'FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH."
Single Copy, 5 Cents.
VOL XII. .
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY MAY 10, 1901.
NO. 10.
00 a Year,.tn Advance.
' UICST.
My foot are wearied and my hands uw tired,
My soul opprvssud - ,
And I desiro. what I have long desired
lfnit. inlv rt'st. '
Tla hard to toil, when oil la almost vain.
In Ijarren ways; '
'TIs hard to sow and never gather grain
in harvest days.
The burden of my days is hard to bean,
Hut God knows best;
And I have prayed, hut vain has been my prayet,
For rest sweet rest. , .
'TIs hard to to plant in Sprtnj;. and never reap
The Autumn yield; .,, '
'TIs hard to till, and when 'tis tilled to weep
O'er fruitless Held.
And no I cry a weak and human cry
So heart oppressdd ;
And ho 1 Bib'li a weak and human slKh
My way has wound across the desert years,
, And earA infest , ......
My path, and through the flowing of hot tears
1 pine for rest.
Ti :ilwnvs so; and when but a child I laid
On mother's breast , , .
My wearied little head, e'en then I prayed.
And now, for rest. ,
And I am restless still : 'twill soon be o'er,
For down the west
Life's sun is setting, and I see the place
Where I shall rest.
Father Hyan.
The Oyster llecfii of North Carolina.
Baltimore Sun.
"The Oyster Reufs of North Carolina"
ia the title of a geological and economic
study by Dr. Caswell Grave, of the Hop
kins, published in the university circu
lars. Dr. Grave illustrates bis subject
by an account of the growth of islands
and reefs in Newport river, a tidal
.stream which empties into Beaufjrt
harbor, North Carolina. He shows
that oysters build up islands in a very
peculiar manner. The oyster reefs
extend out into the stream across the
current and ordinarily at right angles
with the shore. At the shore end of
the reef, as the current becomeB slug
gish and ceases to bring sufficient food
to the oysters, they die and the reef at
that end ceases to grow. At the other
end, however, the growth ia continual.
The silt setters between the reefs and
fast as the young
ovBters grow upon the empty shells ol
those whicn nave u wui"w.
This goes on until finally the level of
high tide is reached and grass begins to
grow upon the exposed surface.
This study of the growth and condi
.. .. it. nnn.il hoHa has an obvious
UOU IUO uiu'' - - -
bearing upon the methods of oyster
culture, xne lesson ji.
as he says, is not new, but he gives for
the ordinary teaching of experience a
scientific reason and basis, y
The following rules are laid down for
oyster planting: Plant oysters where
there aro good currents and not in slug
gish water. Plant shells or other ob
jects to catch the spat, at right angles
to the currents. Plant on the elevated
rta of the bottoms, as they are apt to
be freer from sediment.
"Will Dam tlie adkln Illvcr.
Knoxville, Tenn., May 4. F. E.
Boardman, of Knoxville, who has just
returned from Charlotte, N. C, where
he is interested in the damming of the
Yadkin river, makes the following
atatement: 1 ,
"The Yadkin river will be dammed
for the pur nose of supplying electric
light and power for Charlotte, Concord
and Salisbury, N. C. About $80,000
will be spent on the enterprise. Ihe
Fidelity Deposit Company, of Newark,
N J., is financing the scheme. A
solid masonry dam, 500 feet in length
and'thirty feet in height will be built.
Tne work of construction begins about
.Juue 1st."
A Literary Trimt.
Mr. S. E. Kiser, of The Chicago
Hecord-Herald, himself a poet, is
Always poking fun as his brethren.
This ia his latest: .
We have juBt received the following
circular from the well-known house of
J P. Morgan & Co., New York: 'Plana
have now been completed for the forma
tion of a poet trust, embracing all the
leading poets of the United States, and
Btock will at ence be offered for sale.
The authorized capital stock of this
combination will be $49 preferred stock
and $163 common stoek. We have to
announce that the Sweet Bard of Ely ria,
0 the Poet Laureate of the order of
the Maccabees, the Peerless Piper of
Perseopolli, Mo., and J. Gordon Coog
ler, the Sweet Singer of the baluda,
have authorized us to pool their interest,
and we confidently expect to have the
various magazine poets in line within
thirty days.' "
Bryan Not Sure About the Mlver
I tie's Future.
Chicago Spocial. ,
W. J. Bryan, who ia here to deliver
a lecture, saya on spring elections: "Lo
cal issues are to a considerable extent
responsible for the results in many of
the large cities, but I believe ihat it
doeB indicate that there is a large ele
ment in the large centres of population
that believes in municipal ownership.
1 think that there is a significance in
the election of Tom Johrson as mayor
of Cleveland. Tome it is an indica
tion that there is a strong anti-trust sen
timent there. Certainly it shows that
the anti-trust feeling has not grown
smaller.
"lo I believe that silver will sgain
be an issue? Well, I think silver is a
rood thing now, but you cannot denies
;e quention as to what will be the issue
JaaW-r" far ahead aa U'OL"
HILL AltP'S LKTTIiB.
It is only a little book a very lit
tle book that the author has sent to
me, but a perasal of its pages has im
pressed me" profoundly and has proved
a real comfort in my old age. 1 have
read most of it aloud to my wife and
daughters and it has comforted them
and established them more firmly in
the faith, it that were possible. This
book is only is only 0x8 and contains
100 pages in large print very large
so that veterans might read it without
glasses or a strain of the optic nerve.
Its modest title is "A Glance at Cur
rent History," by Colonel John Cus
sons, of Glen Allen, Va. It ia the
work of a retired Confederrte veteran,
who is known and loved by all Vir
ginians and who was grand com
mander of the grand camp of Virginia
Confederate veterans and the inti
mate friend of General Maury, Dr.
Hunter McGuire, Fitzhugh Lee and
Joseph E. Johnson. This book was
written with no selfish motive, neither
for profit or fame, nor with any de
sire of crimination, but rather to heal
the breach and at the same time pre
serve the truth of history and hand it
down to our children. There is not
a line of malice or revenge within its
pages, but a high-toned, dignified,
conservative appeal to his comrades
to uphold the government that ia
now a nation and at the same time
defend the south from any taint upon
her honor. It is beautifully written
in thoughts that breathe and words
that burn and no man, north or south,
can question a statement contained
within it. I wish that I was a mil
lionaire. I would nlace a copy of
this book in the home of eyery
family in the south and in the
hands of every young man, and
I would make it a little text book of
history in every public school. There
are only six chapters, each not more
than ten minutes long, but there is
not a wasted sentence nor a paragraph
too much.
The last chapter is a defense of the
American Indian, for the author was
long a frontiersman and lived among
them and mingled with them for
many years, and as General Maury
said of him, "Hehasmore thoroughly
studied the Indian character than
any man now living." The , first
chapter is devoted to a review of a
United States history recently written
and published by Professor Goldwin
Smith, an Englishman,' who was for
years a professor of history in Cornell
university, and is now a doctor of
canon law in Toronto, Canada. This
history is published both in London
and in New York, and is amazingly
popular both in England and the
north. It is intensely venomous
against the south, and especially
asrainst- Virsinia. Now listen for a
few momenta at some of his historical
utterances taken verbatim from his
book. Listen and wonder that such
a book could find patrons anywhere:
"South Carolina got her start by
combining buccaneering with slave
owning and making her ports a shel
ter tor pirates and corsairs, such as
Captain Kidd and Blackbeard.
"Georgia was the refuge of the pau
per and bankrupt. Her first settlers
were good-for-nothings who had failed
in trade a shiftless and lazy set but
later on some better elements came
ia Highlanders, Moravians and per
secuted Protestants of Salzburg.
"The first settlers of Virginia were
an unpromisiug lot lackeys, beggars,
broken down gentlemen and tapsters
out of a job. To this crew of vaga
bonds were afterwards added jailbirds.
English convicts were ollered their
choice between the gallows and Vir
ginia, and some were wise enough to
choose the gollows. Even their place
of settlement Jamestown has long
been a desolation. They were not
such colonists as the Puritans. They
made the Indians work for them,
while the Puritans worked for them
selves. Many of them were kidnap
ed from the streets of London and all
were of depraved character. After
wards came African slavery, the bane
of Virginia and her ultimate ruin.
As were the people so were their lead
ers. A chief fomentor of the quarrel
with England was Patrick Henry, a
man who had tried many ways of
earning a living and had failed in all.
A bankrupt at twenty-three, he
lounged in idleness till he found he
could live by his tongue. James
Madison was a well meaning man,
but morally weak. Henry Clay was
a dazzling, but artful politician.
Jbhn llandolph had natural ability,
but lacked good sense and had no
power of self-control. He would en
ter the senate with his hunting whip
in his hand and behave as if he were
in Ilia dog kennel."
He gives faint praise to Washing
ton, and much more to Benedict Ar
nold, who, he says, "was one of the
best of American generals and the
most daring of them all. He was
Blighted and -wronged by politicians
and had despaired of the cause.
Ben Franklin and Samuel Adams
were lacking in the ordinary traits of
gentlemen, and as for Patrick Henry,
nothing better was to be expected,
for the character of an English gen
tleman is not to be formed in the
backwoods."
Concerning the civil war he says:
"The slaveholders rweaped military
tHTvice and thrust the poor people
under fire. Guards impressed men
in the streets and conscripts were
sent to Lee s army in chains. At the
taking of Fort Pillow the negroes were
nailed to logs and burned alive. The
Southern lady was but the head of a
harem. She was soft, elegant and
charming, but the civil war disclosed
an element in her character of a dif
ferent kind."
This is enough of the scandalous
and slanderous book and it is only
popular at the north because of its
villification of the south. He flatters
New England and the Puritans and
gives praise to Benedict Arnold, who
was born in Connecticut and more to
old John Brown than to Gen. Lee.
... These are the kind of books that
northern children read and study and
believe. How can that section ever
bo reconciled? And yet there are
people at the south who condemn us
for defending the honor of our ances
tors and the heroism of our soldiers
and speak of it aa "ex-Confederate
rot." Lord Macauley said: "A peo
ple who take no pride in the achieve
ments of their ancestors will achieve
nothing for their own children to be
proud of." Some of our most gifted
men are still toadyingto please north
ern appetites, "licking the hand that
strikes the blow." Oi all such a pa
triotic northern writer savs beware of
the "chronic reconciler," the man
who improves' every opportunity to
haul his faded olive branch and wave
it in the eyes of the people. When
any man, north or south, talks in a
mellow way of his love for his old en
emy, watch him. He is getting ready
to ask for something. Watch him
There is something pathetic in the
picture of the north and south clasped
in each other's arms and shedding a
torrent of hot tears down each other's
backs, but the aged mothers on either
side have hot yet learned to love the
foe with much violence. Nor does
the crippled veteran love the adver
sarv who robbed him of his glorious
youth and left him a feeble ruin, nor
have the patriot soldiers on either
side deserted the cause for which they
fought.
But think of Virginia the glorious
Old Dominion the mother of states
and statesmen. Her domain extend
ed from Carolina to Canada and from
the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans
Born upon her generous bosom was
Washington, Jeflerson, Madison,
Monroe, Lighthorse" Harry, Robert
E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston and
Stonewall Jackson. Who would not
be proud to be a Virginian? Who
can wonder at the patriotic pride ot
those two venerable sisters, Miss
Judith' and Miss Anna Thomas, of
Southampton county, now past their
eightieth vear, the only sisters ot Gen.
George H. Thomas, and who, ever
since 18G1, when he accepted office
under Lincoln, have uniformly de
clared that they once had a brave and
noble brother of that name and that
he won renown in the war with Mex
ico when he was a major in Colonel
Robert E. Lee's regiment, but that
he died in 18G1 and now they have no
brother. Ever since Virginia seceded
they have pathetically declared their
brother died in the spring of 1801.
Every Virginia officer of the old army,
save George II. Thomas, promptly re
signed and volunteered to defend
their State. These lonely old maid
ens seem really to believe that their
brother diddiet The county of South
ampton had presented to Major
Thomas on his return from Mexico a
beautiful sword and after our civil
war he wrote to his sisters and re
quested that the sword be sent to
him. They replied that they could
not part with it, for it was the only
memento of a very dear brother who
died in 1861. They still live alone
and in poverty in the same old man
sion in which they were born, but
neither friend nor neighbor ever pre
sumes to mention General Thomas
in their presence. These venerable
and venerated ladies are but a type
of the old Virginia aristocracy. Well
may they be proud of their State and
their ancestry. Bill Arp.
P. S. I do not know Col. Cussons
nor. the price of his little book, nor
have I any interest in advertising it,
but I do wish that every veteran and
every veteran's son had it. His ad
dress is Glen Allen, Va., and he is the
publisher. I suppose that $1 will
buy it postpaid. . B. A.
To liloquent.
"That man Wixford, who was in
jured in a railroad accident, sued the
company for $20,000 damages and
pleaded his own case .so ably and
powerfully that he lost it."
"How was that?"
"The injury for which he wanted
damages was a broken jaw."
"I suppose you will marry, though,
when the golden opportunity offerB,
won't you?"
"It will depend upon how much gold
there is in the opportunity."
tfxtrenie Conclusion.
They were looking at their firshbaby.
"With such a massive head as thit,"
said the adoring mother, "he wilt be
a statesman."
"With such massive feet," said the
more practical fsther, "he is pretty
sure to be a policeman."
RI2V. SAM JONKS WHITES ON I'lill-
TINKNT TOPICS.'
Atlanta Journal.
Bad weather is like a bad cold, a fel
low thinks it is the worst on record, but,
a man with 10,000 or 100,000 peach i
trees with $5,000 or $25,000 worth of
fruit exposed to the eip of the frost of
the deadly influence of the cold winds
and weather don't sleep well through
such meteorological events as we have
just gone through. The seasons charge,
but I believe in an overruling Provi
dence and thai whatever is, is best,
while many look upon the destruction
of property by cyclone and the devasta
tion of crops by weather in anything
but a submissive way. They are like
the old negro in Arkansas: He and his
co-worker were plowing in their cotton
field and a cyclone passed along in the
adjoining corn field and destroyed the
great field of corn, whipped the corn
into shreds pnd frightened the negroes
very much. After it was over they
came and looked over the corn field
and seeing the utter desolation, both
being scared, one looked at the other
and said: "Now, just look at that.
This old man we call God Almighty
dues nearly as much barm as he dues
good." Or like the big farmer in south
Georgia who had St. VituB dance and
was very nervous. One morning after
the equinoctial storm of the day and
night before he walked down into his
cotton fields, where he had a hundred
bales of cotton beaten out of the bolls
and into the dirt on the ground. He
came btck to the house rearing and
charging. His wife said to him:
"HuBband, don't talk that way, it was
God that did it." He replied:""I don't
care who done it, I don't like no sich.
To work hard all the year and make a
crop and see it beat out on the ground.
I don't care who did it, I don't like no
sich." We may contend with men,
but when God comes my way with his
judgments I run up the white flag. I
trust that the fruit and vegetables are
not as badly hurt aa we think they are.
Georgia would sadly miss the millions
that come to her in this way, but what
ever comeB, we are all doing aa well as
we deserve to do. ' " .
Our crops, in any event will be better
than our policies and our business is
better than our officials, and we still
have more money and more prosperity
than we have religion. Really, if a
man has a good case of Bible religion,
he don't need much else. A man's
wants these day's are measured more
by his eyes than his stomach. While
about one-half of the human race are
looking for something to eat the other
half are looking for dyspepsia cure, so
they can eat something. In any event,
I suppose the government and the
billion-dollar trusts will take care of us
poor fellows. They will soon have us
so we cannot take care of them and then
they will have to take care of us.
I see Georgia is now in the midst of
a peck of trouble about the payment of
the teachers of the public schools. The
state has $450,000 cash in her pocket
and the treasurer saj a 'no funds." The
governor - has one eye on the statute
that forbids him from borrowing money
and the "other one" on a full treasury,
and he sees nothing in it. You know
I am not much in favor of public
schools, anyway. A million or two for
free schools and $700,000 for pensions
and some other things has our state
treasury depleted on one side and a
howling populace about high taxeB
jumping up and down on the other.
Whenever a Btate goes to giving away
something it ain't got and contracting
bills for "free things" it ia giving out
and they have not got the money to
foot the billa they are, are going to get
into trouble. I have been in that sort
of trouble. When' a fellow's outgo
is bigger than his income there ia
trouble ahead for that fellow, and it is
going to get behind him, and he will
have a picnic all of his own making.
But for this country's great natural re
sources we would get into a hole and
be forced to pull the hole in after us.
Sometimes I am amused, sometimes 1
am mad, sometimes it is a mixture and
sometimes I foel like aa the old negro
said, just treating the whole business
with "impunisy." ,
Alabama is going to have a constitu
tional convention and regulate the
franchises of her people by relegating
the brother in black to the rear. I
would teel much more hopeful about
the good result of the disfranchisement
of the negro, if it were not for what
I have seen of the white primaries and
their disgraceful work. Why, right here
in this town they nominated some sa
loon keepers and some other things
that might be worse and elected them
to office. Now when white primaries
start to running saloon keepers and
electing them to ofiice I am in favor of
keeping the negro in the ring and lay
ing that sort of devilment on the
negro. I have Been enough to know
that aa long as court cliqueB and politi
cal riugs control our politics, the elimi
nation of the negro's vote from the bal
lot box will avail nothing. I'd rather
see a sober negro in office than a dirty,
drunken saloon keeper. As the old wo
man said when she kissed the cow,
"Every man to his taste." Of course
this talk is not democratic, but surely
it is not demijohncratic.
I read Bister Felton'a letter with in
terest this week, and to save my soul
she's got me bum foozled. I don't know
whether she's f gin Dr. Lewis or agin
the temperancci movement or just a-
shooting to hear the gun go off, but I
don't want her to shoot at me. She's
my neighbor and when we sit down
and talk together we are both on the
same plank and the same platform.
I don't know whether she's agin Dr.
Lewis or just agin the Democrats. I
am for Lewis and agin the whiskey
soaked Democrats and if she's agin
Lewis and for the red-nosed Democrats
we cannot mix up in the forthcoming
campaign. But I love sister Felton.
She's a good shot and ain't afraid to
shoot. But I sometimes think that
when her dog is in ten feet of the rab
bit she wants and is about to pick him
up she'll shoot and cripple her dog, juat
to show the crowd that she can shoot
and what a magnificent shot she is, and
she'll go home without the rabbit, tot
ing her crippled dog. But we will have
lively times in Georgia, no doubt,
There is one good thing, the temper
ance crowd can run their campaign
economically, but the other gang will
have to spnd their money, and aa we
have the orators and the disposition to
fight, they will have to spend it.
Sam P. Jones.
The Lutheran Synod. '
Giijsonville, May 2. The Lutheran
Synod of North Carolina opened to-day
et Frieden'a church, near here. Synod
is composed of sixty congregations and
thirty-five ministers. The delegates,
ministerial and lay, number about 60.
As usual the exercises of the Synod
were preceded by the synodical sermon
and the Holy Communion. Rev. C. B.
Miller the retiring president, preached
the sermon, in which he presented the
duty and responsibility of the Synod
in view of the great need represented
by Lazarus lying at the gate of the
Synod, represented by Davis. Ilia ap
peal in behalf of mission stationa and
beneficiary students was truly eloquent
and made a deep impression upon the
assembled delegates.
, The president's report showa three
ministerial accessions one from the
Tennessee and two from the Virginia
Synod.
A new church was built and dedicat
ed at Chestnut Hill, Salisbury, and a lot
secured for a third church in Concosd.
Thirty-eight congregations have gen
erously responded to the century memo
rial call for the endowment of the Theo
logical Seminary. The Synod supports
five young men in the preparation for
the ministry, fout of them beiag in the
Theological Seminary. The annual re
union inaugurated one year ago of all
the Lutherans iu North Carolina waa
heartily endorsed and the committee in
structed to proceed with the work of
making the next 'one a success equally
with the last.
The election of officers for the ensu
ing year resulted in continuing Rev.
C. B. Miller as president and C. B. King
as secretary, and J. D. Heilig, treasurer.
The report of the president of - the
board of trustees of the North Carolina
College presented quite a glowing pic
ture of revived interest in the institu
tion and the increase of patronage. The
present inrollment is 102. liev. W. A.
Lutz is president and has shown quite
an aggressive spirit, and seconded by
an able faculty has accomplished a
work which rtveals the possibilities
awaiting hearty co-operation on the
part of the Synod.
Going to Slow YVhlftt J'aitU'K.
Mayor Leonard of Waltham, Mass.,
has issued an edict to the police to stop
public whist parties. Waltham is a
great whist city. About a year ago
there was a craze over the game. Be
sides the parties that were being held
nightly, there were many morning and
afternoon whist parties, which were held
at residences or in some of the small
halls about the city.
Mrs. Kate Leyson Brown, President
of the Woman's Christian Temperence
Union, told Waltham women that they
were neglecting homes and domestic
dutieB. She asked them to consider
and stop the whist craze. Complaints
began to reach Mayor Leonard by pa
rents whose children attended the par
ties against their wishes. His honor
then thought be would take a hand and
put a stOD to the parties. He held con
sultations with Chief of Police McKenna
and as a result, the latter told the per
sons conducting public whiBt parties
that they must be discontinued or pros
ecution would follow. Mayor Leonard
says:
"These parties are nothing but
money-making Bchemea. The places
are nothing bat gambling halls. If a
boy went into a poolroom down on the
street and laid down 10 cents toward a
pot to be tried for, he wonld be arres
ted fur gambling, and it would not he a
bit worsa than ond of these public whist
parties. I am going to have them
stopped."
Nccponary to lliiti.
"What with croup, measles and all
that, children are a great care," re
marked the family man, "but they're
blessings."
"Indeed they are," cordially respond
ed the Btranger. "I don't know how
we would get along without them."
"Ah! You are a family man your
self?" "No. A physician."
Strive to emulate rather than to
imitate so much.
"THIS SKU
Rev. Dr. L. G. Broughton, of Atlanta,
recently preached a sermon on "Th
Servant," and said in part:
"I have no objection to your having
a servant if you are able to keep her
Servants often produce laziness.
"If you want your daughters' to be
worth anything to you or any one elee,
don't allow them to rely upon a servant
to do everything for them; but teach
daughter to work? Yes, why not? Il
makes no difference if you have mone
by the thousands or how easily you are
able to keep her, you cannot tell what
may happen. She may marry a man
who is worthless, who will cot work and
is extravagant. He may run through
with her money, until finally ehe ia left
dependent upon her work, and yet Bhe
knows not how. Mothers and fathers,
it would pay you well to take that
daughter of yours and put her in the
kitchen and teach her how to cook
meals, and then take her into the bed'
chamber and teach her how to make
up a decent bed, to care for her room
well. Teach her to make her owd
clothes, because you know not how
soon she may be thrown on her own
responsibilities and have to battle for
her own bread.
"Too much ia left to the servants in
the matter of training children. . This
ia especially true in the south, where
the most of the nurses in the homes
are colored people, with a very low esti
mate of moral character and with a still
lower estimate of the intellectual. Here
we turn our children over to these ser
vants and make them their guardians.
How truly have they their hearts, their
minds and their natures in their charge.
And are you surprised that as they
grow up iu life they are vulgar, rough
and rude? Are you surprised at their
low estimate of intellectual and moral
character? Are yon surprised at any
thing they do that iB low and degrading
when you take into consideration that
the first five or six yeara of a child are
the most important in its history and
they have been given over to the ignor
ant servants? Servants must be taught
honor and obedience. They must
honor nd respect those . who employ
them. It will not do to get too familar
with the servant. Servants have a right
to demand wages.
"I have in mind a member of a cer
tain church noted for having a number
of Bervants a new servant almost every
month and when the reason was ob
tained it was this: She never paid full
wages. What little she did pay them
was in the form of old clothes.
"Again, they have a right to demand
a portion of their time. Have you ever
thought how little time our Bervanta
have which they call their own? Have
you ever thought of how little time they
have with their families? The most of
them have families. These servants
are responsible to God for the moral
and intellectual training of their off
sprikg as responsible aa we are for the
training of ours. Are we surprised that
the rising colored generation ia so base
and mean, when they have been taught
no regard at all for the sacred ness of
the family? Mother away all day, the'
greater part of the night and all day
Sunday, not able to spare any time to
spend with them. I tell you, friends,
the masters and mistresses of the homes
will have to answer for a vast deal for
preventing that social intercourse with
the family which God baa intended
should exist."
No General Strike.
The efforts to encourage mill opera
tives in the South to go on strike seem
to have come to naught. There will,
from present indications, be no general
strike. Labor troubles here and there
are to be expected, but there will be no
concerted movement early In May as
was predicted. It has been stated by
labor leaders that the American Feder
ation of Labor waa behind the move
ment,and that an assessment of$100,000
had already been made, ot which
amount as much as was necessary would
be used to assist the 2,000 operatives
and families now out at Danville, Va.,
because of the strike at the "Riverside"
mills of that city. Agents of the Fed
eration of Labor have been at work in
mill townB in North and South Caro
lina, endeavoring to work up sympathy
for the Danville strikers.
Itlra. nation o Insane.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the saloon wreck
er, baa broken 'down and is believed to
be insane. The crisiB in her condition
followed a term of solitary confinement
and the receipt of the news of her
brother's death, ft is thought by phy
Bicians who have examined ber that she
will soon recover, but others believe
that her condition is hopelesa.
Tommy's Little Hint.
Tommy Tell me a story, Uncle.
Uncle A etoryl But I don't know
what to tell a story about.
Tommy Oh, tell me a story about a
little boy who had a good uncle who
gave him 10 cents. . .'
Little Nellie was gazing intently at
the visitor's bonnet. "What do you
think of it, dear?" asked the lady.
"Oh," replied Nellie. "It's all right.
Mamma told Aunt Mary it waa a per
fect fright, but it doosn't frighten me."
The Gattii-Kilo'0 damage suit case
waa argued in the Supr uie Court hu t
wo. k.
mi. ihiolgiiton os
VAST."
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