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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
JAMES MONROE SYKES.
Deputy Collector Internal Revenue
Western District.

Mr.. Sykes was born in Granville
county. February rs, 1859. He was ed
ucated in the academic schools of his
native county and at Trinity College,
graduating from the latter institution
in 1884. He was appointed postmas-
ter at Oxford in 1889 and served till 1884
at which time he was elected Clerk Of
the Superior Court Of Granville county
and served till 1898. He was appoint
ed to his present position as Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue of the
Western District of North Carolina
January %, 1899. In this Office as
in all the other places Mr.. Sykes has
filed, he has made faithful and eff
cient officer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
A METHODIST COLLEGE
FOR HALF A CENTURY IT HAS
EDUCATED REFINED CHRIS
TIAN HOMES.
THE RIGHT MAN AS PRESIDENT
The College is thoroughly Equipped With the
Most Modern Equipment. A Faculty
Compos d Of Able Men
and Women.
and Women.

One of the oldest and most famous
colleges for the education of young wo-
men in the South ~ Greensboro Female
College. located in the loyeiiest campus
in the State. in the heart Of the beau
tiful and prosperous city of Greensboro.
1t is 4 large and imposing building, tow
ering nlajeatically in the centre Of TWEEN
ty acres of the finest oak trees that ever
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
EDUCATIONAL.

The educational advantages Of Gull
ford county are such that families are
seeking settlement here for the pur-
pose of educating their children.
Its own excellent schools, and the
readiness of its people to parronIze the
foremost colleges of the State and
county, have given Gslilford county a
well deserved reputation for scholar
ship and culture, and it is well entitled
to be known the Athens of the
Carolinas."
Two graded school systems are sup
ported nine months in the year in Gull
ford, by public tax. distinction which
is enjoyed by no ether county in the
State
Besides these the city and county con-
tains eight colleges and schools that
rank first among the educational institu-
tions of the State. The fact that morali-
ty and intelligence go hand in hand finds
exemplifcation in the high moral tone
Of the community.
To the homeseeker of energy and
advanced ideas it presents many at
fractions, especially to farmers. Good
lands can be secured at prices ranging
from $40 to $50 per acre, which, under
modern methods, will bring handsome
returns, with good markets at their
door II is only question of time
before these various advantages will be
secured by energetic, hustling Northern
and Western people, and North Carolina
will be known far and wide in her manu-
featuring and agricultural prominence.
Suffice il to say that nowhere in the
broad realm of nature are inducements
more enticing, people more hospita-
BILE, and a climate more delightful, than
here in Guilford county.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
THE ONE REASON.

9TH professor kin spake in four diff
forint lounges, Dinny."
''Thors only wan ting thot kapes me
from dom TIL same, Larry"
AN phwat is thot?"
''Oi hov'n't tn four tongues"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
G. II. MKINN.EY.
Treasurer of Guilford County.

IIFtlsUIVI Ut = uTITVTH NV'IIE09'
AS a man TO handle the funds Of Gull
ford county more competent and trust
worthy person could not have been
found than the present incumbent, Mr..
G.. III. Mckinney, who was elected coun-
fly treasurer in 1906, by S27 majority.
After serving through the civil war Mr.,
Mckinney entered the tobacco business,
and in which he is till engaged. The
marked success he met with in managing
his own business recommended him for
the positions of trust which he now holds,
and is filling most acceptably.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
SHORT AND SWEET.

Lady You gave me one pie short this
morning"
Baker-SThey We're all short, ma am;
put the shortening in them myself.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

T. II. EDISON, manufactures and
deals in hardware piping, sheet iron
and makes a speciality of roofing and
guttering
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
AN ELDORADO
CONTINUED from Page 161)

the Telephone Manufacturing Company
of Sumter. S. q. There is no better
telephone in use either in local or long
distance, its long distance adaptation be-
ing five hundred miles. Telephones and
switch boards are installed upon appll-
cation to the company at Elkin, N. 9.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

Some men who claim to be the archi-
tects of their own fortunes would be
worth twice as much today had they EN-
ployed another architect at fair salary
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
TO 1HE-
MERCHANTS OF N. C.

We are the Ony Spot Cash House in \
North Carolna You know goods are
sold cheaper for cash than on Time Write !,
for Pr Ce LIST and sample Of Dry Gecds :
w StOTT ( gro, :
Greensboro, N. C
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

The fizzle of the soda fountain is a
financial success.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
GUILFORD COUNTY.

The climate of Guilford county is
equable, the mean temperature being
about 30 degrees. The thermometer
rarely climbs above 90 degrees, and
then only for a short period OF one Or
two days mt time. Ice seldom forms
to greater depth than one inch, per-
haps once in two or three years it may
be slightly thicker. Roses bloom out
of doors fer nine months in the year,
while ma g1lolias and other trees and
shrubs Of this character are abundant
The expression often used here, "A eli
mate of perpetual spring" is not over
drawn
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
The CAROLINA COOK STOVE.

The only Cooking Stove
manufactured in Moth Caro-
liza Has a reputation Of
twenty years standing as one
of the best Stoves on the
mlrket Recently retrin1med
with latest pattern If doors
and attachments Every Stove
guaranteed. Write for de-
scriptive -cIrcu ar and prices.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
One Of the Leading Cities IN North Caro-
Ina
Ina
Great Railroad and Manufacturing Center Well Named
The Athens of the Caronas" The County
Sc At of Guilford.

AS ONE of the foremost cities of North
Carolina, Greensboro, the live and
hustlng county seat of Guilford county,
is entitled tio prominent mention, Ihe
growth of the city for the past ten Years
has been remarkably rapid, but during
this time the growth has been OF an
even and steady character and conse-
queptly the city has never had 70 sltier
the evil results which always Follow a.
great boom. fFs sllf.
The passage by the Legislature OF
North Carolina of the bill authorizing
an issue of 100000 in bonds to extend
the present system of water, lights and
sewers in Greensboro is but another evil,
dence of the rapid strides In her pro-
yress, which has more than doubled her
popuatioa in few years. 1t now num-
bers 10000.
Greensboro is one of the, centers of
Southern cotton manufacturing, there
being over one hundred cotton mills
within radius of fifty miles, which
by unparalleled success are attracting at
teDitior, and In most cases are preparing
to double their capacity.
Within the city borders there are some
elegant estates, with handsome improve
ments and highly cultivated people Inc
latter, aus a class are polite, hospitable
and courteous to strangers. This Is the
paradise of the quail hunter; the mild
climate stimulates quail breeding. and
winters do not freeze them out. There
is no tax on nonresident hunters, but
laws prohibit the quail from being
shipped out of the State.
As railroad and manufacturing
center, Greensboro is a city of vast
and growing Importance. Railroads.
radiate from here in almost every direc-
ton, thus bringing the city in touch
with the important trading centers Of
this and others States.s Here also are
presented various manufacturing enter
prises of almost every description, in
Guiding cotton mills, furniture factories,
ice factories, boundaries, etc.
This is also am important tobacco and
cotton market, being the center of
very fertile farming belt.
Greensboro has good streets, large
stores, beautiful residences and church
es, healthful climate, pure water and
in fact everything needful to make it a
desirable and pleasant place to live. The
dwellings are large and handsomely fin
ished, looted in rooTny yards and SUR
rounded with beautiful flowers and
shrubbery.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
LEAVE CAPTURED TERRITORY
GENERAL LAwr0N COMPELLED TO
.EyACUATE FOR LACK OF MEN.
CAMPAIGN WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL
General Gives Up Captured Ground In
tho Philippine With Much
Reluctanee.

A dispatch to The New York World
from Manila says:
Major Lawton, at Pate, authorized
The World correspondent to make the
following statement: "The present
prospects are that 100, 900 troops will
be needed to pacify the Philippine
islands,"
General Lawton's expedition has
been ordered to Manila aud will return
there Immediately. AL. the territory
ho captured will be -evzc ated and all
the launches will be res; ed to their
original owners-that is say, they
will be given back to the h sons from
whom Aguinaldo's soldiers took them.
After giving the opinion that 1O0,-
900 men would be required to subdue
these islands, General Lawton ex..
planned the situation to the World
correspondent as follows:
"The difficulties in the WY are
those of fighting guerrillas in tropiI
cal country. With my brigade I could
force my way from one end of the
island to the other if 1 did not have
tc hold the territory traversed. But
leaving garrison behind would soon
eat up the whole force"
General Lawton regretted exceed
ingly being compelled to evacuate the
territory he had captured.
Campaign Not n Failure.
AT the war department it is stated
Monday that the return OF General
Lawton from his expedition does not
indicate the failure of his campaign,
but that it is evident that he has nc
complished all that he attempted-the
capture of the gunboats and the driv-
ing the rebels out OF Santa Cruz.
When he left Manila General Lawton
took rations for ten days only.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
THE RALEIGH AT HOME.
One OF Dewey's ships Pnrades Before m
Enthusiastic Crowd of New Workers.

One OF Dewey's Ships Parades Before IN
Enthusiastic Crowd of New Workers.
A New York dispatch says: The
celebration attending the return of the
United States cruiser Raleigh from
Manila, which had to be postponed
Saturday owing to the warship's late
arrival, occurred Sunday.
The Raleigh, accompanied by two
small vessels captured from the Span
iards last summer and q fleet Of about
twenty five excursion steamers and
tug boats, paraded from TOrlpkinsville
to Grants tomb, and from there back
to anchorage In the North river off
Twenty-fourth street.
1t would have been difficult to have
selected more inclement or disagree
able weather than that which prevailed
all the time the Raleigh was passing in
review before the thousands of enthu-
siastic people who lined the river banks
and gave their hearty cheers of well
come home.
Great crowds assembled in River
side Park, overlooking the Hudson,
and men, women and children stood
there for hours under umbrellas
watching the vessels on their way up
the river and on their return. Far the
greatest gathering of people was in
the vicinity of Grants tomb, which
was the turning point of the parade.
a national salute was fred there by
the Raleigh, and also by the captured
Spanish prizes, and the scene was rem.
dered memorable one by the shrek
ing of n hundred steam whistles from
excursion boats and locomotives and
cheers from thousands of people on
shore and on the vessels in the river.
The executive committee in charge
of the preparations for the annual re-
union of the United Confederate Vet
Grams, that is to bo held in Charleston
May 10th, 11th and 18th, was officially
notified Monday by Secretary Long, of
the navy department., that the Raleigh
had been ordered to that port for re-
union week.
The cruiser will prove a great at
traction to the thousands Of confeder-
ate veterans who will be in the city at
that time, and an ovation will be ex-
tended Captain Coghlan and crew.
The officers of the Raleigh will be
entertained at a public bar Iuet during
their stay in Charleston.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The New Industries Reported In the South
During the Past Week.

The New Industries Reported In the South
During the Past Week.
The more important of the new in
dustries reported during the past week
include canning factory in Missis-
sippi; coal mines In Texas and West
Virginia; two copper mining compa-
MES in North Carolina; four cotton
mills in North Carolina and one in
Texas; one cotton seed oil mill in
Alabama, one in Mississippi, one in
North Carolina and three in Texas;
two electric light plants in Alabama
and one in Virginia; Touring mills
in Alabama and Texns; furniture
factories in North Carolina aud East
Tennessee; gas works in North Car
olina and Middle Tennessee; handle
factory in Kentucky; hardware COM
panies in Arkansas, North Carolina
aud Texas; knitting mill in Georgia; {;
steam laundries in Alabama and Geor-
gia; lumber mills in Florida, Ken
lucky, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia; machine works in
Alabama; a paint, oil and varnish
works in Georgia; singletree factory
in Tennessee; n telephone system in
South Carolina; two tobacco factories
in Kentucky; a wagon works in Vir-
ginia; wire and roofing factory in
Kentucky, and a woodenware factory
in Alabama. - Tradesman, tChatta-
\
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
THE COUNT AT VARIANCE.

Cuban Muster Roll Shows $4,000; Ameri-
can Figures are 1920.
The Cuban army muster rolls, which
wore delivered to Governor General
Brooke, through Senior Domingo Men
dez Capote, are prepared in new cleri-
cal style, the 1900 broad sheets show
ing on their face 4S, 900 names-G 600
commissioned officers and $4,000 non
commissioned officers and privates.
The United States military author
tiles make no attempt to reconcile the
1000 non commissioned officers and
privates indicated by these rolls with
the 1920 given in the estimates pre-.
pared under the direction Of the pro-
vincial governors.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
OLD APPOINTEES TO RETURN.

Secretary of State Decides That Former
Consuls WIN Go to Spain.
The secretary of state has decided
to return to their posts in Spain the
United States consuls who were
obliged to leave on account of the war.
Two of these officers Consul II. w.
Bowen at Barcelona and Richard NJ.
Bartleman Mt Malaga-are now in
New York. The third. Howell
Carroll, consul at Cadiz--is now at
Gibraltar. The department has de-
termined that they shall all be retained
in the consular service, there being no
evidence of any personal i'll feeling
incurred by them.
The sub-consular officers mostly re-
mained in Spain throughout the war
and were undisturbed, some even con-
tinring to discharge q part of their
official duties. They will also be con-
tinued in the service.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
PORTER MAY RESIGN.

Presidents Private Secretary Ia Broken
Down Under Strain Of Arduous Duties.
a story to the effect that the resig-
nation of John Addison Porter, secre-
tary &c the president, was in the hands
of Mckinley to take effect at the lat
ter's convenience, is officially denied
at the white house.
Whilo tue resignation has not been
rendered, it would surprise no one in
Washington if Mr.. Porter should re-
linquish his position at any time. He
broke down under the strain of the
arduous duties he has performed since
the advent of the present administra-
ton, and for over three weeks has
been confined by nervous prostration.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
CJLoRED PROFESSOR SPOKE.

Booker Washington Talked af His Races
Future Hefore Patria Club.
Booker +. Washington was the guest
of the Patria Club at its annual meet
ing at New York Friday night and in
The course of an address said:
"Object lessons that shall bring the
southern white man into daily, visible
tungible contact with the benefits Of
negro education will go further in the
solution Of political problems than all
of the mere abstract argument and
theories than can be evolved from the
human brain. In proportion as the
negro learns to do something as we'll
or better than white man he will find
his place in our economic and political
life, and his place, like that of every
being possessing real worth, will be
that of man, for it is not our duty to
set metes and bounds upon the aspi-
rations and ambitions of my individ-
ual or race, but it is our duty to see
that the foundation is wisely and firm
the ownership Of the soil, the indus
tries, the dramatic arts of country,
in intelligence and religion and in the
confidence of the people among whom
it lives, is the race that will win, re-
gardless OF all temporary makeshifts,
obstacles and discouragements.
"We in this generation of the south
must lay. the foundation for those that
are to come. I would not advocate
that the end of every negro's educa-
tion should be the ownership of prop
erty, skill in agriculture, mechanical
and industrial arts, but would, with
all the emphasis of my soul, remind
my race over and over again that if
we Of this generation lay the founda-
tion principles we'll in these. our
children and children's children will
find through them the surest way to
recognition and success in arts, letters
and craftsmanship. Then will the
sacred story repeat itself. The ain
descended, the foods came and the
winds blew and it fell not, for it was
founded upon rock"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
SHAFTER SERIOUSLY I'LL,

Cuban Fever Attack.
Major General William Shafter ar
rived Mt Buffalo, New York, Friday
at noon, accompanied 10y his personal
aid, Captain Edward II. Plummer, .;
the Tenth infantry. When nearing
Buffalo General Shafter was seized
with II severe chill, and upon his ar
rival ut the home Of Captain Plumme,
he took to bed. The post surgeon
Fort Porter was sent for and reporte,
that the general was threatened witt
recurring attack of Cuban fever
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
ELECTIONS IN SPAIN

Favorable To the Government and Indi-
cate Conf lence In Rulers.
A Madrid special says: Judging
from the returns thus far received, the
government may be expected to get
$50 out of the 41U seats. Two hundred
and forty-three ministerialists have
been elected.
Senior Sagasta has been returned by
II small majority for LIE Grone, after n
sharp contest with republican.
For the first time since 1868 Senor
Romero y Robledo failed to get q seat
Senior Emilio CASTELAR,, the distinguish
ed republican statesman, was defeated
at Murcia.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
LEES TRIBUTE TO SOLDIERS.
Issues His Last Gcnora1 Or
der In the Nature Of q valedictory.

Commander Issues His Last Gcncral Or
der In the Nature OF . valediictory.
A dispatch from Havana says: The
last general order issued by Major
General Fitzhugh Lee to his COM
mand, the Seventh army corps, is, in
part, as follows:
can order has been received which
moves the last regiment of the Seventh
army corps across the sea, to be mus
tered ont of the service OF the United
States and the ranks of its organizu-
tion will be forever broken. The
record made by the officers and men,
however, will be forever preserved on
the pages of the military history in
which their country will inscribe their
deeds.
''No troops have won a greater rep
utation for discipline, drill, manly
discharge of duty, soldierly conduct
aud cheerful obedience to all orders.
"The presidents assurance that had
the war with Spain confined the
Seventh army corps would have been
selected to lead the assault on Havana
lines proves that that corps possessed
the confidence Of the commander-in-
chief of the army and navy, conf
dence shared by bis fellow country
men.
"It is gratifying, in reviewing the
careers of the corps to remember the
harmony which has existed among the
40, 900 soldiers who answered the roll
call at Tampa, Jacksonville, Savan-
nah and in Cuba, whether it were the
volunteers who afterward, Mt various
times, broke ranks and resumed the
duties Of citizenship, or the regulars,
whose standards, still flying, are now
the advance sentinels of American
progress aud civilization.
"The soldiers of the north and
south took the sunshine and storm OF
camp together and marched side by
side under one flag, in one cause and
for one country"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
CLIMATE AND HEALTH GOOD.

Consul Williams Denies Statements About
the Philippine Islands.
The state department has published
report from United States Consul
Williams at Manila, in which he re-
flutes the statements regarding the
health and climate of the Philippines.
During the last year, he says, he
heard of no temperature in the islands
below 81 degrees and none above 95
degrees in the sun. The city of Ma
Mia is swept by sea breezes and has
an abundant and good water supply.
The death rate is small and with
proper care one may be entiI ely
healthy.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
TEXAS Is AFTER TRUSTS.

A Bill Similar to Arkansas Measure is In
troduced in legislature.
The anti-pool trust or corporation
trust bill was introduced in the Texas
senate Friday morning by Senator
Davidson.
The bill follows the Arkansas anti
trust law closely and will undoubted-
ly be passed by the present legislature.
The bill is considered the most dras-
tic ever introduced into a Texas legis-
lature, but coming at the time it does
it will receive the heartiest support.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
MORGAN FAyORS PARTITION.

Senator Says That Ia the Only Way to Set
tie Samoan Muddie.
A special from Washington says:
Senator John Il. Morgan, of Alabama,
a leading member of the foreign rela-
tions committee, when asked for an
expression on the Samoan problem,
said:
"There is but one permanent solu-
tion of the Samoan question. That is
a partition of the island by the three
great powers which have by common
desire just formed commission to
reconcile the differences between
themselves and the native Samoans. "
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
BRYAN SPEAKS AT SCHENECTADY.

Talks TO n Big Audience On Much the
Same Line AZ Banquet speech.
William j. Bryan arrived at Sche-
nectady, N. Y, Monday afternoon. A
great crowd met him at the railroad
station. Afterwards he held recep-
tion at the Hotel Ellison.
At night he spoke at the Central
opera house to nearly 1000 people,
making much the same address as that
he delivered at the New York banquet
Saturday night.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-21
COLOMBIA GIVEN LIMIT.

Must Pay Italy tho Cerru,i Debts with
In Three Months.
4 semi official note issued mt Rome
Friday states that ut the request of
the government of the Republic of
Colombia, Italy has decided to grant a
further delay Of three months in car
rying out the conditions of her ulti-
matum, at the same time insisting that
during such interval Colombia must
provide for the complete execution of
President Cleveland's award by the
payment of the Ccrruti debts.