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THE ENTERPRISE. MOORESVILLE, N.C. SENATE PASSES LODGE BILL, Philippine Government Measure Goes Through at Last Tuesday afternoon the Senate passed the Lodge Philippine government bill by a vote of 4S to to 30. Three Rep'.ib lteans Messrs. Hoar, of Massachu setts; Mason, o Illinois, and Welling ton, of Maryland voted against the measure, and one Democr?.t, Mr. Mc Laurin, of South Carolina, voted for it. All amendments offered by the minor ity were rejected. The detailed vote oa the bill is as follows: Yeas: Allison. Bard. lieveiidse, Kurnham, Ilurrow. nurion, Claup. Clark, of Wyoming; Culicec, Pcboe, nietrlch. Dillingham. IVlliver. Klkiiis, Fairbanks, Foraker. Foster, of Wash ington; Fiye, Uulligc.r, tiauil l II, ul na, llawlcy, Jones, of Nev.id..: Kean, Reams, Kittredge, Lodge. Me I'euiiiui, McCumber. McLanrin, of South Caro lina; McMillan, Millard. Mitchell. Xci on. Penrose, Perkins, l'iatt. of Cci: necticut; Piatt, of New York; 1'rln h ard. Proctor, Quarles. Quay, Scott, Simon. Spooner, Stewart, Wandi ii'.d Wetmore 4S. Nays: Bacon. P.atby. Bate. Berry, Blackburn, Carmack, Clark, o'. Mon tana; Clay, Cockrell, CuluciMia. Du bois, Foster, of Louisiana; Gibson, Harris, Heltfield, Hoar, McEneiy, Mc Lanrin, of Mississippi: Gallery, Mar tin, Mason. Morgan, Pattf-son. Sim mons, Taliaferro, Tillman. Teller, Vest, Wellington 30. The debate on the measure has been in progress for seven weeks and t.vo days. Mr. Lodge, of Mns'aehusef.s, chairman of the Philippine committee, wbo has been unremitting in his advo cacy of the measure, was the recipient of many cordial congratulations on his successful conduct of the bill Provisions of the Bill, The Philippine bill as passed by the Senate approves the actb.i; nf the Pres ident in creating the Philinpine coin mission and the offices of civil gov ernor and vice governor of the islands, and authorizes the governor and vice governor to exercise die rowers of gov ernment as directed by executive ol der. Future appoinrments of the g.w ernor or vice governor shall be made by the President with the i.elvic;: aud consent of the Senate. Tho Bill of Rights." of the United States consti tution is applied to the Philippine Islands, with the exception of the rigiit to bear arms and the right to a trial by jury. The Supreme Court and other courts of the island shall exercise jurisdic tion as heretofore provided by the commission and the justices of the Supreme Court shall be appointed ny the President and the Seem::. All the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands are deemed to be citizens c the Phil pine Island and entitled 1 1 the pro tection of the United States. The Philippina commission is au thorized to establish municipal and provincial governments, vi:h popular representative government so far, and as fast as the communities are canabla and fit for the same, th:; Philippine commission being authorized to deter mine the qualifications of the electoip. All land in the Philippines is placid under the control of the Philippine commission for the benelit of the 'ii habitants of the island, except such as may be needed for the use of the j United States. The government, of the Philippines shall niah; rules rmd...r'AUUaUuiuJtot me i.sp(..tion'7,'-ffte punlic- lands, but the regulations shall not go into effect until approved by ihe cVesi.lent and Congress; provided that a single home stead entry shall not exceed forty acres, and also provided that no such land shall be leas l, let, or decked to any corporation until a la.w regu lating the disposition of the public lands shall he enacted. No corporation shall be authorized to engage in agriculture tmlc.-s provision shall have been ma le th-ivfr'r. The Philippine conimi. .-.::, is au thorized to acquire the i'nar lands cud is empowered to issue bund:; t , pay foi them. These lands, once aceu'red sVill be a part of the domain ot' the United States and mr.y be disnosc-I M as su h Upon the Supreme u,t of the '"ecu mates is conferred tb review the derisions of t!. Court of the Pbilin nines 1 rige.: to Supreme Municipalities are authoriird to is sue bonds for muni ! i:nn,-n, e,.,,.,.'. It is provided that il i. ,c. ,n ",' ' mji.i iioncis and shall l.e f,- taxation. The government of the Pi authorized to grant rr.ii: concessions, including tV eminent domain, fo,' the , of works of iMi,;,. nVv that no private ir.i,:i itv - ,. without Just romp.-usa'tiot.. I l orn ,'inv l.ipplll !o is hi.-s and risht of uistrui tion provide i :i he talc n that no mm, nise snail he grant, I f, ;,, eor- porauon mat shall not l,e ; ubi.vt to y KUigr.ss: and Mat ail land, framed ,lrj rPVert. at ,.xP:rat:on of the concession, to the governments by which they were made ronclue he i V . conduct the hjslnesn of nj-ms and ! ?:"rfstT,e rT ar.r ;,f ! InJA . n f1 1 ! Cone?;" t!0nSi1a!1 ''e,W"rmi'"' I " . . , ! , mint is to be established in Ma- I mla and mi as authorize 1 i.-.ay ! j coined at the? mint, th" t.i:i:;i? bws of the I nite l Star.s bviua cxtaid-d to the Islands. The Philippine Severn- j ment is authorized to io:n a f Slyer d d- ! Jar containing 411! grains of !-;.iiel:rd silver, to be coin of tie: Philippine Islands, the denomination i '! thp uiin to be expressed in Kiuh.-i Filip'no and Chinese charu.-tei. 'I i.e dollar shall be legal tender in the Philippines for the public and private l.'.es except where otherwise stipulat-d. Anarchy B II in the Hoie. The Hx.-se Tuesday e".ir ed upon the ccnsideratlon of the i,;u t i protect the lYesiclent of tiie Unit, si Sta.i'es and for other fit I . kienvn a ;hv iintl-an- archy bill. The Ho POI I' l lt KUl-M 't IPC "leasurr. Mr. Kay. c : n, an of the judui.e; was In chaise of tii the Senate bill was i '" i o.iiiii 1 1 ten re f r th- S.-n.itv X ".v Yurie chair ' c juimitiee. who bill, agreed that was m. institutional ipp.rt-d the feature 0 u 'e anarchists icit os- Mr. La n nan; s th" bill to rx, pv-i that in', it a p3rti .ar of- lense to Kill tic Pi r.-i.Ien c d .qic r-'sv H- argued that r-.ery nan was eipn! berorc the la and that ex's: Ins laws weie ample to punish the killing or at tempted killing of tiie President. There are three nut c racking planU In St. Louis. The machines are driv en by elcc trieity, each nut being fed individually into the crusher. After the shellH are cracked tho nuts a j winnowed by au air blast and the in-af Is pic ked from the crac Iced shells by hand, women and girls being em ?ioed for thib part o the work. SERIOUS DISORDERS !a Chicago Over the Strike of the Beef Handlers POLICEMEN AND STRIRERS FIGHT In Spite of Strikers 33 Wagon l.oaJs of fleat Get Through Severe and Bloody Fights. A special from Chicago Monday says: Riot and bloodshed marked the pro gress of the teamsters' strike. There was numerous tights between the po lice and the strikers and their sym pathizers. Street car traffic was top- pod while the lighting went on. the police and employes of the packing companies were stoned. At one plate, when surrounded a dense crowd of men and women, the police, 50 strong, under the command of lieutenant Col. litis, were pelted with stones, halted, drew their revolver and charged full into the crowd which showed no dis position to retreat. Sticks, stones and clubs were brought into requisition by the strikers. The police used the but tons and in the end their revolvers. When this was over there was a num ber of strikers needing surgical atten tion. The fighting began on the West Side, shortly after noon and in differ ent parts of the city continued all th? afternoon. Chicago's police were given a stren uous life Tuesday by the packing house teamsters. From day light until long after dark the hluecoats were kept busy dispersing trouble-makers, who congregated along the streets and in every coucelvable manner placed ob- I staeles in the way of the meat dealers j who endeavored to move their supply wagons with non-union drivers. In spite of the striking teamsters ami their friends. 33 wagon loads of anil were delivered from the stock yards to down-town stations. Before the task was accomplished, however, a score of policemen and rioters were injured and fully 50 persons had been placed under arrest. Several of the Injured were in a precarious condition, and carried to hospitals. Two of the injured may die. When the procession of wagons left the packing house district they were guarded by a heavy detail of police. As soon as the wagons emerged at the entrance of the yards fully 500 enraged striker sympathizers made a rush to overturn the conveyances. The police men drew clubs and after a hard strug gle succeeded in scattering the mob. A fresh start was made, but before the wagons reached the down-town district the mob, augmented by hundreds of sympathizers, made an attack. In the fight that followed revolvers were drawn. No person was shot, the police instead using their clubs indiscrimi nately and a dozen or more people were injured before the march could be resumed. When the central portion of the city was reached clashes be tween the police and crowd became numerous. Street car traffic was nn impossibility and it was necessary for several squads of police to charge the crowds with batons before the wagons tiad reached the down-town houses. To add to the burdens of the police department 1,300 drivers and their helpers, employed by the State street general retail merchandise department stores, went Vfapaic a strike. An attemnt c to .-.jjluar , "dejiaitmeiiit s in the down -town distric: oiort goo wim non in: 1:1 tlriver? protection, mil. h loped that the uitempi' Before the project was under police :.so: :,- r ,-.',He, era rioters were hint ano m arc :: rests had been made. An attempt by The Fair store man agement to deliver goods after their drivers and teamsters hail struck le suited in a 1 lot. several injured heads and bodies, a number of arrests and finally the failure of the project. Bricks and stones were the weapons used by the crowd and the missiles were thrown with such effect that af ter the fight was over dozens of big show windows in adjoining buildings we:o shattered. In the attack which the police made upon the crowd a doz en men were severely injured by po lice. Several of the strike sympathizers were arrested. M.;h Water In Arkansas. Texarkana. Ark.. Special. The in habitants of Miller county, living along the l iver, becoming apprehensive on a--count of the rise in the river and many are preparing to move to the hills. It is reported that the Sanders plantation of S0O acres is inundated. At Index, ten nubs north, and Fulton. 19 miles 'ast, the river is higher than it has been in years. Floods at Jollet, Illinois. ! Joliet. 111.. Special Jolict Is in the ! grasp of the worst flood in its history. I All tti !nwe. lurll, nt fl, ..I... 1. d"r wa''' ani is rumored that sev- rla iVes have w Tn,,rP ha ,,cnn nvo w nni '''"lilies had narrow escapes and tb- police rescued many i Ie!.,,.,. s'-ores "f 'a"'1''" have been driven from their bonu s and several liousrs and other buildings were swept awav. All the principal streets are under water and factories and business places all ov, the city are tiood"d. The damage to nr'.pei ;y i estimated at X1 ruin Ti n streit cat lines are all severely (am aged and no cars are running. All trains a.e stalled, wate- being two fret deep over the railroad tracks. Harris Not Eligible. Wa.-lim4ton. Spec ial. -The President j of our people, lynching tarried on has witudrawn from the Senate tlu- j under circiimsiances of inhuman cruel nami'idficn of W. I.. Harris to h pest- l-v an(1 barbarity a cruelty infinitely master at t'harl. stcn. S. C and ai- ' 'orsS than any that hag pvrr ' ,' ! committed by our troops in t!io Philln- othrr name will be submitted short);. ; ,,. wor4 t0 the ,..., f;ir Hams' nomination as made last more brutalizing to thosi gtii.'y ;i it Wednesday, but it mibfequenily de-, The men who fail to r,pdcn.i the.;.? vcloped tint he hid filed papers set-; lyrthings. and yet clamir about what ting forth citizenship in . New York i State, thus the office. making h.m ineligible for j Graves of Lee and Jack ion Decorated ' Lexington. Va.. Special. Confederate ! Memorial Day w,'ts cbsrrved here Tue- day by the decoration of the tomb of ' Oeii'-ial Robert K. Lee at Washington 1 and L ( nlverrcjiy a:) 1 the grave o ; le pera! Thomas J. .lac ks on i "Stone ' wall") in the Lexington cemetery. Tft I address was deliver: cd by Rev. Dr. O ) W. Flnley. of Tinkling Springs. Va. i who spoke on "The Confederate Pri ! vat" Soldier.'' in Lie Memorial chapel ; The cadet corps of the Vi'einia Mill lary Institute with th"ir post band and I ,1 tietnber of i ii 'v : were in Ihf i .trad ROOSEVELT SPEAKS Dtterances of the President at llngton on tentorial Hay. National Memorial Day was observed Friday with appropriate ceremonies throughout the country. Chief Interest centered in the utterances of President Roosevelt, who delivered the oration at Arlington. Mr. Roosevelt said in in part: Mr. Commander, Comrades, and you men and women of the United States who owe your being here to what was done by the men of the great civil war: I greet you and thank you for the hon or done me in asking nie to be present this day. It is a good custom for our country to have certain solemn holldiys in caninirmoratiuu of our greatest men and of the greatest crises in or.r h:n- 1 'cry. There should be but few such holidays, lo increase their number is to cheapen them. Washington and Lin coln -1 he man who did most to found the Union, and the man who did most to preserve it stand head and shoul ders above all our other public men, and have by common consent won the right to this pre-emtnence. Among the holidays which commemorate fie turning points in American history, Thanksgiving has a significance pecu liarly its own. On July 4 we celebrate the birth of the nation; on this day, the 30th of May, we call to mind the deaths of those who died that, the na tion might live, who wagered all the.t life holds dear for the great prize of death In battle, who poured out their blood like water in order that the mighty national structure raised by the far-seeing patriotism of Washington, Franklin, Marshall, Hamilton and the: other great leaders of the revolution, groat framers of the constitution, should not crumble into meaningless ruins. You whom I address today and your comrades who wore the blue be3ide you in the perilous years during wh'ch strong, sad, patient Lincoln bore the eiiiFiiiuB load of national leadership, performed the one feat the failure, to perform which would have meant de struction to everything which makes the name America a symbol of hope among the nations of mankind. ion did the greatest and most ncesssry task which has ever fallen to the lot of any men on this Western Hemisphere. Nearly three centuries have passed since the waters of our coasts were first furrowed by the keels of the men whose children's children were lo in herit this fair land. Over a century and a half of colonial growth followed the settlement ; and now for over a century and a quarter we have been a nation. During our four generations of na tional life we have had to do many tasks, and some of them of far-reaching importance; but the only really vi tal task was the one you did, the task of saving the Union. There were other crisis in which to have gone wrong would have meant disaster; but this was the one crisis in which to have gone wrong would have meant not merely disaster but annihilation For failure at any other point atonement could have been made; but had you failed in the iron days the loss would have been irreparable, the defeat irre trievable. Upon your success depended all the future of the people on this continent, and much of the future of mankind as a whole. You left us a reunited country. Yau left us the right of brotherhood with the men in gray, who with such cour age, and such devotion for what they deemed the right, fought against you. But you left us much more even than your achievement, tor you left us the memory of how it was achieve! You who mad, guo.l by r"r valor end pa triotism the states:;::: ".ship uf I.inco'n, and the .-ohllership ,.f dram, have s : as the standard tor our efl'ortii in the future boiii the wa del your vvK in war and the way in which when the war was over you turned again to the work of peace. In war and in pea n alike your example will stand as the wisest of lessons to r.s and our chil dren and nur childrcns' children. Just at his moment the army of :1m United State?, let! by men who served among you in the great war, is cai ty ing to c-mplcUon a small but peculiar ly trying and difficult war in which Is involved not only the honor of the flag but the triumph of civilization over forces which stand for the bla it chaos of savagery and barbarism. The task has not been as difficult or ai im portant as yours, but, oh, my comrades, the men In the uniform of the United States, who have for the last three years patiently and uncomplainingly championed the American cause in the Philippine Islands, are your younger brothers, your sons. They have Ehovrn themselves not unworthy of yo'u, and they are entitled to the support of ad men w ho are proud of what you did. These younger comrades of yours have fought under terrible ilift". ultics and have received terrible provocation from a very cruel and very treacherous enemy. Under the strain of these prov ocations I deeply deplore to say that some among them have so far lorgot tcn themselves as to counsel and com mit, in retaliation, acts of cruelty. The fart that for every guil'y act commit ted by one of our troops i hundred acts of far greater atrocity have been com mitted by the hostile natives upon reir troops, or upon the pea-e,il!e and law abiding natives who are friendly to us, can not be held to exc use any wrong doer on our side. I)eterm!n:. a:i I un swerving effort must be rr.ade. aud i; being made, to find out every .nsiance of barbarity on the part of our troops, to punish those guilty of it. and lo take, if possible, even stieng'r incis ures than have already been tak-n to minimize or prevent the o vurreiie r of all such instances in the future. From t ie to rime tnery0'"ur ln 01!- I COIintl'l' to fhe cle,n an1 ,Ul!ni,,lin,A nj'1 ,,rPn "one ln the 1 hi.lppinr.i. me Ir.deed guilty of neglec t. ng the team !n their own eye while tamitiu,? their brother about the mote In his. Under stand me These lynchings alford up no excuse tor rallurn to stop cruelty In the Philippines. Kvery cHoit i lieiug made, and wil' be mad", to mm nilz; the ( chances r' eiL'- lty occurring. I B'it kee ; mind thit thcjue cruelties I in the Phi' ,ij)!n"S hav? been wholly ex 1 ceptlcne.l and have been shamelessly I exaggerated. We deeply and bitterly I rre'ret htat any surh cruelty should l have ,een rommltted, no ma'.'er how i rarely, no matter tinder what provoea- Hon. by American troops. Put they of , ford far less J'itlf!cation for j general condemnation of our nrmy than th'-se i lyncbings afioid for the condemnation I of the communities in whh i they have I !--ck'n plsep. Iri each csh it Is well to foniiTiC the deed, sad H is well also to - .- k i reirain from including b lilty and innocent in the same ng con- demnation. ' In every community arc people who commit acts of we ceivable horror And base nigh incon- If we tix e individuals if we forget our eyes only upon tii: and upon their acts, an the far more numerous tizetis of up- right and honest life a-Al blind our selves to their countles'idec'lc. of wis dom and justice and pcTj.lanthropy, it is easy enough to eondtptn the com munity. There is no; a cify in this land which we could not thus conderan if we fixed our eyes purely trpou Its police record .and refused to irjok a; what it had accomplished for del-eney and jus tice and charity. Yet ij'iiJ is exactly the attitude which aas pea taken by too many men with ref-'i'-ii o to cur army in the Philippine:)!: and It is sn attitude both absurd ntnl creepy un just, Our soldiers runqUur: and what is the object for which they conquer? To establish a military government? No The laws we are now ejiidcavjring to enact for the government of the Phil ippines are to increase me pcr.ver and domain of the civil at t)ie expense of the military authoriti.'s.land to render even more difficult than b the ptist the chance of oppression. 'The military power is used to secure lieaee, in order that it may itself be surylantr.d by the civil goevrnment. The progress of the American arms means tbe ablition of cruelty, the bringing of peace, and the rule of law and oid nder the civil government. Other, pns have ron- quered to create lsible military rule. We conquer to br iHLand ro sponsible civil governn auered. be con- NORTH STATE The Season Advancing Rapidly Now With dood O owth. The past week was ;eneially quite unfavorable for the progress of crops throughout most of tb.3 State, on ac count of the deficienc:y4in. temperature and precipitation. T! m eok was char acterized by tempejr '4'C-B considera bly below the seasons i.verage. espec ially from the ,27th V the 2!'tn- !,n'1 light frosts were reported by a number of correspondents chiefly in the elevat ed western Section, fortunately with only slight damage to rops. The cool weather both checked growth of vege tation and gave younfc and tender plantB an unhealthy appearance. Show ers occurred from Sunday, the 25th, to Tuesday the 27th, genirally in small amounts, the beneficial effects of which soon disappeared. fyauiaging hail storms accompanied the, lainfall on the 25th in a few western (ounties, nota bly Honderson. A ward, generous rain is now greatly needed everywhere, and uplands are suffering rather seriously from drought. The week" was very fa vorable for work, and Klivation con tinued actively; the pi'nllng of most crops has now been completed. Cotton suffered considerably from the cool weather, and ' many plants have become yellow or sickly in no pearance, henco growthhas been very slow during the week;; chopping cot ton is approaching eoiitpletioii; on i, count of dry weather mjhli late planted Is not yet up. Corn frW'also si but to a much less extcil from iron til in p 'most of it haj rece tion; ravaae3 y a large nun: Tha outlook BV fcartsJ-reitoi her of correspondents. for tobacco Is not gooj at present; growth was checked tlrli week, so that recently set out plants jiave not secur ed a good start; poor stands. irregu larity In growth, aud damage by In sects contributo to tb(e unfavorab'.a prospect for this crop, while a number of repot ts indicate that the heads of winter what are filling well, the crops Is ripening so low that much can hard ly be cut; harvest will scon begin; chinch bugs are damaging wheat. Spring oats are beginning to suffer from drought at tho mpst critical pe riod of growth, while Lcginnlng to head. Peanuts seem to be doing fairly well, ('.aniens where properly worked are in geod condition, and vegetables of all kinds have become abundant. Digging Irish potatoes . is underway, with indic ations for a 'somewhat Infe rior yield. Fruit is ..lllng consid erably; a full crop of blackberries ;n promised. The strawberry season is is about over. Rains: Ilalsam. O.SO Inches; Chapel Hill. (' ".': (ioidsboro. 0.OS: Greensboro 4.14; 1,'inilic rlon, i."2; Liberty, 1.1)2; Mocksville, O.aC; Marion, 0.10; Ne.v beii), O.LMi; Settle, u.Htl; Saxon, O.lti; Hale igh. 0 .20; Wilmington, 0.10 and Weldon, 0.20 Fatal Fire at Lllzahcth City. Klizabeth City. Special. The (!od frey brie k building, on Poindcxicr street, v., is totally destr'jytd by tlr'j early Monday morning mid two men met death in the flames. The first floor was occupied by liergeron's saicr.n, and on the upper floor slept young Ber geron, J. B. Carter and Benjamin Waul. The former naroly escaped alive and the two latter perished In the flames. At 2 o'clock in tin morning the f barred remains weie trkeu from the ruins. Ilciiidre els stood helpless In the streets h'low watching what promised to be the most (icy., uct've (lie in the town's history, imcunschju;, of the hor rible fate of the two mei,. During this time Policeman J. W. B irborough had succeeded in getting inlthe rooms of the burning building. fere the men were. He succeeded in resting the boy. but was unable to get to the men. every avenue of escape- being cut off by the flames! Stveral adjoining buildln ! we re slightly damaged. Hut bulelin-'S and furniture were partially e'overed by j Insurance. This is the si -end fire h"re j in 1 ss than a week, Loth times the piop'ity of saloon men being attacked by the flames. . DOCTORS say "Consumption can be cured." Nature alone won'tdolt. It needs help. Doctors say ( "Scott's Emulsion Is the best help." But you must continue its use even ln hot weather. tl y,.cc hicve net trire! ii, cetel for ftre ftaitipV -i liTT ft lloWNH, thctiii.1-. 4" lead sircct, Nur Veik. .")(. ;inl f c.oe; all dniryiM. 1 g 0 II U4 f Bill's Wife Has Reached Three Score Years and Ten. AND SUE IS STILL VERY ACTIVE. Arp's Birthday Comes in Two Weeks From Now, and He Thinks He Will Get a Mce Present. Birthdays are very common things in this sublunary world. Thsre are sixty millions of them every year and that means about one hundred and fifty thousand every day or six thousand every hour. Just think of it-every minute one hundred mortal souls come into this world to live and (lie, for good or for evil for happiness or mia eiy. As far back as we have any his tory, sacred or profane, kings and primes have celebrated their blrthdajs with feasts and wine and song and even the humble and the poor take note of their annual return. Pharaoh celebrated his in ,Tosoph'3 day and it was on Herod's birthday that the daughter of Herodias danced before! him and asked him for the head of John the Baptist. I was ruminating about tilts because today is a notable birthday lh my fam ily. The matenial ancestor has at last reached her three-score years and ten the alloted age of man and woman kind, and from now on every day she lives will be one of grace. David says that the days of our years are three score years and ten, but it by reason of strength they be four score years yet is their strength labor and sorrow. Poor old man, he did have a troubled life. He sinned and he repented in great anguish, as he exclaimed, "My sin is ever before me." Solomon saith, "The day of one's death is better than the day of his birth." And Job said, "Cursed is the night when I was born." Jeremiah's life was one of lamentation. The maxims and precepts of these old prophets and preachers are wonderful ly beautiful and have never been equal led, but great men are not always wise, and even Solomon fell from grace and died accursed. The man who said, "Re joice in the wife of thy youth and be thou always ravished with her love," forsook his own and consorted with a thousand others of all nations, creeds and colors, lie reigned eighty years and died a disappointed, dishonored, degraded and miserable old man. But old age is not neceessarily unhappy. The poet speaks of "An old age serene and blight, As lovely as a Lapland night,", and another poet says: "The world is very lovely. Oh, my God, I thank Thee that I live." Our old age Is very much what we choose to make it. It Is a sad thing to be weary and tired with the weight of years. It is pitiful to look upon an old man who never smi!e3, who has outlived all social pleasures air! whose company is neither sought n u ib sired. For tho sake of our neigh bors iii,l friends it Is our duly to be cheerful In their company. Wc should sometimes smile even If we have to , force It. Let us grow old gracefully. 1 bars now in mind just sucn an one i nale, healthy old time g' nte-tnan r.f s .our scon: ycjjtrs, whose pres.at Jjsak. ?- RVfrv.-em H'fc,-;'- -'children, I grandchildren and neighbors and friends give him glad gueting when he conies. He will bo missed when he dies, for the world Is better that ho lives in it. His Christian t'alth, his moral conduct, his good example and his cheerful disposition are a benedic tion to the community. But I was thinking about ley wife a birthday. There are thirty-seven birth days ln our family, and she knows them all and never forgets them. They average about three a month, 1ml this one of hers is a very notable one, for she is the mateirnal ancestor, and this day fulfills her years and crosses the line. Seventy years ago she was born, and not long ofter that the stars fell. Of course they did. Seventy is a numeral of sacred significanc e. There were seventy ciders of Israel and sev enty wise men eomiilled the Old Testa ment. The Jews were kept In captivity seventy years. The Lord sent out seventy of his disciples to preach and teach the peo ple, aud seventy years is the allotted age of mankind. But my wife Is not old. Time has not written no wrinkles on her brow nor furrows on her cheek nor silvered her raven hair. If the long war had not intervened ebe would not look more than 50 years now. But the weir and tear of the war and anxiety while fleeing from the foul invader, with e:Jr little hungry children tagging aTter her, made years of months and weeks of days. But women, especially moth ers, ran endure more dlstrecs and suf fering than men. The matenial Instinct keeps them up. They can suffer and bo strong. It looks like the motherhood of ten children would wear a woman out, but they seem to thrive on it, and late in life they take on flesh and round up all the corners. But thoy never stop work. My wife has made over five thousand little garments and is stlil making them, for .he little grandchil dren keep coming on. Her reputation for nice needlework and making but tonholes has been long established, and she Is proud of it. She never stops sew ing until she loses her spectacles, and then sho borrows mine. No, she is not old. James Russell Lowell raid of Julia Ward Howe on her seventieth birthda that it was better to be 70 years young than .40 years, old. It Is this endurance, this cheerfulness in adversity that makes the woman outlive the men. There are three times as many widows In this community as widowers. There are seventeen in our little Presbyterian church and only four widowers, and the war was not the cause of It. Ma ternal love is a preservative of health. It Is a tonic, a promoter of digestion, a panacea, whereas a man will pursue money until he loses his digestion. St. Paul said that "The love of money is the root of all evil,' but he had no thought of applying it to women, for she has no love for money. If she gets any sbe is not happy until she cpends t. The girls said their mother wanted a new bonnet so they bought one for her birthday, and all I had to do was to pay for it. She always lets me do that. She Is a free trader and will keep me In decent clothes whether I want them or not.' She always was a free trader. I was a merchant before we were married and she wag my best cus tomer. She never sakr.-l tho price of anything, but Just bought what she wanted and trusted :ne to tntc fair am' dial Jurtly. . .,., , miT BteasDoonfulof Mexican Mustang Lin- IF YOU WILL PUT r,SSra?Ui-i' IuUhLStS? with this gargle your throat often it will quickly cure a bore 1 hroat i ii ni, wr .k Keep this fact, always fresh in your memory: For Cuts, Mashes aud all Open Sores, you j need only to apply - ,. Mexican fifyuslang inimenf a few times and the soreness and intlammation will be conquered and the wounded flesh healed. To get the best results you .should saturate a piece of soil cloth with the liniment and bind it upou the Wound as you would a poultice. 2.V., .Oc. oncl iiil.00 a bottle. I' CCD KM EVE flM vottr poultry mid ret. the very first sign of Kittr AN tit Wi Koup. Scalv Ws. Humbler or other Uiscases among your fowls uso ilexican Mustang Liniment. Good gracious! What a long time ago that was, and how' trim and beautiful she was to me.' She wore No. 2 shoes and stepped like a fawn and flashed her Pocahontas eyes bewitchingly when she said goodby. She can flash them yet. Seventy years old artd gwine on 71trying to catch up. Maybe she will when I am dead, but not till then. I remember when I was twice as old as she was, for I was 12 and Hhe was 6, but she keeps gaining on me. I re member when she was in her early teents and wore short dresses and pan talets and rode a fast pacing horse while her long black Indian hair hung In tresses down her back. She was a daisy then and she Is a daiBy yet some times. Rut she can't climb 'simmon trees any more. She is 70 the mother of ten children and twenty grandchil dren, and they are scattered from New York to the halls of ho Montezumas. She is troubled now about her baby boy, who lives under the dark shad ows of Popocatopetl, ln Mexico, which means the smoking mountain and is smoking now and naybe will burst forth in these volcanic, times and de story the people as at Martinique. Two weeks from today will be my blrthde.v and she will give me something, I know not a bonnet, but perhaps a summer hat from Porto Rico. 4 blid "fn'jthe alr whispered that to m. . UYi Arp ia Atlanta Constitution"." Nailed to a Tree. Huntsville, Ala., Special. Tom Hat less, a farmer living near Berkley, was assaulted and robbed by two men lite Saturday afternoon and then nailed to a tree. He was rescued alive but bis hands were badly torn and he will uot be able to work for several months. Harless had been plowing and was eat ing his dinner at the spring when he was confronted by two stranpe men with pistols who robbed him of $4 and then backed him against a tree. The loose folds of flesh on each side wetn pulled out and nailed to the treo and his hands were stretched above and treated likewise. He remalneil theie until nightfall, when he was rescued by a farm hand. Fire at Rockaway Beach. New York, Special. May Kasten, 32 years old, and Mrs. I-ydia McKrovr, the same age, lost their lives in a firo which swept away many buildings r,t Rockaway Beach. Thomas S. McKrow and his five-year-old son, Frank Mar tin Hanson, 28 and Morris Kasten, 75, were Injured and taken to a hospital in Long Island City. Several hours lat jr young McKrow died and the father wn reported to be dying. - Baltimore Banker Dies. Baltimore, Special. John A. Ham bleton, formerly the head of the bank ing firm of Hambleton & Co., died Sun day at his home here, aged 75. He had been in ill health for several months and two weeks ago was stricken witb paralysis. Because of falling health, Mr. Hambleton retired from the bank ing business ten years ago, but con tinued as a director in several finan cial and railroad companies. Death of Prominent Mill flan. Macon, Ga., Special. James Hough, farmerly manager of the Manchester Cotton Mills, and tecently appointed manager of the Barnesville Manufac turing Company, died suddenly Sun day of acute indigestion. He was widely known as an expert and was a man of wealth. He left a wife and three chil dren. Wldoir Fight for Ilojalllrn. A decision handed down recently Irt the I'nited States circuit court of New York makes it probable that 17,000 dentists will have fo pay the widow of a Dr. Sheffield something like $10,000,000. The denUsts would not recognize the claim of Dr. Sheffield to royalties for bridge work, and to keep the case going In court 7,000 organized the Dentists' Protective Association. Dr. Sheffield dir.d poor and broken hearted, but his widow took up the litigation and the court decided that (he company whose case was a test one, must pay her 15 per cent royalty (She will Immediately start suit against ,tne other 36,999 dentists of the coun-ry. Made the Church Fit the Orgai'- Pipe organs are generally built ,0 fit a church, but let It he recorded thvit in one instance at least a church was' made to fit a pipe organ. Such an unusual thing happened at. Helmont Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. Andrew Carnegie donated a pipe organ to the church. According: to Mr. Carnegie's system, each organ Is socially designed and buiit for tho churni in which it Is to be placed. He employs a special expert to make the plans for pipe organs and the for mer always demands a plan of tho church which is to have a new organ, in order that the organ will fit into the space set apart for it. In the casee of the Belmont avenue church, a blue print of the plans was sent on to Mr. Carnegie's architect and he proceeded to make his plans, and now the organ is almost completed. A short time ago it was discovered that a mistake had been made In the blue print and that the organ loft was loo small to hold the organ. It was; found necessary to tear down the or gan loft and rebuild It in order to tiittke room for the new instrument. This -work has now been done and everything is ready for Mr. Carnegie's gift. Voiingstown JJlhl2lmrr??u Southern ailway ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OP THE WINTER TOURIST SEASON AND THE PLACING -ON SALE OF Excursion Tickets. TO ALL PROMINENT POINTS IN THE South, Southwest, West Indies, Mexico and California, INCLUDING Bt. Augustine, Palm Beach, Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa, Port Tamps, Druuswifk, Thomaavillo, Charleston, Aiken, Au gusta, Pinehnrst, Asheville, Atlanta, New Orleans, Mem phis and THE LANE OF THE SKV. Perfect Dining and SIccping-Car fer vico on all Trains. See that your Ticket reds VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Ask any Ticket Agent for full Infor mation, or address, R. L. VERXON, Traveling Pass, Agt Charlotte, N. C. C. W. WESTBURY, Dist. Tass. Agt., Richmond, Va. S. H. HARDWICK, General Passen ger Agent. . , , J. M. CULP, W. A. 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