i ... .1' . ....... ..... 1 ' f i t . - ' - t . . i SALISBURY GLOBE GLOBE PUBLISHING CO., proprie tor. Published Weekly at No. 211 No. Main street. Salisbury, N. C. ' bscriptlon Price, $1.00 -per Year. We offer no apology for the space we devote to the closing of Salis bury's city schools. This paper, un der its present management, is to be the ever willing factor in promot ing just such influences as this school is designed to inspire. To promote the happiness of our homes, the effi ciency of our schools and the sacred influences of our churches, is the prime mission of The Sun's existence. "RED BUCK" PROMOTED We join with the best friends of "Red Buck" in extending him our best wishes in the new relation he assumes as city editor of the Char lotte Observer. His previous exper ience and his good equipment gener ally, fits him for any place on the Ob server's staff. But the Observer has reached a point when the coming or going of no individual will be very marked, in its appearance, we say this because we can pay the promo ters of the enterprise no greater com pliment. The torpedo boat which has well nigh revolutionized naval tactics, has found its greatest usefulness and mosV effective service when manned by the Japanese soldiers. It Is pretty well understood that the crew in charge of the torpedo boat, have their lives in their hands. The stolid in difference to death which seems to posses the Japanese soldiers does much to fit him for his branch of naval service. 0 Mr. Hoch, the Chicago Bluebeard, says he will die like a gentleman. It seems this is to be about the only opportunity the gentleman is to have for a display of his valor. It takes a rather hard experience in his case, to bring out his gentlemanly qualities. We have no doubt that he will pre serve the record of his predecessors, in that he will have a triumphant pas sage and a safe landing into the hap py hunting ground where all the good folks go, and where there "is neither marrying nor giving in of marriage. o The cotton acreage in the South will never be reduced much while the lint brings eight cents a-pound in the market. Why should it be? The most reliable statistics show that cot ton can be made for less than four cents per pound. If this be so, and we have no doubt of it; the farmer has a cool hundred per cent on his cotton crop. With this prospect the farmers will not reduce, and what's more, they will give Jordan a hard futn o travel before he gets them to t- -0 " It looks now that President Roose velt is to be the umpire between Ja pan and Russia. Where could they get a better one? Both countries could well lay the situation before him and abide his de cision. This would, of course, be made in consultation with his trusted advisers. The President has given no better proof of his own ability, than by sel ecting men of high order for cabinet' places. o The last men on earth who ought to attempt to make a daily newspaper are a lot of politicians and office seekers. If a paper is not to be a business enterprise, then its a failure to' start with. Chairman Rollins passed through Salisbury this morning and when asked concerning the paper row In drcensboro, said the two factions are just as far aparjt as ever. This is probably a mistake. There will hardly be more than one paper launched, which will probably be devoted to fighting the faction which is out. This will be a nice mission for any paper to have. . o A foolish utterance often makes its author notorious. John Jasper became famous by his senseless declaration that the "Sun do move." Of course, people of sense and education know it does no such thing. But every man Is more or less respected according to the honesty of his belief. Not that this changes the truth or falsity of the proposition, but people respect honesty, though it may be based upon error. Old John Jasper was an honest ne gro, and so people respected his de claration when in the ferver and sim plicity of his native eloquence, he de clared what would be a physical Im possibility. " ' U1I w "V'4u.,Ikl i M . If you have wool to sell for cash. exchange for goods or to be manufac tured, ship It to Chatham Manufactur ing Company, Elkin, N. C. They pay highest market price and guarantee satisfaction. Write them for terms and samples. ', ! ON Jtt'BE C mm i OUR CONTEST IS LIVELY j me sun is adding, new subscribers to Its list every day. This Is no attempt at horn blowing, if anybody who is interested from a business point of view, would like to examine the "stubs" to our receipt book, he can do so at any hour he may come. The Sun's great voting contest is already a success and really it has just begun. It will be a lively contest before it is over. This is the most liberal proposition ever made by a newspaper in the State. If your friend gets the votes, she will cer tainly get the trip. A year's subscrip tion to the Sun gets 200 votes, that counts. O ; ; HARDLY A CLERK DID IT The giving out of the crop report by the clerks in Washington only shows how impossible it is to make anybody truthful and honest, who are not so from principle. . The reports ought to be required to- be sent out every month in the year so the whole country "might know just as much as is known at Washington. That the present system of getting all reports in from every State and giving it out at once will always be used by some one for his own advantage is a fore gone concession . Its all very well to put it on the clerks in the departments, but that is altogeth er too nice a snap to turn over to .a clerk. A man who is determined to speculate regards the law against it in about the same light that a pro fessional theif would a common pad lock. FIREMEN MEET We print to-day the program of the State Firemen's association wihch is to meet in Winston, N. C. There is no organization in the country which de esrves better consideration of the peo ple than those who belong to this as sociation. It is really inspiring to see with what energy and enthusiasm these men labor, often risking their lives to protect and save the property of others. And, too, they are poorly paid, and often not paid at all. They ought to be liberally paid; in the aver age city they will save enough prop erty at one fire to give them a res pectable salary. The average citizen hardly gets out of bed, when he hears the alarm of fire, because fie feels that the fire company will see to it that as little harm as possible Is done. We con gratulate Winston upon the presence jn her midst of these good citizens; these savers of property, and promo ters of wealth in our State. FAR FROM INCONSISTENCY The Republican-Populist papers of the State are wonderfully exercised over what they call the inconsistency of the Democrats. They say that the Democratic speakers went .up and down the State in the last campaign heaping abuse upon the president, and that now these same Democrats are standing with open arms to give" the president a hearty welcome when he visits us in October Raleigh, Times. T!?G papers referred to have escap ed our notice, we have seen nothing so small from any source. The most we have seen is the race between Raleigh and Charlotte to see which shall first touch the hem of his garment. There is no entry from Salisbury. We are getting ready, well the truth is we are ready for the old Sheriff who, it is, understood, will stop here as he passes. The day -of his coming has not vet been announc ed, but we'll be ready. - o HOW IS IT It is a noticable fact that in all the graduating classes of our graded schools, there are from three to five girls to one boy. We -wonder how this, is. In town where there is a high school for boys, disconnected with the public schools, the matter might be accounted for. But there are very few of such schools in the State. Its a pity it is so. For in giving them up we are parting with one of the most substantial factors in our educational system.. This graduating business has been greatly overworked in both schools and colleges of late years. It is perfectly plain that too great a per cent of the students at our col leges appear from year to year in the graduating classes. Take a college that enrolls 300 students during the year. There is never more than 250 at college at any one time in the scholastic year. And yet about forty of these will be gowned and capped on commence ment day. Its nothing more nor less than a concession on the part of the college authority to a clamor for special elective courses, which palm off a lot of men as college graduates with only a smattering of a limited number of studies. And colleges feel compelled to do this.in order to hold their students. However, there is some sign of get ting back to older and better methods among leading college mjen. A step in that direction will be a wise one. i o DEATH OF A GREAT EDITOR The editor of the best newspaper in America is dead. He was the editor and the owner of the Washington Post. And while he has only come into the possession of the common lot of us all, yet it does seem a pity it had to come to this man so soon. For he was yet under sixty, and had just reached the high noon of his intellec tual strength. k The conception a man has of his work determines largely its scope, its character, and Us success. Mr. Wil- kins never experienced any difficulty in making his views knoirn to his readers. He first decided what was true, what was right, and what was fair and then delivered his message accordingly. Nobody who reads the Washington Post needs to be told that its editor was a man of the most positive and decided convictions; for - y paradoxical as it may appear, that is . 4-V. A 1 . 11 the only sort of a man, who could make, a broad, liberal, fair, honest, independent newspaper. The Wash ington Post is all of this, and what more remains to be said? Others may declare for a "square deal, nothing more, nothing less," but the editor of the Washington Post lived up to it, without let or hindrance. If in our editorial work, we could have but one exchange, we would with no sort of hesitation take the Washington Post. His Policy was that of an original, courageous, independent thinker. And though called in his best manhood, yet he lived to reach his ideal of a newspaper, and has left a pattern worthy of the emulation of the craft. His policy can be easily" preserved, because it was founded on truth, jus tice and fair-dealing. And this is our hope, that while he sleeps, the sleep that knows no waking, yet he may still speak through him, upon whom his wTorthy mantle may fall. THE MERGENTHALER The typesetting machine is prob ably the greatest invention of the 19th century. We say, of the 19th. century, for while there have been some sort of machine to set type for the last hundred years or more, yet the present Mergenthaler machine is the only real successful type setting aparatus. That is so far as we know, in universal use. It is cer tainly so in America, where the greatest newspapers in the world are made. This machine is improperly called a type'-setting machine, we suppose, for want of a better or- more suggestive name. For really it sets no type, as everybody knows, but casts an en tire line of type from melted metal. However, what we want to say, is that in twenty years the whole busi ness of printing papers has been re volutionized. One machine now will do the same amount of work which twenty years ago it required a half dozen men to perform. And if such a thing were possible as the destruc tion of these machines in a single day, the world would be in practical darkness, and it would be almost equivalent to the complete destruc tion, by fire, of all the great news paper offices in the country. These machines are now absolutely essen tial to the great newspaper interests of the world. A few of the smaller weeklies are now "set up" by hand, but it is as impossible to make a daily newspaper now without a machine, as it was for the Egyptians to make brick without straw. v The machine is not yet complete, but improvements are being made every few months on his wonderful in vention. An attachment is now forth coming: that will do the most elabor ate and intricate rule and figure work au; cu.ii uvvwi-v - , This class of work has not hereto- j nent by the transportation com fore been done, but will be in the j panies." . - most perfect manner in the course i of a few months. : -O- WANTED IMMIGRANTS AT $2.00 AHEAD The proposition of the board of ag riculture to the farmers of the State to pay so much ahead for immigrants will test the interest the farmers have in the matter. Two dollars ' ahead will be a good price for those who wil' come. The fact is, no such a propo sition will amount to a row of pins. This very idea presumes they are paupers to start with, and we have plenty of that sort in this country , now. If we can snow we nave au; special advantages to offer to people ; Qtci oa and in other COUn- win 'nnma and eneasre in business but till we can, they will be confiscation of the worst type, be be slow to come. ! cause it tends to destroy by a slow, We note that the argument before i and expensive process. But there is the board was; that great numbers of nothing surer than the "rot" of this vnnntr man WPTfi leaving IU: 1 in 1 ;u fc IUVU --- -i State and going elsewhere. With all defference to the judgment of the men who made it, but the fact re mains it is a very skillful argu ment. If our own people will not stay here, how can we hope to in duce others to rush in and take their places. The fact of the business is, no gen eral effort for immigration to the State will ever amount to anything, at least not till poor land is more in demand than it is now. We have some specific and special interest in the State which have and will continue to attract people from elsewhere. But the farming interest in this State will hardly attract many people who are seeking a State in which money can be made. ' The glory of, our State is, not that it of fers any special inducements to other people to come here in order to make fortunes, but that we have sent thous ands of our best young men to other states who have become leaders in ev ery profession, calling and industry in their new homes. No State in the Union has done so much, along this line as our own. And the world is better off as a conse quence. BUTTING A ROCK WALL A gentleman said to us yesterday, "No use to butt against a rock wall." That is true, from one point of view. But the Improper understanding of such a declaration, may teach a most pernicious and Impotent doctrine. The fact is, no man can do anything, except by accident, who has not some. sense. This world does not afford good grazing for fools. The reasonableness or impossibil ity, of almost every proposition de pends upon the point of view one takes and the interpretation given to it. Most achievements which are val uable, are accomplished through diffi- ma. v. UVWiUIlCUVU lillvUgU U11XL culties. Sometimes these seem to be - as formidable as the literal rock wall. The very fact that these diffi culties are great and apparently in surmountable, makes the triumph more . striking and more valuable. Religious and political liberty came to this country by "butting against a rock wall." The discovery of the country itself came because one man had the hardihood to put his head against a rock wall. Martin Luther first butted a rock wall and then "butted" into a foreign country and gave his life for the conversion of the heathen. There has been no great triumph in the political, social, or re ligious world, that has not been pre ceded by butting, a wall, by somebody. All scientific research, and the rich results which have followed, have come to us because some man with a thought, with an idea, that had not yet gotten to the average man, faced the storm - and ridicule . of the rabble, and reached his goal often in poverty and in rags. No, there is no use to butt against a wall, simply for the" sake of the performance; that would be the act of an idiot. But if the wall ought to be removed, and the best interests of the -world and of humanity de mand that it should come down, then every true man ought .to take his turn and do his part to butt it down. There is nothing, in the universe infalliable, except God and his laws, these are the same yesterday, to-day and forever. But whatever man has constructed, however formidable it may appear, is to perish with the us ing, and may and ought to be changed or done away with, whe nthe good of humanity demands it. HE HAS STAKED IT OFF Col. Hoke Smith, of Georgia, is ear ly in getting on his gubernatorial platform. Its enunciation, however, completely crowds Tom Watson, off the Populistic front bench, and he must make new declarations, or have a fuss with Col. Smith. It looks like when a Populist makes a discovery, some Democrat beats him to it,, and has the claim all staked off before the populist gets ready to register his claim. Col. Smith did not have to puzzle his brain long to get his proposed chart, for the guidance of the Democratic-ship. There is certain ly nothing new or striking in its pres ent form. Here is a samplg of what he gives out: "I favor the enlargement of the power of railroad commissioners so as to give to them all the authority of the State to protect the rights of the public in connection with trans portation companies. "I favor placing the whole power of the State behind a commission de voted to the interests of the peor of the State to obtain for the people of the State reasonable and iust treit- That's the genuine stuff. And the Democratic party; has been hearing about just that thing ever ' since the presence of Ben Terrell, of Texas, and Marion Butler, of Samson county, came into public notice in our State. In Mr. Smith's slate for the govern ment of railroads, there is only one class of men who are not illegible to a place on the commission, and who have no voice in the administration of their own property, that is the class of men who know something about the practical workings of a railroad.. These men can have nothing to do with the administration of the roads, any farther than to meet the expense of operation. Such legislation would be an outrage upon public decency 'to say nothing of justice. It would 10 iu. vuutuLc cratic platform, which is" to be born by Col.'s Smith, Bryan, Tom Johnson Dunne, and Some lesser lights, who are to play short stop during the game. If such men had their way, and we ought to be thankful to God they have not, and never will have, the railroad interests in this country would go to the dogs and to the devil, just as it has in other countries, where the government has with an iron hand, usurped the rightful pre rogatives of the individual citizen. Nobody would object to reasonable restraints being placed around the operation of railroads, they ought not to be allowed to discriminate against towns, nor against individual shippers, and ought not to be allowed to give rebates to anybody. Against all of this, we have the most-ample security, that is if the enactment of law can provide such security. If 1 these laws are unavailing now, how much better will they become by any authority which can be conferred upon an Inter-State commission. The whole object and aim in this matter, is, to form a sort of political auxil ary in order to strengthen and per petuate political parties in power and such enunciations of Col. Smith, thus early in the season, are nothing more than musty stock-arguments of a political demagogue. OUR SUNDAY THOUGHT "I am persuaded that the suffering of this presnt time is not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us." The Apostle Paul knew more; saw more and heard more than any of his contemporaries of which history, in any " way way speaks. He was in his early ca reer what would be termed, a harden ed sinner, for itwas late in life before he was attracted by divine things. The Lord knew he was not the sort of game to be taken, with light shot, so he laid him out with one stunning blow, which made him throw on the back gear and set a new schedule for the balance of his run through his earthly pilgrimage. The other disciples quit their fish ing and money changing and followed the Master on his first invitation. Paul had larger purposes and was af ter bigger game, and so it took a knock-out blow to get him. What Paul's mind saw and his heart felt during the days of his blindness, he seems not to be eager to disclose. The fact is, Paul was never very profligate, in detailing what he saw, 'nor what he felt, it matters not whether the experience was one of joy or of sorrow, he in the main kept it to himself. The great element of strength' In the Apostle's writing is, that he wrote from a conviction and often strong from personal experience and observation. Nobody had better authority for what he said, than did the Apostle to the gentiles. He was always careful in his narations to discriminate between what "I, Paul wrote," and that which came to him by inspiration. Take the present declaration and we have only to refer briefly to the Apostles stirring history, to qualify him as a competent witness in the matter of bodily suf fering. "I am persuaded that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to b? compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us." This Was uttered after Paul had had his set-to with the robbers, he had been in the deep, had bared his back to the lash, had been beaten with rods, and finally stoned and thrown out of the city for dead. The validity of testimony . always depends more than all else upon two circumstances: one is, the opportun ity of the witness to know the facts about which he testifies. The other is, the reuptation for truthfulness, which the testifier enjoys. If these two circumstances can be established for a witness, his testimony always tcV.s in the matter at issue. Paul knew what it was to suffer. And the matter of his integrity was just as well settled. He never preached to the other a living-standard of that he himself did not exempli in Lis own daily walk and conversa tion. . He saw what, was not' lawful to be uttered, and this was the vision which brought out the declaration of the glory which should be revealed in us. He does not tell what he saw, but he does say he was caught up in i the third heaven, where he had his own vision which was not for the world. But was a secret between him and his Master. Paul was no day dreamer, he put his time and talent to bettor use. Ho never talked much about heaven, nor death, nor eternity; but the burden of .his -message was to straighten up the lives of men. There will be no trouble about the celestial city, the golden streets and the meek and low ly, if we can only be worth at last to see and enjoy these things. God has not promised us anyt-nng but a I:a:e. we must carry vv.v furniture with us, or we shall find ourselves poor even in heaven.. This glory that Paul speaks of, was not to be revealed to us, nor for us, but in us, and this must be the final test." It can only be revealed after it has been stored up in the battery of our hearts, just as the arc light is pro duced when the battery is store 1 up with electricity. When this is accom plished it will fully compensate for all of .our troubles and disappoint ments, such as the Apostle had seen and in which he had fellowship. Charity and Children Is a decided favorite among its exchanges. The editor of that paper combines the essentials from an old field school teacher to an original philoso pher. The attention . he gives to correcting the improper use of words is a good feature because among its readers are many children and boys and girls who may be permanently benefitted by these reminders. Like most editors, Brother Johnson likes to carry things his way. This he demonstrated early In life, as the 'following Incident will suggest. His older brother, while engaged In teaching in the Eastern portion of the State, fell in love with a beautiful young lady. And wanting to devote more time to her than his school room duties allowed, he asked his brother Arch to come over and help him. He came. The girl In' question is now the mistress of the editor's home, and his brother has been bo careful ever since, concerning the kind of help he employs, that he is yet a bachelor. WTe would not tell this story, but it has been too long for the grand jury to take account of iL O- Timid. "Don't you think her husband Is a naturally a gentle; patien man?" ''Sometimes I think he is and some times I think she's got him scared. Houston Post - A successful man keeps his eyes and ears opn and his mouth closed. WITH THE EDITOfeS A LITTLE. MORE LIMIT NEEDED In the fact that the Seaboard Air Line has gone into the excursion bus iness, we have evidence that the com pany wants to make money. It will doubtless net a neat sum as the re sult of its summer excursion business. There is another way it can make money without running an extra train, or without going to the slight est expense. It has simply to ex tend the limit of its week-end tickets. People do not care to go Wilmington or Blowing Rock only to turn right around and come back, but if they could have a chance to get a little rest and "knock about" a day or two,, thouasnds would invest in the week end tickets, where now only hun dreds buy. If the ticket-seller would be authorized to punch his hole a couple of figures higher up, the com pany would see a Vast increase in the sales of. its tickets. Chalotte Chronicle. o MR BONAPARTE AND THE SOUTH It comes as something like a shock to find administration organs hailing the appointment of Mr. Bonaparte to the cabinet as a "recognition of the South. So far as the South, the real South is concerned, Mr. Bonaparte is an en tirely unknown quantity. Up New England way they have a sort of hazy idea that anything below New York is "Southern", but down in this neck of the woods it Is very difficult to persuade anybody that a man can live in Baltimore all his life and be a Southerner. Mr. Bonaparte is an able, high class representative citizen of Maryland. The South would doubtless be glad enough to claim him as her own if she had had any claim upon him; but in the absence of any such valid claim, the natural tendency will be to resent the suggestion that there is any recognition of the South in his appointment. Especially will the Republican par ty in the Southern States resent the accrediting of the appointment to it. There may not be much of a Repub lican party down this way, but what there is of it knows its own. The fact is, Mr. Bonaparte . is not much, of a Republican anywhere. He is a Republicanized mugwamp, . with the mugwamp characteristics pre dominating. There is personal friend-' ship in his appointment, and, perhaps, there may be some sentiment in seer ing a descendant of the king of West phalia sitting in the administration household; but just where the good politics of the appointment comes, in it is difficult to see. In any event, Mr. Bonaparte does not belong to the South. Washing ton Post. WHAT THEY ARE DOING North Carolina's representatives in Congress seem to be attracting their man took a prominent part in the ! full share of attention. Senator Over :- Smoot investigation as a member of the Senate committee at the last ses sion of Congress and is now in Port land, Ore., as a member of the Sen ate committee on the exposition open ing. Senator Simmons has taken a leading part in the discussions in Congress relative to immigration and is the author of the immigration bill; he is now studying the immigration problem in the West. Representative Small is a member of the congression al committee in attendance upon the Lewis and Clark exposition; he was very successful at the last session of Congress in securing river and har bor appropriations for North Caro lina. Representative Kitchin. cf thi3 district, has taken a prominent part in the discussions on naval affairs and is regarded as an authority on t the subject. Representative Pou has taken a leading part in pure food leg islation; Representative Webb recent ly made a speech on the tariff which attracted attention throughout the country; while our other members of Congress have made splendid records in various .ways. In spite of the fact that the state ment is made sometimes that South ern men have not the qualities of leadership and statesmanship to a high degree it is certain that there is' nothing in the record of our congres sional delegation that would call for an apology on the part of any North Carolinian. Our members of Con gress are certainly attracting atten tion not only in this section but in other parts of the country. Times Dispatch. o AUTOMOBILES IN AND OUT. The fact that practically a million dollars' worth of automobiles and parts thereof have been exported from the United . States since ' the begin ning of the present calendar year lends Interest to the folowing compil ation prepared by the Department of Commerce and LaTjbr through its Bu reau of Statistics, showing the Imports and exports of automobiles In the commerce of the United States. The first record of the Importation of foreign-built automobiles Into the United States was for the fiscal year 1901, when 26 automobiles, valued at 143,126, were imported Into the coun try. Since ' that year, however, the imports have steadily Increased, hav ing grown from 26 in 1901 to 423 in 1904, while their value (including automobile parts ( has increased from 147,471 In 1901 to $1,446,303 in the last fiscal year. - During the last fiscal year France supplied 86 per cent -of the importa tions of automobiles Into the United