The Randolph Bulletin.
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U. S. HAYES, - Editor
E. A. WOOD ELL, Publisher
Entered as second-class matter June
2nd, 1905, at the post office at Ashe
boro, N. C, under the act of Congress
of March 3rd 1879.
Advertising rates on application.
One of the most interesting ex
hibits at the Lewis and Clark
Exposition is the display of the
United States Post Office Depart
ment, showing the advancement
made in that department from
its establishment to the present
time. There is no department of
the general government which
comes in such close contact with
the people as the post office de
partment. The post office de
partment has thousands of peo
ple in its employ and handles
millions of dollars daily and
millions of pieces of mail are
handled daily, by railroads, rural
routes and carriers, and yet
nothing is lost. The rural free
delivery routes have proved to be
the greatest blessing to the
country people of any improve
ment made for their benefit.
There are still other great im
provements being perfected in
the department. There is no
doubt that within a few years
the mail between large cities will
be transmitted through pneu
matic tubes, which will give
them almost instaneuous mail
from one city to another.
If the report from Asheville be
true that a Holiness tent was
burned, the furniture broken up
and one man wounded at Can
ton Haywood county, the offend
ers should be brought to justice
and punished to the full extent
of the law.
Under the constitution every
man has the right to worship ac
cording to the dictates of his con
science and it matters not what
faith he professes he should have
the protection of the law. Mob
violence and rowdyism cannot
be substituted for the majesty of
the law.
Gold nuggets are so plentiful
along the branches near Ashe
ville, according to report, that
the chickens are using them in
stead of gravel with which to
grind their food. We may next
expect to hear of these hens lay
ing golden eggs.
He Has Been Converted.
The best way to make a decent
North Carolina Republican quit
that party is to let him go where
he can see the workings of that
party, where they have full play.
Mr. W. A. Pruitt, writing from
Derryhale, W. Va, to the Alle
ghany Star, confesses a change
of heart and says:
"If you will give me space in
your valuable paper I wisn to state
that I am no longer a Republican.
I was raised up to hate the Dem
ocratic party, and when I left
North Carolina I thought the
Democrats were just awful mean
but since I have been in W Va
for the last five years, where the
Republican party rules supremely
I have changed my mind. For
instance, Fayette county, which
is one of the wealthiest counties
in the State is in debt $100,000,
and no hopes of getting out of
debt."
It is a pity the Democrats
couldn't give all Republicans like
Mr. Pruitt a trip to West Vir
ginia so they could get their eyes
open. It would do them good
and bless the country too. News
and Observer.
The above clipping from the
Observer is a fair sample of the
rot which is going the rounds of
the Democratic press. West
Virginia,as a State is republican,
but Fayette county is Demo
cratic and always has been and
the great debt of $100,000 was
put upon the county by the Dem
ocratic machine. It is natural
for the leaders of the Democratic
party to feel sore against West
Virginia, as she was the first
State to break away from "Solid
South" and join the party of
progress and advancement. Since
the little "Mountain State"
changed her political faith, capi
tal almost unlimited has sought
investment in her coal fields, oil
fields, forest lands, railroads
and manufactures, and all over
the State the hum of industry
and contentment is heard and
the people are enjoying a period
of material development never
dreamed of under a Democratic
administration.
Does West Virginia think of
going back to the Democratic
column? Never!
Character is what a man is.
Reputation is what other" people
say he is. When a witness in
court is called to the stand as a
"character" witness, he usually
testifies to a man's reputation
and not to his real character.
Many people of good reputation
have characters as black and
disfigured as sin and crime can
make them. Other people of
pure motives and spotless char
acters have their reputation be
smirched by the tongue of scan
dal and go down to their graves
shrouded by infamy and disgrace.
If there is no hitch in the ar
rangement two men will die on
the scaffold in North Carolina
today. Hammons will be hanged
at Winston for the murder of his
wife and Teachy will be hanged
in Duplin county for the murder
of Rivenbark.
Many people have "conscien
tious scruples" against capital
punishment, arguing that im
prisonment for life is better. It
is doubtful, however, whether it
would check crime to same ex
tent if it was known that life
imprisonment was the highest
punishment to be inflicted. When
a man in cold blood takes the life
of his f ellowman, he forfeits his
right to live among men, and
should, after due course of law,
be deprived of life. A murderer
is not any more likely to repent
and fit himself for eternity dur
ing life imprisonment than he
would from the day death sen
tence was passed to the day of
execution.
Church Going in Summer.
There is a sort of pleasant-day
Christianity in the world which
is far too popular an observance
of religious duties, especially of
church-going when such obser
vance is no tax upon personal
comfort and convenience. Few
people fail to make the sacrifices
daily required in the exigencies
of business of religion, the sacri
fices demanded by all real con
victions are deemed too great to
pay. Closed churches, or churches
with vastly diminished congre
gations in summer, attest this
truth; the hot weather is deemed
an all-sufficient excuse to avoid
the tedium of services and ser
mons, and church going is put
off until the fall brings pleas
anter temperatures in which to
endure the restraint of an hour
or so once a week.
Probably the majority of peo
ple who profess religion of any
kind are sincere in their convic
tions, but to believe a thing and
to practice that belief at all haz
ards are two very different mat.
ters. Yet, if men and women
really wish their lives to be guid
ed and influenced by their con
victions, they must strengthen
those beliefs with the outward
observances of worship, or the
spirit soon yields to the indiffer
ence about the letter, and in the
slighting or the outward forms
of religion some of the vital es
sence is almost sure to escape.
The building of churches is a
profession of faith in itself, but
they are merely structures more
or less fine, of marble and brick
and wood, not the temples of
worship they are intended to be,
if they have no worshipers to
hallow their use.
Religion, in the sense of sav
ing on's soul, is not a perfunc
tory affair, but the most impor
tant business of life, which must
be attended to in earnest, not to
be dropped and taken up at
pleasure or convenience, but to
go on always, no matter at what
risk or sacrifice. Its demands.it
is true, receive less attention
than they should in this age of
earthy absorbing interests and
money-getting, but in this one
matter of church-going the sac
rifice is so small comparatively
that at least a few hours of one
day in the busy week can be set
aside for attention to the most
important and pressing business
of a man's life. Ex.
Have you every noticed.
That the people who always
carry umbrellas, rain or shine,
never wear anything that can be
damaged?
That the big chap who bullies
his fellow-men is henpecked at
home by a little woman?
That the fresh-air cranks are
always delighted to find anyone
else with a cold in the head?
That the man who shouts the
loudest in public places speaks
mostly in whispers when he is
around home?
That a woman who receives a
proposal of marriage with: "Oh,
this is so sudden!' has been fish
ing for that very thing for months
or years?
That we invariably meet our
creditors on payday and don't
have half a show to stand them
off?
The Republican Party and Revision.
In 1896-the Republican party
promised Tariff revision. It re
vised the Tariff then in existence
and brought prosperity to the
country. That prosperity still
exists. The party has put in
weary months trying to make
operative reciprocity. It has
failed because of too many "en
tangling alliances." In the 1896
National Republican Convention
the Republican party agreed to
take up the silver question and
President McKinley appointed
commissioners to an international
monetary convention, one of its
purposes being to re-establish
silver as a circulating medium.
That there might be no charge
of trifling he appointed as the
head of the commission from this
country the late Senator Wolcott,
I r 1 i 1 mi
oi uoioracto. ine commission
met, but its labors were futile,
and Senator Wolcott acknowledg
ed that it was impossible to in
duce the great commercial pow
ers to re-establish silver. Since
then several nations, including
Mexico, have established the
gold system. The Republican
party will be guided by the pub
lic sentiment, and when party
sentiment demand there is no
doubt a revision will take place.
What will be done is well evi
denced in the President's action
on the freight rate question. It
met with a unanimous response
except from the interests in
volved. It will be so with the
Tariff. Even with the Demo
cratic rank and file there is but
little or no demand for Tariff
revision. It is satisfied: and last
fall was so well satisfied that it
had no hesitancy in voting for
President Roosevelt even when
their own managers held the red
flag of revision before their eyes,
It did not scare them. They ac
knowledged they were as well
satisfied with the Tariff as were
the Republicans. The Republi
can party has made no promises
that has not religionsly carried
out or honestly attempted to.
Ex.
Russia's internal woes.
Russia, from there ports, seems
to be a mighty boiling caldron
bubbling over first at one point,
then at another, and sometimes
at nearly all points. The fact
that the censorship is actively
enforced gives an ominous color
ing to these reports. Even so
startling an event as the mutiny
in the Black Sea fleet did not be
come fully known in St. Peters
burg until forty-eight hours after
it had happened. It is natural,
therefore, to assume that the
situation is much worse than is
imagined. The whole country is
in the throes of revolution. Peo
ple are speaking in bodies and as
individuals as they dared not
speak six months ago, and the
impulse of resistance is traveling
from province to province and
from one subject to another.
The significant thing is that if
this coutinues much longer this
revolutionary spirit will blend in
to union and action which no
amount of administrative effort
will be able to control.
It is not surprising, therefore
thar conspiracy is reported am
ongst the autocrats to dethrone
the Czar. The probability of
such a conspiracy suggested the
rumor. It is not likely that men
engaged in such an enterprise
would make their purposes known
The weakness of the Czar is
charged with the progress of the
revolution. This is not a neces
sary inference. The Russians have
never been the same since the
massacre. The troops, especially
the Cassacks, have been often in
terposed since then, always with
increased hatred for the autocracy
and the spread of the revolu
tionary sentiment.
A strong man that is, a brute
like Sergius might kill more
people, and he might even con
quer for the moment the wills of
the Russians, but the spirit of re
volution would go marching on.
The loyalty to the Czar, that
sentiment without which no gov
ernment can long maintain itself
is gone forever.
Were the Czar superseded by,
a more brutal kinsman he would
simply pave the way for some
ambitious military man. It is
strange that one has not already
come te the front. But the most
ambitious soldiers are in Manchu
ria. . Those at home are the dregs
left from the straining. If there
is anything in the peace negotiat
ions the war must come to an end
in a few months, and some of
these soldiers who have not
gathered many laurels in the
East will be ripe for work at home.
It is entirely possible that the
autocracy will have to reckon
with some of these men. It may
easily occur to them that it is
more honorable, as well as more
profitable, to float with the rising
tide than to follow the precarious
for tunes of a dying dynasty.
Hammons to Hang.
July 20th J. W. Hammons will
end his life upon the gallows in
this city. There is little hope for
a stay in the proceedings. His
crime is of recent date and is
familiar to our readers fatally
shooting his wife in East Win
ston and from whom he had been
parted some time. The execu
tion will be private and the
County Commissioners on Mon
day ordered a gallows to be
erected on the third floor of the
jail, ""only a short distance to
where Hammons is confined. The
rope to be used was received the
past week by Sheriff Alspaugh
from Sheriff Julian, of Rowan
county, and it has done service
in several hangings. The con
demned man is penitent and like
those who generally leave this
world by the scaffold route ex
pects to land in glory land. Liquor
caused his end and it will shorten
the days of any man who con
tinues to use it. Hanging is a
fearful thing. So is murder and
especially that oi a woman.
Hammons deserves what he gets
and so does any other man who
wantonly takes the life of a fel
low being. Union Republican.
The Western Girl.
O the Western girl is pretty,
She is sassy, sly and witty
Even down in Kansas City
She is far from being dumb;
She is tasty in her dresses,
Neatly currycombs her tresses,
And takes kindly to caresses,
But she
will
chew
gum.
She is up to snuff I reckon!
On the watch for the gentle
beckon,
Oft in need of mamma's checkin'
And the weight of pa's thumb;
She is slangy to the limit ,
Buys a novel just to skim it
O her glory, naught can dim it,
But she
will
chew
gum.
0 the Western maid's a dandy
With a wondrous tooth for candy,
She can give your Eastern Mandy
What the drummer gave the
drum; She's a dashing peacherina
She'sja genuine verbena
Yon're a dead one till you've seen
her,
But she
will
chew
gum.
S. W. Gillilan in Baltimore
American.
The crew of a Japanese cruiser
singing and cheering their Em
peror as they are going down is
a striking contrast in the splendid
discipline and loyalty shown to
the spectacle of the Russian crew
on a Russian battleship shooting
down their officers and then roam
ing the high seas in pirate fashion
It also suggests comment as to
the comparative civilization of the
two navies, not at all in favor of
the European and Christian
power. Ex.
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Ambition sits becomingly on
the shoulders of the successful
It is the mission of ambition to
dream dreams and see visions.
The days of the ambitious are
Spent in rounding up and their
nights in counting the cost.
It is a long step from coffee to
champagne, but ambition has en
able some men to take it.
The ship's steerage has furnish
ed am bition enough to run Am
erican politics.
On the great sea of ambition
there are those who insist on
chasing after drift-wood.
There are various grades in am
bition, ranging from an interna
tional yacht race to the raising of
a plethoric pumpkin for the coun
ty fair.
Each grade has its due recom
pense and reward.
The ambitious millionaire
spends his life looking for a col
lege with a surplus. Having
found it, he generously enlarges
its coffers.
Richland Township Sunday School
Convention
The Sunday School Convention
for Richland township will meet
with New Center Church the
fourth Sunday in July, 1905, at
10 o'clock a. m. Following is the
program:
Devotional Exercise by
Rev. H. A. Albright
Greeting H. F. Way
Response J. H. Spencer
Enrollment of Delegates with
Reports from Schools.
What is the Purpose of the Sun
day Schools? Neill Dunlap
Influence of the Sunday School
on the Home E. E. McNeil
and I. F. Craven
What Shall we Teach in Sunday
School S. H. Way, M. McNeil
The Object of the Township Con
vention H. F. Wilson
The Duty of this Convention to
Communities without Sunday
Schools E. F. Cagle,
M. J. Presnell
Address or Sermon
NOON RECESS
1:30 p. m. Praise Service.
The Vital Needs of the Sunday
School N. Macon, H. F. Way
Mutual Relation of the Sunday
School and the Church
Rev. H. A. Albright
How to Increase Interest in the
Sunday Schools... G. H. Bean
and H. F. Wilson
How do you Dispose of Quarterly
Reviews? by Superintendents
Music in the Sunday School
J. N. Cagle
Any Vital Points that Confront
Sunday School Teachers, by the
Teachers.
Announcement of the Place for
Next Meeting of this Convention
Election of Officers.
Adjournment.
The program will be inter
spersed with vocal music. We
hope to have a full attendance,
and to make this convention a
success.
C. E. Stuart, Sec'y.
G. F. Garner, Pres.
F. A. HENLEY, D. D. S.
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A Fortune
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You can buy them
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now, and sell them
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tion by addressing '
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sell. New goods received every few days, so you
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