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a ffi il f ft IN Trttf Tff nn riin JAMES Q. OOYLIN, Publisher. The Vadesboro Messenger and VVadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, 1888. PRICE, SERIES VOL tl.-NO. 52. Vadesboro,. N. C. Thursday, July 7, 1898. I' HOLE NUMBER 915 Strong:, steady nerves Are needed for success f Everywhere. Nerves Depend simply, solely, -4 : Upon the blood. Pure, rich, nourishing Blood feeds the nerves ; r s And makes them strong. T The great nerve tonic is ' ' Hood's Sarsaparilla, . Because it makes The blood rich and Pure, giving it power To feed the nerves. Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures nervousness, Dyspepsia, rheumatism, ' Catarrh, scrofula, ' ; - And all forms of Impure blood. R. T. Bennett, J wo. T. Bennett Cbawford D. Rknnktt. Bennett & Bennett Attorn eys-at-Law. VVadesboro, - N.' C. Last room on the right In the court house. '.- - Will practice in all the courts of the State. Special attention given to the examination and investigation of Titles to Real Estate, drawing Deeds and other instruments, Col lection "of Claims, the Managing of Estates for Guardians, Administrators and Execu tors, and the Foreclosure of Mortgages. " ' Will attend the courts of Stanly and Mont goraery counties. Prompt attention given to all business in trusted to them. Covington & Red wine, Monroe, N. C. T. L. Caudle, VVadesboro, N..C. Covington, Redwine & Caudle, ATTORNEYS ! - AT - LAW, ; ;f ' VVADESBORO, N. c. . Practice in all the State, and United Mates uourts. ; Special attention will be given to exami nation and investigation of titles to Real Estate, the drafting of deeds, mortgages, '--and other legal instruments: the collect- - ion of claims, and mangementof estates for iiuaraians, Administrators, and Executors. Commercial, Railroad, Corporation 'and ; insurance Xjaw. Continuous and painstaking attention win ue given to an legal business. . Office in the Smith building. wJMgram,m.d. surgeon; OUR WAR- SHAKES EUROPE. I COLD BUtiS DID IT. ar, uei-ew urines News or the Sentiment Abroad The Couti. nentai Nations ueuerally Un friendly, He Says, Afleeting to Belittle U as a Prospective World Power Brltlan Alone Holds Out the Hand of Fel lowship aud Welcomes Us to Share with Her Commercial Supremacy, JXew York, June 30. Chaancy M. De- pew returned today on the big German steamer Kaiser Wilheim der Grosse and was welcomed by a large party of friends, wno went aown t-he bay on a tug. He spoke freely of his observations and ex perience abroad Regarding the sentiment toward the United States be said that in France the feeling was most bitter against this coun try. Every paper in the city of Paris, except three unimportant ones, almost daily published articles that have not 1 , . .. . D """"B tnea to get three nominations in and finally ran from Lieutenant ADESBOEO, N.C. Railroad calls by wire promptly attended Office opposite National Hotel. W. F. GRAY, D. D. ' ' ... (Office in Smith & L diilap Building. ft Wadesboro, North Carolina. ALL OPERATIONS WARRANTED. ' FIRST-CLASS Meat :: Market I am still conductng a first-class Jfeat -Market at Wadesboro. The best of Beef and eitrtr Fresh Meats on hand at all times.' T. J. INGRAM. are a source of comfort, they are a source 01 care, also. If you care for your child's health, spnd for il1ncfmel book on the disorders tn -whinh children are subject, and which Frey's Vermifuge has cured for 50 years. bohm oj mall fcr 39 nU. X S. FRET, 1 V a. A. S. MORISON, DEALER IN or o o J Watches, Clocks. Eve-Glassea. Rnw- taqles and Jewelry of all kinds re rfreL on short notice. Inspected Watcnes for S. A. L. E. II. four years. , fourteen years experience. Can be found in Caraway's store oa Wade j , streak - Notice I will pay at my office in Wadesboro. N. V- ?n nd after AP"I 27th, 1898, a divi dend of 7 per cent on all claims against the Bank of New Hanover at Wadesboro, N. L , which sliall have been peoven before me at that date. J AS. A. LEAK, , Ileceiver, 1 PARKER'S f HAIR BALSAM Here rails to Eettort Ormri .Qiitf wi iiimM hair hunt of the war and invariably showing the greatest hostility. It was believed there that the object of the United States in beginning the war was extension of her territory, and the same opinion seemed to prevail in Germany. In England there was a complete re verseoi sentiment Six weeks had changed the sentiment of ninety-five years, and all animosities were burned by the tide of sympathy and universal approval and feeling of relationship, which seemed to Mr. Depew binding against the world. In Paris he had giyeri an interview to the Temps and .Matin, and in that inter view had given a history of what led up to the war. When it was published all the papers took it up, the truth of some of the statements was denied and there was a general discussion both in French and Spanish papers, which resulted in educating the people about the United btates and enlightening their ignorance. Dewey's'victory, Mr. Depew said, had had a marked beneficial effect in arous ing respect for the United States. There had been a general belief that American ships were no good, and that the United States army .while being composed of good men, wa3 gathered from the field and had Claudius Doekery Manipulated Populist Convent! on Kieth Tells the Troth Saya That The I'ritehard Populists dominated O. II. Doekery The Conspir acy Still at Work. News and Observer 2nd insL "The Pritchard Populists did it by the aid of Republican manipulators," said Mr. B. F. Keith, of Wilmington, refer ring to the nomination of Colonel O. H Dockery for Congress in the Sixth dis tiict by the Populist Convention "Mr. Claudius Dockery manipulated the Convention and he does not claim to be anything but a gold bug Republican. He has three or four offices, so I have seen it stated." Mr. Keitn, wno has a nephe w sick in Camp Dan Russell, was here yesterday to see him, and expressed himself freely to about the Convention and about the Dockerys, saying that Colonel Dockery 1896, Gov ernor. Mr. Keith came within three votes at one time of receiving the nomination, and he or some other silver man would have been named had the silve'r men been in contol of the Convention. As it is. the Populists are governed by Republicans and Pritchard Populists name for those Republicans who ars masquerading as Populists) and there was forced on them a candidate who was vouched for by his brother as a staunch Republican, who was nominated by a convention of ne groes and scalawags, who at the same time endorsed McKinley'sadminstration, trust domination, gold standard, bonds, negro officeholders and all. THE CONSPIRACY STILL AT WORK. This week's Caucasian, under the head "The Canspiracy .Still at Work," foretells the very plans employed to nominate uocKery in me ixtn aistnct. Its warn ing reads like the writer was on the spot at Wadesboro, and saw the methods em ployed to defeat Keith and Shaw, and put up an old fashioned Radical, who endorses McKinley's administration It is as follows: 'It is reasonable certain that some cor porations and monopoly money was con noexperience or training. In place of tri.buted to tr7 to control the recent Pop- what was expected it was discovered that our vessels were of the soundest construc tion, up to the most modern type of war ship, with armament unexcelled and manned and officered by skilled seaman and tacitians, while the army had displayed all the qualities of veteran troops. "" Mr. Ve Few declared that the rest of Europe is anxiously watching the, ap prehended entrance of the United State s in their circle in the far East. "Their position is one of distrust," he stated. "They are trying to solve the problem of the influence upon their interests of that Anglo-American alliance which they think either exists or is inevitable. Even if disposed to interfere 4n the war, they arc resixaiueu oy me Deuet mat anv " J movement in that direction would pre- cipiate an alliance with England. Their newspapers discuss our unprepaiedness for war, and the impossibility of our be ing a military power until we have a large standing army and universal com pulsory military service. "The victory of Admiral Dewey at Manila and the daring, splendid effort of Lieut Hobson at Santiago have done incalculable service in convincing conti nental Europe of our fighting caliber and in arousing enthusiam in Eng land." . inghsh statesmen whom Mr. Depew met all said: "Keep the Philippines. share with us China and open ports in the East." Others said: "You must jom the concert of European nations. It is expensive, but you cannot be an Eastern power unless you belong to the band. Our interests will always be iden tical and the mutual benefits incalcu lable." ' 'Englishmen rallied me good natured- ly," said Mr. Depew, "on our protesta tions of pure sentiment in this war and said: STes that is the way we always get in, and then wo stay. Christianity and civilization demand it, you know, and we give the beggar liberty, law order a nd justice, which they never had before. It's in your blood. You have come by it honestly. You have aroused the appe tite of earth hunger and you cannot stop.' " ulist Convention in this State, but the conspiracy failed. The conspirators. however, are still at work. Corporation and monopoly money will be used to try to capture the Populist convention in every Congressional and Judicial district, as well as county and senatorial conven tions which nominate candidates for the legislature. Federal patronage is also being distributed wherever it can be used, and especially in the First Congressional district to control Populist conventions. This is just the method that has been adopted by monopolists to corrupt the two old parties. The same methods, precise ly, are being worked to corrupt the Peo ple's Party. Those who bolted their party in the last legislature and went over on the side of the gold standard and the Southern railroad will be put forward every time that the monopolists can cap ture a People's Party convention. Let every true Populists be on guard" They evidently were not "on their guard" iu the Sixth district, and the news that reaches Raleigh is that the better class of Populists are resolved not to be led into the support of the Radical gold bug named for their support. , , A Costly Court. Exchange. It is estimated that the last term of the Federal Court in Raleigh, N. C, cost the government $ 5,000. As there were only five convictions out of about sixty cases. this makes an average cost of f 1,000 for each conviction. In the Robinson case one witness ticket alone amounted to $130. said witness having had to come from Indian Territory. It was s aid to have been the most expensive court ever held in the btate. Persons troubled with diarrhoea will be interested in the experience of Mr. W. M. Bush, clerk of Hotel Dorrance. Providence, R. L He says: "For sever al years T have been almost a constant sufferer from diarrhoea, the frequent at tacks completely prostrating me and ren dering me unfit for my duties at' this hotel. About two years ago a traveling salesman kindly gave me a small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy. Much to my surprise and delight its effects were immediate. Whenever I felt symptoms of the dis ease 1 would lortif y against the attack with a few doses of this valuable remedv. The result has been very satisfactory and almost complete relief from the afflic tion." For sale by J. A. Hardison. GREAT FORCE OF TILES. PRO J EC- Shells That Strnek The Texas Illustrates Vividly The Ter- rors or modern Warfare. London Telegraph Correspondent. On Board the United States Battle Ship Texas, Guantanamo Bay, June 23. When I wrote my description of the landing of the army at Balquiri I men- and exploded by a percussion fuse fixed in the nose. When a small siu-inch shell is suffi dent to cau?e all the havoc which I have endeavored to describe oie stands ap palled at the thought of what will be the fate of - a ship that is hit by a huge twelver or thirteen-inch shell filled with high explosives. If the people who clamor so loudly for war and prate of the romance and glory of battle could only be made to realize what are the pos sibilities of modern ordnance and pro- tioried incidentally that the Texas took part in the strategic movement intended I jectiles they would hardly be so inhuman to cover the landing. The duty assigned I as to hazard even their enemies, much less their own sons and brothers, before them in action." to the ship was that of shelling the wes tern batteries at the entrance to Santiago harbor. This duty was undertaken sin gle-handed, and in half an hour the bat teries had ceased to reply. In the hurry of catching the mail steamer I had not time to ascertain whether any of the enemy's projectiles had hit the Texas, and besides I was ten miles away to the eastward, Today the Texas came into Guantan amo bay to transfer eight wounded men to the hospital ship Solace and I then learned that for once the Spanish gun ners had made a hit. They had succeed ed in planting a shell on board the Tex as. The projectile killed one man and wounded eight others and did considera ble damage to the vessel herself. By the courtesy of Captain Philips I was permitted to go on board the Texas and see the effect of the Spa-nsh shell. The Texas, it may be mentioned, is a second class battle ship, built with some modifications to designs prepared by Mr. Laird Glowers in competition with other naval officers. Lieutenant Haslar conducted me over the ship,- and pointed out the havoc wrought by the . Spanish shell. The pro jectile was a steel six-inch shell, fired, it is believed, from one of the high power ship's guns that have been mounted on the Santiago fortifications since Admiral Cervera's fleet was blockaded in Santia go harbor. It struck the Texas on" the port bow, between the gun deck and the spar deck, bursting in the forward com partment, where there are six six-pound er guns, three on either side. The crews of all these guna were at quarters and there were besides a number of other men in the compartment at the time. It is miraculous that only one man was killed and eight were wounded. The part of the ship hit is outstde the central cit adel and above the protected deck. The sides of the ship at the point of impact consisted of a steel plate one and a quar ter inches thick. The shell pierced this like so much paper, hit a metal stanchion amidships and exploded about seven feet from the plating on the starboard side. A noteworthy feature of the steel plating was that it afforded no splinters or debris to carry inboard. It was torn into rib bons and folded back in a way that gave the impression that the tough metal had been half melted by the impact and pas sage of the projectile. The shock of striking the plating wa s not sufficient to explode the shell, and had it missed the stanchio'i it would have r 7" r " " The Sentimental vs. the Practl possiuiy expiouea ouisiue uie snip, ua- 1 fortunately, the 'stanchion was directly I -1 ' - - - - - 'lot, ni.i.. r. . in the path of the shell, and the heavy 0 ljUU,s "'"-emocrar. metal column offered, enough re- A newspaper correspondent at the sistance to explode it. The effect was battle or Atbara tells a good story terrific. aoouta couple of Scotchmen, lie Although th. shPli wns onw il small was walking softly about the cam p,so one, six inches m diameter, and. there- . "'"F10" fcUC fore, not weiehimr more than about 70 P'S1" Delore lne ngnt e over All. Coons Look Alike to South , eruers. -wasuington, June 28. There Is no color line Jin the volunteer army. 'Oyer at Camp Alger, among the 20,000 white troopB attached to an Ohio regiment there is a battalion of colored troops The officers are all colored men, theMa jor commanding the regiment being Mr. Young, who is a colored West Pointer in the army. A few days ago an officer of the colored troops stood by the. side of a private in a Tennesseee regiments in one of the booths that have been erecied there for the sale of all sort of thines. The private made no move to salute the col ored officer. "Don't you salute officers in your regi ment?" asked the officer, sharolv. The Tennesseean looked at the officer for a moment Then he drawled out: "All coons look alike to me." He has been under arrest ever since. The Raleigh Post, in commenting on the above, says: 'This shows that negro soldiers.special- ly those with negro officers, should be kept from contact with white soldiers. the more particularly if such regulations as the above are to be retained. This Ohio officer could not have heard of tbeexpe nence ofj the negro regulars ia Florida when they ran up against Southern cus toms, or he would not have invited the Tennesseean's reason for failing to recog nize him. 3 "All the power of these United States will not break down this barrier which cyaitu.es uie wuiies irom me macks in the South. It has been tried by national legislation in civil rights' bills.and failed; and it will fail when attempted through the agency of army regulations, as in the above instance. Let . the negro soldiers and their officers be kept to themselves; 01 any raie wnen me wmte soldier is disposed to let the negro alone, as this Tennessee soldier evideutly was doing. the negro's place is to respect the purpose and not intrude himself as in this instance. The white soldier above refersed to may have violated military law, but it should be remembered that this law was made by white men when none other than white soldiers was contemplated. The injection of the negro into public affairs being an innovation, the laws should be altered to suit the innovation. It were best it were done." Money Found in n Strange Place. Scotland Neck Democrat. The New York Herald said recently that fortunes have been found in many strange places, but seldom has a more ingenious hiding place been found than in a stature. Then it proceeds to rive thf tollowing incident: "A citizen of Kharkoff, in Russia, I some time ago Dought a statue of the I Apollo Belverdere, of which he was very proud. To his great annoyance one of I his children upset the statue a few weeks I ago, and it was broken beyound hope of ! repair. On examining its fragments. however, its owner found concealed in the hollow interior a roll of Russian I banknotes of the value of 3,000 rubles. together with a note, signed by a Cheva- uer rrosiieron, 10 tne enect that the money, which had been won in gambling was intended to be used in building a church. The note was dated 1848, !ind the inference is that the Chevalier died before he could give effect to his gener ous design.". The value of a ruble is about 86 cents; so the find was worth about $2,580 in our money. Perhaps you have made up your mind to take mm 8ion "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my family for years and .al ways with good results," says Mr. YV. B. Cooper of El Rio, Cal. "For small chil dren we find it especially effective." For Bale ty J. A Hardison. this summer. Then look for this picture on the wrapper, a man with a big fish on his back. . Do not let anyone talk to 1 you of something " just as good." ' When you want cod liver oil and the hypo-, phosphites you want the very best. You will find them in only one place, Scott's Emulsion. There is no other emul sion like it; none other does the same work ; and no other has the same record of cures. An Druggists, oc. and Si. Scott & Bowhe, Chemists, N.T. pounds, it practically wrecked the big compartment in which it burst, while the smoke from it forced itself down the am munition hoists and into the forward com partments of the ship, so that for a few minutes the crew was almost suffocated. Ihestauchion was shivered into atoms for two feet of its length, and the frag ments of the shell, flying forward against the starboard side, bulged the stout steel plates outward to a depth of three inches. . Just at this point one of the big double-headed angle irons of the ship's frame was situated. This great rib of steel, nearly twice as thick and heavy as a railroad rail, was cut through in two pieces. The base of the shell ploughed a furrow down the 6teel deck just as a plough would cut through the soft soil of a fallow field. It hit and broke another rib of the ship, and, breaking itself in two, both pieces lodged in a a cable reel standing close to the starboard side. The core of this reel was a prism of oak over two feet in circumference, and there was wound on it at the time a coil of hemp hawser that made a" cylinder about four feet in ' diameter. The hemp rope was cut through to the wood and the stout oaken prism was shiverd to splinters. This one fact alone would be sufficient to give an idea of the appalling energy of modern projectiles. Fhowers of steel splinters, resulting from the exploded shell itself and the torn Btanchion and angle irons, swept along the starboard side for about thirty feet, cutting off heads of bolts, breaking gun fittings and stripping off the paint as if a score of men had worked for hours with steel chisels. ' . . . ... . -every man in me sneil 8 path was wounded. One gunner was- hit with no fewer than -fifteen pieces of steel, each about the size of a hazel nut. At the moment the shell exploded another man was standing right in its path. He was literally torn to pieces. He was talking to a comrade, and, strange as it may seem, the latter, although less than arm's length away, was unhurt, save for being knocked down by the shock ol the ex plosion. Others of the men, thirty feet from the fatal shot, had a dozen pieces of the shell plunged into their bodies. A remarkable feature of the explosion was the smallness of the pieces into which the shell burst It shivered into fragments weighing about an ounce. The only piece of any size picked up was rather less than half the base, just enough to enable it to be asecertained that it tiad been a six inch BhelL fired from a high -power, breech -loading gun, heard a sentimental Seaforth High lander say to a comrade: "Ah, Tarn, how many thousands there . are at hame across the sea thinking o' us the night." "Right, Sandy' replied his chum; "and how many millions there are that don't care ad . 'Go to sleep, you fool." And silence again fell upon that corner of the square. It is a little remarkable how some neo- ple cheekily ask any and everything of a newspaper, and then when an agent call to collect a year or two subscription al ready due, they get poutv and sav thev don't believe the paper is worth much anyway. 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The conversation drifted to the various indi viduals of prominence in the late war, when a gentleman who once resided in Mississippi said: "The trend of the conversation reminds me of the last public speech made by Jef ferson Davis. It was in 188S,at about this time of the year, that the congressional convention of the seventh Mississippi district met at Mississippi City and nomi nate! Thomas R. Stockdale. There had been a bitter struggle between themcum- ent, Van Eaton, and Stockdale, which resulted, as I have said, in the nomination of the latter. Some ill feeling had been engendered, and a happy thought occur red to some one who had learned that Mr. Davis was in the town, to request him to address the convention. A committee was quickly appointed, and.half an hour later, the venerable ex-chief of the Confederacy entered the hall. "It was a scene never to be forgotten The tall, quaint from, clad in black broad cloth, as erect as a soldier on parade, pro ceeded down the hall to the rostrum. pausing to exchange greetings with some personal frinends. Silence pervades the hall. Mr. Davis turns; as he does a long red ray of the setting sun falls athwart him and rests abot a head silver white. but now tinged with the crimson glow of the dying sun. It was suggestive; the sun soon to fade into the blackness of night me incarnation 01 me ijonieaeracy soon to pass away from earth forever. As this though flashed through my mind I was startled by the sound of that eloquently res onant voice that had rendered Mr. Davis famous, but through which now ran a note of mournful pathos. As nearly as I can re call it, he said: 'Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens: Ah, pardon me, the laws of the United btates no longer permit me to designate you as fellow-citizens, but I am thankful that I may address you as my friends. I feel no regret that I stand before you this afternoon a man without a country, for my ambition lies buried in the grave of the Confederacy. Aye, the grave of the Confederacy! There has been consigned notonlymy ambition.but the dogmas upon which that government was based. The e t c laces x see oeiore me are mose ol young men; had I not known this I would not have appeared before you. Men in whose hands the destinies of our southland lie for love of her, I break my silence, to speak to you a few words of respectful ad monition. The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; be fore you lies the future. A future full of golden promise; a future full of recom pense for honorable endeavor; a future of expanding national glory, before which all the world shall stand amazed. Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor.all bit- A A? 1 1 . . icr txuouai ijeung, ana to taae your places m the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished a reunited country.' "Mr. Davis continued in this strain for half an hour or more. Every word he ut tered admonished the burial of sectional feeling and loyalty to the Union. His speech was a fitting conclusion to the proceeding of that convention, for Colonel Stockdale, the nominee, .was a native of Pennsylvania. "This," continued the gentleman, "was the last public utterance of Mr. Davis. In December of the" next year he died. The speech impressed itself on the minds or members of that convention, all of whom will attest the truth of my statement Its effect was to temper the feelings of those who heard it toward the North, and it was to that extent one of the element that has produced the conditions of to day." DISGRACEFUL DICKERING. Populist in Moore County Tired ot the KesnlU or Had. Fusion. Aberdeen Telegram. In going about durins the nast ten days and making inquiries as to the political situation iu Moore county, we find that a good many good men who left the Democratic party four and six years aro and joined the Populists have been quietly and honestly studying the sitaatiou and have come to see the condition of our State and county m its true light. We heard of sir men n one township wha have become tired and disgusted with the results of Pop.-Iiep. fusion in county and btate, and say they will vote the Democratic ticket hereafter. Iu an other township we hear of several good populists who .say they will not vote for a fusion ticket with the Republicans again, as it will onlv mean the absorption of their party by tbe liepublicans and the fasten ing of Republican rule urxm the State indefinitely. These are good signs and show that the good men of old Moore who left the Democratic party are returning to reason, and are going to come back and staud with the intelligence aud best ele ment of our people for white suprem acy and good government in the county and State. Thousands of persons have ben nwl of piles by using De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. It heals promptly and cures ecze ma and all skin diseases. It gives imme diate relief. J. A. Hardison. The Chief Bunreas of Mileshurcr p. Rays DeWitfs Little Early Risers are the best pills he ever used in hia famit Hnr. ing forty years of house keeping. They cure coostipation, sick headache and stomach and liyer troubles. Small in Bize oui grw m resuua, J,. . Hardison. Conversation Between A Craven Populist and Abe MIddletoa. Colored. II. B. Hardy in Raleigh News and Obser ver. A gentle-nan of Clinton, whose word for truth and veracity cannot be ques tioned, told me on the day when the Populist Congressional convention was held here, he accidently overheard a con versation between a Populist from Cra ven county by the name of Perry, and a negro politican from Duplin by the name of Abe Middleton. The nan to whom I allude is Dr. J. A. Stevens. He gave me the privilege to u e his name. He said he heard Perry say to Middleton: "We must combine and work together to beat the Democrats as we did before." Mid Jl 1 ..rn. . . uiecon repneu: I nat is just what you Populists proposed to the Democrats in your convention the other day at Ral eigh." Perry replied, "Yes, we hurried up and did that to keep the Democrats from making us a proposition first and put ting us in a hole. Now me made them such a proposition as we knew they would not accept, so we are now ready to com bine with you fellows." Dr. Stevens says that Perry furthermore said to Mid dleton: "If you all don't do this and com bine with us the Democrats of this State will get yon all like it is in South Caroli na and count you out so that you all will have no representation in Congress, also get control and count as they please." Perry futhermore said to Middleton "You vill lose the election law, which we helped you to get, also your present system of county government, under which your color now hold office." At this time the doctor sa3-s he ws so dis gusted listening to man with a white skin making such a disgraceful proposition to a negr that he let down his window and left his office. There was also present at the time of this conversation another white Populists from Craven, the fusion Senator from Craven to the last Legislature. His name is Q. L. Harkison, who assented to all that Perry said. This has been submit ted to Dr. J. A. Stevens before publication and he says he will stand by every word in it. or Big Increase in Valuation Railroads Tor Taxation. Tbe railroad commission fixes tbe follow ing valuation per mile of railroads for tax ation: Atlantic Coast Line system: Peters burg Railroad $18,500. total increase of val uation $33,120; Norfolk & Carolina $17,400; increase $288,234; Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta $14,000, increase $186,900; Wil mington & Weldon $18,000, increse $878,210; Tarboro branch $17,400, increase $6732; Wilmington & Florence branch $;8,ooo, in crease $67,000. iSouthern Railway system; Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line $15,000 valna tiou per mile, total increase of valuation $S5,845; Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio $7,000, increase $64,535; Charlotte. Agusta & Co lumbia $15,000, increase $47,430; N'ortwest ern North Carolina $8,000, increase $30,610; Piedmont $18,500, increase $185,095; West ern North Carolinian $11,000, increase $289, 705; Sorxh Carolina $17,000, increase $S83, 050. Seaboard ;Air Line system: Carolina Central, Monroe to Hamlet, $13,000 valua tion per mile, total increase of valuation $132,750; Georgia, Carolina & Northern $13,000, increase $4250; Raleigh & Gaston $17,000, increase $42,350; Raleigh & Gaston $17,000, increase $325,950; Raleigh it Au gusta $13,000, increase $154,110; Koanoke 4 Tar River $5,000, increase $23,540; Seaboard & Roanoke $20,0o0, increase $94,790. The increase in valuation are: Atlantic Coast Line $2,080,796; Southern Railway $1,536, 725; Seaboard Air Line $773,890; Norfolk & Southern $162,850; Atlantic & North Carolina $198,845. Total $4,753,106; West ern Union $618,248; Postal $67,0iS; Pull man $153,8S2. Grand total $5,591,454. The United States "Are." Atlanta Journal. The old controversy as to whether or "are has the United States "is sprung up again. Recently the Loudon Times said "Ine United btates are at war with Spain," whereupon the Cleveland Leader remarks: "I here it is ajrain! The same old European ignorance of American in stitutions. United States IS at war with Spain." Instead of showing a. - - " t ' i a ' .i American institutions in tnis in stance the London Times is exactly right and the Cleveland Leader dead wrong. The ignorance of American institutions is on our side of the wa ter this time. If the editor of the Leader will take the trouble to refer to the constitution of the United States, section three, article three, he will nud the declaration that "trea son against the United States shall consist only iu levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies." The supreme court in its decisions habitually uses the United States as a plural. "And now, Johnnie," said the Sunday School teacher, "tell me the fourth com mandment. Johnnie . hangs his head. "Dear me," said the teacher, "can't you remember it?" Johnnie evidently couldu't. "What is it about?" J mnnie couldu't tell that either. Til help you," said the teacher. Til tell you a word or two, aud maybe then it will all come back to you. Now, listen carefully. Don't lose a word. Re-mem ber the " "Hold on," cried Johnnie. "Remember the Maine " Cleveland rTain Dealer. Rajal tb toad pmrm. FOYDZn Absolutely Puro mrrti Bumo wnr co.. wtwwbhc INSTITUTE COSMUCTOR. Or. D. Reid Parker Actual' Had Three Farmers Freseat In Randolph County. News and Observer. The people all over the State are dis gusted with the payment of $8.50 per day to Dr. D. Reid Parker to go about and hold so-called Farmers Institutes. Dr. Parker's home paper, the Asheboro Courier, understands the situation as it is, for it says: "Dr. Parker is a blooming success as an institute holder. It is said that in his tour of the Western counties last sum mer he had as many as a dozen farmers sometimes present and when he held the institute lor Randolph it is claimed that there were three fanners present. "The Doctor used to make speeche aud talk about the fact tht the salaries and fees of officials were too high and that there were too many office holders and now here is the D ct r holding an office made and created expresslj for him, it is said, a reward for his joining the Pritchard Populists in the last General Assembly. But Parker was dying for office and was bound to have one, so one was created for him. "It is also said that the Doctor who talked tor free silver at 16 to 1 up to ihe last legislature is as MU.M as an oyster now. It is said that the Doctor talked free silver and reform in the past from sun up till sun'down and oft times far into night, but no more murmur of doscon tent do we hear. Allis well for he has pie now." Asked for a Shirt and Got a Wire. Philadelphia Times. ' . The following is given because of the valuable suggestion it may contain for the young soldier about to start for the war. It is the story of a clean shirt and how it gained one man a good wife. During the civil war there was a cer tain young lady in Georgetown who found it in her power to do a great deal for the Confederate soldiers confined in prison at Washington. Young, beauti ful, cultured, popular, of a wealthy and prominent family, she was frequently allowed admission to the prison, whither she always took her maid with a well- stocked basket of good things for the poor boys behind tbe bars. One day.as she was passing through a group of men in the common prison, she stopped and said to them; ' "If there is anything you would like to have that I can bring you let me know. I shall be very glad." . One man stepped forward promptly. Bowing most courteously, he said: "If you will be so kind, I should like very much to have a clean shirt." He was a young Lieutenant from Louis iana one of the handsomest and most elegant men I ever met, and when that young lady looked up into his brown eyes she fouLd it in her heart to give him much more than a clean shirt, for she married him as soon as the war was over. The future is uncertain, but if you keep your blood pnie with Hood's Sarsaparilla you may be sure of good health. LI UUJAU T i Cur an Brer ills, bilious- J cV headache, sour stout- ) !J H B ach. Indigestion, eonstipa- 1 11 B O tkn. Tbtjr ct Milt?, vlUw U i I U O J Xi o&j 1 V tt yri-A toil tmtjvu. The Philippines ar at Hand. Birmingham (Ala) Age-Herald. A man can go from San Francisco to the Philippines in two weeks, surrounded by all comforts and many luxunesncluding ice. A man that set out from New York to go to Omaha in 1S03 would have been extremely fortunate if he had arrived there in a year's time wearing his scalp. St. I-ouis was much father away in those dayV than the Philippines are now. When the Pacific is bridged by Hawaii and the Caro line Islands, the ferry to Manila will be neither tedious nor difficult in any sense. Time and the inventive genius of man changed the question of contiguity. Ca bles and fast steamships make any unfro zen sea bounded territory contiguos in point of time and accessibility. Fled Before the Eneiuy. Detroit Free Press. "Let me kiss, your Dewey lips." urged . the youth in the parlor. "Young man," roared a voice from above, "the bombardment will open as soon as I get down stairs." Then the hapless youngster organized himself into a flying squadron and made a fleet disappearance: Hanged by a Mob. Russtllsville,-Ky Tone 26. Georee Scott, a negro, about 21 years old, who has been in jail here' sveral weeks on a charge of attempting to outrage Mrs. W lluum Scroggins, who lived near Adir ville, was hung by a mob about 1 o'clock this morning. The negro made no re sistance whatever. The Jailer was over powered. 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