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Tlie Standard from Now Until January 11892, for Only TwentyFive'Cents :Stibicrile At Once. nn THE STANDARD NDARD. ! , . d h l J U U ii . , A!m;it iwpkk" j ( 1,1 iS!i! l IN COXCOKD.- A , j s MOKE READING ; v I "i 'Kli THAN ANY OTHER V.j'Ki; in Tins miction. - u I.1M.S M reck. i-nr I " ocili -I 1" - Viixusl isnl 11 to thmk of those that ! r : in ir tit pal tod friends, V, i ii t li-.v w lit' iiiul sudtit'ii torn ' v ,1 kh L aoli uivadful oi.d.s. ,) ,-,; could read ir toll the tale Vs: -nt a ti-art'ul ivc! in ai t .'Uld tvulv v ril , t :v-o ti.ut tin re did ilio. 0 oan toll tlio depths of woo, Oi loving f nos at homo; j ,,s s i 1 and painful it to know l'u:it ihoy uo more will come. i, to laauy now will shed a tear ;n- Captain William West, h v:t a woll-known eug.ucor, A: .1 oik unions the best. Nn more the signal he will sound 1 i.at ho is ooiniiig nigh; I joint now hos beneath the i: round la drain's embrace to iie. ii.,. :)v, man, poor Warren Fry, An i lhii-'!i K. Linstor, too, Ni ,tr to the oujjh'Oer did lie, 1:1 ! ;tt d like his woo. rt;h:Ms h'io some wore sound usleop Wlii ii last did nuive the train, Tii t soon wont do. Ml the dreadful -iooc, A, d nov r woke agaiu. Ai;i, t'oor .Niiss i. o-ile Tool, low s id tier ... iiiioi 'i late! r weaki.ess t tit-ro lit r love did rule A.jhoush her love was jjjt'oat. t ii,, it did ll 11 a bitter cup Win n waters wore arouud; : . fiuild not hold dear mother up, And motner sank and drowned. A lovii couple late had wed, And on a bnd il tour. Ti.o.v soon did lat ot with wounds most dread, Aral still altltcted sore. To loving fiiou.ls liow sad the sight, And did iillh.ct tl.em son ; u.'i! were the forms of Mrs. White Ai.d Miss Ophelia Mooio. W. si ..j 1 upon tin- bridiro's lu. i-jlit i m ho :oe the !rai!t did v; I:: i,.:. ii wo saw tho dfoa.iflu IJ'tjht !' ' t..at abyss of who. T. : t-0 sc to an 1 f,ur feet it did leap 1 iu.- swuiioii .sit- am; Ti Meek diil make a iiiiiiitfii: heap Vi,.-iv woo witu horrors scream. Ti.o S:ai'siKo oily fed the slo ck. And l.i i'f i with willing han.is; Their v hiastiau lieai'ts do know uo look V. Lei v w mt and woe demands. tiio.i, O Father, bo their stay To those whoso friends are izoue. Jti-:p ti 'em to bow and truly say, Try sovoroi'u will bo done JS. L. Dixo.v. Mooi esville, Sept. 11, 11. a i:Ti.t:.MA. OKH.IN ! it is not the easitst thing in theth wo, Id to do to furnish a dotiuition of a -.:, tliiiian; so many elements tutor i;r.. 'he meaning of tho term iu its 1'uo. st comprehension Jt takes something inside to make a gentleman, but it takes soii.ofl-.ing outside also. Along with iiio essen tial internal qualities, principles, stimmciits ami impulses, there must likewise be iiumUred a certain pro priety and retiuemciit of speech and i. i iii.'ier. Wh-Te the spirit is want ing, the hollow outside will seldom iniio-e for any length of time on a tolerably acute observer. On the o: i:.-r hand a man cannot have the in, internal spirit without it erinc- ii. t!.-elf outwardly. A person may Lvo- t ho true spirit of a gentleman, ai. 1 also tho manners of one in a ilegiee to entitle him to the appella r.'ni ittid vet lack the delicate defer ence, nn. e tact, simple and ex'paisi'e graee and courtesy which stamp wi'h an inexplicable charm the tlif-'Ugiihred and perfect gentleman. XoiiiiiU of soul, hvitor, the cour age iu do riidtt, respect for God's iin;tge Hi every human soul, delicacy, g-iitieiit-sS a lid kindness of sp'rit are es.icip.iai in every gentleman's gen- r.tl make up. lie is one who never takes credit when he does not deserve it. Neither gold can buy, nor wild I, o:se3 drag him from the path of right. The scorn with which he i' pe!s all attempts upon his honor, is tome times called pride, but it is V'-ry different from the mere self ist. etn and self-importance, arro gance, and sujterti'iousneco whith 'o ni tnd homage from all, .Seeking to l, i!id,!e others. It is rather a fo ling f 'tis hail iind disgust at what is and that erectlieSS of Spirit v.ii.c i must accompany the con .":"!, .-ne-s. of met it. Your real gen t'. tnoi has respect for --.'Very thing )-. 'ft d.-le iii others, and while modest, in speaking of himself, ho pets frankly, IreeJy, gladly in piano of others7 nobleness. K' spieling Gods creatures his impulses towards them are delicate and considerate, prompting him to gentle thoughts and kind judgment, and these- sentiments are manifested in speech, tone ai. d manner. iSo many lo are merely civil or polite cm "I ! g ar.l for what is due themselves. '! In v I,., k the true ling of gentility whi, h will novel' de.;to rutely, wan tonly, needlessly wound the feelings of others, trample on their self-re-p'f , or self-love, or in any way "lis, mp,)se them, put them out of ( Oio.t. n nice, or make them ill at 'i.-e. lliis is what we call courtesy the cutward and visible manifest ation i f a g ntle and kindly spirit, wl.i ;h conies from and goes to the heart. True courtesy is the perfect out w .rd fotm of the gentle and kindly pi')l the llower and aroma that springs from those twin roots, and is oueof tdle most graceful and gracious, lov.-iy and winning things that ''' ' -ut.s human eves, and charms l' i n.oi heart"!. Greenville News. The world is full of "death traps," bit d.;nh has never yet been trapped. VOL, IV. NO. 38. w ii mt n tii i; rr.wxs u vii;r.i A Memorial Sjone nl an Historic Sjiot in ilie W'i ll or ii's. Uk'linionil Times. On May (', 180 1, the advanced forces of the Army of Northern Vir ginia confronted the army of Gen eral Grant in the "Wilderness of Spottsylvania'' iu ' its grand move "on to Richmond." General Grant had two days before successfully, without opposi tion, crossed his army over the liapi dan at Fly's and Germanna fords and was making toward Gordons ille. F.well, with the tecond corps Stonewall Jackson's old command occupied the left ou the Confed erate front, covering the old turn pike, and in his advance was to meet and check the enemy. His corps bad boon in winter quarters about Orange court house, and hence was nearest to the enemy. Longstreet with his corps, was in winter uters about Gordonsville, and did not arrive upon the scene of impending conflict, on the Confed erate right, until May (Uh, wheu he arrived in time to give much needed relief to the troops of A. V. Hill, who had boon lighting steadily dur ing this and the day previous. The battle line of Kwelfs corps extended across the turnpike, which was about his centre, and on which was their heaviest ligh ing. A. P. Hill and Longstreet's troops marched down and occupied tho Orange plank road. The turnpike and plank road each runs from Fodericksburg to Orange court house. Palmer's old Meld on the turnpike and Tapp's old Held on the Orange plank road, the site of the memorial stone just erected, are about live miles apart and were the centres of heaviest lighting in the battle of the Wild erness. In commemoration of the heroism I and devotion to General Leo shown j by tho Texas brigade this stone was I erected. The scene, the memory of I which we would thus perpetuate, I is graphically told by the Kev. J. j William Jones in his "Personal j lleuiiniscetices of Gen. K E. Lee." It was a crisis in the battle when j Longstreet's corps first came upon the field, headed by the "Texas j brigade, led bv the gallant Gregg." "(.etiera! L-e rode to meet them j ana was auvancmg as u.eir icaiier in the charge. The soldiers pertviv-1 ing this shouted: "Go hick, Gen- j era! Lee! Do go back. "General Lee to the rear . "A ragged voter-; an stepped iroin me ranks a ti u , seized h:s bridle rein." The com - j m.u.d refused to advance until their j ' eiovea cnieitani mui retina, l hen these gall .nt lexans noolv rushed foi ward and drove the enemy from j the held. Around the hallowed , spot where this stone now stands j are the open graves of about forty of j ! that fearhss and devoted band who ! I a! tested their love fur lel;eral Let' ; and their con u try. their remains ; were removed anu now--loop in tne Confederate cemetery of Fredericks burg. General longstreet was soon after wounded by his own men near . this spot while leading a victorious J charge. Had the record of him i v-uiiie. iii, ...... then' been "Dead on the Field of ! Glory" his happy fate would have been like that ot "Hollo tailing in the arms of vict.. ry on the Heights of Abraham." This stone, four feet high, of mas sive while held fp'iartz, lay on the sid ? of the "old turnpike" just ou the advance battle line and breast works of FwoH's Corps. Subjected o a "baphometic lire baptism" of battle, i, became a litting memorial tribute from the hard-fought and victorious lines of E well's "second corps." to Inr sister corps under Longstreet to now and forever stand as a battle monument above these graves of the Texas brigade. It vv .s a pleasing spectacle to see with the Confederate veterans of the neighbor i.ood their children and grandchildren with zeal and en thusiasm assisting in the noble work of removing and erecting this me morial stone. It stands upon and is buttressed by quartz rocks, which were used as a part of the rifle pit breast works on the skirmish line iu their front. It is beautifully shaded in a grove of oak and hickory, pine and cetlar in Tapp's old field, and is sixty feet north of the Orange plank ro.id and eighty feet in rear of the Confederate brtast works to the east. Near to that great forest known as the "Weird Wilderness Woods," where, like shells buried in ocetm depths that have caught from the roar of contending waves and cliffs perpetual murmurs, so here the myriad piney-tops have caught from thr din of battle and the shock of arms a requiem w hich they whisper iu musical mytiitone over the graves of our m iy tretl dead. A lot sunounding this stone is to be deeded by the owners of El I wood estate to the Ladias Southern Mem orial Society to be held in trust for ever for the sacred uses aud objects for which the memorial was erected. A t 1X1.1 STAB. In the journalistic canopy of the S ate there is none brighter than the Wilmington Star, that during stormy and bright nights for twenty four years has never ceased to shine with a radiant and piercing twink ling. It is a " fixed " star. May it twinkle brighter than ever as it sees the good done and hears the merited shekels rattle in the tin safe, we might call it. A girl will sing und a girl will dance, aud a girl will work crochet, but she can't throw and hit a church bfoau.-e she ain't built that way. IIEAIIT TIIKOIIi Ami I'lcnwtMit inflection by Henry ltloiint. Prosperity recruits more victims for perdition than adversity. Eddie wants to know if an oyster dealer is an austere looking man. Any feelihe that takes a man away from his home is a traitor to the household. Eddie says Eve wa3 not afraid of catching the measles because she had Ad-am. In this world it is not what we take up, but what give up, that makes us rich. I'he burden of song might be said to be too gre'it when the singer cannot "cany the tune. Some crimes are never punished. Whoever heard of a ball player being attested for stealing bases. It is just a little singular that the product of the s ill should mike meu who inbibe it so noisy, Nothing is ever done beautifully winch 18 done in nvalship, nor no blv which is done in pride. Help somebody worse off than yourself, and you will find that you are better on: than vou fancied Eddie says you should never rail at a man wr o is on tne fence as it might prove of-fen-si ve to him. The coachman's occupation is more agreeable than that of the hostler, but the latter is more 6table. Success is full of promise till men get it ; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has Mown Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity He who i3 false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. When Eddie read about Noah building the Ark he said he must have been the arc-itect of his own temporary salvation The facility with which a man forgives his own faults and then con demns those of others is a little sur prising to superficial observers A pun is a silver thread in the needle of conversation, which gives a radiant and embroidered stitch to the whole texture of a social enter tainment. we s,ev but the loom of life nevor stops . ami the pattern which was weaving when the sun went j0WI1 js WCaving when it comes no to-morrow t a leceiit donation party the preacher received a large quantity 0f h.-df-cooked bread, and he says now he doesn't want any more '-doughoatioii parties in his A writer has discovered that per- Mms n captivity live a very short time. This may be a rule ; but we kno'A' of some' married men who jKlve attained a remarkable age. bVvence is a momentary triumr.il. O . J 1 ' which is almost immediately suc- ceeded bv remorse ; while forgive ness, which is the noblest of all re venges, entails a perpetual pleasure. A Wilson lawyer said to his fe- niaie client, "Iu this case I shall tharge only a nominal fee." "A nominal fee !" exclaimed the ladv. nominal lee . caciuiihcu tin "that's phe-nominal !" Am ie made a fee bill attempt to '..1 -e- : 4.. .1 I U U lliCU Attempt to smile. 'Soiiirbody Elwe Mlichl." A lady was walking quietly along a city street not long ago when a door tlevv open and a boy shot out with a whoop like a wild Indian. Once on the pavement, he danced a sort of shuffle all around the curb stone, and then reached tlie street in great haste, for it was evident from the books under his arm he was going to school. She wa3 thinking what thoughtless noisy creatures healthy boys are, when just a few yards before her she saw something yellow lyiug on the stones. Coming lie irer, she fancied it a pine shaving and looked after the boy again. She s;iw him stop short in a crowd of people at a crossing and come back as fast as he had gone, so that just before she reached the shaving he dived and picked it up, not a shaving at all, but a long, slimy bauanaskin. Flinging it into a refuse barrel he only waited long enough to say, "Somebody else might have slipped on it," and was off again. It wa; a little thing to do, but that one glance of the boy's clear, gray eyes made the lady's heart warm toward the noisy fellow. He had not slipped himself; he was far past the danger, and when one is in a hurry it is a great bother to go over the fame ground twice; but "somebody else" might slip, so for the sake of this unknown somebody the hurrying boy came back, and it may be saved the life or limb of a feeble old man or a tender young child. Angelus. lly I.nyiiiK-ou of IlaudH. Woman restored to perfect health! Just faith and confidence enough required to lay hold of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, administer it with a little patience and a little perseverance, and complete Testa tion to health and vitality is insured. Not far, indeed, from the miracu ous, are many of the wonderful cures of lost womanhood it has effected. There are few cases, iudeed, within the requirements of sick and suffering woman, outside or beyond its helpful influence. So confident are the makers of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pres ription of its power to heal all female diseases, that they warrant satisfaction in every instance, or refund money. Large bottles (G for $5.00) ; at drug gists. mm The Oxford Day says: "Hot in the sun ; cool in the shade." Has the Day made a discoveiy? CONCORD, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, ADVIC'K TO FAKMEKS. Fayetteville, Sept. 11, 1891. To the Farmers' Alliance of N. C. : Brothers, as one of you, I venture to express opinion on a question af fecting not only the good ot the or der but the good of society and of the 6tate, not for a day but for all time. Let it be premised, that I am in entire accord with you in all ration al and patriotic purpose looking to the betterment of our condition as a class. My membership is almost coevel with the inception of the or der, and was taken deliberately and under the conviction that coalition and mutual interchange of opiniou on social and economic questions would enure to the amelioration of the agricultural masses. Especially tnat it would lead to ngnt conclu sion on one of the most vital of questions affecting freemen Taxa tion. That opiniou has undergone no-change and is not likely to, so Ions as the original and proclaimed objects aimed at are observed in all saucity. These, however, once dis regarded or the metes and bounds once over-stept, it is, to my limited ken and forecast, fraught with in calculable mischief to the farming in common with all other classes, callings and professions Adopting the postulate of statesmen and his torians that love of liberty has ever been the preeminent trait of land owners, l address you irom tnat standpoint, assuming as correlative that kings, kaisers and tricksters are the sole gainers by abatement of that inherent principle, and of them all most dangerous the last. Deliver us, good Lord, from over zealous friends, especially when they come in thin disguise. As is well known, non-partisanship and freedom of thought in party matters was fund amentally inculcated in our consti tution and for a while religiously nuintained. How is it now? The tendency in certain quarters to dis regard it now is thought by many judicious friends to be pernicious in the last degree, disintegrating to the brotherhood, and dynaniitical to unity, good government and lib erty. Let us then cry halt, and counsel together, brothers, lest perchance, that fatal blunder is committed. In the incipiency of the Alliance, and until quite recently, no intimation was let fall ol its resolving itself into a third party. lhat wa3 a purely after-thought, and Due of most questionable paternity. J udged by the inevitable result which would follow its adoption by any consider able offshoot of the Alliance, the motives of its projectors may well be impugned. African domination, return to the dark, disgraceful days of reconstruction, the almost certain effect ; personal emolument, pecuniary or political, the actuating impulse of those who set it a-going. Brothers of the Alliance, are you prepared for the sequence, sure to follow, if your worthy organization sinks into a mere political machine, to be run regardless of your true in terest and sound State polity bv selfish schemers of the 6ort referred to? Are you williug to become a stepping stone for knaves and dem agogues in their mad reach for power? Are vou ambitious to wear the dog collar of dogmatic and dictatorial leaders who go gunning ou their own account; or to take the ill con cocted nostrums of charlatans and quacks as an unfailing panacea, a universal cure all for existing po litical ills? If so, then count me out, for so a ti not I and so are nine-tenths of the Alliance, unless I mistake, who prefer the homely teachings of farmers Jefferson and Madison and Jackson to the clap trap and crude conceits of such as these. That the idea of the Third party, or to be more exast, of split ting the Democratic party, which in our State probably makes up nine- tenths of the Alliance, should have had birth in another political lati- itude, aud been indoctrinated in our midst by teachers heretofore inimi cal to our preconceived tenens and line of thought, should at least "give us pause." Life-long Repub licans of recent importation or in stantaneous conversion are doubtful leaders to follow, aud naturally come under the heading of "suspects." Beware of such, for sinister purpose and transparent is at the bottom. The movement took root in a recent Convention in which our State and in fact the entire South was virtually unrepresented, and which was com posed mainly of the most radical elements of the North. Is such a body lit midwife to usher in a scheme effecting our well being through all time to come ? What was proposed ? To formulate on the instant a sub stitute for all autecedent ideas on government, and to require all men and all parties under penalty or boycott anathema to fall down and worship their fetish. This modest assumption might well appall a congress of Platos, Aristotles and Bacons backed by all the political acumen or a thousand centuries. Sound political thought is rarely spasmodic or of sudden develop ment. Admitted for argument, that neither of the two existing parties has reached the state of absolute purity and perfection which dream ers and visionaries see, or affect to see, in the near future ; does it not, nevertheless, behoove patriots to pin their faith to tnat one which near est approaches that beatific but unattainable state by man or party, and to shun the one whose nearest approach thereto 13 in empty prom ise or blatant profession ? It were an insult to your intelligence to enter upon proof which is which, except to challenge pr jof that the one has ever encroached upon the rights of person or of property and to challenge refutation that the other has repeatedly done it and tried to do it from its ill-starred birth to the immediate present. The first is coeval with the century, the last with civil strife. Choose ye ueiween tne two. as you choose so will probably follow white or negro supremacy. Which will you have? You have tried both. Which is most conducive to j our self-respect, your manhood and material pro gress ? Of course no good Alliance man or good citizen would deliber ately and with open eyes vote Africa. it done directly and by roundabout process the responsibility is none the less. It is safe to assume that none of the new party syndicate antici pate the possibility of it3 success in the next recurring election. Why, men, their effort to make it a factor? The conclusion is irresistible, to pull down the white man and to rahabilitate the negro in political sway for purposes of their own. With the proverbial unity of the last on voting day, it' requires no skilled mathematician to foretell the result, if twenty, or five and twenty thousand Alliancemen can be in duced to ptnltify themselves by going away on wild cat side issues and acting with a so-called third party, powerless for good, but poten tial for mischief. Brothers, will you be party to such a transparent trick ? If so, "God save the old Common wealth, for if He don't, God knows who will much longer." Oh, com rades, let it not be said that the chiefest champions of liberty from "the grand old gardener" down, those identified with the soil shall be the first to strike the matricidal blow against a State consecrated to freedom. Perish rather a thousand, or a thousand thousand political Jeremy Diddlers and false teachers before such dread calamity shall befall. Brothers, we are on the brink, a fatal brink. Do you pro pose to be taken by the nose aud led and led over. If so, again count me out. For one, I am no candidate for suicide. For one, my back is no fit spring-board for the foot of vaulting ambition. The primal injunction of England's grandest sea king to his middies was : "Hate a Frenchman as you do the devil." plagiarize without profanity, hate to the man or men who would fain strike a blow, direct or covert, against the party begotten of Jeffer son and born to be immortal forj being most rational in the sight of Deity and most considerate of the rights of man, hate him I say, and a thousand fold hate him, whether he be in or out the Alliance, as hon est old Nelson hated his Gallic neighbor across the channel. Even without Scriptural 'permit positive and expressed, I can but believe (God help me if I misbelieve) that there are times and occasions and otun iers when hate comes in as an imperative duty. And now in conclusion, Brothers, to escape the suspicion of selfish prompting in this, my puny appeal for civil liberty, permit me to say that I crave nothing that you have to give except the heritage of free dom unimpaired. Be true to your selves if subjected to the crncial test, aud you have my quittance of all Bcores past and prospective. Official station I have never much craved, and now with advancing years am learning to despise. Hence should my name, perchance, ever be presented for your suffrage, whether in convention or at the polls, you stand absolved beforehand and exon erate in opposition. In true Alliance and Democratic faith, which I holl to be synony mous, I am yours fraternally, Wharton J. Greex. Skewered and Cared. "First I was skewered and then I was cured," says Jones, and he laughs heartily over his little joke. Well, let him laugh. Let' laugh, who wins. He was skewered through and through by dyspepsia and its attendant train of ills. He was cured by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Do vou feel dull, languid, low-spirited ; expe rience a sense of fullness or bloating after eating, tongued coated, bitter or bad taste in the mouth, irregular appetite, dizziness, frequent head aches, nervous prostration or exhaustion, hot flashes alternating with chilly sensations, sharp, biting transient pains here and there, cold feet, drowsiness after meals, wake fulness, or disturbed and unrefresh ing sleep, constant and indescribable feeling of dread, or of impending calamity? These are symptoms of Bilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, asso ciated with Dyspepsia, or Indiges tion. Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery will subdue the cause, if taken according to directions, for a reasonable length of time, or money paid for it will be cheerfully refunded. Some Cheap Itnte. Woman's Home Mission Baptist State Convention, Oxford, N. C, tickets on sale October 5th to 7th, limit October 12th : rate, $7.05. Conference M. E. Church, south (colored) Winston-Salem, N. C. Tickets on sale October 12th to 16th, limit October 21st ; rate, $5.20. Greensboro Driving Club, Greens boro, N. C. Tickets on sale Septem ber 28th 29th and 30th, limit Octo ber 1st; rate, $2.60. i Catawba Agricultural and Indus trial Fair, Newton, N. C. Tickets on sale September 28th to October 3rd, limit October 5th; rate, $1.60. Above are round tup rates for special occasions named. 1891. TOWN AND COUNTY. "There's a Chiel Am ang ye Takin Notes nd faith He'll Prent Them." We All Ought to Co. Let's send a big crowd to the Rowan Fair. The races will be good and the speaking ditto. Jule Whichard, of the Herald, will com pete for the prize on smoking plug tobacco in a pipe hoary with age and strong enough for ambulation. The prize will be a peremptory order to bury the pipe, conspicuous for its loudness. Nought Another Market. Joe Lindy,of Charlotte, came over Thursday to sell some cotton in this market. He was satisfied that he could get a better price here than in Charlotte. He closed a Bale with Cannons & Fetzer for 104 bales at better figures than could be had elsewhere. The man that made an ugly remark about this market is morally without a following ; he is a back number, we might say. Cabbage In It. Superintendent John W. Cook, of the County Home and farm, is doing much good. BeBides raising hand some crops on the regular line he has turned his attention to truck farm ing. He sold in town this (Friday) morning 600 pounds of head cabbage of most excellent and white grade. He brought one to this office that weighed eight pounds, and it is as pretty as cabbage gets. To inspect our County Home and the manage ment that exists there might be of splendid service to other counties in the State. These Nights. These glorious nights tend Lore's own field, and make her flowers sweetly yield, that bleued harvest of rapturous cheer, which make us feel that. Heaven is near. Lovers sit and dream and think, as from sweet lips love's nectar drink, of that entranc ing glorious spell when marriage bliss doth in them dwell. Selah. Wilson Mirror. That's right. "Selah" knows how to adapt these beautiful nights to realm of love making. Selah is a charming and " faultlessly gowned " maiden, as Joe Daniels might say. Zebulon Vance Howell. Our correspondent, with his cart and credentials, turns up at Big Lick, Stanly county, N. C. He is getting subscribers and telling the people about the Standard. UiG LICK, JN. C, Sept. 24, '91. I'm here this evening and safe. I am cordially received everywhere. People don t treat me like that treat ment accorded to book agents, fruit tree men and such. The Standard is a great favorite in this section. Big Lick is doing a good business, and the surrounding country has magnificent crops. I am just getting use to my cart, and will never let the Standard's credentials drag in the dust Zebulox Vance Howtll. A ood Captain. The captain of the colored mili tary company of Charlotte is what you might call a dandy. Wednes day morning he addressed his com pany thusly: "You see where I am, I did not seek this position ; you elected me and I am going to be boss. I tell you now that if I catch any of you driuking or smell liquor on you, I shall run my sword into you. I mean it." The company drilh splendidly, indeed. While drilling on the street, one fellow did not toe the line nicely and Capt. C. S. L. A. Taylor, this being part of his name, ran up and gave him a terrible blow on the back he moved too far; the captain ran around and made an impression from the front. This company did some fine drilling and make a splen did appearance. mat mmm Bfoonnblne Poem. W. W. Scott, antique editor of the Lenoir Topic, writes poetry this way : Emerging from the gloom of the drizzily, foggy weather of a few weeks ago, we set upon the pleasant task of writing a poem upon the glo rious contrast of the last ten days. The silvery shimmering sheen of the silent stars and meandering moon seemed ready to set themselves to music if we would only write, but somehow or other we could only expatiate upon how hot the days were and how cool the nights, upon what fine times the farmers have had to pull fodder and save hay altheugh the grouni is a little hard for break ing, for wheatand upon the splen did light the moon gives for driving home from picnics. And that don't rhyme. .Southern Beef and Mutton. Ten car loads of sheep and cattle, says the Greensboro Record, from the South went through the city last night bound for cities to the North of us. Several of the cars were two stories with sheep on second story. The South is a great country, and when the mountains of this State are devoted to the rais ing of sheep and cattle, the lonely glens und craggy cliffs will be trans formed into rich pastures and reso nant with the lowing of herds and the bleating of sheep. The native and cultivated grasses grow luxuriantly on all our moun tains, and the valleys which are watered by sparkling brooks are rich in soil which only needs the atten tion of the skillful farmer. We have recently Been on some of these mountain sides the finest of corn. Hillsides so steep that noth ing but the sturdy ox could be used in its cultivation. WHOLE NO. 194. WHO FOR GOVERNOR ? The Durham Globe publishes what is supposed to be a communi cation from Concord. The charge is substantially true, as pertains to us. lne greased pig was caught by one, supposed to be AI. Fairbrother, At any rate the catcher was a tall, lank, raw-boned Wild Westerner. He and the pig have not been seen since: Concord, N. C, Sept 18, '91. To the Editor: "Who will be our next governor?" is the leading question of the day. If all who ask tnat question could have been at the Cabarrus county fair Thursday and have heard the address deliver ed there to the farmers of Cabarrus and the surrounding counties by Governor T. M. Holt; and tave seen with what great enthusiasm the five thousand people assembled re ceived the addrsss, would have said that Holt would succeed himself, as he deserves. Governor Holt is not an eloquent but he is a plain forci ble speaker, and he talks good hard sense. His address was well pre pared, well delivered and well re ceived. The people of North Caro lina will do themselves honor by honoring Governor Holt with another term. A ride over Governor Holt's Da vidson county farm (which I had the pleasure or taking) would con vince any one that he is well equipped to represent the farmers (if it takes a successful farmer to do so.) This farm is probably the best grain and grass farm in the state. His superintendent informed me that they ship large quantities of hay to Raleigh and Charlotte as well as to furnish some of the neigh boring farms. Durham was represented at the fair by Mr. Merrifield with his horse, Black Dan. While he did not win first honors, he acquitted himself well and came off the track a very close second. Time, 2'26i very fast on a slow track. Plain Jim Cook was in all his glory. The great success of the fair was due in a great measure to the Standard. One of the great at tractions on the programme for Wednesday was a mule race. Plain Jim was entered and was the favor ite. The betting was ten to one on Plain Jim against the field. The bell tapped and the mules came on the track, when it was found that there were thirteen entered for the race. Plain Jim siid that he would not run with thirteen that wa3 an "on" lucky number, and wanted 'Arm and Hammer" ruled out of 'he race, because, as he said, it was t free advertisement for the "A. & H." soda at the expense of the Standard. The mule kicked and Plain Jim was not in it. E. What's the Matter ? The Wilmington Star asks what can be the matter with Wilmington that it should be so frequently visited by evangelists. Sam Jones will make his second visit shortly. Besides much material to work on there, the evangelists get well paid. From the Same Town. A negro with a call bell, a melo deon, and a boy with two bones, (loose bones), executed a piece of music and passed around the bat This 4-pager reporter informed him that he " was financially embar rassed," and the cheeky and slander ous negro replied, I'm from Ashe ville, too!" What a Drank Did. The Salirbury Herald says : Two Salisburians, who went down to the Concord Fair last week, thinking to "take in" the town after" the Fair closed, took what they supposed a main thoroughfare to the principal parts of the city, and were surprised to pull np at the depot. Hot, dusty and out of humor, they gave up the job. We give no names. We'll Be There. John C. Wadsworth and us all aie going, since the Herald said this : Salisbury and Rowan ctounty did well for the Concord Fair and sent down large delegations. t Concord and Cabarrus county wilt have an opportunity of returning the com pliment next month when the Alli ance Fair is held. The Herald believes in reciprocity of this kind. It promotes a feeling of friendliness between neighboring communities, and causes the people of the one section to know more about tne other. Let Cabarrus send ns up a large delegation of visitors, and let it also send some of its best Agricul tural products and finest blooded stock for exhibition. From Copal Grove. Mr. George D. Troutman, son of John A. Troutman, Esq., while re turning home from the Fair last week, lost a new buggy dash which he had purchased in town just before leaving. Any one finding it and placing it where he can get it will be rewarded for his kindness. ! The meeting at House's Grove M. E. church, North, is now in progress. Thomas Hatley killed a large rattlesnake last week near Long creek. It had twelve rattles, indi cating twelve years old. A stock company is expected toj put up machine soon at Gladstone, on the railroad. It is a good stand for such an enterprise. A. E. Lyerly ha returned to North Carolina College at. Mi' Pleasant He has been" at home for ten days on account of a sore foot " Oats seeding is about over. Making hay and fodder is now the occupation of farmers. But little cotton open yet R WE DO ALL KINDS OF job "woirik: IN THE NEATEST MANNER AND AT THE LOWEST RATES THAT POETRY. In another column are some lines on the wreck that ocdurred on the Western North Carolina railroad. The contribution comes unsought from S. L. Dixon, who has a consid able reputation won by a poem he wrote on a man by the name of Brown. TLe poetical editor of the Stand ard is young, and of course is not a competent critic. We have read "Mary Little Lamb," "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck," "Twinkle, Little Stars," and some in the Stanley News and the Detroit Free Press. There is, really, but little poetry in the lines, but there is a sympany that does good, perhaps. Prose, by way of a pointer, is good enough when one can't write poetry. The Stanly News. "Ex-editor J. R. Elkins killed a forgeous copperhead snake Tuesday, t was making' for the house, where the children were at play, at a fear ful speed, when happily Mr. Elkins put an end to tnis tale which the unsuspecting snake little dreamed." Isn t it funny to imagine that you see Colonel Romulus Elkins af ter a snake ? The Prettiest Baby. The Standard Music Company of Winston want mothers to have at the exposition each day their babies, the prettiest to receive a silver dollar and a ticket The last day of the exhibition the prettiest of all the babies will receive a Bridgeport or gan worth one hundred and twenty- hve dollars. Could some of us call back about thirty years, some one of us would have an organ. Too Big for the Cars. Some of the fruits of Mr. Kerr's labors in Chicago during the Spring were eeen to pass through town on Friday. One of the bag machines for the making of exporter's Hour sacks (140 pounds) and printing them in three colors, was received and carried to the Bag factory. Itufus Patterson has been working with it, trying to get the big thing in the mill. The railroad company had no car that it could be gotten into, so it was placed on a flat car and a house built over the machine. Four others will be along and just think of five machines making 75,000 bags in one day ! mm-mmm The Balloon Ascension. The fellow was brave : he inllated the large balloon with gas, and as it began to swell the crowd became nervous, held their breaih and wondered. The balloon slowly as cended thousands of eyes slowly raised to suit the angle. The brave fellow hung on to his pole, until he appeared almost out of sight When at a height of 1000 feet he jumped out into mid air in his parachute. An otherwise dull and mashing thud was avoided by the fellow being up to snuph." Fellow citizens of Cabarrus and neighbors, this would have been the thing at our fair had the balloonist come. The Fair Association had con tracted with him to go up twice, and the Standard on the strength of writ ten contracts with him, published the item, and we believed the fellow and the balloon were going up until a telegram came asking for fifteen dollars to enable the Bohe mian to get here he was "busted," stranded, at sea or troubled in the mind, you know how it is yourself. Believing this particular baloonist a Borry thud no fifteen dollars was sent him and a probable death was averted. The fair association toted fair and the Standard was in it too. Wait for 1892, lor the balloonist of a campaign year ! Let us all wait. Send us your job printing. A COMMOS COMPLAINT. It is astonishing how lightly most people regard certain organic derange ments, so long as the pain or inconveni ence caused thereby is not excessive. This is particularly true of the bowels, which, next to the stomach, are the most abused portion of the body. The wonder is they continue for so many years to perform their important office with anything like regularity, consider ing how little attention is paid lo their special demands. One of the most common ailments is constipation, which very frequently be comes chronic for want of proper treat ment. As a general rule, when a per son wakes up to the consciousness thsit he needs something "loosening," he takes the first tiling at baud, if it only promises a speedy effect. The evil of such indiscreet medication is that while the dose may cause a prompt und ener getic movement, the operation is liable to be followed by another, and perhaps longer, period of coustiparion. If this again is remedied by a (similar treat ment, it is sure to be succeeded by still more stubborn inactivity the final re sult being a permanent weakness of the bowels in the form of chronic and confirmed constipation. Now what is needed byway of physic, in any protracted interruption of the regular operations of the bowels, is simply a gentle aperient to bring about a movement, leaving the rest to cool ing drinks and relaxing food. For this purpose, there is no better opening med icine than Ayer's Pills. Being purely vegetable in their composition, and en tirely free from calomel or any other harsh, drastic purgative, their use is unattended with those injurious effect which follow the taking of ordinary cathartics. On the contrary, Ayer's Pills are calculated to strengthen as well as regulate the bowels and stomach, and also to stimulate the liver, the slii--gishnes8 of which is often the real cause of constipation. Ayer's Pills, being sugar-coated, r.re easily taken and are, therefore, admira bly adapted for use either at home cr abroad. They are recomnindd by lead ing physicians all over the WKtrld, and, in countless households, are" the only medicine considered absolutely indis pensable. They are, without doubt, tho most popular pills ever made. - ?