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"" For EVERY DOLLAR you spend with us YOU GET VALUE RECEIVED. We have reduced the price on our Negligee 10 o cents, i neseoniru. at me price are exceptional values, we have your size now; we may not have it next week. our Clothing are desirable and the prices that we make will please you. 313-o.gr grsr ! Shirts from $.o;' Thepatternsi' i CtlL SALESMEN: Will H. Matthews, Chas. W. Lindsay, Chas. E. Brower, Harry Sergeant St., 3-xeexisTooxo C. : : : . " MM I - ' " " r r : : : THE SUPREME ISSUE. The Campaign on the Oonstitution ' al Amendment Has Opened. The following dispatch from Raleigh to the Baltimore Sun, in rtgard to the feme ia the next eleotion to .be held in North Caro lina, it a clear and concise state raent of facts and will be read with interest : For the first time, perhaps, in Nerth Carolina's political history m campaign has begun a full year Dsiore tne eleotion. The campaign is now "on," and there is seneral talk about its supreme issue, the disirancnisement of all negroes who cannot read or write. The amount of literature distributed by tne Democrats already in adrocacy of the amendment far exceeds any thing eTer done in that line save in a campaign year. Talks with Democratic leaders who now completely dominate pol itics in this state-show that they belieye the work already done as sures the ratification of the consti tutional amendment limiting the negrofranchise. They say the ne groes in the country will not regret to see the amendment bo ratified ; that for sjome-years they have been tired of voting, as they have seen that their vote, solidly Republican, was of no benefit to them, but only served to make a breach between them and their white employers or neighbors. The faot is that for three years the political relations have greatly strained the other re lations of the races. The political relations have invariably proved the ground of trouble. Negroes know this as well as -whites. Once they were proud of it. The events of the last two or three years have broken that rpride, which was in it self in the highest degree unjust and dangerous. The Republicans know that the Democrats will win their way with the new franchise -amendment. Governor Russell himself seys that he is sure It cannot be defeated; .Republicans are breaking away from party lines on account of it. While State Chairman Holton eays that the Rupnblican party wiU make the vote against the amend- thoughtful Republicans as Senator Fritchard know very well this canndt be done, and say so frankly. The Republicans, when asked what will be the status of the negroes af ter next year, say they will not be admitted into the party conven tions, as they will then be valueless to the party. Such is the state ment made by so well known a Re publican as J. C. L. Harris, fat years secretary of the state comi mittee. . " . . j Ostracism of negroes for failure to vote the Republican ticket has for many years been carried to great length by their own race.! Women have been led into it, and the i matter has even gone into the: churches. But there will be no more of this ostraoism in the fu ture. Negroes who oan vote -shall vote as they wish. Such is the Democratic dictum. The Demo-j crate have endeavored to make it the unpardonable sin to manipulate the negre vote. They declare that the great disfranchisement of the negro vote, now impending, was brought, about by these manipulate ore. The post-election trouble at Wilmington last November was an outward and visable sign of Demo cratic enmity toward such manin. ulators. The Fusionists went into power on the basis of necrro votes. and yet so vast will be the change wrougnt mat in a little over two and one-half years from January 1. 1897, the negro, then the master of tne situation, will become a mere figure head, with a votinar strencrth cut down from 120,000 to some thing like 25,000 or 30.000. Rev. R. H. W. Leak, who has for three years represented the Repub lican element among his race op posed to Governor Russell, says the negroes care very -little for the amendment one way or another. He-intimates very strongly that not many ol the rank and file, except in the towns, will vote against it. Up to 1876 the elections in this state were held in August. The constitution of 1875 continued that date, but gave thalegislature power to change the time and it was made in November. Now it is changed back to August. Some Republi cans expressed a desire to have it in September, but the Democrats thought it wiser, if a chan era were to be made to go back to the con stitutional date and thus avoid any possible entanglements. - ine election next year will be under a new and ' strict election law.' It is against the latter that some of the Republicans and Pop- uiists cry out. The Demooratssay it is a fair law, one which will in sure the purity of the ballot by preventing ex-convicts and persons imported from South Carolina and Virginia and Tennessee from vot- mg.- An early and lively camDaizn next year is assurred. The limita tion of the negro franchise will be put to the fore. The Democrats will seek to get the biggest possi ble majority for it 40,000 at least. They are now planning for this months what are known as non partisan meetings in the interest of tne amendment. Persons with whom Senator Butler, has talked sav he has declared his intentien to support the amendment, and a lit tle later in the year declare for it in his paper. So far as now known Populists will almost to a man sup port it. , Astor's Son American. New York, Aug. 15. A special cable to the Evening Journal from London says William Waldorf As tors notorious renunciation of American citizenship is confronted by no stronger antithesis that the sturdy1 attitude of bis son and heir, William Waldorf Astor, Jr., who is a loyal American. Although he has been for years surrounded by the influences of British society and institutions the young man has reiterated to his companions, many of them ifons of tne nobility, that he. is an American citizen and intends so to remain. Only a day or two ago he said to a cnum at Jfiton, where he has won laurels as "Captain of the Boats. "I am an American, of course. My mother was an American." I "My family is an American fam ily," he said to a classmate at Eton, "and has, like many other families in tne united btates, achieved some distinction. I was born there, as my father was, and the fortune of my family was made there. I "Why, then, should I forswear my citizenship and become, when I sball reach my majority, a British subject? I owe nothing to Eng land, save education and many friends, and why should these mat matters induce me to become an Englishman? Railroad Material for the Orient. Philadelphia. Aug. 13. The British steamship Puritan started today for China and Siberia with the largest cargo of railway mate rial that has ever gone from any port in the United States. Her destination is Vladivostock and New-Ch wang. She took out forty Baldwin locomotives and tenders and eighteen steel bridges for the Chinese Eastern Railroad, besides several thousand tons of miscella neous cargo. TO CCHC A COLD IJT OOT5 DAT Take LaxatlYr Broma OnimtM T&hlrtii. An i Dnuxuta refund diomt i? it fuu tm dire. tSa Wedded to be Polite! London, Aug. 14. Mrs.. Howard Kingscote, the hypnotic daughter of the British ambassador to Mad- ria, wno induced iora iiyron and two sedate country parsons to ruin themselves to supply her with money, has appeared in a still more extraordinary suit. In 1890 she became acquainted with Captain Adams, a young officer of the Lan cers. She told him that a widow, a friend of hers, was involved in debt and the only means of saving her from bankruptcy was marriage. Adams promised to marry her friend, whom he had never seen, the conditions being that they were not to live together. The lady was not to take her husband's name nor was he to support her. were married and never lived They to gether, Adams, on the day jof his wedding, leaying for India with hie regiment. He returned to England in 1897 and met his wife, who said she was acting as a trained nurse with i wealthy lady, was perfectly com f ortable and did not desire to live with him. He subsequently learned that she had been living with a man named Bell and he began proceedings for divorce, obtaining a decree It transpired at the hearing of the suit that the divorced lady was Mrs. Drummond Wolff, a sister-in- law of Mrs. Kingscote, and the lat ter recently induced her to make a perjured affidavit declaring herself entitled to certain property, on the strength of which Mrs. Kingscote raised a large sum of money. . Blood on Samoa's Moon ' i t Vancouver. B. C, Aug. 14 1 The trouble in tne Samoan Islands did not end with the departure of the representatives of the powers from Apia, although they confidently thought they had restored peace and brought the rival factions to gether. F. S. Meade, who arrived here on the steamship Miowera, af ter a trip through the islands of the South Seas, savs the' two f ac tiona were still at war very shortly after the commissioners left, and that they engaged in a pitched bat. tier The rival kings took no pari, but the leaders of the parties were engaged. Several were killed ! on both sides, and a large I number wounded. ! Mr. Meade says he got his in formation from an officer of the German cruiser Faulke. whfch had been stationed at Apia during the . . - , mm ... Scholarships in the Agricultural and Mechanical College. A great many enquiries having been made, and some misunder standing having arisen, concerning scholarships in the Agricultural and Mechanical College and the method of securing them, the fol lowing statement is made for the benefit of the public and parties interested: 1. The number of scholarship is 120, being one for each member of tne house of representative. Each county is entitled to as many schol arshipa as it has representatives. 2. Appointments to these schol arships can be made by any mem ber of the house of representatives and any member of the state sen ate and any county board of edu cation. ' 3 Appointments when once made are good until the student gradu ates, usually four years, provided his record is honorable for scholar ship, conduct and character. Stu dents already in the college under appointments previously made will retain their scholarships. 4. Persons receiving appoint ments to scholarship must comply with the following conditions: (a) They must be at least fifteen . . years oia. (b) They must be of good moral character. (o) They must have knowledge of arithmetic through vulcrar and decimal fractions, of English gram mar and or the leading facts in 'American history. (d j The appointee must be un able and his parents or guardian. if he is a minor, must be unable to pay his tuition and room rent, and this must be certified to by the ap pointee, by his parent or guardian, and by the person making the appointment. 5. Blank appointments and cer tificates will be furnished on application. 6. Examinations to test the prep aration of candidates will be held in each county court-house on Sat urday, August 19th, at 10 a. m., by the county superintendent. Can didates can also be examined at the college on Tuesday, September 5tb. 7. Appointees will be notified bv the president of the college whether they pass the examinations suc cessfully and whether their ap pointments to scholarships have been confirmed by the college au thorities. Until this notification s made they cannot rely upon the 8. As there may bo oon i; pointments than there are iix cies, the following order will Uii served for the present yetr tyt college authorities i pointments: - (a) All nomina pointment must be received bLi August 2Cth. (b) Vacancies from snjeoai will be filled by the-ippointsa of young men from the ismeeo:!? (c) If there be no nomiBrt by August 26th to fill racist n ratifying tj' i ioni for i; fcelectioB nomineeita are cotWf the noBisf from any county a be made among the other counties according to pwr ty of nomination. ( (d)In case there RohnlaraHinR fnr all the appointments will be rati1-' terwards as vacancies occur, ii cordance with the aboTe rule. 9. Persons making appoiBts' will notify President Geo. T. ston, Raleigh, X. C, possible, as selection will be t according to priority of so tion. ' 'I : j a 10. The scholarship entire holder to free tuition and ro rent. He must meet all the - expenses; Geo. T. WiKosr, Prei : Kaleigb.y The Postofflce Departrnest , made arrangements to-w;.. an automobile into the BtH-J5; i f Tuttimore, IIUU OCAV.VW v. ----- about two weeks lir""0.sr be put ! into wrvice. An will be! made tojearn bo horses' wojk can r, fflf4 automobile wagon ef For Iniants u The Kind You Hare T Bears the Signature of . ?. . r TohB-l nrnDf t I xo-cmt son Nr?n .old- It ""7"',, Pnijohin Kidney . fTrrrd to? nemeayjubiic vooaUr price, fNLY t."NfT liiras"" . utWARi timonivv-.- -pllUiocest. BJ04" - .tifflOli PHILADELPHIA.- tet for KIDNEY rflR Taa ganuiaa haa L. 2. Q. oa eada tablet. recent troubles. appointment. Ho waM Gardner, CcX.rP- II..
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