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service eighteen local preachers in order
to fill the charges under his jurisdiction.
The fact is cited by him to show a lack
of candidates for the ministry. This Is by
no means the only church which IS suf-
fering in this way. There has been fall
ing off in the Presbyterian church as
WELL The cause is sought by the wlsest
and best of churchmen. Various and
numerous reasons have been assigned for
it. We allude to the deplorable state OF
affairs 20 emphasize one of the lnfiu-
ences which has had much to do with
the matter. 1t is the lack of support
given the ministry. The salaries of other
workers all about us are being increased,
while it is very rare that we hear OF any
increase of the preachers salary. The
purchasing value of the dollar may de-
crease, but no one appears to think of the
hardship it entails upon this class of
workers. Another thing that has to do
with the matter is that along with the
general decline of reverence the ministry
has lost the reverence shown it in the
past
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A WISE COURSE.

The Agricultural Department at Wash
ington has acted wisely in refusing to APP
point a mere politician as Crop Statistl-
clan for North Carolina. 1t is an import
ant position, that ought to be filled by a
man engaged in agricultural pursuit or in
struction. If it is a mere job, to give a
salary to a henchman, it should be abolish
ed The appointment of Prof. Chas. w.
professor of agriculture at the
A. and M. College as Crop Statistician,
over the political favorite of Chairman
Rollins, is additional guarantee that the
Agricultural Department is determined to
make their crop reports accurate and val
liable.
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rather with the question of the remark
able ability of the Southern population.
Mr.. Edmonds proceeded to point out that
for the great Southern development which
they indicate the Southern people them
selves must receive by far the larger part
OF the credit. These are only u
few illustrations of conspicuous Southern
accomplishments, but they are enough to
indicate that, great as has been the draft
by other parts of the Union on the South,
1T still retains sufficient masterful ability
IN its almost undiluted American stock to
proceed successfully to the further and
complete development of one of the most
resourceful regions on the face of the
globe. 1t IS strong race down there, as
even the most casual traveller discovers by
his observation of the people he sees as he
hurries through it.
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MOST TOO ExACTING.

Statesville Landmark.
The case of the Mecklenburg father-in-
law and son-in-law, deserves more than
passing notice. The two had been to
church and they were evidently Disguised
with the church membership, for they
agreed that there were not more than ten
genuine Christians Gncluding them
selves, of course), in the church. To make
sure that the estimate was correct the
father-in-law took paper and pencil to
keep count while the son-in-law called off
the names Of those whom they considered
the elect The second name called was
the uncle Of the son-in-law and the faith
er-in-law called a halt because. he said.
this man owed him money and wouldn't
pay it and he was, therefore, no Christian.
The son-in-law was disposed to stand up
for his uncle, nevertheless, and a dispute
followed resulting in the son-in-law knock
ing the old man cold. We can't approve
of the young mans forclble way OF en-
forcing his opinions, but We are disposed
to sympathize with his view of the case,
for the father-in-law was disposed to set
up a precedent that is dangerous. If
mans Christianity is to be called into ac-
count because he has neglected a small
duty like paying a debt. many of those
who sit in the amen corner and for pre-
tence make long prayers would have to
stand aside, and this would never do at
all. In fact, such a rule would SO deplete
the church rolls that it would be nothing
short of a calamity. The old man was
entirely too exacting.
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ICAL INSPIRATION TO
PROGRESS
Manufacturers RecOrd.)

4 The News and Observer Of Raleigh y
= lets no opportunity pass for special =
: edition promotive of the material in 4
= terests of North Carolina. BY such X
= means it@has rendered effective SER !.
= wee to the State in recent years, i
= and every special edition is a distinct 4
X advance upon the one last preceding 1.
: 1t. The latest achievement Of the !
:. kind by the News and Observer is \.
= the banking edition of thirty-two !.
< pages, published in connection with !.
= the annual meeting of the North &
X Carolina Bankers Association. In X
\ addition to review of the proceed !.
4 ings of the annual meeting. includ >.
= ing the speeches by Mr. Caldwell :.
:. Hardy. of Norfolk. Va, president of !.
X the American Bankers Association. \
K on the benefits incident to organiza- !.
X ton among banks; by Comptroller X
X William Barrett Ridgely on forty !.
= years of the national banking ys- X
T. tenn; by George w. Montcastle, of !.
:. Lexington, president of the Assoeia- 7.
\ ton, reviewing the year, and add 4.
\ tional details being furnished by Sec =
X rotary G. N. Evans; a summary Of 4
\ the condition of banks in North :.
\ Carolina. showing aggregate re- !.
X sources SAG, 1885,, 45411, total capital, :.
< S7,S2O,55O.S7, and deposits $26 &c., !.
< $685. it contains interesting sketch !.
\ es of banks, bankers and banking in &
+ the principal cities and towns of the !.
X State, showing healthy prosperity, \
J. and number of special papers of a X
4 more general character of value to !.
\ the historian These include Bank !.
4 Progress" by John o. Ellington, =
X State bank examiner; When the i
X South Was the Richest Section of \
\ the Country" by COL w. H. S. Bur \
\ gwyn president OF the First Ma !.
T. tional Bank of Weldon; History Of !.
4 the Bank of North Carolina, 1859 !.
4 e. by DR.. Kemp P. Battle, of ;.
X Chapel Hill, the only surviving di- =
!. rector "The Trust Company" by \
\ Col f. H. Fries, of Winston Salem, 4
< and First Carolina Bank by p. !.
4 ID. Gold, Jr., of Greensboro. The \
4 News and Observer is to be con- \
\ graduated upon the excellent results 4
y of its enterprise in issuing this bank !.
\ ing edition, and the bankers of \
\ North Carolina are to be congratu =
K lated upon having such a practical =
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Industrial News.

At Concord, N. c., textile department
forms a part of a new industrial and
training school for negroes, where vari-
Gus mechanical arts are taught and other
industrial pursuits. the institution being
co-educational. During the session just
closed there were nearly 100 pupils of
both sexes in attendance. 1t is yet in
its initial stage, however, and is sadly
in need of adequate equipment, especially
buildings. The principal of the school
vas in Raleigh last week and visited
Governor Aycock and State Superintend-
ent of Education Joyner, and solicited aid
from leading citizens there. He hopes
to develop the nucleus already gathered
into a big industrial school for negroes.
The State of North Carolina has been
operating a negro agricultural and me-
cbanical college at Greensboro, N. c.. for
the negro race for a number of years.
but it is not as largely attended as 1t
should be.-American Wool and Cotton
Reporter.
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for the support of schools controlled by
one church. 1t is relic of the age when
men were fined and punished if they were
dissenters. What England needs is JEFF
ferson to write and secure a statute for
religious freedom in England and an Arch
ibald Murphey to give them perfect
public educational scheme having no rela-
tionship whatever with any church or re-
liigous system.
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of Jones, onslow, Duplin and adjoining
counties-Kinston Free Press.

of Jones, onslow, Duphn and adjoining
counties-Kinston Free Press.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Warrenton Railroad Company was
held Tuesday Capt. w. j. White was
elected president; w. B. Boyd, w. j.
Norwood, Jerry Draper, j. G.. King and
t. M. Caserley, were reelected as board
of directors. The directors will meet in a
day or two and then Mr.. j. M. Gardner
will be reelected secretary and treasurer.
-Warrenton Record.
The five hundred and fifty thousand dol
lar trust deed of the P. o. and w. Rail-
road has been executed and recorded IN
Craven and Pamlico counties, to secure the
$50, 900 dollars of first mortgage construc-
ton bonds which have been issued. Now
work will begin, this looks like railroad.
-Bayboro Sentinel
A railroad company is having surveyed
route through the Cove and Polk coun-
ty to Spartanburg, s. C. The survey has
been made to about six miles this side OF
Marion, and will be extended to the head
of the Cove by the last of the week.
Rutherfordton Tribune
The work of laying the track of the
Atlantic and Western Railroad is being
pushed and will probably be completed to
Jonesboro by the last of the week.-San.
ford Express.
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SHEPARD AND AYCoCK FOR 1904.
Cd. CT Times.

Washington, Cd Co. Times.
A new Democratic banner has been
flung to the breeze. 1t bears the names
of Shepard and Aycock. For President,
Edward M. Shepard, prominent citizen of
Brooklyn borough, N. Y. and lormer can
didate for mayor; for Vice President,
Charles B. Aycock, governor OF North
Carolina. This suggestion for a renewal
of the alliance of the solid South and
New York ought to cause Democrats to
stop and consider.
OF the Hon. Edward M. Shepard the
general public knows much; it knows OF
his opposition to the regular Democratic
ticket in 1896. because of the silver plank
in the platform, of his return to the fold
four years later and his support of Bryan
on the issue of anti-imperialism, of his I'M
successful canvass for mayor two years
! ago on the Tammany ticket, and of his
recent efforts to harmonic the divided
factions of Democracy, and with it there
! is a suspicion that Mr.. Shepard, who had
never avowed himself one way or the
other, is willing to be considered candI-
date for President.
of Governor Aycock probably not SO
much is known, althouh he is certainly en-
| titled to careful consideration. He is re-
garded, by those who know him and his
record, as one of the ablest men in public
office in the South today. He is brilliant
and an orator of ability, and has given
North Carolina clean administration.
| The old objection Of candidate from
secession State should not hold against
him, for he is so young as scarce to re-
member even in a vague sort OF a way any
Of the stirring events of the early sixties.
He is greatly beloved by the people of the
State; scholarly, conservative, earnest and
conscientious and if a Southern man is to
be chosen by the Democracy he is entitled
| to first consideration.
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A SATISFACTORY MEETING.
Greensboro Telegram.

Greensboro Telegram.
The friends of Greensboro Female Col
lege have every reason to be pleased with
tn result of last nights mass meeting.
More money by good deal than was
expected was raised. And what was best
OF all there was shown marked unan-
nifty OF sentiment both in and out OF the
Methodist church in favor or reopenlng
the college. While the Methodists made
the largest contributions the other de-
nominations responded in a way which
showed that there was nothing narrow
about their views The Governors speech
was a happy effort. He IS at MS best
when matters educational are up. He
never spoke better than he did last night.
1t is an inspiration to hear him for our
Governor is man of lofty ideas, OF broad
views, and of generous spirit. His plea
for the alutruistic view OF lie as made
last night stirred the people strongly and
was doubtless not without its effect In
moving them to help the college The
other speakers performed their parts no
bly, also. exhibiting the true Greensboro
spirit.
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Profitable Strawberries in North
Carolina.
IN E. Leonhart, Chadbourn, n. c., il
Country Life in American

I'M. E. Leonhart, Chadbourn, n. c., in
Country Life in American
/ started in the berry business seven
years ago. / had some capital to begin
with and bought farm of seventy acres
at SO an acre. Land at that time rented
for SO an acre. / bought plants from
parties on the w. and w Railroad. They
gave me information about how to grow
the plants. and the first crop was as sue
cessful as any later one. BY watching
others and following the example of ex
perienced truckers beginner can do just
as well as anybody.
At first l planted two and one-hah
acres. The twenty-five thousand plants
necessary were bought at $3.50 a thou
sand. 1t took half ton of high-grade
fertilizer, costing SIG ton, to each acre.
Together with the cost of mulching the
plants, cultivating the soil and picking
the berries, this made the total cost of
production for my crop about $500 My
own labor is included In this, estimated
at ordinary prices. look after my own
crop closely, because the more a man
does this the more he makes.
l consigned to the local agents who rep
resent commission houses in the large
GlblCS III thC ANOl vi. NY NAOp was al aver
age one of ninety crates to the acre.
Each crate contained thirty-two quarts,
and averaged me net about So crate
My two and one-half acres produced 1925
the first season. This gave me a clear
profit of $75. | have sometimes made
gain of $125 on each acre.
l grow my own plants, and since the
first year the cost of production has not
been so much. Other growers sometimes
purchase thousand or two plants of
some choice or extra early variety and
raise their own plants.
Last year I planted ten acres with my
own plants The cultivation cost me $50
an acre. sold nine hundred crates at
~ to IS each Only the earliest sold at SIS,
although at the opening of the season $12
Is sometimes received for single create
My whole crop sold for 50, 200, leaving me-
profit of $1,000.
At the end of the season / ship few
berries to local markets, but the amount
sold IN this way is too small to be reckon
ed | depend on the large markets to dis
pose of my fruit, and grow for profit
This region ships about five hundred
cars-four million quarts-per season.
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Durham has two streets that will go
down into history-Peabody and Petit
grew-Durham Sun.
Is the Sun correct? Do these streets be-
long to Durham or to the Southern Rail
way? That corporation lays claim to the
public streets of Durham in order to drive
out competing roads, as well as to give
an excuse for preventing the erection of
a decent union depot. How long will its
impudence be tolerated?
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THE HOLINESS" READER GOT TIKI
MEDICINE HE NEEDED.

THE "HOIINESS" READER GOT THE
MEDICINE HE NEEDED.
Monroe Enquirer.
Mrs. Jennie Harrill. of Henrietta, was
enticed away from her husband recently
by a holiness preacher. who used his Bible
to prove to Mrs. Harrill that she would be
justified in leaving her husband and in
going with him. Mr.. Harrill followed his
erring wife and the preacher to Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, and had the preacher ar
rested. Mrs. Harrel begged her husband
to forgive her and let her return home
with him, but he would not grant her re-
quest.
Some years ago a holiness preacher
down in the eastern part of the State tried
to entice a wife away from her husband
by telling him a revelation that she should
leave her husband and go with him. The
lady told her husband what the socalled
holiness fellow had proposed, and when
the enraged husband saw the preacher he
said: Look here, you blankety BANKED
jungle jawed limb of Satan. when did the
Lord make that revelation you were tell
ing my wife about? Last Monday re-
piled the preacher well now" said the
husband, 1--WE seen the Lord about that
matter and I've got a later revelation, and
that is to beat the very devil out OF you.
And then and there the more holy than
thou preacher gov the medicine he needed.
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ANOTHER SOUTHERN OUTRAGE.
Memphis COMMERCIAL Appeal.

MtIHpHIs OOIlIItTCIdI-Iap pCdI.
A resolution was introduced in the
Georgia House of Representatives to di-
vide the county school funds between the
races proportionately to the taxes paid
by each. The resolution was defeated by
an overwhelming majority, and the whites
will go right along paying for the educa-
ton of the blacks. Another Southern
outrage" to which the attention of the
Northern press is invited.
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SIZES 1T UP CORRECTLY.
Madison Record.

Madison Record
The Rhamkatte Rooster, via the News
and Observer sizes up the situation ac-
curately as follows:
For President, Teddy Roosevelt; for
vice president, A. ]. Breckenridge; plat
form: Here we go, dern our fool souls:
head us somebody Emblem: Bull in a
china shop"
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THE LIMIT IN LYNcHING.
New York World.

New 4OfK WOflu,
In the words of Webster, Massachusetts
there she stands, raising a mob to
lynch a white man who threw beer
glass at another and cut off his nose.
With this incident we may fairly consider
that the lynching craze has reached its
limit When it spreads from Texas to
Massachusetts,, from negroes as objects to
white men. and from crimes against wo-
men to throwing beer glasses as provoca-
tions, what more is there to be said?
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J. Stuart Kuykendall writes in the
North State Industrial Journal advo-
eating the manufacture of mattings in
the South. He says that the National
Agricultural Department is investigating
the possibilities Of the manufacture of
mating from rush now growing wild in
the swamps of almost every Southern
State, that found in North Carolina, Ala
bama and Texas being nearer the kind
required than that found in other South
ern States. He says that looms to weave
the rush have been patented and several
of them will be set up in North Carolina
as soon as they have been made. He be-
lieves that this is a step toward the
proper utilization of a great amount OF
hitherto unused raw ma.erial, and that
the result will be an enhancing Of the
value of almost valueless swamp lands and
the distribution in this country of vast
sums of money, amounting to about 49,
100000, which are annually sent abroad to
China and Japan for the purchase of mat
ting Should the experiment be a success,
another money-maker will be added to the
cotton mills and furniture factories Of
North Carolina. Manufacturers Record.
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The Worth Manufacturing Company is
changing the output of the mill from
white to colored cloth. Putting in new
machinery, building additions and a gen
eral change are the natural results.
Beginning this week the new Clark Cot
ton Manufacturing Company, OF Jones'
hero, Of which David Clark, of Charlotte
is president. and w. A. Graham Clark.
of Jonesboro, is secretary and treasurer.
viii start up operations for the first time.
It viii manufacture demins exclusively,
az least for the present.
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The Washington Post says it would
have more faith in the Salvation Armys
plan to redeem Breathitt county if He'll
roann Jake Smith could be induced to
lead the crusade.
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HOW DID THEY KNOW IT2

Henderson Gold Leaf
The jury in the Jones murder case at
Wilson failed to agree. Well, that Is
what the jury-composed as it was-was
there for. Counsel for defense knew
from the time the jury was made up that
a verdict of guilty would not be rendered.
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DESERVES A GOLD MEDAL.

Savannah Morning News
Can't Governor Hayward, Of South
Carolina. give Miss Mary Creech, OF
Barnwell, daughter of the sheriff of that
county, a gold medal? She deserves one
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1T OUGHT TO BE.
Asheville Citizen.

Asheville Citizen.
IT the Mehaffey Communication is not the
limit in the pardon business it ought to
be.
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A MORNING TONIC.
Henry Van Dyke.l

Life is an arrow; therefore we must know
What mark to aim at. how to WELD the
bow;
Then draw it to the head and let it go.
TThe above thought in verse closed an
admirable address by DIR. Van Dyke to
the students of Park College. He had
very happily urged upon the young men
the need of deciding not only what they
intend to do, but what they intended to
do it for.l
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Among the Railroads.

The following is from the Fayetteville
Observer: ut is said that the Aberdeen
and Rockfish Railroad which now runs
trains on regular schedule to within ten
miles of Fayetteville, is one of the best
paying little roads in the country. II
certainly runs through a splendid territory.
Our people should make strenuous efforts
to induce the road to extend to Fayette-
vile at least. Some time ago Rev. p r.
Law had the following in the Lumber
Bridge correspondence OF the Lumberton
Robesonian:
ut is reported that the Aberdeen
and Rockfish road has been sold to
capitalists, who have a charter to
build road from Fayetteville to Con-
cord This road lies in part in Robe
son. At its elbow it is within about
six miles of Lumber Bridge. At this
point its course Is changed abruptly,
making almost a right angle and runs
across Big Rockfsh over into Cumber-
land, and has its terminus near Galatia
church. Should the report of the sale
be confirmed it would be profitable to
Robson in general and many people
In particular to have the road extend
ed in the general direction 1T runs.
from Raeford, down to Dundarrach
and on to Lumberton. The distance
then from the far-off upper end would
be cancelled and the tedious and
fatiguing rides of suitors witnesses
and others would be obviated. We trust
there will be a general uprising in be-
half of this enterprise, should the oc-
casion be presented Meanwhile we
shall watch with interest all the devel-
opments of the new road
-
A Vicksburg correspondent writes that
the fame of aunt jimmy" has gone far
beyond the borders of her native State.
Aunt jimmy enjoys the distinction of be
ing the only NEGRO woman depot master
in the country. Go to the Queen and
Crescent depot some day at vicksburg and
listen to her as she shouts: "Heah's yer
Loozanner train. heahs yer Loozanner
train, Loozanner train; all erboard for
jackson, Meridian, Moo Awlyns, Washing
tn. Baltimore, Philhdelfy Moo Yawk, Bos
ton, in Massachusetts, Yurrup, Asia.
m Afriky." And again, 'Heah's yer
.Sreevepote train, heah's yer Sreevepote
train, Sreevepote train; all erboard fer
Dehi, Tallula, Monroe, Sreevepote and
Texas"
of course you begin to chckle and start
off on your journey, thanks to Aunt jimmy,
in broad grin.
Aunt jimmy has been a railroad employs
for thirty-six years. She belonged before
the war to some people down in Alabama,
and was with them throughout the strug-
gle. She says she warned them more than
once of the approach of the enemy.-Com-
mon Carrier.
For some time the question of the
further extension and development of the
railroad of the Goldsboro Lumber Com
pany has been agitated, still nothing
definite appears to have been done in the
matter. We hope the much needed I'M
provement will be undertaken and per-
fected. 1t would no doubt pay the Al
lantic and North Carolina railroad to Sc
cure the right to use the lumber road now
in operation and extend and equip it SO
as to furnish efficient service to the people