WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1892.
NO. 7
VOL. XXIII.
THE ST. LOUIS PLATFORM
WHAT C(). I.lVINdSTOS, PRKSIDKNT OK
THE (IKOltUlA STATE ALLIANCE, SAVd
or IT.
Col. Livingston in n speech at Atlanta
a short tiiuo ar'o gave his opinion of the
St. Louis movement In the ourse of
his rotnarks ho mid:
"What about this St. Louis conven
tion? What nbout. its platform? In the
first place tbero lit hardly a straightoiit
Ooala plank in it. I challenge any man
of you to read the Bmuiciul plank and
find its r ;al meaning. It may mean one
thin;. It may mean another It may
be good for tho Alliance of the South;
it maf b.; letter for tho Nor.h. I cou
fess I have never bjen able to understand
.it.
"But lot's run on down the list to the
twelfth phnk at that Union soldier's
pension plank. Col. I'olk will tel! you
it's not there. They are all trying to
make you think you an! not voting fir a
Yankee pension plauk. Well, let's see
about that. Here's a little b jok entitled
"The Platform of tho People's Party.'
(Col. Livingston held up a littlo pam
phlet.) Guess where I got this little
book. It was given to me by Congress
man Thomas K. , well I won't call
names. lie sent it to my desk and he
ought U know whether it is from the
true source or not It's genuine. We
goto tho official democratic platform book
for Democratic planks. Why shouldn't
we go to Third party books for Third
party planks? Here it i:" (Col. Liv
ingston read the twelfth plank.)
Somebody asked, ''Isn't that a rcsolu
tion not a plank of the platform, Colo
nel?"
"Is ii? Well, that's what Colonel
Polk will tell you, but let's see. The
evidence is that I was in the con
vontion myself. Tho next is a letter
from Frances K. Willard, who was there
and a member of the committee to frame
platforms. (Col. Livingston read the
letter, which stated plaiuly that the pon
sion provision was a part of the original
platform and not a separate resolution )
The evidence is conclusive, what more do
you want? (Applause.)
"Again, I wrote to Mr. Powderly, who
has been for a loug time graud master
workman of the Knights of Labor, who
was also there. A telegram from Wash
ington reached me at the Markham last
- night stating that he affirmed that it was
in the platform That isn't all. Here's
an editorial iu Mr. Macuuu's paper in
which he s ijs the twelfth plank has been
taken out and made a resolution since the
convention adjourned. (Good gracious!
Great Scott! and other exclamations were
heard all over the house ) Is it there?
Yes, my dear, deluded friends, they'ro
fooling you away from the South. They
are leading you ' astray, and you are
blinded. Will you follow them any long
er? ' "No, no. We're done with 'cm
was the loud chorus.
"That isn't all," said the Colonel, div
ing down into that valise for more evi
donee.
"Here is an extract from an editorial
in the National Konomitt, Washington
D. C, dated March 12, 1802, which ex
plains how tho present platform as pul
hshed in l lie South cume to differ with
the origiuul platform as adopted at the
tot. Iiouis center nee:
"The division into three planks his
biea doue since the ailj jurument tf tli
convention. The plan of di
viding tho platform into three plankg was
suggested to the Economist by Marion
Butler, president of tho Norlh Carolina
State Alliance.
Your Hlood
Undoubtedly needs a thorough cleansing
tbis season to expel impurities, keep up
the health tono and prevent disease. You
should take Hood's Sarsaparilla, the best
blood purifier and system touic. it
unequaled in' positive medicinal merit.
Hood's Pills are purely vegetable, per
fetly harmless, effective, but do not cause
pain or gripe. Be sure to got Hood s.
Or you 1:1 ill v no t. :! ?oot i.irnoth-
It tf. gi'Mt'.lMl.)V. 1-T
J.KUHV.' ljai ,v r limns.
It Will curt jyu. demus your liror, aud jlT
h gOuvt ji;l-tiH.
HIS PARTING SHOT.
THE Dt'.ACON rtKD HOT kxpkhiknce
IN A 1TKKISII 1IATII.
Cltfciyo TiUmiir.
The two young men had induced the
de-icm to take his first Turkish bath.
They had gotten him propel ly attired,
or rather unatiired, and had conducted
him into the hot room.
The deacon didn't enjoy it, but ho was
game, lie rolled around nervousiy on
his cot, and every time he moved ho
seemed to strike a hotter spot. But he
stood it iike a man until the perspiration
made rivulets innumerable in running off
him. Tlu-n he lifted himself on his el
how, and said, plaintively:
"Let's get nut of this."
But the young incu only laughed and
toll hint to keep quiet; thai it was just
g..'ttiug comfortable.
When he finally absolutely refused to
stand it any longer they led him into thc
steam room, and sat down to gossip and
njoy his discomfiture as ho felt himself
lowly boiling away.
And the deacon seemed inclined to loso
his temper. It was aggravating to be
so extremely uneoinfortabo when they
were apparently enjoying themselves, and
would offer him no means of escape, that
would, to say tho least be dignified.
But there was an end to it; he got
out; and as he looked ' more in sorrow
than in anger" fniu one to tho other
theiii, ono asked:
'Well, deacon, what do you think of
it:
The deacon replied solemnly, and with
all due dignity, but rather pointedly :
It's a good thing, young man; it's a
remarkably convenient thing for some
people who need to suitably prepare
themselves for the hereafter, but for my
part I am glad to get cn the surfaco of
the earth asr iin."
A CHILD'S EAKLY INKI.UEXCKS.
Nothing is so easily spoiled as a child.
Walk with your little babe a few nights
when you wish to put it to sleep; or
accustom it to rocking, then attempt to
put it to sleep without this habit, and see
how difficult it will be to get it to sleep.
Tho parent must from the beginning of
the child's existence do those things to
which the child is to conform. It is
allowing children to have their own way
during the first few years of their lives
that makes them so hard to control.
Before they are able to talk they aro
being molded by the actions of those
around them.
It is therefore highly important that
from the beginning the best influence
and example should be about the child.
It is a serious mistake in parents to
commit their children wholly into the
bauds of a nurse. No parent can afford
to do this, even though they have a very
kind and careful nurse. Every mother
desires that her child bear the impress of
her own imago. This cannot be when it
is with the nurso moro than with the
mother.
Few people have any idea of the x
tout of the part performed ly nurses in
the information of society. Many (
mother wonders where her sou or daugh
tcr learned these things, or formed that
habit, or heard Fuch and such an ex
pression. Let her lisleu a low minutes at
the nursery door and all will be made
plain.
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HARRISON WORRIED.
TIIK LACK OV INSTRUCTIONS CAUSINO
THE I'll KSIIIENT-CANDIDATK UNEASY
MOMENTS.
Tho President and his friends aro
growing uneasy over tho uetion of the
Republican State conventions being held
almost daily. These indorsements do not
satisfy thcin by a long shot. What they
waut are instructions, and they are not
getting them. For the first time the
President is himself alarmed at the situ
ation, for he is too good a politician not
to see that there is a formidable minority
in his party opposing his renominalion,
and all that minority needs to make it
dangcr.,us, if not fatal to.hU hopes, is a
leader to rally around. He feels that if a
man can be fuund who will uni'o his
opponents ho is doomed to defeat. His
only hope is that they cannot concentrate
their strength upon any ono mm to
oppose him, and it looks now like that
hope would b j realized.
Tho Blaine enthusiasm is also causing
the President many wakeful moments.
The man from Maine is in fact tho only
person Harrison fears, but his uneasiness
in this direction seems well founded. The
Blaiue talk becomes more dangerous, too,
from the fact that tho Secretaiy is now
enjoying good health, and is seen on thc
streets and about the departments, looking
wonderfully like the Blaine of old.
Whenever t lie President becomes
more man usually Inglttened at tlie
operations of bis political opponeuls
within thc party, he begins to hedge a
little aud to intimate that he is not so
certain that he cares to be a cm lid ite at
all. This semi occasional piriiug aside
of the crown was aguin gouo through
with to-day, and the statement was made
in an evening paper that tho President
has not yet determined to allow the use
ofhis naun. No well-posted man in
Washington, however, whether Republi-
can or Democrat, expects to see any letter
of renunciation emanating from the
White House at present. It is apt to
come only if B'.aino withdraws his letter
of last winter addressed to J. S. Clarksou,
aud the latter contingency Is what haunts
tho President's waking and sleeping
dreams at present.
HOW TO DltlNK A KIR M.
Bob Burdettc gives this simple recipe :
"My homeless friend with a chromatic
nose, while you are stirring up the sugar
in a ten cent glass of gin, let mo give
you a fact to wash down with it. You
may say you have longed for years for
tho free independent life of the farmer,
but have never been able to get money
enough together to buy a farm. But
that is just where you are mistaken. For
some years you have been drinking a
good improved farm at the rate of a
hundred square feet a gulp. If you
doubt this statement figure it out your-
self. An acre of land contains 43,500
quare feet. Estimated for convenience
the land at $43.56 an acre, you will see
that it brings ihe land to just one mill
per square foot, ono cent for ten square
feet. Now pour down the fiery dose and
imagiao you are swallowing a strawberry
patch. Call in five of your friends and
have them help you gulp down that five
hundred foot garden. Get on a prolonged
uj.rc" ''o viy; "O'l hio h'iw I.iii u re
quires to sv i low pasture land enough to
teed a cow. Put down that glass of gin;
there is diit in it one hundred feet of
good, rich dirt, worth 843 5G an acre."
Is l.K'e worth Living
depends on the liver. If suffering with
Indigestion, or troubled with Malaria,
that tired, worn-out feeling, you will col
sider life worth very little. But wheu
relieved of these by taking Simmons
Liver Regulator you will count life a
blessiog and keep the Regulator on hand
for any sudden attack of Biliousness and
Sick Headache An aetive liver makes
life a delight. Don't forget the Regula
tor with the red Z
If you feel weak
and all orn out take
BROWN'S IRON BITTERl
FLORIDA LANDS.
THEY AtlE WORKED WITH MIXES
SNOW SIIOKS.
O.N
A large part of lower Florida is sus
ceptible of easy drainage. The land, at
its highest point, is only seventy two feet
above tho sea, and it is cut up by such a
set of lakes and streams that a small
amount of dredging will give tho water
a natural outlet and vast tracts can be
reclaimed at a small expense. Thc rich
ness of this land can hardly be conceived.
It surpasses in fertility the valley of the
Nile and thc soil is a jet black or brown
muck, which is from thrco to sixteen
feet deep and and which is mixed with a
natural phosphate, so that when cultiva
ted it produces most wonderful crops.
Geo. Busk tells me thc soil looks like
peat and is made of the rotten vegetable
matter of ages It contains so much
fertilizing material that some of it would
Bill for $10 a ton, could thc nitngen in
it be brought to the market. Some of the
land has been cu tivated, and there are
several thousand acres of it in sugar cane
and about (!,0U0 acres in rice. It is very
valuable for the raising of vegetables, and
among those wlw aro making fortunes ly
working it are two young friends of Aleck
McClure, tho editor of the Philadelphia
Times. These boys had gone west and
uau tailed there in UUMuess. llicy eume
to Mr. McClure for help and advice and
McClure had these hinds, lie told ihu
boys ho would give them the lands if
they would cultivate them. They ac
cepted thc gift and went South and be
gan raising tomatoes They made last
year, I am told, something like !jtiil,(IIIO
off their tomato crop and ihcy are getting
rich.
I asked General Rusk how these lauds
were werked; aud he told mo that the
ploughing was douo by mules w ho wore
snow shoes or mud shoes to keep them
from sinking into the muck. These
shoes are round thin steel disks, each
eighteen inches in diameter, which are
fasten to the hoofs of the uiuhs, and
which work exactly like a snow shoe.
Tho mules do not like them at first, but
they soon get used to them, and it is
found that the ploughing can be done in
this way.
KISSES.
HOW THIS UN EXPLAINABLE THING IS
SANCTIFIED BY LOVE.
Mimic ami Dnnnn.
Whatever a kiss may be, there is but
ono thing that sactifies it, ono thing that
should permit it, ono thing that should
demand it, and that is love. Not neces
sarily the love of a sweetheart; it may be
the love of friendship, providing it be not
a fiL-udship between man and Wv.man
tho love existing in a family.
Is not that kiss a mockery which one
woman gives another wheu meeting.
when but a few in nnents before she had
been gossiping about the one she now
salutes? We are thankful that ut last
fashion has takcu it in hand and frees us
from tho gushing woimn who salutes us
on all oc.asi ins with a kiss. We are
!ad that the custom of presenting the
cheek in preference to the lips is becoming
popular. It is a custom brought home
by the foreigu school girl and theconveut
bred giil of our own laud.
The girl who has been taught to offer
her cheek upon all occasions, who has
received a kiss on her brow, as a great
In -ir. will not h- apt "'v" her li".
in the first knight win c. ones a wooing;
(be first man who flirts with her. She
wiil know that her 'i s should wily be
kissed by one that she is sure lows b. i
lone, and to whom alone she has given
her heart.
We are told that th- j:!iu flr-V;
uiaJe his wife eat inii ms li.:i'ui'c . v.vui
from home. I wonder if she made him
smoke cigarettes, dtink beer and eat
cheese wheu he went on his wanderings.
But truly the old Greek knew how to
protect his wife's lips. One-half the
pleasure of a kiss is in its fragrance the
illusive sweetness that makes a child's
fiee so tempting and alluiing.
"The flowers that bloom in the
Spring," are not more vigorous than are
those persons who purify their blood with
Ayer's Siir--apari'la. The fabled E-ixir
Vitae'! could 9eareely impart greater vi
iui i to 'be e uiiit.-ujncetb.an this wo;--
deiiul uie lieina.
PATRIOTISM.
TIIECOL'NTBY WHERE PATRIOTISM DOES
NOT RULE 18 DOOMED.
Patriotism is love of country and has
all the unselfishness of love. It is a vir
tue which may virtuously bo a passion.
Where it exists it cannot be attributed
to the size, riches, power, refinement or
history of tho country; it is independent
of these and flourishes grandly in spite of
poverty, rudeness, smallness, feebleness
and insiguilicance. It is not thc exclu
sive privilege of any class or condition of
men, but may glorify the lowliest and
adorn the highest. It is an essential iu
gredient of good character of true man
hood. No nation can flourish or exist
without it, no institutions of any worth
can survive its absence. The couniiy
where patriotism does not rule is doom
ed. It should rule in legislative councils
and laws; in pub'ic administrations; in
judicial decisions; not less should it rule
in the hearts of business men and in
their business.
The question whether the busiui.s
men of tho country are palriotic is f
immense importance to the country, 1
cause their number is great; they are
MuiiKiniling intelligence and force; thc -ith
the power of money and thc exte;
1 1 which their business operation
affect tho welfare tf multitudes, giv;
them immense influence. Shall this in
flu nee be ruled by luve of country or bt
only or chiefly mercenary? Shall one be a
patii-t freeman or a slave self-sold? Tin
work of the historian is to properly set
forth tho patirot. The orator reaches
his loftiest flights in descanting upon his
devotion. The pout finds his most in
spiring theme in the patriot. And in
spiration wrote tho Old Testament to set
before all timo tho splendor and worth of
patriotism. No more uncongenial task is
before writer or orator than to desciibe
the treasonable work of an Arnold or the
indiffereucc of those who fail to discoun
tenance it.
Yet there is somewhat in businei-s, as
it has often been seen in all nges, which
for the sake of self slays patriotism. The
demand is sometimes made that opinions
be given up as the rrice business. But
he who yields deserves neither country
or business. In this country where the citi
zen is sovereign, patriotism requires po
litical duties which, for the moment, seem
to inerbrs with business. A larger
view would reveal that there is no such
interference. But if there were, what
manly man would sacrifice patriotism ou
so mean an altar f
Prejudice against public measures pro
posed and agaiust public men with other
of the faults of partisanship, may make
one wound bis country at a vital point
Prejudice is the fou of patriotism. In
our country tho patriot should be large
minded enough to see the good wherever
it may be and appreciate it by whomso
ever pn ff re 1. His cry ih mid be My
country! All lor my couutrj!
WYOMING'S WOMEN' DLI.I.O ATE
Mrs. Theresa A. Jenkins, one of the
two women eloc'Pil by the Republicans
of Wyoming a" ultertmto ilclepites to the
National Convention , i handsome an J
noo'it twwitv-nve years old. Mie wa.
horn in Wisconsin, and h.is a husband
and three children. She lias, duriii:
SItecu years' resideiiee in Wyoming, tak
i-n aa u.itivu inter 'St in political mulirrs.
She is a forcible and vigorous public
s'leukcr, and at the fit ltchutid rclehr ni.ni
held here ill 181)'.! she di livure 1 ihe titu.-i
oration upon thai oeeiiyi in. If e: lied no
on ut tho National Convcri'ioii she v.i'.l
be prepared to speak upon woman Mit'
fr.ise i r any other curicm poli'.icti ipi s
lion.
Mrs. Clara G. Carleton, the other al
tomato delegate, in a briliiiti t woman
who has been active in business in
Utah and Wyoming. She studied
law in the office of her father, HUliup
Snow, of S il' Lake City, and was no
ii. Im d to prac ice in tlie Utah cuit
She is fifty years old and has a husband.
Sin it is now a well established fact
that caiarih is a blood iiioeas.', mtdu al
men are quite gencra'iy prescribing Ay
er's Sarsaparilla for that no st lmiili'ioi e
complaint, snd t,m ' ot, in ne.-r'y very
in-'tan-.i., jiovis iU. ivisdoiu of their id-vice.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Is Life
Worth Living?
That dependa upon the
Liver. If the Liver in
inactive thc whole (sys
tem is out of order -thc
treath is had, digestion
poor, head dull or aching, '
energy and hopefulness
gone, the ppirit is de
pressed, a heavy weight
exists after eating, with
general despondency and
the hlues. Tho Liver is
the housekeeper of tho
health ; and a harmless,
simple rev.edy that act3
like Nature, does not
constipate t.i'terwards or
require constant taking,
does not interfere with
lmsiii's or pleasure dur
ing its use, niakcs Sim
mons T.ivi.-r 1'eguhitor a
medical perfection.
I iisv.i t.ti.-i itt v.itucf! nersnnnllv. and
l:r.mv l.';-u im:- svi'riwm. Jiiiioinu'is e.nd
'JV.-.il 11 1 1 1 t i ieU-
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viJt V" imnn-rofMVtHi ttcu iioe, uua can,
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CO AO Folic Short Farmera, nailmftd Sfl
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0 50 flue cnlf) no better shoe erer offered e
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who want a shoe for comfort and wrvlce.
CO i3 lind Workinsman's shoe
HfMm are very iiroutf and durable. Those wtio
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RfiVC9 nil 1'7. school shoes ara
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