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~w J. MONEOE JOHNSON IS DEAI For Nearly Two Decades 4th Oircui Solicitor.-Tho End 0ame Thurs day Night, at Johns Hopkins ,Hospital, in Baltimore, whore he Had Gone for Treatment. News and Courier. Marion, December 15.-Solicitor Monroe Jolson is dead. The e came Thuisday iiight, at 10.30 o'lo at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Bal more, where lie went about two wee ago for treatment. Mrs. Johnson was with him wlien passed away, having gone to Bal more Sunday, upon learning that change for tie worst had taken pla inl his condition. As soon ats the news of iis dea reached Marionl, Mr. J. M. Johns( Jr., a'd Mr. Henry Buck, Solicit Jolinsonl's law partner, left for Bal more. Tiey are expected to retu to-day with the body. Thie ftuneral will be held Sunday, 2.30 i'clmck p. i., at the Blapii e'huin-h ini Ma ion.i .For ieariy a scoP ore f yVars Soli< tor J111hn1ison hi: l hevin proIset'lfing 41 fiver (f the -11h .uii.ia1 cireit. T m1mne1.r in wich11 he iisctar.ged i lti-s oft his office anid his healing a1 m11ani "Mnni as a CitizvIn n11u111v hi kn-wn and1(1 respeetedI anld lov tIhI-mn.Jh tihie viltire Stae. Pear i'lv andii cons Qint ins.~ ie interests of, I Slate 4if SoliiI ('auclitia were aiwa su' of piI'lecti'tn whei - i iste(I his kee pin1. Brief Sketch of His Life. ;dil anrue .hwas hoitrI Richland C'mini, N. C.. abmou sixt vi..iht year. aglo, of(X t anlesic his nnldparen ts havitn't benl Ilnativ ifl,ci t il. lie was v dinated at C Unliversity , of(l Ntirthi Caro1*11ln , whi. lie 1(ki a very hi-Ih shand. In 11 ui r year4)1 , \'V.Wi, h41wever, hle let i coole to as.it Is 11 Vivil ieii ver inl ta Ing lie a d railro hh was 01he l til osiretd in NtCrthi Cairolin 'Ind was reard asimoann yit o th llIia(t "s-taiv, but to tle Cote evrte i s s w el . Ile f'tll4twed vivil eng.inlevrinlg f smeeral Years, flteaca to Marlho Cuy Iand for somie Years tnh school iln the Aamlilsville Section. p leth hie devided onl the law as I lirt Wi and, wItcodil.1y, iter. the office of the ]ate Canellort. Jo son, at Bennet sville, vIhee le studi for is closen profession. In IS lie was mdmiled to the Ti alnd Iwint to Faeitteville ill with the tention of locatlian there, but, ulp learning tnht he could not piractie Northl Carolina withouit pas'sing." exai inations befoire the Supneme Court the State, ands tlvt the Court wo niot mieet for six or eighit monthis, camte back to Bennet tsVille, and cvoi fo ga copa rnership with 1. 1 1o Jod Townsend,inder the firm nameJhs andwnsend, Hudson and Johnsn. T1. cpame frmhip coti ied.ti 1, whe tit was issol ved'i 1, and o a coipartnership withI i Chacer Joh and Jons. lIn ('1) 0 Mer.i coo i1 Johnson I as tk earsntoef, h thesame irm h nae cntined et c fauir was isl Iv i 190, undero fhrn atntr MroJf Johnson formik.'P acopatershipO with ethe once Jun. .ivans ofhis par rhp.oni Med untiot twmarsd gMi, weni wcasdsolve, and Mro onnth 1c7p.artnehhwasin hesecot lx of this union, seven of whom are lI ing, tour' bioys and thrmiee girls. 'Thi arie married and four single. .. Johnitsoni, Jr., a civil engi necer, mar'i Mliss 1Barinwell, oif Chaiirlest on. Fie is thle wife of Senat or Hldliday, H orry County, and1( Louise is thle w! of Mr.. Louis Hiagood, of Charlotte, C. Mr. Johtnson held many Importi offices. lie wuas elected solicitor the d1th circuit eighteen years ago, a1 diedl in harness, Hie wuas ia meml of the State Legislature from 1880 1882, and was a promiinent figur~e that body. He was the leader in M ion County against Radical misrule 1870. -Several times he was a can date for Congress ini his later I and at one time came comparativ< ewv tos of the election. Hejias bi adeacon in the Baptist Church h: ~or .over thirty years, and supei K.tenldernt'ot. the Sunday school gbout the sam length of time. hais hoR1rabIy filled mnany other He was A born leader.,of? ien.i aeid y ggthgrin)ks ot4 ~iid* A4 ws ial13 o4~~j ). He was aggressive, brilliant, untirin and incorruptible. When he espous t's ed a cause he gave it the full benefi .of his brilliant intellect and unflag ging energy. He was an able lawye 'nld an abler advocate.- As an office lie could not be approached or influ onced. He represented the huimbles negro with the same fidelity that I did his white client of wealth and in J. fluence. nd There will be sadness all over th -k, 4th circuit at the announcement o ti- the death of John Monroe Johnsor ks He loved his people and they love him. he ti- ANTE-BELLUM ANNUAL HO( a KILLING. ce The Saturnalla, of the Southern kegr th Before he Began to Study Greek m, and Latin and cSulpturo. or ti- Jas. T. Bacon in News and Courier. rn ''ComeI 'long, Tildy-you and Ton and Pink and Ephrun. Miss say sh at want de ligmant cleaned 'fore dinne s ite. Dat mean she want de gut scraped for do sossagc. Come righ . 'long, chillun, kase Miss ai ress twel she (ee demt sossage ituff.'' The mornings now are clear an( cold aid frosty, and the ground is r li liltie ''sp)ewed up.'' This makes u I hink o--and long for--the annua io-killing of old times before the war SS Anld in ()lour mind's eye we see the den: piet ures of ''Aunt'' Nancy, on i-randmother's cook, summoning lie helildrenl to liirry to the cleaning 0 e ligaments-''dserapine' d guts inl which the sausa-e is to be stuffed This was before Tildy and Tom an< Pink and Eplrum knew tle suffrage or had begun lo stidy Greek and Lat - in and sculpture. And this was be ' ore tile negro cook at. a momnt' s1warning would leave you inl tle deep est lurch, and donning classic sandal and Roman drapery, go to the near est city to take the parts of vestal vir. -ins iii Pain's ''Destruction of Porn ~ nii. But let us-in memory blowing ui a bladder-take you into the hog-kill ing areiia. The annual hog-killing I oldtiime village or plantation life wa: a very distinictive ain( important fen m ture of said lifeo. The annual hog ht killing brouh.11t. out all tle boundles: gt race, vigor, enthusiasm and vivacit: of' tle Southern negro. T!,- bull-figh kis 1 ed of Spain is to the Spaniara nothin ComparIed to wliat the hog-killing us ed to be to the Southern negro. Da; by day, from November 1st to MarcI 1st. the necessary cold spell was anx iously looked for, prayed for. And the hogsl Perhaps you imagin Ii at we raised them. Not at all. V were ''cottontots'' then as we ar of now-only more intelligent and decel Id ones. We did not raise a hog. The; lie were driven in huge and numerou droves across the mountains, fror Kentucky, Tennessee aud Wsterv en North Carolina. go The Kentucky and Tennessee hoj in drovers in fact made up one of thi of peculiar institutions of the old Soutlh is They were rough, rudc and dirty mer rh ut honest and well meaning, if w ed remember aright. They began to driv n. their immense droves of hogs inti an South Carolina about the 1st of No ,g. vembler; and you might look for theri ut until the 1st 'of March. Two or thre als stalwart men and four or five of thiei on male young generally accompaniec ed each drove. The hogs were didiveni no us more than ten miles a (lay. They wver u- stopped1 at night at some country inn it thle innkeepers feeding not only Lb en drovers but thie hogs. And wvhile the: of were at this inn or that inn or. at thi lie priom1inent p)oint or that, the farmer uis and p)lanters for miles around cam lhe and bought. And great was the car niival. The saturnalia of ancient Rem n was a p)oor show compared to it. Ti in farmners or planters wvho came to bu: r'n hogs brought with them larg,e num v:- hers of negro men, women aind chiil 'ce dren to drive the hogs home. At thes MI. periods the whole face of (lhe eart1 ed would be alive with hogs, hog-drover ra tfarmiers, planters and negroes, grca of and small. The hog was sold1 at s Pe much a p)ound on thle hoof. ' 'On th N. hoof'' was (lie phrase. And (lhen fol lowed the great slaughter carnival 01 nt each plantation. The negroes wer of wild. The negro wvomen and ehildrel iud beenme absolutely frantie. Theiy sas >cr themselves rioting, abounding and ea to ulting in livers, lites, tails, jowh in ''chitlins,'' kidneys, ''rcln' an, amr- bladders. And so they did riot an' in exult. They did not eat (lie bladderm di- but to own a bladder anid blow it uj ife through a reed was (lie height of al Ily earthly glory to (lie pickaninny, and uon we must confess, to the white chili ~re also. Oh, those haleyon hog-killin in- bladder-blowing days! They were dir ~or ty days, wvhen (lie breezes was tainted [1e and whlen everything was everybod; f- relked with filth and worked amouj miscellaneous viscera, but still the: LIe were delightful days. The memor~ nt of them is unspeakably dear to ou But to the po jBhod4 9 arena I In the middle a huge sacrifi- s cial fire of oak and pie, in which i t fire roasted dozeis and dozens of ig0 clean stones. Thien two or three r huge vats sunk in he ground, three I r feet deep by seven or eight or nine - long. These vats are filled with water. I t Then a long, rude gallows, upon which i the carcasses are to hang. Then the I hogs in a pen hard by grunting and L squealing and twisting with deadly 1 premonition of their fate. Then a% f very Hercules of a coal-black negro I - man with a great axe. He is to be I the executioner. He is an extremely honored and revered person; and he carries himself proudly as his proto type on Olympus. Then four or five lesser sons-of Anak with long, horrI ble sharp knives. They are the throat stickers. They know about the jugu lar vein. Then dozens of negro wo men with their homespun skirts tied high up around their hips, and with tubs and pails and knives. Then more i dozens of negro children waiting to revel in the bloody sacrifice and blow ' up the greasy bladders-not dreaming 5 that the time was not. far off when old Abe Lincoln and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe would invest them with "the inalienable righit of everA American citizen.'' Dog-gone old Abe Lincohi and Mrs. IHarriet Fleelier Stowe foir their sitpid and evil deeds! l Theii the white children of the faiily - equally anxious for lie bladder period. Now the huge red-hot stmnes an11 taken out. of the fierce red fire wito hoes and rakes and grapplers, and hur111led, sizzing and seethiln. and sein tilltin" into tle vIts of water. Th is is toheit th waters-to loosen th!e hair oin thlie hog. Then tle black Hercules with the axe leaps into the pen and rapidly and with gigantie strokes administers the fatal blow up on the forehead, between the eyes, to each frenzied hog. Then tle nero women, with bare and lusty legs. dance and shriek with delight-and also the negro children and the white childreni. Theii the sons of Anak stick the dying beasts deep in the throat and out rushes the warm, pur ple blood. Then the carcasses, still pulsing with life, are dragged rapidly to the seething vats and hurled in. Then, while still half in and half out of the vat the carcass is quickly di vested of all hair by the negro men and women. Then, in a trice, the hot carcasses are dragged to the gibbets and suspended thereon to cool and bleed and drip. Then they are quickly disembowlled-operated upon for appendicitis, and now the negro wo men receive the miscellaneous viscera into tubs and pails, and forthwith be gin the washing and scraping of liga ments in which sausage is to be stuff ed. And then, too, begins the bladder blowing pandemonium. And then the carcasses are taken into the yards of the houses or negro quarters and hung up in some cold place to. grow hard and ice-cold. And on the mnor row follow,s the cutting up, the salt ing, the rubbing and the trying out of the lard. And on the second day begins the millennium of backbone Sand spareribs, saus age, sauce, liver p)udding, pigs'feet jelly. And for dafyb the fat and the filth of the land are known in every negro cabin; and the little negroes gormandize liver and hites and ''chitlins'' and ''cracklins" until they almost develop four legs and a tail and a snout. Such w~as thme annual hog-killing in thme old South. And is there anything now that we can contrast wvith it? Nothing. Ever since the close of the wvar, until wvith in a very few years past, we Southern people have not raised a hog, nor' had a hog. We have wearily and drearily and stupidly and doggedly bought our bacon from the West hiams, shoulders and sides. And our children have, known nothing of the glory of the bladder nor of the luxury of the liver-pudding. Now, however, dIriven to it by poverty and keenest and bitterest experience, we are b)e ginning to make our own meat and sav'e our own bacon. We save our ba con, however, without any of thme sub lime saturnalia of hog-killing. Out fewv hogs are killed nowadays in great quietude, unpleasant dignity and r'e pulsive decency. There are no negro women amnd children nowadays who would condescend to rejoice in the solemn rites, Their legs may be rusty still, but yet they must study Greek ' andl Latin--and all branches but hy-' giene. Certainly not oven the wildest imagination eould picture Mrs. Cher ubina Beraphina Cleveland-wearing a heavy crepe veil for the stillborn infant of her third cousin-scraping "do ligments'' for sausage. Style and American Dressmaker is very attractive this month. We have ~ ust received the January number. On the cover is a pretty girl who wears a ,stunning hat wvhich is reprodunced froni one of the latest Paris models. rThe designs, as usual1, are beautiful and'practical and easy to follow. Pat tr ifp saabq procured for, every de in shown. The text contains many seil suggestions a" mcih that is I' itlerest to every ' The pn>tfesionail ser1viVce f Miss 'lssell are ,I'iofere FIrL tO (Ver1'y sub cribel'. Miss Unszell knows where f u hs " a it ind" novelties, anrinlni :md IIrInan1ents and en1 WrOidvries. hewill mtchel samples 1d g"ive advice free. Subseripti,in price $1.00 a year. 'end your name and address rot a ree Sample Copy to Style and American Dressmaker 4-26 East 21st St., New York City. If a shiftless man in a county town loesn't keep greyhounds he usually lays a fiddle. If no man has ever kissed a girl you itst not believe her. CITY CAPF '4 1fi For a nicely prepar d meal, composed of inything to be had in he local market, such ts game, fish, fowls, etc., drop in at the City afe, next door to the Southern Express of Fice, and be satisfied at i reasonable price We iave a professional' wvhite cook, who knowsL his business and will givethe best of service. We carry a line of fruits, C etc , and want to fill your or -lers for Christmas. Earhardt & Wells, Next Door to So. Express Office. THE - SATISFACTION Of kniowiing youI have pur1chased a ian ha lit canno1(t be surpIassed C by any Manufactuer~ in thle world is indeed a great comfort. The t ime neverI comes to the pur'- C chaser of a StI eff p)iano1 to realiz.e that a chieap pian u has been pur. 11 - ebaifsed. STIEFF Manuifactu~rer of t he piano with the sweet Southern Wareroom. 5 West Trade Street, OHAR~LOTTE, N. O0, C. El. WILMOTH, MOR. nd ii REVI O RESTORES VITALITY e"Made a THE Well Man broducees fine rei.nItr 1in 80Clt. at )Owerfully and quickdl (r days. thr factl rounug mon can regain theires, whoter fan. itina may recove thei youthful vigor b noves Nervousness, Losty adqity re.sa Weakness such as Lost Powr Viainy. Sexua Wasting Diseases, andtai efet on emuor xcess andi indiseretion, wbh e~ -obue for ituldy, business orimarringI ehnfts on fo Jy starting at the seof ( t, no a olcures servo tonuie and 111d. buSt isagea iakr th piu l ttao er brianging 0other. lb cn bc avrct inEsoke y ive tre advice andcone o al Wi o wihi leith guarantee. Circul al ho wish8 lOYAL MEDICINE CO.. MarharsBld. Ch, Ies GIL.msn &. W, K,. )anti NEADQI Will Still al OLD I am Ins HIS MA 'Old o announc Iren that hi "UV ?0 was or onOday, I m.d all areli mnd make t o we can 'our wants, IThe Santc Dear Children: Look out rfving at my headquart I will be very busy can hiave your letters and put them In the let Look out for me an at the same l pac,1i D.Iau~ IARTEB Be Found the STAND tructed by XJESTY Santa' e to the child s full line of )ened on )ecenjber 10 nvitedl to come heir selectionS inform him of !9As Man. for my wagon! I-'will be ar' ers every day next week. md cannot talk to you, but yOU written telling me of your want er box on my wagon. remember my hedurtr . EB. Jone's store. Yours,.