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NO. 47
A Monster of a Man;
uiuusuuuo.-. .uWuU)tuuUH
nl.nnacnlfl "I ntnTinnttn.. J.!-L. 1
have produced evils more deadly, be-
cause more tuaa an tnose
caused to mankind by the great historic
scourages or war, lamme ana pesiuence
comoiueu. UtuU..M . iuo n.
noyance of modesty; the trouble of civil-
ity; the spoil of wealth; the destruction
of reason, tie is ine -orewer's agent,
the beggar's companion, toe constable's
trouble, his wife's woe, his children's
sorrow, his neighbor's scoff, bis own
shame. In short, he is a tub of -swill, a (
spirit of unrest, a thing below t, beast, I
and a monster of a man.'' .
When the president was receiv-
ing the plaudits of some two huii-
dred thousand people cathered in
,xr..u:. a.;.,... i
.ubuiuKWa.abuiuaj..wiUi u rui- 8uggestion of the policemen thegirlgath
ly sighing for the Simple Life? ert-d her knee breeches, coat, white vest,
senator yearn s .swan song in
the Senate against Mormonism
recalls Byron's words, "Tis said
swans sing before they die
"Twere better far should some I
men die before they sing. V.
The president's Inaugural ad-
dress made it pretty clear that we
want a big navy not , ' to bully !
smaller powers" as Senator Hale I
says but to keep from being bul
lied by larger powers.
Governor Pennypacker rode in
the Iuaugural parade and eeemed
to enjoy everything but the cam-
" r""'''owi'"v" I
alous tne way. lie well Knows
there is more than
one way of I
producing caricatures
Because "Roosevelt . luck" ex
tended even to the weather for his
Inauguration is no " reason why
congress should decide to post
pone the Inaugural ceremonies to
April thirtieth. There are .too
many odds against the climate on j
the Fourth of March- 1
District attorney Jerome of
Jsew l ork seems to have adopted
that working theory of Roosevelt
that, candor next to nonesty is
the best policy. At the same time
- a
he makes the announcement that
the pickpockets work a system of
dividing profits with the defec
tive force he also states that he
will be candidate for office again.
His election is a foregone con
clusion. aHnftrftl Stoessfii: the reports
, ...
Huuuuuco was uuk uiof "J
. . - .a w s nir n i"i
nanas on nis return to pi; i era- t,Ag goon ag my cousin brought my dres
burg. Probably the more impor- 8C8 from Roanoke I expected ' to try and
tant part to the General is that get work in a tobacco factory," replied the
hft wan n ot met bv auv bombs.
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w . -a i r j t
Has tlie country oeiore uau a
president who could welcome witn
enthusiasm a crowd of cowboys
and a Harvard college
i K9
Roosevelt mav be a republican.
but he is the most -Democratic
president we have ever had.
Congress spent money at the
rate of ninety million dollars an
hour on March fourth. This will
beat even Mr. Carnegie's library
record. :
The Senate does riot believe that
Judge Swayne was-guilty, but the
House haa amended his fen bill so
a tn rflmnvp aiiv temptation that
might assail him. .
.
A recent consular report states j
that the towel and soap have pen
etrated to China: If all the laun-
not left the Mother
ormnt.v tn rnme to us ereat things
f inni;n0a max, rnmt,o Mssin
yji ucouiiucoo ww - x
the Celestial"Empire.
.
The House presented Speaker j
Cannon with large silver loving
cup at thef close : of ' the session.
TTnnlft Jn accented it - but he
doubtless would have perferred a
tiu dipper or a gourd.
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Girl in Boy's Clothing
vuircpooueuce or me Ubservr . -
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Winston-Salem. March 10 -T .
ucemen this mornine discovered what
proved to be a decided sensation -a good-
loosing eighteen-year-old cirl attired 4
uujro cunning, ine girl, who. says hr
name is Eula Jackson Carutbers Newman
was found by . th officers at the home of
Ada aurus, colored, beyond the Norfolk &
W esterd depot. When the policemen
called at the Burns woman's house to in-
vestigate - a report that a white girl was
stopping there, the colored woman ob-
jected to the ofScers entering her home.
air. .trait pushed -the door open and the
two officers walked in. Eula was found
lying on abed. After questfoning her
L6be admitted that she was a girl and added:
, AS you rve- OTU UP w,tli me 1 had
Hurt well tell you all about it." At tLe
cup. shoes and - stockings aud was icon
1 dressed. The girl and colored women were
escorted to the mayor's office in the
municipal building. The news of the dis
covery made by the offloers spread like
wild-fire and iu a short time men heffan
flocking in and out of the office like bees
in a hive. I
At first the girl, refused to tell her full
uame. Chief Crutchfield advised her to
tpH lhf vrhnlA truth nhint. tlio mtlai Ud.
related the foiiowinz aiorv:
was 18 years old last November. My
mother died at Pirnix. Bedford countv.
Va., over a year ago. My father, who is
a farmer, treated me so badly that I left
home two months after my mother's death
and went to H llins, Va., where mv
brother, George Newmvi, and halt broth-
er. Price Robereon, lived. They refused
do anything for me and I went to Roa.
for Dr.JTinton H tnhl mP thai mnrk
was too bard for me and I went to the
boarding house"" of Mis. Sanders. My
cousin- was pavinr Mrs. 1 Banders for mv
board.
'A few days ago I heard a report that
thu Officials of Roanoke were arranging to
send me to a reformatory. I told my
cousin about it and he objected to it. Fie
then assisted me iu planning how to get
out of Roanoke. I had my hair cut and
brought the suit I have on, paying for It
myself.' Before leaving Roanoke Wednes-
day I talked jvith one of the policemen and
1 asked him - wh&t"they were going to do
with Eula Newman. He replied that ar
rangemcnis were being made to send her
to a rpformfttnrv. T Rmilfti and tnld him 1
lhoUght the idea a sood one. Tne offlcer
jdid not know me.".
Continuing her story Eula said that she
left Roanoke Wednesday afternoon " on a
freight on which her cousin, spoken about
was employed. 'I rode in the car and
fooled the jther traiu-rnen good, telling
them ray name was unariie. upon our
arrival at Winston-Salem at 9:15 Wednes-
home of this colored woman, lAda Burns).
He diet not let himself be Known. I knock
ed on the d.ior aud begeed th woman to
let ine stavall night at her house, aud my
request was gramea.
What .did vou intend doioer here?"
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gr,
who
added
that
she expected her
cousin to
arrive
here
to-day with her
clothes. ,
The irirl was detained until Mayor Eaton
arrivet at io:10 from Charlotte. After
conversing with her for a few minutes the
mnvor instructed Chief Crutchfield to
wire me auinormes ui jwauunc tw occ
what they knew about the girl. ,
N Salisbury Burglar Caught.
Salisbury, March 12. This morning
about 2 o'clock some one tried to enter
the residence of Cant S. R. Richards,
on the corner of Main and Bank streets,
and Mr. Clint Greene, who rooms there,
f,vA at him with a shotgun. He
thought his aim was effective an arose to
find what he had done. Mr. ureene was
sure that the i fellow had fallen, but
could find no trace ot him. bhortly af-
ter o'clock a telephone call from Rev,
Dr. Rumple brought officers to his
house. A negro of suspicious character
there and the officers, Messrs
Georce Eagle and Ben Cauble, arrested
him. He was in search ef a physician
and mistook the good minister for a
nhvsician. An examination showed that
he bad been shot in the face witn a
it hfiinor Tlainlv evident that shot
,.A nf HniiPta did the work. The ne-
LmcnM hft had been shot with a pistol,
fe.w ,
Ko notnre riirt not fttrree Wlin mm
and he was locked up. Charlotte
Observer.
Tr flnrtfl vou having success-
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1U1IV U"'"hu f
n . ,m aori.
paign win uo v .
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worK 01 managing .wo iou
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The. Bond Settlement
TI.A rixridolnro ho. .Inna ' It. ,itn )
hrin.U 'hW emumW w'
North Crnlin n.,im Tnrt. rS
Glenn and the Council of Statehave done
well in reaehW an Rcrrmant nn th
matter and ihey have the thanw of the
people -of North Carolina for bringing it
about. It is a just debt and the State is
doir-g only its duty in meeting the obliga
tion: The first two or three DroDositions
made by the holders of the outstanding
bonds "were unreasonable and Governor
Glenn quite oroperlv turned them down.'
Both.sides have now agreed, upon an equi-
table settlement. Schafer Brothers of New
York, hold 242 bonds, and for -which the
Btate agrees to pay 215,864, which is
nearly half a million dollars less tlmn the
principal and interest. Or in other words
North Carolina DroDOses to Dav Schater
Brothers twenty-five cents on the dollar on
all the bonds they hold and to pay the in
terest on the bonds and counons 'since
1879. Therefore, under this agreement of
settlement the holders of these bonds will
get the same .amount they would have re-
ceived had they accepted the offer made to
them by the State in 1879. The settlement
is fair and lust and will meet with the ap-
proval of the people of North Carolina.
Tdc ten bonds . held by South Dakota and
Ior winch that btate recently secured judg-
ment are not included in the above, but
must be settled for in a separate provision
which will be made; by . the Legislature. -
Charlotte News, ' ' i i
HE SAYED ANDREW JOHNSON.
Edmund G. Ross; Aged 82, a for-
ting Type in New Mex
ico. At the age of oJ, setting type ri a
couutry newspaper office, in New Jfex-
ico, is an old man who once held in his
hand the fate of President A ridrew
Johnson. Such a character must be of
especial interest to east Tennekeans.
That man $s Ed mund G. Ross, wbgas
just been granted a pension . by; the
House of Representatives as a tinion
veteran of the civil war. (
When President Johnson vetoed the
act of Congress. th at carried with ii the
proposed fourteenth amendment to the
constitution of theUnited States, h&waa
impeached for bis act. On the trial of
the impeachment of a President of the
United States it requires a two-thirds
vote to convict. Mr. Ross was at tnat
time United States Senator . from Kan
sas. Before the final yote was taken it
was ascertained that there were thirty
five Senators who had declared their
intention of voting for conviction.There
were nineteen who had either not ex
Dressed themselves or had - decided to
vuw 4 &w v,
vote to the majority would have jriven
the required two-thirds and Andrew
Johnson woulcl have been convicted of
high'crimes and misdemeanor and would
have been deprived of his high office
of President of the United States. ; Mr-
Rosa was one of the nineteen. It was
generally understood how Fessenden,
Fowler, Grimes, Henderson, Trumbull
and Van Winkle would vote, bat .Ross
whnsfl name came near the bottom of
he roll call, represented a State that
was intensely radical in its Republican
ism and union feelings. Pressure, abuse
and threats were brought to bear upon
Mr. Ross to whip him into the majority
column, but he stood steadfast and his
vote for acquittal turned the scale in
favor of the President and saved him
from imoeachment. Since that time
he was denounced and execrated, ruin
ed in his profession and driven from the
State.
Mr. Ross is said to be the last one of
that small group of Republican Senators
who followed the dictates of their con
science and convictions, and, while men
like Trumbull and Fessenden were able
to withstand the storm of partisan hate
that was hurled against them, Koss was
unaDie to stand against ' the ruin that
beset him. While the pension is grant-
eQ Mr. Ross as a veteran of the civil
waV; it is in reality intended as repara-
tion for what he suffered and is a tardy
uktrvl 8Herht ; rftcoe-nition for the dia
play of moral courage more heroic than
anv ohvsicai valor ever displayed upon
. 1 V
the battieneia. noxvnio oeuuuoi. ,
Will the House take advantage
r iu Ac,,; oaf ohl iahfid bv
the Senate that it may vore
itself
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m oncrp witnOIlL CODSUU111K f til?
nT)Der house or the President?
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i .ira n in ' hwiii ill
JUOge OWayue mauo;u "
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in fftar that winaows in . ceriaui
- un.oa Anniftd bv senators
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might :be broken?
Social Games For Prizes.
At Hawkinsville, Georgia, on Mon
day," February 13th, Judge John H.
Martin gaye the following charge to the
grand jury of Pulaski county: i V
. "I charge you that society people, -be
they male or female, w ho form social
clubs and meet from time to time at
the homes of the members and play I
wnist, progressive euchre, flinch, trail, I
bunco or any other game with cards or I
like devices for valuable prizes pur-
chased with funds to which the players
have contributedare as much guilty of I
violating the law against gambling- as )
the veriest plebeians who hover around I
a lightwood knot fire and play seven up, I
or poker, or skin, for the paltry pennies I
and nickels, and the person knowingly I
permitting; such playing at his or herl
house is as guilty of keeping and main
taining a gambling house as is. the prcn
prietor of a den in some back alley
where gambling is practiced. 'Quit
you like menr be strong, and when
weighed in the balance of duly be found
not wanting. Strike at this evil in high
places as well as inflow places with all
yonr might. It is not less criminal to
play for a silver card case than for a
plain silver dollar as it comes from the
mint." -
Referring to this charge, ex-Governor
Northen (of Georgia) has printed in
the. "Atlanta Constitution" his com
ment on this charge in the following
language: r..: '
' '.'Editor Constitution: I. have just
read Judge Martin's 'charge to the
grand jury of Pulaski county, publish
ed in this day's issue of the 'Constitu
tion.' -You did well to give this strong
deliverance such prominent space in the
paper It is a most admirable docu
ment. It reads well and it has been
given to the people at a most opportune
time." If the judge's , grand jury will
measure up txThis demands, radical and
much-needed reforms will be entered
upon, for the betterment of our indus
trial conditions and our social systems
as well. . ' '-' ; ' -
"Whilst 1 heartily indorse every
word in the charge, I desire to give my
strongest approval to what Judge Mar
tin says about gambling. His' state
ments, if true, are worthy to be repeat
ed, so that some check, if not complete
restraibt, may be put upon what he
calls gambling. in our homes."
Governor Northen has supplied for us
just the comment which Judge Martin's
address would naturally evoke. The
remedy for this evil, as for intemper-
ance, lies in the creating of a strong
and healthy public sentiment upon this
subject. And this sentiment must be
created by the faithfull example and
earnest remonstrance of the children of
God. .
Judge Martin, declared that ninety
per cent, of business defalcations are
the fruit of gambling. A tree which
bears such fruit as this is worse tnan a
harren fig tree. Religious Farmer.
Pointed Paragraphs.
Clothes do not make
the man.
Man
makes the clothes
It is a wise woman who is able to
convince her husband.-
Nearly all men believe that nonesty
Many a young man who thinks he is
It sometimes happens that' an artist
pot-boiler doesn't even provide a' cold
dinner.. .
Of course its hard to believe, but
more than likely you were considered a
handsome baby.
Tf a married couple never quarrels I
the neighbors accuse them of being too
lazy to start anything. " " ;
A woman is apt to accuse a man of i
being a flatterer if he calls her hand
some: but she gets mad if he doesn't.
:. M-M
There is only one cloua on
President Roosevelf s horizon.
Tne senate is still in session.
The Court of Death
Death (says an old legend) having oc-
easion to. cnoose - a mme minister, sura
inoned his illustrious courtiers, and allow
ed them to nresent their - claims to the of-
flce. Fever flu8hed his cheeks: Palsy shook
. ?t nmav inflated hia nftrcaaa Gout
HIMWIM "
rackedliis ioints; Asthma half strangled
himself; Colic pleaded his violence; Plague
his sudden destruction, and Consumption
his certamty. Then came.War, with stern
rnfMer. alluding to his many thousands
devoured at a meal. Last came Intern--
nprance. with a face like fire, shouting,
imiM wqI va RiVklv hand of nretenders!
Am I not- your parent? Does not sagacity
vnnr nrl r n to me? If mv ooeratious
cease, whence will come your power?'
Th. th. r,Wff mf.nnh: Death rave
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Bmilfl nf Rnnroval and niace(i Intemperance
t hu rfrht. hand as his favorite and Prime
Kr
I Minister. . --j
John Williams and Tom Reed.
One of the stories told by Mr. Wil-
Hams concerning the late Speaker Thos.
B. Reed, was as follows: -
"One day," said Mr, "Williams, VI met
Mr. Reed coming out of the cloak-room
and he said to me in that peculiar drawl I
of his: '.'Williamsv whatever
makes I
you such. a bitter partisan?".
,v well, Mr. speaker, that's pretty
good coming from you, isn't it?" I re
plied
"Never mind me he replied, but why
are you such a bitter partisan?'
" 'Well, I'll tell you,' I said. ' You
know I never saw a republican until I
was 38 years old and I can't get used to
them, somehow.'
"He looked at me reproachfully and
walked away without another word."
Baltimore Sun.
Succeeded in Business but Failed
As a Man.
(O. S. Martin in Success Magazine. )
He stopped growing. :
He never learned to look on the sun
ny side.
He stuffed his pocket-book but starved
his brain.
He had no use for sentiment which
could not be cashed.
He never learned to take drudgery
out of his work.
He did not live in his upper stories,
bus in the basement of his being.
He regarded "his business as a means
of making a living instead of a life.
He lost hisr early friends by neglect,
and had no time to cultivate new ones.
He never learned to enjoy little things
to see the uncommon in the common. "
He never learned to lubricate his
life's machinery with laughter and good
cheer.-'.- "V-
He made life a grnd, out of which
he got neither pleasure, profit nor enr
joyment. - - 'r- ; : : , .
There was only one side oflhis naturel
developed, and that was the money-
making side. " :
No face ever brightened at his ap
proach, no heart th rilled at the sound
of his voice. . - -
Society bored him, children bored
him, music and drama were unknown
languages to him. - :-::-
He never learned to enjoy himself as
he went along, but was always postpon
ing his happiness.
He could not rise to his. feet to speak
at a public meeting, or to put a motion,
if his life depended on it. - A
He used every means to develop his
business, but none to develop his mind
or make himself a larger man.
When he retired from business he
found that, in his: struggle to get the
means for enjoyment, he had murdered
his capacity to enjoy.
When the people , broke through
the police and militay lines and
rushed mob-like on the stand from
which the president was to deliver
his Inaugural address Roosevelt fidenC9 esteem," responded Lieu
remained stab ding "with perfect tenant- Governor Winston. - :
composure until order had. been
Antablished and then he addressed
i ; nf hifl 8Deech directlv to
"w -. .
men wonia nave peen to crawi
I under the benches.
Wanted More Hay
Two clubmen were
praising the pluck
of dogs." -
'A good dog," said one, "has the same
kind of pluck
that old Jerome McWade
used to show. - -
"He was a farmer, seventy years, old,
but still, hale and gay. One, : morning he
and his two sons got to wrangling over
their strength, and Jerome declared that
he could load quite as fust as they could
pitch it: -
You at your age, do that?' said the
young men, wever.
We'll have a trial, said' Jerome.
Come out to the fields and well haye a
trial now. -
"So to the fields they went, and Jerome
got into a hay wagoa with his forkand
the two boys, down below, began to pitch
the hay up- to him as last as tney couia
pitch it.
"The
old. man stood ;up to his work
stoutly, i He loaded with ligntamg speed
and all the While he kept calling down:
More hay I More hayl
. The boys worked hard. Their youth
told m their tavor. - via Jerome got w
loading more and more untidily. Still, as
he scrambled about' on top of the nneyen
i moanas, ne conwnueuwBuuui.
h "All of a sudden he tripped as he dug in.
nis iora anu icu uuui 6wu w
ground.
a " Ana,' said MS oiaesi son,
'what are
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you doing down nerer
"Jerome, as he rose, answered:
'I came down for more bay.'
The Irishman Had Doubts
As is well known, Rev. .Robert Coil-
yer, of New York city was a blacksmith
in Germantown, Penn.- before he be
came a preacher. Once, when there
was little work at band, he asked a
builder in his neighborhood for some-
thing to do. The latter replied that all
he could give him would be a job of car
rying the hod. . '
"I'm your man,?' replied the black
smith, promptly.' . .
Years afterward, while an imposing
edifice was being erected hi Chicago for
Dr. Colly er, he was standing among the
beams, hatching the progress of the
work, when an Irishman came along
carrying a hod of bricks.: Dr. Collyer
spoke to him and he paused.
"This is har-rd work, sorr," said the
Irishman. '
"I know that well, " answered Dr.
Collyer; "injny day. I've carried the
hod myself.' 7 . ; -''i;':: ?
"The Irishman stared atme an in
stant," said Dr. Collyer in relating the
incident, "and then went on his way
mumbling something that sounded sus
piciously like I would't a' belaved the
parson was such a liar.' " Success.
A FITTING CEREMONY
Eloquent Presentation Speech by
Capt. Mason arid the President's
Response,
An appropriate ; and v fitting ceremony
took place hi the senate yesterday at 12:45
when Senator Scales -introduced CapU
Thomas W. Mason of Northampton, ' the
Cicero of the senate. Captain Mason address
the body, saying that the hour for adjourn
ment was nearly at hand, t a time of sad
ness, for it meant the severance of many
pleasant relations. The watchers at the
bedside of the old ; friend, Colonel New
combe, thought that the end had come,
life was nearly extinct, but they saw he
wasjtapping lightly on the cover with his
thin ; fiogers, keeping time with distant
bells, and : as the - echoes of their silvery
notes dief outjthe dying man anajweredVI
am here,", in his thoughts he had gone,
back and was responding to the roll call of
his
his boyhood. .There was not one senator
here who had not faithfully answered the
roll call of his state. Many ; perplexing
questions have frequently arisen there have
been differences of- opinion, tut not one
act of discourtesy or of party rage has been
seen on the floor ' of this senate. Not one
senator will carry, away altering wound
or an unhallowed memory. 1
Then ; addressing Lieutenant-Governor
Winston,- Captain " Mason said that
much of this good feeling, courtesy and
faithfulness was due to the presiding officer
and : now , hia fellow senators desired him
to present, as a token - of their love and
esteem: a beautiful silver, service to adorn
I his home as a reminder t of the pleasant
j scenes and memories of this session.
vnator, l am oeepiy toucned Dy the
ttermg language ox my gooa mena, wno
''A legislative experience ! in both
branches of the general assembly, reach-
ing back ' twenty years, discloses
twenty years, discloses no more
patriotic senate than , this oyer which I
have had the honor to preside. - That the
business of this, body has progressed with
decency and in order is due largely to your
own "sense of duty and : observance of the ?
rules which you have enacted for your
guidance. " i, -
"Iccept this beautitul gift, but I assure
you it is not needed to remind me of my
pleasant intercourse with you, but it will
call to mind, that this has been a North
Carolina general assembly. The general
assemblies., in : some states hav met, and
the press teems with , reports of investiga
tion of misconduct of members, and whole
sale charges of corruption are common, but
this general assembly ; has not furnished a
single instance of official corruption, or
personal unfitness for the duties incident
thereto. Not a delay has occurred and not
ajbill has beeu misplaced or lost. I can
not better express my high appreciation of
your.xgif t than by stating that it will be
placed in a home where every member of
this body will be a most welcome visitor, .
should chance bring yon to "the good county
of Bertie. - Permit me to imitate the ex
ample of 4 my good friend and go to the
great master of . ' literature f or ' the senti
ment which" is now' v uppermost , in my
hearth la the language of Dicken's "Crip
pled Tiny .Tim," permit the to say, 'Crod
bless us one and alL -Post.
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r The X-Ray lias been used to
demonstrate; that -l crook in a
prize-bull pupa tail had been the
the result pf -.nature . and not of
'tampering" , as ! the judges be
lieved. Thus are , great scientific
discoveries turned to the benefit
of mankind. . '-