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VOL XII.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY JULY 19, 1901.
NO. 20.
BILL AllP'S LKT'TRK.
Atlanta Constitution.
Next in importance to the education
of the children of the state comes the
care of the convicts, the lunatics, and
the deaf and the blind. Those are
charges, fixed charges, that rest every
where upon the citizen and taxpayer
and cannot he avoided. A careful
perusal of the last reports ol the officers
of these institutions irive us deep con
cern for their inmates are inercasi
faster tha"h population and this increase
indicates a growing degeneracy
mental, physical or moral condition
our people. These reports give much
interesting matter for there is hardly
state in the union where similar ins!
' tutions are so ably and faithfully
officered. We are especially fortunate
in having such a, capable and ex pen
enced man as Dr. Powell . at the hea
of our sanitarium. The apprehension
ia that when he dies we cannot fill hi
place for we cannot find a man who ha
both his ability and his longexperience
The same can be said, of Professor Con
nor, in charge of the bchool for tin
flwif. These two are veterans in the
service and have bv their long an
faithful work allayed all public anxiety
about those institutions.
But why should so many more chi
dren he born deaf and dumb tha
i-
formerly, and why should so many
more people become insane? Only
few veara aero Professer Connor
re
ported 105, and now he has 215 i
rharsre. Do folks keen on marryin
their cousins and will the law keep on
allowing it? As to tlie sanitarium
thorp, seems to be no limit, no diminu
tion of the rapid increase and as fast as
more room is provided more sti'i
wanted.
Dr. Powell reports that on October
1, 1900, there were 1,700 whites and
742 colored on hand, anil the new a
plications now average about six pt
,day. Of course many die and it is
comfort to know that many recover
their reason and are discharged. Two
hundred and fifty-nine whites and
ninetv-four neeroes were discharged
last year. One hundred and fifty-sb
whites and 186 negroes died.' The doc
tor gives pleasant and easy employmen
to all who can and are willing to work
. He ia a philosopher of my own kinc
for he says he has found that work
" manual labor, is more conductive t(
restoration and contentment than any
other medicine. Gardening, sewing
wjishinp-. eannine-. fruits, etc.. is done
on a large scale. Much more of thi:
is done than formerly and the repor
ahows an immense business. Just
think of last year's work 1,000 aprons
2.000 bedticks, 3,000 chemises, 1,S00
calico dres. 3S, 700 homespun dresses,
4.700 pair drawers, 4,500 pillow cases,
5.000-pair pants. 3,800 shirts, 1,000
undershirts and ouilts bv the scor
crazy quilts I suppose making a total
nf nvnr 50-000 articles made by crazy
women. Good gracious, what an in
dustrious female family the doctor has
trot. In this way he has guatly
rorlnned the cost of maintenance and
brought down the per capita to $117
But on the other hand, lie has to be
continually repairing or replacing
something," for he says ' 'insanity means
destruction and that the tendency of a
large number of patients is to destroy
furniture, crockery, bedding, clothing,
lights, sash and sometimes tearing their
rooms to pieces." Now just imagine
what an army of lunatu s we have.
Cartersville is quite a large little coun
try town of 3,500 people but three
fourths of them are children underage.
We have only about 800 grown-up peo
ple who are tit to be lunatics, but here
at the sanitarium are three times as
many, and the number increasing every
year.
But the report of the prison commis
fiion eives us most anxiety, for that
concerns crime and involves the safety
of our people from the lawless who fear
not God nor regard man. ine main
tenance of the sanitarium costs the
State $275,000 annually, but there is
nnfi cood thine, and only one about the
convicts. They cost the state nothing
after the trial, but on the contrary they
bring in a considerable revenue, and
under the new system this revenue is
rapidly increasing. General Evans,
Mr. Eason and Mr. Turner inaugurated
this system only two years ago and it
has already proved a signal success.
The state now has the absolute control
of all its convicts and has purchased a
large farm near Milledgeville, where
the old men and the boys and all
the women are kept. Under the
skilful management of Mr. Fos
ter the farm paid well the first year,
and the convicts are nearly as happy as
they were in old slavery times, Most
of the able bodied convicts are leased
to farmers at good prices, but the stale
provides guards and medical attention.
Here is another army of 2,300 to look
after, but these are not all. There are
2,350 more at work in the county
chain gangs, making a total of 4,050,
of whom 358 are white, ten are white
women and 215 are negro women.
Of the state convicts for felony 007
are guilty of murder or manslaughter,
15 for burglary or robbery or larceny,
237 for the usual crime. The rest are
for most any other crime in the cata
logue. Most of them were laborers,
but I note,that twenty-seven did noth
ing and eighteen were preachers.
Ninety per cent, of the negroes are be
tween the ages of fifteen and forty, and .
knew nothing of slavery. Only 1 per ;
cent, are the old slaves who are over
sixty years old. Two hundred and
forty-four of them are serving a second
term. Thirty are serving a third term
and a few a fourth and fifth term.
They seem to like it. One thousand
and twenty of these convitts are from
three counties Fulton, Chatham and
Bibb. As Thomas Jefferson said,
"The influence of cities is pestilential
to good morals." It is especially so
with negroes. The large majority of
the negro convicts are from the cities
and '.argo towns.
Ten years ago thore were 1,100 negro
convicts and DO per cent, of them were
wholly illiterate, coHild neither read nor
write. Now we have 4,300 negro con
victs and 54 per cent, can read and
write. How is that? Does education
lessen crime or increase it?. Mr. Stetson,
the state statistician of Massachusetts,
says it "increases crime not a little, but
immensely," and he proves it. It
certainly does among the negro race in
"Georgia.
It is curious to note that we have two
counties in the state White and Gil
mer that have no representative
among the convicts. There are four
counties Towns, Pickens, Banks and
Dawson that "have but- one each
There are three counties Union, Mur
ray 'and Rabun that have but two
eacjk. How is that for good morals in
our most northern mountain counties,
where the school master has not been
abroad in the land to anv alarming
extent. .
No, the truth is that education of it
self neither lessens nor increases crime
It depends on the moral training that
the boys gefs either from his teacher or
his parents or his early associates, but
if his environments are bad his educa
tion makes him a more dangerous
citizen, for it enables him to cover up
and eouceal Ins crime or to escape from
punishment in some way.' It is like
throwing pearls before swine to give
the vile and vicious an education, but
we can't pick them beforehand and so
all must have a chance.
But if I was a lawmaker I would put
some penalties upon bad citizens, epon
the idle a ad vicious, whether white or
black. We do not allow them to have
their names in the jury box. They
cannot try a man for crime nor set in
judgement upon his civil rights. Why
should such men be trusted with the
ballcL? Why not let the same commis
sion that makes up the jury box also
make up the ballot bo::? If some good
negroes get in and some bad white
men wers left out it would be rewarding
merit and putting a penalty upon bad
citizens. Alabama and Virginia have
this question before their conventions
and we hope they will consider it wisely
and give encouragement to good cit
izens, whether they be white or black
Good conduct should be the test. It is
more import? nt than education or
property. Let us purge the ballot box
just as we do the jury box. Purge it
once a year. Put such colored men' as
Gasselt and Joe Brown and lribole in
and leave all such white men as Pat
Banks out. Don't shut the door for
ever on good negroes.
By 1 he-way, I wish somebody would
hunt ui) our cook and send her home.
She is not a "settled 'oman," and is
just gallivanting around till her spell is
off. I have to get up before I feel like
it and fire up the stove and then call
the girls and they get a good breakfast in
half an hour. Biscuit and coffee and
hominy and fried eggs and beef steak
are good enough for anybody, but I
will have to discharge our cook and
hire her over again and leave out the
spell privilege. Bill Arc.
What linn Kept the South Bark.
News and Observer.
Some journals are devoting much
time to answering this question.
"What has kept the South back?"
The truth is that, after the war im
poverished it, and the carpet-bagger
stole what was left that was profitable
and mortgaged the future by issuing
bonds which they converted into cash,
the South hasn't been kept back. It
has paid hundreds of millions on the
debt placed on the carpet bag govern
ment, many millions to educate the
negroes, and many more millions to
pension Federal soldiers, the Southern
people are today worth more money
than at any time in their history. ihe
answer to the question is that the South
hasn't been kept back. ' -
In spite of'every weight that hath
beset them, they have gone forward.
They have made more cotton than with
slavery and every year are manufactur
ing more of it into the finished product.
In the rebuilding of its fortunes, the
Southern people have shown an in
dustry, and a spirit of progressthat re
veal the stuff they are made of, and
their motto is the command of Moses
"that they go forward."
The Editor's Marriage.
Muscotah,NKan., Kecord.
For the first time we were married
Wednesday. We have contemplated
this step for a long time, but lack of
funds has always prevented, until we
finally decided to get married and trust
to Providence for the rest. Ihe sub
scription rates of the Itecord will re
main at the same price. Only the
immediate relatives were present at ine
ceremony. Our views on the money
question will remain the same, only
we need more of if . Will go to house
keeping in the Asquith home, in Second
street.
UNIQUE CIIAKGETOGItANDJtTRY
judge ICobliiMon Says Town Girl are
Hard to CaUli and Worth Little
Alter Caught.
News and Observer.
The July term of Wake Superior
court for the trial of criminal causes
began yesterday, Judge Robinson pre
siding. J udge Robinson's charge to the grand
jury was most unique, abounding in
Irish wit and hard horse-sense, and
chuckfull of humanity.
Comparing the courts of the early
English days when there were 242 of
fenses punishable by death, with those
of the present when there are only two
capital crimes, he said:
"With countless loss of life and
treasure our fathers wrested from King
John at Runuymede the right to trial
by jury. And yet we hear carping
pessimists going around ' bemeaning
the good old days. My only regret is
that they didn't- live then; they
wouldn't have lived long, end we
would now be rid of them and their
breed."
Discussing the different degrees of
murder, and recent changes in the law,
he said:
"Many good men in the Legislature
are sometimes fooled by what are called
lobbyists hirelings that hang arounc
the lobbies when they ought to be over
yonder." (Pointing in the direction
of the asylum and penilentiarry)
And further, in the same connection,
he said:
"The sovereign people changed the
law the men that ave sovereign 3G5
days in the year and never find it out
but once every two years, when some
body asks them for their votes." "
He, warned the members of the grand
jury against permitting malignant and
frivolous prosecution:
"There is no room in the courts fo.
malice. ' The proper way for a man,
who feels himself aggrieved, to bring a
suit, is in a magistrate's court, when
the accused may face his accuser. But
there are cases in which no part'cular
person is aggrieved offenses against
the body politic, and thence it is that
the grand jury must present."
Touching ta.-i-dodgers the judge was
outspoken and emphatic. He said:
"1 know many men in my county
men with lots of money who go to the
springs in summer, whi'e I stay home
and sw at, qo to the warmer cl'mes in
winter, while I shiver at home, but
when you examine the tax books
you'll think they haven't got enough
ras at home to wad a gun. The only
balm of relief about it is that a little later
they'll get to a hot climate where they
can't move. It is a high privilege to
pay taxes and enjoy all the freedom of
such a government .as this, and the
man who tries to shirk taem ought not
only to be made to pay, but sent to the
roads for swearing to a lie."
The social relations and the laws gov
erning them were discussed at leuglh
He said:
"Strange to say, the punishment for
a man who woos a virtuous woman to
her ruin is only five years in the peni
tentiary. I have in mind now a man
tried before me in this court for just
that offense. He had done the deed
and then galloped off to Texas, and no
wretch that every dangled at the end of
a rope more ricniy cieserveti nis rate
than that fellow did the hve years lie
got.
"Uut therre is such a ttimg, also, as
seducing men. Nor is it hard to do;
but in our Inch admiration for woman
we must not lese sight of the fact, for
there are virtuous men; if there were
not, then, indeed, would virtue perish
from the face of the earth.
"Women is seated upon the pinnacle
of admiration and she is apt to stay
there unless she herself gets down.
But if she dances in a man's arms all
night, wearing a low-cut dress, comes
away at break of day after the ball is
over, witn a ieuow who nas uecorateu
his interior with a lot of gaudy material
until his brain reels has she not des
cenced from her pedestal, and is there
not something to be said for the man
who yields to the temptation?"
In charging the jury in regard to
whisky-selling, card-playing and other
forms of gambling, Judge Robinson
became eloquent in his portrayal of
couutry life:
"There is no greater God-given pleas
ure than that- of the bright sun and
growing vegetation the singing birds
and the fresh-plowed earth. I wonder
why a boy will leave it all to come to
town and play lackey to somelKxly or
be jump a counter at $'2o a month;
where the air is impure and temptations
are great to put his finger in the till for
money to play cards in the back room
of some infernal bar-room; where nights
are long and days are short and painted
lips invited to death."
And the country girl, too, came in
for her share of praise, though only
by indirection, when the Judge de
clared: "Town girls are like summer fcxes
hard to catch and not worth much
after you've caught them."
Judge Robinson's charge was. lis
tened to with closest attention by the
members of the grand jury and the
bar, though there were often broad
smiles at some of his bold and witty
sayings.
The loss of life in the West Virginia
floods ia possibly far In-low the min
imum estimate.
"BRIAN IS A DEAD DUCK' SAYS
SAM P. JONES.
Atlanta Journal.
I left home last Friday for southern
Louisiana chautauquas, at Franklin
and Crowley. They are both growing
southern Louisiana towns, on the
Southern Pacific railroad, in the land
of cane and rice. Much of the terri
tory between New Orleans and Lake
Charles is as fertile as Cuba. The soil
around Franklin is especially adapted
to cane, around Crowley the rice fields
stretch in every direction.
With some friends I drove to the
pumping station, which supplies water
from the bayou to irrigate seven thou
sand acres of rice land. It was a mar
velous sight to see the amount of wa
ter lifted by the four suction pumps
into the race, which emptied into the
canal.
The rice fields of southern Louisiana
promise a fine harvest, so do the cane
fields, but in the territory over which I
have traveled since I left Georgia I
have not seen a promising field of
corn. The drought and burning sun
have wilted and blasted the corn. Cot
ton looks 'more promising, but thou
sands of acres have b";3n turned out
and will not have a p'ow or hoe in them
again this year. T.iis is the poorest
prospect for crops of corn and cotton
that I have seen for five years:.
I am here in attendance of the North
Louisiana chuilauqua. This is my
sixth visit to this institution since it
was iaauguratcd ten y.irs ago.
This is Independence day, the Fourth
of July, and great c owds are gather
ing, not only hre, b 'I elsewhere, over
the broad Jam-'. iu Yankee Doodle
they hi1 o fhe crac1 e s, and make out
like it i Cli ".slmas, oa the Fou.lh of
Juiy: dow ) . oi'!!i, we h we p:cnies and
,'.theuti , songs and &p. cues.
One thing ii.ii esses me as I 1 ravel
thvopgh -onth Mi--issip'i, south Louis
iana a 'ii ri e as is Ihe m;v velous
growth o' the towns in t ie p"t .few
yars, a ui the i up ove iie;u o" the ru
ral dV lets. The Soufb'.iod is ae .ing
there. If fie NI--- fjii? e Ma' .shall be
built in the tie I few ye -, l ie tide
will tm 11 e 'rc.ive'y to't'ie r"ris of
Peusicol.'. MoVi'e, New O. 'vis, Povt
A'thura uiC "ves i. A' e.iny ihe e.i-t
is fee'iog the JVnve o l'ie 'do. wl ich is
tiui)K)2 i.. w y, r ui i. io uOtitii bound
r.i'bo.Vs, . om (' e northwest, a e put
io uieic tesiS ia mov.ng tue l a lie this
way.
The onth is now hi'sy with her in
dul and coi or ci 1 i.iiciesis. She
is not lo-i ! much l:me on po ' icsand
IKi'it'cI )s, : joi'jh it is evi-'e it, to
mind, ,l:u McLaiuee'sni is growing
evcy d:v in the south. Biyan is a
dead cluck. Not so much I .yan as
Bryan in.
The Republican p.irty is making mis
takes constantly, that would accrue
to the advantage of the Democrats, if
the Democratic p. ily had a le.ider.
If the Democrats were capable, now,
of thiul.''.)g wise'y and acting sensibly
they c l eoon got conflicting gangs to
gether, and ia'!y aiound such candi
dates as will lead them to victory. If
they will knock out every Populist
plunk i i theii platfotm, and nominate
W. C. Whitney for president and Car
ter Harrison for vice-president, they
can elect their candidates. But no
man can be elected president of the
United States who does not carry with
him in that high odice the confi
dence of the business and the brains
of the country. The money and brains
of this country will run it awhile long
er, at least.
I leave here for Boulder, Colorado,
this evening, and thence into Kansas
and Illinois. Will write from St. Louis
next week, on my Texas Panhandle
Colorado tour. Yours,
Sam P. Jones.
P. S. Some friend sent me a copy
of Gainesville (Ga.) Eagle, June 20, W.
H. Craig, editor and business manager.
He slings mud all over your uncle
Jones in a two column double leaded
nlitorial. If he believed what he said
he is a plain idiot; if he meant to lie on
me he is a plain rascal. He can take
his choice. I have a little grandson,
two years old, named for me. . I would
send him up to Gainesville to wallop
the life out of Craig if it was not for the
aw forbidding cruelty to animals.
S. P. J.
Plot AgaiiiHt HarrlMOii.
Chicago, July 10. Carter H. Harri
son, Mayor of Chicago, is threatened
with the same death which befell his
father, who was assassinated while
Mayor of the city. The Mayor today
received a worning through the mail.
Although the ofhcials at the City
Hall are" inclined to regard the note as
the work of a crank, still the memory
of the assassination of the elder Har
rison at the door of his home by
William Pendergast, in 1803, is too
vivid for them to permit the matter to
go unnoticed.
A note ltencileu on a postal card
informed Mayor Harrison of the plot
to assassinated him. The card was
mailed at Harvery, 111., July 9th, at
30 p. m.
Affable Stranger I can't help think
ing I have seen your picture somewhere
in the newspajers.
Hon. Mr. Greatman Oh, no doubt.
It's often 1cpii jaibHshed.
Stranger then I was not mistaken.
What were you cured of?
CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES
WILL NOT LONG BE SEPARATE.
So Declar General Gomez at a Ban
quel at the (TiiIoii Loagne Club.
W. E. D. Stokes gave a dinner at the
Union League Club at New York re
cently to General Maximo Gomez and
General T. Estrada Palma. Mr. Stokes
was formerly a member of the Cuban
League of America and was closely
identified with the work of the junta of
which General Talma was the head.
The Cuban general w;?s the hero of
the occasion and was warmly received.
He made a brief speech, which was
interpreted by General Gonzales.
General Gomez said he was almost
touched to tears by the remarkable re
ception he had received in the United
States. He knew Cuba was indebtadto
the Unilsd States, but he never knew
until he came here how deep that debt
was that it was not merely the obliga
tion of one people to another, but of
brother to brother. Every Cuban, born
and bred, he said, lived and died with
the idea of Cuba libre before him", with
the hope of the people being free and
relieved of the yoke of oppression.
Cuba and the United Slates, said the
General, belong together. It is only a
question of gravitation when they will
be one. But al present, after 'the great
struggle in which hundreds of thou
sands of lives were sacrificed and when
men returned to their homes only to
find their wives and children starved
to death in the restricted barriers in
which Weyler held them under his
policy of reconcentration, they felt
that they must have Cuba libre. ' It is
realized fully, he said, that Cuba can
not get along without the United
States, but the Cubans do want to feel
freedom.
General Gomez referred to General
Palma as the hold-over president of
Cuba, having been elected during the
insurrection of 18GS, and he pointed to
his fellow Cuban as the first president
of Cuba libre.
General Palma made a feeling reply,
warming to the subject of Cuba libre,
and speaking enthusiastically of theiu-
ture of tue Pearl of the Antilles.
After the dinner General Gomez said
to the newspaper men that he wished
to etprebs his gratitude to the presj of
tiie United States and of the world fo
the great good they have done to the
cause of ,Cuba libre. He said that
when he came here years ago he was
very sad, but that on this visit he was
very happy and was glad to recognize
how much the American people had
done for the Cubans.
He had felt a bond;of sympathy with
the American nation when he first mm
gled with its people, but he now felt
much more strongly the reality of that
bond. He was sure that the Cubans
would now establish their own govern
ment and would show how much they
feel gratitude for the successful help of
the Amencaus in removing Lie Spanish
yoke.
"Is there any feeling of apprehension
in Cuba with regard to the intentions of
the United States?" he was asked.
'No, there is no question about it,"
he replied. "Cuba trusts implicitly in
the honor of the American people."
"What can you say as to the future
policy of Cuba?"
"That cannot be answered," replied
General Gomez, "because no one can
foresee the future, but I believe that
the attitude of Cuba will be one of
gratitude in accordance with the obliga
tions of Cuba to the United States.
"Whom do you think will be the
president of the Cuban republic?"
"I don t know, but I hope that it
will be General Palma."
"No, no," said General Palma, "that
is for the Cuban people to say."
"Well, there are three candidates,"
said General Gomez, "or rather three
persons named, myself General Bartolo
meo Masso and General Palma. I will
not accept under any circumstances.
General Palma was elected during the
ten years' war, and I hope that he will
be elected again."
Love's Dream ol Itlltttt.
London Tidbits.
In whispers of glowing, rapturous
and fervent they sioke of what would
be when they twain b came as one.
Wrapied in each other's arms and the
friendly darkness lorn of a purposely
extinguished chandelier, they recked
not of the complaining creak of the
overburdened chair which supported
their united weight; neither heard they
a 8Uppicious sound which floated in
through the keyhole a sound as of a
fat and elderly man breathing heavily
outside that aperture.
"Only think, sweetest sweethng! just
think, dearest darling!" he whispered
ecstatically, "won't we be happy when
we're married and have a house of our
own? Love, kisses bliss "
Rates! taxes! bills! servants! doc
tors! youngsters!" said a sepulchral
voice solemnly.
The chair was suddenly relieved of
its double burden, the gas flared up
brazenly; but when they opened the
door a moment later, awkwardly bid
ding each other good-night, the hall
was empty and they -saw and heard
nothing to account for the warning
voice.
But far away up the staircase an
elderly man, with a cruel smile on his
face and a substantial corporation be
neath his waitcoat, crept stealthily, in
bestockinged understandings, to his
night's resting place.
TO IlAKJtlONIZK EAST AND WEST.
Sam Jones make Suggestion as to
National Prenldentlal Timet.
Atlanta Journal.
The Rev. Sam Jones, who says he is
neither a Democrat nor a Republican,
but just simply a gentleman, has re
turned from a trip through the south
west and he brings back with him a
political suggestion that is at least in
teresting if not conclusive.
Whitney and Harrieon, he declares,
should be the Democratic ticket for 1904.
He intimates that he might almost be
willing to vote such a ticket, and he
firmly believes there are enough other
people in the country who will do bo
to elect it. -
"In the first place," said Mr. Jones
to a Journal reporter this morning,
"it would harmonize both elements in
the party and this is absolutely neces
sary to success.,
"Whitney would command the re
spect of the element that has brains
and money and Carter Harrison would
carry the west. Thus the Democrats
could catch both the east and west with
such a ticket. "And let me tell you,
bud, the party that don't command
the confidence of the brains and money
of the country ain't going to win and
the silverite8, you know, haven't got
either.
"Besides, both WThitney and Har
rison are good men. Neither have ever
made themselves obnoxious to the
other wing of the party, so that they
would be easy men to harmonize on.
Whitney can carry New York and
Harrison can carry Illinois that's
enough right there, isn't it?
"The west will demand recognition
on the ticket and she must have it if
the Democrats are to win. As for
Bryan he is out of the question. He
is one of these rather-be-right-than-president
sort of fellows and, as the
fellow said, he'll never be either.
"Now, if the party will agree on two
such men as Whitney and Harrison it
can win next time. But, of course, it
will be necessary to shelve Chairman
Jones. He has been dead for ten years,
but for some reason his obsequies have
been postponed. Now, if the party
will put such a man as Gorman," of
Maryland, in charge of the campaign,
the Republicans won't be in it next
time.
"Besides both Whitney and Harrison
and the Republican party has some
hard sledding ahead of it. It is just
going up against its'policy of imper
ialism and there's no telling what sort
of chickens that setting is going to
bring forth its just as liable to be
ducks as alligators.
"Then, too, it has reduced the war
taxes, the only thing that ever gave it
a 8urp! is, and there's no telling where
that's going to lead to. I'm satisfied
they'll have a deficit in less than four
years, and then there'll be more bond
issues. Then the country will be ripe"
for a change. If the Democrats don't
win next time it'll be their" own fault.
I'm not trying to run things, but I do
hate to see a man or a party keep on
acting the fool.
"What do you think of the southern
man for president idea, Mr. Jones?"
asked the reporter. - r
"I never think about nothing until I
try to go to sleep and can't. Then it's
a good thing to do. But that southern
man for president business isn t an
idea it's an hallucination. It would
mean two Democratic tickets, just
like it did before. " Of course, it may
be all right for a subject to harp on
during a dull summer, but we want to
be careful to forget it before election
year."
Pensr Train Done up by a Hall
Storm.
The Burlington's Portland train ar
rived at Lincoln, Neb., one day, last
week with every window pane on the
north side of the cars broken and with
dents half inch deep in the sides, and
the paint almost entirely scraped away.
A furious hail storm, encountered near
Alliance last evening, did the damage.
Train men assert that hail stones as
large as goose eggs fell.
The storm came up very suddenly -
and the first the passengers knew of it
was when great chunks of ice came
thundering upon the roofs and crashing
through the windows. The storm
lasted several minutes and was followed
by a rain that completely soaked the
interior of the coaches, rendering them
uninhabitable. No cars were within
three hundred miles and most of the
night was spent uncomfortably. A
veritable panic existed among the pas
sengers, many of whom were injured
by Hying glass.
The storm occurred in the cattle
country and reports received tonight
indicate much damage done.
A Former Itl lot reus of the White Hontt
Dies In Tenneaaee..
Gresville,' Tenn., July 10. Mrs.
Martha Patterson, last of the children
of President Andrew Johnson, and who
was mistress of the White House dur
ing the Johnson administration, died
Wednesday at her home here. Mrs.
Patterson was born October 25, 1828.
Beit Answer II Btnevr.
"Papa," asked Dicky Tredway,
"what is a nonsuit?" -
"I think," replied Mr. Tredway, "it
wjs the kind that Adam and Eve wore
the summer before the fall."