The News and Observer. VOL.XLVI. NO. TO. LEADS ILL Him CAROUNA DAIUEB 1 NEWS IIP 0110111111. A MEMORIAL. TO DR, CRAVEN •f • , The Big Brained Founder of Trinity College. A GIFT TO EDUCATION BEST WAV A 111 Oil MAX CAN IN VEST lIIS MONEY. IGNORANCE IS AN INCUBUS ON PROGRESS All Advocates of Education Rejoice in Every Gift to Education, All New Texes and Increased Appro priations. Durham, X. 11, .Juno I).—(Editorial Correspondence.)—-Everybody wlm at tended Trinity .comeneeiucut was greatly pleased with the new Cra ven Memorial Ilia'll which was used for the first time as an auditorium. It will seat 1,500 people, and architectur ally it is the most incasing buiiluiing to the eye on the campus. It is ii model auditorium and -was erected by the alumni aiul l'riends of the college as a fitting memorial of Trinity's great round er. It is a worthy monument of the lug brained man who made Trinity Colliege, for Braxton Craven made Trinity Col lege. The church helped tii'in, lmt it was born in his brain and grew through his learning and self-denying zeal. During the coming year a tine oil portrait of l)r. Craven will be painted and will be per manently placed in the most prominent position in the hall erected by loving hands to his memory. The Craven auditorium has been erect ed at a cost of about $14,000, and is ele gantly and tastefully furnished with modern opera chairs and every other lie cessary adjunct at a cost of something like $2,500. The interior furnishing was the gift of Col. .Julian S. Carr, who has been a generous friend to Trinity, giving help of a substantial character to the great Craven when the college was lo cated in Randolph county, when friends with money were few and far between, as well as haying donated the splendid site in Durham upon which Trinity Col lege is located. The trustees have not completed any plans, so far as 1 could learn, for making the magnificent auditorium also a 11101110 riai of all who helped the college in its early strugges and who are now helping it in its new home. It would be a tine idea to associate tin* names of all of them with that of Craven by having marble tablets placed in the Craven Auditorium. It would not he well to thus honor any of Trinity’s living instructors and friends, but to con tine those memorial tablets-to such men as Jesse A. Cuimiiig gim, Marcus L. Wood, W. H. Branson, John 11. 'Force and others who had min gled their prayers, efforts and gifts in loving service to the college, and to leave room for a tablet to the living friends and benefactors when they have gone to the great university in the skies. Speaking of this method by which the names of ail those friends of the college who had done something great or noble for its advancement could be perpetuated at tin* college, puts me in mind to com mend the Angler Gymnasium as one of the best gifts yet made to Trinity. It is a model gymnasium with swimming pool, and with a competent instructor (Presi dent Southgate says Prof. Whit chouse is the best in 'America), the physical! in struction and development keeps pace with the moral and mental. It is the best phase oif our new education that tile college authorities provide for the care and development of the body as well as the education of the mind. It was not always so. The time was when pale faces marked the collegian who lead his class. By wisely dividing his time, the graduate now conics to receive his di ploma with a sound mind in a sound body, and many of them look more like vigorous youths who do manual 'labor than youths .who burn the midnight oil. No education is worth getting that is obtained at a sacrifice of health, and it is because the public As appreciating that fact that the first class colleges art' giv ing heed to physical culture. * * Trinity is coming to boa rich college. When I read a few days ago that Mrs. Leland Stanford bud deeded projierty worth thirty-eight million dollars as an endowment to the Lola ml Stanford Jr. University, and that a preacher in Con necticut had willed SI,OOO to El on Col lege each giving all that they had to lielp educate the youth. I could hut con trast such bones act ions with such lavish waste of money as the Bradley-Martin's dinners and balls. The late Governor Holt, who was noted for his practical wisdom, speaking to men of wealth gave them this advice, “Invest your money in immortal mind.” It is an investment that cannot he dissipated, but goes on giving larger dividends as five years go by. When the announcement was made at Trinity commencement this week that Mr. B. X. Duke had given an additional fifty thousand dollars to Trinity 1 re joiced that in his large wealth he had the wisdom and generosity to invest much of it in “immortal mind." lie lias given more largely to Trinity than is generally known, and his gifts are always made with the view of laying deep and broad the foundations of the college to which he is a devoted friend. I Jove to see a man give while he lives. He is then certain that it will go to the objects that meet his approval, and besides men of practical judgment like Mr. Washington Duke and Mr. B. X. Duke can increase the value of their .money gifts by helping to direct the ways of using it. * * * The man who said that the best col lege in the world was "a log with Mark Hopkins at one end and a boy at the other” truly understood that the best in struction a boy could get was coming in contact with a great teacher. For the individual boy there can be no college so good for mental training. But the need of the colleges and the universities of to day is more teachers like Mark Hopkins with every modern appliance and equip ment to assist in better fitting the college graduate for the duties of life. The high er institutions of learning in North Caro lina have all been cramped for the lack of money to secure such equipment as is in keeping with the demands of this day. When 1 think how many great teachers at Chapel Hill, 'Trinity, Davidson and Wake Forest have wrought mighty deeds 011 meagre salary and next to no equipment outside of their own brains, I also reflect that many of them were martyrs to their calling. It will not do to say they did a great work wit heat fine laboratories and release from fin ancial worry, and therefore the profes sors of to-day can do it. Many of those old heroes sacrificed their best years try ing to work with dull tools who would have lived longer and wrought twice as well if tiie colleges had been properly en dowed and equipped. * * * I rejoice in every dollar given by a generous man, in every dollar appro priated by tlii> Legislature, and in every dollar of taxation for schools voted by 'the people for the cause of education. 1 do not stop to ask whether it is to teach the three It’s, the Fkissics, pedagogics, agricultural science, and what not. I's it is to lie spent to make a longer term and better facili ties for the public schools in every town ships 1 rejoice most of all, for the great majority of the children of the State will get no education except that which is furnished' in the public schools near their doors. Whether ii is given to he used by denominational colleges or at the State universities and (State supported colleges is relatively a matter of small import ance. The time will not come in this generation when all the institutions we have can reach all tln- Imys and girls who need education. There is no room among those who believe the education of the people tin* matter of paramount importance in North Carotin to turn aside from the great work to speculate as to whether this way or that is the best. Let every man who would remove the incubus of 'ignorance and prejudice work in whatever way seemeth to him best to educate the Iwiys and girls, and entourage larger gifts, larger endow ments. larger appropriations, larger tax es. and larger unity and liberality in the groat work to which they are called. When they have done all they can, they will still be oppressed, with the thought that the har vest is great 'and the laborers few. But every new gift, every increased ap propriation. every fresh vote for larger taxes for schools makes all who are lighting ignorance feel “to thank (lod and take courage.” J. D. AS A MAX SEES dIER. (From the Atchison Globe.) Another Atchison girl who gets S4O a month for sitting in an office will re sign in a few wee as to wash dishes and cook for love and her board. When a girl has a new engagement ring she finds many occasions for feeling if her hack hair is in good order. Mean people say that the man a wid ow selects to support her at her hus band's funeral is the one she usually marries afterward. "Well. 1 see Mrs. Blank is breaking in,” is tlic women’s comment when they read in the paper that Mrs. Blank will give a reception. By the time a man has save up enough 111111 ''.v lo have a palm and a brusscls carpet in his parlor Iris gill has reach ed. the “company” age and he is not allowed to sit there. Several years ago an Atchison man married a slender, modest little d'aliing, and everybody said it was a case of hawk and dove. Now the wife weighs twice as much as her husband, has whiskers and talks bass. Win 11 a wotuiaai is old and bilious she explains it in a poetical way by saying she is fading away like a 'lsl y. W hen a woman begins to admire a man she begins to persecute him. 1 here comes a time to every married woman when dm lias to use a sort of tail'll cure on her belief in tier husband's affections. It is a pitiful truth that women trust Ilnur daughters with men whom their husbands wouldn't trust to open an ac count. -V certain Atchison woman is always invited to serve the brick ice cream at parties, for the reason that she cuts it in such thin slices. Would something terrible happen if a girl forgot to tie up those terrible but tons on the back of lieu* skirt, and is it |H»ssible iinler present fashion conditions for a girl to dress without the assist ance of the neighbors? A POINT THAT ILLUSTRATES. (Irish World.) If France, after aiding Washington and his coinput riot s to drive the English out of America, bad proceeded to make the Fnited States French territory she would have simply anticipated the base betrayal we have been guilty of in try ing to annex the Philippines. In the case of France, which at tile time was a monarchy, the betrayal would not have been of so base a character as ours. She at least in attempting to sub jugate the Americans would not have given tin* lit* to professions aiwmt the inalienable right of men to self-gov ernment. * A household journal says that kero sene will remove rust from stoves. The j objectionable feature about it is that in removing rust it incidentally removes the stove and the domestic sometimes. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1899. A KINSTON ROY AT MANILA “The Heat of the Sun in its Direct Rays is Awful.’! AGUINALDO IS ELOQUENT KEEPS UP THE .SIMHITS OF iiiS TROOPS 'EY ORATORY. THE PRODUCTS OF THE ISLANDS ll Has Been Said that Pice is the Corn of the Philippine Islands. Men, Women and Chi’dren Smoke Cigarettes. Mr. Frank 0. Lewis, the youngest son of Dr. Richard 11. Lewis, of Kinston, not yet twenty-one years old, is in Ma nilit, a member of the 20th U. S. In fantry. We are permitted today to lay before our readers, ii is last letter to his mother. It will give the best idea of conditions in the Philippine islands that earn be obtained from any source. It is as follows: Station Santa Cruz, Manila, I*. 1. My Dear Mother: Your most welcome letters came in Hie mail of last week, via. Hong Kong. The one from 1 >r. P. was much enjoy ed. We get mail regularly, al intervals of (generally) nine days. Most of it comes byway of Hong Kong, on regu lar mail steamers; but some of it is brought over on tin* Government trans ports from San Francisco. 1 wish 1 could write to you oftener, but life is an almost continuous round of military duty, hence my neglect, which you may have thought wilful. Our duty is to patrol the district known as Santa Cruz. Four patrols, each composed of a non-com missioned officer and three privates, walk the streets day and night, in addition to that, there are three posts at the quarters. No. 1 has Ins beat in front of the guard house, Nos. 2 and o walk on the right and on the left Hanks of the barracks respectively. As you probably know, martial law is strictly enforced in Manila, now; and these extra heavy guards and numerous patrols are put on to prevent an upris ing of the natives within the city limits. There are, naturally, a great •many insurgent sympathizers in the city; and, if left to thems<lives, and if the vigilance of the Americans would, for an hour re lax, there would .he a general upris ing, a)id we might have trouble to sub due thenn. So long as we keep on the lookout, we are safe; but it is from the “curs” who have not courage enough, those who lire from windows and house tops, that we have most to fear. You cannot have any idea of the power of a man like Aguiualdd, over weak minds. Himself a talented, brilliant man of genius, thoroughly educated, be, the in tended deliverer of his country, the “Washington of the Philippines.”as lie was styled by the imperialist powers at Washington, ruled his followers with an iron hand, and made them believe that the Americans had come to oppress them and drive them out. lie has deceived them by false promises, which he lias not and cannot fulfill; he lias kept up their drooping spirits by means of his brilliant oratory and magnetic power. And when they, realizing their hopeless condition, fain would rebel, and did re bel against his authority, lie shot them down and forced them, by threats and blows, back into ine trenches, there to die. Such a man is Aguinaldo, the in surgent chieftain, the “deliverer of his country,” the scholar, the statesman, the brilliant general; but withal the curse of the Filipinos as a nation. Os his message to Congress, it has been said by Senator Hoar, I think, that "it could not lie dictated by ten men on this plan et.” Pleading, forceful, eloquent and logical, full of the choicest English, it was worthy of a bettor man. But enough of Aguinaldo. 1 had 110 inten tion when 1 began of writing his biogra phy. I want to tell you of the products of these islands. I know that army news is not very interesting to you. Well, to be gin: Hemp, sugar and tobacco are the staple of the Philippine trade. But it is probable that almost every commercial product of the tropics can in* raised ad vantageously in one or other of the isl ands. The cocoa nut tree \s the native's most valued possession, almost Iris staff of life—furnishing him with food, wine, oil, vinegar, fuel, ropes, fishing lines, as well as filler, which is woven into doth. Oranges, lemons, guavas, pineapples and bananas grow wild and in profusion. It has been said that rice is the corn of the Philippines, and it is well said, for ' every native raises bis rice crop. It is planted on low lying ground, near some stream, that it may be readily inundated. Native architecture is confined to the st'inple, yet not altogether ungraceful lines of the bamboo "shack.” These primitive dwellings are inavriably of one story, with thatched roofs. Everything in and about the house is made of bam boo. The beds are made of strips of it laid on cross pieces and supported by four legs, also made of bamboo. The yard, about the house, is generally plant ed in bananas and cocoa nut trees. Near ly always there are a few chickens and ducks a'lid numerous "nniehaehas.” (See ■ Bro. E.) Here the Filipino lives, moves and has Inis being. Like the Indian, he makes his wife do all the drudgery and necessary work, while he makes the dull hours flee away by smoking cigar ettes and fighting game cocks. In fact, the Filipinos subsist on rice, cigarettes and cock lighting. Men, women ami children smoke almost incessantly. I have.seen babies in their mothers’ arms, puffing away serenely at a cigarette. They teach the child-ten to smoke. I believe it; is a part of their religion. And it is no wonder that they are, as a nation, depraved. Catholicism is prevalent, I may say dominant in all the islands of the l'hilip pinc group. The priests make periodical extortions on the natives, and generally succeed in getting about nine-tenths or everything that the poor wretches make. They persuade the natives that they are going to the Lord, through the ehtn*ch (the priest is the church.) The Span iards, from time immemorial, have kept them in the mire of ignorance and op pression. And, now that the desire for I'mdCm and a lomging to throw off the yoke of tyranny lias taken possession of them, who •can blame them for lighting their new rulers with all the strength and vigor and hatred of their revengeful natures. My company commander lias endors ed my petition to the Department com mander to stand my examination for promotion, when the next board is con vened. The examination will be held in Manila. 1 am ready and prepared to fake the examination today, or 1 should ii'ovjer have asked it. I am going to gel my| commission unaided and wish to be able to say that I won my spurs without any outside help. If 1 cannot get it that way. I don’t want it. And, as G< neral Grant said: "I am going to tight it out on this line,” if it takes me three years. I am in splendid health, and feel stronger than ever before. The heat of the sun. in its direct rays*, is something awl'ul. But, if one stays in the shade, one can manage to exis't. Please send me some Raleigh papers and some magazines. FRANK F. LEWIS, Co. I)., 20-tli Infantry. Os Kinston, X. (’. STATE TRIALS. Edited by Charles Edward Lloyd.—Pub lished by Callaghan & Co., 114 Monroe Street, Chicago, 111. This is one of the most interesting books on the market this spring. The story of its inception is this: A South era woman, who had written for years for the magazines and newspapers, was pi teed in charge of the exhibit of the Ib .‘lU't'i'onl of Justice at the Omaha Exposition. Among other tilings en trusted to her care was a bookcase full of valuable old books, the Pandects of Justinian. (Ndonial Laws, and copies of the State Trials in Great Britain from the reign of Richard the 11. to that of George the 111. She not only read them herself, but she bought a table and chairs, placed them in tin* beautiful niche over which she pre sided and permitted her more cultured visitors to read them. This table tilled with books became a favorite resort for judges, lawyers and scholars. The popularity of the books, especially the State Trials of Francis Hargrave and T. B. 1 towel I. Esq., convinced her that if the best of these books could lie put in handy volumes at a cheap price there would be a demand for them. At the suggestion of several prominent lawyers she wrote to Messrs. Callaghan & Co. and they approved the plan. The first volume is just issued by that firm. It contains the Trials of Mary, Queen of Scots: Sir Walter Raleigh, and Cap lain Kid, the Pirate. These are con densed, but everything of especial in terest is given in full. There is no bet ter way of impressing English History on one’s mind than by reading these Trials. No lawyer can fail to find a romantic interest in every page of the book and he will be amazed at the language and the ruling of some of the lawyers and judges of the dates given. For instance, Sir Edward Coke, who was Attorney General when Sir Walter Raleigh was tried for high trea son. uses language towards the distin guished prisoner which would not is* tolerated in the courts of to-day. Fif teen years later, when Coke was Lord Chief Justice, lie, manages to bring Sir Walter Raleigh to execution 011 a pre text evidently prepared for the occasion at the command of King Janies. The intense jealousy of Spain at the en croachments of the Anglo-Snxoii on the. Western Hemisphere is everywhere conspicuous in the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh. It is made plain that Spain was the indirect factor in the death of Raleigh. In the light of passing events 1 lie retribution of history is startling. Sir Walter Raleigh’s charter from Queen Elizabeth for the discovery of Virginia extended far to the northward of the present boundary of that State. Its western limit was the Pacific ocean. The descendants of the colony he founded number many who are about to sweep the power of Castile and not only from tin* Western Hemisphere, but from tin* Pacific Ocean us well. The royal line of Stuart is extinct. The name of Raleigh is kept alive in several States of the Union. The cruiser naleigh was one of Dewey’s squadron at the battle of Manila. The wisdom of Raleigh was recently endorsed by the Congress of the United States, for lie first advised the holding of the Isthmus of Panama as the strategic point to control the commerce of the two oceans that wash the shores of this hemisphere. Raleigh is tin* capital city of tin* State of tin* two distinguished gentlemen to whom the bonk is dedicated—viz., lion. Jeter C. Pritchard, senior Senator from North Carolina, and Hon. Janies E. Boyd, First Assistant Attorney General of the United States. A .matinee girl says the going out of men between the acts is far less objec tionable than the coming back. SECTION ONE— Pages 1 to 4. ROI NUMBERS FOR A HOI DAY Prof. W, F. Massey Writes to Editor Bailey, THE A. & M. COLLEGE EDITORIAL ON “FAILURE OF THE KID GLOVE IDEA.” SEVERE STRICTURES ON PROF. MASSEY Editor Bailey Hard on the A. & M. College anti Prof. Massey Replies Vigorously and Severely to the Recorder's Editorial. Prof. W. F. Massey, professor of Horticulture at the A. and M. College, lias sent us for publication an “open let ter to the editor of the Biblical Re corder.” As it would 'be unfair to print it without publishing tin* editorial to which it is a reply, we give below the editorial and Prof. Massey’s open let ter. The Recorder’s editorial is as fol lows: THE FAILURE OF THE KID GLOVE IDEA. Biblical Recorder. The North Carolina College of Agri culture and Mechanic Arts has been drifting for several years; from tin* day if left its moorings it lias sailed out of its course. Conceived as an institution for farmers and mechanics,' a technical school, an institution for the learning of trades and the improvement of work manship, those who have controlled it have steadily aimed to make it a Litera ry institution of low grade, with enough of Agriculture and Mechanic Ants at tached to draw the funds set apart for colleges conducted in that name. As a result, the situation of the college is most serious, and about it now' there are many doctors with many schemes for its relief —a condition of some of them being that the doctors be perman ently employed! Conducted- upon the plan originally intended there is great need and a great future for this institution; eon ducted as it has been so far it can never amount to a great deal. The only hope is "to begin all over again,” profiting by the experience of the last few years. Even then, being dependent upon poli tical influence for support, it must: needs have political changes and political greed to contend with; lmt as a trades school. a technical institution, a college of practical instruction, it will find great relief. There is, 110 need for it and 110 future for it as It Literary Institution. To en deavor to make one of it is to argue that the University of the State has failed and that the denominational col leges are inadequate. To make a litera ry institution of it can benefit no one save tin* professors w»lio conduct its de partments. But as a technical school, whether rightfully or wrongfully we are not. here discussing, it can fill a place unfilled in North Carolina and serve more young men than any other one institution. It. has a spendid income, more income by appropriation than any other institution in the State, more income per student than any oilier. It could reach out into North Carolina and take up five hundred boys a year and teach them to build houses, lay brick, make machinery and run it, conduct farms and orchards, raise stock, and develop mines, and ful fill thus a great mission. There is many a boy now who drives ten miles to a depot for a bag of guano who could be taught to make fertilizer at home. And. if we mistake not, tin* mission of ibis institution was conceived to lie to such boys. But tin* kid-glove idea lias pre vailed. The institution does not reach, docs not try to reach this class, docs "not pretend to do this work. Tin* people have no confidence in it, 110 hope for it: It is on the rocks. Better begin over again. * Get a teacher of Horticulture who will teach that department, attend to his own business—without writing scur rilous articles anonymously for the press, without recommending “Potash” for everything under heaven at so much per line, without assuming to run the Board of Trustees, without trying to run two other professors infinitely bis superiors out of the faculty, without try ing to get one of their houses to live in: Do this for one thing, and there will bo hope. And in place of the fawning fellows who infest tin* halls of legislation, when they ought to be teaching, and lobby not only for appropriations, but for Trus tees whom they can control, get real teachers. Then, at any rate, tin* alumni of the institution can have some consid eration in the selection of trustees. There is hope for the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, if its Trustees will resist the fa cility clique who are running it and mak ing life a burden for their fellow teach ers*. there is hope if the trustees will make of. the institution somewhat of that which its founders desired. But there is t |o hope unless they begin all over again. ) A splendid plant, an excellent location, a magnificent income, a large field of use fulness; but all so far to no purpose. The kid-glove idea bus failed; the peo- PRICE FIVE CENTS. pie know it: cm q ‘ pretentions; let us come down to • aprons and real work. Prof. Massey w J n open letter in reply to Mr. Baile.v as follows: PROF. MASSEY'S REPLY. All Open Letter to the Editor of the Biblical Recorder. • Sir: Ever since you began to make Sunday school speeches, and to wobble around so loosely in the editorial chair which your great father so ably filled, you have seemed to think that yv>u were the specially inspired mentor for the A. and M. College, and tin* appoint ed denouncer of the wicked fellow who writes this. It was perhaps a serious error in the faculty of our college to at tempt to attend to their own business without first asking the advice and con sent of the wise and venerable editor of the Recorder. But the fact is that we were totally unaware that, a man who never sets foot inside the precincts of the college, and who knows nothing what ever about tiie work of any man con nected therewith, could'have intuitively such an accurate knowledge of what we should do. We were blindly of the opinion that a tree is known by its fruits, and fondly imagined that tiie crowd of out* graduates occupying posi tions of trust and honor in various parts of tin* country, and the fact that tile wisest business men of the State eagerly take our graduates as soon as they leave the college, was proof at once that the training and education given here will compare favorably with that given in any other college. it is not our fault that you have seen only tin* full dress side and have never seen the men who may wear kid gloves at times, and have earned a right to wear what they please, spending the greater part of their time with blue overalls and leather aprons. There are none so blind, sir, as those who will not see, and the fact is that you do not de sire to see anything good in our college or any of its officers, and have never made yourself in any way familiar with its workings. But it is more especially on a matter of personal importance that I wisli to speak to you now. You have for years lost no opportunity to sling innuendoes and insults at me in your paper. I for a time, attributed them to the fact that you were young and ignorant. But the persistency with which you keep up these attacks shows a spirit that can only be called malicious. I have been told that in this week’s issue of your paper you make sundry charges against me. I am sorry that 1 have not a copy of yous paper at hand. 1 have been told that you charge me with writing scurrilous articles anonymously for the press. Will you kind if/ reproduce any thing that 1 have ever written, signed or unsigned, that contains a word of scurrility, or that in tin* remotest de gree approaches the mendacious scur rility which you have time and again printed about me? I am told that you charge me with compassing the dismissal of two asso ciates who were iheoniparably my su periors. While I do not concede your ability to distinguish between the quali fications of professional teachers, whose work you are profoundly ignorant of, I w ill lie glad if you will name the two gentlemen, or any one. superior or infe rior, whom I have ever tried to get dis missed. Will you also name one gentle man on any of the boards under which i have served who will testify that I ever said to him a word with the pur pose of getting any one dismissed, or who will say that I ever tried to get any place under the board except '! •* one 1 have so long occupied, and wiiieL for nearly ten years I have tred to till faithfully, though begged to go else where at a higher salary? You have also charged that I write articles for pay advising the use of potash. It is true that 1, in advising farmers in regard to the use of fertili zers. do advise the use of potash where potash is important for the crop or the land. It is true also that I advise tin* use of phosphoric acid and nitrogen, and advise the use of phosporic acid to a far larger extent than 1 ever advise the use of potash. I know that the fer tilizer manufacturers rarely use a suffi cient percentage of iwdash for many crops in their mixtures, because it is eelipaer for them to make the phos phates larger in proportion. I have earnestly advised the farmers to mix their own fertilizers, because 1 know that they can save money in doing it. I have been working for the uplifting of tin* agriculture of the South for more years than you can number, and to-day my name is held in thankful re membrance in ten thousand homes all over this broad land for the help I have been able to give them. Yes, I am paid for tin* work I do in this fine, and publishers all over the land are eager to get whatever 1 have time to write. Is not this helping of one’s fellowmeu to better inethos and a wiser use of the gifts of the Great Creator in the soil a w ork just as well *worth pay as the writ ing of falsehoods in a religious paper about your fellow men for an editorial salary? 1 have never written a line in regard to the use of fertilizers or any thing else that was not just what 1 be lieved to be for the best interests of the farmers of our land. I have tried might and main to stop the injudicious way in which commercial fertilizers have been used in the South, and to show our farmers that what they need is ilu* feeding of more stock and the raising of more home-made manure. And I have received the thanks of thousands for tin* help I have given them. Only last week a gentleman from an other State, whose official duties re quired bis attendance here on the United States Court, came to my house and introduced himself, saying that he wished to make the acquaintance of the man who had enabled him to make (Continued on Second Page.)

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