'FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH."
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NO. 14.
VOL XII.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY JUNE 7, 1901.
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T.HK MONI5YLKSS MAN.
Is there no place on the fa.ee of the earth
wim rlmritvdwelleth. where virtue hast birth
Where bosoms lu kindness and mercy will
heave -
Where the pool and the wretched shall ask and
receive f
Is there no ulacc at all where a knock from the
poor
Will bring a kind angel to the door ?
Ah! search the wide world, wherever you c-an,
cohere is no open door for the moneyless man..
no. look in von hall, where the chandelier's Unlit
Drives oif with its splendor the darkness of
night
whirH the rich haiieiiiE velvet In shadow fold
Sweep gracefully down with its trimmings, of
gold;
And the mirrors of silver take up and renew
In long lighted vistas the 'wildcring view!
(Jo there at the banquet and And, ifyoucan,
A welcoming smile for a moneyless man.
Go look In yon church of the eloud-reaching
in.t..i. ritma tl aim Ma u'ttnii IraiU of n'ri fir
Where the arches and columns are gorgeous
within , . ,
And the walls seem as pure as a soul without sin ;
Walk down me long aisie, su wio n n-
fyrJiil:
w if. ..J !.., .. ..!.!.. nt tlin!i.wnrl,Uvmil'itu.
Ill lUU IHIMip illlU HID 't " " ""'""J ,
Walk uowu In your patches and find, if you can,
Who opens a pew ior a moneyless man.
Uo look in the banks, where Mammon has tolled
His hundreds and thousands in silver and gold;
Where, safe from the hands of the starving and
poor.
Lies pile uion pile of the glittering ore.
Walk up to the counter. Ah! There you may
Till yyur limbs gfow old, till your hairs grow
And you'll find at the banks not. one of the clan
W ith money to loan to a moneyless man.
GoVok at yon judge, in his dark, flowing gown,
With the scales whereon law weigheth equity
down , ,
Where he frowns on the weak and smiles on the
strong, , .
And punishes right where he justifies wrong;
Where juries their lips to the liihle have laid
To render a verdict they've already made,
(io there in the court loom and find, if you can,
Any law for the cause of a moneyless man.
Tlten go to your hovel uo riven has fed
The wife who lias suffered too long for her bread-
Kneel down by her pallet and kiss the death
frost , . , .
From the lips of the angel your poverty lost ;
Then turn in your agony upward to (iod
And bless whilelilsiiiiles you the chastening rod,
And you'll find at the end of your life's little
span
There's a welcome above for a moneyless man.
Henry T. Stanton.
fflAUV'S LITTLE LAMP.
Mary had a little lamp,
b illed full of kerosene;
She went with it to li;ht the fire,
And has not since benzine.
Mantle of Fame May Have Fallen
Upon Ajcoch.
Augusta, Ga , Chronicle.
Governor Aycoek, of North Carolina,
m a speech before the New England
Society, at New York, the other day,
made a great sensation. A prominent
Northern correspondent says that
since Henry W. Grady astonished and
delighted the members of the New
England Society by a revelation of
the higher gifts of oratory, no address
has been delivered in ims cny w com
pare with it, both in matter and in
manner, until the two brief speeches of
Governor Aycoek, of XNortri uarouna,
on Monday evening. Grady's speech
was reported, and has passed into tra
dition as one of the higher achieve-
ments of oratory. .aycocK s auuress
was unreported, but the 250 guests and
hosts who attended the banquet of the
North Carolina Society at the Waldorf
Astoria on Monday evening, have been
speaking since then with fine enthusi
asm of this brilliant effort:
Our Georgia orators will have to look
to their" laurels. Perhaps the mantle
of fame has fallen upon Aycoek.
Money Order Kuies Changed.
Money orders can be paid only at the
postoffice designated as the office of
payment after May 31.
For the convenience of the business
public and others having, money orders
it has been the custom of the first and
second-classs offices, by order of the
postoffice department, to cash all money
orders irrespective of the place of pay
ment named therein.
The money order thus became a cora
mericial -paper which could be sent
like a bank check, for instance, inpay
ment for merchandise ordered or to dis
charge any indebtedness, with this ad
vantage over an ordinary check that
there were no charges for collection.
The practice has been of great ad
vantage' to those ushig money orders
and has been highly appreciated by the
public for the last year during which it
has been in existence.
Now it appears the comptroller of
the treasury department has decided
this practice is not warranted by law
and it will be discontinued on and after
June 1.
An Interrupted Honeymoon.
Savannah, Ga., May 30. Deputy
Sheriff Sweney left to-night for New
York to bring back John McCullough,
a young law student and stenographer
in the law office of Congressman Ii. E.
LeBter, who is wanted on charge of
forgery. The allegation is that Mc
Cullough signed the name of Congress
man Lester to a check for $577, which
check he cashed at the bank of the
Savannah Bank and Trust Company.'
McCullough was arrested this morn
ing in New York on telegraphic, request
.from the 'Savannah police, oh com
plaint of the cashier of the bank. The
deputy sheriff goes by way of Atlanta
to get requisition papers from the Gov
ernor. Young McCullough was accom
panied by his bride, whom he married
Monday morning 45 minutes More the
ship sailed and about two hours after
the alleged check was cashed.
Hewitt Are you a believer in vacci
nation? .
Jewett -Most certainly; it kept my
daughter from playing the piano for
nearly a week.
BILL AKP'S LfCTTKR.
There seems to be an unusual com
motion in the field of religious thought.
Out of two or three hundred different
Christian creeds and forms of worship,
one would suppose there were already
enough to choose from, but some new
and startling ones keep coining in and
the eager, craving minds of the un
settled people are falling out with the
old and falling in with the new theories
and doctrines. There is 'no cause' for
very great alarm in this, for it proves
the natural instinctive desire of weak
and unsettled minds for some religion
that will satisfy and comfort the long
ing heart. It proves the universal be
lief in God the creator and the univer
sal desire to secure His favor. There is
nothing new or strange in this. It is
history repeated. One hundred and
eighty years ago Alexander Pope, the
great poet and philosopher, wrote:
"For modes of faith let graceless zealots
fljrht:
He cant be wrong whose life is in the right,
In faith and hope the world will disagree,
Hut all mankind's concern is charity."
Pope was a great and good man and
died a Christian. His devotion to his
mother was intense and beautiful. He
took the, tenderest care of her and she
lived with him until she died, in her
ninety-third year. This is tribute
enough for any man.
There are many men of many minds.
There are some in our day just like
those of Athens of whom St. Paul
wrote, "Who spent their time in telling
or hearing some new thing." Even
some preachers have a morbid craving
for sensation, and they create a com
motion wherever they go. They be
long to the church militant and believe
in thunder and lightning and cyclones
and even war as agencies for the prop
agation of Christianity. The news
papers are crowded with abstruse essays
on the new religion both for and
against. These distract the skeptical
and unsettled minds of many, but only
for a time. Spiritualism did the same
thing for half a century, but happily it
has run its course, as the last census
shows a large decrease in the number
of its followers. But true Christianity
moves on serenely amidst all these
commotions. Meteors and comets may
come and go even the sun itself may
for a brief interval be eclipsed; but, like
Christianity, it shines on year after
year, century after century, bringing
light and life to the world.
Maybe this sensational preaching is
needed in these degenerate times, when
the spirit of war and the love of money
seem to have demoralized the
young men of the land; when murder
and suicides are of daily , occurrence,
and getting money by gambling in
stocks and other short cuts to fortune
has become a national sin. . But to my
mind, the old, conservative modes are
still the best. I don't like the preacher
who ascends the pulpit with a whip in
his hand and cracks its lash at every
malediction. That would be all right
if every man had a pulpit and a whip,
so that he could fight back. If I were
good enough to be a preacher I would
take a text and stick to it reverently
and plead with the people in the name
of the Lord. Old Dr. Axson, of Savan
nah, was my ideal of a preacher; a
man of God whose very presence in the
pulpit increased our reverence for it.
His texts still linger in the memories of
those who listened and carry with them
more enduring solemnity. When
David pleaded with the Lord for for
giveness and said, "Remember not
against me the iniquities of my youth,"
every one recalled with grief and sor
row the many, many errors of his
young life. What a grief to every man
are the sins of his youth and how earn
estly he wishes they could be blotted
out from his own memory. I recall
anothe'r text, when David exclaimed
in the agony of his heart, "My sin is
ever before me." What a subject for
an earnest, eloquent divine the im
possibility of escaping from the nlem-
orv of sin.
But the love of God was his favorite
theme, and the helplessness of man in
contrast. We know not whence we
came nor whither we are going. We
cannot add a day nor an hour to our
existence. We cannot foresee afflic
tions nor calamities nor fortify against
them. We are utterly helpless and are
dependent on the Creator. Then he
gave a poetic picture of the wondrous
love of the Creator for His creatures
and proved it by the adaptation of our
senses to the beauties and luxuries of
nature the moon and stars, the moun
tains, rivers, trees, fruits and flowers;
the birds to sing, the flowers to bloom,
the earth to bear us food, and how
carefully He holds the rolling earth in
His mighty hand while we , sleep un
conscious of any danger, and too often
forgetful that our Maker is at the helm,
watching over us and counting every
pulse that beats. "Young man, young
man, stop and think!" he exclaimed,
in tender, tearful pleading.
That is the kind of preaching I like.
It is well to have greeds and a faith in
them; but creeds are at last the work
of men and are controverted and hawked
at by those who differ; but when the
Lord says, "Do justly, love mercy and
walk humbly with thy God," "Humble
yourselvesuuder the mighty hand of
God," "live the Lord with all thy
strength and thyself," and "Love is
the fulfilling of the law," there is no
need of any better creed. Humility is
one of the chiefest cardinal virtues. A
man who is vain or conceited is close
akin to an idot. The poet says, "Oh,
why should the spirit of mortal be
proud," and thc-psalmist gays, "Lord,
what is man that Thou are mindful of
him?"
But I didn't start to preach a ser
mon, although I could preach one if I
had a pulpit and a congregation of
young people. I was ruminating about
these blessings of a kind providence
because I had strawberry short cake for
dinner and felt grateful. I have a
thousand plants that I planted I, me,
myself, no nigger in the woodpile.
Last year they did not fruit well and I
wrote to Mr. Berckman about it, and
he said I must use ashes instead of
stable manure. So I scooped out a
saucer-like space around every plant
ana nueu it witn asnes, ana tins year
they are literally loaded and are of
large size and tine quality. As the
fellow said of the mosquitoes, they are
so large that many of them weigh a
pound. By the scale, twenty of them
do weigh a pound. 1 am proud of my
success, but it does look like a pity that
it should take a man seventy-five years
to learn how to grow strawberries.. Our
flowers never were so beautiful, and we
have enough for a wedding every week
and I wish they were wanted. My
wife actually praises me almost every
day, and it takes a good deal to do me
and she knows it. I want some when
I have worked so hard to please her
and the children. I don't want tp
wait for epitaphs on my tombstone and
obituaries iir the newspapers. I had
rather have some praise right now in
words that I cad understand. I want
some of the ilowers placed upon my
grave and a rose bush planted near,
and they might write on my tombstone:
He was a man of words'and deeds.
He kept his garden clean of wet-ds;
Ana when the weeds began to grow
' He slaved them with his garden hoe.
Bill Arp.
Veterans of the South Ite-Elect tie if.
Gordon b Cominndr,
Memphis, Tenn., May 29. Gen.
John B. Gordon, as commander-in-chief,
and the other officers of the
United Confederate Veterans were re
elected with enthusiasm at today's
session of the annual reunion here.
Besides General Gordon, the officers
thus honored are:
Gen. Wade Hampton, commander
of the Department of Northern Vir
ginia. (
Gen. W. L. Cabell, commander of
the transVMississippi Department.
Gen. Stephen I). Lee, commander of
the Department of Tennessee.
When General Gordon's re-election
was announced old soldiers sprang to
their feet and cheered him with frantic
energy. Delegates climbed up on
chairs, made the building ring with
their shouts and filled the air with wav
ing hats, as they applauded him again
and again. It was a minute or two
before the General could master his
emotion sufficiently to express his
thanks. .
Dallas, Texas, was selected as the
next place of meeting after a hard fight.
Louisville, Ky., where the meeting last
year was held in rainy weather, made
a strong plea for another chance. When
the choicecame to a vote Dal las secured
1,203 votes and Louisville 1,245. On
motion of Col. Bennet II. Young,
leader of Louisville's forces, the selec
tion of Dallas was made unanimous.
She shall be a lien no More.
1 Chicago, May 27. The eagle will
hereafter be the model and emblem of
the woman suffragist. Alice Stone
Blackwell, of Boston, daughter of the
woman's rights leader, Lucy Stone, in
an address to her associates here today
during a reception to delegates en route
to Minneapolis, said:
"Hereafter the American woman
must cease to be a hen which could do
no better than cackle and scratch. She
must cease to be a mere nightingale,
that can only feed her young and
warble. The must be the eagle mother
and her stogan must be woe betide the
male chicken hawks which swoop upon
her offspring.' "
Rakemvllle Need Help.
Special to The Observer.
Marshall, May 26. The following
telegram is self-explanatory:
"Marion, May 25.
"Hon. J. C. Pritchard, Marshall, N. C. :
"Following is a list of persons whose
houses were destroyed in Bakersville:
E. Morgan, Gibbs Green, Hick Patter
son, M. Buchanan, Sam Turner, Jim
Green, Bill Green, Nora Anderson,
Berry Stewart, Prof. Britt, Quiton
Moore, C. Silver, Lizzie Howell, P. P.
Young, Henry Poteatt, Jno. Gudger
and the Baptist church. These houses
with all household effects were swept
away by the flood. Much damage in
the surrounding country.
J. L. Mougan."
Will you please raise a fund for the
sufferers of Bakersville and vicinity?
J. C. Pritchard.
Irony of Pate.
"Yes," said the old inhabitant, "old
man Jinks climbed a pine tree to gtt
rid o' the life insurance agents an' a
hurricane come along an' blowed the
tree down, an' the agent wuz the fust
to pull Jinks from under it, an' he wuz
head pallbearer at Jinks' funeral an'
preached a sarmont on the uncertain
ties of life, an' inscrwi the whole town,
an' went hia way rejoidn'."
TOO LATE.
Youth's Companion.
The old farmer died suddenly, so
when Judge Gilroy, his only son, re
ceived the telegram, he could do noth
ing but go up to the farm for the fu
neral. It was difficult to do even that,
for the judge was the leading lawyer in
X ', and every hour was worth
many dollars to him.
As he sat with bent head in the
grimy little train that lumbered through
the farms, he could not keep the de
tails of his cases out of his mind.
He had been a good respectful son.
He had never given his father a head
ache; and the old man died full of
years and virtues, '"a shock of corn
fully ripe." The phrase pleased him.
"I wish to tell you," said the doctor
gravely, "that your father's thoughts
were all of you. He was ill but an
hour, but his cry was for 'John! John!"
unceasingly."
"If I could have been , with him!"
said the judge.
"He was greatly disappointed that
you missed your half yearly visit last
spring. Your visits were the events of
his life," said the doctor.
"Last spring? Oh, yes; I took
family then to California."
"I urged him to run down and
you on your return, but he would
go."
"No, he never felt at home in
my
see
not
the
city."
The judge remembered that he had
not asked his father td come down.
Ted was ashamed of his grandfather's
wide collars; and Jessie, who was a fine
musician, scowled when she was asked
to sing the "Portuguese Hymn" every
night. The judge humored his chil
dren, and had ceased to ask his father
into his house.
The farmhouse was in order and
scrupulously clean; but its bareness
gave a chill to the judge, whose own
home was luxurious. The deaf old
woman, who had been his father's
servant, sat grim and tearbss by the
side of the coffin.
"Martha was faithful," whispered
the doctor, "but she's deaf. His life
was very solitary. The neighbors are
young. 1 le belonged to another gener
ation." He reverently uncovered the coffin,
and then Martha went out and closed
the door.
The judge was alone with his dead.
Strange enough his thought was still
of the cold bareness of the room.
Those hacked wooden chairs were there
when he was a boy. It would have
been so easy for him to have made the
house comfortable to have hung some
pictures on'the wall! How his father
had delighted in his engravings and
poured over them!
Looking now into the kind old face,
with the white hair lying motionless
on it, he found something in it which
he had never taken time, to notice be
forea sagacity, a nature fine and sen
sitive. He was the friend, the com
rade whom he had needed so often!
He had left him with deaf old Martha
for his sole companion!
There hung upon the wall the photo
graph of a young man with an eager,
strong face, loooking proudly at a
chubby boy on his knee. The judge
saw the strength in the face.
"My father should have played a
high part in life," he thought. "There
is more promise in his face than in
mine."
In the desk were a bundle of old ac
count books with records of years of
hard drudgery on the farm; of work in
winter and summer, and often late at
night, to pay John's school hills, and
to send him to Harvard. One patch
of ground after another was sold while
he waited for practice, to give him
clothes and luxuries which other young
men in town had, until but a meagre
portion of the farm was left.
John Gilroy suddenly closed the
book. "And this is the end !" he said.
"The boy for whom he had lived and
worked, won fortune and position
and how did he repay him ?"
The man knelt on the bare floor' and
shed bitter tears on the quiet old face.
"O father! father!" he cried. But
there was no smile on the quiet face.
He was too late.
The Kentucky Senatorahlp.
Baltimore Sun.
The Democrats of Kentucky are rap
idly making their Legislative nomina
tions. The Legislature to be chosen
will elect a United States Senator to
succeed Mr. Deboe, Republican, whose
term will expire March 3, l',03. Of the
Democratic nominations so far made it
is conceded a majority favor the elec
tion of ex-Gov. James B. McCreary as
Senator, and that gentleman is confi
dent he will win in the event of the
election of a Democratic Legislature.
On the other hand, should the Repub
licans secure a majority in the legisla
ture it is understood Mr. Deboe will be
re-elected without serious opposition.
Illifseat Kafoy In the World.
Sharon, Pa.,' May 27. The village
of Atlantic, in Crawford county, has
the largest baby of her age in the world.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Minnis, who are rather below
the average in height and weight, blie
is but eight months old; her bustmeas
is 31 inches and she weighs 51 J (tounds.
She is perfectly healthy and has never
partaken of any solid food.
LYITIAN AIIBOTT'S VIEWS ON THE
SOUTH.
Baltimore Sun.
At the present time the people of the
North are giving a great deal of time to
a discussion of affairs in the Southern
States, and the negro in the South of
course occupies a prominent position in
the discussion. It is encouraging to
note that many Nothern men of in
telligence have been visiting the South
and have carried home with them much
valuable information. Among other
tourists the Rev. Lyman Abbott has
gathered some facts which he told at a
public meeting in Brooklyn the other
day. Dr. Abbott called attention to
the fact that while the North has sent
$30,000,000 to the southern States for
the education of the negro, the South
itself, out of its poverty, has spent
$1 20,000,000 for that purpose. If there
is any prejudice against the negro in
the South, or any hostility to him, this
does not look like it, as Dr. Abbott
justly remarked. The war and recon
struction loft the South 'bankrupt and
it took years to recuperate. For this
condition and for the condition of the
negro the North was resjionsible. The
North gave the right of suffrage to the
negro and then left mainly to the white
people of the South, bankrupt as they
were, the burden of educating him for
the ballot. This burden the North
should in justice have shared to a far
greater degree than it has!
Discussing conditions in the South
Dr. Abbott said: "The negro in the
little log cabin in the South is better
off than the negro in the North in a
tenement' with fifty more of his kind."
"Let us get away from the notion,"
he added, "that the South can't be
friendly to the negro because they
don't regard the negro as we think
they ought to and as we would not
regard the negro if we were living
surrouded by them as they are. We
must get rid of the idea that all men
are equal and that every man has an
equal right to a vote and an equal
right to a place in society and an equal
right to stand , where everylnxly else
does."
Many other gentlemen of intelligence
who have visited the South in recent
times have gone back to the North and
have told the people there these' same
things and the newspapers have pub
lished what they said. A correct un
derstanding nifty be slow in coining,
but it will, come finally. There has
been talk in, the North among the
ixjliticians about punishing the South
for disfranchising negroes. Maryland
even was threatened with the7 .loss' of a
portion of its representation in Con
gress and its electoral vote because it
was believed that difficulties had been
put in the way of the illiterate voter,
notwithstanding that the right of
Massachusetts to disfrancise its il
literate vote absolutely was con
ceded. But nothing has come of
all these threats. Wise counsels so
far have prevailed. It may be that the
idea of building up a Republican party
in the South is a delusion. But one
thing is certain. Whatever the people
of the South may think of high tariffs
and expansion and ship subsidies, there
can be no Republican party in the south
as long as Northern interference makes
race issue parmount and renders it
necessary for the white people to pre
vent a return of the "reconstruction era
and negro domination. Self-preservation
is the first law; after that is estab
lished then people may have time to
talk about tariffs and subsidies.
The Nc;ro'w Place In The South.
"It will be news to many jieople,"
observes the BosUm Herald, "that Mr.
Hinton Rowan Heller, the man who
created such a stir in the politics of the
country by his book upon slavery print
ed on the eve of the Civil War, is still
alive and writing.
"Mr. Helper now wants the- negro
deported from the South. He is far
from being practical in his old age,
whatever may be thought of his early
consideration of the Southern race
question. It is difficult to believe that
his present scheme can be treated
seriously in intelligent quarters.
"The place of the negro is in the
South, He is better off there than in
the Northern States, and to remove him
entirely from the country is impractica
ble, if it were desirable. It is clear,
also, to our mind, that the South needs
him where he is, admitting all his
faults. He is the natual laborer in that
section, and to deprive the South of
him in that capacity would be to take
from her what is vitally essential to her
prosporty."
An Kxtra Sennlon Sa&rgested.
Washington, May 28. In some
quarters is suggested that action of
the Supreme Court on the insular cases
may result in an extra session of Con
gress to legislate with reference to the
Philippines. The more common opin
ion appears to.be, however, that there
will be no necessity for Congress to be
called together liefore the regular time
of melting. The application of the
opinion of the court to the Philippines
is only by enferenee inasmuch as the
Philippine case was not decided.
Merer Saw the Jceiiti,
Kichmond Times.
It is suggested that the man who
said .blood was thicker than water never
saw James river water in the rainy
season. .
AMERICAN IV EG It O ICS IN AFRICA.
Chicago Journal.
There is probably no more impossible
scheme imaginable than that which is
every now and then broached by some
philanthropist looking to the coliniza
tion of the American negroes in Africa.
It was at one time regarded aa the only
solution of the slavery question, and it
is now grasped at as the. only solution
of the negro question.
The American Colonization Socitey
was founded in 1817 and in 1821 ac
quired in Africa the territory now
known as Liberia, and established the
town or city of Monrovia. Some of
the most distinguished men in the na
tion were officers of the society, such
as Chief Justice Marshall, Bushrod
Washington, ex-President Madison and
Henry Clay, and for 40 years much
money was spent and much effort
wasted in promoting its object, but
without satisfactory resuts. William
Lloye Garrison in the old slavery times
fiercely denounced it as a mere salve
for tender consciences, and declared
that seven times as many slaves were
annually smuggled into the South as
had been transported to Africa in fif
teen years by the society.
The plan has again been revived by
BisboD Turner, of the African Metho
dist Church, who thinks' that transpor
tation to Africa would be the best thing
for the negroes of the South, and he
affirms that 3,000,000 blacks are now
willing to make the change.
Has Bishop Turner ever sat down
with paper and pencil and tried to fig
ure out how long it would take and
how much would be the expense of
removing so vast a number of persons
across the Atlantic.
No ordinary means of .transportation
would suffice but somethiug special
would have to be devised such as is
used for the transport of armies. It
took at least ten years for 3,000,0000 of
European immigrants to find their way
to this countrv. when . immigration
was at its height, but that method
would not serve the purpose in the pre
sent instance. '
Vessels would have to be built or pur
chased especially for the service, and
to obtain a proper fleet and man it
would be the work of years.
If twenty vessels were employed, each
carrying two thousand passengers, and
making monthly trips, it would take
them over six years to peiorm the task:,
if they did nothing else and everything
worked with the perfectionof machine
ry. The mere transportation at the
lowest figure could not be less than $20
a head, and that alone would be $G0,
000,000. Other expenses would
amount up to double and treble
this sum.
We think a few arithmetical com
putations like this, and these by no
means exhaust the subject, will show
that such a scheme is absolutely absurd
and impossible.
The negro, for good or evil, is here,
and is here to stay. We will have to
solve our problem in some other man
ner than by colonization in Africa.
New Trial In the Gattle-Ktlgo Cae.
In the case of Gattis vs. Kilgo. Jus
tice Montgomery delivers the opinion
of the court ordering a new trial.
There is no dissenting opinion. Justice
Clark did not sit in this case. The
opinion is of great lengthy The court
says that whether or not the speech
of Kilgo published by defendants in
phamplet form was a privileged com
munication was a question of law and
the judge below properly tried the case
as one of qualified privilege. In vindi
cation of Kilgo's character, he (Kilgo)
has a right to publish a fair and honest
account of acts done in the courts of
investigation, provided the publication
was free from malice. No error is
found in most of Judge Hoke's charge
to the jury, but a new trial is granted
for certain errors in the charge, the
court holding that Kilgo's steech was
absolutely privileged. The court holds
that Kilgo's trial before' the boards of
trustees of Trinity College upon charges
against his character and fitness was
like a trial before a court for violation
of the law of the land and he had a
rirrlit in hia rlnfpnfP tfl 1fRfnt thft
charges. In this State defendants have
entire immunity in trial before courts
of law in such cases, provided what
they say is pertinent to the issue. The
court holds that Kilgo's speech, which
was published by WJl. Odell and B.
N: Duke, as the trustees of Trinity,
was not intrinsic evidence of malice.
Sight Restored by Prayer.
Alma Proveucher, the 15-ycar-old
daughter of a French-Canadian farrtily
of Amesbury, Mass., was striken with
a ieculiar disease some time ago, which
caused her to become totally blind.
The mother of the girl was on her dying
lied, but despite the fact that her own
end was near she continually prayed
that her daughter's sight might be re
stored. At the mother's death a friend
in the house led the daughter to the
deathbed, and, taking the dead woman's
hands, rubbed them over the1 girl's
eyes. The daughter gave a cry of de
light. She could discern a faint light.
The girl continued to improve, and in
a few days she could see as well as be
fore she heeame blind. The girl is
now employed at the cotton mills and
every night she goes to St. Josephs
church and prays for her mother. The
facts as stated above are vouched for
by several persous.