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$5,000,000,000 FOR- $90,000! la lOL William Penn bought the ntp cf Pennsylvania for $90,000, Eow worth acre than $5,000,000,- 000 The opportunity for profitable in vestment comes to every man dur ing his day and generation. Such: an opportunity awaits your attention now, and the handwriting on the wall is unmistakable. Believing that values had touch ed bottom, and a reaction about to take place, we have stored up a stock of goods beyond anything ever attempted in tbo past, both as to 8ii9 and desirability. Everyone knows that cotton goods are advancing. The increase is al ready from 5 to 10 per cent., and higher prices yet are looked for. With a stock on hand sufficient to supply all old customers and many new ones, and with the purpose in mind of doing a largely increased business, we matte the announce ment that our prices on Dry Goods will remain practically unchanged for the present and in some instanc ei we shall name even lower prices than last season. The measure of success met with in our past efforts to UNDERSELL and thereby increase our sales and make new friends, warrant us in making this important Advertise ment. Everything points to a revival of business this Fall, and in placing ""ger orders greater care should be exercised. . To look at our stock before buy ,Qg can be no mistake. . We want the LION'S share of the wade of Western North Carolina 8aa to that end invite an inspec ''on of our offerings with full con-. n4enoe as to the result. Thanking our many friends for weir past liberal favors, we are Very Respetfnlly, r: WALLACE BROS. 8tteivillt-N..O., May 28, "95. DEMOCRACY FAVORS S1LVE8. Si Sijs Ex-CoBgressDii Bewsr. WUkesboro Chronicle. Ex-Congressman W. H. Bower, of Caldwell, was in the city last week and the Chronicle mtn put a few questions to him concerning the sil ver and gold question. He spoke freely and politely to the questions "Is Democracy in favor of and pledged to the coinage of silver upon an equality with gold?' we asked. "The history and all the tradi tions of the party are unbroken in the direction of the recognition of the primary money of the country. Prior to 1873 it never entered the mind of any patriotic American of any party to demonetize silver. De mocracy especially has at all times stood pledged to the maintenance of gold and silver as money metals and to the unlimited coinage never at a ratio greater than 16 to 1. While the national platform of 1892 was held to be ambiguous, the friends of silver were iastified in placing a construction upon it that was high ly favorable to that metal and its continual coinage upon terms as fa vorable as existed before 1873 If the President, Mr. Carlisle and oth er leading lights of the gold per suasion had mental reservations on the subject they were careful to keep them till the fight was ever. Under the State platform of 1890 and 1892 Democracy of this State took a strong and unequivocal posi tion on the subject of silver and while a few leaders may have been coquetting with the matter the bulk of the party was in dead earnest about it and meant exactly what the phi'orm said And they still mean it, and in my opinion, will be very explicit in their decla ration next year." "Did we not have the coinage of both metals npon an equality before '1873 and was the Sherman act a crime?" "As I have already said, prior to 1893 there was no hostility or dis parity between gold and silver. They went hand in hand, together per forming their common mission. The Sherman act of 1873 Btruckdown silver, and I think Mr. Carlisle was right in declaring the act "the gi gantic crime of the age." "It cer tainly was a crime in all those who knowingly assisted in its enactment; and only the ignoront can be ex cused for the part they (o)k in the matter" "Is not the policy of the gold stand ardi tea at present similar to the Sherman policy as evidenced by brthe act of 1873?" "It is similar to it. and yet it is more manly and open While there is some deception on a part of a few of the gold advocates, most of them are boldly advocating their policy which is to bring the country event ually to gold mono metallism. This is more tban Mr. Sherman and his confederates dared to do in 1873 " "If there be changes of conditons that make it rfecessary for the adop tion of the gold standavd.as the gold advocates claim, what are thosq changes?" "I fail to see any new conditions to jestify the demonetization of sil ver. A few of the leading Euro pean nations have demonetizsd sil ver since 1873, but they stand ready to remonetiz3 it, when ever a great country like ours leads. They fol lowed our example in the one in stance and can do so in another." "When advocating the uncondi tional repeal of the Sherman pur chasing law, did not the Democrats and Democratic newspapers of North Carolina, promise that th.ere would be supplementary silver legisla te ?" "While -the act repealing the Sherman act of 1890. was pending in the last Congress, the most dog matic advocates of gold scouted the idea that the coinage of silver was to be antagonized by the passage of that sot. The argument was re peated that the Sherman act stood in the way of silver ooinage, and its repeal was a step towards the resto ration of silver to its old position as money. The press of this State that favored the repeal as a rule, took this view of the matter." "What effect upon Democracy will this agitation have, and- who is responsible for it f" ." "The people are mostly responsi ble for the agitation. They began it and will keep it np to the close of the fight - Those who have made the assault on silver of course aro greatly responsible for the heat of the agitation." "In your opinion, will the next Democratic National platform de clare for the gold standard or bi metalism ?" "It Is hard to say. If the Demo crats of the States that are to give the Democratic electoral votes, are allowed to fix the platform, it will be fixed in favor of free and unlim ited coinage of silver." "What would be the prospects of Democratio success, with a gold standard platform ?" "We would not have a ghost or a chance of success with a gold plat form or 'a gold candidate, m my opinion. With such a condition and snob: a State platform there would notice fire enough left in the party in this 8tate to complete the party organization." CEEEBFUL BEUB1QI New YorHerald. Be of rood cheer? I John xTi.; 83. tie world. W&t a difference bat ween the re ligious outlook of today and that of two erthree generations ago! Is it because the world is ..degenerating or because it has a deeper love and reverence for the truth ? . It used to be said that the best sermon was one that made the hear er crduh in the pew es tLough Sa tan werfe after him. In these times no such sermons are preached, or, if they are, it is in soma obscure cor ner where the licben flourishes and the moss on the rosns is wet with everlasting and malarial humidity Have we turned our backs on holy things (or do we see with clearer eyes? S , It is ap age of blessed optimism, for which we cannot be too thank ful. We love forms and ceremonies less thin formerly, ! but we love truth more The standpoint from which we view religious eut j.cts has changed, and we look upon creeds with an almost reckless indifference, but the fundamental facts of the re ligious life are more dominant than ever, and: spiritual verities are more profoundly appreciated and more vigorously defended. We have a grander ideal for the present and a more encouraging prospect for the future. A wave of cheerfulness and hopefulness is sweeping over the world with a tidal flow that is irre sistible, and the 'earth is a sweeter planet to live on, while heaven has come so near that we can hear the rustle of angels' robes and catch the echo of oar loved ones' voices It is a great privilege to be alive today, because we have a keener secee of the fatherhood of Odd and the brotherhood of man. Fear as an element of the religious life has been eliminated, and leve, which is to the soul what sunshine is to the field of wheat, has taken its place The heart rejoices, but does not dread: and even in the d rest peril, when wind and wave seem cruelly omnipotent we feel secure in the consciousness that the Pilot at the helm has never lost a ship. There are no lee rocks in the Providence of God, nor any currents that can carry us put of our course. Tne Lord has charge of our safety, and He never slumbers nor sleepi. - That ia the religion of our age bright, cheery, buoyant. No gnm, capricious theological tyrant rules your destiny and for His good pleasure aooms von to either tem porary or eternal misery; no angry Deity tolerates yonr presence or vis its you jnth the evidences of His wrath; you are not wandering h pa lessly through a vale of tears, a child ofuniquity, with the brand of Cain onc your brow. You aro a. wayward (and sometimes a wanton creature, self willed and obstinate, whom the Father is trying to lead in paths of; righteousness, and you need nothing excep; the Christ ppirit to set everything right and make you life a corner of para dise. s Your faults that you trust your self too much and Him too little. You are nop enough of a child in tbis matter, for when it is dark and grewsome the" child clings closer to J the mother side; but when you are smittaa by mlaforima you 1st slip your grasp onHim and bitterly ac cosa him of neglecting your inter eats. At the very moment you need help most youeparate yourself from fie source of succor and become en feebled by your distrust of His good ness. Such itfthe perversity of hu man nature. You find the necessity for daily work very irksome, perhaps, and onerous Why you ask, should you be doomed to constant toil for daily bread ? That question is not easily answered, and the hardship of the common lotfor it is the common lot, cannot be denied. It is, how ever, futile to wonder why we shall have Insure to solve the prob lem by and by. In the- meantime how shall wet make the best of onr environment and extract from it all the honey it Conceals? By wdrri ment and -cynical criticism? By grumbling because the universe' is not maadsas we woald have made it? S . Christ's lif) was one of toil and suffering, and yet ho found a divine satisfaction in the law contained in the statement' Father work- eth hitherto, and I work." Why should we be better off than he was ? Your aim should be to do what you can with whajpyou have. When thirgs go ill witbyou it is better to go to God than to go away from Him. He isnot your enemy but your friend; Je is not indifferent but solicitous, agd as your faith in creases so will yoir strength be en larged. That is- thoti law, and, though it is bird to understand it, a blessing always follows obedi ence. T ... Religion- is well enough when the sky is cloudless, tut it is absolutely necessary in timeCof trouble. It is not - a broken red, but a strong staff. The more ou have of it the lighter your burden beoomes. That faot belongs to th necromancy of life. The harder yonr trial, the deeper your faiththat is the rule to follow. Even whehs death despoils you of your treasure, say with trembling lips, "It Ufwell," and the LENOIR, N,C WEDNESDAY, heart will glow and brighten like the blazing log on the winter hearth stone. And when you lie down to die yourself stretch out your hands to- heave a and ange's will come trooping down to bear you in their arras That is practical religion, and un less your religion is practical it is of ni value whatever. ilr. Patlirssn Splits. Hon. S. L. Patterson, the new Commissioner of Agriculture, in the Bulletin, speaks as folio wb: I am deeply impressed with the responsibilities which devolve upon me in entering npon the duties of the office of Commissioner of Agri culture. So must 'any thoughtful man be who realizes the small ad vance farming ha3 made in latter years compared with other industrial pursuits, and who considers mature ly the difficulties which confront the farmer and the problems he must solve. But with an implicit faith in the possibilities of an untold develop-, ment of the industry, believing that all in all the sun shines on no bettor portion of God's foot-stool than North Carolina, and that no other section is inhabited by a truer and braver people, I begin to work with an enthusiastic hope of aiding in this development, and of contrib uting to that material prosperity which will certainly reward intelli gent and well directed efforts of our people. To inspire the farmer with renew ed love of his profession, to incite him to constant improvements in conducting bia work, to give him information on practical subjects reU ting to it, to inform him of sci eutitic experiments and the results of anilyses, to study intelligently h ia interests, and to seek to protect them in every available way, these are the objects of this Depart ment. . It will be the constant and earn est aim of the Commissioner on his part to increase the usefulness and efficiency already attained by the D'ptrtment and to bring into closer and closer tonch with the people. He asks them, on their part, to take a more personal and lively in terest in the Department's work, to correspond withfand give him sug gestions, to give results of farm ex periments, of large crop yields, and the methods and cost of producing them; to inform him of any public meeting of farmers, farmers' clubs, local fairs, and th like, that he may visit them in a word, he begs the farmers to realize that the De partment must have their co opera lion and hearty support to attain to its full measure of usefulness, and be invites tham and rrgea them to join in a mutual effort to advance cur agricultural interests, and there by to contribute to their own mate rial welfare and to the upbuilding of Noith Carolina Too Many Diversified Interests. MorganU n IleriM. Oar exchanges say that a farm "has been established" iu Union county to raise turtles for market. Charlotte has a breeches factory that is preparing to make bloomers. Sampson county sella this year $10, 000 worth of huckloberrifcs. A mon goose ranch has been established in Buncombe Sbep Dogger, of Ban ner Elk, writes novels. Albemarle and Pamlico sounds are being stock ed 'with a slow winged breed of ducks that Presidents can shoot. Our eastern counties have shipped this year $5,000,000 of early "gard en sass" We had been selling mon si te up in these, diggings a year before the scientists knew there was any in America. Acetylene gas in quantities sufficient for illuminating purposes is a discovery of a North Carolina laboratory We are grow ing everything from bananas to buckweat. We have every breed .of politicians from "plutercrats" to Populists, including the great flower of the political garden, the double white and "yeller" floer called by botanists the fuschiana Marianbut lerenaij S)me eminent Raleigh Democratio botanists are now ex perimenting with the pollen of this plant on the rose of Democra cy. We havo prayed for diversified industries. We've got them. But the thing may be overdone. Sn the World's Ftlr for Fifteen Celts. Upon receipt of your address and fifteen cents in parage sump, we will mail you prepaid our Souvenir Portfolio of the World's Colnmbian Exposition, the regular price is fifty cants,- but as we want you to have one, we make the price nominal You will find it a thing of art and a thig to be prized. It contains f nil page views of the great buildings, with descriptions of the same, and is executed in the highest style of art. If not satisfied with it after you get it, we will ref and the stamps and let you keep the book. Address, H. K Bucklen & Co , Chicago, 111. The teacher New, who can tell me which travels the faster heat or cold ? - Johnnie Bright (promptly) Heat, of course. Anybody can catch cold." JTJIJT 24 , i 895. Tit In AgricBltsri. A Losk ills tki Futon. Cor. New and Obeerrer. FBAjrKLor, N. C, July 10. For several years my vacations haye baen spt among the farmers. The condition of the farmer inter ested me and I was sure that the only way to understand him was to live with him. And now I have a few obaeryations to report. All over the State the farmer is in a bad way. He is not improving his farm. His bank account has gone years ago The children are not being educated. Debts are ac cumulating. What is the cause cf this state of things I answer without hesitation. The farmer himself. The method of work and man agement with the average farmer would wreck any business m the world. I do not think there is any other business in which there is so much waste as in our farming. For example, in making manure the farmer loses all the urine from his 8 took. Now a ton of urine is worth ten times as much as a ton of solids. This is one example I could name fifty more in which the waste was simply ruinous. Alongside of waste I place a Uck of method. The farmer does not keep up with his business. He does not know what his products cost him. He does not know what product is best suited to certain conditions. And the result of this lack of method is two fold. lathe first place he has boarders among hs stock and luxuries among his necessities. In the second place we have the absurd condition of the consumer setting his own price up on the necessities of life, grown by the farmer. The farmer does not know the actual cost of a bushel of corn, hence the consumer, knowing the value of it, sets the price. No other I u tineas in our State is conducted as farming is. Hence there has baan prosperity in all the lines of life except farming. The factory running in a rigidly business-like Way. has made rioh the owner. The revolution in teaching methods has brought an educational awakening among our people all over the State, and aa a result every good school is prospering The far mer alone has been left behind, and I repeat it, the cause is with the farmer. This letter ia headed "Toe New Agriculture." It has taken me sev eral years to see that there ara forces at work now strong and confident that will bring in a brighter day for the farmer. I am satisfied that my little title is not imaginary. Lst me -make good this a33ertiou by exam ples. I have visited aai studied three farms this summer The first was a fctooifarmia Rowan. Five years ago the land of this farm would produce five to'is of ensilage to the acre; nov it produc ;a seventeen tons Tae C03t of this eajilage stor ed in th.' silo is eighty cents a ton. The proprietor of this farm can tell you to the cent about about every thing on the farm His unthols are exactly like the methods in a successful bank or faotory. And this is the result: When I told him the salary of the President of the University, he laughed at me and said he could make more money raising stock. The other two farms are in the mouutains and are given to a varie ty of crop3 that is, to the crop that pays. On one of these farms the taxes, when the present owner bought it, . were fifteen dollars; now the amount is one hundred and fifty. This tells the story. The other farm, bought seven years ago, produced when bought five bushels of corn to the acre Last year eighty seven bushels to the acre were gathered The pro prietor told me that the farm was paying eight percent and it is sure to do better. Now for the explanation. It is in a few words: S'ook. no wa3te, business methods. The basis of our agricultural revival is improved stock. Every farm should have a dczdn good cows.' Put these in a good barn. Save all the manure, urine and solids. Make hay to teed them. Have improved hogs for the surplus milk. The hogs cost noth ing, feed the family, and buy the groceries, and the manure from the stock means rioh land, and rich land means big crops, and heavy crops mean profits.' In .brief, these are the results of my observations. They are offered iu the desire to bring help and sug gestion to our farmer. . . -H. H. Williams. Relief ia Six Boors. Distressing Kidney and Bladder diseases relieved in six hours by the "New Great Sonth American Kid ney Cure. I This new i remedy is a great surprise on account nf its ex ceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys, back and every part of the urinary passages in male or female. It relieves re tention of water and pain in passing it almost immediately. It you want qaick relief and cure this is your remedy. Sold by W. W. Scott, Druggist, Lenoir, N. C. 12194m SaUearilla Landmark. There is every human probability that! the alliance formed last year between the Republicans and Pop nlists of North Carolina will be con tinued next year. All the news c f the present time points that way It has been suggested that fusion between these elements next year will be impossible for the reason it will be a national election that and end lb at the faith of the Populists Republicans bing different at every point, a solid union cannot be effected. Thoee who thas argue have! not looked beneath the surface They have been considering princi pies, and believing that all men vote cn principle, whereas the Populists and Republicans of North Carotin are merely out to beat the Demo crats; and for what they can make They conld mix an electoral tckel and Commit it to nothing except op position to Democracy. They could mix la State tioet as they did last year,! and call upon their follower to fall in and beat the Democrats Those Democrats who lay to their souls! the n.ttering unction that differences upon tariff, finance or other momentous questions win keep refer these allies apart need only to to the history of last year when the alliance was formed in spite of thesa differences. The leaders, aa a matter of self interest, for the spoils in sight, will brush party differences aside; and the blind followers will take whatever is offered tbem. In j the almost certainty of thie continued coalition we find this much comfort: Certain so called Democrats at least men high in the party councils and men believ ing that tha whole weight of respon sibility for party management rests on them, are, we sincerely believe, making ready to make overtures to Marion Butler for a coalition be tween the Democrats and Populists. A rebuff awaits them. Butler and the Populists will not trade with them, having a prior engagement, These are the men who have wanted all thia time to yield up everything Democratic, excepting the name, to the farmers' Alliance and the Popu lists. It will be worth something to those who stand on principle and who believe in decency in politics to 8eethe8e panderers and time servers humiliated by Butler's refusal to co operate with them. He has no re3pect for them and no confi dence1 in them and nobody can blame him. I But, with a continuauce of the same fusion which defeated it last year, what is the Democratic party to do? It should plaat itself upon the rock upon which it hu stood through all tae yeais and appeal to the wjaole p 3ople, Democrats, Re publicans and Populists, for an ex prdssibn of popular trust in its true p iiciples and policies and in its proved capacity to give honest, safe, economical and enlightened govern ment! If it stays where it belongs the people aro bound to come back to it; They hava been swept off their (feet before now but have never failed to recover themselves They will ajgam look for the Democratic partyjus the bast custodiau of their pubfif interests, but if it would be found by them in the hour of tfcpir returning reason it mubt be found where they left it. Otherwise not 8t all.j - Ski Chirms all People. In a sermon in Biltimore recent ly Rev. Walter W. Moore, of North Carolina, preaching on "Internal Beauty," said: "Porhaps this dis tinction can be made still clearer by taking the concrete ca3e of a person who, in my judgment, combines both jkind3 of beauty. I suppose the most popular woman in the worldj today is the wife of the Pres ident !of the' United States. What is the! secret of her fascination for all classes of people, regard le83 of their ! political opinions or social rank? Not her position aa mistress of the White House, nor her official station as "the first lady of the land, for these passed away once withofut diminishing a jot of bx social popularity and power. Not the fact that she ia pretty, though ' she unquestionably i. That is not her chief charm. She is not only pretty but beautiful. Aa she was leaving Washington at the close f her husband's first administration, ex Secretary Bayard Eaid to her: " 'pood bya You brought noth ing bat sunshine with you, and you are taking a great deal of it away.' "That remark giveams the clue t her influence. She is not only beautiful without, she is beautiful within. She charms all classes of people, not because she is young and pretty and distingu'shed merely, but became she has the sweet dignity and grace of a pure and lovely Christian character." W. H. Nelson, who is in the drug business at Kingville, Mo., has so muchl confidence in Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem edy .that, he warrants every bottlo and offers to refund the money to any customer who ia not satisfied af ter using it. Mr. Nelson takes na risk in doing this because the reme dy is ja certain cure for the d senea for which it is intended end be knows it. It is for sale by W. W. Scotti druggist. NUMBER 43. I DAVEH PORT COLLEGE Lenoir, N. O. -o Superior Advantages for both Sexes. Fa 1 Term begins Sept. 12th. If you are interested in a good ed ucation, call or send for a Cataloguer John D. Mrnick. A M Pres. New Barber Shop, West Main Street. It you want a good ahaT or hair out oocm to m and glr me a trial. All work doo In Um boil ctjl. New chain, sharp rasorm, aoft handa. I can always bo found at my shop No. 1, Joaas Honas Bow. I solicit you patronage. THOS.W. BHXIX. DR. -IB. W. SCOTT, LENOIR, N. C.,1 I Dealer in Pare Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals. 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