hairs and care-worn faces reminded me of the passing: years and the passing of the confederacy. These veterans will soon all be gone, for "Time cuts down all. Both great and small. Except a pensioned soldier; They do not die. But multiply As fast as they grow older." We have but 70,000 left now, al told; but they have nearly a million up north on the pension rolls. High Springs is on a boom of im provement. The PJant spstem has its largest hospital there, and its mcst extensive shops except those in Savannah. Everybody is busy and everybody seems contented and happy. I was the gust of Mr. and Mrs. Gracy, whose beautiful - home and lovely litt'e chi'dren made me feel at home. Wherever I find litt'e children I have no fear, and I do as I please, and eat with my knife and drink coffee out of my saucer if want to. The good-looking mayor was se'ected to introduce me to the audience, but not being used to such performances, forgot his little speech, and began with "Now I lay me down to s'eep," and so they had to get the preacher to take his place. I shall not soon forget the kindness of those good people of High Springs, and especially the cordial greeting l re ceived from the twenty-one ladies of the New Century Ciub. The scrip tures tell us that the time will come when seven women shall lay hold of one man, but I was captured by three times seven and maintained myself well considering my antiquity. Bill Akp. The Aastln Libel Cue Not Even Given to the Jury. Charlotte Observer. Tbe case of Rev. J. F. Austin against G. S. Escottand Charles M. Ray, edi tors of the Mill News, of this city, wherein criminal libel wa-j charged, was tried in Aeheboro yesterday and re suited in a victory for the defendants In efiect the defendants charged the plaintiff with drunkenness, lewdness, shady business transactions, and aban donment of his wife; and therefore the plaintiff brought the action, last Octo ber. Austin himself was practically the only witness for the prosecution and his case was greatly damaged by his admis eion, on cross examination, of many of the charges made against him by the defendants. The eleven witnesses for the defense substantiated every charge made by the Mill News, and gave Austin a very bad character. The case was so overwhelm ingly in favor of the defendants that Solicitor Rush stated that he could not. in view of his oath of office, ask the jury for a conviction. He requested the court to instruct the jury to render a verdict of not guilty. In so instructing the jury Judge Browm stated that he fully con curred with the solicitor and had the case gone to tbe jury and they had re turned a verdict of guilty he would have set the verdict aside. Judge Brown said that, departing from his usual rule in such cases, he would ordtr that tbe plaintiff be taxed with tbe costs. As it developed that the plaintiff .was unable to pay the costs it was ordered that the costs be paid by the State. Messrs. Eacott & Ray and Mr. E. T. Cansler, one of their attorneys, return ed last night from Asbeboro. "Faithless Sally Brown." "There is one attorney of ripe years and experience in Greensboro," says The Reidsville Record, " and not an other woman will fool him as to her grief and piety. The Record learns that he was attending to a suit for one whose huBband was killed by a train not many months ago. When he was con sulted and retained in tbe case he says the woman's pastor and a number of friends called on him and told nim what a good Christian woman she was and. now Bhe was grieviog over tbe loss of her bus band. The attorney's sympathies were enlisted and he managed to get thecal settled without a suit The woman was given $1,000, the money being paid just the other day. About the first thing f he did was to buy a new suit of clothes for a married maa and now the two have eloped gone glimmering!" TYPE IS A LlttOS T EXTINCT. Black Klammlei of the South Are Becoming Merely a ITIciuory. Birmingham Age-Herald. The black mammies of the pictur esque regime before the war so fast dis appearing that a loan exhibit of these bear old types ought to be arranged by those who still claim the devotion of tee few remaining types in typical homespun frocks and bandannaed heades. - These is a typical mammy in Birmingham who figured recently at the wedding of a yourg woman to whose mother and grandmother she had been maid. The wedding was ft quiet one, despite mammv's entreaties to have a "big wed din' " " "Hit's or 8hame,"said mammy, "ter marry dat chile off'n enuy sich a way. Harmudderan' old mistiss, too, bof had big weddin's, and now dis here chile gwine ter be put off wid a reg'lar po' white folks weddin'. Ain't er gwine ter have no supper, no bakin' o' cakes. I never seed a bride whut didn't have a bride's cake." Thcold creature begged tbe yoang bride-to-be to at least arrange for a wed ding supper and offered to bake the cakes. . "My ole ' hands," she said, "neber will giv out s'long as I can work for young misties' children. I'ze gittin along, but I'ze dun live ter see all de children get mar'ed, an'now I wants ter cook one rno' weddin eupper 'fo I die. And, sure enough, she did. lhe mistress, or the house, going below stairs the morniDg preceding the wedding, noticed the unusual appear ance of the kitchen at an early hour. "Dear me," she said, "mammy, every thing looks as if you had been up all night. And mammy, in a freshly starched homespun apron, a white handkerchief wound about her head, stood in the door-way. The kitchen was as shining as the pans upon the shelves. The face of the old negress glowed contentedly. Her withered old. hands told the story of years of hard work. "Mistiss," she began, "I sho' is ben up all night. I'ze ben er cookin, some weddin' cake tut de baby. Lawdy I couldn t low dat chile ter marry 'dout plenty weddin' cake. I don't keer whether dar s enny folks to eat it or not. I duu cook 'em for dat chile. And, leading the way to the pantry, she showed the results of her night e work. Tnere were rows of cakes, elab orately embossed, at which she gazed in silent admiration. Her mistress, looking at the ebony- hued face before her. at its kindly, broad-seamed lines, was in that mood when a smile is dangerously akin to tears. Aphorisms From Josh llUUngs. Suckcesa is not allwayH a sure Bign ov merit, but it iz a fust rate way to suck ceed. The hardest dollar for a man to git is too often the one be needs the most Yung man, alwues pla to win a erame that aint worth winning aiut worth playing. The choicest kompliment that kan be paid to virtew is, that the best lies we have are thczi which most resembles the truth. Mi friend don't never strike a dog thare never waz a dog yet who had haff a chance, who dida t Iuv suraboddy else better than he loved himself. Yung man, don't git down on yure knees before the world if yu do. it wnn't h lone hefnra the world will in sist uponyuregitting down a peg lower. Men ov moderate abilitys make the best companyuns men ov grate wit may be compared to a grate tire, you Kani gn near enun to it to git warm, without gittiog burnt. Activity in Gold-IUlulng. The report of the State Geologist says a great many gold mines have been opened or re-openeJ. The greatest ac tivity prevails in Cabarrus, Kowan, Mecklenburg, Gaston, Burke and Hen derson. There is much activity in cop per mining and there will be a large output tbia year. Tbe iron ore beds at Cranberry were opened and shown to be one of the finest beds in the United States, while the Johnson county beds have a thickness of from 6 to 15 feet of ore. Mica mines are being extensively worked. The output of monnzite in the past two years is f 100,000 worth. There is more activity in stone quarries than ever before. The coal output of the Cumnock mine was 18,000 tODS last year, lhe total value of the output of mineral products of the State in two years is over $1,000,000. The capital invested in mineral deposits during that period is over $3,000,000, and the cap ital invested in the development of water-power and timber resources is over $2,000,000 largely due to Geol ogical Survey Anson brings forward Hon. James A Lock hart for judg of the new eighth judicial district; Union presents R. B. Redwine, Esq., and Scotland Walter H. Neal, Esq. The eighth has more re commendations, according to the pub lished reports, than any of tbe new dis tricts. It appears that Senator M. H. Justice, of Rutherford, will be a judge, and the st ifement is made that Repre sentative Francis D. Winston, of Bertie, will be the appointee in his district. IMPEACHMENT TRIAL. The impeachment trial is now on in full force. The court met Saturday, there being 45 present. Governor Jarvis, for the defence, made allusion to the News and Ooserver and said that the defence would conduct the trial indepen dently of the positions of newspapers, and that the newspapers should not have made such attacks upon them. Mr. Winston repled that the im peachment managers had been vig orously and viciously attacked by the newspapers, and that their motives had been assailed. Col. Kenan was put up on the stand. The questions which were asked him were mostly matters of record, though both sides are closely contesting all the grounds. Col. Ken an, who is clerk of the Supreme Court, said he did not issue the writ of his own motion, but in response to the order of the court under special instruc tions. Judges Clark and Montgomery dissenting. He said he . was directed not to file Judge Clark's protest, or to make any note of it. The writ of man damus was issued October 12. Raleigh, March 18. Today's morn ing session of the impeachment trial was entirely consumed by W. P. Bynuru Jr.-, in the opening speech for the defendant judges. His speech re lated solely to questions of law regard ing impeachable offenses and citing de fects in charges contained in the im peachment articles. Taking up North Carolina supreme court decisions since 1790 in cases similar to one complain ed of, he showed a long record of decis ions, justifying the judges in their action. He argued that errors of jude ment were not impeachable, even if the consequences were evil, and contended that the order for a writ of mandumus was never made by the supreme court The clerk of court issued it cn the advice of individual members of the court. He declared the integrity and probity of the personal official conduct of the judges were in their favor in a question of corrupt or partisan motive. Chief JuBtice Furches was on the stand all the afternoon. He took up thirty-six "office holding" cases which have been decided in the " past four years; showed the question involved in each aud the ground tor the decision all relating back to the case of Hoke vs Henderson, decided in 1834, saying tbe decisions were all unanimous until 1899, when Judge Clark (democrat) be gan to dissent. He showed that out of the thirty-six cases twenty-four had been decided in favor of democrats, as evidence of his taking no account of politics in any case; said he had never seen Theopbilus white, the party plaintiff in the case the impeachment is for; that no order to issue mandamus was eer made by the court as a court, that only the individual opinion of members was given; that a motion to that effect was not heard for the reason that nothing was before the court and for the same reason Clark's protest and dissenting opinion were not permitted to be made a record of the court. He solemnly declared that no thought of partisan bias had ever entered his mind, but that every act and decision of his had been in keeping with long settled principles of law, dating back to the earliest record of jurisprudence in North Carolina. Raleigh, March 19. Chief Justice Furches concluded bis testimony before the Court of Impeachment this morn ing. He was cross examined ' for an hour by Mr. Pou, in regard to the is suance of mandamus and on the princi ple involved in the office holding cases. Pou sought to established that the Day case first held that a man had pro perty rights in the duties of his office and then tried to elicit from the witness that this principle applied to the cases of Judges Jor.es and Meares would have held them their offices. Justice Furches said this was not be fore the court and he could not tell what the conclusion would have been. B. F! Long for the defense conducted the re-direct examination and Senator Henderson sent forward half a dozen questions. The Uhief-Justice answered them all. Maj. W.TM. Bobbins, of Iredell, who .8 known JuBtice Furches 35 years, testified to his character. He once de feated the Chief Justice for Congress, and both lived in the same town. When Watson asked if .Furches was not a bitter partisan Bobbins declared: "He was not more bitter in bis poli tics than you and I in ours." This was greeted by applause and the president demanded order and threatened to clear the lobbies. Maj. Robbins continued, his eyes swimming witn tears ano nia voice husky with emotion: "I have loved him as a man and hated his politics all my life,'' and he broke down. "I never hattd him," re plied Watson with tears in his eyes. Ex-member ot the House, liolman, testified to Furches, high character, but Watson drew from him that Furches was considered a bitter partisan. J. H. Hoffman, of Statesville, and Dr. S. W. Stephenson, representative from Iredell, also testified to his high character. Justice Robert M. Douglas, then took the stand and his examination was in progress when the court adjourned. He repeated much of the evidence as Furches gave, then was questioned on various office holding cases. RiLEiGH, N. C, March 20. Asso ciate Justice Montgomery was tbe prin cipal witness for the defence in the im peachment trial today. Justice Montgomery said when he first went on the bench and the case of Wood against Bellamy arose, he was inclined against holding to the Hoke Henderson doctrine but Clark's argu ment and statement in conference in fluenced him in deciding to adhere to the doctrine, with the court. The Court was unanimous in decis sion until 1899 when Clark began to dissent beginning with the Day case. He accused Judge Clark, in a court conference with advising voluntarily the State Treasurer not to obey the court mandamus and being at the bot tom of tbe trouble and instigating the newspaper attacks on the Court. Judge Montgomery, cross examined by Wat Bon denied being sarcastic towards the Legislature in his opinions. He asked to be permitted to ignore the question, if the Supreme Court was not "a political biawl" and other questions. He told Watson he talked to him like he was a boy. Raleigh, N. C, March 21. Specta tors to-day expected sensational devel opments at the impeachment trial which Judge Walter Clark, took the stand, but were disappointed, as Judge Clark simply recited the facts in the case. There was not enough conflict be tween the tettimony to invite a cross examination. The defense consulted for a few min utes, then the Judge left the stand without being cross examined. Judge Clark divulged Borne spicy words that have been flying across the council board of the Supreme Court, such as "I defy you." After Judge Clark the defence put on Allen, Craig, Graham and others who swore as to the character of oath administered by the the House-subcommittee to witnesses. Major W. A Gnthrie, for the prose cution, began hie speech at noon and it was a Btrong effort. The issue, he says, is for the Senate to re-established the line separating the judiciary from the legislative branch of the government, as thirty years ago it was done between the judicial and ex ecutive in the Holden trial. lie argued that governments grow and the doctrine that the ofhee is prop erty might have held under the con situation of 1796 but not now. The Lord made a woman- from Adam 8 no but the court made seven commissioners out of White. RaLEiGH, March 22. Major Guthrie, concluded his speech for the prosecu tion in tbe impeachment trial this morning claiming the Supreme Court should have dismissed the case of White vs. Auditor for want of jurisdic tion, also that the Judges had wilfully broken tbe constitution in issuing man damus and should be convicted. God punished an innocent violation of his command, with death, said he. C. M. Cooke follow with the defense Disaster befell Israel when it dishonor ed barauei, tiKir Judge, lie asked no considerations to enter into the trial 6ave justice and law. If Judges Furches and Douglas are impeachable for upholding Hoke vs. Henderson then other judges ought to have been indicted also. He said Clark's conduct and threats were cal culated to cause trouble among tbe judges. The Legislature and not the court made a mistake in the White caae. Two counsel for the prosecution and Senator Simmons secured mandamus from the Superior Court Judge Robin son against the Treasurer for a claim. V by not impeach Judge Robinson for mandamus illegal and not paid. Important Question ot the Helm of Consul-General and Mrs. Wildman. Whether Consul-General Wildman or Ms wife perished fimt iu the wreck of the steamer City of Rio de Janeiro will probably be discussed in court in the settlement of their estates. As husband and wife left separate estates and as each in the event of survival is entitled to inherit from the other, the question of who died first is important to the heirs of each. Should it appear that Mrs. Wildman lived longer than her husband her relatives will be entitled to large share of the Consul-General's estate. Should the Court hold that the husband lived longer than the wife, as is the presumption of law, the relatives of Mr. Wildman will receive a large part of her estate. There is no evidence to show which of tbe Wildmans lived the longer. No one saw either of them come up after the ship sank. They were last seen near together, but neither was in a boat. The supposition is that the famly all went down together, in which case the law assumes that the man, who is stronger, is the survivor. A negro Pullman porter by the name of Logwood robbed a Baltimore lady Friday night between Washington and Greensboro. The lady pnt her purse in her pillow, which the porter saw. Dur ing the night she felt the pillow jerked out from under her head and raised the alarm. The negro was confronted with the charge and denied it vehem ently but jumped off the train at tbe first stop and made his escape. DENOD1I NATIONALISM. BUN TO SEEID. Statesville Landmark. - The following item is from the news columns of the Biblical Recorder: "One of our i pastors says he has never known a better opportunity than there AO ftu UIO VVVVU IU1 O 4Ei 'viol UlUKKiDU We frequently see, Buch iteming this in religious papers, and the impulse to comment on it ia irresistible. There are "extra pious" people in all denomi nations who are not content unless their relations in ail the business aflairs of life are wholly, or a nearly so as possible, with members of their particu lar denominations. Hence we often see the statement that a Methodist mer chant, a Presbyterian doctor, an Asso ciate Reformed Presbyterian lawyer, or a Lutheran, Episcopal, Baptist or Cath olic business or professional man or. mechanic can find an opening at some point. This means that people of a certain sect want to patronize a mem ber of that sect in preference to all others. Now it ia commendable enough in members of any particular denomina tion to do what they can to aid and en courage the growth of their denomina tion and to aid in proper and legitimate ways the members of their denomina tion. But there is always a line, dic tated by common sense, as to how far this matter should go. Because a. law yer, doctor, merchant or druggist is a member of the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian or any other Church, doesn't make him any better lawyer, doctor or merchant, and sometimes be ing a member of the Church doesn't make him any better man. Hence to patronize a man Bimply because he is a member of your Church, regardless of his professional ability, or whether, he sells better goods or cheaper goods, or whether he is a good and deserving citizen, a good neighbor and a friend, is utter foolishness is denominational ism run to seed which is the case in the extract above quoted, for in this case a druggist who is a member of a certain Church is wanted, not one word being said about his competence or profes . sion skill. . In fact we always look with a suspi cion on a man who asks support, for office or patronage for business on the ground that he' is a member of some particular Church. Generally speaking, such men are scoundrels. The question one wants to consider is whether the man is worthy, is competent and can be trusted. If he is a member of the Church and a Christian so much the better, but he shr iud not be boycpUejL. on this ground if he is all right.Bther wise. People who exercise common sense would, in a c.id of dangerous ill ness or an important lawsuit, employ a doctor or lav - cv ho was known to be successful a t ' 'ilful in Jus profession, even if he tj a "heathen," rather than a Presbyterian elder, a Methodist steward, or Baptist deacon who was known to be neither skillful nor suc cessful. All things else being equal, we repeat that it is natural for Church members, just as members of other organizations, to stand by each other, but if Church membership alone is considered it is denommationalism ran to seed. These remarks are not inBpired by local condi tions. For broadmindedness in all matters the people of Statesville as a whole are not surpassed by any com munity anywhere. We have simply expressed our views on a question that is often thrust before the public. Blow ou Head Cored Lunatic. The case of a violently insane patient having been cured in the State Hospi tal here by a severe blow on the head is reported by Superintendent Selden H. Talcott. A fellow-patient having a grudge against an attendant of the institution, put a cuspidore in a pillowcase at night and waited in a doorway for the attend ant to pass. Another patient was mis taken for the attendant, and as he passed through the door the man with the loaded pillow case brought it down upon the other's head with such force as to stretch him senseless on the floor. Some hours elapsed before the injured man regained consciousness, but when he finally recovered from the attack all his delusions had vanished. After being kept under observation for a month, during which time he con tinued perfectly sane, the man who had received the knockout was pronounced cured and left the institution a free man. Needed in Other Places Besides Klnston. Klnston Free Press. An exchange eavs that "lavinc on of - - C3 hands ' for. complaints, especially in children, is now taking the place of faith cures and hvnotism.. A mother cured hereon of using profane language witn one dose. She laid her left hand on a substantial elipner. and then laid the slipper were it would do the most good, it effected a cure, a relapse is not looked for. There are a number of boys in Kineton that undoubtadly need a heavy application of this old remedy. Well Keeled. "Your medicine has helped me wonder fully," she wrote to the patent medicine house. "Three wetka ago I could not spank the baby, and now I am able to thresh my husband. God bless yjul"