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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-02

From The Dallas CrexD News
Alfred $. Wagner. general travelling passenger
agent Of the Texas and Pacific. has returned
from "A visit St Louis Chicago and Ncw-YOrk
1t his first trip out OF Texas lie went
away with "A look Of childish innocence and guile
CLASSY stare Of bunco-stcerer the calcula ting
glanCo Of a burglar. He Is old and sad and tired
He says ne lived ten years in three weeks, ana
when ne left n going at the rate Of year Il
second. If ne had Stayed another half day he
would have been 200 years Old. as they count life
In Texas
His experiences began at 81. Louis lie was
standing AT the corner IF Fourth and Olive sts
lookine around ut the big buildings. when nice
y dressed fellow slapped him OH the back ana said:
"Ilcllo. Johnnie how are the boys IN Fort
WORTH
That was what Wagner had been looking for
go on of now from Texas. but my name
Is not JOhnni, ANA | am not from Fort Worth"
Where arc you from-Dhilas"
"That's right"
..Wrii how are Cooper Mott and Barney Pagan
and Billy" Crush and Ed BiXpy getting on
Wagner lcoscncd Up a little and reported on the
condition ~ the celebrities named
And my old trend. Tom Kingsley. Is lac siu
there"
you bet"
II think YOU said your name Wright
NO. sir. ny names D. \. ;. Wagner. OF 10" Texas
and Pacific the old reliable
YES. that's rieht Wagner. lets 10 ana have
rOurthIns." And iht5 did
After talking a while Wasner's new-found ac-
uualntanoo had to meet an engagement. and AIR
on AZ the door he met a youngster who looked
AT him , second. ana then walked up ana grasped
Hello Wagner: when dd you leave Dal,as'
yesterday morning
How car Harry Hatch AMI Jim Boyle aud old
man starr Jones get on without you"
what boots n to tell the conversation tIdt cost
Wagner So Ii ought 10 be enough ID Ano" that
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-09
Bill Hrp Our W88t.
Relates Some Tough Experiences on Christmas Day.
Smart Bow With Tin Horn.

sonville by the barber. / gave him {
quarter and he was about to hand me
back 10 cents and said, "You are &
preacher, amt youY' mo" said
what made you think j was a preach
err" ''You look like one" said he, anC
he took back the nickel So you see
was comforting myself ON my reverend
appearance, when all Of a sudden | was
openly snubbed for being an infidel.
But my greatest misfortune is losing
a day was in having to travel on Christ
mas eve and night All along the line
the boys were on a spree and by the
time we reached Vicksburg Mr.. Chap
man, the conductor, was tired out. He
is a patient, considerable man and / SYM
pat.hzed with his efforts to keep the
peace. We parted company at Vicks
burg and he remarked that it was the
hardest days work he had had in
years.
Then came the tug Of war. Christmas
eve and night at Vicksburg and ON to
Meridian was pandemonium. The ne
groes swarmed in at both ends of the
carat least a hundred and nearly all
were drunk and had bottles and jugs
without number. They were from the
neighboring country and had been "a
way down to Vicksburg town" to get
supplies for Christmas. About a dozen
OF US found ourselves Suddenly penned
in the middle Of the car by the odorifer-
GUS compound and resolved to make a
break for liberty and fresh air. One big,
bold man said he would make a way
and we must follow, and we did. We
seized our grips and got out somehow
The next car was full, too, and so we
skinned round to the ladies' car and
took refuge and standing room only,
for it was crowded to oyerhowing with
women and children and Christmas do
ings Of all kinds. Doll carriages and
boys wagons and boxes and paper saclEs
and toys and tin horns and baskets full
OF all sorts of tricks and presents. One
whole seat was occupied with an exc
press wagon and it was fun Of bananas.
Small boys were footing horns all along
the line-toot! tootLtoot! foot! stop
that, Bob" said fond parent, "now,
stop itv' Bob stopped moment, till
the fond parent resumed his conversa-
ton with friend. Then he began low
and soft, hut soon got louder and louder.
"Bob l told you to stop that racket. if
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you don't j will throw that horn out
of the windoEv." Bob stopped about two
minutes and whispered to his mother
that the window wasn't up. She, too,
was talking to a friend. loot! tootr' l
heard the horn-a kind of pianisimO
staccato, but it soon sWeled into tu-
multuous furissimo fortissimo, when
suddenly the fond parent seized it AID
stuck it in his overooat pocket. They
got off at the next station and their
seats were taken before / could say
Jack Robinson. BY and by enough had
got off for me to get a corner next to n
hot stove. 1t was close by the water
tank, but there was no water. 1t was
empty when we left Vicksburg and stay
ed empty. Every minute or two some
woman or child or man came and work.
ed on that faucet in vain. Then the
men took the top off and reached down
for water but found none. The porter
passed through and his attention was
called to it, but he made no sign, and
brought no water. Children began to
cry for it, and l would have given half
dollar for a bucket full for them, but
the train wouldn't stop long enough at
station for me to step out and buy it.
1t was raining outside
Water, water everywhere, but not
a drop to drink" Somebody blundered
on that train. Some Of the passengers
were from Texas, going east to visit
their kindred, travelling on the half
rate excursion, and they were disgusted.
Inns Is worse than Texas, they said. We
were due in Meridian at 8 O'Clock and
got there at /. 1t was a long, long,
weary night to me and is the last time
| will ever travel during Christmas holi
days was half sick all the time, but
had to keep ON and fill the" appoint
ments the bureau had made for me. If
had been at home / would have gone
to bed where ! am now. 1t reminds me
OF my nigger Bob, who spent two years
in the chaingang, and says, "Dey haln't
got but jes' two laws in dar and you
must bide by 'em. One is, you must do
full days work eff you is well. The
oder is, You must be well. Heap times
I imagine was sick, and would have
been sick eff l had been at home, but de
boss say | wasn't sick and de boss
knows"
But Imet lots ofIgood people in eyeryl
town and they don t seem at an nrost,.a+ 4
ed by the low price Of cotton. for al
most every farmer has a bunch az cat h
tie, and they mean by that from fiftv
to FIVE hundred head, and they have M
guano debts to pay. Peaches arc con.,l
ing to the front very rapidly in eastern
Texas as a commercial product I never
saw finer orchards or more Of tber,
than those around Henderson and .Jocl-
sonville. All that region is about IN a
parallel with Savannah and Brunsyy;c,s
but is as cold as Atlanta and Grffn
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The line of equal heat is very crook
ed one for me. / read that the winters
in the State of Washington are not rs
me very much, for the streets are sandy
and the rain makes no mud and the
people filed the long hall from front
to rear.
Nachodoches is perhaps the Oldest liv-
ing town in Texas and one of the best.
There are older towns, like Jefferson, but
they are dead. This town was named
for a tribe of Indians. So was Natchez,
in Mississippi, and both tribes are now
extinct. Like the Aztecs, the red men
are passing away. There is an old stone
fort right on the corner of the public
square 1t was built by the Spanish
Catholics for a mission house about two
hundred years ago and is preserved 40
a relic Of the ages. 1t has no doors or
windows to the ground floor and the en-
trance is by ladder to a window or
opening some ten feet from the ground.
What am earnest, jealous people were
those followers of the Saint Ignatius
Lovola who penetrated the wilderness of
all countries to convert even savages to
their faith.
This little city was the home of Tom
Ochiltree in bygone days-the Beau
Brummel of America. He practiced law
here for a while in partnership with his
father, and the sign was over the door
tom Ochiltree and Father" | would
like to enlarge upon the attractions Of
this growing city and the good people
met, and l would make special and
grateful mention of Mr.. Minis and Mr..
Schmidt, who are two of natures no
blemen, both i'm walk and CONVERSE
tion. | wish that the world was full of
such men. They were kind to me in
many ways and it will ever give me
pleasure to recall them in memory.
was told after l left there that Nacho-
doches had many such citizens and was
an exceptionally refined community.
On reaching Meridian found that no
train made close connection with ours
save the Alabama Great Southern, and
Just had time to buy ticket and get
aboard for Chattanooga. By this time
we had a big lot of Texans who came
BY New Orleans and were going east.
many of them going to Georgia, to spend
he holidays. We sat up and talked. I
hToSagn fhe nlght ana hE slanniAA..haa1
cached that wonderful city, called Fort
PAYNE, the strangest city / ever saw.
Tom Hood once wrote poem about a
haunted house that almost scares you TO
cad it, but here are thousand haunt
d houses, all abandoned and forlorn,
md they all look haunted. l wouidnti
walk among them in the night. Some OF
hem are fine houses and cost much
money and there is a hotel of fine Queen
Anne architecture with no guests and
Tot even curtain to The windows There
re unfurnished or abandoned foundriesl
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-09
THE LAST SURVIVOR.
Mr.. R. H. Bradley Performed
A Most PeriIous Feat.
IN THE LEAD AT BETHEL.
LINEAMEN'TS OF WYATT, BRAD
LEY AND OTHERS.
GREATEST TRAGEDY OF THE NEW WORLD
When the Shadow of Appomattox Lifts, The
Bethel Episode Cannot Fail to Re-
ceiye the Attention Il Deserves

To the Editor:
The recent death of Mr.. Geo. L. Will
Hams. of Tarboro, leaves but one sur
yivor of probably the most picturesque
event in North Carolina history. That
survivor is Mr.. r. III. Bradley, of Raj
o;eb when at Bethel cali was made
for volunteers to perform the perilous
feat of advancing to burn a house be-
tween the lines, which gave the enemy
shelter. These are the men who with
young Wyatt sprang forward to do the
work.
MIR. Bradley was in the lead. Wyatt
fell, martyr of the Southern cause in the
Creates, tragedy that the new world
will ever See Literature and especially
art, is fond of such salient scenes, and
of the men who take part in them.
When the shadow of Appomattox
lifts-when the Southern mind and
heart RECEIVERS from the benumbing eff
fects of defeat-an effort which patriot
ic genius is apt to feel in exact proper
ton as it is genius and is patriotic
when we have poets and artists, then
this Bethel event, episode, what you will,
cannot fail, to receive the attention it
deserves.
Therefore, let the lneaments OF these
men, showing them as near as possible
to this eventful day in their lives, as
well as an exact description Of their
garb and accoutrements be preserved
and handed down to posterity.
The State Librarian by collecting and
preserving them would lay the Who'll
State under obligations.
/ wish also that Mr.. Bradley could
write for publication a fuller and more
circumstantial account of the ineident
than he has yet done. 1t was a brave
deed for unseasoned soldiers to yolun-
teer for, and the fact that it is typical
of Southern ardor, and courage makes
it doubly interesting.
o. w. BLACKNALL.
Kittrell. N. G.
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Il 1t was long race and hard one-s
race against time and Santa Claus, for
had promised to be at home ON Christ
mas eve to preside at the Christmas tree
hut failed. was 800 miles away in
Texas and could have made it, out our
train was belated and old not connect
sand had to spend long, long weary
day in Shreveport. There is only one
Brain was belated and would not connect
4 was sick and lonesome and longed for
The rest and comfort of home and kin
Hired. Eight days in Texas and never
kaw the sun. 1t rained or it sleeted ev-
kry day. But they told me they had a
BUN sometimes and invited me to come
back in August. Every was out of
Joint. All my travel from town to town
WAS by night in broken doses, for the
trains were never ON time and / had to
Ait up and nod in cold depots from one to
three hours at almost every departure,
and at the very last, when my hopes
We're buoyant and was homeward bound
\ went to the depot at Nacagdoches at 3
O'clock in a cold rainy night and the
tira:n never got there until g. | knew
eflen that we would be left, but the con-
ductor said they would wait for us. He
Was a hilarious individual. A friend
Introduced me to him as Bill Arp. 'tBill
sEho?'' said he. "Bill Arp, you have
rbad after him, / reckon" YES" said
he, 81 have. and he don't cut no figure
With me-" OF course / was mortified.
He passed on, but came back in min
ute and said to my friend. 81 don't take
ahy stock in these infdels. wasn't
rIised that way. believe there is a
htayen and a hell and Bob 1ngersoll nor
Hin Arp can't fool me about it." My
ftiend was mortified and said: What
lahs Bill Arp got to do with Bob Inger-
sdll?" "Well," said the conductor, "I've
Aaen told that they are the same man
~ -fh5y don't out and figure with me: =
W. nrried ON and told another man that
Ii reckoned I was Bob Ingersoll, for il
wasn't wouI1 have init him, for said
ID ssI would hif any man who called me
bob Ingersolly' OF course / was not
"A I'm and serene, for while going from
VEcksburg rs Monroe on my outward trip
Imam asked me where / preached, and
Efelt e6mplimented. The car was full
,k preachers going to the synod and he
d opposed I was one of them. And again
Twas mistaken for a preacher at Jack
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-09
HERE IS THE WAY
70 SECURE GOOD GOVERNMENT IN NoRTF
CAROLINA.
The Democratic Party VIII Welcome all Goot
Men and Will Not Expect Men TO
Crawl on Their Bellies Into
The Party.
(Windsor LEDGER

The address of the Democratic Exec
utive coInmittee-drawn by our towns
man-which has met with such unanl-
nous approval has sentence in it that
makes plain Democratic Duty 1t IS
the bounden duty of the Democratic
party to reclaim the State and wrest it
from the hands of the present spoilers.
To do this votes are needed-and the
votes we must get are those we have
lost-no matter from what causes. So
the committee says with great truth
and sincerity, 1--WE invite to the future
councils of the Democratic party-the
party Of the people men who be
lieYe in it's principles and who desire
its supremacy and who viii assist in
carrying out it's policy" That is the
only test of Democracy whether as a
voter or office holder.
The man who stands in the way Of
the coming back of men to the Demo
cratic party is no better than Russell
and Butler and Ohio Wilson and Pritch-
ard and Harry Skinner and Mad Farley.
No matter how he is kept back, whether
by announcing he is mot straight and
must take back seat" or by announce
ing that mo one is to be put on guard
but those who have always stood true
to the party'-the man who keeps him
back is a traitor to his race. When
men are invited back to a party it
must be on terms of equality with those
in it. The man who IS straight-that@is
whose Democracy to-day is the same it
was when he voted for Cleveland is not
the man to lead Democrats Of to-day.
The Democratic party win welcome to
its ranks to-day the men who voted
for Weaver as it will the men who
voted for Mckinley or Cleveland. 1t
will as cheerfully receive in it's organiza-
ton the man who held office under Har-
rison, and the man who held office I'M
der Cleveland. The man who voted for
Cleveland and held office under him
might be called on to explain as might
the man who voted for Mckinley. Each
would have his own explanation. But the
Democratic party is not calling on me
to crawl ON their bellies into the party.
A few men whose whole political stock
in trade is abuse of honest men, will cry
out for no one on guard but true and
tried Democrats, but that is not the
cry Of the Democratic party. As we
understand the purposes of the party it
is to open it's primaries to every white
man in the State who is opposed to the
present conditions-National State and
county and township. Having allowed
all those men in the primaries it does
not propose to preclude them from Of
fee. 1t will nominate the very best men.
There are men in BERTHE county who
voted the Populist ticket in the last
election. Some of these men should be |
named ON our next Democratic ticket |
They are good men-men Of principle and
character, a credit to the county and
without whose cooperation there can be |
no Democratic success-which means
protection to the white men and women
in the county. Fair treatment of these
men is mocratic Duty"
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Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge, O., says:
"After two doctors gave up my boy to
die, l saved him from caoup by using
One Minute Cough Cure" 1t is the
quickest and most certain remedy for
coughs, colds and al Throat and lung
troubles. Carolina Drug Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-09

Prosperity comes quickest to the man
whose liver is in good condition. De-
Wits Little Early Risers are famous
little pills for constipation, biliousness,
indigestion and all stomach and liver
troubieA Carolina Drug Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-09
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All Druggists refund the money il
it fails to Cure. 25c.
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and machine shops and mammoth livery
stables with no horses in them.
"O'er all these hung a shadow and a
fear,
A sense Of mystery the spirit daunted,
And said as plain as whisper in the ear,
The place is haunted.
mo human figure stirred to go or come;
No face looked forth from shut or open
easement;
No chimney smoked; there was no sign
of home
From parapet to basement,
mo dog was at the threshold, great or
small;
No pigeon on the roof, no household
creature;
No cat demurely doing on the wall
Not one domestic feature"
This is the champion boom town Of
the South, but it was all northern mon
ey, and the fight was yankee against
yankee.
In due time we reached Chattanooga,
for the Alabama Great Southern is al
ways on time, and makes it's trip of 300
miles in mine hours. 1t is a delightful
road to travel on. | was tired and
was hungry for had had no supper or
breakfast. When dinner time came l
anticipated something extra nice for
Christmas, but l found printed on a lit
tie card Luncheon" and the menu said
"COusomm," which / supposed meant
soup, and l ordered some. The waiter
thought l was sick and brought me-
little beef tea in a tea cup. l ventur-
ed ITO taste it and couldn't tell what lit
was, but it was the poorest appetizer
| ever tasted, and / showed it aside. |
Consomm, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Con- |
sound the consomm, thought l. "GOt |
no soup to-day" said /. He pointed |
to the tea cup. ''I'm not sick" said !,
''bring me some spring chicken" wac
always fond Of spring chicken. When
it came 1T was, think, part of a two
year-old spring rooster fried in batter a
la my Maryland. That's what the menu
said, ga la my Maryland" / wish that
Randall could have been there to have
seen that parody on his grand old lyric
poem
''The despot's heel is on thy shore.
IVY 5TEryTaHTu.
But called for coffee and 1t was good
md refreshed me. Then l went round
% Bukohshers and got my dinner No ,
more lunqheons and consomm for me.
TIuncheonI is German for small slice
! slight rkpast between meals, and that J
vas Luncheon where unched on Christ !
mas day, \and it cost me 20 cents. I ;
,sked for room Few minutes toI Z
,hanre mvI shirt. 1t was little Sx1O
and that Cost me IS cents more.
NAAA
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-09

'The despot's heel Is on thy shore.
MY TTryTa1Iu.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-10-10

To my chief benefactors, whom it
was also my high privilege to know as
friends, Dickens, Thackeray and Leech,
have done homage ON happy occasions
and | have q pleasant recollection Of
the smile and the sympathy Of the au-
thor of "PiclIwick when | told him,
in proof of my profound admiration,
how in my schoolboy days, with an in
come Of siXpence per week, | had saved
half for the monthly numbers of his IA.
nous book. still in my possession,
bound in two Volumes and in the most
degraded form of the art.
Tho smile expanded AZ proceeded To
describe my wrestlings with tempta-
tion, the agony Of conflict, when tho
siren sang, in the form of an oyster
man who passed at intervals by the
door of our schoolyard, and lured Us
not only by the cravings of appetite.
but by the destinations Of gambling.
His mode of business was 10 receive
a halfpenny from his customer. whC
cried head or tail" (the tail wal
represented by Britannia in full uni
form uncomfortably located ON the edg,
of her shield) as the vendor threw il
upward. The customer lost his coin il
his conjecture was wrong. If right, hC
received an excellent oyster, with co
pious supply Of peppered vinegar from
hugo stone bottle, with IA slit in th'
cork s. Reynolds Hole in Literature
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-10-10
sWINDLING AT DICE.


Ho,c me Th,horns are Enabled 10 srhdie
Foolish Peopfe
BY filing off the sharp corners Of
new dice dexterous players have been
able to make them do pretty well what
they pleased. In fact, the dishonest
dicer practices more tricks than the
gentleman who used 10 manipulate the
little pea" and the thimbles." To
" cog " die is so 10 secure IL in his
hand that the thrower can direct its
fall, and it is certainly a more difficult
feat than that Of palming. as prac.
ticed by the ordinary conjurer, Then
different methods OF throwing were
strenuously practiced, and topping,
knap9ing and slurring had each its
own delicate shade OF meaning for the
initiated Trick boxes are almost as
common as false dice, and an instance
is recorded OF a notorious sharper who.
by incessant practice, had obtained
such an exquisite skill that by using q
perfectly smooth box he could throw
even true dice almost exeetly as he
wanted them 10 fall This box was
most skfltuny painted inside tc
initiate the ordinary grooves. -Ex.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-10-10
wh.re Nloncr l. ~, nII.ed.

Although all accounts arc kept In
dollars and cents american standard)
in British Guiana there is no existing
coinage to correspond. Gold is rarely
rendered, all larger sums being handled
in bank notes, kept SO long in circula-
tion that they become almost unrecoR
pizable in their filthy fragmeutary di.
lapidation.
The silver coinage consists of the
most incongruous varieties. Besides
British "A number of coins, fractions and
multiples of the "gilder, enter largely
into circulation. These are known as
the "bitt' (4d.), "half bitt, the "tw,
bits, the glider (being 33 cents, on
Is 4d.), and even u peculiar three half.
penny piece Is still eNtaut, although
eagerly sought for by collectors
All these coins are of great and in.
teresting variety incident on the trans
fer Of the colony from the Dutch anJ
the once distinct governments of Bcrbic,
and DemerGra and Esscquibo, long sine,
aWalgamated.
OF copper coins the penny is known
as gill, - while the humble baubeO
becomes "cent Fatthings woro oAoD
introduced, but were regarded with con
tempt and suspicion. except 10y a few
Cinnamon, who succeeded in passing
them ia their brightness for half sover
eigns.
10 instance the confusion resulting
il1ed. is hero described as 1.-TWO bitt
and half and a gill and cent -
| London Tit Bits.