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Stead suggests, could Y q enter ar
American union. except after q series OF
disasters rendering separate existence
The paper considers n
kind Of an Anglo-American federation
unlikely, owing to h Briton's
Unsuitable love Of caste. which led Cob
den to insist that Englishmen were aris-
.tocrats rather han democrats. For the
rest it ~confesses the enormous influence
which the United States will WELD over
the British colonies. and that a ma
IJority Of the Irishmen would vote for
federation with the United States"
This is not the only admission Of the
kind that has appeared within the last
six month While a concession has
been made by n or more writer's be-
iyond seas as to the great commercial
supremacy Of the United States. other
able writer's have been less favorable to
that view. Commercially this country
has made immense strides within a de-
lcade. but it has not made real progress
lin government. It has made serious de-
lpartures that are damaging, n the
profoundest thinkers are not moved 10
jubilation yer some governmental de-
lpartures and actions.
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We have not seer much said of the
Salvation Army that used to be so
much talked about and written about.
Whether it has grown small by degrees
Ior is still holding it's own in the United
Estates is what we do not know. Posi-
bly, 1t has widened in its influence for
good and embraces a vaster field. 1t has
really done a great work in Great Brit
Jain for lost and suffering humanity,
land at one time 1t looked as If it's vast
work would be repeated on this side Of
the Atlantic. We have seen no statis-
tics in years to show the extent of it's
Operations. We notice that it is doing
effective work in the prosperous Geor-
Igian city, Atlanta. The Journal states
lit has become a power for improving
which are hardest to reach n which
need every beneficent influence they can
possibly get. The Salvation Army in
Atlanta this year is arranging to bless
a thousand of this city's poor with sub
stantial contributions of food"
The Christmas holidays are not what
they should be in works Of beneficence.
Good will simply without deeds of char
Iity do not comfort or relieve the poor
and needy. Liberal cntributions Of
food, wood and clothing are so much
more illustrative of the true meaning OF
Christmas that wasting enough money
i'm fire crackers, ETC., and in drinks to
feed the poor for months. A dinner for
all the poor would have been a pleasant
scene for Wilmington.
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TEACH SCHOOL HISTORY.

AS many of the schools are now en-
Joying a brief Christmas holiday. it Is
probably a good time to say a few
words about teaching history IN the
schools. The teachers should teach his
tory in the true way-the philosophic
n common-sense way is TO begin at
home and then work abroad and work
back into the past. Why teach a boy
or a girl the history of the seven
ancient monarchies and leave him in
dense ignorance as to his own people
n his own state. Why teach a boy
the history of Greece and Pome and
leave him in the very blackness of
darkness as to the history Of the Eng
lish people and their descendants in
the United States. There is neither
rhyme nor reason in such an absurd
and unwise procedure.
The intelligent parents in North
Carolina should see that the history Of
the state is taught to their children.
In how many of the private school
is this done? There is. we know. a great
awakening within a few years in our
state on this subject. There is much
written now ahcut North Carolina
events and men. Many years ago we
had the pleasure Of directing the his
torical reading of several people. We
put the school History of North Caro-
lima. latest n revised edition. In
their hands. We next took in hand d
good. one volume. octave. history OF
the United States. The next in order
was Green's one-volume History of
the English People. a work of genius.
Later. one of the readers took I'D the
four-volume history 81 Green an in
comparable work. We needed a really
good. reliable. elaborate history OF
North Carolina.
Why shall northern histories be used
in North Carolina ~scnools: Is it be-
cause they are bette? Is it because
ttey are just and reliable? d. not
many of them TEEN with ~talsehords
End misstatements and hold I'D the
southern people as traitors and rebels?
Why will southern parents ai.oH heir
children to be thus infioctrinated? VIII:
dc children subjected to the views OF
urfriendly, unsound writer's. who have
no purpose or aim to tell the truth or ia
render justice? What father wishes his
children to be poisoned in their mu:is.
to be falsely taught as to The plain
facts Of history? Let the forth con-
tinue to hold up the 2outhern hnl ocs
and patriots as rebels. IS traitors If thew
llease to do so, but southern parents
should see to it that their children are
not compelled to study books IN which
elimination and Misrepresentation and
down right lying abound.
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THE ENGLISH ON AMERICAN PROG
RESS.

The English press is noticing the
pamphlet just issued by William r.
Stead, a well known journalist Of Great
Britain. He writes of the Americana
cation Of the World" He must have
been reading and accepting some Of the
high flown reviews and boastful asser-
ions Of some Of the northern newspa-
pers of both parties. II brag is the
game what a hand Uncle Samuel holds.
MIR. Stead is optimistic and sees not
only supremacy Of the United States
but the falling back of Albion to play
the part Of a secondary power. The
London News thinks he draws too wide
conclusions from too narrow premises.
1t admits, however. that Mr.. Glad
stones prophecy that the United States
would replace Great Britain as the pre-
mier commercial nation has been, on
the whole. realized, but it declares 1t to
be impossible that Great Britain, as Mr..
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BUT ONE DAYS RECORD.

The record OF crime. violence n
We took up a big daily and close to-
gether were separate articles like the
Following: A murder in Virginia over
who was the greatest general; two
workmen perish in a death trap at a re-
fnery in Pennsylvania: a IL year old
daughter by a joke, shot a young
man in Mississippi. In Massachusetts,.
Ia girl shot her father who wa5 drunk as
he was attacking her. In Texas. a ne
gro was a~ccidentlly killed. His father
fired into a crowd of negroes with a
gun and killing one n wounding two
Others. The boy is also dead. In
Chicago three white men were killed by
a crane breaking and three others were
injured. Four passengers and two train
men were injured in Ohio by a wreck
ling train. In Philadelphia one child
was burned to death and three children
Jumped from a second story window 20
sd We their lives. The neighbors caught
them in their arms. In Ohio a cashier
was Killed by an ~fncandescent lamp.
! we lAIH W dllolLeI uCiS VI liz SdiiiS
date. and find hat a race clash at
IChildersburg, Georgia, On the 26th, re-
ifulted in the death of two whites killed.
land a white boy and negro mortally
wounded. At Piketon. Ohio, six men
were fatally wounded in a great fight
at q country church. Women and child
rem leaped from windows. At San Fran
Cisco a riot occurred. 1000 soldiers O
la hand. Fifty-nine soldiers are in a
guard house and fifteen others in a po-
lice station. At Little Rock. a planter
kills his brother-in-Iaw. From Ken
lucky comes the following items Of
blood:
Middlesboro, KY, December 26.-In
a free fight last night Samuel Wells
and Henry Bass were mortally
wounded.
At Four Mile, Will Henderson was
killed by his cousin. Nathan Hendrick-
son.
On Taggarts creek, Thomas Haynes
was beaten to death with a club by
Henry Bowman.
In Pennsylvania a northern veteran
stabbed his wife and son fatally. In
Indian Territory an ARRAY resulted in
two men being shot in the stomachs.
In Maine three Italians are slain. In
Michigan. one man was killed Inc five
were hurt by a railroad accident. All
this is but one days record and gloomy
land sad it is.
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The opinion now Is that President
Roosevelt made a bad break when no
invited H. c. Payne into his cabinet.
Be IS a known co~rruptionist and lob
byist Of The first order. His fame In the
northwest is conspicuous He is IN
crusted with chicanery and trickerv Is
the report. The New York World says:
Such is the man whom President
Roosevelt has invited into his cabinet.
invited to the Postmss Generalshfp
of all places, the post where the exer-
else Of the talents by which he has be-
come notorious viii BE- most scandalous.
most detrimental to tne public interest
and most useful in building up a Sec
ond-term machine"
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GOVERNOR vANCE's WAR FIGURES.

In August 1875, Senator Vance deliv-
cred an address before the Southern
Historical Society at the famous White
Sulphur Springs, Virginia. We read
it soon after, but do not recall that we
have seen it since. 1t has been mis-
quoted often, for The Messenger, with
other newspapers, has said that Sena-
tor Vance claimed $4,000 as the num-
Der of troops North Carolina furnished
in the war. But he did not set up that
claim it seems from a copy of it that
appeared in General d. H. Hills very
useful and interesting monthly called
The Land We Love" That is, if The
Raleigh Post is correct in saying that
it. vas i'm General Hills splendid
monthly published at Charlotte" But
while saying his it states that it ap-
peared in Our Living and Our Dead"
which was Colonel S. D. Pools monthly
n edited by the writer of this editor
ial. We a not examined the num-
bers of that monthly. The address we
think appeared in the newspapers as
well. But u purpose is to gather a
few statistical figures. Senator Vance
had access to the Roster made under
his appointment, and to every other
record in the office of Governor, for he
was indeed the great ''War Governor"
in those perilous N soul-trying times.
He stated in the address, that the rec
ords OF the adjutant generals Office Of
the state show that North Carolina
sent into the service Of h confederacy
as volunteers at the outset 64,636. These
were recruited by volunteers from time
to time, 21,60S, and by conscript, 1885,
making in all 1O4,S $50 regular troops
from North Carolina in the confederate
service.
Besides there were regular troops in
the state service. 3.20S; militia on home
duty, 1852; Junior Reserves, 4,217;
Senior Reserves, $3.50; troops from
North Carolina serving in regiments OF
other states not home on u rolls, 81
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There are three new o on Dante
Just out. The literature on him Is ex-
haustless. Rev. II. f. Tozer. NJ. A, or
Oxford university, England. has A
English Commentary on Dante's Divine
Comedy" Another English book is The
New Life of Dante Alighiere,'' translat-
ed and illustrated by the late Dante
Gabriel Rossetti. Of England. y third
work is by Chas. A. Dinsmore. called
THE Teachings of Dante" We do not
know his nationality Judging from .
paragraph we have before us. taken
from his work. he is q writer OF fine
gifts and has e%loquence too. Here is a
very felicitous passage which some Of
our readers will relish:
"Only u mind OF singular beauty
could ave conceived. a Purgatory. not
hot with sulphurous flames. but heal
ing the wounded spirit with the light Of
the shimmering sea, the glories OF the
morning. the perfume Of flowers. the
touch Of angels, the living forms Of art,
and the sweet strains of music. Only
a spirit of majestic purity n love
could have thought out a Heaven. un-
stained by one line, revealing
glory upo glory until the ascending
soul is lost in the spiendor OF incom-
municable truth and the ardor Of un-
! utterable love"
Mr.. Furniss is a markedly clever Eng
lish ~artist-perhaps the greatest OF all.
He has recently published a book Of
! "reminiscences which. judging from ex-
tracts. Is readable. enjoyable. In II he
speaks of Gladstone as a study as fas-
cinating to the artist as TO the politi-
clan. and claims lat no portrait ever
drawn by pen Dr. pencil car hand down
to future generations the mysterious
subtlety in personality OF the all-power-
i.ful eader." The Grand Old Man Will
survive in his fame all detractors and
enemies He did a great and perma-
men work for the English people. MOI.
Of royalty Oh nobility.
Rev. DIR. Henry Van Dyke we admire
much. and greatly relish the delightful
and artistic boo on Tennyson We saw
q few lines by him 10 be inscribed on
some pedestal hat reads:
Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too long for those who Grieve.
Too Short for those who Rejoice:
But for those who love.
Time Is
Eternity"
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surprised in the great change IN me
when they come 10 visit me. We have
inside your Peruna our household rem
edy.'-Mrs. Mary Cook.
Congressman II. Henry Powers Of
Vermont, writes from MorfsviIe, W.:
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with success. ! can recommend IL as
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affections. "---H. Henry Powers.
Hon. John Fl. Gear, United States
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Senator Gears homo address u Du..
lington, Iowa.
Mr.. o. Fisher, 1861 Lexington avenue,
New York City, writes:
81 had catarrh and was troubled with
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Ohio.
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Queen Mary" Harold" and Beckett"
the last the most virile and
He has written more exquisite lyrics
han any English poet has written in an
hundred years. We turn to Tennyson
for a few minutes because of the opin-
ion of him by hat eminent n ordlna-
rily most sane of living English critics,
Frederic Harrison. We will quote a few
sentences from his paper on Tennyson
ia a recent volume by him. He writes
that Tennyson's religious and philo-
sephical pieces Especially In Memo
RAM the most perfect of his poems).
because his claim to rank as the su-
preme poet of the nineteenth century
must rest on this If on ANYTHING:
while a little farther on still Mr.. HarrI-
son continues: 1T is a far happier task
to turn to the more distinctly lyrical
work of Tennvson-that whereon his
permanent fame must abide" We do
not understand that the critic contra
diets himself in this. He recognizes the
great excellence of I'm Memoriam."
while conceding certain defects or
weaknesses. but he appraises his peri
ect lyrics at their true value. as unex-
cel1ed by any poet of recent times Mr..
r. T. Paget writes to The Dia in this
wise of the great poet:
I'm Memoriam" is the most perfect
Of Tennyson's poems. though it has it's
weaknesses: as a philosophical poem it
strikes the keynote Of nineteenth CEN
tury thought, and in so doing 1t places
itself in the balance against every circa-
contemporary work sharing that char
acteristic: If. ipsa facto. In Memoriam'
turns the scales, Tennyson is the poet
who. as h prophet of his day. may
claim to rank as the supreme poet OF
the nineteenth century"
Again he writes as to the worldwide
famous lyrics:
And there is also to be weighed,
| quite independently, the lyrical works
OF the poet-work whose tune is in har-
mony with the song of all time not mere
ly with the current fugue OF an epoch-si
a day. Herein is the immortality of the
poet Tennyson roven for 1t is to these
pieces that Mr.. Harrison declares lit Is
q far happier task to turn'-the woFI
wherein his permanent fame must
abide In short. not only is Tennysor
possibly the first poet OF his century
but he is a poe of all time"
- :! -
We d. not read latter-day novels. pre-
ferring the great classics. We reat
many opinions. English n American
of recent fictions-those Of the Last few
years. They are highly praised. sell b,
the tens OF thousands and thea ar
shelved perhaps forever. Now and the
We see a o so highly exalted W
watch to see results. We have afore
time copied some of the opinions. an
after a while had reason to beliey
they were exaggerated no little. an
some Of the commended books were vi
cious. impure. teeming with lubricit
and even 'narstiness" to quote Englis
pronunciation A new story by a ne
author is called 1.-The House W.Gh tn
Green Shutters" It is by George DOUG
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las. who sometime ago made an i'm
preston in England by The Weir OF
Hermiston." We do not suppose we
would ever desire to cad his latest. as
we see it mentioned by both the Lon
don Times and 1.-The Spectator" that
his masters are Zola and Balzac,'
two French novelists we cannot endure.
although they have some remarkable
gifts, and the latter is now run as
"the greatest novelist who ever lived"
The opinion of London literary journal
lists is that the work is one of origi-
nality and power. We will await far
Their discussion. Possibly some critic of
true insight and force will yet use his
dissecting blade upon it
= = =
A gentleman at Southport several
weeks ago wrote to us tnQuiring the
name of the book on South Africa that
a regarded as the best of it's kind
We are able to give it here. 1t is en-
titled With Bobs' and Kruger" and Is
by Frederick w. Unger- war CORE
spondent Of the London Daily Express.
Illustrated with more than $50 half
tones from the authors own phota-
graphs in the field, n the price is 81.
Northern papers aud it. It is spoken
Of as unbiased. vivid. entertaining, and
truthful. The New York Commercial
Advertiser says that fer stirring mar
rative. keen interest and truthful detail
it is the most distinctive book that has
as yet been published concerning the
! war in South Africa"
:. = -
Let US gather here a few literary
notes. One of the very distinctive fea-
lures Of the last three years is the re-
print Of the works Of English writer's OF
the last century and other centuries.
We recall that a quarter of a century
& a nov entitled Dorothy Fox" in
terested US. It was clean and engaging.
1t was by Miss Louisa Parr. It is just
re-issued. George E1iots little master
piece. "Silas Mariner" is out In ar
edition edited by Professor Carroll L
Maxey. We are quite disposed to re
gard IL as the best novel of its length
in our language There is a new edi.
tioa Of h novels of the Bronte Sis.
tiers. including a volume OF poems b.
these very gifted ome It is knoxI
as the Temple edition, is CAREFUL,
edited and in twelve volumes. A new
edition of the works Of Edward FItz
Gerald in seven volumes is announced
1t has a full biography and introduc
tory matter by Mr.. George Benthan
n a preface by Mr.. Edmund Gosse
He was a writer of rather unique quail
". and came to his own years after b
had died. He was but little known, nc
much read while living, blu all men
culture know Of him now and read som
Of his productions, posthumous an
others He and Tennyson were grea
friends The poet addressed one c
more little poems to him. He Wa
much of a hermit and lived far froI
the madding crowds ignoble sway.
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Miss Hattie Becker, secretary of the
"a short time ago I got my feet wet,
and a cold settled on my lungs which
nothing seemed to remove. Our family
physician tried extracts, powders and
pills, but I kept getting worse until my
brother advised me to try Peruna and
purchased a bottle for me.
ait acted like a charm and in a week I
was like my old self once more; in factI
felt stronger and had & better appetite
than I have ever had before. Peruna
will have a welcome place in I'll medi-
cine chest, rs the whole fcmily believes
In it."-Hattie Becker.
Peruna Is ALI internal remedy a
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Miss Blanche Myers, SO Penn street., Kan>as city, do, a society belle OF la
city writes:
"DurirC eGch of the past four seasons I have caught q severe
cold wien suddenly chilled after an evening party, and a most un-
pleasant cqt2rrh lasting for several weeks would be the result
"La2E winter my brother advised me to try Peruns, a S one of
his CLIO friends had been cured of Bad case of catarrh by using it.
He procured me a bottle and i was much pleased TO find that one
bottle cured me. shall not dread colds any more so long as I can
procure PeruHa, "--MLSS BLANCHE MYERS.
Peruna curesc atarrh wherever located, with the same surety and promptncss
There are n substitutes for Peruna
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was attacked with
In grippe, which
left m Q with
q liver
trouble. gave up
hope of ever re-
covering. Peruna
me. / feel
young again, and
am gaining in flesh.
as I was very
e maciated d. My
au nls1l-an ara
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MANY THOUSANDS CURED OF CATARRH.


Mrs. Mary Cook, Pittsford, NY, also
says:
az was not very well for six years,
paid many doctor bills, but never i'm
proved very much. Two years ago I
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scientific remedy for catarrh. 1t cures
catarrh wherever located. Its cures last.
waste.
By saving the mucus it cnriches the
blood.
By cleansing the mucous membranes
it preserves the vital forces.
y constant drain Of mucus from the
system is known as systemic catarrL-
This may occur from any organ OF the
BODY.
Peruna stops this waste by curing
the catarrhal condition Of the mucous
membrane, no matter which organ may
be affected. Peruna cures catarrh wher-
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
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FARTHER

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 81. 1901.
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They are superior to any purchased
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Commencing from June 1, we will sell
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