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- - JMJi& " ' - U v:'-W-:i'-;i-t J 1 Vff. gilARTIN, Editor and Proprietor, r, IaC'?-:" -volume re. :. ; : i -r ironfr 1 m:$u BILL ABrS LBTTBB, Atlanta Gonstltatlon. March has no faiendi'II ; ia Ta'diaa-' - greeable, uncertain blustering month. -It was named for Mars, the God of "War, who was the son of Jupiter and was always hunting around for a fight. He was believed to be the father of '. Romulus, the founder of the .-Roman ' Empire, and hence was held ia great ' reverence by the Romams. - March was named for him. Those old Greeks and Romans had no weeks nor days of the week no Sundays or Mondays or any -other day,"-, tut they divided time by Calends and Ides. The Calends were : the ;; fifteenth; A11 the" intermediate days were designated by these, as for instance, the third day after the Cal ends of May or the fifth day before the Ides of March. The Roman senate -; always began its sessions on the Ides of ." the month, except that. after Julius Caesa was murdered the anniversary ; of that daf the Ides of -March were observed as a .sacred day. r l ; want the young people to know and remember that we got our months from Roman mythology and the days of our weeks from "the Scandinavian mythology. Now listen to' a part of this wonderful story, for it is classic and more fascinat ing than . the Arabian Nights. Two thousand years ago it was the faith and religion of millions of people. Jupiter was the god of the Greeks and the Romans and Woden was the god of the Norsemen and each had a son who was the eod of war. There was the son of Woden. . Wednesday was named for Woden and it was originally ; Woden's , day. : Thursday was named ;for Thor and Friday for his mother. Each of - these mythologies had a hades or infer nal region for bad people ; and evil spirits. - Pluto presided over the one and a woman named Hela over the other. That is where the word Hell came from. -. It seems an awful thing to put hell in charge of a woman, but they said that no man was as bad as a bad woman. Her father was named Lokiand she had two brothers. One was a serpent so big and so long that it wrapped around the world and .then swallowed its own tail. The other wolf so strong that" he broke the was a strongest chains just like they were cob- webs. . Then Woden got tne mountain spirits to make another chain and they made it of six things. The noise made by a cat walking, Ihe beard of a woman, the roots of stones, the breath of fishes, the smiles of bears and the spittle birds. -When the chain was finished it was as small and smooth and soft as a silken stripg, - but no power on earth could . break it. And so they chained him and killed him. BuTusten what kind of home Miss Hela had. Hunger was her dining table. Starvation was - her knike. Delay washer man ' servant Sloth " her maid servant. A . precipice was her door step, Care her ; bed, and ' Anguish the curtains to her : bed chamber. No wonder: she was " cruel and always wore a stern, unhapy And forbidding countenance. V " This is ftfst a sample of their mythol ogy ' It fills . up several books. Now, where in" the world did that people get all these wonderful stories ? Away back in the ages they must have had poets more imaginative than Homer. Some of our most learned men say they got the foundiltion of many of them from r the Bible. For - the story goes that away back in the ages the people got so bad that Jupiter got dreadful mad with them and ; resolved to destroy them, So" he summoned all the gods to come to him,- and they came from all parts of the heavens, traveling on the milky way, -which is the street of the gods, and af ter taking counsel together they de termined to destroy all mankind and start with a new pair. - So Jupiter was about to launch a red hot thunderbolt at the earth and burn it up; but one of the gods told him that he had better oot, for he might burn up heaven, too. 6o ie concluded to use water instead of fire, and then came the flood which drowned every human, being except Deucalion and his wife, rho were good neonle. I Theo escaped to the top of a mountain called Parnassus and were , Mved. That is very much like the Bible ' crtorr of the flood and of Noah and "Mount Ararat And just so' they: got Hercules from Samson . and ' Vulcan and Aoollo from Jubal and Jubal Cain. and the Dragon frdm tlifi, serpent that '.il tempted Eve, and the giants who tried ? I to scale the walls of heaven from Nim- xod and his tower. ' Every great heath en god had a favorite son just as our Chnstain God has a.Bom There :is something sublime and comforting in - -- T-'-r--- r. -even believing or imagining that a j- . great and good being is somewhere in . ' -Slfffj;-the":lieavens overruling the earth and 1?.iir':''r i", Dunishing the eviL T)he fact that this powerful being is invisible makes -p. His existence . the more impressive 'f':Sc' Jupiter sat ehthrdned'bn Mount Olytn ; rXpus, Woden had a beautiful- place of '?-: iigold and silver at Valhalla and it could .-'":.". S -only be reached by walking on . a rain jZ: 3i5 bow. And we pray to ourGod, saying,: " ,: . - Oh.Thou who dwellest in the heav I : ' 4 - i . " nii." and not in the temples made 1 ? . -:;58ftrith JiandsV! Hjsto?y'givesriio account t " -Vc,of -any people who, did not put their . -'y.?J:i trurt in some God. and this proves- our . confession of weakness and our need of -iiiatrerfrom.-fKwne sapernalunldinn- WSXity. The mote cultured and enlightened , i?.ief?:wre become "the more conscious we are " v-; :-S"cf our weakness Children depend ab ; tcltitely on their parents until afariup f-i t in-tieir teens. They -do not need any : c " :r God, but by and by the parentl - - I away or fail to supply their tncreai " ' . - rants tid th'ea-comea that fselfsj ..--la-"if-i rnd the. war ex a f ' : Ion t-m-i v : fs? tell oy what power he raises bis hand or-closes his eyes when he wills to do so. "He says he would have planned many things very different. "He would have given man wings and the! power to fly. IHe would have , made health catching instead of disease. He would have made infants colic proof and "they should be as lively when born ' as Tittle chicks when they come out of "the shell, and the old men should-: always be calm and serene, j In fact, he would have made - everybody hapy .durujg hfe- and every death a painless one, He ought to have gone a little farther and abolished death and then created more worlds for the never dying people to live in.' But we are here and have to submit to things as we find - them, and, as Governor pates said, "Mr. Ingersoll, what are you going to do about itr' : . ' :: s-And now I want this month of March to hurry m and pass away. It ia aggra vating my grippe and I feel more- like ilt I writine "an ode to melancholy' contract and withers my charity fox my fellow men. I don't care k ooit for Roosevelt and Tillman, nor Spooner nor the Atlanta "depot. But as the old Persian phophet said, "Even this shall away."- ; Fifty-three years ago today my wife and I were married, but on our account the weather was as lovely as a Lapland night. ; I was one of ten children my wife was one of ten, and we have ten, and they have twenty, and no great calamity or affliction hath befallen us, thanks to the good Lord for His mercies. Bill Aep. Plata Talk; Terr Plain. Charlotte Observer. - This talk about the 'consent of the governed is, when you get to the bottom of it, mostly rubbish- . We people of the South, for instance who have for years been cheating niggers at elections and kept it up until we concluded ., that it was cheaper to disfranchise them' by legal, enactment, now shed crocodile tears on account of the woes of the Filipinos and cry aloud that all just government derives its . authority from the consent of the governed. Rot! The South didn't consent to. the gov- ernment that it got for several years after the Civil War; The Southern niggers are not consenting to the gov ernment they are getting now.- We talk about the consent of the governed and taxation without repre sentation, when these arguments run our way; but we forget how often these principles have been violated in our own country to-day with our approbation and as the result of bur own acts. Con sent of the governed! Taxation without representation! Rot! '' American Cotton Beaten.' The negroes of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute who were en gaged the latter part of 1900 .by . the German government to teach the natives of Togoland, German, West Africa, how to grow cotton; have, according'to the report of .the colonial committee, succeeded in producing cotton which is graded on the Bremen exchange above The Tuskegee negroes have demon- . . . . 6 . . . strated that the land in Togoland is suitable for cotton, of. which there is great abundance.. The only obstacle to the commercial utilization of this pro duct is transportation and especially gettm the bales to .the coast. The J colonial committee has sent anexpedu i bon of engineers to survey for a railroad from the coast town of Lome to Palime, in the interior. ; " . -.' : - - ' imaaona nannclnc; Gorman Boom. f Phiuidedfhia, March iS.-r-Infor-mation receivecl here to-night is to the effect that Senator Simmons, of , North CaroUna, has taken charge of the Gor- manlKomfor,lBideX long- talk with the . Marylander last mght and to-day canvassed the con ereesional leaders in his favor. Gorman and Bryan are in Washington to-night conferring with the leaders: regarding the organization of the national cam rtaifim committee to-morrow nieht. I Gorman's Mends are in large' majority," and it is possible the committeee may finally renounce Bryan. , A Gorman man will almost -certainly be elected chairman. . .-: .. ' .- -s.. : : niMlsslnpi fcammUes Ball dine a Ball road. v . . As Mississeppi led in setting the best method for . the .utilizing of convict labor in the. south, so as to make -it profilable, ' she is now going to set the pace; in regard to.the' working of the inhabitants of her "insane asylum. A railroad is being coneti-ucted . with the patients of the insane' asylum of the state, and the road that is being built by this unusual class of labor ia three miles in length. : It is the first road in. the state that was ever built by this class of labor.!??; j f'--tT Mad Mo XHSTerence. i?-'l?m afraid Edward you're marrying me only because I've, inherited $50,000 from my uncle." 'ri;?. l"''"v .' . -'Why, Blanchei how can you think that of me? . Your uncle is nothing to me! I would marry you no matter from whom you inherited the money.' . " An 'editor in ' Cinghamton, N. took, to : joCTilariy, addressing an citizen of. his town as "colpnel" "and often referred to him in7 his newspaper as - "Colonel . Tyler" .' until " everybody took it up and sainted ''Colonel Tyler." This -li2s raillt ry eolriquent pleas- el Cie roc:pi3.t i-:nens!y and when :-'7 he pi;::! 1:.I3 it tras . ' -o- i 1 aisutrr it (u'iCrlmrlViick WW p. K. C. B. in CHatioeOferveiCi r; n EuziBEiH Crrr, March 13.4-James Wilcox was put up on trial for his life here at o'clock to-day. 5 The (court house wai nacked full of men Not si single woman was in attendance. Th j audience' was .eager : to hear; what was coins on but was at . no tame ugly or boisterous. "'The regular r-jurorsTvere ; called and 153 of he venire. ; The, State set aside three without cause and the lefense 20. At 8:45 . o'clock . to-night the last juror was chosen. Two ttegroes 1 were amone the- twelve. ; The trial of Wilcox, charged-with the murder of Miss Nellie Cropeey, of this place, on the night of November 20, 1901, began in earnest to-day.; 11 is a most interesting case on account of the social Dosition-Of Jthe two -families, con-1 cernea ahrnTybterv that SBurrdtond I iu - ; ' : 1 Mr. James Wilcox, son of ex-Sheriff Thos. P. Wilcox, of this county, went to tne .nome 01 jut., wiiiiam xx. rop-1 Bey, a well-to-do trues, xarmer 01 tnis place, on the night of November the 20th, to call on ' Miss Ella Maud, or "Nellie" Cropsey, to whom he had been paying considerable attention. . When he arrived at the Cropsey home, say about 8 o'clock, the whole family was in the sitting room. : Young Ray Craw ford was there, calling on Miss Olive, a sis ter of Miss Nellie. . Soon - after 9 o'clock all the members of the house hold except Misses -Nellie, Olive., and Carrie ''Cropsey retired. Later, Miss Carrie, "a ousin of the other fwoi girlsj who was'-dowEton visit, ;wentt to her room. This left tne young men and their respective lady 'friends together. At 11 o'clock Wilcox, rising from his chair announced: "I must go home; my mother will be uneasy if I:etay out after 11 o'clock." This was said in a (r-5 jocular-way? ntinuingxsaiddgey did not die" from a blow and.?100161 the third time in twelve "MissjNellie, would like tpeS iouf drowning, too. -' She died from one or months, and I dare say, will yet be pre S Yki'kAU S Ua wvllnH a ytiAawktfia dnA t went oui, acronapanieu py .ine gin. one was never een after iaat jby anybody, except Wilcoxi until iher dead body was found floating jus beneath the surface UI liiio wsuirnu jcagquutwu. aver, uu the morning of the 27th of December. f Miss Olive Cropsey bade Mr. Urawr ford good night and -went up-stairs to . her room, thinking that her sister had already gone. That was about 30 min utes after Nellie and Wilcox had gone into the hall together. But not find ing ber up - there she concluded that she and Wilcox had crossed over to the parlbr and were -still there. However, when she had . gone to bed, taken a short nap and waked she missed Miss Nellie and gave the alarm. The entire family was soon up and searching everywheres Theefforts were in-vain. Somewhere about 1 o'clock Mr. Cropsey went to the home of Wixcox s father arousea toe young man uu. toiq, wm that Nelhe could not be found and ask ed if he knew anything of her. Wilcox answered that he did not inow any ; more than that he left her leaning ; against the post of rTthe porch crying lr a X TTca-a ItViA tnnrn Wilnox nsuA that hft i.did in- the town Wilcox said that he did m- : vite the girl out and she - went on the porch with him.- - There he handed her : a parasol, or an umbrella, that she had ! given him, and a picture of herself. She broke into a cry and declared that! she knew what that meant.. He begged her to go into the house out of the cold, but she would not do so. - He then told Bhe replied:" "Go on." Heleft her 'crvine. . ; In order to "Understand the evidence that will be given in . this trial, one should fix the location of the Cropsey house in his mind.- The house is about I : a half mile, southeast of . the court, ?rtY SnUluiii nlf ihal Tiber and Herrington creeks, two small streams that empty into the Pasquo tank river; then go out what is known as ittverview avenue, -the ' road' that leads to points in the southern part of the county. ' This road, " or ' avenue, passes between the Cropsey home on the right and -the river on the left. A boy could staniTon the front steps of the Cropsey residence and throw a rock across the road into the -river. ' If ' a straight line 100 yards long were drawn from the steps out over , the river, and then earned a sharp turn to the right. mwn down the river for about 100 -yards, the exact spot where - tne body ' waa t oundj would be covered, i JXha place is near a clump of small trees and about 80 yards from the bank. , The .body of. the girl could have been taken there by a strong man o been . borne overf urr a, boat and dumped oub 4 possibly avcfl washed over there from , some - other ; point Ia thriver. ; In either case tlie city might nave slept on uu morning without the knowing that any thihg'had j happened had it not been that the girl was missed. The Cropsey home is on the very southeastern edge of the town. It is next tothetet touserathe.cpf ate Uniits. listandB between twdJffo either of which is over 100 paces away. The street or road there would be free j from "travelers as a general thing at that time of night. The place is dark and secluded after nightfall; ' 1 ' -",rlr The body of Miss Cropsey was found by two fishermen. . They had started , I down, the river h a 'small boat. Among Old I otner uuogs iun uiu wiiu o.w ui uuuy floating with the tide. The long tresses . uSf ,n, swinging . face downward - with- the ghoul iors up and the legs dangling to- f TLa alarm, was' given andT the body t c .-! er-'-ei by Xr-i phy f'lI, 3,' a 1:701 cl ia t-3 follows: "Z - ' -i - !li ; .ks cf . II : ': c! i 1 czl l - ' ' r - I - - " 1 " and a' full exiamihation. 'made .of Uie internal organsi iThewomfcr was of Ma normal virgin aize and consistencj, and, pon vertical, section, showed, itself to e enCrely empty;'; ''N-V'V.'X'3 be The stomach-- upon J being ' opened emitted gasand:was found, to joontan about two -ounces of dark; fluid and solid substance. THe appeurahce of the stomach and other 1 abdominal organs was normal.fis.f.?'i;jt-f yV- vT'j-Vir-"The lungs were ooliapsed iand - free from water. ".-- - - -:u;-'."v v;Xrpon the-section of - the scalp all around th head, one inch abqve the brow, there was found on the .left side; at the juncture of the ' squamons por tion1 of . the temporal "parietal and frontal, bones a. dark discoloration, of the muscular substance, about two . by two inches ili 'extehtrand this part was visibly thickened The muscular -aub stance at this ooint UDon section -ex- nded about a hiJf ounce of black fluid.' The 'bone beneath this ' contusion was discolored sligntly bwe. xnere was no other abnormality in .any part of the scalp, which was oompreteV'dissected. There was no fracture discoved. at. any point of the cranium." j The report of the'coroher's jury read: "We, the coroner's jury, having been duly summoned and . sworn by. Dr. I. Fearing to inquire into what caused the death of Ella M. Cropsey, do hereby report that, from the investigation made by three physicians of Elizabeth City and from-their finding,, and also from our present observation, that said Ella M. Cropsey came to her death: by being strieken a blow on the left temple and by being drowned, in Pasquotank ; No one was charged with killing her; but it was urged; that the charges against Wilcox, then in custody, be -investigated. ' ' ' This case rests here.' It is the duty of the court to. try the case and . find the facts. It is certain that Miss Croo- i -t a. a, . .n. xi y I jury found, tier body had no water m- it. ; James Wilcox is a man of about 28 years. , He has not lived a model life, yet there, are no grave charges against his past. His looks ' are not prepoa- He has- the countenance of . a hearted, stolid .man. But he can not be convicted on his looks. The evi dence made public up to this time is circumstantial. It is said that the solic itor has convincing evidence that will be brought out at the proper time. This remains to be seen. The people here are divided. The great majority believe that the young Uan is guilty of murder. - Many do not think that he can be convicted on ' the Did Wilcox kill the girl with a black jack or some other blunt weapon or did she commit Bulcidef This Is theiqfuea- tion. The jury mast hear the evidence and render a verdict. .: The prisoner has said: f 'I will be tried by my God and my country; Elizabeth. Crrr, : March 14. The Wilcox. trial is well, under way. .The N"yi0 ""r0 o,-"" 1 - TV. J ofanaa nesses are being ' heard ' - The - defense has done well in choosing the jurymen. Nine of the twelve are intelligent-look ing young men. Several of them seem to be of the same social position as the prisoner.. The negroes two of them, are of the ante-bellum type, each being between 50 and 60 yeamold. They are honest, good-looking, full-blooded Afri cans. Pendleton . Bright, the ; twelfth jurror, does -not appear to be a man of much intelligence. The' jury ..is in charge of Deputy Sheriff L. J. Brichard. The coroner testified that Miss Crop sey came to her death by a blow. He Ta mlVea said .tbat-deattt'-Vaa nov- caused by lowed by a "most rigid and trying cross examination by Mr.: Aydlett.''A.t times he had the. witness all to pieces, but on the whole the statements made . earlier in theday 'was adhered ' to.: 1 The last hour of thet examixiationwas "tedious and uninteresting?-. '. The moat, minute details were gone into. . If this is kept nnU Will to.V( aavipirgl wfkn tr trV ' the I case.-Dr.Fearine's testimony is that of a medical exDertf -The.case hanesl1011 DUfly themselves with hisflame- I ii. - t'm ---Z J uu vuu main puiuie ux .iub cviuciiuc. Was Miss Cropsey killed and thrown in the river or did she drown? i That is the important question. Two of Wilcox's Bisters and a cousin and four of Miss Cropsey's sisters were in the court tolay,.,?v :x ;; 1 ItBliM&kahlii. S 'Are ! you sure these' "corsets L are unbreakable?; asked-the doubting cus- 4 :4I have been- wearing "a pair myself shdpv gfrl'lm'd they, are noti broken yet. tt Andt sue onntinnnd. HnHhinc -'I'nf enfiraod.' Ex-RepreBentative Wm. M. Moody, of Mass has- acospted-ie Secretary - otim nl ihd Vtm Klill has .been annouhced; wdUKT soon b6TB&Qed by Secretary.Long; Secretary Long;On the 10th handed in nis resignation to - tne President to take: effect'MayJlst x r? 1T, Marconi, the inventor of . wireless i telegraphy, ' received : a message- last i week' in - mid-ocean.- -He ahiiounces that in the three months he .will 'be: to commercial messes I without v. is as a regular businessHe is only twenty-aeven years of age. The compc'1'3 regiment to -go, to Chariestoiin April vill have companies fron. ii.""-r ..""l, Uciccrl, i melons CtuI:" 'sa, t.a, I. 3 &C- t7 a Giro mA H.niW;;. W,an --w-, j ""-6 1 back: novels destroy all taste for useful I've been a young man; , now ,1 mABaM--A-Jii-K,t old man, so to speak. " Admitting your lnteUigenee ? I - claim that - experience anq, observation. iiave helped, me tosee: some .things that simple intelligence does' not observed .' There are two words failure iQod haa t,dowkl . vnn with I ' volition, and that nnA that mMna a ,w1 choice ' means, simnly. you inaxhave that; Choice .iW ZZt,a?X 1 ' it4" If one is a good thine And the othet : bad, then choose . the gdbd. i -Ift both. are good, then take the gooder. ; If both are bad then take neither. Not like one of the candidates-' for governor of ueorgia jsaid the. other day: "Of two evils, I never .take the greater," That's : ; ' j 1 '. - W . a v - j politics,' pure and simple and the devil is running tnat whole business. ; Real, success has its foundations just like the hpuse we live in, and the very basis of success is good character. As sure as that - the constitution follows theyflag, so. good, character must lead the way in all successful unbertakings. The young man who thinks he must drink whisky and ''cuss" to help you make a man of himself is a fool to be gin with. If I were running a saloon I- would want a decent, sober barkeeper. I was not long finding a place of trust CftUU UVUV1 1UI C JVU11JE 1UMI Ul 1U V town, some time ago, when I said .to a leading railroad official with whom I wanted to place him, "that he was not ', only bright and efficient and trustworthy but that he was as clean in his hfe as his sweet Christian' mother.' He 'has never touched whiskey, wine or beeri 8wore.an.oath or - handled, a deck: of cards." ' 'Send. him, to me," said the official, and that young man has been lHnnt thoF nrroa t imilvAaH ovotom It pays' to be' decent it never pays to be other wise. - The boy who knows how to, be a gentleman, and knows. how to keep from being a dog, is in possession of the' knowledge which makes him master of the situation. - " No use. talking,, young man,, about. your having self-control and will power. The way to keep clean is not to rub up against the things that will "smut you.'' I don'feare how. much you may boast of power, whiskey will make drunk. you I 'Again, God nor. man can ever help you to be someboiy, until you make up your mind that you will be or die, do or die. ' ' This message' to you, young man, was inspired by a "notice of , that great- eat livincr nianist. Paderewski, which 1 saw In the Kansas City Journal of 'yes - terdayi 'lhe article was -headed? 'Pad j erewski s Success. Achieved - Through I Much Hard Work.. . : His . recital is to occur -here in Convention hall, March 17th.- I duote from' the notice' as" fol lows: 'Paderewski - has . simply come tiTre the dominant figure in the world of music, a dommancy acquired.by years of patient4 struggle and stoical endu- DUtAAWI OiUlCTCU JJ -M. A.O UVV I the result of chance, but the outcome of sweat and suffering, heart-burnings auu uuuuuavivuo r The press has given jo the world the story of his life: how, at mnteen years of age, he softened the sting of poverty by marsymg a girl equally as poor." ; It is now almost impossible . to' estimate Paperewski's wealth. 1 His first tour of America netted - him ; $108,000; his second $181,000. . This, is the fifth, and each succeeding one has marked a finan cial gain over the'precedlng ohe.: : 'Wheiii it is considered that in all the European countries Paderewski is. equally a -.fa vorite, it will be seen that his ten years of success haver netted him - milli6ns. Even -with all his immense charities and-ppen-handed generosity, . he has not been able to oespatcn au- ms weaim. He has a magnificent home in Poland and ; Switzerland and ' .princely : apart- Uments in Pans. The newspapers no t nnUiwt VidiT nf mpliinfihnlT fivM or how colored hair, or melancholy eyes or how he appears on the stage, or how he holds his knife at the table. : , xsut now tney ten us of his thorough deep knowledge of the innermost -secrets and feelings of the "piano soul," , and his own ac. quaintance with the hopes and fears, sorrows and sufferings that fill ' eve.ry human life.'" Now the press make" it easier for him to do what no other -man 1 Paderewski he-would Wear Rabenstein and Mth hir mind made an he worked and. jBufferedf and j)erse,yere until he has as surely won .as tnat he wears their crowns. Todng man, this . t if nf all mt men. from 1 . A Z orVr7? wri I thhw-Wo windsnatt easy jobs. l? Athlngi that easy - -done kis not worth . dping. JTha thing you. do that call ror brain sweat, soul 'sweat' and body Bweat are the things that make success not only-pos-Biblebut-anre.'. fr- " i - y. "An idle head is the devil b, work shop;". 'Yes,, and ah "Idle boj 'is the devil's saddle horse, and the devil Is most generally in the saddle, toqv -v , t : Shun tdleness hke you would a saloon or' they are two things that 'get mighty hick on short acquaintance,-. - Again, take csre cf your .jintery; When it becomes necessary in your Lfa for ytu to tell-a' lie,5 then- y&u kc?! to f3 lack c iltLut Ills OTit : la. Yea c i'tl-"lraal,.'"--3 '!-tf-? 1 1 3 T -i- r ,,r. j,,,. , t' ,.. ',T;rHon. hehelri the voiinit man seekinc an I another soldier bV to' fake :hid-place .made.dPf his L mmd. tha,t 1 1 ntmAnoUnn and asking, if he miffht I aa it ian'tn, sweet to . die for .those WQ ,? friends,' just as- you need air and water. Again- avoidalI games of chance, from craps to cotton futures. They-destroy uouvbc wu,luM yeuow knowledge dollar earned hy. Bweat and toil is worth a. million won. on. puts and. calls.:!' rrjsf s .SS-'"i- v Again; cherish . only the friendship and . companionship of good men and women, ue as careful 01: your- com- 7 ypu.axe of your destiny. . "V " JWiX man,-many. r.WftKCVTK'SS boori fcgoo4 mother. God's best gift Ito ayoungnlan is a good wife. T&e ue. nere 1 .loQy.yQungtoMiw marriage una! they have a competency r an ihw oott I until he1 gets good -before he loins the church. I was busted when I: marr and if my daddy or. daddv-in-law. etherv ever gave me or my wife a cent we lost it before we got home. Don't ever jjait to perform a good deed. .Too many old maids these days, and when ever I see an old maid I know some man has failed to do his duty. . v Again, young man, stick to the bible of your -mother and the God of your father, for it ia religion that must give solid comfort while we live and it: is religion must supply : solid comfort when we die. , .1 Don't be. skeptical, .agnostics! ioiy.V5oi ;n or Read your Bible .every day. Kneel down morning and night and pray to God. Observe these things and you wiH succeed in your calling as "Pad& rewski has in his. If you don't, you writ, wind up in the end a Rewskipady. Your friend. Sam P..JowbS.' A Fraudulent iaarimonlaJ Bweao. Lumbertoii Kobesocjan. ... j - . N. C. Clark, of Chicago, the head of a matrimonial and Introduction bureau, has been arrested for fraudulent, use of the -mails. Mr. , D. H. Britt, of. this county, on receipt of some of. the cir culars of the company, sent them five dollars as required -and in return for which he was to be placed in correspon dence with a young lady reputed to be wealthy; good-looking and to enter the matrimonial state. In reply,. he re ceived, a photograph with the name and address of a young Asheville - widow. Losing no time he wrote her at once. The . young Jady, surprised at receiving I stating that she. knew nothing of , the matrimonial bureau and the statement as to her -wealth was "untrue, which of coursecl6sed the correspondence. ' Mr Britt had of-course entertained the matter, purely for amusement .and had no aeripus intentions whatever -ex cep' enjoyment ;Of.the correspon-. dence begun, under such rather .unusual circumsianceB. . xxe nas, . .-, nowever, served the public a good turn in being the means of exposing fraudulent in stitution : ' " ' - - - '' '' ' " A Seed In A Cnild Tnroat Per Five - : .. jiv-3i.JHtoni.;.; Salisbury Sun. - A nersimmon seed tnat had - been in the windpipe of a 5-year-old child for . - - . I 1 ,"B -"e . i? BWlte .. weakness' and emaciation. The little sufferer is the daughter of Mr. 3,, F.;. Freeman, i. who lives-, near Woodleaf, and about five montha ago the trouble with .her ''ttirbat' began. Eight physiciaiis ' treated the child and an X-ray. was- brought into service but the seed could, not .be located. .Yester day coueh svrun'and a whiskey toddv wer6 given ; the sufferingchiW.i,It be gan .coughing and ini a short, while spit out. the seed. The little one had .be- come fearfully-weak" tnroueh theTIone t period of Buffering and 'ad soon as it was reheved it felV into a: .deepn Bleep ahd was still sleeping this morning, , - f - Mr; Freeman on one occasion walked almost continuously day and mght for ten days with' the child k-j- .-. ! - ' Repaid. ' y At a certain ball in the country the other evening a gentleman undertook to introduce a companion to a young but somewhat stout lady, who seemed to be pining for a dance. . "No thanks, old fellow; I don't care to waltz with a cart." . . . , . . A "cart" is understood in' the district referred to as a partner -who 'does not da her share of the dancing,, but has. to be drawn round, ; A few'evehihgB later tKe same young ladt:!whoiad Overheard the converia-the hiorytc. "No. thank vou.ff she renlied: ."I ; -sfi Detaita of tne 4Pr1nea Tlalf f ; " Arrived at New York on the Krom win WUhelm! Sunday Feburaiyr Sails for Germany on the Dutschland; He"fatered -4,630"mileBana- Went through the- SUtes of New Yofk, ' New Jersey 'Pennsybromav Dolawarej-Mary- landr Kentucky, J-eanessee; Uhio, in diana, Illinois, - Missouri; .-Wisconsin and Massachusetts.; ' His inn ... extend 2d as iar. souttC as Chattanooga, as far west aa'Milwaukee 1 and as far east as Eoston ' -'' ' . 1 r. , ' Estimated ;c6St cf ventertainiBg the Prince - fHM u- iitflcbia, 6 reratnre. - !gv-p j a Boston: lawyer I tut f- ' 1- Proper 1 A story is told cf Whose quick wit r. dtberinlhdcoc ' , r Ccserted - him, - - r . 1 . i CC- B"J ... A . '.i.-f If. Orv d'y a,.cl. li -i Shot Hw Sulai.'i M - Capt. Charles M.ehderfito bid ah ' experience Thursday,; Tiight that will f ore vermore serve as a warning to men who carry latchkeys. Capt. enderlite is one of the best managers of .men in :. a wreck that the southern; has on its ; system and it has been, remarked, that v : could accomplish more work in, less ie then anyone iii his liositlbn'that could be lound,- -. This week when the Southern was- straining every: nerve to . clear the Western track so as to resume u the operation otrains betweerAsheville. and Chattanooga Capt. Henderjite was , drdeTei'to'iJiesclelie'tlie Wasn'ottt: -r. tta laKTwi iu;fi. v hrfMaS , ... . . " nieht key.'- 'Grbnme' - m me. aarKnesa , in ; nis hallway, ne en countered a screen and stumbled. ' The echo Qf the. noise produced by the col lision, had hardly .died away when the ; report of a pistol was -heard' in Mrs. ' Henderlite'B room and two-bullets went ! crashing through the door in the direc tion where uapt. uenderlite' had' stum- . bled. He annQunced his presence and hostilities ceased. Mrs. .Henderlite ' believed that burglers had entered the " house, when she fired through the door. .. Jury Held Prayer. Raleigh Tews and ODserverT 8th,: ,, , . .. It is analmo8t unheard of thing for a jury to hold 5 prayer before returning 5 a verdict, but (his isv.what happened ia & the jdry room and. what was done by the-twelve meh"just bef oiiilhey'rettirn-t ed .the verdict tha,t ga,ye Mus Mattier Baker $2,500 fof'having her hand man"' gled in one of "the Tnachinea of the JLeu I eigh Cotton Mills. - It will be recalled . that the jury was locked up in this ' case: on Thursday from- half-past &,inif the afternoon until half -past 10 at night . . and" considerable difficulty was exper'; ienced in reaching a verdict. When ' all had finally agreed, Foremen Thomp- son ' requested Juryman -' Herndon to lead in prayer, which he did with much , . earnestness and reverent " attention from all present. ; The jury then filled into the court room and rendered, tneir . verdict. ' ' " ' v A SelfUb World1. George No matter, how things go the poor always suffer. ,-. . y , ; J ack Yes, the ; nabobs who own railroads don't thing anything . of run' "Yes, and the man ' who can afford to own a horse -runs, down the-poor fellpw on a bicycle." "Just so. " And the -fellow on the bicycle runs down the poor chap - who, has to walk.'2 - ' "That's it.- And the man who ;walks stumbles against the poor 4 cripple who . goes on crutches.'" "That's the.way; ? And the cripple on crutches spends most of his time jamming his stick down orf1 other 'peo ple's corns. It's, a .sadly selfish; world.' Greensboro tne Place for tne State Con "- . 'ventton. , Littleton News Reporter. The time is not far distant when the executive committee will meet to desig Tnext Democratic convention, AiVO UUXA V. nate time and place for holding the Greens boro seems ro be the most favored place for that assembiy-as it has AJiall arply sufficient to accommodate the conven tion with the nest hotel facilities in the.-'. Stated and a hospitality that would make the stranger feel that he was for-M tunatejn being with such people. . Dead men EnUtled to ISO Pound of - Bnf e. The eeneral. nasseneer agents of nearly every" railrbad in this country have .approved a resolution adopted at the latest hational.convention aUbwihg 150. pounds off -baggage -free? to each ft corpse transported on the required fare. ; Under1 aigeneralruung of the passenger departments of afr raihnada a dead man .. -must have a passenger ticket and his: ticket is now entitled to the same bag'T gage pnvueee8 -as . though the ocxei was held by alive man, . Know When He Hm Got Enonth. Liberty Cor. Aabeboro Courier "-.. f 'i . : A young man named Butler, fifing near here,- joined the UnifeoTtates ; ; army' abotaV two years ago,' is now at'''- ' home with his health ruined.- - He has ii been in Porto Ricq and got in such bad - health he 'had to come home. Hls" : I time will be out in three-months, and. Bays- Uncle Sam may look fox Governor Taft's plan for the govern ment of the Phffippmes,"aB outlined be thA Rr.iliTiihiittftl orfMondav. j is to give thie people a qualihed suxr tfrage with gradual growth In popular .lgoverftment2i ;Jtiesays the natives i nava no idea of government, or of the diffeB-. t. J .'. il l ., I don't love. - -.y. : -. s,;-.: enca"beto!reen independence 'as' relates., - 3' -1 . ? -" to another, natioii and dependence. If ; - ; i . ' the government were now turned oer.i:.. " " to the people, v he, BayBAit would be s ggf , nofhihg less than absolute Oligarchy .. fii U!holeaders s haveibBett ngnung ' ua-:Sss- ' United Etates for power to rule sx.J y : , ;. oppress, nc 5.1 jt tne gwu uw : . ... AtoiiicardirDatch bf the 7th j the tca.. 7easland,'of the Am.er. Liverpool :to Ptil" line fc the isnasn e Irmonicle5' wtich- ' uid took all on boc a . little -- rill - who ... . . .9 I r ... -X-. 'v- Cirowmj- '.y yori. -Vf - 1 1 r-- ti.. 1 f3
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