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c- 1 ' 'WEEKLY EDITION. $1.00 per Annum, ia Advance. 1 r DAILY EDITION, $6.00 Per Annum, In Advanoe. 8.00 for 6 Months, In Advance. 0 1.50 for 3 Months, In Advance, OLD SERIES VOL LXXIVN0. 4,18 fAY ETTEVILLE, N.j C, THU RSDAY, J U LY 21 ,1 91 0, HEW SERIES-VOL, XXVI NO. 3,413 Ml A w , .t- i- 11, ti 'VI 1 I -A THC END OF FREE LAND THE UNREST OF THE PEOPLE. Mr. F. C. Howe Bays, In Scrlbner's magazine: The West ii nbw inclosed. The ti'"" land has been taken up. There Is n I no homestead to be had (or the askliV.' The frontier baa only a historical slg . nincance. The national domain 1 a thing of the past. "The public lands which now remain are chiefly and In character," says the public land com mission. The opportunity, for a home, which for three centuries' has , been open to all has Anally been closed by title deeds or fraudulently appropriated by Individuals and corporations Irt co llision with the government. The inciosure 01 the free public do- main terminates the greatest epoch in American history. In a big perspec- tlve It may. be likened to the fall of Rome, the opening up of a new route to India oy vasco aa uama; or the dls'7 covery of America by Columbus. ' ft marks the end of the westward drift of civilization, a drift which with occa sional Interruptions, has been going on since the beginning of history. Ever snce tne seventeentn century the. Old World has bad a vent In America. During these centuries Europe has been relieved of discontentment by the . broad, hospitable prairies of the vest. America has been a hospital for all of the world. The opportunity which It offered has relieved the explosive ele ments of other lands and brought them back Into harmony with life. An undertow Is now setting back upon tne mast, population is crowd ing In upon pur cities-.' The energetic wage-earner, who formerly followed the westward trail, Is now entering the trade union. Here he will find ex presslon for the energy which former ly found an outlet in the West. It Is this that explains the present Indus trial unrest It is this that accounts for the political ferment No longer can the discontented hope to Improve his fortunes in another longitude. He must remain at home, become a ten ant or a wage-earner. ,' It Is this, too, that explains the com ing of poverty, and distress. The alter native of a homestead In -the West, which for threo centuries has relieved the dispossessed of the world Is now closed forever. It Is this that explains the change which has come over the spirit of America during the past ten years.) And as time goes on this spir it of unrest must of necessity increase. In this sense, as has been said, Amer ica Is the mirror of all history. An understanding of the evolution of our own land offers a key' to an under standing of the evolution of the West ern world, from th,e beginning of the migration of the Greek colonist out of the Peloponnesus into the Western seas.' - Under, the triumph of the doctrine of force in 1861-5, , the' public lands, which should have been sold for, the benefit of their owners, were, as Mr. Howe says, "faudulently appropriated by individuals and corporations in col lusion -with the government" ,? : Now that, la an awful charge, but It - has been, repeatedly made and never aeniea. ... :. " The- beneficiaries of ? this act of grand larceny, and malfeasance In-orea-ed the value of their stolen prop erty by a high tariff; and then they Increased that by demonetizing silver With the enormous power thus acguir- Legislatures; they unlawfully declared war (through their agent, the "Presi dent) agalnsthe Innocent Filipinos; theyu thus established . Imperialism; and, then, under the plea of the neces sity for. sustaining Imperialism, they Nhave Increased the army and the navy to such an extent that Imperialism and the Sword- will outweigh . The People and Justice when the trial of strength nna Hn thnuirhtfllT hflrlMn Can doubt wwv.i a.w uw o- & : , that they . mean to make the trial . when they, are fully prepared for it By hoodwinking many well-meaning men, they have, In the past two dec ades, defeated the Democratic, nomi nee for President and have tus pre serveduntouched, the.eftet of the Democratic' adminlstratlon'sjilderfack tag of the! tariff in 1893 Except for those wicked acts the making of a protective tariff;' the de monetization of silver; the violation of . the Democratic platform by sidetrack - ing tariff reform In 1893; thexmhtlng out "of the Democratic ' presidential nominee In 1896; and the defeat of the alliance between the Western insur gents and the Democrats on the Demo cratlc platform in 1898-1900 there would be no unrest et the people as a result of the end now of free land jrt the West. For, with the people in the laddie from 1896 to the present day, as they would have been except for the i counting out of the Democrats in that year by the power acquired by the de monetization, of silver in 1893, they would have made laws to berleflt them selves Instead of the trusts, r r ; . 8ANITOWUM AND SANITARIUM, ', :' ; ' ' , , . , ' ' ...1' ... ' . t1wua flniithdrnpr.1 i ' i. .... '" - Thar, la flulte a difference in the two words which-have only an a to distinguish from one mat na u y v ia a marVaii rilfTerence. To show, however, the difference be tween the two words, we quois iu i,in tmrn th Literary Digest:. ."'The distinction; between these dies In the wact that they are derived riifrarnnt Latin roots, sanl- torlum' Is derived from the late Latin monln health-a-lvlng. The io i0L. .nnniallv to 'an Institution tor treatment of disease or care of In valids; especially 'an esiaousumm" mploylng natural therapeutic agents . .,uTn. nomiliRr to the locaHty, r tome specific treatment, or treating particular , diseases.' . u" tand, 'senitarlum' is derived from the tatln saliitas, meaning whole, or eonnd. 'Sanitarium' relates mor e spe clflcally to a place where the JyPn' conditions are preservative of health, es distinguished from one where thera peutic agencies are employed. . Hence It is the province of a 'sanitarium to preserve health, that of a 'lawto to restore it. Car should be MrcU . u.i. ' flu nrnnar V0W61S in these two words, In order td indicate correctly the derivation. , ' 6 or 6 dos "CCr will curt wy tw f Chilli d4 rver. Prlct sso. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY "IN ; LEAGUE WITH THE COR PORATIONS." Baltimore Bun J -t '" ,,An'; nt Rftniihllinn -x'and Mr. Dolll- iuwa, itand In the fnrafrnnt uom as regards ability and aggressive ness. Their speeches in Des Moines on Tuesday breathed not only the spir it of insurgency and of defiance, but of political revolutionof revolution against the influences which dominate the Republican party and against the policies for which these influences are responsible. Mr. Do'llver character ized rresiaent Tat.as "a good man surrounded by men who know exactly what they want" that is to say, the resident Is surrounded by men who wiinf wiitinn n ht. est and for their special advantaee regardless of rlghT. and welfaof the ueonle. And Mr. nmiivar .n m. Cummins declared rninimiifl0,ii .w i. the Republican Dartv contin..H n n, mote the policies advocated by the re-' actlonary , leaders Its subservinc ... .l .-. . : . would epell ruin to the party. Mr. Dol Uver denounced the men who are shap- iug ,uo policies 01 tne Republican par ty In the interests of trusts and monop olies aa "pirates,"' while Mr. Cummins asserted that thS present leaders of the Republican party are In league with the corporations and have "scant time to consider the needs and desires of the great mass of humanity." 1 Now, this la the language of revolu tion, not of perfunctory protest. Mr. Dollivep and Mr. Cummins speak not only for themselves, but for many oth er Republicans Senators classed aa insurgents, and for a great number of inaepenaeni KepuDllcan voters. It Is a tremendous Indictment of the leaders of the Republican party ' and Of the . Senators and Representatives : who submit to tiielr dictation to say that thev are out of sympathy with the masses of the people, that their first thought, when-legislation Is proposed, is not whether the measure will "help the people, but whether It has the sanc tion of the captains of induatrjt...the masters of high finance. This Is the Condition which prevails In the Re publican party today, according to the Iowa Senators. -It is this condition which, in their Judgment, will result In the,d6structlon of that party unless It serves the people and ceases to be an instrument for the strengthening of monopoly, for swelling the profits of corporate Interests, for the further en richment of multi-millionaires who have prospered, at the expense of the masses, through class legislation. The Independent and progressive el ement among Republican Senators and Representatives have taken their atand inflexibly against the surrender of their party to the corporate Inter ests, not only as respects the tariff sys tem which the Sixty-first Congress has fastened upon the country, but the pal rable purpose of the leaders of the party to give the railroads the benefit of special legislation. There is a re volt throughout the land against the tarlif a revolt against tariff favors for protected Interests as hot In Mas- mchusetts as In Iowa, Mr. Dolllver as serted. The Wlckersham railroad bill aas been amended and passed. by the House. What Its fate will be in the Senate is doubtful. The Republican leaders who sacrificed the interests of the people in their zeal in behalf of the beneficiaries of. the tariff are no lesB zealous now" ih serving the Inter ests of the railroads. . If, In addition to the public resentment aroused by tne tariff iaw the Republican party makes itself responsible for railroad legislation which the people find in jurious to their welfare, that party may find itself doubly handicapped in the Congressional elections this year. rhe progressive and Independent ele-. ments of (he Republican party are no longer disposed to submit to the con tinuance of the alliance between their party and the corporate Interests. Senators Dolllver and Cummins made this perfectly clear In their outspoken and defiant speeches in Des Moines on Tuesday.- ; ' - A CENTURY OF KINO COTTON, ' N. Y. Evening Post J - . - ..' Cotton is always one of the main objects of economic concern, in this country, net t-e rcrent concentration of inieieM. upon it, and the remarkable sourse both of speculative and normal prices, makes a survey of its past and its probable future particularly timely. ; In 1810 the cotton crop of the United States was ttarely more than one per cent of what it is today, jhe world was using vast quantities of the sta ple, but It was grown, spun, woven, and consumed mainly, by the peoples of Asia and Africa. After 1810 the cotton culture In the Southern States extended rapidly, and the spinners of Lancashire soon turned from India, Brazil, and the West Indies - to the United States for their supply of raw material. In 1835-6 the crop reached a million bales (present measurement). In the course of the next twenty years the annual' product, Increased by no less than 1B0 per csntj In the twenty five years, 1855-80, It doubled, and In the last thirty years It has doubled once more. . H tne t last , rate 01 in crease, should continue, there - would be an advance within a couple of dec ades from a normal crop of about 12, 500,000 bales, worth, taking the aver age price of the last few years (Inclu sive of cotton seed), about 760,000,- 000, to one of 20,000,000 bales, worm J 1,200,000,000. Is such an anticipation ustified, or is the tide perhaps reach ing Its cllmaxT ".' ' . : There Is every indication that, the" world's consumption of cotton will continue to Increase at a, rapid rate for an Indefinite" time. Many millions ae added to the population of the globe every year, and the progress from a lower to a higher stage of civ ilization or of affluence Js marked everywhere by a larger use of textile fabrics. The way in which cotton has been supplanting flax and wool in the last hundred years Is comparable only to the way in which Iron has taken the place of wood, way, ana sioue.. -wv tin. .tin vast realms to conquer, and newsea are being constantly In vented fork . The United States fur ni.h. ohnut two-thirds of the cotton that finds Us way into the 'markets of the world, and it will almost certainly be called upon to supply a steadily In creasing population. 1 ue vast cotton crop of India, uPPo?eo,to,?m?"nt(ht ,.h nna-half of all that the United States produces, is manly con sumed in minute quantities in the na ,., lnnih. nr woven In the. Indian mllli and the yield Is not increasing at mul.V? . ..i. ia nromlse any mat rtl addition S the surplui availably for export Indeed, If ever the great mala nT TUB ouu,vv, tatu in India shall be raised above their present low estate, the export n Msaa Itoietber. The uncounted BK"t Whit CUM produce! do not suffice to clothe her 400,000,000 people, nearly all of whom are clad in cotton. -The cotton supply of, Egypt can be augmented only to the extent that the Nile can be made to afford water for Irrigation, and for a similar reason the yield of Turkestan Is bound to .remain a limited one. Brazil, which once lured the expectations of the Eu- i ropean spinner, has wofully disap pointed them. -Although cotton is cul tivated by the barbarous tribes In many parts of Africa; as yet there la practically none grown for export any where In the continent outside of Egypt.'", v- ., .....,.,,,.'. - ,- In spite of the anxiety of the Eu ropean manufacturers to shake oft their dependence on Amdrlca. and ml the schemes that have been evolved I In recent times for effecting this ob-i Ject,Mt will probably be many years; before the aggregate product of new; cotton regions In any part of the globe will afford them substantial relief. Under the 'stimulus of the extraordi nary prices created by the Civil war, large quantities -of cotton were ex-1 torted from the soil 'of many regions , that had hitherto been reluctant to; yield the staple, or at least, to part with It, and for a while it almost seemed as if the world might get: along, in a fashion, without the Amer ican crop. But when the cotton of the South was once set free, . even while the price was still far above the normal, tne rest of the globe began to withhold its supply. -- ' The combination of soli, climate, and labor In the Southern States Is such that they possess a sort of natural mo nopoly, and will continue to enjoy It a monopoly which has no parallel, and which may almost be said to assure the economic future of that entire sec tion. The cotton crop Is expanding at a more rapid rate than the population of the region - In which the staple Is raised.-;' The average annual "product per capita Is about half a bale, .where as in the palmy days of the Cotton Kingdom Just before the Civil war It was only a little more than a quarter of a bale. Taking the negro popula tion, on whose labor the cotton grow ing' Industry mainly rests, by Itself, we find that the per capita product is i about 25 per cent larger than it was no longer ago that 1890. i J - But as the field for the Investment of j capital and the employment of labor In j the South becomes more and more dl- j versified, it is not likely that an in-1 crease In the ' cotton production com-' mensurate with the Increasing demand can be realized without the induce ment offered by higher prices. The South is at the parting of the ways, passing from an abundance of cheap labor to a dearth of it Expanding manufactures and mining industries, high prices for corn, meat and forest products, profitable Northern markets for Southern produce, a higher stand ard of living all this is cutting down the relative supply of labor available for cotton culture. Dearer labor In the absence of competition will mean en hanced prices, and the history of the cotton industry teaches us that man facturers tne world over wUl be ready to pay them. That the world must have its cotton to meet pretty sharply defined needs was strikingly exempli fied at the time of the Civil war, when , the price advanced from 10 cents to a dollar a pound and the peoples of the globe still Insisted on having a gen erous supply of cotton fabrics. A COUPLE OF CORRECTIONS THAT ARE CORRECT. Says the Norfolk Virginian: ' One of the editorial writers of the Richmond Times-Dispatch has the bad habit of attributing to other news. papers assertions they did not make and then proceeding to refute the al leged assertions to his own taste and satisfaction. Tne Vlrglnian-Miot did -not say that the use of "Yes, ma am and No, sir" indicated a "Bense of servitude." What we did say Is that their use is so considered among the "gentle folk" of England, and It is. . . Thn Vnw York-venlna: Post in the course of an appreciative and other-1 wise accurate sketch of Senator Dan-1 lei's public career Is singularly in er mr na to hla nart in the memorable' campaign of 1896, when It says: ' - j "Senator Daniel opposed tne tree 1 silver pianx in tne uemocrauc puu lorm of 1896, and he was not an ad mirer of the policies of William . Bryan." . On the contrary, Senator Daniel was ; a pronounced advocate of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, was a promoter of the Bime-' tallc League, and at the national con vention was elected temporary chair-j man of that body over David B. Hill, who had been chosen by the national . committee for that position because of ; his uncompromising opposition to t e silver programme. He preferred Tel-: ler to Bryan as tne nominee, out cur dlally acquiesced In thejeadership of ' the latter- andd uring the canvass which followed earnestly and actively, championed tne ticket ana me pi-. fr.rm Rut tin - accented the. DODUlar verdict as final and In 1900 treated free t coinage as a dead issue and opposed the candidacy ot Bryan as impouuc, an also in 1904 and 1908. " THE PAWN IN TURKEY. Baltimore Sun. The young Turks, though they haye been in power In Constantinople Ut ile mOre mRQ 1 HIUUUIS, JW O UWJ B.M.mnii.iiail mtmtf - !mnnrtftntJ - re forms In the government ..The const!- . .. . . . . . 1- , 1 1 1 Trnn.4J tutlon 01 18i, wnicn auuui nouiiu persistently disregarded, is now in full force and effect and its guarantees of expeditious Justice, of free speech and a free press, of religious toleration and me nf nil p.ltizena before W. L U4U....-, - ; the law are oeingooservea Buruimiuun- ly. -There is still, of course, a good 1 deal ot disorder in Turkey. The com-J mon people remain iguurp m uu j leal and all sorts ot religious and ra- j elm' fcuda contlrnn as In the past The' Mohammedans prey ! upon b . 1 . 1 U nians; tne Syrians, piot. agaiusi .mo Turk; the Nestorlans wat with thS Maronites; the adherent! of the W regime seek the downfall of the new. On the open street in Constantinople, not 10 days ago, the editor of a lead ing newspaper was boldly assassinat ed. But all of these disturbances are decreasing. It will be a long while be fore Turkey la as secure as England and Germany,-, but a fair beginning has been made. ' , The Bppearance of something like organized and civilised government in the empire has greatly stimulated nubile and private enterprise. 'A rep- 1 ..11.,. nf Mnhimmnd V is now in renoumw'. ... . New York seeking American bids tor the construction pf a trolley system in Constantinople. New railways -are be, Ing planned In many parti ef the terri ..... . t .ha cnnttal. and wireless telegraph stations are soon to be set un at Bagdad and other cttiee of Meso. pitaml, Tiia, Bupbrnten n4 other rivers of Asia Minor are lo have new steamship lines, and automobile trains are . to run along the old caravan routes. , One by one the nomadic de sert tribes are being reduced to sub jection. At the present moment an expedition is in the ..eld against the' Munteflk Arabs, who have frequently Interfered with shipping on the lower Euphrates; another is operating against the men of Sheik Barazani, near Mosul, and a third Is soon to at tack the rebellious Shammer and Di lalm tribes. The Benl lam Arabs, who have a habit of attacking steam ers on the Tigris,.' have been warned that the next offense of that sort will bring down upon them a staggering punishment. " - ' - In Constantinople Itself an effort is being made to clear up the muck of centuries, and as first step toward that end the famous pariah dogs of the town are being captured and taken away. The Koran, as is well known, prohibits the killing of dogs, and In consequence it is Impossible to estab lish a lethal chamber for the va grants, like that out at Calverton. So a refuge for them has been establish ed on Bulwer's Island, in the Sea of Marmora,, and there about 8,000 of them are now starving to, death, for the Koran 'does not require canine prisoners to be regularly fed. 7 How many stray dogs there are in Constan tinople and its suburbs no one knows. The common estimate is 80,000. Par liament recently appropriated $25,000 for the war Upon uiera, but it seems likely that a good deal more money will be needed to get rid of them. CHINA ADOPT8 OUR DECIMAL' COINAGc. - ".. ' . ' Baltimore Sun. ..China has Just paid the United States the compliment of adopting bodily the American system ot deci mal coinage, with the dollar as the unit of alue. An Imperial ' decree, date May 24, provides that, after one year, the old coins of the Empire shall be no longer legal tender for 'faxes, stamps and telegraph charges." All holders of such coins may exchange tbem, before' May 24, 1911, for the new dollars and fractional currency, at fl ratio to be determined by the market value of "sycee," or fine silver. The Ta Ching Bank, in which the govern ment owns a 40 per cent interest w'" be its agent in this exchange. The new coins will be made at one central mint and shipped to the various branches of the bank. All of the pro vincial mints are to, be abolished, and the coinage of money by private banks and individual Is made unlawful. Hitherto the coins of China have been of fearful and wonderful diver sity. The standard tael of one province has seldom ben of exactly the same value as the tael of any other of the 18 provinces.- For a long while, true enough, there has existed an official or customs tael of definite weight to wit, 37.8 grams of fine silver but ltB value has fluctuated with the price of silver, and in consequence the mer chants of the ports have had to trans act most of their business with trade dollars, British soyerelgns or Ameri can gold. The fractional currency has been even more confusing. It has been issued in great volume from hundreds of mints, and, being without intrinsic value, Its purchasing power has been . purely a matter of local custom and agreement The new standard dollar, according to tne decree of May 24, "will be tem porarily of silver," whicu phrase seems to give a hint that the authorities at Peking are thinking of putting the currency of the Empire, at Bome not distant date, upon a gold basis. It will contain seven mace and two can dareens of fine silver, which will make Its Intrinsic value, at the present price ot silver, about 60 or 60 cents. The subsidiary coins will closely imitate those of the United States. That is to say, the dollar will be divided into 100 cents, and there will be silver pieces of 50, 25 and 10 cents denominations. There will be, in addition, a nickel 5 cent piece, a copper 2-cent piece tike which the United States coined, until a few years ago, and a copper cent. The cent win be divided into 10 cash, and coins representing 5 cash, or half a cent and 1 cash will be provided. The latter will be almost twice as val uable as the present cash of China, which is worth from one-twentieth, to one-fifteenth of. a rent - ' The Chinese government is certain to encounter a good deal of difficulty in forcing the new coins upon the peo ple. - The provincial . magnates, will give up their minting privilege only under protest It has been, in the past a potent means of enriching them. They have put into circulation enormous numbers of debased coins, both silver and copper. Behind their copper coins, in truth, there has been no value whatever, save the Infiintesi mal value of the copper. But the peo ple of China that is to say, the peo ple remote from the great trading centres have accepted this private flat money with little question. With the growth of communications, how evtr, it has begun to depreciate, and thote holders of it who are wise will quickly exchange It for coins bearing the government stamp, . . THE SALE OF THE. FRIAR LANDS IN THE. PHILIPPINES. Baltimore Sun. ; . . Representative Martjn, ot Colorado, Whose charges of fraud, favoritism and flagrant violation of the law In th'i sale of the Friar lands In- the Philip pines to Sugar Trust resulted In the appointment of a committee ot Con gress to investigate this scandalous trannn.Hnn. nnRVfl his rharres in an elaborate statement published yester day, oy tne new xora .worm. mi. Martin fortifies his allegations with nrnnfa whlnh h considers convincing. The acquisition of large tracts of tne public domain in tne r niuppmes oy the Sugar. Trust Is one of the most shameful scandals ot the Taft admin istration, and It ought to be investi rutaA BBttrrhlnirlv and relentlessly and all the facts laid before the people ot Philippines frpm exploitation by Am erican trusts ana monopolies vuu gress, in framing the organic law of h. iolnnrtn dorr-port that -Individuals should be limited to 40 acres and cor porations to 2,500 acres of tne public domain in the Philippines. The Phil- Innlno ffnvornmont hoUirht from the Friara 400.000 acres of land at a cost of about $18 an acre and Issued bonds to the amount approximately. 01 i, onnfmn n nnv far the lands. ' ,' The limitation imposed by Congress on the holdings ot public lands in the PMiinninoa hv cornoratlona has been flagrantly ignored.. The opinion prepared by Attorney General Wicker shara paved the way for purchases of nf fertile and valuable land, It la alleged by Mr. Martin that the letter and spirit o the law were violated grossly and that there bai been a complete reversal of the pol icy which Congress established. It Is further alleged by the Colorado rep resentative , that Attorney-General Wlckersham was a member of the law Arm . which represented the Buear Trust at the time Mr. Wlckersham en tered the cabinet. ..Mr. Martin also ! charges that the explanation of the ! tnle sent to the House of Representa tives by the War Department abound-, ed in evasions, contradictions and ma terial misstatements; that the Federal authorities connived at a violation of the act of Congress to bring about the failure of the law; that before the an nouncement -was made that the trans action would be legal the Mindanao Company had been cultivating the land for several months In anticipa tion of a favorable decision. ' k The Sugar Trust raid on the public domain In the Philippines, the alleged acquisition of public lands by officials of the Philippine government, the at torney general's opinion ignoring the act of Congress, the benevolent atti tude toward the trust of officials In Washington are matters upon which the full llgu. of publicity ought to be turned. Mr. Martin ciaims that he has proofs to establish the truth of every Charge he has made. p. very great re sponsibility rests upon the committee of inquiry. "It should probe this scan dal to the bottom, without fear and without favor, no matter who may be hurt by the truth. . , . . FIDO. Atlanta Journal. -Among the statesmen and warriors, die wise men and princes and crowns who foUowed King Edward to his tomb,, went a betowsled little terrier named Gyp, led by a Highland soldier Just behind the royal coffin. Nobody can say what Gyp was thinking as . e eyed the crowding forests, of faces, but all knew he wag a mourner and In the whole empire Edward had left no subject more loyal, no friend who knew him better or loved him more truly. i So It Is with all the Gyps, the Fldos and Rovers In the world. Wherever men dwell, whatever they enjoy or suffer', the dog is there Id Share tt'Wlth them, caring little whether his mas ter is a blind beggar or England's king. Somewhere in one of the old story books is a picture that repre sents man emerging from the dark of barbarism; behind him comes the horse, the hen and the cow. and by his side walks a shaggy dog. It would be an interesting thing to trace that Journey along the murky path of the ages up to the full light of the present time, and to learn If we could, how much these good animals have con tributed to what .we call civilization. Certain it Is that man would be a very different creature today if there had never been a dog to keep him com pany on his pilgrimage tnrough na ture. Cuvler has declared that the dog Is the most complete, the most singular ind useful conquest ever made by man. We might say as truly that man is the moat singular, useful and com plete conquest ever made by the degTl For, while it is true that man has made Fldo in his own image, it is also evident that dogkind -as had a paw in iuman history. And Fido's role has been particularly effective because he has touched the thought and affections of the race while other animals have worked mostly along utilitarian lines. The horse has been the most mate rially useful of all animals, the mule the mosW philosophic, the cat the most subtle, the cow the most contempla tive, the hen the most fortunate and the dog the most human. A horse en ters into our commerce and becomes money. A cow enters -our stomach and becomes muBcle. A cat enters our kitchen and becomes cursed. A dog enters our heart and beomes a por tion of our very soul. It is the fashion of late to despise ill canines except those that come to us with a family tree betwixt their teeth. No pedigree, no dog that is the mode of the day. This is to be deplored. We like to think of a dog not as some miracle of scientific breeding, some pampered aristocrat of the kennel, but simply as a dog, our century.-old, unaffected companion, just such a frowzy headed democrat as the dog.Patou, in "Chantecler." "I am a norrinie mixture, says ne to the rooster, "1 can feel barking within me the voices of every retrie ver, maatiff, poodle, hound. My soul Is a whole pack sitting in a circle, musing. I am an dogs.i I nave neen every dog." If our Bentiments towara riao are really honest and wholesome, we will return the greeting of every dog as he passes us on the road. We will respect bis rights in the universe, for In truth the lonesomest cur that ever scratched has rights which not .even an archangel should dare trample on. Robert Louis Stevenson was once sauntering in the north of Scotland when he came upon a peddler beating a woebegone little terrier. Stevenson Interfered and the discussion grew not He is not vour doe," the peddler fl- naUy yelled, "and I U beat htm all I want to." - "No, but It's God's dog, and I'm here to protect him," came the answer and Robert Louis won. . THE SOUTHWARD 8WINQ. Washington Herald Qniitham mmmArcliil bodlefl are feli citating . themselves, and righteously, en tha remarsaDie snowing maae r ntrlo in tha Annual Review of Foreign nnmmiarM recently issued bV the 1C- partment of Commerce and Labor. '1 Figures, usually, are uuu ana uuiu terestlng things, but the following are n Hivnlflmtnt and lmnresslve that they are well worthy of serious study and analysis: . "Comparing the exports or is ana 1909, it Is found that those from Gulf ports have lncreased-110 per cent In the ten years. The exports from At- i.nlii iw.li Inrrannori only IS ner Cent during the same period. Of the seven teen Atlantic pons BUUWIUg wurei large or small increases during the ton tronro aovon are Southern ports. The greatest Increase In exports made . .... . o onn by any one or tne seven is fio.oiv, 584, at Savannah, Qa., showing a nnwih nf mmn than 111 ner cent over 1899. Tne greatest propuruuuaio iut crease was made by St. Johns, Fla., ufco ftiotrirt nf Jacksonville) Which showed an increase of over 70O per cent The other notewortny increases were Wilmington, N. C, 110 per cent; Ewnaniitna Fla . 102 ner cent and Brunswick, Ga., 42 per cent Another matter worthy of cheerful considera tion Is that whereas in is w w nn,-t F-nm tha fiulf norta eaualed only 22 per' cent of the exports from toe Atlantic ports, in 1909 they equaled "The import figures tor "the ten years prove a closer loucn or oouiuom ports with the commeroe of the world; tor while Atlantic porte, increased in the ten years 76 per cent, Gulf ports Increased 240 per cent "The total commerce of the South Atlantic ports now overtop total Im ports and exports at Boston or at Philadelphia. The Gulf ports exceed by 1100,000,000 the total imports and exports of all North Atlantic ports ex cept New York; the Gulf Imports and exports now equal 33 1-8 per cent of the total Imports and exports of New .York. . , ' ... - ,: ' - -vv "In the year 1909 the domestic ex ports of the United States show that cotton, unmanufactured, alone repre sented 25.48 per cent of the total; which Is more than two and a half times the value of the next most im portant export, Viz., meat and dairy products." - In the Hght of these statistics, it Is not at an astonishing that confidence In the South' future should be so firm airti so universal. - If these conditions prevail now what may we not expect to happen in' Dixie once the -anama canal Is opened to the commerce of the world? Absolute Commercial Su premacy in the nation is no idle dream down that" way; absolute commercial supremacy on earth may not Irrational ly peep above the horizon of Dixie's hopes! -,; Long before the nation at large came to appreciate the tremendous things going on In the South, the South Itself had come to appreciate them, and had learned to govern Itself accordingly. As The . Washington Herald has re marked heretofore, the great factor in the South's splendid progress of late years dwells within its acquired knowl edge of the Importance of keeping its wealth at home to as great an extent as possible. It no longer goes abroad to buy a great bulk of Its necessities, to borrow money, to get its manufac tured products.- It has developed from purely agricultural section into a mercantile, manufac'uring, banking, life and fire Insurance section, and it is striking forward in seven-league boots now, where once it did nothing much better than straggle. The South has every reason to con gratulate itself on the business status assigned It by the Department of Commerce and Labor. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S QUESTION. Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Washington correspondent of The Times-Dispatch appears to be a little surprised that out of the billion dollars appropriated by the present Congress, less than twenty million dollars was voted to the South. We are not surprised, but on the contrary, we are inclined to rejoice that the South fared so sumptuously at the hands of those who nave been distrib uting the national bounty. If. we let the South go," Abraham Lincoln is reported to have asked his advjisers, where shall we get our revenue?" That is as pertinent an in quiry now as it was half a century ago, and it is not to be wondered at, in all the circumstances, that the South has gotten so little, but that the South has gotten so much. Some time ago Mr. Tatt's Secretary of War, an old Confederate soldier of Democratic inclinations, made a speech In which he expressed his satisfaction that the South had been defeated in its strug gle for independence, because if It had achieved a separate political exist ence It would have cost Immense sums ot money to fortify and protect its frontier. We did not sympathize with his view of the situation, because it could not have cost the South more In dollars and cents to be free than it. Is costing the South every year, and year after year, to belong to the Un ion. With the money that has been squeezed out qf the South for the sup port of tne special Industries or New England and for pensions to the sol diers of the victorious armies (who are worthy of honor), not to speak of the bummers and sutlers and non- combatants -who disgrace the pension rolls of the government it would have been possible for the South to build a continuous fort along its entire fron tier. That, however, Is going too far back. and we must consider u.e question from the present point of view the necessities of the rest of the country. We have millions of acres of the most fertile lands In the world down South that ought to be reclaimed by drain age. As they stand today, tney are a menace to the public health, they can not be made productive; if they were dried out they would yield enormous crops, they would-furnish homes for hundreds of thousanas or destraoie settlers; but we must remember that there are deserts out West to be re claimed, dama to be built irrigation plants to be established, "natural re sources to be conserved, and wnat could there be more natural than that the South, which is rich and prosper ous, should surrender any possible claims it might have upon the Fed eral bounty for the redemption of the West and all other parts of this and other countries into which the Federal activities nave extended? Is It not enough that we are "back in the Un ion," and back to stay? Has not tne Great White Father, alias "Uncle Sam," named a number of his fighting craft for Southern cities and 6tates? Are not Southern young men suffered to enlist in the army and navy? Is not Captain Archie Butt, a native of Georgia and a Southern soldier of whom the South may well be proud, near to the throne? Are not the Southern railroads, which are princi pally owned up North, permitted to carry the United states mans.- nas not the consular service been opened to Southern men who can pass the ex amination? Have not a great many millions, ot dollars been Invested in Southern enterprises by New England and Northern and Western people who were enabled to make these millions because ot the taxes paid by tne South? - . There 1s a reason for the apparent disparity between the ' appropriations made for the South and those made for the rest of the country. Our correa Dondent savs that the West gets $4.' 414.400 of the money that is to be spent In the forestry service, while the South gets only $26,000. It must be admitted that there Is a considera ble difference between these respect ive sums: but our correspondent ex plains that "everybody knows the tot ests and timber lands of the south are ot enormous area." That's It; In the exercise of Its heaven-Inspired mis sion ot taking care ot the world, the eovernment is going to spend the South's money so that other parts ot the country may also have great areas of forest and timber lands even as the Smith hn them now. There;; is , another deeply "solemn thought ot which we must take ac count In trying to understand the Con gressional mind In dealing with, the South: The South Is in the Union to give, not to receive, and we can prove (hat it is more blesied to give than to receive. Of course, If we can rake-off a little bit here and there $26,000 for forestry In the South as against more than $4,000,000 for the West; $114,000 out of $1,000,000 for good roads; $48, 000 out of the "general appropriation" of nearly $5,500,000, and $25,000 out of $947,000 for fisheries should we not be thankful, Instead of moping around, J that we haven t got our feet in the trough along with the hogs? 'la Life Worth Living?" ' Mrs. Mollie McRaney, Prentiss, Miss., writes that she had a severe case of kidney and bladder trouole and that four bottles of Foley's Kid ney Remedy cured her sound and well. She closes her letter by saying: "I heartily recommend Foley's Kidney Remedy to any sufferer of kidney dis ease. . It saved my life," Souders' Pharmacy. . V ' Q. K. NIMOCKS, Attorney and Counaellor-at-Law. OFFICE In K. of P. BUILDING. Fayetteville. N, C. 'Phone 229. V.C. BULLARD. , Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Notary Public, Surveyor, Office K. of P. Building, FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. H. HcD. Robinson. Terry Lyon, (Notary PubUc) ROBINSON & LYON, ATTORN EY8-AT-LAW. Offices: National Bans Building, Fay etteville, N. C. Special attention given to corpora tion matters, collecting and conveyanc ing. Do a general practice. Prompt and exact I. SPRUNT NEWTON. a. w, HERRING , NEWTON & HERRING, Attorneys-at-Lsw, Jno. A. Oates, Business Associate. Rooms 2, 3 and 8, K. of P. Bldg., FAYETTiiVILliE, N. C. Practice in all Courts. Special attention eiven to Collec tions. Estates and Conveyancing. James C. MacRae, Fayetteville, N. C. Cameron F. MacRae, Wilmington, N. C. MacRAE & MacRAE, ATTORN EY8-AT-LAW, Offices Hinsdale Building, Fayetteville, N. C. Specialties';- Corporation, Real Estate and Commercial Law. General Practice in All Courts. Offices Fayetteville, N. C, and Wil mington, N. J. W. W. BAKER, CIVIL ENGINEER. Land Surveying and Municipal En gineering, over 8huford, A Rogers' Store, Fayetteville, N. C DR- E. J. CARSON, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Office In residence 342 Gillespie Street 'Phone 160. Chronic Diseases a Specialty. DR. IRENE THORNTON, Office 109 Green Street Hours: 9 A. M. to H A. M., 2 P. M. to 4 P. M., 6 P. M. to 8 P M. 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. Cflce 'phone, 231, Residence -403. Dr. A. S. CROMARTIE, DENTIST, Office in MacKethan Building, 102 14 Person street Phone 338. Fayetteville, N. C. O. B. Patterson, D. D. 8. J. H. Judd, D. 0 . Drs. Patterson & Judd, Offlcea 219 1-2 Hay Street, over Dunn aV Co.'a 8tore, 'Phone 55. DR. W. A. RAY, DENTIST. Blghsmlth Building, 113 Green Street 'Phone 405. Office formerly occupied by Dr. John R. Highsmlth. MacKethan Trust Co. Market 8quara, FAYETTEVILLE. : : N. C. Real Estate bought and sold. Loana negotiated and guaranteed. - Rents and interest collected. Tltler examined, conveyances made. Insurance premiums taken and loans made. E. R. MacKETHAN, Att'y. $300. Small uncleared farm Raleigh Road. $1500. 60 acre Improved farm, good buildings. $3000. . 103 acre farm with Improve ments. $2000. 141 aero farm, mill and dwelling. $1500. 60 acre farm near Wade Sta tion. $1200. House and Lot Person street $350. House and Lot. New. Wharf street $300 , $150. . $125. ,.$250. House and Lot Broad street Lot West Rowan street. Lot South Cool Spring street. 35 acres Pearce a Mill. 10 acres Lumberton Road. :.-'$75, $60. Lot Water street.- ' , $50 to $150. Suburban Lots, Fair- (round Park. River View. Normal An- ex. Normal Heights, Holt's Hill, rtkwwt FaysttsTtlls, Fayhop. ARNOLD'S To&' B A LS A IYI Dysentery by G. W. Stanclll, Hops Mills, N. C. FAYETTEVILLE MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS Strictly First-class Work. CALL AT MY YARD OR WRITE FOR PRICES. x RE8PECTFULLY, E. L. REM8BURQ, PROPRIETOR, FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. 118 MAXWELL ST. OPPOSITE P, I L. I. ARMORY, m biimer loiiiis See Our' Line of Preparations ' Before Going On Ypur Vacation. Powders, TTkf lot. UraliM . . . n n : w w . Face Creams, Etc. A Full Assortment of Bath, Manicure and Toilet Goods. 'PHONE 1. Delicious Candies LIGGETTS GUTH'S B. E. Sedberry's 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 I CO.. Druggists and Prahmaclsts, Next to P. O. 'Phone 141. MacKethan's on the Square. AllegrettFs Bon - Bons AND Chocolates 1-2, I, 2 and 3-lb BOXES Fresh by Express AT The Leading Druggists. Agents for Cut Flowers. Send Your Prescriptions TO THE STRICTLY Prescription Store The correct compounding of phy sicians prescriptions our one and only specialty. You get what the doc tor orders at the Busy Store on the Corner. Souders' Pharmacy We Are Not The "Bell Cow,' but we certainly gallop ahead of the gang in furnishing our customers with Pure," Fresh DRUGS, r Garden Seeds, Etcl For Less Money; Our Sundry and Toilet Lines are Complete. Our , , ; Prescription Department Is carefully looked after; our Soda Water sparkles with life. Give us a trial. ' Perry's Drugstore . 114 Gillespie Street ' ! Perry's Electric Pain Killer Is iur shot tor pains, . , , , flllBMSOIS Prmiiis. fflacKetaan Co,
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