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Wadesboro, N. C., Thursday. September 29, 1898.
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Richmond, .Va., September 23. The
funeral of Miss Winnie Davis took pi ace
an 3:30 o'clock. The organ played the
"Jefferson Davis funeral March" as the
procession entered the church. First
came the vetrans of Lee Camp; then the
Sons of Veterans. These passed np the
main aisle and were seated to the left.
The Veterans of Pickett Camp came
next, going over to the left aisle and
taking seats at the front on. the right.
The ministers of the various churches
of the city had previously entered the
church and occupied seats to the right of
the clianceL
Following the Pickett Camp veterans
were the veterans representing camps in
other States and behind them and Im
mediately in front of the casket came the
honorary pall-bearers; foliowieg them
came the guard of honor which had
charge of the casket during the day, and
next came the casket, borne by the ac
tual pall-bearers.
Mrs. Davis followed close behind the
casket, leaning on the arm of Colonel
Archer Anderson. She walked with
bowed head and . very feebly, leaning
heavily on her cane. Mrs. Hayes .and
other relatives and near friends followed
and immediately behind came about 300
veterans. The flower and flag-covered
casket was placed on the pedestals in
front of the chancel and Mrs. Davis and
her party took seats.
Soon the body of the church and gal
leries were filled. The galleries were
the only portion of the church, thrown
open to the public. Rev. Dr. Carmichael
announced the first hymn, "How Firm a
Foundation," which was a favorite of
General Robert E. Lee. After the hymn
had been sung Rev. . Dr. M. D. Hoge
read the Psalms for the day, and "Nearer
My God To Thee" was sung. Dr. Car
michael read the lesson. "Art Thou
Weary" was then sung and at its close
the veterans moved out with the cas
Mrs. Davis-was prostrated and could
not at . ;once take her place, but her
daughter, Mrs. Hayes, whispered words
of comfort and besought her to be brave.
It was several minutes before the grief-
s'ricken mother could rise. The scene
was deeply affecting and those who wit
nessed it were greatly moved. Many an
old soldier, dressed in the grey that
means so much to him, wept freely as
he witnessed the gr'ef of the aged la-
The crowd about the church when the
casket was taken out and placed in the
hearse was of immense proportions. As far
as the eye could reach up Franklin street
that thoroughfare was : crowded and
Ninth street was jammed for a block
above and below the church. Perfect
order was maintained, however, the
marshals and the police handing the crowd
with little friction.
The procession was nearly a mile in
length, though the carriages were driven
two abreast. Along the drive in the
cemetery leading to the grave, a distance
of a half a mile, and all about the grave
itself were hundreds and thousands of
people of aR classes and conditions.-,
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The sun was just sinking behind the
hills when the head of the procession
came in sight along the road that winds
in and out among the trees by the river's
bank. The military formed at the foot
of the terrace overlooking the Davis cir
cle, which in turn overlooks the
river and commands a view of the. city.
The services at tbe grave were simple,
but deeply impressive. After the casket
had been placed on the supporters the
face section was removed fo a moment
and Mrs. Davis and her daughter, Mrs.
Hay es, kissed the deceased. Mrs. Davis
cat in an arm chair near the grave dur
ing the service and Mrs. Hayes knelt by
her Eide. The Centenary Methodist
church choir sang"Sleep Thy Last Sleep,"
the committal prayers were read by ' Dr.
Carmichael and then the vast and sor
rowing crowd dispersed. ;
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What Franklin Iopnlist Says
of llie Drift ot His Parly Ap
peals to His Fellows.
To the .Voters of Franklin County:
Six years ago I left the Democratic
party and became a member of the new
ly organized Populist party. My pur
pose in doing this was pure and patriot
ic. I believed that it represented the
best set of principles and had the best
platform which any political party had
promulgated. I believed that in it was
the hope of deliverance from the domi
nation of Wall street and organized cap
ital. I believed that the Democratic
party, under Cleveland's administration,
was unsafe, and that it was fostering the
brood of trusts and combines that had
grown up under Republican regime. . I
saw that slowly and surely the single
gold standard was being fastened -upon
the country, and that Democracy, under
Cleveland, was permitting this work of J
ruin and robbery to proceed. To my
mind Populism was a protest against the
iniquity and ring rule of both the domi
nant old parties. ,
I have no apologies to make for having
been a Populist: When I joined the par
ty it was, in my judgement, full time to
call a halt in our national affairs, and to
change in our ever increasing tendency
towards the despotism of a heartless plu
tocracy. I was born and bred as Democrat, and
inherited a hostility for and a repugnance
to Republicanism. For the teaching and
tenets of that party I have neither sym
pathy nor toleration. Its trend toward
centralization, and its record of corrup
tion in State and Nation, have deepened
my enmity toward it, till there is not one
doctrine that it holds in harmony vwith
my views. I left the Democratic party,
as did thousands of others in tho State,
because it was growing under Cleveland,
more and more like the Republican par
ty. Its financial policy was exactly sim
ilar to the financial policy of John Sher
man, and when, under the whip and
spur of President Cleveland, it finally
struck silver its death blow. I joined
with a political party that was born of this
incident. I did not unite with Populists
to fight the Democrats only, but the
slogan of our party, was to do battle to
all political organizations which did not
stand on our platform and espouse our
views. Te Republican paity, the author
of all our ills, was our arch enemy in the
conflict.
I made the campaign in Franklin
county, in 1892, you will remember, as
the nominee of the Populist party for the
office of Sheriff. I entered the fight, and
carried the burden of the whole ticket,
with the profound conviction that I was
right, and I believe now, that in its origin
and first existence, the Populist party was
right.
The central and main plank in our
platform was reformation of our finances.
especirlly the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. I believ
ed in that doctrine then. I implicitly be
lieve in it now.
For two years the Populist party met
my views and fulfilled my highest ideas.
I saw the whole country shaken, as by
a storm with the growine strength of
this young giant. Both the old parties
looked in alarm, at the increasing host
of those who arrayed themselves beneath
our banner." In the declared purpose of
our growing army was the promise of
sweeping ref rm.
Suddenly in North Carolina, seem
ingly without cause, certainly without
excuse, I saw this party, whic i boasted
a put ity unknown to both the old par
ites, begin a system of trading and traf
ficking in political honor and principle,
more degraded and more disgusting than
has ever before disgraced any political
organization in the world.
I saw men professing the same princi
ples which I held, and more vehement in
their utterances than I had ever beeu,
vote i'Wgold bugs, and barter their par
ty's honor away with no thonght of any
thing save the pie-counter at which they
were being fed.
I saw them deliberately abandon their
platform, disavow their principles, unite
on equal terms with, their lite long ene;
mies the Republicans and leave the
lew of us who value our political integri
ty, without platform or party.
I saw the deliberately abandoned
whose every political thought, idea and
purpose, was at utter vai lance with our
avowed principles, put into office by
Populist votes and honored with Topulist
ballots.
.; I saw in my own county negroes ele
vated to positions of trust and profit,
appioted to administer the educational
and financial matters and affairs of
white institutions, and the votes' of Popu
lists required by their leaders to bring
about this result.
1 sa w the populist party taken by its
leaders and delivered, like a flock of
sheep in he open market, to the Re
publican organization; its voters relied
on to elect to office the same crowd of
vandals and carpet-baggers that had
looted the State in 1869, and an infamous
ana corrupt trade oigninea by tne name
of "co-opera tion ."
I saw the beginning of a rein of de
bauchery that aid not spare even
the poor insane in the State asy
lum, -
I saw the Populist party that had beg
ged for a lease of power in North Caro
lina, so they might -demonstrate the ex
cellence of economy, lavish the State's
money in wild extravagance, and create
new offices by the score in order to
feed the mat the public table.
I saw the sincerity of the Populist par
ty tested time and time again, and when
ever the fight came between prin
ciple and pie, the - latter triunph
ed. '" f ' '
I saw the Democratic party -purge it
self of Cleveland, and, plank by plank,
adopt as their own almost every de
mand if the Topulist party in its first
great charter, until the Populist leaders
boldly charged that the Democrats had
stolen their platform, and then I saw the
Populist party deliberately walk off that
platform and coolly put on the Republ
can uniform. '
The rank and file of the Populist par
ty are not in the organization for the
sake of Joflice, and they can hardly re
alize that they have been so bitterly
deceived and betrayed by their lead
ers. This fall another election will be held,
making four in which the Populist par
ty has participated since bith. Again
we are called upon to violate and belie
every solemn declaration of our platform,
and to fuse with and vote tor gold-bug
Republicans and incompetent negroes.
This will make three elections out of
four in which we have been sold out,
traded away and trafficked for like chat
tels, in which-we have been asked to
vote for men whose lives and political
principles are a flat contradiction to
every line of our platform.
I know not how it may be with the
other vtersin Franklin couuty.but as for
nie I have made up my mind that no man
with an atom of self-respect, no man who
is honest with himself and who votes
from principle and patriotism, can
follow those treacherous leaders any
longer.
I have left the Populist party, exactly
as I joined it, for the sake of principle.
I solemnly say to all good, hoiest white
men; to all the men who love their home
and their country, and to whom their
wives and sisters are dear, to all who de
sire to rebuke traitor and political ad
venturers, to abandon it as I did. For a
Southern white man the Democratic par
ty is the great, the ouly party now. It
holds within it the only possibility of re
lief from the disgraceful conditions that
npw make the name of our State a re
proach and by-word. To those who fol
lowed me out of the party in 1892, and
voted for me, I have only a sense of deep
gratitude, and for their sakes I now ap
peal to them to follow me back into the
party that we left. It promises most for
our country, it promises all for our man
hood! J. B. Allen.
"Uamma' Talb About the Boy.
Correnpondenca of the M. & I.
The boy is the greatest Institution on
top of the earth. I have great love for
boys full t of life, rude, mischievous,
fight. Yes, the boy that won't figiil
when imposed upon, or whether imposed
upon or not, can't make a man. I know
it's wrong to fight, but to see-two boys
clinch and pepper each other with their
fists is irresistibly attractive. Flora Mc
Ivor Said to Rope Brodwardine that she
believed it was inherent in all male ani
mals' to fight. It don't look nice in a
girl. Their's is the realm of peace, re
velling in smiles and flowers and affec
tion. As for the matter of that a boy can
show more genuine love in a jnmate
ihan a girl can in an hour. I've seen
him up to the eyes in mischief and mama
call him, down goes all his wrong doing
He rises with a look of innocence and
fearless of the storm-cloud on mama's
brow he approaches, throws his arm
round her neck and kisses her lingering
ly. He notes well till the storm cloud
vanishes and he's off. in ten minutes
tearing up Jack again.
Intuitively he hates girls and dolls and
pictures, but wants to ride, play ball and
base and marble sSnd have sling shots.
There is only one thing he loves with all
his soul Uat a girl loves, and that's sugar.
I never yet saw a boy have his fill of su
gar. Brown sugar is preferred by Lis
boyship granulated dou't taste
once, ana 11 uecame necessary vo wnip
him. He was a manly boy, and I just
had to lint him. Never mind his name;
he is an honorable,' high-toned, married
gentleman now. I cried and he cried.
God knows it hurt me a sigh more than
him. It faiily tore asunder my heart
strings, and I had rather to-day sticfe my
hand in the fire than to whip my b ly. It
grieves papa that h'u boy would do a
thing requiring a whipping, and then to
inflict pain on one he loves so well
ihocks his nerves. I don't think any
thing on earth more noble than a boy in
his teens taking his dead father's place,
striving to support mother and sisters
.boyhood all gone and the stern, hard
duties of manhood facing him. Aye,
mother, train that boy of yours well, you
may have to lean heavy on that slender
arm yet, Msters, oe lovyig 10 nine
brother; make hU home attractive by
some sacrifice if necessary, he may be a
lather to vou vet or if not there is no
care like a kind, loving, hightoned gen
tlemanly brother, of whom you are proud
to say, "He is my brother." Gamma.
HOW JIE. FKEL NEAR DEATH
He can't stay on the ground if there be
any trees to climb, and he can spy a
bird's nest in the tallest oak and ga for it.
"Come here, Bobbie. Tell mama how
come your hair so wet, my son." "Oh. I
just wet it." "Tell mama the truth.
rve been in swimming. Mama I can
swim." Regardless of consequences he
owns up, rattles on, for the manly boy
always speaks the truth. He's sure to
have a stone bruise on his heel and two
or three toes tied up. He can do more
errands in a short time than anybody
else, and for a i.ickel will carry messages
Uenrral direely Tells or tue
KeiiMHlion Willi .lieu Dropping
Dead EaeiiJ)ay.
"The new year of 1884 was only
well, j nineteen days old when death came
for the first time, writes General
A. W. Greely in the October Ladies'
Home Journal, telling for the hrst
time the awful experiences of his
Arctic exploring party at Cape Sa
bine, "ror ninety days we had all
lived and kept together. 15ut death
was inevitable. I ts coming was su re
to some, it uottoall; our only won
der was it had not come sooner.
Unly the day belore was our com
rade at work. We said little. On-
Tlie Meanest 91mm.
Wilmington Messenger.
, We haye often read in the newspapers
of the "Meanest Man." Editors have
been so moved upon by some poor wretch
who had outraged decency and humani
ty, that they have applied to him the oil
of vitriol and put a brand upon him.
There have appeared many of these char
acters from time to time, and with decid
ed individuality oi meaness and degra
dation. Bui the "meanest man" is clear
ly none of these. It lemained for this
end of the fertile nineteenth century,
and in this part of the American Union,
for that monster of the human race to
appear, evil and low and grovelling and
malignant and hateful. The "Meanest
Man" of the south is the fellow who is
more selfish than, honorable, who loves
loaves and fishes better than country;
who would rather ride into office upon
the crested wave'of victory won by self-
degradation than to cojimand the respect
of the best men who live about him who
regards lineage and name and kindred
and the good-will of his fellow-beings so
little, that he seeks the company of the
degraded and the superstitious aud igno
rant and-unscrupulous; who think so lit
tle of the white race the greatest of
races, the Aryan of antiquity and made
more commanding and glorious in the
ages by the mingled strains in the Anglo
Saxon, that he hesitates not to lose all
that he may secure, a temporary gain,
and descend to the grade and fellowship
of the descendents of savages something
bettered perhaps by J the contact with tbe
very race he deserts. That is the "mean
est man" in the nineteenth century.
It really looks as if "the woods were
full of 'em." But whatever the number
the words of Shakespeare are forever
true:
"That, Sir, which serves and seek for
gain
And follows but for form,
Will pack, when it begins to rain,
And leave thee in the storm."
ly one man so far forgot that he was
a soldier as to make the faintest sign.
or-deliver packages, always conscien- But the nearness of the end touched
tiius. One day wife and boy and myself us all. Speech became lower, ac
were driving up to town. "Son. this is tions gentler, determined faces grew
the first time you ever went to Wades- softer, and conciliation was the
boro, isn't it?" "No, mama; I went with spirit of tho hour. Who 'would go
pana one day. and he gave me a dram." next? -was tbe qucstiou written on
"Where did you get it, son; tell mama?
"In a barroom." "You little story
teller," says I. "You did, papa, and the
man's name was John." "Yes," says
mama, "I know of him." He was only
seven, and it had been two years prior.
They never forget a wrong deed. That
little episode has never been mentioned
in his presence since, yet I'll bet he can
tell all about it 40 years Trim now. Don't
you know I have wished many a time I
hadn't taken any beer that day, for the
little chap had an inward consciousness
he was telling tales out of school, but I
prefered he should tell it straight, and
he did. A bright, intelligent boy can
see as far through a millstoue as the man
that picks it, and a boy now at 10 years
old knows more than I did at 14. More
ot the world more of human nature. He
lust absorbs as he goes alone like a
sponge.
One boy can make more racket in
house or at the tahle than four girls. At
the table he will keep up a racket, no
each' face. I"ota man ventured to
say to his fellow, 'This is the end.
How that eternal question, always
so unanswearable, seemed to be even
more of a mvsterv to us! The Eas
ter sun dad hardly set before the se
cond fell before Death. A day af
ter, and the third succumbed. Then
the fourth. Une by one they were
dropping at our side. Ihe fifth
followed quickly to solve the prob
lem of futurity, lhen tbe sixth
comrade passed. Aud now we felt
that we were all awaiting the sum
mo ns, one by one. .We scarcel
looked at each other. Doubt and
wretchednes's were allied against us
But the fortunes of war sometimes
chance at the most critical moment.
Strive and do, do and strive unti
death, were the mottoes of our huu
ters, and oue day nearly five hun
dred pounds of bear aud seal meat
came, just as all food had almost
failed. Oh, the iov which that meat
brought to us. WLb can tll.-tnt
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Charlotte Observer.
It was the-ironyof fate that when Dr.
Cyrus Thompson, Secretary of State, re
turned from Concord, where he had held
up the sobriety of the present administra
tion in contrast with the drunkenness of
Democratic administrations past gibbet
ing Hal Ayer as the only member of the
present administration who drinks liquor
he should have found that during his
absence his own chief clerk, A. D. K.
Wallace, had been discovered helplessly
drunk behind the water cooler in his
office. This was letribution as to Dr.
Thompson. .As to Mr. Wallace, no case
could be more, pathetic- than his. For
many years he has not been a drinker.
Lately a cloud has come over his wife's
mind, aud after committing her to the
insane asylum at Raleigh and going
linmp tn Viia 1ittl rhililren he felt the
buiden greater than he could bear arf
for surcease resorted to drink. Th
thing he has said in a published card,
which is calculated to touch a heart of
stone.
It is painful to allude to the incident.
Mr. Wallace is entitled to the tenderesi
svniDathv. and we would not trust far
j r - j -
the man who, for political or other rea
sons, would seek tn make capital of his
fall. He may be forgiyen, but ppon Dr
Thompson the occurrence reacts twice
He eloated over the infirmities of other
men. and almost before the words were
out of his mouth they came back to him
Boasting, like a Pharisee, of his own
righteousness and of that of his con-
feres, he turns to find in his own office
the sin for which he had so freely con
demned others. But that is not all, nor
the worst so fai .as he is concerned. He
summarily discharges- his unlortunate
clerk and parades to the world the rea
son why. It was Wallace's first offence
Instead of throwing the mantle of charity
and the arm of sympathy about him;
instead of setting him on his feet and
giving him another chance, he throws
him off, for one offence 01 whicn many a
better man has been guilty, and trum
pets his infirmity to tho world; mean
while seeking to make a virtue of
his own meanness and hard-hearted-
ness.
It is no pleasure to discuss suh a case
as this; men's personal habits are largely
their own concern, and even in the case
of public men thev become subjects of
legitimate comment only when they in
terfere with the discharge of public du
ties. But Dr. Thompson ha3 forced the
issue, and while it is impossible to re
si st the temptation to remind him that
curses, like chickens, come home to roost it
is lair to say that in his treatment of this
unfortunate man. he has shown himself
deficient in that Christian charity which
would much adorn a man of his high pro
fession.
THE UAl'KUOXK-OF OI It
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matter who is there, till he gets the chick
en gizzard. He loves his sisters, and will those hearts in ihat "m , ! Something
fight for them and take their part, but to eat something to 1 Sp life"
thinks it manly to cuff them a little him
You invite disappointment when you
experiment. DeWitt's Lut e Early Ris
ers are pleasant, easy, thorough little
pills. They cure constipation and sick
headache just as sure as you take them.
). A. Hardison.
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TBE EXCELENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it ia
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the Caxifobnia Fio SrBtrp
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
tby the California. Fio Syrup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the Cali
fornia Fio Stkcp Co. with the medi
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. - In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the" Company -
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
AX FBAX CISCO, CL
torftTixix, Kj. jutr Ye&K. x, r,
self. The manly boy, if properly raised.
with his stone bruise, tied up toes, cut
fingers, has inborn politeness that wins
our hearts. He can doff his hat with
more grace than a king. He can shake
hands with you smilingly, trustingly,
and a polite boy', it don't matter how mis
chievous he may be, win3 your heart.
It's a mean, low down boy that will call
a man "old Smith" or "old Jones." Say
Mister Smith and Mister Jones. Don't
you recollect, bays, one day when Elisha
was passing the road some rude boys ran
out aud said, "Go np, old bald head,"
and some bears came out and ate them
up.' Watch out, boys, or the bears will
get you.
How manly and fearless and springy a
boy can walk. He walks like a king.
He is a king. Look at him. Fearlessly,
innocently he looks you in the face. He
knows no malice. If he has shattered
your windows, or killed your chicken,
or crippled your pig with a rock it's all
the same it wasn't malice, but through
pure love of mischiet." Conscience hasn't
begun to lash him.
bleep! Why the seven -sleepers are
nothing to the boy who has run, jumped,
climbed trees, been in swimming, robbed
birds nests, did half dozeu errands,
trayelled forty miles during the day
never tired. He smiles and talks and
answers questions -and tells the news of
the day, and as he talks puts his arms
around mama's neck, climbs into papa's
lap and asks when papa is going to get
him a bicycle. Soon he ia asleep on the
floor; blessed sleep. Off till moining,
when the clatter of his tongue begins. A
home without a boy to stir it up, shake it
inside out, borrow your knife, litter the
floor, shoot marbles, stir up jack gener
ally, is no home at all. If it wasn't for
the boy you wouldn't hardly know any
one lived there, the girls are so quiet,, so
gentle, so deconous. Blessed boy! The
merciful father has given me only one,
and I wouldn't be without him for the
world. My heart chugs to him aud I
pray every day for wisdom and ability to
to raise him right. Some day to take
father's place, to be a better, stronger.
abler man than father; to be what father
ought to have been. What a responsibil
ity to raise an immortal boy aiid launch
him in the road of life; educate him, help
hioa to choose a profession or occupation,
reprove at the proper time ana in a prop
er manner. Yes, the wise man said,
"Spare the rod and sp )il the child," but
if properly trained very little of the rod
is necessary. As the old cock crows the
young one learns. He knows papa's
sincerity; he knows papa's shortcomings.
He is a sunbeam or firebrand, according
to his training. God help ns to make
men of our boysl -There
was a boy boarding at my house
ltabb 011 Fusion
XtiM
Raleigh News-Observer. ?
Rev. T. W. Babb who is the indepen
dent Populist candidate for the Senate
from the First Senatorial district, said in
a recent speech: .
"When the mnn in the moon passes
over North Carolina, he ha to hold his
nose, and if the Blue Ridge Mjuatuus
were converted into ipecac, and .poured
into the mouth of hell, it could not possi
bly vomit forth such a lot of low-down
damnable scoundrels as are now in the
capitol'
wo-
depend
A SI rn s Htioi
Consists of strong men and healthy
men, and health and strength
upon pure, rich blood which is given by
Hood's Sarsaparilla. .A nation which
takes millions of bottles of Hood's Sarsa
nanlla everv vear is layinsr the founda
tion for health, the ivisdom of which will
surely show itself in years to come.
Hood's Pills, are prompt efficient,
always reliable, easy to take, easy to
operate. 25c. '
Gov. MacCorkle's
Endorsement
Hon. W. A. MaeCorkle, Ex-Got, of Wnt
Virginia, adda hi name to th long list
of Statesmen benefited 1y Pe-ra-na Ho
, heartily reeommends Pe-ru-na as a
tarrh remedy and tonic.
The II ml 11 I'owfr of Ilie C'onu-
fry Comes I'runi the Farms.
'It is from the farm and the districts
that the great brain power of the coun
try has come, is coming today, and must
come in the future," writes Edward Bafc
in the October Ladies' Home Journal
"Instead o.f deprecating country life, and
saying that 'to live in the country means
to live out of the world,' intelligent peo
ple know that the free untramraeled life
of the countrv unquestionably, gives
broader views. The human mind always
grows to suit its outward surroundings.
Originality and a development for great
things has naught to check its growth
where one can look with earuest eyes
from Nature up to Nature's God. To
speak of -'the ignorance of the rural re
gions is to stamp one's self as an igno
ramus; not the country people. There
is a soundness of core and an intelligence
in the back country of this nation of ours
that people who live in cities and think
themselves wise never suspect. We can
talk all we like of 'social revolutions'
and kindred eyils that are supposed to
threaten our institutions the danger -sig
nal will not come from the back country
Such thoughts are born and fed amid the
foul atmosphere of the cities. In the
clear country air of the farm nothing
threatens this country, and when any
thing in the shape of a socialistic, anar
chistic revolution does menace this land
the true voice which wdl stamp it out
will come from the country. The back
bone of this land rests in thecountry and
on the farm."
Hon. W. A. IacCorklk,
Ex -Got. of West Virginia.
- CuABxitiSTOS-, W. Va., March 9, 1898.
Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus, O.
Gextlemex: Your Pe-ru-na, as
tonic, ia certainly unexcelled, and in a
number of cases that have come.under
my observation where it has been used
for catarrh, or any disease"which has
Its origin in that malady, it has Deen
of great benefit. Pe-ru-na has my
hearty recommendation, both as a tonic
and catarrh remedy.
W. A. MacCORKLE
Pe-rn-na is a permanent and acien
tiflo cure for catarrh. Ik is purely
vegetable and works in harmony with,
nature. All druggists sell it.
The Xew York Tribune's Ilia-
lory of Cotton for the Punt
Fonr Years Redaction Is Only
Remedy The Markets ot the
World lo ol,VarrDl Koch
m Large l ousampuou in .Tiaiia
factnre of Cotton Goods.
New York, Sept. 23. The Tribune to
day publishes a review of the history
of cotton for the past four years, aud
says:
"A price for cotton nearly a cent low
er than ever before during September
appears to threaten a lower range than
has yet been reached, at least until pros
pects for the next year are so . defined
that a sharp reduction in yield can be
expected. It was recently shown that if
there was actual consumption of oer
10,000,000 bales of Ameiican cotton for
the first time duriug the last year it has
only beeu by so exceeding the demand
for goods that important works in this
country have already stopped ip consid
erable number.
"The market for goods, all countries
condsidered, has not yet warranted such
a consumption in the manufacture, al
though it has expanded with really re
markable speed. The consuming po pu
lation of the world increases slowly, if at
all, and yet it is not twenty years since
as much as 6,000,000 bales of all kinds of
cotton had ever been consumed in man
ufacture in any year. An increase from
5,800,000 to 1000,000 bales in twenty
years, over 86 per cent, vastly outruns any
possible increase in the consuming pop
ulation, and since ten years ago, when
8,135,000 bales of all kinds of cotton
were consumed, then the greatest quan
tity ever known, the consumption has
advanced 2,749,000 bales, or 34 per ceot.
Even thii coun'j-y, the most rapidly
growing in populauonf all large na
tions, has not Known as great an in
crt&zz in population, nor is there evi
dence that the condition, of the consum-
ing population of the world as a whole
has so improved as to encourage
materially large purchases ot clothing.
"Yet it is true that the actual distri
bution of goods by sales to consumers
has increased, if not a rapidly as pro
duction, much more rapidly than the con
suming population. The surplus of goods
carried by manufacturers and deale s
has evidently increased, but the consump
tion has increased also and no one can
with safety predict that it may not in
crease yet more. No doubt the cheap
ness ot good, helped both by the reduc
tion in cost of manufacture and by the
low price of cotton, in part due to cheap
transportation, has made a difference
yn the quantity consumed, and with an
other year of cheap material and constant
improvement in machinery and methods
of work, farther increase in consumption
is tot improbable. The main difficulty
at this time is that the accumulated stocks
ofgoo ls on hand and also the stock., of
cotton yet unmanufactured are unusual
ly large, with a crop which threatens to
exceed the world's consuming capacity,
not merely of mencan, but of all cot
ton." -
Negatively Benefited. -
Washington Star.
"I am always greatful to my parents for
the musical education they gave me,
said Willie Washington.
"But you never sing."
"No. Thanks to my thoughtful parents,
I kuow enough about music not to
try."'
Cured.
The Mluister Scored.
Anglo-American.
Down the postofSce step the Rev. Dr
Fyfthly carefully picked his way, and
then his feet suddenly shot out. and he
went down right in the midst a group of
stockbrokers.
"Ah, good morning, Doctor!" laughed
the stock-brokers, recogmzing the minis
ter. "You remind us of the wicked man
whose foot slippeth."
"Nay," retorted the good minister,
"but rather do I seem like the man who
went down to Jericho."
"How is that?" chorused the bro
kers.
"Because he fell among thieye?," mur
mured the Doctor as he got uy and mov
ed decorously away.
m "
More than twenty million free samples
of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve have beeu
distributed by the manufacturers. What
better proof of their confidence in it's
merits do you want? It cures I'iles, bums
scalds, sores, in the shortest space of
time, j. A. Hardison.
Oue foulit
Wilmington Messenger.
We learn that a Duplin populist came
to the city a few days ago and while here
got a little too much "tea" aboard. While
taking in the town a negro policemen ar
rested him and he was disposed to resist
arrest by the black officer. The police
man threatened him with his club. Now
there is one populist less in Duplin coun
ty. This one says he will vote with the
white folks this time.
"A man sits down by the fireside and
calmly discuses the issues of the day
with his own people," says the Aberdeen
Telegram, "and comes to the conclusion
that the trend of his party is toward an
other party that is opposed to all that he
believes to be the best interest of him
self and the people, and then deliberate
ly fuses with that party for the sake of
ofhes, is a dangerous man to elect." This
is a parable.
A stubborn cough or tickling in the
throat yields to One Minute Cough Cure.
Harmless in effect, touch the right spot,
reliable and j:ist what is wanted. It acts
at once. J. A. Hardison.
upe junute Jnugh mire surprises I
people by its quick ciuca and cuildreu 1
may take it in larg j qu unities without I
the least Uttiigci. it 113 won for lueU
the best reputation of any preparation
used to-da lor co.d?, u.up, tioJi-g in
the throat or obstinate coughs, j. A.
Hardison. .
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Pills
BMUeiaa
Are raining tavor rapidly.
Business men and trreW
lers carry them In vest
pocket. ladiM carry them
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