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PIS NOT A MATTER OF OPINION THAT onrnal Mvertlsements AY ! BUT AN Ascertained Certain The A WEEKLY PAPER THAT REACHES THE HOMES WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS. Vol. 1. No. 3. ELKIN, N. O., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1897. Price 2 Cents. The - Joarnal - Leads m TRICE, IN NEWS, IN CIECULATION, IN ADVERTISINa, IN LIYE ISSUES, IN UP-TO-DATE JOURNALISM. 10001ISIEW I SUBSCRIBERS -BY- 1090. and in order to e^et them -we will send THE JOURNAL- One Year for 50 Cents. Six Months for 2 5 Cents. Ca^li Accompany the Order, Copy or cut out tlie following and send to us at once; T}ie Journal, Elkin, N. C.: Enclosed find So cents or 25 cents, for which send The Journal 12 or 6 months to P. O. Your Name. SOME POINTS FKOM THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. I earnestly recommend, as soon as the receipts of the government are quite sufl’icient to pay all the expenses of the government, that when any of the United States notes are presented for redemption in gold and are redeemed in gold, such notes shall be kept and set apart, and only paid out in exchange for gold. This is an obvious duty. If the holder of the United States note pre fers the gold and gets it from the gov ernment a United States note without paying gold in exchange for it. SPAIN AND CUDA. That the government.of Sagasta has entered upon a course from which re cession with honor is impossible can hardly be questioned; that in the few weelcs it has existed it has made earnest of the sincerity of ita professions is undeniable. I shall not impugn its sincerity, nor should impatience be suffered to embarrass it in the task it has undertaken. It is honestly due to Spain and to our friendly relations with Spain that she should be given a reason able chance to realize her expectations and to prove the asserted efficacy of she new order of things to which she stands irrevocably committed. * * * Not a single American citizen is now in ar rest or confinement in Cuba of whom this government has any knowledge. The near future will demonstrate wheth er the indispensable condition of a le to all jvolved in jiy to be at- .aed. If not, the exigency of further and other action by the United States will remain to be taken. When that tiine comes that action will 'be deter mined in the line of indisputable right and duty. It will be faced, without misgiving or hesitancy in the light of the obligation this government owes to itself, to the people who have cOnfided to it the protection of their interests and honor, and to humanity. isternatiOnaIj bimetallism. The gratifying action of our great sis ter republic of i'’rance in joining this country in the attempt to bring about an agreement among the principal com mercial nations of Europe, whereby a- fixed and relative value between gold and silver sh.all be secured, furnishes assurance that we are not alone among the larger nations'of the world in realiz ing tne international character of the problem and in the desire of reaciiing gQjYjp Wise and practical solution of it. THE CIVIL SERVICE. The important.branch of our govern ment known as the civil service, the practical improvement of which has long been a subject of earnest discussion, has of late years received increased legisla tive and Executive approval. During the past few months the service has been placed upon a still firmer basis of busi ness methods and personal merit. * * * There are places now in, the classified service which ought to be exempted, and others not classified may properly be ncluded. I shall not hesitate to exempt cases which I think havS 'been impro perly included in thgclassified service or include those which in my judgement will best promote the public service. The system has approval of the people, and it will be ray endeavor to uphold and extend it. Another Fool liaw. Statesville Landmark. This is the first time we ever heard of it, but a correspondent of the Yadkin Eipple says the last Legislature passed the following act: The General As!embly of North Car olina do enact: Section 1. That Charles Hoots, of Yadkin county, be allowed to enter the State Hospital at Morganton for treat ment. Section 2. That all laws conflicting with this aotare hereby repealed. SECTIONS. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Eatified the 6th day of March, A. D., 1897. The writer says Hoots’ father made application for his son’s admission into the Hospital but Dr. Murphy refused to receive him, notwithstanding the act of the Legislature. Whereupon the cor respondent waxes very indignant and wants to know if officers, who are ser vants of the people, are aboye the law. We know nothing more about the case than we have quoted but we have no doubt that Dr. Murphy has done exact ly right. If the Hoots boy deserves ad- missioii to the State Hospital it was not lOpass a law to get him there. If he is not entitled to admission he should not be received. The whole thing is ridiculous, anyway. What did a parcel of legislators know about whether Hoots was entitled to admission to the State Hospital ? llow She Worked It. The other day I noticed a married couple walking down one of the main thoroughfares of Bradford, and the hus band, noting the attention other wo men obtained from passers-by, remark ed to his better half: “Folks uivver look at thee. I wish I’d married some .one better looking.” The dame tartly replied: “It’s thy fault. Dusta think a man’ll stare at me when you’re walking with me ? Thee step behind, and thou’ll see whether folk don’t look at me.” He hung back about a dozen yards, ond for the length of a street was sur prised to see every man his wife passed stare hard at her, and turn round and look at her when she had passed. “Forgive me, Sal, lass!” he contritely exclaimed. “I was wrang, an’ I tak’ it back. I’ll nivver say owt about thy face again.”. Thy wily feminine had accomplished the trick by putting out her tongue, and grimacing at every man she met! Professer (lecturing)—Oxygen, gen tlemen, is essential to all animal exis tence; there could be no life without it. Strange to say, it was not discovered until a century ago, when Student—What did they do before it I was discovered, professor? COURT I’ACETIA. Jailer—“So you are here again! I thought you would be better after your first punishment.” Prisoner—“So I am, but I wish to become better.” “Nothing yet,” said the lawyer, “the jury is hung.” “Gosh !” exclaimed the prisoner, “that beats it! I knowed my friends ’ud linch ’em if they got a chance at ’em.” “Fifteen days’ sentence,” said one of the bystanders. “That’s a high price for the stealing of one apple.” “That’s nothing,” said another. ’ “Adam took only one and was condemned to hard labor for life.” “Mr. Sheriff,” remarked the judge sternly, “have that man remove his hat from his head in the court room.” Bicycle girl in bloomers, indignantly— “Indeed, and I am no man, I thank you.” .Judge—^“And I swear I’m no judge.” A snappish female of the Amazon type whose husband sat sheepishly by, was being interrogated rather vigorously by the opposing counsel, when she blurted out angrily: “You needn’t try to catch me; you tried that once before and couldn’t.” The lawyer leisurely replied, “Madam, I have not the slight est desire to catch you, and your htis- band looks as if he was sorry he did.” A Georgia Lawyer, in a recent case, closed his argument with a Scriptural quotation. All were completely as tonished when tfae jury returned a ver dict of “not guilty.” The lawyer after wards approaching the foreman, said: “lam anxious to know how, or on wliat point of law, you based your ver dict.” “Itwasn’tno law pint,Colonel,” replied the foreman, “but we couldn’t jest git over the Scripture.” An Irishman being examined as a witness as to his knowledge of a shoot ing affair: “Did you seethe shot fired?” he was asked. - “No, Sorr, I only heard it, ” was the reply. “That evidence is not satisfactory,” the magistrate said sternly. “Stand aside I” On leaving the box directly his back was turned he laughed devisively. The magistrate indignantly called him back and pro ceeded to reprimand him. “Did you see mo laugh, your honor?” asked Pat. “No Sir, but I heard you,” was the reply. “That evidence is not satisfac tory,’, said Pat. This time all laughed, except the magistrate. In 1892 the vote in the Annual Con ferences of the Methodist Episcopal church on admitting women into the General Conference stood: Ayes, 7,502; nays, 2,GOO. In 1867 it stands: Ayes, 7,452; nays, 3,G36. The majority of about three to one in favor of the pro posed movement has fallen in five years to a majority of only about two to one. Whence it appears that reforms do sometimes go backwards, at least for a season. Learning does not come as the result of a few spurts of mental energy, but as tlie result of slow, steady, long-con- tinued labor. HILL ARP'S LETTER. ■ Charlotte, N. C., is a growing city of 20,000 people. Charlotte has the best advertising sketchbook I ever saw. It is beautifully printed and illustrated and seems to be founded on facts. They are distributed from all the hotels and are pleasant reading on the train. It tells all about the health and climate and altitude and business and resources and public morals, but what amazed and impressed me most was the circle map that shows the number of cotton mills within a radius of 100 miles from Charlotte. On this map are black dots numbering the mills a^^f;v^'-y town and the aggregate is 210, or about 62 per cent, of all the mills in the South. These mills operate 1,028,000 looms and are capitalized at $50,000,000. This little book contains'a tabular statement of all these mills by name and capacity. Charlotte has eleven of her own. Now-; I was ruminating about this in connection with five-cent cotton. And there is some comfort in it, for we keep, at home all the profit there is in manu facturing and we give employment to thousands of our poor’ and dependent people. Suppose that every township in Georgia had a cotton mill and that all its earnings were spent and scattered in the community, then we wouldn’t feel so bad over the low price of the great staple. We would indirectly share in the profits of manufacturing. Once again I visited the old time- honored cemetery—the first graveyard of old Mecklenburg county. I was sorry to see that it has of late been neg lected and has grown up in briars and weeds. I took note of some of the old inscriptions and this one esjiecially at tracted my attention: “Oh, Crux—ave spes unica. ‘ ‘Sacred to the Memory of Patrick Harty, who was born in Tiperrary, Ireland. “It is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins.—II Maccabees 12, 16.” There lies a good Roman Catholic, thought I. He went to purgatory and the priest prayed for him. Then I ru minated about Maccabees not being in ttic sacred cannon, but was in the Apoc rypha, and the Apocrypha was ruled out of the King James version in 1826. Then I turned to an old Bible that had the Apocrypha and found that the 12th chapter of II Maccabees had only forty- five verses but the last three had the same injunction to pray for. them who are dead, and furthermore, that Judas Maccabees raised among his soldiers 2,000 drachma as a sin pfffiripg for those wlio were slain. 1 ni.jK.c U'o com ment on this. Martin Luther transla ted the Bible and left iu it these two books, as he said, for human consid eration. There is another tombstone at Che- raw that interested me, for it marks the grave of no man or woman now known. It reads as follows: "My name—my country—wjaat are they to tliee, Wliat—wliether high.^' low my pedigree; Perhaps I far surpassed all other men, Perhaps I ffeu below them all-what then ? Sufllce it, stranger, that tliou seest a tomb. Thou kuowest its use—it hides no matter ■whom.” The other morning about daybreak I left Charlotte for Lumbertou, on the Wilmington road. The breakfast liouse was seventy miles away at Hamlet, and when we got there I he.ard the conductor Say, “Twenty minutes for breakfast.” I dident liear him say change cars for Wilmington and points this side. You see I am getting quite deaf in one ear and can’t hear at all out of the other, but my wife says it is astonishing how quickly I hear the breakfast bell. We had a splendid meal, and I regained ray seat in the same car. When about a mile from town the conductor called for my ticket, and recognized me as bound for Lumberton. He frantically pulled the bell cord and told me to get off and hurry back, for maybe I C4iuld catch the Wilmington, train. Kight then I was distressed, for I knew there was no other train that day, and I was billed to lecture that night. The sand was shoe- mouth deep, but I gripped my baggage and foxtrotted about 200 yards and sud denly discovered that I would have to put on brakes, for my wind was giving out. Another hundred yards and I had to stop and blow, for my heart was thumping like a bass drun^ and there is so mucii'heart failure no 'days t^at I got alarmed and put dow y valise and sat on it. Just then 11 ny train st,eaming away like a snake ..ne grass, and I involuntarily exolaijf J, “Fare well, vain world. I’m goinj, ome.” 80 I took my time and made haste slowly, and when I reached the station 1 was the picture of disappointwut ana de spair. “What can an ol< man do but die?” I murmured. Wish now I had my photograph as I was foxtrotting through that sand, and then another as I saw that train steaming away without me. But .all’s well that ends well. I found found a freight train that was go ing to leave for Lumberton at 11 o’clock, but the conductor couldent say when it it would get there. I wir»d, my friend that I was left, but to hold the fort, for I was coming—and he did. It was only ferty-four miles, but if took us over eight long hours to get there. I had only time to wash m) and brush up and eat supper, but I found a good liouse full awaiting me. My subject ^was “Ths Cracker and the Cavalier,” and my friend introduced me by saying: “Ladies and gentlemen, I have the pleasure of introducing to you the dis tinguished Georgia cavalier, who will now proceed to address the North Caro lina crackers.” Well, this brought down the house to start on, and put ev erybody in a good tumor, especially when I apologized f(|ir my delay and portrayed my trials I and tribulations. Lumberton is a good/old town, and has the best waterworks 1 that I have seen anywhere. They hiye four blowing ar tesian wells for public use, and many mo»e private ones.' jThese public ones, including pipes- atid everything, cost less than $1,000, anjd.I know of many a town that would ^ive $10,000 for sim ilar privileges. Lumberton does not re alize what a treasure that water is, for it is cold and pure. The next stop was at W’eldon, in Hali fax county. I don’t know what these people have done to McKinley, but he has already appointed eight negro post masters in the county and six of them have accepted and are in office. The people are hot, I tell you, for the ne groes outnumber the whites and brag that “their time has come'Stlast, thank the Lord.” It used to be that when a man wasn irreverent enough to tell a man to “go to hell” he would tell him to go “Hall fax.” I understand now what he meant. It has been nearly fifty years since I stopped at Weldon and the town hasn’t changed much. The people are high-toned and have good manners, for they live close to the Virginia line and come from the:iaristocratic stock. From Weldon I journeyed to Wash ington, on Pamlico Sound, a live'.y city of 6,000 people. I was escorted to the Ricks house, where all the drummers congregate, for Mrs. Ricks is a mother to them all and they love her. I found her house full of them. They come and they go on every train. I like the drummers and sympathize with them, for they are far from home and many of them have •families and haye to leave them, as I do, to make a living. I am a drummer myself, but I don’t like the name. It is slang and-does not fit such a respectable class of gentlemen. It originated from the old militia musters when drum and fife were used to call up the boys and get them in line. The sergeant would cry out: “Oh, yes; oh, yes; all who belong to Captain Jones’ company parade here. Then the drum would rattle and the fife would whistle and the boys would gather and fall into line. Drumming now means come right here and buy my goods and the drummer rattles his tongue with earnest alacrity. I feel sorry for them now, for 5-cent cotton has nearly ruined their business. Blit they keep going. They are everywhere. They get on and off at every station by night and by day. They keep up the hotels and largely help out the railroads. They are smart and good looking and well behaved and know more about everything than any other class. They are continually rub bing against the world and absorbing knowledge. Well, this is the historic region where Sir Walter Raleigh’s lost colony was planted and where Virginia Dare was born. I saw Virginia. Her name was on a beautiful steamer that was loading at the wht’.rf. A sweet little girl laughed at me for not knowing all about Vir ginia Dare a long time ago. Her father says that Mr. McMillan, of Red Springs, has written a book about the lost colony and that the Croatans now have' free schools that are separate from both white and black races. The lost colony amalgamated and miscegenated with these Croatans and no doubt but that Virginia Dare’s blood Hows in some of their veins. From here I am homeward bound and am happy on the way. Bill Akp. Whose Tongs Were They? There are some people whom it is peculiarly unsafe to overreach. Chris tian Work tells a story of one of them, in which an icevv.agon and its driver figure conspicuously. The driver was delivering ice in the usual course, when on comin,g to the liouse of one of his customers, he found the owner seated ui)On the front door-step. No sooner had the wagon stopped than the house holder was at the curbstone, carefully eying the scales upon which the ice was being weighed. The driver paid no attention to his significant looks, but after weighing a small lump of ice, started with it toward the house. “Hold no!” said the customer. “I’ll take that in. You needn’t bother.” “All right,” replied" the driver. “But you want.to be quick, for it’s a warm day, and we’ll have to deliver the stuff iu sponges if we let it stay out in the sun much longer.” The customer disappeared. In a little while he came out of the house, and seating liimself on the door-step, began to whistle. “Well,” shouted the iceman, “I can’t stay here till next winter!” “Are you waiting for anything?” in quired the customer. “Of cour.=!e I’m waiting for some thing! I warn “What tongs?” “The tongs th.at you used'to carry the ice in.” “Oh, I’m sorry, but I don’t care to lend them,” replied the householder. “Lend them? Whose tongs do you think they are?” shouted the driver. “Mine,” was the reply. “Miiybe you’ve gone down-town unbeknown to anybody and bought out the ice company and all its furniture!” .sarcastically rejoined the iceman. “No, but I bought those tongs. I pay you so much a pound for your com modity, don’t I?” “Yes.” “Well, I noticed that the tongs were weighed in with the rest, and I am not going to pay for tongs at so much a pound and not get them. I have been taking ice from you for the last three months, a^id that makes at least ninety pairs of tongs still due me. If you have any proposal to make in the line of trading ice for tongs, I’m willing to listen to it.” Whether or not the driver had any such prosposal to make is not stated, but it is safe guessing that that customer was never agained called upon to pay for ice that he had not received. SAM JONES ON PAYING DEBTS. Rev. Sam Jones preached in Athens, Ga., recently to a great crowd which filled the auditorium and gallery and blocked the doorways. He had a great deal to say about character and reputa tion, and hit some hard licks against slander. He compared character to the thick armor that covers a battleship, which no guns afloat can pierce. “The devil tries to break down your character,” said he, “and if he can’t do that he does the next best thing—he tries to destroy your reputation. If he finds a man is going to heaven in spite of all he'can do, he says, ‘I will keep him from taking anybotly along with him,’ and sets about to break down the man’s reputation. There will be some men and some preachers iu hell why will be tongue-damned. There are some of these little talking Alexanders of the Coppersmith brand who aie going about saying things about the brethren. And there are Mistress Alexanders, too. Some women have tongues long enough to sit in the parlor and lick a skillet in the kitchen. I’d rather have a man shooting at me with a pistol than have a woman come at me with her tongue, because the man will miss you about every other shot, but the old sister will bipp you every time.” “Brethren, if every man in this con ference with too much tongue had it cut out, there would be a pile of tongues three feet high.” Mr. Jones gave some striking ex amples showing how scandals grow out of nothing, and said: “Brother, when there is anything of that kind going round the best thing you can do is not to hear it, but if you do hear it, say, ‘Brother, let’s bury this thing right here, and don’t you tell it any more, but if it is something that must be investigated, when the time comes we will go before some discreet committee, and if there’s nothing iu it no harm will be done.’ ” Mr. Jones has a good deal to say about the criticism of men who don’t pay their debts. ^ “I have traveled all over this Union, and' never had but three men. to tell me they didn’t owe a nickel. I believe the Methodist preachers pay their debts bet ter than any other class. I have loaned lots of them money and never had one of them to go back on me yet, and I never asked one for cent. You have to give them time, sometimes, but they come up at last. “When I went down on the old Van Wert circuit,Bill Cunyers had CQllected $65 the year before for his work. I got into my one-horse wagon with my wife, and we put everything we had in that wagon. I owed $700 and it-took me five years to payit. Many a time I’ve plowed and hoed cotton and sold it to pay that debt, and my wife did the cook ing and ironing, and I cut the wood and brought the water, and we lived as hard as any negr.o in the town. But I paid on that debt, two dollars at a time. And then, [after paying the two dollars, I went into the pulpit and preached the gospel with my elbows almost out. Yet the cold-hearted member who got the two dollars sat there and sa’d, ’I would respect Sam Jones more if he’d pay his debts. ’ “But, bretliren, I didn’t wear any fine clothes. My wife didn’t wear any fine dress. If you are wearing fine clothes and paying nothing on your the devil will get you if you don’t mind. The iplain truth is you ain’t honest, and there’s no use lying about it. “This talk about preachers not pay ing their debts ! If all the people in Athens who don’t pay their debts were put in jail there wouldn’t be enough left oulside to bring them breakfast. When a wolf falls wounded the rest of the pack stop to eat him up. Brethren we are not wolves. Are we going to eat a brother up when he falls down wound ed ?” Here Mr. Jones paused, and with a twinkle in liis eye said: “A brother near the pulpit winked at me, as much as to say; “I’m wound ed.’ ” The audience caught the significance of the joke aiid laughed heartily. He touched on his personal exper ience saying: “I’ve had the same pack after me. When they told it that I was seen half drunk in a barroom I said: ‘Boys, I’m thankful that’s a lie. A lie don’t hurt my feelings specially, but I’ll tell you wliat does hurt. It’s when they acci dentally tell the truth on me. Ever been there ? I’ve been attacked by the devil in all these ways. “Ho tried to break down my charac ter; ho tried me with a hard life; he tried to break down my reputation, and he tried to buy me. Money llowed in like water, but thank God I think I’ll get to heaven in spite of all that.” Here Mr. Jones closed with a touch ing reference to his children, which was spoken in a husky voice, and moved some of his hearers to tears. TOM WATSON AFTER BUTLER. The father of twin babies had been left temporarily in charge of them. At the ond of half an hour he weakened. “Angelina,” he called out to his wife, in a voice of agonizing protest, “you’ll have to come and take one of these boys. No man can serve two masters!” Growth of the TJaytist Church. Raleiqii, Doc. 5.- The Baptist State convention meets in its sixty-seventh annual session December 9 at Oxford. Dr. A. C. Barron, of Charlotte, will preach the annual sermon. Reports show churches, 1,400; membership, 140,000; preachers, 700; baptized during the year, 8,500. Financial statistics: Missions, State, Home and Foreign, $30,000; education of ministers, $2,500; orphanage at Thomasville, $15,000— total, $325,000. These figures do not include the Western North Carolina convention, which reports 20,000 mem bers. The year’s work is one of the best in all fhe sixty-seven years’ history of the convention. When the conven tion was organized there were only 15,000 members of the Baptist churches in the State. Now, including negroes, there are 325,000. Waits to Know What He Has Done Witli the Populist Party—Calls Him a Praull and a Wortliless Fellow. Hon. Thos. E. Watsoa, of Georgia, in the People’s Party Paper says: Will some zealous believer iu Mary Ann Butler tell us what that eminent fraud has done with the People’s party? _ Wher3 was it during the recent elec tion ? What figure did it cut ? What was its vote. In the off year election after the pres idential year of 1892, the People’s party was intact, well organized, aggressive; coherent and effective. It polled near ly two million Populist votes for Popu- ulist candidates running upon Populist platforms. From North to South it was united; from JEast to West it knew but one doc trine and followed but one flag. Where is the party now ? Where was it during the recent elec tions ? Who can say it is intact, well organ ized, aggressive, coherent and effective? Who can say it cast two million votes ? Who can say that it is united, that it has but one dostrine and follows" one flag ? Was it a Popuhst victory in Nebras ka? By no means. The Democratic name covered the whole thing; the Democratic colors waved ovor all the troops; and a Democratic politician got the only office that was at steke—the Supreme judgeship. The Pops got two miserable little college regencies that would not be called officers anywhere on earth except in a convention where fusion tactics had made lunatics out of sensible men. Did the populists win any glory in Kans.as ? By no means. They went down in the silence of common defeat because the fusion between Democrats, and Populists was a mere corrupt bar gain for the spoils of office. In Colorado how was it - Colorado, where a few years ago a Populist Gover nor ruled triumphant ? Democrats and Republicans united and routed tne Pop ulists who had been torn into factions by the fusion of 1896. Our party iu 1892-4-6 was growing in Virginia and Maryland. Where is it now ? Gone! Not a greasy spot left in the pan. In Kentucky how was it ? Brave Joe Barker led the middle-of-the-road fight and did it brilliantly, but with Butler knifing him at the same time he was powerless to make headway. In Iowa how is it—the home.of Jas. B. Weaver? Less than six thousand Populist voters remain; the others are Democrats in name, in policy, in prin ciple and in organization. As Populists they have absolutely no separate exis tence. The Democrats have swallowed them “'nodaciously. ” So it is all around. A magniflcient party of two million men has disap peared. It has been swallowed up asv, though the earth had opened and taken it in. Such annihilation has not been known since the earthquake of Lisbon. Will some zealous Butlerite please tell us what that eminent fraud has done with the People’s party ? Has he lost it ? Has he hid it ? Has he loaned it out? We trusted him with it; it was in good condition when he took it, and now we ask him: What have you done with it ? You are the last one that had it. We want you to account for it. In 1892 and 1S94 we could turn to the official returns of the election and tell to a man how many Populists voted. Can you do it now ? How many Pop ulists voted in Nebraska to give that Supreme Court judgeship to a Demo‘ crat? You don’t know and nobody on earth does know. How many Peps, voted in Kansas ? You can’t tell and nobody else can. How many Pops voted in Ohio, in Kentucky, in Iowa, in Virginia ? You don’t know, and nobody else does. You are chairman of a once great party, are you not ? How many voters are in your party now ? You can’t answer. You miserable failure and fraud, you must go back to the tables of 1892 and 1894 before yon can even guess at the Populist vote. You can’t, to save your worthless life, tell what the strength of your party is to-day. Y^ou are a nice fellow for chairman, arn’t you ? You’re a good pall-bearer that’s about what you are. * * ^ There’s just one way to resurrect the Populist party: Re-organize from the ground up, and rigidly exclude from control every leader tainted with fusion —the people are all right; it’s the cor rupt leadership which has hurt us. From Red to IJIiick. Charlotte ODserver. Mr. Arthur Stancil, of Morning Star township, was in the city yester day, but friends who knew him from boyhood would have passed him on the street without a nod of recognition. Mr Stancil was born with red hair, and was known as a red-headed boy and man. His hair is now a pronounced black, streaked with gray. He had an attack of typhoid fever and his scalp blistered by the doctors. When he re covered hia hair grew out black, and later became streaked with gray. The man who finds no joy in his re ligion hasn’t got the genuine article. A young gentleman took his little sis- to see a family in which he was a regu lar caller. The little girl made herself quite at home, and showed great fond ness for one of the young ladies, hug- her heartily. “How very affectionate she is,” said the lady of the house. “Yes, so like her brother,” responded the young lady unthinkingly. Pater familias looked sternly over the top of his spectacles, the young gentlemati blushed, and the rest were silent.