The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-30
''AC|N' Hoo MEAT.
Strange Doctrine Preach =
ed by CoIored Man in
Harnett.

While the mass of his race splits re-
ligiously between the attractions of
the doctrine of conviction of sin" as
it is held by the Methodists, and the
wholesale springtime dimensions that
follow in the wake of a Baptist allie
glance, and the shouting that adds
to the fervor of either belief the ne
gro has ever demonstrated an easy
facility in the adoption of the tents
of almost every sect and schism.
Up to this writing, however, at least
in the woods, villages, towns and cities
of North Carolina, the people of this
State had yet to be treated to the
spectacle of a native African with
Jewish predictions.
Whether or no the chasm that di-
VideS the two races in their seeking
after truth cred entirely from mental
dissimilarity. or whether the extreme
divergence of their most prominent
facial characteristic entered into the
equation, are questions which it would
take a psychist to guess at.
Notwithstanding there now come re-
ports from the rural districts of Har
nett county of a colOred preacher
whose doctrines of daily life are pat
termed almost exactly after those laid
down by Moses of old.
In fact, as far as doctrine is con-
Cerned, the colored brother in question
while not claiming to be Il Hebrew,
differs from the devoutest of the Jews
scarcely by the measure of a nose.
The strong point of his teaching is
correct diet and he inVeighs against
the pernicious table habits of his
flock with all the fervid eloquence
of a natural born master of inVectiVe.
And what is more wonderful is that
his audiences are large and growing
with each day that passes and his
converts are numbered by the hun
dred. Indeed, from the latest reports
from Harnett, the merchants at Lii
lington and Dunn, who had as usual
laid in large supplies of Baltimore
meat" are seriously embarrassed by
the failure of their accustomed sales.
1t is suggested, however, that the flesh
is weak and the meats at this season
salty, and that when the fall returns
with its frosty mornings and its hog
killing days that, as against the
temptations of spar rib and back
bone" the converts of this Africander
Rabbi will drop from his influence as
simmons from a tree that has been
''freezed on"
Another Harnett item as to a pro-
POSED consolidation of the Ellington
banks, suggests the thought that there
is not perhaps SO Well-banked a town
in the country-considering it's pop
ulation and the recent date of it's con-
nection with the world by rail. There
are three banks in Ellington, the
Bank of Ellington, the Bank of Cape
Fear, and the First National Bank.
All of them are we'll financed and
conducted by substantial and efficient
men, and each does a good and grow
ing business from a live section. The
proposed consolidation will, however.
give to Ellington one of the strongest
country banks in the State.
In addition to it's three banks, Lii
lington is also soon to have thirty
six room hotel, admirably planned
and to cost, at an estimate, $4,000.
The town is growing and progressing,
and it's change for the good within the
past few years is such as to render it
scarcely susceptible of recognition by
returned traveller.