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With the Editors.
At To Their Claim.
With Duller claiming 800 and Dun
can 800 out of a total voteof 1,175
It is quite evident that some of. the 3ft
North Carolina '. rcpub ican .learned
their mathematics i Georgia. Sails
bury I'oBt - -, : ''' ;
He Will Be Late.
If it takes the democrats in the
fifth district a li'ng to elect their
candidate for 'conferees a ' it, took
them to nominate him, the crowd" w'll
all be going ' home when he comos
under the wire. Greensboro News.
;-';' Would Strt! Have Leader.
Some men who make their living
ly dickering and trading in politics
would be out of jobs, if we had legal
ized primaries for the state, but the
men who are worthy to be loaders in
politics would be leaders still.
Catawba News. 1 '
Raleigh Should Get Bitty'.
It Is sUted that Democratic State
Chairman Eilpr can't get suitable
headquarters In Raleigh, Suggest
that he try Greensboro. His ptflce
should bo centrally located dur'ng
the campaign and this city is at the
heart of things. Orreensuoro Tele
gram. :. A .
Laying by Time.
Along about this Vrae of year, a
the almanac makers say, everybody
would be a farmer. Lnylg by t'me
on the farm when crop prospects are
good and fruit plentiful Is the great-
laying by time on the farm the year
round there would not be one of us
Uv!ng In anybody's old town. Monroe
Enquire t. ...
Nothing in It far Democrats.
" Iowa find Kansas being lost to the
standpatters in the selfsame day,
we wait to see Just what they will
lose nexL However, those who see
democratic advantage It these victo
ries are very much mistaken. ' It
would be far better for democrats
ff they bad standpat candidates,
rather than insurgents or " progres
sives, to light Charlotte Observer.
Holds It Against Him.
The ' newspaper reports hav It
that John D. Rockefeller now takes
a daily bath In whisker, the whiskey
baths having been prescribed by his
pbyrklan to prexerve his strength
and render him alio to withstand the
r'gors of golf, bis favorite pastime.
This if additional and strong cause
for feeling against the Standard Oil
magnate,- Here b this "malefactor
of great wealth with whiskey to
bathe n and some of us can't even
ft as much as "thre fingers" for
the stomach's sake. Stotesvllie "Land
mark. Farmers Should Watch ft
It is reported that John Hays Ham
mond, the bead of the National Re
publican clubs, has embarked in the
new cotton trust "to help the p'ant
ers." Ills assistance should not lead
th cotton growers to order new auto
mobiles Just yit- The coming cam
paten will be expensive, and J. II. H.
will need ail of his spare cash to
finance republican candidates for
congrees; and the planters wll be
fortunate tt the cotton trust does not
call on them for cah Greensboro
Record.
A Poor Law.
Two employes of the Raleigh nont
office engaged na pTMinal difficulty
on postutr.ce property the other day
and were in rnnwqince !ted to ap
pear before the Raleigh police court.
On the ca'ling of tbo case It was con
tended that this court had no Jurl
diction in the matter, inasmuch as the
breach of the peace, If breach there
was occurred In federal , territory
and therefore came under the Juris
diction of the federal court This may
be good law, but the federal court bus
somewhat too mich business to be
aMe to consider caes of minor affrays
Charlotte Observer.
Hd a Narrow Escape.
in rbiiadeiphia a man and a wo
man were found d-ad In bed at the
home of the woman. The woman bad
killed the man and then ended her
own life. It trani)In-d that the man
was engc4 to a refined young wo
man of Vlrgfnia, had psrkd h
trunk and as to have departed th
nfxt night to marry her. Hut he
played with sin one time too often. It
rwids very much 1'ke the closing
chapter of Sappho, though in this In
sisncn the punMiroenl visited upon
'the man was more In accord with
lustlce. Meanwhile, the young vlr
Rln'a woman Is to be congratu ated
upon her -cnp from rnsnarement by
Htx-rtlne Clurlotto Chronicle.
A Chsnge Suggeitd.
The Charlotte Chronics Is In favor
f fncreasod pay for superior court
Judges and the aim IMon of the pres
ent system when by the Judges hold
ourts all over the stale, We are d-
elded of the opinion that our Char
htt contemporary jr right with ref
-inr to the first proposition ; and
"pr Is mneh to M said In favor of
Its position on the second one.
"ems to ns that It would be better
'o have earb Judge bold all the courts
fn his own distrtrt, where he knows
'he conditions and the people, rather
than to force him to go from one end
ftf the state to Ow other, being away
from his famlt most of the time and
Mng handicapped much of the time
by a, lack of knowledge of local con
d'tkms in the couniy where he Is
holding -ourt Winston Benllnef.
" If the Lord Is With Him.
It the deniorcrats of North Caholina
make a gain In congressmen this y,?ar,
It will be . berauso ' the Lord is with
them and not by reason of anything
thy have done or are likely to do.
Greensboro Rewrd , ' :- ;
Becoming Tired of It.
Again it has been suowrj that North
Carolifla needs a uniform primary law.
If the democratic rows keep up we
win soon be in the same class with
the republicans. Give us a good pri
mary law that will put an end to this
kiud of business. Raleigh Times. ,-
.The Independent Vote.
The independent vote Is a factor to
be reckoned with In country, district,
state and nation. The time has pass
ed when a nomination Is equivalent to
an election anywhere. We have seen
overwhelming par'y majorities melt
away like snow before the sun when
the party machinery was used to foist
unacceptable nominations on the par
ty, Webster's Weekly. "
. Would Be a Calamity.
The moving of a Greensboro al
derman from the ward wh'cb, te rep
resents leaves the board with a bare
quorum and if one of Its members
shou'd resign, move away or die, the
body cou'd neither fill the vacancies
or transact any other bimlness. Thus
in addition to the dog and baseball
situations, aflTicted Greensboro Is
threatened with a municipal tangle.
But every town has troubles of Its
own. Charlotte Observer.
Somebody Lied.
There are many tnlngs that peoie
can honestly differ about over the
convention and we may be mistaken
about some things, out there can be
no mistake on one point and which
we personally know about. When the
Godwin credentials committee declar
ed then twenty-three Godwin men
were In the New Hanover county con
vention and demanded that Godwin's
strength be given somebody simply
lied, Wilmington Dispatch. .
Using Dirty Methods.
An ananymous circular Is floating
around Greensboro giving Butler down
tte country. It is printed and P'v
ports to be extracts "from a Nah
county paper," but no name is given
It was ma'-ed here and numbers of
them have been sent out It Is a dirty
article and has reference to Butler's
presence In Nash county at the con
vention, when, so the circular says,
he was doped or drunk or both. It is
significant, however, that the circular
should be mailed out from Green
boro; it shows the nature of the tight
be made at the state convention.
Greensboro Record, ,
For Better Farming.
From all .lecounts the average form
er In this country does not more than
half farm bis land. That is .h does
not get from th land more than half
of what he could if it was properly
cultivated. It Is said that the yield
per acre of wheat, oafs and other
crops is not one half of what the
i.uropesn farmer g-ts. Bom may
sy that this Is due to difference of
climate and toil. But that does not
acconcA for it consjdcilng that In
almost any district In this land ei
perl en ee shows that a farm systemati
cally and tborougly cultivated will
produce often twice as much as the
adjoining farm. The one remedy, ap
parently. Is to get bak to the land.
have smaller farms and go In for
Intensive farming. Snow 1U1 Stand
ard laconic.
TBIUI VI inturyvriv. f
That every protest against establish
ed wrong during the pert 1200 hundred
years has b'en the votce of Insurgency
and that every protectant against
wrong is an lntisrgent for the rght
Is the political theory of Congressman
Fowler, of New J rsey. This was tbe
view entertained by th anil regulars
during the lat congress. Indepen
dence In politics Isj Just as essential
to the average American as Inde
pendence in thought and religion. Tbe
Am1rn masses are awakening
the fact that by unity, the people can
overthrow any organlxat'on whose sole
regard Is Its on interests, Dnwtlam
can not survive when th Indepcn
d"Ot voter expresses his convictions st
the poll I"ollt1cal Insurgency to poll
Ileal Independenre, and that Is the
grtet virtue there ran be In poll
tics. Vlneton Journal.
Saturday Night's Affair.
The plt'ful tragedy on a crowded
street In this city when one negro
woman killed her husband's para
mour win a knife-slab, was In con
fortuity to the rule that among south
ern nerroca it Is usually the women
who fight over the men rather thai
the men who fght over the women,
But the usual hs'r-pulllng. scratching
and ineffective knlnng were not pres
ent No wild animal needs Instruction
where Its natural enemy or victim
can best be attacked, and the hatred
ahiig Inspired the murderess made
her instinct as anatomically true ns
bat of the wolf when he hamstrings
tbe horse or that of the mongoose
when he fights for a grip on the
snake's sp'ne. Doubtless It was such
an Instinct quite as mnch as chanco
or des'gn which ensbled her to sever
the Jugular vein with an ordinary pock
ct knife in a s'ngle stab. And the
wrcthed woman's wall as she enter
ed her cell. "I bsvent got nobody,
came from a human soul whoe lonel!
ness was the worst part ss well
the cause of her affliction. It Is, ln
deed, a pitiful tragedy. Charlotte Ob
server.
The House on ths Hill
By M. QUAD. .
. The house and the hill were situated
in a town in the state of Ohio, The
hill is flhere yet, but there Is no house
on it. Twenty years ago a stranger
went to the town and bought the hiJl
and built a fiame house there. When
the bouse was almost completed he
died. It was a decaying wreck when
along came a Mr. Buebwlck from n
one knew where and bought itie prop
erty for $100. As soon as he bad the
deed he offered It to any villager for
$400 and was laughed! at as weak in
the top story. , v .
Falling to effect a sale, Mr. Bushwick
had the house put !n repair ana an
nounced that he intended to live there
He also announced that he should use
It as an observatory. Of course tbe
villagers knew what an observatory
was. When Mr. Bushwlck's telescope
andi tripod arrived and were set up on
the varanda he permitted lhe villagers
to have a look not at the heavens,
but at the earth. They could almost
see the bouseflles in the town be-
ueata, their feet .
Gentlemen," said Mr. Bushwick
when all was ready, "the price of this
probity is $400. It will increase $100
per week until sold."
Of course he was Jooney, but so long
as ho appeared harmless the people
would only laugh at blm. The first
one to make a discovery was a Mr.
Graham. He was an old man. and he
handl an o'd wife. They were always
wrangling, more or less. When they
had wrangled about so long each time
he would box her ears. Two days at-
'$t the "observatory had been estab
lished and as tbe old couple sat on the
piazza of their house a wrangle took
place. After a bit the husband looked
around, and, seeing no one passing,
he administered a cuff. A moment
'aler he happened to look up on the
hill and saw that tbe telescope was
trained upon him. If there was any
doubt that Mr. Busbwfck had seen that
cuff Inflicted it was dispelled by the
wa'ng of a small white flag.
Elder Thompson was a good man,. a
tfcry good man, as all elders shou'd be
sr.d are. He was sitting In his bask
yard unler tn apple tree, thinking
how good and peaceful and nice ft
was to be real good, when a bumble-
1-ee came along and lifted him once
for h' mother's sake. After coming
down from his high Jump the elder
broke down a young cherry tree, tore
down a panel of the fence and ran his
dog Into th louse. It was no more
than a good man shou'd do, but when
he lookei tip std aaw thai accusing
te'eseope and white flag be felt hurt
..d conscience stricken. .
A dozen other things of the kind
h8pcrcd durln.r the first week, and
then the citizens decided that an ob
servatory was unlawful. They cob
suited a lawyer, add he smiled at them.
He told them the town could be sue-
r finderf by els ervatorles and not con
flict with any law. Then . It was
thought bee to make up a shake purse
and buy Mr. BuBhwlck out.
"Gentlemen," said the telescope man
when tb srrs'-h',1 him on the sub
ject, "the price of this property Is
..oo. Tske It or leave it"
'But yon have no right to he spying
on our homes," was retorted.
"There is no spying. I am simply
surveying eautli before me. If
any of yon happen to come within my
range of vision I cannot help it I do
sot think I shall write a book on what
I see. I may. but no not think so."
The citizens refused to pay the sum
named an4 went down the hill to their
homes, whl'o Mr. Bushwick returned
to his post and his .telescope. One oi
tbe residents of the village was an old
ma'd named Miss Sannderson. She
had a home of her own. She was fond
of strolling m her garden. A Mr. Bio?.
som, who lived next door, was fond of
leaning over the line fence and quot
ing poetry to her. His wife bad warn
ed h'm to sop it or she would no'
something to him, but on a certain af
ternoon he forgot the warning and was
repeating "Sherdan's Ride'1 to Miss
Saunderson when there came a wlfa,
a cob and a cataclysm. The telescope
took It all In. The white flag waved
Joyously. Dozens of people saw Jt
wave and went hunting for the eaus,
and there was some more to talk
about Two or three days later a com
mittee climbed the hill with $'00 In Us
hind poeket and toVl Mr. Bushwick o
take It and get out
"Gentlemen. I am sorry If you have
been lut to any trouble," he kindly re
pld ; "but tie figures on the property
's $!oo. You see, a sort of real estate
boom has set In.",
The committee hemmed and hawed
and refused to pay. Two days after
that the report spread that Tie obser
vatory man was going to have a night
as well as a day glass a glass that
would almost see through a pine door.
Then there was a httst'. Three men
'nok np the task of collecting. Oh, no;
they were not afraid of the day glass
or the night glass or any other kind
of glass, but it would be a great Im
provement to the landscape to remove
the house on the hit! and set out some
pine trees there. When they went no
to see Mr. Bushwick aga'a he wanted
$700, but see'rg It was them and see
ing they wanted to boier the land
scape, he would throw off $"0 and get
out In three dsys he was gone, and
the sigh of re'Ief that went np.n,
heard all over Lorain county. Things
do happen yet In thar t wo.trnblckat
do happen yet In that town, but the
world never hears of them.
Rebuke to Patterson.
We know eothlng of the relative
merit and ability of the men who were
candidate for the supreme court Ir.
Tennessee court out uae wenn n.
Morehead one side was in bad com
pany, and we are glad they were de
feated. Governor Patterson may think
he can carry on his high handed prac
tices, defjj decency and be the boss
of the state, but the Tennesseans
have acted In the way we felt they
would act and have administered to
him a stinging rebuke, The good
workt will be carried on. ' Patterson
will be defeated when he faces the
people for re-election and Tennes
see will redeem herself la the eyes of
the : nation. Winston Journal.
- Constancy, '
Without constancy there is neither
love, friendship nor ' virtue . in the
world. Addlwon.
PKPOHD MEMORIAL TO EILL RYE.
Coszlttee Appointed by Kartb Carolina
Press Association Cscl&s That tbe
Eesory olffleLase&teit Bomorlst
Shall be Honored la a Prac
tical Banner.
The committee appointed at
the recent meeting of the North
Carolina Press Association to take
in the matter of a State memorial
to Bill Nye, met in Salisbury,
Wednesday, July 6, . in formal
session, and after hearing all the
propositions before it unanimous
ly decided: ,.
I. That the memorial to the
lamented humorist shall take the
form of a memorial building, to
be one of the group and a part of
the Stonewall Jackson Training
School, generally known as the
State Reformatory, in Cabarrus
cosmty. near Concord.
2. That the building, furnish
ed and equipped as the trustees
of the institution may direct, to
the best advantage for the rescue
of errant boys, shall cost not less
than 1 5,000, and shall be known
as tbe "BILL NYE MEMORIAL
BUILDING."
3. That the fallowing news
papers be designated to receive
and acknowledge subscriptions to
the fund for this building, said
funds to be transmitted promptly
to the treasurer, JOHN M.
JULIAN, EDITOR OF THE
SALISBURY POST.
The Observer, Charlotte.
Tie Evening Post, Salisbury,
The Citizen, Asheville,
The News and Observer, Ral
eigh,
The News, Greensboro,
The Star, Wilmington,
The Uplift, Concord.
4. That while the committee
believes that this memorial should
be distinctively North Carolina's
tribute to the lamented man of
letters, it deems it wise, in order
to insure the prompt success of
the movement, aud further to per
mit the friends ot Bill Nye out
side the state an opportunity to
contribute to this movement, that
contributions from outside the
state should be gratefully re
ceived and acknowledged, while
not solicited.
The committee believes further
that it made a wise and happy
selection in the form of this
memorial; that nothing it might
have conceived would have
brought greater joy to the heart
of the gifted, kindly man whose
memory it is designed to perpe
tuate, than the . great work of
making useful citizens of way
ward boys, and that were he
present with us in the flesh today
it would have the stamp of h
is
approval. Furthermore the com
mittce bespeaks the hearty co
operation of the brethren of the
press especially, and all good
citizens gcucrally in this under
taking. It is a labor of love
one that has already been too long
neglected, to the shame of North
Carolina, Let us put our should
ers to the wheel and show to the
world what North Carolina can
do lor ( the man it delights
honor. (Signed)
to
James M. Caine, Chairman,
John M. Julian, Treasurer,
R. W. Vincent, Secretary,
Robert M. Phillips,
Archibald II. Boyden.
Committee.
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