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JPf ST A HP & R D- ... I tfUnilKt) IS NC(JIU- CON TAINS MOKK LfclADINt. MATTER THAN ANY OTHER PA PE R IN Till .3 SECTION. lli:.HI-DVUII-STAR T H ESTAH D ABD. W E DO ALL KLNDS OF JOB "WOES: IN the SEA TEST JL.LVXEE AND AT THE LOWEST JUTES. VOL. IV. NO. 9. CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1891. WHOLE NO. 165. Standard. .rtl,rM o th Siiidmtw of Wk PHIiy ddiI Mentble Thlng-a on lb Indian (lutniion. Editor Standard: On the evenings of the 2d and , Kekiou-Kah. Sto ;eFort, Ketio.Ind. Ty jrtive lectures to the students on the'somc of troubles between the Bovernnient aud the Indians, and tome of tho reasons why the efforts made for civilizing them havo faile .. The lecurer ia of the Cheyenne tribe, was formerly captured and placed in a mission school in Kansas, whore he remained seven years, lie is a full blood, a man of more than ordinary intellect, and has travelled and lectured through half of the SUtea in tho Union. He said tha in 100 years between the government and the different tribes of Indians yoo treaties had been made, and of these but one remained unbroken. This was the one made between Gen. Jackson and the Cherokee In diana when he removed them from Florida to East Indian Territory Ho denied that the Indians had broken these treaties, but said that in almost every case war ws brought ou bv the carelessness ol the gov ernment in protecting the In liana from encroachments by the war e and securing to them the rights stip ulated in the treaties. ' The government makes a solemn treaty that ns long as the prass grows and sun shines and the toma hawk remains buried there shall be peace; in less than a year it allows its citizeiM to break this solemn Ireatr. al if th" jroveruinent has any oiuer kind of Uaaties beside solemn treaties, the Indian would like to try one." The reason why the government has never succeeded in civdizing the Indian was because it had i evei tried the right means. It had always kept them on th m ve. It h i 1 let tueui iet just in a ght of c .llization but Viever i 'ose uougfi t crtsn i: they had always bei d ive.'i from civilization instead of towards if; they had bf.n nniiclfd from th r tern ( . w : t- x (el- t. ... t ! iZ ttl 'l !!! N'orl'f ; 'i it- . fd i biu. lie ! . .1 it.. The wliit-J nsii wut to eui.iZt the Indian tot ripidly, irid he is ex peeled to reacli in twenty live or thiUr vewrs a stute of enhiuteiiujent that step by stp it has taken the white man six thousand years to at tain. People do not chautre thei mode of life in a day nor nations are jiOt civilized in a year. The corruption of government agents has been re of the main bars to progress While the mis sionary was toiling and slowly bui ding up, the agent cheated ti e Icdiars out of furs, sold th in fire water, and did more harm in on day thau the missionary could repair in a year. The agent is usually a third-rate politician who could fill do other place, and po he was sent West as an agent. The salary re- J ceived by thete aeents is usually i about J 1.500, and in five years they amass a fortune of from fifty to a hmdred thousand, thus showi' g on what a gigantic ecale both govern ment and Indian is swindled, and when he is detected in his crime is simply discharged and let go ua punished- In the Indian Territory, where they have been best protected, some tribes, of wliich there ;i-e twenty even, have reached a l:.!i st ite of civilization- In the Indian Territory are 131 schools, 10(5 churches and 21t Dative preachers. They have .1 i. min iature that meets on the 15th of every October. The total number of Indiana in the Indian Territory is 125,000, of wborn one-third are eivilied, Tha Cherokeea are the leading tribe. Their language ia the only written Indian language in the United States, and their alphabet is composed of thirty-six characters. A newspaper, called the Cherokee Advocate, ia published weekly, one half being pnuted in Cherokee and the other in English. One Indian in this nation is worth $200,000. aud the wealth of the nation per capita is 815,000, the greater part of which is, of course, land, lie took this tribe as an example of what may be done if the authorities will but lake proper measures for preserving peace and proteotipj; the Indian, from, whit renegades and the ever moving wave of emigra ion. The civilizing of this tribe was brought about largely through the efforts, heroic- and untiring, of Missionary Buckner and wife. The discovery of gold, he said, had ever been a potent cause of war, and mentioned as a case in point the war of the Black Hills, in which Custer, the " Silverhaired Chieftaiu," was killed. A discovery of gold iu the Black Hills was kept secret by tha Iuclm for twenty hve years,.' but when it Y,'a8 at length made known emi grants by thousands began to pour in. Complaint was made by the Chief, Sitting Bull, aud government troops were sen to prevent en croachments by the emigrants, but they turned their arms Sagairst the Indians, and a war nsuod which cost the United States 310,000,000 and 300 men. In short, he said, if the govern ment would hut prevent the scum of civilization from coining into con tact with the Indian first; would send as agents good and trnst worthy men; observe their treaties; give the Indian justice and a perma Dent home; give Bibles for bayonets and send missionaries and teachers instead of soldiers; if the 4inericau peo le would cease to read and ac- . ceptasgood histoty yellow-backed literature, the government would find civilizing tne Indi&D cheaper, better an4 more satisfactory than tilling him. He described the mode of life among the wild Iudians, and closed by explaining and demonstrating how to use the bow. Psaitx. Wake Forest, March 4, 1891. Kalel(na Ntreet Hallway. Raleigh is to have electric street curs, but on accouut of some reports haviug gone out, the News and Ob server cays : Conflicting reports are gqing around about the electric street rail way, but as usual none of them are correct. It is true that work has been temporarily suspended on the pgnatructiqu and will probably nqt hp continued under the present a? rangeoseuts. The electrio street railway will however be built and no body need have any fears about that, Angry F 1 ames DCS TROT HAXROE HIGH Bl'ILDlXU. NC1IOOL Two Ntndrnta Prrlnb Fire f an Ii rrndlary Origin An ftM.OOO Three fflory Ilrlek Build Inic In Afthe. Special telegram to The StandaudJ MoXROE, N. C, March 5. Mon roe High School building was de stroyed by lire this morning. The build'ng was first discovered burning between three and four o'clock. Thomas E. Pembertou, of Little Bock, Ark., Albert Bost, of Cabar rus county, and Hurbert Rhodes, of Darlington, S. C, roomed on the third floor. Messrs Rhodes and Bost started down stairs, but the heat bei iz severely buriud and nearly suffocated, turned b:ck and made his escape at the other eud of the build ing. Albert Bost wa9 in advance, and becoming suffocated, it is sup posed, he perished in that point in the flames. Pembertou's room could not be reached and he did not get out of the room. The charred remains of the boys have been found. The school furni ture was destroyed, and part of the clothing of the young lady teachers was saved, they being on the first floor. The building wai a three story brick structure aud cost over $8,000 ; it was partially covered by insur ance. The fire is supposed to be of iu cendiary origin. Arrangements re being male to continue the school and to have new buildings erected at. an e.irly dav. M A. U. The voun man Bost, spoken -f alwj-e, is the sou -if Mr. Mar'in L U".t. if N'o. I), and a broth.-r ol Mr- J as. -V. C union. Albert w.i on!-. u!)Oii 17 v -a s o'" aue, aud w,-8 'i bright and promising young 'na; A MlnnnderntaadiBit. The Chronicl hears that there is some misunderstanding in Mecklen burg county in regard to the state ment of Senator Ardrey upon the interest hill. The facts, as printed substantially in the Chronicle, are thee: That when the bill to make 6 per cent the legal rate of interest came upon its third reading, Mr. Williams walked over to Captaiu Ardrey (who had opposed the hill on its second reading) aud, shaking the Mecklenburg Times over his head, said that Captain Ardrey did not represent the Alliance of Mecklen burg. The Times contained an ar ticle written by Mr. X. Gibsou, crit icizing Captain Ardrey for opposing the six per cent interest bill, which was sent to the desk and read. Cap tain Ardrey said " the article is writ ten by a gentleman who, after being defeated for the Democratic nomi nation, supported the Third Party ticket" Afterward, when Captain Ardrey came to explain his vote, he referred to this hicident, saying that he article referred to was written by a gentleman in his county for whom he had esteem, and he re gretted that a personal matter should be injected there. He had no re flections to make upon that gentle man, b'it in the discussion h felt forced to make such allusions. The explanation of Senator Ardrey 's vote was not reported by the papers. State. Chronicle. Thf Cancreaa Kaded. The Congress, of which Boss Reed has been managing editor, has adjourned. Another Congress strictly democratic will meet soon and we suppose the country will be safe. N havo tried to say little about polities and we hope to say pveu less, but we do insist upon one general fact that is more manifest day by day, and that is: ihis coun try is too big too grand to let any party of men who are representa tives wreck it. The country will go on and ou growing grander and greater, and even if Colonel Doctor Mary J. Walker would h-tppen 'o be uude president, the country would, survive such a calamity, and we poor souls whq ro playing on little p.rts wu'ila never know that, such a gn tesque aud antique programme had been presented. These alarmists who let their bus ineas go to the devil because they are afraid the country is not safe, make a great ortion of the evenly oal anced world very weary. Durham Ulobe. Mad Hampton. Tne Greenville. (S. O.) News has this to say : Wade Hampton yesterday left the State of South Carolina after hav ing been engaged in it during four teen years of peace and four years of war. No State ever dismissed a more faithful sou and servant with less reason. No man ever went down wth rnote dignity, with a clearer conscience, with a brighter record or with higher claims on the love and honor and gratitude of a people. Wade Hampton will go into history a grand figure. The men he scorned too much to contend with will be remembered, not indi vidually but collectively, as those whose meau greed and narrowness of soul made them despise the mo tives that move just and manly men. THE IMAl til BATIOX. The Progressive Farmer says; " We think th,e Democratic party would better join the Alliance in a. body, if it expects to ta,ke anj joyful part in, the inauguration ci the het President of the United States." Hickory will not tote on watey works. CUAKLM FOSTCB, Neeretary af TJmltad fttatea Trcaaary. Charles Foster, the new Secrc tary of the Treasury, was born iu Seneca county, Ohio, April 12th, 1828. His father kept a country store and gave his son a good education. When he was fifteen years old hia father's sickness compelled him to take charge of the store, and the busis ness career then begun has been a wonderfully successful one, and it has made Mr. Foster a yery wrealthy man. His fir-t appearance in public life was in 1870, when he was elected to the Forty second Congress. His district bad always been strongly Democratic, and hai constantly given heavy majorities in favor of that party. He was also victorious in the three congressional elections following a remarkable proof of bis pers nal popularity due to pub lic appreciation of his admirable character. In Congress he quickly made his mark. He had the credit of adjusting in 1877 the arrangement by which the Southern men were induced to consent to the inaugura tion of President Hayes, upon as fl'ii Hitce that the State governments n efei re'l by the white Democrats in Louisiana and Sooth Carolina would ; e lecirnzed. His conscious up gMn-SH of rharactT is recognized it n by those who differ from him iii-r-st widely In 1879 ho was elected Governor of Ohio bv a plurnlity of 17,129 votes He served with great distination. Mr. Foster i sound upon all monetary questions, and brings to tne Treasury Department extensive business exneneuce and long study of nancial questions, and will doubtless be to the President a val uable helper and adviser, who will proceed upon the lines laid down by the late lamented Mr. YVinuom. Fran G. T. Crawell. From a private letter from Giles T. Croy ell the Standard makes some extracts: But time is too short with me to discuss politics at present. I must cive you some news from this g o rious country, but things are in such bad shaoe I really don't know what to say. hue this is the garden spot of this green earth, it is financially fizzled out. And, furthermore, its getting worse all the time. The prospect for the future is very gloomy indeed- The boom was too treat. TLe crash came and thous ands of good men went to the wall with it. Uutside of the muling business nothing is being done- But this will be a Drosnerous year for millsrs, or at least the prospects are very Bat tering at presnt. I will now pass over to t e pest which we are having at this time- namely the grasshoppers, or eom- monlv called locusts. To give you an idea as to number is beyond de scription. But I will put it this way I have seen in numbers, if tbey were worth the one thous indth pirt of a cent, to buy the United States at its estimated value namely sixty-eight tboucaud millions of dollars, and have enoush left to pht all the Union soldiers pensions for two thousand years besides. What is to become of the poor this comiDg winU-r no one seems to know; but as it has been the same here before I suppose they will live aud have their continual being. But to me. with nothing but the wheat crop to live on, I don't see how they can live. Everything is as bare as a floor where they pass. And as a natural consequence they will be here next year n im reised numbers According to the history of thi country thy come year after year for neven to uiu year in nUoessio but I should t mk they would get di?usted with thf state of affair beiure that time. They a e th same as the Kansas gta-shoppers that eat ui evervtbiug some years ago never could believe that they were so destructive intil I bad a chance to see tium. k have had a long. dry. aud th hottest summer that has ever been known. The t trmometer stood as high as 100 degrees for weeks at a tiir.e, whiitt oilier uuam rs it was 1 t are thing to so it go above 90 de irrees: but it is owing to the long, dry snell, With the exception of a few showers durinc the last two months, it has not rained since last February, or about a year. We are doing lots of business at present, but did not run the mill for four months, and I don't think we can run more than five months of this year, as the crop of wheat was short and ii ii being shitmed out f the country as fast as possible. It takes a mint of monev to buy whe t-t keen a lartra mill running. W have bought $450,000 worth, and that will only run us tor two montns Wheat is worth 82-40 per bushel, or four cents per pound. (iold is at a premium 01 'Z.m per cent., or it takes 83.28 cents paper to uuy one 01 sum- xjnoijvuiug uno gone up to a fabulous price, and poor laborers are working for 81 to 81.50 per day, or say 35 to 40 cents ner dair cold. T must close for want of time. This leaves us all well and baying as good time as possible. I rema.n your true friend, U. T. Crowbix. That "I'nknoajn' llad ntM, Some unknown person ' having more love for meat than fer of the law, broke into the smoke house- of Rey.Mt W. PiQjea last Thursday night, and took therefrom two hama A search fer the missing bacon proved as fruitless as a wild goose Chase. Lexington Dispatcn. Caswell young wheat looks velL AJTTE.K DROrS VF Tar, ritrta, Tarnantina and (Khar Tar Ileal Praducta. Wood famine, Leaks ville. Steam laundry for Greensboro. Base ball has entered Davidson College. Eleven interments at Oakdale, Wilmington, February. New Berne Fair Association pays its premiums right along. Evangelist Pearson, of Asheville. is preaching at Henderson, Ky. New Hanover bank shares sold for $28 at auction, Wilmington. "Tiddlewink" has got as far as Roxboro, in Person, and thv name a child. Asheville revives interest in a bo ciety for prevention of cruelty to animals. Frank Riley, Gaston county, drop ped dead Saturday while saddling his horse. Richard Riddick shot and killed II. M. Gorman, in Brunswick. Both drinking. Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley running about the largest freight trams in the State. Goldaboro region agitated on the effect of the cold snap on fruit aud early crop vegetation. , Cotton from the wrecked English steamer at Ocrackoke is being de livered at Horehead City. Work on the mutual land and manufacturing belt line railroad, began at Durham Tuesday. Rush station, High Point and Ashebore Road, changed to Rankin, in honor of Conductor Rankin Dr. Dixon, of Greensboro Female College, lectures in that place for the benefit of the Methodist church. Wilmington Star says the boys are laying in heavy stocks of cigaretUs, against tne df ot prohibition to minors. Memorial services for the late Ju lius A. Bon:tz were conducted m St Paul's M. E. Church, lioldsboro, Monday evening. 1.1 Leaksville is talking about adop ting Rife's automatic hydraulic en gine or ram for affording a distribu tion of water in the town. Guilford College growing into a town. J he uew houses built in the past half year, and mauy more ia prospective this summer Prof. Martin H. Holt, of Guil ford College, was substituted by the Legislature for H. G. Chatham, of Snrry, as trustee of Girl's Training school. Alamance could not stand $300 for the State Chemist's analysis of a dead negroes stomach, and the coro ner a jury concluded that he was bitten by a mad dog. The census bureau announces the population cf the State by races, as follows : Whites, 1049,191; colored; 567,170; Indians, 1571; Chinese, 15. Total, 1,617,948. The Charlotte Chronicle discuss ing the charter amendments thinks it would bs pretty tough to say the people for or against ratification shall not be allowed to vote. J. W. Jones the secretary of the Southern Historical Society, of Vir ginia, will lecture in Durham on next Wednsday evening, for the ben efit of the Old Soldiers Home. It is though that the formal trans fer of the Three C's Railroad will be made through the office of the clerk of the United States Court, in Charleston today or tomorrow. William Sprowlei, a journeyman tailor in Charlotte, a Federal soldier during the war, and who was present and fired on John Wilkes Booth the night of his capture, died Tuesday. Rev. Mr. Reed, Charlotte, said in his Snnday sermon, "The average christian is as ignorant of the teach ings of the New Testament as the average editor is of the Confession of faith." The Workman says Roxboro na a little girl named "Tiudlewink," and Winston has a "Tube Rose." A woman in the mountains got the beautiful name of her daughter out of the Bible "Tahtha Cumi." The Progreasive Farmer asks " if a State can borrow money to secure tne prosperity of ner people along one line ot levelopmen', why can she not borrow it to secure the pros perity for her people along another line? The Madison Leader savs it. re grets its failure to appear last week, but for owners absence m Cuba it would not have occurred. The friends of the paper need have no fears as to its future. Its publica tion is an assured fact. A branch organization of the Building and Loan Association of Knoxville, Tenn., has been estab lished at New Berne, with an auth orized capital of $25,000,000. It is under the management of Odd Fel lows, but membership is open to everybody. The Goldaboro Argus says : Mer chants are enlarging their territory, manufactures are increasing their plants and there is a hopefulness and buoyancy about the spirit of people, that augurs well for the xu ture growth and prosperity of our beautiful city. A gentleman of Asheville, who has just returned from Knoxville, siya that the weather in that city is aoscauteiT execranie. ice most ter rific mow storm for years prevailed there on Friday and Saturday, and the mud is only fordable by; long legged men ; and yet the Knoxville journal nas telegrams irom Asne ville almost daily concerning the weather tAero Robins reported plenty in the country. f Wake issued 33 marriage licenses in February. Only four interments at Greens boro cemeterj in February. Hillsboro threatens to put up a f 150,000 cotton factory. Raleigh made 104 police arrests in February ; 42 white, 62 colored. The other revenue district of the State paid $70,704.69 in February. William Johnson, colored, Buga boo Creek, Wilkes, shot and killed his wife, Friday night The British steamship Craigehead ashore at Ocrocoke, remains in good condition, and may be saved. Five hundred able-bodied laborers ara advertised for to work on the streets of North Wilkesboro. Greensboro claims to be the best place in the State for the Girls Training School, and confidently calculates on being chosen. Durham live people rejoice at prospect of a $25,000 graded school building authorized by the Legisla ture, after vote of the people. Hornets Nest Riflemen, Charlottej volunteer as a salvage corps in car- mg for and protecting property dur ing large fires in the city. Moses Ford, near Forestville, Wake county, cut down a tree in which he found "twenty-four live opossums, two gray squirrels, two owls and four flying squirrels. Johnson, colored, who shot his wife in Wilkes claims that he was playing, and did not know the pistol was loaded. The fatal shot was the only one in it, and the man showed no disposition to escape. They think over u Wilkes that Judge Bynum is a very fashionable and accomplished man. J he bhron icie says, tne juuge nas nau ine Sheriff teaching some of the fellows .1 T 1 t I t. I when and where to not wear their hats. The Chronicle tells that about, ten Wilkesbor-ites attended the magnif icent fair at New Berne, floated across the Nense Creek in a box with a role stuck in the end of it with a big rag ied to it,tind had the biggest time of anybody there. The Wilkesboro Chronicle says Kirkpatnck of the Greensboro fur niture Company has been up pros pecting. He purchased 25,000 feet of poplar lumber from Mr. Vyne. The timber of this section is one . of its greatest sources of wealth. ;TBat;aren Pin Waad. Mr. Editor: Your experience with your load of held pine wood re minds the writer of the soubriquets acquired bv two men in a V cstern State or account of their sharp transactions in o .d. Une con tracted to purchase nil the cord wood 1 cleann? at a certain price. 1 he wood was oak, ash, elm, linn, buck eye, and hickory. The buyer, whose name was Miller, selected all the hickory, and after taking it home, paid the com mo u price, and then refused all the other grades. He was ever after called Hickory Miller! Another man by the name of Suy der contracted to cut into cord wood all the trees in a certain piece of woods at fifty cents a cord. There were trees of all kinds in the clear ing, and oak, hickory and basswood were conspicuous. I his woodman spared the oaks and hickory and others of hard texture, and cut nothing but basswood. He then went to his employer for pay for all the cords he had ciU, and threw up the contract. That man ever after went by the name of Bass .rood Sny der. A young minister, calling upon bis panshoners for the hrst time, when making his call upon tin knight of the axe, asked him, "Ar you tfasbwood bnyderr I he man warned the young preacher never to say " Basswood to him again. rerhaps, Mr. Editor, an improve ment in the quality ol wood in this market might be obtained bv letting the name of the wood in which the seller speculates o the disadvantage of the buyer, adhere to the seller. What for a fcoubriquet would gren field pine be? b. J Twa llama Iroaa AhIle CltUen A mortgage was filed in Register Mackey s office yesterday, executed by the school committee of Ashe ville to Anna B. Groesbeck, of Phii adelphia. The committee has borrowed from Anna B. Groesbeck the sum of $5,000 for the purpose of discharg ing and paying debts nnd incum brances incurred in the building of the Orange street graded school building. The loan is to be repaid within three years from date, with interest at 8 per cent. The morteare is executed by W W. West, chairman: D. T. Millard, H. A. Gudger and W. F. Randolph, secietary. J. S. Grant, proprietor of Grant's pharmacy on South Main street, re ceived this week from Lehn & Finch, importers, New York, two vials of Dr. Koch's lymph, valued at $50. The lymph was sent from New York immediately after it was received by the importers. Dr. Grant is now prepared to distribute tne medicine to physicians who shall be recom mended by the state board of medi cal examiners. It will be dispensed only to those who are so endorsed by the examiners. . The Military Academy at West Point is to be rebuilt at a cost of $450,000. A printer employed on the Chat tanooga News, Jim Compton, ehot Harry Herbert in the neck. The wound is probably a fatal one. 'XSrIPTIVE ('OWN. A commission of eight physicians connected with the veterinary de partment of the University of Penn sylvania, began last Saturday a series of experiments designed to show the effect of Koch's tuberculin upon consumptive cows. "It i estimated," said the chairman, Dr. Zuill, before the first mjections were made, "that 50 per cent, of the cases of con sumption originate from the use of dairy products. Our plan is to free the human race from the scourge by removing its cause. Ve propose to investigate the valueof the lymph in three lines as a curative agent, as a diagnosing agent, and as an agent to secure immunity from disease." Three cows were subjected to the treatment. Two of them were un doubtedly tuberculous, and the tu bercle bacillus bad been found in their milk. The third was supposed to be tuberculous, and in this case the tuberculin was used as a diagno sing agent It is noticeab.le that these experi ments are made in a city to which milk is sent from many herds of dis eased cows. No thorough inquiry concerning the prevalence of tuber culosis in these herds, like that in which experts have been engaged i;i the region surrounding Boston, lus been made by the sanitary authori ties, but the following statement published by the Philadelphia Press last year, hows that the matter ha not been wholly overlooked : "In Jlew Jersey not long aso. 111 the milk district of this city, fifty three herds were found infee'ed with tubeculosis. They are still sup plying the city with miik. Thi number of diseased herds in the Pennsylvania milk district of the city is at least as large and probably larger. The latest conclusions of phvs' cia.is concerning the value of Kch'." tuberculin do no-, unfortunately, afford much ground for expectation that the commission will succeed in curing cows that are clearly tuber.ui lous. For example, Dr. Gr ffi h, of the Tuberculosa Connvson of 'he University of Pennsylvania, says m the recent report of the eom.u ism. m's work, under the head of genera i conclusions : " No alteration for the better oc curred in the physical signs of anv of the patients, other than might be expected in some of a number of phthisical patients subjected t fa vorable hygienic conditions. In a majority of the cases ei'her no appreciable changes in the physical signs could be detected, or the alter ations found indicated more-or less deterioration in the condition of th lungs." But if the experiments upon dis eased cows shall direct public atten tion to the condition of the dairy herds in the vicinity of Philadelphia, and if the commission shall under take to show how many consumptive cows there are in the herds from which the milk supply of Philadel phia is procured, its work will be of great service to the people, even if it shall appear that the tuberculin will neither cure tuberculous animals nor make sound cows proof against in- iecuon. sot until last year was there enacted in Philadelphia a mu nicipal ordinance forbidding the sale of milk adulterated with water, and this ordinance was passed with great difficulty, owing to the powerful op position of the milk dealers. The work f the commission may con vince the people that further legisla tion is needed. It may show them that the water with which milk is adulterated may be the only harm less part of the compound, and that milk whic h is not below the stand ard and has not been adulterated may carry the germs of consumption to every family where it is used We hope tha in the course of thin the sitiitary autnori'ies of this city will take some action to prevent the Hale of tuberculous milk here The ahlr 88 of Dr. Z iiil short 8 that he and his associates ha e ver decided opinions as to the danger of infection from the milk of consump tive cow3. Why should they not cause an inquiry to b made con cerning the actual condi'ion of the dairy herds in the milk district of their city? The facts that might thus be procure 1 would be of great value, and could scarcely fail, we should say, to excte a popular in terest that would compell the en actment of protective laws. New York Times. A Hqupcsecl Coon ! A colored gentleman, whose name was not lemon, but who was very much squeezed, on the Durham and Northern road was in this citv last night He tried to coup'e some cars, but got between two of them, and for a li'tle bit he looked like he waa a piece of cotton The cars separated, and he breathed again, and went on to Hendersonville last night. It is said here by authorities that he did not get hurt very much, although those who saw him thought that he could not live. lie got pinched pretty freely anyway you size it up. but he may outgrow the habit of dying and be himself again Durham Globe. Baltimore Methodlxt Conference. Washington, D. C, March 0. The Baltimore Methodist Confer ence at the meeting this morning settled the question as to whether women shall be allowed to go as delegates to the general conference. and without discussion defeated the question by a vote of 145 to 39 This decision will not be made final for about a year, hence, when the general conference, the supreme body of the Methodist Church, will act on it. lJIE MOVES OX AX I) CIIAXUKN com:. This old gray-headed mundan sphere, the moving, turning, whirl ing mass it is, in all the commotion earthquakes and phenomena goes on as if nobody snftered or rejoiced That is one part of the world, but there is another side. It is the part that makes the biggest joys and th blackest crimes: it is the part that shapes marble, hews stone, iuivkes spindles, manufactures and show life, or ou the other hand it is th part that is born, grows, loafs, wastes away and dies. They say that this human family all colors, classes and national! ties is growing better, wiser, more industrious and kinder; some say not. And the race is not! The world is no better today than last year not one bit better. There are more churches, more preachers, more Sunday school workers, 111 re mis Nonaries and more good men and Christian women ; but there are more people, a wider field and more forces to contend with. The mean people, the vices and the crimes grow as the nice virtues do. I hey may not grow together, but they grow. lou may not see it, but the growth is going on and right around you. ihis h a funny world, my mas ters, and the people who make it are funnier still. It is a cold world sympathy is scarce, concert of action is a back number, and like some opposing forces the private interest, the individual likes and dislikes and the place " where the bread is buttered," tend to draw men in different directions. Boys of the same father and the same mother are some times found going this way girls, seldom, but some times. ome men move down life's path way, all smiles, all cheer, Hinging joys to the world and making men, women and children feel better for having come in contact with them such are few. Some men, like pow der, they lly up, sizz and then drop back into equilibrium. Other men, -ouchy, spiteful, sour, narrow minded and mean, explode and leave them selves worsted. Sadly and regret rnlly we believe that a few women are this way. The character, that sees no good in any one or anything, that looks suspiciously upon all, is to be pittied. There is nothing good in the Bible that fits him ; he is au oddity with lots of company. Now and then you see a boy get bigger than his father and above his mother; he speaks of them as the old folks. That boy, forgetting the sleepless nights of a fond mother and unconscious of the hard strug gles of an anxious father, is no good ; he will make a mean man, a trilling husband and maybe a scoun drel. Occasionally an ungrateful speci men shows his head above the sur face of busy life. He, forgetting kindness, friendliness and help, lets his tongue strike in the dark and his actions turn traitor to the hand and life of him that did him service. This is a wrangling world; men pull together on some things and pull apart on others ; men lly up, sputter at each other and then make friends. They do these things in a fit of spitefulness and irritablencss. They would be all right without the fits they do the devilment. Some men work hard and tussle all the time with the fabled "wolf at the door." Other men hit a few icks and out comes big results 1 hey didn't seem to have much sense, much grit or much pluck. They must to have had "luck." Some men wark hard they barely live. Other men don't work they liv. We all live, every one of us live, at different places, under differ ent circumstances ami certainty at different homes. "One half of "the world don't know hov the other lalf lives." Men are too busy, too much en- 'Hfed, too tnoughtless to stop and 0 . . ? ... .1... 1 spend a tii'Uig'it 011 me suiiuuuu- mgs. Individually we are too selfish- all men are more or less selfish ; it i hum 11 Msituie. mav be. bur selfish ness is not yood Collectively we mav not be so. A man starts out, full-handed; he works, he plods and he plans ; he is bluffed and baffled and he gives nn the strong, heavy muscled man with a trade gives up. He get w. aker and grows trilling as age grows, then charity the collective hand or unselfishness takes care of him. It is hard to see a man with a trade, a man with some brains and a man with some life before him, sit down and force the lever of charity to prize him up and support him. But that is a freak of human nature, but it is strange. He is soon for gotten missed at first by the public but relieved in the end. A genuinely good man, one that helped and wished well, dies. Every body says " his place can not be filled, it is a loss to the church, to the community," etc. "lis true'.! But the cold world outwardly for gets and joy3 on as ever. When a man i3 up and staying up, lie is all right! When he is down then the world kicks at him and says stay down ; and too often the poor fellow does. About the meanest thing human ity has to contend with is cold sel fishness. But then it is a selfish world ! A bill granting universal suffrage to women passed a third reading in the Senate of Michigan. Wade Hampton will deliver the address at Augusta, April 27, at the reunion of his old brigade. 11 ix thi: KAKI.T It VII.KO imxti soriii. The following item in relation to the South is found in several leading papers under the head of Interest ing Facts The first locomotive to run in the South was built in New York from plans furnished by a citien of Charleston, S. C. It was called the i Best Friend, ' and was placed on the Charleston railroad in is:3. " The dale named as that of the introduction of the locomotive in the South is undoubtedly a typo graphical error, apparent to those who kn.)v the real facts. But in the history of our progress lh';5 is a long time ago, sufficiently far back to give an air of antiquity to any thing done at that time. But the enterprise of the South even anti dated by several years that early period named in the paragraph above quoted, and in its justification we state the following facts : Of course it may be accepted as a fact that all the trallic railroads used the steam locomotive. It is true the Baltimore and Ohio road, begun in the summer of lS'S, was originally designed for horse power only; and was so used for some time as far as Kllicott's mills. In 1S30, the first locomotive built in Balti more by Ptter Coop r a as put upon the road, and the success of the sub stitution of steam for horse power satisfactorily demonstrated. For the South Carolina railroad, extend ing from Charleston to Hamburg and built between lXiO and 1S31, a locomotive engine designed by Mr. J-.. 1... .Miller, 01 Charleston, was built by the Kcmbles, of New York, ami wa3 in active use between the poitits named for two jears, when it exploded. This engine was the Best r nend referred to 111 the paragraph. On this road, in 1S31, was first introduced on any railroad, either 111 the United States or in England, the arrangement of two four wheeled trucks, and the long passenger cars as distinguished from the plan m use elsewhere of having three Concord or stage coaches grouped in a common system of trucks, but seperated from each other by high backs or partitions, with seats f icing cach other and extending crosswavs from one side door to the other, the conductors making his trips along t he train on narrow plank extending along the sides of each coach, and grasping as he moved along the door posts of the coaches. Another railroad in the South using the locomotive before 1835 was the Petersburg, Va., to Blakely on the-Koanoke river in North Caro lina, midway between the present town of Wehlon and the old bor ough town of Halifax. This road was H miles long. Blakely has long ceased to exist and has passed out of memory, the neeeasity of its existence ceasing as soon as the Wilmington and Wcldon and tho Raleigh and Custon roads wero built, both begun, we leliew', in 18:53. Another Southern road using tho steam locomotive before the year 1835, m;h the New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain road, certainly using steam in 1831; for a', the end of that year, one now a citizen of Asheville passed from the Ia'e to the city upmit, the first railroad experience he ever had. After 1835, the progress of rail road construction in the South was comparatively rapid. Asheville Cit zeu. . aa Clarksburg, W. Va., March 0. Farmers' Alliance organizers have been working quietly throughout this state for several weeks past. It has now developed that the membership in some counties is nearly as great as the combined strength of two old parties. A new alliance paper is to be started here this spring. lIIKVAi .i:xk or iM.-iiKAi.Tir. iii-h.-i.ii; ii very inatter-of-luet Ul'.ilr it is nn uncertain ami proim-mai-ii i;l c.itnliii..n. The necessity, at times, f. .r m-ii 1 treatment is as evident ami l.i-.ssiii'' as siiiv oilier necessity, and it is fur Ihis rcii.si tli.it, we. would c.irin ti.e 1 riiii''i ih 'Hi: r.'llll lull lers against pproved, is often 11 medi- .f any hut the imt . Irreparable injury placing cuijlideiii-c l.v ernes hu ll, Mltliol'n new ami picu-.ii-titius are 'f 111 worthless. It is tint almost im-xitalile failure of these com pounds t hat throws discredit upon phar- lu.n-y i rfo- i.I mi'iliral science in general, .-inns are now of the opinion lhat II1..IIV diseases ;ire the result of a morbid condition of inheritance o ouh- rational I In; blood, either throllxb r contagion, and lhat tin; and effective way of cur- in;; tl midaints is to produce a it.il lliiid. Tins h-, of s' Tofula is radica 1 ehaie'i' ill the nee, for c a ! 1 1 j -t pdilie call .. th' of ron-umpticii. the hereditary 1 1 1 the blood is, of consumption. !ia hits ivprateil- A i Mint of th-nfor. That Ay lv ploM vi 13-l.li. q't -litlv A dis c.ntlv i!;e tha: CXpe cfofui.l 111 1 prevent iv s Sarsiq d itself such a .sji.cilic is a wnfiii i thai cannot In; too fre md u 1 jeiit iy prochiinicd. :ii:i:slieil physician lias r'- ernnh d liis 'belief, fulllldi .1 He mo.t sati-faitory and reliable, eii.v. tiiat " ti.e faithful Use of r's S ir ip trilla will thoroughly i. ate si I'.iu'a." He flirt her asserts : have u-ed it as au alterative and iit-ptnilier, and must say that i st'l believe it to be the best blood ii ine nit compounded." This t'-s- uy, which has been re-ttihrined by dreds of others, should be siitlicient uliice all who are of scrofulous habit i sort, without delay, to the Use. of r's Sarsap.'i'itla. er H " I Hi' 1 tile li 1 1 1 to i to 1 A v. A not her 1.1 ly very prevalent in 1 1 catarrh. This is also a t'lliled Siates is b! 1 disease, ill bel li With W hii il tell-1. Wc ha VI sun d, however, d ' of the most stub pin siciaiis have to coii been repeatedly US thai the persistent usu of Ayer's Sar p-li from the parilhi eiTcctually ex this most dis coinplaint. In ilth is through e system dangerous way to he Ustiti an a word, ti tho purification of tho blood wmcn nourishes t lit; whole system. Try Ayer's Sarsapariila.
The Standard (Concord, N.C.)
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March 12, 1891, edition 1
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