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0 U r ' VOLUME XYIX. NUMBER 0. i HO - FOR WESTERN North Carolina J Ik Garden Spot of tie World. Variety of Products IT Surpasses all other See I 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 Wholesale EslalMmeiit j IK KOBTH CABOLINA. Straugers wonder at ita magni inriA nd are at a loss to understand bow it has been accomplished; the ipUnation iseasy : Fair Dealing, Economi cal management, jBnimtim'Proflto AND A LARGE VOLTJMEQF 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 troll known fact Mid is said trthe crertvf our peo ple tbatHardiauliaioti every de scription ii sold cheaper in Western North Carolina than anywhere in tbe South. NewYprkers frequent ly say ttd.us: "WJiy. 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 btst merchants. Experienced bus iness men are U?e,to the fact that: the.BlrcJianttcari buy to bet ter advanUge in Baltimore than in New York, in Bichmond than in Baltimore and in 8tatesville better still than in Richmond. By-Making Large Purchases We are enabled to secure tbe low est quantity price,' while our Expeaisea. we rJA&ignifleant As compared with houses in the large cities. Our object, however, in this ad vertisement was more pax ticularlj to call atten tion to a New ail Mtoie line of Ms, EsDeciany for tl DrieiMt Season. 'Onr Counters are laointh' Sea sonable goods and. there are Bargains in Every Department. Stock is complete and there will 1 no delay -in -caking shipments. Very Respectfully, . MAX ORELL'S NEW BOOK. THE LOVELIEST WOMEN OH EARTH. anirici and the Anwicins as Hi saw Tbsq. New York Herald. Max O'Rell wrote a book on Amer ica a year or two ago, but it did not contain half he had to say, for he has just written a new and larger one which is part diary, part reflec tion and all readable. The title is "A Frenchman in America." It opens with a description of the ocean voyage, which the author found un speakably dismal. It is an interval in dne's existence, a week more or less lost, decidedly more than less. One grows gelatinous from head to foot, especially in the upper part of one's anatomy. En order to see to what an extent the brain softens you only need look at the pastimes the poor passengers go in for. r . A state of demoralization prevails throughout. The nearest approach to a gay note is struck by some humorous and good tempered American. He will come and ask you the most im possible questions with an ease and impudence perfectly inimitable. These catechisings are all the more droll because they are done with a naivette which completely disarms you. The phrase is short, without verb, reduced to its most concise expression. The intonation alone marks the interrogation. Here is a specimen : We have on board the Celtic an American who is not a very shrewd person, for it has actually taken him five days to discover that English is not my native tongue. This morn ing (December 30) he found it out, and being seated near me in the smoke room, has just had the fol lowing bit of conversation with me: "Foreigner ?" said he. "Foreigner," said I, replying in American. "German, I guess." "Guess again." "French-?" "Pure blood." "Married ?" "Married." "Going to America ?" 'Yes evidently." "Pleasure trip ?" "No." "On business ?" "On business, yes." "What's your line ?" "H'm French goods." "Ah ! what class of goods V " 1 Article de Paris." "The what ?" 'The n.r-ti-rl& de Pa-ri&." 6h yes, the arntiele of Pahr rts." "Exactly so. Excuse my pronun ciation." This floored him. "Bather impertinent, your smoke room neighbor' yon will say. Undeceive yourself at once -upon that point. It is not impertinence, still less an intention to offend you, that urges him to put these incon gruous questions to you. It is the intereU takes in you- The Am erican is a good follow; good fellow ship is one ot his chief characteristic traits. Of that" F became perfectly, convinced during my last visit to the United States. I THE INTERVIEWER. Scarcely is he ashore than he falls into tbe hands of the newspaper re porters, but he has met them before and is not afraid. What nonsense Europeans have written, on the subject of interview ing in America, to be sure! To hear them speak you would believe that it is the greatest nuisance in the world. A Frenchman writes in the Figa ro : "I will go to America if my life can be insured against that ter rific nuisance, interviewing." An Englishman writes to an Eng lish paperoh returning from Amer ica ; " When the reporters called on me I -invariably refused to see them." L, Trash I Cant I Hypocrisy 1 With the exception of a king or the prime minister of one of the great Powers, a man is only too glad to be inter viewed. Don't talk to me about the nuisance, tell the truth; it is always such a treat to hear it. I consider that interviewing is a compliment, a great compliment paid to the inter viewed. In asking a man to gi ve you his views, so as to enlighten the public on such and such a subject, you acknowledge that he is an im portant lnan, which is flattering to him; or you take him for one, which is more flattering st;ll. , . I maintain that American inter viewers are extremely courteous and obliging, and, as a rule, very faith ful reporters , of, what ? yon .say. to them. ' :.Y. . e lJ,"-.. Let me say that I have a lurking doubt in my mind 1 whether those who have so much to say against in terviewing in America.? haro ever been asked to be interviewed at tall, or have even ever run such a danger. OUB HOTELS. , American hotels are all alike. Some are worse.' Describe one and you have do- On the giound. floor a., large en-. for the men and a side entrance pro vided with a triumphal arch for the ladieB. On this floor the anxea are separated as at the public baths. ' No privacy. No coffee room, no smoking room. No place where you can go and quietly sip a cup of cof fee or drink a glass of beer with . a cigar. You can have a drink at the bar, and then go and sit down in the hall among the crowd. Life in an American hotel is an alternation of the cellular system during the night and of the grega rious system during the day,' an al ternation of the penitentiary systems carried out at Phildelphia and at Auburn. It is not in the bedroom, either, that you must seek anything to cheer you. The bed is good, but only for the night. The room is perfectly nude. Not even "Napoleon's Fare well to His Soldiers at Fontaine bleau" as in France, or "Strafford Walking to the Scaffold" as in Eng land. Not that these pictures are particularly cheerful j still they break the monotony of the wall pa per. Here the only oases In the brown or gray desert are cautions. The guests feel struck with awe in that dining room and solemnly bnlt their food as quickly as they can. You hear less noise in an Am erican hotel dining room containing fiye hundred people than you do at a French table d'hote, accommodat ing fifty people, at a German one containing a dozen guests, or at a table where two Italians are dining tet&ratete. The head waiter at large Northern and Western hotels is a white man. In the Southern ones he is a mulatto or a black, but white or black, he is always a magnificent specimen of his race. There is not a ghost of a savor of the serving man about him, no whiskerB and shaven upper lip reminding you of the waiters of the Old World, but always a fine mus tache, the twirling of which helps to give an air of nonchalant superi ority to its wearer. The mulatto head waiters in the South really look like dusky princes Many of them are so handsome and carry themselves so superbly that you find them very impressive at first and would fain apologize to them. You feel as if you wanted to thank them for kindly condescending to concern themselves about anything so com monplace as your seat at table. THE LECTURE PLATFORM. The author came here to lecture and found the business highly prof itable. It also was by turns amusing and distressing. The ways of the manager sometimes seemed as start ling as those of audiences. A good impresario is constantly on the lookout for anything that may draw the attention of the pub lic to nis entertainment. jNotmng is sacred for him. His eyes and ears are always open, all his senses on the alert. One afternoon I was walking with my impresario over the beautiful Clifton suspension bridge. I was to lecture at the Victoria Hall, Bristol, in the evening. We leaned on the railings, and grew pensive as we looked at the scenery and the abyss under us. My impresario sighed. "What are vou thinking about ?" I said to him. "Last year," he replied, "a girl tried to commit suicide and jumped over this bridge ; but the wind got under her skirt, made a parachute, of it, and she descended to the boM torn of thealley perfectly unhurt." And he sighed again. "Well," said I, "why do you sigh ?" ' "Ah ! my dear fellow, if you could do the same this afternoon, there would be 'standing room only' in the Victoria Hall tonight." I left that bridge in no time. Some audiences applauded, some were silent and occasionally an in dividual expressed his feeling. Here is an example : Before leaving the hotel at Pitts burg I was approached by a young man who, after giving me his card, thanked me most earnestly for my lecture of last night. In fact, he nearly embraced me. "I never enjoyed myself so much in my life," heaid. I grasped his hand. "I am glad," I replied, "that my humble effort pleased you so much. Nothing is more gratifying to a lec turer than to know he has afforded pleasure to his audience." "Yes," he said, "it gave me im mense pleasure. You see, I am en gaged to be married to a girl in town. All her family went, to your show, and I had the girl at home all to mvself. Oh! I hadsuch a good time ! Thank you so mncb ! ; Do lecture nere again soon. LOVELY; WOMAN. Like a true Frenchman and a sensible man he says numberless complimentary tfcmgs about Ameri can women, although his statement that the gentler sex here hold men in contempt is an announcement of the mostv startling discovery ever made since the days of Oolnmbus, . The more I see f of the American .women, the more confirmed I become . in my impression that they are typ ical ; more so than the men. They are like no other women know. The brilliancy of their conversation, the animation of itheir features,- the absence of "affectation in their man ners, make- them unique. There are no women to compare' to them in a drawing room. There are none with whom I feel so much at ease. Their' beauty, physically speaking, is great ; but yoa are still more struck by their intellectual beauty, the frankness of their eyes and the naturalness of their bearing. In many respects I have often been struck ?ith the resemblance which exists between French and American women. When I took my first walk on Broadway, New York, on-a fine afternoon some two years and a half ago, I can well remember how I exclaimed : "Why, this is Paris, and all these ladies are Paris iennes !" It struck me as being the same type of face, the same anima tion jof features, the same brightness of the eyes, the same self -assurance, the same attractive plumpness in women over thirty. To my mind, I was having a walk on my own Bou levards (every Parisian owns that place.) The more I became ac quainted with American ladies the more forcibly this resemblance struck me. This was not a mere first impression. It has been and is still a deep conviction, so" much so that whenever I returned to New York from a journey of somo weeks in the heart of the country I felt as if I was returning home. After a short time a still closer resemblance between the women of the two countries will strike a Frenchman most forcibly. It is the same finesse, the same suppleness of mind, the same wonderful adapta bility. Place a little French milliner in a good drawing room for an hour and at the end of that time she will behave, talk and walk like any lady in the room. Suppose an American, married below his status in society, is elected President of the United States, I believe, at the end of a week, this wife of his would do the honors of the VV hite House with the ease and grace of a high born lady. In England it js just the contrary. They say in France that Paris is tbe paradise of women. If so, there is a more blissful place than Para disc; there is another word to invent to give an idea of the social position enjoyed by American ladies. If I had to be born again and might choose my box and my birth place I would shout- at the top of my voice ; "Oh, make me an American wo-o man 1" OUR NEWSPAPERS. Second only to women in attract iyeness were the newspapers of the metropolis. After spending an en fire Sunday in reading them the author wrote : Have been spending the whole day in reading the Sunday papers I am never tired of reading and studying the American newspapers. The whole character of the nation is there spirit of enterprise, liveli ness, childishness, inquisitiveness, deep interest in everything that is human, fun and humor, indiscre tion, love of gossip, brightness. Speak of electric light, of phono graphs and graphophones if you like ; speak of those thousand and one inventions which have come out of the American brain ; but if you wish to mention the greatest and most wonderful achievement of American activity do not hesitate a moment to give the palm to Ameri can journalism : it is simply the ne plus ultra. xou will find some peoplo even in America who condemn its loud tone; others who object to its meddling with private life; others, again, who have something to say of its con tempt -for statements which are not in perfect accordance with strict truth. I even believe that a French writer, whom I do not wish to name, once said that very few statements to be ound in an American paper were to be relied upon beyond the date. People may say this and may say that about American journalism. I confess that I like it, simply be cause it will supply you with twelve Sundays with thirty pages that are readable from the first line to the last. Yes, from the first line to the last, including the advertise ments. The American journalist may be a man of letters, but, above all, he must possess a bright and graphic pen, and his services are not wanted if he cannot write a racy article or paragraph but cf the most trifling incident. He must relate facts, if he; can, but if ; he cannot, so much the worse for the facts ; he must be entertaining and turn out something that is readable. I cannot do better than compare an American paper to a large store, where the , goods, the articles, are labelled so as to immediately strike the customer. Speakicg of American journalism, no man need use apologetic lan guage. . .; Na when . thh . nronrietor of an American paper will not hesitate to snend thousands of t dollars to pro vide his readers with the minutest details about some great European event. - - I Not when an American paper will, at its own. expense, send Henry M. Stanley to Africa in . search of , Livingstone. ;. q. ::f A LAND OF MAGNIFICENT DISTANCES The lecturer speedily Jleajned'tbat if he was to keep all his' appoint- ments he would be obliged to spend most of his daylight hours on rail way trains, from the, windows of which there seldom was anything interesting to look at. lo be in a-railroad car for ten or twelve hours day after day can hard ly be called luxury or even comfort. To have one's poor brain matter thus shaken in the cranium is terri ble, especially when the cranium is not quite full. Constant travelling softens the brain, liquefies it, churns it, evaporates it, and it runs out of you through all the cracks of your head- I own that travelling is com fortable in America, even luxurious; but the best fare becomes monoto nous and unpalatable when the dose is repeated every day. To-morrow night 1 lecture in Minneapolis. The next night I am in Detroit. Distant about seven hundied miles. "Can I manage it ?" said I to mv impresario when he showed mo my route. v "Why, certainly," he replied : "if you catch a train after your lec ture I guess you will arrive in time for your lecture in Detroit the next day." These remarks, in America, are made without a smile. j What strikes a European most in his rambles through America is the absence of the picturesque. The country is monotonous aad eternally tne same. rSurned up held s, stumps of trees, forests, wooden houses all built on tbe same pattern. All the stations you pass are alike. All the towns are alike. To say that an American town is ten times larger ' than another simply means that it has ten times more blocks of houses. All tne streets are alike, with the same telegraph poles, the same "In dian as a sign for tobacconists, the same red. white and blue pole as a sign for barbers. All the hotels are the same, all the menus are the same, all the plates and dishes the same why, all the inkstands are the same. All the people are dress ed in tbe same way. When you meet an American with all his beard you want to shake his hands and thank him for not shaving it, as ninety-nine cut of every hundred Americans do. WHERE ONE MAN IS AS GOOD AS ANOTHER. The lack of a servile class became apparent to the author as quickly as to many other intelligent foreigners who nave had to do for themselves some services which abroad are done by menials. We Europeans are used to a form of obedience, or at least deference, from our paid servants, and the ar rogant attitude of the American wage earner first amazes and then enrages us wnen we nave not enough humor, or good humor, to get some amusement out of it. It is so novel to be tyrannized over by people whom you pay to attend to your comfort 1 The American keeps his temper under the process, for he is the best humored fellow in the world. Besides, a small squabble is no more in bis line than a small anything else. It is not worth his while. The Westerner may pull out a pistol and shoot you if you annoy him, but neither he nor the Eastern man will wrangle for mas tery. If such was not tho case, do you believe for a moment that the Amer icans would submit to the rule of the "rings," the "leaders" and the "bosses?" The Americans are the most doc ile people in the world. They are the slaves of their servants, whether these are high officials or the "re duced duchesses" of domestic ser vice. They are so submitted to their lot that they seem to find it quite natural. The Americans are lions governed by bulldogs and asses. They have given themoelves a hundred thousand musters, these folks who laugh at monarchies, for example, and scorn the rule of a king, as if it were better to be bul lied by a crowd than by an individ ual. In America the man who pays does not command the paid. I have already said it ; I will maintain the truth of the statement that, in Am erica, the paid servant rules. Tyr anny from above is bad ; tyranny from below is worse. Of my many first impressions that have deepened into convictions this is one of tbe firmest. A UNIQUE PRAYER. The story which has the strongest suspicion of "yarn" about it is one which, the author insists is true. It will astonish most. Americans quite as much as it startled Max O'Bell. Here it is, introduction and all : Here I pause. I want to collect my thoughts. Does - my memory gene me f Am I dreaming, or worse still, am I on the point of in venting ? No, I could not invent such a story: it is beyond my power. I was once lecturing to - the stu dents of a religious college in Amer ica. Before 1 began a professor stepped forward and offered a pray er, in which he asked the Lord to allow the audience to see my points Now, I duly feel the weight of re SDonsibihtv attaching to such a statement, and in iustice to myself I can do no less than give the reader the petition just as it fell, on my as toniahed ears: ; "Lord. Thou knowest that wo work hard for Thee, and that recre ration ia necessary in order that we mav.work with renewed vigor. We have tonight with us a gentleman from France, (excuse my recording a compliment too flattering) whose criticisms are witty and refined, but subtle, and we pray Thee to so pre pare our minds that we may thor oughly understand and enjoy them." "Tint anKflA " I am still wondering whether ray lectures aro so subtle as to need praying oyer, or whether that audi ence was so dull that they needed praying for. - Whicheyer it was the prayer was heard, for . the audionce proved warm, keen and thoroughly appre ciative. Quite as good as the author's own work, and sometimes better, are the illustrations, of which there are one hundred and thirty, all by Kemble. The book is to be published this week simultaneously in New York. London and Paris, under the condi tions of the new copyright law. The American ed ition is from the press of the Ua8sell Publishing Company, JNew xork. For Democratic Farmers. AshevUle Citizen. A newspaper having the good of the whole country sincerely at heart, and as an unmixed advocate of Dem ocratic principles, the Citizen feels called upon to say a few calm, -de liberate, unvarnished words to the thoughtful, honest Democratic far mers of Buncombe and Western North Carolina. In the outset the Citizen acknowl edges freely and frankly, that the farming class now have, and have had, during tne past twenty-five years, the most unjust and iniqui tous burdens neaped upon them. They have been presistently and unfeelingly robbed by the govern ment, whose duty it was to give them an equal chance with every other class, and they have been de cieved by the politicians who sought and received their votes. As a con sequence, the condition of the far mer, as a class, is most deplorable. The grievances are numerous and sore. They have a right to demand relief, and in all honesty and fair ness, their demands should be gran ted. But who has controlled the gov ernment and made the laws, by which the farmer has been robbed and crushed down by these burdens too grievous to be borne r This is a most serious question. The farmer has i been wronged, deeply wronged, and by somebody ? Who is tnat somebody r u is mat aggregation of individuals compos ing the political party wnich has had control of the government and enacted the laws during the genera tion just behind us. What party is that ? Can any intelligent farmer in Western North Carolina ha7e ai doubt as to what political party its responsible for these laws ? As a matter of fact, the Demo cratic party hat not been responsible for a single law placed upon the statute books of the United estates since the war, except by the, consent of the Republican party. It is also a fact that the Demo cratic party today stands squarely upon record as favoring every de- mand tbe farmers are mating ior relief, save and except the sub Treasury, which would have the government loan the farmer money at two per cent, per annum, when the government itself cannot borrow money at such a rate of interest, And the government has not a dol lar of money, and cannot get a dol lar of money, unless it borrows it or taxes the people the farmers inclu ded to raise it. The Democraticstate platform in North Carolina last year included every demand of the farmers except the sub-Treiisury scheme. Is there an intelligent farmer in Western North Carolina who thinks that scheme is practical P Is there an intelligent farmer in Western North Carolina who thinks that tbe feder al government, was ever intended to be converted into a great loan bro berage establishment ? Is there an intelligent ; farmer who wants the government to do any more for him than to relieve him of the weights that have borne him down, and give him a fair chance with every other man and every other class in the race of lie? The Citizen thinks not. And now this serious question is propounded to every farmer. Do you want to destroy the Democratic party, which has fought to save you from the wrongs which the Repub lican party has been heaping upon you for the past twenty-five years, and create a third party, simply be cause the Democratic party will not say it endorses-the sub-Treasury scheme ?. It favors every other de mand. Will the farmers think seriously and honestly about these things ? If so, the Citizen is certain that their conclusion will be right. "Tom," she asked, "what is this ring worth ?" "Well," he answeied, "I paid $75 for it , actual worth probably $30 and I might raise about $12 on it at my uncle's." Rosalie Do you keep a diary ? v Grace-Y-e-s:: I've bept one for the first week in -January for the past seven years. T. H. DEAL. 1C DXAL. Lenoir, N. O. Cedar Valley N. C. & Deal Lenoir, II. C. NEW GOODS. The best line of goods we have ever carried. We have come to stay, and we want our customers to know that they don't get left, when they buy their goods from us, for in this we are in accord with the Alliance, live and let live. We have over $1,000 invested in clothing and will sell you a pair of pants for " . 75c, 1 00, 1 25, s 00 and up to 5 oo each, salt that are worth 5 00, we knock down to 8 V. we have salts worth 50, 8 00, 1000, 16 Ottf SO 00, when you want clothing don.t forget that re will sell them to you for least money you erer bought. Calicoes 4c, c, ftc, 7c, per yd. 'Won ted 10c, to 12 l ie, cashmers 20 85c. Flaimel dress goods 5c, to 35c, per yd. Jeans 12 i-2c, 18c, 10c, 15c, SOc, 85c, 40c, per yd. This 1b a complete line of cotton and woolen goeda buy 'em. Shoes, we have, Just what you ant, ladles fine shoes 1 00, 1 25, 1 SO, 2 00, 2 50, 860, pair, heavy shoes 1 00, pair, mens shoes congress or lace 125, 1 60,2 00, 800, hand sew ed shoes 4 00, pair, progans 1 Op, 1 85, 1 50, fcuy 'em. Hats for everybody 85c, up to 8 00, don t think of going hearheaed when you can buy hats so cheap. ' All kinds of Notions Special line of goods that Jerry" Simpson don't wear. We have a few Plows for' the least money any where. We keep on hand at all times bacon, flour, lard, coffee, sugar, canvassed 'hams anything you want in the grocery line. We want your produce at the highest market price, but will give you special prices for cash. Thanking our patrons for past favors, and will merit a continuance of same by giving you bargains, We are your friends, Deal & Seal. - i i UAVLHfuRT FEMALE COLLEGE f' Lenoir, N. C. Fall term begins Sept. 10th. Best Climate. Easy of Access. Moral and Refining Influence. Home Comforts. Scholarly Faculty; Thorough In struction, Practical courses of study, Special advantages in Music, Art, Elocution, &c. B"Superior, opportunities for those preparing to teach. Expenses moderate. Free Schol arships. Send for Catalogue. John D. Mimck. A. M.. Pres. I II I W L A N D The Emigbants Fbihxd Going West or North west Take the Chicago & Alton R. R. Parties contemplating going West will save time and' money going via the Alton route. It is the only line running solid vestibnled trains . be tween St. Louis . and Kansas City makes direct connection -for all points in Kansas, Nebraska, Color ado, California, Oregon, "Washing ton end Reclining chair cars - and Tourist Sleepers free of extra charge For low rates and full, information maps and diseution paphlets of th West apply to f ; ; ; k t J. Chablton, B. A. Nbwlaxln -G; P. A. - Tran. Pass Agent,. Chicago, 111.; . ... Asheville, N. O Deal trance hwi trewu ww vmv. n
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