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$100 a; Year, In Advance. , "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH." -VOt XII. PLYMOUTH, N. C FRIDAY APRIL 12, 1901. NO. 6. CHIN USE WISDOM. A man thinks he knows, but a wo man knows better. With money you can move the gods; without it you cau't move a man. Long BitB bring short compliments. Armies'are maintained for years to be used in a siDgle day. A docter who had mismanaged a case was 0eized by the family and tied up. In the night he managed to free him- Belf and escaped by swimming across a river. When be got home he found his v son, who had just begun to study med- icine, and said to him: "Don't be in a hurry with your -books; the first, and most important thing is to learn to swim." . The king of Purgatory sent his lictors to earth to bring back eome skilled physician. , "You must look for one," said the king, "at whose door there are no aggrieved spirits of disembodied patients." The lictors went off but at the house of every doctor they visited there were crowds of wailing ghosts hanging about. , At last they found a doctor at whose door there was only a single ebade, and cried out: "This man is evidently the skillful one we are in search of!" On inquiry, however, they dissovered that he had only Btarted practice the day before. A portrait painter who was doing very little business was advised by a friend to paint a picture of himself and his wife and to hang it out in the street as an advertisement. This he did, and shortly afterwards his father-inlaw same along. Gazing at the picture for come time the latter at length asked: 'Who is that woman?" "Why, that is your daughter,",, replied the artist. "Whatever is she doing," again in quired her father, "sitting there with that stranger?" A man who had been condemned to wear the cangue or wooden collar was Been by some of his friends. "What have you been doing," they asked, "to deserve this?'' "Oh, nothing," he re plied. "I only picked up an old piece of rope." "And are you to be punished thus severely," they asked, "for merely picking up an end of-rope?" "Well," answered the man, "the fact ia there was a bullock tied to the other end." Tbe ltoll of Honor. Kalelgh Christian Ad vorcate. i The twelve Democratic Senators who follows: J. A. Brown of Columbue; Qeo. H. Currie, of Bladen; H. A. iVmaheH," of Durham;. J.'D. Gleed, of 0utfford; John S. Henderson, of Rowab; j. A- Leak, of Anson; II. A. London, of Chatham ; J , A. Long, . of Person ; 14" fl : Hf A lliafor fliiKorrna1 Rnhen A. Mclntyrei of Robeson; W. W. Stringfield, of Haywqod; J. E. W. Sugg, of Greene. All these are true and tried Democrats, men who help to form the backbone of their party and the highest type of citizenship. They knew that th''ir vote would be criticized and that attempts mould be made to discount tbeir party loyalty if uot their personal ' character. Yet they stood true as steel - to what they considered to be their duty. Such manhood " is the State's ,- dearest possession, and and we trust it - will always be f bund, when needed. . .". A Neat Answer " Statesville Landmark. . The Landmark hears of one incident in connection with taking the vole it the impeachment trial that is worthy to go on record. Senator Henry A. Lon don, of Chatham, a pure, upright and honorable man, kept his own counsel in regard to his attitude, as was proper ; he being a juror and' nobody knew how he was going to vote. Those who favored impeachment bad hopcs of him, however, and. when he voted "not guilty" some of them were suprised. A lady sitting near him, an impeach ment .sympathizer, said in a stage whisper: "For heaven's sake, why did he vote that way!" Major London over heard the remark and he immediately wrote on a slip of paper and passed to his lady critic the following: "F r heaven's Bake I voted that wa." That was a neat answer. Two Failures Enough. Henderson Gold Leaf. Tt Rppma to be erenerallv understood that Mr. Bryan is paving the way to secure a tmra nomination, At least reports say that he still has hopes. North Wilkesboro Hustler. ' Mr. Bryan may "have hopes" but if the Democratic party has any it will not nominate him again Great man that he unquestionably is and however honest and sincere in purpose, two trials are enough when both of them were failures. . v Kongh on The. Bay State. A teacher in civil government had told his pupils that once in 10 years the State of Massachusetts takes a census. Little James, who is an attentive scholar, upon being called up to recite, said: "Once in every 10 years Massachusetts comes to its senees." -. She Got Even. "Madam," said a dignified husband to his loving little wife who had stolen up behind his chair and given him a kiss, "such actions are anything but agreeable to me." 4,Oh, excuse' me," said the little woman, "I didn't know it was you." DILL AHP'S LETTER. "Scale, it, Mr. Fricks, scale these "profits down 5 per cent, for the next fiscal year. The books show that we are getting too rich. Put down the price of steel rails and put up the price of labor. We are but trustees for our fellowmen and a million a year is enough for us." If Mr. Carnegie had said that ten years ago, he wouldn't be so perplex now about giving away his money. He says it is a Bin for a man to die rich, and as life is uncertain and death is sure, be seems to be in a hurry about getting rid of his mil lions. The five millions he has settled upon his aged and indigent laborers is a benefaction that every body commends. The twenty-dive millions that he has given to the cities for public libraries is not espec ially commended by anybody except those who received it. It is about on a par with Rockefeller's twenty-five millions to the great universities Neither gift reaches the masses of the people nor alleviate the condition of the poor. George Peabody's and Peter Cooper's charities were much more sensible and effectual. George Mullers' life work, who without a dollar of capital to begin with, estab lished orphanages in London until he had over 2,000 in charge when he died, and from year to year maintain ed and educated them, was a much grander charity than giving , millions to colleges and libraries. George Pea body's millions built blocks of good comfortable tenement houses for the laboring poor, of London, houses that were furnished and equipped with every comfort and eery safeguard for the health of the tenants. Besides that, he left a large fund for the pro motion of education in the south. There are many charities far more needed by the people than giving them a chance to read free books. The poor do not have time to read very much. A right hungry man can't hardly get religion, much less enjoy a story book. But still we com mend Mr. Carnegie for his good in tentions, and if he had given two or three thousand dollars to Cartersville, Iwould have said: "Mr. Carnegie, you are a big-hearted Scotchman, sir!" I hope they will elect him mayor ot JNew York. The reason why the public praise Mr. Carnegie so is because the public is surprised. Such munificence is so uncommon that it id unexpected. The gift is really no act of generosity, for, as he says himself, it is a sin to keep it and die rich. He got all his millions from the labor of the people, and now he ia trying to pour some of it back in the jug. That is right and honorable for the ore was God's and the labor was the toil of his men. He ought to pour it back and give some to the toilers whose sweat earned the money. This is pure morality and common sense. Every man has a moral right, and it is his duty to make sufficient profit from his labor to maintain himself and his family in comfort, and even in luxury, and also to lay up something for his chil dren and for old age and for the acci dents . of life; but beyond that his rights undelr a Christian civilization do not go. He then becomes a trus tee for his fellow men who are in need. Not that he should parcel out and distribute to each one his share, for it cannot be done, but he should make some investment that would in sure the greatest good to the greatest number. Nevertheless, Mr. Carnegie is scattering his money. He is sow ing wheat among the tares. He is giving largely to the wealthy cities who can provide their own libraries. He is scattering his money; I mean the surplus, that has grown to be a burden. He has just finished a mil lion dollar mansion in New York and has another in Scotland, and a few millions in reserve for contingencies. We hope that these small holding will not interfere with his intention to die poor. No, there is no peculiar grace in the gifts of Carnegie or Rockefeller. They are a surprise, that's all, for not one in a hundred of the millionaires do such things. Most of them hold on and pile it up for their children to quarrel over. The Standard Oil Company has just declared a divi dent of twenty million for Rockefeller. He crushed out and absorbed all competing mills and still sells oil to the consumers at 15 cents per gallon. Cheap isn't it? But he could sell it at 10 cents and make a hundred per cent. It is the common people, the masses, the toilers and the poor who buy the oil, and every gallon takes a nickle from them that ought not to be taken. . God made the oil, and man gave the labor.. Mr. Rockefeller had but little to do with it. Most of his millions' really belong to God and the laborers. It ia no sufficient answer that he has endowed a college. The children of the laborers are not in it. It's too far away and too high up. . . These colossal fortunes are becom ing alarming. They endanger good government, for it is still a fact "that riches and virtue are rarely found combined." Laws grind the poor and rich men make the laws. A graduated income -tax would limit these great fortunes, but alas, we will never get it. It is too late. The op portunity has passed, for rich men make the laws. Millionaires control the United States senate and will resist any tax that limits or lessens their estates. But it is wrong for us to envy the rich. In the economy of life and the pursuit of happiness it seems neces sary to have rich men. -They build ships, railroads, canals, telegraphs and telephones, cotton and woolen mills, reapers, mowers, flour mills and a thousand other plants that furnish us with food and clothing and add to the comfort of mankind. The world would make slow progress with out them, but when they begin to unload their vast profits mankind will criticize the manner of it. Gen erally they unload it on their chil dren," who never earned a dollar of it Some of them would carry it all to heaven with them if they could. Many of them give a part of it to some church or charity as a kind of passport to heaven. An old friend of mine who was pretty hard up borrowed $5 from me one morning to pay one of these darn little just debts, as he called them. He said his creditor was annoying' him, but before he left my office a committee irom the coun try called and asked us to help to build a country church. I gave them a dollar, but my friend " subscribed $o and handed over, the bill that I had loaned him. After they had left 1 asked him why he gave them so much and he said? "Well, I alwajs give that much to build a church. do not belong to any, for I have not yet felt good enough to join, but I have lived in five counties and prac ticed my profession in fourteen and I have helped to build country churches in all of them. It may be that death will catch me unawares before I do join the church and St. Peter will re fuse me admission into the heavenly gate. But I will have one credential, for I can say: 'St. Peter, I know I have not been a good man arid am not fit to mingle with the saints, but l have got a little stock in every country church from Rabun's Gap to Tallapoosa and mavbe he will let me in maybe- so. Major, could you lend me another $5 without incon venience?" Of course I did, for he was one friend whom I n'ever.refused. He did join the church and I believe he is in heaven now., v Charity is the greatest and most blessed of all virtues. As the poet says: "It is twice blessed. I bless eth him that gives and him that doth receive." But when a man with $100,000 income gives away $1,000 of it to ease hia conscience and secure a passport to heaven, he makes a mis take. It will do neither. A- man's standing in the community is deter mined more by his charity than any thing else. How much dees he give to the church and how much to the poor ia discussed by his neighbors and he ia rated accordingly. Not long ago I gave a problem to young people. If a man sells a sow and pigs for $18 and gets as much for onetenth of the sow as he did for nine-tenths of a pig how many pigs did she have? I have received scores of answers most of them making it nine pigs and some say ten pigs one smart girl makes it seventy-two pigs and one smarter man proves that the sow had 1 ,791 pigs. . Strange , to say every answer is correct'. Nine piga gives $9 for the sow- and 1 each for the pigs; Seventy-two piga gives $2 for the sow and 11 2-9 cents for a pig and it 'would take , the seventy-two pigs to make the $16. Nine cents for the sow would give 1 cent for each pie, and therefore require 1,791 pigs to make up the $18. It ia a seesaw sum. As the price of the sow goes down the number of the pigs goes up and aiy number is correct. Now let me ask the school boya and . girls to hold up a little on compositions and SDeeches. Please excuse me for 1 have not the time. It would take every hour in the day to comply with all their requests. Bill Arp. China Itefuses to Sign the Treaty. Pekin, April 3 The Chinese Gov ernment has formally notified Russia that China, owing to the attitude of the powers, is not able to Bign the Man churian Convention. "It is China's desire," says the formal notification, 'to keep on friendly terme with all nations. At present she is going through a period which is tbe most perilous in the empie's history and it ia necessary that she should have the friendship of all. "However much she might be will ing to grant any special privilege to one power, when others object, it is impossible that fcr tbe Bake of making one nation friendly Bhe should alienate the sympathies of. all others." Li HuDg Chang Bays this letter settles the matter definitely and that Russia was informally notified to the same ef fect March 29th." Prince Ching asserts that every China man except Li Hung Chang was against signing the convention. Col. W. A. Houck, a prominent citizen of Rowan county, died Friday of pneumonia. He was captain of company D, 24th N. C. regiment, in the Confederate army and was pro moted to lieutenant colonel. He had also represented Rowan in the Legis lature and served the county as com missioner, lie was uigniy esteemed. LETTER FHOiTI S1ITI JONES. Editor Journal : I left home March -20th at 10 o'clock in the afternoon on the Florida Limited. As a Bouthern man, I rejoice in the fact that we have as good trains and railroad b south as they have anywhere. Combines have brought us to the front in spite of the cry of the demagogue and the prophecy of the Populist. The Florida limited trains from Chicago, Cincinnati and Washington city, are as fast and fine as steam and money can make them. I lectured in Chicago on the 21st and spent part of two days there. The city is in the midst of a very warm politi cal contest. Tbe interest is centered in the candidates for the mayoralty: Carter Harrison for the third term as mayor of Chicago; Judge Henasy, a Republican, his opponent. Both can didates are pandering to the lowest ele ments in the city. Chicago ia at her lowest ebb now morally and financially. The devil and the Democrats have had charge four years and now it may be that the devil and the Republicans want a combina tion for the next four years. If there ia any choice between the candidates from a moral standpoint, it's hard to perceive t'. Both candidates are in favor of all night saloons, and neither , dare eay that he is in favor of restriction of any vice in the city. When a fellow looks upon the grow ing extravagance and the deepening vices of a great modern city, he won ders when tbe tension will break. This greed of office is not born of patriot ism. No man who would faithfully serve a people, seeks to be elected by the disreputable means usually employ ed to obtain office these days. No man can now be elected president of the United States, if he will declare himself antagonistic to the liquor traf fic. No man can be elected to the office of mayor of any of the American cities, if he will announce that every law against vice and crime shall be rigidly in forced. I came from Chicago to St. Louis, and there I found exactly the same state of things obtain. Wells and Par ker, both running for mayor of that city. No moral isue between them. The greed for office on the part of the candidates and desire for spoils on the part of their henchmen and heelers, have the field. The morning papers, one Republican the other Democratic, standing for its man; lying for their own candidate and lying against the other. No wonder the daily papers hava lost bo much of their old-time pres tige and power. A party demagogue is a curse to this country, whether he be editor, politician or preacher. Parti snn politics and wholesale plunder are telling npon all our cities. They de bauch the public conscience and empty the city treasury and levy black mail on all manner of vice. A thousand thinga enter into these races for office. Street car systems, railroad interests, corporation plans and last but by odda the biggest, the brewers and distillers with all their in terests to protect and their Bchemes for the debauchery of the people to be looked after. Old Sodom went to the limit, and in burning hail God wrote her doom in fire and her epitaph was: "Ne plus ultra," nothing beyond. Tnere is no use in a partial judge ment for poor Galveston had not count ed half of her 9,000 dead, or rebuilt a single house until saloons were ready to proceed and the ghasty sights of men robbing the dead were witnessed on all sides. Death and damnation is the only effective breaks on the meannesa of men and furnish the only permanent check on rascals and robbers. No man is very mean by himself, but wh3n you aggregrate and congre gate rascals, then conscience is drown ed and character is debauched. During these election periods the tide ia blown in by passion and greed and tbe heavy surging waves play over and drench and drown our modern municipalities in filth and rascality. We stand it now, but if the tide of vice and rascality continues to rise higher and higher aa it haa in the past quarter of a century, then we will lose our power to bring a Tweed to judgment, or perjured rascals to justice. But let's talk of better things. The wheat crops of Kentucky, Illinois, Mis souri and Indiana never looked better than now. What a change in three weeks! I looked over these same fielda less than a month ago, and the pros pect was meagre, and the wheat fielda looked barren, but now they are cov ered with a beautiful green so out of harmony with all their wintry surround ings. The rains for the past ten days have stopped all from work, and made the roada impassable, almost. But tbe merchants, manufacturers and railroad, are busy. Yet they all depend upon the steady old farmer; he will get in his work later along. I had a pleasant talk with Senator Clay a few days ago. Steve ia the same genial, clever fellow whom I knew when I was a boy preacher, so-called. The first time I ever met Steve was at Salt Springs camp-meeting 25 years ago. He drove me from the camp ground to Marietta in a buggy. Lsttle did I then think I was riding with a Uuited States senator in the "embryo;", Steve as a young man was poor and proud, and had ambition and common sense, in stead of education and money, and by his own efforts he has forged to the front, and he ia worthy to stay there. I be lieve Steve ia honest and capable and Georgia can't do better than honor him, for he ia an honor to Georgia. I go as far west as El Paso, Texas, on this tour. Will write of the "wild and woolly west" next week. Yours, going round and round, Sam P. Jones. P. 8. Ta it a fAcl that .Tnel Atkinson and Harry Hurt are going to consolidate? I've been looking for them to "mix" for more than a year. S. P. J. THE RICH PHILIPPINES. Many Trade Opportunities Offered for Eutergetlc Americans. San Francisco Dispatch. Alfred W. Carter, a soldier, who has spent a year and a half in the Philip pines and who visited eeveral islands other than the Luzon during his stay there, has some interesting statements to make regarding. the possibilities and opportunities offered Americana in the Philippines. " When the turbulent natives are over come and peace again reigns in the Philippines," said Mr. Carter, ''I would want nothing better than to be permit ted to go there and locate mining claims, take up government land for lumbering purposes, or establish any line of retail business in commodities manufactured in tbe United States. I am more impressed by the mining pos sibilities than by any other one thing. "I have visited several placer loca tions on the island of Luzon that are immensely rich. Natives pick up the gold in small nuggets, ranging in size from a pin head to the size of a pea. An experienced American miner, with modern appliances, would be able to take out more gold in a day in some of the mountain creek beds in Luzon than in any placer diggings I have ever seen. Unfortunately, however these placers are in territory still overrun by hos tiles. Where the gold comes from is a matter of conjecture, but it is a fore gone conclusion that it comes from some of the mountains in the interior. When American miners and prospect ors get in their the first search will be for the mother lode, and if that is found I predict a gold discovery that will startle the world. "In the island of Mindanao I was struck by the magnificence of the for ests and the amount of valuable wood on every hill. It is said that there ia an agreegate acreage of valuable tim berland of not lesa than 40,000,000 acres in the group, and Mindanao, in which ia about balf of the total area, has many immense tracts of unbroken for ests. Mindoro and Palawan Islands also have great forests of valuable wooda. "Tnere are about 400 to 500 varieties of trees in all, and a majority of them are hard wood, such as ia adaptable to furniture making, manufacture of wag ons and other vehicles, agricultural im plements, finish for houses, etc., while a large number of them are worth al most their weight in Bilver. It has been stated that the thinning out of these virgin forests would afford a lum ber output worth millions upon millions of dollars. "There is a limitlesa area rtf fine ag ricultural land in theee islands. There ia room in the Philippines for some of the finest grain ranches in the world, and for fruit growers and small farmers it ia an ideal paradise. "The merchant will alao do well in the larger towns of the iblanda as soon as they are pacified. American goods are sought after, particular clothing, furnituie of which but little haa yet found its way to the islands felt hats, shoes, underwear, cutlery, firearms, am munition and food producta, particu larly canned and dried fruits. Every thing American ia preferred becauae of its quality and the attractive manner in which it is got up, and American workmen of all trades will find remu nerative employment in 'the near fu ture." . The Negro as a Laborer. New York, April 3. President and Mrs. Booker T. Washington were the gue8t8 of honor at a dinner given by the Social Reform Club last night. Mr. Washington was introduced as the first speaker. He said: "In dealing with the negro race we must bear in mind that it came from a land where there was need for labor. Then for 250 years it was , forced to labor in the way little calculated to give it love for work. , "I believe that in slavery the solution of the problem was really laid and I believe if we could have taken it up just wnere it wss left off when slavery ended it would have been better for our peo ple. "They felt that to hold office waa the highest thing they could attain and they put more emphasis on tbe political than the industrial side of life. They thought tbe object of education was to put them in a position where they would not have to work. "Eighty per cent, of the. people in the South depend on asricuiture for a living and we began with that aa abasia. We have tried to make our farm an object lesson to those around us." The State Auditor find that the cost of the Legialature.which adjourned on the loth, was f 06,007. The man who blows his own horn is merely a self-entertainer. WENT DOWN INTO HIS BRAIN, Surgeons Found Abseess Tbere That Twisted Actor's Speech Will m? Talk Straight. ' N. T. Sun, 1st. The Surgeons of the Seney Hospital in Brooklyn have been much interested in the last week in the case of James Baisly, a vaudeville actor of 284 Flat bush avenue. He was on hia way to one of the seaside towns with hia company and struck his head out of a railroad car window just in time to get bit by a mail bag catcher. The hooka of the catcher struck him over the ear and at the back of the head. He was found unconscious on the floor of the car at Bed Bank. A Burgeon of the railroad company diagnosed the case aa a simple laceration of the scalp and sewed up the gaps. By the time Baisly 's company reached Elizabeth, N. J., his head troubled him so much that he went to the Elizabeth General Hospital. He remained there for eleven days. His principal trouble, mentally, was that he could not "talk straight." He always need the wrong word. He talked fluently enough but incoherently. At the end of eleven days the hospital authorities sent word to his mother in Brooklyn that they thought the case was serious, and that, . perhaps, there ought to be an operation, Mrs Baisly went to Elizabeth with her family physician, Dr. A. T. Birdaall, and the physician found two large holes in the skull. Mrs. Baisly wanted the operation performed at once, but Dr. Birdaall is said to have told her that a hospital where such a state of things had been allowed to go on for eleven daya without- an operation should not have one of his patients and had Baisly aent to tbe Seney Hospital. The state of the patient's brain before the opera tion may be gathered from this sample of his power of speech as reported by one of the surgeons: "I would joy speech you my uncom fortable but I will not sing." This was translated to mean that he would be glad to tell tbem how he felt but that he could not talk straight. "It was apparent," eaid one of the surgeons yesterday, "that there was some serious disturbance of the aisle of Kiel, which is that part of the brain which governs the speech. The skull was trepanned and eeveral large bits of bone, souvenirs of Jersey surgery, were removed. We then found a large abscess which extended well down into the brain through the temporo-sphero-idal lobe, and was pressing ou the aisle of Kiel. The -p.as.was removed, drain age pipes were put in aaa-ihe paties going to recover. With the relief of of the abcess on the aisle of Kiel his difficulty in finding the word he wants has disappeared and he now talks with little difficulty. We are sure that when the wound has healed his memory and speech will both be all right." Turmoil in Wilmington. Wilmington, April 4. There was hardly more excitement in local poli tics two years ago in "revolutionary" times than there is now. A hopeless variance has developed between Mayor Waddell and the newly -elected alder men. Thia has been expected from the start since the majority of the mem bers of the new board were known to be ardent eupporters of W. E. Springer for mayor as against Col. Waddell. The major brought matters to a cli max Monday night by appointing him Belf ot- the four important committees finance, streets and wharves, fire and police. He didn't do this last year and the new aldermen got piping hot over what they called his "cheek." They fumed and fretted all day Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon decided to ask the mayor to call a special meeting. The meeting was called. The alder men, by a vote of27 to 2, abolished the mayor's action in appointing commit tees and passed a ordinance leaving the appointment with the board of alder men. Mayor Waddell read a state ment which he had prepared in antici pation of the - board's action and in which he indicated his intention to hold up the executive end of the city administration to the beBt of his ability without regard to what the aldermen did with the other business of the city. There is little hope of an amicable set tlement of the differences. It ia openly stated that it is Springer, the defeated candidate for mayor, who is behind the movements of the refrac tory aldermen. ITIairlnionallr Inclined. Charlotte Observer. Several copies of The Pilot, a matri monial paper,, published in Chicago, were found in the mail of Charlotte young men yesterday. It is noted in the paper that 15 or 20 girls from this State advertise their charms and mat rimonial inclinations. One publication is as follows: "11874. North Carolina. Here, boys, here is the belle of Rocky Kiver. Height 5 foot, 4; dark hair and blue eyes, fair complexion weight 122, accomplished in music, am. a Baptist, atse 19, have $120,000 in my own ' right and will inherit $200,000 more; am very kind and loving; good housekeeper. Boys, write to me, quick." It dose't make much difference about the housekeeping, O Belle of Rocky River. . Are there no congenial spirits in your own county of Cabarua? Then try Mecklenburg.