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TT 11 .II MKM LI' IT - , ...i. - a HO FOR WESTERN North Carolina 1 o The Garden Spot of the World. Variety of Products IT Surpasses all other Sec tions. Owing to its wonderful natural resources it was possible to establish here tbe most extensive Herbarium on the Globe, and with it side by side has grown up the Largest WMesale EstaWistaeiit IN NOBTH C ABO LIN A. Strangers wonder at its magni tude and are it a loss to understand how it has been : accomplished; tbe explanation is easy : Fair Dealing, Economi cal Hanagement, Minimum Profits AND A LARGE VOLUME OF BUSINESS. Has been our aim and policy and has contributed chiefly, we believe, to the success we have thus far at tained. ' It has become a well known fact and is said to the credit f our peo-, pie that merchandise oi ctery , de scription is sold cheaper in Western North Carolina than anywhere in the South. New Yorkers frequent ly say to us: "Why you folks sell goods cheaper than we do here." This we are pleased to admit and it is not a revelation to many of our best merchants. Experienced bus iness men are alive to the fact that the Retail Merchant can bny to bet ter advantage in Baltimore than in New York, in Richmond, than in Baltimore and in Statesville better till than in Richmond. I Making Large Purchases We are enabled to secure the low est quantity price, while our Expenses are Insignificant As compared with houses in the large cities.' Onr object, however, in this ad vertisement was more par ticularly to caJl 'atten tion to a Jew an! Hanisone .Line of Gccls, BOTJGHT- EMiallT ftp the nriRi ; rniit1 Seam Our Counter! are Loaded .with Sea sonable goods and there are Bargains in Every Department. Stock is cnmnlfttft and there wiP- ( no delay in making shipments. Very Respectfully, APEESOMiL WORD FBOUTOU DIXON. Ha Regrets His foolishly Intemperate Lin goage About His Brother. Dougan Hills. N. Y., July 30. In answer to some letters receiv ed from friends in North; Carolina which I am too busy fishing to ans swer individully, I will drop you a few lines that I may speak to all I am just now subject to much per sonal abuse from the champions of so called "orthodoxy." Up here I pay little attention to this. I am used to being lied about, cursed and abused every day in the year. I'm getting pretty tough by this time. But I don't like to be misrepresented and vilified in North Carolina. I grew in NorthCarolina soil and the tendrils of my heart still reach out toward her sighing Eines, her magnificent mountains, er glorious sea, her straight-forward, honest people Woven with the prayer of my soul for other good is the hope of her prosperity and happiness. Lt ma say therefore one or r two things personal tdmv broiherf tar heels. Othodoxy is an unknown quanti ty. I defy any man to give a defi nition of it that will hold water. "Orthodoxy" is my doxy heresy is the other man's doxy The her etic of vesterday is the saint of to day. The Missionary Baptist "de parted from the faith" about forty years ago. The Primitives alone are orthodox judged by the stand ark of 50 years ago. The older I grow, the less I think of denominations the more I love Christians whether Catholic or Protestant, Baptist or Pedobaptist. My faith in Jesus Christ is stronger to-1 1 ay than at any other time in my life. He is to me no longer a the ory. He growB sweeter to mo each day as the living personal friend of mv heart as well as the Savior of hfe. I hold in to to every essential principle of the faith of my fathers, but deny the adequacy of the phrase ology in which that faith is express ed by the so-called "orthodox" champions of the day The Bible haa become a new book to me. I love it. I rest my wholo weight upon its (revelation. It i more prec'ous to me than ever before. I rejoice in 113 inspiration. My iaitn in iiod was never strong- er My love lor mm ana ms wors is become to me a livingenthusiasm. 1 glory in my work 1 am signing now for the day to come in Septem ber when I shall look again to the upturned faces.of the listening peo ple in Association Hall. I have been driven into the 62b t againsta defunct theology because I have been called in JNew xork to the work of rebuilding for men and women the faith they have lost amid the rattling of the dry bores of these dead theologies and the crumbling creeds of the past. I have not chosen my present, position. I have been forced into it in my effort to save men. I do not profess perfection 1 mo Ira miatftlrPH. Tflft fnolishlv in- temnerate language in which 1 ex- nregaed mv recent letter of protest about my brother A. C's attack o" Beecher, 1 heartily regretted toe moment I read it in print. It should have been said in a sweeter jway. When our hearts are hot sometimes wa aav VlinfTO in A WAT Vfi WOnld nc of j " j not if given a second thought. 1 rejoice iu me i ing for truth. I rejoice that I live tn.dAV and that God has given me youth, and health, and hope, and faith and love lor my ienow men. Let the battle roll along the line my soul's in arms and eager for the fray. . I am still praying lor more ugm, vnr Irimr with all mv might, and believing that God will surely set right every stalking wrong, ana out of confusion bring order and beauty and trlnrv Ann rtti&ce. "v. fc"". J I . . Aolrinir fhfl nnrdnn of OUr CritlCS of the egotism 01 ail tnese persoum pronouns and giving as my apoiugj that I am talking to home folks, whom I love. I am Fraternally , Thos; Dixon, J b. low to Git t Scholarship at the University. XDUUg tuou ucBitB " r- at the university snouia uiao y- , 1 1 - k rtrr 1 P. to PrPBl - plication wiwv aug. v, -j n T Winatnn. Chanel Hill. h vonntr man himself, who desires aid ana must Btaie, . . . a. i.-: tt: nm a opnniar. X11B fVWIU am - - tt: Anonnial afaf.nA. if of acre. 11 minor, the nnanciai bsiub u-o .. 1 i.l.- ; tr 1L.. ' Tire . l V. - - luuin lAinor tnfl nast nilBk UC UM www "-( M - twelve months. A ..tKinanmnl fhtt AnnilCatlOn in all oases must be an endorsement of tha nania of inn anniicani: an won as of bis character and talent, that is of bis merits. Such endorsement must be made by a well known and -;V1o n.rt An Anf? nrRflfnen t by tbe . county Superintendent ol Board of Education will suffice. nnrniM iir uw hub uui. . w LENOIR, N. C, Tmi Happiness. There are four views of happiness .k:.L .Li 1 . . 1 1 uiuu ootamea among tno- an cients. - , Epicurus said.' "Live, accent life without thinkincrof ever livinc train after death." Dum vivimus vivam- us. Zeno answers: "We must take no interest in this life. In a meas ure we must make ourselves inde pendent of life, aud not live at all. We must become, even from the present, a free power, a god We must triumph over fate, emancipate our natures, free them from all re straints, sure as we are that after this life our connection with this world is forever broken off." Plato's view "is: "We must find happiness bv taking an interest in the things of life. We must love life, but remember that after death we Bhall live sgain. ot. Aueustm advises: "Be not ever interested in this lifo. Think with Plato that it is onlv a : state contrary to the original nature of man, ana like z-eno, tnat tnis chain will not last verv loner nor rtenro- duce itself, but instead of seeking, like Zeno, a savior in yourself,! seek him in Christ, who sitteth on the right hand of God." We shall not find true happiness in what the world calls happiness. W hen Lord Duncan was wished "A haDDv newtfear" he answered: 1 1 , r u "It has need to be happier than the last, for 1 never knew a happy daviuit." V- n hen Lord Eldon was congratu lated on his expected vacation his reply was: "A few weeks will; send me to dear .bncombe as a short rest ing place between vexation and the grave." The golden millionaire, wnen a friend said to him, "You must be a happy man, Mr Rothschild," said: 'Happy I 1 happy ? Yhat,hap py, when just as you are going to dine you have a letter placed in you hand saying, 'If you don't send me 500 1 will blow your brains out?1 Happy, wtnn you have to sleep with pistols at your pillow?" In tbe little library where the gifted artist, David Scot, last paint ed aras the word ."Nepenthe," writ ten interrogatively with white chalk on the wall. From tho world famed warrior comes "Miserere," and the sigh of a broken heart from St. Helena. Voltaire condensed the essence of his experience in "ennui," and Lord Chesterfield said : "1 have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world and ido not regret, their loss. And we know the story of our fa vorite poet who by another poet is described as one who "drank every trump of fame, drank early, deeply drank, drank draughts that might have quenched common millions; then died of thirst because there was no more to drink' I Now Boycott. The Tonnsr men of Tennville.Ga.. have instituted a boycott on girls who break engagements. The po sition of the new organization is more fully expiamea ty tne iouow- ing resolutions ; 1. liesolved. That we organize a boycott. 2. That this ooycott applies to tho vnnnor ladies in ' the town of Tennville who persists in going with small boys. 3 That this boycott does not apply to any one young lady in par ticular, but to those who persist in going with small boys,- 4. That the boycott aoes not ap ply to any lady under 15 years of age- . . . . - . . . That information having reached out ears that certain young ladies in the town of Tennville are in the hfthit of breaking engagements, re solved, that wa condemn this habit in the strongest terms' possible and that we boycott the yotmg ladies in the future who are guilty oi mis. 6, That we boycott any yoimg Udv over 15 vears of age who s al lows boys under 16 years of age( to call upon oi accompany ner . to any place of worship or amusement. ; 7. That we boycott auy young ladies who make two engagements for the same nicht. I 8. That we solemnly pieage . . i ourselves to carry out tne aoove res olutions. EUtory of i Book. The history of a book cannot well be written. It is recordea tnat uun nTi "Resolution" roused Richard Baxter to religious concerny Baxt er then wrotb r'A call to;' the. Uncon verted." which was blessed to Philip Tknddridffi. who afterwards wrote "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul."' This book gayo the first religious impressions to 1 Wil liam Wilberforce, who produced rrha PrAfttical View of Christian ity," which was 'blessed to Xeiglr JtlCnmOnU, WUU IUUI um;n.iw "The Dairyman s Daughter. WEDNESDAY, AUG. WANTS 1 JUDGE IUPEICHEO. Til Dnrhin Globe's Sevsrt Strlctoras Upon Judge Boykio. Darhun Globe, Jaly SI, And the talk that justice was out raged does not express tne fact. The infant child of Mrs. Kirk- land, which about four months ago was fed concentrated lye, died in Durham tod ay. - Dr. Mctiuire, one of Richmond s moat learned physicians, perhaps one of the beet in the South, did all he could do but the poison which the miserable negro girl gave the child gnawed away its vitals in a slow and torturous process. And tbe author of this inhuman affair, the negro girl who knew bet ter than to kill and who knew enough to quiet a child as she did, received but a year and one half in the work house and the child, in nocent aud helpless, dies. This is the maudlin justice which has been doled out at our court house for aonio time. Judge Boy- kin who heard the evidence which was positive that Bob Rogers shot several times at an inoffensive man; who knew that he held his verdict until he was almost ready to leaye town he is the same fellow who curls hia hair as it appears and who sent Mary Ella Thompson to tho work bouse for a lew months for giving a child concentrated lie; who fined Rogers $25 when he should have placed him in the penitentiary and who sent a poor brute nith a consumptive wife to the peniten tiary fifteen years for stealing $10. This is the history aud every hon- ast man should request Judge Boy- kin to give some explanation of his conduct. It should be early ascertained why Bob Rogers was fined but $25 for shooting at a man; why Wil liams was sen t to the penitentiary for fifteen years for stealing $10 and the distracted and heart bro ken mother who saw her darling child wither day by day surrender to the terrible poison given by the brute Thompson, she should know why it was that a girl who know enough to put her charge out of the way got but lifteeu months pleas ure in the workhouse. Now is a good time to talk upon the travesty of justice. Bob Rogers should again be arrested for wilfully shooting at Jordan. Ho should be made pay for his diaboli cal crime, which was intensified by the malignant way in which Rogers in this office before witnesses gloated over it. Ella Thompson who murdered, not by humane pro cess, the helples innocent child of Airs, iiirkland, should be hanged under the law and this talk is not too plain. Williams who stole $10 should be fined less than Rogers was fined and Judge Boy kin should be impeached until he can give some account of his high-handed and outrageous conduct. This paper, thank God, is not at tempting to lick the dainty feet or caress the auburn- locks of Judge Boykin. It is not engaged in the boot-licking business. It would like to see tha murderer of Mrs. Kirkland's child dealt with as the law presumed; it would like to see Bob Roger pay the penalty of his orime when he shot at Jordan and it would like to see the unfortunate Williams haye justice. And more than all, with this oommunity, outside the jury fix ers and . the jury bribers the "smart fellows" who buy the law their way, it would like to see Judge Boykin impeached for failing to do what justice has demanded in similar cases. Reciprocity with Spain W Y Herald. The provisions of the reciprocity treaty with Spain are given id our Washington despatches this, mor ning. Some of them will go into effect September 1 and others .not until July of next year. We are to admit free of duty from Cuba and Porta Rico,, sugar, tea, cof fee and hides. We dont remove the tax on tobacco or cigars, lu return many, commodities may be sent to those countries free of duty, while a material reduction in the tax, on ethers is made. Chief among tbe exports that go on the free, list in Sep tem bei are salted meats,.woods in their natural con. dition and partly, ' manufactured, wagons and carts, raw.: petroleum and coal. On January 1 there, will be a reduction on flour, dairy prod ucts, refined petroleum, boots and Shoes cotton manufactures. ' Many mrnufactured articles, including manufactures of iron and steel, will become free next J uly. . In the export trade of , the raw materials named the United ' States already has the lead over other na tions, but its exports will naturally be increased by the operation of the treaty. As to manufactures, a larger and more advantageous market will be open to us, but what will be the result of the competition with Eu ropean manufactures remains to be seen. - , ... Whatever criticism may be made , ' m a. upon any oi its provisions, tne treaty is to be hailed as a substantial ad vantage to Atnericen. trade. 12, 1891. Sons Usn Yob ISssL Durham Globe. Did you ever meet Captain Ashe? He is a man about five feet six inches in height. He has a face as free of hair as it is free from guile. He looks like one of tbe old time fel lows there is something of the clas sic about his features; there is much of honesty and candor in his expres sion, and his conversation is a letter of introduction. He has been the main spoke in the wheel of Democ racy, in North Carolina, and if the Olobe is not mistaken has neyer re ceiyed his reward. He was once post maste and once state printer. But he has hewed to the line and said his say without getting behind a screen to say it. We regard Cap tain Ashe as one of the men who shapes and forms questions in which the people are interested and we are honest in saying that his voice is al ways for the com men people. He feels with them and yet does not be come the demagogue or dissembler. In the present talk on wild cat mon ey; on paternalism and such other rot that frauds like Polk create, he gives sledge-hammer blows. Cap tain Ashe is doubtless the great po litical editorof North Carolina -and this means that in more ways than one that be has a respectable ac quaintance with statesmanship. Dr. Kingsbury, of the Wilming ton Messenger, is a peculiar and dis tinct man. He has many parts and his heart is large but no larger than his brain. He is a man who looks, people say, like Talmage. But na ture made his looks and the genial doctor cannot be blamed if nature slandered him, We have never had a chance or pleasure of seeing tbe distinguished gentleman, But in his mind s storehouse he has a thousand and a thousand more curiosities. He is posted. He knows literature. He is familiar vith the books which the bright lights wrote. He has not on ly been a student but he has . been an architect. He knows Dickens and Eliot; he ia familiarwith Hugo, with Uarlysle and Macauley- He knows that Peter Pindar was the first poet and he knovts that we write wretch ed verse. He can say that with Scott, with Disraeli and Shakes peare and Fielding and JohnEoa he has some sentiments which are in common, tie knows tnat greatest book of all the years, the Holy Bible and he understands its worth, its merit, viewed apart from its divine inspiration. He is the brainiest ed itor which we have to write us stuff and be has a heart w hich reaches out and which recognizes merit from conceit and brag. Dr. Kings bury is a friend to all men who need friendship, if they deserve it. We are of the opinion that he ia a great editor and in certain lines is not ex. celled in the broad union. Major John W. Graham is the great lawyer of North Carolina. There are many good lawyers but Graham knows what the text books say; e knows what the law means when he reads it. Here is where he has an absolute advantage over many other men who might be equally as great if they would experienco the novel sensation of reading Green leaf, Blackstone, Parsons and Chit ty or some or the fellows who wrote when law was law. Graham is a man not particularly fascinating in ap pearance he resembles the editor of the Olobe in that respect, but he is a man who thinks. It is not pain ful either to the major, to think. So often this is the case that but few men think. It would be impos sible for Major Graham to talk be fore a jury and cause the foreman of that august and intelligent body to wipe his nose on his coat sleeve. Major Graham connot Btring beads. But he can make the beads of law and that is better. He could not talk two hours and say nothing, as many and many a lawyer can do and does. Major Graham is not cunning. He is great. Consequently he i m- gresses a jury and is not obliged to uy it as the alleged and so-called "cunning lawyers" are. Major Gra ham is a good citizan and an honest man. The Globe likes him, but it does not know whether or not he likes the Olobe. A fat man is always good natured. But a fat man is not necessarily smart. But Col. Andrews, of the Richmond & Danville road, second vice president and something else and better in sight,, is both fat, fun ny and smart. He has been a pecu lar character. : He has understood what so few men in the world do un derstand and that is that hard work and honesty are both essential to success, even if yon have a head full of brains. Accordingly Colonel Andrews has worked and he has been honest. There is no better man in North Carolina and there is no man here who will finally teach greater distinction. The colonel is a rail road man through and through but at the same time he is interested in the neonle becauso he has sense e- nough to know that without the people his railroad would not do very much business . The Olobe has incidentally known many railroad Ben, from- a decent acquaintance with Charles Francis Adams down to the fellow who coupled cars but among them all none is more fully equipped for the responsible po sition which he holds than is Col. A. B. Andrews. And it might be well to mention in this connection that we have no quarterly pass and we are not in need of it. According to Gorernor Tillnai. Tillman's speech was one of the efforts of his life. "I hold," said the Governor, "that the Sab-Treasury bill is fairly open to the charge of paternalism. It proposes to con centrate the business of the people in the hands of a centralized power at Washington and this is an j abso lute contradiction of the principle laid down by Jefferson that the goverment governs best that governs least: in other words, that ' there should be equal rights to all and special privileges to none." He would appeal, he said, to the good sense and patriotism of the people in the majority to aid in the obtain ing of just and reasonable laws, in stead of the partisan favoritism shown by the Government ia nurs ing private manufacturing indus tries. He characterized Col. Polkl views on the money question, refer ring to the Government lending money with the avowed intent of injuring other classes of business, as socialism. It would amount in the end to a division of the proper ty of the people and produce a con dition in which the provident and tbe improvident would share alike. He thought that there was just as much hope at present for getting the Sub-Treasury bill through as there was for the South being paid for freed negroes or getting the Federal pensions reduced. On the contrary, he saw a disposition to pension every "bummer," whether or not he had ever heard the ; whiz of a bullet. He believed the ; time was coming when the penbions would be increased to $200,000,000. Gov. Tillman then paid his re spects to the Third Party. He read tabulated statements showing the electoral strength of the Democrat ic and Republicar parties of all the btates. The idea is, he said for the Western and Southern farmers to control the country, but that would be impossible if they carried all the States in which the farmers have a majority. It should be remember ed that, while there were 8,000,000 people engaged in Agriculture, there were 21,000,000 engaged in other occupations. They should remember that the republican farm ers in the North were particularly bitter, hostile, and partisan as re gards the South, and that the Dem ocrats were for the most part from the cities. They should remember that the Democrat'c majority of 60,000 in the City of New York had been, and could be, discounted by the Republican farmers of New York State. They should remem ber that Kansas had 80,000 major ity for Harrison, and yet we are asked by them to turn our backs on the Democrats of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Indiana, and this too for the mere chance of electing a Democratic President by the Western vote. Governor Tillman showed that the Sub-Treasury bill could not be forced on the National Democratic Conyention, and that the issues now could only have the result of dividing the National Democratic Partt as it did in I860; and giving the Republicans a continued lease of power. He would remind the Alliance that Senator Peffer, the exponent of the Kansas Alliance, had said that of course he would support tbe Alliance, but he would vate with the Republicans ou other interests and that Powderly the chief of the other wing of the In dustrial army, the Knights of labor, coupled his supports of the Alliance demands with the condition that equality should be accorded the ne gro. He held that we might have a sub-Tieasury under State control, but the Sob-Treasury under nation al control meant the perpetuation in power of the party by which it was establishe d. A Princess's Favorites. In a scrap book in Belvoir Castle the Princess of Wales recorded her sentiments on sundry subjects, not long after her marriage. Here is a full list: Her favorite king and queen are "Queen Dagmar," and "Richard Coeur de Lion." Her favorite hero, poet and artist are "Wellington," "Byron" and "Sir Joshua Reynolds." Her favorite author, "Charles Dickens." Jler favorite virtue "Charity." Her fayorite color, "Blue." Her favorite dish, a "French tait." Her favorite flower, the "Rose." Her favorite name, "Mary." Her favorite occupation, "Read ing aloud." Her favorite amusement, "Driv ing my ponies." Her favorite motto, "Dieu et mon Droit." Her favorite locality, "Home." Her chief ambition, "Not to be fast." . And for her chief dislike, she has "None." JM U JVloJiiJct. w yf T. H. DEAL. If. DULL Deal & Deal Lenoir, IT. G. New Goods Coming in every day. Hats, Shoes Dress Goods and Notions. Meat, Flour, Lard, for: the least money in thif town, see our prices tney will convince you. We want chickens and eggs for cash. Look, for our new Ad Yertisement next week Thanking our patrons for' past favos, trusting a continuance of your patronage bv giving you bar gains. We are your friends? Deal & Deal. LINVILLE A place planned 'ftnd developiug oa a Great Resort. r Situated in the Mountains of A region noted for healthfulness and beauty of An elevation of 3.800 feet with cool Invigorating Climate. It is being laid out with taste and skill, with well graded roads and ex tensive Forest Parks. desirable plac for fine residen ces and HEALTHFUL HOMES. A good oportunity for profitable investments. For illustrated pam phlet, addres . IISYILLE IHPROYEHrHI CO Unville VitchelI Co V. (?., 4 ! ! i;v i: ; .' m o! ;:!iV-.-1 v; to!--'- '1 3 I r V'..:. .. - . 1 i 1 J 1
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