!'. . -.-..8 i inriii.i un nn i n ,.,-.ni.iM..,1.ni,-nrir1, ,.iTi,iTt-l & V - ,W v a Reprinted from an article by Theodore Roosevelt In The Outlook, by special ttiiAiiaeiiieni who ine uuiiook, oi wmca ineoaore Koosevelt is Contributing Gen. Leonard Wood has Just re turned from South America to take up his duties as chief of the general staff of the United States army, the highest military position which the service af fords. v Nearly 12 years ago, when Leonard Wood was acting as governor of Santi ago, I wrote in the Outlook about what he had already achieved, and what he could be trusted to achieve. During the intervening 12 years he has played a very conspicuous part among the men who have rendered signal service to the country by the way in which they have enabled it to grapple with the duties and responsibilities in curred by the Spanish war. WThat has been accomplished in the Philippines, in Cuba, in Porto Rico, in Panama, and in San Domingo during these 12 years represents a sum of achieve ment of which this nation has a right to be extremely proud. In each locali ty the problem has been different, in each locality it has been solved with signal success. Of course .there have been mistakes and shortcomings, but on the whole it would be difficult to find anywhere a finer record of suc cessful accomplishment. This record is primarily due to the admirable qual ity of the men put at the head of af fairs in the different places. Messrs. Taft, Luke Wright, Smith and Forbes, Messrs, Hunt, Winthrop, Post and Col ton, Governor Magoon, Colonel Goeth als to these and their colleagues and subordinates the country owes a heavy debt of obligation. Host of those I have mentioned are civilians. Colonel Goethals, under whom the gigantic work of the Pana ma canal is being accomplished, with literally astounding rapidity and suc cess, is a representative of the army. The share of the army in the honor roil is very large. The importance of work like that of General Bell in the Philippines, of General Barry in Cuba, can hardly be overestimated; but, as a whole, of all the work of the army officers, the greatest in amount, and the greatest in variety of achieve ment, must be credited to General Wood. And, moreover, he has at times combined with singular success the functions of civil administrator and military commandant. The part played, by the United States in Cuba ha been one of the most honorable ever played by any nation in dealing with a weaker power, one of the most satisfactory in all respects; and to General Wocd more than to any other one man is due the credit of starting this work and conducting it to a suc cessful conclusion during the earliest and most difficult years. Like almost all of the men mentioned, as well as their colleagues, General Wood of course incurred the violent hatred of many dishonest schemers and un scrupulous adventurers, and of a few IS TOO MUCH HANDSHAKING? Other Ways of Greeting Friends That Are Much Preferable, Accord ing to Writer. Although a few have suffered the unpleasant experience of the man in the case recently reported, the bones of whose hands were forced out of place by the vise-like grasp of a too vigorous and unduly demonstrative friend, most people will be inspired by their personal recollections to sympa thize with this victim of a misdirect ed ardor. Everyone knows people who seek to express the sincerity and ear nestness of their good-will by squeez ing the hand they take as though they were trying to break every one of the score or so of bones which the human hand comprises, and every one on such occasions must have wished that come other form of salutation than the one most in vogue had been de vised and were generally practiced. Shaking hands is a relic of barbar ism anyhow. It became the custom in the days when every one carried a dagger in his belt and when one friend meeting another thought it necessary to attest the peacefulness of his in tentions by extending an open palm. Then the other man could do no less than make a similarly reassuring dem onstration and the grasp of these two extended hands naturally followed. Subsequently, by a logical process of evolution the handshake grew to be the conventional form of greeting and the refusal of a proffered hand was regarded as one of those insults whose dishonor can only be wiped out with blood. Now the custom is too firTv,iv and widely established for its abandonment to be conceivalle, and Bird's Powerful Voice. There is a bird known as the naked throated bell bird, that has such a powerful voice that it can be heard three miles away. It is loud and pieicing and has been likened to the sound produced by a blacksmith striking an anvil. Gastronomic Prize Medalist. The man who invents a noiseless method of eating corn on the cob, and points out how one can partake of watermelon without betting his ears Tret, will beji true benefactor. M i " ii..ii...iii,i.i.im. , j eonard Wood more or less well-meaning persons who were misled by these schemers and adventurers; but it is astounding to any one acquainted with the facts to realize, not merely what ,he accom plished, but hew he succeeded in gain ing the good will of the enormous ma jority of the men whose good will could be won only in honorable fash ion. Spaniards and Cubans, Christian Filipinos and Moros, Catholic eccle siastics and Protestant missionaries in each case the great majority of those whose opinion was best worth having grew to regard General Wood as their special champion and ablest friend, as the man who more than any others understood and sympathized with their peculiar needs and was anxious and able to render them the help they most needed. His administration was as signally successful in the Moro country as in Cuba. In each case alike it brought in its train peace, an increase in material prosperity, and a rigid adherence to honesty as the only, policy tolerated among officials. His opportunity for military service has not been great, either in the Philippines or while he was the governor of Cuba. Still, on several occasions he was obliged to carry on operations against hostile tribes of Moros, and in each case he did his work with skill, energy, and efficiency; and, once it was done, he showed as much humanity in dealing with the vanquished as he had shown capacity to vanquish them. In our country there are some kinds of suc cess which receive an altogether dis proportionate financial reward; but in no other country is the financial re ward so small for the kind of service done by Leonard Wood and by the other men whose names I have given above. General Wood is an army offi cer with nothing but an army officer's pay, and we accept it as a matter of course that he should have received practically no pecuniary reward for those services which he rendered in positions not such as an army officer usually occupies. There is not an other big country in the world where he would not have received a sub stantial reward such as here no one even thinks of his receiving. Yet, aft er all, the reward for which he most cares is the opportunity to render service, and this opportunity has been given him once and again. He now stands as chief-of-staff of the Ameri can army, the army in which he was serving in a subordinate position as surgeon 13 years ago. His rise has been astonishing, and it has been due purely to his own striking qualifica tion and striking achievements. Again and again he has rendered great serv ice to tba American people; and he will continue to render such service in the position he now holds. THEODORE RCOSEVELT. yet there are various things about it which render it unsatisfactory. Rather surprisingly it has thus far escaped the denunciations of the doc tors, who have spared no little else, as a possible occasion for the communi cation of injurious microbes, but one does not have to be a President of the United States, nor even a popular poli tician engaged in a canvass for votes, not sometimes to have wished that the handshaking habit had never been contracted. There are so many ways of shaking hands that are objection able and there are so many different kinds of hands whose touch communi cates a sensation not exactly pleasant. Hands that are too hot ' or too cold, too moist or too dry, or whose inert ness communicates an uncomplimen tary sense of indifference on the part of their possessors. Every one Is familiar with the hand shake in which all the shaking has to be done by the party of the first part, in which the hand one grasps lies limp and lifeless in one's own, to be taken or left, to be squeezed or let drop, as one pleases, while the atti tude of tho owner suggests an-absolute lack of interest in the proceed ings. Behold, that also is vanity and vexation of spirit. So is the question which recurrently arises, and which it may be suspected is the source of much secret embarrassment, the ques tion of 1 to shake or not to shake. Etiquette has its rules for this, but no rules etiquette can formulate will cover every case that may arise, and to determine the right thing may not always be easy. It will be seen that the Chinese plan has its advantages. The China man you meet does not shake your hand. He bows and shakes his own. Philadelphia Inquirer. Peculiar Trick of Lightning. Lightning played a curious trick with a funeral procession near Limo ges, recently. It struck the church and burned the altar cloth. Outside the church a girl was killed and four bear ers of the coffin were knocked down. Wonderful Flight of Dragon Fly. The dragon fly can speed through the air at the rate of 60 miles an hour and more wonderful still, can stop instantaneously in its flight or move backward or sideways without changing the .position of its boay ! Csrciina Republicans Proclaim Their Party PoHcics. DEMOCRATS INCONSISTENT. Congressmen Vote With Eepublicacs and Make Democratic Speeches Local Self-Governmenl Endorsed. Tlie platform adopted by tie State Republican convention is as follows: We pledge our continued loyalty to William Howard Taft, President of the United States, and leader of our part3r. We heartily congratulate both him and the Republican majorities in te Sixty-first Congress on the ex traordinary number of wise measures which, in accordance with the prolina ses of our national convention, have already been enacted into law. We renew our allegiance to the Republican -policy of protection. The southern States, and North Carolina in paticular , have profited by that policy in the past. We heartily approve the plan of a tariff commission which enable all men to joudge for themselves of its fair ness and justice. We hold that the south, as shamed by the glaring insincerity of Demo cratic senators and representatives who, while posing as bitter opponents of the policy in their speeches and their party plat form, nevertheless show by their vots that they believe in it; who seek to secure its benefits for their ccwstdltuients Inot by ifclie i manly avowal of their real convic tions, but by secret intrigues and bargains. We especially commend their treat ment of the difficult subjects of in terstate commerce, and we heartily endorse the policy embodied in that legislation. We commend also the vigorous measures already taken to conserve our national resources for all the people. We also cite, as another example of the efficiency of the Republican part)', the admirable work of the na tional monetary commission in pre paring the way for the much needed reform of our system of currency and banking. Some of our oppo nents are for moderate protection, some are free traders, some are high protectionists in disguise, some are for free raw materials, some against free raw materials. To put the af fairs of 'this great country in their hands would be to turn from the tried to the untried, from experience to blind experiment, from order to chaos. We favor the reclamation of swamip lands in the south We repeat our declaration in favor of the most liberal policy concerning education that the state's resources will permit. We favor an equally liberal policy with our institutions of charity and with our Confederate veterans. We believe in good reads, and fa vor the good reads policy, both as an economic necessity and as one of the chief means to make country life the life of most of our people more attractive. We -bold that the" best employment for. the state convicts is on the public highways. We again call for the establish ment of reformatories for youthful criminals of both sexes, and juvenile courts for our cities. We denounce the extravagance of the Democratic party in the manage ment of the finances of the state, whereby they have increased the bonded indebtedness of the state and caused a constant depreciation in market value of our state bonds. We demand a fair election law, which shall (permit every voter to cast ' his ballot voluntarily, prevent dictation and bribery, In the matter of the state's policy with common carriers and other great eonpo rations, we take issue squarely with the declaration of our opponents which, if it means anything, means that all great combinations of capital are to be destroyed outright. We reaffirm our allegiance to the time-honored principle of local self government and we denounce the successive betrayals of that principle by our opponents, We demand that our judiciary, and particularly our higher courts, shall be kept above the atmosphere, of partisian politics. Believing, as we do, that in state and nation alike the policies for which our party stands are right and wise, Ave invite all patriotic citizens, whatever their party affiliations in the past, to join with us in support ing them. We welcome all good cit izens to our ranks. t . The Republican party of North Carolina, a party made up of men who love the south and love North Carolina, a party which in the elec tion of two .years ago cast 114.000 votes for its platform, electing three representatives in Congress and car rying five congressional districts for its electoral "vote, utterly and em phatically repudiates ihat notion of its character and function which would make of it a mere machine for distributing federal offices and elect ing delegates to national conventions. We ag::.i:i daelare our convicticn that a Republican vote cast ' in the south today is not merely a vote, for Republican policies and candidates, but a vote for freedom. It is a vote for freedom from the slaverv to pre judice, for freedom from the condi tions and issues that are past. It is a vote for the right of all southern ers to follow their individual convic tions concerning public affairs. It is a vote for the light of the south to a full share in the control of both the great political parties and in -, the guidance of the' destinies of the American republic. NORTH CAROLINA EYENTS Life in the Land of the Long Leaf Pine Delegates te Irrigation Congress. The Governor has .appointed, to represent North Carolina at the 18th National Irrigation Congress, to be held in Pueblo, dorado, .Sept. 25 to 30, the following delegates: Mr. R. L. Knowles, Hertford; W. A. Mauney, King's Mountain; Dr. J H. Pratt, Chapel Hill; H. A. London, Jr. Pittsboro ; Mr. J. M. Pruden, Jr., Edehton ; Dr. R. W. Haywood, Greens boio ; Mr. J. B. Sherrill, Concord ; Mr. Frank D. Hackett, N. Wiilkesboro; Mr. W. H. Phillips, Lexington; Mr. J. P. Frizzelle, Snow Hill; H. E. Fries, Winston-Salem; W. S., Cobb. Lumber Bridge; Henry Perry, Hen derson; W. M. Boone, Louisburg; A, L. Starr, Mooresville; S. Otho Hold ing, Wake Forest; J. A. Noell, Rox boro; R. H. Haigler, Haynesville, No. 2; A. S. McNeill, Gibson; E. A. Hamrick, Ellenboro; R. L. Hauff man, Morganton; A. Hall Johnson, Marion. A Rowdy Mixed Excursion. A snuaTl sized riot, in which pistols and bottles were freely used, took place Thursday night in Southamp ton county, Virginia, on a mixed ex cursion train re mining from Norfolk to Greensboro. The trouble started when a white man went back into the negro coach and bought a bottle of liquor. One of the negroes jerked the bcttle out of his pocket and a big fight ensued. Ted Stanley, white, of Guilford Col lege, was shot in his right breast and seriously hurt. Robert Jones, a youth 16 years of age of Greensboro, was severely beaten over the head by the negro e. with a bottle. They are at the hospital at Dan ville, and four negroes are in jail, having been arrested, when the train arrived at Danville. Several North Carolina officers who were on th train made no arrests. Dr. Delegates to Whateveritis. Among the list of 112 physicians from all parts of the state commis sioned to represent North Carolina at the fifteenth annual international congress on Hygiene and Demography at Washington, D. C, September 26 to October 1, are E. C. Register, F. O. Hawley and J. P. Monroe, oi Charlotte; W. H. Melvenzie and H. F. Nathan, of Salisbury and T. E. MeBrayer, Shelbv. Eookwcrm at High Point. Ca.pt. E. P. Carpenter, of the High Point Rifles, has received the .health report of bis company in which i4 states that fourteen of his men are affected with the bookworm disease. T'Le names are given and it is sug gested that they receive treatment at once from their respective family physicians. The report comes from Dr. E. B. Glenn of Asheville. wiv was -the surgeon in charge of ths Fiirsit Regiment at Ohieamauga l&si month. . Extraordinary Cabbage Snake. While Mrs. E. K. Huff, of Kerners ville, was cutting up a cabbage (grown in her garden) she noticed something "moving through it." Carefully cutting it apart she found it to be a genuine "cabbage snake," being perfectly white, about the size of number 50 sewing thread, its head looked like a "fly speck," its length being something like eighteen to twenty-four inches, being removed from the cabbage and placed in a bottle of waiter its movements of "bead, body and tail" were identical of any other otf the "snake tribe." It will be preserved in water as long as it will live, and then be placed in alcohol. Circus Will Get $5,000 at Fair, The State Fair management ds ex asperated to discover that the coun- j ty authorities have issued license to Ringling' Bros.' circus to show in Raleigh Thursday of fair' week. Sec retary Pogue declares this will re duce (fair receipts several thousand dollars, circus last year having eit fair receipts $5,000. That Wreck in Salcish. The Corpcriition Commission have examined a number of -witnesses to sret at the cause and fix the respon sibility for the collision in the union station yards at Raleigh in vhieh Seaboard Air Line northbound pas senger train No. 84 crashed into the rear car c-f a .n-gro excursion train that hsd inst pulled in at 1 :30 Fri day morning from a moonlight ex cursion to Durham, two excursionists being killed an-J 14 others iniured. CREEDS AND CREEDS Census Shows Different Re Eieions in United States. TWO HUNDRED VARIOUS STYLES Census Data Will Be Published Religious Sects of All Kinds Known and Unknown. "Washington, Special. 'Religious freedom in the United States shel ters under its tolerant and ample folds thousands of representatives of a number of the so-called heathen be liefs, in addition to more than 200 various sects of Christianity, accord ing to census bureau statistics deal ing with the religious life of the country. The organized followers of Budd hism are Chinese and Japanese. Their churches, known officially as "temples" by the irrevent, are re ferred to as "Joses" houses. There are G2 Chinese and 12 Japanese tem ples in this country. There is no record of membership ; they have no sermon; keep no Sab bath and have no religious service. The only use for their temples are as places at which individual devo tes may consult their patron saints. Three deities are recognized in the American temples. The God Kuan, a mighty duke of the ancient Han dynasty; the Goddess of Fortune, and the Goddess of Mercy. The American-Japanese Buddhists are of the progressive Shin Shiu sect, which is missionary in character. 'They discard the ascetic practices of the more austere Buddhists of Asia, allow the priests to marry and 'have no ban on meat or other food. The societies are well organized, each having a priest. There is no Shintoism, an expla nation of which is found in the fact that this religion attaches itself too closely to the person of the Japanese Emperor. In a way the Hindu religion is re presented by the Vendanta society, with organizations in New York, Pittsburg, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. It was organized by some Hindu teachers who came here in 1893 to the "World's Fair. It is nam ed from an ancient Hindu philosophy meaning "the end of all wisdom." It is non-sectarian, seeking to har monize all religious systems. Oriental philosophies as taught by the heo sophists, have four bodies with 2,336 members in the United States. "While Bahaism, strictly speaking, is non-Chrsiitian, iits 'followens are native and not necessarily un-Chris-tian. This is a comparatively new sect growing out of the teachings of a Persian leader of the middle of the last century, named Ali Moham med. He claimed to be the fore runner "of him whom God would manifest" and called himself "Bab" or "the Gate." Later came Bah a Ulla, who claimed to be the one whose coming had been foretold, and from him the real name of the body is derived. In 1906 be had 1.280 followers in the United States. They teach tolerance, love, charity and re gard all religions as divine. Hence, they profess not to interfere with the ordinary doctrinal beliefs qf their members. ' Another church of Asiatic origin, but still Christian, is the Armenian, which has 73 organizations in this country. The Eastern Orthodox Church, or Greek Church, had 129,600 communi cants. This is the state Church of Russia and Greece. Of the 411 churches here 59 represent the former nationality. There also are Servian and Syrian branches. The Greeks have 334 organizations throughout this country. While there are only 57 main bodies, there are 215 church organiza tions, many of them professing a faith only a shade different from others. For instance there are 17 Baptist bodies, 24 Lutheran, 15 Meth odist and 12 Presbyterian. The same is true of less known organizations. There are 15 Mennonits, 7 Adven- tists, 4 Dunke or Dunkard and 4 Quaker or Friend bodies. There appears no division in either the Roman Catholic of Protestant Episcopal Church, although it is shown that efforts to modify their creeds have resulted in the establish ment of independent bodies. They are designated as the Reformed Cath olic and the Reformed Episcopal Churches, respectively. The Reform ed Catholics number only 1,250 com municants while of , the Reformed Episcopalians there are about 9.682. The cause of origin of some of the branches is indicated by the name. For instance, there are General Bap tists, Separate Baptists, United Bap tists, Fre Baptists, Freewill Bap lists, United American Freewill Bap- j tists, Primitive Baptists, Missionary j Baptists, Genera:! Six Principles Bap j tists. Seventh Day Baptists, Duck , River Baptists and Two-Seeed-in-the-l Spirit Predestination Baptists. file civil war caused spats, giving ries to Southern Methodist and Sou thern ' Baptist - bodies. In these churches there is also color division. Two or three churches came into ex istence just after the close of the war as a protest, against political preaching. Many of the branches of the Lutheran church are due to dif ference in nationality. There were about 700 organizations in the main branch of the Salvation Army, with a membership of about 23,000. There were 455 organizations of Spiritualists with over 35,000 members. The report records the rapid disap pearance of communistic societies, showing that of eight organizations mentioned in the census of 1S90, only two are left, the survivors being rem nants of the Shakers and of the Amana society. THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD The Heartx of Happenings Carve? From the Whole Country. For annoying a woman in a New Fork subway train, Johnv Clancey, a telegrapher, was committed to "the workhouse for six months by Magis trate Breen, in the "West Side Court. Application of the "grandfather clause" was made for the first time in a gas franchise election at West ville, Okla., and it proved to be hard on the negroes. Only three of 100 negroes passed the educational test which the clause requires, the elec tion judges reported. The tax returns for Georgia when complete will show a gain of $40, 000,000 for the year. Under an agreement of attorneys the Porter Charlton case has been postponed until September 20. Turner Browning, aged 115, accord ing to most authentic records, died at Dunham, X. C. The Alabama division of the Na tional Red Cross has been organized with Gov. B. B. Conner as presi dent. Tyrus Cobb, the' base ball idol, is valued at $50,000 by the managers of the Detroit team, with which he playa under the usual contract. Advices from Costa Rica say there was a severe fhurricane last week on the Atlantic- Coast, destroying a million banana trees, worth more than $1,000,000 and belonging principally to the United Fruit Company. Robert Treat Payne, president of the American Peace Society and widely known as a philanthropist, died at his home at "Waltham, Mass. All franks and half-rate certificates have been called in by the Postal and Western Union Telegraph.Oomrpanies. Governor Patterson, of Tennessee, has commuted ihe sentence of Mar ceilus -Reinhart, the Montgomery county Night Rider, to life imprison ment. Reinhart was convicted of the murder of Rufus Hunter and sen tenced to death. About 15 additional day schools have been established in various parts of the country since July 1 and half a dozen more will be organized before the fall term begins. State and county officials are being urged to open the white schools to the In dian children. Children in play poured water down the throat of Ralph, the 4-year-old son of J. A. Juan, of Calmar, Iowa, and the little fellow only lived an hour. The water went into his lungs and he was drowned. During the month of July 52,727 citizens of foreign lands entered the port of New York and of this number the Ellis Island records class 12, 985 as illiterate. The number bar red was 1,127. The immigrants brought $1,537,794 in money. Material reductions are made in the freight rates on cottonseed from points on the Central of Georgia Railroad, and Jacksonville, Fla., by order of the Inter-State commerce Commission in connection - with a de cision handed down in the case of the Florida Cotton Oil Company against the Central of Georgia Rail road and other carriers'. Only 30 generals of the Confederate forces, one lieutenant geenral, four major generals and 25 brigadier gen erals now survive, according to a statement by Gen. Marcus J. Wright, who has been an agent for the war department in the collection of mili tary records since 1872. Further competition with the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company in Columbia, S. C, territory 19 promised through the commissioning of the Oongaree Fertilizer Company with an initial capitalization of $100,000 to build a large mill at Columbia. Mrs. John Hanan, a well-known society woman, of New York, frankly admits that she was in the Narra gansett Club on the occasion of the anti-gambling raid Sunday, and she is the only person yet found who has admitted as much. For the first f-,ur months of tb. fiscal year Canada's revenue shows a.n increase of " $5,600,000 over the same period last year. Cavalieri, as she remained on the stage, an Italian, and of lowly origin, is declared the most beautiful of present day singers. Only 12 years ago she worked for a small pittance folding papers in a rrin;tin? office in the city of Pome. She married mil lionaire - Chan ler of New York. Joe Gant, hetter Ttnown as Joe Gans, the retired fighter who was once chaimpion light-weight pugilist of the world, died at Baltimore of tuberculosis at the home of his foster parents'. The old master of the bat tling game went gamely to his fate. Gans was conscious until ihalf an tour before he died,- The cx champion spoke his last words to Kid North, the California fighter, who helped condition him for most of his championship battles.

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