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i"""""IM" nut MMiititiiiimiiimiiiti : WR.F.A.HEJVLEy. ' DENTIST. OFFICE: Front Raom Over Bank. ' WORK GUARANTEED. ASHEBORO. N.C. t i i-i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1; dawk OF RANDOLPH, 4 WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS.:: BULLETIN. VOL. I. WlMi VESUVIUS Thousands Arc Engulfed Molten Rock and LIKE END OF THE WORLD Vesuvius Roars Like a Titan Pos sessed With a Legion of Devils, Vomiting Rivers of Fire on Cities within the Reach snd Terrifying! .Naples, Across tbe Bar W;th ' Violent Earth Shocks, Hot Ashes 1 d Stifling Tames i ! j Naples. Yi- I'.il.!.-. 'im. , ., i ' j ite nope taut - Lomu csuvitt was beeomh, calm : -as m-ipaieit Minday when the vol u'.o became more active than ever laui2 has spread to X apies. j Tiim j ,... i , , ... i .. .. udiiuuuaKe shock.-, which , i - . ",lun! btuit.ered wmdows and eraeked walls j ot buddings, were experienced. The ' ;e entire population rushed to the streets! i,: tenor, many persons eryiug: "The Madonna Las forsaken us: the end of the world has cme." No trace remains of Boseatreaz. a commune on the s-oiitheru deelivity oi the mountain where up to 2S hours ago 10,000 persons lived: and Torre Aii lumiata. on the shores of the (.Suit of Naples, one mile to the southward, is aimo.-i: surrounded by the invading lava and has been evacuated by iis :;,(liO inhabitants. The people were brought to Naples by trains, street t-ars. miiihirv i.:its -1:1.1 - .. I . ar metxn 'JL transportation are f betn employed to bring away the poo- ' pie from Tone del Or-aeo. The police and carbineers ate tfttardimr the abandoned houses and several mem-; hers jt tue government also are there Work of Succor Difficult. A telegram received from the mayor of San Seba.-tiano. a village near the observatory on the northwest declivity of Vesuvius, says the lava is ap proaei;i:i:r rtipidly and the people are terror-stricken. They have been for nights without sleep, lie says, are des titute, and beg that assistance be aivf'i mem. , The work of succor is hammered ow i.ig to the railway service, which is i'.derrtipted by red-hot stones thrown ! lo a height t 'dSY-i feet falling on the tracks. Lightning Flashes Blinding. j As yet it is impossible to count the ! craters that have opened and from which streams of lava have flooded the beautiful, prosperous and happy land lying on the southeast shores of the hilf or Naples. The atmosphere is heavily charged v. itli electricity and now and then the t'aslies of lightning ere blinding, while the detonations from the volcano resembelc those of terrible explosions. j The churches were open all Satur day night and were crowded with panic stricken people. Members of, the clergy are doing thei utmost to : calm their feats, but the effects of; their arguments for almost naught; when renewed earthquake shocks are! experienced. I Roaring and Smiting, With the dan r and horror of the. Swift, the Packer, Dead, tit!!; liO.-tOl!. j .acker, .Mi'. Swift C. Swiff. urly Thursday Uioruiug. is taken ill with uatu-: ii;oiiiii on Man a 27 and grew rapidiy cotton trade and were cordially re-voi.-e. The cxN wa reached Wed- ccived. Asked as to whether it was nesdtiy. v.her; iw became ruieoueious, proposed to invest in Southern con aad lem-.uued hi that condition until, cevus Mr. McAIisier stated that there the cnl. ?lr. Swift's wife, it is" was now under way a study of the thought, is on her way to America j American lieu land laws but he could from a Kurepean trip. j not go further than thai- . I The Benvind Mutineers. Washington. Special The Supreme Court of the United States lOUiv III) the case of Robert Sawyer and Ar thur Adams, who are under convic tion on th It'vji sea;;. charge of murder on the police, was turned over to the Cliil 'j'iiev are. two of the mem- dren's Home Soeietv Tuesday bet s of the schooner Benvind, whoso four cheers were murdered oil ihe North Carolina coast last October. They brc'ght the case to tuc Supreme Court on -vrits of error alleging ir- regularities, in their trial, which was conducted at Souttiport, N. C, by the United States Circuit Court Taxes in Alexandria. Alexandria, Speci;t!. The City! Council passed the annual tax bill for the municipality. The tas on real estate and personal estate is ,. , t &1 00 rn (lir. 41 fill nf t.ivahln irxeu ui -rx.rr value and 50 cents an each adult male. It IS expected that the ciiy will collect about $115,000, which" will he but little, if any, in excess ut the cost of carrying on the city's aiiaifs- i Telegraphic Briefs Overseer Voliva will ask a receiver- J -hip fr '1011 ty a!( cuurcn and ' threats are made that John Alexander liowie will be arrested and charged with misuse of funds if ho returns to f,r.ht the action taken in deposing him Tndee Grosscup of Chicago in an JUOjiO 1 il.i ddl'eS in JiOSlon, pioposco iiiai cor- "lorations having a national field of 1 lerations be incorporated by the Ve.deral instead of by the State gov- 4.. of Earth situation aside, Vesuvius presents one of the most splendid sights imaiiiu able. The mountains r' li if. whose speech is by detonation and whoso acts are destruction, seem like an en raged giant determined to make ihe pigmies of earth feel ihe might of his ,vi"ath. neve ami there on ihe mouu- i:'"n tlai,-d me blasted trunks or ?m; V'T l!,'ir !a-e l,ra,K'!,es VntT Mu'-h r,,trs! aaV"1 the ueva station iiio voicauw mis wroti ih in. Duchess of Aosta. who al.vays re misery exists. is li: in her efforts io The people call her is lo be found wh -o-ii-hitt- alleviate distress, an angel of me rev inula v fhe took several children from their Meaiy mothers a tut m ncr earriaue eoueea , , , , , them to the roval palace, where they Win reniam !iltil conditions are bright. Hard to Ereaths ia Naples Bi-eathiug is momentarily becoming more difficult because of the poison ous fumes and smokes, while the hot allies, which are siiil falling, tend to make life a burden. The observatory has been destroyed and Signor Matteueei. the director, and the employes had narrow escapes. They passed last night in the dark ness, save for the frequent llash.es of lightning, as the gas works and. elec tric lighting plant were destroyed. The restaurant of the funicular rail road, too. ha- been obliterated. Prisoners in jails o;t ihc mountain mail with terror and mu- timed and were omv partially iUR-teu by bt,ili? hv,mlt ' )(.,v. But their fi-ars have been communicated to the prisoners here, who may icbei at any moment. The si! tuition is eritieal. Ssa Not Yet Affected. j Contrary to cx;;eo;atioi:s. the sea lias not yet shown s-kus of being af : iected bv the iht-;i:mena. but fears are en;c: tained that tidal waves may yet come and many crafts have put to j sea. Yi-ito s to Naples are avoiding j tin? hotels on the sea ftont and those i living there are beginning to leave for I ; higher altitude-. j Though there is much misery, up to , the present time there have been no 1 fatalities, except ar Portiei. where an 1 old woman died, suviiiosedlv . from L t To Roast Yellow Magazines. Washington. Special. President Roosevelt will deliver his Decoration Day address this year before the Ar my and Xavv Union at Norfolk. Va. The ceremonies there will be held at the navy yard and in the sailor rs cem etery. The address of the President will be practically a repetition of the address he delivered at the dinner re cently given by Speaker Cannon to the members of the Gridiron Club anil other guest-1. The text of the speech was The Mat! With the Muck R-ike," in v.iiieli the President com pared some of the publisher and writers oi: the present nay with ihe famous character in Pilgrim V Prog ; ress. and he scored some of the sen ' sational magazine writers without j mercy and expects to repeat his state j tiients in the Norfolk speech. While ! the Norfolk speech will coiiiaiii much ! that is new, it will foiloy,- closelv the lines of the original add:: English Spinners in Texae, Houston. Special. If. W, MeAiis- lei- ud patty oi' Muncln ter spinners arrived here to look into the Texas Youu? Girls Taken in Raid. Richmond. Sue. ial. Ada Gordon, the youngr givi who a victim in the notorious Dele TIaynes ea-e- and who was found bi the house of Ak;lhe Perhhiioi!. which was raided bv the She a mere flip of a air, not mora than 15 years of ate. EnV Goodman. pretiv voting woman who caused ihe raid, was not convicted. She lett the count com aim in arm with her brother ami brother-in-law and will i- urn to her home. She is 17 years j of age. News Items. A memorial in Washington to the late Susan B. Anthony was decided upon by the executive board of the National Council of Women. .. The Ha an bark Antonio, ashore near Capo Henry, is said to be break ing ia two. The storehouse and dwelling of J. M. Airheart at Cave Springs, near Roanoke, were burned. J. L. Crandall of Boston is to erect a shipyard at Norfolk. Lurry Rodgers, who inginated the story that Rev. Charicii H. Parkhtirst was to be killed, warf given seven years and six months in Sing Sing The lockout of the union men at High Point still continues. Efforts .,, l.: ,1.. i .. k ic oeu.g lum.o io ic-.itii .01 ment between the employees and sm- plovers, hut. so far nothing has been accomplished, both sides remaining i r.t t! hep-innin' rf fK- tmnh'p. y itsvers CONDITIONS IMPROVING Streams of Lata From Vesuvius Are Now Almost Stationary, but Quan tity of Ashes asvd Cinders Thrown Up is Unprecedented and Ha." Caused Complete or Partial De struction of Numbers of Towns and Cities. Naples, liy Cable Reports of fata lities consequent upon the eruption of Mount Vesuvius are coining in. Ac cording to information received late Holiday night, more than o'Hi perish ed in the district of San (uiseppe, while from the ruins of a church which collapsed cwin-- to the weight !' ashes i-n ihe roof. 49 corpses were exiri'-iiied. ami it jsseied t,.,t at Sorreii;o. :!7 peisons wore killed by faliiii' houses. Cavalry proceeding io the succor i! the inhabitants of the devastated see lion have been Hi able io make prog ress, ihe rain falling on the ashes a foot deep having made it impossible for the horses to travel. Ihe sea is greatly agitated. The sky has cleared, but heavy clouds hang over the east, threatening a fur ther downpour. The streams of lava ere almost sta tionary. Troops are erecting barriers it! the direction of Pompeii lo pre vent further danger in that quarter. Situation More Hopeful. This has beet) a day of terror f;u the cities, towns and country about Mount Vesuvir.-. At mitiui'.'hi ihe situation appeals more ase.iing. the avn streams having diminished in volume, and m some directions having Mopp.-d aliogeihcr. while a copius raiufail is cooling the lava where it lies -iai-ouary. Aiieest eqn.-d with lie devastation wrought ly the lava, is the df:mi done by e aiders and ashes, which i: ' eoiisid-wibJe qmntites have been car- i h'ii y.esu u;st;-i!ccs. i uis u-.s causeo the i.'i -.ct h-al desi i action oj; San Ge.ies eppc. a place of 0.000 inhabitants. All bet "J'J'.l of ihe people had lied from San Cuiespee, and tiies-; 20J assemb le;! i i tie: church io attend mass, win!" ihe priest was pei forming his sacred office the. roof fell in, and about tivt persons were badly injured. These unfortunates' were for hours without food or medjeal attention. The only thing left standing in the church was a statue f St. Anne, the. j reservation of which the poor, home hss people accepted as a miracle and promise of deliverance from their peril. 150.000 Have Fled. About lot 1,000 efu"ees from esu viana had sought shelter here and elsewhere. Four thousand were lodged in the barracks in this city. All the; trains were delayed owing to the tracks beine; covered with cin ders, and telegraphic communication with all points was badly congested. The stream of lava which had been threatening Torre Anuunziata, a town of 28,000 inhabitants. 12 miles from Naples, on the load to Castellamare, had remained stationary since Sun day eveiiinsr thai the danger that the place wold he overwhelmed ap peared lo have passed. The. action of Mount Vesuvius had perceptibly diminished and the show er of ashes caused to fall over Na ples for a time. Hut ashes and sand began failing again later in the day. When the last train was leaving Bosch ivcaz a fresh crater opened near the observatory slut ion. Mr, Hwift's Fnueral. Beverly, ?lass Special. Tim fmi fcral of ihtttiu C, Swift of the firm of Swift S Co,, the Chicago meat packers, who died Thursday ia Bos ton from pneumonia, hs he' i at Beverly Farms. The honorary pail bearers were 50 in number, represent ing the various industries with which Mr. Swift was collected, while, the acting pail bearers were from St, John's church. The body was taken to Forest Hills Cemetery and placed l.i tJie receiving vault to av.au me arrival of .Mrs. Swift from Europe. Russia's Big Loan. St. Petersburg, By Cable. It was positively stated that a loan had been arauged in principle to the amount of between $200,000,000 and i?3-j0,000,000 Finance Minister KokovsoiY has gone to Parts to conclude linal negotiations Details of the loan are not available. It is variously reported that the loan will bear 4 1-2 and 5 per cent, inter est, the emission price being 00 or 92, with 1 1-2 per cent, commission. Radicals Carried Moscow. Moscow, By Cable. The Moscow municipal election was the culmina tion of a veritable ivhHwind can vass. Tito result is not yet known, as the votes wiil not he counted until later. The vote was the heaviest ever cast here. Up to three o'clock over 30.000 of the 50.000 registered electors had voted., Many women peddled tick ets. The Constitutional Bemocrats sppeared to have the better in the '. oting and claim :. victory. Beat His Wife to Death. Baltimore, Special. Because his nine-year old son Thomas did nof eook a meal quickly enough to please him John T. Kennedy created a dis turbance that attracted his sick wife from her bedroom and in a tight that ensued between the man and his wife, the latter was so badly beaten that she died Bonn afterward. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1906. NORTH STATE NEWS items of Interest Gleaned From Various Sections FROM MOUNTAIN TO SEASHORE Minor Occurrences of the Week of Interest to Tar Heels Told in Para graphs. Charlotte Produce Market. Chickens Spring liens per head Ducks Eggs Rye Dais i'Ved Corn I'ottuo Seed Dai Seed .. . Cotton Market. Dalvesion , turn New Orleans, lirni Mobile, steady Savannah, steady Charleston, linn Wilmington, steady . . Norfolk, steady Baltimore., nominal .. .. New York. tttiet . . . . Boston, ijiiiet Philadelphia, steady . . Houston, steady Augusta-, til in Memphis, steady St. Louis, quiet Louisville, firm Charlotte ... 11 (2o f0 .::" .2." .SO . i" (o 30 (ft:3 . .. 11 . . ilo-ltJ . .. ll's . .. ny .. ..11 . ..11 . .. Hl' . .. ny2 . .. 11.70 . .. 33.70 . .. n.or. . .. llei . .. . .. IP'! . .. HVi . .. n-"; Is to 11 Va Toe Will Get $4.7,000. Winston-Salem. Special. John W. Poe, who received over $'.M) from the city of Winston for ihe killing of his wife in the reservoir break in November. l'.W4, announced that he is in receipt of a message from Wash ington advising hiic thai the govern ment has recognized and decided to pay his claim of .$47,000 for cotton destroyed in Guilford county during the Civil War by Federal troops. Mr. Poe says that several hundred bales of cotton owned by him were burned by Northern soldieiK. He has de cided to let District Attorney llolton collect the claim. Union Depot at Goldsboro. Goldsboro, Special. A site has been seieeled for the union depot at Goldsboro by the railroads interested in the matter, and the ceporation commission otiicially nolitiU of the el oice of location. This site is at the western term tuns of Mulberry street, running south to Walnut, and it is believed that the intention is to re move the tracks from Center street and belt the city. The Atk-iiie Coast Line authorities have the drawing of the plans foe the bundsome structure which is to be reared here for the ac commodation of the traveling public, and as soon .ts these designs are com plete work oa the building will begin. The Abels Furnish Bond. Wayiiesville, Special. The verdict f the coroner's jury in the case of the killing of Sam Hay hero three days ago was that the dead man came to his death at the hands of cither Policeman Abel or his brother, Dr. J. F. Abel. The Abels were then arrested tit a bench warrant and tried before Judge G. S. Ferguson, for the killing of Sam Kay. Tie hound them over to court in the sum of $1,500, which they promptly gave. North State Brevities. 'MY. h. A. IkHbt-oriii. of the Char-1 lulfe (..'iiitou Exchange and Board of Trade, has secured an itemized list of all goods that wei- shipped, eihter ia or out of Charlotta in ear load lots, during the past month. Hurini March, 1,681 cars of commodities, all classes, were shipped out while 2,618 were shipped in, making a total of 4.299 ears handled duriirz the month. The North Carolina Christian Ad vocate says that a letter troui JJr. Lambeth, secretary of the board of missions, announces that Rev. Ste phen A. Stewart, a member of the Western North Carolina Conference, now at Harvard University, has of fered himself to the board for work m the loreign held. 3ir. Mewart is a son of Mrs. S. M. Stewart, of Mon roe. Mr. P. H. Eikins has purchased the Siier City Grit and will edit it, suc ceeding Mr. W. E. Lawson, who has made it good exponent of Western Chatham. Pastor T. B. Justice writes that he has just moved into the new ,fl?,000 home built by the Franklintou church for their pastor. Mr. G. F. M. Dial has a contract to move about two million feet of tim ber to the creek from the E. C. Cobb and E. C. Edward lands near Cou teufnea. N. C. He is now building him a tramvead for that purpose, the contract price runs up in the thous ands. Geo. is a bustier. 'Graham suffered loss last week from a serious fire. Damage to the amount of $50,000 was reported. President Barr has ordered ihe con struction of a new station at Laurin burg. The Democratic State. Executive Committee met in Raleigh on Thurs day and decided to hold the Stall Convention in Greensboro on Juh 3rd. A number of other places wen put in nomination for the convention h.it Ovpotwbr.v -o-.-iy! put ep.eilv. DOINGS IN CONGRESS What is Being Done Day by Day By the National House and Senate. After Southern Fasi Mail. When the House convened Speaker Cannon appointed the following com mittee to participate in vSie exercises attendant upon the second eeutonnary of Benjamin Franklin's birth to be held at Philadelphia April 17: Messrs Olmsted of Pennsylvania; Stevens of Miiie:ioia : Cas-ett of New York; Hoar of Mi.ssichns -Us : Smith of Ma ryland; Poii of North Carolina: Ryan of New ork, and Watkius of Lou isiana. The bill making' it obligatory for the circuit and district court of the middle district of Alabama to sit six months at Birmingham was passed. Mr. Gaines of West Virginia se cured consent to have printed in The Record Judge Humphrey's opinion in the beef packers' cases, the oral ar gument made by the Attorney Gen eral and ihe several statutes relating to compulsory testimony and result ing immunity from prosecution. The postoiliee appropriation bill was then taken up. Mr. Moon of Tennessee, the rank ing minority member of the postof fice and post roads committees, in explanation of the several provisions of the postoiliee appropriation bill, said that the railroads contended that they were not receiving sufficient pay to carry the mails notwithstanding the charges made that the railroads were receiving sums of money far in excess of the value of the service rendered. He insisted that if the ap propriation for railway mail service was to lie cut down it ought to be after eomplet investigation. Should Forego Benefits. After citing instances of special privileges to cer ain Southern locali ties. Mr. Moon asked: "What does the Democratic party demand, on this question It repudiates, it denounces it coiiih-miis every character of sub sidy. The Kepublicaii platform does likewise. Can you say to the people of the United States, standing upon your platform and opposed to ship subsidy, that you are ready, because of little paltry beneiif to your imme diate section, io violate the pledges of your party and the great tenets that it has held for a century 1 believe the Southern Democrats ought to appeal to their people and not to this railroad company which is grant ed special privileges between Wash ington. Atlanta and New Orleans." "President Not a Czar." The House during its session lis tened to a. 'criticism of the President o.f the part of Mr. Fitzgerald (New Vovk) for the failure o he Chief Executive to property advise the House as to the objections he had to the bill opening 505.000 acres of land for grazing purposes in Okla homa territory, instead of advising tite members of i tie Indian Affairs Committee as to the weakness of the measure so that it might be amended to meet the wishes of the Commis sioner of Indian Affairs. Mr. Fitzgerald, in the course of his strictures on the President, said: 'This is not Russia. The Presi dent is not like the Czar, who origi nates and enacts legislation. The President may recommend, but he can neither originate or enact legislation. "Somebody may say this is trivial, i lie history of all governments which have-parliamentary institutions shows that the failure to resist trivial en croachment on the part of the chief executive has led to vast encroach ments until the legislative branch of the government existed in name on ly." ' The Postoiliee Appropriation bill was taken up. but beyond explanation of the bill by the chairman of the Postoiliee Committee, Mr. Ovcrstreet (Ind.). no headway was made. White House Conference, There was a reverberation in ihe Senate of the echo oi. tho hite Horn oi tast saumiay relative to the pending railroad rate. legislation, and while it ended in good nature, there was a time when the feeling was quite intense. The inci dent occurred at ihe close of a speech by Mr. Stone, which was devoted largely to a discussion of that con ference. After the Missouri Senator had taken his seat Mr. Doliiver took the floor and in the course of a brief speech devoted to a defense of the risrht of Senators to confer with the President, charged that other Sena tors had been in consult -u ion with the presidents of railroad companies. The intimation contained in the charge was resented by hoi ii Mr. Bailey and Mr. Foraker and they de manded the names of the Senators referred to. These Mr. Do) liver de clined to give, but he justified his course m making tue charge hy say ing that he and other Senators who had participated in the conference had been sneered at and ridiculed in the discussion of last Tuesday. This avowal of his motive brought about an explanation from Mr. Foraker and the incident ended pleasantly. Demand the Names. Mr. Bailey, in following Mjf. Dolii ver, lirst outlined his own position in opposition to the practice of confer ring with the President. He baid that the present situation presented pecu liar reasons why the President should not interfere ia legislation. He then said: "The Senator iroci Jowa is not given to intemperate or incalculous speech and when he sug gests that Senators have been con sulting with railroad presidents he utters a serious reflection on some Senators." Mr. Foraker endorsed the statement by Mr. Bailey and demanded the names. Mr. Doliiver declined to give the inmps. then he said he meant no im iroprietv. and added that he did not "elievc ihat a Senator's right to eon 'er with the railroad men should be questiord. STATUS OM906 CROf The Acreage May be Slightly Increas ed This Year Over Last But Not Over 1904. A special to the Columbia, (S. C.) State from Baltimore says : Summerizing 15 pages of letters on the cotton acreage outlook from several hutidred bankers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama. Tennessee, Mississippi, Tex as. Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory, the States prac tically embracing the cotton belt of ihe South The Manufacturers' liecord sa vs this week : "The replies indicate a. tendency toward a slight increase in acreage for the cotton belt as a whole, an in crease, however, not overcoming the decrease in 1905 from the acreage of 1904. and a tendency to be restrained by certain natural factors. The re plies show steady advance in diversifi cation of crops, a firmer purpose thar. ever on the paei of bankers and farm ers to stand together for the common good and a greater degree of comfort among the growers. ' i There is a general purpose appear eut all along the line, for the bafikers and growers to continue, even with greater zeal, the policy of cooperation which worked so successfully dur ing the past season. This does not, oi course imply less acreage as a whole in 1900 than in 1905, although such a reduction in promised in a number oi localities. Nor does it imply that the acreage in some States will not be in creased. New lands in Texas, Okla homa, Indian Territory and Arkansas, and, indeed, in such older States a Georgia, South Carolina and Missis-si-,. pi. arc being opened up and are going iuio cotton, hi sections like the delta of Mississippi, where no fertili zer is yet used, or v.heie it is really cheaper to buy supplies than to raise them with cotton at 10 or 12 cents, a moderate increase in acreage may be expected and many individuals will plant from 5 to 10 per cent wider than last year. But in the main the bankers are not encouraging any great expan sion, but, on the other hand, are stand ing by the wisdom of the past 12 mouths and are receiving from the farmers hearty support. Soma far mers are still holding, not because they expect much better prices, but because they do not need the mony, and those who may not be satisfied with the price at the time they gin the coining crop are assured that they will have no difficulty in obtaining ac comodations from the banks and mer chants who are backing up the grow ers in legitimate plans to make their crop a paying one. At the same time a voice of caution is raised against any wmKi nation to get excessive prices, that being held as censurable as are efforts of Wall street bears to depress prices. Here and there, where experience has not taught wisdom, the a!!-cotoii idea is abroad, and some few p'anteis really favor a permanent S-ceut basis for the staple. ; The readiness with which the growers favor fenservalism in plant ing this year and their determination to work along with the banks are due to the steadily increasing comfort of the many. The day of the old credit system is passing, and now the grow- ers are i.ouiul in various stages oi prosperity, from ability to pay oft old debt? and to lift mortgages to ability to lend money themselves. Their bar-k accounts are greater then ever before and they arc investing I heir surplus in permanent forms. They are buying more land and bring ing the present holdings to a high state of cultivation. New homes with modern conveniences are being built and old ones ere being improved. Updo-date in pliments and machinery an being purchased, a better grade of live stock is f jipearing, sotuc farmers an investing in town property and mov ing in to that their children rnay enjoy better school faciltieu, the farms be ing rented, ami more bank stock and cotiou mill &tuck and cotton seod oil mill stock ere being held by the far mers, while better school buildings and better churches in divers country neighborhoods bear witness to pros perity growing out of better prices for cotton, and to the incresing ability to maintain a policy insuring even greater prosperity in the future. it Necessarily to diversify, to divert some energies from cotton-growing in to the raising of other erops, is giv ing place to deliberateness in follow ing the policy as this stronger finan cial condition of the farmers permits them to enlarge upon the wisdom of. hot depending upon one crop. Diver sification, which implies more fertiliz ing and greater attention given to the crops, began primarily for thousands of growers in carrying out a "hog-and-hominy" campaign that is, in living on one's own farm, in making supplies at home. The growing in cer tain favored sections of early vegeta bles and fruit foi- Northern markets, the tobacco crop, as much a staple in some sections of the South as cotton is in others, and riee and sugar plant ing have, of course, engaged the atten tion of many persons for years. New tracts once devoted to cotton, or that ordinarily might have been planted in cotton, are being given over io a ireater amount of cane, tobacco anl rice, while ia many localities more and 'nore attention is being giveu to -caches, cantaloupes, melous, totna-r.op-. potatoes, peanuts, alfalfa, corn, wheat, hay, grapes, oates. pears, apj pies and berries more cows ehickens and hogs are being raised, more mules and horses and more live stock gener tily for home use or for the maiket, as immigration is becoming more needed to meet the demand for labor and as a larier and larger number of farmers are perforce driven to handle crops that thej' may work themselves. "Everywhere there might be a de sire to depart from the safe and sure policy of last year and to jig Id to the temptation to plant more cotton, un der the impression that a greater crop would not affect the price, it faces the possibility that the supply of labor will be iiisiinieent to make even a crop equal to that of last season.. From every one of the States comes com plaints of a scarcity of farm labor, Oklahoma joining in the chorus. The younger negroes especially are loath to follow in the footsteps of their parents, and are either rendering in ferior service or are quitting the farms entirely for idleness or disu ltory work in the towns and cities. Lumber mills, the naval stove indus try, mining, railroad building, dam construction and building operations generally offer higher wages than the farms, and. in the case of whites, the demands of the cotton mills are hav ing somewhat similar crippling effect upon farm operations, in spite of the inclination noted here and I here for operations under the spur of fair prices for cotton to attempt to make a little crop of their own. Indeed, such is the activity in lumbering that not a few farmers, as is reported from Louisiana, are following the field hand to the lumber camp and are turning out their own cotton ecreagc for the year. "Another inlhience against exten sive expansion in acreage is the back wardness of the season in the Carolina and Georgia, as well as in Texas and Oklahoma, the ground behur still wet and cold, or the crop of corn, the suc cess of which will largely determine the acreage of cotton, not being suf ficiently advanced to give a basis for any estimate. In a few spots, too, the boll weavil is regarded as a deterrent, fhouah one correspondent takes a jocular view of the power of the cot ton boll weavil against the cotton bear." NEWSY G LEAK 1.X jf. rhihiUeliiiii is going In for subways, Washington is io be made a model city. An ice paiace is planned for Chicago next year. S'oincrviiie. Mass., is to have ft new co-operative hank. The spirit of unrest in ltussia cou tinned to foment. The o!d CosisiiTniioti ship of war if to be repaired for $100,000. Colon is threatened with a water I famine owing io long drouth. No less than 5i.0(KM0i must he fomul by the Kussiau Government t ills year. 'i'bo Iowa Legislature lias deter mined to investigate the life insurance companies. The operating expenses of Portugal" railways are only forty-eight per cent, of the receipts. Immigration records showed that the present fiscal year probably will reach high-water mark. A British Legion of Frontiersmen if about to be founded for imperial de fense t time of war. More than 84.000,000 damage has been done to steamships and carg-e by the terrific weather of the winter. Magistrate Crane, of New York City, ruled that tenants must obey janitors of houses and conform to the rulc laid down. Columbia stiidents adopted resolu tions favorhij; Ihe phonetic form of spelling advocated by Andrew Car negie. Much contraband matter is said to have been discovered on several roads in the Southwest, where the mm: is behur weighed previous to the annual The entire Itio Grande UtiKway sys tem is to be llgiiied entirely b.V elec tricity. It wiil Sake s-ui-e time, how ever, to complete the installation of the system. I ' K K SON A L G LEA N t N G Ix-Mavor Van Wyck. of New York Sjiiled To make ram his pormanen: home. When Heevelary Uolh makes his trip to outh America next summer he will go on the cruiser Charleston. lean Baptisto Millet, the artist, brother of Jean Francois Millet, the fa mous painter, died recently at Paris. 1". S, Curtis, of Washington, has been making an exhaustive study in photography of the American Indian, Andrew MeCoimel!, u practical phi lanthropist, of YVashiiigiOii. will ftt tempi to pbtei- libraries in id! the small towui! of the Sou;.'. William H. McDonald, tho actor and singer, who way on;; c? the founders of the original Bostonians, died at Spring Held. Mass., of pneumonia. Tho presidency of the Rhode Island Agricultural College iias been accepted by Professor Howard Edwards, of the Michigan Agricultural College. The Kav. Dr. John Watson (Ian Mac Laren!. of Liverpool. England, wiil be the l-.:-ii'rer extraordinary in the West ern Theological Seminary next year. The JJev. William Howe, a Baptist cSeryii.uu. will be K yenrs old on May 1!'.M. tie is tins founder of i'tenij:;; Tcuple, Bosloii. aud lives in Cambriiis. .Taints M. Ures-iti. widely-known ho tel man; fo- years identified wiih the busiues? at New York. Chicago. St. Louis -aud other cities, died at New York, ag-ju seveuty-iwj. Senator Allison, of Iowa, senior Sen ator in point of service, i seventy seven. Jie has been in Congress forty -three years, thirty-three of which have beeu spent In the Senate. Dr. Paul G. Wooley. director of the serum laboratory of the Bureau of Science, iu the Philippines, has accept ed the directors-hip of the pathological laborat-ji-y which Siam X'ropolses to start. Sort of Funny. Willie was spending his first day at school. The class were told to write, item 1 to 100. Willie, who did not'' understand sat staring in won-der-at the busy cbildreu. '"Don't you know, how?" asked the teacher. "No ma'am;" replied Willie. "Bring up your slate," commanded the teacher. Willie brought it up. "There," she said, "I'll give you a few at a tima. Copy those." Willie went back to his seat and worked diligently. Pres ently he tiptoed up with his slate. "What do you want?" asked the toadi ed. "Why I"ve finished drawiug those bugs you told me to copy," he replied, hrndins up a very elementary attempt 'z writing from 1 to 10. Four 'jattlesnips cost more money than lq ?,iven by all Protestant Chrisu endotn In a year for missions. NO. 45. WASHINGTON TALKS Principal of Tuskegee Makes Known His Views THE SOUTH THE NEGRO'S HOME Celebration of 25th Anniversary is Occasion of Addresses by Principal Washington, Seta Low, Harvard's President, Secrotary Taft. Tuskegee, Special. Owing to the delay in the Ogdeii special train, the beginning of the exercises in connec tion with the celebration of tho tweiity-iifth anniversary of the Tus kegee Normal and Industrial Institute was delayed. Among the prominent men who came in on the Ogden train were: Secretary of War William H. Taft; Robert C. Ogden. president of the board of trustees; Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvaid University; Dr. Lyman Abbott ami Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of Tho.' New York Evening Post. The patty was greeted by 1,500 students and alumni and members of the faculty and board of trustees. Prneipal Booker T. Washington delivered an address of welcome. He said in part: Booker Washington's Speech. Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Institute, in his address said : "And Jesus said, 1 wiil make you fishers of men." "In the spirit of these words, the foundation id this iustituton was ) laid in 1881. through a gift front the State of Alabama. "For 55 years, then, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute ha-; been fising for men. What of it and what results? In our quest we have used land, houses, barns, henneries. hops, laundries, kitchens, class rooms, the Bible, arithmetic the saw, the trowel, the law. and money all of these and more we have ussd in our effort to fish for men. South Its Permanent Home. "Primarily, I believe that my race lias found itself, so far as its perma nent location is concerned. When this institution began its mission there .vas uncertainly, lack of faith, halt ing and speculation as to our perma nent abiding place. As to what de gree the influence of the Tuskegee Institute hsirf eoniritmtud to "this I will ventrre no asserlioA, except to siate that so far ns I can interpret the present ambitions and the activi ties of my people, the main body of the race has decided to remain per manently in the heart of the South." in or uaer as what is known as the black belt." Dr. Washington referred to the gonvth of the school from its humble beginning in one small building with 35 pupils to its present enrollment of 1,400 students, and said that the school had sent out into the world 0,000 men and women who are now largely engaged as workers in agricul ture and mechanics, housekeepers and teachers of both industrial and aca demic throughout the South as well as in Africa and one or tw ootber foreign countries. Afte ralluding to the various 'mo- mentous transitions" through wbicri the American negro has passed, be ginning with the primitive civiliza tion which he had created in Africa, his introduction into the wholly new condition of American slavery, and his new life of freedom and citizen ship, Dr. Washington said : New Period For Negro. "The negro race in t h is country has entered tipon a wholly new period, a period in which iimphajsU is being placed upon 4 side of life not. covered in any of tka previous espencae-Gis yf my people, 1 mean the era of fre, independent end intelligent economic and industrial development, accon: panied with a growing sense of the worth aud value of their own quali ties and a desire to make the most of them, under God, for their own good and the welfare of the world. Hav ing to some extent become conscious of the great task imposed on them ns a people, they are -seeking to lay the foundation deep iu the essential of life. But in this task they , often meet many and sometimes needless obstacles. Dangerous to Regard Millions S3 Aliens, ."If this country is lo continue to be a republic, its task will never by completed as long as seven or eight millions of its people are 11 a lartro degree regarded as aliens and arc with out voice aud interest in the weuare 01 ine government, ouch a course will not merely inflict great in justice upon these millions of people but the nation will pay the price of finding the genius and form of its government changed, not perhaps iu name, but certainly in reality, and be cause of this world will say that free government is a failure. "As I couceiv t, a part of the mis sion of this school is expressed in the purpose .and determination to assist the race iu layng such gradual and permanent foundation in right livin?, through the accumulation of property Industery, thrift, skill, education cf all character, moral and religious habits and all that which means our usefulness to the community in which we abide, that naturally, logically, sympathetically Ave shall make our selves grow into full and rightful en joyment and intelligent use of the priveliges and rewpvds of citizenship. "Any less ambition would be un worthy of us, unworthy of yon. Any 'ess ambition would makr ns perpet nol dr.-ffs instead of potential forces of good"" It
The Randolph Bulletin (Asheboro, N.C.)
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April 12, 1906, edition 1
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