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X - - . ( ' i Advertising Brings Success That it navs to advcTiw in the Gold . i I - .. . ii ii a jL.ea.1 is siui-.vn itv hi wt'ji n;iti raa .1 fi ir .rl 11 rt ti u U'J" IICIU WIU'llllO, Sensible Business Men Do notcontiniie to Hjierul fiiod money where no appreciable rei urns ar' seejj. That is Proof That it Pays. THAO R. MANNING, PnbMer. " Carolina, 0-ajrou2sta, ZE3-E-a.te3st,s Blesshstgis -A-tteistd BLer. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 Cash VOL. XXII. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEJMBER 19, 1903. NO. 48. -V jLeaf is shown by it wrll fill,-, W r , I l ffSjti fZk. F VSiatC W" mai sieuunat ioe neaa w t iAJtiRlamnH. J 1 f 7 WTN r3E f mJST U I I O.I I -t ' t& newspaper, ,n thJ8 section, the r , w w - m- m m -m - wu- r m . .:i: : - m. ill 11 u a :. 3 aaaaatav a.- " jJ-i -1 r a -v m. . Am acav&uuun m to I I ' I ' "lrPU lfcSw 1 UP 4 L N 5 BriSM Tobacco District. J ( MX M Jll vSj Q' P Vl Ti J&A O J SatisfaMion In Thimlw0c-i AT BAlf MAST. 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As an adopted son of the "good old State" want to send a word of srood cheer to the North Carolinians at home. I have never believed that the world's greatest have died and been embalm ed as memorials of what man can be and do. Shakespeare. Milton. Wash ington, Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Cal- in, Luther and the rest are all dead. But their deaths did not end the cat- uogue of irreat men. After these we laveseen Wa viand, Lee, Grant. Ful- or, Vance, Uroadus.Currvaud others who were not a cubit shorter in stat ure or greatness than the others. They, too, have gone, and we stand oilay in the presence of the world's greatest century, producing in every dapartment of life the world's great est men and women. Men irreat in thought, spirituality and action and great amid scene's requiring a grasp of thought of which the great oi the past never dreamed. 1 here is a trick of the mind which makes us see only one-half of life at once. As we look to the past we see the best half, and when we look to the present we see the worst half. This was the way the Hebrews in the wilderness viewed life. Human nature is not changed in this respect. Dis tance lends enchantment in time as space. Upon this phase of seein;r. things we base our estimates of life, md sigh for "thegoodold times that eoine again no more, and talk a bout greatness that has gone from earth never to return. We have in North Carolina men who are looking upon the "elder brothers," who have staid at home, with the eyes of pessimism, and upon the "prodigals" who have cone ibroad with the eyes of optimism. The "stay-at-homes" have little to commend and much to censure. The go-awavs" have not hing to criticise and much to glorify. 1 have little sympathy with these views. I am proud of our brothers who havegone abroad, but prouder of those who uive staid at home and done their piirt m ouilding our great common wealth. If we had depended upon the runaways to have built up the State where would we have been? The men at borne have shown a no- bilitv of soul which marks the grand est characters of earth. While their brothers have been running: over the earth to make money and fame they, with equal abilities, have remained at home, contented to get a living, and while doing this, make a charac ter and life to bless the world. North Carolina has sent out sons who have made tneir marKs, out some of them would never have made any marks at home. The men who have remained and made marks, where the others have failed, are worthy of the highest praise not criticism. I know something of the men who have gone abroad, and I have no hesitation in declaring my conviction that North Carolina s greatness is not exhausted in any de partment by the exodus of her great sons abroad. N orth Carolina s great est sons are yet within her borders, toiling to make her the brightest star in the constellation of btates. North Carolina may be behind other States in some things, others are behind her in many things, and when it comes to a general "averaging up" she need not be ashamed of comparison with anj- of her sisters. I have seen some greatness which I am glad we do not possess. Like a desert, irreat in breadth and, perhaps, depth, but not an oasis upon its burning sands to bless humanity, I have seen some great men who were broad enough to compass everything on earth, but not a single green spot within to cheer the weary and fallen. Great in their broadness, but as dry as Sahara Sometimes I sit by my fireside and sing, "Carry me back to old Virgin- nv, and long to drop in the place o the humblest and poorest of the boys who staid at home and made the Old Dominion what she is. Some of us who have left, will never be counted save as unworthy sons, vet the envy of our hearts has never been of those who have become famous, but o those who "stuck bv the stuff" at home. Though they are lost to fame, vet they are the greatest of her sons and but for them the State could not have developed her resources. And sol believe everv "prodigal" from the Old North State will think of the "boys" who staid at home and gave them such a glorious welcome at Greensboro, the last one of them re turning to their far-away homes wll wish they were in the shoes of the "stay-at-homes." While honoring the men who have gone abroad, let us not forget the men who have staid and made the old State worthy of honor. Chas. A. G. Thomas. Edenton, N. C, Nov. 2. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh thtrt cannot be cured by HaH"s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0 We, the undersigned, have known F. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business trans actions and financially able to carry" out any obligations mado by their firm. West & Tbvax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, 0. . . 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A man who has to rent land and has nothing with which to stock his farm, but must go in debt for provisions, stock and farming imple ments has got to have mighty good luck with his crops if he comes out even at the end of the year. Too many men prefer to take this risk in preference to selling their time and labor to some one else. They do not like to be subject to other men's or ders. They want the freedom that farming for themselves is supposed to give, losing sight of the fact tha they are liable to become the worst kind of slaves by so doing debtors, with everything they have and what they expect to make mortgaged to the merchant or land-owner. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur should be in every home. It cures eczema, pimples, tet ter, ringworms, dandruff, cuts, burns, open sores, dyphtheria, sore throat, and oil blood and skin diseases. No home should be with . . i i i i . . , out ii. ahk your uruggisis lor a, hook on quid Sulphur. For sale at The Eagle Pharmacy. The Lieutenant Governorship. Charlotte Observer. While the nomination for Go vernor next year is in active request, there does not appear to be the usual com petition for the lieutenant governor ship. It has been understood for some weeks, we believe, that ex-Judge rancis D. Winston, of Bertie, would offer for this nomination, and Repre sentative George L. Mjrton, of New lanover, gave it to be understood Friday night that he also would be a candidate tor it. v hue in the aver age mind this office is not invested with great importance, the possibiu ties in connection with it suggest care m the selection of. a candidate for it, especially when it is known in ad vance that, the candidate will be elected. While, in normal circum stances, the Lieutenant Governor's duties are restricted to making up the Senate committees and presiding over that body, that officer may be come Governor by the removal of his chief by death or other cause. This has occurred four times in North Car olina within the past thirty years, Caldwell succeeding Holden, Brogden succeeding Caldwell, Jarvis succeed ing Vance, and Holt following Fowle. And, too, the second officer is acting Governor during tho absence of the Governor from the State for any number of days, as for instance, Mr. Turner acted last year for Governor Aycock when the latter went to New York to deliver an addrees before the North Carolina Society of that city or was it when he went to Charles ton Exposition? We forget, but no matter. The suggestion is that the lieutenant governorship is by no means an inconsequential office. It is a position of dignity and honor, to begin with, and its occupant may become the head of the State govern ment through the death, impeach ment, resignation or insanity of the Governor, or his being stricken with a fatal malady which left him alive, but permanently incapacitated to exercise the functions of his office all possible contingencies. 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If He is Correct North Carolina Hat Enjoyed an Undeserved Reputation What the Official Records Show Wants Some One to Take Up the Gauntlet. 1 Charlotte Observer. I To the Editor of the Observer: The following special dispatch to the Bal timore San has somewhat astonished me, and I beg you will reproduce it, with my comments: '.'VETERANS OF THE GRAY. Virginia and North Carolina in th w ar benator Daniel speaks. "Newport News, Va.,Oct. 29. The second day of the Confederate re union brought about 1,000 more veterans and several thousand visi tors to this city. lhe most interesting: feature of the day's business was the report of the history committee, presented by Judffe George L. Christian, of Rich mond. Most of its space was devoted to the refutation of claims made in behalf of North Carolina in certain controversies between veterans of the two States. The report shows from official records that the claim made by North Carolina that she furnished more troops to the Confederacy than any other Southern State is not true; that V irffima furnished 52,000 more than North Carolina; that the claim that V lrginia had a larger number of men exempted than any other South ern fctate is also a mistake; that while the total exempts in Virginia amounted to 25,063, those in North Carolina numbered 38,1G6, and that North Carolina had ten times as many State officers exempted on cer tificates of her Governor or any other Southern State; that the sug gestion that one of the effects of the fighting of the First North Carolina Regiment at Bethel was possibly holding Virginia in the Confederacy was a reflection on Virginia, and without any foundation whatever. The report discusses the claim of North Carolina that she was farthest to the front at Gettysburg in the great charge of July 3rd, 18G3, from the official reports, both Federal and Confederate, and shows from these reports that this claim is not sus tained. It quotes from the reports of Generals Lee, Longstreet and Lane; Colonels Lawrence, Shepherd and others of the Confederates, and Generals Hancock, Webb and Hunt, of the Federals, all of which show that the only troops which pene trated the enemy's line were Pickett's Virginians and" some of Archer's Brigade, the latter composed wholly of .Tennesseeans and Alabamaians." If Judge Christian is correct North Carolina has enjoyed for thirty-five years a false reputation. But is he correct? It seems exceedingly strange that Virginia has remained silent so long on this very important subject, when heretore, she has claimed everything in sight, and many things that never had a shadow of existence. If Judge Christian is correct, it makes Vir ginia's record appear both peculiar and strange, not to say humiliating from a military standpoint. At Baltimore, February 23, 1885, Governor Vance, in his address before the Army and Navy Association, of Maryland, stated that the official records of the Adjutant General's office showed that North Carolina furnished 121,038 troops to the Con federate States. Without claiming more, which we can justly do, this would make Virginia have furnished, according to Judge Christian (121,- 038 plus 52,000) 173,038. Now the most authentic informa tiou available puts the losses of North Carolina and Virginia down as follows: Killed. North Carolina 14,522 Virginia 5,328 Died of Died of Wounds, Disease. North Carolina 5,157 20,602 Virginia 2,519 6,947 By these figures it will be seen that of 173,000, Virginia only lost a total of 14,794, while North Carolina of 121,000 lost a total of 40,275. It also appears that North Carolina lost in killed and died of wounds 4,- 877 more men than Virginia lost in killed and died of wounds and dis ease, it also appears tnat iNortu Carolina lost 25,481 more men than Virginia, which is an excess of nearly double Virginia's entire loss. These figurrs also show that Vir ginia's loss was less than 8 per cent, while North Carolina's percentage was more than 33 per cent. Anyone reading these figures would not be considered unfair or unjust should he conclude that the troops of Virginia were spared that North Car olina might sacrifice her sons for the cause they espoused. Judge Chris tian says "that while the total ex empts in Virginia amounted to 26,- Cures Blood and Skin Diseases, Itch ing Humors, Eczema, Scrofula, &c. Send no money simply write and try Bo tanic Blood Balm at our expense. A personal trial of Blood Balm is betterthan a thousand printed testimonials, so don't hesitate to write for a free sample. 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'Sold at Parker's Two Drug Store. ... 063, thpse in North Carolina num bered 38,166, and that North Caro lina had ten times as many State officers exempted on certificates of her Governor as any other South ern State." The statement only goes to show that North Carolina was, by far, the greatest and grandest figure of the Confederacy. She not only lost 33 Eer cent, of the sons she sent to do attle, but she kept more sinecures at home for seed than all the rest put together. 1 am not interested in the"exempts" and in the "certificates," because that proposition is too -absurd to notice but I am deeply interested in holding the record North Carolina has enioy- (jd -inee the war ended, and' which she is justly entitled to, or all the records published since the Confeder acy fell are absolutely false and worthless. North Carolina officials should not permit this statement of Judge Chris tiantogo unchallenged. Theyshould demand that the truth be handed down to Dosterity. A State that permits its proud record to be wrest ed from it sinks to the depth of the historian who falsely claims for his people, or himself, that which does not belong to them, or him. I hope some one capable and worthy will take up this gauntlet and hurl it back with a force sufficient to con vince even a Virginian that North Carolina, was a part of the Confeder acy at, least. W. F. J3UASLKY. November 6th, 1903. SOMETHING FOH EVERYBODY. Do you take them? Haucock'n Liquid Sulphur baths are as delightful as they are beneficial. The medicinal and tonic effect of sulphur baths by absorption of sulphur through the pores of the skin acts directly on the blood, purifying it, and removes all un healthy secretions from the body. For 6ale at The Eagle Pharmacy." The Iniquity of It. Charlotte News. In spite of the prophecy in yester day s editorial on the rauama ques tiou, we were surprised at the tele grams that came just before we went to press giving the cable messages of President Roosevelt to the govern- ments at Panama and Bogota. The utter shamelessness and the indecent haste of acknowledging the govern ment at Panama is surpassed by the pious hypocrisy of the message to the United States of Colombia. Here is the message that the Presi dent of one republic sends to another on the occasion of the "rebellion" of one of its provinces: "The people of Fanama. having bv apparently unanimous movement j dissolved the political connection with the Republic of Colombia and assumed independence and having adopted a government of their own, republican in form, with which the Government of the United States of America has entered into negotia tions, the President of the United States, in accordance with the ties of friendship which have so long and so happily existed between the re spective nations, most earnestly com mends to the governments of Colom bia and Panama peaceful and equita ble settlement of all at issue between them." Imagine, oh the declaration by Ire land of independence of Great Brit ain, the President of the United States sending such a message to St. James and hoping that the two countries will have a peaceful and equitable adjustment of their respective claims, a message conveying the information that the virtual independence of Ire land had already been acknowledged. Why, the British Navy would just leave a small part of its strength to watch Ireland while the remainder sailed forthwith to the United States in deadly war. But Britain is a big country and the United States of Co lombia has only about 3,000,000 people and that makes a difference. We shall not be surprised u the re- action from this bullvine: and insult - insr of a weaker republic, this open encouragement of its disintegration, this shameless intrigue with a little two-by-four State, does not result in an insistent demand that the skirts of the United States be cleared of the suspicions now besmirching it, by the rejection in totoof the Panama route and the adoption of the other. For tunately Congress meets next week The rebellion was doubtless timed to a nicety in the interval between the adjournment of the Colombian Con gress and the meeting of the Ameri can. Still there is every likelihood of a Congressional inquiry into this J business, and there are enough brains in Congress to find out the facts. BEST KEJIEDT FOR BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES. 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We railroad a poor ignorant I tipcto to the irallows and torn white .iTfCJLEiJil - r the wincr I t. t: : t. r?T4i4i4l'"d individuals, rost as tneotner tM tUt) it IT. : aj IWtiKCt - " a MUl,il orrpumintr bnrlpsnne. and a nhame and a disgrace upon the state." DR. BASSETT'S EDITORIAL ON THE NEGRO. His Article Unfortunate and Hurtful and Has for the Time Seine Unneces sarily Impaires His Influence for Qood Receiving Wide Comment, Much of It Heated. Charlotte Observer. There has been wide comment, much of it very heated, on the opening ar ticle in the October number of the South A tlantie Quarterly, of Durham, by Dr. John Spencer Bassett, the ed itor of. that publication and profes sor of history in Trinity College, hav ing for its title "Stirring Up the Fires of Race Antipathy ." . It is pointed out that this antipathy is ar old as the negro's residence in America, and that it is increasing, North aud South, until now it is more marked than it ever was before. It results, it is said, from "the contempt of the white man for the negro. It is the reaction of the superior against the touch of the inferior; for the white man has no doubt of his superiority. It is doubt ful if the average Southern white far mer would admit that the highest negro in America is superior to the Southern hired man who is white." Some of the negroes, we are told, have advanced and others retrogra ded since the abolition of slavery, and "singularly euough, both his progress and his regression under the regime of freedom have brought down on him the hostility of the whites." "Neither of these two classes, the up per or the lower," the writer contin ues, "are all the negroes; and in for getting this fact some well-intentioned people have fallen into serious error. A man whose mind runs away into baseless optimism is apt to point to Booker T. Washington as a pro duct of the negro race. Now AVash ington is a great and good man, a Christian statesman, and take him all in all the greatest man, save Gen eral Lee, born in the South in a hun dred years: but he is not a typical negro. He is an exceptional man; and, endowed as he is, it is probable that he would have remained unedu cated but for the philanthropic inter vention of white men. The race, even the best of them, are so far behind him that we cannot in reason look for his reproduction in the present generation. It is, therefore, too much to hope for a continued appearance of such men in the near future. It is also too much to set his development ud as a standard for his race. To ex pect it is to insure disappointment." But, it is argued, it is not just to judge the race by its worst element. Its progress, it is claimed, is upward, not downward, and much of the prein- dice tnac nas oeen iostereu affamsi; the necrro has been for partisan polit ical effect. Just before saying, as he does in the beginning of his last para- graph, that he "has no solution for the neprro problem," Dr. Bassett writes "The only solution reserved for us is the adoption of these children of Africa into our American life. In spite of our race feeling, of which the wn ter has his share, they will win equal ity at some time. We cannot remove them, we cannot kill them, we cannot prevent them from advancing in civ ilization. Thev are now very weak; some day they will be stronger. They are ignorant and passion-wrought; some day they will be wiser and more self-restrained. I do not know just what form the conflict will take. It may be merely a political conflict; it may be more than that. 1 am per suaded it is in many respects the old conflict between Roman plebs and Roman patricians over ac-ain. It ought to be shorter than that strug gle and the issue ought to be more fortunate than the issue of the Ro man conflict; for American life is richer and better than Roman life." The author sees a better day for the negro, when "he will be a great industrial factor in the community,' when "his struggle will not be so un 1 eoual as now," and hopes that then "he will have brave and Christian leaders." Meantime he advises con ciliation, foreseeing that "as lon as one race contends for the absolute inferiority of the other, the struggle will go on with increasing intensity." He scouts the feeling of caste in the white man, which he says, is inherit ed, saying upon this head: "To make him (tue negroj Know his 'place and to make him keep his place, Bum up tne pimosopny oi many people in reference to this intri cate and perplexing problem. But we ought to remember that such an idea is neither scientific nor charitable. The 'place' of every man in our American life is such a one as his virtues and his capacities may ena- able him to take. -Not even a black skin and a flat nose can justly justi fy? caste in this country." We have given above a fair sum mary of this remarkable article, copy ing verbatim its most offensive prop ositions; and while our voice shall not be added to the general denun ciation, we cannot regard Dr. Bas sett's deliverance otherwise than un fortunate and hurtful. He is a South ern man, a North Carolinian, born in Edgecombe county, reared in Golds boro; a man of ability, a thinker, a student and scholar; an accomplish ed gentleman apparenly normal in all respects, as we are advised by gentlemen who know him let m this article he is unfathomable. His statement, published yesterday, does not do much to elucidate or help Even with his qualifications of that dictum, it is almost inconceivable that he thinks Booker T. Washing ton the greatest man, save General Lee, born in tbe South in a hundred years. As for the "equality" which the black man "will win at some time." Dr. Bassett explains that he did "not mean that there will be so cial mingling of the races," but that the time will come when the "negro I race will have ft d race will have ft doe proportion of I wealthy, educated, prosperous and 1 -. 111 O aaaa ll i III ! DeODlea of the world hfMfe. tSuTS9ilt.J. tney win ut? m goou uwkw, wwm good clothes, have good schools, good churches, and especially be con servative and reliable citizens. But how was anybody to know that? From time immemorial "negro equal ity" has meant social equality, and in the absence of a qualification the public naturally reached the conclu sion that that is what Dr. Bassett meant, especially since a little later lie takes occasion to decry the caste sentiment of the South. He was very unhappy in his choice of language, or unfortunate that he did not accom pany his original article with the in terpretation which he puts upon it subsequently. 1 he Observers sensation in refer ence to this matter is one of deep re gretregret on account of a cultured and useful North Carolinian who Las for the time being unnecessarily im paired his influence for good; regret on account of the great and useful institution of the faculty of which he is a member, and one of the ablest. The South Atlantic Quarterly is no part of Trinity College, has no con nection with it whatever, and that the institution as such has no sym pathy with Dr. Bassett'a peculiar views, is demonstrated by an article, in the same number of the Quarterly as that in which his editorial appear ed, on "Our Duty to the Negro," by Kev. Dr. John C. Kilgo, -Trinity s president. Yet it will be sought by the enemies of this great institution, which is doing a noble work in North Carolina, to warp Dr. Bassett's rela tionship to both to the injury of the college. Dr. Bassett's opinions are his own; we should be sorry if he en- M ffSSSJJafc by his explanations, but his thoughts are his, he has a right to hold and to declare them, and'it is to his credit that he assumes full responsibility for them and acquits all others of any share in his offending. Let us pass this incident to the score of hon est mistakes that we all make, adding one more to the long list, and hope that the tempest has spent its force and will now subside. Touching the paper of Dr. Kilgo, to which reference is made above it is an address delivered before tho stu dents of Trinity College and the citi zens of Durham on the 21st of Sep tember and published, for the first time, in the current number of the Quarterly it is a general argument addressed to white men, urging them to help in the uplifting of the negro within his sphere, and the quotation from it of one paragraph will answer the present purpose: "The negro is a negro. His color and his racial characteristics were or dained of God and cannot be cbang: ed. He cannot become a Jew and he cmiiiub Utvuuit: un JniU-OUXUU, uuu should not wish to become either. He can be a negro, and it is chief busi ness to be a good negro. In the king dom of human life virtue is not a matter of color, and the negro should learn to respect his color. The black er he is the surer he may be of racial integrityfcand whatever he maycome to be he must come to be as a black man." 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