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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17
The Imperialist Religion.
('rom the Concord On. H. People and
Patriot
THE CREED.

II FREED.
Article /. / believe in keeping up the
old war taxes to prevent trade with
Europe, and the new war taxes to force
trade with Asia.
Article ,. l believe in excluding I'M
educated Europeans who wish to enter
our territory, and in including uneducated
Asiatics who wish to keep out.
Article ,. | believe in home rule for
ireland, but in alien rule for the Spanish
islands.
Article 4. l believe that the blacks have
a right to govern themselves, but that
whites and blacks have a right to gov
ern browns.
Article 5. | believe in the Monroe doc
trine which forbids Europe to interfere
with self-government in America, but
permits America to interfere with self
government in Asia.
Article 6. | believe thai governments
get their Just powers from the consent of
the governed in America, but from con-
tempt for the governed in Asia.
Article Z. | believe that taxation with
out representation is tyranny when APP
piled to us, but philanthropy when applied
by US.
Article s. | believe that forcibIc annex
alton is criminal aggression, but that pay
ment to non-owners makes it benevolent
assimilation.
Article 8. | believe that militarism and
foreign broils strengthen despotism
abroad. but republicanism at home.
Article 10. I believe that American poll
jcies have made a little America, but that
European policies will make a greater
America.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
/. Thou shalt have no other Gods be-
fore me and only gold above me.
?. Thou shalt net worship any craven
image except on bank notes.
>. Thou shalt not take the name of the
Lord thy God in vain, but shalt use it
proftably to sanctify thy greed.
4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy. On the seventh day thou shalt
DO no labor, but thy man servant and thy
maid servant, thy sweat shops and all
that fills thy purse must be kept going.
;. Honor thy father and thy mother,
but scorn the fathers OF thy country.
6. Thou shalt not kill except to extend.
trade.
{. Thou shalt not commit adultery, but
may enter entangling alliances.
8. Thou shalt not steal, but shalt an
mex.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness,
but censor the dispatches.
10. Thou shalt not covet, but grab
'LEETLE BREECHES' At COURT.
The st. Louis POSt-Dispatch has a
good cartoon of John Hay, dressed up a
la the English dude. bowling and scrap
ing before the throne on which the Queen
sits, and it adds this poem:
When Hay wrote Little Breches,'
Which has so famous grown,
Did he ever think | wonder,
OF .~'loafing around the throne
Did he ever dream, / wonder.
That with knickerbOckered monkeys
He would bow to Vic, with the other
Administration fiunkeys?
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17
RED BLOOD AM BLUE by Harrison
Robertson: Charles Scribners Sons. New

TNC'S \ NOid'
RED BLOOD AND BLUE by Harrison
Robertson: Charles Scribners Sons, New
York. Price $1.5O.
The scene of this story is laid in East
Tennessee, the boyhood home of the au-
thor. who is associate editor CT the Louis
vile Courier Journal. The hero is a chiv-
alrous and honorable young man, with
out advantages, whose father had ''skiD-
ped the country" after defrauding many
people. The youth Overcomes his struggles
pays oft all who lost money through his
Iather's dishonesty, and finally wins the
heart of the girl he loved, being the
successful rival of her blue-blooded sutton,
who possesses those virtues that ought
to belong to all who are designated as
blue-blood.' The career of both young
men are strongly put, and the reader is
introduced to the social distinctions which
obtain in the locality where the charac-
ters live. The heroine is one of the finest
women in modern tictions, incomparably
superior to Janice Meredith and the
women of most latter day novels. The
noVelIStS of today. generally, give us a
gushing or q fickle woman, Wanting in
strength OF mine and purpose. SO few
succeed III drawing Il pen picture Of the
best type of women that Mr.. RObertson-s
success is the more notable. After all.
the true test of the good novelist is:
What sort Of woman does he make his
heroine? BY that test Mr.. Robertson
would take high rank. The book holds
the interest from cover to cover, an in
geniOus plot, dealing with the career of
each of the men as soldiers and as citi-
zen. as we'll as with their rivalry for the
favor of the heroine being so absorbing
that you do not wish to lay down the
book, until you have seen how it will turn
out.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17

FIELD. FOREST AND WAYSIDE FLOW
ERS hv NJ" ~. (E. NJ. Hardingcl.
Crown 500. cloth decorated, Illustrated.
Price $1.50.
The chapters CT this book are SO ar
ranged as to follow the waxing and wan
ing OF plant life during an average season.
For he busy reader who seeks a practi-
cal. rather than a technical knowledge
of our common flowers and grasses, it is
the best work we have seen.
THE CARDINALS MUSKETEER by NJ.
INLAY Taylor, Publishers, \. G.. SIC
Clure and Co. Chicago.
In this year of the Paris Exposition.
when the thoughts of many are being
turned to France, this story, the scene
of which are laid in France, in Richelieu's
time, will nave a timely interest. Il is
one of Miss Taylor's best romanceS. and
has about it the atmosphere of chivalry
and romance. The love story is of abb
sorbing interest.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17

Both the January and February st.
Nicholas are out of print, the large sale
OF the two numbers being attributed to
the popularity OF the new departments,
Mature and Science" and The st, Mich
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17

EN-President CleveIand's two adj
dresses on the Independence Of the
Executive" at Princeton. April 9th
and 10th. will be notable contributions
to political literature. They WI. APP
in authoritative form only in the
June and July issues Of the Atlantic
Monthly. fully copyrighted by IIough-
ton. Miftiin 4 Company.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17

THE QUEENS GARDEN" by Mrs. NJ.
T.. NJ. Davis, Publishers: HOughton.
Niffin and Company, Boston Price $1.25.
The scene of this charming little story
is the French Quarter in New Orleans,
at the time of the epidemic of yellow
fever. 1t is a story of the love of two
young people. The young man is a re-
porter, who it is said helped to turn the
world over every night" 1t is a good
tory we'll told.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17
RESURRECTION.
NEW LIFE.

The air is astir with the breath of spring,
The earth is a-bloom with flowers.
And life is q new and beautiful thing
In this sad old world OF ours.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17
LOVE.

II earthly JOY be such as this.
What must the heavenly be
Such foretaste OF a higher bliss
Is wonderful 10 me.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17
SANDBURRS by Alfred Henry Lewis, AL

SANDBURRS by Alfred Henry Lewis, al
thor of "Wolfville" Publishers, Freder-
lex A. Stokes Company, New York.
This is a collection Of Mr.. Lewis's char
acteristic sketches that have appeared
in the newspapers in the past two year.
There are half a dozen "Wolfvil1e" stories
where we meet our old friends Doc
Peets,'' Jack Enright" and others, and
there is a series of "Annals of the Bend, "
in which we are introduced to the shades
and shadows of some lower grades OF New
York life. There are all a number of
character sketches in the inimitable style
that has made Alfred Henry Lewis a
popular favorite. He has an original
literary style that is as delightful and
piquant as it is fresh and original. 1t
will be as popular as "Wolfville" and is
already in it's second edition.
PIKE AND CUTLAS, Hero Tales of our
Navy, written and illustrated by Geo.
Gibbs; Publishers j.. B.. Lippincott
Company; Philadelphia.
This book. dedicated ito the cadets Of
the United States Naval Academy, Past,
Present and Future" is a series of charm
ing tales of the navy and naval heroes
from jon Paul Jones to Dewey, Schley,
Sampson, Hobson and Bagley. 1t is writ
ten in a manner that will attract boys
and men alike and is beautifully and pro-
fusely illustrated.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14
SECRETARY HAY
CARRIES HIS POINT

Berlin. Dec. lit is now tiawnlng
upon the German press and public
that Mr.. Hay, the American secretary
of state, has secured an Out-and- out
diplomatic victory in obliging the pow
ers, Germany included, to yield to his
arguments in favor of more moderate
terms in the preliminary joint note to
the Chinese peace plenipOtentiaries.
This clearly defined defeat is especial.
ly bitter here, because Emperor Will
liam had set his heart on imposing
the most humiliating conditions upon
the Chinese and thus emphasizing
Germany's power in their eyes.
The war office has received the fol
lowing from Count Won Waldersee,
dated Pekin. Dec. 9th:
THE international committee for the
administration of Pekin will meet to-
morrow under the presidency of Colo
mel Baron Gayl.
THE Guend6ll column. which was
left at Shanhai Kwan, reached the
district of Yuentinetsin, five days
march east of Pekin, December 7th
and is now on its way back to the
capital
He telegraphs from Pekin under
date of December Sth that the two
detachments of troops from Tien Tsin.
commanded by Colonel Lohrscheidt
and Major Falkenheyn, which had
been proceeding against cOnsidera-
ble force of Chinese regulars. who had
taken up a position at Esang- Chou.
five kilometers southwark of Tien
Tsin. have occupied the place without
opposition and that the columns are
returning to Tien Tsin.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14
SANTA FE TELEGRAPH
OPERATORS STRIKE

Topeka. Kan, Dec. ia statement
was issued from the general superin-
tendents office last night, giving the
number of striking men at 4O2, distrib-
uted as follows:
On Chicago division. 81 out of 141;
Eastern division, 6 out of 1O5; Okla
homa division, % out of 81; Middle di-
vision (main line and Hutchinson
brancM. "a out of GA: Western divi-
sion. GG out of 76; New Mexico, 20 out
of 81; Rio Grande, 3 out of %; South
ern Kansas. of Texas. 2 out of 6; Pan
Handle (main line), q out of Is: South
ern Kansas (main line and Girard
brancM. II out of II.
The figures given out by the strikers
materially differ from the above. l..
c. Bagley local chairman of the Q. r.
r., made the following statement:
I'VE have information that all the
regular operators in the Chicago
division are out, with only six non
union men at work. Other orgauiza-
tions here are said to be willing to Join
in.
"On the Eastern division. out of 95
we have 4S. Here is where II fake or.
der was issued. and our men. there
fore. have not become convinced of
our correct position.
''rhe Oklahoma division is solid. with
all out but two.
"On the Western division. 70 out of
16 are out.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14
Anti-Polygsmy Amendment.

Washington. Dec. 1O.-In view of the
movement for the suppression of
polygamy and for uniform marriage
and divorce laws. Chairman Ray of
the House committee Oh judiciary.
having charge of this legislation. has
written letter to those interested in
the movement. in which he says:
For many years | have favored an
amendment to the constitution uu,
thoriZing Congress to enac; uniform
laws regulating marriage and divorce.
which would cover polygnmy. An
amendment to the constitution merely
prohibiting polygamy would amour, to
but little. An amendment allowing
Congress to pass laws Furnishing
polygamy would apply TO those locali-
ties where polygamy is practiced: that
is. il would enable Congress 10 pass
laws prohibiting and Furnishing polyg-
amy in Utah and one or two other To-
calitiss where IL is practiccd. and al
low prosecutions in the United States
courts. Every state has full power to
prohibit and punish polygamy. and rv-
cry state has anti-polygamy laws. Utal,
has such law. The main trouble is
in the enforcement of it,"
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14
An English View.

London. Dee. 1O.-"Reliable advices
from Manila show that the position of
the Americans is becoming increasing
ly hopeless" says the Hong Kong cor
respondent to the Daily Mail.
Money is freely subscribed TO pur-
chase arms and ammunition that are
imported for the insurgents. The
Americans will never capture the real
ronirabnnd running vessels. While in
order to tiattcr the official view that
trade is llourishing goods are permitted
to be freely imported to Manila. they
are distributed from that point to the
Insurgents.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14
LABOR COMMISSIONERS REPORT
SHOWS WAGES in COLORADO

Denver, Colo, Dec 11.-Common la
borers in Colorado during an average
year receive less than dollar Il day
in payment for their work. This is
one of the scores Of interesting facts
shown by careful study of the figures
given in the biennial report of the
state labor commissioner. James L.
Smith, the state labor commissioner,
has compiled tables of labor statistics
on more exhaustive and elaborate
scale than ever before attempted in
the state.
In the letter of transmissal of this
report Commissioner Smith thanks the
press of Denver and the state for ma
terlally aiding him in his work. He
recommends many reforms in labor
legislation, suggesting among others
the need of compulsory arbitration, an
eight-hOur law that will be effective,
the power of the state labor commits
sioner to proceed in court at the eX-
pense of the state to collect the debts
owed labor by capital, which. in i'll
dividual instances, laborers are often
deprived of because they have no
means at their disposal with which to
sue. even when their claims are Just.
The tables show that one-fourth of
the wage earners from whom statistics
have been obtained are foreign born;
that of the hundreds from whom in
formation has been secured. 80 have
occupations other than the ones which
they are now following: that the av-
erage time at the work they are now
doing is 14.39 years.
Lawyers and physicians have been
left out of the tables, as they are not
wage earners" in the common accepta-
ti0n Of the word. He, however, in
cludes ministers in his table. In the
column of the annual earnings the 10.
comotive engineers lead with an an
nal income of S1,545. Immediately fol-
lowing them may be found the laborers
who have an annual average of 1851 .33:3
or less than 81 per day for every day
in the year. Enough coal miners re-
ply to questions sent out in printed
form to give fair idea of their earn
ings. which average up S37O.4 40 Il year.
or Il trifie more than 81 Il day for the
entire yeear. The smelter employees
are also poorly paid class of work
ing men. according to the tables.
The average earnings of thirty differ
ent Occupations considered collectively
is SI2.24 per year. AS a monthly av-
ernge this Is $64.39. Estimating TWEEN
ty-six working days to the month the
daily wage of S2.4s appears as the av-
trage. More than three -fourths of
those who answered the lists of gues-
tons sent out by the commissioner al
most year ago are members of or
ganized labor. This is merely accident
al, as among all laborers of the state,
but about Onefourth are union mem
bers.
The average among the wage earn
ers who make reports is little over
two married to one single The aver
age size of families is 449 persons. As
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

The perfunctory manner in which
witnesses are sworn in English courts
was illustrated recently in London
court after some twenty witnesses had
given their evidence. 1t was then dis
covered that all had solemnly sworn
on and had kissed guide to the law
Of landlord and tenant The mistake
came to light only when court off,
cial saw that the supposed Bible was
much more clean than usual, and, as
. consequence, looked closely at the
book.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

A street in Chicago, not far from the
"Archey road" immortalized by Doo-
ley, has been known for twenty years
- Fake" street, in honor Of certain
business man bearing that name. The
word has come to have SO Injurious q
signiflcance Of late years that the
residents and property owners in that
neishborhood have prayed the city
authorities to give the street new
0ame.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14
To Reclaim Seepage Swamps.

The agitation to reclaim lands is
bringing forth fruit. In the office of
the secretary of state yesterday one
Of the largest irrigation companies
formed in Colorado for Il long time.
was Incorporated. 1t is organized ON
Il mutual basis. To reclaim the
swamp lands of Weld county is the
principal object of this new COMPANY
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

against the average income of $64.3O
per month the average cost of living is
$3.50, showing that the average wage
Garner can save in Colorado less than
$50 year unless he reduces his ex-
penses. In few instances in the ia
bles the average cost of living is in ad-
vance of the apparent income. Foot
notes explain that in these cases the
report is to the effect that more than
the difference is made up by the earn
ings of wife or children. In answer to
the question, Are you saving money!
only GIo make responses. and Of this
number only 236 say anything else but
no This 236 includes those who an
swer. "A little" or livery little"
Just sixty-cight per cent. of those
who sent in replies report that the
cost of living has increased since 1886
1897 and five report the cost Of living
less than for the years named. Those
who claim an increase in expenses esti-
mate this increase variOusly at from
five to thirty per cent. AS against this
overwhelming majority report as to the
increased cost of keeping alive 1877 re-
port wages increased. twenty-nine say
wages have decreased and the rest
either say nothing or report that wages
are practically the same. A fraction
over eighteen per cent. report that they
own their homes and that they are un-
mOrtgaged.
Here are some Of the statistics as to
the relative wages of those in different
walks in life:
BARRIERS, s15.65 per week; black
swiths. 80 per months: bookkeep-
ers. S1O4.5O per month: bricklayers.
A.15 per day; cooks, $15.93 per month;
clerks and statesmen, $1O.23 per week;
carpenters $3O7 per day and $67a.47
per year: drug clerks, $71.65 per
month; stationary engineers, $S38.40
per year: locomotive engineers. 81 ,545
per year; printers. $19.3S per week:
painters and paper hangers. 1892 per
day: plumbers, $742.69 per year: rail-
road tiremen, xS3SS6 per year: steno-
graphers and typewriters, $7tI3.25 per
year: smeltermen. $493.27 per year;
school teachers, S493.2O per year: tele-
graph operators. $S26.S5 per year; wait
ers. $685. per week and S3S6.12 per
year; drivers of delivery wagons, $3.50
per week: musicians, $1,277.50 per
year: clergymen. $1,000 per year: ser
want girls. $500 per Year: cowboys. $50
per month; shOemakers, $500 per year.
Over twenty-five other vocations are
and tabled. with earnings
and other information. even to the de-
tails of how much rent is paid by the =
average wage-earning householder who
pays any rent ut all. The tables and
information are as near
complete as could be secured by ir-
duouS effort. and Labor Commissioner
Smith says that he will have the report
in book form in time for the New
Years" editions The consideration Of
convict labor forms one of the most
interesting chapters in the volume.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14
Twenty-one persons died in Massa.

Twenty-one persons died in Massa-
chusetts last year aged 100 years or
more. Sixteen of the twenty-one were
women-three of the sixteen never
having been married. Eight Of the
twenty one were born in ireland, three
In Canada and three in other foreign
countries-leAving seven native-born.
six Of whom were OF Massachusetts ma
tivity. The Oldest was two months
over LOG years.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

known as the New Sand Creek Lateral
Irrigation Company. The plan for de
vclopment set forth in the incorpora-
tion papers is to reclaim the wet lands
of the county by carrying away the
surface and underground waters. The
management for the convenience of it's
stockholders and patrons will construct
telephone system of its own
bitches. latel7ls and feeders are pro-
vded for and work will be commenced
al once to improve property already in
the hands of the company. The mana
gers are Solomon Hopkins. August G.
Boyle. Mary T.. Ollie. Pearl A. BarthOl-
omew, +. a. Ollie. ID. II. Smith. A. Il.
Knight ana l.. A. Knight:-Denvcr Re
publican.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

: Christmas trees are already being
cut aown In Washington county, Me-.
and the seasons output from that Sec
don will amount to 400 car loads, with
$50 punches to car. Each bunch
consists Of from two to six trees. The
trees are sent to New York and Bos
ton, where they will retail for about
ten times as much as they are worth
on board the cars in Maine
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

When new postoffice is to be named
tho people Of the neighborhood have
the right to choose its name. There
are Schleys, Roosevslts and Funstons
all over the country. Now some Vir-
Etnians have named their postofice
Tuan, in honor Of the anti-foreign
Chinese prince. and the name has to
stand.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

There is one comfort in the COM
Ing on Of cold weather. Statistics In
dicate that outbreaks Of insanity are
most frequent In the hot season, and
that suicides in the summer months as
compared with the winter months are
~ three to two. Whence it would
appear that even our reason and our
love Of life are best kept on ice.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

Clark Of Montana IL going to make
another effort to obtain seat in the
United States senate. As far a. the
legislature Of Montana is concerned,
Clark's case ID already won. A ma
5ority Of the members of that body
arc Of Clark's choosing, and they will
undoubtedly give him a set Of creden-
dals to carry to Washington.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

Absolute amnesty has been granted
ay the Peruvian legislature to all per-
sons who may have been concerned in
any political transgression or offenses
with the right to fill public offices. All
political prisoners confined at Lima
have bsen set at liberty,
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

A&tsr being out 102 hours and fall
Ag TO reach a decision jury in scran-
ton. Pa. was discharged. Later empty
whisky bottles were discovered in the
Jury room.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

Tho reason for the advance In prices
= BY no means complicated. The Chi
cago packers simply feel that they
AsSd the money.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

A Montreal priest. who has recently
returned from Rome, says that the
Pope is steadily growing weaker.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14
The Lean Meat Hog.

In the production of the lean-meat
hog which the market now seems to
want but is not yet willing to pay for
there appears to be difference be-
tween the heredity and environment
people. The one side argues that to
produce the bacon hog Il breed must
be secured that has the desired con-
formation and lenn-mcat making quail
ity, while the other contends that any
breed will make the bacon hog # it
is fed right. 1t is just possible in this
case as in many others. that the truth
lies between the two extremes and
that for immediate results both hered-
ity and feeding are essential. 4 corn.
fed breed will not at once irop the
characteristics it owes to feeding upon
Il change being made to an alfalfa
diet. In making animals what they
are hercdity is the most rapidly acting
force but environment is the most pow
crful onc.-Ficld and Farm.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-12-14

Maude Adams has a new play upon
which the New York dramatic critics
ars unable to agree She il fortunate
woman.
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