North Carolina Newspapers

0' Tea Table By TEEBEE SiiH-e tin mtu Dakota noun sua nns ,-upicd such a :la rife place m the pub- mind 1 hav decided to obtain the r,w of promtjfient citizens nad lay .. .....1... ;. .. 4-;. rC neiore icjiui-i-w- vi iui l-'hidintf nty friend Ir. oiwNe in an , oii'.miMhUnig frame of niind, I in VH tHl liini 1 1 interview Ool. Jack Soll- , :ip;f ilist. scientist and jurist. It v iinuccessary to dwell at length on the Mine uf "oI. Seders, for he '.is known v,.i ni b un to Raleigh and his name ,i .in-t-hoId word in both cities, where i. i njuys a wide circle of acquaintance, it, Vv.'unble called on Col. Sellers last . ,vVning ai his office in ' East : .-.t. next door to a liquid Martin ref re? h- find. and found the colonel! r-. l'.i' k in his easy cnair. wan Ins h , .hi tlie mantelpiece aud smoking a -f.M -!rver with large and vigorous ills, t . let the doctor relate the trvhw himself: tin:: the! a: icrniality out through the baltf red brick idewalk. rcai.n u in a ami r.v-; in the liusell Sage of North ; requested an expres.!i of j reg: id to the matter now- j in ihe public nrind. Col. Sellers ! d";he thud as fomiaVity fell on the i 'alk. but it never jarred him in the; ;.ju :. In answer to my hrst ques- j :!n u, hceanie- all animation and the j l..-:vai mi his n;se blushed a deeper j a h? responded vigoroudy: : Th - s.'.it is a bh'.iikety-blank out- ! I..-. I; is an attempt at blackmail t il i; makes the-blued hi my veins rie I '2Y2 degrees. North t. aro.iua nould uf. as one .man and v, ir South L'ak' "a ff the map. The gt graphles m' ir there by mistake anvway. Thi x'unsr busine.s -ouies naturat nitii Su:h Dikoti peopb You prob illy knew that Sioux city is in that State. To siie or not to sue is always ' MViestion w'rh them, and they inerally sue for everything hi s-ight. Bai t1i; l?.ud suit -is the last straw that In-. di' tlis? camel's ' back. The penally f. ; this Livss outrage oh a sister State v. iil.be tint Congress will have the tv!i. darn State hauled ntt and dump--1 in Kausa. the hntbc.l of bbit: And hiving delivered lum.-cif of thise a'trrestiug ami edifying i omnien'tX fed. S. "it-rs tipi.-eil his chair back a li;t'e f.-irrhi'r and resumed his, puffing with .'cat serenity of mind. Tii. Kale.igl'i public does. n-t a preti ;i! a rh;y:t:uheinuni show. Tijis him I, .-n thoroughly 'tested and there is no i';sir.si: i'n up-: n the pait of the man-, a.v:iiriH of the recent fhow to repeat jhn ex:"riment. ' - j As ji 11 shtiwsf- of this Kiel heretofc 0 !ii id iu North Carolina Lave been en-' iiviy local affairs a few misguided in :inisiast comeived the idea of form-; r- a:t association and. bv offering more !! i ral premiums than had ever been -iff. red before, to attract exhibits from :h r points and have a big show. The r nir. in the way of exhibits, was aT rli.ir the most sanguine nronioter of the hu- cinld expect, for the exhibits were l::.-'c and numerous and the flowers the 'iue-T ever seen at a show in the State. KVivlhtit taste was displayed -ia ar-, rai'.-ring the flowers to the l.ct ad- I v.intag., and then the doors were open-1 1 and the management waited for the uU;c to .come in and see fh show, j P. it ih" public walked by the door."; ; to, and fro. on Toisnsess or pleas- '; or. psmaps. iniiessiy: ana onij !) Av and then somebotly would drop a 'liiir- in the box and let his presence ii T-r tin lonely exhibitors. By f-.-iMiit of the door receipts 2i "nr of a .population something like 2l. i in the city of Baleigh naid a dime :iii'cp to see the finest flower show evpr sriven in North Carolina. -After the chow . only four persons ' 'il l be found who were Avilliuir to-ac-kiL wiedge that they had anything tc ! i with it. and those four held a s rt f coroner's inquest over the remains. They derided to pay the -premiums in f.'iil. ' pocket, their losses and bury the '"ipse. And they were glad to do that vbeit they reflected - upon what might. ive ,een. As it was they had the use. ne or the most public and most de- -:i-able rooms in the city for the roonis in the city for the pur- pi kc'.. without cost, through the kindness r' the Bell T( lephone Company, and It i "as due to the courtesy of the gas com-P-inr that there were 110 bills to pay for " ' r 11 1 Il I f 11 Ol T T A 11 OA OX- TmYttMZ iieen incurretl the receipts would hard- L ly have paid the bilh and there would have heen no dividend to declare on prrmiuuis. The management wisely con 'ifled that it was not likely to run up asM-hist a similar "situation sron again Mid was grateful for the calamity it h d escaped. If anybody wants to go into the flower show business a franehise can be boujrhl heap. Apply at the town pump for pn i-nrukirs. "hat the Governor of ox-th Carolina 1 to the Governor of South CarVi 1 na was not a circumstance to what the 'I' vernor of Iventucky s'aid to the Gov 'nior of Indiana. If the States of this T "lion were permitted to' make war on " te another there would be dark aud bi-io.ly ground on both sides of the-CUmo river before the end of the Goebel trage fl' Imsiness. . Do you read the Durham Advance? No. I imagine hearing: you say. Then r "i do not know -what yon, are, missing. The Advance is an .interesting patent Iiidc and outside, published in the in- ''rest "of our A fro- American fellow citi- '-en's. The copy before me contain.; three-quarters of a coltfinn of or- i omit 'filial matter. 'divided almost eriuaiiy "'ween the editorial and loal deiart rnents. but differing in no respect ex- ept in position on different pages. The Advance is blessed with two editors, ine of whom J. F. Jordan. I.L. B. is also city editor and business manager. t scptiis Timr no is aiso rnc innsr iiroiti.'- nent citizen of Durham lhat is. of his color. Out of sixteen items on the edi torial page and eighteen in the local de partment three refer directly to him by name, wherein he appears as Dawyer T. F. Jordan. One of the ,iur:.-t sjticy editorial suuios is tne rojiowin "Lawyer Jordan has several 'tiling- for j : ' . - - . .,.-. -: ' - " . w . w w w w w I Tatti e r sjjie. :. (Jail 'at his office A very 'nice Uvib can lie bought cheap." i What a glorious opirrtunltr for some eradleless little pfr-kanlnnv! ; i . . - j i ue management nas u Tree ana easy i way of taking relief from the arduous duty of writing something like thirty- j four local and editorial items a week.! Accordingly .It is announced that fie j Advance is about--to take a week rff. j Th" fact is brought prominently before. ! the Trader in the following paragraphs, the first two ?f which are editorial and the others local: . t "There will be no ;:ssue of the Ad- vance next week. Moth the editors will ! be cut of the city." ;o n-nw next week. ; .o .paper next week-, but the week ! after. j "There will be i issue; of the Advance I next week. Hoth of the editors will be j out of the ciiy the next ten days. Look jOt fur us again Xovcmlier ZJiftu." -J- J at intei nipt ion el the i of the Advance will be a sore aitiicfl'.slr; inn it Mil. not be without e.nnpe'.isatje'n as the following paragranh-4 from the edite-rial doiiartmeat witnt.sseth: "Alter im- return from, Lenoir we hope to devote lnom of our time to law and the publi.-hmg of the Advance, i here am other gems of art pot try in the current Issue of the ntiee, a fw of which are conied ami Ad - here for the edification of Tattlerenders. "If tiovernov Ayeock is not the CIov- crnor of- the whole pe-opl? he has a very nice way of pretending to be." "To seek social equality with the white ' race is a mild way of seeking death. Yes somf of our leaders don't s'v no !o care." ; "Have yen tried of Meriick's ! dandruff cure?" "Persons wishing, us will ploase serd along pay for mailing.". to write them up a small cheek to ' . . . After all we are is till to be rc'o: Tammany in order ..-...1 .. iho i, , I... f lit I hlkl'T to keep peace in the i fiViiUy. It mignt have been otherwise to the manifest advantage of the or- ! gen.zatKMi. but Lf Duk wants to keep ; ' ii ruMiunir tn. er.iiugii to : ay he is i-uj. tying victory. wigw i:)! no one "is b.ild i no to him. .Meanwhl! r fh.' lru";s of a minority ' A modern roller who springs the old gag "your nionv or ymr life" mi his ju-teitded victim di serves to be kiMd. as n le3Vo housebreaker was in I'enn- syhan'ia ti" other day. T4ie next th'ng we know some amateur hijihwaymau will work oft 'deliver or di. -but I h: he:will not live to .-say another word. The announcenie-iit that l'resident Koosevelt intends to appoint a Southern Republican or ioid Democrat to snc- ceed Secretary l'oet when he goes higher by reason of the anticipated re signation of Secretary Hay is a bit of Poising, information. As CJold Demo crats in this part of the moral vineyard, so far as known, are men of peace, we tile it that none are ehgilde to wear Mr. Root's shoes: but it is a source at once of jileasr.re and pride to know that the portfolio will not go begging for want of suitable candidates among Southern Republicans A friend at my elbow speaks of the eminent fitness of Ex-Governor Russell, but I am inclined t; the opinion that he is better fitted to ad em a jimicial station, nan prefer tnat ne suon-:n wait i'r an opeinug wuere nis legal attainments' would fee appreciatel Ki their true worth. Pr my part I actual do not have to think twice before uii Ieov le ! hesitatingly expressing, a decided con viction that, there is no o:ie upon whom the honor could be more appropriately and worthily bestowed than my friend and neighbor. Col. J. C. L. Harris, who is known toJTama in thse parts as the tiid of War. Let us make- the mnui- nation uuananons. o 1 TOM'S TOPICS I read with great interest the doings at the "Chamber .of Commerce meet- nsr last Meek, and the report and re commendations of what .should be done bv Iialeigh in the near firture. One struck me. as particularly well hit. (To wif The eal aisbjftfcnt of a wn Inery. .I've seenv in the u.aper3 prpposi- tioiis to erect, one. Some parties came j here before this very body not vso many moons ago and there opened the goods, 'samples, which had been pnt up in this State, but nothing came or it. As an example of what might have been done, reference to trade reports will show that three iseasons ago Tomatoes, -which in this climate fruit as fane as 'anywhere in the World, brought from 57 to OU cents per dozen cans: the year following G7 to 73. last Tear 78 to" 81, and this year 93 to $1.02. '. Tomatoes will grow on the ar'erage 2M bushels to the acre. One can get 13 cans out of a bushel. At the jirice this year a fifty acre farm grown iu 'toma toes alone' would yield " $12,300 gross. As an investment, as an enterprise for Baleigh, lion- 'bout it? What's the use in indulging altsgether in pipe dreams all the time? Poor Miss Stone, the has been kidnapped bv missionary who the .brigands, is cerrainlry- Having a delicrhtfiil time, isri t she?' If we -are uncertain "as to the faie awaiting her, she herself must be some what on the anxious seat. iXo doult something is being done to get her out of pawn, but. it's mighty unpleasant for the subject. Mark what I'm telling you. there's froing to be a pretty muss wrth some of those little, kingdoms when the settlement. is made. If we pay-the ransom, those ducks wMl get a charter and go into the kidnapping business light. Then we'll hav .-'to introduce some new deii'arrmeiit at Washington to take care of such things. But if we don't pay. and the heathens murder the lady, it may have the effett of inducing the armv of niartvrs to spend their humane effort witliiu our owu ..confinea, ..where fields , Carey say;.; lolifeue.s "na Wen com-j pr.ed to :m ciu-hion. width, r.iii hough there is apparently nothing in it. oases our. jolts, wonderfulh-. WVll. here is how o:i "rubber fyed" act worked: i IJi" newest ! in New York. of a group of way of borrowing money as tiled in the geutlemeii In a presence Madi'son avenue cafe a night or two ago. is unite a marvel of ingenuity. The would-be i borrower found his' intended victim sur ; rounded by mutual aequainta.iiees r.d j saw at a glance ihat it woull be folly ty j take him to one side for such a puicse. I It- would befveii ii-fi-!.-t lYirni tn r.omp out Imldlv -with th vm,n..! fr- '., imi and l-mi tho- ri.U- nf ,v,,Mi TK,.ff the crafty fellow walked to the clerk's desk and selected two cards wrote: from the desk. On one he Can You Lend Me $5?" On the other side he plieatiug sort of hand: wrote m a snp- A Dollar Will -Do! Thus equipped he marched Itoldly up to 'the group and saluting them iu his ainest fashion ht4d up the first card in i front of his vicUm s eyes and asked in fl.r .... ..--. ; t. . ! u c iui'm. uuiu uuKiui manner: ty me ! w"y. Old fellow, do you know that man's 1 auureas ; ine woui(!-te victim very promptly replied; "No. old man. I do inof. Then producing his second card tlu unabashed borrower went oa: And hixvv about this one. d you know his address ';" No, nor his either." re plied the' unvictimizcd victim, and with an airy nod the borrower sails away With his cards ia search of other game. TTTe chemical analysis of a cigarette shows tht it conUins among other things the follow.'.ng ingredients: Opium, j belladonna. ah ohol. valerian, tonca beau. ! atu-lnijk!i'inm .in. in A.!. .1. t,t-' j 'I'liol- .-i tiii-a "1,u,",,'lml .'1IU iiiii.'imi..-., M mil r t u. ! inventory for a boy or man to take in dauy. isn t U .' Is it the common, ordinary of the user has a Ian; anv wonder that everyday breath led up flavor that is a cross between an ash barrel ami a quarter of a nound of r.iiiiuirgerVThat it , a'.tects tne senses; i es. ini ofiorc they've all left. wouMn't it stand as an ; offset to the argument if they would go and secure accommodations . in the way ' of a Dice cell in a quiet retreat, and in- vest without delay in a six by two piece of real e' ale in a cemetery? i - . Mister man. let me assure you that unless at some early late same of the prophesies or the-past; gone Biole Stu ; dents are realized, reiigl.cn is going to j get somewhat muddled in the dizzy maze t1 of 'the nassiug regiment of I'hri'itiAns, or believer: in something or some kind. We say the Messiah lives and reigns P ! the Jews are waiting his coining. Dwight 1.. Moody, in an interview five yeais a-c. stated that I.i Hung Chang came t-. -i-i, ii f..r iiiiA niirnrtie. if it was onlv to give iw the argument for ('In is- tianity. He admitted tliaj our religion ) H. ,!.-. ... , -- - wa l.nil... -l,-..it ir in hp r !l ociiti urn'. golden rule of Confucius was only uega-, five, while that of Jesus Christ was the good" I-erd utilized. t The Industnal South t As You See Jt Today t $ ' $ New YorR Commercial Advertiser. g Bichard H. Manufacturers" it he indu vU ial uf the South. Fxlmonds. editor of the Becord, the exponent, of ni railroal U-'iitWef.".- who is at the . aldorf Astoria, in d.scussiug tne uuccuicut of the manufacturing industries of the South hut night, said: . "Taken as a whole the business in terests of the entire Sojjth are on a sounder basis and making greater pro gress than ever before. The depression 3n the cotton gods trade has been about the only weak spot in the situa tion, but. there is now a very distinct tendency to improvement in that hme. Th- growth of the cotton mill interests is seen in an increase from 1,700.000 spindles in 1S!H to .500,OiK spinues at present, this industry now represent ing a capital of between '-i and SLoWKMl.OOO aRiunst, .bl.O(X0.010 in 1SDO. and $2.Mi.UH in 1880. But the rettl advance dhow for it 'is is gr ireater rnan iiBineo fuiiviid mi rai c ii llri i I greater skill acqniren, rue uuer now nrmlueed aud the loimdai ion ....... ... - oods ' thu- lnH for a sreat broadening out of this industry. The South now consumes m a I its own , mills over 1,000,000 bales ! year, against 8(K).O00 bales an average or aioour 1, the in i all ether mills in . rt-H.r. fnl-nl-or O rlVI.Ilir IIOOII'l. I1IIUI.1- i .. il rvi -ttrnlTu TP.1 rS. I fllll 1UI III I ll IilL LL ..... . . - . "l u. . oovve on ' the average than a decade ago. Southern cotton oil mills now employ a capital of over SoO.OOO.OOO. aTUl, according to th ctmsrs of 11HKI. the value of the cotton seed of the South is now about $80,oiX, tm a year. The cotton crop last year was worth 494.O0O.00O, and if to this be added the SO.OOO,000 for seed, cotton yielded to Southern farmer in that Pasoii $574,000,000. Tlie value of the manufactured protlticts of Southern mills was about .$ir,0,000.(WX. aud of Southern oil mills , HHHimK h a grind total of. about $7 ...(HX).O( w hlch cotton and its products jiwuw-" the South during the crop year t-oo-r Atitu t 31. This wa5 far aneau u .- iirut-iniia vear. buf it win nronaniy uv nearly or 'qui te dimlicared this season. "Trnm nnd coal interests are crowded with business aard the South i ow making about 3.000,(XH tons of pig iron and mining about 50,0(H,000 tons of bituminous coal a year. Jit mt equaling? in both the output of the. Lim ed Stares in IKSO-whicli -rives some m dicatioof what the. South is doing. In iroiii. faowVver. the South has been more hamper by lack of capital and by stock i iji us uope gone j now, and maybe he knows. over yonder ! Inger.sol!, ' the inlidtl. arguing against Christ ianity.. mtotes one of his net ar- guniciiis and isays. as we are told to belie. e, wt inuf:; not eschow those laws J which are lald-down for us, betuu.se they i arc not convenient i- harimmize .with, i '"Jake, no thought for tomoirow." is the ; qu-ntatiori in questlcju: and I wonder if our gied cf.:. red preacher don't sne--J cpssfully expuumr th.; text, for it is 'a fcerbunty thithl hearers believe in "sullicie.nt ; unto the day 1 . the ev.l threaf," and piaeticaliy ad ipt th.it ic 'iiIon. ' : . i i u ninuiy. but -a fewtlays ago, ju one And finally, but . oi tue leaoTing dailies of the world, was published columu- after column re"port of the worhPs greatest scientist who ("proclaims that the Itanilfu! story of ihe (lai-den of d;Ide:i, with r Adam and K'"1' is 'absolutely all a myth, a tlIuwiuii. aud a fabrication: that tribes of peosV.e I'd positively 'ljre and exist ages before that, and produce proofs of it. Oh. me! Oin. my! AVhatever oil earth is going to come to its V and where, oh. where aie we at? Some fine day there'll be some thing happen; never thought u before, aud then wpn't there be a surj;is; li.rty? Science tt'Us us that man's heart beats 02.100 times a lay. According to the sl n y of a goad and careful paie:it. his particular heart got u a days werrk in ju.t about four minutes the other night. It seems he had a lot of plumler of cne kind or another ou iu a sbedjiise'd for s that purpose, unrong which wai a':H of' oddt and eluls of brass goods, copper i and other mnterial which the eve t-teh- ful coon deflfflfts to transmigrate to the jrink nhop, and then in the ordinary couro of events unto corn whiskey bi , oilier delieaia'ifSen. i . V,hc!i abouthajf the stuff had gone this road, the- parents ingenious mind ton-' : cot ted tjie . 'Alt. i of fastening a loop ef j barbed fene wire across the entrance, j just high enough to allow one to t ip i'ver it. Jusf inside the tdabidoor. he Ip'aeed an empty bairel on the .ton- of i which was a tray of old bottles. Ten , of course no one came. Thus things j v. r.nt nl nar till he had quite forgotten the existence of the trap, till, i 6 , One midnight, one of his several heirs had all sort of tangles in hU little in side, 'and tlie good wife scut papa off at a one-two-thfefe gait ' to the barn fcr ft.ixset 1. in a'csin. right on the left hand side: couldn't miss ir. Rather dishabil'.e. on pa went spriugtiug iightly in his ban feet on the errand. With a confidence 1-orn of familarity with the surroundings, 1 . 1 . U 1 . T 1 .ntin-.it I. : lie fllUCK lac Uilincu II mihui, sue t . I. . i . l,:., i....,.i oarrej as ue urii, siooo. on ui.-. umu, and of course there was an awful trash. Hot ties, ba rrel.? and liana were sbock- i : i .... ...t ......nnu a lot of things that were recorded s',m - II1"IV till VHII III. .r.tivi i i ."11111 wuere ajsuni!M u'io- i . . A gocd whoIe-r.nled neighW;to ne iiiui ium 01 uic iici-i.-? j..-ri - window and let two ounces of bird shot rattle over the side mamma and the rest. of of the bam; the flock yelled of alarms: and j all kinds aud condition. papa, from behind the shelter of the very much alarmed imuy cow, oeggco an t hamls to let up. Jvraicueu ami. torn. - , lie got tne naxseeo -iu inc the, precious imp had got house, to tird the ti(fdle-de-of him. Papa WinkS 1 rili ILICII tHl - .- J.l i uu will, not appiy-mr a paieur mi hi mu - - . . . . . ... l.:. i gar alarm l.usines at mis time. jobbing operations in New York than in any other leading industry. lV.tu nateiy. however, this is now b.ing changed and the iron trade is getting in good shape for large expansion a-ipl steel making promises to vastly strength en the whole situation, putting the South on much stronger ground than heretofore. The copper Tmining Huter- .-ut.s find tho South has vast stores of ind the South has vast stores of I gold time ind cop'ner ores-are for the first ! lieinsr handled on a very broau f scale, a.nd the success of the I nion Ccppeiv Company, which has expended $l.iMt.0O0 in developing its nnnes and putting in its smelter at Gold Hill. X. (., giv-es some assurance that at 'last the development of these vast copi :jr and gold ore resources will bo pushed on as broad a scale as an the Wesr. Al ready Pittsburg capitalists have under taken a mining development near the Union Copper property, aaid are pre paring to spend $4,000,000 in develop ing 40.000 horse power on the Yadkin liver for electric transmission as a part of .their scheme, while it is now proiHspl to operate on a large scale the old Gold Hill mine, for which, it is said. English caeitalits paid $3,000,000 about 1840 and which, after an output of about $0.lK).KK) of gold prior to 1800, was shut HOn 11 partly because of some legal eeni- . . ., . ., nlicatwus and partly : because the veins commenced to run too heavy , In .copptn, wnicn couui .nor itneii be 'succe;sfn,lly treated at that point. . "In timber lands there is great ae tivitj'i and a number of heavy sales run ning up into the millions of dollars have been made -recently. Numbering opera tions ai-e bei'iig develoied on an enormous scale, as illus'trated Sn the recent pur clwise of 1,KK).(MX acres of timber laud ?Hid several saw -mills in Texas by a fii.MAMin.i company. Which wfjfl en- i targe- iis output to ;i,imhi,iwh reet or the largest out-i' iiiiiii.vi ia i i jtm i.ii, iiic latoL nut" i put OT world. anv one lnmlver comnanv m f he. And in sieaking of Texas, the! ou -situarion isiiouid not be forgotten, j The magnitude of thei?e discoveries , amazestiKv world. .o far over sixty gushers, having a capacity of irom have r.,0QO to oO.tHK) barrels each day, . h&en "brought in" at Beaumont, w rnc uoic iirouueiion oi me inixeu States last year was less than 200,000 barrels a day. How long these "gush ers'" will continue to flow at such an unprecedented rate mo one can say. but other wells even as far awav as Louis iana urove that the greatest oil field ever . 1. . I .. 1 . . J . f . t V T discovered has been found in tnat see nnon th' '. lion, its influence, not alone j South, but upon the whole: industrial world, must" be far-reaching and bevond aiivci!,-: ability tn fullv jrrasp. And then the sanr- section of I.ouisian-.i and Texas have a rice Industry nyfc iini;h more than a decaie old in which over .yj(MMKMK) have been invested. In this field hundreds of self-binding reapers will lie at wi.k within a few days har t. sting lice just as wheat is harvested j h the prairies of the West, but insUVtdi I" i pn lit of a feir do'Ilars ha acre on whejt.Ci is claimed that tliciei un- '.'ur riie fa.n.er.-! are making $40 tu'SIOti ' en at; e on their ju-oducl. Thousands of 4 NYef tern grain growtVs a'.e tttUng' in that district, attracted by the prtnome-' nat prosjienty or tlr.s industry; ; "The story of activity and of diversi-i'- s-t'on -in Southern industry should in- '., ...... ... i-i .. the little town- of Ilish Point. N. C, for - .t; u . i: . rt:,. ty " i'tuniture fitttori..- ami fni teudins' to a rivalry witii (Jratid Rapids, while only last tveek a New Engla nd nianijfattu; er oi" Ir-iii-iUe-niaking mathiner.y decided to build i.i Xact.r.-y in North Carolina to pro vide din macii.'-iery IV- tiii-s l.rpidly glowing "fe.i nihire indu-try. It ylnu'd also, teil cf i'.ulustiies as diverse as tdiip building and carret manufattutng, and il sa-.midjteil of the f.ut that Soujh?rn ral-iruads arc fn cicwded with Lns'iue f.' tmnka it almost :inipo.:.sjhle t pro vide railing stock, but really though the Soath is just getting under. way for its material upbuilding it is aiimost irapos vilde to co the '.virile f-Ltt;aticn.' - UNIQUE BOOKKEEPING How Two Country Tradesmen Protected Themselves d'i-jm the ruillanapolis -JonrnaJA . ' nal ion. Tiie manifest absurdity of these During I he sojourn of the delegates to claims dii not at- once avpr even to tlie convr aiCen of tlie Indiana Bankers' intelligent people.: vVcconling to these Assc: ia:io:i Sn 1h!s city Vinany i japers ail uf these things were to be luteicst'Tig s:o.:it-s were related. One'doae by ."elevating to the Presidency of prosy subject of debit and credit, but the nation the Subject of our sketch.' It poisy suoject or debit and -crenit. , but with the stories that were told to il - jusrrate ceitain ideas the subject lost much of its duainness. -ir . "A friend of mine once ran across a qiu :r sy stem of keeping books in a little Southern town." said banker. "lie was a traveling salesman .and hiv. ttnitory he grew iiuluded Tennessee. Naturally l.ret'ty avc-Ii acquaintwl with h'. i'.ston:vrs who were for the moft pait kecpi-rs of ill wl-l.'Il ! ! I general stores., Unppemn;; alAisunieiit one day he found the prep: etor un the rear of theroom poring intently over what seemed to be ' . : uis ledger. My friend noticed that the idd g aileman .would -mwtter. savageiy j now and then aud turning over a few; Jeayj jit down a. svt of figures. -After ! .. . !1;;e,1n"v s - had been reneated several friend interrupted " him . with j dl"rn toll Vou .plie.1 the odd man. ;This here.: Bill Jones is a v.-orfh-!rs4 s;amp and he has left town owing me 1. . So I jest put it on Brown's ao-count over here (Luruimr the leave d'heu there's Charley Coison -that got into a scrap the Other night ind was killed. He owed me so I pat her over on Joe Smith's account. I tell you. brother, whatever goes in this brmk lias -ot to come out. by here old! the eter- ,nal."V ! I "Tluri rem! litis me of a story of strange methods f keeping 'accounts that I heard: o:;e lime." 'spoke' up auoilier financier. . "This was " in a little Western town. lhe proprietor of -a store wanted to go ui a visit out in the country one day i and when he got ready to slart he told ! L's clerk, a mere lad. to kind of keep ;.m eye on thinsrs while he was absent. 'You -needn't be 'particular about taking in money for what ymi sell,' said the s-tereke-'uer. Must remember what you so; -.Valid who got it aful I will put it on the books when 1 Inme tonigdit.' "Weil, when the old fellow arrived home that night he asked the boy how he had 'made out' du-iug the day. 'O pretty well,' said the lad. T sold a washboa2d and tub In Widow Harkness, a currycomb and brush to ()!'.l Man Johnou. a tin bucket to Mrs. Leeds, a broom and a -na-ckage of needles to Mrs. Branseemb. and say,. I sold some fellei a horse-collar, but 'blamed if I can re member who I sold it to." 'Never mind about that. said the proprietor. 'It'll be ail right. I'll just charge all of my hook customers with a norse ccnar. .Aini-ue om pn io i u horse roI la r on every account he had m "'- iuimij iuum u hhmmi ! all ot them paid except one man, the storekeeper brought sni't against bun. Banking .would be a sott snap if we could keep books vike that." ' : : TlieFimFrLlbraar (Roanoke-Chowan Times.) In discussing the rural library plan with Judge Winston at Jackson the oth er day he gave us an interesting piece of history regarding the first free li brary in Nor h Carolina. He suited that in 171. the I.esrislature of the- State ! I-.v ,tir ot in.. h.Mw.v nr fa,itn I Kld,anl Sa.lSoa a,l liil.t. Ptrqumnns eotinty passed an act 70r!Vate property will be exempt from the "caring for the free' . library of S-j operation ,f the saint rule. Airy ' sen Thomas' parish at Bath." The oldest ; s.ib man will i-eadily admit that anv church in the Srnte is noi- in Beaufort is at Bath which rouuty. . The ac-r referred to ' was a iirivate act. which also lncorporarea Tue rown or ra-n. We presume this interesting bit of his tory has riot been published before. It it found in Mlirtiu's Statute, republish ed by order of the Legislature under Judge Iredell's supervision. -' i -. jh '- . "If existing obstacles are not remov ed, there can-be no reciprocity, and tho t name might: as well be abandoned." the Philadelphia Times (Ind.). Tt will then mean nothing. It wdil be without nractlcal mirnose as a theorv or nnnci- nle. and the sooner the BeiMrbliean nar-i ty defines its true imlicy in regard to the tariff and the trade questions grow- ling outi of it. the sooner will it place itself in an honest attitude towards an issue which, daily becomes of more and more pressing importance to the na tion." . . ., .. , b:eiv HkiKt-vn n a t,t '.; .nt who owed "Gemtlemen. I invite you to drink with their elevation fii'tlieiri ability to adapt me." said 1 "resident Diaz to the Pan- themsetresvtj 'lin-rnWances. an indis American, delegates. Kvidently oratory , nensnble Sfind tss-uiJal ihialilv of n noTi- is uyi uexn i vi-. i BRYAN, THE IDEALIST. M'rltten for Tfc . By B. BOISSEAU BOBBITT. A man so vaiious that he seemed to" be Aot one, but -ad mankind's epitome, Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong. Dryden. I An klealist" is oue who form.? pictur.- esque tam-ies. a ml is given to romantic expectations the realixatkjn of Whi"h arc imiissibi''ities. An . idealist, it follows, is an imivraetieal neron: Mr.-Brvan'is coaf eded to be an impractical man, since he ha favored the adootion of certain measures which were net only extremely impractical, LuJ: which were in them selves positively injurious. This being the -case, I think that I am justified in aying that Mr; Rry.a is an ideauist.; I -have mada the .'issert'on that Mr. Bryan has advocated Impractical measures; it is now incumbent upon n;e to prove the ti nth of this. Socialism and populism are idealistic, ami cooy- uenl.v' imprac tical. Mr. Bryan wiil le spoken of in dsii-icry as the tyniead renrcseutative of . the great socialistic movement s !in the j l?mopraiic party near the close of the I lv-etenth centi'vy. j Iu 18D0, immediately after the famous ! Chi-cngo Democratic ciyavention of that yVar. it was widely "her' Ided . by . uews iW'iers of papulistic tc idencies masque iiadiiig under", the disguise of Democracy, i that i.wa young Loeh'kirar was come ont of the West to bind up the -eommerc-ial ! Avonnds and lieel th" financial ills' of the . naturally followed mat tuis man was . the life of -the movement of which he the leader. -But. he ; IT i l- "'",u 11 iiiM.-in. ji h ; lutj TCMiii ui ceriain na- wa tural caust's. i-oneerninfr which we . -did can i?ot now Wpeak .in detail. He represent the cause; or, even one of 4.v. - caries of the movement, but' rather one of its effects: Votheis had wTought.but lie gath'-red the .increase." such as--it was. .and it is indeed marvelous that it was so great. , let us see ' what were the princijifles advocated by this movement of which I have spoken, how they originated. ' a ed finally, what they 'complished. This jrelaW's vitally to. th subject of our ar- ticle, inasmneh Mtavit-i not a drsjuited ; fact that his energy., ability aiKl-pnjrria-'clons ier2verance heiprvl to establish I temporarily Wa heretical doetrineTwhicli ; was entirely out of -olace in' bis party-, and served to reta!i s-ark of v"ritr in k long after it" had accomplished whatever mision it w-as-' fae'd to ac complish. If we prove satisfactorily that the movement was imnraL'ticol rfwe ued adduce no further testimony in or jder to' prove 'Mr. Bryan so. - The first principles which the leaders of the pseudo-Democracy of 1SJJ0 advo- caled were: (i) "Free and unlimited coinage of silver at fhe ratio of. six t:e;i to one. without, international agree ment." which "the great unwashed' took. to ' mean that each oerson should be supplied, and kept supplied, with an unlhuiled an'iuirt of the standard silver "dollars of our dadiKes." tlie result ot which would be that everybody would have plenty of mraey. and that nohody would have to work. This was too ideal to work well if put into actual practice. (2i An income tax. wlncli would '-it was i claimed by its fond adliercnls. make ri.-h men pay tluir .pro rata share of taxes. Just howthis could be done has never been very plainly demonstrated, for, if a man wiil lie about h". proterty why should he ,not. lie eoually as well aboait his inconre. A man's iucomesJs certain ly a moie intangible thing, andloften one liarder to get at than his rer.i tstate and personal property. Neither' have the supporters of this in rasnre -ever told us just how we could get around the un constitutionality, of it. cyen if it were desirable, as lonir as our govei n men t pos sessed so entirely useless an -appf -adage as a Supreme -Court. (3'- Government ownership of railways and "telegraph." which it was said would be" of hiesti mahie benefit to everybody. The sup norters of this rn-oiiosition - have never i n -i it f v3(;fr' e' he, "V-Tl F Partisan standpoint they have been bene-; ;.1 ni,rtItlU?VT0,lt lth?rffioal .M thft Democratic paVtv. , , ince' andjoleaily exiilained f us why it is ' that i fit'Icht, and passenger rates are higher i in Eurone under ' the government owner ship system Ihan they are in this conn jfry. under private 'or': wrporation on j trol.. Xor h:ue t hese men ever told us jju.-t how it Avas that they propose for j the government to g?t possession of I these railways and telegraphs. All of i tliese companies have -franchises. Then .it would certainly require a very elastic 'riitist ruction of lb? right of eminent domain to make 'heir confiscation legal- possib'le. If the goyernment could illegally confiscate th. property of the .-neh radienl sfen as this is frouirht with 'innumerable dangerous consequences. I The adopt ion of (lict e principles advo ; cated by fhetn was the iivst ,a'!m of these men. Their ultimate aim was the evtab- lishment of an up-to-date ma da-to-order T:topia. where rr.yboJ.r could be happy all of the tinier under fhe paternal guid ance of th covei 'mient; and where eveiy politician shorJd hare riom at th -pie-counter for very-: trnworthy con st it titent. plnjis arid " tec!fica(iioiis for s-'ine drawn by Win. J. Bryan, chief ar chitect. That sf.ch an order of thing as wa contemplated vvft)- contrary to 1 he economic arrangeioeft of . nature's laws, and -oasfiu(Mtt'ri impossible of fcoi summation tney u.i t care a hg. I have sjioken In a tn-ovious article "of the panic of l.SfCJ. and Jjs . causes. The effr-cts of this ; oani- ifclifically - were tiiainly evident in IbV platform and 'leadership of the I)cn4cratie party in 1800 A giat r.'TTilntioit had taken place 'i the narty. Tried ailrl- true men of un doubted fal-'Jity were Jdnist aide to make roiun for mnf who had previously tician. . .ur. rryan wai Bryan waj the lojrica- can- 1 jrioralnx Pt didaite of his party at that time. Ha held . view3 similar to the party leaders hi regard to purifying the politie and morals, and increasing the wealth of the i people, ' and bringing about -the milexi tiium by legisrative A enactment. Per haps he now holds views more identical v -lth those expressed by the late Sena tor Ingalls when he said that "the pnri- fication of politics ' is ; an irridescent , dream -of the most irrid&scent hue t- imagine for a moment that the people of the Unted States will ever tolerate so- cialistic, populistie or anarchistic poli- i cies. For "yon cannot fool ail of th ' people all of the .time." The c-it'izens' of a republic have as : good a government and laws as .they want and deserve, Mr. Bryan to th con trary notwithstaaiding. The sooner we' learn that we cannot legislative evil and trouble with their various eoncomj- tacihs. out of our country the better if will be for 1I concerned. The JYencb. people t'ticd once upon a time to legis- . late everyth'ing had. according to, their , idea of tbad, -out of their country, and the resulting Reign of Terror remains i ' to all nations to this day a ghastly ex ample which counsels conservatism ir ., polit'ieal affairs. " ' " ' The result of the revolutionary move ment in the Democratic party of which ' ur. Bryan was tue nead has had a wholesome effect on the party, and the people generally. In the first, place, the agitation of the issues of free silver and Imperialiism has caused the masses of the people to study and become ac quainted with political questiotna a they have never before done. Politically, then, the "last two national campaigns-; have been educational, viewed from U; they hare tau-'ht us that true'Democra- ., , i. i ! ... . i. . . . i th-i-a -c:l and water. "ExDWience is a i hard task-ma ster. hut a. eood one." Wfl 1IT-1II1 III'OIIL JIOLU llliL UlliCUiXT. j or not they were at one time Inevitable, inasmuch "as we are betteT prepared to : take such steps as will render their fu tm t recurrence imWossibl.. j . Mr. Bryan has frequently during the part live years assumel. the att'Itude of dictator to the. Democratic- party., His stubbornness,- or , uneorapromisiug. ad herence' to what he says are the funda-r m-ental principles of Democracy, but which are in reality the primary . priai-' - ci pies or socjawsm, 4s:.oi tne provertnai type... There is in his tnake-up a ten-"" deucy toward tyrannyjwhich At -encour- ajged would dowlrtless soon becoru well- developed. His imsistence that a decla- p.'l lioi ' .tti fflrii. j-. f fnx 't n u era - t "..v. .... J " - -r m. .4. v. . . . V . . ' . L . . . . I. silver should be 'incorporated in the na- tional Demociatic platform in 1900, in the face of the protests of .the most as tute leaders in the party' shows him plainly in lus self-assumed role of dic tator to the organization."' '. '.Bryan has not in him the fhibate nnil jui.llifiea ff rfl i.ih.1 d.ni.iv IT - has . will and, determination; he lacks, conservatism, and the pover to discrimi nate between good and bad measures. He is an orator; he is not try any rncam a logician. lie is not unscrupulous; bnt he is a born demagoguejand a veay un- ' successful one. He forced free silver to' the front as an issue in 1S96, but failed to convince the people that an -urgent' necessity existed for its adoption. He tried to torce imperialism to the front as "the paramount issue" in 1900, but failed to do so. The peorjle knew that he had proved to.be a fals prophet, and he failetl signally to prove to their sat isfaction that there was danger of "a. government of the people for the people and by the people perishing utterly tyova the enrth." - . v ' , Mr. .Bryan is an excellent example of an individual whose jenerscies have been misdirected. If they had have been properlv directed he might have made a success. As it is lie is as dead - politi cally as McKi'nley is physically. And who will say that Mclvmley's was the unhappiest fate? A quondam politician is. -ever- an eminently proper tobject for sympathy. That Mr. .Bryan is a man of unusual natural ability cannot denied. On the other hand, thft he a statesman of Presidential calibre can not le truthfully asserted. . He went be yond his depths. But, he maintained hit menrai eqmnoise ana bravely foflght a hoDeless fight until there was nothing left to fight for but. proven fallacies.' Yet. in the absence of something better he lis willing, aye .eager; to 'fightr for them. Because I do not endorse his political opinions I do not ish to oltieise Bryan " unfavorably as a man. for I am con vrnceil of the fact that he is a gooil man. and taking into -consideration the fact that we are "not suffering from an overproduction of that commodity t present, and the further fact that it is' essentially cowardly to strike a man when he is Mown, f think that you will agree with me in -saying that ancVwouM J be conduct nnbecoming a gentleman. 1 admire Mtv Bryan's devotion 'to what h conceives to be right, I admire his per severance, I. admire his courage; but as he man said about the little bull that tried to butt an engine off the railroad track, "I can't say that I think muh,of his judgment." We do not need an idealist for PreslV dent. , There is too wide an interval ex- isting between idil things and real ones ' to make it desiraMe or profitable for n ' to pin ourselves down .to the IdAnT TV. lifically. Mr. Bryan has finished hl course.. he has not kert the -fntrb hw' fore there is not laid up fof him ; the crown of reward which comes from th plaudits of a people who Rav "well done His iKilitical career but proves th trntl of the following persion of Shakes' pea re: - - Thrice armed is he who hath hlS-qur.v rel just, , . And naked is he locked up in -silver ho hath his mind with political here sies corrupted. v Danville, Va., Nov. 13, 1001. A fool flatters himul- flatters the fool - ud-ej:, maji- V