North Carolina Newspapers

JOT k( TO f A f fllf jfjioo a Year, in Advanee. : : "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH." Single Copy, 6 Cents. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY JULY 12, 1901. NO. 19. VOL XII. f "THE BUILIHINtt OF SHIP." 'Ill Tliou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Hull on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its rears. W it h all the hope of future years. 1h hanging breathless on that ratei We know what Master laid thy keel. What Workman wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, ami ron, What anvils rang, what hammers beat. In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope I Fear not such sudden sound and shock, 'TIS but the wave and not the rock ; 'Tis but the napping of the sail. And not a rent made by the gale! 1 n spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, u..n V,n niiw rum- t.n hreast the sea 1 our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears. Our laun inurnputmi. u . "i Are all with thee-are alt with theel . r THE ONE THOUGHT. We have most of us heard of that sweet wedded 01 two hearts that are beating as one Aiid two souls with a single thought sealed with $k kiss-- And have wondered, perhaps, how 'twas done. Hut to those who have been by experience taught lis eneet is not nam iu cm . .i. Kor in most o the eases that one "single tlirutirlifr Is "1 wish I was single again!" "I KILLED VOCR BKOTIIKB." tw late "Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett, says Success, were close personal friends 'of Stuart Robson. During the "off" season of affairs theatrical itouson often entertained his distinguished col- leagucs at his summer home on Long Island. On one such occasion the trio after dinner took their seats on me piazza, wnen nwiu, uou.ii, ji i i . r. . : 1 fliftwi 1 into silent reveie, wime uwio bean to relate stories anent proies- sumal experiences. Finally the con- versation turned on "dead-heads." Robson had just finished an especially funny tale about one of these manage- rial bete nOirs, wueu uic uiwuiuU... was heard thus: . "I think, gentlemen, tnati can give sud Barrett. tj,wv. fivPil his somber eves on me sunset and began: "It was during the first visit that I made to me noum ancr the close of the Civil War. We were n wt Sin- Mv wife and self have iwfin Great admirers of j-ou wo wflnt to see vou play very much, i.nt. nnnt afford to buy our tickets Will you please send us a couple of seats? I am sure you will not refuse T tell vou that I am the United States soldier that shot and killed your brother, who assassinated ' President Lincoln. "I investigated and found that the i inn i vvivAVkjv v fuoiu you an anecdote about one oi me inoe Wlfe aml lt t00ic two monms io uy me that is probably unique." case and the jury two days to make up "Let's hear it, Edwin, by all means," a verdict, which virtually said, "He is nlivine in a little town in juhuiuuh.. not be made up unui aner iw ucu t .,, rQU nn morning I found a But I was ruminating how easy i ..n ...u;i, van Hnmthinsf like this : fnr a. vniinf man to sav damn man s statement was cunt-. niuies ui inrauiuo ui Booth's auditors gasped as his tragic M-evertheess there are some good peo tones boomed out the . unexpected pie who think damn it without saying i fhf. tale. There was a dead ;t. T heard a good story the other day silence for a full minute. Then Robson managed to ask: f V'What did you do, Edwin?" "I sent him the tickets," answered the actor his eyes still fixed on the blowing western horizon. " rnt ..,arvrvio rppitfl.l had been lliade Alio 6icwouu"vv . - without a trace of emotion save tor a i of the. e-loom which marked v, ..Ki' a f.,fll Pvnression faom the day of the tragedy. Robson told the ,rHpr that the actor unquestionably realized that if his brother had reached Washington alive he would have met a WociV1ncrt, terrible fate at the nanus ui n o and hence he felt grateful to the who, with a rifle ball, averted possibility. n """" O . ., , 1- mob, man this Winston-Wadcuboro Road. Winston News. t i Qoirl that the Pennsylvania Rail- ,1 romnanv is behind the movement road Company w iKiu tobuuu me ,.iaTW ilfl pnn- road. a81SkUU j . ; Bylvaniaow s a,u,. . . the iNonoiK u -"J-;; , . n.J would prov ' , . 1 lfaVeBto,iidlM Winston- S- tin d lias iZn watting for years, r "lit nf coal shipped from the i;mines in Virginia and West Virginia mm !:!" J the Southern Railway anu given vv. v.. -here would be worth a great deal to the new road. a, -,r.thpr reason given for the belief that the Pennsylvania and Norfolk and Western are interested in the plan to build a road south from Winston-Salem is the improvements being made on the roadbed of the Winston-Salem division of the-Norfolk and Western. Tt i said that no less than $2,000,000 will have been expended when all steel bridges and the work begun the road are completed. the on Fight-WUu a Catamount. wmiamsport, Pa.. Soecial. James Weller was nearly killed by a catamount while riding his bicycle along the river road, near Farrandsville, last night. When passing a cliff the animal sprang from the rocks and landed on his back. The force of the collision threw Weller from the wheel down an embankment into the wafer. The catamount retained its clutch on Weller, and a desperate fight ensued. The animal bit a piece out of Weller 's cheek and clawed his face, neck arms and hands in a hoirible manner, tore pieces out of his back and ripped his shirt off. When the animal gave up the battle Weller was in a state of collapse. HILL AHP'S LBTTKHi Atlanta Constitution. This horrid, torrid weather reminds me of what Henry Ward Beeeher said in his church one sweltering day in July. le look no text. He wiped the perspiration -from hi brow and loot ing solemnly at the large congregation, said: "It is hot today. It is damned hot. It is as hot as hell!" Every body was amazed and shocked until he added, "That is the language I heard two young men use at the door of the church as I passed them. My young friends, it is not as hot as hell." Then in a low, earnest tone he pictured the torments of hell and the certain fate of the wicked until the atmosphere of the church seemed to be cool and pleasant in comparison. The ladies ceased to move their fans and everybody was still and solemn as a funeral. It was something like Jonathan Edwards at Northampton when he got his hearers so wrought up and alarmed that they groaned in fear and grasped the posts and braces to keep trom sinning into hell, and another preacher in. the pul pit begged Mr. Edwards to stop. ' 'Stop, Mr. Edwards; stop now and tea mem 0f the mercv and love of God." Y hat wonderful power is in the words of an eloquent, earnest man. Mr. Beecher Was all of that a giiteu, eloquent, man. I heard him preach twice ' be- fore the war and was profoundly im- pressed. I looked upon him as the impersonation ot tlie man oi uou. univr uu, wucu uo u" ,.v.,w iu., o.iwl that war upon me suum hu . sharp's niles were better man jjiuics for j0hn Brown in Kansas and it was a crime to shoot at a slaveholder and miss him, I wonder at my infatuation with the man and exclaimed with iisiuiui, nun tvjo ure "iifti"; And still later when niton cnargeu him with alienating ana seuucmg ma not guilty, but lie must not uo bo any more." 1 was mortinea ai my own weakness in becoming his idolater and resolved to worship no man again wmie iie lived. A great man's character can- is and damn it, I'll be damned and even to take the name of Uod in vain, uamn is a more convenient and expressive word thanldoggon or dmgnatiou or blamed and it shows a defiance of the devil and a self-conceit in the man who uses it. But it is a very handy exple tive and when a young man gets in the habit of using it he rarely reforms. He knows that it is not good manners, for he does not use it in the presence of 0n Colonel Livingston, our member of congress from the Atlanta district. Last summer he was sent over to V est V lr- gmia to speak and help the Democrats in their canvass. He ventured into a pretty hot Republican town and was hurll1rilinor and electrifving a large ' o c ., . . 1, audience, and while scarifying the Ke nnblicans and this fighting administra t.ion a soft, half done Irish potato took him kcrzip right between the eyes. It knocked off his spectacles and llattened into mush all over his classic count ance It surprised and shocked h couuten mi, of course. Recovering his glasses ne wiped the sticky stuff from his face and said with excited tone, "My friends, I have been I have been a consistent a consistent member of the Presbyterian church the Presbyterian church, I say for more than more than fifty years yes, fifty odd yeais, and have tried to live tried to live in harmony with men with all men, but if the dirty, to live tried to live in harmony with doggond, dadblamed puppy who threw that notato will stand up or raise his i rn dadblasted if r don't stop sneaking long enough o Come down and lick the hair and hide off of him in two minutes by the clock." As nobody rose or raised a hand the colonel resumed his broken remarks, but declares that he never came as near cursing since he joined the church. This thing of cursing is of very an cient origin. Sometimes it was done by proxy. Balak, the king of Moab, hired Balaam to curse Israel, and some of us veterans remember when we, too, wanted to hire a cussin man to expend our wrath upon the yankees. Peter cursed and swore when accused of being one of the disciples. It is probable that he said "I'll be damned if I am," or perhaps worse. Soldiers and sailors have in all ages been profane the very class that are in greatest peril and should have the greatest reverence for their maker. Uncle Toby says "Our armv swore terribly in Flankers." And Uncle Toby himself swore an oath when he found the sick soldier lying and dying at his gate. "He shall not die, by God," he said, and the "accus ing spirit flew up to heaven with the oath and blushed as he gave it in. The recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear urion the word and blotted it out forever." That is beauti ful, isent it? Verily, charity hideth a multitude of sins. But this is enough on this subject. It is too hot to work in the garden and so I get in the shade of the vines on my verandah and ruminate. Judge Griggs, our honored member of congress, tells that story on Colonel Livingston i and he told another that will make the old men forget that it is hot, for they never get too old to enjoy any story that has a pretty woman in' it. One of the last cases brought before the judge was a" young unsophisticated country boy who was charged with an assault upon a bonnio country girl in that he had caught her at the spring and hugged and kissed her against her will. Her mother saw it from her piazza and heard her scream and saw him run away to the held where he was plowing. 1 nrosonntftd him. She was the witness and so was the .nrl. but the trirl dident seem very . t. hurt her but took her by surprise. She had filled her bucket and was about to go back when he caught her and hugged her and kissed her right on her mouth. The solicitor closed his case. The young man was put up to make his statement, and all he said was that she looked so sweet and pretty he couldent help it, and he dident believe that Miss Molly was very mad about it nohow, for shft went off sin "-in? of a hvme. "What hyme was she singing?" asked theiudge. "I don't know," he said, What hvme were you singing, Miss Moll v?" asked the iudge. She smiled and said it was "The Lord Will Pro vide." The judge charged the jury very mildly, and told them that an as sault imulied malice, etc., but as the J . . ..... I ni'ir mi i put spft w ipw r ift mance came in. t hev came back with this ver- diet: "We, the jury, find the defend- ant not crniltv. as there was no malice nr. iota n I Kill WK rPPnvmYi fm 1 hi 111 ..vui,.,. (a mnr nf the miirt. " 'r hisstorv wn ni s me of John Rilev's verdict in the Pass caf e. Good old John Riley, the foreman of The Rome Courier's pressroom for years and years, and the f . foreman ot me jury in me case oi me state mminRt Romulus Tass for hog stealing Pass had been suspected of killing Wallis Warren's shoats as they nn in thft worlds, and so Wallis laid for him and one evening aboutdusk, when ui,MlitriHslint hf slinnfid nnand llVj U'UlVd njtiwwj "-"XX "I I noimi,t i'.k ;n dm vow nrf. nf niittini? vauf-ii i; 3. x mij ' ' r " O i the shoat in a sack. -Wallis dident go to the war and managed to save his stock. Pass went, and left his wife and three little children to the mercy of God and the community. When he returned he found there was nothing left to live on, and one of the children had died. Judge Wright volunteered to defend him. and introduced no evi dence, but had the last speech. I will never forget the tender pathos of that speech his picture of a poor soldier returning home to find desolation and desnair. He never alluded to the evi dence, but had the jury and the court in tears. The judge charged them as fairly as he could, and they retired. In a brief time they came in with this ver- awt-anc! th lata nnhiinnv war reduced man v of our brave soldiers and thoir familios tn want and novertv bv reason of which they were forced at Jacksonville, Valdosta and other Geor timca to wander in the woods for such gia chautauquas, but their applications thmr rnnli1 find in order to S( l. I 1 I V . . 1 ' v.... . V- - .. . 1 .1 tiwn the u-n f : from t ie door ana meir little ones from starvation; therefore, we. the iurv. find the defendant not guilty. John Riley, foreman." "By gracious!" said Wallis, "they found Pass guilty and then pardoned him Tn.i.m Wright, npvi'r lost a case where , wi thu Kiet snopch and a """ft" - woman or a poor man was his clent. 1 IUIM V'V 1 But it is getting a little cooler now as the sun ncars the horizon. I must stop and turn the water loose on my garden. The city has no water meters yet, and 1 can steal water witu lm- numtv. but as the nigger preaener saiu to In ock. "loumusent do eotcneu stealin' chickens cotched, I say." Bill Arp. Couldn't move Him. It was late, and getting later. However, that did not stop the sound of muffed voices in the parlor. Meanwhile the gas meter worked steadily. The pater endured it as long as lie could and then resolved on heroic measures. "Phyllis," he called from the head of the stairs, "has the morning paper come yet?" "No, sir," replied the tunny man on the Daily Bugle, "we are holding the form for an important decision. And the pater went back to bed wondering if they would keep house or live with him. There is no family medicine so favor ably known as Pain-Killer. For over sixty years it has been used by Mission n nnc in oil Tirtsnf tli A world, not. onlv ,,ntm,,t tlm nlimntic influence on their families, but for the cure of all diseases of the bowels, and for wounds, burns, bruises, etc. Avoid substitutes, there is but one Pain-Killer, Perry Davis'. Price 2o and 50 cents. "Now, dear," said mamma, giving final instructions to Elsie, who is going to take tea with a playmate, "when you are asked if you will have some thing you must say, 'Yes, thank you,' and if you don't want it you must say "Oh, you needn't liother about that," Elsie interrupted. "I don't expect to refuse anything." The Durham Herald says listing taxes Marion Butler that in gave in more money on deposit than other man in Raleigh. any SAM JONES TELLS WHY KEN- Tl C KIANS DRINK LIQUOK. Atlanta Journal. In company with wife and two daughters I spent five days on our Kentucky farm, returning here this morning, I am rusticated, sunburnt and pretty well toughened up for the seven or eight weeks' chautauqua en gagements which I begin in Louisana the last of this week. 1 never Iiave seen old Kentucky when her pastures and harvest fields and tobacco and corn crons were more beautiful and promising, x nave never sutm uuisra, cattle, hogs, sheep, so fat and sleek. . . . . , The weather was intensely hot, and I would move around early in the morn ing and late in the evening. After all, when it comes to colts and calves, hogs and lambs, blue grass and clover, give me old Kentucky. Her people are a noble people, but her stock is im mense. A man can take a blue grass farm in Kentucky and make a living easier than he can anywhere under the shining sun. A man can take a half dozen good brood mares, a dozen good short-horned cows, a half dozen good brood sows, and a hundred sheep, and sit around in the, shade on his farm and live like a prince off the product of his farm with just one crippled negro to do the work. No wonder those fellows up there drink liquor, they have got too much leisure. Leisure and iiuuur au tuseiiiei. iciiuh mai. vni that -m ii do nottnng ana Keep souer is a geiuuo I have more respect for a fellow out of a job and don't want a job, when lie IS QTUnK. llian 1 HaVB IUr BUOCl ' . . ' , , . T tc low going round doing noimng. i have some nones ior me urunKen iei I. . .. 1. low that if he ever quits dnnKing ne will go to work, but a fellow sober and loafing there is very little outlook iur mm. They are beginning to harvest in Kentucky. The wheat crop is a little short this year compared with the crop of last year. I supiiose the puts and calls of the wheat exchange have the thincr down nrettv fine, and no doubt o A r ' wheat will settle down somewhere be . tween GO and 70 cents and remain there. . The crops of north Georgia are leap ing and bounding also. A few more days of drought, though, will tell on them. Thev have had too mum rain if anything in Kentucky and lennes - see. When the thermometer is hitting it at abrkit 100 in the shade and the sun getting in his work there has got to be more or less rain "mixed up with the condition of things or crops and folks wilt and wither. On my chautauqua tour I go from Louisiana to Colorado; from Colorado back into ivansas, iiunois, eic. win give your readers a weekly letter while I am en route along the lines of the most important things I see and hear nn mv tour. It was a source of regret to me that I did not have an oppor tunitv of attending the Barnesville were in too late; my time was all en- I . .. . 1 T !... ll... l!i,.i.i.t.i gageu. j. iw iiic-ucmcia: chau tau- quas will all Uourish and grow There are now aooui unu uumucu aim i i .i i i fifty chautauquas in the United States. Georgia lias live of these, and I believe they are are all vigorous, trrowine ones. They are occasions of o- - - c - 11 easure and prom, oi reunion oi uie I 1 . people, and instruction of the masses. No community has carried on their chautauqua occasions for ten years without marked' improvement on the minds and hearts of the people. Ihe masses are brought in contact with the leading speakers and platform men of the world, and listen to words that not only interest but instruct them. I believe parents could do no wiser, better thing than to carry their children and let them sit under the voices of men who will tell them tilings that will be worth much to them in the years to come. The Georgia chautau quas all have good programs and have on their list of engagements the very best. I speak for them a large patron age and great success. Georgia furn ishes much talent herself on the chau tauqua platform General Gordon, John Temple Graves, dear old Ham, Charley Lane, Editor Bay ne, etc., and they take well everywhere and please the people. Yours, off for a long trip Sam r. Jones. p g. Pullman never cuts rates on his sleepers. His conductors have no right to cut the chairman of our rail road commission. As a citizen of Georgia I protest against a one sided cut. S.P.J. A Pew Iliti of Praclleal Advice for Hot Weather. Now that the mercury is rising steadily toward the top of the thcrmo- meter, too much care cannot be exer cised in the avoidance of sunstroke. The first thing for the feeble and the anaemic to remember is that they need a tonic. Just what that tonic is may best be told by the family doctor. Due regulation also under medical advice of the excretory organs is an other most important consideration. Select vour diet with regard to the absence of heating properties. Take daily siionge baths. Avoid ex cessive exertion. Sleep eight hours daily. Use an umbrella when walking in the sun. Have your outer garments of mater ial as light as possible and your under wear of gauze or linen mesh, which will facilitate prespiration. Avoid stimulants. HOPE FOR CONSUMPTIVES. A New York official has recently made a report, showing what is being done for consumptives by the different states and nations. He says that in Germany nearly 100 sanitariums have been established in the last few years for the treatment of . consumptives, with a capacity of 5,000. England has probably 3,000 beds for consumptives in her various sanitar iums for their benefit. In France about 2,800 beds for tuberculosis subjects existed when the present movement began, and sanitar iums in nine of the cities of France have been built or are being built, while the French government's about completing a sanitarium at Agincourt at an outlay of a million francs. live sanitariums have been estab lished in Russia, under the leadership of the Czar, and a number are under way. In Italy, in Norway, in Denmark, in Sweden, in Switzerland, Austria, in Hungary, Poland, in Spain, in Portu gal, in Holland and in Canada sanitar iums for the treatment of consumptives have been established. In the United States the national government has established sanitariums tn New Mexico for the treatment of tubercular marine hospital patients, and for consumptives of its army. The state of New York has at present 10 sanitariums for consumptives under private management, and one projected sanitarium to be supported by the state. They have an aggregate of 000 beds. Of the above named 10, three are situated in the city of New York. The board of estimate and apportion ment appropriated for these three insti tutions in 1901 $70,010. Of this amount the Seton hospital, Spuyten Duyvil, received $30,000; St. Joseph's hospital, 143rd street and St. Ann's avenue, $31,010, and the Brooklyn Home for Consumptives, Kingston avenue, Brooklyn, $0,000. The state of New York appropriated $50,000 during the last session of the legislature for the hospital site, and is asked to appropriate $100,000 durin the present session of the legislature fox buildings and maintenance. A Train ltobbed of $83,000. A Great Falls, Mont., special to the St. Paul Tioneer Press, says: "The Great Southern Transcontinental train No. 3, leaving St. Paul Tuesday morn ing at 9 o'clock, was held up at Wag ner, Mont., 196 miles east of Great Falls, at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon by three masked men who blew open the express car .and wrecked the through safe dynamite, securing $83,000. The robbery, in daylight, was one of the boldest that has ever occurred in the West. One of the robbers boarded the "blind baggage car" at Hinsdale, a station about 20 miles east of Wagner. He appeared to be a common hobo, but when the conductor discovered him at a stop almost immediately afterward, he drew a heavy Colt's revolver and or dered him to return toi the rear of the train on penalty of instant death. The hobo then climbed over the locomotive tender, and at the point of hi8 revolver compelled the engineer and fireman to stop the train at a ravine a few miles ast of Wagner, where his confederates, two in number, Doth masked, lay in wait. The hobo then compelled the fireman and engineer to abandon the engine and firing began on both sides of the train as it came to a stop. Pas sengers on the, train began to look out of the windows and a brakeman alight ed on the opposite side. Both in stantly became the target of Winches ters in the hands of robbers and were wounded. A passenger on the tourist coach, who was looking out of the win dow, was struck by a stray bullet and seriously injured. Some north fjaroiians wnose Age Are From HO to 115 Years. There are some very old people among the blind, deaf and dumb in North Carolina and one of these reports her age as past 115 years. This party is Elizabeth bwan, blind, of Sans Souci, Bertie county. Close up to her in years is Charlotte Riddick, aged 110 years, blind and deaf, of Elizabeth City, and Bettie Gorden, blind, aged 110 years, of Gulf, Chatham county. Then comes Thomas Kornegay, blind, of Kinston, aged 100, and Etta Davis, blind, of the same town, aged 105. In the 100 year class there are Birtha Dimpsey blind, of Enfield; Dellie Hinton, blind, of Oakland, Nash county; Louisa Fair, blind, of Town- creek, Brunswick county; Lena A. Perry, blind and deaf, of Rowland Robeson county; Eliza Lassitcr, blind of Falls, Wake county. After these comes Chaimie Mitchell of Raleigh, blind, aged 98, and Samuel Toppin, deaf, aged 95 of Turner, Chat ham county. There are numbers and numbers who are reported as between the ages - of 85 and 95, but only one in the list i 8 115 years old. So far as known Elizabeth Swan is the oldest person in Nortl Carolina. 00 Iteatlia From Heat. New York, July 4. At 12:30 o'clock this (Thursday) morning it was estima ted that the total deaths from the heat in the last six days in Greater New York was 600. THE PENSION LAW. Raleigh Po8t. - The rush, we may properly call it. which occured in every county in the State on Monday of those desiring to take advantage of the new pension act can truly be said to have been pathetic. under the old law the rolls contained the names of something over 5.000 sol diers and widows. The new law is doi- ularly supposed to have removed all re strictions and provided for every one who served as a soldier as well as all widows of soldiers. The result was that a number were rejected by the ex amining boards, much to their disap pointment. Certain disabilities must still be shown to entitle a soldier to get on the roil, ana these are "to be incapacitated for manual labor," and to be "now dis abled from any cause to peform man ual labor." All who have lost limbs, one or both, are entitled to a fixed sum, but only others who lost an eye m the service, or who "from any cause" are totally incapacitated or are unable to perform manual labor' r are. entitled to pension. Those "able to peform" manual labor are not entitled to a pen sion. This should be understood by all, as it is only to those coming within the terms mentioned whom the county boards can place on the list. From the best information as yet obtainable there must have been between 15,000 and 20,000 . applicants soldiers and widows throughout the State, and it is thought the number admitted will quite double that heretofore pensioned. We wish the State was able to give a good pension to every soldier and widow of a soldier, enough to assure them of. at least the comforts of life. As it is, however, only those totally or materially dependent can be provided even the pittance now appropriated. Western Preacher Keep Gool aud Expound Scripture. St. Louis Dispatch. Rev. James N. Crutcher, pastor of the Compton Heights Christian Church in St. Louis, appeared in his pulpit Sunday night in a white shirt waist and preached on "Fads in Religion" to a congregation composed largely of coat less men and hatless women. This departure from the old form of starched shirts and coats and heavy hats was for the sake of comfort and to keep up the attendance of the congre gation during the hot weather. The church, which is at St. Vincent and California avenues, has a large audito rium with great windows on every side. Ordinarily it is cool and has proved in-, viting to large congregations in warm weather. But the sweltering heat of the last few weeks has been discour aging. The pastor, who is 26 years old, be lieved that the only way to hold his congregation was to make the people comfortable. So he announced that Sunday nigh tjlie would appear in a shirt waist, lie invited men to attend in the . same attire, and women to come with out their hats. Sunday morning a number of young men were in the congregation in shirt waists. They appeared so cool and comfortable that in the evening all the men in the congregation followed the example. A number of women with their hair dressed in attractive modes sat with their hats in their laps and several came bareheaded. Before the pastor appeared in the pulpit there was an increasing hum of discussion on the innovation. Everv- boly watched the entrance to see who would be the next to take advantage of the invitation. At first a few old men came with their coats on. But one of them, failing to find comfort in a fan, removed his coat. He was followed by the others. Then the young men came, more than had attended any evening service at the church for sev eral weeks, in pretty shirt waists. As the congregation grew it became evident that everybody in it had yielded to the heat. At the morning service several of the older male members said they disap proved of the idea, but when they saw the increased attendance in the eve ning they expressed themselves as sat isfied that the shirt waist plan was a good one. A record prepared by the American Wool and Cotton Reporter shows that textile mill construction during the first six months of the year 1901 was considerably greater than the last half of the preceding year. During the first half of the year 1901 the number of new mills constructed or that are in tended to be constructed amount to 261, a gain of 37 over the last six months of 1900. Of the 261 mills, 143 are devoted to the manufacture of cot ton, 35 to wool, 58 to knit goods, hosi ery, etc., and 25 to miscellaneous pur poses, such as Bilk, linen and jute manufacturing and bleaching, finish ing, etc. North Carolina leads with 45 new mills and Georgia comes next with 36. Tuesday Maud Strickland, 14 yearold daughter of a farmer living near Smith field, Johnson county, was outraged by a negro, Jim Bailey, as she was re turning from the field where she had taken her father's dinner. The negro wss captured and at . 10 o'clock that night, while being taken to Smithiitld to jail, was taken in charge by a mob and hanged. 1 V