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STANDARD. !
TKRMS OK PEACE.
Foreign Enrnys Renou a Conclusion Sub'
ject to Apiirovnl of rower.
A London dispatch of the 13th
says the foreign envoys have
formulated the following, to bo
submitted to the powers, and if
approved it is to bo presented to
China as a basis of adjust
ment of the Chinese problem,
via. I
"China shall erect a monu
ment to Baron von Kotteler on
the site where he was murdered
and send an imperial Prinoe to
(jermany to convey an apology.
She shall inflict the death pen
alty upon eleven Princes and
officials already named, and sus
pend provincial examinations for
five years where the outrages
occurred. In future all officials
failing to prevent anti-foreign
outrages within their jurisdic
tion shall be dismissed end pun
ished. (This is a modification of Mr.
Congor's proposition.)
INDEMNITY.
"Indemnity shall be Jpaid to
the States, corporations and in
dividuals. The Tsung Li Yamen
shall bo abolished and its func
tions vested in a foreign minis
ter. Rational intercourse shall
be permitted with the Emperor,
as in civilized countries.
"The forts at Taku and the
other forts on the coast of Chi h
Li shall be razed, and the im
portation of arms and war ma
terial prohibited. Permanent,
legation guards shall be main
taincd, aDd also guards of com
munication between Pekin and
the sea.
"Imperial proclamations shall
be posted for two years through
out tho Empire suppressing Box
ers. "The indemnity is to include
compensation fur Chinese who
suffered through be'ng employed
by foreigners, but not compen
sation for nativeChristians. The
words Missionary and Christian
do not ocuur in the note."
While the official document has
not been presented to the ad
ministration at Washington,
there is said to bo features with
which tho government will be
loath to subscribe.
WANTED, Active mu of good ehnt
aoter to deliyor and collect in North
Carolina (or old established manufac
turing whole. ale hoime. if 000 a year,
sure pay. Honenty moro than exyen
enoe required. Our reference, any
hank in any city. Enolose self-no-dresuod,
stamped envelope. Mannfiio
tnrera Third Floor, 384 Dearborn tit.,
Chicago.
"Before the breath has fairly
left a woman's body tho .neigh
bors are saying that she would
have recovered if her husband
had become scared soon en
ough.' WANTED, Active man of good char
acter to deliver and collect in North
Carolina for old established manufac
turing wholesale house. $'JO0 a yeur,
anrepay. Honesty more tlmn experi
ence required. Onrreferenoe, aDy hank
in any oity. Enclose self-add reused
stamped envelope. Marnfaetnrers, aid
Floor, 834 Dearborn rt, Chicago.
COMMiSSIONEK'S SALE OF LAND.
Having been duly appointed Com
tnissiouiT by the Hupenor Court of tin
bartus county in the upeeial proceeding
wherein I). C. Cosby et als, have peti
tioned the court for sate of lands for
partition, I will, at 12 o'clock noon,
on Monday, the 3d day of De
cember, 1100, at the court hnne
door inConoord, N. C, sell to the high
est bidder the following described real
estate situate in Cabarrus county in
township No 4. and bounded as fol
lows, viz: Lving on tho waters of
Mill creek and beginning at a post
oak, Btirewalt's oorner, and runs
thano south 111 pol. to a stake
in old !luld, Hteel'B corn, r, thence
north 8) eani- 10 poles to a small pmo
thence south fi east fr'4 poles to a water
oak, said Steele's corner, thence north
40 east 17 poles to a i-tnlie, corner of the
6Uaere which were sold o!l tho above
mentioned track, thenoo north with the
lino of siid fid aoresl72 pedes to a oorner
on the old line of siiid mrvey and cor
ner of snul 58 aoros, thence north '
weit 5.1 pjles on tho old lino to a stake,
formerly a black oak, thoueo south 2
west 40 poles to the beginning, contain
ing .17 Hires, more or leas.
Terms of s lie rusu.
A. M Fbbiszs, Commissioner.
Nov. 1. 1U00.
State of North Carolina,) In Snperior
Court, before
Cabarrus County. ) the Clerk.
J. B. Urooni, AJmiuistrutor of Henry
Oarmond, deceased,
vs.
Duiant G.irtnoTid, JUisV (liiTmend. V.'.l
Jia n iWui md, It ib u t Oarmond,
John (lurmond, UrnnUey U.'id.Jiiiues
Oaruiond, A U Osnumtd, Mm y Ki
zer, Charley OiMinond, bit's (lar
morul, the heirs of Martha Keid, and
the heirs of Wesley UarnionJ. sum
mons The li'iirs ot Wesley Oarmond. being
the children of Wesley Oarmond, de
fenilauts, their names being unknown,
will take uoticu that an action entitled
as abovo, has been commenced In tlio
Superior Court of Cabarrus oouuty, be
fore the clerk of "aid court, by J E
Broom, administrator of Hnry (Jar
mond, deceased, tt sell for asets the
real es'atc of the above-named intestate
to pay tho debts of said deceased; and
the said defendants will further take
notice that they are hereby summoii"d
to appesr in the above-mentioned cause,
before the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Cab,irrns county, at the Court Ilouse
in Concord. N". 0.. at 10 o'clock a. m.,
on Monday, the 17tll dav of December,
WOO, and answer or d. niur to the peti
tion Hied in mud cuu -e, or the pluiu'itf
will apply to the Ouiiil for the ruliel" de
manded in said petition.
This October 8lBt. 1001.
Jno. M. Oook. Clerk Superior Court.
Atir.Ueld 4 Williams, Att'ys. (ot Till.
IlUl't.UIUL ADDRESS
ltov. W. A. Lolz, rrottldoiit
North Citrolhia Collugo.
This address was delivered before a
largo audience on thc;2ith day of Octo
ber, 11)00. The entire stndmit body
then sang, "Stand up, Htand up, for
Jesns," and the President took the
Holemn inauguration tow. At a ment
al H of tho Board of Trustees, following
they nnanimouHly resolved to nave the
address published in pamphlet form
for general distribution.
Mr. .President, - Members of tho
Board of Trustees and Frionds
of Education : " '
As you have gathered for the
purpose of .inaugurating a man
of your choice president of this
college, it 's tilting that you
should know my views and plans
tor conducting and building up
this institution ot the church.
NEED OF THE N. C. SYNOD.
Tho Evangol'cal Lutheran
Synod of North Carolina having
been intrusted with the care and
cultivation of this part of God's
viieyard, and having His com
mand, "Get wisdom which is the
principal thing," and being as
sured that "They who do not
provide for their own house
holds have denied the faith and
are worse than an infidel," de
cided early to try to educate her
sons and daughters on her own
territory. To thi3 end she en
couraged tho building of acade
mies, and nearly half a century
go established one college,
winch was intended to be the
only male college rightfully and
loyally lostered by the Lutheran
urch m INortn Carolina s-
pecialiy by the members of the
North Carolina Synod. Locating
a college and erecting suitable
buildings is ha very necessary
part in the lifo of a college, but
not the essential part. Money
can, and usually does, locate t he
institution and buildings. But
consecrated men of God. men
ready to servo God and His
church, men who lovo God su
premely, and love their neigh
bors as themselves, men who
have deep co'ivictious and have
the courage of their convictions,
:iro needed to take the institution
in trust and administer it for the
s !e end for which it was estab
lished. DUTY OF Tllii TRUSTEES.
The duties of trustees of a Lu
theran College are the most re
sponsible, far-reaching and fruit
ful of any of the duties of the
servants of tho church. To them
is entrusted the selection of a
faculty, who shall shape the ed
ucation, and wo may say the
lives, of tho sons of tho church;
the providing of ways and moans
by which all the boys in the
Synod, regardless of poverty,
social standing, affliction or tim
idity, may get an education if
they so desire. This implies
thnt they must provido ways by
which the poorest son in the
church may get an education
alongsido tho wealthiest, and
that the institution should be ad
ministered in the interest of the
boy with a will, rather than in
the interest of the boy with
money. If you accept the fore
going as true, then it follows
that tho success of a college de
pends entirely upon the charac
ter, wisdom and action of her
trustees. After they have suit
able buildings, a strong faculty
and right prices, yet, if they
foil to get the boys of the Synod
and contiguous territory to be
come students of this institution,
they are a failure.
HOW TO GET STUDENTS.
Some seem to think that, after
what has been abovo mentioned
has been provided, boys will
come flocking to the institution
like doves to their cote. This is
a groat mistake. Others act as
though they believed that boys
must be baited with scholar
ships, like rats are baited with
cheese, in order to secure them
as students. We disagree with
either of these methods. They
savor not of God but of men.
Christ having made salvation
easy, cheap and secure, yet com
manded that lie be lifted up be
fore tho people to draw thoni,
and that wo ' Go out into the
streets ami lanes and bring in
the poor, tho halt, tho maimed
and the blind, that his school be.
full." Tims we, having made;
education ousy, cheap and ftM
curnble to all, must then lift the
Col logo up before, all of our
people in order to draw them,
and then go out if) to tho'slreots
and lanes and gather in 'rtlPwrTo
will, that the ficbooi'niay be full.
The proper inducements in ac
commodation, tuition and thor
ough teaching, seasoned with
wholesome discipline, is a sine
The Hague-McCorkle Dry Goods . Co.
Importers and Wholesalers.
GREENSBORO, N, O.
Dry Goods, Notions and Hats.
M?" We solicit trade of Merchants only, and sell nothing at
iah.
ly iv c eordi.tPy invito nil merchants to call on us when in
Greensboro or see our Travelling Salesman bokro placing orders
elscwhero.
J. W. WOODBURN, Salesman,
qua non, but all business mon
know that no matter how good
of the goods, or how, cheap the
price, good and faithful drum
tii'mg is indispensable to real
success. A word to the wise is
sufficient.
OUR PECULIAR TOPOGRAPHY.
Some claim that the great
cause of what seems an apparent
failure m JNorth Carolina College
lios not in the management of
the institution, but that it lies in
our own boys: that they an
principal. y farmer's sons, and
are poor. So they are, but if
that really an obstacle in our
way, in building up our College?
They say, what can we expeet
irom the laboring man's sons,
green, backwoodsy, unrefined r
Is this undesirable for students r
An old adage says, "The proof
of the pudding is in tho eating
thereof." Go with me and let
us test this. Let us first go to
any or all of the towns and cities
of this' State,- and inquire who
are the 'leading -business inert.
You will find that" by far the ma;
jority of them are farmers' sons.
Then let us gather togethor the
mill men of the State, and we
find that over 80 per cent, of
them were raised upon the farm.
Then let us' go to the teachers
and gospel ministers and ask
them of their ooyhood, and we
find a very gieat majority of
them were farmer's sous. ' This,
thou, must be pretty good ma
terial out of which to manufac
ture good and useful men.
THESE DEFECTS EASILY CURED.
Their greenness, backwoodsi-
uess and coarseness can much
Gttsior be cured than the habits
of idleness, intemperance, licen
tiousness, lasciviousness and ex-
ravagauce of the sons ot our
gentlemen of leisure, our towns
men and our professionals. Any
workman prefers to use material
that will turn out the best ar
ticle, though ho may have to
take it in the rough and spend
days in shaping and polishing it.
Thus should tiie Church look
upon education, and when we
viow it thus aright and act ac
cording to tho light, then will
the country boy be sought for
by our colleges. Is this figure
overdrawn? Is this only our
imagination, or is it God's plan ?
Let us look to the source whence
we were hewn. We see .400 years
ago a poor miner, with a -son
whom he wishes to educate. lie
makes two efforts to keep him
in school, but both fail. See him
aud his son go' to the priest for
help. The priest advises that he
join tho mendicaut order, which
insures him his board, though
he must bog it from house to
house. The same obstacle that
was in young Luther's is in the
way of thousands of boys just as
promising and as needful in the
work of tho Lord as was the boy
Luiher. In tho North Carolina
Synod there are now over one
hundred boys whom 1 have vis
ited and talked with, who, like
Luther, can not pay $8 por
month for board. Our constitu
ency are plain people but their
sons, with plain habits, sound
bodies and moderate self-esteem,
are the best material out of which
to make scholars.
A GREAT QUESTION.
The groat question of the world
today is, How to mako man 'bet
ter. The answer is, Educate him
in all right departments of study,
then teach him to apply this to
tho common good of man.
Many men have every talent
save that of using their talents.
The old adage, "Knowledge is
power," is only partly true. We
may say the sledge-hammer is a
power, 'but this is only true when
some man uses it aright. So
with knowledge; a man may have
knowledge and yet not even be
a bread winner," much ldss a
benefact'sr. Gad has imposed
the duty of educating the race
upon two powers, tho Cliurch
and t he State. . ..
To educate the boy aright, af
ter ho has been secured as a stu
dent and is housed m the dormi
tory, has been before the differ
ent members of the faculty, and
has .been assigned his lessons, is
a serious question. Tho boy has
four sides like a house, lie can
pot have a sound mind in a dis
eased body. . Ilonco the great
i'mporUince- of caring for" the
bodyof thr student. Certain
things defile the; body, and we
read, U40.tai.Aiyniet::i ins-muty
(the tofnpkv of'thiT Holy Ghost)
him will Oort dttroy." It is use
less to educate a;boy in Latin,
Greek, vMathcinatics, History,:
etc., if he is defiling his body
with some habit' and is going to i
certain destruction. The mind
slioftld be fed on wholesome diet
that is, everything taught tho
student,sh,ould be: free froni. that
which is hurtful.: .Novel reading,
gambling and ihretical V:oru
must be avoided! .The'' toorals,
that part of every one which
men see and -by ; whicli ' they,
moasuro our purity, are often
much neglected In 6, college edu
cation, while tho soul is served
out by being fed on. husks. To
prevent.a distorted development
in the studqnfs course, .to.scare'
fur his hridv. that it he not da-
filed, to caro for his moral',::tha!f
he lie ilol evil STKilfen or, ana
care for .his soul that .itty wot.
si-a-rvea, is ine negnwvu pin-u ui
the .college preiidout's j'iork.
lie has also a- positive work,
namolyy' to" substitute good for
bad habit in the student:, see
that plen t y of wholesome jrad
ing matter -be given to tne ' stu
dents'; by precept, discipline and
example to ounu up pure in.o.rais,
and by ,a faithful use of thes Word
of'God tri'make his sttidorits ivisc
unto, salvation, la liort,-the
President should i,be a . fosfor
fittheri 'to'- every studentr placed
under nis care. With this sys
tem, and a faculty of consecrated
professors to hold up his hands
aud support him in all his efforts
for good, any 1'resident can ao
ffood . work, . and hopo to ,meet
tho approval 'of all good people,
as well as' pldaso"God. All stu
dents love this kind of discipline,
because it makes them men. and
fits them for a place in Church
and State, .
HOW TO BUILD UP A SCHOOL.
1. Two plans ha'e been adopt
ed by different Presidents. llav;
mg good buildings, a largo cam
pus and a strong faculty,' the
oue class sits down, expecting
students to flock in like doves to
their cote: the other goes out in
to the field and drums for his
school, as a business man does
for his business. Observation,
as well as experience, teaches us
that only the latter class will
succod in building up a school.
2 by. having a high standard
school, (a) In teaching force. All
boys love to go to school where
! he teaching force is strong, (b)
Strict discipline. All persons
love discipline,. properly admin
istered, (c) ,13y proper aids in
teaching. na) .A:irood library,
(bb) Apparatus..'..' '(d) See that
the moral nad VcUidou; culture
bo exercised. All parents, even
ungodly, mep.. love, (to put their
sons m scnooi. wnef-e ine moia
aud religious culture is , good
This should bo exercised on the
Lord's day by a College Sunday
school, and tho studoate- should
attend Church in a body. Thus
they will grow up in the Lord's
service. The l'rosidont need not
be a spy among the boys, but a
friend and guardian, ootn uay
night. . ..
3. By tho number and charac
ter of the Alumni. A school;
like a tree, is known by its fruiW.
Tho students are truly living
epistles of a College, known and
read of all men. W. A. Lutz. '
The Lot' of Loiiff Ago.
Rnfus MoCluin FiolJs.
There's a tear that rises sadly
from the grave - of buried
years, ....
Where the'sun of .hope is hidden
.... by the veil of .'sorrow's tfeass,
And it takes the heart back sof t-
'J l ' ly 16 the time when lifo was
young, -When
the joy of youth was
buoyant aud the harp of life
was strung;
When tho wreath was fillod with
sunshine and the heart was
glad with song; ", , ; 4
When a boyish soul was happy
T -with u, promise" all day long,
And a dream as fair as Eden
kept the future lifo aglow
With tho happy, halcyon glory
of the loves of long ago.
In those oldon days back yonder,
hen' you promised to be
mine, .... .
With a girlish, glowing rapture
that Was more than half di
vine, Sincerity was in your-heart and
trulh was in your eye, ;
And all that visions valued in the
cherished bye and bye;
But age has brought discretion,
aud brought other things as
- strange
Love never knows it -peril till it
, looks upon the change!
And through . tears, as I .have
told you, I lpuk back on that
raiubo.w. ' '
That used to span tho rho$vons
of tho gladsome long ago.
' i'lilil tho Wheelbarrow Icit.
1 The Richmond Times says:
"Mr. Blair Matthews -paid his
political, -wager-; to Mr. W. K
V. . . , ' v l i i :
imtz t uesaay nigni oy imunni;
the latter in -a ; wheelbarrow the
round specified in tho bet on
McRirilcy and Biiyan election.
It took about one our jto go the
trip. ' I :
Editor Anhcraft Married.
Mr. -B C Ashcraft, editor of
the Monroe Enquirer, and Miss
Mary Blair were married at the
homo of tho bride in Monroe
Thursday evening. It was a
quiet wedding. Among tho few
guests to participate in the jos
of the occasion we note Mr. and
Mrs. II K Blair, of Charlotte,
and Misses Kato and Bessie
Simpson, of Monroe.
ai,bemai:li:'h jaii. tjtvrr.'
Masked' Mud Takes Out J La Km. W h o
Kyim, Away Wliul Jlota U Mean i "
' A very peculiar sensation ex
istKvin our neighboring towu-oi
Albemarle. On.WjKriiesdny niht
between 12 and Z o clock agruop
of masked men' ta'm'o to tho jSil
sayitig thoy- wished to turn
over a prisoner to. the sheriff
who raised-the window to re
ceive'-the papers.' He' soon found
somet hing was up and closed t ht
window. The crowd wrtit around.
and' with picks, Crowbars, etc.,'
made a -hole, in tho wall, tltrqugh
which they entered. "They went
to the' cell whero tho negr,o -John'
Knox, was confined, charged with
complicity in tho . murder, by
jK)ison, of Dr.1 .Love, near Locust
Level. ' Tho fuob broke the coin:
biuation lock and took the ne
gro, pushing him through the
hole to aciowd outside. Strange
to say, the negmrttntaway ;. aud
nothing more lias been heard of
hint. There were a number of
shots fired. All kinds of thoories
aro in the breeze, some thinking
that the negro has been lynched,
while others think he was freed
designedly. It will bo reineuj
bored that Mr. Sikes was impli
cated by negro talk at first but
was fully exonoratod. JJusulo he
seems above suspicion. ', W ere
others. implicated against" whom
Knox" would have been a bad
witness or - have Dr. , Love's
friends taken vengeance, if the
latter, the woman in the cell who
did give the poison would not
haye escaped.
Before going to. press we called
up Albemarle and could get
nothing more satisfactory than
the above. They, too, are at sea
for facts and theories of soino
certainty,
Daily of K'th. .
FEMALE ( OLLl fciE ill KM: I).
One. Hiumrod and' Lift) Glrli- Miikn
Hasty Eseam- Lo' s??.",00': In
BiirAnee, fS.I.Ott." - . .
Virginia College;' vi u;stitiu
tion for young ladiCj .at. Koat:
oke, Va was totally (.ou-.iine'l
by' fire early- Westr. day '..lovn
ing. The I'.ro w:i-. iiM'e, on i
just as the .irli;, ITi.i in nur .'tie:-,
were vising, una tny u:e bil:
den to get out without delay.
All escaped. Tho fjxo tlndgti in
tho boiler room. Scarwiy any
thing was saved. The' h)fs ..is.
75,O00, with $-J5,000 insurance,
(1. C. Goodman's Will.
The will of tho law Mr. G
Crawford Goodman was probated
todayThursday, Ho bequeathed
to Mrs. Goodman the homestead
of 00 acres of land and 3 acres of
meadow land togethor . with a
year s -provision and a'l the
'household and kitchen furniture
for.her -natural life time, The
rest of his est ale is willed to his
five sors George, Uobort, Thom
as, (Stafford and Lawrence, hav
ing advanced previously to tho
others equivalent sums.
At tho death of Mrs. Goodman
tho two sons George' -and Robert
fall hoir to tho homestead.
Hat Ha! Charlie. '
''' Miss Cornio Deaton, daughter
of Mr. J. C. Dealon, of Moores
ville, and Mr. Charles Hamilton,
of Cabarrus, are to ' be married
in Mooresville on the 22d inst.
Statesville Landmark.
Our congratulations in advance.
Since the abovo is in type, wo
are the glad receipient of tho
following:
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Deaton re
quest your proseuce at the mar
riage of their daughter) Cor
Delia, to Mr. Charlos Hamilton,
Thursday, Nov.l'L'd, lDOO, at I3:."50
o'clock, ). in., at the 1'iusby
renin church, Mooresville, N. 0.
Hill, and More lomhiif.
liev'. ' W. A. ' Lutz passed
through town today (Friday) on
his way to Center Grove Con
ference. He'says he has added
two moro to the list of students
this week and that every room
in the college is now full. He
will bo able, however, to secure
rooms for others and expects a
number to come in yot.
Deaton-llolie. '
liev" J. Leroy I)oaUiWn'.M ss
Laura Hoke were married Thurs
day at Alio home of. the : bride-in
Lmcolutou. Lev. -M r. i)n.".iii is
well known Jioro and M: I'ioki?
is a charming, young lady, a s"
tor to Mrs. Dr. jianwsetir, of Chuijv
Gros'o, where1-thei bridal party
make their boa-rditg homo.
RoTcnue Oltleerit Make" SiJuro. ;
Eevouuo Office'r All., y lit tUids
that John Fink and Muck All
man had made. more brandy
than they had bought -stamps
for. Ho takes everything that
belongs 'to the still aud all the
liquor that could bo found.
Everything was brought in Wod
nesday nighr, and shipped to
Charlotte.
A negro chi'd of George Har
rison w:is left in the hou,c no-.n..
Charlotte Wednesday w tion tho
house took lire and was burned
including tho child.
PAID A TKltltlBLE VEHALTY.
Young Negro Mobbed hi Colorado
Burned ut the Stake for Murder and
Mutilation nfa Little White Girl.
. AtLimon,, Colorado, on Friday
the 16th. a crowd of 300 men al
mofct'loo orderly and quiet to be
called a rhob took a' negro named
4.ohn Porter, from tho sheriff
and- to tho place where a week
beioro had foully treated, killed
and mutilated the little daughter
of Richard W. Frost. There they
chained . him to an irpn stake
after allowing him all the time
he wanted in prayer, aud placed
fuel around -him saturating it
with kerosene oil and the father
of the unfortunate child set the
match. He bore the affair with
stolid 6ilence almost indifference
till the flames reached his head
when ho gave way in the most
piteous cries. When he knew
there was not release he begged
to bo shot. More fuel was piled
on aid his cries and writhiugs
were stilled by the flames. It
was a terrible retribution for a
most revolting crime.
, From the Ocean's Depth.
Those papers which, during
tho campaign were too busy
with scientific research to sup
port the Democratic party will
doubtless be gratified at the vast
mine of material for investiga
tion afforded by recent accom
plishments, of some of tho gon
'ineu tp whom tho government
intrusts the duty of unraveling
f o knotty problems which Dame
M.i Lure presents.
Some of these gentlemen have
beeu doing a little fishing with a
lii.e five miles long, and at that
depth they have made some
catches, tho sight' of which, ac
cording to illustrations, Would!
make a teetotaler of any fisher
man who over lived, and it ex
hibited in Kentucky, could carry
that state for a prohibition can
didate.
For instance, there is the
eura pharynx pelecanoides and
his good friend,- the trichinrus
lepturus. The malacashens
ohoristodactylus is a prize beau
tify, though the stylephorus
choradatus is a close second.
Others are the sumicrotomus
spinasus, the'lynophryne lucifer
and the mancalas chufeldth.
-.The country should certainly
be grateful to these enterprising
scientists. Charlotte News.
Fine 1'riees for Land.
With all tho complaint that
fa'rming is unprofitable land
seems to tend Upward in prices.
Au instance in mind is that of
the Carson place in Irdell bought
Some years ago by Mr. 'Bob
Wallace, of Eastfield, forfl,500.
lie has reaped a harvest of
values from . the timbers on it
and has sold tracts at ton and
fifteen dollars por acre till he
has $7,250 from the salo beside
tho timber. Laud seems good
property to hold for highor
prices.
Mr. W. K. Kindley, wo learn,
has Isold six acres of land front-
in-' on tho Mt. fieasant ana oon-
coi n road a van oi ueruaiui
mis for . 150, it being $75 por
nCre. Mr. James Kowlaud is
the purchaser.
t.ni't Get Wong Without Tho Standard.
Of the many friends of Mr.
Alonzo Black welder some may
not know of his , whereabouts,
Seuoia, Ga. -, at the Georgia Tele
graph aud R. li. Business Col-
logo: I,n a note of the 15th ho
says, "Please send Standard, I
just cau't get along without it."
The only surprise is that our
usually bright young friend ever
made the vain attempt.
"Now that the weather is so
glorious that men are glad they
are alive, tho women aro begin-
u. ng to make mince-moat to
causo them to wish they were
duad."
Experiments With Kegro Labor In
Southern Cotton Mills.
The experiment of employ in
colored labor in textile mills in
the South is one of peculiar in
terest, as the ability for skilled
workmanship is looked upon as
in an important degree a jmoas
ure of the capacity for develop
ment of the race. So far- none
of the numerous .tests have ro
suited satisfactorily, and yet it is
admitted that in no case has a
fair trial been given. Negroes
have become good mochanics
such as carpenters, bricklayers
and engineers, but in work which
requires delicacy of .manipula
tion and taste he has not shown
much aptitude. Whether this is
from lack of training and oppor
tunity or from other fault has
not yet been determined and will
not be until the negro has been
given a fair trial in every respect.
A staff correspondent cf the
New York Journal of Commerce
who has been investigating the
textile industries of the South
has made the subject of negro
labor in mills the text for one of
his articles. He does not appear
much encouraged. In alluding
to the mill erected at Concord,
N. C, by negro capital and in
which" negro labor is to be ex
clusively employed ho says the
mill is ready for work but had
not at that time any money to
buy cotton. Its equipment of
5,700 spindles aud 140 looms l
adequate, but second-hand, and
hence could not offer' a very sat
isfactory tost. A number of
white 'capitalists aro interested
in tho mill, and one not only
holds a largo amount of stock,
but had loaned trie company $10,
000 to complete the plant. White
carders, spinners and weavers
had offered to teach negroes the
work, so there will be no trouble
on that score if money can be
aised to start the mill. Louis
ville Courier .Journal.
TheOoyernor on Education.
We have it from a reliable
source that, in his inaugural ad
dress and in his message to the
legislature, Governor-elect Ay
cock will 6peak with no uncer
tain' sound on the educational
question. This is no more than
the people are expecting, for, in
his campaign Mr. Ay cock laid
no more stress on any one thing
than on the subject of education
education for the whole . peo
ple; without regard to party,
class or creed. And the next
legislature will have no duty to
perform so important as the task
of laying the foundation for a bet
tor and more far-reaching com
mon school system. The schools
must bo improved and the terms
lengthened. It will take both
time and money, and an abund
ance of the latter, to accomplish
this, but the necessity or the oc
casion demands that it be done.
Greensboro Patriot.
By, On and For Whom!
The .Mooresville Record says:
"Mr. A. M. Freeze, of Mill Hill,
Cabarrus' county, was here
Tuesday. He states that on
election day bribory was at
tempted at his and probably
other precincts in Cabarrus
county.
Here's the way the Philadel
phia Times sees it:
Prosperity for tho Pooplo?"
The phraso sounds very well;
But the Trusts will take tho
oyster
While the workmen got the
shell."
DoctorsSay?
Bilious and Intermittent Fever
which prevail in miasmatic dis
tricts are invariably accompan
ied by derangements of the
Stomach Liver and Bowels
The Secret of Health.
The liver is the great "driving
wheel" in the mechanism of
nan, and when it is out of order,
he whole system becomes do
-anged and disease is the result.
Tutt's Liver Pilis
Cure all Liver Troubles.
Wilkes i'iii Ki-i Hot..
A "Wilkes Democrat," ad
t dressing the Haioih Post vindi
cates the Democracy of the coun
ty and takes the Burke man to
task as follows :
"In .your issue of November
10th your Morgan ton correspond
ent, commenting on a the recent
election, says that Burke county
held her own for Democracy, and
adds :
'If Cleveland county had
done tho same, and Caldwell and
Wilkes had done anything at all,
Buxton would havoboon elected.'
"We' respectfully mtfr a pro
test against this injustice to
Wilkes Democracy, for Black
burn's majority over Buxton in
this county was more than four
hundred -less than Adams' over
Aycock in August, two hundred
less than Linney's over Daugh-
ton in 1896, about one hundred
loss than Linney's over Loveil
in 1898. -
"Wilkes is the only county in
the district which made gains
for Democracy, compared with
tho August vote, and these gains
would have resulted m Buxton's
election if every other county in
tho district La.1 held its own.
It is Lard to right against
ovorwiir:!m: :g o'-am end mako
gains, and it is somewhat dis-
couragii.;; to be misrepresented
and riot. 'given en -11.' i r it."
Ke-Uiitritt o;t.i ' .
n i n , r . ' n tr r, ti.1
ng ;
vl";
tad n.:i ortant
come before
erf JV auary
matter ' wf : :';.
the Leg: 4 . '
will bo the..
State of N -now
Cfjiu j
Una tee r v
nine. If .:
might hi r
will lose one r
State mo""
ginia drop-i bu
be intero'-ti:
of the
. Tho
Caro
vl'Zt it
i nia
fit this
' Vlr-
,:t win
which
.: Oil!
lg to
party ,tb. increase
in North Carolina.
will benefit
Tho Repub-
licans" think that the census will
show that tie eastern counties
have lost because of the exodus
of negroes and that the western
counties have gained so that
they have hopes of capturing
three districts instead of two,
when the State is re-districted.
It is hardly probable that their
liopos will materialize.' David
Dispatch. Tlio Brutal Wench.
Melissa Clegg is a negress of
15 years and a mother for two
years, a native of Cumberland.
Having little but the brute in
stincts her" mother drove her
from home and she deliberately
threw her sleeping child into a
well and stood by till its cries
aud struggles were ended. This
she tells without apparent re
morso or any conception of tho
enormity of her duod.
What some pooplo think they
don't know isn't to be found in
the encyclopedia. Ex.
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