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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30
UNPOPULAR BUT SOUND.

The old command read Children obey
your parents and that command needed
made boys grow into men who had learn
ed to control themselves.
To-day the command seems by many to
read: Parents obey your children" il
we may judge by the number of children
who scout the precepts of their parents
and actually turn the tables and compel
the parents to walk in paths made for
them by their children.
What is the reason? The Bible doctrine
Spare the rod and spoil the child has
been disregarded Parents often boast
that they are too humane to be guilty of
the cruelty of whipping their children,
and call whipping relic OF the Dark
Ages In nine cases out of ten the par
ents of such children give free rein to
their appetites and their unrestrained chill
dren down the gray hairs of their faith
ers to their graves.
Prof. Sharpe, superintendent of public
schools in Alexander county, in an address
on the necessity of discipline, is thus quot
ed by the Statesville Landmark:
"Well, you say, do you mean to tell me
/ must whip? | say govern as you would
your child. / think wise man has said.
Spare the rod and spoil the child 1 find
in my family it is necessary; | find in the
school that it is necessary; l find in the
school that it is good medicine. | know
/ am on ground now that is a little unpop-
uar. but nevertheless there is where I
stand. Do not misunderstood me. l do
not mean to be a tyrant, but kind and
faithful friend, one who studies the best
interest of your student. If you do whip,
be sure you keep it up long enough to
govern the child
Sensible Prof. Sharp!
We have more well equipped and schol-
arly teachers in North Carolina to-day
than ever, but in too many instances there
is lack of discipline and boys who are
not inclined to study are not made to do
so. Parents ought to look after this, but
when they fail, the faithful teacher should
stand in their place.
When John Quincy Adams was boy
he didn't wish to study Latin. His father
was firm in the determination that he
should study it. One day John Quincy
told his father he preferred to plow and
grub stumps in the low grounds. VERY
well" said his father eff you prefer to
do the work of hired man than to be-
come an educated man, you may do So"
He made him eat the same food that form
ed the meals of the hired man, compelled
him to work the same number of hours,
and in every way to live the same hard
life. 1t wasn't long before John Quincy
was glad to get back to his Latin. Sup
pose John Adams had yielded to his sons
lazy whim and permitted him to quit
school-the country would have lost one
of the ablest and most learned men who
has given lustre to its history. How
many parents would have the stuff in
them to pursue the John Adams course
with boy who did not wish to study?
Rigid discipline is unpopular, butb
mixed with love and kindness, it is neces
sary TO make men of the right stamp.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30
FAvoRs LYNCHING.

Henderson Gold Leaf.
Ordinarily we are opposed to lynching
-preferrlng rather to let the law take
its course-but the brute IN Wilson coun-
ty should promptly have dangled from
the end of a rope without the sanction
of Judge or jury. And the fend in hui
man form was not a negro, either. He
was a white man and the crime all the
worse from the fact that his victim was
his own little daughter, under ten years
old.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

The following poem was written and de-
livered by Mr. Tasker Polk of Warrenton,
n. c., on the occasion of the unvelllng OF
the Confederate monument at that place
on the eth inst:
Backward, backward, rearward rolling,
Sweep our memory's rushing waves,
While the bells of war are tolling
Sounds of battles past in story,
Battle-sounds of deathess glory.
While the tear drops of our sadness
Mingle with our sounds of gladness,
Let us meet in grand reunion,
Let us join in sweet communIon
With WarTen's host of spirit braves.
Where our gallant dead are sleeping
Beneath the crimson-crested sea,
There our memory sad is sleeping
All it's thoughts in glory keeping
And the halowed past is creeping
Nearer to the present heaping
Sacred thoughts DER comrades sleeping,
Sleeping there in silent glory,
While the night winds sigh their story
To the distant, shadowy lea.
In each heart should be longing
To honor do and homage pay
To those heroes who went thronging,
Leaving all to them belonging,
Rushing proudly to the battle
Not like dumb and driven cattle,
But like men who heard the rattle
OF the musket brave and fearless.
True and grand and proud and peerless
Were Warren's sons who wore the gray
Then draw from Recollection's sheath
The stainless sword of Warrens pride.
Der hill and valley, plain and heath,
Far flash its circling light and wide.
Upward flashing, CHANGING, cleaning,
Let its light be onward streaming
To the graves where now lie dreaming
Those who fought for us and died.
When wars black cloud hung darkly Ger
Our Sunny South, our native land,
And when the lannon's deadly roar
It's thunders rolled from shore to shore,
Did Warren's Soldiers trembling stand ?
When North and South divided stood
On the banks of Wars red river
And Mars sprang reeking from the food,
And hurled his lightning spear of blood,
Did our soldiers quake or SILVER?
When battle from wars forge of hell
Cast wide and far the screaming shell
That bore deaths message and its knell
Der bleeding valley, plain and dell,
Did Warren's brave soldiers falter?
MOI hut at their Courtry's altar
Bowed and breathed their battle psalter,
Then proudly rose, unsheathed THEN
swords,
And shouted Wild the ringing words,
"Our Country
And fought mid battles crush and crash
Fell in the muskets' binding flash,
Poured their hearts blood out like water
Freely on the field of slaughter,
Asked no mercy, begged no quarter,
But fought and FELL their latest breath
Defiance in the face of death
For Dixie!
North and South again united
No longer hear the clash of swords;
Union vows again are plighted,
But bark to memory's pleading words
Oh, my country! oh, my nation!
Forget not thy illustrious braves
Let monuments of conservation
Stand sentinel DER our soldiers graves!
Not for fame they fought and fell,
But fought for honor and country's veal
Hearken then to memorys bell
Whose echoes are heard in the land OF
the leal
H.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

Robson Leads in Illiteracy" was a
recent headline. Robson leads also in
size in sending its sons to college, in
building good schools, in temperance and
in progress. No county in North Carolina
is going forward more rapidly in every
good way than Robson. The next census
will show decrease in illteracy and an
increase in every element of true progress.
Keep your eyes on the county of Robe.
son.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30
Spirit of the Press.

ApLEsT SPEECH IN A GENERATION.
Fayetteville Observer.
Judge Clark's address on the subject
of Trusts" before the Bar Association
of Virginia at the Virginia Hot Springs,
is probably the ablest speech delivered
in this country in generation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

The State Republican thinks the way to
stop lynchings is to send Tillman and all
men who agree with him on the lynching
question to the penitentiary for life as
accessories to the crime. Wouldn't 1t be
better for the state Republican to advise
its vicious colored political associates to
quit committing the crime?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

Fifty arrests were made in Atlanta in
one day under the new vagrancy law
That law, it is said, has made it easy for
farmers to get labor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

Ii you do not read anything else IN
today's News and Observer, read the fuli
report of the committee made to the
American Bar Association. ~ is tne most
important declaration upon the trust ques-
ton vet made by any such body OF legal
leaders.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

Secretary Wilson, in his first article,
presumes that the higher price of cotton
during the summer was arbitrarily in
creased by the New Orleans Spectators.
In this he may be mistaken. A portion
perhaps a large portion-of the increase
is due to the law of supply and demand.
The demand was great; the supply was
small. Therefore the price went up.
vantage of their knowledge of the small
Less of the volume of cotton in the
country and the large demand, concluded
to gamble on their ability to put up the
price They won. The price is up. Will
1T stay UP in October and November so
that the farmer can receive the benefit?
Ii so, then General Butler may be justi-
fed. But, if the price is increased to
the farmer by the corner, over and above
the natural increase that would come from
the law of supply and demand it would
be fictitious and in the long run would be
dangerous to the best interests of the
farmer. as it would be injurious also to
the manufacturer.
It spectators this year can corner"
the cotton crop in the interest of higher
prices. can they not next year Corner
it in the interest of lower prices? 1t would
be disastrous alike to farmers and manu-
facturer for cotton to be the foot ball
OF stock gamblers.
The natural laws this year will give
!! the farmer higher price for his cotton
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30
Tobacco.

There IS more tobacco on the floors to-
day. The sales are estimated at $4,000
pounds. A great deal was of very good
quality, with several shipment from the
the eastern part of the state ard South
Carolina. At one warehouse a lot of to-
bacco, /, 176 pounds, fifteen separate piles,
sold at an average of $1045 and other
lots sold equally as well at other places.
The average today, because of the better
grade, is some better, and the average
of the market varying with the differ
ence in the grades, is from 81 to cents.
Wilson Times.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

The Roanoke -Chowan Times seems to
agree with Secretary Wilson, for it says:
Judges Brown. Neal and perhaps one
or two other of our Superior court judges
have resurrected the law of 1899 relating
to speculation in cotton futures and are
instructing the grand Juries to make pre-
sentiments, it being violation of the law
to- either buy or sell with no intention
of delivering the cotton or other COM
modities. The spectators ruin the. farm
ers. The corner in cotton this summer
by the Brown syndicate of New Orleans
will cause the cotton farmers to lose
heavily in the sale of the present crop.
Had it not been for the spectators prac-
tically all of last years crop would have
been manufactured by the time the new
crop is put on the market. Instead of
this the cotton factories had to suspend
work The high price of cotton during
the past five months has not benefited
one farmer in a thousand for the simple
reason the farmers had no cotton to sell.
We need a national law on the subject"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

Mr.. Blaine left fortune OF one million
dollars. Once he was a poor country
editor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

load of tobacco was sold at the
Planters Warehouse this week, which
came from Moore county, distance of
thirty seven miles.--Dunn Banner.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

Wise is the man who doesn't write a
truthful story OF his life.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

The man who CANDLES picks his own
pocket
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

In its issue of August of the 26th, the
Louisville Courier Journal thus gives Its
views on Mr. Wilson'S interview:
IAN advance of over 50 bale is the an
swer made by the cotton trade to the
assertion of the Secretary of Agricul-
ture that gamblers are responsible for
the previous rise. Few editors of agri
cultural papers could show more igno.
rance of the cotton situation than Mr.
Wilson displays. The cotton planter
could have gone into the market ycster'
day and sold contracts for his growing
crop at 1927 cents for September deliv-
cry, 1890 cents for October delivery,
1890 cents for November, 1926 cents for
December, and 1927 cents for January
and 1925 cents for February and March
deliveries. These were the closing New
York prices. The Secretary may say this
is gambling, but the contracts are legally
enforceable, as the short sellers have had
reason to know to their sorrow the past
six months. There is an actual demand
for spot cotton also, and yet many mills
have closed down, thus reducing the con
sumption. The man who has spot cotton
has something as good as wheat in the
mill, and that is also mighty good at the
present and likely to be better III the
| future"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30
Warren Confederate Dead

The following poem was written and de-
hvered by Mr.. Tasker Polk, of Wauenton,
N c.. on the occasion of the unveilng OF
the Confederate monument at that place
on the eth inst:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-30

than he has received in years. He ought
to want every cent that natural laws
will give, for he may be well assured
that if the corner" by manipulation and
gambling gives him more this year than
he would get through the operation of the
law OF supply and demand, stock gamblers
Will take many times as much from him
when they see that they can make more
by pushing the price down below the cost
of production. Stock gamblers care moth
ing for the farmer or the manufacturer
They care only to get rich by corners
and other manipulations. If one year they
help the farmer, they are apt to de-
stroy him next. They have the same in
terest In the manufacturer.
The need of the agricultural world and
the manufacturing world is for stability
and the operation of natural laws. II
the farmer could get between ten and
twelve cents for his cotton year in and
year out, he would be much more pros
and within few gets fourteen cents. Such
wild fluctuations are most hurtful. The
same is true of manufacturers. If they
would figure upon paying between ten and
twelve cents for cotton, regulated by sup
ply and demand, they would make their
contracts based upon such prices and
would be more prosperous than they can
be when cotton goes from seven to four
teen cents in less than twelve months.
Nothing would work greater injury to
the South than for the stock gamblers to
be able to corner" the market. The
| tobacco trust has effected a practical cor
ner on tobacco with the result that to-
bacco brings less than the cost of pro-
duction. The same thing will follow in
cotton when it is cornered, for the to-
bacco trust is not the only constituencies
| trust in America.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
A Wornan,s BACK.

Dublin, Mich, June 29th.-To the many
women who suffer with weak back and pains
and tired feelings in the small Of the back,
the experience OF MRS. Fred Chalker Of this
place will be interesting and profitable.
Mrs. Chalker had suffered very great
deal with these back pains and although,
she had tried many things, she could find
nothing that would relieve her. The pain
kept on in spite of all she could do.
AT last she CHANGED to read the story of
another lady who had suffered with the
backache, and said she had been cured by a
remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills, and Mrs.
Chalker thought she would try the same
thing.
After the first two boxes had been taken
according to directions, she began to feel
some better, and she kept on till at last she
was cured.
Her pains are all gone, and she is very
grateful. She says: "Dodd's Kidney Pills
helped me greatly, and will always recon:
mend them as cure for Pain in the Back"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
Latest Kansas Events.
Sample. for world. Fair Exhibit.

Samples for Worlds Fair Exhibit.
The worlds fair commission has
issued regulations governing the
awards on county exhibits at the To-
peka and Hutchinson state fairs. Five
prizes, ranging from $500 down to
500, are to- be given by the commits
sion for county displays. The prize
displays are to be sent to st. Louis
to help make up the Kansas exhibit.
In the grain display the regulations
call for Ii different kinds. Each has
100 points to the scale, or a total of
1000 points.
Each exhibit must embrace at least
ten samples of all cultivated products
of the farm, orchard and garden, ce-
reals in the grain and in the sheaf,
grasses, textile and forage plants
and vegetables, nuts and all kinds OF
fruits. 1t is preferred that county
exhibits be made, but where this is
not done individuals can make exhib-
its in the name of the counties where
they reside.
Exhibits of seed and shelled grain
should consist of half bushel OF
each variety; ten samples of corn in
the ear; 12 ears of each variety; to-
bacco in five-pound lots; ten samples
of turnips; potatoes, one-half bushei
each; cabbage, celery, ETC., six sam
Piles each; squash, pumpkin, melons,
ten samples each. ....
Small grain must be shown in
straw, in bundles not less than three
inches in diameter, and ten bundles
of each variety.
Grasses, clover, alfalfa and forage
plants must be shown in bundles OF
three inches each, and ten of each
variety.
Ten samples Of corn on stalk;
bromcorn, sorghum, cotton. not less
than six stalks each. All samples or
straw or stalk must be cut close to
the ground, cured in the shade and
carefully wrapped and packed. For
the benefit of western and newer
counties fruits are not to be counted
in the scale of points. Each exhibit
shall become the property OF the
worlds fair commission.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
LAWYERS QUEER BILL.
He Was n Good Listener, But 10
Wanted Pay for Acting in
That Capacity.

Here is the story Of en- Ohio lawyer who
did not become a politician, as he was not
built on political lines. 1t is told by q
Washington man, who was his clerk at one
time, says the Washington Post. Lawyer
B was gruff sort of parsonage and be-
leved in making every one pay for every
service. One of his clients was the presi-
dent of bank, who, during the pendancy
of his case, dropped into the lawyers office
very frequently and told stories. The law
yer was a good listener, and seemed to en-
joy the stories very much, but after the
Here, charge Mr.. Blank $40 for an :iour OF
my time. II have got to listen to his sto-
ries he has got TO pay ME for it," Finally
the bill was made out and carried to the
banker. 1t was an itemized account stat
ing the date of each cali. He scanned it
closely and remarked:
"He has made me. pay for il. pretty well,
hasn't he?"
"Pay for what" asked the clerk.
"For listening to my stories"
And then he paid the bill.-Washington
Post.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
Gov. saiIey's Explanation.

After the Legislature adjourned
without appropriating money direct
for food-sutferers, considerable criti-
cism of Gov. Bailey's attitude was in
dulged in. In an interview the gov
ernor said: II feel that the criticism
of my attitude in this matter is I'M
just, and / shall not worry about it.
In all the statements that have
made, i have said that without u
dollar of aid Kansas could rehabili-
tate herself. My first proclamation
was simply statement of the facts,
and in it asked those in other states
who are charitably inclined to con-.
tribute of their means to aid those
I'm Kansas who had suffered by the
food. / am satisfied with the con-
duct of the legislature. believe 1t
has met the demands for relief and
that it's action will be Endorsed by
the public. There is very little If any
restitution in the food district.
Whatever restitution there is has or
will be relieved by the local authori-
Ties, the local charities and the assist
nnce which comes freely from the
outside. The need is great through
the Kansas valley, but the cases OF
restitution arc few"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
Limitations en- Marriage.

At Wichita the other day Z. j.
johnson and Miss c. Z. Sutton affixed
their signatures to the following
affidavit: I'VE swear that the above
named parties are both possessed of
good health and sound minds and that
neither is diseased in any way" How
ever, Kansas has not made in her
statutory enactments the great adj
vance which might be inferred from
this affidavit. There Is no require
ment of general bodily health in the
new act on marriage.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
Loss in one Neighborhood.

A canvass of farmers along the
Smoky Hill river near Enterprise
shows that in addition to losses Of
houses and household goods from the
food they have lost SIS acres of
wheat, 500 of corn, &C of alfalfa, &c
cattle, horses, lat hogs, 1,345
chickens, besides much grain in bin.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
Fight Don't AGect 1t.

Ever since the Irvine plant was
established at the state penitentiary
the Irvine trust has been fighting it,
but the, prison plant does not seem
to have been affected by the fight.
It is turning out $4,000 pounds Of
Irvine daily, and the entire output
for months ahead has been sold.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
Plenty for Both.

"Kansas and Colorado should be
able to reach a compromise on their
irrigation suit that would be salts
factory to both states" said S. S.
Ashbaugh, of Wichita, one of the
attorneys for Kansas in the case.
"There is plenty of water in the Ar
kansas river for both states"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04

Its Status.-Tourist- is the siz
of ,this place, uncle" Co,ored Citizen
dis town hab got about 1900 popularity
sah!"-Puck.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
nuIIdinr Roads with Convicts.

E.. B. Jewett, warden of the Kansas
penitentiary, has prisoners at work
repairing the driveway between the
Leavenworth city limits and Lansing.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
Not Qualified.

Young Lawyer-Madam, you need some
one to take care OF your property and pro-
tect your interests.
Shc-Young man, I've just got married.
Eyes. / know your husband. Detroit
Free Press.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
EIaorndo Banl<n Merge.

The Citizens state bank. of Edo
RADIO. and the Eldcrado state bank
merged on July ] and the coRsoli-
dated bank took the name Of the
Citizens state bank.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
Ladies' Can Wear Shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease. a certain cure for swollen, sweating,
hot, aching feet. AT all Druggists, 25e: Ae-
Address A. S. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. Y.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
Three Gave Up Salaries.

The members of the Legislature
donated their extra-session pay to
food sufferers. They were Peck. OF
Cloud; Findlay, of Rice, and McMil-
Ian, of Ottawa.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04
Rev. II. ID. FIsher's surprIse.

Rev. DIR. H. D. Fisher, who lectured
at Clay Center recently, discovered
in his audience a colored woman,
Mrs. Elizabeth Lawton, who was one
of the 1000 slaves brought by him
from Missouri in 1861 and set free. he
being then an army chaplain under
Gen. James Lane. She is also prob
ably the only woman shot in Guam
trells raid on Lawrence In 1868. she
receiving bullet in the right elbow.
which disabled her for life.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04

piso's Cure for Consumption is an inFalh
bic MEDICINE for coughs and c9lds:-N: w
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-07-04

Never advertise your troubles. If yor
have bowlegs, don't wear striped trousers
Chicago Journal.