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! 1 ray ... 1 . i . H C. MARTIN, Editor and Proprietor. ' . An Independent Family Newspaper. ' Subscription Price One Dollar a Year. VOLIJME V, ; ' LENOIR NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1903. NO. 42. 1 i i ' i PIXIE'S LAD. t wUli t was la de Und oJ eotton. , Old timet dar am not forgotten; Look nwij-look sway -look iwij DUIe land. ' Ib Utile land hul txxrn tu ! . v ' Karijt od ooe rro(jr monUuc . Look swy loo away-)uaawaj Dtele" buxL Dm I wUh I ni In Dtite. . . Hoorarl Hoorayt Sin Dude's land 111 Uke mjr Maud. To lib and die la Dixie; Away, awav.-awar down South In Dixie. Old nlwu marry "Will de Wttwr," William u a gay deceaber; Look away look away took away Dixie land. But waenae put 11 ana around her Kb nulled at Berce at a focty-pouuder; Look sway-look aay-kwk away Dixie land. Hla (aca wai a sharp ai a bnteher's cleaber. But dat did uot teem to greabe ber; Look away look away-lotk away Dixie land. Old minus acted a loollsa part. And died tor a nan dat broke her heart; Look away look away look away Dixie land. Now here a health to the next old mlssti ' And all de gala dat want to kiss us; Laok away look away took away DUIirlaud. Jtatlf you want ta drive away sorrow, tome la' hear dis song to Inorrow i Look away ktuk way look away Dixie land. MitM vnn fat or m. little hitter. Look away look wy-look away Dixie land Den hoe It down au' scratch, de grabble, To Dbl Wndl'm oud to trabble; -Look away-tobk away look away Dixie laud Bill. ABP3XHTTEB. 'iV lf -. - A tUnta Constitution. , t- KjadfjietHVplaase forbear. ' I know that-the --time tot compositions aod dsbatM.aixl aaayi is near alhand, but I am lick and cannot help you this spring-. I am weaken d d m.'t want to strain my mind. I haven't been out of the houM bat twice in three months. My wife and the doctor wateh me and won't ;kl m go. A few .weeks ago I slipped off to my daughter's one pleas ant evening and had to be hauled back in a buggy, for it is up hill to my house, and I was weaker than I thought. You see I had a sunstroke last June and have never recovered from it. Every night, if the weather is bad, I have to get up about midnight and sit by the tire and cough - for au hour or two. But I can answer letters and have from a dozen to a score every day. It pleases me to answer the letters of the young folks, for many of them need help. I know that I did when I was away off at school. My father was an old school teacher and knew how to help me. He wrote nearly all of my junior orator's speech and I got credit for it, though I only crossed the t'e and dotted the i'e and put my name to the end of it. But there are hundreds of boys and girls who have no help and 1 am sorry for them and so. for many years past I have tried to help them. Some of them just want help a little, a few ideas, but others want the whole thing. In fact, one boy asked me to write him two so that he could take choice. Many of them forget to enclose a stamp and my postage account got to be such a burden that, as Kip Van Winkle said, "I swore off" and quit answering such letters. It is bad man ners to write to a man on bufiness that does not concern him and expect him to pay the return postage. I receive many long manuscripts with request to read and criticise and return and tell where to have published and what the writer will probably gel paid for them. I have two on hand, just received no stamps enclosed one is a grammatical curiosity. Hardly a line that does not contain bad grammar or a mis spelled word. It takes nearly half a line for the word "spectacles" and it has fourteen letters in it. The word angel is spelled angle, and yet the writer expects to get paid for the story The other manuscript is an inquiry into the race problem no stamps and it contains seventeen questions for me to answer. Another long letter on fool's-cap writes of the good old times and says in conclusion that if I will answer it he will write mj again and put his name to the next letter. There is no name to this. He is an Irishman, I reckon. One other request I wish to make about letters. Please place your postoffice address plainly at the top and your name plainly at the bottom. Many a time 1 havo passed a letter all around the family trying to decipher the signature. Sometimes I have cut the signature off and pa b ted it on the back of the reply, thinking that prob ably the postmaster at the writer's home would recognize it. If the post office address is omitted and the post mark on the envelope is blurred, as it frequently is, it is impossible to know where a reply should be sent, and if I guess at it and guess wrong it goes to " the dead letter ofllce. Noat, you young people must not forget these little things, for they are important, es pecially the stamps. Sometimes we literary men are greatly perplexed to know what to do with some letters. One more request. Do not write me at Atlanta. I do not live there. My home is in Oartersville, and I thought that everybody knew it by this time. 1 have been living here over twenty years. And now let me ask the good oharit' able ladies' who seek to do something for some good cause to send do more endless chain' letters to me. They are a nuisance and have annoyed me greatly. I thought thai when that common' cheat and iiindler. Joel Smith, of Monticello, FUl, was broken up and arrested the endless chain busi ness had stopped, bat of late It has re vived and I received three 1C week One of them started in Canada for a so called missionary work and got all the way down to Louisiana and from there to me, wanting me to copy two letters and send ten cents in Christ's name, and under no circumstances to break the chain. Well, I broke it and shall break every one that comes to me, and shall burn the letters for they never coota:o any return postage. Some yfars ago the good ladies of Fredericks burg, Vs., wrote to ine'," saying they .wanted about $?00 or $40Q to. place bead atones to the graves of 260 Geor gia soldiers who were buried there. I made an earnest appeal, to oar people and asked for a dollar from each gop4 man br.-wopan, arid I raised 1300 jn three' weeks. 'Adjutant General Phil Byrd se.nl me $2 all the way from New Brunswick., . I bought the marble, all lettered nicely, "from the northern men who own the works at Marietta bought them at one dollar eaoh, which was less than the cost, for the company said they, "helped to put our boys there and they ought to help mark their graves. The railroads shipped them free. There was no endless chain in that business Three thousand neglected confederate graves, at Marietta? Our boys, our dead, buried on our soil, died in de fense of their homes, their state, their people. On ' theother side of the rail road are about as many who were trea passers on our soil vandals who came as invaders with arms and torches, and their graves are marked with costly marble and adorned with gravel walks and flowers and evergreens, and theie is a grand entrance to their city of the dead, all done by the na tional government, and a keeper employed. And yet it is now set tled we were right and they were wrong. Oh, liberty and union I what crimes have been committed in thy name. But Secretary Root seems to be a good man and is going to help us make up the roster, the muster roll of our living and our dead. Maybe he will get a little closer to us and help the Marietta women to make their confed erate graveyard just as elegant and or namental as the one on the other side. Why not try him? Dead Soldiers are not enemies 10 each other and if theirs could speak maybsj they would say, "Give us your hand brother." Is it not about time for our women to make an appeal to the 'government for aid in this patriotic work? Not only for Marietta, but wherever our soldiers are buried. Marietta'' has many northern visitors who spend their winters there, and It seems to me if they brought along a heart and a soul with them, they would go to these ladies and say, "Here are ten dollars. Please mark ten ot those graves for me." But I reckon most of them just bring their bodies and leave their hearts at home. Why not do as our Mr. Granger did ? Just as soon as our ladies started a move to build a monument to General Young and our Bartow heroes, he was the first to ask the privilege of subscrib ing $25 to the cause. He has gotten it all back already in our good will and gratitude. He brought his heart with him when he moved down here and his wife brought her whole soul. She is always doing something for somebody Bill Arp. Tbe Editor Will Get Along. A Missouri editor who is about to pull up and leave for lack of support sarcastically remark in parting that editors don't need money. "Don't worry about the editor," he says, "he has a charterfrom the State to act as doormat for the community. He'll get the paper out some way, and stand up for you when you run for office, and lie about your pigeon-toed daughter's tackey wedding, and blow about your big-footed sons when they get a $12-a week job, and weep over your shriveled soji when it is released from your grasping body, and smile at your giddy wife's second marriage. He'll get along. The Lord only knows how but the editor will get there somehow." Several citizens of Goodwater, Ala., were arrested on an indictment sworn out by Madison Davis, a negro, who alleges they kidnapped him last July and sold him to Elijah Turner, who confined him in a lime kiln against his will and made him work without pay. Davis says there are seventy other ne groes in the same plight now. Turner was also arrested and all were plaoed under bonds to stand trial in the United States court. An early crop the small boy's first hair cut. CUBA'S EMOBSOCS BEBOCBCES- Bishop Candler in Atlanta Journal. Since the date of my last letter to The Journal I have gone by railway over the island of Cuba from Havana to Santiago, besides making some ob servations on horseback and getting some "views afoot" in the prcrince of Santa Clara. I am more than ever impressed with the wonderful natural resources of the island, and I am thoroughly per suaded that its future will be one of great prosperity. I saw stalks of wild cotton of extra ordinary height, and white with "the fleecy staple." One stalk I took pains to measure, and I was amazed tonnd it having a diameter of . over three inches at the, ground, and a height of above fourteen feet. It' was said to be four years old and was still bear ing fruit, although the staple was rather short. It had not been culti vated, but sprang up in a rich spot and grew without attention from human hands. I met a gentleman who has already made a successful experiment on a small scale with cotton growing, and is so pleased with the results that he has bought a large tract of land and will enter at once into the business of cotton growing in Cuba. He told me that on land which cost him from three to six dollars an acre he had gathered four bales from one acre, and that the staple measured two inches. From observations of my own I was prepared to believe his story, though to many people it will doubtless seem incredible. This gen tleman is now returning to the states to supply himself with implements for cultivating and ginning the pro duct, and to hire hands to make his next crop. He is convinced that one planting in five years will make cot ton of good staple and that then it will be necessary to replant in order to prevent deterioration. Of this I am not so sure. I think two or three years will be as long as 'he plant will grow and do well. But even if it runs a period of only two years, pro ducing, as it does, so enormously this long staple lint, it will bring fabulous fofits. Again I say, as in former letter, that cotton of superior quality will be grown in Cuba at an early day and it will be grown in large quantities. Not far from the large cotton stalk which I measured I saw a coffee plant growing. ,Mny years ago a rrench colony grew coffee on a large scale in the province of Puerto Principe, but the ravages of war broke up the colony and destroyed the industry. But now a few people are beginning to grow coffee again, and with years of peace the planting will increase. Of course the great industries of to bacco and sugar will continue, as in former years, to engage much capital and labor. The grazing lands are the best I ever saw. Before the war Cuba had over 3,000,000 head of cattle. At its close there were less than 400,000 head. Mr. Wilson told me that at the out set of the year 1899, when he was in charge of the Matanzas province, there were not 300 cows in the entire province. Riding yesterday from Ma tanzas to Havana I counted from the car window on one side of the rail road 993, and they were as fat as the richest pasturage could make them A friend saw as many more in the fields in sight on the other side of the railway. It is estimated that there are now about 1,000,000 head on the entire island. But not lees than 2,000, 000 more are required, and the pastur age is sufficient to sustain 5,000,000 to 7,000,000. Here is room for another great industry. Then there are the tropical fruits and the vegetables. Never bitten by frost nor blighted by drought, they can be shipped from Havana to New York in four days. The railroad now running from one end of the island to the other can carry them quickly to the north ports for shipment. Look out for Cu ban vegetables and fruits in Savannah, Macon and Atlanta next winter. Do not expect strawberries, however, for none are grown in Cuba. The people say the strawberry does- not do well here. I believe the raspberry would nourish, however. Of that the natives seem to know nothing. The hard wood timbers will give rise to another profitable line of invest ment. The mahogany, rosewood and other such growths have scarcely been touched. And the reason of their neg lect is not far to seek. Until the new railroad penetrated the region in which they grow most abundantly there was no means of hauling the trees out if they had been 'out. All that will change nqw. From all these sources of wealth it la evident that Cuba will toon be enor mously enriched. Bat some one may be disposed to dis count these statements by asking some such questions as these: If Cuba has such resources, why did not the Span iard find it out and enrich himself? And why did not Americans, always keen-eyed to torn a penny, find all these things before ? To the first question I answer the Spaniard did find out what was here, and notwithstanding his want of skill and enterprise of the highest character be made bis millions here. Else whenoeV) many Jarge and wealthy cities L Besides Havana with 250,000 people, I mention the following cities, none of which have less than 20,000 in habltants, and some of which have above 60,000: Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Cardenas, ganta Clara, Puerto Principe, and Santiago, A page of the paper upon which I write would not suffice for the names of the cities and towns- having 2,000 to 10,000 inhabitants. I write a few, as Pinar del Rio, Guana jay, Remedios, Sagua la Grande, Co lon, Place tas, Cruces, Rancbuela, Hol quin, Caibarien, Neuvitas, Manzanillo and Guantanamo. Now be it remem bered that Cuba lacks over 10,000 square miles of being as large as the state of Georg a. Could so small an island sustain so many cities of such wealth as these if it were not rich be yond all possibility of exaggeration? And it must not be forgotten that less than one-four of Cuba has ever been brought under cultivation. No won der the Spaniard fought so hard to retain fff it was one of his best assets No wonder he expended so much life and treasure in its defense; it was well worth defending. And it is no wonder that Americans, since the barriers erected by Spain arouna tneir island (isolated as it was by barriers of commerce, government religion and language) have been meas urably removed, are rushijg in from every direction. Senator Sanguilly, speaking in the Cuban senate on the treaty of reciprocity today, declared tbat since the war Americans had in vested in Cuba over $80,000,000. If these figures of the senator are correct it is entirely within reason to predict mat at the end oi the next ten years American investments in Cuba will aggregate more than $300,000,000 or above the value of all the real estate in the island at the cose of the war. Havana, Cuba. An Egg-eltlng Kggs-ll. Oaaonla Gazette. A gentleman from the coutry came to town one day last week to dispose of a quantity of eggs. Before reaching the town, however, he sauntered leis urely up to the city pest house in the northern section of town and enquired in a business like way of the guard, who met him, if they wanted (o buy any eggs at that house. "No, said the guard, "the county furnishes us eggs. "Why, 13 this the county home?" calmly asked the man with the eggs. "No, this is the smallpox home," was the bland reply of the guard ; and bis words were hardly spoken before eggs were flying like flakes iu a snow storm and the frightened egg-man was heeling itat a rapid rate in the op posite direction. If he kept his gait the gentleman is probably enjoying sea breezes down about Wilmington at this time. Those who witnessed the thrill ing scene say that his eggs it was really egg citing. The Ground Covered Charlotte Observer. "If Mr. Bryan and Colonel Walter son would hire a hall, with only them selves for an audience, and finish with their abuse of Mr. Cleveland it would be a great relief to the country, and probably to themselves. Montgomery Advertiser." "Neither the country, nor Cleveland has lost anything by the malevolent mouthings of this pai, of envious and moribund egotists. Indeed nothing has contributed more toward a wholesome popular disgust and reaction from the 1896 Groverphobiac malady they and others like them inoculated the De mocracy with. Let tho nuisance pro ceed it carries its own best antidote. Vickburg Herald." This covers the whole ground. Not a word need be added to it. Flade Himself Solid. "John," said the wife, "you'll ad mit that you're a bright, brainy man, and have leading qualities?" "I certainly will !" was the modest reply. "Then, why don't you run for Presi dent of these United States?" And as he clasped her to his'bosom, he said: "Molly, I can't bear to leave hornet" "Now, boys, what is the best and most appropriate time to thank the Lord?" No answer. "What does your father do when you sit down to meals?" "Cuss ths eook." THB LOUISIANA PUBCBASE EX POSITION. Tryon Bee. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, Mo., in 1904, will com memorate the centennial of the par- chase of the great Louisiana Territory by the the United 8tatea from France. The dedication of grounds and building of the World's Fair will be held April 30, 1903, the centennial an niversary of the purchase. The expo sition proper will open one year later. The price paid for the Louisiana Ter ritory was $15,000,000 and the land acquired was about 1,000,000 square miles, more than doubling the era of the United States at that time. The total area of land acquired for the World's Fair is 1,142 acres. The total fund for the World's Fair to date, including the state and Govern ment appropriations is 120,000,000. There will be fifteen large exhibit buildings The approximate area of space in all buildjngs will be 200 acres of 8,700,000 feet. The main group of World's Fair buildings will be arranged in the form of a fan, the art palace forming the apex at the southwest- The center of the main picture will be terraced gardens and cascades. The art buildings will stand on a plateau 60 feet above the general level of the other buildings of the main group. Northeast from the main buildings is a natural amphitheater sloping down to what will be a great basin. Down this amphi theater will fall three series of cascades with elaborate decorative arrangement. At the brow of the hill above the cas cades will be a long curved architectural screen, with a beautiful Festival hall in the center and restaurant pavilions at the ends. Sculpture emblematic of the fourteen states and territories will con Btitute an important decorative featue of the screen. The important features of the coming Exposition will be: The airship tourna ment in which prizes to the amount of r" 150,000 will be awarded; the series of international congresses in which die tinguished savants from all parts of the world will participate, the great horse show, upon fashionable lines; tbe dairy test; the athletic events, etc. St. Louis, City of Expositions, was unanimously chosen as the plaoe for holding this World's Fair by a conven tion of delegates appointed by the gov ernors of Btates and territories within the original purchase. St. Louis is the fourth city in population in the United States. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition will be nearly twice as large as' any former exposition, and will show the life an activity of the nations of the world. Free exhibit space will be given to all exhibitors, and power to operate work ing exhibits will be supplied in limited amount, under certain circumstances, at the expense of the Exposition. An Exposition such as this one means something more than the -mere holding of such fair. It mean that many people are to find wt)rV building the immense structures required to house the exhibits which are to be brought here from all parts of tbe world. It means that not only St. Louis but the whole United States shall take in terest and help push forward to success the immense undertaking which a comparatively small number of people started out to build. It means that men, that customs, that art, that education, that govern ments shall come together in the great school so called a fair, a World's Fair, if you please. In these short articles I shall en deavor to describe the building of this vast exposition. After the preliminary work or organ ization which scarcely interests the average person as the details are in themselves the coutents of a large book, as the men who started the machinery going can testify to with no little pleas ure after the laborious grind. Thsa-eelection of the ground followed the election of directors and the selec tion of a committee. I might say the ones most interested in this fair are the national government, the city of St. Louis, and the citizens at large, so one can see the importance of the undertaking. The county of Polk rolling and beautiful in its natural state fur nishes a comparison, which might be made of the ground selected. St. Louis is situated on the banks of the Mississippi broad and swift, the city itself gradually sloping up and back from its banks. The site of the fair is about four miles from the river or half an hour's ride from the city's center, lying directly west of the city proper. In order to get the ground in shape for the scheme of buildings as laid out by the board of architects it was found necessary to grade down many hills and fill up some hollow ptsees. The site took in the west half of Forest Park whieh was the second largest park in the United States, some of the park was entirely natural no cultivation ever having been done there. Tbe site also took in the grounds of the New Washington Uni versity upon which several beautiful buildings of granite aod brick had al ready been erected and which were taken and made use by agreement with the trustees of the University, which will be when completed tbe largest col lege in the west. The force of men required to do thu grading is very large and the men live in camps jest the same as rail road graders, although ithey are right in the city. Steam shovels take up the dirt and the wagons cart it to some hollow place to be filled. A railroad whose length is eight miles extends through the grounds connecting with all buildings, the materials used in constructing the different buildings being delivered right at the spot wh-re the building is to be erected. The buildings are now progressing rapidly and the site begins to arise into shape like Pboenii from the ashes and a minature world is gradually assuming form. John M knows. Bare Trouble Aaala la Wllmlogioa. Wilmington, N. C, April 2. Be cause a negro cursed one of the work men in the Atlantic Coast Line shops here, over two hundred fellow workmen almost mobbed him to-day, at the noon hour, when all the men knocked off for dinner. The negro, whose name is Frank Sanders, was badly pounded by the indignant wbite men for a few minutes, and his cries for help and mercy were pathetic. He was badly beaten, but no very serious injury re sulted. Sanders, with 500 other negroes, is ployed about the shops to do heavy work. Asa jesult of the trouble to-day the entire force of negroes walked out and refused to work th;s alterftool). It is rumored that trouble between the tworaces has been brewing fqr some time and the negro's insolence this morning was only the spark that set it off. Too Affectionate. LIpptncott'R Magasine The Morton-Browns were a very af fectionate family. Kissing was quite the order of the day with them. Uncle 8ilas Brown, hard-fisted, gnarled old man of the fields, had been for a week's visit to the Morton-Browns. "Wai, Silas," said his wife, Keziah, after his return home, "and what did you think of Abner's folks, the Morton Browns?" Uncle Silas changed his "quid" from one cheek to the other and said slowly, "Wai, 1 should 'a' liked them a darn ed sight better if they hadn't been so cussified kissy!" Mitchell la SatUBed. President Mitchell, of the Miners' union, ei pressed himself as saushed with the decision of the coal strike commission, saying: "this decision gives the miners greater justice than they have ever had before and I think in future strikes will be avoided." He said further that while the union had not been recognized, it had made itself felt and had won a victory un paralleled in the history of strike settle ments. Bar bank,' Potato Bel. Luther Burbank, famous horticul turist, received word from Ireland that after careful experiments the Burbank potato, first produced in Massachusetts by Burbank twenty-eight years ago, is found to be proof against the potato blight. It is predicted that in future this variety will be grown exclusively in Ireland, thus preventing the potato famine, so much dreaded. 'Burbank is is now engaged in fruit and flower cul ture in California, where he has grown rich. Belief In Hell Affirmed. Bishop Hantiogton, of the Episcopal diocese of New York, affirmed his belief in hell in his lost Sunday's sermon read throughout the diocese, and se verely criticised miuisters who gain popularity by easing men's consciences about punishment for their Bins in the hereafter. He said the English trans lators wrote hell because the Lord's word meant hell and that for the sinner he could see but one of two things, retribution or annihilation. Reports received from the strawberry growing section are that the crop is very fine promising, and his so far escaped all injury. Some shipments are being made. tM SICIS ARB WHISK ET QUESTION. Sam Jones in Atlanta Journal. The two prominent, undownatJe, unsettles ble questions in America to day is the negro and the whiskey ques tion. Both are like the fellow's black cat He said he took it oat and killed it every night for nine nights in succes sion very dead, and it 'was op every morning well and hearty. He said be took it oat the tenth night and cat its head off, and I granny it was standing on the front steps next morning with its bead in its mouth. Senator Money, of Mississippi, spoke the sentiments of the sooth the other day in full volume. God gave this country to the Indians and we white folks took it away from them and it is our country now, by right of conquest and by right of possession. The disfranchisement of a certain class of voters is legitimate and proper. The man who will not pay his poll tax Or register, cannot vote and does not deserve to vote and that is right When 90 per cent of a certain class of voters can be bought or bribed or scared into voting, that fact ought to disfranchise the whole bunch from snout to tail. The best friends of the negro race will give them employment and give them protection in life, liberty and property. The worst enemies of this government and of the negro race are the politicians that use them at the polls simply to pat themselves into office. The negro question cannot settle it self any more than the Atlantic ocean can get rid of its brackishness. It has got to be settled by being fixed and fixed right along certain lines. Tbe negro both in his constitution and by laws is closely allied with the whisky question. I have seen the negro corralled and marched and voted for whisky in local option fights, until it made my heart sick; and the very gang who drove them to the polls is the very gangdbat debauches them and frequently the gang that lynches them. This country will never be what God and good men what it to be, until the negro is politically relegated and whisky is permanently abolished. I see by the decision of the supreme court, the whisky gang in Floyd county are on the rampage again. Seab Wright and the dispensary crowd of Rome no doubt thought the whisky gang was dead, but that gang 'possums on you. They do not die. You may burn them a thousand years and their ashes will sprout. Whenever a man has Bold whisky he is very nearly in capable of doing anything else. If you run him out of Wjfle pUbe he will start up at another. If you think he is dead and buried, he is resurrected and ready for the business before yen know it. ..The wave to strike Georgia ia like the one in Tennessee and Texas. If the legislature of this state will eliminate the negro vote or give as a white primary on state local option, we will do some things in Georgia along the lines of smashing jugs, bar rels and demijohns, that will astonish the natives. Soon there will be only six places in Tennessee, I am told, where it can be sold and perhaps not more than a dozen in Texas, and when the proper time comes there will be a movement in Georgia that will drive out the whiskey houses and we will go dry sure enough. Of course the dirty politi cians, whiskey soaked bams and tbe few greedy deacons in the church who want the traffic to go on, and the dif ference between a dirty politician, a whiskey soaked bum and a money monopolized deacon is simply in odor as they will occupy about the same strata and maintain about the same respectability in hell where they belong. Strict Llaor Laws. StatesYtlle Landmark. Down in Union county they have a special act which is so strict that if a man is found with more than a quart of liquor in his possession the burden is put on him to show that he is not engaged in selling liquor. And in Lumberton, in the county of Robeson, which is also as dry aa dust, the town council has prohibited the sale of Peruna, a medicine which is much ad vertised and sold as a cure-all and in vigorator. This Peruna, it is said, has much alcohol in it. But in High Point it is worse. There one isn't allowed to send after sowpaw. The only way he can get it is to go after it himself. Mrs. Wickwire The idea I Here is a story in the paper about a woman suing for 1,000 for the loss of only a thumb. Mr. Wickwire Perhaps it was the thumb she kept her husband under. Mr. Fuller Boose (out sightseeing) Do you see that red spot over thers? Mrs. Fuller Boose You evidently can't see any further than yonr not.
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