The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-18


observer is by long odds the greatest
edition ever gotten out by any news
paper III North Carolina.
The News and Observer is doing the
State great service in getting out spe-
eial industrial editions and informing
the world what is being done and what
can be done in North Carolina.-Mur-
zreesnoro Index.
The New York Herald says OF pnde-
sirable immigrants: 1t is not alone
the $40 pauper that is objectionable.
Men who come simply so escape tenn
porarjly from military service, with
no intention Of remaining here aSad
with no comprehension or appreciation
of the duties and responsibilities OK
citizenship, are rot desirable"
Reports received in Savannah on the
watermelon acreage in Georgia this
year show i decrease in most sections
of from 40 10 so per cert. The chief
reason for the decrease is the price of
cotton last fall. which was such that
fruit-growers could make handsome
profit by planting cotton on their acre.
age, and cotton being a staple product,
they could obtain spot cash for the
crop. Another reason is that the mer-
chants who usually advance heavily on
future crops refused to furnish many
fruit-growers with fertilizers and sup
plies necessary to produce a melon
crop, as they considered il OF speenla-
tive value.
The pale-faced shad have begun their
annual pilgrimage up the awakened
streams, the diffident strawberry blush
es crimson in its self-conscious sweet
ness, the street organ is organizing.
the angle worm is angling, the open
car has burst the bonds which held it
in innocuous desuetude. and on the
highways and byways the inexper-
fenced cyclist is already biting the
dust. All of which means the spring
has sprung.
How far is civilization the function
Of q race? lis it something which all
can learn alike, or does it vary Just as
human beings vary? It looks very
much as if iii were the latter. and as
If II were impossible for the civiliza-
ton of any one region to coincide with
that Of any other If there be any
country which admires American gen
Jus and tries to initiate American
characteristics it is Japan. 1t has
American railways and American loco
motives and cars. 1t has an American
postoffice, American telephones, tele-
graphs, express companies, gas COM
panies, schools, colleges and universi-
ties 1T sends hundreds of its young
men and women to our land to be edu-
Gated every year. IL hires Americans
at very handsome figures as teachers,
tutors, experts and officials 1T has
mastered nearly all Of our secrets, and
yet is just asdifferent from us Ameri-
cans as it was before Commodore Per-
ny opened the porte. intellectually
their scholars differ in no respect from
our own. but in habits, manners and
ways Of doing things they are just as
different as are the farmers and la
borers of the MiISado from those Of
Uncle Sam.
Next week will be one Of good feel
ing, of Misunderstanding and reunion at
Charleston. s. G.. It is to be Confederate
veterans week, and Charleston is again
to be tat home" TO her friends, rela-
tions and acquaintance in the Palmet-
TO State The railroads have made a
rate of one cent mile for everybody
and the latch string is out, and all who
attend will be made very welcome
While camps Of Confederate veterans
from all portions Of the State viii ut.
tend. hundreds of unattached veterans
will be present, and the city viii be
ia gala dress and holiday humor. The
festivities will begin Tuesday, April II
with a drill by the Sumter Guards. Wed
nesday there wiz be excursions around
the harbor and the annual meeting
Of South Carolina United Confederate
Veterans, addresses of welcome, &c
Thursday there will be a parade o.
veterans military, fremen, etc, and !
general Confederate rally at night, al
which addresses will be delivered by
distinguished Confederate officers
Friday there is to be championship
~ seball game, excursions and Confed
e4ute day at the Schuetzenfest Sat
llrday there is to be sermon before
Confederate Veterans at the FRS
presby church by the Rev. w NJ
Grier. ID. d., president Of Erskine Col
lege and soldier of the old Soutl
Carolina Sixth.