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The News and Observer. VOL. XLVII. NO. 31. LEADS ALL MOTH GAMMA DAILIES 111 NEWS AND DKG/ JTIGI. THAT SECRET UNDERSTAiNG McKinley Cannot Mediate as Asked by the Boers, ENGLAND AFTER LAND THE ROEItS ARE FIGHTING ENG LAND FOR THE SAME REA SON WASHINGTON FOUGHT IT. McKINLEY’S CAMPAIGN SPEAKING IN WEST The Cabinet Officers are Rather Indiscreet. The Treasury Helps Wall Street. Croker’s Move. The Censorship Said to be Abolished. Washing-ton, D. C., October 16. —(Spe- cial.)—Tin* expected has happened in the Transvaal. President Kruger has de clared Avar against Great Britain in order that he may strike before the British can assemble an overwhelming and crushing force. With all lines of cable communica tion from South Africa under British control, the public need not expect to hear anything favorable to the Boers for weeks to come. But the prediction is here made with all emphasis that for the nest month the Boers will sweep over the British outposts in Natal and Cape Colony with almost unbroken strides. The Boers will make their struggle for liberty and the possession of their own land without even the sympathy of this country. In an official statement from the State Department, it is learned that the President “does not think it ex pedieat to offer mediation," because he has received no intimutiou that it would be acceptable to botfi parties. Os course mediation would not l»e ac ceptable to Great Britain, bat the Transvaal has intimated that it would appreciate the good offices of this coun try to avert war and yet secure some deliverance from the oppression of Great Britain. The* secret understanding with Great Britain is the most weighty reason why McKinley cannot interfere to even give moral support to a country fighting for the same freedom that our owu Colonies sought front the domination of Great Britain. But it is also possible that the Administration sees the absurdity of offering to mediate in the Transvaal matter when it is engaged in the busi ness of subjugating the Filipinos, who are also fighting for liberty and the right to govern their owu country in their own way. Great Britain is approaching a catas trophe which may take from her many of her possessions and reduce her to a third rate power, tone is by no mean* invincible. The Boers are better marks men than the British. The Boers are in their own country. They are hardy and used to exposure. They can live on dried beef and parched corn. Great Britain will have considerable trouble in massing her troops to fight the Boers. She will find her soldiers as helpless before Boer tactics as our soldiers are in the jungle of the Philippines. She will shortly find ‘herself fighting not only the people- of the Transvaal but also the Afrikanders of Cape Colony and Natal. She has not only to fear the loss of South Africa, but just as soon as she encounters defeat there, she will la* set upon by the Continental powers who have a long score to settle and have been waiting a fitting oppor tunity. Should France, Germany and Russia seize this opportunity to demand their share of the spoils of empire which England has aeeumulated, she would emerge from the conflict a third rate power comparable to Denmark. To guard against such a defeat has Salisbury sought and consummated a secret alliance with McKinley. The deal has been made ami its ramifications are deeper and wider than lias ever been charged. The one weak excuse for this base surrender is tin* alleged interfer ence of Great Britain to prevent a coali tion of Continental powers against the United States and in favor of Spain during the recent Spanish war. That coalition was never contemplated. Great Britain, rendered ns no service. Her whole idea in the alliance is to make the United States render her service and give nothing in return. McKinley falls into the trap with great readi ness. It was Great Britain’s policy to so involve the United Steles in the Asiatic squabble that in the end this country would be obliged to ask her support. It is dangerously near succeeding. This country is plunged into the Philippine complication so deeply that it is diffi cult to see any satisfactory ending of our war of conquest. The worse the situation, gets, the better it will suit the designs of Great Britain. THAT TRIP OF McKINLEY’S. The opinion gains ground in Wash ington that President McKinley’s Wes tern trip has been considerable of a frost. Even the Republican leaders fear that he has done himself and the party much more harm than good. There have been no great public demonstrations of affection and approval. Instead, the masses have lxcn distinctly chilly. To is- sure then* is always a certain amount of curiosity to see a high public official. And the crowd might xvell gape and stare at the spectacle of the Presi dent and his Cabinet making grotesque and frantic efforts to catch votes. The weary Thirteenth Minnesota vol unteers failed to even look happy, still less to applaud enthusiastically wihen the President told them how he had come all the ..way from Washington to greet them and tell them what brave good boys they Avere. They tried to listen politely but men filled with malaria and burning Avith a sense of resentment could not be expected to be very joyous over the greeting of the Administration which had kept them in the Philippines months after they were entitled to their discharge and in a kind of warfare for which they never enlisted. In Minnesota as at Chicago, it was distinctly notice able that the President appeared to find a more congenial atmosphere at the expensive and select banquets than when addressing the ordinary mob of citizens and tax-payers. But the Administra tion Avhich is the creature of trusts and corporations could hardly be expected to be at ease with the victims of these forces. Then, too, the satellites of the Ad ministration made speeches and -these speeches often failed to dove-tail with McKinley’s platitudes. He at least could not lie accused of saying any thing. He carefully avoided the many things in his administration Avhich badly need explaining. Some of his official small boys evidently forgot their cues and fell into the error of telling how Aguinaldo had been offered a commis sion as General in our army and some body else rose to explain just what We bought in the Philippines and how avc came to pay that $20,000,000. It would be interesting to knoAV just when and where and how Aguinaldo Avas of fered that commission for instance. Statements of that sort tend to raise a suspicion that a good many things hare been censored which Avould inter est the voters of this country. jjde- Kinley really ought to have had ids offi cial family better drilled. Both he and they made spectacles of themselves and increased the chances of Democratic vietorv in every State where they spoke TREASURY TO THE ASSISTANCE OF WALL STREET. The Treasury Ibquartmeut lias dec/fied to anticipate the entire fiscal year’s In terest on government bonds- and thus contribute $26,000,000 to relieve the present stringency of the money situa tion. The response to this offer in Wall Street Was immediate. Prices began to go up and there was a feeling of greater confidence. It is just a little inconsis tent with the prospertiy cry to have Wall Street in such straits that it need* asistance of this sort. But it is characteristic of this Administration that it gets it. There were large sums appropriated for public buildings in ’OB. but not a dollar of this is put into cir culation. Secretary Gage says the Treasury is in a position to advance the interest payments without the least em barrassment, hut it is another story when it comes to putting money into circulation where it would de the people auy good. I DEMOCRACY OF NEW YORK FOR BRYAN. The Democratic State Committee of Ncav York has declared itself for Bryan and that carries With it the necessary inference that it endorses the principles he represents. Croker, the Tamilian.', leader, was right with the committee. In fact this action comes as a corollary to Croker’s declaration that he was for Bryan, made on his return from Europe. Not too much weight should be given to Croker’s action. Ho is simply the astute leader Avho knows enough to fol low the wishes of the rank and file of the party when he cannot dim*t or con trol them. The Demoera ts of New York State and Ncav York city are so enthusiastic for Bryan that it is Useless to oppose them. Croker had rather lead them to party victory even on an issue that lie does not much like than see them defeated by holding to unpopular issues. Democrats all over the country have reason to feel encouraged at the attitude of the New York Democracy and Croker will stand by his declara tion. CE N SORSHir AB()LI SI IED. General Otis’s latest fairy tale from Manila is that he abolished the censor ship in Septniebr. It appears that lie* did this simply in his own consciousness and forgot to tell tin newspaper corre spondents anything about it. He hap pened to remember it when the Navy Department took exception to one or his reports stating that his forces had utterly routed the Filipinos as usual. The Navy claimed credit for the alleged victory and this brought forth the as sertion from Otis that the censorship had been abolished. As the Navy De partment does not believe him there really is no reason why anybody <4se should. It is coming to about that time in the State campaigns Avhere the Ad ministration may be expected to do more or less romancing. It may deceive the Republicans but is not likely to affect tin* Democrats. NO RIGHT TO UGLINESS. The woman Avho is lovely in face, form and temper Avill always have friends, but one who would he attractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will be nervous and irritable. If she has con stipation or kidney, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion, Electric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regu late the stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complexion. It will make a good-looking, charming woman of a run down invalid. Only 50 cents at all drug stores. -Silence is golden. The wagon tongue has nothing to say, but it usually gets there ahead of the rest of the outfit Soft Shell Crabs at Giersch’s. RALEIGII, [NORTH CAROLINA, TU ESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1899. A SALARY DEATHLESS! AN OFFICE IMMORTAL Hoke Vs. Henderson Decis ion Run to Seed. REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM A SALARY THAT GAME I TO LIFE AFTER TWENTY YEAR’S. A DISSEN l ING OPINION BY JUSTICE CLARK The Plaintiff in this Casi Was Claiming a Sal ary That Existed Once but Was Abol ished Twenty Years Before He Was Elected. the Supreme court’s recent dcciidon in the case of Nichols a\k. Eklenton shows to what an absurd conclusion tin* reasoning in -Hoke vs. Henderson may lead. In fact the decision in this case is Hoke vs. Henderson run to seed, and the logical conclusions reached by the court are: 1. That to abolish a® office it must be killed outright, root and branch, nawl nothing resembling it must is* suli-stdot ed in its place. 2. That even after twenty years eluje ses any one discharging similar duties may draw the salary of the abolished office. 3. That a charge upon the miblie treasury cannot Ik* modified, and there fore the powers of the legislature for ire forming the public service are de al roved. This case of Nichols, vs. Edenton is an action brought by the plaintiff Nichols to recover $37.50 salary alleged to In* duo him for services ns a member of th** •Board of Oouncilinen of Edenton. Tlie charter of tin* town (chapter 123, Acts 1869-70) provides that it shall he regulated and governed by a Boa id of (Amiinissioners, and that “each one of the fA«r.ii»issi<wM«rs . . . shall receive''' $25 per annum., and they shall Ik* re quired to fix the salaries of the other town officers not otherwise provided for mi this act.” This charter aaTis amended in 187d-"77 (chapter 881 and provided that the af fairs of thte town should he controlled by the mayor and six council men, known as “the Board of Goon oil men of Edi niton." find that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are re pealed. No mention of compensation to the conn oilmen is made. On this statement of facts the court decides in favor of Nichols and holds, Ohief Justice Fain-loth Avrit'ng the opinion, that tin* duties, functions and powers of the eounieilinen are the same as those exercised by the commission ers. “The act of 1876-’77 docs not pur port to repeal the act of 1860-TO, but expressly to amend it. In such casks the unrepealed parts remain in force as if re-enacted.” From this opinion Justice Walter Clark dissents and vigorously protests against the dbetrine notw so fashionable witlii the court that atm office mike cre ated must exist forever. He says in his opinion: “The charter rtf 1860-'7O (Private Laws, chapter 123) provided for the commasshmers elected each year by the whole town with sundry specified pow ers, rights nnd incidents annexed pecu liar to th«' office, among them that if any eotwnissiiom r should lve sick or ab sent from town any justice of the peace might act in his place, and allotiug a salary rtf $25 per annum to each of the five commissioners. “The act of 1876-’77 (Private Laws, chapter 881 enlarged and !•«»-«organized the town into AVardts and provided that ‘the municipal affairs of the town of Edeniton shall lie con trolled by a mayor and six coiincilimen who shall la* known: as the Board of Coumoilmen of Edenton, and provided for their election, two by each ward and for tennis of two years. Avsfh a provision repealing all laws in conflict Avith the new act. The* Board rtf Countedimen elected* in May, 1897, passed a resolution that wo salary should he allowed themselves. Tin January. 185)9, the plaintiff brought this action for eighteen months salary at $25 per year. “When the net of 1876-’77 reorgan ized the town, providing (that its gov ernment should be by six eouimihnen elected by wards for two ypars. nnd. re pen led all laws in conflict therewith, this Avas a complete abolition and an nihilation of the offices df the fire com missioners elected for the tmw of one* year, by the whole town, nnd with this abolition all the powers, rights and, iw cidents annexed to the nibajished office ceased. ‘Ooutncilraian’ so not. a eonitin untion of the office of ‘commissioner’ with tin* peculiar or special incidents an nexed to the latter antd was not made such by a provision, that, the former should continue in office till the n#v officers qualified. Whatever rights nnd incidents the two offices have in cone , moni are dale to the nature of the office . and are simply incidents annexed, to such positions by Coumwem law and statute. In churning the salary of $25 the plaintiff is claimiimg a right nrtt gWen to has Board by the general law or any special statute, but a peculiar in cident annexed to an office vhidh was | abolished twenty years before hr- was i elected. It is true the act of 1870-’77 is am amendment of the act of 1809-’7O, but within the scope it is a dotonolete repeal of the first act. “All the cases from Hoke vs. Hen derson down to the present hold that the Legislature can. abolish any office created >by the Legislature. “In Day’s case, 124 N. C. 362, it is true it was ihield that Avhen an office was abolished, if the same duties, though divided up, Avere devolved upon other persons, the inemnibent of the abolished office was entitled to conitiiinue to draw salary amid discharge his former duties, notwithstanding the expression of tin* legislative wail to th/r* eontirarv. But here the plaintiff, one of tin* board of six ‘councilnien’ elected for a term of two years, and by an entirely different coiistit'ieiUcy, claims that he is entitled to draw the salary of one of a Aboard of five “ omm4ssi«ners’ which, office he never filled, an office elective by ‘lie av1k»1o toAAin for the term of one year, and va liiicli wa.s abolished twenty years lief nv the plaintiff was elected. “He elauus the Salary on the ground that In* is discharging substantially (he same ditties. Inasmuch as scarcely any office can, be abolished Av'hieise du ties will not devolve upon or be dis charged by some one else. If not only the incumbent rtf the aliol'Mied office bnlt all those discharging similar duties after the lapse of twenty years, shall he entitled to the salary of the abolished office, the powers rtf tint* legislature will he much restricted in the direction of effecting any ret renehimejit and remrin in the public service. A salary will he ulnw.t-t deathless and (immortal. The charge upon the public treasury once created AA-iil abide with us and stick to us like another shirt of Nesisus, and future generations will lie* bom that they may continue to pay it. Changed is the tide of This office, the number of its occupants, the term of its dura tion, the constituency by which *it is elected, but Proteus-like, under whatever guise it may take, it is the same office, and one elected twenty years or n re moter period after the legislature de crees its destruction inav vla.im its sal ary because of tin* similarity rtf the duties. Yon may break, you may shatter, the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling ’round it still. , . - * ' - . - - -v - >*..-■ ■ • .. ; ... . .; ■ / X ... *' ■ ■ \ .. ': '’V *' ' - ■.» jrajpgr. AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE. RALEIGH. N. C. WHI'W—M»iMiIM*j 1 ''VKW.. J wwwilfyliotiwi*. v •qggj CONFEDERATE ORGAN IN PERIL. Let the Daughters of the Confederate and the Veterans Rally to Its Support. To the Editor: The existence of the 1 Confederate Veteran (Nashville, Ten nessee.) the exiMuient of the Confederate spirit pure and undefiled, is imperiled. In discharge of its duty as the guardian of Confederate interests it has had to 1 express the short comings of an agent employed in behalf of the Battle Abbey. The result is a suit for $50,000 dam- ( ages. While the strictures Avere in the plain line of duty and manifestly for the public good, and the suit can but A’in- , dieate the Veteran and Col. Cunningham, its editor, it must necessarily cost a great deal, of money. For in this mer-. cciiary age money can hire talent able j not only to make the Avorser appear the , better reason, but to blacken the white- j ness of innocence itself. And innocence is safe not in being innocence, but only J in proportion to the dollars that back it. j This expense will mean the death of the Confederate Veteran unless it re-*j ciives prompt and substantial support, j The support accorded it has always,been spasmodic and enthusiastic rather than ' steady and practical. Its death at the hands now upon its throat would Ik* a ( stigma upon Southern manhood and avo- ( manhood. That every fad, every folly of this silly age should he able to sumptu ously maintain its organ and exponent, | while this cause for which oceans of blood hath flown and inyraiids of hearts uncomplainingly broke, which hath Ik*- j qurtathed in the ages matchless ex- J ainples of heroism and devotion should ' be denied the mite necessary to keep J alive the embodiment of its principles— | the ark of its covenant—is something impossible (to conceive did not (he fact j in all its baldness now confront ns. Both moral and material support is needed. Work for the subscription list of tin* paper. Look into the matter and uphold the hand of its editor by sympa thy and moral support. O. W, BLACKNALL. Kititrell, N. C. AT A. & M, COLLEGE How the Student Spends his Work Day. WORK AND PLENTY OF IT AND IT IS NOT DONE WITH KID GLOVES ON. DISCIPLES OF THE SHOP AND FORGE The Student Must Learn to Plan With his Head and to Execute With his Hands. A Spirit Zealous for Work Per vades the Institution. To the average citizen of the State a visit to the Agricultural and Mechanical College and a first hand observation of Avhnt it is really doing would reveal much that Avould be surprising. If lie should go in the morning expect ing to find mechanics and agriculturists at work he would find instead very much what he would see at any other colleger-rows on rows of boys and young men in the lecture rooms, having to do with books. If he should go in the afternoons ex pecting to find these things he would discover that the college student had been lost in the workman, that the book had given place to the forge and ham mer, tin* chisel and saw. an<l that the smooth tones of the lecturer had yield ed to the whir of machinery, and steam driven tools biting into wood and iron, according to designs wrought out by the student himself if he is an upper classman and by others if he is in bis first year. There is nothing of the kid-glove or the lilly hand about it—if any has con ceived that idea let him demise it. It was the afternoon when I made the round of the college Avork-shops, for | such they are. The first place visited was the blacksmith shop and the first thing 1 saw was a perspiring but in finitely interested young American, with a smudge of soot as big as a hand could make it on his face, hammering a stub horn bit of iron into shape—and there were 20 forges going and It) other young men hammering. And every boy who goes to the A. and M. College has to take his turn at the forge. It conies in his freshman year and there are no ex ceptions—if he gets his diploma lie must blacksmith, whether lie expects to la* an architect, a civil engineer or a fanner. And withal twenty more forges will have to he added shortly for the fresh man class numbers 135 and the number have to work in relays to get their turns. When the work at the forge has been finished the freshman who is then a soldi more passes on to another room where a steam engine or an electric mo tor supplies the power instead of his own right arm. Here In* is given his lump of raw iron and his design and he must stick to it until the instructor in i charge passes his work. If he is making a cog wheel it has to be a cog wheel i that will fit perfectly into its fellow j and will become a serviceable part of the | machine to which it lvelongs—not a mere i cog Avheel on parade. That those who , work here are practical handicraftsmen is shown *by the pair of steam engines made by them that uoav drive the uia j chinery. The advanced student here i Avorks Avith ids head no less than with . his hand. He takes a flat disc of iron , of a given diameter and is told to make i it into a beveled cog wheel Avith, say, , 123 teeth. He has to make his own , calculations as to the size and slant of i those teeth and then cut them out of his | material. A mistake of an infinitesimal i fraction in his calculation or slip of the , hand in execution, and he is undone. | But he must stick to it until he suc ceeds. : In the AA’Ood- working department tin* [ same rule holds. Every student must Avork ini Avood and he must learn to work well. He starts off Avith the mak ing of a simple mortise by hand and he ends by drawing patterns for fancy scroll work and copying them in Avood by machinery. And throughout what impresses the SECTION ONE—Pages 1 to 4. PRICE FIVE CENTS ob is the thoroughly workmanlike m ® n which everything is done and tl **, rption of the classes in their a* _5" *al work that requires the best ad and hand and eye has to gi*,. That boy just there in overalls making a drill of Chilled steel may lead his class in English literature but you will not see him so much interested* in doing it as in his present work . And then here are the draughting rooms where the student begins by copy ing plans of buildings, then goes out and makes plans of the buildings on the campus, and finally draws and designs for himself. A STUDENT’S DAY. The day of the student at the A. and M. College is a full one. At 6:30 a. in. he gets up and dresses for breakfast. Promptly at 7 he drops with his fellows into battalion formation, his dress is inspected and lie marches to the dining room where lie has twenty minutes for breakfast. The meal over he falls in and is marched out. From 7:30 to 7:45 he is at liberty to spend his time as he Avill. If he did iot set his room in order before going to breakfast lie does that. At 7:45 he falls in and marches to prayers. At 8 o’clock all the rooms an* inspected and if one is found in disorder the occupants do not go down town foe many days thereafter. At 8 o’clock also the recitations begin and the student is on recitation or at study continuously until 12 o’clock. From twelve to one he has for dinner. At one o'clock he goes to work in the laboratory, in the iron or wood working departments, or in the fields with thf* agriculturist or horticultirist. From three to four o’clock, three times a Aveek, he has military drill. Front four to six he has two hours that are his oAvn. At this season if he is a mem ber of the football team or of the patrio tic and long-suffering “scrub” eleven he practices on the gridiron. At six he gets an excellent supper for which he has an appetite ready seven days in the Aveek. From 7 to 10:30 he studies in his room and at 10:30 he must put out his light and go to Ikml— and usually he doesnot require any persuasion. On Saturday half the day is devoted to work, and the other half the stu dent has as a holiday and is free to go down town. On •Sunday morning he must attend some church while his Sun day evnings ar his own. KJtf ~ .. It thus appears that half the time of each student is devoted to study and half to manual work of some sort. TIIE AIM OF THE PRESIDENT. “What is it your aim to accomplish?” was asked of President Winston. V “Our aim is to give not merely a hook and practical education but an education in habits as well. We insist on punctuality,,because it is an essential in the business man l ; the student who is behind forfeits his freedom. We forbid tobacco and cards, not because we are making war on them, but because neith er is of any sendee to the student and we have plenty for him to do that is of service;. Wo require students to wear uniforms because they are cheaper and do away with sloveliness and fop pery at the same time. In brief we try to so train a young man that he will be fitted to take up any business without changing his habits.” The institution now needs two more dormitories to hold at least 100 men each. Already more than sixty students have been turned away and applications are being refused at an average of two per day. About thirty young men are paying their way by work, waiting in the din ing room, feeding ami milking cattle and in other ways. LIST OF STUDENTS BY COUN TIES. ALAMANCE COUNTY: J. S. CafK W. S. Harris, Paul E. Morrow, T. O. Pomeroy, Juo. A. Robertson. ALLEGHANY COUNTY: W. G. Fields. ANSON COUNTY: W. (). Bennett, .Tr„ R. B. Flake. J. J. Liles, C. H. McQueen, M. W. Maske, S. H. Threadgill. ASHE COUNTY; W. S. Sturgill. BEAUFORT COUNTY: F. L. Oar ty. BERTHS COUNTY: E. E. Etheredge. P. J. Gillum, T. W. Griffin, G. R, Harrell, .1. W. Holley, .1. 11. Spivey, J. T. Stokes. BLADEN COUNTY: Jno. D. Fergu son. .1. L. Parker, J. E. Porter. BRUNSWICK COUNTY: L. J. Pin ner. i BUNCOMBE COUNTY: G. E. Brown, J. N, Garren, B. 0. Hood, J. J. Nich ols. BURKE COUNTY: S. W. Asbury, A. H. Slocum, W. S. Stacy. (Continued on Second Page.)