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The Washington bee., 1907-02-02
PAGE CAD" FOR BIBLE CLASS.
Resort to Publicity Brings $50 New
Members at a Time.

Knoxville, Tenn.-The Cumberland
mems Bible class, which inserted a
page advertisement in local newspa-
per last spring, and was discussed
throughout the country, had another
page advertisement to-day.
The class is part of the Sunday
school of the First Cumberland Pres
byterian church. Its teacher is o. P.
Sterling, a business man. "Advertis-
ing pays in business. Why won't it
pay in a Sunday schOol?" asked Ster-
ling of the Rev. W. T. Rogers. the pas
tor. and the plan was adopted. One
hundred and fifty new members were
the result. Now $50 more are wanted.
A paragraph in the advertisement
reads:
'Men-Give US your attention
moment. The world to-day is crying
more than ever for men of Christian
character. Great corporations, finan-
ciers, business men are joining in this
great appeal for men of merit and
Christian integrity"
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02
Gets a Million: Quits School.

New Haven. COnn.-Having inherit
ed S1,0O0,00O, Marlette Grouse. %
years of age, until recently a Yale stu
dent. has founded a corporation to
publish a national magazine to be
known as the Journal of American
History. Grouse was studying me-
chanical engineering at the Sheffield
ScieL tific school. but, becoming en-
thusiastic over his work as manager
of the Yale Scientific Monthly, he de-
cided to go into the publishing busi-
ness.
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02
parkev,s Simple Reasoning.

The peculiar simplicity of the coun-
try darkey in the south is illustrated
by a story told by Congressman John
Sharp Williams. An old negro had
gone to a post Office in Mississippi
and offered for the mail letter that
was over the weight specified fer the
single stamp. This is too heavy"
said the postmaster. You will have
to put another stamp on it." The
old darkey's eyes widened in aston.
ishment. "Win anudder stamp make
it any lighter. boss?" he asked.
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02
EGG Says Judgment Day Is NIGH.

Dickson, Tenn-A citizen of Ho.
henwald recently found that one of his
hens had laid an egg, upon the she'll
of which was plainly waterlined the
words: Prepare for the judgment.
for il is close at hand" The find was
made known and the egg Immediately
became the center of much curiosity.
It is now on exhibition at HOhenWald.
and has caused CONSERVATION among
the superstitious Many believe it q
warning of the Judgment DaV.
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02
Paw Comes for Sobrietv

Amityville. y Y-Eugene Ander-
son has finished a ride of 13 years on
the water wagon, the prize of his long
abstinence being s1000.OO0 left to
him in trust, to be delivered when. in
the opinion of the trustees, he showed
sufficient controI over his appetite for
drink. He is now so years old. He
has not said how he will celebrate
coming into possession Of the fortune.
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02
RICHEST OF ESKIMO woWEs
Counts Wealth IN Reindesr
Spends 1t on Orphans.

The richest Eskimo woman in Au.-
lea, Mary Anderwuk, is an uncrovD,.
queen" " She does not count y.
wealth in stocks and bonds Ike Hes,
Green. or in stSsI mills Ike Rar,L.
krupp, but in reindeer. The posassfo.
Of 500 reindeer gives her an env-sr
social position among her people. o
the reindeer means as much "a IN
Eskimo as the horse did to a sat,rs
Of our prairies in the early days TIN
reindeer is the horse and also N
COW OF the far north.
This interesting woman. WAC diFs,
so much from her sister OF the s7mI
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02
lrnmense Hinh.Pressure Rumn-

The biggest high-pressure pump in
the world is installed in the Dry Dig
ging placer field Of southern Oregon,
on Rogue river, and is used to op-
crate a battery Of hydraulic motors
in the mines. This pump is tested to
withstand a maximum pressure of $50
pounds TO the square inch. It's capa-
city is 100000 gallons a day of "a
hours, or 5000 gallons a minute
Technical World Magazine for Jan.
uary.
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02
RovaI Women Fond Of Cats.

Queen Alexandra owns several --'
chinchillas and Persian cats. PIE
cess Alexander of Teck and Ff---'
Maurice Of BatteHberg also posse
valuable specimens. but the real Cd.
fancier among the royal family p,
Great Britain is Princess Victoria D,
SchIeswig-Holstein and the only 10y =
cattery is the one now established ..
Cumberland lodge This has been 2
ranged on the most up--o-date pl.-
ciDles and has curtained windows a. @--
a front door, with a knocker and is-.'.
box. The portals are sfrmounLeu "
a crown and the initials "V 5. Il.
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02

FISTSC niuIU8 OF q SbCft S'
can see the novel sight Of a horse
taking a street car ride. The line Is
short one-only about two miles long
extending from EnglewOOd, a suburb
of Denver, to Cherrelyn, a SLEEPY
hamlet on the plains. From Eng.T
wood to the farther terminus Jl5
grade is all up hill, requiring i3s
strength of a stout brOHchO to supl3
the motive power. On the reJail
trip, however, no motive power IS iT
ouired beyond that supplied by gray
ity. The horse. therefore. IS perm,
ted to mount the rear platform a--
ride down hill, while the driver gi'"
his undivided attention to the many
ulation Of the brake
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02
Historic House 70 Be Museum.

Emperor William has purchased the
house in which his grandfather passed
he night before the battle of st. Pri-
-at. better known as Gravelotte, in
1870. It is about seven miles from
Metz. and it will eventually be turned
into a museum
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02
HORSE TAKING A CAR RIDE.
He Pulls the Vehicle Up Hill and
Rides Down.

Denver.-The Cherrelyn street car
line is famous almost the whole world
over as being the only one where one
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02


c. at
Yet
Chilean in mine
The Washington bee., 1907-02-02

III
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
A Kings Debt to a Spider.

On the ceiling of one of the rooms
in Sans Souci, the world-renowned
palace of Frederick the Great, is
painted great spider with its web.
The origin of this strange decora-
tiOn Is as follows:
This apartment was the great
kings breakfast room and adjoined
his bed chamber. Every morning
when his majesty entered the room
he was accustomed to find cup
of chocolate, but on one occa-
sion, just as he was about to drink,
he thought of something he had for
gotten and returned to his bedroom.
When he again entered the break
fast room his majesty discovered
That great spider had dropped from
the ceiling into the cub, and he nat
urally cried out for fresh chocolate
to be prepared.
The next moment the king was
startled by the report of a pistol.
No sooner had the cook received the
order than he blew out his brains.
Not because the king had refused
the chocolate did he do this, but be-
cause he had poisoned the cup and
had thought himself discovered. 1t
was in remembrance of this narrow
escape that his majesty ordered the
spider with its web to be painted on
tho ceiling.-Davie Record.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
The AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.

The Australian ballot system was
used In the recent democratic pri-
mary in Greensboro, and judging
from the comments Of some Of the
papers Of that city the plan worked
very satisfactory. The Greensboro
Telegram commenting on the Aus
trailan system says:
"The privacy Of the voting IN
Tuesdays primary was one OF Inc
strong points. There really Is NJ
reason Why it should not be known
of all men how one is going to vote
but If the voter wants TO be private
about 1t the means to that enc
ought to be provided"
The one advantage about this sys
tenn Is that it prevents politica
ringsters from intimidating voter
at the polls.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
The Moral of the Situation.

The Wilmington Messenger says
that if Bryan should be the demo-
cratic candidate for President in
1908 he would break the solid South
and would make the election of the
Republican candidate "more unani-
nous than it ever has been since
presidential electors have been
chosen by popular VOTE" And then
comes the Durham Herald along and
says: ave are not so certain that
Mr.. Roosevelt could be elected as
democrat if the other side should
put up good man to run against
him" So that the moral of the
situation seems to be that the de-
mocracy's fight IN the next election
will be hopeless one. But speak
ing of the South business, would it
not be the best thing that ever hap
pened to the democratic party if the
"Solid South" were broken? A
"Solid South" has great deal to do
with making a solid North and
West, and it cannot very we'll afford
to buck against such odds. Why not
break the s'solid" business and vote
for men and measures, pure and
simple. This course would be best
for everybody and best for the coun.
try.-Union Republican.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
Realism I'm the Pulpit

Rev. ]. b. Msmmill. Of Brook
Ign, ~. ". wxs preaching Sunday
frum the text: look veil to your
foundation" aud leaning heavily
on the palpii ds.k. when soddeniy
the desk wen. tumbling OF the hsgh
platform over the altar rail. nearly
hitting the devoat laymen In the
front sea. and scattering the Bible
and the urearher,s notes among the
holders OF the pews.
The aged preacher barely escaped
q tumble over the altar win We
heavy desk. Recovering from Oh
embarrassment, he said 81 should
not regret this accident, since IL IL
illustrates 50 admiralty The subject
Lean not on q weak foundation .
New York Times.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02

The year 1908 is near at hand.
Will all the white boys in the State
who become of age after that time
be able to read and write the Con-
stitution IF not they will be dis
franchised. The democratic machine
promises at least a four months
school term in every school district,
so that all the young boys could re-
ceive proper education, but as usual,
the machine has not lived up to its
promise.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02

The following is from the VIII
mington Messenger (democratic)
"You come across all sorts Of dem
ocrats these days. The latest Speci-
men to show up is the mayor OF
Syracuse, y. Y, who says he cannot
support Mr.. Hearst, but will give
his allegiance to Mr.. Bryan. Mr.
Hearst is not rabid enough democrat
for him, but Mr.. Bryan is because
of his advocacy of the "initiative
and referendum" The idea OF a
man calling himself democrat re-
pudiating Mr.. Hearst because he is
not p0pulistic enough in his demo
cratic ideas. Can anybody tell where
the democratic party will land if II
is not taken in charge by the ''sane
and sound" element of the party p
The question is who compose the
"sane and sound" element of the
democratic party? Have they ever
been in control, and if so when
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
SAD oEsTa NEAR Kimsros.
Mr. William Dunn Has FaSe, Throat
and Arms Badly Burned. from Nhssh

Mr.. William Dunn Has face. Threat
and Arms Badly Burned. from. shses
He Dies
A special 10 Sundays Charlotte
Observer from Kinston, ~. c., says !:
As result Of burns received FRI
day In forest fire Mr. William W.
Dunn died 81 his home about three
miles from here this afternoon.
The face and throat, arms, hands and
legs were badly burned, and some
OF the affected parts OF the skin
peeled OF and the patient suffered
sxcruciating agony. The accident
or occurrence by which Mr.. Dunn
received his fatal injuries Il most
horrible TO contemplate. He Is past
the three score years and ten and has
for the past few years suffered lapses
Of memory, and 1t such times has q
mania for setting fire to woods.
He wandered from the home Fri
day afternoon and laboring under
the haliucination that certsin piece
of woods needed burning off, eel
fire to /. and was soon surrounded
by flames from the burning under.
growth. In his feebleness he tried
to crawl TO point beyond the fire
and in 80 doing was burned until he
was overcome and sank exhausted
to the ground. The smoke at
tracted attention from the house
and, a woman suspecting the cause
hastened to the place and found Mr.
Dunn lying on the ground in the
condition described. She summoned
assistance and got him to the houss
and sent for medical aid. Mr.. Dunn
was rational and gave a tolerably
coherent story of the occurrence
which was the cause of his death.
Mr.. William Dunn was for year,
prominent in County politics anC
represented Lenoir County in tn,
Legislature, besides being for severa
terms Clerk of the Court of tn,
County. He was always Republi
can in his politics and leader o
strength and ability in his younge
days. He had large and promi-
nent family connection.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02

Democratic papers are writing
column after column as to whether
their next nominee for president
should be selected from the South
or North. These papers are wasting
a lot of space that could be devoted
to a more profitable subject. 1t
matters little what section Of the
country the next democratic Domi-
nee halls from he will not he elected.
If the democrats nominate a man
for president next year he will be
named by Wall street, as usual, and
the Southern democrats will be al
lowed no voice in the matter until
election day comes.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02

casrwx 81 Assault, ard s.s;sry Against
John Lille for using . Switch En-
nsry s.r-iao-
4 special from Monroe 10 Mon
days Charlotte Observer gives The
following amusing account OF fight
between colored teacher and pupil
John Lytie, . young negro school
teacher. wAs On trial In the recorders
court today Cor five hours. charged
with assault and battery upon one OF
his pupils. Mary Barrino. Mary
charged Lytie with having whipped
her severely with . hickory switch.
Lyle l. small darkey. who looks
10 be about Is years old, bat he said
he Was %. Mary looked big and
strong enough 10 have walloped her
teseher, and, according to the evil
denee, she did put up quite = fight
bat the hickory switch was too
much for her.
She had come TO school that day
without her arithmetic, and the
teacher reprimanded her for the neg
ligenoe, and then told her to sit with
fGeorgiana MeNair and use her arith-
metic.
Mary wanted to sit with one of
the boy pupils and refused TO sit
with Georgians, stating the reason
she did not wish to sit with the lat
ter was because Georgiana had q
"powerful bad bref." The teacher
insisted on her sitting with Geor-
giana, and when she again refused
he struck her with the switch.
Mary then called Lyle "dad
blamed ole teacher )" according tc
the teacher and others, she used a
much stronger epithet. However,
that may be, Lytle began striking
her again and kept 1t up until the
lgirl's mother rushed into the school.
Mary then cried out, "This dog
Igoned ole school teacher is a-killin
of me-" Her mother told her tC
shut up and come along home. Mary
started after declaring that she
wouldn't come back to s'dat dad
blamed school eff da teacher wuz
ldere for nine years."
| An old darkey preacher, Joseph
Craig, gave new definition OF
"whipping" when he was called t.
the stand as q witness for the de-
PENDANT. He said that he had beer
present in the school several times
when children were whipped and
they never got more than {
"breshin." Asked if he knew what
whipping meant, he answered, ''It''
ter make yer humble, an is mean
fer peace and consolation" Abou
100 darkies from the school district
at Mineral Springs had migrated t.
Monroe to view the proceedings, and
Jail were anxious to testify. Aftel
having about IL witnesses on each
lside, the court ended the case by
discharging the defendant.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
Arrest It--S5O Reward.

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cures the worst case. II Won,
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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
What the Judge Doesn't Know

What the Judge Doesn't Know.
Attacking our prison system and
the theory that crime can be cured
by punishment, Brand Whitlock
writes in the May Everybody's: r
"Many men in prison are suffer-
ing for the sins of the judge that
condemned them quite as much as
for their own. The magistrate has
no means of knowing the really sig
nificant things about the man before
him what strange, occult, mystic
rious currents of human will or fate,
moving in the mans mind, or In
the minds of his ancestors, i'm
PEELED him to his deed he has no
means Of knowing how far the man
has been the prey of economic forces
that the judge does not understand,
or what hidden physical defect may
have created moral defect or OBJ
liquity in him. All the judge knows
is that in certain book it is printed
that between minimum and maxi
mum limitations there is a mysteri-
GUS number of years that must be
prescribed for burglary, another
number for larceny of sum of over
s35, another for stealing horse, an
other for forging note, another for
firing dwelling; or that thefe are
so many days for larceny of a sum
under sS5, so many days for getting
drunk, for creating a disturbance,
and SO on. 1t would be just as sen.
sible for doctors to say that a man
with typhoid fever must go to a
hospital for two years, a man with
smallpox seven years, man with
appendicitis three years a man with
a boil thirty days, a man with
ninety days, a man with
cold ten days, and so ON. When a
man is cured of physical disease,
he is discharged from a hospital;
when a man is cured of a moral
disease, he should be discharged from
a prison, that is, assuming that
man could ever be cured of a moral
disease in a prison, which, of course,
he cannot, as society itself admits by
continuing the same treatment when
he does get out. But then the law,
on the criminal side, has made no
progress in two hundred years, and
cannot be compared with medi-
cine"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
MY BEST FRIEND.

Alexander Benton, who lives on
Rural Route l, Fort Edward, N. Y,
says: "Dr. Kings New Discovery
is my best earthly friend. 1t cured
me of my asthma six years ago. It
has also performed wonderful cure
of incipient consumption for my
sons wife. The first bottle ended the
terrible cough. land this accomplished,
the other symptoms left one by one,
until she was perfectly we'll. DR..
Kings New Discovery's power over
coughs and colds is simply marvel
ous." No other remedy has ever
equaled it. Fully guaranteed by all
druggists. SOC and 81 90. Trial bot
tie free.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02

The best traits or the worst men
and the worst traits Of the best men
are always astonishing, aud yet such
elemental streaks are continually
coming TO the surface TO make Us
wonder at the curious construction
of the human soul or mind. In the
May McClure's Edward s. p. Pills
worth presents q study Of such odd
aud unexpected mental streaks In
his story, "The Elemental" which
show US an incident In the life of 9
tramp.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
From a DEFICIENT Standpoint.

The Charlotte Observer wonders
why the Charlottesville Daily Pro.
gress favors Roosevelt for president
if Southern democrat cannot be
nominated, and then enters into a
discussion of Roosevelt's personal
characteristics as bearing upon the
popularity of the News notion. In
this the Observer goes wide of the
mark. The News doubtless favors
Roosevelt because of the policies
which he represents, thus placing it's
reasons for the faith that is in 1t on
broader grounds than the personal
characteristics of the man, Just as
every, good citizen should do
Union Republican.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02

On the heels of government
ownership of railroads and a long
list of pirated political planks pre-
ceding it, comes our old friend, the
initiative and referendum, which,
we trust, will content our peerless
leader for a while. It has become
only too evident that where the
Populists made a fatal mistake was
in failing to copy their PLATFORM
Observer.
That's the gawd's truth, brother.
your folks crawled into the ware
house where the old platform was
stored and stole plank after plank as
long as a piece large enough to make
a mush. stirring paddle. IF the Popu
lists should ever want the platform
they will find nothing but hacked
up sill Or, two-Charlotte Peoples
Paper.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
A Good Watch.

Several years ago a farmer near
Chesterfield, whose modesty forbids
the publication of his name, hung
his vest on the barnyard fence. A
calf chewed up pocket in the gar
ment in which was a standard gold
watch. Last week the animal, a
staid old mich COW, was butchered
for beef and the timepiece was found
in such a position between the lungs
of the cow that the process of respi-
ration had kept the stemwider
wound up, and the watch had lost
but four minutes and two and a half
ticks in seven years.
1t is one of the most remarkable
we ever heard Of
Charlotte Peoples Paper.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02
THE STEELE CREEK FlgEguc ?
tt - Believed That an OLE Crazy Col
cred Woman Has Caused Most OF
the fires Near Charlotte.

0fe0 woman mas %1aSSG MosN oa
the fires Near Charlotte.
Charlotte Observer.
Since Christmas six barns have
been bnrned In the Steele Greek
ueighborhood, and Mr.. w. L. Scott,
deputy insurance commissioner Of
Raleigh, believes that he has solved
the mystery and can lay his hands
on the one who applied the torch.
Mr.. Scott Is here and will remain
In the County and investigate the
matter thoroughly tomorrow.
1t has been said by many who
study crime in fits various forms
that some person OF unbalanced
mind had started the fires that con-
sumed the barns in Steele Creek.
The barns burned were along the
main public roads, and the fires have
started at about the same hour of
the night and always In the loft in
the fodder or other dry feed stuff.
1t will be recalled that a crazy
man tried to burn the town of Rock
ingham g few years ago. lncen-
diary fires were breaking out at ir-
regular intervals and what they
could the officers were unable to de-
tect the firebug. Finally, however,
a man was arrested and was found
to have a crazy mania for burning.
| He said that the Lord had sent him
| to fire the world.
Sometime ago the driver of laun-
dry wagon in Wilmington became
daffy on the subject of burning. He
fred several buildings and, when
suspected left and went to Rocky
Mount, where his mania took new
hold and made him burn other
buildings. When arrested he made
a full confession, but argued that he
was doing his duty. The fires had
been set in the same way and in the
same class Of buildings. The fellow
would go into building to deliver
a package and start fire in some
out OF the way corner. he was crazy
on the subject.
Knowing of this fire-mania Mr.
Scott has watched the Steele Greek
situation with interest. Before the
last fire he told Squire s. II. Hill
ton and Solicitor Heriot Clarksor
that he thought he had located the
guilty person. He had been in
Steele Creek and gathered evidence
against an old colored woman who
travels up and down the fire dis
trict, and who has been in the
neighborhood of each and every fire
at the time they occurred. Some
times she is cad in the dress of hel
sex, but at other times she wears
mems clothes.
The old negress talks about fires
all the time. She always knows
about the barDs and the stock thai
are burned. The darkies OF the
community are afraid of her. She
slips about and spends much time iI
the woods alone.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-05-02

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