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DB-' SEMI-T7EISKLT ft a in as- address, ie commit- inted speaker 'and it was so ad- ipriate, so choke in ''and elevating: in senti- incess or Queen perhaps Ltle kingdom in which the )ody was meeting, sent to him 'personal thanks for the eloquent id felicitous address. It was publish ed in a Scotch paper and we read it ;with unmingled delight and admira tion the very finest impromptu ad dress we ever Tead unless we except another one delivered on quite a dif ferent occasion by the same highly gifted , speaker. The noble, able, ven erable 'minister of God has fulfilled his mission, has ended his earthly journey and is at rest among the saints. An unseemly act has been done by English publishers. The American .Revised Bible has been printed in that -country without the consent of the r a - !l i fTTl American revision committee, mvy - protest against the ungodly, disgraceful .act, ' An agreement has been violated. It was not to have been published be '.fore the summer of the present year. TThe committee say that the revision . published as the New American is real ly prepared by Englishmen who have no authority to represent the American Tevisers, and published before the ex piration of the fourteen years in ques tion, by the same University presses that secured from the American revis ers a pledge not to publish an American edition till after that time." In the north the unchristian pre tentious people calling them "Chris tian Scientists" are steadily grow ing. That section has always been the hot bed of "isms" and novel ties of all kinds. In Massachusetts now socialistsflourish and such ancient rejected humbugs as theosophy etc. have taken root and are bringing forth their fruit in due season. It is report ed that a $200,000 building for the al leged "Christian Scientists" is to be fcuilt at once New York city. A re cent speaker of that anti-Christian tribe said recently that "there are seven Christian Scientists churches in Great er New York city, and thirteen in the Immediate vicinity of New York city, thirty-eight churches and congrega Eations in the state of New York, and about 30,000 adherents of the faith in the state." This is the age eminently Of wild speculation, religious vagaries, philosophical absurdities, infidelity and JMormonism. Of all New Testament writers Paul twas . beyond question the most meta physical and philosophical, the most (difficult "to be understanded of the people." He had the highest mind of any but not the most poetical. He twas eminently a thinker and an orator . Of masterly powers. In the first eleven jverses of his letter to the Romans, fifth chapter, there are immense riches, enough to saveThe world. He sets iforth with great precision of statement jthe blessedness of being justified through faith, and that being so justi fied we have peace and joy in believing. 'Therefore bvlag justified by faith, we tiave peace with God through our Ixrd rjesus Christ." "Being justified" tLere fcomes inevitably and most surely to the believer "peace with God." Faith Is the" instrumenCand the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ is the tnedium the cause. We are counted as just before God - although sinners. ft s J. A A K A out,. The blood "- es, covers. The er condemnation aven. His sins e has "Joy and s henceforth at Father, having 1 is peace. There p or despair or iriancft or p-nmltv a son. The lost . - wanderer has re- 1 Is well. Then (2nd verse) we e filled by a new pe of the glory confiding, be- r fears the day prd Jesus, but in ooks forward to i rejoicings hop- Irth "when His His diciples pray them. There is you are a be- sured that 'we and grace?" joy. "We f e Joy in many when we would ble. We are glory- nstead of denying God im most grievously. We n the gracious communion Heavenly Father and also in communion of saints." God's rich nd abundant promises are enough for all His children. He gives promises of blessings in this present life and the glory of God hereafter. Gods own faithful children are filled with abiding and confident expectation that soon Heaven will be their eternal portion and they shall enter in and dwell with Him in everlasting bliss and joy. This is enough to fill the soul with raptures, to bring to the sincere believer glad foretastes of the blessed inheritance, and to make light all present sorrows, disappointments and sufferings. The "light afflictions" of this present, tran sitory life 'but for a moment' They will soon pass. Paul says of the blessedness of believing, of the rejoic ing in hope, that "we glory in tribula tions also." In spite of tears and heart aches and calamities and afflictions we still rejoice and have "peace with God" and "have access by faith," and are cheered and comforted. And all this comes to the believer as his portion of the Divine favor "because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." It is God's work through the Divine Spirit. We have only touched upon five verses. THE LEGISLATURE. The bills are pouring in like a deluge There is1 no telling what a day will bring forth nor how many things. The leg islators are wide awake with pockets stuffed with bills. Read and keep up Mr. Winston's bill will at once attract wide attention. It is to have a consti tutional amendment based in part on the Louisiana law, that has been much criticised both in the south and in the north. Winston's bill requires a voter to read and write or have $300 of prop erty. It provides for the voting of all whose parents could read before Jan uary 1867, or are descended from sol diers. This law would to a great ex tent eliminate the negro vote. There was a discussion over erasing Jim Young's name from the stone in the deaf and dumb building. It should be done, and will be done, no doubt. Mr. Bryan, of Craven, introduced a bill looking to the providing of a better system of government in chapter 135, 1895, and re-enacts the laws that were repealed by the said chapter. Senator Jerome has a bill providing for stenographic reporters to serve the judges. This may be a necessity and improvement. Senator Daniels introduced a bill that will disturb Cy Thompson and lessen his receipts. It is a bill to turn the fees of insurance companies into the state treasury instead of paying them to the secretary of state. The News and Observer says that by this bill Cy will get but three ciphers for his salary as fat fees will be flanked off and thereby some thousands are saved to the state. This is important. HOUE FOLKS Major Baldy Capehart, whose death occurred on the 5th at Raleigh, was a true gentleman, a man of fine sense and an excellent citizen. He was a na tive of Bertie county, but lived for thirty years, perhaps, In Granville, where he was highly esteemed. His father was a man of wealth and owned an extensive fishery on Albemarle Sound. He leaves three sons and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas Littlejohn Field, of London. She was born in Granville and her husband in Warren. There ought to be a law passed in this state to protect animals from bru tal treatment. The unspeakable horses would cry out if they could for such a law "to protect them from two-legged brutes. Will the present legislature have the urough our jQxdf jear then itJWm. Lnd justify V n h rnpn S3 Si backbone to v&ss a. law taxing This is the best way to increase the revenues without Increasing- present taxes. In the 'state there are no doubt 200,000 doss who can be taxed. ,Put 1 a head tax and you will raise $200,000. The other 200,000 poor dogs fit only to be killed can disappear. -They may be slaughtered or made to depart. But put a tax on the canines. The owner of a good dog ought not to kick if he has to.pay $1 for the comfort and pleasure of having: him. The 400.0qar dogs eat enough in a year to supnafrt 100,000 people. Then think of thejgreat sheep industry and its prosperity but for the devouring, dogs thajt-live "by plundering. J The present enlightened legfslature should do what itan to foster in telligence, to spreQ genuine knowledge among the peae. If so minded, it should be surto repeal the unwise law taxing snjEfn libraries. Do not continue an emhJrgo on intelligence and help the ERgn of ignorance. The Rockingham Rocket has com pleted sixteen years of newspaper life. Under its several editors it has remain ed true to the democratic party. According to The Statesville Land mark Mr. F. W. Brawley, of . Iredell county, made last year 24 bales of cot- V ton an 2S acres, at an average cost of 2.97 cents per pound, making on one tract of 8 acres 9 bales. That is fine and "takes the cake." If cotton can be made at 3 cents the good farmers can make money at 5 cents, but what will become of the poor farmers? Dr. Richard Gatling, the great gun inventor, and a North Carolinian, had a fondness for science when a lad. He followed the bent of his natural en dowments. The following is given of him when but 12 years old: "At that time his father was puzzling over a machine for sowing cotton seeds; but, try as much as he would, he could not perfect it, and at last, in a fit of despair, he called in Richard to his aid. The lad listened attentive ly to the details of the proposed inven tion, fully grasped the difficulties, shut himself up In a room to think, and in a little while suggested a way out of them. This was eagerly adopted by the elder Gatling, with the result that the machine was perfected and became a great success." We regret to learn that the Doctor's last invention proved a failure. It bursted under trial upon the fifteenth firing, with a pressure of 36,500 pounds It stood well five shots of 37,000 pounds pressure. It is thought that the in ventor's theory fails. The congress appropriated $40,000 for the construe tion of the eight inch rifle gun. It may be the Doctor will find the cause and remedy it. Defeated Harry Skinner, after sell ing out, is now telling what the demo crats should do. Possibly the demp cratic Solons may invite Harry to Raleigh to be general-adviser for the actively "reform" body bent vigorous ly on undoing the deviltry of Harry's gang. His latest advice is that the democrats shall disfranchise the ne groes, and that he is in favor of it He says if it is not done the demo crats will be held responsible for it Skinner is now a republican, if on the sly. He is almost as great a politica tumbler as old man Duckery, who can make two acrobatic feats in one year and land on his feet every time. The democrats in the legislature are "just dying" to hear from Duckery and Skin ner and Holton and Pearson and Jim Young and the other Solomons of the fateful combine. THE HEAVY EXPENDITURES OF THE LAST SENATE. Probably the most scandalous thing that ever occurred from the beginning of a North Carolina commonwealth until now, in connection with legisla tive matters, is the conduct of the last state senate composed almost entirely of radicals and populists. It is a blis tering, disgusting record. The Raleigh News and Observer has doneservice able and needed work in bringing out a list of the officers in the senate in the late session, and in contrast the officials who served during the session of 1877 under democratic domination. In twenty years the number of the employed has doubled. 'That is to say the senate as composed of the combine in 1897, put in twice the number of henchmen to receive pay that the dem ocrats required, and that too in the face of the fact that it is possible to easily carry on legislative business at less cost now than formerly by reason of improvements made in the matter of lights, water and fuel. The enormity of the absolute rascality practiced is seen at once in the figures. The sixty members composing the senate received for services $14,142.80 pay fixed by law. The employes of that fine, au gust assembly were paid the unpar donable sum of $11,142.80, for their in valuable attention and stupendous ser vices. Let the democrats at once cure thi evil. The people will hold them to strict account if such abuses are im itated. Razee' heavily the entire list in both houses, and chop off at least thirty heads in the senate or more. This wholesale robbery of the people must end. ' Let rigid economy prevail everywhere. It is no time for frills and fringes in legislation. The senate cut down pay of clerks and 'doorkeepers from $3 to $4. What is the pay of members? Is it more than $4? There is a cry now to suppress the .'tipping' nuisance" that has become a preposterous evIL .... - v So the Spaniards had"a torture room" in Havana. History tells that thi by no means the first experience in that 7 cruel, savage business. Tomas Torquemada set the vogue with tre mendous power,and guilt. Mormons in Iowa denounce repre sentative-elect Roberts, of Utah, as "a Violator of law and practical polyga- IsLT That must amuse the repre sentatives who will seat him and be cause they "can not help It." What a cruel "sport" slugging is. when men are killed in the ring. It is almost as bad as foot ball was in 1S36 and 1S97, -before "reformed." President Lorenzo Snow, of the Mormon church, says there have been no plural marrlcges since ISfO. But the old case-hardened lechers keep up the dear old game and have and hold three to six or eight "wives" according to ability to support. Generally Merritt coolly says "we have outgrown the constitution," and it is not worth while to discuss It." That expresses the view of McKlnley and all his supporters in imperialism. Played out! General Brooke In Cuba is about as big a failure as a governor as Sampson was a fighter and Shatter a command er. That means bad. Judge Day Is an expansionist of the high old sort. He is sore under the In terpretation that the Paris commission told the Spanish commissioners "to stand and deliver." And yet that was the real result. The Cuban Generals did ride In the procession, and a troop of Spanish cav alry also figured, and Cubans are being appointed to office. General Brooke has learned some sense. WANT NO FEDERAL PENSIONS Action of Raleigh Camp on the Butler Proposition for Pensioning Confeder ate soldiers Raleigh, N. C, January 7. The local camp of confederate veterans tonight adopted the following resolution in re gard to Senator Butler's bill to put them on the pension roll: "We, the members of L. O'B. Branch Camp of Confederate Veterans of Ra leigh, N. C, in meeting assembled, hav ing seen in the papers that Senator Butler has introduced a bill in the United States senate to pension the confederate veterans, we hereby enter our protest against said bill, as degrad ing and demoralizing in its tendency and suggest to the honorable senator that he use his efforts to purge the pension rolls of the bummers and boun ty jumpers of the federal army, and wc will thank him for same." How to Prevent Pneumonia You are perhaps aware that pneu monia always results from a cold or from an attack of la grippe. During the, epidemic of la grippe a few years ago when so many cases resulted in pneumonia, It was observed that the attack was never followed by that dis ease when Chamberlain's Cough Rem edywas used. It counteracts any ten dencyof a cold or la grippe to result in that dangerous disease. It Is the best remedy in the world for bad colds and la grippei Every bottle warranted. For sale by R. R. Bellamy. THE SEABOARD DEAL JTIr. Ryan Files His Bond and Gets a Restraining Order ' Baltimore, January 7. William L. Marbury, counsel for Thomas F. Ryan, of New York, who is endeavoring to block the sale of the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad, parent corporation of the Seaboard Air Line system, to the syndicate headed by Mr. John S. Wil liams, filed a bond in the circuit court today for $200,000 for an injunction to prevent the 'transfer of 3,000 shares of stock pooled with Messrs. Louis Mc Lane and Legh R. Watts, which Mr. Ryan claims the owners agreed to sell to him at $125 a share two years ago. Judge Wickes approved the bond and signed the order for an injunction. Mr. Williams, who conducted the ne gotiations on the part of the syndicate, was in conference with the representa tives of the Seaboard and Roanoke stockholders today, but as far as known, the stock has not been deliver ed to the syndicate. Tested and True. Wood's Seeds The Best for the South. Twenty years' experience enables us to offer the best of everything in seeds for the Southern Farm er and Gardener. Vegetable 0 Flower Seeds, Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed Potatoes, Seed Grain, And all Garden and Farm Seeds. Wood's Seed Book, giving the most successful ways of growing all crops, and full information , about Seeds, mailed free upon request. Write for it. T.W.Wood & Sons, SEEDSMEN, RichnosiVa. If The Largest 5eed Hesse la the Sooth. dec 31, fit, sat, tua to caAszt Jfn ircracra basis Prom the Corner Stone of the School Cutldlsuc for XTfell Dmf-yiuum Th Raleigh News and Observer Sives the following account of this matter in the house Droceedlncrs on Friday: Several resolutions were Introduced looking to an erasure of the name of Jim Young, the colored director, from the corner-stone of the white school here for the deaf and dumb. 'The ball was set a rolling by the fol lowing bill sent over from the senate. having been introduced In that body ty Senator Miller and passed: "Resolved by the senate, the house of representatives concurring: "That the committee of the general assembly, on deaf, dumb and blind asylums, shall forthwith have the name of James IL Young removed from the corner-stone of the new building at the institution for the blind white chil dren, located in the city of Raleigh, and to report to the general assembly." Then Mr. Stevens sent forward the following resolution, which was read: "Whereas, the board of directeors for the school for the deaf and dumb, ap pointed under fusion rule, have dis graced the state and insulted her citi- rship by placing the name of James Young upon the corner-stone of the building, erected for white chiMren of the state, and "Whereas, this general assembly de sires to remove the stain put upon our states by these white believers in ne gro domination; now, therefore, be It "Resolved by the house of represen tatives, the senate concurring: "That the authorities having tn charge the management of said school are hereby directed to have removed the said corner-stone, and one of sim ilar design, with the name of the white trustees only, placed in Its stead." For these two resolutions, Mr. Bou shall sent up the following substitute: "Resolved by the house of representa tives, the senate concurring: "That the corner-stone of the new building erected in 1898 . upon" the grounds of the Institution for the Blind, in the city of Raleigh be re moved. "That a corner-stone be placed in stead thereof, bearing the names of the board of said Institution, upon whose motions and plans said new buildings were erected, to-wit: "B. F. Monague, chairman of the board; J. A. Briggs, chairman of the building committee; I. M. Proctor, II. Morson, H. C. Herring. J. R: Williams, Jno. E. Ray, principal F. P. Milburn, architect." Mr. Boushall explained that the names he proposed were the names of the men who had conceived the plan for the building, had made arrange ments for its erection and secured the appropriation therefor. Mr. McLean, of Harnett, offered the followingsubstltute putting the whola matter in the hands of a legislative committee: "Whereas, Information has come to this general assembly that a corner stone has been inserted in the biuldlng erecteVi for the while deaf and dumb and blind children of the state, upon which the name of one James H. oung, a negro, is engraved; therefore be It "Resolved by the house of representa tives, the senate concurring, that un der the direction of the committee on the deaf, dumb and blind Institute, of both houses of the general assembly; that said corner-stone be removed from said buirding, if possible, and another corner-stone inserted In its stead with such engravings or inscriptions thereon as may be considered fit and appro priate? "Resolved, further. That if the re moval of said corner-stone cannot b effected without, damage to the build ing, then the name of said James , II. oung shall be chiselled out." Mr. Moore was not sure that he fa vored a removal of the stone. "It has been of great benefit to us," he said. "It has made the deaf hear, the blind see and the dumb speak in the recent campaign and election. It has served the purpose of redeeming the state and I don't know that I'm in fa vor of killing the goose that lays the golden egg." On motion of Mr. Overman, of Row an, all the resolutions were referred to the committee on Institutions for deaf, dumb and blind. ENGLAND AND FRANCE The War Cloud Again Hikes Between These Tiro Nations The BrftUh Railroad From the Cape to Cairo India's New Viceroy (Copyrighted by Associated Press.) London, January 7. All events seem to work together In European politics to Increase the tension between Great Britain and France. The past week has brought Madagascar and Egypt forward as irritants, Just when the mutual irritability was subsiding. Even the most conservative observers begjn to take a pessimistic view of their re lations between the two powers. This includes those who up to the present have considered the billigerency to be mere talk due to supersensltiveness upon the part of France and to unn j essary gruffness upon the part of Great Britain insisting upon what she con siders to be her rights. On one side, France seems to foster the growing belief that Great Britain is determined under some pretext or other, to force her into war and is willing to maSfe a pretext if no plausible execure arises. On the other side, a large party of the British public profess that their pa tience has been strained beyond en durance by what they deem to be the unvarnished dishonesty of French, di plomacy. The past twenty-four hours brought the publication of the Madagascar Blue book, which was followed by a leading editorial in The Times, de nouncing France in language so fiery for that conservative newspaper that Frenchmen are reading the two to gether and are construing them as parts of a deliberate policy inspired by one mind. That mind, in the theory of the man in the street. Is Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the colonies. Others may storm and scold and are not noticed, "out when The Times becomes abusive foreign ers Interpret it as being the voice of tha government In the present in stance some Englishmen will riace the same construction upon its utterances, recalling how The, Times led the "no surrender" cry over the Fashoda Inci dent, under evident Inspiration. One fact Is certain public opinion in Great Britain will not sanction the govern ment to swerve an inch to avoid war with France, thinking that if It must come this is the best time to have It out. Many people give Importance to the issue ot the Madagascar Blue book al- SVOUOR and Haver ot frr.its. weight and piuir.pncs.; o. inia, arc all produced by Foto: h. t.4 A . properly combined with Phos phoric Acid and Nitrogen, and liberally applied, will improve every soil and increase yield and quality of any crop. Write and get Free our patnpUcts, wfiich -tell how to buy and nse fertilizers with greatest economy and profit. GCR.1AN KALI WCRKS, NasMM St., New York. most simultaneously with the quiet but unmistakable pronouncement at Khartoum, by which the llritish agent, there. Viscount Cromer, In his remark , to the Sheiks announced that Great Britain has set her seal upon Egypt. If there ever was a doubt In the mindsv of her European rivals that Great Bri tain intended to foreclose the mort gage upon which she has expended no much labor and blood to secure. It must have been set at rest by the ut terances of Lord Cromer, In which the word "protectorate" was written In large letters, though the government's mouthpiece carefully abstralned from using that Incendiary word. A more definite notice that Great Britain's tenure of Egypt Is perma nent could not be asked. This formal assumption of sovereignty over th Soudan Is more distasteful to France than to any other nation, and renew ed protests may be expected. In the meantime another enterprise of the utmost, moment In the further ance of Great Bhltaln's domination In Africa Is about to be consummated. Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the former premier of Cape Colony, alleged Instigator of the Jameson raid and so called "Napo leon of South Africa," is going to England to arrange for pushing for ward the "Cape to Cairo" railroad, so long the dearest dream of the imperial ists. A definite proposition will bo presented by Mr. Rhodes to London capitalists for an extension of the rail road from Bulawayo to Lake Tangan yika. He does not pretend it will be a paying investment from the start. Its Importance for some years will be po litical instead of commercial and ho hopes to persuade the British govern ment to smooth the way by gar an tee ing ZM per cent. Interest on the bonds to cover the cost of construction. But, one barrier stands In the way, In the form of the Congo convention guar anteeing the neutrality of the part of the continent about Lake Tanyanyl kaw. which even the "autocrat of Rhodesia" will find hard to force. Here Germany has the veto on Great Britain's advance which she cannot be expected to waive without a heavy In demnity. The liberals present the melancholy spectacle. The glitter of receptions and oratory with which Lord Curzon of Kedleston sweeps Into the throne of viceroy of India quite obscures the merits of the modest peer, the earl of Elgin, who takes his leave. Yet, already the news paper grumblers are contrasting the retiring viceroy's silent, businessllke administration with the speech -making; .entry of his younger successor. The latter has already achieved one of those tackless blunders which the crit ics feared his self-sufficiency would rush him into. He has snubbed a com mittee of the most respectable resi dents desiring to present him with a scheme for the higher education of In dians on the lines of the Johns Hop kins university which a native, Jamet- jl Tatta, proposes to do with 250. 000, and the natives, naturally, are of fended. ftryau at the Jackson Banquet Chicago, January 7. The third an nual banquet of the Anlrew Jackson League was hld at the Trement house tonight and on this occasion, as on the two former, William Jennings Bryan was the guest of honor. The banquet. hall of the hotel was turned Into a sea of bunting caught up with festoons of" sm lax. Life size portraits of Jackson and of the guest of the evening were hung at opposite ends of the hall, these being the only portraits used In the decorations. Mayor Carter H. Harri son, of Chicago, acted as uresiding of ficer. Tfce exercises of the evening were opened with a short address by Mayor Harrison, who before he resumed his. seat Introduced as the first formal speaker of the evening Congressman. W. H. Hinrichson, who spoke In re sponse to the toast "Party Fealty." Congressman Lentz explained to hist hearers "What Makes a President. Great." Captain William P. Black, of Chi cago, followed, responding to the toastx of "The Soldiery ot the Republic." Then came the three visiting mayors William Maybury, ot Detroit; Taggrt ,of Indianapolis, and Charles K. La-id. of Kewanee, 111., all three making brief talks. William F. MeKnight. of Mich igan,, then spoke on? "The Young De mocracy," and the address of Mr. uryan closed the evening. Bed Hot From the Can. Was the ball hat hit G. B. Stead man, of Newark, Mich., in th Civil War. It caused, horriblo Ulcers that so treatment helped for 30 years. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him. Cures Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Bolls, Fel- ons. Corns, Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure on earth. 25 cts. a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by R. It, Bellamy Dragglst. Hanged for Criminal Awunll Richmoad. Va., January S. James Webster, colored, aged It years, was hanged today In the court houso yard at Bedford City, Va.. for rapo com mitted upon an aged and respected lady. He had confessed the crime, and seemed indifferent as to his fate. 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