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DAILY EDITION, $6.00 Per Annum, In Advance, 3.60 'or ( Month, In Advance. 0 1.50 for 3 Months, In Advance, WEEKLY EDITION, fi.oo per Annum, in Advance. OLD SERIES VOL LXXIV NO. 4.179 FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 391,0, NEW SERIES-VOL. XXVl.-HO. .,409 mm THE RACE QUESTION. Savoyard, la Washington Post -.y i , Shakespeare wrote aa -no other writer of profane letters has writ, - and among bis tens of thousands of - gems of wisdom we And this: , , .'For there was never yet philoso pher ' ' . That could endure the toothache pa- . tlently." ;. And-1 believe you will find It - In Shakespeare that we can hear the Ills of our neighbor with more serenity than we will ever tote our own, V - The World's Sunday School Con vention lately convened In this town and the local committee very proper ly excluded the ' colored contingent from the parade, whereat ami where upon there was the devil to pay and not enough hot pitch , handy. The - rolnrArl hlArai-ohv rial I vara4 ifa'alf an Indignant harangue that very thinly veiled the ambition of every educated negrohls aspiration to full nooial equality and the foreign con- tlngent tell In, applauded, "washed ' their hands In Invisible water 'i with Imperceptible soap," and thanked Ood that they 'were better , than their neighbors. - ' What does an Englishman, know of the race question as it exists with us? As a Pharisee, he smites his breast and exclaims, "We have no race pre JudlceP Certainly not. ; There is no raw material over there out of which to fashion such a thing; but you put as many, negroes ner thousand popu lation In Great Britain as there are in the United States and they will forge you an-ace prejudice that will make ours blush, " ; s; ' " Put one of these gentry down In the black belt of the cotton Sown. keep him there a twolve-month, a cuizen oi any one or our UUlI States, and Ben Tillman will rebuke him for the intensity and uncharlty of his race prejudice. Haven't we seen It In Yankees t who have pitched their tents down "there? . ., , If It were only Hi manners, for I am not strong on manners If It were not a suggestion of the Immoral, l would as these Sunday School kick ers read that grand English classic, "Tom Jones,", by Henry -Yielding; in which this admonlnltlon is found He will discuss a subject with no less Intellectual force who first informs himself as to the merits of the ques tion... And that Is true, as every one with a very little of the quality of ratiocination must soon discover. These . visitors . from abroad are densely and defiantly Ignorant of the race question in the United States, and It is impertinence for them to tells us what to da about 'a r problem that involves caste," that is stronger than armies and -navies, and all the philosophies " of the transcendental schools and alf the - foolishness oi Such 'sentimental ' blatherskites as Wendell Phillips and his set Let us not forget tnat New England was a aiave trader. Their pirates brought the savages here, and sold -them to us down South, where we ChriBtlanht- ved them.- But why go into that, the most Infamous, chapter in all history is Southern Reconstruction and " I have read about Caligula and - New - Tamerlane and the Turkish empire of the heroio sultana, ".too."1' - ' "V: 4 But what made me mad and" what is responsible for' this rather choleric letter is what two Yankee preachers bad to say about it One Hartshorn of Boston, and one Stroiber, of fdook lyn, voted- themselves clear of race prejudice, and the paper.;' says they "emphasized the difference between the treatment the negro receives in the North and in the South." - - : Well, let me put a plain tale that will show you how little more than an oyster these two Jcnow about it-1 . grant you they are, perfectly honest, perfectly ' sincere,., and . from" their , standpoint. God-fearing,- if not God- - loving, men.'. The latter' I doubt, for we cannot love that we do not under '. stand. ' " ,?.";; But what is the treatment of the "negrofet the North? Do you find ne- gro barbers in Boston? No, . .Why? Because of a . race prejudice that would bave the negro a statesman down South but not an artisan np North. Down South, when a brutal negro commits an unspeakable crime, we in orderly way, take him out and lynch him. It 1b the only way to pre- - serve civilization.- If " there were a ' better way, - we would practice it How is it in Springfield, 1 Ohio, or Springfield, Illinois. Why, they not only lynch the offending flegro, but ; they kill scores of innocent men, wo men and children of the race and burn their: roofs --: off .their heads. Kansas, wher old John Brown mur- . . , . . . ... M 1-1 - f oerea ana roooea, sei we itwuiuu ui burning "niggers' at the stake. It was an Immeasurable calamity that the South did not heed the ad monitions of Washington and Jeffer son, Clay and the BrecklnridgeSi and gradually emancipate toe slaves,. ex nortinsr them as thev ' were- freed New England refused to go into the Union unless it was- provided in the - constitution that until 1808 they were not to" be disturbed in the thrifty work of turning molasses -Into rum, which they swapped on the coast of Guinea for black slaves, that - they - exchanged for tobacco on the coast of Virginia. They carried the tobacco - to - Liverpool, and ; there exchanged It for goods, wares and merchandise that they took to Cuba and swapped for rum. . And thus the elect of God and ' made "eayneful , pyllage," It was discovered that slavery was not profitable at the North. That was after 1808. and only then It was first revealed that slavery was wicked at the South.1 But for. the meddling Yankees long haired men who should hnvn been born women ind short- haired women,' who should not have . been born at all slavery would have AlA Mhii.nl Hanth -at (ha ' MnilMl. Nearly all of the P. r. V were ' emancipationists. The very cream of U1CU O mwwv - ...v Kentucky statesmanshlD of all parties, , wom Bmnncinatlonlsts. North Caro- . WntL was nretty nearly an emanclpa tlon State the middle of the past century , and Tennessee was little be kind hr. The South had numerous . , emancipation eocietles and the very vr thn-Nnw-Enirland Emancipation , Society was formed, representatives fmm Pthtv-flvw Southern anti-sisv- ery societies met to Baltimore to de vise ways and means to free the ne- gro. '..'', - J'-' nut nhati rude. Imnertlnent n- mannnrw. insolent . meddling . New fiftt themselves uo as th nniv pxpiimlRrs on earth of political God and morality, every Southern rCrdTTewy'oZrP fanatic.0 in Kentucky, dissolved and U i-BiBVBrjr. iam niaae tuo'"war. Nobody but a fool or a fanatic denies that slaves were Tecognized as prop erty In the constitution. The South stood pat on the constitution. Tl jNonn nullified It, and being th uunger ner numncauoa went. The South said, "Very well if vou won't stand by the articles of . co partnership, let the firm be dissolved." Under the constitution, as Interpreted by the Supreme Court, a Southern man had as much right to take into a territory his negro slave as the Northern man had to take his horse. But the North repudiated its own constitution, and that made the war. Abraham Lincoln was no mnn what Henry Watterson Idealises him than he was what Don Piatt paints him. He was a Southern poor white, and had no Dhilanthronv to throw to the negro. But be had air the contempt in the world for -the senti mental nonsense of. Emerson. Sum. mer, Phillips and that set, who would nave sent to the slaughter alf " the whites of the South, of all ages and both sexes, had that been the only way to free a "nigger."..; . ; .. - In his debate with, Douelas.: Mr. Lincoln expressed his contempt for the negro, and all he sought was to emancipate the whites , of the South from the ruin that slavery threatened to bring Upon them, and as all now clearly see It would have resulted in. Lincoln had more than the wisdom of Franklin and . he was the most practical statesman of an epoch out of which American civilization, as by miracie, emerged witnout destruc tion. Had he lived there would have been no fourteenth and no fifteenth amendments. . . There ; would have been none of those cruel and infam ous reconstruction at the South, for every drop of his blood was South ern and every pulsation of hlr heart Southern. The man be admired most In all the world was the Vice-Presi dent of the Southern Confederacy, This world is full of folks who have much to learn. Lincoln did not wage war to free the slaves, : but for the Southern whites. -.'He saw that by the close of the nineteenth century Missis sippi would have 100 negroes to one white,' He saw that every- poor white would leave that State, that, would be turned into plantations on which dwelt a dozen whites and a dozen hun dred blacks. ; ' . : That Was what. Lincoln fought the war for, and . his victory was a blessing -to the South, though bldeous- y disguised after his death. - I believe the race question will be composed by .the Inexorable hand of death, in a race ' between superior and " inferior, ' and that is the derby Charles 8umner entered the nigger in, the inferior will be left at the post, or llstanced in the stretch. Look at the Indian. The negro will disappear "as ne did. ..--.- - f HE WEATHER SINCE JANUARY. There is nothing like statistics for correcting, shortsighted human vision. Nature ".evens up" things in the record that span enough .time to offset. ihs the effect of transient causes. So with the weather and the rainfall though the. heat record will never be satisfac tory until some genius Invents an ln jtrument that will correctly represent Jie heat we feel, high temperature plus humidity, a cross between a ther- nometer and a barometer. . - " Of the weather and rainfall record since January 1. the Charlotte Obser ver of Sunday says: The types-of weather that have been experienced in these regions ilnce the first of January have oc- agioned," - perhaps', more - comment lion any other subject, the comet not excepted.- And more -wild "and -unfounded claims have been made with reference to It than could be enumer ated for some time. But, allowing for all the vain Imaginings of the peo ple, it is true that whatever history has been made during the last few months. ' ' In the way of temperature, January was warmer than usual, but present ed no remarkable therma. conditions, being exempt from severe freezes or cold waves. February 'was consider ably cooler than the average, but was by no means a severe month. But March followed , and fractured all weather bureau records for Sustained heat so early in the season, haying a mean tekiperature the highest for the month since the establishment of the local weather office thirty-two years ago; The tame phenomenal conditions continued during the first half of April nd vegetation. was far In advance of the' season and many Bsople. as is usually the case took oft heavy wearing apparel under the impression that summer was really here because of a number 0: unsea' sonable warm days. But Observer Martin of the local weather factory advised the public that nature has a way of evening up the score, an; that sooner or later a deficiency in heat would occur to offset the excess al ready received. He suggested that "one swallow does not make a sum mer" and stated that he expected cold weather before the real adyent of sum mer and did pot doubt that more or less frost would bseen. And true to hln oroDhesy the cold set in shortly af ter the middle of April and since that date nature has been making the bal ance sheet tally with a vengeance, for it war not long until a period of severe cold, with snow and sleet and Ice over much of the cotton belt set in, and Charlotte was saved from" a killing froBf tonly bv reason of doudB and high wind, the, temperature reaching to 84 degrees, only two degrees bdovo the freezing point. ;-v;ond,itions con tinued cool through May (though il was unusually warm for the first ween or so) the month having, only 8 days of the 81 that were warmer than the average for the time of tbe- year. Ann the cool weather has continued dur ing the first 11 days of June, with not a day with temperature above normal, o that of the last 42 days, only 8 have been unusually .warm. Of course such conditions have retarded the growth of cotton, but with the excellent start the plants had, and with the careful cultivation It has received the chances nr that a ble cron 111 yet be made barring future backsets for it is still oulte early in the cotton season and there Is plenty of time for great devel- nnment - ' ' -. - The weather nods have been busy with rainfall history also. The first mur months of the year were unusu n drv. in fact March, which alBO tnnV th nrize for warmest month was the driest on record, with a total rainfall of less tnan one men, At the beginning of May we were over 6.60 I ww1"'" r , -,,i I Ehlnd Tour average in rainfaU Lilnftruui y J( but Wfl haye ha(J innu iimu the average amount both for May and the first 11 days - of June so that we now lack only 6:39 inches of having the amount of tools- ure we are entitled to for this much of the year, ' - It Is interesting to note, however, that we are still over" 200 degrees ahead on temperature since January 1, and if this is reduced soon we are likely to have more 'cool weather still. Of course it may hot be, In fact we may have several months of unusual ly warm weather, according to Ob server Martin, who makes a close study of such subjects. Yet he claims that sooner or later tae excess will be reduced," for- the averages are rather closely sustained, especially in temperature. .' .;,.. -. , " "THE 8PANI8H WAR INFAMY. Columbia State. ' r 'i - This ' question bafl - been freshly stlrred-by the tardy determlnatlon-of Congress to. raise the hull of the Maine from the bottom pf Havana harbor, "where it has long obstructed ootn .trafllc and renewal of . friend ly relations With Spain. The Hartford Courant seema to think that some light is thrown upon tne moving causes of the war with Spain by, former .Congressman John E. Lamb, of Indiana. ' It is well known that there was hesitation and debate In . Washington before the decisive stand was taken by this government which practically amounted to a dec laration of war. There are various notions and "recollections" as to Just what were the causes of that hesi tancy and discussion, and Mr. Lamb thinks that he knows precisely what occurred and why. We quote from The Courant: Ex-Congressman John E. Lamb, of Indiana, thinks be remembers having a talk In the Mar oh of 1899, and at Palm Beach in the State of Florida, wl.tji the late Tom Reed ' and Amos Cummings about the war of 1898. As he recollects it,. Mr. Reed asked him whether anybody out In Indiana be lieved that the Spaniards blew up the Maine, and told him that they didn't. Then Reed went on to say that the naval board 61 Inquiry, the House's naval committee (of which Cummings was a .member) Admiral Sampson and President McKinley all knew it was an Internal explosion, , not an external one which destroyed the Maine; that McKinley" summoned bim to the White House one Saturday to read a message advising assent to Spain's request for arbitration;' that the next day Mark Hanna, Elkins and a tew others of that ilk,' twisted McKinley around, purauadlng . him that to send in .this peace message would be to lose the fall elections; that thereupon he sent in the kind of message they desired,, and the decia tlon of war followed." - - As to the question of whether it was an Internal or external explosion that destroyed the Maine, tnls will soon be determined we hope, by the raising of the old hull; but th slnk- of the Maine need not have caused the war. - What seems queer about Mr. Lamb's recollection Is that Mark Hanna is named among those that urged McKinley to press war " upon Spam. ' ' " ' " -- It Is rather generally known tnat President McKinley need not have pushed Spain to the dire alternative of war, since he held in his possesion dispatch from Madrid that would have settled the controversy in an amicable . manner and to the full satisfaction of this country had it been known that such a dispatch had been sent by the Spanish government. But McKinley. withheld the dispatch until it was too late to avert war. The people of this country knew nothing of the real attitude of Spain until after war had begun. It has, since the war became apparent that Mc Kinley wished war and had ambi tious schemes with c respect . to the Philippines, and these ideas and am bltions no doubt controlled him In hi course throughout the days of discus sion and hesitation, in Washington It was in his power to avert war. - It Is also well known tnat, no mar ter who may have urged war, Mark Hanna was in favor of - peace. He nleaded with . McKinley . to take a course that would insure peace, while Drocurlne for Cuba absolnt iude- nendence and for ourselves an Hon orable share in the work of redeem- ins .bat island fnra oppression Mark Hanna bad enough' bad things charged against his memory; but the charge thatne wisned.war and urgeu it unon the President cnum 03 sus tained. History may decide that the real .responsibility for the war rested ur.on the President sud "upon him aim. There weie many irritating problems and a".c, but the path to peace was open and clear, and the President chose not to follow it - THAT'8 WHAT BRYAN SAID. Durham Sun. - Government ownership Of the rail roads would at least be better than railroad ownership of the government JUDGE MANNING. Concord Times. .-v. . " It seems to be conceded that Judga Manning has, during the short time that he- has been on the 'Supreme Court bench of the State, shown his ahllltv and fitness for the Dositlon Not only the lawyers who. have watcS ed him out his own associates on the! bench are one in. saying that he is an able jurist ,!r. ;-. Judee . Manning was apolnted by Gov. KitcWn to fill out the unexpired term of Judge Connor. By every -rule of politics he is entitle to a chance of endorsement by tne people, a is. a rule that an appointee who makes even a fairly good record is entitled to. a renomlnatlon, and In Judge Manning's case there is ho question as to the fine record he has made.- -!"''C- We have no word to say against Judge Allen. There 1b no abler law yer in the State, and the. Supreme Court " would be honored by his elec tion to' it ' He is already honored by a position on the Superior Court bench, To fail to get the nomination as Su preme Court justice would in no wise reflect on him, while for Judge Man ning to fall would be a serious reflec tion on him, and a distinct slap in the face of Governor KItchln. , . . . A UNIFORM FOR THE PRESIDENT! Norfolk Vlnrinian.i . ' ' ',: ; ""' The Army and Navy journal quotes with approval the remark of an army officer that the President, as comman- dor-ln-chlef of .the army and navy, should have a uniform in consonance with his rank. ). This is a vulgar age. given to love ji0i -nA nntnrlnt.v. the thirst for ' display an notoriety, the thirst tor titles and tawdry- badges is well nigh universal and the very symbols of re publicanism are bedizened with the in signia and trappings 6t royalty. Under the Presidency of Roosevelt the eti quette of the White House took on all the ceremony of the Spanish court; 'all social customs were reversed so as to courtesy to the precedence of the tem porary, head of the government;: and even the deference which American gentlemen are proud to pay to their women was laid aside that the Presi dent might ape a claim to that divini ty which doth hedge about a King. It is to Mr. Taft's credit that be has done away with the most offensive of the mummeries in which bis -predecessor delighted, and has restpred to his residence the democratic atmos phere which had been ' banished to make room for the routine of a pal- ace.':'-''-';'.; v ' '"' ''''"r There Is more than a matter of good taste Involved in the suggestion of the organ of American militarism. It is not without good reason that for more than a century our Chief Magistrates, though theoretically in chief command of the army and navy pf the country. nave aDjurea tne tinsel and buttons i the soldier's garb and confined them selves -to the simple dress thaMlsUu guishes the citizen,; This government Is founded on the supremacy of the civil over martial power, and ' it Js meet that the highest agent of the law should emphasize that supremacy in his costume aa well as bis conduct TURN THE . SEARCH LIGHT - ON PHILIPPINE LAND DEALS- t Baltimore 8un. . - J ' Bit by bit some facts in regard to land transactions In. the Philippines are being brought to light What lit tle Information we have .been liter ally dragged forth- from the War De partment In February Congressman Martin, of Colorado, raised the ques tion of the legality of the leases and sales of . the Friar lands. After con siderable effort he did succeed in get ting through a mild resolution- of in quiry. This brought forth an emphat ic reply, from the War Department, which sought to dismiss the subject as unworthy of ' serious consideration. But even this .brief reply confirmed the suspicion of Martin that thousands of acres bad been sold for a nominal sum to Interests closely allied with the Sugar Trust With a few slender clues Mr. Martin-set to work. He has disclosed the fact that the sale -Of these lands to the Sugar Trust repre sentatives was made possible only by a special ruling of the Attorney-Gener al Wickersham; that the purchasers were so sure of the ruling that they had taken possession of the lands be fore the ruling was made by . Mr. Wickersham; that the firm of which Mr. Wickersham was the -chief mem ber before he became Attorney-Gener-eral and of which the President's own brother, Henry W. Taft is now a mem ber has been attorney for the Sugar Trust -,'. , , f... The War Department and the Attorney-General and the Philippine Gov ernment persisted in ignoring; the whole matter. Mr, Martin resorted to the expedient of Introducing in the House each day a new resolution of in quiry into some phaso o. the cas, Congresman Covmgtoo, of Maryland, also introduced a resolution ca'ling for a comprehensive inquiry into the en tire subject These continuous de mands at last forced further question ing, though the House leaders posi tively refused - to allow a genuine investigation. ' - - The first report received from the Philippine Government discloses the fact that the United States employes and relatives of officials have been dealing in these lands. - Frank W. Carpenter, executive secretary to the Philippine Commission, leasod far himself 5,000 acres at 8 cents a month an acre, - Land Director Sleeper re ports, and E. L. Worchester, nephew of Dean C. Worchester, the Philippine Conrmlssioner, leased 3,000 acres for 2 years at 20 cents an acre a year. E. L. Poole is said to have bought the Same Jose estate for the Sugar Trust and is buying other lands in Mindoro. A. F. Thayer, another representative of sugar interests, has been making entensive purchases., , r.. The Ballinger investigation has dis closed the danger of an extensive raid on valuable Government lands in the United States and Alaska. -The facts already known in regard to the Philip pine transactions are sufficient to war rant a thorough Inquiry in to every de partment of the Philippine Land Office and the bureau of tne Government which has control of "Colonial affairs." General Edward, Chief of the Insular Bureau, owes it to himself, Mr. Wick ersham owes it to bis own reputation, President Taft owes it to his adminis tration, to insist upon the disclosure of all the facts In regard to these ap parently questionable deals in the Friar lands.. Until this Is done a cloud of suspicion will rest upon all connect ed with these transactions. The at- fair has-approached too close to the President's own official circle, to his own family, to.be Ignored. A NEW PARTY. Atlanta Journal.! At a banquet given in honor of Glf- ford Pincaot and James R. Garfie'.d at St Paul, Mihn., last Saturday even ing one of the speakers declared that a new political-party Is rapidly lorm- Km in the United States. Tbat party may be unnamed," said he, "but its leaders are Theodore Roosevelt, Gil ford 'Pmcnot and James R;- Garfield," The inspiration of the. immediate oc casion and the stimulus of the col onel's prospective return.no doubt led the speaker into undue enthusiasm. Yet his statement contains, a germ of Important truth. Unquestionably a new political party Is maturing in thU country, For years past it has been taking shape in the Intelligence and the" conscience of the whoe peo ple..,- Its growth is manifest to an ex tent in what Uncle Joe denounces as insurgency. Even the Republican par ty has not been able altogether . to withstand its influence.. ' i. In the Democratic-ranks the effect f of this new movement has been more rapid and conspicuous because In the Democratic party it round lew sinner- ancesrrTT.,' ,.'.,-.-, . ; The new party has no name. ; needs no name, for it is a principle, not an organisation. Within its ranks are are to. be found all those who believe in the good of the entire people as op posed to the special Interests of a few men. This is' the real new party which was hearalded at the Plnchot banquet - ; BEST 8LEEPING H0UR8. Exchange. ;-v ,. ! , The first sleep Is said to be the Soundest after .the first hour the in tensity o sleep slowly diminishes hence the value of forty winks after dinner is quickly recuperating shat tered powers. Temperature and vl-. tallty are lowest at about 2 a. m., so ' that two hours' sleep before midnight are worth four thereafter. Nature has no rule as to the amount of sleep it requires, except that man can get along with less than woman. Women are the more sensitive creatures of the two, and a woman's heart beats five times oftener per minute than a man's. Our sleep should be Just so long that when we wake in the morn ing a stretch snd a yawn only are necessary to kind us In a daytime of bounding vigor. As to early rising, it is comforting to learn from an emi nent physician that this habit bas gone far to wreck the constitution of many growing youth. , . y HAVEMEYER'8 DOUBLE TOLL. Baltimore Evening Sun. That tne late H. o. Havemeyer was the moving spirit in the Sugar Trust's gigantic frauds is a convic tion that has been growing since the beginning of the Government's prose cutions. The men who ' actually manipulated the scales were lowly weighers and. wharf : laborers poor wretches who got from $12 to $18 a week for their rascality but the men who set them to the nefarious work Were the' gang bosses and superin tendents' : immediately above them, and these rascals, in their turn, took orders from Wall Street where Have meyer sat in the midst of his mil lions, v;- ,) '.".' Now comes evidence that he re quired the systematic robbing, not only of the Government, but also of the sugar growers. ' The sugar that came in by ship from the East and West Indies was paid for, as such raw materials are commonly paid for, in proportion to its purity. Elabor ate tests were made of each lot, and the prices varied with the results of those tests. According to Ernest W. Gerbraoht, one of the trust officials now on trial, Havemeyer insisted tnat the figures be kept low. When It was impossible to do so in any other way, unfair, and inaccurate tests were used, And when, even with such tests, it was impossible to satisfy Havemeyer's greed, the figures were boldly changed. In other words, Havemeyer too double toll. On the one hand be defrauded the Government by forc ing his employes to manipulate the scales on his wharves, and on the other hand he defrauded the sugar growers by forcing his employes to falsity the laboratory tests. A pleas ant story, certainly ana one leav ing an agreeable aroma about the name of Havemeyer! VANCE'S OLD REGIMENT. Our friends, Messrs. Tolar, Hart & Co., of New York, send us the ap pended clipping from the New York Sun. ' The facts there recited concern ing the losses at Gettysburg of the 26th Regiment North Carolina Troops, Pettigrew's Brigade, (formerly Vance's Regiment, and then commanded by Col. Harry Burgwln, who was killed at 1M head In Pettigrew's charge) ap peared at the time in the Observer; and many were the editorials and ar ticles on tills subject which the Obser ver published when too much was claimed for Pickett's men. Again, they were published in Hale and Saund ers's Raleigh Observer In the eighteen seventies. And still again by Chief Justice Clark's committee, in reply to Judge Christian, of Virginia, in tue Five Points" in North Carolina's War history. We have, by the way, some of this latter publication, which will be given, free, to any applicant Here is the clipping referred to: Fighting Regiments The Losses of the Twenty-Sixth wortn t,arouna at Gettysburg 85 Per cent. To the Editor of the Sun Sir: The accounts of the losses in killed of some of the Union regiments have been read with renewed interest by old soldiers. The following, which has to do with the losses of a Confed erate regiment, is taken from the Na tional Tribune of February 4, 1909: More interest is felt by the veterans of the Army of the Potomac in the Twenty-sixth North Carolina than in any other regiment in tne uonieaer ate service, from the fact of this reg iment's unexampled loss in tne Battle of Gettysburg. The regiment was raised in the interior of Norm uaro lina in July and August, 1861, and was made up of the descendants of the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who had migrated to this country at the time of the religious persecutions m jsng- land. The roster of the regiment shows that officers and men nearly all bore well known Scotch-Irish names. The regiment entered the bat tle of Gettysburg with 88S present for duty, and allowing 10 per cent for extra duty and details, this left about 800 muskets. Of tola numner vus were killed, wounded and missing, and thirty-four out of thirty-nine of the officers were killed or wounded Company F of the regiment stands alone among all the companies in either army for the number of cas ualties. It entered tne oattie wiia three officers and eighty-seven enlist ed men. of whom every one was killed or wounded in tne ngnt. ui tnese nineteen were actually killed, twelve mortally wounded, and sixty wounded but recovered. Tne nistory 01 me reg iment has been published in a hand some pamphlet by George u Under- wood, assistant surgeon, hnm N O. - r v at Golds- North Carolina's losses during the war, '61-'65, exceeded in percentage those of any other of the Southern State . k . ' - , Company B, Ninety-ninth New York. 1 New York, June 11. , RIOSEVELT WOULD BE A CROM WELL WITHOUT HIS RELIGION, Raleigh News and Observer . , Mr. Roosevelt in so far as he Is supposed to represent American senti-mnnt-bv his aneeches in Egypt and in England has caused the world to believe that America ooes noi ueiievu In self-Eovernment and does not sym pathize with ' the nations struggling torreedom. The New York World, rfrrin to Mr. . Roosevelt's putting on "the whole armor of imperialism and vociferously urges power m.I. nn Trioa H BAYS! ' :N In Khartoum he eulogized the Brit ish nccuDation of Egypt and advised the natives to cling to it and forever riftim its nrotectlon. in cano, ad dressing one of the oldest, nations in the world, long in oonoage, ne sai that no people couia oe msae m 11 self-government py ironi constitution; that training for self rule is not a matter of a decade or two but of generations;, that Egypt was incapable of self-government and that it should welcome and , support British rule. In London he criticised the British government because it had been too considerate of the Egyptians and because its administra tion was not severe enough. "It is necessary to remember," he said, "that weakness and sentimentality are more harmful to an uncivilized people than violence and Injustice." Those enlightened subjects of the Crown who have done much to ame'i orate the condition of the Egyptians he characterized . as "fpolish" and "unwise.". Great Britain had a duty in Egypt and he hoped it would per form it without flhiching. -. Tha "duty" is to enslave the nation. : -' One hundred and thirty-five years ago Tory orators were using the same words and sentiments with ret ence to the aspiring nationalists in America. In fact, Mr. Roosevelt has adopted the well-known Tory method of indicting a whole people and then condemning them.. . . 1 :. The best witness to call against the American whose bead appears to bave been turned by the flattery of mon archs and the pageantry of imperial ism is Thomas Jefferson himself. He spoke the language of human liberty when be said:.. We bold these truths to be self evident. that all men are created equal. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their Just powers from the consent of the governed. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may ' destroy but cannot disjoin them. - This bail of liberty is now so well in motion that It will roll around the globe, at least the en lightened part of it; for light and liberty go together. Every man and every body of men on earth possess the right of self government They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority. Mr. Roosevelt has always hated Jefferson as well as his ideas. In one of his books Mr. Roosevelt refers 10 the author of the Declaration of Inde pendence as "vacillating, timid, in competent, ungrateful, a shitty doc trinaire, intriguing against Washing ton, secretly aiding the Freneh, dis tinctly evil in influence, constitution ally unable to put the proper . value on truthfulness, and the most incapa ble executive that ever filled the Presidential chair." Why should not such a man close the door of hope upon the Egyptians, urge one of the greatest lmperia'istic taskmasters of history to chastise its victims hereafter not with whips but with scorpions? The elements of Brit ish society that applauded Mr. Roose velt's Guildhall speech belong to the very Tory classes that but for the triumph of the patriot arms would have hanged Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Adams at Newgate. AEROPLANES AND PEACE, Manufacturers' Record. In its issue of September 17, 1908, nearly two years ago, the Manufactur ers' Record said: The man up a tree smiles when he notes That demands persist for larger standing armies and greater navies, in spite of the practical accomplish ments of Count Zeppelin with his dir igible balloon and of Orville Wright with his aeroplane. Succesful aero nautics spells the scrap heap for ar maments. Glenn Curtlss' dramatic, but very practical demonstration of the possi bilities of the aeroplane, in his flight of one hundred and fifty miles at a speed greater than that of an express train, has fixed the attention of the world upon the part that aerial naviga tion is to play in war and, consequent lv.ln Deacemakinn for the world. For, if a fllxht of one hundred and fifty miles can be made by an aeroplane, it is out auestlon of time when a mgnt or fifteen hundred miles or more can be made in the same way, and against that fact together with the fact of the abllltv of an occupant of an air vessel to rise beyond the range of projectiles and vet to wield most effective xinus of explosives, up-to-date methods of warfare involving tne use 01 great masses of men or mighty floating fighters become insignificant Rpfnre the aeroDlane international boundary lines fade and the laws of international relations based upon the display of force, no matter how veil ed, must be radically modified. The aeroplane is to emphasize the truth that in this day no war is justified by morality or true economics, and it U tn hncnme the terrible messenger of peace. . TO THE VOTERS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. In making my announcement as a candidate for the office of Register of Deeds for Cumberland County I did so with a fun realization of the very great responsibilities that would devolve up on the successful candidate. I have been the deputy In the office under Mr. Walker since May, 1908, and have had ample opportunity to lsarn its complicated duties. I "iave en- deavored to be courteous and obliging to every one and bave constantly tried to make good records, realizing that records once made are always made, whether good or had and cannot be changed. If I am favored with your support and elected I pledge my faith- nil aervlce to the neoole and shall strive at all times to be more efficient Will gladly show my work to any one who may- wish to Judge of my efficiency, and believing that my ex. perience has qualified me to give every citizen and natron' of the office the very best servlce.'and pledging every courtesy to one and all I ask your sup port In the coming primaries and con vention. : i - '-.--. Most cordially, FULTON R. HALL. ARNOLD'S srssr BALSAM Bowel Complaints by a W. Stancill, Hope Mills, N. 0, Q. K. N1MOCKS, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. OFFICE in K. of P. BUILDING, 'v " - Fayettevllle, N. C. 'Phone 229. H. S. AVERITT, Attorncy-at-Law, Notary Public Office National Bank. Building Hay 8treet, Fayettevllle, N. C V. C. BULLARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Notary Public, Surveyor, ' Offlcs K. of P. Building, FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. IL McD. Robinson, ' ' Terry Lyon, (Notary Public) ROBINSON & LYON, ATTORN EY9-AT-LAW. offices: National Ban Building, Fay- enevllle, N. C. Special attention given to corpora- tlon matters, collecting and conveyanc ing. Do a general practice. Prompt and exact . SFRDNT NEWTON. R. W. HERRING. NEWTON & HERRING, Attorneys-at-Law, Jno. A. Oates, Business Associate. Rooms a, 3 and 8, K. of P. Bldg., FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. Practice in all Courts. Special attention given to Collec tions. Estates and Conveyancing. James C. MacRae, Fayettevllle, N. C. Cameron F. MacRae, Wilmington, N. C. MacRAE & MacRAE, ATTORN EY8-AT-LAW, . Offices Hinsdale Building, Fayettevllle, N. C. Specialties: Corporation, Real Estate and Commercial Law. General Practice in All Courts. Offices Fayetteville, N. C, and Wil mington, N. C. W. W. BAKER, CIVIL ENGINEER. Land Surveying and. Municipal En gineering, over 8huford, & Rogers' Store, Fayetteville, N. C. DR. J. A. MacKETHAN, MacKethan Building, Fayettevllle, N.C. OFFICE HOURS: 9 A. M., to 1 P. M. 3 P. M. to 6 P. M. SPECIAL HOURS by APPOINTMENT PRACTICE LIMITED Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, Office Work and Consultation. 'Phones: Long distance 331, Residence 206. DR- E. J. CARSON, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Office in residence 342 Oillespie Street 'Phone 160. Chronic Diseases a Specialty. DR. IRENE THORNTON, Office 109 Green Street. Hours: 9 A M. to 11 A. M., 2 P. M. to 4 P. M., 6 P. M. to 8 P U. Office 'Phone 175; Res.dence 102 Rowan Street 'Phone 357-L. D. G. MacKETHAN, M. D., .PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Office: MacKethan Building, Market Square. Residence: 119 Cool Spring. O flce 'phone, 331, Residence 403. Dr. A. S. CROM ARTIE, DENTIST, Office In MacKethan Building, 102 1-k Person street Phone 338. Fayttteville, N. C. 0. B. Patterson, D. D. 8. J. H. Judd, D. D Drs. Patterson & Judd, Office 219 1-2 Hay Street over Dunn Co.'s Store, 'Phone 66. DR. W. A. RAY, DENTIST. Hlghsmtth Building, 113 Green Street 'Phone 405. Office formerly occupied by Dr. John R. Highsmith. Ciptif left ol ill Kinds I am here for business. Let me hae a chance at your work. Twenty years' experience. Large or small contracts appreciated. All work guaranteed. 'Phone 66-J, 828 Ramsey Street DAN J. HUMPHREY. MacKethan E'r Trust Co. Market 8quare, FAYETTEVILLE, : ; N. C. Real Estate bought and sold. Loans negotiated and guaranteed. Rents and interest collected. Tltler examined, conveyances made. Insurance premiums taken and loans made. E. R. MacKETHAN, Att'y. - 1300. Small uncleared farm Raleigh Road. $1600. 60 acre Improved farm, good buildings. $3000. 103 acre farm wltn improve ments. 82600. 141 acre farm, mill and dwelling. 11600. 60 acre farm near Wade Sta- tlon. . $1200. $360, street $300. House and Lot Person street House and Lot New Wharl House and Lot Broad street Lot West Rowan street $160. . $125. Lot Bouth Cool Spring street $260. 35 acres Pearce's MilL $75. 10 acres Lumberton Road. 850. Lot Water street. : $50 to $150. Suburban Lots, Fair I rround Park, River View, Normal An ! ax. Normal Heights, Holt's Hill, -ertawest rayettevllle, Fay nope. When You Want The Very Beat Get Huylcr' S No candy made in the same class for pureness and deli ciousnes9. It always pleas es. :-,-'. f Genuine Old - Fashioned Chewing Candy xoc package. 'PHONE 1. Delicious Candies .... ..:;--'..-.' .- , ., - ; - (...; : LIGGETFS GUTH'S B. E. Sedbenys Son. Qualification for compounding 'prescriptions comes by ' experi ence, careful training and the means for selecting drugs of the best quality. We invite your prescription trade. A. J. COOK & CO., Druggists and Prahmacists, . Next to P. O. 'Phone 141. MacKetban's on tbe Square. ANSCO Photo Supplies Films and Chemicals Cyko Paper Complete Stock AT MacKethan & Co., The Leading Druggist AGENTS FOR CUT FLOWER3. Send Your Prescriptions TO THE STRICTLY Prescript! Store The correct compounding of phy sicians prescriptions bur one and only specialty You get what the doc tor orders at the Busy Store on the Corner. Souders Pharmacy FAYETTEVILLE MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKb Strictly First-class Work. CALL AT MY YARD OR WRITE FOB PRICES. RESPECTFULLY, E. L. REMSBURQ, . PROPRIETOR FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. -115 MAXWELL BT. OPPOSITE P. I U I. ARMORY, We Are Not The "Bell Cow but we certainly GAM.OP ahead of the gang in furnishing our customers with ture, Fresh DRUGS, Garden Seeds. Etc, ror icss money. Our Sundry and Toilet Lines are Complete. Our Prescription Department Is carefully looked after; our Soda Water sparkles with life. Give us trial. Perry's Drugstore ' 114 Gillespie Strest .. Perry's Electric Pain Killer Is sure shot (or pains. eiiiE&sfs I Pfffliis.
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