*trrt SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1889 REED FOR SPEAKER^ /..•; .s: ' Ouay has Incurred theEnmityof Some Newspaper Men—The Oreal Fatce ’ Begun. ■ / * . . '' Express ■’ Washington, D, C. Dec. 2,1889. • Mr! Harrison's message wag read in both Houses of Congress to-day.' It is too early to Say what,is thought of it, as fety members ' pay closi enough attention to the reading of a message in the HpUse or Senate - to bare to express an opinion upon it; they prefer to read it over carefully hfterwards. But it certainlj was ; not received with any enthusiasm • by the Republican*. That much could be plainly seen by any person that attended the' opening of Con gress. . - .f ! Gen. Clark, the clerk of the last House, called the new House to or der at noon to-day, and he is proba bly the last Democrat who will have : the honor of presiding, even tempor !•. arily, over the House until the first Monday in December, 1891, when a Democratic Speakers is again ex pected tb be elected. Senator Quay, aided by the' bilent : t'. 'support of the administration, suc y*-. ceeded‘in making Reed Speaker of ^ . the House, just a£ your correspondent from th’e beginning predicted, but it . _ may in the future prove to be a dear ly bought victory for Mr. Quay, as Ire has made some enemies that will J not hesitate to get even if the chance ; , v\«r presents itself, and it generally . does in political as well as private 7‘j. life One enemy that Mr. Quay lias made, he may Well bewurc of. It is J. M. Carson, Washington • Corres ! * nondent of the Philadelphia Ledger. ivRo.uad. the audacity to. become :)i. jM’ candidate for Clerk, of the House -‘ “without consulting Mr. Quay. Mr* Carson claims that a majority of the Pennsylvania ■ delegation had fledged hitn tlieift support, which virtually meant his.election, as the place was conceded to Penusylva > ilia, and that Ur. Quay by open threats succeeded in compelling tile most of them to support his Candi date for the place, Edward McPher son, Secretary of the Republican, f ^Congressional committee. McPher son got tlie domination, but Mr. Quay got tbe enmity of Mr. Carsoni who wields a great influence among the'nespaper men, who resent Mr - Quay’s saying that Mr.i Carson only ; represented a lot of irresponsible 1’ newspaper men. No politician has ever antagonized the Washington newspapermen without paying very dearly for it.. Ex-speaker Keifer I will bear roe out in this, assertion as | ulso would the late Schuy ler Colfax if he was stive; Keep your eye :oo Quay. -0P' Mr. Reed has been made Speaker j because it is believed by thettepub J lican leaders that he- can lie relied > upon to get the best of the minority i in theft efforts to maintain their f rights in the House, He is not. ei \ jiected to do this by ;his superior knowledge of pdrliameatary tactics, t but by arbitrary decisions. There IwiiPit exceedingly lively times, in the House when he attempts £o de prive the.Democruts of any of their rights. / i , The newspaper correspondents are heartily glad that the Speakership fares is ended:. .They were required by their papers to telegraph daily « o’clock when Mr. farHule received the nom ' rhatfoB for speaker and ati T3H1E5 old House offiials were re-nomina ted. No other business was trans acted by this caucus. The question of who' shall be chairman of the ways and means committee of the House is going to make hard feelings on the part , of some of the Republicans. Mr.- W. D. Kelly of Pennsylvania, thinks he is entitled to it, but it is almost cer tain that Speaker Reed will give it to McKinley of Ohio. . , ; The. usual hustling and bustling crowd of men and women attended the opening of Congress to-day. It is an annual show that hundreds of Washington people attend regular ly. I saw faces in the galleries to day that Ihave seen there on the first Monday in December for twelve years past. Attending the, opening of Congress and shaking hands with every President is 'a positive mania with lots of folks here. • " ■„ The new House officials are, Reed of Maine, Speaker; MePbefsdn, of Pennsylvania, Clerk; Holmes, of Iowa, Sargeant-at-Arms; Adams, of Maryland, Door-keeper; Wlieat, of Wisconsin, Post-master,*-, and Rev. G. R. Ramsdell, District of Colum bia, Chaplain. - , _ : ' Hon. Samuel J. Randall was in his seat at the opening of Congress, hut his looks tell that he is far from being a healthy man.' The Methodist Protestants are thinking of founding a college at Kansas City, >. _.S—V In Japan there are twelve dis tinct sects of Buddhists, and in Chi na there are thirteen.' ' f A Quaker’s advice tq his son oh his wedding day: “When thee went a courting I told ih,eo to keep thine" eyes wide SpanT' Now that thee is married I tell thee to keep them half shut.” Congressman Hemphill, of South Carolina, explains ' the election law in that Sta te, which-is just what they had MassaehusCetts. * It is only a" rule-to prevent ignpr" ance from beibg hired'out to rascal" ity.—Charlotte Ch^onicU, “There is a church in New York city—Trinity Episcopalian—which Li a regular diocese in itself. It has more clergymen and; parishes than many regular dioceses. It ha$ innu merable chapels' attached to it owns unlimited property, \ hits great wealth, and whenever it attemps ty do a# ^'-ing always sees that it is donef' • - s. . “Mohan.*.... danism in, -Turkey is evidently declining. The multipli cation of mosqnea almost (. in i Sunday School Timet. ' i. / ; One page of good literature a day, thoughtfully tead, must produce beneficial intellectual - results, even though the reader fail to recall at willthe full thdugiit of the, author,. or to reproduce a complete sentence in which that thought, or any part of it whs expressed. Even slight ef fort at “giving attention" will in crease power of concentration. The world opened by that single page; may awaken new intellectual inter est, quicken curiosity, sharpen ap petite, and suggest thoughts of bis own in the minds of the reader: The simple passing of well express ed ideas across his , mental horizon will enlarge his- world; enrich his mind; refine his tastes, increase his vocabulary, and give him new inter est in the people he meets and in the topics which obtrude’themselves upon his attention in the busy days, when everybody is* thinking, and when great events are crowding in to, the wonderful history now being made. One'page a day guarantees so much gaiu of knowledge and power tojhe attentive and interest ed reader. Of couse, the results of one page will be ssareely appreciable. ' One day’s toil will build no temple. But seven days make a week and four weeks make a month, and twelve mouths contain three hundred and sixty-five days.. One page a day Will thefefore grow in one year ‘ in to a volume of three hundred and sixty-five pages. Now at three hun dred-pages toa bo6k,one"may .read in teu yearn twelve stout volumes. He who in a decade reads with interested and inquiring atten tion twelve volumes is no mean student; audit the reading in five minutes of a single * page should stimulate thought that keeps ham1 mering or digging or singing in the reader’s brain during the day ’ when he, is at work and his book is shut, at-the end of ten years such reader and thinker will deserve some repu tation as a “scholar.” He may be in: some aense a master of twelve big books. And if they be the right books,' no master of a large library can afford to overlook the claim' Up on his recognition of this' man who reads well one page a day. There is one better thing that the coral-building process of scholar building has done for the busy man who gave to books five minutes ff day. it has trained biin' to system, steadiness and fidelity. He has done one thing regularly. He has brought his work-to bear on a worthy object, and has done it with persistency and -System. As a consequence, His char acter is more stable, his faith in the power of porpose and of habit more firm, and his daily life more fully under the law of duty. He is worth more in business. . He makes a bet ter-husband and father, and1 his1 church life gams in manifold ways. If onr page-a-day bed hanker ' dr a blacksmith (both useful and res pectable occupations, aud neither One a whit mure honorable than the other if the hands that Anger the iron or silver be be honest hands), the wide range of reading secured by a well chosen dozen of’ best books will place him in a large, vari ed and productive world, and save him from the belittling and petrify ing effects- of "business.” He will be first a man and then a toiler,— not merely a machine in the form and with the unused forces of a mam a sort of man-hammer..nr man-cal cnlator, or one-horse-man power let out to employers for so ruaiiy dol lars a day. He will be a husband,— a house-band of gold to his beloved. She will forget the trade he works at, as she rejoices in the grace and man liness of him who works at it. He will be a father of whose knowledge and skill iu books and in questions of the day hie children can proud; the more they know and the higher they rite, the prouder they ^become of the man-whom they cull>father." He who thus reads votes more wise ly, prays more reverently, talks more intelligently, gives ttfore liberally, and his most discriminating friends who kneW him before and who know him now say, with an approv ing and enthusiastic nod e! the head, “A page a day did it.”---’ There is another thing to be said about our “five lhijiute' man.” It will not be-long till his eyes ' run from the finished page to the next and the next. Within thirty days you will find five minutes growing into fifteen or twenty, and five pa ges taking the place of one. “I can’t wait,’’.he says. One page a day don’t keep the thinking-machine in grist.” While he works with his hands he asks questions, and won ders how the author Would answer them, and thinks on his own ac count along the lines of his inquiry, men whom he meets, stirring them up fo ask the'same and other ques tions. Thus strengthened, stimula ted and afire, lie goes on and grows on, and at the end of the first half of his, first decade he has .averaged more than thirty minutes a day, and the hooks that be has read and marked re-read stand on his shelves, i decorate bis house, break windows through the walls and skylights in the roof, make his home a brigh t cehtei%f the universe, j^is chil dren go the public school, but are taught as much and as well by their parents as by their profession al teachers. His children stay through the high-school course; and then they advance to the college. What did it? I will tell you what began it; a page aday. - , ;y/ i ‘iNow, can tbi3 scheiue i>ft,systnna zed ? Wanted: A course of volun tary reading for the* out-of-school multitudes, requiring no rig did ex aminations, allowing outline memo randa to be examination papers ’ for those who desire self-testing, de pending for real “study” upon the desire to know which the mature mind once awakened is sure to fee), and the pursual of good books sure to excite. If this scheme could pre sent in attractive form and in pure English the subject-matte?of the ordinary college course, so that grad uates might review, preparatory students preview, and non gradu ates enjoy the “college outlook,” we should bring more.closely together the homes and the colleges of the land, secure more sympathy from parents with higher education, more students in the 'universities, more popular favor, moregovernment ap propriations, more domestic, relig ious and social prosperity;; and thus “one page- a day” would grow in to public libraries, wide-spread reading habits, and busy school-life, success ful and expanding colleges, and the .republic would gain strength and glory as the people' became more thoughtful, reverent, stable and in depent. , Is “Chantauqua" unknown to your readers, Mr Editor? And is there one of them who has never heard of The Chantauqua literary and Scientific Circle? * ' Buffalo? It. Wish to Save Jeff Davis’s Mansion. A telegram from Richmond; There is a strong feeling here against the proposed demolition of the Jefferson Davis mansion. The Richmonders are sensitive about'the removal of Libby prison, and they say that this landmark is doubly valuable now. A petition against interferring with the mansion will be presented to the City Council. It is considered that the proposition is especially unfortu nate now in view of Mr. Davis’s ill ness. His little son, who was born ut the begginning of the war, was killed by falling from the porch, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery here, and the little grave la never Jorgotton. During the war the young ladies of the Confederate cap ital formed an association for the purpose of placing flowers upon the child's grave, and the custom is ob served now by the admirers of Air. Davis. . ■■■ •/£. j BILL ARP Truly Says That There is Improve “ meat in Women's Dress. Wllmon Advance, ' " Z I believe the women of thi« gener ation are more reasonable in their dress -thnii for many' generations past. Three thousand '.year* ago they were fast, Very fast’ for Josiah tolls about their feet and their cauls and their round tires like'the moon (bustles, 1 reckon,) their chains and bracelets and mufflers, the bonnets and ornaments of the legs and head bands, and tablets and earrings, and nose jewels and changeable suits of appares, and the mantles and whim pies, ami- crisping pins and hoods and veils. sOh, it took a sight to set up one of “those high-flying He brew women, and the prophet went for them as fiercely as old . Allen Turner, used to go for onr women a half century ago. “If t hat young woman with the green bonnet on the back of her head and the deyil’s martingales around her neck and his stirrups on her ears, don’t quit gig gling, I’ll point her out. .to the con gregation.^ Yes, we are all doing better. ~ ' _ Oliver Dyer on Davis and,Benton. H'llniington Mea/tenger. ; . u; - Mr. Dyer, m lus“Great Senators perpetrates a blunder in his account of the fambus Mexican charge and repulse at Buena Vista by Col, Jef ferson Davis’s Mississippi Rifles. We cun not now explain how, but it is incorrect./ He does great justice to Mr Davis and admired him and Mr Calhoun more titan he did any of thk great men he met in Washing ton5. He describes Mr. Davis as be ing singularly courteous and chival rous,. and that ‘Hi seemed to' give him pleasure to do aff aet-pf kind ness to anybody.” He says at that time he.“was a handsome man, with a symmetrical figure, well up to the medium size, a piercing but kindly eye, and a gamy, cbivalric bearing. He bad'a firmv sonorous voice, and was always a fluent and some times an eloquent speaker. He,was ready and skillful iii debate, animated in style occasionally vehement in man ner, but always courteous.” He says “i find only friendly feelings in my heart' towards Jefferson Davis.” This is what an old Abolitionist says in 1889. . . ■ -v . .. . • * * _ In Mr. Dyer’s sketch of Benton he says “he was born i®~t-7S2, in an obscure hamlet in North Carolina. When he was eight years old his father died, and his widowed mother removed to Tennessee.” Is that correct? First he was not born at Hillsboro as generally supposed, but two or three miles from town. That is, if he was bom in Orange county. He told the late Col. Rob ert R. Bridgers, of this city, that he was very doubtful as to his natal county, and was rather inclined to the opinion that he was' borrt in Bdgeonvbe whence his father eame to Orange. He thought it probably that lie was born before the rejnoval instead of afterwards. Did his mother remove to'Tennessee? Ben ton was at the University of North Carolina.' It Is in: Orange county where his mother was living, at the time of her husband’s death. Being ppor is it' not probably that they were still in Orange when the lad was sept to college only ten or fifteen miles distant from their home. " To the Ladiej of North Carolina. Sfctra and Otarm-r. ?. Nkwton, N. C., Nov. 25, 1889.\ The legislature of J889 incorpor ated, the Confederate Veterans’ As sociation and Soldiers’ Home of , North Carolina.” Julian, S. Carr,: Durham, N. 0. president;' W. C. : Stronach, Raleigh, N. 0., secretary and treasurer; executive committee, Col, A. B. ‘Andrews, Col, W. F. Beasley, Capt.. S. Jk. Ashe, Fab. II. Busbee,.Esq.,*nnd Col. T, L. Emry. The above names are a sufficient guarantee that all moBeyepaid into the Soldiers’ Homo will be properly accounted for., ... We want the ladies to go|o work ill every city, town, village and ham let in North Carolina to- help raise ‘ money for the Home. If necessary get up some kind of an entekain- ( ment duHtig the Christmas holidays ' For the benefit of the Home, The ■' plan is*to establish a Home at an early daysfer these who. Itfe" with out home or family, and are now in the county poor houses. Then(if , sufficient sum is raided) to extend 1 aid to others^who have families and i need aid, but cannot go to the “Sol- < liers’ Home.” ■ JK , If we can get the pal riotic women ] of North Carolina to say “it must i be done” we will 'succeed. The thing is to get the, money, < and good notes, and then discuss ! the best plans for applying it ct eet. \ If we wait tilt all agree on apian, i we will find some making suggest i tions (but furnishing no money) .] whenthe an gel ■ shall strike-down the clock of tinle and declare tnat “time shall be no more.” Those who are not willing to ; make a small sacrifice (even of some luxury) to aid this noble cause, will always find an excuse for not giving. When we1 come to die, all that ,we have saved will be what we have given to some'good cause. Each town, community or indi vidual will be credited for all ac counts paid, and at stated times a list of each will be published in the newspapers. Let our town$ as well as individuals, vie with each other as, to who shall stand at the head of the list. . • ctpnd contributions to W. C. Stronach, treasurer, Raleigh, NC-, or to the undersigned at _ Newton, N. C. All newspaper men in North Carolina (religions or secular) ’ will please copy the above at least once in their respective papers and thus help the cause. M. 0. Shebbxll, Agent. What Shall the English do with .their Sons? : Harold t'rrdoric In -V. F. Time*. In the old days his choice?' was practically confined to the ariiay, the navy, the Church, the bar, andnied icine, and even here his chances of good treatment and success depend ed very largely upon who his peo ple were. There were writers and school teachers and actors and the like, too, hut they fared badly as a rule and had scant respect at the hands of professions or of the pub lic generally. Times have changed prodigously since Pope demonstra ted that money could be earned hy. poetry, and later, when Hume and Scott created the idea of literature as a profitable and genteel profes sion. The newspaper presss has opened the way to .the rise of it large new profession which, in politer forms, is distinctly recognized. The stage, too, has become possible, and music and art add their thous ands, now to the ranks -of “gentle men”—not to speak of civil engin eering, architecture, and numerous other forms of professional work. But all this recent expansion of the professionol classes has'made , it' in creasingly difficult to provide a suit able professional existence for their multiplying army of _sons. There must be no backward step, and all the forward paths are crowded. 1$, is indeed a problem, this “What we shall do with our sous?” Occupations of American Congress men—Forty Ninth Congress. Preyrematr« farmer. Lawyers.................. ........ 302 Soldiers..-.. Merchants. Journalists Bankers. Brewers and Distillers Shipowners.^..... ^iiOro^d Agents.. Engineers_!_ I’rofessional Politicians. . . . . . .. Miners.d.i'.t. Clergymen.,.i,....,...,.,,..: Surveyor..........„....,i.•..-...... Mechanic_*.,i .J7,f- ., Builder and Contractor...... In a few weeks fifteen Southern Presbyterian missionaries wilt leave 1 this country,for the foreign field, ren of them are going- out for the i Jrst time,.i.^„ .A, •• i ■.■■■.'& if. ■ ■ . f., • A,-* ■ , . „ ;.l' r-./ - . .’v'. 'T~ . ■ • Cash or no Paper. Ialigbury Truth. ■' ' ■ - ■■■ ^ Ar: “Oar subscribers can prepare for he adoption of the cosh system by .» ■ is. We have made many liberal ViT iffers to you; and1 now we must have he cash from the first of the year y! ir we cant send you tbe paper.”— , . Wckort, Press and Ca. o/ilian. ' The. press of the whole State mght to adopt the cash system, there are so many under the credit ' ystern who don't pay and that nev r make any effort to pay as long * a they are indulged, that the entire irpfits of the publishes in* North Carolina are lost them in this Way. is a consequence there are not ex uding five papers in the State, if o many, that are realising frotn the mper alone more than a bare exis- , ence. There are people who spb cribe for a paper and hang on ~aa_ . .> ong as the editor will send >ay, and when he will go no longer hey get in a huff and go off de* lounciug the editor and paper and1 snlmcribe for another with the usual M jromises, but with never a cent of * 4 :ash. Thus they go the rounds of dl tbe newspaper offices until they must pay or stop, reading." fhen, if . ,, hey do not send oft for a paper, htff go back to the »t»4 start lt the beginning, paying a small Q* itallment, allowing the paper td run long after' the paid lor is oat, unless the editor happens to think to stop it, and promising every time they see editor to call and, settle scores, and renew, which they never do, Finally, the editor is compelled to again strike him off. - And so the old trick is pursued again. In the meantime, if a new paper is started ^ow,l theoefnmds rush ill a body to it with a short subscription, many false promises of support and good cheer, and with ** mBeh apparent pleasure and in terest aswre manifested by a crowd of mountain hoosiers going t<^ wit ness a public hanging. Men who thus run froni one newspaper office to another, getting their reading matter from- year to year by flattery,' false pretense, and lying, are n,ot the kind of patrons we are looking for. This kind of patronage has al ready robbed us of very many dol iars of hard earning, and.-we do not utend to be robbed again. A person who gets a peck of meal, i yard of cloth, a pound of sugar, >r a newspaper on the strength of i false promise^ or by saying that bo will have money due him at a jertain time with which he- will pay, or that he will haul wood, of bring corn, or wheat, or anything slse to pay with, and never does it, baa laid himself liable to prosecu te for having obtained these artli :les under false pretense, and if he s not indicted and punished for the fraud, it is because of the toleration >f the party whom he has deceived ind swindled. :;g|p ill " < m :Kvi : m uid peculiar people, and unique and peculiar soil. Outside, of iron and itonershe is known as the “sped laying quantities. There are some * jeculiur minerals found scarcely any •here else. One of these i* hidden? te and auother is zircon. The salts »f zircon are used in the Weishbach si ind other incandescent burners to H produce an nbsolutly non-combusti- • )le film, Congressman Kwsrt, of - • - Sorth Carolina, ha a half in terse t . , n the only zircon mine in North -‘i Carolina. There is but' one ..other tnown in the World, and that is in Sweden. .But the North Carolina trticle is far auperior. It is easily ninedand lies near,the surface fiftg __ 4 •housand pounds sre taken out *n> ,. v7-’ »uaUy and shipped principally to Berlin. As it is worth front «igh een to twenty-Atc cents a pmmi, it gS s evident that the North Carolina . £ ( Congressman has a good thing. ’ - T ""r " . . - -_5i The St. Louis Silver Convention irge upon Congress the Free coin-— ige,pf Silyer, . tjr? nea State.” She has gold, silver ead and many other metals, but lie found in specimens, and not it*