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WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N. C, FEBRUARY nth, 1892.
NUMBER 4.
Hats and Caps!
A Drive in Hats !
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We are
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and popularize
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We are selling- Fur
hats at 50c,, worth
and 'the $1.25 quality
v. e sell for 94c.
Crush
75c-
We have a Settled Man's
Blaek Fur at $1.08, sold
elsewhere at $2.00.
Not At Cost
Oh! no! We don't work for
glory, but we guarantee
our prices f be
lowest.
BILL ARP'S LETTER
HE ASKS WHAT 18 TO BECOME OF THE
emu.
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Oh, my country. It makes me sad
and tired to get so many letters ask
ing Tor help and adyice. Help that
I cannot even render. The letters
are always welcome for it is good for
a man to know of human troubles and
to lend his sympathy. It is better to
go to the house of mourning than the
house of feasting, but these letters
make me feel helpless. They make
me feel that I wish I was rich and
wise so that I might respond to every
call of misery. I wish that some
great millionaire would die and leave
his money to me to me in trust for
misery. Sometimes when I look
around niy cheerful home it alarms
me for fear that I have not had my
share of trouble and it will come yet
before I die and fall upon my chil
dren. They are not strong yet and
trouble would go hard with them.
The child never gets strong while the
parents live. II the old lolks have
nothing else to give they can give
comfort and sympathy and advice,
and when they die a prop is gone.
But the girls the girls what is
to become of the girls? That is the
question that is uppermost in the
minds of thousands of parents. It
did not use to be so half a-century
ago, and w hat is the matter now. Oi
course the old time parents felt anx
iety about their daughters, especially
about seeing them happily married
and. settled down, but as a general
rule they did marry and the young
couple went to work prudently and
sensibly and began to raise children
and with a little help were prosper
ous and happy. There was no great
hurrah about how or where the
girls should be educated. The old
field school was good enough il the
teacher was a good one. Richard
Malcolm Johnton taught one of them
lor twenty years, and a college didn't
turn out any better scholars than he
did. My humorous and lovely wife
went to just such a one until she was
sixteen and I didn't want her to get
any smarter, and so we mated, and
the knows as much about books and
everything else as her college bred
daughters. There is not a school
boy that can ipeak Marco Bozzaris
like she can.
But what is the matter with the
girls ? This new World is chock full
of letters about them whole pages
of letters that tell how they should
be educated and what they should
do for a living. It seems that an old
gendeman wrote the first ktter and
bitterly denounced the prevailing
methods and the modern colleges,
and he accused woman of invading
the sphere of man and doing un
womanly things, and -said that she
had better stay at' home and raise
the children and let science and art
and politics and temperance alone.
His letter was pungent and sarcastic
and has aroused the fair sex and now
we are having it hot and spouted on
both sides. Such notable woman as
Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Marion Har-
land and Mrs. Austin and Marv E.
Bryan and Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher have entered the field' and
given tneir opinions m a vigorous
and spicy way. A score or two of
other, writers, male and female; have
responded and the cry is still they
come and nothing is settled. It is
kard to tell who is ahead for some of
the wdmen are on the old gentleman's
side, and some are half and half and
some say he is lunatic and ought to
.be arrested. The old ecntieman has
no patience with the short haired,
poshing, brainy woman, but wants
woman to be lovable and retiring
rather than cold, defiant and self
supporting. He wants them to stay
at home and make it comfortable and
inviting, and expresses his disgust at
the whole tribe who are everlastingly
writing novels and dreamy analytical
stones. Woman, he says, was
created to be a mother and to nurse
children, and that is her highest and
best vocation.
Some of the woman go for him
like yellow jackets coming out of a
hole in the ground, and they stung
him fearfully. I think that, he has
taken to the bushes to get rid of
them, tor he has not yet put m a
rejoinder. They say that thousands
of their sex are not supported by the
men and thev are compelled to go
out in the busy world and support
themselves. They would willingly
marry if the right sort of a man was
to come along and ask them, but he
don't come, and but few of the men
are fitten to marry, and 'not fitten to
get fitten, and those who are getting
scarcer and scarcer as the years roll
on, and so the girls prefer to toil
rather than be pensioners upon the
bounty of their kinfolks.
Well, it does look like the old
1 . j i
man is ngnt, ana tne women are
rifht too. He is looking backward
at the good bid times and they are
contending with the hard facts ol the
present. Half a century ago who
would have thought of seeing a nice
yoong girl in a store or counting
room, or a printing office, or a
theatre, or singing in the church for
pay. It would not have been tolerat
ed. They were allowed to teach
the village school or keep a milliner's
shop, and that was about all. House
hold domestic work, was then em
ployment until they got married, and
then they- had plenty to do afterwards.
Mrs. Arp did I know. Her good
mothef taught her to sew and knit
and bake and play upon the piano
and ride horseback, and she can now
work a neater buttonhole than any
child .she has got,
dresses she made and hemmed,
kemstitchedyand plaited, were marvels
of beauty. From sixteen t forty
five no woaiam ever made more little
garments or knit more stockings or
we more dilligent in household busi
ness And yet she has not suffered,
nor felt oppressed, nor lamented her
lot. Tke maternal pressure was con
standy upon her, and she had no
time to lament no time for dreams
and reveries - or Utopian desires.
When she was weary with work she
rested by reading reading books
that were fit to be read, and she never
forgets them. She is tke standard of
the household upon all literature,
from Milton to Mother Goose. That's
the kind of a woman she is and never
went to college.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox begins
her letter on the old mun's side of the
question, and says : "His letter con
tains a greater moral lesson for the
young generation than is preached
in a thousand pulpits in a thousand
Sundays." She blames the mothers
and teashers for encouraging the
girls to showy accomplishments and
public displays. She blames the
young men for paying more attention
to showy entertaining girls than to
practical and industrious ones.
The young men want their sweet
hearts to be showy and their wives
domestic, and as the average girl can
not be both she does not marry, or
if she does a separation or a divorce
soon follows.
Our own sensible Mrs. Bryan says
the old man is both right and wrong.
She defends the health and music of
a women today, and says they under
stand the 'laws of health better than
did their mothers or grandmothers.
That their rooms are better ventilated
and they have quit lacing their waists
and cramping their limbs and wear
ing French heel slippers. It was not
uncommon in the old gendeman's
time for a lady to faint in the ballroom
and their stays cut in a hurry to give
them breath. But Mrs. Bryan does
lament the decay of what ske calls
the maternal instinct araong the
educated classes. She says that but
few children born are to them, and the
number is constantly growing less.
The time was when it was a reflection
upon a woman if she did not bear
children, but not now. The society
woman of today does not want
them. They are a trouble and are
in the way of ker selfishness, for
motherhood means self sacrifice. Mrs.
Bryan hints that possibly this is in
tended to solve the roblem of over
poduction in th future, and that
maybe if there are fearer children
born they would be better ones. The
mouse in the fable taunted the lioness
with having so few offspring and the
lioness retorted, "But they are lions."
Well, I'don't believe in any thing
that is not according to nature. I
never saw a right healthy matured
woman who was not a mother. . I never
saw a good one who did not wish to
be.
Mrs. Austin writes most tenderly
and truthfully about this and asserts
that maternity brings back youth and
keeps it fresh and buoyant. She
says "I was born over seventy years
ago, and now in my serene old age
f- look upon my children and grand
children as a workman looks upon a
piece ofwork with which he is satis
fied. My children are still my babies
and their little ones bring back my
youth.
But old Mrs. Beecher writes a
cold, hard letter, too hard I think,
and tells how she had to do the
washing and ironing and make
cheese and cook, and darn and plait
straw, and was never idle except
when asleep and she thinks the girls
should be raised that way. All that
is well enough it she was happy and
she says she was, but she declares
that if she had a dozen girls she
would make them do the same thing,
and would never mention marriage
to them and if ihey did not marry
she would send them out to service
yes, hire them out to work in
somebody's kictehen. May the good
Lord forbid ! That is what I call
poverty, hard, pinching poverty when
an educated girl has to come to
that. She says : "Our little girl had
a beatiuful shock of golden hair that
curled in ringlets, and one day a lady
called and said to the child : What
beautiful hair you have got, you are
so pretty i want a kiss. in tne
afternoon I saw my child looking at
herself in the mirror. Her father saw
her too and lifted her down and told
me to cut oft those curls. I did so
and the little lamb was sheared."
If I had ever done the like of that
to my child I wouldn't own it now.
Bless God I never did nor had any
desire to. That child's maker gave
her that beautiful hair as an ornament
and it was no more harm to to be
proud of it than for us to be proud of
her beautiful eyes. The mother
might with as muck reason make her
go barefooted to cruch her pride.
The old lady closes her letter with
"cut oft the curls, close the piano and
the fiddle box and give the girls
plenty of work to do."
This puts me to thinking either
Mrs. Beecher is a hard woman or I
am a soft man, for I shall not cut off
the curls nor close the piano or the
fiddle box. They are all a pleasure
and treasure at any house.
But in all these letters there are
good thoughts and food for re
flection. The gist of the whole mat
ter is that every respectable family
ougt to do the very best they ean
for the girls, and I reckon they will.
Good example and good precepts and
a happy fireside are the best safe
guards. If the girls no not have
these at home there is no security
abroad. Bill Arp.
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COTTON ISN0T KING.
THE ONCE KOYAL STAPLE NOW THE
MOST DESPERATB OF CROPS.
Talks With? Statesmen Planter' strait
and Living Prices on the Uplands and
ia tli Deltas Is It Overproduction ?
RETRENCHMENT ANF REFORM.
It is really difficult to decide which
is the more interesting and entertain
ing these days, the proceedings of the
House of the Representatives at
Washington or the General Assembly
of New York at Albany. Both re
ports are rich, rare and racy. The
Democrats are giving the Re
publicans a dose of their own medi
cine with a vengeance. The Demo
crats are going for practical retrench
ment and reform. The Republicans,
with the record of the Billion Dollar
Congress and an empty Treasury
staring them in the face, have the
audacity to ridicule them. Here is a
passage from Friday's proceedings
that is laughable and shows the rela
tive position of both sides :
Mr. Boutelle began a speech on
the situation with the exclamation,
"What an economical old humbug
the Democratic party is ; year after
year, Congress after Congress, there
had been the same old tune on one
thing." He had sat here before yes
terday and looked upon the remark
able spectacle presented by the gen
tleman from Indiana (Holman), who
administered to the brethren around
him, in allopathic doses, medicine of
retrenchment and reform. There
was something familiar about it and
he had tried to recall what it was. He
had at last been able to do so. It all
came back to him ; it was very sim
pie history was repeating itself. The
performance was simply a repetition
of the portrait made by Dickens and
carricatured by Cruikshahk, who had
depicted that famous event when Mrs
Squeers gathered the boys around
her and administered to them with
a large spoon their dose of retrench
ment and reform, in the shape of
brimstone and treacle, for the pur
pose of breaking down their appetite
and saving provisions. rLauehter.l
Now, according to the prearranged
form, Mr. Pecksniff arose and with
taffy in one hand and an amendment
in the other, undertook to follow the
great onward cause of retrenchment
and reform. Then other friends
the Rev. Mr. Chadbond, of Ken
tucky, came in with "Bless you, my
children" and pronounced his bene
diction.
Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee, said that
he had also enjoyed the speeches of
yesterday and the very harmless
debate of to-day, and he enjoyed
them much better than he enjoyed
seeing representatives of the people
marched out of the hall twelve
months ?ago by the gentleman from
Maine (Reed), "under parliamentary
law." He thought that the resolution
of the gentleman from Indiana (Hol
man), might be characterized as an
outburst of public consent. It was
broad enough to let in the Chicago
Exposition, and anything that related
to the carrying on of the Government.
The gentleman from Maine (Boutelle)
had spoken of Mrs. Squeers, and of
the fact that she had administered
brimstone and treacle to the boys. If
die gendeman had read the story
further he would remember that after
a time the students had overturned
the administration and, taking the
long spoon, compelled her to take
brimstone herself that was exactly
what the people had done. Twelve
months ago the Republicans had
compelled the Democratic party to
take brimstone and treacle ; but the
people had overturned their adminis
tration and the Democratic party was
now giving brimstone to the Repub
licans, f Laughter. I
Mr. Holman's resolution, referred
to above, was opposed solidly by the
Republicans, and is as follows :
Kesolved, In view ol the present
condition of the I reasury, and be
r it
cause emcient ana nonest govern
ment can only be assured by frugal
expenditures of public money, while
usnecessary and lavish expenditure;
under, any and all conditions lead
inevitably to venal and corrapt
methods in public affairs, no money
ought to be appropriated by Congress
from the public I reasury, except such
as is manifesdy necessary to carry
on the several departments frugally,
efficiently and honesdy administered.
Washington, Feb. 3d, 1892.
"In i860 we kad the virgin soil in
Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee,
Kentucky and Alabama, and did not
use fertilizers. Now there must be
added to the cost of producing the
cotton the cost of commercial fer
tilizers, and during the interval we
have had no new invention made of
implements to help either to culti
vate or to gather the crop, so that
cotton costs now more per pound
than it cost in 1890. The families
producing cotton in Georgia do not
make on an average over six bales
of cotton during the year. The
price of cotton has gone down from
ioc. in i860 to 6Jc, the price in
Augusta to-day."
In this comprehensive way Mr.
Livingstone, the Georgia Congress
man, put the conditions of the cotton
industry before the House of Rep
resentatives a few days ago.
These are good times for the
grain-grower. With the stock-raiser
it is a question of profit, not of loss.
The prices of tobacco hold up well
notwithstanding a great crop. But the
cotton-planter is seeing his worst
days. From the cotton districts, one
and all, the reports of the unfortunate
condition of things are the same. Is
overproduction the fault r What is
the remedy ? .
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat-
asked this question of a number of
Congressmen :
CAPT. ALEXANDER'S VIEWS,
"Impossible to control it ; useless
speculation to consider it," emphati
cally and tersely replied Sydenham
B. Alexander, of the Sixth District of
North Carolina, when asked if con
certed reduction in acreage was the
remedy for the prevailing depression
in cotton.
"We can't make cotton in my part
of North Carolina under oc." Mr.
Alexander said.
"What is vour remedy" for the
present condition?" he was asked.
"This," he replied.
Mr. Alexander produced a bill
which he has just introduced and
which is before the Committee on
Ways and Means. The proposition.
is as concise as the author s speech
The most important provides "that
all vessels built within the United
States, by citizens thereof, and wholly
owned and manned by citizens, of the
United States, engaging in foreign
commerce be allowed to enter and dis
charge their returning cargoes, or sc
t . r -11 r .
much tnereoi as win ,je 01 equal value
in money to their outgoing cargoes
at any port of the United States, free
of all custom duties ; provided, tnat
said vessel shall have ' carried full
outgoing cargoes from the United
States, three-fourths at least of which
cargoes consisted of agriculiural pro
ducts of the United States." The
other sections simply provided regu
lations to carry out this idea.
CAPT. WILLIAMS' VIEWS.
"We can't afford to make cotton
at the present prices : it is next to
bankruptcy," Archibald H. A. Wil
liams said.
"Lint cotton to day," he said, "is
only 6c. per pound to the planter,
-.'--. . . t .1..
while it costs more tnan tnat to raise
very much. We cannot afford to
raise cotton for less that 9 or iocts.
per pound at the gin house, but we
have to take whatever the -speculator
and buyer will give ; so you see with
the present price at 6 cents per pound
where we stand financially. As to
the remedy, I should think we need
more money in circulation and some
change in the tariff laws, by which
we could receive in return such arti-
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"What do you think of the prop- L "
osition to reduce the cotton area ?" mg territory, our close and per-
"I am heartily in favor of that if sonal attention. We reDresent
- . u
some of the best
all of the cotton sections will enter
into it and keep the pledge in good
faith. But I remember that before
the war thereswas a big meeting called
of the planters of the South to take
this same subject under consideration.
The convention met af Memphis,
Tenn., and passed resolutions that
each planter in every cotton State
should reduce his cotton acreage. I
do not remember the exact number
of acres, but it was enough Kq reduce
the erop several million bales. The
news spread over the country that
there would be a small cotton crop
in the United States, and we all hoped
for big prices, but when we got the
crop ready for market the price was
ower than the previous year. When
the facts which led to this condition
of prices were made known, we found
that the planters in each State thought
they would be wiser and sharper than
the other, so that they planted more
than the usual acreage, hence we had
an overplus of production of cotton
and a shortage on income from sales.
The Alliance in some sections of my
State have taken action with a view
of reducing the acreage and raising
other crops instead of the one crop of
cotton. I hope we may succeed in
some practical way in securing better
prices on our cotton.
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What the Augusta Convention Had to Kay
on the Subject.
Not so Remarkable.
"Almost a lifetime," says Harper's
Weekly, has "passed since the Alamo
was fought, and the survivors of that
histonc battle have grown fewer in
number even than the Revolutionary
widows." As the only ''survivors" of
that tragedy were a woman, her child
and a negro servant all noncombatants,
the present scarcity of such veterans
is not remarkable Goldsboro Argus.
The Advance for Job Printing.
After discussing fully the reduction
of acreage, the convention which met
at Augusta, Ga., last Wednesday,
adopted the following :
Whereas, The enormous exten
sion of cotton culture has so cheapen
ed that product as to cause widespread
financial depression, seriously affect
ing all branches of industry in the
South, and the outlook reveals no
limit to the constantly increasing pro
duction and unprofitableness of this
culture ; arid, inasmuch as this is
largely due to the absence of that
mastership in husbandry which alone
profitably controls and directs labor
and regulates production to large
ares, the titles to which, being more
or Jess a n atter of doubt, are obtain
able at nominal values, and to the
assistance of which foreign and do
mestic capital is, and always will be,
ready to extend, often directly to la
bor itself, aid for the production of a
staple commanding spot cash in the
markets of the world :
Therefore, in order to re establish
values in the land ; to restore a just
equilibrium - between the four
primary and essential factors in the
production, to wit ; land, labor, capital
and management, two of which, land
and mauagement, are now virtually
without influence in our agriculture :
to induce the return of intangible and
invisible personal property now seek
ine refuge from taxation in specula
tion and commercial ventures to
visible and tangible permaneut im
provements in agriculture, and to
restrain the yast waste and destruc
tion of our resources through un
limited cotton 'culture, be it
Resolved, That this convention
memorialize the legislatures of the
cotton States, recommending the
enactment of such laws as they, in
their wisdom may think best calcu
lated to accomplish the following re
sults :
1. The adoption among us of the
Australian or some similar system for
the regulation of land titles and trans
fers, so as to render these evidences
of property as secure and as easily
and cheaply transferable as State
and corporate bonds and stocks now
are.
2. To secure more effectually than
at present all rights and privileges
appertaining or in any way belong
ing to land (for example the right to
own and power to dispose of it
as secured by lawf in Germany) to
the owrters of lands for their sale and
use and disposal.
3. That all agricultural lands be
classified and a permanent valuation
for taxation fixed tipon them as was
done in England by an act of Par
liament in 1692, and that thereafter
for a period of thirty-three years no
improvements of agriculture lands be
subject to assessment and taxation.
afford to raise cotton for less than 9 4. That to meet tha present and
cents per pound at the gin house." prospective depression of cotton,
"What, in your opinion, is the threatening bankruptcy, a moderate
remedy for the depression ?" license tax be placed on cotton acre-
"Some change in the tariff laws age for a period of four years, lifting
will be necessary, and more money the burden of taxation from other
in circulation among the people." crops and restraining the unprofitable
"What do you think of the plan culture of cotton,
to reduce the cotton acreage ?" This last section was amended so
"I cannot see how that would re- as to suggest careful consideration by
suit in any benefits to the planters the Legislature of the subject of a
unless it was a universal tiring all
over the cotton belt and every plan
ter would act m good faith. The
reduction in acres would be a good
thing if they would as a unit."
congressman grady's view.
Representative B. F. Grady, an
Alliance Congressman from the Third
District, when asked about the con
dition of the cotton planters in his
district, said : "They are not as a
general thing bankers, but have to live
by the toil of their hands to make
a bare living. The extreme low
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"What, in your judgment, is the
remedy for the present condition of
the cotton industry ? '
The only relief for the -cotton
planters in South is to plant less acres
in cotton. If they make ,000,000
bales instead of 8,000,000 and get
ioc or 15c for the five, they will have
a chance to diversify their crop and
raise their home supplies and be more
independent. The farmers' Alliance
in some of our cotton counties have
recently resolved to plant less cotton
in -the future. J think that will in a
great measure help the cotton inter
ests."
CONGRESSMAN CHEATHAM'S VIEW.
H. P. Cheatham says - our farmers
it 1 1 " - -
are generally nara up because tne
people have raised cotton at a cost
of 9 or 10 cents and sell it at 6 and
7 cents. 1 he remedy is to plant less
cotton and raise more horses, mules,
hogs, corn and wheat. Several county
Alliances have resolved to reduce the
acreage and it will be done.
congressman branch's views.
Reprsentative W. A. B. Branch is
a large cotton planter from the First
District. "Our farmers," he said,
"are getting along as well as could
be expected when we take into con
sideration the starving prices they
get for their cotton. They cannot
cotton tax.
Arrested for Kobbery.
Jamesville N. C, Feb. 1 Civil
Engineer R. K. Montague was
caught robbing the pockets of Capt.
Blake Saturday night at Washington
N. C. He conlessed to the Hotel
Nicholson robbery of $900, two gold
watches and two diamond pins valued
$500, just two weeks ago, besides
several petty thefts at other times. He
stood high, and the discovery has
prices of cotton have cramped them created a great sensation.
DR. W. S. ANDERSON, '
Physician and Surgeon,
WILSON," N. C.
Office in Drug Store on Tarboro SL
DR. ALBERT ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
WILSON, N. C.
"Office next door to the First Nationa
Bank. -
DR. E. K. WRIGHT,
Surgeon Dentist,
WILSON, n. c.
Having permanently located in -Wil--son,
I offer my professional services to
the public.
"Office in Central Hotel Building.
-totice.
Ll By virtue of a decree of the Su
perior Court made in the special pro
ceedings to sell lands for division en
itled W. G. Barnes, H. I). Barnes and
others, ex parte, I will sell for cash to
the highest bidder at the Court House
door in Wilson on Monday the 21st day
of December, A. D., 1891, the tract or
parcel of land in Gardners township,
Wilson -county; being the undivided
portion of the late Hardy F. Barnes,
home tract containing three hundred
and thirty (330) acres more or less.
This the 21st day of Nov. A. D., 1891.
John E. Woodard,
11-26-4W Commissioner.
ATOTICE!
J3I Having qualified as Administrator
of the estate of Milbry wiggins, deceas
ed, before the Probate Judge of wilson
county, notice is nereuy given to an
persons indebted to the estate of said
deceased to make immediate payment
and to all persons having claims against
the deceased to present them for pay
ment on or before the 16th day of Dec,
1892, or this notice will be plead in bar
ot their recovery. J H KAKCLAY,
F A & S A woodaki.1, Att'ys. Admr.
Dec. 16th, 1891. Dec 17-ow
TOTICE!
iN By virtue of a decree of the Supe
rior Court ot wilson county, wherein R.
S. wells is plantiff, aad C. H. Barron is
defendant, I will sell at the Court house
door, in the town of wilson on Monday,
the 18 day of January, 1892, the follow
ing described property : One tract of
land situated in wilson and Edgecombe
counties adjoining the lands ot Mrs.
wells, Dr. wright Barnes, M. A. Bridg-
ers, Jbdwin liatts, M. r.. warren anu
others, containing eight hundred and
seventy three acres, more or less.
Terms,: Cash.
This, the 13th day of December, 1891.
S A WOODARD,
Commissioner ;
F A & S A wooDAkD,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.