North Carolina Newspapers

.!. A C. C. Daniels. JBd's andlProp's VOLUME 20. B I hh ARP'S LETTER 1 . ! ffj lUi- ABOUT TUB F. I li MERS' ALLIANCE, And bays l hat jtw of urti Agree With. - What coustitutea a c State We a!.L know that aal can an swer the poet, but what constil tntes a to-rn or city? I .-. was ruminating over this while cruirinir around Americas in the electric car.- Three years ago ! vvas iu Americus and it was 'a" nice little town of three 'thousand people,, and now it has . daily papers and electric street cars, and water! works, and-gasworks, and an 'ioe factory, and. oil mills, and compresses, and a cotton factoj ry, and a furniture factory a'ul planing mills, and a brick plant that makes fifty- thous and a day, and has many other -industries, and the population1 br increased to 9,000 peoplej and there is ar splendid new court-house tbac is paid for,1 and an opera-house, and they, are building a hundred thbas-j and dollar hotel. Beautiful dwellings have been erected all ahvi4 the electric line, andj everywhere yon go here are; M.inof thrift and prosperity. There are fifty men in Ameri-j cuwho are worth fifty thous-j and dollars and over, and theyj rauge as high as half a million. There are four banks and ani iuvcatment company, with halfj a million capital, and thej etock i worth 300 a share I What did all this ? Who did; it, and how was it done? Everyj aspiring town in the State would likrt to know. It is; ?aid that agriculture is thej basis of all prosperity, but the! lands of tsumter county are no' richer than they used to be! nor do they produce any more c ttou or corn, or oais to the acre. What has given such a' stimulus to Amencus? -. -j Ther is a good old maxim, that. "heaven helps those who helps themselves." Colonel Evan HuWell eame to our town.' two years ago, aud told our popls thit same old thiilg, arid recited one of old iEsop's, fit les, about the partridge and; her young ones in the wheat! field, and how the young tirdsj were alarmed when they heard! the farmer say. he was going toj invite the neighbors to comej and 'cut his wheat the next dayj but fhVold birds wasn't alarm- ed at all, for she kaew that the neighbors . were not ; coining Our Cartersville people are; Btill wailing for the neighbors! butr these Americus people, have acted on that good old maxim, and they had a leader who opened a school and took iu the whole community aa scholars. T verily believe that if Colonel Hawkins had no? lived in A mericus the town would have been what it was three years ago.1 A progresaive leader - is a great boom to a town.; Colontlj Hawkins built a little, railroad about fifty miles long and wouldn't let it connect with with anything; but stopped it in tha woods, and he built -if -w it nout capital or bonds or syndicates or state aid, but he built it and it brought trade the town thai, it hnii nsver nan before and gave it a . start, and mea ne organized various im proveinent companies and built another railroad, and everyj : thiug he touched prospered . and the people got to believing that he couldn't make a mi&V take and- they followed his lead, and very soon his spirit of eucerprise infused the whole community, and now when anything new is started the nrst inquiry is, "What d ej3 Loh .nel Hawkins think about ll- or "la Colonel Hawkins in it ?" and that is all they want to know. His lucky staT . is still in the assendant. 4 He has made no blunders. He has built over three hundred miles t-f railroad, and they all poih U) Americus. He is now worth half a million of dollars aud n6body has suffered. .No body i3 worth any less because lia is w,orth more. : He has addl ed to values He has increased the taxable property of Sumter coU!lty noteless than "three ini dollars in i the last five vear.n. T n w n n have characters .just like individu4ed The young men Qf . Americus have more life ; and toore business enterprise tlnh jy f know of. They donft loaf around in the day nor. .'go 10 trie billiard aalnnh at nltrht. rn. - r ' o - -" mY are all doing something, S-Ild hav a. annd hinlr oOKAiinf it iinot popular to' be doing nothing in . that town. The lathers and mothers Jare hapry because their children are doing well. My wife says that the iadies don't put on i any style, hut are home-like and kind a social, and . can walk J a Qarter of a mile to church or T.Ci noir o nlott ITPV. 1 a a ah x wane no Know aoout avo man is that she hae to have the carriage and horses and driver brought out to take her to the aii r am church that is only two or three hundred yards away. Soutu- western Georgia is looking up. . uer iqrtiie lands and delight ful climate are attracting farmers and visitors more than ever before. Good farming lands are in demand all over the South. Shortly after the wary the yankeea gave us a bureau for refuges- and aban doned lands; - but that bnrean has been transferred to Ver mont. The truth is that good farming is a paying : business in the South. Mr. McLendon's careful examination of the tax returns proves beyond - all question thatvtbe farmers of Thomas county are prospering. 1 have had but little patience with all this buncombe talk about the poor down-trodden, oppressed farmer. Indnstrious farmers are doing as well as tradesmen or any profesfiion that I know of. Of coarse, some of them are in debt and have a hard time to get out. but we must remember that there are three times as many farmers as all other occupations combined, and there are not three times as many failures. At least half the lawyers and doctors and dentists and school teachers and preachers and editors are struggling for a meagre living, and so are the carpenters i and masons and blacksmiths. We advertised for a superintendent of our public schools,, and there were forty-nine applicants. Look at the thousands of young men that are clerking for just enough to feed and clothe them, and there are thousands inore whO.can't get any employ ment at all. These are the town boya and college boys the very ones the farmer boys are envious of. What good does all this . fuss about the high tariff do the farmer ? Of course the tarm needs reform, hut how can the government go on witnout a larin and a pretty high on at that ? Two years ago there was a surplus, but there ia none now, and never will be again while the pension business goes on and increases from year to year. I wonder if any Jsane man, does expert the government to bnild . thousand warehouses for the armers to' store their cotton and corn and produce in, and appoint the officials, and .then advance money on their crops so that the farmer may hold or a higher price. If the like of that is to be done it seems o me we ought to wait for the Democrats to get in power again, so that. ail tnese new offices could be filled by them. wonder if any farmer i3 banking nis nopeaon sucn a Utopian scheme. I see that one of these high offic als in the Alliance tells the farmers that this scheme would enable them to hold their cotton until it got to fteen cents a pound A year or so ago tney , passed a resolution at Macon to hold for twelve and a half cents, but they didn't hold. Fifteen cents would be a right big trust. wouldn't it. There are less than a million people engaged as landlords and tenants in the production of cotton in the South. What will the other twenty millions of our people say to an increase or nity per cent, on their cotton goods ? What will the consumers and the poor of all countries say to it ? There is a monument in London to Eichard Cobden, and the epitah is, "He gave the poor cheap bread," but the epitah of some of these leaders would be, "He gave toe poor dear clothing." I heard a good farmer say that raising cotton at ten cents per pound was a profitable business, and that any prudent, industrious man could get rich at it. It has averaged ten cents for the past ten years. Corn is bringing sixty cents a bushel here in Cartersville, and a good many have it to sell. Their sweet potatoes have brought seventy- cents all the winter. Their chickens and eggs and pork and mutton are always in , de m 1 i. a a, 1 A man a. rneu wua is ine m&tv ter. and where are the opprens- and distressed xarmers r They are not in . tnis region, and the Americus people 4old me they were not in that region. That old song of HarW Hark! the dogs do bark. The befgari are coming to town,' does hot fit this blessed country. A thoughtful little girl whose parents have recently moved here from the North, asKea a visitor where our people lived. film was astonished to learn tuaw we um uuk unD neither white, nor black no suffering poori J mean nobody to live on charity. "IET iLL THC WILSON, WILSON COUNTY , NORTH C AHOLIN , xt Beems to me that there is plenty, of - good work for the Alliance to da that will avail more .than .all this talk about the tariff and the sub treasury schemes. They can build up their . co-operative stores in everyj country town, and get their applies cheaper, but their big . state - exchanges will not work. They will take too much macninery and capital that are too remote from the farmers. We see that one in Texas has been used for the misapplica tion of a million of dollars. The unpretending farmers' clubs in oar; country have done more good to the members than all the Alliance has done. They meet once a month and inter change views and methods, and give in their experience and experiments, and they farm better every year and get their machines and supplies from first handa. The Alliance of Wilkes coun ty has resolved to vote for no man for the legislature who will not pledge himself to sup port a bill that will limit a member's salary to two hun dred dollars a year. That sounds like a business and a reform too. If they will do that all over the State maybe we can save - something. ' rne last session cost the State one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the general opinion is that there was less done than at any session since the war. In fact, there wa nothing done of any consequence except the lease bill of the State road, and that was only half done. Now let the farmers give us a new set and begin the wcrk of re form. They may do no better, but they can't do worse. Bill Arp. LATE NEWS NOTES, Culled Prom Various Sources Per Busy Readers. The ReidsTille Review reports a hen that laid five eggs in 24 houis. One oyster packing firm in New Berne, shipped 120,000 cans, last week. There are in Cleveland county 2415 white polls aud 390 colored polls on the tax list. i The laboring men of Asheville have adopted resolutions to work ume boars per day. GeneralJoseph E. Johnston will aoveil the Lee Monument at Rich mond on the 29th inat. The New Berne Journal says : All through East Carolina the crop prospects are said to be fine. The Loaisbnr? Times is endeav oring to stir op the people ot that town to erect a cotton factory. The publication of the Tajlora- ville Index has been begun at that place, with E. L. Hedrick, editor. The FiuaucialTimts says Mon tana is the only one or the new States without a dollar of indebted ness. The nenderson Gold Leaf tella of the invention of a muzzle for cattle. Brother Manning pro nounces the invent on a valuable one. Gov. Fowle was at Asheville last week for the pnepose of beiog present and welcoming the Gener al - Aasemly of the Presbyterian church to North Carolina. 1. O. Price, the colored orator jof the Old North State, writes a com muDication to the State Chronicle in which he nominate! Julian S. Oarr for Governor of North Caro lina. The Greensboro : North State aavs : Uor towniman, Mr. t. u. Worth, has received an order from Louisville, Ky-, for 175.COO seams less baes. which will be woven at his Worthville factory. The commissioners '.of Winston have called an election : to take place on the 17th day of June for the purpose of voting upon the I question of issuing bonds for the citv improvements to the amount of two hundred thousand; dol lars. The Governor yesterday pars done" p. K. Jacks out of the penitentiary. ' Jacks was convicted ot larceny in xadKin county in I8a and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. The pardon was granted as a matter of humanity toward the prisoner. He had been in the infirmary four years, is com pletely prostrated as to health, and the opinion of the physicians is that he is a permanent invalid Raleigh State Chronicle. We love to see the farmers of the State improving their cattle. For the encouragement of those of onr farmers who are endeavoring to improve the stocK npon their farms we give the following from the Monroe Enquirer-Express : Mr. Leroy Helms, of north JVIonroe township, has several head of Cotswold sheep, and as showing how superior they are to our com- mon stocK, ne uas orougnc, ns a sample of wool taken from them. From one lamo eleven months old he secured 6 pounds." The sample off of the sides averaged 13 J inches in length, and that off of the back 9 inches in length. He secured 17 pounds from 3 ewes. ENDS THOB AIM'ST AT, BE Allia&ce Education. -:o:- SPEECH OP E, C. BEDDINGFIED, SECRETARY STATE ALLIANCE. THE ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC ZDUCaTIOH What He Said at The Tilson Cattle Show The following is a synopsis of one of the most sensible speeches we have heard in a long time. It was delivered before a large crowd of people and was appreciated greatly. Mr 'Beddingfield was introduced by Mr. A. B. Deans, president of the Cattle Club: Education is simply training the mind to think. In its broadest sense it is enlighten ment. Now a man can be er? u- cated to a certain extent with out knowing a letter, but never theless he derives his education from association of some kind, with people who have been trained by books. I have in a man wno never w ent to school a day in his life, and yet if you were to meet him you would hardly discover that he was ignorant, i He has associated all his life with peo ple who were educated and having a good share of com mon sense and shrewdness has always managed to reflect a part of their training and intelligence. On the other hand I know men who have! goLe through college ' and are well trained in textbooks and yet have not a particle of com mon sense. But bear this in mind, it was not the books that made them fools They were born so and would nave been j the same under 'any circumstances. There is an old saying that 'a man will be like the company he keeps so will a man a ideas and life be shaped by the! kind of educa cation he receives. If his mind is well: trained and has any natural powers, ne mil think for himself. His judge ment will be sound. He can not be led by false theories nor swindled by scheming rascals nor be induced to vote for measures that are ruinous to the interest of his children and his country simply because -a- f a some unscrupulous politician says it is all right. But if a man's mind be entirely untrain ed then he is dependent upon the thoughts of others for his ideas, and wili be apt to think as he hears ethers speak. If he mingles with people who are large-neartea ana pure minded or reads a ! weekly paper mat is truiniui ana liberal in its views, then bis ideas will be correct and broad; but, if he is thrown among poople who are selfish and narrow minded or reads a paper that is controlled by some railroad or monopoly. then however honest his no tions may be, his view of life will be narrow, selfish and false.; A large majority of farmers of this State have never studied anything except how to make large crops. Even rneu of intelligence and educa tor have allowed other men to do their political thinking. lb is owing to this fact that tines have beenformed in most counties and a few men control the conventions, nominate whom they will and shape the platform of the parties. The Alliance has oue' much to educate the people out of this. It has taught them that it is every man s Dounaen amy to vote, that it is even more his duty to go to the primary conventions and express his choice for the candidates to be voted for, and that much of the blame for bad representa tives being in office lies upon the shoulders of the people who stav at home and let such things be done. The Alliance has also learn ed the people something Finance. You may take member of of the Alliance who cannot read and he knows more about tbe financial condition of the country to-day than the best educated farmer did five years ago. It is because the minds of the whole organiza tion have been set to think ing upon this question, and an Alliance man who cannot read himself can attend his sub-Alliance and hear his brethren who can read discuss the mat ter and so avail ' himself of their knowledge. It has done more than this for its mem bers. It' has taught them to have a kindlier feeling for each other and for their fellowmen. It is giving them a broader view of life and its dnties. It li moving away the natural selfishness that has so'long been our bane and. best of all. it haa reached out and taken ia the Till COUPITBr'S, TUT GOD'I, farmer's wife and daughter and set them beside their husbands and fathers and given; to them an equal share in this education which it brings. It is trying to teach us that God made woman the equal of man to be his companion and helper, en titled ' to his strongest love, sympathy, and respect, and not to be his slave.- If there is any class of people In the world who have a hard time in life it is the average farmer's wife and I am sure that every one of you, whether you are mem Cars rbf - the -Alliance or not, will hail with delight the aay that brings to our wives and daughters God bless them more of the joys of life and less of its care and drudgery. All the education the Alliance has brought thus far has been education of ' the right kind. am proud to tell you that no man can point r out a single instance where the Alliance in this State has ever lent its aid or influence to an . immoral or in just act. ; It is an organization which has In it as noble hearted peo ple as ever lived. A people who desire to do right and who have unhesitatingly foK lowed the leadership of such men as Polk, Alexander, Carr. Mewbourne and Ivey. Men who are intelectually the peers&of any in our State. So bng as we follow the wise counsel of such men, so . long as we are "governed by intelli gence and reason, just so long will the Farmers' Alliance prosper and continue the great work it is now doing, and it cannot die unless blind ignor ance and unthiuking prejudice be allowed . to control its ac- ions, or until Its great objects have been accomplished: : In- TELLIGEXCKIS OUJB ONLY HOPE : IGNOBANCE OUB ONLY DANGER. n order to avoid the traps set or us we must be as wise as the trappers. In older to preserve the remnant of our iberties, we must be as watch- ul as the men who would take hem from us.- In order to wipe out the class legislation which for 25 years has been making . farmers poorer, we must be as intelligent aa the speculators and bondholders who have caused such legisla- ion. We all see we cannot fail o see the necessity of intelli gence. To be intelligent we must be educated. To be edn. cated we mu3t either be train ed by books or we must have the companionship of men who are. we must either taiK witu those men or read their writ- ngs. I . suppose about one fourth of the members of the Alliance are educated. I mean that about that proporsition have a fair English education. Perhaps three-fourthsr of them can read and write. mere is hardly a sub-Alliance in the State that does not feel the need of more education among its members; and yet, I am sorrv to say that the most in telligent members, the very men wno are Dest niiea to a , A A X 3 A serve the Alliance, are not al ways as faithful as some of their brethren who have had fewer advantages in life. tell you if all the 80,000 Alii- A 1 ance men in is or in Carolina were men of education, that with enthusiasm and unity, no power could withstand them, The goverement of France wis modeled after that of the United States and now France is pointed out to us as a model Republic. Why is it 7 It is because the people are better educated. It is because nearly every man reads a newspaper, It is especially: because every Frenchman is a politician Germany Is not ven a Republic It is an Empire ; but her people are educated. Therein lies her strength and she Is the strong est nation at thlsvtlme. She is ruled bv an Autocrat whose power ia scaroely decked by the German Congress and his power is backed by an army 5,000,000 strong; yet, if he were to oppress the German peopie as. the Deople of this free Ke public have been oppressed, he could no more rule Germany than he could a cyclone. V Those of us who have passed a a m our scnooi aays muai. uepeuu upon our books and newspapers and upon our brethren in the Alliance and our own minds for such knowledge as we hope to gain but how about our child ren, our sons and daughters; what is to become of them while we wait for prosperity. They will soon take our places in the Alliance and in the church and in politics. Are they being fitted for: the task ? . They are the hope of our lives. We 'live for them. It ia for tbem that we work year in and year out. It is our desire that they shall be better fitted for the battle of Ufe than have been and it lied In the we AND TBUTHSV A, MAY 22. 1890. power of the Alliance to see that this is done. In! other States our noble Order has acted wisely. In Texas and I other Sonthern States many an All is ance school-house I is to- day being thronged with- farmers and laborers ' children. In Georgia the Alliance has caused the public school fund to be increased and the schools are carried on twice as many months in the year and are 4 times as efficient as they need to be. t; North Carolina has not yet acted. The enemies of the Alliance have taken advantage of this fact aud are circulating the report that we are, opposed to education. They are trying to create the Impression to the outside world that our Order in this 8tate is simply an or ganized mob, ruled by prejudice and ignorance and opposed to all enlightenment. But I sit in the office at Raleigh, with my fingers upon the pulse of this great organization and I can feel her heart-beats and under stand the undercurrents of her feelings. I know that if last year had been a good year for crops, this year would have seen a new impulse given to education in this State. The brethren in some sections have this matter at heart. Occasionally I receive etters stating that a certain Alliance has taken i the public school money in its district and added some of its own money and built a new school-house or employed a teacher for' 10 months, and that the children of the Alliance men and women are being fitted to make good members of the Alliance them selves some day, and good armers aud good members of society anoV good citizens. It does my yheart good to read such letters. Educ te the, boys and girls and v ) them a heritage that no ujouoply can take away. Give them a heri tage that even the American Congress cannot deprive them of. Nearly two years ago two great teachers lived in Europe. Tbey were both men of great ability. One was sought by kings and princes; the other. taught in the cottage of the farmer or the hut of the moun tain shepherd. The one spent his life in training the minds of the rich and great; the other educated the common people. These men were Erasmus and Martin Luther. Erasmus be lieved in tbe teachings of Luther, but he never had the manhood to say so to the world. His great intellect is all that has kept his memory alive. The noblest truth he ever uttered was that "The cducai tion of .the girls Is as necessary and important as that of the boys." Not a trace of his life-work is left behind -him. But Luther's will never die. He paved the way for civil and religious liberty in Europe and founded that system of publie schools that has made Germany what she is to-day a system that gives to the hum blest laborer an equal cnance with the children of a prince. There are many people in this country who believe in tht kind of education Erasmus taught. An education for those who are rieh enough to send their childeen to college, but not an education for a poor working man's children. You have heard about- the Irishman who said '.'one man was as good as another, if not better." Well. I am a firm be liever in that doctrine. Further I believe one man's child is as good as another's no matter how humble his circumstances in life, no matter how deep in poverty he may be snnKen. believe he has a mind that Gcd gave him and that ; he has a right to have that mind edu cated and trained. I want to gee our children grow up so in telligent that no trust, nor monopoly, nor corporation, nor demagogue can ever deceive or oppress them as wo nave been deceived and oppressed. I de sire to see them so fitted for the battle of life that they will be able cope . with the children of the bondholders and the millionaire. Did you ever think about who the friends of education are ? Count up all you know and see how many bad men you will .find among them. Are not most of them, men you would be glad to call you friends ? On the other hand - who are its enemies. Thfiv are invariably the men who are your enemies. Yon may find some good men Who are indifferent about education, but if you compel them to take sides, you .will find thej are for it in somL lorm or otner. while the men who desire to plunder the people will natur ally oppose their being educat ed. Do yon suppose Jay Gould or Rockaf eller or any such men are willing to see tbe masses educated ? True they may 1 give something to endow some college and . then some good "pillars" in the church will 8ing their praises and, talk about what they have done for the gospel and the cause of education; but they know well enough when they, give the money that there is no danger of the masses of the people being educated in the colleges and seminaries, . and besides, you see, it serves as an adver tisement to their business. How many such men did .yon ever know to make any effort to educate the common people the children of th farmers and laborers who are not able to send their sons and daughters to college Not one. , W by, they have lived eo long upon the ; labors , of the working people that they have come to look upon them as a kind of feeding-ground and actually feel that they have a perfect right to plunder us. Of course such men are going . to oppose anything that tends to enlight en the masses and cause them to see and understand their trickery. ! v , There . are hundreds and thousands of men in tbe Alli ance "who 'have not had the advantage of an education in their youth,! but, ', who realize all the more the need of it and are all the . more anxious to have their , children and their neighbor's children educated that they may escape the snares that have entrapped their fathers. All Alliance men are In favor of education. The only difference of opinion s as to bow it is to be done. The time hat been when a ma- orlty of the farmers could, by making a sacrifice, give their children a common school edu cation; bnt that time has past. s is no" longer a question whether he will help to hire a teacher for his community. It is now a question whether he can buy bread and clothes for his family. The time has come WHEN" .THE ONLY CHANCE FOB A POOB man's CHILD TO BE EDUCA TED IS BY THE AID OP THE STATE AND GOVEBNMEMT. Our sons and daughters must be educated at any cost. Our organization can, and J am sure will, help in this noble work. I expect to see it, not only edn. eating those of us who have passed our school days, but also to help bring to our children an education that will give them high and noble aime in life, a ove of justice and truth and a manhood to claim and maintain their rights.'' To Mothers. " For upwards of fifty years, Mrs Wiusiow' Soothing Syrup has been used by millions of mothers or their children while teething with never failing safety ! and suc cess, it soothes tu) eh) id, softens tbe gums, allays pain, regulates tbe bowels, cares wind colic and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Mrs. Winsloww's Soothing Syrap is for sale by drnggiats j in every part ot tbe world. Price 25 cents a bottle. Pleasant to the taste aad sur prisingly quick ia relieving coughs and colds it is not at all strange that Dr. Bull's Cough Sjrop always succeeds. Salvation Oil, the greatest paias care on earth, is guaranteed-to ef fect a enre, where it is possible for the scat of the disease to be reach ed by a liniment. Price 25 cents a bottle. To enjoy good health, aim to' al- a .1 atl ways nave aoandnt tieep mis can generally be secured by man agement, unless you have a crying baby, in which Dr. Bull's uaoy Syrup will greatly assist. To equalize the circulation of tbe blood, subdue nervousness and cleanse the system, use Laxador, the great regulator. Price 25 cents. A SAFE INVESTMENT. Is oue which is guaranteed to bring satisfactory results, or in case of failure a return of pur chase price. On this safe plan you can buy from our advertised Druggist a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. It is goarauteed to bring refief in every case, when used "for suy affection of Throat Lungs or Chest, such as Consumption, Inflimatlon of LtiDg, Bionchiti, Asthma, Whooping Cough, Croup etc., etc. It is a plesant aud agreeable to tate, perfectly sale, and can always be deDended ipon. Trial botfles free at A. W. Rowland's Drugstore, , ' ME BIT WINS, We desire to say to our citizens that for years we have been selling Dr. King's New Discovery for Co!suropton, Dr. King's Hew Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and have nev er bandied remedies that sell as well, or that have given ' auch uni versal satisfaction. We do not hesitate to guarantee tbem every time, and we stand ready to re f and the purchase price, if. satisfactory L results do not To low their ue. Theie remedies have won their great popularity purely on their merits. A. W. Uov land's Drags store $1.50 a Tear, cash In Advance NUMBER 18 THE EDITOR'S DESK TIM ELY Cft3l3IBNT QX IM PORTANT EVENTS. Phort Paragraphs on Tuples of ' Lively Interest for ' Busy Ad vance Readers. A modectaensible and well bred man, WUl not Insult ma and no other can. . Pope. "Honesty is the best bolicy," but he who is "honest" simply from policy is the most dis honest of men. It requires more bravery for a North Carolina legislator to vote for a dog law than it does to face the mouth of fifty can nons.; If you want to be miserable, think about yourself about what, you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think about you. Kinsley. The most useful lesson any people can learn is to depend upjn themselves. If the peo ple, of "North Carolina would learn .to depend on themselves to buy nothing they can raise their purplus cash would astonish many of them. There is no more dangerous enemy to civilization than the man who would destroy the Sabbath.i Every mau needs a day of rest each week. His physical nature demands it and we cannot afford to deprive ourselves of this wonderful tonic not to speak of the day from any other standpoint. Kuowledge is the great leav er that moves the world. Sev enteen out of every eighteen children in the State are de pendent upon the public schools for their education. How necessary then is it that our public schools should be taught by the best teachers in the State and that they i should run as long as possible. The people of North Carolina are dead bent on a Railroad Cammissipn. The next Legis lature will give us one. We believe a Commission can do us a great deal of good. The work of the Aycock Investigat ing Committee has evidenced that fact. The the next Leisla ture will give us a Commission that will regulate the Railroads but with fairness to both peo ple and rtallroada. We hope to see the day when there will be a first-class public itchool in every district of the State that will run eight months in the year. If tbe people will work for "neighbor hood schools" in eich of the public school district?, that day will be materially i. -stened. The Farmers' Alliance can do considerable good in this direc tion if the leaders of the 'or ganization will take it in hand. The Greensboro North State" is a ran tanker ous Republican newspaper, but it occasionally says some good things. The following strikes us aa coming Under that head: "To a Re publican who lives quietly iu the-South, the remarks made by theSpeaker suggest thoughts involving an idea that North ern Republicans never can live long enough to get a practical idea of the South." The Wilmington Star speaks truly when it says it: is very unfortunate for any man to acquire the reputation of be-, lug a "funny man." Nothing has ever been said of your own beloved Vance that has injured him more thanr the re putation of being -"funny." People wili scarcely believe a "funny" man capable of being anything else. He must usual ly surrender all else to this flattering, yet dangerous repu tation. First Sweet Girl Just think! The Czar of Russia has a throne that costjmore than 810.000. 8econd Sweet Girl Really ? Why, that is not half as much as papa paid for his seat in the Senate. Terra Haute Express. What the people want is our Sanators elected by the people direct as members of the House now are. If that were done, there would be a mighty rat tling of dry bones in the Sen- ate, which is noted more for its "courtesy,'' than its brains Acate rheumatism is an inflam mation of the joints, marked by pain, heat and redness. With these simptoms apply Salvation Oil, tbe great pain cure at once. Price 25 cents a bottle. s Nothing tries tbe patience of a man more than to 1 sten to a back ing cough, which be kuows could easily ne cared with Dr. Mali's Conga Sjrop.