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RICHMOND, VA. j UR8E8T SEES H08SEII THEtMTI. THE EEITOBS'S LEISURE HOUBS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. It really is deplorable that so many garioua wrecks have occurred on the Soaboard Air Line railroad in so short a time. Whether it has been by reas on of carelessness we are not disposed to gness, even ; but one thing is cer tain : If wrecks continue at this rate much longer the travelling public will get shy of that railroad. "Those who live in glass houses must not throw stones," they say ; and yet it has been observed that a good deal is said about lawlessness in the South by those who are surrounded by a pretty thick atmosphere of it. For instance, it has been given out that a New York City has had a grand jury this year which had to investigate thirty-five cases of homicide. Meanwhile some people up in that part of the country talk glibly about lawlessness in the South. Free rural delivery continues to com mend itself to the public. A gentle men of fine observation said to us a few days ago that the system is destined to do great gocd to the districts in which it prevails. Persons living along the lines will have as easy mailing privil eges as many of the towns. As we have hinted before, it trill go a long way towards matins: many content to live in the rural districts who hereto fore have chafed under it simply be cause they lacked the mailing facilities. It would seem that party prejudices are weakening in more places than one. President Roosevelt recently appointed a Iteaiocratto animportant position in Alabama ; Governor Crane, of Mass achusetts, had the appointing of a Judge recently, and while most of the applicants were of his own party he appointed a Democrat because he thought he was the best man ; there is a fight on against Tammany in New York, and the ticket contains names of eleven men who are regarded as Dem ocrats. Much has been spoken and written from time to time in the way of adyice about debt. Many persons will tell you neyer to go in debt at all, while others will tell you that it is all right to go in debt just so you think you can get out at the proper time and in the proper way. Well, perhaps both these positions should be regarded with some caution. The truth is, going in debt has made some men and ruined some and the latter class is by far the larger. It depends upon a man's ability to do certain things as to whether or not he ought to go in debt. It is a good mas ter for some and a bad master for others. The South has done wonders iu in dustrial development during the past decade, but its chief strides are now baing credited to ?ts educational devel opment. The Saturday Eyening Post aays : "Giving full credit to the South's re markable industrial deyelopment, the fact remains that its best work is in education. More is being done than most people suppose. The Peabody fund of $3,500,000, in spite of the loss oi $1,380,000 in the repudiated bonds of Mississippi and Florida, has furnish- ei within thirty-three years nearly three millions of dollars for educating taacbers for the public schools. The million dollars given by John F. Slater In 1882 for educating the negroes has increased to $1,500,000 and-jias done great and growing good. Of the scores of colleges and universities, Vander b It in Tennessee and Tulane in New Orleans have endowments of over a million dollars each ; the University of Texas has $2,600,000 ; Washington and Lee in Virginia has nearly a mil lion, and others have from one to sev- hnnrlrfid thousand. In the various collegiate institutions there are about 3nnno students. Add to all these figures the 5.000,000 pupils enrolled in the public schools, and the showing Kv.nm. imnressive. Here is not only the hope but the assurance of the South's progress and prosperity. LINCOLN WISHED TO STOPBLOODSHED. The Offer Ee Bid Not Mate. ANXIOUS TO HAVE THE WAS CEASE. News and Observer. To the Editor : Referring to an ar ticle I recently wrote showing that at the Hampton Roads Conference, Mr. Lincoln made no offer of any terms to the South except unconditional sub mission, I wish to add a word which doubtless will be of interest to some of your readers. Although Mr. Lincoln offered no terms at the conference, yet he took the subject under considera tion, ana as iar as mr. .Lincoln was personally concerned, President Davis' purpose In proposing and having that conference was not without effect. Mr. Lincoln returned to Washington animated by the. purpose to close the war, if possible, without further b'ood shed, and to save the millions of dollars expended in carrying it on. He spent a whole day in considering the subject and on the evening of February 5tb, called his cabinet together to lay hie ideas before them. He submitted to his cabinet a message to Congress in which he asked Congress to pass a res olution authorizing him to offer to the South four hundred millions of dollars ; one-half to be paid when the Confeder ate armies were disbanded, if done by April 1st, and the other half to be paid when the constitutional amendment abolishing slayery was adopted, if done by July 1st. The cabinet however unanimously objected. The subject was then dropped and never afterwards brought up. In an article published in the New York Tribune, September 13tb, 1885, Secre tary Usher first made this matter known to the public. He said : The members of the cabinet were all oppo ed to it. Mr. Lincoln seemed some what surprised at that and asked, "How loss will the war last ?" No one answered, but he soon said, "A hundred days. We are spending now in carrying on the war three millions a day, which will amount to all this money, besides all the lives." With a deep sigh, he added, "But you are all opposed to me and I will not send the message." Secretary Wells in his diary said : "The scheme did not meet with favor but was dropped. In the present tem per of Congress, the proposed measure, if a wise one, would not be carried through successfully." The matter never was brought up again, it was neyer communicated to any Confederate. ' It was not made public. John Hay says in his history, "Few cabinet secrets were better kept than this proposal of the President and its discussion." I make these quotations from the History of Abraham Lincoln, written by John G. Nicholey and John Hay, private secretaries to the President; and this chapter is published In the November number of The Century, 1889. This narration shows that Mr. Lin coln never made any offer of terms at Hampton Roads ; but that he was led to consider the subject ; that be was anxious to have Congress to authorize him to make this offer of four hun dred millions tor immediate peace; hat the malignants objected ; that sor rowfully he allowed himsell to be overruled ; that the matter was kept a cabinet secret ; that it was never com municated to any Confederate ; that it was only made public years afterwards. It also shows that Mr. Lincoln was dominated by the malignants. He did not dare to antagonize them. He knew j them and submitted to them. Andrew Johnson did, after slavery was abolished, after the South had sub mitted unconditionally, and had come back into the Union, dare to oppose them ; and they impeached him. Some people are in the habit of say ing, "Had Mr. Lincoln lived, thus and " The truth is If Mr. Lincoln bad lived, the malignants would have dom inated him as they always dominated him. He never antagonized them. His kindliness of heart led him one way. the malignants compelled mm a a. flTTW another way. b. a. aoxx. Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 16. SEVEN YEARS IN BED. uTirm nrtnifora Aver cease?" inquire the friends of Mrs. L .Pease, .of Law- rence. Kan. iney utw - unable to leave her bed in feven years on acconnt of kidneyand liver trouble, nervous prostration and general debil ity ; but, "Three bottles of Electric "and in three months I felt like a new Church Hymns. Selected. Considerable interest and perhaps some uneasiness has been aroused of late by criticism, widely reported and discussed, of certain well-known and popular church hymns. The critics urge that our most common hymns "are not literature ;" that they do not possess sufficient literary excellence to win the approval of intelligent and cultivated minds, and therefore would better be dropped. Objections of this kind and they are not made for the first time are usually made by men who are better known for their literary attainments than for their' religious experience. They are based on an error. Neither in conception nor in purpose are hymns intended to be literature.; Many of them are literature in the strictest sense. Yet who supposes that Luther was stirred by literary ambition when he produced "A Mighty Fortress is Our God?" or that John Faucett, the obscure country preacher, thought he was producing literature when he wrote "Blest Be The Tie That Binds?" The one was beset by foroes with which he felt himself unable to contend alone, the other touched by the love of the humble parishioners who crowded about to beg him to decline a call to a rich ohuroh in London. Each gave yoice to the spirit whioh ;sang in his heart, and so were born one of the noblest songs of Christian courage and one of the tenderest expressions of Christian brotherhood. It is not what the hymns are, but what they do, that counts. Think of the noble list the "Rock of Ages," "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah," Lead, Kindly Light," "Jeeus, Lover of my Soul" and hosts of others which have molded the religious life of the whole English-speaking race. They have Inspired deeds of love and mercy, instilled patience and courage in the depressed, comforted the dying, and consoled those who mourned. So long as they continue to do these things they fulfill the purpose for which they were intended, and are worthy of the place they hold in the hearts of those who sing them. A RAGING, ROARING FLOOD. Washed down a telegraph line which Chas. C. Ellis, of Lisbon, la., had to repair. "Standing waist deep in icy water, be writes, "gave me a terrible cold and cough. It grew worse daily. Finally the best doctors. In Oakland, Neb., Sioux City and Omaha said I had Consumption and could not live. Then I began using Dr. King's New Discovery and was wholly cured by six bottles." 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There is nothing else to live wOoodL on or by. When strength js full and spirits high, we are being re freshed, bone muscle and brain, in body and mind, with con tinual flow of rich blood. This is health. When weak, in low spirits, no cheer,, no spring, when rest is not rest and sleep is not sleep, we are starved ; our blood is poor; there is little nutri ment in it. Back of the blood, is food, to keep the blood rich. When it fails, take Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil. It sets the whole body going again man woman and child. If tom have not tried it, aend tor free sample, its agreeable taste will surprise you. SCOTT S: BOWNE, Chemists 109-415 Pearl Street, ' Hew ToSV. 50c. and Ji-oopaa druggists- N nmuALisn. Especially in Newspapers. A LOSS IBRE? ARABLE NOW. Charlotte Observer. One of the most marked characters ties of old-time journalism was the identification of the newspaper with the personality of its editor. This was intensified by the great and bitter con test over slayery In the first half of the century. Since then the tendency has been to swallow np the individual ity of the makers of a newspaper In the paper Itself. The personality of Charles A. Dana, however, clung to The Sun until his death within recent years, and Henry Watterson, of The Louisville Courier-Journal, is left as the last of the great editors who were greater than their papers. This ten dency Is less prominent in Southern journalism. Clark Howell's name comes to mind with the mention of The Atlanta Constitution, Estill's is coupled indissolubly with The Savan nah Morning News, Hemphill's with The Charleston News and Courier and Gonzales' with The Columbia State, but, with the growth of Southern cities, the tendency is toward securing a good, reliable newspaper without a care or a thought for the editor's per sonalty. It is the result of the impe tus in modern life toward concentration, and is not altogether a reassuring or gratifying sign of the times The ten dency is most noticeable in journalism but is not confined to that profession. The editor of "Success" in a recent issue says : "One of the worst features of the concentrated life of modern times is the loss of individuality and personal characteristics. "We do not find in our national life, at the present day, the striking, strong individuality of early history. The hewing, polishing process of modern civilization seems to grind away all of the sharp corners of individuality, and everything tends to assume a conven tional form. People seem to be run in the same mold. "A strong, striking character is a rare thing in these days. The indivi dual is lost in the mass. Cities grind away and erase independence. Unfor tunately, there is many a man who seems to be content to be one of the crowd, and not a leader of the crowd. "With some notable exceptions, newspapers lack individuality. Their opinions are Impersonal, and the edi tors are lost. Few people know who writes the editorials of the leading articles.- The days of Dana and Greely and Bowles seem to have gone forever. Nobody in particular is responsible for any opinion or policy. Everything is referred to the stockholders. Not only do the editors lose their Individuality, but so also does everyone who Is con nected with each paper. Concentration In large centers is largely responsible for this. The dis semination of knowledge through newspapers, and the multiplication of books, magazines, and libraries, has ad ded very materially to this unfortu nate loss. The strength of a nation lies in the stalwart individuality of its citizens. When this is lost, civiliza tion becomes insipid and powerless." 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Five years ago there were in all the country about four thousand such libraries, containing about thirty three million volumes ; now their num ber is neirly five thousand four hun dred, and the books they hoube exceed forty-four and a half millions. In the past year alone, from June 1, 1900, to June 1, 1901, more than sixteen mil lion dollars, in gifts and bequests, have gone to American libraries. More encouraging even than the great figures themselves are the facts regarding the distribution of the money and books throughout the country as a whole. East and Wast, North and South have found themselves enriched in the power which books can impart. Of all the states and territories, only eleven are without record of gifts dur ing this wonderful year. When the longer columns of indus trial and commercial development are added up, these library figures must be placed beside them. Thus we may re mind ourselves that the growth of the nation is not entirely an Increase of dollars. Thanks to a score of agencies -the spread ot popular education, the Interest in patriotie and civie study, the activity of clubs of intellectual purpose, and many other causes the things of the mind are winning their own fair chance ot development. Be fore many years the public library must become as necessary in every town as the public school system. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is not a mere stimulant to tired nature. It affords the stomach complete and absolute rest by digesting the food yon eat. You don't have to diet but yon can enjoy all the good food you want. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure instantly relieves that distressed feeling after eating, giving you new life and vigor. J5. T. White bead & Co. She "Don't jump so, dear; that's only the cuckoo clock in the hall." He "Oh, is that all? I thought it was your father coming down the stairs. You'll tell me when he comes, won't you, dear?" She "Oh, it will not be necessary, love, to tell you; youll know it when papa comes." Philadelphia Sun. 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M. .. ... ...... ...... mum.i. Ar. Ooldsboro 7 65 Lv. Ooldsboro 6 45 S St Lv. Magnolia 7 61 4 SS Ar. Wilmington so OS P. M. A. M. P. M. TRAINS GOING NORTH. s !"! i s i ftfl . fl o S? o off ! o ?S a o a A. M P. M. Lv. Florence 50 7 85 Lv. Fayettevllle 12 15 9 41 LeaveSelma 160 11.15 Arrive Wilson 2 35 12 13 " a.'m.' " p.'m". A."E1 Lv. Wrt.ninffton 7 oo 9 3 Lv. Kagnolia 8 30 11 IS Lv. Ooldsboro 4 50 9 37 12 21 """ p."m a."m! p."m". v'."v. Leave Wilson 2 35 6 33 12 13 10 45 lit Ar. Rocky Mt. 3 30 6 10 12 45 11 2:1 1 6S a ...... ...... Arrive Tarboro 6 Aft Leave Tarboro 9 31 . . ......... sss ss Lv. Rocky Mt. 3 30 12 45 Ar. Weldon 4 32 1 so P. M. A. M. P.M. tDaily except Monday. tDaily ex cept Sunday. Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, Yadkin Division Main Line Train leaves X ilmington, 9 00 a. m., arrives Fayetteville 12 05 p. m., leaves Fayette. vine 12 zd p. m., arrives eaniora i 3 i. m. Returning leaves canford o v i. m.. arrives Favetteville 4 20 n. m.. leaves Fayettevllle 4 20 p. m., arrives Wilmington y zo p. m. Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Rannftttfiviile Branch Train leaves Bennettsville 8 05 a. m., Maxton 9 05 m.. Red Springs v 50 a. m., Hope Mills 10 55 a. m., arriyes Fayetteville 11 10 a. m. Retnrnine leaves Favette ville 4 45 p. m., Hope Mills 5 55 p. m., Ked springs o aa p. m., siaxton o 10 i. m., arrives Bennettsville 7 id p. m. Connections at Favetteville with. train No. 78, at Maxton with the Caro lina Central Railroad, at Red Springs with the Red Springs and Bowmore Railroad, at Sanford with the Seaboard Air Line and Southern Railway, at Gulf with the Durham and Charlotte Railroad. Train on the Soctland Neck Branch Road leaves Weldon 3 :55 p m., Hali'sr. :17 p. nr.., arrives Scotland meca- as :08 p. m., Greenville 6 :57 p. m., Kins- ton 7.55 p. m. Returning leaves Kinston 7 :50 a. m., Greenville 8 :52 a. m., arriving Halifax at 11 :18 a. m., Weldon 11 :83 a. m., da' 7 except Sun day. Trains on wasbirxm franco leave Washington 8 :10 m. and 2 :30 p. m., arrive Parmele I jOa. m. and 4 00 p. m., returning leave Parmele 9 :3; M 3. and 6 :30 p. m., arriye Washington 11 KX) a. m. and 7 :30 p. m., daily ex cept Sunday. Train leaves Tarooro, jn.i;., aany except Sunday 5 :30 p. m., Sunday, 4 :15 p. m., arrives Plymouth 7 AO p. m., 6 :10 p. m., Returning, leaves Ply mo .h daily except Sunday, 7 :50 a. na. and (Sunday y :uu a. m., arrives larooro 10 :10 a. m., 11 :00 a. ro. Train nn Midland N. C. Branch leaves Goldsboro daily, except Sunday. v 1 s-t :iLi.lJ S n a i,.ua. n5., arriving onmnneia o :iu a. u.. Returning leaves Smith field 7 :10 a. m. ; arriyes at Goldsboro 8 :25 a. n. 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