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State Ufcrarj Advertising Brings Success. As an Advertising Medium The Gold Leaf stands at the head of I l li-it i t :i.vh ' -I'1 venine ii. i ne uoi.n I.I- W. is tdiown Iiv its well H newspapers in midsection ftZ of the famous tiili 'la'l v-rt isingcolumiiH j SENSIBLE BUSINESS MEN ! BRIGHT TOBACCO DISTRICT- 1 Id. not rout iniK- toupMnl j iroo'l money whTe no j (i:.ir-i i;it!- r-t'jrn- ur- Hi-en. The niott wide-awake and 1 uectsful business nen t use its columns with the highest j Satisfaction and Profit to Tbcmseliesj That is Proof that it pays Them THAD R.HANNIHG, Publisher. CsJFLOJ.Tisrj, Carolusta , Hze-eust 's Blessiktqs -A-TTZetstzd Her." SDBSCRIPTIOI Sl.BOCtlb VOL. XIX. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1900. NO. 14. THAT VITAL SK)f. The pri.-- ter ar.v.tvs anus lor tne Vil li ,.t u: ' : ' !'h1v. m-tl he re... ...i it. .'i-. rit-i::i::.-!is !:-! -a.Ui Corbett, the other man i-. i-.n-'i kc-l ' !. To protect the v.'.il points of the 'j'Hi y is the first rare of tin- fighter. Th - stOI.TK Ii is the ital sjt to !-e protected aaint iTX i;. v of ! v r ;:ii-t OU ST! ::i jit loll . I! :t :s pi-rtnit'i-d to jret out of order if th- !.!'.! t- oiii' s lull of impurities, if ta- sv'-.-:ii is aHoA'-'l to run-down it .oii't I lo:i until otisutiiptioii will fin ! til-- " on iiii j " and deal its fatal !.!.... I'rof. . I vo irsclf with In. Pierce's '. !-!! M--dn-;ti I isi-overv, the non-aloo-ho'.:.- n-iii lv for tin- stomach, hlixxl and h-:a-s. Ttk - it for lingering coughs, (.!-, I ! .-1 -hitis. weak and bleeding 1 1 1 : i - . I' !-, i . i ii r 1 so many thousands t'ti it it v.iii i: v cure you. ihjii't under a'i v t i:i :;::,! Hi' t s permit the medicine d.-.i'. : to i:i l ii - o i to take some other r in- :- . Tin r-an- many substitutes on thin-cal t. !.ut ;:ou- of tliem iiossess -r t cure like "Golden Medi- virv." i ,il.iit fiv.- liottli-; of Dr. Pierce's 1 ! Ins.-'ivrrv my boy seems to tie won-, Mr J w. l'rice, of Ozark. " i . . n un IIk was vt rv bad wtieti I i, ! t . -n.-.- la i in the ..,ilell Me.li. al - tv Tin- !.Mt'rs elaimeil he hail ruti i n mi t we ii-. turn! with tliem until he . i-t w:i!km It has tieen ten luontlili !- a-.f.t.e,! t ikiiiK your ineliciae und hi 111 i;.M..l lle.lHIl " Lihii-W (nt constipation and bilioua-t.il- J)i I'ierce's Pleasant I'elkts. Tu the Ladies of Henderson and Vicinity- Mrs. Ella S. Powell and Miss Lizzie Lewis Helped fii! ly ;i 0 tu ti ii ci' that they illicit PLAIN AND FANCY SEWING. D11-M- made In tin- Litest Styles, umiij; the Mel o ,el I s -tfiii lor ciitlins.' ainllit tinir. All wuik piiHuplly done. Will Ileum the l'.ith nt Maich. at the resilience nt Mi-. I'nueli, toot nl Turner avenue. Vmit p;itini,aL;e le-pecttully solicited. Mrs. Ella S. Powell, Miss Lizzie Lewis. H. H. BASS, Physician and Surgeon, IlKNUKltSON. N. V. I 4"' ):!ice oyer Doi -ey's I):n; Store. Henry Perry, Insurance.- A 'inii line"' 10th Life mill Fi-c 'nti- p.ii.ie- repie-ei tel. Policies "tssti-d and li-k- plaei"' ' . nest ail vitntani. i llice in i 'uiirt Ilnu-e. "Stove's DMacc," (Hii.i!li- s. A. I,. Station) Restaurant and Lund Counter. oysters:;, Furnished Rooms, Comfortable Beds. Kye: ih iu; sti ict ly liist class. An orderly, well kept place. S A LOON K'l'ial to an'y in the State, stocked with IiuthiiiL' hid tin- veiy Hest and Purest tin ii money can luy. - KIN K CKi AKS AND TOBACCOS l'onl rooms in connection. MOTICE. H.W 1N; l" A I.IFIKD AS EXF.CU tor of the estate of John V. Garrett, ilecea-eil. liefnre Clerk of the Superior Court 'f Vance county, this is ti notify ull (.ei'sons 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 r claims auam-t the said e-late to pin-eiit the -atne to nte on or he fote the l!."itli day of January, l'.KU, or this notice will he pleaded in liar of the re c.ivety of the saine. All persons indebted to the said estate mti-t make immediate set I 'iMiten t . Thi- Jlth day of J. iiiu.it v. l:H)t. W. 11. GAUKKTT, Kxecutor f estate of John V. Carrett. ill cea-ed Py ny-Pectoralf CCUGK3 AND COLDS ,x -1- , . . ,. . . l oV v i.::.; : !u "X'!v ::i y THROAT or LUNGS 2 1W!S . ; v !: oo.. Limits!, M CHICHESTER'S tf.GLISH ENHYKOVeiL PILLS ttrliclnul niitl tilT t.rnulncw HAKK. Atrris!.ir I. mile. lrurcirt f r niU HKSTI.KS KNGLISH l i I'Dncrron uoMlitnt iona ana imui- ft (I..... U , . Ii........ ..n l Am in p,f ik.rap 9 r particular. Tcwtlnonlftia Lt o i "K II.T for itttT. br r- 1mm Mull. 1.4U Trttimoniftl. Hold by PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM CtrmCKi &iid NutiTie the bmlr. PmuKiltf loxuriant growth. Never Paite to Betore Qrwy II air to it Youthful Color. Cure. M-a:p d:w-aMf A hair talUcf. p.n.l f 1 Hi at Prupgim arc a soarce of comfort. They r.re source of c:ire, also iic.i'.tii, r:::d for illustrated t ook on tlij disorders to which c'aildrcn are subject, and I vSj which Prey's Vermifuge f tfVij has cured for 50 vears. mmA P t'ie b::le t-j null fur 25 ecau. I E-ifC & . Fit E V, I tjigfi Baltimore, Md. WHITE SUPREMACY. THAT IS THE PARAJIOUNT ISSUE NOW BEFORE US. Adoption of the Constitutional Amend ment Will Secure This An Issue Upon Which All True White Men Without Regard to Past or Present Political Differences Ought to Unite The Negro a Menace in Politics. North Carolina's free schools and the hundred thousands of children wlio look to them have suffered enough in the name antVfor the sake of politics. The ollices in the svstem from the highest to the lowest have been for years at the mercy of the party system. The time has come when the temper of the people is such that every move to lift the system tint of politics will be esteemed by them as a proof of patriotism, and on the other hand any inconsiderate handling of the schools so raw with atllii-tions these last few years will be sharply resented. We believe the true course to pursue will be that of bejjiiininjj with t lie highest otllee, and lining it not on party grounds, but with the man whose independence of parties can be counted upon and whose devotion to the free schools is sure; and in jjivinj bin. power to a decree to estop the exercise of parti sanship in the counties. The occas ion in North Carolina is peculiarly ripe for a move in this direction, and we shall be grievously disappointed if it is not taken advantage of. Bib lical Ih-curiltr. IK.MK KATIC PROMISES MADE TO WHITE MEN ONLY. The statement has been made and often repeated, that the Democratic party in the l;st campaign promised not to disfraucliisc, or in any way abridge the ri";ht of the negro to vote. Pray, to whom did the Democratic party make such a promise? It cer tainly did not make it to the negro, because it did not ask fur negro votes. On the contrary, it defied the nejjro vote. It said to the negro: "We do not expect your vote; we propose to beat you with the vote of WHITE MEN." It said to him: "This is a white man's country, and white men must and shall rule it.11 It said to him: "We propose to put an ei.d to negro ollice holding in North Caro lina, now and forever." And upon every stump, from the mountains to the sea shoie, it demanded and prom ised WIIJTK SUPREMACY. Under these cirounistanees, what sense would there have been in its making this or any other promise to the negro? What consideration could it have expected to receive for such a promise, and what possible induce ment was there lo make it? A bare statement of the facts, shows that the statement that such a promise was made by the party is both untrue and absurd. Whatever promises the Democratic party made in the last campaign upon the subject of suffrage generally, or upon any other aubjoot, WERE MADE TO WIlfTE MEN AND NOT TO THE N E( RO. Carolinian. The l.rth amendment to the United States Constitution says: "Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridgeil by the United States or any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude." When not In contllct with that the State has the sovereign right to say who shall and who shall not vote. It can and does denv suffrage to wo men, to persons under 21 vears of age, etc. The 14th amendment guar anteeing the privileges and immuni ties of the citizens of the United States and the equal protection of its law s to every person within the juris diction of a State does not ana was not intended to affect or confer suf frage. If it did confer suffrage, then women, children and idiots could vote, for they are persons and citi zens, the loth amendnionwloes not destroy the right of a State to pre scribe the qualifications for its voters. These qualifications vary in different States. In some States both sexes may vote, in most States only men can vote. Some States require the voter to own a certain amount of property. All States require resi dence for a certain length of time. Many require some education, the payment of taxes and registration. The full meaning of the Federal Con stitution on this subject is, that if a citizen of the Lmted States possesses the qualifications prescribed by a State, then his right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of his race, color, etc. W. W. Kitchen The amendment is submitted to rid the State of a hundred thousand ne gro voters. It will not disfranchise a sinjrle white man. When the Legis lature meets in June it can be relied on to make any change or addition necessary to show every white voter that he is fully and forever protected. Every prop has been knocked out from under the Republican opponents of the amendment, and by August they will not have a thing to stand upon. The White Supremacy ad vocates will make everything so plain that a six-year-old boy can under stand it. At' it's and Observer. I now ask the reader to consider the effect of this amendment if adopt ed upon the white people of the State. And lirst of all I assert it does not disfranchise a single white voter whose name goes on the registration books prior to January 1st, 1903. Not one. Every white man who is a qualified voter now will continue to be so as long as he lives, so far as this amendment affects his right to vote. Everv voung man arriving at full age before January 1st, 1908, can register and vote if he puts his name on the registration books before that date, and he will continue to be a voter as long as he lives. T. J. Jarvis. There are among the whites also aj great many illiterates, and after a few . years they will derive this same ad-; vantage from the operation of this ! amendment. They will feel the ' necessity of learning how to read and ; write, and education will be stimu-j lated amonw them and the dark I shadow of illiteracy will pass away from the face of North Carolina. It will be a great step in advance of our people and State, and altogether in line with those changes in our mate rial conditions which are now develop ing the resources of North Carolina, energizing our people and increasing their wealth and comfort in their homes. S. A. Ashe. LEGISLATURE OF 1899. Retween those who really desired protection against over-powerful capi tal and those who have got them selves into the habit of persecuting the railroads and the corporations the General Assembly pursued a steady and commendable course. The passage of the bill to render foreign corporations subject to the State courts, and that to provide separate cars for the races clearly indicated the Assembly s independence. J he quick response to appeal for a more equitable adjustment of the mer chants' purchase tax showed a fine disposition to treat capital justly. The failure of the effort lo inflict upon the railroads a gross income tax at the same time prpviding for such taxation if it shall come to be ex pedient, indicated the desire of an independent Assembly not to go to extremes in obedience to any clamor. The passage of an anti-trust law may indicate either the opposition of the members of the trust or it to laws; for it is not to be hoped that the law passed, or any other State law, will make an end of trusts. J. W. Uailey, Editor Biblical Recorder. SQNG OF ENGLISH WOMEN. tPall Mall Gazette.) Long since our men went forth superb and glistening. Flushed with the fierce expectancy of fight; Hut on the women of England, waiting, listening, Dreaming alone at night O Lord, have mercy! They revel high, to war's grim banquet bidden. To the dregs they drain life's cup, but we sit here, Silent, obscure, in cloudy shadows hidden. Tortured with hope and fear O' Lord, have mercy! The little feet that ance with sweet caress iust The mother fondled, feet of her only son, Through what red sea of slaughter are they pressing, Beneath an alien sun? O Lord, have mercy! In night illumed alone by the scarlet lustre That lights the valley of death from while to while, We hear the winds of winter rage and bluster Around our lorfely isle O Lord, have n.ercy! On us. who grudge not thai which we are fiiving, Flesh of our flesh, life of our very life, Thou, who art Lord both of the dead and living. On mother, daughter, wife O Lord, have niercv ! "He That Seeks Fin I." He that takes Hood's Sarsaparilla finds in its use pure blond, good appetite, good digestion and pei feet health. It cu.es dyspepsia, scrofula, salt rheum, boils, pemples and al blood humors. The favorite cathartic is Hood's Pills, 3& cents. WEATHER FOR MARCH. Hicks' Forecast for the Month Mag netic and Electric Phenomena About the 15th. Following is the weather forecast for March as made by Rev. Jrl R. Hicks: Hy the 3rd or 4th a high barometer will have succeeded storm conditions and cold, fair weather will have trav eled eastward from the northwest over most of the country. A regular Vulcan storm period runs from the 6th to 10th, with Moon at first quarter and extreme north de clination on the 7th. Southerly winds, falling barometer, warmer weather and general storm conditions will appear in western parts early in this period, and more storms of rain and snow will be progressive from west to east about Thursday, the 8th to Sat urday the 11th. We have many times explained that on and about March 11 will fall a crisis in magnetic and electric phe nomena. About this time, also, there is great reason to anticipate equato rial and cyclonic storms up through the south seas and islands and along our southern coast. We predict, however, that the disturbances nor mally due about the 11th with this month be delayed or prolonged until the 14th, 15th,"and 16th, atwhich time Moon will be in apogee, on the celes tial equator and at her full. Violent equinoctial hurricanes and gales will occur on many seas, and around many coasts along and bordering on the tropical girdle of the globe, not far from this central perturbation in March. A marked blizzard and boreal storm over northern sections of this country need not surprise our readers about the same time. The cold weather following the disturbances described above will moderate during the first part of the Vulcan storm period 17ih to 22nd, and more marked storm conditions will return about Monday the 19th to Thursday the 22nd. $1.50 Versus $150.00. Messrs. Woo ten & Co.. Prong. N. C, nays: One of our customer, a prominent man in this community, suffered with liver complaint. He consulted (several physicians but they failed to lienefit him. We prevailed uponhim to try the Ramon Pills and Pellets. He soon Immrht more and is now a well and hearty man, and has rainel in rlesh. He says the Pills naved his life and the six boxes cost him only f 1.50. while his trip to New York to consult the doctors cost him $150.00. For sale by Dorsey Drug Co. DUTIES OF EVANGELIST PEARSON'S The Duty of the Father is to be the Head of His Family No Marriage Ceremony for "Grass'' Widows or Widowers The Necessity of Restraining One's Children Cigar ettes as Bad as Drink Corporal Punish. ment Justified. Durinj; his late revival meeting in Charlotte Rev. R. (J. Pearson, the evangelist, preached a sermon on the duties of paternity, from the text: "And his father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Ghost." Luke, 1:67. The Charlotte Observer quotes the evanglist as follows: "His father, that is the father of John the Baptist. He was a father right and pre-eminently a spiritual man. He was the right kind of a hus band and the right kind of a father. Marriage is a sacred institution and out of it grows the family and what the family life of any nation is the life of the nation is. "The family is the result of mar riage, and the fate of the civil and re ligious liberty is what the home is. Say what you will, this is true. The history of every nation is just what the history of the family life of that nition is. Look at Rome, when the home life declined the empire declined As family life rises or falls so the civil and religious liberty of any nation rises or falls.' Marriage is sacred, and is from God as an institution. In Genesis, 2:20-24, we read of the origin of this sacred institution. And now I want to say some plain things about divorces. There is but one Hible ground upon which a woman is justi fied in getting a divorce from her husband. There are other grounds upon which a separation is justifiable, but there is a difference between di vorce and separation. Now if a man beats his wife I think she is justified in leaving him, in being separated from him, but separation does not mean divorce. Separation is one thing and divorce another. And let me say right here that I would have my right arm severed from my body before I would perform the marriage ceremony between a "grass widower," so-called, and any woman, or between a "grass widow" and any man. It is a dark cloud hanging over our country to day, that of divorces, and it is a blot upon our nation that men can secure uiioicuo upon sucii mere pretexts r 3 they can in the District of Columbia. The old idea of the home is passing away. In this day there is a great desire among people to leave the country and come to town, audthis means the 'tenement house and the boarding house for families. And I feel sorry for the child reared in this way. "1. The first duty of a father is to bo the head of the family (I Cor. 11:3). Here we read of headship. So in Eph. 5:22. So you see from scripture that the duty of the husband or the father is to be the head of the family. And now, father, will you take in the idea of what a holy, sacred thing that of fatherhood is? Think of it, that your relation is a symbol of what the rela tion of Christ to the Church is. It was so originally and is to some ex tent yet that the father is the priest of his family. It was so in the time of Jacob and is what the birthright conferred. "And how can a father be anything but a converted man? My heart aches when I think that some fathers dare to be drunken, to gamble, to be pro fane and indulge in other vice. "And what do you think of a busi ness man who neglects his home for his business? Make less money and be true to your family. "Love your wife. Love her like Christ loves the Church. Don't treat her like a slave. Don't treat her as if the only use you have for her is to have your meals cooked, your clothes washed, your bed made up and your buttons sewed on. The father is to be the head. Not the 'dead head,' nor the 'figure head,' but the intelligent, wise, godly7 head. "Up further in the country, and es pecially when you get in the North you hear the idea advanced that there is between the father and mother a united head of the family. There is no such tomfoolery in the Hible. A two-headed thing is a monstrosity. Think what a curious thing a two headed calf is. Anything with two heads is a failure and this applies to the home as well as to anything else. This idea of the united head of the family is something like the new wo man idea which is born of the devil and began with Mother Eve in Eden. She got up a family fuss there which will not be settled this side of the judgment of the white throne. "The second duty of the father is to provide for his family. (I Tim. 1:8). This does not mean simply material things, but he is to provide for the intellectual and spiritual welfare of his family as well as the temporal, and I have no patience with the father who thinks he has done his full duty when he has done jio more than put some flour and butter in the pantry. It is the duty of the father to provide good books and helps to the spiritual life of his family as well as to supply food for the physical body. "I hear some woman say: -But Mr. Pearson, my husband is such a dead head.' Well, sister, I am sorrv for vou, but von made vour bed aud you must lie on it, but don't find fault with God's law which runs from Eden to His throne on account of it, for what did you marry such a man for? "(1). Provide honestly for your family, not on the plan of the bucket shop, nor by dealing in futures, nor by gambling in any form, but by hon est means. Have a plain common sense talk with your wife and tell her just how much you can afford to spend on your family, and tell her that you are not able to keep her in the style which demands high teas and low teas and other demands of societv, and if she has not sense PATERNITY. PLAIN TALK TO MEN. enough to believe this, make her un derstand she has got to do it. Many a man has been driven to bankruptcy and gambling by the extravagance of his wife. I feel sorry for any woman with a husband who sits around and does nothing while she runs a board ing house or takes in sewing to sup port her family. That is a shame on any man. "(3). The third duty of a father is to command his children and his household after him. ((Jen. 18:19). Command, what does that mean? It means that you are to wisely admon ish counsel, and order in the rirht way your household. God had confi dence in Abraham because He knew he would command his household after him. See to it that yourchildren obey and don't leave this duty all lo your wife. I remember an elder in the Presbyterian church in South Carolina who is the father of ten children aud on Sunday afternoon he gets his Church papers and reads awhile and then sleeps awhile and leaves the en tire care of those children to his wife. That is an injustice to his wife and to the children and is wrong-in the sisrht of the Lord. Demand obedience in your children and see that this de mand is met. "One great trouble of our country is this idea to 'let Johnny have his own way,' and 'you can't put an old head on young shoulders.1 No. you can't and the Bible does not intend that you should. "Say what you will about lynch law and the causes of it aud talk as you please about the unmentionable sin, but the root of the whole matter lies iu the failure to rear children to have the proper respect for home law and the laws of the country. Theyr, and especially boys, are allowed to 'run loose1 until by the time they are 18 years old they are beyond control and the first thing you know the young scamps land in the jail, where they ought to be. Fathers, keep the home right. That's the place to teach a boy respect for authority. "The worst thing that can happen to a child, and especially to a boy, is lo let him have his own sweet will. "I hear some silly old man or wo man say: 'For fear he will learn some where else I let my boy learn to play cards at home.1 Yes, and you might as well get a lot of moccasins and turn them loose in your front yard for fear your boy will get snakebitten somewhere else. There is just about as much sense in the latter as the former act. "Let a boy have his way aud he will go to ruin. Suppose you let your setter dog have his way. What good will he be to hunt with? And if you let your line horse have his way, what will he be fit for in a few years? It makes me sad when I think of a man paying $5 to have his dog trained or $100 to have his colt broken, and at the same time giving no care to his boy. "(4). The next duty of a father is to restrain his children. (I Sam. 3:11 14). "O the curse Eli brought upon his own family and himself by not re straining his family. How can you restrain your family? (1) Iiv your example. Be a sober man, an hones t an upripht man in every way and a godly man. Boys imitate ther fathers. For instance: A mother saw her lit tle boy upon the lounge, prepared to sleep. 'Why, my boy,' said she, 'you have not said your prayers.1 -Mens don't pray,1 was the answer. (2) By conversation and instruction. "Pardon a personal reference. I was reared in the country, where all great men used to come from. And when my father would take me to town and I saw a drunken man he would explain the evil of drink to me. He would talk to me and instruct me about this evil and about that of the evil of houses of impurity and other forms of evil, and he never had any trouble keeping me from indulging in such things. Fathers, make confi dantes of your boys and instruct them aright. If you set the right kind of exam ple before your boy and istruct him in the right way you. will overbalance a great deal cf hisevil tendency. But, on the other hand, if you turn him over to the worst boys in the town, if vou chew, drink and indulge in other vices you can't expect your boy to do better than yourself. "And let me say a word right here about cigarettes. I had almost as leave a boy of ten years of age of mine would drink as to smoke cigarettes. I never see a boy smoking a cigarette on the street that I don't stop him and talk to him about the evil of the habit and I have never failed to get one to leave it off. "In the next place correct vour children. I believe there are boys in hell to-night that if they had had a few good whippings would have been saved. I have no patience with all this sentimentalism which is opposed to corporal punishment. And I don't believe a word of the teaching that a child can be reared to be a good man without punishment sometimes. "The Bible justitiescorporal punish ment and you can't improve upon it and you have no more brains than Solomon, who commands it. Do this yourself and don't leave it to your wife. "Never whip a child when you are mad. My father never gave me but three whippings that I remember, but I expect to thank him in Heaven for those. He would first pray, then in struct and then whip me. And other boys who needed such 'punishment in my neighborhood, but did not get it grew up and went to ruin. "Don't tell your child that a teacher shall not whip it. I always understood that if I got a whipping at school I would get another at home and so I was on my good behavior. "These three things go together, they stand or fall together: 1. No bodily punishment. 2. No capital punishment. 3. No future punish ment. And if I was sheriff and some sentimental women came around bringinir flowers to men who were being justly punished for embezzle ment and other things I would read the riot act to them. 'I was in prison, and ye came unto me,' does not apply to visiting prisoners of this kind and carrying them flowers. "5. Never show partitiality to your children. Gen. 37:3. Here we read of the partiality of Jacob for Joseph and of the coat, of many colors. And oh the trouble that coat brought. If you do love one child more than the others never let it be known. Bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. "You notice that the Word says here for the father to train the chil dren in this way and if this is done no fear for their future welfare need be had. May God bless his Word and may good fruit be borne from this service." RUSSELL ON THE NEGRO. He Tells Northerners That as a People They Have Not Made Progress in Proportion to Their Opportunities. (Kev P. R. Law in Lumberton Robeson tan) The speech of Gov. Russell, read before the Marquette Club, of Chicago, by Mr. Harris, is an interesting pro duction, whether agreed to or not. This arrests our attention: "An im pression prevails that they (the ne groes) have acquired homesteads, have become tax payers ana given great promise along these lines, lt is not true. In North Carolina they have had as fair a chance as in any other Southern State perhaps better than in any other. And there it is sad to hear their frequent boast that they own eight millions of property. This is about three per cent, accord ing to the tax list, the total of which shows an amount much less than the actual total values of the State, but this fact does not disturb the propor tions between the races. They are thirty per cent, of the population. After thirty years of opportunity they have three per cent, of the property. True, they may claim that this is all net gain, as they did not start with any property. But they did not start with nothing. They started with enormous advantages over the whites. They were accustomed to labor, the whites were not. They had been for generations the producers of the State and the whites the consumers. They were accustomed to hardships and privations and patient industry. They had the muscle. If in this thirty years they have only acquired, this pittauce, where will they be in another thirty years, considering that the advantages of their start are largely, rf not entirely, lost?11 The answer to the question with which this excerpt closes opens an in teresting speculation. It will not be denied that the best citizens ami most prosperous business men among the negroes are those who were train ed before they were set free. In particular has the negro been no so great a failure as in training his chil dren. The great majority of that part of them who were born since freedom show a decided lack of thrift and moral manhood. They are pen niless and aimless. As to laborers they appear to have been losing ef fectiveness for over ten years. There is no disposition to work at all Ambition to rise to higher things ap pears to be dying out among them. The question presses where will they be in another thirty years? Educate them, it is said, and thereby arrest this sad decadence. Very good. But lifting of a race under such con ditions must take a long time by the inevitable slow process. His best friend and his best educator is hi Southern neighbor and old owner, and his worst enemy is the man who would come between him and this friend and interject an estrangement The betterment of his condition in volves necessarily under the circum stances the cultivation of the natur ally warm affections which when un molested subsist between him and his white fellow citizens and friends. Let outsiders hands off and the white men in the South will in the quickest and wisest way solve the ne gro problem and arrest his degen eracy, aud do it graciously and peace fully. Spencer Blackburn. "Goebel was shot down at the steps of the capitol because he was the arch perpetrator 01 inis nenisu stuemc. It was no more than might have been expected." Then drawing himself up to his full height, he shouted: "North Carolina Democrats mav take warn- ing from the fate of William Goebel." Extract from speech of U. S. Asst. District Attorney Blackburn at Newton. The Goebel referred to by Black burn in the above harangue was the Democratic Governor-elect of Ken tucky, who was foully murdered by the followers of Governor Taylor, the Republican ursurper of the office to which Goebel had been elected, be cause he dared to contest before the Legislature in the way provided by law the right of this usurper to the office of Governor. Blackburn is very close to Repub lican Chairman Holton. Holton is United States District Attorney of the Western District and Blackbourn is his assistant in this omce. lie is a vroleae 01 senator rnicnara. and the above from the same Pritchard had Carolinian. threat was delivered platform from which just spoken. Sorth KEEP your blood pure and your ' stomach and digestive organs in a healthy condition by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and you will be WELL. CROATANS OF ROBESON. REMNANTS OF SIR WALTER RAL EIGH'S LOST COLONY. That Is the Claim Made for Them by flany Persons Who Have Investi gated the Matter of Their Origin and History Congressman Bellamy's Interest in These People Brings Them Prominently to the Front. (James S. Hollomon, in Atluita Journal.) Washington, I). C. Feb. 24, 1900. Did you knowthatin Robeson county. North Carolina, there is a settlement of fully 5,000 Indians? Few people know this, and yet they are descend ants of that lost colony of Sir Walter Raleigh, about which there have been so many sad reflections for three hun dred years or more. It is the last tribe left lingering on the Atlantic slope. They are known as the Croatans, or Hatteras Indians, and they have been overlooked, per haps, on account of having never claimed the attention of the national government; unlike, to be sure, those tribes of the Western plains, among whom government agents are scat tered here and there to educate and civilize and make them useful. The North Carolina Indians arc in the district of Representative Bel lamy, of Wilmington. Many of them are good citizens and are among his most worthy constituents. It is through him that the beneficence of the American people has been asked for them. There is a lack of educa tion and enlightenment among them that is appalling. In speaking of them Mr. Bellamy says: "They are a remarkable people. It is said by old residents that some of these Indians were volunteers in the Revolutionary war. That they sent two companies to the war of 1812 is well authenticated. "They made gallant soldiers, as a number of our oldest inhabitants can testify. From the earliest times up to the year 1835 they went to school with the whites, voted and shared in the privilege of citizenship. But in that year the Constitution of North Carolina was amended, and there after, for a period of 83 years, they were deprived, not only of the right to vote, but even of the privileges of education, until the Constitution of 1868 was passed, whereby they be came restored to citizenship and to school privileges of the most meager character, but such as other citizens enjoyed. "They were not permitted lo at tend the schools for whites, and there fore were forced, if they received any education, to attend the negro schools. They refused to a very great degree, on account of the in tense antipathy they now have for the negro, the education in the negro schools until, through the instru mentality of Hamilton McMillan, Esq., the Legislature of North Carolina in 1887, gave them separate schools of their own. "At the breaking out of hostilities between the North and South in 1861, these people, grown up in ignorance, but quietly cultivating their little farms, were rudely awakened by the Confederate authorities conscripting them and using them to build the im mense sand fortifications at New Inlet, on the Cape Fear, known as Fort Fisher; the same fortifications so celebrated as having been the scene of the greatest naval bombardment of the world's history, as compared with which an officer who was at Sebastopol said: "The siege of Sebas- topol as compared with the siege of tort risher was but child s play. "The work was hard and the Croa tan murmured; he then deserted and tied to the swamps of his native heath. The conscripting officers pur sued him. Arresting an old Indian. they asked him why he deserted. He told them that he did not want to work or fight for a people who treated him so unjustly, that before 1H35 he voted, he went to school, but fcince then he had been deprived of both. and that he would neither work nor fight for the Confederacy. And thus it was they were arrested and desert ed. W hen at the close 01 the war many of them were in hiding, they committed acts of depredation, for which they were properly outlawed, and then arose the band known as the Henry Berry Lowery gang. For years they became a terror lo the country, and in the early seventies this band of Indians shot down and killed 27 white men, from first to last among the wealthiest, the bravest, and best men of lhat county. The leader, Henry Berry Lowery, was finally kill ed, peace and quiet was again re stored, and under the benign in fluence and rule of our people, in augurated in the year 1887, they are becoming good citizens." All Indians, as a rule, are true friends, but bitter and implacable enemies. And the croatans are no exception to the rule, says Mr. Bel lamy. In describing them he says: "Thev are brave but reckless. Thev 1 are honest in their dealings. They arc intensely religious. They are restless, active and energetic. In dolence and sloth are not known to them. They are eager for education. They are capable of intellectual and moral development, as is attested by some among them. A number of tbem become successful merchants. One of tbem tilled the position of United States Senator from one of our sister Southern States. The descend ant of another became a member of Congress." I am told that there are perhaps two or three hundred descendants of this Indian tribe, in the State of scattered Georgia, and they are (throughout the South. A. 11. I Fluent, editor of the Journal. ! !yletown. Ohio. Kuffered for a number of yean from rheurnatwm in hi rijrht shoulder and ide. He say: "My rijrht arm at time wa entirely uaele. I tried Chamberlain'tj Pain I'alm, and wan HurTrid to receive relief almost imme diately. The Pain Kalm ha bwen a eon Htant companion of mine ever ninoe and it never fail." For nale by Dor-y Drug Company. Every veman loves to think cf the time when a soft little body, all her own, will nestle in her besom, fully satisfying the yearning which lies in the heart of every good wsman. But yet there is a black cloud hovering about the pretty picture In her mind which t ils her with terror. The drad of childbirth takes away much 0: the joy of motherhood. And yet it need not be so. For sometime there has been upon the market, well known and recommended ty physicians, a liniment called Reuters Friend which makes childbirth as simple and easy as nature intended it It Is a strengthening, penetrating liniment, which the skin readily absorbs. It gives the muscles elasticity and vigor, prevents sore breasts, morning sick n:zs a.-.d the less cf the girlbh figure. An int' ltitfcnt mother in lditli-r. Pa avs: " Wrro I t.mrnl M.itht-r' Friend uu.:n, I W..11I.I obtain W tmttlc if 1 had to ji.ty $5 jir bottle fur it. Co t Mother's Friend at the drug' store. $1 per bottle. THE BRAOf IELD REGULATOR CO.. Atlanta, Ga. Write lor our fr-e llhistrat.-il book, " Before llutiy is Uorii." ilt. F. 8. HAltltlS, DENTIST, HENDERSON, - - N. C. 9Offiae over K. O. Davis' store, Main Street. tan.l-a J. U. HUIDOEK8, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HUNDKHHON, M. ' Office: In Harris' law Dulldlng net ourt house. FRANCIS ATMACON, Dental Surgeon, Parlors in Parker building, oppo site Dorsey'B drug store. Office hours 9 A. M. to 1 V. M. 3 to 0 V. M. .Residence Phone 8H; ollice I'hone 25. Estimates furnished when delred. No charge for examination. Sheldon's. Foot Rest and Toilet Powder. The thing you need fur Tired ect and Prickly Heat. 25 cents rost paid. r r f. II. HIIKhDON. i Box 702, Omaha, Nebraska. ..SiX HtJttUftS WHY.. riDCT MKS. 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Larue lot ahd convenient tenant houses. 7 room iltaellint! on Church htteet laie lot and splendid shade and fruit trees, liriek Mote house on Montgomery street. 5 room cottage u Montgomery street I alxutt 10 acres arid Is offered yery low. j Facfry building on Wyehe treet. Well locaiea ior carnage taciory. UNIMPROVED. 90x100 Garnett street, 2Xx2.V) cor Mont gomery and Ureckenudge street. 90x210, cor Young, Chestnut and Church. 4O0X.VXJ, Chavasse a ve, 7 acres near college 3 lots near Fair i round. If you want a good Farm see what I have before you purchase. Term Easy. Rents Collected. J. L. CURRIN. Henderson Tannery. I am now ready to go to work and will take hides to tan on halves or will buy at many as I can, paying highest market priee for same. Fair treatment and a square deal guar anteed in every instance. L. T. Howard.
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