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The Daily Free Press. "ind at tt PoKofflc f Mcond clut tr.UUtr SCARCITY OF FARM LABOR Some of our correspondents com plain of the society of labor and seem to be in a dilemma as to what to do about It. Tuere Ik no doubt but that today no labor of any kind is a drug la the market. Today ten jobs are looking for a really compotent man, while a short time a?o ten men were looking for a job. This is the case Mil around, not only on the farm, but la the building trades and in the store. But the question that confronts the farmer is what be is to do about bis farm. He has a 'large number of ores of productive land. It is ready for cultivation and has been made to yield an abundance. But this very fact has tended to lead the farmer Btray, in the light of present condi tions. The only practicable thing for the farmer to do now is to limit the num ber of acres he places under cultiva tion, and make those cultivated do their full duty. Prepare well for each crop. Have the land in a faultless condition and snake a liberal use of fertilizers of one kind or another and undertake to cul tivate no more than can reasonably be taken careof by the force that in all probability will be atcommandduring the season. Every crop should be planned from start to finish before it la begun. Right along this line another thought presents itself and that is this: This country is suffering from a lack of an intelligent diversity of crops. Our people must learn, if they would be prosprerous, to live at borne and board at the same place. In this heaven-favored land of east ern Carolina it is plainly foolish for our farmers to risk their all on one or two single lines of production, such as cotton or tobacco. No up to date farmer should think of resting until he itas produced enough to carry him through the year without a cent of ex pense to his "money crops." , When a farmer stakes bis all on a tobacco crop he necessarily puts him self at the mercy of the American To bacco company that now dominates the market. If the A. T. Co. does not want the farmers' tobacco the lat ter is then left flat with a limited sup p) of money from bis 'money crops, ' and his year's supplies to buy such .supplies as could be raised on his 'farm. There are too many "money crops In this favored section for the farmer to rest on one or two alone. There re too many demands for farm pro' duce for thfarmer to be content to buy these necessities -and that too from a really less favored section of the Union. WHY LABORING MEN STRIKE WtfJWi People Want Because They Desire That Their Condi lion Shall Keep Pace With the Improve ment of Civilization ';. Better Things s the Na tion Expands - cmd Grows 54 Laborer Asks His Share By JOHN MITCHELL, President of the Doited Mine Workers of Asnertca sss mm so THE "CO-ED" SEES LIGHT. The college girl has come to reason at last. At least the "co-eds" of Chicago university have decided that they would rather have beauty than intellect, that college-bred women should marry and that the sphere in - which women can do the most good is the little old home. Heaven bless the wisdom and crown the a nbition of the the Chicago "co-ed!". For what doth it profit a girl if she "box the compass of human knowlege and sail not into the haven of rest a home? Was there ever a true woman .born into the world who did not es teem the conquest of heart or hearts the chief end of existence? It was the life and death dream of Cleopatra; the despair of Elizabeth; it is the leveling aspiration which crowns every bride a queen. New York Mail and Express. The above ia somewhat Inspired as it is from the classic balls of the windy eity's university. ; After all there's no place like home, and the tendency of co-education is to Replete the home of Its principal factor - womanly woman who considers a &ome with all of its cares and respon sibilities a truly to beooveted "heaven fresL There is such a thing as the ruina tion of a life by education. The term ssdueation may cover a multitude of fault. It may include any kind of a liodge podge that an "educator" may administer to a suffering humanity. - The boy may be educated away from the farm, when by nature and circumstances a farm life would be the rery best possible for him and for the community. The , man ' especially adapted to the pursuit of one profes sion or avocation in life may be filled with ideas that will lead him to make a complete failure in life, when a suc cessful career lay before him, if only tie nad not oeen surnea asiae by un profitable notions and opinions. Just so a woman can very easily be "educated" in such a manner as to render home to her a gloomy necessity within whose four walls she can but esteem herself a prisoner, a wild bird always loningfor its freedom. ' It is against this danger to the good old fashioned home the same that has made the south famous that we are to provide in the practical application of co-ed ucation to our common, every Iay institutions. ' ' TLis is not a plea against education Jn prneral. But it is a plea against that system of education that would sow discontent among men and women whose very physiological make up, as II as whose environipent, would in-- crrtain duties and resronsibili l ii t L.'i tv at sr to be worked ! -t!- ;!y c-1 i,''-'lr in the old , ' .' "'? 8 H T IIERE has been a great growth of unions during the past year, and there has not been a single strike in one of these bodies where the organization has been thorough. THE STRIKES OF THE YEAR HAVE OCCURRED LARGELY IN PARTIALLY ORGANIZED BODIES OPER ATING ALONG LINES IMPOSSIBLE TO WELL ESTAB LISHED TRADES UNION PRINCIPLES. I HAVE XO SYMPATHY WITH SO CABLED TRADES UXIOXS THAT WILL NOT SUBMIT THEIR GRIEVANCES TO ARBITRATION. I have no sympathy with so called labor unions that will not meet a committee of their employers to adjuet their differences after a strike has been declared. THESE BODIES ARE NOT WELL ORGANIZED, BECAU8E ARBITRA TION IS THE FOUNDATION UPON WHICH LABOR ORGANIZATION IS BUILT. There are a great many people who believe that the strike is a relic of a past age. That is not bo. THE STRIKE IS REALLY PART AND PARCEL OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGHEST CIVILIZATION. There are no strikes in barbaric countries. No one ever heard of a strike in China, Africa or In dia. The inhabitants of those countries are content to accept their condition as fixed. They never protest. America in the greatest degree represents the advance of civilization, and as a consequence there are more strikes in America than in any country on earth. It must not be inferred, though, that highly civilized nations want strikes. On the contrary, the general desire-is to avoid-4hm-V WHY DOES THE LABORING MAN STRIKE? TO IN SURE THAT HIS CONDITION SHALL KEEP PACE WITH THE IMPROVEMENT IN CIVILIZATION. HE WILL CON TINUE TO STRIKE JUST SO LONG AS OUR CIVILIZA TION CONTINUES TO IMPROVE UNLESS HE TAKES TOE PLACE IN THE NATION'S PROGRESS HE COVETS AND IS ENTITLED TO. f People want better things as the nation expands and grows. They want better houses to live in ; they want a picture or bo upon the walls and a carpet on the floor; they want music; better things to eat and wear in short, they are not content to stand still while everything else is moving. They want to advance with the tunes. ' They observe the progress of the world all around them, ana they make their demands for a share in its prosperity. It is like asking the world to give up all the grand improvements of a centurv, return to old and obsolete methods and with them" accomplish modern results, to' expect that the condition of labor shall remain always in the same rut. FIGHT Foii riliE CUP T The Training of the Imagination Is Education's Most Important Part By CHARLES W. ELIOT. President of Harvard University V HE IMAGINATION IS THE GREATEST OF HUMAN POWERS, NO MATTER IN WHAT FIELD IT WORKS AND THE TRAINING OF THE CONSTRUCTIVE IMAGINATION IS, THEREFORE, FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF EDUCATION. I use the term constructive imagination because that implies the creation or building of a new thing. The sculptor, for example, imagines or conceives the perfect form of a child ten years of age. He has never seen such a thing, for a child perfect in form is never produced. He has seen in different children the elements of perfection, here one and there another. In his imag ination he combines these elements ; 01 the per fect form, which he has only seen separated, and from this picture in his mind he carves the stone and in the execution invariably loses his ideal -that is, falls Bhort of it or fails to express it Con tractive imagination is the great ' power of the poet as well as of the artist, and the nineteenth century has convinced us that it is also the great power of the man of science, the investigator and the natural phi losopher. ",t t J.,,-'.' , u t H t r The educated world needs to recognize the new varieties of con structive imagination. Zola in "La Bete Humaine" contrives that ten persons, all connected with the railroad from Paris to Havre, shall be either murderers or murdered, or, both, within eighteen months, and he adds two railroad slaughters criminally procured The conditions of time and place are ingeniously imagined, and no detail is ' omitted which' can heighten the effect of this homicidal fiction. CONTRAST THIS KIND OF CONSTRUCTIVE IM AGINATION WITH x THE KIND WHICH CONCEIVED THE GREAT WELLS SUNK LN THE SOLID ROCK BE LOW NIAGARA THAT CONTAIN THE TURBINES THAT DRIVE THE DYNAMOS, THAT GENERATE THE ELEC TRIC FORCE THAT TURNS THOUSANDS OF ; WHEELS AND LIGHTS THOUSANDS OF LAMPS OVER HUNDREDS OF SQUARE MILES OF ADJOINING TERRITORY, or with the kind which conceives the sending of human thought across three thousand miles of stormy sea instantaneously on nothing more substantial than ethereal waves. : ','v '. . t ; THERE IS GOING TO BS ROOM IN THE HSARTS CF TWENTIETH CrVTVRY MEN FOR A HIGH ADMIRATION CF THZZZ KINT3 C" 'AC-NAT.TN, AS WtLL A3 FC 7 THAT C Ti'" r "7, .Ti 'T C " PRELIMINARY- WORK OF. THE RELI ANCE AND SHAMROCK III. Balk Yaehts Hit EUr Bvatea Their Competitor Haausla Ow -er larlla aad Sir Tkaatut Lipton Elallr Coafldent of Victory. The selection of the Reliance to de feed tbe America's cup against tbe as mi u Its a Kir Tbomas Upton's speed? Shamrock lit, has intensified Interest in tbe coming contests, and until tbe final race bas been sailed and tbe fate of tbe cisesic trophy decided tbe puotlc on both sides of tbe Atlantic will be on tbe tiptoe of expectancy. From now until Aug. 20. when tbe first race is scheduled to be sailed off Sandy Hook, near New York, tbe man agers and skippers of tbe two contest ants will be busy overhauling, cleaning nnd polishing their respective chum pions for the supreme test, which many yachting experts predict will be the closest and grandest series of races ev er sailed for the historic cup. Mr. C. Oliver lsclin. managing own er of the Reliance, Is confident that the cup Is safe. With other members of the defense committee he believes tbe newest defender is the fastest boat ev er turned out. Captain Charley Bcrr. tbe skipper of tbe Reliunce and hero of rrtrUrO fCOLCHICINE SALICYLATE Trochet's Colchicine Salicylate Capsule: A standard and Infallible cure for RHEUMATISM and GOUT, endorsed by the highest medical authorities of Europe an America. Dispensed only in spherical capsules, which did solve in liauids of the stomach without causing irritation q disagreeable svmotoms. Price. $1 cer bottle. Sold b druggists. B sure and get tbe genuine. IT 11,1.1,4 ia MTU. CO.. CLZVKLAXB, OHIO, Sold by TEMPLE-MARSTON pRTJG CO. Just Received Wear a pair 10 daye. If not satisfied money returned. FOR SALE BY Week End 1 - . u ... :x "l09 S. QUEEN ST.' BENJ. MAY C OUVXB XSKLXN AND THI BKL1ANCK. many a cup battle, is equally sure or victory and awaits with impatience the sound of the starting gun. Since ber launching the new cup de fender has sailed In twenty races and won fifteen victories. Two of tbe races were not finished, and in a third she lost ber topmast and withdrew. In two of tbe contests she finished first, but was beaten on time allowance. In her twenty races, which were sailed under all conditions of wind and weather, she has shown bigb speed in very light airs and ample power to carry her tre mendous sail spread, and throughout her racing she has been handled with great skill and Judgment by Captain Charley Barr. The Reliance is extreme in model, be ing big and, powerful above the water and lean and. sharp below. . Her dimen sions have never been made public, but approximately she is 145 feet long over all, ber beam Is 25 feet 10 Inches and she Is close to 90 feet on the water line. She bas a sail spread of nearly 17.000 square feet of canvas, the lar gest ever carried by a cup defender. . The challenger likewise bas an ex ceptional record. On the other side she was victorious in every trial save that in which she attempted to give the Shamrock I. ten minutes' time allow ance. She finished first, but the margin was less than seven minutes. On this side of the Atlantic she has easily out sailed the old boat. The Shamrock" III. was designed by William Fife and built at Dumbarton, Scotland. Like the Reliance,, the Shamrock lit. Is relatively better Jn light and moder BIB THOMAS UnOH AMD SBAKBOCK in ate weather than in stiff breezes, but she Is a fast boat In any weather. Her strongest point of sailing seems to be in going to windward. There la a feeling among American yachtsmen that the challenger has not been so thoroughly tried out against her consort as Reli ance has been against the Constitution and Columbia, and. moreover, it Is not really known whether Shamrock 1. is better than she was when abe was sailed against the Columbia in 1899. as has been claimed. Sir Thomas, however, does not harbor a thought of defeat He says Sham rock 111. la the best boat that ever crossed tbe Atlantic and Is sure of lift ing the cup. In Captain Robert Wringe he has tbe best skipper in England and a man wbo has had experience in New York waters. The crew of the challen ger is made up of the best sailors in tbe United Kingdom. So the matter stands. Both Mr. Ise L'n and Sir Thomas see Tictory already Es fjred and the fate of the cup decUltI It advance. Tot the rac s are yet to ' f i '' L ar t t; e l.-s c " Vnt r'- '" - : . ? t ) a . t f f ! t' - : Round-Trip : Rates Kinston, N. C. to Horfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point, Ocean View and Virginia Beach, Ya., $4.7) Via A. C. L. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows Baltimore, Ml, September 21st-26th; 1903. Kouna trip, all rail, from Kinston, $11.35. Round trip via Norfo and steamer, $8.70. ' Tickets on sale September 18th, 19th and 20th. y Final limit of tickets reading all rail September 28th. Via Norfolk and rteatngr-fWoW thT1 lk Bj payment of $1 additional all-rail tickets will be extended to Oct. 3d. H.M.EMERSON, W.. J. CRAIG, . . Traffic Manager. General Pas. Agent. 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