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VOL. 76 NO. 30. DURHAM, N. C.I THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1896. ESTABLISHED 1820 . H1CKEX1NG. . ' ' Toheora little corporatiou too, whose knowledge of the grcut principles underlying tbe financial question about equals a ; Zulu chiefs familairity : with Shake speare, talking , about v "sound money" and denouncing , as "an archists" men ol brain and heart who advocate free coinage of sil ver is sickening and disgusting in the extreme. Like a jumping jack on a string the little fellow simply dances when his boss pulls the wire. Like the parrot he has learned the sound but does not know the meaning of the word he uses, We asked a little fellow to de fine the meaning of '.'anarchist" and be said it meant "fiat money," and that he wanted hit pay in money that wis "good all over the world." Such idiots are entitled to and generally have the' sympathy of all who tity the unfortunate, but even in their case forbearance sometimes ceases to be a virtue. Meu are tired of bring taunted awl insulted by such brainless foj. Ad application of shoe leather to their center of gravity, is perhaps after all the lest way to treat such cattle. What to do with our harmless idioU and youthful criminals is a problem tho next Legislature will be called upon to consider. GOLD UKKEKVR DKCUM.VO. The Washington Times says: "The Treasury gold reserve de clined yesterday to $101,872,453. The withdrawals at New York was 95,900. During the past three weeks the loss of gold at San Francisco by the redemption . of legal tenders had aggregated $3,600,000, but it is believed the movement there has nearly peut its force, "The Treasury was informed that arrangements for the further import of gold from Europe to the extent of fi,7.r0,000 Lad been perfected It is said there is now on the water bound for this coun try $2,500,000 in gold, and Treasury officials hope this gold on its arrival will soon find its way into the Treasury." What is the matter now ? Who made the withdrawls? Is the bond syndicate getting impatient for another grab, and are. they about to re-consider their recent determination to keep up the re serve nutilafter the election for political effect? We shall we what we will see. C Debtor t Stolil Her. Governor Carr yesterday re ceive a telegram from Arthur Brisbane, editor of the Sunday World, aa follows: "Is it true that there I a law in North Carolina for the ale of debtors at public auction by iheriff, auch at prevail in Ken tucky t If North Carolina bat uch a law, will you kindly wire tna torannall YOUr ODiniSD CI the statute. Ie it not a form of ancient legal oppression f Of what benefit ia it to society 1 Is it often enforced f An imme diate answer will greatly oblige." Of course there is no such law An th ktAttltn bonks. r.A,mnr C.att was very much amused, by the queriea, and will preserve tne telegram aa b cu riosity. Raleigh News and Ob server. ' ' T " WOIIOM OF WIIK)M. Tlace the money l ower in tho hands of a few individuals and they, by expanding or contracts ing tlio currency, and by purchas ing when at the greatest depres sion, and selling when at the ercalcst elevation, may command the whole property and industry of the community. The banking system concentrates and placet this power in the hands of those rim rontml it Naver WBS 80 engine intontcd better calculator! to place the destinies of tho money in the hands of tho few." John C CalUourn, A ttocond Babylon Unearthed. ' Doubt'ess there are ways in which time, labor, money, and knowledge could be more profit ably expended than in antiqua rian research. Tbe Washinton Post says that that kind of in vestigation is a very small con tributor a to.f. the . intellectual growth or the moral or material progress of mankind. There is not one of the great inventions of modern times that has not helped tho human family more than all the discoveries made by those scientists whose work' is in the dead, buried, and forgot ten past. Tbe pick and shovel of the coal miner are a ' factor in life of far weightier import than tbe tools of the digger into the sites of ancient cities But while 1 less useful than other work, that of the , anti" quarian is more attractive to many gifted minds, and its re sults posses a universal inter est, continues the Post. Tbe desires to know more than his tory teils us of tbe long , ago is almost aa strong as the wish to ift the veil that hides the. fu- tnre. bo it comes to pass that institutions of learning- and scientific organization send expedition!, to all ; habitable parts of the globle to minister to this craving for information. rof. Hilphecht, of the Penn sylvania University, is at the head of a scientific expedition sent out to the sites of ancient places to bring together such relics as intelligent scrutiny can unearth, and he has sent a w'onderous tale front the site of ancient Babylon. A dispatch from London shows that the profes-or's re earches at Nlpprr, where Babylon stood, have brought to light the most re markable data ever found by such investigators. It appears that the professor suspected the existence of a deeper city far down below the toundationa of the ancient city, where previous searchers had abondoncd the qurst. v The first excavations had ended thirty-six feet from the surface; thirty feet under neath this lb? Hilprecht party struck the traces of still another city. ' u this layer, which, it U said, must have been a BabylOL so far back that even the oldest races we have any recoM of never heard of it, were found inscriptions snd relics dating 7,000 years, 2,000 before Christ. The earliest known specimen of the keystone arch rewards the labors of this party from the Keystone State. To find it th diggers worked through 4,000 years of accumulated debris. a this mass tbey found broken pottery, the implements of household industry, which were in uce, according to the inscrip tions, thousands of years before the Mosaic account. The key stone arch, Prof. Hilprecht de clares, cannot be lef-s than 6,000 years before Christ. The walls in which this arch rests are built ol brick twenty inches square; they are seventeen feet 'high and forty-five feet wide at the top. It is stated that most oi the vases and tablets are cov ered with inscriptions which the scholars of the party assert will enable them to reconstitute tbe hlatonr of tbe city for 4.000 years at least I If all this proves to be true, Prof. HilprccLt's name will find and hold a place of honor in the annals of sience. But will his fellow-citizens pause in the heaving midst of a Presidential campaign to do justice to his great work 1 Will they let an cicnt Babylon be a successful competitor with f tee coinage for a share of thoir attention f 'The 165,000,000 ounces of sil ver and the 11,000,000 ounces of gold produced hi 1893, according to the treasury statistics, is a pro portion of 15 to 1 only, while the commercial ratio is now 32 to 1. This, says the Pittsburg Post, dis proves the whole argument of the goldbugs. homk interesting facts. - government with is little com ' The ... best statistics avuiluble punciion as a hound - dog would fixes the worlds production of guc( un Pgg . silver and gold in 1890 at the! Their coimpiracv aiuounu " to following figures: ' Silver $lC0,-;.Hreiiti(m" uguilist Jhe very life of 510,456 and gold at 121I038,-.Jtjie goverumeilt . Treason is'the 744, bulliou value. Total of tlieU,ighest crime kllown the UW( worlds production of preciousrt i8 unaroly." . "When such nieta.13 in ibsu szei,oo, i. lij,no talk about anarchy, is a matter or speculation as to want remuve. proporiiou oi me two metals was used in the arts and sciences, and what propor tion has been coined into money. We know that silver enter more largely into commercial uses than gold.- For instance, vast quanti ties of silver is used iu the manu facture of solid and plated table ware, in ornamenting harness and in the manufacture of watches and jewelry, and for many other pur poses, Gold is largely used for simular purposes but iu fur less quantity. So that it is safe to say that there is more gold coin ae value available for coinage purposes than there u of 6ilver. The demand for silver in the arts and sciences far exceed that of gold. Then where is the flood of silver to come from, that the gold advocates so persistently predict, under free coinage.-' Again, bt the total amount of ilver pro duced by the mines of the world in 1890, the Western Contiueut produced- $143,592,752 and the Eastern Continent produced only $16,917,704. This seems to ef fectually dispose of the pretended fear of the gold advocates that undsrfree coinage the silver of the world would be "dumped on our snores, u tne nations oi Europe, Asia and Africa do not produce silver where will tbey get it to "dump." As tit'. United States and Mexi co produces $121,913,986 of tbe grand total, tbey would have to purchese it of Auuricans first and do the dumping afterwards. In such a case we hold both ends of the string, and would be a' race of fools did we not get the be-1 of he bargain. The amount of gold and silver money in the world in 1890, was silver $3,939,578,000. Gold 3, 711,845,000. Total per capita of gold and silver money in circula tion an ong the people of the world is $ 5.17. The world is not burden ed with money of an intrinsic value as the gold idolaters would have us believe. The fuel is there Is a mouey famine through out the world the result of the rascally scheming of the cormor ants who fatten on the misfortun es of others. The per capita . debt of the world far exceed the per capita circulation. The annual produc tion of the precious metals if all coined into money is not sufficient to pay the annual interest on the world's debt I uder present con ditions when will the principal be paid. Never. The people en slaves to the money lenders and userers, and they want to keep them so. THE COXHrilUTOR. Tha gold idolaters claim that all money must have an intrinsic value equal t its face value, or it is, dishonest. Then why are these same fellows so anxious to exchange their gold in the pur chase of United States govern mcnt bonds? The bonds have no intrinsic value, outside of the paper upon which they are print ed which is infinitesimal. It i? the government's promise to pay, secured by seventy millions ol people that give value to the bonds. Yet they scramble like picaninies after pennies for their purchase , and pay a premmm for the privilege. Not only it this the case they enter into con spiracles to force the fcovernmenl to issuo' bonds in exchange fot their gold. They conspire to raid tho treasury and embsrass the - w it is "stop sjmpv the guilty crying, thief. '8TUIiV OK UIHIjE HISTOKY." Prof. C. W, Toms, the , able superintendent of our . Graded schools, in his annual - report : to the school committee, which is just out, among other things' has the following in regard to the "study of Bible history." v It speaks well for Prof. Toms and .his school and other superintend ents could follow the example he lius set with profit to their schol ars : ''.' . f: "The opening exercises ; oi our school each day, the 'children meeting iu the assembly ball, consists of Bible reading, prayer, song, announcement of current events, etc The children iu the school are, taught to repeat the names of the books of the Bible in I order, the ; Ten Command ments, Sermon on the Mount, etc., are taught. The fifth year pupils study is a text-book Foster's Story of the Bibly, It is a fact greatly to be deplored, that there is not only among young people, but in society in general, great ignor ance of the historical facts of the Bible. No baok is so common every one does, or, at least, may possess one; and yet there is great ignorance regarding it Truly, in the midst of riches are poor. Children will repeat whole poems, who cannot say as many verses from the Scripture?. Youug ladies will discuss Browning or Spencer, who cannot rjpeut one of the Beatitudes. The curriculum that includes any study of the Hebrews is rare indeed. Children love to hear and tell the story ol Sir Walter Italeigh and the Mr gin Queen, the tale of General Putnam and the wolf. Is not the account of Joseph just as interest-! ing? A knowledge of the Bible is especially beneficial in the study of English. : Milton cannot be read intelligently without a knoledge of the Bible. Scott calls King Richard the 'unshorn Samp son of the " isle. Miake?peare of 'a Daniel came to judgment " NOT QVICK KXOl'GH. Babe, Boston's mule was tick and a neighbor advised hitn to administer calomel. ' "How will I get into him?" asked Babe. Put it iu a qaill iu his mouth and blow it down his throat," re sponded the neighbor. The neighbor met him two or three days afterwards. Babe was as thiu as a rail, looked right green, and was all doubled up. UMml'a iliA matin um1i l-i-.ll'" asked the neighbor. Babe placed his hands patheti cally over his stomach, gave sigh like a bellows with a hole in it and said: "The darned mule blowed first." (Apologies to Col. I lam of Geor gia. Er. V Marrlna ItmnlM. From a letter written by Rev. J. Gunderman. of Dimondalo. Mich., we are permitted to make this exttact: "I have no hesi tation in recommending Dr. Kin it's Hew Discovery, as the results were almost marvelous in the case of my wife. While t was pastor f the Baptist Church at Rivers Junction she was brought down with Pneumo nia succeeding LA unppo. Ter rible paroxysm of coughing would last hours with little in terruption and it seemed as if ihe could not suryiye them. A friend recommended Dr. King's Xew Discovery; it was quick in its work and highly satisfactory in results." Trial bottles f re atB, Blacknall & Son's Drug Store. Regular size 500 and $1. Mil. 1)E IjA CKOlX EXLAINH. ; The following letter from Mr. De La Crtix, of Oxford, was re ceived by the editor of the Her ald yesterday,' and we cheerfully accord it space, in order that the truth of the mutter may be uscer tained: .' Oxford, N.C. Aug. 27th, 1896. lo the J'jDITok: hnciosed is copy of call as it reached tne from offiee of H. Wlel & Bros., Golds- 4 ' '' boro. ,7 have waited several days iu the expectation of hearing from the above gentlemen through the press or otherwise, and feel that they should at ouce rise, explain the matter and place the respon sibility where it belongs. ' Lot'is De La Citoix, The call spoken of was the one issued iu regard to the Greensboro convention of. "gold bugs." A duplicate of tho call which Mr. Do La Croix sent the Herald was signed by the following gen tleman, all of Goldsboro: J. J. Bowen, J. T. Dortch, J. W. Gulick, Asher Edwards, Joe Edwards, S. S. Spier, Sol Einstine, Sol Wier, Henry. Wier, Junius Slocruut, W. T. Hollcwell, R. G. Powell, Joe Rosenthal, A. Hill, John Slaughter, W. T. Silver- ton, E. G. Porter, W. C. Godwin, II. T, Porter, Q. D. Holt, L. E. Pridgen, A. A. Joseph. If these men signed the call they should acknoledge. it like men. It is cowasdly and mean to make De La Croix a scape goat and shield themselves from the just indignation of the people. If they did not sign it, surely it will not be difficult to place the re sponsibility where it belongs. An issue of veracity is raised and we are interested in the outcome. Let; the truth be told Morning He:-' aid. . There is more Catarrh in this section of tho country than any other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposeu to be incurable For a great many years doctors pro nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounc ed It incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured By F. J. Cheney & Co , Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken inter nally in doeses from 10 drops to a teaspootf ul. It acta directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Tbey offer one hundred dollors for any case it tans to cure, send lor circu lars and testimonials. Address. F. J. Cheney. To'edo. O- KaTSold bv Druggists, 75c Etatrto nil term. K rctric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but per haps more generally needed, when the languid exhausted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need or a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt um of this med icine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the system from the malarial pois on. Headache, Indigestion, Constipation. Bizzinese yield to Electric Bitters. 50c. and $1.00 per bottle, at R. Blacknall & Son's Drag Store. ' It My Do as Much for Yon. Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, III., writes that he had a severe kidney trouble for many years, with severe pains in his back and also tnat his bladder was affected. He tried' many so called kidney cures but without any srood result. Alout a year ago he began use of Electric Bitters and found relief at once. Eloctrlo Bitters is especially adapted to cure of a'l kidney and .liver troubles and often gives almost instant relief. One trial win prove our statement. I C O. Rom hs hut cop1ttd a fcl omt arw cotugt on a lot fa rtcut!r ! purchtttd oat near tht residence of ' Sheriff no V. Kigibce. Ytittrdar h uovtd out there (ton bit old bout In KorlB pnrhint. Highest of all in Leavening Power.- Latest U. S. Gov't Report tm ABSOLUTELY PURE To the Last week'8 business was pimply great from atart to finish. All the week our salesmen were just as busy us could be had to employ extra help. This weeic we pro pose to out do last week. The knife has been plunged d e er into the price of a great many articles. These goods must be sold. October 1st must rind these shelves and counters well nigh empty. Look at these penial prices for this week. SPECIALS ! SPECIALS ! One .lot of 36 pairs Men's Fine Shoes, mostly in Tans, former price $3.50, $4.00 and f 3.00. This lot must be closed out before Saturday night. To make ,'era go quick, '- .... S2.50. One lot Cloth Derbies, very stylish, worth $1.50 each. To close out .... - - 75C. Just a few of those $0.00 Turner Shoes, to close quick One lot Tourist Hats, in black, brown and smoke, all new colors, to close out - Worth a great deal more. TRUNKS. Ve are determined to close out at once every Trunk we have. Will sell any Trunk in the house for less man cost. This week will be a crand you can afford to buyfgoods on our only terms spot cash no goods charged to anyone you can save lots of money tradinir with us. Jom the crowd ana come to W.A.SlaterCo's Old Hickory Wagons J.-1 Nissen Wagons, the Celebrat ed Bound Hound and Wedge Spoke Wagons. STARKE'S DIXIE FLOWS, Parmer Friend Plows, Oliver Chill ed Plows, Clarke's Cutaway Harrows, Traces, Hames, Chains , Etc. We have the cheapest lot of buy until you gee what we have. You will save money by coming early and ecurin Home of this special lot at Llody's Hardware Store VALUE' 'VALUE' The Agitation To-Day is Value. It is lor you to decide the issue. We believe in FULL VALUES Therefore offer tothe trade tbe The Best Goods In the Country for the COST. We have placed upon our coun ers 34 pairs of Ladies fine Don gola Oxford (square toes) size sa's to at $t.t$, formerly sold for f 2 jo. Sixty pairs fine Dongola Oxford's in button and Uct, needle and razor toes at tt.73. One lot of ladies Oxfotd'a and Slippers, in broken sizes, will sell lens than cost. Our en entire stock of Misses and Children's Oxford's and Slippers at tnanufactarcrs prices. Great reductions in all lines of men's tboc. Bakimt; Fowd 1F Public! S3.00. - - - SI Jo. TRUNKS. week for bargains here. If Hoex ever offered. Do not
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