9ffiSffia Year, In Advance.
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Single Copy, 6 Cents.
VOL XII.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY JUNE 21, 1901.
NO. 1G.
ini:jho ii:vi VAI, II YIH-.
Ohl whar shlll we so w'en do great day
comes,
Wid de blowin er de trumplts en do lianRlu1
errte drums?
How many po Htnners'll bo kotclied out late
En fine no latch ter de f?()Men tinte 1
No use fer tor wait twell ter-jntorrer,
De sun mustn't set on yo' worror
Sin's or. sharp oz a bamboo brier
O Lord I fetch de mo'ners up higher !
When de naahuns or de earl is a standin' all
aroun', .
Who's a jrwine ter he choosen fer ter w'p r tie
glory crown t .
Wno'B swine fer ter stan' stiff-kneed on bor.
En answer to dor name at do callin' er de
roll ?
You better pome now of you comin
Ole Satun Is loose on a buniniin
lie wheels er dlstruckshun Is a liummlnV
, Oh, como 'long slunors, et you comin'.
Desougr er salvashuu Is a mighty sweet song.
En do 1'alrldlse win' blow furenblow strong.
En Aberham's bosom, hit's sutt, en Int'H wide,
' Kn right dar's do place whnr de sinners
oughtor hide I
Oh, you i.ee'n tor bo a stoppin' en a
lookln';
Ef youfoolwldoleHatun you'll t:lt took In;
You'll hang on de aldge en git phook In,
Ef you keep on a stoppin' en a lookln'.
De lime Is right now, en dish yer's de place
Letdesuner salvashun Rhino scjuur' in yo'
face;
, Fight de battles er de L,ord, fight soon en
f. fight late,
En you'll allers fine a latch ter de golden
gate;
No use ter wlt twell tcr-morrer.
De sun mustn't, sot on yo' sorrer
Sin's ez sharp ez a bumbuu brier,
Ax de Lord lor ter fetch y ou up higher t.
Joel Chandler Harris.
can sen SOItllS TIIUMJS.
That love is bill d they do declare,
Itut every gay coquette
Has proven by her gay soltaire
lie Isn't stone-blind yet.
Ilobnon Speecli Approved.
Buffalo, N. Y., June 13. Captain
Hobson's memorial speech made at
Detroit on May--the 80th, '.which he
advocated one Decoration Day for both
the Federal and Confederate dead, has
provoked a great deal of favorable
'' comment from the cosmopolitan news-
papers North and Sonih. The speech
is full of patriotic sentiments and the
young hero of the Merrimac showed
his courage in a remarkable degree by
the suggestion that the Northern ora
tors should go South and Southern ora
tors North to praise the bravery of both
armies of the Civil War. Another
courageous thing on the part of Captain
Ilobson was the view he took of sla very
in his Detroit speech. A great many
old veterans shook him by the hand
after the speech was finished and told
him that his views of the slavery ques-
tion were entirely new to them and
that they cordially endorsed them from
the beginning to the end. Captain
Ilobson was introduced by the oldest
veteran of the late war in Michigan, an
officer of the G. A. R. In doing so this
veteran remarked that as an American
he was as proud of the bravery of Lee,
Johnson and Jackson as he was of that
of Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. . At
. the close of the speech Captain Hobson
was given an ; ovation by the- people
of Detroit.. An immense crowd asesm
bled to hear him speak. Of course lie
; acquitted himself-with credit to his
section. He will spend the .summer on
duty at the Pan-American exposition,
Wmtcru North Carolina Soldier in
-. DemandIt er u HI station at
" Ulurphy.
Knoxville, Tenn., June 13. Capt.
C. B." Vogdes, local recruiting orlieer,
has received orders extending his "au
thority to enlist army recruits in all
flNorth Carolina counties bordering on
. Tennessee, in Dade, Walker, Catoosa,
.Whitfield, Murray Fanni and Gilmer,
Uordou, Chatooga and Floyd counties,
Alabama; Fentress, Cumberland, War
ren," White and Franklin counties,
Tennessee, He has orders to enlist at
once 312 soldiers needed at Willit's
Point, N. Y., to be instructed in ear
pentery, plumbing, blacksmithing and
.other mechanical trades, civil engineer
ing and cooking. He also wauts coast
and field artillerymen. Recruits will
be enlisted here from any point. Capt.
Vogdes already has one station at Mur
'. phy, N. C, but he will establish others
at once throughout this new territory.
- War Department officials say soldiers
secured from this territory are the best
. to be had for army service.
Oil As Fuel On ItallroadM.
According to the Chicago Tribune,
the discovery of oil wells in California
and Texas will Rave a beneficial in
fluence on the rail-road induftry in the
whole south western portion of the
United States. Says the Tribune:
"Since the beginning of 15)01 no
coal has been used as fuel on the
Atchison lines in California. Now the
same company is equipping the engines
on its Texas lines for the purpose of
using the oil from the Beaumont wells.
The oil heeessary to do the work of a
ton of coal costs about $ 1 less than the
coal, and the cost of " installing oil
burners on " the locomotives is only
aliout f250. It is estimated that the
substitution of oil on a single Texas
branch of the Atchison system will
cause an annual saving of $1 80,000.
"The Atchison is so situated that its
coal costs only fl.CS a ton, while the
Southern Pacific must pay $4.03 a ton
because of the scarcity of coal west of the
Rockies. To the latter road the use of
oil will be better than the discovery -of
a gold mine, for it is estimated that if
applied to the whole system it would
mean a yearly saving of nearly $5,000,
000, or enough to pay an annual
dividend of 5 per cent, on a capital of
$100,000,000. Such a lowering of
railroad expenditures cannot fail
ultimately to bring altout cheaper
freight rates."
BILL AIIP'S LICTTKU.
Labor and Capital. When will the
long protracted struggle cease. Away
back in history there was war that lasted
thirtv years, but this war has lasted
longer than that and seems to grow
more bitter as the years roll on. In
the good old times it did not affect the
south, but like a pestilence it spreads
and there seems to be no remedy. All
of the women most all of the men,
outside of the capitalists have here
tofore sympathized with the toilers in
their demands for less work and better
pay.. They have bitterly denounced
the heartless managers who would wear
out the life of a child before it ges
grown who would keep them caged in
factories from early morn till lamp
light, with not an hour for recreation.
No May. day; no 'play day, no ball
game, nor marbles, nor fishing, nor
frolic of any kind for the boys; no
hunting wild (lowers or blackberries for
the girls, no youthful pleasures, no
recess, no Saturday; but from year to
year it's
"Work work work, in the dull December
light.
And W ork work work, when the weather
is warm and bright."
. How sad it is to see them toil as if
in a treadmill, and to hear them sigh
as they glance from the windows of
their daily prison, and with longing
eyes, whisper
"Oh! but to breath the breath of the woods
and flowers sweet.
With the sky above mv head and the grass
beneath my reot." .
And this is sad, pathetic, and but
for heartless legislation and legislators,
would have long since been remedied.
It is the good side of human natur
that arouses sympathy for the poor,
and Leigh Hunt never wrote a sweeter
line than that of Abou . Ben Adhem's
plea for ontrance into Paradise: '
"Write me as ono who loves his fellow mar."
In ruminating about the wants of
the poor I have, often thought that the
greatestwant and the best boon to a
toiler was a home, Home one of the
sweetest words in . any language. Its
best definition is in the heart, for lan
guage fails to express it. Indeed there
are some languages that have no word
for it no synonym. The French has
none and substitutes only an abode o
dwelling place. The best definition is
found in the old Sanskrit, the sacred
dialect of the Hindoos and Persians.
Ine word is ivshema and means a
permanent place of rest and security.
Would that all the poor, all the toilers,
all the women and children in the land
had that a permanent abode a place
of rest and secuntity. No landlord to
can lor rents no expiring, lease, no
uncertain title; but a home where the
good wife can plant her own vines and
adorn her own yard with flowers and
feel that they are hers and her chil
dren's. Why didn't Mr. Carnegie
think of this and give homes to the
poor, instead of books. Fifty millions
of dollars would have giveu comfortable
homes to one hundred thousand poor
families and given a permanent place
of rest and security to at least half - a
million of the toilers. The time was
when a Methodist pieacher was not
entitled to a home no more than . a
Roman Catholic, priest was to a wife.
He must abide for a year in any house
that was cheap and vacant. He must
be the exemplar of humility and un
selfishness, for they said that the Savior
was born in a manger and his softest
bed was hay. But there is some more
scripture that demands the best of
everything for the priesthood, and that
says: "Touch not My anointed, and
do My prophets no harm.", A better
civilization now provides a good com
fortable parsonage in almost every town
and village and I am glad of it, not so
much for sympathy for the preacher,
but for his good, long suffering and
patient wife and her growing children.
Woman loves her home and loves to
adorn it with fruits and flowers. When
the Methodists get strong: enough to
build a parsonage they should not sk
at the finishing of the house, but have
a permanent committee of ladies to
plant vines anG roses and make gravel
walks, and establise a garden with such
things that do not pass away and perish
with the year. Plant fruit trees, make
an asparagus bed and don't forget the
strawberries and raspberries, and here
and there plant some of the old time
garden herbs, such as sage and balm
and parsley and calamus for a sweet
breath and mint for the children's colic.
Fix the place up for a home and when
the good wife leaves it, of, course, she
will leave it clean and leave it with - re
gret, and her successor will be happy
and talk about her to the neighbors. If
I was a bishop I would allude to this at
the general conference, and law much
stress. on what John Wesley said, that
"Cleanliness was next to Godliness."
That is not in the Bible,- but might
have been and done no harm.
Yes, the kindhearted people have
generally been sympathizing with the
strikers, but the case at Dayton, ().,
has discouraged them. We see that
Mr. Patterson died suddenly this week,
lie was only sixty-nine years old and
tne opinion is that his grief and morti
fication over the great strike caused his
death.. A nobler rich man never lived
or died. He was the president of the
National Cash Regialer Company, that
employed 2,300 men and women. For
seven years he has sought to make his
extension works a model for all the
manufacturers of the world and a
workman's paradise. From time to
time' he 'has reduced the hours of work
and increased the compensation. The
cottages for his people were models for
comfort good gardens, nice ilowers
a skilled man sent free to show them
how to plant and grow flowers, a free
library of well selected books, hospitals
for the sick, good nurses, good beds,
all free and no lost time charged against
them; bath rooms with hot and cold
water and time given to bathe; . clean
towels and soap. For the women and
bathrooms and brushes and combs and
even curling tongs provided; sofas and
cots to recline on and books to read.
Everything' was nuui as much like
home as a loving mother would have
provided. Half of every Saturday was
theirs. Mr. Patterson was happy. He
believed he had solved the problem of
capital and labor. But about three
years ago a labor union was formed
and its committee began to hunt up
devilment. Not long" ago they dis
covered that the 2,000 towels that were
furnished the bathrooms free were
washed every week by some poor wo
man who did not belong to the union,
and they demanded of Mr. Patter
son that hn have his washing done by
union folkV He refused and the com
mittee ordered a strike. Then he de
clared that his men were not charged
for the baths nor the towels nor the
soap, and he would stop, the whole bus
iness, which he did. Next they ordered
the discharge of his superintendent be
cause he was not a union man. This
was refused and they struck again
Thev also ordered that two union men
who had been discharged for bad work
should be restored. They restored them
and paid them rcguarly $15 a week for
each, but gave them no work, saying
that they were not competent, but he
would pay them." And so they hunted
around for other things and finally or
dered a big strike, and it has been, on
for weeks and no settlement. Up to
date the loss to workmen in wages
amounts to $120,000 and all these poor
families are in distress and would go
back if the union committee would let
them. It was at Davton where a few
months ago the union crowd pursued
gome non-union men and knocked
them down and hammered their fingers
to a jelly with stones, so that they
could not work any more. Mr. I at
terson's works have been visited by
progressive men from all countries,
who wanted to see how he mannaged
that erica t business without any clash
between his capital and their labor, and
now thev saw "I told you so. I knew
it would not last!"
It made me right sick to read about
it, for it is much worse than I have
told it. Is out sympathy for the poor
all wasted? No no! It is those con
temptible leaders who got on the com
mittee and wanted to make a big fuss
out of nothing. With the great com
hi na tion trusts on one side and the
union strikers on the other side, we
the unnroduetive middle class, who
make our living by our wits, are in
bad fix. But thank the good J.ord we
still have meat and bread and straw
berries at our house. Bill Akp.
A. and JTI. College Catalogue.
The catalogue of the A. &M. College
is received. It shows 302 students and
28 teachers. The student earned by
work last year, $2,4X5. Every member
of the graduating class and some of the
Juniors had engagements for work the
following year in desirable business.
The College offers complete instruc
tion in Agriculture, Horticulture, Civil
Engineering, Electrical Engineering,
Chemical Engineering, Cotton Manu
facturing and Dyeing. There is manual
training in carpentry, wood-turning,
machine-work, drawing and designing,
engine, boiler and dynamo tending,
dairying, horticulture and agriculture.
The Board of Agriculture has just
established 120 scholarships especially
for agricultural students and appro
priated $2,000 for agricultural work by
these students in order that they may
be instructed along these lines and also
may be helped in paying their ex
penses. For catalogue address President Geo.
T. Winston, Raleigh, N. C.
Cotton 31 ami nu t u ring,.
V ihnlugtou Messenger.
According to Mr. Watkins, a statis
tician, North Carolina had 837, 7X0
spindles in 1800; 1000 it had I,2ll4,5o0.
In 1800 it had 01 cotton mills in oper
ation; in 15)00 it had .190. Shuth Car
olina had 34 in 1800 and 83 in 1000.
It had 1,003,040 spindles is 1000.
Its mills are far larger than those of
North Carolina more than double the
size. The South had in 1800 1,554,000
spindles; in 1000 it had 5,001,487. Its
factories had increased from 281) to 500.
The report shows that North Carolina
mills consume 58 j per -ent. of the cot
ton grown in the State; those of South
Carolina consume 41.6. per cent, of the
State's crop. Georgia mills use 22.4
pec cent, of the Georgia crop.
f;overnor SamCord Dead,
MoKTooM kuy, Ala., June 11. Win
J. Samford, Governor of Alabama,
died to-night at Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
where be has been ill for some time.
Disease of the heart was the cause of
death.
A Fl IiHIVE IT YEARS. I
Now KfloriN to Get a Pardon for i
Viiightllll Algernon.
Every county in North Carolina is in
suspense to know the outcome of an
application, now in the hands of Gov
ernor Charles B. Ayeock of that State
for the pardon of ' Waightstill A very
Anderson, who 10 years ago was con
victed of murder and sentanced to be
hanged, and since then has been a
fugitive from the grasp of the law.
It is supposed that the federal admin
istration will exert an influence in
Anderson's behalf, for though branded
as a murderer " he has since showed
himself to be a valuable citizen, having,
during many occasions, been entrusted
with oiheers of great responsibility.
I he' deed of which Anderson is charg
d is the killing of a man named Ed
Horton, near Asheville, N. C, during a
quarrel over a mine. That Anderson
committed the deed is a fact, he having
confessed to that effect, but according
to his story it was done in self defense.
The trouble arose in 1884 from a vi
olent dispute beteen Edward Ray, a
brother-in-law of Anderson's, and a
man named Bailey, over their respect
ive clainies to a valuable mica mine in
Mitchell county. Bailey and his friends
were in possession. Ray, bitterly set
againstyielding, attempted to smoke the
Bailey men out. of the mine.
Unsuccessful in this,' he next appeal
ed to his brother-in-law, Anderson,
then a young man of 25, a deputy co'
lecter of internal revenue and gre;: . j
dreaded by the moonshiners. It v:.u
decided to force the issue in per. ,
and the young men started for ti'.e
mine, armed.
The Bailey men, who awaited them
at the entrance to the mine, were sim
ilarly equipped. A desperate" scuflle
followed during which Ray and his
combatant, Ccbon Miller, fell down a
shaft. At the bottom, with renewed
ferocity, Ray attacked his opponent
and in five minnutes Miller was dead.
Meanwhile Anderson had been attacked
at the top of the' mine by "one of Bailey
clan, Eil Horton. Their encounter was
brief, unseen. All that is known of it
is that Horton was killed.
Knowing that they would suffer
emmediate expiation at the bauds of
the enraged-men in the mine, if caught,
the two lingered not an instant but
made good their escape. They kept
themselves hidden until the matter
quieted down, and then returned and
gave themselves up, ou the grounds
that the deeds were committed in self
defense. They- were indicated- for
murder and tried in a hostile county,
where public fee!ingwas against them.
The jury brought in a verdict of m :
der in the first degree in - Anderso: -ease,
and of manslaughter in Ray
The sentences were hanging and : I
years' imprisonment respectively.
The friends of Ray and Anderson at
once began to plan to free them. Ac
cordingly a stormy night, just a short
tune before Anderson was to be hanged,
a band 500 strong ' surrounded the jail
at Asheville, where the men were con
lined. .
The uiuisnecting iailer was seized and
tied and gagged. Five minutes lat
the 500 rescuers left the city witho:
having fired a single shot. Since t
nisrht none hut Anderson s win ami a
few friends has known his whrabouts.
On leaving North Carolina he assumed
a. new name, under which he has
worked all these years. In the struggles
of the family which Anderson left be
hind to keep alive, they have been
tided by Anderson's friends, and
though tho influence of Senator Pritch-
ard Mrs. Anderson was appointed post ¬
mistress at Bakersville. and bai thus
been enable to keep her three children
Meanwhile Anderson has become
high sheriff of the county in which hi
li'ves, in a. State not far from the Rock
ies. For a good part of the time he
has also been in the Secret Service of
the United States, still under his assu
med name. Wnen 20,000,000 of gold
com ;in Kegs was uiKen iromoan rran-
cisco. Cal.. to Washington, D. C, An
derson was captain of the 20 men w.:
so faithfully guarded iU During tl
Snanish-Ameriean war, when tho
White House was more caretully guar
ded than before, Anderson could hav
atrain been seen. Also at Chicago
when President MeKinley was there at
the laying of "the cornerstone of
the new Post . Udiee building An
derson was in evidence. All during
the inauguration day Anderson was
the one seen nearest the President.
As far Edward Ray, he was long
thought to be dead. His wife secured
a divorce and married the young attor
ney, who is now Senator I'rttchanf.
It has recently been learned, however,
that Ray is living in the City of Mex-
ico, having amasseu a lonune in
mining.
Aguinaldo'w Suf-eNor.
Washington, June 11. EmilioZur-
bano, of Tayabas. proclaimed himself
the successor of Agumaldo and "gover
nor of Taycbas and the Philippines,"
according to a copy of a Manila paper
just received at the War Department.
Zurbano is said to have always been a
rather theatrical insurrectionist and to
have sworn to fight the Americans
down to tle last hole. The publication
does not take the Filipino's announce
ment seriously and warns him that he
will find "that the ollice carries with i
certain grave responsibilities which will
sooner or later result in heart failure
aud a sudden demise."
WIIV
IMC WAS-NOT DEAD.
"I had a queer experience at that
place once," said a big Texan at one of
the hotels the other evening, speaking
of a town in the new oil zone. "It
happened a good while ago, but it gave
my nerves such a jolt that I can t think
of it to this day without a ereepy feel
ing along my backbone. It was the
first time I ever saw the town, the big
man went on, according to the New
Orleans Times-Democrat, "and I had
merely stopped over for the night in
order to make a train connection in the
morning.
"The only hotel in the place was a
ramshackle frame establishment, run
by a tall, gaunt Yankee, who imme
diately attracted my attention by his
striking resemblance to cartoons of
Uncle Sam. He happened to have a
good, crowd that day and gave me a
room in the extreme rear of the house,
next to the last on a long scond-story
allery.
I went to bed early, but I slept badly,
and at about 1 o'clock I became so wide
awake that I got up in self-defense.
The house was quiet as a tomb; I had
nothing to read to kill tune, and I
finally went out to take a stfoll on the
gallery.
After a turn or two I noticed that a
light was burning in the end room,
next to mine, and thinking some other
victim of insomnia might be inside
and welcome company, I topped gently
.1 T , 1 i t 1 1
on tne door, ji was uniaicneu ana
swung open under my touch, but I
stopped stock still on the threshold,
paralyzed with fright and horror.
"Sitting bolt upright on a small cot
bed in the corner was the old landlord,
his igs stretched out stiff and stark
under the sheet, his fists clenched, his
head thrown rigidly back against the
wall and his mouth wide open. His
queer Uncle Sam face was the color of
tallow, and a dirty towel tied --around
his temples completed as ghastly a pic
ture as I ever laid eyes on.
"It was evident to me at a glance
that the man was dead, probably from
some kind of a fit, and I -rapidly re
volved the situation in my mind. If I
gave the alarm nothing could be done,
buu I would certainly be held as a wit
ness for the Coroner's inquest, which
would mean an all-day delay in the
little town and the missing of a very
important business engagement at El
Paso. Why not go quickly to my
room and let somebody else discover
the body in the morning, . thus avoid
ing all disagreeable entanglements?
"Unfeeling as it may have been, I
lost no time in coming to that conclu
sion, and in two minutes I was in bed.
"It was broad daylight when I awoke,
and I hurried into my clothes, sup-
iiosiriL'. of course the house would be
agog over the proprietor's death. Well,
gentlemen, you could have hung coal
scuttles on my eyes when I walked into
the ollice and saw the old boy standing,
as usual, behind the counter, smiling
from ear to ear and as merry and lively
as a cricket. He was the most active
corpse in seventeen States.
"What caused his grewsome trance
in the night, did you ask? Asthma
simply asthma. Before I left he ex
plained the whole think to me. 'I am
a confirmed asthmatic.,' he said, 'and
I haven't slepi lying down for twenty
years. By sitting straight up and not
"moving a muscle,' he went on, 'I can
kce down the strangling cough that is
the whole thing in asthma, and
through long practice I've actually
trained myself to sleep that way.
You're not the first person that's been
scared stiff by seeing me,' he added
pleasantly. Only last week a lady
guest caught a glimpse of me taking a
nap and keeled right over in a lit."
"I got out on the first train and have
never been back,"
War Claim of States.
Mr. Rittman, auditor for the War
Oenartment. has prepared a table of
the claims filed by the various states
for the fitting out of volunteer troops
during the Spanish war, the amounts
allowed and paid on the claims, and the
balance claimed by the state to be due.
The table shows that almost as much
money is alleged to he due as has been
paid. The balances yet el -timed are be
ing investigated, and will be settled as
fast as adjudicated, lexas is the only
state that has been settled with in full,
and that has no balance claimed.
Texas bill was a most modest one
anyhow.
Noith Carolina claimed $20,817, and
has ln:en allowed and paid $20,010,
leaving a balance of $0,207 still due.
Virginia claimed $1,101, and has been
aid nothing. The total claims filed
by all the states aggregated $5,870,000,
and $3,330,000 has been paid.
Kit. J oli ii' Day at Oxford Orphan
Amjrlam.
St. John's Day, which is usually
celebrated at the Oxford Orphan Asy-
him on June 24th, will be observed
this year on Saturday, June 22nd.
The railroads of the state have been
asked for reduced rafts and we hope to
have a large number of visitors present
About the usual program will be ob
served. Ine address ot welcome wi
by made by Dr. B. K. Hays, with a re-
siKinse by -Senior Grand Y arden W . S
Liddell. Dr. Geo. T. Winston, President
of the A. & M. College at Raleigh, will
be the speaker of the day. Concert by
the children.
1'ROPItIETOIt li.XI'LAIlVKD
TELKGRAPHING WITHOUT
WIRES.
Review of Reviews. ' .
There have been, up to the present,
two difficulties which have stood in the
way of the more universal application
of "wireless telegraphy;" one was the
impossibility of locating accurately the
direction from which a message came,
the other was the fact that if several
messages were being sent at one time
their effects wonld overlap and the
signals re-ceived at any station would
be a confused mixture. This first
difficulty can be obviated to a certain
extent by using suitable mirrors,
provided the ether-waves are not too
long; and the second has been almost
completely removed by the recent work
of Professor Slaby, Berlin, using a
method of resonance long since pro
posed by Professor Pupin, of Columbia
College, New York. Slaby has perfected
his apparatus to such a degree that he
can make an oscillator which will produce
waves in the ether of a definite period of
vibration, and a receiver which will
respond to waves of a definite period,
but to no others; so that however many
waves, of whatever periods, are passing
over a receiver, it will pay no heed to
them unless they are of the proper
period. It thus becomes possible to
transmit messages free from the dis
turbing influence of etherwaves pro
duced by vibrations.
Naturally, the field of usefulness of
wireless telegraphy is limited. It can
never complete with the long-distance
telepone of the rapid telegraph systems;
but for maintaining communication
between moving vessels, vessels and
across channnels, where cables are not
safe, it offers by far the most satisfaoi
tory solution of the obvious difficulties.
It should be noted that some of the
most important and successful modi
fications in wireless teiegrapny meth
ods have been made in this country
under the direction of the officers of
the United States Signal Serviee.
The history of wireless telegraphy
would not be complete without some
mention of Joseph Henry, America's
gre itcst scientist, for "it was he who
first, in 1842, discovered the oscilla
tory character of certain electric
discharges, and who showed that these
oscillations produced disturbances
which could by suitable receivers be
detected at distances of many rods
and through intervening buildings.
He even arranged an apparatus on
this principle to respond to the light
ning discharges of distant storms.
The great genius of Henry was never
more apparent than in his investiga
tion of electrical discharges and their
ostillatory nature. It is a lasting
testimony to the ignorance among
Americans of their own great men that
the name of Joseph Henry is not in
cluded in the fifty selected for the
'Hall of Fame" of the nation.
old-Time Itelielon.
Charity and Children. .
The long-haired parson who imagines
he is in charge of the world, which
would soon go to ruin without him, is
having" his "inning" now; but he will
not afllict us forever. Think for a mo
ment of Parkburst and Rainsford aa
Talmage; and then think for another
moment of Hoge and Broadus and
Phillips Brooks, The world i weary
of pulpit mountebanks and senational-
lsts. It is even tired of the bad
grammar of Sam Jones. The pulpits
are filled with numbers of men called
to be lecturers. They use tlieir pulpits
as soundinghoards to send their wise
sayings to the ends of the earth. They
are eternally meddling in politics, or
playing leap-frog in the guise, of the
refawner. How long, oh Liorct, must
these men cut their cajiers on Sunday
mornings? When will these great
churches be led by real shepherds?
Shepherds who feed the flock rather
than fleece them? We are grateful
that there are only a few of these
religious ranters, but, like three frogs
in a pond, they make you think they
are a million. All through the land
there are thousands of noble men of
God who still break the bread of life to
the people, not the rotten husks 5of
their own opinions. But these reflec
tions came to us from reading a very
racy article which we found in the
Washington Post of Monday, by Rev.
William Henry Sharon, a Roman
Catholic priest. He says that "the
Sunday sermon in .many churches
needs to be lorn again of the fcpirit of
the Gospel; that the devil of sensation
alism should be exercised from every
protectant pulpit; that the Gosjiel of
Jesus Christ is what every devout Chris
tian expects to hear in church, not the
latest political, social, or literary fad;
the Gospel alone as preached Oy a
Moody or a Spurgeon the Word of
God unaccompaied by any pyrotechnics
-is the highest ideal for any Christian
preacher, and is sufficiently, attractive
for all who are Christian in fact as
well as in name." The brother is
everlastingly right if he a is Catholic.
No Diploma for a Cadet Who Coun
tenanced Hazing.
Annapolis, Md., June 11. For be
ing present when Naval Cadet Dortch
was hazed last fall, Naval Cadet M. G.
Cook, of Kansas, one of the first class
men of the Naval Academy, failed to
receive his diploma of graduation. The
Academy authorities held that Cadet
Cook, being a member of the first class,
ought to have interfered and stopped
the hazing.
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