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THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK
There is now a noticible feeling
hopetiiluess prevalent among the
Republican senators and members
fthe Uouse of Representatives
that has not been observed before
ce the Democratic victory of
1910. It is everywhere admitted
that the platform to be adopted at
the Chicago convention next month
ffiH be thoroughly progressive yet
conservatively progressive, and
Vill be such a one as will appeal
to the business men of the country
aod that the Republican nominee
on that platform will receive the
fall Republican vote, East, West,
Xorth aud South.
" it will be recalled that in 1872
the Republican party was also se
riously divided aud it was feared
that the national ticket would be
defeated, so serious was the split
before the National convention,
but the Republican party is fortu
nate in that while it often fights
hard within itself before the con
vention, yet after the national
ticket is nominated all hands as a
rule get together and pull hard
for the election as they did in 1872
and it is believed this will be the
case in 1912.
Furthermore, the Republicans
have much to feel encouraged over
on account of the situation which
confronts the Democratic camp.
It has gradually leaked cut why
William R. Hearst, who is some
times a Democrat and sometimes a
bolter, is at the present time so
vigorously supporting Speaker
Clark for the Democratic nomina
tion. The reason is that Clark is
a Western man, and if nominated
the Democrats of course will pick
"an Eastern man" to run with
I iia, ond Mr. Hearrt believed that
I iftAiriil h.A fhof Pocforn man "
and if he is not, those who know
Aim believe that he will boll the
ticket because he is not apt to sup
port aDy ticket unless it offers
something for " Willie Hearst."
In view of the great Hearst
wealth of 850 000,000 and his
string ot powerful newspapers, he
is enabled to make an effective
fight to secute the Democratic no
mination for Mr. Clark.
The Republican leaders believe
that it will be comparatively easy
to defeat the Democrats this fall if
Speaker Clark is nominated. In
the first place he has been a most
prolific talker and has said many
indiscreet things. His break a-
bout "reciprocity with Canada
leading to annexation," was the
cause of the Canadian defeat of the
reciprocity treaty. He has also
said bitter things about Grover
Cleveland aud his followers. Sev-
eral times in his speech making
career he has threatened to '-cut
somebody's throat," and otherwise
ate a record that ;wpuld defeat
Jln- So it will be readily seen
that the Republicans have a great
deal to be hopeful for, and while
,i3ey have their bitter fights yet
the Deaiocratic camp is also in an
;aPPy position.-Portsmouth (O.)
Blade.
Common Mistakes of Farmers.
Progressive Farmer.
e As soother example, what great
J economic folly can one conceive
than the common practice of
baled cotton lie on the
ground all winter on the
JRh assumption that th faim
eightt a P88ible gain
'a matter of fact, the farmer
; - wni pront by increase
wflght' Nobody "but a' fool
u Pav as much for dirtv wea
imaged cotton as for drv
t.a:n!e!!"kept' ueatly handIed
toQ n e cotton Day and cot
Wthar are nofc foolsj
coUon KPePle may wondr
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HERE SHALL THE
we are saying is correct. But th
explanation is very simnle. ThP
policy doesn't hurt the cotton buy
er. On the contrary, it frequent
ly helps him. This happens in
tins way: -When a bale of damag
ed cotton is offered for sale, the
buyer always figures on deducting
enough to make good the loss :of
the damaged portion, and to pro
tect himself he usually figures on
about twice the damage that is
really apparent. For instance if
the buyer believes there is five
pounds damage on a bale, he fig
ures on reducing the price suffic
iently to cover a loss of ten pounds
if the damage is, say 20 pounds,
he makes an estimate allowing 40
or 50 pounds. Mr. C. C Moore
told us recently of one buyer who
said he had made $20,000 in a
single season by profiting on weath
er damaged.
Sir, Mr. Cotton Maoufactur
er is no fool. He doesn't need to
pay 10 cents a pound for moisture
that the Almighty furnishes as
free as the air and he isn't going
to do it. Mr. Manufacturer never
pays you a cent lor such water
and never will; and you are only
fooling yourself and cheating your
self when you pretend that he
does.
If you have money to throw a-
way, money that neither you, your
wife nor ohiidren have any use for,
perhaps you may think it all right
to let your cotton value rot on the
ground. But other wise, the one
big fact to keep always in mind is
just this:
For every one dollar you gain in
weight you will lose five dollars in
grade.
Corn Dumpling vs. Corn Dodger.
AsheviUe Gazette News.
It has come to our knowledge
that at least two men in this town
alleged Southerners, or near-Sou
therners, are engaged in promul
gating the prenicious dictum that
a corn dumpling is a corn dodger.
This information, we 8 re con
strained to view with unmixed a
larm. With such heresies stalking
thus boldly forth, whether on ac
count of ignorance or impelled by
some sinister motive, we do not
know what is to become of this
country, and it is p3rhaps just as
well that we do not.
A corn dumpling is the result-:
ant of a gom of corn meal dough
being suspended in potlicker dur
ing the formation of the potlicker
from its constituents which should
include sallet, a chunk of jowl and
water. The corn dumpling occu
pies its own place of dignity and
importance in the universal scheme
and said scheme would be defec
tive without it, but that it should
be confounded with the corn dod
ger is intolerable.
The latter has nothing to do with
sallet or potlicker. It is properly
ovoid in form, with a substantial
brownish crust and a dry consis
tent goodness within. The corn
dodger was one of the most impor
tant facts of th6 old South, and on
it the new South was built. It i
the diet for Herculean labors. As
a fuel for the machine to roll logs,
dig ditches, raise hoisea, split
rails and wield & scytb' it ia not
surpassed if indeed equaled. Com
pared to it, the corn dumpling
sins to the comparative lmuguiu-
nan rft of a luxury. It is to com-
parKaifempire building food to a
mere epicurean relish.
All right thinking people will
deplore the effort to obscure and
confound the corn dodger.
,: The Negro Is a Democrat.
riuM-iA nhcArvpr. 12th.
Bishop Alexander Walters, oi
New York City, bo is attending
a - m AX
n,, nonpral Conference ot tne
MAthndisfe Episcopal Zion
Church in Charlotte, is President
of the National Colored Democrat
in T.OO ITIIO fit
New York, ana is uo
PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND
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to break the strangle hold which
the Republican party has had up
on his people since their emancipa
tion. Several days ago he was in
terviewed by a reporter for The
Evening Chronicle and spoke in a
very hopeful way of the work his
league is doing. At the last elec
tion7 he believed that sixty, prob
ably seventy, per cent of the color
ed votes was cast for Democratic
candidates, showing that the color
ed people are really not averse to
political affiliation with the Demo
cratic party; ''
"Bishop Walters says that "the
negro i naturally , a Democrat,"
and he believes that if there should
be an open political road for him
and all unfavorable restrictions
should be removed, 'the South
would soon see on which side the
negro would vote."
Shenandoah's Curfew.
An interested reader requests
some interesting points about the
curfew law in your "Forum" of May
13th. In Shenandoah a whistle is
blown at 8:45 p. m., three long blasts
Tiiis whistle can be heard in all of
the theatres tind other places of
amusement. Any-boy or girl under
sixteen years of age must leave the
place of amusement as soon as this
whistle is blown unless accompanied
by an adult or any one over twenty
one years of age. Again at nine
o'clock this whistle is blown and any
boy or girl found unaccompanied by
a guardian is taken home by the
police and the parents warned; and
if this same boy or girl is found the
second time on the street he or she
is taken to the borough or lockup
and held there over night unless the
parents of the child pay a fine of $5.
Shenandoah's curfew is lived up to
in every way. A Shenandoah Read
er in Philadelphia Press. '
Human Flesh Found In Plug of
Tobacco.
Statesville, May 17. How would
you like to find yourself chewing
human flesh? Well that is the ex
perience of Mr. J. A. Rogers, an
employ in the factory of the States
ville Safe & Table Co., who has for
good reasons "sworn off" on chew
ing tobacco. Mr, rogers had just
bit off a "chew" from a plug of a
popular brand of chewing tobacco,
when he noticed something in the
tobacco resembling bone. And one
may imagine his feelings and in
dignation when on "Closer examin
ation he discovered the portion of
a human finger in the plug of to
bacco. Of course the finger was
mashed aud dried, but it was a
finger all right, cut off between the
second and third joints. It is now
on exhihition at the factory and
those who have seen it say they
cab now easily quit chewing the
weed. It is assumed that an ope
rator in the factory where the to
bacco was manufactured had the
misfortune to get his finger caught
in the tobacco mould and didn't
take time to stop the machine to
get hte finger out. At any. rate
the portion of a finger has shown
up in a plug of the' tobacco, and
at least one man won't be chewing
any more tobacco.
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Lost and Found.
A young man took his sweetheart
to a ball. She wdre a party dress.
As they began to dance he noticed
what he oughas a ryelling
sticking out of helFsleeve. Be tug
ged at it. It came easily, and dur
ing the remainder the"dance", hav
ing started to wind hp that ravel
ling he kept at it, It wasn't until
the end of the dance that he had
finished winding. V
Nexkwrning the girl said to her
mother: ,
"Mother, an awfully funny thing
happened to me last night. You
know I went to that dance. Well,
when I got home and got ready . for
bed I found my union suit had dis
appeared. "
A Minneapolis manufacturer re
cently forbade the wearing of high
heels on their shoes by the young
! women in his establishment.
An Attempt to Sidetrack the Par
cels Post.
Baltimore Sun.
The attempt has beeivmade in the
House of Representatives to side-)
track the parcels post plan by a bid
fixing express rates. The bill makes
a great reduction in express rates
on packages weighing less than ele
ven pounds, and provision is made
for the ecxhahge of business between
the express companies and the rural
mail service.
This substitute will not satisfy the
deinand for the parcels post service,
which has now become insistent. In
former, years the express companies
were strong enough to defeat all at
tempts at the creation of a parcels
post service by their silent influence
Now it seems they find the situation
such as to make it expedient to of
fer a substitute. This has been for
tified by arraying the country mer
chants against this great public con
venience. There are many large
sections of the country which the
express companies do not reach, and
those are the very sections where
transportation facilities are most es
sential. The absence of proper transpor
tation facilities for small packages
is causing great distress in this coun
try to the producer and the consum
er. 1 The express service is insuffi
cient; the companies are inefficient,
careless and arrogant. The railroad
companies do not seem to care for
the transportation of packages and
and the express rates are in many
cases prohibitory. The Inter-State
Commerce Commission received re
ports of 2,988 overcharges by a sin
gle company in a single day. Com
missioner Lane, of the Commerce
Commission, estimated that 10,000
protests against overcharges had
been made Collecting freicrht on
prepaid packages has not been un
commohvand an effort to recover
the : overcharges has taken more
time than the amount of money in
volved was worth.
If all these things have been done
when the charges , were excessive,
what guaranty is there that the ser
vice will improve after the rates
have been reduced? In every civil
ized country except the United
States the transportation and deli
very of small packages is undertaken
by the Governments at very low
rates, and it is found to be profitable.
The tremendous political influence
of the express companies has here
tofore been powerful enough to de
ny to the people of this country the
convenience which the people of
other countries enjoy. How long
will this continue?
The New Bern Sun very correctly
says: "Any newspaper has a perfect
right to support any man it desires
to for any position, but it should not
try to break down the opposition by
lies and misrepresentation." And by
the same token no candidate should
try to break down an opposing news
paper by lies and misrepresentation.
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A Good one Hard to Find.
"I'll get a good one yet, even if I
have to marry as many more." This
was the defiant declaration of Mrs.
Jennie Schewere, twenty-eight years
old when committed to prison for a
year on a charge of bigamy at Al
lentbwr. Pa.
The young woman is alleged to
have ten husbands living. It is also
alleged .that she has never resorted
to the formality of divorce. When
arraigned she pleaded not guilty,
boldly declaring that she had never
been married.at all. Records were
then produced to show she had been
married at least three times in this
country. Detectives stated that they
had located eight men to whom the
woman had been married.
Do Your Duty and a Little More.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, in a recent
address before a graduating class in
New York, gave some excellent ad
vice to the young men on how to at
tain success in life. Among other
things, he said:
"There are several classes of young
men There are those who do not
do all their duty, there are those who
profess to do their duty and there is
a third class, far better than the
other two, that do their duty and a
little more.
"There sre many great pianists,
but Paderewski is at the head be
cause he does a little more than the
others. There are hundreds of race
horses, but it is those who go a few
seconds faster than the others that
acquire renown. So it is in the sail
ing of yachts. It is the little more
that wins. So it is with the young
and old men who do a little more
than their duty.
"No one can't cheat a young man
out of success in life. You young
lads have begun well, Keep on.
Don't bother about the future. Do
your duty and a little more, and the
future will take care of itself. Ex.
If a freak garment shocks a wom
an, she'll wear it sooner or later.
The sermon that don't hurt is the
sermon that don't hit.
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NUMBER 48.
All is Vanity, Sayeth The Frophet.
Fool Killer.
I picked up a mail crder cata
logue and looked in the toilet de
partment, just to see what-all kinds
of truck it does take to supply the
demands ot the female wimmen.
There were soaps, powder, per
fumes, puffs, hair growers and hair
removers, hair curleis and hair
straighteners, creams, lotions and
salves, gnase, gagutrs aud gel
dingets. And there was also truck
to make lean people fat, and then
some trnck to make fat people lean.
And all that put me to think
ing. Some of these things are use
ful and necessary, no doubt, but it
was the hair business and the fat
business that took my time.
Miss Primp has straight hair
and wants it curly, while Miss
Peggy has cuily hair and wants it
straight. Always crazy for some
thing they ain't got, and just act
soon as they get it they want to
swap it for something else.
Miss Longshauks wants to be
fat and cuffy, while Miss Bunty
would give a war-pension to be
tall, slim and graceful. And if
they could both be transformed in
to what they want to be, they
would immediately want to be
changed back. Which proves that
we are all a set of blamed idiots
and don't know what we want.
A Foe to Disorder.
An old woman who owns a small
farm near the southern line of Col
orado was greatly disturbed one day.
when she found a party of vtnining
prospectors on her property.
"I pray the Lord that you people
won't find no gold on my land," she
said, with tears in her eyes, to the
leader of the party."
"Why, madam," the surveyor re
plied, "the discovery of gold on your
place would instantly increase it's
vrlue many times."
"Maybe so," she said sadly, "but
I don't wan't our farm all torn up."
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