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YOLUME XYI.
HO' FOR WESTERN
North Carolina 1
O-
lie Garden Spot of the World.
Varvetj o Products
IT
Surpasses all other Sec
tions. Owing to its wonaerful nataral
resources it was possible to esLablish
bere the mo6t extensive Herbaria m
on the Globe, and with it side by
side has grown up the
Latest Wholesale EstaWislmient
If NORTH CAROLINA.
. fetraLgers winder at its magni
tude aLd are it a loss to understand
bow it has been accomplished; the
explanation is eas :
Fair Dealing, Economi
cal Management,
ATi'Trimnm Profits
AND A
LARGE VOLUME OF BUSINESS.
Has been our aim and policy and
has contributed chiefly, we beliere,
to the success we have thus far at
tained. V
t-f 1
-
It has hecome a well known fact
and is said to the credit nf our ieo-
ple that mere h an. li so . ol nery, do
scription is sold cheaper in Western
North Carolina than anywhere in
the South. 'New Yorkers frequent
ly say to us: "Why you folki sell
goods cheaper than we do here;'
ThiB we are pleased to admit and it
is not a revelation to many of our
t beet merchants. Experienced bus
iness men are alive to the fact that
the Retail Merchant can buy to bet
ter advantage in Baltimore than in
New York, in Richmond than in
Baltimore and in Statesville better
till than in Richmond.
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.
Our object, however, in this ad
vertisement was more par
ticularly tQcallatten
turn to a
New aiil EanisoMline ofGoois,
BOUGHT
Esueciallj for tte Dried Frnit Seasoiu
vur Counters are Loaded witn o
sonable goods and there are
Bargains in Every Department.
Stock is eomtslete and there' will
c no delay in making shipments.
Very Respectfully,
. ! . " - , , -
1 Bill Itt.
Darbam Ulobe.
TJie right which all men enjoy to
chapge their breath at frequent in
tervals; to change their 'politics and
religion, is not to be questioned. It
is a maa's own business what he
,loea so long as he harms neither
socioty, himself nor the world." But
wOTu men iwe .roik, Simpson, Col:
onel-Mrs. Leap and other blatant,
howling blatherskites go about the
country sweating blood for th
of the common people as they ex-
Picoo n is ume lor sober
thoughtful people to-think a min
ute. Tha farmers of North
are deluded. They read and think.
uiuT i vacm-oni me professional
politicions who talk red fire; who
trll of the great wrongs and who
howl until their lungs are sore and
follow the howl with a collection,
why, such fellows should not be al
lowed to wreck the principles of
government and sow the seeds of
discontent.
It happens in this State that
have good crops; we have all things
in the earth and under the earth
in which the Good Maker conceived
in the grand bewilderment of hia
creation and yet here is Polk howl
ing still about the wrongs.
Ane JNortn Uarolma farmer must
ponder well before he demands a
law that singles him out and makes
him a favored borrower of the gov
ernment. Tho sub-Treasury bill
seething with its foul blotches of
jobbery and corruption says :
"lama farmer and must have
some money from the government
at 2 per cent. I will giro my crop
ub security. Can I get it ?"
I he government asks ; Are you a
farmer ?"
The hornv- handed and .hornv
tpngued agitor replies : "I am."
"lnen, says the government,
"cart our truck down to my ware
house and I will make you a special
favorite, I will loan you all the
money you want and will charge
yon less than the great commercial
enterprises and great nnancers will
pay for its use. Certainly you are a
farmer and farmer Polk, who never
farmed said you should be favored,
you should be allowed special privi
leges which others of us cannot
enjoy but bring down your truck
and we will tell the oilier fellows to
be damned."
The government is tha people.
No more a farmer than a taylor, a
printer, a corpenter, a stone mason
simply the people and we are all
the people.
Pretty soon a merchant comes
along. lie foolishly overstocked
himself, tie has thousands of dol
lars lying on his shelves. He wants
to operate, get a new stocs, and he
goes to the goyernment and says .
"I see you nave warenouses you
have a scheme to loan money at two
jer cent. I desire to place a large
ot of goods with you as security
ni will borrow a lew tnousana in
order to buv my spring stock. You
will be protected as these goods were
boughtjow.
"But." asks the government, sel
fish and one-aided which Polk would
give, "are yon a farmer ?"
jno." savs tne mercnani, -oui i
am a citizen of this country I am
a nart of vonr concern we are all
- r s ; ..
the government.
"But." savs Uncle Sam, this law
does not reach any other class. It
is a class legislation law the farm
ers wrought up by a crowd oi aem
rnrnf nassed it. ana you are not
in it. You crnnot get the money.
The farmers want it their way all
other classes are choked out.
"The farmer proposes to raise
what he pleases you must pay your
taxes in order ho loan him money
t twn' nnr cent, but VOU will be
obliged to go to individuals and pay
ten and twelve.
"I am sorry but you are foolish.
Yah ahonld all become farmers."
"But if we were all farmers,"
asks the merchant and the lawyer
end the printer and the carpenter
who nave since come iu w uvm w
oiL- if ota were all farmers to
vhsim wnnld the farmer sen nis
Ty a w im
And Uncle Sam, with a twinkle
in his eye, said to Jerry SimpBon
and Colonel Polk.
"But could they buy it ?
"Certainly, because they propose
to buy printing presses ana.-pnun
wild cat dat money arm pav
hvtv Avorvthinc with nothing.
A.l thA mfirchant went oft to
a river and reduced himself to a cold
damp body.
Usrlfl wins.
nr ;i.;x fn mv t.n onr citizens,
Tie ucoii yj w ---- . .
i .l m or a han been selling
t -KTr Tliftf nverv for UOU-
sumptioD, Dr. King's New Life
Pills, Bocklen's Arnica Salve and
Electric Bitters and have never
A',a ttiafc BAH fift Well.
nauuiou loujcuit. ---- .
mnn BTinh universal
Mtisfaction. We do not hesitate to
. . t - & ! am W OTA
. .Atvi QTOrw 1 1 III PI- H11U no
Stand ready to refund the purchase
follow their use. These remedies
have won their great PPnlarIty
Purely on their meiits. W. W. Scott
& Co., Druggists. '
LENOIR, ST. C,
Ptffsr Pflffsbis BsBble.
Mail and Expresi.
Hon. William A PflflPoi. TTr.u
States Senator from Kansas, is ad-
yocat.ng the wholesale robbery' of
Hrge classes of our fellow citizens
for the benefit of one other o.laaa
whom he chooses to call "farmers,"
and whom he chooses to say he rep
resents. - .
Next he proposes to make a print-
ing machine the author of money in:
this country. Then he 'swears by
his own long beard, and by the a-
pothesis of financial chimeras, that
this printed money shall be taken by
everybody around the whole world
a the true representative of values
and in exchange for all values i at
the price which the nrintinar ma
chine stamps on the piece of paper.
..wA Ui i i i ... . ,r t ,1
uu iu ait peopie snail taKe an
the equal pieces of paper of one
size, not at equal value as money.
out one piese at $), another of the
same size and weight at $10. another
at $100, another at $1,000, another
at $10,000, another at $100,000, an
other at $1,000,000, and so on in
definitely, merely because the pnnt-
jng macnine says so.
Bluebeard Peffer reinforces this
oracular declaration of his with ri
sing to his full height upon his toes,
before the audiences who are green
enough to listen to him, and then
plumping his body down upon his
heels with a velocity, weight and
detonation which produce a small
earthquake and striko fear and
trembling mto the gaping crowd.
This Bluebeard's theories are so
ridiculous that they must explode
as did Law's South Sea bubble and
Hudson, the railway king's manipu
lation of securities. But as neither
of those celebrated historic balloon,
gasbags exploded without injuring
many deluded and weak mortals, so
we may expect injury to be atten
dant upon Bluebeard's decapitation
of fair virtues respectfully-named
Public Credit, the Faith of the
United States, Commercial Honesty,
Sound Values, Hopeful Industry.
Necessary Agriculture and Hum
ming Manufactures. With Blue
beard Peffer the motive power and
the secret of danger lie in his activ
ity and perserverance, just as with
his prototype, Henry VIII., they
lay in carnal pleasure and the edgo
of his sword.
Let the people of the Southeast
ern States, where Bluebeard Peffer
is now holding forth, turn their
eyes and see the full operation of his
schemes carried on in another nation
and the ruin, destruction and par
alyzation of government and all the
reai interests of the people which
they have produced. The exhibi
tion is afforded by the South Ameri
can Republic of Argentine. Her lato
president, Celman, possesoed all the
autocratic powers with which Blue
beard Peffer would like to be cloth
ed, and for a series of years he wenc
on decreeing that things should be
as he wished.
At one time he had the nation
almost unanimously at his back, so
that they adopted his name, and not
to be a "uelmanist was to be no
body. But Celman, with autocrat
ic powers and a united nation at his
back, could not long put off the
bursting of his bubble. The col
lapse came last year, and the ruin
of the great house of Baring Bi oth
ers & Co. is only one fragment of
tho debrrs of the financial chaos into
which Celman hurled his blinded
countrymen, notwithstanding ho
had the support of the greatest ban
king house in the world, and that
behind them stood the Bank of
England and many other bank
ers. Bad as things have been in At-
fentine, they are still worse now.
Iyer j body wants to sell everything,
and nobody will buy anything. The
printing-machine money, instead of
being and remaining at par, as Blue
beard Peffer assures his dupes must
be the case, has almost gone out of
sight. The dispatches received in
this city from Buenoa Aires to day
quote gold at 300, whicjpls inten
tionally a misleading quotation, be
cause the fact is that gold-is at 400,
and the excuse that the Argenti
nians make for this attempted de
ception is that they mean gold is at
300 premium above the 100 of par;
and this is a deception (calling gold
300 when in reality it is 400) which
deceives nobody but tho blinded
Argentinians themselves, showing
that they have not yet sufficiently
emerged from the thick clouds of.
darkness brought aionnd their affairs
by the Celman money printing ma
chine to see things clearly and as
they actually are.
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Throat Chest, or Lung. Drying's
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Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to
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found it jast the thing and under
its use had speedy and perfect recov
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WEDNESDAY, AUG.
Not a Subject fur Jesting.
N. Y. Journal of Commerce .
There"are great realities concern
ing which the wisest of men can
know but little. Life is a mystery,
and no definition of it yet given will
satisfy any thoughtful mind. - We
see it in plants, and we watch its
development with curious eyes, but of
what it consists we cannot tell.
What is it that covers one tree with
beautiful foliage, and decks another
with blossomspf exquisite hue, and
hangs upon a third the fruit ripen
ing in the summer's sun, while
nearby is a broad trnnk with spread
ing branches, leafless and fruitless,
holding its desolate fingers bare and
dry and mute appeal to the brood
ing heavens? We say that one is
alive, and the other is dead, but
what life is and what is tho mystery
of death we do not know.
And it is not always easy to dis
tinguish between the two, even with
our keenest observation. The cat
erpillar creeps to an angle in the
old bridge, and spinning a winding
sheet about itself, passes out of ex
istence as far as we can see. Winter
comes on and the little gray nest is.
frozen solid in the dripping water
that runs over its silken surface, or
lies bleak and bare for months fa
cing the cold north winds tha; are
merciless in their destructive rage.
Examine the cocoon and nothing
seems more like the charnel house
in which there can be but death and
sure decay. If a vital germ had
once beet wrapped in this frail
shroud could it survive a tempera
ture that freezes the fluids in the
solid rock? The spriDg has come
and the folds are laid aside, and the
beautiful moth, with hues of crim
son, or scarlet and gold, winged for
its summer diy, is b?rn of the shape
less mass that appeared so helpless
and hopeless in its icy pall. There
was all the while a life in the nest
which no wintry blast could steal
away.
If we look upon our fellows the
mystery deepens, and we are no
nearer the solution of the problem.
One is in vigorous health, the blood
mantles the cheek, the eye is aglow
with lustre, the lips charm us with
eloquonce of speech or magic har
monies of song, and every motion
is full of conscious power. A few
days later, and the lips are sealed,
the brightuess has gone out of tho
eye, and the cheeks are pale and
cold. We say that death has come,
and we lay the form, swift to decay
as soon as the heart is still, away
in the hiding tomb. But what is
doatb, and how does it differ from
life, and what is it that produces
the wondrous change? Words upon
this theme are easy enough to the
flaent tongue, but that vital princi
ple that kindles the cheeks at its
presence, or leaves it wan at its
departure, has never yet been caught
and questioned and made to revenl
its marvelous secret.
And when the change has come,
and the body so cold and lifeless has
been buried from our sight, is that
tho finol scene? Is there anything
hidden in the inclosing -shroud that
shall come forth and put on wings
some bright spring day after the
long bleak frosts have come and
gone? Or has what we called the
"life escaped from its clay tene-.
ment to dwell in some new abode,or
to put on some new form, or to live
apafrt from the flesh to which it
once gave grace of motion? As we
go on in our quest we are baffled at
every step by some new and1 still
unsolved problem. Mystery crowds
upon mystery, and to bur deepest
yearnings nature sends back no an
s wen ng message We give our cho
sen names to the existences and
changes that puzzles us, but that
does not help us to understand
them.
Of some things man is self con
scious." When we open onr lips and
speak of ourselves we affirm the ex
istence of life. The man who says
"I am agnostic" confutes himself
by every assertion. He knows that
when he says "I," for there caa be
no "I" except in consciousness of
personal existence. And that
knowledge in all its relations and
possibilities is as far removed- from
agnosticism as the glowing sunlight
is from the blackest midnight
darkness. But without this the ex:
pre88ion refutes its own statement.
When a man declares that he knows
nothing he thereby assumes that this
is the one thing "he knows. And
there must have been a vast process
of reasoning and research before one
can come to any such definite con
clusion. This consciousness of per
sonal existence, with the power of
thought and reason, is the sensation
of life. VVill this light ever be ex
tinguished? Can it be destroyed?
Has it not in iUelf all the elements
of immtrtality. . ;
And when this life ceases to reside
in the body where it was first- con
scious of a home, what becomes of
it? Annihilation does not seem pos
sible to it. Its own sense of what it
is, and of its pwn capabilities, is ut
terly opposed to even the apprehen
sion of its -mortality. Man. feels
around him the bonds of his frail
and decaying prison house, but they
f urnish no fetters for-his ; thought.
:. When the flebh falls away the life
that dwelt therein is still soaring
on tireless wings that feel no limit:
to their flight and wear no sign of a
coming dissolution. On that shore
18, 1891.
where the life must lay down the
garments of flesh the spirit looks
out with eager eye upon the vast
ocean that stretches beyond, and
over which it is called to go, and
finds no answer to the questions that
come crowding upon the' anxious
thoughts. How far is it to the oth.
er side? What is it like over there ?
Do the engagements and ' experien
ces of the present state make any
difference with the welcome it will
receive when it has crossed the divi
ding sea?
- We hate simply clustered these
considerations together with a view
nf presenting them as a barrier . to
that levity of expression now so com
mon in and out of the press, in re
ferring to the future state and the
manifold mysteries of life and death.
We have indicated certain realities
from which the most thoughtless
cannot escape. These aie not prov
ocative of mirth. When one said it
was a serious thing to die, a hearer
remarked it was a still more serious
thing to live;but both are too serious
to be made the subject of flippant
merriment-Several paragraphs, as we
write, are going the rounds of the
leading papers, making a jest of the
change that must come to all and of
the possibility of a regathering to a
new life of the dissolving dust from
its resting place in the tomb. There
is neither sense nor decency in this
growing habit of treating with un
meaning levity the themes so wor
thy of man's highest thought, and
we utter, this as our. earnest protest
against it.
Wss Uacnni Whitewashed.
N. Y. Son.
Canton, Miss'The following
letter written by President J. H.
McDowell of the Tennessee State
Alliance, and who was chairmon of
the committee that tried Macune at
Ocala, Fla., last December, was
given State Lecturer McAllister for
publication by a prominent member
of the Texas Alliance to whom it
was written at the recent Fort
Wortlj Anti-Sub-Treasury Conven
tion of Alliance men.
Nashville, Tenn. Dec. 17.
Thomas J. Middleton :
Dear Sir and Brother : In reply
to your favor of Dec. 10. will en
deavor without, prejudice to give
you the truth. I was Chairman of
the investigating committee, The
prosf undisputed, showing that
Macune and Sledgo hsd paid $7,000
cash for the controlling interest in
the Southern A liance Farmer, offi
cial organ of the Georgia Alliance
that Sledge another owner of the
Economist, had a controlling inter
est in the Mercury, the Texas Alli
ance organ: that their Georgia pa
per sent out as a supplement Pat,
Calhoun a letter on the Sub Treas
ury bill before the Legislature met,
with the view of strengthening him
for United States Senator ; that
Macune had this letter submitted
to him for revision before it was
published; then he (Macune) went
to Atlanta and remained there dur
ing the contest for United States
Senator and aided Calhoun, know
ing him to be attorney for the big
gest railroad combine in the South;
that he (Macune) went to Calhoun's
private rcs'dence at night and re
mained until after midnight : that
he got after the Senatorial fight ov
er $2,000 in cashfrom Pat Calhoun,
which he claimed was a loan and
gave as security orders on the Na
tional Treasurer for $2,000 due him.
In the committees of investigation
Evans, Jones and other strong
friends of Macune tried to prevent
tbe facts from being reported to the
convention. Majority and minor
ity reports were drawn up and sign
ed, but after much wrangling in
the committee, to .prevent too
much friction in the convention by
Macune's friends, which some fear
ed would disrupt the order, a num
ber of us submitted to the majority
report, that was clearly a white
wash." I, Hall and otheas explained
the matter in the convention.
J. H. MoDowell.
State Alliance Lecturer McAlis
ter has called a convention of Alli
ance men to meet here on Aug. 19,
at which time national delegates will
be selected. The call issued by Mc
Alis ter is to tbe following . All op
posed to the Sub-Treasury and land
loan schemes; all who are opposed
to turning the Alliance over to de
signing shams and leprous dema
gogues who desire to turn the order
into a secret political machine for
ther own benefit; all who are oppo
sed to Macuneism in the Alliance
with its corruption, bribery, per
jury, and fraud; all who favor re
storing the Alliance to its original
purposes and making it a non polit
ical, non-partizan organization free
from the cantaminating influence
of intriguing frauds and mercenary
lmposters.'-'
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The best Salve in the world for
cuts, bruises, : sores, ulcers, salt
rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped
hands, chilblains, corns and. all skin
emotions, and positively cures Piles,
or no pay required , It' ia' guaran
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IT WILL KOT GO DOWN.
Sob-Tretssry DsnoBncsd Is Kansis.
fl opeea, Kan , Angusi 4. A gen
sation has been caused in Alliance
circles here by the publication of
open letters from W. A. Harris and
C,W. Shun, prominent leaders in
the people's party protesting a
gainst the sub-treasury scheme. ;
Harris is regarded aa - the , safest
leader in the Alliance, and would
have been elected United States sen"
ator in place of Pieffer, had he not
been an ex-confederate '! colonel.
Shun was a condidate for lieu tenant
governor last fall.
The sub-alliances . throughout
Kansas will this month vote on the
snb-treasnry scheme, to decide
whether it shall be incorporated in
the people's party platform. The
indications now are that it will; be
defeated. Frank McGrath, presi
dent of the alliance, who had been
warm in its advocacy, has now 'come
out openly against the sub-treasury
scheme, and a big fight is looked
for when the anonal meeting of the
alliance occurs in September.
Colonel Harris deslares thaf'after
a brilliant victory had been won by
the Alliance the socalled sub-treasury
scheme was brought forth, a
scheme, in its essential features,
modeled after all the most vicious
and corrupt practices which we had
condemned. It is patterned after
the illegitimate loaning of money by
the government to the national
banks and to the railroads and the
warehousing and storing of goods
for importers and distillers;a scheme
to tax many for the benefit of a few
and of even the most donbtf ul bene
fit to these few."
Harris adds that the substantial
business men all over the conutry
have unanimously protested against
it and it ie certain to bring about a
complete overthrow of the people's
party if it is not abandoned by the
alliance.
Delusive Liberality.
Ashe v ill e Citizen.
At the last session of the General
Assembly of North Carolina it won
some cheap honor by contributing
to the Chicago World's Exhibit
$25,000 to be paid out of the fund
arising from the repayment of the
Direct Tax back to those from
whom it has been exacted, It was
a sham generosity, a sham exhibit
of interest, a fraudulent display of
State pride, not warranted under
the circumstances It was a mean
attempt to do and not to at the
same time; to appear to give, and
not to give inthesame breath; to
appropriate public moneys to a mag
nificent public demonstration; and
appropriate that over which it had
no right of control. To the direct
tax fund the Legislature had no
claim whatever. It was private
property, restored after long con
tention with the general govern
ment to those from whom, as it was
claimed, it had been wronglfully
exacted. Our . State Government
was placed simply in a fiduciary, ca
pacity, and made the agent through
which reinbursements should be
made. It was certain, in . advance
that there were enough claimants,
and more than enough, in connec
tion with unavoidable contingent ex
penses, to absord the whole of the
restored fund.
But the Legislature did not have
the courage to meet the issue squ re
ly and honestly. It Knew the drift
of public sentiment; it knew the
importance of the Woild's Fair, the
freat opportunity presented to
forth Carolina to be made known
to all the nations of the earth, and
how detrimiental to her welfare her
absence through official neglect
would prove. Therefore, with in
sincere, time-servirg policy, it acted
upon the apparent impulse of gen
uine State pride, but with the real
effect of "speaking tne . word of
promise to the ear and breaking it
to the hope." When the time came
to utilize imaginary resources, that
Legislature would have been out of
its existence, and the members could
very easily disclaim responsibility
for the shame and disappointment.
The palming off the direct tax
fund, which, to the eud falsely pro
posed, is non est '8 like Mark
Twain's transfer of the duty of risk
ing his life in the battles of freedom
to his cousins and his uncles. It is
evasion of the - meanest kind. If
North Carolina appears at the Chi
cago exhibit some others must pay
for it; somebody also must sustain
the' honor of. the State. No doubt,
as in the past, patriotic men and
liberal corporations will Je found to
do so. -
Gov. Holt is-right in his deter
mination to preserve the direct tax
fund distinctly for legitimate uses.
It is a pity,1 however that the false
liberality of the Legislature, now
so transparrent, has not sooner been
exposed.
' - Miss Bacon Do you think it is
worse for a woman to smdke ciga
rettes than a man? -
Miss McBean I never knew of a
woman who smoked a man,
NUMBER. 48.
Tfi DEAL.
1L. DEAL
De al &
Lenoir, IT. G.
New Goods Coming
everyday.
Hats, Shoes Dress
in
Goods and Notions.
Meat, Flour, Lard, for tlie
least money in this town,
see our prices ! they will
convince you.
We want chickens and eggs for ;
cash.
IiOOlr. for our now Ad
vertisement 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 and developing
as a
Great Resort.
Situated in the
(
Mountains of
A region noted for healthfuluess
and jbeauty of
f
An elevation of 3,800 feet with
cool
Invigorating Climate.
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It is being laid out with taste and
skill, with well graded nads and ex
tensive Forest Parks.
desirable plac for fine residen
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HEALTHFUL HOMES
A good oportunity for profitable
investments.' For illustrated pam
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