The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-28

yertISing Sk3tchD0 book ever SdN' IL -
beautifully printed and illustrated and
seems to be founded on facts. They are
distributed from all the hotels and are
pleasant reading on the train. 1t tells all
about the health and climate and altitude
and business and resources ana spuDllc
morals, but what amazed and i'm ress-
ed me most was the circle map that
shows the number of cotton mills vi4hln
a radius of 100 miles from Charlotte.
On this map are black-dots numbering
the mills at every town and the aggre-
gate is 210, or about 62 per cent of all
fhe mills in the South. These mills OPP
crate 1621, 900 spindles and l4,OOO
looms and are capitalized at SoO,OOo,OUU.
This little book contains tabular state
ment of all these mills by name and ca
pacity. Charlotte has eleven of her
own.
Now. I was Illuminating about this III
connection with five-cent cotton. Ana
there is some comfort in it, for we keep
at home all the profit there is III manu-
featuring and we give employment to
thousands of our poor and dependent
people. Suppose that every township in
Georgia had a cotton min and that all
its earnings were spent and scattered in
the community, then we wouldn't feel
so bad over the low price Of the great
staple. We would indirectly share in
the profits of manufacturing.
Once again / visited the old time-hon-
ored cemetery-the first graveyard of old
Mecklenburg county. | was sorry to see
that it has of late been neglected and
has grown up in briars and weeds.
took note of some of the old inscriptions
and this one especially attracted my at
tention:
ooh, Crux-ave spes unica.
SACRED to the Memory Of Patrick Har-
Who was born in Tiperrary. Ireland.
sit is a holy and a wholesome thought
to pray for the dead that they may be
loosed from their sins.-II Maccabees
II, 49,"
There lies a good Roman Catholic
thought /. He went to purgatory and
the priest prayed for him. Then | rum
mated about Maccabees not being in the
sacred canon, but was in the ApOcrypha,
and the Apocrypha was ruled out of the
King James version in 1926. Then /
turned to an old Bible that had the
Apocrypha and found that the 10Th chap
ter of II Maccabees had only forty-tive
verses. but the last three had the same
! injunction to pray for them who are
dead, and Furthermore, that Judas Mac
cabees raised among his soldiers 1000
drachma as a sin offering for those who
were slain. / make no comment on
this. Martin Luther translated the BIZ
BILE and left in it these two books, as he
said, or human consideration.
There is another tombstone at Cheraw
that interested me, for it marks the
grave of no man or woman now known.
1t reads as follows:
"My name-my country-what are they
to thee
What-whether high or low my pedigree;
Perhaps | far surpassed all other men,,
4 Perhaps l fell below them all-what
then?
Suffice it, stranger, that thou seest a
| tomb.
Thou knowest its use-it hides no mat
ter whom"
/ The other morning about daybreak |
left Charlotte for Lumberton, on the
Wilmington road. The breakfast house
| was several miles away at Hamlet, and
1 when we got there l heard the conductor
/ say: ''Twenty minues for breakfast"
| But / didn't hear him say change cars
for Wilmington and points this side
you see / am getting quite deaf in one
ear and can't hear at all out of the other,
but my wife says it is astonishing how
quickly / hear the breakfast bell. We
had a splendid meal, and / regained my
seat in the same car. When about a
mile from town the conductor called for
my ticket, and recognized me as bound
for Lumberton. He frantically pulled
the bell cord and told me to get off and
no nj, fO, no 7 oo,111 aatch tho
Wilmington train. Right then / was
j distressed. For / knew there was ne
other train that day, and l was billed
to lecture that night.The sand was shoe
mouth deep, but gripped my baggage and
! foxtrotted about 200 yards and suddenly
discovered that I would have to put on
brakes for my wind was giving out. An
other hundred yards and / had to stop
and blow, for my heart was humping
like bass drum, and there is so much
heart failure nowadays that / got alarm
; ed and put down my valise and sat on it.
: Just then l saw my train steaming a.
way like a snake in the grass, and
involuntarily exclaimed, farewell, vain
world, I'm going home" So | took my
time and made haste slowly, and when
/ reached the station was the picture OF
disappointment and despair. what
| can HI Olu HAL 10 UuI ules uuT-
INJURED. Wish now / had my photograph
as I was foxtrotting through that sand,
and then another as saw that train
steaming away without me. But all's
well that ends well. I found freight
train that was going to leave for Lum-
berton at II o'clock, but the conductor
| couldn't say when it would get there.
I wired my friend that I was left, but to
hold the fort, for I was coming-and he
did. 1t was only forty-four miles, but it
took us over eight long hours to get
there. had only time to wash up and
!, brush up and eat supper, but found
good house full awaiting me. My SUBJ
ject was "The Cracker and the Caval-
ier," and my friend introduced me by
saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have
the pleasure of introducing to you the
distinguished Georgia cavalier, who will
now proceed to address the North Caro-
lima crackers" Well, this brought down