-t A Ithy Bankrr' LBroBBlfrJwIlh a Cool nd Slf-Powl BurgUr. New Yokk, April iO. William W. Saerman, the ged nd wealthy presi dent of the National Bank of Commerce, had dealings with a remarkably ctol nd level-headed burglar early yesterday morning. Mr. Sherman was awakened by the light of a taper and found a middle aged man standing beside his bed pointing a,-revolve;-:at him. "If you make no noise." th intruder eaid, "I'll do you. uo harm, but if you shout, I'll shoot." Mr. Sherman had t the back of his bed an electric alarm that would have brought his son or his valet in a minute, and it was possible for him to have pressed tais unobserved.-. But af ter a little thought he concluded that the life of his son or his servant was worth more to him than what the burg lar might take, so he gave no alarm. After lighting the gas in the room the intruder moved coolly about, examining every artide that seemed valuable. Some silverware attracted him and then some jewelry that was highly prized by Mr. Sherman for associations. The burglar lifted them, and the banker thought it time to rrasun with him. "Now, look here," he said, "I think you would be foolish to take those things marked with my name or initials. If you pawned them they would proba bly lead to you arrest. Why can't we aettle this thing on a financial basis ?" "That's sensible," said the burglar. "What do you propose?". "I'll give you every cent I have in this room and raise no disturbance un til you have left this house." The burglar accepted the offer, but was much disgusted to find only $4 in the banker's pocket book. Then, after further parley, it was agreed that the intruder Bhould take two watches, highly prized by Mr. Sherman, and also two ieweled scarf pins. "I'm going now," he said to Mr. Sherman. "Don't raise an alarm until I am wife out of the way if you don't want bloodshed." Then he coolly extinguished the light in the; room, walked to the door, went down stairs and out of the house. Mr. Sher man after this aroused his household and called in policemen, who dincov ered that the burglar had gotten in by raising the front parlor window. Jury Could Not Agree, Charleston, 8. CLJ April 22. After ; being out twenty-two hours, the jury in the Lake City lynching case this morn ing annouueed that no agreemeut could be reached. The final count showed only five members hanging out for ac quittal. The eight defendants are re quired to furniBh bonds for their ap pearance in November. llefore missing the jury, Judg; Brawley spoke on the lynching fever which has pre vailed in the State. He said this was a white man's State, and if the whites, with all the machinery of the law at their command, were unable to rule the State without resorting to mob rule, it was time to confess their weakness and incapacity to govern. J. P. K. Bryan opened the case for the government, llis address, which continued for four hours, was an ar raignment of the crime of lynching and of the prisoners. During the course of it he declared that human life is cheaper in South Carolina than four cent cotton. He accused the defend ants io the Lake City lynching case and their friends of mutilating public rec ords in order to protect and shield the prisoners. George 8. Legare replied for the de fense. He declared that President Mc Kinley had himself laid the foundation of the cri'iie by appointment of a negro to office at Lake City. He ' proieslrd that the defeudauts were guiltless and attacked the"" witnesses for the prosecu tion vigorously. Live IloKiitMl Toud by Mull. Hew York Sun, 21st. When one of the mail pouches re ceived at the Hoboken postotlice was opened yesterday morning a creature with a body resembling a frog and a tail like a lizard jumped out and scared the mail clerks. From the head of the animal projected two horus. Its belly was pure white. Upon investigating the contents of the pouch a broken pasteboard box which had evidently contained the animal was found. The box was addressed to a young woman living in Washington street, near Kiev enth street. Postmaster Schroeder described the animal as a species of the honied toad It was between ftmr and five inches in length and had been mailed from Trin idad, Col. . Although the rules of the department prohibit the transmission of live crea tures as first-class matter, Postmaster Schroeder decided to deliver the toad to the young woman to whom it was ad dressed. The pasteboard box was so badly battered that the receiving clerk could find no smooth place on it to stamp the hour it was received, so he made the imprint upon the white belly of the toad. The postmaster refused to divulge the name of the person to whom it had been sent. Another Big Cotton Mill. Salisbury Sun. Negotiations are now being made looting io me building oi another large cotton mm in ims county, li the plans are consummated it will mean much to the city and county. The mill is not to be built in Salisbury, but this place wilt be benefited by its operation in the county. The mill will be built and fur nished at a cost of half a million. The Salisbury cotton mill is soon to increase its output considerably. Machinery is to oe purchased tins week, we under stand, for the new work. . The United States is second to Great Britain only in the number of naval stations it possesses, some of the mos important having Iceu acquired from fcpain by t'or.ijuest. Pointed Paragraph. Culcago Sew. Fools invest first and investigate later. Learning and wisdom are not always on good terms. Love in a cottage is but another name for a labor union. People who live in glass houses should have them frosted. A wise man prepares for the worst while hoping for the best Nearly every marriel woman thinks a lot of other women envy her. The inebriate is unable to get sixteen drams out of an ounce of whisky. At a wedding the men all pity the bride and the women all pity the groom. Actions may fpeak. louder than words but women will continue to use words. A wise man never questions a child in public unless he iseureof the answer. Urteasy fiTs" the head that wears a crown, but some other heads seem to lie easy enough., --- The man who has .little and wants less is richer than the man who has much and wants more. About the easiest thing in the world to loee is a diary. It is almost impossi ble to keep one for any length of time. Only tbofe who dwell where there are mountains without valleys experience joys without sorrows. Havana wrappers make good smok ing jackets. Dreams and weather predictions usually go by contraries. Book agents and sailors need wind in their canvass. Many a girl lives to regret the day she married her ideal man. The man who waits until to-morrow never accomplishes anything. Perhaps all men are liars, but there are times when it's unwise to Bay so. Some girls are kept so busy getting engaged that they nave no time to marry. An honest man is not only the no blest work of the Creator, but also the scarcest. . . It is better to do one thing good than onlv partly to accomplish two good things. A fish diet may not strengthen the brain, but going fishing often iuvigorates the imagination. - Occasionally a wise makes a fool of himself by getting married. The pessimist kicks because of the thorns on roses, while the9 optimist re joices because of the roses on thorns. Probably nothing bores a man more than to have another man begin an ex planation of something he was just go ing to explain. Deaf mutes are faniili.ir with signs, out only drunken men try to shake hands with the woodeu Indians in front of cigar stort-s. !Voith Carolina Industries. The State of North Caroliua is attract ing much attention at present on ac count of the remarkably large number of new cotton mills being eracted in additiou to those already in operation. They include improvements and new plants at Concord, Elkin, Greensboro', Harlem, Red Springs, Mt. ' Mourne. Lexington, Tarboro' and Raleigh. In preparing a summary of these enter prises in this State the Manufacturers' Record gives as a reason the advantages which North Carolina towns possess for the textile industry. Accord'ng to a correspondent of the Record, ten years ago Charlotte had a population of about 10,000 and one cotton mill, today its population is more than 28,000 and its twelve cotton mills are running day and night in the manufacture cotton yarns, gray cloths, ginghams, toweling, web bing, sashcord, hosiery, batting and wadding. Its five clothing factories are utilizing every hour of daylight to keep up their orders. These factories are the direct result of the cotton mills, while as an auxiliary feature of textile life there are the four firms which contract to design, build and equip cotton mills complete, and which are kept busy, while the five machinery and supply houses are shipping goods every day. fr'artortea Help the Farmer CUarlotte Observer. Apprehension has been expressed that growing manufacturing interests will tend to the disadvantage of the farming interests of the South. Observation of facts do not prove such to be the case, but show a contrary result. The popu lation engaged in manufactures become customers of farmers for their crops of food stuffs. These markets for perish able products become of great adyan tage to farmers, and the improvement in farming interests are readily notice able in the vicinity of manufacturing towns. Of courst, more work is required, but the work of raising fruits, vege tables, chickens, eggs, milk and butter and taking these to the factory villages, where no markets are found, -is not by any means disagreeable work. This can all usually be done by a thrifty farmer without materially interfering with the production of the usual cotton crop. It would seem as if manufactures benefit the neighboring farmers in about as large proportion as the do those owning stock in them or engaged in operating them. Coal In Rowan Salisbury Sun. .Rowan is noted for the gold that has been found within her borders for many years and of late the coper is coming to the front. Other minerals are found, but the latest thing to taken from mother is earth is coal Last week parties "were digging a well for a saw mill on the property of Mr R. A. Ramsay, who lives in Mt. Ulla township, fourteen miles from Salisbury on the Mooresville road. When about fourteen feet from the surface they struck a big vein of coal. Sprrimpns of thw p.fr wero l-.rnnjyht to the city and left at the Sun office. Some of it was burned by those who miide the discovery, and Borne of the burned clinkers were also brought to town, STATB SEW S. The State convention W. C. X. U. will be hId in Greensboro June 2nd to 5th. . The Southern Railway has been sued on account of the killing of Sam Flake, colored, the track walker at the Yadkin river bridge last year. The Burlington News says -smallpox and anti-smallpcx is the absorbing, paramount issue in the municipal con test now on in that burg. The train on the Mocksville and Mooreeville railroad will leave Mocks ville daily at 6:50 a. m. and arrive iu Charlotte at 10: 55 a. ra. It will leave Charlotte at 3 p. m. and reach Mocks-, ville at 7 p. m. It will be a mixed train for the present, A gentleman who was in Mocksville Sunday says a big sanctification meeting is beiug held there by Rev. WV H. L. Mc'Laurin. He is being assisted by a divine from the Eastern part of the State. It is reported that the citizens of Mocksville are diyided in their views regarding the doctrine being expounded by thesantificatiomsts, says the Winstou Sentinel. ; Women for School Boards. Atlanta Journal. The recognition of the rights of. wo men to membership on boards of edu cation and the advisability of eltctiug them to such offices is now recognized in many States and cities. Several States have women school commission ers and several have statutes requiring that women shall be represented on the boards of trustees of their State Uni versities. In the last State campaign in Illinois both the Democratic and the Republi can parties had women as candidates for that office. In several States where women are not allowed to vote even at school elec tions they are eligible to places ou school boards. There is a bill nov before the New Yor'k legislature for the extension of this privilege to women. The New York Herald and other great newspapers of that State advocate its passage. It has many strong supporters iu both houses of the legislature and the chances of its passage are excellent. Whatever may be our opinions as to the propriety of an enlarged sphere for woman's work and responsibility it chii riot be denied that the tendency in that direction is becomiug more prononuced and more general. Cuban Debts Kxtended Two Yearn. Washington, April 20. Secretary uf War Alger has cabled to Goeriior-U';:i-eral Brooke an order extending the ma turity of iil liabilities "collectible by the judicial seal of real estate" until May 1, 11)01. The order applies only -to liabilities incurred prior to January 1, 1890, the date of relinquishment of Spanish authority. The Cuban plant ers who presented the question to the administration are fairly well satisfied with the order and have returned home. They pleaded for a remission of a por tion of the interest, which in spine cases was 24 percent., but acquiesced finally in the view that to interfere with the rate of interest would be the impairment of existing contracts. Fright Cause a Woman1 Death. Dauas, Tex., April 23. The wife of Lee Pringle died of fright this evening near the village of Davenport. She was ridiug with her husband in a wagon on a country road. They wore overtaken by two large squads of armed and mounted men, riding and shouting wildly in pursuit of an escaping crim inal. The shock at the situation caused the woman to drop deed in the wagon. Negroe Kill a Policeman. Charleston, S. C , April 21. Po liceman Bean was' killed in cold blood at 12 o'clock last night by negroes. Bucky and lorn Phillips, with two oth ers, were arrested, ami Phillips con fessed. To-day the aged lather of Bean went to the station hue with a shot gun and tried to kill the negroes. He said the courts of South Carolina would not hang a man for murder and he would bike the law unto himself. There was trouble in restraining him, but his gun was taken and the negroes pro tected. The burning of the negro Sam Hose, at Newnau, Georgia, hist Sunday, was a shocking affair, and ohm cannot con template it without feelings of horror. Such a crime as Sam Ifi-e committed deserved a speedy death, as it was one of the most dialadiciil in the annais ff crime. The details of it m re too horri ble for contemplation. But this does not justify the people i f Newnan in their unspeakable cruelty m mutilating the negro and then burning him to death. It was a crime such as savages commit, and the people who committed it are not far removed from barbarism. Both the crime and its punishment are alike condemned by good people.--Concord Times. There ate 2,500 acres of land in No. 11 township, Cleveland county, known as speculation land, that no speculator can be found who claims it or will pay tax on it. It is well timbeied land and surrounds some little mountains. Sev eral citizens are anxious to "take it up" and list and pay the taxes. Thus far no owner has been found. The American Glass Company has advanced prices Of window glass 10 per rant tn tara vifart at nnr. Thfl rrn- duction this fire will be considerably Eastern factories in sympathy " with Stccn-hntl'ulilnwrra. "Oh, kind sir, think of your mother! Think of your mother!" Burglar (sternly) No ur, lady; I was brought up in an incubator. At the Hoge memorial service in Richmond, Dr. W. W. Moore, of Union Seminary, made an address of great strength and beauty. Speaking of Dr. Hoge's voice, he said: "When he preached to the whole of Gen. D. II. Hill's division in the opui air it rang like a bugle to the utmost verge of his great congregation. When he stood on the slope of Mt. Ebal, in Palestine, and recited the twenty-third Pialm, it was heard distinctly by the English clergymen on the other side of the val ley, three quarters of a mile away. When the body of an eminent states man and ruling tdder in his church was borne into this building and laid before the pulpit, and the preacher rose and said. 'Mark the perfect man, and be hold the upright : for the end of that man is peace,' the sympathetic intona tions fell like healing balm on wounded hearts. When he stood in the United Suites chamber at Washington, beside the mortal remains of the great Caro linian and sid to the assembled repre sentatives of the greatness of this na tion and of the world, 'There is noth ing great but God,' the voice and words alike impressed the insignificance of all human concerns as compared with religion.- When he stood in the chan cel of St. Paul's arfd stretched his hand over the casket containing the palid form of the 'Daughter oi the Confed eracy,' and said, 'Blessed are the pure in heart ; for they shall see God,' it had the authority .and tenderness of a proph et's benediction." Confelon Extorted with a Rope. Nyack, N. Y., April 20. Dick Brad ley was hanged to a tree near here lust night, but was let down in time to Pave his life. He was accused of having stolen the pocket book of one of the three white men. They determined to hang him and he was pulled up some distance, choking and gasping. When let down he confessed the robbery and was taken to jail. lie KHe(l a egro Baby. Monroe Enquirer. G. Edward Flow, the Republican poli tician who g.iincd so much notoriety by kissing a negro baby in Charlotte iat fall, was a witness in the Bellamy Doe kery case in Marshville this week and while entertaining a crowd which had gathered around him, an old colored woman came up with a" very large, black faced rag doll and asked Ed. to give it a kiss. E l did not discuss politics for the space of fifteen minutest "How is Jim getting aloug ?" asked Mr. Bellevue of Mr. Northsnie. "Jim is looking down in the mouth a good deal." 'Why, I heard he was prospering." "He is; he is a dentist with a large practice " The Cuban army lists have neen gone over very carefully with the result that there are still over thirty-nine thousand men who will appear for a share of the three million dollars. Tnis will give each man about $75, with nothing for the officers. . Rev. Dr. Pr L. Groome, who nwr from Greensboro to Baltimore some time ago, has joined the Baltimore Con ference, M. E. church, South, and been assigned to the North Baltimore charge. Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald will preach the annual sermon at the approaching com mencement cf the Littleton Female College. Rev. T. N. Ivey, D. D., will deliver the literary address. o j Babies and children nc j proper food, rarely ever rr 5 cine. If they do net thr! ( cn their fcod something '. i wrong. They need a I'i'-. i !p to get their dice.;,: r.chinery working prone : Mi ,3 COO LBVER G2L ''iTr! UYf-GPHOSPMTES of LIME S SO- i-Aill generally correct t!v3 V j difficulty. f If you will put from one- fourth to halt a teaspoonru in baby's bottle three or four times a day you will soon see a marked improvement. For larger children, from half to a teaspoonful, according to age,, dissolved in their milk, if vou so desire, will very l soon show its great nourish- ing power. If the mother's j milk does not nourish the (baby, she needs the emul- X . .. ... . Cf 1 sion. It win snow an eiteu. -at-once- both-4ipon-4iwthct and child. 5oc. and $1.00, all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. Melto U datura v !v UA S,LS ma Li R. G. GLADSTONE, Scales Street, DEALER IS Stoves, Tinware, Terra Gotta Piping, Etc. Heating and Cooking Stoves, Pipes and Fittines a Specialty. Agent for Pomona Terra Cotta Works. Mr. John YY. Clark is foreman of my Tin Shop and will be pleased to have his friends calon him when in need of any "work in my line. Tin Rooting a specialty and 'satisfaction guaranteed on every job. Give me a call. H. G. GLADSTONE, Telephone No. 11. I will pay charges on all messages from any point in the Reidsville Telephone system. Send your orders to Bakery, Confectionery and Fruits. MOOREFIELD & MOTLEY, Successors to "W. H. Eice. If e pay charges on a I Telephone, messages in the IleidsriJle system. Telephone ..Vo. Go, Danville, Va. To Merchants : We are manufacturers uf Cakes and Candies and do a wholesale business. Re tail in Fancy Candies, Fruits, Cigars and Cigarettes.' Lemons gv .1 PI ties JJa nan n as- t Votes L'..jS Raisins ' OTIS B. Successors to MAXt'FACTTREK OK Buggies, Wagons, Tine Carriage Pa inting, Warehouse Tracks, Awnings, Etc. Repairing of all Kinds. 4(5 and 10? Cragliead Street, Danville, Va. I will pav Telephone charges on messages from anv point in the Reidsville sys tem. Call me tip. . c - liJCfiW"6. Red krs PW Pest Strain tcr.i Jcr;,7 Ct!i felUl RralV Erei .c.is and FUlies, te as Spat y-k. OU GET EVERYTHING GUARANTEED A" r-t 7ESi;Nl h J pedigreed JjOCK . QCCONEECHEE FARM. Durban r IP you buy of us. Acwrcss uv-wi Do Hant tic tet Corn Planter on Earth ! Here it is in The Farmers' Friend ! It will plant corn and put in fertilizer, and do the work in a perfect manner andis tully guaranteed in every way. We also have , THE CELEBRATED DISC CORN PLANTER, made on the same style as the well known Superior Wheat Drills. Riding and Walking Cultivators, -; Cut Oa t and Solid Disc Harrows, Hay Rakes, Mowers, Binders, Wceders, Threshers, Engines, Saw Mills, Buggies, Wagons, Harness and Horse Goods. A dollar saved is'a dollar made. Don't Luy any goods ;n my line until you get 7TTT 'to. I will Hflivpi tlirm Irtigh Reidsville, N. C, us for anything in Musical Instruments Banjos Violins (i uitars Autoharps Mandolins and all kinds of Trimmings HARVEY, C. V. Harvey & Son. Drays, Etc., Etc. MffA m Headquarters for the Best, Caiy. BREEDERS OF PRIZE WINNERS OF THE FOLLOWING VARIETIES. irtii 'Ail' J Mammoth Bronze and Whi'c Holland Turkeys, ilar.-cc and White Plymouth Rxks, Brown and White Leghorns, Lih- ti-ahmas, Indian and Pit Games, Buff Cochins, Silver Lice., v vandottes, White Guineas, Pckin Du:ks, Muscovy jmo. : ..... Fsa Fowls. FOWL. L EGGS FOR SALE AT ALL TIMES f Imrrtvl Tvwcs t l.'noortjd Et:rli& Be pwpniH at Tom'Hopot. 0. 0. Townsend, 333 South Elm Street, Greensboro, N..C.

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