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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-24

The Ex-Governor afterwards criticised
Mr.. Glenn in the presence of Several
people. saying if the amendment contain
ed such a feature ne would be found
canvassing the State on the other side,
when some one remarked, he would have
a lonesome time of it. as about all the
Democratic voters earnestly favored 1t.
He says my remarks were not creditable
to ne. l am not concerned as to his
opinion. when 1 express my honest con-
victions. l am open-handed, open heart-
cd with nothing to conceal, and the peo-
pie can always understand my position
and conduct
Governor Jarvis says he has served
his party faithfully for nearly half
a century. l am willing to give him
credit where credit is due. The Demo-
cratic party has rewarded him. The
white people of the State have been very
generous to him. 1t seems now he would
repay them by taxing them still heavier
to educate another race and not educate
their own children without the task OF
educating negro children. This is some
what in line with what l have often
heard it said about him, when he was
elevated to high official station-that
what he had to give he gave to his
enemies to conciliate them, and ignored
his friends My outspoken opinion is
that it is an unreasonable task to con-
tinue the effort to educate the negroes
of the State at the expense of the poor
white taxpayers of North Carolina Their
tax is a burden, and what goes from
their pockets into the school fund should
be for the education of their own race,
their own children. If, in some way or
another. the Ex-Governor should be the
owner of much real estate in the near
future, it would be far better that his
increased school taxes should go towards
the education of white men who have
helped him in the days gone by, than
be distributed per capita between the two
races of our State.
]. ]. LAUGHINGHOUSE
Grimesland N. c.. Aug. %. 1902.
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The Children Of.the Mills.
6Charity and Children.l

(CnaTILy anu CulluASn.J
We are glad to see the agitation in the
newspapers now going on in behalf of the
little children Employed in the cotton
mills of North Carolina The promise
made two years ago with regard to the
employment of children of tender years
in cotton factories has not been kept. OF
course not 1t need occasion no sur
prise. A man who is brutal to children
will not keep his word. 1t is to be hoped
the next Legislature will not be hood
winked as the last one was, but that 1t
will enact a law, just alike to employer
and employee, that will offer some pro-
lection from the heartless and mercenary
who grind out the lives of little children,
and give them no chance to develop into
men and women. However, we are glad
to believe that this class of men are not
in a majority among our native born cot
ton mill men Of North Carolina. We
have no sort of sympathy with the New
England crusaders who are crying out
against the slavery of children in South
ern mills. This is simply false alarm
from men who are being outclassed.
They used to control the cottongoods bus
mess. Southern men have won the fight
and New England is left, that is all, ana
we hope nobody will be deceived by the
crocodile tears of these hypocrites. Still
the fact remains that there are unworthy
and selfish men in the cotton mill bust
ness among us, who must be forced by
the strong arm of the law to deal justly
by the little children whom they employ;
and it is to protect the little ones from
the grasping avarice of these men that
we hope to see a just and temperate law
enacted along this line.
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respect to school taxes. Many people
knew as much before as they did after
being informed by his citations and
Celebrations. The people have changed
our Constitution in some necessary par
ticulars, and they can also alter it as to
the method of providing funds for the
maintenance of public schools for both
races. The most Of the white people
have come to the conclusion that the
way to settle the free school problem is
for the white mans taxes to go to the
white schools and the black mans taxes
to colored schools.
But let me come to the particular mat
tiers which l wish to notice: The ex-Gov-
ernor, in his recent article, sees fit to
condemn an eastern individual for GER
tain language used in a convention
criticising our present Governor and
others. That said individual stated that
the only harm he wished them was that
they might live a thousand years and
have to teach a negro school the balance
of their lives and be denied the use of
soap. The individual thus referred to is
myself While the language attributed
to me is only partly correct and mis-
leading, I wish to say the remarks l
did make had reference 10 Ex-Governor,
ex-Minister and ex-senator Thomas
Jordan Jarvis and not Governor Aycock
and others. l have no reason to believe
their views are as extreme as Governor
Jarvis. In the campaign two years ago,
when Bob. Glenn spoke in GreenVille,
he addressed a few remarks to the ne
groes, telling them the people were go
ing to adopt the suffrage amendment,
and if they did not behave themselves
there possibly would follow another
amendment to tax the whites to educate
white children and the blacks to educate
theirs. This sentiment was loudly ap-
plauded by 90 per cent. of his audience.
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How to Begin the Day.
Clan McLaren.)


I begin my days work some mornings,
perhaps wearied, perhaps annoyed by
multiplicity of trif1es which seem too
small to bring great principles to bear
upon them. But do you not think there
would be a strange change wrought in the
petty annoyances of every day, and in
the small trifes that all our lives. OF
whatever texture they are, must largely
be composed Of if we began each day
and ask with that old prayer, Rise,
Lord, and let Thine enemies be scatter
ed ?" Do you not think there would come
a quiet in our hearts, and a victorious
peace to which we are too much strang
ers? If we carried the assurance that
there is One that fights for us in the
trfies as we'll as into the sore struggles
of our lives, we should have peace and
victory. Most of us will not have many
large occasions of trials and conflict in
our career; and, if Gods fighting for us
is not actual in regard to the small an
noyances of home and daily life, I know
not for what it is available. Many
Titles make a mickle," and there are
more deaths in skirmishes than in the
pitched field of a great battle. More
Christian people lose their hold of God.
their snse of His presence. and are
beaten accordingly, by reason of the lit
tie enemies that come down on them like
a cloud of gnats on a summers evening,
than are defeated by the shock of a.
great assault or a great temptation.
which calls out their strength, and sends
them to their knees to ask for help from
God,
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of ovation, and celebration that had ever
occurred in the charming citys splendid
history. The venerable veterans came
il from every section of the State; they
wore badges and emblems designating
from what section or county they came;
inscriptions told to what local camp they
belonged, and in many instances with
what regiment their destinies had been
cast in times of war. These badges, en-
blems and inscriptions, were interesting
but there were other mementoes, other
insignia that told in pathetic tones, from
whence they really came. There were
armless sleeves, sightless eyes and legs
that bullets might smash into atoms
without pain, that told stories of Manas-
sas, of Cold Harbor, of Charlottesville;
there were bullet scars that told tales
of Gettysburg, Seven Pines, Winchester,
Chickahominy, Bentonville. There were
sabre scars that told how near they had
been to the opposing lines.
I saw comrade meet comrade for the
first time in a third of a century and as
they recognized each other I saw tears
with smiles in them, chase each other
down brawny and sunburned checks.
saw the venerable veteran private, meet
and strike hands in loving reunion with
his old commander, and with his new
commander. I saw them meet and greet
Roberts, the brave boy brigader of '65
and l saw them meet and kindly greet
Carr, whom they, themselves, have adj
vanced from private in '65 to commander
IN chief in 1902 l heard them sing the
praises of cach-Roberts for his noted
Feroism and gallantry, when the cannon
roared and for his solicitude and consid-
Grafton now and Carr for his bravery
then and for his untiring and unsparing
loyalty, aid and comfort during all the
years that have entervened
I heard these grand old battles SCARED
fathers of toll and strife speak with such
profound respect of Hoke and Grimes,
and Bragg, and Fender, and Hill, and
Ransom, of Cox, and Lewis, and Toon,
and all the others who won their loyalty
and Arbitration by winning in battle the
laurels they wores
1t was all grand occasion-this re-
union at Greensboro. I saw the little
tented city in the beautiful grove, I saw
the great throng partakng of the feast
so generously spread by the citizens Of
Greensboro, heard the old drum beat
ing the roll-call, / heard the strains of
the Bonnie Blue Flag" of Dixie" and
carolina" as hundreds of voices sent
them out upon the balmy winds. / heard
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BY F. B.
AYendeH
fsnecial to News and Observer.)

tSDeCldl " NEWS anu OboCA FSA'J
Greensboro, N. c., Aug. 23.-I tented
Yesterday with the North Carolina Con-
federate Veterans in their camp-ground
at Greensboro It was an annual gath
ering together, of regimental remnants of
the grandest soldiery sn HISTORY. 1t
was an annual conclave of nearly four
thousand, of the battle-tested, sunburned
survivors, of the mightiest clash of arms,
thatl the world has ever known. 1t was
a reunion of the survivors of an army
Of the most devoted lovers, and the most
daring and determined defenders Of home
and native land, that has been recorded
during the annals of time. 1t was a re-
hearsing and a rehearing, of battle storms
and battle scenes, that stained with blood
the fairest land on earth, but left no
stain upon the honor or the heroism of
these Southern soldiers. 1t was coming
together of general, of colonel, of major,
captain corporal and private in beau
tiful grove where white tents, drum taps
and bugle calls, were gentle reminders
of the white cities that spread out dur
ing the years agone, up and down the
Potomac, the Shenandoah and the Apo
mattOX!
1t was a revelation for Greensboro. No
such throngs had hitherto entered her
gates to do honor to a single occasion,
and the dawn of the beautiful August
morning, ushered in the most noted day
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SAW SURE ENOUGH SNAKE.
and Hopes the Baptists are Right About Fall
ing Prom Grace.
(Clay County Courier.

NCldJ SOuHIy COutlSI'
The writer has the contract of sur
veying the Fain lands. AS the railroad
will soon be in progress through Clay
county, surveying will be in demand. /
want to form partnership with Mr.. Ed.
Mease, the county surveyor. I think if
the snakes can get to bite Ed. first, they
will gum it up and never try it again.
On last Friday. on the south side of
a high mountain in the hottest place l
ever saw. where the rattle snakes were
thick as hops, l was trying to draw a
focus with my compass, on a dead pine
tree, while my mind was running back
to a cool place and the glory of winter.
I heard just above me on a cliff, sud-
den deep toned numbering. One of my
chain bearers followed Snake, look
out" Just then at the velocity of cy-
clone, something passed between the
Jacob staff and my feet, going down the
mountain. I never talk much when eX-
cited, and the boys thought I had lock-
jaw and were making arrangements to
snake me down the mountain to water.
l remarked that / was feeling some bet
ter. Mrs. Green says that l don't look right
out of my eyes yet. Well how else can
l look. only out of my eyes?
l know what I thought, but I don't
know what / said. l have belonged to
the NJ. E. Church forty-nine years and
have been Sprinkled, but 1 hope that the
Baptists are correct about not falling
from grace.
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SoCiety's Watermelon Fads
As Boomers of
BY 3 Ed srItton North Carolina Products.
As Boomers of

paltry things as cotton mills and manu-
featuring industries.
But, some reader objects, society will
want something new. The watermelon
idea has a pa
THE PEANUT HAS tentee, and
GREAT CHANCES FOR others will not
SOCIETY FAME. dare infringe
So be it. but
North Carolina is prolific State, and it
can offer other opportunities for stirring
up the 400" to enthusiasm, and bring
ing dollars into the jeans of the farmers.
How about the festive peanut, beloved
of theatre-goers in the upper gallery
and noted also as a prime remedy for
insomnia. Why should not a huge pea
nut be whirled into the dance hall? And
why should not this be enclosed in
still huger rooster which emits an odor
that's of the sublime? Then as it's sides
fall apart why should there not spring
from it two dainty maids bearing ban
ners with the strange device, Raised in
North Carolina. Eaten Everywhere"
There's something in this peanut idea,
and if society will take it up, we can
defy the peanut trust, for the demand
will so increase that peanut farms will
multiply and cleaning plants arise like
magic
And then across the vision flies the
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Carolina Daily Fp@p@ Both Ng@ AND Generalization

to tell Of the great things that society
can do for the
THE WOMEN WHO North Carolina
DO THIS ARE farmer. All OF
SOME PUMPKINS our products have
futures bound up
in the smile Of fair women who lead In
the smart set. A thing must be popular
lied to make 1t wanted and the glare OF
publicity that will come as watermelons,
and peanuts, and yams, and strawberries,
and other things receive the patronlZlng
nod that is sure to set the pace for thelr
phenomenal increase and popularity.
Brands of champagne have each thelr
hackers among the male gallants of swell
dom and why should not the lady patrons
of the growth Of the soil meet with even
as great success True, the champagne
glorifer is after the money he makes
out of clarifying his particular tipple,
but the women who will lead in this
agricultural renaissance will be satisfied
with the reflected glory that comes from
being "some pumpkins" as originators Of
novel ideas.
Society dawdlers, frittering away time
and money" is the classification put on
the 400" by the
DOES NOT SOCIETY girl on the train.
BENEFIT BY ALL But is it true.
ITS FADISMS? Does not the very
purchase of fra
grant flowers for the ball room scat
ter money among the florists and their
workers? Does not the cash that goes
to the orchestra fddlers get a fresh
start as a circulating medium? Do not
the butcher and baker and candle-stic
maker" all share in the stream of wealth
that comes from society's inner sanctum
and its fads? Is it not far better that
grand balls, and great banquets be given
than for the rich to invest in United
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MISS LIZZIE
LEHIGH DICK.


picture of the North Carolina Yam. To
the Northern pal
THE YELLOW YAM ate it's rich flavor
AIDED BY THE and it's creamy
FESTIVE 'POSSUM. sweetness is as
yet sealed book
When they feast upon the dry white pro-
duct Of the frozen lands they are missing
much of life and it behooves some fair
society leader to come to the rescue.
Imagine, if you can an immense yam,
placed high in the open mouth OF still
more immense 'possum, rushed swiftly
into the ball room, while the cry OF the
pursuing hounds ring in the ear See
society grow frantic in enthusiasm as
from the open yam an old 'possum hun
ter steps with his firelock on his Shout
der and losses right and left the favors
of the german. Oh, it is great picture,
and as it grows on me l see the soil of
the Old North State just bursting with
the yellow yams waiting for shipment
to society, which is clamoring for them.
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Ex-Gov Jarvis and the Public Schools

To the Editor: l read the article by
Ex-Governor Jarvis in Sundays News and
Observer of August 3rd. and but for
pressing farm duties. requiring my close
and undivided attention just at this sea-
son, would have replied to some things
he said at an earlier date. The ex-Gov-
ernor need not have dwelt so much upon
what our State Constitution contains in
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States tours or fives, or skies or harbor
their gold in strong barred chests? Is
not the world made more prosperous be-
cause part of it will insist on being
"fritterors" and in scattering money
right and left in displays which the un-
thinking class as mere folly? Let the
jury take the case.
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A Point in Manners.
Csmart set.)

(Smart Set.)
A self-respecting horse dimes table
d'oat;
Sale a manger goes straight to his
heart;
But never ask him (this it's we'll to
notel
To take his dinner with you la cart.
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Such grand opportunities for the plant
ers Of North Carolina to grow opulent
are not alone Gid
THE STRAWBERRY ing along over the
SCARS ALOFT shining floor of the
AS A BALLOON. ball room, society
dress parad e
ground. but there's the banquet and its
golden opportunities. Out on the lawn
beneath the trees gather the hidden
guests to the feasts when gracefully from
out the sky appears balloon. AS 1t
settles the enraptured banqueters see it
is in the fashion of a magnificent straw
berry, whose blushing red and plump
prettiness is made still more enchant-
ing by the miniature electric lighted
strawberries which are part of its gay
trappings. From out its car in harves-
ter's dress come wee maids who dis
tribute plates of North Carolina berries,
floating in rich yellow cream from North
Carolina COWS. while the band plays
Hail to North Carolina" And then So
ciety wants more berries, and the West
brooks and the other men in the truck
fields of the State will want more banks
to hold their shekels. for from far and
near the magic favor of society's mag
mates will make the strawberry the thing
to be worshipped and strawberries will
be everywhere, while the strawberry
blonde will have swain by the score at her
dainty feet.
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Have I gone too far afield in this
fancy of mine that Mrs. Pembroke Jones'
successful inno-
IF SOCIETY SMILES walton into no.
THERE'S A FORTUNE velty land will
IN MELONS. help the tillers
of the soil {?
Why, society's approving smile on a new
style of hat, new twist of the cravat.
a new way to hold the skirt. is all that
is needed to make it ''go." Why then
should not the introduction of a PAPER
mache watermelon into societys realm
pave the way for the fortune of the real
thing? When society lifts the water
melon up high into public view its sue
cess is certain. and the whirl of social
life will in the future tie itself about
the melon. 1t will be the sign manual
of all that is correct for watermelons
to roll around the universe in unnumber-
ed millions. and the South. including
North Carolina, the home of the luscious
red, will spring forward to heyday of
prosperity, out of the very sight of such
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-24
BY Edward
e. Britton.

1t is singular how little turn in a con-
versation will whirl your thoughts off
from the matter in
WHEN THE BRAIN hand, and how the
WHEELS STRIKE speculative will
AN IDEA COG. jump to the 'front.'
and you will Won
der if such and such results would come
from given conditions. One moment you
are talking with your friend about one
thing, and a chance word sets your
thoughts, and his, into another channel,
perhaps ten thousand miles removed
from your ideas moment before. And
then the wheels in your head swing
around and around until a cog that has
been put in there years and years ago,
or perhaps just yesterday, snaps down
on the revolving machinery OF the brain,
and you think and talk about the new
old matter with just as much gusto as
if it was the only thing ever on your
mind.
That's philosophic paragraph that
leads up to an incident on a train the
other day. There
THE SOCIETY COG were a trio OF pref
SNAPS WITH girls aboard-North
SUDDEN CLICK. Oarolinians, of
course. for there
are none prettier-and these were chat-N
ting gaily. A wearied reporter who had
sat up all night waiting to get at first
hands the details of prospective lynch
ing which failed, was in a nearby seat,
and his heavy eyelids would insist on
doing the drowsy act now and then. Sud-
denly he heard bird like voice. that
drove slumber away, say, in gay jest and
banter, "You needn't watch for
him, Nellie, that Raleigh beau
of yours is not going to at the
depot to see you pass through, he's
got another girl at home" Then came
from the brown-eyed beauty who sat be-
hind him the reply: 81 don't expect him
to. He's got'to work for his living. He's
not one of your society chaps who can
loaf around the depot waiting to see
girl pass through. He is working and
helping the world to move along, and
that's more than all the society dawdlers
are doing, just frittering away time and
money"
''Shes right and she's wrong" was in
the reporters mind as he dropped his
cap into his
A BIG WATERMELON hand-b bag, snap
FIGURES IN THIS ped it to and re-
SOCIETY IDEA. placed it with
his straw, a
base imitation of the society Panama.
And his thoughts, led by the girls refer
ence to society took a jump. as he
clambered off the train in Raleigh and
walked up the platform to the details
of the swell society function with which
Mrs. Pembroke Jones had outdone the
previous best efforts of the 400" at New
port. He thought of the electric tinted
globe of the world that shed its bril-
liancy among the richly costumed figures
in the dance, of the priceless jewels
that glittered in the hair and about the
neck of fair women, he thought of the
epieurean feasts that were served, but
above all things he thought of the huge
imitation watermelon that when rolled
into the presence of the guests and being
cut apart revealed to the delighted look
ers-on two black pick a-ninnies. who,
leaping from its luscious depths, did the
cake walk while gloved hands beat soft
tremolo of applause as the rag time
music set every foot to marking its in
fictitious harmony.
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And this dazzling scene was the pro-
duct of the ingenuity of a North Carolina
girl, racy of the
FROM THIS WILL soil. Into the
COME THE WATER jaded nerves of
MELON GLARS. the "ennuied" she
had sent new
thrill. 1t was watermelon which she
used to give this electric jar, and l doubt
not but that it was the ripe and rich, the
luscious and juicy, the appetizing and
tantalizing big melons of the Cape Fear
section which had put this novel idea Of
featuring one of the great resources OF
Eastern Carolina into her head. 1t was
a hit she made. palpable hit, and now
Newport is uproarious with the cry Of
watermelons, and all the fashionables
are thinking of watermelons, and dream
ing of watermelons, and another year
the lands of Carolina. and of all the
South, will groan beneath the weight OF
the needed crop to supply the demand
for an increased watermelon supply. and
the copper kings will give way to the
Watermelon Cars"
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paltry things as cotton mills and manu-
featuring industries.
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But space would fail me if I attempted
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Have I gone too far afeld in this
fancy of mine that Mrs. Pembroke Jones'