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other crops are lying idle and could be cultivated. Our answer is that our pop ulation is increasing by hundreds of thou- sands of native-born southerners each year. The great cry of those who are pressing forward the enactment of laws in southern states for the wholesale im- portation of foreigners into the south is to increase our cotton area and multiply the number of farmers in the south"
 l quote the foregoing from the At lanta Cotton Journal to show again what false views and prejudices are held in regard to southern immigration even by those who should know better and display a broader Knowledge to the people they desire to influence.
 It cannot be the purpose of this ar ticle to enter upon learned discussion of races, and l shall therefore answer the plea for the perpetuity of the An glo-SaXon race in its purity in the south with only few common-sen observations. Leaving aside the ques- tions wh ether any Caucasian race in the history of the world ever succeeded in preserving it's racial integrity with
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MEEEINGS-By J. C. Hiden, D.

ment. and is in effect. violation of it's spirit.
 z But note the almost inevitable re- action.
 After the ..revivalist'' has gone his way to fresh fields and pastures new, then comes not infrequently the deadest, dun est, dreariest time that the church ever sees. The big meeting" has taken up d great deal of their time, and little meet ings now become the fashion. Young converts who attend their first prayer meeting and gaze at the empty benches cannot help wondering what has become of those zealous saints who only week before last were erowding the main audi ence room, and singing so Justify, and urging sinners to go up and be prayed for" Alas, the basement of the church. which is about half as large as the main audience room, is not one-third full; and the discouraged and half discountenanced pastor, with the help of dozen dull voices, is singing to a sleepy tune.
 How tedious and tasteless the hours. Is that prayer meeting a good school for the training of young converts?
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"HE average successful lawyer is
 student of precedents. Consult him ! today and he will bid you call next week for his opinion He is laborious, runs down the decisions, and when you again enter his office he is ready to advise you. He does not poster his mind as to the philosophies of the law, though he has the eyes of lynx for it's technicali- ties. His mission is to obtain the judg- ment and earn his fee. To his mind law is law because the courts have held it to be so
 There is a higher class of lawyers-they who are endowed with a genius for the science of jurisprudence and have pro found sense of justice They make study of principles, which they affix to their minds as the mathematician fixes the multiplication table to his calcula- tions. Consult such lawyer and he IS not necessitated to turn to the authorities to learn the law.
 The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
 Familiar as his garter.
 This man has saturated his mind with Coke on Littleton, Blackstone, Fearne, Chitty, and the res- o1 the great masters. John G. Carlisle once had a big case pending in the supreme court of one of the Ohio valley states that his political duties as speaker of Congress did not allow him to devote much attention to. A few days before this cause was to be argued he casually examined the record, and said to his secretary: 'There is
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nificant. It shows just how the public has come to regard meetings of this char acter. And when Christians allow them selves to drift into this way of thinking and talking. they will cease to expect and to work and pray for any large results from the regular services of the sane tuary l do not hesitate to say that any large ingathering at a regular Sunday service would be surprise to the aver age members of any church with which I am well acquainted. It is extremely difficult for a pastor to preach effectively to a church which expects no results from his preaching. But this leads to-
 g. The unhealthy effect upon the char acter of the preaching.
 It too often comes to be understood that the style of preaching in a pro- tracted meeting must be something pecu- liar; that the regular, every-Sunday style will not suit. The preacher Is expected to "get up a revival,' and his work is re- garded as a failure if the revival be not forthcoming. Under such circumstances, the temtpation to resort to machinery of
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But Overman, when he fell under the spell of Vance's tremendous personality, was not a crude mountain boy. He had been graduated from Trinity college, denominational institution of the Metho- dist Church South, and thus he brought culture, as well as native wit, to fit him for the association of Vance. Augustus S. Merriman and Vance, born in the same county, had been rivals in boyhood, and each had emulated the other in man. hood Vance had done as much as Ben Hill to drive the carpetbag vultures out of the south, and it was thus he became knowt to the country atl arge. He had made a speech at Louisville. Ky, that was pronounced by those who heard it equal as a stump effort. to anything that ever fell from the lips of Thomas F. Marshall or Richard Menifee or Joseph Holt, and democrats everywhere outside of North Carolina longed for the time when Vance should take his place in the Senate, but for the terms 1S7S-1S79 Merr- man was preferred Vance succeeded him, and Merriman then became chief justice of the state supreme bench.
 The rivalry between these distinguished men was not without bitterness, and it speaks volumes for Overman that though he married the daughter of Merriman, Vance refused to part with him as pri- vate secretary.
 It was not until Vance became senator in 1S79 that Overman entered actively on the practive of law. He was immedi- ately successful and soon became lead CT of the bar of North Carolina. How much of smill as a practitioner he owed to his association with Vance nobody kwons but we may be well assured it was a great deal. Like all southern gen. tlemen, Overmani could not have kept
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one sort or another is very strong. "We will engage in prayer. all kneeing, and after the prayer we will continue kneel- ing, while we sing the Sd hymn" What Is this but a mechanical contrivance for getting up steam? And yet how many of us have heard the changes rung upon this sort of manipulation until we could not help wondering what sort of out-of- the-way trick would come next? There can be little or no doubt that, to the average mind. the power of the simple truths of the gospel to convict, to con vert to sanetify and to save is seriously obscured when we lay so much stress upon our manipulations.
 If we really believe that the gospel IS the power of God unto salvation. why can we not depend upon it without sup plementing it with revival tactics? If souls are really saved by the regenera- tion of the Spirit and the belief of the truth, why put them through a course Of singing on their knees? This whole mod ern ecclesiastical manual of arms is con spicuously absent from the New Testl-
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THE COUNTRY BOY.

By Byron Williams. Have you noticed that the fellow
 Who is talked of most today Was a barefoot in the country
 Tramping down the daisied way? Have you thought to count the leaders Who have warmed their frosty feet Where the brindle COW had rested
 Ere she yielded up her teat? Have you noticed that the great ones Know and love the things of. God, And have kept their senses fragrant With the perfumes of the sod? Have you ever pansed to figure
 With the perfumes of the sod? It's because he learned to hustle
 In the days of sauerkraut! It's because he's broad and honest,
 Has heart that's tuned to toll, Inspiration born and nurtured
 With the turning of the soil He has learned the golden lesson
 That man who wins must try With an earnestnes of purpose
 And frank look in the eye! So the country boy is leading
 Strong of frame and pure of heart Winning laurels in the struggle.
 Gaining honors in the mart. You can find him in the sanctum,
 In the court room, at the mill He is doing things by motto
 And the motto is T WILL"
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single question involved herein. I do not know that it has ever been decided in this country or in England, but if it has have been so-and-so," and then he made his meaning clear to the secretary, who searched in the supreme court library for two days and found the very de- clsons the precedence of Carlisle had pointed to- Armed with them he gained the case, though the argument he made to the bench consumed less time than 30 minutes. Aaron Burr. very success ful practitioner declared that to be law which is 'clearly stated and logically maintained" Lawyers of the class of Carlisle call that law which is founded on justice, as interpreted by human req son.
 North Carolina has been celebrated for a century for the rugged learning of It's bar. The old North State can show more lawyers familiar with Bacons "Abridg- ments'' than New York can show. Romu- Jus z. Linney a North Carolina moun- taineer, knows more black letter lore than all Harvard college, the Dane law school. included. He can trace every principle to it's birth. He can apply that principle to any given facts, and if he misses Eng fish grammar a mile he hits fair and square the bullseye of English juris- prudence.
 Risden T. Bennett another North Caro- lima mountaineer, was one of the first lawyers in Congress the four years 1SS3-S7. The Forty-ninth Congress, re- strictel by @ written constitution, that divorces church from state, undertook to
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IT ONDON, March 14-The attributes
 of men and women are divided of - the minds of most into brave men" and the gentle women," but I think that any student of history is bound to admit tLat bravery is creditably not the monopoly of man. but that women in all great crises exhibit quite as much fortitude as men.
 In our own time the squeen consorts of the royal houses of Europe have that bravery put to a test which falls tc the lot of few and none has ffinched fl om the ordeal.
 When, on her wedding day, the young queen of Spain had to encoun- ter the terrible outrage which would have shattered the nerves of most peo- pie, she was fearlessly driving in an open carriage again within few days. Queen Margherita, wife of the late King of Italy, has exhibited again and again the most marvellous courage
 When but a girl, soon after her mar riage, sitting by her husbands side, he was stabbed, she called to the minister riding with them, to save him, and the Empress of Austria walked firmly on
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cent of her cotton money annually to the north and east.
 That these settlers are needed either as tenants or owners of the lands, there can be no dispute. The southern plant CTS and farmers have scarcely enough help now to cultivate as much land as they do at present. There is not half enough corn raised even for their own consumption.
 Besides that the negro is totally unfit for horticulture or any higher branch of farming, such as an extensive raising of vegetables. poultry and cattle, the mak- ing of dairy products. etc.
 No one who understands the true aims of an immigration movement has ever advocated the wholesale dumping of the lowest class of foreigners on the south. But on the other hand why should the people in the south be continuously mis- led by wrong views and ideas and state- ments in regard to immigration so that they can no longer distinguish the real efforts in their own interest from the many mistakes made in the name of in- migration to the south.
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lon B. Vance; but there were left to North Carolina the memories of her glories from Kings mountain to Gettys- burg and these sustained her pride and nerved her sons for the struggles of re- construction
 The ooy Overman was educated, in the country schools, to and from which he walked miles through field and forest. His body was toughened by labor and outdoor sport, and his mind waxed with earliest manhood he was teacher, and a short time after he entered as fine school as could have been found in all America he became the secretary, the friend, the confidant, the disciple, the daily companion of zebulon B. Vance, then governor, and one of the most extra ordinary characters this country ever saw patriot, soldier, statesman, orator, poet, nobleman, Admiral Crchton, his brilliant versatility so dazzled his own generation that his giant stature will be fully meas ured only by posterity!
 Here was a school worth more to the intelligent boy, or young man, than all the academies. Vance was even wiser man than he was brilliant. He was as practical as he was poetic. Who but Zeb Vance could have put steamers on the ocean to bring from abroad supplies for the beleagured Confederacy and at the same time carry in his exuberant imagi- nation the thought that spawned the splendors of that matchless oration, The Scatterel Naton?" The Jews of America and of all the world must wear Zeb Vance in their hearts.
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ponent of protracted meetings. The first time I ever saw him was when he Was preaching with great power in pro- tracted meeting at Zion, a country church in Orange county, Virginia; and among my last and most pleasing re- membranes of him are some days which he spent preaching for me in Q protracted meeting in the First Bap- tist church of Wilmington. N. C..
 Nor can I believe that my Presby- terian brother was opposed to genuine revivals, or that he questioned thelr existence. Protracted meetings are no novelties They are older than the New Testament. Paul spent no small part of his life preaching in protractel meetings. At Ephesus he conducted Q meeting which lasted two years, and in which he preach ed every day.
 From a scriptural point of view. then, there is no ground for opposing protracted meetings as such. Most of the Christian denominations known to me have such meetings in one or another form. It has not been long since the Roman Cath
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BRAVERY OF ROYAL <WOMEN-By Lady Henry Somerset

woman in the person of Amelie, the wid- owed Queen of Portugal.
 Truly, her history is romance. one of the few royal romances of the present day.
 Reared in exile at Twickenham, in a house we'll know, and in surroundings which were very familiar to me, she grew up a healthy, charming, outdoor girl.
 The King, then Crown Prince of Por- tugal, saw her photograph at the house of the French ambassadors wife at Lis- bon. "That friend of yours must be very charming he remarked to his hostess. who smilingly answered: "She is good as she is charming, your royal highness. It is the Princess Amelie of Orleans.''
 Soon afterward the prince went to Paris. and before long the engagement took place, and at IS the young bride became Queen of Portugal. She was one of those fortunate people who had a hobby and was able to indulge it.
 Moreover, her hobby was one which benefited others, and that Is certainly bet ter than the collecting of useless china, old furniture or costly gems.
 Physiology was the young Queens de- light
 At her own expense she opened a dis pensary and hospital in Lisbon for the benefit of children
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TNROM reading a recent editorial in
 n the Atlanta Cotton Journal on for 4 eign immigration to the south one would think that an influx of foreigners even if they were homeseel<ers of a de- sirable class-would be fraught with all kinds of peril to the southern people in general, and to the farmers and planters in particular. Among other distorted state ments and false views in regard to i'm migration to the south the Cotton Journal says: Those who have impartially stud jed the economic question of labor and the development of southern resources admit that immigration to a certain extent would prove a potent factor of great value under existing conditions, but no man in the south, who loves his country and desires to perpetuate the Anglo-Saxon race in it's purity, can look at this ques- tion merely from cold-blooded commer- cial standpoint of vitw. The argument is made that millions of acres of land in the south that would produce cotton and
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a lemonade-with plenty of ice The bar keeps looks at me sort of surprised, but he deals the hand I've called for and stands up there in a row all by myself and drinks my lemonade. Somehow the place seems sort of quiet and lonesome, though there's piano banging away in one corner and about hundred eow-punchers calling for drinks in seven languages, so l drifts out into the streets again and stands on the corner and gazes at the festive throng wondering if I'm sick. I've got money in my pocket-it's the first time I've heard chips rattlng for three months, and find out all of sudden I'm not amused lit- tie bit. Frisco I says to myself, you're too good for this world-youd better go to bed,' which I does after smoking two bits worth of hree-for-a-quarter cigars.
 Tn the morning turns out good and early, loads up the blackboard with canned goods and groceries and. lopes over to the postoffice for the nah. The postmaster halls me when I sticks my head in the door and asks me if I want company. Says there's tender foot come in on the stage the day be- fore who's looking for Taylor's ranch. Of course. I says yes. and pretty soon they rounds him up and shows him to me. He's hardly more than a boy and he has on more good clothes than I've ever seen before all at one time. He looks like he's mighty long ways from home ,and the minute I set eyes on him I know what he's there for as well as though I'd been told.
 T reckon maybe I didn't look real joyful to see him, but he's 80 anxious to get started that he don't notice, and pretty soon we pulls out for the Bar-O.
 For the first hour or two watches the road pretty close and don't say much. sizing up my passenger out of the corner of my eye when he ain't noticing. Except for his good clothes he ain't bad looking boy, and 1 know he holds all the cards and will
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olics had such a meeting here. Episeo- palians have them by the name of ''mis- sions,' and Is not Lent really such d meeting?. Some of the most powerful evangelsts of modern times have been Presbyterian preachers. The Methodist church was born of a great revival, and has never forgot her birth nor her birth right. The Methodists of this country were the pioneers in camp meetings, which were of untold benefit to religion, to morals and to civilization, Ham, the famous Georgia politician and wit him. self Baptist. once publicly compliment ed his Methodist brethren by saying: "They will work harder and pray longer and louder to save sorrier people than will any other Christians in this coun- try.''
 The objectors to protraeted meetings, if candid and intelligent, will usually con- fine their opposition to the abuses to which such meetings are liable.
 When Poindexter spoke so vigorously against what he called sthe protracteI
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Nothing can be more distorted than such a statement. Practical and indus trious farmers are wanted and needed in the south. not to increase the growing of cotton, but to raise vegetables and fruit and poultry and cattle, and, Tn fact, all which the south should and could have and is lacking. Fully 50 per cent of all the money produced by cotton is annually sent north and east and west for feedstuffs, while the south could pro- duce and keep the money at home. No wonder that the north and east try to keep immigration away from the south. Who should buy their canned vegetables, their cabbage, their potatoes, their con densed milk. their salted meats, yea even their corn? Who but the south, some of whose would-be champions were ever a stumbling block to her prosperity and progress either by egotistical design or ig- norance.
 We are told, however, that 'our popu- lation Is increasing by hundreds of thou sands of native-born southerners each
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LEE SLA ATER OVERMAN OF NORTH CAROLNA-By Savoyard

diction in order to have his action of damages against Divine Providence for not opening a yawning gulf in the capi- forum, to give him opportunity to play Mettus Curtus Metaphorically. he cut the caper' every time he got the floor, and that was every time he was present dur ing a sitting.
 In 1895 the democrats nominated MT. Overman for the unexpired term of Vance in the Senate but Butler brought out Jeter Pritchard and beat him. Eight years later, however, the partnership be- tween guile and folly had been dissolved by mutual disgust and general disap- pontment, and Overman got the place he should have had in 1895. Butler was beaten by the present Senator Simmons in 1901 and North Carolina has been democratic ever since.
 When the rate bill was under considera- tion two years ago, the speech of Sem ator Overman challenged all the legal learning of the Senate, and the "Over- man amendment touching the court re- view was the subject of much debate. But the leader of the Senate played a game of politics and the White House joined in. The Roosevelt-Tillma Bailey Chandler combination was turned over to the Ananias club, and the Overman-Long agreement was lost in the shuffie.
 MT. Aldrich drafted the Allison amend ment," the White House accepted it, and the long agony of the greatest of all octopus chases was over.
 But Senator Overman got much credit out of the debate, and he ranks among the leaders of the greatest political deliD- erative body of America.
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and after that we was gamboling over the landscape pretty much all the time.
 First off, being new to the game, was a little shy on language, but she was so interested in everything that I got to be real eloquent in time. It was all new to her, you see, and different from anything she'd ever seen or heard of or dreamed about, and she just soaked up new ex- periences like sponge soaks up water. Even the flowers was different from what she's been used to back east and every time I found a new one to show her I felt like I'd struck streak of pay dirt.
 Every day she was growing prettier her hands were getting Drowned by the sun and the color coming into her cheeks and her eyes growing brighter-and every day I was getting more in love with her and more afraid she'd find it out
 It's curious how being in love affects some people. I believe I'd have stopped smoking if that girl had asked me-which she didn't She had me halter-broke in about week, so I'd stand all day with out being hitched, and when she'd smile at me for the milionth part of second I'd feel as tickled as a yellow pup when somebody losses him bone. I was sure foolish over her-and glad of 1t.
 "But trouble was coming my way-fast, and one day along in August I went to meet 1t. The old man tells me we've got to have some supplies, so I hitches a couple of cayuses to the blackboard and starts for town at sun-up. It's an all-day drive, and after I puts up the ponies and has my supper and orders the store truck I goes out to mingle in the festivities. Naturally, I'm a whole lot thirsty after riding all day in the sun, so I lets the Palace saloon absorb me and drifts up to the bar, wondering whether I'll have straight poison or a few of the new kind of fancy striped drinks, but just as the barkeep pushes a bottle of red-eye my way I catches a glimpse of a little blue eyed girl on 8 spotted pony riding along the trail to meet me, and I sticks out my chest and says, careless like, Gimme