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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY. MAY 3, 1901.
NO. 9.
HILL A HP'S LKTTBIl.
General Q. T. Anderson (Old Tige)
and Colonel Tom Taylor have just
passed over the river. They were
near the same age and were close to
gether during the civil war. General
Anderson was our brigade commander
and Colonel Taylor commanded one
ot his regiments, the First Kentucky.
Since the war one of thera was made
chief of police of Atlanta and the
other of Louisville, Ky. Taylor was
next to the last of the surviving colo
nels of that brigade. It was General
T)..,'n- nA hrtcraAp. nomnosed of
the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and
Eleventh Georgia regiments and the
. -i it! ui
First Kentucky ana a v lrgima untci y .
The regiments changed their colonels
arA ni tha old Eierhth
only one (Colonel Towers), who was
:t nFu ninnol nnw survives. None
ItO 1 1 i 11 1 svv , - -
hut the veterans know how numeious
VULV HW . . .
nlinn crna At finmrnMUl
were mcoa v,. a
officers. The records show that but
e tUa (lenrcriA resimen's that
went into service in 1861 and lbbz
brought back the same colonel it took
out. The officers of the companies
were cnangea oneuei uu
nels. Deaths, resignations and pro
mnro evBf coine on. Captain
Twiggs' company of the First Georgia
regulars naaiweiveumcieui
The nersonnel
the privates was also continually
changing "discharged" or K. I. B.
WntMo' in annended to
IK.lll.eu m . uuvviv; - i i
more names than half the hrst muster
rolls, and recruiting was consianu
r. fill nn the files.
But I was ruminating about old
Tige and Tom Tayior, ior cn
villftd 1 was trans
ferred to General Anderson s stall
and followed his fortunes ior neany
two years in the .army ui
Virgima. iic V ,
dier. He never quest oned the wis
dom of an order, but obeyed it.
"Our8 not to maKe reply;
Ours not to reason why;
Ours but to do and die."
was his motto. I do not believe he
:naA tii a fmnnt,ion of fear.
p . tiA Itt lCLIVt-Vi v. w
We thought that sometimes . he was
too daring, i wmemuei iu v.
morning during the battles on the
Ohickahominy ne wioucu .
personal reconnaissance of the posi
f. f ii.. v..ir nn it.a l ff t Hank
lion oi me vuciuj v" -
and asked Major Ayer and myself to
j ...itu uim Tliftrp was a wide.
ruio wnu iiiui. - . -
C.1J V,(,non til A nTlYllfiS. DrOD-
OpeU iiciu ucwntTO v.w i
ably 1,000 acres, and our wing was
covered by a forest ot thick woods
ccving round the open space in form
::-i Wa lr Ant. r.nvered bv
oi a seiuiuiniio. r-
these woods until we had got far
round ana were as uetu " '
batteries as we dared to go. The
general said: "Well, there is no use
f !kir tKolnnir wav that we
came. Let us take the diameter of
this circle and save a mno or iwu. ?
"They will see us and open n re,
! i t t tv.om chnnt." said he.
"they can't hit us. We can outride
their balls; come on; follow me. We
did follow, but we dident want to
and there was no necessity for taking
such a peril. I never will forget that
ride. The federal batteries opened
r, iii flam a lnnc t.hp. nlain.
lire quiciuy b c """--o 1 -The
sit-pounders sent their balls
a k-.nnliNrl alnnsr the
over us aiiu buuiu 0 - .
!. no Hut. t.hfi cftneral
erounu quite ucm uo, o
only waived his hat and smiled. We
were all well mounted and made the
trip safely, but I neyer made another
reconnaissance with him. One even
ing our brigade was at rest on the
bank of the Rappahannock. We had
made a long march and were waiting
orders. The boys were sitting down
or lying down upon the grass. The
enemy were massed behind the moun
tain range that skirted the opposite
pan Kb ui iiuo in".
We could not see them, but we
.i tltnva frtr thpir hut-
Knew ney weiw mcit, -
teries amused themselves by firing
over the mountains and dropping
.i i. ,i oWoll ot ranrlrim over
viieir siiuws inivi ouyn - ---
Thev exnoded in
the air and did but little harm. We
were not alarmed and watched them
as we would a pyroteenmu uiHtuaj.
General Anderson was stretched at
length upon the ground and(we were
not far away. His fine horse was
. - il mnaa onH tVlA ffPTIPrftl
CruppiUS H'C fciaoa o
held him with a Jong rein that was
attacked to the bridle. While we
were chatting quietly a shell exploded
. 1 1 . b on1 a mnnlpmns
airecny uvtsr uo -
fragment struck his horse on top of
the neaa ana kuicu '""""""-j
Our nearness to the danger stopped
all conversation, but the loss of his
horse aroused and excited Old Tige
beyond measure. Looking at h;s
hofse that was dying at ms leet ne
used language according to hia anger
.. i TTia anathfimaS
were fearful. 'We will pay thera for
tha.t, ne saja. " wuuiu HaiD,
my right arm fur that horse. But we
ti,iim Kat twn far one. We
Will ut" w" -" "
have come here to fight, and old Bob
will give ua a cnance iu gei. cu.
i. . i il..!. I.fnvnol HfLttAIMAnt All
liiaSIl Hli llHOmai . .
aniAt.nda ia to hide behind a
mountain and shoot over it," We
did get even, and Old Tige was com
forted; for in few days the second
battle of Manassas was fought and
great victory won. Forty-eight thous
. and troops under Lee utterly routed
. ' - 1 ilA 'it ..I 1 v -hi
and vanquisnc-u c,.nm uuuu two.
I never think of Gcnrral Torn Tay
lor but what I think of the great
battle of Drainsville, in which he
figured and a smile comes over my
memory. The fun of that battle
lasted our boys a long time, and
Major Ayer at Rome is not done
laughing at it yet. The valley of
Drainsville was neutral ground and
the harvest of hay was great. The
two armies were in winter quarters
and wanted it. Jeb Stuart assured
General Johnston that if he would
furnish the wagons and teams and a
regiment of infantry he would go for
the hay. He said that the owners
were mostly southern men and want
ed us to have it. Old Joe was sus
picious, but consented. The federals
were nearer to it and had a large
force ol cavalry in their camp. Tom
Taylor was sent along with his regi
ment and Major Ayer put in charge
of 400 wagons with four-horse teams
to each, it was about fifteen miles
to the valley Over a pike road that
was generally wide enough for teams
to pass each other, but was very
narrow where cut through the little
hills. Many of these cuts, a hundred
yards long, were not more than ten
feet wide. The day and the scheme
was kept profoundly secret. One
morning about the break of day our
bovs were aroused by the unearthly
rumbling sound of 400 wagons rolling
over the pike, but that sound was
nothing to the ; roaring ot those
wagons on their return. Ihat train
of wagons was nearly four miles long
and by the time the head of the
column got fairly into the valley and
the major began bossing the loading
of the foremost teams Tom 'Lay lor,
with his men, were resting in the
suburbs and Jeb Stuart, with 2,000
cavalry, were paraded on a hill over
looking the valley. Just then b.UUU
federal cavalry came charging down
from some hiding place behind the
woods and for an hour or more Stuart
and Taylor had their hands full. The
federals had an artillery company to
help create a panic and they were
after the wagon train in desperate
determination. In the confusion
that, followed the surprise Stuart
ordered the wagons that were loading
hay to countermarch in double quick
and they performed that maneuver
with great alacrity until the head of
the procession reached the pike and
could get no further, for the body
and tail of the, train blockaded the
highway for two miles back. Then
came the great stampede. "Then
rushed the steeds from battle driven."
All along the line the alarm was
given, whips were popping, teamsters
bawling: , "Turn, men; turn and save
your teams," exclaimed the major.
"The yankees are coming." And
they did turn, but to this day nobody
knows how. Some of the wagoners
swore afterwards they flew over and
some crawled under and some turned
a four-horse team in an eight-foot cut.
Colonel Taylor ordered his men to
guard the wagons, but they couldn't
keep up with them. Stuart's men
men were in "a hand to hand fight
with the enemies cavalry jind slashed
them with swords and shot them with
small arms; but they were outnum
bered and had to fight and fall back
at every charge.
It was about the middle of the
afternoon when the roaring of the
stampeding train reached our camp
ground. Old Joe Johnston heard it,
for the sound thereof was like the
sound of many waters. He under
stood it at once and ordered a whole
brigade and battery to double quick
up the Drainsville pike. , "I told
Stuart," he exclaimed, "they would
trick if he didn't look out. Those
rascals in that valley are nearly all
union men and they got word to the
enemy. I'm afraid we have lost some
of our wagons, and it will be a hard
joke on Stuart." Later on we per
ceived great clouds of dust gathering
over the pike and the roaring came
louder and louder and nearer and
nearer, and by and by, with the aid
of a field glass, we could see Major
Ayer rise over the top of a distant hill
and halt. He is a fine rider and was
astride a fine horse whose name was
Selim.
He saw the brigade coming to the
rescue and slowed up, the long pro
cession behind him. Man and beast
were dripping with streams of sweat
that would have turned a saw mill.
In the grand melee Colonel Taylor
got cut olf from his command, for the
boys were trying to keep up with the
wagons. Bot they all came up in
course of time and received the
plaudits of their comrades. Stuart
worried the enemy sq bad that they
left the valley with naty wagon and
Major Ayer left it with nary hay. But
they got it later, for old Joe got his
back up and swore be would have it.
Thoie 400 wagoners were for a long
time the heroes of the campfires. One
of them, Jim Wilkerson, our former
marshal, lives here now and still de
clares that he turned his team in an
eight-foot cut and passed two more in
a ten-foot cut and Imd liked to have
beat the whole train to camp. His
driving was like the driving of Jehu,
for he drove furiously.
The big battle of Drainsville never
got into history, but it was camp talk
at Centerville all that winter. Dur
ing the revolution ol 1776 there was
a great battle called the "battle of
the kegs" that caused infinite merri
ment to the continent army and it
was set to verse by a humorous poet,
Francis Hopkinson, but this is known
to Virginia veterans as the "battle of
the wagons." Bill Arp. ;
CONFUCIUS AS A TEACHER.
Mrs. A. W. WtlMon Finds Ills System
' Far Short of. Ideal.
The wife of Bishop A. W. Wilson, Of
Baltimore, wrote as fellows recently to
the Baltimore Sun from Shanghai,
China:
Confucius did not offer to China even
the rudiments of a religion. There is
nothing to show that any supreme be
ing had a place in his mind. He for
mulated a system of morals. He was
particular in his statements concerning
the relations between men, but the rela
tion of God to man and of both to an
other life he refused to deal with.
He recommended certain rites known
and practiced in China centuries before
his day. Their antiquity proved their
strength to him, and by thera he lived
and died He had been dead almost
three centuries before his writings were
valued, and it is tain that not until B
C. 200 were sacrifices made to him.
The Emperor Kao Tsu made the first
offerings at his grave. The first temple
e ected to him was A. D. 1. Now these
temples have multiplied and may' be
found all over the Empire.
His proverbs are committed to mem
ory and his sayings are sacred to every
Chinaman. They settle difficulties of
state, quiet belligerents and are of value
in any personal quarrel. In Bhort, if
appealed to his word will certainly calm
a street fight or compose the nerves of
high officials who and hour before
would heap indignities upon an anta
gonist. His commentators, however,
ascribe more to him. than his writings
prove.
The worship of heaven and earth and
ancestral worship were among the
things he found already- established.
But he recommended that they be con
tinued, and to these his followers have
added the worship of Confucius. There
was no place for woman in the ethics of
Confucius, because, as he stated, she
had no soul outside of her husband.
There could be no future for her except
as it pleased him to grant her a favor in
his own coming existence. Yet Confu
cius was careful not to acknowledge a
life hereafter. But one thing the an
cestral rites proved a universal belief
in this.
From the Emperor down to the coolie
every man sacrifices to his ancestors
This is more firmly rooted in the Chi
nese mind than any other sacred func
tion, and more than any other thing
stand between the Chinaman and Chris
tian faith. It is believed that all dis
embodied spirits will work evil up
on the living unless propitiated, utter
ings of every sort are burned at the
grace or at the ancestral tablet, the fire
conveying them to the other side.
The Buddhist, who also worships
Confucius, is taught that there is a
future existence where the demerits due
the failures in this life must be suffered
for thousands of years, when the spirit
is granted a rebirth into the world, per
haps in some very low form of life
Occasionally a man may return as a
man, but rule is he comes back as an
animal of low order. After millions of
ages and many rebirths, between which
he must continue to endure the system
of demerits or punishment, he may be
come a Buddha. Buddha is reincarna
ted at intervals, and it is possible for
the spirit of the man to be raised to this
honor. The best woman may hope for
is that she may by certain favor come
back to her old haunts ab a man.
A coffin is the most dutiful preeent
that a man may give his parents. This
is often done years before death, and it
is kept under the family roof with
pride. The dead body is at last placed
there, the coffin filled in with lime and
then sealed.
The burial does not take place at
once. The geomancer must find the
place and time ftf interment. Some-
times montns intervene neiore Dunai
I have eeen coffins unburied in the fields
I euppose awaiting the word of the
diviner. He is a necessary adjunct to
funerals, wedding, the purchase of pro
perty, the building of a house or the
start upon a distant journey.
The nation lives upon its supersti
tions. ' All classes of the people are
moved by this unseen power. The
"yeng shui" seems to be the strongest
of the whole. This is the spirit of the
air and of the water, and nothing can
beSlone that does not m some way
affect his hiehneBs. liis favor or
disfavor is of great importance.
A man may want to build, but only
the astrologer can discover the mind of
the Myeng shui" and so fix upon the
proper site and tell the kind of building
which may be erected, uae man may
occupy a lot that another man must not
touch, or one may use it for a class of
business that another is forbidden to
consider. The penalty is ill luck from
the "yeng shui." His sons will die
his money will take wings or his own
health give way. The spirit will not be
thwarted.
Chester Holcombe records the case of
an Emperor whose burial was, before
diviner, the question being. 'Shall he
be buried in the Eastern or Western
Cemetery?" After months of inyesti
gation and many appeals from board
to board the dead Emperor was interred
in the Extern. The cost was 1250,000
and the "yeng shui" was at the bottom
of the trouble.
The "yeng shui" moves in straight
lines and constquently towers, chim
neys, spires and the like are an offense
to him. To pass them he must turn aside,
which causes euch anger that the whole
neighborhood will perhaps be visited
by an epidemic, and the chief offender
being found, the severest ill luck will be
visited upon him. In the ports there
are factories, chimneys and spireB, but
in the far interior these innovations are
not found.
Foreigners live in the native houses
and generally go through the winters
like the Chinese without fires, except
a Bmali brszier or a coal oil stove. A
friend of mine lately moved farther in
to toe interior and could not rent a
house except one that was haunted.
The citizens were afraid of the "yeng
shui" and would not let no other. As
my friend is not timid about ghosts, he
took it, is having some repairs done
and will move his family there. The
housed are haunted because someone
died there. When death approaches
the patient is placed upon a board and
gently lifted to the outside of the room,
while the family watches for the last
breath. If death comes before the sick
one is moved, one of the spirits (every
one has four) remains in that room ever
after.
The astrologer can exercise the spirit,
I have heard of its being done by some
incantations and wonderful performaace
like the setting up of poles at the four
corners.
The "river dragon" is, I think an
other name for "yeng shui." He it is
who caused the floods which inundate
miles of country and turn thousands out
homeless and starving. Men often sell
their wives and daughters, not knowing
ow else to feed them during thetamine
that is sure to follow these floods
Crowds of miserable creatures in rags
often pass down into the lower country
in search of help after one of these ter
rible disasters. A fit of anger roused
the river dragon, and he sptmt his ven
geance upon helpless creatures because
some community failed to follow the
will of the "yeng shui."
During the last bix weeks we have
had no news of the terrible sufferings
of Bome of the survivors of last sum
mer's catastrophe. Some escaped, be
ing hunted for weeks end enduring un
told horrors men, women and chil
dren at last to be discovered, tortured
and murdered. Others managed to
find their way to safety, but broken by
hardship and distress. A party entered
one of the cities north of Shanghai a
month ago or a little over scarcely
recognizable, so much had they endur
ed in biding, starving and other hor
rors. The story of those months can
never e written. A part should not be
written.
The Chinese are a heathen people
One thing only can save them not
Clvilzuou aione, out. wurioiinuiij',
which means the beet civilization.
Mes A. W. Wit-son.
Some lle'sof the Bible.
Tin thnn in the fear of the Lord all
the dav lone. Prov. xxiii, 17.
T5a at npftfie among yourselves, i
Thess. v, 13.
Be content with such things as ye
have. Heb. xni, 5.
Be careful for nothing. Phil. iv, ,6.
Be very courageous. Joshua xxiii, 6.
Be ye all of one mind. I Pet. ii, 8.
Be pitiful. I pet. lii, 8.
Be thou faithful untodeath. Rev.H,
10.
Be glad in the Lord. Psa. xxxii. 11.
Be of good cheer. Acts xxiii, 11.
. Be ye holy, for I am holy. I Pet. l,
16.
Be ye kind to one another. Eph. iv,
32. -
Be kindly affectioned, one to another.
Rom. xii, 10.
Be ye mindful always of his covenant.
I Chron. xvi, 15.
Be ye merciful, as jour tamer is
merciful. Luke vi, 36.
Be not afraid of sudden fear. Prov.
iii, 25.
Be not deceived; God is not mocKea.
Gal. vi. 7,
Be not overcome of evil. Rom. xn,
21.
Be not wise in thine own eyes. Prov.
iii, 17.
Be ye separate. II Uor. vi, 14, J..
Be ye perfect. Mait. v, 49.
Be ye ready. Luke xii, 40.
Be not conformed to this world.
Rom. xii, 2,
Be ye sober, be vigilant I Per. v, 8.
Be strong in the Lord. Eph. vi, 10.
Be thankful. Col. ii, 1.
Be ye doers of the Word. James i.
32.
Be watchful. Rev. iii. 2.
Be zealous, therefore, and repent.
Rev. iii 19.
Be steadfast, immovable. I Cor.
xy, 58.
Of course vou cannot receive the full
benefit unless you read the entire refer
ences.
Here you have ax large swarm of
"be's" searching for a resting place.
How many of them have you in &
"hive?" -
Harvard graduates are stirred over
a rumor that President McKmley on
his visit in June will receive the hon
orary degree of LL. D. Several have
written open letters of protest.
The Commerical hotel, at St. Mary's,
W. Va., was blown up Monday by a
natural gus expolusion. Four persons
were killed and many wounded.
THE FAMOUS WATLINGTON CASE.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer.
The full particulars of the Wat-
lington case as referred to in your
issue of April 13th inst, are as fol
lows: The suit was brought in the
Superior Court here against the Sea
board Air Line Railroad and developed
the most novel accident known to the
annals of jurisprudence. There is but
one other case like it and that is to be
found m the Alabama reports.
Tne vestibuled train from Atlanta
was bowling along toward Raleigh on a
down grade at the rate of 50 miles per
hour at 10 o clock in the morning. Mr.
William Wathngton was on hiu way
to a wild turkey blind which he had
baited and had his , double-barreled
breech-loading gun on his shoulder,
two cartridges being in the chambers.
On reaching the railroad track, which
was on an embankment about ten feet
high at this place, Mr. Watlington
heard the train in the distance, and
stopped on the Bide of the track about
50 feet away, to view the tram as it
passed by. He could not see over the
embankment to the other side of the
track. Along beside the embankment
o"n both sides of the track are the usual
ditches, which were filled with water.
Mr. Watlington was standing on the
north eide of the track with his gun ou
Ms shoulder. On the other side of the
track were a number of cattle nipping
grass, which Mr. Watlington could not
see. Just a few seconds before the train
fwept by these cattle commenced to
straggle across the track to the side on
which Mr. Watlington was standing.
The bovines all got Bafely across except
one small Jersey bull. He was caught
on the cow catcher and nurled away
with terrible velocity, and as misfortune
and luck would have it, he struck Mr.
Watlington about midships and knocked
him down into the ditch and planted
the bull on top of him. The bull was
stunned and struggled but could not
get up, and the water was drowning
both man and beast. Mr. Honeycut,
the engineer, who wns wntching the
cattle, had not seen Mr. Watlington,
and when the fireman told him what
bad happened he stopped the train and
hurried nack anl got there in time to
get Mr. Watlington andithe bull out of
the ditch bef re they were drowned.
Striking Mr. Watlington and knocking
him into the water saved the life ( f the
bull, and the water saved the bkwby
the bull from killing Watlington
Further examination showed that when
the bull struck- Mr. Watlington the
shock knocked the gun some diBtance,
and when it struck the ground it was
discharged and killed one of the cows
and wounded another so badly that it
had to be killed. The gun was not in
jured. On these facts J udge Brown
held that the railroad compmy was not
liable in damage to Mr. Watlington
Since the trial the owner of the two
cowb has sued Mr. Watlington and re
covered $100 in full of damages for
their killing.
Mr. Watlington says the ending of
this law suit bangs a blue sheep. That
he was knocked down by a Jersey bull,
which was hurled at him by the tram
and nearly drowned, and his gun was
discharged and killed two cows, and he
gets no damages and is c impelled to
pay $100 for the luxury of being prin
cipal in the most c h brated cs in the
history of sccirie-jts to animals and
man by railro.id trains. Bit since all
this happened Mr. Watlington has had
great piece of good luck to berail
him. He has been working for Mr. li
N. Snow at High Point, in the furniture
business for many years, and Mr. b low
ie getting old and being rich and tired
of business, he retired and gave the
whole plant and business, worth $20,000
to Mr. Watlington, who whs of no kin
to him, but simply a faithful employe
So Mr. Watlington had some recom
pense for his experience with the bul
and the tram.
Pensions for Negroc.
The ouestion of allowine neeroes to
remain on the uontederate pension rous
is being agitated m toe local camps in
South Carolina.
fkmntv neneion boards haveappioved
j i -
the applications of a number of negroes,
and these have been drawing pensions
from the State. In one instance the
pensioner was a free negro when he
went into the armv. lie was not
enlisted and did not bear arms. The
other, cases were thoBe of slaves
whn remained bv their masters dur
inc th heicht nf battle and were
severely wounded. The pension fund,
o o - - . - . .
nnirmR v SoU.uuu. ,was increased Dv
the last' Legislature from $100,000 to
$150,000. Efforts are being made to
have the lists revised by committees of
veterans.
That Would be tlie Clever Tiling.
Durham Herald.
It is said that much cotton is still
held by farmers in the east. Those
who advised them to continue to hold
when cotton was ten cents should now
show them the way out.
Strict Mamma Penelope, what time
was it when that young man left last
night?
Pert Penelope Only a quarter of
twelve, mamma.
Suspicious Papa Hub! I head the
hall clock strike three just as the outside
door closed.
l'ert Penelope Well, papa, Un'
three a quarter of twelvt?
nixujfE in rmiuii raE.-riiircu.
SHIP.
Till Serious Questlo ami wtm Pa.ai.
Causes Conkliln.i
Trojan's Notion.
It is stated In The Chrisfi a n and Hfia.
sionary Alliance that the last few
years have witnessfid
Of the science Of revivalism in tha
Church. It has almost become a new
proiession, with a great variety of new
methods of exciting public interest by
special:Bermons. sensational AHvArtiainw
star singers, new hymn books sold for
tne nenent of the chief performers, and
high pressure methods of various kinds,
some of them not far removed frpm
me ineaincal. it would seem that
with all this machinery there ought to
be a great multiDlication nf roan Ha
especially when we think of the vast
increase in the number of our rescue in
the number of our rescue missions and
our city union work during the past few
year. .j.ne rmiadtilphia Presbyterian, '
me ui tne organs of that great Church
with an aggreate membership of nearly
1,000.000 members, ahnws. that in tha
year 1890 the net gain to the member
ship was just 8,000, or four-fiths of 1
per cent. That is an addition of hnnt
one member per year to a church of
lso memners. iiut going back to the
year 1894 the net eain was five timon
as great, or a total of 40,000 in a
membership of 900.000. In 1895 it
fell to 26,000; in 1896 to 20 000: in
1897 to 17,000; in 1898 to 14,000; and
lsuy to 8,000. This is not peculiar
to the Presbyterian Church for thn
same organ says that the figures of the
Congregational Church indicate a more
i ; t i . . .
aiarming aeenne. w ith a total mem
bership of 625,800 their net gain in
1899 was only 2,300 or one third of
1 per cent. That is to say it would
take a church of 300 members to pro
duce one addition in a whole year. At:
tention is called to the Methodist
Church. This great body has a mem-
oersnip oi z.yoi UUO, Dearly three
times as great as the Presbyterian
nouy.- mere was no net increase in
this denomination in the vear 1899 but
a net loss of 3,700 members. Taking
these three denominations together
they represent a total membership of
4,302,600, and a net gain in 1899 of
o.ouu, or one-seventn ot 1 per cent.
That is, it would take a membership of
700 to produce a single addition in the
course or a year. .Now mind you these
figures are copied from The Piladelphja
Presbyterian. The Alliance well Says
that the figures need little comment."
Certainly they do not show that modern
methods of revival are producing
increased results. Perhaps they show
the spirit and life of. the Church
of God. One reason for this trouble
is worldliness in the membership, ra
tionalism on the part of the ministry,
with a deep seated antagonism toward
wfcut are know as the teachings of the
nigner unnstian life and anything like
bold faith in tne surjernatural. TtaR
things are bearing their fruit, and the
peopie oi tne world do not hnd anything
radically different in the gospel from
their social clubs to satisfy the cravings
of a higher life. What is a church
worth anyway if the Holy Ghost is not
there.
Big Elephant Rills Ills Keeper.
Henry Huffman, well-known animal
trainer with the Wallace shows, met a
horrible death at Peru, Ind., on the
24th, being killed by "Big Charley," a
monster elephant, while the animal was
in bathing in the Mississane river.
Charley wound his trunk about Keeper
Huffman, and hurled him far into the
stream. The man was uninjured and
when he returned he said : "Why,
Charley, I didn't think that of you ;
aren't you ashamed of yourself?" "The
next instant Huffman was grabbed y
the big elephant and thrown to the bot
tom of the river and held there by the
forefeet of the animal. Then with a
great roar the elephant ran away. Sev
eral showmen shot at him with no ef
fect. He broke down fences and roamed
about in a big field, keeping everybody
at a distance. Apples loaded with
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he ate one. An hour later he laid down
and was in terrible agony. A rifle shot
finished him.
"Big Charley" weighed over three
tons, was valued at $20,000 and in his
life time had killed four men.
Killed For Hiring Negroes.
James Durbin, a white farmer of Inde
pendence, La., was shot last week as a
result of the whitecap outrages in that
parish. Durbin has a large strawberry
farm, and as the crop is now ripening,
labor is scarce for picking the berries.
Durbin employed negro pickers, an
act which aroused the anger of the
regulators. They v sited his farm and
drove his negro labor away. He sus
pected Lee Parker, his cousin, of being
the leader of the regulators and an
nounced his purpose of appealing to the
law against him. The two men met
and clinched. Parker drew a revolver,
killing Durbin and wounding himself
in the arm.
A special dispatch from Charlotte to
the New York Commercial says; "The
bouyant feeling in cotton goods yarns
continues. Yarns are quoted on the
basis of 17c for 30c, 2-ply; 141c for 20s,
2-ply. One of Concord's largest cotton
manufacturers said: 'I expect to see
cotton goods go higher, but cotton
lower. We are cow ninki;' cotton
1 goods on the basis ol 6 cent cotton." . -