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WHEN YOU GO
To Goldsboro be sure to stop at the
G regory-Arligton Hotels.
Good fare, attentive servants and
large comfortable rooms.
When you get off the train 44 Tsaap"
everybody knp.ws Jsaac) he
ft! pro. CJ rye him your baggage and
gp witn mm.
WILL HUNTER,
octlf-tf Proprietoi.
REMOVAL !
Has pemqved his Tailoring Estab
lishment from his old stand to his
office on Sampson Street, net to the
M. E. Church.
The great and orignal leader in
low prices for men's clothes. Econ
omy in cloth and money will force
yqu to give him a call.
"n hand.
June 7th. lyr.
Shoe Repairing.
si. IJOONE has opened a' Shoe?
maicivijr and Repairing Establish
meni over the orttee. of Dr. "A.
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HOW THIXas LOOK FROM
OUlt STAND POINT.
The Opinion of The Editor and the
Opinion of Others which we
Can Endorse on the Various
Topics of the Day.
Tl.eOcala demn ids call forrefoim
in the tar i IT J uj-t as loudly and just
as imperatively as they Cidl for the
free coinage of silver. And these
who exalt the one and slur the other
over as unimportant, are not wise. -
Progressive Faimer.
The State Chronicle usually downs
the other papers ot the State in the
completeness of iU reports, but the
Ooldsbofo Argus is on top this time.
Its report of Taltnago's lecture at the
Assembly last week is the best we
have seen. We wish to congiatulato
JJro. Joe Argus upon his enterpiie
aiwlalso upon his good fortune in so
curing the services of Prof. Britten
to furnish the report which lias
crowned his enterprise with success.
The.Wihxiington Messenger, in an
editorial advocating the nomination
of Cleveland, says:
"Some of the politicians are talk
ing against him, but the common
people the rank and tile of the par
ty aro for him. They will not al
low the politicians to manipulate
them against Jiiui."
The above is one of Dr. Kingsbu
ry's best jokes. But who aro the
common pe pie? and who are the
politicians? It may be that the lit
eral us considers that the people have
become politicians and the politicians
common poople. If this is so, it rsny
not be a jt-ko after all.
The addresses of lie v. Bay 1 us
Cade, editor of the Progressive Far-,
mer and Dr. Cartel of ti e 1st Bap
tist church of Italeigh at the com
mencement exercises of the A. and
M. College last week aro spoken of
by the pi ess in the highest terms.
There is a bright future ahead this
college, for it is a new departure
in education that means much for
the material progress of the State.
It is more than practical education,
it is logical education. The course
of instruction will not only dignify
labor, but will make men out of its
pupils, by logically develop! ng all
their powers.
Besure to
read our two column
article headed, "The Prey of Mono
poly." The fact that McKinley has
been r.ominatd for Governor ol
Ohio, and the further fact that he if
.:!! K 0rii,iof iU
- .v v.v v. ... k,, v.Lwivnvuiv
nomination lor President and that
Ohio is a pivotal State and that a U.
S. Senator is to be elected by the
next Legislature of that State, shows
plainly that the money powers will
make a great fight this fall In that
State, and that they will plant
themselves squareiy.on the Mc
Kinley tariff law. Therefore wo
shall use our columns freely from
now on, to turn the light tn hiiu
and his oppressive and outrage
measure. The 30,000 alliance men
of the State hold the balance of
power and they will never have a
greater opportunity to serve hard
working and struggling humanity
than by condeming him and his
policy.
TheltMv. A. C. Dixon in a little
talk after his recent sermons at War
saw, lata that tho man who now tries
to get up a yell at Northern gather
ings or win applause before a North
ern audience by abusing the South
and appealing to sectional feeling,
gets badly left. He said that he
talked to his congregation at Brook
lyn about the South just as he would
to a Southern congregation and that
they honored and applauded him for
it. He referred to a speech recently
made by a 1-out hern man" before a
Northern audience in which the
speaker told his hearers that they
kid-napped the negro from Africa,
kept him as long as labor was ser
viceable, then sold him to the South-
1 i 1 a ."I A n
em people ana men ineu 10 nog us
because we paid well for the negro
and took him off their hands, That
their christian duty would never be
fulfilled till they paid the South for
every negro freed lie said that they
cheered and applauded the statement.
Mr. Dixon said that the young, pro
grcssive, sensioie ana ousmes par
of the North was ready to loin, and
- .
South, in industrial friendship, and
that there were no people in the
world who admired and respected
the Southern people more than the
Yankee. He said that' tho names ot
aim n rjrorir Khnrman onri Shpriflan
I
- could, not thrill to-day a Northern au
dience a do the names of Lee, Jack
son and Johnson whenever mention
cA ;
The position of many iapern nd
people South who oppose free coin
age of silver is a very piti?ble one. I
Their conviction!; If they have any
of their ow.i, cannot sustain them in
their position. They are simply
Cleveland worshippers. "The king
took snutr and England sneezed."
But the farmer at least beg leave to
be excused fiom sneezing on this oc
casion. He is thinking and reading
for hims.df. He knows that every
argument which exists in lavor of J
extracting irold from the bowels of I
the earth and making it into money !
applies with equal force to silver,
and more i-specially no under our
present Mnancial condition, having
as wo do the smallest per capita of
any nation in theworl . The farm
er in asking for free coinage knows
that the silver dollar which he will
will receive in exchange for the
fruits of his labor wiil buy him as
many pounds of sugar or coffee, and
as many yards of calico and domes
tic as will the geld d dlar, and that
it will do the same thing for his
creditor; and further it will make
the volume of money in circulation
more acceasible to the people, add to
the value of his productions, and
thus help him to emancipate himself
from his bondagefrom that great
oc topus debt, which is threatening to
swallow up his entire earthly posses
sions.
TKUSTKKS OF A.
- LEGE.
& M. COL-
Amiual Meeting Enlargement
and Expansion of the Work
New Professors Elected.
The Trustees of the North Caro
lina College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts have been in session for
the past two days.
A great deal of routine business
has been transacted, and the Board
have done their work well.
W. S. Primrose, Esq., was unani
mously re-( lected President of the
Board for a term of two years.
An Adjunct Professor of Pure Ma
thematics was added to the Depart
ment, and one additional Assistant
in the shop work.
Also an Assistant for the Chemical
Department was provided for.
Two of the Professors were elect
ed as follows : R. E. L. Yates, of
Wake county, Assistant Instrnctoi
in Pure Mathematics, (an A. M.
graduate of Wake Forest) and Mr.
Chas. M. Pritchard, ot Cartersville,
Ga., as Assistant Instructor in the
Department of Practical Mechanics.
Mr. Pritchard is a graduate with hon
ors from the Atlanta Technological
Institute and is considered to be No.
1 In the line he is chosen to direct.
The Executive Committee were
authorized to expend the 510,000 ap
propriated by the last Legislature in
dormitories, heating and lighting the
college building, tc.
The cottages and outhouses now
standing between the college and the
Hillsboro road were ordered to be re
moved at an early day.
Dr. Batt,e, Director of the Fertil
izer and Control Station submitted
his a mual report which wasfull and
H"1" Niiismcwiry.
THE 1MXONS KEEP
RACKET.
UP A
The Biblical Recodersays: The
Tenth Avenue church, Oakland, Cal
ifornia, Rev. Frank Dixon, pastor, is
divided and in a big trouble. Bro.
Dixon is charged with saying that
44the Old Testament is a bundle of
rubbish," and with belittling the
miracles of the New Testament.
Rev. Frank Dixon is a brother of
Revs. A. C. and Thomas Dixon. He
was at the University of North Car
olina when this writer was there. He
is physically not strong, but his men
tal abilities are certainly not inferior
to those of his already two distin
guished brothers. Ed.
How is This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by taking Hall's Ca
tarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Tole
do, O.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 16 years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and finan
cially able to carry out any obliga
tion made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Drug
gist, Toledo, Q,
Waldinq, - KiNNAfc & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggist, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucus surfaces of "the system.
Price 7fc. per bottle. Sold by J.
R. Smith, Druggist, Mount Olive,
N. C, and Dr. R. II. Holhday, Clin
ton, N. C.
HOW SILVER WAS DEMONE
TIZED IN 1873.
In 1872, silver being demonetized
in France, England and Holland, a
capital of $500,000 wat. raised and
Ernest Seyd of London, was sent to
this country with this fund as agent
ot the xroIgn Bondholders and Cap
itajist, to effect tho same object the
Demonetisation of Silver, which
i ii
AN ENEMY OP THE RACE.
Every day it becomes plainer that
the war tariff belongs to the catego-
tv or the scourses ot the nnman race.
l . .
1 i :w ,.m" r.min. HflMWTr? wmcu conceaiea nerwmce
- --- V : iv
- stormSf tne tariff wrfrks to increase
- the misery and the wretcf edrus of
I life. Louisville Courier Joum?,
1M
CHAPTER IV.
"Are you tired, JoTinf"
Curiously unnerved for a man of robust
physique and ordinarily normal imag
ination. Royal let these strangers have
their way with him, thankful for the res
pite which their quiet acceptance of him
gave. He avoided looking at the bride,
dreading to meet her glance lest it should
unfit him for his part, for with the sight
of the crowd his desire to explain matters
withdrew into the background. This
was not the time, nor was it the place.
The affair had developed complications
for which he was totally unprepared,
and he wanted time to think, to assimi
late and readjust. The sequence of events
had been so different from his own pre
conceived arrangement of them that his
mind for the moment was thrown out
of gear, and stood supine, accepting that
which came as though it were a finality.
The thing moat evident to him was
that he had ensnared himself with a net
work of egregious blundering, and that
egress from it, to be graceful or even
endurable, would require more skill .of
management than he had any right to
accredit himself with possessing. The
terms in which he apostrophized him
self summed up the case, and were none
the less hearty and comprehensive for
being inwardly given. "Of all the inter
meddling, dunderheaded fools in this
world," so ran his thoughts, "im ' Wf
ntitlod to tho . load, Hart Royal. And
a beautiful mess you've gotten yourself
into this time, with your damned offi-
ciousnees!
The preoccupation of his manner and
the careworn expression of his face
caused the people to surmise that lie
must be in acute physical pain. For the
few moments allowed to friends at coun
try weddings even church weddings
they crowded round him, striving to re
call themselves to his memory, and
speaking pitifully of the accident and
enthusiastically of his pluck in not al
lowing it to interfere with his marriage.
They were so kind and cordial that
Royal could have gnashed his teeth and
shouted at them that he was no better
than an impostor. Instead of which he
nailed his false colors to the mast, as it
were, and smiled and bowed and shook
hands with everybody.
His brain worked with feverish rapid
ity, and by the time they had shut him
into Squire Brandon's carriage for the
short drive to the house, where the
young lady would change her dress for
the wedding journey, a sense of the
grotesqneness of his own position touch
ed him, bringing with it a sudden strong
desire to laugh, and creating a reaction
which restored equilibrium. He had
made a mess of it, he was willing to ad
mit, but circumstances had seemed to
wall him into a narrow track, along
which he bad cantered like the most
obliging of donkeys. At this stage of
the proceedings ''hindsight'' did little
good and was provocative of exaspera
tion, and of reliable foresight he was
fain, in all humility of soul, to confess
himself destitute. There-was. nothing
for it but to face the situation in the
present and endeavor-to adjust it with
the minimum of pain and discomfort all
around. The only solution which sug
gested itself was to carry out the plan as
originally proposed, striving to blunder
less in the end than he had done in the
beginning. He would take the young
lady straight to John Royal, making
such explanation to her a would insure
her recognition of the love and anxiety
for her future which had been the main
spring of a scheme which- he now de
nounced as idiotic,
In the presence of the dying man all
personal piqno, all womanly sensitive
ness, would shrivel and vanish before the
majesty of love and the awful mystery
of that which was to come. A strange
journey it would be, with a strange end
ing. For the first time came realization
of the matter from the woman's stand
point, and with it a great pity for her
and a strong desire to shield her from the
comment, curiosity and multiplicity of
detail to which his story must gwe - rise,
at least until this travesty of marriage
could be made real by the true man's ac
knowledgment of it. He would keep his
own counsel until he should have given
the wife into the keeping of her husband,
and then it would be time enough to ad
mit the outside world, to enter upon ex
planations and self justification.
Arrived at a definite conclusion, he
squared his shoulders and put aside that
strange sense of Irrevocability and per
sonal implication which had oppressed
lum -Oring the ceremony. In truth,
there was little time for thought, less
for analysis: the need for action w
still omnipresent. , lie turned to .iook,
for the first time denitelyat John
Royal's bride.. - ' .
As he did so aJLsw laugh startled him,"
and a handj&s thrust out to touch his
arm andj&$n withdrawn. It was glove
leejfdd on the third fingor gleamed the
as mjTr?ar3 stxiilt- mm was imvairmfin its m.
Parage ring. Sie was enveloped in a
i xrT-zzik. T r; rzr
CR,andher head and face were hid-
dan under folds of soft dark tissue, from
which, at throat and crown, the lace of
her bridal veil peeped forth, like white
cjoaaa unaer prrav ones, tier race was
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completely concealed, from perversenes
of girlish coquetry, he thought, and he
could only guess that Bhe was fair be
cause that would increase the pathos of
toe situation.
Her amusement nettled him, and then
a swift sense of their relative position as
it must appear to her thrilled through
him, producing a jumble .of -emotions
which made chaos of his mind. He
longed to put aside the soft gray folds
that hid her face, to possess himself of
her hand, to speak words which should
testify appreciation of the situation to
commit some sort of folly or madness.
in short, to prove that he was a man and
sentient What a brute she must think
him, he chafed; what a soulless, sense
less block of wood he must appear! How
could she understand er do him justice,
ignorant as 8 tie was ana must remain
for hours of the true state of the case?
Then he conifovted.hiuuelf with the re
flection that when the matter should be
made plain to her she would appreciate
ins conaucc
"Are you tired, John?"
It was the young lady who broke the
silence.
"No," he answered, surprised.
It seemed odd to him. at the moment,
that the woman should put that ques
tion to the man.
"You were so quiet that I had to laugh.
It seemed so funny to sit up like two
owls, never Baying a word to one an
other," she proceeded. "We are cousins,
you Know, jo tin, just, the same as we
used to be. But perhaps you, are in
pain? with a quick change of voice.
"Are you? Tell me at once. Ought
you to have come? I know it was the
money and that foolish clause in the
will about today. But for that we
might easily have waited until you were
strong again. Isn't traveling bad for
you? '
"jMot at all bad," lioyai hastily re
sponded. "On the contrary, it is the
very test thing in- the world for me
indeed, for us both. I'm much stronger
than you suppose." He could hardly re
strain a smile as he made the assertion.
"The plans must not be changed. We
must leave by that 2:20 train. It is im
perative that we should. You are ready,
I suppose?"
He intended jto take her .whether she
f shonUl be or not, but put the question
from sheer nervousness. Anything was
better than sitting beside her in a state
of absolute passivity.
"Oh, yes. My trunks were packed
some days ago, and all the arrangements
made. - You were so explicit so so
masterful" with another rippling laugh.
"You have not changed in that, John.
You love your own way still. Is it not
so? But the arrangements need make
no difference. We can stay over a day
or two to rest if it will be better for you.
You will like to see the old place and to
visit Aunt Anne s grave, bhe was so
fond of you. We could stop over for
that."
But Royal would not hear of stopping
over for anything. His private feeling
toward the deceased lady was one of dis
tinct animosity. He hoped orthodoxly
and vengeful y that she might be doing
spiritual penance for the trouble and dis
tress likely to be entailed by the acts of
her material life, and would gladly have
known that she was aware of the mis
carriage of her plana and greatly tor
mented thereby. He generalized for a
moment in regard to the old home and
the desire to see it which he was expected
to feel; but he made it evident that he
intended to leave by the first down train.
Unlike brides in general, this young
lady appeared docile and amenable to an
exceptional degree. Royal, in the midst
of his anxiety, wondered over her, and
felt the soul within him moved to grati
tude. Then his professional experience
reminded him that women are usually
submissive to the power conferred by
suffering. In the eyes of this woman he,
perhaps, appeared a wounded hero.
Her next words made evident that
luch was indeed the case.
"That Horn Die accident," she mur
mured, and a quick shudder ran through
her frame. "I can't help feeling that
halx has not been told me that yon
have all conspired to keep the worst
back and make light of it, in order to
spare me pain. ' . You poor fellow I , how
yon must have suffered! It was terrible
a home coming like that, after six
years' exile. When I think of it all of
what you have done for me of what
you are doing for me and enduring for
my sake and then think of the anxiety
in store for you for us both I feel that
a lifetime of love and devotion will
hardly pay interest on the debt I owe
you. Am I worth it to you, John? Will
I ever be worth it to you"
Her voice trembled a little, and Royal
had an intuition that she was holding
back tears. He felt a sudden stricture
of the heart, as though the blood had
been drained away. This was not the
happy chatter of a girl bride, loving and
beloved. Through this woman's voice
pulsed an undercurrent of pathos, thrill
ing its sweetness like minor chords in
music. He felt, somehow, that in spite
of his best endeavor he was taking un
fair advantage of the man -who had
trusted him, was getting a glimpse into
arcana which ' no stranger unauthorized
should penetrate. - His pity grew apace,
and beside it developed a devouring
coriosityV- until his very breast seemed
strained by stress" and complexity of
emotion. He yearned to speak to her,
it durst not for lack of proper words
and an assured position, snd so dumbly
waited, feeling that if she should con
tinue to talk in that strain during the
rest of the drive he could not be held ac
countable for his actions.
She did not appear to notice his silence
or to be hurt by it; perhaps she was in
some subtle way conscious of the tension
of his mood, or she may have been pre
oecuDied bv her. own thoughts. : For a
little space there was silence.
"That old time is so long ago that you
can't love me in the old way, John. It
Continued on Second Page,
Tin Prey of Iloipoly.
HOW McKI N L E Y DEALT
WITH THE PIANO MA
KERS.
They Were Turned Over to Mo I
nopoIUtti. T he M a k t re of
Felt, Ivory Key, String,
mid Action (Jet Thlr
McKlnley FlnUh.
SPECIMEN CASE OF
ItlFP GltEEl).
TA-
Piano making i ocwcf tte few
tries of this country which are indiffer
ent to protection and care nothing for
foreign competition. While nominally
protected, the manufacturers are entirely
independent of tariff benefits. Of course
there lias always been a tariff upon
pianos, bat not at the solicitation of the
manufacturers. Where a new tariff hu
been introduced the duty has been re
tained, more on account of general prin- J
ciples than because the manufacturers
have invaded the halls of congress, de
manding protection for an "infant in
dustry." In no hearings on the tariff
have they appeared and demanded an
incBease, or even a retention of old
duties. On the contrary, they have re
ded upon their own skill and enterprise
for protection, and the result has justi
fied their course, for more pianos have
been exported every year than have been
imported, and we have sent some of our
best productions to the greatest musical
country of the world Germany herself.
We began to manufacture pianos over
ninety years ago,
The industry has
grown rapidly, the production last year
being double what it was ten years ago.
Last year we made about 72,000 pianos,
and it is estimated that since 1820 we
have made 1,210,000. The census re
turns of 1690 are not yet published, but
it is estimated that we now have 200 fac
tories engaged in turning out pianos or
parts used in them such as keys, wires.
actions, etc. The estimated capital of
these factories is $15,000,000, employing
10.000 workmpn At w&trea nf ifi .V 000 & I
ndnff a nnofton wh nt micui
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000. New York alone has abont two-
thirds of the factorie. MaflRftrfmimtt I
ranking next
While the piano industry has no in
terest in protection for itself, protec
tion lays numerous burdens upon that
industry. In fact it is made a prey to
the greed of several minor industries
higher protection than ever before.
These increased duties are specimen
tricks in the new tariff law, and thef
deserve attention from the people a
large as illustrating the rapacity of tariff
protected interests.
The first of the parte used in piano
making which are subject to higher du
ties under the McKinley law are the
tuning pins to which the strings are at
tached. The old duty on these pins was
25 per cent. It was first proposed by
McKinley to make the duty 40 per
cent, along with "pianos and
pianoforte actions, and parts of."
This paragraph was constructed at the
loud solicitation of the action makers,
who, though they had no interest at all
in tuning pins, were very anxious to con
struct the paragraph affecting their own
productions so broadly that they them
selves might be secure from competition,
with the result that they included every
thing used in piano manufacture. Bat
they demanded that the duty be fixed at
50 instead of 40 per cent., and when the
bill went to the senate they accomplished
their purposes in part by having the
whole paragraph struck from the sched
ule. The result was that tuning pins
were made dutiable at 45 per cent., and
the price was at once put up to $3.20 per
thousand, having been $2.40.
A similar trick was performed in re
gard to the felt which is put on the ham
mers. There is only one factory en
gaged in the production of piano felt in
the United States that of Mr. Alfred
Dolge, of Dolgeville, N. Y. the annual
production of which, according to Mr.
Dolge, is about 300,000 pounds. England
has two factories, France two and Ger
many lour. The omy piano xeit im
ported into tfca United States comes from
Germany, and amounts te from 25,000
to 30,000 pounds per year, so that only
one-tenth of the felt used here is im
ported.
Piano felt paid a duty under the old
law of thirty-five cents a pound and 40
per cent., equal to a single ad valorem of
67 per cent., being taxed as "manufact
ures of wool not otherwise provided for.
The duty in this paragraph in tho Mc
Kinley bill was made forty-four cents a
pound and 50 per cent When, however,
the bill was in the conference committee
of the house and senate, Mr. Dodge, act
ing through Senator Hiscock, had the
three 'little words, . "felta not woven,"
put into the ready made clothing para
graph, bearing the highest dnty of all
the manufactures cj wool 19 cents a
pound and 00 percent.
Mr. Dolges protection by thu tnck is
made almost absolute. Under the old
tariff the dnty paid on 100 pounds of felt
was $122, under the McKinley law $191.
Some importers have already raised the
price of foreign felt one dollar a pound.
The greedy Dolge had two objects in
view with bis tariff trick: (1) To shut oat
aQ foreign competition, and (2) being
a manufacturer of hammers also, to
drive out' of business all the manufactur
ers here of piano hammers who have
been using imported felt. The result to
that he will be free from all competition
whatever in the American market. At
the same time he will continue to export
felt to Germany as he has done in the
past, on all of which felt drawbacks of
duties win be paid by the 'United States
government.
For the benefit of the three establish
ments engaged in making ivory piano
keys a similar increase of duty was made.
These establishments ' import their ele
phants' tusks free-of .duty, and had 80
per cent, protection before ; McKinley
came and gave them 40 per cent ' A set
of ivory keys now carta the manufactar
n one dollar more than under the old
duty. - -
The next item is music wire. Here
Continued ou Second Page. .
SHOW TOT1IK WOHLl WHAT
YOUIt SECTION 1HCATA-
ni.EOFritonvciSG.
The 1 olio wing are moong ths artl
rle that r desirable from each
section of tltSooth to place la lh
Southern KxptwMoo to be bold la
the City of JUleigh, X. c.
One-half bushel of cch of the
following: Barley, buckwheat, corn
oat, rye, wheat, rice, gram seed
cane seed, field pes, beans, dried
apples, peaches, quince, prune,
cherrie. wild nd cultivated heme,
nuts and acorus.
Preserved fruit In half-nUoa
glass jars.
One to ten pounds of each variety
of cotton In teed and lint: flax and
Jute in various stage of manipula
tion. Tea pounds of each variety of
sugar, one gallon or each variety or
molassoH and sorghan,; honey, one,
quart or one to tea pounds in comb. !
Two pound of ch variety of
tobacco.
Ten pound of cttch variety of
grass; one bundle, six inches In
diameter, of each variety of grain
inaheaf..
llom. flVA tiAlltwltt KfAAm aam ;
ten to twenty
Ave head: earden
peas and beaus, one gallon of each
variety dried.
Plant and growing shrubs in pots.
Spirituous liquors, wines and all
kinds of liquids, one quart of each
variety.
Minerals, building stones, precious
stones, marl and phosphate rock,
any size specimens; soils, one foot
square as deep as desired, boxed up
so as to retain the same shape as
when taken from the ground.
Wood and timber specimens, if in
sawed form, one Inch thick, any
width and length; If a seethm is
sawed from the tree, to be anv sice
lfi Vom the tree, the
"..w. w iiro iai u cuuiigu mjuarv
at least two by tour inches, by four
foot long.
Manufactured goods, from cotton,
wool, flax and silk, each sample
usual width, si yards long; from
wood or Iron, ono specimen of a
kind.
Stuffed birds and animals; Indian
relics and curiosities; photographic
2JW f V? Urm9 and men'
va
nikv a. a
wve 11st 01 aruciea may oe
' I added to, both in variety and auan
"UWIUluK w wa is proauceu,
manufactured, or found in each
state or community.
Jno. T. Patbick, Secretary.
PARTY LEADERS TO BLAME.
An Issue that can no Longer be
, - Tferttttled.
That r.o plank favoring the resto
ration of nil ver to Its former and
rightful position as money on a
parity with gold has been incorpora
ted into i be national platforms of
the party since 187.1 has not been
owing to a lack of sentiment up-n
the part of the men who compose
the party, not because no food rea
son existed for going back to the
free coinage of silver, but because
the leaders not the party but the
men who have had the honor of
speaking for the party through
cowardice, or else through a mis
conceived idea as to policy, have re
mained silent. But as time has
advanced the evil effects ot the de
monetization of silver has been felt
more and more, the necessity for a
larger circulating medium has be
come more apparent, the oppressed
and debt-ridden farmers of the coun
try have realinxl each vear more
than the preceding one, the wrong
done to them by the demonetization
of silver, and the necessity of in
creasing the circulating medium
of the country, hence the earnest
and continued demand of the masses
for free coinage. These things made
It imperative for the party In its
various State conventions last fall
to speak out upon this issue, and
makes it imperative that the- next
national Democratic convention
take a stand upon this issue. The
party Is, in consistency and honor,
irrevocably committed to free
coinage, and w. 11 not forsake ; this
issue, but it may be that fear . of
antagonizing the money centers
the usurer and money lender On
the part of the leaders, will deter
them from putting a free coinage
plank Into the next national plat
form, but in this event, the leaders
will forfeit, and the unity will loe
the confidence of the iop!e of - the
South and of the West. It Is Im
possible to throttle thl issue, which
like Banquo's Ghot,will not down.
It. it. Q. in Rational Democrat.
PAHKEllSBURG DOTH.
Special Correspondence.
- . June 20th, 18tt.
Our sister to vn Roseboro claims to
be the boat huckleberry market, but
we claim that Parkettburg la the best
market. Our Railroad Agent , F.-W.
Cansey, paid eight cents and sold to
the Northern market rr seven epts.
W. J. Parker A Son have shipped
to date, 20th of June, 230 crates of
huckleberries. If any . one firm on
C. F. A i . V. can bet that we would
like to hear from them. - r -
Mr. t. P. Parket is digging IrVh
potatoes, the Hum we ever saw: A
New York drumm r carried off one
weighing 1 pound. 1
Rev. Jdr. Geddie, of Bladvn, paid
our town a vi-it to-day..
Prof. Parker, ot Dunn, was in our
town yesterday, r .
Mr. J.K. Alelvln, of Red Borings
paid our town a visit hut week.
The Sabbath School at this place is
flourishing., Over fifty members.
Admibxb.
1 -; -, Taarists .
; Whether, on : pleasure bent or bus!
i nera, should take on every trip a bot
tle of Syrup or Jigs, as it acta mos
pleasantly and effectually on the kid
neys, liver ana ooweis, preveaung
fevers, headache ana other lor ess or
! sickness. For sale in ou oeut ana $1
bottles by all leading druggists.
Esdl III
THE 81X IUG BLUNDERS OF
LIFE, AS VIEWED BY DIL
TALMAGE.
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ATRU2IIIC0U5 RUSH AT THIS Dl
UCHTfULSIASlDL -
iHiMHiN bormpoaovacf.i
MoBjtwajtD N. C Juna so.
W reached this dallf htlul Mace
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on but Wednesday night. The Too,
who were ahead moL with the
300 who arrived at on the same trala.
taxed th maoamoth hotels t their
utmost capacity. The day had been
excessively hot and as soon as sup
per was over we skipped away in
one of sue graceful sharpie screes the
smooth sound, parsed the foam nest
ed bar and were out on old ommn
restless bosom to enjoy by moosllght
theeool and refreshing breese. In
addition to this add the luxury of a
daah into the surf (snd no where,
possihly, on the Atlantic coast Is the .
surf sner than here) fbr an hour.
and the Ured, languid effects of over
work and hot weather are gone, you
feel strong, your step Is lighter you
ae a now man.
This session of the Assembly is
one of more than usual interest. In
addition to the programme of regu
lar sessions fbr the instruction and
Improvement ot teachers, there is
an extraordinary array of fine speech
es by big men. The opening address,
by Dr. Haodtrlln, "on the Import
ance and Dlralty Due the Teacher
for he' high vocation." was most
enjoyable and Instructive, lie said
that in every school each pupil will
come under one of the following
heads: (l)The plodding ox, (2j the
stubborn mule, (8) the fiery horse,
or (4) the soaring eagle.
To manage and develop each one
of these different kinds of pupils with
varying abilities and temperaments
requires In the teacher a high order
of (1) Patience. (2) Perseverance.
(3) And discriminating Judgment.
This molding of Immortal mind is
great and terrible thing. You
might Judge by the above skeleton
that the speech was dry, but It was
anythingelse. It was acknowledged
by all to be the most entertaining
speech ever delivered here.
President Mclver's Inaugural Ad
dress (he is President of the Assem
bly and also the newly elected Presi
dent ol the Normal and Industrial
School for Girls) wus a fine effort.
Subject: The History of the
Teachers' -Assembly, and what Its
Future Promises."
lie began by telling of the organi
sation of the summer Normal at
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change to eight Normals at different
points In the State, and then the iai
tlal movement for a grand gathering
of teachers set on foot and fostered
by Maj. Eugene ilarrell. He traced
Us growth from Waynesvllle, eight
years ago to Korehead to-day, giv
ng to MaJ. Ilarrell a warm tribute
as to the earnestness with which he
had pushed on the movement. lie
told or the presidents and the dir
ent lines of study they represented;
high school seminary, public school.
university, college and evangelistic.
This gives a true index of the work
of the Assembly.
What has the Assembly accom
plished? In addition to pleasure and
profit f rom the social stand polat, the
professional work has been of high
order, the educational exhibit haslo-
creased in attractiveness. Teacher
and others have been enabled to see
North Carolina as they would never
have seen her but for these yearly
meetings at rea-ride and on moun
tain; vUits to points or Interests in
the rcfontry have been and evert old
ocean has been crossed and Europe
visitea oy tne Korth Carolina teach
er. Another thing it has done to the
establishment of theTeacheasTrain-
lug School just located at Greensboro.
Great applause greeted the speaker
at the close of his address, for it was
indeed a delightful, instructive and
interextingone.
, Major ringer was announced to
speak on Popular Education. His
remarket were devoted to MA Four
Month's Course ot Study fbr Public
Schools," sn outline of wh ch be
had p'aced on the blackboard, and
on which he bsjMcd his remarks. It
was a well arranged and exhaustive
schfiaieof tudvandif such a eonrsa
could be used in every public school
in worth Carolina a va t Improve
ment . would be soon found in the
schools. It laid out a course for
eleven years, four months each -year
to be devoted to its study.
As soon as MaL Fiajer has fully
developed this plan he will give it
to the press for publication and have
copies sent to every public school
teacher Jut the Stale. . ;
; WU TAUtAOX SPXAXS. :
The event of the week was the lec
ture by Dr. Talrucson Thursday
night. He said: .
My former Idem of a lecture
' - , IContiuttsd'o Fourth Prc-J