ATigbtBein.
PArfttiti are sometimes
recom
mended to keep a tight rein upon
their children, but this is at beet
Ia The tfizht rein
nniiruuiai v c
.
sometimes aoes
more harm than
Kood, and the disposition of the
child must be studied if one would
learn when to curb him and when
to let him run free. No hard and
fast rule can be applied even to
the management of horses, much
less to the management of children.
. With one child the tight rein is
absolutely necessary ; with another
it is an irritant constantly sug
gesting attempts to break away
from control. Some children haye
to be driven; others can only be
led, and in general it is preferable
to lead them, for this course tends
to make them self-respecting andi
self-reliant. Sooner or later tne
tight 'rein must be related, and
' when tli at is done tjiere is danger
that the child who has been too
much repressed will be- found un
able to control himself. The par
ent eldom keeps control of his boy
long enough to make the tight rein
desirable. If the child should re
main under the control andguid
ance of Tiis elders from early in
fancy until he reached, maturity,
the tight rein might work very well,
but this is seldom -the, case. In
general there is an intermediate
period when the youth, free from
parental control, but not yet old
enough to be his own master, is
left without guidance4 from others.
It is then that the disadvantage of
the tight rein is exhibited. If he
has been kept at home and denied
his freedom (this beingthe usual
-methods of keeping a tight rein),
he is wholly without that expe
rience which might enable -him to
resist temptations and control his
passions. He is then in much great
er danger of falling a victim to the
vices of youth than though he had
been more liberally trained. He is
easily led into excesses to satisfy
his curiosity suddenly awakened.
A youth of more liberal training
has been gradually introduced to
the world-at Jarge; r he has been
given enough freedom to enable
him to respect himself, and he may
grow to maturity without ever in
dulging in the excesses figuratively
described as the sowing of wild
oats. There is the other disad
vantage of the tight rein that it
encourages hypocrisy, whereas the
loose rein, with wise' guidance, de
velops a frank disposition. There
are times, of course, when children
have to be restrained or even pun
ished, but in general they should
be treated from the first as reason
ing beings and be led rather than
driven. They should also be trust
ed more and more as they grow in
years, that they may become self
reliant and so far accustomed to
the ways ot the world that they
will not be taken by surprise when
thrown upon their own resources.
Surprise is sometimes expressed
that the sons of good men and
women have gone wrong. They
had the best of training, the world
says, and yet as a matter of fact
the fault has probably been with
the-training. Too tight a rein was
kept, and when at last it was re
laxed the released victim of too se
vere training engaged in excesses
with which he was before unfamil
iar. There is'no rule on the sub
ject; man is too complex to be
ruled in one way only, but it is
safe to say that the tight rein,
though it may be necessary in par
ticular cases, is not in general as
good a system to apply to the train
ing of children as that which al
lows them everrincreasing freedom
under guidance until the time
comes when they shall become (in
sensibly, it may be hoped) their
own masters. Baltimore Sun;
! Disfr&nchisd the Ifesro.
Bey. Dr. L. G. Broughtorv a
Southern preacher, has been tell
ing the New York people some in
teresting things about the negro.;
In a recent discourse he said that,
the solution of the negjro problem
was to be found in the repeal of,
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments of the Federal Constitution,!
or words to that effect. That pol-j
itics was at the bottom of the negro
trouble, and that if the negro
should be deprived of his right to
vote until he should be qualified
from an educational and moral
standpoint to exercise the priv
ilege of franchise, race antagonism
would soon be extinguished. j
The Philadelphia Times reviews
Dr. Broughton's sermon in extenso,
and while it does not absolutely
commit itself to his proposition, it
Ldoes not take issue with him, and
concludes its article with this sig
nificant paragraph :
The people of the North, since
the war. have been content to let
the colored people of the South
work out their own saltation, but
it looks as if the time has come for;
some united action and a final set
dement of the problem.
The Times has long since made
up its mind on this question and
has not hesitated to say that those
clauses of the Federal Constitution
which confer the right of suffrage
upon the negro should be forth
with repealed. We say this not in
any spirit of enmity towards the
negro, but in the interest of peace
and law and good government, and
in the interest of both races. - j
From the time that the ballot
was put into the hands of the ne
gro until now be has been a tool in
the hands oty designing politicians
and has given abundant proof that
he is not qualified to vote. More-!
over this right of suffrage has put
false notions into his head and has
been the primary cause of the clash
between the races. If the negro
should be disfranchised he would
be a better citizen, he would turn
his attention away from politics,
which has never done him any
good, .but always evil, to better
things, he would take altogether a
different view of life, and if the
hope were held out to him, as
should be done, that he would be
admitted into the enjoyment of all
the rights of citizenship as soon as
he should qualify himself, this
would be a stimulus to every black
man who had the ambition to bet
ter his condition. j
The objection is raised that this
would reduce the South's represen
tation in congress. Be it so. The
South would be so much better off
with the negro eliminated from
politics that it could well afford
to make the sacrifice of reduced
representation. ,
The people of the North are fast
opening their eyes to the true con
dition. The Republican party
would be quite willing to rid it
self of the incubus of the negro
vote, and. we believe that if the
Southern States should with one
accord petition for the repeal of
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend-!
merits of the Federal Constitution;
their petition would be answered.
Richmond Times.
8i Hoskin's Boy.
Passenger Agent Drake, on bis
recent trip to Denver, got hold of
a yarn about Arkansas, from a
Littje Rock school teacher who was
going to Los Angeles. This teach
er said that below Little Rock
eighty miles jwas a country that
was a century behind. Children
were not compelled to put on civi
lized dress until twenty-one years
old. He said he went down into
that particular section during the
holidays last winter hunting. Just
as the party got into a little town
that had the only postofflce for
forty miles, a big, burly young fel
low, looking a good deal as Adam
probably looked when he bossed
the Garden of Eden, came tearing
down the rocky street, swinging
his arms and clawing the rocks and
clamoring along, pursued by three
men. One of the party asked a
young ieuow who stood near the-
wagon, laughing, if ahat fellow
running was crazy. -
"Naw," he said, with a drawl;
"that's- Si Hoskin's boy. He is
twenty-one-years old today, and
they're trying to catch him to put
some clothes on him."
Bears the
Signature
of
The Kind Yea Haw Always Bought
Where Was Washington Wedded?
"Although one of the most inter
esting events in Washington's pri-j
vate life, his wedding has been1
comparatively neglected by the ma-!
jority of his biographers," writes
William Perrine in the Ladies'
Home Journal. "It is generally
agreed that the ceremony took
place- on the sixth of January (or
the seventeenth of January, new
style,) 1759. But as to whether it
was performed in St. Peter's church
in New Kent county, or at the home
of the bride, known as the 'White
House,' there is a wide variance of
opinion. The weight of local au
thority is against the belief that it
occurred in the church; nor is
there any record in the church in
dicating that the couple were mar
ried there, although its rector, the
Rev. Mr. Mossom, who had been in
the pulpit for forty years, solem
nized the contract. On the other
hand, those who insist that the
clergyman officiated in the church'
point to accounts that Washington
rode on horseback on the day of
the wedding, and that the pair
were attended by a bridal cavalcade,1
as evidence that there was a jour-;
ney between the church and the
home of the bride.x This, however,
is offset by the conjecture that thej
cavalcade was escorting the couple
immediately after their marriage
to Mrs. Custis's house in the town
of Williamsburg, or to Mount Ver-'
non, and that they were repairing
thither to spend the honey-moon.'
A Simple Cure . for Choking.
The remedy is simply this: To
immediately reverse j the upright
position of the body , by turning
the head down, with feet elevated;
when the patient will be relieved
at once, probably by I the pressure
of the stomach on the lunge, thus
forcing the obstruction out.
Returninff Property for Taxation.
. In his charge to the grand jury
Tuesday Judge Robinson paid his
respects to those persons who fail
to make a true return of their
property for taxation. His honor
could not have discussed a more
important matter. To secure a
proper return and assessment of
all property liable for taxation is
one of the problems of the . age.
It is amazing with what cheerful
ness men, otherwise good citizens,
will commit perjury when they
make their tax returns. They
seem to think, in fact this impres
sion prevails generally, that if they
can escape paying taxes on a por
tion of their property they are
guilty of a little sharp practice)
nothing more.
The Chatham Record told ' re
cently of a man In Chatham coun
ty who returned practically no
property for taxation and a short
time thereafter swore that he was
worth $4,000 in order to get credit
with a northern firm. A few days
ago a getleman told the Landmark
that the stock of a certain cotton
mill in Concord was worth $110 on
the market and was not to be had
at that price even. And vet he
said some of the owners of this
stocK returned it for taxation at
$65. In another case called to our
attention a piece of real estate sold
for $5,000 or $6,000 and the board
of. assessors assessed it for taxa
tion at $3,000, In still another
case the board of assessors assess
ed a piece of property at $60,000.
The owner wanted it assessed at
$45,000. The county commission
ers being appealed to, reduced the
assessment to $35,000. In the two
last cases, as in all oases of real
estate assessments, the boards of
assessors and -county commission
ers and not the owners of the prop
erty are to blame. But the indi
vidual is to blame when lie keeps
back a part or fails to put a proper
value on his personal property. Jf
all property was assessed at a fair
market value, as it should be, the
tax rate could be lowered and the
burden of taxation would bear
more equally. As it is the con
scientious citizen puts a fair valu
ation on his property and thus
pays his full proportion of taxes,
while he who is not so conscien
tious evades the law and does not
pay his full proportion. The citi
zen of small means, generally
speaking, pays more than his pro
portion because he has little and
what he has is generally given in
at a liberal valuation. Sometimes
his pride prompts him to make a
good showing and his property is
valued higher really than it should
be. The wealthy man often has
much property that no one but
himself is cognizant, and if he is
disposed not to tell the tax lister
about it he need not do so, and he
often chooses not to do so. '
The subject is a knotty one and
a remedy for it is not in sight, but
it is apparent to any casual ob
server that under our present sys
tem the Recording Angel must
necessarily engage extra clerical
help during the season when tax
returns are being made. States
ville Landmark.
Rides Horseback at 77 Years.
A. T. Townsend, Wier, Mississippi.
says : My mother was visiting me and
while here was taken 111. The best
doctor in this county was called In and
at the end of ten days said she coold
not live. I bad tried Ramon's Liver
Pills myself and in ray family and! I
insisted on her trying one. So at 6
o'clock p. m. she took one of the Pink
Fills and at next 7 a. m. she called for
something to eat. I continued with
the pills and in a week she was well
and has been in fine health ever since.
She is new 77 years old and can ride
on horseback any wnere something
she has not done for years. Any citi
zen in town will verify this statement.
There are twenty boxes of Ramon's
Pills sold in this section to one of any
other kind. For sale by Howard Gard
ner.
This is hardly a better story than
the one told on Vance, the great
North Carolinian. Vance was ih-
terupted in one of his poilitical
speeches by the loud and long
braying of an ass near by and the
crowd were a little inclined to laugh
at the speaker until he made them
laugh with him by saying: "Ire-
fuse to divide time with a Radical.
Grov7th of Finger Hails,
' tlTCrtt manv nanntA trtw ttlf ttlA
average growth of the finger . nails
is 1-32 of an inch per week ; or a
little more than an inch and a' half
per year," -observed a physician
recently to a Washington j Star
man. "The growth, however, de
pends to a great extent upon the
rate of nutrition, and during sick
ness and abstinence from! good,
nourishing food it is retarded.
Nails grow faster in summer than
in winter, and the growth differs
for different fingers, being usually
most rapid in the middlej finger
and slowest in the thumb. The
average time taken for each! finger
nail to grow its full length is about
four and a half months, and at
this rate a man of seventy years of
age would have renewed his nails
sixteen times. Taking the length
of each nail at half an inch be
would have grown seven feet! nine
inches of nail on each finger; and
on all his fingers and thumbs an
aggregate length of seventh -seven
feet six inches."
Beware off 1 mi
Consumers should beware of the cheap and
inferior washing powders said to be just as
-good as
Washing JPoudor
. They are not there is nothing so good as
the genuine GOLD DUST for all cleaning
about the house. Ask for COLD DUST
and insist on getting it. Made only by
THE N. L FAKBANK COMPANY,-
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Tellurium and Best.
It ia a curious property of the
compounds of tellurium that! they
have a putrid and unbearable odor.
Use has been made of this quality
to prevont excessive devotion to
society. A London paper tells of
a lady who was fagged out and al
most dead from constant indul
gence in the giddy whirl of balls
and receptions, but who would not
obey the peremptory orders of her
physicians to take a rest. The
doctor was equal to the occasion.
He gave her a pill containing a
small quantity of tellurium, with
the result that her breath became
too offensive to permit ber to see
anyone for a month. The narrator
adds that the doctor was I wise
enough not to inform his patient
of the ruse.
for Infants and ChlldrenT
The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne the ti'
turo of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under hi,
personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no on
to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitation and
' Just-as-good" arc but Experiments, and endanger tho
health of Children Experience against Experiment,
The Kind Tou Have Always Bought
1 t j.1 m x t o
j36iuo me oignaturu ui
In Use For Over 30 Years.
r. new took emr.
There is no argument so pood as an ab-
soiute, piain, trutniui statement or iact.
There is nothing so interesting as fact.
In the true happen
ings in the- every
day life of eyery-day
people are materials
for most thrilling
novels. There are
every day stories of
heroism, ' suffering
and the final tri
umph of good over
evil -of happiness
nnaiiy crowning en-
aeavor. iierei is a
case in point:
In the county of Escambia in Alabama
is the little town of Flomaton arid there
lives Mrs. Mollie Grimes. She was a
good wife and mother but several years
ago she found her health slipping away
from her. She realized that this meant
the inevitable nervousness and irritability
that would surely lose for her thVaff ec-
non oi ner cniidren and husband; and
that as her health declined discord and
misery would appear in her home. I She
was filled with tne loving motherly in-
suuci, uui iwu miscarriages in succession
almost broke her heart. She had almost
lost hope when the clouds rolled away
and the light of health and happiness
returned. i
Hold On !
Don't
Despair
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She tells her story in these words :
" I was almost heart-broken to think I could
not raise any more children and had to suffer as
I did. I had lost two children by miscarriages
ana x iuiit expeciea 10
lose another when, in
Atigust 1897, 1 learned of
anal-begun taking Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Pre
scription and took it un
til after baby was born
in November. With my
other children I had suf
fered everything that
flesh could suffer but this
time I was in perfect
health and had a very
easy time. I was in labor
only a short time. I can
not praise Dr. Pierce's
medicines enough for I
believe they certainly
saved my baby's life and
maybe my own life as
well. I took the Favor
ite Prescription and also the Pleasant I PeUets.'
Tbe ' Pleasant reuets ' act lixe a cnarm."
Insure your property against fire and see us before niacin? :'
get OUR RATES. We have strong companies, and all builneii
trusted to us will have prompt and careful attention. j
BOYD & GLENN,
Room No. 6 Katz Biildisj.
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If you intend to build or enlarge your house, come to us tor an timl;'
on Material. We will surprise you on prices. We make a specie;
mortgagee's Land Sale.
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During the civil war, as well
in our late war with Spain, diar
rhoea was one of the most trouble
some diseases the army had to con
tend with. In many instances it
became chronic and the old soldiers
still suffer from it. Mr. David
Taylor, of Wind Ridge, Greene
county, Pa., is one of these. He
uses Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy and Bays
he never found anything that would J
give him such quick relief. It is
for sale by C. E. Holton, Druggist.
Por Over Fifty Tears, j
Mrs. "Window's Soothing 8yrnp has been need
for over fifty years by millions of mother for
their children while teething, with perfect suc
cess. It soothes the child, softens tbe gums,
allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the beet
remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor
little sufferer immediately. Sold by Druggist
in everypart of the world. Twenty-five cents
a bottle. B sureand ask for "Mrs. Wmslpw'a
Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind.
By Tirtueof powers of sale contained in two
certain deeds of mortgage executed by! A. M.
tunas ana wiie. s. u. .uuss, 10 w.j.btaiey
the 29th day of January, 1391. and oh the 15th
day of March, 1895, respectively, registered in
the register's oBce of Guilford county in books
No. 83, pages J51 -55-55-57, and in No 98 1 pages
004-00-0 -ko, t wui uuci auu uy puuiic auc
tion for cash at the dwelling house on the prera-
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2G, 1899,
at IS o'olock the following described
tract of land described in said mortgages, to
wit: Being in Greene townibip, Guiltord, coun
ty, N. C, adjoining the lands of V. C. Smith, S.
Johnson, Frederick Iteitzel and others, bounded
as follows: Beginning at a stone, j running
thence west 176 poles to a stake near Smith
wood Academy, thence west 16 east 52 j poles to
a sione, mence nortn it poies to a stone,t tnence
north 16 east 31 poles to a stone, thence north 17
east zz poles to a stone the new division cor
ner, thence south 89 east 170 poles to a stone in
P. C. Smith's line, thence south 11 west 56 poles
to a black oak, thence south 15 west 60 poles to
the first station, containing 12 acres more or
less ana being on the waters or stinting quar
ters creek. )
This 2lst day of July, 1809.
W. J. STALEY. Mortgagee.
Executor's Sale'.!
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"OURSUANT to a decree of the Superior
JL Court of Guilford county in the case of T.
E. Balslev. executor of J. B. Balsley. deceased.
vi.cnas. G. ualsley, Wm,G. Balsley. Jacob A.
Balsley, et al. the undersigned as executor,
win on
- Vaut lAn ttitnl- a a mlnnfa nra ra anlltn rr KaIaif rOtl SS DO 0S8
can do business on that basis. Our motto : Large salessmall I profit.
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we can show you the largest stock in the South.
Guilford Lumber Company, Greensboro, & G .
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Monday, August 2Sth, 18
sell on the premises to the last and! highest
bidder, by public auction, the following de
scribed lot in the city of Greensboro, N. c la
Morenead townasilp. to- wit :
Bounded on the east by Ashe street,! on the
north by Walker Avenue, on the south by the
North Carolina Railroad, and on the jwest by
the lot of D. w. C. Bentibw, containing about
seven acres . - f
Situated convenient to the railroad,' with
advantage of side-track, this property offers
excellent sites for the location of manufactur
ing: plants of all kinds. p
There Is also on tne property two very good
dwellings, outbuildings and garden.
TEHM4 OF BALE One-fourth cash, one
fourth In six, and balance in 18 months, with
interest on deferred payments. Title retained
till purchase money Is fully paid. ,
T. E. BALScJtY, Executor,
' ' J. B. Balsley, deceased.
For further Information apply to T. K. Bals
ley, neiasviue. . c., or w. G. Balsley,
We 3a.are It txllr! nd B-Fram! k 'z7'
Flooring, OelHngr also tlx "best 2s.ea.rt fj "
press ctaa.d. TvLalper cunol sawed Xlnc w-r-
Sash, Doors and Blinds in stock. Door and Window Frame?, :
work and all kinds of house finish made to order. to0 co' '
It you are eoinz to huiid anytbine from a hen house to. a nu".
see us. We can fix you up and tbe price will be-right. tie c'u "
, jur country friends win nnd tney can reacn our ja. -wn
by crossing fewer railroads than any other Come t ee
- J0E17 A. H0CSI17. Secretary aai Treasurer, C:eer:v-::-
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We solicit the trade of this section and guarantee , ,.bl.r
custom work. We make a specialty , of "Our 1 ait ;h, elb'
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