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The Projjressiva P&rmciv July 1, 1002.
TSX JIBST DECLASATIOH OF IHD1-
r Jul wj.
Not every student of American his
tory is aware that the Declaration of
Independence signed at Philadelphia
on July 4, 1776, glorious old document
that it is, cannot claim to be the first
expression by American people of re
volt against British rule. The first
Declaration of Independence was put
forth more than a year before the im
mortal second, and its birthplace was
the little town of Charlotte, Mecklen
burg County, North Carolina. The
two Carolinas were settled largely by
strenuous folk refugees from reli
gious persecution in Scotland and
France, followers of Knox and Calvin.
Covenanter and Hugenot brought
with them over-sea the sturdy inde
pendence and the fearless adherence
to principle which had led them to dis
pute the divine right of kings and up
hold to the death the divine right of
conscience. Rheta Childe Dorr in
the July Woman's Home Companion.
JOHN 3IITCHELL.
The leader of the coal-miners and
President of the United Mine Work
ers is thus described in a brief sketch
accompanying a striking portrait in
The Outlook:
"Like so many other labor leaders
in this country he is still a young man.
He is thirty-three years of age. He'
went into the coal-mines as a boy of
thirteen. His school education was
supplemented by night studies, chiefly
upon economic questions, and espe
cially those relating to the organiza
tion of labor. He joined the Knights
of Labor in 18S5, and ten years later,
when he was twenty-five years old, he
was elected Secretary-Treasurer of a
district organization of the United
Mine Workers." His subsequent rise
in power within the organization was
extremely rapid. In 1897 he was elect
ed a National organizer, m lbU a
Vice-President, and in 1899 President.
At the beginning of the great strike
in 1900 the power of the organization
was almost exclusively among the bi
tuminous coal miners of the West, who
had gradually won by "collective bar
gaining" much better terms as to
hours, wages, and treatment than were
accorded to the anthracite miners of
central and eastern Pennsylvania.
Among1 the latter less than ten thou
sand out of one hundred and forty
thousand were connected with the
union. The success of the strike,
largely due to Mr. Mitchell, was fol
lowed by the accession to the union of
nearly the whole of anthracite miners,
including the recent immigrants from
eastern Europe. At present, therefore,
he has supporting him a great organ
ization, but the time of battle is not
of his choosing.
AHTI-HEGBO TEELIHG IK ILLINOIS.
Those Illinois Congressmen who are
considering the outrages perpetrated
by the Southern anti-blacks and seek
ing to make it the occasion for reduc
ing representation in Congress must
find in recent events in their own
State that which gives pause to their
exuberant oratory. The facts con
nected with certain proceedings, if we
are correctly advised, which have gone
on in Saline County, this State, during
the past few days, are atrocious be
yond anything reported from the
South, in this particular respect: The
Southerner, speaking broadly, no mat
ter how far he carried his race hatred,
has been moved at the outset by what
he considered justifying cause. In Il
linois the outrages perpetrated by
whites, in the instance referred to,
'vere directed against negroes of the
hotter class, against whom no charge
of wrongdoing is brought; indeed, it
appears that it was the very fact of
their superiority that led the low-down
ruffians in the community to attack
them. Here is what was done: At
Eldorado the colored public school has
been closed and its pupils driven out
of town; the Eldorado Normal and
Industrial Institute has been broken
up; the African M. E. church has been
wrecked and its congregation dispers
al. At Harrisburg,' the county seat
f Saline County, notice has been
Vsted that all negroes must at once
h ave town. The mere statement of
he case is a stronger-drawn indict
ment than a mountain of adjectives
could make it. It is too shameful to
express, too near home to evade. The
local authorities having failed to do
so, Gov. Yates should use the full pow-
r of his office to restore their prop
erty and protect these fellow-citizens
in Hack. Chicago-Farmers' Voice.
The Appalachian Park bill has
Passed the Senate, but will probably
not be acted on by the House at this
session.
TITS 80TJTII AUD ITS SCHOOLS.
The greatest need of agricultural
life in the South today is .farming
communes, and there must be natural
forces that will bring the country peo
ple together : in such communes in
wholesome ways. Farm communes,
good roads, smaller farms, intensive
farming, rotation of crops, and such
remunerative household industries as
are to be found everywhere in the
homes of the peasantry upon the con
tinent of -Europe, good schools, libra
ries -these are the fundamental needs.
Of course, I believe in the supreme
value of wholesome , religious instruc
tion; but I also believe that effective
home-mission work will need to make
every church both a Sunday-school and
a day-school, where head, heart and
hand, taste, conscience and will are all
continually stimulated to activity..
The right kind of schools seems to
be the only possible force to bring
such a result. Southern civilization
will need to be built around the school-,
house, and we shall need to steer clear,
if possible, of the mistakes of other
sections of the country. The herding
instinct, a racial instinct among some
other peoples, seems almost absent in
the farming classes of the South. If,
therefore, we can gradually set up in
every farm community a well-ordered
school, where ordinary academic in
struction is intelligently given, and
where at the same time some of the
long hours of the school day are given
to such forms of handicraft as can
easily be transferred to the homes of
the community and become a source of
occupation and income; and if, in ad
dition, nature studies, school libraries,
mothers' clubs and village industries
of all sorts gradually come into exist
ence, then we shall have a different
kind of country village in the South.
As a rule, country civilization has been
built around the cross-roads store, and
often the barroom has been an adjunct
to this store. E. C. Branson in the
World's Work.
AOEICULTTJEAL WEALTH OF VABIOUS
CO DUTIES.
From an article written by Mr. T.
J. Pence for the Raleigh Post we se
lect the following paragraphs regard
ing the relative standing of the coun
ties in several particulars :
f "Wake County has the largest num
ber of farms of all the counties in the
State. The farms in Wake number
5,188. The number of fawns with
with buildings are 5,029. The acreage
of the farms in the county is 476,G08,
of which 195,548 acres are improved.
The value of land and improvements
in Wake, buildings excepted, is $3,252,
640. The buildings are valued at $1,
371,130. The value of land and im
provements in Mecklenburg, Bun
combe and Robeson exceeds that of
Wake. In Buncombe th:s valuation is
$4,234,110. In Mecklenburg it is $4,
150,720, and in Robeson it is $3,525,
900. Ashe makes a good showing with
a valuation of $3,021,440. Buncombe
alone exceeds Wake in the valuation
of farm buildings. This valuation in
Buncombe is $1,608,040, Mecklenburg
is a close third with a valuation of
$1,317,490. ,
"The value of farm implements and
machinery in Wake is $218,600, in
Davidson $222,050, Guilford $206,280,
Mecklenburg $232,690 and Randolph
$231,540, which counties lead in this
respect. The valuation of live stock
in Wake is $655,241. Two other coun
ties have a valuation higher than this,
Mecklenburg $708,2S6 and Ashe $728,
767. The value of products not fed to
live stock in Wake is $2,163,811. Wake
spends $126,7G0 on fertilizers. Robe
son leads in this respect, expending
$247,280. Johnston expends $143,530
for fertilizers and Pitt $166,910."
The census bulletin says that "aside
from Richmond, in which a territorial
change has been made, but three coun
ties, Carteret, Chatham, and Curri
tuck, report decreases in the number
of farms since 1890." The Chatham
decrease is doubtless due also to a ter
ritorial change, of which the Census
Office has taken no notice. It will be
remembered that in the last decade the
line dispute between Chatham and
Alamance was settled, giving to the
last named county .territory that had
previously been regarded as in Chat
ham. Hon. C. H. Mebane has again been
elected president of Catawba College,
Newton, all differences between him
and the trustees having been adjusted.
HOW ARE ALL AT HOME ? Buy
a bottle of Painkiller today and you
will be Insured against cholera morbus,
diarrhoea and kindred troubles. The
old reliable Perry Davis' Painkiller is
sold by . all dealers; .25c and. 50c. bot
tles, a
A. YEAH 07 7HKD01X.
The one notable thing among white
folks in North Carolina today is a
spirit of independence. The negroes
were freed in 1863 the white folks in
1901. It is interesting to hear the
rank and file talk of their freedom.
They lgve it and are, glorying in it.
Having tasted it they could scarcely
be nslaved again. Parties, platforms,
conventions, primaries, nor anything
else can hardly be expected to bind
them in this year of grace,-this first
year when they are basking in the sun
shino of freedom. It is this fact the
folks who are leading or driving in
this direction or that must keep in
mind if they would plan wisely and
act for the good of all the people. This
is not the time to force the nomina
tion of a man for office and expect the
voters not to scratch his name from
the ticket this year fearlessly and gen
erally where they do not like the nom
inal ion. Rev. P. R. Law, in Lumber
ton Robesonian. '
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer:
The need of a Reformatory in this
State is pitifilly great. There are a
score of boys here who might at this
moment be in such an institution. The
King's Daughters will have a Reform
atory, but will require time unless
some well-to-do people will make gifts.
There is the same practical need for a
Reformatory as for orphanages. May
be some rich man will read this and
think of the good to be done by the
immediate gift of sufficient funds for
a start at least. One case here will il
lustrate the need. A poor woman, and
widow, a faithful soul is at work in a
mill. Sfce has two sons, one 13, the
other 9, the elder of whom once worked
in the mill. Now he refuses to work,
and taking his younger brother with
him lives mainly on the streets and
the woods and fields. Returning to the
house, only while his mother is away
at work, he smashes a lock or a win-'
dow and enters, taking anything in
sight.x The miserable woman says he
is ruining himself and her, too, and
is 'even willing, as a desperate mea
sure, to have him sent to the roads,
but he cannot be sent there. The only
place for the boys is a reformatory
and there is no such place in all North
Carolina. A magistrate says: "It is
one of those cases where the law does
not know what to do."
We see it stated that in the county
of Vance there are only fourteen
whites between the ages of six and
twenty-one who cannot read and
write. This speaks gloriously for the
educational progress of Vance CouiP
ty and we doubt that its record can
be matched in the State. After all,
the solution of this great problem lies
not with the Teachers' Assembly, the
Educational Conference or the college
presidents, but with the county offi
cials who are in charge of the educa
tional interests of the counties. The
education of the masses cannot be
done in mass meetings; it is an indi
vidual matter and the children must
be instructed one by one. Three cheers
for Vance! Charity and Children.
The farmers in Wake County are
rejoicing over the fact that they have
not had brighter prospects in ten
years. Corn and cotton are excep
tionally fine. Cotton is blooming and
fruiting heavily plants are strong
and vigorous. Corn is tasseling low
and stalks are large, color good. And
the ears promise to be full and heavy.
Tasteful dress is as wholesome and
necessary a thing for a woman as good
food and drink. But if she makes life
a long debauch of clothes she is ex
actly in the position of the glutton or
the drunlard. Ladies's Home Jour
nal. Ueaiiliy
Children
are kept Ftronff and well:
puny little folks are made vigorous
by the use of that famous remedy
FREY'S
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Corrects all disorders of the stomach,
expels worm., etc Palatable and
positive In action. Bottle by mall, 25c
E. S. FIIEY, Baltimore, Md.
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Schools of Music, Art and Elocution.
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begins September 10, 1902. ."
For Catalogue apply, to .
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A Rainy Day on the Farm
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contents of
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containing 1 checkerboard; 1 set
checkers; 1 set dominoes; 1 set dice
and cups ; 1 pack cards. All good dura
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goes with the box.
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THE NORTH
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Iiiterjtry
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Session opelis September 18th. Expenses $100 to $140; for non-rdsidonts
or the SUte $16X Faculty of 83 members. Practice and Observation
Sanool connected with the College. Correspondence invited from those
desiring competent teachers and stenographers. To secure board in the
dormitories all free-iuitl m applications shouldlbe made before July 15th.
For catalogue and other information address
President Charles D. Tlclver.
GREENSBORO, N. C.
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Fall term begins September 8, 1902.
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Style No. 3, Three Drawers, ;
Box Cover, .$16X3
Our Five-Drawer, "Drop ,Hecd"
Machine is a Beauty, 7
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The above are all the Improved
Alliance Machines. We are oflerlzj
no other maohines now. Sendfc?
descriptive oironlar.
Now is the time to send in ycz?
orders for
Plow and PJow Castings,- J ;
Guano Sowers and Farming
Utensils of every description
Farm Bells,
Cook Stoves,
Feed Cutters, -
Corn Shellers, '.
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Barbed and Plain Wire,
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FERTILIZER Y
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We have again arranged ,:
with the Durham Fertilizer
Co. for the manufacture of
' the Alliance brands of For-, .
tilizer : North Carolina OfS-
cial Farmers Alliance Guano,
and Aoid Phosphate, and
Progressive Farmer Guano.
These Fertilizers are too well v
known in every community
where fertilizers are used in
this State to require an ex
tended description of them.
They have been time tried
and time tested, and always
found reliable. Our arrange -ment
for this year provides r
for their being kept in stock '
by all Agents for the Dur.
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who will furnish them in -any
quantities at lowest
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