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AFTER HARKINS' SCALP. L. u. vyagnerj OT oiatesyiiie, Wants . ... . to be Collector an Change : : J -T - 1 - I Headquarters. The Landmark announces the candidacy of Mr. L. C. Wagner, of Statesville. for the collectorship of internal . revenue of this district, saying of him, among other things: . " - - . . v "Mr. Wagner is a life-long Republican, was born and reared in Statesville, and is a young maa of unblemished; reputation. lie has unusual business Qualifications and mnHo a aninni im n a Knoinoo m' He is very popular with all classes of peo- pie and when the candidate of- his party for the legislature in 1902 and again in 1904 lie received a large vote, from outside, his purty and ran ahead of his ticket.' The Observer is not ambitious to te.vo a hand in the distribution of Federal patro.f- age, but it wants to add its endorsement to Presently one or many so-called diseases, the foregoing. There is also a business nrb all being in reality but oue the fail side of the matter of the collectorship, in ure to di2est our food, make their appear :ulrition to that of nnlitirs. anrt it U r ance. We take drugs, most of tbern nddi- ferred to in the petition that is being cir- culated in Mr, Waguei's behalf, as f ollows: "The present location of the otfice of col- lector is at Asheville. N. C more than 100 miles from tho center of the collection : business of said district, little or t o business lieing contributed to said office by the ter- ritory west of the Blue Ridge." This is a vqry practical view of the case. Many people have business with the col lector and Asheville, -reason of its geo graphical relation to the district is ex- iremeiy incou vuuieui as me seal oi power, If Mr. Wagner were made " collector be would bring the office somewhere near the center of business, and this of itself is a strong argument in his favor. (Be certainly has the business qualifications for the office and the personal qualities which '"would make him a popular, collector. The Ob- server would be deeply gratified to see him I ri iron fliita onnAinfmant - PLa.lrvf Ia I ia 1 V . 1 1 . " ' l tl 1 M U.. VUttllUklC I server. H ow I ono- do unn PrnAM I . The celebrated remarks of Dr. William wsjer, or jonns iiopKins University. .cnl ' cerning the uselessuessness of ageCT inen, ,.D Kum -rf,. nrh,n fh.rfi a vosuiopouwiii, " 6 . 1 r the essence of the most approved medical and hygenic teaching, and eyery Progres- sive Farmer reader would dq well to file the article away as a motlel referring .to it constantly, to see how closely he is liying t,n in thinrecine for Droloncinisr youth. Bays I 1- v - -I r W ; Mr. Walkerf. "A human being brought into the. world with no serious constitutional defects should cundien. Believe that you have the pow le at the very height of his powers at six- er to overcome all difliculties by persistent, ty; his body should be as suple, as -vigor- couragcousV patient comliat against the ous, as hardy and as enduring as at frty. daily troubles which beset the paths of all, n., ii.!a inoona thiit it did not beffin with a .mi ivir alike ProirrL'ssive Farmer. college training of tobaaco-smoke and beer; that it has not been kept confined in rooms for long hours without fresh air; that it has not wasted its powers in drink and de- bauchery, and, also, the all-essential, that the man should have been taught how to live: Not one college proiessor in a uo:u knows how. The old regime taught Greek and Latin, but not How to Live. The new regime teaches competitive athletics, in order to advertise the college; but not How to Live.' College professors have apparently been, the last to "awake to the problems of real life; no wonder that Doc- tor Osier's observations should.have given him so poor an opinion of the human being: "But what are the rules which wUJ give Iodt life, and,, above an," mai- nappiucoa which eoroes of good health?- Let me try in profusion. We have seen the wife fol to enumerate some'of them , . iow the husband through life in one i cod- I ' . ' gteut whirl of misery and;misfortuner and ' . . . . ' 1 j n-nnn;info.i , "Plpntvm s eep in a iveu-iciuw.u room; i--wind6ws all up in summer; in win- nh un to keen a supply of fresh air ter eno t itwAiin nr mw w 1111111 iiidu m n .. i. . ur:ht r.h oi i.nou?n oi o .' . . UlUUgUvfUV r. , . it and plenty of sleep, - neither body nor mind can do its best work. . , The daily bath. This, for rich man or poor man, is equally a necessity. One does not need an expensive balh-tub a $3 tin tub, a sponge from which to squeeze watPr nlentifully over the body,:and a towel; nothing more is required.; In fact, one can do very well without even a tin tub. The hands can apply water from the basin to every part of the body, with noth ing more than a newspaper to keep the wa ter irorh the floor. v " ? "The bath ' is not a hot-water soaping process. The lye of the soapnd tho hot water take much-needed oil from the skin and leave it in a dryV unbealthful condition. The bath should be of cold water, to invlg- om a r ThGA ATI ine reuuioito ug of the skin; then hard rubbing with the hands; then another au r: nfl ' -and finally a hard a nflTfi U1I1MS . lu a - nod (. m rubbing witn a nucaaimc i"wc " & towel is a whole gymnasium in itselt. . , .mh tpt- Thereareanunureuuiuo - :-ii o f mnrle. stomach, back, arras and legs; and the same time polish nam wiu uiuo iuu uitxHi 10 ; circulate. In Other WOII'IR. til haM ia nnt marnlir ln cleansing which most people imagine, but -. r mw.j uio A 1 . S . . . . I 'mnml !! " 1 HI. New York, May 12. After more than "Abstention from over-eating. A vast eleven months in prison and 'three mis majority of all diseases spring from trials on the charge of murdering Cae overeating. " 'You crowd food into your stomach, and this can be u-ed up only by exercise, and by passing oxygen through the blood I to purify it. Then you sit in a badly ven tilated office, cr in your home, and ' expect do the rest much as if ad engi- neer should persist in haying coal crammed lnt0 uis VtlYe while standing in the I raoa-nouse. "The Jack of digestion through exercise ad the deep breathing .which comes of exercise in the fresh air, oxygenating and 80 Prifying the blood this lack causes tho 8etion of pois.)ns in the system. lional Pison8 to lhe nystem, and try easy wys of recovery. We do everything but the 0,10 Heedful thh.g exercise in the fresh "A8 the wiU h broke" by lie iordads of disease. we become less and less capable of mak -og use of Ulis medy. - ' : IV. Debaucuery by liquers, sexual dehaueh- ery, and through opium and iike drugs, and, most important lecause most preva lent, by tobacco, do not require to be touch- en upon nere. All are familiar with the ravages which any of these makes Upon the human body. There is absolutely no use in looking forward to a long or a healthy life if any of these- including tobacc is permitted to claim yon for. its own. 'My smoking does oox do me the least harm,' said the young man of thirty five, with a splendid constitution. If at fifty that man J .JV HUO 11. V-Vv , IJVi tiu iwwiuc ills UHI I a nrvniia rai !- I . nr!)! nafi-ilvn I . J But tobacco is quite capable of devastatlnc K th mt cnUn..!-) xn a.UJo.Hv, Plng the lxxly to drop an easy victim to pneumonia or zymotic disease. , ;. ,- ,;..r. .... .rr; , , . i Overwork . It is quite possible, to kill strong man through the crowding: upon .uv.i .TOfA.t.in fnr otin!s( in the fresh air, for reading, and for reason- able amusement. ' '. 3, VI. Worry. A philosophical avoidance of worrj and that care.which kills. But how? innnt wnrA. refuse to be scnretl by the M.i -r BBW - - - shadows which cross your path in bust-1 nessJn housekeeping, in the raising of God to be Judge. Did you"ever hear of a "man trying to atl unfortunate womkn when she falls from pedestal of honor and virtue? Nary a Too mucn Auamic uiouu uui creeping through ooi snake poluted veins, hen once a woman trips and falls from ner high and honored position, she lands m nejj from which no human will stop to lift ber out; hushaud and brother, father and son. aredead to her tries after that. - But on tne other hand how -be it? We have n meQ low a? is possible for . them to We have seen the wife lift the hus band from the gutter and press him U hfr heart while tears inwea uowu uci I ...t.An ot loot ot ihfi n-ate of hell they are n ucm 0 - -. - separatee, sne woum uu u t."S bands in anguish becacse the. curtain had !..-... . , nK. - su-vitlrl cm i fallen Deiween mem uu eo w.v. fe no - - farther. 1 We have seen tne moiner ionow th e "son through paths of crime, shame and degradation, through which a nan Jwas never known to follow a woman. ,Tet who is to blame for the' downfall of "woman? Who? : Let the angel be the Jury nd God. I Almighty . the Judge, Louisville : Courier-Jdiirnal. . . r . : Startling Figures. . -.- Tnmthre li life insurance; companies rnemrtw ws New York received last year from i policy . . ... .,u m : rru aiJ nnlinv holders $206,132,511.4461 holders and beneficiaries lll,4i, ro. rJ. Tbesefiwres'show.ttat thepolicy, howf pay in about twice as much as. tney receive i hack from those companies: , nF thA ino.ooo.(X)u not re- t the nolicv holders? A part used to pay extravagant saianca ' . -. 1 . "! n -cessar Zl ancf the Hke. to pay for balls aniDanque. 0id- ''-j. .. ... . li- . K.ii. oni himnnets ana vue uc, i - - ... . i .va. tui invc-4iii li I ui Dav ui ua..o ..... i startling to ; " MDav out neany wu, uu. - I?a rs nav.out neany , do Jav that is paid bade to lfaem"t: o mid that insurance is a good invest- Htllftr thai 13 Dtuu uitR. . . - - .. . ; j kAir m inom. vviiii " ; ; tirt that insurance is a gooa invesi- Tr,ZRaleich News and Observer. ment. uaieigu " wow- : . . i nhfowfiT PHFFR fiRFFT MAN'Q PFI FAQC Her Sister is Also Released and th . - . - - Women are United. sar Young, JN an Patterson walked out of the Tombs today a free woman; - As she left the great building which has been her home since7 a few days after Young was found dying in a cab in Lower New York. 2,000 people greeted her with cheers, for the news that Dis-. trict Attorney Jerome would move for er dismissal from custody had spread tnrougnout the vicinity of the court house. But the accused girl had but a few seconds to see and hear the demon- stration before she was whisked away in a cab wlth her attornoy, Abraham Levy, She le,t for hr boffle in .Washington tonight. -The move to discharge Nan Patterson came rather unexpectedly to the public. It was an hour or so before noon when District Attorney Jerome appeared be- fore Recorder Goff in a special session and announced that he desired to move the discharge of the former chorus girli withoutL bail and on her own recog nizance. This announcement followed three trials for murder. The second and third of these trials the latter con cluded only a few days ago resulted in disagreements; the first in the discharge of the jury because of the ill ness , of a juror before the case' had been con- ciU(je(j t Not the least interesting of the dav's events, ad perha$s the great 'dramatic climax to the: -troubles, of, tha. former Floora girl, was the re-up ion in free dom with her . sister, - M rs. J. Morgan Smith, and her brother-in-law, J. Mor gan Smith, both of whom were discharg ed by Justice Cowing in J the court of general sessions after being held on vuai gcoui uuuapiraujr mcuunwtiUQ wim t.Y f PftttoPCnn MCA KmllK innn nlnn. L B . . . - . - '-- ...... fM,lu -lu.f VnwmP curt in iaiung to obey a subpoena as a witness at the first triaK He was fined $250 and released pg ADMgnartTft- v Thn tdtip r tlA the nne out or a ciicck wuiuu been given her by a friendly news sDeech.' in the couTse of which he de clared that during two of the) trials "of the girl all the evidence in the posses- bion of the district attorney's office, had oeen presented mj toe uuui . uuu hnth cases there had been a'dlsagree- both cases there had been a r disagree ment. He said he did not believe "tnat i ot t.Kie timn in tho coontv another trial I anvihinjr else hut a dis- nwum w V A I agreement T I nen be aeciarea tnaL during the last trial he had information that the members of the jury had agreed that J. Morgan Smith had bought the revolver; that Nan Patterson had car- ried it to the cab, and that Caesar Young did not commit suicide. lie took occa- siori to refute published reports as to the cost of the proceedings, b ollowing this line he stated, that newspapers naa made "gross misrepresentations,", and then said: "This case has caused one more step in this con ty toward trial by newspapers, rainer inan inai, uyvjury. about sundown here came a . snbern drove "i"""8 rrr . ;.rr I do not . refer to those papers which of lXd turkeys. Unconscious of danger, could predict with almost unerring accu have merely reported the proceedings, they came almost upon ms before we let racy what the elements. I wruld be ; doing, but to Uiose ' wVich in T their editorial Ae at them, with the result that four of One day I was standing out in the cowpen rooms have labored to arouse sympathy the largest were stretched upon the ground; beside the old cow, when he suddenly.ex- f or the prisoner with the resul t of a 5e- rious miscarriage of justice. Everything that the. prosecution has done bad met my cordial and hearty LDOrobatioo. I fear nothing for myself or my assistant. ,My assistant am rigni- iit'anii Krn va! v and honestly and went gj (UV4 ' J , r t . forward with my entire approval." ' He concluded with the motion that Nan Patterson be discharged on her own recognition. It-was then that Miss DdttaKcnn nils SPfl t for and a court officer met her in her cell he said:-, " rWiA nut Nan. It is all risrht. You are going free." ' iUDGE EWART TELLS rSTORY. Talks Interesting to Charlotte" - Observer, t Ex-Judge H. G-Ewart, of, llenderson- v -L:. u .nnAntw rtnrnM1 fmmva yuie, wuu I business trip to nansas on uems, i fFu" "JTST rvntraL Sneaking & , j . - !T ... .. . wceks in' the famous Qahpii'of Southeastern Kansas, It n is a most wonuenui . In 1898 the less , . ; , lt)04 it had; in I OH nrOOQCUUU Ul nauaoo uvyuu r- i 000 barrels, and the held Until the : I i- a nn titilovAlnnnl one. Until the is yet an undeveloped one U r Tn,iarv last this produ l i . tkio Ttrnnotinn nriu-. nnr. j - .- , . - : rv "r-?-,: n51 rinmnanv. who i lamiflrv hii in vmmvk - ' i . " , cnaseu vy tu icm . i p nnA imn n t; i an ihi in I hrtvA from aBio.ww.vvA w u-v,vv7,Vvr have from $15,000,000 to 2U,uw,wu in . . . ipslation: regard , . - c - ipsUtion: regard i vesusu iu kua kJ-, & --. a ii by the company as adverso to their in terest, has had the effect of reducing 'this enormous production. The Standard has oiily the one refinery in the-West, that , at ijeodosha. . f'.But as the profits in refining of oil are enormous and as conditions' are so favora bre to the construction and operation of in" dependent refineries in Kansas built as they are in the greatest oil pool in 'thd United Stajesi if not in the world, with natural gas for fuel purposes, abundance of water, owning their own pipe lines, and low freight rates, and anti-discrimination Hws other refineries are springing up, one of the' largest of which is the Great Wes tern, There needinot necessarily be any fr'.c'tion between these independent re fineries and the standard. ' ; "Indeed, I learned from the independent refineries at Pittsburg, a - where there are quite a large number, that - their rela tions with the Standard were of the "most amicable character, and that the latter gave them a 'fair and square deal,' in many instances buying four-sixths of the refined oil manufactured by them. Dependent as they are, however, upon the Standard for their supplies of crude oil, they do not pos sess the natural 'adyautages of the Great Western, which will. own its own oil wells and pipe lines, the refinery being located within two and a-half -miles of territory producing over' 5,000 barrels per day. And this production can be quickly increased to 15,000 or 20,000 barrels per day. The Kansas farmer is strictly in it.' With a top crust of great richness, big crops of dollar wheat for the past four y tars, and royalties of 10 per cent, on gross receipts o the oil and gas wells developed on their properties, they are rapidly f acquiring' g eat wealth. , -' . ; ". ; kI saw an old fellow at Chanute, Kan., vho uld neither had realized from oil weils on an 8-acre farm I oyer $52,000 in 18 months. He had in vested his earnings in an opera house in i Chanute, and took great delight in attend ing every performance, and - especially in ging behind the scenes and drinking champagne with the chorus girls." Hunting Wild1 Turkeys in Snme vears airo 1 was iu p-".,-'M . . ... , m - Antonio, said Mr, H; J. Kice, of JNewOr- leans. "The region abounded m game, and wild turkeys were especially numerous-. Neyer.haviag bagged one of these birds. I was keen to go after them, and my .ifost promised to take me. 1 ; y.-v: o; 'We started on : the hunt and I could al- rcadv see'a'maficent gobbler;.falliiigto my firc. After walking Several Vniles to- ward thc piace where the game was sujh r rri,.nri .n. kd that ir. wag-;- well to rest a while, and threw him- .-4,-t;i. -I i a mA. AiA M m. .11 fn, t LiUoU - 1 Alio UIU U ' ' V ou&v Jt-iv : cv ui' m wa8 eacer to c6 on, and I remonstrated abont losing valuable time. For ftn ftnswer he rollel oyer on the' grass and went to 8ieep, at which I was" fired with &nger and had half a notion to go back to tlie house, '- v v 1 , i.jt waa wen along in the' afternoon be- fore )ie roused-from his wi(h au apoi0getic smile wont nave to wat i0ng the place the turkeys come to roost, ana au we will have to do is to hide and shoot them down. It was iust as he said, and After that I neyer criticized the methods of a Texas hunt.: FROM THIS TAKE HEED. HOW Easily It Could all Have Been Averted.- - " - , . ' . . TTi.. . fA citrvnp f llio man txrKrk . - . istooBtingy to take his home paper: r 'A ma'i who wao uju cuuhuluiuii who ' . iro. k.o paper sent his little boy to borrow the copy taker, by his neighbor. In -his .haste the waWbe, andin ten his cries reached his farther, who ran to his assistance, and failing to notice a barb edwire fence ran into . that, breaking down, cutting a handful of flesh from his anatomy, and ruining a $4 pair, of pants. Tne old cow took advantage of the gap I . - .... the fence, and got into the corn field .and herself eating green corn. -'Hearing the racket the wife ran out, upet, a four- oil gallon churp full ; of , rich cream into is Ibasket of -kittens, drowning the whole ii .i. t- li.: i v- A-A - an flock. lse teeth. ' The babj left alone, crawl of false "I , V -5 - - - eil through, the spilled milk and into the 1st During the. excitement the oldest daughter, , he said5-We a parior, rmmug umu ... uew kauv, n j - -r - -i . i ran awuv iirnu .mid hired man? ine uof broke up eleven setting henv and .i- .;f on .io tho taila nfF fonr . - ,. ... - i uic uuica tun uui ou .v v. - fine shirts.' Exchange. A HIDEOUS OFFERING- AM exican-Priest Burns Hi rrfself Alive oh his Church Altar. ' Houston, Tex., May 8, Offering himself as a human sacrifice at' the altar of his own cathedral,. Ariosi Onfio. parish priest, at Cuale, state of Guadalajara, Mex., has atoned . for the sins ; of ; his congrega tion, according to the dictates of his in. flamed imagination. i - ' ' ' , With his clothing saturated with" oil, he stood upon the altar in full viw ,of the thousands summoned to witness the spec tacle, applied a torch, - and- was consumed in a pillar of flames, . : As the fire sprang about him he prayed for forgiveness of the sins of the members of .the congreation, at the same time threatening with, damnation any. who might approach.: l Falling to the flaggiog of ,the edifice, even; his bones were consumed and according to the ac count of the affair received here, his dust was dissipated by a sudden' gust "of wind, the ashes settling over the awe-struck spec tators. ' A CABARRUS SNAKE YARN. An Editor's Jealousy Aroused by a Story in the Cronicle. " The jealousy of Jhe editor of The Con cord Times seems to have been aroused by an article he read in a recent issue of the" Chronicle. Feeling' that it was up to him to publish a more remarkable yarn, he sent out his snake reporter, who turned in the following story: : I v "Before the war almost all the schools were taught by Yankee schoolmams. The one I have in mind, was a splendid,' a God ly woman with one great failing iqquisi tiveness. f Before she got the hang of. the country she asked a rough looking fellow, his vocation, v ' - " 'I'm a stage driver,? " he said. " 'Do you ever see any venomous snakes Lrn any of your tnps?' " she asked. ; a unXfi Jtes -pin-inthe a snake right in the middle of the road. I rijia gfrAid hp wnnM strike on of mv hors. ?X whipped up and was on dead run when I passed over him. He struck, he missed the horses, but hit the stage tongue. Before 1 got to the bottom of the hill; I had q stop and 'take the tongue outfit had swelled sol The next week when I went I soon seen I had a goodthing. 1 1 got some f oiinwa ": to tkke over a saw mill The I tongue had swdled so they cut 300,0 6f good lumber out of it, Yes ' mam, the : nL'- . . . . . . I "We'll go one better than tne Chronicle I man: we will not only give our man's name and address, but we will furnish his photo. 1 graph as long as they last,, for thirty cents apiece." Charlotte Chronicle. Cowls Sneezing Sign of Rain.: ; ; "There waa an ,old negro' slave on my uncle's farm down in Tennessee who was a '--'" -w' ? " " 'r " ; "inis agea enegamoian, uncm xum pj name, couiu give an tuc muiuciu ouatpsi ed, 'Did you hear that?' 'Hear what; UncleTom? , , . -' Hear that old speckled cow sneeze. Sho' as you am libin', boy, it am a-gwine to rain befo' morning, kase wheneber syou hear a cow iheeze dat means rain'J - U fys- "Sure enough; it poured down from the Bkie8 as Tom had foretold, prior to that 1 bad nev r tak6n note -81 cow'8 sne5ins an(j there; may j be: skeptical j folks who u J .1. K!n ta.Aa aw KAtrina VioVkit "l"t" ... i -rKi:,i, but my own belief in it is firmly establish- --..- - ; - .. ien: ana i am eouauv euro ma wiu.- had good cause 4 to establish a connection between it and wet weather' ' TOO OFTEN THE CASE. - 1 Lawyers Seek JurOfS From Mfefl 'tf, iM jowest Order of Intelligence The most imperfect of Anglo Saxon inr glitutions & the jury system. We. receive in lt cf course, from our English torefathers l ' 4 - f-r--- from -which! fwe derived Jtfl our law, literature and religion, and Jbe years have not enabled us to improve upon H. But it a is a travesty', as candid lawyers admit;; y la fixture : and tne oesi inai-can -pou I nkn if id on imtiKlvPttient mine tvoe of - 1 nie . Called to' w ac- i . -, . ' , .1 kriowiedged mat in a cenaiu ul def of inteiIigeBce,'or fo thek prejudices, riinn wneu tueau are ow-u'w amounts, of course, to a denial of justice. Tt annears that there has been a good, oeai i - . i . - . , . ... .. . of discussion lately of this subject in the nap, ana men, Hdand the chUd td get out of the buggy - 1 tiirtn nnn it innnrn inn vfinnmiiFrH . - - - - ' m ' i . . nnm f.ir thia i I stood in iear,4 . saia - oenaioT - fjarmacK m . , . .j - j now, tor. . tnis , is i . v . - . u i tnea told ess to n(iei to Belmont and to columns of The New York Times, and we " see in the Charleston;, Kews" and Courier ! that "a writer who Signs the initials R. S. p.','has just attempted-to' impress upon the Jders of The Times the i Importance of haviDg business men of standing and in telligence not a void,- but seejt jury duty. -This correspondence, very, justly remarks. Thai we do get a portion !of thinking men on the juries la the safeguard of the whole -system V'rThia "j correspondentwe are now quoting the language of the Newa and Courier Ogives some interesting ex periences of his own while serving on ju ries. He remarts upon the care exercised -by the attorneys on both sides in selecting the jurors, each talisman.; being expressly required to swear, before vhls acceptance, that he had no prejudices'' which would prevent him from arriving'at a justyerdict. I was. amazed, he . continues, when the jury adjourned to the jury room for medi tation after heading the testimony in the first case, to hear several Jurors openly ad vocate the following sentiments: " "A man should have damage in an ac cideQt.case'whethe'rJault pn ihe part of the : defendant was proven Wnot,'(m case the plaintiff was a poor man,) because the cor poration was rich. , Employes of the stre'et railway com panies should rieyer be believed, eyen un der oath, because the. dtreet railway com panies would discharge them if they told the truth.- '---,'";--4: u-.t- x,:-: -J f "The judge's charge should; rut be ac accepted as final on a question, because the -judges were corrupt and biased and fed by the corporations for . Improperly charging the juries." , . And there you are. With a man or men on a jury, holding these'views; justice; is : not, of course to he "expected.1 Is this man exclusively a NewYork prodnot? We fear noU; If it were "understood that juries would be goyerned by the law and the evi dence many present day-plaintiffs would not be so swift to 'sue the company. Aa it is, there is every encoqragement to them to do so. Charlotte Observer NEGRO HANGED IN MISSOURI. ed to Jhe Pjjblic Square, CairoIlL, May 12. Tom Witherspoon a negro, was taken irom omcers ai iei- mont," Mo., fifteen miles below Cairo, at 6V o'clock this evening by a mob of several hundred persons and hanged in the public square to a large limb; iVitherspoon went to the home of Fred Hess, i three miles be de- mft V. fioo. , Hes- who M member of mandeH aess W?Q 18 memDr thft MiMonn lpcriolotnrej tnld the necro that -- ' ' - he did not have that, inucW money in the house. The, negro ordered him to go to. I Belmont-aqd ; get the money. He com-r pelled Hess to hitch up a horse and buggy, and ordered hinVto get ja with bis wife anjd' t chikLAThe iS negro-; then sad dled ? aupther - horse, ; andr mounting it, told Hess to drive toward Belmont and when near the place the negro lor ced Mrs, send the money back by a negro preacher - - . UtT- M Matm wife and child. : '- ; '' Heas hurried to Belmont and got the money and ' sent 1 it back with a negro her i The; 2 desperadol immediately mounted the horse ; and rode , up the Iron mountain railroad tracks.. A: posse was or ganized at once by Belmont and Colum bus 'ciUzens anoTk" small party f located the negro on a switch engine, but 4ie took ref uge in the swamp around the JPist Lakes ; Ue was captured and. taken 4oBelmont by the officers. A mob of . several hundred persons had formed In Belmont and they immediately took charge of the negro and despite Wtfbegging arid pleading they rush ed him into the public square and secured I copefromalarge-swmg and strung the j p - iS - : vc t ; ' Few-people know that pthe days of the week than the first are being , observed as Sunday by spme t nation: 'or other The Greeks obseryeMonday; thePersian8,Tnes day ; the AjBsaryans, Wednesday; the Egypt ians. Thursday; K. thfr Turks, Friday; i the Jews, Saturday, and the Christians Sunday.' Thus a perpetual Sabbath, ,is being cele brated on earth; :" A southern planter .was asking one of his colored servants about her wedding; " Yea, sun,, she said, f.'it wai jesl de hnest wed- doJ. Hou W6,?? 'tyfeySte flwer everywhere, hundredsf uv guests, music an' er heap er praym,., . ; . .s; 0, . t'lndeed," commentedJier;ma8ter, "And I suppose Sambo .looked a9. : handsome as any of them.'.;' ':( An embarrassed pause. '"Well, no-rnot 'xactly, sir. Would yer believe it, dat fool nigger neber showed npl! Harper'a Magazine. - 4 viae Ml dw i
Polk County News and The Tryon Bee (Tryon, N.C.)
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May 18, 1905, edition 1
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