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Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
COTTON IS MAKING
 A RAPID GROWTH
Crop Report for the Past Week is Encouraging and Shows Much Progress in All
 the Staples.

The crop report for the week just closed, sent out by the gov- ernment bureau, follows:
 The temperature during the week was nearly seasonal, with warm days and cool nights. The rainfall was in excess of present requirements over most of the state and as result crops are grassy in many sections. A high wind on the 18th did considera- ble damage to corn and orchards in some localities.
 Cotton is making good growth. The plant is still small for the season, but is healthy. Chop ping is about completed and blooms are reported in some sec- tions.
 Corn is about all laid by. It is making a very favorable growth and the indications are for a full crop.
 Oats and wheat harvest has been retarded somewhat by the rains, but where this work has been carried on the yields se- cured have generally been very satisfactory.
 The indications are for good crops of apples and peaches of excellent quality.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
PRAIRIE COUNTS
 NEW COURT HOUSE.
Corner Stone to be Laid July 28, And Big Time is Expected
 Barbecue and Picnic.

Des Arc, July 5. 5.-Active work on l.. ,new court house for Prai- rie. cot ty has begun at this place. The excavations for the foundation, have been completed and bricklaying commenced to- day, the first brick being laid by Judge J. R. Reid. Shipments of stone for the trimmings have commenced and about twenty five car loads of brick have been received.
 The laying of the cornerstone will take place about the 18th, and a committee has been ap- pointed to arrange for celebra- tion of the event. It is probable that barbecue and picnic will be given.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
BETTER MEN FOR
 PUBLIC LIFE.
New York Preacher Talks on Questions of Vital Interest
 to His Congregation.

New York, July 5. 5.-Dangers and safeguards of the United States as a great nation of the future have.been discussed by the Rev. David c. Wylie, pastor of the Scottish Presbyterian church.
 Although church and state are separate under our govern ment, their welfare," he said, lis closely connected. The coun- try has made marvellous pro- gress in civilization and prosper ity, but" he asked, would America remain great and grow greater, or would it collapse as other great nations had done?" He continued:
 If our country is to maintain the place it now occupies certain great evils must be very swiftly checked.
 "One evil is Mormonism. The second is divorce. It endsagers our social state by destroying thousands of families. The next danger is the saloon.
 Still another danger is from corporations. They must be carefully regulated by law and held strictly responsible.
 ''The need in America is great CT respect for law. We ought to feel the law is sacred. There ought to be no such thing as a liberal administration.
 We must put our best men in public life. They should measure up to Bible standards. They should fear God, hate covetous- ness and have ability. There ought to be no place in our pub lie life for any other kind of
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
UNUSUALLY HEAVY
 PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

Little Rock, July G.. .-Passen- ger traffic from this city to the Worlds Fair continues to in- crease. At the opening of the fair the Iron Mountain put on some of the finest equipped trains in the southwest to handle the traffic which was sure to re- suit. Extra long trains were provided. New engines were purchased'to draw these trains and all arrangements made to accommodate the enormous amount of business which this road expected.
 All these calculations have been set at naught. These trains with their extra ars are unable 70 carry all who desire to visit St. Louis.
 Op6Naturday night two mora sleepers were added to the fast night train and again Sunday night. Last night this was the <ase a third time in succession. All plans for caring for the crowds who are going to the fair are upset, and every train goes out of Union station loaded to the guards, with every berth taken. Even the local trains which stop at almost every station between this city and St. Louis come in with every car taxed to the utmost.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
POPS NAME WATSON.

Springfield, H., July 5.-All the other names were withdrawn from the Populist national con- vention here today and Thomas Watson of Georgia was unani- moGs!y nominated for president.
 Thos. H. Tribbles of Nebraska was nominated for vice president and the convention then ad- journed.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06

Read the Independent for the news.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
MARRIED AT AUSTIN.

Austin, July 5.-Last night at the Baptist church Mrs. Sue Scruggs of this city was married to J. B. Naylor of White county. The couple left this morning for their future home.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
WHITE FOX CAPTURED.

Ed Six and his bride spent the Fourth with relatives in Oil Trough, says the Batesville Bee,
 Monday morning the young ben- |edict and his brother concluded Ito celebrate by engaging in a fox chase, and with hounds, horns
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
TO THE FAIR.

Tickets on sale to St. Louis daily via the Iron Mountain route. S9.55 for the round trip; return limit fifteen days from date of sale. T. H. REAMEY, Agt.
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
LOW ROUND TRIP RATES.

Low rates to other western points, via Union Pacific. Quick est time. Ticket office, 903 Olive street, St. Louis. W8-2t
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
ROBBED LAST NIGHT

The Palace Jewelry Store, but opened this morning with the largest display of watches ever opened in Newport. s0d4t
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
SMALLPOX c, 5Es
 AT WA vUT RIDGE.
Five New Cases H. 2 Developed North of That Town in tae Past Few Days.

|lNNN Within the past few days, says |(|)N Nthe Walnut Ridge Journal, i've l new cases of smallpox have de- y veloped at the Hi,l-Fou1taln
 faryn north of the city, but they
 are those of the family where : disease was first discovered.
 trr. McCabe, who has been 4 deting the first case that was he.eloped, promptly notified the at ..lth authorities and steps were
 once taken to guard against ana te further spread of the dis
 thase.
 ~. But little fear is entertained ,. g by the board of health that the | ;. dd1Isease will become epidemic d thar radical steps will be taken f talk Stamp it out as soon as possi-
Newport daily independent., 1904-07-06
TWINS OWNERS
 HEAVILY FINED.
Violated Maritime Regulations In Running Boat Without
 Licensed Engineer.

At Memphis Friday Williams & Purcell of Batesville, Ark, owners of the steamer, Twins, of that place, were fined $500 in two cases on the charge of vio- lating the government regula- tions governing navigation by running the boat without a li- censed engineer. V. Purcell one of the owners, was also fined S100 for acting as engineer with out holding an engineers license. The fines were assessed by Sur veyor of Customs James Jeffreys.
 The papers in the cases have been forwarded to United States District Attorney1 w. c. Whip pie of Memphis, and he will pro- ceed against the owners of the Twins as in other criminal cases. The matter will probably be laid before the next federal grand jury.
 The fines were assessed on charges and evidence presented by Capt. Hiram o. Brazee, in- spector Of hllls, and Capt. Henry {. Waltz, inspector or boilers, both Of Memphis.
 The owners are charged with having violated section 4463 of the revised statutes of the United States, which applies 10 al owners or managers of steam vessels navigating waters of the United States.
 LOW ROUND TRIP RATES. St. Louis to Denver and
 return. .....-.,....... S25.8 St. Louis to Salt Lake City
 and return rn.,,,,,,.,..-.,.,,.,. 500
 Low rates to other western points, via Union Pacific. Quick est time. Ticket office, 903 Olive street, St. Louis. W9-2t
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31
HOW TO MAKE "GOLDBUGS.'

The 1896 "goldbug'' was the man
who denied that there was need of an
increase in metallic or primary mon
ey. In fact every Palmer and Buck
ner and Mckinley elector who went
on the stump declared that it was mot
more money that is needed, but more
confidence" and some of them act
ually declared that "the country is
suffering from a plethora of cur7
rency." Since then, by reason OF the
new discoveries of gold the per capita
circulation has increased from about
$21 to $32, and the fact that the
money question is not now an issue is
due to Providence and not to Roose-
Welt.
Now that the gold standard is in
operation, the continuance of that
standard is dependent upon a steady
annual supply of gold from the mines,
and the State that supplies most of
this gold is doing most to prevent the
business disasters that follow a con-
traction of the volume of money.
4NOIlu SdIOllilei lOIiS OCCIl IL SOiu
producing State, but the volume has
not been large. The following item
from the Thomasville Times gives
hope that North Carolina is to get
very gold-bug-ish'' in the way that
helps:
Capt. NJ l.. Jones, gentleman
whom the Times enjoys talk with
because being an enterprising business
man always has something worth list
ening at to say. showed us an en-
larged picture of 351 IL. ounce bar
of gold, the output of his lola mine
for only ten days. The bar was worth
$3,48O. This mine of the Captains is
undoubtedly the greatest producer
ever found east of the Rocky Noun
tains."
There are millions of dollars worth
of gold in the river beds and in tina
bowels of the earth in North Caro-
lima that ought to be put into circula-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31
LEES TRIBUTE TO CAROLINIANS

Gen. Lees speech to the editors at
Morehead charmed all who heard him'
In reporting the speech the New Bern
Journal says:
"When the orator spoke of the GAL
liant achievements of North Carolina S
soldiery in the Civil War. his voice
gathered volume and sweep and ms
face flushed with enthusiasm. From
his own kindling eyes to those OF ms
hearers emotion seemed to leap in glad
flashes. He spoke in burning periods
of Worth Bagley as the first and only
naval officer killed in the war with
Spain. He recalled the fact that the
First North Carolina, under Colonel
Armfeld, was the primal regiment to
march through Havana. His tribute
to our brave soldiers was one to make
the heart swell with pride for the
dear old mother, Carolina, that gave
them birth"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31
THE WEEKS IMPORTANT EVENT.

The most important event of this
week in the history of the State is the
meeting of the State Farmers Conven-
ton in Raleigh which begins tomor-
row at the A. and M. College.
1t is important because it is meet
| ing of men on whose prosperity is
based the mud-sill of the progress of
the State. SO long as there is is ma
terial success on the farm, so long
as the things which come from f1rst
hand are given their true place in the
scale of value, then so long may we
look to the continued advance of the
State along the line of an enduring
prosperity.
The topics to be discussed will be
those which apply to the best inter-
ests of the farmers, and they will be
discussed by men who are qualified
to do this, men who study conditions
and causes, men who have at heart
the devising of means which will tend
to make better the lives of the farm
ers, and to add to the practical re-
suits of his toll.
One of the important matters to be
discussed will be that of a plan by
which the cotton farmers may at all
times get fair prices for their pro-
ducts. A method of cotton warehous-
ing is being urged throughout the
South, and the matter will be present
ed to the convention at its session this
week. Among the speakers there Will
be Judge Eugene Williams of Texas
man who has thoroughly digested
this matter and he will present the
plan to the convention.
The sessions are on Monday, Tues
day Wednesday of this week. Low
rates of travel have been secured, and
the program published elsewhere Will
show that it is a meeting which should
be largely attended by the progressive
farmers of the State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31

whose private life cannot bear the call
cium light. Men who do not walk cir
cumspeCtly in their private life cannot
be safely trusted in public positions
of trust. The man of average ability
whose life is clean, is worth a dozen
ADLER men of low ideals and unclean
private life. Mr.. Holman never lows
cred his moral standard in politics
He proved that the same standard of
morality ought to prevail in politics as
in agricultural life.
Mr.. Holman believed in the old
fashioned way Of keeping the Sabbath,
as practiSed by the Scotch-Irish who
settled Iredell. No hot meals were
served at his home on Sunday. 1t
was a Bible-observed day. On one oc-
caSion a school-teacher boarding at
Mr.. Holman's, went to the wood pile
| to chop some kindling. ''There must
not be the sound of an axe on my
, place on the Sabbath" said Mr.. Hol-
man, and he found kindling which had
| been made ready on Saturday. On
Sunday morning he would hitch up a
wagon and carry all the neighborhood
| to church, there was cold dinner for
| all who would accept his hospitality,
| but there was no levity around the
board on the Sabbath. Asked by a
guest one Sunday afternoon to go with
L
Dor. Mr.. Holman asked us he sick?''
Being answered in the negative, he re-
piled: Il never visit neighbor on
Sunday unless he is SICK" and the
visit was not made.
As the wealthiest man in his towns
| ship he was also the most liberal. He
was q money-lender and liz his bust
ness affairs pursued business methods.
| He never charged more than the legal
rate of interest, and he never pressed
. neighbor who was in his C\bt. lie
was charitable liberal. kind. Not q
few bows owe to him the chance OF
an education. for he was ever ready
TO help an ambitious boy through COLI
| lege. One of the brightest young men
at Wake Forest this year was sent TO
| that institution by the generosity OF
| Mr.. Holman. Nobody knew from MN
of any generous act. He did not let ms
left hand know what his right mana
| did. -, ~,
| He was a kind-hearted, GENIAL, IoV
able fashioned North Carolina tar
mer. He loved his State, he loved ms
| fellowmen, he loved right. he saw
clearly. He thought for hlnseH
though glad of unseltish advice. but
though i'm council often with lawyers
| and other men of broader knowledge
| he trusted to his own conclusions. anc
was nearly always right, and he always
had the courage of his convictions.
! j. d.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31
a TRIBUTE.-THE LATE JOHN B
HOLMAN, OF IREDELL.

The StatesvilIe papers note the
death of Mr.. John b. Holman at his
nome in Cool Spring, Iredell county,
last Sunday morning. He was sixty
six years old and had been sick for
more than six months with cancer or
the liver. His wife and two children
Mr.. Floyd Holman, of Wilkes coun-
ty, and Mrs. Joseph NOEL, of RoX-
boro-survive him.
The death of this good man should
be the occasion for calling attention
to those qualities that gave him the
opportunity for large usefulness which
he improved to the utmost.
He began life as a farmer with
only limited education. He never mao
any other calling than tiller or the
soil. He died on his farm, which MS
wise industry had improved. BY
thrift and economy he had accumu-
lated 2 competence, more than suffl-
Gent for the simple tastes of himself
and his wife, a "helpmeet in the
Bible sense of that good word. There
are plenty of farmers in North Car
olina. with as much education and as
much wealth and as much capacity
for public service as John B. Holman
who have never been heard of outside
their county Yet John 3. Holman
wrote his name large on an impor-
tant page of the States history and
made his influence felt for good dur
ing a term of years when the State
needed conservative leaders who be-
lieved in Conservative Progress.
When John b. Holman was first
nominated For the House in Iredell
county in 1885, he doubted his ability
to represent his county in the Legisla-
ture. He had been a safe and sensible
county commissioner, and was regard
ed as one of the county's first farm
ers. He had never made public
speech in his life and he diStrusteC
his capacity to make laws. But he
| had the sort of public spirit that
had caused him to be always inter
ested in public questions, and he also
believed that it was the duty of every
man to serve his State when called
upon to do so. He accepted. AS his
colleague in the House he had Hon.
Augustus LeaZar, one of the most
useful legislators this State has
| known. In the House of 1885, Mr..
Holman was a quiet member, but be-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31
pLUCKY GIRLS. THESE.
Normal College Girl One OF SIX VINO
Worked Their Way Through
COLLEGE,

In the Ladies' Home Journal for
August there is an interesting article
entitled "How Six Girls Worked Their
Way Through College" The girls
who tell how it was done graduated
at Vassar at Cornell at the University
CT Illinois, at Radcliffe. at the Uni
versity of Michigan and at the state
Normal and Industrial College or
North Carolina.
The account of how she did this is
given as follows by the young North
Carolina woman who says:
Orphaned at the age of fifteen, with
an invalid sister wholly depdldent
upon me. / worked my way through
college in five years, during which
time / supported myself and her, ana
paid all my college expenses except
$50. When my parents died was
too young to undertake any work.
that imposed responsibility, so l de-
termined to finish my education. Sc
curing board in a private family for
So q week for myself and my sister,
I went to work in hosiery mill. In
less than a month 1 had become an
expert looper, making from $40 to
$12 a week. AT the end of the nrst
year ! had saved $3.50. The second
year / only saved $3.50. as | did not
work through the whole year. being
study.
THE next year 1 entered the Soph-
omore class of Greensboro College
with $3.50 to my credit. paid for my
tuition the first year, but the second
and third years l secured tuition free.
My expenses the first year We're: Board
in the dormitory, $50; tuition, S4o;
clothes and sundries, $40; my sisters
board 500. My expenses the second
year were about the same, less $40
tuition.
During vacation. in addition to
my mill work, l taught an evening
school. established by the mill owners
for the benefit of the childven who
worked in the mill. This paid me So
a week extra, SO that during vacation
| was able to save $3.50.
"At the beginning of my senior
year, after working all summer, L had
only $780, just enough to pay my
own and my sisters; so in order to
be graduated with my class borrowed
$50 for my expenses, and paid it back
the next year"
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The Common People.

We are the common people, the hew-
ers of wood and stone.
The jewellers in common places,
mighty of Drawn and bone,
the common burden that only
the shirkers shun,
And doing the common duty that 9TH
ers have left undone.
Dubbed, by the few plebeian, rabble
or proletaire,
Ours is the hand that feeds them, ours
is the prize they share,
And ours is the common blessing, free
to the toilers ALL
To win from the lowly valley unto the
submits tall.
Common and only common
This by the might of birth
Yet the world in its need leans on us
We are the kings of the earth.
We are the common people, and ours
is the common clay
That God deemed fit for using, when
i'm that olden day,
He took the dust of the garden, the
dust that His will obeyed,
Fashioned and formed and shaped it,
and man In His image made;
And, seeing that God selected such
clay for the human test,
And deemihg His wisdom suffices to
choose but the surely best.
We, who are common people and
made of the common clay,
Leave to the proud uncommon to
improve on the Makers way.
Common, and only common
Tattered, sometimes. and frayed--
We still are content with the pattern
That God in His wisdom made.
We are the common people, yet out OF
our might is wrought,
Ever, by Gods own fat masters OF
mighty thought,
Men of that grand republic whose rul-
ers walk alone,
Piercing the future shadows, knowing
what seers have known;
And, measured by those, the unco'
are petty and wee and small,
Playing with gilded baubles, chatter
ing, voluble all;
And these, our sons, surpass them as
the hills o'ertop rhe glen,
For their great hearts throb to the
worlds long sob, and they are
the saviors Of men.
Common, and only common,
Hopelessly commonplace,
Yet out of our loins still issue
The saviors of the race.
Alfred j. Waterhouse in the August
Success"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31
THE CLOSE OF OUR GREAT SUM-
MIGR SCHOOL.

Nothing better marks the education
the large attendance at the Summer
Schools. The fact that three hundred
teachers attended the Summer School
at the University, that three hundred
more gathered at Davidson College,
and that eight hundred and fifty en-
thusiastic teachers assembled at the
A. and M. College Summer School,
shows that the best teachers in the
State are eager to take advantage OF
every educational opportunity Of
fered them.
The school just closing its doors
in our own city has been a brilliant
success from start to finish. Although
only two years old it has enrolled the
largest attendance of working teach
ers ever so far as we know assembled
for educational work in North Caro-
lima. It's officers and teachers OF the
school are being warmly congratula-
ted not only on the remarkable num-
bers attending but also upon the char
acter of the teachers attending and
upon the high grade work done =
The school is making Raleigh the
educational social center of the State
in the summer month. One of It's
greatest benefits is the bringing into
acquaintance and friendship so many
of our educational leaders and think
erS
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31
The Negro and Education.

The thirst among the negroes for
education is largely matter or the
Imagination. We have been warned
that under the Amendment the color
ed boys would be stimulated to double
diligence in order to qualify them
selves for the suffrage, while the white
boys would be laggards in the race
We happen to be brought IN close
contact with the educational interests
of Thomasville and have been amazed
to find the negroes so lndl1IerenI 10
the education of their children. Pay
ing less than a third of taxes Su1nclenl
to provide for the running expenses
OF the colored school, though new
and modern house has been erected
and two teachers employed for elgh'
months in the year, the negroes nave
hardly averaged twenty per cent OF
the children of school age in the town
ship, and although the teacher Is
above the average in ability nlne-
tenthS of the negroes are down on MIN
and do all in their power to lmpede
the progress of the school under ms
management. We see it stated also
that in Durham county, one OF the
best organized counties in the state
the negroes send only twenty-five per
cent. of their children while the Whlte
people send Seventy-five per cent. OF
theirs. The trouble seems to be that
the negroes are willing enough TO ac-
cept help from the white people pro
vided they control the schools put
they are unwilling even to receive light
and knowledge if it must come TO
them through white people. men
proves what we observed at the pc
ginning of this article, namely, that
the desire among the negroes Tor
education is a Pigment OF the pfaln.
They have no educational spirit among
them, but they do love a hurrah ana
a great narade. and forced to do solid
work in graded schools, supervised by
white men, they decline to patronize
them at all. Truly the coIored cltl-
zen is a curious element, ana nara to
handle AS was remarked py dis-
gnstad namher of a school board the
other night the management of mules
and negroes is about one and the
same; and it seems to be about that
way.