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This Aegus o'er the people's rights,
Doth an eternal vigil keep
No soothing strains of Maia'sson,
Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep"
Vol. XVII.
GOLDSBORO, K. C, THURSDAY, MAS' 3. 1900.
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FROM THE STATE CAPITAL
Republican State Convention
Marse Jeter on Deck But
ler Scheme No 1 Foiled.
Raleigh, N. C, May 1. Now it is
Marse Jeter's turn!
As these lines are written the coon
politicians of Raleigh are standing
on the street corners discussing the
probability of what their State Con-wen-shun
may bring forth to mor
row, when it assembles in this city
to ratify the will and fiat of Marse
Jeter.
Few out-of-town Republicans,
black or white, have shown up, so
far: at lengthy interims and wide
distances only a lew 'old timers"
are seen. But all of Marse Jeter's
"invited guests" will be here to
night and early in the morning, and
by to-morrow night the slate will be
exposed to public view. The proba
ble action of the Convention or
"ratification meeting," more proper
ly speaking and the personnel of
the ticket will soon be known.
The action of Chairman Simmons
in refusing to arrange a joint can
vass for Butler's little toy-soldier
ticket with the Democratic State
nominees, and for Butler individual
ly with the "Democratic candidate
for the U. S. Senate," as requested
by the Pop. Chairman (who is now
Maryann himself) is generally ap
proved. The reasons given are con
clusive, concerning the State ticket,
and as for the Senatorial candidate,
Mr. Simmons very truly and proper
ly informs Mr. Butler the Demo
cratic party at present has no "can
didate" for the U. S. Senate, and
will not have until the result of the
State Primary for Senator in No
vember takes place by which meth
od the Democratic candidate is to
be nominated this year, by the Dem
ocratic voters directly, at the bal'ot
box. It has not been so long ago that
Butler has forgotten it that he and
the other Pop leaders refused to
permit Democratic candidates or
speakers to address Populistic au
diences. Now he knows he can no
longer prove to be a drawing card
himself, and he and Doctor Cy. would
like to get a chance to inflict the
great crowds that turn out to hear
the matchless oratory of our Ay cock
(and the balance) with their haran
srues. But no; it will be better for
the people to let Butler "chew the
rag" instead and it is so ordered.
Doctors Cy. and Maryann, I hear,
swear they will "meet" (and anni
late of course), the Democratic can
didates. But the date of this miracul
ous catastrophe has not yet been
"fixed" by the fixers.
The Christ ot This Year's Cast is
a Hard-Working Stove Maker.
The devout peasants of Oberam
mergau are preparing for the decen
ial performance of "The Passion
Play," which will be given at fre
quent intervals during the spring
and summer. The greater part of the
cast has been changed since the last
presentations. The Christ of this
year's play is the son of a stove
maker himself; the Magdalene is the
daughter of an innkeerper,who helps
care for her fathers hostelry, and the
Mary is the daughter of the the Bur
gomaster, a pretty girl of eighteen.
A most interesting and profusely
illustrated article on the play and
the players will appear in the June
Ladies' Home Journal.
A Monster Devil Fish
Destroying its victim, is a type
of Constipation. The power of
this murderous malady is felt on
organs and nerves and muscles
and brain. There's no health till
it's overcome. But Dr. King's
New Life Pills are a safe and
certain cure. Best in the world
for Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and
Bowels. Only 25 cents at J. H.
Hill and Son's Drug Store.
Tom Wa tson says he is out of
it to stay.
SPIRIT OF KNIGHTHOOD.
Ghastly as is modern warfare,
seutitneutal phases are con
stantly recurring. The recent
death of the French engineer
who bed so long and so success
fully directed the strategic move
ments of the Boer forces caused
a thrill in every human heart.
General Da Villebois Mareuil
died in the thick of the tight, and
the British who found his body
on the field, buried it with mili
tary honors at Bosbop. Bravery
commands the universal homage
of brave men. The English code
has changed since the days of
Seanne d'Arc and Marshall Ney.
General Mareuil was the latest
type of the military adventurer.
who loved war for war's sake.
He was undoubtedly a believer in
human liberty, though the Brit
ish people justly thought his en
thusiasm misdirected. He was
not a hired mercenary, such as
the Amarican people associate
with the Hessians sent here to
destroy tho Colonists. Money had
little consideration with him.
We have known two examples of
this type of man. One was Gen
eral Tchernayeff, who espoused
Servia's cause, and by his mas
terly conduct in the unequal
struggle made by the little State
against the might of the Turk
won the admiration of all Europe, j
The other was Generall Ryan,
who was captured on the Virgin
ius and shot at Santiago He was
an Irishman, but he had served
on the Federal side in the civil
war, had assisted in the over
throw of Maximilian and his
heart responded to the cry of
down, trodden Cuba. He couldn't
keep out of a war in which his
sympathies were enlisted.
But in these days knighthood
has not been in flower. A suspi
cion of self-interest has too of
ten obscured true motives and
generous purpose.
Ah! but sbere was a time when
the soldier of fortune was the pop
ular idol. Bard and troubadour
extolled his deeds; Froissart, Scott
and Dumas embalmed him in his
tory. Throughout all the wars of
mediaeval France and the long
feud of Guelph end GhibeliDe, he
bore a gallant part. Often-the
fiiend of today was his foe to
morrow. Cabals and conspiracies
that occurred around him made
him the natural victim of any
man who could draw and thrust
before he could get on guard. His
sword was the onlv protector he
knew. Though his feudal lord or
his king might show him favor,
he was the guardian of the body of
his royal master, not the king of
his.
The Italian chronicles are made
interesting solely by the dramatic
action that the condottieri give
them. The republics, always ecu
broiled against each other, went
to auct:on for their fighting cap
tains. Turbulent Parma, Florence
and Lucca entrusted their desti
nies to alien knights of the sword.
The Englishman, Sir John Hawks
wood, was the Mareuil of his day.
He was the soul of honor and
Florence gratefully acknowledged
his services.
Murat and Bernadotte are two
stars in the galaxy of brave men
who rallied under the burgee of
the greatest soldier of fortune
tnat the world has known.
The soldier of fortune fought
with Garibaldi; he was praised
for valor in our civil war; he
was found on the barricades of
the Commune and re-entered,
Paris with the Versailles army ;
he bore a large part with Don
Carlos in the Basque province.:
the Turke-Russian conflict blazed
with his fellows; and his brother
of the sea stood behind the guns
at Manila and Santiago,
The soldier of fortune is broth
er to us all. The world is the
brave man's country.
General De Villebois MareuU,
we give you the salute of the
dead, as the guns of the British
firing party echo across the
veldt from tne furthest kopje:
Died, gloriously!
Hanna and Quay Are Oat. i
New York Journal
The old proverb that "when
republican statesmen fall out hon
est men get their due" is likely
to be thoroughly illustrated in the
case of Haunt and Quay.
An honest investigation of the
bribery charges against Hanna
was prevented by the manifest
wish of the administration. There
upon Hanna mounted the roost of
senatorial purity, where he has
since remained, cackling at inter
vals and planning subsidy raids.
Hanna'8 'holier than thou" at
titude defeated Quay. He violated
every principle of honor among
thieves. He not only fled the scene
of combat, but he t;ed the hands
of that old party crusader, Chaun-
cey M. Dewew, who would have
voted'for Quay-;:
Quay is recovering from the
shock and is planning revenge.
He proposes to find out something
about the Hanna bribery charge?.
And worse than anything else,
from a Hanna point of view,Qaay
proposes to defeat his ship subsi
dy steal.
Think of it! Qiay defeating a
steal. No wonder Hanna has taken
to the woods. When we consider
these things we are almost dis
posed to forgive Governor Stone's
violation of the eoastUut:on in
appointing Quay to the Senate.
Our Growth in Population
Ladies' Home Journal.
There were bus 5,300,000 peo
ple in America whea this cen-.
tury opened. France had five
times as many peopl ; Germany,
and even Austria, had fiur times
America's population, Italy bad
three times as many, and so had
Great Britian. Even Spain had
double our number of people,
and little Portugal was almost
our rival in numbers. We have
more people now than any Eu
ropean nation except Russia,
which alone leads us. We have
as many people as live in all
Great Britian and France com
bined. We have one-half more
people than Germany. We have,
practically, 75,000,000 people in
the United States, and 10,000,000
more in our new possessions.
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MILLS MAY SHUT DOWN.
Strike ot Bui ding Trades Ha3
Brought Lumber Market to
S a.-dsrill,
Norfolk, Va., April 30. From
an anthoraive source it was learn
ed to-day that interesting devel
optnents are expected from a
meeting of the North Carolina
Pine Lumber As&ociation which
is pcheduled to be held here next
Tuesday. This association is com
posed of owners of abaut twenty
mills in Virginia and North Car
olina and practically controls the
lumber market. It is understood
that the astocjiatiou will very prob
ably order all its mills to shut
down on account of conditions
brought about by the strikes of
carpenters in the north and west.
These strikes have afected the
lumber trade to a great extent.
Two months ago the mills could
not supply the demand, To-day
they have millions of feet of lum
ber for which there is no demand.
The closing of the mills would
throw at leest 20,000 men out of
employment.
HOW BEPUBLICANS RULE.
It is beginning to look as if
Mark Hanna will have another
million-dollar campaign fund to
EKf.9Swy. 4 as
president a second time. Hanna's
vote prevented Quay from being
seated in the senate o'f the United
States. And it is generally be
lieved in political circles in Wash
ington tint Henna has made a
trade with Wanamaker and his
followers in Pennsylvania, by
which he is to get a big campaign
fund and put Mr. Wanamaker, or
one of his right-band men, in
charge of the national campaign
in Pennsylvania.
I" return for this it is said that
Hanna and the present republican
administration will throsv all of
its influence in Pennsylvania to
the election of Wanamaker to the
United S ates senate.
John Wanamakar is many times
a mi bonnire. He was in tbe cabi
net us pottmas-ter-general under
the Harrison administration. Since
that time his greatest ambition has
been to go to the Senate. It will
cost him a million or two, but
that will not be a great price to
pay in order to gratify his per
sonal ambition. If elected he will
be seated and will hold his seat,
though he may spend a great for
tune to get it.
Clark, of Montana, however, is
to be turned out of the Senate be
cause it has been proven that he
spent something like $250,000 to
be elected. The trouble with
Clark was that he loaned money
to individuals in the legislature
and to those who had political in
fluence in Montana. There are
others in the Senate to-day who
have spent more money than Clark
to get into that body, and yet they
hold their seats without ques
tion Hanna, for instance. Wan
amaker will hold his seat if he
gets it.
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COTTON MANUFACTURING
Boston Herald.
The improvement ia the cot
ton manufacturing . business
which has characterized the last
year or two has made itself felt
in the South in an astonishing
manner.lt is estimated that, since
the first of the year 1899, the
number of new cotton mills that
have been built in the Southern
States represents an increase in
productive power of nearly 50
per cent.
No doubt the cotton mills in
the North have had a profitable
experience since the first of
1868, but it had not led to any
thing approaching this tremen
dous percentage of increase in
productive power. " Wa imagine
that in some classes of manu
facture, particularly the coarser
counts, the profits in a Southern
mill for the last two years have
been much greater than the pro
fits in a similar mill located
north of the Mason and Dixon's
line; hence, if our Northern
mills have made good profits the
Southern mills must haye made
astonishingly great ones, and
it is this that has induced so
many capitalists, both North
and Sjutb, to vigorously engage
in this business. ;
The time when this competi
tion is keenly felt is when busi
ness is depressed. When prices
are rising and the cotton manu
facturer can find a ready sale for
his product at almost any price
which in reason he sees fit to
ask, even a poorly located and
inefficiently conducted mill may
be able to not only make both
ends meet, but to return a profit
to its owners.
But when the cond'uions are
reversed, and it is only by
shrewd business management,
economy in administration and
the possession of local ad van
tages that profits are possible,
then the less favorably situated
mills must drop behind. This
was the case a few years ago,
and the chances are that we
shall not avoid a repetition of
this experience.
Exii Tim Wa son.
Charlotte Observer
The letter of Thos. E. Watson,
of Georgia, to the Atlanta cor
respondent of the Associated
Press, saying that under no cir
cumstances would he accept any
nomination for any office, and ask
ing to be numbered among "tho
politically dead" and to be allowed
'to rest in peace," is significant
and interesting. He is a bright
man an attractive speaker and
writer: a faw years ago much
more so than any other Populist
in the South. Moreover, he ap
peared to be an honest, straight
forward fanatic. Now he sees ev
ery one-of his former opinions
negatived by the facts, He was
wroDg about everything; his party
was wrong abont everything, as
events have demonstrated. He
and it are back numbers, are only
memories now, and in a few years
will be forgotten, and seeing this
he gathers up his robe and retires
cheerfully into oblivion.
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is used. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St.,
New York.
GENhRAL NEWS.
Strategist Spencer Wilkinson is
standing the test of experience very
well. He is vindicating as it were his
much abused calling.
The Hon. Richard Crocker denies
the stories of hit untimely demise,
and it must he conceded that he is
well iuformed on the point involved.
Sequoyah, the Indian chief who
reduced the language of the Chero
kees to written characters, will have
a monument erected to his memory
by the people or the Cherokee nation.
Then, doubtless to show Low civi
lized they are, the Indians wi 11. wran
gle as to the artistic merits of the
statue.
In these times of forwardness the
moderation and modesty of San
Diego county, California, is notable.
The county voted to support the can
didacy of U. S rant, Jr., one of its
citizens, as a delegate to the Phua -delphia
convention, but refused to
consider a resolution indorsing hinx
for Vice-President.
Controller Coles, of New York,
now has statements made under oath
that double payments were made for
the removal, by the cart load, of
snow from the streets of the metro -polis
during the winter. More
than this Street ommissioner Na
gle has admitted that he certified
the double payment as correct. It
has been estimated that 283,000 ille
gal tickets were issued.
A physician who moved from his1
home m Scott county, Kansas, for
the reason that he could t ot make a
living there, has now gone back be
cause the citizens, who miss his ser
vices, succeeded in having the
County t'ommisioners make him an
appropriation of f 500 a year. Of
course this extra taxation will be
paid by sick and well alike.
Here is a story that Boston has
not yet denied, but the newspapers
of that town are now all engaged in
preparing scare heads big enough to
express their indignation at the
libel. Little Harry, 3 years old, born
and educated in the Hub, was shown
an engraving of the Ahgelus. He
looked at it a long time and finally
said, with an air of relief, "Golf!"
If the gossips are right Governor
Koseveh's trip to the West involving:
speeches and interviews with politi
cal leaders has the most curious pur
pose of any such journey yet record
ed. It is simply to prevent his friends
from joining in any attempt to nomi
nate him for the Vice-Presidency or
creating a situation whereby he
would be unable to refuse the offer
of such a nomination.
Admiral Dewey's political manag
ers are according to the New York
Times finding out that it is very
hard to manage him because of his
vigorous mind and his impulse to act
on his own judgment. It now be
comes the public duty of our New
York contemporary to print the
names of tese managers in large
type. "What they are finding out is
for the moment of minor import
ance. .:
London's reception of "the
ican Beauty" is a dubious one.
company was warmly welcor
its old friends and Edna Maj
ready denying her engagement tx.
this or that nobleman or the gift of
priceless jewels from Lord So and
So, but the comments on the new
play are in all degrees of blame and
praise. The cake-walk, however,
which is new to Londoners (just
think of that!) made a great hit with
the first-night audience.
It was hardly picturesque nor
poetically just that Ex-Captain Car
ter was clothed as a private citizen
when he was taken from Fort Colum
bus, N. Y.. to the military prison at
Fort Leavenworth. The idea seems
to have been to keep his removal as
near a secret as possible. According
to one detailed account he wore a
well-made dark cutaway suit, a meal
colored whipcord overcoat, short,
with strapped seams; a black derby,
a high turndown collar with dark
purple butterfly bow and buff-colored
kid gloves. His escort wore full
uniform.
WHEN NATURE
Needs assistance it may be best to ren
der it promptly, but one should remem
ber to use even the most perfect rem
edies only when needed. The best and
most simple and gentle remedy is the
Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the
California Pig Syrup Co.
Census takers are armed with
legal authority when they ask,
u What is your age?"
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