p Vol. W GREENVILLE, N. C., avons FEBRUARY 7, 1898. ),] WHICHARD, Editor and Owner. ° § TRUTHIN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. etre t renee ————— — THE SOUTH Ss OPPORTUNI ry. The Manufacturers’ Record, of Bal- timore, in jast week’s issue says ; “Jn the cetton-mill sitaation in New England 1s one of the greatest oppor- tunities for industrial development ever presentdd to the South, and the Man- ufacturers’ Record Publishing Co., in furtherance of its work for this séction, undertakes to send t cotton mill in the New England and Middle every States not now a subscriber, and to leading cotton-mill investors, a copy of the Manufacturers’ Record every week for the next three menths, and to keep in close touch by correspondence wit” these mills. We believe that this is one ofthe most important efforts which the Manufacturers’ Record has ever made in behalf of Southern develop- ment. “The cotton-manufac turing industry of New England, vestment of over = r epr egenting an in- $300,000,000, is the Das's of the enorreous industrial Ife of | that section, which represents the con- quest of natural disadvanta res by a costo of energy, unremitting ent rprise and activity. Dut there 1s a limit to such attainments. Artificial conditions may for a time be maintain- ed by such ettorts, even when opposed to natural Jaws, but noo indefinitely. According to tne report of the Ark-| (Jub, the exponent of New England cotton interests, the lymit in the eose of that section, geems to have wrizht, been reached. “This competition -fthe South was {* 4 ; Vb ery firat {elt fitiy years ago, its wth 3 7 7 rey yt ar } was suedenly checked Dy the war, and suppressed for the time by the paralyz- ing effects of the results of the war. 9 But thet too oreat to permit it fo remain forever ’ 1 . 8) esonrees of the south wer in the backeround, whatever may have been its ecqured drawtacks. Slowly 7 recovered ifs lost ground as a cotton 1 A § i munufacterer nti it was in a position steadily to a print o greater competitio: than erer. wit New Ereland. intent acainst a 4 logical werkirg out of to advance ’* = In this was no evi mnval. It wes merely 34) pportuni 1¢8 by wide-awake Southern men and: by | enouch ie those cf the North longheaded il me Pecoad nt 2ST AR. fg Better and more attractive than New Features Throvehout Fine = Racing.) Purses Aggregate $4,000 . Liberal Premiums in ail departments The exhibits cf Fish, Oysters, Game. Live Stock, Poultry and Agricultural Products will be the finest ever dis- played The Ladies Department is un- usually large The Greatest of al Attractions Free ! Free! ! ever, | Hippodrome and Wild West Shows. A thrilling and realistic exhibition of Wird Frontier 1 ife, enacted by Genu- ine Western Cow Boys and Girls with the ponies, musfangs and trappings ot every day ‘life n the far West. The entive performatice takes place on the rece track every afternoon, during the fair, and is absolutely free.. Don’t miss seeing it For og May list or other in- formation address the Secretary ‘GEORGE)\GREEN, NEW BERN, NC (The opportunity for lfactucing interests of the i } Iturnine eanital into this ite en to grasp a good thing when they saw it. In this latrer fectfis the hint for the South now. Nearly everything con- nected with the industry in New Eno- land originates in regions beyond its limits. The cotton must be hauled a thousand wiles and more.the coal must be shipped from the South, the iron for the machinery, and even a great pro- portion of the overatives of the ma- On the the Southern mill-owner chinery must be imported, other hand, a stone fr:m_ his office into the cotton-fields ; he hes his can almost throw choice of unlimited water-power or of locating where fuel can be had et very Close at hand and the material tor eonvertine that will be manufactured in tne South as surely as low cost. are the ore ore into machinery, which cotton, and he ean draw for the oper- atives upon a gent population of native Awericans, anxious for the opportunity to find employment. without a the of (he South. New must turn its attention to the tion of the lines of industry with the same adapta- | ‘Hardly a dav asses = . |New England tribute to meny This England inarural advantages condition means that produc- and to other finer goods ly eye +4 a 5 ibility which has given thet section such { , wonderful prosperity, notwithstanding ithe drift away from that section of one | industry after another by reason ot chansed conditions. Moreover, — it means that many of the ereat cotton- must in- South. mill eoneerns of that section evitably seek locations in the bringing fo the attention of the entire cotton-mannu- country the! general advantages of the South affords an ebarnee never before presented of The Seuth has the opportunity now | courage New Enclanders to dwell | upon ifs opportunities uptil in’ greater volum? than ever capital and men. are d to settle inoa shrewdness induct section where pluck, and unremitting advantages in happy and prelifie wed- lock. Monutaeturers’ To help on this good eause the Record will be sent rreoulorly deri 1g the next three months - i to every ton mill company n | Ene the Middle | . now stibseribing, end to leading eotton land and States not mill investors. We propose to conduet 1 persistent campaign to strengthen the movement Southward and to make _ its result permanent and far reaching, With. the increase of mills and the advance- ment cf operatives to higher grades will makers of mill inev:tably come the supp'ies and manuficturers akin — to them, in order to be closer to the ecn- their mo- stantly-expanding market tor predue s. The South will never no pra the industries ‘of the countrys other industry, | eterprise may be united te natural | section, but it is capable of maguificent enlargement industrially and of pros- perity beyond anythiny that it has dreamed of. The Manufacturers Record invites the co-opefatior of the people and press of the South, in order that a full realization of that eapability may be attained.” GREENVILLE MAN HONORED » Mr Wm ‘F Harding Goes to New York Since leaving Charlotte, Mr. Wm. F. Harding. Je was Prof. Baird’s agsist- ant in the: C. M.I., has been practic- ™, with his Char- accepted a position ing faw in Greenville, N. brother. He writes a friend in lotte that he has with James D. Cockroft, of Long Island, to do work on a Southport, coming publication, “Lhe Eneyctop- aedia of Law Forms and Practice.”, He will remain in New York at least s1Xx months, and may possibly continue to lire there. Mr. Harding Judge Burwell afterwards oraduated from the Sehool, He is cf disposition and thorough in whatever be undertakes. He leaves on the 12th for New York.—Charlotte Observer. Mr. set here at home Ly surp. ise, 4s studied Jaw under here ond LUniver- sity Law smikare| The above takts most cf ino’s triends only & few of those most intimate “with His for the position he goes to fillis a hugh 2'm knew of his plans. compliment to him, ard is cause fol conoratulation to himself and his peo- ple. Mr. Cockroft, we understand, wrote | to gentlem: in in Ckarlette to reeom- Inte nde young lawyer from. this state lwho was qualified for this impertant | work and Mr. Harding’s name was at with the 'onee sent him. Correspondence | Mr. Harding lead to his acceptin ¥ ‘ 7 position and he goes next saturaay to begin lis duties, | Vill Harding is one Gf onr very best yours men, possessing, In addition to I his legal apility, those qualities of head int that mark him. as os perk While we all regret to see , ard he: FE: centleman. Hhim leave Greensille, all rejoice at the | wood fortune that has come to “lim aud the bright prospects in store tor his THE COUNTRY ee ann OVER aon i | | reore1y, NeeToes are petitioning Co ‘opess to grant pensions to former slives. i. Chizaco, Il., who inherited $20,000, has strang ly disappeared. Members of the Ohio Legislature are the investigating Toledo as a site for | State Centennial in 1905, Warrants bave been issued it rie, O. T., for 73 members of the mob who lyne he d the two Seminole [neians recently. EET pervs sAAi JU TOI Un OO = Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing, Notions, Groceries, Hardware. KA i TINY a il le ll lt Nt Prerereryy errr ts maacatanaanain, TOO OK Altred Forbes, dealer in General a Merchandise, #6 Greenville, 3 N, ¢. forth- sejection | . cements canes ements AO ih ace eee” Sem a ES CLE ACCC A, awe George Jeffery, a veteran scliher, of | | 1 | | AA | | | ‘ / Guth- | It Seems Absurd, Selling SotLow, and selling such But its reaching the people---the news of this outbound movement in Clothing for =—MEN AT:e< 090 Its to quickly lower the Suit ana Overcoat stock---that’s the whole story. Its our one good reason for ' making prices so astonishingly low. Buyers like prices that way---just the styles they want---but they never expec} such little prices or such big values. Every sale made is a spring trade-bringer, that onr share. oO r+ CLOTHIER. bic! LIAL aE AEE STI ALS TL, FR : Se heel smal OMB AWA Ae | a a(S OR oe ? A. fan a A pA eh | By na feeds | AAAA | Ad nel Ayn ys A te ’ F PAS va AANA r AANA PABA QO “ft it Oi (a\(@) tas i pportunity. hi RA bys AA Look over our full line of Dress 44 AX Goodsand Trimmings, Shoes. M Mx White Goods and Percale justin .A¥ Lang’s Cash House: Those who know---those who m ws fe have beenthe rounds, tell the same story---in ever-increasing numbers-- and they come back here to buy. You will most likely do the same. For whether the want bea ; t ~. 5 i there’s a saving assured if you look for it here. From first to last through these great stocks, whatever you fancy most carries now not only a clearing price, but you'll find 1t here, in styles that please you most. RICKS & TAFT. * Al) the Same. we hy, rr mae Resection <= + (ne year. $3.00) ‘One month. ou) One week, 10) Delivered in town by carriers With- out extra cost. Anvertising rates are liberal and can Do had on application to the editor or at the oftice. names aas ee We desire a live correspondent at every postoffire in the county, who will send in brief items of news a8 it Ncenrs in each neighborhood. Write plainly and only on one side of the paner os Nettie ry 7. TROR, Monnrar. Fenrpuary ae re anni — Well Fixed at Cuka. The position of the United States co far as Cuhais concerned coulda not he improved unon. Under the wise and conserva- tive management of Consul Gen- eral Lee, American interests will recieve every possible attention, and this governmen!’s honor will be upheld in a wav that no city of this country can complain of. Then with the American war vessels, within reach- of Consul General Lee’s orders, there need be no fear that American interests will not be fully protected. And even with the present force of war vessels which are within short sailine distance ef Cuba, the United Ststes is not acting in any way contrary to her rights, or unwisely rushing into any tronble that may threathen by this show of force. Within the three years which have passed since this insurrec- tion began in Cuba, this country’s commercial interests have been greatly affected, our foreign com- meres suffering to the extent of eichty million dollars a year. Besides this tiere has heen the expense entailed upon the gov- ernment of preventing filibuster- ing, and the damaged property rights of Awerican citizens in Cubs. These two thipgitean millions of dollars of additional loss to this country, allcansed by Srain’s inability to cope with the Cuban and prt cown thea insurgents rebellion. And at the present time Presi- dent MeKinley’s words will be weichty—If 16 shall hereafter appear tobe a duty imposed by our obligations to ourselves, civilization,and humanity to inrer- vena with.foree, it shall be with- out fault on onr part, and only because necessity of such action will be so clear as to commend the support and avproval of the Civilized world.” And with eyervthinge to pnt these wordsinto active practice, the United States is indeed well fxedso tar as the Cuban situn- tion is concerned.—Newbern Journal. fhe Population of Cities” The Buftalo Courier is disposed to claim for its city the rank of the seventh city in point of pop- ulation in the United States. It places Buffalo next to: Boston, which is hard, if not unjust, to- ward Ojncinnati. ‘ft will bea sur- prise to many people to find Buffalo so closely in the rank of the greater city. The rating of the greater cities now issupposed to bo in this order: New York, Chicago, Philadeélnhia, St, Louis. Baltimore and Boston, in the 400,- 000 or upward rank. Baltimore was behind Boston in 1590, but it : : , \ a furnished by the authorities of the cities themselves. Washing- ton is put down at 25 250,000, and it ay pears pot to hold its own in comparison with most of the bus- ness cities of the nation.—bos- iton Herald. A Proposed Amendment A proposed amendment to the constitution of the United States recently offered by Senator W. P. ‘rye, of Maine, calls attention to a glaring defect which has long existed in that instrument. | This defect is one of omission. As the constitution’ now reads there is po provision made for the selection of a chief magistrate in the event the President slect should die or become disabled at any time prior to the date fixed for his inauguration as President. Of course the spirit of the consti- tution uvmistakablv implies that the Vice President eect in such a cise is the man to step :into the President elect’s shows. This is eyident not only from the fact that the Vice President elect is tha choice of the people for the office nextin dignity to that of that ifthe President should die after his inauguration the Vice Presideat would immediately suc” ceedto the position thus made vacant, hut while it is clearly the intent of the constitution that the Vice President elect should step into the President elect’s placa in the event of the latter’s death or disability, there is no provision to this effect madein that instru- ment. Up tothe present time the occasion for substituting someé oue else in place of the President elect has never presented itself: although several Presidents have died shortly after their formal in- | duction into office. The objact of Senator Frve's preposed amendment is to covey the defect in the constitution above pcinted out and to provide for the inauguration of the Vice President elect as chief magis- trate in the event of the Presi- dent elect’s. death or disability. Asthe proposed amendment is legal rather than poilitical in character, itis not fikely that anv serious opposition thereto will be deyeloped.—Atlanta Con- stitution. | A Washington Post yveporter who had a short chat recontly with Sanator Pritchard reports him as saying that the campaign inthis State next Tall will be a hot one, that there will be a hard fight particularly for tae Legisla- ture and that the Populist swill be compelled to co-operate with the Republicans to preyent the Dem-' ocrats from capturing the Legis- lature ana undoing ail the com. bine Legislature did. It would- n’t take a prophet to foretell! all this, for any one who keeps even One eye and one ear Open can sed and hear enough to be fally con- vinced that the next campsign will not only bea hot one buta very het one, in fact red hot. Since the combine has been in power it has piled up fuol enough to keep it at a white heat. Itisa very oleaginous fuel, too. The big fight will be made on the Legislature, of course, for ifthe combine loses that it knows it is gone up, knocked out of the pub- President, but alsofrom the fact! it.-- Wilmington Star. i § Married Twicein Four Days. Edward E. Schirma, was arrest- ed in Jersey City, N. J. on Mon- Gay night on a charge of bigamy. Schirma is 22 years o!d and em- ployed asa clerk by his father, who is a commission merchant. It is alleged that on Nov. 10, 1897, young Schirma married Susan Grinder, an 18 year,old Brookyn girl. Hedeserted his bride the nextday, and on Nov 14, three days afterward, was married to Miss Mary Russell, another Brook!yn girl. After living with his second wife for about a week Schirma returned to his first wife. ORIGINAL OBSERVATIONS. Made by Orange Va., Observer. Did the cow that jumped over the rp moon 70 the “milky way: Magnanimity is easiest won beneath the shade of a powerfal club. The egotist suffers from an affection of the I, which no oculist ean cure, Whoever lives to find fault with) others, will at last find the mest with, himself. A true friend is a living treasure, a comfort in solitude, and a sanctuary in distregs. Tramps very often sleep on the road. bed, with only the “mantle of night” for a covering. Ameri¢an chivalry may be ali right, but it is American shovelry that. digs our ¢anals and grades our railroads. If youre not pretty when you're young this consolation hold -thet in some fifty years or so you wj 1 be pret. ty old. We shun a snake, we bate a hypo- crite. We don’t want to teel the fangs of the former oer hear the lying word- of the latter. the sinall-p>x or the yellow fever. Saun both as you would People who put their religion on dress parade are just as offensive as those who continually prate ab ut their honesty, both classes thus inviting the supposition that they ave devoid of re- ion and og ligion and-honesty. aa Khe! Yet in spite of all this the bene- fits received by the south land from | this cunning little giver of sweet sounds and lover of sweet fruits vastly outweigh all the damage that he does, however vexatious it may be. Bugs‘and worms and creeping things swarm here the year round, The mocking bird is essentially in- sectivorous, His ‘‘steady diet’’ con- sists of the enemies that the horti- culturist and the fruit grower have most occasion to dread, He takes his fruit by way of dessert and has fairly earned it like a good boy by eating first a substantial dinner,— Norman Robinson in Appletons’ Popular Science Monthly. Tricks of the Types. A writer in Macmillan’s Magazine offers in an article on printers’ er. rors some superb ‘‘mixes,’’ as blend ings of alien paragraphs are called. We borrow a couple. The first owes its characier to an interpolated linc from a report of a public meeting: “On the 8d inst., at Elkington, the wife of J. 8S. Terry, schoolmas- ter, of ason. He spoke indistinct- ly, but was understood to say that on the 3d inst., at Ripon, the wife of Joseph Landseer, tailor, of a daughter.”’ The second occurred in a descrip- tion of the campaign of Roman | Catholic missionaries in central Af- rica: “They are accustomed to begin their w ork by buying heathen chil- dren and educating them. The easiest and best way to prepare them is to first wipe them with a clean towel, then place them in drip- ping pans and bake them until they are tender. After which cut them in slices and cook for several hours. ”’ Cultere of Licorice. Surely,in some part of our great country, licorice would be found to thrive. And yet, so far ag has come to the knowledge of Meehan’s Monthly, all attémpts to cultivate it have failed. The difficulty seems to be with the summer sun. Leaves blight and turn brown as soon as the weather becomes warm, but this: would probably not be the case in eubmountainous regions. When it is remembered that’ nearly 20,000 tons of these roots come into the United States every year from the old world its culture here is surely a prize worth contending for.—Mee- han’s Monthly, alls Con- } THE GREAT PACIFIC. The Future of That Ocean Is the Future of the World. The relations of the great powers are changing, and the Pacific is he coming the center of their striving. The powers that adjoin this ocean are destined to be the actors in the next drama of the world and the Pacific the stage thereof. England is the greatest of these powers. This she owes to Canada and to her possessions in the east. Russia is destined to a future greater than England's present. France is mak- ing desperate efforts to build up for herself an Asiatic foothold in this company. China’s vast population and wide territory make her another factor in the problem. She may be conquered and enslaved for years, but the great vitality, the great in- dividuality, the exclusive cohesive- ness of her people, seem to destine her to an ultimately independent national existence. She must even- tually emerge irom her position of subjection and inferiority and be- come one of the great nations of the earth. Japan’s role will boa smaller one, but the inherent identity of her interests with China’s must make them allies against Europe in work- ing out their common destiny. In the hands of these powers lies the future of the Pacific, and the future of the Pacific is the future of the world, Our country cannot shut its eyes to this condition. The people of America, with a rapidly increasing population producing more than they can consume, with an aggres- sive character that brooks no oppo- sition, with a coast line greater than that of any power ef Europe, dotted with flourishing cities, constitute a factor in the future of the orient that no apathy, no neglect, can be- little. Whatever policy we may have inherited as to entanglements with European powers must be dis- carded here. The people of the United States must not be contené to see their neighbors to the west, with their boundless potentialities of trade, handed over, an uncontest- ed prize, to the ambitions of Eu- rope. America may attempt to evado the responsibility thrust upon | her. She may, with shortsighted | resolution, turn her face away from her great future, but sho will not succeed, The markets of the orient are the heritage of her merchants and the time will inevitably come when the voice of the republic will be heard in oriental courts with the same accent of authority as in the commonwealths of South America. It will be well if the certainty of this destiny could be recognized be- fore Eurepean statesmanship has barred the way with/‘‘vested inter- ests.”’-——Charles Denby, Jr., Secre. tary of the United: States Legation in China, in North American Re- view. Assumption Corrected. The traveling Amoricé am must ex- ly in the old world, when his love for his own country leads him, after the manner of all patriotic travel- ers, {0 vaunt it a little. An amusing instance of this kind is related by a corr sspondent, of the New York Pos:, writing of a visit to Grey- fria.s’ churchyard at Edinburgh The sexton was aman of Aber- deenshire and took pleasure in showing the visitor the grave of Duncan Ban Macintyre, a Gaelic poet, and in interpreting the Gaelic inscription on it, as if it were the chief glory of his charge. His heart was in the highlands plainly. The visitor had heen at Greyfriars’ be- fore and said to the sexton, as the old man pocketed his fee: “T have seen your highlands since I was here last.”’ “Oh! said he, with inimitable highland inflection. ‘“And had ye never been there before?”’ “No, [have never been in Scst- land before. I live in America,”’ “Oh! “Lisa graund country that. ‘America? It is indeed!”’ The old man looked up in utter surprise. ‘“‘Nay, nay,’ he said in: patiently, ‘‘the hielands! A graund country !”’ . 3 A Clever Boy. While reading Addison’s ‘Sir Roger De Coverley’’ recently the subject of belief in ghosts arose in the class. Naturally in this pro- gressive age all the scholars scorp- ed the idea, One boy was especially vehement in his denunciation of spooks, “But,’’ persisted the © teacher, merely to develop his thinking pow- my, 'Shukespeareseems to have be- eved mu ghosts. . “That's all right,” retorted the hat wy

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