SANFORD, KOKTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24,1890 BOOMING A REPROBATE FOR SEN* i r AT0R- , ■this is What the New York Herald is : Doing—The New tariff Law Get ting. in its Work— Lights and Shades of-Christmas. . cTT5ri890. 89 the Iter aid's booming of Mr. Charles A. Dana, the edito? Sun, is not a joke after atf"bu?‘ so bet earnestness. Just why the Herald should boom Dana is hard to say. That paper is not given to booming anybody much until some one else booms him first and the maj'ority of folks take his side. It,usually sits pn the fence and waits to-see who is going to win and then jumps in and helps the upper dog. \ One reason doubt .less for the' Hqrald's admiration of Dana is that in the recent munici pal election Dana fought tooth and nail for Tammany, (just as he’ aid | in the days of Tweed) which the | Herald wanted1 to do,' but being ; afraid simply sneered at the munic ipal league, and jeered the preachers l when they were whipped. Another | reason for its love of the 200-pound I hater of_£atness in presidential can | didates is because Dana is a foe of l Pulitzer,'whom the Herald hate3 for | having rushed its circulation in this Icity by selling more sensational news for the same money than the t Herald could sell and by coming 1 squarely Out for the Democratia par ity in its editorials.. | . These seem small reasons for the support of a big ne wspaper in so im . portant a matter as the United States senatorship, but they are j the best I can think of. For the Herald knows as anybody that Dana is a protectionist, and therefore not a Dotsedrat whatever may be his protestations to the contrary. He tried to defeat the Democratic pres idential candidate in '84 and helped ■ to elect Harrison in '88. He is , Wholly out of harmony with the ; progressive spirit of the Democratic \ party, &$.;'• '-vvj WHAT M’KINiisY’s BILL IS DOING, i The shadow of impending disaster t still hangs Over the New York busi 1: ness world. “We have immense I consignments of goods on band,” | said the book-keeper cf a large com | mission'bouse to me the otber Jday. I “We can’t get rid of them- except Sat a great loss to our customers. People don’t seem to have any mon ey to buy with. We find it extieme f ly difficult to make collections. Wo f, are practicing great caution just f now and doing a very careful busi t ness." ^ _ __ . I Democrats cannot but feel grim [ satisfaction over the fact that prom f iuent Republican business men as I well as prominent Republican poli I ticians are suffering because of the I passage of McKinley’s'bill. One of j them is Mr. Edward H. Ammidown, Lex-president of the American Pro j. tective xariir league, a proteccion [ iat of the “rank" sort. He was the principal stockholder in the Ritten house Manufacturing Co., which did . % big business before the McKinley . bill put a heavier tax on raw wool. As soon as the new tariff act was signed by the President the prices of woolen goods went up. Sales of woolens therefore fell off.’ The Rit tenhouse company failed and the rich Mr. Aramidown, its principal ' stockholder; is not so rich as he was by some thousands. Perhaps if Mr. Jay Could were a manufacturer of woolens he would not advise the ; people to buy one oo&t a year in stead of two in order to make both . ends meet, under the burden of higher taxation. - If they don't fol low Jay’s advice, howover, they will, according to the New York Tribuiie (Rep.) pay 1100,000,000 more next , -year for clothes than they paid last —which is pretty nearly $10 per family on an average. This tax will fall lightest on plantation pickiuin ies and heaviest on Northern and Northwestern farmers. CHRISTMAS FOR THE BICHv The approach of Christmas is marked by greater richness and va riety in the display of goods in the shop windows and greater Crowds in the shopping districts. One of the largest of the dry goods I houses has in rts window a moving panora ma of scenes from the life of Chris topher Columbus in which the fig ures are wax dolls three feet high. An enormous amount of money is spent every ^ear on Chistmas pres ents by* the people of this city: 1 do not mean the rich people but those of moderate means. They save and save for months in order to make handsome presents. It seems to be a mania with them. Looking into the - shop windows one is impressed by the great beauty of this season’s dolls. Of course many of them-are very costly and only rich people can: afford to buy them. Not only are the dolls themselves, with their walking and talking and singing acComplisinents; costly, but all their appurtenances and belongings are expensive in a high cUgree. The dolls of the lit tle heiresses of Murray Hill are veritable ladies of fashion, with morning dresses and evening dress es and wrappers and slippers and button shoes and dainty bonnets and embroidered underclothing and silk stockings. There are even ear rings o£ real diamonds and tiny; fans of real lace for the dolls of rich' There are parasols and hankerchiefs and gloves for them and there are actually bath tubs made expressly for their use. They give parties in elegant ball dresses, and when they get married, as they do-quite fre quently, their trosseaus are elabo. rately made as those of wealthy young women of fashion^, THE “PORPER” LYMPH OP EUROPE. The Evening Post warns the med ical men of the city that Dr. Koch’s lymph is subject to twenty.-fivc per cent, duty under the cause of the McKinley law affecting “medical preparations not otherwise provided for,” and it thinks the duty much too low.considering the protit that might be made by lymph if it could be produced in this country, and humorously suggests that hmiph works bestarted in various pfrts of the country so that our consump tives may not have pauper produced tyiliph. ' . THE RICH GETTIMG RICHER, TfiE POOR . .., POORER. _„■ As Christmas draws near many calls are made throngh the newspa pers for-help from the poor. The The bigger the. city gets and the “richer” and more “prosperous,” the larger grows the pauper class and the more numerous are the charitable organizations. Every year the number of people who can’t pay for their Christmas dinner in creases. As the dollars' pile up on' Fifth avenue the dimes disapper from Mulberry street. Santa Claus will carry in his pack a hundred rag babies for every wax doll. A hundredth port of the people of new lurK uwns sue iana aua nous es of the city. As the town gets bigger the number of tenants tends to increase and themumber of own ers diminishes, relatively. As the population grows rent grows and as rent grows poverty grows—for the masses. , v South Carolina’s New Senator. Wilmington Messenger, The young South Carolina Sena tor elect. Mr. Irby, is being already sharply reviewed in the Northern public print. Thus far wehavenot seen any in Southern newspapers but the probability is that some have appeared, fie is described of “aris tocratic lineage." He was educated at the University of Virginia, !- He seems, from the accounts, to have led a roystering, reckless, desperate sort of life. In the New York Sun and Tribune, and in the Boston Post Deni., there are accounts of his es capes and violence, fie is not a man of marked ability; but is shrewd in business. The N. Y. Sun gives this record of the new Senator :, to be; , ‘Back into the soveuties ho was outlawed by the Democratic Cover nor Simpson) who succeeded Hamp ton, for killing a mart .named- Kil gore in Laurens county. 5. A reward of SI,500 was offered for bis > arrest, but he fled the State and. remained away until the affair blew over. Then he retured to Laurens, and with the aid of G. W. SbeH, then plerk.of court and now Alliance member of Congress from this Stutej was. acquitted. Irby’s next exploit was to arm himself with a shot-gun while be was “painting the town of Laurens red,’! and defy the town authorities to arrest him. He paid a fine for tins. Then some man offended him, andlvby brought one of,hi? negroes from his planta tion, gave him a horsewhip,. and catching the offending citizen un awares, held a pistol to his head and one to the negro’s head and compelled the negro to horsewhip the man.,' _s ",. i This is indeed a very ugly* record, and give but little promise of an useful, safe and distinguished life. We hope the account is colored aiid that he was not the rowdy and -blackguard as he is painted. - An other account says: ' “The performance at Laurens, his native town, when he got drunk and stood with a gun in a public square defying themonstable to come and ar rest mm is admiringly described nr a way that brings his courage to the front.” He is a lawyer and a “Colonel” in the papers. He is now known to be a much “better man than he was in Iris earlier days. He is thirty-six and has served in the Legislature. He has made a profession of relig ion, and is now a worthy member of a Baptist Church, it is said, and also a member of the Farmers’ Alli ance of good repute. We are pleas ed to know of his reform in life and change in heart and we hope he will make a faithful discreet and useful Ben tor. We can but de plore, howover, that noble, high souled, conservative, renouned, Wade Hampton was overlanghed and sent into retirement. An Effective Canvass. Wilmington Messenger. The best thing that occurred _in the last campaign was the canvass of Mr'. Lew Stewart, the Democrat ic nominee in an Louisiana district. He would accept the nomination but upon one condition—that no one but himself should speak in the dis trict and he alone should manage the canvass. The result was 8,000 majority. He did it in a novel but most effective way. He gave the people such an object lesson as they had never had and one they could easily understand. He pur chased several trunks of reliable dealers in Chicago. On each of the articles he had the price paid mark ed. Then he had the price before the McKinley bill passed .marked on each, and thirdly, he had the firm mark on the goods what the prices would be without any tariff. Be sides this he had thousands of cards printed showing former prices and prices under the McKinley bill on all goods of every-day use. That did the work. The goods were nousenoia articles ana wnen he showed the cost without a tariff tax and then with the lax up to 6th October, and the new and increased tax under the McKinley bill it did the wt>rk thoroughly and cooked the Republican goose to a turn. Mr, Stewart madeTro speeches but show ed the people the goods and' how they were robbed. An account says: “It simply set the people wild, They went homeand talked about it. There was no-getting round the fact that the McKinley bill makes the farmer pay more for everything he uses and‘compels him to sell his pro ducts at the same old prices. The p90p|e couldn’t stand it, and when ; election day arrived, they voted foi Stewart. He was elected and the object lesson did it. Tariff object lessons may be found in our stores all over the country." That is about- the best campaign teaching possible. Let the pdople have a practical demonstration ol the burdens of the Radical machinf and they will kick high every time and with it break through the" -tra ces of Radicalism. /V i THE WHRLO’S EXPOSITION. V ; * ■ « . The Building tp Cover 201 Acres— International Military Encampment —Officers’Salaries, etc—An Ont 7 Line of the MajnifioentjStrBCture. Chicago, Dec. 11th, 1890.—The directors of the World’s Colombian Exposition are now placed, on a sojid'footiug. Chicago frhx yn e5 $5,000,000 for the adyanecnicfl't of the enterprise the nation entrusted to her management. The $10,000, 000 are now secured for the ad vancement of the Fair. The con tract with the National Government is fulfilled. All and more than was ever anticipated will now be success fully carried out. The result de monstrates: that the citizens are nunnimous in their determination to have the greatest exposition the world has yet seen.' President Har rison jyill now be enabled to issue his invitation to the nations of the earth to comoand participate. Prog ress from-this date will be rapid. A number of important questions hinged upon and had to await the | election. This fact was nut gener ally known. -r In the meantime ail possible pre parations were being made, add all the wheels will be set in motion, and each department made active with its respective work. Col. Corbin’s idea of a grand mil itary encampment has been elaborat ed upon by Secretary Dickinson, and recommended by the Classification Committee. Tne plan is to have a vast interstate and international military encampment and band con test at the dedication of the build ings, opening the first Monday in October, 1802, and holding until af ter the 12th. Enormous prizes will be offered. It is expected that all the first military organizations and bands of mnsic iu the United States, together with as least a military es cort and band of music from every nation on the earth, will participate. To reduce expenses thecommiltees have been dismissed, and their work will be done by eleven bureaux. Those performing the work of the National Commission will be paid by the Federal Government, and the others from the jfunds of the Local Directory. Speaking of expenses and salaries, figures at best are dry, hut to answer questions that come to headquarters from every point of the compass, excuse us if we drop a few here. The salary list of the Board of Directors reaches about $80,000 per anuum. Of this Presi dent Gate gets $0,000; Vice-Presi dent Bryan, $12,000; Secretary Butterworth, $10,000. The Natiou *al Commission’s salary list reaches $200,000. Of this sum the Director General gets $15,000; President, $12,000; Secretary, $10,000; Yice Chairmun, $8,000. The remainder goes for sundry expenses. It is now estimated by the Classifi cation Committee, judging from the Centennial and Paris Expositions, that it will require eleven main build ings to accommodate the exhibits of the twelve departsments of the Ex position spoken of in our last letter, covering areas as follows: Departments. Acres A—Agricultural Hall, - - - 15 B—Horticultural Hall, - * - - 6 C—Live Stock, - - - - - 100 D—Fisheries, - - - -~> - 2 E—Mineral Palace, - - - - 6 F—Machinery Hall,.- - - • - 20 G—Transportation, - - - - 20 dl—Electric Palace ( besides open space) - - - - - - - '4 I—Manufacturers’Palace, - - 20 J—Fine Art Gallery, - - - 5 K and L—One Building, - D Total, - - - 201 Buildings of the United States Government, Foreign and State Governments, private and special exhibits, are not included in the above .estimate. The “Centennial” buildings at Philadelphia, in 1870, covered 60 acres, accommodating 00,000 exhib itors. They were opjm 150 days, arid had ft,010,006 admissions, uyer 7i j. .. i-; agin" 02,338 dailey in attendance.! The Paris Exposition buildings of 1880 coveted 75J acres, accommo dated OOiOOO exhibitors, were open 183 days, afidf had 32,354,111 ad missions, averaging 181,170 daily in attendance. In point of exhibitions by nations France has been decid edly the most successful.' However, Judgng from the present outlook, lfre Columbian Exposition bids fair to surpass all predecessors! “"The buildings will cover double the amount of space, and the daily at tendance, at the most moderate estimate, will doubtless exceed 200, 000. The n)ost awe-inspiring structure yet proposed for the exposition is now receiving the consideration of the directors. It comes from 0. E. Burton, of Utica, N. Y., and here it is on paper. -The base is to be a a great spheroid, with hemispheres built thereon; then a mammoth ho tel structure with a great tower— the whole reaching a height of 18 93 feet. ,jCalmly contemplate that The first gallery surrounding the miguty .glotye is 250 feet from the earth; the jsecond, 500 feet1; the third, 700; fourth, 855; fifth, 1,125; sixth, l,dou leet. rrorn the top of the globe to the fou-: i gallery is planned for an immense hotel, to accommodate 10,000 guilt in a com bination of Gothic and Oriental architecture, Fron the fourth gal lery will arise a tower similar to the Eiffel—the whole edifice, from the ground, attaining a height- of 1, 708 feet, and this surrounded by a collosal statue of Columbus 125 feet high. Beginning at the base, and encircling the vast globe twen ty times, will be an electric railroad, reaching the great hotel after a journey of 13 miles. It is now proposed to establish a mammoth zoological palace. It is to be the greatest animal collection beneath the sun. Into this palace will be brought a specimen of eve ry creature (except man) that runs, walks, crawls, swims or lies between Point Barrow and Cape Horn; also all the creatures that roam through the Amazon basin, over the heights of Andes, iuto the deserts of Africa, across the immense plains of Asia, and over the island world of the Pacific. . A plauetariau system exhibit will probably be established. It will be arranged high above the exposition, and will be operated by electricity, showing the solar system so as to get the relative sizes, distances and motions of the sun and planets. The stars and planets would be lighted up with electricity, and per haps arranged with scats, so that the inhabitants of the earth might take a trip on them as they traveled through space in different directions on their annual tour. By this -inv alid instructive feature not only the .nations of the earth but the planets of the solar system will be gathered into existence at the. World's Col-| iTmbi.m Exposition. j All Answer to Dr. Beaft. Last week we published iui ap peal, to. allinncemen by Dr. R. L. Beall, of Caldwell Co. The follow ing answer to the same appeared in in Sunday’s ltaleigh Chronicle, and we publish it, it being fair that both sides should be heard: Carisonton, N. C., Dec! 8.—I suggest to Dr. Beall that tile busi ness plan of the Alliance, as well as the signs and pass words, should be, kept secret. Politics is by the constitution (but not in a partisan sense) made a special study. I am very sorry indeed, if all the evifeenumerated by Dr. Beall exists in his county Alliance. I have heard there was some bad feeling in that county, but had no idea it was so bad. I have attended nearly all my. sub and county all the State Alliauces, .hut the first, and I must say I have seen none of the' ' things. I have seen Alliance men differ widely out many ques tions, but always perfect freedom of speech and expression of opinion have been allowed; and when a question was fairly decided It was always 'srfCmitted to (jfliotly. I have seen no f.eat'or idols sat, up to obey or bow down to.; Hiave heard n o' man of .ability,, experience and devotion to the interest of the far mers denounced us unworthy of confidence. I have never seen a man force himself into an Alliance, or force to remain in one day longer than he wishes to remain. Alliaucemeu have been opente— “and when any papers by vicious and malicious misrepresentation of our officers or members, shall seek to impair our strength and unity, that such a paper should not receive our support.”. There is nor has been any objection to fair and honest criticism. Where is the evidence that an effort is being made through the Al liance to force members elect to the Legislature to violate solemn pledg es and betray the people, &e? Now what shall we do? Dr Deal proposes.to stand by the con stitution. Go.od advice. Let us all do that: and I have no objection to a free and fair discussion of unv Vj'jwwuu utiv; |r did she care to venture/., out after (lie thief., While she iuv there,; dreadfully frightened hod. wondering what todo, back . the man?' He stood in her rcott, clpsed nnd locked the door, and th.oi sat down upon the lied. ' ‘Now,’ said-he in a gentle voice not at all modulated to avoid bring heard, ‘I know that you are awake, and 1 am going to sithere and talk. to you.'-' I’pon my honor as a VatTg glar of reputation and good instill ts' I will.not hurt you. In only cue way will I transgress the rules of ■; good breeding. I am going to kiss you, that is all/ “The young woman found her voice aud screamed. 'tf; “ ‘O,’ said the burglar, ‘I am sorry ,j you are frightened. I have half a / mind to go away aud come again when yon are more accustomed to , .i my presence. But, no; I cannot'? lo that. I only mean to take one "i kiss-. , r- - .... “At this point her screams were::? at. the loudest, and the noise she made was such as to wake any but a dead household, one would hav thought. "! , -r: “ ‘I really wish you would not do t hat.,’ said the burglar., ‘It will not ilelur me. What do I care'? I can anly at the outside, and I am not in the least afraid to die. I have, seen you again and again on thaSj s! reels, and I have made up my mind to risk anything in order to j;; ki.-.s you-r-to kiss you when yon are ' awake, and I know I am not steal* ing the favor, for I would not risk a day in jail tokissa woman asleep. Well, if you won’t stop screaming I .. cannot see any use in delaying’-— “Here he put an arm under the girl’s shoulders, and gentley raising her body he bent his own and kiss ed her on the lips as lightly and r6-. sp^etf ully as if she had been hie maiden aunt. With |hat b§ lower ed her still screaming, to her pillow and leaped out of the window. Her screams brought her father and ., mother, all too late, and they found her able to tell all that 'had ■ taken place. Yet in an hour she had grown delirious, and it was a month before she was mentally her self again. The bravo was not cap tured." SITTING BULL'S SOLILOQUY. Should you ask me, whence these ' stories? * Whence the fairy tails and rumors, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations, — As of thunder in the mountains? I should answer, X should tell you, That they came from fake reporters, And the makersof newspapers, Who desire to arise Iagoo, Froom the vale of Tawasentha, . . iris3 To the portals of the White House! I myself, Recumbent Taurus. Say these things and say them plainly; A3 We are mild and gentle people. , ;i Sucking doves and tender ducklings; Haven’t had a scalp for ages; Haven’t had a drink of whiskey, Haven’t Had a good fat turkey, Stuffed with oysters and with chest nuts, For so long that wo arc hollow, And we feel that the McXlinley lidl has done us mighty damage! Ducks we arc, all lincapapas, And our squaws arc Uncamamas; We are swell Und very swagger . . Members of the Red 400. And we do not light and murderl But you bet, we’re Oca la las And ourqnly Manitou-too Won’t take sass frorp no darn paleface! Do you hear tliis roaring Tuurug? It. S. V. F. if you dont liko it. . Mr. Harrison Gives Warning. Q -Veto York Herald. - The most awful threat we ever heard of has just come through the sacred portals of the White House. President Harrison, it is well known, is voluptuously enamored of the force bill. His affection w ; positively Swin burian. He is so in- ~ dignant with the Senators who die agree with him that like a Jovian microbe he hurls his two-for-a-pen ny thunderbolts at their heads. I a-a moment of fiery rage the other day ho exelameds- “I tell you the Senate must pass that bill. If they do not, I shall—I shall—I " sball-Hieeline—a—renotninationP - , Great Scott! What would be come of this country if such *< frightful eatastrophe-befell? ".Henry O’Connor, a newspaper man who was the author or the most, brilliant jirticle ever printed3 in the New Voile'"Herald, died in abject poverty a few months ago. lie was bright mid versatile, hut af ter he had sucked like an orange and sqeeseJ like a spougue, bs was was cast aside. - : • •-...../SnCX -V: