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VOL. XXU-TJIIIID SERIES
for Infants and
C airl a is so veil odiptcd to children that
I -oplpumJ Itsis superior to acy prescription
taown to me." II. A; Anemia, ZI. D.,
Ill So. OiXord St, Brooklyn, S, Y.
' Th" v of 'Castorta fa eo nnlversal and
u n.Hi its so well knovntfeM; it seems a work
I f ,,fPTfToeati(n to endorse it. ew ore the
InUiwnt f am'.liM who do tot keep C&storia
lie Taetor Uiocmlnsalo Kelormod Church.
N.er orK uuy.
V , Tub Cehtaur
B3SST
Tills space belojigs to W
m3
I ate i
.If
Carrie the Largest Jtock of
Ti 1
1 urniiure, r laiios ana organs
' . 4
To. do Founi zs
do i?oun
BjgY
I Buy in
rgo Quantities Direct from Factories
and Will Give
Write for Catalogue niicl l?iice:
.. Gooas Maiel if not Saiisfactory. .
Mention flic Watchman
POMJ
WOAL!
.dill
4 Taviii!? 'LToatlv incroa-sod
OB
v . . O C - y
WCOAL c-omiiij season, I would now again respoct
!ly solicit any and orders entrusted to me, promising to
1 -rnisli ,yi promptly with . what coal you may want at the lowest
Market price. T order to obtain advantage of -the lowest sum
r RK es, you should at once send" ino vourorders. Remember
, liuntlJo onl v the best m-udes
' JaO.u Asli. Snit.-iblp fur trvio
, "VH'P on hand at all times
T
SflTES
VILLE MA
Is ths Place to Get Hcnuments, Toinbstonss; S,c-
tisf !. . ' riiaiu I 31AKI:,1
f11-1" very respect ami posi lively
G-ranite Monuments
1' . Of all u specialty " .
C. B. WEBB,
Mention the Watchman lyhen you wit"
- iwM't ,r,,. , ' mLJruMiTrrcnn 1 n H" "n ' - ' ' "" ' V ! " ": - .' - -'. - ; :i
..-m -.'.t-..
Children.
Caxtoria enres Colic, Constipation,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Lructation,
Kills 'Worum, gives sltsep, and promotes di-
e-estion,
"Without injurious medication,
u For several years I have reconiTnende4
your Castoria, and shall always continue to
do so as it Las invariably produced beneficial
results,"
EowiK P. Pardisb, M. y
ThO "Wthi-op," liSth Street and Tth Are
Kw York City.
Company, 77 McttftAT Stbkkt, Kkw York.
II. Rclsnor. Watch it,
tlic Siato,
"flHQ'-'TaYSlCLE!
Low Prices.
ANDREWS,
E. M. ANDREWS,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
when j-ou write.
QRTABL
mv facilities -for liandlinir and
of screened Coal, includinu:
tt-o-? heritors. A'O. -
the finest ir ratio of blacksmith
ATT T7M RPOWM
J XI Li 14 4. f A-iVf V
- : to arrive in a lew rtavs
I guarantee
vj!l not be undersold..
" PjiOPlliETOR,
RBLE
Wanted A Uttlc HirU
Where have ttiey gou to the girl girl '
Willi natural tnnnne3 al oaturHl turls,
Who lovctheir doU? And Hke thir toy,
And lalk 01 soraetWWg nesid'cs e cj s : :
' i i
kittle old wom in plenty t find,
iatVie in mAnners and old of mind; ;
LUtlc old flirts who talk of their 'beaux,'' '
And Vie with each other in stylish clothea.1
Little old belles, who at nine and ten, i j
Are 5ick of pleasures and tir?d of men,
Weary of travels, of balls, of fun
And find no new things under the sun.
Once, in llie lenlitiful lonjr ago,
.Sonic dear little children. I used to know;
I iris who merry ns lambs at play,
And hvughed and rollicked the livelong day.
They thought not at all of the "style?!
Of
their clothes, " jj
They never imagined that boys were "beaux;"
;0ther .girl's brothers" and mates" were
they : - j j
Splendid ifeUows to help ihtra pUy.
Where fcave they gone to? l( yoH see m
?nc of theri arvj wIiiTe, senil her to me.
1 would give a medal of purest gold
To que of these dear littlttgirls of old,
Willi an innocent heart aiid an open smile, -
ho knows not the .meaning ot 'flirt"
"stle."
Boston IMoi.
or
All Unliappy Happy Man.
Ifit In possilile for a happy lroarvto
l)e iiiisenible, I'm that man. T have
quite enough of this world's goods to
make me comfortable, a tight roof over
my Itead and a warm hearthstone for
my feet, and yet I'm miserable that
is to say my Inppiness is sulgect- to
stich sudden and unexpected inter
ruptions that I'm never able thor
oughly to enj iy the good things which
have fallen to my share.
It all comes from my having one of
the best wives in the world, but stilj a
wife with a, defect. Yes, with an in
c.ur.ible defect, for after ten years try
ing I'm no nearer a cure than I was
when I commenced.
njay describe my wife's defect ;it;
the'fo'lowin terms: An uncoutrpl
;ibie inclination to think of Iter some
thing else when I want her to thiukjof
my something else.
The coi.s quence is that although
sue is one or lue most trtistwortuv
wor.ian that ever darned a stockinir or
made two iww soils of clot Ins for t lie
boys-out of. one of my old ones, yA I
never can know es.ictly what she is
going to d..
When I muke known my v ihes lo
Eiizibeth such is her name, God bless
her she hu.ks me calmly and tenderly
into the eves and murmurs:
k- Yes, dear." "
ljut that "yes dear" might just as
well be spoken by one of Kdisou's
talking dolls so far as it expresses her
thoughts at that moment, tm- as I have,
said she is. always yes, always-- t hi lik
ing or her somet limg else when 1 uaiit
her to think of urj something else. '
And the tioul!e is I don't dare man
ifest the least suspicion that she is
loing so. Site at6nce becomes mildl
indignant u?;d asks u;e in a tone
tinged with sarcasm:
"Samuel Duck," that" my given
name, God bless ine too, "didn't you
hear me say yes dear ?"
Of course I heard her say 'yes
de.tr" and I mu-t confess that her
"yes dear" has such an honeitand per
suasive ring to it that it would satisfy
doubting Thon;as himself.
Knowing that Monday was J'!:, -iietii's
b'Tiled dinner day I said to her
last! Saturday:
"You know Podgerly, Jaiza'bpth, one
of my best customers. Well, he is in
town and I want to have him take
dinner with us Monday. Please have
a mre roast.
'Yes dear."
Would you believe it, when Pod
gerly and 1 entered the trout door the
odor of corn beet and cabbage was
strong enough to float a pine board. !
Did she mean to be unkind to me
and give Podgerly a boiled dinner?
Bless your heart m ! Si e w is
merely thinking of Iter something else
when I went to her with my some
thing else.
We always give a little pirty on my
birthday, and this time Lsaid:
'EHz ibeth, don't invite Ike Munu;
I want to invite Billy Dunn this year.'-
"Yes dear."
I must expl tin that Munn and
Diiun are rival lawyers in our town
and never fail to get into a wrangle at
the table and thus make it extremely
i n :omfortable for every one present. ;
To my almost speechless surprise in
walked Munn along side of Dunn, both
in a violent uisnnte over a cow case
which thev had just argued in court
The part7 was a failure, but I griiir
ned and bore it, all for Ei.z tbeth's sake.
1 was called to town last week to
meet Senator Ijoggs; Lig man m onr
State iiuportant business.
Elizabeth always packs mv valise;
She says it's a woman's work, God bles$
her!
"Put in my Ulapk suit, Elizabeth
"Yes dear."
Tois time I plucked up courage and
said t - ' 1 !
Ll.zabeth, ou understood me; mv
black suit."
uYes, dear, perfectly well; you want?
your black suit. 1 know what people
mean when they say 'black suit.' " ;
Incredible us it may-sound, she must
have uttered these words with her lips
only. Her thoughts must have beeli
on jer something else and not on nit)
i-omething else. She could have heard
a Word I said, for when I opened my
valisp o, drqs for the call on the j-u-H
SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1891. K
tor there was my pepper aid sail!
Think of it, my jepper jind saltt Two
liundred milns froui hoiii? with my
pepper and salt in my 'valisiytny butter
suit on my back and Senator Boggs
waiting for nie nt the Iioteh
When our last baby was born we
talked over names far several week
We couldn't settle "tipaii' one that
pleased us both, I wanted to name
hi 111 S uuue! Duck for me while she
inclined to Josiah Peebles her father's
givetl llalue liut seeeiug that I quite
Set my heart rui Samuel Duck, she
yielded God "bless herJ
"Yes, dear-, Samuel Duck it shall be,"
said she genHy and sweetly 1
I had an attack of cholera morbus
Saturday !ght and.could not get to
church that morutttfbut as site left
the mom ! said:
"Ueni mber, Klin .belli, Samuel
Duck,'
- Yes dear;1
This time I hud the most perfect
conhdence in Elizabeth. But could
you believe it, when she brought the j
little youngster into the ,rooui she !
tossed him into the air and sang out
R'y'y1' . t 1
"Here he is, papa! U.re is Josi.di 1
Peebles Johnson, . I r.!" f
lle..ven forgive me. but I hated !
Josiah t'eeblea Julinson, Jr., tor tuliy
fave minutes.
But, thought I, what difference does
it makeV He will give us just the
same trouble no matter w hat his name
I have wanted to haveStrvker Tad
Stryker up to supper for a long time,
s ) one day last week I said to my wifr; ;
"Elizabeth, do you remember 1 ad .
Strvker!'
"Yes dear."
"Well, he's been jilted by Tabby
Doolittle. Poor fellow it hurts,
know it does, although he puts 011 a
smiling face and pretends to be quite
as happy now as uheiuhe old squire's
h'ftv thousand was starinsr him 111 th
face. What 1 want to say is, bear it ' critical audiences. He poured out a
in mind and don't, as von "used to do, ' o1lss f water, carelessly- scraped a nut
ask how Tabby is. You'll remember, meg into it, and after removing his
won't youV" " j coat, necktie and collar, headranci'd to
tes, ore
V.-rTtiRT." !
r.mcv
f
eeiinr
, when
around
the
for
ho!
th
biscuits
VV 1 l:U
sed
second time, to hear my Elizabeth cry
out gayly:
"By the way, Mr. Stryker, how is
Tabby? Alt you're a ba ky man, Mr.
Stryker, such' a girt as Tanby doesn't
grow every day. Sh.-'s a jwel, Mr.
Sir ker. and a j'wel in a pure gold set
ting, isn't sin1, Siniuei?" she queried,
turning to me to buar her out.
Well, I was knocked clean out, so
was btrvker. I had to do something
ind do it at one', so I g.ive an uu-1
earthly veil.
"For heaven's sake what's the mat
er? ' gasped my wife. j
'Did von sift that flower" 1 asked,
"Mere' yes) ' she exclaimed,
"I'm afraid not, Elizabeth," I
1 j' ill f ti 1
moaned, for 1 uelieve 1 swallowetl a
hoop nail !'
That saved btrvker. Mv wife mane
a dash for the medicine chest and 'Te
amed with the castor oil hottle. but I
was feeling better and re! 8 d to take
1 f 1 I . !
;mv; however lor ine rest ui tne even
ing that hoop nail k?jt her thoughts
busy With me.
I said nothing after Stryker left,
Whats the use? The good Lord has
made her so and so she will remain till
ihe end; but take her all in all, Eliza
beth is a prize, a real prize.
We have no right to expect ovr
wives to be perfect. If they were, we
shouldn't, he worthy of them. So I
shall continue to bear my little burden,
as no doubt you, dear reader, have to
bear yours.
And here ends the ta.e ot an nn
happy happy man.
Slie Cciildn't Play A Too Common
Case.
She had been taking music lessons
for fifteen years, so when they asked
her to play we naturally expected
treat
"You really must excuse me, I am
entirely out of practice."
"Oh", do play, Mi Foots,"
"But I never play without mv
notes."
"Now, Miss Foots, you are so un
kind, and we're all dying to hear yon."
"I should be delighted, but really
I-"
But they insisted, and she was finally
pievailed upon to se.it herself at the
piano. And when it was too late, and
after she had begun to knock down
uiid'drng gut poor old "Heavenward,'
they discovered that she was oat of
practice, and that she couldn't play
without her notes, or with them
either, as some of Ihe people
wha coaxed into it were mean t n 01 gh
to say. The moral is contained in the
following, frmn tho Detroit Free Press:
"When a lady who has been taking
music lessons for the past eight ears
hangs back and blushes and says she
really can't play, don't insist on it.
The chancps are she can't. Cincinnati
Saturday Night.
HQi
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The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
BriiL-e, Sores, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores,
TetUr, Chipped Hands, Chilblains.
Corns and all rskin Eruptions, .ami posi
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is "uarnnteed to give perfect satisfaction
or lnoitey refunded. Price 25 eeuts per
box. For Side by T. F. Kluttz & Co.
Ch'Idrcn Cry for Pitcher's Castoria
Till: COTTON BLOSSOM CLUB.
Ceeellectirtu Johnson, of Xortli Caro
lina, Electrifies It.
i
After the meeting had been regu
larly Opened, Brother Gardner an
nounced that the regular routine of
business would be sii$p2nded in order
to listen to an address by the Hon.
Recollection Johnson, of Goldsboro,
N. C., who had arrived in Nw York
two jays previously. The title of the
address was giver, as "Does riches make
happiness; or, why should xveet milk
sour during a thunder-storm?"
"Befo dis pusson,-vwho is now in
de auntyroom, is let into iie hall, I
want to say a few words,'' observed
the president. -In de fust place, 1
want Eider) Toots an' Judge Cadaver
to keep awake doorin' de lecture. It's
an insult oij a man lo go to sleep an'
snore while he am talkin'. In de next
place, if Shindig Watkins frows dat
cucumber which he has trot in his
pocket at Samuel Shin, i shall be
lookin' right at him, an' befo' de
tueetiu' closps his fitcher life will be
made wretched. Kurnel Cabiff an'
Judge Che wso had better git as fur
from each odder as possible, an' I shall
depend upuij Giveadam Jones to keep
his eye upori Uncle Dradleyrn' de old
ntan Taylor.: Da honorabl
e gen lan
M
will now be brung in
HFvis
III
151. o XG.
The man from the Tar-1 feel State
created a favorable impression at first
glance. He was the beau ideal of an
orator three stories high, loose in the
n-J nuts and a wild expression to
eyes. As he took his place upon
the platform it was noticed that he
toed out. and covered a great deal of
space with his feet, and this was also
taken as a further favorable sign oi
his intellectual greatness. There was
no sign of nervousness in his actions.
and it. was clearly evident that he w
is
the habit ot audressing large itnd
tae -trout or the nlatlorm and hemn.
1 o
THE EFFIIONT OF HIS LIFE..
"Mv f re ns," he said as he locked his
frigers together and then looked be
nignly d'wn upon the bt!d shin- cra
nium of Judge Cante'ope White, "does
riches make happiness or does she not?
At de fust go-otf it would "pear dat
she did. When we see a rich man
ridiu' by in his keeridge, tiis arms
foldel, his head up high an' his black'
bosses pranciu' along as proud as pea-
cocks, we auijtpt
f fik i n v r 1 1 r 1 1
1'. la 1 11 kill
an
L
w'.sii we was 111 lus place. e see
I 1 1 1 T
I
only ontsiue nppearances. it we could
fojier dat puson to his home of Iux-
ury we should take a different view of
'tie case. De minit he giU into de
house his wife wants fo'teeu thousand
dollars fur hew dresses; de children
cry fur him to buy 'em aneleghant; de
j cook 'has broke twelve plates while
washin'-de dishes, an' de gas bill i
ober seben dollar 1110' ban it was fur
de. month be fob. De proud smile on
dat rich nians f.ace. flees, an' he goes
out behind dje ba'n tiu' kicks hisself
an' wislns he had nebber bin bo'n.
1 (Cheers, shouts and wild applause.)
I "Yo' go into i rich man's house,"
continued the oratory lan' yo' see lace
curtains, kivered cltti'rs, fine carpets
an' heaps of Ijric-a-bats. Soine of 'em
j have got a$ manv as
five beds
up
sta rsr, an it yo go
find a hull lur'l of
down cellar yo'll
perk and sixteen
1
bushels or tutors. iNurtin seems
wautin' to complete dat man's happi
ness, but datj's all on de outside. lie
may be sittin'' around on deih fine car-
, ! pets or lookiu' at hisself in one of dem
loolvin -glasses which nehber cost less
dan nine dollars, when he gits a tele
graph. He opens it to find dat some
body has robbed de grave of his grau'
fadder out ill Chicago, and demands
one millyun dollars to restore de body.
( Appall;e vigorous that two legs
! teli ol,t of the stove and a serious ca
lamity was narrowly averted.)
A VISION OF V.EALTF.
lkI war in de private o'fice of a mill
vonaire de odder day. He was cuttin'
u;e coupons oif his bloated bonds. Dar
war seventeen bags of gold on his
right hand, an' sixteen bar'ls of silver
on his left. '(Suppressed excitement.)
Dar' war' fo' bushels of diamonds piled
up behind de stove, an' about two bail's
ot' pearls an' opals ober bv tie wash-
stan. ( Whispers of "Ynm!" "Yum!")
Dat pusson owned the awful.le.st, big-j
gest plaiitashun 111 ue hull aont. lie
had six millyun hor.-es an' cattle. He
i f 1 i 1. . 1 1: : 1 .. . ,i . ii-
owned lo nanus au uve lainoaus. ue
owned all de judges an juries an' law
yers in de State. If yo' i roweda tater
at his dawg he could hev yo' .ent to
State prison fur life. (Sign's and
groins.) An' yit, wid all dis power
an' riches, was dat man happy? No!
He had a sorei heel; his stom.ich was
outer order; lie was gittin' bald on top
o' de head; he woke up in !ejnii;lit a'u'
saw spooks wnvin' deir arms over him,
an' he said he would git) all he had on
airth to be like me. (Appbiuse whiL.li
put out threse lamps and, upset the
water pail.) j
"No, my frens," calmly ..Continued
the orator, aiier sipping a liitle more
nutmeg, "riciles di ;tu' make happiness.
Dey is just handy w hen you fel you ti
like to get uiejiismetl fur fo' new shirts,
or you want tried chicken fur dinner.
All de rest is iv.iiiity an' aai! such to
bring vo' trubble. T ike Uu ca.se ol
Shindig Watkins, of dis club, at whose
e.-.bin 1 am tern, orarily stonpin1 f ree of
vu.u. xie got a rag carpet an
in ree cane-sei
1 1
eat chare m his par or. vp.,u!, 1 ii ' r 1
1 1 1 t ..weami were eQiiaily . distributed it;
ee dawgs an one ice-chest J .,..,,.1,1 ;r 1 t t t Wl" , V6
He s got three
an a chromeo of Napoleon crossin'' de
Alps. He's got a cuckoo clock dat
cost him 'lben dollars, an1 he bought
an ole lounge for $2 an' kivered it o!er
wid new stuff nn' made it wuth Si '7
His wife kin aim a dollar a day while
he sits onde front steps, an' Ins chill'ii
save deir pennies to buy him terbacker
an' beer. From Sunday niawniu' to
Satuiday night Brudder Watkins is
perfeckly happy an' content, an' he
will lib thirty yVtrs longer dan any
rich mm. (Vociferous applause from
all except Brother Wutkiug, whose
modesty is well known.)
WHY MILK IS SOURED BY TIIUXDEU"
"An' now, why docs sweet milk
sour doorin' a thunder storm?" asked
the orator after getting his breath.
"Yo' may think dis has nuffin' to do
wid de case, but it has. It has a heap
to do wid it. De rich man has to use
sweet milk same as de pore. A panful
of it is sittin' down cellar on de shelf,
an' we is gwine to hev puddin' au'
milk fur supper. 'Long comes a
thunder shower, an' de o!e woman
goes down to find de milk. Why?
Whence? Fur what reason? To' do
not stop to inquair', but yo' jump" up
and' dow n and lick de chill'en. If yo'
would only sot down in de rockiu'
cheer and philosophize a leetle yo'
would diskiver why it was thus. De
electrified condishun of de atmosphere
has simply absorbed de energetic radi
ometer of de liquid, an' de result is a
perdigerous situushun of de magnetic
illiberality. My frens, de hoi.r is late,
an' I will not occupy any mo' of yo'r
valuable timo.
Whii the speaker rrlircd he was
followed by round after rjuud of
applause, and he must have been
highly pleased with his successful hit.
When silence was restored B. other
Gardner said: -
"Gem'leii' I hev no doubt dat we
hev all bin made de better men fur
li-stenin' to dat address, an' dat it w-dl
be wise fur us to treasure up in our
memories de varus facts brung out bv
tie orator, but at de same time I want
to caushu!) yo' dat great men am only
mortal artcr a!l. bhould de lion.
Uecollection Johnson want lo borrow
any money of yo' it will be eminently
sale lo reply dat xJ1 has just tooken
yo'r change to de bank, an' ""dat yo"
loan' "snect-to hev any mo' befoh next
week. We will now go home.
Y iiy-vlirls Sliuiiltl IMay the VioliJi.
For the relief of the young mm
who is frequently entertained (?) at
family gatherings, I would like to point
out to the voting women the desirabil
ity of playing some instrument other
than their irrepressible piano forte
were it onlv for the sake of novelty
Much or little, every girl plavs the
piano. The young lady who cannot
wade through at least two-thirds of a
Beethoven sonata is indeed a ran$ twis.
Equally rare would be the man who
would not admit thai -he has oiten
been bored by the universal accom
plishment of piano playing.
The soothing e fleet upon the ear
produced by even a mediocre violinist
afier the gyrations of three or four
Liszts in petticoats, is sufficient reason
whv girls should have another bow on
her strings.
In musical culture the stud of the
violin is of prime importance. Care
ful practice upon a string .instrument
refines the ear and trains that organ to
a nice perception of tone and intona
tion. A violin can always be tuned per
fectly, and at a moment's notice; this,
we know, cannot be said of the piano.
The violin can ne carried by the player
anywhere, thereby saving him the in
convenience of performing upon an
unfamiliar instruaient. Fur'hermciv,
a good violin can be secured for less
money than a bad piano usually costs.
A violinist of average attainments
tan t uch the hearts of his listeners,
while it requires a Chopin or a Liszt to
produce a similar impression with the
cold and ungrateful -piano-forte.- The
violin, comparatively to the piano
forte, lends itself with ease to the pro
duction ot pathetic effects.
The position of the violinist is more
graceful than that of the pianist. I
can bardlv conceive anything more
; charming to the eve and the ear than
a leautiful woman playing well on the
vioiiii.
Punctilious mothers should dismiss
doubts as to their daughters pbiving
the violin, for that instrument is al-
ready popular among
1 v iioiinhir :mion r women nf llie
upper-fen. .Even princesses scrajie
through Kreatz-r's studies, and, J
rnigiit s
apiopfis, that Mr-, ('ieve-
land is one of ihe recent additions lo
the long list of prominent wou-ien vio
lin am tieir s. Louis Ljmuaru
M. ttoWM v- 1,
Tflerit Wins.
We desire to say that our eitixens, that
for years we have been selling lr. King'.
New JJis'coverv- lor ConsuniiUioii. Dr.
King's New Life Pills, Put-klen's Arnica
Salve and Eactric Bitters, and have
never handled remedies that sell as well,
or that have given .nich univeiul satis
lact ii n. We do not hesitate to guarantee
them every tiine, and we stand reaily to
refund the purchase price, if patisf ictory
results tlo not follow their use. Thest
retu.-dies have wo.i th ir great pttpuhir
ity jiuiely on their merits. rvittitCv Co.,
j.uuisl.'.
. .i.i- - . . -
Where Is It? '
The estimated wealth of the United
rSt:.tM. 00 mnrv Afwv - t7 TuF.
country in round figures ntout 1,000.
But there u not one in a thouun.
who hiw 1004 The farms represent
a considerable proportion of thf wealth
of the country, but deducting ti e
mortgage uebtsi on the firms, how
much is left to
the credit of their nom-:
inal owners?
The farmers oi - Kansas
owe 335,000,000, more thau. their
tarms would sell for to-day if they
were put up and sold under "the ham
mer. The farmers of-lllinois. one of
the best agricultural States': in Amer
ica, owe $103,000,000, Jot which: there
are mortgages recorded agaiust them.
And so in other States. There is nut
a State in the Union- where the money
lender has not mortgages on more Jf
less of the farms. . w ' i
The cities and the towns have their-
mortgageV top.! Nearly half t the
mortgage indebtedness of the State of
Illinois is oil Houses and lots in the .
city of Chicago -Deduct' from the
real or assessed; Talue of these faruis
and city property the mortgage eii-
cumbrancf, and how much is: left to . .
the owners? ' .' ' " . '--.
Tl . I. . 1 1
xneii iaue ine army oryyage earners. "...
How many of these have any bank ac
counts, save the little Uhat some of
them have in the savings banks, which
little they squeeze put by rigid economy ;
from their daily - earnings ? Vho, .
then, ojrns the SGO,000,000,000 wealth
in this county?, I A handful of men
own and control it. - ;
It was not ai ways so. It was not so
a half a century ago. The change be--gan
when paternalism in the govern
ment began,; and tlm tit diciest were m-
an g iira ted which created a legislative
Iistinction between different callihiri k
and made some tribute pavers toothers, i
L p to lSbl, th wealth of thi conn- -t
ry was more evenly distribulediimong ;
the people, than in any other country
under tha sun. There, were fewer -very
.lich and feiyer very po6r people
in proportion to population than a
any other country under the sun. The -democratic
party which had directed V
the government mid '.shaped its poli- -cies
for more than one Icilf of its. hrt -
century did nit believe in paterealismrT
and didn't believjeji-fl legislation to. ep--rich
some of tlmj citizens at the ex
pense of t lie others. ItUidVt lelieve
111 building up oil
i ml us t ry at the ex.
pense-of the others. It didn't belirvn
in lev ing tribute
iir. ilia man. M'ttv.V J
earned their dailjy
bread in the. vyewht.- -
of their faces, jand lived in Hirrfife
dwellings, to support in lusnry i.uciC ;
build marble palaces for the men who '
spun and wove the wool tbfr farmer , 1
grew, or melted and moulded the iron
which the m.iu?r dug from the earth.
It didn't believe in ; any1 favoriti-in of
this or any other kind and: couse
quetrtly the men w 1; o ! nuuW . . Jor t u n e
made them by their caIu indiiiifnis, "
honest efforts, and did ttotjjet !htt. by
legislative enactmeiir. Ihe .yu'n
were not plundered to enricluilra, few- -
and there were then more peonLs who
had something and iewer peopi who
counted their fortunes by the million '
Then the "almighty dollar" was not.,
worshipped as it is now,, then it-was
not as corrupt and demoraluKgr it-,
is nmv, then it didn't buy -votes like
cattle as it doesnqw tlven i didn't
own and contiol Uangrcsses and Ijji
latures as it-doesi ow, then, xk -kuan's
millions were not the taiuAau that '
opened the way ip the .Uniitevl State
S n r.s tl ey ar- n w.
A mighty - change has come over
this country within", the .past genera
tion, the people getting jx;orer and
poorer, and the few favored rich grow-
ing richer and richer until tiity- hae
become the owner f the larger past
of these SG'MXJO.OOO which Tepreixi .
the estimated vyejalth m our pirople,
and this isthe I pgical result tip
monstrous tariff !prl icy which IwjJk the,
hard earueil monpv from lnv pockets tf .
one man and put it.into-tbyovkeU ot
another man ,whoj toiled it at nil.
It is well for -j an individual br.- a
country to le weaUhy By,t Vat
country is in t!ie bst cojiJitiim- "!iere.'
the wealth is moUL 'evtfu.lv distributed,
and that country ihe rt unfortunate
where there is greit wealth, in tht? -hands
of the few at;4 little $ tiny in
the handi if ihe many. I;t is- Ihp
happy mean where there is extreme pf
neit her wealth npr poverty, -
111 t'.trt s she huvl, ti, (Mis'teion? Jit frfr, "
W'heie ';.;.!!.!', itf-c-uniiUilAtes niel uSMt Jrf-y.""
I Wilmington star.
Iwt-t ?very enfeebletl woman know
There's a tnedicine4hat'U cure her, 5d
the prt'oT positive! y '
Hereriili.c- W'tK-f -if it 'doesn't ! ton
i good wiihtu a ve:iioimbl lime, reiioift w
taci 10 ns- inaKera arm you Jjet vuur -inoie
y bjick without a; w:oyd,-but') ou
y.n't do-itt - " -------
The vtmedy 55 Dr. IHi'W'eS FavWite
Prescript ion and it lias proved iuelf the
right veniedy yi nearly every "case of fe
male weakness. It U not a miracle?"- It
wou.'t cure everythingbut it has done ,
more to bwild up tired, enfeebled and -.
broken-down women' , than any oilier
inettu ine kuow iK , . 1 vi
YheTGHa woman whoV not ready fat
it? A that we've got lo do U to gyt be
news to iiei. . .The medicine w ill tlx iie
itsl. -.'- '
WanfetW-Womhi. First tQ" know it.
Seyiand to use it..,;. Thinl o be cured i;y
it. The on entries of the tit her.
Ti.e seal titstcK, head:tehts-f4 not ill il
brain. Herniate jibe timuch hikI vUu
etne it. r. Pieree's.Pellt-ts are the 1
1 uc iitipia!iors. vty V-,4x a V.ali.