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0 . ; . .... " ! ( J p I . . . -4 - 1 ; - - & . BW" W CMa" AlJfti JJ." Jly; JtAS "".V flL n 7 r w v i j , - - J fms Paper is 43 YkarsOld CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1896. VOLUME XLIII. NUMBER 2237 THE HARLOTTE DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED BTIBT 7KIPAY TEBM8 One Dollar in advance; Two Dol- Irs on time Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C, second class matter, according to the rules ot eJJODeartme Irs. mccombs & gibbon. DESIRE TO INFORM THE PUBLIC, bat they have this day entered into a copart nership for the PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, AND . SURGERY. March 1, 1895. March 15. 1895. JOHN FABBIOB, I. 4 SOUTH THYOH STREET, CHARLOTTS. R. C. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. DEALER IN amonds. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Sil ver and Silver Plated Ware. 3J Special attention given to Fine Watch pairing. Jan 25, 1805. BURWELL, WALKER & CANSLER, Attorneys- At-Law, SOHS N08 0, 0, AND 13, LAW BUILDING, N. C. CHARLOTTE fjan 4, 1895. DR. E. P. KEEBANS. DENTIST, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Dffick 7 West Trade Street Not. 2, 1894 HUGH W. HARRIS, Itorney and Counsellor at Law, I Office, Nos. 14 and 16 Law Building, CHARLOTTE, N. C. luly 6, 1895: . OSBORNE, W. C. MAXWELL, J. W. KEEBANS. SB0RNE, MAXWELL & KEERANS, Attorneys at Law. CHARLOTTE, N. C. . T Offices 1 and 3 Law Building. T practice in the State and Federal Courts. ct 80, 1895. c DBS, XX. A. & C. A. BLAND, Dentists. CHARLOTTE, N. C. No. 21 Tbyon Street. an. 3, 1896. fRIOT CLABKBON. CBAS. H. PULB CLARKSON & DULS, Attorneys at Law, Charlotte, N. C. Prompt attention given to all business in all Courts of the iBted. Will practice in Jtte. lyOfflce No. 12 Law Building. JOct. 7, 1896. H. N. PHABB, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Jfflce No. 14. Law Building. Promot attention to all business intrusted. fecial attention given to claims. Practices in late and Federal Courts. Jan. 6, 1895. HE ACKNOWLEDGED Leading Seeds Are BUISTSI - B U I S T S 1 1 We open oura today, fresh from the grower. ant only "Buist's Prize Medal Seeds." and bu are sure of a crop. R. H. JORDAN & CO., Jan. 19. 1895. Retail Druggists GO TO ALEXANDER'S DRUG STOBE, NO. 216, NORTH TRYON STREET. fcps a well assorted stock of all articles usualy kept in a Drug House J. B- ALEXANDER. The Poor prescribed for free. April, 8, 1895. FINEST LOT x er brought to Charlotte. This is - idle boast We have the finest of PERFU ME3 in the city. Rick ker's best in FANCY Bottles. Cases, Flasks, etc., in GOOD shape for an EL KG ANT PRESENT. It RECOMMENDS ITSELF. IT WILL PAY 'YOU TO 8EE IT. H. JORDAN & CO., Druggists Dec. 28, 1896 E. NYE HUTCHISON. FIRE INSURANCE. Offices 16 East Trade Street ; 4 North Tyon treet, up stairs. Feb. 19. 1895. QUEEN CITY HOTEL. In visiting Charlotte, Don't fail to stop at the Queen City Hotel, Corner East Fifth and College fits, Everything first-class. RATES, $100 PER DAY. July 6, 1895. W J MOORE, Prop'r. Surgical Instruments. full line of Surgical Instruments at Manufac turer's orices. Call and examine them. tW Mail orders will be promptly attended to B- JI- JORDAN CO. Sept 20, 1895- Queen Victoria is in possession of a curious needle. It was made at tbe celebrated needle manufactory at Red ditcb, and represents tbe Trajan column in minature. Scenes from the queen's life are depicted on the needle, so finely cut that tbey are only discernible through a microscope. There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is tbe best thing in the world, either to get a good name or to supply the want of it. TRUSTEE'S SALE Whereas John M. Hanna and Rosa J. Hanna ma on me linn day of January, 1890. execute and deliver to Albert R. Shat tuck, Trustee, a trust deed on certain lands in Mecklenburg County, SUte of North Carolina, therein -.escribed, to secure the torn of $100, due by laid Jons M flanna and Rosa J. Hanna to the British & American Mortgage Company, Limited, which said trust deed is recorded in Mecklenburg County, in Deed Book 69, Page 262, to which reference $s hereby made; and whereas default has been made in the payment of tbe moneys se cured by said trust deed; and whereas the under signed has been duly appointed substituted trus tee in the place of said Albert R. Shattuck, as provided in said trust deed, and has been duly requested to execute the trust therein contained; Now therefore notice is hereby given, that nn -der and by virtue of the power contained in said trust deed, I, the undersigned substituted trustee, on Monday, the 6th day of April, 1896, at 12 o'clock M., at the Court House door, in the city of Charlotte, N. C, in Mecklenburg County, will by public auction sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, viz: One hundred (100) acres more or less adjoining the lands of Mary Barnett, George Elliott and others, and bounded as follows, to wit: Begin ning at a Spanish oak on the branch, and runs north 44 deg E43 poles to a stone, thence north 52 deg W 54 poles to a stone, thence north 61 deg W 59 poles to a stone pile, thence south 61 deg W 83 poles to a Black Jack, thence south 29 deg W 114 poles to a sour wood, thence south 65 deg E 216 poles to a poplar stump on the branch, thence with tbe meanderings of the branch to the beginning. Said land will be sold to satisfy the debt se cured by said trust deed, and such title will be given as is vested in said trustee. E. T. UANSLER. Substituted Trustee. Mch 7, 1896 , 5w Notice of Administration. Having qualified as administrator of the estate of the late J. Q. Potts, deceased, all persons holding claims against said estate are hereby no tified to present the same to the undersigned on or before the 20th day of March, 1897. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. This March 18th, 1896. W. M. BARRINOER, Administrator, of Estate of J. G. Potts, dec'd. March 20, 1896. 6w Administrator's Notice. Having qualified as Administrator with the I will annexed of Mary Jane Giiffln, deceased, notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against tbe Estate of said deceased to present the same to me for payment, properly vertified, on or before tbe 13th day of March 1897, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons mdebted to the said .Estate will please make prompt payment. This March 12th 18H8. M. W. GRIFFIN, Adminstrator, With will annexed of Mary Jane Griffin , de- March 12th, 1896 6w Administrator's Notice- Having duly qualified as administrator of the estate of John G. Miller, deceased, all persons having claims against the estate of said John G. Miller are hereby notified to present to me ior payment on or before the 1st day of March, 1897, . .- -it i i -,i v.. . .1. or mis nonce win ue pit-aucu iu uai ui uku ic covery. All persons indebted to said estate are notified to make immediate payments to me. Administstrator, Estate, J. G. Miller, dec'd. Feb. 28, 6w WHAT WE WANT. YOUR WHEAT AND CORN. Bring It Along 1 What We Will Do. Pay You the Highest Market Price at all m TV ' 1 . . a times, in cash, ior lour urain, or wcusnge You the Best Roller Flour and Meal for it What We Have. tST The Best Equipped Mill in the State. Your Patronage is Desired. TBE MECKLENBURG MILLS, Charlotte, N. C. ' March 20. 1896. FRESH MEATS, GAME. FINE GROCERIES. SEE ME i i ' Eefore Selling Your Choioe BEEF CATTLE. PORK. EGGS CHICKENS, &c. Always in Market for above. GEO. S. HALL. Feb 28, 1896. WARM OVEB SHOES. Ladies wool lined plain rubber oveiuhoe. price 50 cents, less than you can buy than any where in America; uauica wtu.u -gold seal" brand every pair warranieu, PRICE 50c. This nerahA will wear longer than two pairs of any other, ever made, comes high up sll round, affording more protection from mud, rain; or snow, than any of the fancy styles cdst- ing as much, and not near so gooa. LADIES RUBBER BOOTS, for working garden in early spring, every iaa should have a pair With rubber boots you will not mind the weather "so the wind dont blow. PRICE $3 09. Best stock of shoes in the State. Jan. 24, 1896 uuatifiATU ce w. NEW REMEDIES GREAT VALUE AT DR. J. B. ALEXANDER'S DRUG STORE. Special Tonic Tablets, Postillers wvwnan'a Fr1nd. The Great Renovator. En nntr of the Doctor about these Remedies. May 18, 1895 1 16 N. TRYON ST. Nancy's Picture. rrankL. Stanton, in Greenville Reflector. Strange thines happen in this wort': a fellow never knows Bnt when he's erievin' bout a thorn 'twill blos- sun) to a rose; An' when he ro'ls in roses from summer time to fall An iesl enioviu' of himself, a blizzard ki Is 'em all f i An' say In' that reminds me of a little story true As the sermon that the parson keeps a-thunderin' at you; t's all bout a pictur' that a feller had to paint, ; But don't think Tm the hero of the story, for I aln.tr Jim fell In love with Nancy, an, I'll 'say this muck for Jim : He was a sich a likely feller, Nancy feel In love with him; The day was set for marryin all things was going right An' for Jim tbe sun was shinin' an' the stars was out at night But ooe of these here artists men that takes your pictur1 fine That aakes em' look as big as Hie jest makes you rise an' shine ! He came along an' says to Jim: "Your lady cai't be beat ; want to paint her pictur' with them red lips smilin' sweet 1" An' Jin he give the order; the artist jerked his coat To paiit the face of Nancy for a twenty-dollar iiote ; An' every day, in rain or shine, she'd go and sit to him ; An there wasn't a livin' mortal that was happier than Jim. The artist kept a-paiotin' an' Nan she'd never stir, But she' frequent 'caught him smillin' an lookin' sweet at her ; An then the thing got mutual, an' so one sum mer day, They fell into each other's arms an, took an run away ! Twa bard to realize it gone with Jim's weddin, ring An' twenty shinin' dollars he'd been savin' up since spring 1 But Jim he iest set down an' said : "This here's a queer old worl'!" An' held on the pictur, for the artist had the girll Two Lives Saved. Mrs Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, 111. was told by her doctors sne naa consumption and that there was no hope for her, but two bot tles Dr. King's New Discovery completely curea her and she pavs it saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggers. 189 Florida St. San Francisco, suffered from a dreadful cold approaching Consumption, tried without result everything else then bought one bottle vt Dr. King's Hew Discovery ana in two weeks was cured. He is naturally thankful. It is such results, of which these are samples, that Drove the wonderful efficacy of this medicine in Coughs and Colds. F ree trial bottles at Burwe 1 & Dunn, Wholesale and retail, Drug Store, Reg ular size 60c. and $1.00. LOOK AT THIS. TABLES AT $8 50 8 50 $8 50 ! $8 50 Would not be bad on a table, especially when vou can get a $12 50 Table for omy $8 50 ! That is just wnat you get at js. ai. uojh w d . The grandest display of FURNITURE I ever shown in oar History, ine prices, not withstanding the advance in many lines, are lower than ever before in our History. Buying in such large quantities enables us to get THE BEST - PRICE ! We do not buy just one of a kind, bnt 10, 20. 40. 50 and 1.000, if the firm has MADE AN INDUCEMENT 1 -:o:- BEAUTIFUL -:o:- For tbe little folks Useful, Ornamental. Ap propriate ! The display is ready. See them Doll Carriages. Doll Sets. Doll. Bedsteads Velocipedes, Express Wagons, Childrend's Desks Rocker. Chairs. Music Racks and an endless variety that you mutt see OUR LEADER IS COUCHES 10, 12. 22.75. 15, 18, 22.50. 25 and $50 They are WHAT YOU WANT 1 E. M. ANDREWS, Larsrest Furniture Dealer in the STATE. Feb. 7, 1896, sip bcial. :0:-S PRING HARDWAR E-:0:- We are selling the only RIVETED COTTON HOE on the market, and it would Pat you to examine our stock. THE GENUINE DOWLAN COTTON PLANTER always gives satisfaction and is the one for all farmers to buy. TURN PLOWS or All. DXSCBIPTIOHS, Plow Shapes, Sweeps, Single-Trees, Back Bands, Trace Chains :o:- and a complete stock -:o:-of HARDWARE. Call in and see us. J. H. WEDDINGTON & Co., Old Stand, 29 E. Trade St. March 18, 1896. What Famous Women Say. A Collection of Opinions Regarding the Ster ner oex. Men' of sense do not want silly wives." Jane Austen. "All men are poor creatures, more or less." Georges Sand. ' 'Men are a medly don l you tninkr Mrs. Humphry Ward, "The richest man should work if be can." Dinan Ki. aluiiock. "Men work and think but women feel." Christina G. Rosetti, "What a fine thing it is to be a young man." .Frances uurney. "There's nothing methodize? man but business." Frances Burn. "JNo man is altogether evil; there. ;s la tent good in him." Edna Lyall. 'One eannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight Jane Austen. "A man must be able to support his famtly.or else remain a bachelor." Geor. ges Sand. "All careers are desirable tor men who know how to make them so." George Sand. "Men the very best men, can only suf fer, while women can endure." Dinah C. Mulook. "Men of business do not. as a rule, bias zon their own dirty work." Mrs. Hum phry Ward. "Men shrink much more than women from any phisical suffering or deformity." Dinah U. Mulock. "No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at." Maria Edgewortb. "Vanity never leads a man towards tbe error of sacrificing himself for an other.' Mme. De Stael. "Knightly love is blent with reverence as heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue." George Elliot "Remember one thing no man can tail to fulfill his destiny but through his own fault." Georges Sand. To laugh at men's affairs is a woman's privilege, tending to enliven tbe domestic health." George Elliot. 'Men who have seen a good deal ot lite don't always end by choosing their wives so well." George Elliot. 'A straight forward, open-hearted man may be safely left to manage his own concerns. jane Austen. 'A man capable of conquering habitual indolence eannot be of feeble character." Maria Edgewortb. 'Man is very apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.' Christina G. Kossetti. 'ln the average man there is still a dreadful amount of Eastern feelling with regard to women." Edna Lyall. "Love occupies vast space in woman s thoughts but fills a small portion in man's life." Maria Edgewortb. "The best augury ot a man's success in his profession it is that he thinks it is tbe finest in the world."- George Elliot. "Man is not made for that selfish con centration of diBpair whioh is stoicism." Georges Sand. "It is easier for the Ethiopian to change his skin than for a man to live down tbe past in public opinion." Edna Lyall. "The just living of a lifetime makes a man incapable ot any more seinsn handling of another's interests." Mrs. Humphry Ward. "JNo insult ottered to a man can ever degrade bim : the only real degradation is when he degrades himself." Dinah C. Mulock. Jsew York Journal. A disgruntled subscriber writes : "Mr. Editor I like your paper generally likewise yourself you deserve much of my respect. Nevertheless, cross- from your dazzling list ot subscribers my bumble name or stop printing those bun ders of Dr. Pierce. I know bim by heart his medicines are O. K. 1 had tbe sickest liver that ever was sick and lived, and his 'Pellets straightened out its crooks. My wife, sister, children, cousins, aunts and uncles, bave all been strengthened by 'the mystery of their magic' I am truly grateful; but when I sit down to read one of 'Napoleon Bonaparte s Jokes or 'An irishman Crossing the Alps, must 1 always bave to blunder into tbe old story of how 'Pierces Pleasant Pellets are purely vegetable and anti-bilious, pleass ant to tbe tast cure sick headache, re. lieve torpid liver and always give satis, faction ? MELLON & SHELT0N ED. MELLON. TOM. 8HELTON. NEW. STYLISH, SPRING CLOTHING. BT THE TH ( 1 TT S A (V n Sj -LA O A J.1 Jy O HATS, UP TO DATE. New and Pretty. -ESl 31 trC 'Am' S3 Socks, Collars and Cults. BEAUTIFUL SUITS. The Best Goods and Low Prices. COME TO SEE US. 1 NEXT DOOR TO H. BARUCH. March 27, 1896. An We Ceasing to Be Christians? Nashville Christian Advocate. The New York Post, which is a very able, and for tbe most part, a very decent paper, seems, nevertheless, to have in curable prejudices against evangelical Lnri8tianity. It comments favorably upon the proposition to abolish all chap laincies in the State Legislatures and other publio assemblies, and intimates that tbe time for publio praying has probably passed. We beg to say that tbe .Poet's habit of being cocksure on the tariff and the currency is hardly favor able to a fair consideration of a delicate and complex question in religion. Men will not cease to pray till tbey shall have utterly lost all sense of dependence npon a higher Power that is, till they shall bave become radically different from what they now are: and tbey will not cease to use publio prayer until that social instinct which draws them together into congregations and Churches shall have been quite extirpated. But the Post says : Col. T. W. Higginson. in the Christian Register, notes the revolution that has come about within his recollection in the matter of saying grace at table, or "ask ing the blessing," as it is commonly called in New England, and having family prayers. In his boyhood there was scarcely a family in the First Parish of Cambridge whicb did not observe each of these customs; he thinks that twenty would be a large estimate of tbe number wbicb still keep up tbe praotice. At a publio dinner over which Col. Higginson presided last winter be asked "one of tbe most eminent of Unitarian clergymen," who sat near him, whether he had better invite anybody to say grace, and was promptly informed that it was ceasing to be customary, and advised against it. Last summer "another eminent Unitarian minister" dined with him, and tbe host. as a matter of Courtesy to him requested him to ask a blessing. "He did so; but it seemed as if he did not expect it, and I thought it would be better not to take tbe thing for granted again." It gives us pleasure to say that affairs are not as bad in the South as this para graph indicates that tbey are about Bos ton. Thousands of families in this section have, we are sadly constrained to admit, abandoned household worship and grace at meals: but this lapse is by no means universal. We take the present occasion to urge upon all our people not to let the altars fall down at tbeir hearthstones. No merely temporal misfortuLe could be a thing so much to be deplored as that God should cease to be formally and regularly recognized and honored in our homes. Let all tbe pulpits enforce tbe duty of parents in this respect. Our fathers were praying people, and we shall be morally and religiously degenerate if we fail to follow in tbeir footsteps. There Is a Chance. Monroe Journal. Was there ever a better opportunity for a young man than today, whether be have money or not? We think not. Young men are often heard to say there is no chance for them and it's no use to try. When a young fellow uses such words as these it is pretty apt to be true that there is no chance for him, but be wrongly places the responsibility upon tbe world. It is not tbe world that is at fault, but himself. There are few oppor tunities for the man who can do nothing, but there is every chance for theone who has fitted himself for something. The man who has prepared hinfself to do well the work of any particular field can always find work to do. .Does any one know a good farmer who is not getting along well? Does any one know ot a first- class mechanic wbo cannot find work to do? Does any one know of a first-class salesman who cannot find employment? Does any one know of a good workman in any particular field who cannot find plenty for bis bands to dor .Besides that there are hundreds of people who have not learned any trade or made any special preparation tor a particular work, still if they are men of pluck and energy they can and do find plenty to do. When they cannot find it they make it. The trouble is that too many act upon the false the ory that the world owes them a living. Tbe world owes no such debt. If it does it has repudiated it and will never pay it. There are plenty of opportunities but they are like the ore hidden away in the mine, they must be dug for. The Kind Who Build. Durham Sum. If there is anything on the face of the earth that makes us long for eternal rest and deep, damp solitude, it is a man wbo comes to a town or county, builds up a big paying business, grows rich, and then squats down on bis gold like a hen on a door knob, and is too stingy even to let tbe gravel grind in bis own gizzard. A. real, genuine. 1 -tear at, stingy, salt ish man can not he honest, and if he ever gets to heaven and has wings, he will fold them up and walk for tear that he might ruffle a plume or lose a tail feather. The kind of men wbo build up a town or a county, and eniov life and make the I best citizens are energetic, enterprising -ni liberal man. who haliv la living - - i -- " o and letting others live, and who, when they get a dollar, don't squeeze it until the goddess of liberty feels as though she bad on a corset. Such squeezing is what causes tbe hard times and stops tbe circulation of tbe American eagle. If it were not for the broad-guaged enterprising men, it would be impossible to build up a prosperous otty. Lite would be one big game of grab, and the devil take tbe hindmost would be the order of the day. Old People. Old people who require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find the tree remedy ia Electric Bitters. This medicine does sot stimulate and contains no whiskey nor other in toxicant, but acts as a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, adding i strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby I aiding Nature in the performance of the func tions. . Electric Bitters is an excellent appetiser and aids digestion. Old people And it Just ex actly what they need. Price fifty cents per bot- i lie at .Harwell a uunn, wnaiesaie ana retau I drug store. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Mi AesoEjamsnr cants Why r7i Are Especially Cuba's Case. Interested In New Trt Sun. We are primarily interested in it be cause liberty is at stake there. That is to say; the Cuban people are battling for their liberties, and a foreign military power is battling against them and thetr liberties. Tbe Cubans are striving to fol low the example of our Revolutionary forefathers in throwing off an oppres sive foreign yoke ; Spain is fighting to keep them under that yoke, as England fougkt to keep us under her yoke. In each case tbe circumstances resemblo those in the other.' As we honer our own Revolutionary sires, so we honor the Cuban revolutionary patriots. Tbe Sen. atoror other person who is of the anti Cuban stripe would have been of the anti American stripe if in existance 120 years ago. Tbe man who upholds Spain at tbe time, would have upheld England at the other time. He who ridicules the Cuban Declaration of Independence would have ridiculed the American De claration. He who defends the bloody Weylar in the Senate or elsewhere would bave defended the bloody Tarel ton, or Burgoyne, or Enyphausen. He who mocks the suffering Cuban revolutionists, would bave mocked Washington when he retreated beyond tbe Delaware at the head of a few thousand ragged and starv ing Continentals, or when he was en camped at Valley Forge. Tbe anti-Cuban Kro-Spanisb speech ot Senator Hale of aineand that of Senator Hoar of Mas sachu6etts sound as though they had been written by Tories when Hutchinson was the royal Governor of the British prov ince which now constitutes tbe States of Massachusetts and Maine. Tbe war for liberty in the Spanish colony of Cuba is of tbe same nature as the war which was fought for liberty in tbe British-Ameri can colonies, now free and independent. This is tbe chief reason why we are in terested in the Cuban revolution : the Cubans seek liberty. "For always in thine eyes, O, Liberty I Shine that high light whereby the world is saved." We are interested in Cuba's war for liberty, also, because it is right. Truth, justice, and honor are on Cuba s side. For these Cuba has taken up arms. All her hopes for tbe future lie in ber success She has suffered under the obstructive rule of Spain for centuries. Generations of Cubans have lived and died under that galling and truculent rule. There bave been ten or twelve uprisings against it in this century, each one more sanguinary than the preceding one. The people have lougct against their wrongs; tbey have fought for their rights. The Spanish rule is intolerable to them ; they have the right to throw it off. It is a rightful struggle in which they are now engaged. We have also a sympathetic interest in the Cuban war for liberty and for right because ot tbb abominable meaus taken by Spain to crush the resurgent people. She las placed in power over them a Captain-General of infamous name and antecedents, wbo, as soon as be took possession of bis paiace, and tbe effrontery to promulgate a number of inhuman de crees and so give orders that tbey should be executed under circumstances which prevent tbe world from Knowing of tbeir execution, it pains us that two American Senators should speak of this man's nefarious deeds as Senator Hale and Senator Hoar bave spoken of tbem, or should scoff at the reports of tbem which bave been sent out under the sign-manual ot tbeir perpetrator. Surely no true American of Revolutionary stock ought to dishonor tbe name got from bis sires by defending tbe Spanish miscreant who bas been sent to Cuba, or by scoffing at a revolution wnicn is as justinabie as waa that in which his own ancestors took part. We ourselves partake of the sym patby whioh the American people feel for the much-suffering Cubans who bave struggled bravely for tbe past thirteen months in behalf of American pnnoiples. mere it yet another consideration, though it may be ot less gravity, which leads us to take an interest in tbe case of Cuba. "Europe," says Senor Moret, tbe Spanish jurist, "cannot permit Cuba to become independent, because it is destined to be tbe (filbraltar of the Western hemisphere." Here, indeed, is a state ment that is deserving of our thoueht. What Gibraltar is to England. Cnba must be to Spain, or, as senor Moret says, to Europe. As Gibraltar strengthens Eng- iana in tne meauerranean sea, so Uuba is to strengthen Europe on our Atlantic seaboard and in tbe Gulf of Mexico. Cubs is the point of vantage for Europe in Anerica. It is to be held by Soain as a spot from which a foreign enemy can opertte against us. It is to dominate the crnf tinnn whiAh ia K. ttnmat nf fi.. nf An. Southern States. It is to be the arsenal. the naval depot, tbe bulwark of Enrona agaiist America. It is to be a perpetual menace to this country. Uuba must be held by a foreign power because it would be uiefnl to any foreign power in the event of war with the United States. Spain, then, will not permit Cuban inde pendence tor tbe reason given by Senor Moret. The Spanish flag does not float over Gibraltar in Spain, but it shall float over Cuba-Gibraltar. senor Moret s declaration but adds to our interest in Cnba and in tbe cause of Cuban independence. We do not like it that Cuba shall be held by a foreim power . . . .V aa a menace against us or tor tne I " p"iy vuujaou Kmarea ai lation of our country. We do not 1 "Ctions. Thousands are cured at their intimidation of our country, like it that liberty and right shall be cruihed in Cuba for a purpose that mar be 4esirable for Europe, while it is hostile to ourselves. Spain does not like it that Enjland holds Gibraltar, situated upon opsniso territory; ana no more can ws like it that there shall be an alien Gibrai. tar lying close to our territory- Very serious, indeed, for the American Govern. Latest U. S. Govt Report C0 ment and people is this consideration. It inoreases oar immediate interest in the case of Cuba. It is manifest, then, that Cuba must be wrested from foreign hands. Spain must be driven from Cuba. The Cuban people must receive our encouragement in their war for independence. We must en courago Cuba for the take of liberty and the right, and also for the . sake of our own safety against foreign aggression. We ean abide no defiant Gibraltar stand ing over against tbe United States. We cannot abide an enslaved Cuba forever, or hear unmoved tbe "muffled shrieks of freedom," generation after generation. Our Publio Charities. BlbUoal Recorder. North Carolina may rightly be proud of her public charities. No State provides better for ber unfortunates, in tne an nual report of tbe Board of Publio char ities for 1895 record is made of progress along all the line of the work, and the fying condition of affairs in all the instU tuttons. As there has been somewhat of an effort to supplement the work of this board by certain people who we cannot believe know anything of it, it is well to give some idea ot tbe system ot tbe board's operations. Five gentlemen make up tbe board. Tbe office is with out salary, and the only cost to tbe State is the expense of inspecting committees, of the Secretary wbo is paid but meagerly for the great amount of work he has to do, and of printing tbe report. These gentlemen inspect tbe several institutions for unfortunates maintained by the State; they are set between the helpless and tbe officers, whose fitness might not be ques tioned but for tbe uncertainty of politics, no one ever knowing when a change will be made; furthermore, they see that the buildings are kept properly, and look all tbe other parts of tbe institutions, in addition to this central board there are visitors and auxiliary (women) visitors in every part of the State who are charged with seeing to tbe welfare ot the inmates of county homes; and tbeir reports are also published in tbe annual report. Fear of unkind treatment often adds to tbe grief of those wbo bave loved ones in Kublic institutions. Tbe horrors of mad. ouses bave been portrayed until the public mind is filled with them. But under this system there is no reasonable ground for such fears. We daresay tbe reader will be sur prised at tbe greatness of tbe amount of money appropriated to our publio insti tutions tor tbe untortunates ; but there is no one of Christian sensibllites wbo will grudge them a oent of it. Tbe asylum at Baleigh for the insane cost last year $65,245.60 for support, $4,590.47 being I4.5y0.47 PP?priated for old debts and $9 800 for repairs besides. The hospital at Morgan- ton for the insane cost last year $100,000 for support, repairs and equipments. The Eastern hospital (colored) at Goldsboro, for tbe insane, cost last year $47,000 for support and building. "This liberality," says tbe report, "is not misplaced for an examination of tbe reports of these noble institutions will show that at no period have they rendered such extended and admirable service in restoring to the lists of aotive useful citizens and tax pay. ers those, whom diseases had stricken down and threatened to render them a life long burden to tbeir friends and tbe commune ity." Seventy seven patients bave in one year been restored to activity at tbe Morganton institution ; tbe proportion of recoveries to admissions at tbe Raleigh asylum is 47 to 100; and at the Goldsboro hospital 33 to 100, in a year of an unusu ally large number of admissions. Tbe list of publio charitable institutions ' maintained by tbe state, with the excep tion ot some outside aid in one or two instances, includes, besides those previ ously mentioned, the Nortb Carolina in stitutions (two) for tbe blind, tbe institu tion for tbe deal and dumb, the Oxford Orphan Asylum the Colored Orphan Asy lum, aiso at uxiord, tbe soldiers' Home. ""r . -i!T7.-ui" - ..y ' lUMU ' " " uob m uuriubuto institution. ui ail these, good reports are made though certain desirable improvements are asked for. On more is needed and that sorely a reformatory for youthful criminals; and we bave hopes of seeing it started next year. 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The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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April 3, 1896, edition 1
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