North Carolina Newspapers

IHE CONCORD WEEKLY IIEES Thi m widely cirailatod v-aper verptsblisbed in . Qr, ,r-t us, Richmond' xv.m, Montgomery,- D.ividsori, Randolph, . St v.iivAnson and Union Counties. EOGK AND JOB PRINTING r . " or Jlzz, kxjtds -il iLii n Executed in the .Best Styla AT XITEOa TEICE3- -. Our Job Printing Departiseut vith ever? necessary equipment, is prepared to turn out every va riety, ot Printing ,in first-class style. No botch-work turned out tVoin this office. YTc dupli . cate the prices of tiny legitimate establishment. y J3HNB. SXEBMLL, Editor. , wZE5 NOT-"': 7.03 a Year, in A if vanes ;ncK a ns herd. ! Volume XIV. CONCORD, 2vT. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1896; Number. 23.; H TT" JLLVJLO, ' Usi j arilU Uiaa In any oUr prcparalicn. ' Wore is required, more care taken, more !ien30 incurred In Us masurajtura It posts the proprietor and the dealer Wore but it costs the consumer less, as he srct.s wore dosea for his money. More f'irauve power is secured by its peculiar conibiastJoB, proportion awl process, which make It peculiar to itself. More i'po)e are employed and more space oe mpied in its Laboratory titan any ether. More vi'irierfnl cures ff3d and more tea. tiiivituafs received than fry any ether. More and more .ncrease year by year are reported by draeclsts; More pf"!'1 are taking Hood's Sarsarorilb " j.xImy than any other, and more are taking it today than ever before. More stiix,' moks rea-wws might bs . gvea iiy you siioulii lake Sarsaparill i The One Tree Blood Farifler. 1 per bottle. n. er-.re all Live Els and nOOu S flllS Sick Headache, ascent wheiV vow - -FEEL SHAKY WHY NOT TRY OF KNOWN MERIT SOLD EVERYWHERE ARTHUR !ETEX CC. tCUVtiXE, JON o! 1 bv Ramscur & Graham China J rove THINACURA FOR THIN PEOPIiE. ARE TOT; THIN ? Flc-h made with Thjaaccra Tablets by a seicDtitic process. They create oer- feet assimilation of everv form of food. soertticf? the valriabJe.' parts- and dis crdin2 the -rforthless. 1' Thpy uaakttoa f:wes l iump and srosna ovt the n-rare. TLt-T are the - '- ::. STAXDAE1T EEHEDT - fur lt,aaDess,HContairimir no arsenic,aii3 a1Mi!ntely harmless. - Price, prepaid, $1 per box, 6 for $3. TumpbleL "How to Get Fat," free. THE THIN CURA CO., 943 15roaJway, N. T. !.J.lJ.f.tIl Jewelers, CONCOED, - N. U. NEW GOODS Daily Receiied. come, ; COME,, C03IE, and see the many -new things we are oti'oring for your inspection. Largest Stock In The State. It looks like trood times iost to see miicy new tMog we haie to offer this fall. Every one welcome.' A. J & J. F. YOBKE. W. D. Anthony ,fr Go. Painters; ; Plasticders, . V Yarnisliers, . AND Paper Hangers;: j - r t Want Your Work. AH Jobs Guaranteed. . . Old Furniture made to look as eoodas new. - Mattresses made or renewed with perfect satisfac - tion. Upholstenn'r a specialty See us. -. " W. D. ANTHONY & CO. Oct. 1. " . Mavius been dolv appo Admiostraturof ft. ii. iiriin Ji.iiii ai :iAii.i:t:u i-eaer aeceaaea an . - - - - lK.-rwu! hoitUoicclaimaasralnKt are berebv notifleto nt-Ksent tdem duly aa- ;v ,ri,",- theuticatefl to flie nnderslsnod on or before a ovemrw i7in. iwi, ior uaymem;. or tnis no- t ice wilt be pleaded aa a bar to their recovery mat prom m payment is expect ea. ; ThU Nov. Id. UM. D. C Faggart. Nov.lrf, 6vr. - Adrnr. of M. II, Lkflgb. DlSCiSES OP TI11J SKIN. , .1 he intense itching and smarting wci- i-nt to eczema, tetter, salt-rlicam, and other CLscabis of tlio skm is instantly allayed by a)iii viDg Charu!erLun s lye. and ckin . Ointment. Many very tod caaes have been rx-rmanentlr cured - ir it. It is equally eflk-i-nt for itching pilua and a favorite rem edy for aorc nipples; chapped hamlnjchil I'laina, frost liites, and chronic sore eyes. For aale Ly uraggista at 25 cents per box. Try Dr. Ci . Condition rowdcra, llicy ' j Ut - -J i rinrw nel8 when in bad cocdi-i-j.;. 'iiiiut. fStukl rrn tier and vennifega. 4 a.. ,irf Ajl ils I t . -iJ, rw ... T I dfe J " TB TUB BATTLE. i,rir mCtatl.s tbis' nat coitntryt bnth national aaJ tts.te, lias. ieea ia the sjoiiv of pcMiticsJ ekcUement, and cow tpe f!oaion is over aad sooa the legisla tures of the v&riots States not already in session" T-iil convent. 'Tiie candi dates begged juul-immured and con jured tie f.;o.!e fir their votes. Now iu: retarri 'tirhat will the- officials- do for the peopls ? Et er f official owes a debt to his constituency that he can only pay by the most faithful service, by unswerving loyaky to right and principle, by the champioixsbip of all wis-3 and grol measures, and by a vigilant,- watchful caro lest sorne bill or measure -which i3 rtet to the best inter est of the' morals, peace and good order o! tis corociu"i'y 3 not dtec tl and defeated. I cannot be charged with the work of ep't or ippositrsa' now to any candidate. : Oificea have been meted out from Mr. McKinley down to the little constkbles, I shall not discuss men but measures. - - Everv leeislatare ia every etaie in this Dnion ought to settle first and foremost the question of a decent, righteous elec tion law. The frauds of the past pngbt never to be repeated in the intnre. Un less by wise lislation and faithful en forcement of law these frauds and ras calities "at tha polls and ballot boxes shall be stopjd there will be riots and bloodshed, ar.d a thousand people will be killed arovnd the poffinjr precincts. A bad thing can go just so far and no farther. I ttke the position of an bum ble, privatecitize.n of this country tfiat any man in the legislature or out of the legislature is in favor of m iree ballot and fair count, and nobody but a dis honest, dirty scoundrel would counte nance fraud in politics or anywhere else. and he who f.rhts in the legislature of this country the adoption and passage of the best rsible 'election laws for his "state either g 5t into the leiElative balls by fraud and rascality, r else ' he is afraid be can't set back aain without the use of beta at the polls. The Aus tralian ballot ought: to - be adopted, by everr Slate in this Union. There ?are less chances f?r fraud when the Austra lian ballot is used than any other method with which I am acquainted. I know of Bomemea calling themselves legisla tors .will say it works hardships upon the - iHiterate: that it is cot nht. to disfranchise a man because he is igno rant. - ". There ars m&riv things which don't seem right to us, but they are wise and good. It does not look like it is a hard ship for a railroad to discharge an en gineer; who Las faithfully served the company 20 or Off years, andyet he cannot read and write-: But that : is done nevertheless, for the protection of the traveline uublie and for the: safest and most efSeient movement of", trains, It look hard to discharse a locomotive engineer or conductor because they are color blind, but nevertheless it is done in the interest of the traveling public and of the road which discharges them It looks a little bard to - some women that they cannot rote when they know thev -have more sensev more morals ana more education than half the gan who run to the polls with their bolloU. IThe, greatest - good to the, greatest number is a-' safe rule. I sympathize with the unfortunate, but I love the honor of my state and the perpetuity of its noble institutions more tnan 1 sym pathize with the fellow who. has grown up in a country .where, books are ten cents apiece and kerosenevpil ten cents a eallon as isnorant as a muie. v a cor- ract the ballot is to undermine the very mnd sills of our lnsutuuons. xo stun a ballot or perpetrate election frauds is the greatest crime a mancan commu against his country. - It ought to . be made treason to buy or seu a vote. 10 tamper with the ballot box or be guilty of election frauds. It looks like politi cians themselves would grow sick and tired of the methods so frequently used all over this country. I know there are extremes to which we can go. I read the deliverances of a man a few days ago who said that in the south we were constantly menaced, with the color voteS He said the A.fg!o-Saxon race must stay on top,.; and there were three ways in which to. deal wita ;the negro - in politics. One was to move him but of this country, another to dis franchise him, and the other to kill him. : 1 Stm eare we - will never move the brother in black from the South. We bad as well talk about moving the fertile plains of the west and rehabilita ting the red hills and gully-washed hills of South Carolina and Georgia with them We cannot disfranchise ; him by any rule which xioes not apply to the white man: Nobody but a murderer wants to kill him." JThe Australian bal lot is the best and th e easiest solution of the -trouble, With .ftheyjiostraliaa ballot we can . have honest electioBS maybe not altogether honest, any more than we fcave full protection, to life by j the laws against murder and homicide; but we eliminate -from politics largely the ignorant that' don't know and the rascals that can be bought and soli like steers or mule3 in tbVmarket, Lt.t all the legi'laturea passahe AflatraUan bai lot biw. Let them make- buying or selling a vote a felony punishable not j only by .$ wprvsemment xju tne peniten tiary, of the State, but -with it the ever- 1 t --.- -. . - , 1'Lr a r 4 1 i lasun uiaacuitcuitMii bj party. . -. ' .Virtue and intelligence must domi- nate'oyer vice and ignorance if this gov ernment fs to be perpetuated as a gov ernment by the people and for the peo ple An ignorant man; is almost inva riably a man of deep-eated prejudices: and prejudice and vice may not be ar apart. Here is one, citizen, who is in favor of virtue: and -iatelligence ruling this country whether it dwfranchises him or not ' If they could have better officials and purer elections by disfran chising me, then f say patriotism would make me submit In the ...mad rush of ppliticS in the.' greed for-oilics and power; many have lost sight "of purity of honor and rnanhoo t.: I have o re spect for any man .who would-go into nffioe when be1 kne - f ra'id ;'gt hint in thtro. - He is as meau s lie currnpt gang who put him in, a- a, ru'e. vil.nt men have a- rndVal .conscience,' but few men nave a pxhfucai conscience. .. vAiiy 1 . t . 1 ... r ... t - ihinw to lipAt.firsuit'haahfliitr.ini.bitl to read "anything to beat ruv opponent and get the oihee for inyeel. It ia notonons sayinff now tnat cood rnea doa't.setk for otuce so much; that theyj are not willing to enter into the dirty ! Scramble for it." It is a sal day when j viraicsna manuooa tiare not cuter a race becanse the unscruiiuldus ros.-Jil can fill hia wires and work his heelers and j defeat an opronent "who is his superior j in every sense; know we have rood men m every I legislator in this Union. I know if they will fight for the right with the tireless energy and indefatigable effort with which the evil men in the : legisla tures engineer their schemes and push their ballots they will conquer; for right is might. Right has never lost a battle where it bad a champion equal to the emergency. And at last ibis differen ti&tes a statesman from a politician. Clay was a statesman, lie could rise to an crnrr-c r,ey f .r t'.-e rTLL " Abraham Xaacola was a.fcuiteinidii. lie met e v ery emergency when right met wrong iri bis career. To be & law maker and a 'law breaker both at the Same time is the acme of meinness and the last re- urat ui a nusmu. uvm axe uui eaougu of the ex-members of the legislatures of this country in the penitentiary, I dare believe. When I look over the pages of history and see how men who championed the right loved theiroountryinorethan they loved their nn-n nftirial msitioni. I Bnel v r i 7- :r 1 : ' toenceforgood though they may been a dead a thousand years. Their public calamity. And when I look over the same pages of history and see how littleness and meanness has had its re ward in perfidy here and damnation hereafter,.! say it -pays to do right be- .jm i j t-" be i " niriu. a mm ii 114. niim v if ii t - r-v-j 1 both worlds to do wronsS Congress it-1 more moral backbone. Every legisla-1 tore in the United SUtes needs more 1 moral backbone and ' less iack-assleal jawbone, . When "men get into office through fraud and rascality, and then while the legislature is in session the liquor dealers of the capital city keep their rooms at the hotel or : boarding houses supplied with a variety of wines and whiskies and cigars, that sort cf a little rascal is ready for any dirty work man or devil wants done; and I don't see what the devil himself could do with such fellows unless perchance he has a soap factory in heU: and then I don't see what he could have to deodorize their carcasses with. : )JJ':::rv:-:l - All hail to every pure, upright man in Congress or in the legislature of any rtateluIJ' there be any other sort m the legislatures or Congress the -dev il will get them, but thank God he won't get much. Sax Jokes. Bananas aad Apple. - New Orleans is the port from which the larger part of the Union is supplied with bananas. From that city as a dis tributing point the fruit, is sent to most of the Southern States and a large part of the West. The banana trade of New Orleans has of late years grown to. very large proportions. This season a great falling off in the demand ha oc curred, and at last it has become so marked that the New Orleans importers have reduced the number of vessels en gaged in bringing the fruit to that port by one-half. -' The explanation of this extraordinary and Unexpected develop ment is not that the American people have ceased to like this foreign .fruit, but that a native fruit is so abundant and so cheap this year that banana; can not compete with it. The apple crop of the country has been, remarkably large, and the price of the fruit Is so kw that people' who would under Other condi tions be eating bananas now take apples in their stead. . " . , Mr. nohart'a so Babtes. -.... A committee which, was arranging for a sound money demonstration in New Brunswick,' N. J.t the other day, called on Vice-President-elect Hobart and asked him to be present. - Mr. Ho bart. in explaining why he could not accept the invitation, ! said that he had about seventy-five invitations to attend dinners and celebrations on the day set for the New Brunswick affair, and ad? ded that "if he did nothinr but write juitograpbs for the babies' he would be very busy." - in answer to an inquiry of the committeemen as to fWhat he meant "by writing autograph8 for the babies' Mr. Hobart said: "Why; I have had 800. of them named after me so far and the end is not in sight." - " , " " . . Tber l warns - There is nothing so good as Dr, King's' New Discovery for , Consumption, Coughs and Colds, so demand it and do not permit the dealer to sell you some substitute, r He will : not claim there, is anything better, but in order to make J siid he, "and she has a good, industri more profit ho may claim something f 0u3 husband, and they are gittlh along else to be just as good. ; You" want Dr. iLing a Jew ff liscovery beeanse you know; it to be safe and reliable,' and J guaranteed to do good or money , refund ed. For Coughs,' Colds, Consumption and for all affections of -Throat, Chest and Lungs, there is nothing so good as is Dr. King's New Discovery. Trial bot tte free at P. B. Fetzer's Drug Store. The Supreme Court has decided a very novel "case. - It holds; that a private citizen, impersonating an ordained miu 1 w 1.. t 1 . I isier. WDQSOieiiaiiixes a marriage ueiweeaj I men and women, is guilty ot no crime either at common or statute law,: The case comes from Pender county-and the persons thus marriedareT living together as man - and wife. The defendant impersonated a Jiaptist minister. A jury found him guilty-, but he was discharg ed, judgment having been arrested by the judge. The solicitor appealed, but is not sustained by the Supreme CaurL Sjits against the Cumnock coal mine for miners killed in accidents aggregate 1190,000. It is claimed that the accident which killed forty-two wa3 ' duo to the fact that a negro left an open , lamp bnming near a point at which . a new seam of coal had been opened.. Governor Ciirr will in his message recommend the f naetment of lawa requiring the useful sa'ety lamps. , lie went into thy Cum-: j-nock mine the week before the accident ', ooJUFre-1.'. ' - A bill to prohibit the wearing A bill to prohibit the wearing of bloomers has been introduced in the a 1 aiauama ai&mvure. BiLLARFSLETrER." 2fow Uiat the elections-are all over, le,t us wash cir hands and turn over a now leaf. . It is a curius paradox that as a general rule a m;ia can't be Ciecled until he first falls from grace. Politics make3 a strange mixture of Calvinism n: , r. f;n t the word acquiesce. He always pro nounced it with the first e long like it was acquieoee. -" This seems to be the young men's era and I reckon they can run the macbicey-but I must say that it has been a long time since I have had my choice in anything outside of home. I am doing reasonabljr well under my own vine and fig tr-e, where I am elected all the time. The fact is, I novr.r faM f-op-j rr-'.re 1 1; le cf nv ovn piemiics, tno'jgu sorueumes ta:rjg? sre not calm arid serene even there. fiower garden and got sweatof perspiration. The I worked hard vesterdav cleanin!? nr in quite a perspiration. Ihe leaves from our big trees bad blown, all over the beds and the chrysanthemums bad fallen wn and had to be staked ur and tied tod the old eanua stocks had to be cut down and removed. By the time I had got everything in good order and the leaves all burned and the walks raked it . - . . -. . .- , ... wn ji.ibou"m u was aoout time to re- 9a mA a sat down on the iron seat and mopped the honest dew from my aged forehead. Suddenly she drew near the window and remarked?- - - - !"I wish you could just see Mrs." Craw ford s front yard and flower irarden: iaa v - - " """ ""-v. mey aro as wean as a parlor. 1 was jv. at thft fzn tva aiif ftfSi&txr ri1 aT?MrrTiT'n wast 1--nIay ir- rwfrtIvi .n, 1, ; 1. iartft; - - Well, that disturbed my tranquility a little and I was about to say maybe you had better get him to come up here and fix this one, but I dident-: But I wasent serene at all . and ventured1 to remark that Mr; Crawford dident do it; for be had to weigh cotton all day ,and I reckon it was Mrs. Crawford's work. I paused for a reply, but he resumed her needle and thread and I aat and rumi nated. When I came to dinner I con tinued my broken remarks and said that Mr. Crawford dident have Jour acres of big 'oak trees tnSitter up his . little front yard aad I thought that a carpet of rich? brown leaves wasent an unsightly thuig nohow.! She asked me to send dowa my p?atJ tof som& chicken. Af- ter another pause I remarked- thai I had long, since found out that we couldeut have every good thing in .one place. We couWent have a beautiful grove and a fine flower garden near it for flowers, won't grow under shade. Those beautiful roses - that Mr Lara- more sent me have the sunshine .all the dayl - ' ' . " - '.". ."Let me help youto one of these poached eggs," she said. V : . , "But I reckOD," said I, as I handed my plate, "Mrs. Crawford had things fixed jup extra fine because the aid & ciety was coming."". . ' It is going to meet here next week," my wife remarked in a mollifying tone of ..voice. ;Woat vou have a gkss of buttermilk; it is fresh and good.'' : And so I gave It up, and after dinner she came out and was quite profuse in heradmiration, lor she'knf'""?- that it takes lots of "encouragement to keep me at work. ; I'll keep on cleaning up until that aid society icomes and goes. - I'll watch the leaves as they fail and catch 'em in my hat. I'll swep and sand pa per - every walk and then Mrs. Craw ford can go, home and praise me to Mr. Crawford and put him in peuts. I'm I going to put out two more rows of j strawberry plants to-day,' for she hinted that we hardly baa enougn. 1 beard her tell the girls thSt she was ashamed of that old patsbed-up carpet in the dining room, for it had been down for four winters, .and "she wished she did have a large rug to. put under the table. 1 u Burpnse uer wita one some 01 iue&e days when I sell my cold-riiipe. It . , .- -. 1 .1 I will sell now, I reckon, since McKinley waa elected.- for there is gold in. it. It j was the only thing I had that Sherman's I bummers dident pick up and carry off. I , 1 traveled the other dav wilh an old soldier from Atlanta to Cartersviye-TIe couldent find a seat, and looked troubled as he toted his old valise tip aid down the aisie. 1 -So I pulled his coattail and made him sit by me. ' i He looked thank fol and in reply to my inquiry'said be was going to Calhoun, and from there j to bio son-in-law's in theeountryi a 1 couple of miles; said he wanted to See Sally and her children mighty bad. ! J v-'Sallv ia -a powerful good woman," j mighty well considerin'. - My bid wo- man mea eignt years ago, ana 1 m so InncoAma a f hnmA iVi ftfr T trn nrmiif and about and stay with our married chil- uren. xnat s ait mat an vm mao cau do for comfort " This old .veteran was uearing his four score and was stiSlquite alive and lively- He followed old Joe Johnston all the wav down from Chicamauea and had never been' over the ground since. How I the old man's eyes brightened a I - ! p o i n t e dout - Kennesaw mountain, 1 . . , thoa&a fie saivl ne marcoea oa me o?.nex side, toward New Hops church. I Ve had a hird right over tnere," J be "said, "and we everl&stiojii aalivated j 'em, as the boys said.' We kept old I Sherman powerful busy hurrying ot. bis I dead - 1 I ' pointed out - Lost Mountain, - and j when we reached the station that they used to call Big bhanty, the old man stretched up another inch and pointing his trembling hand, said: '.'Right over there-is the spring where I used to fill my old canteen, i. Yes, I would be glad to stop long enough to walk over there and take one more drink of that water, We licked them yankees all around J here, but there was too many ot em I too many. The just. come up ont of the yearth like locusts m lgypt.' " The old man was f miliar with evrry place-.we."ias3dri nd.- tilked fus h:h eaveriv. - vV nen" Iss VAS . mo .n ivts from ofd Ojinnt Yaller tivt,- I was drawn cV-scr t him and - asked nim a'miit the Lraigs and Yaughans and tho .old Mi t:S LtlJdi place and Shoal creek and Montgomery' mill pond and Fahview church and the old manual labor school. The old man looked at mo again and aein with a bewildered curiosity and finally ventured to ask wha mout myjaame be. ."Did you know the Alexanders" and Strickbnds and .Nathan " HQtchinsT' said I. - . "Oii, yes, .1, knowed -Dr. Alexander and all his boys, and all the Strict lands from old Milza dowrandT knowed the IIutcLinses. I coirre down to Atlanta with Fits Hutchins this morning," He's our judge, you know, and he's a good friend of mine. . I knowd all the boys. Garence ain't fur frorn me. "Vliat mout your flame be" Siid be. "'Did you know an old man in Law rencerilie named Asa Smith?" said I ':- ."Why, -of course, I did; everybody kno-.v;J !' if j. I traded in Lis store for ;iiaiiJ - lie r.:ov.-l r. rnv to 1 F"irVrt IVUinflT' "nil lf--ro nr.;. you ever hve in Lawrenceville?" : - 4 'Do you remember a little dark-skin, black-eyed girl who osed to ride horse back s up that road,. :. She wasTitx Hutchins'siater." .. - : "Whyjaof course I uEveryhody knew her.: She used to go to the old jndge1? farm on the river, twelve utiles from town and go alone, and she went in a hnrry and come back with a bag of apples or peaches hanging to the horn of her saddle. 5 She married old J Asa Smith's soni if I don't mistake, I think Fita told roe that. I I was thinking that maybe you were him, but then you are too old a man, I reckon." . ; 'lfy friend," said I, "you forget that it has been over fifty, years since you saw lhat little girl;, yes, she ia my wife and is not a little jrirl any. more. - ''Well, well,' shore enuf,' said he, with amelancholly tone; I do forgit r I'm always foigittia'. ,An you are old Asa's son. Well, well j I used to trade with you and your pa and the Sbnck lands. :, Weil, welt; I am so glad I come, across vou.". ; The whistles blowed and the bei!. rang and I gave the old man a warm shake of the hand and said,- Goodhy God bless you liitr. Aur, -1 ' 'A Dead Elk and What KUled ILUa. Chartorte Observer. - - - A horrible story of cruelty in the in itiation of a new member of live Elks order in Does 3Ioines, I., is going the rounds of the papers. Edward W. Cur ry, chairman of the ' Democratic Slate committee, of ilowawas the victim He died of blood-posoning, thvresuit of injuries received m the Elks lodge room. The Elks expected that when they male the ceremony too hot for the novice he would yell or jump or in some other way furnish amusement for the lodge. 'But he " never once ' flinched during his torture, and died as the result xf being too game. The members of the lodge are keeping mum and it seem 9 to be dU"JauIt to get at. the exact truth. One story is taut Curry was placed m a chair the seat of which was charged with elec- trity. A mikl current was turned on -. 1 j -1 . . . t i- wiui lue iut-a 01 uiaiaag uim jump, aa there was nothing to hold him in the chair; but he did not jump. The cur rent war increased but still he did. not Qinch. It Was increased still more, ami he was left for a moment or two sitting in the chair. Soon Emoke began to rise from the chair ana he was pulled out. The entire seat of his trousers was gone and he . was : badly burned. The ;true version,' however, seems to be this: that Curry, was bUndfolded and . placed on a chair with an iron seat. - Thena lighted lamp was placed under the: seat, with the exjsectation that when it got too hot he would jum p. -But .he sat still until he was badly burned. His trousers were burned away and 'the flesh fear fully scorched. The Elks at Des Moines are'said to be frantic with grief over the affair, which would be a comedy if the last act were nota .tragedy. " Hazing ought not to be allowed by secret or ders. At any rate the line ought to be drawn at making broiled beef -steak out of new "noerabers. ,' Initiation in the Elks is doubtless a good thing, like football. Ht it ia playetl right and there is no slug- - t Cabin Plilloaophy. ' " , iNo ; matter how big de fish is, folks won't be happy ez long ez dey think dar's bigger iiah unkotched. " -.. a Dar's so many hills on de road ter heaven" dai some folks misses de place entirely by buildin a railroad .'round em....-;-- -;. ..- . - - De reason people, won t go ter church t " 1- .. .... in rainy ; weaaer is Kaseuey. religion ain't waterproof ' - -' . When vou is uncertain which way ter goat de forks "er de road, de be9 thing ter do is ter go de nght way. Don t look down oa folks kase dey a esser den what "you-is. De wind 13 so small dat you can't 'see it; but it raises An AohhH in a cvekne.l - - - ; De race am t ter de ffwift, nor de bat- tie ter de strong but dese heah Samn son fellers commands a mighty heap er respec' when dey tu'n ljose 011 dewm munity, - -' . ' , McRjaley'a Probable Cabinet. : Secretary-of the Treasury Mark A. Hanna, O h i o, or Nelsout Dinglev't Miine. - U Secretary of State Andrew D. Whitttj New York. - - r ' . Secretary of War- Et-Gavernor Msr- nam, Aimnesota. - - Altoruey-General Williani; R Day, Ohio, or Henry C. Payne, Wisconsiu. ' Secretary of the-. Nav Cuanes A. Boutclle, Maine,- - - c ' - .-, "' Secretary o f ,th3; Jnteruir lYiHl im Warner, Missouri.-- . - ' Postmaster-General II. Ci'EvAns, Secretary of Ag ricullu rc J uh n ' 11 . or J'M. H. ' Da Yoang Brigam, Ohio, California - - , -1 lid Von iCvrr. Try Electric Bittars aa a remedy for your troubles? --If not, get a bottle now and get-relief, v This medicine has been found to be peculiarly" adapted to the relief ana cure of all Female Complaints, exerting a wonderful direct inffueacs ia giving strength an,! tone totiid orgais. If vou hwe Loss of Appetite,-Constip- Nervous. . SUepld i. : f;s.uUbl, Mel- Ooddiah Davip, moonshiner and out ancbolyor troubled witii Dm Spell vi'law... cturgiJ- wiUi :Wu.y i.ffset n. Eleotrie Bittersii tmsdicmeyouieod.'l)AVidsoac utsty, eucu iu, UinM.K burnt Health and Strauoth are irn urante-j I by of persona whom he Muxvd ha in itauiw. - Fifty ceatiid 41 0at p. B Fetzer's Dra. Str.-. " X TnEWKONOTKACK; StatesvDe Landmark. , . It is srenerallv understood that a nw V paper isnot responsible for the Tipw. cf its correspondents. - So well is this ru;e, known, we take it, that The I-Rndmsr quite often, for various reascus, prints matter to which it does not subscribe without taking the pains to say so. This is ireliniinary to- a won! of comment upon some things which onr excellent and highly esteemed New York corres pondent has in his letter this week.s All Democrats who have the good of the party and the country at heart are will' ing and anxious to get together. But if that setting torether" is contingent' upon the abandonment of the free coin age of silver and the embracing of gold monometallism, as seems to be the New York He, then we are afraid that the desirable event is far in the future. Of ccur5. r.:--..:i cef"' vron Lie fdture, but, as we pointed out TucoUy, unless there is ah advance in the prices of farm products and a real and perma- manent improvement in business anu industrial conditions, the free silver idea will gather strength from day to day and will surely sweep the country ia.t8 ahd 1900. . - - - Eastern Democrats need not delude themselves into the belief that free sil- xrc, nli l iKan ;rnrW IwnQAltttraOt Of the CHgine. ' She it has failed this time and failed bv a comparatively riarrdw margin The great overlook facts. -Again, the people in . .New Yorkl State who- are for "free silver may u 1 politicians who are on the make and the ignorant class of voters, but this it not the case : elsewhere. : It does not retard the free ailyer cause to intimate that only ignorant 1 people favor it, be cause it is not trueT and we are of the opinion that the New York Democrats, by their exhibition of narrowness" and intolerance - in constantly intimating that only ascala, and. ignoramuses fa vored free silverr have done more to advance the doctrine m the South and West than any other one cause. -t 4 No, if there is to be a ; 'getting; to eether" a different course" must be rpursued bythe JtemDemocratt; ano-t a talk of uniting on the Indianapolis platform ! is " worse than foolish. The Indianapolis ticket proved to be a hum' bag of the the first water. - It was - put un with a show cf sincerity, and its fcl- lowers md a gcpa deal or snouungarxHiu being theonly genuine until a day or two before the election. Then the word was passed around to vote for McKinley, and this they did almost to a man. They practiced deception and discredited themselves before the country. " - A Ueceptlon and a Fraad." Raleigh, N. C.,' Nov..lS.Dr. J. L. Mi. Currv. ex-minister , to Spain and 1 trustee of the Peabody and Slater funds, made an address today before the colored students of Shaw University here, in "I don't believe much in the idea' of having the United States flag over our j schools. I'd like" to know what the I United States government has done foci the public schools in North, Carolina' to j demand that the nag snouia nang over 1 them. - - l 'It never gave a cbu to Korth Caro- J Una schools, except to the Agricultural j and Mechamcal xjoilege. it is a aecep-1 Hon and a fraud to put the nag there. 1 It is the State that gives you education, j 1? Speaking of the negro -he said: . 'J I never could understand why tne negro population remains so compact la tne 1 South instead of becoming scattered ail 1 - . - over, the Union. . The Northern men freed.thenegrovj' AVay ; is .it that .the bulk of the people who are fighting .lor 1 -s"- -." K" a-ucao, as it are In deadwurnest, and whatever ay 95r8t?P wa3 r- -But I couldn't he onr own ninn about it fs foolish to to itM long s 8h6 remained on the " T " I fiAlr i 1 1 1 "11 V ...... -. . : . .... .. . : I uttvutiwr x huuki fciu uer ver negro does hot go North tojin with hiB?fiie 1 week, and while engaged in! friends instead of staying in the South among his enemies?" " : ' Jadce ITtaed Mlmaelf. r : ' lEx-Pohce Judge Aler.ander Laidiaw, of Oakland, CaL, died recently in San Franeisco While ori the bench-Judge Laidlaw's bibuloos escapades became the talk ot the torn. One-day a news paper had an'.; editorial comment, re fernng- to the peculiar t position of a indse on the bench who was called upon to sentence men for drunkenness whue he himself should be inthedock. The next morning after; th "calendar inhis wurt had - bserA gone'thrOugh, Judge Laidlavr looked do a at his clerk ana saiu: ; - - - , - . '"You will make -this entry on your calendars Alexander' Laidiaw, drunk enness-" . - Lv-" - ; ."Yes," said the tstoni&hed clerk. - .'Arres.tei by j himself," -the judge , went on. : t:Enter. plea of guilty." . 'Alexander Laidiaw is hnetl $-0. Here is the money."." ---,' At once the country ran? with his fame, but from- that time forward Alex ander Laidiaw drank no more ; 11 er application, i. " ' -h -The "study . of definitions presents many obstacles and difficulties to child ish minds., - ' ' '.-Spell ferment and give 4ts defini tion," requested the school .teai her. . "F-e-r-m-e-n-t,-ferment, to- woik,' responded the diminutive mai lou. 'Now place it in a senteut so that 1 may be sure you understand its mean ing," said the teacher.; . -'In summer I would rather playnut of -doors - thac. ferment in . the school house," returned the small scholar wih such doleful franknefes that the teacher i found it hard to suppress a smile.' ' -It should be noted, in speaking of the popular vote, that ,ilr. Bryan received a much larger vote than ' the successful candidate, Mr. Cleveland, at the pre vious election; and more than any can didate ever received except ' McKinley. The unofncial returns show that he re ceived somewhere more than half a mil lion votes that Mr. Cleveland -got in. 1802,' and a million mors than" Mr. j Harrison ,-r-New Orleans Times-Demo crat. formcu ou , mm, recenu turrendero to tne sawriu n-r trial. . SUE HEUUTKE TRAIN. lifl Wooaaa's SacMfiU Rum to U-tp iler Daughter Catch It.. 'cwcaw Times HeraUi. - Before I came to this part of the country I was an engineer on a railroad down South," said a railway man. "We used to make a long run, and we were pretty slow about it. While on that line I had some very odd experi ences.: I remember one day wncn we reached the junction station a woman came up to me and asked me to" wait the train for live minutes. : She said that her daughter wanted to take the train to the city. I told her that it was impossible for me to hold the train for her." - ' . . - , -' 'I don't see why !- she expostulat ed. : 'I think you might "do a little thing like that "I tried to ex plain -to ber that trains m 0:1 0,ed-.:l- tlrc, a-.d that.. like time and tide, iwlir no iiaa, cr woman either, for .that-matttr. But she wouldn't Lave it, and finally, just as we were about to start, she shouted indignantly: - " 'Well, I'll just see about that' " -"I laughedr but soon I ceased ! to laugh. For what dii that old woman do but get right on the track about P M1"8 tbf. firmly-grasping hold of the rails with both hands. The oon- UUU1V. ; i I . , . . . lu,s ""uueuiTi : aoa ce, impa-1 "v . vile uemjr, came up. i ex-1 as mad as 1 was, and going op to the! puunea tne situation to mm. lie was) woman told her to get off the track.- 'I just won't, she replied, 'until my daughter gets on board your train." "lie pleaded with -her some more. an 1 fiaally declared that he would: be eoiijpeiied to'use' force; "Just you dare she-cried. I11 sue you for damages if you do.' Auis opened a new com plication. and we reasoned - among ourselves whether we had better remove her bv force. Just as we bad determined upon came I I J "'"ft"""-'-""' I U. and seem? the n d woman ra tb l . . , . rw . Ill Za"rlf tram, wniie ner rnoicer caiea to ner: -1 f Go ahead, Jlary Ann. You have pienty ume, tnougnr lor 1 wiu 6it on 1 the tract. untii you get on board. 1 "And thenv when she was safciv on faH?a- r S ' -j slowly got up and waved hie a gobd-by. calling aa we pulled out of the station j 1 nope i ve teacned you. ieuera a grain of perliteness.' " Steadr.TJirre! Monroe Journal, "". - ' -. c Hold on, boys, don't get too fast in nominating Mr. Bryan for 1900. ' His- a. . - - - J tory may repeat itsell again. 11 e remember correctly some folks wanted i to make a motion in 1892 to extend Mr. Cleveland s term to six, eight, or ten i years, and some even got so enthusiastic as to want to give it to him as long as he could beprevalled anon to keen it. fretty shortly a good many folks whip1 ped around on the money question and - whe&'Mr. . Cleveland refused to whip they at "down on him so hard as to pretty jbadly shake npjhe topsof their own heads. Now, in lUOO some of you might want to vote for the man of the Vandyke beard, on a diamodfl standard platform, and then you'd have to bolt 1 Mr. Kryan I 7, - .- , WhataSijhti I BurnsviUe Eagle. I Jndire Norwood held court in Bums' one of tne most : important cases that came before thexourt a murder case was so intoxicated that he was compelled 1 to dismiss court until the following morning, and was taken to his room by two men, one on either side. ; Having announced to a man that she will never forgive him, a woman's next worry.53 that he will not ask p be for given, - ' . Many a great monument has , been built with money that should have been used ia feeding widows and orphans. It is impossible to live any higher than we look.. Why 1 It taat one another : hal : and heartr at.8o? The accidvnt of birtli haa aomethinsr to; do with. it. - Some men are born erronRer - than others, bot 're quenUy the- strong- man becomes weak and the weak mm etrong. It . depends on the care be takes f hiihself. WTien tie tnan who ran an murine hears an unusual sotmd about it, he tns immcdiatelv and looks it bp. ' It finds little looseness, or a lime crack, it is remedied immediately Jf it isnt, there -aill conie a break presently a Weak thaf.wilrwreck the eneine Ijkely aa not. this same man will totally ignore the call r-r hel-n from some one of its own organs. He will let the trouble grow and grow nntil it lavs him out in. bed. If he keep on -nrVnrwilh a daomtrpd llridv. he Will SOOn wear it put. i ne strain on nia nervewu tpll mi his eortstitntion. He wilt not be ft ... .- ,' , ... hearty wheii he is old, The chances are ke will be old at alL Dr. Pierce's Gold en Medical Discovery restores health. It la unt core for disease, it ia a pre ventive. Whenever a man feels that he ia not quite as well as he ought to be, when ever b is iwtlesa, without energy and with out vitality whenever he finds that he . losing weight and Jthat bia ordinary work rivea lifan ondne fatiene, be needa th Yi Golden Medical Discovery." - No matter 1inw lil trrn"tjlj allows Itself this wonder ful remedy will cure him. We say it Is wonderful because 6f its wonderful reauiw, and not because there ia anything? super natural about it not because it does any thing that la unexpected, or anything which its diRcoverer did not mean it to do. That it cures many different eo-called diseases ! is innt natural thinir in the world when yon: understand that nearly all dis eases spring- fron the satno thing bad d!ff!lnn and conseouelit impure blood. The " Discovery " makea the appetite good, the Arijestion strong, aasimilatton easy, and Hit? Wood rich and pure. No disease of the thx! can wi'Jistasa ha action. : Leai n uiore about ft frfem Dr. Pieree'a Cp- of twrul.-iHK: (ii)"''-"'01 irtampa to cower teat I i of maiUiiX btlY. Address. World's Dispensary i Medical Ajaoelation, Bu!alp,N.Y,. , .-4 ir -:. 14 ... tii i A cream of taitar lrA.in jmir Highest of all in lcavecing length. LaUitt- UniiGi .States Govtrr.nr 7-VwJ Report. BoTAn "Bak.'no Powdee 3o., New York PROFESSIONAL CARDS, wv a. tiw-v, . . A. iU XOXTOOXKB V, it. 1.-ma '-twaum offer their professional services U, the citiKPnaof fViT)inrd anA ' viinit . All - . --"-. t , . M il nrnninHv aflonHail Han n umce ana residence on East Depot x ecs, yppusiw jrrea Dvterian ennrcn. IDRvCVV'. C. HOUSTON - Tentist, Ib prepared to do all kinds of Lvtai work in the most approved manner". ' ; Via ce over Johnson's Drua Store. " -.. .. - ; ... . ': :. w.tjr. MOiTooivX ar. - i v 1. lki crowem. j Attorneys and Consselors-at-Lw. 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