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Vol. xxiii. GRAHAM, .N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1897. 'NO. 27. r. KEEP YOUft EYES OlPEN. - rSarey fre word REGULATOR is not on a package it is hoi Simons MerJegulatpr. Nothing else Is the same. It cannot be and never has '-- been put up by any one except J. H. ZEILirJ & CO. it can be easily told by their Trade Max : -K' THE v-! "PKOPE8SI0NAI CARDS. "... . . ".'. i1 -., t j " Attorncy-at-Law, vCRAHAM,' - - - n. c Practice In the Btste and Federal court. . Uittc over White, Moor? & Co.' store. Main Btro.tr .'Phone No.. 8. ! ATTORNEY AT LAW HAM, - - - N. C. loiJiOtoAY ByKUM. W. P. Bykum, Jr. fcVTJitfM & TlYNUM, LttdfneyB and Counselors tit J-M-vr " f 1 GREENSBORO, N. C. , Practice reirularly Id tho conrts of Ala. buincecooolv. . . - Aug. 8, 9 ly. w7s. long, jr.. , " ; ' DENTIST, " . GRAHAM, N. C. Office in Vestal i uilding. ; Office hours' : 8 a. m. to 4 p .m. Livery, Sale Feed. STABLES, ' fx W. C. Moore, Pkop'k, - GUAM AM, N. C. . Hacks miwtsll.tin Ins. Good single or dou Me teams. Charges moderate. llENKY BANX, JK., 'PRACTICAL TIMER, GRAHAM, N. C. - All kinds of tin woi k and re pairing. Shop on W. lra St., second door from Bain & Thompson's. iDoc.8,tf. Are you up TO DATES Jf you are not the News, and O server is. ' Subscribe for it at once and it will keep you abreast of the times.. . Full Associated Press dispatch es,.', AH the news foreign, do mestic, national, state and local all the time.- Daily-News and Observer $7 per year, $3.50 for 6 mos. Weekly North Carolinian 1 per year, 30c for 6 mos. NEWS & OBSERVER PUB. CO RaLuigii, N. C. The North Carolinian , and The AlaVaxcf, Gleaser will be sent for one year for Two Dollars, Cash n advance. Apply at Tue Gleaxer thee, y niJiattifv ij - ML THE BILL. - Haish -Perfect. Material Durable. Fatten t Tasty; Price U Rlzht. Inside and OutYott Can't Find AFIawla FOR SALE DT ONEIDA' STORE CO., Graham. N. C. -S3 W IVr IM pma " JL If: ; kjij - RED Z. The Melon That Cooled In tho Well. ' 01 "the old oaken bucket' there's many. Many a story to tell i But the best ami sweetest of any ' Is the melon that cooled In tue well. - When the toll of the morning was over A t the sound of the horn or the bell We came through the corn or the clover To the melon that Cooled in the woll. in the rippled sweet water we saw It, (Oh, vision so Jusoy ann blest I) The old oakon bucket would drow It . All dripping, andwe did the rest. V. L btanton. The Cigarette Trust. Commenting on the Dingley tariff bill, the Philadelphia Record makes a point regarding the benefits to ac crue to the cigarette trust, and very , wisely says : "There is one trust that ought to be grateful for the rest of its days to the Dingley tariff. A Chichago au thority, in speaking of the American Tobacco Company's new price list, states that the standard brands of cigarettes have been placed at 30 cents advance, " while the cheap cigarettes, which are as a club to brain competition, are now fixed at $2 per thousand. The samo au thority states that the company has .a stock of about 40 , 000,000 ekarettes on hand, all subject to the old tax of 50 cdnia, on which, the company will make 80 cents per 1,000 additional, and on the man ufactured amount show an immense paving by the operations of the pic ture prohibition clause of the tariff. "Evidently tho cigarette trust lias been nicely cared tor. It is the cigarette smoker who is the forgot ten young man. Posfiibly he will kick against paying .six cents a package for bis nicotian comforts tho figure to which they have been advanced in NewYork and reform his cigarette habit altogether ; which would be one of the very few moral triumphs to be acredited to Ding leyism. But tin ehanees are that his vapnrings will end in smoke. The trust may "rather like" the Dingley tax, to recall a phrase of the lamented Southern. The vic tims of the trust may hate it and despise it and shake their fists ob- jurgatively at it as they fish up the extra penny for the war tax ; but they will grin and bear it, and the chances are that many of them will cheerfully scramble up to the polls Ujton election day and re elect, the very slabsmen who have hit them hard upon their tenderest vice." A Lucky Klondyke Uomnn, New York Journal, jaick, like Iibtmng- strikes in curious places. It h so in the Klondyke. Mm. J. T. Willis was less than three month? ago a poor wah woman, living in Dawson City She set out alone for the gold fields of the frozen North from Tacoma, Wash., about two yt-ars ago, 8ie -was not successful in her prospect ing, but sh'e managed to make a fair living as a lioinury woman in Daw on City. When the news of the ivlorodyke discoveries of fold reach ed that place she joined a party of tattlt nicn and went at once to the new diggings. She staked out a claim as soon as she get (here, and it turned but to be a good one. She is now worth $2.50,000. Mm. Wil lis has a husband living in Tacoma, He is a blacksmith and a great suf ferer from rheumatism. ' It was his inability to work that caused her to start out for the gold-ming country, resolved io return rich or nt at all. Incidentally she has the fame of in troducing the first "boiled shirt" among" the Ytfkbii miners. She. paid S2.o0 for the l-ox of ctarcb with which she starched it and $4 t nay ana boara to toe Indian squaw who was her firrt assistant in Uie Ltnndry. " .. . OA8TOZUA. WEEKLY WASHINGTON LETTER, From Our .Regular Correspondent. WAshisoton, D. C, Aug. 0, '97. The Republicans are far from feeling the confidence they express of car rying Ohio this yeaf. In factlhey are so doubtful of the result that in addition to the whole power of the administration being used to help Boss Hanna to carry the state nearly every Republican of national promi neuce in the country has been asked to make speeches in Ohio during the campaign, and as they know that to decline will be to incur the ill will of the administration most of then! will comply with the request. Sir. Mckinley, it is said in Washington, is going to so far forget his dignity as to make speeches for Hanna, and Czar Reed has promised to take the saump for him. It is fully recog nized that a defeat for Hanna will be a defeat for Mr. McKinley, which would be very humiliating in his his own state during the first year of his administration. Prof. Henry -W. Elliott, of the Smithsonian Institution, who claims to know as much about the sealing question as any man living, charges in the plainest and most emphatic language that the conference to be held this fall will be a fake pure and simple. He says that Ambassador Hay begged Lord Salisbury to allow the British naturalists who have for six years sf if dying the seals on our islands to meet our naturalists at Washington and comparo biolog ical notes, in order to hide ex-Secre tary Foster's humiliating failure to get tho question re-opened and that Salisbury agreed. He says further that the so-called conference will have no authority to do anything whatever towards a settlement of tho question. Prof, hlliott s asserttons have attracted wide attention, and if what " he says is true they deserve still more. Meanwhile Prof. Elliott will probably lose his Smithsonian job. McKinlcy's amendment to the civil service rules, forbidding the dismissal of persons from the classified service except for cause and upon written charges, has not prevented a number of democrats in the Government Printing Ollke getting a rough uVal. True, they were not dismissed, -but some of them were furloughed for an indef inite period, and nine of the most efficient proof readers in tho office all democrats were transferred to the case, "There are more ways of of killing a dog than hanging." When mathematics are brought to bear upon Mr. McKinley's exten sion of the civil service rulct it does not seem to have been worth the glorification given it by the worship era at the shrine of civil service cant. He has increased tho exemptions from civil service rules in the In ternal Revenue Service from 03 to 21i places, and while extending the rules to 150 new places in the cus toms service he has exempted 348 places in the same service. If it's anything with money in it, this administration is ready to be up and doing even in midsummer. This week the State department presented an ultimatum to Peru, through the Peruvian Minister, re quiring that the McCord claim of $o0,000 shall be al 5iice paid.A little of that sort of talk in behalf of the struggling Cubans would be well received by the country,7 but there is no money in it. Officials of the State department deny that our Minister to Hawaii was instructed to establish a protec torate over Hawaii as soon as he learned that the Senate did not art upon the annexation treaty at the extra session of Congress, but admit that he may have done so under the general diwretion that was given him to act in certain contingencies. One of those cuntingencies u known to have been any more on the part of the Japanese toward seizing the Islands. John Griilin, of Zancsvilie, Ohio, says: 1 never Uvea a day lorinirty years without su fieri i agony until a box of Witch Hazel Solve cured rnr niles." For uiles and rectal trowLU-s, cuts, bruises, sprains, ec zema and all skin troubles DeWitt's Witch Has 1 Salve is unequalled. j Simmons the Druggist. . Subscribe for Tub Gleaxeb. THE NEW SCHOOL LAW. A Colored Wan Expresses nil Opposition In Jlo Uncertain Terms. : The following letter to King's Weekly of Greenville explains itself: Mb. Editor,: The honorable gentlemen who compose the board of education of Pitt county did, on the first Monday in July, appoint me a committeeman for Carolina township, and I thank the said board for theconfidence manifested by it in my ability to perform the duties of the position heretofore mentioned. But t take this method in notifying the board of education, and also the citizens of Carolina township, that I cannot qualify as committeeman for the reasons expressed below: 1. I do not favor the law which warrants tho change in our school system, whlcbTias run for so many years with so much grace and satis faction to both races. 2. The appointment of one colored man in each township as committee man, , with the preference of four whites, is no recognition of my race, nor is it a fair representation of the colored schools. 3. I have always been opposed to what is known as civil" rights, but this law and tho appointment of one colored man as committeeman brings both races and sexes in closer touoh with each other than anything has ever done since tho foundation of this government. This law gives the colored com mitteeman a right to visit the white schools as well as his own. It gives the white committeeman the right to visit the colored schools as well as his own. This law gives the colored committeeman the right to approach the white teacher, either lady or gentleman, as well ns his own. It gives the white committee man the right to approach the col ored teacher, either lady or gentle man, as well as his dwti. For twenty years each race has conducted its own schools and noth ing but progress has adorned our public school record, and it is gen erally conceded by all that the col ored race has made more progress along that line than even the whites. Lut to my mind, from tho very in ception of this infamous law, pro gress will cease to exist, and the morals of bo'.h races will be upon the verge of the loftiest precipice Infamous, because it strikes a death blow at tho very existence of colored school committeemen. Infamous, because it obstructs civil liberty and menaces the very foundation of our public school system. Infamous, because it fosters crime and encour ages dissension between the two ' races. Do away with this infamous law and reestablish our public school system, and give us an equal division of committeemen, audi will be ready to serve my people again as I have in (jid past. Yours, hoping this law will not stand, P.KNJAMIN ClIANCK. Benjamin Chance is one of a fam ily of negroes in Carolina township known for their industry and intel ligence. .They are good citizens and havo some property, the result of their labor. We have always heard of them as law-abiding and iciiccfuL We believe ad are,"bf at ionie tirne have been, school teachers. Ed. Aa Epitaph and a I'oatacrlpt. Cor. Charlotte Observer. I notice in your last Sunday's it sue that Red Buck has been among the tomlwtoncs in Providence, and quotes the inscriptions on several of them, among tho number : Bi1 member, man, as yon pass by. As yon are now so onoe was L As I M now so you must be. Prepare for death and follow ma." This reminds me that some forty years ago I saw a tombstone in a graveyard in Virginia wilhthe same inscription. Below it was the fol lowing written in pencil by some one, I presume, who had considered the invitation: To follow yoa 111 not consent roles t know which way yoa went-" Pcrhaim it would be well for the friends of the deceased in Providence to add an "X. B." giving the desired and very essential information before one derides to accei or decline the lu italioa. THE SOUTHERN GIRL""""""" An Attempt to AnaUse a Young: Women Who Is Saperlor to Analysis, NewVork Hun.' .The Southerngirl iiTmany sided. She is mettlesome and scrietimenlal, pnictical and fanciful by turns, apt to dance divinely and to flirt and to be not overcarefui norM'erlndus trious, but she never forgets to say her prayers, and she has unshakable faith in humankind. In man she believes implicitly She may not believe all the rapturous things he says to her, but she credits him with generous impulses, thinks him capa ble of all the higher emotions, and values him as comrade, an admirer and a repository for romantic confi dence. If he tumbles out of the niche where she lias put him, she wonders, but is willing to regard the case as an exception and to set him up again, after due scolding and punishment. She has unbounded confidence in his ability for smooth ing over rough places for her and removing any obstacles that may rise in her path. Men are always good .to women, she thinks her father is, and so is her brother and her cousin Jim. The Southern girl enjoys with all her heart. She likes music and motion arid life and color and plenty of nico people about her saying pleasant things. She likcB all this,-but she is seldom merce nary. Reared usually among sim ple surroundings,, tho greed for money has not entered into her soul. It is possible for her to have at tained her twentieth year and never to have dined or supped outsido of a private house in her life. She likes the person who pleases her, in dependent of his extrinsic surround ings, and at any time will slight the attentions of a "good match" to de vote herself to the man whose wolta. step suits her and who has power of entertaining." She is ingenious and tactful, with all befdawdlinir ways ami lancuid nira Hhi. ran tm-r. I.or Lint. uan ball dress upside down and inxi.lo out and mako it look almost as good as new, and tho can darn Che parlor ' urTafiis almost as well as grandmother could and change the furniture round so that the- shabby spots will 1m in the shado. She can arrange1 a dish of fruit to resemble a poem, make an evening bomlet out of next to noth ing, and, last but not least, she can rattle off nonsense with an infectious delight" that makes her the life of whatever company she is in. The Southern girl or women born in tho murky atmosphere of the late six ties, imperfectly educated, debarred from advantages which her parents craved for her, will give the strainer an impression of culture which per haps a critical examination will not bear out. The Southern girl is a paradox, with her capacity for unselfishness and absurdity, with her pride ant: scorn of petty meanness and ber serious strivings after the econom ical. She will buy flowers for the table, even if the larder is empty, and if sho gets a windfall in the form of a legacy she will put half of it in a marble cross for tho chuich and the other half in some jewel for personal a Jornuicnt, even though new curtains and carpets and whole everyday gowns are a crying need in the household. The new woman finds little encouragement in the South. She scuds out her piping notes to the northern suffrage so cieties, and offers ictitions to the state assemblies, but the popular voice is ogairuit her, and sometimes it conies out that the woman's suf frage associations of tho South, so much talked about, have member ebip only sufficient to furnish the iH-cetNKiry officers. Wiae Mm Know It is folly w iuill upon a poor foundation, cither in architecture or in in henlnh.- A foundation of Mud is insecure, and to deaden symptoms by narcotics or rwrve coinjwiunds w equally dangerous and deceptive. The true war to build up health is make your blood pure, rich and nourishing by taking Hood's Ssrsa parilla. Hood's Pills -act easily and itrrantrtlr on the liver and bowels. Cuie sick headache. . OllTNOnirBaBET."; He Is One Hundred and Twanty-FIre Venn Old and Was Dora la North Carolina. New York World. - Old Noah Ra bey, whom to call old is not disrespectful, has received his econd sight. True it is but a glimmer and for one eye only, the left, but when it is said that Noah is 125 jears old the wonder grows. . Old Mr. Rdbey is the prime ex hibit of the Piscataway poorhouse near New Brunswick, N- J. Henry Hummer, the overseer, is proud of him and resents any imputation upon the old man's veracity as to his vital statistics. When Mr. Raby reached the 125th anniversary of his birth on April 1st the overseer gave him a party, and the recipient was as pleased as if 120 years had been knocked off his ago. """7 Just after that time Tho World sent j NewJYorkoculist to examine the old man's eyes. ForTcrTyears he had been totally blind. Cata racts had formed... but the oculist found that they were dropping very, very slowly down and that a glim mer of sunshine would soon visit the old man, long past the span of life. It was deemed impracticable to bring old Mr. Rabey to New York for an operation. His age forbade the trip and the necessary shock. Tho oculist did what he could on the spot and nature did the rest. When the first ray fell upon the almost worn-out vision Mr. Ra bey was enraptured. Hope still tells a flattering tale to him. He is am bitious to celebrate his 150th anni versary and beat all records outside i the bible. There is a a beautiful tree in front of his window and he has seen that tree. He can hear tho birds sing in the branches and seo about where" the winged choristers are perched, So much excitement has told upon 1 ! ,,iln nnd 1,0 wa8 ,n 1,18 bed J1- i dliy, Weak but happV. TllO kind ! overseer, who tient him as nearly like a member of the family as pos siblc, would not disturb him. His room is just off the living rooms of the overseer in a long, rambling white house which nobody would take for an almshouse. It is one of the most cheerful poorhouses in the world. Mr. Rabey has bore his vcars and ' his luck of sight with a spirit un- j enmnlnininiF and th.inkful Wrt ior being simply allowed to live as I long as possiblo in the world, which he bays is good enough for him. The physicians do not belie vo that the renewed sight will lasflong, but are not cruel enough to tell Mr. Raley so. Neither do they hold out any hopes to hiin. So popular has the centenarian become that the overseer ot the poor house has limited visiting days to Saturday afternoon. To all Noah R abcy tells the story of his life. He says : "I.was born in Eatontown, Gates county, N. C, on April 1, 1772, I lived there on a farm till I was 21. Then 1 lived in Norfolk and Ports- lut his llu We wish to become personally acquainted with every man, young and old, who buys his clothes in Greensboro. We are in the clothing business and must have your support if we succeed. We are confident that if you will give us a trial we will make a customer of yoa. Our expenses arc small, our stock is all new. we make no bad debts, we do business on our own capital, hence we can sell you . - GOODS FOR LESS MONEY rthan any other house not similarly vertising, and to induce yoa to give u a cajUjwewm Give You a 5 per cent. Discount on any purchase you" make of as ; provided you present this ad vertisement. In order to prove to you that we will not take any advantage of you. yoa may present the advertisement after yoa have made your purchase. MATTHEWS, CHISIIOLN & STROUD, : Leading Low Lock Box 1 17. - ' . " 4 - Salesmen j John W. Crawford, John E.Sbaw, Will H. RpC WILLU. MATTHEWS ,Vongtr. . ' Si . . PQUOER Absolutely Pur Celebrated for Its great leavening- stnmelh and heaithfulneML "Amures the food attains alum and all forms Df a nefja. Aflures me iooa BKainss forms Df adulteration oornraon Forms or aauitet to the cneai ean brands. II brands. ROYAL BAKlNOrOW 1)KH CO., New York. mouth as a lock-tender. While there "I heard George Wasliingtori make a speech. ; . , "I went on the bid Constitution for a year's training, after which I was ordered to duty On the Brandy- wine, a receiving ship.. iexi x worKeu in me uroomyn X . l , T 11 Navy Yard, and after three yean services there got my discharge pa pers and lost them. "I then got work on the Connecti cut farms, one mile from Elizabeth, in New Jersey, and I have not been out of the state since. . "Thirty-one years ago I came to the farm here, -and have been here without interruption." - Mr. Rubcy lives on bread and, milk with occasionally boiled rice t and fish on the side. He makes no trouble and is a philosopher df philosophdrs. He is a little man, 4 feet fl inches high, but age has reduced his height: lie is very particular about his j toilet, and when ladies call to see him ho keeps them waiting while he spruces up. " " Mr. Rubey has snow-white hair and-w hiskers, which he wears neatly trimmed. lie keeps Jiis clotmng ' weJ1 "rusnea ana w always present- '.It TTf . at M i'ablo. His manners are those of a i Bcn'1cman oi mo oia, oia scnooi. i ., .. , , . . few wrinkles mark bis lace. He really looks his sg, but there is nobody with whom to compare him. He has come down from the past long post, and if not 125 is mighty near it. "They don't make much files about it" We are speaking of De Witt's Little Early Risers, the fa mous little pills for constipation1, bil- iousness and all stomach and liver troubles. 1 hey never gripe, bun- mous the Druggist. Sulmcribe for The Gleaxer, only $1.50 a year in advance. A New Shop. When in need of a Neat HsirCut or a Smooth Shave, in fact anything in the Barber line, you will do well to rail at my shop in the Vestal Building. ovcrT. A. Albright's drug store. My shop is first class in every appointment. HOP, RUFFIN. TONHOKIAU When you want a nice hair-cat or shave, call on me. My shop it at the southeast corner of Court House Square. ' Ellis Hrarqavk. 3 situated. As a meant of ad - Priced Clothiers Greensboro, n. c. . . . .
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