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Address ol Judge Augustus Van Wyck, President of the North Carolina Society, at the Wal dorf-Astoria, New York City, May 20, 1901. Carolinians, I salute you In the name of a great race reared in the beautiful laud sloping from the diaz.v heights of the Blue Kidge to the storm-washed shores of the Atlantic, from Mitchell's Peak to Cape Hatterae, furnishing men of varied mental and physical habits and every variety of min eral and agricultural product; a race composed of Irish, Scotch, Scotch-Irish, English, Swiss, tier man, Dutch and French; Catho lics, Presbyterians, Moravians, Lutherans.'tiuguenots and Quak ers; a race by nature and such environments, lovers and main tainors of civil and religious lib erty; a rare which first enjoyed on this continent a chartered government that guaranteed religious freedom and no taxa tion except by consent of the peo ple; a race who, in 17(>0, success fully resisted by force the English stamp act; a race who, in 1771, resisted with open war and rebel lion the oppression of the Eng lish crown, and though defeated in the battle of Alamance by Tryon, yet they never thereafter acquiesced in nor yielded allegi ance to England; a race, as will be described to you to-night, who boldly announced in solemn form theirbeclarntionof Independence a full year before the one that was proclaimed at, Philadelphia on July 4,177f>; a race that first instructed her delegation to the Continental Congress in favor of that declaration. Aow .\ortn t'arounas fulls oris tle with church spires and school domes. Her fields teem with rich fruits of mother earth, while the cotton spindles and looms and factory wheels line her water courses. Her mountains glisten with rich metals and precious gems. In her lovely daughters are sweetly blended culture, grace, refinement, intellectuality and purity of character which always elevate mankind and gives lustre to a nation's social history. In all the advanced movements of the human race her sons have kept fully abreast of the front column. Some think our country will reach a much higher altitude, but remember the labors and efforts of the future must be as great as ever to keep our coun try in the forefront of the sister hood of nations. The increase of wealth alone enables America to do more, and the power of wealth itself for development has been increased more than a hundred fold by the discoveries of science and mechanical inventions. The children of such a race and laud should justly feel a pride in their ancestors who did so much in the formative period to build and so much in the period of maturity to preserve the structure of our nation, her institutions and her material progress. In peace and in war this cominonweath has done more than her mathematical part to the glory of our country in every field of human activity. I extend to you a thousand welcomes, recognizing amon^vou those renowned in the service of the only King to whom the loyal sons of a Republic can ever owe allegiance, the omniscient ruler of the eternal empire of peace; those eminent in the learned pro fessions; those distinguished in the service, civil and military, of the country; in the councils of the nation, state and munici pality; princes of finance, com merce and the varied mercantile and industrial undertakings of our happy and prosperouslaud. Such a citizenship gives energy to enterprise, vigor and cheerful ness to industry and life, and elasticity to patriotism. There is a valid reason for the existence of this Society, which imposed ujton you the duty of creating and maintaining it. Love of home, esteem for parents and utilization of their experi ences constitute a radiant trinity, which gives strength and life to euch societies. The simple word "home" brings to mind and heart the dearest and most sacred interests of life. There is the home of childhood with its light hearted memories, tendernes ? and love. There is the home of manhood with one nearer and dearer than all others, a home hallowed with joys, the heart in stinctively turns there for rest and peace of mind. Home is not the mere dwelling, for many a palace is not. Home is where the heart is, lie it at the poor man's fire-side or in the grand edifice of the rich. Home, sweet home, stimulates that laudable respect for parents w hich induces worthy sons to avail themselves of the "best experiences of noble sires. The fundamental sentiment (a ( compositeof loveof home,esteem for parents and pride in their commendable do**ls) which is creative of such societies, while tending to make, in the eve of a i dutiful son, the vacant chamber in which mother once was wont to sleep, a sanctuarv; the empty chair in which father once was accustomed to sit, an altar; and to stamp u|kjii his vision the im age of devoted parents, yet also impresses upon his memory their good and just deeds and thoughts and ever urges him onward and upward in the faithful discharge, of his mission in the economy of life. To this sentiment is largely due the preservation, utilization and augmentation by the living of the best acts and ideas of past and passing generations, sancti fied by a healthy devotion to home and parentsand tlieirsweet memories. This brings to the living all the experiences of the past, to be by them addedtoand transmitted to thecoining gener ation, to Is* by the latter, in turn, further enlarged and again trans mitted, and so on to the end of time, unless the tideof our boast ed progress shall be backward turned. Let her sons who live under other skies than "the land of the sky" gladly make the welkin ring with cfieers and praise for the old North State. Thoughts Ahout Friendship. What is friendship? Here is Milton's definition: "A most in timate union of two or more indi viduals, cemented by an inter change of good offices." Voltaire calls it "a tacit contract between two sensible and virtuous per sons. Richardson, the hnghsh novelist, had a friend in hiH own won, and the two lived and worked together 111 such harmony that the father called their union "a I compound man." This falls in with the Arabic definition of friendship, "one soul in two j bodies." Such also is the Chris tian conception of society?one soul in many bodies. In ancient mythology friend ship was jiersonified as a simple ana elegant figure, clad in a plain robe, with one hand pointing to the uncovered heart, which bore the inscription " Far and Near," implying that distance does not separate. The head was crowned with a wreath of pomegranute flowers and fruits, inscribed "Summer and Winter," signify ing that friendship lasts through all outward changes. On the hem of the robe were the words " Life and Death," a pledge of eternal constancy. Some friendships are instan taneous; others grow from small beginnings, and ripen with years. There is this passage in Gari baldi's autobiography; "While walking onedav in a public place in Rio, 1 met a man whose ap pearance struck me in a very un common and very agreeable manner. At the same moment he fixed his eyes on me, smiled, stopped and spoke, and, although we Iiad never met before, our ac quaintance immediately began, and we became unreserved and cordial friends for life. He was Rosetti" (adiwtmguishecl Italian patriot). Dr. Alcott savs he nevpr knew %/ a jierson who had more than three true friends. Well, that may be enough; one may be enough. A Hebrew proverb says, " He that would nave friends must show himself friendly." It is far more important to be a friend than to have one. Dr. Johnson says the great benefit one friend can confer on another is to guard, excite and elevate his virtues. Neandercoin plained of being stupefied by the very presence of some people; and Emerson says, "One man pins me to the wall; with another I walk among the stars." The general principle of benevolence requires that we should do our best to brighten the day for everyone we meet,even if a shadow falls on ourselves; but it is never easy to carry on a one-sided con versation, nor to furnish vivacity enough for two. ?'Shall we know each other there?" Ah, would to God we could know each other here! And to know each other here or there, we must be our best. Every de fect obscures us, and comes be tween us like a cloud, as if ac quaintance were interrupted.? Rev. Chas. Gordon Ames. " Our little girl was unconscious: from strangulation during a sud den and terrible attack of croup. I quickly secured a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure, giving her three doses. The croup was mastered and our little darling speedily recovered "So writes A. E. Spanord, Chester, Mich. J. II Ledbetter, Hood Bros., Hare & Son. j I A Beautiful Behaviour. I like that every chair should he a throne and liold a king; I prefer a tendency to statelinew, to an excess of fellowship. I>et the incommunicable objects of nature and the metaphysical iso lation of man teach us independ ence. Let us not be too much acquainted. 1 would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculp tures, that he might not want the hint of tranquility and self-poise. We should meet each morning as from foreign countries, and spend ing the daj- together, should de part at night as into foreign countries. In all things 1 would have the island of a man invio late. Is*t us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all around Olympus. No degree of aff.ction need invade this religion. This is myrrh and rose mary to keep the other sweet. Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much all slides into confusion and meanness. It is easy to push this difference to a Chinese eti quette, but coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate tine manners. A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene. Pro portionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running, to secure some paltry convenience. Every natural function can be dignified by deliberation and privacy. The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling, but if we dare to open another leaf and explore what parts go to its con formation we shall find also an intellectual quality. Delect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. The person who screams or uses the superlative degree, or con verses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. Ele gance comes of no breeding, but of birth. High behaviour is as rare in fiction as it is in fact. < I nee or twice in a life-time weare permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man or woman who have no bar in their nature, but whose characteremanatesfreely in their word and gesture. A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behaviour is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.?Ralph Waldo-Emerson. Why Buchanan Never Married. Lu?lies' Ilomo Journal. Mr. Buchanan, who was the first bachelor elected to the Pres-, idency, was sixty-five years of age! when elected, and had deliberately given himself to a life of celibacy. In the days when he was a young lawyer of Lancaster, Penn , he had loved Miss Coleman, a beau tiful daughter of a citizen of that town. They had beeen engaged to be married, when one day he received from her a request to release her from the promise. According to Mr. George Tieknor Curtis, the separation originated in a misunderstanding on the part of the lady, who was unusu ally sensitive, over some small matter exaggerated by giddy and indiscreet tongues. Soon after the estrangement she was KPiit t,M PhiluffolnViin. n.nH thurn died suddenly. Throughout the rest of hie life, or for nearly half a century, Mr. Buchanan is not known to have revealed to any body the circumstances of this romantic traced v. He would only say that it Had changed his hopes and plans, and hail led him more deeply than ever into poli tics as a distraction from his grief. In his old age, long after ne had retired permanently to private life, he called attention to a package containing, he said, the papers and relics which would explain the causes of his youth ful sorrow, and which he pre served evidently with the idea of revealing them before his death. But when he died, and his will was read, it was found that he had directed that the package should be burned without being opened, and his injunction was obeyed. If people onlv knew what we know about kodol Dyspepsia Cure, it would be used l'n nearly every household, as there a:e few iteople who do not suffer from a feeling of fullness after eating. Itelching, flatulence, sour stomach or waterbrash, caused by indi gestion or dyspepsia. A prepara tion, such us Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure, which, with no aid from the stomach, will digest your food, certainly can't help but do you good, llood Bros., Hare & Son. ?I. R. Ledbetter. j ? I Our Modern Oracle ol Delphi. If one-tenth of 1 per cent of what in said and written of J. I'ierpont Morgan's all-pervading influence upon the financial world were true we have arrived at that period when earth in famed with out one man. In the language of the impatient Cassius? He cloth l?entride the narrow world Like a CoIokhuh, and we petty men Walk under bin hu*ce loir* and peep al>out To 11 nd ourselves dishonorable if raves. Hut the J. I'ierpont Morgan of the New York and London dis patches in a myth?a great finan cial fetish. He pursues his busi ness and his pleasure like other men and infatuated correspond ents do the rest. His every move ment is multiplied and mystified until the very stars in their courses blink in amazement at the gullibility of man. He yawns and the world of Wall street standsagape to won der what is coming next. He spits and all Manhattan expectorates. He sips hot water for his dys pepsia and Wall street hastens to liquidate. He is bilious and troubled with vapors and straightway the markets of the world, like the goats that breathed the exhala tions of the Delphic cavern, are filled with convulsions. He arrives in London and bids the troubled sea of speculation be calm and immediately it be comes like a mirror in which the reporters see only the reflection of his godlike face. In a hundred wave ttie press has succeeded in building up for J. l'ierpont Morgan in an ever credulous world precisely thej same reputation that established the oracle at Delphi, to which the | princes and nations of the earth I brought their costliest offerings in return for Delphic favors. His bank is the altar of the oracle, and it is no wonder that it has become the Mecca before} which every business promoter and captain of industry lays his plans with the promise of a rake off for a favoring augury. The whole thing is a vast, colossal confidence game, at which its chief beneficiary must smile if he ever permits himself that lux ury of an Atlas unwearied with the burdens of a world.? Chicago Record-Herald. biliousness is a condition char acterized by a disturbance of the digestive organs. The stomach is debilitated, the liver torpid, the bowels constipated. There is a loathing of food, pains in the bowels, dizziness, coated tongue and vomiting, first of the undi gested or partly digested food and then of bile. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets allay the disturbances of the stomach and create a healthy appetite. They also tone up the liver to a healthy action and regulate the bowels. Try them and you are certain to be much pleased with the result. For sale by Hood Bros. General Greene's Remains. A movement has been begun for the purpose of having the remains, recently discovered, of Maj.-Geu. Nathaniel Greene, the Revolutionary hero and patriot, reinterred beneath the shaft which the citizens of Savannah have reared in J ohnson Square , to his memory. Tins plan in itself is not new, for it was suggested simultane i ously with the discovery of Gen eralGreene's remains by the coin ! mittee of the Rhode Island Socie i ty of the Cincinnati, headed by ! (*>1. Asa Bird Gardiner. It is now further suggested, however, > that the reinterment take place on J une 20, which will be the one hundred and fifteenth anniversa | ry of the day when Generul Greene's body was committed to the vault in the Colonial Ceme- ; i ten*, where its remains were found. J It is the plan to make the oc- 1 easion a memorable and imp'v ing one. While nothing delinite has been done, it is proposed to invite the presence iji Savannah of a number distinguished men from all o^r the State and to accompany the reinterment of the re-mains, in the ground be neath the monument, with cere monies similar to those which marked their first burial.?Sa vannah News. Miss Florence Newman, who has been a great sufferer froiji muscular rheumatism, savs Chamberlain's Fain Balm is the only remedy that affords her relief. Miss Newman is a much respected resident of the village of Gray, N. Y., and makes this statement for the benefit of others similarly afflicted. Thisliniment is for sale by Hood Bros. From a Bachelor's View. The average woman is funniest to a man when she thinks she is most sarcastic. A smart woman can fool a man all his life, but a smart man can only fool u woman until she finds it out. It is generally a mystery to a man just how he came to propose. The millennium is only another name for the Noah family re union. Half of the trouble in the world is caused bv the devil; the rest is caused by family friends. A girl's idea of diplomacy is to pick out another girl for a man she thinks wants her and deviling him into going with her. The houses in heaven never need any cleaning, but even there the women angels will probably want to change the furniture around. Finance is business with a dress suit on. The cleverest woman in the world is the one that knows how to keep her husband jealous with out his knowing that she knows he is. There probably never was a woman who could pin her dress together in the back of the neck so a man wouldn't laugh at it if he dared to. If you tell a woman a man is crazy to marry her before the wedding she will love you; if you tell her the same thing after the wedding she will hate you forever. Probably old tombstones get so worn by ghosts trying to butt out their own inscriptions. It's your brainy women who fall in love with fools, and it's your fools who fall in love with brainy women. .Men may be wicked vidians, but after all they don't go home and sit right down and copy each other's bonnets. Probably at her wedding the woman feels almost as important as the man did the first time he ever traveled on a railroad pass. Women never consider them selves really intimate with one another until they have told each other how they first met their husbands.?New York Press. Beware ot a Cough. A cough is not a disease but a symptom. Consumption and bronchitis, which are the most dangerous and fatal diseases, have for their first indication a persistent cough, and if properly treated as soon as this cough appears are easily cured. Cham berlain's Cough Remedy has j proven wonderfully successful, and gained its wide reputation and extensive sale by its success in curing the diseases which cause coughing. If it is not beneficial it will not cost you a cent. For sale by Hood Pros. The Lesson He Wanted. In his autobiography, "Up From Slavery," BookerT. Wash ington tells an amusing anecdote cf an old colored man who during the days of slavery wanted to learn how to play on the guitar. In hie desire to take guitar les sons he applied to one of his young masters to teach him. But the young man, not having much faitn in tne ability of the slave to master the guitar at his age, sought to discourage him by tell ing nim : " Uncle Jake, I will give you guitar lessons. But, Jake, 1 win nave to cnarge you #.'( for the ft ret lesson, $2 for the second lesson and fl for the third lesson. Hut I will charge you only 25 cents for the last lesson." Uncle j Jake answered: " All right, boss, I I hires you on dem terms. But, j boss, I wants yer to be sure and give me dat las' lesson first." "I have tieen suffering from Dyspepsia for the past twenty years and have been unable after trying all prepn vat ions and phy sicians to uet any relief. After takinj one Dottle of Kodol I)ys r*'; sia Cure 1 found relief and am how in better health than 1 have b?en for twenty years. I can not praise Kodol Dyspepsia Cure too nighly," thus writes Mrs. C. W. Roberts, North Creek, Atk. Hood Bros., Hare & Son, J. R. I.ed better. Venerable Scholars. A State exchange has this unique advertisement: "This is to notify the public that a school for old scholars has l?een opened in our midst. So far fifteen scholars are on the roll? the youngest l>eing (15 years of age, and the oldest !>1. Some of lliem have been too busy to get schooling up to date; but they have whirled in now, and a new life is opening up to them."?At lanta Constitution. Thousands Hare Kidney Trouble and Don't Know It. Bow To Find Oat. Fill a bottle or common (last with jroar water and let It stand twenty-four hours; c sediment or set tling Indicates an * unhealthy condi tion of the kid neys; if it stains your linen It is. evidence of kid ney trouble; ton frequent desire t? pass it or pain in the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and blad der are out of order. What to Do. There Is comfort In the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root. the great kidney remedy fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects Inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often, during the day, and to get up many times; during the night. The mild and the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-Root Is soom realized. It stands the highest for its won derful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists in50c. and$l. sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful discovery and a book that tellstf more about it, both sentHj absolutely free by mail. aaaress ur. turner oc Home of Bw?mp-Roo?. Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing men tion reading this generous offer in this paper. Maryland Witches. Journal of imerican Folk-Lore. Over the great copper kettle one night an old man remarked, ds he stirred its seething whole some contents, that we did not hear much ot withcraft nowadays, but when he was young there was a good deal of that business go ing on. His own father had beem changed into a horse, and ridriera to the witches' ball. All the witches. as they arrived, turned; into beautiful ladies, but he re mained a horse, and so far and so fast was he ridden, and so sore and bruised was he the next - day in his own proper person,, that he could not do a stroke oi work for two weeks. Aunt Susan well remembered! this adventure of her father-in law. Her own father always kept a big bunch of sweetbrier switches hanging at the head oi his bed. And many a night she had heard him "slashing away at the old witches that wouldn't let him sleep." Progressive farming has about improved the sweetbrier off the* face of the earth. Hut old beliefs are not so easily uprooted, as the following story will testify When Grandmother Eiler was young she hat! a cow ot her own raising, of which she was very proud. One evening at milking time, a certain woman passed through the barnyard, stopped, and looked the cow all over. "IT was foolish enough to tell her all about the cow, how gentle she was, how much milk she was giv ing, and she said I certainly had a fine cow. Well, the next morn ing that cow couldn't stand on her feet, and there she lay in the stable till father came home from the mountain, where he had been cutting wood. He said it was all plain enough, when I told hin> everything, but he wondered 1 hadn't had better sense. How ever, he knew just what to do. He rubbed the cow all over witb asafietida, saying words all the time. And the next day, when I went into the barn, there she stood on her four legs, eating like a hound. Witches can't stand asafietida. Skin a flections will readily dis appear by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Look out for coun terfeits. If you get HeWitt's yoi? will get good results. It is the* quick and positive cure for piles. Hare & Son, J. R. Led better,. Hood Ilros. Tbe Mlipmo Ladies Smoke 16-Inclu Cigars. Tbe ladies of the Philippines! have progressed far beyond the dainty cigarette; indeed, their cigars, which measure some 1(? inches, are not intended for urn evening's pleasure or an after dinner smoKe. In the Philippines they prefer smoking on the in stallment plan, for these huge rolls of tobacco, which measure five inches in circumference, con stitute one week's pleasure for t he ladies of Luzon. To offset the difficulty presented by the weight,, the moutn end is filled with a soft fibre of tobacco, so that when* the cigar is grasped firmly be tween the teeth so great an Indention is made that for the remainder of the six days' smoke the huge cigar fits naturally to the mouth, an I can be held with out any conscious effort.?Loa don Science. A car of lime on the road Hair, plaster and cement in stock all the time. W. M. Sandkms