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VOL. XXXV. _ QA8TQNIA. N. TU&8DAY. OCTOBER «. "ftna. '" II U f,
POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS
ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
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Umn Una miration* will ocoord with nr tWw* and tfc* rim of armi
■■■ ■**’»«• tb* oMoalla will ba traa. bat be rates at Ut aabirat matin’.
•to,Mala, tbe a at bonk ip. or tbe view* tnptrate. neb will bar* a* firm* at
of IfMtly tatarwt to uki It a oozurpicoout utttruci.
Enforce Tbs Vagrancy Law.
WlaOog flgtam SftiUitl.
There is a suspicion that the vagrancy lsw on the statute books
of North Carolina may be made to produce just as good results as
that one Georgia enacted. The proper enforcement of tbe law is
the thing, and Raleigh is leading a movement to bring this about.
We haye in the state counterparts of the idle classes which Geor
gia hss set to work—mainly darkeys living on petty thefts and
white men in the cotton util towns subsisting ou the labor of their
wives and children. Raleigh in taking initiative steps in this mat
ter is doing North Carolina a real service.
A Newspaper OifiM te Stand br Sesathlag.
Tbuuuarilte Charity te Chlldraa.
As we have said, if a osper has the right to live at all U has
thr right to stand on its feet and win tbe confidence and the re
spect of mankind by doing a little thinking on its own account.
Otherwise it fails in its function as a newspaper and defeats the
eud for which it was established.
Every newspaper, no matter what it represents, ought to be a
live thing. It onght to have blood and color about it. It ought
to stand for something, and not lean on everything because it is
too weak in the knees to stand.
Bryant end His Thanetapeia.
Tr C. Bran*, ib K. Y. Tim**. Sntertay Bwviow.
Bryant was only seventeen when the first draft of "Tbanatopsis"
was written and it has nowhere been questioned that the uncom
pleted fragment produced at that time, without regard to the ad
ditions made before it was given to tbe public in its present form
ten years later, contains the finest and highest poetry ever com
posed by a writer so young. In the grandeur of its conception,the
maturity of its thought, and the sustained splendor and unerring
felicity of its language it was surpassed by none of his after pro
ductions, and it may be questioned whether a higher note in poetry
was struck by any singer of his generation in his own country or
elsewhere. •_
Censure a Part of Ik Schama ol Living.
I. K. Arrrr la Cktriou Obaim1.
It is safe to say that every living man or woman ia talked
abont harshly at one time or another; that everybody’s motives
are sometimes misconstrued, and that no person who amounts to
anything at all or does anything worth while escapes open
censure. We know that this is a part of the scheme of living. It
embodies envy of the successful, weak sneers at strength, and
covert attacks on the nnfortnnate; and no man can hope to escape
such petty damnation. Bach man ia apt to know the estimate that
the world and his friends have of him; and if his friends be real
friends and his enemies fair enemies they will not let him remain
long in ignorance of any criticism that may involve principle or
character.
"lead the Bible.”
M. V. Ttan Murki lntn>.
Chancellor MacCmcken of the New York University adds his
sonorons voice to the voices that have been raised in deprecation •
of the disuse of Bible reading and ol the “literary loss" thereb y
incurred. About the fact of the literary lo^e there can, we fear,
be no question. It could not be otherwise, mince the times have
gone by when tlie whole community considered that the Holy
Scriptnres "contained all things necessary to salvation," and when,
in consequence, every member of the community was familiarised
with the English text of those Scriptnres. Neither can there be
any fair question about the extent of the literary lots. Macaulay’s
familiar tribute to the King James version is much less exaggerated
than many of bis “heightened and telling" averments were likely
to he—;“a book which, if everything else in our language should
perish, would alone suffice to shot* the whole extent of its beauty
’■nd power." Of the literary advantage of searching the Scriptures
no better instances conld be given than those of two living writers
of whom neither resorts to the Bible for doctrine, but both for
language, those masters of Biblical phraseology, Swinburne and
Khriinw.
Inmnhrily Plain.
at- umu* awbitc.
ia an after-light which brings out facta in a simplicity
of outline resolving and dissipating nil mystery; and it ia this after
lifcfrt which makes plain |fr. Roosevelt’s negro policy, dispelling
the h*M of his sophistical explanations and showing forth bis de
liberate and unvarying discrimination in favor'bf negro candidates
for office. ,' «
In the retrospect Mr. Roosevelt’S ootffke of action is seen to be
• straight consistent expression of a powerful motive—to curry fa
vor with a view to negro delegates and'voters. Upon no other hy
/fX*hetls Is it explicable. Tbe simple (acts eaclnde every othet;
they tell their own story. As rehearsed by Representative Rich
ardson the facts have irresistible, convincing force: /
• Whet I mean by President Roosevelt’s cqpdnct cm be comprised la bla
■mat invitation to Booker Washington to take lMcboon with him tsd
Washington's acceptance oi tbe seam; bis ertroorrilokiy —ppoit of Doctor
Craw toe Collector ©I tbe Poet of Charleston, after Ms owh' RopnMtaaa
committee Sod the Senate had tarnod the doctor down twioe.eotWitfcstMding
which Mr.. Roosevelt persisted la appointing himi also Ms ntra
ordianry osardse of power, naaathorised, as I behave It whs by tbe
laera of the coutry. fa wiping ont the post office at lodUaola. Mias.
Por the purpoae of farther illuminating tba motive sod of con
clusively negativing Mr. Roosevelt’s casuistic “door of hope” ex
planation tbe story of tbe Maryland negro A. 8. Day should be
added. The fear that Day’s appointment to the Quondocqnia Post
Office would coat the administration, many Republican votes in a
close State prevented Day's admittance through tbe “door of hope”
although Day was a first-class negro «pd had been indorsed by the
Congressman of bis district.
With what a mane of aorcerous explanations wen these actions
shrouded at the several times they took placet And bow luminous
hrn the truth become with time !•
"I believe,” say* Mr. Richardson, "that through tha conduct
of Mr. Roosevelt the negro question will .become one of the fea
t>>1*dV>tlMlauM» °** °* sorely, if not
THOMSON
COMPANY
Is ready as never be
fore. Everything is
in fine fettle. We are
ready—yes, splendidly
ready—with one of the
grandest expositions
of bright new autumn
merchandise it has ev
er been our pleasure
to announce, and we
extend an invitation
to all to visit our big
stores. You will find
us prepared to fit you
out from top to toe
with the most beauti
ful creations, of the
master minds of the
world of fashion. 4^ 4^
You will find a. hustle
in our business, broad
gauge, wide awake,
up-to-date. We are
right in the front rank
of progressive mer
chandising. T-h a t
means much to you,
more to, us. Visit us
often. Something new
every day. 4^ ♦ ♦ 4^
Our great buying powers and
the close profit principle on
which we sell bring new
customers every day. :: ::
THE BEATEN PATH
TO the BIG STORES.
THOMSON CO.. IS
EVER WIDENING.
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Thomson Co.
Phone 46 :::: The People’s Store
Farmers throughout the Pied
mont section should take warn
ing from the pest and sowtbeii
wbeatlate this year so as to es
cape Injury by the Hessian fly. Wa
rave such a complete account oi
the insect in the Progressive
Farmer for June 2, this year,
that we will not repeat it here.
Let me. however, ley down a
fcwjtuiding rules for dodging the
If there la no wheat up when
the fall brood of flies emerges
they most either die without de
positing eggs, or must lay them
elsewhere than on the wheat.
N o eggs no fly—and the field in
which none of the eggs ere laid
will not be hort, for the maggots
which hatch from the eggs can
not go from one field to another.
All toe fields in a community
may be seriously damaged year
after year if they be sown in
September or October, while the
one former who docs not sow un
til the middle of November will
escape injury in nine yearn out
often. We should say, there
fore,that as a general rule wheat
should be sown not earlier
then the first of November in
order to escape injury.
It may be argued in objection
to this that in some sections No
vember is too late. In such
cases, we would advise that the
sowing be delayed two or three
weeks later than is usually done;
or, if this would sdll throw it too
late in the season, then sow just
as late as can be done safely.
If the . Hesaisn fly does the
usual amount of damage this
year it will not be npoa the forma
of those who follow this advice.
TIm SMtk U towing Kick.
CbnUtuXnra.
It Is just as well to remember
the figures of the wonderful
advance of tbe Sooth ham its
low estate after the desolations
of war. Ia 1000 tbe wealth of
the South was quoted a t
$5,200*000,000. the wealth of the
North being about a billion dol
lars more. The Civil War left
the South "with its transporta
tion system destroyed, its labor
system annihilated, mid the
fower of iu manhood under the
sod - In the year 1800, fifteen
years after the close of the war,
the wealth of tbe Sooth was, in
round number, $3,200,000,000, or
■till two billioo dollars less than
in I860, la 1890 tins sum bad
been regained. And now ia 1900
the census figure* will show that
the wealth of tbe South will be
912,000.000,000. This is a
quadrupling of that wealth ii*
twenty yean and a more than
doubling of it in one decade.
It should be recalled, also,
that this baa been done with the
continual drain upon the South
of $190,000,000 a year ia tbe pay
ment of pensions, almost none of
which ia returned to the South
to be spent in its channels of
trade. While the tariff as framed
by Republican Congresses has
been another steady drain upon
the agricultural South, the
prices for her products b
fixed by tbe demand In the
kets of the world, ia
tion with the tame
all over the world, while the
South has bad to buy all
finished products at the price
fixed by hostile legislation often
supplemented by the trusts that
the tariff has been building ap.
inot snouia asotner net be
forgotten. We believe tbe ne
Hjoee in Charlotte end in
Mecklenburg, generally. U be at
industrious mud as'well behaved
« they art anywhere in the
South. And yet when the tax
returns an ia what a small
exhibit of taxpaying tbs negro
race makes. So that the South
been carrying the "White
Man's Barden” in addition to
the punitive taxes of the war and.
of hostile legislation since the
war. It has been bearing the
burden of the education Of two
races with tbe taxaepefd hyena.
Yet ia tphe of all. each fa the
spirit of our people sad such tbe
resources with which Datura hue
blessed ua, that we have snatched
the Sower of victory from the
thorns of defeat. Aa Increase of
wealth awch as these derma
from the centos show, tells a
wonderful story. Tbs South la
growing rich. May her wealth
never tempt her front the fine
°»d traditions that despised
wealth for the-mere wealth's
sake, aud that made even
poverty a badge cf honor' when
H had come tErongh patriotism
and self denial.
The recept addition of eleven
new rural free delivery mates fa
the State bring* the total ap fa
which anwwnta^to $MO,OOo! ^
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Have received an
vi of lb nqr wernm
interest yoe. Be we ffhoi**.
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Trimmings.
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JA8. F. YEAGER.
Horses and Mules
we are prepared to’faraSah
Have already rvcef
»d Maks and expect
Amoof them wilt be ac_
fans or teas aaa. Call am
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Tbav are too well
•ajr ana you need.
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