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II THE ENTERPRISE. MOORESVILLE, - N.O If these French duelists really moan business they will challenge each other to an automobile race hereafter. American locomotives are to be in troduced iu Southern Asia. Ths American locomotive has become a conspicuous and Indefatigable globo trotter. It ought not to be necessary to warn people aainsc taking refuge under a tre during a thunder shower. So many fatalities have arisen from this cause that It Is Inconceivable th.it there can be any one unaware of the danger of such a course. If precedent has anything to do -with if, no man who has reached the age of seventy will ever be President of the United States, for only five have ever attained that distinguished posi tion who were oversixty John Adams, sixty-two: Andrew Jackson, sixty-two; William Henry Harrison, sixty-eight; Zaehary Taylor, sixty-live, and James Buchanan, sixty-six. Insurance interests In the I'liSted States are assuming vast proportions. During 1900 thefe companies alone distributed ?JT3,390.S7t;. About one seventh of this enormous to'al was paid policy holders in dividends and in the purchase of surrendered poli cies, the remainder representing losses. The distribution averaged $1.0U0.tXW for every working day of the year. The direct . of the Geological Sur rey of Canada says that practically nothing Is known of one-third of the rea of the Dominion. The unex plored lands comprise more than a million and a quarter of square miles. The largest unknown area comprises nearly the entire Inter!. r of the Pen insula of Labrador, covering liSO.000 (quare miles. Densj forests of hard wood and mineral deposits cf great value are reckoned among the chief lources of wealth waiting to be de veloped. Forest Turk, chosen as the site of fhe St. Louis Exposition, Is the city's reatest and most centrally situated virk. It is readily accessible, being do western terminus of practically all the cross town street railway lines. In addition, five steam railroads run in close proximity. Mnch of the park Ik iu a natural condition, covered with large trees, and watered by the Des Peres River with Its six small tribu taries. It Is not the Intention to sacri fice this natural part of the park, known 10 its visitors as "the wilder ness." Additional land must Ik? ac quired. In addition to the 0(!S acres of park area loaned by ths city; and the Kino acres of available ground on threa sides of the park was a factor In de termining the site. The presence of water in the park wns also a consid eration, as lakes and lagoons play nn Important part In exposition laudscap Ins. The Hoger3 will brings Into sharp relief the distinction between the aris tocratic and the democratic way of looking at posterity. In aristocratic countries the family is the Ideal to maintain the genealogical line, to sae liflce to it all the. natural considera tions of generosity and Justice. In n democracy the family Ideal does not rnipcal so strongly to the average man, observes the New Yolk World. lie has t lie broad and sane forward louii which sees his family spreading out and out until It Is lost In the great ocn.m of life. He think of providing for his Immediate descendants, for ail his children; and then, if he looks be yond, he thinks of the general welfare the public good. In c omparison Willi the high and generous and enlightened democratic 'deal, how narrow, how -:-tv. how Irrational is the iirietoern t.c '"amity pride" which dowers foot, perpetuates drones and gives to vice Us golden opportunities: . "There is no question." says fir. John H. Girdner, In Mousey', "but t lint the confusing and diM-onbint noises of targe cities are ileiriinent.il to the health of those who nre obliged to dwelt ill Ibem fur the greater part cf the year. The Injury lo health from this source Is nor entirely of a local character. In fact, tiie irrlt.-it i :i to the auditory apparatus Mint is, the tar lire!', l;s nerves, nn I Its oilier no penci.'.grs is or less Importance 1 1 n; n the harm done to 111" lira in and gen rnl nervous system by the roar mid din of modern cities. . iie thus plays nn Important part in producing ueu lastheuia, or nervous prostration, a clsenso of cities and of modem civiii f.liion. Aside from I lie liistructive ef fect on the general health, i;oe pro. duces local changes In the ear itself which sometime amount to chronic Inflammation, and very often to p: ; tinl deafness. " Or. (ilrtlner advocates tiie prohibition of unnecessary toiscc l.y municipal ordinance. A Sptt'd Trlh (if fff.l. On the banks of the l'ert.s, In South America, dwells a .ecttllar tr bu of people who are spoiteci la a queer manner. A!l members of ta tribe r ilonlsi- l.i ttili respect, men, woiuu and chiMrA bina pottled bimlj aa4 CROP CONDITIONS, On the W hole the Past Week W as Fa vorable For Crop-. While on the whole the weather ths week was an improvement on that o last, yet it cannot be said to be as sat isfactory to the farmers as could be desired. In the eastern portion of the State conditions improved, but in the western there were excessively heavy rains, which washed lands badly and injured crops on the lowlands. More sunshine Is needed in all section'. The temperature has averaged 2 degrees daily above normal. Cotton has not materially improved. In some places the growth Is good, but it is fruiting badly and Is shedding. In many places the bolls are rotting for want of sun shine. The conditiou of corn has improved, especially on uplands and on red soils. On bottom lands the condition is not so good owing to heavy rains. The fields are very grassy. Late coin is do ing well except In the western portion of the State, where it has had too much rain. The cutting and curing of tobacco is being pushed, the color being good. Fodder-pulling is well advanced, ex cept In the western portion, where the work has been retarded by rain; on uplands the work is being pushed, but on lowlands the crop is jet too g ecu; there has been too much rain for sav ing the full crop. Farmers are breaking land for sow ing. Wheat not threshed has been in jured in the shock. Oats are gaoJ. but not plentiful some have been damaged in the shock; some sowing has been accomplished. Much hay has been cut. but more sunshine is nee.ied for the work. Early sowed turnips are com ing up to a good' stand. Field peas are doing finely. Gardens have imptoved, but are very grassy. Cabbages are rot ting. Potatoes are very prem'sing. Very little improvement in fruit Is no ted. Rice is heading nicely. Expenses Reduced. The penitentiary has been maintain ed through the spring and summer without drawing on the State treasury for funds with which to meet expen ses. Mr. Nathan O'Berry, of the board of directors, who Is In the city, sta'ed that the operation of the prison with the available revenues of the Institu tion had been made possible by tne curtailment of expenses In every de partment of the Institution. The prison is being maintained at about half the cost In recent years." Mr. O'Berry said. "The average ex pense in conducting the Institution has been about $S.50O per month. Former ly it was $1G.C00 per month. At every point possible expenses have been cut down. This fact has made it possible to manage the institution without drawing on the State Treasury." The directors will not be able to make their report to the Governor for six weeks. Two experts, Senator Ar lington and Mr. Long, have ieei grvH. over the books of the institution f.ir rix weeks. The task Is a big one and they are just about half through. The re port will be a full one, and the clnVUIn say It will show exactly the financial status of the Institution. As soon as completed the report will be suomlttvd to Governor Aycock . The crops on the State farms ire in very good condition, so Mr. O'Berry states. The yield of the cotton crop is estimated at one thousand bales. The crop planted was for a yield of 1,400 bales. The corn crop Is good, but the peanut crop Is poor. The freih ets in the spring destroyed and dama ged the peanut crop. All ths crops planted on the lowlands were a total loss, but those on the stiff lands are considered very good. The management of the pr's n x pects to deliver 100 convicts October 1st to begin work on the turnpike ro'id from Marlon to Hakersvtlle .Later iu the fall the number will he increased to 800. As fast as the farm crops are harvested the convicts will be S"t)t t) work on the road. Dr. Smith's Successor. Dr. Janus II. Douglas, of Mack Mock, S. ('.. has been elected Hrofes sor of Physics and Astronomy at Davidson College, to take the place of Dr. Henry Louis Smith, the recent ly elcc fid president. Prof. Douglas received the degree of Doctor of Phil osophy at Johns Hopkins University last June, end is a teacher of lonff and successful experience. Col. Latimer Deal Wilmington Star. Col. Kdward Savage Latimer, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Wilmington, dleJ last evening at 6 o'do k at his home. 20 North Third silent, after a lingering illness of sev eral months. Only this week Cnl. Latimer return ed frcm a smitarinm in Baltimore, where he was under treatment of some of th" most skilled physicians in the country, but all in vain. He gradually grew worse after his arrival at home and bin death came not whol'y unex posed, but as a shock to his family and numerous friends he-e and cite v. Lore. Dr. Lbfti Alexander. Salisbury Sun. Dr. Kbcn Alexander, of the i'p.a:r r-f the chair of Orrek at the University of Nortii Carolina and minhtrr to (!ice e under President ("evelan , was in Salisbury lat night. Dr. Alexin ler has been on a tramp through the mountains of W'pstern North Carolina for the past month and hai loiit.d much pleasure in the trip, though a tritlp footsore at Its conclusion. This distinguished rit'zen was gree el list right with 'tai-ure by hU SalUbuiy friends. Notes and Briefs, Two hundred fire chiefs of the I'ni trrl States and Canada convened at In dianapolis. Ind. It Is said that 7,'if.O persons intend to come back from Nome. Alaska, to the I'tiitTl States during the prent tin. Former Postmaster John Andrews was shot and killed t Kel L;uge. Mont., by John fivmeis. wlw mint )V Mm fur bur. .HILLS MAKE GAINS Latest Developments in Strike Sit cation. SKILLFD MEN GO BACK TO WORK". A Number of Desertions From the Ranks of thi Amalgamated Asso ciation, Pittsburg, Pa.. Special. Develop ments Tuesday in the steel strike show decided gains for the manufac turers. The accesion of 32 skilled men to the Star plant, the increased production at the Painter and the Lindsay and McCutcheon Mills, the defection from the strikers' ranks oi 75 machinists an 1 pipe cutters at the Continental Tube Works and 50 at the Pennsylvania Tube Works, the impor tation of 12 men to the Monesscn Steel Hoop Mill and the installation of three mills on night turn at tho Claik Mill, all point to an early re suniptioa all along the line as viewed by the steel officials. The Amalgamat ed officials, however, make the claim that everything Is progressing satis factorily and say much of the sup posed advantages of the manufactur ers is bluff and cannot be made good. As an instance they cite the Lindsay and McCutcheon plant, where the company claims to have as many men at work as they can accommodate anil turning out merchantable product. The Amalgamated people claim that .lames Hurley, vice president of the first district, visted the Lindsay and Mt Cutcheon Mill in the guise ot a roller seeking work. Ho made an in spection of the mill and according to the report there are 20 men at work, six ot w hom are skilled. The strikers also claim that at the Montssen plant the product turned out last wees amounted to 250.900 pounds, whereas before the strike the daily output was l.OOO.Ouu pounds. Matters at McKeisport are quiet and to all appearances unchanged. Strikers point to the fact that the machinists who were pej'sna 1 1 to leave the National Tube tvoiks did not go in as a victory for them, The much-talked-of start of the Demmler plant Is still being discusnc-d and the attemut to start is nowtieuuiea lor tho latter part of thcek. Tho man agement claims that the only thing holding them back is adequate pro tection for the workers, a full com plement of whom they say are ready to go in. Mayor Black Is still holding back his final answer to the request for police protection. It was reported Tnesilav afternoon that thf. strikers at Duqtiesne intended to make another effort to close that plant by getting the nnen-hearth men out. but nothing definite on the subject can be learned. i.ooo Coal (liners Qu:t. Oliver Springs, Tenn., Special Union .oal miners of this district ate out ow ing to their failure to reach an agree ment with the operators for a new scale. The scale for the pa3t year e ; Hired Saturday night. No disorder is act !:bi Tin a -.aiber- of men ous ts 1,000. A few men are at work In tho Tennessee O.xil Company's and the Knoxville Iron Company's mines, but the Ceil Creek Coal Company's and the Black Diamond Coal Company's mines are completely shut down. The loyal Coal and Coke Comp.iny is op erating with its full force of men, hav ing catered into arbitration with the uinifrs, as did the Jeliico operators. heavy Betting on Boat Races. New York, Special. J. Montgomery Smart, of the produce exchange, has received a dispatch from J. H. Kins ley, the agent of the Engll-h vn ti ta;e, which placed $130,000 .: sham rock II, at Pittsburg, saying he wai ready with another It i". .0:1 at the same odds, or half th.c -ciui. Mr. Smart immediately . ...imuin;catf with a Broadwa broker ,m a: eaig ej the former Wiig r n ml h is srvf; p it up $10,000 against fmo i.tft iu Shamrock will not lift the f,. Big Racing frizes. Charleston. S. (, r,n-( ial. The rac ing privileges at tic; South Carolina Inter State and West Indian Imposi tion were disposed of here for $!.", (too to W. Brooks Harlcy and Co. As sociated with Mr. Harlcy are II. C. Jordan and W. P. Nuckols. of Rich mond, Va. The Wagener track will be put in excellent condition and ample facilities such as stables, grand stand, etc.. will be furnished. Mr. H.irlcv .-id that his associates nnd himself would offer $185,000 In purses during the continuance of the exposi tion and that hn was confident they wo"ld be nb'e to provide t'w visitors to the cxpttsit'on with cxccllcir. sport i;l lining tiii: t end pe leg event:;. Boers Loot a Town. (ape Town, By Cable. A mounted force of Boers has looted Barrydale, In the Sweliendnm district. 110 mil's frc;m Cape Town. Si beeper's Boer command pa-sed close to Montague yesterday and had a slight brush with the local scouts. They h:d spa e hotses and were apparently wM equipped. A column of troops has gone ::l pursuit. To flo O-it of Comtiis-''n. Boston, Mas?., Sprcia!. Tie yac'il independence practically went out of commission Tuesday afterno-in after siie had raced over a course In Mas sa . -bluetts Hay anil b'at'-n a fleet of f.ihcmen ten uilbM on a 2"-nil!e course. After the fxhibit'oa, tr.e In dependence sailed down the ship channel to Hull to await the disposi tion cf her owner. It is believed that she will he dry docked for dismantling next week, Brief Mention. Mr. Joseph Bryan ,of Richmond has bought his father's old honi"tc dd, in Gloucester county, i-fc-entc ly owned by V. B. Withers, for $1,00'. At Williamsburg Wednesday Dr. L. S. Foster, superintendent of the Kast ern State Hospital, was attacked and very badly beaten by K. T. Clowes, a discharged employe. Mr. C. M. Randolph, who bught the Atlantic Hotel, Norfolk, on Wellies, day for $300,000, says It Is his Indivi dual pure base and not for Richmond iyDdi'c t first reportil. GENERAL TOoN GETS WARH O.er tiis E-;hane of Second-Hand School Books. A Ree'gh Special 3ays: The State Superirt iidei;t of Public Instruction is not a little angry. The cause was a letter Inclosing a little blank sent out by one of the companies which was lately awarded a contract for turn'sh Ing text-books. In the blank which Is so arranged as to give the name of the pulpit and sciiool, etc., a fixed snl harsh rule is laid down as to the ex change of an old book for the new one; what shall be the condition of ths old book, that it shall have been used by the pupil in person the flist haif of the present year, etc., and then giv ing the additional sum to be paid for ihe new book. The Superintendent laid the matter promptly before the Attor ney Ceneral aid said he would block this little gane or know the reason why. He said tivo of the five book com panies awarded the contracts were try ing to work th s game. The foHowinv, reply was made by the Attorney Gcnc-al to the Superintend ent's Inquiry Replying to yocr communication of, this date with enclosure of Mr. Street Brewer, covin -superintendent of Sampson couit , relative to the ex change, of sc-!i : ! books under the pro visions of t'.e j, t to establish a text book commi s c. . passed by the Gener al Assembly at is i.ist session, I have tho honor to submit the following: Section 10. ot" the said act provides: "That the conlmctor or contractors shall take up scuool books now in use in this State an 1 receive the fame in exchange ol new books, allowing a price for su- h old books not less than 50 per cent. f tbe contract price of the new books." I'dtig'aph 5 of this con tract enterel 1 o between the State of North Curoli. a and the book con tractors Is as f.iliows: "That the saia party of the second part, further covenants and agrees to supply each an ! .all of the books or publications en. b. iced in this contract at the exchange i rice or prices herein named, in th.ise ca ses where there is of fered in part payment an old book which was i i u.ie n the S.'ate of North Carolina on c!:'' - :- day of February, 190v, or in use on July 1st. 1901, or whi in use between said dates, and which If of like grade and upon the sa'c stil-.Vcts as the one for which It Is taken i i part payment pro vided that the ti'c ;n which old books heretofore in use ivi the State of North Carolina can be exchanged for new books, be limited to July 1st, A. D 1901." The text-h-k laws which is made a part of t& contract declares that the exchangeable books shall be "books now in use' In this State," the date February 8th, ,1901, mentioned in the contract, being i"ie date of the rati fication of the act. 'In your letetr you say "if only the pupils of schools taught since February 1st, 1901, are al lowed to exchange, jl hen the exchange of books would benefit but a small part of the public schooiSotrons," alluding to the. date jneuti'jr lin this h't-trsf Mr. Brewer. Ac r?ng to my con struction of the law and the contract made with the contactors, the clause "school books now' In use in thli State" determines yhat books C3n be exchanged, and thri-e words as used in the act mean thole- hooks taught in previous sessions of the school and sveh books as woulj be used by pat rons in the schools of this State if ih( General Assembly hid not enacted ths present law potvidii of new hooka. ; for the aJoptijn crtiflcate, a copy , kid prepared by e jgned by tin c shool, and .m- I do not think thA of which you enclosj the contractor, to tcii her of the pub) dei taking to define the" conditions upon which an exemvngefoftooks can bi effected by a publhf school patron ll authorized under te text-book law, Thft-statute ctoia. JKxoa.'er upon th contr.ii'iors authorlv to Issue Instrue lion to the manag rs of school .out depositories, design-d as their own in terpretation of the conditions under which an exchange school books can be effected, these (uestlons being, In my opinion, within the Jurisdiction of the State text-book commission to be determined In accot lance with ihe law and the contrac t enred into with the publishers. Sectloijt of the text-too'.c law declares: "Thai the said commis sion may. from timcJto time, make any neeeseiiiy regulations not contrary to the provisions of th act to secure the prompt distributionjof a book herein provided for and thi prompt an! faith ful performance of all contracts," and Uiis purpose it i, express' provid ed in Ihe said act ihat the text book commission shall l ntaln I's organi zation during the ve yeais which 13 the period fixed fn the expiration of all contracts cnter.L'" between ths State and the WTWtj-aers. in my opinion n rTec-nlton of the law y.dtli reference o the exchange of s-hool books shouldfnot bfc attend;! by any difficulty. 1l" "'early contem plates that any tv. it oi a cerlam grade and on a (e;tiin s:ibje:t which lias been used in " public schools, and which is in a nditlon It be used, and would have h ' n i:sd but f ir the passage of the w.r book law, ran be exchanged for a b ok of a similar grade and on a ai.nlar subjec t at the contract absolutely t .out any condi tions imposed by t c-mtrartore. Chinese Authorized lo Sign. London, By CabiV-"Ll Hung Chang has notified the misters of the pow ers that the Cblncj plenipotentiaries are now iiulhorirefio sgn the proto col," says a dispii'lh to The Times, from Pckln. dates' 'sterdny, "and has recj.Kstel them to a dte for the signing. An edict tncerning the Im portation of arr was circulated among the minister today. Two other edicts are still reared to somplete 11. e protocol.' I M litl i Appnrriatlon. Washington D '.fecial. The ap p.jttionment o" 'h-jiilitia appropria tion '0 the Sou . K'atts is as roi- lows: Alabama. ii,9!C: Florida HIP. Kentucky rltf.riM: Ms-yia i pi, $19,117; Mi--i A; Arkansas, ...; .7 'H Georgia. $27, ; liouisiani, ' fv'3; M'ssissip J Sill; North n i'lroilm, $19, ic, Texai, $:)!,- I Carolina, til. l'.T; Tenn'1'?' dt.'; Virginia, The V.', tt Vtrg.up'entitl and PiU- hu'i? He Iroid ha tjbllshed a station t Ha: i ng, on U Bellng'oa eten 1,0. m labor day ma L'on. William Jennings Tryan Ch .ncWis.ic Spcccli. A-?.. LAB ;R DAY CE.NTRALLY OBSICVEL Mr. Crvan Advocates Close virgani latlon and Opposes S rilws k s Vigorous Si'icch. Kansas City, Special, Labor Pav was marked by the largest and mcs't imposing parade of labor r.n:ons eve; seen here and by t::e paiticipiticc of Wm. J. Bryan in t'ae proce.-sirn and exercises. Eight thousand men m.itch ,ed through the streeis grouped ir their unions an! each unicn we ir n a distinguished uniform. Mr. Bryan occupied a carriage at the hca.l o! the line and was cheered as he whs recog nized. A striking feature of the parade was the hoi-carriers' union, negroes. 225 men. led by a negro bnd. The orator of the afternoon was Wm. J. Bryan, who was preceded ty Mayor Reed. The pavilion at the pari; was crowded to suffccitlon. Mr. Br) an took tor his text the Bibie verse, "Muz zle not the ox that treadei,h out the corn." Mr. Bryan saij "Each doc-ado of our history shows greater production of wealth, and the men who produce it have less to show for it. Is this a good condition-a right condition ?-Vinrso-lution of the problems that confront us Is in legislation, not in lcg'slatic-n for or against classes, but for equal justice before the law. The strike- io to day the only weapon the laborer has but It is weak and ineffectual. If the laboring nven were half as active cu election day as they are in enforce ment of their strikes, they would wield a force that would right the ev.ls which beset them. "The great danger of today -is pri vate monopoly. Not t'rurt any mrnapj ly Is worse than others, but the prin ciple is bad which tolerates any nriv.ite monopoly. I have heard that the true solution of tho problem Is for the la boring man to divide profits with the trusts. That has been given as an ar gument Tor the trusis. Such a thing would be immoral and impolitic. Jt would be like dividing the spoils of the highwayman. It would be permitting a man to rific your pockets and then of fer to divide the proceeds with yo i. Today the only people who sympathize with you are the others who toil In other parts of the Lart"s vineyard. In the present great steel strike, where did the first expressions of sympathy come from? From Texas. They have no steel mills there; they are farmers; they are tillers of the so l and labor ers, like yourself. I want to warn you to resist the overtures of tne trust. Beware when corporations ask y.iu to Join them. The farmers can ttand the encroachments of the trust3 longer than you ran. The farmers live tiff their farms. When trust prices get so high that the farmers cannot buy, they will eat the produc ts of their own in dustry. Their wives can even go back to the prlmative method of making clothes by weaving. But when the farmer can no longer pay trust prices, then there will he no giurf demand tnv me products of your toil, and you can make no more wages. The offer of the trusis to divide with the laboring man is a pitfall. Can you trust tho corporations to divide hon estly? No. How many of you would Use to try a lawsuit, when the Judge on the bench Is the opposing party to the suit? There are good Judges, g-od Jurors, yet do yau want judges and jurors to try your cases when Ihcy ate interested in the outeoire themse v s? When you permit private monopoly to dictate terms of division, then you place yourselves wholly et their tner ry. You allow them to wa.fr their Btock and then expect them to divide with labor on a Just bases. You are witnessing a batt.le between labor snd the great steel trust. This trust was willing to unionize some of Its mills but would have others open co non-rn-ion labor Why? Because the trust wants some mills that It can depend on In the evenx of a strike. It is an un-pquai.-ugifle, for the trust can close rlown Its mills for years, but laboring men mnnot live a year without work. It Is your ii;:ty to cr'.'sh monopolies with the best 'resourc es at your com mand, the bulloi. "Government !: '". auction Is an in iquitous system, rni-l one of the ques tions demanding ntention at the handB of the Am. ri an people. The courts are the setv.uits of the pe iple, and for a couit to rule by Iniiui' t'on, Is for a court to d petise wlih a Jmy and to conder.iu a man far violating a law that the court Itself made. 1'nib-r the process of government by Injuna tion the court onjtitutes itself the power to make the laws, execute them and pass Judgment on the offender. The whole thing is wrong. Under the system a number of employers can or ganises themselves, no tnto court and get an order prohibiting others from organizing for the same purpose. They ran get an order prohibiting working men from getting other working men to refrain from working. The employ ers can organize to crush laboi, hut others are foridllen to orgbnize. I am opposd to government by Injunction, not that It Is derected esjie lally against the laboring man. but that it does away with trial by Jury. It Is menace, not only to one elat-s, but to all. It Is within the power of the la boring man to do away with the sys tem." Generally Observed In Texa'. Houston, Tex., Special. Labor Day was observed by nearly every cl:y In Texas and In a manner mucii more ola-bcratc than has been the case In the past. At Houston the parad i Pu lu led about 3,00. Fort Worth surpass-- that number. At Austin Governor Payers was the orator of the day. Galveston has a plc.rJc at Dickinson with seve ral thousand people from Gahestoj and Hoiistotv Observed lit Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Special. Labor Day was generally observed in this city. Business was practically suspended and the stock exchange, commercial intltutlons and municipal departments wpre closed. There m a big demon stration by Ihe trades unions at Wrsli Ingtnn Park, on the Delaware river, where sports. s;if rc'n-tiis';ing and Jolll fieatlon were the order during the en tire day. Aui itig the speakers waj Max S. Ilayej, of Cleveland, p Is tj tiflifcted that IW.OOo union wo:knieo pirUtlua'ni In the feisbrs'loTj TRIED IT LONG AGO, Menial Trailing In The Days cf Bill at. HOW IT P;CVED TO EE A FAILURE Boys CciidJ Not De Kept at the Plow or With the Hoe The Old School master Had Hard Time. Manual training is no new thing. About sixty years ago we boys bad it at the Manual Labor school in old Gwinnett. We had to work with our hands three hours a day. We worked with the hoe or the ax or plowed corn and cotton or hauled wood or did some kind of farm work au.1 the three hours of manual labor was Intended to pay for our board. But that was a mistake. The boys didn't do one hour's faithful work; they f rollicked. Captain Garmany, the old hero of Shepherd's plantation during the Creek war, was the overseer and he said he had rather fight Indians than watch those boys, lie was a good-hearted, brave man, but he couldn't manage a hun Ired toys who hadn't been raised to work and whose fathers were rich and had negroes to work their farms. Most, of these boys had been wild at homo and had been sent to this school to be tamed and reformed. Poor Cap tain Garmauy. Me pleaded with them and looUUu-fo;enioBt row and show ed them how to hold the plow or split rails or grind the ax, but when he was watching an 1 training one squad iu one- field another squad in another field would slip off and go in a wash ing. The old-fashioned wagons had iync h pins to hold the wheels on and sometimes the toys would lose n lynch pin on the way to the woods and the wheel would come off and they would go back to the blacksmith shop to get another pin and fool away the time until tiie three hours were out and rot a load cf wood hauled. Cap tain Garmauy gave up In despair be fore the year was out and they tried another with no better success. As a general rule a rich man's son is noi going to work with his hands. We had a very line lot of boys from the best families, such as the Gouldings and Holts, of Columbus; the I.intons, ol Athens; the Aliens, of Clarkesville; tho Hendricks, of Butts, and a lot oi Hai'iises and Hoylos and Wofforda and Johnsons, but they eat more than they earned and so the experiment proved a failure and the manual labor feature was abandoned and my father whe had inaugurated It and was president of the board, had to foot the bill ol $3,000 for Its failure. Since that day !t has been set down as a maxim that three hours cf work of a rich man's son won't feed him. But these boyf didn't turn ovit bad. Most of them made good scholars and good citizens Thomas Allen became comptroller general of the stat. Ned Gouldin; was colonel of the Ninth Georgia and William T. Woftord a brigadier gen oral, nnd Dr. Jim Alexander and Dr Hendricks stand high in their pro fession. Gib Wright and Bill Wrighl anil Kamsay Alexander and Jamef Maltl io became judges of the circuil courts. 1 was ruminating about good ole Dr. Patterson, our principal how fal he was au hpw fivjthful do d, tod id ircTTt and boiivltinies of a hot. sultry af- I totnoon, while we were blundering he would go fast asleep In his chaii nnd we would skip a whole paragraph and keep on reading and skipping un til his book would fall on the floor and wake him up. Then he would hunt ar! about to find out where we were at but ho never complained or made anj ftgn of suspicion. I remember out debating society and bow cr.ee month on Kilduy evening we had tt take sides and dlscups some great question. About a dozen cf the oldei boys were engaged In It and though 1 was the smallest. I was right smart and my father helped me and I held my own with the big boys. I remem ber when the question was who was the greatest man that ever lived anc each boy had to c hooee a different mat and advocate his claims. If two oi more wanted the same man Dr. Pat terson had to settle it. My father told mo to choose Ben Kranklin and I havt never changed my opinion since, foi 1 con vine eii myself that he was the best all round man that history telli of. lie was the fifteenth of seventeen children, never went to school aftei he was 10 years old, was apprenticed to his brother, who was a printer; ran away from him when he was 17, hired to a printer In Philadelphia; next year was sent to London to buy stock for a new printing office, but th promised money was not sent, so he hired to another printer; after twi years returned to Philadelphia. In vented a copper plate press the firsi in America married Miss Deborat Read in 1:I0. when he was 24 years old; founded The Pennsylvania Ga zctte end 1030 to competence and re nown. Pounded tho Philadelphia 11 brary in 131; published Poor Rich nrd's almanac for twenty-live years: In 17"li was chosen postmaster ol Philadelphia; In IM'J founded the Unl versilv of Pc-unsylvanla; In 1744 foun lied the American Philosophical So clety and the Academy of Sciences investigated eki-trW Itv and took rank with tho groat ii!coveretB and was elected P. It S. cf London and Edlb burgh. In 17.7.'! v; i appointed post master grnetal of the colonies. He waf the defender of oil colonial Interests; was rent to l'nplond to have the stamp act repealed; labored hard ta prevent war. bvt fallcl; cp.mc homo and signed tho Declaration of ludepen deuce; v,a3 pent to France to s-ecure a if I and recognition and succeeded; siened 'le tnotv of peace at Paris ll !7;3; died In l'iiO; cn motion ol N'iiabcau the national assembly ol France put cn mourning for him. In the c onstliu'ional convention of 1787 his la.-;t r.'.irlo.i was that congress shoul I i-cn Its cessions with prayer and this Is doin; to ttils dav. What a record Is that for a poor '. I-1: ILss. uneducated ,oy to tnivke. I ha.o i'ordcd It In this letter as ar example for poor bovs everywhere. The territory of Tennesse belonged oilginaliv to North Caioliua and wat albcl the tcnitory of Washington Ihe Khlers. however, named it l ankiin and tor tin re yeais It bore ::U n ii:ie Ihe state of Pir.nklin. In 'T-f), al'.er North Cuiollna bad ceded 't to the Culted States, congress got 'i qua: rt lin over the namo and onli n t igire on riiher Washington r i'ranldln and compromised on the iii.ne nf that long, crooked Indian Ivcr. Wafti't that ?. shame? It iionid be Pian kiln now. W e ll. I f iilnc cl tuv ( ;u,e l0 that de 1 ?tc- at bait inv mther did, for be rioincrl me. I sained It over Na polcc.n and WaidiiD;;ton and Jefferson snd Shakespeare mid Newton and Df-n.-iictlii ni's and otlu-is end am still proud to teiull the victory. fi ;t the fat tcr;:air, that there U Co gre atest mr.n. Therf It (he great est orator, the greatest, philosopher and poet and preacher and statesman and general and discoverer and In ventor and painter and sculptor, but each of these is greatest onlv in his own profession. Outside of that most of great men were weak and childish and some of them corrupt. Lord Ba con was perhaps the greatest writer on political economy and public moia:s but he accepted bribes while on the bench and publicly confessed it. an I was deposed and fined 10,000 pounds and sent to prison. Pope says cf him that he was the wisest, brightest and meanest of mankind. Sir Isaac New ton was so absent-minded that It maclu him appeal- ridiculous. When the fire burned him he called his servant snl told him to move it back. It did not occur to him that he could move back himself. His favorite cat came into his room through a hole In the boi tom of the door. When she had five kittens he ordered five smaller bole3 cut for them to pass in and out. Zerah Colburn was no doubt the greatest natural mathematician who ever lived. When he was lOyears old he could multiply any number of numerals In his bead and give the answer in stantly, but he was almost an idiot, about other things, and when 2 J years old lost his faculty in figures. The admirable Crtchtcn when 15 years old was the most learned classi cal scholar in Europe and could con verse fluently In twenty languages, but could not do a sum in the simple rule of three. Goldsmith had no superior as a writer of pure English, both in prose and poetry, but he couldn't utter a respectable sentence in conversa tion. Dr. Johnson said of lilra: "ilo wrote like an angel and talked Hi a -narrnt ." John Wesley was a very great preacher and a writer of sacred hvmns. but be was not wise ruuugu to choose a good wife nor great enough. tn Kiihdne and keen her alter ne nan chosen. When she left htm he said: "I did not forsake her, 1 did not dis miss her. I will not recall her." Petrucbio did not tame his Kate that wav. Lord Bryon was an unprincl nle'd rake. Nanoleon left a dark cloud over his fame by divorcing josepnine. In fact almost every great genius had some defect or some foul blot In the make-up cf his character. Our Heaven ly Kather did not choose to create one perfect man or woman, not one. jusi think what faculties it would require In a man to be as great or orator as Demosthenes or Webster, as great a poet as Milton or Shakespeare, aa great a philosopher as Plato or Socra tes as great a preacher as Wesley or Jonathan Edwards, as great a com poser as Mozart or Beethoven, as great a painter as Raphael or Michael An gelo, as great an astronomer as New ton or Galllleo or as great a general and patriot as Washington wouldn't he be a wonderful man? If there was such a man and he could live on and on the world wouldn't need kings or armies for he would rule It wisely and well and all the peoplo would say amen. Bill Arp iu Atlanta Constitu tion. CURIOUS DURIAL CUSTOMS. Curious fofBrn. wlih E abontt r.tr Ornsnintatln:t. On tV Ivory Coast in West Africa, between the rivers Bandama and Nzl, there lives a curiou3 negro tribe known as the Baule, and which is a mlxtuio of several races. So curious is it that M. Maurice Delafosse, a colonial offi cial, has thought It well worthy of ptudy, and he now narrates some rV.-eceiiiing iaK"v i Tfnt It. The cofflr, t 3 by these negroes, he says, are recLular, aud each la fash ioned carefully, out of a large b'.ock ot acajou wood. The sides, moreover, are ornamented with colored bas-rs-ltefs and the cover Is usually wrought In most artistic style. As an exam ple of such a cover, M. Delafosse pre sents one, which was made In 1895 for .the mummy of a chieftain named Ny nngo Kuassi. On It the chieftain ll represented as lying on a leopard skin, which has been artistically engraved, the tpotj therein being shown by squares, cut out of the wood. Above the dead man is an engraving of an umbrella, the symbol of his high position on earth, and beneath it a box of cartridges has been drawn. On the left Is represented a gold-hllte.l saber which he wore on parade, and above It Is an engraving of his favor ite drinking cup. On the right In Ilka manner may be seen drawings of his dagger and of his gun. Below the corpse Is a death's bead and the fig ure of a woman, who is holding In her hand a saucer filled with bread. The death's head represents that oni among the dead man's slaves, who, ac cording to ancient custom, should have been sacrificed at the time of his death, but whnc t life was spared at the intercession ol M. Delafosje. Reaton For Econam. Newlywcd Since I hava been mar ried my tailor biiis are scarcely a f jurt'i what thry u'cd lo be Quiz7er Do you put what you tat in tlt laid. ? Newlywcd No. I put it h my rift. Ohio Shilf Journal JUL.' . !J.. L! SOUTHERN THE . . . STANDARD RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH rhe Direct Line to All Point TEXAS, CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, CUBA AND PORTO RICO. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS Equipment on all Through and Locals Trains: Pullman Palace Sleeping Car on all Night Trains) Pastand Safe Schedules. 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The Mooresville Enterprise (Mooresville, N.C.)
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