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- CHAKLOTTE DAILY' OBSERVEEr;XOVEG3EK 16, '1003.V, 0. 1 T OF: STATE CAPITAL By fcOL. FRED A. OLDS ' O 6 s c r t;'c r 2? a r c a u;rH6l lema n rB h i I d i ngTRa te igfr, i ' i insi.ii. not. ..-After all Chalr- nn luMir B. Adiml. f . tH R f" publican State committee, la. a pret- I t good mMMr.'. ;H w me on u. h Sid of October that he wh con-v-, fldent of getting three districts, and b. . aartaJnlv mud good, "i- A lot Of ' Democrat pooh-poohed bl statement ' and aald to might carry tb eighth, V but BOthla alaar - did not v begin 1 'think tha teath in any doubt,? and ' w ta th' fifth thought tn .whole ., thins delightfully absurd. i.if ",: A bank prealdent her wa speak ' in to.div about tha JDemocratle out- ' look and aald that as a matter of fact tha Democrat In this Stat would ' tiara to It up ana nusue. , u quo - art Tha Observer's editorial approving lj and said that Awhile Ay cock had , ..v0e majority and ' Glenn ., . , tiara wn Kltchlrv popular , as he la, coming down to somewhere between - S5.M and 40.009. - lie added , that - tha ReDublloan had" been put in such heart by tha' happening of last '- week that they are going to , contlaua ' c every organisation ney nave . ana fight to set control of averythtns;. 1 Bight now, and Chairman Baler knows this to be true, the Democrats might " as well Ktt to work far 111 and 111, . . for there la trouble ahead. Mr. E1-, Jar "thinks that after the fusion ex ' -: perlence tha people of this State will not submit to Republican etata con trol but n - lt.1-7 would not one tov thaght.tht tha. remembrance ' and tha knowledge of ' tha recon struction trouble Would bare, had i tha same effect? They did not have, tha world knows. 1W Hew' aoon win good times arrive? is a auastlon that not a iw, peo kla are asking. Recuperation ; has J ' 1 been alow In this , worst of all the ' -.panic since that of lt7. for H Is ( claimed that thta one checked bus! s nea4 much worse and Injured people aloof certain lines mora than any in ,. . ' tha past seventy years. t- Hawevor, - It has had soma arood results, no doubt;" la brinslna about mora econ ' omy and making a ,1ot of people who would get on any kind -of boa for a ride, aau close ta snore. worpi ' Carolina la deolared to bare atood tne ' Uosbl as wall as any other State ,' and a friend from Indiana assures tno v - that It certainly get along much worse U , than this 8tate and that there was no question as to mis xaci. ;. , A' good tnany things which have v happened In the past year or so have set lot of paopl co aayinr that tha ,,'laws enacted for manufeoturlna; aec-j ions appiy in many cun r y yuw ly to agricultural ones, and "It was marked a day or two ago, by a prom lnant eltisea of 'the. etata, that j would ba a great i deal bettor It there V "was on kind of law for Ksw England, ' and; tha Middle State and ' another klai for tha South and the West. Though North Carolina dee a deal of v manufacturing, yet it la very largo - , ly an agrtoulturai Btat,'''-!?!;1.. v In tha course of speech 'Which ' he was called on to make at the an, 1 nual meeting -of th railway-condao-"r tors, her last Sunday afternoon, State : . Treasurer lacy took occasion to say -' that organization of labor was "not . only Important -In Itself but a safe guard to a community, and he added that while the general public had the - Impression that tha labor unions caus ' ed strike, the revors was the fact, ' because . statistics show .1 conclusively . . that by far tha greater number of stiikve .originate -; amony , uoivunlon ' , This brings up tha Interostinf fact .wthat her in the Bo utn tner is at - - way on spectre s to the nnlonis- ' tlon of labor, thu being that -tha ne gro caa . ysosi day be organised, it " toeing deolared nat u tni were flone, ' and .tha black,': mat and' female. '' welded together fA a sort of organlaa' -.. tion which would, b afCectiv mainly ' , through their Churches and varioua octettes, in wnite wouia oe to considerable degree, if not to a great t one, at their mercy. . There have betn on or. two casual attempts on .- the part of certain persona to orian toed the ' blacks, but thee have al failed. 5 . The cotton milt operative in this Stat are not members of any . vnlon, - for a ; little while a good . many, of them were, but they palled 1 f out on account .of 'the New England v union calling- upon them for funds, t . There-does not seem to be any .ob J action in this part of the country to tne xormauon- ox tauor unions 01 tne regular ort, but there would, of ' course, b a great protest against any s attempt to organise - farm , laborers. , washerwomen. 0001c, c y v , s , officer of so blah a nuk lt be here sine the days of th (evolution. M His mission was a very peaceful one in deed, a he earn to see hij relative He is a typical Englishman and; has campaigned in a xreat many leoua trie, v ldk ninety-nine Ensllshmen out of op hundred h Is fond of port, rutably shooting, and 'plenty of hlg gme In some oY th wildest parts of the world ha fallen, to his gun. : Englishmen, a a rule, have much more of th sporting Instinct than-Americans and I have been im pressed by this lnnany ways. They also take mors to military Hf and to -outdoor sports - In general . and Canadians are very largely, following tnsm la all thta thing. v Tn ootton mill men, eertalnly most be delighted sr even th proapeot of icood times,; tkcugh for the mills the nave not ?et armed, vw una i Industry has bn harder hit by the panlo than, this particular one, and this tiasDeen a suhiset of van sral remark. . It U exton worse hurt than the lumber- Interest. There baa bean a (Teat check on the build ing of mills a well on Improvements and 1m ha been, done In either of the . line , during: th past twelve months thsn during any slmllsr period, la perhaps a doses year or more, ,;,: .. - -! " Work now begin oa the great In land waterway, and th hop of year : 1 about- to be realised. - it muat b a 'very Joyfdl thing for Congressman John H. Small, who nu so put nis heart In this Important juatter, The 1 work will b under the personal dl recUon of Capt. Earl Brown,; of ih United States engineer corps. Ha la something more than beln;tnerely an expert omcer; he is seaious one, and hs will give th best he ha t talent and seal to seeing that tne work I proDerly done. A . great contract . Ing firm will do th first stag of the wrk, which Has pegui oa wnat may be termed th eouthern division; that Is the, part of th rout nearest to Beaufort. ' ? Th writer, has been over practically, all th Una and when the work gets well under -way will go down and have another look at It. . I have never seen . a -set Of tnea harder to pull out of their sheila, -.even knowing m as well a they do, than the Inmates of - the- . Soldiers' Home. Among the la mates have been all sort of interesting people. Includ ing heroes of the Merrimao, men who . -went from this State, te fight for their beloved France against Germany 'In 1I70-T1; ethers who have " been -all' round the world; a coup! who fought in the civil war and that with Spain, and one who fought In one of the Indian wars, prior to 1840, the Mexican war and the civil war. Tet thee men have very little to say about their experience to each other of anybody else and their talk is main ly about the things of . to-day. A number of them are great readers and they are very fond of books and plcturea They like music, too, but strange to eay, there Is not even a piano at' tho home, and so the old fellor.-s re shut out from torn of, tne things they like. I have referred passingly to this matter hfere and one would havn thoucht that somewhere- from North Carolina would have come a riai" for the home, nince there Ja no t-ute fni for Its purchase. The vN't of an Fnp'i.-b lif-'prunt ftieraU Kranci : r;. . Ir?o il, to; tr.'.s city end it durlrg- the yupt fv ,y v. i f in. .re lint 1 z : .-!t, 1. r r.e 14 tne n.-st 1 . . Already oeoole ar asklnr- what win b th Important Question to come be. for th tgiiatura, Nothing 1 yet Known a to wnat wiu pa don.: Of eoura there will b nothing In the way 01 railway rat regulation, that being aback number, and eouallv of coura there will b nothing doing along k prohibition ,: tin. because befor the Iglstatur oonvnes . th Stat wui, be dry from nd to end, minus any-saloon or dispensaries, as both will b put oat of action on th list ay of December. v-.Th ad- Tertisement ot a number of th liquor dealer and manufacturer out. sld of th Stat ar very daring, and her and there they hav big . liquor sign? in fact on a wail her there ha witnm th past rew day been paint ed on of th largest whiskey sdver tlsement X ever aw. On of th llqoor manufacturer! ha , for several year gone so far as (6 say in th ad ertlsementa with '- which . ht bom bard th Stat that th Oo vera or en dorse htallquor, of coura the Gov ernor having don no such thing, but this merely shows th length to which soma dealer will wov-j" ':!. 'fih. --;i.in,n a t'jf;- .'i-.. X' There hv been a few hint that th Ieglitlature might tackl th regu lation of labor of hiidren in muia, tYim iv. if ranttnt AfisttAffl mtoA Mm other ihlngs; but this is mere guess work. Of coursd there wUl ibe plenty done, for thefe 1 always a flood of small ins: minor matter. A Re publican who was an aspirant for of- nce mis year saia uu n un lupun llcana sot control of the legislature thesr would do mlchtr little-' and adi Journ-ln a hurry, but if la always to k b observed that when they did hav control they did a lot and neve1 d lourned until th last minute. Any legislature can- be 'counted on to re main th fun days, 5 '.'Very naturally there Is much Inter est on the pert of ' merchsAits v - and manufacturer fn th forthcoming de cision - of. the . Interstate Commerce Commission "OS the "gateway- ques tion; In other word whether or. not It will aUow Virginia to keep what it ha ' had for years, purely -artinclat gateway, which nave controlled the fish vara largely 'caught la deep water oy uia, s of hand linest though some ar taken, la net. . Much more ear ha been taken with tha, ashing.' of tnat section in lat years, sine the la meatabl aHure'- om elht- years ago, whtff sura smart Alex sunk a net in about (t foet ot water, designed to catch authejlsh at once. Thl gn tlanaan, who was h lineal descend ant of him who 'killed th goose that laid th golden gg, got nothing for hi trouble except chat he drove away th fish, his net full ot Oeaa ash be ing whirled round and frightening th others away and almost ruining th fishing for som time, Much ha been written b yosr1 cor respondeat about that extremely lm pertant - coat-carrying 'railway, th Carolina; Clinchileld Ohio,' but it la nw presented In a new aspect. Coal ha been high la a large portion of too souw, owing-to ireignii rates, ana ther i . a whisper la tha air, so, to apeak, that this road, which ha two supreme advantage,- may cut the rat and greatly cheapen coal. These .sd vantage r tn ownersmp . ot at enormous area of coal land, som toe.oOO acres in-faovand tho virtual completion of it own Una from th centre of this great coal field to ex celient connection in, Notth Carolina. This view of th ponalbillttea f the road, with. It wonderfully low grad and.it admirabiai track, ha not her tofore been taken. The South 1 com ing 50 th front more and . mor every day, and a reduction in coal prices would b another powerful factor in The very interesting statement that nobody knows th area of what ar termed the Stat .''swamp lands," which ar under th chare of th board of education. 1 of mor 'than passing Interest. These lands ar In a aosen counties and their area has in year past bsen rougnly estimated all th way from naif a million to a mil uon acres.. ..now i seems tnai mere win hav to be a fight la th eourt a to many tract, claimed by squat ter and nil other sort of people. The lumoer companies hav Tor years had to make a tremendous fight for their holdings and so. it comes about that judges and Juries will in all probabil ity determine how much th Stat now own. Tho wkol thins- Is a commen tary on th system or land grants. than which ther 1 none worse In th country.. It is a pity that the Austra'- nan system cannot o dui1 into us in North Carolina. Under tho present ar rangementa jaad-ownsr are very largely In. the-hands of lawyers, audi aa waa stated in this correspondence a few day ago. In an interview, with Stat . Forester ( Ashe, a borrower . of money on land 1 hard put to It, as it costs him about t per cent, every time ns Borrows. even on tne am xraci. in th snap of lawyer fee. besides th per cent which .the law allows as interest The only question la how long tne people of the State ar will ing to atand 4h raresent land . grant system." jNorunraroiinian r very alow and thyntccept Sttutlon"jrrt-i tv much aath-rThinAaa dn. Jimt ba- caus a thin has been so It ought to stay so. Is the motto of perhaps the most of them-and thus they tolerate th worst land system on earth, -4- . V". tii.ii it m :? ..v - . .. Th bit of a story about ' a rsmble In the glorious autumn woods caught th eye and fancy of my valued friend, Q loved in North. Carolina, Bv, Dr. T. N. I vey, the-gifted editor of Th Raleigh Christian Advocate, and was th- them of an aditortal In 'this week' paper, How . few p'eopl know th name of th trees. I waa out lat (end the nut-gowera cenveotloai primarily to tucy peoan, culture. He la the . first man la authority in this Stat who ha sought to promote thl. it Is a fact that most North Carolin ians would smile tf on spok to them about setting out peoaa trees' or wal nut tree. They would think this fin their ignoranee) a small business, but ther 1 a 11 tu fortun to be made out. of th pcan nut and walnut wood. The walnut tree hav be a very great extent cut down and sold. The average countryman would acorn to set out pcans, probably beoaus 2,500 such show In New "Tfork City I work. I frequently visit the office o( alone, and, they draw th people as its crtry. Mr. , Robert D' W, Con- nothing els haa ever don. It seams I nor. He not onlv has a -oy otllce. Strang that tha movlnc picture start-1 but a large document and filing room. d a It did. It began aboue. nor. wnica pas bn admirably fltted wttn uut. in uauiornia, not a treat manyiineiai case, etc.. ot.tn oestiypc, ana years agoi there was a man named ther a wonderful'. work 5 has. been Mayondge. who naa an idea tnat tneiaone in the oast eighteen montns in pictures of horse in vogu thea and I collecting, properly arranging and for man? a' lsh vear before wer In-1 putting; in ahane fof?" oreservatlon correct; did not properly show th po-j thousands Of. document's- which cer- siuona uaen 'try -a nor itv- leaping, 1 Munty neeaea ,ucnJ car, in omer for example, go h arranged a battery 1 words, thl is an admirable step, and of cameras, near together. In a line, I It should hav been taken decade with silk , thread Xrom their huttr I ago. Just aa work In the Hall of His- to a bar opposite, and f ' horses I tory should have begun a lifetime wera ridden, driven or Jumnad aa thai sine. These two lines at effort show caa may be, and in th act of motion I the historic and literary awakening tno suoceaalve threads , acted 'upon I ana activity in North Carolina. They the camera and thus a series of pic- ar outward and vislMe signs of It tures was obtained, each a . minute Th Booklet Issued by th Daughters fraction ot a second later than th of th Revolution in this State, is former. ' Than these were run through another sign of th kind, but where It a machine and showed a continuous ha on subscriber it should hav a motion, out of thl grew variou cor. , things largely for the amusement of J In the course of an interview with children, for th film had not been I Secretary Connor regarding his work thought of then, nor the moving pie-1 n said a to the historical commls tur machine, but bye and bye these iaion: earn along; and now we see each r- " "Anvng the most Interesting colleo- nignt tne wonaeriui result. , without 1 uon wnicn tne commission hss 00- thermiht not souro of it all, talnd are transcrlpu of the menu- T. ... u WCIH. IIWJ, ivi KLim tUlll mission by the well-known firm of B. F. Steven & Brown, of London. Th Earl of Dartmouth waa Secretary I M ItM .kt ,.1. nl, .n a . V. A AfBVMM. 1 of Stat for th Colonies before and at the beginning of the. . revolution the fact that th nut command atady price 0 at least $4 a bushet I! rt.T.. If such greenhorns could -g to Texaa. l9r yy Porhapa t I. have the irn hundUdot t?I(,a tbtir Bntt1 communication j He, therefore, collected and preserved times- t'Peean hiaaa anil ullaw " .January, .or iney win tnen nav a urai vi mnni reimuni o bought and Mid hernd hv ieia no donbtth biggest house-warming American history ot an unofficial and oaL otlUM romntlZ North Carolina ha ovsr seen, namely eemi-offlclal nature.- Thl. material. They era eteanad .rl iftod' dedication and use of tftelr part of courae, was not filed In th Brttlah bied and shtDDeA all or the world! of n tpea Tempi they hav erect- Publio Records Office, but wa de- th)SBMJti 44 her aa wn,cn "oiit the posited !n the prlvaU colleetlen of the !!&IM.0n.Tn?," SiT&LJ? least flattery, declared to be th wy Earl of Dartmouth, and ha descended grow Drofusly to ln North Cam- to the present Earl of Dartmouth. thTlenM there will be a Masonic lubl- Recently a calendar of hi. American give care to pscan. ralslna: the large JL Tn? lw" Wnl7?m J5'09' L ?,p?? w' OTd.b'' r B:.r "?n sort There are a tew trees in Raleigh ,rr"f . 0l"' B.ul lnelr mnuencerur lu .jwj.i iorioi saanusenpta which bear laraa ones, but moat oft P'y. immense in every aepan-i j.umoiisaion or a,ngiana. a n vi. which bear large one, but most of them havs vary small nuts, which In Texaa would not be noticed. Ther ar many varieties, and they com Into Deanng m signt years and ar thane forward a steady soaro ot revenue. It is the plan of Mr. Hutt to nlant the overflowed Jands on the State farm on. in Koanok river in th best va riety of pecan. 'These will bring in went of life and endeavor, and they I dene of tb vast amount of thl ma- cut a great figure ln what may be j terlal, the calendar . . alone, , giving termea in economy ot North Cro-1 n-.ereiy a 11st m tb letter with Una, 80 they pi-ono to do some very I brief summary of the content . of splendid things when they first occu j ch requires a volume of pagex. jij mor urina Lrfiage room, it yan-i ownow ox nese tetter reiat to ou offices, etc. . 1 North Carolina affaire, and through " . Mssar. b. F. 'Steven A Brown, of a handsome rvehu AM along that n f?c boldly th question of great river and the other stream , fn this oublio school. The State, particularly the Tar. . which chboUi. While spoken - of a City overflow an hiiiir. h.. t. I ecnoois, are reauy ior the whole town- to be planted and that by the hundreds! BnlD and therefor th city Itself cah- 'Halaigh will hav to fac next year! Vondon, th -North Carolina historical wiiDMiwvn nrnm mvuna special -per- miHuwn iron in present jaari or Dartmouth to have transcripts madfe. Messrs. Steven a Brown are making these transcripts, th second v instal ment of which ha been sent to- tha of thousand. Noon ned fear any Bot eaI directly with them. It cot which, ha been sent to th lessenlhg of the demand for these about $66,909 a year to operate them.p0 tvarlina historical commission. hum. -for oIL for candy maainr for and ven with th revenue the dlspen-1 n 4n,B In. the commission'. - doco- iood, or for a table, relish ry brought In. for them, which was! m.""t. room. . yWhen j completed they some. $.000 annually, there was al-1 wl'J..r.orm B interesting and valuable There hss basa a v r.. way a shortage of about 11.00. Now f aooiuon to tn Bute present ; his- daction in th number of Incsndlary I deficiency S over flS.OOO.V and j V,riM" !t;tioni J ri: ' ; ' lira in tha ntata k. a.r I hence the term had to be cut one-1. 'Tn Matorleat commlasldn I, lo sorunlty f th insurance Department third? --that r 1 reduced from nine f 'V1S valuable records collected from It le tha dun, eVth- i.m-7 llzZZtl month lx. Really 120.000 mor 1 of colonial and revolutionary gate all flrtt no matter whether ther I nded for th schools. " Th ' whole 1 Insurance or mot and to very cloae-1 tueatlon will b presented In the most ly look into ehaona whar-. inMn. I striking manner to'tb aeonl and dlarlsm Is suspected, it has been found tn chamber -of commerce, the school thst la past years a very eonaloerable committe and th superintendent will proportion of fire wa incendiary; th lin force in making such a presenta- work of people who-, wanted to- ret J'0.1 of th oas to th publio as will a . . - . F HslnslaliAMt MW a . B. . ST a M insurance in . most eases, 1 though of 1 """v v unu wuh, ouurs are of. incendiary fires, thl beins- an enea the ichamber f commeroe and ; th commiaslon' collection. newspapers in Charleston. .Wllmlna- ton. Richmond and Boston:, Ot par ticular value and Interest ar the file, of The South Carolina Qaxette and Country Journal, In th library of the South Carolina historical so Crety, at Charleston-, and the Virginia Oatette In the State Library of Vir ginia. Both of these flies ar being rs some wer for revena-e. There Tn, itr Ao are.for aucb an inla. ; Both of these flies ar being certain towns her .id ther onor a being th. only-place la th lor, Carolina material, ch hav been noted for th number Butm ltl1 mdnth achoola, and which 1 being copied and ljld In th 1 ' . " a tri t jtalttfoa At unawMAtsaA rVTn Pi secret m ticia TDI -aetectlv work .u mn via enamrvr 17. . ee.s.. dond'h been dearahing and a couple l ret present term extended to Carolina historical material I th col- of doaen firebugs, placed in the pent- nine months, by gVopuUr subscription b' Johnston paper in the 11- tentiarir b tail- JZ 2? 1-1- ncrhaea not to sneak Af what it is brary at Hay, th residence of Gov- haan M4at L.mrm. t u-T V- , I hinad la ami vaar , i ernor 8am u el Johnston, at : Edenton. ikm. ft.rurtm.n in a rt I This has haan a haril tuiwi Mli I N. C.. now In DOBaessiOn Of Mr.. John nlght-ridlnf ther has been very Urtl yryet th schools m the main all p.r wood. Through the courtesy, of in North Carolina a yet Th only over th Stat ar well attended. Thl Mr. Wood, perml-slon baa been rnt- man Jailed on this charge I In Wak, ' W " thing indeed. It shows to the commUslon to hav these and -hie trial wHl be of t more 'than nat grip th new Idea of Improved Papers i copied. They .Include letters passing Interest Early In the' cotton aoooatioa ha tipon Worth -Carolina, and document from many, of th eason It began to look as If thereln i an evjaenoe or wnat win v&ei .i. .coiumni ana reTruiuuon- would be no little of thl sort of thlnr. I whn th good tiroes, already on 1 """""Sr'' ,nc!u,,l';" p, ?fn but happily. nothing haa been don. Of way, arrive, v. ;v , ; t?:- .u-i.-i , I L?'""' ii, wo-epn - tiewes, conrs Oovernor Olenn stood ready to t f : ? - ; ;.y-niiim.Boi,Vitnw .onnatont act very promptly and ; fully, when Ooverilor aienn certainly must have I "mJ!Z Tf f" .rMe,T annmnar ttnnuu , j. l. . .j. . , . I tvan nn urtnna '.ttimtinn . t thai " -v" wu,a vn iii. 'mm f ave " . -. "v ne looaoco ana - peanut crons 1 ' II t M. a..W aeiau. . 1 111V na : .t - haii- tnarMf Conditions rn, afternodn thl week, gathering TtV a,,; r J.T. artlflMaf -rr.n.f ftHtum ave fOrgeOU In COlOf " r v.;c , -.CI caocu tnan any ..nowers, and met. a lOOUk. Y II I U Ik WU IWICII tllV WVI a vt . A.,aHiHH.A r . a U Jlj. ' M on-man. became Intolarable and this who had llv;d ... hIa ,lfa thi. d7 ) why the State, acting 'through the Corporation Commission, took up this very vital matter. It la ta n opaerv- ed that th Corooratlon Commission is very cheerful a to th-aspect of the case, for -Chairman McNeill tella me that he feel Very sanguine or auc cess and that North Carolina will get at least two gateway. ' .Thl would relieve- the. situation -Immensely,' for there has certainly been an'd 1 a great deal of hard feeling. j . vi. For more than a scor of year the muniolpat afTalr here-1 have been fought over by the Democrats, . the Republicans not baina in tne new to any, extent ut now the Republicans are very boldly hinting- that they pro pose to get . in the 'game - next. year. What sort of. a ftrure will they cut? It haa been said that William John ston Andrewj who ra - for county treasurer , and .who was de geared by Brown pegrant by l.llt vote,. will lie ln the field as a candidate for mayor. Mr. Andrew led hi ticket this month ln the .county race. ..Wnat ;will he do In that for the mayoralty- tn case he become a . candidal? . .'It 4 certain that the Republican are not a , little puffed up with prue at wnat. they have done thl year -and that they would tike eery ; well ton-carry Balelrh next May and add that to tne scalp they took' on the first Tuesday In thl month, namely- three districts and a few members ot the Legislature, It is but telling the- troth to say' that the Republicans did not d : nearly ; o well ' a they thought they would 1 ln county and State matters, and that the most of them really thought, after their truly admirable-campaign plans and the money they spent, that,, they would get more members of the Leg islature in the rake-on., not they got badly left ' A number of them, have said aa much to me, shaking- very frankly. 4 . . : . . - t have heard a lot of teotla sa? that they really hop Mr. Bryan will be-elected to the Senate ' from' Ne braska and . Mr. Roosevelt be elected to that body from New .York. They evidently think that this would' make all hands happy- These two gentle men In the Senate would certainly add not xnly. to the gayety of that body but to the world at large. Including all the ' nations. - They sre good friends now, but no doubt they wl!! ptand on bsrty" lines to a larpre extent If ln 'the Senate and then, bills and oratory galore might, be confidently expected from "both; , ' - , Mention has been mada passingly that tha fact that great quantities of fish caught at Morehead City , this fall are being? 'sent nofonly to the North but to th far South a well. It really seems queer to think of ship ping fish front that point to Norfolk and to far away Jackson vi:. Kla., the latter being a great fishing tate, hut it is even so. There Is no tin-r 'n than the FjianUh Macker-il ar,1 he trout whion are caueht in such p-prf-vtion of condition off that part of vr co&f.t tiiiii.-ic: the rlrt h.iif of the int-r and 8.1 f he 'fait These Tet he confessed h only knew the name, of the most common - trees, shrubs and flowers, nor would h even attempt to name more than half ot those I had in hiy hnds. - The big bouquet, made entirely of leaves, was so splendid that every eyd was caught oy it, yet not another, one was seen, nor Is it probable that one had oeen gathered that day. There M so much aimles rambling, knocking about th streets and 'that sort of ' thing, - day after day, when the wood are so in viting. A few afternoon age -the wri ter, with- scene boy friends, we In a virgin isrestMa eight of Raleigh; and went down .a glade where the trees were gigantio pines, DODlars. oak a and hickoriee. and where no axe had ever leiied a tree, and there in the shadow of the- glade, with, the umbrelte-like ronage high overhead and practically no undergrowth, waa a group- of flow- er-sxaiKs, very sienaer and Jtreett, ana wnn leave shaped rather like those of the figs, but. muck smaller and mora even and On two of the Dianta. the utalka of which wer eome two reet hivo, were very oal blue hooded blosaoms, quite unlike any other wild no were, unless tnare mlg-ht be eome mtie reaemManoe e vne, wild vetcn. Thl flower. ' lurking hare s tn the shadow, was tb deadliest ot them au, tne monk s booo. from this come aconite, 5 the essenc , .of . which im aoonitine. which wa so. much- talked about a year ago in a noted trial in which sth defendant-was accused of muraer. tstat Horticulturist Hutt was given these flower and he will so with me, take Up th plant late In November and aet them out " ' at ', his borne, to make a study f this flower. which I rar la thi part of th coun try; so rare in fact that it was not known if grew here, though th writer naa seen tt lor a good many years, but passed i by' for mor showy blos som ), ,S '-'.T ' . ;Jt . . ., i.-r - 1 i . - - . - ? f r,'-'- .-v -1 ;.-'..:.'-"-."'t-ru-':"-: - . 1 ' ' ' jThe State library grow slowly but steadily.. It may ., said -- tnls, . aa of all the State's literary and historical-collections, that ther would be a- wonderful acceleration of growth if they were installed ' in a fireproof building, . The Legislature ha made provision for th insane; ha th Con federate veteran well In hand; the same; thing- mar be said as to the blind and deaf mutes; there I great liberality to the public schools, - the pension figure has reached $400,609, so that now the time eeem ripe for North Carotin to branch out and do something in a very handsome fash ion to set Itself before the World. It ha, the site for ev building and it should begin this permanent work by the. erection of one quite worthy of the Commonwealth, -u . W, , ; ' AH this brings to mind a statement which Was heard thts week that a North Carolina city hd made en offer, (to whom and when 1 not stated), to give 1509,000 and 30 acres of land on condition that the capital l moved to the place in question. The state-1 m-nt la given for what It is worth. Of course it Is hot air. for.RaJelgb will forever remain the capital. . . . , I very much !nte.rrted In tnlk Ir1? wift State, Ilortlrulturint Juutt abvut his trip to Chattanooga, to at- 1 . I mlvmw wa-w.mIahm . , W I ' Ml, t.vuuwr IB V WUl UU nil 1 r iproposiuon h ' had from variotwi r.n'T ,r:i 11 -?w !.. aava . ih. ... a... ,'i ik. ha am. an i Tne eommiMion believe, that this ve- the remark mad to me a number of lectures, with the privilege of renewal I w" nw JJKTVL VLl time by Oeoole m that serf ion r thai of th contract Another was for three TOmm,?..?,!r'n past year has State and many of them have express. wor- I mrr.,fiL"?onl 'L' d regret that they did not cut out mad him; two ef these being fromJ . .7? r.t?,I L!"'- ' waJr cottea thl. yr end plant tobacco, th greatest leotur bureeus In -th l1. m.i? 2 JVif - i 'i. Tobacco 1 out of th wy vry soon I country, but h decide to return to I STJZ v",Mi'l-Jh,a ?.p,-?.,,, Z-JL east of Riigb, giving plenty of Urn fhl much-loved homeWlnston-Salem J? .TfT i or aaomer ususlly pea - - . uiiini - ana nmi - w vr ai : ...iv.. ..... vm imposBioie. it seem, ever . to in- Tor7 euro la cut no eroau ngur ia in due most North Carolinians to plant publio eye and will deubtiee receive less cotton. It 1 very plain that much invitation to go to various part ot mor than half cT them plant a lot th country nd speak, for he is a real more than' they can pick, yet they orator. Another- ia ex-Governor 4y o . on. , year after year, dolna- the cock. iThere- ar ome soole. of am thing, and tt would seem that courM,, who decry the power, ef-bothf K-SSVjrala.?, tiey expect the,. ng.l to come down Ubes gentlemen,Tbut tK way t they S2?Ii L-U2t, i"l'L:"2 all money value hss been reduced to smoke and .she. Much interest crop t b plaited, and n4 re.um hU practice, ef t law JJJ !LfZl rar thn put in. Peanut there, which ha been very lucrative SS-'KtSJ'Jiu r high figure, and the to him-Id pst y.r Th. -Oov.rnor flW7iuLA resdy Innumerable reasons why the next Lesislattire shonld 'erect a fire proof 1 State library building for the preservation. of its -valuable collection of book and . m. Bueerlpt f TTnlees this Is done soon; the State wilt wak tip some momlnr to find ' that i th and pick it fos them. All of the cot-1 gather and hold audiences I th sin ton picking machines amount to noth- cerest proof ef, their ability. I heard Ing. On ehown here ., recently , waa Chairman - Eller,X of the Democratic absurds It wa on th basis of those Stat committe. say that on of th fan-operated machine , which' suck rrreateet speeches he ever heard In hi the cotton seed out of wagon, carry- life waa that Oovernor Glenn made in ing It through galvanised iron -pipe his home town on the eve of the pro- to- the gin, but the sucker In a cotton hibition election last May. He spok patch carried not only th cotton but two hours and a half. Numbers of tn loos and light leaves, which arel liquor men wer there, but when the such a nuisance. One rough old farm-1 Oovernor called on those who wanted r, aner loosing at tn machine work I " eaioons run out or tn county and saia: "i net thin ain't worth a nL cut tn wnoi outnt rose: iiauor men. The beat cotton picking machine J 1 liquor advocate and all.' They V were ever w a a nigger,' This hs been th reatestaar the South has ever known for theatricala A manager told me not lone; ago that business had ''never been o dull In th North and in the West and that mi being1 manifest): . tit thl nroeosttlon by veopl In th Stat who think about such ' thins,- - and v theyi ar hop. fnt that the Laelslsture wilt see the wisdom of makln tirovIMon for the protection ot this species of the State property.- -. . . ' . - HAS THE NEGRO Ar -1 ABTISTIC ABILITY V simply spell-bound land this shows c.nu h,? mn' Written for Th, Wvtr. ' ra....i . v-ai ... ;. w.'--' l.lt,,n o'who can tU th beginning of - the bearing " oua o material neflcienetas from tha . iKndnnlnf nf wa . . , Vl VUUB . LILB-I uth.tlrt. -It. w,. v . M. ... . . W wa th reason why . th shows tory is T London T at ta.7;. t ts-1"'" T-or na 5 juv oeen ISouth. They are acatteredl bartmiJiv t . nV .H. J .vr wonusnng wntnr n. negro poaseas- VSIKZ ' Playing In i email towns, 1 vat paper of th Earl ef Aiartraouth and the-nrer said ieT." w'a." mor re vol u'ion and mry-ir. "if f h f"" money in thl aactton than anywhere wA?f on else. Of course this sort of thin 1 ant V r,;,Vii.T,.7 1 II I Pt. on tb. word artl.tld atur. W it2f"".V??-!-"0,,th' " Secretary Connor, of th North CtlJ iJ " vuiij vo huh m. mraiT ensia I una HlatorlMI f-nmmiuln. i. a,,i i --.. " -v rJ?!c.hJ! 5f. ?n '!WBdTfiillT copi. of all ths which bw Vwn 51? .ui uiiib. . il ! Dnnn ia mma I n. n.i lui,,.' ,,...n.. ... t i I uuy - w.a. w u u that the Renublicans are aandinr eml Ka..tti I tlon. Somehow, to attempt to '. train cular. all over this county, and maybe used. Tb.y wer not avaUabi whSf tw roj2 Iml ?.uk. ,u . i v.f.n-1 r -tuisuiiMu -.nun , iuvrfi i tirtii ainra iim i nnnr Mir it is a . i ' " w -g.wv-. - - waa a real panlo. A a matter of fact been recently that the Dartmouth prl-1 result - of wperllclal, knowl this panic ha been a lot worse than! v. t ' -...- . k--. t edg veneered on crude taste we that during Cleveland' . admlnlstra-j Among-1 thes , papers the. following I nav ts atrocltle ef Col and John- i was -asv aTSanaB aVtfi V WtTa-at en lag tlon, tor which he wa not responsl- may be taken to ben type ble at alL The Republican are eetv j br of gentlemen ' In Nort! xfl.w AT. " 7, " I th restricted aens cf decorative art tainiy in desperate strait t get out I prepared a memotiat - wbIkh -thal particularly sculpturs and painting ofi gfc, th then I .V' .niomung.' v nave sutements like -thl. chatting, a o"ay or o ago, som friend and myself, about the moving pictures, . It wa -. agreed that they had com to stay, ilk Icy cla automobile and no doubt air Ship. They hav hurt th ordinary shows, and Theatricaf Manager Schlo made aa estimate that they had cut down show, receipt generally aboat zo per cent, vrnen one harks back a. few year and recall the moving pic tnres then, little thins which, ilri-'ad all the time and made the eyes weep and ache, and then come down to the magnificent effect ef the present day it would seem that th limit had haan reached. One firm. Path nrothers. 1 ana, does the greatest work of all a to men pic aires, it Keeps a sreat working force of actors; has a wealth of rotumes; woe to the meet histor ic; place in France and 'make el- tures which r . simply. wonderfuL Other firm, illustrate other parta of Europe in the same way and I dedar I have in the course of the last year toured so much of the "other Hide that I begin to feel quit . at home there, and In planning to. t scrnss next spring, think thl method nf a bfore-hand wp quite valuabla. ly these pictures have an educaUort as ell a ar'Jrtlc value an4 they can i nevervrow tommonp'ace. Thre are! would not transmit enrou-h.th then "hicn. i -ga thinking.- m have no Governor, the succeasor of nnnrnn. I apeclraent f any attempt st decora- Trvon wha had - a.-n . , a I Hon In their native Africa. There ar from thl State to,th governorship of th Egyptian who have a school of New Tork), but Shey eDt thi me- 1'oratlon peculiarly their own nd mortal to Try on, tentng him how h1!"1 developed. And th Greek Just mucn ne wa thought of here end how Karumm wwin win oe ra the y relied upon him to aid them. o" or ll tlm for their beautiful He wrote a letter to the Earl of Dart- acuiprur. Where did Ufcy get the to me nth. la which he askeo him what PhtlonT It may be advanced and he ought to do in the matter in thla will readllr be admitted that the letter enclosing the memorial. Bd ol0I EaTPtlan ? and ; ethr had the letter will new ba nnhiiaha fn.ireacba a higher plane of enlighten the ' first time. . There Is a reference I TO,nt but why was thi the case anlese to it in tne journals ot the Aasembly. oecausa u- poaeeasee inherently a but the letter Itaelf ha aet until now 'Dro theie nature? The negro' ar- bTl in hand. , - . . v - - A i tltio development h never been la The histdrlcal commiaslon Is eoW proportion even to his material pro tecting material front many . other l ires --ompare mm with, tne -North sources, ef course. not only la .this country but fn England, and the plan Is whenever any reference . found In any . cstaloga about anything relative to North Carolina. -td procure a copy. In ese tb original cannot be had. Thus ther sre now made evail- eble opportunitlea for wrlllng'lh true j that thl is all du to slavery, a score of year ago, Juat a the his tory of th civil war could never have ben properly written by any one en t!tn sine nnni tne record wer all publlahed, showing th correspondence cn bth sirt-e. It M in this way that th historical ce mm lfs! on is aing a" really great1 America Indian, for example, . and yea will eee tha meaning of my con tention that th negro ha n Innate consciousness of beauty, or. to av in least, nas -no individuality of ex- "Our Northern friends would ' sav at tni is ail du to slavery." said tha librarian. They seem - to lose sight of the llf of th rp before the day of slavery m America. But let U take the rase of the true, black American negro. He Is vastly superior to his African brrrthar and has' ad vsncefl ti a remarkable tn- !nre the but When w tnnv fnr t !n of bis pofe-!on of the k'gher attri butes of the wind we fail to find them. Paul Lawrence Dunbar la the sole -ceptlen which -comes to my min t . Other.-noteworthy : representatives f their, race .ar -t mulatto; Booker Washington, Dubois and, to com buck to' our discussion, H. O. Tanaer, lb painter. Tanner, tb son, of a bishop of th A..M. K. Church, has- received recognition both In thi country and abroad. Hi ."Raising of Lazarus' waa purchased bir th French government and hangs in th J I-iixemborg from whenc It will be transferred to the Louvre. He live tn Part; presuma bly because there he I allowed to for get his race. .. ? -v; ."A young- negrea. MtU V. Warrick, or Philadelphia I attracting ' atten tion in aeulptur. Visitors to th negro building at th Jamestown Exposition will remember her work. There wer fourteen groups of small eharacterls tlcaily dressed figure representing that development of tb negroe in thl country since their landing at James-, town--mt to t.J,.--.i .-W.. . "Tour . mention of " Jamestown,' spoke op the assistant librarian settUng herself in - the big . leath r chair as - If : j for long talk,.; "brings to my mind tha work of . old Aunt Peggy Taylor, .who. was one ot th exhibitor there." V"- ' I had heard . of her clay mod eling , and had.." seen , a. few pieces, . o one day being - la : Memphis,. Tenneseee, where i she , .. lives, wit h time oa my hands, I went to pay her a visit. She is an old school darkey, who, having: spent moat of her life In the service of her whit "folk, ha now retired to end hr day in the, home of her daughter. When I told, her th object of y visit ah we overcome. , : 'vaS' , "Why. honey,' you com ter met l ho' 1 glad tor hab. yon." When ah began to relate : to mis . her llf history how that from the time she could remember She. had been, playln' an' mekln' fines fo da white. chlllun' - that not being' physically xrong, tne nao never oeen set at nara teak by her master, but had been en couraged, in her. attempt at artlstio expression. "Dey wu gwine 'er hah me taught" she mid. Hut da ' wait! come on en bruk us all up." .Aftr ehe wa freed she continued hef Work nurse or eomoanlon for children and her skill In ' making hlnHa 1 flAM. 1" InaMt. .,Im.I. at ail kind, from the mud of th bayou waa th delight of her little charges. Sh expressed wegret that I had not' coma earlier Is the day that I might have seen the beautiful birds and flower she had mad foe a birthday gift for MM Edna' little girt "Don roa wan' nia ter- ma k vou anmn'tnT-" she aiked. and oft she want nappy a child to get her material. Tneee Consisted Of a pitcher of water and a; tump oi eviitts clay, (.such as m founa m diiTerent counties of Tennessee aad tn Davidson for oh of .North Caro line).' An -ordinary table knife served to make sharp llnca,. VLemme see ' bug," and with stiff looking flnger, she deftly and quickly modeled the plastic clay, and she kept up a runninar stream of monologue, which I cou.d not always eaten.. "I kin tntk anyt 'In. I mad Mars Mor Malone mos kill htsself lafln'at er grasshopper I mad s ter nop, ter Ueb n.' Did'n you neber heahbout de grasshopper hoppln teri Ueb'nT Sain' Peter say, 'How you git heahT De grasshopper say 'I jes hop ped,' Sain" Peter sea, 'Hop oa by.' Den de ench wu'rm com along. Sain' i'-ter- ay,vIlow you git heahV . 'by.-' enches,' say de wu-rm, 'Come in, thou ,' good an' faithful servant' sea Sain', Peter. I made dat ol grasshopper an' -took ' him to Marse More Malone." I asked her If h knew whether any or -ner ancestors possessed thi talent thinking to hear of some In dian forbear from whom she had in- iiunieu ner reany remaraaoie gin- for her face, while having no ! traits ot th Caucasian race, showed more finely marked feature than that of the typical pure blood negro. Her answer wa that ah had been told by ner xatner,. wno was oorn in Africa,, that her mother' was 'gifted tn like manner, "I'm Jes African nigger?'' One of her statues took first prise at . the Trt-Stat Fair In October. It Is of a negro boy and tb head I almost a perfect representation. The feature are unmistakably African, from the flat head to th thick grinning lips. To satisfy - my curiosity concerning her. model for thl. statue, sh took me to a calendar hanging on' her wait and Z aw af once the truth of her copy. "I maae -r naia -r ires1 a en- Roose velt but It want no good 'cause I dldn hew no good plcter ter go by. I promus my chlllun ter mey Gen. For- ' ret fo em it dyd brung me one er m pcter.i:.-'4iiv.,.,;,;i',. .'. ' Th bur had been finished, then a violet took it place and the old wo- jnan would have been happy to con- , , a aai . . . . . . . . uuuv inuviiiiueiy du aiayea 10 waicn her.' Her pleasure at a little pratae and her plea to me for help In getting her work burned were pathetic tore mr self away only with the - promise to come again and a small gift of silver in appreciation Of her entertainment . I should Ilk to make Aunt recsrV acquaintance." aald the visitor, as she' roe to take her leave. nVhen I gt , to ktemphl f shall call on her. for n a representative of the best tym ef eld darkle, '1ih I worth knowing. though h will never aet the Thames ' en fire aa a enlptress.; If she v were younger -who knows?--: ; - ' v .'--iH.''.'.-.Vi;.'r S. It. B.' '; Testimony' to Judge JInrphj Ability Th following was. adopted I by the bay of Catawba Superior Court :at , NewtOQ at th November, term, whlci ended Saturday; ,s4;.:';;v.-f i?-: i. . -'' 'VnaantvaA-Tliat If I- .m a... th4 bar practicing!, Intho;. Superior t Court of Catawba county that In tha : person f'th Hon, J. D. Murphy the court has a presiding officer v. hoe ability,' courage, high sense of duty v and easy- dignity render the practice - . et e. law before him a genuine pieaaor and glv assurance to liti- gnta, witnesses and offioer of ' the court that-in. all matter of buslnea '. befor the court equal and exact Jus tice will be don ln such manner a . to Inspire respect for the law aad for th COUrtS. . . . . V A . ' Pullman Company Again Tlns Decls- . - i ; . low, Agninst Texaa Railroad. , , ' New. Orleans, . Noy. 14 In th'. United State Circuit Court ef Apia's thi afternoon, th case of the Pull-. man Company against th Texas Rati- ; road was again decided In favor of tb Pullman Company. Th vas in volved the order of the Texas oorn mission requiring a reduction ot about td per cent. , ta the charges of tin. Pullman ln Texaa.- The Pullman Com-nanv- diannted - tha erder. The - came on- n appeal - to the Vm-t State Circuit Court of Aopals. 1 'A HOW IS 10CR DIGESTIOX? , Mr. Mary DOwHng. ef Ne. i i 5 h Are . 8a Franc teco. rcommni3ii a remedy i -stomach trouble. ?h OrS'i'u : . ; tb wonderful effect of Eiecific I .' ; a ease ot acute U4;ystioa, prjinp-t i tMiimonlat I am fully earn-in,-.- tor stomach and liver trouti..- i Hitters is the best remedy on tha s to-day." This STat tonic snd a mH..-ine Invlceratee the ?en. i lha M1 and Is -"- k-,-' f.rn of female -wea . -. I r.ni & Co.'s dr. 5 f s
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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