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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-21
Nantahala.

simple tribute to a delectable water,
written in compliment to his friend,
Col. John S. Cunningham, Of Cunningham,
n. c., by James H.. Cathey.)
Dame Nature, all her works complete,
And each It's proper place just mete
'Mong all her realm,
She sought Ger all the Earth to know
Where highest Art 'twould pay bestoW,
In spray. or beam,
When Beauty charmed it's grace to flow
IL this fair stream.
She chose the utmost mountain heath,
Its ~bounteous, thrill-inspiring breath
In dew or rain,
To copious feed each gushing spring
And all their swelling waters bring
Through gulch unseen,
Till curling mist its crystals fling
Ger fowery plain.
With witching hand its course she traced
Where sweetest home of bird embraced
The blooming dell;
Through coyes dark. noiseless and I'M
known,
Whore cunning fox or sportive faun,
Their haunts impell,
Or down sore Sleeps MIA chaSln S yaWn
In widest fell.
It's dreamy, weird, transparent flow
III color's rarest tint and hue
She lit agleam;
The amber trout in blue-red speck
Whose gaudy robe would dainty f1eck
The tend'rest blossom,
With floWery shadows WED to deck
This "Maiden's Bosom"
It's shores she clad in ivy bowers
Deep bathed by rhododendron showers
OF scent serene;
The maple, spruce and birchen tree
TO clap their hands in ecstacy
The sight o'erseen,
With pink and blue-bell modesty
To gently nod between.
Here gala rabbits 2leesome leap,
Or stocky raccoons stealthy creep
Sly serenade;
Like trees hat stretch their bushy arms
Or stones that cast their 1ashy charms,
TwiXt light and shade;
Or clouds that float their CHASTITY forms
Ger emerald glade.
Here deep within their f~avorite grove
The whirrlng grouse or turtle-dove
Light marks the gloom:
Or stately roe-buck shifts the breeze,
Takes UP his room;
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-21

works that misrepreseut tie South. not
even sanctioning editions e~yjurgatories
Though now in his sevcnty-sevouth
year. Major Smiths mental faculties are
yet intact, as his letters attest. lie has
been mentally as well as physically in
dustrious. and hence MS remarkable
preservation. He has never invited
through brain lag that inertia that is
said TO often end in ossifcation when
the beginning point of old age. which
Holmes puts at -, has passed or. the
German limit Of physical usefulness, the
pension stage Of -, comes on.
He is a constant reader and delights
yet in the old solid works. Besides what
he knows by rote, he keeps his store OF
knowledge refreshed from the repository
of the doings Of the day, His lecture
trips have been opportunities improved
for gathering fresh facts.
RODE WITH "TIGE" ANDERSON.
On the line OF commissioner Major
Smith is prolific. His war experience Is
full of vivid phases. He was a staff Of
ficer with "Tige' Anderson eighteen
months, then President Davis appointed
him an assistant to Judge Nesbitt. the
head Of q commission to try treason
cases. This located him at Macon, in this
State. He was thus partially instru-
mental Ill convicting three brothers from
Columbus with completely With the
enemy and they We're sent to Jail at Sa-
vannah and turned loose by Sherman
when he entered that city. He accompa-
MED Mr.. Davis during his flight from
Millen TO Macon, and nursed Mrs. Hayes,
then a cherub Of a girl, on the trip.
When the approach Of Wilson's raid
made it too hot there he left Macon,
bound for the home of his wife's father,
at L~awrenceville, whore Mrs. Smith was
staying. In crossing Yellow River. hear
ing Stonewall was ahead of him, he tied
the records of the treason court up with
q cord, attached a rock to them, and
dropped them where the r%ustling water
of yellow River forever obscured them
from sight.
1t was while, in connection with George
Adair and L. Y. Clark, he was editing
the Southern Confederacy at Atlanta,
that he began to write tho letters that
first made him famous throughout the
South, of which that entitled The Ro-
man Runageo' was a sample. These
were kept up till after the war ended.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-21

The scene of U~uderwool.. slight. t."
behind a strrd ~i,h a kno, in
The tan run trough. tie dashboard. de
rIotya in the following lines
tTis painful TO my heart
To see tins chances of escape
With that old steer ana cart"
Aud the request 10 tArtemus Ward.
Snowman" 10 send enough powder to
Kill a yaIler stump tail dog that pro~ls
my premises at night were OF a
tenor to cheer the southern heart. when
Farewell. Blg John farewell,
with fraycl spirits m,n struggled on
against the inevitable and finally the
r@ncor OF defeat was a ehastising rod
over proud natures.
BACK To HIS HOME
In January. 1865. Major Smith got back
to Rome with his wife and SIX children.
ana Tip. the old family servant. He
accidentally got Il chance to plead for a
fellow in Selma arraigned on a charge
fl cmbezzlement whom he got out OF
prison on a $4,000 bond, pockcting a Zee
OF $4,000, Confederate money. Five
thousand dollars of this he invested in
cotton cards, which he packed into one
side OF his valise and the other s. 600 In
opium. He returned as he had gone. in
a hack over land, ana with the addition
to his Selma Investments OF a box or to-
hacco and 4 bolt Of Roswell shiriing. he
took Bob Hargrove into partnership an
they had the biggest stand in Rome.
He practiced law in Rome with Judge
Branham and also with Judge Under
wood, each for a long term of years.
He moved to the Fontaine farm lin
this county in 1877, where Nabor Free
man, a noble friend and good fellow, now
passed away. figured in his letters.
Gable" was a supply fount for his quaint
philosophy.
Major Smith has lived at his present
home. the Shadows, sixteen years. May
the experience Of his remaining days bo
so tempered as to make applicable the
lines:
Spring still makes spring in the mind
When sixty years are told;
Love makes anew the t%hrohbing heart.
And We are never Old"
David S. Freeman, in Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-21

Their brows are deeply furroWed an
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-21

A new order of things is easily brought
about-proVided you have telephone con
~nection with your grocer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-21
She Was a Bird.
(Judge)

Amos" sighed Mehitabel Scruggs,
doesn't the spring bring an inspiration
to your souI?"
Amos Medooney.
Doesn't it bring to you tender. soul
full. thrilling thoughts when you see the
little birds making their nests and choos-
ing their mates? Doesn't it make yO,
think of a nest for yourself and-and
and
'MehitabeI," gasped Amos. reaching
for her hand. you've got me up a tree"
Mrs. Brown-"Mrs. Smith is just too
silly for anything Mrs. Robinson
What has she done now?" Mrs. Brown
She stayed home from the Mothers'
Meeting to take care OF her sick baby
Puck.
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
.RUMORED SPLIT
IN ADDICKS PARTY
1t Is Said That Layton May
Break Away From the
Gasman

Announcement that a new Republi-
can party is to step into the breach be-
tween Addfcksism and the old line
Republicanism has caused a furore i'm
Addicis circles
Addicks has not been personally in
formed of the intention of his political
opponents he having been absent from
the state since his party was routed
In the recent municipal election. but II
Is evident that he is familiar with the
plan, judging from the activity of his
lieutenants since public announcement
was made Of the proposed coup.
Information comes from Dover that
Secretary of state Layton first sug-
gested the organization OF the new
party. Although Layton and Addicks
are apparently almost inseparahle po-
litical friends today. IL is declared that
each knows he win not have the sup
port of the other in the state election
two years hence.
Layton wants to be governor, but
Addicks has decreed that John HUM
shall be renominated as reward for
his refusal to sign the repeater OF the
infamous Addicks voters assistant
law, and as a result Of this pre- election
agreement Layton will break away
from AddiclSs to give his support to the
new organization, with the hope Of
getting the nomination for governor.
Next to Addicks, Layton is held in
the most bitter dislike by the Regular
Republicans, but it is whispered that
If Layton will weaken the Addicks
strength in Kent and Sussex he can
have any political berth for which he
may ask.
He will not ask for senatorship. IL
being the program of the New Castle
county men who are back of the new
party, to name New Castle county
man, in all probability Anthony Hig-
gins, for the office.
Evening journal., 1903-06-22

be trouble: and it is certain that he
can get no concessions that the en-
ployes as a body could not get. In these
days there are few firms that refuse
to receive their employees singly or in
a body and they do not object TO dis
cussing all matters IN which they are
Interested, fully and amicably. But the
muoducuon of stranger. man who
is not personally interested, is always
a matter Of objection and always will
be.
We are inclined to think too, that
from the standpoint Of labor, formal
recognition OF the union is more mat
ter of sentiment than OF material ad-
vantage. When men band together ana
assert their demands and these are
complied with, they are recognized as a
body. whatever that body may cdll it,
self Organized labor has frequently
fought over tilnea without gaining any
substantial advantage. It is a healthy
sign when those who are closely idenu-
fled with labor organizations sneak
with SO much common sense.
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
GREAT BASEBALL GAME
Old Men Defeat Single at cooeh's
Bridge en- Saturday.

Thsre was a 1reat game OF bail az
Coochs Bridge on Saturday afternoon
between the o:d men and young men.
Although defeated by the score OF IS 10
IL, the old men made The younger ones
hustle.
The batting order Of the old mems
team was as follows: State Detective
James u. Ratledge, nrst bases cx-Rep-
resentative john W. Dayett, third base;
Henry Perkins pitcher; Warren Arm
strong, catcher; William Thomas Day
EFT, centre field; J. w. Davis, left field;
J. Sherman Dayett. shortstop; J.
Thomas Wright, second base and o. :.
Armstrong. right field. William Thomas
Dayett, who is "a years old. was the
oldest man in the game.
Edward Co0ch vas umpire, and Mr..
Cooch says both teams kicked on HIS
decisions, which was evidence that he
was fair The two teams will play
again July 4.
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
ANDERsON-ROSS CASE
BEFORE FEDERAL COURT
Two Thousand Dollars In-
volved-Breach of Contract
Charged by Plaintiff

The case OF Anderson and Company Of
ST. Louis. Missouri. VS. Ross Brothers, %
Searoid, began in United States Court to-
day. The following jury was .mpaueled TO
hear evidence IN the case:
James r. Pennington, Frank r. Poole,
Herbert Is. Watson. William Adams.
Charles A. Smith. William II. Moore. VIII
lard Torh!. Samuel j. Wright. Linton
Smith, Enoch Moore, Sr.. Henry r. Drap-
er and n. j. Pearson. IT. II. Ward, OF
this city ard John NJ. Richardson. OF
Georgetown, appeared for the defendanls
and Philip w. Habberton, Of s.. Louis.
and j. T.. Nieles. of Wilmington, repre-
sented the plaintiff company
The action involves about 5000 and was
brought for alleged breach of contract re-
lative to the sale Of canned goods. It -
expected THAI the case will be completed
today.
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
A LABOR MAYORS WORDS.

George l.. Sullivan, who was elected
mayor of Derby, Conn., on Il trades
union ticket, and who is a leader of the
unionists OF his city, has astonished
many of his supporters in an inter-
view in which he denounces walking
delegates. deprecates high salaries for
union officials, ana declares that for
NAL recognition of the union Is not es-
sontial to the cause OF labor. In these
days OF saner treatment of questions
between capital and labor his words ara
at least worthy Of due attention He
says;
The best tning the labor unions
can do is TO abolish the walking
delegate. He Is more or less of a
CRATER" and In any event is one
of those officials that the union can
get along without The individual
unions know best what they want
what is fair for their employers TO
grant, and when il comes to ne
gotiations they know what they can
stick out for and what IL is useless
10 AcA IAI DGLAta AAlAAA NAAA NANfH'NH
who is none too well versed in local
conditions. To saddle a union
struggling to uplift itself with the
heavy expense of a walking dele
gate is suicidal business policy. The
days OF the walking delegates are
numbered.
There are cases where he has re-
ceived compensation from both
sides. holding the one position
where this could be done, and has
betrayed the unions and brought
discredit upon the cause simply to
better his own personal condition.
This sort Of thing is fast giving
labor a black eye, and the best
thing trades unionism can do is to
Danish the whole of them.
have never believed in high SAL
aried officials. The unions cannot
afford to pay big salaries TO any
one. Even the highesct officials IN
the organization should receive no
more than they could earn at their
trade
The recognition of the union
clause which trade organizations
are so persistently attempting to
force into their labor contracts,
amounts TO nothing. In my opin-
ion IT is chiefly for the benefit Of the
walking delegate 10 be used by him
as a lever to widen the breach he
tween capital and labor. foment
trouble and incidentally earn his
salary, If nothing more. When the
p emDloye asks union wages and
hours and the employers grants
these. that is recognition enough.
Recognition further than this cam
= not. with justice. be asked.
= When a stranger comes into a sh
= land announces that he is a waikiki
adelegate, andthen proceeds to ma
0 certain demands. without familiari
e 9th local conditions, there is certain
Evening journal., 1903-06-22

Dr. W. c. Browning, the physician
Of the late Chris" Aiagee. Of Plttsburg.
has been allowed $40 day Tor attend
Ing his wealthy patient while at MT.
Pocono, and 500 a day while at Hot
Springs. He sued the estate for $3.50, .
coo, and the court says that Ssl,16O win
pay FOR his services. Why his ministra-
tions at Hot Springs were worth more
than at Nj Pocono Is not explained.
The doctor may have been badly treat
ed. but II doctors generally came that
high the race would turn to faith cure,
or take uD incantations again for re-
lief.
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
STOP 1T RIGHT OFF.

We are rcgrenully led to the oonclu-
sion that there is a spirit Of law,easness
in the air, and that there are those who.
under the pretext OF avenging tho
death Of Helen Bishop are contemplat-
ing crime against the state and
against the majesty Of the law Strange
TO say, certain preachers have dis
graced their sacred calling by speak
ing innammatory words which are cal
culated to Justify any sort OF horror IN
the name Of vengeance.
The authorities should sternly sup
press all attempts to incite to riot. and
II II becomes necessary to go into the
pulpit and arrest an irresponsible agi-
tatcr, II should be done. Let ii be un-
derstood right now that Delaware Is
not going to be disgraced by mobs and
lynchlngs The brave guards at the
workhouse are sworn 10 protect their
prisoners held In the custody of the
law They win do their duty, and il
they are attacked by rioters they will
be obliged TO keep the place clear, even
with rifles
Nobody fears that the guilty man will
escape. We an have confidence that
with a fair trial the wretch win be SEN
fenced and executed. There is not the
slightest excuse for violence. The father
OF the murdered girl counscls peace, and
II the hot-headed and lawless wish to
defy the laws made for our protection,
they should be locked up.
We have no words strong enough to
condemn the sensationalism that was
exhibited by one preacher yesterday.
The leaves stained with blood were in
tended to mname his hearers; his COM
demnadon of the court was in bad
taste and almost sufficient &c warrant
contempt proceedings. There is oc-
casion for the decent public opinion to
assert itself, and there is no reason
FOR sparing The pulpit when it is the
enemy OF order.
There We're several sermons preach
ed yesterday ia excellent temper. The
Rev. }. w. l1asley discussed the tragedy
and advised reliance upon the court for
justice. The Rev. c. l.. jefferson, coli
ored minister gave his people some ex-
celient advice IN which he said that the
colored people should unsparingly con-
denim such outrages, and that the de-
cent colored people should cooperate
with the authorities in keeping an eye
on an degenerate or suspicious char
acters. This is situation calling FOR
cool heads and perfect sanity.
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
IN VERY BAD TASTE.

Democratic Glasses in the Sunday
star contains most injudiclous and
incorporate article on the attitude of
the Republican press regarding ihc ter
rible crime recently committed near
Prices Corner We do not care 10 li.1te
the language Of this article, but It IS
sufficient TO say that the wi,er IN
iects politics into it. lie pretends to
be sratihed at the remarks Of the Re
publican newspapers. and suggests
tnat they have undergone a reformation,
masinuch as at "a former period they de-
Tended or palliated such crimes. The
inslnuauon stops little short of being
Infamous. Before such crimes we are
neither Democrats nor Republicans, but
men. Every person with Il heart wants
TO sc the wretch who committed the
deed punished, and all good citizens
want to see il done under due form
Of law.
IL the writer Of Glasses has another
remedy, let him express IT, The Re-
publican press has been a unit IN de-
nouncmg lynchngs, not so much be-
cause of tenderness OF wretches VINO
suffer as because of respect for the
law. The writer cites "a case in 1880,
when Anthony Higgins defended ne
gro charged with an assault on white
woman. and declares that leading Re-
publicans and the Republican press de-
tended him. AS we remember the case
the question was raised Of whether our
courts had a right to exclude negroes
from iuries when one Of that race was
to be tried. There was principle
which they upheld that was aside from
the question of the punishment of the
accused But since this critic admits
that the present attitude Of the press is
satisfactory. what excuse has he for
stirring up racial or political preju-
diceg
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
Men in corsets.
, the New York Press.

From the New York Iress
More men wear corseis than the world
wots or. Thlrly years ago we laughed
and sneered at the French dandy who af-
fected stays. We regarded him JUS ef-
Terminate. Yet he would go on the Held OF
honor a political insult and defend HIM
self with sword or pistol with as much
enthusiasm as his uncorseted grandfather
manifested IN following Napoleon. OF
course. you have heard the story that
Bourke Cochran and Adrien Iselin wear
corsets. Good They are as far from ef-
feminacy as any two men we know
Twelve members Of the Stock Exchange
are known to wear corsets, while 37S nr'
belted up In abdominal supporters.
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
Homesiekness in Tho Orient.

From the Kansas City World.
Nosialgia--that is what the doctors call
1t. In ordinary phrase 81 is known as
homesickness. 10 is a real disease. Strong
men die of It in the Philippine Islands.
To an ordinary diagnosis they are well.
No organic trouble is apparent. The pa
uent is literally sick for home and unless
he is sent home he grows worse and often
dies. Officers Of the army, private soldiers
civilians, Old middle-aged, and young
an these are subject to ithe illness. 1t IS nc
boys malady.
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
EDITORIAL OPINION
A Marked Decrease in Crime.

A Marked Decrease in Crime.
From the Chicago Evening Post.
Reports made by'pollce officers Indicate
that the enforcement OF the midnight
closing law Is having the usual effect.
During the last week there has been "a
marked decrease In crime. Fewer arrests
have been made after midnight than i'm
any previous week for months. Chief
O'Neill says: "There has not been a muir
der after midnight since the saloons have
been closed and I don't think there has
been a hold-up reported"
This was the case the last time a spas
modic effort was made TO enforce the clos
ing law II IS the invariable result OF such
enforcement. Why, then, should there be
any departure at any time from policy
which IS not only dictated by duty and
law but by every consideration Of che
public safety.
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
Ne Prefar 70 eeIIeve in RooseveIt

From the New York Sun.
The most confident and circumstantial
statements alleging the Presidents in
tention to mitigate mis- activity in certain
directions In the matter Of Furnishing ras-
cality in the Post Office Department IL
such be proven-fail to shake TO the eX-
tent of the thousandth part of a hair
breadth Of vibration .pur belief that he win
let no guilty man escape.
This belief is positive. 1t is grounded in
the principle OF noblesse oblige. 1t has
been strengthened by Mr.. Roosevelts own
frequent and eloquent references to the
rigid requirements which Duty imposes
upon Character I'm a post of responsibility.
II Is not Theodore Roosevelt who viii Civ,
up the hunt because the trail shows bis
game behind the boscage.
Don't draw unless you mean TO shootr
is the middllng good proverb which eX
! presses his congenltal and characteristic
philosophy of acton, lie has drawn, an,
therefore it may be assumed that he means
to shoot
Accordingly, h makes no difference how
specific are the accumulating\reaerts tha
represent the President as hesitating 4
prosecute where prosecution might resul
IN political Inconvenience no himself as
candidate. They viii meet with no cred
ence in this quarter until they are legib,,
attested by Mr.. Roosevelt's sign manual
just as little do we believe tlat the Pres
ident Is directly or remotely responsibl
for the PRONUNCIATION of the theory tina
the name of mis- dead and honored prede
cessor now constitutes bar to prosecu
tion-in effect, statute Of limitations
in the case of proved offences committe
by subordinates when Mckinley was alive
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
LAYTON sLuRs ADpIcks.
Says the Dover Sentinel &C. R. Lay
ton, Editor):

Says the Dover Sentinel &C. r. Lay
ton, Editor)
Hon. James II. Wilson in his ad-
dress before the students Of Dela-
), ware College SPOKE quite fully upon
the evils Of bribery, and with all
the more relish of the opportunity
because he had John Edward Ad-
dicks for a part OF his audience
whom he knew to be without op-
portunity Of reply.
This is an intolerabie slander on a
man who is a trustee of Delaware Col
lege and n candidate for United states
senator. What need Of reply was
there from John Edward Addicks? Gem
erai Wilson was speaking generally Of
bribery; he mentioned no names; he re-
ferred to no political party. why
should John Edward Addicks have felt
hurt to the extent of wanting to reply
Does the Sentinel mean 70 insinuate
that he is guilty? What this patron OF
lettersi This benefactor OF the State!
This payer of road taxesi shame! Oh
shame.
No; we prefer to believe that as h'
looked in the faces OF those young mel
who are going forth TO make their ca
reers, John Edward Addicks. the trus
tee. was happy to listen to the good ad
vice they were receiving-not TO sci
their votes. not to betray the Stale b,
the illegltimate use Of money, but L
keep their hands clean and TO refu7e tn
Evening journal., 1903-06-22

j. Edward AddiclSa has bought the
historic home OF the Calverts NJ Mount
Airy near Baltimore, and il is rumored
that he VIII turn II into clubhouse.
"To what base usos mag we not re-
turn, Horatio.' Perhaps he has an eye
on Maryland, and contemDlates rum
ming for senator from that tSate Mary
land s. our neighhor and we cheerfully
give hey Addicks and anything else Of
u NE nntlre she may want.
Evening journal., 1903-06-22
Elwood Condemned.

On all sides today sensible and level
headed men We're condemning the ac-
tion of the Rev. r. A. Elwood in preach-
ing such an infiammatory sermon last
evening Some men went so far as to
say that he could be arrested for incit-
ing to riot, When Mr.. Bishop. the
father of the dead girl. heard that the
blood of his dead daughter had been
exhibited to a morbidly curious people
he was deeply hurt. He said that noth-
ing could have shocked him more.