VOL. XXIII.
KEEPING A liAMt ACCOUNT
AN EXPERIENCED TASiUEll I.AY8 DOWN
HO.MK C8KKIJI. UIM-ES.
thnfrrliiiiwr Jnurmil.
1. If you wish to open an account with
a bank, irovidu yourself with a proper
introduction. Well ruauai!od banks Jo
not open accounts with strangers.
2. I)) nut draw a iheck unless you
have the money in bunk or in your pos
session to deposit. Don't test tho cour
age or generosity of your bank by predent
in:.', or allowing to bo presented, ypur
check fnr a larger sum than your bal
ance. 3. Do not draw a check or send it to
a perwn out of tho city, expecting to
make it ood before, it can possibly pet
back Sometimes telegraphic advice is
asked about such checks.
4. Do not exchange cheeks with any
body. This h soon discovered by your
bank; it does your friend no good and
discredits you.
5. Do not givo yoiir check to a friend
With the eondition that lie is not to use
it until a certain time. He is sure to
take an out-of-town check from a neih
bur, pass it through your bank without
charge and give him your cheek for it
You are sure to get causlit. Discount
an accoinnioiiation note; in the meaning
of u hank it is a note for which no value
T '1 .
ha t a.-scd from the indorser to the draw-
tr,
ti Do not give your cheek to a s trail
cr. This is an open door fur fraud, and
if your bank 'loses through vou it will
not feel kindly toward you.
T. Y lien you send youi clack out of
the city to pay bills, write the name and
residence of your payee, thus: "Pay to
Join Smith k Co., Boston. This will
put your bank on its guard if presented
at the counter.
S Don't commit the folly of supposing
that because you trust the batik with your
money the bank ought to trust yon by
paying your overdrafts.
!'. Don't suppose you can behave badly
in one bank and stand well with the oth
ers. You forget there is a clearing house
10. Don't quarrel with your bank. If
you are not treated well, go somewhere
else; but don't go and leave your discount
line unprotected. Don't thiuk it unrea
sonable if your bank declines to.
11. If you want an accommodation
note discounted, tell tho bank frankly
that it is not, in their dctiuition, a busi
ness note. If you take a note from a
debtor with an agreement, verbal or writ
ten, that it is to be renewed in wholo or
part, and if you get that note discounted,
am! ihcn ask to have a new one discount
ed to take up the old one, tell tho bank
about it.
VI. Don't commit the folly of saying
that you will guarantee the payment of a
note which you have already indorsed.
13. Give your bank credit for being
intelligent generally and understanding
its own business particularly. It is much
bettor informed, probably, than you sup
posed. .
11 Dou't try to convinco your bank
that the paper or security which has al
ready been declined is better ' than tho
bank supposes.: This only chaff.
A gentleman, under forty years of age,
whose hair was rapidly becoming thin and
gray, began the use of Aycr'a Hair Vigor,
and iu sis months his hair was restored
to its natural color, and even more than its
former growth and richness.
1'. P.
P. A wonderful medicine; it gives
an appetite, it invigorates and
strengthens.
P. P. P. Cures rheumatism and all pains
in side, back and shoulders,
knees, hips, wrists and joints.
P. P. P. Cures S3philis in all its various
stages, old ulcers, sores and
kidney complaints,
P. T. P. Cures catarrh, eczenr a, chronic
female complaints and broken
down constitutiou and loss of
manhood.
The best blood purifior of the
P. P- P.
eo. . Hits made mora perma
nent cores than a!! other blood
remedies.
fcsS-For sale by all druggists.
A I'OUUTII PARTY.
CAM. VOR A CONVENTION- TO OtttiANIZE
IT I'OR THE CAMPARIS.
Heiuij an old and astute politician and
having carefully studied and analyzed the
I tnocr.it ie, republican and third political
platforms and find t lie 1 1 1 all rotten and
corrupt to the core of evil and only evil
tendencies, calculated in their naturo, de
sign and purpose to bring disaster, ruin,
poverty and destru;iion to the masses,
and believing there is yet hope of avert
ing the disastrous ruin that threatens our
country by organizing a fourth political
party similar and yet dissimilar to either
of the aforesaid parties. Similar to some
of the foregoing, as it is to be made up
entirely of the rag lag, bob tail, dissatis
fied, disaffected, disgruntled, grumbling,
growling, whining members of other po
litical parties; and dissimilar as no man is
allowed to become a member of this par
ty for our trade or business.
I hereby call a mass meeting of such
men as above described to meet in John
Barbec's opera hall on the night of May
21, between the hour's of 1 and 2 o'clock
for the purpose of organizing and fully
equipping for the war this fourth politi
cal party. When fully organized we
will elect by ballot a sufficient number of
men to fully, secretly, stealthily and
sneakingly canvass the entire county of
Hamilton. It shall be the duty of such
canvassers to Ho on, misrepresent and
throw their nasty filth and slime, and
even puke on all other political organiza
tions. I hereby notify all interested par
tics that no ono shall hold office or even
become a member of this party until he
fully endorses and subscribes to the fol
lowing oath:
I, A. B., in the presence of my dis
gruntled brethren , do most sincerely prom
ise and swear that old Jim Hogg is per
sonally and individually responsible for
the drouths, cyclones, hail storms, short
crops und low prices of farm products in
the State of Texas; and if Clark is elect
ed Governor he will have thecouufry in
a worse fix than Hogg has, for I do sol
emnly swear Clark is a bigger liar and a
smarter man than Hogg.
I furthermore do solemnly promise and
swear that I will under no circumstances
vote for any man for office who can read
or write or whoso state and county taxes
amount to more than two dollars a
year.
I do furthermore most solemnly and
sincerely swear by all the devil and vim
that is in me that I do honestly and sin
cerely believe that the property' accumu
lated by hard licks, industry and economy
of our wealthiest men ought to be divided
equally between the lazy, disgruntled
members of this party, and I furthermore
swear that I will never be satisfied until
this is dune. I furthermore tip toe and
and rock back on my dew claws and sol
cmnly, sincerely, willingly and anxiously
promise and swear that I never will plant
more than a half crop of anything and will
under no circumstances half work that,
and furthermore I will do all I can to
keep my neighbors from working theirs
or payiug their debts, and to cap the cli
max I do, with all the earnestness of my
soul, from tho bottom of my heart sin
ccrcly promise that I will take all of my
wife's butter and eggs to town and tiudo
for whiskey, get drunk and talk politics,
Believing a party made up of the above
material would revolutioniza the whole
countrv and be a L'cod thimr. T M!? all
who can conscientiously take the above
oath to be prompt in meeting at the above
time and place. John Bentley Brown
in Hico Courier. -
The UIucs:
Away with them! Take Simmons Liver
Regulator for that torpid liver which has
put your digestive powersL out of gear.
That's at the bottom of the blues, and
when you take Simmons Liver Regulator
you strike at tho root of tho evil, and
everything else that is wron goes with
it. No more Indigestion, Py-pepsu or
Bilijus jess. That sounds bright enough
and is true.
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1892.
AS A FLAME OF A CANDLE
ON HIS ASHEN LIPS STILL TREMItl.ED
THE BACHED NOTES OK THE UEI'ltAIN,
"NE.VREIl TO Til EE."
New York Sun.
One who looked the crowd over as we
waited for tho train would not set us
down as hard-hearted and indifferent, but
so wo prove 1 to be, as a young girl not
over 13 years of ago, leading an old man
who was stone blind and very feeble,
passed slowly around the room soliciting
alms. They got a penny here and there,
but even those coins seemed to be given
out grudgingly, and those who gave
nothing consoled themselves with the
reflection that the pair were, frauds nud
really needed no financial assistance,
When they had made tho tour of the
room, the girl led the old man to a seat
in the corner, and after a few words had
passed between them they began singing
a hymn. She had a wonderful voice for
a child, clear and sweet, and his was a
deep bass. The hymn was that entitled
"Nearer My God, to Thee." You have
heard it by a full choir, accompanied by
the strains of a urand organ, but vou
never listtnel so intently as we did there.
There was a plaint iu that girl's voice
that touched a chord, and there was
quaver iu the old man's bass which sad
dened you. They sang low and soft, and
they had not fiuislied a verse when bn
of us wore stuudiuii up to see them
better.
The girl kept her eyes on the floor
at her feet. The sightless eyes of the old
man her father were raised to the
celling, and over his wrinkled I.iee crept a
glad smile as they finished the chorus :
"Nearer, my God, to Tlicc
Nearer to Thee."
The hymn was not finished when every
man began feeling for a contribution, and
women opened tkir portemounaies. It
was different now. They were no longer
frauds, and every one was glad to give.
something. Two or three were nady to
move about to take up a collection, but
they waited for the hymn. When
came to the chorus of the last verse the
old man was singing bravely. Half way
through his voice suddenly choked and
the last two lines were sung by the girl
alone, and died away in a sob and a cry,
All of us saw the old man's head drop
forward and his body lurch. Ho would
have fallen to tha floor had not the girl
seized and held him up. A duzen of us
were there in a moment, but we were too
late. The eld man's life had gone out as
you breathe upon the flame of a candle,
and on his ashen lips still trembled the
sacred notes of tho refrain :
"Nearer to Thee."
NO ROOM FOlt DOUBT.
MR.
CLEVELAND OPPOSES THE FORCE
BILL.
Thoso who are disposed to doubt the
attitude of Mr. Cleveland toward the
Force bill, cao,have no just grounds for
doubting auy longer after reading the
following extract from a speech delivered
by the ex President at Philadelphia ou
t ie 8th of Jainary (Andrew Jackson's
Day) 1831. Mr. Cleveland said:
"When we see our political adversaries
bent upon the passage of a Federal- lawr.
with the scarcely denied purpose of per-"
piuating partisan supremacy, which in.
vades tho States with election machinery
designed to promoto Federal interference
with tho rights of the people of the local
Me (onernpd. dinwd'ti ig their honesty
and f.iiiucss, and justly arousiug their
jealousy of centralized power, we will
stubbornly resist such a dangerous and
revolutionary scheme in obedience to our
pledges for the support of the Slate gov
ernments in all their rights "
Absolute and unqualified opposition to
the Force bill could not be more strongly
expressed. Mr. Cleveland, in the above
extract, not only opposes and denounces
the infamous bill, but he states a princi
ple of constitutional law, which the South
has ever contended was correct, and
gives his pled " to the maintenance of
the rights o.' iiu Stales. jute Clirota-
THE TARIFF TAX.
A MOTHER OP A FAMILY DOES NOT UN
DERSTAND WHYKHEMUHT PAY IT.
In the New York Tribune of May 29
there is ibis statement: "Another favor
ite material this year is Galatea, which is
of the licking order of goods, but is very
ht and serviceable. It comes in all
colors, and can be easily laundered. The
material is 40 cents a yard on this side
of the Atlautic, and only 7 cents in Kng
land."
A "mother of a family" quotes this
statement of the Republican organ in a
letter to the New York Evening Post,
and endorses it as true. "Galatea cloth,"
says she, "is a most desirable article of
goods for children's clothing." The ma
terial costs 7 cents a yard in England,
but the tariff puts it up to 40 cents a
yard hero There is an American imi
tation of the English article which is
sold a little under 40 cents, but, accord
ing to tnc "mother ot a laruiiy, it is
"flimsy and worthless."
The "mother of a family" after getting
some Galatea cloth happened to read
Governor McKinley's recent speech at
Minneapolis and was struck, she says,
with this passage: "We stand for a pro
tective tariff because it represents the
American home, the American fireside,
the American family, the American girl,
the American boy, and the highest pos
sibilities of American citizenship.. The
Democratic party believe in direct taxa
tion, that is, in taxing ourselves, but we
do not believe in that principle so long as
we can find anybody else tt tax." She
wished somebody, she says, to "harmonize
Mr. McKinley's spetch with the para
graph in the Tribune." She can't for
the life of htr, see that the foreigner
helped her to the extent of 33 cents a
yard when she paid 40 cents a yard for
her Galatea cloth, She is a woman, of
course, hasn't as powerful an intellect as
the author of the McKinley act, but she
is willing to be taught. "I would like,"
she says, "to have you explain to me how
it is that the tax of 33 cents a yard which
I have to pay on every yard of this En
glish cloth which I buy for my children
comes out of the foreigner's pocket?"
1 ne I'ost gives it up. Vuly persons
whom self-interest or partisan feeling has
trained to swallow thorny paradoxes can
gulp down tho McKinley doctrine, Of
course the tariff rate is added to the price
so far as the homo manufacturer with
the help, often, of a trust to suppress
home competition can do it. Else he
wouldn't want a tariff rate. Nobody
wants a tariff rate to put his prices down
but to put them up. As the foreign
price of au article goes down, so, to some
small extent, does the price of tho pro
tected article. When the foreigner shall
begin to sell Galatei cloth,' for example
at tl cents a yard, the American article
will also go down ono ccut, but its price
will still range as closely as possible to 39
cents a yard. The tariff hus keeps the
price always vastly higher here than
abroad.
Oh, What a Cough.
Will you heed the warning. The
signal perhaps of the sura approach of
that more terrible disease Consumption.
Ask yoursslves if you can afford for
the sake of saving f)0c , to run the risk
and do not nothing for it. Wo know
from experience that Shil.h'i Cure wii!
cure your couh. It never fails. This
explains why more thau a Million Bot
tl w were sold tho past year. It relieves
croup and whooping coiih at once.
Motlfw, do not b wiili mt it. For
lame back, side or chest use Shiiuh's
Porous Plaster. Sold by W. M. Cohen
Druggist.
When Baby w& tick, ge her Castorbk
When she was a Child, she cried tor CastorUL
When she became MIm, she clung to Custoria.
When the had Children, she gave them Caetorta.
Heading a tonic, or chiMrm who want build.
'in ';'i'rl'ftM
F!t'V
It if i-n"Sti
toetlon, :i w.
:f'S lltO.N .IITTFT'S.
10 IV:?, cures m,iuo:h, Inii-
THE FOKCE KILL OF ISi)0.
THE 81'HSTA.NCE 01' THE FEDERAL ELEC
TION OK FORCE DILL TASKED IIY 'I UK
REl'UULICAN HOUSE IN Til E Kim
FIRHT CONGRESS.
The priueipal features of the measure
arc as lollows: Uhlet Isupei visors ol
Elections in judicial districts are charged
with tho execution of ihe law, which is
to apply to Federal elections iu cities of
20,000 inhabitants and upward, and in
entire Congressional districts, exclusive of
such cities, upon application to tho super
visor of 100 voters, or in counties and
parishes forming a part of a Congression
al district upon application from fifty
voters. The supervisors are to guard,
scrutinize, and supervise registration and
every act or incident connected with reg
istration and plans for ascertaining w ho
are legal voters. Upon notico from the
Chief Supervisors the Uuited States ("r
cuit Courts are required to open for the
purpose of transacting registration aud
election matters.
Tho supervisors are to be appoiuled I
the Circuit Courts three iu each elu
tion district or voting precinct, ouly tv
of whom shjdl be of the samo politic;
party. These tupervisors are to atteui
all registrations in their districts. challenc
persons, personally inspect and copy th
original registration books and paport I
attend elections, and detect and expos.
the improper or wrongful matiipulatioi
of the lists. In case of failure of loca
election officers to put the statutory oath
to challenged voter, and to pass at once
upon his qualifications, then the super
visors are to apply tho test and receive
and deposit the vote, making a list of ail
such challenges. They are also to per
sonally inspect ballot boxes before elec
tions, keep independent poll lists, and en
close rejected votes (endorsed with the
name of the voter,) in envelopes. In ad
dition to these duties, the supervisors are
required to make in towns of 20,000
people and upward a thorough house-to-house
canvass before election, to inform
voters upon inquiry where and in what
box to deposit their ballots, and to scruti
nize naturalizations.
In canvassing the votes the Stato laws
are to govern, except: All ballots aro to
be counted by tens, first by an inspector
of election and second by a supervisor,
the local eWction officers and the super
visors keeping separate tally sheets,
which are to be compared and the result
publicly announced. Ballots deposited
in the wrong box are to be counted. Rc
turns are to be made by the supervisors in
duplicate to the clerks of the United
States Circuit Courts and to the Chief
Supervisor, who is to tabulate aud refer
them to the United States Board of Can
vassers of the Congressional vote, which
is to be appointed by the United Satcs
Circuit Court, and consisting of three
citizens of the State and persons of good
repute, not more than two of whom are
to bo ot the samo political party. The
Board is to convene on Nov. 15, each
even year, and is to declare and certify
the result of the election, and send one re
turn to clerk of the Houto of Represent
atives, one to the Governor of the State.
nud one to the $-oper Chief Supervisor
of Elections. The Clerk of the House
is to place upon the roll of members elect
thenanis ijt tho persons declared elected
by tho united Slates canvassers, iu case
there is a difference in the result reached
by them and by the State election officer
A penalty of between f 1,000 and jf.Vtnm
is provided in case tlTe Clerk nog' .( this
duty.
Aii uuiioi inixo are to no clearly iu
.I,, i . i . i , .
scribed with thair nature, and boxes are
to be kept in plain sight nnd oprn to in
spectioti. Bribery or .Utempud bribery
ot voters or election omccrs is made pun
isbablc by a lino of not more than So,000
or imprisonment for not more than five
years or both. Like severe penalties are
provided for false registration and voting
repeaters, coercion of supervisors or vot
crs, improper conduct of election officers,
false canvas-ing, ballot box stuuW
fraudulent ballot distribution, resistance
to a supervisor s lawh.l commands, breach
ot the peace at rr ! -itiou or election
intiiuidat.ou, n,i aliudst every kind
ill tii ti ftaud. v
NO 16
ADVERTISEMENTS.
DYSPEPSIA
L thai misery experienced when
suddenly m;;ilo awaro that you
possess a diabolical arrangement
railed stomach. No two dyspep
tics have tho same predominant
I'vinptoms, but whatever form
dyspepsia fakes
The nnl'rljini came is
in the, lAVTili,
ii nd otic tiring is certain no one
wili remain a dyspeptic who will
It irill correct
5f. Acidity of tho
Stuuuich,
Kxpel foul gases,
A17-.!j' Irritation,
,.-.:'-:-. Vvr;.' Assist Diaestion
af-ir-'-'-- .; J-O....... nt , .
tlmo
Start tin: Liver vorlrtng and
ad bodihj ail Mints
wiU tli'snirhtitr,
"For mor.' lh:ei three yrars I suffered with
1 ys,,vj., i i !. is worst lorlll. I trieil several
('. n.',l'i.t iicy i.fforik.1 no relief. 'At last I tried
SMi ir'nu.s l.ivrr Regulator, wliich cured me in a
si nil . inc. It is :i oud medicine. 1 would not
I - wk' out it.'' Jamus A. Kuanb, Philad'a, Pa.
St j thut iou yet the Genuine,
with red oit front of wrapper.
I'RIO'AKtiD ONLY nv
J. K. .I I LIN & CO.. l'biludi'lpUla, Fu.
' L . i . I ... l. ...MJB
gALLOFLHp.-s
By virtue of decree of the Superior
Court oi' Halifax County, wherein V. 1.
Simpson, ami wife were piuiuliil'sonil l. I
Arrmwon ami others were ili leiulants, I
will sell, at the court lionsc door iu tho
town of Halifax, on .Monday Ihe 'Jluil day
of August l'-Tc' the followini; described
property :
One tract ol land :n i.niikleyvillo town
ship, Halifax county, adjoining the lands
of T. N. Harrison, (iiiilford Sykcs, L Vin
son, Mrs. Isabella Kylc,V. V. l?obbitt.
tlio Moore tract, the lands ol Dr. (i. K.
Matthews, and containiii( one thousand
acres, more or less, it being the laud
whereon tlie lute J. 1'. Tvree resided at the
imc ol'his death and known as the Win-
gins place.
One other tract 111 same township and
county, on the east side of little Fishing
Lreek, aujoimuK tlie lands oi ,l. I.. Laugh
ter and others, known as the "Harrison.
Homestead," and containing three hun
dred acres; ajso the tmct of laud adjoining
the above tract, lyiuj; on little Fisliinft
Creek, adjoining the lands of the heirs of
Benj. Johnson, the Mayo tract, Jesse Boone
and others, being the balance of the Harri- .
son tract, sold by Public Administrator
and bought by J. P. Tyree, containing six
hundred und six ty three acres, more or less.
fcZTTEBMS Cash.
Wm. T. WILLIAMS,
G-23-td. Commissioner.
Riugwood, N. C, June 21st, 1892.
FOR
SALE.
A yoke of very Hue ojtcn.
Young and large.
Peick SffiO.PO.
Also a young cow, half Jer
sey, and young calf.
Prick $18.0(1.
W. R. BOND,
Scotland Xcck, N. C.
jy 7 tf.
s.
DKALKiiS IX
RICHMOND, VA.
if y&&rr
COAL,
S. H. HAWES & CO,,
Dealers it!
urn,
PLASTER,
Richmond, Va.
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