earoiina watchman our country may she ever be right but right ou wrong our country sixty sixth year no 39 salisbury n c thursday february 17 1898 established 1832 what is scott's emulsion it is a strengthening food and tonic remarkable in its flesh-form ing properties it contains cod ; liver oil emulsified or partially j digested combined with the well ! known and highly prized hypo phosphites of lime and soda so that their potency is materially increased whasfwhimdo it will arrest loss of flesh and restore to a normal condition the infant the child and the adult it will enrich the blood of the anemic will stop the cough heal the irrita tion of the throat and lungs and cure incipient consumption we j make this statement because the j experience of twenty-five years has proven it in tens of thousands of cascso be urc you get scott's emulsion 50c and 1.00 all druggists scott ix bowne chemists new york a one-wheel sulky its lightness of weight and running may revolutioinze trotting a one-wheel sulky has been invented hy thomas g coleman of texas who believes it will revolutionize trotting records the vehicle as its name im plies has only one big wheel the wheel is tired with 1 pneumatic tube the frame of the carriage for tho sake of lightness strength and elas ticity is made of aluminum tubing and the shafts are of the same con struction a sulky of such a pattern ought to travei at a phenomenal rate with a capable trotter between the shafts its weight is almost nothing and its con tact with mother earih is of the slight est of course it would not stand up right without help when stationary j oxe-avheel sulky but attached to the two shafts are a couple of hinged legs which prevent any possibility of tipping over when starting off the legs by an automatic device fold themselves up alongside of the shafts and are out of the way a curious calculation snyder the calculating harbor has lu-en figuring again it seems thai he saiii he had an afternoon off on thursday and in journeying to ken sington in a trolley car to see his best girl was compelled to change his posi tion on the seat three or four times tc make room for other passengers it's i nuisance this sliding up and down 8n street cars said synder last night did you ever stop to think how much energy is wasted in that way every time you move to make room for some body else yen edge along perhaps sis inches every time you travel in thq you have to move three or four time call it three — that makes eigh teen inches something like 250,000,1 000 people rode in the trolleys last year if only half of them or 125,000,000 were seated the slide up and down amounts to the extent of 2,250,000,000 inches of about 35,511 miles now if all this energy had been expended by one man he could in the course of a year havg slid around the earth with oa'er 10,000 miles to spare does the razor hurt — philadelphia record i uc : cctct7.77 t e : acrn-scs tug pacific fire insurance company of new york to do business in thia state george bryant was burned to death near lexington by having his clothing catch fire while under tha influence o whiskey the sinking of part of the isthmus of panama is feared from the continued earthquakes fowler's cotton factory at elizabeth city has been burned the loss is 18 000 insurance 12,000 fifty persons are knocked out of emyloyment the piaut will bo rebuilt during january there were only two deaths of white persons iu raleigh — the smallest number in eleven years there were fifteen deaths of uegroes a movement for the secession and f.aparate organization of southern trade unionists is said to be gaining ground rapidly two trains collided on the boston and maine railway at winter hill twelve persons were injured more or less seriously one of horn will die charles kellerman cashier for his -. brother adolph the missing banker of brownsville n y , has been sent to ' jail charged with stealing 400 ill mp md ihe iii — . ■■ »■- - ' ■ '■■ he relates some history of the creeks and cherokees the courtshipofjohn ridge while attending a mission school he fell in love with a beautiful pal face and married her w ss . — — fragments of indian history have ac cumulated upon me of late and as they concern the creeks and cherokees and are of a romantic character i am re strained to record them these two tribes are our indians and make up quite a chapter in the history of geor gia alabama aud east tennessee north georgia was especially the home of the cherokees for their chiefs lived near rome as far back as we have their history aud tne creeks of muscogees as they are more properly calied lived iouth of the tallapoosa river these tribes are not to be classed with sav ages for they were of a higher grade and but for the greed of the white mau would uo doubt have continued to ad vance in civilization and refinement un der the lead of such chiefs as ross ridge boudinot and 3iclntosh everybody is familiar with the story of pocahontas longfellow wrote a beautiful story about lliawatha and william e rich ards penned several pretty legends about the indian girls of tallulah i'aiis and so i will pen the story of tohu ridge and roudinot as given to me by mrs ellen 3vl gibbs of crystal lake 111 her mother mrs taylor who died in 1878 wrote this remarkable sketch in 1877 when she was 70 years of age aud left it for her children who had often heard her repeat it ry some strauge coincidence i have recently ie ceived a letter from a lady mrs vir ginia williams of rloomtield fla , giving the ancestry of john ross whose grandfather was a scotch r uf ugee named mcdonald the writer mrs williams traces her lineage bick to the same mcdonald tree her mother was a daughter of william day who married agues mcdonald mrs williams would like to learn more about ross and his parents and hopes this publica tion may attract the attention of some one who can inform her and now comes a marked copy of a new york paper caiied sabbath read ing in which j ohn ross a son of the old chief appeals for preachers and teachers to come out to the cherokee nation and help to educate and train the children in the christian faith and es pecially to teach them in their sunday schools this appeal is dated decem ber 1897 aud mr ross address islvo 101 gold street new york and here is the yinita leader an able paper published in tho nation and contains general andrew jackson's letter to the cherokee chiefs written in 1835 and which urges them to accept the terms of the treaty and to move at once to the territory assigned to them and almost by the same mail comes an interesting and beautifully written sketch of the present condition of the muscogoes or creeks ) it is written by mr w w ramsay of maryville mo a gifted and scholarly gentlemen who is deeply interested in indian affair other fragments have come to me and if i do not abridge and compile and have them published in your paper much valuable history of these indiaub will be forever lost but to the story — tn 1817 a foreign mission school was established at cornwall conn it ras a charity school for indians main ly though there were some white pu pils there and some defrayed their own expenses students from several in dian tribes were there to acquire the english language and a rudimentary education some white children also acquired the indian language and went out as missionaries to the tribes re sides the chippewas and choctaws and cherokees i remember there were two from the sandwich islands mr daggett was the first principal ol the school and mr andrews the last every may there was a public exhibi tion and the indian boys spoke on the stage fitst iu their own languago and then in oars they were genteel and graceful in their oratory they sang songs in their native tongue all wav ing thai hauds in harmony with the musisft hey were never allowed to go beyond the limits or into people's houses without invitation when they visited us we laid aside our work and entertained them among these students was a chero kee youth nainect john ridge the son of a chief a very noble young man of fine form and features and a perfect gentleman in his mannars and deport ment eor two years he was afflicted with a hip disease while ho boarded at mr inorthrup's and mrs northrup had the care of him sometimes her daughter sarah a sweet and lovely girl waited upon him one day dr could who was my cousin said to mr northrup john is about well he has no physical disease about him and needs no more medicine but he is in trouble and you had better find out what is the matter ' that afternoon while sarah was awav her mother took her knitting and went to sit and talk with john while there she took notice of his melancholy and begged him to tell her what troubled him so much of late at first he denied having any sorrow but be ing pressed told her that he loved sarah and knew that he could never marry her for he was an indian have you ever mentioned it to sarah she asked no said he i dare not but how could 1 help loving her ' when sarah came home her mother eaid sarah do you love john ridge yes 1 do mother she said then came the family trouble mr northrup at once took sarah to her grandparents in new haven and begged them to wean sarah from her indian lover to give parties and introduce her to nice young men which they did but it was all in vain she remained there three months and seemed to be pining away in silent grief her parents became alarmed and brought her home what was to be done for it would be au awful thing for sarah to marry him as a last resort mr northrup told john ridge to go home and stay two years and if he got j entirely well he might come back ami marry sarah he did so and when the time was out came back accompanied by his father major ridge the chief of the cherokees they traveled in prinoely style and were handsomely dressed i remember that major ridge's coat was trimmed with gold lace john and sarah were married and went to the cherokee nation to live btv : not as missionaries for john had to visit washington quite often to transact business for the tribe sarah had ser vants to wait upon her and lived liko a princess in a large two-story dwelling not long after this the little town of cornwall had another tumult and grea axcitement came into its social life there was fever heat when it was an - nounced that elias boudinot who was john ridge's cousin was about to marry harriet gould the fairest and best educated girl in all that region a she was the nearest perfection of any girl i ever knew she was the idol of the family her brothers and sisters had all married into the finest families in the country and all lived well kindred came irom neighboring towns to intercede with harriet ministers called and pleaded but all in vain she declared she would marry him and go with him to his people and be a missionary harriet's greatest distress was the meeting with her brother stephen who was nearest her age and devoted to her she feared it would break his heart when he came she burst into tears and refusad to see him he went away and did not attend the wedding but after it was over he came and the next morn ing he waited upon them at breakfast and seemed in a measure reconciled but he could not see them married boudinot avas a very handsome man he had a charming voice and was a splendid singer he was a very brave and fearless inau for the roughs of the town had sworn that he should never come into it alive and if he did ho should never go out alive but they avere awed by his presence as a result however of these two marriages the cornavall mission school was discontinued boudinot and is wife went to the cherokee nation where tavo children were born to them colonel gould vis ited them there and was avell pleasod with their surroundings for they lia'ed near by to sarah ridge and their chil dren avere all happy together and both families had all the comforts of life aud many of its luxuries the tavo corn avall girls had chosen most excellent husbands aud had not regretted their choice boudinot taught school awhile at noav echota and published an indian newspaper new echota is near cal houn in gordon county after the removal to the territory in 1838 fridge and boudinot lived about a z.'ae apart sarah nad three chil dren and harriett six but died in gia r ing birth to the last boudinot then went to vermont and married harriett's cousin and she avent to the territory avith him after his assassination she returned to cornwall and the children went with her and were distributed among their mother's kindred and av re highly educated and mingled in eociil equality with the white peo ple " the remainder of the narrative at written by mrs taylor and copied for me by mrs gibbs relates to the story of the assassination of major ridge and tohn ridgo and elias boudinot of which i have told your readers in a for nev letter and will not repeat it now boudinot's real indian nama was kel le-kee-nah but while at school at corn wall attracted the attention of elias boudinot a philadelplii philanthro pist who adopted him and gave him his name and left him a large legacy in iis will his son elias c boudinot became distinguished in the nation he avas born in vanns valley near rome ga , in 183.5 and died three j-ears ago at fort smith in arkansas p s — a friend writes complainingly and wants to know why i said in my last letter that stonewall jackson was not so brave a man as lee i did not say it i said so broad a man but the types got on a bender and made it brave and they also made wm wirt van wert and they made protest out of profert and diey jumbled up things generally bill arp in atlanta ga constitution shaker relic discovered in the old shaker settlement at son yea n y a peculiar relic has been discovered it consists of a stone about 2%x4 feet and four inches thick which is covered avith inscriptions though most of them r.re so badly defaced that they cannot be deciphered but the words the lord's stone and the date 1847 are sufficient to identify the stone as connected with the wor ship of the shakers it was found by workmen in excavating for a building that is to stand directly on the site of the shaker meeting-houso the stone is supposed to be a sort of kissing stone it has been turned over to the historical society of mount morris and will be preserved in a glass case no doubt some process can be devised by avhich its inscriptions can be de ciphered more fully the character istic reticence of the shakers has made information in regard to them difficult to obtain and anything of the nature of a historical relic will be highly llllll weekly sermons — — i prepared esp kc i ally for the family fireside « i giants ia the subject of the twelfth of the new york herald's competitive 8eruions dr talmage preaches on the style of the christian character i text there were giants in those days j genesis vi 4 this text represents the wail of the mor j bid man who refuses to enter into the ac [ tivities of life and finds no fit leadership i among the men of to-day he views the fnen of yesterday and by comparing them iwth his own nothingness calls them | giants unwilling to follow his rightful i leaders he pines for the mighty men of the • past if the wail were only the expression of dissatisfied donothings in the world it would be of little account but the ry re garding the ancient giants has connected j~with it an inference that no giants exist to t day because there is no opportunity for j giant life this pseudo reverence for the i great men of the past carries with it the i poisonous pessimism that says there can i be no giants now it is discouragement . boiled down and sugeir-coated with a pious j worship of ancient worthies caesar napoleon and wellington were i great generals but there never will be any j more there will never be another poet i like homer no more orators like burke j pitt and webster no more preachers like i wesley whitefleld and edwards no j such statesmen as,madison and jefferson j there is no chance for such men to-day i and no demand for them sj j this is a fair specimen of the idle talk of j men who pretend to appreciate the great ness of the fathers and with this pious plaint unnerve the ambition of youth were ! his simply the silly talk of imbecility no j protest from the pulpit would be in place but in behalf of discouraged youth i pur pose to enter an unqualified denial of the spirit of all this word did it not seem i like impious rejection of sacred writ i | would affirm that there were no giants in j those days the men of yesterday were i not so great as the men of to-day physically men are better than ever be | fore the average men of to-day is too larg to wear the english armor discarded by giant warriors of a few centuries back the collegian of to-day surpasses the ancient olympian cicero and demosthenes were giants in oratory by comparison i orators were few and poor at that time so ! these were easily noted there are better preachers to-day than wesley edwards is - far surpassed in truthful presentation of the word by modern sermon makers bis marck blaine and gladstone overshadow ancient men in statecraft macauiey tells us that men usually put the golden age of england at a time when noblemen were destitute of comforts which would cause riot in a modern workhouse so men are constantly placing the age of j mental and spiritual greatness in times when men wt*re conspicuous not so much for their own individual merit as because of the lack of ordinary merit among their fel lows in a very true sense we may say that in the light of the nineteenth century men there were no gifints in those days there is a proper egotism which boasts of to-day and imperiously declares that no suchjnen lived in the past as our generation has i produced turning from this we may bow with def erence to the coming man the youth of to-day may rise above the best of their fathers there was never a greater call for giants than now not a giant here and there but a race of giants every profes sion is crowded with little men and is seeking for giants professions like sky scrapers have vacant rooms on the top iloor railroads are anxious for first class men editorial offices will give handsome salar ies to skilful writers pulpits seek com manding preachers corporations seek in vain for properly qualified counsel the na tion calls for better statesmen the colleges for better teachers tho merchants for bet ter salesmen the manufacturers for better artisans top floors for reift is hung i out at every corner inviting boys who are j willing and able to climb the old-feashioned stairs there is no elevator for carrying j idle seekers to the top of business and pro fessional life men who work at the head of a profession or business must have strength and thai strength best comes by toiling up to the high places giants are not born they are made in herited adaptability will have some bear ing but earned qualities will have more common strength common sense common honesty are the first requisites the gen ius of hard work frujjality of time and power controlled by an indomitable i will must enter into the makeup of a great man time money and nerve pow er dissipated by young men not in true recreation and relaxation but in idle loit ering would if truly directed make many great nor will we forget that godliness is profitable thegi.ants spoken of in gene sis were grandsons of god the gianft of j to-day are real sons of god the strong ! est men are they that are strong in the lord jesus is the giant of the age and the nearer related to jesus the more gi gantic is man christian qualities are realizable assets for christ rules to-day more than all earthly potentates men who scoff at religion desire christlike qual ities in their employes faith hope and charity are fit emblems for the market for commerce and the pro fession there are calvarys along the .— ad to greatness men must bear crosses if they would rise it is good for a man hat he bear the yoke in his youth it is tttore than good — it is essential and the christ yoke is the typical emblem by which men may work themselves by the grace of god to be present day giants james a chambeblix ph d pastor of first congregational church of newark n j kind of people needed dr talmage describes the style of christian character required to-day text who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this esther iv 14 esther the beautiful was the wife of ahasuerus the abominable the time had come for her to present a petition to her infamous husband in behalf of the jewish nation to which she had once belonged she was afraid to undertake the work jest she should lose her own life but her cousin mordecai who had brought her up en couraged her with the suggestion that frobably she had been raised up of god for hat peculiar mission who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this esther had her god-appointed work you and i have ours it is my business to tell you what style c men and women you ; ought to be in order that you meet the de j mand of the age in which god has cast | your lot so this discourse will not deal 1 with the technicalities but only with the practicabilities what we want is practi cal earnest concentrated enthusiastic ind triumphant help in the llrst place in order to meet the epecial dem.and of this age you need to be an unmistakable aggressive christian of half-and-half christians we do not want any more the church of jesus christ will he better without them they arc the chief obstacle to the church's advance ment i am speaking of another kind of christian all the appliances for your be coming an earnest christian are at your band and there is a straight path for you i into the broad daylight of god's forgive i ness you may this moment be the bonds men of the world and the next moment you may be princes of the lord god al mighty but you need to be aggressive christians ind not like those persons who spend their lives in hugging their christian graces and wondering why they do not make progress i eow much robustness of health would a man have if he hid himself in a dark closet a great deal of the piety of to-day is ton ' exclusive it hides itself it needs more fresh air more outdoor exercise there i are many christians who are giving their entire life to self-examination this style of self-examination is a dam age instead of an advantage to their chris tian character i remember when i was a boy i used to have a small piece in tha garden that i called my own and i planted corn there and every few days i would pull it up to see how fast it was growing now there are a great many christian peo ple in this day whose self-examination mere ly amounts to the pulling up of that which \ they only yesterday or the day before planted oh my friends if you want to nave a stalwart christian character plant it right out of doors in the great lield of christian usefulness and though storms may come upon it and though the hot sun of trial may try to consume it it will thrive until it becomes a great tree in which the fowls of heaven may have their habitation i have no patience with these flower-pot christians they keep them selves under shelter and all their chris tian experience in a small exclusive circle when they ought to plant it in the great 1 garden of the lord so that the whole at j mosphere could be aromatic with their christian usefulness what we want in the church of god is more strength of piety again if you want to be lualiflodto meet the duties which this age demands of you you must on the one hand avoid reckless iconoclasm and on the other hand not stick tou much to things because they are old the air is full of new plans new pro jects ; new theories ol government new i theologies and 1 am amazed to see how so i many christians want only novelty in order to recommend a thing to their confidence and so they vacillate and swing to and fro and they are useless and they are unhappy new plans — secular ethical philosophical religious cis-atlantic trans-atlantic long enough to make a line reaching the german universities to gre.it salt lake city ah my brother do not take hold of a thing merely because it is new try it by the realities of the judgment day eut qu the other hand do not adhere to any thing merely because it is old there is not a single nterprise of the church of tlie world but has sometime been scoffed at there was a time when men derided even bible societies and when a few young men met in massachusetts and organized the llrst missionary society ever organized in this country there went laughter and ridi cule all around the christian church all the great enterprises in and out of the church have at times been scoffed at and there have been a great multitude who have thought that the chariot of god's truth would fall to pieces if it once got out of tho old rut and so there are those who have uo patience with anything like im provement in church architecture or with anything like good hearty earnest church singing and thev deride any form of re ligious discussion which goes down walk ing among everyday men rather than that which makes an excursion ou rhetorical stilts oh that the church of god would wake up to an adaptibility of work we must admit the simple tact that the churches of jesus christ in this day do not reach the great masses there are fifty thousand people in edinburgh who never hear the gospel there are one million people in london who never hear tha gospel ah my friends there is work for you to i do and for me to do in order to this grand accomplishment i have a pulpit i preacli in it your pulpit is tlie bonk your pul pit is the store your pulpit is the editorial chair your pulpit is the anvii your pul pit is the house scaffolding your pu"~>it is the mechanics shop i may staml ii my place and through cowardice or through self-seeking may keep back tho word i ought to utter while you with sleeve rolled up and brow besweated with toil may utter the wor<l that will jar the foundations of heaven with the shout of a great victory oh that we might all feel that the lord al mighty is putting upon us the hands of or dination i tell you every one go forth and preacli this gospel you have as much right to preach as i have or any man liv ing i remark again that in order to be qualified to meet your duty in this par i ticuiar age you want unbounded faith in ! the triumph of the truth and the over throw of avickeilness how dare the ' christian church ever get discouraged have we not the lord almighty on our side how long did it take god to slay the hosts oi sennacherib or burn sodom or shake down jericho how long will it take god when he once arises iu his strength to overthrow all tho forces of iniquity between this time and that there maybe long seasons of darkness and i the chariot wheels of god's gospel may seem to drag heavily but here is the promise and yonder is the throne and when omniscience has lost its eyesight aud omnipotence falls back impotent aud jehovah is driven from his throne then the church of jesus christ i can afford to be despondent but never until then despots may plan and armies may march aud the congresses of the nations may seem to think they are ad justing all the affairs of the world but the mighty men of the earth are only the dust of t'ue'ehariot wheels of god's providence and i think before the sun of the next cen tury shall set the last tyranny will fall and with a splendor of demonstration that shall be the astonishment of the universe god will set forth the brightness and pomp and glory and perpetuity of his eternal govern ment out of the starry flags an.l the em blazoned insignia of this world go 1 will make a path for his own triumph and re i turning from universal conquest he will sit down the grandest highest throne of earth his footstool 1 prepare this sermon because i want to encourage all christian workers in every possible department hosts of the living god march on march on his spirit will bless you his shield will defend you his sword will strike for you march onj niar-hon the despotisms will fail and paganism will hum its idols.and sfahome tani-m will give up its false prophet and the great walls of superstition will e ime down in thunder and wreck at the long loud blast ot the gospel trumpet march i on march on the besiegement will so n be ended only a few more steps on the long way only a few m re sturdy blows only a tew more battle . ~ i royal makes the food pure wholesome and delicious i i m i k|1j powder absolutely pur i bovat baking powogg rr nfwvqhk cries then god will put the laurels upon your brow and from the living fountains of heaven will bathe off the sweat an.l the heat and the dust of the conflict march on march on for you the time for work 1 will soon be passed and amid the outflash ings of the judgment throne and th trum peting of resurrectio angels and the up heaving of a world of graves ami the ho sanna and the groaning of thesaved and the lost,we shall be rewarded for our faith fulness or punished for our stupidity blessed be the lord god of israel from everlastingto everlasting and let the wbol.i earth be filled with his glory amen and amen new occupation for women the brseding of angora cats resentj financial possibilities forrest crissey in discussing tru breeding of angora cats as a voca tion in the woman's home compan ion says it is the general opinion of those cat fanciers that the culture of angora is an occupation which any young woman with a fondness for pets ant a little of the commercial instinct ma pursue with profit as well as pleasure it is an occupation in which success does not depend upon a special talent one cannot succeed in literature mus ic the arts or in teaching without a course of training and an inborn adap tability but the roaring of cats calls for no mental preparation or for anj rare power in any particular direction capital however is necessary an gora cats bring a good price ami it will cost something to establish a ken nel the amount will depend upon tlu magnitude of the beginning one maj expend a hundred dollars and secure perhaps three choice thoroughbrei adults or at an outlay of twenty-five dollars or thereabouts one may pur chase a male and a female kitten and rear them herself the fitting up of a suitable kennel need not cost much but there are important points in the construction and care of the kenne which should not be neglected am which any owner of angora cats is al ways ready to explain the essentials for a successful angora kennel are not elaborate most important is an am ple outdoor runway made of woven wire with a roof of the same material this should connect avith a cosy house or dormitory both apartments should be provided with elevated shelves as the cats like to sleep as far from the ground as possible they also enjoy the exercise of jumping up to and down from their elevated perches fresh grass and pure milk are absolute necessities the angora has been a much slandered animal the general public believes it to be delicate in physique and surly and treacherous in disposition this is as far from the truth as is possible they are almost uniformly amiable and affectionate in disposition and possess hardy and vigorous constitu tions they are full of interesting e - centricities however newest un cycle boston man cleverly treats this fas cinating subject just what value there is in a nnicycle has never been successfully proven yet inventors go on turning out new exam ples with striking regularity mr thos tolson of boston is the creator of the latest example in unicycles which bas been described as follows within the outer rim is arranged a triangular frame with a guide wheel at each point the lower one of the mb tolsox's rxicyfle three wheels serving as a driving wii 1 in addition each crank of the driving sprocket has a double arm piv outer end the downwardly extending arm has a stirrup to be operated by the foot and the upwardly extending arm ha a handle for hand service the saddle is arranged to be moved back and forth on its carrying bar :