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Herbert Spencer on theVAmerican j Situation. Says Herbert Spencer to the London correspondent of the Courier-Journal: "Since I began to write there has been a clear reaction against individual liberty. We are cer tainly tending toward State Socialism, which will be a worse form of tyrany than that of any government now recognized in civilization." '.! "And after State Socialism, what?" "Military despotism. At.pres ent the State is absorbing the individual activity of men. It is intermeddling in all manner of ways in what should, be private enferprise. Gradually the State will usurp the func tions of private enterprise to such an extent that the people will one day awake to it; but it will be long before they make an effective resistance. I cannot but think that the st;liggle will be severe something terrible A X I A- 1 J- T -3 IU UUIlLtfJIipiclU; UUl X UU I1UI begin to set a date for the catastrophe, or to anticipate its horrors. The progress of the doctrine of evolution throughout the world is unquestionable, but at the same time I cannct say that I see any movement in the direction of my own views, po litically. Since I began to write there has been, as I said before, a clear reaction against individ ual liberty." t T-v i j 1 1 j 1 j "jjo you not tninK mat we may escape th.s catastrophe in America?" "No. The American imagines that he enjoys the advantages of liberty, but the fact is that there as elsewhere, in the civil ized world, the State is steadily ana rapidly absorbing the indi vidual's freedom of action. The American has the form of self sovereignty, but he does not have it in reality. It is difficult to foresee what will be the out come of American progress, but 1 do not think that your republic will escape the consequence of the general struggle The fact is, few men have any true ap preciaxion or noerty. it was in your own country1 that a gentle man said to me: 'If the major ity told me what to eat, I would obey.' Now, he thought he was a free man; he thought that he appreciated liberty. But such an attitude is an admission of dependence upon authority. Ct - - l . - 1 M oquservience to a majority .in personal concerns is as bad as subservience to a king, and there can be no worse depot than the majority. Just in the same way that men have now come to (be it one man or the majority ot men) in respect to their re Jigious beliefs; so, when they fully understand liberty, will they come to resist such dicta tion, even of the million as of the one, in matters of private concern." . "On the question of reform What is your idea of the greatest reform we stand in need of to day, political, educational, or what?" iifrv. i a. c t . jlik great reiorcn neeaea is to insist everywhere and always that each man shall take fcha consequences of his own nature; shall have without deduction all the benefits of his own .nature and actions, and take all the evils of his own nature and ac tions, and shall neither saddle these evils on other people, nor ue ueirauaea oy otner people j of tbe benefits. This is the law which should be insisted on, not only in the conduct of individ uals to one another, but also in the conduct of the State to indi viduals. One of the noncom- mitt.ant.R rf t.Vm HisrPcrnyH rf tli fundamental principle is seen in your admiration for 'smart' men. A smart mam is, by the very conception of him, a man who does not regard conscientiously the claims of others who en . deavors to obtain from them some of the legitimate results of their activities which should re main with them, and which in an indirect way he filches from them. In fact, in a society in which there was a complete . recognition and enforcement of . me pnucipie speumeu, mere would be no place for 'smart' ' nien." . ' . :iV : "Are not what are called the .'''poor.'; classes' b'etter. educated and better clothed , to-day : than they were before?' "They may be .better educated in a sense know more of gram mar, nistory, geography, etc.. but they are not educated in the . least of all matters that concern society." . . . ,, "It has been said that this is partly due to the fact that the preacher and the church have not done their duty." v"Well, the church insists upon all forms expressive of religious subordination, and disregards the' essential principles which the creed enunciates. At the same time that they are having here weeks;of prayer and early services and readingtheir .Bibles before breakfast, they are coun tenancing, and participating m, filibustering expeditions all over the world and appropriating the lands of other people. That is to say they are disregarding the essential principles of their religion, while they profess anxiety to propagate them. - " What man, the preacher, tne author or editor, is going to help our people most?" "Teaching does little, lhe di sciplihe of life does everything. There is nothing to do but to in sist upon the carrying on ot lite in a thoroughly honest, consci entious way, and reprobating everything that does not conform to a high standard of conduct. But I do not see much hope for a change in this direction while your material development is going on at so7 great a rate. In a society like yours jambition inevitably takes the direction of acquiring wealth, and the struggle for this brings inevita ble evils. So long as you have the American continent to sub due and people, I do not suppose you will change much in your ethical standards.". The Oeala Demands. A number of our readers have requested that we publish the Ocaia (Alliance) demands in full. Here they are: la. We demand the abolition of national banks- ! b. We demand that the gov ernment shall establish sub treasuries or depositories in the several States, which shall loan money direct to the people at a low rate of interest, not to ex ceed two per cent, per annum, on non-perishable !; farm pro ducts, and also upon real estate, with proper limitations upon the quantity of land and amount of money. c. We demand that the amount of the circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than $50 per capita, r 2. That we demand that con gress shall pass such laws as will effectually prevent the deal ing in futures of all agricultural and mechanical productions; providing a stringent system of procedure in trials that will se cure the prompt conviction, and imposing such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compli ance with the law. 3. We condemn the silver bill recently passed by congress, and demand inlieu thereof the free and unlimited coinage of silver. ! 4. We demand the. passage of laws prohibiting alien owner ship of land; and that congress take prompt ' action to devise some plan to , obtain all lands now owned by aliens and for eign syndicates; and that all lands now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of such as is actually I used and needed by them be reclaimed v,y the government, and held for actual settlers 'only -I 5. Believin g in the doctrine of equal rights to- all and special privileges to none, we demand a. That our .national legisla tion shall be so framed in the future as not to build up one in dustry at the: expense of an other. j S i b. We further demand a re moval of the! f existing heavy tariff tax from; the necessities of life, that the poor of; our land must have. M I c. We further demand a just and equitable fey stem ! of gradu ated tax on incomes. d. We believe: that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in; the hands of the people, arid hence we de mand that all national and State revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the gov ernment economically and hon estly administered. 6. We demand the most rigid, honest and gust state and na tional governmental control and supervision of the nofeans of pub lic communication and trans portation, and: if this control arid supervision does not remove ?he abuse how pasting, we de mand the government owner ship of such means of communi cation and transportation. 7. We demand that the con gress of "the United States sub mit an amendment to the con stitution providing for tne elec tion of tFriited l States Senators by direct vote o; the people of each State. n !.. New rector--"! find the work in this parish livery interesting indeed." .- ) : j Miss A. "I should think you might; there are ten unmarried girls to every man in the con gregation." rLife. SINGING SHAD. Queer Fish that are Said to Serenade Residents of Cape May. - LBa.timore American - The singing shad has been seen and heard in Lower. Dela ware bay this spring. It hasn't been seen in large quantities, of course, for the appearance of this odd fish in these waters is a rare occurrence- But few of the singing shad have enchant ed the fishermen since the sea son began. They come from the South, and only when the wind has died down and the water is quiet can chey be heard. They come in schools, emitting musical notes as they swim along. - The sounds they make are soft and something like those of an aeoiian harp. It is hard to express o rather imi tate, on paper, the melody they sing. It runs something like this: "Wee ho, he hi do de; weeho, die di dum." This sound cannot be made with any effect, except when the shad travel in schools. The sinerintr of a single shad. is too feeble to be heard above the ripple of the water. This year lias been the first, probably for a decade, that the singing shad has favored the fishermen of Delaware Bay. Capt. Arnold, one of rthe oldest and most truthful of South Jersey fisher men, said the other day that he had heard the singing shad a number of times in his piscato rial career. "They are rare, of course, so' far north as this. Even -when they do come only old fishers are apt to hear and distinguish them. We know about them and are more or less on the lookout for their occa sioaal arrival. They really be long off the coast of Bolivia and CHili. There thty are quite common. All sorts of fairv tales are related about them by South American fishermen. The sing ing shad also breeds in Japanese waters The fishermen of Japan are delighted when they strike a school of singing shad. They follow them up reverently, be cause they believe the fish are inspired. They throw them food and never catch or eat them." The singing shad is different from the common-back or roe shad. It is not so large ;md there is a slight difference in the formation of the mouth. Only an expert fisherman can tell when he has caught one of the finny songsters. Old fishermen regard the musical shad as prizes and do not send .them to market unless they are paid a very high price for them. It is estimated that they travel in schools of about 500. Their sing ing is pleasant at - rst, but soon grows monotonous, owing to the fact that it is a constant repetition of the same few sounds. Whether many of these peculiar fish ever go up the Del aware or move on to New York and mingle with the plain every day Hudson river shad is not known. They lose their identi ty when they get in with other fish and it is doubtful if they ever sing alone. The New Discovery. You . have heard your friends and neighbors talking about it. You may yourself be one of the many who knoV from personal experience just how irood a thing it ii. If you have ever tr:c-d :t. you are one of its staunch friends, be cause the wonderful thins about it is, that whenoice given a trifl, Dr. Ki: g's New Discovery ever after holds a place m tne nouse. it you ftavo never used it and should be afflicted with a cough, cold or any throat, lung or chest trouble, secure a bottle at once and give it a fair trial. It is guaranteed everj' time, or money refunded. Trial bottles free at T. C. ,Smith fc Co.'s dru? store. TO! r lower F'or Dyspepsia. A. Bellanger, Propr., Stove Foun dry, Montagny, Quebec, writes "I have used August Flower for Dys pepsia. It gave me great relief. -I recommend it to all Dyspeptics as a very good remedy." Ed; Bergeron, General Dealer, Lauzon, Levis, Quebec, writes: "I have used August Flower .with the best possible results for Dyspepsia." . C. A. Barrington, Engineer and General Smith, Sydney, Australia, writes: 4 'August Flower has effected a complete cure in my case. It act ed like a miracle.',' j ; r- i. : ,Geo. Gates, Gorinth, Miss. .writes: I consider your August Flower the best remedy in the world for Dys pepsia. I was - almost dead with ithat disease, but used several bottles of August Flower, and now con sider myself a well man. I sincerely recommend this medicine to suffer ing humanity the world over." D G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer, j Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. 4. August . : ' - - t M North Carolina licence Companfl ? feiir : .... T-m I THE 'HORSE HIGH, PIG TIGHT, BULL STRONG." The above cut represents the ne-w combined Hedge and wire rence now bein introdwii indistructable. 2nd. It sves thorough protection against all stopk'both large and smart is hierhlv ornamental. 4th. It is the cheapest fence in existence. ' t4 hierhlv ornamental. 4th. It is In tht- States of Ker.tuckv, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Michigan, ioi-r orir r nora n r nvor :ti i i w 11 m line in m cemeterys, parks. &c. it is being generally a loptd. " References in all the States referred to given upon application. Correspondence solicitd. all questions cheerful! v answered bv Mr. Sam Johnson, manager, at his ofTi.-e Street .1 Buildi "g, Asheviile, X. C. I- - i i ' I have per: onai.y exam'r.ed this fence in the State of Pennsylvania, where thousands of miles are in esc td can endorse all that is claimed for it. -! J. G. MAJtTlX, AsLeviHc, X. C ' i Wilmington, X. C, June 12:h, ism This is to certify thrt have viited,Ohio, Pennsylvania, and other Stafs, and have examinetl manv nillti Hedge fence imilt mder the system of the above company, and after thorough investigation, made by request it behalf of farmers and others of our section, we frankly and conscientiously state that it is the mo-t peifwtfArt we have ever seen It is in all respects y .vactly true to representations, proof against stock, dors ani xaen ai universally popular, as we learned frorii those to whom we talked; and we saw hundreds of miles of it. We ex amined them in all tyls and conditions, from the last spring plantine to those completed twelve or focna years ac, and found "every detail just as described. D. S. COWAN, of Columbus county, N. ('. Over twenty-five miles of be seen ro be appreciated as the Be3t and Cheapest Fence pany's office in the Street Railway Building, South Main St., properiv accreaueu agents. aul3 V P. a Am 5 !.. w mjU"M WH tmaam Opposite the Reliable Firm of Bearden, Rankin & Co Tie: is TIMES-DEMOCRAT 60 Camp Street, NEW OBT ,F! ATTB, T.A . DAILY: Pages, $12 Per Year. SUNDAY: 16 to 20 Pages $2 Per Year. WEEKLY: 12 Pages, $1 Per Year. THE LEADING SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC HEVSPAPER1 THE SUHDAY TIMES-DEMOCRAT le a 18 to 20-page paper containing: the news of the world, covering: every toplo ol current Interest and sparkling:, with literary gems. 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