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ISDBSCSIPTI0IJ1.JP Cut. VOL. XX. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1901. NO. 24. " O a.r.oxjI3sta., Carolina , Heaven 's Blessinos Attend Her. n children as fragrance fror-i lilt!;: lips arc always r.u. 1- - ta':e a kiss. In ho-.g : a:v hiMreu, love retclies i! tt--,t proportions. In ,:::t s !:; k;s of wife and i'M;i;i!, and presently is the v.. riiis of love in the ;e (!:k'd for want of use I'hiMk-asness is a great n.-my women. It is like a Nature, who bids all crea- . it:, rl:i In:-, Ti'-; an ! v.- X-, ; Ironi t !, fruitful. It is not a curse :;;:M(rtu:!-. Often the conditions : !Ur.- childlessness are removable. i': r.('.. Favorite Prescription has '.! y.:- to many a woman by giving huppiness of motherhood. It l'i- womanly organs vigor and , ivmovt's local obstructions, and .' :.r.y does away with the pains and , matcruil v. :e i: tu alcohol or narcotic in "Fa- I'.-L'jcription." vr iimr written you how grateful I am : f r your lit lj in M-curitiK pood health i- "I tin.-swet-tf-st, dearest, thirteen pound !i..t i vcr came into a home," writes Mrs. . of (,47 South Liberty St., Oalesburg, I !! six tiotllt-s of Dr. Pierce's Favorite f'- r of tlie ' (.olden Medical Pis .ni'l t-.ur vials of ' I'leasant Pellets." : I- :1 t.iV.'.ii four bottles of the ' Favorite i.-'ioii ' I wm a lew woman. I cannot ;.. 11 describe my heart-felt gratitude." h.i-i ;) the bowels retrular use Dr. w. I : 1.: b M i:: f : . 1:. in.. Pleasant Pellets. "DAVE'S PLACE," ; j.;site S. A. L. Station.) European Hotel, Restaurant and Lunch Counter. M ..il. Served at all Hours Day or Night Furnished Rooms. Comfortable Beds. Kv t villi ni; strictly first-class. An orderly, well kept place. SALOON ;il to anv ill the State, stocked with nothing but the very Ut and Purest i;im(1 money can buy. Thi-. bring the urip "sea-on we have all kinds i f iiiretlieMts for relieving same. iTSE CIGARS AND TOBACCOS. POOL ROOMS IN fONXKCTION. HENRY T. POWELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 1 1 1 :.n i l-njsoN, JV. O. 1 ".liice in Young & Tucker building. G. A. Coggeshall, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, HKNDKRSON, N. C. ;!: - in t'ooper Opera Ilonst Building. i-i. "Phone No. 70. H. H. BASS, Physician and Surgeon, HKNDKRSON, N. C. Inr-TOnice over Dorsey's DruK Store. J y. F. S. lIAUItlS, DENTIST. HKNDKRSON, N. C. i-erortice street . over K. G Davis' store, Main lan . 1-a. Henry Perry, Insurance. A tiilineiif botli Life and Fire Com- pum. s iejre-;eiited. Policies issued and rwk-. .t.tcei to mst advantage. i: t'ourt House. FRANCIS A. MACON, Dental Surgeon, Office, Young & Tucker Building, Under Telephone Exchange. "rl.ee hurs A. M. to 1 P. M. 3 to 6 P. M. . ilrnce Phone 8S; ottice Phone 25. K-Iiniiites furnished when deired. No e.ui ;e for examination. JAMES W. HART & CO., Boot and SHoe Aakers, "heatham Dnildinr, Montgomery Street. HUN DERSOX, N. C. Work cunranteed. Repairing a tia'ty. Prices reasonable. Your milage solicited. spe-pat- A Gallon of PURE LINSEED OIL. mixed with a gallon of niukes 2 ;:illons of thn VERT BEST PiJXT iu the wokld r.f your paint bill. Is Far siork nrRABLI than 1 I KE UITE LrEAr:ilid id ABSOLUTELY NOT POI-t-' 'NOUS. HAM.VAK l'Ai x a U made of the BEST or KUNT MATti iAi-s such as ull K'kkI pai nters use. and is ground THICK, vkkv THK K. No trouble to nn ai.y ,yc;in do it. It is the common sense Io.i se Paint. No BnTTEU aiiit can be made kt AM' cost, und ii OT TO Ceack, IiuSTEB. Pekl or Chtp. 1 U AM3I Alt P.UST CO., St. Loui,Mo. Sold and iruaranteed bir JAS. A. O'NEIL & SON, HENDERSON, N. C. Kill. IT" SPOKE FOR STATE. GOV. AYCOCK AT BKNQUET OF NORTH CARO LINA SOCIETY IN NEW YORK CITY. Tells What North Carolina Is Doing to Meet the Changed Conditions Brought About by the War An Able and Eloquent Speech Characteristic of the Man Who Made It Franchise Question and Material Prosperity. Helow is the full text of the speech delivered May 20th in New York City at the banquet of the North Oarolina Society by (iovernor Aycock, of North Carolina: Mr. Toast Master and Gentlemen of the North Carolina Society: I have been invited by you to re spond to the toast "What is North Carolina Doing to Meet the Changed Conditions IJronght About by the arr some 1 read the other (lav. with amusement, an account of my proposed speech in which the editor was kind enough to give your club the advice to call me down, for I was to speak in defence of secession. I have never had any intention of speaking on this subject. There are two subjects upon which I take it there can be no debate that the States had a right to secede in 1801 and have no longer that right. This Union is our Union and there is no one in North Carolina to dispute this assertion. In the war between the United States and Spain, it was both the sjitow and the pleasure of North Carolina to spill the first blood in evidence of our devot ion to the Union. Whin Worth Hagley died for the eau-e of the United States we felt that for all time our fidelity to the Union had been established. We shall, therefore, make no apologies for what has passed in our lives and no promises for the future. We love the heroic deeds of those who have J gone before us and who have demon- I itrated the strength of Southern char- 1 acter. We cannot forget, and will not, their sufferings, their trials and their fidelity. We do not stop to a3k whether they were right or wrong. We merely enquire how tlid they bear themselves when the hour of peril! came, antl when we make this enquiry we arc proud of the glorious men who made the charge at (lettvsburjr and laid down their anus at Appomattox. North Carolina has recently been the subject of much thought in the United States. The newspapers and magazines have devoted considerable space to what she has done. Some of this space has been given to abuse and I am here, tonight to tell you the things which we have done in order that you may set us forth before the world as we are. ;o one shall, un answered, attack the good State from whence you came or in whose institu tions you learned the lessons of life which have made you what you are. Why should anyone attack the Old North State? It was there that the first American child of English parent age was born, named Virginia Dare; it was in North Carolina that the fust stand was made against British tyranny when the men of Alamance taught (iovurnor Tryon that the love of liberty was inborn in North Caro linians and could not be trampled upon without resistance; in was in this good State that the lirst Declara tion of Independence was written at Mecklenburg on the 20th day of May, 177o, and if there be among you those who doubt that declaration, the reso lutions of the 31st of May, 1775, can not be questioned. It was in this State that the first victory was won over British arms in the long strug gle for freedom. At Moore's Creek, in Pender county, the Colonial sol diers taught the British that they could gain no foothold in that colony, and srave peace to our people for vears and enabled them to swell the army which was lighting for liberty. It was North Carolina that stayed in the Union in 1801 until she was com pelled to make choice between light ing against her neighbors or against those who dwelt apart, but when she had made choice, as did Robert r Lee, he of the -'Hall of Fame," the greatest soldier in all the world, we gave the first soldier to death at Bethel and laid down more iruns at Appomattox than any other Southern State. It was North Carolina who sent to the front more men in propor tion to her voters than any other State on either side, who lost more men in killed and wounded and who suffered most by reason of their loss. 1 was in my cradle when the war began and nine-tenths of my life has been spent in the Union. I love the Union and its Hag: this country is niv country I am a North Carolinian and vou dwell in New lork, but we all are citizens of the United States glorious country, great flag, the em blem of all that we are and hope to be our protection in war, our cjuardiau in peace, our hope at all times, but neither you nor others will expect of me to forget the deeds of those who served the South. I care not whether we were right or wrong, though on this point I have convictions; the only thing that concerns me is how lid thev bear themselves, in mat ters political, in the interpretation 0 the Constitution, we care not so much whether one is right or care how he conducts himself and how he maintains his convictions If other test than this were made ' should find myself unable to respect those who diner from me in politics. It is not in political matters what one believes, but with what sincerity he believes it that gives us faith in him and makes of hina a hero. I do not agree with many of the views of President Lincoln and yet I believe him to be a great and good man, whose death was a calamity to the South no less than to the entire Union. I do not agree with the polit ical principles of President Grant, but I do not forget that he was a great soldier and generous to that man who was, and is, the idol of the South. I do not agree with the Pres ident of the United States, his poli- cies, but I do believe that he is Presi dent of the whole country and is a patriot, liy this test the men of North Carolina are entitled to stand in the front ranks of the heroes of the world. They suffered much, they endured all things, they lost what they had, they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to the cause of the Southern Confederacy and redeemed the pledge. lhey offered their lives freely, they lost all their fortune, they came out of the contest with nothing save honor. When the soldiers who surrendered at Appomattox returned to the State, they found desolation everywhere. There was neither food nor raiment and those who had in the past labored lor them were free and were enjoying their new freedom with a license which imperilled life and property. and their fields were gone to waste. They were without capital and with out material with which to begin the struggle of life They had neither teams nor agricultural inrplenients with which to bein the work. Eiffh- teen sixty-five is known to this day as a wonderful year. Crops grew with out cultivation and the harvest was abundant. We struirrled through the spring and summer of that j'ear with scant food and less clothing, but with full came a bountiful crop. We were in the Union. Law anil order revailed everywhere. We had start ed to plant araiu the waste places ami to make glad the fields which had been barren, but soon the carpet- agger came and with him begins Mir real sorrow. The negro, newly enfranchised, voted as one man, and the desivrn'niir stranger, intent only upon making a fortune for himself. soon took charge ot the Mate and made her desolation more desolate. Prom 1808 to 1870 we had in North Carolina an era of corruption, of ex travagance, and t lawlessness, which came near to the destruction ot all that was best. Appropriation! were made for internal improvements amounting to more than SSoJ.OOO.OOO, to be paid by a people who were abso- utely without means, these internal mprovements were in the main rail roads, and Senator Vance, the best beloved of all North Carolinians, once said that he could drag a dog down hill by the hind legs and remove more dirt than was moved by the 30,000,- 003. In 1870 our people had come to the conclusion that they must rescue the State and we elected a Legislature made up of native born North Caro linians. From that time on to the iresent we have been struggling with difficulties. The white people of the State could only be united upon the race issue, and in 1804, despite this issue, they divided and again turned the State over to those who did not regard her prosperity. There has never until now been an hour in the history of our State since the war when men felt free to divide along the lines of their convictions upon political questions. In 1898, after four vears of Fusion rule, this State resolved in strong passion to shake from herself the shame of this govern- ment and to settle for all time her destiny. In 1900 we made go,d the determination of 1898. We adopted in that year the Constitutional amend ment which bases suffrage upon in- igence and renders the future of the State secure. That amendment has provoked much discussion in the North. South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana had preceded us in the curtailment or the suffrage without much comment, but when North Carolina came to solve the question the people of the North seemed to recognize that the matter had become serious and at once began to misinterpret and abuse the North State. Why should this difference be made between South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Norte Carolina-'' 1 think those who have studied history may understand the cause of this distinction. North Carolina is a conservative State; she is the birthplace of liberty; she is the abiding home of Democracy ana when she does a thing the world recognizes it as having been wrought out after careful thought and carrying with it a deep significance. The attack upon us is based on the assumption that we have done an iniustica to the negro. Our amendment does no such thing. We have recognized the power of the influence of heredity. We think that those who have exercised the privilege of suffrage and those descended from such people are more likely o exercise that suffrage bene ticiallv than the men upon whom suf frage "has been cast as a gift. The amendment to the Constitution of North Carolina provides that no man shall vote in that State after 1908 who cannot read and write; but exempts from this inhibitory clause those who could vote on January 1, 1868, or at any time prior thereto, and those descended from such voters. This provision applies alike to white and black. Until 1835 the free negroes were entitled to vote. In 1900 there were, and there now are, those who once were slaves and cannot read and write but who can vote under the provision of our Constitution, because they were voters in 1835, and there are many thousands of negroes de scended from such voters who can, exercise suffrage although they can not read and write. Those who be come of age after 1908, white and black, must be able to read and write or they cannot vote. Our amend ment is not aimed at the negro as in individual. It is mass voting that we seek to destroy. The negroes now vote as one man and the ignorant dominate the intelligent. The negro is, as a rule, ignorant and cares little for the integrity of government, espe cially if that government is conducted by the party of his choice. It is our hope that with the amendment which we have adopted, the negro Tote will cease to be cast as the vote of one man, and will represent when cast the conviction, intelligence and the virtue of the voter. With the solution of our suffrage question there has come larger liberty . ., 1 . I . T- J M 01 mougui auu aciiou. thought is essential to Freedom of growth and development, and already one can see the effect of this freedom upon the material prosperity of the State. We have in large measure gone out of politics and taken up business. We are meeting the changed conditions. North Carolina is no longer asleep. She is wide awake. In 1900 we grew, according to Mr. D. A. Tompkins, who is an authority upon this subject, 500,000 bales of cotton of which we spun over 400,000. We shipped to you in the same year from a little strip ol land less than ten miles wide and extending from Mount Olive to Chadbourne, a distance of less than one hundred miles on the Atlantic Coast Line, more than 1,000,000 worth of strawberries and those who grew the strawberries made all the ordinary products of the farm, in cluding beans, peas, corn and cottoi. The little town of High Point, on the Sonthern Railway, with a population of less than 5,000, is strenuously as serting her claim to be the second largest manufacturer of furniture in the United States. This claim is probably not true, but at any rate it shows that she is doing a great busi ness. She is selling furniture in Taconia, San Francisco, Cuba and South America. My own little town of Goldsboro, with less than 0,000 in habitants, annually exhibits in Grand Rapids the products of her furniture factory and sells in competition with the factories of that city her goods in all the States of the Northwest. We are growing more cotton, more corn, more wheat, more oats, more vege tables than we ever grew before and are selling to the people of the world our manufactured products. Our lumber business has probably quad rupled in the past ten years and covers the entire State. We have not yet learned to make wooden nutmegs, but our cotton oil is sold under the name of olive oil throughout the land. We in large measure manufac ture our own fertilizers, and the other day in the Agricultural and Mechani cal College when the boys wanted ad ditional lathes for wood turning they made them themselves at a cost of less than twenty-five per cent, of what they could buy them at. We have learned a lesson from the North; we have ceased to set brawn against brain; we have learned the power of skill pnd are training our young men in the ways of thrift and economy. We have seen other people grow rich at our expense until we have resolved to appropriate the fruit of our own labor and thought to ourselves. To do this we have found it necessary to provide for universal education. We are going to educate the entire popu lation. Our amendment to the Con stitution renders necessary the educa tion of the people. Children who come of age after 1908 cannot vote without reading or writing, and we are endeavoring to give to every child an opportunity to secure a right to participate in the government of this State. We spend on education this year more than half of the entire revenue of the State. Of course 1 do not include in this the county and town expenses. We conduct onr pen itentiary, our orphanages, our institu tions for the deaf and dumb and blind, our military, our insane asy lums, our higher institutions of learn ing, our executive, judicial and legis lative departments of government at a less cost than we pay for the educa tion of the children of the State. If I were to give Tou the figures they would appear to you to be small be cause of your great wealth, but rela tively we "are doing much more for education than the great State of New York. We are going to do more still. I want to declare to you that no member of this Society in 1910 shall hang his head in shame when the census reports of that year in reference to illiteracy shall be pub lished. It will be of interest to you to know that in educating all our peo ple we shall not depart from the memories of the past or forget the teachings of our ancestors. We be lieve in agriculture and in commerce; we want to see all the people grow in wealth, but above all we wish to maintain that sturdy fidelity to prin ciple and that apparently reckless dis regard of life which has ever dis tinguished North Carolinians in every contest where heroism counted. We have lagged behind in the contest in those matters which attract the at tention of the world. In everything in which our people have been trained they have gone to the front. When it comes to war they have been good riders and make the finest calvary. They, had been trained in riding. They make great infantry. They had been taught to shoot with accuracy. and had learned from their mothers that it was cowardly to turn your back to an enemy, and when these people shall be trained in the arts of peace thev will learn to ao inings ami create values. I warn you now that they will take their place in the front ranks with the captains of industry. All that we want for the future is to be let alone. We are doing no injus tice to any one. We have peace throughout the length and breadth of the state: the humblest negro, siave though he mav have been and unlet tered as he is, can enter our courts of iustiee with absolute certainty of a fair trial. He can turn to the Legis lature and his appeal for legislative aid in the education of his children will not be unheeded, and I declare to vou that his praver for clemency will J . . not oe unheard in ine executive oiuce We are one people, the white man cannot lift himself without at the same time raising the negro. If the whites are educated the negroes will be also. We do not wish to be mis understood; we haTe a problem of our own; we have difficulties which you cannot understand. When theChina man became a menace to the West the Congress of the United States passed the Chinese exclusion act and freed the white men of the Pacific from him. When the negro disturbs us the same men who excluded the Chinese instead of aiding us to solve the problems which are upon tis attack, vilify, and misunderstand us You have your problems. We do not meddle with them. We leave yon to work out your own destiny, not with- 1 out interest on our part, not without anxiety lest you fail in your solution, bu, still without assuming to under stand your difficulties better than you and to advise you upon subjects which confront you and not us. We do not ask for charity; we are not seeking gifts; all that we do want is to be left alone to work out for our selves in love, in peace, in quiet, in fear of God the great problems that confront us. We wish to be under stood and I ask you, gentlemen of the North Carolina Society, to study our situation, inform yourselves of our conditions and in this great metropo lis to let all men know the problems which confront us and the sincerity pf motive with which we are endeav oring to solve them. If we shall be given ten years in which to make good the promises which we have undertaken we will ask no more. Already I have seen the benefits of our recent amendment. There it a decrease in crime. There is a cer tainty in the future of the State which invites investors; there is a safety in the administration of the law which guarantees to the manufacturer peace. The only thing vhich we now need is an open lield for our products. We have not yet learned and will never learn to make money at the expense of other people. We wish to give one hundred cents on the dollar and do not need protection from any one; all that we ask is liberty. We believe in expansion, but the expansion in which we believe is the expansion founded upon the superiority of our work and the cheapness of our goods. Tem porary prosperity cannot divorce us from fidelity to the doctriue of the fathers. We have not yet learned that the permanent prosperity of the whole people can be founded upon special favors to some. We know that the world cannot trade with us unless we trade with them and that no country can for any long time buy our goods and pay for them in money. There must be reciprocity and the best reciprocity is a tariff for revenue only. We want easy access to the markets of the world." We await with interest the canal which shall put us close to the East. KING'S MOUNTAIN. BY W. GILMORK SIMUS. ( Col. Ferguson and his forces of British and Tories were defeated by the Patriots at. King's Mountain, N. C, October 7th. 1.80. I he lory leaders were hanged im mediately after the battle. ) Dark! through the gorge of the valley, 'Tis the bugle that tells of the foe; Our own quickly sounds for the rally, And we snatch down the rifle and no. Down the fine heights now wind they to- geiner. As the mountain brooks flow to the vale. And now, as they group on the heather. 1 ne Keen scout delivers his tale: 'The British the Tories are on us; And now is the moment to Drove To the women whose virtues have won us, That our virtues are worthy their love! They have swept the vast valley below us, With fire, from the hills to the sea; And here would they seek to o'erthrow us in a realm winch our eagle makes free! Grim dashed they away as they bounded ine hunters to hem in the prey And with Deckard's long rifle surrounded, Th8n the British rose fast to the fray; And never, with arms of more vigor, uia tneir uayonets press tlireugh the strife. Where with every swift pull of the trigger, ine snarpsnooters dashed out a lire! Twas the meeting of eagles and lions, 'Twas the rushing of tempest and waves. Insolent triumph against patriot defianee, Born freemen 'gainst sycophant i-laves; Scotch Ferguson sounding his whistle, as irom aanger to danger he nies, Feels the moral that lies in Scotch thistle, vvitn its "touch me who dare! and he dies. An hour, and the battle is over; the eagles are rending the prey: The serpents seek flight into cover. liut the terror still stands in the way: More dreadful the doom that on treason Avenges the wrong of the State: And the oak for many a season 13ears its iruit tor the vultures 01 late. ''It is with a good deal of pleasure and satisfaction that I recommend Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhon Remedy," says Druggist A. W. Sawtelle, of Hartford, (xnn. A lady customer, seeing tlie remedy exposed for sale on my show case, said to me: 'I really believe that medicine saved my life the past summer while at the shore,' and she became enthusiastic oyer its merits that I at once made up my mind to recommend it in the future. Recently a gentleman came into my t-tore so overcome with colic pains that lie sank at once to the floor. I gave him a dose of this remedy which helped him. 1 repeated the dose and in fifteen minutes he left my store smilingly telling me that he felt a well as ever." Sold by Melville Dorsev, druggist. Must Tell the People. (Philadelphia Record.) A merchant may have the best or e cheapest article of its kind that the cheapest has ever been offered to the public, but he will not be able to get ade quate trade if he shall fail to tell the people convincingly about it. Jn this day there are too many men in busi ness for the people to keep informed concerning establishments which make no effort to attract attention. Having something to sell, or services to render, a man's chief effort should be to advertise the fact in the best way. He cannot afford not to adver tise. State Geologist Holmes gives the people in the country good advice as to road conetruction. He says that wagon roads should not be located near railroads, and should cross them oniv wnen necessary, auu imii iu to straight across. He writes a paper oa the subject fo the Raleigh News and Observer and begins in this wise: Dr. Blacknall s statement to the j he feels fetter than lie ever did and reeom moonshiner that President Cleveland mends it to his friends. For sale by Mel did not object to his running a free j THe Dorsey. still but would prefer to have it lo- ' - cated a little further back from the - . Tf . mA K roau, so n wouiun i uiaturu me peo- 1 ? un J 1 L. pie, may well be repeated a, sound advtce in connection with the locV ticn of wagon roads with reference to the railroads just keep them a little lunner away .o ine ir,u. wou i acre the horses. T ,. . . , Ladies vests, gentlemen s underwear pants goods, haw, shoes, etc.-very cheap at H. THOMASOX'S. The Sage of the Pasquotank. Editor R. B. Creecv, the Sage of the Pasquotank, one of the most gifted, best known and popular writers the State of North Carolina has produced, a gentleman who has ever wielded his pen with the cour age of a Casar and -descriptive power of a Cicero in behalf of his State and country, is on the eve of publishing a book entitled 'Grandfather Tales of North Carolina." The last Legislature has appropri ated $200 for the purchase of copies for the State library, and what is still better, baa recommended it to the Board of Education to be used in the schools of the State. This last endorsement, it is sin cerely to be hoped, will be acted upon immediately and favorably, for a child should certainly be best versed in the history of its own State, and no man is more capable to do justice to the achievements of the great men and women of that interesting corn wealth than this gifted son and pa triot, who has had the experience of an active literary life of nearly three quarters of a century, and now at the age of eighty-eight, wields his pen with the enthusiasm of youth. There is already a great demand for this work, which will be on sale at $1.00 per copy. Nowitzy's Month ly and Travelers Guide. MUST KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER (iovernor Aycock a few days ago received a letter from from Mr.. 11. C. Ogden, who presided over the Edu cational Conference in Winston-Salem, from which the following is an extract: "In this period of development concern ing' popular education, especially in the Southern country, we must expect the ex pression of many crude and prejudiced opinions. The best people of the North and South do not know each other. The two sections have been too much repre sented by persons who had merely private ends to serve. There may have been men. like myself, who were disposed to live too much in the past. I hope that so far as 1 am concerned, I have faced to the front with hope and confidence in the future, and, although my opportunities for usefulness are limited, I mean to use them to their utmost during the little fragment of active life that remains to me. It has been a source of very great pleasure to myself and friends that we were the recipients of your kindly wel come." Raleigh Neivs and Observer. A Newspaper's Assets. A newspaper is primarily a business enteprise, says the Fresno (Cal.) lie publican. Its function is to gather and print news, and sell it to whom soever will buy. Yet, a newspaper is universally regarded as having a re sponsibility in the community that belongs to no other business, when other business men are non-committal on a public question, for fear it will hurt their business to take sides, the newspaper whose business is more responsive to the fluctuations of popularity than any other enterprise must nevertheless take the first and largest responsibility of utter ance upon itself. If other business men do not keep their goods clean they lose custom, but do not particu larly harm anybody but themselves. If a newspaper does not keep its news clean it gains business, but corrupts the community, and is held respon sible therefore. Whether the public takes its newspaper seriously or lightly, it always regards them as more than a business, as a forum whose opportunity for publicity may be used for good or evil. DECENCY IN JOURNALISM. This is worth a place at the top of the column in every paper in the land as standing matter. It is from the llillsboro Observer, and Bro. Harris bits the nail as squarely as it was ever struck. It is to the shame of the press that so many papers pander to the prurient tastes of sensational readers; but it is inlinitely a greater shame that even those publishers thus willing, in order that dollars map flow into their pockets, can justi fy themselves by pointing to public demand" for such matter as is re ferred to by the Observer. The Observer says: "We have always tried to conduct . our paper in such a way as to spare the feelings of the innocent and not because we wanted to hide the mean ness of the guilty. We have had sev eral occasions to give our subscriber some sensational reading about peo ple we are all know, but we didn't do it, and don't think we will ever do so. But, sometimesl-we think that I the people whose feelings we have spared don't appreciate our feelings j as they ought to. Didn't you ever ! 1 .1 -. hear one of them sav: He publishes a sorry sheet?1 The reading public is always anxious to read sensational news when it tells of the downfall or ruin of some one not related to the reader, but how about it when it is their own kinsfolk?" And upon a par with the publica tions thus condemned, are those which by direct misstatement or inu endo, slander people, imputing wrong and mischievous motives, stating or implying what is known by the writers to be false. There are many evidences, however, going to show that the journalistic scandal monger and parasite upon the body politic is losing caste with the public It is time. Raleigh Post. . u, d n 1 1 1. ,ii J He was troubled with kidney disease about ' three years. Had to get up several tiroes nii3T il7'" ; . vc:ii:.m U1WV- n.-t f T I HUM flCnIUIUbt v mo llugcu rj t jj0pj-jBg University, who is State r J m5nia re Geologist, and knows the mining re sources of Maryland as no other man t r a m Prnf fl r lr ? m 1 art fit nriffln atQr Qf the fc painting 0Ter tbe entrance of the Mines Buildine which shows the genius of Geology Unveil . ... vw J ig Mlnri r vcf vmv n r i nvn CHARLES EDW ARD LLOYD. SPLENDID EXHIBITS OF VARIOUS KINDS AT THE GREAT BUF FALO PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. The Southern States Attract no Small Share of Attention Virginia's Fruit Exhibit Florida Orchids -Missouri Will Have a Fine Exhibit-Mr. Bell's 16 to 1 Show Case Louisiana Day ftary land's flineral Exhibit. (Special Correspondence of the Gold Leaf . ) Buffalo, N. Y., May 28. '01. Virginia will have a continuous fruit display at the Tan-American Ex- fiosition. Mr. Edward Whateley, State lorticulturist, will have charge ot the exhibit and is now visiting the different sections of the State in order to make a complete collection of all the varied fruits grown throughout the Old Dominion. The Florida orchids, which were brought here a few weeks ago are uiooming beautifully, and are con sidered far superior to any other blossoms of the kind in the Pan American grounds. The Missouri exhibit promises to be exceptionally line. In the Horti cultural Building, Mr. Charles C. Bell, of Boonville, Missouri, Treasurer of the Missouri Board of Commissioners to the Pan-American Exposition, has designed one of the most artistic J- cases for fruits and flowers in the building. This consists of a large case painted in pale green and white. The pedestal which is about rive yards in diameter is highly ornamental. It is in pale green with fruits and flowers in white, in relief. This pedes tal rises about three feet when the circular shape is changed and cut into sixteen panels. These panels are filled with mirrors so arranged as to reflect objects placed in front of them three limes. It is a curious and very artistic device and makes the exhibit look three times as large as it is. At the top the case again becomes circular and splendid palms and flowering plants brought from the Horticultural Gardens of St. Louis are placed entirely around it. Hidden by these palms is the desk of Mr. Bell, where he is prepared to re ceive the citizens of the State who visit the Exposition and all other friends, and he says "treat them to a line Missouri apple." This elevated platform is reached by a winding stairway which leads up through Mr. Bell's private office, which will also be a store bouse for fresh Missouri fruit. The entire space is enclosed by a tasteful railing painted in white and pale green. It is a successful solution of a "16 to 1," problem and is a credit to the State and the de signer. Mr. Bell says this case was evolved from his own brain after two or three sleepless nights and several days of hard work, but he is very much gratified at the result. How ever, he added, "It is the only 'sixteen to one' concern in which I have ever took any stock as I am a fire-tried gold bug Republican." Messrs. Yost and Bell are the only men now on the new Board of Commissioners who were members of the old Board. Mr. Bell was appointed by the Governor' to canvass the State and make an estimate of the amount of money needed to properly show her resources here. He recommended an appro priation of $100,000. However, the active Board of Commissioners promises to make a very creditable display with the $50,000 allowed them. As Mr. Bell is treasurer of this fund he is doing his best to pro duce the best effect with the least money. The exhibits from the State of Missouri include horticulture, agri culture, dairy products, minerals, forestry and education. The educa tional exhibit is in charge of Mr. Yost, a well known newspaper man of St. Louis. The agricultural ex hibit is in charge of Mr. E. S. Garver, who is president of the commission, Mr. John T. Beal is vice-president and Mr. Robert M. Yost, secretary. Mr. Graves, the superintendent of the Doe Run iead Mining Comjmiiy, has charge of the Mines exhibit. It is said his private collection of geologi cal and mineralogical specimen is the largest in the Stale. The (iovernor of IxjuUiaoa has suggested to Director - General Buchanan of the Pan-American Ex position a plan in connection with the ceremonies of Louisiana,. Day" that cannot fail to awaken general in terest, and to appeal strongly to all person- of French or Acadian extrac- on in Ixuikiana and Canada. In re ply to the Director-General's invita tion to designate a State day, the Governor thought some day in August should be named by the Director-Gen- j i.rol rt I tK.t (ho parsmnniot nf this ! dav should aim be to iu the nature of' a reunion between Canadians and' Louisiana people cf French and Acadian ancestry. No such feature j has ever been presented before; and as the Governor suggests, the occa sion of "Louisiana Day" at an Expo sition on the frontier of Canada would be a most auspicious time for such an event. In accordance with this suggestion it is hoped that very gen eral interest will be awakened among the people of kindred blcod who have done so much in their respective State and dominion to bring about the greatness of each, and that "Louisiana Day" at the Pan-Ameri- can exposition may not oniy oe memorable as a State occasion, bat that it may give rise to such inter changes of sentiment between tbe renresentatives named as to be most pleasurable and valuable to all coo - rnhl f'anartiana and InUiiniani will be invited to address the assem- bla?e on "Louisiana Dav" with the view not only of carrying out this idea but of cementing more firmly tbe feeling of amiiy berween the Dominion and the United States, Director-General Buchanan has named Wednesday, Augnst 21st, as the State Day at Louisiana. Dr. David Day, superintendent or Mines and Matauurgy, says inai ine .rt ar.f.fln.. .era that the . . . 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