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Watches, Clocks, Eye-Glasses, Spec
.38 aud Jewelry of all kinds re-
sired oft Bhort notice.
Inspected Watcnes for S. A. L. R.
l. four years.
Fourteen years experience. Can
be found in Caraway's slore on "Wade
street. ... v . - :
A Mixture of Txes. Enrth-
qnakes anil Rebellion Vast
lCeiHources of the Islands
Which Spain Has not Known
How to Use Weather aud
Customs a Manila t'hauees
for Americans The Natives
and Their Characteristics.
A correspondent of the New York
Sffh," at Los Angeles, California, sends
the following interesting letter:
Manley R. Sherman, of this city, has
conce home altera residence 01 several
years at Manila. . He has been for four
years in the eajploy of a trading compa
ny, which has been buying indigo, cam
phor, sugar, spices and hemp in the Phil
ippine Islands for thirty years. As agent
for the company he has traveled over all
the larger islands, and has had unusual
opportunities to learn much about the archipelago.
"When I left Manila about the.middle
of March,' said Mr. Sherman, "the pres
ent rebellion was breaking out. It is
really another chapter of the rebellion
which broke out in the island of Luzon
(the largest,' most populous and impor
tant Philippine island) in June of last
year. The Spanish Government thought
it had stamped" out the rebellious spirit
of the natives, but in the latter part of
February the rebels suddenly appeared in
several parts of Luzon. The old seapor t
town of Cavite, where Admiral Dewey
and his forces are now in possession, has
been the head center of the rebels this
time. . .
"If the United States should take the
Philippine Islands as a possession, they
would have a most : valuable piece of
property. The possibilities of-the Phil
ippines as wealth producers can hardly
be overestimated. The exports in 1897
amounted to about $3t ,000,000, and that
in tne lace ot tne blighting oppres
sion of the Spanish on every
enterprise except tobacco ' and
su?ar; United States Consul "Williams,
at Manila, and I have discussed many
times the agricultural possibilities of the
Philippines under American push and
with Yankee invention. I believe the
exports from the islands might.be in-,
creased to $50,000,000 annually in a few
years, and to much higher figures in a de
cade. For instance, the coffee production
has for some occult reason of the govern;
ment at Madrid bee 1 kept down by a sys
tem of extra licenses that one must ob-
ain to plant coffee bean's, and by heavy
import duties on the machinery necessary
in preparing the product for market. I
have' been; amons- the famous coffee .
'fincas' of Central America, and I make
the assertion that there are nowhere in
Central America land and water facili
ties that approach those of the island of
Negros for growing coffee. The exporta
tion of coffee in 1897 amounted to about
$250,000. It ought to have been ten times
that amount.
"Tobacco, sugar and hemp are the chief
products of the Philippines. The govern
ment does foster these Industrie so far
as its avarice for taxes will permit There
are 15,000 cigar and cheroot makers in
and about Manila. All the tobacco plan
tations and cigar factories are run by
Spaniards. General "Weyler's two broth
ers have the largest factory in Escolta a
suburb of Manila. They came over to
the island about 8 years ago, when their
pompous military brother was Governor-
General of the Philippines at a salary of
$40,000 a year, and they obtained conces
sions then that yielded immense annual
returns. Sugar is largely grown on the
islands of Negros and Samos. There are
large Malay towns on those islands. The
English sugar buyers over there say there
is no cane so rich in saccharine proper
ties as that in the Philippines. Notwith-r
standing the ridiculously crude methods
of cultivating the cane fields and the ex
pensive manner of crushing the stalks
and extracting the sugar, the profit in the
sugar industry is incredible. The ex
treme richness of the caae makes the
profit. I know of several Japanese su
gar cane companies on the island of Sa
mos that have made as high as $650 for
an acre and a quarter every year for a
long time. Yankee invention could eas
ily reduce the expenses of a sugar plan
tation one-fourth. No peple but the
Japanese in the Philippines have the least
idea of how to make machinery do the
work of man.: Think of having sugar
cane crushed by several hundred men
with clubs, when simple machinery
would accomplish the same purpose fcet
ter, cheaper and a hundred times quick-
The indigo industry is run in the
Notice.
I will pay at my office in Wadesboro, N
L'., on and after April 27th. 1898. a divi
dend of 7 per cent on all claims against the
Uanlc of New Hanover at Wadesboro, N.
V , which Rtiall hae been peoven before
uie at mai uaie. - jas. a. leak,
, . Keceiver,
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Promote a Imuran! mnrth.
ver rails to Beatora Grajr
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same way as two centuries ago. ' ' '
' Wherever one goes into the rural re
gions of the Philippines Islands, one is
constantly wondering at the extraordina
ry prodigality of nature. I cannot tell
you of the magesty of the immense trop
ical forests of Negros and Samos. Thou
sands of square miles there have seldom
ueeu visueu uy a wniie man. mere are
literally millions of dollars in costly
woods there, to say nothing about valu
able herbs and barks to be had in the
same forests. - .
"I am wondering in these days, when
Uncle Sam is about sending troops from
the Pacific coast to the Philippines, what
the American boys will think of the cli
mate over there. With the possible' ex
ception of some parts of interior India
and Arabia, I doubt if there is any hot:,
ter climate than that of Manila. The is
lands reach within four degrees of the
equator. The tempeature is not so very
high, but the humidity is. The most ex
treme care must constantly.be exercised
to keep one's physical condition proper
ly toned all summer long.. The hottest
days in the year are in May and June.
Fortunately a breeze usually springs up
in the early evening, and that tempers
the atmosphere so that one can get some
sleep, if ho is properly fixed for it, when
midnight comes. The mean tempera
ture at the Philippines is 72 degrees. In
November the weather cools and then for
weeks at a time along the seacoastit Is
about a near perfection as any one can
imamrn Tn rail the months of Decern-f
ber, January and February there winter
is a mockery. .For seven months in the
year, from April to October, no one but
the pooest laborer goes out of doors, un
less compelled to do, between eight in the
morning and four in the afte moon.
A genuine census has never been taken
in the Philippines, but of a total popula
tion of about 300,000 in Manila about
8,000 are Spanish. The troops are re
lieved here once in two years, but the re
bellions have been so many in the islands
during the last few years that the soldiers
have been kept on duty at Cavite and
other garrisons longer than usual. '
"Speaking of rebellions reminds me
that th ere have been seventeen respecta- i
ble-sized rebellions in the last sixty years.
It seems strange that such an easy, slum
bering, happy-go-lucky race as the na
tives of the Philippines should have such j
turbulent politic. With almost any
other government over them, the natives
could undoubtedly be peaceful and con
tented. Of late years the rapacity of the
Spanish has increased, and the poof peo
ple are desperate. They long for any
other govering power than the Spanish .
I can't begin to think now of all the
taxes and licenses that the people in the
islands pay for' their government.' ; All
males over tweuty-one yearg of age must
pay an annual poll tat that equals $13
in our money. All females must pay $ 14
as a poll tax. A person must get a li
cense to gather cocoanuts from his own
trees and sell them. I have myself paid
hundreds of dollars for licenses for por
farmers who wished to harvest their in
digo crop and sell it to me. Every arti
cle of furniture that costs a sum. equal to
$2 in our money is taxed. The curtain
never goes up at theatre that $10 is not
paid to the government No one in the
Philippines may kill his own animals for
market,-clip his sheep, or cut 'down 'a
tree without first paying a fee to Borne of
the army of collectors that infest the
country. A couple pay a tax when they
wish to be married, besides a' fee to the
padre. The natives love showy funerals,
and the Spaniards decided a few years
ago that the grave-diggei must collect
$1.50 for the government before he can
bury any one in the cemetery. These
sums may seem petty! but it should be
considered that the average native has
little 6pportunity to work for hire, that if
he does .succeed in securing employment
his wages are not often more than five
cents a day, and that he is usually una
ble to dispose of his farm products for
cash, being compelled to exchange them
for other .commodities. In addition to
these and other taxes that I do not recall,
there is a tax on beasts of burden, a tax
for keeping a shop, a tax on mills or 1 oU
presses, a tax on weights and measures,
and a tax on cockfighting. At every turn
the poor native finds himself face to face
with the dire necessity of paying tribute
and he frequently spends his life in an inef
fectual effort to meet the obligations thu
imposed. The revenue goes to Spain to
pay the soldiers and navy.
"There is no escape from these taxes.
I have seen women whipped in the rural
towns because they had perhaps failed to
get a license before they had sold their
annual crop of cocoanuts, or had secret
ed a cow or a goat so that the tax col
lector did not see it in his official rounds.
For the collection of taxes the Spanish
have revived the plan which was in use
in France before the revolution of 1789.
For each district of 2,000 square miles a
tax collector is appointed by the govern
nor of the province. " He is called a gob
ernadorcillo, and he is responsible for the
estimated amount - which his- district
should pay in taxes, - so that if collec
tions fall short he must make them good
from his o wn pocket. He has under him
a number of deputy collector's, known as
cubezas, each of Whom collects the tax
es of from forty to sixty taxpayers, and
is personally responsible for the amount
expected from each. If they fail to pay
up he distrains their property and sells
it. - If the ' proceeds of the sale "'fail "to
cover the indebtedness,? the delinquent
aeotors are imprisoned. 1 once saw 1 a
dozen ragged, hard-working men on the
island of Samos that had lost their
houses, cattle and lands, and who still
owed sums ranging from $2 to $10. They
were being sent prisoners to the jail yard
at Putna Chavallas, while their families
were left to shift for themselves.
"In the summer of 1893 the order of
the Katipunan was secretly formed among
the Malays and Chinese. The purpose
was to 'remove by blood the bondage by
Spain. The members of the order were
sworn by a gash across the left upper
arm. With the blood which issues from
the wound the initiate crossed himself
and daubed bis month and SJlemnly
swore that he would spill the blood of at
least one Spaniad every six months.
The Spanish got hold of the plot. . By
trials that lasted an hour or .two in some
cases and thirty or forty minutes in most
cases, 4,700 of the persons - suspected as
being in the plot were convicted and shot
to death. In the month of November,
1896, there were 800 executions 011 the
outskirts of Manila. In one day some
sevety-five men were "stood up before a
wall and shot.
"The earthquakes in the Philippines,
especially on Luzon and Negros Islands,
deserve a special story by themselves.
The whole group of islands is of volcanic
origin There are seventy volcanoes in
constant ernpU n on the islands. Sever
al of them are the mo3t violent in the
world and are always being studied by
scientists from Europe and America. The
famous volcano Mayaria is within sight of
Manila. - An earthquake occurs on an av
erage of once every ten days. I have
known small quakes to come at the rate
of a dozen a day for a week at a time.
About a dozen times a yeat there are
shocks so severe that people will run
about in fright and damage will be done
to the buildings. The : big bridge over
the Passig River at Manila has been bo
swerved by earthquakes twice in my res
idence In the city that it has been made
unsafe for travel. In 1884 an earth
quake nearly ruined the great stone ca
thedral in Manila.raized many buildings
to the ground,! ocked many more,and2,000
people on Luaoa Island were kilfcdby fall
ing timbers and walls. In 1850 the great
earthquake on Negros Island eccured. It
has never been known hov many people
Were killed then, but the number is esti
mated at 7,000 ' Almost every structure on
the island was shaken down, and great
gaps, yards wide and. miles long, were
cracked across the island. The quaka
Opened seams in the earth from the sea
boast and made passages from the interi
or lakes to the ocean. I suppose if such
a quake Should occur in New York City
there wouldn't be one building left on all
Manhatten Island."
Bfrjrr Rrsralars Killed In a
FlKlit-Fieree Battle Said to
lave Been Waged Between
Colored Troops and Southern
VolHHteers-Four Negroes Be
ported Killed aud Several
Wounded.
Savannah, Jane 9. From a private
letter received in Savannah from a sol
dier at Tampa it is learned that during a
riot amon the United States regulars
and volunteers at Tampa on Monday
night four men were killed and several
wounded. The 'news censorship at that
placets very strict and has up to this time
kept the news out ot the papers. The
facts are, however, that on Mbnday even
ing the negro regulars went to the city
and began drinking whiskey. In a short
time they were hilarious and attempted
to take the town.
While at the height of their drunken
revelry a body of southern volunteers
came along and a fight was precipitated.
Some of the white soldiers from the north,
it is said, joined in with the colored regu
lars against the southern boys, and a free
fight was waged. Blows fell thick and
fast. . It is also said that fire-arms were
used. When the fight had somewhat
abated it was found that four of the ne
gro regulars were dead and that several
were dangerously wounded.
On Tuesday morning business was at a
standstill. The residents and Ybor City
were frantic with fear and remained lock
ed indoors on Tuesday, The town was
immediately placed under martial law
and order was partially restored. On
Tuesday night the entire Second Georgia
regiment was placed on duty to preserve
order. :
It Is quite probable that one of the rea-
Bons for the breaking of camp at Tampa
is the frequent rows between the soldiers
from the north and south and the whites
and colored.
The Truth Will Prevail.
Lenoir Topic.
Some of the Populist papers are chare-
ing that the recent Bern x-ratic State con
vention was controlled by corporation
lawyers. We are not in a position to say
how many corporation lawyers were in
the convention and it is not our habit f-y
make statements that are not founded en
facts of our own personal knowle $g.
We did meet up with three railroad at
torneys at the State convention, and we
know they rode there on Southern Rail
roads passes, and every one of the three
were in favor of "Fusion. " We don't
charge these lawyers with being in
fluenced by the Southern Railway bat we
make the statement to show the reckless
ness ot these papers in charging that the
Southern attorneys run the convention
We are satisfied that if the thing could
be sifted down to the truth there were
more men in that convention with South
ern Railway passes in their pockets who
favored fusion than could have been
found among men who ruled it and
stamped the life out of their demoralizing
scheme.
. As to the number of lawyers who were
in the contention, we doubt not, these
papers are as far from the truth as they
are in their statement as to its being
controlled by the Southern Railway. In
regard to this matter we speak from facts.
On the delegation from Cadwell five of
whom attended there was not a single
lawyer. There was not a single lawyer
from ' Catawba,V nor from Iredell;
and the Burke delegatioa had more lay
men than lawyers on it. Alexander,
Wilkes, Surry and Alleghany were re.
presented by lawyers mostly - and they
were for fusion. No, these Populists, and
some of the fusion advocates, play upon
the prejudices of the people and make
statements along this line without any re
gard whatever for the truth.
Does Baby
Thrive?
If your baby is delicate
and sickly and ; itsfoo4 does
not nourish it, put fifteen
or twenty drops of Scott's
Emulsion, in its bottle three
or four times a day and you
will see a marked change.
We have had abundant
proof that they will thrive
on this emulsion when other
food fails to nourish them.
It is the same with larger
children that are delicate.
Scott's Emulsion seems to be
the element lacking in their
food. Do not fail to try it if
your children do not thrive.
It is as useful for them in
summer as in winter
Ask your doctor if this is not trues
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Yanee Still Lives.
Scotland Neck Common-wealth.
If Vance were living Bryan's plan
of co-operation would have been
adopted at the State ; Democratic
convention. The Caucasian.
Oh, no! Vance still lives in his
influence over Democracy in North
Uarolina, and it was a part of that
self-same influence which held to
gether the forces of Democracy as a
nmc against tnsion. From the first
moment the delegates from" the va
rious counties were seated in the
convention hall 90 per cent wer
solidly opposed to fusion.
All thisTot about the State Demo
cratic convention being dominated
by gold-bug influence, railroad at
A. . J . . - .
tomeys ana monopoly money is
quite small talk and is untrue. Pop
ulist papers have raised J the how
mac larmers were . conspicuous in
that convention by their absence
Well, that may have been trne; but
the editor of the 'Commonwealth
was there and can answer for two
counties, Harnett, an Halifax. The
delegation from Harnett,' our native
county, ivas one-half, if not two
thirds farmers, and out of all the
delegates from Halifax nearly half
were iarmers.
Dls4aue Easily An alhilateU.
IndianapoTia Jorunal.'
He You seem ah er distant
this evening.
She Well, your chair isn't nailed
down -
S. C. P. Jones. Milesbnnr. Pa., writpa. 1
have used DeWltt's Little Early Risers ever
amce mey were iniFuuncea oere and must
say 1 have never used anv Dills iu tn v fam
ily during forty years o' house keeping that
gave such satisfactory T&mlts as a laxative
rr tftflMiarti " Tan A llavt;ann .
"One Minute Cough Cure is the best prep
nraiioii i ii a re ever soia orusea ana l cau
say too much In its praise," L. M. Ken
bob. Merchant, Odell, Ga. Jas. A. ilardl
son.
RIOT AT TAMPA.
In At
News or Iliot Received
I aula.
Atlanta Journal, June 10th.'
A letter was received in Atlanta this
morning from one of the mot prominent
members of the Second Georgia regi
ment, now at Tampa, confirming the sto
ry telegraphed here from Savannah and
printed in, the Journal yesterday, of the
killing of four negroes in a melee at Ybor
City on Monday night by southern troops.
The letter adds that an officer also met
death in the conflict.
The names of the men and the details
of the fight are not given, for reasons
best known to the writer. The soldier
states that before the riot took place near
ly every man in the city loaded himself
Hp on liquor, and the town was in a state
of pandemonium. Rioting ensued and
the fighting .became general. A reign of
terror existed during Monday night The
disgraceful scenes were the direct results
of the lawlessness practiced by the negro
regulars.-
As a -result of the riot it is said that
General Miles, the commander-in-chief,
has removed two officers and has threat
ened to punish others.
The Aflair at-Tampa.
Atlanta Constitution.
The news of the wild and brutal con
duct of the negro troops at Tampa will
be received with various feelings in va
nous parts ot the country, borne, no
doubt, will hunt for excuses, and others
will try to find terms of condemnation
strong enough; but to those who have
looked hopefully forward to the real ele
vation of the negro race, the affair at
Tampa is of awful significance.
It is folly to say that these negro sol
dierahave disgraced the American army,
They have done nothing of the kind; they
have disgraced their own race, and have
planted in the minds of thoughtful people
new seeds of distrust, doubt and suspi
cion. we would not discuss tnis matter
from a partisan standpoint It is a ques
tion that most vitally concerns the whole
American people, more especially those
who are responsible for - what is called
the negro question, as well as those who
are unfortunately compelled to deal di
rectly and intimately with all the aspects
and results of that qaestion.
There is one inquiry that will press to
the front and insist upon an answer.
Why should this unparalleled outbreak
of violence and brutality have been
precipitated by the negro troops who be
long to the regular army? It is not pos-
ible to conceive of white soldiers of the
American army, regulars of volunteers,
engaging in such a wild orgy of robbery
and lust not even in an enemy's country.
The event is significant, therefore, in
two aspects in its bearing ou the tem
per and temperament of the race and in
its bearing on results in Cuba. If these
negro troops jerform like wild beasts and
demons in the country they call their
own, and whose flag they are serving,
what is to be expected of them when in
Spauish-held towns iu Cuba? From all
the information that has seeped througn
the censorship the violent and criminal
antics of these negro soldiers (unparallel
ed in the history of our army) are com
parable only to the rapacity and brutality
of the Spaniards in their treatment of the
Cubans.
The question arises, what will the gov-
vernment do about it.' Can those in au
thority take upon themselves the respon
sibility of carrying on a war by the aid
of such troops as these? If we are not
mistaken, the administration, has before
it one of the most serious problems of
the war. There is no telling what co m-
plications may grow out of the presence
of these negro troops In the army after
their real nature has made so dreadful an
assertion of itself.
We do not propose to enter into the
details that have come to our ears. But
for the fact that the event has really hap
pened, the whole thing would be beyond
belief. After this, it is possible only to
fear the worst. And it is a pity, too, for
it is an outrage on the negro race. It is
Calculated to revive all the gloomy views
and lively apprehensions that once made
the negro problem so vexatious an Issue.
The unfortunate affair demonstrates, for
one thing, that the discipline of the United
States army, severe as it is. has had no
real effect on th negroes who have been
subjected to it The moment that a con
considerable bod of them are out of
sight of their officers, they are seized
with the temper and rage of demons and
savages, and at once begin to roD ana
steal, assault women and perform all the
acts possible to men with bruie natures.
The more one ponders over the event.
the more deplorable does it become. It
shows that the condition of affairs in the
army of invasion is such as to cause re
fleeting minds to wish it were otherwise.
Nevertheless.it is a condition that might
easily have been predicted by all except
those who deem it their duty to their par
ty to harass the people ofthe south by the
appointment of negro postmasters and
abolish the mail facilities of towns and
communities when the appointees pru
dently refrain from accepting the posi
tions. There was no need to send ne
gro troops to Cuba, even before their
real temper and disposition were known
To send them now, after the horrible
events in Tampa, would, in our opinion,
be not only a crime agaiust civilization.
but would destroy the spirt and harmony
of the army.
We regret.to entertain such a belief,
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The Democratic
GOVERNMENT COTTON REPORT.
A Reduction of 1,030,060 Acres
North Carolina Shows a De
crease of 7 per cent. Compar
ed with Last Year. '
Washington, June 10. The fiaal re
ports of the Agricultual Department or.
cotton planting make the area planted
22,460,334 acres, against 24,091,394 acres
last year, a i eduction of 1,631,060 acres,
or 6.8 per cent The decreae in the dif
ferent States as compared with last year,
is as follows: Virginia 8 per cem; North
Carolina 8; South Carolina 8; Georgia 6;
Florida 11: Alabama 4; Mississippi 4;
Louisiana 7; Texas 8; Arkansas 7; Ten
nessee 10; Missouri 18; Oklahoma 2; In
dian Territory 12.
The average condition on June 1 was
89, compared with 83.5 at the corre
sponding date last year and with an av
erage general condition for the last ten
years of 87.1.
The condition by States is as follows:
North Carolina 86; South Carolina 85;
Georgia 89; Florida 76; Alabama 89;
Mississippi 91; Louisiana 89; Texas 89;
Arkansas 96; Tennessee 90; Missouri 96;
Oklahoma 8 Indian Territory 80.
The conditions in Texas, Georgia, Mis
sissippi and Tennessee is three points
above the ten-year average; in Arkansas 6
points; in North Carolina 2 points and in
Louisiana 1 point. In Alabama the av
erage is exactly the same as the average
for the past ten years, and in South Car
ohna, there is a decline ot l point as
compared with that lor the ten years
period. There is no State from which
the usnal complaints of hail, insects,
poor stand, etc., have not been re
ceived. The general condition is highly
favorable.
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IIOBSONS
ST K AT E Y
SCHOOL.
IN
How the Naval Hero Escaped
Conviction ou an Amusing
Charge.
Exchange.
Stories of Lieut Hobson are now in or
der, and the following one is related by a
lady in the city who attended school
with the hero ofthe hour, when he wa3
a pupil at Marion, Ala., in the eighties.
Marion, like most colleg towns hid
two flourishing schools; one for each sex
thejudson Seminary, for the girls, and
the Marion Military Institute, for their
brothers. The last named was where
young Hobson attended. These schools
were largely patronized by the States sur
rounding Alabama, and the students
boarded in the college buildings, where
a strict surveillance was kept over them,
and anything like a flirtation between the
boys and girls was prohibited in the
most rigid manner. Once a month.
however, the literary society ofthe mili
tary school held an open session at the
church, to which the girls were invited
and to which they came under the chap
eronage of their teachers. They formed
a long line in paris-, and with two teachers
in front and two in the rear, they filed
from the Judson grounds across the
square to the church, which stood back in
the yard, and ou each side of the door
we-e rows of elm trees. The boys were
accustomed at the close of the open
meetiegs to rush from the church and
stand on eace side of the walk against
these elms and give a military salute to
the girls as they filed pa?t them on their
way back to the semiuary.
One evening after one of these enter
tainments and just as the procession had
started from the church there was a
piercing scream heard coming from the
center ofthe line, where the utmost con
fusion was found to prevail. The lady
teachers from both ends hurried forward
to see what could be the trouble. The
spectacled professor of the college, also
hurried forward aud demanded what had
happened. One of the prettiest girls of
the school was in tears, and declared that
"Dick" Hobson had rushed out from the
line of boys and hugged her. That was '
a very serious accusation, indeed, and
shortely afterward the teachers of the
A Negro Controls The White
Dear, Duinbaud Blind School.
Raleigh News and Observer.
There were more reasons than one why
Jim Young, now a major, left his troops
and came to Raleigh this week.
He controls the deaf, dumb and blind
institutions at Raleigh as absolutely as
the Czar of Russia controls his private
secretary. Not a move can be made in
the white institution without his consent
He was here this week to press the screws
On his white associates- He has given
them notice that unless they let him run
things as he pleases, he will turn out the
white lady teachers in the white institu
tion. There is no doubt of this.
How is it that Jim Young can kill and
make alive? It is because Governor Rus
sell gives him the power. His white as
sociates on the board have no real com
missions as directors. With possibly one
exception, each one of them has a string
tied to his commission. The Governor
holds their signed resignation, to be ac
cepted whenever they dare to go con
trary to his orders. As Jim Young is the
medium through which his orders are
issued, they are all in the hollow of Jim
Young's hand. If he chooses to squeeze
them they are dead gho3ts. And Jim
will squeeze if they refuse to sneeze wher
he takes snutt .
Here's a pretty howdy-do!
The chief educational institution of the
State, establisned for the instruction of Judson School and several ofthe pupils
Untrue That
Controlled
Convention.
Sampson Democrat.
The Democratic party did not enter
into an arrangement with the Populists
by which the spt lis of office might be
divided between Democrats and Populists
in North Carolina. Because the Demo
crats did not see fit to trade certain Pop
ulist politicians and newspaper are charg
ing that the Democratic State convention
was dominated by goldbugs and railroad
lawyeis. There never was a more non
sensical statement. Any intelligent per
son who has read the platfrom adopted
by that convention will see that the gold
bug and the railroad lawyer cut no ice
there. The platform declares for free
silver and transportation reform. About
all the good favored by Populists is favor
ed by the platform.
The Democratic party declined to fuse
because it is opposed to trading, it is
not in the market to pffer the votes of
the men composing it for sale to the
highest bidder. The Democratic party
prefers to make no entangling alliances
and its respectful declination to fuse
ought not to make Populists an
gry.
There is room fdr only two parties and
the fight is again narrowing down to a
contest between Democracy and Repub
licanism. 'The Democratic party has
opened its doors and invites all men who
desire safe and honest government , ad
ministered by capable men to come in
side and make themselves at home. The
majority of Populists were once Demo
crats and all of them ought bow to be
Democrats. Such as can lay aside pre
judice and enlist again in (he ranks of
their brethren - will be welcomed
home.
It will be unfortunate for the State for
the Republicans to win again by Popu
list aid. The Democratic party in itself,
has very little at stake in the appr- ach
ing elections, but the people of North
Carolina have a great deal at Stake.
None should cut off tbeir noses to spite
their faces.
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Pa's Naughty Way.
Rev. Mr. Lently I noticed my son,
that yon ded'nt seem to understand it
when I said grace. Doesn't your father
always bless the food?
Bobbie no, sir. He generally swears
at it. Braoklyn Life.
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The human machine starts but once and
slops but mice. You can keep it going
longest ami most regularly by using De
Witt's Little Early liisers, the famous little
pills for constipation and all stomach and
liver troubles. Jas. A. Hanlison.
the white unfortunate children of the
gtate, controlled by a negro politican and
controlled for political ends.
The people will not forget that Prof.
Chaa. F. Meserve, a life-long Republi
can, refused to serve on the Board be
cause ot the low plane of public mors Is
noon which lim Young and Dan Rus
sell run it. Mr. B. F. Montague, long
chairman ofthe Board, was forced off
because it was no place for a respectable
man who desired a decently managed in
stitution, and Mr. James A. Briggs, who
had been ou the executive committee for
fifteen vears. resigned lor the same rea
son-
If the Governor has any desire to have
even a pretense of white rule ofthe white
institution he ought to accept the resigna
tion of Jim Young and his "dummies"
and appoint decent white men to manage
the white institution. To continue the
present control is to insult the unfortu
nate children of the State who have no
were asked to appear aginst Richmond
H. Hobson, who was to be tried by court-
martiaL It was an interesting tnal, and
much interesting testimony was brought
out The girl in the case said that while
she could not see the face of the one who
hugged her, she was sure it was "Dick,"
because he had been slipping notes to
her at Sunday school. Her companions
also agreed that they couldnt see the
face of the hugger in the darkness, but
from the way Dick had looked at them
when thay-were in the church they were
sure he Was the guilty party. Everything
seemingly went to prove the young man's
guilt, and finally the grave professor who
was presiding over the court asked the
culprit if he had anytbiug to say in his
own defense. The future hero of San
tiago Bay stood up before the crowded
room, and with great solemnity said:
"Mr. Professor, I have only one thing
to say, and that is, if the court will .et
me hug the young lady now, and if she
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other place at which they can secure in- I says it's the same kind of a hug she re-
struction. ceived that evening, then I am willing
to be expelled," and he took his seat
How High Is Yonr Chair? j amidst a very audible titter. It is hardly
Rome ftnrions einerimanta have I necessary to say that while he was not
he&n made bv a Harvard nrofessor to I allowed the privilege of the test, Mr.
prove what is really the best height Richmond escaped expulsion.
for the cbair you sit on and the desk
you write at. .bvejy person, it ap
pears, ought to have a chair special
ly made to suit his or -her height,
aud the seat of the chair shonld be
exactly one-quarter of your height
from the floor. 1 has, if yoa are six
feet high the chair should slope
back ward three quarters of an men
to the foot. The bnc should be a
trifle higher thau the seat aud slop
ed slightly, not too much. Finally,
vonr desk should be two-tnirus as
high again as th seat of your cuair.
Thus, if your chair is twenty-four
iuches. the desk should be forty in
ches in height. When yoa have at
tended to all tnes little details you
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can sit anu write an aay witnout
backache that comes
from chairs aud desks that don't fit
yon. Boston Traveler.
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Oo Yoa Read
"What people are saying about Hood'a
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doing so much for others?
Hood's Pills are the best family cathar
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Jndge Norwood Celenratiae his
Vacation.
Salisbury Sun, 4th.
Judge Norwood was in the city this
"morning on his way to Waynesville. He
is enjoying a short vacation now, and.
judging from appearance, the Judge is
having a high old time. He was assisted
up town by a young man and was takea
back and put on the train by another
young man.
Mr. Edgar B. Sherrill won the first
prize, (it was $100 in cash) out of a class
of 78 for 4maintaing the best average iu
recitations during the year in the law de
partment of Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C. His average was 99 25-
Last year he obtained the prize of
$50 in the junior class. Mr. Sherrill is
proof reader in the government printing
office and is a brother of Mr. John B.
Sherill, editor of the Concord Times,
and a son of Rev. M. V. Sherrill, the well
known Methodist minister.
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The KespousihilitT Alreadx
Fixed.
Chicago Record.
"Now, Margaret, if our hasty
marriage before I go to war doesu't
turn out well will you blame ae?"
"No, dear; I'll blame Spain.
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