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'FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH." Single Copy, 6 Cents. VOL XII. PLYMOUTH, N. C , FRIDAY JUNE 28, 1901. NO. 17.. OO a Year, In Advance. NO CLASSES. Sa classes here! Why. tlmt is Idle t ilk. The Village beau sneers at the country boor; The iinpoiiantniPiuUeHiits who walk Our cities' streets despise the parish poor. The daily toiler at some noisy loom Holds back her garments rronithe. kitchen aid. Meansvhile the latter leans upon her broom Unconscious ol the bow the laundress made. The croeer's daughter eyw the fanner's lass With haughty glances, and the lawyers wife Would pay no visits to the trading i-ass, If policy were not her creed in Me. The merchant's son nods coldly at the clerk ; The proud possessor of a nt'dlgrve Ignores I he youth whose lal.ier rose by work, The title seeking niaideu scorns all three. The aristocracy of blood looks down Upon the' nouveau ricli." and in disdain The lovers of the IntellecUial frown ... On botn, and worship at tue shrine of brain. "No classes here." the clergvnian has said; "We are one family." Yet, see his rage And horror when his favorite ron wou'd wed Some pure and pretty player on the stage. It is the vain and narrow human way -Of vaunting our weak selves, our pride, our worth! . .,, ... Not till the ion? delayed millennial day Shall we behold "no classes' on l. I s iv.r.li COHHEin iNG THIS TIME. The clock struck nine. I looked at Kate. Whose lips were luscious red. "A quarter after nine 1 mean To steal a kiss," said 1. She cast a roguish glance at me And then she whispered .low. With just the sweetest smite, 'That clock Is luteen minutes slow." HOW TO STUDY. Charlotte Observer, 21st. Prof. C. S. Color, superintendent of the Concord graded school, yesterday delivered an address before the students and teachers of Lee's Business College. His Bubject was: "How to Study." Prof. Coler said in part: Study is an exercise of all the powers of the mind and consists in finding out all the facts possible relative to any sub jact and thinking them together in all their relations. 1. There must be order and comfort. One cannot study to advantage in the midst of noise and confusion, nor when hunger, cold, or anything else interferes with bodily comfort. 2. There should be a definite and regular time for study. The best stu dents and thinkers are those that pur sue their studies in a systematic order. Time is an important element in all business, and it is not enough that a thing be done in the shortest possible period of time. 3. Concentration of mind is essential. We must become lost to all surround ings. Horace Greeley wrote some of his greatest editorials while sitting on a doorstep in the crowded streets of New York city. 4. The best study is done alone. Every life should be well checkered by periods of solitude. Pupils who study in groups seldom have much power of concentration and but little self-reliance. It ia in solitude that the best study is done. 5. Rest the mind by a change of subjects. After mathematics, the stu dent may change to book-keeping, from book-keeping to banking, and from banking to shorthand. 6. Master each point as you proceed. Accuracy and thoroughness are largely matters of habit. Go slowly, consult the dictionary, the cyclopia, and other books of reference, but master every detail as you go. 7. Study to retain what you learn. J2very subject thoroughly mastered will aid in mastering something else. Most students get their lessons simply for recitation and as a result, get but little benefit from their work. 8. Study to express what you learn. It is persons who can speak and write well that influence people and make most out of their education. Learn to speak and write the English language correctly and to express your thoughts clearly and your study of all other subjects can be made most ef fective. 9. Be careful of the "scraps of time." The person who carries a good book in his pocket to read while waiting at the station always rise in our estimation. It is wonderful how much reading and study one can do by simply using the bits of waste time that are usually wasted. Pay Of Southern (iovernom, Savannah News. The proposition in the Alabama Constitutional Convention to raise the salary of the Governor from $3,000 to $5,000 a year has much to commend it. In most of the Southern Siates the salary of Governor is so low that a man with no other source of income can hardly afford to accept the office; thus a handicap is placed upon merit. A poor man cannot live upon the salary and maintain the appearance that is demanded by the dignity of the posi tion. The pay of a Governor ought not to be so large that it would cause shrewd and unscrupulous men to scramble for the position, of course, but it should be large enough to offer an inducement to the best talent to strive for it. High-grade executive ability is in demand in the - business world at much better than $3,000 per year. The States ought to be willing to pay good men as much as they are worth in civil life, with iwssibly just a littls shading for the honor of public preferment. The first thing the shoemaker uses in his business is his last. IIOKSON TO GRADUATES. IJm'H Stirring Incident of Spanish War to Illustrate Practical Talk. Raltlmore Sun. ., There were two attractions at the commencement exercises of the Poly technic Institute at the Academy of Music last week the graduating class, of course, and Capt. Richmond Pear son Hobson. Since the war with Spain the photographic image of the hero of the Merrimac has become almost as familiar to the average American citi zen as the picture of Washington. Con sequently, when the curtain rose last night there was a general craning of necks toward the stage. Lieutenant King beckoned to a tall young man in evening dress, who was Bitting in one of the lower right-hand boxes. The tall young man who was Hob son, of couse, though he didn't look as much like his pictures as he might have done arose, left the box and in an in stant appeared on the stage. He hadn't been recognized before, but everybody knew who he was by the time he reach ed the middle of the stage, and he was given the ovation he had avoided dur ing the earlier part of the evening. Before beginning on the more formal part of his address the Captain turned to the graduates and told them that it gave him great pleasure to participate in the exercises that were of such im portance to them and were at the same time of importance to the entire community. "I feel that not only are you to be congratulated at having completed your course, which I have taken the oppor tunity to examine and have found to be most excellent," he said, "but Balti more is to be congratulated in having such an institution." Then, turning to the audience, he said it gave him especial pleasure to at tend a commencement of a technologi cal school, for he felt that no training had a more uplifting influence on the mental, physical and moral character of the individual than that given in such a school. The Captain devoted some time to a resume of the achievements in the last century in scientific research, and of their reacting effect upon every depart ment of thought. Then he turned to -the graduates to make, as he said one or two sugges tions. He branched out, in illustrat ing his suggestions, to the subject that was uppermost in everybody's mind the war with Spain and the American victories. As he mentioned the fami liar names of Dewey, Schley, Sampson, Cervera he was interrupted each time by prolonged bursts of applause. The applause for Schley continued so long that the Captain had to stop and wait until the audience was ready to listen again. "It seems to me worth while," he said, "once in a while for each individ ual to stop and take account of things to see what stock he has in hand, to co-ordinate what he knows, to see wliither he is tending, to look deep down into his character to see what new forces have appeared since the last account was taken. And certainly there can be no better time for such an account taking than at graduation. "Allow me to suggest to you two comprehensive principles for the guid ance of your future lives first, let each man make of himself the finest charac ter possible. Second, let each man determine, 'in this life ahead of me I will be of the maximum amount of usefulness. I will render a maximum amount of service to the world.' "Of the two principles, that concern ing character is the most essential. But if you have the character the principle of service will go hand-in-hand with it. As you go forward in life you will find that the flare-up of genius amounts to little. The men who accomplish some thing are those who are willing to pay the price in hard, tiresome labor day in and out. "Some of you have seen the state ment that in the war with Spain the Spanish fleet was superior to ours. Some have tiied to explain our victory by saying our personnel was braver than theirs. Some say our men show ed the force of traditions and what glorious traditions our American Navy has! But the Spaniards had traditions before Columbus sailed to America and the Spaniards in our war with Spain stood up and died live brave men. "But my friends, in the force of modern arms 6imply courage and brav ery count but little. The secret of our success lay in our preparation. The American naval student is kept at the grindstone during his training at the Naval Academy and for years afterward as well. I wish you could have seen our fleet at Key West before war was declared. Every day there was target practice not for a little while, but all day long and at night searchlights were turned on and the firing was con tinued during the night as well. And at the same time in the Spanish fleet there was target practice but only periodically. Then our boats were put in fighting trim, every bit of woodwork cut away.- "That grand old admiral of the Span ish fleet, Cervera, told me that the first shot tired on the Maria Teresa cut away the firemain, and the next set fire to the boat, and with the firemain gone there was no hope of saving her. If the firemain of the New York had been cut and the ship set on tire, not enough men would have been needed to repair the damage to reduce the usefulness of a single gun on the ship. "In the whole war the minimum performance on the American side was the maximum in all naval battles. The English may boast of English victories and of Nelson, who fought bringing his vessel alongside that of his enemy. Some one in England criticised our glorious Admiral Dewey because he stayed off at 2,000 yards and won the fight. The British would have done aa they have done in South Africa if they had been in the fight. Those very ships that had come from Nelson's great victory and that had gained 200 victories suc cessively, when they fought against our vessels in the War of 1812 lost 15 but of 18 duels." In conclusion the captain said he had no patience with those who criti cised the course of Admiral Schley who was acting directly in accordance with the orders given. As the Captain closed his address the orchestra struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner," the audience arose and the under classmen worked off their pent up enthusiasm by bringing in a big American flag and waving it. All of the classes of the school vied with each other at the close of the exercises in giving complimentary yells of "Merri mac, Merrimac, Hobson, Hobson." For the New South. St Louis Republic. Importance attaches to the Southern Industrial Convention now in session in Philadelphia. The deliberations of the repsentative business men gathered last week for every state in the South will result in a cementing of the com mercial ties that bind them together as well as in practical plans towards mak ing markets and getting transportation in better fashion than at present. Of prime interest are the efforts be ing made to open an Isthmian canal. The wonderful development in all parts of the South especially in the manu facture of cotton, makes the import ance of securing easy passage to the Orient a vital question. Civil engineers have appeared before the convention in advocacy of the Nicaragua route in the expectation that the influence of the members will be put behind the efforts to secure legislation for that purpose. Southern ports are demanding more than usual attention, the failure of the recent "Pork Bill" adding zeal to ship pers in their efforts to secure adequate harbor facilities. It is expected that a committee appointed to investigate con ditions regarding Southern rivers and harbors and to recommend practical and systematic improvements will have a power for good in Congress when the mattei1 comes up for consideration. Advancement made during the last decade has shown that the facilities for getting the products of the South to foreign, and even to Northern markets in the United States, must be vastly improved. The Government has given an attention to Southern ports entirely below their importance to trade. Until the routes by sea are bettered the South will continue to wage an uphill fight against freight rates. These problems and many others are being considered by the Industrial Con vention. The push and vim and hope fulness that are now characteristic of the Southerner will find ample scope in their discussion. The good that may be accomplished will be judged by the results seen in after years. A Cold Hlooded Murder. An Ashville special of the 19th to the Charlotte Observer tells of a most heart less and unprovoked murder. Oscar Pierce, a man of bad reputa tion, boarded the Murphy train near Nantahala. The first thing he did was to refuse to pay his fare and draw a knife on the conductor, who told him he'd shoot him down if he moved toward him. Sandy Lowry was stand ing on the rear platform of the car as it was stopping. Pierce asked how far it was to Murphy and on being told it was 20 miles went to cursing him and suddenly plunged his knife into the innocent man's breast. He stood over him and saw him die, threatening any one who might interfere. He then escaped. The neighbors of the respected citizen are on the hunt for Pierce. Will Join the Navy. Salisbury Sun. Eight young Salisbury men will join the American navy in a few days. The young men in question are all members of the Rowan Rifles and have been se. jed with the desire to enter the naval service. They will go to Char lotte either the' latter part of this or early next week and enlist for the re quired term of years. Their salary at first will be $16 per month. , The navv is badly in need of men and is opening up recruiting stations all over the country. Prof. Dnu d to He Cone Only One Year. Biblical Ilecorder. Prof. Jerome Dowd, of Trinity Col lege, has accepted an invitation to be come a Lecturer in Sociology in the University of Wisconsin. This is both an honor and an opportunity. We understand, however, that it will only require Mr. Dowd to be absent from Trinity one year, at the end of which he will resume his work in Trinity College. BILL A HP'S LETTISH. Atlanta Constitution. Today is the seventy-fifth anniver sary of my advent into this world my coming' into this mysterious, wonderful condition that we call life. It is a fitting time for meditation, contem plation, cogitation and rumination. An aged poetess played double with herself and said: Lifel We've been long together, Through pleasant 'and through cloudy weather: Sav not "goodnight," give little warning, Ana in some brighter clime bid me "good morning." She dident care to linger and lan guish on her last bed. The doctors hadent invented or discovered heart failure then, but that's the way she wished to go. I do not. I would have some little time for the last loving words, and looks some time for tears and sorrow on the faces of those who love me. The death of the aged is only a change a parting, a beginning of another life. It is no calamity, no horror, no shock, no unreasonable thing. It.isthe law of our being and the old are not far ahead of the young. How kind it is in providence to reconcile us to it as we near the goal. I remember when I thought it was an awful thing to die I dare not think of it much less to ponder it and it seemed to me that there was some possible escape from it and I might not surely die. But as we near the allotted age and realize the symptoms of decay we become less re luctant, less alarmed and like Job are ready to exclaim, "I would not live always; I ask not to stay." But some how I do not feel old not very old not inhrra. My eyes are weak and my hearing impaired, and when I stoop long at work in the gar den or picking strawberries my back aches and my knee bones crack when I straighen up, but I soon get over it. I love work easy work and it keeps me in good health, but I don't like' to work bv the day or the job for some body else. I don't like to have a mas ter or a boss except my wife, who wants me right now to transplant her peppers. I gently hinted that they should be planted by a high tempered woman to do well, and she said she thought an impertiment man would do as well and I had better attend to it right away. Sometimes I think I have worked enough, for the poet says we should crown "A youth of labor with an ago of ease," and so I like to work when I feel like it and quit when I please. I have never distressed myself about the work that the toilers have to do. Work has its hardships and its blessings, too. The law of compensation governs every trade or calling or condition in life. There is a erood side and a bad side. There are lights and shadows. Work is nature's law. "By the sweat of the brow shalt thou eat bread," and no idle man is happy. "The sleep of the laboring man is sweet," saith Solomon, and the doctor tells us that bodily ex ercise p omotes good digestion. Work brines contentment. The wealthy who o - dont work and dont have to are always longing lor something iney navent got. Something that money cant buy, for it will not buy good health nor good chil dren, nor make the home happy. The peace and gratitude of the cotter's Sat urday night is unknown to the rich. The toilers as a class are the happiest liftonlfi I know. Thev eniov their food j , j and their rest and their Sundays. I had rather take the chances lor happi ness on earth and a home in heaven of the working man than those of the mil lionaire. Byron says "The many must always labor for the few," anu Cobe says "the good Lord made poor men just to keep rich men in money," but the good book says a poor man can squeeze through the eye of a needle and a rich man cant. ' ' Cobe is a good con federate veteran and enjoys his record and his religion and his tobacco. That is all he has and he is content. One of the greatest comforts of old age is in contemplating the happiness of children. It delights me to set in the shade of my veranda and watch for two little girls who are four and six years old, coming up the avenue hand in hand and waving a welcome and a smile at me. It rejoices me to wateh larger ones as they play croquet on the tennis court near by and to hear their merry voices and unconsciously I breathe a prayer that they may always be happy and no calamity or affliction befall them in the years to come. If I ever get to heaven and St. Peter asks me what vocation I would choose, I think I would say, "Please, good Saint, make me a guardian angel of the little children I left behind me, and give me power to shield them from all harm." I think I would like that I think that I would. I like it now as far as I can do it. It is a privilege and a delight to an old man to make others happy. Time was when my chief con cern was for myself and wife and our children, but as age comes on the heart enlarges and softens. The vanities and ambitions and selfishness of our youth disappear and we recall the lines of Bobart: 'Count the dav lost. If the descendldg sun Views from thy hand no geuerous action done." Lost a day lost! How many days have we all lost in our brief lives. How many days in which we made no one happy, not even with a smile. But these reflections are too gloomy for the day. They remind ua of Her vey's meditations among the tombs, or Gray's "Elegy in a Country Church yard." I am old, I know; but I do not feel old nor sad. My desire is to grow old gracefully and for "An age that melts In unpercelved decay And glides In modest Innocence away." Bill Arp. The Pan-A mcrlcau Kxpotritlon. Concord Times. The editor of The Times spent four days last week at the Buffalo ExiK8i tion "the Pan-American," aa they call it up there. It is a big show, and well worth a trip to see it. The grounds and buildings are things of beauty, and at night are simply grand. The picture is like a dream, so dazzling and beautiful is it. The electric tower is the greatest creation of the kind, and at night presents a picture of transcendent beauty. The buildings are all about com pleted. All of the exhibits are not yet installed, many being in course of in stallation every day. It is already a great exhibition, however, and days can be spent there in profitable sight seeing. The midway attractions are the best we have ever. seen. Uusually these shows are largely fakes, but many at Buffalo are more than worth seeing. Notably we might mention The Johns town Flood, A Trip to the Moon, Jeru salem and the Crucifixion, From Dark ness to Dawn and a number of others. Money expended in seeing any of these is well invested. The Hawaiian, Fili pino and Esquimaux villages are also interesting places to go. Very few people from this section will visit the Exposition until the rail road rates are lowered. The rate now is $37.10 from this section, which is simply prohibitive, being only a small reduction from the regular rates. Many of our people want to go, but are waiting on the railroads to give them a lower rate. North Carolina has no exhibit at the Exposition. The only exhibit that represents the State is that of the South ern Railway Company. Thanks to this great system, North Carolina is represented in the exhibit it displays in the Agricultural Building. There are very tine pictures of the superb scenery along the banks of the Swannanoa and French Broad rivers, the chateau of Mr. George Vanderbilt from several points of view, the mountains around Hot Springs, and a view of Round Knob, nicely framed and hung. There are also agricultural products from our State displayed. While this exhibit represents our varied products and re sources in a very small degree, it is a great deal better than nothing. There are also pictures of our cotton mills, and a pamphlet dwelling particularly on tobacco and cotton mill industries of our State. It shows the State as a producer of all the cereals and fruits, cotton, etc. Special mention is also made of the fine climate of North Carolina. The State owes the consid eration shown her here mainly to the influence of Col. A. B. Andrews, First Vice-President of the Southern Rail road, than whom no man in the his tory of the South has done more for her material advancement. This is es pecially true as regards his native State of North Carolina. In Gelt, Carr Alo a Traitor f New York Times. One of the firmest believers in the possibilities of a new South is Col. Julian S. Carr, of Durham. He was at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, having returned from Philadelphia, where he represented Governor Aycock and de- hvered an address on "jortn uarouna and Her Resources." Col. Carr is one of the wealthiest men in the South, and is identified with many movements, calculated to benefit the Southern States. "In the contest now going on in South Carolina," he said to a Times reporter, "Senator Tillman may, for the time being, be successful, but in the long run Senator McLaunn will succeed iust so sure as the sun rises a.nd sets, because he represents the rieht principle. "I have grown mighty sick ana urea of seeing small politicians run INorth Carolina and other Southern States. I suppose hide-bound Democrats will - i i -r say l am aoanaoning wwiiuanui; piw- ciples for dollars and cents. Let them. It is high time that the business or commercial men of the South tried to .in the Southern States on broader ines. And we intend to get out on :l broader beam. We have had all we want of Brvanism. and God knows I supported him loyally. "North Carolina is making rapid strides in a commercial sense, and as one of her sons I want to see her keep in the forefront in business development The best interests of the country are more to me than the personal success of any politician. Senator McLaaurin has the rieht idea, and he is bound to win. I favor extension and the Nic aragua Canal, and I am sick of Bryan ism." Col Carr some time ago refused the Democratic nomination for Governor of his State. He has given largely to educational and charitable institutions and the Carr dormitory at the Univer sity at Chanel Hill is one of the hand somest structures in North Carolina REOPENING TRADE WITH CHINA. Atlanta Constitution. The Constitution has already refer red to the reopening of trade relations with China as likely to have a marked influence upon the cotton market of the coming season. The large amounts of cotton bought, during the last fifteen months on Chi nese account, as well as the orders ior manufactured goods, have had to remain in warehouse owing to the im possibility of delivery. It is now stated that the forty thousand bales thus held have already anticipated the opening of market by being shipped to their destination, and that sufficient orders are now on hand to call for eighty thousand bales more on the same ac count. This is but a preliminary ef fect of the coming evacuation of the celestial empire and points to a vast improvement in the condition of the cotton market. We have already pointed out the source of danger that the evacuation has been so timed that the full effect of this rise may not come in time for those who will be forced to sell their cotton early. In such event the specu lator has a vast advantage, for he is enabled to play with the future, while the debt-ridden farmer is under con tract to sell, no matter how the price may range. The necessity of caution upon the part of the planter is apparent, because he is entering a market which is bound at some period before the close of the cotton year to give" a good price for the product. Notwithstanding the complaint of those who lamented the buying of large orders of cotton at high prices during the last twelve months, they are now placing their sales at good account. Thus, for instance, we are told by a commercial agency that "the cotton goods carried by the manufacturers in New York city for the exporters and carried in warehouse in 'Shanghai contain good value for their owners, notwithstanding the carrying charges as they were contracted for when raw cotton wag much lower in price than at present." And again, "a number of the leading manufacturers have already announced definite advances in prices for export goods, while others have secured the same results by restricting discounts. The recent order of events in the cot ton goods market seems to have, then, first, the production of a much im proved tone under the direct stimulus of the increased demands for China, and then a more or less pronounced indifference to the domestic markets." Taken altogether it will be seen that cotton occupies a very strong position in the commercial world and that its value will be very stiff for some time to come. If the cottton planters of the south would only adopt plain business methods so that they can control their own staple in their own local ware houses they would largely enhance their profits and be the best paid agri culturists in the world. For years The Constitution has been urging uon the planting community the idea of living at home and holding their own product against the market. If this lesson will only be taken in part, it will accomplish much good, and we willl feel that we have done some thing for the good of the country. Senaatlon lu High Point. Greensboro, June 19. High Point" comes to the front with a big sensation which is to be aired in the courts, and which promises to arouse much local nterest. Two or three weeks ago charges were made which reflected on the character of "Prof." H. P. Mac- Knight, of the Hammer School of Science and Healing, and one of his pupils, a Miss Snider, the young daugh ter of a farmer living near High Point. The report created right much of a sen sation at the time and there was talk of drumming MacKnight out of town. In fact, he was called from his room one night by a crowd of young fellows, but the "professor" was not easily frightened. He fired a revolver into ' the crowd and it is said that one man was struck in the heel. The young girl, whose name was connected with MacKnight, has sworn out warrants against J. T. Bennett, chief of police of High Point, and Frank Sechrest, who, it is alleged, circulated the report, charging them with slandering an in nocent woman. MacKnight has eworn but a warrant against the men who called him from his room at night, charging them with assault. Those named in the warrant are William - Is lington, J. T. Bennett, Frank Sechrest, Wesley Perry, Lee Bates, Adolphui Maynard and Bud Maynard. Uotft cases are to come before Justice Wolfe, at his office in Greensboro, Saturday. Lawyers have been employed and pre parations made for a big fight. A good portion of the population of High Point will be here as witnesses and spectators, and sensational developments are ex pected. Senator Jonei Say Bryan ! a Bea4 1mb. Senator Jones, chairman of the Demo cratic national committee, says in his opinion Bryan will not be nominated again for president. He believes the issues of the next campaign will relate largely to the government of the Philippines. He favors giving the Filipinos an independent governmeLt.