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10 HONCIUMfCLAKK'sf EAKS -. .t '-'.'V OCR COUNTRY IX SOTH CESnXIfa m UiMonri itenreeentatlre Ad fh'TMMi a Larre Crowd In Vane I ark Ttfcrt (South r Too Krffll ont l l rlilii Ilor llixKirr--North . Carolina the lUrtliplncw of Mi " eoerie ruert Maat, Thomaa 1L llouLun .11m . Spfilar Mnws Hi . Growth of Our Country Wnce I IW0 and Kprvsaf IM Optuniaua icw of (he Future. Yesterday, at li:S0 o'clock, a nor f tton of tha treat crowd that had v gathered In the afreet quit play and . went doarn to Vance Park to hear the lion. Champ Clark. Representa- live In Conjrress rrom the nintn ais ' trtot of Mtaaurl, make an elegant ' and serious speech. Many of the " thlnkinf men of the State were In the andlence and they enjoyed the address. Ttila speech wax considered the event of the day. The crowd being a little alow In assembling. It was 1 o'clock when Mayor S. S. Mc-- Nlnch arose and presented Hon. E. late Webb. Congressman from this - district, who In turn Introduced Mr. Clark. lit presenting the speaker of the hour. Mr. "Webb aaid: 'It gives me much pleasure to In troduce our honored guest and ora tor of the dtay to the people of this aplendld city and surrounding coun try." said Mr. Webb. "During the encampment of Corn et allls here In 1780. a high British of . fleer aald that Charlotte was a vsry hospitable town, but a damned re bellious country. Our distinguished ?uest has charmed vast audiences rom Lake Superior to Miami. Flu., With his eloquence and wit. For 22 years he held the record tor being the youngest college president In the United States. He is a iMwyer, edi tor, author, historian, scholar. states man and patriot. He has been In Congress for twelve years. He has climbed In this world without pulling others down. He in too big to har tor jealousy; too noble to bear envy. The elements are no mixed In hi in that nature might stand up and say to the world: This Is a man.' I pre e'nt Hon. Champ Clark, of Mlitsouri. whom you will delight to hear on the subject: The L'nlted Plates in the Twentieth Century." Mr. Clark Is a handsome man. large, with fine head and striking face, clear eye., and a full, clear, i carrying voice. He always has some thing interesting to say and knows how to say It with telling effect. The "representative Hudletirp that heard him yesterday afternoon applauded his remarks liberally. His speech follows: ' Mr. Webb was entirely right when he said that the audience would en- them by heart As It la they are not mentioned at all or are slurred over with a few word In whataar Advertis ed standard histories of the coun try; yet. If there had ben no King's Mountain, no Qullford Court House, there would la all human pobablllty have been no Torktowir and no re public. r,'p,' ,r. "v. ;... V', i' "v thb importance: or our his- v - TORT. i 4,. . What I am driving at 4s not to arouse any jealousy of New England or of New. England writes, but to arouse our own people to a realising sense of the Importance of our own history and to the faw that oair own worthies are being k A led off by the "rule of exclusion" -the moat deadly contrivance known to the writers of history. Certainly the South has no reason to take a back seat when It comes to the history of the Ante rlcan Revolution, for. her aona were fore most In oratory. In ststematishlp and In the field. It Is hych tlrrue that we were seeing to It that they are fore moat in the histories which our chil dren rend. Notwithstanding Job's exclamation. "Oh. that mine adver sary had written a book!" I aay to any young man or young woman who hears me this day. II you de sire to render your people an Inesti mable service and at the same time to lav hnlil nf marlhlv immrtrtelltv. glve your days and nUhta to writing the history and biogmphy of North Carolina worthies. Surtely Oiere could bo no more grateful tusk; for Lord L'acon, who possessed the most ex quisite brain ever house! In a human skull, placea State builders, "Condi- ores Imperlorurn, as he calls them. in the front rank. Long, long ago filr Wlllajn Jones voiced the same Idea when he aald: "What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound. Thick walls or moated gate; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned; Not hays and broad-armed porta Where. Intighlng st the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed basenee wafts per fume to pride. No; men. high-minded men. Joy hearing Mr. Clark, for the speech ' "UIT ". "P",rh was pronounced excellent snd groat. It waa i eloquent, witty and learned, and showed the xpenttcr familiar with his subject. Not on.' who heard Mr. Clark but that enjoyed his speech. The speaker In a tall man with weight. He haii n strongly mnrki-d face and commands attention. His voice waa clear and carried to all points of the park. He was applaud ed loudly and frequently. i HON. CHAW CI.ARK'H KPKKCII. . It Is in keeping w ith the eternal fit ness of things that a Mlssourlnn should speak at a celebration of tha nnnlverssry of North Carolina's splen did prelude to the drama of the American Revolution, for upon the soil of North Carolina was horn the greatest Mlssourlan that ever lived. Indeed, one of the greatest of Ameri can statesmen Col. Thomas Hart Benton, who sat nt the feet of that Illustrious North Carolinian. Nathan iel Macon. In learn wisdom, even as Paul sat at the feet of Gamaliel. Though the so-called histories, in mentioning the immortal Senatorial uartee. "Kenton. Calhoun, Clay and Webster.'' usually plsce "The Great Mlswourlan" last, he ss richly deserves to etsnd st the head of the list a any of the rest. Hecause of Benton all Missourlans owe North Carolina a !"Tpennl and heavy debt of gratitude. His high career shed Imperishable lustre uion the magnificent KtHfe Which gave him birth as well as up on the Imperl.il Commonwealth un der Whose t orn mission he nerved with commanding Influent e 3.' tears In the Congress of the I'nlted States 30 "Men who their duties know, Rut know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. Prevent the long aimed blow. And crush the. tyrant, while they rend the chain: These constitute a State." MR. WEBB'S HISTORICAL CON TRIBUTION. North Carolina as well as the Hnuth In general has always been rich In such men. Not Inner since your most excellent Represented! ve. and mv val ued friend. Hon. Kdwln Yates Webb, rendered a splendid service to histo ry and to truth by making In the the battle of King's Mountain, which is an epic In prose and wnlch stirred the heart I like strains of martial music. When . he had concluded and members rowded about him to congratulate him. I did not tell him that he had i delivered a magnificent oration, which 'he had done, but I did tell him that ' I felt under deep persenal obligations I to him. which I do. I am happy to ; observe that his speech Is attracting ! widespread notice In the public press land perhaps the heroes of King's I Mountain may after the lapse of more , than a century and a quarter Receive something like their Just need ! of praise and their Just modicum of J lame. I XKNOPHON AND DONIPAN. 1 was lead Into this train of thought I In this way: In my speech on Sena tor licorge Frlsbee Hoar, In talking 'of the wisdom of writing books, af ; tcr 'ilscnurslng on the contribution I which Caesar's Commentaries made I to his fame, I ran the following brief parallel between Xenophon and (Jen. Doniphan, of Missouri: "Others have marched as strenuously and fought as bravely as Xenophon and his Ten Thousand only to vanish Into obllv ion; but he and his band are among the Immortals because he wrote the I Anabasis, which has delighted and Instructed millions of ambitious hoys and which will delight and Instruct I sin ceedlng millions till the earth shall j perish with fervent heat. "The triumphant expedition of Oen. I Alexander W. Doniphan and his he , role Missourlans Into the heart of Mcxho. by way of Santa Fe, travers 1 Ing a vast wilderness full of hostile savages; subsisting on the enemy's years In the Serial., and two In the !,""m '' numerous """"n, jfouse over the very flower of the deacend- tiii.' a vvi vi'in nv , ants of the Knights of Castile and North Vl,. .1.2 ,,. , .t. ; Aragon; never losing a gun or flag. in ixuiiri hi n sHirniinii, inouau i frequently engaging ten times their number: never drawing from the htm' turn green with envy. Ha was cousin to General Plckell who won Impertahable renown at . Gettysburg. When a young man . Prof. Pickett toured Kurope. He waa much In com pany with an English duchess. he waa so charmed with hla manners. wit. and learning, that, when they Darted, she aald: "Prof. Pickett, have been surprised at your extreme elegance and politeness.. rememoer Ing that you come from a country where they have 'no quean."-' The courtly Virginian, bowing almost to the ground, aald: "Your Grace. 1 beg your pardon, xou live in a country wnere you have one queen. I live in a coun try where every woman la a queen. Once upon a time a party of Americana were traveling In tha Old World. Among other places they vis ited the Pyramids of Egypt, where a boy who waa oi tn party reii asleep. Thinking to have some tun at hla ex pense they surrounded - him with mummies and then one blew a bugle In imitation of Gabriel' trumpet. The boy awoke somewhat dated. He did not remember where ha waa; but rub bing his eyea. he swung his cap above his head, and yelled: "Hurrah! It's the Resurrection morning and an American la the first one up!" That boy and Prof. Pickett were genulno Americana worthy to be countrymen of the Immortal heroes of King's Mountain and Qullford Court House. A VAST THEME. The United States of America Is a theme ao vast that to do It Justice would exhaust the powers, enthusiasm and Imagination of the greatest of the major prophets. Were I clothed with the mantle of Isaiah and endowed with his wondrous gift of vaticination and should I aet forth In perfect verity what thla pulasant republic will be, one hundred years from now, It would appear as wild as any tale out of the Arabian Nights, and you enthusias tic, patriotic, and credulous as you are would one and all be doubting Thomases. An adequate discussion of this sub ject would require the Are and genius of the subllmest epic poet that ever lived. If such a one were In my stead to-day and were he to correctly read the book of fate for our enlightenment, his production would rank with the Iliad, the Odessy, and the Aeneid, with Paradlae LoaU Child Harold, and the Pleasures of Hope. Being neither seer nor poet. I will in plainest prose express my opinion, my faith, my hope, my prayer. brate the a nnlveri-n i y of the Meek- lenburg Declaration .if Independence and thereby sets .in example which very cominutiltt in verv Southern and ttouthwestrrn Stale M'ould fol low. Our ancestors In the South and West were a niH-lerfiil ran', eager to accomplish thump, but careless about recording them, im.l we have been far too negligent shout celebrat ing them and tlx-ir achievements. In New Kngland It Is different There "Very performnmc l i nn fully noted, and In due tune not only appears in print but Is great !y magnified. To walk the streets of l..l..n and to read tllA tnspl tt l.iriM on..,, .,..,,,. am t m Mtatues anil nubile bulldlnes Is a lib- ! ,,hon TBI education In natrlritlsm Were , Prose an Inhabitant or anotlur planet con versant with both F.ngllsh Hnd Lat in, and without knouii'iixe of ,nr btstory, to descend li that devoted city and stmlv ihos,' ln rlptions, ink ing them at their f, i. aiue. he would Inevitably. but erroneously, rvnclude (bat single. IinioI,, ami alone, Mssmh hits' ttseinaiigtirMled and achieved the Revolution and had conducted the Federal goMTntnent ever since. I run not blaming Massa chusetts for exploiting or evn over ex- government a dollar, a ration, a piece I of clothing or an ounco of ammuni tion from tho moment they left Fort i Leavenworth. Kans . till ragged. ; starving, hut Invincible, they report ted to Oen. .achary Taylor In the red ' field of Monterey, having added an I other empire to the Cnlon by their I valor and their prowess, la the most astounding martial achievement In the entire history of the human race. In difficulty, In courage, in fortitude. In glory. In results. Its eclipses utterly the far-famed retreat which Xeno- has embalmed In Immortal "F.verv school boy knows by heart ;the fascinating story of the Greeks: but few remember the more wonder ' ful performance of the Missourlans. 1 Mlrablle dlctu! The glorious name .f Donophan, the conqueror of New I Mexico. Arlsona snd Chllhauhati does not even appear In some of our most j pretentious encyclopedias. The rea ; n Is that Oen. Doniphan, I of Missouri, did not emulate I the laudable example, of Onn. Xenophon, of Greece, by writing a plotting her achievements and her i l'M,ry of his own campaign; conso worthies; I am pla ing the blume Jouctitly he Hnd the brave Missourlans where It properly belongMupon our- followed his all-conquering ban- aelvea for not doing for our forbears "r "re 'o dumb forgelfulneas a what she does for hers K.vetybodv I 1'r'" ' 'T,H ,ruc; n1 n,ty knows the atory of the Imulini ,,f the true." While, I am not general counsel Pilgrims, of the destruction of the tea 1 '"f 1" star actors In the world's In Boston harbor, of Lexington. I '"" ' make bold to suggest to f Paul Itevere s rid'-, and of Hunker i ,hl,t' " tnv deslro a Hill. Thesi have been hronh led in . ""luore deal In history, they would history, chanted In song, and woven i do well to Imitate t'aesur A view ot our country, either pros pective or retrospective, causes the blood to leap, the heart to swell with pride and the soul to go out In grati tude to Almighty Ood for the boun teous blessings He hss showered up on us without stint. Such rich and numberless t benefactions have been vouchsafed to no other nation since Ood said "Let there be light." If not His chosen people, we are certainly His most favored people. In. all the conditions and means of moral. Intel lectual, material and religious growth Truly does Kmerson say: "We live In a new and exceptional age. Amerl ca Is another word for opportunity, Our whole history appears like a last effort of Divine Providence In behalf of the human race." GROWTH OF OUR COUNTRY. In MOO our population numbered 5.301,483 souls. Now it Is over 10. 000,000, exclusive of the denliena In Guam, Porto Rico and the Philip pines. At this rate of Increase by tha end or the twentieth century we will have about two billion citizens, unlesa In the meantime we proceed to annex the entire face of the earth and aa simnate, an creation In which case we will, of course, be the whole thing. During the nineteenth century our wealth was multiplied 125 fold and la now estimated at ninety-five billion dollars which. If equally distributed, would give every man, woman and child in the republic $1,200: but there's the rub, for while a few are rich beyond the dreams of ararlce, many have not the wherewithal to cloth and feed themselves. One of the crowning glories of tha statecraft, philosophy and humanltari anlsm of the twentieth ceftturv will I am fain t6 hope, be the discovery of somo plan whereby every man tana every woman, too) shall enjoy me usurruci or his own labor and which will prevent one greedy man from becoming the beneficiary of the toll, energy, talents and sweat of many men. women and children. It is a consummation devoutly to be wisneo. Indeed, we can already see signs of i ne solution or this vast and Intricate problem in the experiments being maan in me co-operative plan of dle- irinution or profits among employers and their employes as well aa In the various pension systems being laugu rated by soms of the great railroad companies. Blessed forever be the name or the man who establishes aoiaing peace and exact lustica be. tween labor and capital, which should oe not enemies but friends. ii in tnis century our aggregate wealth Increases at the rate of the nineteenth, it will amount to eight trillion, five hundred billion dollars ior me comprehension of which atu pendous sum the mathematical mwui k- . l . . aw ui me numan mina are utterly un equal. . In 1100 we Imported almost every thing we used even bricks which couki not bo produced by farmera, iow we are competing for every ape ciea or trade known among men In every country under heaven. Within tne last rew years we have achieved ai a pront the performance of or rylng coals to Newcastle, and tha ax pectatlon Is not too fanciful for en tertainment that before the end of the century America will be the com mercial mlstreas of the world. Free snips would give us that nroud and prontablo position In the next twenty years. Into romance until they have almost rrowded out of human remembrance tha patriotic words and deeds of ev erybody else and of cverv other por- iion oi inn iiepurinc. rtw nngiand never naa any monopoly on brains snd Xenophon by writing the histor ies themselves." Here Is the suggestive sequel to those remarks. They were read by a whnlnrly denizen of Cambridge. Mas sachusetts, the seat of Harvard Unl- ratnotlsm, or heroism. What she has verslty. and he wrote me to loarn nag in large degree is a monopoly Oen. Doniphan a subesquent career, on the making of books, which by (curtesy am called histories and bl- OKraphlea. Hir Walter Scott said that "a wa. man has said: 'Let me I made as full answer as possible. He then wrote me that the realm of hla Ural letter was that he had concluded to prepare a paper on "Doniphan's write tha aongs of a country, and f ! Kxpediiion." to be read before some rare not who writes the laws'" Hla (learned society 0f Boston and that Idea also extends to the writing of .when he announced his subject many -what purports to be histories and Id- I supposed It to be an expedition to the ographlea. These fix the opinions of North Pole a striking Illustration. tha youth of succeeding aeneratlon. and finally the statements contained therein are accepted as the truth. If Mr Walter Raleigh had planted tne nrsi wnue colony in Massachu setts Iruttead of In North Carolina. If the first white child ", born In the western world had looked forth upon the stern and rock-bound couat of New Kng land Instead of tinder tha aunny sklea of the Old North Mtate, If the Meck lenburg Depuration bad been made In Kb county. Massachusetts, and If th bsttWe of King's Mountain. Guilford Court House and Cowpens had been fought In New England, In sd tif the Carolina, tha "world vould have scarcely contained tha 1 ooks written about them by New I r gland sorites. These momentous rviii, thejsa splendid (eats of rms, would hava stirred the hearts and fred the Imaginations-of historians. 1 i "Sphere... es saylsta. . orator. : noeta sud aiisia unit! tha . world Knevr certainly of the way our great men are oemg kin. a by the rule of ex clusion." THK UNITED STATES IN THE 20TH CENTURY. I am always delighted to respond to the sentiment "The United Hlatea of America In (he :oth Century." It makes a man a better citlaen to apeak or even think of his country. The sentence. "1 am an Xmertcan." ' has greater potency than the famous "Ilo m,n.u.?. ""?.'! '0",M,d .when tha Seven-Hilled City was in the plentltude of her Imperial power. Rome doml ruled the earth when Mne-tentha of Its population were untutored savages Ajnerlta leadg the van In tha world's age of highest development and In tensest activity. if yhen..1 WM t4nt at Kentucky University, one of my teacher waa Prof. Joseph Desha Pickett. 'a Vtr. Irtnla gentleman of tha old school, who aould haya -given - potnttrt -to. Lord Cheaterneld poHtenaM , and mad Then will be realised tha gorgeous (ireatn or a great poet When ha said: "For I dipt Into the future, far aa hu man eye could see. flaw the vision of the world, and all the wonoer mat would be; Baw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of mnglo, sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping uown wun costly naies." In 1(00 our territory waa circum scribed by tha Atlantic on the east. tha Mississippi on tha west, tha Great Lakes on the north, and tha Florldas on the Houth. Now It extends from tha sunrise aide of Porto Illco on the east to the Lord only know where In tha west. Long before tha twentieth century closes our flag will float In triumph from the Hlo Grand oa the south to tha frosen ocean on the north, for we are destined to own ev ery foot of tha British North Ameri can possessions in lea than, fifty years. In 1100 we numbered sixteen States. Now we have forty-five. A century hence, w will number fifty odd, even if w do not permanently annex the Philippines. (Should wa do that preposterous thing which Ood forbid! wa will have 1.880 or .O60 or t.filO States, owing to whether there are 1,800, or 1,000 or 1.100 of those Island. One of tha mystifying anomalies of tha present situation I that no man can guess except by ac cident within 100 of the number of those Islands or within 1,000,000 of the Dumber of people whom we are en deavoring (o assimilate- on the ana, conda plan. '' ,- Truth to tall, If no antidote la dis covered for our omnlveroua appattta for land and -people,, long before thla - young, century . Is old - w wilt ba In ' the condi tion of. tha Macedonian when drunk With both win and victory. In wapt because there wer ma mora world' to conquer. May wa have a happier ana 'than thla!. . y,, , . , , .. y . , ', A FEEBLE FOLK IN 1100. " Iii 1100' w wara a feeble folk fourth-rate power Insignificant ; In tha world's plans and calculation. Now we atand la- the front rank of nation and there la not sovereign or premier In Europe who la not lying; awske of night inducing Insomnia by pestering .Jala braliv to discover, what wa will conclude to do next, v Axtn tury hence. America will be easily first and 6ther nation scrambling among themselves for second place, Uncle Sam has taken the center of tha world's stag and for waal or woa ahall hold It till tha earth shall petisn aa a scroll. Parenthetically, I wish ta remark that thoaa hilarious and palpitating; patriots who go about asseverating that the Spanish war made u a world power, are precisely one hundred and three yeara. behind the times, for wa became a world power on April 10. IS OS, when Thomas Jefferson bought from Napoleon for a song tha Loulsl ana Territory which was tha greatest real estate transaction proposed since the devil took tha Savior to tha top of. a high mountain and offered Him the dominion of the world to fall down and worahlo htm. GROWTH IN LITERATURE. In 1100 wo had no literature worthy of the name. Easily within tha mem ory of man now living It wa sneer Ingly said: "Who reads an American book?" . Within the last twenty-five years there have been sold in Europe more coplea of General Grant' Me moir, of Jefferson Davis Rise and Fall ot the Confederacy, and of Blaine's Twenty Years of ' Congress than of any current historical work by any European. Mark Twain, Arte mus Ward, Bret Harte, Longfellow. Poe, Hawthorn. Cooper and Emerson nave become English classics. All of our leading tnagastnes and The New York Herald publish Euro pean editions for the special delec tation of Johnnie Bull and tha Pari sians which facta very satisfactorily answer the question: "Who reads an American book?" ; It 1 not too much to hop that before the twenty-first century Is ush ered In, Boston, New York, Washington Philadelphia. Baltimore or St. Louis will by common consent ba regarded aa the literary center of the world. In his most valuable and remark able book. Buckle says: "Leisure Is a condition precedent to philosophic research and literary excellence, and accumulated wealth Is a condition precedent to leisure." America has th accumulated wealth snd the Others follow. in 1100 a majority of our people could not read or write. In 1100 tha Illiterate numbered scarcely ten per cent, of the white population. In the year 2000 there should not be an adult within the broad confines of the re public not blessed with a knowledge of at least the rudiments of an edu cation. In 1100 there were only about a doxen colleges In America and they were almost without exception In dan ger of dying from Inanition. Now more then three-quarters of a million of ambitious youths sre fitting them selves for the duties of cltixenshlp st 600 well equipped universities and col leges, to say nothing of high class academies. I myself have lectured to an audience composed entirely of tha students and professors of one uni versity larger In numbers than tho army with which Sam Houston achiev ed the Independence of Texas at San Jacinto. The wish desrest to the heart of Henry the Fourth, the greatest of tha Bourbon Kings, was that tha French people might be so prosperous that every Frenchman could have meat for hla Christmas dinner. That eeems a small boon to us meat-eaters. If I had one prayer for the American people which could ba answered, and only one, It would be that every cltl sen should possess at least eufflclent education to read hla ballot intelli gently and enough courage on election day to cast It si becomes a free man, despite all the bosses, nleoleadera, or whlp-crackera in the land. PREACHERS PLENTIFUL AS CAN DIDATES. In 1800 churches were Ilka angels' visits, few and far between. The coming of a preacher Into most com munities was the event of the season. sometimes of the year. Now preach era sre plentiful aa Democratic ran dldates In a Mecklenburg county pri mary and the average American ciu sen lives within three miles of a place of worship; a matter of congratula tion, for King Solomon says: "Right eousness exslteth a nation: but aln la a reproach to any people." That portion of the Scripture which ha Kppealed most powerfully to my heart and my Imagination by reason of Its comprehensiveness la ths commission to the Apostles: "Qd y Into all the world and preach tha Gospel to every creature." Th signs of th times In dtcate that the glory of literally ful rilling that command will ba earned In this century by America and Atner cans, a rouptry and a people unknown to St. Paul, th prince of preacher and of pioneers, These are a few thing w have ao compllihed In tha nineteenth century with some thing which w may ac compllshed in th twentieth. Action- progress Is th inexorable law of life, I say with Tennyson: when we all get the blue at once. It appear that tha "little eeason". for which ths devil Is 'to ba turned loose la right upon us - The triumphal car of human progress Jolts us occasion ally till our teeth rattle. " Sometime when unskilled hands get hold of tho engine, we have horrible head-end and rear-end collisions tha. train Jumps tha track and plump wa go Into th. Slough of Despond. , , ' But" Amerlcsns were never mad to stay In that wretched hole.' They ara constitutionally a race of Mark Tap ley.." They soon pull themselves to gether, scrspe tha mtre OfT ther clothes and go on their wy rejoicing. V' " some observers mistake tha spirit of unrest now and then annarent as a sign of dlrw calamities. That Is not necessarily, not even probably, true. Man never la. but alwava to ba bleeeed" especially-. the American man. . Put trim in a car going M mile an hour and ha grumble because It doe not go 90. . Ram tha typical American Into a cannon at Kn York, hoot him. to Ban Francisco In thre seconds, and ba will complain that tha powder we not good or h would hav mad th trip In less time. But this dissatisfaction with tha condition of things In th opening days of th twentieth century augers well for im provement. . Discontent leads to ac tion and action find It fruition in progress. People ara prone to look back , to a golden age, but a for my single self. I prefer th comfort and luxuries of to-day to tha hardships- and scantl-, neas of yesterday. , . - . ABIDING FAITH IN THE PEOPLE. It goea without saying that I am not- enamored of cerUin theories now. propagated In this country.' Some I - regard aa Idiotic; other, a criminal; still others -as utterly ruinous If en acted Into law and adopted aa a per manent policy; but. I hate an abiding faith in th' ultimate good sense of th American people. In their unfail ing patriotism, their invincible cour age, their perfect honesty, their trs- ' dltlonal conservatism and their capao- . Ity to take cara ot themselves at all time, in all place, and under all. circumstances. Consequently I hav ' no fear that tha fallacious and seduc tive theories now bruited will ba ac cepted aa their settled creed. It sorely must ba that If 1.000.000- ragged backwoodsmen had th valor, , wisaom. rorutuae. skill, patriotism and self-abnegation to establish free dom, 10,000,000 of their descendants, tha very flower of the human race, with a continent for their horn and tha resources of a continent ta com mand, after enjoying the blessing of liberty lor 1 10 years, .possess the abli Ity and tha good sense to maintain them for themselves and to transmit them unimpaired to his posterity. When I look Into the faces of my children my heart swells with Ineffa ble pride to think that they are cltlsena or this mighty republic, and and Indi visible, built not for a day, but for all time and destined, under God. to be an unfailing well-spring of Inspiration to all mankind-forever and ever. In the noble words of Lafayette's prayer: "May this Immense temple of freedom ever stand a Iqsson to op pressors, an example to tha oppressed, a sanctuary for the rights of man kind; and may these happy United Sfates attain that complete splendor and prosperity which will Illustrate the blessings of their government and for sges to come rejoice the de parted souls of Its founders." "Our fathers' Ood! from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand. We meet to-day, united free. And loyal to our land and Thee, To thank Thee for the era done. And truat Thee for the opening one. r Oh Thou us, through centuries make long. In peace secure. In justice strong; Around our gift of freedom draw The safeguard of Thy righteous law; And, cast in some diviner mould. Let the new cycle shame the old!" v v. . "b-. ) no w-m Scents 7 'Tava'jipt Aimet of th .eotkMnin, snd other tlx them -thla h Hn Ugh! which half a million Voman ' l . - Horn Compsnkxt btnUi sr pledged. Art you doing 'your pn?Th Juno umber show you how, thowt you actual pnotofiphi of Infant tatttn, thowa you th evil of Qua Slavtry, nd five you your chine to nv st least on chili ' -i EDWARD EVERETT HALE- costrioeejSM Altaians) number i etdsry dIMnat snick a Tb Cerntom ii To-efy. "boss the Wests Out hmi Ddwferr Vast Girt Com Caraptnc; MeaMriw tf s Park) DrasisM. sr. fry Vases Thorn psos gad hvshr practical departments. y Mrs, Sanpttr. Mlaa GoaM, Mrs, Kichsrdaoe sni Mrs, Paraasr SB the and steny otbtra roan est s strong. . ;, THB CROVEU PUBLISHING CO, Niw Tomt : We want las right kins ef rtpraaawtSa ta wary cosiaissty. sad a pay dusi yaH. VICTORY COTTON MILK "Not In vnln the distance beacons: Forward, forward, let us range: t the great world spin forever Down th ringing grooves of chants! Through the ahadows of the globe we sweep into the younger aay: Better fifty years of Kurope Than a cycle of Cathay." Had the great poet lived to-day In th United Htatea I hav no doubt that h would have declared that a dosen years of America la better than a cen tury of Kurope. OKKAT PltlVILEOlO TO LIVE NOW It was a great privilege to live In th nineteenth century. It I a great r to live In tha twentieth- which. notwithstanding tha lugubrious howl of th pessimists, I bellev will prov better than any or It predecessors, I am an optimist and tha gospel I preach Is the gospel ef high hops and high endeavor. Better to look upon th bright aid of thing than upon ths dark. A Jubilate la mora pleasant mualo than a miserere. - In spit or tha lugubrious prophet of evil, I believe' that th world la grow ing better. Oeralnly It ought to. If It la not, our Christian civilisation and our much vauntad - aduratlonal sys tems ars flat and ignomlaloue failures; and as for mi and my household, wa refuse to accept any auch absurd con clusions. In the few year In which w hav dwelt In America w hav really lived longer than tha ant-de-luvlans who plumed themaelve upon their length of day. It I my solemn conviction that wa ara better people, for we hav not all been drowned for slna against our Creator. Wa ars old. sr than Methuselah, for "Wa llv In dead, not year;- ta thoughts., not breath; In feeling, not In. figure on dial. 1 wa should count - tima by heart throbs. He most lives who think most, faela tha noblest, act th best." ', r.. S . If I eoutd find It In my heart in an vy my children anything, It would ba that they will not ba past tbalr meri dian in th middl ef th twentieth century, whan America , will, domi nate th world. - - Wa hav not attained perfection yet, Utopia (a an undiscovered country. The millennium ie etllt out of sight in th distant future.' 'One in wall Company With $323,000 Capital Organises at Famteville to Manu facture Cotton Goods Veterans to IjijoT Hospitality of Country Home i Irlnt Mills to be Built Personal y and News Notes. Correspondence of The Observer. Fsyettevllle. May 22. Hon. J. O. Shaw, ex-member of Congress, through Commander O. M. Rose, of Csmp No. 1(2, United Confederate Veterans, has extended. an invitation to all tha old southern soldiers In the county to enjoy the hospitality of his country home, "Summer Time," on Hybart'a hill, Saturday, June Bth, the anniversary of the battle of Bethel coming on Sunday. June 10th, which Is celebrated svsry year by the sur viving members of Compsnlss F snd H. of tha famoua First North Caro lina Regiment on Yorktown Penln sula. Special services of interesting character were held In three of th churches ef the city Sunday. It waa farewell day In the First Baptist church, the pastor. Rev. Dr. J. J, Hall, preaching eloquently the last sermon In ths old building, which workmen ara tearing down thla week to make way for tho handsome new church. In tha afternoon Dr. Hall baptised nine person at Mill branch, north of town, about 1.000 neonl witnessing the rite. In the evening there were nower services, in which th children carried out th pro gramme with all honor to them aelve, having bean trained by Miss Kate Matthews, assisted by Mrs. B. F. Reasley, and Mis Grace Ba scorn at the organ. Tha exercises closed with short talks by many of tho mem bers aa to the past and future of tha church. The Independent Light Infsntry Battalion attended . the morning ser vice at St. John's Episcopal church, where; the chaplain of the command and rector of tha church. Ilev. I. W, Hughes, delivered tha annual sermon to tha soldiers, a classic in subject matter and again In diction and de livery. The Instrumental and vocal elections were vary fine. it waa children's day at the Hay Street .Methodist church, where they rendered a fin programme of songs and recitals, the pastor. Rev. D. H Tuttle. delivering a brief but able ad dress. It m also tha elghty-eeventh anniversary of tha Sunday school. th officer submitting . their reports. a nieaaaftt; feature of the occasion waa tha nrsssntatlon of two nieces of ailvcr service to miss rannie McLean, organist of tha Sunday school for sev eral yeara At night Prof. Wilcox de. Ilvered an address on temperance, tha first of a series to and next Fri day evening. . , . An alarm of fire early Sunday afternoon sent tha hose wagons to a bias on tha roof of the-dwelling of LETTER TO P. W. 81IUMAK BRO&, ...;,: . Charlotte, .. v. Dear Sir: If It took 19 gallon to oalnt your nous . taat time with somebody, else's paint, and takes I with Devoe, w save you M or no; for nalntlng cost two or tbr time aa mucrs-ae-palnC -VJ i ' " ' Mr Kara Katnmen, winismsport. Pa. always used 11 gallons of mixed paint for his house; Devoe took a. BUI tnat fan an; mars opiy nrst cost: how long win it wear? Th paint, that goes runnsi m covering, wear bt too.-' All paint, true paint, and - full measure, ar en one aid: part paint, false oalnt. and ehort-meaur . are on th othr, What can you expect T 1 v vYour truiy --"'- 21 f ; JU'- n " ,r, W PEVOK A CO F. 8. ' .Tryon Drug Co, sslls our paint. Mr. W. H. Banco m on Raeford Lane. The fire wa extinguished, with little damage to the property. Prof. J. A. McArthur, principal of Lowell High School, in Gaston county. Sunday conducted the services at Sunnyslda Presbyterian church, on the east side of Cape Fear. In the absence of the pastor. Rev. V. O. Smith, who Is attending the General Assembly at Greenville. 8. C. Mr. Charles Cayle. head clerk of the Hotel Lafayette, who so success fully managed tha Hotel Tarrymore, at Wrightsvllle last aeason, takea the same position this year, and left for Wrightsvllle on 8unday evening. Mr. Holmes, who hss already efficiently served In that capacity; Is again at the Hotel Lafayette clerks desk. In the absence of Mr. Cayle. Mr. B. F. Huske, who for two years has been a teacher at Christ School, Arden, N. C. has gone to the Uni versity of tha South, at Sawanee. Tenn. - Mr si N. B. Alexander and daugh ters. Misses Msmte and Norrls,-have returned from a visit to friends In South Carolina. Mrs. M. B. Smith. ! after visits to friends and relatives in Charlote and Rockingham, has- re turned to her home on Haymount. Last evening Cross Creek Lodge No. 4. I. O. O. F., went through work In the first degree,, and Mr. E. J. Ken nedy, representative of the Grand Lodge, made a report of his attend ance on that body. The Victory Manufacturing Com pany for tha making of cotton goods, made up of Northern and local capitalists, with capital of I225.O00 was organised here yesterday after noon, with officers and directors as follows: President, Dr. H. W. Lilly, president of the Bank of Fsyettevllle; vice president. Adsm Caterall, New York; secretary and treasurer, F. M. Cook. New York: manager. W. D. McNeill. FsyetteYllle; directors. A. Caterall. F. M. Cook, J. Thorp. E. Davis, N. B. Caterall. A. D. Davis. New York; -W. D. McNeill. H. L,ut terloh. H. W. Lilly. F. H. Cotton. J. V. McOorgan. Fsyettevllle. It Is the Intention of the Northern capitalists to build also extenalva print mills, whloh will be Independ ent of the Victory Company except as purchaser of It output An Ideal stte haa been chosen in the south western outskirts of the city, and both factorlea will be run by elec tricity from the Cape Fear Power Company. The Northern men look ed over tha ground at many place in tne soutn. out xouna none present ing so many' advantagee as Fayette- vliis. - The corespondent has . received a letter from Dr. J. F. HIghsmlth, proprietor of the HIghsmlth Hospital, now In Europe, speaking of tho bene fit and pleasure derived from visits to ths great hospitals ot the old world, and of tha courteous treatment of the. professors. At the time of writing he had Just met tha famous Dr. Raska. a high authority on eur- gery and clinics. ' Mrs. Lula Tray McDonald and Mr, McDonald, ot Raleigh, and Mr. Rob ert Tray, of Atlanta, arrived laat vening to visit their parent. Mr. and Mr. W. C. Try, on Haymount, the occasion being their "golden wed ding," or fiftieth marriage anniver sary. Cards have been issued announcing the marriage, on the th of June, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Shepherd. Sanford. N. .C. of Mr. J. A. Carlyle and Miss Hsttle fDavlq Calais, recently of this clty.V Pale Delicate Women snd Girls. ; The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic drives out malaria . and builds up the system. 8old by all dealers for 27 years. Price SO cents. Maurer's 71 Rat-and t Roach-Paste. attracts three vermis by ita odor; they eat it and die instantlv. MAIKER'H I UK EOT TO WD Ml b sere death to bedbugs, anta, fleas, mot ha. Bold onlvln boMI. At all drugctttV ar HOLLISTER'9 Rocky Uounfsin Tea Huggef $ A Buay Mediclss for Biy feopi. ? Snag Oeldas Haaltk an Reese Vtaw. A specific for Constipation. Indigestion, Liver and Kidney troubles. Htnplea, Ecaema. Impure Blood. Bad Breath. SlurgUh Bowels. Headache and Baek ache. It Bock y Mountala Teals tab lea torn. B eenis a box. Genuine made by HotxisTgs Datoa Compamt. Madison, Wla bolder Nimcrrs fo u low people B. H. JORDAN. Odkv . .'. II . 1. .-.': ' MttleDoctor v knows ;. t all about Liver vCom. " . " ' plainti. ; He sain there, , no reason to bo-iick.. ' " rouse 4he Xiver; build5 tipi your system with -I '2 Ramon's Liver Pills and " " .Tonic Pellets..a; sure, ssfe and swift cure, 23c for Complete Treatment. J v w: r iusn Vcb?:i'' 3XO. U. SCOTT e CX h Rates via S.LL Ry. NASHVILLE. TENtt.-Peabody College Summer Schools for Teachers, Van V derbllt Biblical Institute, June lltll August loth, one flrst-claaa fare plus 26a. for round trip .. . TUSCALOOSA. ALA. Summer 1 Soheot for Teachers, June 13tb-Ju!f ' 14th, rate one first -class fare plus aVx round trip- , , . . . ATHENtf. OA Uatveralty Bummer School, June wtn-july I7th, one first clan fare lus 36c . for round trirv SAN KBANCIBrO, CAU; LOS AN- OELGs, ual. National Education al Association, July Ith-Hth,- from Raleigh $77.60. Wilmington I7I.U. Charlotte I77.M, ' eorraapondlng low wm.w ii"ih "1'ivi jv:um ... a . . 1IONTBAOLD. TENN faonteag. Sttn . day School Institute. July Uth-Ao- f ust tth, one flrst-claaa fare plus Sao. or round trio. . . . . MONTEAOLB, f ENN.-Monteagle Blot Training School July Bnd-Uafa eae flrst-claaa fare plus So. for round trip. MONTEAOLB, THINN. Woman's V Coa- grass. July aothAuayt 50th, an flrst-ctsss fare plus 2So round trtn. BIRMINGHAM. ALA.-ddoorei Confer , ence M. E. Church, Bouth. Blrmlng - ham, Ala., May Ird-June 1st. Kate : f i' to be announced later. ", ... HAMPTON, . VA.-.Deoarttnant flnesmp. i ment of Va. and North Carolina , j. . Orand Army of the Republic, April mii-yth, oertiflrate plait rates. " RICHMOND, VA.-Vlrginla Funeral Tl- , rectors' Association, May Uth-llth. certifies te clan rates. . ... vTARREN PLAINS, . J. CVNortV Car ollna 'Conference Women's Foreign Missionary Society. Warrenton, ( K. C May 2nd-7tli. ! School, June 15th-rlst, rate ons first, class fare Plus ZSo. round trip. , ; i For further Information as to rate " from your city, time tables. snh)i,j - .to.. cU on your nearest .gent ad- ' uresa, nun, on., v,. r, A "Chsrlotte, N. C." . H. OATTI9.. Traveling Passenger Agent.' 4; , KSlSlrN.J O, ; C. F. RTAN. J oenerai passenger Afant, Portsmouth. Va. , SPEOAL RATES JO Rslelf h, N. ' C and return account ef TX."tj. Bummer Bcliool and Tearhara' Assembly, June-July vis Seaboard Alr Une Railway, v.; - Account ef the Teachera' AfeMml,T' ' Raleigh. N. C. June Uth-Uth. tha Bnal board will sell round trip tickets from all Jiotnts lu North Carolina, Including Nor- " oik, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Boyktns, Val ot rate of one first class fare plus tAc , ' plus 1100 for round trip, the tzto being for membership fee. Tickets sold June llth-44th with final return limit of June llth. fly deposit of ticket with Special AeenL Raleigh. N. C. on or before j.m. lath) and payment of fee of fifty rrnts, am can be extended Until July .llh. al- ' lowing those ao desiring to remain over ' to the Bummer School. :.y Account of the Summsv Rehnnl. Iol. elgh, N. C. June Kttt-July Ith, Seaboard win aen -fnna inp iivaeis a rate ef oun fare Plus JSo, for round trio, f n,m ssitv .- points aa will apply for tha Teaehera' A a. ' aembly with eight selling datea, June 16th. Kth, IRth. lath. 26th and anth. mnA July fnd and Ird, with, final return limit July 7th. Kof rates, time-taiis, etc., address, ', ' ..- . - i n". ii. UAina, : V , traveling ressenger Agsnt. . JAS. KER. JR., C. P-vA..,,, ..:-:,:., ;!,:; uoarioue. n. i;. 'IT - 'J ' "J".','," ';i:'-
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