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VOL. VI.
EDENTON, N. C, THTJfiSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1900.
NO, 16.
EAST
coxjr
IEBL
PRACTICE VERSUS PREACHING.
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
'It is easy to sit in the sunshine
And talk to the man in the shade."
It is easy to float in a well-trimmed boat,
And point out the places to wade.
Bat once we pass into the shadows
We murmur and fret and frown,
And our length from the bank, we shout
for a plank,
Or throw up our hands and go down.
It is easy to sit in our carriage
And counsel the man on foot;
Uut get down and walk, and you'll change
your talk.
As ycu feel the peg in your boot.
It is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack:
Rut no one can rate a burden's weight
Until it has been on his back.
Uhe up-curled mouth of pleasure
Can preach of sorrow's worth ;
Vt give it a sip. and a wryer lip
Was nver made on earth. i
ivew York Journal.
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4 4 ""' OME, papa, tea is ready."
I X called the cheery voice of
Kitty Irving, as she heard
her father enter the hall.
"All right, my dear," answered Farm
er Irving, making his appearance at
the threshold of the cosy little dining
room, his eyes lighting with pleasure
as they fell upon his daughter making
herself .busy about the temptingly
spread table.
Now Farmer Irving was sometimes
at a loss to know whether it was his
daughter, with her cheery voice and
smiling face, or the bountifully spread
table, which he was called upon to pre
side over three times a day, afforded
him most pleasure.
Perhaps it was both, for Farmer Irv
n;g was often heard to say that his
youngest daughter could cook victuals
mill serve them up in a manner that
v.'oulf please the greatest epicure.
In fact, to use his own expression,
' thoro wasn't a girl in all New Eng
land that could hold a candle in the
r.ne of housekeeping to my Kitty."
Rather a strong assertion to make
In the land of good housekeepers.
"Where is Beatrix?" asked the farm
er, taking his place at the table.
"I think I hear her coming," and as
Kitty finished her sentence her hand
some, stately sister entered.
'"Beatrix, my dear, I have something
lor you," and feeling in his coat pocket
Farmer Irving drew forth a letter and
Landed it to- his eldest daughter.
"Is he coming, Beatrix?" asked
Ultty. her bright eyes growing bright
er as she watched her sister reading
the letter.
"Yes; he will be here some time this
week: so you may begin your grand
preparations as soon as you like."
"So. Mr. Sumner is going to pay us
another visit, eh? Well, daughter
jiime, i uuut'i uut a inaction js
there for that young gentleman down
here, this bleak weather."
"Oh, how simple you are, papa
laughed Kitty.
"Why, he is coming according to
promise, papa. You know, when he
was here in the summer, he said he
would come again in the fall," an
iwered Beatrix.
.Beatrix, l see the wagon coming
p the road and there is a strange gen
tieman with Mr. Sumner and papa."
said Kitty, a few days after, running
Into the bright little parlor, where her
Bister sat reading a novel.
"A strange gentleman," said Beatrix,
rising and crossing over to the win
dow. "Oh. he is an old gentleman."
"Oh, isn't Tracy Sumner looking
handsome!" exclaimed Kitty, standing
on tiptoe and looking over her sister's
shoulder. "I think you ought to be so
happy, Beatrix, for I'm sure he loves
you."
A faint color swept over Beatrix's
beautiful face. In her secret heart
she thought that Tracy Sumner loved
her, and to tell her so was the sole ob
ject of his visit this bleak November
day she hadn't the least doubt, "but
with a shrug of her shoulders she said:
"Don t talk such nonsense, Kitty
Run away and see that everything is
very nice for tea."
"As if I ever had anything that
wasn't very nice," said Kitty, with a
smile and a toss of her head, as she
tripped away to the kitchen, leaving
the lady of the house, as she called
Beatrix, in the parlor to receive the
gentlemen.
"Why, Mis j Kitty. I was about giv
ing you up in despair," exclaimed
handsome, free-and-easy Tracy Sum
ner, rising to meet Kitty as she entered
the parlor, some time after, to say that
tea was ready.
"I am happy to see you here once
more, Mr. Sumner," said Kitty, cor
uially extending her hand, the crimson
In her cheeks spreading over her face.
"Now, it looks as if you were happy
Here I have been waiting to see you
for two hours." t
"Oh, Mr. Sumner! you know "
"Yes, I know you are a busy little
fairy, and haven't time to call your
soul your own; so I suppose I must
forgive you," laughed Tracy, and tak
ing Kitty by the hand he led her over
to the window, where her father and
the strange gentleman were in deep
conversation.
"Miss Irving, my uncle, Mr. Sands."
So the strange gentleman was Tracy
Sumner's uncle!
"What a fine, affable old gentleman
he is!" thought Kitty, as Mr. Sands
omplimented her more than once at
the supper-table.
"Xow. Tracy," said Uncle Sands,
when the two retired to their own
room, "why didn't you fall in love with
Kitty instead of Beatrix? I tell you,
toy hoy. hnt girl is worth her weight
in go.a."
"What a question for a sensible man.
to ask r said Tracy, with a laugh.
"Now, see here, Tracy, you are my
heir, and I came down here to see the
girl you wish to marry. Well, so far.
i ao not like her. You say you never
spoke of love to her when you were
here last summer?"
"No, sir; not a word."
"Very well, then; don't do it! at least
for the present. This Is a life's job.
my boy, so it's best not to be In a
hurry."
'What do you suppose Mr. Sands's
income is, Kitty?"
Beatrix ptffc this question to Kitty as
they were preparing to retire.
"I have no Idea," answered Kitty.
"Seventy-five thousand a year;
father told me so."
"Seventy-five thousand a year! Oh,
what an amount of money! I suppose
all, th"-; ill be Tinome day?"
"Fiddlesticks!" exclaimed Beatrix,
Impatiently. "Live horse and you'll
get grasr. Mr. Sands Is likely to live
as long ad his nephew. Kitty," Bea
trix paused and averted her face;
"Kitty, what do you say to me setting
my cap for Mr. Sands?"
"Beatrix!"
Beatrix turned and faced her sister,
a defiant light in her dusky eyes.
"I mean it, Kitty. Seventy-five thou
sand a year is worth winning, and
women have won greater stakes than
that with far less attractions than I
have."
'And Tracy? Oh, Beatrix! how can
you be so heartless?"
"Now, my dear sis, turn that Puri
tanical face of yours away from me,"
said Beatrix, with a forced laugh, two
crimson spots burning in her cheeks,
called there by the mention of Tracy's
name.
'I don't know whether Tracy Sum
ner cares for me or not. However, if
he does, he will most likely survive it.
Now, I think you would like to com
fort him, Kitty, and why not? With
his law office and a few thousands a
year, and such a jewel of a housekeep
er as you, you would make a model
couple."
"Beatrix, you are cruel," and with
great tears in her eyes Kitty turned
away.
In the few weeks that followed a
great change came over the inmates of
Irving Farm.
Farmer Irving thought there was no
one like Mr. Sands, and indeed that
gallant old gentleman, with his jovial
manners, carried all sides with him,
both old and young.
But there was no one treated him
with such marked attention as Beatrix.
She would read to him, walk with him,
and was always on hand to make her
self generally useful.
"Well, did I ever see Beatrix take so
to anyone?" said Farmer Irving one
day to Tracy Sumner, as his handsome
daughter was playing and singing for
Mr. Sands.
Tracy Sumner elevated his brows,
smoked his cigar, but said nothing.
He had been taking observations for
some time past.
Kitty sat in the parlor, busily stitch
ing away. Mr. Sands and Beatrix were
gone for their daily walk, so Kitty had
the parlor to herself. JTo-day her
cheeks were a brighter scarlet than
usual, and, as she bent her head over
sewing, she sang in a merry voice:
"I am in love, but I won't tell with whom."
"Won't you tell me. Miss Kitty?'"
said a voice behind her.
Kitty started. How provoking Tracy
Sumner was getting.
"W"on't you tell me, Kitty?" repeat
ed Tracy Sumner, putting his bandun
der her chin, and making her look up
into his face.
"No. I won't, sir. You are very im
pertinent. Do go away!"
"I won't go away; misery likes com
pany," said Tracy, "with a smile.
"What do you mean, sir?"
"I mean that I am in love, too."
"Oh, I've known that ever since last
summer," said Kitty, quietly.
Mr. Sumner drew back; he did not
expect this from Kitty.
"No, Kitty, I was not in love last
summer. I confess I was infatuated;
but I never knew what real love was
until I walked with you from the vil
lage the other night.."
"Mr. Sumner!" and Kitty hid her
blushing face in her hands. ,
"Believe me, Kitty, I never knew
what real love was until I loved you,
my darling," said Tracy, removing her
hands and looking down into her
blushing face.
That night Tracy Sumner had Kit
ty's consent to ask her father.
'"Well, it will come hard on me to
part with her, but I can't stand in my
girl's light. Take her, with my , bless
ing," said Farmer Irving, in a quiver
ing voice.
Beatrix, with a heart full of agony,
listened to the happy news. Of course,
she congratulated Kitty, who had only
followed her advice.
Mr. Sands did not propose, but he
surely would, and that would partly
make up for the loss of the man she
loved.
Another week passed away. The
wedding day was fixed, and Tracy
Sumner and his uncle were ready to
return to New York, but Mr. Sands
had not yet proposed.
"Really, Miss Beatrix, I will miss
you very much. I hope, though, I will
nfton have the pleasure of seeing you
down at Tracy's; you know I will al-
ways live with Mr. and Mrs. Sumner.
That was all. Mr. Sands was not
"on the marry," and Beatrix Irving
writes herself Beatrix Irving to this
day. New York News.
The extensive arid regions of north
ern Mexico are to be irrigated by
canals from aid extended by the Fed
eral and State,, governments.
The aging of timber, which formerly
required long storage, is now com
pleted by electricity In a few., hours.
MR, GAGE'S SILVER BOGY
A CONFESSION OF REPUBLICAN HY
POCRISY AND DISHONESTY.
No Sane Person Believe Mr. lirvan Tfouia
Go out of His Way to Force silver
ouar. upon uie Public Creditor.-
Alleged Danger Tliat Does Not Exist.
a iaay wnose intelliffence should
make her the voter of the household
instead of the husband whose obtuse-
ness she is trying to overcome writes
lu uruai mat tne cnier aimcuity
she finds in landinar the familv vote
for Bryan is her husband's fear that
ucmuuoui: uuw) wouiu put uie
countrv on a snvpr nnsis. snp nu- I
" -
us to answer Secretary Gage's recent
"lcu,r,u ftUUM f vl an.
Bryan, as President, to upset the, na-
tional finances.
Mr. Gage said:
There Is no doubt Mr. Bryan could
m0 OTueimy ui me xieasury
mane ajiuem in suver oi au me
" v- i
all current disbursements of the Gov-
UURJlll. UCIII. 1II V.I Mlf III I I M I I 71 1111 till I
vuicm us ,ven, wuicn amount 10 a
million and a half to a million and
luice-iiuauers uouurs a aay inai ne
- . -A. JH mi i I
,,UUIU lve 6ueu an oruer, too, is very
CPrtflin if hp ic In ho c o rvi s m)nT flinf
, - oiimc 1 11 tn.
ne was in isuo, ror ne was tnen quoted
s sjimg: 11 mere is any one wno
believes that the gold standard is a
good thing, or that it must be main
tained, I want him not to east his
vote for me, because I promise him
it will not be maintained in the coun
try longer than I am able to get rid
Of It."
This is on its face a confession of
Republican hypocrisy and dishonesty.
The Republican party, being in con
trol of all branches of the Govern
ment, had the power to put the mon
etary system of the country beyond
the reach of executive disturbance.
If it deliberately chose to leave the
law it, parsed imperfect from its own
point of view, so that it might work
up a scare among the voters before
the next 1 election, it was guilty of a
cynical betrayal of trust that ought
to deprive it of any further opportu
nities of playing tricks of the same
kind.
As a matter of fact, the alleged dan
ger does not exist. The silver coins
now in circulation in the United
States have no more relation with a
"silver basis" than if they were made
of gold, copper or platinum. They are
not connected" with the world's stock
of silver. In the absence of free coin
age they are purely token, money.
Their quantity is strictly limited, and
hence the Government never has had
and never can have any difficulty in
Keeping them at par with all other
forms of money. France, with half
our population, keeps afloat nearly
twice the quantity of silver coin that
we do, at a more difficult ratio, and
the Bank of France has no hesitation
about redeeming its notes in silver in
stead of gold whenever it feels so in
clined. Mr. Bryan is in favor of the frpp
coinage of silver, which it''
impossible for him to secure from any
congress tnat could be elected. In
the absence of free coinage it would
be no object to him to create a needless
disturbance by juggling with the token
uonars in the Treasury. He is as
deeply interested in the maintenance
or prosperity as anybody else
The interest on the public debt is
paid now by checks. Mr. Brv.nn
would doubtless continue to Mv it i
me same way. The checks, as n mip
are passed through the Clearing
nouses. Tney would doubtlpss mn
tinue to be. Balances due to the
. v xxvuoo, uauh.s or individuals
are paid now in anv kind rf
that comes handy. If von nrpspnt o
fifty-dollar money order to be cashed
now at the postofflce von will nmh
auiy una yourself in the uossession nf
some greenbacks, some national bank
notes and some silver certificates. No
doubt the same thine would im
unuer a tsryan administration.
. .
If you have a check for i
a Government bond and von insist
on your legal right to have it cashed
in coin you can get the coin, and as
tnere is fifteen times as much fmu
gold as silver in the Treasury, the
payment win naturally be made in
goia. mere is no reason to sunnnsp
that Mr. Brvan would mai-a
. ' auuixc; ,1 11
change in this respect.
-
Nobodv who
bimetallic theorv can hnnoutlir i,n..
tnat a convinced bimetallist like Mr.
Bryan would go out of his wnv tn
u ui llLLie BlUCJi OI ;tOICen Silver
dollars upon the public creditors. Such
a proceeding would in no way advance
the cause of bimetallishm, nor could
it disturb the gold standard any more
man it aoes in b ranee. In the ab-
ui i ncc uiiiag;c law il i . xJrvan
'ii ici ine currency aione and devote
lmxioeii. to me more practical prob-
, n , . .
lems or restoring tne republic and
curbing the trusts. New York Jour-
nnl
Opposition to Militarism
The opposition to militarism in this
tuainuii 10 uiiiiiarism in tins
country
is n-': because the country has
a standiag army
a sianaiHg army or 7U(0U0 soldiers,
uui oecause or me tenaency of the
xvepuuiicaii party to increase this
uumuci icapo uiau UUU11US Uil 111 1116
Dpillt UJ. Ul 111 litli S1U JS LOO niTlJiy Sad-
aiea upon tne country to be shaken
am . .
off except by sweeping out of exist
ence any and every party which may
be tainted with the spirit of militar
ism. Mobile Register.
Appealing to Anarchy.
Now, when the Democrats have
given the silver question a subordi
nate plac among the issues of the
day, .and have turned their attention
to more pertinent and more important
questions, we find the Republican agi
tators "appealing to the forces of an
archy" and doing their best to alarm
mid disturb our business interests.
Atlanta Constitution,
THE FULf, DINNER PAIL.
The Fallacy of T,i Argument When Ex.
ainined 10 a JPrfcetical Waj,
One of our R 1)Ublfcan eontemnorn.
ries mints a Di.fture.4)f n workman's
dinner pail on tftery twice of everv is-
sue. There, Jsan i&scriptlon which
says that the r" iSfull, and as we
ollrWn 1v 1,1
to tnto tiio ai n-t v.-
"The Full Dii u'er ajl" is the chief
on the ground trat a workman is able
to fill a tin bucKet with edible matter
thnt tha Amivi'i nwiii e.i. ,
consent to the transformation ' ot this
republic into aiemplye.
virn .-.. k..t'.l it-- j.
"cu, ici us auiu. ior me moment
that the "Full ffomer.Fail" is a real-'
ny, ana not a J?ytn. rLet us assume
that the worklSmap! who puts in
Pis-ht n. ten hoiflnf-rlifiiioHno- 1o1,av
a any is really ble Bnrler Tlennhlionn
"nrnsnpritv" tn mtt tic m. tho nr,ri.
wiches, a wedge qf taq Jtnd a pint of
coffee into a tin OUckit.'
iA l-W-. 4-1,
uuua iuuoc - vuuil fUJJt lilf? ' CUU-
tents of the "FHl tflriner Pail" may
be worth fifteen. cen&4 Mr. John D.
PaxVdmioi. tna r i,
. . ' l ' V- 1 r
$40,000,000 a yea; - fixat is over $130,
000 per working da; .Mr Rockefel
i . j'' . 1 .- " . .... .1
ier s uany lncou. ij wouio. nil tne ain
ner pails of DO ),00 5 workmen. In
other words. K?pub4ican prosperity
puts the dinneck-of opo,00q workers
into one man's BftodeSV little pall. -
That-is th$ Rft, ublfeSn idea pi good
times. Nine hn idreif , thousand men
happy and gratMil because; tKey can
put fifteen cent'wrth of dinner
apiece into thei-' tin 'buckets, snd one
man who absorb as -inuch from their
earnings as the jfjst fJthe whle nine
uuuuicu iiivuar..u aiyueis juii to
gether. :, ; v
There are scorf & of.monoDofists like
. - . i 4
Mr. Rockefeller. diffpMnc: onl in de-
trrpp. and tlip ntl( tirrid Innnnifi nf lOO
of them could &?oba4Iy pay ?for the
dinners of all tlr! wetkingmeFj in the
united state. ; tne.-poncy ax tavor
ing such conceQ.C!atifUls of. t wealth
were altered, thf-wo&ers hiigjit have
not onlv full dint r tAils. but. 2ossi!ilv
some of the little luxuries that; Repub
lican poucy couyern entirely out of
their sphere. JOt-Tnag,; .
-r-- h-s
Tbe EmpWeT Mjiy Appear?.
"Imperialism."' avL'i the Nelv York
Times, "impliesn ;j3inperor. This
leads us to askL-Wlf&tisortriJr figure
would Major MvinJ mak as an
Emperor?" -i ZC -
We are bountC todadmit tiat the
amiable PresidM; vClth the flexible
?:ninal column tci.ls nnt. n unrnnecb nnv-
:-.- ii r -r I
nouy s meai oi 1 eptauea au arm-
irary potentate -joorajjareu vjtu Mr.
McKinley even, vhe Third NJipoleon
would take on msuspeeted imperial
attributes. OunJeasjf the i&rsonal-
ity of an EinpeWr Mve beeif drawn
from Nero. JuHi.s Caesar, ffeipoleon
Bonaparte, WiUtm 11. of jtfermany
and kindred chiiLjictej's. Tt rtops not
follow, however,' liat because Sve have
imperialism we towistjhave an? Emper
or. When a repS licoes into the efn
pire business it ."set a great many
i.i : l. .1 .1 :1. i.. i : . i. .. i
on which - the IeclaVation Jof Inde
pendence rests. Ve iave a sstate of
imperialism whjivera peopfe, apart
from those who-4re onder fle imme
diate rule of ftjsovftpeign; ;$re gov
erned by arbitrrt power, ihdoes not
matter whetheff uaKpowerf be exer
cised by a Iiinfof .rlssia, jor by a
President or cii-Sigpior bfh. The
essence of the wpeallstfc jOonditiou
is in the rule o lu. cntlying jerritofy
without the Coislint if Its people and
without the aurityof a Constitu
tion. 4Y : l
The republic $mldfre in lss dan
ger from the ujrpajSons of!ihose, in
authority in tlie-4ati&lf Mf:i McKin
ley should displh th characteristics
of an over-am bk u jyraut: Jit is the
stealthy growth ah irtuyrialiseq; and the
serene" confide!- dthe people, in
those who overttgjp tjie"1 boundaries of
the Constitution-thai pavetjie way
for serious consPijuenies. Same .day,
when we shairTilve-Jecome familiar
with the exercte f- otfrbitrary power
by mild-manneJ5CiS McKinleys, a Na
poleon or a Cae&$- may makg a throne
of the President 1 chair. v
i
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Disposed of X li "Sfkn" Appeal.
Mr. Bryan disjicd f the 4'flag" ap
peal very neatly-n a recent speech
orm a i - kNti. - j. i j
I -
"The American. Mjig.'ptie- toly said.
"represents the Jp-rpbge of the Arneri-
I Can neonle." AJktJie added
1 want tne American nag to come
down from the .ilippine Islands in
V1 uri iuu k. ih .iiug m i icfjuuuv.
mlSnt rise in: Its ace. ' I woud rath-
er tuat ve liave flai?s representing
tw0 republics tha one;flag represnt-
inS an empire, vl ny Republicans
say inai we caur.jJL iirjie n uowu m
I - "i- iiu(ui ij'il
ejjuuucaii mm sjtm uvaB iiuiiia : iu
'-'"""i me wtjiuwimu jrfjn4em.
I - . . , . WJ. .1 . - i 1 . . . .
promised to nuu uoyvu, me ,uas; iu
Cula as soon as'the -Cuban flag is
I'Dod r tn -ion in it lapc'
: .V i
Gerin.1i llevolt. v
I ""-i " , 'Lm.u. i-"u'
American revoltfagainst McKinHsy
umi U1S L1USL auiMwaiauwu. rueyai-
PLl"ll cauuai uuriiii.uie
feilL110LI Blew y-vaug 111 a m
I i'voucuiuijv JrZ s
wuctauvca ut avcjt -iivttu t;iL4Ci.o
au VomDinea ro uunie xue teutonic
I .,1 j. it. . i .... ; i i . ' i.
monopolies ahd CeratQd . by Hanna
for their bnefit.Vrashingt6n Times.
The Itijua'loiiijpaie, .
A member of t publican Na
tional ComutterWsjjisenously sug
gested that appHtioHi-be "made to
the courts for an function to restrain
the Democratic :terfei)ticon cam
paigners from "usi jthportrait of
Abraham Lincoln- TlW injunction
idea has taken a ntronrf.hold on the
Republicans, and entgily they may
endeavor to have em'pepatic. electorjs
enjoined fjpm yo$
A DISHONEST ARGUMENT
ARRANT TRICKERY IN REPUBLICAN
PRESENTATION OF IMPERIALISM.
Accoriling; to McKinley' Policy the Fili
pinos Are to Be Forever Held ai a
Couqnered People Why Imperialism
is a Menace to Our Institution. -
There Is arrant trickery in the Re
publican presentation of the issue of
imxierialiem. Those who speak for
that party pretend" that there, are but
two paths open to our Government
that of the Administration, and that
of Mr. Bryan. They pretend that ft is
simply the retention of 'he Philippines
under any conditions that is meant
by imperialism. The New York Times
States the case in the orthodox Repub
lican way when it says that-the Re
publican policy "which is called im
perialism" is "id establish order under
the sovereignty of the United Stages
and develop self-government -among
the natives as fast and as far asprac
ticable," and that opposed to this is
the demand for the absolute Inde
pendence of the Philippines, this Gov
ernment to protect them from outside
interference. The Times show's that
the Bryan idea is impossible, aud,
therefore, "nothing remains but what
is called imperialism." . Not a. woiu
is said of the vital difference between
the Republican policy and the demand
of the expansionists who are ppposed
to Mr. Bryan's plan. No notice is
taken of the fact that a great majOV.
itjr of those who denounce imperialism
are strongly in favor of the retention
of the Philippines by this nation. No
hint is given of the only policy-that
accords with the fundamental doctrine
of the Declaration of Ind3pendence,
with the Constitution of the United
States, with all the traditions - -and
the spirit of our institution and with
the sentiment of a large part of - the
American people.
The measure of self-governtfietit
promised to the Filipinos by tug-'iU-publican
doctrine is sternly litoited.
They are to be forever held as a con
quered people, subject to the arbitrary
rule of a President and of a partisan
majority in Congress, whose chief con
cern is to find places of profit for i-.i
army of" office-seekers backeu by The
influence of party leaders. They can
have no remedy against the oppres
sions of the carpet-bag politicians who
will rule them, for the latter will have
the protection of men of power In the
dominant party. Efforts were made
to shield even such petty Hoosier poli
ticians as these wbo stole the Cuban
postal funds, and greater -efforts might
succeed in the case of the more influ
ential plunderers of the Philippines.
No matter how fit for American citi
zenship the best races in the islands
might become, the politicians would
never relinquish their hold on so profit
able a .source of wealth. To keep
these people under purely arbitrary
and unconstitutional authority; to de
ny to them free commerce with the
nation to "which they belong; to hold
them as foreigners in their relations
to this country and as Americans .'n
their relations to foreign countries
all this U not only oppressive to ths
Filipinos, but it is a policy of imperial
ism that is bound to react ou tb3
American people, familiarize them
with, usurpations and destroy th in
fluence of our best traditions, ar
seeing patriots do not object to,the
retention of the Philippines, but to'the
Republican conditions of ownership;
and not chiefly out of pity fox the.Fili
pinos, but in fear for our own future.
There is. no law for the Republican
policy. The consent of Congress could
not warrant any violation of the fun
damental Jaw by the President. The
consent of Congress would not make
the President's policy any less im
perialistic. As between imperialism
and the independence of . the Philip
pines, the patriot who has read his
tory must prefer the latter. It is' not
necessary, however, that this Gov
ernment should choose either;, if i
of tremendous importance that it
should choose neither. Philadelphia
Record. . ,
The Empty Sinner. Fail. 1-
The "dihner pail" is not overflowing
in the anthracite coal regions of Penn
sylvania, according co recent advices
from that section. In order to reduce
production the trust, it is stated, has
cut down the number of workdays, re
gardless of the "full dinner pail!'
promises of the trust party. Miners
who are given only three days' work
in a week are not likely to become too
fat or to be spoiled by prosperity. ; Up
ii Massachusetts, where here is an
immense . Republican majority, the
"dinner pails" in many homes are hot
running over. Some of the cotton .fac
tories are closed altogether-, and some
are vorking only half- time. The silk
mills of New Jersey are also operat
ing on short time. A party which ifl
running its campaign with appeals' to
the appetites of voters iustead of" to
their reason ought to be supported
more loyally by the beneficiaries of
its tariff system. Before any further
promises of "full dinner pails" are
given the trusts and the Republican
managers ought to "get cogether" and
agree upon a programme. Baltimore
Sun.
In John null's Wake.
Imperialism is best defined in the
history of Great Britain's subjugation
of inferior races iu India, South Af
rica and around the world. Mclviu
ley would have us ally with John RuU
and follow in his wake. If McKinley
prevails in this policy the. statue of
Liberty will be a sham and its beacon,
light a mockery.
A I'ockiiig-Bronco.
Some are of opinion that Roosei
vert's violent strenuousness maj- .be
ikic to the boy's on a rocking-horse
plenty of motion, but no progress.
Philadelphia Times.-Ind.
ARP'S RUMINATION.
Death of Friends Makes the Philos
opher Sad.
THREE DIED ON THE SAME DAY
Colonels Moore and flynatt and Dr.
Goetchius They Were AH Good
Friends of His.
How like a butterfly our thoughts flit
from flower to flowers feeding upon the
.ever-changing mental foods. Some
times they soar to heaven or nestla
among the stars, but thsir home is here
'among our people, our friends and
"kindred and the concerns of our daily
life. Who has not wondered how he
came to be thinking of th s thing or
that and traced- it back to something
wholly irrelevant, but leading on by
shadowy lines. But a little while ago
I was sadly thinking about the sudden
death of three more of my good fri2nd3
friends whom I loved and everybody
loved who knew them .Mr. Moore, oi
Auburn; Colonel Mynatt, of Atlan.a,
and Dr. Goetchius, of Rome, left us on
the same day. They were good men
and th world was made better by their
presence.
I was thinking especially about Dr,
Goetchius, the preacher, whose journey
and destination was so suddenly chang
ed, for he had bought his ticket for Tal
lulah Falls, there to spend his vacation,
and was to take the train at 3 o'clock.
He rose from his bed at 2 and at 3 he
was dead and his spirit soaring heav
enward. Then I thought about Mrs
Barbauld's lines that fit so well:
"Life! we have been long together
In pleasant and in cloudy weather,
'Tls hard to part when friend are dear.
Perhaps 'twill cot a sigh or tear.
Then steal away give little warning;
Choose thine own time,
3ay not goodnight, but in some bright
er clime
pid me good morning."
Then I ruminated about that won
derful woman. How she was the first to
write story book3 for the children and
hymns for the chruch and how her life
was spent in the schoolroom among
the children that she loved. And
then I recalled that beautiful hymn
that she wrote:
f'How bleast the righteous when ht
cfies,
When sinks the weary soul to rest,
tlow mildly beam the cloring eyes.
How gently heaves the epiring
breast."
And then I thought of the words of
Baiaam, upQn which that hymn wad
founded. "Oh! may I die the death oi
the righteous and may my list end be
like His." And this reminded me cl
those other words of Balaam: "Wh?t
hath God wrought?" That was thi
first message sent over a te'egraph
tvire. It was sent from Washington to
paltimore by Mise Anna. Ellsworth, tha
laughter of the commissioner of pat
:its. Sire had been very kind to Pro
fessor Morse and he had promised that
-,he should send the first message.
This was sent on the 24th day of May,
1844, and two days later the second
cessage was seat from Baltimore to
Washington, announcing that James K.
Polk had) been nominated for pr si
dent. I remember all this, for 1 was in
college then. But still the people wer
incredulous and waited for the mail
train to bring the news. Then 1
ruminated on the hard lot of g. eat in
ventors, and how iMoisj spent all ol
his email estate and received but httk
encouragement, being so utterly pooi
that he had to go without food at tim
for twenty-four hou's, and how le
pleaded with congress for three year;
in vain for an appropriation to he'r
him perfect and build a line to Bait
more and how at the very last, when
he was in despair and had given up id
hope, congress did at midnight, on the
last day of the session, pass the bill foi
$30,000. and Anna Ellsworth came
running to him in delighted haste and
told him the good news. What an ago
nizing life he had led during all these
vears. for he had been refuse! help
at home and had been to England aid
to France in search of it and found it
not. Now just think of it. After he had
built his first lines and his success waa
established he otfered his patient to the
United States for $100,000 and it was
refused and he was constrained to sell
to private parties, an invention that
soon, came to be worth one hundrei
millions. But he died full of years
and full of honors, and even Franca
made him a donation cf 400.030 francs
What a wonderful man perhaps tfcg
greatest all around man that ever lired
for he was a painter of d'.stin-ctioa
and renown, the minil and the peer c
Aiictnn and Welt , and the city ol
Charleston was his best friend and pa
tron and has now his portraits cf Moa
roe and Lafayette. He was a sculptor
an architect, a philoscp'oer and a po t
and would have reached the top m a
had he not become so absorbed n
harnessing the lightning. As a matter
of course he was kept in litigation sev
eral years and other parties tried to
steal his invention, but the supreme
court of the United State-s did finally
affirm everything thafe he claimed. He
died In 1872 in hi3 eighty-first yeir.
Here mv thought reted for a while
and then returned to Dr. Goetchiu- and
the many other friends who hive gone1
before and have left me almost alone.
How fondiy our minds cling to thi
friends of our youth our e:hoolmat-:s
and college mates and every no fnd
tten we hear of another who has drop
pel out of line, and like the barber ii
a barber shop, old Fa'.her Time whis
pers "next." My dear old frierd Jim
WTarren stilt lives to greet me when I
come and so docs Che;s Howard and
Dr. A'exanfier and his brother at:d
Evan Howell. Then I recalled tre
gra' d and beautiful words of Inalls
spoken in his eulogy, on Senator Beck.
"The- right to live is, in humm es.i
mafi'n, tbe most sacred, the most in
violable, the most inalienable. The
joy of living in such a splendid and
uminous day as this is inconceivable.
To exist is exultation. To live forever
is our sublimest hope. To. know, tv
love, to achieve, to triumph is rap
ture; and yet we are all under sen
tence of death. Without a trial or op
portunity of defense, with no knolw- .
edge of the aocusor or the nature and -cause
of the accusation; without bs'n1?
confronted with the witnesses against .
as we have been summoned to the bar
of life and condemned to death. There
Is neither exculpation nor appeil. Tbe
tender mother cries passionately fcr
mercy for her first born, but" there s
no clemency. The craven fellon sul
lenly prays for a moment in which lo
be aneled. but there is no reprieve. The
soul helplessly beats its wings upon tha
bars, shudders and disappears.
"But the death of a. good man ia not
an inconsolable lamentation. It is a
Etrain of triumph and he may exclain
with the Stoman noet. 'Non omniv
Mortar, and turning to the silent and
unknown future can rely with jist.and
reasonable confidence upon that most
impressive assurance ever delivered t
the human race. 'He that belieyeth in
me, though he were dead, yet shall ha
live and whosoever liveth and pe
lieveth in me shall never die.' "
Mr. Ingalls might have ad led one
more shadow to his dark picture o?
Ideath by saying that he not oy cO'n-
idemned us without rial or witnesses
ior an accuser, but the pitiless old ras
Ical would not even give th& date of ou:
xer.ii.t.inn nor thft manner of it. Vve
pre to die, that is certain, but when or
how or where we know not. Th''v cf
Pr. Goetchius, dressed at 2 o'clock with
pleasant anticipations of a rest at
Tallulah, amid the sound ol fallin T
waters that soothe the soul, but within
corpse.
Senator Ingalls was a gifted man
an hour, he was a he'pless, 1 feus'.
not a word painter, bat a thought en
graver. For years he was cur en:my
and harbored prejud'cs against our
people, but after he had visited Texxs
and studied the negro and his race
traits, he returned home and declared
that he was' unfit and unowrtfcy of free-
dam or any political franchise.
But enough of this. New let me add
that up to this date I have rece'vtd
one hundred and seventeen copies cf
the poem that I asksd or and the
number increases with jvery mail.
They have come from every s u'hern
State. I began to write pleasant words
and thanks to th:se who have troubled
themselves to please me, but I have
had to stop, for my old eyes are weak
and my hand gets tired. I an only
thank them all at once and say hew
grateful I am that so many knew what
I did not know. It humbles my priae
and takes awav some of mv van i t.v-
Some of my scattered friends give the
authority to Mies Flora Hastings,
Queen Victoria's maid of honor, and
some to George D. Prentice, and one lo
S. S. Prentis, but the large majority ,
are correct in naming Charles Mack y.
He was born in Perth, Ssotlan.i. In 1Z12,
and during our civil war was the Amer
ican correspondent of The London
Times. He easily stood first among
the modern English poets, and w. a the
author of many prose works. Bill
Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
The Mother of Henry Clay.
One is not accustomed to thinking
of Henry Clay as the son of a tavern
keeper, yet this is the fact, and Ver
sailles, Ky., is the unpretentious place
the mother and stepfather of the great
commoner selected in which to con
duct that tavern, and add that tre
mendous fact to the history of Ken
tucky. Had Mr. Clay's parents not
decided on this course what might
have been the subsequent history of
the State cannot be divined, and hence
the long journey that Henry Watkins
and his wife, Elizabeth Clay Watkins,
took across the wilderness from Vir
ginia 100 years ago was one that
shaped, no doubt, the political destiny,
to a large extent, of the entire South.
Elizabeth Hudson, the mother of the .
"Mill Boy of the Slashes," married
'Rev. Dr. John Clay, after whose death
she was married to Henry Watkins,
and her family, which was a wealthy
old Virginia one, lived in royal old Vir
ginia pomp. John Clay, however, is
said to have been reduced to poverty
on account of the devastation incident
to the Revolutionary War. Henry Clay
did not accompsny his mother and
stepfather to Kentucky, but remaned
in Richmond, Va., as a deputy clerk
and prosecuted his law studies. The
Watkinses were accompanied by a
number of slaves, and after reaching
Versailles they took charge of the on
ly hostelry in Versailles, and it was
called the "Watkins Tavern."
At this tavern the Watkinses, Crit
tendens, Clays and Marshalls planned
many a political campaign, and it was
to this tavern that Lafayette came in
182G, and was royally entertained by
the most distinguished Kentuckians
of that day. Henry Clay in later years
visited his mother here, and was a '
familiar figure on the streets of Ver
sailles. She was said to have been one -of
the most beautiful and dashing wo
men of her day, and was one of the
shrewdest as well. Later on in life Mr.
and Mrs. Watkins retired from the
tavern business and lived on a farm
till the close of their lives. Mrs. Wat- "r"
kins died in 1829 at the age -of eighty.
Lexington (Ky.) Herald
Wheelwomen in Europe.
Wheel women in Europe meet with
many difficulties. In Russia every
thing is managed "by order f the
Czar," and cycling is no exception to
the rule, isefore a woman can pos
sess a wheel she must obtain royal
consent, and as this is granted quite
sparingly there are but few wheel
women in Russia.
Franpe recognizes the right of the
husband to be boss, and before
madame can Join the Touring Club
she must first obtain a signed declara
tion from her spouse granting her the .
privilege. ;
In Florence women cyclists must
carry two be.lls to warn pedestrians of
the machine's approach. Men are on
ly required to nave one bell.-
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