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. ' I OOOOOOOOODOOD3DCOOOO Th tnoft I TIItFLKS "OHKEK iu -i;iz-tlith Ciiy i tlir It p- into the liiiin- tf t It people. truteW friend. O ioooaaaoosooooooooooo ELIZABETH CITY, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1B97. NO 40. VOL. XXV. O " IB r UJ (1 J 8 by uting the columns of the g r ii X-Sl' iJk s' jr V 1 ,v g in rastern vroiina. . .j w M . ! 1 ; . O0000O0O0O00O6CX)000O000O000O0O : N U N t ( f 8 1 f I i 4 f I it J t: 1 K ; . ... .i- ':' , . 1 r : . .-. . :" : 1 - Mw.,- ." -r m. "our jh!! mrr the lt ia tlte woill I fce4 lu ! naoy 1 with thtm." N' I kae k- trouble cf tV.il kin ! nr nore aa 1 I attribote ray ret 07 t- the Be cf your raln ' !e or !i r.c. In the ;rij;tiiae pi the ir I al4j't tale j&-jr 0 0 0 "fcarisirxJ Tho pistol" ought to tint turned out pills liho f O o o 0 0 1 v . Tin t nl.-I will ! f'unl . l ice. A-J Jrc J. C. PLfSLISHD WEEKLY -liYTHK- bulK'tJir.t tho target cf tho liver. , Bat the pestle is :;!! inl'cvi'icrw, and vrill be, probably, until every boJ "h?3 tc-3ti-.l tho virtuo of I f.ilH! IHU8EIII IWejssbsiKR ! . . . 1 I I. LAMIlj Mt.na.jcr. 1:,, c n:i:Kt;v.. ........ wr. Subscription 0n2 Year, S1.00 1 It. Cirrit.i. tl;rcttt-ht I F.li2nlth tl'ty, N. J-U)n4. J. K. Wooti, W. W. Grictr and - -" ' I Y. J. Ltimden. Meet on the Ut and .V rI.r.MlN. ' I :ird Wt dmdays of each month at the At: r3 -'tt-hi w, i fiirner if Koad ami Church Streets. 1 '(irrriKtUe.N.C.I t'hnrehth. Metlodist, Uev. J. II. Hall, . u f! i;rt4. i ljutnr? services everv Sunday at 11 a. MIL NT ...; ;:NNKK - ,..,. , jM,ir J : . i . ...... v . 1 tlr I- x "A . 1 MASK VAl'ti '! AN. ,;,., -,,. -v r 1. 1 1 tit i.ki.I Ul DI N. V VNN Pl.TI'MN, KdntD, N. C. rn-tlt it;.l T m t.. rt -t P i .funk. p. ruuinwn W .siin;t'n 1 1 lit rlt r.I. Mt! 1 In upivme M 'e W i: ;o;;imN. t : r? 1 t't'.'.'ttt. u. k.t. ii , N.c. I F. .U rd C. urt-. f i 1 1 1 i C . 'i. I I'rt 1 M .... .1: :r- V 'II .-I . : ... f . ... 1.; ..-ih City, N. C. ( :it" 11 tj. H. CoS'tvlioti' a '!,ll(iMA I. UINNKK . 2. .1.. r "J r . 't ,krllor f- - i ir u Ilir i.I S . ! j " " !.:lit. t dv, X. C. ! .1 O-Vt hU pro! I - Kramer, iiiairman; r. ji. vftHurrj, ... r't .rvn's t.f.l. W. Williams. Sheriff. T. P. Wilcox, tt p il.li i'i n l U. J Superior Court Clerk, John P. Over li.r .mh'- fl:Nil-tH'.i; Uecfster of Deeds, M H. .CuIH-n- tuy Can W louud At nil tun-. t tr.-eU !-fe.-n Pdad.'Me au 1 WaUr. W. til!i liop.V. P. i. I.: il ih City, N c imT.t- hi trnff5- k . to f th tnl lic ( iu nil the lranchcH t f V HtlNTIMHV. Y l Cronti anil uraie w v. -L - work a s-inlty. . J !;:-. toiiJntid 1 t.Hi. or any .i,i.nM - ti il . rc:tt.. retpnre. : I j.,r.i r. ;Jdiit,Con.er Main t . i nr. ! . r -. -DAYIO COX, Jr., JJE., AU iirnicT AN1 KNitlNEEB, IIF.ltTI;MlI,N:C I. k.; I iryin4 ftHxlalty. .'Plans tm''th"i itI i.it Bay View House, i;iii::sto. s. c. Nc, . Clc aity. . Attet tivc . Servant. Ni ir tl.e Court Utuc. Ooiiinibia Hotel, Coi,i tw..TvHUELL Co. I F. II F ; 1 1 F.S, - - Proprietor. f-2rt;.4 Servant,. c I nwim. cod Ar.i" s.!-il';.'a nn.l Mt h" 'in 1 l.v and Tironii? r j. i-: tiu p-.i?-ic. stcicu tui: tu n cait. v.i.k;k iiorntL Smiiiioii's Hotel, Co.wneK CJ. II. N.C T. rn- : 5v. p(r inc a, or $1.75 per d.ty, inclad ns l-!.az. Th- pttrouae of l public .licit. .1. SaJUf ictioa aSS-iU-d. J. X. BRABBLE. - Proprietor. Trauquil House. MAfJTEO, N. C. A. V. EVANS, - . Proprutor. IV: t'vi in cv, ry pari. ultr. Table replied with evt ry .lhcacy, fish, O.V.ir anM arne laabunJancc in casoa. " 'i2 l -B.. rr'l-tr and punctual in all thirsc' i of tl. old maxims, taught l':rjcau. The last ii not for C Ufii, but the llrst is scarce remem brd. si ir.rvi;ti!ar is the life of iiiot j. o;lf nowadays The only corrector i f tbiievil iSitnons Liver Regulator, which ktt pt th liver active 'and pre- nts th Hi of irregular lirimj : Dys- i- BilioiiMiesi. ConstitMitiou. etc. t alo cures these troubles. : : Pistols and Pestles. I Tho duelling pistol no7, J occupies its proper place, I in the I xnusoum of the collector of relics of bar- have beside it the pestle bullets, to be shot lilce Cathartic Pills. in full in Aytr' "Curebook- with a Ajrer Co.. lowctl. Mm. DIRECTORY. Charles C. Poo ernon John, Tho. A C.ii.intmlHr. Alon 15. eelV. If Krimk Hnence and Win. V. G rices CU rk has. A. Banks; Treasurer !,V'lV0rc;lVv! Cohh: nstalIe and Chie in. Brooks: Street Com f mU-ioiif Iteutx'n W. Berry; L irw ! Commix f men--Allen Kramer and Fred H. Ziegler. f Collector of Customs J as. C- UrooVs i lmtiiiiLHtfr K. F Iiinh. . tlxamiiiintr Surceons of Pensions in. and T p. in. Baptist, " Bev. Calvin lH' Blarkwfll, iaftor; services every Snndav at 11 a. in. and 7 p. in. Pres. l.vr.Tijin Iti'v. F II. Johnston. iKitor jit-rvices every Sunday at 11 a. in. and ii. in KniscolwiL uev. I- Is. W il liaius. rector; services every Sunday at U a m ana 4 p- m. li$e 3iaswiic: rureKa jjotice f Hn.thers S. W.; M. II. fcJnowden J. W. ; II. It. Bradford, Sec'ty and B. F. Sivence, I Treasurer. Sleets 1st and 3rd Tuesday I niirht. Odd Fellows: Achoree Iodce o H. (. M. i nrff. s X. (.; W. II. Ballard, V. ii ; II. (. Hill. Fin. Secretary; Maui ice We.-eott Treasurer. Mets ..rv I-'riilnv at 7:.itl tK 111. Boval Arcanum: Titwr Creek Coun cil -2yj-. II. O II 1 Recent: I. A f..r.' i Vi-i Tlt'iri-nt ' C. Guirkin. i Iritor; W. II. Ztaller, St-cretary; P. M. C.h k Jr.l Collector; W. J. Wood ley, Trf.-tMirer. Ueets every isi anu oru .Monday niht. Knichts of Honor: IL . w lute, Die . tutor; J, II hnRle, ice iiictator: i on J- aoruaii, iwiuritrr, i. . t, ntwn, . nance Herter; J. C: Benbury, Treas urer. Mwts 1st and 4th Friday in Jtirh month. . t T 11 U'.L.,i. i 1 ii.imiauiv inur v, . r(l W. B. lanj.i. Prophet ;J. P.Simpson, s.i i,..nir U. il Sanford. Sr. Sacamore; Will Amlerson, Jr. SaRamore; James Siir. .Cf It.: S. II. 3iurrel K.of W. M.-, t t very Wednesday niht. Omhty Oficert. Comtuisioners C. ik; t rear-urer, Jnn o. aiorris ooumj l.xuMiuitT, uiision i wi. .S-Wf Atlantic Collegiate Insti t . I.. Shep, Presilent Select School. I. N. Tillett, Princi- 'ill. i: KlialH'th City Public School, W. M. Hiriton, lYincipal. State Colored Normal, P. W. Moore, Prliicliml; , Iltnks. k irst national : unas. ... lroliinsou. Pnsident; Jno. G. Wood, Vico-Presldetit: Wm. T. Old. Cashier. M. II. Urinin, Teller. Directors: E. F. Lamb.D.B. Bradford. J. H.Flora.M. II. White, Jikx U. WockI J. B. Blades, C. H. Robin ion. Guirkin & Co. . Kkttrk Li'jht Co. 3. B. Blades, Presi dent. G. M. Scott, Vice President, D. It. Bradford, Sec'ty, Noah Burfoot. Treasurer, ' . Ttlrj.hone Co. D. H. Bradford, Presi dent; L. S. Blades, Vice-President; Frel. Davis, Secretary and Treasurer. Tie Improvement Co. E. F. Ajdlett, President J T. G. Skinner, Vice Presi dent; C. II. Hobinson, Secretary and Treasurer. . A". City Cotton MiUs. President, Dr. O JtcMulian, Vice President. Geo. M. Scott, Sec- and Treas., D. H. Bradford, Supt H. F.Smith. Directors: Dr. O. McMullan,G. 31. Scott, E. F. Aydlett, J. W. Sharber, Jas. R Blades, C. II. Robinson. Thos. G. Skinner, C. fc. 11. Flora, II. F. Smith and D. B. Bradford. JV.ir.iJ i?rr. W. J. Griffin, Lieu tenant commandinp; J. B. Ferebtn. Lieutt-nant Junior Grade; L. A. Win dr. Ensign. Recnlar Drill each Tues tlav uifiht. Arms: 40 JIacazine Rilles; 12 Navy ICevolvere; 12 Cutlasses; 2 12 Pound Howitzers. SmtAetn, Erpre Cvmpt wy. M . H. Snowden. Ap-iit. H.idr'mul and Stmmbthit Mail train i;,inff North, leaves 8 a. in. ami 2:4" p. in., going South, 11:40 and 5:50 p. in. - . . Steamers for Newberne leave at 6 p. in. Steamer N'ewton, leaves Eliza U th City for Cresswell on Moodays and Turtdays at 9 : SO a. m. Re turning will leave Elizabeth City follow inc day at 2. 30 m.. Steamer Har binger, will (leave Eizabeth City for Hertford Wednesdays and Saturdavs at 9, SO a. m.: Elizabeth City for Nor lolk Thurxlaya and Mondays p. m S. Why will you buy bitter nauseating tonics wien Grove' Taxlclcs!! Chill Tonic is as pleasant as Lemon Svrun, Your druggist is authorized to refund th money in every case where it falls to cure. Price 50 cents. It is a fortunate day for a man when he first discovers the value of Ayer's Sarsparilla as a blood-purifier. With this medicine, he knows he has found a remedy J upon which he may . rely, and that bis life-long malady is at last conquered. Has cured others, will cure you. THE BAG WITH HOLES DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON IMPROV IDENCE AND ALCOHOLISM. The Grtatt Enemy of tb People Who Work-Drink the AnrchUt of tho On taiico A Flea For Christian, Prudence. Christ a an Aid A(iait Temptation. Washington, May 23. This sermon cf Dr. Talmago . is an arraignment of improvidence in all classes, and of al coholism as the greatest enemy of the working pecple. . The toit Is Uaggai i," 6, "Ho that earneth wages earneth wages to pat it Into a fcag with holes." In Persia, under the reign of Darius Hy staspes, -the people did not prosper. They made money, bat did not keep it. They were lite people who have a sack in which they put money, not knowing that tho sack is torn or eaten of moths, or in someway made incapable of hold ing valuables. As fast aa the coin was put in one end of the sack it dropped out cf the other- It made no difference how much wages they got, for. they lost them. "He that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.'.' What has become of the billions and billions of dollars in this country paid to the workiDg classes? Some of these moneys have gone for house rent, or the purchase of homesteads, or ward robe, cr family expenses, or the necessi ties of life, or to provide comforts in old age. What has become of other bil lions? Wasted in foolish outlay. Wasted at tho gaming table. Wasted in intox icants. Put into a bag with 100 holes. Gather up the money that the work ing classes have spent for drink during the last 0 years, and I will build for every workingman a house and lay out for him a garden, and clothe his sons in broadcloth and his daughters in silks, and place at his front door a prancing span of sorrels or bays, and secure him a policy of lifo insurance, so that tho present homo may be well main tained after he is dead. The most per sistent, most overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is tho anarchist of tho centuries and has boycotted t and is now boycotting tho body and mind and soul of Amer ican labor. It is to it a worse foe than monopoly and worso than associated capital. A Strike Against Strong Irlnk. It annually swindles industry out of a largo percentage of its earnings. It holds out its blasting solicitations to tho mechanic or operative on his way to work, and n tho noon spell, and on his way home at eventide; on Satur day, when the wages are paid, it snatches a large part of the money that might come into tho family and sacri fices it among tho saloonkeepers. Stand tho saloons of this country sido by side, and it is carefully estimated that they would reach from New York to Chica go. "Forward, march," says the drink power, "and tako possession of the American nation. " Tho drink business is pouring its vit riolic and damnablo liquids down the throats of hundreds of thousands of la borers, and while the ordinary strikes are ruinous both to employers and em ployees I proclaim a strike universal against strong drink, which, if kept up, will be the relief cf tho working classes and tho salvation of tho nation. I will undertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in tho United States who within the next ten years, if he will refuso all iutoxicatine beverages and bo saving, may not become a cap italist on a small scale. Our country in a year spends $1,500,050,000 for drink. Of course the working classes do a great deal of this expenditure. Careful statis tics 6hov that tho wage earning classes of Great Britain expend in liquors 100,000,000, or 1500,000,000 a year. Sit down and calculate, oh, working man, how much you have expended in theso directions. Add it all up. Add up what your neighbors have expended and realizo that instead of answering tho beck of other people you might have been your own capitalist. When you deplete a workingman's physical ener gy, you deplete bis capital. Tho stim ulated workman gives out before the unstimulated "workman. My father raid: "I became a temperance man iu early life, becauso I noticed in the har vest field that though I was physically weaker than other workmen, I could hold out longer than they. They took stumulantsi I tcot none." A brick maker in England gives-his experience in regard to this matter among men in his employ. He says, after investiga tion: "The beer drinker who made tho fewest bricks made 659,000, and the ab stainer who made the fewest bricks 74C.00O. The difference in behalf of the abstainer over the indulger, 87,000." The False Strength of ZJqaor. When an army goes out to the battle, tho soldier who has water or coffee in hfs canteen marches easier and fights better than tho soldier who has whisky in his canteen. Drink helps a man to fieht when ho has only ono contestant, and that at the street corner, but when he coes forth to maintain somo great battle for God and his country, he wants no drink about him. When the Russians go to war, a corporal passes alone tho line and smells the breath of every soldier. If there bo in his breath a taint of intoxicating liquor, the man is sent back to the barracks. Why? Ho annot endure fatieue. All our young men know this. When they are prepar ing for a regatta or lor a ball ciud or for an athletic wrestling, they abstain. Onr workinc Deonle will bo wiser after awhile, and the money they fling away on hurtful ' indulgences they will put intn co-onerative association, and so be come capitalists. If tho workingman puts down his wages and men taites nis expenses and spreads them out so they will iust eaual. he is not wise, I know workingmen who are in a perfect fidget nntil thev eet rid of their last dollar. The following circumstances came under our 'observation: A young man worked hard to earn his $600 or $700 yearly. Marriage day came. The brida ' had inherited $500 from her grand father. She spent every dollar of it on the wedding dress. Then they rented two rooms in a third story. Then the young man took extra evening employ raent almost exhausted with the day's work, yet took evening employment It almost extinguished his eyesight Why did he add evening employment to the day employment? To get money. Why did he want to get money? To lay un somethinsr for a rainy day? No. To eet his life insured, so that in case of his death his wife would not be a beg gar? No. He put the extra evening .work to the day work that he might get $150 to get his wife a sealskin coat : The sister of the bride' heard of this i achievement and was not to be eclipsed. She was very poor, and she sat up work ing nearly all the night for a great while until she bought a sealskin coat I have not heard of the result on that street The street was full of those who are on small incomes, but I snppose tho con tagion spread and that everybody had a sealskin coat and that the people came out and cried, practically, not literally, "Though the heavens fall, we must have a sealskin coat " The IteckleMly Improvident. I was out west, and a minister of the cornel told me in Iowa that his church and the neighborhood had been impoverished by the fact that they put mortgages on. their farms in order to send their. families to the Philadelphia centennial. It wa9 not respectable not to go to the centennial. Between such evils and pauperism there is a very short step. The vast majority of chil dren in your almshouses are there be cause their parents are drunken, lazy or recklessly improvident I have.no sympathy for skinflint sav ing,. but I plead lor Christian pru dence. You say it is impossible now to lay up anything for a rainy day. I know it, but we are at the daybreak, of national prosperity. Some people think it is mean to turn the eas low when they go out of the parlor. They feel em barrassed if the doorbell rings before they have the hall lighted. They apolo gize for the plain meal, if you surprise them at the table. Well, it is mean if it is only to pile up a miserly hoard. But if it he to educate your children, if it be to give more help to your wife when she does not feel strong, if it . be to keep your funeral day from being horrible bevond all endurance, because it is to be the disruption and annihila tion of the domestic circle if it be for that then it is magnificent. There are those who are kept in pov erty becauso of their own fault They might havo been well off, but they smoked or chewed up their earnings, or they lived beyond their means, while others on the same wastes and on the same salaries went on to competency. I know a man who is all the time com plaining of his poverty and crying out acainst rich men while he himself keeps two dogs and chews and smokes and is full to the chin with whisky and beer. Wilkins Micawber said' to David Copperfield: "Copperfield, my boy, 1 income, expenses 20s. 6d. ; result, mis ery. But, Copperfield, my boy, 1 in come; expenses, 19s. 6d.; result, hap piness." But O workingman, take your morning dram, and your noon dram, and your evening dram, and spend everything you have over for to bacco and excursions, and you insure poverty for yourself and your children foreverl More Holes In the Bag. If by some generous flat of tho capi talists of this country or by a new law of the government of the United States 25 per cent or 50 per cent or 100 per cent were added to tho wages of the working classes of America, it would be no advantage to hundreds of thou sands of them unless they stopped strong- drink. Aye, until they quit that evil habit the more money the more ruin, the more wages the more holes in tho bag! My plea is to those working people who are in a discipleship to the whisky bottle, the beer jug and the wine flask. And what I say to hem will not be more appropriate to the working classes than to the business classes and the lit erary classes and the professional classes and all classes, and not with the people of one age more than of all ages. Take one good square look at the suffering of the man whom strong drink has en thralled and remember that toward that goal multitudes are running. Tho dis ciple of alcoholism suffers the loss of self respect Just as soon as a man wakes up and finds that ho is the cap tive of strong drink, he feels demeaned. I do not care how recklessly he acts. He may say, "I don't care;" he does care. He cannot look a pure man in the eye unless it is with positive force of reso lution. Three-fourths of his nature is destroyed; his self respect is gone; he says things he would not otherwise say; he does things he would not otherwise da When . a man is nine-tenths gone with strong drink, the first thing he wants to do is to persuade you that he can stop any time he wants to. He can not 1 The Philistines have bound him hand and foot and shorn his locks, and put out his eyes, and are making him grind in the mill of a great horror. He cannot stop: I will prove it He knows that his course is bringing ruin upon himself. He loves himself. If he'could stop, he would. He knows his course is bringing ruin upon his family. He loves them. He would stop if he could. He cannot Perhaps he could three months Cr a year ago; not now. Just ask him to stop for a month. He . cannot he knows he cannot, so he does not try. Killed br Drink. I had a friend who was for 15 years' going down under this evil habit He bad large means. He "had given thou sands of dollars to Bible societies and reformatory institutions of all sorts. Ho was very genial, very generous and very lovable, and whenever he talked about this evil habit he would say, "I can Btopany time." But he kept going on, going on, down, down.down. His family would say, "I wish you would stop." "Why," he would reply, I can stop any time, if I want to." : After awhile he had deliriunr tremens be had it twice, and yet after that he said, "I could stop at any j time, if I wanted to," He is dead now. What killed him? Drink 1 Drink! And yet among his last utterances was, "I can stop- at any time. He did not stop It , because he could not stop t Oh, there is, a point in inebriation beyond which if a man goes he cannot stop! One of these vic tims said to a Christian man, "Sir, if I were told that I couldn't get a drink until tomorrow ,night unless I had all my fingers cut off, I would say. I 'Bring the hatchet and cut them off now.' " I have a dear mend in Phihv delpbia whose nephew came to him one day, and when he was exhorted about his evil habit said: "Uncle, I can't give it up. If there stood a cannon and it was loaded, and a glass of wine were set on the mouth of that cannon, and ; I knew that you would flro it off just as I came up and took the glass, I wpuld start, for I must have it" Oh; it is a sad thing for a man to wake up in this 'life and feel that he is a captive! Ho says: " t could have got rid of this pnoe, but I can't now.' I might have lived an honorable life and died a Christian death, but there ;$s no hope for me now. There is! no escape for me. Dead, but not burled. I am a walking corpse. I am an apparition of what I once was. I am a caged immortal "beating against the wires of my cage in this direction. beating against the cage until there is blood on I the wires and blood upon my soul, yet not able to get out Destroyed without remedy 1" i j The Drunkard' Suffering. I go on and say that the disciple of rum suffers from the loss of health. The older men may remember that some years ago Dr. Sewell went through this country and electrified the people by his lectures, jin which he showed the effects of alcoholism on the human stomach. He had ! seven or eight diagrams by which he showed the devastation Of stroncr drink upon the physical system There were thousands of people' who turned back from that ulcerous sketch, swearing1 eternal abstinence from every thing that could intoxicate. , God only knows what the drunkard suffers. Pain files on every nerve, and travels every muscle, and gnaws every bone, and burns with every flame, and stings with . every "poison, and pulls at him with every .torture. What reptiles crawl over his sleeping limbs. What fiends stand by his midnight pillow What groans' teaf his ear. What hor rors shiver through his souL Talk of the rack talk of the inquisition, talk of the funeral pyre, tallf of the crushing Jug gernaut he feels them all, at once. Have you ever been in the ward of the hospital ! where f these Inebriates are dying, the stench of their wounds driving back the attendants, their voices soundins through the night? The keep er comes up and- says: "JHush, now be still. Stop making all this noise. " But it is effectual only for a moment, for as soon as the keeper t is gone ! they begin again: "O God! O God I Help! Help I Drink! Give me drink 1 Help ! Take them off me I Take them' off me ! O God!" And then they shriek, and they rave, and th ey pluck out; their hair by handfuls and bite their hails into the quick, and then they groan, and they shriek, and they ' blaspheme, and they ask the keepers to kill them "Stab me! Smother me! Strangle me! Take the devils off me!" Oh, it is no fancy sketch. That thing is going on cow all i up and down; the land, and I tell you further that this -is going to be the death that some of you will die. I know it 1 it coming.- i:' A Destroyer of the Home. Again the inebriate suffers through tho loss of home. I do not care how much he loves hisiwife and children, if this passion for strong drink has mas tered him be will do the most outra geous things, and if ho could not get drink in any other way he would sell his family into eternal bondage. How many homes havei been broken up ih that way no one but God knows. .Oh, is there anything that will, so destroy a man for this life and damn him for the life that is to come? Do not tell me that a man ban be happy when he knows that he is breaking his wife'sheart and, clothing: his children with; rags. Why, there are on the roads and streets of this land today little children, barefooted, unwashed and unkempt, want on every patch of ; their faded dress and oh every wrinkle of their prematurely old coun tenances, who would have been in churches today and as well clad as you are but for the fact that rum destroyed their parents and drove them into the grave. Oh, rum, thou foe of God, thou despoiled of homes,; thou recruiting offi cer of the pit; I hate theau I . . 1 " But my subject takes a deeper tone, and that is that the unfortunate Of whom I speak suffers from the loss of the soul, i The Bible intimates that in the future world, if we are unforgiven here, our bad passions and appetites, unrestrained, will go along .with us and make our torment there. So that, I sup- pose, when an meDriate waxes up m that world he will feel an infinite thirst consuming him. Now, down m tnis world, although he may have been very poor, be could beg or ne -cpuia. steal o Cents with which to get that which would slake his thirst for a little while, but in eternity where is the rum to come from? ; , Oh. the deen. exhaustinc! exasperat ing, everlasting thirst of the drunkard in hell 1 Why, if a fiend came up to earth for some infernal work, in a grog shop and should go back taking on its wing just one drop of that for which the inebriate in the lost world longs, what excitement would it make there I Put that one drop from "off the fiend's wing on the tip of the tongue of the de- itroved inebriate, let the liquid bright ness just touch it, let the drop be very small, if it only have in it the smack of alcoholic drink: let that' drop just touch the lost inebriate in the lost world, and he would spring to his feet and cry: "That is rum, aha! That is rum I" And it would wake up j the echoes of the ; damned: "Give me rum 1 Give me rum I Give me rural!' In the future, world I 1 KEEP YOUR Surely if the word REGULATOR is not on a package " ' it is Nothing else is the same. oeen put up by any one except 7 t9. IKI. ZEDLDtJ & CO. And it can be easily told by their Trade Mark- THE RED Z. ' For Sale by Dr. W, W. CRICC8 & HON. do not believe that It will be the absence of God that will make the drunkard's sorrow. T do not believe it will bo the absence cf light I do not believe that it will he the absence of holiness. I think it will be the absence of rum. Oh, "Look not upon the wine when, it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup, for at the last it biteth like a serpent, and it stinjgeth like an adder." . The Help of God's Grace. While I declared some time ago that there was a point beyond which a man could not stop, I want to tell you that, while a man cannot stop in his own strength, the Lord God by his grace can help him to stop at any time. I was in' a room in New York where there were many men w&o had been reclaimed from drunkenness. I heard their testi mony, and for the first time in my life there flashed out a truth I never under stood. They said: "We wer,e victims of strong drink. We tried to give it up, but always failed, but somehow since we gave our hearts to Christ he has taken care of us." ,1 believe that the time will soon come when the grace of God will show its power not only to. save man's soul, but his body and re construct, purify, elevate and redeem it. j T verily believe that although you feel grappling at the roots of your tongues an almost-omnipotent thirst if you will give your heart to God, he will help you by his grace to conquer. Try It. It is your, last chance. I have look ed oft upon the desolation. Sitting next to you in our religious assemblages there. are a good many people in 'awful peril,, and judging from ordinary cir cumstances there is not one chance in five thousand that they will get clear of it. There are men -in every congregation from Sabbath to Sabbath of whom I must make, the remark that if they do not change .their course within ten years they will, as to their bodies, lie down in drunkards' graves, and as to their souls, lie down in a drunkard's perdition: I know that is an awful thing to say, but I cannot help saying it : - ... Darkness Forever. ; Oh, beware ! You have hot yet been captured. Beware I Whether the bev'er age -ie poured in golden chalice or peW' ter muar. in the foam at the top, IrJ white letters," let there be spelled out tol JV Spelled UUV IU vour soul, ' 1 Beware 1" When the books of judgment are open, and 10,000,000 drunkards come up to get their doom, I want you to bear witness that I, in the fear of God and s in the love for your soul, told you, with all affecticja and with all kindness, to beware of that which has already exerted its influence upon your family, blowing out some of its lights--a premonition of the black ness of darkness forever. Oh,Ht you could only hear intemper ance with drunkards' bones drumming on the head of the liquor' cask the dead march of immortal souls, methlnks the very glance of a wine cuptwbuld make you shudder, and the color of theliquor would make you think of the'blood of the soul, and -the foam on the top of the cup would remind you of the froth on the maniac's, lip, and you would kneel down and pray God that; rather than your children should become captives of this evil habit, you would like tp carry them out some bright Bpring day to the cemetery and put them away to the last sleep, until at the call of the south wind the flowers would come ; up all over the grave sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God has a balm for. such a wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on a drunkard's sepulcher? Making Hlrch Oil. Connecticut farmers have found a comfortable side profit in gathering the twigs, branches and saplings of black birch for. the birch oil distilleries. -By protecting the young growth crops are quickly raised. The birch brush has brought from $1.50 to $3 a ton.. The birch oil has sold at ?5 to $8 a pound, bnt is now less. ( ton of birch yields four pounds of oil. i oil themselves. 1 any rough buildir; is inexpensive. 1 . Over two inches in ; : mere can make the 1 o distillery may be . ;.ud the machinery i tirch twigs, net " .aiuc ter, are cut in s ai:d thrown into lengths of five incl watertight tanks with copper bottoms, in which, are coils ' of steam pipes. Three feet of water is poured in, the tanks are hermetically sealed, and steam is turned into the pipes. The water is kept boiling six hours, and the steam, rising, passes into a pipe which runs in the form of a worm into a barrel of cold water constantly renewed. The steam is condensed in the worm, and the oil drips from the end of the pipe into a paih It was formerly clarified from a dull brown to a light green, after this process. Now this is done by spreading a heavr woolen blanket over the birch- wood inside the tank, and the oil drips out pure and ready for market --Chi cago Journal 1 JL . . - A New Want. "Well," said Mrs. Wiffles to the tramp, "I suppose- you want some thing to eat jthis morning?"" "No, kind lady," replied the way- Urer; "I called to see if you had a bast off bicycle to giyo a deserving man. " Pick Me Up. EYES OPEN! not ::f ..'''.''.! It cannot be and never has TO LOVELY WOMAN. Oh, not the cycle, lady fair! jf Those alender hands and dainty' fret TVr mnAft for man's delLaht. desDalr And not for whirling down the street Un iron wneei. . i - . i ... . . Oh. not the cycle, for I awear . That d&lntv form waa never ma.de To brave the bold and eyeglasa d atafffl, In bloomer' coatum undlsmay d. Upon bare steel! y rtK nnt t v -vr1 mhlrllnr mad.' The rude, rough ruiih of spinning frfim. The manlike swagger, senseless, aaa. That alts uneasy on each dame Who wheeling goes! . - . : . . Oh. not the cycle, for I love ' To dream you still my queen dlvli So Insecure you loom above, -I feel your fall-, perhaps on spine, ( Perchance on noae. ,x Oh. not "the cycle( ! In this age. Invention mad and lost to grace. Oh. still preserve your aktn from scrige, Tfpsf.rva untouched vbur lovely facto ' And rxrffct fcorm! i New York Tribuh. CUSTOMS DUTIES. A Comparison Between the Ad Valorem and Bpeclflo Systems. The ad Valorem system propipr- tions duties to, tho worth of 'tho v goods at the place of shipment at so much per cent of thoir markePvaiuo. Its chief merit is its justico laud equity. It adjusts itself automatic ally to differences of valuation orj of commercial qualities, bo that the; tax collected from the consumer varies in proportion tol his ability to pay- r. at least so far as this may be deter mined by his ability to buy goods pi f greater or less cost. , , : j The chief demerit commonly ns cribed to it is tho temptation which it is said to offer to fraudulent. un dervaluation. Since the. duty to bo paid depends upon the foreign vaijucy if this can be mado to appear loU than it really is, some part of tho tax is evaded and the cost of tho goods to the importer .diminished. . The difficulty Of evading a custom ' revenue under a good and inttdli. gent administration through Undjer. j valuation is illustrated by the cir- eumstanco that.j in order to Hniro a ' ni v iuu J. cin uiuv.il i". ! the landed cost, of goods, thodishon - est importor in the case of a 40 per cent duty would have to swoarjaii undervaluation of moro than 20 per .cent.; . ' . i .- On the other hand, tho great ad vantage of a simple specific duty is the care and certainty with which it may be applied. If, for instauco, the duty upon a class of textile fab rics should bo fixed at 40 cents n pound, including all accessories in- f volvod in packing, the weight of the . contents of a case would show, by simple multiplication, the exact amount of duty to be paid. No ex pensive process of examination need be entered upon. Disputes can hard ly arise, and false swearing is ut of the question. Such, duties havo been found ' most useful when im posed upon simple articles not. pro duced in widely varying "gradeajj of greatly differing commercial values. The injustice and inexpediency of specific duties are that they boar so , much less heavily upon tho high priced than upon the low priced qualities of goods, that the poorer classes- of the community are taxjed , , at a much' higher rate than tho, richer. Neither, do they; adjust themselves to ups and downs Jof ; market values, and, a rate of duty reasonable enough when enactei is often transformed by a fall of prico into an onerous and prohibitory tijx, restricting; imports and diminishing revenue:. Hon. David A. Wells' f . ' No. 117. White Enameled Steel Bed. olid brass trimmings.- We hare them 64 In. wide, 48 in. wide, 42 In. wide -vA 86 in. wide? All sizes are W in. long; Special xTtoe tany size; (orders promptly filled.) I Everywhere local dealers are saying unkind things about as. Their cus tomers are tired of paring them double prices; 'Our Immense (tree) money saving catalogue Is enlightening tho rnaases. Drop a postal nowfor oom plete catalogue or Furniture, Mattings, Carpets. Oil Cloths. Bsby Carriages, Refrigerators. Stove, Fancy mJ' Bedding, Springs. etcJ The catalogue cost you nothing and we pay all post age. Get double value for youff dollar by dealing with the manulaot turers. ... ' - maii JULIUS Hlllty 6 ouilf BALTIMORE, MP.
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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May 28, 1897, edition 1
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