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Wilson $1.50 A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE CLAUDIUS F. WILSON, EDITOR & PROP R. LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY S, THY GOD S, AND TRUTH S. VOLUME XXII. WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N. C, JUNE 16th, 1892. NUMBER 22. Tho Advance ter is (H Have you a Dictionary in the house ? If you haven t there is noex cuse'in the world for it. Why? . Because we arc setting a Webster's for $1.38. Have you a Bible ? 'e mean .1 nice one ? We are selling an elegant flexible Leather back Uxtord Bible for 5 1 .98 you arc aware, their regular cost is $3.50. Have you bought your surri mer underwear? You will swelter if you .vear your win- underwear any longer it to do it. Consult your ...i'. inI t-it-o tho rul- vice of your "thin pocket ,00k" buy where you can in variably buy cheapest. - Ladies Ribbeil Vests at 10c. The quality of these vests will surH"ie you. Our Richelieu Ribbed Vest lor 2ic is a perfect beauty. Gents Balbriggan Shirts at 25c better quality at. 28 and Corsets Without a shadow of a doubt we sell more Cor sets than any other house in our beautiful little city. The reason is evident. We sell the best styles and our prices we believe to be under our com petitors. For the money our 42c. C. B. N. Corset beats all for comfort, fit and durability. Then-we have the "Queen" ior 75c, sold elsewhere for 1.00. The C. B.alaSpirite Corset we sell at 97c. You know what others charge for the same Shoes. 1 hits. Dress Goods ; of Hamburg Edge, 2.000 yards at prices to move every yarn at once. Laces both Black and White. You should see the entire stock. Truly "CASH CATCHES THE BARGAINS." TIIK MASTER SPIRIT. Let. love have her perfect sway, Queen of your woman's heart alway Thus God gives to your higher sense Life's sweetest, dearest recompense. NORTH CAROLINA AND M It. ltl'TI.KK He Has TimIccmI Horn ltotwoon tlio Dovll Mini II10 Drop Sort. BLEEDING KANSAS," AS SKKN It Y A NORTH CAROLINIAN AVHO USES BOTH KVKS AND KARS. A GiMt State What Canned the Great Wave of Agricultural Depression Com ing; out Again How Investors were Swiiiillol The Political Outlook book ing lo Denioeraey as the Only Hope of Relief. The Usd Racket Mores. WILSON, N. C. Nash and Goldsboro Streets. THE WASHINGTON LIFE Insurance Co OF NEW ASSETTS, - - Y )R K. - Sic, - r- 500,00a. The Policies written hy the Washington are Descrihed in these eeneral terms: Non-Forfcitable. Unrestricted as to residence and travel after two years: Incontestable after two years. Secured by an lir t sfed Reserve. Solidly backed '. bonds and mort gages, first liens on real estate. j Safer than railroad securities. Not affected by the Stork market. Better paying investments than D. S. Bonds. ' Less expensive than assessment certificates. Mure liberal than the law requires. Definite Contracts. T. L. ALFK1END, Manager, Richmond, V'a. SAM'I. L. ADAMS, Special Dist. Agent, Room h, Wright Building, 4-3iv. Durham, N. C. DR. W. S. ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, N. C. Office in Drug Store on Tarboro St. The meeting of the Democratic State Convention of North Carolina has. been looked to for many weeks with .much anxiety, and by some, who arc deeply interested in the reform movement, with considerable mis givings as to the plans adopted by Mr. Butler. Every one, however, consoled himself with the thought that when the iSth of May and the convention came, the mist would be cleared away : but to the utter cha grin and astonishment of all reform ers the mists seem to have thicken ed, and at present uncertainty reigns supreme so far as Mr. Butler and Ins word for the past three months is concerned. Some few things have cropped out which will bear an ex planation to say the least. After the St. Louis conference adjourned, and during the session of the mass meet ing, which convened immediately after adjournment of the conference, Mr. Butler was put upon the Nation al Committee of the People's parly, which position he accepted. After the mass meeting adjourned, the National Committee held a meet ing in which Mr. Butler took a part. He earnestly requested the National Committee to let him manage the campaign in North Carolina. He said if the committee would leave the State to him he would as sure them that he would bring it up all right for the People's party. After, stating his plan to the committee, it was plain that it was against their judgment, but for the sake of har mony Mr. Butler was allowed to have his way. Mr. Butler has been vig orously at work for three months and, judging from results, it is not at clear as to whether he has been at work tor the Democratic party or the People's party. One thing, however. is quite plain ; the convention which he was going to fill with men alter his own heart, nominated a man for gov ernor who has come out square against the St. Louis platform, and as to the delegates elected to the Chicago Con vention, the St. Louis platform does not appear to be in it. Mr. Buticr is not a delegate to the Omaha con vention, and it is said he refused to accept the position. In the face of the above facts, Mr. Butler's friends would like to know whether he has been working to give Mr. Elias Carr the nomination for Governor of the Democratic party, or for the best interest of the People's party. One thing to be greatly regretted is, Mr. Butler has put himsell on the defensive, and his three months dick ering with the Democratic party has been lost to the - reform movement. The friends of reform will now have to begin where Mr. Butler should have begun three months ago to or ganize the State of North Carolina. It is very unpleasant for the Watch man to be compelled to make these plain statements, but as a faithful watchman and guardian of the best interests of the reform movement, it has become its duty to speak plainly. It is a dangerous experiment, usually, for older and wiser heads to yield their "combined wisdom and judg ment to the ideas of one man. Judgment in this case should be suspended until further developments. In the meantime it is earnestly hoped that Mr. Butler will be able to explain satisfactorily his conduct, and that North Carolina will yet come out of the difficulty without material harm. -National Watchman. GIDEON'S BAND. I1KKK IS THE WHEEL WITHIN THE WHEEL." DR. ALBERT ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, N. C. Office next dour to the First Nationa Bank. DR. E. K. WRIGHT, Surgeon Dentist, . WILSON, N. C. Having permanently located in Wil son, l offer my professional services to the public. jyOffice in Central Hotel Building- Scotland Neck Military School. 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This is a viHage of perhaps 1,000 and is situated a little West of the centre of this big State. lut thouyh I have been travelling most of the time, (being cheeked through to San Francisco to attend the meeting ol the National Editorial Convention), I have prob ably learned as much about the po litical situation as a stranger could learn in a week's can hi 1 investiga tion. A man who keeps his eyes and ears open will learn a great deal in travelling if.he leaves the Pullman car, as I did, and talks to all sorts of people as they get on and off the train. What I like about travelling is seeing and talking to the people who live in the country through which you are passing. I'd as lief be shut up and shipped as freight, so far as learning anything is concerned, as to be boxed up in a Pullman with through passengers to whom you do not care to talk and who would doubtless regard any inquiries as intrusion. And besides they are not the people who know what you de sire to get, and you waste your time "pumping" them, and so, when the train reached Kansas I made it a point to go out into the regular local parts of the train and talk with the men who get on at local stations. There is no stiffness about Kansans. Like North Carolinians they are not so far advanced in "culchaw" as to be polite. Soon after breakfast, a gentleman gct on the train at Oswe go and took a seat by me. We nat urally dropped into conversation and much that he told me will interest the readers of Tin: Advance. His name was E. P. Sawyer, and his bus iness is dealing in grain, fruit and produce. He had spent much time in the South and believes that the best investment any man can make to day is in the cotton lands ol the South. Wheat lands have seen their best he thinks, and in the near future cotton, sugar, and tobacco lands will bring the highest price of any lands upon which staple crops are grown. I have long entertained the same opinion. These products can be grown nowhere 111 the country except in the South, and with our rapidly increasing population they will be in demand to supply the increasing de mands of the world for cotton, tobac co and sugar. Mr. Sawyer lives in the same town with Senator Perkins, who succeeds Mr. Plumb. It will be remembered that in 1890, Mr. Perkins- was de feated for Congress by Ben Clover, the Alliance candidate. In that sec tion, then, was a stronghold of the People's party movement, and 1 asked Mr. Sawyer what the strength of that party is to-day as compare with two vears aeo. What he said is substantial! v as follows : Before answering your question it will be well to trace the origin ot tin Alliance and the causes that led to its victory in '00. Years ago when Kansas was a boom, there came hen agents of Eastern Investment Com nanies whose business it was to lend money on land. They had plenty o monev to lend, and as the agents got a commission of 5 per cent, upon al the money they could lend out, they were naturally very anxious to leiK money. They would drive aroun the country here and beg a firmer to borrow money just like sewing ma chine agents try to sell machines in 6North Carolina. They wanted to lend for five years, and they persuad ed many farmers to borrow who would not have done so except upon personal solicitation. Money was borrowed by farmers for four pur poses : 1. To buy more land. It looked then as if land woukl continue to rise and that big money could be made by land investment. ' 2. To build nice home, buy ma chinery, and make other impove ments 3. T o speculate on. About 1 S84 and '85 big fortunes were made spec ulating in cattle, and many farmers moitgaged their farms to go heavily into this speculation. 4. To swindle the Investments Companies. So anxious were the agents to lend money, that often they would lend a man S2,ooo upon a tract of land. for which he had promised to pay only $1,500. The borrower would, in a short while, "fold his tent like the Arab and as silently silently steal away" with his S500 in his pockets, lie had no idea of farming, and simply made the loan to swindle the company out of $500 and then he would seek pas tures new. Well, when crops failed and mort gages became due there came a crash. Investment companies lost heavily, and farmers who had worked hard found themselves face to face with ruin. They had expected the boom to grow, and when it did not, and they saw themselves bankrupted, they did what most men do ; they got very mad. They had been blindly fol lowing the Republican party, and now they began to denounce it for the evils that had befallen them. And in so doing they were partly right. The systematic robbery ot these fanners by tariff laws and bad finan cial system had so impoverished them that they could not withstand a failure in crops. Previously, grow ing out of depression, the Union Labor paity had been organized, and its home was in Labeth county, of which Oswego'was the county seat. The Alliance had also been organiz- 'ii-wl li-ic frrurmtr ctrrmrrrr nrni'r 1 T i i .- vu m paper to the discovery in Georgia ot dav. When the election day came 11 ,. . .7 The Secrpl I'ol it i-:tl Oriler Inside tlie V.irmer's Alliance Exposure I it by a Goornia Minister The Minister Vouch ed For. Reference has been made in this the Alltancemen, almost in a body went into the People's party and de- ii inveigled into it under false representa- ocrats generally in that election voted . , 1 , , . , V , . , , . tion. 1 ne storv is tnus told m a with the Peoples party which was -x , 111: i a; fh.,u Lavoma, Ga., dispatcn to the Atlanta thus enabled to win. It is di lhcuit ... '. ' 1 to sav what proportion of the Alli- Farmers' Alliance. The exposure is tlue to a Baptist minister who was anccmen who affiliated with the Peo ple's party has gone back to the old parties. In Labetto county the bet ter element of the Alliance did not vote with the People's party last year. There is less interest manifested by the Alliance now than then, and in many school districts the Alliance jet up nieet- Constitution : A speech delivered here by Rev. J. T. W. Vernon, president of the Hart county Alliance, has created a sensation. It exposed a secret political agency i" the varmers' Alliance. It was at a joint debate between the Democrats and Third party people. Mr. Vernon is a prominent Baptist minister of Hart county. There is no man more universally respected and beloved. As president of the Hart county Alliance he was delegate to the State convention of the Alli ance, which met in Atlanta last August. Mr. Vernon opened his speech as follows : Democrats and Fellow Citizens : leaders find it difficult to mgs. 1 etter crops last vear Heine matters some, but there is sliil great interest among the farmers who feel that they are not treated fairly by the government. They are restless and discontented, and while a large number have gone back to the Re publican party, some have burned their ships and will never go back of their troubles. He cited instances j 1 CO!1,e, to-n.ght to tell you of the of farmers who had prospered all Ke J"f laid the egg that hatched along and particularly the case of a j he P;f'- ,Most eps. f German, named Helwig, who was a! about our weeks bu it held hand i 5 years ago and who now S1X m?,ntbs to hatch the owns i, ooo acres of land and has , 1 h'rd P:irt' e-- . money in the bank. It is pretty hard 1 Just here there was great restless- to tell how the State will go this vear lh'f nx,et' w h rT though the Republicans stand a lair : beved by the sequel to Mr. ernon s chance ot unrminor The Peoole's ! 1 party cannot win. 1 acre is Mr. Wrnnn 1 rnreeded Sllbstail- some; . - - i ,..i r I . -.1. T ... ; r 1 V as IOUOWS . I was a ulu..uc i'J taiK oi a comuination wun me ncui- . u .- i mV t i u .;ii v, ,1, tne State convention ol the Alliance uei.ii viieieuy 1.11.11 p.ii Ly 111 iuiv. which met in Atlanta last August. At that meeting a secret body.'withhi the Alliance, itselt a secret body, was t .1 J" - organize' unuer inename oi uiui. iiand.' Onlv liiirtv members allowed in this from each co the State. The initiation fee is p2 halt ot the electors. It tins plan is carried out, the Republicans may lose the State. Two other things Mr. Sawyer said that confirms me in a position ! took in an editorial in the State t2hronicle two years' ago, viz : that the Western People's party movement was but a but way house to Democracy. He says : I. That the farmers of Kansas are 1 1 . 1 T, more and more oppo.scu to i:ie i io tective Tariff system. There are no manufactures to speak of in Kansas, mil the farmers say they are taxed to make Lastern men rich, and tne nly protection they get is a trifle on eJS. ., r l , -i rii : ti : 1 f.i;.,., i,.,c,i,.,f l-irotiier iuci-ananur uroiuei ;. x ii. ll seeLii.Jii.il leeiiu naiunui i the Observer and is as follows : Hartwell Ga., May 30. 1892. Mr. W. B. Gaither, Newton, N. C. Dear Sir : Your favor to hand. Regarding the article in the Constitu tion to which you refer, will say it was published in the county paper before it was published in the Con stitution, and has never been ques tioned that I have heard of. I know Rev. Vernon and what he says can be relied on. He is an ex -president of the county Alliance and stands well in the order. The reason he exposed it he told me that he was told before taking the obligation that there was nothing in it that would conflict with his religious or civil interests, but alter receiving the obligation he found he had been deceived and for that reason did not consider that he was bound by it, and not only that, but that he felt it his duty to expose any thing calculated to do so much mis chief. When he delivered his speech the president of the Franklin county Alliance was present and asked to deny it if not true, which he did not do though he was a Third party man. Truly yours, D. C. Aeeord, , Chairman Hart Co., Ga., Dem. Com. As further bearing upon the matter in question the following letter from Mr. Vernon himself, appearing in the Atlanta Constitution of June 1st, is of interest : At Lavonia, Ga., on the night of May 14th I was introduced by Dr. Bonner as an Alliance Democrat of I Iart county, not as the president of Hart Alliance, as I do not hold that office at this time. I was their first president and served them as such for two years, and for that reasan, I suppose, the correspondent still thought I was president. I have j held the office ot county lecturer tor lie I: OUR MOTHERS. 'IIAI'PY IS THE MAJN WHOM HIS MOTHKK TKACIIETH." Motherhood, the Grandest Mission of Woman, Freighted With Grave Respon sibility and tin 1 a i 111; Hiifhest Opportu nity, is the Kihtlul Sphere of True AYoimui. Grace Greenwood says: ''I have a theory, flanked by whole columns of biographical history, that no man or woman of genius was ever born of an inferior or commonplace woman," Napoleon I. said : "The future good or bad conduct of a child entirely depends upon the mother.' Sensible men are no longer con tent to marry silly, shallow, and simply fashionable women, for they have learned to their sorrow that the mothers of our bright men and women are large-brained, earnest and thoughtful women, while the children of the ignorant and fashionable moth are too often dudes and butterflies of fashion. The author of "Five Talents of Woman," says : "One good mother is worth a hun dred schoolmasters. She influences, far more than does the father, the action and conduct of the child." It is to the mothers of the race that our wise, great and good men and women owe much of their suc cess in life. The French naturalist, Burton, often said that children inherited from their mother their intellectual and moral qualities. "Happy is he whom his mother teacheth." It was Curran who said : "The only inheritance I could boast lustrious son's death was most pathet ic. The mother of Elizabeth Fry was a beautiful woman, and unusually intel ligent and intellectual for the time in which she lived. The affection that Elizabeth had for her lovely mother was very tender and strong, and one of the greatest sorrows of her life was when she lost her. Jean Ingclow was the daughter of a cultured, loving and tender mother who was of a Scotch descent. The mother of Cuvier, the great geologist, studied Latin in order that she might help in that language. Drawing and literature they also studied together, and his success in life was due largely to her faithfulness and interest in his behalf. Watt, the greift civil engineer, owed much of success to his mother, who was a wonderful woman. He was always sick when a child, and she was his friend, companion and teacher all in one, besides a loving, tender mother. Mary Lyon's mother was left a widow with seven young children to support and educate. She knew no such word as fail, and her sunny, cheerful disposition helped her to succeed. The mother of George Washington was also left a widow at an early age, with five children, the oldest, George, but eleven years of age. She was wise, industrious, tender, loving and courageous, and was permitted to live until all of her children occupied hon orable places in life. Grace Greenwood speaks of the mother of Fannie Fern, as a "large brained, as well as a great hearted woman." The beautiful tributes of her poet son made all the world aware of her most lovable qualities, of from my poor father was the very faer &fthful maternal tenderness and .1 ... 1 : . .1 . 1st two years ano am sou in mat 1 did not sav that the State uutv in Alliance had anything to dp with the completely died out since the hard times came on and tiiev joined the Alliance. Now they demand living issues : not dead reminiscences. These two statements which were 1 . 1 1 1 .1 coniirmeii to me uv not less man -,e men in Kansas, most ot whom are Republicans, shows that after the temporary ebullition ot the reopies party dies out, (as die tt will) these honest men who have been led by appeals to hate into almost bank ruptcy in the interest of the money power, will come into the folds ot the Democratic party which knows no section nor any class, but does equal and exact justice to all. 1 talked to a number of farmers. Some of them were strong advocates of the People's party, and great ad mirers of Col. Polk for whom they expect to vote for President. When they found that I lived in the same town with Col. Polk, they asked many questions about him. They are- desperate driven so by bad crops and Republican legislation. Naturally they hate to go into the camp of the Democratic patty their old antagonist, and it will require several years before they become Democrats. But eventually they will come in as the Whigs did after the war. Though convined that it was necessary to join forces with the Democrats in the South, the Whigs would not consent for a long while to be called Democrats, f irst, it was the conservative party" ; then the conservative Democratic party," and then it was plain "Democratic party." And so it will be in Kansas. This year they are "the People's party." Then it will be "People's Democratic party," and then those who honestly desire reform will come under the broad and ample folds of Democracy, and help to give it the needed majority to repeal the legis lation that for 25 years has laid its heavy hand of oppression upon the agriculturists in every section of our country. I did not hear a single man say that he believed the Peo ole's Dartv could carry Kansas, and 1 x j j this is its strongest State. There is no other Western State in which that party has any hope of success. Every day I am convinced more and more that the Democratic party is the hope of all people who cry out against Republican legislation and long for Reform. Recalcitrant Democrats must be put to the rear, and the Democratic party by being true to masses (as it has ever been when in power) deserve and will receiver their support. 1 hesitated about joining that band, not knowing its purposes. But the leaders insisted and finally proposed as I was a minister of the gospel to initiate me free. I inquired if it would interfere with my politics or religion, and was answered in the negative." Here the speaker paused a moment and looking straight at T. A. Mc Farland of this county, said- "You and I went together, didn't we, Mc- Farland didn't reply ; but hung his head in shame. "And," continued the spe.iker, "what did we find when we were sworn into 'Gideon's Band?' That we were to bring into the band thirty men from our respective coun ties who were to manipulate the poli tics of the Alliance. These thirty men were to control the offices, and force the member of the Alliance to vote for the men named by them. Isn't this true, brother McFarland, and didn't you, when you visited my county last fall, inquire of me how I was getting along with the work of organizing 'Giileon's Band,1 and didn't I tell you that 1 could have nothing to do with it. as it was inconsistent with the original princi ples of the Alliance, which promised eaual justice to alland special favors to in, 1, 1 VTT.-..,- none : ne tan , now, moiuei ini m- scanty one of an unattractive face and person, like his own ; and it the world has ever attributed to me something more valuable than face or person, or'than earthly wealth, it 1 1 . was because a dearer parent gave A The Times says that Robert Cariile, of Louisburg, ate 31 bananas and Tom Person 20, in about 15 minutes. The Globe says that Ned Mitchell, a well-digger of Durham, while at work in a well on the premises of Mr. John P. Rigsbee Friday afternoon, became overcome with gas. An effort was made to draw him out, but just before reaching the top he fell and broke his neck, instant death being the result. land, and tell me if this is not truer' But brother McFarland was dumb. The speaker continued: "Vou re member the sign of the brother hood, Brother McFarland. If a member of 'Gideon's liand' desired to make himself known, he lolled his, tongue, and if his brother happened to be one of the elect, he recognized the sign and lolled his tongue also. Isn't this true, Brother McFarland?'" For a third time that evening Brother McFarland was dumb. Mr.McFarland may cry' falsehood" to the story of "Gideon's Band," but he did not dare to do it at Lavonia. He spoke after Mr. Vernon, but "Gideon's Band" was not mentioned. If Mr. Vernon's account of "Gideon's Band" was not true, why did Mr. McFarland not raise up then and there and denounce it ? It was true, and Mr. McFarland did not dare to raise up in the presence of an honest man and deny it. Mr. Vernon stated further that an Alliance leader from Atlanta was sent to his house last fall to observe the progress he was makingwith" Gideon's Bands. Mr. Vernon miormeu mm that he could have nothing to do w ith such dirty work and washed his hands of the whole business. The Allianceman from Atlanta scoured around in Hart county and found another man whom he initiated into the band, but he happened to be a man of no influence in Hart, county, and as a consequence the Third party has no strength in that county. Mr. Vernon said, "Gideon's Band is the goose that laid the egg that hatched the Third party." Nearly two hundred of the best men in Franklin county heard Mr. Vernon's soeech and are ready to give affidavits to the truthfulness of this report. The Gideonitcs may cry "campaign story," but fair minded men will not heed them. They mav sav that Mr. Vernon has misrepresented them, but they will not dare to say it anywhere on the soil of Hart county. Mr. Vernon is a man whose honesty is unquestioned and whose life has been blameless. The above publication arrested the attention of Mr. W. B. Gaither, of Newton, and he wrote to chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Hart county, Ga., regarding the matter. A copy ot the reply nas Gideon Band." But I do say that I was a delegate from Hart county to the State Alliance and during that meeting Mr. Dejarnett, of Greene county, was the man that told me all I know about "Gideon's Band," and he said he was authorized to get up such a band in each county in the eighth congressional district in the State. And that it was like "Free masonry," one degree higher than the regular Alliance and would not conflict with my political and religious views. ' I being a Mason knew if it was like Masonry it was a good thing. Two dollars was the initia tion fee. With this assurance from Dejarnett, Brother McFarland and mayself were initiated into one ot the most corrupt machines of poli tical corruption that was ever con cocted on American soil. I was to pay him when I got the band made up, and I will do it when 1 make it up. l consider sucn an organization a clear case of conspiracy against the principles of the Alliance and as such 1 would have nothing to do with it. Last fall when Dr. Robbins was going around lecturing the county Alliance in this district, Dejarnett was with him and they came to my house and Dejarnett wanted to know if I had the -band ready for him to organize. I told him that I had done nothing. I at once saw that he was crest-fallen for he had lost his fleece. Brother McFarland is as hightoned a gentleman as there is in Franklin county and I knew he was a truthful man and I could appeal to him while I was exposing "Gideon's Band," that if I made any false state ment for him to correct me, right then and there. Brother McFarland A did not say a word in answer to my statement, as everyone present that night well knows. I am sorry that Brother McFarland or any good man would suffer themselver to be shorn of their grown locks by a Delilah and fall into the hands of the Philistine. This-is all I know personally about "Gideon's Band." I have heard some things that gave rise to "Gideon's Band" at Ocala, Fla., which if so would be worse than dyn amite in the Third Dartv camp. I 4 J M. have endeavored to answer ypUJ questions as asked in the Constitu tion so far as my personal knowledge goes. I request all Democratic papers in Georgia to copy the above in justice to myself "and to good overnment and to the welfare of the elonous old L-ommonweaiin. 1 can not be heard much longer as I am in my seventieth year, but I still love my God, my country, my wife and children and white supremacy. Hop ing and praying that the last mark or resemblance of the Third party may be wiped out at this fall's election never to be resurrected for the sake of greed and office. J. T. W, Vernon. It is alleged that this order has been established in North Carolina. It is clearly in violation of the laws of the State, and the Observer does no more than discharge a plain duty when it " -warns those who may be solicited to join it to beware of it. The undoubted existence of this order brings directly before the peo ple the question whether they are yet willing to have government given them by a darkiantern society com posed of thirty members in each county: What 00 tney tninK. 01 it j broad, sweet charity; but to those j were added rare mental power and I character of singular nobility and j weight. Alice Gary once wrote : "Mv mother was of Fiudish de- her child a portion from the treasures centa woman of superior intellect, other mind , ! and of a good, well-ordered life. In the mother 01 tienry ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe was a noble woman, whose education my memory she stands apart from all others wiser, purer, doing more nntl livin.r better than anv other was superior to the days in which she woman ! lived. The husband's salary was so r Victor Hugo owed much of his slender that this energetic and loving ' lius to his mother, and the love helpmeet not only cared for her fam ily but taught drawing, painting, em broidery, French and several Eng branches. Helen Hunt Jackson's sunny, happy nature was enherited from her mother. Cornelia, the mother of the Grac chi, was a queenly woman, univer sally honored and admired. Of her W. A. Alger tells us : "Her sons owed everything to her judicious training, to her wise and unwearied pains in educating them, guarding and inspiring them to high deeds." Goethe owed his mind, character and talent to the mother who was everything to him. They were more like playmates and congenial friends than mother and son. John Wesley used to wish that he might die before his mother did, so great was his love antl devotion for that parent who was so loving, tender and patient with all his faults and dullness. The mother of John G, Whittier was a sweet, pure, devoted woman, and it is to her religious and emotion al nature that he owes much of his md tenderness he felt lor her was most touching. Her life was an in spiration to him, and when he lost her iiis sorrow was very great. The mother of Margaret Fuller Ossoli was a refined and gentle woman, with a sweet and sympathetic nature. The mother of Jenny Lind was a school teacher. Scott used to hear his mother and grand-mother recite ballards before he could read, and in that way his mind was first turned to literature. A good mother is the most beau tiful production of nature. Madam Letitia Bonaparte once said, "the throne of motherhood ought to take precedence of that ot kings." The more we study into the life and character of the great men and women of our day, and those of past ages, the more we realize that it was their mothers who taught "them, either through example, precept or heredity, the secret of success. ( n the other hand, we find th; mothers of criminals and vicious men and women were ignorant, de- rrntrA rr l ikinir in the most esseil- pure-mindedness and lofty ideals and j Mes of true motherhood. . . ' , I . Does this not teach us that earnest uolton says tnat tne purposes. Sarah K. mother of Mary A. Livermore, "was a woman of remarkable judgment and common sense." Maria Mitchell's mother was a Quaker girl, descendant of Benja min Franklin., intelligent, keen, and unusually attractive in appearance. The mother of Louisa Alcott was an earnest, faithful, loving and tender woman, with a large amount of cour age and bravery, and an inspiration to her family and friends. George Eliot lost her mother when a girl of 16, but it was to her that she owed many of her best qualities. One of our foremost writers speaks of that mother "as a woman of sterling char acter, practical and capable." The devotion and -love between lames A. Garfield and his mother was most beautiful and touching. Realizing full well how much he owed her for his position and hap piness in life, he never for one mo men' forgot it, and the bond between those two was very unusual. The grief of this dear old lady at her il- men should look farther than a pret ty face, a graceful form, a sweet singer or a pleasant partner for an evening's entertainment, in the women they ;isk to be their wives ami the mothers of their children? Is it not time that more thought and study were given to this subject which is of such vital importance to the whole race ? It lias been said that the children of this generation are crying out : "Educate my mother !" "A life that's full Of little cares And doubts, and fears, No other shares ; And yet a life That's glad with RO d The strong pure joy Of motherhood. "A bright blue sfcy Of happiness, Clouded at times, More or less. A life that's full ( )f power for good This is the life Of womanhood." SI anyway? What do they think, on principle, of secret political societies ? Charlotte Observer. 8 The Globe says that lightning killed three horses in the stables of Dr. Patterson, about six miles from been kindly sent by Mr. Gaither to Durham, Thursday night. In mm. mm CHtKu Vv 't iftp,.. ...Vft ' V lira (9 ''""' T2. iz y II Around home is all right, b-ut it looks out cf place when you r.rc on the street; i.'.Vv.n you want to make a good appearance. An - - - OLD VIRGINIA ;OMANLiFACTURED0NLVBr PWMTI nP.KRir.HMQNDVA1 will aid you more than any one thing. Made of carefully selected stock; smoke sw eet to the end. l ive leu 1 ii 8 8 h tt