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firm and strong. But wisdom has been
at b helm when great nations were
in the saddle. The SUN in an 9instruc-
tive historic shows this. 1t
says for instance:
This was seen when Russia pressed
upon Afghanistan at Penjdeh and
more recently at Talienwan, in Man.
cnuria; when Germany gobbled up
large British interests in East, West
and Southwest Africas, and when
France absorbed Tunis, Madagascar.
part Of Siam and a large tract on the
Upper Niger. French pressure and
British yielding were so continuous that
france was ultimately tempted into
the blunder Of Fashoda, from which IL
was learned at Paris hat pressure
might go too far. The British govern
ment Is accordingly to blame for the
growth OF h idea that in South Africa,
as elsewhere, the British would retire
II a bold front were made, rather than
fight.
If the territorial dominions Of the
king are imperiiIed, this is not the first
time, az Lord Salisbury would have US
believe, but the twentieth time in recent
years. A different rule, in short, is
applied to Mr.. Kruger from that which
was applied to Others"
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GOOD AND BAD.

Nebraska is so filed with foreign
ers it is going into the Spanish bull
fighting business. Progress,
The paragrapher of the Washington
Post notes that Fighting Bob" Evans
i,as written another magazine article,
in which he manages to ignore some
Of the gentlemen who have done the
fighting"
Mr.. Jos. Oil. the excellent staff cor
respondent of the Atlanta Constitution,
has started for a trip around the world.
He will make a study of China. Japan
the Philippines, etc. He is equipped
with letters from high officials.
The idea grows Of a new Boxer move
ment in China. Prince Tuan is report
ed as preparing to lead the outbreak.
He is heir apparent to the throne with
no armies to oppose. China will be a
hot place for foreigners.
There are 900 cases of genuine lep-
rosy in the United States. They should
be exiled or isolated.
The hot air wave in Chicago on 10th
beat the record. 1t was the highest
temperature n the most sitting heat
ever experienced there. Doors and
were closed against the insup-
portable zephyr. Similar conditions are
reported from several states beyond
Mississippi.
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tive geological specimens Of not one
period or stratum. but Of many periods
and stratas. So do not jump at . con-
clusfon- We can show how many al
legged discoveries have come to grief.
Time Is \ greaS curer OF isms and
ologies and prophecies. The ape-man
reported Is to be found in Africa may
be there. but that may completely fail
as TO the anxiously sought missing
link" A mar named Johnston says he
has discovered n Uganda a race of ape
like men not heretofore known. II
may turn with THU discovery "a
with some others as { o the fateful
missing link" Wait and see and
learn The Baltimore Sun noting the
report OF Mr.. Johnston. intelligently
says:
The lowest grades Of mankind nave
nltherto been found to be much more
closely related TO the highest type or
than to the highest type OF an
imai A wide i~nterval,in fact lies between
mar n the monkey, and fossil re-
mains have not helped TO bridge it.
Scientists will accordingly await with
great interest specimens of the low
grade men, or high-grade apes, found
by the commissioner in the Congo for
ests. The alleged APE men" found In
the remote interior are said to differ
entirely from the pygmies discovered
by Stanley" Commissioners Johnston
has brought to London Photographic
records OF their language and music,
and We shall doubtless soon be sup
piled means OF fixing their place in the
scale"
II h alleged link were to be found
we should not accept the origin of man
as contended by leading Darwinians
who have disagreed among themselves.
The Bible is good enough authority for
The monkey progenitor is O suggest
ed remotely
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The Washington Post is in a fair way
to be classed as an anarchist. 1t wants
to know IL Ii would be contempt to al
Jude 10 Justice Gray, Brown and White
as the colored supplement- of the SUI
preme court.-Charlotte News,
Greensboro Patriot: Mrs. Mary c.
Fry, the mother of Messrs. J. w. and Il
L. Fry, of Ibis city. died yesterday near
Charlottesville. Va, where she was.
visiting. Her sons were appraised or
her illness and left on the first train
for her bedside.
Concord Standard: Sunday. as has
been noted in the Standard, the flee
dog belonging to Mr.. Jno. Propst yer
mad and Dit many dogs in the city and.
Grover Creech, the 13-year-old Sol of
Mr.. J. W. Creeck of Mill street.
New issues, of greater moment. con-
front us, and from these must we Sc
lect III material for the constructing OF
a new platform. The writer Is a great
admirer Of the Hon. w. j. Bryan. We
IN the United States. We believe him
to be an honest man, a statesman, a
patriot, and an orator of unsurpassed
accomplishments; and we have support
ed him in the past: but Mr.. Bryan has
gone off after strange gods-he is now
willing-yea. he advocates the endorse
ment of the Kansas City (pepulist)
platform, he advises that no commit
teeman be appointed by the democrats
in nation, state, county or township who
does not endorse the Kansas City plat
from. To this we misunderstanding
New Era,
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A GALLANT Sol DER AND ABLE
LAWYER GONE.

The death of ex-Judge Spier Whit
aker at Raleigh was a surprise to us.
as we a not heard of his falling
health. He was just past his Goth year.
We had known him very pleasantly for
more than thirty years, and found him
always agreeable, interesting, self-con-
tanned. He was a man of unusual
physical courage. and always stood the
test with manliness and GOODNESS. We
saw him once tried when these quail
ties came out in a very remarkable de-
gree. He entered the war as a private
and was adjutant at Appomattox. His
bravery was pronounced in war, and
Brigadier General Conner onmended
specially his excellent service in the
battle of Gravelly Hill on 18th of july.
1864, in a general order.
He resided at Enfield. Halifax noun-
ty, when we first met him. He was
hrst county solicitor. served in the leg
lsIature, in the senate. and, removing
to Raleigh. he became associated in the
practice of law with that very able
lawyer, the late John Calling. who was
for a long time associated with he
eminent Bartholomew F. Moore. He
was appointed q superior court Judge
by Governor Fowle, his political and
personal friend. He was elected by the
people later, n after serving until
1884. resigned. He distinguished him
self at the bar. and was a painstaking
as well as resourceful practitioner. In
1889 he suffered from a slight attack of
paralysis. He was a major in the
Spanish war and was attached to the
Sixth q. S. Volunteers. He was a ma
tive of Halifax county, and was born
March 18th, 1871. He was an aIumnus
OF h University OF North Carolina
He married a daughter of the late dis
tinguished Professor J. Defenders
Hooper. h Latin professor OF the uni.
versity for perhaps thirty years or
more and a granddaughter Of the sign
er of he National Declaration of In
dependence, William Hooper. who was
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A BIT OF

President Kruger was hopeful that
a change would occur in the parties in
Great Britain hat would prove very
favorable to the two Boer republics.
But it has turned out differently. The
war fever RACES hotter than it did a
few months ago. the Tories are stronger
thereby, and the liberal party appears
to be hopelessly split to pieces. The
Tories are always better e~ntrenched
when they go it blind for home poll
~cies however unfortunate or Ubiquitous
1t was not so in Queen Anne's day,
but it was so in Napoleonic days, and
it has been so in the South African
troubles. Why it is so imperatively
necessary for Britain to own and hold
the Dutch republics is rather a mystery
than otherwise. Why there is danger
to British supremacy unless two hand
fuls of Dutchmen are conquered and
put in chains, is beyond the ken OF all
but British statesmen of the Tory
stripe. The Philadelphia Record says
of the present situation that "a vast
majority of the British people believe
that the empire would be imperiled I'M
less South Africa should be subjected
unquestionably to British supremacy.
The Cape region is regarded as the
keystone Of the arch OF Britannia do
minion."
Great Britain is a very great power
with very great During the
war with Napoleon its war debt in
creased 49, 900. 100000. and. as the New
York Fyening Post states that meth
er the national credit nor the national
were exhausted in 1875 1t
is far sreater now and could stand a
much vaster debt than that. The Bal
timore Sun commenting on the views
of the New York paper remarks that
If regards the war in South Africa not
as a petty fight about nothing in par
ticular, but as England's answer TO theI
question whether she would fight TO
keep her empire. 1t is a pity that the
two republic should be sacrificed In an
swering h question
TT is a fact that Britain has had mucnI
of caution and conciliation in its policy
in the last hundred years since IL sol
unwisely and needlessly lost the Inir-
teen American colonies by It's course
it has been much more considerable anu
forbearing in it's dealings with It's own
colonies as with great powers that LOOK
ed strong and willing to assert tnem-
selves. It las had many signs OF trou-
BILE and now and then a real outbreak
as in ireland and India. but has stoooi
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OF SUBSCRIPTION.
MARK HANNA

Here IS something wild enough to
amaze an honest man. The Chicago
Journal that pretends to be an "inde-
that really there is no reason why Mark
Hanna should not make a frst-rate
president. Think Of that, and then
smile II you can. The mo- leprous
political demagogue of the republican
party-flled with political lepers-rich-
ly qualified to make a president of the
first rank. Can stupidity, absurity,
f~nfatuation go farther than that? He
has impudence, immense "cheek," great
holiness and eq~uanimity, and is the
readiest tool of his party magnates,
and knows how to bleed heavily the
-hesitating plutocrats in election times
nj make sure the election of the re-.
ready, c~ool-headed, a most deliberate
sooundrel without honor or conscience,
as his career shows as a party boss of
h greatest magnitude. He is covered
with slime. n is a fit companion for
Quay and such fellows of the baser
sort" What Hanna was before he ap-
peared on the arena OF national politics
is not known outside Of Ohio. He was
probably vicious and low according tol
circumstances and opportunities. If he
was ever a man of elevation of views
n III principles he has lost themI
all. With him. no doubt, whatever
of goodness and purity he once claimed
rs gone glimmering." 1t may be that
n is of that numbe who never seek
fo. aid out of themselves" But if so, it
L ~ De said that his best gifts werel
Ret and
1.-The mind growing once corrupt,
They turn to vicious FORMS, ten times
more ugly,
Than ever they were fair"
Edmund Burke said of his times,
that the age unquestionably produces
daring profligates and insidious hypo-
critics. It Is so now. 1t is true that
eve among politicians homo may be
''pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the
times,' but fellows like Hanna whether
senators or presidents, will never be so
new garnished' as to deceive their
friends, and what is far more Important
their countrymen at large. One more
opinion of the Chicago "indepen-
dent, newspaper: And in the face OF
it all, in spite of unreasoning and un-
reasonable prejudice, he has earned the
respect of thoughtful, fairminded peo-
The people who give respect" TO
Marx Hanna are ''tarred with the same
~1sticI.." and their moral perceptions are
as blinded as those of the man they
respect"
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THE SPIRI OF TRUE MANHOOD.

Material prosperity however great, is
no sure sign of granduer and greatness,
or of a long life to go sounding down
the ages. There is some hin greater
and higher than money getting, howev-
er vast the greed and splendid the ma
terial forces. The grandeur Of q nation
consists in other things h mere
money getting, however desirable that
article may be to meet the human ne
cessities and to satisfy human ambition.
Just what material progress and power
mean can be learned from a careful
study of the history Of nations and of
lost empires. A nation may be immense
in warships as Great Britain is and fl
nally go into decay. All careful stu
dents of Macaulay will remember his
unique n Incompatible figure OF the
solitary fisherman on the banks Of the
river Thames where London is without
an inhabitant, a waste and the scene of
complete desolation. The great histor-
ian, had studied the histories of the
world and knew their changing fortunes
and final fate. A s~colarly and reflective
lawyer in Washington City, Mr.. Leigh
Robinson, in his able address at the
University of Virginia in June 1900, had
this among many other impressive pas
sages:
What is the utmost to be accomp-
llshed by material triumph, fortified by
material power, the great continent of
ASA, with no end of detail, Celebrates.
There the art of making the great host
or mankind minister to the selfishness
OF a few a widest scope. On the 9TH
er hand, from those small states of Eu-
rope which fought the battle of man.
KIND with Asia proceeded a grandeur of
spirit which is sovereign today. AS the
beauty of their purest monuments is
the grace with which each member of
their architecture combines in simple
and majestic whole, SO it was with the
fabric of the Grecian states. Asiatic
empire was brought face to face with
the moral unity of freedom. In this un-
oylng light Of genius with power, of
freedom with conquest, we behold the
great Opposltions. Asia stands for the
the enforcement of the sensual state.
Memorable is the speech of Pericles:
Wealth We employ not for talk and os-
tentatlon, but when there is real use
Tor u That was a great saying, the
old Spartan one: 1.-THE best ramparts
are in the hearts of the citizens" The
resolution to be free was
tronger than h hosts of Xerxes. To
be slain, man after man, as those Spar |
tans were, in defence of some Their |
of truth, is to be crowned with |
an immortal wreath"
Manhood is greater, more invincible |
thant all the wealth Of power and cash. |
Empire may become colossal and tre- |
mendous in it's material resources. But
the man is greater with his promising, |
aspiring, immortal soul craving for
higher and nobler deeds and seeking for
life beyond Says Mr.. Robinson, to
quote him but once more:
They conquer at the source of all ac-
tiv1ties, ~destines, relationship conquer
On the theatre Of spirit. Those little |
states hin as GASES Of the soul in the |
great material desert. They were great |
by the spirit that was in them; the spirit |
of manhood, the spirit of freedom. the |
spirit of beauty, which vas and is beau
for ALL |
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The BIG STRIKE BEGUN

are signed as stated above. to classify
the Nonessen plant OF the American
Tin Plate Company as q special mill
and arrange q scale in accordance
Herewith; also that there shall be .
reconstruction OF the scale for the mills
working hoop and cotton ties exelu-
sively and we also agree that IL
work or organizing mills outside Of the
possessions OF the above companies
should cause the shutting down Of
plants or the calling out OF men. there
shall be no interference with the oper-
alton o. the mills belonging to or oper-
ated By b American Sheet Steel Com
psEy. the American Steel Hoop Com
pauy Of the American Tin Ffate Com
pany during the scale year.
This agreement Is TO abrogate all
contracts signed by the men of these
companies in which they agree not to
join or be connected with the amalga-
mated association or any other labor
organizations
After lunch we were met with the
following counter proposition from the
manufacturers:
1--WE agree to sign the scale for the
following sheet mills: The Old
Meadow rilling mill. Scottsdale: the
Salisbury mills. the Wood mills In Nc
Keesport and the wellsville mills"
'Of course this proposition was re-
jected. as it was considered nc propo
sition at all. inasmuch as the Wells
vile plant Is organized to a man. so Is
the Wood mill in McKeesport. The
conference adjourned soon after this.
with regret expressed on both sides for
the failure to reach an agreement"
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81 New England birth Mrs. whitaker
Is lady OF inherited gifts and superi-
or culture He leaves I'VE children,
three OF whom are sons In the Pal
eign Posts notice OF his death II ;s
said that h was a man of known
courage. and strong views. He was
cool, calm and ~judicious. His sense NJ
numor and joviality was greatly ad-
mired by his friends" He had no little
TO DO with politics and he was agrees
i've n resolute. OF his ancestors the
Post says:
his father was the late Col. spier
whitaker n his mother was Eliza
Detn Lewis, the daughter Of Exum
LEWIS a distinguished citizen of Edge
comoe county. His grandfather was
~ whitaker, who fought with the
patriots at Guilford Court House and
represented Halifax In the
staee assembly. Judge Whitaker's
Ia atn was a lawyer and at one time at
torney genera of this state. In 1854
ne moved to Davenport. Iowa. where
practiced law until his death"
North Carolina is losing many of her
most richly endowed and influential
men, and some of them of exalted type.
II their successors shall equal them in
ability, learning and high moral quail
tiles 1t will be a blessing to North Car
DINA. We learn from the article in the
Post that "in the civil war the deceas-
became adjutant OF the Thirty
Third \. c. Volunteers. and was in
eighteen engagements, including such
battles as the Wilderness,
Fredericksburg. Appomat-
tox and others
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FOUND AT LAST-PERHAPs.

We are not a disciple Of Darwin and
do not trust much in the theory of evo-
luton. Aforcrime in these columns we
have attempted to. show up some Of its
absurdities. There IS no objection to
be urged against a fellow who thinks
MS pregenitor in the way back wa.
"a mineral" as the New York Dr..
Funk says, or a monkey or a gorilla.
But pardon those h prefer another
ancestry and do o affect allegiance
to the theory Of much monkey power. All
along the Darwin disciples have broken
down the missing link between a
human icing and one of ape kind.
But now it is announced that this
link can be found in Africa. 1t will
be awaited for developments. Many
new sprung theories and discoveries
have e~vaporated in the air as time
rolled on. AS the venerable and very
able Bishop Keener, of New Orleans.
told h members Of the last Pan-Meth-
odist gathering held il Washington
some ten years age the great Agassiz,
the Swiss man Of science, went to
Charleston, S. G., and taking with him
a large waiter went to the ASHLEY
Fields" a few miles outside. He gath
cred the waiter full of the deposits there
found-gathered promiscuously-and re-
turning TO the city spent the entire
night in their careful examination.
as the sun rose. that great man said
The studies o. my old life are de-
n why? Because he found
in the contents OF that tray representa-
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HOME FOLKS.

The State Press convention is In ses-
sion at Greensboro. h attendance is
unusually large. perhaps larger than
ever before. Mr.. T. ]. Murphy. a law
yer, made the address of welcome. and
Mr.. W. F. Marshall, the cultivated and
bright editor Of the Gastonia Gazette,
responded. We are sure it was clever
ly done. The Raleigh News and OBJ
server says it bristled with mirth and
humOr.
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Entire Newspaper Force Strikes

Columbus, o.. July 12.-Trouble in
The Press-Post Office eliminated today
in a lockout of the writing force, all Of
whom are members of the news writ
ers' MO They were informed that
their services were not needed, students
from the state university school Of Jour-
nalism being put in their places. The
union printers refused to set copy the.
new men prepared and walked out, fol-
lowed by the stereotypers and press
men, No noon edition was issued.
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What a wonderful discovery is Perry
Davis Pain-Kilier, 1t not only cures
the ills of the human family, but is also
the sure remedy for horses and cattle.
1t has never been known to fail In a
cure of the worst cases of collie: and
for sprains, gals, ETC., it never fails
try ii once. Directions accompany each
bottle. Avoid substitutes. there is but
n Pain-killer. Perry Davis. Price
25c and 50c.
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Lord Rosebery's book on Napoleon
1.-The Last Phase" is so successful he
will follow it UP with another study of
the greatest nan of modern times. His
book has been translated into French.
For ar EnglisEman he is kind and ap-
preciatfve of the great Italian. He ex-
poets to publish next year.
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Edgar Poe is usually held in critical
circles in England and France as Amer
ica's greatest genius up to now. He
was an acute critic, he invented the
marvellous short story of power, and he
has left poems of great beauty and un-
surpassed finish. The New York Book
man has a paper on "Poe's Student
Days at the University of Virginia"
We are surprised to learn that the
marvellous poet was an athlete" and
could beat all records as a jumper.
The article says:
His greatest athletic achievement
dates from June, 1925, whe he swan,
undo a not sun, from Ludlam's Wharf
(R1chmond) to Warwick, a distance of
six miles, against a very strong tide.
ANY swimmer in the Falls in my days
says Poe, would have Swum the Helle-
spont and thought nothing of the mat
ter This feat on the James, which is
duly atteSted, was indeed remarkable
for a boy, and in a measure justifies his
boast that he could swim the English
channel from Dover to Calais. But
Poe'S proWesS was not confined to
swimming he had the reputation of
being the best young boxer in Rich
mond; and if i'll fights he ever had to
exercise the valorous discretion of
flight, he could readily have outstrip-
ped most contestants, for his swiftness
in running was noted among his COM
panions. His athletic record in field
sports. however. would nave been made
in the running broad jump, for during
his early life. probably here at the I'M
iversity, he jumped q feet 6 inches on
a level, with a running start of twenty
yards
Poe loved literature when a lad, n
was a famous story teller as we'll as
a writer of verse and prose.