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"FOOI.S AKD FANATICS" ROASTEP virtuous and intelligent. Now many aud the tears of that Phillipine war. It pettlant people. THE RECORD. prepared for it, had the carpet bag horde never invaded the south and had there never been any intermeddling by the I-am-holier-than-thou fanatics who have never been south and who know nothing of the conditions that exist here there would be no serious race problems.

As these fanatical intermeddlers do not constitute a majority or even a respectable minority, it is to be hoped, at the north, so the turbulent, lawless, criminal negroes at the south do not constitute a majority nor even a respectable minority of their race at the south. A few abandoned, reckless, criminal negroes are responsible for all the rapes and lynchings that have occurred. Nor does the evil stop here. Their influence on those around them is deplorably bad and far reaching. Still it is true that rape, the crime which nine times out of ten is the cause immediate or remote of lynching, is as much deplored by the better class of negroes as by the better class of white men.

But as because some negroes commit rape the whole race suffers, so, becruse some white men men lynch ravishers all the white people of the south are abused and denounced as barbarians. It is a singular fact, too, that the Pharisaical fanatics who have most to say about 'Southern always stress the atrocity of the lynching, but I have never yet heard of one of them saying or doing anything to discourage the crime which provoked it. BESMIRCHED VICTIM'S CHARACTER. Indeed in some cases instead of denouncing his crime, they have assailed the character of the "victim of the brute's lust and thus justified it. This unjust, unfair and cruel way of treating the matter, not only encourages bad negroes, but exasperates the friends of southern womanhood by making it evident that there are at least some people at the north who hate the southern white man more than they do the crime of the southern negro.

Another and a continually present cause which contributes to race friction (for I desire to be perfectly fair in answering your question) is corrupt politics. As is admitted by all candid men, the ballot, whether for his protection or to secure partisan advantage, BILL. AB.P'8 letter. It seems to me that I had better answer some of these interesting questions through the of the press. Here are three inquiries from among your readers who wish to know something definite about these so-called dog days.

Of course, I know only what I get from books, but a vast multitude have not the books nor access to them. Whether the advent and the influence of dog days be a supestition or a fact, all that is known should be disseminated. Pliny and Herodotus both wrote about dog days 400 years before Christ. Ancient astronomers and modern ones agree in ascribing to Sirius a very malignant influence when it arises in conjunction with the sun, for it is the brightest star in the heavens and its great heat added to the heat of the sun increases and intensifies the temperature as long as this conjuction continues. But this rising with the sun is not a fixed day.

It varies from the 3d of July to the 15th of August and hence the almanac makers take an average day and set down July 20th as the first dog day. Some date it July 24th, but these dates may miss it two or three weeks. It is generally believed that these dog days continue for forty days, but in fact that is an indefinite period, for the conjunction of Sirius with the sun sometimes lasts for fifty-four days. The sum of the whole matter is that about this time of the year we may look for very hot weather and showers almost every day, and to call it fodder pulling weather would be as good a name as any. Whether Sinus has anything to do with it or not we can only surmise, but Sirius is the dog star and gave the name.

Sirius ia the very brightest star in the heavens, and is in the month of a big dog a constellation that the ancient astronomers named canis major. The ancient Egyptians mapped off the starry heavens with imaginary animals and men, such as dogs, bears, dragons, bulls, Mercules, Orion, and the names they gave to groups of stars hve never been changed. There is a big dog and a little dog, a big bear and a little bear, a big dipper and a little dipper. Right in the tip of the tail of the little bear is a very notable star called the Pole Star or North star, that navigators used to sail by and they called it Cynoskuros, which in Greek means a dogtail. From this BY GOV.

CANDLER. He Says the Enfranchisement of the Negro "Was a Crime Against Civilization. Atlanta Journal. In reply to two question propounded by the Chicago Inter Ocean, Governor Allen D. Candler has written a highly interesting letter relative to the race problem in the south, in which he attributes as the cause of the present situation.

The two questions asked of the gov ernor by the Chicago newspaper are: hat is the cause of the conflict between the whites and black? "Is there a remedy, and if so, what is it?" The governor proceeds to answer these questions from the standpoint, as he says of a patriot and philanthropist and not from a sectional or partisan standpoint. His letter, which was sent the Inter Ocean esterday afternoon, is as fol- ows Atlanta, July 26, 1899. Editor Inter Ocean: You ask me "What is the cause of the conflicts between the whites and blacks?" This is a grave question and should be answered not from a sec tional or partisan standpoint but from the standpoint of the patriot and the philanthropist. In answering it we should divest our selves of all sectional or race prejudices because it involves vital interests, not alone of the southern negro and the southern white man but of all the peo ple of the entire republic. Thus be lieving 1 shall at the risk of being criti cised and censured by those who cannot divest themselves of prejudice, answer your question candidly, conscientiously and fearlessly.

In mv opinion several causes have conspired to bring about race conflicts. In the first place no two races differ ing so widely as the Caucasian and the African, ever have or ever can live to gether in anything like equal numbers on terms of perfect equality. One race must dominate the other, and it is a matter of history that the Anglo-Saxon has never been dominated by any other race. HAPPY AS A SLAVE. Before the ballot was thrust into the hands of the negro unprepared for it and utterly ignorant of its sanctity and of the responsibilities of citizenship notwithstanding he was a slave, he was happy and well contented to occupy that subordinate place in society, to which his nature and his condition assigned him.

But after his emancipation came his enfranchisement and with his enfranchisement came a hoard of carpet baggers, penniless adventurers, without principles or patriotism, who took charge of him when his former master and protector with whom he had lived for generations on the most friendly and often even on affectionate terms, was de-citizened by the partisan reconstruction laws. These carpet baggers calling themselves Republicans, but really only a band of marauders, held together by the cohesive power of public plunder, swarmed all over the south like the locusts in Egypt, of old, and falsely taught the negroes that the southern white men were solely responsible for their enslavement and were their worst and only enemies, and that therefore it was their duty and their interest to vote against them and their party, and oppose everything they were in favor of and favor everything they were opposed to in a word to hate them. WHAT THEY TAUGHT THE NEGRO. They taught them that freedom meant immunity from toil, that liberty meant license and that they were the "wards of the nation" and would be protected by the general government, whose bayonets glistened in every hamlet, whether they were right or wrong. These evil teachings had but "little permanent effect upon the grown up negroes, but upon the children, the generation which has grown to manhood since that time, the effect has been most baleful.

These were the prime causes of the alienation of the negro. A more immediate cause is the perpetual intermeddling with the relations of the races in the south by fanatics and fools who know nothing about the situation. They call town meetings and discuss imaginary wrongs of the southern negro which do not and denounce the southern white people for crimes they have not committed, and are harangued by mulatto adventurers of the Ida Wells stripe who impose on the credulity of the ignorant for the money they get out of it. They publish in the newspapers grossly exaggerated accounts of such crimes as are committed against the negro in the south and omit any notice of the crime against the white woman which provoked the retaliation. They paint the southern negro as a black angel, patient and long suffering, and the southern white man as a remorseless, conscienceless tyrant and a demon of darkness.

WRITE INCENDIARY LETTERS. They write incendiary letters to turbulent negroes all over the south, advising them to arm themselves with Winchester rifles, and for every guilty rapist who pays the penalty for his crime, to shoot down the' first two white men he meets. Thousands of such letters have been written to Georgia in the last three months. By such methods they call into existence the very state of things they pretend to deplore, a condition of aflairs that did not exist and never would have existed, but for them and their senseless, unjust and incendiarv conduct. Some of these people think they are honest and imagine that they are actuated by love for the negro, when in truth the moving cause is unrelentin-r hatred of the white people of the south' Happily this class is not the most numerous nor the most intelligent at the north, but still there is such a clas andthey are by their incendiary utterances and their constant agitation do-me more tnilav in p.

"sfiiavnte race nrei- preciDitat race conflicts than all othar causes combined. WHAT CAUSED THE CONDITION. Had the ballot not been thrust unasked upon the negro before he was was enough to convince even him that there is obliged to be another world, a judgment to even up things. Of course, the professional military men are for war. Blood and tears are nothing with them.

Victory, fame and promotion are their stole ambition, and like Satan in "Paradise Lost," they exclaim, "My voice is Btill for war." We are long suffering people. Another London paper has been sent to me called The Christian. Almost all of it is good orthodox reading, but an American correspondent gives a long catalogue of our recent horrible lynchings in the south and among them is a negro man from Griffin for asking for a drink of soda water and a white girl eight years old lynched at Hampton, for no known cause. An Englishman traveled from Atlanta with one of our townsmen and said: "Why, these negur-ros seem to be quite happy and very well clad. I hear them laughing merrilly arcund the dapos.

I had supposed they were very misereble, indeed. Did you ever kill a negur-ro?" "No, sir; no, sir. Why do you ask me that question?" "Well, I had supposed that almost every man in the south killed one or more negur-ros every day or two." Now there it is. The man was in earnest. Ida Wells and her sort made them believe those lies of this man Thurber is backing up.

The very paper that published his speech and had in big head lines, The Insecurity of Life and Property at the had in the next column 'More Troops for Cleveland," and the Catholic bishop says "Anarchy reiens. Riot prevails! Visitors fear to enter our portals. Our citizens are in danger of their lives," etc. Thurber can't see that. Never mind, we will give them Early county now for chewing gum.

Bill Arp. Concealed "Weapons. Atlanta Journal. The condemnation of the concealed weapon habit has grown so strong that it now extends in many localities to officers of the law. An officer has no more right to carry a weapon concealed than has a private citizen, but their habit of doing bo has been tolerated.

It must cease in South Carolina under a recent decision of the supreme court of that state. The city authorities of Columbia fined a constable for carrying a concealed pistol. The case was appealed to the circuit court, which overruled the decision of the city authorities, but the supreme court has reversed the circuit court, and henceforth any constable or other officer in South Carolina who may carry a concealed weapon is liable to indictment and punishment. The decision of the supreme court in this case is heartily approved by the leading newspapers of the state, and it is said that the law against concealed weapons will be strictly enforced against constables, policemen, and all other officers. The late Judge Bartlett, father of Congressman Bartlett, once presided at the trial in Columbus of two policemen who had killed a When the evidence disclosed the fact that the po licemen drew their pistols from under their coats Judge Bartlett expressed great indignation.

He inquired if it was the habit of policemen of Colum bus to carry their pistols concealed and upon being informed that it was he said that the grand jury should indict every one of them Habit varies in this matter, though every State has a law against carrying concealed weapons. In most cities policemen and other officers of the law carry pistols concealed, and by com mon consent they are not interfered with for so doing, but in some cities the law requiring all weapons to be clearly exposed is strictly enforced, and that must be done hereafter in South Carolina, unless the supreme court's interpretation of the law is ignored. What People Go to Church For. Ladies' Home Journal. We eo to church to worshin God? and His attributes include all that is noble in life, all "that is hopeful in death, and all that is beautiful in thought or in nature.

What a man worships determines what he is. To sincerelv adore and annreciate cood ness, i wisdom, power, loveliness, and intelligence, as exhibited in the char acter of the Christ of the Bible, is to be inspired with the highest thoughts and become a partaker in an increasing measure oi that grand Divine nature. We go to church to reform evil, to Re- cure strength in our weakness, to re vive our nope, to obtain xsomfort in grief, to elevate our thinkine. to Durifv and intensify our feelings, to preserve ana restore our health, to mcreate our Knowledge, to arouse our love for all that is good, to make our home more sweet, to make society more brotherly and peaceful, to get rest from care, to be better fitted for business, tn seciirp enthusiasm for heroic deeds, and to hnd pure and permanent happiness. Master or Trains Badly Beaten.

Winston Sentinel. Mr. J. E. McArthur, master of trains for this division of the Southern, was attacked and badly beaten on the street in ureensboro Saturday evening by R.

H. Dixon, a brakeman. who was dis charged on Saturday for cursing a negro nreman. It was learned to-dav that Mr. Mc Arthur was so badly used up that he was not ame to get out to-day.

Dixon, it appears, had been in the employ of the Southern for some time. The negro fireman insulted him and he violated the rules by cursing him, whereupon the master of trains, an soon as he heard what was done, notified Dixon to stop work. This incensed the brakeman and he watched for Mr. McArthur on the street and when he came up a 'fight followed resulting as above stated. The Western Union Telegraph com pany paid taxes last year on $750,000 in North Carolina.

The corporation this year assessed it on $1,000,000. Judge Simonion's restraining order makes it $600,000, the motion to make the restraining order an injunction to be tried by him at Asheville on September 13th. Judge Simonton, seeminglv. always decides in favor of corporations, regardless of the merits of a case. He appears to be a willing tool of the big Baltimore Sun.

One of the minor faults of is petulance. It is classed as i because it is an exhihin based upon petty provocationVbuS juugeu Dy the annovan it gives. Men arm iance dangerous enemies, but are hdT sufferers from ro are helpleS8 n.uu niosquitnpa They resent or receive with fort the assaults of bad temper IreX PI hibited, but they are almost Tehe when assailed by petulance. Ill health is no doubt answerable for a great deal of petulance-its victims are excu2 on that account but some of it ia dT to utter selfishness and too much indT gence Some people grow up with an idea that the world was made for them they are petted and indulged by mrZ'B or other relatives until they become I terly selfish and feel personally aggriev! lfu haPpen t0 raa ou a dav they had appointed for a picnic or if any other quite natural impediment should arise to interrupt their eniov ment of life. Such people are of course, petulant when they are crossed any way, though they may be verv agreeable as long as they can have their desires gratified.

Their agreeable qual Hies earn for them the indulgence which helps to make them selfish and therefore petulant. If the day is excessively warm they do not Btop to consider that it is warm for other people aa well as for themselves, but complain about the weather, grow exacting, and, if at all encouraged, inconvenience their friends or relatives that they may be relieved of the common infliction. They become ill-tempered, as all people are inclined to be when rendered uncomfortable by weather couditions, but instead of bearing their ills with fortitude they exhibit their petulance and compel those about them to wait upon and indulge them if a quarrel is to be avoided. Petulance which has any other origin than disease should not be allowed to develop into a habit. It ia better to resist it in the beginning, however disagreeable the task may be, than to encourage its growth by indulgence.

This is only another way of saying that one should not eu-courage the development of a selfish in those whom one loves. Keeping ia mind the evil of a selfish disposition, of which petulance is a manifestation! and that selfishness grows by indulgence, one who is associated with a person at all inclined to consider his own pleasure beyond that of all other people should be resisted when he makes any encroachment upon the rights of others. His petulance Bhould be firmly rebuked instead of being encouraged by indulgence and he should be made to feel that he is but one of a community entitled to nothing more (nor Icsb) than all the other members. His uetnknre. should be resisted not by a counter exhibition of temper, but with such firmness as will give notice that nothing is to be gained by bad humor.

The existence of a petulant humor implies the existence of a counter indulgence on the part of some intimate who weakly yields to exhibitions of temper and thus encourages the development of a bad habit. While avoiding petulance in ourselves, therefore, we should be equally on our guard against developing it in others by an excess of good nature. The petulant man or woman should not be indulged in his or her whims, but be made to feel that petulance is self-irritating and gains neither sympathy nor relief. Ingersoll's Last. The last public utterance of Piobert G.

Ingersoll was not an attack upon the Christian religion; it was a denuncia-ation of the Philippine war. Here it I have one sentiment for the soldiers cheers for the living and tear? for the dead. If it were meet to weep over the sacred duBt of the brave who died to render our flag stainless and keep it in the sky, it is now in order to Hood the grayes of the boys who are falling in the Philippine islands. For they are not fighting to add luster to "Old Glory" or to save the Union, but as mere machines at the behest of the administration, which for the time being is the government of the United States. War with Spain, tor which the volunteer took up arms, has long since ended.

Congress has not declared war against the Filipinos nor voted money to carry on a foreign war of conquest. Then why this thunder of guns, the flying thunderbolts of hell, and these rew-made graves as numberless as tne stars Our arms are not adding glory to the flag, but instead are staining that starry emblem cf freedom with the blood and tears of a people fighting for the rights of self-government. The soldier is not to blame. It has always been considered a glorious thing to die fighting for truth, liberty and eternal right. But when one falls in the Philippine war there burns no halo of glory above his dust, but his sad, untimely, uncalled-for death causes tears to moisten the eyes of every patriot in the land.

Therefore, when he falls in such a war hia bier should be draped in the deepest mourning and drenched with the tears of his fellow-countrymen. Take Colonel Stotzenburg as an example. No braver, truer soldier ever woie uniform or marched in the shadow of a flag. He only recently remarked that he was sick ot such a war and looked forward to the near future when he and his brave volunteers would be relieved from killing men who were fighting for independence. He arrived on the battlefield fresh from the arms of his wife at Manilla; at the head of his regiment; leading a charge, he fell, pierced through the heart.

What great prin-ple did he die for? Will the administration please answer New Postoffice for Salisbury. Sat.tsritry 28. Postmaster Ramsay was notified this morniner that the bid of Hon. Lee S. Overman to provide new i it nO- quarters for the postomce naa oeeu accepted.

Mr. Overman will erect a two-story brick structure on the property KnlnrvirKT tn riin nnm runnipd bv the old Clodfelter wooden building tenanted 1. ll nltSri by a beet marKet ana a Darner bu-H wfint down to Charlotte to-day to consult architects about the plans. The government leases a room on the nrat floor, 22x80 feet, for five years. The rvrpBenr.

nnarters had become tOO Small- The new quarters must be ready for oc- cupation by January 1st. ii ia ywy-that a free delivery system can be inaugurated before long. men vote who are intelligent, but not virtuous and many more vote who are virtuous, but not intelligent. THE SAFETY OF THE STATE. The safety of the state and the hap piness of the people of both races de mand that the voter be both virtuous and intelligent.

Restrict the suffrage to those having both these qualifica tions and one of the greatest causes of irritation will be removed, race preju dice at least in politics, will be elimi nated and the happiness, and the material and moral condition of the southern negro will be greatly enhanced. Erect this safeguard, continue to support free schools for the education of his children. Let the preacher and teacher con tinue to assiduously inculcate the lessons of virtue and morality, precept upon precept, and line upon hue, continue, as is now the case in Georgia, and I believe in all the other southern states, to accord to him equal and exact justice in the courts and in the legislature, and above all let misguided fanatics at the north and elsewhere who do not and cannot, unless they were on the ground, know the real situation in the south, cease their intermeddling and leave the matter to the southern white man and southern negro for adjustment, and soon there will be no race problem, rape will be reduced to a minimum, lynch law will become a thing of the past, tranquility will be restored and the negro will be happier, better protected and more prosperous than he has ever been. AVIien a Girl is Sweetest. Orange (Va.) Observer.

"At what age is a girl the sweetest?" ia a question being asked. The Observer will endeavor to answer the absorbing problem, as follows: AtBixteen, in white mull and silk ribbon, eound-ing, in her graduating essay, the depths of philosophies that have puzzled the sages of ancient and modern times, she is sweet, very sweet. In fact there is a suggestion of the caramel and cream in every lineament. At twenty, in shirt waist and pique skirt, with just the faintest suggestion of wild violets in the perfume she usee, the saccharine matter is much more pronounced. You look for an instant, and through your tangled dreams some floating visions red roses, soft winds, the dusk hour, and many declarations you might easily make if given an opportunity.

You are very foolish, but you don't realize it until a year afterwards, when you find a faded carnation in your dress coat pocket. At thirty you pass by and hear her singing a lullaby or perhaps you, and not the other fellow, are looking wildiy about for the Cas-toria bottle as she sings. There is a halo from Heaven above her head then, and you would die there on the doorstep, punching the face of any man who dared declare you did not have the sweetest wife and baby in this or any other town. At forty she has a few wrinkles, but you can't see them. She is still the sweetest woman in the world teaching you resignation how to wear patches and build up a family.

At fifty she is telling her grandchildren the very quaintest little stories about Mr. Nod and old man At sixty, with white hair and placid brow, she implants a mellowed kiss on your cheek when she thinks you asleep. Memory goes racing back over the summer hills; you are tired, foot worn little boy again, laying there in the open doorway of an old home. The locust blossoms aie dropping, the petals are falling from the yellow roses on the bush at the corner of the house; it is almost dusk and your languid eyes are watching the swallows gracefully circle over the white houses of the little town. Heartaches, and all the bitterness of years are forgotten and you awaken.

And.it is really she, the angel and comforter of your When is a girl sweetest? When she is your mother, to be sure. Death of the Survivor of a Horrible Tragedy. Charlotte Observer. 13th. Mrs.

Josephine Smith died Sunday afternoon at her home in Crab Orchard. Deceased was left a widow by the enactment of a horrible tragedy, which was recalled by all who heard of her death. Mr. Edwin Smith and his wifc, Mrs. Josephine Smith lived in Crab Orchard.

On the night of December 17, 1870, Henderson Young, by Dan Young and Bufus McCombs, also colored, entered Mr. Smith's house, intending to rob him. He was aroused by a noise of some one in the room, and on springing out of bed found himself face to face with the robbers. He had a desperate struggle with Young. The latter drew his gun 8nd fired, Bhooting him in the left side.

He died almost instantly. After killing Mr. Smith, Young then took up the musket and struck Mrs. Smith, what he intended for a murderous blow, in the head. Thinking she was dead he left the house and then set fire to it.

Mrs. Smith with superhuman effort managed to crawl from the building and hide in a plum thicket nearby until help came. The late 'Squire Billy McCombs, and sons, and the present Sher-riff Wallace, were first to reach the house. They found the building in flames. As they stood there watching it and wondering as to the fate of Mr.

and Mrs. Smith, one of the McCombs boys saw an object creeping out of the thicket. He asked what it was, In a few minutes they discovered that it was Mrs. Smith. She was in a horrible condition.

Her skull was crushed in and she was more dead than alive. She was taken to a neighbor's house and Dr. McCombs from Charlotte sent for. As soon as he arrived he removed the broken bones that were pressing on the brain, and trepaned the skull. Mrs.

Smith recovered and lived 29 years with a silver plate in her head. The negro Young was arrested the morning after the murder. He was brought to Charlotte and tried at the spring term of court. He was found guilty and hanged July 14, 1871. After the Correction.

PaDa "Now. Johnny, I have whipped you only for your own good. I believe 1 have only done my duty. Tell me, truly, what do you think vourself?" Johnnv "If I should tell you what I think, you'd give me anotner whipping." WAERENTOX, N. C.

I. Warren county was formed In 1778 out of old Bute county, which was what is now known as Franklin and Warren counties and that portion of Vance county cut off from Warren. Its present area is about 500 square Population (1S90) 19,866. Chief Products-Tobacco, Cotton, Corn, Wheat, Oats, Grasses, Gold and Granite. Surface Hilly and Rolling.

Soil Loam and Clay. No waste land, all well-watered by streams. OFFICERS. Judge of the Superior Court, Second District, Hon. H.

B. Bryan, Newbern. Judge of the Criminal Court. Eastern District, Hon. Dossey Battle.

Rocky Mount. solicitoi of Courts. Hon. W. E.

Daniel. Weldon. Congressman of Second District, Hon. Geo. H.

White, Tarboro. TIME OF COURTS. Superior Court Third Monday in March and September of each year. Criminal Court Fourth Monday in June and second Monday in December of each year. COUNTY OFFICERS.

Clerk of Court W. A.White, Warrenton. i Sheriff N. M. Jones, Warrenton.

Register of Deeds-M. F. Thornton, Warrenton. Treasurer, N.M. Palmer, Macon.

Road Supervisor Grant Beardsley. Manson N. C. Surveyor-W. W.

Dowtin, Warrenton. County Commissioners chairman; W. S. and W. H.

Boyd, R. W. and Walter Allen. Board of Education-W. J.

White, Coleman and A. S. Webb, Chairman. County Superintendent J.R.Rodwell. Public Examination days, Second Thursdays in July, October and April.

Fee on these days nothing, all other days $1.00. 1ARREKT0H DIRECTORY. Situated on high rollings lands, three mils from the great S. A. L.

system of railroads aud connect ed with the said railroad by the R. Communications with all the world by the Pos tal Telegraph and Western Union Telegraph com panies, and telephone systems. health record second to no other town in America. Population, 1,200. OFFICER8.

Mayor A Burwell. Treasurer Jones. Chief of Police Allen. Commissioners Dr King, Hunter. Rogers, DrC A Thomas, L.

Falkener, Johnson and A Boyd. CHURCHES. Church, Rey Guthrie, pastor Service every second and fourth Sundays at 11 o'clock and and 8:30 m. Sunday School at 9 o'clock a A Boyd Superintendent. Baptist, Rev Taylor, pastor Services every first, third and fourth Sundays at 11 ovlock a ni and 8 :30 m.

Sunday School at 9 o'clock a Rodwell, Superintendent. Presbvterian. Rev Wharton, pastor Ser vices everv first and third Sundays at 11 o'clock a and 8 pm. POSTOFFICES. Warrenton, Macon, Manson, Oakville, Nutbush Flams.

Oine. Greenback. Churchill, Odell, Mt View, Wise, Embro, Areola, Warren Plains, Fitts, Merry Mt, Ridgeway, Poplar Mt, Newmans, Inez Creek, Marmaduke, Grove Hill, Vaughan, Afton Brodie. Vicksboro, Axtell, Crinkley. Elberon aid Shocco.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Ilenry Boyd, Attorney-A t-Law, Warrenton, North Carolina. Business placed in my hands will receive imme diate attention. Monthly reports given on all claims sent me for collection, and all correspond entswill be promptly answered by return mail Loans negotiated on reasonable term3. Reference is made to the following business houses, with their express permission: Gardner Jeffress, Warrenton, Geo Arps, Norfolk Little.

Bunn Co. Norfolk, Martin Son fe Peterburg, Chilstian Armstrong, Cator Baltimore. Md. W.W.TAYIX)R Surgeon Dentist. Office over Jackson Gregory's Store.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Physician and Surgeon, Warrenton, North Carolina, promptly attended to. Office opposite Calls court house, c. A. COOK.

E. Q. COOK GREEN, lATTORNETTS-ilT-LAW, Warrenton, x. C. Practice in the Superior Courts of Warren and adjoining counties, Supreme Court of North Carolina, District and Circuit Courts and United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at Richmond, Va.

DR. H. N. WALTERS. DENTIST.

Office opposite Court House in Fleming-Harris Building, Warrenton. N. C. Best Work Guaranteed I i. -I Duger, DENTIST, Office over Taylor Building opposite The Record.

All work done with neatness, fidelity and dispatch Pittmaij Kerr LAWYERS, WARRENTON, North Carolina. "Will attend to C. H. SCOTT, CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR. WARRENTON, N.

C. Makes Land. Road, Railroad and Water Surveys with maps, plans and estimates. Terms reasonable. Apply as above.

SURVEYING. J. 13. PALMER, Land Surveyor, will be glad to sere the public in this capacity. Surveys accurately made and atisfaction guaranteed.

Address or call on him at Greenback. N. C. 36-lyr. WARRENTON RAILROAD Warrenton, N.

April 26th, 1898. MAIL SCHEDULE On and after to-day the Mail Train will leave Warrenton daily except Sunday at 12:30 to meet the nouth and sorthbound trains. White, Gardner, President, Sec. Shell, Sup't Aet. DR.

PENDLETON, RESIDENCE, WARRENTON, N. C. gl 1 1 I 111 III 11 1 1 II 1 1 III 1 1 HI 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 lUlltq DONTbe frightened by quacks. sible, or we forfeit $100. Stop the cttuse and you stop the effect.

Cures tbl worst cases. 1.00 by mail. Order to-dav It will be worth thousands to you Capital Cure. Box 578, Atlanta, Ga. Si 1 1 1 ii i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 iiiiiiiJi 1 1 in 1 1 hi in ii was put in the hand of the southern negro when he was utterly unprepared for it.

He regarded it as only an article of merchandise to be bargained away to the man who would pay him the most for it, whether a drink of whiskey or a dollar or two. In many places his vote, while not a majority, is a balance of power, and no matter on which side it is thrown, it controls the election. Hence un scrupulous men of all parties contend for this vote and hug the negro around the polls and drink whiskey with him and play hale fellow well met with him. When the election is over his white boon companion during the heated political campaign, having no further use tor him and despising his venality, spurns him and he, like a spoiled child becomes vindictive and resentful, and by his insolent bearing invites harsh treatment from his late political allv. It is a significant fact that in Georgia almost every rape and lynching dur ing the last year, has been in a county in which parties are nearly evenly balanced, and in which for some vears past there has been a contest for the negro vote.

WHAT IS THE REMEDY. You also ask me "Is there a remedy, and so, what is it?" This question is more easily asked than answered. Cer- tain it is that education in the books alone is not a sufficient remedy. For 30 years the white people of the south have, in their povertv brought on them by the destruction of four-fifths of their property as a result oi the war of secession, taxed themselves unspairingly to support free schools in which to educate all of the children of both races without discrimination against either. In Georgia for a generation there has been scarcely a negro between 6 and 18 years of age, who has not had access to a free school for from three to six months in each year, and the negroes have not been slow to avail themselves of the opportunity given them.

As a consequence illiteracy has decreased among them from 85 per cent, in 1870, to 40 per cent in 1899, and yet it is a startling fact that crime among them has increased in about the same proportion that illiteracy has decreased. This statement is verified by the records of our courts and prisons. Thus it is demonstrated that education in the books alone is not a remedy for the evil. There is, however, another sort of education whose lessons are not to be learned in the school books which can in time greatly relieve the situation. This is moral education, which must be acquired at the family hearthstone and in the churches and Sunday schools, and by the daily contact of the inferior race with the superior for years and even for generations.

It has required many generations of tuition to fit the Anerlo-Saxon. the strongest race in all the elements of true manhood, ior intelligent self-government, and many of this race have not even yet learned successfully all these lessons. THE NEGRO WAS UNPREPARED. How then can we reasonably expect the weakest of all races, men who have just emerged from a state of bondage, whose ancestors only a few generations ago were roamine naked in the iunsrles of Africa, substituting on the spontan eous proaucuons oi the earth and the uncooked flesh of wild beast, and who had never even heard the name of God, to be capable of self government. The idea is preposterous, and the greatest crime ever perpetrated, not only against American ideas and institutions and human liberty, but against the southern negro was when, without preparation he was clothed with all the rights and privileges and responsibilities of citizenship.

As in the case of the Anglo-Saxon, so in the case African, generations of this moral training will be required to fit him for these duties and responsibilities. This process is too slow to meet the emergency. We need a remedy immediately in its effects and this remedy can onlv be found in a qualified suffrage. "The ballot must only be entrusted to the name we have the word cynoskuros, and so when we say of a beautiful woman in an assembly that she was the cvno- sure of all eyes it is equivalent to saying that she was the dog tail of the concern. Just how the sailors got to calling this star the dogtail is not known, for it is really in ursa minor, the little bear's tail.

The ancients gave many names to the stars to fit the things in nature that they resembled. The word comet comes from cometus, which means a mare's tail. The word lunatic comes from luna, the moon, for the ancients believed that the mind was affected by changes in the moon. These old Egyp- tains were very imaginative and super- stitutious, but they were very learned. How thev got so far ahead of the He brews, God's favorite people, we do not know.

Their astronomy, mathematics and architecture have never been im-improved. The scriptures tell us that Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptains. Job asks: "Canst thou blind the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion?" Amos calls them the seven stars and mythology names them the seven sisters, but modern astronomers say there never were but six and there are only six now. Hence the superstition about the lost Pleiad. Their "sweet infiu ences" are said to come from the fact that whenever seen in the heavens it is a sign of good weather and a safe time for vessels to sail, for pleiad means a sail.

It is like the pretty word halcyon that literally means duck egg-time, for the elder duck never builds its nest on the cliffs by the sea until pleasant weather comes to stay for the season. Hence the word als the sea and eon an egg. But I reckon this is enough about dog days. It is a relief in these troubled times to have something to write about besides the Philippines and war scandals and mobs up north and lynchings down south and Kentucky politics. There are good people everywhere who would love to live in peace with their neigh bors and the rest of mankind, but some folks are possessed with a devil nowadays, just like they used to be and there is nobody to cast him out.

The people feed upon excitement more than they used to do. Communities want sensations and politicians and preach rs can be found who get them up. Goy-vernor Northern had hardly got the Bostonians soothed down before that Miss Jewett gets up a counter irritant and wants to raise a thousand dollars to come to Charleston and move the Baker family to Boston. Why, it won't take more than a hundred. They can be sent without her coming if they are willing to go.

There's a nigger in that woodpile sure. She either wants to marry one or put $900 of that money in her pocket. Wonder if she wouldent like to come to Early county and take away a few more orphans. The way they do things down in Early suits our people generally. Suppose lynching does not stop these outrages.

If a rattlesnake bites a man we kill the enuke. If a tiger carries off a child to the jungle the brute is pursued and killed. These negro brutes are infinitely worse than snakes or tigers and have more sense. Suppose they are not identified according to law, no good negro is in danger and the bad ones are of no consequence. The devil gets them a little sooner, that's all.

Let the north howl. They have howled before. Let Thurber issue his ipse dixit. He has made millions out of the south and I hope our people will boycott him. The impudent, impertinent, conceited swell.

Such utterances of his dont jostle the wagon. The south is just rolling along as usual. The north is having their bloody strikes and rows and riots and we have a lynching for every outrage, so let the precession proceed. The diffeDce is that with us no good citizen, white or black, is in danger, but up north everybody is in danger. Life and property at Cleveland have been wantonly destroyed and the innocent have suffered more than the guilty.

What doesThurber care so he can keep his government contracts to furnish the army with canned goods? Ingersoll never painted a more pitiful picture than the inquity, the horrors Don't make two tires to boil one egg- corporations..