The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-21
STATE FAIR OPENS
PRESIDENT WINSTON .,F THE A.
& NJ. MAKES ADDRESS.
His Subject Was Agricultural Educa-
ton-Decision I'm the South Dakota
Bond Suit Was Not Unexpected.
Six Convicts for the Penitentiary.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. n. c., october 49,

Rale1gh, n. c., OCTOBER Io-
The State Fair was formerly opened
at noon by President George T. Win
ston OF the Agricultural and Mechanical
representing Governor Aycock
is absent on a campaign. The fair
Is a good n the exhibits numerous
and the attendance will be very large
1t ranks among the first OF all the fairs
IN the south and is the Oldest in point
OF continuance existance. Thursday
will be Johnston county day and 1000
That day will also be a holiday for
the postoffice and bank people and also
Tor the various state departments and
the public schools and most of the bus
iness houses will close for the day.
Professor w. F. Massey is back from
Newton where ne spoke at the poultry
and animal show which he says was
highly creditable to the people of Ca
tawdba county. 1t is held for the pur-
pose of exchange and sale of animals
and poultry. Grain and forage crops
were also shown.
The decision of the United States Su-
preme court not to grant a re-hearing
of the South Dakota bond suit case
was not unexpected by the state Off
Gals. 1t had been Governor Aycock's
desire to do everything possible and
so it was thought wise to employ dis
tinguished counsel to aid the state
counsel in making a motion before the
Supreme court. To this end John G.
Earlisle was employed as an attorney.
1t was understood that the United
States Supreme court would be asked
to postpone the sale of state bonds at
n main entrance of the National Cap
itOl until after the legislature meets.
That sale mas been ordered to be held
January 21st. The legislature meets
early that month.
Among the prominent arrivals here
are Ashley Horne, of Clayton, the pres
ident of the State Fair, Genera Will
Ian r.. Cox, of Edgecombe county,, and
the following attorneys who are attend
ing the Supreme court: Jhon d. Shaw,
Jr., Rockingham; John A. Lockhart,
;WadesbOrO; Thomas J. Jerome, A. NJ.
Stack, r. NJ. Lemmond, Monroe; w. J.
Adams. Carthage; v. Z. McIver; San
ford.
Six %cOnvicts arrived today at the
penitentiary from Craven county, four
of them being negro women, sentenced
for cutting a white man almost to
pieces; the others being a negro man
who gets ten years for felonious assault,
and the other a negro thief.
State superintendent Joyner is inform
Or thot tu-o IonoI school 1ictriof- sn
Gaston county, Dallas and Lucia have
voted special tax; three n a half
school districts have been consolidated
at Dallas.
The venerable but sprightly Orrin r.
Smith, of Henderson, was seen here to-
day, wearing badges Of three wars, one
the Mexican war. the other the cam
paign against the Mormans in Utah,
the expedition having been command
ed by Albert Sidney Johnson; and third
the Civil war. He is the only man in
the United States who a wear all
three badges it is said. He attended the
reunion of Mexican veterans at the
Worlds Fair this summer and says
that of the 100 present three fourths
were either from North Carolina or the
descendants of North Ca%rolinians. This
us a very remarkable showing.
The North Carolina State Fair was
opened today with an address by DR..
George T. Winston, President of the
North Carolina College Of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts. The subject of his
address was agricultural Education
Tie declared hat the South is entering
upon an era of great n permanent
prosperity along agricultural lines, and
that it can be made the wealthieSt and
most independent section of the Union,
THE state can produce everything need
ed for its own comfort and h supply
the world besides, with cotton and to-
bacco. The three drawbacks at pres
ent are /, lack of industrial training
and education, 2. inefficient negro labor
3. Cypress re protective tariffs. Our
educational system is dong its best to
toll away the brightest boys from the
farm, and u protective tariff is doing
it's best TO starve out those that re-
main.' Agriculture should be f~osterei
both by education and by legislation
for it is the basis not only of all ma.
terial prosperity but of civilization it
self. The farmer feeds and clothes
the world, and supplies each generation
with a fresh stock of manhood. No peo-
pie can become great or remain so
whose chief industry is not agriculture
Life on the farm creates health
strength, character, and intellect suffi,
cient to equip a lad for n or al
trades, occupations and professions
Fol this reason sturdy farm boys are
found as leaders in every walk of life
while boys and girls raised in cities
have not as a rule the moral n phys1-
cal power and self-reliance and indie
pendence to go to the farm and perform
its strong, healthy, vigorous work. This
point was illustrated by h story o.
the giant Antaens who became strongel
every time he touched the earth, and
lost strength by loss Of contact will
mother earth. It has been so with MAJ
throughout all the ages, and will be 81
doubtless orever. The further his dali!
life and work draws him away from
mother nature, the weaker, more artt