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VOLUME XII LENOIR N. C DECEMBER 24, 1909 NO. 17
Atlanta City Prison Described as
"Inhuman, Incredible and Vile."
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 17. Supt.
1). M. Vining and Guard P, Cor
net were indicted today aud condi
tions at the city prison known
locally at the stockade, were pro
nouoced "inhuman, incredibleand
vile,"byt'ie grand jury, which
has been investigating the jail.
The jury recommends a clean
sweep in the office force and the
immediate. establishment of condi
tions fit for human beings. The
report states that the jurors who
inspected the stockade found the
stench so foal that the members
were forced to wrap handkerchiefs
arouud their faces to endure the
trip and that some of them were
made sick by the vile odors.
The report xjoncloded by stating
that the stables iu which the mules
were kept were much more habi
table than the prison.
In the negroes' quarters were
found nearly 200 prisoners, shack
ed so that they could neither bathe
nor change clothes, the room had
not a single ventilation, the sick
were unattended ana mere were
no sanitary arrangement. One
prisoner, ill wicn typhoid, was
left on a filthy blanket. Another
with a gunshot wound in the breast
had for a covering next to the
wound a shirt that was so dirty
that the committee did not see
how he could escape infection. The
women's quarters, even those for
white women convicted of trivial
offenses, were no better, and the
jurors said they had reason to be
lieve that shackles had been taken
off the women l)ecause the officials
learned of the in tended visit of the
inquisitors. The barbarous modes
of punishment, including leaden
reveted, leade.i straps: rings in the
walls to which prisoners were sus
pended for as long as 40 minutes
in succession, and whippingchairs,
were roundly denounced as in
human. The report says that all
this is the more inhuman because
the piisoners are sent to the stock
ade because they are unable to pay
a money fine for misdemeanors.
Boone Kelics Wanted.
Lexingten Dispatch.
The Daniel Boone Memorial As
sociation, which is having a cabin
erected on the site ot the pioneer's
home, wants folks everywhere to
donate relics of pioneer times and
of Indians, no matter what, for the
association purpose to fill the cabin
with all such things. There is a
crreat abundance of this sort of
stuff scattered here and there
throughout the State, and if a
goodly collection could be made it
would add much interest to the
Boone memorial. Anybody hav
ing anything of this nature might
write Mr. L. B. McCrary, of Lex
intrtoo. Who is "Daniel Boone
fiend," and he will promptly at
tend to all the necessary particulars
and details.
Death of Rev. J. A. Oertel, D. D
The Rev. Johannes a. Oertel,
died at the residence of his son
Mr. J. F. Oertel, in Vienna Va
on Dec. 9. He was buried leside
his wife near Vienna. Mr. Oertel
had many friends and admirers iu
Lenoir, having been rector of St
James church here at one time. He
was an artist and wood carver of
wide reputation.
Stung For 15 Years
by Indlgestiou's pangs trying ninny
doctors and $200.00 worth of medicine
in vain, B. F, Ayscue, of Ingleslde
N. C, at last used Dr. Klng'sl New
Life PilU, and write- they wholly
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Preachers' Salaries in the West
ern North Carolina Conference.
North Carolina ClirlBtlan Advocate.
The salaries of preachers in our
Conference are sadly too low. The
rank and file get salaries so uncer
tain and meagre that they cannot
render the best service because of
natural anxiety for the comfort of
their wives and children and ina
bility to pay the accounts they are
forced to contract in order to keep
soul and body together. Last year
120 of the 222 pastois in our Con
ference received salaries not exceed
iog 1600, aud the great majority of
these did not get over $400, which
is barely moie than a dollar a day.
The preacher who can keep his
horse and buggy in order, wear
passably decent clothes, feed his
wife and little ones and keep out
of debt on 1400 a year, and go to
Conference merry-hearted and
thankful, is a true hero and a fin
ancier of the highest type. The
greatest opportunity for the laymen
in this Conference is to arouse the
brethren to a full sense of the ob
ligation to pay the preacher a liv
ing salary, and we make bold to
say that there is not a charge in
the Conference that could not in
crease the salaries from 50 to 100
per cent, if stewards will first as
ress themselves liberally and then
start with determination and sys
tem to raise the balance. A stingy
and indifferent board of stewards
will never lead the people to gen
erous giving, hut when they set a
liberal example the people will
rally to them. But system must
Ihj followed. Levy the assesssment
by the week or month and let the
collectors busy themselves to raise
it that way and when the yeareuds
the preacher will be paid and the
people will pay more and with
greater ease.
Overman At Baltmore.
Charlotte Chronicle.
Senator Lee S. Overman, who,
shortly after he went to Congress,
was rated by some enterprising
news-paper man as being worth a
million, and who was tapped next
day for all sorts of loans from the
price of a drink up to ten thous
and dollars, was one of the orators
at the seventh annual banquet of
the North Carolina Society in Bait
imore; Tuesday night. He told of
how the State has pulled to the
tfront. At the present time, he
said, "North Carolina is one of 'the
richest of the Southern States. She
has more cotton mills than any
State in the Union. She has no
cities, but towns, villages and
country places filled with a people
with money in the banks, debts
paid, mortgages gone and every
thing io fine condition. And be
sides, she has Rent about 350,000
men to build op the great West."
That and much more to the same
effect, all, as a matter of course,
very well gotten off. It is quite
trne, as Senator Overman further
said, that everywhere one may go,
from North Carolina to California,
he "will find a North Carolinian
in (rout of the procession." The
man who called North Carolina a
Kip Van Winkle,, ought to manage
to get a furlough somehow, and
come back for a few days to take a
look around.
Rich Men s Gifts Are Poor,
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A Great Invention.
A famous Roumanian surgeon,
Doctor Thomas Jonnesco, is now in
this country demonstrating a new
method invented by him lor ad
ministering anaesthetics, which,
if it proves all that its inveutor
claims for it, will bid fair to do
more for practical surgery than
anything that has been done since
anaesthetics first came into use.
The new injection is a combina
tion of two drugs, stovaine and
strychnine, administered hyperd
emnically into the spinal cord just
below the neck.
The effect is that the patient to
be operated on remains perfectly
conscious, can see and hear every
thing that is going on, but is en
tirely insensible to pain, and
watches the cutting of his owii
flesh or bone just as he would
watch an operation upon another.
It is true that in England, where
he demonstrated his invention be
fore coming to this country, some
of the more conservative surgeons
doubted the safety of the new
method and shook their heads at
the idea, but for all that Doctor
Jonnesco is going placidly on, show
ing what he can do.
If it is really what its inventor
claims it to In; humanity will be
his debtor, and one important fact
that goes far to make us believe
that there is much to it is the fact
that the doctor has neither patent
ed his invention nor kept secret
the drugs he uses, but on the con
trary has made the entire matter
public and invited all to make use
ot it, himself showing just how it
is done.
We claim no expert kuowledge
on the subject of anaesthetics, but
we do know, as everyone must
know, that a drug or combination
of drugs which have no effect upou
the heart leaves the patientfully
conscious aud relieves all pain is
far and away ahead of anything
we now have in the domain of
surgery. Greensboro News.
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A Christmas Message.
By Mary Sturck.
An angel choir is Hinging,
In a land across the sea,
And its munie, upward winging.
Is a wonderful harmony;
O heautlful, wonderful music,
(J matchless; melody.
In the lingering strain of thy sweet
refrain,
Is there a message for me?
The Christmas bells are ringing,
Over every land and sea;
In their melody, upward winging,
Is the same sweet harmony;
O beautiful, wonderful music,
Floating o'er laud and sea.
In the lingering strain of thy sweet
refrain,
Repeat thy message to me.
Hark! While the bells are ringing
That story of heavenly love.
To every soul they are bringing
A message from above;
O beautiful, wonderful music,
Re-echo again and again,
Till the Spirit of Love, come to us
from above,
Rules all the sons of men.
Selected.
The Asheville Gazette News
Washington correspondent, under
date of Saturday, says: "Mayor
Rhettand wife, of Charleston, slept
at the White House as guests of
the Tafts last night. They are the
first Southerners to have lodgings
in the Executive Mansion since
Clevelands's administration.'' It
is a fact that the atmosphere of the
White House is now much more
congenial to Southerners than it
has been since Cleveland left it.
People from all parts of the coun
try are made to feel that they have
a sort of proprietary interest in the
home of the President. Charlotte
Chronicle.
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How One Doctor Successfully Treats
Pneumonia.
"In treating pneumonia," says Dr.
W. J. Smith, of Sanders, AJa. "the
only remedy I use for the lungs is
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While, of course, I would tieat other
symptoms with diflereut medicines.
I have used this remedy many times
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mend it as superior to any other
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their debts to stand up. All rose
but one. He said he was the local
editor and couldn't pay his debts
because the men standing were his
delinquent subscrilers.
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