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THE TEXAS r. PACIFIC.

Dec. 27 1904.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
The Terms of Peace.

The outlook for peace was not bright when we
wrote last week; and had not Japan receded from
it's position and accepted the Cars ultimatum-
no indemnity and no cession of Sakhalln-the
armies of Linevitch and Oyama would probably
now be slaughtering each other again. Japan act
ed with magnanimity. She gets all that she was
contending for when the began; but in view
of the completeness with which she had whipped
the Russians there was reasonably good ground
for her demand for Sakhalin and indemnity. That
she has not let these demands stand in the way
of peace. however has doubtless won the generous
Japanese nation the friendship of the world
probably more valuable asset than the money or
the island would have been.
1t is a matter of pride for all Americans too,
that the whole world recognizes the credit due our
President for bringing the Peace Conference to a
successful conclusion. More than any other
American for long, long time, Theodore Roose-
velt is to-day a world-fgure, and in the congratu-
lations of kings and emperors, and of Ameri-
cans of every creed and class, he had last week a
triumph such as it has been given few in any
age to enjoy
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
CURRENT EVENTS: THE TREND OF THINGS
AS WE SEE 1T.

1t is just year ago this week since we told OF
the battle of Lao Yang where half-milhon Rus
slams and japanese were engaged in deadly con-
fict-a half million men compared with zO9,-
600 at Waterloo and $4,000 at Gettysburg "A
battle which will be read about for generations yet
unborn" was our comment; and we did not think
that ere the war ended we should have even fercer
struggles.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05


struggles.
What the Peace Treaty Means to the World.
Away over here on the other side of the earth,
we wonder how many of our people realize what 1t
means to the human race that there is peace again
between the two great nations of Japan and Rus
siai To us ii is a passing incident; but IN mil
lions of homes of Russian peasants and in mil
lions of homes in Fair Japan it is a matter of re-
ioicing and of thanksgiving Every town and
hamlet has sent it's quota of men to the front;
every town has it's mothers wearing mourning for
their sons children orphaned of their fathers,
sweethearts bereaved of their knights. But now
thank Heaven! it is all over! No more shall we
read in our morning papers dispatches like that
in our story of Lao Yang year ago to-day:
"There was cannoading at long range, shaking
the earth and sickening the with it's defeaning
crashes; then infantry and cavalry charges with
the two armies facing each other In battle array
the dead and the dying borne off by hundreds
and lastly, the hand-to hand conflicts, when, with
baycnets as weapons individual japanese strug-
gled with individual Russians, grim Death grin
ming at the horrid game"
No more shall we hear of the sea tides redeemed
with human blood as men fight ankle deep in the
shore water And no more-with 100000 human
DclnSS dlr0duy hlIleu VI NOuuueu Ny UlA0AA 10A0"9
- shall we hear the vivid story:
'rUneasily sleeps Mukden tonight. In the main
street lamps hurn dimly. Along dark roads IN
heavy dust are marching columns. The cool night
is full of the lew rustic of movement. Near the
station, in overflled hospitals, heard low
groans. The Wounded arrive in a never-ceasing
stream of carts and another stream of ambulances
move northward, for the place must be cleared for
to-days victims. The eternal pines whisper above
the Iombs of Chinese Emperors. In the fields
the glare of burning stores and evacuated vii
lagos"
and then the correspondent went to tell
of the wearied forces gathering for further
fighting with the coming of dawn-men foot
and weak for of food and water and
eaten.
One hundred thousand killed and wounded, so
said, when this dispatch written; but So
900 more were added to the list before the war
god drank his fill of human gore on Mukden's
bloodsodden field. This was, it is said, the great
greater than the entire enrolment from North
Carolina in the Confederate Army through the
four years of our Civil War
And these things are recalled only in order
that We may realize in what history-making times
we have lived these last eighteen months, how
beings, and how notable an achievement is the
peace concluded at Portsmouth n. H., last Tues
day.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
pRoeREss1vE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT.

that the japanese may do this great task in +bo
course of the coming centuries; and it is the praa
est task of human helpfulness that is presented u,
the condition of mankind-to lift half the bn,na,
race from stagnant sadness into healthflI ac
tivities."
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

We often do more good by our symPPaa1N noore rlr
by our labors and render to the world uanor, 1no
lasting service by absence Of Jealousy anu b the
milton of merit than we could ever % %render nean
straining efforts of personal amblt0n
Farrar.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

course of the coming centuries and II is the nro+
est task of human helpfulness that is presented ~
the condition of mankind-to lift half the h,1r,a,
race from stagnant sadness into healthfuI ac-
tivities"
Governor Glenn Lynching.
The lynching at New Bern last week was nt,.r.
ly inexcusable. A larger bond ought to have bf,
named for this negro, but as he was as unable to
give $500 bond as $4,000 bond this was moth
ing more than the pretence of a crazed or blood
thirsty mob 1t was not ''the usual crime" and
it seems that the woman will recover Governor
Glenn deserves applause for directing Solicitor
Moore to make speedy and thorough investga-
ton with a view to bringing the lynchers to iu,-
tice. It was courageous action. "Such con-
duct as this,' says the Governor "casts blot not
only on the community where it happens but on
the whole State and should therefore, be severely
punished. AS announced in my inaugural al
Dress will hold myself ready at all times i'll such
emergencies to order special terms of court to the
end that speedy justice Justice may be meted out
to criminals and therefore, there is no excuse for
any mob taking the law in their hands, and com
mitting the detestable crime of lynching"
Minor Matters.
We printed last week Booker T.. Washingtons
denial of the story that he acted as escort for
John Wanamaker's daughter in the hotel at Sara
toga. We are glad the story is not true. Wash
ington is doing great work land it ought not to
embarrassed by such blunders as this. Washing
ton also makes a very grateful apology for dining
with Wanamaker at all, indicating that this occa
sional eating with white man is of the
things even a well-bred negro has to endure when
among Northerners!
The yellow fever epidemic is subsiding. And
this brings to mind a significant statement in the
Charlotte Observer last week: "Since the 1st Of
January of the present year there have been T.
SIS cases of typhoid fever in Philadelphia attend
ed by 454 Deaths a mortality of about 10 per
cent This year there have been 1903 eases Of
yellow fever in New Orleans, with 214 deathS-a
mortality of about 1872 per cent. 1t will surprise
the average citizen to know that the fatality from
yellow fever is so little in excess of that from
typhoid. And again, yellow fever ends with frost
while typhoid fever has all seasons for its own
There is little difference after all, and that in
favor of yellow fever"
Evangelist Fife writes to say that the Great
Western Gold Mining Company has not gone into
bankruptcy. It seems therefore that i'll this par
ticular statement we were little premature, but
ae are not ready to withdraw any of other OBJ
servations on this subject two weeks ago
God with
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

triumph such as it has been given few men i'll any
age to enjoy.
The Great Destiny of Japan"
And now that the war is over, what will Japan
do? And what will Russia do? 1t is likely that
we shall see great changes in the Cars dominions
"a gradual breaking away from the old autocracy
and the development of more modern and more
efficient government. In Japan likely to
see the beginnings of an era of great industrial
progress and expansion and-but the story can
not be better told than in the Worlds Work for
August; and we reproduce herewith DR.. Walter
Pages editorial on "The Great Destiny of Japan ::
"What effect will the Japanese victory have on
the future of Asia, and especially the future
of China? This is the question that every man
asks who studies the world in large way.
"The saddest fact that the widely travelled or
the widely read man finds on the earth is the con-
dition of Asia. The greater part Of the human
race live yet unhelped by the sanitary, mechanical
economic, and social discoveries whereby life III
the Western World has been freed. to a degree,
from plaques aud famines and poverty and abiect-
ness. These swarming millions of fellow
creatures miss most things that make life worth
living, regard it-such as reasonable safety
from hunger and want, reasonable labor, and
sonable freedom-a chance for child to grow to
full stature, to live normal number of years,
d
degree of independence in mind aud character
During the few centuries that we have enjoyed
these things, Asia has hardly changed at all.
True, British rule in India has brought order in a
small and has made life safer and lifted it
to degree; but there has been no great change.
Such change as has come has been super imposed.
1t has not proceeded from within nor taken deer
root. The outlook of these hundreds of millions
of human creatures is much the same as it was
in the time of Warren Hastings. And China re-
mains in a similar if less sad plight. The
fate that seemed year ago to await all
these Oriental peoples the unsympathetic
domination of Western nations, eager chiefly to
despoil them in trade-nations which were alien
and which, therefore, lacked the ability even when
they had the wish, to change the stagnant condi-
tion of Oriental life.
"Now Japan's rise to power puts new force
at work in this Old World. The most important
question that touches the lives of hundreds of
millions of men is whether the japanese can do for
other Oriental nations what they have done fer
themselves, and what no Western people can do
break up their stagnation and lift them to the
Western level in health, in normal activity and in
opportunity. They akin to the Chinese in
race and thought and language and religion; and
they are much nearer than any branch of the white
race to the other Asiatics Their ambition, too,
must urge them to this ennobling effort
This much at least is true-whereas there was
no hope of Europes awakening Asia to health
full and active existence there is now chance
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

We should be pretty we'll satisfied with this
weeks ISSUE even if there were nothing more valu
able in it than the articles page 2. The letters
from Messrs. Sherwood Parker, and the TWO
Moores are packed with valuable suggestions aoou'
hay making and curing peavine hay. 1t would not
be bad idea to file them away for future releI
ence And then the article on "Improvlng Oo'-
ton Seed" is one that every cotton grower ooS.l'
TO paste in his hat We doubt if there IS any o'A
crop grown on earth for which seed are Seier''
recklessly as for cotton. The plan Wlllc" i''
Allen suggests is of the simplest and most co.
nomical kind, and you should resolve rlgtl' "0"
put it into practice this fall
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-13
B|GAM|ST is GONE
Ed. Bennett Reported to
Have Fled the
City.

Ed Bennett charged with bigamy,
whose case was to have been heard
before Justice r. G.. Reid yesterday
failed to make his appearance. and
the small $25 bond was forfeited. 1t
was reported few days ago on the
street that Bennett had taken adj
vantage of the small bond and had
disappeared, and. no surprise has been
exhibited ut his action.
Justice Reid was phoned late yes
terday evening, and when asked for a
statement replied that he did not
know whether or not Bennett had
run away, and except for his absence
from his office yesterday, had no rea-
son to suspect that the man had
gone.
He said that the officers had war
rant for Bennett, but did not think
that Bennett had been seen.
The case against Benefits former
wife, now Mrs. Mary Hoas, also on
the charge of bigamy, which was set
for yesterday, was not tried. Justice
Reid said he did not know whether
she was in town or not, and did not
state that there was a warrant out
for her too.
Bennette endeavored to employ Col.
T. NJ Argo as his attorney, but Col.
.
thing bad about the man, and expect
ed that he would leave town. Col.
Argo said that both Justice Reid and
Constable j. A. Pope, who has the
warrant for Bennett, told him that
the man had skipped ava. 1t is said
that Mrs. Hoas is suffering severely
from rheumatism, and that for this
reason she did not appear before the
Justice yesterday.
Ed Bennett was born in Raleigh,
and here married Mary Watkinss.
about 1886 In 1888 he left his wife
and went to Ohio, and not hearing
from him, and thinking he was dead,
is wife, in 1896, married Louis Hoas,
a cotton mill operator in Raleigh. In
1892 Bennette married young wo-
man at Washington Court House,
Ohio, and about six months ago he
returned to Raleigh, where he has
since worked as Il sub-printer.
Here the foremr wife and former
husband met again, each married to
a second mate, and the matter was
talzen about to such an extent that
the authorities were urged to take
action, and warrants were issued for
both.
Last Friday the warrants were serv-
ed and Bennett appeared before JUS
tice Reid, but Mrs. Hoas was too
i'll to to leave her home. Bennett
was put under a $25 bond and the
case continued until yesterday, but
Bennett had gone, and no trial was
held.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-13
MIGRANTS ARE
LEAVING TOWN
Wholesome Effect of May
or's Policy.
SO WARRANTS ISSUED
Many Negroes Are Returning TO the
Farms. StreetGamins Disappear
ing. Police Are Making Daily Re-
ports On HabituaI IdIers.
ARRESTS To FolIoW.
Arrests to Follow.

Every day there appear at the May
or's office q large number of men, oc-
casionally a woman, both negroes and
out for them on the charge of va
grancy. The aggressive policy of the
Mayor in dealing with these parasites
on society and the examples he has
made, are having a wholesome effect
%upon the habitual idlers and gamblers
of the city. The police are making re-
ports daily on a long list of loafers
employment, they will be arrested
and il convicted, sentenced to the city
farm for thirty days
There have been issued about fifty
Vagrancy warrants, and of this number
there have been several convictions
but it is not uncommon that when the
person learns that a warrant is
out for him. he shakes the dust of
Raleigh from his boots, and is seen
no more in this city There has been
almost a transformation on Whining
ton street since the prosecutions be-
gan. An exodus of lazy, loafing ne
groes has taken place. and the thor
oughfare is now fairly respectable for
ladies. Another effect of the enforce
ment of the law has been greatly to
reduce the street gamins who pretend
to be boot blacks, several of whom
have disappeared altogether, and it
is probable that some of them have
found more solid and profitable en-
plCyment. Many negroes are return
ms to the farms.
Most of the warrants issued are for
negroes, whose mode Of subsistence
is questionable, and who have been
under the observation of the police
for several weeks. An opportunity
has been given all to change their
manner of living. and until they fail
to show any desire to improve, they
are not molested. But it is often too
late to make promises Of reform af-
ter the arrest. as the evidence i'm the
hands of the police is sufficient to
convict
The white man convicted OF va
grancy and fined $25 several days ago,
has returned to the city. but the 9TH
er two white men for whom warrants
on this charge We're issued, have not
been heard from since they left Raj
eigh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-13
THE GOVERNOR CRITICIZED.
States That He Went to Washington
in Casper's Behalf Not as Attorney
But to do a Favor.

A statement in q Winston paper 5
account of the compromise of the case
against distiller Casper after he had
plead guilty to defrauding the govern
ment, referred TO editorially yesterday,
to the effect that Governor Glenn had
gone to Washington to see Commission
er Yerkes. about the case, created some
criticism here yesterday by those who
held that it was in bad taste for the
Governor to act as an attorney for 4
criminal client
The paragraph referred to was as
follows:
Governor Glenn. who formerly
represented him, had not appeared in
the case but went to Washington Sat
urday to see the commissioner of in
ternal revenue it is said. Immediately
ii was ascertained that the case would
certainly be tried at this term of the
court, and was set for this morning.
The letter was written Saturday night
in Washington"
Last evening reporter of the News
and Observer called at the mansion
and acquainted Governor Glenn with
the fact of the criticisms referred to.
In speaking of the matter the Cover
Tor said that he had not gone to
Washington in any sense as an attor-
ney for Casper, but as a favor to his
former law partner, Hon. Clement
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-13
NORTHERN SHOWS
Secretary of Fair to Make
Personal Selections.
Largest Number of Counties Will Make
Exhibits at the State Fair This
Year Than Ever Before. Large
Agricultural Exhibits.

The Executive Committee of the
State Agricultural Society, at an i'm
portant meeting held a few days ago,
decided to send the Secretary of the
Fair, Colonel Joseph IG. Pogue, to the
north to personally select the amuse-
ments for the midway. Col. Pogue
will leave Raleigh for Baltimore,
Philadelphia, NewsiiYork and Boston
and the other principal northern cities
in a few days, and will be away for
two or three weeks. 1t is the inten-
ton of the Secretary to contract for
only the superlative charactered at
fractions, and they must be not only
new and novel, but original and in
structive, and up-to-date, exhibiting
nothing that would offend the most
fastidious.
Colonel Pogue says there will be a
large increase in the number of, coun-
ties represented this, year. The high
est number heretofore to exhibit at
the fair has been twenty, but the
Secretary has received communica-
lions from interested parties in thirty
five counties, and these will undoubt-
eddy be represented, besides a number
of counties that have not as yet been
heard from.
The office work of the fair authori-
ties is increasing every week, and in
dications now are that more space will
be occupied this year than at any pre-
vious fair. The agricultural contests
especially are to be more generally
participated in this year.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-13
Worth a ThOught
THIS STATEMENT WILL INTEREST
SCORES OF RALEIGH READERS.

The facts given below are worth a
perusal by all who are anxious about
their physical condition or are SINH
IapIy situated to this resident of Raj
eigh. 1t is "a local occurrence and can
be thoroughly Investigated.
A. Brown, horse dealer, lis e. Davie
street, residing at 123 Davie street,
saws: az used Doan's Kidney Pills and
found them to be an A / kidney reme-
DIV. NY back was hurting me and
had been hurting me for long time.
The secretions from the kidneys were
all out of keller, very dark colored
and full of sediment. / read about
Doan's Kidney Pills in our newspa-
pers and procured a box at Bobbitt-
Wynne's Drug Company's store. ]
had no faith in them at first, but at
ter using them / certainly had, for
they proved to be the best remedy for
the back and kidneys that / know of.
The kidney secretions cleared up and
my back has not ached since l used
HEM"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buf1alo,
N. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name, Doan's, and
take no substitute.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-13

Manly, who had phoned to him TO go
to see Mr. Yerkes as he was entirely
familiar with the case and could fully
explain the situation to the commits
sioner. The Governor of course re-
ceives no fee and does not consider
that he acted as an attorney, but mere-
ly as q friend and in the way of show
ing a courtesy to his former partner
and out of kindly feeling for a man
in trouble who was his client. The
fact that he was going to the Apo
mattox celebration rendered it spe-
cially convenient for the Governor to
make the trip.
While stating that he had not and
did not intend to act as attorney while
occupying the office, Governor Glenn
stated that he knew of nothing that
would prevent him doing so if he
should think it appropriate.
The charge against Casper, to which
he plead guilty, was removing" that
is shipping more whiskev than he had
paid the government for in stamps
and more than was shown to have
been sent out on the books of the com
Dany.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-13
Change OF Seaheard Air Line Railway
Schedule Effective April 10th,
Sunday, 1905.


The Seaboard Air Line Railway an
nounces the following changes in
schedule April 10th:
Train known as No SO, leaving Raj
eigh 1925 a. M, will be changed to
No. "a. and will leave Raleigh 1880
a. M
Train now known as No. 67, leaving
Raleigh at Ais a. M, will be changed
to No. 81; and will leave Raleigh at
$40 a. m.
These are the only changes in sched-
ules Of trains passing Raleigh.
Local train No. "A and No. As, oper-
ated between Hamlet and Wilmington
leaving Hamlet at 1850 p. M, arriving
Wilmington 1880 D. m, leaving VIII
mington at 4:25 a. M, arriving Ham
let S:35 a. m. viii be changed to leave
Hamlet at 4:40 p. m, arriving Will
mington $40 p. m, returning leave
Wilmington 700 a. m, arriving at
Hamlet 1880 O. m.
Under this change no Connection will
made at Hamlet with No. sc for the
North and with No Al from the North
For further information apply to
c. Fl. GATTIS, r. p. A.,
Raleigh, n G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-13
FOUND GOLD ON LAND.
Charles j. Aston, Travelling Man,
Meets Good Luck.

Supposed to be rich in a find of gold
on his land, Charles j. Aston who has
a wide acquaintance in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, In
diana, West Virginia and Virginia, as
a commercial tourist who travels for a
large manufacturer of Westfield, Mass
is now interested in gold bearing
lands, and has recently found a fine
lot of gold nuggets, of which he is
having a lot of jewelry made, these
being cuff buttons, stick pins, shirt
buttons, hat pins, rings, etc.
Mr.. Alston's land lies near where the
counties of Warren Franklin, Halifax
and Nash corner, and is surrounded
by gold bearing lands now being
worked for gold. Mr.. Aston thinks
of placing a lot in the State Museum
on exhibit to show what North Caro-
lima lands contain.