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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
Presbyterian General Assembly.

Chicago, April Six weeks from
yesterday the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church in the United
States will open in the assembly hall
on the grouns at Winona, Ind. near
Warsaw. 1t will continue ten days,
lasting over Sunday and closing at the
end of the following week. This is the
1o9th general assembly and is one Of three
chief ecclesiastical gatherings held in
the United States. Ex-President Ben
jamin Harrison probably will be male
moderator of the assembly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
wyIie Anti-Pool Bill Law.

Madison, Wis. April Q. - The wylie
anti-pool-selling bill is at last passed
and there was no attempt made to de-
feat its passage. The assembly wrestled
with the bicycle baggage bill for an
hour. but failed to come to q vote on II.
In the senate Senator Davis pure cleo
ton bill was passed. and in the assem-
bly, the Mills caucus bill was ordered to
q third reading and the Lewis primary
election bill killed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09

bloomington, Ills, April 9.-Stephen
smith. pioneer dry goods merchant Of
bloomington. died suddenly yesterday
afternoon, aged 20. He was one of the
best-known merchants west. He cele-
brated his thirty-seventh anniversary
OF beginning business at Bloomington
last Monday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
Pauper who L. Heir to Gao, 900.

Springfield, Ills. April 9. - Arthur
Quinn. of this city. who is at presel.i
an inmate of the poor farm at Bloom.
ington. is heir to a fortune Of $z0.001
by the death Of his brother. Frank
Quinn in Philadelphia i've years ago
and the latter's wife, who died recently
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
Embracing Their Opportunity.

New York, April 9.-There is a chance
that George Ashley. Republican candi-
date for mayor of Patterson, may be de-
feated by women. The candidate IL q
cousin Of the senior member Of Ashley
& Bailey. silk manufacturers, and IL su-
pefintendent of the mill. The women in
the mill are threatening to hurt his can
didacy unless their wages are raised
from 50 and SO q week to $14.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
Failure At south BEND.

South Bend, Ind. April 9.-Kepner &
Schaefer, large retail clothing dealers
who have been In business fifteen years.
confessed judgment yesterday for $1s..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09

however, congress will remove the 1imi-
tation on price he believes he can agree
with the department upon fair price
not greater than that paid for similar
arror by any other country in the
world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
MORGAN OF ALABAMA cor1NUED.
Three Days of His Cuban Speech and
Fourth One Coming.


Washington, April 9.-The senate yes
terday heard Morgan for the third sue
cessive day on his resolution declaring
that state of war exists in Cuba. He
denounced SPANS methods against
American prisoners, and went over in
detail the circumstances in the Com
petitor case. Morgan said he woull
close his speech at the next meeting CT
the senate, when he would present a
letter from one of the Cuban officials
of the eastern province of the island
showing the complete civil system of
government now maintained by the Gu
bans.
Nelson Of Minnesota spoke for two
hours on the bankruptcy bill, opposing
the pending Torrey bill as excessively
harsh and designed as a collection
agency for large creditors, and urging
his substitute as a measure drafted
in the interest of thousands of poor
debtors struggling to get on their feet
A resolution was agreed to for an in
vestigaton as to attorneys fees paid
by the interstate commerce commits
sion. Adjourned to Monday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
Senate Confirm. Rooeevelt.

washington. April 9.-The senate in
executive session yesterday confirmed
the following nominations: Theodore
roosevelt, of New York, to be assistan.
secretary of the navy; Fenton B. Nc
Creery' OF Michigan, to be secretary of
the United States legation at the City
of Mexico.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
What the Soldiers Sung of Footc.

Washington April 9.-Secretary Long
TOT the first time yesterday exercised
ms right of christening a naval vessel
when he bestowed upon torpedo boat
NO. 3, now building at the Union Iron
works, the name of Foote. Admiral
foote was the father Of total abstinence
from liquor in the navy, and of him the
sailors sung:
lie raised our pay 10 cents day,
And stopped our grog forever"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
Is referring the Veterans.

Washington. April 9.-Secretary Will
son is giving all the preference posi-
Die under the civil service rules to Un-
ion veterans in appointments and pro-
motions in the agricultural department.
Both the ability and the war records
OF the veterans are duly considered. but
they are put ahead of other candidates
wherever possible
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
Pacific Railway Legislation.

Washington, April Ex-senator Gear, Of
Iowa, has made a report on the bill to
authorize commission consisting of the
secretaries of the treasury and the in
terror and the attorney general to ad-
just the debts of the Pacific railroads to
the government. The report reviews in
detail the financial conditions of the
roads and their relations to the gov
plan to permit the executive officers Of
the government with the approval of
the president to make an adjustment
with the owners of the property.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
TIE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

HfoAoo, a0oK BLAND q PACIFIC
hsiivay-T1sete car BE- purchased or bag.
ssse ebecked at q Twentic.n greet depot
Q, v Il depct corner Fifth avenue aud
cavtgfrsf ssrest, Frsck II, Plrmmer, Agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09
DE LONE TALKS OF RIVERA.
Intimates That He May Have Reason to
Curse His Friends.

-
Washington, April 9. - Advices re-
ceived by the Spanish minister here
state that General Euis Rivera, who is
lying wounded near Havana, is not in
a serious condition, and that his wounds
are not likely to prove fatal. Inquiry
as to the status of the prisoner resulted
in a statement by the minister to the
effect that at no time has the Spanish
government or General Weyler had any
idea of shooting Rivera. 1t was added
that it would certainly not have bean
in order to express any such opinion,
whatever the belief might have been,
in view of the fact that Rivera has not
yet been tried, much less sentenced to
be shot.
For the same reason 1t can hardly be
asserted that General Rivera's future
is absolute assured. When questioned
on this point the minister inclined to
the belief that the man would not be
shot, but showed that much depended
upon the conduct of Cuban SYM
pathizers in the United States. He de-
cined to say whether his reference was
to the conduct of General Sanguilly,
who is now under arrest on suspicion
of aiding another filibustering expedi-
ton, or to the proceedings in the senate
which might be regarded as tending to
inflame bad feeling.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-09

Passenger trains LEAVE o., 4 I. q p. ncl,ne
q eine) depot ave % Minutes earlier tar time
Sens Tr.ans marked casy, al 0thor sYa;1s
d ny except Sunday.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-21
SHUT UP.

Don't start yonr tongue a-going in care.
LEES. sort of way,
And thoughtlessly forget it till it runs q
half day.
The pleasant art of talking is a happy
gift indeed,
But. oh! the art of keeping still is what
the people need.
Don't think that you can multiply on,
i. meagre stock of joys
By janming every quiet space chock full
of talk and noise.
! If you've big two-bushel thought, why,
sift it in a cup
OF plain terse words, but otherwise, shut
up! shut up! shut up!!!
The men who have their words engraved
on monuments today,
Are not the ones who always tried to have
the most to say.
.Ah, no, they Thought for years to get one
sentence new and bright
For us to put in copy-books and have our
children write.
And If you would render glad the ones
who have to hear.
Why find some real good quiet place and
think about year,
And get thought so deep aud broad and
true and great and wise,
That it will hit this dull old world right
square between the eyes.
-Nixton Waterman,
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-21
ANY OLD OFFICE WILL DO
Washin gton Post.

A certain United States Senator. who
is supposed to have some influence with
the administration. recently received a
letter which takes the palm for Office
seeking communications. It is dated
from town i'll Tennessee State which
the Senator does not in part represent
and reads as follows;
II respectfully ask you if you will be
so kind as to do me the great favor to
indorse and support me and give your
honorable name to obtain an appoint
ment from President Mckinley. 1 wish
to be appointed to one of the following
positions: United States ambassador
minister, consul general, Comptroller and
Register of the United States Treasury
revenue collector, collector of customs.
revenue agent, pension agent, paymaster.
postmaster, Indian agent, United States
marshal, superintendent of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey, sur
veyor general, superintendent of the
nver and harbor improvements, emigrant
inspector, etc. I will thank you very
much for anything you can obtain for
me. worked hard for President Nc
Kinley and for victory for our Repubh-
can party. I thank you for the work
you have been doing in your own State
for our party. Kindly try to bear me in
your mind, and oblige. Hoping to hear
from you, sir, soon, at the address above
am - etc
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-21
A CONGRESSMAN'S KID.
Washington Post.

Little Champ Clarke, of Missouri, is
chip OF the old block. He is a beautiful
CHILD, about five years old, as bright as
dollar, and almost as quick at reparee
as his noted father. Little Champ is
source of joy and amusement to all with
whom he becomes acquainted, and there
are not many people in the big capitol
building, on the House side, from Speaker
Reed down to laborers who scrub the
floors after every one else goes home.
with whom he has not already become
acquainted
whats the number of daddy's box?"
he shouted, as he rushed the House post
Office the other day.
who's your daddy?'' asked the clerk
at the window.
"Oh, you know well enough" said lit
tie Champ, with a contemptuous wave of
his hand. II introduced myself to you
the other day."
The place where little Champ delights
to go is the House stationery room. The
rows of pear1-hand1ed knives, the silver
tipped pencils, the rubber bands, the bot
ties OF paste, and the piles of paper and
boxes of envelopes are source of anuse-
ment to the little lad, and the clerks
encourage his visits, for bright savings
are ever bubbling from his fresh Inns.
''What are you Democrats going to do
now?'' asked one of the clerks Yesterday.
when little Champ came in. MCKINLEY
IS running things, and you will have to
put up with it whether you like it or
not"
The little fellow jumped into chair
and swung his arm aloft, in the attitude
which his father assumes when he IS most
deeply in earnest.
I'VE Democrats" piped up his little
voice, will not be for any of McKinley's
acts.''
Whether the boy would have gone on
with stump speech is not known. but
certainly the shouts of laughter that
followed this earnest declaration of prin-
ciple did not discomfort him in the least
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-21
INCOME TAX IN CASTOR
Gastonia Gazette


Looking over the tax books Monday.
we were informed by Register Ormand
that there are only three persons in the
county who listed taxable incomes in
their returns last year. Of these, two
were cotton mill men-Messrs. S. 7.
Durham, of Bessemer, and w. T. Tor
dan, OF Mountain Island. No county
officer reported an income of $1,000.
The total taxable incomes listed in 1906
amount to $7,73S; in 1895 the amount
listed was $500. The rate of taxation
is one-half of one per cent. The return
OF 1895 would yield, therefore, SIC. 30.
and of 1896, $3.50. The law requires
incomes in excess of $1,000 a year de-
rived from salaries or fees or both to be
reported to the list-takers for taxation
by the State. Something is out of
whack when only three such incomes are
found on the tax lists of CASTOR county.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-21
HOW TO KILL A NEWSPAPER.

The following receipt is offered by a
Western paper:
Just let the subscription go. It's only
dollar or two---the publisher don't need
it.
If he asks for it, get as mad as YOU can
and stop the paper----you never read it
anyhow. Then go and borrow vour
neighbours.
When the reporter comes always be
busy. Make him feel as if he were in
truding. When the advertising and Job
man comes tell him you don't need to ad-
ENTHUSIASTICALLY knows you; that Won
will try to get along without any printed
stationery---it is too expensive; that you
must economic.
Never drop in to see the editor unless
you want free complimentary notice
or lengthy obituary for beloved rela-
tive,
Never recommend the paper to any,
body. When you do speak of it say ives.
we have little sheet, but it don t amount
to much" Keep it up year or two and
you will have dead newspaper. a. dead
set OF merchants, and dead town.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-21
WILL SELL HER FINGER.

For one thousand dollars a.
young and pretty woman is will
ing to sell one of her fingers. She
is Miss Grace Dinsmore, and her
home is in Binghamton, N. Y.
She saw an advertisement in O.
New York paper giving pay for
the middle finger at middle Joint.
to be used in necrosis, or bone
grating operation. Miss Dins-
more answered the advertisement
In person. She is anxious to be-
come a singer and wishes to COM
plete her musical education at the
Boston Conservatory of Music, and
takes this means of securing the
money.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-21
"BESI IhINGS.,,

The best theology pure and
benefcent life.
The best philosophy content
ed mind.
The best law-the golden rule.
The best observation-disclosures
edge.
The best statesmanship-self-
government.
The Observation-Disclosures
and temperance.
The best. art-painting a smile
nopn the brow of childhood.
The best science - extracting
sunshine from cloudy way.
The best war-to war aea;nst
ones weakness.
The best music--the laughter Of
nm innocent child.
The best neutrality-suspicious.
the true and the beautiful only on
memory's tablet,
Tn best telegraphing-flashing a
ray of sunshine into o gloomy
heart.
The best biography-the life
which writes charity in the largest
letters.
The best mathematics-that
which doubles the most Joys and
divides the most sorrows.
The best OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
clear of the decorating rocks Of
personal contention.
The best MISUNDERSTANDING a
treaty OF peace with ones own con-
science. A
The best Observation-Disclosures
q bridge of faith over the river Of
death. u
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-21

On the 3 day of May 1897 will sell the Court House
umberton c. the following lands satisfy the State
County taxes and cost due for the year 1896
GEO B. MCLEOD. SHERIFF.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-21
GRANTS THREE coFFiNS.

NcW loAA chhs
Resting on marble slabs in the
brick tomb on Riverside drive is q
steel casket, bolted and rivited as
strong as the strongest boiler. In
the crypt of the marble mausole-
am, which dwarfs into insignifi-
canoe the tomb just north of it,
resting upon o marble base of
granite, is granite box that
weighs eight tons. The casket has
for nearly twelve years held the
coffin of General Grant. Some
night, in the very near future,
when the rest of the city is asleep,
workmen will 60 to the tomb and
saw through the fifty-six bolts
{. that fasten the front plate of the
casket to the rest, bolted as secure
{; and rs solid to-day as thoy were
on the night of August s, 1885,
when Patrick Cregan and his seven
workmen drove them home by the
dim light of candles and the fur
mace that heated the bolts.
Three collins, in reality, contain
the body of General Grant. The
first is coffin of copper and &C.
dar; and outside outer box of pol
ished cedar, and outside the steel
case. The two inner collins will
be placed in the granite sarcopha-
gus. The steel casket will be dis
carded and taken away.
General Grant died at s minutes
past.8 o'clock on the morning of
July 20, 1885. He was entombed
on August 8. In the interval
the temporary tomb, which
has held his body for SO many
years, was erected. The first
clod of earth was removed from
Riverside Park on the after.
noon of Tuesday, July 20, d few
hours after Mayor Grace had re-
ceived from Mrs. Grant her ap.
proval of the proposed site. The
tomb was finished on Friday, Au.
gust ., at noon, and that after.
noon the steel casket was put il
place, ready to receive the collins
The new granite case which viii
receive the coffins is even more en-
during than steel. 1t is a grea'
box, hewn from single block O
granite. Outside it is four fee
wide, two feet four inches high
and eight feet, four inches long
The inner dimensions are: Depth
two feet, six inches, width, on,
foot, four inches; length sever
seet. On it will be placed a pom
derous lid from the same piece O
rock. This is now held up by
strong cradle, but when the cot
fms are placed in the sarcophagu
and the lid lowered into it's bed O
cement, by the hardening of TIL,
latter, it will become to all in
tents and purposes, part of tn,
sarcophagus.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-04-21
PURE llTERA4uRE FOR TIE HoHE.

PURE LITERATURE FOR TIE HoEE.
Scotland Neck Commonwealth.
Ernest and Alexander Blance
two brothers, were hanged a few
days ago in Louisiana. They were
hanged for murder, and it was all
a direct result of reading bad liter
allure.
The boys were working on a |
farm with perhaps no thought or
desire to become criminals or to
harm any one. By chance they
came into possession of the life of
Jesse James, read it and soon re-
resolved to become outlaws.
Their first victim was an old man
who had done them favors. His
name was Bagnand. They found
him at his store alone one night,
bound him and took $4,000 from
him, killed him by stabbing him
filftsen times aid then buried him
on the farm on which they work
ed.
Soon they left the farm and sus-
plcion pointed towards some other
persons who barely escaped being
lynched for their supposed crime.
The boys then went to France,
then back to California, the report
says, an finally, after spending all
the money, they drifted back to
their home in Louisiana. Suspi-
cion rested upon them, they were
arrested, confessed the crime and
paid the penalty at the end of a
rope a few days ago. On the scat
fold the older of the brothers
made a speech and said his career
and sins were due to bad books he
had been accustomed to read.
Now, all this is is a sad story,
but too true not only in the case
of the Blance boys but with many
others. Doubtless these boys had
read other trashy and impure liter
allure before they read the Jesse
James book; and the taste for that
kind Of reading grew into a thirst
and the fatal plunge was taken I'M
der the runious influence of bad
literature.
The readers Of the Common
wealth will remember that the
same book was one of the first in
fluences that moved the Bell boys,
Brantley and Creole to efforts at
plumber and finally to the murder
of John B. Bonner, of Aurora, this
State, the final result of which
was the longest, most noted trial
of the kind in the history of the
State, perhaps, and the sentence
of those boys to thirty years in
the State prison.
There is no more important duty
for parents than to see to it that
their children have pure and whole
some literature. The young mind
needs and must have something to
feed upon, and if it cannot find
good literature it will take the
bad.
Beware, therefore, parents, how
you allow sensational papers to
come into your homes. Too often
they are filled with lies, pictures
that are suggestive of evil thoughts
and carry with them an influence
that before you know it, has pois-
oned the minds of the boys or
girls with thoughts and desires of
evil which otherwise would nev-
er have come to them.
The same is true of books.
Many a book that at first seems
harmless and innocently amusing,
turns out to be harmful to the
young mind. The State makes
some appropriation for the educa-
ton Of its children, and parents
make personal Sacrifices in order
that their little ones may learn to
read; but nothing is more impor-
tant than that boys and girls have
the proper kind of literature.
Better not read at all than to read
that which is hurtful.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-12-03

In these days OF the higher criti-
cism" it is rarely that clergyman is
found who sticks to the Bible in its
literal sense without undertaking to
put his own Interpretation upon It.
Rev. Mr.. Torrey, however, declares his
belief in the old-fashioned orthodox
hell, and the liberal preachers will have
some difficulty in attacking his posi-
ton. It has become fashionable to in
sist that any particularly unpleasant
passage in the Bible has "fgurative
meaning" altogether different and
much more agreeable. 1t is this con-
tention which Mr.. Torrey attacks. and
from an orthodox standpoint he is en-
tirely right. II men may interpret the
Bible to suit themselves it loses Its
authority as a divine inspiration. Il
must be accepted or rejected just as
it is. Many people do not believe in
the fire and birthstone doctrine. but II
pinned down it would be found that
most of them don't believe in the
Bible either, although they may think
they do.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-12-03
ACTUAL PAYMENT is BEGUN
Eighteen Million Dollars On the Union
Pacific Purchase.

Eighteen Million Dollars On the Union
Pacific Purchase.
Washington dispatch: Assistant
Secretary Vanderlip has signed what
is known as a pay warrant, directing
the treasurer of the United States to
deposit in the treasury the sum of
Sis, 1914, 61s, representing the proceeds
of the sale of the Union Pacific sink.
ing fund bonds and the invested cash
in that fund which have been trans.
ferred to the treasury as part pay
ment of the settlement of the reorgan.
ization committee of the Union Pacific
road. This operation is but book
transaction in the treasury, and
while it does not of itself re-
suit in formally taking up the amount
as a treasury receipt, it is an import
ant step which leads to placing the
sum in the treasury cash, where it is
beyond recall and cannot be with
drawn, except in consequence Of an
appropriation made by law. The full
transaction will not appear in the
statement of treasury receipts until
the close of the present month.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-12-03
BREVlTlES.

Madrid dispatch: Two of the three
DEGREES relating to Cuba have been
signed by the queen regent and pub.
lished in the Official Gaceta. The first
esta blishes colonial residents in the
two Antilles upon exactly the sane
footing as those on the peninsula.
The second extends the electoral law
of June, 1890. with certain modifica-
tions necessitated by the circum-
stances, to the islands of Cuba and
Porto Rico. The third decree,
dealing with the question of
political and commercial autonomy,
has been signed but not yet made
public. Its provisions, however, have
been ascertained. The government of
the colonies will be in the hands of a
parliament, consisting of two cham.
bers, the supreme authority being
exercised by the governor general, in
the name of the mother country, of
which he is the representative. The
senate will be formed Of thirty.five
members, eighteen elective and
seventeen appointed for life by the
governor general, in the name of the
king. The chamber Of Representatives
will be composed OF one deputy for
every q, 900 inba bitants.