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POETRY IN THIS.
DOWN
UPON DE
RIBER."
SUWANEE
Sir Edwin Arnold Finds the Real,
Authentic Stream Leapincr I
uown Tnrough Southern For
ests A Beautiful Scene "Which
Charmed the Poet A Conse
crated Spot in Nature The
Song That all the World Sings.
In that part of the long journey
when we were passing through Georgia
and at the moment when the tedium
was worst, the train approached a long
hollow iti the hills where one of those
pleasant surprises occurred which go to
prove how song may consecrate a
locality, writes Sir. Edwin Arnold in
the London Telegraph.
A river, not very broad or deep,
hut with a certain special grace and
character of its own, lay in front ot
our track. We had a good view of it
as we came near the wooden trestle
bridge by which the line was carried
across structures which until you
become acclimated to American travel
always make you wonder whether they
will carry the train this time safely
over. The river ran down from the
Georgian hills in a lively current,
broken sometimes into rapids and
little cataracts where the red and black
rocks lay across its channel and then
widening out into picturesque reaches
bordered by thickets of dark-green
foiiiige and clumps of cypress and
willow.
In the clearings, here and there
between the woods which bordered it,
stood isolated negro cattages, around
which you could see little black
children at play and the invariable
pig, which is the house guest of the
negro as well as of the Irishman. A
punt was gliding along on the quiet
part of the stream with a negro on
board dragging a fishing line and the
black buzzards circled over the mazie
fields. It was not a striking scene,
but beautiful in its way, gilded as it
was by the rays of a magnificent sun
set. Yet I should have forgotten it in
a few minutes, as I had iorgotten the
hundreds of other rivers which the
tram had traversed, had it not been
that 1 happened to ask the conductor
what was the name of this particular
water.
iiite carelessly he answered:
itTlmtV tlif mvanpi rivr miiar!'
The Suwanee river! In a moment
the stream had for me a new and
extraordinary interest. I had not even
known there was such a river in
geographical reality or that it flowed
through Georgia ; and yet here it
was real, authentic, alive leaping
down through the Southern forests,
past the maize fields and the cotton
Hats, to pour itself into the Gulf of
Mexico.
In an instant everything around
appeared to be full of the song that all
the world sings : " Way Down Upon
de Suwanee Riber." The live oaks
seemed to wave it in the evening air ;
the stream seemed to sing it as it
bu-.tled over the rocks ; the birds in
the thickets had it in the soft musical
notes we caught, and the crickets and
katydids beginning their sunset
chirrup joined in the half-heard
chorus. The journey was no longer
monotonous. To be " way down
upon de Suwanee riber" was to have
come to a corner ot America aeaicaieu
to that deep emotion of our common
humanity the love of home. Is there
anybody who has not felt the charm
of the simple negro melody?
When I was playin' wid my brudder
llappv was 1,
(). take me to my kind old mudder,
1 Jar let me lib and die.
All the world am sad and dreary
l'.berwhere I roam ;
O darkies, bow mv heart grows weary.
Far from de old folks at home.
There, indeed, were the old folks at
home, a white haired darky sitting on
a log by the cottage door, stripping
maize cobs, and. shambling about
among the pigs and poultry, old
Dinah, with a yellow bandanna on
her silver locks, crooning some scng
which might perhaps be the song
of the river.
So, after all, it was real and there
was a Suwanee river and the sunny
peace and beauty of it were just what
fitted well with the sentiment of that
touching and tender air which has
gone all through the world because it
holds in its unaffected music the secret
of the pathetic retrospect of life.
Just the spot it was to which a tired
man, be he negro or otherwise, might
look back to with attachment and
affection. We travelers, coming sud
denly upon it and leaving it at thirty
miles an hour, had, of course, nothing
but the most flitting concern with de
Suwanee riber." But one could
imagine how dear it might be to a
native-born and how sincere the
original emotion was 01 inc song
writer or else of some
whom he borrowed it to
set to such soft and
music. " Dare's where
turning eber."
darky from
write and to
sympathetic
my heart is
Henceforward for me that Georgian
stream, with the dark groves fringing
it, and the red crags and the quiet
reaches of silver water gilded by the
setting sun, has a place in the thought
among the famous rivers of the globe,
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I never hear the melancholy
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music ct the popular negro lamcui
without a new feeling of what song
can do. far beyound history and im
portant events, to consecrate a spot in
nature forever and to localize a
universal sentiment. Et Ego in
Arcadia. I, too, have been " way
down upon de Suwanee riber."
THE SAME OLD GIRL.
The same old girl, long years ago,
When life and youth were all aglow,
I met thee, charmer of a flirt,
Well up in years, yet bright and pert,
With not a favor to bestow.
Well, things have changed somewhat, I
in nil tJvarc
Some die. but thou art as thou wert
1 he same old girl.
Ihy face has lost all life and gkw,
Thine eyes bespeak some hidden wo
woe,
Ana yet tnou seekest to divert
Old age, to play the maiden flirt,
And pass off, as in years ago.
The same old girl.
A. H. hler in Great Divine.
It would be worth while for the ladies
to bear in mind that if thev take a gentle
coursa of Aver's Sarsaparilla in the snrine.
they will have no trouble with " prickly
heat, "hives, "sties," "boils, or
black heads, when summer conies.
Prevention is better than cure.
THE FINANCIAL KEYNOTE.
I Danville llegister.l
In his message vetoing the Bland
bill, Mr. Cleveland wrote :
When it is proposed to inflate our
silver currency it is a time for strength
ening our gold reserve instead of
depleting it.
In commenting on this part of the
message we said in this column on the
4th instant :
Leading financiers tell us that the
way to have plenty of silver is to have
plenty of gold. That if the govern
ment had a gold reserve of $350,000,-
000, it could then afford to issue more
silver money, for the reason that with
such a reservo fund, everybody would
have confidence in silver, and nobody
would want to exchauge it fat, gold.
That strikes us as being a sound
financial policy, and hence we hail
with delight the introduction in the
house Saturday of a bill proposing this
policy.
The bill which was telegraphed to
and published in Sunday's Register
will be known as the Aleyer bill, it
having been introduced by Mr.
Adolph Meyer of Louisiana. It au
thorizes the secretary of the treasury
to issue 3 per cent, bonds of convenient
and saleable size to build up the gold
reserve, and then to coin into standard
silver dollars the silver seigniorage in
the treasury.
The president will sign this bill if it
passes, and there should be no dif
ficulty about its passage. We think
this bill strikes the keynote and will
go far towards settling the financial
muddle and silencing the clamor for
free silver.
It is said that the president is waking
up to the necessity of action by him
in regard to currency legislation, and
that it is probable he will send a
special message to Congress on the
subject.
It is also stated on good authority
that Mr. Cleveland has recently said
he would like, to see the government
go out of the banking business and an
elastic currency supplied to the people
under a proper system of private bank
ing. This, we take it, means that the bill
to abolish the State bank tax is grow
ing in favor, and we have strong
hopes that such a bill in some shape
will pass Congress and receive the
presidential signature.
If these two measures pass and go
into immediate effect as the adminis
tration's financial policy,'Mr. Cleve
land's second administration will yet
go out in a flame of glory. A sound
currency and a plenty of it is the
keynote.
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Better were it to be unborn than
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Kindness in women, not their beau
tious looks, shall win my love. Shake
speare.
Incredulity robs us of many pleas
ures and gives us nothing in return.
Lowell.
Man is an imitative creature, and
whoever is foremost leads the herd.
Schiller.
No fountain is so small but that
Heaven may be imaged in his bosom.
Haivthorne.
He that worries himself with the
dread of possible contingences will
never be at rest. Johnson.
As small letters weary the rve most,
so also the smallest affairs uuturb us
most. Montaigne.
Toil, feel, think, hope : you will be
sure to dream enough before you die
without arranging for it. -J. Sterling.
The years write their records on
our hearts as they do on trees inner
circles of growth which no eye can
see. Saxe Holm.
When we advance a little into life
we find that the tongue of man creates
nearly all the mischief in the world.
Pax ton Hood.
You may depend upon it that he is
a good man whose intimate friends
are all good, and whose enemiei are
decidedly bad. Zavater.
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given such universal satisfaction, we uo
and we stand ready to refund the purchage
price, if satisfactory results do not follow
their use. These remedies have won their;
great popularity purely on
their merits.
Melville Dorsey, druggist.
Patronize home industries.
INVITING FIELD.
THAT IS
WHAT THE
SOUTH IS
GREAT
For Manufacturing Industries of
All Kinds Something About
Woodworking Establishments
Especially An Encouraging
Picture as Drawn by Industrial
Commissioner Power, of the
Illinois Central Railway.
Manufacturers' Record.
Industrial Commissioner George C.
Power, of the Illinois Central Railway,
writes to the Manufacturers' Record
regarding the business conditions ot
the Southern States through which that
road passes as follows :
In my opinion the present outlook
for industrial growth on those portions
of our lines south of the Ohio river has
never been better. During an ex
perience of nearly eighteen months in
looking for the location of factories, I
have never seen the time when there
has been so much interest manifested
in the South for the acquirement of
new industries. Traversing, as we do,
the States of Kentucky, Tennessee,
Mississippi and Louisiana, in sections
of the State where we have no coal or
iron to draw upon for raw materials,
the character of industries that could
operate to success in utilizing the raw
materials is necessarily limited to those
working cotton, wool, clay and hard
and soft woods. The extension of the
manufacture of cotton the part year
has been greatly curtailed, as the
majority ot concerns have contented
themselves with saving themselves
from loss, and have not been disposed
to branch out in the way of location of
new factories for the manufacture of
this staple. In the North the depres
sion has been most general, and has
affected, amongst others, the successful
operation ot woodworking establish
ments which have been in existence
lor years. Many of these, which
would have sought locations in the
South, have had all they wanted to do
to keep in existence, without attempt
ing to branch out to new fields.
In spite of this depressed condition
of affairs the fine character of timber
and the greater cheapness at which it
can be obtained, together with the
comparatively new markets open to
Northern manufacturers, have induced
quite a number ot woodworking
industries to locate in the South on
the line of the Illinois Central and
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley roads.
Many of these industries have come
from Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio
and Pennsylvania, and as the character
of timber and the prices at which it
can be had become better known, the
prejudice that exists amongst Northern
manufacturers against locating in the
South will be gradually overcome, and
I do not hesitate to say that within a
very few years there will be a large in
flux ot the woodworking industries,
now so plentiful throughout those
States, for whenever Northern manu
facturers have been located along our
lines each industry so located has
proved the best sort of an advertise
ment for the country and for
tHe
people.
While the condition of depression
has been almost universal throughout
the North, I do not find any such con
dition of affairs south of the Ohio
river, especially through the territory
which our road runs. In most cases I
find hotels full of traveling salesmen,
selling dry goods, shoes, hats, caps,
clothing, hardware and other articles
which rir not rnmf under the head nf
provisions. The sales of Western i well-known citizens trom ditterent
provisions in the South have fallen off portions of the North in the South to
enormously, and I do not think it is , have th,s feelinS cntirely dispelled and
extreme to say that where one hog lo have tne,m vvork a? d to have
was raised ten years ago, to-day there their neighbors and friends to go
are ioo, and the same holds good for So,llh Wlt,l them- So far as the Ps"
corn, while in early vegetables and sibilities of manufactures doing well in
fruits the increase is astonishing. This the South' 1 ara thoroughly convinced
hog meat and corn are raised now tha he bus,n,ess that can now Pay in
largely by the holders of small farms, ' the woodworking States, taking into
who heretofore have raised nothing , consideration the high price of timber
but cotton, have depended upon the ' and its scarcity, with the same energy
merchants to take care of it, while i and knowledge of the business applied
buying all other supplies from the!in the South' would produce very
merchants. In every place 1 have I rauch better results, for, in the opinion
been during the last two months I j of a practical man from Indiana who
have interviewed the presidents of the has thoroughly looked over the situa
different banks, and they all tell me ! tion " the opportunities for making
that they have more surplus funds on ! raonc-v m the South are fully as good
deposit, and that the applications for as they "er in Indiana forty .J63"
loans from the small farmers are very j aS- , He has assured me he will not
much less than they have been for j on Jy locale himself in the South, but
years, and, in many cases, for the first wlU try t0 hls fnends t0 locate
have
gone
out of town with cotton
still
to sell
and money in their j
pockets.
As an instance of the self-supporting
character of the farmers of the South
to-day, a farmer told me that he had
raised on his farm last year all the
hog meat necessary to carry him
through this present year's crop; he
had sufficient corn to last him over
this season, with a surplus to sell ; he
had all his cotton seed, and the only
thing he would have to buy would be
hay. When asked why he did not
raise hay last year he said that he had
been too poor to buy a reaper, but
this year he had sufficient corn to sell
to buy all his hay and the reaper
beside, and from this time out he
expects to be self-supporting. He had
contracted lor the growth of five acres
of potatoes, seven acaes of onions and
was going to plant tomatoes to see
; wnat.
the result would be. He told
me that he had been able to raise his
cotton this last year at a cost ot five
', cents per pound. He said what was
friM. nf himself was true of all his
neighbors. In a number of places
canning factories have been established
on the line ot this road, which, while
they did not produce much revenue to
the road, encouraged the farmers in
growing tomatoes and other small
vegetables for Northern markets, and !
even if the farmers made no profit on
the sale of these fruits and vegetables,
they placed them in funds at the time i
of year when they are ordinarily with- j
out any money. Merchants have j
reported that the farmers are buying j
more dry goods and a better class of j
them than they have for a number of j
years, and that they looked for a very
good spring trade.
In no place along the line of our
road have I found any evidence of
distress. The only complaint, so far
as I can see, is from merchants, who
claim that the country at large is in
better condition and that in the towns
they were not doing so large a busi
ness as they had heretofore. Whether
this is attributable or not to their old
method of doing business, making
advances to farmers and handling their
crops, supplying them with all they
consumed, I am not prepared to say.
While the surplus money in the banks
and little or no demand for it, there
seems but one way in which the
capitalists can utilize their capital, and
that is in the investment in stock of
manufacturing enterprises. I have
found them more disposed than ever
before, and it seems to me only a
question of very short time before
desirable industries will receive suf
ficient inducements to locate perma
nently in the South.
There is at presert a natural distrust
for a large number of industries that
make application for charges of
location, and it is far better for cities
and towns to go slowly in securing
desirable industries than they that are
at all questionable, and it is only after
the most thorough sifting that cities
should invest in the stock of manu
factories. Human nature is so con
stituted that if ioo factories be located
in the South and one of the hundred
should prove a failure it would do
more harm than the other ninety-nine
would do good, and where local
capital is necessarily limited the result
of obtaining an undesirable industry
would be felt for twenty years, and
would prove a standing argument
against further subscriptions to desir
able industries.
I know of furniture factories in the
South which during this last depression
have been working not only lull time,
but half time extra, and I have been
shown net results that would be aston
ishing to furniture men in the North.
WThat holds true of this character of
industry holds true of the majority of
woodworking industries. A number
of manufacturers in the North have
very crude ideas as to their safety in
the South, believing they will be
looked upon as interlopers and treated
accordingly. How erroneous that
opinion is and how unjust it is to the
South can only be demonstrated by
people of the North visiting that
section of the country. I am happy
to say that of a large number of people
who have gone South during this last
eighteen months to look for new homes
and also for places in which to locate
I their plants, there has not been an
exception but what they have come
back thoroughly well pleased with
their treatment, and have universally
said, in the language of some Indiana
men who were recently in the South,
that " they felt more at home after
twenty-four hours acquainance than
they did with a great many of their
own townsmen, where they have been
thirty years."
It only needs the location of some
Vance's Story On Ransom.
I He was canvassing among his con-
I stituents in Webster county years ago.
j He called at the gate of Mr. Jones,
j Was he at home ? Yes, and at the
; stable. So to the stable the Governor
went, where he found Jones currying a
horse.
" That's a fine looking animal,
Jones. Can he run ?"
Nope. Never heard of his being
a runner."
" What is he, a Hambletonian ?"
Nope. No fine blood in him 'at
I knows of."
" I suppose he's a good buggy
horse; a trotter maybe?"
" Nope. He ain't worth a durn at i
trotting, nor runnin', nor pacin', nor
nothin'."
"Well," said the Governor, " you
seem to be taking splendid care of j of the whole world. Money in circula
bim What fnr?" i tion wears out after awhile. There is
"See here, Vance," said Jones,
that horse is named Matt Ransom,
and I'm er iust keeoin' him for style."
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Washintrtnn Times. !
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The acts of this life are the destiny
of the next. Eastern Proverb.
GOLD ANDSILVER
IS THERE ENOUGH OF THE YEL
LOW METAL?
Some Statistical Comparisons
That are Instructive and Re
freshing The Output of Gold
and Silver Not Enough of the
Former to Accommodate the
World's Business Require
ments. I Wilmington Messenger.
Bimetallism is thechoice of proba
bly 5,000,000 of the 0,500,000 Demo
cratic voters or supporters in the past.
Ex-Chairman Carter, ot the Repub
lican National Committee, says there
are 90 per cent, of the people who
favor it. But be that as it may, it is
very certain that a great majority of
the Democrats favor it and mean to j
have it. When you read of there being j
some $600,000,000 of gold in the j
United States you will put a great j
puzzle if you insist upon knowing just j
where this great sum is. It is not in i
circulation. It is not owned by the j
government. It is not in the possession
ot the banks so far as it is known to
Cleveland or Carlisle or any banker
or broker on Wall Street. Then where
is it ? The Atlanta Constitution is
correct in saying :
It is purely the result of guess-work.
Nobody kuows where it is. It plays
no part whatever iu the published
figures of bank reserves. Wherever it
is, it is not in circulation. It cuts no
figure in business. The gold in the
treasury is not iu circulation, aud the
gold in private hands is hoarded. So
that, to all intents and purposes, our
stock of gold has already disappeared.
W7hat is the annual output of gold ?
Wipe out silver as a part of the currency
of the world and of this country. It
is nearly half of the standard circula
tion. But kill it, wipe it out, and
then what? There will be a famine
of gold very soon. Let us see as to
the United States.
In 1802, the output is
given at
$33,000,000. This is thought to be
about fair average yield for this
country. Quite two-thirds or more
are used in the arts, etc, it is said. So ,
the annual coinage will be no very
great thing for a great country increas
ing more than one million of inhabi
tants a year possibly a million and a
half.
A writer in the Washington Times
says :
It is the fact that the world's output
of gold in 1892 was $130,81G,G00, one
third of which, or $43,015,533, was
coined, the balance being used iu the
arts. You would be compelled,
almost at once, to institute some other
kind of money. What sort would you
choose? The silver advocates will
never consent to fiat ruouey. They
have uo patience with those who favor
irredeemable paper money. They wish
all forms of money based on the
precious metals.
There is not enough of gold alone to
serve as a safe basis, and those who
are now striving to put this country on
a gold standard know it.
Listen to the goldbugs and you
would suppose that the world's yield
of gold is so great that it will rival the
products of King Solomon's mines.
But the best informed writers do not
make such wild and unsupported
statements.
The above was prepared some days
ago. Since writing it we have taken
the trouble to look more carefully into
the matter of gold and silver supply.
There are some facts connected with
these metals that are well worth know
ing. In A. D. 1, there were $1,640, 000,
000 of silver and gold in the Roman
Empire alone. When America was
discovered there were but $170,000-,
000. Then products were lower than
were ever known. Discoveries of gold
and silver were made until in the last
century the coin money of Europe
alone amounted to $1,600,000,000, or
nearly what it was at the beginning of
the Christian era. By the end of the
last century the supply was $1,900,
000,000 but in nine years it had
fallen $400,000,000. What followed?
Why, with the decline of the metals
came the decline of prices in propor
tion. We all remember what an excite
ment filled the land in 1849, upon the
discovery of gold in Colifornia. For
the next twenty odd years three times
as much gold as silver were produced
in the world. The gold product
amounted to $3,000,000,000. From
1873 to 1890 it fell off, but $1,796,
000,000 of gold were produced, or
$105,000,000 a year the world over.
These are the figures of the Director
of the government mint. In the same
time of silver produced there were
$1,700,000,000 about the same as
gold. From 1849 to
1893 the total
gold product was
49IS722000t
against 53,574,444,000 or more 01
gold by $1,341,278,000. So it must
be a lie pure and simple when it is
said that it is the excessive production
of silver that has caused the financial
panic or the disparity in the two
metals. Something else has done it,
and no mistake about it. We will
have more to say as to this at another
time.
There is a great deal of gold and
silver used in the arts. But after
deducting this there remained as
usual product of 5120,000,000 of both
metals. This mind you is the product
j a rapid increase in the gold
used iq
arts, etc. In 1S91, nearly
or quite
! $22,000,000 were used alone
in the
increase goes
- .1 . . l u
on m anoiner ten years ine w-.iuic guiu
1 4. - .11
product of this country will be con-
' siimed in the arts alone. In arts and
dentistry the gold consumption
annually for the entire world is put
at more than $ 65, 000, coo.
Mark this, there are hundreds !
millions or more people using gold
now than in 1S72 or 1873. By the
repeal of the Sherman law last year,
by the closing of the mints in India by
the British government, and bv the
I extension of the gold standard m
Austria-Hungary, it is estimated by
authorities in finance that 350,000,
000 more jieople were made com
petitors for gold as money.
Again, the gold supply of the world
annually would be but as 1 per cent,
of the, value of the total wealth of this
country. It is thought to be a matter
of real doubt if now the gold product
of this country exceeds the amount
actually used in the arts, etc. As to
the effects of the gold legislation and
the appreciation of that coin in value
upon the farm products that must le
considered at another time. It has
been most terrible, most disastrous.
Cleveland and the South.
I Tampa Daily Times. J
A Northern Democratic paper in
reviewing the list of appointments
intimates that the President has recog
nized the South in the distribution of
official favors to an extent that even
subjects him to the charge of undue
partiality for this section in comparison
with the North, East and West.
It is shown that three of the eight
cabinet officers are from the South,
two of the four ambassadors are
Southern men, ten of the twenty envoys
extraordinary are from the South, of
ministers resident, three of the five
are Southerners, of the consuls the
South has twenty-five of the sixty of
the principal ones. The South has
also the following high-salaried offi
cials : Chief clerk of the treasury,
director of the mint, chief of bureau of
engraving, chief of consular bureau,
chief of state department of bureau of
statistics, first, second, third and fifth
j auditors of the treasury, register of the
treasury, commissioner 01 internal
revenue, superintendent of immigra
tion, assistant secretary of agriculture,
chief clerk of the navy department,
register of the navy, commissioner of
railroads, three of the six attorney
generals, solicitor and chief clerk of
the department of justice, the solicitor
of the treasury and one of the three
civil service commissioners. These
are ih-' 1 igh positions held by S-vi h
ern men, and then in addition
hundreds of them in less important
but good payfcg positions in the
departments and throughout the
South.
The President can not be justly
accused of neglecting the section of
the country from which he received so
large a share of the popular vote, and
he has shown a friendship for the
South that deserves a better return
than in some quarters has been made
for favors received.
Many rise iu the morning with a head
ache and no inclination for breakfast.
This is due to torpidity of the liver and a
deranged condition of the stomach. To
restore healthy action to these organ?,
nothing is so efficacious as an occasional
does of Ayer's Tills.
THE IMPROVING FARMER.
It is possible that the farmers of
North Carolina are wiser than they
have been in years, and it is possible
from all reports that they in a measure
are taking to what they have called
newspaper farming, in a greater degree
than in many years ; and if they persist
in such a course they will matter the
situation and get back to the high
position they should enjoy in a much
shorter time than they were in coming
to a point that is unenviable in the
extreme. The press of every kind in
North Carolina exept the Third party
press, has for years been telling the
farmer how to be independent without
any perceptible effect ; now it, like
"bread cast upon the waters" is being
gathered up. What some have chosen
to call the plutocrat, the subsidized
press has always been the farmers' real
friend, but he seemed not to realize it
till the so-called organs of the farmer
began farming out doubtful politics
instead of how to grow the most on a
given piece of land.
One among the first things this
writer ever wrote and published was
how a farmer could be independent,
and all the years since it has been
added to and reiterated.
We claim nothing, but we know
many who have said we were right.
There hever has been, there never will
be a time when a farmer who grows
what he needs instead of trying to
make a fortune out of cotton or
tobacco in one year will not be safe
! from any dire evil that may befall
! other men in a business way. He who
j grows all that he needs for his family
j and stock needs but little else and any
J little he may ma is surplus, not due
j to some one else, but his own. This
j js not all, the farmer holds it in his
j own power to regulate the price of the
J money crops and make a little patch
j bring more than a ten acre field,
j When he has mastered that point in
; hi$ own mind and teaches his children
i the same, he is indeed the lord of the
I country and the servant of no man.
' Burlington News.
A Happy Knrting.
Otteroille. Va. For fifteen years 1
was a great sufferer from dyspepsia and
nothinif relieved me until I tried Simmons
Liver Regulator. This is the best medi
cine in the wot Id. I am now in good
health. Mrs. N. J. Collins. Your drug
gist sells it in powder or liquid. The
powder to be diy or made into a tea.
i Proverbs the wisdom of many and
the wit of one. Lord John Russell.
Burning Pain
Erysipelas In Face and Eyes
Inflammation Subdued and Tor
tures Ended by Hood's.
" I am so glad to be relieved of my torturrs
that 1 am willing to tell tho benrlUs 1 have de
rived from Hood' Sarsaparilla. I a April and
May, I was aftlieteil with erysipelas In my f.vo
and eyes, which spread to my throat ami net-k.
I tried divers oiuUiients ami alteraUvi-v but
there- was no permanent abatement of Uix arn
InK, torturine pain, peeullar lo 1 1 itn rouiplaiiiL
I begau to take Hc.Vh Sarsaparlll.i ami
Felt Marked Relief
before I had finished the first bottle. I con
tinued to Improve until, when I bad taken four
Sarsaparilla
CURES
bottles, I was completely cured, and felt tti.it all
siRtis, marks and symptoms of Uiat !' com
plaint had forever vanished." Mus. K. t.
Ottawa, Ulllslioro, Wisconsin.
Hood's Pills are prompt and -flielent. yet
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IRES'
Rootbeer
makes th home circle complete. Thla
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valuable pints and discarding tlio
worthless. They make thin f;iees plump
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month, containing no amriiic, and
(iuarantrril A ItfroltiU-lr llitrmlckk.
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court house.
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E. W. HARRIS
Real Estate and Collecting Agent,
HENDERSON, N. C.
1 have for rent a imniln-r of desirable
residences, stores and tenant bouses on
reasonable terms. Persons in need of
such houses would do well to call on me.
Will take pleasure in showing the prop
erty. Any business entrusted to ine, will have
prompt attention. dd4-i
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