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'Pbve all things; hold fast that which is good."
Vol. 6.
PUIMIM, IM- C, AUGUST J13, 1897.
No. 32.
Mother And Daughter Killed by
a Train-
c;1(.( kin; Fatality at a Tres
Ti.i;, Xkar Red Springs.
Tin' nvs of a sad and deplor-
-ililr affair was sent out from
:-( I Springs Wednesday even
ing. special to the Charlotte
()j',,.n-'r says : i
Ml
springs, - Aug. 11. A
mn-! li -dressing accident oc-
- i
j j -
tlli n l here this afternoon about
i (, c !" k' as the at ternoon train
fji-uni Fayette ville to Maxton was
.niri ng the town. Mrs . , Tolar,
of U nncrr, lier three daughters
iihI were crossing a trestle.
Tin- train slowed up, but com
ing (.,wm-grade, it was impos
'hI'.U: t .-top before it reached
th in- Tlio young'. ladies, the
l,o - and ne little girl, with her
ii.tlp ; got off the trestle, but
tip-.-mallest girl,- about 12, got
), ! t'. ct liung as she was about
to -u p off. . The mother Stopped
to g.-t ilie child and continued
k r t Hol ts until the train struck
i 1 II....... ! il. . . " . ,
hi k.nockeu ner on me trestle
aUut lo : yards and .killed her
almost instantly. The little girl
wa.- ground to powder on the
ti(-tl;. her. feet and hands and
parts of her body being strewn
vnine distance'along the track,
ami perhaps half the body. drop
ped through the cross-ties into
the stream below. .
Many persons from the town
witnessed the' sad scene,.- and
the cries of the young lady and
.the younger children were horrifying..-
Persons who had trav
eled the whole country over,
sail I it was the saddest ight
they had over witnessed. , The
hudand was sent for up-town,
and his grief was nothing short
oi 'agitiy when lie reached the
sp.it aiijl yiewed the lifeless form
of his -wife and the mangled
hody ofdiis child.
A Primer Lssson.
l)o you see that?
See what?
The man.
Is that a man?
That is what he calls himself.
What is he doing?
Waiting for prosperity.
Why don't he wear better
clothes? '
He is out of work and has no
money to buy them. ' ' '
Why don't he get him a job?
."There ain't any jobs to get.
Will prosperity bring him a
joh? .
Yes when it comes.'
.Why 'does he think prosperity
;ill come?
. The .politicians told him it
would i;f ho would vote for Mc
Kinl y . 1 "
Are the politicians trying to
restore prosperity? ' ; '
es .
How? :"
Iy increasing' the taxes and
raiing thy -price of what people
liave to buy.
Will that bring prosperity?
Not if the court knows itself.
Hoes the man know it?
He will.
When?
When' he gets hungry.
Thai will he do then?
Swar.
ll tl fa t do a 113' S9 ?
X-a-w. .
What ought he do?
a bale of hay for being
a't diss or hire somebody's bull
Hr to. bite him half to death,
a"d after that vote a ticket
Ayldcl.r the millionaires, corpora
titmists," lobbyists, trusts and
indicates don't vote.
.Would that help him?
If every man who needed a
i"1! would not! be any worse off
iind would have the s itisfa "tion
of voting for' what ,'he wanted
;'nd noedod instead , of voting to
n'.bbed. -'Morgan's. Buzz
saw. '
A rich rind of gold has just
bt'Cll stnieL' hv cnnifi minors Oil
Coffee Creek in California, who
u"k ()ut ()S. 000 worth of the
yolloNv metal in four days. . A
hunp worth $12,000 was found.
Tie fia-
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-WOMAN'S COLUMN.
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Items op Interest to the La
dies, furnished by OUR
Correspondent.
Tfl MANNERLESS SEX.
Perhaps it were best to say
at uuce mat woman is referred
to ;under this title, that the
reader may not remain one mo
iu"" uuuui which sex is
meant. The phrase ' 'the gen:
tier sex," is, I consider, a most
misleading one as appliell to
women, and I have been led
to assume as a result of my per
sonal observations that the title
given to this paper is, on the
whole, the most purely descrip
tive of woman. I am very well
aware that to declare an absence
of good manners in woman is to
run decidedly counter to re
ceived opinion oir the subject ;
but I maintain that this same
''received opinion" is founded
on a basis that is very largely
imaginary . The world, has
been told for so long a time that
it is,-woman wrho supplies the
restraining, softening, and re
fining influences at work in hu
man society, that it has in great
measure come to believe the as
sertion most .implicitly, even in
the face of a strong current of
testimony setting quite the oth
er way. Men believe it, or af
fect to believe it, for considera
tions of gallantry. Women be
lieve it without question. It is
my purpose here to assert that,
however great an influence may
be exerted in behalf of the con
servation of manners by excep
tional women, the statement
that woman in general is the
refiner of manners is, in any
la ge sense, an utterly false one.
Furthermore, I have no hesita
tion in declaring that the code
of manners followed in public
by the average woman is dis
gracefully inconsiderate, super
latively selfish, and exasperat
ingly insolent ; such a code, in
fact, as would not remain in
force among men in their inter
course with one another for one
half-hour. Regarding the rude
ness of women in their inter
course with tlie world at large,
I shall refer, an passing, to a
few forms; of it which have
doubtless forced, themselves
upon the attention of very many
persons who can readily furnish
illustrations drawn from their
own experience. First : the in
difference with which a woman
will contemplate the fact that
the convenience of others has
been sacrificed to her caprice.
Very observable in young wo
men. Second: the needless de
lay a woman often causes in
making her appearance when
visitors have called upon her.
Slbst commonly noticed among
women who are no longer class
ed as girls. Third : the un
willingness of a woman to wait
for another to finish speaking
before beginning to speak her-
elf; Characteristic of nearly
' - -m
all women, fourth: woman s
failure to recognize the impor
tance of an engagement. Most
noticeable among women who
have the fewest social duties.
The rudeness of women to men
is, for reasons which will be, suf
ficiently obvious to the discern
ing reader, less common than
that of women to each other,
but it is too frequent to be suf
fered to pass without comment
in this place. Tlie behavior ot
women in the horse-cars has re
ceived in certain particulars
rather more attention than I
think it has deserved. The
charge has often been brought
against women that they have
accepted seats in the cars with-,
out acknowledging the courtesy
of the men who rose up to ac
commodate them; but, so far
as my observation goes, the
charge is not wholly borne out
by tlie facts, although the man
who has given up his seat usu
ally fails to hear the acknowl
edgment in his haste to escape
to the caKplatform.
We willftippose ourselves in
a railwaystation in which a
number "of inen are in line be
fore the ticket window. A wo
man enters and, instead of tak
ing her place at the foot of the
and informs the agent that she
wants a ticket to Evercrech
Junction by way of East Cato.
Sometimes she adds that she is
in a great - hurry She either
cannot or will not understand
why she is sent to the foot of
the line, and when she .arrives
before the ticket windowr again,
she becomes voluble oyer her
grievance, and, after securing
her ticket, remains to ask a'
number of questions, the answer
to any one of which she might
learn from the railway time
table she holds in her hand, or
from the porter at train doors.
That anyone is waiting behind
her whose time is presumably
as precious as.her own is noth
ing to her, and if asked by the
agent to make room for the next
person, sne is overwhelmed, py
his "impertinence." At the
post-office or any other place
Avh ere the invariable rule is
wo
this man endeavors to reverse
rule in her own favor, and, fail
ing to secure this reversion at
times, she sets down the fact to
man's lack of erallantrv.
To put it briefly, a very great
number of women' in their rela
tions with men presume unon
the privileges of their sex, the
degree of presumption depend
ing very often upon the rank of
he persons with whom they
ire brought into contact. Per
laps the most common exam
ple of the ill manners 'shown by
women to each other is the hab-
it, in which they seem to take
much delight, of saying spiteful
lttle, things to one another.
But it is when fair woman
goes a-shopping that she be
comes least admirable. Then."
ler hand is raised against every
i 1.1
woman who crosses her path.
From the moment she pushes
open the swinging doors of the
first retail shop she enters, and
ets them.flyT back into the face
of the Woman behind her, till
she;.,, reaches her home again,
he has laid herself open . at
every turn to the charge of bad
manners. ; She has in her prog
ress niade tired clerks spend
lours in taking down goods sim-
)lv for her amusement, when
she has not the smallest inten
tion of purchasing from them.
She has made audible comments
upon 'f the stupidity and slow
ness of these shop girls." She
las swept off from loaded shop
counters with her draperies
more than one easily-damaged
article! which she has scorned
to pick up and replace. She
las jostled against other women
md met their indignant looks
with al stony, not to say in so-
ent, stare. She has needlessly
blocked the way when others
wished fto pass her.
She has, in short, done very
ittle tliat she should have done,
and very, very much that she
ought not to have done; yet
she returns from it all with a
serener conscience than a med
iaeval saint coming home to the
convent after a day particularly
well filled with meritorious
deeds. She will tell you com
placently that a man caii never
earn to shop like "a woman.
And man can never be too thank
ful for his inability in this par
ticular direction. It is need
less labor to recount in detail,
instances of woman's rudeness
to her fellow-woman. They
can be supplied from the read
er's Own experience in numbers
great, enough to justify the truth
of the assertions made in this
paper, and I have no desire to
dwell at length on the subject.
I do not mean to declare in broad
terms that man is mannerly
while woman is not, for I ob
serve with regret in many of
my own sex an indifference to
the rudimentary courtesies
which is fatal to their reputa-.
tion for good manners, and I
recognize in many women a
watchfulness for the rights of
others, a gentleness in the as
sertion of their own, that de
serve a respect little short of
veneration. What I do: insist
upon, however, is this : that in
I public the average woman shows
jan inconsiderateness, a disre
gard for the ordinary courtesies
of existence (which amounts
sometimes to positive insolence) ,
to a degree which is not any
where nearly approached" by the
average man. The reason for
this differenced n the behavior
of men and women I do not pro-
pose here to discuss. I will not
say, for instance, that man is
altruistic, and that woman is
selfish, because I do not believe
in any such putting of the case.
But I leave for others the task
of pointing out the causes of,
this difference between men and
women, and indicating, if they
will, the remedy for the present
state of affairs j and content my
self in this article with a ! brief
presentation of the subject, in
the hope that its healthy discus
sion may induce a reform in the
public, manners of our sister
woman. O. F. Adams in North
American Review.
First slaves Were White-
Down on the Hillsborough
river, in Volusia county, Fla.,
there are the ruins of one of the
oldest settlements in this coun
try, and its history forms one
of the most tragic episodes ever
recorded of any place in the
T T i 1 , i m i i
unitea orates, ine place is
called New Smyrna, but there
is noticing new or attractive
about it except the orange trees,
the palmettoes and green vines
which- nature distributes lavish
ly around. There is one 'class
of people in the South who can
never be induced to visit New
Smyrna, and the very sound of
the name makes them shrink
and turn their heads aside in
shame or anger.
In the streets, of St. Augus
tine to-day one ( occasionally
catches a glimpse of a type
American beau t y , t h a t
fairly takes the breath away,
and again he sees" traces of that
type in so many other places
that he unhesitatingly attrib
utes them all to the same source.
There are only a few pure
blooded Minorcan women left
in this country, but the blood of
these ancient slaves has mingled
with that of our noble Southern
families and perpetuated in a
decree of beauty that is now
rarely seen. What the Creoll
blood has done for so many
women of New Orleans the Mi
norcan blood has accomplished
for the inhabitants of Florida.
The wondrous eyes, the regular,
classic features and the beauti
ful hair are all worthy of the
Greek slave their real ances
tral prototype.
The story of the Florida Mi
norcans is interesting, dramatic,
tragic. They were the", first
slaves brought to this codntry
and white slaves at that!
They suffered the horrors of a
slavery which" was unregulated
by law, and which would have
made the scenes of "Uncle
Tom's Cabin" commonplace.
The existence of this white slave
colony in the 1 South was only
nine years but in that length of
time enough sorrow and misery
were compressed to have filled
half a century. Ex.
Bridgets Strike in Yukon Valley"
P. B." Weare, of the North
American Transportation Com
pany, ; told a Chicago Record
man that a year ago he and
Mrs: Weare rejoiced in the pos
session of a cook whose name
was Bridget. One day Bridget
announced her intention of go
ing to Alaska. Mr. Weare re
monstrated. ' 4 You can't mine;"
he said. ."That's true," an
swered the woman, "but there's
them that can."
One day last week a woman
of stylish appearance a n d
haughty demeanor swished her
silken skirts past the admiring
office boy in Mr. Weare's office
and extended a primrose -gloved
hand to the stout man who sat
at the desk. Looking up he
recognized his old cook. She
told him that before she had
got fifty miles up the ukonihe
had received 125 proposals of
marriage, and that she had held
off until an engaging compatri
ot with a Kerry, brogue' and a
mine 'that nanned out at the
rate of $50,000 a month swore ; fed the people on broken prom
that he could not live without !ises while they carried out the
her "I am now in ray way to ! policy of the Republican party.
F.nrnne " said Bridget, "and I
thought I'd like to see you as I
went through. You mind what j
I told you when I left?"
It ea
Summer Without llie Itose.
Has summer come without the roe,
; Or l.-ft tlie bin! behind ?
Ik the blue changed above Oiee,
O world ! oram 1 blind?
Will you change every flower that grows.
Or change this ?pot,
Where she who said, 1 lovMiee,
Now says, I love thee nof ?
The skies seem true :il ove thee.
The rose true on the tree;
The buds seem true tlie summer
through.
But. all proved false to me.
World, is there one good thing in you.
Life, love, or death or what ?
Since lip that sang, f love thee,
Dave said, I love thee not ?
I think the sun's kill will scarce fall
Into one flower's gold cup;
I think the bird will miss me,
And crive tlie summer hp.
O sweet place ! desolate and tall
Wild grass, have you forgot
How her lips loved to kiss me.
Now that they kiss me not ?
Be false or fair above nie, .
Come back with any face,
summer! do I wire what you do ?
You cannot change one place
J'he gras, the leaves, the earth, the dew.
The graye I make the spot-
Here, where she used to love me,
Here, where she loves ine not.
') Arthur O'Shaughnessy.
THE POPULIST ADDRESS.
IE
Great Things They Have
i Done.
The State executive commit
tee of the Populist party met in
Raleigh last week to map out a
)lan of campaign to pursue and
to announce what great things
it had accomplished. The com
mittee appointed a committee
d draft an address to the
people and that committee
after laboring for sometime de-
ivered itself with the follow-
ing :
! "Your committee into whose
lands the direction of the Peo
ple's party- has' i been placed,
now that the storm and strife of
the political' battles o last fall
are past and the result is seen,
desire to congratulate the party
on its wonderful suqeess at the
polls, and its marvelous achieve-
hients tor good in tne legisia-
.-.-. i j- .1.
live, executive anu juuiciai ue-
mrtments of ountv and State.
"We havesecured to the citi-
t to cast one vote at
all public elections and to. have
that vote counted as cast.
1 1
We have taken the public
schools out of the hands of par
tisan politicians and restored
them to the people.
! "We have given the right of
ocal self-government to each
county in the State.
j "We have redeemed the:
State's educational, charitable
and penal institutions from the
thraldom of political bias.
"We have removed the judi
ciary of the State to a safe dis
tance from the arena of parti
san politics.
1 "We have lifted the State
government out of the old ruts
of Bourbornism and placed it in
the hands ofthe people.
"By our endeavor these fun
damental principles and prima
ry rights of American citizen
ship have been re-established in
bur State, with many others of
kindred nature which flow
therefrom.
"But your committee would
be derelict in its duty if it did
not warn you: that if these
lplessings are to be preserved, to
us and transmitted to posterity,
it must be done by and through
ijhe organization of the People's
party., .
! "The policy of the general
government established alike by
both the old narties. has built
up monopolies, and these, mo
nopolies have in turn prayed
nnon the material interests of
the country until there is great
destitution, oppression
want in this land of plenty
and
j "And the cry of distress.has
reached the ear and heart of the
Vmerican people.
"In 1892. a lonir-suffering
people rejected at the ballot box
the 'Ptepublican party which had
inaugurated a revenue and h
hancial system fostering trust,
Irind combines. But the Dem
ocratic party being in power
"Aiui now mui me iwcpuun
can party is again
in control of
of National affairs, there is but
little grounds to hope for better
times.
"It is growing more apparent
each year, that if relief is ever
given by national legislation, it
Tetter. Salt -Rheum and Eczema.
The intense itchiner and smarting, inci
dent to these diseases, is instantly allayed
by applying Chamberlain s Eye and
Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases
have been permanently cured by it. It
is equally efficient for itching piles and
a favorite remedy for sore nipples,
Chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
and chronic sore eyes. 25 cts. per box
Dr. CadyV Condition Towders, are
just wnat a horse needs when In bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and
vermifuge. They are. not food but
medicine and the be6t in use to put a
horse in prime condition. . Price 23
cents per package.-
For sale by N. B. Hood, Drug
gist, Dunn, N. C.
must come through the People's
party.
"In view of these facts and
the logical conclusions to " be
drawn therefrom, the duty of
the hour is clearly seen.
"The battles which .we have
so gallantly fought for the last
few years must be continued
until all organized opposition to
good government shall have
been overthrown.
"To accomplish this
much
be the
action
desired end, there must
utmost harmony, united
and persistent effort.
"Those who are not for us,
are against us : and . all these
who stand upon the People's
party platform are Populists.
"No petty differences on local
policy or personal pique, should
be allowed to mar the harmony
in our ranks.
"The People's party is a
young giant scarcely five years
old.
"Its achievements in this
State in restoring " the rights of
the people are equal to those of
the Barons of England at Run-
nymedeKin extorting from King
John the Magna Charta.
"That we should have mado
mistakes is but human. No
conquering army ever came out
of battle without something to
regret, and no victory was ever
won without' incurring unjust
criticism from the vanquished.
With this showing of the work
done and of the work yet to be
done, and our willingness and
ability to do it, and in conse
quence of the fact that the prin
ciples and measures embodied
in tlje People s party platform,
State and National, and finding
lodgment in the minds of the
great mass of people, we ear
nestly believe that if every true'
Populist in the State will ac
tively push the work of organi-
zatioiif our party will attract to
its ranks thousands of others
who are disgusted and dissatis
fied with the conduct of the two
old parties. We believe the
sentiment of the people of ,the
State to be in favor of a reduc
tion of freights and passenger
rates to a low figure, correspond
ing with prices prevailing tin-,
.der the single gold standard,
which was foisted upon the peo
ple of the country by means of
fraud and bribery.
"We re-affirm the condemna-
tion of the ' yy-ycar lease . oi
the North Carolina Railroad,
and we shall use our best efforts
to have said lease annulled, un
til its validity shall have been
passed upon by our btate
courts. r
"For a more effective and
equitable control and reduction
of the encroachments of rail
road corprations, we suggest
that the Railroad Commission
crs should be elected by a di
rect vote of the people.
"In National matters, we
shall continue to labor zealously
for the complete remonetization
of silver at the legal ratio of 1G
to 1, for the destruction of mon
ster trusts that are to-day sap
ping and undermining the life
of the Republic ; tor govern
ment ownership of the railroads
under a rigid Civil Service law,
to the end that the people's
rights and liberties shall not be
trampled upon, as tinder pres
ent management, by said corpo
rations ; for the abolition of
National banks and the issu
ance of all money by the Na
tional government.
"To make goodthe for going
declarations of principles, we
sliall in the next campaign, use
every lawful means to aid us in
accomplishing these reforms,
and to that end we invite the
co-operation of men of all par
ties, that we may be successful,
in the prosecution of this work.
Tlpt The
Bane
' WCfffl Beauty,
Beauty's bane
the fading or fallii
the hair. Luxuriant
tresses are- far more to the
matron than to the maid whose casket
of charms is yet unrifled by time
Beautiful women will be glad to be
reminded that falling or fading hair
is unknown to those who use
Ayer's Hair Vigor.
I?STP(lnn Anllqiif tie!
The tomb of Egypt's first
King, Mena, who reigned somo.
5,000 B. C, is supposed to have
been found by M.( Jacques do'.
Morgan, the director-general of
antiquities for the Egyptian
government, in the Nile Valley.
between Thebes and Abvdo's.
The tomb had never, it seems.
been entered before. It had
over a score of rooms and in
each roomwas a sarcophagus
containing the intimmv of some
royal personage, with statutes,
vases, implements and inscrip
tions in great number. In the
central room was a sarcophagus, .
witn surroundings on exception
al scale of grandeur, supposed
to be that of Mena, himself, or
of some other King of a verv
remote period. The period is
indicated by the" extremely ar
chaic character of the inscrin-
tions and of the articles found
in the various rooms. In sev
eral particulars the tomb itself
differs in its mode of construc
tion from those of later date.
Among the proofs of its early
character is the finding of nu-
merous flint. .implements, winch
indicate an undeveloped state
of the art of working in flint.
A wooden statue, however, and
various alabaster vessels found
with it suggest a knowledge of
copper or iron tools. It is diffi
cult to conceive that a. tomb
wjth granite, floor and sides,
sarcophagi, vases, inscriptions,
etc., could nave been construct
ed by a people not advanced be
yond the use of stom imple
ments. The stone knives are
to bo. accounted for, perhaps, by
the fact that, having been first
used in religious ceremonies,
they were accounted jnore sa
cred than metallic implements,
and were on this account 'cm-
ployed in funeral rites.
Another "find," by Mr. Flin
ders Petrie, of souk? four thou
sands of papyri in the sands of.
Western Egypt attracts new at
tention to the 'possibilities of
that region. The documents,
which range from the first to
the sixth century, seem to be a
library which some, barbarian
threw away as useless. Ex.
Mr A. C. Wolfe, of Dundee, Mo ,
who travels for Mao.ar k Tibbetta,
Implement Co., of St. Louis, gives
traveling men and travelers in gener
al, sme good advica. ''being a
Knigbtofthe Grip," be savs, "I
have for the past three ears, made it
a rale to keep myself supplied with
Chamberlain's Coli", Cholera aud Di
arrhoea Kennedy,-and have found nu
merous occasion to test its merits, not
oniy on mvself, but on others as well.
I can truly say that I never, in a sin
gle instance, have known it to fail.
I consider it one of the bent remedies
travelers can carry and could relate
many instances where I have used the
remedy on bkeptica, much to their
surprise. and relief, I hope every
traveling man in thf U. S. will carry
a bottle of this retut-dv in his grip."
For sale by N. I. Hood, Druggist.
D.unn, N. 0.
The fighting Bells."
One of the family of the
"fighting Bells" of Augusta
County, Va., has died 'at the
homestead at Ing Glade, at
the age of 80. He was Alexan
der R. Bell, one of five brothers
who together had nineteen sons
that fought in Captain Cusli
ing's company of the Fifth Vir
ginia Regiment, Stonewall Brig
ade, and were nearly all killed
in battle or died of wonnds. A.
R. Bell had been for nearly six
ty years an elder in the Presby
terian Church. Philadelphia
Record.
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j line, goes to the front at once