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...... ... 1 " . ' . . . 4 t I (ft V. -4 - ., ..1 . , f 5 Xf'-i 1 f' 4 J: . k VOL.. IV MORAVIAN FAIiLS, C, FEBRUARY, 1899. NO. 8 IS THE YELLOY-JACKET. PUBLIHB MONTH IAT 15 CIJNTS PJER YEARj X CASH IN ADVANCE. S. D02T LASTS, EDI TOE. 4- Entered at Moravian Falls, N. Second-Class Matter. C. as A Crosfi Marl on your paper means that your subscription: has. expired; and that yon will receive no more papers un less you renew. INSTRUCTIONS. . -if : pfelfjttqri in the ??8V 1' -' I: --: " AVlttif Dodtiy. wasV- Ih&dcrats ces of silrer: rof-snxan sums -f ' . . i " - t j)h siibwxiptio: jnay,-be made with comparative safety in ortfirtiitry. letters; - usin. .good ' cnve&spes. Amounts above sixty cents it! would be -well to sendby Registered X,tteiv P. O. Money Orders are better sill, but they must be drawn on Wilkesbojro, N. C. as Moravian Falls is not a Money Order office. ' I I When writing to have your aper changed you must give your former aj well as your new address. . v - 'x? Always write your own. name ana ad dress plainly, and direct all your letters to v ' ,Yex,i,ow-Jacket, Moravian Faz,x( N4C. RO&UI,US DON UWf, The subject of this sketch was born near Poors Knob, in Wilkes County, N. - v C, on August 22nd, 1868. His early years were passed, without the advantage of school, although he was taught bv his parents to read while quite young; and before he had reached his , rjth yer" he had become quite familiar wih the lead ingevents of both ancient and modern histbryi It was at about 13 years of age that he began .to display some skill in, the art of engraving by making"1 'small wood J- . cuts of menhxirsesjrseep ogaett., and .before his 14th year heJbacV carved several fonts of type from ivywood, and had also completed a small printing press, entirely af ter hia own design, made his prin ter 's ink, -anct with this wood; type, and Wood en press he took the first impression he ever saw made with type on, paper. At the age of 17 he entered Moravian Falls , Academytaking his place with ther class in the primary branches of Arithmetic and English GrafrimaI$ighteeii months instruction in this institution ended his htudies in the school room. Thd next venture in the "printer's art' was with 10 fonts of type and a small hand press from Kelsey Sc Co. of Meriden, Conn. J This little outfit was soon found to . be of too small capacity to meet the growing de mand and so a larger Liberty- press was put nu This Liberty press was finally supplanted by a powerful Rotary Press of the largest sizeA To the little, ICelsey outfit that comprised the start presses and material have been aadea, irom Uftpsj Watson of New York, Palmer . and Pru- mond and Bamhart Brothers & Spindler ' of Chicago, until he is "now prenared. to do almost every kind of job printing done by the ordinary printer. . days was learning Burns' systemof Short- liand wntincr. liv a pine Knot Diaze. au- ring the long winter- nights of 18845, without any aid. he mastered and ticed this system of "Phonography un- -,. til he acquired a speed of over onej AreA words oer minte. ' . . r hun- Before becoming actively engaged as,; printer arid editor he spent several win- f r SScSy:" n 'TbS8 J" ' ployed respectively as a .teamster, j book : aSwA- , a;kWnd sitK that date has snt a j the great doctrines of the Repubiicah par-! :;.ty and pouring hot, shot intone ? : - populism and Democracy. : n)UU yutuuu , . This is the Yellow-Jacket. Examine it and tell us how ybil like it. Remember 15 cents pays for it a whole year. Subscribe 1 Last fall the people in N. C. stuck to the democratic party ; now the party is sticking to them. The man who will -let a party boss lead him about by the nose ought to have died before he was born. ' The most sublime faith known still sickinfr tii thparry . As we go to ' press there are said to be about 27 different kinds of democrats with several more kinds, a sprouting. Sam Jones hit the nail on the head when he said that it looks as if the Devil and the demo crats are against God. "By their fruits ye shall know them". and that's as much as to say that Nk C. democratic states manship has gone to seed and the seed has rotted. Michigan miners have been given a 10 , increase -in t heir "wages. Who eWrnard ''bTniitr er wages being increased under a democratic administration? The dems are doing bully in the legislature. They Jiave in troduced a bill to repeal the law requiring witnesses to kiss the Bible. .Next thing . yon'U hear that they've introduced one to repeal the Ten Commandments. The West Virginia House of Delegates has voted in favor of a resolution declaring for U. S. senators to be elected by popular vote. This a good move, and we hope to see the ball 1 kept rolling. - . Don't you democrats want to give your party another chance in this state? Come, now., aint you proud of the i t cord it made in the legislature? Didn't it re duce expenses, lower taxation, save the state and bring a hur ricane of reform, now didn't it. ? Some democrats have taken the opportunity to tell the peo ple .that the democratic party, if in po wer, would . burst the trusts. Can anybody name one single trust that the democrat- ic party ever busted. Ve pause for a reply. Now don't break your lleck trying to answer As we pen these lines the . N. C. legislature is preparing to ad- - T- 1 J - 1 J no till journ. it nas aone worse man ng. It promised the peo- Pie- reform, yet its appropria- tions will exceed the legislature of 1897 by a quarter of amillio,, dollars. It's another sample of - m ,,- democratic 'competency j econo- v nd rer 1 f : ' tn ana leiorm. The next chance" the people will give the democratic party in this state will be a chance to go out of business. Jonah, it is said, was a dem ocratPerhaps that is why the whale couldn't stomach him and threw him up. The babies .born this year will mostly be named Hobson, McKinley, Dewey and Teddy Roosevelt. Buying licker at retail and using it wholesale is what has played theiokons; with many-a man. -r It has been so long since the democratic party was right that there are only a few people living who remember anything about it. Gen. Egatr's case ought to serve as a warning to army offi cers, and otliers, who possess hair-trigger tongues and tem pers. ' The trouble with Billy Bryan , as with all other anti-expansionist, is that he does not argue the question as it really is. He simplv sets up a man of straw and then nroceeds to knock it down. Like all of that class he. imagines a good deal that is not so. The rooster is the emblem of the democratic party. This is rather hard on the rooster, but as that fowl is usually a tough old customer he ought to be able to stand it till the party permitei itself to be burried. Some one ought to tell Mr. Brvan that he can't run his an-ti-expansion rabbit's foot over the people for the next two years. Bryan used to help work the Free Trade racket on the people, then the free silver racket,' and now her2eiiio to be aiding old Carnegie and Dr. Cleveland in working the imperialism" rack et. You can 't do it , Billy ! When our Heaven-bedewed, negro-hatiug," white man's par ty Democratic. Legislature met in January it adopted a resolu tion that onlv.white men should be given jobs under it, and that no sons of Representatives .(should be givtn positions as pages. The democratic papers nearly tore their shirts off cack ling over this fine start. They said the party had begun to car ry out its pledges to the people. They said it was wrong to make the sons of Representative pages , and that all the labor places in the Capital should be given to white men only. Yes, they said it, and the Legislature reso luted" it, and then what? .-Why, bless your life, they went right on and put negroes in as labor ers and the sous of Representa tives, as pages and sailed into the work of saving the state. Aint they a consistent set? But the white man's party did this, you .mustxi 't kick. The woman who goes upon the lecture platform to air her rights usually leaves a husband at home nursing his wrongs. Spite work reminds us of the small boy who sat down upon a wasp just to hurt his little sis ter's feelings. We don't believe half of these stories about flying machines the best flying machine we ever knew was Bryan on his cam paigning tours. From the way the democrats are rejoicing oyer getting back into control of the penitentiary a person would infer that the penitentiary was the natural home of a democrat. It is reported that Bryan had the platform collapse under him while speaking in Denver re cently, but it is not stated whether it was the Chicago plat form or not. There is a young woman up in New York who imagines her self to be dead. She must be a victim of the same malady as the democratic party, which im agines itself alive. A gentleman asked the other da wTiy, iftbcsRepubHcan par ty still thought the free silver heresy wrong, they didn't con tinue to fight it. But you can't tight a dead and down theorv It would not ouly be a case of fighting a corpse, bur would re semble building a bonfire over the grave. News comes frcm Newton, N. C. a hot bed of democracy, that the democrats say that if the populists endorse Bryan, they, (the democrats) will not vote for him, as Bryan will be a ;dead duck." This is the senti ment that is growing in the State. They voted for Bryan before to kill the populist party. They did not agree on him. There is but one thing they can agree on and that is negro. In every community can be found several-men with the ca boose of their trousers worn as smooth as glass, who can tell you all about finance, the weath er, and how to run other people's business, but have made a dis mal failure of their own. -Bryan's' terrific and wordy denunciation of the government for its expansion views is scarce ly in keeping. with the best trar aitions of. eminent American statesmen and his arguments are loose and vague. He makes the most of a very silly . argument when he opposes the annexation of new territory, unless it is d6ne with the consent of the governed." But woulU thestates men of the beginning of the cen tury seriously have considered the wishes of the annexed when they made the Louisiana pur r . , ' .... Senator Stewart is about to go democratic. He has sold out the Silver Knight Watchman to a syndicate, of democrats. Later oil. the name of the paper will be changed. He speaks a good word for the future of the paper, and says while he will no longer edit it, he will-contribute to its columns. - i'Edmon Tilly, of Richlands, Tazewell County, Va., is one a--moug the many of our club rais ers who gets a hustle on. He writes us that he belongs to the " true blue Republicans of old Tnz ; e wel 1 , . wh o k n dw " 11 othii i & but to rally arouud the Repul lican Banner." He sends us $1;95 for a club of 3 subscribe i-s "Well done." The democrats early in the session of the present legislature, introduced a bill to apply the taxes from white polls and prop erty to white schools, and the tax-from colored polls and prop erty to colored schools, just after this Isaac Smith, a colored mem ber from Craven; joined the democrats and the bill above re ferred to was at once tabled. Dovousee? . We send out a good many mplBpe"i" Novuf the Y. J. and we hope ijjany of those who" receive them wilt subscribe at once. Read the paper, sub scribe and then pass it along to your neighbor, and may be lie will subscribe. If you are a true Republican, ou want to help make votes for your. party. A good way to make votes is to help circulate Yellow-Jackets. Drop fifteen cents in the slot, we will do the rest. Shall we hear from vou? It seems that democratic "kicks" are Republican picnics. Not long ago one of our Ken tucky subscribers paid us to send the Yellow-Jacket to. a steen-to-oner friend living at Fullerton, Nebraska. The ''sting ing accouterments" of the Y. J. wefe too excruciating to the sen sitive conscience of this western gentleman ; they threw him into a fit, in the agonies of which he returned the Y. J. with the fol lowing note enclosed : Dear Sir I have received two coppies of your pater. (The Yellow-Jacket and. do not want eney more, the people are two well educated up north here to read such trash as that is. When the rejected copy of the Y. J. returned from its visit to this " well educated" gentleman up north," we sent itasasam pie copy to a man over in the state of Virginia and as a result he has to-day sent us a club of subscribers withjOne dollar and thirty five cents -ash. If our generous Republican subscriber -in Ky; will name another man, we 'll try the remaining 10 cop: ies of this subscription; on him,, and see if he'll kick. x - ( r : U ' - - ' : .. . ' i ......... v
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