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: ... ': I 11 FOURTH SERIES. TV01J SALISBURY, N.- C. THURSDAY JULY 5, 1894. NO. 19. . ' ! LI" , - f :,' ' 1 1 I ; i - - t: . - -: X- 1. " - i ... - III I Bill ' I II I -III! HI I III III I Mill I '" ;; ; 1 :: x."1 1 j : What, is , ' Castria is prSamucl Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Childrenl it contains neither. Opium, Morphine nor ' other Narcotic substance. Jt is a harmless substitute for Paregoriej Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. . It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is, thirty years' use by jrmfons of Mothers. Castoria is tjie Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. iX j Castoria. s , ... -! " -' J ,; f "Catfrria isso weli adapted to childmnthat 1 rtomnifnd it as auj;n to any prescription tao" a to r'u'-." H. A, Archer, M. D., " - ::i So Oxford St Brooklyn, N. Y. 1 - "I ' "Thou '.-.'' 'Castwiii'jte so universal and its ui'-rit ;; v !1 known tbat It sewns a work i,t hujo r : '' ion p endufito it. Few are tho lilies '!" Jo tiot kcv'p Cat-toria wihije..1 reach." ; - - Carlos Maktyk, D. V., ' New York City.' 1 I'tHiii AKninM jhe pnti-Oplion Hill. lion, FranJdin Ijartlett, of New g York, made some excellent and forci ble points against he anti-options bill in the course off his remarks on Thursday. Replying to the argu ment that the systpra of jrurclvasc and saieKuir luturq; uenvery oepre ciatcs the prices of the products in- ,;vol veil, he said: V , ftIt -seems to me if is a new propo sition to bead vahcefl by a Democrat. j by any part of the Democratic party, that it is for the int(rcst of the Dem Wraty that the costjof commodities, that-the cost of living should be en harrced -to the corsumer. I have heard it sait repeatedly by the lead ers of ray party fhat vye must regard the consvfiner, that we have nothing tn do vit;h tliiinanufacturer or with ' theproducer, but thpt the consumer is the great person b be cared for in our legislation. That is advanced as one of the tenets of my party, and yet we have this measure proposed "by a leading, Dcmdcrat, avowedly designed for the protection of two classes in the cotntmfnity, the plant er and the farmer. vWe have a meas ore proposed, the aflpgcd purpose of which is to enhance the cost of bread to every person in t hi" United States I to every man, wotiiai, and cliild; to :advanc'e the cost, of cotton shirts, to enhance the price ofevery glass of beer; and every pounp qf pork.. We V" have a measure designed to tax, for f the bcncfitf the producer onLy and ( hijainst the interests pi GO per cent. 0f the population pf the United States according to Ithcir own esti mate. Is, that Democracy ? Is that consistent with any principle of any Democratic platform?" ' Mr BarUett himself lloes not be lieve that the system!; has any such effect. Onlthe contrary he points out the fact the notorious fact, bv the , way the dealing in futures has had . . the effect of enhancig the value of agricultural product and of abso lutely preyenting thse violent flue (. tnations which w'erei so common in the days when middlemen andspecu liters could- contro Mr, Unrtttt met the markets, lie argument, though he;Jid not xaliditv. j ajeknowdedge its Another, point of great' significance "to be found ia th closing para graph of Mr. Dartlltt's verv brief speech;' ;"But iii hmclusipn, Mr. Chairman, the right to sell wheat, or t seems "to me tha tnakc a contract to cotton, or lard, 6r jlork, or- any of the commodities refej-red to in this Mi, hi the' future, slrould be iust as trec as the: right vhih every citizen . ' , : - reference .to! every other cxecu tory contract. Ale should have the "km to sell wheat abd cotton just a much as you havelhe right to sell te leather; before jt s !tanned or to Ul uic wood before it is hewn. Y.ou fannot tale thatiirght, thus held Mdcr thej Cohstttufion, from any .Citizen. ;Ybu nrayai well pass a h ct Providing that! no man shall ake a Promise tri nivmiinpi' nnloco W I ' v. . . . x 1 . . . o "; r;as the mo.ney in the bank at the umc he makes the'prlmise; and if he :ak?s a e vyhich liaturesiu three ""isiie; shall not be permitted to have power to male a settlement .th lis creditor. i -Yba-may as well Ve lnm o tlmt right, and del Castoria. Cantor! a cures Colic, Constipation, Knnr Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills. Worms, prices sleep, and promotes dl gestion. Without injurious medication. " For several years I have recomniendoc "your 'Castoria,' and shall always continue tc do so as it has invariably produced benoftcia. 'results." Edutin F. PARnsa, M. !., 125th Street and 7th v.... New York City The Cehtai'r Compact, 77 Murray Htskkt, JSkw York Cttt prive all citizens of their rights, just as well as to undertake to prevent any citizen from trading in these great commodities as he pleases. " What has the court of last resort in my State said ? "c'The right to liberty embraces the right of man to exercise his faculties andto follow a lawful avocation for the support of life.' " 'Liberty means also the right of one to use his faculties in all lawful ways', to live and work where he will, to earn his livelihood in any )awful calling, or to pursue any law ful trade or ayocation.' "If you pass this measure you will prevent many citizens from follow ing avocations which are permissible by the laws of the various States, and which are held by all the States to be entirely legal. What wfll be the effect ofUhe passage of sueh an act? The great exchanges of cotton in New Orleans and New York, the produce exchanges of New York and Chicago, will be closed, and your cotton market will be ruled by Bremen, Havre, and Liverpool, and the farmers will have the prices of their grain regulated at will bythe big millers of the great Northwest." The only -wonder is that such a measure as this -anti-option bill has any intelligent support at all. It has, however, and the fact cannot be denied. It has the support of men in whose integrity of purpose we repose implicit confidence, and as to whose good sense and good 'feeling we do not entertain the shadow of a doubt. And yet,. as we see the matter, the bill is unquestionably un wise, if not actually dangerous. It cannot, by any possibility, prevent the gambling against which it seems to be direct ed, and it will infallibly transfer to Europemd to the hands of those most interested in depressing prices the absolute control of the grain and cotton market. As Mr. Bartlett says, the cotton and produce ex changes will be moved from New York, 'Chicago and New Orleans to Liverpool, Havre, and Bremen, and the prices of wheat and flour be kft to the millers of Minneapolis. Thou sands of American citizens will be de prived of their means of livelihood, a vast and lucrative business wilfbe transferred from this country to Europe, the prices of our staple pro ducts will be made subject to foreign dictation, and the gambling will go on as merrily as ever. How any thoughtful and well-in formed man can expect or imagine any other result is to us a hopeless mysterv. Tous the consummation seems inevitable. Washington Post. Little Johnny was in tribulation one morning. Prohibitions, great and small, met him at every turn. It was "no" to this,- and "no" to that, till at last he began to, cry, angrily exclajming to his mother--between his sobs: "I wish 'no' wife a swear word, mamma, so you . couldn't say it!"-Ex. "Dont you spend a great deal of your time in denying other, people's intelligence?" "Yes," said the boast er: "I go around putting the dunce cap on other people's heads.' "Arent you afraid you'll catch cold?' asked the other, quietly. Ex. ' Tfce'IlepubtleiiB Departure. Senator Pon Cameron, of Pennsyl vania, i has, been outlining the future policy pf the Republican policy in a long letter; which he addressed to the National Republican League, which is now in session at Denver, Col. He declares that substantially all the world favors the use of . the silver ex cept the British capitalists, and that they riiavef imposed their will on America ar)d the balance of creation in making the single gold standard. We quote a paragraph from his let ter. ' r- .. . - " ."Soirjcth'ing, then, must be decided, and quickly, for delay itself is likely to be dcison. The Republican par ty must eitheir fix the single stand ard on the nation or reject it. This time we can no longer escape the issue, ajnij whatever we do must be done openly Where a great policy is to b4 entered upon, the straight orwartl path is the best. The Re publican piirty held power for a whole generation, and during all that time! inade only one fatal mis take. UndSpr the influence of the banking inferest, acting in what was then believed to be the true interest of thef country, the party fell into the foreign conspiracy for making a single gold'standard, and, what was worse, did lit with' a foreign air, of conspiracy Wre cannot afford to re peat that efror. You can act with confidence that your judgment it at least as erood as that of other. Neither thejbanking interest, nor any other interest has, for the time, a right to claim superiorjknowiedge or wisdom. Ip view of the ruin they have wrought, and the vaster ruin that they threaten, no risk, that in their opinion you may seem to run can cause iaimoment's fear." j s This , is pjretty plain talk. Some thing is ti be done quickly. The Republican party can't dodge the issue this time. . It fell into the con spiracy! to demonetize silver and that error darinot be repeated. The people who! have assumed to know about financial matters have been shown to be unreliable guides that is the substance of what is contained in this extract. Another extract is worth reproducing. "Thistis not - a- moment' for stimu lating bitterness or inflaming pas sions. We need our powers of for bearance and: self-control. Let' us give credit to pur opponents at least for god intentions, even though they give no credit to us. All Eu rope arid America are in trouble. Every pneadmits that the world stands n the edge of revolution social and political; every one shrinks from it. ? Neithern North nor South , neither Easf nor West, neither capi talist nor laborer, w ishes to create caste or classes, or to spread misery, oppressjon j jor' violence. We all see danger before us. We all desire to avoid it. Our only; dispute is about the path. , i To thosef of us who have had chiefly in mind the struggle between silver and gold that is the question which, for J the moment, presses hardest. The single gold standard seems to us f o be working ruin with violence that nothing: can stand. If its influence , is to continue for the future at the1 rate of its action dur ing the twenty years since the gold standard took possession of the world, somcigeneration not very re mote will see in the broad continent of America only a half dozen over grown cities, keeping guard over a mass of capital, and lending it out to a populatioo of dependent labor ers on mortgage of their growing crops and " unfinished handiwork. Such sights! have been common enough in the world's history; but against fit ;we all rebel. Rich. .and poor alike; Republicans, Democrats, Populists; Jabor and capital; rail ways, churches, and colleges all alike,, ahd fill in solid gold faith, shrink f ronv such a future as that." Here the 'elements in the problem are substantially stated, and the troubles! that the world is to pass throuch in case no proper action is had. Fot Ourselves, we have fre quently said that while America with her: ys resources and varied industries njiht get along somehow Europe would be stricken as if with the plague were the currency of the world t0 be; based exclusively on gold. But we do not wish to add to the Senator's own forcible state ment. It isixue that there- is a gen eral sentiment in favor of the re storation of silver, but nearly every one shrinksi from the imperative duty of attempting to fix a standard. There are spme objections to every movement, and it requires some Alexander to cast objections aside and cut the Gordian knot. The fear and trembling of objectors.mast be ignored arid there must lie action, even though some may say: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Sugar Trust What Will the Ilosse Df It is believed that the House will not allow the Senate bill of abomina tions to pass as it is. It i& almost certain that the vile attemyt to ex tend the time before the bill goes into operation for the giant Sugar Trust will be thwarted. So he it. It is a most rascally business and yet the Democrats voted for it. This in- amous clause, to quote the well posted New York Evening Post in tariff tax matters, "offers the op portunity to a few persons to import all the raw sugar on the world's markets, and pocket the duty when the act goes into operation. It is not necessary that the Sugar Refin ing company itself should buy it. Anybody can do so who is sure of being able to sell it to the Trust af ter the first of January'-" The same paper shows very clearly how in addition to this disreputable feature, the Gorman schedule gives benefit to the Sugar Trust in three items. We must quote, because it is important, undeniable and instruc tive. The Evening Post says the three advantages or favors are : (1) "By the uniform 40 per cent. ad valorem on all sugars the refiners are given a net 40 per cent, upon the difference between the valuation of raw sugars sufficient to make a pound of refined, and that of a pound of refined sugar in effect this ranging from 35 cents to 40 cents pet hun dred poundsjfmainly according tp the difference of the conditions in which raw sugars are produced (2) A discrimination of 12V efcts ya, 100 pounds against all sugars above No. 16. Dutch standard, this securing the refiners not merely a cent, additional on every pound of their product, but amounting to prohibi tion against the cheaper grades of re fined sugar that is, those refined by processes other than that used by the Trust a matter, however, a greater prospective than present importance. (3) An additional 10 cents per 100 pounds against all sugars from boun ty-pay ing countries. This practi cally insures the Trust 1-10 cent ad ditional on its refined sugar." The Sugar Trust, managed by sharp fellows who know how to buy their way, is now despondent and does nt expect the Gormon betray al for its benefit to go through the House. The members of that body must stand faithfully by the people Do not favor Trusts. The Trust r will of course have plans and will do its best to secure all favors possible. It is uuderstood In New York what the representatives of the Sugar Trust will seek to com pass. We hope it will find "a stone of stumbling" when it strikes the House. The Batimore Sun urges the Democratic House to be firm and do its duty and says it is clearer than ever what that duty is. The "Gor man cabal must be called down. The sugar schedule must be called down. The sugar schedule must be recast on Democratic lines. And if the bill can not be passed when this is done, then let the roll be called in the Senate, and let every McKinleyite Senator who is wearing the livery of Demo cracy to serve the Sugar Trust have his vote against the bill recorded." Thus far the House has lost ground. Its course as to silver gave it a terrible blow. The North Caro Una members, with the exception of Representative Bunn, voted with the people on the silver question. If the House will now maintain the Dem o cratic law as to the Tariff it will do much to reinstate itself in the South ern confidence. The Senate has de generated itself into the merest legis lative machine. The House sboulc show itself something far better, and in touch with the people who electc it. Where Mr. Cleveland stand is a n important matter with the. country at large; Where he ought tq siand should be plain enough to awho can read English. On November 17, 1892 he said in a dinner speech.as to pure Democracy and no false lights, soon after his election for a second term: "When I consider all we have to do as a party charged with control of the Government, I feel that our campaign, instead of being conclud ed, is just begun. What shall our performance be of the contract we have made with our eonntrvmen and how well shall j we justify the trust they have imposed upon us? I thank: God that, far above all doubts and misgivings, and away beyond all difficulties, we may constantly see the lights of hope and safety. The lights we see is the illumination from the principles of true, honest and pure Democracv Showing the way in all times of danger and leading us to the fulfill ment of political duty and the re- demp tion of all bur pledges. Let us not Be misled jto our undoing by other lights of false Democracy, which may be kindled in broken faith." 1 Each reader can make his own de duction. We withhold comment est we offend those who are well satisfied with all that has been done since 4th March 1893. A few days before, on the 10th of November, 1892, soon after he knew of his election, speaking to the New York Reform Club, he said this among other things, in which it was indicated that the people h trifled with would punish deceit and treach ery: , "If we have learned that an ap peal to the patriotism of our coun trymen, and an honest presentation of political principles to their intell igence and the judgment, are not in vain, the thought must not escape us that, while our people" will in the end repay with their support the po litical party which addresses their prejudices and selfish interests; they will surely revenge themselves upon those who deceive or betrav them." Truth and strongly stated. The mills of the people grind slow but awful sure. Again Mr. Cleveland, in his inaugural address of 1893, in sisted that the Democratic party was bound b3' its promises and said that it was "pledged in the most positive terms to the accomplishment of tariff reform." Is a Sugar Trust schedule "tariff reform?" He said the people by their votes in 1892, had "determined in favor of a more just and equitable svstem of Federal taxation." The House ought to re member this declaration of the peo ple and statement of the President when they come to overhaul and put the knife into the Gorman-Bricc mon strosity. Once more we will quote from the last inaugural as he refers to the course to be pursued by the Congress and himself: "The agents they have chosen to carry out their purposes are bound by their promises, not less than b3r the commands of their masters to devote themselves unremittingly to this service." What will the House do? Wil mington Messenger. . The Messenger has many times ventilated the huge pension fraud. It has given the figures from time to time, as people forget and line upon line is the best way to teach truth. The official figures reveal the enormi ty as well as wickedness of this wholesale robbery. This year?the people are taxed $100,000,000 for pensions, as much as President Buch anan required to carry on the gov ernment for two entire years. Pre serve the following figures if you would see what rascality is practiced by the Republican plunderers under the guise of patriotism. The follow ing are the appropriations for each year: 1879 35,121,482 30 1880 56,777,174 44 1881. 50,650,279 62 1882 - 61,345,493 95 1883 66,012,573 04 1884 55,429.228 06 1885 B,102,267 46 1886 ,. 03,404,864 03 1887 73,496,402 60 1888 80,288,508 77 1889 87,624,779 11 1S90 100,936,855 07 1891 124,415,951 40 1892....... 145,183,052 79 1893 159,357,557 87 18o4 166,531,350 00 In 15 years the appropriation has jumped from $35,121,482.39 to the enormous sum of $166,531,350 and it is still increasing. Wilmington Messenger. A father, fearing an j earthquake in the region of his home, sent his two boys to distant friends until the peril should be over. A few weeks after the father received the following brief note from his friend: "Dear Jack, please take your boys home, and send me the earthquake." Chi cago Evening Post. tii-erirw fnr the Watchman and get your county news. Highest of all in Leavening Power Latest U. S. Gov't Report Arp chat n MHpersti! ion. i was ruminating about this pecu- liar superstition of the negro race One of their color has been very sick in this town and it got spread among them that he was conjured or "con- jud," as they speak it, and right there comes in the difference between the blacks and the copper-colored and mulattos. The belief in "con- junn" seems to be confined mainlv to the black negro. Old Aunt Ann declares that he was "cuniud as sho' as you're born, for he isturnin' right green." It was these same black Africans who had all the supersti tions about Brer Fox and Brer Rub- bie. We had all colors amongst our slaves when I was a boy, but it was only the black, broadnosed and thicklipped ones who told us stories by the cabin fires at night. Thev only had a love for the marvellous and their descendants haye it yet. They believe in hoodoo or voodoo ana conjunn . liieynave a strong emotional religion and if the "spirit' A. t At 1 r lurovYs tnem aown in a laint it is a sure sign they've got it good. What it is they get I don't known, but it suits them, and there does not seem to be anjrchange in their mode Of worship" Education has not made any thai we perceive. Some white people are affected the same way, but It is the exception and not the rule. With th negroes it seems to be spasmodic. Its effects have no good influence after the spasm is over. We used to say of one of our servants, "Becky is going to cut up to-day. She fell down in a trance last night at meeting and had to be carried out." And she did cut up She was the nurse for: our children and they had to be kept away from her until she got over her fit. She was accused of being a conjurer and ablack negro named Luke swore oxit a warrant for her and Tom Perry, the squire, issued it just to see what Luke could prove. He said that she made him sick in the back and kept him sick, and he handed the 'squire a dime that she gave him for a chick en and pointed out a dark spot on it that was the sign the proof that she had conjured the money before she paid it to him. That was all. "What do you wish done with her?" said I. "She have to swaller de dime," he said, "and dat break de socll. I tried de rabbit foot and I bury lizard under dc door and I plat1 de ole marc's mane when de rooster crow fer midnight, but it don't do no good. I is dyin' every day." But' Luke got well and Becky didn't swal low the dime, either. One of my father's negro ' women got jealous of Minty, the cook, and determined to poison or conjure her to death. Minty got sick and my mother told Juno to make her some chicken soup. She got from an old rag a red scorpion's head, a lizard's leg. a bat's wing, a betty bug and three or four centipedes or thousand legs, as wc call them, and the tail of a green snake and had the horrible mess cooking in a sauce pan when my. mother happened in totsee how Minty was and took the top off the pan to look at the soup. Juno con fessed that she had been gathering material for that soup a good while, and she wasn't much disturbed at the discovery. She declared that Minty had "cunjud" her husband and I reckon she had. So my father had to separate the families. The superstitions of the races is an interesting study. All have them and all are connected some way with spirits wandering spirit s--t h a t haunt our pathway unseen but not unmindful of our destiny. The In dian tribes do not seem to know any thing about conjurin', but they have many signs acd symbols and a rev erence for the great spirit. I read the other day from one who was fa miliar with their customs, that every male child of a chief or a great war rior must be named for the first thing or object that was seen shortly after its birth. The old medicine man walked to the door with great solemnity and looked out, and what- lever he saw was the name of the (child, whether it was "flying cloud" or "hole in the sky," or young man afraid of his horse," or Setting Bull. There was a Cherokee chief who lived not far from here whose name was Laughing Gal." Some hilarious maiden was in sight when he was born. The ancient Tewe hnA J - utv& u torn similar in some respects. The name was connected with some inci'" dent of birth. The great lawgiver was named Moses because he was drawn out of the water. But our superstitions are not con fined to names. Very many sensible " and educated people will make a cross mark with the .shoe before they turn back to get something they have for gotten, some will spit in the cross. Some put the shovel or the poker in, the fireplace when a .screecho'Wl moans near the house.Some will not begin new workfa journey on I- rulay . I or forty-five years I have known unsensible, self-reliant woman whoill walk to the back door to get a lucky view of the new moon. Bill Arp. A New Theory of Character. Professor Bausch, of Brooklyn, has developed a somewhat new theory ot character making which he ex plainedjto the Human Nature Club of that city on Friday last. Some years ago, as he says, he began to ' ', practice facial imitations, and was surprised to find that he could not assume an expression of anger, love or vanity without feeling for the time being the passion itself. By waj- of illustration he says that up on one occasion, in a dark and lone ly wood, he began to practice the facial expressions of fear, and found -that he had to desist lest he should be overcome by the emotion which he was endeavoring to arouse. His conclusion is that any desired char acter may be acquired by constantly assuming it; and not only this, but that the chauge of character wilt- effect a corresponding change in the ' expression of the face. In this con nection he remarked: Your head will also change; not so quickly nor so decidedly, because it represents what might be called your permanent character. But by con tinued activity of certain faculties of the mind the corresponding organ in the brain first becomes more active -and generally enlarges. i Fhrcnology has taught that it is ' the conformation of the head that determines the character. The Bausch theory appears to be, in part at legist, a reversal of phrenological theories or teachings." If it" be cor rect, it should open up great possibil ities at this time for those ambitious gentlemen who arc shaping up their characters to impress the country with their superior-fitness for the Presidential office, Major "McKinley, for example, might begin to rehearse a Napoleonic cast of countenance, mingled with the benevolent expres sion of one who is determined to provide work at the public expense for all the idle tin miners in the coun try; while Mr. Thomas B. Reed, with the aid of a mirror, might combine in his facial make-up a fierce hatred of Europe and a warm affection for the silvr States which may have the controlling vote in the Republican nominating convention. Altogether there seems to be good politics and great posibilities in the Bausch idea, however unsatisfactory it may ap pear in the philosophic sense; and the Party Qf Progressive Ideas and Superior Character should be the first to utilize the alluring oppor tunity held out so temptingly by the Brooklyn genius. 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