DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17. 1890.
NO 38
VOL, 71.
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or friend with a
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is
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AC A REM Y.
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fitll Tt-rm opens Wednesday,
A'i, ut 27, lo'JO; Spring term, Mon
day, Jin. 5, lf'Jl. Handsome new
builditijr, expiT.fncMl teachers, low
tuition, board at 3.00 in refined,
cuHareil, t brutian homer, healthful
and morally puro village ; boys and
Kirla are perfectly safe here.
W rue (or a m-st calalnne at once,
REV. J. B. GAME,
Principal.
july-2
EUTAW HOUSE
&FIUST CLASS'S
AckncwIeJsil a Unsurpassed in all
tbe couinbuUt to the com fort or
ITS PATUUXS.
Elevator f Jlmltm 'JniproveiittnU,
Ms?i ... .
Iu etf r-uia. v
Italo $ :J.(H) nud $.1.50
ivrln)r.
ap 23,
Haywood Vhite Sulphur
Springs.
Atwuyia l4ont Willi wwtd
lMlk' now i,h A- J "UTJKSas
J iliiniger, all nwy look out for a
. k . s in
iiiMid wHsoii. Tbw rert lias great
er attitucl'' tliuii any other mountain
. . .. . i 'rt... i .... r with
Mr. Uutj attliM lifadof tlie tables,
will bfl splriidi'I. Fine sulphur and
r.Kil Kprmg waler; Lracinj?,inf igera
linfi air, refrfslting titKhts, electric
bell, riMxliTut' rates, Sc., are some
of the atlriawns. If jou contem
plat vUilint? the mountains this
m-asoil, oy ajimeamigo w jiaywuuu.
july-'J3.
LOUIS RICH & CO.,
Kiettcils,
Seals,
Rubber Stamps Etq
1109 llaia Street,
RIGHMON VA.
f. Jlffl & SON'S
OnrkiJook
rOETRY.
"WAIT DES A MINIT."
I have a gallant lover,
Ub's true as true can be;
Bat it's come to this, when I want a
, kiss .... .
He always says to me,
. -Wait da aminU,"
He does not love another;
His heart is all ray own:
But I grieve to kuow, ben he treats
me so,'' .
That mine to bim has flown
" Wait det a minit." ,
His f ice ia very fair;
Uis eyes are violet blue ; ', "
And I be light they send as on me
they bend
'Most breaks tnv heart iu two
Wait dt a minit."
Hi hair is like the sun' ,
That shines upon tU dew;
cut be lues not girU, and be shakes
bis curls,
With words that pierce me through
" ait u a muut
When I talk of lovs.
In moonlight or by day,
He just louks at me, and in mocking
:. . glee "
Reniarki, and runs away,
" Wad det a minit."
I'll tell you what I'll do -
To punish this young man :
wnen tie wants a wile, if it takes bis
life,
I'll ray to the young woman, .
" Wait det a minit."
-Fandy Broal, in Harper's Wetkly.
THE UXKXOWN DKUMMEB
LAD.
BY TVCKES POLK.
Over tbe crest of Ualvern Hill
The midnight stars were glowing:
A youthful form lsy bushed and still.
His life a blood raiy Bowing.
As drummer ld he donned the gray,
When be be ard tbe muskets' rattis:
And madly rushed into the fray,
Into tbe nerce-lougbt battle.
He fell where tbe bravest fell that
night,
At tbe breach in the barricade:
Whure gallant Magrudor charged on
tbe right,
Through the hell of the cannonade.
-
Tbe battle ceased, the hero lay
Forzotun and aloue,
Gsapiog bis gallant life away"
Above, tbe bright arars sLona.
A stranger, searching for tome trace,
Of comrade, friend or brother, .
Stooped down to gaze upon bis face, j
And heard luiu whisper, "mother!,
With that tweet word, which waa his
las, -
His life'a thread aoupntd asunder
A distant eanoon'f random blait ,
celled through the sky in thunder.
Unknown and lone," the stranger
aaio,
"By friends and foes left lone,
With none to weep their youthful
' dead, i
Aad none to claim their own !"
He raised the rigid form so oold.
And felt in the soldier s pocket,
And found a letter, worn and old.
And a little golden locket.
He took the letter in his hand,
Whilst his manly tears fell free;
'Twss huuled "Carolina's Land,"
And said: "JSed corns home to me!
Come back, my boy, from the land of
stnrel
Come back to your father's ball!
Come, leave oh, leave your soldier
- life I - ".;-
Heed, darling, your mother's call S
To my country 1 have given
Three aons, so manly and brave; .
And my heart is drear and riven,
f or may sleep in an unknown
grave.
Like you, they heard the tramp of
steeds,
Tbe fierce, mad rush of the battle ;
Like you, they planned immortal
deeds,
And smiled at the musket's rattle.
Where now are they, my boys so brave
W ho louy ht fur freedom's gloryT
I caonot tell I unkuvwa their grave,
Unheard their bloody siory.
And you, tie latt! tbe Lai, my boy I
O. frad. yon must not stay!
Come back, mj .life, my pri'Ie, my
joy I
Come back, came tack pray!"
The strangor's grief was true, sincere,
As be read this latter o er,
And dropped opon it many a tear
Where the mother dropped oe
fore. And there, by the light of the sitter
oigbt,
Which the silent starlight Cave,
The strange lajd bin. out of sight,
in an uusqown, nameless grays,
No leoulem o'er him there waa sung,
AO flowers bedecked his grave;
A stranger's tears, by pity wrvng
Wss tbe banal of the brave.
Then weep, ye Carolina mothers!
eep, maids or
tbe "Old North
Bute!"
For ye had sons, and ys had brothers,
This might hats been iheic rat.
They, dying, might bars left no tra
On the bloody batlle-plam;
No stone to mark their rerting place,
No deatbtdirge :er your slain.
Wilmington Messenger.
Warrenton, N. C.
FOR THE FABMERS
THE GOVERNMENT IS
. UNSOUND FOR
THEM; ,
MONEY DOES NOT GROW IN
r THE TUEASURY.', - -
Taking It Oat '' for BouutleB
' Makes It Noccsnary that I arg
:' er Sums Musf be Paid In.
turn f,onl BoJfoiS MalBe. :'v '
Not all the gudgeons belong to
the water. The land not only has
its share of them, but largely be
longs to them. Of all classes among
us, the farmers have probably , ex
hibited the least , sagacity when it
came to looking out for their own
interests. ;, They , ..have ? permitted
themselves to be taxed for the bene
fit of others without receiving any
thing in return. Having, as a rule,
nothing to sell that could possibly
suffer from foreign competition, a
tariff on importations could be of
no advantage to them; while they
hare been unwittingly paying high
er prices for home-made wares
that free-tradu would have cheap
ened everv time. They have been
pulling the manufacturers' chest
nuts ont of tbe fire at the expense
of their own fingers.' And yet their
vote has been the tiiiicipal bulwark
of the so-called protective system. , j
blowly and surely, However, the
farmers have been opening their
eyes to the true situation. They
have begun to see that "protection,"
so called, means discrimination &hI
that discrimination means extortion"
from certain classes for the benefit
of others, aud that . they furnish
most of the victims. Hence they
are not likely to be so pliable here
after as in the past Their political
leaders, realizing thai they, will no
longer bite at the naked hook with
old-time avidity, are busy preparing
certain deceptions by which it may
be baited. The first of these will
be a bombastic pretence of looking
out for the farmers' interest iu the
preparation of a new Tar;3 Bill, by
putting upon the dutiable list a
number of things which tney pro
duce. At one of the open sessions
of the Ways and Means Committee
of the House, at Washington, a
gentleman describing himself as the
Worthy Grand Master of the Pa
trons of Husbandry," from Ohio,
recently appeared, aud very ostenta
tiously submitted a list of articles
that he said the farmers wanted
added to the protective schedule.
The transaction was significant, aud
strongly suggestive of prearrange
meut There is no doubt of the
tariff-manipulators, now busy at
w aslnngton, being ready to make a
display of zeal f o'r agriculturists by
so enlarging the circle of protection
as to appear to include them. But
what will it amount to? rutting a
duty on imported wheat will not ad
vance the price of that cereal as long
as no one ever thinks of importing
it. And so with most or the far
mers' productions. Putting their
names on a tariff list, and announc
ing that they are "protected," will
amount to nothing more than a
false pretence and an attempt to de
ceive. Another bait for the political
hook, which is especially designed
for the farmers1 consumption, is the
Bounty. Uaite an ado u being made
over the proposition to give the pro
ducer of certain unprofitable and
experimental ai tides a bonus from
the national treasury. The three
S's silk, salt, and sugar must be
pecuniarily assisted, says the on-
gn-nsionui representative iron! an
agricultural district in Kansas, it
would be impossible to conceive of
aiivtliiug more dishonest or fallaci-
on. In the first place, the sugges
tion is largely designed to offset and
cover up certain subsidies in aid of
steamship lines and other robber
schemes. And in tbe next place,
the whole idea of governtuo&t
bounties is unsound. The bounty
system is wrong in principle. It
weans simply that some shall be
taxed for the benefit of others. U
increases the general burden for
money does not grow In the treasury,
and taking it out for bounties makes
it neces&ary that larger suns shall
be paid in; and as the farmers, being
the most numerous class, either di
rectly or indirectly p7 tuost of the
taxes, tncy in the end would bo the
principal sufferers.
But there is another Imposition
with which the 'farmers are now
threatened in this connection. This
is the pretended eon version to tariff
reform of certain men having libit
confidence, who have bn, and still
are, the most efficient supporters of
(ha extortions that are practised up
n our taxpayers undercover oi the
revenai laws. have an ulustra
tion in ttp ease of a distinguished.
Western United States Senator.
While Mr. Allison has been assum
ing to represent da, which is an
agricultural State, he has for Years
ta working for the manufactur
ers of Pennsylvania and other East
ern communities, and against the
best interests of his own immediate
commonwealth. He led the move
ment in the last Congress in opposi
tion to the Milla BUI, (the reader of
Thx Recoedeb, will remember that
we published Mills's address to the
farmers of Texas last June,) which
was calculated to afford some relief
to the burdened taxpayers of the
country. But Mr. Allison's consti
tuents were not so blind a he sup-
f osed, and the indignant farmers of
owa came very near defeating his
re-election. The result was that
Mr. Allison began to discover that
he was wrong on the tariff issue,
and he now seems anxious to have
his former friends believe that he
looks at matters in that connection
in the light that is altogether new
and improved. ; But who - seriously
questions that, having secured a re
newal of his seat in Congress, he
will be less the servant of the mon
opolists than heretofore? As long
as he retains his present political
affiliations he cannot be otherwise.
A similajf, and perhaps more
striking case is furnished by Iowa's
next door neighbor, the State of
Minnesota. The present Governor
of that State was elected as an
avowed protectionist His majority
was not large, and there is everv
"probability that if he were to run
again opon the same platform he
would be defeated, and by the far
mer vote. There, are said to be
nearly eight hundred branches of
the Farmers' Alliance in that State.
and all are more or less imbued with
tariff reform ideas. The effect ot
this situation upon Minnesota's
governor is, that he has suddenly
seen a wonderful light. Instead of
now holding, as he declared during
the recent campaign, that "it is im
material, practically, what things
are protected and what is the amount
of protection," he has just given
..11 4 .1 It .
utterance to ine xouowing Benu
ments'before a farmers' convention:
"The expenses of administration
have to be borne, but in my judg
ment the necessary revenue for the
purpose should fall opon the should
ers able to bear it Tax the silks,
the diamonds, the liquor, and tobac
co, and remove it from those neces
sary articles most widely diffused in
their use. Selling our products, as
we do, in competition with the
markets of the world, and compelled,
as we now are. to accent unremuner-
ative prices, the people should not
be hampered with legislation effect
ed for tbe benefit of any especial
classes, which deprives them of no
inconsiderable portion of the fruits
of their toil. The tax levied upon
articles of food of various kinds, as
well as upon many staples of com
mon requirements, is a burden upon
eyery farmer of the State, and the
laws governing these levies should
be changed or nullified at the earliest
practicable moment It is certain
that the Western farmer should be
relieved from taxes that are insti
tuted in the interest of any particu
lar locality, industry, or aggregation
of capital.
us
Does Polk belong te tbe All ance.
or does the Alliance belong to Polk?
This questio i just now seems both
proper and pertinent, because he it
trying to create the impression that
A0f7Ae Alliance, and that every
thing said in disparagement of him
Is an attack on the Alliance. With
all due deference to the "Kurnel"
we do most emphatically insist that
he lacks a great deal of being the
Alliance, and we would even mildly
snggesttbat probabjy the Alliance
could get along as well without him
as with him. But he might not be
able to get along so well without the
Alliance, if the future may judged
by tbe past Itefure be joined tne
Alliance he bad signally failed at
everything be bad undertaken, and
was in a most impecunious condition.
But now after holding a lucrative
office in the Alliance he has just had
a handsome dwelling built t Ral
eigh, an I is drawing a salarv of 13,
000 a rear. How many other mem
bersof the Alliance have been so
fortunate f Doubtless it would please
him very much fur the members of
the AUiacee to think that te was
their own peculiar champion, and
that be was being persecuted as a
martyr for their sakes, sad all the
while drawing a big salary. But
there are few many inu-Uipent mem-
brs of tbe Alliance, for teem to be
beguiled Into any auc-U ridiculous
idea. Th store, wka he attacks
Zeb, Vance, aad tls tatter's friend
In turn stuck b!m, it will not da lor
bim to try to bids behind us Al:
ance, and claim that th Alliance it
being stacked, H is not fair or
manly, nor is it true. None of Vance's
friends have made any attack on the
Alliance, or said a siogls word to
dUnarscotne trt f that grand organ
itation, Indeed many of Yanoe'e
best friends and warmest advocates
ire true and staunch members of the
Alliance, and they are members from
frimcilb atd not J?r Ofjict. Can
this bo said of Polk?-Chatham Re
cord.
TU m i,ka l awn.rwira Dllb
llshed to all countries is estimated at
41,000, 21,000 appearing la Europe.
THE
A Lover Practices Ills Songs in
the Arkansas.Mountains.
. The sun had just broken over the
tops of the Ozarks one warm mom
ing in July. The mist that always
settles thickly over these half moun
tains with the nightfall was going
to pieces and diappearing as the sun
rose higher, leaving the: green and
dense verdure heavy and wet with
the dew. In a cosy nook on a log
overhanging tbe wild little stream
that dashed down from a gushing
spring above, a native was seated
earnestly playing a jewsharp. He
twanged the vibrant metal with his
thumb, keeking time1 by splashing
one of his bare feet in the clear
water. After ten minutes, during
which time the sun had got high
enough to shine straight in his eyes,
be took the harp from his mouth
and, wiping it on the leg of 'bis
trousers, exclaimed:
"Thar! Ef thet don't settle'er,
whutwdl?"
Before he had spoken another
word a stranger stepped from be
hind a big tree and addressed him:
"1 hat was tne best tune lever
heard played on one of those in
struments." The mountaineer looked at the
stranger a moment and then, draw
mg himself up in a knot on the log,
said:
"D'ye mean it, mister?" .
"Mean it? Of couise. Why do
yon ask?"
"It s like this, mister. I er see I
her been jest on the aige o'jinnin'
th' Simpson gal, over'n th' holler.
fer more'n er yar, an' when th' pop-
this log fer nigh a month now, I
reckon, ev'ry day . in th' mornin'
'fore sunup, an' I wuz thinkin ez I
sot hyar, ez ef I did't get th hank
o' it purty soon,it'd be good-by, Sal.
cut yer uoae me feel better, strang
er, an' ef yr roun' these parts nex'
week jes drop over on the slope
'crost th' way an ye kin be my best
man."
As the stranger moved on down
the path tha mountaineer struck np
his tune again .and played with a
vim that wai evidence that the
stranger had been telling him the
truth.
Along with the fiddle, the jews
harp still ranks high as a musical
instrument in the mountain regions
of Arkansas and Missouri. A native
who can't plav the iewsharp is
loosed upon as having very poor
prospects.
SUNBVIIK AVOIDED.
Imitate the North Africans and
Blacken the Face Thoroughly.
Wtom tlx T.bk
The fair sex often seek eatrerlv
for a preventative against sunburn.
Some researches made by Dr. Robert
Bowles have resulted in the ducov-
ery ot an infallible one, bat one
which, I am afraid, tbe woman with
even the most beautiful complexion
will nnd too exacting in its condi
tions. It is an acknowledged fact that
son on snow burns mors quickly
than on rocks or in heated vallevs
at a low elevation, and Dr. Bowies
remarks that sunlight reflected from
freshly snow acts much more ener
getically on the skin than that re
flected from older snow. One bril
liant day ho painted his face brown
aud ascended theOoruerOrat, where
there was much snow. Then were
about eighty others making the as
cent In the evening all excepting
Dr. Bowles were smarting from the
effects of sunburn. He points out
that in Morocco and all along the
north of Africa. tbe inhabitants
blacken themselves round the eyes
to avert ophthalmia from the glare
of tbe hot sand. In Fiji the natives
abandon their red and white stripes
when they go fiwhing on the reef in
the full glare of the sun and blacken
their faces. In the Sikkim hills
also the natives blacken themselves
round the eyes as a protection from
the dare of the sun on newlv-fallen
snow. Dr. Bowles concludes that
heit is not the direct cause of sun
burn, but that it is probably caused
by tbe violet oi ultra-violet rays of
light wfaicn are rellected from tbe
snow.
VANCE IS ALL It I GUT.
(Monroe Register, (Alliance organ )
Cul. Polk is doing the Alliance no
zood by bw unjust attacks on Sena
or Vance. Vance's record for thirty
years is familiar to the people of
North Carolina, and everv intelligent
man in tht State knows that he has
been faithful to the many high trusts
oommitted to Llm. When Col. l'olk
asks the lenaiblo members of the Al
liance to believe that Senator Vance
is an enemy to them he offsrs aa in
suit to their intelligence.
mi "'
I know her facttii very plain
It coes ae-ainst my will:
But the fact she's her rich m'i child
To me U plainer still. I'hiL Times
THIS JEWS1IAHP OP
OZaKKS.
5in time kem, she up an says thet
kain't hav'er 'less 1 kin play ther
iews'a'p. I bin practicin hyar on
KNOCK BOLDLY.
"BRING OOOI NEWS AND
KNOCK BOLDLY."
Saying Something and Nothing
loath'. Com pinion. -
The conversation of the best bred
peopli is delightfully free from per
sonalities. "What did she talk
about?" asked ons lady. of a friend
who had just made a call upon a
newcomer in the town, t . . - -
"She talked of people," was tho
quiet answer. "She told me news
about persons I had never seen and
unknown to me, and called them by
lueir vnnsiiau names.' '
, ... ...
The fact was significant; it ' indi
cated the stranger's characteristics,
and settled the position which she
was thereafter to occupy in , tne
place.'' -1 -
sometimes mere ' carelessness
prompts snch personal gossip, and
again it Bpringa from ; poverty of :
mind. - .
'I didn't have anvthing' to say,"
replied a worthy old' lady whosa
husband had rebuked her. for enter
taining some guests with personal
ities, "and 1 had to say something."
bo that "something becomes gos
sip, and gossip degenerates into
scandal. One cannot ' always re
member that good breeding as well
as the Christian, religion: requires '
him to consider things and ideas
rather than people. ,
A gentle and kindly old minister
had rather an alarming way of
checking the conversation when it
touched personality. - , '
"Of course," he would say when a
parishioner told him "in confidence" -some
tale which detracted from the
seputatioa of another, "of course I
shall feel at liberty to tell him ex-'
actly what you say. He ought to
know xor nis own good. ' And al
ter that depressing threat the tale
bearer was usually Tery willing to
hold his peace.
lbe well bred man not only re
frains from speaking evil, . but
scorns to notice it when it assails
his own name. The daring motto
belonging to the Keiths of Scotland,
"Theysav. What they? -Let them
say!" is that of gentlemen the world
over. .
It should he the resolution of
every guest in any house to carry
maner no snrea or personal gossip.
On the great archway of an English
residence are inscribed the words:
"Brmif trood news, and knock
boldly." .. .
1 here is none living among us
who will not be the better for re
solving to carry his hosts not only
good news, but clean speech, and
with that upon his lips he . may in
deed "knock boldly
THE FAILUItE'oP .CKOPS' IN
TIIEATEST.
Bishop Fitzgerald in the Nash
ville Advocate of the 6th inst, thus
describes the effect of the severe
drought: ;
"The effects of the long' droasht
were distressingly risible in Indiana,
Illinois, and llissoun. We only got
Iimpsesofbt iiouis and Kansas
ity. Wide, flat fertile Kansas, we
found in a bad way. Leagues upon
ignesot corn heids were "burnt
up as the farmers expressed it by
the drought; they were as yellow as
broom-sedge and as dry as tmder.
In many places, the failure is total.
They were cutting the blasted stalks
fortodder in many helds, but in
others the stalks were not worth
cutting. The farming outlook was
not cheerful. I liked the spirit of
one citizen who, in reply to some re
mark concerning the blasted corn-
crop, said thankfully, MWe made
lots of good wheat, it is good to
mix gratitude with even our sorest
griefs. -
Kansas looks like a vast level
farm. The sight of a Tennessee
forest hill, or cool spring would
have been refreshing that hot, sultry
day a we rolled on mile after mita
with the parched fields streching
way on either side until the tired
eyes ached. Next year it is likely
that this desert will bloom again aa
a garden. Kansas is a land of ex
tremes, one year having a great
drought, and the next a great har-
Richmond State! A' Ooorria
editor, in resigning a country Post
office, writest "The receipts of the
last month have been QA0, the rent
It and clerk hire 1 10. Bein? a Dem
ocrat, we can no longer get our con
sent to hold office under a Republi
can administration, ttence.we resign."
Greensboro Patriots The neonlo
of Western North Carolina are con
siderably excited ever what they
term the "Smoking Peaks "J12 miles
east of Athevilte. If it is not caused
byayonngvolcano.lt must be one
otour illicit distilleries.- There ia
a rumor inNew York that President
Cleveland contemplates moving to
Aiasgacnnselts. nothing ucsnllo can
be learned however. Mr. Cleveland
is the choice of the Southern Demo
cracyibr President in 1832, whether
be Uvea la Masuihassets or Nw
York,