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TH K SEM1-W EEKJLY MESSfcJN b EH: F 1UDA1 , JULY 21, 1899. 5 EVIL. IlIIV. I)K. TAL 'IAGE CO Ml E.TINS CoutraMs It With the Wholesale In flneuces Tliat fturroiiud L.110 lu a Pri Tale Home Chlldereu Get luto Bad (Cpyright, Louis Klopsch, 1893.) Home life versus hotel life is the theme of Dr. Talmage's sermon for to day, the disadvantages . of a life spent at more or less temporary stopping places being sharply . contrasted with the blessings that are .found in the real home, however humble. The -text is Luke x, 34, 35: "And brought him to an inn and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence and gave them to the host and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again I will repay thee." This is the good Samaritan paying the hotel bill of a man who ha'd been robbed and' almost killed by bandits. The good Samaritan had found the un fortunate on a lonely, , rocky road, where to this very day depredations are sometimes committed upon travel ers, and had put the injured man into the saddle, while this ' merciful and well to do man had walked till they got to the hotel, and the wounded man was put to bed and cared for. It must have been a very superior hotel in its accommodations, for, though in the country, the lanlord was paid at the rate of what in our country would be $4 or $5 a day, a penny being then a day's wages and the 2 pennies paid in this case about two days' wages. Moreover, it was one of those kind hearted landlords who are wrapped up in the happiness of their guests, be cause the good Samaritan leaves the poor, wounded fellow to his entire care, promising that when he came that way again he would pay all the bills until the invalid got well. Hotels and boarding nouses are ne cessities. In very ancient times they were unknown, because the world had comparatively few inhabitants, and those were not much given to 'travel, and private hospitality met all the wants of sojourners, as when Abra had rushed out at Mamre to invite the three men (to sit down to a dinner of veal, as when the people were posi tively commanded to be given to hos pitality, as in many places in the east these ancient customs are practiced to day. But we have now hotels presided over by good landlords and boarding houses presided over by excellent host or hostess in all neighborhoods, vil lages and cities, and it is our congratu lation that those of our land surpass all other lands. They rightly become the permanent residences of many peo ple, such as those who are withqut families, such as those whose business keeps them migratory, such as those who ought not, for various reasons of health or peculiarity of circumstances, to take upon themselves the cares of housekeeping. A PRESENT EVIL. Many a man falling sick in one of these boarding houses or hotels has been kindly watched and nursed, and by the memory of her own sufferings and losses the lady at the head of such a house has done all that a mother could do for a. sick child, an the slum berless eye of God sees and appreciates her sacrifices in behalf of the stranger. Among the most marvelous cases of paitience and Christian fidelity are many of those who keep boarding houses, enduring without resentment the unreasonable demands of their guests for expensive food and atten tions for which they are not willing to pay an equivalent a lot of cranky men and women who are .not worthy to tie the shoe of their queenly cater er. The outrageous way in which boarders sometimes act to their land lords and landladies shows that these critical guests had bad ?arly rearing and that in -the making up of their na tures all that constitutes the gentle man and lady was left out. Some of the most princely men and some of the most elegant women that I know of to day keep hotels and boarding houses. But one of the great evils of this day is found in the fact that a large popu lation of our towns and cities are giv ing: up and have given up their homes and taken apartments, that they may have more ireeaom irom domestic du ties and more time for social life and because they like the whirl of publicity better than (the quiet and privacy of a residence they can call their own. The lawful use of these hotels and board ing houses is for most people while they are in transitu; but as a terminus they are in many cases demoralization, utter and complete. That is the point at which families innuffcerable have begun to disintegrate. There never has been a time when, so many families, healthy and abundantlj ablej to sup port and direct homes of their own, have struck tent and taken peTmanemt abode in these public establishments. It is an evil wide as Christendom, and by voice and through the newspaper press I utter warning and burning pro test and ask Almighty God to bless the word, whether in the hearing or read ing. ' - PANDEMONIUM OF GOSSIP. In these public caravansaries, the demon of gossip i's apt to get full sway. All the boarders run daily the gantlet of general inspection how they look when they come down in the morning and when they get in at night, and what they do for a living, and who they receive as guests in their rooms, and what they wear, and what they do not wear, and how they, eat, and what they eat, and how much they eat, and how little they eat. If a man pro poses in such a place to be isolated and reticent and alone, they will begin to guess about him: Who is he? Where did he come from? How long Is he go ing to stay? Has he paid his board? How much does he pay? Perhaps he has committed some crime and does not want to be known. There must be something wrong about him or he would speak. The whole house goes into the detective business. They must find out about him. They must find out about him right away. If he leave his door unlocked by accident, he will find that, his rooms have been inspect ed, his tfunk explored, his letters fold ed differently from the way they were folded when he put them away. Who is he? is the question asked -with sin tenser interest, until the subject has become a monomania. The simple fact is that he is nobody in particular, but minds his own business. The 'best landlords and landladies cannot sometimes hinder their places from becoming a pandemonium of whis . perers, and reputations are torn to tat ters, and- evil suspicions are aroused, and scandals started, and the parliaJ ment of the (family is blown to atoms by some Guy Fawkes who was not caught in time, as was his English pred-- ecessor of gunpowdery reputation. The reason is that, while in private homes families hare so much, to keep them busy, in these promiscuous and multitudinous residences there are ao many who have nothing to do, and that always makes mischief. They gather in each other's rooms and spend hours in .consultation about others. If they had to walk a half mile before they got to the willing ear of some listener to detraction, they would get out of breath before reaching there and not feel In full glow of animosity or slander, or might, because of the distance, not go at all. But rooms 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and -5 are on the same corridor, and when one carrion crow goes "Caw! Caw all the other crows hear ft and. flock to gether over the same carcass. "Oh, I have heard something rich! Sit down and let me tell you all about it." And the first guffaw increases the gather ing, and it has to be told all over again, and as they separate each carries a spark from the altar of gab to some other circle until, from the coal heaver in the cellar to the maid In the top room of the garret, all are aware of the defamation, and that evening all wUo leave the house will bear it to other houses until autumnal fires sweeping across Illinois praires are less raging and swift than that flame of consum ing reputation blazing across the vil lage or city. HERDING TOGETHER. Those of us who were brought up in the country know that the old fashion ed hatching of eggs in the haymow re quired four or five weeks of brooding, but there are new modes of hatchi.? by machinery, which take less time! and do t'he work by wholesale. So, while the private home may brool into life an occasional falsity and take a long time to do it, many of the board ing houses and family hotels afford a swifter and more multitudinous style of moral incubation, and one old gos sip will get off the nest after one houi's brooding, clucking a flock of 30 lies after her, each one picking up its little worm of juicy regalement. It is no ad vantage to hear too much about your neighbors, for your time will be so much occupied in taking care of their faults that you will have no time to look after your own. And While you are pulling the chickweed out of their garden yours will get all overgrown with horse sorrel and mullen stalks. One of the wost damages that come from the herding of so many people into boarding .houses and family hozels is inflicted upon - children. It Is only another way of bringing them up on the commons. While you have your own private house you can, for the most 1 art, control their companionship ar.d their whereabouts, but by 12 years of age ir. these public resorts they will have picked up all the bad things that can be furnished by the prurient minds of dozens of people. They will over hear blasphemies, and see quarrels, and get precocious in sin, and what the bartender does not tell them the por ter or "hostler or bellboy will. Besides that the children will go out into this world without the restraining, archoring, steadying and all control ling memory of a home. From that none of us who have been blessed of such memory have escaped. It grip 3 , a man lor 80 years,- if he lives so long. It pulls him back from doors into which he otherwise would enter. . It smites 'him with contrition in the very midst of his dissipatons. As the fish, already surrounded by the long wiae net, swim out to sea, thinking tfchey can go a a far as they please, and with gay tos of silvery scale they defy the sportsman on -the beach, and after awhile the fishermen begin to "draw in the net, hand overhand, and hand over hand, and it is a long while 'before the captured fins begin to feel the net, and then they dart this way and that hop ing to get out, but find themselves ap proach, ng the shore, and are brought up to ho very feet of the captors, so the memory of an early home same times seems to relax and let men out farther and farther from God, and far ther and farther from shore; five years, ten years, 20 years, 30 years; but some day they find an irresistible mesa drawing them back, and they are com pelled to retreat from their prodigality and wandering; and though they make desperate effort to escape the impres sion, and try to dive deeper down in sin, afier awhile are brought clear back and held upon the Rock of Ages. A LASTING INFLUENCE. If it be possible, O father and moth- er let your sons and daughters go out V11" """" cu.- en' menMry of a ?2od' pure h?me- uuux yvui ui iiiiw loom 111 Uipeople of our cities wallowing In boarding house, or a family hotel, you ; Zu"rc hrnk,n'n v cmQii hnmM can cast no such glorious sanctity. They will think of these public cara vansaries as an early stopping place, malodorous with old victuals, coffees perpetually steaming and meats in everlasting stew or broil, the air surcharged with carbonic acid, and corridors, along which drunken board ers came staggering at 1 o'clock in the morning, rapping at the door till the affrighted wife lets them in. Do not be guilty of the sacrileges or blasphemy of calling such a place a home. A home is four walls inclosing one family with identity of interest and a privacy from outside inspection so complete that it is a world in itself, no one entering except by permission bolted and barred and chained against all outside inquisitiveness,. The phrase so often used in lawbooks and legal circles is mightily suggestive every man's house is his castle, as much so as though it had drawbridge, portcul lis, redoubt, bastion and armed turret. Even the officer of the law may not enter to serve a writ, except the door be voluntarily opened unto him; bur . neither wife nor husband consent to such permanent residence. The probability is that the wife will have to divide her husband's time with public smoking or reading room or with some coquettish spider in search of unwary flies, and, if you do not en tirely lose your husband, it will be be cause he is divinely protected from the disasters that have whelmed thou sands of husbands, with as good inten tions as yours. Neither should the hus band, without imperative reason, con sent to such a life unless he is sure his wife can withstand the temptation of social dissipation which sweeps across such' places with the force of the At lantic ocean when driven by a Sen- tember equinox. Many wives give ud ! their homes for these public residences, so that they may give their entire time to operas, theatres, balls, receptions and levees, and they are in a perpetual whirl, like a whip top spinning round and round and round very prettily un- til it loses Its equipoise and shoots off into a tangent. But the difference is, In one case it is a top, and in the other a soul. BLESSED IS THE HOME. Besides this there is ah assiduous ac- cumulation of iiittle things around the private home, which in the aggregate make a great attraction, wmie the den- giary, or xne invasion or it, a crime so called by that glorious and Impas offensive that the law clashes its Iron sioned and heaven descended word jaws on. anyone who attempts it. Un- "home." less it be necessary to stay for longer ; ttt!a ttyyr putt tppv or shorter time in family hotel or L boarding - house and there . are thou- ' Young married man, as soon as you sands of instances in which it is neces- ' can sJlch a Place even if you have sary, as I showed you at the beginning ! to Put on n a mortgage reaching from unless in this exceptional case, let ', Dase to capstone. The much abused izen of one of these public residences fs apt to say: "What is the use?" I have no place to keep them if I should take them." Mementos, bric-a-brac, ,. curi osities, quaint chair or cozy lounge, up holsteries, pictures and- a thousand things that accrete In a home are dis- carded or neglected because there is no ' homestead in which to arrange them. And yet they are the case in which the pearl of domestic happiness is set. You can never become as attached to the appointments of a boarding house or family hotel as to those things that you can call your own and are . associated with the different members of your household or with scenes of thrilling Import in your domestic history. Bless ed Js that home in which for a whole lifetime they have been gathering, un til every figure in the carpet, and every panel of the door, and every casement of the window has a chirography of its own, speaking out something about fa ther or mother, or son or daughter, or friend that was with us awhile. What a sacred place it becomes when one can say: "In that room such a one was born; in that bed such a one died; in that chair I sat on the night I heard such a one had received a great public honor; by that stool my child knelt for her last evening prayer; here I sat to greet my son as he came hack from sea voyage; that was father's cane; that was mother's rocking chair!" What a joyful and pathetic congress of remi niscences! The public residence of hotel and boarding house abolishes the grace of hospitality. Your guest does not want to come to such a table. No one wants to run' such a gantlet of acute and merciless hypercriticism. Unless" you have a home of your own you will not be able to exercise the best rewarded of all the graces. For exercise of this grace what blessing came to the Shunammite in the restoration of her son to life because she entertained Elisha, and to the widow of Zerephate in the perpetual oil well of the miracu lous cruse because she fed a hungry prophet, and to Rahab In the preserva tion of her life at the demolition of Jericho because she entertained the spies, and to Laban in the formation of an interesting family relation because of his entertainment of Jacob, and to Lot in his rescue from the destroyed city because of his entertainment of the angels, and to Mary and Martha ancLZaccheus in spiritual blessings be cause they entertained Christ, and to Publius in the Island of Melita in the healing of his father because of the entertainment of Paul, drenched from the shipwreck, and of innumerable houses throughout Christendom upon which have come blessings from gen-, eration to generation because their doors swung easily open in the enlarg ing, ennobling, irradiating and divine grace of hospitality! I do not, know what your experience has been, but I have had men and women visiting at my house who left a benediction on every room in the blessing they asked at the table, in the prayer they offered at the family altar, in the good advice they gave the children, in the gospeli zation that looked out from every line ament of their countenances and their departure was the sword of bereave ment. The queen of Norway, Sweden and Denmark had a royal cup; of ten curves, or lips, each one having on it the name of the distinguished person who had drunk from it. And that cup which we offer to others in Christian hospitality, though it be of the plain est earthenware, is a royal cup, and God can read on all its sides the names of those who have taken from It re freshment. But all this - Is impossible unless you have a home of your own. ' A COMMON DELUSION. It is the delusion as to what is neces sary for a home that hinders so many from establishing one. , Thirty rooms are not necessary, nor 20, nor 15, nor 10, non 5, nor 3. In the right way plant a table and couch and knife and fork, and a cup, and a chair, and you can raise a. young paradise. Just start a home on however small a scale, and it will grow. When King Cyrus was in vited to dine with a humble friend, the king made the one condition of his coming that the only dish be one loaf of bread, and the most imperial satis factions have sometimes banqueted on the plainest fare. Do not be caught in the delusion of many thousands in postponing a home until they can have an expensive one. That Idea Is the devil's trap that catches men and wo men innumerable who will never have any home at all. ' Capitalists of Amer- j build lain homs for the le. . Liet tw tenement house system, in which hundreds of thousands of the where people can have their own fire sides and their own altar. In this great continent there is room enough for every man and s woman to have a home. Morals and civilization and re ligion demand it. We want done all over this land what George Peabody and Lady Burdett-Coutts did in Eng land, and some of the large manufac turers of this country have done for the villages and cities in building small houses at low rents so that the middle classes can have separate homes. They are the only class not provided for. The rich have their pal aces, and the poor have their poor houses, and criminals have their jails, but what about the honest middle classes, who are able and willing to work and yet have small income? Let the capitalists, inspired of God and pure patriotism, rise and build whole streets of small residences. The la borer may have, at the close of ' the day, to walk or ride farther than is de sirable to reach it, but when he gets to his destination in the eventide he will find something worthy of being t - o " w t mortgage, wnicn is ruin to a recKiess man,- to one prudent and provident is the beginning of a competency and a fortune for the reason he will not be satisfied until he has paid it off, and all the household are put on stringent economies until then. Deny yourself all "superfluities and all luxuries until you can say, "Everything In this house Is mine, thank God every timber, every brick, every foot of plumbing, every doorsill." Do not have your chil dren born in a boarding house, and do not yourself be buried from one. Have a place where your children can shout and sing and romp without being over hauled for the racket. Have a kitchen where you can do something toward the reformation of evil cookery and the lessening of this nation of dyspeptics. As Napoleon lost one of his great bat tles by an attack of indigestion, so many men have such a daily wrestle with the food swallowed that they have no strength left for the battle of iit. and. thouc-h tout v, how to play on all musical instruments 4 and rival a prima donna, she is not wen j educated unless she can boil an Irish potato and broil a mutton- chop, since ; the diet sometimes decides the fate of families a3ld nations. , , Have a sitting room wfth at least one easy chair, even though you nave tsj tajce. turns at sitting in it, and book out of the public library or of your own purchase for the making of your family intelligent, and. checkerboards, and guessing matches, with an occa sional blind man's buff, which is of an games my favorite. Rouse up your home with all styles of innocent mirth and gather up in your children's nature a reservoir of exuberance that will pour down refreshing streams when life gets parched, and the dark days come, and the lights go out, and the laughter is smothered into & sob. First, last and all the time have Christ in your home. Julius Caesar calmed the fears of an affrighted boat man who was rowing In a stream by saying, "So -long- as Caesar is with you In the same boat, no harm can hap pen." And whatever storm of adversity or bereavement or poverty may strflcs your home, all is well as long as you have Christ the king on 'board. Make your home so far-reaching in its Influ ence that down to the last moment of with a heavenly charm. At 76 years of age the Demosthenes of the American senate lay dying at Washington I mean Henry Clay, of Kentucky. His pastor sat at his bedside, and "the old man eloquent," after a long and excit ing public life, transatlantic and his atlantic, was back again in the scenes of his boyhood, and he kept saying in his dream over and over again, "My mother, mother, mother!" May the parental influence we exert be not only potential, but holy, and so the home on earth be the vestibule of our home in heaven, in which place may we all meet father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandfather, grand mother and grandchild, and the entire group of precious ones, of ' whom we must say in the words of transporting Charles Wesley: f One family we dwell in him. One church above, beneath, Though now divided py the stream The narrow stream of death; One army of the living God, To His command we bow; Part of the host have crossed the flood And part are crossing now. 'L.I.TO, FA IC DAUGHTERS Tliey ICecelve JIauy Pleatmut Atten Uun- ltuhiuc 1111 Work ltemlnls eeuce of 71oore' l.Tet-b. (Correspondence of The Messenger..) Fayetteville, N. C, July 15. The "heated term" has brought about little diminution of social pleasures here, and whist contests, high teas, lawn parties, etc., have their mid-summer carnival. The fair guests of Mis. Ronald McMillan on upper Hay street, Misses (Morrissey, Beaman and Par trick, of Clinton, have received many attentions' a complimentary evening tea by Miss Robbie Hall, a morning whist party by Miss Lillie Linebury, and a house party by Major and Mrs. W. B. Draughon, at their hospital homestead on the east side of Cape Fear river, where the visitor may ever be sure of an old-time, cordial southern welcome. (Mr. Lane, representing the extensive silk factories of Messrs. Ashley & Co., has been here for (the past few days and every effort is making to complete the superstructure of the silk spinning mill, j and have it ready for the . ma-, chlnery. The Atlantic Coast Line R. R. Co., will run a siding to the mill to expedite the delivery of engines, spin dles, boilers, etc., and for the handling of freight hereafter, and this track will be in due time extended to the Tolar, Holt, and Hart factory now building, a third of a mile southeast. (Yesterday's Fayetteville Observer contained a very interesting reprint account of the celbration of the battle of Moore's Creek in 1854, at which Hon. Geo. Davis, of Wilmington, and Major James Banks, our own gifted and in imitable "Jimmie Banks," as his Scotch friends were wont to affection ately dub Tiim, delivered eloquent speeches. Flora McDonald is perhaps a trite theme nowadays, but there are certain faets which the upper Cape Fear sec tion has inherited by tradition with re gard to attitude of Flora and her hus band as Tories which may not be un interesting. Despite the fact that his tory knows her only as the romantic heroine in the lost cause of a fugitive prince, she was a woman of strong character and fine mind, who foresaw the collapse of the side which circum stances rendered ,it absolutely neces sary for her to espouse, and there was no Iiittle political shrewdness in her complaint that she had "gained mickle of thanks or profit by her devotion to the houses of Stuart and Hanover." . The late Vimented scholarly Jno. D. Cameron, 4ftor of the Ashevile Citi zen, was wont to say that the McDon alds and their followers came to the colonies, not for political reasons, but because they were "mighty hunters," and the whole stretch of territory em bracing Cumberland, Moore, Harnett, etc., the habitat of the red deer, the pelts of which were in great de mand at high prices in the old country. His majesty, choliric little George -II, presented a communion service to the congregation of St. Philip's church in Brunswick, county, the ruins of which may be seen to this day, and the gift was conveyed, it i$ said, through the hands of our Flora. Sunnier School for Colored Teachers The third annual summer school for colored teachers begins at ? the Agricul tural and Mechanical College for the colored race, Greensboro, N. C, July 19th, and will continue thrse weeks. President J. B. Dudley and his faculty will be assisted by .a corps of six spe cial instructors. The purice of tuition, board and lodging for the session will be no. - On account of the summer school the various railroads in the state will sell tickets to Greensboro at reduced rates. Glorious news Comes from Dr. D. B. Cargile, of Washita, L T. He writes: "Four bot tles of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs. Brewer of scrofula, which had caused her great suffering for years. Terrible sores would break out on her head and face, and the best doctors could give no help; but her cure Is complete and her health is excellent." This shows what thousands have proved that Electric Bitters is the best blood purifier known. It's the supreme reme dy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ul cers, boils and running sores. It stim ulates x liver, kidney and bowels, ex pels poisons, helps digestion, builds up the strength. Only 50 cents. ?old by R. R- Bellsr-r Hon. Hoke Smith, who Is at More head, is threatened with appendicitis. His family physician, Dr. Nicholson, of Atlanta, is with him. . The Uleetln: to Wilmington In 1S&7 to Take' Steps for Its Erection The Committees Appointed (Correspondence of The Messenger.) Point Caswell, N. C July II. In a copy of The Journal of February, 1SS7, ia printed the list of committees of various counties. As most of these persons are dead it would, no doubt, be of Interest to their descendants to know who constituted the Moore's Creek Monumental Association. I here with -send a true copy If you wish to publish them: MOORE'S CREEK MONUMENT. The committee appointed by the meeting of citizens at Moore's Creek on February 27th last met at the court house, in "Wilmington at 11 o'clock a. m. on the 6th instant. Present: Dr. Frederic 1 P. Moore, Colonel John Nixon. James P. Moore, Colonel John McRae. T. H. Ashe, Dr. P. M. Walker, Daniel Shaw. Tht chairman stated that the object of the meeting was to take immediate action to raise funds necessary for the erection of a suitable monument on the ground where the battle of Moore's Creek was fought on- February 27, 1776. On motion. Atlas J. Grady was In vited to take a seat with the commit tee, share ir its deliberations, and act as secretary. The following resolutions were unan imously adopted. "Resolved, That the chairman appoint committees in the following counties to solicit subscriptions for erecting a suit able monument on Moore's Creek bat tle ground; to-wit: New Hanover, Duplin., Lenoir, Wayne, Sampson. Cum berland, Bladen, Columbus and Bruns wick. "Resolved. That our senator and representatives in the general assem bly be requested to apply to that body to make an appropriation to aid in the erection of a monument at Moore's Creek battle ground commemorative of the gallant deeds of our ancestors in the battle fought there on Febru ary 27, 1776, and of the important ef fects resulting therefrom upon the suc cessful termination of our revolution ary struggle. "Resolved, That in the opinion of this committee the time is now too short between this and the next anni versary of the batttle of Moore's Creek to give all who desire to do so an opportunity of contributing to the erection of said monument; at the same time they deem it indispensible that at least the cornerstone should be laid at the meeting on the next anniversary; therefore "Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to make arrangements for commencing the work on that day and that they obtain plans for a monument to cost about $5,0t0 and submit, the same at that time." The chairman appointed under the first resolution the following commit tees, who are respectfully requested to report to the secretary of this meet ing on or before February 27, to-wlt: New Hanover County Owen Fennell, James Kerr, James P. Moore, Owen Al derman, John Eaken, R. L. Bordeaux, John Jones, W. S. Iiarkins, D. Mc Intyre, W. J. Hand, John D. Powers, Lott Croom, Daniel Shaw, John Shep ard, John Howard, Joseph M. Foy, Reu ben Everett,' John A. Sanders, R. Beasly,E. Porter, J. G. Pickett, W. S. Pridgeon, Charles Henry. Duplin County Isaac B. Kelly, Har geHt Kornegay, Grady Outlaw, W. R. Ward. Edward Armstrong, O. R. Kee nan, Zack. Smith, Jr., A. O. Grady, Dr. James H. Hicks, Henry B. Hurst. Lenoir County Council Wooten, Jackson Pollock, Pinckney Hardee, John F. Wooten, John C. Washington, John H. Jackson, John H. Peepies, Alexander Rouse, WTiitfleld Grady, Ar. etus Jones. Wayne County W. K. Lane, J. J. Baker, W. T. Dortch, William Robin son, John V. Sherrard, Louis Whit field, John D. Pearsall, John Wright, William Carraway, H. R. Nixon. Sampson County Dr. William Mc Koy, Dr. Thomas Bunting, William Faison, John R. Beaman, Richard C. Holmes, W. T. Kirby, J. P. Tredwell, P. Murphy, Charles Harrison, A. Monk. Cumberland County James Banks, E .J. Hale, General John Winslow, J. McKethan, John Elliott, Colonel A. S. MdNeil, David Murphy, John C. Blocker. Bladen County Rev. Colin Shaw W. A. Melvin, T. C. McDowell, Dr. William Beatty, T. J. Jones, John B. Brown, Thomas O. Brown. Columbus County Colonel A. Smlfih, Calvin Haynes, Farry George, James Foy, Josiah Maultsby. A. C. Dicken son. Brunswick County Owen D. Holmes, Samuel Langdon, Daniel L. Russell, James H. Pritchett, H. H. Waiters, Moses Hewett, Dr. L. Frink, Asa Ross, R. W. Rutland, William Wilson. Town of Wilmington Henry Nutt, Dr. J. D. Bellamy, W. T. J. Vann, Thomas H. Lane, Dr. A. O. Bradley. The chairman appointed under the third resolution the following gentle men as the monument committee, to wit: Dr. E. A. Anderson, P. R. Dick inson and Donald McRae. On motion, the chairman appointed the following gentlemen a committee to select an orator for the celebration of the next anniversary of the battle of Moore's Creek, to-wit: Hon. W. S. Ashe, John L. Holmes, Dr. F. J. Hill and George Davis. On motion the chairman appointed the following gentlemen a committee of correspondence, to-wit: A. J. Grady, Thomas H. Ashe, Dr. P. M. Walker and Colonel John McRae. On motion the chairman appointed the following gentlemen a committee to make suitable arrangements on the battle ground at Moore's Creek for the celebration at the next anniversary, to wit: Dr. J. F. Simpson, D. McDuffle, Alfred M. Moore, John D. Moore, Dr. John R. Haines, Edmond A. Haines, Henry Colvin, John H. Murphy, Henry Moore, Daniel McAllister, Joseph E. Lewis, Joel L. Moore, John F. Moore, C. W. Murphy, John Jones, Thomas H. Williams. "Resolved, That the name of A. J. Grady, W. T. J. Vann and Dr. J. D. Bellamy be added to the general com mittee of arrangements." "Resolved. That the papers of ths town be requested to publish, the pro ceedings of this meeting, and mat all other papers In the state are requested to copy the same. A. J. GRADY. F. J. HTJJU Secretary. Chairman. The above Is a true copy. R. P. P ADDISON. Secretary Moore's Creek Monumental Association. Tne ISt Prescription lor Chills jd Fever Is u bottle o Grove's Taste 2sb Chill Tonic The formula Is plain ly printed on each bottle, showing that it is simply Iron and Quinine In a taste less form. Imitators do not advertise their formula because if they did they know that yoa would not bur their medicine. Be sure then t"iat you get Grove's as the formula shows what yon I NO CURE NO PAT. Price 50 cents. OFF ('Ell 9 OF TOli CX5Fli.DtiaACB Only IIS 5ow lavtns of the 4IS la Sr vlce-LUt w ith Addresses of Those Tbo Have Sarvlve UsrandTlMO Colonel Charles E. Jones, the Oeox gla historian, furnishes The Atlanta Constitution the following roster of ur vlving confederate generals: LIEUTENANT GENERALS. James Longstreet, Washington, D. C Alexander P. Stewart. Chkkaroauga Ga Stephen D. Lee, Columbusr'Mlss. Simon B. Buckner. GieivLily. Ky Wade Hampton, Columbia. S C John B. Gordon. Atlanta, Ga. Joseph Wheeler, "Washington. D. C. MAJOR GENERALS. 1 Samuel G. French. Per.sAcoJa, Flo. John H. Forney, Jenifer. Ala. I ' . Henry Hern, Washington. D. C 1 Fltxhugh L Havana, Cuba William T. Martin. Natchez. Miss. William IL Bate, Nashville. Term. Robert F. Hoke. Raleigh. N. C. .Camille J. Polignac. Orleans. France. u. Lt. juomax. wasmngxon. u. v. Matthew C Butler, Washington. D.'C. Thomas L. Rosser, Charlotte9Vll2e,VjW G. W. C. Lee, Burke Station, Yft. E. M. Law. YoTkville. S. C. Matt. W. Ransom. Wehlon, N. C. Thomas J. Churchill. Little Rock Ark. BRIGADIER GENERALS. V. P. Alexander. Savannah. Ga George T. Anderson. Anniston. JAla. Frank C Armstrong. Washmgtonv D. C. Arthur F. Bagby. Cuers. Texas. Lawrence S. aker. Suffolk, Vs. Cuflen A. Battle, (New Berne, N. C Tyree 11. Bell, Fresno county. Cal. William It. Boggs. Winston. N. C. Pinckney B. Bowles, Evergreen. Ala. Joseph L. Brent. Baltimore. Md. Robert Bullock. Ocala. Fla, William L. Cabell. DaJlar, Texas. Ellison Capers, Columbia, S. C. John B. Clark, Jr.. Washington, D. C. Frnncis M. Cockrell, Washington, D. C. John B. Cosby, Sacramento, Cal. John Z. Cox, Tennessee. William R. Cox, Penelo. N. C. Alfred Cumming, lAugusta. Ga. . H. B. Davidson, California Bassil W. Duke. Louisville, Ky. Clement A. Evans, Atlanta, Ga. Samuel W. Fergufvm, Greenvllkv 4 Miss. Jesse J. Finley, Lake City, Fla. John W. Frazer. Memphis, Tenn. Daniel M. Frost, St. Louis, Mo. Richard M. Gano. San Antonio, Tex. William M. Gardner, Memphis. Tenn. George W. Gordon, Memphis, Tenn. Daniel C. Govan, Marl anna. Ark. Colton Greene, Memphis. Tenn. James Hagan, Mobile, Ala, N. H. Harris, San Francisco, Cal. George P. Harrison, Jr., Opelika, Ala. ' Eppa Hunton, Warrenton, Va. William H. Jackson, Nashville.Tenn. A. R. Johnson. 'Marble Falls, Tex. Bradley T. Johnson, 'Amelia county, Va. George D. Johnston, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Robert D. Johnston, Birmingham, Ala. John R. Jones, Harrisonburg, Va. William II. King, Sulphur Springe,. William W. Kirkland, New York City.. James H. Lane, Auburn, Ala. " Joseph H. Lewis, Frankfort, Ky. William G. Lewis, Tarboro, N. C. Thomas M. Logan, Richmond, Va. Robert Lowry, Jackson, Miss. H. B. Lyon, EddyvHle. Ky. Robert P. MacLay, Cook's Landing, La. George Maney, Nashville, Tenn. John McCausland, Mason Court house, W. Va. William McComb, Gordons vllle, Va, Thomas II. MCrary, Arkansas. James A. McMurry, Tennessee. Evander McNair, Hattlesburg, Miss. William It. Miles, Miles, Miss. William Miller, Point Washington , Fla. John C. Moore, Mexia, Texas. John T. Morgan, Selma, Ala, Thomas T. Munford, Uniontown, Ala. Francis T. Nicholls, New Orleans.La.. William H. Payne, Warrenton, .Va.. Edmund W. Pettus, Selma, Ala. Roger A. Iryor, New York City. Daniel H. Reynolds, Arkansas City;. ATk. William P. Roberts. Jamesvllle, N. C" B. H. Robertson, Washington, D. C. Felix H. Robertson, Waco, Texas. Jacob H. Sharp, Jackson; Miss. Charles M. Shelley, Birmingham, Ala, James E. Slaughter, Washington,. D. C. James A. Smith, Jackson, Miss. Thomas B. Smith, Nashville, Tenn. John L. T. Sneed. Memphis, Tenn. G. M. Sorrel, Savannah, Ga. George H. Steuart, Baltimore, Md. James C. Tappan, Helena, Ark. Thomas H. Taylor. Louisville, Ky.. Allen Thomas, New York City. Bryan M. Thomas, Dalton. Ga. Thomas F. Toon, Whitevilie, N. C. ' Robert B. Vance, Ashe vllle, N. C. Alfred J. Vaughan, Memphis, Tenn. Henry H. Walker, New York City. James A. Walker, WytheviUe, Va. William H. Walllace, Columbia, 8.C Thomas N. Waul, Neyland, Texas. Gabriel C. Wharton, Radford, Va, William F. Perry, Bowling Green. Ky. Marcus J. Wrright, Wrashington. D.C. William H. Young. San Antonio.Tex. It thus apppears that of the 19 lieu tenant generals. Confederate States of America, but 7 still survive; of the 81 major generals, Confederate States or America, only 16 are now in life, while; of the 363 brigadier generals, Confed erate States of America, but 92 stm linger in Hbe land of the living. In other words, of the 473 Confederate gen eral officers only 115 still remain not a fourth of those valorous chief tans. t"o whom Dixie intrusted the command of her regular armies In the greatest oC defensive wars. rwo Lynched Id Texas Houston, Texas, July 14. Speclala to The Post tell of two lynchinga in Texas today. Abe Brown, a negro irho murdered and outraged a Bohemian woman Monday, was shot to death near Gilead, and an unknown negro was lynched near-Iola, Grimes county, for murdering Lemuel Sharp, a white Bemarkable Itesens Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plalnfleld, UL, makes the statement, that she caught wiu, wwen seiuea on ner lungs; gn was treated for a month by her family Physician, but grew worse. He told nei she was a hopeless victim of con sumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for Corauinol Uon; she bought & bottle and toh delight found herself benefitted frS first dose. She continued . 22 after taking six ootUestfoJd uferSf sound and well; now doeT'her om housework, and is as wpIi a. Jv. om was. Fret trial 'bo" 5eG?!5 Discovery at R. R. BeUamy. d tore. large bottles CO centsanS iuS rVt ?ew" "a Observer tm within a glsin? in I-