.!. A C. C. Daniels. JBd's andlProp's
VOLUME 20.
B I hh ARP'S LETTER 1
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ffj lUi- ABOUT TUB
F. I li MERS' ALLIANCE,
And bays l hat jtw of urti
Agree With.
- What coustitutea a c State
We a!.L know that aal can an
swer the poet, but what constil
tntes a to-rn or city? I .-. was
ruminating over this while
cruirinir around Americas in
the electric car.- Three years
ago ! vvas iu Americus and it
was 'a" nice little town of
three 'thousand people,, and
now it has . daily papers and
electric street cars, and water!
works, and-gasworks, and an
'ioe factory, and. oil mills, and
compresses, and a cotton factoj
ry, and a furniture factory
a'ul planing mills, and a brick
plant that makes fifty- thous
and a day, and has many other
-industries, and the population1
br increased to 9,000 peoplej
and there is ar splendid new
court-house tbac is paid for,1
and an opera-house, and they,
are building a hundred thbas-j
and dollar hotel. Beautiful
dwellings have been erected all
ahvi4 the electric line, andj
everywhere yon go here are;
M.inof thrift and prosperity.
There are fifty men in Ameri-j
cuwho are worth fifty thous-j
and dollars and over, and theyj
rauge as high as half a million.
There are four banks and ani
iuvcatment company, with halfj
a million capital, and thej
etock i worth 300 a share I
What did all this ? Who did;
it, and how was it done? Everyj
aspiring town in the State
would likrt to know. It is;
?aid that agriculture is thej
basis of all prosperity, but the!
lands of tsumter county are
no'
richer than they used to be!
nor do they produce any more
c ttou or corn, or oais to the
acre. What has given such a'
stimulus to Amencus? -. -j
Ther is a good old maxim,
that. "heaven helps those who
helps themselves." Colonel
Evan HuWell eame to our town.'
two years ago, aud told our
popls thit same old thiilg,
arid recited one of old iEsop's,
fit les, about the partridge and;
her young ones in the wheat!
field, and how the young tirdsj
were alarmed when they heard!
the farmer say. he was going toj
invite the neighbors to comej
and 'cut his wheat the next dayj
but fhVold birds wasn't alarm-
ed at all, for she kaew that the
neighbors . were not ; coining
Our Cartersville people are;
Btill wailing for the neighbors!
butr these Americus people,
have acted on that good old
maxim, and they had a leader
who opened a school and took
iu the whole community aa
scholars. T verily believe that
if Colonel Hawkins had no?
lived in A mericus the town
would have been what it was
three years ago.1
A progresaive leader - is a
great boom to a town.; Colontlj
Hawkins built a little, railroad
about fifty miles long and
wouldn't let it connect with
with anything; but stopped it
in tha woods, and he built -if
-w it nout capital or bonds or
syndicates or state aid, but he
built it and it brought trade
the town thai, it hnii nsver nan
before and gave it a . start, and
mea ne organized various im
proveinent companies and built
another railroad, and everyj
: thiug he touched prospered
. and the people got to believing
that he couldn't make a mi&V
take and- they followed his
lead, and very soon his spirit
of eucerprise infused the whole
community, and now when
anything new is started the
nrst inquiry is, "What d ej3
Loh .nel Hawkins think about
ll- or "la Colonel Hawkins
in it ?" and that is all they
want to know. His lucky staT
. is still in the assendant. 4 He
has made no blunders. He has
built over three hundred miles
t-f railroad, and they all poih
U) Americus. He is now
worth half a million of dollars
aud n6body has suffered. .No
body i3 worth any less because
lia is w,orth more. : He has addl
ed to values He has increased
the taxable property of Sumter
coU!lty noteless than "three ini
dollars in i the last
five vear.n. T n w n n have
characters .just like individu4ed
The young men Qf
. Americus have more life ; and
toore business enterprise tlnh
jy f know of. They donft
loaf around in the day nor. .'go
10 trie billiard aalnnh at nltrht.
rn. - r ' o - -"
mY are all doing something,
S-Ild hav a. annd hinlr oOKAiinf
it iinot popular to' be doing
nothing in . that town. The
lathers and mothers Jare hapry
because their children are doing
well. My wife says that the
iadies don't put on i any style,
hut are home-like and kind
a social, and . can walk J a
Qarter of a mile to church or
T.Ci noir o nlott ITPV. 1 a a
ah x wane no Know aoout avo
man is that she hae to have the
carriage and horses and driver
brought out to take her to the
aii r am
church that is only two or three
hundred yards away. Soutu-
western Georgia is looking up.
. uer iqrtiie lands and delight
ful climate are attracting
farmers and visitors more than
ever before. Good farming
lands are in demand all over
the South. Shortly after the
wary the yankeea gave us a
bureau for refuges- and aban
doned lands; - but that bnrean
has been transferred to Ver
mont. The truth is that good
farming is a paying : business
in the South. Mr. McLendon's
careful examination of the
tax returns proves beyond - all
question thatvtbe farmers of
Thomas county are prospering.
1 have had but little patience
with all this buncombe talk
about the poor down-trodden,
oppressed farmer. Indnstrious
farmers are doing as well as
tradesmen or any profesfiion
that I know of. Of coarse,
some of them are in debt and
have a hard time to get out.
but we must remember that
there are three times as many
farmers as all other occupations
combined, and there are not
three times as many failures.
At least half the lawyers and
doctors and dentists and school
teachers and preachers and
editors are struggling for a
meagre living, and so are the
carpenters i and masons and
blacksmiths. We advertised
for a superintendent of our
public schools,, and there were
forty-nine applicants. Look at
the thousands of young men
that are clerking for just
enough to feed and clothe
them, and there are thousands
inore whO.can't get any employ
ment at all. These are the
town boya and college boys
the very ones the farmer boys
are envious of. What good
does all this . fuss about the
high tariff do the farmer ? Of
course the tarm needs reform,
hut how can the government
go on witnout a larin and a
pretty high on at that ? Two
years ago there was a surplus,
but there ia none now, and
never will be again while the
pension business goes on and
increases from year to year. I
wonder if any Jsane man, does
expert the government to bnild
. thousand warehouses for the
armers to' store their cotton
and corn and produce in, and
appoint the officials, and .then
advance money on their crops
so that the farmer may hold
or a higher price. If the like
of that is to be done it seems
o me we ought to wait for the
Democrats to get in power
again, so that. ail tnese new
offices could be filled by them.
wonder if any farmer i3
banking nis nopeaon sucn a
Utopian scheme. I see that
one of these high offic als in
the Alliance tells the farmers
that this scheme would enable
them to hold their cotton until
it got to fteen cents a pound
A year or so ago tney , passed a
resolution at Macon to hold for
twelve and a half cents, but
they didn't hold. Fifteen cents
would be a right big trust.
wouldn't it. There are less
than a million people engaged
as landlords and tenants in the
production of cotton in the
South. What will the other
twenty millions of our people
say to an increase or nity per
cent, on their cotton goods ?
What will the consumers and
the poor of all countries say to
it ? There is a monument in
London to Eichard Cobden,
and the epitah is, "He gave the
poor cheap bread," but the
epitah of some of these leaders
would be, "He gave toe poor
dear clothing." I heard a good
farmer say that raising cotton
at ten cents per pound was a
profitable business, and that
any prudent, industrious man
could get rich at it. It has
averaged ten cents for the past
ten years. Corn is bringing
sixty cents a bushel here in
Cartersville, and a good many
have it to sell. Their sweet
potatoes have brought seventy-
cents all the winter. Their
chickens and eggs and pork
and mutton are always in , de
m 1 i. a a, 1 A
man a. rneu wua is ine m&tv
ter. and where are the opprens-
and distressed xarmers r
They are not in . tnis region,
and the Americus people 4old
me they were not in that region.
That old song of
HarW Hark! the dogs do bark.
The befgari are coming to town,'
does hot fit this blessed country.
A thoughtful little girl whose
parents have recently moved
here from the North, asKea a
visitor where our people lived.
film was astonished to learn
tuaw we um uuk unD
neither white, nor black no
suffering poori J mean nobody
to live on charity.
"IET iLL THC
WILSON, WILSON COUNTY , NORTH C AHOLIN
, xt Beems to me that there is
plenty, of - good work for the
Alliance to da that will avail
more .than .all this talk about
the tariff and the sub treasury
schemes. They can build up
their . co-operative stores in
everyj country town, and get
their applies cheaper, but their
big . state - exchanges will not
work. They will take too much
macninery and capital that are
too remote from the farmers.
We see that one in Texas has
been used for the misapplica
tion of a million of dollars. The
unpretending farmers' clubs in
oar; country have done more
good to the members than all
the Alliance has done. They
meet once a month and inter
change views and methods, and
give in their experience and
experiments, and they farm
better every year and get their
machines and supplies from
first handa.
The Alliance of Wilkes coun
ty has resolved to vote for no
man for the legislature who
will not pledge himself to sup
port a bill that will limit a
member's salary to two hun
dred dollars a year. That
sounds like a business and a
reform too. If they will do
that all over the State maybe
we can save - something. ' rne
last session cost the State one
hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, and the general opinion
is that there was less done than
at any session since the war.
In fact, there wa nothing done
of any consequence except the
lease bill of the State road, and
that was only half done. Now
let the farmers give us a new
set and begin the wcrk of re
form. They may do no better,
but they can't do worse.
Bill Arp.
LATE NEWS NOTES,
Culled Prom Various Sources
Per
Busy Readers.
The ReidsTille Review reports a
hen that laid five eggs in 24 houis.
One oyster packing firm in New
Berne, shipped 120,000 cans, last
week.
There are in Cleveland county
2415 white polls aud 390 colored
polls on the tax list. i
The laboring men of Asheville
have adopted resolutions to work
ume boars per day.
GeneralJoseph E. Johnston will
aoveil the Lee Monument at Rich
mond on the 29th inat.
The New Berne Journal says :
All through East Carolina the crop
prospects are said to be fine.
The Loaisbnr? Times is endeav
oring to stir op the people ot that
town to erect a cotton factory.
The publication of the Tajlora-
ville Index has been begun at that
place, with E. L. Hedrick, editor.
The FiuaucialTimts says Mon
tana is the only one or the new
States without a dollar of indebted
ness.
The nenderson Gold Leaf tella
of the invention of a muzzle for
cattle. Brother Manning pro
nounces the invent on a valuable
one.
Gov. Fowle was at Asheville
last week for the pnepose of beiog
present and welcoming the Gener
al - Aasemly of the Presbyterian
church to North Carolina.
1. O. Price, the colored orator jof
the Old North State, writes a com
muDication to the State Chronicle
in which he nominate! Julian S.
Oarr for Governor of North Caro
lina.
The Greensboro : North State
aavs : Uor towniman, Mr. t. u.
Worth, has received an order from
Louisville, Ky-, for 175.COO seams
less baes. which will be woven at
his Worthville factory.
The commissioners '.of Winston
have called an election : to take
place on the 17th day of June for
the purpose of voting upon the
I question of issuing bonds for the
citv improvements to the amount
of two hundred thousand; dol
lars.
The Governor yesterday pars
done" p. K. Jacks out of the
penitentiary. ' Jacks was convicted
ot larceny in xadKin county in
I8a and sentenced to ten years
imprisonment. The pardon was
granted as a matter of humanity
toward the prisoner. He had been
in the infirmary four years, is com
pletely prostrated as to health, and
the opinion of the physicians is
that he is a permanent invalid
Raleigh State Chronicle.
We love to see the farmers of the
State improving their cattle. For
the encouragement of those of onr
farmers who are endeavoring to
improve the stocK npon their farms
we give the following from the
Monroe Enquirer-Express : Mr.
Leroy Helms, of north JVIonroe
township, has several head of
Cotswold sheep, and as showing
how superior they are to our com-
mon stocK, ne uas orougnc, ns a
sample of wool taken from them.
From one lamo eleven months old
he secured 6 pounds." The sample
off of the sides averaged 13 J inches
in length, and that off of the back
9 inches in length. He secured 17
pounds from 3 ewes.
ENDS THOB AIM'ST AT, BE
Allia&ce Education.
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SPEECH OP E, C. BEDDINGFIED,
SECRETARY STATE ALLIANCE.
THE ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC ZDUCaTIOH
What He Said at The Tilson Cattle
Show
The following is a synopsis
of one of the most sensible
speeches we have heard in a
long time. It was delivered
before a large crowd of people
and was appreciated greatly.
Mr 'Beddingfield was introduced
by Mr. A. B. Deans, president
of the Cattle Club:
Education is simply training
the mind to think. In its
broadest sense it is enlighten
ment. Now a man can be er? u-
cated to a certain extent with
out knowing a letter, but never
theless he derives his education
from association of some kind,
with people who have been
trained by books. I have in
a man wno never
w ent to school a day in his life,
and yet if you were to meet
him you would hardly discover
that he was ignorant, i He has
associated all his life with peo
ple who were educated and
having a good share of com
mon sense and shrewdness has
always managed to reflect a
part of their training and
intelligence. On the other
hand I know men who have!
goLe through college ' and are
well trained in textbooks and
yet have not a particle of com
mon sense. But bear this in
mind, it was not the books
that made them fools They
were born so and would nave
been j the same under 'any
circumstances. There is an
old saying that 'a man will be
like the company he keeps so
will a man a ideas and life be
shaped by the! kind of educa
cation he receives. If his
mind is well: trained and has
any natural powers, ne mil
think for himself. His judge
ment will be sound. He can
not be led by false theories nor
swindled by scheming rascals
nor be induced to vote for
measures that are ruinous to
the interest of his children and
his country simply because
-a- f a
some unscrupulous politician
says it is all right. But if a
man's mind be entirely untrain
ed then he is dependent upon
the thoughts of others for his
ideas, and wili be apt to think
as he hears ethers speak. If
he mingles with people who
are large-neartea ana pure
minded or reads a ! weekly
paper mat is truiniui ana
liberal in its views, then bis
ideas will be correct and broad;
but, if he is thrown among
poople who are selfish and
narrow minded or reads a
paper that is controlled by
some railroad or monopoly.
then however honest his no
tions may be, his view of life
will be narrow, selfish and
false.; A large majority of
farmers of this State have
never studied anything except
how to make large crops. Even
rneu of intelligence and educa
tor have allowed other men
to do their political thinking.
lb is owing to this fact that
tines have beenformed in most
counties and a few men control
the conventions, nominate
whom they will and shape the
platform of the parties. The
Alliance has oue' much to
educate the people out of this.
It has taught them that it is
every man s Dounaen amy to
vote, that it is even more
his duty to go to the primary
conventions and express his
choice for the candidates to be
voted for, and
that much of
the blame for bad representa
tives being in office lies upon
the shoulders of the people who
stav at home and let such
things be done.
The Alliance has also learn
ed the people something
Finance. You may take
member of of the Alliance who
cannot read and he knows more
about tbe financial condition
of the country to-day than the
best educated farmer did five
years ago. It is because the
minds of the whole organiza
tion have been set to think
ing upon this question, and an
Alliance man who cannot read
himself can attend his sub-Alliance
and hear his brethren
who can read discuss the mat
ter and so avail ' himself of
their knowledge. It has done
more than this for its mem
bers. It' has taught them to
have a kindlier feeling for each
other and for their fellowmen.
It is giving them a broader
view of life and its dnties. It
li moving away the natural
selfishness that has so'long been
our bane and. best of all. it haa
reached out and taken ia the
Till COUPITBr'S, TUT GOD'I,
farmer's wife and daughter and
set them beside their husbands
and fathers and given; to them
an equal share in this education
which it brings. It is trying
to teach us that God made
woman the equal of man to be
his companion and helper, en
titled ' to his strongest love,
sympathy, and respect, and
not to be his slave.- If there
is any class of people In the
world who have a hard time in
life it is the average farmer's
wife and I am sure that every
one of you, whether you are
mem Cars rbf - the -Alliance or
not, will hail with delight the
aay that brings to our wives
and daughters God bless them
more of the joys of life and
less of its care and drudgery.
All the education the Alliance
has brought thus far has been
education of ' the right kind.
am proud to tell you that no
man can point r out a single
instance where the Alliance in
this State has ever lent its
aid or influence to an . immoral
or in just act. ;
It is an organization which
has In it as noble hearted peo
ple as ever lived. A people
who desire to do right and
who have unhesitatingly foK
lowed the leadership of such
men as Polk, Alexander, Carr.
Mewbourne and Ivey. Men
who are intelectually the
peers&of any in our State. So
bng as we follow the wise
counsel of such men, so . long
as we are "governed by intelli
gence and reason, just so long
will the Farmers' Alliance
prosper and continue the great
work it is now doing, and it
cannot die unless blind ignor
ance and unthiuking prejudice
be allowed . to control its ac-
ions, or until Its great objects
have been accomplished: : In-
TELLIGEXCKIS OUJB ONLY HOPE :
IGNOBANCE OUB ONLY DANGER.
n order to avoid the traps set
or us we must be as wise as
the trappers. In older to
preserve the remnant of our
iberties, we must be as watch-
ul as the men who would take
hem from us.- In order to
wipe out the class legislation
which for 25 years has been
making . farmers poorer, we
must be as intelligent aa the
speculators and bondholders
who have caused such legisla-
ion.
We all see we cannot fail
o see the necessity of intelli
gence. To be intelligent we
must be educated. To be edn.
cated we mu3t either be train
ed by books or we must have
the companionship of men who
are. we must either taiK witu
those men or read their writ-
ngs. I . suppose about one
fourth of the members of the
Alliance are educated. I mean
that about that proporsition
have a fair English education.
Perhaps three-fourthsr of them
can read and write. mere is
hardly a sub-Alliance in the
State that does not feel the
need of more education among
its members; and yet, I am
sorrv to say that the most in
telligent members, the very
men wno are Dest niiea to
a , A A X 3 A
serve the Alliance, are not al
ways as faithful as some of
their brethren who have had
fewer advantages in life.
tell you if all the 80,000 Alii-
A 1
ance men in is or in Carolina
were men of education, that
with enthusiasm and unity, no
power could withstand them,
The goverement of France
wis modeled after that of the
United States and now France
is pointed out to us as a model
Republic. Why is it 7 It is
because the people are better
educated. It is because nearly
every man reads a newspaper,
It is especially: because every
Frenchman is a politician
Germany Is not ven a Republic
It is an Empire ; but her people
are educated. Therein lies her
strength and she Is the strong
est nation at thlsvtlme. She is
ruled bv an Autocrat whose
power ia scaroely decked by
the German Congress and his
power is backed by an army
5,000,000 strong; yet, if he were
to oppress the German peopie
as. the Deople of this free Ke
public have been oppressed, he
could no more rule Germany
than he could a cyclone. V
Those of us who have passed
a a m
our scnooi aays muai. uepeuu
upon our books and newspapers
and upon our brethren in the
Alliance and our own minds for
such knowledge as we hope to
gain but how about our child
ren, our sons and daughters;
what is to become of them
while we wait for prosperity.
They will soon take our places
in the Alliance and in the
church and in politics. Are
they being fitted for: the
task ? . They are the hope of
our lives. We 'live for them.
It ia for tbem that we work
year in and year out. It is our
desire that they shall be better
fitted for the battle of Ufe than
have been and it lied In the
we
AND TBUTHSV
A, MAY 22. 1890.
power of the Alliance to see
that this is done. In! other
States our noble Order has acted
wisely. In Texas and I other
Sonthern States many an All is
ance school-house I is to- day
being thronged with- farmers
and laborers ' children. In
Georgia the Alliance has caused
the public school fund to be
increased and the schools are
carried on twice as many
months in the year and are 4
times as efficient as they need
to be. t; North Carolina has not
yet acted. The enemies of the
Alliance have taken advantage
of this fact aud are circulating
the report that we are, opposed
to education. They are trying
to create the Impression to the
outside world that our Order
in this 8tate is simply an or
ganized mob, ruled by prejudice
and ignorance and opposed to
all enlightenment. But I sit in
the office at Raleigh, with my
fingers upon the pulse of this
great organization and I can
feel her heart-beats and under
stand the undercurrents of her
feelings. I know that if last year
had been a good year for crops,
this year would have seen a
new impulse given to education
in this State. The brethren in
some sections have this matter
at heart. Occasionally I receive
etters stating that a certain
Alliance has taken i the public
school money in its district and
added some of its own money
and built a new school-house
or employed a teacher for' 10
months, and that the children
of the Alliance men and women
are being fitted to make good
members of the Alliance them
selves some day, and good
armers aud good members of
society anoV good citizens. It
does my yheart good to read
such letters. Educ te the, boys
and girls and v ) them a
heritage that no ujouoply can
take away. Give them a heri
tage that even the American
Congress cannot deprive them
of. Nearly two years ago two
great teachers lived in Europe.
Tbey were both men of great
ability. One was sought by
kings and princes; the other.
taught in the cottage of the
farmer or the hut of the moun
tain shepherd. The one spent
his life in training the minds
of the rich and great; the other
educated the common people.
These men were Erasmus and
Martin Luther. Erasmus be
lieved in tbe teachings of
Luther, but he never had the
manhood to say so to the world.
His great intellect is all that
has kept his memory alive.
The noblest truth he ever
uttered was that "The cducai
tion of .the girls Is as necessary
and important as that of the
boys." Not a trace of his
life-work is left behind -him.
But Luther's will never die.
He paved the way for civil
and religious liberty in Europe
and founded that system of
publie schools that has made
Germany what she is to-day a
system that gives to the hum
blest laborer an equal cnance
with the children of a prince.
There are many people in this
country who believe in tht
kind of education Erasmus
taught. An education for those
who are rieh enough to send
their childeen to college, but
not an education for a poor
working man's children.
You have heard about- the
Irishman who said '.'one man
was as good as another, if not
better." Well. I am a firm be
liever in that doctrine. Further
I believe one man's child is as
good as another's no matter
how humble his circumstances
in life, no matter how deep in
poverty he may be snnKen.
believe he has a mind that Gcd
gave him and that ; he has a
right to have that mind edu
cated and trained. I want to
gee our children grow up so in
telligent that no trust, nor
monopoly, nor corporation, nor
demagogue can ever deceive or
oppress them as wo nave been
deceived and oppressed. I de
sire to see them so fitted for
the battle of life that they
will be able cope . with the
children of the bondholders and
the millionaire. Did you ever
think about who the friends of
education are ? Count up all
you know and see how many
bad men you will .find among
them. Are not most of them,
men you would be glad to call
you friends ? On the other
hand - who are its enemies.
Thfiv are invariably the men
who are your enemies. Yon
may find some good men Who
are indifferent about education,
but if you compel them to take
sides, you .will find thej are for
it in somL lorm or otner.
while the men who desire to
plunder the people will natur
ally oppose their being educat
ed. Do yon suppose Jay Gould
or Rockaf eller or any such men
are willing to see tbe masses
educated ? True they may
1 give something to endow some
college and . then some good
"pillars" in the church will
8ing their praises and, talk
about what they have done for
the gospel and the cause of
education; but they know well
enough when they, give the
money that there is no danger
of the masses of the people
being educated in the colleges
and seminaries, . and besides,
you see, it serves as an adver
tisement to their business. How
many such men did .yon ever
know to make any effort to
educate the common people
the children of th farmers and
laborers who are not able to
send their sons and daughters
to college Not one. , W by,
they have lived eo long upon
the ; labors , of the working
people that they have come to
look upon them as a kind of
feeding-ground and actually
feel that they have a perfect
right to plunder us. Of course
such men are going . to oppose
anything that tends to enlight
en the masses and cause them
to see and understand their
trickery. ! v ,
There . are hundreds and
thousands of men in tbe Alli
ance "who 'have not had the
advantage of an education in
their youth,! but, ', who realize
all the more the need of it and
are all the . more anxious to
have their , children and their
neighbor's children educated
that they may escape the
snares that have entrapped
their fathers. All Alliance
men are In favor of education.
The only difference of opinion
s as to bow it is to be done.
The time hat been when a ma-
orlty of the farmers could, by
making a sacrifice, give their
children a common school edu
cation; bnt that time has past.
s is no" longer a question
whether he will help to hire a
teacher for his community. It
is now a question whether he
can buy bread and clothes for
his family. The time has come
WHEN" .THE ONLY CHANCE FOB A
POOB man's CHILD TO BE EDUCA
TED IS BY THE AID OP THE STATE
AND GOVEBNMEMT.
Our sons and daughters must
be educated at any cost. Our
organization can, and J am sure
will, help in this noble work.
I expect to see it, not only edn.
eating those of us who have
passed our school days, but also
to help bring to our children an
education that will give them
high and noble aime in life, a
ove of justice and truth and a
manhood to claim and maintain
their rights.''
To Mothers. "
For upwards of fifty years, Mrs
Wiusiow' Soothing Syrup has
been used by millions of mothers
or their children while teething
with never failing safety ! and suc
cess, it soothes tu) eh) id, softens
tbe gums, allays pain, regulates
tbe bowels, cares wind colic and is
the best remedy for diarrhoea.
Mrs. Winsloww's Soothing Syrap
is for sale by drnggiats j in every
part ot tbe world. Price 25 cents a
bottle.
Pleasant to the taste aad sur
prisingly quick ia relieving coughs
and colds it is not at all strange
that Dr. Bull's Cough Sjrop always
succeeds.
Salvation Oil, the greatest paias
care on earth, is guaranteed-to ef
fect a enre, where it is possible for
the scat of the disease to be reach
ed by a liniment. Price 25 cents a
bottle.
To enjoy good health, aim to' al-
a .1 atl
ways nave aoandnt tieep mis
can generally be secured by man
agement, unless you have a crying
baby, in which Dr. Bull's uaoy
Syrup will greatly assist.
To equalize the circulation of tbe
blood, subdue nervousness and
cleanse the system, use Laxador,
the great regulator. Price 25 cents.
A SAFE INVESTMENT.
Is oue which is guaranteed to
bring satisfactory results, or in
case of failure a return of pur
chase price. On this safe plan
you can buy from our advertised
Druggist a bottle of Dr. King's
New Discovery for Consumption.
It is goarauteed to bring refief in
every case, when used "for suy
affection of Throat Lungs or Chest,
such as Consumption, Inflimatlon
of LtiDg, Bionchiti, Asthma,
Whooping Cough, Croup etc., etc.
It is a plesant aud agreeable to
tate, perfectly sale, and can
always be deDended ipon. Trial
botfles free at A. W. Rowland's
Drugstore, ,
' ME BIT WINS,
We desire to say to our citizens
that for years we have been selling
Dr. King's New Discovery for
Co!suropton, Dr. King's Hew
Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve
and Electric Bitters, and have nev
er bandied remedies that sell as
well, or that have given ' auch uni
versal satisfaction. We do not
hesitate to guarantee tbem every
time, and we stand ready to re f and
the purchase price, if. satisfactory
L results do not To low their ue.
Theie remedies have won their
great popularity purely on their
merits. A. W. Uov land's Drags
store
$1.50 a Tear, cash In Advance
NUMBER 18
THE EDITOR'S DESK
TIM ELY Cft3l3IBNT QX IM
PORTANT EVENTS.
Phort Paragraphs on Tuples of
' Lively Interest for ' Busy Ad
vance Readers.
A modectaensible and well bred man,
WUl not Insult ma and no other can. .
Pope.
"Honesty is the best bolicy,"
but he who is "honest" simply
from policy is the most dis
honest of men.
It requires more bravery for
a North Carolina legislator to
vote for a dog law than it does
to face the mouth of fifty can
nons.; If you want to be miserable,
think about yourself about
what, you want, what you
like, what respect people ought
to pay you and what people
think about you. Kinsley.
The most useful lesson any
people can learn is to depend
upjn themselves. If the peo
ple, of "North Carolina would
learn .to depend on themselves
to buy nothing they can raise
their purplus cash would
astonish many of them.
There is no more dangerous
enemy to civilization than the
man who would destroy the
Sabbath.i Every mau needs a
day of rest each week. His
physical nature demands it and
we cannot afford to deprive
ourselves of this wonderful
tonic not to speak of the day
from any other standpoint.
Kuowledge is the great leav
er that moves the world. Sev
enteen out of every eighteen
children in the State are de
pendent upon the public
schools for their education.
How necessary then is it that
our public schools should be
taught by the best teachers in
the State and that they i should
run as long as possible.
The people of North Carolina
are dead bent on a Railroad
Cammissipn. The next Legis
lature will give us one. We
believe a Commission can do
us a great deal of good. The
work of the Aycock Investigat
ing Committee has evidenced
that fact. The the next Leisla
ture will give us a Commission
that will regulate the Railroads
but with fairness to both peo
ple and rtallroada.
We hope to see the day when
there will be a first-class public
itchool in every district of the
State that will run eight
months in the year. If tbe
people will work for "neighbor
hood schools" in eich of the
public school district?, that day
will be materially i. -stened.
The Farmers' Alliance can do
considerable good in this direc
tion if the leaders of the 'or
ganization will take it in hand.
The Greensboro North State"
is a ran tanker ous Republican
newspaper, but it occasionally
says some good things. The
following strikes us aa coming
Under that head: "To a Re
publican who lives quietly iu
the-South, the remarks made
by theSpeaker suggest thoughts
involving an idea that North
ern Republicans never can live
long enough to get a practical
idea of the South."
The Wilmington Star speaks
truly when it says it: is very
unfortunate for any man to
acquire the reputation of be-,
lug a "funny man." Nothing
has ever been said of your
own beloved Vance that has
injured him more thanr the re
putation of being -"funny."
People wili scarcely believe a
"funny" man capable of being
anything else. He must usual
ly surrender all else to this
flattering, yet dangerous repu
tation.
First Sweet Girl Just think!
The Czar of Russia has a throne
that costjmore than 810.000.
8econd Sweet Girl Really ?
Why, that is not half as much
as papa paid for his seat in the
Senate. Terra Haute Express.
What the people want is our
Sanators elected by the people
direct as members of the House
now are. If that were done,
there would be a mighty rat
tling of dry bones in the Sen-
ate, which is noted more for its
"courtesy,'' than its brains
Acate rheumatism is an inflam
mation of the joints, marked by
pain, heat and redness. With
these simptoms apply Salvation
Oil, tbe great pain cure at once.
Price 25 cents a bottle. s
Nothing tries tbe patience of a
man more than to 1 sten to a back
ing cough, which be kuows could
easily ne cared with Dr. Mali's
Conga Sjrop.