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THE SOUTH S ALL RIGHT.
An Affable Idiot Who Asserts That It
Knows Nothing Better Than a Bull
Plow.
Charlotte Observer.
The Southern Farm Magazine i
considerably exercised. The Wa.-h
irigton Post says, because some affa
ble idiot asserts in the columns of a
Northern newspaper that the South
knows nothing better than a bull
plow, and that high class modern ag
ricultural machinery is a stranger to
the people who dwell south of the Po
tomac and Ohio. The Magazine lifts
the hide of this writer at every lick,
much to the amusement of the Post,
which calmly advises the South not
to worry over the lucubrations of
some far-off editor who writes with
teasle in his hair and who is afraid to
pro Kctuth for fear of getting run over
by a cabbage van in New York. Says
the Post, by way of advice: "Stay
at home; raise crops; accumulate
money; anchor your property; then
branch out, if you will. Take a whirl
in the metropolis, sell a few gold
bricks to Wall street, build a palace
at Newport or on the Hudson, and
some day you'll meet that bull plow
editor and give him a few dollars to
get home with. The South's all
right." And it adds:
"From Virginia to Texas, and from
Florida to Missouri, the South is in
creasing its substantial prosperity
with every day. Its fertile lields yield
harvests that abundantly reward
husbandman and proprietor alike.
Cotton, corn, sugar, grain, fruits,
vegetables all these are produced
in lavish quantities. Our cattle fat
ten on lush grasses, and winter in the
evergreen canebrakes of the lowlands.
Tillers of the soil dwell in plentiful,
even luxurious, homes. In Louisiana
the great sugar plantations stretch
for miles about stately dwellings.
Men and women dress for dinner
every night and lounge, afterward,
in drawing rooms lighted by gas.
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia fur
nish the best horses in the world.
Mortgages are extinct pests, and dis
possessions are as rare as rocs or
dodos. Texas is an empire larger
than France, and needs only popu
lation to be richer. Alabama would
make the fortunes of half the pettv
sovereigns in Germany, and Missis
sippi could put Spam and Italy upon
a paying basis within six months."
1 hat is very good as far as ltaroes,
but the Post left out of its enumera
tion one of the most important of
all the Southern States. Perhaps a
falsification of the possibilities of
North Carolina was a task which the
Post did not care to undertake, and
it is not necessary for the Observer
to go into it now. We might be par
doned for savins:, however, that
North Carolina manufactures every
year enough beds and mattresses to
put all the people of the State of
this bull-plow editor to sleep in. And
that s only one thing North Carolina
can do, mind you.
Doesn't Respect Old Age.
It's shaiulul when youth fails to show
proper respect for old age, but just the con
trary in the ease of Dr. King's New Life Pillw.
They cut off maladies, no matter how severe
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A Fly in the Ointment.
Baltimore Manufacturers' Record.
In its review of the Reunion of Na
tive North Carolinians at Greensboro
the Progressive Farmer, of Raleigh,
overwhelmed evidently by the great
ness which the conference was calcu
lated to promote, had the bad taste
to commit the following:
"Senator M. W. Ransom was nom
inally the presiding officer, but most
of the actual work fell to Dr. Mclver,
General Ransom is clearly in his do
tage, and we do not think it is good
taste to longer exhibit him in places
of such responsibility.
That paragraph is eminently typi
cal of the new "educational" move
ment of the South, in which a few
youngish North Carolinians at home
and abroad have gained some note",
and which does not seem able to
avoid patronage or ignorance of the
past. It may be suggested, however,
that years of faithful service to one's
State, years of accumulated honors,
ought to inspire youth with respect
for age, that progress is not necessa
rily inseparable from insolence and
that mutual incensing is not made
more acceptable by reflection upon
others. The writer of that bump
tious paragraph in the Progressive
Farmer is probably incapable of ap
preciating the significance of his
words. If a man in his dotage was
selected to be "nominally the presid
ing officer" of the conference, the
men who from far and near accepted
invitations to be present are likely to
ask what was the real purpose of the
conference?
Of course the trustees of Trinity
College will demand Bassett's resig
nation. If they do not every South
ern parent who has a son at the col
lege should order the boy to leave
the institution on the first train.
Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligencer.
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Child LaborNorth and South.
Atlanta Constitution.
Every now and then the South is
treated by Northern newspapers to a
ripping criticism of its toleration of
child labor in cotton mills and other
factory industries. Thecause of these
criticisms has been largely removed
by the anti-child labor laws enacted
in the Carolinas and Alabama. But
still the meddlesome raspings and
roastings go on.
But this much we can say in reply
to the sanctified critics that what
ever laws we do enact in the South
to prevent unwholsome child labor
will be enforced. That is more, for
instance, than can be said of the like
laws of New Jersey, if the comments
upon them by the usually accurate
Philadelphia Press are to be accept
ed. That newspaper charges that the
legislature of New Jersey has left the
authorities without the necessary
funds to secure any sort of decent
enforcement of the anti-child labor
statutes, and that these are violated
almost wholesale by the perjury of
parents certifying falsely to the ages
of their children, whom they wish to
sacrifice to the mill molochs. The
grand juries of the State refuse point
blank to indict parents for this crim
inal offense, and hence the law is a
practical dead letter.
Under these circumstances we
should think our Northern friends
would appreciate that modesty for
bids tbem from shutting their eyes
to this lawlessness in New Jersey,
even though their altruistic afflcious
ness impels them to lambaste any
Southern State for not having any
law on the subject. If we believed
that to enact one in this State would
lead to such contempt for it as is
practiced in Aew Jersey, we would
resist the creation of so wide an in
vitation to inhuman conspiracy and
anarchv.
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The Sun's Rule.
News and Observer.
The Baltimore Sun is one of the
best paying papers in America, and
if it could have a political campaign
going all tne time it would have
money to burn. . Yesterday it had
over two pages of political matter
which was paid for at transient ad
vertising rates. In Maryland the
papers print no political announce
ments, no ' appeals to voters, no
praise of candidates, no criticism of
policies or tickets, except as regular
advertisements at high prices. Dur
ing the past month the bun has put
thousands of dollars to the good by
charging for publishing matter that
papers in other cities print without
charge. It charges both parties alike,
and will permit the man who foots
the bill to say what he pleases, even
attacking the position of the Sun if
he desires to do so.
The Sun is right. Why should a
newspaper foot the bill for political
campaign literature? Why shouldn't
the campaign managers include in
the expenses enough money to print
all announcements, appeals, appoint
ments, and everything else the party
managers wish to give to the public?
They pay for posters, circulars, trav
eling expenses, tons of pamphlets
and other literature. hy shouldn t
they pay newspapers for the use of
their columns
There isn't enough money in Mary
land to influence the Sun in its edito
rial columns. It is always independ
ent and honest. .But it proceeds upon
the theory that if campaign mana
gers and candidates need its columns
for their announcements and appeals
they ought to "pay the freight" and
not compel the sun to do so.
As a general thinj, the Sun is right,
but no hard and fast rule can be
made. This paper has never but once
received a cent for publishing any po
litical announcement, and that was a
small sum for keeping standing day
by day a long list of appointments.
In a campaign in which great issues
are involved this paper always takes
sides and leads the fight, going to the
extent of giving; all its space and all
its power, if need be, to guarantee
success to the cause it expouses.
Whenever good government is im
periled or the success of the great
Democratic party demands ir, we
shall do so again, never stopping to
think of dollars and cents. But all
the same, in ordinary campaigns, the
Sun has adopted the right rule.
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Cannot Be Too Severely Condemned.
Windsor Ledger.
' The registering and voting of ne
groes in the late elections (on the
liguor question) cannot be too se
verely condemned. The people of
the State have eliminated the negro
as a voter, and the men who endeav
or to use him to settle any question,
any way, are enemies of the future
peace and good government of the
State in general, and of their locali
ties in particular.
North Carolina is in the lead again,
as usual. Thisjtime she has produced
the greatest freak of the age. John
Spencer Bassett is his name. Wades
boro Messenger and Intelligencer.
STIRRING UP THE FIRES
Prof. John Spencer Bassett,
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Southern Sentiment by the Publication an Article in
the South Atlantic Quarterly On the Negro Question.
News and Observer.
Under the above headline,
Prof.
John Spencer Bassett, professor of
History at Trinity College, Duruam,
North Carolina, contributes the most
remarkable article of a decade to tne
South Atlantic Quarterly, of wb-'h
he is the editor.
Of late vears the pulpit and the
chair of the college professor has too
often become the fomenter of stnte
and the forum of absurdity.'
Such a freak is John Spencer Bassett
of Trinity College. He is a student
and writes well. Somebody once
asked Sertator Joe Brown, of Geor
gia, what he thought of Senator
Ingalls. His reply was: "lngalls is a
right smart fellow, but he 'haint'got
no sense. That will be the estimate
of Prof. Bassett by those who judge
him solely by the article that he
prints as the first contribution in the
October number of the South Atlan
tic Quarterly.
,
In his remarkable article, remark
able chiefly for the warp and woof of
intolerance of the views entertained
by most Southern people, Prof. Bas
sett makes some declarations that
will startle thoughtful and sensible
men everywhere, and that will out
rage the feelings of the dominant
sentiment of the South. That no in
justice may be done him in what we
say, we print elsewhere the full text
of his article.
We shall not in this article attempt
to discuss many of the offensive dec
larations and absurd statements of
Prof. Bassett. Every reader will an
swer them for himself. His arraign
ment of the Democratic leaders in t he
South reads like the old time denun
ciations of "Fire Alarm" Foraker
and is almost in the identical words
employed by the negro Republican
leaders in ISorth Carolina m lo'Jo
when the intolerable conditions call
ed forth the WThite Supremacy revo
lution, that restored good govern
ment and peace to North Carolina,
after the orgie of rule by negroes and
unworthy white men who put negro
officeholders over white men and
women. His calling the race ques
tion a "cry" employed by the first
men of the South "as a means of win
ning votes" is an insult to every
Southern leader from Lamar, Len
Hill, Ransom and Vance in the seven
ties to Aycock, Simmons, Overman
and the other patriotic leaders of
North Carolina of today. The fact
that Prof. Bassett does not -know
that the race issue in Southern poli
tics is one created by the Republicans
and forced by them to the front,
shows his unfitness to write of any
thing that concerns the political or
racial questions from the standpoint
of the Southern man.
Prof. Bassett sees "general opposi
tion to the negro" manifested in the
South "more strenuously than in
the North," and in proof cities four
things: ... . ,
1. "Restriction of the negro vote."
Suffrage was taken from the negro
not because of hostility to the negro
but as a necessity to secure peace
and good government. It is a libel
on the South to say it alters its con
stitutions to injure a weaker race.
Governor Aycock in a recent article
in a Northern magazine thus gives
the true reason for the adoption of
the suffrage amendment in North
Carolina and the same reason gov
erned in every Southern State:
"After the adoption of the Thir
teenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution of
the United States the Southern States
endeavored to secure good govern
ment out of the conditians which had
been forced upon them. Speaking of
North Carolina I know that an hon
est, persistent effort was made to ob
tain safe government without resort
ing to the elimination of negro suf
frage. The effort was a failure. We
sought in vain to make the theory of
universal suffrage work out good
government and private virtue. We
found by actual trial that it could
not be done. It could not be done
because, as Senator Cullom wisely
says in his report of the Hawaiian
Commission: 'The American idea of
universal suffrage pre-supposes that
the body of citizens who are to exer
cise it in a free and independent man
ner have, by inheritance or education
such knowledge and appreciation of
the responsibilities of free suffrage
and of a full participation in the
sovereignty of the country as to be
able to maintain a Republican form
of government.' The negroes of this
State have not this knowledge either
by inheritance or education; "as a
consequence they have been easily
led to torm combinations with a
small minority of white men and
bring to the State intolerable gov
ernment." Why didn't Prof. Bassett give the
Irue reason for the suffrage amend
ment as stated by our able Gover
nor, unless he wished to slander the
State?
2. The passage of Jim Crow law
was not due to "hatred of blacks,"
as Prof. Bassett seems to think, but
to a desire to secure on the cars the
same separation that obtains in
schools, and churches, and it has
worked well.
3. "Increasing resort to lynching."
If there has been arfy increasing "re
sort to lynching" it has been mainly
due to an "increasing resort" to the
crime for which it is the penalty.
Leading Southern men stand against
lynching and Southern officials have
risked their lives to save rapists from
lynching. Why didn't Prof. Bassett
give the record of brave Southern
officers if he wished to be fair?
4. "A general augmentation of
that sensitive disposition on the part
of Southerners to take fire at the
OF RACE ANTIPATHY."
of Trinity Colleee, Outrages
hint of a negro outrage." God for
bid that the South or the North
should ever fail to "take fire" over
the despoiling of womanhood! What
Prof, Bassett enumerates as an evi
dence of hostility is the crowning
glory of Soxrtbern" manhood and
Southern chivalry, and hewill find
that it exists among chivalrous men
in Indiana and Illinois as well as in
North Carolina. The best sentiment
of both sections favors the legal pun
ishment for outrages, but can any
man failto "take fire" when that
outrage comes to him or his neigh
borhood? Prof. Bassett does not seem to ap
prove the early legislation looking
to complete racial separation, though
he does not hold it up as evidence of
"general opposition to the negro" as
he does the suffrage law, Jim Crow
law and the tendency to lynch for
rape. For us, we honor the men who
passed all such laws, regretting only
that all separation laws have not
been more rigidly enforced. The only
hope for the South is for complete
social, religious, educational separa
tiona" separation leaving to each
race to work out its own destiny,
with the duty imposed upon the
stronger race of helping the weaker
race IN THEjjWAYS IT ISNOW
HELPING.
Professor Bassett says he doubts
whether a Southern white farmer
"would admit that the highest negro
in America is superior to the South
ern hired man who is white." In or
der to relieve Prof. Bassett's doubts,
we will say that no Southern white
farmer would make such an admis- j
sion because it would be untrue. The
highest negro has a right to make a
place in his own race and to be treat j
ed properly by the wThite people, but
every day "the Southern hired man
who is white" achieves social position
to which no negro may aspire. He
is of a race superior to the negro
race, even if he is uneducated. Does
Prof. Bassett think otherwise?
Passing over the mistaken state
ment that both the progress and the
regression of the negro "have brought
down on him the hostility of the
whites," an indictment of the South
ern white people that has no warrant
in their kindly treatment of the ne
gro we come to a statement that
will give pause and secure for the
writer the indignant condemnation
of every white man who reads his
words. Writing of Booker T. Wash
ington, he says:
"NOW WASHINGTON IS A GREAT
AND GOOD MAN, A CHRISTIAN
STATESMAN, AND TAKE HIM
ALL IN ALL THE GREATEST
MAN, SAVE GENERAL LEE, BORN
IN THE SOUTH IN A HUNDRED
YEARS."
When we first read this sentence,
we could not believe our eyes. W e
re-read the words and then paused
to see if there was not some mistake
or some error in proof reading. But,
no, there it stands in its boldness, in
its directness, in its wanton and ab
surd negro deification! No negro
philist at Oberlin, no man claiming
to be the reincarnation of Wendell
Philips, no second Harriet Beecher
Stowe in the greatest creation of fic
tion out of nothingness, could ever
make an assertion so far from the
truth of history, past and present.
Is it possible that Prof. Bassett be
lieves his own statement? Is he ready
to declare in his saner moments of
reflection that Booker T. Washing
ton is "all in all the greatest man,
save General Lee, born in the South
in a hundred years?"
It is inconcievable that a man of
Prof. Bassett's education and study
of history could make such a state
ment unless we charitably believe
he is under the spell of negropholist
hypnotism.
Let us consider a minute the signi
ficance of this sweeping statement.
Bnoker T. Washington is "the great
est man, save General Lee, born in
the South in a hundred years." Why
except General Lee? Does any
thoughtful man, in the South or else
where who has studied history, for a
moment consider Booker Washing
ton in the same class with Jefferson
Davis, Alexander H. Stephens, Rob
ert Toombs, Benjamin H. Hill, Judah
P. Benjamin, L. Q. C. Lamar, Zebu
Ion B. Vance, Matthew W. Ransom,
Wade Hampton, Stonewall Jackson,
Beauregard, Forrest, A. P. Hill, D. H.
Hill, Pettigrew, Hoke, Rainseur, Pen
der, Branch, Grimes and other im
mortal names of the Civil war era?
Who will agree that Booker Wash
ington is agreaterman than Badger,
Graham, Mangum, Morehead, Dob
bin, and other men that won fame in
the era that produced Clay and Cal
houn and Hayne? But, perhaps,
Prof. Bassett will say that he did not
mean to include statesmen and sol
diers. Then why did he by name ex
cept General Lee? And why did he
call Booker a great "Christian states
man?" Prof. Bassett may think so
(and we pity his judgment if he
does) that Booker Washington is a
greater man than Braxton Craven,
the big brained and many sided
founder of Trinity College. If so, he
will find no man in North Carolina
who will agree with him. Will the
friends of Trinity College applaud
the statement that Booker Washing
ton is a greater man than Craven,
its great founder; Duke, its generous
donor; and Kilgo, its eloquent presi
dent? Suppose, without naming Over
thousands of illustrious men in
church and State who are as far
greater than Booker Washington as
an electric light is more brilliant
than the tallow candle, we ask the
men most competent to pass judg
ment to 6ay whether the Alabama
negro teacher is greater than Ven
able, Taylor, Smith, Kilgo, Mclver,
and other presidents of North Cui o
lina's chief educational institutions,
and greater than all profound schcfl
ars and teachers the South has pro
duced for an hundred years. Who
would think of placing him in the
same class with the South's great
preachers Pierce, Marvin, Hoge,
Palmer, Broadus, Atkinson and a
score more of men who have made
the pulpit honored for an hundred
years? Is there a man in North Car
olina, not afflicted with negrophobia,
who would say that Booker Wash
ington is in any way the equal of the
three foremost men under forty-five
-North. Caroiina has'produced-Chas.'
B. Aycock, Charles T. Mclver and
Edwin A. Alderman?
The absurdity of the statement,
the fulsome eulogy of a 6mart negro,
is seen whether reierence is had to
the men of the era that produced Cal
houn, Badger, and Jefferson Davi6;
the era that produced Stonewall
Jackson and Robert F. Hoke; or the
era that produced the present able
young statesmen and educators of
the South. There is no period of
time, no group of Southern leaders
that Prof. Bassett can cite to give
even a scintilla of foundation for the
attempt to make a capable negro
educator even approach the homage
which the professor seems to render
Booker. Does he pray with his face
turned toward Tuskegee?
The Southern people are just and
fair. Booker Washington, born in
slavery, has achieved a position as a
leader of his race, that he could not
have attained without ability. He
has shown his capacity to organize
the greatest negro school in the
world. He has on the platform shown
that he is an effective speaker. He
has so lived as to gain the assistance
of the best white people of Alabama,
whose State treasury hasj contrib
uted in some part toward the build
ing of his successful school.
He is not a great scholar, a great
orator, a profound thinker. To call
him a "statesman" is to belittle that
word. He is a practical and success
ful educator, a good speaker and a
negro of uncommon power. But to
Elace him on the pedestal where Prof,
lassett would enthrone him is but
to make him ridiculous and to do
him a grievous wrong.
But, while Prof. Bassett might be
forgiven his enthusiastic ecstacy over
the Alabama negro teacher, what
shall be said of the following three
statements that indicate clearly the
opinion of the author? He says:
"IN SPITE OF OUR RACE FEEL
ING, of which the writer has his share,
they (THE NEGROES) WILL WIN
EQUALITY AT SOME TIME."
"THE 'PLACE' OF EVERY MAN
IN AMERICAN LIFE IS SUCH ONE
AS HIS VIRTUES AND CAPACI
TIES MAY ENABLE HIM TO TAKE.
NOT EVEN A BLACK SKIN AND A
FLAT NOSE CAN JUSTIFY CASTE
IN .THIS COUNTRY."
"AS LONG AS ONE RACE CON
TENDS FOR THE ABSOLUTE IN
FERIORITY OF THE OTHER THE
STRUGGLE WILL GO ON WITH
INCREASED INTENSITY." .
We shall make no comment upon
these statements. None is nee ded.
Prof. Bassett is the first white man
in the South who has put his name
to such sentiments. Let us be char
itable and hope that when he penned
this article Prof. Bassett was hypno
tized by some negropholist, and
when he "comes to himself" he will
repudiate the utterances.
Otherwise but let us not antici
pate the feeling that Southern people
must entertain for a ma.i who can
give utterance to such opinions.
A Runaway Bicycle
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K
Both Are Murderers Ail the Same.
Charlotte News.
Tillman was acquitted according
to the charge of Judge Gary on the
ground that he might have thought
that Gonzales was going to shoot
him. That is, on the ground of his
own cowardice. But Judge Peebles
secured the desired result by uttering
the opinion that Haywood's coolness
argued his bravery, and that being
brave he was in a better position to
know whether his life was in danger
than if he had been a coward. Here
are his words:
"The defendant claims his witnesses
6ay Skinner was reaching for his pis
tol. The State savs the burden ought
to be removed because of the blow.
The blow did not excuse the killing,
but it does away with malice. If you
believe the killing was done in anger
and passion, and from a reasonable
fear that Haywood's life was in dan
ger, or he was about to suffer bodily
harm, it is manslaughter, but if j-ou
believe the defendant did the killing
under the apprehension that his life
was in danger, or he was liable to
great bodily injury, it is excusable
homicide, aud the defendant should
be acquitted." -
"Much has been said about the de
liberate manner in which the defend
ant did the shooting. This has noth
ing to do with the case. Because a
man acts coolly, it does not debar
him from the benefit of the law. A
brave man is really in a better posi
tion to know when his life is in dan
ger than the coward, who possibly
might shoot when there was no ne
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LET US GIVE THANKS.
Gov. Aycock Issues His Proclamation
Setting Apart Thursday, Nov. a6th,
as Thanksgiving Day.
According to custom, and following
the action of the President, Gov. Ajcoek
has issued his proclamation, naming
Thursday, November 26th, as Thanks
giving Day, as follows:
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.
The State is at peace. There is abund
ance in the land. The people have been
much blessed. Even those in whose lives
have come disappointment and sorrow
can find cause for thankfulness in the pa
tience which has been wrought out by
suffering. Acknowledgment of mercies
received becomes a Christian people, and
a recognition that God rules the destinies
of States as well as individuals is always
fitting.
I, Charles li. Aycock, Governor of the
State of North Carolina, therefore issue
this mv proclamation, eettint? apart
Thursday, November the 26th instant,
as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, on
which day 1 urge all people to meet in
their respective places of worship and
thank God for the manifold mercies which
Ue has shown us individually and as a
people, and to ask for His protection and
guidance in the future. I earnestly recom
mend that on this day all our people shall
give as God has prospered us unto those
i. v aiu iivi.vij , (i.i Liquid ij tyir vs? niu-
ows and the orphans.
Done at our city or Kaleigh, this
the second day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine
Seal hundred and three, and in the one
hundred and twenty-eighth year 01
our American Independence.
CHARLES B. AYCOCK.
By the Governor:
r. M. I KAKSALLi,
Private Secretary.
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"Flippant Outbursts of Ignorance and
Prejudice."
Statesville Landmark.
One Bruce Craven, whoever he is,
writes a long article to the Charlotte
Observer,, in which he criticises and
ridicules the editors who have dared
to criticise the judges and the courts.
And then the esteemed Raleigh Post
crawls out of its shell long enough to
say that in 99 cases out of 100 such
criticisms '.'are the flippant outbursts
of ignorance or prejudice." We trust
that- those editors who have been
criticising courts aud judges and
this includes the great majority of
the newspapers of the State will
take due notice and be governed ac
cordingly. It is a "flippant outburst
of ignorance and prejudice" to criti
cise persons of prominence and those
in authority. They can do no wrong
and their boots should be licked. . If
you want to abuse somebody, cuss
out the niggers and poor white folks
who have no friends.
Disastrous Wrecks.
Carelessness is responsible for many a rail
way wreck and the same causes are making
human wrecks of sufferers from Throat and
Lung trouble. But since the advent of Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consumption,
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The People Outraged.
Carthage Blade.
The wave of indignation that swept
over the State at the outcome of the
Haywood trial has not yet abated.
Never in the history of North Caro
lina have the people been so outraged
as at this miscarriage of justice, and
justly so. The Monroe Journal says:
"If every man who censures the
court inthetrial of Ernest Havwood
for the murder of Ludlow Skinner
was jailed for contempt, the feet of
prominent citizens would be sticking
out of every jail window in North
Carolina. e have never beard so
much criticism of any oue trial. The
masses of North Carolina know that
if a negro had killed a white man for
no greater provocation than Hay
wood killed Skinner, that negro
would have gone up like a soap bub
ble."
Not to Be Joked At.
Greensboro Church Becord.
Henderson has a Doctor Harris,
physician, and a Doctor Harris, den
tist: also a Doctor Tucker, physician,
and a Doctor Tucker, dentist. Some
cruel wasr mirht make a jest thereat
Don t you know what he would say;
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If you suffer from ulcers, eczema, scrofula.
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sampof Blood Bafm sent free by writing
Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe
trouble and free medical advice sent in sealed
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sent at once, prepaid. Sold at Parker's Two
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Codfi
' I had a terrible cold sn J couTd
hardl7 breaihe. I then tried Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral, and it gave mi im
mediate relief."
V. C. Lavton, Sidcll, III.
How will your cough
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chitis or pneumonia, and
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to taka It. then don't taka It. Ha knows.
Leave It with him. W ara willing.
J. C. 1H (JO- Low Ml. Hut.
G. A. Coggeshall, M. D.f
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
- HENDERSON, N. C.
Office over W. 8. Parker & Co's.. ODnooit
Dorsey's Drug Store.
Office Phone, 74-3. : Res. Phone, 70.
DR. A. S. PENDLETON,
Physician and Surgeon,
Henderson, N. C.
Office: feirOver W.S.Parker & Co's.
Phone, No. 74.
Re&idence, Massenburjr Hotel.
DR. E. B. TUCKER,
DENTIST,
HENDERSON, N.C.
OFFICE: Over Thomas' Drug Store.
JOHN HILL TUCKER,
Physician and urgeon,
Henderson, N. C.
OfBce (the late Dr. Tucker's) la Young &
iucKcr tsuilding, Main street.
Phone 9 j.
Dr. H. H. BASS,
Physician & Surgeon.
Henderson, N. C.
OFFICE: In Young Block.
DR. F. S. HARRIS,
DENTIST, .
Henderson, N. C.
OFFICE: (arOver E. G. Davis Store.
FRANCIS A. MACON
DENTAL SURGEON.
Office: Vonuf Jc Tncter ItulldiMir.
Under Telephone Exchange.
Office hours: 9 a. ni. to 1 p. m.. 3 to 8 p. m.
Residence l'houe 88: Ufuoe 1'hone 25.
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Insurance. -
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