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-. c:v H Caucasian; i i VOL. XT. ! DITOR'S CHAIN. " OP N ON OF THE EDITOR ON THE ISSUES OF THE DAY. I n r"4iiiij the ulllr ictl in time of art- jii-t to please ii lot cf lu-art-- -kuluwugi who h:iv ji curiKT i tr"'l is enough to warrant tli- t'jilc I'l declaring war. I lie iitu !!) 4 r-.l iii in coin. Silver Ik oin but, .!r. ( 'ai ii.-li.- does not know it. There h plenty of silver in 1 1 -treasury, but he is using only for go'd to redeem with. If lie would be-in pay out silver lir would burst the 1 conil oniinne. i. I nl It'vHiiii'l rcien'.Ty lt. that "the ieople rule." ii rather pleasing information : :it tin's time, for the people of j..-opl West, have been knprcss.d i the belief that Wall street and great trusts and corporations doing all the ruling. Ifockv Maintain News I Ik- Ii-iiiM-ritti- press j making ii-iderablo noi.se about the pledge i the national Democratic plat .nti to break up and abolish trusts, id calls upon Attorney General Oiney (o do his duty in that direc tion. Until Mr. (Mey vacates his position as counsel for the Boston and Maine and the Chicago, Bur lington and Quiney railroads lie will jiaiuiy una nine ro conineuce war cor- i I ion any great monopolies or uratioii.- J M.ji.iM- : iin; ff six-i-iilators d tin and got a law lint, tin must be recognized passed is the h-gul tender money metal. W'oiild'nt that iranr thrive.? C7 CJ - Wii iln't they be in cloven l.'i'MiH hilds and the bank of i 1 " i :?,0U0 million of the Eng ',700 Mmm dollars worth of coine.' kne you a ja- iri"t when vou throw mi vonr l-if the party that represents the gold oiiibine? "Denver Koad. ! Ii xiiiall I'ry Kiileitfli pulit i-ians 'r' lot because the civil rvioe regulations have been applied .i the Raleigh postofflce. This will ceep nearly every liepuolican clerk and employee in office under a Dem ocratic postmaster, who will be ap pointed. All this shows that when fch- Ir.dcigh politicians were howling $r I, v, land and Civil Service "re fau in he was either insincere nr f.1a. lid not know what ho wni lmu-iinir or. 1 1 IS now evident ih-i l.o ti-.ia 2 - - ..v ill. IIUO liter Spoils. Illlt it. is M-l-tninlu ;ht and for the best, or Cleveland i u in not U; lor it, so these little loll leians s inn shut m Hie ( harldltc Oliscrver coiiiiiii-iil iiiLT on me of the bad laws passed by the publicans in the Reed Congress nd trying to excuse the Democrats i the last Congress for not repeal - Iig them says: "l.ut whether or not the last Con gress could have undone or the" next nigress should undo all the rk- of the ' Fifty-lirst, the et remains that it was the work of ns ioUv which has broiurht f lip n n try so near the verge of bank ptcy. Are we to understand from this iat the Observer is willinnr to onn. itself while the people con- ! i II- to suffer. Iiv sav ncr thfxt. tho 's were passed of the Republican 'i ty ? The people expect the Dem I'ats to reform and repeal these H1 laUS and if it. HAPS nnhin if Ainrl did not try to in the last !ig:--ss) then it is more culpable P i i the. Kenublican nartv. for thev A i -jr j adding the crime of hypoc- tl .. J. Warner President of the i'uefaKj Legion in a recent speech "Thtrequirmet of the world . uwLmti u UiVllCJf IU 1 L VAC VIII ,dh, and not more promises to be te emed in gold." The Rocky Moun in Xews commenting on this dec- liation says: "It is the financial mi "blem solved in a paragraph". It ins to us that it would be com n sense to see what kind and how ''eh mon?y the United States needs, fWe we concern ourselves about I'an-'intr for thft -ivholH world. Part the world will waut oue kind and M't U'lfitllf-r, Vnr instinnpu Plmr. ml will want us to have a credit i'-v based on erold and sha" will er t )' r bonds if we will make them U'a i.n. :i i ....i i "v uuui iui,i;iesi auu princi- " m gold. Then she will control 'r money and hence will control us. "e people don't waut a money that w ye redeemed in another kind of ;Qey, but a money that is legal Ner, every dollar standiog on its "".m riuu wiil pJ cciy ucut us any 'other dollar. And if Engross had the nerve and the faesty to declare every dollar, pa- f0r metal, a full lesra) tender then f 18 would be the case and vou would far more about erold leaving the or silver deprecia tinsr or anv Qrot which is now used to hum- 0ana rob the people. 611 1h The minify whi.U will he Lot hy U- prent poorly organized 'abor strikes ia the United State-? would. if saved and oled into one fun.!,! provide for such a labor inovcii! nt ! as would sweep half the eongre,,i on-j ul and Statu elections next year. A it U the longest jKK-ketbook will win luii.l I. 1. ,. 4- ,1 i' i.i 11.-11,11 in j-ni n .struggles. V jtlli H U better Hinc.lv than strike-? 'ote right and there will be m ii'T-esj-if v- for strikes. . Some of the bitter partisans thought, no doubt, when the legis lature passed" the bill repealing the Alliance charter that the organiza tion would be so crippled that it would eventually be crushed. That was their hidden purpose, but "the best laid gang uft f-ehemes of mic j and men i'dee." Thev tackled the " mi et, and their partisan work- wrong may yet act as a boomerang. The reports a id the denuciatory resolu tions sent out by the Alliances show that the brethren feel the outrage deeply. THE NEW YORK WORLD WAKING UP- The intelligent and honest "plain people" will say that the party came into power on false pretenses or it is incapable of effecting the reforms it promised. In either case the in creasing body of independent voters, who hold the balance of power in elections, will be disgusted. The Democratic party cannot retain power without their sympathy und approval. This may as well be recognized lirst as last. The time has gone by when any party cani.ot achieve a permanent! success ly insincerity and humbug. Democrats who think it safe to ig nore their public pledges are the worst enemies the party can have. Vi t ;. " its in control of both ...n.ses of Congress there can be no! division of responsibility, no shift ing of the blame. For whatever is done und whatever fails to be done the Democratic party will have the whole responisbility, and cannot es cape it. N". V. "World. ENGLISH FARMERS IN THE SAME FIX The undeveloped resources of the United States have been so immense that the evil effects of the contrac tion of the currency has been less pe-fppt.ible. Yet with us, the mone tary stringency to which it gave rise has crippled the agricultural indus try and loaded it with a hopeless bur den of mortgage indebtedness. It has wrought the same or a worst ruin to the farming interest of England. The proceedings of the agricultural Congress of a few months ago de monstrated that English farmers are beginning to understand the cause of their oppression, and American farr.iers are fast learning to place the responsibility for the bulk of their financial troubles where it properly ly belongs- to falling prices and bu siness stagnation, caused by scarcity of money conditions wrought by ruthless averace for the purpose of causing a shrinkage in all values ex cept the value of money due to the monopolists of wfalth. THE LINE OF-. DEMARCATION GETTING FAINT. Ex-Senator Palmer, of Michigan, is becoming philosophical, as he al ways was urbane and amiable.. He ceased long enough from reading a home paper at the Ebbitt last eve- niug to remark: "Will I go back into politics?. "Well, hardly; that is, if I consult my own desires. There is really not much iu modern American politics. I mean that there is nothing to in spire, to arouse enthusiasm. The line of demarcation between the two big political organizations is getting so faint that presently it will disap pear altogether. There must be some sentiment involved if you would get people stirred up, but pray tell me what is there of the ideal, the sentimental, or the romantic about the tariff on tin plate-or the feasibility of a new bond issue? DOYOU MEAN IT. Ueclip the following from Web sters Weekly: But for the greedy of monopoly there would not be a labor organi zation in the country. If working men have gone to extremes it has been from necessity and not from choice. There were no strikes or lockouts before the war, i. e., be fore monopoly was enthroned. Let the Democratic party re-establish old-time justice in the countiy and the clash between capital and labor will cease. Capital and labor should both be made to obey the law. Crush mo nopoly and re-establish justice, and the labor organizations will have no excuse for existence. Col. Webster talks right, but if he means what he says he will have to vote differently, unless Attorney Oluey gets a move on Tiiui begins the suppression of trusts and mo nopolies.: No'more bonds forever" should be the cry of the American people. BOARDS OF COUNTY CANVASSERS .- " I ' ' j- " ' SHZOTTXiD BE EXjIECTIEID i hkv Air tuvi; A THE MA CHINE v. ixzic r:iNE, to r THKOW OKTTOWNSuii . C' -MIT ALL NECESSARy&a (Ji 4 WHY DID THE LEGISLATURE THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOW THESE IMPORT THE .UIEMWEVT H AS I)EI0tRTH', THE PRESEVT LUV'.J 1 ;'E ESsE('E OF M(II1E POMTKS. Aiiii-iuliiKiil Would l:irlc Hole (Continued from The Klet-tion Law An It In. Sec. 21WS. The board of county commis sioners, or upon their failure, the insiieetors of election, mU.iII provide for each election precinct in their resjieetive counties nailot loxes for each class of officer to he voted for, in which to deposit the ballots for such officers respectively. Each of said boxen shall have an opening through the lid of sufficient .i.e to admit a single folded ballot, and no more. The said ballot boxes ahal) he kept by the judges of election for the use of their several election precincts respective ly. And said judges of election, before the voting begins, shall carefully examine the ballot boxes and see that there is nothing in them. Each box shall be labelled in plain and distinct Koman lesters. with the name of the office or offices to be voted for, and the question or questions to be voted upon. The majority of the judges of election for the county and State officers for any voting precinct, with the registrar of sieh precinctT may, if they think it expedient so to do, rail off, at a cost to be approved by the board of county commissioners, and to be paid for by the county, at such precinct a space or en closure, with an opening at one end or side for the entrance of the voter, and an open ing at the other side for his exit, as a polling place in which to hold the election ior the State and county officers. Only one voter shall be allowed to enter, such polling place at one time, and no one except the judges of election shall be allowed to sieak to or interfere with the voter while in the polling p?ace casting his vote, which shall be pu; in the proper box or boxes by said voter, or by the judges at the request of the voter. All voters shall pass through said enclosure with out any delay of time, so that said passage shall not be obstructed by delay unnecessa rily, outside of depositing lr's vote or votes. A similar, but separate and distinct, space or enclosure may be railed off as a polling place for ;he election of members of Con gress and Presidential Electors, at such dis tance from the polling place for State and county officers as the judges of elect on may designate. In the event such separate poll ing place shall be designated for holding the electionfor members of Congress and Presi dential .Electors as herein provided, the methods for holding the election and con ducting the voting shall be the same in all revects cs those X'rovIe(l in hi amend ment to said section 2iW8 of The Code for the polling places for State and county officers. The registrar appointed for such precinct shall have power and authoriiy to appoint a deputy registrar for such separate polling place, to whom shall be furnished the names of all persons qualified and entitled to vote at such precinct, and the judges of election appointed for such precinct and reg istrar shall appoint two suitable and discreet persons as judges or inspectors of election ior such separate polling place, who shall be of different political parties, where possible. The registrar and judges so appointed for such separate filing place shall be sworn to perform their duties according to law, shall make due returns of the election, and have all the powers, privileges and authority con feTed on them by law as in the case of other registrars and judges of election: Provided, however, that if 'the judges of election at any of the voting precincts in this State do not see fit to carry out the provisions of shis amendment to said section 2083 of The Code, then, and in that event, the election at said precinct not adopting such provisions shall be conducted in all respects as is now provi ded by law. The Amendment to Section 2G28 provides that the Board of County Canvassers for each county shall be elected by the people. Under the present law the members of the Board are appointed. Appointed by whom? Appointed-by the Judges of election and registrar, who themselves were not elected by the people, but were appointed by somebody else who l ii were appomieu oy some otner someoouy who had been appointed. In short the present law is a regular system of machine politics, all the man agers ofit are appointed. Pure Democracy is the will of the people and a3 of ten as it is practical to get the will of the people on vital questions, it should be done. The present law is not Democratic, but a machine method which is fruitful of corruption. The election law makes the Canvassing Board a court a judicial body, with great power. This court sits to "judicially determine" the result of the election a courtjhat has to decide on mat ters that really concern every voter in the State. Yet how is this Court selected! It is appoistied! Appointed by the machine! What is com plexion of the court? Always the same as that of the machine, though two-thirds of the voters of the county were not in sympathy with the ma chine. Here we have a political court to try a case to which the court is a party. What 'would the people think of a Sup2rior Court Judge trying a case in which he was financially interested? The amendment provides that the people in each township shall select a man, that the majority has confidence in, to serve on the Board of County Canvassers. This would break the hand of the machine at that point. Then the Board would be a court representing the wishes and sentiments of the majority of the people of the county. Then if the majority of the Board of county canvassers were Democrats then the people of the county would be Democrats and it would not be necessary to throw out severai townships to get their party in. And where the majority of the people were Populists then the majority of the Board of County Canvassers would be Populists and the machine Democrats would not have a chance to steal and count themselves in. The law was once fairer than it is now, but the machine politician has at last gotten it so that he can commit almost any kind of fraud that hejlesires. We have referred before to the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Peebles vs Commissioners of Davie Co. where in the Court said that the Board of county canvassers could not go behind the returns to throw out townships. But the politicians at once demanded of the Legislature that a law should be passed overruling the Supreme Court and it was done. We will quote from that decision of the court in next issue. . " , ' The amendment also repeals that part of Sec. 2688 that allows the ma chine to erect dark voting stalls or the "fraud bull-pen" as an indignant voter expressed it - A party that has gotten so corrupt that it can't stand the light, should die. And a free liberty loving and honest people .will stand its domination no longer. Where were those votinar stalls built at? Where it was necessary for the machine to do stealing. Oyer a hundred thousand voters will testify to this. ""The number of votes that were mani pulated in these dark holes can never be told, but the astonishing results in many counties shows that 25,000 votes stolen would be a small estimate. When enough votes were not stolen in this way then the board bt county canvassers did the rest. They threw out one, two, three, four or. five town ships, as the necessity of the case called for. Hot a single township in the State that went Democratic was. thrown out. . .j-'Jv .l-"---'--;' . - (To be Continued Next Week.) GOLDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, .MAY 4, 1893. PEOPLE. VOTE DOWN AN VED THE PEOPLE' iTjpjqi FANT OFFICERS ? . : Have lrt von ttl Votlna MttillM. 'iit-tit y his Issue of April 20th. An It Would He Amended. Sec. 2G88. The board of MllTUV commissioners, or upon their f." the inspectors of election, shaii vide for each election preen in their respective counties a ballot box for all officers to be voted for :xcept Cor. stable and members of the Board of County Canvassers, and foi those officers separate boxes, in which to deposit the ballot. At each election precinct a person to be known as a member of the Board of County Canvassers shall be voted for in a, separate box to be provided as other ballot boxes, with such duties as are prescribed in this act. Each of said boxes shall have an opening through the lid of sufficient size to admit a sinsle folded ballot, and no more. The said ballot boxes shall be kept by the judges of election for the use of their several election precincts respectively. And said judges of election, before the voting begins, shall carefully examine the ballet boxes and see that there is nothing in them. Each box other than the general box in which the Govenor and other officers are voted for, shall be labelled in plain and dis tinct R ornan letters, with the name of the office or offices to be voted for, and the question or questions to be voted upon. It shall be the duty of the judge of election upon request to tell the voter what each box, is for. THE RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE. Tb Ktnpa Ivm-rmt diM-nMiag lh proposition for the people to own and control their public franchises savs: "Many a well-to-do farmer does not epend $10 in fare or freight over the railroads in a whole year. If the government buys the railroads he must help pay for them, and it will tuin him to doit, and then if he wants to ride, or ship anything over the road he must still pay his freight or fare. Just as well bav a horse and wagon, and then have to pay for it when you waut to u?c it." We are surpised that a man of Mr. Bethume's sense and fairness should put himself on record with a state ment like the above. Every oue knows that if the "well-to-do farmer" or any other kind was not to buy a single railroad ticket in a whole year, that he would be contributingall the same to the profits of these roads, to their big dividends on watered stock and to the princely salaries of numerous offices &c. Every bag of guano, every plow, every rope, every pound of coffee &c, that the people buy has had the profits of the cor porations added to the price. On the other hand from every pound of cotton, and every crate of strawber ries shipped, the profits to these cor porations is taken out of the price paid to the producers. The people are willing that these transporta tion companies shpuld have a fair price for their work, but they are not willing that all their profits should go to make railroads rich and leave them poorer each year. In short the numerous fortunes piled up by the railroads and other cor porations and monoplies of the coun try is extracted at last from the people who labor and create wealth. But this is not the worst feature of the railroad business in the hands of private monopoly. The extent of their corrupt influence on legisla tures is unmeasured. If - the last legislature had collected the taxes due the Wilmington & Weldon rail railroad alone, the farmer about, whom the Democrat seems to be concerned, would have had less taxes to pay himself. Whenever a man or business escapes or evades taxation, some other man or business must pay what the other should have paid. logic, it is simply stunning. When a man buys a horse and wagon, he pays the horse enough corn and fodder to keep in good working or der, and pays enough repairs on the wagon to' keep it in good running order and then pays some one to drve it if he hasn't time to do it himself. Yes he pays this himself and does not expect anyone else to pav it. It would be very foolish in him to turn and give his horse and wagon to an other man, and let that man not only charge him enough to feed the horse, keep the wagon in repair and to pay the boy to drive it but also charge enough to pay himself a big profit. Soon Mr. A., the first man, would find himself coming out ' in debt at the end of the year, while Mr. B would have made enough to buy him a private carriage for his own exclusive use. And when at last Mr. A. began to speak of this injustice, he would find that Mr. B. would laugh at it Then Mr. A. would appeal to the law makers and to the courts to see that he got his rights, but" he would find that he had no rights that Mr. B. was ahead of him and the law makers was on B's side. How much better it would be for the farmer to-day if the the mails were conducted by private monopolies so he could pay 5 cents on a postage letter, and let the private monopoly get the 3 cents exira and grow rich so they could help the railroads to corrupt legislatures and congress. How delightful the ideal It is a condition and not a theory now confronting the people. They want and must have more dollars and are not concerned so much about the theory of "intrinsic value." Who cares whether silver cost only thirty cents an ounce or a dollar and thirty cents an ounce to produce it It is the cost of acquisition after His coined that gives the money value. If silver will buy as much, as a mere commodity, a3 it would as a nnit of value, it stands to reason that it will return to a parity with gold when it is restored to its function as a monev metal. Gold buys twice as much as it should because its volnme is de creasing in the same ratio and ten dollars now does the work of twenty. The producers of this country are willing to take the -silver dollar for their labor and they are glad to get it - ..' " -:X ': :.v:;;'. - - our Itright Postmasters. The New York Tribune says that a letter was received at the Topeka post-office addressed to George W. Eightquarts, Esq., and was duly de livered to the proper party, " Mr. eorgeW. Peck.,. WOMAN'S SPHERE. "MnT talk atxHit woman' ffhert A though it had a liwit. Ttre' not a plne in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind ctvm, Thre col a bkrminx or a wo. There' not a hi.iwT rs or no. There's not a life, a irlh or birttt. That has a fiUer weight of worth. Without a woman in it." 4Mit:u vol it nr.t i or. Tour (IimJ I'ulut NtmlUtil Attention Saw Vor the Canting skirt. The crinoline was fl ret adopted to conceal a lack of svuiruetry in the lines of the figure below the wafst, and served the purpose well. The woman with a beautiful neck and handsome arms could safely jass for a well-made woman even though he presented an awkward fulness of out liue elsewhere. But the modern adaption of the crinoline is only a pitfall and a snare to this sort" of woman and especially to the woman who stands badly. The woman who throws her hips forward and flattens herself in the back where her figure, to be beautiful, should curve out gracefully, has reason to grieve at the coining of crinoline. The new skirt tita tight over the hips, below this line that is, from just above the knees, it swings out Now if a woman is larger iu front than she is anywhere else especially if she so carries herself that the most of her bulk is thrown forward and trudled ahead of her, as it were, of course all HAN'DSOME HALF MOUKXIXG. the swing of the dress spreads to the front. Her stiffened skirt will be tapping her heels in the back and scooping along with a snow plough effect in front This is no exagner ation. I have just seen a skirt worn in this way, and where it was most conspicuous, of course. To add to the horror of it, upon the bodies, at the point in the back, and just where tne ngure should have been most prominent, was set an upright bow of the kind that is set on hats. On a gracefully curved figure it would emphasize the curve and delicacy of the waist, but on a flat back it merely aaaeu to tne general eitect ot thick ness and filled up whatever hollow there may have been. Take a lesson from this. Do not seize upon a fash ion merely because it is new, particu larly a pronounced one. Just look over your list of defects first A woman should dress according to the limitations of her defects, rather than with a view only to her good points. The latter will take care of themselves, if you are wise and look out for the others A charming dress of cream colored Indian crepon is pictured above. It is trimmed with black velvet and Irish guipure. It is designed for the period of half mourning. There is a delightful air of elegance about it and its full skirt is eminently grace ful. In such a costume the plainest girl would have a certain amount of style, that almost undefinable ap pearance of distinction that accom panies a handsome toilet To avoid the sewing together of breadths in making the stylish full skirts, double width material is being usea wita its wiatn tor tne skirt length, and a hem sewed along the selvage for the foot of the skirt If you want close fitting hips, gores ac complish it, and goods used this way tends more easilrto outward lines. Even narrow goods is thus treated, the joinings being around and around instead of up aud down, and the fulness of the skirt and its outward flare are thus not interfered with by perpendicular seams." Three widths and a half of even narrow goods make a skirt length, and the seams are finished with quillings, ruffles, or what .you . like. Of course, these horizontal lines are supposed to be trying; but remember, a woman's height i3 judged by the length of the line of her skirt When her skirt slants out, the line it actually makes is a longer one than if it hansrs straight down. Thus the flare skirt really adds to the impression of height, and therefore, these horizon tal lines may be risked with such a skirt while with the sheath skirt they wouiu nave te3n ratal. Jstelle. A LAD WKITKS CS A KIND LETTER. Bat Don Not Give ns The Suggestion we Desire. . ." . Hebrox, April 14th 1893. Dear Mr. Fditur: As no one has replied to your very reasonable request of "How do you like my pa per &c?" I thought 1 would. Well to begin, it is a clean sheet bright, crisp and newsy. There seems infused, into every column the spirit of a man whose soul is full of "milk of human kindness," an un selfish being who has quietly walked into the ranks of the humble and lowfy; encouraging here a little, re- uun.iug mere a iitue in an orotneriy kindness. " - . It is a splendid electric "light, shining ever and ever so far into dark corners, showing the faces and deeds of the Ghouls at work there. It U an educator worth lolnmn of Encyclopedia. And often looit o cheap to all fighting tho Urtnons of fruU, and nnrightroutno. 't love that pajter almost acrvd!y, it it ours! We are just too proud of it bcn comjviml to sora of the tKvtT crowing, male varnin?, pritight ing shtvti I utvd to read, my tate it better educated now and reach r-5 aUive slush, cush and Uwh. Please do nut let up on thoaw lVgii latom who tried to kill our Alliance. Well "What would make my a- ht I tter?" Why it ii growing, mdding aud blooming into a perfect "giaut of the Battles Ko." I can't tell you, for you make it better ench issue. A Fkiexp. We appreciate the kind words fpukeu above, even fear our friend U too kind. We want the advice, sug gestions and criticism of our friend, it w ill help u$ and thepaier. Kik Meal !!! ut. Mb. Eurroiu X. C. Our Dorcas Society is comjosed of all the young girls iu our little town. Xot that any of us are so alarmingly young, but we use that term to dis tinguish us from the matrons, who hav a similiar club. Gossip is for bidden, so while we sit and stitch away at, htrange garments for the poor and for the heathen, we talk of many things of art, music or let ters, and sometimes, when all other objects pruve unattractive, we fall to discussing the horrid men. 1 will write yon what we talked about at our last meeting if you will not give my name or my town. Our theme was the ideal huslaml, his desirable and undesirable qualities. The president rapped with her scissors for order. "Moll," she said, "you Wgiu. Let's hear your ideal." Mollv looked dreamy. . "Well," the said, slowly, "in the first place he must be big and strong. I hate little men. They always make me think of lizards somehow. Then they must have big blue eyes and not be easily affected by trilles. Xot the sort of man, for instance, who would kick up a row because the biscuit happened to be burnt, or something like that In short, 1 prefer an easv-goiug, good-natured man, who would In? inclined to think his own wife and children the very nicest in the world." "A man like that would set me crazy," said Lillie. These good natured people always make me long to throw a teapot or something at them, just to see if it isn't possible to ruflie their tempers for a minute. For my part I couldn't have the least affection for a man that I wasn't I just a little bit afraid of. I rather prefer a man with a epice of the crank in him, providing he makes up for it by being ordinarily cheer ful and jolly; and not given to prowl ing around the kitchen and pantry. That is a trait I feel that I could never forgive, and, unfortunately, you never tind it out till it is too late. 'I ill death do us part, would seem an awfully long time with such a companion. Xellie calmly snipped otl the thread at the end of a seam and threaded her needle again beiorj be ginning. "I should like," said she, "a big, old-fashioned house, furnished as I like and just within driving distance of the city. I shouldn't want to be very rich, but I should like plenty of horses and carriages, and to be able to dres3 well and entertain "Bat the husband, the husband," we interrupted, we want to hear about him. Nellie looked surprised. "3ly idle husband," she said, with dignity, 'is the man who will provide me with all this." In the buzz of discussion that followed Nellie's ideal, the scissors rapped again, and the president's voice was heard calling on Mildred to speak. Mildred is tall and stately She wears "boiled shirts" and tailor made gowns, and recently rejoiced in suspenders that were the secret envy of all the young men she knows. She rather looks down on young men, however, and is given to snub bing them. The most brilliant im agination could scarcely fancy her in love. "My ideal life companion," she said, thoughtfully, "is a man some what past his first youth a man who has seen much of the world, is clever, a good talker and holds ad vanced views on all subjects, par ticularly the woman question. He must wieh in a wife a friend and companion, rather than a mere house keeper. I do not know that there is anything more to say on the snb ject 1 have not given it much thought" - "The brilliaut talker is nearly al ways disagreeable at home, though I wouldn't for . the world insinuate that quiet men are always angels, by any meaus. xou can t judge any man by his company manners. About tbe-bfst way to discover his real dis position is to get really intimate with his sisters and get invited to visit them fora month or so. If I ever found a man who could stand that test, I would take him quickly be fore another girl got him. On the whole, I think the not too clever man, who is fond of good eating, and is not troubled with dyspepsia, is the most easily managed and de sirable husband to be found. From dyspeptic husband may the gods preserve ns alL" -Alices turn came last She isen- f aged, and we were eager to hear er ideal. She refused to give it, however. . "You all know Jack," she said, "and I may as well tell you that he is not in the least like the ideal I Continued on Third Page. XO. 28. BIRD rrr m mil il 14 OF TM POUTSCAl SiTUAT-CN ; STATE ISO NT!ON TMt 4 nirt; avt mit: iMtk at TIIK MAURI MI-.1HHH A n Til U iimtiv Wfcjr Kwtfc Mr sire Mere .! f.r IKrTte Kl(fc Mt nkr"lt mm lk ! lfMtn ! lcrJ.T. tir,t sf Ike llaagry little IrlUws Thet Wsi'l l-IVe OiU ftn IUI.r KrMblc wh are lrliin tm. rrtfrOiM-lhe leevee mt mHi KekM-JaMle Arjr im ee4 Jade Ittrk-Kiea tke tltetterT !Wif4 fcvoate keeker-. V-v Vaaaly W kH m Itrlare! (CorreHwlnu lo The t an, a.iau Kalu-.u, N. ('., Mnh lvj-t. The sveenr that art daily enacts! around thw Kxerutive- I part im-nt at Waahicpton are being rrji-atrM nu an equally intense if a loader cal Jti every town in the State of North Carol inn. It iH.tfe to assert that in the hiKtory of the country there ha bevli u aueh scramble for ufllee a now exiftt; nc t r m many ' patriots willing to neglect private lmini for the ir; and eni! v earned im-miu. , derived from a "pull" at the enb of t'nele Sam. That there i immi iuti-nse and treneral anxiety fr oflW in thw VJ il. it T . .1 a nouni man in uie .orth may ix ac counted for in the fact that ueatly every man here who can trad anil write in a politician, or at least w regard himself, and further, that there is more genteel poverty here than there, which genteel por class diitdaining to work for is living con hidern itnelf bound to live upon the public, ludeed thin claM would likely feel aggrieved hhould the pul lie dnqiute the aumed right. Huxinc men in proxperous eondi tioa w illingly cast aside the druJgery of the desk or counter and go out in all weathers to enter a practical con tent, displaying n much real an the most venerable political tyro, and bringing to bear intliienecH that are more powerful than the argument of the politician. In the small country town a man with a afe huincKft and a fair entlit built up after year of honest hard work will often be found pecking the hiiiaH fourth cIuk postolllco in hi tow n with as much anxiety a the cal political Miohh.' Haleigh although m capital of the State and n comparatively large town is no exception. While it i the focuM of all or nearly all the po litical action iu the State it yet ha a full complement of local statesmen who would bo glad to receive recog nition at the hand of the llcniocrat io administration. Situated in the 4th Congressional District (Congressman liunn's) and containing one of the bent postofllces in the State besidea being the place where the Intern il Revenue Collector for the Eastern District hold hi fort, it need not excite surprise if there ahould be an unusual amount of wrangling here. What murmuring that, are heard near the throne at Washington regard ing disappointment at certain rul ings of the Executive of the nation, are expanded here into openly ex pressed anathema against the prin ciples of(an it is called "going square ly back on one' friend, referring to the rule not to give ofllco to any one who held office under the former administration, and also the idea of permitting Republican to nerve, out their term. And most of all that civil service ruling which will keep in the present clerk', who are Republican. In this is a ccies of politics which southerners cannot understand and will not TOI.XRack. All may pas off with a smoothness and a gloss that is imperceptible, but the hour aud the occasion will arrive when the feting will be shown to have had its antidote. The Raleigh postofflce is a bone over which there is much conten tion because element of dis cord have Wen introduced into the conflict which are " entirely new to this class of appoint ments It ban been the custom in this State under all parties for the Cong ressman to control the appointment of postmasters within his own dis trict without regard to the wishes of the Senators, but it seem that Cong ressman Bunn is not to be allowed . this priviledge, at leant so far a the Raleigh postoflice is concerned. It is understood that the wishes to have a faithful and efficient friend appointed to this office and that both the Senators are antagonizing him with a man, clever and competent though he be who cut no figure in the last campaign and who had xot been conspicuous in behalf of Cong- ressman liunu. tlenee there is a pe culiar fight over one of the biggest offices in the State. Should the Sen ators win which seems likely it is possible that a medium sized sore will be left to wrangle within the manly bosom of Congressman Bunn, which is likely to display itself if there is no truth in the rumor "that he would not be so powerful mad af ter all. Meanwhile the Republi can postmaster, the most cordially hated Republican in the State, ealrn ly.holds on to the emoluments and patiently wishes the fight to get more bitter. If the bigger lights growl so over a big office it can easily be conject ured what a state of tribulation the lesser lights are undergoing at the prospect of delay and the 'growing society of places. Harrisons last civil senrico order dampened the souls of partisan Democrats in this city when he unceremoneously placed withinthe Civil Serviee rales all the clerk and mail carriers here. Thus, at one fell swoop,' he took heart and hope and courage- from the local "workers" who, strange to say do not seem to realize that he did it, but prefer to cast all the blame upon their whilom leader, Grover Cleveland - It appears that the only large " office about which there has been no dispute is the Collectorship of In ternal Revenue for this district which is to go to Mr. Simmons, tha . chairman of the Democratic State - (Continued on Taifcl Page.) Vr 1 1 v 1 i i J
