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.J. 11 '""l " . J J 1 - tagalized Liquor Traffic . jTutflUHeflSHf request. From a tf&captse toy Rer. J. R. Moore, of Wlnsion. There urn ninny -.nation a! sins .of hich we might apeak if we hud time, 'u.e ions of lying, gawbliag -nd law grrotcctai trusts and combuies which Pmke tke poor of th nation ery for 3read ; all of these hare becoxae to ,be i .m public sin x fehe nation. Tbe great truts that now exist for the par-jo-e of getting gain are so well organ ize that the tjullionaire U Chicago .tn touch tbe electric Vf7 nJ &e the price of boead and meat f ox ' jib latipns, ; We Ulk of Ui ad many otto lhingi; but these things nink into tit" -inr insigniScance when compared with ur great natienal sin, the leytXwl i Vior traffic. This it the one gra4 jKiwer jn thia nation at whose bidding he pol&eians bow. Thii is the pow, at that, to a large extend shapes the Jaws of our tiwe, With its twohnndred id fifty thousand-open saloons saying .nothing! the places of iU Manufac ture, what power has it not in politics? This is the power that controls Tam-f man todays Taaaaay with iU six hundred barkeepers on its working committees, rasre than hundrsd af whom hare besn conricted of crime by the courts of the jUo. -' At this day we all condemn Leo X r sending out Johm Tetsel with a bag of indulgencies to sell fcT gain, and AhaJ; was in the darkness of 1S1T . Yet, we, in the twilight of the ieUenth century, for the purpose of gain, sell to the barkeepers the right, not of per sonal indulgencies, but the right to 11 ike drunkards of gut fathers and brothers, and hs right to make wid ows of our mothers and eistsrs. We Jicense thiftlbusinesi which furnishes jieitber meat, bread nor clething, but to a large extent furnishes the inmates of our jails, penitentiaries, poor houses .and asylums. Tet this ii the one pet business of the nation that requires a man to prore i good moral character before he can en eaee in it. The idea v of a man proring a good moral charac ter to seji whiskey I Yet I hars no quanel with the man who aells the stuff. It you are here tonight I want to tell you that I lore our soul aad m willing to do all in jny power to help yem do right. I am orry for you and I beg yon in Qed's najne to quit the business. Toar basi iiess nostaSthe mobU at tbo United " sa m States more than twelre hundred mill ions of dollars year, for which amount you send one hundred and fifty tliougaad men and beys .down to drunkards' graves and into a drunk ard's hell. God's Word says, inMst Cor. :10: MNo drunkard shall inherit ihe kingdom of hearen." But who is responsible for alf this ( business ? . Some one says, wour cora- n n i missimers. nni wo are respoBsivie tor our commissioners, thsreforo we are responsible, for this bosiness. We .elect the legislators who appoint the magistrates, who, in tarn, appoint the commissioners, so we eon eee where the responsibility belongs. Bet us see to jt .that we know how a man is on this .sulect before we give him our roe. Ag-.iin weftsk, where is the respon sibility J As for me I would just as soon, at thedayjof judgment, take the jilace of any man whojdies drink as to take the place of the man who sold him the liquor to make him drunk. And I would just as soon Hake the place of the man who granted him the license to sell it, though that man may Jbe a member of the church. And 1 -would as soon take the nlace of the iman who grunted tbo license as the roan who openly, with the lights be fore him, roted for the man knowing &ai m would grant the license. JL be voters, and nobooy ese, jure res ponsible for this course, When they - .see fit to remove it, it can be done. But, as roters, what kind of men do we elect ? What stripe of men were in our last legislature ? What kind of .ii body was it ? Indeed, I was glad to .notice in last week's Raleigh Advocate .fhnf thpro wai Imi drinlrino imnni ifa members ' than usual. Indeed, we nought to fe) highly honored to know that thr weii whom welected to make our jlatt'siid not get drunk while they were engaged in their work. But what did they do to free us from this awful cu??e ? Where are the pe- -w...uw ...... . jot the voters of this Stat, asking for 3ome little hi'lp on this line ? What kind of probilition laws did they pass? Well, I will tell you what thejr did. They g:i.ve prohibition to a little plaee xiown in Columbus county, but before that bill was passod it was ameuded by taking $ 00 of the peoaleVmoney to pay damages to a liquor ;dealr whose Jbusiness it would stop. But somebodr sav "we could not run our schools without ibe iwoney we gt from liquor men." This i not mt and I will proveit. But :if it were 4me1fr db'youVwnnt to educate your children on blotwl money? Do you i yish to educate your children with .the j price of tears and groans of the widows and orphans of .the drunkards ef this city?1 No, I don't beliere ityou are too good a people for that. . S wne time since we quoted figures to show .the police force of this city .costs more than .all tbe barkeepers pay for their license. And to prove that the bar-rooms create tfep demand for so large a police force we .only hare to look at those town which do not hare the - bar-rootas. Sal?m has no bur rooms, and has two policemen. High Point ihas o bar-rooms, nd only one policeman. Concord is one of the most thriving towns in the State; it has eighf white churches, good graded schools, it has electric lights, water aupply and street railway; it has no licensed liquor, and it has one potict Uian. j May God grant that the time may soon come when there shall not be a leagaliied liquor saloon in all this land! And it is coming ! The good women of the land are organizing agaioat this curse, and it must go. Let us who claim to be Christians rote as we pray, and the day will soon come when our nation will not mourn under this corse. Sorrowed ;Sooks. Many persons have leut books and have never received tbeiajagain because of tho negligence of the borrower. They borrow and lend them to others, they ia turn lend ttwmjand sothey go on a pilgrimage from. house to house until they disappear and the place that should knowtbetn, knows them no fuoroj forever. No one would object to lend booksifithere was a possibility of getting them back in a reasonable time and in good condition, but it is a trial to our forebearance to then have to wait, there is no'telling how long, for itt return. Salisbury Truth. It is reported that Secretary Carlis le s scheme for a reorganization of the currency will include the repeal of any law compelling the purchase of silver by thegovernment, and will provide for the deficiency of currency by pro viding the repeal ofthe State bank tax and tho issue of currency by banks underStatexharter, under the general supervision of the general government, tbe security for the currency provided lor uuuer me laws oi tne states re quiring the approval of the govern mwL-StaieChronicle. One of the reasons given why plan ters will plant more cotton this year than last, notwithstanding the proba bility that a big crop will knock down the prices of the staple, is that the high price of cotton sedenables the plan ters to make cotton for a lower price than they could afford to when cotton seed was thrown away. But is there any certainty that the price of cotton seed will be as high next season as it is this? Savannah News. Ia one of-his sermons Mr. SMoodv said : wIn the Tombs in New York, the city prison, or leading to it is a bridge, called the Bridge of Sighs. Over its entrance is this inscription: The;iway of tbe transgressor is hard'. T o.VJ why that was put over it'andii was told that the most of the criminals were young men and as they generally went over in tears, the bridge was so named and that they soon found the truth ot the inscription. The late legislature established gra ded schools at three new points Lex ington, High Point and Rocky Mount. At the latter place a special law provides for a school district, the place being -in two counties. It has been published that the legislature in creased the number of colored normal schools from six to; eight, 4ut with no additional appropriation. Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if ny eucoorago drunkenness for the sake of the profitderived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as anv that has been practiced by the bravos of any country or of any age. John Buskin, - : Four hundred pianos piled up in the form of a pyramid and connected to gether by an electrical controlling de-1 vice so as to admit of being played simultaneously by one porson is men tioned as an "attraction for the Worlds Fair. The anarchists seem determined to blow up Rome. Six bombs were thrown there last week, following fast on the attempts to wreck some of the palaces made earlier in the week. Mankind should have very little re gard for the religion that soars so high into heavenly conditions that it ignores earth j jresponsibilities.-Ca5aw Pa- triot, , . ,s . Hawaii. If. C. Presbyterian. . " Recent -events at the Hawaiian Is lands have awakened unwonted inter est throughout the United States. It is not the' first time that these three islands have attracted the abteaiion of our people. Jliiglity-rour years ago the attention of a dark-skinned lad weeping as he sat on the door-step of one of the buildings of Yale College deeply stirred tke hearts of a number of Christian men, aud when it was known that this waif from the Ha waiian Islands was in tears because he desired the learning which would fit him to become a useful man among his people, the churches of New En gland were greatly aroused. So deep was this imterest that ten yean later, in 1819, a company of fourteen men and women set sail from Beston, to undertake the work of Christianizing Hawaii. It was a long voyag of 163 days, to a land about which little was known save that its inhabitants were naked savjtges and were accustomed to make human sacrifices to their idols. These pioneer missionaries were fol lowed, during a'long series of years, many reinforcements. The blessings of God crowned their labors, and the natives, who had been lead by a strange Providence to throw away their idols, were under power of Christiau truth. rThe first missionaries grew old and died, their eyes haying been permitted to see the salvation of God among the people for whom they gave their lives. Under the influences, of the gospel as preached by these men from the Uni ted States, savagery ceased the dis gusting rites of heathenism gave place to songs of devotion and praise, and Hawaii became a Christian nation. Just fifty years ago she was recogniz ed by the nations as an independent kingdom. The progress she has made sinceXhristian civilization reached her has been commendable, when we con sider the condition in which she was found eiuhty-two years ago, and though the native stock has not prov ed as strong as was hoped, yet multi tudes of her people, from those who have sat on the throne down to the humblest citizen, have honored the Christjan name. For the evangeliza tion of Hawaii the American Board has expended not far from a million and a half dollars, and its missionaries have been its chief agents of God in the mighty transformations that have been witnessed among those beautiful islands of the Pacific. If the petition for annexation now coming to the United States should be granted and Hawaii be received as a territory of the Union, it may well be taken as a gift of foreign missions to onr nation. By the census of 1890 the total pop ulation of the islands was 89,990, and a more recent estimate makes thp nnn. rr ulation 100,000. Owing to various causes, especially the vices introduced iu connection with foreign trade, the native population has decreased till at the time of last census it numbered 34,436. Aside from these there were, itt round numbers about 6,000 half- castes, 15,000 Chinese, and 12,000 Jap anese, the number of the latter, how ever, navmg largely increased within i tliA na( I 1 1 mi me iasy htcitc mourns. i nere were about 5,000 Americans, and about 7, vw uui u uu uawaii ci loreign paren tage. 1 ?e total area of the islands is 6,540 square miles, somewhat less than that of the State of . Massachusetts. mi . - ine giowth of commerce is seen in the fact that within thirty years, from 1860 w low, me imports increased in val ue from $1,223,000 to $6,902,0Q0, while the exports increased from $807,- 000 to 513,282,000. Seventy-five per cent, of the imports came from the United States, while practically nearly all the exports were to this country. The Pension Swindle. ine iirand Army Gazette, as the Messexgeb before mentioned, has come out against the plundering pensions. It declares the roll is far too long and wants the Cleveland Administration to investigate. It admits that the "claim sharks were the progenitors of the ob noxious laws" andjiave obtained pen sions for uthe 'coffee coolers,' deserters u.v ucau-vcaM y u u uaTe maae our roll of honor the subjtct of sneers, rid icule and contempt." It believes "in an honest, square pension roll, grant ing what is properly due to those who won it by service. , Nothiug, in our estimation, is too od for the gallant boys, who met the shocks of battle and campaigu." We have never thought that pensions were a cause of very great rejoicing among Southern Confeder ates who were taxed heavily to pay their part. To have to pay the scoun drels who are even repudiated at home and by the Army Gazette makes the burden more grievous. We would be glad to see that pension roll so reduced as to bring it down to the standard of Genersils Grant aud Garfield when they were President not to exceed 30 nm. J0O0 WJLWzWs-Wilmmqton Messenger. Planting Corn. While early planting" is nearly al ways most desirable, it is rarely good economy to nlant until the soil is warm ed up enougn to give a quick genera tionof the seed and a good start to grow. Corn while thnving over a large range of latitude, is naturally a tropical plant and needs in a warm soil to grow well. One of the best plans is to plow the ground as early as the condition of the soil will admit, and then harrow or work into a good tilth; thttn when the nroner time arrives for nlant inc. with a good drill or check rower the work I .l.l H 1 . can oe pus nea very rapiaiy. it is oi ten the last harrowing or cvltivating that is of the most benefit. With the soil in a good tilth the seed will gen erate quicker and better, and the plants will make a more vigorous start to grow, and it Is thus possible to begin tho cutivation earlier, and in .this,way giffi a thriftier growth. A large yield to the acre can be se cured by plauting iu drills than iu hills, especially on tnin land, as the plants growing one toot apart in the rows will have a better chance for growth and development than if two or thrw are growing in a hill together. Ue seed enough to give a good even stand it is better to thin out than to renlant The disadvantage in drill planting is tne increase or work in cultivation. Ihis may be greatly reduced by com mencftig the cultivation as aoon ilsdhs sible after p'anting. By using the harrow on the weeds before the weeds get a 'skirt to grow or the soil becomes packed the weeds may be kept down and the soil in good tiltlu, But from the start care must be taken to work the soil as closely around the plant as possible. The com in drills can h planted onn foot apart, with the rows il 1 I a . . tnreeaud a half feet apart. In hill planting three feet each wav . will ln a good distance. The number of plant that should be left in the hill should largely depend upon the condition of ine sou, especially as regards fertihtv. Generally it will be better to have one tnnny staik that will mature one good ear tnan two stalks and two nubbius. With the Western farmer the grain is of more importance than the fodrW. usually in growing the grain needed a full supply of fooder will be secured. Some soils will rrrow and mature four stalks in each hill as readily s another CM i . lLi II r . I . a. ., " t-u, o mat ine retiiiity or the soil ii . must oe considered in determining how tnicK ro plant. The earlv planting should h rmnr ed shallow, while the latter should he deeper. With the latter planting at lease a sate rule to plant the seed in moist soil. The principal advantage in deep planting is mat the roots, grow deep er, will be 'less affected bv rirmcrht. Too deep plant; nr eariv in the season of tn causes the seed to rot. The lie- pubUc. Salt Water far the World's Fair. New Berne Journal. Salt water in which to keep live salt water fish at the World's Fair, is to be obtained at Morehead. The lasl freight train took down five immense iron tanks in which to obtain the first supply. The tanks hold about 4,500 gallons each nnd just fit a car built specially for that purpove. As the tanks passed through opin ions were freely expressed that, unless they were suitably 'lined und made free from all substances preindical to fih life the water put into them would be ruined. We judge those in charge of the work looked after all those points. No Eed Tape. Vice-President Stevens is reported to have said to Washington reporters: "Vou boys will be ju.t as welcome as in the old day f. There will no sentry standing in front of the Vice-President's room. You will no be forced to dive into your pockets and fish out a card fo be transmitted to me on a salver. The door will stand wide open. There are sofas inride for you to occupy. You will walk right in, and if I am not there you will send for me. Whereqer 1 am the newspaper man is welcome. I am the Vice-President of the people, and the people are entitled to know what I am doing. Tnere will be no rod tape about the office." Six miners were killed in tbe Herz district of Germany by an explosion of dynamite set off by one of tbeir num ber. Mr. C. E. Graham has decided to erect a large wearing mill in Asherille m soon, for the purpose of mannfactu ing ginghams and other colored good Ex-United States Senator Eli Sauls- bury died at 12:15 p. m. on the 22d. CHILD BIRTH ' MADE EASY! " Mothers' Fimd " is a scientific ally prepared Liniment, every ingre dient of recognized value and in constant use by the medical pro fession. 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