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. $1 00 a Year, in Advance. 'FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH." Single Copy, 6 Cents. VOL XII. PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY JULY 26, 1901. NO. 21. hill ari's li;tti:ii. ftM,w.,.l,. In all ages mankind has felt the need of a God. There is a feeling of help- lessness in our nature and if man can t find a God he will make one. It is curious how strangely similar are all the heathen mythologies to the Bible religion. St. John says: "And- there i ,i ivf:ui l k; ttrtia ami r 111 iii'iivimi ii.iiii hi ii.iijli-i iiiiu 111.1 0 ........ -. - angles lOUgnt aga nst uie un.gim ..u his angles anu nurieu mem uuwii, That old dragon, which is the devil, was cast down unto the earth." Just so in Grecian and Roman and Scandinavian mythology : there was war in their heaven and the good deities prevailed y and the evil were cast out, but not do stroved. Jupiter had war with the i. .Titans and dethroned them. Oden, or Woden, as he was called, had war with -Lofci and dethroned him and gave him Hela, or Hell, for his kingdom. The Scandinavians had a cerpent to figure in the dawn of their creation, and that serpent was ever gnawing at the roots . of the tree of life a tree that grew by f a soring and was kept in perpetual bloom by the water of the spring. This spring was at one end of the rainbow and the home of Woden and the gods was at the other end and as oft as the . rainbow appeared Woden and his retinue ' made use of ut as a beautiful bridge over which they passed to the spring to drink and renew their youth and hold their high court and sit in judgment upon offenders. ust so our religion tells us of the tree of life and the water of life and the leaves of the tree which are for the healing of the nations This Scandinavian mythology was a beautiful and fanchiating religion and the Nprsemen, including the Danes and Swedes, believed in it as piously as we believe in our Bible opd Christianity ueneve m our uiuxe , . Indeed it took centuries . to overthrow it anu piant wiriBiiauujr Hl.e. x-ui i i l ni.:i.'.,..:t.. centuries u neiu eway uvci wmmu. und even to this day all Christendom uses the names of the days of the week that came down from the Norse men, for Wednesday was Wodensday and Thursday was Thorsday. Thor was Woden's son and was the god of the clouds. When he wished to make it thunder and shake the rain out of the heavens he took two great mountains, one in each hand, and planned them together. Friday was Frvea day. Fryga was Woden's wife Just so we got the names of the months from the Roman mythology and we got the constellations in the heavens from the Egyptian mythology and it remains unchanged to this tiay. mit l wish ine vonnfi' neonle to know and remember .i a ' 1 1 Ai. rt tixj-i,. 1 1 , x .-i i - ... tnat in an myiuuiuguw tmi iu was iuuiiucu upu a xv.x .a uu. ana justice anu virtue iiiubi, piuviu um , . . . r .i. i :i evil. The good were rewarded and the evil were punished, not only in this world, but in the world to come. The . :u,i r.f -v.-.i.r ,ii lino difference is that our religion is founded upon love and mercy rather than justice and we have but one God instead oi a hundred. Now it seems that Jupiter and his brothers, Tluto and Neptune, after they 1 had whipped the Titans proceeded at once to aiviue ineir gruut divide their great domain. j upiter was me emuni unu .u . , lit 1 , , i I so he gave the seas o iepu,ne anu hades to riuto anu kcjii neaven lor himself. Smart, wasen't he! Hades was not hell at that time. The spirits of the dead, both goou anu Dau ming- led together in hades until Pluto con- , -i 111 I C uueu to separate me uuxt-piut iv. u mcurab e ones tor tear tney wou u nsurn his kingdom and so he estab- . . . . 1 1 i it i ?i nn lished a hell and called it Tartarus and shut up all the darkest cases therein Now riuto married a daughter of Ceres and she had a son named rlutus. He was the god of weatli and that is where the word plutocracy came from. Our millionaires belong to it. So it seems that the god of money is brother in law to the god of hell, l retty close "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to eo to heaven." Now this Plutus began to give his riches to the good only; but Jupiter diden t like that and struck him blind so that he couldent tell one man from another and so he gropes his way about slowly till he finds a man. Then he gives him a pile of money and suddenly opens his wings and flies away. That, too, is symbolic oi what scrip ture says, "Riches take wings and fly away." The love of money seems to have been accursed in all ages. The wedge of gold not only cursed Achan, but afiiicted all Israel. Milton says that Mammon was one of heaven's gods "one of the spirits that fell. His looks and thoughts were always donward bent, while he admired the golden pavements in heaven's streets and never looked up to aught divine. Then let no one wonder that riches grow in hell. It is the soil that best deserver the precious bane." " No wonder, tSen, that Mr. Carnegie became alarmed and hurried to dis gorge. What a world of care he is now going through in distributing his wealth. He receives thousands of pleading let ters, I know, for many have been sent to me to be forwarded to him many piteous appeals for a little charity. 0 course, I forward them and that is the last of it. They are perhaps read by proxy and then destroyed. Dr. Saninel Johnson wrote truly when he said, kin anu uangerous, uut it u .uouimug of thjJ gramifather clause,' to scripture, tor it says mat uie iove majority of the committee Or money IS me root Ul au cvh, miu ,i,l nl.lmnQ n-imm sh "Riches fortify a man against but one of t.hfi ilia rf IitVv nnn thnt. is iinviirtv Orosiis h:id no monnmpnt. T know of onc ti1!lt was erected to a very rich bad m!inftn old bachelor and his execu- tor, a man of unflinching integrity, had chiseled in the marble these words: "He lcgan the world a poor boy and died a citizen of large estate. This is hi3 uoe,t eulogy " bJ jie might as well have never . lived now. imd doubUcB8 would be better off How many of the rich deserve a sim ilar eulogy on their tombstones. Old Agur's prayer was a safe one "Give me neither poverty nor riches." These great accumulations impoverish some body. They generally come from the sweet and toil of the poor. Carnegie, The New York Herald says, was worth not less than $500,000,000, and no doubt is the richest man living or that ever lived. According to human laws and human morals, his wealth was honestly earned, more honestly than that of most millionaires, but in the sight of heaven he wronged his fellow men. No good " Christian man can ever become a millionaire except by inheritance. He can't earn it, and comply with the scripture which says "Do justly, love mercy and obey the Lord thy God." But the poets and preachers and f. , J . , . this subject to encourage the liberal and al,3 inn the greedy, and yet most an ui our ncn men are smuggling lor .11 1 i 1! mnu. xjicicwuwjaimuiciu era are exceptions in pniiantnropy. I f 1 a1 t ,w,;...i f,.;,i late copy of The New York Sun, in which a whole page was devoted to a review oi -luaciay s uy uant'U dtiuca iiavj, niuvu una j uok published in three volumes by the L , j rcad . i --i i--- - " x aU ab(mt the destructioil of tho Maine , f , . . sant;!lirn wbpn t PJlmn upon a merciless scathing criticism of - ..-0, - uommouore Schley, which made me hot and fatigued my indignation. I had thought that whole controversy was settled and partially harmonized, but this will cause it to break out a fresh, for The Sun lavishly indorses all that Maelay writes. He tells what Admiral rhilip told him about Schley's dis graceful conduct, (Philip is dead now) and that he actually turned tail and ran away from the fight, and that his contriunuon to navai eiraiegy mrougii- .. M a' A . 1 .1.. I. out the campaign was --voiu your enemy as. long as possible, and if he makes for you, run! Hobson is not mentioned in this review. Who i8 i inn iii ii.i ,iii,v . iLii j ; mis luaciay, anynawr jjui louay x am . , , t uvn l,fin nn(T(lrlv . n riiirru'a 1'ist nnfl host. brink ;T, f,. .. - nnnfdr!lt H. . nn, ,. ,i hv v Tnhnsnn & f"..".. j - - - Co., Richmond. It is a small book; a calm, considerate review of the past and full of his personal reminiscences- his contact and communion with our noble men Davis, Toombs, Stephens, Ben Hill, Howell Cobb, Longstreet, Judah Benjamin and others. It is almost an autobiography. It does not seem to be a school book, but I wish that every young man in the laud WlOU tillb w read u It would take but a few fa our nd would e8tabiish him in the faith the true faith the faith of our fathers. Dr. Curry is now almost alone. Jill illiS lUllbVlllAJlU110 11U AC.LAl.V'Ul 111 All l i n tnn t aa YiAi-n vi na urhn ti m l ii I in thesccne8he hag nan.ftted are dead. .,. , , . ... n.,i.,.n 0;n v,vna TI fnrt,inte wfi re that that the doctor lived to write this book, ? i for what he writes is respected at home and abroad. He has long moved in an atmosphere far above envy or mal ice of distraction. Long may he yet live. Bill Aiir. Senator Morgan's Letter. Birmingham News. Senator Morgan's letter to Capt Frank S, White is a s.trong arraignment which the on suffrage all become part of Alabama's new constitution. The Senator s opening sentence that 'the American Revolution was not so much a redress of grievances as it- was a struggle to abolish heredity in govern ment,' presents an unanswerable argu- ment, snowing as it uoes tnat me very basis of our free institutions lies uiion opposition to the kind of discrimination iv1iifh thp 'rrn.nnfji.MiPr P.lilllSP nro- poses. 'Political heredity,' the Senator ft- " i i continues, anu iu io ujijjui ti-iiaui-ua, such as prerogative anu u uiar nooiuty and pnmogeniture, and all its protect- ing laws, sucn as corruption ui wouu, premunire anu excommunication, per- ished and were piaceu unuer me iieei . , 1 . 1 1 I ot prohihiuon ny our oiibiiiuuon. The Senator correctly observes that whoever would restore any of these to that extent discredits the cause of the Revolution. General Morgan likens 'the trans mission of electoral iower by blood of inheritance from father to son' to the British House of Lords. Such a scheme, he says, 'would destroy all dis tinction between royal government and democracy.' At tlie Neaxliore. First Shirtwaist Girl So you are ',1 If Til . 1 ft going rowing with iur. rioorwaiicerr His trick is to threaten to rock the boat unless you give him a kiss. Second Shirtwaist Girl (naively) Well, mother said she wasn't afraid to I (til V1V.VHUHU 2 '"juu - let me go with him, as all the girls say m many years. Ihe general crop con he never rocks the boat. dition has been improving rapidly. ITI It. IIEItHON'S DEFENSE, Atlanta Constitution. The most impudent defiance of the marriage relation is that which has heen presented by Rev. George 1). Her ron, who abandoned wife and children in order to become the law-husband of a woman who had cash enough to buy out the rights of the real wife. For a time Mr. Herron defied the public opinion of his own church, but finally forced into a statement, he has made answer in which he denounces the marriage system "as an institution of slavery." It is a little curious to follow the reasoning of a man who even yet claims to be an exemplar of public morals. To the council he writes: "You are acting in defense of what you believe to be the sacredness of the family institution, against which I am to you an offender. Let me say to you that I do not believe that the pres ent marriage system is sacred or good." Declaring the marriage system to be the destruction of liberty and love and truth, he says that if "love and truth are the bases of morality, then the marriage system which makes one human being the property. of another, without regard to the well-being of either the owned or the owner, it seems to -me to be the very soul of blasphemy and immorality." w natevcr iorce there might be in this statement as between the two par ties to a marriage contract, it certainly L1ns nnt .flnniv tn .wi.il.l.- rnltnni "l-f'J ...."-v.. v,uv.vwv They were not consuitcd in thcir hring. incr into the wnr , Tlirv rortn n -"O " -..-.J -wv havG rint fivft frnm mfttfiriftl nnint, . o ' i Even if the nosition taken bv Mr.' Herron ,d be maintainedt how ighe going to get rid of this responsibility to others" The adoption of such a theory w " T, V " Xl JZ wou M be to des t oy the righto of the home, the. welfare of the children, and to establish a condition of social anarchy such as never exsisted even among savages. Mr. Herron finally declares that "the family founded on force is a survival of slavery," and one of the expressions oi the slave principle on winch our whole civilization is built. ' 'The ethics of the legally and eccle siastically enforced family make it possi ble for a man to live a life of monstrous wrong, ofghastly falsehood, of even un bridled lust, and yet be highly moral ad cording to the standards by which we ;uftrptl (,Jj0ve mugt be set free and liberty must be trusted, if noble and beautiful h1Qme8 are to Bprin up to make the L.,r,). n trnii, nn,l o-i,.,lnoa The cocrcive family svstem is tilling the earth with falsehod and hypocrisy, misery and soul disintegration, anu is perpetuating the morality of slaves and tars. "In times past men have thrown away thcir lives in protest against what seemed to them tyranny and wrong. 'There is a new world coming whose way can be made ready only by those who will throw away their good names and accept, perhaps, everlasting dis grace as the price of thcir protest. If I willingly accept all the obloquy and retribution which church and society may visit upon me, in making a protest against a system that seems to me destructive to all true morality and to the very citadel of the soul's integrity, then my protest has earned its right to be heard." It is hard to comment on such mon strous doctrines as are here enunciated. The plain lesson is that we need a return to the stern principles of unyielding religion, which will hold men firmly bound to every obligation they under take, the strongest and the most endur ing being that of taking care of the families which they bring into the world. Farmer In A Sad Quandary. Raleigh Corespondence. The rains have put the tanners in this State in a sad quandary. They are asking what they are to do. The merchants who make advances to farm ers are called on to aid them addi tionally. Some have had to call on these merchants to make cash advances in order to pay for laborers in cotton fields. Labor is higher and scarcer .,, . il(lfr Th f.,rniora ?n tilia LMnn Tlllt .llft mn fiffl,rfi nt hi)u iht ugual ield of cotton and a third thatof ti - -i... -i i i aeree with them as far as that crop is ntwn i i r f'Mimn iimi irn iiji.vm ('(tnw u i concerned The rain thig woek made the iule stream9 torrents, and Crabtree creek, nw, w wna r, in-bps h o-hnr v.stor. (Uv Hinn w, :n fh -tav VJ v. w O J fn!slict. A little stream. House's creek. irfiaUv nniv br.,nri, w.,s sn l,;h that two children ot cnaies winery- were on their way home from their grand mother's. The stream rose in a few minutes. The oldest, a girl took her baby sister across and returned after her brother. She and he were swept away.- ihe cries ot me uany Drought aid but too late. The bodies of the A 1 11 children were iouna some nunureu yards away in a submerged meadow. It is estimated that Hoods, cool weather and rain have damaged crops in iNortn uarouna to ine extent ot $", 000,000. There is prosjct yet, however many sections of a good crop. The Western Carolina wheat crop is said to have been the biggest and Uist CHINA WINS A FUCK ALL. Baltimore Sun. The news from China can hardly be satisfactory to those who a year ago advised using the mailed fist upon th oitending ueiestials. .Large armies were sent to teach China a lesson, to exact an indemnity and make a repeti tion of the anti-foreign Boxer move ment impossible. Ihe J'owager was to be executed, and an entirely new administrative system was to be estal lished. The trade situation was to be remodeled by opening all Chinese seaports and river ports to the foreigner and by abolishing obstructive internal taxes, such as the local officials enforc for their, personal enrichment. The opportunity has come, in short, to reform stagnant China and place he upon the high road of modern progress Ihe rescue of the legations at 1 eki was the least of the objects in view the alteration of the situation in the interest of the West being the chief motive alleged for the loud beating of tom-toms. But the wily Oriental has been mor than a match for the impatient and disunited Westerners. The forei armies are now being withdrawn, one after another, without having settled anything. An indemnity has been agreed to, but the diplomats cannot yet tell what it will amount to, how it wiH be raised, or how interest upon it will be secured. The ridiculous scheme about to be adopted makes it incumbent upon each country to pay- interest upon the bonds received from China if China falls to pay, and China's failure is insured by the inability of the powers to agree upon any considerable increase of China's taxes. The absori tion of part of China's territory an object with some of the powers is completely baffled, except perhaps in the case of Russia, and even Russia finds her post tion worse than it was before the Boxer War beg in. Territory in lieu of in demnity is now no longer even men tioned. After months of futile mititary occupational eiormous expense Chi nese j oliticsrem;'n as before. The Dowager retains her ascendenc over the Chinese Court, Prince Tua and other Boxer leaders retain their heads, aud a new Boxer movement said to be developing- The legations at Pekin are, it is true, now fortified but it is by no means certain that the Chinese Court will return to Pekin where it will be within the range of foreign guns. No administrative re forms have been secured. The Chinese officials will continue to supplei.ien the'.r deficient salaries by extorting "likin" t;":es f mi trade with the interiov There has been no recent addition to the number of open ports much less an edict opening all ports to foreign trade. I1 ear of foreign arms has been perhaps instilled in lieu of the contempt with which foreign powers were lo . icriy regarueu, out u is accom panied with disgust and hatred on ac- ountof the heartless loot ing and cruely with wlr'ch some of the Christian powers conducted their military opera tions. Our measure has been taken bv the Chinese diplomats, who mivc learned, like the Turks, how to play off one powei against another It is perceived that the United States, Russia, France and Germany have different interest and can seldom agree upon any comprehensive scheme that is unacceptable to China. The West lacks the patience and calm of Oriental diplomacy. Our sensitiveness to ex pense and conflicting purposes place us at a fatal disadvantage. June Bug Put Out tlie Light of Town. Zanesville, 0., was almost entirely in darkness last week, as a result of the vis itation of June bugs in countless num bers.- Electric light globes are filled and the lights are completely subni" g ed by the ashes of the burned bugs, Tho hotel offices are infested with such swarms that it was necessary to close the doors, notwithstanding the intense heat. In several instances church services were interfered with. The river bridges are almost impassable to pedestrians The atmosphere about the lights is fill ed with clouds of live insects and floors are covered to a depth of several inches by dead ones. Coming of tlie Shirtwaist IHan. New York Press. The shirtwaist man is coming because he is the logical expression of comfort in torrid weather. A coat is a crime in such temperatures as we have been punished with in the last week. All the world will bless the Jersey Judge who suspended the dignity of the court on Monday and Tuesday and permitted awyers, clients and hangers-on to take off their coats in the prcse.ieo of 100 degrees in the shader And as an excuse for this leniency he hinted that he himself might be tempted to "shuck." Plumber Strike at Charlotte. All the plumbers and gas fitters Charlotte struck on the 15th for an ad vance in wages and a rearrangement of time. The demands include an increase in wages trom f6 to ?,i.;u per day oi nine hours except on Saturday, when ight hours are to count a day; and also double pay for holidays anil Sun- lays. These demands were refused bv all employers. COTTON ITI ILLS LOSING WONKY. Raleigh Post. Under the above caption the Chicago Chronicle makes the following sugges tive statement: "The only large industrial interests in the country that have not been sharing in the general prosperity are the New England cotton mills. They have been losing money for the last six months. Three causes operated to this end. One the high price of cotton, another Southern competition and the third lack of organization and agreement. "The conservatism of the companies has for years rejected all suggestions of a combination, but recently the idea has been regarded with some favor, and the result of the present situation may be the combination of the cotton mills and the raising of the price for cotton goods. "Since the first of the year the New England mills have been paying 10 cents a pound for cotton and have been selling manufactured goods on the basis of an 89-cent cotton market. "The following mills have passed their usual dividends: Last previous Mills. div. per cent.. Capital. Atlantic 2 $1,000,000 Booth 3 1,200,000 Chicopee 3 1,300,000 Jackson .5 600,000 Lancaster . . . . ?4 1,200,000 Merrimack 3 2,750,000 Nashua .... . . 5 1,000,000 Middlesex . . . . '. 3 750,000 Salmon Falls . . . . 3 000,000 Tremont & Suffolk . 4 . 2,000,000 "The passing of the above dividends reduces the July disbursements from manufacturing companies $432,000 We do not rejoice at the failure of any industry to pay, and pay good divi dends; but we cannot refrain from re calling what we have before adverted or some of them that undertook to and did send "agitators" into the South for the purpose of "making the labor in Southern mills "discontented." They have succeeded in some sections to degree, and what the final outcome may be the future alone can tell. The New England agitators readily found men in tlie state ready to accept the terms offered and enter upon the work, and one of these local agencies is now in Salisbury jail for theft, after creating very unpleasant disturbances in several localities. The Southern mills had just begun to grow and get in a position to be of great service in the way of adding to the wealth of and larger employ ment of labor within the South. To the extent that the Southern mills de veloped to that extent the markets hitherto entirely controlled by the New England mills were invaded and the former enormous profits which had built up our Yankee enterprises were curtailed. To "make the Southern laborer discontented." was decided upon as the shortest way to cripple the growth of Southern competition. It does seem that it is to the interest of our Southern people to work togeth er for their own good and leave New England labor agitators and thcir rep- prosentatives, and northwestern social ism and Populism alone. "SaiHtltted Hand" Kx from VarloiiN IMaeex. Suffolk, Va , Dispatch After being driven from place to place, sometimes by force of arms and at the cost of human life, a company of men and women, commonly known as the "Sanctified Band," has arrived at Smithiield, in Isle of Wight county, Va. Their first public service, held at a street corner, was largely attended. Sadie Collins, a woman whose name is well known in several States, is the recognized leader of the Sanctification ists, whose strength is now twelve wo men and nine men. The band tell the natives that they have come to wage a war against vice. They say they preach "Christ the Sanctified and Holy." Not knowing the blighting influence which has attended visitations at other mints, citizens in Smithfield have not yet shown pronounced hostility. They do not know that church interests were disintegrated at Montrose, N. C, that wives left their husbands and daughters forsook parents, all because of "sancti fied teachings" and became "sanctified women" by embracing the faith. Then Joe Lvnch was a joint leader of the and with Sadie Collins. It was because of the these influences that citizens of Chincoteague IsUmd, realizing the worth ofxlo riesfic purity, rose up and expelled the band after several sensational incidents. Later the company sought refuge in Chowan liver, off Montrose, where in a house- oat they battled with armed citizens from tho shore. One sanctified wo man was shot to death. It has been the band's custom to settle in towns remote from railroads and telegraph wires. A number of ladies of Huntsville, Via., have held meetings during the ast few days to consider the servant girl problem and have arrived at the onclusion that the iHJst thing to do is to import white girls for domestic ser- ice. Communication has teen opened ith northern employment bureaus, and it is ascertained that hundreds of white girls are willing to come south if permanent employment is given them. The liidies there are complaining that their negro girls are giving most unsat isfactory service. FOR Ex-Senator Chas. A. Towne is in New York organizing a company to handle the by-product of his oil wells in Texas. While asserting that he is out of politics for good, Mr. Towne says that he has kept tack of the politi cal situation and feeling in the West. "In my opinion ex-Senator Hill of Now York will be the next candidate for President of the United States of the regular Democratic party," said he, "and the platform adopted will, I be lieve, be a very reactionary one. In fact, I believe the party will split in 1904 and Mr Bryan will lead a third party faction in support of the issues to which he is still loyal.- "The feeling among Democrats throughout the West is that they want to win and they don't care a rap what sort of platfowrr they win on. There is a strong feeling in that section in favor of the nomination of Mr. Hill or some other Eastern man, and the adop tion of a platform that will be a total repudiation of the chief issues of 1896 and 1900. "The free silver question is absolutely dead in the west. It will not only not be an issue in 1904, but I do not believe it will be mentioned in the Democratic platform or campaign. Our position on free silver in 1896 and 1900 was misun derstood. We were not demanding market and profit for the silver mined, but more money for the country to keep up prices. God, in His wise pro vidence, has provided a vast increase in the supply of gold, and to-day there is more money in the country than there would have been if the gold sup ply had remained stationary and the mints had been opened to the free coinage of silver. "So long as the present condition continues or the supply of gold con tinues to increase there can be no suc cessful or serious demand for the free coinage of silver. Certainly that de mand cannot again be made an issue in a national campaign until there is a big chance in industrial or financial conditions." Mr. Towne said that he was glad to see that Mr. Bryan had.condemned the Ohio Democrats for their refusal to stand by the national platform. "It is just like the man," ' said he, "Mr. Bryan is certainly , loyal to his principles and he is a hard man to down; but I do not believe he can again be the candidate of a united party for the office of President. All the indications in the West now joint to a reactionary platform three years hence and an Eastern man as the nominee. Such a result, as I said, may cause Mr. Bryan to lead a bolt." Rural Pree Delivery. News and Observer. The topic of most interest to the peo ple and the papers that was discussed at the Editorial Association at Greens boro last week was free rural delivery. An excellent paper on that subject was presented by Mr. Charles II. Poe. The article contained this letter that is of deep interest: . 'Tostofhce Department. "Washington, July 3, 1901. Mr. C. H. Poe, Editor Progressive Farmer, Rileigh, N. C. "Sir: In reply to your request of the 2Gth ult., I give below the number of rural routes now in operation in the States named by you: North Carolina . . 11 South Carolina 42 Georgia 92 Tennessee 142 Virginia . . . . . 29 Illinois . . . . 414 "A. W. Macher, General Superintendent, Rural Free Delivery System." Why is it that Illinois, which con tains 4,821,550 people to North Caro lina's 1,891,982, has forty times , as many free rural deliveries as North Carolina? The population of Illinois is largely in cities where there is no need of free rural deliveries. Why has South Carolina, with 500,000 less people, nearly four times, as many as North Carolina; Tennessee, with only 100,000 more people than this State, thirteen times as many; Georgia, with only 300,000 more people, nearly nine times as many, and Virginia with less in habitants, two and a half times as many? The answer is easy. The Senators and mertibers of the House from those States have demanded more routes, have stimulated interest among the people, and have not been content until the people enjoyed this new bless ing. Raleigh leads with three routes because of Representative Atwater's determination to have them. The people must build fires behind the Congressmen and insist that North Carolina shall have its fair proportion of the routes or know the reason why. The Contributor, Boston, Mass., says: Matting has many 'advantages as a floor-covering. It is cheaper than a woolen carpet and easier to keep clean. Sweeping across the width in stead of lengthwise will make it last longer. Oilcloth, matting or linoleum does not need scrubbing, but may be kept clean by wiping with a soft flannel cloth wrung out of warm suds, which is made by dissolving a tablespoonfulof gold dust washing powder in two gal lons of soft water. Rinse with clean water and wipe dry. A self-wringing mop saves much stooing and hard work". HILL THE Com ING ITI AN PRESIDENT.