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Aa aged couple whose lives had nan s uralloi for nearly 50 years as mem bers of the same church one day met on the, rars In the course ol.thocon vi-rsaf inn ihfi old a-entlemtn said, "I see than Mr. ScriKsr has had bis divin ity doctored." Sprigg had been, their former pastor and had received me honorary degree of doctor of divinity. The old lady reflected for a few mo menu and then replied, "Well, I think his divinity needed doctoring:." ; ' Though the "reply' of this old lady may proyoke a imlle, It contains a volume' of thought. From the increas ing number of doctorates .promiscu ously distributed year after year by the college and . universities; one woiild naturally Infer thai the divin ity of a considerable number is palpa bly lck and in need of doctoring, and that th custodians of, divinity more or less ajrprehenslve lest it should be V come tainted and spoil feel constrain ed ito apply their antidote; J In the instance ofSprigg. who is here used aa a representative of a class whose number may be large or email, this old lady had patiently waited on - ,hl ministry for 10 years. For 10 years ' 4he Invariably quit the services of the . liord'i house with the Impression that - Sprigg divinity waa: Ill-effected.: It . Anuit to be in a debilifate'd ' condi tion and unless it should receive Im- mediate treatment It was doomed to a ' speedy death. At one time It would .bcome exceedingly thin and ; spread out for more than an hour over the ; entire realm of existence, and again - i ... 1 1 i . . - , ..W..I..1. and struggle to keep within so much . as the confine of JO minutes. But Sprigg was Influentially connected and -this was a guarantee that some thing would be done to overcome his natural deficiency or chronic Indo lence, and fceep up In appearance the prestige established by his relations. It waa certain that their influence would secure treatment by the univer sities. The method employed may be surmised. ' It was external and auper-' firlal. The universities conferred the .. doctorate upon Sprlggs, but It was not - a constitutional repair. eprlgg was the eame. Like Pygmalion" a'atue, lifeless .nd motionless as marble,, needed a soul and only God could frlve It. He ' was la himself a whole valley of dry bones very exceedingly' dry and only the Creator could breathe upon the . elaia and make them live. He was wanting In that essential for concen trated effort In Original Investigation are requisite to the life he wax trying to live and without which it must die. for the doof orate Is no more than , a galvanic, artificial treatment The d'x-torate will not take the place o the aid of the supernatural spirit and asnidtous soul eukure which la the very ra&an d etre of mtnlste- Bprigg. however, found the doctor ' at desirable., It may mean nothing u until 1 msrlt . Yktd it f rlomfr'ttihlA In miiph the same way chat a broadcloth suit , In desirable. A fine suit of clothes vlKToa ntiA finnafrlAMUthtA walirht with not a few people. And titles carry the day with the generality of mankind, :. at least for a time. A countryman visited a city and stopped at a leadLng ,vt register. He saw one signing hU name with the aufflx D . D.. and- an other with the suffix. L.L. D.. and he i elgned ills, adding R. F. p., little , thinking that K would be of' amy prac- tlcal assistance. The clerk, who was ' inexperienced in the service, looked at him In wonder, and, thinking that he waa. perhaps, a man of extraordinary wut the proprietor's instruction that ' eapecial attention be given gut'sts of llMt1nMnn The ilnflr.ruln tr I'no Ktirlfrcr ' the advantage of appearing well and i of appealing to the popular ttnte. It r is a good Introduction to society. It leaves the Impression of singular dis tinction which not lnfrequnfly elicits special courtesiles. One, therefore, would not think he were , cal proiriety or acting with too llttlfl conservatism, should he ndvu all of V the doctorate promlscuounly upon the ; clergy on the ground trfat it adds the, pleasing soclnl pIprtiTU. and gives Its possessor an exceptional Influence with the popular mind and thereby , ; contributes Indirectly to the -advance- , iinjim i nm iuigr ttwjHiiui oi re ligion. And yet on the other hand, this '. wholesale dispensation of ith doctor ate might lend to abus a good thing. It might prove very impracticable. It , might cheapen the standard of learn ing. Just now lit would seem that the tnlnlstry and Church are suffering ; f rom a too generous disposition of ... v ... ......w, ...... .(......mmiwi ,t ir, i-tf- sponnible for a set of conditions which afford tittle motive ito the exresslvo energy in the acquisition of profound - learning. In fact, thn conditions are v quite dlsnouraglnsr. Apart from one's own ambition to -acquire learning to become erudite and vcrwaitlK to stnnd t th front with the iiverng scholr, , there Is little enionrHgi-mcnt to be de- rived from the schools and from the ;4 mass of hearers which -wait upon one's ' public ministrations. Rprlgg Is the ! man of the day. A butterfly fellow, a rot water manufacturer, a bouquet extatnporiser who is actuated more hy policy than by deep conviction; he Is the Hon of the hour. He N t;e m4n usually honored wlnh the doctorate ,' Vf a class of schools whose chief end It would seem, is to confer degrees. ;Why fhey do It is n Inexplicable pro- rosltion,' except for the reason that Pprlgg divinity . needed doctoring. - Th TOiwt erudite of the ministry. h nwl kt.w'tent portion, the number that , Jlsr dolng u bstantia 1 work , a re n el t h la demand nor in the Mm light '. Their divinity needs no doctoring from extemporized methods; . ., , . ' Tbls'course of procedure Is a serl- us plunder. It means a faixe ideal of fcholarsliip. Tiif Influence of it must ba apparent; It is simple" dllettante iKm, Whenever culture become aeprfS , fd from the "dwp ; problem and truths, of 'religion and 'nwves wholly In the Aesthetic;; clroles of fashion it becojudiiahaHow, pretentious and Jn slncera. Moral- eameatness and depth A of thought disappear from the pulpit. in sermon s converted into a rose wafer essay, science into a rleir of striking, quotations, and evangelical udwiiiR ,mw pagan eintcav mnrcan ' mm-t,A . U.t.H. u ...... .' ..... ferenre followed, by , animosity ,and hoc ttllty toward the , well define iruiiia or srengtoBnuman ln , and naivation oy grace, i Hefe lie tha defct In clerical learning at presint. The aesthetic is outMrlpping the iphllosonhlc. The sr t'i-tle is running ahead or,th4 H'Jentlf, n. jtnfforic is aesiroying logic. Style, Instead of being the "puro and aus- anil ft truth and a lorlo that is r rcattr &ft4 grander than itself, -ft ex - v . 4 . IT- Ists for if self and by Itself." A pleas ing Impression is xtii object sought rather than either conversion or cnar acter building. The auditor is perhaps entertained but not sufficiently reason ed with outthe Scriptures. The ser mon lacka argument, the preaching Is a play and a display. By one too often showy and striking Instead of strong and virile. His divinity certainly needs doctoring, at some point. i ' The writer vividly recalls a visit to a cortafn watering resort a few sum mers ago. The entertainment afforded In the auditorium was on the whole instructive. It coflsls'.ed of addresses by men from different-walk. of life on various topics of interest. 1 a few days after , the writer's arrlyal fiprlgg turned up. It wda a abort time ai;er he Jxacl received his doctorate. His family ajid friends were much elated over the event, and through their in fluence, he .mAnaged to - get to tne front as one of the epeakers or tne Chautauqua. On the way to the audi torium the night he waa to epeak, his mother said, "Son. what are yoti go ing to talk about to-night"" He said, tI don't know, mother, but I will hatch up something." With a look of loving approval aa If aha thought smartness had reached fc flnlsh in him, th t'o passed on . in ellence. The audience was large and expec tant. Sprlgg" talk was amall and cheap. It showed neither learning nor preparation eyond surface indica tions, and yet his fluency of verbiage took not a few iby etorm. But It was singularly incompatible with what should be the production of doctor, and a serious minded person was In clined to think that lii his "sober mo ments ' Bprtggi. m uHt . have ; felt frrwr much as a petrolt foroker who went Into a' Wheat flit and came but shorn. A friend to whom he waa relating the story asked, "Were you a bull?" "No." "Were you a bear?" ; "No.Mr t'What were you thenT" "I was an ass, my friend, that It Is what I was." "Wheth er sprigg felt that he was an ass or not, one did feel' that his divinity was thin and vaporous and In need of doc torlng. . ; . v v,, ''.-v.::,;. t These and similar incidents give one an iijsig hf Into the character of the current scholarship. The learning out side of the ministry is almost .exclu sively economical and utilitarian. The sciences and arts are made the- mere handmaidens and tools of Industrial ism. The main Impulse here to acquire learlning Is the hope, of Its applica tion to some new economy of : the world's work which shall yield large financial returns. The learning of the ministry, for the most part, la showy, but not profound refined but not. per suasive, liberal but not accurate, or namental but not definite. The at mosphere, of the educated circles is high-toned and gaudy, .but not ' pro found nor argumentative, nor con-1 vlncing, nor etimulatlng. And this Is a serious deficiency. It Is a serious de fect In the ministry. Perhaps one ser vice which the higher criticism will render the Church will be to force upon it a ministry more profoundty learned and more skilled in the ant or dialectics. A wcaHh Increases, as knowledge advances, as Inventions multiply, as "the globe wheels - up more and more of Its dark aides to the eye of the philanthropist and Christ Ian, there will be required Something more substantial than extemporized boufluets, rose water csoays, and pleasing sermonettes. There will be the need of men with breadth ' of learning, simplicity of language, pow er of logic, who can give the living word with the living tonsw and beaming eye. . The trouble with, "ftprlgg la this: i the Gospel ministry Is more, a means than an end. It Is not the end for which he exlHta, he lives and strives, but a means toward an end. It Is u means to social standing, to coitsplclous position, to honorary dis tinctions, to whatever he can obtain by It. And from the Indlscroet distri bution of doctorates one would Infer that this is the difficulty with many Instltui ions. The education of the hu man mind Is not the end,' but t, means toward an end, ao that . what Dr. Johnson said of St Andrews' that It would bestow "dodtorstea" and get rich by "degrees," might be applica ble to more colleges than fit. Andrews, Dr. Johnson was Jesting1, but no doubt, many institutions do bestow "doctor ates" and gett rich by "degrees." In deed. It Is not unusual tosee some one honored with a title, and few days later to observe that some relative of the beneficiary has Increased the en dowment of the Institution so many thousand dollars. It would appear then that Hprlgg. with his Influential friends, has what Abraham Lincoln would call "a pull," and under such circumstances, the university with a few unbestowed doctoraftes docs not seriously object to being pulled;: but such am Institution like human sys tems and quack doctors will have Its day and pass away. v ; What a ravesty on learning'' Whalt a blow to real scholarship? Should one put to such schools the question wnicn a oyme put to a professor of Pnibrldge, "What do you manufac ture thre?" h would .not receive fche laconic answer "Power, but "Doctor ate." It would seem that the xo! lualinVatlou for a doctnrntn U an tn. 'Iowa: , .' ,-V 1st. An audarloiis use of words svm- phonloijsly uMered so aa to sound well 2d. Conspicuous succesa in fahrtc&u. ing Ingenious stories and entertaining anecdotes, and in maintaining a pleas Ing appearance. 8d. Marked ability 1h knowing how to pull the rirhtntrlng. " " ' " But such Institutions make a stand ard unto themselves, like the man who was asked if he understood French ana he said, "i do wjien I speak it myself" and the outcome la abeut a KKtisfactory to hose who alt two times one day in seven under the doctored oiviniiy a me distinction which a man made in the pronunciation of the word "either." over , which two men were disputing, one saying It was ee-ther, and the other 1-ther. .The man to whom It was referred was from Ireland, and he confounded both by saying, "It s nay-ther, for Its sye-ther." Kprlgg's divinity la nf such a-type thaft It is nay-ther, for It Is aye-ther. ' . , ; Put In all serlousnesa, the times de mand no slender discipline of , head and. hnn In tbe ministry . They re quire "most learned nd spiritual mind, a ministry full of evwngelicM Ideas and full of vital energies, the, eyes of she hawk and the fire there- In: the eyes of tha dove end th&Jove therein," The multitude will not leave the market place of commercialism. and the arena of Industrialism which Is -now engaging nd exacting their powers Unless another realm of vaster rolrtmnlty, and wealth and grandeur I? mrown own unon them. The afreet of Vanity' Fair will never.be deserted until eternity with all of Its terrors and- fDl'nflo'Tir Actually dawns ' Upon -i ,.t a ii... n of 1 f . ;ii)!.ir-i ship, nl master of the knowledge f the i!- trl.-,'-,i M Cliristia r, 1 v. In the early days o fthe State of Tennessee, there was a Presbyterian preacher named Gideon Blackburn, lie was poor. His father sera; him to srhool to Samuel Doak. Ho did not get such n education as poodle may set now. He was drilled, however. In science, phi losophy and theology, but ho murder ed the Queen's English. He would say "I done," for "I have- done,". "I brung" for "I brousrht." A critle and skeptic went to hear him 'and took wich him a tablet intending to take down Blackburn's mlstakea and pub lish them for the amusememt of the public "I brung" came out and the critic thought, "I have one." Present ly Blaek burn got into hla sermon and to the skeptic he seemed ilike a charger, confidently moving out' on his course, and then like a ship gal lantly spreading her sails to the wind, and then like and eagle soaring up ward far above mountain peak and cloud bank with his ye on the sun. When It was all over he waa asked If he had any criticism. He eaid "one might as well - try to criticize . the blooming rose or the crystal stream,' or the .- evening eunset fa Gideon Blackburn., Aside from hla blunders In English, Blackburn is a sample of one whose divinity needs no doctoring, because. It Is charred with the Ideas and doctrines of Christ and is most convincing and sweeping in Ita charge upon sin ana unbelief. Looked at from one point of view, the doctocate docs not feelong to Sprigg any more than to -any other minister, though he has Influence. Looked at in another llghit, it should he gratuuouely conferred . upon . no one, ibecauee it Is being abused and degraded into meanlnglesanesa. It should be given 1 conditionally -. and meritoriously, but as the ordinary lit erary degree Is bestowed. This . will eliminate Sprigg for Che roll of honor unless be is capable of making some sounding, as well as roving over all me oceanic expanse," and It win in clude the man who appreciated learn ing, and who is ambitious to carry the truths of Christianity, so faras they depend upon the power '.of , human learning and discipline, to the farther est extreme of Indifference and Ignor ance growing out 6t false systems of belief. Like a cavalry or an Infantry, the college university ught to have a Just and proper esprit de corps which is born of - high traditions, is fed by unselfish and Impartial acts and ends. and le fruitful of noble services, and conducive to the highest scholarship to the full extent of Its influence, throught its alumni. . -JtEV. R. L. BEXN. Pastor Ftrat; Presbyterian Church Trenton, Tenn. DAILY PROGRAMME AT -JAMESTOWN SHOW. MONDAY, JULY ?2D, Elks day.' - , Conventions meeting. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Audi torium room 8, 16 to I. ;30 -Guard mount, '23d Infantry, 8 -Gates open. to 9 Drill 23d Infantry. 10 And hourly thereafter Exhibition oi weatner Dureau, , Earthquake Recorder, Gov. Build ing A. 10 Special Exhibition by the Flsk Jubilee Singers at , the 'Negro Building. 10:30 to 12:30--Mexican National Band Concert Reviewing Stand, 11- Preparation of large weather map from reports from all sections of the country, Gov. Building A. ' ll-Organ Recital. William Wall Whlddit Auditorium. ' ll-"Aleohol and Tuberculosis" Stere-f optlcan E. G. Routzahn Social Economy Lecture Hall. 1 Biographic and Stereoptican Exhi bition, Scenes on Indian Reserva tion with lecture. Interior Dept., Gov. Building A. 1:30 to 2:30 Piano Recital, Mr. Jos eph Maer, Auditorium. 2 Biographic Exhibition and lecture, Scenes In Tosemlte Valley, Gov, Building A. , -Lecture on Aerial-Navigation, Mr. Ludlow and Capt. Lovelace, Aero nautic Building, ' ;. l:'80 to 4f30 Phlnney's United States Band.;- v 2:30 United States Life Saving Ser vice Drill at Statton., Illustrated lecture, "Reclaiming the Desert," by Mr. j; C. Watts, U. 8. R. S., Interior Dept. Gov. Budd ing A. ' .. 3 Special Exhibition by the Flsk Ju bilee Singers at the Negro.Bulld-. 8 "Why the Negro la Susceptibl? to Tuberculosis" stereoptlcon So cial Economy liall, ' 4 Illustrated lecture, "Yellowstone National Park" by Mr. E. C. CuIt ver, Interior Dept., Gov. Bolldlng -Dress Parade, "3d Infantry. 1 5 Lecture on aerial navigation, Mr. . Ludlow and Capt Lovelace, Aero nautic Building. . ' 5:30 to 6:30-MexIcan NaJ-al Band Concert, Reviewing efkJt t -Drill by 12th U. 8. Cavalry. ' 'i- Drill Battery "D" 3d Regt..' Field Artillery.. .. ' -Phlnney's United States Band Con ccrt, Auditorium: 8 Fireworks,- -. 11 Wat Path Closes. . BIG BATCH OF PRISONERS, Woven Stveiles Being Held, to Testify Uf a i"ionaite tase at Green vIUa. Which Is Attrnrtlnx Considerable Interest. ' Ineelal to -The Observer, . --t .-" lClnston, July 20. .Mr. R. Hyman. deputy sheriff, of Pitt county,, and Mr. J. K. Brock, deputy United Htates marshal, brought a crowd 'of eleven prisoners to Klnston this morning ahd lodged them in jail for dinner. They were . carried to neaurort this after noon where they wilt be lodged In Jail until a apeolal. term- of the Federal rourt to be held there on the 6th of August. It Is learned that the prisoners are Swedes that are being held as witness rs in the case of the United States va E, A. Kline In default of appear ance bonds.' Mr. Kline, a contractor on the constrnctlon of the Norfolk ft Southern Railroad hear Greenville. procured a lot of Swede Immigrants from a bureau In New York and paid passage for tnem to mme to North Carolina. These Swedes grew tired of the Job and left whereupon Mr. Kline Indicted them under the Uxaei! act. They were lodged in Jail In Greenville until they agreed to go V back to work. Then the United States commis sioner indicted Kline for peonage and held the witnesses for court Judge Purnell set a special term to. be held at Beaufort August th and ordered the witnesses to be sent there to Jail. The, case is attracting considerable In terest and seems to have reached some importance. District Attorney Skinner will be assisted In th prosecution y one or the attorney rrom the Attorney I r. ; i i " : " ,, With I'iO Oo.s ' - ' 'i; - i to l"re;f. 1: im::;on ?:::' l n 1,; t,ior i i J-nty for the TSiii-ty f KU-hniond-- and Wit-lUii;.-tuii. , - . Written Tor The Observer. - I read with much Interest Alexander- Hume Ford's article on the Lost Colony , of .Roanoke Island, contributed to Appteton's Magazine, and reprinted in The Charlotte Ob server of Sunday, July 7th. I have ventured to write on this .interesting subject In articles to the prees, and two years ago I had the honor of submitting my views, by Invitation before the North Carolina Society in Richmond, Va- As I waa ill in the hospital on the day appointed, the address, which I was to have deliv ered before the society, was read by the distinguished surgeon and phy sician, Dr. J. Allison Hodges. ' Along with - Ford, Weeks, Connor, McMillan, Olds and others who have devoted "thought and study to 4hls remarkable romance of history,! I be lieve, that the Croatans of Robeson county are .. the . remnant of the composite tribe made up of the Hat ents Indians and the English colonists- of Governor White. But one arrives at this , belief by inductive reasoning, and the evidence Is main ly clroumstanttal. Nothing, In all tha research (Which I have bestowed on this matter has so fortified my belief ,ln the remarkable . origin of the RoTbeson county Croatans as the Implied acceptance, of the theory by the illustrious historian, : Bancroft, which the readers of The Observer will pardon me for reproducing' here: "More than another year elapsed before White could, return to search for hja' lost colony and his daugh ter; and then the Island of Roanoke waa a desert ... An inscription on the bark' of a tree pointed , to Croatan; but the season of the year and the danger from storms ; wera pleaded as an excuse for an ''Immediate re turn. ; Had the s emigrants already perished, ' or had they escaped with their lives -to Croatan, and. "through i the friendship of Manteo, " become familiar t with the ;- Indians f-'j The , conjecture has been hazarded that the deserted colony, neglected by their-countrymen, were hospitably adopted Into the tribe of Hatteras Indiana, and "became amalgamated with the sons of the iforest ; This was the tradition of the native at a later day, and it was thought to be confirmed by the i physlcalcharacter of the tribe, In which the : English and the Indian races seem to 'have been blenfied.. Raleigh long .- char tahed the hope of discovering some vestiges of their 'existence; and, though he had abandoned the hope of - colonizing Virginia, he yet eent at his own charge, it la said, and at five several times, .to' search for, his liegemen, t But It waa all In vain; Imagination . received no help In , Its attempts to trace the fate , of the colony of Roanoke.' ; ' In one of the "North Carolina Day Exercises," prepared and - published by the scholarly Professor Connor, ls the sketch. "Virginia Dare,".in which 1-oBcur the following paragraphs: "By the Indians Eleanor Dare, the first mother of the white race known to them, is said to have been called, in their figurative and descriptive way, The White Doe,',, and her baby, the little Virginia, the first white lnt fatrt they had ever seen. 'The White Fawn;' and there Is a pretty tradi tion that 'after her deathljer spirit assumed that f6rm an, elfin fawn which, clad in . immortal beauty, would at times be" eeen haunting like a tender memory the place of her birth, or gaslng wistfully over" the sea, as with pathetic yearning for the far-away .Mother Land.' . "The colonists had evi dently gone to Croatan, as we now ,have the word, the home of Manteo, the friendly chief, but none ot tnem wag ever seen of white men again. They 'died and made no sign;' though It is probable that ' their descendants may still be found among.the Croa tan, or more properly,; Hatteras In dians of Ytbbesoh county," ' William Strachey.yn his "History of . Travalle,", says: '.VAt Ritano the Weroance Eyanoca' preserved seven of the English - alive fower men, two boys and one young mayde vho escaped the massacre,, and fled ; up the-river'Chanokei,'-- 'wv-v The ""Virginia Dare", sketch con- tlnuesf "Both Johp. Smith and Strachey make mention of scattered parties of these colonists , several times, and v the Virginia company writes of some of them as yet van ve, within 50 miler of bur fort as Is testified by two of .our . colony sent out to search them, who '. found crosses and , assured - tes timonies of Christians newly cut In the barka of tTtetf' . Prof. S. B. Weeks, in his summing up of his very carefully considered article, VThe Croatana: - Whence and Where," declares H most ' probable, A ' ..t.lH V thai' hA HQ IMjr Q1 vaui,' llini. , Robeson county croatana "are tne Hatteras Indians, amalgamated with the lost Virginia colony:-Prof. ; Reed "fimlth .boldly follows his lead; , Prof. Hamilton McMillan takes tne sama vjew; COI. Fred A." Olds, of Raleigh, the valued historical writer, uses his pen to: the same effort If one may venture on any wiu- clsm of . the very able article of Mr. Ford the objection s-may be urged that he gives to matters of mere conjecture and speculation the force Which attaches to, facts about .which there can b little controversy, as In the following: paragraph .from h' contribution to Appleton's Maganlne: f" "If, Governor White. ? had sailed down Pamlico sound, " doubtless ha would have found his Lost Colony. It was southward and up the Cape Fear rlveie to its head waters, where all tradition, still - locates ; v Raleigh's Lost Colony and the descendants of Virginia Dare. v She- being a grand daughter of the first American Gov ernor was. more truly arlstocratlo than even Pocahoptas, who waa not baptized until Virginia had attained womanhood. And perhaps she mar ried a young brave of Roanoks long befoe the daughter of Powhatan wod an English gentleman finally to fill an unmarked grave In Britain as the English girl Virginia, fills an unknown , grave, m Amencar'oca bontas to Rive among her descend ants a great general (Baden Powell) to the English of to-day. and Vir ginia pare a North Carolina Govern or in our own times." ' Mr. Ford notes a characteristic of the . Robeson county Croatans which I , have had occasion : to mention In former articles their hahlt, show ing their Indian blood and training, of walking In single file along the road,: and even on the streets of the towns arid villages of Robeson coun ty. In the -summer of 1870 or 1871 the late' John D Bundy, 4 of . Rich mond county, and the writer were on- our way in a buggy across the county from Laurlnburg to Fayette, vllle, whsn we met the Lowery band. Just aft r they had murdered . the McLeoJ family m the southwestern part of . Cumberland county. . We were first aUracl4-byTiUlr reaem Uance to Indians,, walking along the i I ti.i.-X i I r.. .l.,;;:'t t'-Ht t'.e ti.-ep'" f: , i,t;:;, ,,t of I Kobe;,-,(i county Crour.s fwar-l the iivhl'.-s, broa:!;; a -.vay from all restraint in d.-eds of blood ant vio lence In. the seventipa, had its first cause In their treatment by the Con- ieaerate aumoiUSes during the civil war.. Ignoring their historic origin probably few of the . shoulder strapped ofHcials her ever heard of Roanoke island or the Croatans tha government Impressed them for the work on the fortifications below Wilmington as if they were negroes; an insult which doubtless rankled in their hearts. - Mr. Ford has the following with regard to the -scuppernong grape: iThis was the ( memorable 'Lost Colony,' which, contrary to Ral eigh's counsel, , settled on the Ill starred Roanoke island described as very aandy and low toward the wa terside, but so full of grapes as the verv beatlnr and mirtrs.of th a overflowed them, ; of which, iwe found such plenty that in all the-worldLllke abundance is not to be found." , ; 'Thus began the acquaintance of the Raleigh Colony with the Ameri can scuppernong. Three , finest na tive grapes, the Catawba, the Isa bella and the Scuppernong are indi genous to and thrive best near Roan oke, and, strange to say; the most delicious of uhese the white scupper nong, which will not bear transpor? tatlon a day's Journey, is Interwoven by , every tradition : with the arrival ef the white men - on Roanoke r' Isl and." ' -iA ;"v--i. :... .''i' As a resident of a great '' rrane- growlng district, am glad . to say that the white scuppernong, with its other admiral qualities, has proven a good shipper to distant markets, under the skillful treatment of wine growers. It la very-f perishable after it Is taken irom the vlne,,because It bleeds"-so profusely;- but If it is carefully gathered in clusters, the fruit not. removed from the stalk, It bears shipping very welL - "In vain, in vain, tbeir heart-sick search, No tidings reached them more; No record-save that silent word - ' , upon -mat, silent snore, Ths mystery rests a mystery stlll. lTjianlvfi .r mnrtfll man .. . V ... . i',.::. Bphynx-llka untold, th ages , hold, : TliA tnla nf Onatan .., . i ' In the local columns of The Rich mond Tlmes-pispatch of the 9th inst, appears tha following: uenntte steps in the direction of the further 'curbing and controlling of the liquor traffic In Richmond are clearly Indicated from the attitude oft councllmeir and city officials at a preliminary conference held yester day afternoon. . - ('The sub-committee " from : the council ; committee : on ' ordinances, charter and reform, composed of Messrs. Umlauf, chairman; Hudson, Cary and W. I White, have in hand the question of regulating the sale of liquor tn the city, and the , various propositions recently made have been submitted to them. One - of the propositions, the raisins- of : the 11- cense' to $1,000, came originally from Alderman Ellett. "Another, -. which came .: from Alderman Dabney, is to restrict the number of licenses to be Issued and to designate the blocks or the territory ' In which s bar-rooms shall be located." , j , We may be wrong and if we be may God set us right by a wiser and better sqiution of. this grave . prob lem but. the writer and thousands of. others, who have given the best thought they, have to this matter, believe that high; license is the best management and control of the liquor traffic and Its use. - That the .intem perate and excessive use of liquor is a great evil, and that of all moral curses strong drink Is. the worst must be acknowledged, to begin with. To the man who does not admit this there, la no use In offering argument. From the figures given , by The Slmes-Dispatch. . It is evident that it .high time 'for the municipal au thottles ot- the fair' Virginia city -, to be bestirring themselves! in a reform of the saloon conditions. There are now in Richmond 24$ bar-room's, be sides 14 social clubs where liquor is served. To state the case more for cibly, there Is one', saloon to about every 400 Inhabitants, assuming that the population of Richmond is 100,- 000. r; It must be remembered thati women and children form a large percentage, of this J00, and men who do not drink another large, percent age; so that these generous alcoholic fountains are parceled out to a com paratlvely very small- number .of people. . The nles of the Richmond papersT say for a ' yeaf or so back, will show, too, that the city v has many a "dive," . and , Is Infested with not a 'few "slums," as, bad aa ""Five Points" In, New York more than half a century ago. r ' If I mistake npt, wnmingron nas about 10 saloons. ; From what I have lately seen of the increase ln! busi ness and population ,of this beauti ful city, I think . It jtaay j safely be credited with at, least 30,000 Inhabi tants so that It' has a bar-room to every 800 of Its people figures to Which :we apply, the pruning, down given to the above" Richmond ;. ; fig ures, . ' ' ' ' ' " '.. '!'" . In conclusion, the liquor dealers of this country may make up their mlnds to one thing: - Unless they mend their ways they will see the "handwriting on the wall" and the overthrow of th8 high' license sys tem through their own' folly. Thosel who advocate this system admit that it Is licensing an ' evil, but kthey be lieve' It to be the best way: of deal ing with that evil . But , they - will turn their backs , on the man , who makes his saloon a "dive" of Iniqui ty; a dispenser of poison-. , a cor rupter of youth and ' a violator of the" law."""- wX' II.'-M,'-, Fayettevllle, July IL, . . . V . Rellgloiia Fervor of Danish Smart Set London Sketch; " , ; " ' . The Queen, of Denmark will hardly appreciate all the gay doings got up In London In her honor.' for she 1s a royalty devoted only to good works and caring less than nothing. for the sinful pride of worldly affairs. I un derstand, it cauaes'real distress to her Majesty when she has to attend a ball. Thi. aiiKferttv In the most exacted cir cles has brought about a social reyolu Hon In Copenhagen, which, once the most light-hearted and Irresponsible or capjlels, Is now given over to reli gious fervor and a rigorous pletlatlc revival such as once in 60 years or so neoms'to sweep over northern Europfc One who knowa the lnslde track" In Copenhagen assures me that it Is now the fashion in that once lively city to give partus at wjiicn tne guests get up in turn and confess their rlns aloud. This i& a 'custom which, If introduced Into London, would add Considerably to - the' piquancy of our present - monotonous . entertainments and give .an Interest to the season which-would atone for Arctic skies ana lack of social enterprise, :y CZ I. I Raleighi July'HS. A score of years ago the office of the Ktate Superin tendent of Public Instruction was a very quiet sort of a plate, with one clerk, and visitors were few and far between, but the change . in every W'ay how shows how great has been the development of interest in edu cational matters, as welL as the wid ening of their scope and power. t . A gentleman from South Carolina, -who was here a few days ago, declared that much as this State's Industrial progress struck him and others who were Informed, he waa yet more pro foundly impressed by the education al growth and: the sentiment in fa vor of education which has been so apparent during the past seven years. wow mere are always visitors In the office of the superintendent; ; there are three clerks and one man In the field also, and to use a slang phrase there is "something - doings all the time,:. It eeema that the feeling In every county in favor of education is growing daily. . If any, one wants to see what the State , is doing in ,thls line a look at the ? school v houses along, any, railway will tell the story. The aid by the Stale in making loans for theC betterment of publio schools nas provea a great incentive ana counties have been helped , which otherwise could have done but little. The movement Is so -great as to be almost f beyond belief and It grows by what It feeds on, like the appe tite,;: Away back In the. country, far from ' the railroads, there - are good schools, consolidated districts, , . local taxes, better teachers, better sala ries, attractive interiors of buildings, pictures, music, and better dressed and more enthusiastic pupils are 'the order of the day. - North .Carolina Is awake., i It is no wonder thaf the State superintendent la .' filled with pride and Joy at what he has seen brought about in but few year. And how proud ex-Goveronr Aycock and Governor Glenn must surely feel when they think of how their State is going ahead, and how ex-Governor Jarvls, (who always had this matter so much at heart must rejoice at what he sees and hears. The new high schools, so soon to be established, will open a new world to many thousands of people, and ; the superintendent is right ;V in his estimate of the high value , of these. They .will put the "-country boysTand girls on a fair footing with those In the - towns. ; it is oniy a question of a few years, when the country schools will be open at: least six months IB the year, and a Uttla later nine months will be ther figure. With this, education will grow con tentment witb country life, where It can be- obtained more , readily I than ever before, and the. great flowof people from the country to the town -will stop, for it is no secret that dur ing the past 20 - years 'the . towns have been largely built up at! the expense of . the county. There : are far too maay . deserted neighbor hoods in North Carolina. ,- The " val ue of rural real estate has' Increased from 25 to 60 per cent, in the past five- years and this Ib largely due to better school advantages, the . tele phone system and rural free deliv ery of malls. ;- The flow - of people from country to the town Is now to a great degree checked and the turning-point has certainly been., well passed. - . ' I .' ' Korth Carolina hVs been," in some sections at least a sort of stamping- ground for' all-sorts", of - people - of queer beliefs. This began many years ago and every once in awhile peripatetic ambassaaors - or ireaK faiths come wandering through thi Commonwealth,, seeing what sheep they can find to fatten on. The fel low Lynch, who pretended to db VHoly,"- reaped a harvest of money and women along the coast , Dut a few years ago. .The Holy people did a roaring business among blacks and whites 10 years ago throughout cen- tral North Carolina. Then the Mor mons came and ; had as many as 40 elders in the State at one time, go ing two by two, ' though during the last four or five years these seem to have- Cut no figure' and ' are never heard of. The elders , were whipped in one or two ' counties 'and driven out 's Then the "Holy Jumpers' came In and south of here they got soma converts. The c- last -v arrivals are those who pretend to ''Speak i- with Tongues," and i minister of ! this city,.; where ! they are-now atowork, remarked to me that he- thought this outfit the worst of all. He attended one of their meetings In the suburbs find said he .saw the.., women--there, falling upon the ground, while the foam flecked their ljps, Some of the workers who have the "gift," as they call if pretend to go In a trance and utter words which remind one of, the talk of our genial friend who la the boon companion of the captain in the comic supplement of the Sunday pa pers In other words . of - ."Sherlock Guck, the Eskimo Detective." I lis tened to a woman talking 'With the "Tongue" and it seemed strange in deed that any people would Uaten to such gibberish, but t is these things which attract It has been so ever since the time of St. Paul and will be so until the end of all things,', no doubt. ; ' - k v ' . ; ' I have been very much Interested in reading a book ,"The : Stars and Stripes and Other American FJags," InoUiding the fouB Confederate flags. The material for: this, book was , to some extent contributed by Mlss'tjes slca Randolph Smith, daughter of Mr, Orren B. Smith, . of Henderson, who claims he devised the first Con federate flag,, sent this to Mont gomery, then the seat of the Confed erate governments where it was ac cepted. The other claimant for the honor of making the . first Confeder ate flag Is Mr. Nlchola Marschall, of Louisville. . The facts seem to very Strongly bear, out the claim of Mr. Smith. He. hoisted "the flag of ,' his own deslgnon the court house at Loulsbttrg and says this was the fiM Confederate flag displayed in-North Carolina, two and a half months be fore the State seceded, Mr. Smith backs hl claim ; by the evidence : of Mrs. Wlnborne, who how lives 'at Pine Top, this State, that she 'made the': sample -flag for , him, which, he sent to' Montgomery, and that some time afterwards he learned the de sign v had s been accepted. She also made the flag which was displayed on a staff at the Loulsburg, court house at that time, , I notice In the book, that Mr. Marschall claims to be the originator, of the gray uniform worn by i the Confederate - arfhy.-' I was told about 20 years iag by a,tU- tlngulshed Confederate officer that this grey uniform was adopted be cause it was that of the First Vlr glnla Regiment and that -tha latter got. it from a New York . regiment of reat repnte; that is the-Seventh which visited Richmond some years before the war. -Another slntu! .r tiling is that, the Sevei,.;i i;,-;,--': t pot the design from a talented : -..--v Yorker, who many years before j hurriedly called to go on riot ciiuy to the armory and who fastended h 1 cartridge . box, bayonet-scabbard, belts, etc., over a grey-colored coat he was Wearing, the effect being so neat that the uniform board of the regiment decided to adopt It I waa told this by an officer of the Seventh. Regiment and -have also seen it In the regimental history.. The book about the flag Is full of interest from cover to cover. It is a matter of note that the "battle-. flag" which the Confederates used waa never adopted officially, though T it was incorporated Jn the second Confederate flag, also in the third. A great many persons have been" of the opinion that it was a separata flaar - by order of the Confederate Con gress,, while as a matter of fact it was adoptedkby the army but never s by the Confederate Congress. It " was a yery small flag; far smaller than the regulation size. ' It was de- signed and presented to Gen. Jo-, seph.,E.- Johnston for adoption by , Col. J. b. . Walton, who then com- manded the famous Washington Ar tillery Battalion of New Orleans. It was accepted by General Johnston : in September, 1881, at Fairfax Court House. General Beauregard greatly admired, this flag, which could: be seen -.at a great distance, ' and as he said when locked at through the trees "fluttered like a red-bird in the sunlight" ! The use of this flag en-i abled a battle to be watched with great facility and accuracy, ' Gen- ; eral Johnston preferred - a square" (lag as more convenient for carrying and-being, out of the ''way of the bayonets of the soldiers. . The 'first ' flag which the Confederates usedV V the"Stars and Bars." waa so much -'.:: like the United States flag that many yeuyia m eacxi army nrmiy oenevea that at 'Ihe' battle of Manassas- the . other side had used as a trick the flag- of its opponent - Two kinds- of ' crosses, the Latin and the ' St. An- ;t drews', were submitted,, and the lat- ( ter was chosen, this, removing tha I - obJcctlon,slt is stated,-that many of me soiaiers might have to fight un . der the former church symbol. . . It was found - that Gen. - , LeonlAaa Polk, who commanded the troops Ifl western ' Tennessee had adopted for -hla forces a flag which . was . blue, .' with a white St. Andrew's cross, but ' -this was replaced at once by the regulation 'battle-flag of what vwas.f known as the ?Army of the - Poto. : mac,," and the latter thus became the ... real emblem of the. Confederacy. General Beauregard thought so much. of this flag that he said ha hoped if- ' the United States ever had a foreign war-It would be .adopted as . "the national battle-flag. It must be borne In mind that there were Very mat is raised directly by tne govern -tnent itself, but that nearly all were volunteer , troops from tha different ? States, Tha latter woujd carry tha battle flag and ths flag of their own State. - Numerous- examples of both -flags are to be found In the large col- ' lection In the Hall of History in the State Museum, where they are objects of so much- attention daily. , f ' .... Some days ago Mr.. Cole, a very talented and agreeable" gentleman1 of Washington Cltj was here and-was, shown a 'great many courtesies ty -the State Librarian Stt& by others. -He was making a. study of the vari ous, colonies and 'States, using as far as possible the original copies. . He . , found In the Hall of History, among the .valuable collection of originals lent by Bishop -Cheshire," a rarity in .',: the shape of a . book printed ,, by James Davis, the ..first State Printer, . ; this being a second . edition of the MTellow Ja,cket" but whicn owas bound In 'a very queer manner. He. also found another extreme rarity in the shape 'of the Journal of the -con- ' yentlon held at Hlllsboro in '1788, -which declined fo ratify the Federal constitution, - This little . pamphlet : Is in two sections, strange to.-eay. " f The laws of the State from 1718 to '" 1791 have been complied . by- Chief Justice Walter Clark and are 1n vol umes. 23, 24 and 25 Of the State Rec ords. It may be not generally known but it is a fact that no State ', ' In the UnlonJiaa- a more complete ; series of printed records than the :- ,' Colori'lal Records, the work of Col. ' William 'I .Saunders, sad the State Records, the work ' of Judge Clark, ' . The'flrst Assembly. was held at the-.' home of Thomas Sanderson on Little -rivervln the county of Perquimans; Many laws were enacted ; from time to : time and some . of .these became :. obsolete and are so marked in the queer old volume., six of the earlier laws were confirmed anew at the session of 1715, having been enacted -earlier, the first account - of ', work done by the' assembly being at that ; date. Cot" R. B. Creecy,: of Eliza- " beth City, told me last year that the very first meeting of the . Assembly . was held under a tree, somewhere about 1683, The assembly , was at, i called the Grand Assembly. ; , first of the six confirmed Haws was about marriages and was to "ths , effect, that any persons wishing, to marry could -take three or four pf their neighbors along with them and , repair to the Governor or any one of i, council and declare that they had joined together' In wedlock . and ac- - cepted each other for roan and wife 1 1 and that the 'Governor bf councilor should give a certificate to be regis tered and that this should be a law-" ;; ful marrage.. The.. second law set out that many people came to America and soon left It, but while here sold their rights and lands, which proved . very prejudicial to the Lords Pro- ', prletors, who- then owned Carolina, so. therefore the Palatine and Lords -Proprietors enacted, by the consent v V of the (Grand Assembly, that no per- sons should sell their rights untlt they had been here two complete' years at least The third law levied., a fee or tax of 80 pounds of tobac' ! co upon every action, to be paid b : the man who lost thasult, or to use. the . old word,' was "cast" Act thq fourth' , prohibited- strangers from ?trucklng and trading" with the In dians. This sets out that persons, nrf v matter what their quality or condi tion, who presumed to come Into this country to so trade, with any of the '. neghbor Indians, or should be found . to have an "Indian trade", purchased from them, such person or foreign er thus. found among the Indians or elsewhere within the country, shoul4 be taken before the Governor or anyT one of the council, who would havt power to send them to prison, to re ; main until they had, paid - 10,00o' pounds of tobacco .and, costs; other wise to stand to ths .censure of the Governor, their 'traded thus found to be given, together with one-hnlf the fine, to the Aproij, who. arrested, them, the othr half of each going to the Lords Proprietory
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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