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Aiirora’s^CircluatioH - - 2,1-11:!
TOL. XV, NO. 27.
lLBY
RORA
I SHELBY AURORA,
il’HE rviOST WIDELY CIRCULATED PAPER
PUBLISHED I2f
jClevela.nd, Gaston, Lincola, Ruther-
I ford, McDowell, Polk counties.*
[ f{DVERTIS!NGffATES 0^J{PPLICA7I0N.
SHELBY, K C., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1891.
oisri3>
liiitli the method and results wlien
■Synip of Figs ia taken; it is pleasant
and refrealiing to the taste, anil acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
t*-4ver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
iispels colds, bead-
_ / and cures habitual
^8upatit;ii; ' iSyrup of Figs is the
remedy of its kind ever pro-
fluced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the mos
healthy and a^eeable substances, its
many excellent qualities coiiimeiul it
to all and have made it tlie most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c
and SI bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist T/ho
may not have it on hand •will pro
cure it promptly for any one ^Y^.o
■wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CG.
Witli ;i Basket oi Daisies.
lfo\7 like tliino own sweet de;u'
frieud,
These blogsoins fair to thee I send;
Of iiatiiro’.s ^,Mr(leD they’re u jiari
With petnls imre ai)d j'.'olden heart.
How fair to see tJieir suowy shields
A-bloomiug far across the fields,
As they from out the grasses start—
But best of all the golden heart!
■When o'er tljo land with willing feet
The sunbeams blight, the c-avth to greet
From olt the eastern hill tops start,''
How- brightly shines the golden heart!
What though the earth bom mists arise,
To blot,the sunshine from the shies?
They cannot hide though dark they fall
The goldoi heart that glows i'ov all.
And like the golden hearted bloom
SS^n-^Tinstriue'^ind in gloom
Is this my golden-he?rted friend
To whom these blossoms fair I send.
—Alex W. Bealeh.
‘‘Protection or Free Trade.*’
>1
r;
COETTUBKnas/
Always open
—the offer made by the proprietors
of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. It’s
a rew^ard. of $500 cash for an in
curable case of catarrh, no matter
how bad, or of how long standing.
They’ll carry it out, too. It’s one
thing to make the offer. It’s a very
d.iffcrent thing to make it good. It
couldn’t bo done, except with an
extraordinary medicinc. But that’s
w'hat^ they have. By it’s mild,
Boothing, cleansing aiid healing
propertiesy Dr. Sage’s Remedy Gures
>*v-. wors^fSJfe^^ It doesn’t sitaply
,liate^ tli^ dis-!
°.^^®,.?fect^AixJ'l[)ermanent curcJL^Try
It and see.
If you can’t be cured, you’ll be
paid.
The only question is — are you
■willing to make the test, if the
makers are willing to take the
risk ?
If so, the rest is easy. You pay
your druggist fifty cents and the
trial begins.
If you’re wanting the S500 you^ll
get something better—a cure /
bei
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
J. w. arONEY. J. WEBB.
GIDNEY & WEBB
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
SnELBT, N. C.
Prompt and cavefiil attention given to
all business intrusted to their care.
■ ■■ 3 west of the court house.
K. ilCBRAYEB. K. L. liYBURN.
McBRAYER & RYBURN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
' SIIELBY, N. 0.
Give prompt attention to all business
intrusted to them. ,, , , ,
^““Office in Commercial Hotel biaild-
J. A. ANTHONY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SHELBY, 2T. C.
Office near Tost Office and first east
room upstairs in Miller Block. [mar21
f //, 7. HUDSON, Jr..
> ^ ATTOKNET AT LAW,
SHEL.X1Y, N, G.
OTrompt and careful attention given
■|all business intrusted to his care.
Correspondence Aurora.
Ij nder the above caption I now of
fer a fair and friendly controversy
to any fair-minded and honorable
Protectionist who is now, or may
hereafter become a reader of the Au
rora.
This must be the leading issue in
the N’ational contest in 1892, and
now is the best time to commence
school. The Cleveland and Ruther
ford Prohibition elections have pass
ed, and both counties show up hand
some majorities for Protection, and
especially Cleveland, and everything
quiet again so that men are now both
m good condition to think and apply
thought to conscience and bo bene-
fitted by suggestions made fairly on
one of the most powerful subjects
that ever engaged the attention of a
Tariff-smitten, Tax-ridden, oppressed,
people as we are, under the dark lan
tern leadership of the present Admin
istration with its high protection tar
iff and its poor exhausted treasury.
With a newly created indebtedness
of nearly one and a half billion dol
lars instituted by the recklessness of
a reckless Assembly in the Kational
Capitol and known as the Fifty-
First Congress, with Thos. Brackett
Reid at its head, playing the part of
the third, in the adorable Trinity.
Mr. McKinley, chairman of the Ways
and Means committee, comes up with
long faced, sanctimonious, hypocrit
ical pretense to decrease tariff with a
report of 763 paragraphs, nearly all
of which raise instead of reduce.
This raising of tariff is of course done
to reduce the surplus, and it has had
the much -v^esired and happy effect.
It is conc'ec*
iha^
governihents.'must^ ci’eate a revenue
to defray the- general expenses of the
administration of the same. On this
point there is no party controversy.
The controversy is upon the mode of
raising and the amount to be raised,
well as the uses to which it is to
bo applied.
X7nd.er the present system of tariff
it is an indirect tax paid by all con
sumers. This is the grand reason
why tariff is so poorly understood by
the masses. Did they pay this tax
direct they would see clearly where
their money goes and from what
source the government receives its
money. The government of itself
has no money, it is only a handler of
the people’s money. It is quite
amusing to think that the new Sena
tor-elect from Kansas wants to be
taxed by the government to enable
the government to loan Kansas farm
ers money at very low interest. Is
he sane or insane ?
Let the farmer keep his money at
home and not send it to Washington
to get to borrow it at cheap interest.
“Oh, ye Galatians, who hath be
witched you.”
The tariff operates against the la
boring man to the benefit of bloated
bondholders. It makes the rich rich
er and the poor poorer. Let some
protectionist answer these assertions
negatively and the ball opens at once.
Protection means to defend and our
protective tariff means to prevent
trade between America and all na
tions, or to raise the price of import
ed commodities to our consumers, or
in words, an insult to all nations. •
Why not protect America from the
landing of foreign paupers ?
Bob Peak.
QOAIMERCIAL HOTEL,
i-'-'*?^rmcily-QOGupiedby J. W. Clarke.)
nra.Oue oi' the best iiv North Carolina
„ j.t-class cuisine; comfortable rooms.
® ’E;RMS: Per month, $20 to $25; per
lorrect. . «•" 'o'? a^Servants meet every train.
ay, v- 111^ ^ borders,
octlG-tf] rroprietor.
He hf
""lieves
tier
^ RUFFIN OSBORNE, >^8
Dentist,
(LICBl/SEE STATE BOAKD DENTAL EXAMINERS)
SHELBY, N. C.
Office over Martin & Ware’s store,
respectfully solicit a share of the dental
practice of Shelby and surrounding
.country. febl2-6m
^WATT • ELLIOTT,*-
FASHIONABLE BARBER,
Makion Strbet, - - - Shelby, N. C,
All work done in first-class style; only
experienced workmen employed; hot
and cold baths at all hours. Pati-onage
solicited and all work guaranteed. [jy4-ly
THE “3 C’S RAILROAD.
Arraiiifeineiits for Its Reorgan
ization and Early Com
pletion.
I’liiLADELPHiA, June 23.~Thoso
in this city who are interested in the
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago
l^ailroad, better known as the Three
Cs, have about completed arrange
ments for the reorganization of the
road and the floatmg of a loan suffi
cient to so far complete the road that
it will be enabled to earn the inter
est upon %s bonds. It is proposed
to take the road out of the hands of
tlie receiver and complete a large
portion of it. Those directly inter
ested in the road’s future some time
ago prepared a plan of reorganiza
tion and submitted it to the creditors.
Engineers were sent to Tennessee,
Georgia and other states through
which the road is to run, aua tto’re
ports they brought back were so en
couraging that a general agreement
to the plan of reorganization was
proposed. During the week just
passed nearly every creditor has af-
fied his signature. Now only a few
small ones have not signed, and these
are expected to come within the next
day or so. As soon as this is done
application will be made to hand the
property over to the stockholders.
The engineers’ examination result
ed in ascertaining the fact that if be
tween $600,0-00 and $700,000 is ex
pended on the road at once it can be
so far completed that interest may
be earned upon all the bonds that
have been issued.
“Arrangements have been made,”
said a gentleman heavily interested
in the road, “to borrow the money
necessary to do this work, and just
as soon sa the plan of reorganization
goes through it will be forthcoming.
We propose to immediately put a
large force of men at work, and be
fore the end of the year we will have
several hundred miles of the road in
operation and paying a good return.”
POPULATION OF HADES.
A Ocnlxis Figures it Out to l>e
175,000,000,000.
Certainly an endeavor to arrive at
a coiTect idea of the population of
hell, assuming the orthodox idea of
it to be sound, has at least the ele
ment of novelty to recommend it. A
recent writer has computed that in
round numbers the earth has a popu
lation of 1,300,000,000 of which 300,-
000,000 are professed Christians, the
other 1,000,000,000 being Mohamme
dans, Buddhists, Jews, Pagan, heath
en. The whole race was condemned
to eternal punishment for the sin of
conc^d^y This wa^ the fall of man,
■ w which ther4 was and is no
demption save through the death of
Christ.
Biblical chronology gives the earth
a period of about 6,000 years. From
Adam’s time to Christ was 4,000
years, during which period no human
souls were saved. The population
then may have averaged 1,000,000,-
000. Three generations, or 3,000,-
000,000 pass away in each century.
Forty ceBturies, therefore, consigned
120,000,000,000 of men to eternal
fire, and, for all that is known, they
are there now. In the 1,900 years
which have elapsed since the birth
of Christ 57,000,000,000 of human
beings have lived and died. If all
the Christians, nominal and real, who
have ever lived on the face of the
earth have been saved they would
not number more than 18,000,000,-
000. Now, if is deducted the latter
number from the grand total of 177,-
000,000,000 there is found 159,000,-
000,000 souls who are suffering the
torments of hell fire, against the 18,-
000,000,000 who have escaped. But
this is not the whole truth. Nobody
believes tlfSit more than ten per cent,
of the professed Christians are saved,
Calvinists themselves say the elect
are few. If that is a fact heaven
contains but 1,800,000,000, against a
population in hell of over 175,000,-
000,000.
South’s Growth.
Under the head line “The Growtii
of the South,” the New York Her
ald says: *
Statistics are sai^d !>' be dull And
stupid. That may be true as a gen
eral thing, but when you take an in
ventory cf your property and find
that you are worth just three times
as much as you were ten years ago
then figures become more fascinat
ing than poetry, and more thrilling
than oratory.
The South will back us up in these
statements. When it pulled togeth
er after the war it found it had noth
ing but bankruptcy and pluck as
capital iu trade. Its motto was,.
“The past it nowhere ; the future is
everywhere,” and it drev^ioxoA^y:’
one hole tighter and startVi-'-^'^
race.
The statistics which represen
Drocrresa art? aa
cheering as old wine. Its coal out
put twenty years ago was about two
million tons; now it is nearly eigh
teen million tons. In 1880 it "thought
it was rushing along at breakneck
speed because it had erected mills
on its streams and manufactured
180,000 bales of the cotton it had
raised, but in 1890, only ten years
later, it manufactured 500,000 bales
and made contracts for more mills.
Before the war the sleepy negro
lay in the sun on top of iron mines
whose value was only suspected.
Agriculture absorbed the people’s at
tention and they let the negro sleep
on. Now the mines are worked, the
bonanza has been uncovered, dreams
of wealth have become an inspira
tion ; the roar of the forge, the hum
of machinery is heard everywhere,
and old Pennsylvania is beginning
to tremble in her boots as she sur-
lys her vigorous and daring rival.
The South has rolled up its sleeves
and proposes to be rich again—rich
er than ever' It has all the natural
resources which attract capital and
enterprise. Young men from the
North on the lookout for a career
are making investments there, help-
to develop the country, and they
always receive a warm welcome.
The tides of population, kept apart
' ong, are mingling their waters,
and unless the politicians raise a row
there won’t be any North or any
South twenty years from now, and
in their stead we shall have a united,
contented and prosperous country.
Therefore, hang the politicians
and let the good work go on.
WHOLE NO. 769.
fCAMPMENT OF THE PEN
SIONERS.
rilaJl Issues Orders to the Old
t^'eteraiis to gro Into Camp at
[ Wriglitsville, July 29th.
. K. D. Hall, of this city, acting
liatant, issues the following, a copy
hich was received by the Mes-
r yesterday:
i’ATE PiCNSlONEKS’ NOTKJE. .
fequarters Pensioners’ Associa-
'-eneral Order No. 1.
th Carolina pensioners who
■ ysrate. army, and
' jito camp, are
Wrightsville
the *29th''
McKinley Lookinff Af terHis Own
peaking of the achievements of
the “Billion Dollar” Congress, Major
McKinley says: “We have looked
after our own,” and the major spoke
the .truth. Every monopoly that
fried out its fat to swell^tho Quay-
Wanamaker corruption fund was
looked after, and so was every job
that promised to provide a similar
fund for 1891 and 1892. These man
ufacturers are already being “looked
after” to help out Mr. McKinley in
his campaign, and there is no doubt
of their putting up the money to
make things easy for the champion
of protection. Major McKinley looks
after his own.—Washington Cor.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
“Excuse me, George, but when
saw you a year ago, your face was
covered with pimples; it seems to be
all right now.” “Yes, sir; that’s be
cause I stuck to Ayer’s Sarsaparilla,
the greatest blood medicine in the
world. I was never so well in ray
life as I am now.”
*CENTRAL HOTEL>«
(Cor. Warren and LaFayetto Sts.)
SHELBY, N. C.
Located in business part of town. Near
Court House and Post Office. Carriages
meet all trains. Commercial Travelers
will find the Central first-class. Good
Sample Room on first floor free of charge.
Clean beds and neatly furnished rooms.
a®“Special rates for Summer Boarders.
W. E. RYBURN, Prop’r.
Mrs. Hicks—“Mary, where
Dicky?” Mary—“Out in the back
yard, mum.” Mrs. Hicks—“Go out
and see what he is doing and tell
him to stop it.”
No matter what may be the ills
yoix bear from indigestion, a dose of
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills will ease you
without question. Just try them
once and be assured; they have
much worse dyspeptics cured. You’ll
find them nice and amply worth the
price.
Drain on American Gold.
Londox, June 24.—The Daily
News, in its ^iJ^^-Qcial article this
morning says: “The continued
drain of gold from America is grad
ually tending to ihe inevitable adop;
.Uirjii,
fllroads in
na on their
their neaf-
conductor
,.„i 0% 6U he signed
: cIe»-nb-*^QQy^\jifpe,rior court of
Tcounty, with the coapty seal at-
1, and certifying "'ihat their
J are on the pension roll of their
f.
Icesent this notice to the agent 9r
Rctor with the certificate from
theroerk of the court. .
Pensioners will be met on the ar
rival of the train in Wiloiingtofr'^
carriid to the camping grounds free
of charge. All those'going into
camp must bo provided" with three
days rations and one blanket or quilt.
For further information address,
Adjutant E. D. Hall,
Wilmington, N. C.
By order of the Executive Com.
Accompanying the above is the
following taken from the same enve
lope :
“For the eyes of the State Pen
sioners.—The attention of the press
of this State is earnestly#directed to
the accompanying circular. It re
lates to the co-operation of the vete
ran soldiers of the Confederacy with
the> new soldiery, who, in time of
peace, are undergoing the training
needed to tit them for maintaining
the honor and securing the safety of
one common country.
old soldier, drawing his little
pe^ion, the somewhat feeble expres
sion of State gratitude, may learn
that the value of his past services is
not measured by the sum of his pen-
giou, but by the hold he has on pop
ular affection and grateful memory
of his past sacrifices. lie will be
•v^icomed to the encampment as a
ml^^-ry of the past; he will also be
wfeftuined as a teacher in recalling
the practical lessons of real war.
is to be hoped that very many
- of/A^m will avail themselves of the
“ut n
tion of a virtui silver stan4?ird!^ rae-et agaii;', and
Presidential Candidates.
No
No
1789, George Washington,
opposition.
1792, George Washington,
opposition.
1796, John Adams and Thomas
.Tefferson.
1800, Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams.
1804, Thomas Jefferson and C. C.
Pinckney.
' 308, James jVladison and C. C.
Pinckney.
1812, James Madisou and DeWitt
Clinton.
1816, James Monroe and Rufus
King.
1820, James Monroe. No oppo
sition.
1824, John Q. Adams and Andrew
Jackson.
1828, Andr^ Jackson and John
Q. Adams.
1832, Andrew Jackson and Henrv
Clay.
1886, Martin Van Buren and Wm.
H. Harrison.
1840, Wm. H. Harrison and Mar
tin Van Baren.
1844, James K. Polk and Henry
Clay..
1848, Zachary Taylor and Lewis
1852, Franklin Pierce and Win
field Scott.
1856, James Buchanan and John
C. Fremont.
1860, Abraham Lineolu and S. A.
Douglass.
1854, Abraham Lincoln, and G. B.
McClellan.
1868, U. S. Grant and Horatio
Seymour.
1872, U. S. Grant and Horace
Greely.
1876, K. B. Hayes and S. J. Tilden.
1880, James A. Garfield and W.
S. Hancock.
1884, Grover Cle veland and James
G. Blaine.
1888, Benjamin Harrison and Gro-
, ver Cleveland.
Good crops may Succeed in recover
ing a portion of the twelve millions
of gold already exported this year,
but every year brings nearer the
time when silver certificates will be
forced into circulation. When the
change comes there might be a rush
for silver, but it is more likely that
the silver already coined will suffice
for ctjrrency purposes with paper.
Therefore the idea of an unlimited
new demand for silver is unwar
ranted.”
A Story That is New.
The biggest story of the season
comes from Lincolnton. Mr. W. T.
Murray, who is a merchant of that
place, says that while he was a sol
dier in Virginia he came across a
farmer who had just housed a crop
of popcorn, and pretty soon after the
hands had left the crib, it caught fire
and every grain popped, and very
soon the whole plantation was cov
ered with the white corn. A mule
about 28 years old, which was in the
barn near by, saw the ground cover
ed with white corn, and, though the
thermometer registered 90 deg. in
the shade, the mule froze to death,
thinking that it was a terrible heavy
snow. .
The Utility of the Pretty Girl.
The pretty girl is a universal fac
tor in modern life. She possesses
the advantage not only of ornament,
but of utility. She has been utilized
in an endless variety of ways. She
has become a howling success in the
operatic ballet, and is as conspicuous
and as original in front of a type
writer or behind a counter as she is
on dress parade in a new spripg suit
or luxuriously lolling in a big easy
chair. But it has remained for an
enterprising Connecticut minister of
the gospel to introduce the pretty
girl in a new sphere as a church ush-
. er.—Detroit Tribune.
The Fight in Ohio»
Tariff refdrmers are expected to,
vote for McKinley despite his tariff
views, hard money men will, it is
hoped, think of Sherman, and forget
all about the platform, silver men
are to be soothed with the platform
into a complete disregard of the ex-
eecretary’s record, and finally, such
of the voters as cannot be humbugg
ed in any of these ways, are, accord
ing to the calculations, to be held in
line by appeals to their party spirit,
on the one hand, and a general de
nunciation of the democracy on the
other.—Brooklyn Citizen.
He Couldn’t Afford It.
A mother was urging her son to
purchase an overcoat, and he was
insisting that he could not afford
one
“Very well, then,” said she.
“You will get pneumonia, see if
you don’t.”
“No,” said he, “I won’t get that
either: I can’t afford anything
new.”—New York Sun.
of ^the facilities generously provided
for their easy access to the encamp
ment, and the provision made for
thc.ir comfort and entertainment.
^ Yours Very Truly,
W. II. IlAMILTOy.
Prominent People.
The Haytian general, llippolyle,
is about sixty years of age and of
coal-black complexion. He is the
political idol of the pure blacks,
whose blood has not been contami
nated by intermarriage with the
creoles. He is the son ol a college
professor of; Port au IVince, and is a
man -of considerable learning and
cultivation.
The wife of Governor Campbell is
one of the shrev^deet politicians of
Ohio. She is, besides, a woman of
extraordiary tact, and so free from
snobbiness and ostentation that she
has made, many an influential friend
for hei^- iiusbafcl.: Ai the time the
governor was a mem^gr of congress
‘^'s. Campbell bfcanie very popular
I'ashionable ..Washington society,
no'visitor from Ohio was «ve't
too uncouth or awkward to receive
a warm welcome from her.
The inheritance of great wealth
has not destroyed young Adam Fore-
paugh’s Ibsi^for the glitter and span
gles of the circus. 'Though his in
come is now greater than president’s
salary, the son of the-great showman
dons his pink tights at every per-
.formance and rides the hurdle race
with all the interest of a ten-dollar-
a-week supe. Young Forepaugh is
thirty years old and built like an
athlete. He has had something to
do about a circus ring since he was"a
boy of seven.
Heiirietta Jottinfis.
Correspondence Aurora.
Rev. Mr. Butt, of Charlotte, assist
ed by Kev. T. J. Rogers, closed a
ten days njeeting here last week.
There was a number of conversions
and nine accessions to the church.
During his stay here holding quar
terly meeting. Rev. Mr. Guthrie, P.
E., preached several very impressive
sermons.
The Henrietta Sunday school bas
ket picnic takes place the 4th of July.
Several prominent speakers are invi
ted to be here. The Henrietta Brass
Band will make music for the occa
sion. A string band also has been
invited to bo here on the 4th. Every
body invited to come and bring their
basket. I understand there will be
an entertainment at night.
Capt. Spencer, of Charlotte, was
here last week.
Joseph Byars and Miss Rose Clark
were married on the 14th, ult., by
Rev. T. Bright.
The tax assessors for High Shoal
township finished their work last
week.
Miss Minnie Kerr, of Spartanburg,
is visiting her father and family here.
Mr. Dargan Avant was in Char
lotte last week.*
Tbo -wheat crop is narvesieu auu
reports are favQfable.
Political Points.
A vanished surplus, a bankrupt
treasury and millions of unpaid ap
propriations of the Billion-Dollar
Congress is one of the conditions that
confronts the Republican party.—
Knoxville Tribune.
What with Blaine’s undying fealty.
Rusk’s “loyalty to my chief,” and
now the assurance that loyalty to
Harrison must temper Foster’s friend
ship for McKinley, it will be seen
that loyalty under this Administra
tion is coming to have a new mean
ing in the politics of the land.—Phil.
Record.
Got. Campbell has no reason to
regret the defeat which he encounter
ed at the hands of the local machine
in the Cincinnati primaries on Satur
day. Presidents of the United States
have been made by just such defeats,
from just such oppositions as Gov.
Campbell is now ^v.'Crfbmihg through
out the State of "C5hio.—N. Y. Com
mercial Advertiser, Dem.
Let the farmer think of what he
saves tlus year by reason of untaxed
sugar/ and then imagine what he
would save if he had untaxed wool
lens, untaxed iron and steel, farming
implements, glass, and so on, and af
ter ho hag'reflected on it, he will con-
clu?e that he could get along if he
wei;e not compelled to labgr half his
timij) protect somebody.—Mobile Re-
gisti^r, Dem.
FjW^hat Whiskey is Doing;.
X |U may ask what liquor is doing,
jl will reply that il is doing a
gr'^^A deal, but nothing new—the
■'D always done wherever it'
^ed to stay.
iL pays a license and in return de-
bauHiea some of our citizens.
I'^fills our jails.
Iti causes great hardships to some
of oVr working people.
It] takes the bread out of poor lit
tle qbildren’s mouths.
Itl keeps them from being properly
clothed during the winter’s chilling
Bad Cooking Versus Crime.
Edward Atkinson, the Economist,
in a late article shows a close and
direct connection between bad cook
ing and crime. He has discovered
that the liquor trafiic has its enor
mous income iu large measure from
indigestion and like diseases, caused
mainly by bad cooking and unwhole
some food. And in like manner he
shows that diseases of this kind hav(^
a direct tendency to mental despon
dency and criminal associations and
conduct.
On this subject of bad cooking we
lately copied from the Atlanta Con
stitution . an excellent article, in
which the writer strongly condemnn
the common style of serving meats,
“all swimming in gravy.” The grav}
should always be served in a sepa
rate bowl or dish.
If “Industrial Training” was onco
introduced into the female depart
ments of the public schools, we
might hope for some reform in these
great hygienic questions. In New
York and several other States the
movement has been started.—Char
lotte Democrat.
Frye’s Prophecy Fulfilled.
Mr. Fisherman Frye, junior Uni
ted States Senator from Maine, re
marked four years ago that if hifi
party ever got another whack at the
Presidency, it would make that $100,-
000,000 treasury surplus sick—and
Frye was a good deal of a prophet,
By a great effort the United States
treasurer avoids confessing to an ac
tual deficit right now. The surplu.n
faded faster even than Frye predict
ed. It’s not only sick, but practical
ly dead.—Jacksonville, Fla., Times
Union.
The United States Senate.
The Republicans of the senate
lose three of their strongest members
iu the retirement of Messrs. Ed
munds, Evarts and Ingalls, and may
lose another in the defeat of Sena
tor Sherman. These men were their
ablest debaters—Edmunds and
Evarts as constitutional lawyers.
Sherman as a financier of ability and
large experience, and Ingalls as a
ready debater and incisive declaimer.
They make no gains to compensate
them for the loss of these men, nor
for that of Senator Allison, also a
gentleman of much ability and ex
cellent individual standing. The
Democrats, on'the contrary, have
secured two very able new senators
—Hill of New York, ‘^.nd Vilas oi
Wisconsin. J.,
The Democrats'■-hava also sustain
ed a great loss in the dealh of Senators
Beck, of Kentucky, though he is suc
ceeded by a man of the national rep
utation and distinguished ability of
John G. Carlisle. Mr. Beck was the
best posted and most effective Dem
ocratic speaker on questions of
finance and the tariff, and always
made strong and telling speeches on
such questions. It is fortunate for
the Democratic side of the senate
that as able a statesman and parlia
mentarian as ex-Speaker Carlisle is
his successor.
Itdfculd be a mistake to say that
the senate of the United States does
not still take rank with the ablest
parliamentary bodies of the world,
l3ut there are unquestionably agen
cies at work that are undermining
its strength.
Farmers’ Needs.
Wo want more stock farms, more
fruit farms, more truck farms, more
grass farms and fewer cotton farms.
We have a glorious country, but we
arc sadly in need of the men who
have the nevere to inaugurate a dif
ferent system in our agriculture; men
who realize the importance of resting
their lands, rotating crops, of feeding
stock well and making and saving
good, rich, barnyard manure, as well
as using liberally and intelligently
commercial fertilizers. To be suc
cessful in farming requires as in
other business, thorough business
methods, constant effort and a care
ful and patient attention to details.
Guess work will not bring the far
mer any better returns than it does
the merchant or mechanic. When
we know exactly where the profits
and losses come in we can then in
telligently increase the one and
avoid th« other. Friendly legislation
is a good thing, hut it will not bring
relief to the farmers unless it is sup-
p].emented by a careful and judicious
la^'mei^' "are* ^th^^rbughly or^ilized,
and farming is conducted on busi
ness principles; when intensive farm
ing is the rule and not the exception
then, and not until then, will we see
the farmers begin to prosper, and to
receive their share of the long look-
ed-for “profits.”—Commissioner Nes
bitt in Southern Cultivator.
Georgia Pire-fties.
“I read in the papers the other day’'
said a resident of New Jersey, “that,
the fire-fiies had been so thick and sc
brilliant along a Georgia river that,
the captain of a steamboat had beei.
obliged to tie up his boat because il-
was impossible to distinguish thereg
ular river lights. We don’t havi
them quite so thick as that in our
)art of the country, but they havf
:>een more numerous and luminouH
than ever.”—N. Y. Sun.
Henry "Ward Beecher’s Statue.
Brooklyn, N. Y., June 24.—The
unveiling of a bronze statue of Hen
ry Ward Beecher in City Hall Park
occurred this afternoon.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla has the
sale of any medicine before the pub
lic. Any honest druggist will con
firm this statement.
It keeps our churches from be
filled on the Sabbath day.
It takes the hard-earned money of
the working man, which ought to _
for the comforts of life, and leaves
him oftentimes unfit for business of
any kind.
It tries to shape public opinion inr
regard to liquor selling, and dictates
the policy of our city government.
It tells the preachers to go slow
on prohibition.
It has done all this and a great
deal more which space will not per
mit a repetition here.
The largest steam plow that was
started up in Chino, Cal., lately, will
run night and day, and will plow
sixty acres every twenty-four hours.
One of the largest hospitals in the
world, containing accommodations
for from 1000 to 1500 patients, has
been opened in Constantinople, Tur
key.
Almost a Serious Poisoning
The Concord'Standard says : Sat
urday evening the families of
Messrs. J. W. Cannon and John C
Wadsworth were made violently
sick by eating some ice cream. It
was evidently caused by the cream
being slightly poisoned from the
fact that it was made in zinc freezer.
Dr. R. S. Young being called in at
an early moment had no trouble in
averting what otherwise might have
been serious.
Kev. Fife at Greenshoro.
The Greensboro Workman says
_ /angelist Fife in his remarks Let
night very clearly indicated the ene
mies against which his batterien
would be directed; the bar-room, the
card table, the house of the harlot,
the dance, and he made special ref
erence to the action of the city com
missioners in recommending a num
her for license to the county board
of commissioners in a recent meet
ing.
Prof. Charles D. Mclver ia his ad
dress before the Teachers’ Assem
bly said:
“I ask you, then are not the teach
ers of country “The Grand
Army of the Republic ?” What a
grand army they are! What a
noble struggle ! And what a tri
umph it will be when we can say of
our work as the Great Teacher did
of his, “It is finished*” ,
Mr, Fife Exonerated.
The committee in charge of the
Fife meetings which opened at
Greensboro Sunday investigated the
charges againet Evangelist W. P.
Fife there Friday and Saturday. xMr.
Fife appeared before the committee
in person, and after hearing the evi
dence and reading letters which he
produced, adojHed and made public
the following:
Whereas, rumors have been put
afloat here and elsewhere intended
to affect the Christian character and
usefulness of the Evangelist W. P.
Fife just upon the eve of the meet
ings in this city, which has been done
by evil and designing persons; and
whereas, the committee having in
charf"^.?^q said meeting have, (in
tw^^^l^^.^.ngs) had a number of let-
ters^M^y/estimony exonor\ting him
fro^«^U such cHarges, and Ais open
and^.ull information of the circum
stances case, corroborated. by
a gentleman in^rson, who knows
all the parties; now, therefore, be it' \
Resolved, That we are clearly of
the opinion that the charges and
rumors are wholy without the slight
est foundation, and we shall hold up
his hands, by our prayers, and bid
him God speed in the good work, not
only here, but wherever his lot may
be cast, in the Master’s work. ^
J. S. Hunter, chairman; W. S.
Moore, J. H. Lacy, S. H. Hilliard,
W. P. Beall, S. L. Alderman, E. P.
Wharton, E. L. Stamey, F. H. Cota,
committee.
Alabama’s Iron Showing.
/Ongressman McMillan, of Ten
nessee, has had a look into the iron
statistics now being prepared by thu
census bureau and as yet unpublish •
He reports that the iron outpu’;
of Alabama now exceeds that of any
state in the Union, not excepting;
Pennsylvania. Th’s is a very re
markable showing for Alabama,
whose iron industries are yet in their
" An Unlucky Issue.
The $2 bills with Hancock’s pic
ture on them are to be withdraw!,
from circulation, because of a dan
gerous counterfeit. If the $2 bilhi
circulated in Indiana in 1880 hac:
been withdrawn, Hancock might havt*
been president. There was no lucl:
for him in this particular issue.
Phil. Record.
The spectacle of a professor of
mathematics turning prophet and
the interpreter of prophecies is so
unusual that one majt be pardoned
for feeling a little surprised when
Professor C. A. D. Totten, of Yale,
also a graduate of West Point, in
forms us that the second coming of
Christ will occur in March, 1899.
Professor Totten claims to havd
found this out by applying mathe
matical methods to the periodH
mentioned in prophecy. Nobodj'
will believe the professor, and young
people will go on flirting and old peo
ple will go on flirting and old people
will go on flirting and old people will
on money grubbing just the same.
But what a time there would be if
the prophecy should come true,
wouldn’t there ?
Enforced Temperance.
The Nation says : “The agency of ,
the railroad companies in promoting
temperance is not generally appre
ciated. They employ 689,912 per
sons, not counting those who mine
the coal and iron, make the rails or
locomotives, or build the cars and
carriages used by the road. The
freight and passenger trafiic of the
country is practically controlled by
600 of these corporations, and of
these 600 no fewer than 375 prohibit
the use of intoxicating liquors by
their employeF, among the number
bsing most of the largest companies.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers uses its influence in the same
direction. ‘Whenever a member of
the order is known to be dissipated,’
says Mr. Arthur, long the head of
the organization, ‘we not only expel
or suspend him, but notify his em
ployers,’ and during the last year
375 members were expelled for this
cause. This is only one illustration
of the way in which practical
business considerations are oper
ating to promote the spread , of
temperancc. It is purely a
matter of business with the railroad
companies, v TheyLsimplv..CiinnQi.afr _
any day to-iet drunk ;kid pi:ecipiiate
some terrible disaster. The average
man thus comes to see that it is
‘money in his pocket,’ in more sense*
than one, if he keeps out of the sa-
loon; and the moral is not lost upon
him.”
Eleven Year CJalf.
Considerable excitement was
caused in this county last week over
the elopement on last Friday even
ing of one Alfred Cannon, of Cald
well county, with the eleven-year-old
daughter of Mr. Ephraim Hicks, of
Mt. Holly. Descriptions of Cannon
were sent out and ofi^icers put on his
trail, which resulted in his capture
Saturday night about a mile below
Gastonia. The girl, or rather child,
was sent home and Cannon was
brought over here and lodged in jail. • '
Served him right.—Dallas Eagle.
There is no doubt that Bar^,.,
Hirsch and other millionaire H^
brews will found a colony for the
oppressed Jews now being driven
away from Russia. The colony will
either be in Australia or South
America. It ought by good rights
to be Palestine. Palestine belongs
to the Jews, and the Jews belong to
Palestine. W'ith the money at their
command the sons of this ancient
people could make the land fertile
and smiling once more, and bring it
back to its former glory. The sul
tan might sell out cheap, and we
should once again have a Jewish
country. ^
The suggestion has been made that
the United States government es
tablish a telephone at every country
post ofiice for the use of farmers. It
would save “many tiresome trips to
the railway station, many a weary
ride to summo: the doctor and many
a trip to the^G J^nty court house.” It
would only cost, all told, fifteen dol
lars to the mile. Yes, b.j^^ where ^
would the telephone go. ' '* ;
ev^y farmer
tioial one . to his house ’ 4i tn« 1
country post office ? While he was '
going to the country postoflice he
could go just as well after the doc
tor or to the railway station.
Mr. Spurgeorf, with a number of
other English ministers, alarmed by
recent Wesleyan discussions on in
spiration and Sabbath-keeping, haH
signed a manifesto, declaring for
thorough Galvanism and accepting
both Testaments as the Word of
God, holding that the two must
stand or fall together.
“We are as yet but children,” sayu
Max Muller in a recent lecture,
“Man’s life on earth is only in its be
ginnings ; the futuriB before him lu
immense; the past that lies behind
us is but the short preface to a work
that will require many volumej
before it is finished; before man hai
become what he was meant to be.”
The University [of South Carolina
state institution. Professor W. J.
Alexander is professor of logic and
rhetoric. At least he was. Recent
ly ho changed his religious belief, in
duced thereto by some years of study
and thinking, and became a Unitari
an. The board of management
thereupon turned him out of his pro
fessorship, and now Rev. Minot J.
Savage wants to know what is the
state religion of South Carolina.
“It’s no use to feel of me wrist,
doctor,” said Pat, when the physician
began taking his pulse, “the pain is
not there, sir, it’s in the head en-
toirely.”
Follow a man into his private
home and learn how he treats his
family and you then know how to
size up his dealings with the outside
world. .
The longest word in the Winne
bago language is Shonkhatarakizan-
honikonkcinena. It means: “I will
give you a horse.”
Real estate in Kansas along the
Missouri river is tumbling. The river
it in.