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The state chronicle., 1885-11-13
Your Opportunity.
The Place for Famous
Summer Resort!

\ Renter, or Purchaser is wanted for the
IA Beautiful Estate in Northern Granville,
just half way between Oxford and Buffalo
Springs, known as s'Bellevue Fruit Farm
and Mineral Springs.''
1t is Il cosy, comfortable, home-like place,
Orchards Three Vineyards, one of them
covering several acres, and producing an
abundance of Superior Concord Grapes. Ice
House. and fine Well of excellent water,
besides numerous Springs. A nigh and
healthy locality; fine shade trees and timber.
Also Superior Water Power, being near
the junction of two large Creeks-"Big" and
Little Grassy A large Grist Mill also
included in the property, with Turbine
Wheel and all modern improvements. Also
Il Large Farm adjoining Bellevue, known
rs woodland, - and several smaller farms
on the Estate for Tenants of the better class
For fuller description, apply to
l.. E. AMIS,
SaSSafras Fork,
Or Col. JAMES L. AMIS,
july30-2m Oxford. \. G..
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T.J.&W.D. Horner's
Classical, Mathematical. and
Commercial School.
Henderson. Vance co.,N

The Fall term of this school opens
the 4th Monday in July next. The
buildings will be enlarged and refitted
to answer the demands of constantly
Increasing patronage.
Competent Assistants have been SO.
cured and the course SO enlarged as to
afford to students who do not wish or
expect to go TO College the facilities of
obtaining a flrst-class business educa
ton. he school is accessible tha
terms reasonable and the teachers tried
and experienced.
For catalogue &c, address the prin
cipals.
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A full and thorough Academic course Of
study in the Classics, the Natural Sciences
BUSINESS COLLEGE in North Carolina
2if Students last year. Buildings, Furni-
ture, and Society Halls, new and elegant
\ full corps Of experienced Teachers. Lo-
cation healthy, convenient and desirable.
Fall Term opens AUGUST 11th. For
Catalogue, &c, address
j. A. & M. HI. HOLT,
Principals,
july23-6t Oak Ridge, N. c.
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NORTH CAROLINA
LIME PHOSPHATE

is a Natural Compound of Bone Phosphate,
Lime, Magnesia, Soluble Silica, Sulphates,
Chlordes and Potash. The Special Manure
for Oats Turnips and other root crops.
Wherever tried on small grain it has given
abundant satisfaction.
Gen. w G. Lewis, Engineer of the North
Carolina Department of Agriculture says
in / is report upon the Phosphates " Wis
tied Castle Hayne and examined the quarry
now being opened, and the experiments
made this year. The use of the Fertilizer
which he made of this rock shows about
300 per cent increase in corn and a greater
increase in oats over land without the Phos-
phate. The increase in the yield of oats was
so great that it could not easily be estima-
ted 1t was used on poor sandy land.
This valuable Phosphate will be sold at
zer was ever sold before. Cheap for cash.
Address, The N. c. Phosphate Co.,
Principal Office: Raleigh, n. Z.
Works Castle Hayne, y. {.
Write for our formulas. Free.
| aug 2S If.
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JOHN 4. KITCHENER e. co..
SOUTH FLORIDA
Real Estate Agents,
IMATILLA, ORANGE CO., FLA.

UMATILLA is a rapidly growing young town
on the line of the st Johns and Lake Eustis
Railroad. 1t is in midst of a high. healthy
and productive Fruit and Vegetable grow
ing regiOn-the natural home of the Orange
and Lemon. Correspondence invited
OFFICE AT THE MATILLA HOUSE.
;Ct2-tt
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

J. y MITCHENEE,
of North Carolina.
j. ID. MAUND,
of Georgia.
w NJ GILL,
of Missouri
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Parnsh'S Warehouse is Headquarters

then | do not know what will thank
it, and will never forget = hem. want
This is II free country and You have ho "A
Will always appreciate what Nuu sell wit
n hearty welcome and good prices f0r Nu
on the road or on the streets after You 90
Your Friend
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july1G 80 -3n
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The Mortality of the State.

The State Board OF Health publishes
monthly bulletins Of the mortality OF the
State. which would DO exceedingly valuable
II they could be trusted. But, unfortunately,
even the Board acknowledges, what every
one familiar with vital statistics soes ut onco.
that the returns are often inaccurate.
We know that the mortality Of this city Is
obtained with the greatest accuracy. but We
are not at all certain about the figures from
the rest OF the State. For instance, there Is
tho CITY OF Troy, which usually shows a re-
markably small mortality as compared with
that OF its neighbor and rival, Albany. But
that onyiable advantage, 1t seems. is gained
ut the expense OF truth. Only Al deaths
were reported In Troy for November. and
yet 1t has since been found that tho burials
during tho month were LAG In number.
We make UP from the last bulletin pub
llshed, that for December, somo figures.
which, though they may not be altogether
trustworthy, at least enable US to got APP
proxlmately at the comparative mortality
from different diseases:
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BRE.AkERS AHEAD.
The souxhing Of she Surf Said 10 be Heard
n Warrington.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Mr. Cleveland lacks
support from disinterested friends that would
be useful to him. The list OF such friends is
very small. True blue Democrats arc deiber-
ating ovor his case. Many arc disposed to
treat him like q poor relatlon-nck nowledge
him or not. according to circumstances.
Worry few who went to New York to sac him
brought back favorable reports. At present
there 10 very little confidence In his being able
to mako successful Administration. His lot
ters and public utterances are distasteful to
tho true blues. Old time Democrats are not
feeling vol. They fear that the Administra-
ton will bs strange thing. and insinuate that
tho best they can do will be to get what they
can out OF 1t and cut clear OF all responsibility.
A few Democratic Congressman threaten the
scuttling Of the ship before 1t Is fairly anoat II
Its commander turns them cold shoulder.
Democrats who are not scrambling for ONCE
are on the fence. The professions OF the Office
seekers are. worth not farthing., II Mr..
ooratic: he viii have united Democratic sup-
rGrt, II it has a strong muSwump odor there
disinterested friends 1t IL Tins for them to raj
Y; Beating Blaine was one thing; an Admin
Sa san s ERn
said said TepIesePta,iye Democrat r. the
come to New York and send out a general
invitation for Democrats to come and consult
with him. Very few OF those who accepted the
invitation have returned determined to sup
port tho incoming administration. There are
too many reservations. / fear"
an extra session Of Congress- 10 forced 1t
concert with n number Of Democrats The
idea is TO embarrass the new Administration at
the sfa HMoer Of dHss an under
Democrats involved are prominent men in their
own states. Their idea is to head Cleveland
party, An. extra session will do 1t by compel
ling tho showing OF hands at once. The fact
hour choking legislation is provoking strange
conciuRions. There seems to be a definite OBJ
with Its business. has given notice that II will
not satify in lump the action Of the House on
tho appropriation bills. even II the bills fail to
pass. Mr.. Cleveland. Il is known. docs not
want m extra session. but he has not been able
70 unihe the party so as to prevent one. Mr..
Randall however. declares himself firm In the
belief that there will be no return session.
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Prince Dsmidofrs gambling exploits have
furnished the matter Of than paragraph to the
Partisan chronQers during the last few dsya He once
played match at scsrts with Khali Boy smother In.
vstsrate gamsstsr the stake being q 600 each game
and was agreed between the parties that they were to
go on playing I'LL Of them had lost "mion to
the other They played all night In private room In
the Cafe Anslas Khsi Boy winning E3OOOO In the nrs
hour two but his luck then turned and at O'Clock
next morning the Prince had f6 COO Patsued with
so long struggle the players lay down the sofas In
the room for s,ssta and slept Till midday. when after
light breakfast they sat down the card table again.
They broke on for hour the evening for dinner 70
sumsd their played through tbs whole Of the SEQ
ond night. and At TX next morning KhAiii Bsy, who
was favored by second run Of luck, won the match
aud posksted the Princes check for E+0yO0O
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portant Of all. the highly developed and very
conventional gesture language Of tho deaf
and dumb has already moulded them into q
distinct nation" All spoken languages are
strange to them. and are acquired, for the
most part, very imperfeotly. "They think
not In words, but In abbreviated symbolic
gestures, and the sequence and association
OF their ideas are thus compelled to be
idiomatic and widely different from those of
the rest OF their rsoe."
OF course. such beings cannot be at homo
in ordinary human society. They "foel
themselves to DO aliens when they are forced
into the presence Of the outside world" and
arc only natural and spontaneous, and can
only give themselves full expression. when
they are among themselves. Therefore 1t Is
that deaf mutes generally marry deaf mutes,
when they marry at all, and the result Is the
perpetuation Of hereditary faint, which
Mr.. BELL and DR.. GALLON deplore. 30
strong is this disposition to shrink from tho
rest Of the world, and strive to keep apart
from It, that wouh-be philanthropists have
from time to time proposed schemes Of
buying land for settlements for the deaf
and dumb, where they could have society
congenial to them because 1t was secluded.
DR.. CATION and Mr.. BELL wisely argue
that WI need rather to break up the present
tendency OF deaf mutes to herd together, be-
cause past experience with them "shows how
easily a marked and degenerate variety Of
mankind may be established In permanence
by system OF selection extending through
two or three generations" Dr.GALToN goes
80 for MS to express tho belief that strong
social and possibly legislative agencies arc
sure TO become aroused against unions that
are likely to have hreditary effects harmful to
society. The remedy suggested by Mr.. BELL Is
a radical change In the system OF instruction
Of tho deaf and dumb. In the first place. he
would strongly discourage tho present phil
anthropic custom OF massing them together
In separate societies, and making their life
rs happy as possible In those sOoi-
etics; and. next, he would substitute
the oral system for the gesture lam
guage now taught In the institutions for
their instruction. That Is, no would bring
them into closer relations with the rest Of
the race. und work with the special and
avowed object OF breaking up their present
tendency to keep together.
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Explorers and their Critics.

When HENRY M. STANLEY opened the
Geographical Society OF Edinburgh the other
day, he said that after he had found LIVING
STONE geographers gave him the cold
shoulder. discredited his descriptions, and
even doubted that he had seen the man he
went to seek. Hc might have added that his
experience was not exceptional, and that there
has always been clashing between observers
In the field and theorists at home.
Biographies have had good reason not to
accept any evidence until they have carefully
weighed and sifted 1t. Until recent years
travellers have been too prone to exaggera-
tlon and inaccuracy. 1t Is tolerably safe to
divide by two all estimates Of distance trav-
elled by the early explorers OF Africa, and up
to LIvINGsToNEs time century OF mission
ary journeys In that continent, recorded In
many volumes, yielded perhaps less than
fifty pages OF sound geographical informa-
ton. There have been many instances, how
ever, where geographers have rejected the
truth when they had 1t before them, have
perpetuated geographical bunders, and have
donO injustice to careful observers, who, In
some cases, have not been justified until Gen.
turtles after they were dead.
WILLIAM PARENTS rounded the north end
OF Novaya Zemlia In 1896. and accurately de-
termined its position. The geographers
thought thoy had reason to reject his evil
dence, and 1t was not until 1871 that CARL
SEN sailed around the north extremity OF the
island and discovered that PARENTS was
right. and that the maps for nearly 800 years
after his death had enormously laid down
the north end about $50 miles east Of ito
proper position.
No explorer ever suffered greater injus-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1885-02-15
The Cause of Woman Suffrage.

Mrs CLEMENCE s. LoZIER. a Vice President
Of the Woman's Suffrage Association OF this
State, which has just been holding Its six.
teenth annual Convention here. says that the
woman suffrage movement Is steadily
gaining strength. The societies IRE gaining
heavily in membership, and we are more
confident than We ever were OF gaining our
end" 1t would be interesting to know Just
what the grounds for this confidence are.
Our esteemed contemporary, the CONNER
cial Advertiser, ASSERTS that the Woman's
Suffrage Society in this town has nominal
membership OF 500. Many members. how
ever. seldom appear at its meetings, which
are seldom large enough to require more
than parlor In q private residence" Per-
haps the societies In other parts of tho State
are more prosperous. but an unprecedented
observer has difficulty In finding Indications
that woman suffrage Is making any decided
advance. 1t does not appear that many new
leaders arc rising up to take the place Of
those who have 30 long been prominent In
the movement, and who have worked and
continue to work for 1t with 80 much zeal.
but as yet without brilliant results.
It 10 probable that there arc more politl-
clans In State legislatures and Congress who
may be willing to favor woman suffrage than
there were few years ago; but we fear our
friends. the woman suffragists, make mis-
take In trusting much to the politicians. The
principal reason why many Of them are will
ing to speak or vote for woman suffrage, 10
because they think that such course Is per-
fsctly safe. They think there 10 no proba-
bllity Of the adoption Of woman suffrage. and
that the majority Of people don't care COP
PER about It. The politician sses. or thinks he
sssA that hs VIII make the woman suktaSists
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1t will be seen that about one-third Of the
deaths were those Of infants, though In this
city they We're nearly half OF the whole num-
Der, or 1903 out OF 1887. Nor Is 1t unlikely
that tho actual child mortality Is greater
among our crowded population than in less
densely inhabited portions Of the State.
Consumption and diseases OF the air pas
sages. 1t will be seen. were responsible for
about one-third OF all the deaths reported.
Itisencouraging to observe. however. that as
many as onein fourteen died OF old age; and
Of tho total Of 4i9 such deaths, 24S occurred
in this crowded and bustling city.
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his friends by favorinR their pet measure.
without offending anybody else. OF course
there are public men who sincerely believe In
woman suffrage. but " ito enemies felt that It
was making serious progress, they would
bring upon them pressure which It is. and
long will be, unnecessary to exert.
The old and ever ready objection to woman
suffrage that women don't want It, remains
unanswered. At tho Massachusetts, Woman
Suffrage Convention In Salem tho other day.
Mrs. ADELAIDE A. CLArLrN spoke Of this
objection - - babyish one" Yet at the
recent meeting OF the Massachusetts, Woman
Suffrage Association In Boston. town where
women are allowed to vote for school COM
mlttee, 1t was resolved In 80 many words
that changes Ia the laws arc imperativoly
needed In order to secure q general accept
ance OF the duty to women" 80 1t appears
that even where the experiment OF woman
suffrage 10 tried In q limited form, women
are not as anxious to exercise the new right
as thoy should 10 to please It's friends.
In tho recent speech OF Senator PALMER OF
Michigan on woman suffrage occurs this
curious PASSAGE
"Ido not say that to the ideslized generally
described by obstruconists the dainty darnss whoss
prototypes to be found In the hercnes OF wALrxR
scorr and frSIxosx CooruR, immediate awakening
would but to tho toiera the wage workers. and
the women OF affairs. the consequent enlargement of
possibilities would give new courage"
Most American women are domestic toll
ers, wage workers, or women OF affairs and
we SOC no more prospect of an awakening
coming to them than to tho idealized
women" They remain for the most part en-
tiroly indifferent TO the programme Of the
suffragists. Till moro women become inter-
csted In woman suffrage 1t cannot be said
that it has made much progress.
Moreover, tho great changes brought about
in one way or another by the snti-slavery re-
form ase still being wrought out. The spirit
OF agitation, the desire for further change,
are not SO strong Us they were twenty-five
years ago, and as they may DO again. At
present there are inevitable problems enough
to solve without taking up one, great and
far reaching indeed, but In which rs yet few
people take lively interest.
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tice than WILLIAM BAFFTN, who In 1915 dis
covered and named Smith and Jones Sounds
and most OF the inlets, capes, and islands In
the northern extremity OF Bafiln's Bay. His
discoveries were discredited by JOHN BAR
ROW, the English geographer. and his manu-
scripts remained unpublished In the British
Museum until KANl and later explorers
showed that BAPFN's chart was q far moro
lets Of Baffin's Bay than that OF Ross, who
followed BAFFIN two centuries later. and
whose chart was maRninoently engraved ON
copper by the English Government
When SpEKR went home after discovering
Victoria Nyanza no told the Royal Geographic
cal Society he had found that fountainhead OF
the Nile which geographers had been Sock
ing for centuries. They were sure no was
mistaken. and Mr.. MAoQUEEN and others as
serted that 1t was impossible that Capt.
SPEKE's lake should be the source Of the
Nile. They said tho lake was not at sufIi-
ciently high altitude. Two years later
SPRKE settled the question by floating down
from Victoria Nyanza to Khartoum. In his
case tho facts Of the explorer were not long In
overthrowing the fallacios OF the theorists.
LIVINGSTONE complained bitterly Of tho
liberties geographers took with tho data
furnished by explorers. He called their maps
mental abortons said they made rivers run
5000 feet up hill, and reported that no had
walked for 200 miles through forests and
didn't know no was walking on water until
he saw 1t In CooLEY's map. Mr.. COOLEY was
without doubt a very learned and acnte 60
ographer. He sifted with infinite pnins
great mass OF material provided by incom-
petent travellers. and from imperfect data he
made some surprisingly accurate deductions
with regard to tho topography OF innor Az
RIGA when 1t was q great blank on the maps.
His contempt, however. for unsclentiflc trav-
elers led him into some serious blunders.
He filled twenty pages with ingenious argu-
ment to show that KRAPP and REBMANE
drew on their imaginatiOns when they re-
ported that Kilimanjaro and Kcnia. the great
peaks OF East Africa, were snow-crowned.
But the snow is there. and plenty Of 1t.
The criticisms OF scientific men have great
ly advanced the interests OF exploration. even
though In many instances they have done in
justice and fallen into error. He IL bold or
an ignorant man who cares, at this day. to
figure AZ an explorer without first acquiring
the qualifications that will entitls his work
10 consideration after he gets home. Among
the travellers now in tho field are many men
whose attainments admirably fit them to
add facts worth knowing to ono or more Of
the departments into which the study OF ma
ture and OF man has been divided.
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Coming events cast their shadows before.
and coming appointments ought to be pre-
coded by Photographic portraits. Thus We
have from tho camera OF Mr.. MORA an admira-
BILE and not unfriondy likeness OF our clever
and fortunate townsman. Mr.. WILLIAM q.
WHITNEY. 1t Ia said that there Is some opposi-
ton to his promotion to Brother CLKvELANp's
Cabinet. but tho most oaptlous critic will not
deny that he is ono Of the best-looking follows
In New York. We renew to him the assurance
of0ur most distinguIshed consideration.
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From n. Cftiyen.

Daniel Manning combines more than any
other man named from this Slate the greatest amount
Of support The three most important powers always
watched and recognized III politics in the Democratic
household ars the State capital influence the Knes
county cLaughn and Kinsslsy and recently
the chiefs Of the County Democracy In three cases
gu: Of four the Brooklyn people have had balance
OF power In State Conventions and there avs
Seen strong sympathy between Albany and Brooklyn
in Democ alto politics
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Some Of our esteemed contemporaries who
have been wont to look down upon Mr.. HoL-
MAN are beginning to ind out that. after all. he
Ii . most useful public servant. Thus truth
makes Its way and breaks through the thick
Armor Of prsjudics.
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Ns,s,.s Like .. 4. s..t...

To THE EDIroR OF The suN-Sir: oh. how
wish We had such paper In Boston ~ T.s susI such
edit"rsAs ssch Interesting rssAqs matter such sbun
dance Of nsws sna such frssds fron sAsbss sAvssss
meat asisanee. losreu,As
1esses, Feb. IA loeA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1885-02-15

We learn through note from Miss Nc
LEAN. tho author OF Cape God Folks" that the
poem. The Master Of the Shsepiold." which
has recently excited so much attention. was
written by her with the story Of "Towhead"
In an attempt to catch the spirit OF the negro
character. who utters 1t when In softened and
melancholy frame OF mind. 1t had no title"
This settles the question which has been
raised by the admirers Of the late Mr.. ERWIN
RUSSELL. who. without any positive knowledge
on the subject. have supposed that he might
have written this poem because he wrote negro
dialect poems OF merlt We think that no ono
will any longer dispute that Miss MCLEAN Ii
entitled to ell tho honor belonging to this most
boa utiful production.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1885-02-15

Senator EDMUNDs IL getting golden opin-
ions from the most opposite quarters for his
declaration at the end Of tha electoral count
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We call attention to tho letter OF JOHN E.
DEvELN. ESQ. which is published in this
mornings paper. resignng his place as Chair
man Of the Con eral Committee OF the County
Democracy. Mr.. DEvKLIN has long been
prominent figure In our politics. and his with.
drawal from such post Is a matter OF public
interest His reasons will be read with great
attention,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1885-02-15

A Northern Democratic Senator writes
from Washington to correct the imputation
against Mr.. JONAS Of Louisiana that he Ia
friendly TO the subsidy schemes OF JOHN ROACH
and spectators Of that sort. mot one men,
bar OF the Senate" says our correspondent. ia
more free from this charge than is JONAS 1t is
true bis people and section are very much In
terssted In appropriations for rivers and bar-
bors and no has supported those bills but ~ to
all measures granting special subsidies or
privileges to corporations or individuals. the
record will show that he has ever been on the
other side"
II any injustice has been done In the columns
OF The Sun to Mr. JONAS or any other public
man. We sincerely regret 1t.
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To TIE EDITOR OF TIE suN-Sr: A Scotch
friend Of mine rsprinandsd lest Night Tor walking
aown the aisls Of theatre with nv hat %. thought
u customary 70 do - unti sealed Please tRferm con
sssrs .s.Ass = ysf, eI!Ssea - NE subject w.cs.
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