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WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1892.
Pbice 5 Cents.
mm
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A cream of tartar Baking Powder. Highest
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SCHOJLER'S
Millinery E:ra:i::h::t
With the opening of the New
Yeas, the-Millinery Department has
been moved to the Racket Store and
hereafter all goods in this line will
be found here. In addition we
have a beautiful display oi Japanese
ware, stamped eroods, ruching. luucl
initial letters, silk scaif
furs, and 1,000 pieces of ribbons.
BROWN S
PALACE DRUG-
TOST
The Hanes Building
Offers everything in the drug
line at low prices. The stock
is large and varied and the
quality of our goods cannot be
surpassed.
We offer the finest line ot
domestic and foreign cigars ever
shown in Winston.
We make wholesale prices to
country merchants and others
buying in large quantities.
Your friends,
BROWN & BROWN
Saboroso
Cigars,
ASHGRAFT&Ol'JENS,
Wholesale and Retail
DRUGGISTS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Arkansas! Vermont! ! Maine! ! !
Turee States send cheering news
A
to the Democracy.
"Go "West" said Horace Greeley
'Go South" says Chauneey Depew.
A rainbow is a pretty thing, but
it wont do to chase one in politics.
Pkize fighting is accumulated as
sault and battery; boxingis a health-
giving exercise.
There are three cock-sure Repub
lican States this year ,-Yermont, Ohio
and Pennsylvania.
McKinley went to Vermont and
there was a reduction of 10,000
in
the Republican majority.
The sympathy of every true heart-
hearted Southerner sroes out to the
President in the illness of his wife.
Ge.v. Ghubb, the man with a hun
gry name, did not get the Republi
can nomination for Governor of New
Jersey.
North Carolina can be carried for
Cleveland, but the State will be lost
ti the Democracy if every township
is not organized for thorough work.
The Greensboro Record is greatly
improved in a complete new dress of
type. TheRecord is spicy and newsy
and is always welcome to our table.
The Australian Ballot system
worked well in Vermont and in Maine.
It seems to prevent bribery, intimi
dation and large Republican majori
ties. A button-hole company has just
been organized in California. Their
announcement does not Btate wheth
er they propose to supply both holes
and buttons.
Some bright Southern journalist
ought to make up his mind to go to
the World's Fair and write"syndicate
letters. Northern men can't always
see Southern things.
Lost: Ten thousand Republican
votes in Vermont and six thousand
Republican votes in Maine. The
finder will please return them to B.
Harrison, Washington, D. C.
Judge Furches, the Republican
nominee for Governor is, from all we
hear, an honest man, and he is hon
est enough to acknowledge the the
greatness of G rover Cleveland.
The extent of the pawnbroking
business in this country may be
roughly figured out from the fact
that American watch factories pro
duce about 35,000 watches per week
The. Democrats made gains at
every town in Vermont where McKin
ley went to explain his bill and praise
Harrison. Suppose Chairman F. M.
Simmons invites him to North Caro
lina!
Reciprocity is - good Republican
doctrine, but when it comes to giv
ing the colored man an office in re
turn for the enormous vote that he
throws to the Republican party. Re
ciprocity doesn't work.
The attention of tourists and oth
ers is being 'called to the beauties of
this section of North Carolina We
call the attention of our readers to a
beautifully written article reprinted
n
this issue of the Sentinel.
Henry Cabot Lodge, joint author
with Johnnie Davenport in the con
struction of the Force bill, has been
renominated for Congress. Some
Third party men an some Republi
cans affect to believe that Force bill
legislation is dead. This doesn't
look like it. . " '
Colorado is a doubtful State this
year because of President Harrison's
enmity toward the silver question
The South oposes Harrison because
ot his. attitude on tha Force bill and
the West dislikes him because he
signed the McKinley bill. .
South Carolina voted for Prohi
bition by a vote of 35,742 to 28,352.
This does not settle the question,
however, because the Legislature is
not bound by the vote except so far
as a moral obligation rests upon it
to carry out the will of the people.
Republicans "will not admit the
real cause of their defeats in Vermont
and Maine. To say that the Aus
tralian Ballot system'did it is to say
that Republicans are more illiterate
than .the Democrats. Democracy
will win on the tariff and For.ee bill
issues. - ' --" '.-
Chairman Simmons deserves well
for his timely circular and good ad
vice, tie says : " x ms must be a
campaign of unremitting work and
thorough organization." If all good
good Democrats act upon his advice,
we will carry this State by 20,000
plurality. - -
THE PEART DISCOVERIES.
Journey ot 1,300 Miles TnronEli
Snow anil Ice
GREAT GAINS FOR GEOGRAPHY.
Lieutenant Peary Finds That Green
land Does Not Extend as Far North
as has Been Thought The Loss of
Prof. VcrhoefT A Brave Woman
Intense Cold -Deep Snow.
Lieutenant Robert E. Peary and
his party arrived safely at St. Johns,
New Foundland on Sept. 11th from
his exploration in the Arctic regions
in Greenland. Prof. Peary and his
party were in "Greenland's icy moun
tains'' about a year.
Last spring a relief expedition was
sent out by the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia on board the
steam-whaler "Kite.!' Mrs. Peary,
the brave wife of the explorer was on
board and the pictures of her in her
Eskimo costume are quite pretty.
The relief expedition was in command
of-Prof. Angelo Heilprin.
Eivard Astrup, ayoung Norwegian,
accompanied Prof. Peary on his long
journey of 1,300 miles. Astrup is es
pecially skilled in the use of the
skier." the Norwegian snow shoe,
A bright young mineralogist, Ed
ward M. Verhoetf, was in the expedi
tion. and the only thing that marred
the pleasure of it was his deplorable
loss, presumably in the crevasse of a
glacier. An unremitting search of
several davs failed to discover him
The sole provisions of the Peary
party in its long tour of discovery
were Pemmican, pea soup, beans and
biscuit. His dogs were fed on seals
and walrus.
The lowest temperature during the
winter was minus o3 degrees, or 19
degrees above the lowest that has
heretofore been registered. The sun
sank below the horizon early in No
vember, appearing again on February
15th.
Five men accompanied Prof. Peary
and in the relief expedition there were
eisrht persons
It was expected that about the nrst
week in August, .Prof. 'eary would
start southward. On August 4th the
Kite was pushed to the head of Mc-
Cormick bay. Several days afterward
signal posts were erected, with ban
ners bearing directions to McCormick
bav, along the route in which it was
supposed Prof. Peary would return
Prof. Peary saw these and suddenly
came upon members of the relief ex
pedition while they were still engaged
in locating signals lor his guidance.
In writing of his expedition . 1'rof
Peary says :
"On July 4. after three day's travel
overland, I reached the head of
great bar, latitude 81 deg. 37 min
longitude 24 deg., opening out east
and northeast. I named this Inde
pendence Bay, in honor of the day
and the great glacier flowing -north
into it. Academy Glacier. I reached
inland ice again on July 7
"This land, red and brown in color.
anralmost entirely free of snow, is
covered with glacial debris and sharp
stones of all sizes. Flowers, insects
and musk oxen are abundant.
"On July 9th we started on the re
turn, taking a course more inland. In
seven days we were struggling through
the soft snow and wrapped in the
snow clouds of the great interior pla
teau over 8,000 feet above the sea
level. We remained in the clouds
some fourteen days, when we descend
ed from them east of the Humboldt
Glacier.
"The convergence of the Greenland
coasts above the seventy-seventh par
allel, the defection of the main divide
to the northwest above the same par
allel, the termination of the conti
nental ice cap below Victoria Inlet,
and the existence of large glaciers in
all the great northern fiords are among
the discoveries.
"The expedition brings back much
ethnological material, including tents,
costumes, sledges, kayaks, and dogs of
the northern .Kskimo, meteorological
and tidal observations, and a large
number of photographs of natives,
and dwellings, and costumes, and
Arctic scenery."
The following extracts from the
New York Sun will prove interesting:
"Lieut. Peary has proved the truth
and value of the theory he originated,
that the "way to find and map the
north coast of Greenland was to use
the great ice cap of the interior as a
highway. This supposition, though
based upon his own earlier experience
in sledging on the inland ice, was not
approved by some of the, leading au
thorities. The theory, however, has
now become a demonstrated ract.
Peary and Astrup, with their dog
teams, have travelled over six hundred
miles northeast on this ice cap, and
have seen the Arctic Sea along a hith
erto unknown coast line. . Peary has
proved that Lockwuod and Brainard,
when they attained 83 deg. 24 min. N.
in1 May, 1882, had practically reached
the most northern point of Greenland,
if indeed the islands, they saw-were
"not north of the highest portion of the
mainland.. He has proved that Green
land does not extend as far north by
about a hundred miles as was thought
probable.
"In rendering this service to geog
raphy Lieut. Peary has accomplished
probably the most brilliant feat of
sledge travelling on record. From the
time he struck the ice cap on his re
turn trip, until he reached McCor
mick Bay, he averaged, as nearly as
can now be computed, twenty-three
miles a day, although for fourteen
days he struggled through soft snow
and was shrouded in the snow clouds
at an elevation of 8,000 feet above sea
level. - " ... - ' ; . ..
"He is the first to fully explore the
wide arm of Baffin's Bay known as
Inglefleld Gulf,- which penetrates far
inland; and along its coasts he discov
ered and named twelve . glaciers and
three mountains; and among the most
interesting features oi his labors are
his studies of the Arctic Highlanders,
about two hundred and fifty in nun
ber. - He made them a special obiect
of scientific investigation, and the re
sults cannot fail- to be of interest.
"It was reserved for him to pilot an
expedition into the farthest ncrth at
a cost of a few thousand dollars, and
to equal if not surpass In the extent
of knowledge won the most expensive
enterprises, public or private, which
the United States and Great Britain
have supported in those regions. His
achievement ranks with the most
conspicuous success of exploration."
A MARRIAGE CONTRACT.
A Winston Girl Refuses to Marry Un
til Her Lover Becomes a Democrat.
There is more good to be accomp
lished by private Frances Cleveland
Clubs than by those public organiza
tions they have up North, as the fol
lowing will show :
A marriage contract has been
drawn up, sworn to and signed be
tween a girl and young man in Wins
ton with the understanding that the
young man is "hereafter, henceforth
and forevermore to vote the demo
cratic t icket." The young fellow has
been a Republican from his youth up
and has plead with the young lady to
leave politics out of the engagement,
but she refused to do so. She says "I
am a Democrat." His efforts have all
proven futile and he is now aware of
the fact that he must do as the lady
bids or else there will -be no match.
So he has been compelled to sign the
contract and the fair young Democrat
has named the day.
The young man was persuaded by
his sweetheart two years ago to vote
a portion of the Democratic ticket.
but this year she -tells him he will
have. to vote the whole ticket or do
without her.
In order to make the contract strin
gent the young lady is talking of hav
ing her beau to go before the clerk oi
the court and have the county seal
placed on the paper.
WINSTON WILL BE IN IT.
New Mail Facilities for Free Delivery
Cities and Towns.
Postmaster-General Wanamakerhas
issued his expected order deputizing
the postmasters of free delivery cities,
towns and rural communities to put
un letter boxes, on the request of citi
zens, for the collection and delivery of
mail at house doors. The order, it is
said, affects nearly three million rest
dences, to which the freedelivery ser
vice is already extended, and it is re
sarded bv postal experts as the most
important departure in the free deliv
ery of mails since the beginning of the
system under .fostmaster-trenerai
Blair. The boxes vary in price from
$1 to $2, and a given route is to be
equipped when the postmaster finds
that two-thirds of the householders
desire the double service.
The change means that as fast as
patrons of the mails desire them, the
two new facilities of immediate deliv
eries to safe rceeptacles and of collec
tions direct from house doors will be
within reach, without any expense to
the householder except the llrst cost
of the box.
The boxes will be exhibited at post
offices by the postmaster, and all
postoftlce employees have been direct
ed to facilitate their introduction.
Housekeepers desiring to try the new
mail collection and delivery scheme
must select and purchase a box of one
of the styles approved by the part-
ment.
A PLEA FOR MERCY.
A Winstonian Thinks Hanging; Un
necessary in the Case of Reynolds.
To the Editor of the Sentinel.
I notice in your yesterday's issue
that Charlie Reynolds is to be hanged
on October 20th. 1, as a Democrat,
don t doubt the justice of this sen
tence, still I ask you to use your in
fluence to have this sentence stayed
until after the November election,
when he will be buried so deep that
hanging will be unnecessary.
Winston, Sept". 10. - Tobacco.
TOur correspondent has intention
ally or otherwise confounded Charlie
Reynolds, the murderer, with Charlie
Reynolds, the politician. The former
is per force a resident of Greensboro,
the latter of his free will an inhabi
tant of Winston. In the case of the
latter a stay of proceedings will be
secured. Ed.
FOR THE SALE OF LEAF.
Winston's iifth tobacco warehouse
was thrown open on Thursday for the
sale of the leaf.
The stand is Brown's old warehouse
and fronts on Third, Church and
Fourth streets. The proprietors are
Messrs. Abbott and Jones. They are
clever gentlemen and have have had
considerable experience in Virginia.
- The opening sale consisted of two
hundred piles of leaf. It came here
( both by wagon and rait, from the fol-
lowing , counties represented were,
Guilford, Uavie, Davidson, btoKes,
Surry, Rockingham, Forsyth and from
llalifax.and Pittsylvania in Virginia.
Z.-V. Tucker, of Advance, Davie
countv, had the best leaf on the sale.
His offerings averaged $17.40 per hun
dred.
STRUCK THE WRONG MAN.
v Some of the Third party advocates
of Forsyth sent a representative here
a few days ago to invite Dr Brough-
ton to make a Third party speech at
a big blowout in Bethania township.
"I want you to help us whoop 'em
up," said the "invitation man." The
preacher replied: 44 You have struck
the wrong man. Were I to make a
political speech 1 would give you
Third party people the severest drub
bing you ever got.
: The fellow turned away convinced
of the fact that the Winston pastor
was not tne man ne-was. looking for
to advocate his cause., -.
- Looking for Frost. -
The present weather indicates that
the fall frosts are not for distant.
The farmers in this section are busy
housing their tobacco preparatory for
them. The earliest killing frost du
ring the past twenty years . was on
Friday and Saturday nights of Sep
tember 28th and 29th, 1888. Through
out this part or tne btate the damage
on .tobacco was severe. Much of it
was killed outright and almost as
much damage was done by cutting
the plant green on the approach of
the cold wave.
VOGLER-GOSLEN NUPTIALS.
Pretty Marriage at tie Moravian
CUnrcl.
CHURCH HANDSOMELY DECORATED.
The Ceremony Performed, by Bishop
Rond thaler W. K. Lineback the
Best Man and Miss Emma Vogler
Bridesmaid A -Bridal Banquet at
the Homt of the Brides't Parents.
There was a beautiful marriage at
the Moravian church in "Salem Tues
day night of last week.
The contracting parties were Miss
Birdie V., only daughter of Capt. J.
W. Goslen, editor of the Union Re
publican, and Mr. II. E. Vogler, of
the jewelry firm of W. T. Vogler &
Son.
The church was handsomely deco
rated. On the upper pulpit was a
large pyramid of golden rod illumina
ted with candles. The lower plat
form was decorated with palms and
ferns.
Promptly at 8:30 o'clock Prof. W. J.
Peterson began to play the wedding
march from Mendelsohn. The lady
attendants marched down the south
aisle two by two. The gentlemen
came in on the north side in like man
ner.
The best man, W. E. Lineback, and
the bridesmaid, Miss Emma Vogler,
sister of the groom, entered on the
south side while the bride and groom
marched in on the opposite side. The
latter stood under a large marriage
bell made or golden rod and
suspend-
ed by festoons of golden rod
and illu-
minated with electric lights.
The beautiful Moravian
marriage
ceremony then took place,
Bishop
Kondthaler officiating.
The following were the attendants:
Miss Mary Fries with Howard E.
Rondthaler; Miss Hattie Sutton with
G. Frank Jenkins; Miss Lula Purnell
with W. F. Shaffner; Miss Carrie
Shelton with II. V. Lineback; Miss
Addie Miller with E. A. Stockton;
Miss Etta Shaffner with W. I. Brooks:
Miss Carrie Stockton with N. V. Pe
terson; Miss Bessie Winkler with
Lawrence McCrary.
The ushers were G. A. Miller, J. A.
Peterson, P. E. Horton and W. S.
Pfohl.
The bride wore white silk with a
long veil and diamonds. A beautiful
wreath or orange blossoms encircled
her head.
The gentleman attendants were in
evening dress, while the ladies were
dazzling in the costumes of purest
white.
A iter the ceremony the bridal party
with over two hundred invited guests
repaired to the residence of the bride s
parents where a bridal banquet was
in waiting.
The bride and groom were the re
cipients of many useful and hand
some presents, several of which were
sent from friends in ISew lork. One
came from Henry May, a jeweler of
New York, from whom the groom's
rather purchased his nrst bin or goods
when he went into business several
years ago.
At :4o nextmorning Mr. and Mrs.
H. E. Vosrler bade erood-bve to rela
tives and friends and left on the It; &
D. train for a bridal tour to Washing
ton, New York and ether. Northern
cities. Thev will oilso visit relatives
in Maine before returning. .
TOBACCO NOTES.
Winston's August Shipments Exceed
ed Danville's.
The crop is a great disappointment
around ilenderson, Jvy.
Since Sept. 1st there has not been a
single shipment from New York to
the cholera-stricken city of Hamburg.
William Brooks living in the north
ern part of Alamance county on Stony
Creek lost a tine barn of tobacco by
fire recently.
Liebes Bros, of San Francisco, who
tried to defraud the Government out
of hundreds of thousands of dollars
in duties by entering Sumatra Tobac
co as Fillers, have suspended payment.
Mr. A. W. Schaum, long known on
the Henderson, N. C, market as a
leaf dealer, will move to Winston and
buy for the American Tobacco Com
pany the coming tobacco year.
August tobacco shipments com-
Winston . . . 1,026,781 lbs
Danville 593,502 lbs
Diffnce in favor Winston, 433,277 lbs
SHAMEFUL MAIL SERVICE.
The Attention of the Postmaster Gen
eral Has Been Called to it.
A letter from Pine Hall says that a
man up there got a North Carolina
daily newspaper of date Sept. 1st, thir
teen days alter its issue. The other
day "the Stoneville mail was put off
here and the Pine Hall mail was tak
en on somewhere else, and on last
Monday the Madison mail was put
off at Pine Hall and the Pine Ilall
mail taken somewhere else, returning
back hereafrom New York or some
where else 24 hours later. This is
very annoying to the public." - The
matter has been referred to the au
thorities in Washington.
The Death, of Miss Powell.
A letter from Poughkeepsie gives
the particulars of the killing of Miss
Dora Powell, of Greensboro, there re
cently: "Dora was killed by an ex
press train. She and her sister (Lena)
had been shopping, and several trains
were on the track. In crossing we
think she must have stumbled, for
Lena ran-in front of an engine stand
ing still and heard Dora say, "Oh!"
and turned about and saw her parasol
and purse on the track. She looked
down the- track and saw something
white whirling on the engine." She
was taken a long distance down the
track.aud her death must have been
instantaneous. It is too terrible to
write. One leg and arm was cut off
and one hand crushed." ,
uick- wnitsett, wnose head was1
recently split by an axe in the hands
of Caesar Cobb, near Greensboro, is
aeatu. :. -' ' ,; . , . -
SAM JONES FOR CLEVELAND.
He Sajs He Ought to be and Will
be
the Next President.
It has been said by some and be
lieved by many that I was drifting
into politics, but I want to say once
for all that there are hot enough men
and money in the United States.
I have a more respected and proSt
able calling, and I have just as much
inclination to go into politics as t
have to go into the skunk raising
business. I am a citizeni of Georgia,
and have a home and a family, and I
confess I have a dislike for somethings
and a strong desire to see the wrongs
righted and the dirty things clean
ed up.
1 advocate the right in the moral,
social and political world. I know
the politics of our country are in bad
shape and I have about lost faith in
our ability to make things better.
We need some wise national legisla
tion on the Sabbath, the labor, the
pension and the tariff questions.
As long as the Congress of the Uni
ted States, composed as it is of men
who want to succeed themselves in
office, the votes of the people on the
one side of them, and the money bags
of the monopolist on the other side
the average Congressman is sure
enough between the devil and the
deep blue-sea.
If the members of Congress, Govern
ors and Legislators were eligible to
only one term in office, and were then
forever afterwards debarred from
holding office either State or Nation
al, then I think we could get some
wise legislation and cease to legalize
crime.
No nation under the sun can long
stand such a drain upon its treasury
and $150,000,000 annually for pensions.
There will be a revulsion. If this
government would wash its hands of
this hellish whisky traffic and cease to
be a partner with, the scoundrels who
manufacture it, the revulsion would
be precipitated. Debauch one-half
of mankind that you may pension the
other half.
One statue on the Sabbath question
would stop every Sunday train, and
give every man a chance to spend the
day of rest at home with his family.
Liet some wise legislation be given
defining the duties of capital and the
same on the responsibility of laborers.
Capital and labor are interdependent,
and each should do right towards the
other. I confess to a weakness, if you
will call it suc.i, a just sympathy for
the poor laborer.
I know that for every evil there is a
remedy, and for every wrong there is
right. For wise legislation you can
not trust either party, and the only
question is, which party can we most
safely trust with our National and
State concerns. The Republicans are
mean enough to put the McKinley
tariff upon us and the Democrats too
cowardly to repeal it, and vice versa.
Whenever either party acts the ras
cal, the other acts the fool or coward,
and so on it goes.
As to the third party, the old ne
gro's definition about the "forty acres
and the mule," was never more silly
and ridiculous than the claims of the
Third party, and the fondness with
which some look to it for deliverance.
I am in politics a Prohibitionist,
first, last and always, but in the hopc-
lessnessness of our minority, 1 can
occasionally pick out men, in the
ranks of other parties, for whom
I would vote, if my vote were neces
sary to their election.
Grover Cleveland will be the next
President of the United States, and
ought to be.
DR. EXUM INTERVIEWED.
He Says That the Immaculate Pro
gressive Farmer Tells Lies.
Dr. Exum passed through Salisbury
Monday evening and was interviewed
by a Salisbury Herald reporter. He
said: "The candidacy for Governor
was forced upon me. I did not want
it. I tried to get some one else to
take it.
"1 used to think everything I saw
in a Democratic paper was true, but
now I don't believe a word in any pa
per. They an lie."
"I suppose then you don't believe
all vou see in ithe Progressive Far
mer ?"
"No the Progressive Farmer lies,
too."
The Herald continues : "Dr. Exum
is a man of age, portly, with a grey
beard on his chin and wears glasses.
He refers to himself as being formerly
a Democrat with some emphasis. It
is clear that he is undecided as to
what he will do.
"It is further evident that if he had
his choice he would withdraw from
the field. He brands the report that
he 'would prefer negro rule to the
present government' as a lie.
"it is tne opinion or tnose wno
heard the Doctor that he will with
draw unless he is goaded on by Marion
Butler and his satraps.
Wn!iw Th ere Were BO Winstons.
From the Raleigh Christian Advocate.l
We spent several days the past
week in Winston, N. C, working for
Trinity College and the Advocate.
We d id well for both always do well
in Winston for any good cause. While
there we stopped at the magnificent
new hotel "The Ainzendorf." It is a
gem in finish and furniture. It is
beautiful for situation and a joy to its
guests. Everything is first class and
we predict great popularity for this
new hotel.. Winston is forging right
ahead improving all the time. Our
church and our preachers there are in
the front rank and will stay there.
We wish North Carolina had fifty
such places as Winston is.
Success of The Sentinel.
Friends of The Sentinel will be
glad to hear of its growth and .wide
spread popularity. Advertisements
and requests for the paper have with
in tendays come from New York city,
Los Angeles, Cal., Norfolk Va., Hamp-den-Sydney,
Va., Winnsboro ane Rock
Hill, S. C, Thomasville, Ga., Rogers
villeTenn., - Ilenderson, Ky., Milo
and Belgrader Me., to some of which
subscription is paid up a year in ad
vance. The new subscriptions within
the State amount to several hundred.
Rev. Dr. A. G. - McMannaway, of
Charlotte, has accepted a call to the
pastorate of the First Baptist church
of Little Rock, Ark.
TO THE TOP OF THE ROAN
A Dreamland of Latent Suggestions
Eoflless Possibilities."
WHERE A GREAT PARK SHOULD BE.
A Lady Writes Charmingly of a Male
Ride to the Roan Forests of Great
Trees That Have Been Cut Away
but Little Magnificent Scenery
The AUegbanies vs. the White Mts.
From the Xew York Evening Poet.
Ledger, N. C, Sept. 1. Five
o'clock of a summer morning, a good
mount and a pleasant companion, with
the prospect of an all-day jaunt what
more could the heart or man or wo
man desire ? Wlien are added the
pure air the beautiful scenery of the
Carolina mountains, the cup of happi
ness overflows.
When it was first suggested that we
two girls should ride alone to the sum
mit of Roan Mountain, it seemed
reckless, as I was not at all sure of
the trail: but the more we talked the
more plausible did it become. A man
is a good thing to have with vou if he
is agreeable and reliable; otherwise he
is worse than nothing, if or he stands in
the way of your exercising the modest
wits with which Heaven has endowed
you.
At the hour of starting I had but
one misgiving mule No. 2. 1 know
"Jacko" as I do my own heart being
a woman's heart, that still leaves
room for the uncertainty necessary in
case of a mule but this second beast
was a stranger, and his ; disposition
was as yet the unsolved enigma which
very Iresh specimen of his race offers
to the would-be rider. He had been
given the character of a gay deceiver:
he looked like an old cow. 1 reflected
that as mv companion was a Virgin-
an of long lineage she knew how to
ride. She sat her mule as if she had
it least ten generations of horseback-
rulers behind her; but her skill was
more severely tested keening in the
saddle, which was a mislit, and would
go over the mule s head
We had ten miles to ride before
the foot of the mountain was reached
The lowero part of these mountains
is covered with forests of great trees
that have been cut away but little,
The vegetation is very dense; and ear
lier in the season there is what seems
to Northern eyes an almost tropical
prolusion of bloom dogwood, wild
crab, azalea, laurel, and rhododendron
follow each other in rapid succession.
Strange that while the White Moun
tains have been written about and
visited every summer lor so many
years by crowds of people, these South
ern mountains have till very recently
been but little known. Yet I cannot
believe that any one would care much
for that New Hampshire group who
had once seen the Alleghanies stretch
ing out as far as the eye can reach;
and then the climate is so much finer
here. Though most of the flowers
were gone, it having been a rainy sea
son, the fungi filled their place and
vied with the blossoms in brilliancy;
Nile green, terracotta, old rose, cardi
nal, violet, coral mottled with white.
lemon shaded -with orange; recklessly
extravagant, impossible toadstools be
longing only to fairyland.
As we neared the summit the great
trees yielded to a staunted growth.
Clumps of balsam tlrs grew here and
there among the low shrubbery and
on the grassy slope, giving to those
upper regions a park-like effect. We
left our mules at the Cloudland Hotel
and strolled off toward Sunrise Bluff.
The day was cool and misty. The
clouds, like soft, filmy veils, trailed
through the depths beneath us, now
hiding, now revealing range upon
rangeof mountains, dim at last as the
clouds themselves. - We sat and gazed
into the great southwest, a dreamland
of latent suggestions of endless possi
bilities. Could the people living in
that land of the sky be actuated by
sordid motives? We gave them of
our own ideality, the ideality of the
place and hour. The mere ability to
stand on a mountain and look into
seven States is a snialla thing, but
there is something inspiring in those
vast depths of air; the lungs expand
with the sense of plenty; and on this
day the filmy clouds made it into a
spiritual atmosphere from which one
seemed to breathe draughts of pure
love. The veil fell over past and fu
ture, and we stood alone in the pres
ent, cut off: by something i: impalpa
ble. Being ravenously hungry, we drift
ed back to the hotel, drawn by that
strongest of forces, the yearning
toward the source of supply. We be
guiled the time till the bell rang by
watching the people and guessing by
by their manner and accent from what
part of the country they came. v heth
er or not we guessed right in individ
ual casas, the register certainly con
firmed our general conclusion that
Roan Mountain is decidedly cosmo
politan, being more accessible than
most of the places which are out of
the region of hay-feTer.
But there always comes a time when
one must go down hill. With us, as
usual, it came all too soon. At " three
the mules were brought round and we
started for home. For mountain
climbing, mules have their advantages
and their disadvantages. They go up
and down steep places with greater
care than a horse, and there is room
for their little feet on very narrow
ledges. But they "fall away" so in
front that there is nothing to keep
the saddle in place, and going down a
steep incline, you may be over your
animal s head before you know it.
We were eight miles from home
when the floating clouds gathered
themselves together and emptied their
contents upon our heads. Mountain
showers are Very local. You can some
times step out from under them on
dry ground; but they mean business.
One might as well stand under a
waterfall. In a few minutes we were
drenched to the saddle linings, but
nothing could dampen our spirits, and
this seems to be a land where one is
preset ved from consequences. Certain
it is that a warm fire, dry clothes, hot
current-wine, two 'grains of quinine,
supper, and bed proved such efficient
restoratives that I should not have
minded repeating the trip on the fol-.
lowing day. Lorraine Stanley.
STEVENSON ITINERARY
His Triumnhal Procession
Throngh
the State.
-Asiieville, HT. C, September, 16.
General Stevenson arrived safelv
yesterday afternoon at Asheville and
was driven to the Battery Park Hotel
in Col. Frank Coxe's private carriage.
He received a host !of callers in the
hotel lobbies after supper.
xnenext morning Gen. Stevenson
and party were escorted from the
hotel by Chairman F. M. Simmons, of
the State Democratic committe, and
J. S. Carr, chairman of the State As
sociation of Democratic Clubs, and
other prominent Democrats.
Following the carriages were several
hundred mounted men from various
Democratic clubs throughout the
country. Gen. Stevenson began speak
ing at 12 o'clock and at least 3,000 peo
ple listened to him. Many persons
were turned away because there was
no room. Several hundred ladies were
in the audience. The enthusiasm dur
ing the speech was very great.
iieoiscussed the leading issue of the
campaign eloquently and praised Gro
ver Cleveland.
at hickory.
Hickory greeted Gen. Stevenson
last night with brass bands, torch
lights, bonfires and fireworks. Over
four thousand people had eathered to
honor the distinguished truest and a
royal welcome it was. Gen. Steven
son made a forty minutes speech and
produced great enthusiasm. At all
the stations along the line of the en
tire road great crowds assembled. At
Morganton tar barrels were burning
and everywhere the people manifest
ed great interest, pleasure and pride
in the presence of the prairie State's
illustrious son and North Carolina's
distinguished grandson.
COMES OUT FROM AMONG THEM
An Eastern Republican Cannot Lon
ger Stay in the G O. P.
Card in the "Windsor Ledger.
Today I sever my connection with
the Republican party. The course
pursued by the leaders of the party is
such as I can no longer endorse. The
party as conducted in eastern North
Carolina has become a by-word and
reproach. Their conventions have
become howling mobs, and nomina
tions are put up to the highest bidder
Ignorant, incompetent and corrupt
negroes have taken complete control
of the political machinery, and have
nominated for positions of profit,
honor and trust most incompetent
and corrupt men, while men of re
spectability who served the party
faithfully for years are allowed no
voice in the deliberations of the party.
They have driven awav from the par
ty nearly every white Republican and
hundreds of the. best colored people
are disgusted. lean no-longer stay
with a party managed by such men.
shall support and vote for Cleveland
and the balance of the Democratic
ticket at the coining election.
W. L. Lyox.
A LETTER FROM TYRO.
The Farmers Are Cutting and Curing
Their Tobacco.
Correspondence of the Sentinel.
Tyko Shops, Sent. 15. The cut
ting and curingof tobacco is the order
of the day. Some of our farmers have
success while others make a failure.
Mrs. Notie Grier and Miss Lizzie
Thompson, of Lexington, paid Mrs.
R. B. Thompson a Hying visit today.
We arc sorry to reitort that old un
cle Billy Barnes is quite unwell.
Mrs. i5. Ji;. hhemwell, of Lexintrton.
has moved back to her old homestead
at Tyro Shops.
Mrs.. W. A. Owen, of Mocksville, is
visiting her father-in-law, J. S. Owen.
he came over to be put under the
treatment of Dr. W. J. Vestal. She
is slowly improving.
P. H. Thompson and daughter, of
Salisbury, also paid us a visit today.
R. B. Thompson is getting in a large
line of fall and winter goods. He pro
poses to boom Tyro. T.
TO THE ME3IORY OF A YOUTH
Who, While Promising a Brilliant
Future, was Cut Down.
CnAFEi. niLL, N. C, Sept. 15. A
a recent meeting of the Dialecti
Society, resolutions were adopted in
respect to ths memory of F. P. Eller,
of Ashe county, who died at the Uni
versity shortly after the last com
mencement. One of the resolutions read as fol
lows: "Resolved, That the Dialectic
Society has lost a most able and
active member; the University a most
firm and faithful friend, and North
Carolina a most loyal and promising
young man."
Mr. Eller was one of the most prom
ising young men at the University,
and his sudden death was a great
shock to all the students.
The resolutions adopted were re
ported to the Society by a committee
consisting of Messrs. T. J. Cooper, A
B. Andrews, Jr., and J. E. Brooks.
A Sentence from Vance.
One of the passages in Zeb Vance's
lecture, "All About It" reads thus :
"The sublime song of the Paradise
Lost may even perish, and the Elegy
in a Country Churchyard be forgot
ten; but the North star, ceasing to
guide the pilots of the sea, shall, fol
lowing the track of the constellation
of the cross, disappear from the gaze
of men beyond the everlasting ices of
the Pole, and the Bedouin of the
desert shall halt his camels upon the
disintegrated dust of the loftiest
Pyramid, ere little children in every
part of the wide earth shall cease to
repeat, before going to rest, that sim
ple prayer of some forgotten poet.
jnow i lay me down to sleep, l
pray
the Lord my soul to keep.' "
A Virginia Snake Story.
From the Charlottesville Progress.
A wonderful snake has been seen
near Brown's store in Culpepper coua
ty. His snakeship was possessed of
two distinctly formed heads, one at
each end of the body. The color of
the snake was black and brown. It
was killed by Isaiah E. Corbin.