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TrieU of the Trade.
There- me tricks in all trades but
i-.-.rs." i. one of the aphorisms of the
! -i-mess world. It reminds the
p.'fiilativf observer of the old wo
who serio'iely remarked, "The
world is full of queer folks. I'm
u! .id I'm not on? of 'em."
The candid clerk would never be
nl.le to starve to death respectably.
He would be discharged before lie
had told the truth twice. Imagine
him saying to a customer: "Here
i a piece of goods that is so coarse
von can shoot peas through it, . and
all cotton at that, although it is
marked half wool. It will fade at
the first wearing. How many yards
shall I cut you off?"
He would himself be cut off from
his business prospects and without
the customary shilling,
A youth of this sort was engaged
as assistant in a irrocerv store. lie
rnded himself on ms fconestv ana
candor. When he saw his employer
sell a pouud of prunes he said in the
presence of the customer: "Yon
must be glad to sell another pound
of those wormy old prunes. They'll
soon be ali goue."
The nest moment he was out of
situation.
The shrewd business man leaves
something to the intelligence of his
customers. As long as
thin;
is
not misrepresented let them find
out defects for themselves. But the
d iy of sanding the sugar and wetting -down
the tobacco is over. There i
an imeiglemeut of another kind
now. ChroniO cards and gifts have
had their day, but there is the quar
ter off ar.d the half-off sale.
Can any one outside of the busi
ne?s tell how the accomplished clerk
holds up a piece of dress good3 in
that lirtle pyramid on the counter
where th'i light strikes it so as to
bring out in bold relief all its best
colors and make it look as if it were
the loveliest fabric in the store?
One clerk will say, with his head
over on the side like a little bird :
"It looks like you, Miss . It's
a fact ; I thought of you as soon as
I saw it. I said to myself Miss
will want a dress of that piece."
Another will remark incidentally
under the same circumstances:
Your friend, Mrs. Col. , bought
a divss from that piece."
The customer hesitates and is
lost. In other word;?, she buys the
gi'mds, being helplessly enshrined
in the science of delusion by those
ch-rks who know their business.
A lady went into a dry goods
st . re and asked to see some goods
d;.-played in the window.
'You don't want that style of
gufds," said the clerk, who knew his
customer; you wouldn't wear it."
Then he took down dies? after
dress from his reserve stock and as
he did so rem irked casually.
"Vi:i wouldn't wear a window
dress. This, now, has not been
shown before."
Of course the customer was flat
tered into buying a dress, and the
clerk was right. He knew that the
goods removed from the illusion of
plate gla8 would not please her. A
clerk soon learns that a lady is nev
er offended when her tastes are re
membered and alluded to with grace
ful tact.
A customer sees a sale "of half-off
advertised at a clothing store where
a month ago he bought a suit for
$30. He tells a friend who has ad
mired his suit that he can get one
just like it for $13, and hurries him
off to the clothing store.
"Show this gentleman a suit like
mine the same thing."
"Certainly, sir! This way, sir
They are marked down now with the
rest, $25, sir."
"But you arc advertising all your
goods at half-price. What does this
mean ?"
"Oh not such goods as those, sir
Impossible. Why, look at the qual
ify. We are selling our regular
stock at ha'f price, but these " and
words fail to do him justice to the
subject.
And very likely the man buys n
suit which cost originally less
than $15, and is perfectly satisfied
in getting it $5 cheaper than his
iriend bought his, merely recogniz
ing commercial acumen in the little
trick ofhalf-off.
The best salesmen of to-day do not
persist as much as their predecessors
did. Thev make their troods speak
for themselves. A Detroit merchant
relates a story of a clerk of long
ago who followed the lady to the
door with the goods. Then he be
gan to unroll it and the customer
took hold of an end to prevent it
falling on the floor, so it went. He
unrolled the goods until she held g.t
dress pattern in her arms and she
felt compelled to take it Another
clerk was approached by a lady who
VOL. II. NO. 52.
wanted while silk mitts. He did
not have any, but he jumped over
the counter and followed her to the
door to tell her he had a new bolt of
brown linen sheeting in and a re
cipe for bleaching it white. This
was in the good old days when De
troit wu3 a village and everybody
knew everybody else's business. The
enterprising clerk kuew that his
customer for white silk mitts was
about to be married and go to house
keeping and would need house linen.
This ganging of people's needs and
reconciling them with their purses is
quite an enterprising feature of
business at all times.
It is a fact the dry goods store is
the principle attraction of the busi
ness street and a fertile spot in the
desert of commerce. ; It has color,
variety and" an attraction that no
other place can possibly have. The
commonest piece of red and yellow
stuff will look rich and elegant in
those long graceful folds that have
such precisiou of detail, yet looks
careless and artistic in the total
effect. The man who did that
gauges his usefulness by those folds.
It is related of the late A. T. Stewart
the millionaire merchant, that in
passing through the side of his great
store in which the goods were ex
exposed for sale that opposite to
the Broadway side he saw a piece
of velvet stacked to catch the eye.
He inquired who had arranged it in
that way, sent for the man, who was
a new hand, and told him it was
wrong. The man answered Mr.
Stewart that it was the proper way
to display that class of goods. Mr.
Stew art said no more, but he watched
and saw the velvets managed in this
way for some months. Then he sent
for the man and promoted him to
the velvet department of the whole
sale store.
"I saw that you knew tno:e aboat
velvets than I did myself," was the
only explanation he gave. The best
clerk is the reader of human nature.
He coerces one into buying and in
timidates another. The merchants
have a proverb that any salesman
can sell a customer the goods that
she came to purchase, but he is a
good salesman who sells her what
she does not want. Every clerk has
his particular friends who like to
trade with him because he is oblig
ing, or courteous, or entertaining.
It is his trick of trade to be all these"
to his customers.
TUe Wealth of President.
Maryland Letter in Church Year.
Washington married a rich widow,
and left an estate worth $300,000,
but John Adams was not worth one-
sixth of that 8u m. Jefferson died
so poor that if Congress had not
given him $23,000 for his library he
would have been bankrupt. Madi
son was economical, and left but a
small estate. Monroe died poor ;
John Quincy Adams left $0,000,
the result of prudence. Jackson
left a large landed estate. Van
Buren died worth $300,000- It is
said that during his entire adminis
tration he never drew any portion
of his salary, but on
leaving took
in a lump.
Filmore was
the whole $100,000
Polk left $150,000."
an economical man and added to his
wealth by his last marriage. Pierce
saved $50,000. Buchanan left
$200,000, Lincoln $75,000, and
Johnson $50,000. Grant, notwith
standing the losses to which he was
subjected, had a handsome support
in the fund provided for him by his
friends and the sales of his books en
rich the family. IIaye3 is said to be
in handsome financial condition, and
the Garfields enjoy a liberal pension
and the income from a large fund
contributed by the public. Cleve
land has, no doubt, saved $50,000
from his Presidential salary.
Wat One Snonld Bo.
N. Y. Sun.
Things that a well-bred man
doesn't do :
He doesn't wear large checked
clothes.
He doesn't nse perfumes.
He doesn't beg a woman's pardon
for neglecting to call on her.
He doesn't criticise one woman
to
'another.
He isn't always trying to tell a
good story or make a brilliant re
mark. He doesn't make gifts that he
can't afford.
He doesn't try to turn a. compli
ment with every breath he draws in
a woman's presence.
He doesn't use a crest on his
writing paper.
He doesn't take his women friends
into his business or love matters.
He doesn't ask to he allowed to
smoke in the presence of a woman,
unless he is morally certain that she
docs not object to it.
m:gi.ectei wives.
A Striking Pnper on tin Important
Nnbjeet.
What a record of selfishness and
indifference Eome of our greatest men
have left in their domestic life.
Though ignorant no doubt of the
far reaching consequences of every
word or action, yet the penalty is as
swift and sure as if the law were
knowingly violated.
Dr. Franklin, the far famed utili
tarian kite flyer, went to Europe,
leaving his wife behind him, and
never saw her face for eleven years.
But she shared his poverty, practiced
his poor Richard maxims, pinched
and economized, patched and darned,
bred childreu and nursed them
through the chicken pox, whooping
cough, incasInC scarlet fever, and
fits, while Benjamin enjoyed the
epleudors of a court, velvet couches,
good dinners and choice society.
When he returned the poor drudge
was no match for the great philoso
pher. That her heart rebelled in her
solitude and neglect is manifest in
the headstrong act3 of her children.
Franklin quarrelled with his sons
and disinherited one of them. Thus
were the mother's wrongs avenged.
Henry Clay, too, thought he could
safely leave his wife at Ashland to
bear children and make butter for
the Lexington market.while he made
laws for the nation and made love
to lovely women in Washington.
There his heart stood always open,
as a boarding house door, but shut
against her, who was playing Solo
mon's wise woman on a farm in Ken
tucky, cutting out lindseys and jeans
for the negroes. Ilia dream of am
bitiou over, sick and sad he returned
to Ashland, to find that the domestic
drudge called by the holy name of
wife, had reared him a race of de
generate children. He was filled
with disappointment, but his sorrow
only measured the depth of the
mother's humiliation. The aug(
of evidence and retaliation were but
equal. Was it the unhappy mother
that made olc son crazy with hope
less love, another a sour, discontent
ed man, overcome through life with
a sense of infirmity, :r.id jockeys and
gamblers of the rest?
Truly wisdom is justified of her
children. We do not gather grapes
of thorns or figs of thistles. We
cannot quench our thirst at sweet
and pleasant streams whose fouu
tains we have poisoned. Henry
Clay, the great pacificator, the
staunch protectionist, is dead; his
compromise measures are scattered
to the wind, but his misdeeds lived
long after him. His son, Theodore,
lingered in an insane asylum upward
of fifty years, a long weary life of
hopeless despondency.
One son was an influential mem
ber of Congress, Governor ( f Con
necticut and judge of the supreme
court. Another was one of the larg
est land owners in the West and
commissioner of patents in Washing-
ton. One daughter married the
chief justice of the supreme court of
Connecticut,, etc., all alike taking
first rank in society. Late in life,
reviewing her course and its results,
she used to say that she had made
one grave error. She had thought
it her constant duty to stay with
her family on the farm, as thus she
could best help her husband. lie
went to Washington always without
her, to France without her, and
though their affection was not lost,
their knowledge of each other be
came unsatisfactory. She used to
say to her daughters, "Keep with
your husbands, go for a few weeks
every winter to Washington;, never
mind the long, tedious, hard stage
ride; keep with him at any sacrifice.
Read, think, study the questions of
the hour, the literature of the day,
keep peace with them in knowledge
and attainment. Thus only can yon
be companions suited to each other.
Sly husband grew away from me,
not in affection wholly, but in attain
ment. .We started together as equals.
I had seen nJ much cf life, books
and good society as he had. We
were alike capable of spiritual and
intellectual companionship, but I,
forgetful of mj' first duty, self-development,
gave up all advantages
and opportunities for improvement,
and lived wholly with children and
servants. I took no note of the world
without, no interest in the laws and
constitution of my country, no in
terest in the national questions, in
the subjects that absorbed his mind.
With extensive reading, thought,
good , society, foreign travel, his
views grew broader day by day, too
broad to meet me in the narrow
grooves where all my thoughts and
interests were centered. Absorbed
in family selfishness, I kDew noth
ing of the people, books and subjects
that engrossed his later life. We
bore the same name, my solitude was
CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17. 181)0.
respectable, but my heart yearned
for compauionship."
Oliver Ellsworth, chief justice of
the supreme court of the United
States, and successor of Benjamin
Franklin at the court of France,
married the granddaughter of the
Governor of Connecticut, Roger Wil-
cott She was well educated, saw
the best society of the time, inheri
ted rich talent, and had strong nat
ural sense. After marribge she gave
up books, society, travel, and devo
ted herself to raising a large family
and managing an extensive farm. To
both departments she brought such
high qualities that her labors were
entirely successful. All her chil
dren possessed health, sense, and
sound moral principles, while she so
prudently managed their financial
affairs that wealth also was their in
heritance.
AT HOME.
There is a story in our town of a
neglected wife, (I wish there was
only one.) We have already whis
pered it to one another, and htr con
dition is even more sad than those
already mentioned, for her's is living
sorrow and all the rest are dead. She
has only been a wife six years and
she is more beautiful than on her
wedding day; we have all confessed
that. But that husband qf her's has
come to regard her as part of his
expense account; he has lost sight
of her in a thousand ways, that he
was once mindful of her. She is
still neat and tasty. Sometimes I
think she is trying to win him back
again, but he is so wrapped up in
making gold that he has quite for
gotten those sweet duties of home. I
think I'd sooner be a drudge than a
neglected lady. My work would
help to fill my mind and save me
from manj sad and perhaps unkind
thoughts. I have read somewhere
of a man who sold his birthright for
gold and when the gold was in his
hands it turned to withered leaves
and green moss. I was just think
ing that the world was much like
this man. Margarette, in Chatta
nooga Times.
General JIancoek'N View of IheTnrlff,
Salisbury Watchman.
General Hancock uttered a great
truth, when he said a few days after
he was nominated for the Presidency,
"the tariff is a local issue." If evi
dence bad been necessary to prove
the statement it has been supplied
in large quantities by the statement
made to the House committee on
Ways and Means in the hearing now
going on upon the proposed new
tariff bill which the Republicans of
the committee are engaged in pre
paring. For instance, the New Eng
laud manufacturers say that nnless
they are given free coal and free iron
ore they will shortly be ruined, while
the iron and coal people of Pennsyl
vania, Virginia, West Virginia and
Ohio, to say nothing of others,
stoutly maintain that nnless the
present tariff on coal and iron is kept
where it is or raised, they will be ru
iued and will have to abandon their
mines. When Geneal Hancock call
ed the tariff a local issue smart alecks
thought it was because he was igno
rant of the subject, but Bince then
many able men, after long years of
study, have arrived at exactly the
same conclusion, because there is no
other logical conclusion. No tariff
bill that has ever been gotten up, or
ever will be, will give satisfaction to
the entire country. It is simply im
possible because the interests of one
section are always directly opposed
to those of another section.
Knittll Things.
Economist.
A rather irritable farmer annoyed
by the fowls on his grain mows,
picked up a club and slaughtered a
dozen of the hens. To his wife's
remonstrance he declared that the
fowls were a great damage and of so
little value as to be of no' account at
all. The woman was however, able
to show in reply a goodly roll of
bills she had stowed away as the re
ceipts from the poultry and eggs she
had sold. Chickens, as a rule, are
wasted to a great extent for want of
the care that might easily be given
to them, and as regards the little
food they may steal, this is not one
tenth as much as is stolen by rats
and mice without any complaint or
notice. Moreover, the waste of
small grain and other food that
might be turned into products, is
sufficient to amount to a very pleas
ant sum of money every year.
Col. Shepard, of the New York
Mail and Express, spells Democrat
with a little d and Republican with
a large R. If the Col's, fonts were
expressive of his appreciation he
would spe.l God with a little g and
Shepard with a big S.
. Tbe Republican t'atanaw.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Yes, he is in : hard luck. What
ever happens he is sure to g-et the
butt end of it He is the only" per
petual hewer of wood, who i8 always
crowded away from the fire; the
only systematic drawer of water,
who never gets a drink. Yet, as pa
tient as a camel, he goes on voting
the. Republican ticket from year to
; and if one of his race takes a
a notion to protest he is straightway
bop need for a traitor,and driven out
wita staves and stones, lucky if he
esc; pes with his life. How long, oh
Lo.d. how long? ; r
I- is . none of our- funeral. We
kuov that ,' But it does stick in our
g'tari io sea the colored -brother so
set upon. - It -was bad enough to be
ignored by the" Administration.
That, however, was to be expected.
Mr. Harrison is an aristocrat. He
hates a poor man only one degree
less than he - hates a nigger. But
there was a hope that Congress,
the Republican Congress, would,
when it met, do something to make
things even. Now, what do we see?
We see all the black contested elec
tion cases in the House, except one,
put down at the foot. of the calendar,
where they never will be reached,
and that one exception placed sixth
on the list of seventeen, not by the
Republicans but by the Democrats.
It is just as Abram Jasper said in
his speech to the colored pic-nic at
Shantytown, in the late Virginia
campaign :
"Feller freemen," says he, "yon
all know me. I are Abram Jasper,
a Republican from way back. When
there have been any work to do, I
has done it. When there have been
a.iy votiu' to do, I has voted, early
and often. When there have been
an fightin' to do, I has been in the
thick of it. I are above proof, old
line, and tax paid. And I has seed
many changes, too. I has seed the
Republicans up. I has seed the
Democrats up. lint i is yit to see
the nigger up. 'Tother night I had
a dream. I dreamt that I died and
Went to heaven. When I got to de
pearly gates, ole Salt Peter, he says
"Who's dar ?" says lie.
"Abram Jasper," says I.
"Is you mounted, or 13 you
a-foot ?" says he.
"I is a foot," says I.
"Well, you can t git in here, says
he. "Nobody's 'lowed in here, 'copt
them as comes mounted," says he.
"Dat's hard on me," says I, "arter
coming all this distance. But he
neber says nothin' more, and so I
starts back, and, about half way
down de hill who does I meet hut
Gen'l Willom Yahome.
"Whar is. you gwine, Gen'l?"
sajs I.
"I is gwine to heaven," says he.
"Why Gen'l" says I, "taint no
use, 1's just been up dar, an' no
body's 'lowed to git in V.ept dey
comes mounted, an' yon's a-foot."
"Is dat so Y" says he.
"Yes, it is," says I.
Well, de Gen'l sorter scratched his
head, an' arter awhile he says, says
he: "Abram I tell yon what kt's
do. You is a likely lad. Suppose
you git down on all fours, an' I'll
mount and ride you, and dat way we
kin both git in ?" t
"Gen'l says I. "do you think you
could work it?"
"I know I kin," says he.
"So, down I gits on all fours, and
de Gen'l gits a-straddle, and we am
bles up de hill agin, an' prances up
to de gate, an' ole Salt Peter, he
"Who's dar?"
"GenT Willom Mahone, of Vir
giney," says he.
"Is you mounted, or is you
a-foot ?" says Peter.
"I i3 mounted," says de Ge.i'l.
"All right," says Peter, "all
right," says he: "just hitch your
boss outside, Gen'l, an' come
right in."
And so it goes. Shuuned by the
Republicans in this world, the col
ored brother will be, if they have
their way, shut out from heaven
itself in the world to come. How
long, oh, Lordjiow long ?
A device for utilizing the power
of Niagara Falls, invented by a Chi
cago engineer, has been awarded the
gold medal offered by ihe Buffalo
International Fair for the Lest in
vention for this purpose. The de
vice consists of an overshot wheel,
sixty feet in diameter, to be mounted
behind the falling sheet of water,
and moved by proper machinery to
ward or away from the waterfall as
the power is needed. This wheel is
to drive dynamos by friction cloth
connections, and the power will . be
transmitted by wire to any desired
place. There were over 150 compet
itors for the prize.
Fverett and Itradjr.
State Chronicle. -
Henderson, N. C., Dec. 31, 189.
As I have seen no refererce in the
papers to the striking similarity be
tween the causes of the last sickness
and untimely death of the Hon. Ed
ward Everett, of Massachusetts, and
of the late lamented Henry W. Gra
dy, both men so eminent for orator
ical gifts and acquirements, I beg to
recall them as a matter of mournful
interest, especially to the South.
When Gen. Sherman captured Sa
vanuah.Dec. 22, 1864, he found that
city m great destitution. It had" a
supply of rice but no other pro vis
ions. The deplorable condition of
the people made such an impression
n an officer in the victorious army
that he applied to Geu. Sherman for
permission to visit the Northern
cities and by exchanging the rice the
city owned to obtain the necessaries
of life for its starving citizens.
This noble undertaking met with
a generous response on the part of
the North. -Public meetings were
held in several of the cities Phila
delphia, New York, Boston and m
others which were largely attended
and prominent, patriotic men made
addresses, calling upon the people to
contribute to the necessities of the
people of Savannah.
At the meeting in Boston, Jan. 9,
18G5, which was held in Faneuil
Hall, the lion. Edward Everett was
invited to speak and consented. It
was a very severe spell of weather,
the hall was not heated, and Mr.
Everett was suffering from a cold.
His friends warned him that to at
tend the meeting in his condition of
health might result very seriously.
He persisted in going, saying that he
could not refrain from commending
such a worthy object to his country
men. WhenMr. Everett arose to speak
he insisted, against the earnest en
treaties of his friends, upon taking
off his overcoat. He spoke for over
an hour with great earnestness, and
irresistible eloquence, and at the
close was much exhausted. Taking
his seat he was seized with a chill
and had immediately to be carried
to his home and to his bed; and in
less time than Mr. Grady lasted af
ter his speech the great heart of Ed
ward Everett ceased to beat.
The above coincidences are very
striking. Both men were remarka
ble for their oratorical powers. They
were indisposed and from the same
cause when called upon to perform
the services aslied of them. Their
great talents
could not have been
engaged in a nobler or
more conge
nial cause for the theme of each
was charity, and a plea for a rc-nni-ted
country. Death could not have
come to either in a sublimer manner
for they sacrificed their life in the
cause of their country and as the
last words of each fell upon the ears
of his enraptured audience, it was as
if the words of dying men were
heard, which enforce attention like
deen harmony. Let us hope the
conscience of both the North and
South will be awakened to renewed
devotion to the public w elfare, when
they recall the last public utterances
of these eminent men, and be conse
crated afresh to feelings pf brotherly
love and mutual concession.
It is a 6ource of great gratification
to those North Carolinians who know
him, that the Federal officer who so
nobly interested himself in the peo
nkof Savannah is now a citizen of
4
our State. Then a Colonel command
ing.a regiment from New York city;
after the war he selected this State
as his home, and now near the city
of Statesville, dispenses the most
generous hospitality and is ever in
the front rank in all patriotic enter
prises. It is scarcely necessary to men
tion the name of Col. Julian Allen.
Honor those to whom honor is due.
Wm. II. S. Bcbgwyn.
Appropriate "Wishes. I
Some one has made the following
wishes for the man who will not pay
for his paper.
May he never be permitted to kiss
a pretty woman.
May he be bored to death by
boarding school misses practicing
their first lesson in music, witlrout
the privilege of seeing his torment
ers. May 240 night-marcs trot quarter
races over his stomach every night.
May his boots leak, his gun hang
fire, and his fishing line break.
May a troop of printer's devils,
lean, lank and hungry, dog his foot
steps every day.
May a regiment of cats caterwaul
under his window each night.
May his cow give sour milk aud
his churn make rancid butter. -
WHOLE NO. 104.
IeeIarntiou of Independence.
It is both a natural and common
belief that the adoption of the Dec
laration was followed immediately by
the signing of it
Such was not ihe case. It was
adopted July 4fh, 177C, and was
published with the signatures of the
president and secretary of the meet
ing. July 18 of the same year, it was
resolved that it should be signed by.
all the members of Cougress. For
this purpose it wa3 ordered, that a
copy of the document should be en
grossed on parchment This having
been done, it was signed on August
2nd, fcy 54 of the 56 persons whose
names are now appended to it. Mat
thew Thorton, of New Hampshire,
took his seat the following Novem
ber, and obtained permission to sign
it; and in 1781 the 56Lh and last sign
er,Thomas McKean, of Delaware
afterward Governor of Pennsylvania,
from 1799 to 1 SOS put his name
to it.
Few people know that the original
Declaration of Independence's kept
in the library of the State Depart
ment at Washington. It is a cherry
case under glass. But the doors are
thrown open all day long, and strong
rays of light are eating up its ink
day by day. It is written on parch
ment. The text of it is in a hand
as fine a3 copperplate, and the ink
of this part can still be plainly read.
The signatures, however, are written
in different ink, and they are fast
disappearing under the action of the
light. The bold signature of John
Hancock is faded almost entirely
out. uniy a J, o, h, and an ll, re
main. Two lines of names are en
tirely removed from the paper; not a
vestige of ink remains to show that
names were ever there. Ben. Frank
lin's name is gone. Roger Sherman's
name is fast fadu.g. I could not
find the name of Thomas Jefferson
and Elbridge Gerry has lost its last
syllable. Charles Carroll and John
Adams have been scoured off by the
light, and only eleven names out of
fifty-six can be read without a mi
croscope. Just below this copy . lies
the original of it in Jefferson's hand
writing.
It is on a foolscap paper,
yellow with age, and worn through
where the manuscript has been fold
ed. The writing is fine aud close.
and the whole occupied but two
pages. The ink is good, and it re
mains as fresh as when it left the
quill of Jefferson over one hundred
and twelve years ago. It is full of
erasures and interlineations, some of
which are in Franklin's handwriting
and the others in the strong script
of John Adams.
One of the Owners of the Vniled Mates
A gentleman who knows as much
of inside Standard oil affairs as any
outsider can possibly know, and who
has a closer personal acqniutance
with John D. Rockefeller than is
usual, even among those counted his
friends, makes the following estimate
of the wealth now possessed by the
president of the Standard trust:
Standard oil stock $10,000,000
Premium on same 28,000,01)0
Real estate 10,000,000
Lead trust. 2,000,000
Railroad stocks and
bonds 20,000.000
Natural gas stock 4,000,000
Bank stock 5,000,000
Manufactured gas stock 3,000 000
Steamboat stock (Inman
Hue, eUO 1.000.COO
Mines in Utah, Wiscon
sin, etc 4,000,000
Cash ou hand , . . . 2,000,000
Miscellaneous 10,000,000
Total $129,000,000
"In almost every case here men
tioned," this authority adds, "the in
vestment pays a large return, and
besides this Mr. Rockefellow is a
heavy operator upon the market,
spending at least one-third of each
duy giving orders to his brokers and
seeing them carried out. With his
immense capital and opportunities
this opens a mine of wealth that is
limited by a'most nothing except
his ambition. If his health holds
out I shall expect in ten years to see
him the richest man in the world.
In the above I have underrated his
wealth rather than overrated it"
Kalarlea of Alliance Ollicern.
National Farmer's Alliance and
Industrial Union, St. Louis, Mo.,
Dec. 3, 1889.
L. L. Tolk, president Salary $3,
000 per annum aud ail expenses,
with $1,000 per annum for office as
sistant. J. II. Turner, secretary: Salary
$2,000 per annum and all expenses.
O. W. Macune, chairman executive
committee: Salary $2,000 per an
jium and all expenses.
Evan Jones, chairman judiciary
committee: Salary, nothing and no
appropriation for expenses.
Ben Terrell, lecturer: Salary $3,
000 per annum and all expenses,
traveling and otherwise.
- IN THE
NEATEST MANNER
AND AT
THE LOWEST vim
x j. jjjui
Wanted to Die Kleh.
Selected.
When the ship Brittauia was
wrecked on the rocks of the ccast
of Brazil, it had on hoard a large
amount of silver. The mss
o save themselves took to the life
boats. When the last boat " was
about to push off, the mid-shipman
ran back to see if all had left the
sinking ship. To his snrprise,he saw
a man remaining and clutching a
barrel of Spanish silver dollars.
"What are von doing?" exclaim!
the mid-shipman. "Escape for
your life ! Don't you see that the
ship is sinkiug ?" "The ship may
sink," said the man. "I have lived
a poor wretch all my life, and I am
determined to die rich." So he
went down to a watery grave. He
had the pleasure of thinking himself
rich for one moment
We call this man a madman a
big fool and he was. But how
many men liviug on dry land ate
doing about the same thing. They
make and keep all they get The
use of money to them is merely to
have, to hold, to keep it They work
lard, dress plainly, live in uncom
fortable houses, have hut little to
eat. They hold their silver dollar
tight enough to make the eagle
squall. They are bomb proof to all
religions appeals. What do they
mean ? Simply to die rich. Like
the hog in the pen, they are going
to die fat. Then what? When
death comes it finds them
clinging
to their silver.
A Xlee Boy.
About the middle of the car was a
lady and a boy about five years of
nge, evidently mother and son. The
train had scarcely moved out of the
depot before the hoy began running
up and down the aisle and making
remarks to passengers. The mother
called to him several times, and fin
ally said:
"James, I shall certainly tell your
father."
. "How can you when he's run
away and nououy Knows wnere ne
is?" replied the boy.
This settled the mother for a
time, but when the boy sought to
raise a window she leaned forward
and said:
"James, I shall surely punish yon!"
"If you do I'll tell that a police
man arrested grandpa," he retorted.
She let him alone for another in
terval, but as he began to worrry a
bird in a cage, which one of the pas
sengers was transporting, she sternly
said:
"James, come here!"
"Not now."
"Right off! You are a bad boy,
and I shan't let you come with me
again."
"Yes you will.'
"No, I won't."
"Then I'll tell the reason papa
ran away is because Mr. Davis camo
to our house so much."
This prostrated the mother, and
she began to read, and had nothing
further to say while the boy roamed
up and down" the car unchecked un
til he finally fell asleep on a vacant
seat. He had one more shot in re
serve, however. As he lay down he
called out:
"Say, mama, wake me up when
we get to grandma's. I want to hear
her swear and take on because papa
turned her out of doors last sum
mer." Her Iieautjr Vanqnlsbed Him.
The engagement of
George
Van-
derbilt to Miss Mary Johnstone, of
Annadale, S. C, Georgetown county,
is announced. Mr. Vanderbilt was
at Asheville, N. C, last summer
looking over his recent purchase of
real estate, on which he is going to
establish a Southern Tuxedo park.
While there he met Miss 'Johnstone
on Beaucatcher Mountain at the
summer residence of her relative,
Mr. W. Miles Ilazzard, a prominent
rice planter of Georgetown. Miss
Johnstone is of extraordinary beauty
and Mr. Vanderbilt immediately fell
in love with her. A few weeks ago
he visited Mis3 Johnstone at her
father's plantation on South Island,
and an engamtnt was the result.
The Johnstones are of the highest
social standing in the State. "Be
de wah" Col. Wm. Johnstone waa
very wealthy, but is now in strait
ened circumstances. The John
stones claim descent from the Scotch
earle of Annadale.
Emile de Laveleye says that 100
years hence, setting China aside,
there would be in the world two co
lossal and over-shadowing powers
Russia and the United States. His
setting aside of China is significant
in that it'indicates that he is one of
the many publicits who believe that
the celestial empire is destined to be
an active, aggessive and disturbing
element among the nations of the
world. Some now living may see
her at our own doors presenting a
hcaty bill for payment in blood or
money.