VOL. XXI.
WKLDON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1890.
NO. 29.
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THE WORK OF CON CRESS.
THE HERALD 8 VIEW OFTIIE SITUATION.
Tho adjournment of Congress will be a
relief to tho country.
Coming into power with so many as
surances of acliievmout aud reform, what
lias it done?
Wi have a Pension bill. "Under tho
p sure of the pension sharks the best
organized lobby ever known in Washing
ton over Cfty and perhaps a hundred
millions have been added to the annual
taxation. In profound peace, with noth
ing to disturb tho nation's prosperity,
with the shred of an army and the rem
nant of a navy, we are paying more for
pensions alone than Germany with her
armaments, which master a continent.
The war ended twenty-five years ago, and
yet we suffer the financial burdens of the
war. History has no precedent for this
cruel wrong. The tariff barons would
lmvn it. nnri truculent Retmbliean maior-
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ity humbly records tho decree.
Tin is taxed to enaoie a company or
English capitalists to float a tin mine on
the London niirrket. This is the tin bus
iness in a nutshell simply a Lombard
street job, looking to money in English
pockets. Iron is taxed that Mr. Carnegie
in,ay give libraries to Scottish towns. The
tax on wool means the hand of govern
ment in the pocket of every laborer who
would buy his wife a blanket or a shawl.
By our fiscal policy we have managed to
array every nation against the United
States. We may despise the coalition
and defv the world. But is it wise? We
rob our laborers to gain some fancied ad
vantage over the laborers in oilier lands
But do we gain it? Under the law of
supply and demand, the laws of com
merce, as inexorable as those which gov
ern the solar system, the policy of selfish
ness to other peoples will react upou our
selves. Nations no more than men suc
ceed in building themselves up by pulling
others down.
fV" Congress has passed a River and Har
bor bill larger ttian ever known. Ana
when we add the sums paid for public build
ings, every cross roads asking a jail aud
a postofliee, we can understand the sweep
and breath of these schemes upon the
Treasury.
But have we no administration to
check and lead legislation? Are there
no other but legislative powers in the
Republic? Oh, yes; we have a mild,
weak Executive, with no more influence
upon the making of laws than a toad on
a stone. On the solemn question as to
whether the postoffiee should go to the
village politician who gave the lamps for
the election parades or the one who fur-
' nished tho oil; on the burning question
of turning out. twenty-five thousand post
masters because Mr. Cleveland left them
loing their duty, we have an immense
nduiiuistratiou noueso great since ly-
ler. But upon public policy, upon issues
affecting the national welfare, the admin
istration has lived in a condition of meek
surrender to Congress It is an automat
ic contrivance. No such wondrous piece
of machinery since the famous automa
ton chess player.
There was a time and that, too, in
the dynasty of Republican Presidents
when the Executive was not au auto
maton, affirming in meekness the decrees
of a reckless minority and signing what
ever papers Cougress might send to the
White House. We have seen a Liucolu
return Mason and Slidell, and enforce a
policy of conciliation in spite of the furi
ous protests of the ablest men in his party.
We have seen (5 rant strike with mailed
baud tho wretched doctrine of iuflation,
and save tho credit of the nation from
tho fanaticism of his warmest supporters.
We have seen Arthur veto extravagant
legislation. Those were days of Execu
tive authority. The Senate is now gov
erned by Mcphistopholcs-Baruiu Ingails,
who? ppo fnnirnoi! pcb in (hi se-s-sion
wnsargutneut in favor of paying the
veterans ten thousand millions of dollars
in the way of pensions. The House is
ruled by llobespierre in a black sash aud
flannel shirt, who has destroyed the value
of representative institutionsby coufiiiing
legislation to his recording clerks. Mr.
Reed could give lessons to Cromwell. The
English usurper chascM the member of
Parliaments out of the House with bayo
nets. Our modern usurper quietly ig
nores tho House, and directs the clerk to
record his decrees.
These are serious matters. The Her
ald has no wish to be unjust to Mr. Har
rison, Mr. Ingails or Mr. Reed. They
have many engaging qualities, are honor
able men, and we have in the President
a character of singular probity, piety and
domestic charm. But thiy are slaves of
a policy, tho outcome of that dreadful
war, a coarse, sordid, solGsh policy, which
bodes no good for the Union. It is in
credible that they should not .-ee it; that
Mr. Harrison, at least, should not divine
the dreadful trend ot eveuts, aud assert
himself as the leader of the Republican
party and President of the United States.
No government, not even our swaggering
young Republic, teeming with wealth and
bursting with energy and pridecan en
dure the rccklcsB policy of the Congress
now for the present done and gone a
Congress of plunder, audacity and cor
ruption. These are stern, harsh words plunder
audacity and corruption not tobe light
ly applied to any legislative body. They
arc true, and must be said. Pluuder in
these pension bills, corruption to the
highest water mark in this dreadful tariff
audacity in the attempt by a force bill
because the tariff barons and pension
sharks needed time to loot the treasury.
But the spirit reigns, and will have to be
met in December.
Congress done and gone. For this let
the benignant heavens be praised!
HE SEIZED HIS WIG.
HOW AF1UUTIN CONdRESSHEKORK TIIK
WAR WAS SUDDENLY INTERRUP
TED. The bloodless and bruiseloss fist fight
between Congressmen Wilson, of Wash
ington, aud Beckwith, of New Jersey,
has started a flow of reminiscences of
other ludicrous spats on the floor of the
House. One of the best stories is told
by Colonel lliuton, who was a newspaper
correspondent here before the war. Some
phase of the slavery question was up in
the House. Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois,
had been talking, and, as usual, he had
aggravated the Southerners. Barksdalo,
of Mississippi, replied. Hot words pass
ed. This was not the Barksdale of re
cent service in the House, but General
Baiksdale, who was killed during the
war. As the interchange of the invec
tive grew more and inure personal it seem
ed that an encounter was unavoidable.
Roger A. Pryor, then a young Congress
man from Virginia, raised the lid of
his desk and slipped out a pistol. Sever
al others got ready. Just as the crisis
was at hand a giant of a man from Wis
consin, named Potter, suddenly reached
over from the Republican side of the
House and made a grab for Barksdale.
The Mississippi:!!) had long hair, which
he always wore cire u'ly brusliel. To
the astonishment of the whole House the
luxuriant hair proved tobe a wig. It
came off, of course. Potter stood there
dumbfounded, holding the magnificent
covering aloft and looking first at the
hair aud then at the bald head beneath.
The House held its breath for a moment
and then roar after roar drowned out all
feeling of resentment. Pryor raised the
lid of his desk, put back his pistol and
laughed. Lovejoy sat down convulsed
Potter awkwardly restored the wig and
then both he and Barksdale smiled.
There was no more thought of fighting
over slavery that day. Washington spe
cial to St. Louis Civic-Democrat.
WORKINGS OF THE NEW LAW.
The statement sent out from New Or
leans to the effect that the Louisiana
Lottery company, now that it is excluded
from the use of tho mails, will transact
its business through the express compa
nies is causing some discussion anioug
.Pott Office Department Officials. They
state that tho lottery company has been
making use of the expre.-s companies re
cently to a large extent. It is also known
that tho lottery company has availed it
self of the law which allows express com
panies to carry mail matter inclosed in
government stamped envelopes. It would
appear that this provision of tho law of
fers to the company an opportunity to
carry on its business through the medium
of the express companies But another
ehiuse of the same law authorizes the
Postmaster General to issue a u order in
his discretion prohibiting the companies
from carrying mail matter in government
stamped euvelopes. A simple order
would, it is said at the Post Office De
partment put a stop to this entire busi
ness, aud it is highly probable that an
order of this kind will shortly be issued
by the Postmaster General.
The express companies, however, can
still carry lottery matter as they do the
ordinary packages." An individual or tho
lottery company can also place in the
mails lottery matter inclosed in sealed en
veloper. If, however, it can be proven
in either case that lottery matter was ac
tually mailed or transported, then the par
ties so offending can be prosecuted
under the new law Washington 1). C,
Slur.
Shiloh's Yita'izer is what you need
for Constipation. Loss of Apneti'e, Diz
ziness and all switptotns of Dyspepsia.
Price 10 and 75 cents per bottle. For
sale by W. M. Cohen.
HE SAW ONLY MOTH E R. !
HE WAS VAINT OVEll EARTH 8 FEVERED
DllALCillT AND WENT BACK TO IIEH
WHOSE TENDERNESS HAD NEVER
FAILED HIM.
The doctor said it was no unusual
thing in delirium, but it seemed strange
aud pathetic to the loving watchers that
the middle aged, careworn man. tossing
wearily on a sick b;d should fancy him.
self again a child at his mother's knee
The green grave far away in a country
village where she slept had no existence
so far as he was concerned. She had
never died, but was with her boy again.
The many trials of life had passed from
his memory now, and boyish woes and
confidences alone were on his lips.
W hen his weeping wife laid her hand
on his fevered brow he looked up and
smiled aud called her ''mother." The
hand that held the medicine to his lips,
that smoothed the pillow, was "mother,"
and in all the faces that came and went
about his bed he saw but hers, the first
his baby eyes had known.
He had forgotten her so many year.
He had been so busy all these years, and
a thousand worldly things had clouded
the image of that kind old mother, but as
death's mighty hand had set aside per
plexing, fretting distractions, all so little
now, clear and sweet to his parched soul
came the memory of innocent childhood
and a mother's love. All at ouce he
knew himself a weary, troubled creature,
sick and faint over earth's fevered draught,
and he went back like a little child, to
her whose tenderness had never failed
him.
"Your little boy is tired, mother. The
sun is 'hot."
His children broke into sobs as he
spoke, but his fatherhood was a thing
unknown to him now.
"I'm sleepy and I want to go to bed.
I've been a bad boy some to d ly, ain't I ?
But I'll ask God to forgive me. and if
you do, I guess he will, too. Hear my
prayers, mother, I've learned them by
lnart now."
They saw that tho end was close at
baud then, and his wife made a frantic
appeal to him to recognize her, but his
ears were fast dulling to all earthly sounds,
and he only struggled to raise himself to
his knees. They could have restrained
him, but he said :
"Why, I can't go to sleep without say
ing my prayers I've been a bad boy to
day, and God would bo angry, mother."
Then they helped him up, and with
tender arms supported the weakened
term while lie knelt with upturned eyes
fast dimming with death s film, and clasp
ing his hands as a little child does by its
crib side, prayed the sweet old petition
of:
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray, 1 nee, Lord, my soul to keep.
Ill should die before I wake
I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take.
Current Literature.
OHIO POTTERY.
A prominent merchaut, of this city
who deals hugely in pottery ware, informs
us that he received the information from
a reliable source that tho Celebrated Ohio
r ottcry, that is boujht and used by our
citizeus was manufactured from clay
shipped from the '-Old North State."
This is a pretty state of affairs, when we
even have to ship our clay off to a North
em State to get it manufactured into use
ful articles for domestic use. We have
clay, known as Kuoliu, near this city, that
will make ware equal in every respect to
the Celebrated hnglish Stone Llinia
This has been demonstrated by actual
experiment. Are we not, while looking
lor the stars, missing the diamonds under
our feet? Greensboro Pat not.
Nashville, Tena , Mar. 20, 1890.
Radatu's Microbe Killer Co.,
Nashville, Tenn.
Dear Sirs: I hereby certify that I was
induced to try lladam's Microbe Killer
for a very troublesome boil on ny neck
I suffered so much that I could not sleep
for several nights,and 1 application almost
made- a magical cure. I cheerfully ree
oinmend the Microbe Killer to all persons
affected with impure blood, as I have
known some wonderful cures made by its
use.
Respectfully,
J. A. Kennedy,
Traveling Salesman, Permanent Address
Waco, Texas.
For Sale by T. L. Fmry, Sole Agent
WeldonN. C.
Shiloh's Cough and Consumption Cure
is s h by ih oil a iiiamntec. It cures
Consumption. Eor sale bj W. M. Co
Ueu.
LABOR SAVING MACHINES
ELECTRICITY NOW HEM'S IN THE VAST
WORK DONE IN THE l'OSTOFFICE.
To the person who has never had a
glimpse into the multifarious and complex
affairs that make up the business of the
postofliee, it is the last place in the world
here it would be supposed that uiachin-
ry was employed in the operations of the
great establishment. Yet there has been
put in the mailing department two won
derful mechanical contrivances for the
ancellation and arranging in form of
mail matter. These remarkable pieces
of mechanism are operated by electricity,
and, though not so complex, are very
similar in many respects to the modern
newspaper printing press.
1 lie letters designed for treatment are
placed in a wooden trough, from which
they are fed into a machine very much al ter
the manner that coffee grains are fed to
the ordinary coffee mill. As they strike
revolvin"; rollers they are whirled along a
ide, and during their passage to the oth
er end they are struck with ink dies
which make the postmark and cancel the
stamp. Having gone through tins pro
ceeding they are taken up by the ma
chine and arranged in straight rows, so
that the attendant lifts them out in read
iuess to tie up in bundles without the la
bor of stackiuir, them.
The larger machine can cancel and
pile 25,000 postal cards and 15,000 let
ters an hours, with one attendant feeding
at the hopper-like trough and auother re
moving aud bundling. Iheir value as labor
savers is illustrated by tho fact that the
most rapid hand can not cancel more than
o,000 pieces an hour. It is the only ex
ceptional man who can do this, and then
a tew hours labor at this rate soon la-
tigues the worker to the point of exhaus
tion.
In the money order department a five
horse power steam engine is employed to
facilitate the business. It is located uu
der the desk of the clerk who receives mon
ey for postoffiee orders. The orders and
receipts or stubs are made out in duplicate,
and, in order to prevent collusion, tho de
partment where the money is taken iu is
separated by a wall from the room where
i clerks that give out the orders are
ocated. The orders are made up from
a duplicate of the stub receipts of the
money clerk. The latter are dropped in
little aparture of tho desk of the money
clerk and earned to the other room on
an endless belt operated by the little steam
engiue. Philadelphia Liiurcr.
THE ANTI-LOTTERY LAW.
Judge Tyner, the assistant attorney-
general for the postofliee department, has
completed the instructions to postmasters
in regard to the enforcement of the anti
lottery law. He finds the law more com
prehensive than is generally supposed. In
prohibiting lotteries it also prohibits all
all schemes for distributing prizes by
chances, and applies to the church fair
as well as to the great Louisiana Lottery
company. An advertisement forachurch
fair which speaks of a raffle or anything
of the kiud would bo excluded from tho
mails.
Electric Hitlers.
This remedy is becoming so well known
and bo popular as to need no special men
tion. All who have used hlectric Bit
ters sing the same song of praise. A
purer medicine does wt exist and it is
jruaraiiteod to do all that is claimed.
Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of
the Liver and Kidney, will remove Pim
ples, Roils, Salt Rheum, and othei affec
tions caused by impure blood. V ill drive
Malaria from the system and prevent as
well as cure all Malarial fevers. For
cure of Headache, Constipation and Indi
gestion try hlectric 1'ittcrs hutirc satis
faction guaranteed, or money refunded.
Pile 50c. and 81 per buttle at W. M.
Cohen's drugstore.
Lay in your coal now for the winter.
As tho coming one promises to be
marked by cold weather, the black dia
monds will be considerably Inuhcr in
price later on.
Malaria
Literally means bad air Poisonous germs
arising from low, marshy land, or from
decayim; vegetable matter are breathed
iuto the lungs, taken up by the blood, mid
unless the vital fi nd is pjritud by th
use of a good nieduiue like Hoods Sar
saparilla, the iiuloitunate victim is soon
overnowered. Kven in the more advanced
cases, where tin! terrible fever prevails,
this suecesslul medieine has (fleeted re
markable cures. Those who are exposed
to malarial or other p. i-ons should keep
i he blooi puio uy tukiug Hood's Sar.-a-parilla.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Isaac Levy,
iw Fall I Winter Ms, 1
They have been bought from the
leading Northern markets at low
prices, and will be sold at a very
SMALL PROFIT. No misrepresen
tation. PRICES TALK:--There is no one
that will question that prices are
Great Motors inmoving goods if they
are low enough. A price may be
"Low" and yet not a sacrifice. No
merchant can continually deal in
sacrifices and thrive. A sharp, close
buying merchant can often purchase
so as to sell lower than others, and
yet profit quite as much. It is the
PRICE INDUCEMENT. This is
my stronghold.
I have just received from the manu
facturers a fine line of Ladies' Capes
and jackets of the
shapes such as seal Plush and As-
trakan made in various styles, also
Black and Blue Beaver Cloth made
with vest fronts,
and also satin Lined
WILL BE
SOLI) AT
LKSSTIIAN
A LARGE ASSORTED STOCK OF DRY
GOODS.
Lady's, J Eft's
I also sell the Virginia shoe for Ladies. Each pair warranted. $1 50 a pair.
If not satisfactory will give a new pair or the return of the money.
I keep all the time on
makes
band a full
AT LIVING PRICES.
A well assorted line of
CLOTHING
MY STOCK OF MKN'S, BOYS' and CHILDHKYS CLOTHING,
OVKltCOATS is surpassed by none.
All goods are warranted as represented. Satisfaction guaranteed or no sale.
PRICES AS LOW AS THE LOWEST.
A full line of MKN'S HOYS' and YOUTH'S hats and caps, bought from first
bauds, and sold very cheap.
A complete lino of Groceries on hand at nil times.
A good line of Harness and Head Carts, direct fiom the manufactuicrs, and sold
nt small profits.
am
Thanking my frier and customers
tinuance ol'vlic sa.u. , i am, Trul.
ESTABLISHED 1868.
ENFIELD, K 0.
latest styles and
trimmed with satin
CITY PRICES.
MISSES' AND
CHILDREN'S SrfOES.
line of Men's boots and shoes of standard
aul
for their past patronage aud asking a con.
Yours,
ISAAC LEVY.