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Practice wherever services are required Office: Futrell Building. Scotland Neck, N. C. ESTABLISHED IN 1865. CHAS' M WALSH' Stem Marble acd GranitD WORKS, ... Sycamore St., Petersburg, Va. Monuments, Tombs, Cemetery Curb ing, Ac. All work strictly first class and at Lowest Prices. - I ALSO FURNISH IRON rii FENC1X6, VASES, &C Designs sent to any address free. In writing for them fiteetso ghe age of de em I and limit as to price.. " I Prepay FreiehtcatU Wcrk j JiDITOHJS j-EISURE ?jt OUIS, OBSERVATIONS OF Recently there has been free mention of Governor C. B. Aycock f or'the nomination for Vice-President on the Democratit ticket. Wherever Gov. Aycock is Aycock for Tics-President. known his reputation is such as to commend him. The Washington Times recently said of him : "He is regarded by those who know him and his re cord as one of the ablest men in public office in the South today. He is brilliant and an orator of ability, and has given North Carolina a clean ad ministration. The old objection of a candidate from a secession State should not hold against him, for he is so young as scarce to remember, eyen in a vague sort cf way, any of the stirring eyents of the early 60's. He is greatly beloved by people of his State, ia scholarly, conservative, earnest and conscientious, and if a Southern man is chosen by the Democracy, he is entitled to first-consideration." This is a new descriptive for men who prize office higher than principle, but we think it a good word. The Noriolk Landmark is the author of the . . . .. new expression in the following sentence : "Chicken-Livered. . . , ,. m . . "Chicken-liyered office-holders who cannot con template a mob without thinking of the number of votes Its members rep resent are the bane of the period." It is true, no doubt, in those towns and districts where strikes and mobs prevail that persons who are getting the benefit of an office are afraid to do certain things in the interest of law and order lest they render themselves unpopular with some whose support they would like to retain. There's many a policeman in both large and small towns who connives at many forms and instances of wickedness just because he thinks by doing ro he can hold a pull with those who can help him. "Chicken-liyered" is a good word to describe such fellows. They ought to be displaced always by men who are willing to do their duty re regardless of consequences as to positions in the future. Some one may say that in this sweltering July weather there is no need to think about sowing wheat. Well, it is rather the season for threshing Sewing Wheat. the crops will soon be "laid by" it will be a good time for the farmer to make plans for the planting of fall crops. And in the matter of wheat cul ture the farmers of Eastern Carolina seem much behind. For a number of years this paper has advocated the sowing of wheat, but very little wheat is raised in this part of the State. Sometimes farmers have made a failure on wheat in this region and becoming discouraged by reason of one failure they have about abondoned the crop. This is a mistake. Farmers ought to make wheat here as well as elsewhere! It would be a great saving to their expense, and then wheat is good food for horses. Farmers ought to give more attention to wheat raising here for they would realize much pro fit from it. However, what we started out to say is that this is a good sea son for the farmers to plan their wheat crop for the fall. That was a great gathering-of the week. As many as 85 counties were A Great Gathering. pendent body, maintaining friendly relations with similar associations in other States, but it is entirely independent in its acts, and is non-partisan in character. Its purpose is the abolition of liquor saloons and distilleries by all proper means; the creation and crystalization of a righteous public sentiment, and the proper enforcement of all laws against the liquor traffic. It favors the firm and just enforcement of the Watts law, and it earnestly requests iuture legislatures not to incorporate small towns with the privi lege oi licensing saloons or distilleries. It calls the attention of boards of commissioners of the yarious towns and cities to the danger of whiskey dis tilleries and rectifying establishments, now. forbidden to operate In the country, removing to incorporated towns or cities. This should be pre vented. This organization favors calling an election - under the existing law in every town or city now licensing saloons, where- there is a reasona ble chance of carrying the election against the saloon. This league pledges its assistance in all such elections." ; The Charlotte News has compiled some statistics concerning negro emigration to the North, from which it draws the conclusion that the ne - - groes are not emigrating to the North as fast as The Negro in the North. lbink, It xmMaum- . We may gam some instruction from this array of figures. The largest fact is that the negroes are not eoiog North very much. A gain of 171,000 in ten years, less their natural increase, does not indicate that the North is the Mecca for the Southern negro. The race problem is still af race problem , and the South will have to solve it. For it will be noticed that the North ern States where the population is largest are the most populous States in the Union. This large fact warrants the conclusion, that," with our present cheap and easy way of trayel, the only reason why they emigrate, in large numbers to the North is that he prefers to stay in the South, and he pre fers to stay in the South because he is better treated in the South. Furth-. ermore, The News predicts that there will be an emigration of the negro from the Northern States on account of the recent acta ot mob violence. The Southern mob will string up a negro brute on short order, but does not begin a warfare on the negroes on that account. The Northern mob always has within it the hoodlums who are opposed to the negroes as labor ers more than as criminals. Hence the Northern mob makes an indiscrimi nate attack upon all the negroes in the community. This thing has just started but it will be epidemic before long." . " 11 PASSING EVENTS. known the suggestion has been re ceived quite favorably ; and even where not wheat ; but he who would succeed best in every thing must do the best planning. And now that temperance forces in Raleigh last represented. The following shows something of the principles laid down : "The North Carolina Anti-Saloon League is an inde HISTORIC GETTYSBDRG. GALLANT CAROLINA TBOOPS.: Their Noble Fart in the Great Battle. Capt. W. R. Bond in News and Observer. Probably there is no other historical event in which the testimony of parti cipants has been so conflicting as this affair on the afternoon of the third day at Gettysburg. r When this is the case with witnesses In a ciyil suit, the character of these witnesses is a ma.Vsrct prime .impor tance. In the court of history the military character of .the different or ganizations,, prior, and subsequent to the event investigated, will have to be studied before a just decision can be arrived at. HaviDg marched through such a fire as they were called upon to face, up to the time they were forced to halt and lie down to prevent annihil ation, every brigade appeared to do equally well, but a few minutes later when detachments of the enemy march ed out upon their flank and they were forced either to surrender or retreat, all did not equally well, for in their dis organized condition, rendering any re sistance hopeless, it was their duty when ordered to surrender to refuse to do so and to incur some risk in an effort to rejoin their own people. This, many of them at the salient and near ly all to the left of it, proceeded to do. The right of the line, when command-1 ed to surrender, obeyed the order al most to a man, and for any good they afterwards did the Confederacy, they all might as well have been dead. The men who ran away in preference to surrender, rejoined their friendB, and from that time to Appomattox, continued to reflect honor upon the grand old army of Northern Virginia. PETTIGREW'S AND TRIMBLE'S MEN EXCEL THOSE OF GEN. PICKETT. This equality of well-doing up to the time of lying down in the field, was only apparent. Pickett's division, a body of. fresh men, in continuing to advance, till it had lost twenty-eight per cent, of lis members, did well. As to the other troops, it is known that with the ex ception of one regiment, none oi them were fresh and that most of them had been heavily engaged, and badly cut up two days before. This is known : That in the assault they were subjected to a severer fire than those on the right, and that their loss was much more than twenty-eight per cent, can be proved. Well done, express 38 the deed on the right, excellently done, the deed on the left. CHARACTER OF TROOPS COMPARED. From the battle of Malvern Hill to the Pennsylvania campaign, the three brigades composing Pickett's division, lost in killed and wounded, only seven hundred and seventy-two. In tie same twelve months the men who did the real fighting for the army and as a rule got little credit for doing it, lost three or four times as mncb. For in stance, there were the three brigade?, Lane's, Scales' and Archer's, of the "Light Division," and for that period their loss was three thousand six hun dred and ten. The brigades in the army which lost most heavily in killed and wounded at Gettysburg were (1) Pettigrew's North Carolina, (2) Davis' Mississippi and North Carolina, (3) Daniel's North Carolina, (4) Barkdale's Mississippi. These four had an aver age of eight hundred and " thirty-seven killed and wounded. Pickett's three brigades had an average of four hun dred and fifty-five. When the insig nificance of their loss in so many bat tles was mentioned to the men of Ar mistead's, Garrett's and Kemper's bri gades, they would say that this fact was owing to the small size of their regiments. This reply might have had some weight had they not made so poor a show on the per eentage tables and numbers have nothing to do with that test of courage and efficiency. Then, too, there was no reason why these organizations should have been small, for "when the battles around Richmond in 1862 began, they were large enough to average for duty four hundred and forty-six per regiment. At that time enthusiasm abounded and war was looked upon as not much more than a picnic. A GREAT SOLDIER AND A GOOD MAN. General Lee was too great a soldier not to realize before the assault was oyer that he had made a fearful mis take, and when the broken fragments of the brigade he had ordered to amoet certain death, drifted back to his line, he was toojgrand and generous not to assume to the full all the responsibili ty. For years it was believed by many that he did not mean exactly what be said at that time, bat his purpose was to shield some one who bad blundered. All now know that his was a tranVand truthful confession of the mistake that he, and not another, had made. Why so good a soldier should have thus erred in judgment is not so well known. The probable cause of it i that he was laboring under a misap prehension as to the morale of the Federal army. Only two months before he had gained a brilliant victory over this ar my which was more than twice as numerous as his own when the battle opened, and much more . than twice as numerous at its close. Seventeen thousand, from " an army of one hun dred tbousand, does not count for ae much as twelye thousand from one of forty thousand. In real truth the victory he gained at Chanceliorsyille was one over Gen eral Hooker and not over the army of the Potomac, for though a part of that army had been badly beaten two full corps had been held in reserve and had not fired a shot. One of these, the First, was by tar the best corps in its army, in fact, it was the equal of any division in our army. When General Lee arrived at Gettysburg on the after noon of the first day's battle, he saw two Federal corps in retreat a part of them in very great disorder msking tor the ridge back of the ton. Both of these organizations had suffered very severely, one of them, the First, had been almost destroyed, but before retreating it had inflicted a greater numerical loss upon his prople than it had itself sustained. This General Lee did not know till after the battle. Then, the next day, Longstreet, with three divisions, had fought a drawn battle with what he supposed to be the whole Federal army. With only these lights before him, he, on the third day, staked all on a single throw and lost. FORCE AND POWER OF THE ARMY. A prominent British officer has de clared that "for its numbers the aimy of Northern Virginia had more force and power than any army that ever ex isted," and be it always remembered that North Carolinians did the heavy work of that army.; be it also remem bered that they ever received scant praise for doing that work which made reputation for so many others. THE HOOD IDEA. To assume the fiercely aggressive at all times and under all circum stances, wheneyer the enemy was in striking distance, may be styled the "Hood Idea." This school of strat egy as opposed to the offensive, defen sive of General Jackson, is in a large measure responsible for the downfall of the Confederacy. Some of our generals seemed to consider any other than a front attack a taking an unfair advantage of the. enemy. A striking below the belt as it were. Then, too, public opinion demanded aggressive energy on the part of the army, and often this demandcould be satisfed in no other way. However blind and ig norant was this common opinion it should have learned a lesson from the result of the seven days' battle, and that of the second day at Chanceliors yille. In the first named the enemy inflicted a loss in killed and wounded twice as great as they themselves suffer ed and did almost as well for them selves in the second. In both cases the Federals though defeated, were relatively stronger in numbers at the close of the battle than at the begin ning. In both cases the moral effect re mained to us and that was about all we had to show. - Tbes? sleep-walkers of ours having ears add bearing not, having eyes and seeing not, were destined to a fearful awakening and it came on a certain afternoon in July, '63. Here our loss es were up intou the thousands, while that ot the enemy was confined to the dozens. THE MYTHICAL BATTLE. Much that has. been written about an imaginary battle near what the bat tlefield guides call th "bloody angle," is to be justly characterised by the old fashioned term, lies. Numerous artists have also depicted this mythical er gagement. There may , have been a melee of one or two minutes duration such as had occurred on a hundred other occasions though a great many CATARRH OF THE STOMACH. When the stomach Is overloaded ; when food is taken into it that fails to digest, it decays and inflames the mu cous membrane, exposing the nerves, and causing the glands to secret mucin, instead of the natural juices of digest ion. This is called catarrh of the stom- ..I, uw mum T anfffuwd wtth Catarrh o the Stomach, caused by IndigestionTT Doctors and medicines tailed to benefit me until I used Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. tH. M,Ce 3, TW SoU by present failed to see it. Pictures, illus trating 'this event in which soldiers punch each other on the nose with one hand while shooting one another in the stomach with the other, though dramatic, are wanting in accuracy. Why Pickett's men should have been unduly impressed, .with the supposed importance of this lutle affair, is easily understood when it is recalled, that however proficient thsy may have been in all the lessons of the drill master, their experience in the real tug of war was very limited. The following is an extract taken from the close of a letter written by Mr. W. R. Mobneton. of Belleview. Pa., in which be gives an account of the loss in the first day's battle of the two fl-tgs ot his regi ment 149th Pa. of Stone's brigade. First corps: "On the third day, what was left of our regiment was on the second line, on the right of the Vermont brigade, and I had a splended chance to see Pickett advance, untirt everything becr.me obscured by the smoke. It was a tplendid sight to see the advance and a very enjoyable one to me as I felt sure we were going to get sweet revenge for our sufferings on the first. I often smile when I read various accounts of the terrible band to hand encounter at the Monewhll. About the only difficulty 1 experienced was to keep from being trampled upon by the Confederates who were trying to get to the rear when the Vermonters swung out on (heir flank." STRENGTH OF THK ASSAULTING COLUMN. In estimating the strength of the column, no account should be taken of the brigade which should have held ton extreme left, as they did their side more baim than good. Their conduct indeed tended 'ogive aid and comfort to the enemy and in a corresponding degree to depress their friends. Tie eight other brigades carried in I think not more than tea thousand. Forty nine hundred for Pickett's three brig ades, and fifty-one hundred for the oth er five. Estimates generally make the number several thousand more. Short lo after the battle an order was issued from headquarters that the slightly wounded should not be reported on the casualty list. That is, no man who could walk, though of course for some time he might oe unfit lor duty, was to be reported. In making estimates of strength, writers are apt to overlook thib order. They are told that such a regiment or brigade had for duty on the day of battle, so many officers and men. They then find out the number of killed, wounded or captured in the battle. They take one number from the other and the remainder they think should be the number to respond to the roll call next day, and just hire they make a very great mistake, tcr only about forty per cent, of that num ber would report for duty. Of course, ordinarily, few ot the unreported wounded would answer to their names Then, too, after a severe battle, there would be a certain number who would for a few days be so demoralized that were another fight iminent they would either feign sickness or straggl) off Then there is another ciacs men brave as the bravest but with such a temperament that when the reaction comes on after the nervous strain ot battle they are really sick and unfit for duty. THE EVIL GENIUS OF THE CONFEDERACY. General Longstreet has said that in the great war we had too much Vii ginia. We unquestionably had too much Richmond. The editor of the Richmond Examiner, a man ot bril liant theories but unsound judgment, was probably more responsible for the death of the Confederacy than any other one man. He was the manu facturer of public opinion on nearly every subject for the whole 8outh along with many other vagaries be ia believed to have been responsible fur what has been styled the "Hood Idea." This idea, both in the seven days battles and on the second day at Chancellors ville came much nearer wrecking the army of Northern Virginia than is gen erally supposed, ana it did its work ef fectually with the western army at Franklin. Even after General Jack son's death if his style of fighting to so place his command that the enemy would be forced to attack him been more popular with all our commanders it is almost certain that in spite ot all the odds agiinet os, Southern inde pendence would haye been secured. W. R. BOND. Scotland Neck, N. C , July 1, 1903. FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS. 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I have seen it used in a number ol Convalescent cases, and have seen sev eral other tonics used, but I found thai those who used Peruna had the quickest relief. Peruna seems to restore vitality, Increase bodily vigor and renew health and strength In m wonderfully short time." MRS. KATE TAYLOR. In view of the great multitude ol women suffering from some form of fe male disease and yet unable to find any cure, Dr. Hartman, the renowned spe cialist on female catarrhal diseases, haj announced his willingness to direct the treatment of as many cases as make application to him during the summer months, without charge. Address The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus, Ohio. Origin ef "My Maryland." Southern Farm Magazine. Mr. James R. Randall has conlerred a benefit upon his fellows by giving to the Columbia State the following ac count of his authorship of. the stirring war song, "Maryland, My Maryland :" "In the year 1861 I was, though a very young man, a professor at Poydras College, par'sn of Point Coupee, Louis iana. This college had been built and endowed by a rich Creole planter. It was situated on a lake about seven miles from the Mississippi liver, in a region largely devoted to sugar-cane production, the inhabitants being chiefly of French descent and habitu ally speaking that language. To get oar mail at that time we had to go to the postoffice at a village on the river bank. One day in April I rode over there aDd received the New Orleans Delta, which contained a graphic ac count ot the passage of the Massachu setts regiment through Baltimore, my native city, and the sanguinary encoun ter with a crowd of infuriated men who proposed to resist ail Invasion of Vir ginia soil. This narrative inflamed my soul, and a9 I at that period had the gift of poetry, the thoughts surg ing in my brain took the shape of verse. That night I conld not sleep, and I seemed tormented into sung. I rune from my bed, lit a candle and beu to write at my desk. The meter of one of James Clarence Mangan's poems in stinctively presented iolf as a proper vehicle of what I wished to express, and I, with some rapidity, wrought out "Maryland, My Maryland.' Tlio mext morning J retouched the poem, polishing it here ai;d there, and then read it to my pupils, who received it with enthuiam. I copied and pent it to the Delta I ir publication. My ex pectation wax tliMt it would contribute s mewhat lo the lytu-xi liiMorv of trie day, but I hardly anticipated what really hapiened. t'inre that time I have written poems that are more ar tistic than 'Maryland, My Maryhnd but this one poem seems to cling to me in a way to eclipse all other pro. ductlonsof mine, and for many years I have abandoned all attempts at poetic cultivation, partly because of necessity and partly because I became interested in practical prose writing. Sometimes when I look . back on my romantic yoath it is hard to lelieve I am the same individual, so radical baa been the transformation. But you only asked for the genesis of 'My Maryland and I must not be tempted to intrude upon your time or space by psychologic or other reminfsoential musing." I OR ECZEMA, Pimples, Danruff , and all skin diseases, use Hancock's Liquid Sulphur. In each eases a" Scale Eczema, and sores ot any nature, when the akin becomes drv and harsh, you should use Ilan- cook's 8ulphur Ointmentta connection with the Liquid. A few applications of Hancock's Liquid Sulphur will care tlrsri-rt d PlfcaT Hat- For Conpareocr tYcrS rt" : Vc V A" . 1
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