The News and Observer VOL.XLVI. NO. 73. LEADS ALL IMTO CAROUNA DAHLBEB 11 NEWS 111 GIRGUU7JN. THE UNITED TRUSTS OF AMERICA That is What This Country Has Become under Hanna. WETMORE TALKS SENSE A RICH -TOBAGO) M.VM FACTI R l-ju who knows mil*: EYILS OF TRUSTS. . . . ■ ■ ——- I THE TRUST AND THE LOB3Y MUST CO There Is Needed a Governor Who Shall Say to the Lobby, the! Tool of the Trusts, “You Must Stay Away from the State Capitol.” St. Louis, Mo., May 27. —(Editorial < ’oirespomleiice.)—One of t In* most inter esting figures in the public eye in the Central West is Col. Moses C. Wot more, wlio spoke on “Trusts ami Democracy” at the big anti-trust banquet, lie emne to St. Louis as a boy, with no money, and lie ranks today with the millionaires of St. Louis. He lias'made Lis millions honestly—in the good, old-fashioned way. Until recently, lie was a memlier of the big tobacco firm of Liggiit. Myers A* Co., the biggest concern in the West. It has been a thorn in the side of the American Tobacco Company, consistent ly refusing to go into the trust or to sell out to them. Last winter, when it was given out with a great flourish of trum pets that the Union Tobacco Com pany had been organized to lighMhe To bacco trust, an option was obtained on the Liggett, Myers & Co. concern, and under that sleight-of-hand performance the Trust bought by indirection what they Ttad failed to buy directly. Col. Wetmore has been the lending anti trust lighter in the West, and lie is eon tident that if the Democrats make a vigorous war. on trusts they will win tin* light hands down in 1000. Col. Wetmore is no politician, has no political ambition and is interested in politics now because he has had a per sonal opportunity to see the dangerous and ruinous spirit pursued by the gigan tic trusts. He lias plenty of money and could spend the balance’of his days in luxury and foreign travel, but lie is one of the rich men of America who have not fallen down in worship of the Holden Calf. He loves liis country more than he loves dollars, and has not per mitted wealth to lead him away from those principles which give equal oppor tunity to all men im the race for fortune. Now that he has gotten rich. Col. Wet more is not willing to join hands with trust magnates to kick down the lad der on which he and they climbed to success. He wants to keep the ladder free so that other industrious and push ing men may. round by round, climb up to a fortune or a competency. That’s the feeling that actuates Col. Wet more, and it is liecause id" such a sentiment that he has thrown himself, heart and soul, into this anti-trust movement which is profoundly stirring the people in all pai ls of the country. Col. Wetmore has devoted his life to business, and does not claim talent as a speaker. He has a head full or sense, however, and liis speech at the banquer «ui “Trusts and nomocracy” was full of epigrams fraught with Humiliation or his subject, lie said: COL. WKTMOHH’S SPEECH. Ladies and Gentlemen: The next President of the United States will l»c a Democrat; an old-fash ioned, simon pure, Jeffersonian Demo crat, with the fear of Hod and the love of man in his heart. He will he elected on a platform riveted with holts of steel to the eternal truth of the equality of man: and the strongest plank in that platform Avill declare, in unequivocal uimpstakaldc language that the nefari ous and soulless trust system shall no longer have a place in the American Ite puldic. And when this platl irm shall have lieen made we will place upon it a man in whom the people wiM have the most implicit confidence: a man who will veto every bill passed by Congress bearing the impress of the slimy hand of the trusts. And if the national admin istration. consisting of the trusts, ol Senator Hanna and Mr. McKinley, say: “We, too, are opposed to trusts.” we will say to them: “For more than three years you have had absolute control of the Government in all its branches, and you have per mitted it to almost become the United Trusts of America, and we want r*r> more of stub anti trust work, and will have no more of such anti-trust people.” •We shall say to them that the people of this country intend to take the Gov ernment from the hands of the trusts and place it where it belongs, and the people will assume the Government handed down to them by their fathers; and if they say to us: “We intend to continue the single g,dd standard,” we will say to them that the people in the future will decide on what kind of money they will use. And if they say to us: “We must have a large standing army of 100,000 men or more to protect our foreign possessions ami to keep the peace at home, we .shall point them to Santiago ar.d the Pliilip pines, and say to them that the national guardsman and the American volunteer are good enough soldiers for us. The people will understand that a large standing army is in the interest of trusts. With the right kind of a man on the right kind of an anti-trust platform we will caro* every State in this Union, and we will carry the country by three million popular majority, for at least three millions of patriotic Republicans will vote with us. And. provided we at home nominate th(> right kind of men on our State and legislative tickets we will carry the grand old Democratic State of Missouri by an unprecedented majority, which, in my opinion, will reach 200,000. But we cannot and we must not oc cupy any equivocal grounds on the trust question, and we must make the lobby—which is the tool of the trusts — understand that they must stay away from Jefferson City when the Legisla ture is in session making laws for the people of the State. We must elect as Governor a man who will have the moral courage to say to the members of the lobby: “You must stay away from the State Capitol while the Legislature is in session,” and he must have Ihe physical courage to stand, if necessary, at tin* door of the State Capitol with a double-barreled shotgun in his hand and see that they do stay away. There is no question as to how the people of Missouri, and of the whole country, feel on this trust and lobby question. The time for action has come. We have our friends, the enemy, up against the proposition, and the national administration, consisting of the trusts. Senator Ilanna and the President, can not get away from it. $ Jji Now you may read longer, mure elab orate and more learned orations, but 1 do not believe anybody can compress more sound sense in a shorter space. When Col. Watmore withdrew from the business, declining to remain In any way connected with a trust, the em ployes Hocked around him and he made them a short speech, for there is no employer in St. Louis so highly esteemed by the men employed by him as Col. Wetmore. Last night at the banquet, when Col. Wetmore, was introduced, lie was received with general applause, but the most enthusiastic greeting came from a company of young women sitting in one of tin' highest, galleries. They were a company of young women who had been employed by »C<d. Wetmore’s concern. It was the iinest sight I saw at the banquet. There is nowhere a scene fuller of pleasure than when there subsists a genuine regard between em ployer and employee. It is a relation ship that you find strong wherever*the just employer comes in personal contact with the men and women to whom he gives employment. As trusts rise and nourish, this relationship comes to an end. And that is one of the evils of trusts. Next to the fact that trusts deny a fair chance to individual success upon in dependent lines, the death blow given to the kindly relations that subsisted be tween employer and employe when they worked together, is the great and over shadowing curse of the modern trust. It is a hopeful sign when a rich man. who could increase liis private* fortune by helping further to strengthen the trusts, stands out against tliein. ft shows that wealth does not cause all men to Inst* sight of the rights of the humble, and that a man who has made his money honestly is the first to cry out against those outlaws of commerce who seek to add million to million by illegal combinations. More than flint. It is gratifying to hear a rich man cry out against the lobby. It is the “tool of the trusts, and theiv is as great need in every State for an honest Governor to take whip cords and drive them out of the legisla tive halls as there was for the Muster in his day thus to drive out the money changers who polluted the temple at Jerusalem. The sentiment is so strong in this country against the operations of the lobbyists that many would ap plaud a Governor who would “stand, it necessary, at the door of the State t api tol with a double-barreled shot gun in his Miami and see that they do stay away.” It is an evil that is not de nounced in severe enough language. It is the fountain of corruption in more States than one. and in almost every instance, as (’ol. Wet more aptly said, they are “the tool of tin* trust. * is * As a matter <»f fact. “Down with the Trusts.” as a campaign shibboleth repre sents tin* whole sum of Democracy's duty. The money trust and th*' indus trial trusts largely perpetuate tluin selvis through corrupting legislators, and the instrument they largely use is the lobby “the tool of the trust.” Col Wet nvore lias supreme confidence that the voters will put an end to trust domina tion in 11HMi if the campaign is wag *d against all tin* trusts, from the money trust to the peanut trust. \YH\T A MINISTER SHOULD BREACH. (Webster's W’eekly.) A minister of tin* Gospel makes a serious mistake when lie preaches any thing but Jesus Christ and him cruei !io When lie steps aside from his sa cred vocation to discuss science, poli tics and other matters of temporal and passing interest, he lowers himself in the estimation not only of the world, hut of good men as well. It has been well said that when the preacher sticks to the Bible he has a “thus saith the Dud for his statements, but when lie discusses medicine, science, politics, philosophy, etc., it is “thus saith” the doctor, or sci entist. or the politician, as the case mnv be. We <i<. not say that a preacher is not entitled to bis own opinion on secular affairs, but we do say that when he lays aside his high office and plunges into the arena of polities he is entitled to no more consideration than anyhou\ I else and has no right to complain if he receives tit for tat. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SI'NDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1899. JORN J. INGALLS DISCUSSESTRUSTS The Brotherhood of Man a Mere Catch-Penny Phrase. INDIVIDUALISM THE BASIS OF OUR PRESENT SOFIA L AND POLITICAL SYSTEM. THE VANISHING OF THE HANDICRAFTSMAN The Trust a Fictitious Creature Without Soul But Endowed With Earth'y Immortal ity Inopableof Crimeland Yet a Robber, (New York Journal.) “The tools to him who can use them,” said Napoleon. “Them as has, gits,” says the Arkan sas man. “Every one for nimself, and the devil take the hindmost,” says I lie nineteenth century. “Root, hog, or die,” says nature. “To him that, hath shall he given, and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he seemeth to have,” says God. "All men are created equal,” says the Declaration of Independence. But they are not, any mere than horses are. The 1 1 ip- s 1 iot te ii . sway -1 me feed, lop-eared street car steed was not created equal to Ormond, the king of the turf, who cannot be bought for a quarter of a million. Not* Richard Broker !o Daniel Webster; nor Alfred Austin to William Shakespeare. Since Adam left Eden, if he did. this has been a tough world for the most of its inhabitants. Not one came into it of his own accord, and few* would have come at all had they been consult ed. Fewer still would remain were they sure of anything I letter somewhere e'se. AH being endowed with aspirations tor happiness, multitudes find wretchedness, poverty and disease their only inherit ance. Our credentials bear the same sign and seal, but. some are born to honor atul some to dishonor. Some lie in lilies and roses and walk on velvet, while others equally deserving shiver in rags and sleep in doorways, and stain flinty paths with bloody feet. All de sire to succeed, but few rea'eli the goal. There is too much whining and squeal ing in these degenerate days. Brave men take their medicine without either, and endure adversity with fortitude. It would be sardonic to suppose that there is to be no reparation for the elaborate insults of fate, sometime and somew here. Otherwise, life would be an unintelligi ble, practical joke, played by a being capable only of malignant laughter at his victims. Whatever our errand or mission on this planet, it has long been evident to the impartial critic that we are not here for recreation, and that tlie brother hood of man up to this time, as applied to human affairs, is like a phrase drawn out of a hat. Carnage and pillage con tinue popular, and while in theory our government has for its avowed object the greatest, good of the greatest number, with most of us the greatest number continues to be number one. Equality of condition, of endowment, of possession, has never existed, and the divergences now ary wider than ever be fore. That tin* inequalities are to in crease rather than diminish seems likely, and we must face the consequences. It is apparanet also that whatever progress lias been made hitherto is due wholly to the effort of individuals. States make m> inventions. Nations write no poems or dramas. Society is rich or strong or pure only as the in dividuals of which it is composed arc wealthy and powerful and virtuous. Battles are won or lost as the individual soldiers are intrepid or timid. The Decalogue, that statute enacted in the parliament of the skies and promulgated, amid tin* thunders of Sinai, has no effect upon the race except as its precepts are ol»eye<i by the individuals to whom they are addressed. So our social and political system rests on individualism: flu* highest develop ment of the individual as the unit of the State*, and, as the correlative of this, the equality of all men before equal laws, ami equality of opportunity, so that all shall have an equal chance in this harum-scarum, helter-skelter scrim mage which we call life. No man can ask more than this, and none should lie content with less than this. Every arena must he open. Any citizen can enter the ring if he wishes. If he is put to sleep the first round, he can turn to some vocation for which lie is b.oe**r qualified. The Legislature can pass no law making him equal to Fitzsimmons. That would be unjust to Bob, who is as much entitled to fair pl.\v as the weak est mannikin of them all. Aware of the incompatibility of feudalism and liberty, of tin* dangers of unrestricted accumulation of wealth, not only to the individual but society, and of hereditary limitation of property, our political ancestors abolished primogeni ture and entail, supposing that in this way they had provided for the destruc tion of great rotates and for the free distribution of capital in each genera tion. They did not foresee the invention of corporations and trusts, fictitious crea ! tores, w ithout souls and yet endowed : w ith earthly immortality—legal monsters incapable of crime, but that can rob the citizen of his birthright and deprive posterity of its heritage. In the early part of the century my Grandfather Ingalls, of Middleton, Mass., was a blacksmith, as ironworkers were called in those days. Ou the hearth in my library in Atchi son;, as the most valued of my ancestral heirlooms, stands the old anvil upon which he used to fashion and temper the scythe blades, tin* hoes and spades, the horseshoes and plough points for his rustic neighbors, when Thomas Jefferson was President. He was a man of in- Hlienee and position, an active leader of the local democracy, and died possess ed of a comfortable fortune. Today there is not one of the things which he made in his forge that is not manufactured by machinery controlled by trusts, at prices which render individ ual competition impossible, ami the oc cupation of the blacksmith is gone. My Grandfather Chase, of Haverhill, Mass,, about the same time, was a pio neer in the wholesale manufacture of boots and shot's. The soles and uppers were cut by hand and taken home in sets of sixty pairs by the neighboring farmers, where the women stitched and hound them, and the men pegged or sewed them, in the intervals of toil in the field or the forest. Within the life of tlie man of middle age all the hoots and shoes in the world were made by manual labor. My father invented the first machine for cutting soles from leather and for burnishing and finishing tin* edges and shanks. This has been followed by a multitude of inventions, so that now, with the exception of a few cobblers here and there, no man makes shoes. They are all made in factories by ma chinery requiring K!<l different operations for every shoe, so that tin; man who makes the heel never sees the toe, and the avocation of the shoemaker is gone; and when by caprice or over-production, or under consumption, the factory shuts down, the operatives?, having no indepen dent handicraft, is thrown out of employ ment. his wages stop, and lit* becomes a mendicant or a tramp. In the same way the tailor, the carpenter, the composi tor, the weaver, the farm hand have gradually become dislocated. Population is constantly increasing and the avenues of employment are continually diminish ing. I remember a story in my boyhood of a captive, confined in a vast apartment from which there was no escape, who was startled at midnight by tin* clang of the Ih*ll in his prison tower. Waking in the morning, he discovered that there was one less window in his room. The folk wing morning there was another missing, and thus lie became aware that day by day the wails of his cell were closing in upon him, and that sooner or later the discordant hell would toll the hour of his doom. Labor, tLus having lost its indepen dence, is becoming degraded and discred ited and losing its self-respect as well. Society is stratified. Its nobility is dis appearing. ’The relations between the rieli and the poor are not cordial. The prosperous aro tolerant or patronizing. The dependent are sullen. They feel that under existing conditions they do not have equal opportunities. They are right. The race is no longer to the swift, nor riie battle to the strong. Not long since in a Western State I encountered a gentleman who described himself as am agent of the American Biscuit Trust, lie said liis duties were to see that no other biscuits or crackers than those made by bis employers were sold in the territory in liis charge. Dur ng our conversation, im response to my curiosity, he mentioned that two Ger mans* who had been bakers im Berlin, having made a few thousand dollars keeping a saloon in Illinois, had con cluded to abandon that business and make crackers again. As soon as he heard of their intention he mentioned to them that it would lie a losing ven ture and advised them to desist. But they kept on, supposing they had as much right to sell biscuits as to sell neor, and commenced business; whereupon the agent of the trust hired an adjacent store, stocked it with their goods, cut the price 10 per cent, and when this was met, cut again. I asked the result, and was told with a complacent smile that in three months the capital of the unsophisticated Germans was gone, and they were financially strangled to death. This was not competition. It. was crime. It was worse than robbery on the high way, because it lacked the courage of the footpad. In the dominion of the Sultan or the Uzar there is no more execrable tyranny, no more abomina ble violation of the fundamental rights of man. At the time this trust was formed there were several bakeries in St. Joseph, Atchison and other towns along the Missouri River. They were com pelled to close. The workmen were discharged, and one of the proprietors now has a large salary for visiting (be grocery stores in order to guard against free trade among American citizens in ginger snaps and to prevent smuggling of illicit food into the stomachs oi the people. Formerly flax culture was an ex ceedinly profitable industry in East ern Kansas. The fibre was valuable for fabrics, and the seed for linseed oil. Mills were set up at many towns in the valley, providing a market for the farmers and yielding good re turns to the owners. AN ben the Lin seed Oil Trust was formed, these es tablishments, either by purchase or strangulation, were suppressed, and flax culture has disappeared as abso lutely as though the earth had be come incapable of its support. That the hostility to these combina tions is not selfish is shown by the fact that in many cases they have cheapened and bettered products, and thus helped consumers in tlie strug gle for life. The Standard ('il (Vm pany lias undoubtedly diminished the cost of light for the poor and added immeasurably to the comforts of ex istence. And yet it stands as the most odious representative of intol (Continued on Second Fageg.) SECTION ONE--Pages 1 to 4, MR. GRAY'S TRIB UTE ro VANCE His Life the Model for Am bitious Young Men. THESE HANDS ARE CLEAN HIS LOYE OF STATE AND ITS DEO RLE DOMINATED Ml IE GREAT UIOMMOINEIE. SECRtT OF HIS SUCCESS AND POPULARITY No Threats or Promises from Political or Cor ' porate Power, No Frowns or Smiles of Majesty, or Aught Else Could Make him Abate One Jot. At the University commencement last week, the* senior class presented a bust of Y a lice to the University. The presen tation speech was made by Mr. Julian S. Carr, Jr., president of the class, and tin* speech of acceptance on the part of the faculty was made by President Alder man. Both of these siieeches appeared in Thursday morning’s issue. Mr. R. 1. Gray, shaking for the Board ol 1 nis tees in accepting the gift, said: iMr. President and Gentlemen of the Senior Glass of 181)1): “Du behalf of the Trustees of the University of North Carolina, I accept this work of art which so well repre sents and reproduces the lineaments of that great North Carolinian the memory of whom, more than that of any other son of our beloved State (and this can he said without disparagement to others) 'Lingers 'with the people whom lie loved and served and who loved, honored and idolized him. And in thus accepting it, 1 beg on behalf of the Trustees, to thank you, the class of 1899, for the Imp ly and patriotic thoughtl'ulness Which suggested so becoming a gift to youi 'Alima Mater, and you, sir,” (addressing Julian S. Carr, Jr.) "for the very grace ful and eloquent address with which you Iliavc presented it, and to thank Mr. Ran dall for file labor lie has so lovingly bestowed upon it and for the correctness of eye and the deftness of hand and chisel Which, guided by the innate gen ius of the true artist, have enabled him so l’aithfblly to reproduce the 'image ot Governor Vance. Alexander standing at tile tomb of Achilles cried out, ‘O, tortu inate youth, in that thou hadst a Homier for thy Eulogistl” ‘(O fortunate juvene, qui Ilomerum praeeonem habueras!) Ladies and gentlemen, trustees and stu dents, is it. out of place or too much for me to say that our beloved Vance, though in his grave, is fortunate in hav ing as Inks sculptor so accomplished an artist as Mr. Randall, native and to the manor 'born, and whose first breath was from the air of the same mountains Where Vance was inspired and among which he was nurtured and grew strong. It 'is not expected nor would it be ap propriate in the performance of the duty assigned to me, to discuss at any length the life, character and virtues of Gov ernor Vance, or to recount the services wii.eh he rendered to the State during his long and useful public life, and 1 shall therefore content myself, and thus, 1 hope, make but slight draft uiisni your patience, with calling your attention to what may be considered to have been Vance’s most prominent characteristics as a public man and, which were, in my opinion, the secret of the great hold lie had upon the heart-strings of the peo ple—his rugged honestly and inde pendence, Ids intense love of North Gar olina, liis fidelity to the interests and welfare of the pcojh*. liis close commun ion wit'll his constituents, and his un swerving belief in tin* virtue, integrity and wisdom of the great mass of the piHiple, and, in a word, his trust in the popular heart. These were the qualities that endeared him to the people and caused them to trust him without ques tion —to lay their hands confidingly in liis and, without fear or tremor, to fol low whithersoever he led, no matter how great the darkness or how wild t'he temp est or how rugged the road! “As to bis honesty, it was incorrupti ble, avarice had absolutely no place in his moral constitution and neither the blandishments of wealth nor tin* attrib utes of high official position and power could tempt him to swerve from the plain paths which his conscience and love of truth marked out for him. Liv ing and moving for nearly a half a cen tury in the fierce glare of the light that critics and enemies and envious contem poraries are accustomed to turn upon successful politicians and statesmen, no (•barge of personal or official wrong do ing was ever preferred or suggested against him. His escutcheon from his earliest entrance upon the public arena down to the day when his spear was broken and bis warfare ended, was as bright and spotless as an untarnished mirror. And when, in that ever memor able campaign of 1879 in which he con tested with the knightly Settle for the uppermost place in the esteem and affec tions of the people. In* held up his hands with dramatic action and cried: “Throe 1 lands are clean!’ it was not because any imputation of personal or official corruption had been made against him. hut it was the confident and triumphant challenge that an honest steward of the people made to the world and to his enemies to find, if they could, one sin gle instance of wrong doing in liis ca reer which had been full of opportunities for enrichment to which ordinary men PIUOE FL r 3 ENTS. might have yielded, and the wild enthu siasm which greeted that thrilling chal lenge from ihe sea to the mountains and the 'November acclaim of "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." show ed that the people saw no slain upon those upturned hands. “As to his independence, lie lvad no master but the people whom he always believed capable of reaching just con clusions when they had the opportunity to calmly and dispassionately meditate and pass judgment iqxm a question, and no clique or ring, no threats or promises from political or corporate power, no frowns or smiles of majesty, no shim ming in his fa<*»* of white house doors, could make him abate one jot or tittle of Inis well considered opinions or stay his arm or tongue or pen in liis cham pionship of tin* ]H>oph»’s rights. “Being close to the people, hi* commun ed closely with them, learned and sym pathized with their needs and fearlessly contended for their relief. He fulfilled tlie ideal of the true statesman as jior trayed) by Edmund Burke when he said: “It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strict est union, the closest. cotTijs'poiidenee and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great 'weight with him; their opin ions high respect: their business nui re mit ted attention. It is his duty to sacri fice his repose, his pleasure, liis satisfac tion to theirs, and alxive all, ever and in all eases, to prefer their interests to his own.” “But not the least secret of his suc cess and popularity with the iieople lay in his love for his native State which was in constant evidence and liis con stant care for the interests of the peo ple. The utterances with which Inis speeches and writings abound, showing his pride in liis Stale and his love for its history and traditions, were not the honeyed phrases and clap-trap of a mere ipoftitiicdain, but the sincere tribute of a patriot ‘who deems his land of every land the pride.’ As Congressman, Gov ernor during the trying times of the Civil war and in 187(1 and as Senator, the burden upon his sotfl was to uplift the State, protect its soldiers and citizens and to advance its prosperity and glory. Young gentlemen, let the love which Vance cherished for the 'State he an ex ample and inspiration to you in the ca reer upon which you are entering with such bright hopes and auspicious begin nings. If you shall love your State with the ardent affection of true sons, you will he useful in your day and generation and being useful you will be successful according to the true standards. No son of a mother really loves her if he neg lects or brings sorrow or disgrace ui|w*n her, and if you shall be proud of your State and shall love her with a true and knightly devotion your brain and brawn will ever bt* at work to devise and carry out plans for her prosperity, peace and glory.” A RUSH TO DELAWARE PARK. Twelve Excursions Already Booked for the Month of June. In spite of the late spring and com paratively cool weather of May. the ex cursion fever seems to have taken pos session of everybody. Early in the mouth of May over 2.900 peoplent to Delaware Park for the day, and instead of being jaded by the jaunt returned refreshed; for conveniences and diversions afford one opportunity for rest and creature comforts in the midst of pleasure. As many as twelve excursions are al ready hooked for June by the Seaboard Air Lin** and unless prompt application is made for the grounds then* certainly will he difficulty in securing suitable arrangements. Outing parties, picnic parties, associa tions. convention parties, Sunday school parties, all kinds of parties should ap ply at once to L, S. Allen, General I as senger Agent, Seaboard Air Line, Portsmouth, Ya. There will he a rush all summer for this resort which is growing phenomen ally in popular favor. There is line fishing {iml boating for the children on the famous Nottaway river, flowing picturesquely at the foot of the breezy and winding hills of the park. The spot is beautifully situated, forty miles from Norfolk and KJt) miles from Ra leigh, covering 14 acres of ground, all inflosed and protected by a high fence. The observatory commands a rare stretch of rolling country, there is a perfectly equipped ten pin alley, merry go-round, shooting gallery, pavilion for dancing on the river hank and other spacious pavilions, amply protected against both storm and sunshine. A grand piano is on hand for concerts, quadrilles and cake walks as the case may be. Stages may also he erected for theatricals or other festive entertain ments. The park as a pleasure ground is not surpassed in the South, and the water alone is destined to make of it a per manent summer resort. There are three Sulphur Springs said by many to be equal in their tonic and alterative effect to the waters of tin* renowned Greenbrier White, and there are other mineral springs, also, including the notable Magnesia springs, the sani tary effects of which have liven known for years by the old residents of this country. An artesian well sparkles forth one hundred feet in the air, the stream being six inches in diameter as it issues from the earth. For, that mat ter the whole landscape is twinkling with springs for those who prefer their water "straight.” There are over one hundred improved swings which keep the groves merry with the laughter of children, promen ades and lovers nooks, rustic seats and leafy vistas, birds and balmy air. A few hours and a few dollars and one is out of the heat of the city, out of danger of doctors’ hills, among the cool ing Nottaway hills. Every time the sun shines the pessi mist consoles himself with the thought that it is raining somewhere.

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