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The Duly Free Press. THE FIIEK I'KESS CO., Publisher. DANIEL T. EDWARDS Editow. Entered at the Poitoffice u second class matter HEM EM liEK. "The Kinston petition for a new charter has not yet come up. If bonds re desired, the very bent conservative men in Kinston had better le put on, or the bonds will be defeated" Our Jtaleigh corresKndent. INKM'X OK IMMIGRANTS. The greater part of the immigrants arriving in this country come through the port of New York. During the year 1102 this port admitted ?Ai,0 immigrants as compared with 4)7,702 admitted in lMul. This shows an in crease of almost exactly 'M per cent. From one standpoint this influx of immigration may I.' said to le complimentary to us. The fame our country has gone abroad through out the world. People everywhere Jook to us as the leader in civilization and progress. The masses - European, Asiatic and what not -regard us as the El Dorado of the west, and the conse auence in we are flooded with immi grants. Of these immigrants, nearly all lo cate in the great cities, adding to the congestion and misery already be yond control in them. But the trans Atlantic steamship lobby is all pow erful in Washington and congress gazes complacently at the spectacle. We welcome all legitimate immigra tion, but a vast number of immigrants come to our shores who are totally un fit for citizenship, and who can never be assimilated by American civiliza tion. Great numbers of them never learn our language and even steadfastly op pose their children learning it. They care nothing for American citizenship, but merely for the money that can be accumulated during a brief sojourn among us. Then back to the old country they go, where they are ac counted among the plutocracy. Something must be done. Out as yet no one has proposed a remedy en tirely satisfactory, or one that seems altogether sufficient. The theory that American citizen ship is of especial value and dignity will ultimately pass into reproach un less we speedily set about relieving it from its besetting dangers. The principles of our free institu tions require every citizen to bear his due proportion of responsibility and cost of maintaining our government in all its varied and beneflcient opera tions. Of course, the naturalized for eigner living abroad has no part nor lot in the common concern of the peo ple, and is in effect enjoying the pos session of a valuable right which cost him nothing and was really obtained '. by him under false pretenses. Ameri cans, native and naturalized, cannot afford to allow their precious heri tage to be squandered by bestowing its blessings upon persons who return jqo equivalent therefore and have only contempt for the country that throws bout them the shield of its protection. The time has coine to take this matter resolutely in hand. Let us rigidly ex clude from our shores the paupers and criminals that other nations are so ready to ship hither, and then be care Jul that citizenship shall be conferred only upon those capable of worthily discharging its duties. To do this it may be necessary to radically recon struct our laws, and if so the work cannot be begun too soon as a meas ure of national self protection. TUB COLUMBIA HOMICIDE. The Charleston News and Courier has the following to say relative to South Carolina ideas of justifiable homicide; "We wish to keep the issue perfectly dear, ana present it, tnerefore, as aharply as we can. The people gen erally of (be state nave waited and watched for many years for a case of homicide, in which white men would be concerned, and In which the plea of eeil-aerense snouta De round unavail able. Tbe question suggested anew by the Columbia killing is simply whether a man Is certainly sate from the pen alties oi tbe law wno, Having had a quarrel with another meets him with his hands in his pockets and kills him on tnat grouna. "This is not an exaggerated state ment of tne issue. More than one manslaughter, we believe, has been ao Quitted by juries in the state on this plea. It is the plea that has been put forward already in tne Columbia case. Its acceptance at always valid as suffi cient, is, of course, a serious matter. If one man may kill another with as sured impunity, on such ground, every man's life is in the hands of his hostile or unfriendly neighbor. Tbe slayer will have only to plead that hit victim had his hand in his pocket, or that the slayer was under that Impression, and feared, therefore, for his own life, and that plea will acquit him and set him free.6 . We hope that the custom of shooting a man because he has his hands in his pockets will not spread to this part of the country. The custon might benefit the manufacturer and dealerin gloves, But then a manw is liable to forget, and, if an antagonist should chance to le about, dreadful things might " : n. - 0 O 1 Arizona Kicklets o Th Editor of the Kicker Makes a Faw explanation! 0OS0O00O0t0)O0O Copyright, 1902, by C. B. Lewis.) A' NEWSPAPER in Columbus. O.. gravely nmiuuuces tliut we are personally to blame for at leusf twentv Ivncliings tnat have taken place here within the lust year and that nothing seems to ukhiiuhc our thirst for blood. There have beer only three lynehlngs here iu five yeure and we happened to be out of town h every ense. As for our thirst for I1kk1 we never shoot a Jack rabbit without feeling conscience stricken over it. The citizens of Grass Valley did not attempt to lynch us one day last sum mer, .'is staled In n Santa Fe paper with n great show of complacency, on the contrary, on the occasion rufcrivu to we were Invited by forty nine differ ent citizens to take a drink with them, and each and every out of them sub scribed to the Kicker. We have not threatened the lives of over r0 citizens in this territory In t he last five years, as published In a Snn Francisco sheet. On the contrary, our own life has been threatened 750 times, and we have had to do some lightning dodging tn save It. The paragraph going the rounds to the effect that our mother-in-law died under suspicious circumstances gets wabbly in the knees when we state that we are still an old bachelor and never had a mother-in-law to kill off. , , . . I The charge made against us in nn Omaha pajier that we encoura ged dog-! fights on Sunday has not a grain of truth In it. As a matter of fact, we lead the church choir on Sunday fore noon and assist In the Sunday school afterward, and we have no time to be bad even if we wanted to. According to an item published In a St. Paul Journal, we as postmaster have driven Inquirers for mail out of the office at the muzzle of a pistol. Ac cording to the truth, we even get up at midnight to sell a two cent stamp or hand out letters, and the only persons ever driven out were those who had fired at us through the general delivery window. We do not secure advertising for the Kicker by calling upon business men and displaying our guns, as slated WE DO NOT KEITHE ADVERTISING BT DI8 I'lAYI.NO Ot'U Ol'NS. lu a Cluciniiiiti paper of n late date. If we carry our nuns with us when out on an advertising tour. It Is merely to protect ourselves in case the argument should run Into politics or religion. We have not made threats to shoot any man who had the nerve to run against us as candidate for the mayor alty of this burg, as announced by sev eral papers In Indiana. At each elec tion for the last six years there has been a rival candidate, and if he was snowed under It was because the elect ors loved and trusted us. A Kansas weekly stops Ita press to let the world know that we shot down in cold blood a Mr. Stevens, principal of the Union school in Glveadam Gulch, because be disputed us on a historical point The only schoolteacher here Is a Miss Green, and we had the honor of escorting her to a birthday party less than thirty-six hours ago. We have not shot and wounded three different members of the Glveadam Gulch common council within the last year, aa stated In a Denver 'paper. We simply on one occasion split Alderman Finnegan'a ear with a bullet to make him understand 'that be waa out of order.- Tbe statement of a Cleveland paper that ire have shot down three different bone editors connected With tbe Kick er would be malicious if not so absurd. Eacb one of the trio received bis death miles away from tbe office and by tbe bands of others, and In each case we paid tbe funeral expenses and ex pressed our grief to surviving rU Uvea. M. QUAD. ...... tjatarasisasr. Bark, the stales Mis' marry Jingle . Car tha crackling loa and snow I .' Sma to et your blood a-tlngla, .? On the go! With your dsarsat girt beside yon. Snuggled ap la fura and fluff, Aad tha starry night to hid yea; Tkat's the stuff! Funny how the old horse acampara. Though yoa drive with just on arm. leanathing oisa tha other hampers; What's the harmT New York Times. The automobile has been applied to I wide variety of uses since it became popular tn the United States, but It li believed that the cl'.y of Cleveland has lie only one which Is used for an unl mal ambulance. says a writer In the Kcleutlflc American. Dr. W. fl. Staal- forth of that city has an Infirmary fur dogs and cats and makes a specialty if their treatment. For -orae time pr.st lie has used an auto especially designed for taking patients to and from his hospital. The rear portion Is similar In design to the ordinary runabout, but the front portion has been enlarged to sustain a AUTOMOBILE AMBULANCE. platform containing a wooden case wI.,.,h ,H divii.,(1 into unn..r and lower BectlouBi the upptT pol.tlon beIng U8e2 for cats, as its name Implies, and the , . IHMUOU 1U1 U"4B. xuc- oiuo v the case nave sins protecieti oy wire to admit the air. while each contains a dish of water. The portion for the dogs Is divided also Into two sections, so that three or four canine patients can be taken at n time. Not only novelties like the above, but also Improvements lu automoblling, are now being recorded dally. According to a German technical journal. Ludwlg Maurer has succeeded In solving sev eral problems In relation to the driving of motor carriages. His Improvement relates to the manner of transmitting the power from the motor to the driv ing gear, which is done through a fric tion wheel. The flywheel of the motor Is made to act as a drive wheel by flattening one side of it and applying a small friction wheel to the surface, the latter wheel being carried by a shaft geared directly to the rear axle, Instead of changing the speed of the motor. Increase or decrease of speed Is obtained by sliding the small friction wheel back and forth on the shaft. Tbe farther the wheel Is removed from tbe center of the disk the faster it revolves. and when the wheel runs close to the center steep grades can be negotiated with ease. To run the carriage back ward It is only necessary to throw the friction wheel past the center of the disk, thus reversing the direction of the driving shaft As the motor is always used at its fullest capacity, without ref erence to change of speed of the car riage or grades to be ascended, the ln ventor claims results with a four horse motor equaling other six and eight horse power machines. Backing plates to prevent halation is a very commendable operation, but If the plates are subjected to a strong light during that operation and become fogged the process ceases to be effect tuaL says a writer In the Brooklyn Eagle. In fact, much better results would be obtained If the plates were not touched at all. The platemakera have been blamed for a good many failures caused from fogging plates by using too strong a light while applying tbe backing. Especially is this true wltb orthochromatine plates, which are extremely sensitive to the dark room light, it is not an uncommon thing for the amateur to bold a color sensitive plate directly against a strong; developing light to see if the backing Is on right Of course sucb carelessness Is fatal,, for tbe plate will be fogged very time unless It Is a very slow one. " In backing plates, especially ortho-" chroma tine plates, ; a very subdued1 light mast be nsed; tbe plates must be Kept st a safe instance rrom tbe light and also shaded from tbe direct' rays.' Tbe greatest care must likewise be taken that tbe plate la not touched" wltb tbe greasy fingers. Unless these precautions are taken backing plates Is of no value whatever. - Many streaks or spots In negatives come from uneven development caused by not flowing; tbe developer evenly over tbe plate, thus causing portion of the Image to come up before other' portions are touched by tbe developer. This fault comes from using too little developer or from not epplylng It to tbe piste properly. Tbe best method is to pat tbe pUte In tbe empty tray and then poor tbe developer over It from a graduate. A more even flow is secured if tbe solution Is poured from tbe side of the graduate opposite tan spout Alter applying tbe developer the tray should be well rocked for a few moments. :. - -- t , In developing overexposures a pinch of salt will act as a retarder where bro mide of potassium Is not at band. A little salt will often save a good many plates for tbe tourist, who often does bis developing under difficulties and does not have at band all ths chemicals that are needed. I GEMS IN VERSE' Motherhood. So little a soul; scarce a cry Or a name: Hedge It in kit it fiy To the heaven whence it came. For the aoul knows Ita wing-. And earth's night. 0 bewllj'rlng. May fright the small thing! So little a soul, - i breath; Lost Its way. driftt't .'ar. Like a rose petal whined To the world From a star On the crest of a wave balancing Between life and death, night and dawn (Heaven llnifc-rs so near) Lest it tremble with fear. Lest It open its wings And he cone! Nelly H. Wurdworth In Boston Journal. The Prayers of the Little Ones. How sorely pressed the Lord must be With all the tearful people's woes! The wtak implore for masiiy Above their strong, relentless foes; The poor cry out against the rich, The slave would fling his chains away, And oft their crlea must be unheard, But God, I know, hears every word When little children kneel to pray. Mayhap the pious Pharisee Is never heard above his roof When he. at bedtime, crooks the knee Beseeching lor his own behoof; Their prayers may all be said in vain Who arm themselves and march away To fall In battle or to kill. But God, I know, must listen still When little children kneel to pray. The grave faced hypocrite who reads The word the Master gave to men And loudly prays and then proceeds To crush the weak for gain again May be so little that the Lord, Attending to Immense affairs, Is unaware of him; but. oh, God still has ttme to heed. I know. When little children say their prayers. The ones who wrangle over creeds And those who think, forsooth. that they Are sent to Judge the people's needs And give the word and show the way May be so little and obscure That God, with all his awful cares. Is deaf to them; but, filled with love, I know he listens from above When little children say their prayers. B. E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald. The Timid Kitten. There was a little kitten once Who was of dogs afraid. And, being by no means a dunce. His plans he boldly made. He said: "It's only on the land That dogs run after me. So I will buy a catboat, and I'll sail away to sea. "Out there from doga I'll be secure. And each night, ere I sleep. To make assurance doubly sure A dog watch I will keep." He bought a catboat. hired a crew, And one fine summer day Triumphantly his nag he flew And gayly sailed away. But In mldocean one midnight Twas very, very dark Tbe pilot screamed in sudden fright, "I hear a passing bark I" "Oh, what is that?'J the kitten said. The pilot said. "I fear An ocean greyhound's just ahead And drawing very near!" "Alack," the kitten cried, "alack! This is no paltry pup! An ocean greyhound's on my track; I may aa well give up!" Carolyn Wells in St. Nicholas. The Modern Church. Ths holy church was once a thing apart A thing of vested priests and chanting choirs, , Of mystic language and symbolic art Condemning life and all Its warm de sires! The modern church is made for human need; Its ministers by men are understood; They preach an open book, an honest creed. And every day a day for doing good: And no cathedral, with its climbing spire. Fitter for worship than yon grove, whose blue arched roof is higher. And Ood was once a King upon a throne. - A being far removed from sinful men. Veiling his face In deep displeasure shown, With gracious favor shining forth again. But neither hope of heaven nor fear ot hell - Nor a vague awe of One who dwells above. . In starry realms, remote. Invisible, Can cleanse the soul or kindle saving love! - ' - Eternity la now; today the judgment doth begin, - And Ood Is nearer than ourselves; his ' kingdom is within! Elaine O. Eastman in Independent. ' The Inevitable. I tike the man who faces what he must With step triumphant and a heart of f ' cbeerV''--.? .!'-.'& ' c " i " ; Who fights the daily battle without fear, Bees his hopes fall, yet keeps unfaltering a.x tnist v-,v;v vy.y sw-v.-,5,,-: ,i That God la Ood; that somehow true and .' -vJUSt .fe-V-.' -JJ--. -'-Al -..'-..,;,-' '' His plana work out for mortals; sot a tnr ' ' ' ' j la abed when fortune which the world v holds dear- v.j i " Fans from his grasp; better wltb love a rf.- crust --" ' " ' " ' Than Uvlna In dishonor: envies not . - Nor loses faith tn man. but does his best Nor ever murmurs at nis aumoier lot. But with a smile1, and words of hope, " gives aest -To every toller. He alone la great . , . Who by a lite heroic conquers fate. -Sarah K. Bolton. ' At Life's Cloae. Oh. what a glory doth this world put on For him who, witn a ierveni neari, goes forth . . . Under the bright and glorious sky and looks . . On duties well performed and days well - anent: s For him ths wind, aye, and ths yellow left res. Shall have a voice and give falm eloquent teachings. -He shall so bear the solemn hymn thst - Death , Has lifted ud for all that he shall go To his long resting place without a tear. ... uongieuuw. SatlsSed. i Love wore a threadbare dress of gray! And toiled upon the road all day. ( Love wielded pick and carried, pack And bent to heavy loada the back. - Though mearer fed and sorely tasked. One only wage tore ever asked A child a.whlt'e face to kiss st n!ght A woman's smile ty camHflieht. "Jjrtrnret E. t.ir ir-fr. Eubtiha ijy I'lj. IncarpwMd 190s ARTOPE & WHITT, MARBLE AND GRANITE MONUMENTS AVI AOK'Tt TOK IR"V TENCISG, Main Office and KUctric Power PlaaC , Branch OfBc I Sasator, 8, C. M ACON, OA. aaa Flea I Rocky Moant, X. C. laarhtr Kp. h..r. Soiling Aavata for Klnaton. HINES BROS. LUMBER COnPANY, Mill locatra at Junction of A. k H. C sod A. C. L. fcuTroad. HUSTON, H. 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