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BATTLE HYMN OF THE
By Julie Ward How*
REPUBLIC
JULIA WARD HOWE was born In New York city May
ZJ. 18l». At the as* of seventeen aha was an anonyraoua
contributor to the New York Maaaslns She married
Dr. Samuel O. Howe of Boaton In 1841. Her flrat book
of poems, "Faaalon Flowers," wu publlahed without
signature In 1*4 and waa followed In 1867 by a second
volume. Her third volume of poetry, published In IK*,
contained the poem printed below, which waa written in
beleaguered Washington In November, ltd. and Brat
given to the pubUo In the page* of the AtlanUp Monthly
for February, HO.
MINE eyes bay* seen the gjbrj of the coming of the Lord;.
He is trampling out the Vintage where the grape* of wrath
are stored;
He hath looted the fateful lightning of his terrible, swift
•word;
Hii troth ia marching on.
I have seen him In the watch Area of a hundred circling camps;
They hare bnilded him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read his righteons sentence by the dim and flaring lamps—
His day Is msrrhlng on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ In burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners. so with yon my grace shall deal.
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel.
Since God to marching on."
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his Judgment seat.
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him; be Jubilant, my feet!
Our God la marching on.
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CeaKord. . I
Charlotte Observer. a«»* \
Few incidents in history have given
rise to wider dUfuuiUB of opinion and
Eheated debates among historians
the uprising of the North Carolina
lators. No man can safely set hira-telf
up as a judge of other men's mo-tives,
whether he rives contempora-neously
with them or whether he comes
after. In the former case he is more
than apt to be controlled and influenc-ed
by' prejudice either, in favor of or ad-verse
io the motives he would judge.
and hence impartiality ia impossible;
in the latter case he meets with nothing
but cold facts and it ia impossible to ,
Vy which of these fact, best illustrates «"» "Q"* w—""y^
the motives of the actor—which actions
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures yon and me.
As he died to make men holy, let ua die to make man free.
While God to marching on.
A Triumphal Arrli ror sealer.
Baltimore Sun.
The incorporation of an association
to erect a memorial in this city to
Admiral Schley is a very proper move--
uu ■ni, and the people of Maryland
should see to it that the association
does not lack funds to pat their design
into execution. It is the purpose of
the association, as announced in The
Sun today, to erect a triumphal arch
commemorative of the achievements of
Admiral Schley and his officers and
men at the battle of Santiago. This
arch is to be of artistic design and
placed in some conspicuous position in
this city among the people by whom
the hero of Santiago is known and be-loved.
A place is to be provided on
the arch upon which at some future
day a statue of the Admiral may be
erected. Many of the leading citizens
of Baltimore are identified with the as-sociatiop,
which assures the success of
the movement.
As soon as the news of the remakable
victory of our navy over the Spanish off
Santiago reached the United States the
people, knowing that Schley was_ there
in command and that he was in the
thick of the fight, hailed him as the
successful commander and the hero of
the most signal victories in history.
Notwithstanding the machinations of a
clique of bureau chiefs and clerks, the
people of the whole United States, with
that unerring instinct upon which
popular government largely rests, have
continued to honor Schley down to the
present time. And in all the trying
times si nee the conclusion of the war,
amid all the provocations and all the
vituperation and malignity of which he
has been the object, in all this time the
Admiral has never uttered one word or
done one deed which tended in any de-gree
to diminish the love and confi-dence
of the people. Admiral Schley
is a son of Maryland and a member of
an honored Maryland family which has
for many generations been identified
with the State'. He entered the navy
half a century ago and has given all
these years of his life to the service of
his country. The record that he has
made in that half a century, indepen-dent
of his great achievement at Santi-ago,
carried him to the highest rank in
the service, and now furnishes a com-plete
answer to the charges and inu-endoes
of his enemies. It is entirely
lining that Maryland—Schley's native
State—should see that the memory of
his service to the country should be
kept alive in imperishable stone.
lively to their narrative, and when it
was finished rose to bis feet, opened the
door, and in a witheringly eontemptu-tone
said:
"Much against my feelings, I am
compelled by the Governor's proclama-tion
to grant you your pardons. If jus-tice
were done, hanging would be too
good for such treacherous dog*. Bat
rest assured there is a justice that pun-ishes
the traitor. Go; if yon ever again
cross my path I'll crush you as I would
aserpent. The door is open." .
The two wretches retired, crestfallen.
As he was in duty bound to do. Col.
Alexander raised a guard aad sat oat
for the home of the Whites, which
stood on the bank of Rocky river, ,0a-ruthers,
who was a brpthsr-inr>w of
the White boys, was there at Jhs time.
Before they were aware of "^ J
Stealth Bays mil 'Will eel It.
Ooldeboro Oor. Charlotte Observer.
Craven county has within her con-fines
an astrologer of note in the person
of Isaac Hughes Smith, familiarly
known in legislative circles as'"the
colored gentleman trom Craven."
Smith is also a noted politician and in
Newborn, bis home town, runs a bank-ing
and loan establishent. Knowing
of the accuracy of his previous fore-casts,
I dropped in on him in his pri-vate
office the other day and sought
knowledge. I had heard the occasion
of a banquet given in bis honor by
Recorder Taylor, in 1892, at Washing-ton,
D. C.,how Isaac told the assembled
guests, who were all Reid men, that
McKinley would be the Republican
nominee and sweep the country. I
had heard of his subsequent prediction
of McKinlev'a election for the second
term, also of his private notes of warn-ing
to the President to avoid crowds;
that the planets foreboded to His Excel-lency
impending danger and the like.
So I concluded to have him set at rest
this uncertainty as to who would be the
next national standard-bearers and
which of the parties would triumph in
the next national election. I asked
Smith who would be the Democratic
nominee in 1898 and quickly came the
answer:
"David B. Hill, of Albany."
"Who the Republican nominee?"
"Roosevelt, most assuredly."
"Now, Smith, which of these gentle-men
will be elected?" I asked, and in
no uncertain tone came the reply:
"David B. Hill."
"Do you really think so?"
"No, sir, I don't think so, I know it;
fate has decreed it and no power on
earth can prevent it."
Emboldened by such positivenese I
asked, "Will Wm. Jennings Bryan
ever be President?" To my surprise
Smith replied: "Yes, in 1912, but ail
depends upon Bryan's attitude to the
Democracy in 1903 and 1907. Fate
has decreed that Bryan shall be Pres-ident
in 1912, but it is possible for
Bryan's will power to defeat the decree
of fate." •
Oil On Roads.
Oil iu various forms has been tried
of late in several countries to produce
firm dust-free road surfaces, and is re-ported
upon with curiously favorable
unanimity. In America heavy unre-fined
petroleum heated to 80° C. pro-duced
an excellent surface, with little
dust in summer and no mud in winter.
The petroleum was durable and found
to be cheaper than watering. In Al-giers
olive oil and napththa have been
in use since 1896. Dr. Guglielminetti,
the Lancet reports, has induced the
authorities of Monte Carlo to make an
experiment with coal tar, which like-wise
seems to have given satisfaction.
The material took a long time to dry,
in the end "became so hard and com-pact
that it was difficult to break up.
After 40 days' traffic it was damaged,
and had resisted the wear and tear of
wheeled traffic.'' Apparently the
expense of this process is very moderate.
Extensive u e of the motor car in the
Kivicra makes the settlingof the "dust
plague" a matter of moment.
Who Baa Broken lit
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer.
It will be readily recalled that last
year when the Legislature was in ses-sion,
there was plenty of talk about a
bill to regulate the labor of children in
factories. Many thought then and
think now such a bill ought to have
been passed. Rut a groat number of
the mills prepared an agreement, which
they submitted, to the Legislature.
That agreement was accepted. It was
spread upon the journals. It is a very
solemn pledge and covenant. Who
has broken it? There have been ru-mors
from time to time that some of
the mills were violating it. Today The
Observer correspondent asked Labor
Commissioner Varner what were the
facts in the case. He replied: "A
number of the mills have not lived up
to the agreement." It is not an agre-able
piece of news to print. People
will ask which mills violated it, and
that will certainly be an interesting
question.
Frltrhard
Bllltnore.
The Will of frovldence.
Senator Burrows says he has a new
story, and here it is:
"There is an old darkey who works
for me. He lost bis wife— No. 4—the
other day, and I was sympathizing with
him that they would meet in heaven,
etc., when the old fellow broke in:
"I know (Iat, Mars Burrows, I know
dat. I ain't makin' no objections. It
were de act of a all-wise and unscrup-ulous
Providence.'"
Wife 4>f
Away
ABHEVILLE, N. C, Aug. 2.—The
death of Mrs. J. C. Pritehard, wife of
Senator Pritehard, occared this morn-ing
at the Clarence Barker Hospital,
Biltmore. Cancer was the cause of
death. An operation performed a
month or two ago brought only tempo-rary
relief. About a week ago she was
again taken seriously ill and was im-mediately
brought to the Clarence
Barker Hospital for treatment. It was
found that in another operation lay her
one chance of -recovery and it was
performed yesterday morning. It was
thought that Ma. Pritehard was doing
well after the operation until late last
night When she was found to be sink-ing
rapidly. Her husband was _ with
her, a few relatives and dose friends.
She was unconscious for an hoar or two
before her death.
cams spontaneously without outside in-fluence;
which were colored by foreign
events over which the actor had no
control. The judgement of history is
therefore always a colored one. Bat
one thing can be relied upon with cer-tainty.
Whenever the vast majority
of the people of a community either ac-tively
or passively take their stand
firmly for or against a certain move-ment
we may be reasonably assured
that were all the troth known, there
would be found something back of
their position which would vindicate
their actions, it matters little whither
"they may lead; for the final outcome of
such a movement may generally be
laid at the door of those who oppose it,
especially if this opposition be a strong-er
force than that controlling the
movement itself.
That such was the case with the
much-praised and overly-abused Regu-lators,
we are not at liberty to doubt.
The large number of the inhabitants
who took part in the up-rising repre-sents
a still larger number who gave
their sympathy and moral support pas-sively.
Even no small part of the men
the government led against the Regula-tors
after the latter had been guilty of
many excessively improper tacts—or
rather should we not say driven to these
acts?—showed their sympathy for the
position taken by their rebellious coun-trymen
by' their refusal to fire upon
them until compelled to do so in self-defence.
After the Regulators were
defeated, their enemies, determined to
hunt them down, were unable to collect
bands sufficient for the purpose which
did not include many secret friends of
the fugitives to whom they rarely failed
to give timely warning by which they
might escape. We have as a result of
this condition many stories of daring
deeds and fortitude thrilling with in-terest
and having a certain historical
value.
Not the least" interesting of these sto-ries
is that of "The Black Boys of Ca-barrus"
as narrated by Wheeler. In
making his preparations for marching
against the Regulators, Governor Tryon
had ordered from Charleston, 8. C,
several wagons loads of gunpowder,
flints, blankets, etc. They were sent
to Charlotte to be forwarded from that
place to Hillsboro, the seat of govern-ment.
It was with great difficulty that
CoL Moses Alexander, one of Tryon's
best officers who had charge of the
transportation of these supplies, could
obtain wagons sufficient to send them
on, so much in sympathy with the
Regulators were the inhabitants of that
region. The friends of the Regulators
were on the alert to prevent the supplies
from reaching the Governor.
A small party from that part of
Mecklenburg county which afterwards
in 1792 went to form Cabarras, consist-ing
of three brothers, James, William
and John White, together with Robert
Caruthere, RobertDavis, Benj. Cochran,
and two half brothers, James Ashmore
and Joshna Hadley, undertook the
task of stopping the wagons. Accord-ingly
they bound themselves by a most
solemn oath to remain true to each
other, to see the business through to
the end and never to divulge the secret
on each other, followed by an invoca-tion
of the direst evil upon the head of
him who should betray his comrades.
This done they blacked their skins so
as to conceal their identity and late in
the afternoon set out on their expedi-tion.
Traveling with all possible speed
they overtook the wagons about mid-
,y between Charlotte and Concord,
encamped on the side of what was then
called Phifer-s Hill.
Immediately the attack was begun.
They drove off with ease the few wag-oners
who had been left to guard the
supplies and to give the alarm in case
of attack, who were taken so completely
by surprise that they thought only, of
their own safety. The wagons were
overthrown; the kegs stove in; the
powder, etc., thrown into a large pile;
and the blankets, torn into strops, were
used to make a train of powder to the
pile, into which Major White fired his
pistol. The explosion was of course
tremendous and every article of the
supplies destroyed.
Such an outrage against His Majes-ty's
authority could not be passed over
without the most searching investiga-tion.
Threats availing nothing, Gov-ernor
Tryon offered a pardon to any
one who would tarn King's evidence
against the rest. Unfotunately it is
almost impossible to get together
into any secret enterprise of danger a
body of men without including at least
one Judas. The Black Boys were
peculiarly unfortunate in having two.
Ashmore and Hadley, desirous of
availing themselves of the pardon, .set
out unknown to each other, to betray
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ly among the guards were several men
who were in sympathy with the Regu-lators,
and so did not wish to see the
Black Boys captured. One of them
was ordered by Col. Alexander to
stand guard at the door. He purposely
moved slowly to obey the order, since
he waa under no military obligation to
follow the commands of the officer.
Take all day, will you," angrily ex-claimed
the colonel. "I'll have you
lashed like a dog if the rascals escape."
A quarrel, with the consequent delay,
waa just what the guard wanted. He
replied hotly, "Get somebody else to do
your dirty work if my way don't suit
you."
Seeing his chance another of the
guards passing Mrs. White, whispered
to her:
"Tell 'em to make a break—through
the door—I' not see 'em—quick."
Mrs. White was not slow to execute
the command. Caruthers, the first to
receive the warning, sprang through
the door and dashed for the river. He
was putsued by the other guards but
was in the river before they could catch
up with him. In the meantime the
Whi'e boys taking advantage of the
confusion, left the other side of the
house and was soon lost in the woods.
Chagrined and angered at his failure,
Col. Alexander became all the more
determined to capture the Black Boys.
Soon after this some of the band were
in the field harvesting their crop. The
Royalists hearing of their whereabouts
collected a band to capture them. As
they rode into the field one of the sup-posed
Royalists gave a secret signal to
the fugitives to warn them of their
danger. Springing on their horses they
dashed away in flight. All succeeded
easily in eluding their pursuers except
Robert Davis. He was closely followed
and was in imminent danger of being
captured. Not paying as strict atten-tion
as he should have done to the route
he was taking, he soon found himself
in a dangerous situation. Close at his
heels rode his enemies; before him was
the river, its banks steep and high. To
tarn was to ride into the arms of his
pursuers; to dash over the banks, 80
feet in height, seemed instant death.
Davis looked to the right and to the left
for an avenue of escape. Every way waa
closed. His foes were close upon him.
Not a friend, who could render aid, waa
in sight As his enemies closed nearer
upon him, his imagination perhaps
pictured a gallows. A glance down the
the steep ragged bank and his mind was
made np. Better death in an effort to
escape than death on the gallows.
Gathering his reins, without the tram
bling of a muscle, he gave the com-mand
to his horse. The animal leaped
into the air, landed safely into the
stream and bore bis master in safety to
the opposite bank where his foes dared
not follow.
So by the assistance of neighbors and
by their own daring and vigilance, the
Black Boys managed to keep clear of
their enemies, who finally becoming
weary of fruitless pursuits, gave them
up as a vain task. With the exception
of the two traitors, all of those engaged
in the adventure of the Black Boys of
Cabarrus afterwards served with
bravery and credit in the army of the
Revolution.
In the case of the traitors Providence
clearly showed a hand by sending upon
them the evils they had invoked upon
their own heads by the betrayal of com-panions.
Ashmore is said to have fled
the country, lived a wretched life, and
died as miserably as he lived, without
comforts and without friends. Wheeler
says that he himself knew Hadley. He
remained in the country a drunkard
and a brute. For bis brutal treatment
of his family, his neighbors, attired in
female dress, went to his house, drag-ged
him out of bed, and on his bare
back gave him a severe beating. "He
continued through life the same miser-able
wretch, and died without any
friendly hand to sustain him or eye to
pity."
Well did Col. Alexander say, to them,
"There is a justice which punishes the
traitor." R. D. W. CONNER.
Wilson, N. C
Tooth's Companion.
A Massachsetts firm prints this para-graph
at the top 64 its letter head:
"Errors—We make them; so does every
one. We will cheerfully correct them
if you will write to as. Try to write
good naturedly if you can, but write to
us anyway. Do not complain to some
one else first or let the matter pass.
We want first opportunity to make
E'ght any injustice we may do." The
ttle sermon deserves a wide audience.
Few people that have not had occasion
at some time in their lives to regret the
sending of a harsh-or hasty note of
their companions.
met on the threshold of CoL Alexander's
house. Each met the other shame-f.-
inedly. Nets word was spoken by
eiJter; a glance was enough. They
understood each other. The cowardly
spirit that found a lodging place in
their hearts found each in the
other a kindred spirit and drew
them together with irresistible magne-tissa.
Col. Alexander listenml
AAcrcriiddlemnttaalllryrTaUwieVy *>mP^1-i-nt- . J. tta".-V_»»i_niellc,ne(sis,a,ryut»o_as.- Bert one's rights in subsequent letters,
but there is no better rule of correspon-dence
than to make the first one good
natured.
James P. Baker, a switchman on the
Southern Railway shot himself-in the
house of Emma Williams in Charlotte
last Saturday afternoon at 12:80o,clock. |
Atlanta Oiiaslinillaa
Dog days. So many of the young
people write to me about dog days that
I will answer briefly that there are no
dog days. It is nothing but a supersti-tioB
that has come down to us from
the ancients. The Dog star or Sinus
has its time to appear in the heavens
and rise and set like other stars, but it
is a very irregular time and so what we
call dog days may begin the first of Jury
or many days later. The rising of
8irius in a line with the sun begins now
on the Sd of July and will continue
until the 11th of August. Those forty
days were believed by the ancients to
bring very hot and sultry weather and
many malignant diseases, Mat this has
the appearance, of Sido. is very
uncertain and in the course of time it
will rise in the winter: Now a little
more about this wonderful star. You
know that we have eight planets that
belong to our solar system. They all
revolve around theson just as the earth
does and the nearer the planet is to the
sun the faster it travels.. Neptune is
16,000,000 miles distant and it lakes
166 years to get around.
But 8irius is away outside of our
solar system and is 120,000,000,000 of
miles from us and gives 400 times more
light than oar sun. It ia the largest
and brightest star in the heavens. It is
called the Dog star because it appears
to be in the tail of the constellation
that the ancients named Major Canis
or the Big Dog. They were a smart
people and we still keep their map of
the heavens and their names of the
stars, but they had no telescopes and
did not know that there were any stars
or suns except those we see with the
naked eye.
But now young people listen. It is
now established and proven that there
are millions of stars and solar systems
afar off in space and that ours is the
smallest and the most insignificant of
them all. We are nothing and less
than nothing in the scale of existence.
It has always been a mystery to me why
the Creator of the boundless universe,
that has no limit, should have chosen
this little world of ours for His greatest
work, the Creation of man in His own
image, a little lower than the angels,
man who sinned and fell and was re-deemed
by the sacrifice of the Son of
God. I don't understand it. I cannot
comprehend it. This little world is
not bigger than alcannon ball compared
with some of the planets and stars afar
oat in space. It has but one little
moon that does not condecend to show
us but one aide of its anatomy. The
other night we went out to Mr. Gran-ger's
beautiful home to look at the full
moon through his great telescope that
coat $5,000—and is mounted in a high
observatory with a dome that revolves
as the earth revolves. It was a mag
nificent spectacle but the view of Jupi-ter
with four moons and Saturn with
his rainbow ring and seven moons was
much more beautiful and impressive
Of course those planets must be inhab-ited,
for the Creator would not have
surrounded a dead world with such
luminous and beautiful satellites. We
don't know anything hardly and it fills
me with disgust to see young men
strutting around like peacocks—acting
lice they made themselves and knew
everything and expected to live always
—when the truth is they don't know
where they came from nor where they
are going and can't add an hour or a
day to their existence. I have but little
hope for a vain or a conceited man and
a vain woman is no better. A conceit-ed
man is dose kin to an idiot and a
woman vain of her beauty should some-times
remember that she had no hand
in creating it for it was God given or
inherited. "Oh! why should the spirit
of mortal be proud?'' Of all the faults
of which humanity is guilty that of self
conceit is the last to be forgiven and
the hardest to reform.
I ru mi nated on this yesterday when
I read what Roosevelt said in his speech
at West Point. The editor who pub-lishes
it speaks of him as our well
meaning but impulsive president. He
should have said our "conceited and
erratic president.'' In speaking of the
great men whom West Point had grad-uated,
he said, "I claim to be a his-torian
and I speak what I know to be
true that West Point has turned out
more great men and more statesmen
than any other institution in the United
States." It was self-conceit and ignor-ance
that provoked such a monstrous
absurdity, for Colonel Sprague, of Yale
college, has recently challenged him to
the proof and has shown beyond all
cavil that Yale can number 10 times
the great men that West Point can
number. Among them 1,883 ministers
of the gospel—78 Justices of supreme
courts, 17 chief justices, 646 doctors, 89
governors of states and 88 United States
senators—besides these Yale has sent
forth an army of educators, established
480 colleges, 160 for women and 8,000
high schools while West Point has sent
out none but soldiers.
Teddy ought to be ashamed of him-self,
but he will not be. He is not yet
ashamed that in bis so-called history he
called Mr. Davis an arch traitor and
repudiator and told what he did when
governor of Mississippi, etc. His atten-tion
has been called to these malignant
calumnies against a great
and whose curriculum at West Point
that he ordained when secretary of war
is still in force and who never was a
member of the legistshire nor governor
of Miiasraiippi No, be is too conceited
to take back anything or to apologise
for his mistakes. .The man he slander-ed
was dead when he published those
lies, but his widow lives and there are
thousands of veterans all over the
south who cherish his memory and
who now hold his slanderer in supreme
contempt. Yet he claims to be a his-torian!
When a gentleman finds that
he has unwittingly wronged another be
and chews it as a cow chews and swal
lows her cud. He feeds on his con-ceit.
Box Amp.
P. a—AH hail to Evan Howell—The
soldier, the editor, the friend in need.
I have known him intimately since his
childhood. His good father was mar-ried
in my town and I think I am the,
only living man who was at the wed-ding,
though I was then but a child. All
hail to my friend. He has theright to
run for mayor and Atlanta will honor
herself by electing him. B. A.
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Houston Post: A wrihter In The
New York Mail and Express calls atten-tion
to the disappearance of the dude.
The man of fashion is still with us, but
but he is of the athletic sort nowadays,
and not of the fignnisite type to which
the dude belonged. The dude was the
descendant of the blood, the bock, the
incroyable, the macaroni, the bean, the
fop, the dandy and the swell who de-lighted
past generations. He dressed
as his predecessors did in the height of
fashion, usually going a good deal
beyond it to attain what be believed
was an aristocratic appearance. His
manners were of the blase kind, affect-ed
to give him what he believed was an
air of superiority. Instead of being
aesthetically beautiful, the dude was
only weak. The stage door Johnny is
Still with us. He is a college boy usual-ly
and is harmless. We have older
men who are clubmen and men older
still who are roues. But the prevailing
type of fashion, young and old, no
longer resembles the dude. The man
of fashion nowadays is athletic, broad-shouldered,
an outdoor man with tan
on his cheeks and the son and wind in
his manner and in the sparkle of his
eye. What has brought about the
change, and why has the dude disap-peared?
The writer in The Mail and
Express gives the credit to the American
girl. "I," says the American girl
"with my little wish, I killed Cock
Robin." Surely this is a wonderful
illustration of the power of woman and
"the way of a man with a maid,"
which King Solomon found too wonder-ful
for him. "Cherchez la femme,
the French say—"Look for the
woman." Greater problems than
that of the diappearanoe of the dude
are solved by the application of the
rule of this Gallic proverb.
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Washington Tunes.
Here are some questions about things
you have seen every day and all your
life. If you are a wonder you may
possibly answer one or two of the
queries offhand. Otherwise not. '
What are the exact words on a 2-cent
stamp, and in which direction is the
fsee on it turned?
In what direction is the face turned
on a cent? On a quarter? On a dime?
How many toes has a oat on each
fore foot? On each hind foot?
Which way does the crescent moon
turn ? To the right or left ?
What color are your employer's
eyes? The eyes of the man at the next
desk?
Write down, offhand, the figures on
the face of your watch. The odds are
that you will make at least two mistakes
in doing this.
Your watch has some words written
or printed on its face. You have seen
"these words a thousand times. Write
them out corectly. Few can do this.
Also what is the number in the case of
your watch?
How high (in inches) is a silk hat?
How many teeth have you?
What are the words of a policeman's
shield?
How many buttons has the vest or
shirt waist you are wearing? •
How many stairs are there in the
first flight at your house?
How many steps lead from the street
to the front door of your house or flat?
What is the name, signed in fac-simile,
on any f1, $2, $6 or $10 bill
you ever saw? You've read dozens of
those names. Can you remember one?
A director of
they expect it to make 9M,000*
expenses this year. The
amount it has ever made ikon i
penws heretofore was about •o.OQO.
The Vance oonnty nil BsM
cans met in convention at IS
m. at the court house Saturday.
the exceptiofl of one white man, who
took bat little part in the psooss
the conventions was cniposasj
sively of colored men. .
Nine new rural free deMisiy
have been added to the nnnihar in thai
State. This makes forty-nine new
routes for July, and inirnsn the total
number of routes in the ate la to Mf*
This means the disburseaasB* lap the
National Government of $100,000 for
carriers alone in North Carolina.
The fraud Chapter of Royal Arab.
Masons of North Carolina have decided
to educate a boy at the Agricultural and
Mechanical College. They have sits it
ed a lad now in the Oxford-Orphan
Asylum, Eaton W»""<\ a cripple.
Young Renno will enter the college in
September. He is said to be very apt
and bright.
Curator Brimley of the State
has received a big
Macon county. He will keep it ahve
in the Museum, for several months and
then kill skin anh stuff IL The snake
is nearly four feet long and has eight
rattelers. It is of the sr
the Banded rattler and ia in
condition.
Jacob Hicks, the
living, who ran the first
tween Greensboro and Winston,
in Greensboro last Friday. He waa
visiting his daughter, Mrs. Iitaksr.
He learned to read and write When over
sixty-four years old, when orders erara
given for all who could not, to retire
from the service.
Dr. Gatling, the famous inventor of
the rapid fire gun, ia just completing
the invention of an automobile plow,
which dispenses with the pulling of the
bell cord over the back of a pestiferous
mule, enabling the farmer to sit in the
carriage and drive the ■"■*'- all over
the field with ss hemuch ease as does ia
bis reaping tmmsmm
It is estimated that six thousand peo-ple
attended the annual picnic of
Barium Springs Orphanage at Moorae-ville
last Thursdav. Prof. Alex Gra-ham,
of Charlotte, delivered the oration
of the day. Hon. Lee 8. Overman,
who was on the program, was unable
to attend on account of illness. Sev-eral
hundred dollars were reansed for
the orphanage from the sale of mnnhas
and refreshments.
While on his way to the depot at
Derita, a station a few miles north of
Charlotte, to take a train for Charlotte
late last Friday night, Murray Alex-ander,
a young white man who fives
there, was held up by two burly negroes.
The negroes sprang from underbrush
skirting the road a short distance from
the station, and one grabbed the young
man by the throat. The other negro
started to assist his wmrnankin, when
Alexander pulled his pistol aad fired it
point blank at the negro, whose black
fingers encircled his throat. With a
groan the wounded negro sank back
into the arms of his companion and
Alexander ran for his life.
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Sweetwater Telephone.
One of the brethren went to Knox-ville
last August snd fell by the wayside
—he got down there. After several
months the news of his fall reached his
rural home, and he was brought up be-fore
the church.
"Brethren," he said, "I admit I got
drunk in KnoxvUle last August, but I
didn't mean to do it. How I have suf-fered
in my conscience and in my pride,
God alone knows, and I trust He has
forgiven me. Brethern, I want you to
forgive me. I didn't go to get drunk.
I took a glass or two of light wine with
a friend, and later took a bottle of beer
on ice, and then"—
"Brethren," interrupted a good old
brother in the amen corner, "I would
be willing to forgive the,brother for his
fall if he would make a clean breast of
it and tell the troth. But I move we
turn him out for lying. He has lied to
as. Who ever heard of ice in August?"
And they turned him out because he
dared to my that he had seen ice in
August.
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Charlotte Observer Sad.
Governor Aycock to-day disposed
an extremely interesting case by oa
muting to life imprisonment in ttte .
penitentiary the death sentence of
Richard Button, colored, who was
convicted of rape and
hanged at Salisbury,
ing, convicted at the same tune, was
hanged and on the amflnld declared
Blaion's innocence. Governor Ayeeok
says in his reasons for i
"His guilt is too uncertain to
his execution. The evidence
him waa that of the woman who* only
saw him in the uncertain light through
an open door. At first she failed to
identify him and the officer turned him
loose on her statement. He proved an
alibi by a witness who proved a good
character. The trial Judge
recomends the commutation,
says that but foran implied I
ing that the sentence would be
muted to life imprisonment, he would
have set the verdict aside. BUton
proved a good character on the trial
Many of the lawyers and other
table citizens of the county i
the commutation and most of
express grave doubt as to his guilt."
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LONDON, Aug. 7.—A man of the
name of Wooton was arranged before a
Magistrate yesterday on the charge of
poaching in Windsor Park, taking rab-bi
ta belonging to the King. He plead-ed
in defence that he went into the
park to sleep and the rabi ta ran into his
pocket and were suffocated.
Despite this defence he wm I
to two month's in
Providence, a I., Special
Leona Jeodie, for two years a novice
at a convent in Flushing, L. I., is dead
after a long and mysterious illness
which had baffled medical science. An
autopsy was performed and in the re-gion
of the heart, and piercing the
pericardium, was found a headless steel
hat-pin four and a quarter inches long.
In the stomach WM found part of an-other
hat-pin one and a quarter inches
long, headless,
The young woman had. complained
of pains in the stomach since 1896,
but she died without having mentioned
the cause of her illness.
A magazine called Success has been
engaged in the profitable ditetsson at
finding out who are the fifty greatest
bring Americans. The bat WM made
up through the medium of a prize coo-test.
Theodore Roosevelt, Qieiss
Cleveland, Willian J. Bryan and Chief
Justice Melville Fuller compose the hat
—There has been about
He died from the effects of the wound hastens to apologize, bat a conceited struck dead by lightning in North Caro-at
St. Peter's Hospital. ' idiot rolls the morsel under his tongue llina in the past month.
of statesmen. The net of
made up of eight distinguished
All but one belong north of
and Dixon's line, and the one
from the South is Booker T.
ton. These yellow journal
tests are invariably
wonderful, not to say freakish.
Success' hat of fifty of the _
fifty people | marvel. It has not attracted
much attention as its merits
(Charlotte Observer.
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