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10 DAM ENDDSTBIAI NEWS. SUNDAY, JULY. 21 1907 A BENNETT "BOOSTED" BY JOE HOOPER, A DARKY OF YE OLDEN TIMES KNOWS HIM Fayetteville Ex-Slave ho Was Twice Married in Parlors of'Vthiie Folks' Attendants, i i Still Lives in Maxton. The plank was full of knots, like tbose which old man John Willeti taoklad. as he slept and snored by the' Are 1 the Maypole inm, in tokens' "Barnaby Budge." But the plane plowed along, knots or not knots.

"Ker-wee-ghragh-gah-raoh!" "Great Scott I Ain't that just awful said the drummer, as he wiped the moisture from his forehead. Another workman, in a berth near the end of the car, who appeared disposed to begin an-' other job to rivalry, was snowed under when there came a terrific, ear-splitting iGar-arr-rach!" and turned over and slept all night as peacefully as a babe. ''Jerusalem! Porter, go and wake that terrible pasenger up and ask him for the landsake to quit!" "Fo Gawd, boss, I aln' got no right to 1 do dat. Dere ain' no law 'gin dey mak-in noises in dey sleep as I knows on." AU night long that unseen, mveterioua vt? s-i' V-X HTS0VES. ONE WHO JUSTIN.

T. Former Oakridge Institute Student, Who on iiig St. Louis learn. iv'ivV i S5 fi-f -CkA i mki'v o'clock at night, and the southbound mail and express was dashing on its way. Here it blew lustily, as if it were going to slow up at a small station, but it whizzed through it at the rate of forty miles an hour, against the ordinances of the municipality, duly made and provided; here the solitary oil lamp at the end of the platform of a country station threw its yellow light in at a cat.

window as if a detective were flashing a dark 'lantern at a burglar; here mere was a click and a clatter like a telegraph instrument as the wheels rushed over the rails of a switch, but the train didn't ston to sret the messaze: here a great plowed field made it look it the locomotive and long line of coaches were skirting an arm of the sea, where the sleeping waves were waking up at the rush and roar; a mile or two further on the train had evidently run over into Egypt, for that hill and curtain of forest could be none other than the Pyramid of Ghezeh. Inside the Pullman sleeping car, where they could get the full benefit of the blazing lamp overhead, four traveling salesmen were playing "setback," and a little further" down a tall, slim man had brought the cup from the water stand and was taking a liver pill. A stout, overdressed woman near the deor was laying down the law to the porter about a missing parcel from her baggage; bnt the bulging curtains here and mere ana tne movements behind tbem told that the majority of the through passengers were preparing to enjoy (I) a night's "rest on a rnilwav car." Suddenly, from the interior of a berth about midway the car, came a peculiar souna. ine arummer who was travel 8 nun a. ime oi cremo cigars nero his CfirnS nei-nonHinillarlv Kafnra liim nnut listened.

The tall man, who had just listened. Tho nll man t'PMrt' Former Oak Ridge Student and Second Baseman Making Good on Team of the St. Louis Cardinals This Year, ur uauoway vrag uo. 'S; Colonel Taylor and His Company Board Steamer for the Trip. Wilmington, Ci, July 20.

The Wilmington division of the Boys' Brigade of America, Col. Walker Taylor, com- onander, went into annual encampment today at Southport. An advance guard went to the encampment site yesterday to arrange for pitching the tents and to attend to other preliminary work. The (brigade boarded the steamer Wilmington at four o'oloek this morning forty strong. Colonel Taylor will be in command.

The seeoiidi oflicer will be First Xieutenant Wilbur Dosher. The local division of the Boys' Brigade has been a success from its organization several years ago. The membership is now fifty-odd. Through the liberality of Mrs. Henry M.

Flagler a handsome armory was built for the boys at Second and Church streets. It was built as a memorial to Mrs." Flagler's Ifather, Col. William Rand Kenan, who died a few years since. Pal Vaughan, a well-known printer, end a thoroughly gi'od fellow when so-iber, has been forced to Wilmington on account of his frequently repeated misconduct, due to drink. Vauirhan wag arrested Wednesday night ot his home in Walnut street by officers summoned from police headquarters by ticighbors.

He was intoxicated and had lecn mistreating his wife. At his trial lie wns severely reprimanded by Mayor rSpringer, who. agreed to: suspend judgment provided Vaughan leave the city as quickjy as possible. This action was taken by the mayor after a conference with the prisoner's wife. Mis.

Mary Skpy, of 510 Bladen treet. the oldest 'member of the Bladen Street Methodist church, is dead in her ninetieth year. Robert Burriss, thirty-four years of age, died Thursday at his home in South Ifinth street. He is survived by his widow, two children and several sisters end August fi the Be v. j.

A. Smith, of Wil mington, will deliver an address on the Fort Fisher engagements of at Lyons, Ga. Mr. was to have gone to Lyons this week, but was urged to postpone his visit. The Rev, J.

8. Crowley, pastor of Tm-mamiel Presbyterian church, will spend the remainder of the summer at Mon-troat. SHIP BIG C0ULMNS OF GRANITE FROM MT. AIRY. Mt.

Airy, T. July 20. The Mt. 'Airy Granite Corporation shipped a day or two ago four beautiful columns, forty feet in length, to be used in the construction of a bank at St. Paul, Minn.

These great columns weighed thirty tons each, and it required four cars to transport them. They were fluted and nicely linished, and presented an imposing appearance. T. M. Marshall, sent to the penitentiary from this (Surry) county five years ago for a term of twenty years, for killing Garfield Atkins, another wljrte youth, returned home Friday, the governor, having pardoned him.

MR. MASSENGALE ELECTED OFFICIAL SOLICITOR AT NIAGARA FALLS At the seventeenth annual convention the National Billposters and Distributors at Niagara Falls, Mr. St. Elmo Massengale, president of the Massen-galc Advertising Agency, with offices at Atlanta and was elected official solicitor fof the association. This is the first official solicitor elected for the southern states, and is quite an honor as well as meaning a great deal to the advertisers of the south.

The Massengale Agency will put in a special department to handle bill posting in addition to their large 'business now in the newspapers and magazines. Swannanoa Springs B. L. Manager. Bates to $7.00 per week.

Capacity 40 people. SWANNANOA, N. C. B1DEG0 rcjmpmu SEVERAL WHIST PARTIES 6IVE1S DURING THE WEEK AT THIS RESORT. Jackson Springs, N.

July 20. Al i though the dav are full of opportuni ties for outdoor amusement, bridge whist holds its own here as a pastime. Several parties have been in progress for the past few days, and in each case the winners have been awarded handsome prizes as favors. Among the recent parties at the no- tel was, the one given by Mrs. Robert Irvin on Friday.

The prizes were "won by Mrs. J. Underwood and Mrs. C. IKH.

Strange, both of Favetteville, and by of Greensboro. Saturday Mrs. Underwood and Mrs. IStranga were the ho-tesses at bridge. Those playing were: Mrs.

C. E. Holton and Miss Queenie JIcDonald, Greensboro; Misses Jfargaret anil Iary Merrimon, -Mrs. underwood, JUrs. ptrange and air.

Bobert Irvin; Messrs. 11. AV. Nash, N. S.

Baxter, W. JG. Ychvrton', Walter Cur-rie, S. H. iStTang? and Bobert Irvin.

S. H. "rivinrr him n. sfinonn'r tonmie lashinff. When Bonnctt's three-hugger; produced tho winning run, everybody wanted to draw straw? to see who would have the extreme pleasure and honor of lighting the fire that would burn' him nt the stake.

That evening a dance, was given. The victors were asked to attend, but a tip was sent out that it would Not Be Healthy for the Greensboro "ringer" if that person put in nn appearance. Bennett, defying the whole town, went to the affair, but he had not been in the place ten before lie was obliged to knock down as many After giving further demonstrations of his pugilistic ability, it became apparent that the Oakridge lad was quite a different man off the diamond, and that remarks made during a ball game could not very' well go unnoticed elsewhere. It became known, also, that he was polished and well-educate, gentleman. Before the festivities ended, the merrymakers, in a body, had gone over to Bennett and he was easy the lion of the The sister of Tarboro's third, however, was the very la-t to capitulate.

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bozvllU. Teaa. 0 iMYOMOMinSi? BY J. H. Fayetteville, July 20.

Some time ago I was sitting in the office of a friend in Maxtor when a sturdy, active-moving colored man entered, removed his hat, and extended his hand in greeting. I did not recognize him until he introduced himself as Joe Hooper, a Fayetteville negro, former slave of Miss Margaret Hooper, a direct descendant of the Hoopers of the Revolution. Joe naturally regards as the red-letter days of his life those two on which his marriages occurred, but he has especial reasons for recalling them with pride. When he took to himself the daughter of Abram Dunn, a journeyman carpenter, the ceremony was performed by the late beloved Kev. Dr.

J. C. Hnske, rector of St. John's Episcopal church, in the parlor of "Eustaw," three miles west of Fayetteville, the 'beautiful country place of the late Charles B. Mallett, with a select company of white people gracing the occasion.

Again, his first wife dead, when he married Delia, the house servant of Dr. i I'oulkes, the altar of hymen for these dusky devotees was erected in the draw ing room of Dr. Foulke, Dr. Huske again the officiating priest, and another "swell" white following in fVll dress. I wonder what the negrophilists would think of this the wedding guests the white friends of the negro in a far higher sense than the northern sentimentalist ever thought of? Joe- Hooper must be about seventy years old now, nnd was working in the Confederate arsenal at Fayetteville when the advent of Sherman's army caused the hurried removal of the stores and munitions of, that post.

Joe was firing the engine on the fugitive train, when the Federal soldiers captured him. He escaped in less than twenty-four hours, trudged back to Fayetteville, and found his mistress established in a small house in the eastern part of town, where he remained in her faithful service until she passed away. in physical constitution Joe is char. acterized by remarknble temperance. He never tooK a drink of liquor; does not affect even hard cider, and tobacco is to mm an unknown indulgence.

Colonization Scheme. Joe Hooper's father, Marsh Hooper, was even a more remarkable man than his son. He was of very line nhvsioue, withal splendid face, of courtly bearing anS. address, and of great intelligence. He' emigrated to Liheria' in the earlv fifties, and, if I mistake not, attained to the presidency of the republic.

At any rate, he was high in office and in fluence, and returned to his home in Fayetteville, full of schemes for the colonization of his race. He induced many of his colored friends and relatives to accompany him back to Africa, and the simple, unsophisticated nature of the negro was shown in the preparations for the voyage. Here would be seen a family with a keg of soft soap nnd a gourd of eggs, while another led a pig by a rope, and a yellow dog brought lip the rear. At the Cape Fear river wharf the captain of the steamer compelled them to leave much of their useless plunder on the landing; and, by the time they were stowed away in th? emigrant ships, they were trimmed down to-traveling order. A few of them died on the pas-ge across the sen, and many passed away after reaching Liberia.

John Patterson, a kindly mulatto, a most estimable citizen, who accumulated considerable property, and lived on the corner of West Rowan and Hillsboro streets, took great interest in this colonization enterprise. He (renerouslv aided -many of the emigrants from his Own means, and, 1 think, manumitted one of his slaves for, although he had African blood in his veins, he was a This expedition was ioined at. Eliza- bethtown, Bladen county, by a contin gent or tne treed slaves of Congressman McKay, the oriirinal "Watch Dosr of the Treasury." These latter seemed to have the good fortune to cast their livet in pleasanter places in Africa than their fellow voyagers. One of them returned years afterwards to visit his old home in Bladen county, who lytd been elevated to a princedom in the land of his adoption, and came invested with all the trappings and insignia of his rank. THE BUSY CARPENTER, AND WHO IT TURNED OUT TO BE It was getting along 'toward- eleven ia.Ken me pui, ana who wm very nervous and irritable, wallowed the water the wrong way, and was thrown into a violent fit of coughing.

This sound from the interior of the berth was as if a carpenter had begun to plane a plank, and was rather afraid that he would wake up the rest of the people. "There, by gum!" exclaimed the drummer; "it's begun!" "Ker-wee-ce-cez!" planed the carpenter. But very soon he got reckless. Chesapeake 3 Ohio Ry. SCENIC ROUTE TO THE WEST.

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JN0. D. POTTS, Gen. Pass. Agent 12-2-tf BENNETT, Is Now Holding Down Second Bag is 'tis said, stands readv with the financial backing necessary to get on a match for the young man.

Bennett is A Collegian. He entered the Southern League shortly after graduating from the Oakridge Institute, at Oakridge, N. 0., which is his home town. He is now physical director of the institution. Bennett is a finished gymnast and all 'round athlete, and possesses an almost perfect physical development.

He never smoked and does not know the taste of whisky. How Bennett ever learned to play baseball is a mystery. Oakridge lies in the rockiest section of the Blue Ridge mountains, and there is hardly a whole acre of flat ground within miles of the town. He, however, not only mastered the game well enough to be now ranked with the best in the business, but his superior playing won for him a pretty southern bride. Grit, too, figured prominently in the capture of the girl, as it was only after he had whipped pretty nearly the entire Male Population of a town that the voung lad would even condescend to recognize him.

It was in 1D0O, Bennett's last college year. An epidemic of baseball fever prevailed in North Carolina at that time. Among the cities infected were Tarboro and adjacent Greensboro. Some of the Tar Heels in these communities were down the disease in its most virulent form. A contest between nines representing the two towns was arranged, but Greensboro, on the eve of battle, found they were shy an infielder.

In response to a hurry call to the highlands Bennett arrived in Tarboro just as play was begun, and was obliged to take the field in street clothes. The collegian's trained eye soon discovered a gap in, the home team's diamond at third base. He successfully concentrated his batting efforts in this direction, much to the chagrin of Tarboro, which had turned out en masse to see the clash. The third baseman, it appears, was one of tho town's most popular young men, and throughout the afternoon- Bennett Roundly Roasted and jeered at by the club's supporter. He was a ringer, anyway, they sneered.

The fair fans were particularly severe in their denunciation of the mountaineer and his aggravating bunting tactics, the third baseman's sister, a fiery-eyed beauty, bravely accosting Bennett and carpenter inflicted torture with his plank. Smuiug it on ins eiae, running up ana own from end to end, and bringing from it a whole gamut of agonizing sounds in protest. Now and then would come a brief, blessed pause, but it was only the carpenter greasing his. blade with a piece of meats kin to recommence with redoubled vigor. Day came at last, and then sunshine over hill and field, and found the train returned from Egypt, back from the seashore and galloping liokety-split over the pine barrens of a southern state.

And now the passengers eyed that carpenter's dreadful berth with intense interest, awaiting the appearance of the tormentor. Would he be just a common man, with thorax, larnyx, pharynx, trachea and bronchial tubes just like ordinary people? Would he have only one nose, and a mouth built common mouths? There was a rustle for a few moments behind the protecting curtains; it was parted, raised, and, in a dainty tailor-made suit of gray, with a little lace collar and a dash of color at the neck, stepped out a petite blonde, with the face of a Madonna, the eyes of a fawn and a mouth made up of twin rosebuds. The "come and go" feelings that you experience after taking Hollisters Rocky Mountain Tea is simply wonderful. Drugs increase vour weakmuni. This remedy does tho bus ness.

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new luminary in the baseball sky is Justin T. Bennett, second baseman nnd captain of the red-hatted National Leaguers. Although the young man is getting together a record collection of base hits, and this despite the fact that his position in the bitting order makes it difficult to obtnin them, it is not in this line that his friends expect him to win laurels. Mr. Bennett is a billiardist.

and so dexterously can he manipulate a cue that if given any kind of a handicap in a match with Hoppe or Sutton or Slosson, the Cardinal inlielder would, ifc is ns-orfed, make those wizards of the green cloth and ivories hustle to retain their titles. Ball players who have thus far chalked tips with the second baseman, and some of the best in the country have met him, have been Vanquished With Ease. Bennett is famous as a pool player in the moonshine country of the North Carolina Cumberlands, where he was born and reared, but his work has only lately been attracting attention in parlors of National League cities, for the McCloskeyite is a sophomore, in point finn 1 or service, in the Pulliam orgamza Of late Bennett has been in rare form. At a. Broadway academy, during the St.

Louis team's last sojourn, the North Carolinian gave a- great exhibition of 13.1 inch balk line billiards. Frequenters -of the establishment said they had never witnessed prettier cue technic. If Bennett can overcome his extreme modesty and treat seriously his attainments as a cueist, a match may be arranged for him after the baseball season closes, with some of the crank professionals. Both President Robinson and Manager McCloskey have great faith in the team's clever captain, and the former gentleman, BARGAINS Traction Engines, practically new; your station 1 Thirteen-Horse Russell 1 Twelve Gaar-Scott 47SJ 1 iwclve. Kuber 650.00 1 Twelve Aultman 450.00 1 Fourteen Case Large variety Engines and Boilers; four to two hundred horsepower; good condition.

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