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THE FARMER AND MECHANIC.
The Farmer and Mechanic
WEEKLY, N'OX-rAUTISAN PAPEtt FOR
TUE IIOME, FARM, SCHOOL, FACTORY
AND FIRESIDE.
RALEIGH, N. C.
Communications in Agricultural Topics and
Questions Relating to Labor and Education in
vited. THE FARMER AND MECHANIC,
Italcigh, X. C.
Entered at the postofflce at Raleigh,. N. C, as
Becond-cIas3 mail matter. "
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Thus for One Dollar and Seventy Cents you
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V. C. MOORE, Manager.
Morning Tonic
(Luke xxl. 34.)
TAKE heed to yourselves, lest at any time
your hearts be overcharged with surfeit
lng and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and
so that day corne upon you unawares.
(By Nina Holland Covington.)
TnE dust Is on Uic carpets, there arc rents
in several frocks, the stockings need a
mending and likewise all the socks; but Fve put
away my needle and the cleaning just can wait,
for the flowers all are blooming and the ground
is full of bait; there are
JUNE, JUNE, JUNE, fish just for the catching
in yonder shady pool,
tliero arc fields and fields of daisies, and the
woods are fresh and cool. There be many of my
neighbors who Tiavc houses wondrous neat,
frocks and socks arc always mended, and their
cooking's hard to beat. But they're missing
lots Of pleasure as they toil the livelong day,
for the World of Nature's calling and they ought
to be away. There arc many days a-coming
when I can mend and sweep, but when the
world's so lovely I just cannot indoors keep.
So hero's a hand for roaming, for "all the
earth's in tune," and my heart with joy is hum
ming for it's June, June, June.
California is doing something in the eruption
as well as in the exposition line. Lassen Peak,
near Redding, Cal., is again kicking up.
Some humorists have it so that they get the
laugh on the world. An estate of $256,306 was
left by Marshall P. Wilder.
Legitimate business interests will always find
a friend in the Democracy, as is shown by the
Wilson administration. It is only the outlaws
of business that need fear.
The Thaw case will elbow its way to -front
page place in the newspapers this week, the be
ginning of the trial to test Thaw's sanity being
set for Tuesday.
The campaign for health to be conducted
among the schools of the State is a good thing.
If young people are keyed up to health work
it will mean much to North Carolina.
The newest of the United States dreadnaughts,
the Arizona, which was launched yesterday,
wcht from the ways in a. double-header, being
christened with both water and wine.
FROM Otrf THE HEART.
This day there will be laid to rest in the last
sleep all that is mortal of Thomas Jordan Jar
vis, a man who in his relations to life as citi
zen, soldier, legislator, Governor, foreign Min
ister, United States Senator, counsellor, friend,
husband, made reputation which reflected honor
on this State, which had honored itself in hon
oring him.
The last sad tributes will be paid by the North
Carolinians who will gather in Greenville today,
and there is nothing which will be done which
has not been deserved by a life which has been
full of service to this State which he loved so
well. That part of North Carolina which is not
at Greenville today will think on him as of the
best type of manhood, one whose life was worthy
and well spent, one whose career is writ into
the history of the State. The hearts of this peo
ple are sad because he is no more, and deep is
the sympathy for the widow in the home which
has been darkened by his going away.
Nashville, Tenn., has taken place in the class
with Raleigh. It is now investigating a case of
stolen city records. This recalls the case of the
mutilated and torn up records of the city of
Raleigh some time back. .
The editors of the State should at once
practice up on doing stunts, for the announce
ment comes that at the annual meeting at Mon
treat this year they are to be filmed for the
movies. We think we see the "fine Italian
hand" of Colonel Varner in this, and we expect
that he will want to be put in the movie picture
rconlyi a StFetCh 0f S00d roads in David-
WE CANNOT BELIEVE IT.
young men who enter the United States Naval
Academy have been justly regarded as "selected
stock" young men, who by test, and fitness and
examination have won place in the institution
which gives to the country officers of its Navy.
High minded, straightforward, courageous, clean
young men is the position given them in the pub
lic mind. -
It was with a shock,- with incredulity, that the
report was read yesterday that two midship
men admitted on examination in the court of,
inquiry now being conducted at Annapolis that
under certain conditions they would use stolen
examination papers for their own advantage,
one testifying that he thought half his class
might be parties to" receiving and using stolen
information, while the other disagreed as to
that number being willing to take advantage
of stolen papers.
We do not believe, we cannot believe, that
fifty per cent of any class at the Naval Academy
could be guilty of such a breach of conduct.
The charges made concerning irregularities in
the use of examination papers are bad enough
as it is, the open declaration of young men that
they would receive and use stolen information,
and that half a class would do so goes beyond
this. The young men at the Naval Academy
are types of young American manhood and we
do not believe that this estimate Qf their moral
calibre is correct. It would be a matter of the
deepest concern to the country if it were so and
it is hoped that there will come refutation of
the monstrous charge which is in itself the
gravest of reflections upon young men who are
to wear the uniforms of our Navy and at sea,
uphold the dignity, and honor and glory of the
United States flag.
UNENVIABLE NOTORIETY.
That young men of Raleigh are haled toourt
to answer charges of being concerned in mak
ing trouble in the red light district of Kinston
one night recently is a matter of regret to this
city. It is unenviable notoriety coming to Ral
eigh which it does not desire and it is the earn
est hope that any body of young men who go to
other places as an organized body bearing the
name of this city will so conduct themselves as
to win admiration in place of censure and trials
in court.
We do not attempt to pass upon the matter
of the guilt or the innocence of the young men
who as members of the "Raleigh Collegians"
went to Kinston to play ball with a Kinston
team, for we are not informed concerning the
evidenced But young men of this city who visit
other places and assemble in districts where
disreputable women house are to be censured
for any such occurrence. The Kinston Free
Press says the charge is that six of the young
men were members of a party implicated in the
trouble, "which in the main consisted of the
breaking down of a door, rocking of negroes,
profanity and loud talk, it is said."
Being released upon their own recognizance to
appear in court in Kinston last Monday to stand
trial, the young men failed to appear, and now
they are under bonds on warrants sent from
Kinston to be taken to that place for trial to
morrow, This is an aggravation of the matter,
for on "honor" the young men should have ap
peared a week ago before the court in Kinston.
One of the boys upon whom a warrant was
served charges up the trouble to boys of Kin
ston, and this made it the more imperative that
the Raleigh boys involved should have appeared
promptly in court in Kinston, in place of wait
ing for the serving of warrants. It is the hope
of Raleigh that no young man will go from this
city bearing the name of a Raleigh organization
andoe Concerned in any occurrence i?
yolves the good name of this city'whcfcj c
will be quick to condemn conduct eY th v
it is alleged was engaged in by six vor- ,
of Raleigh.
BEXJAMIJ WILSON.
A North Carolinian who by ability and f. .
rnsp tn nositions of resnonsihilitv in ,
z j " in- ru.:.r'
world was Mr. Benjamin Wilson, of Bait;.,
who last week died suddenly in a hotel in
liouis. Mr. Wilson was a native of tVarrt-r.tv!
N. C and has been for years a prominent c :!.' 4
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. H,.. iS j .
the railroad service for forty-fotfT years.
Mr. Wilson was a member of a. prnn. ,
family of the State, a son of Dr. Thomas F.i n
"vtllson, and a brother of Mr. Peter M. n"
chief clerk of the United States Senate, Mr'
W. A. Montgomery of Raleigh, Mr. Mar.-h; .1
Wilson of Hagerstown, Md., and Mrs. j. .
Mitchell of New York City, his widow the d v
ter of Mr, Robert H. Woods, a distinguished ; !W,
yer in West Tennessee. Mr. Wilson had i,.t
positions of importance with railroads of u
South and North, and was held in the hii.-h.-t
esteem by all who knew him. Throughout .Wrth
Carolina he had many friends who will h. . r .
his death with the deepest grief.
A DIAMOND INDEED.
The recently issued "Diamond Aiiniwrsnr
Number" of the Nashville Christian Advocate
was a diamond indeed, a number most tilting
commemorative of the long existence of tho
magazine, which was in reality celebrating th
eighty-first anniversary of its origin, being tho
lineal successor of the Western Methodit hi x.ui
in 1834, the Advocate dating its seventy-the
years from 1840.
Raleigh, all North Carolina indeed, takes j ridg
in especial in the Christian Advocate lxtau.-o
its editor is Dr. Thomas N. Ivey, a North r:tr. -linian,
for years in the Methodist ministry in,
this State, going from the editorship of tho iui
eigh Christian Advocate to the editorship of the
Nashville Christian Advocate, the connectional
organ of the Methodist Episcopal Chtirohr
South,
The Christian Advocate is a great chnnh
magazine, and in all the years of Its history it
has never been better conducted than it is new.
In its career it has seen the church grow ami
make wondrous advance. It has been a fact of
in the work, and it was a pleasure to all tho
church, to all the friends of the editor, and ofi
the Advocate, to send it the best of greeting
on its "Diamond Anniversary Number."
That where North Carolina sits is the heal
of the table is again given demonstration. .Mr.
C. F, Tomlinson, of High Point, has been unani
mously elected president of the T. 1 A. of
America, His selection shows that the T. V. A.
in session at Omaha wanted only the best, ami
that is the kind which is offered by North Caro
lina. Progressive, alert, able, President Tom
linson can be relied upon to push T. P. A. inu-r-ests
to the front. - Both Mr. Tomlinson and th
T. P. A. are to be congratulated
Some spender is young Ying Ming Chai -.-j,
son of Cheng Hsun Chang, who is popularly
known as "the Rockefeller of China," the chair
man of the Chinese Commercial Commission ?:.
on a tour of investigation of this country. Ynunc
Chang had his check for $200,000 cashed on hi
arrival at San Francisco for "a little spend it z
money." He dropped in at Tiffany's the "th-r
day and blew In $2,000 for trinkets for fri'-i y
in China.
President Chazaro, of Mexico, is out with
cry about maintaining "the dignity of the M -can
people." But it's a curious way of n a:
taining "dignity" to have starving Mexican-
pealing for the charity of all who will give.
The outlook is tVint thpro tn he an f ar;
crease in the list of candidates for Attorn
General. Rumor has it that Mr. R. O. Kv r
of Durham, is about ready to shy his '
into the circle.
They say that "every dog has his day.' 'i !i
one in xsew ion which overturnea an uu.
une Lue oiner uay cenainiy nau iu.
could be a race of that kind of dogs bred a. im
mobile drivers would not be so reckless.
The factional leaders in Mexico seem t" !
veritable old men of the sea on the back of t!
country. With Mexicans starving and 'v
United States being called upon to feed tn
the leaders still keep up their warfare one T!
the other in place of getting together and e.4r
lng for the neoDle. The trouble in Mexico a.p
pears to be that each of the leaders wants .
bdvthe big boss. .