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$1 00 a Year, in Advance. 'FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH." Single Copy, 6 Cents. VOL XII. PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY AUGUST 30, 1901. NO. 26. NASI JONES' LETTEK.. Atlanta Journal. . . . It has been my pleasure to C visit Winona Lake, Intl., Assembly for sev eral years and talk to people from its platform. It is called " Beautiful Wino na," and it is the Presbyterian assembly of the United States. They have ex pended nearly $400,000, upon these grounds. ,The program and the crowd stay on from the first of July to "the first of September, i They not only have the Chautauquajeatures here, but the summer school anil the Bible confer ences, the latter conducted by Doctors Chapman, of New York, and McNeil, of Scotland. The summer school is in July and the Bible conference in Au gust. The noted speakers, lecturers, entertainers and concert .companies from both sides of , the Atlantic are seen and heard here. I have lingered beyond my time here a day or two recuperating. Wife and daughters are here and will remain for three weeks. They enjoy hemselves here as at no other resort in this county. Winona assembly grows with the years and broadens as she grows higher. They have the conservatism of Presbyterians and the "get upand get" of Methodists. Its business features are managed by such men as Mr. Thomas Kane, of Chicago, and J. M. Studebaker, of South Bend, Ind., etc. The Rev. Sol. Dickey secretary and general manager, ia a loco'iiotive engine, a steamboat and a Kentucky thoroughbred race horse, all combined. For two weeks my circuit of engagements has been within the drought district. Corn, patatocs, fruits and vegetables are going to be as scarce as hens' teeth almost. The wheat crop of the north and west and the corn crop of the south will have to tide the farmers through another year. I hear in the distance the clatter of the hoofs on the gubernatorial race track in Georgia. Two thoroughbreds already entered, Dupont Guerry, Hon. II. G. Turner, and a good trotter, Editor Estill, with some scrubs that may enter along. Whence this sec tionalism in Georgia, East Georgia, South Georgia and North Georgia ? and I suppose some fellow, will pop up from West Georgia pretty soon. What has geographical location in Georgia to do with statesmanship or tl e choice for governor? The United States is big enough to talk of the east and the south, but Georgia is small enough to remain a unit, especially when it comes to selecting a candidaie for governor. Dupont Guerry is true, clean, honest and brave, lie could not be bought by combinations or bossed by a clique or ring. He is a pronounced anti-saloon candidate on a Democratic platform. This is the first instance, so far as my knowledge goes, in the history of Georgia where a Democratic candidate has declared himself so emphatically and unmistakably against the saloon. Guerry ie no demagogue, lie means what he says, and I believe that the majority of the white voters of Georgia will endorse his candidacy and approve his platform. - Everything being equal, Hurrah for Guerry!" lion. Henry G. Turner is "tried and true." They say his only disqualification is the fact that he is as cold as a dog's nose. That is all talk. I know him personally, and he is a genial, courtly gentleman, and he is the brainiest statesman Georgia has had within its borders since the old commoner, Alexander II. Stephens, passed away. As between him and Guerry. I feel like the girl with two sweethearts when she was asked which one she loved the best. She replied, 'I do not know. If one were to die, I would take the other." It is well that Congressman Brantley stepped down and out so gracefully. I think well of Editor Estill, but he has not got the backbone of Guerry nor the brains of Henry G. Turner. He has a whole lot of good qualities, and he is a clever fellow. I like him, and if the girl had had three sweethearts and two had died, and she would have taken the other, I would still be like the girl, and take Estill. Tillman has been up in Wisconsin with his pitchfork, but it seems he has broken the prongs off his fork trying to pitch McLaurin out of the Democratic party in South Carolina. If South Carolina Democracy endorses Tillman and decapitates McLaurin, McLaurin's memory will be honored and respected, while the living constituency of Tillman will have the contempt they have earned in the servile bondadge of Tillman. As long as the Democratic party has leaders like Tillman, Altgeld & Co., they will have to take deck passage on the ship of state. There ain't a. state room on any decent ship that would give them quarters. I am not only anxious to know who the Democrats are going to run for president the next time, but I am more anxious to know what they are going fc run on. They have got to put the brains in front and couple the brains on to the mouth of the party, or the Republicans have got a cinch on this government for a hundred years to come. I feel sorry for the Democrats. The Republicans seem to have let them .'down in a well and pulled up the lxxd der. And I say it again that if the Democracy of the United States will 'come back to Democratic principles 'and reform and quit talking about fusion with Pupulists, there is a chance to win. The Republican party has committed blunders enough, but the blunders of the Republican party do not a'vail the Democrats, for every time the Republicans act the rascal the Democrats act the fool, and the fools get left every time. Yours, Sam P. Jones. Grandfather Clause Upheld. New Orleans Dispatch. Judge Somersville, in the District Court, dismissed the suit instituted by D. K. Raynes, a negro, at the sugges tion and expense of the Afro-American League, of Washington, to test the constitutionality of the suffrage clause of Louisana, by which 90 per cent, of the negroes are disfranchised, which clause has been adopted in North Caro lina .and is in the process of adoption inlAlabama. Raynes demanded registration, claim ing that the constitutional and statu tory laws in regard to the registration are unconstitutional. The court de cides that if this contention prevails Raynes could not be registered, because the supervisor would have no legal duty to peform in connection with registra tion. A significant point in the decision is the declaration that if part of the law affecting suffrage qualification is un constitutional, it does not in any man ner affect the other sections, and if it be found that the famous grandfather clause, section five, by which men are given the electoral franchise because their grandfathers were voters, is un constitutional, this dosen't affect sec tions one and two, which make ability to read and write, or the ownership of property, the laisis of suffrage. The grandfather clause gives those few il literate white men without property the right to vote because of their grand fathers. Congressman Kluttz. Raleigh Tost. The Statesville Mascot says the new Eighth district will no doubt return Con gressman Kluttz next year. His services and ability entitle him to consideration; but to these may be added, and it is most important, his experience, which will enable him to be far more useful hereafter than here tofore. No man, however able, can be come a really useful member of Con gress in two terms. Such as have done so can be easily counted on one's fingers. When the object in sending one to Congress is to enable him to "draw the salary" becausg of hia finan cial needs, why one term, or two at most, may be and are enough. But when the person chosen possesses capa city for real service to his district and the country and whose labors indicate that he prides himself more on the service he rendered his people and the public than on pocketing the salary, people .who swap that servant off just as he is beginning to be useful, make a serious mistake. It takes experience as well as ability and information to make a really useful Congressman, and this cannot be picked up on the street corner nor reasonably expected of those who simply "need the salary." Li j le Itemunrted to Jail. Chaulotte, N. C, Aug. 19. Charles Lyle,tsharged with the death of Newton Lanier, was given a preliminary hearing today before Recorder Shannonhouse and was remanded to jail withoufcbontL Lyle was not placed on the stand at all. There were no new developments or sensational evidence at the trial. Lyle will be tried at the Superior Court. A lawyer who heard all the evidence says he thinks the case against Lyle is rather weak. Opinions, hovever, differ. , One. "Mary," said the girl's mother, rather sternly, "what time did your young man leave last night?" 'It must 'a' been exactly 1 o'clock, ma," volunteered the younger brother. "How can you say such a thing?' exclaimed Mary, indignantly. "Well, ma," said the boy, "when he was leavin' he asked Mary some question, and she said: Just one. Only one.' " Tommy Does your mamma ever whip you ? Johnny No; but she does worse than that. Tommy What does she do ? Johnny Washes my neck every morning. Charle Litewate I've got a deuce of a headache, don't yer know. Sarcastic Friend That so? Must be one of those "aching voids" we some times read alout. In Charlotte Saturday night an unknown negro attacked Mrs. Barney Herron on the street, catching her by the hair and the throat and jerking her almost to the ground. He was fright ened away by the woman's screams. Mrs. Herron, in company with a neighbor woman, was going home from a beef market, about 8 o'clock, when the assault was committed. Lieutenant: "These Boers are lead ing us a pretty dance." Captain: "H'm ! But there's rather too much reversing about it to suit me. ' ' Hon. Jas. T. LeGrand, a promi nent lawyer, of Rockingham, died On the 21st. ' NKGItO CAHOIl IN THE SOUTH. Charlotte Observer. . The Wilmington Messenger,-repeating what it has said before, that the South understands, appreciates and is friendly to the "desirable, orderly, in dustrious negro," much more so than the North, and that this is a much bet ter section for him, adds: - The negro is not the ideal servant that ignorance in the North paints. He is not the trifling, inferior laborer that sweeping condemnation by many mil lions charge in their bill of indictment. There is a large class of . laborers who will not stick in good fishing time, in fruit gathering time, in camp-meeting time, and so on. But leaving out of the count "the bad nigger with a Win chester," and the lazy, lounging, tramp ing negroes who always seem to be out of a job, the negro laborers as a whole are the best that the South can prob ably secure in many years, if ever, and after united diligent seeking. And The Birmingham, Ala., Age Herald, discussing the recent proposi tion of a Memphis paper that the South ern negroes should be dispersed over the North, East and We3t, remarks that whenever any attempt has been made to break the negro's monopoly of the crude labor market in the South, there are those "who rise up at once in wrath." Its own district, says the Bir mingham paper, "felt the loss of the Latrobe experiment, and even in Geor gia negro immigration agents are severely punished. Now," it continues, "the honest truth is the negro is needed in the South. He is very much needed in this district, and from every cotton State there will soon go up a demand for more cotton pickers. The Southern labor supply is no larger than the Southern labor demand." All these things being true, and the South having disfranchised the negro, so that hcis no longer a disturbing ele ment in politics, isn't it about time for all of us to stop going out of our way, and making occasion where none ex ists to blackguard the negro, and, in stead, encourage him to industry and correct living and increase our efforts to make him a steadier laborer and bet ter citizen? It is hardly fair to place the whole race under a common con demnation because of the slothfulness or lawlessness of some its members; it would hardly be fair even if this per centage were larger than it is; and it is hardly worthy of a chivalrous peo ple to continue nagging at and seek ing to arouse further prejudice against and inferior minority race which is here through no fault of its own but through the fault, if that it be, of our own forefathers. The Flagler Scandal. (Birmingham Age-Herald. Standard Oil Flagler;" 72 years old, whose wife had in the course of a long life and admittedly faithful service become insane, and is now a patient in a New York sanitarium, where she has been three years, has : shocked all humanity and all tlcency by procuring a divorce. A man who would thus cast off an aged wife, blameless herself, is simply beyond execration. But what shall be said of a state that becomes a party to such an act again t all manhood ? This man Flagler, hold ing out promises of great investments in the state, induces the legislature to change its divorce lav so that he can discard his aged wife and take up a new one 1 Whatever Flagler's offense may be, the offense of the state is 'much worse, for greed enters into it. The entire business is , one of the most remarkable this country has ever beext the theater of. The bill put through by Flagler's agents provides that insanity of four years.' standing shall be a sufficient ground for divorce. It fits the Flagler case to a dot and Flagler promptly obtained a divorce under it. The case was heard "in chambers," and was disposed of, say the dispatches, "in a jiffy." A decree was handed down at once. The de cree wa3 "handed over" instead of "handed down." There is this in its favor it will bring, let us hope, no additional suffer ing to a faithful and devoted woman whose mind had become darkened. Na ture thus saves the victim from the tor ture that would otherwse go with Flag lerism and Florida lawmaking. Free-For-All Fight. Baltimore Sun. The campaign for the United States Senatorship in South Carolina promises to be a very lively one. At present it seems to be a case of Senator McLaurin against the field, which is composed of Hon. D. S. Henderson, Col. Wylie Jones, Congressman Latimer, Hon. George D. Johnstone and perhaps others. The latest name mentioned is that of ex-Congressman John J. Hem phill, who was retired because he was a "gold" Democrat. He is cenceded to be an able man, and, as the silver craze is fast dving out in South Carolina, it is probable Mr. Hemphill will be re stored to fellowship in his party. In this event he is likely to develop consid erable strength. Mrs, De Vorse I don't like people to call me a grass widow. Mrs. Chumm No, because,, of course, you're not really a widow. Mrs. De Vorse Oh! I don't mind the "widow" if they'd only "keep off the grass." INTEMPERANCE IS DECK EASING. Atlanta Journal. The fresh young man who feels obliged to carry a bottle with him to all places where he thinks he will not be offered something "to wet his whistle is rapidly passing away. The business world has no place for him and he is growing into disfavor socially. The evidence of this is seen on every hand. A few days ago M. Jules Cambon, the French embassador to this country, said in an interview at Paris in speak ing of the American people: "There may be some hypocrites among them, but the vast mojority abstain from strong drink." In commenting on this statement editorially the New York Sun says: "It is true, as general observation must have discovered, that prudence in drinking all kinds of alcoholic liquors has increased and that total abstinence from them is relatively much more frequent than formerly." It is plain that the business condi tions of to-day require the services of sober men. No others need apply. Great enterprises Can only be carried on successfully by those who utilize fully their natural mental gifts and their physical energies. The hard drinker cannot command the confi dence of business men, hence those who indulge immoderately in the use of strong intoxicants sooner or later be come loafers. It is a noticeable fact that the thrif tiest communities after they get settled down to business produce fewer drunk ards than those where loafing is the rule. Only a few days ago the news col ums of The Journal showed that fewer licenses to liquor establishments were granted in Atlanta during the first six months of this year than for the same period of last year, although the city has. in the meantime grown Jargely in population. Ambitious men have learned that success can only come either in busi ness life or in the professions to those who keep their wits about them all the time and preserve themselves so as to be able physically to perform igreat labor. This state of thing has had its influ ence socially for apparent reasons, and hence those who at dinners and other social entertainments habitually indulge to the. extent of obvious intoxication are no longer regarded with amuse ment but with commiseration and as needing such tender care as is given to a sick man. It has always been a matter of re mark that in the clubs in Atlanta there is very little immoderate drinking. The young men are busy here, and understand that the enterprise and so briety of their competitors will not suf fer them to destroy or weaken their capacity by indulgence fn the use of strong stimulants. The New York Sun says "even the Tammany general committee, once called a collection of red noses, is now full of total abstainers; that none of the great political leaders of the pres ent is a hard drinker; that many of them are total abstainers, and that the same is true of the great leaders in finance, in trade and in the professions. Strict abstemiousness is the rule among them and (a reputation for intemperance is always injurious." Archbishop Ireland was quoted in the newspapers a few days ago as saying that temperance is increasing and his conclusions was based on, information obtained from the Total Abstinence Society of America, a Catholic institu tion. It will be noticed that the observa tion of the French minister has been confined to the large cities of the west and the east where temperance is not enforced by law, but is simply brought about by business and social standards. The Sun arrives at the conclusion that as a result of increasing temper ance among the people the liquor ques tion "has been practically eliminated from politics, for the evils of alcoholic abuse are recognized by all parties and by liquor dealers not less than by the rest of the public." Whether the Sun's conclusion in this particular is correct or not it is gratify ing to note the evidence of the fact that ours is becoming more and more a na tion of sober and temperate people. The Republican leaders generally seem to have come to the conclusion that no steps shall be taken for some time to come in the direction of re ducing the representation of the South on account of negro disfranchisement there. The platforms, both state and national, will continue to denounce this, but that will be all. Efforts by the radicals who insist on every action tending to cripple the South, will be confined for some years to pushing a case in the Supreme Court designed to test the constitutionality of the so-called grandfather clauses of several southern states, with the idea that if these are found unconstitutional, it will then be easier to secure legislation from Con gress. The Atlanta convention espe cially has brought matters to a focus, the new constitution of that state being specially candid in its effort to establish a color test. It will take several years to get the case through the courts. A self-made man never ceases to praise his maker. THE CHICKEN IAV AND SOME OTIIBIt t U EE It ACTS. News and Observer. The town of Concord walks proudly off the rostrum wearing the honor of the first trial and conviction under what is known as the "Chicken Law." Thi3 law was passed by last Legislature and is one of the most remarkable in the history of local statesmanship. It makes it a misdemeanor to allow your chickens to trespass on the property of others. Under this law Miss Mollie Bracken, of Concord, swore out a warrant against her fellow-townsman, Will Par nell, and he was convicted, and the mag istrate fined him a penny and costs. Simultaneously with the news of this trial and conviction comes sensational reports from Cleveland county of a re cent invention by the genial and jovial Lawndale depot agent, the breeder of the Rose Comb White Leghorns and a fancier of the White Wyandotte. . His invention is described as consisting of a device which is attached to the leg of a chicken so that when it gets into the garden and begins to scratch it will gradually scratch itself out of the gar den. It is postively stated that with this appliance on a chicken it is utter ly impossible for it to remain in a gar den if it makes any attempt to scratch. Of course such an invention, if success ful, will knock the old Plymouth Rock rooster law higher than a kite, and therefore ought not to be encouraged. We should view with genuine alarm any attempt to have a gem like our chicken law erased from the statute books. There were a number of others like unto the Chicken Law passed by the last Legislature, but none quite equal to it. We might, for instance, here mention the following acts selected from the books at random: Chapter 422, requiring the county physician in Macon to test all liquors drunk in that county, and if the juice "is found not absolutely pure shall be refused, and not paid for." Though no salary or fee is prescribed for this duty, it is belived that it will, in the near future, make the office of county phy sician for Macon one of the most desir able in that part of the State. Or chapter 539 which provides that no liquor shall be shipped into Clay county and if any is brought in any part of the State and so shipped, "said sale shall be held and construed to take place within said county of Clay, and said common carrier shall be a parti ceps criminis in said misdemeanor." It is worthy of note in this connection that there is not a railroad in Clay county or in forty miles thereof. Then there is chapter 484 making it unlawful "to cut cherry timber in Gra ham county during the season of the year when the leaves are on the tim ber, and "all persons who commit such an offense shall be guilty of a mis demeanor." Chapter 495 makes it a misdemeanor to leave "Mud Castle" gate open, while chapter 54S gives you free and unlimited permission to throw sawdust in any of the streams of Swain county. Chapter 372 prohibits fishing in certain streams of Bladen and Colum bus counties, "except with a rod and line, such as is usually held with the hand and not more than six hooks shall be attached to any line." Chap ter 69G makes Thomas Woodall, of Johnston county, a citizen and tax payer of one township and a resident of another township. But even more interesting than any of these, perhaps, is chapter G04, which, in the point of perspicuity and states manship, is a real gem. It makes it "unlawful for any person or persons to join in and hark dogs on a fleeing deer, or the trail thereof, being pursued at the time by the dogs of another, or the present possessor or possessors thereof, and thereby breaking off from the said trail the dog or dogs jumping and then pursuing the said lleeing deer." After repeating this prohibition in two sec tions of the law, but in slightly varying language, the act then goes on to say: "That any rer8on or persons violating this act shall be guilty of a misdemean or," and fined or imprisoned, etc.: "Provided, if such person or persons so violating this act, with deliver the deer so caught or killed, to the aggrieved person or persons, then the person or persons so offending shall not be guilty of a misdemeanor." Chapter G19 makes it unlawful for any person to jump on or a moving train within a half mile of Haw River. Then a proviso is added making excep tions of railroad employees, passengers or those assisting passengers on or off the train. Cursing or getting drunk within half a mile of Haw River is for bidden by chapter 489. It is made a misdemeanor. Chapter 758 prohibits drunkenness at Pinehurst, "within the wire-fence enclosing said settle ment." For such offenders a $50 fine or a 30 days imprisonment is provided and William Holmes is appointed a J. P. to meet out justice to such offenders. Folks in Yancey county who want to get drunk must get out of the public road and stay away from a public meet ing, otherwise they will, under chapter 137, le guilty of a misdemeanor. In Currituck county the above law applies only to Popular Branch township (chapter 447); while in Mitchell county you must be at a hundred yards' from a church when either you treat your friends or get drunk yourself chapter 485. The Belli ng of lemonade or the taking of pictures on Sunday within one mile of Bear Grass ' and Briery Swamp churches in Martin county is made a misdemeanor under heavy penalties by chapter 108, while chapter 23 threatens dire punishment against the man who wantonly fires off a gun or pistol within half a mile of the place where Roper postoffice "was located on the first of January, 1001." STATS NEWS. Robinson's circua will show in Greensboro during the month of Oc tober. Wallace's circus will exhibit there also during October. Trinity College is now building her 170,000 Library Building. It will be one of the handsomest library struc tures and one of the finest libraries in all the South. Melvin Brown, eighteen years old, a popular young man of Asheville, died of meningitis on the 20th. He and his people were Christian Scientists and a physician was not called until too late. Rev. R. C. Craven, of Spencer, who was recently elected president of Dav enport Female College, is a graduate of the Peabody Normal College, Nash ville, Tenn., and has made a fine repu tation in this State as a teacher. The Hayesville Courier is authority for this one: "Last Friday the light ning struck a tree near Claud Arnold's house and Claud went to the tree soon after and found a large rattlesnake which the lightning had killed when it struck the tree." The 1900 census shows the popula tion of Sanford to have been 1,044. During the month of June, 1901, another census was taken and the town was found to contain 1,527 souls. This is an increase of 4G per cent, and a fraction. Examinations for admission to the N. C. College of Agriculture and Me chanic arts will be held in Raleigh at the College, September 3rd and 4th at ' 9 o'clock a. m. The College will open September 4th. Students desiring rooms must be on hand at the opening. x ne vjiruai fans cunuu unns ui xujck.- ingham has gone into receiver's hands. It has made goods for the China trade, and when that trade was cut off it was nnt Trpnnr? in Tiiif in n lYinphinnnr and take up new lines of cloths. The mill has in past years paid handsome dividends At Murphy, in Cherokee county, more than one hundred of the citizens are on trial for burning a church of the sanctified or holiness people, and driv ing out of that country all their preach ers, after having whipped them. The judge tells the jury that only by perjury could the men on trial escape punish-: ment. w It is learned from persons just from what is known as the "Sapphire country," in the mountains of this, state, that another hotel is to be built at that resort. The hotel is to have eight hundred rooms. Another lake (the fourth) is to be formed, with a shore line of 24 miles. One of the present lakes is 3 miles in length. Mr. R. II. Robinson, of Danville, Va., was killed in the Swannanoa tunnel near Asheville Sunday morning. He was conductor on a work train and his train was being backed through the tunnel when it ran into a slide and he was thrown from the car and the wheels ran over his body, killing him instantly. Within the past ten days over two hundred horses and mules have died in Hyde county from fever, which the veterinarian sent there by the agricul tural department reports is transmitted by mosquitoes, which are this season more numerous than ever before. He says proof that mosquitoes inoculated the sick animals is positive. Miss Lila Jones, of Charlotte, was married last week to Mr. Francis Bbu- guiere, of ban irancisco. Ine cere mony was performed at the residence of the bride's parents, Col. and Mrs. H. C. Jones, by Rev. C. L. Hoffman. Tl bride is the. second daughter of Col. Jones, a young woman of rare beauty and accomplishments. The groom is a citizen of San Francisco. A bridal tour will be taken to European countries. The Farmers' State Alliance ended its annual session at Hillsboro last week. It elected W. B. Fleming, a prominent farmer of Ridgeway, president. It adopted resolutions urging all North Carolina farmers to sell their cotton seed through its business agent, 'so as to raise the price, and to mix the chemicals for fertilizers at home. It proposed to sell to the State as a re formatory for young criminals its build ings at Hillsboro, including a large building, formerly a military academy, a tannery and shoe factory. Succotash wasa new dish at small Bobby's house, but he evinced a de cided fondness for it, and, passing his plate fox a second portion, said: "Mamma, please give me some more of the sacred hash." "Ef you wants religion," said BrOth er Dickey to a member of his flock, "you will have to sell out all you got !" "Well, suh," was the reply, "I ain't got nothin' lef ter sell. De bailiff done dat fer me y istiddy. "
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