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II i! II i . I- ill . mm ml IX. LINCOLNTON. N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 5. 1895. NO. for Infants and Children. ' 11 -i , nnOTHERS, Do You Know that Paregoric, j UU Ionian's Drops, G.xlfrey's Cordial, wtny sot-ailed Soothing Syrups, and moct remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine t go Yon Know that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotic poisons t T)o Yon Know that in moat countries druggiata are not permitted o Bell carcotici 1 trii-'Ut LU ling them poisons f Do Yon Knoxt that you should not permit any medicine to bo given your child lyjtui ou or your physician know of what it is composed t Do Yon Know that Caatoria la a purely vegetable preparation, and that a list of Ua li.TcdicUtS id pubhrthtd With tJVfciy bottle t Dr Yon Know that a.;toria is the prescription or the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcher. TUt it In use for nearly thirty year, and that more Castoria la now sold than tf all other rtuieciies for ctilJrwj comLIned f Do Yon Know that the Patent Ofdce Department cf the United States, and of ctUr cuuuiried. have Issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and hia assigns to use the word " Cabtorla" and its formula, and that to Imitate them la a state prison offense t Do Yon Know that one of the reasons for granting this government protection was because Otsti rla had leei proveu to be absolutely harmless? Do Yon Know that 35 average doses of Castoria are furnished for 35 centb, or cue cunt a dose 1 Do Yon Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children may ' tj kept w v-ll, nud that you may have unbroken rest I s "Well, thso things are worth knowing. They rye facts. The fM-fclmlle fcignatnre of Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. i JUDGE WALTER CLARK USES AND ENDORSES THE 5 Sfooi TRAOC tARK. "Cures when all else falls." North Carolina Supremo Court. Walter clark, associate justice. Raleiqh. N C, Jan. 26, 1S94. . WV liave found the Electropolse vry valuable cspe- J i ol.illy for children. I got one last May, and I am sure I i j have suveJ three times Its cost already In doctors' and I i diiiii store bills. From my experience with It, and ob- i stuntlon, I can safely recommend It. I Yours truly. waltke Bo YOU SMOKE ? HAVE you SmOKED? WIM, YOU SM1E ? 4 Old Red House" SmOKING TOBACCO MILD & SWEET. Try it ouce. Ask for it. THEN YOU WILL DEMAND IT. Nice jiipe aud beut stem given with each 2 oz. sack for 5 cents. Merchants Do jou wish a qaick seller f If so write for sample of "OLD RED HOUSE" Staoking Tobacco Manufactured by SI tw4tw. HILLSBOKO N- C We also have a good line of chew ing tobacco. Write for samples and factory prices. 3m. Baby was sicfc, ire gara Her Castoria. ae aa a Child, she cried for Castoria aha became Jllsa, she clung to Castoria. eta tad CUUren, she gavd them Castorir TOTOTOTOTO A'--- mi r i Ci i f 'iV h j I he One, Crop oystem$ cf farming gradually exhausts the land, unless a Fertilizer containing high percentage of Potash is used. Better crops, a better soil, and a 'V f m Part y largcr bank account can only then be expected. . O Iu 1S41 the Patriot says : "Pork A Write for our "Farmers' Guide," a 142-page illustrated book. It ' Jv J is olfered from droves in the upper X i is brim full of useful information for farmers. It will be sent free, and jpart of South Carolina at 3.50 per will make and save you money. Address, . n , 1 - t I cwt. net, but in our town sales l -lUs22 GERMAN KALI WORKS. 01 Nauau Street. New VoVk.M7 COntiDUO tO be made at 4." After Is on every wrapper. Investigation Invited .. BOOK FREE. Electrolibration Co., 345 FOURTH AVENUE, Clark. NEW VQRK. 83 Professional Cards. DENTAL NOTICE. Dr. A. W. Alexander will be' a his office at Lincol nton, June, a Jlu" gust, October, December, Feb ruary and April. Will be in Mt. Holly, July, September, Novem ber, January, March and May. Patronage solicited. Terms cash and moderate Sometime ago I was troubled witfr an attack of rheumatism. I used Chamberlain's Pain Balm and was completely cured. I have since ad vised many ot mp friends and cus tomers to try the remedy and all speak highly ot it. Simon Gold Baum, San Luis Key, Cat. For sale by Dr. W L (7roose, Druggist. Htory of jui rCclitoi An editor died and slowly wend-jl ed hia way to hell. The doyil saw him and said : "For many years. thou hast borne the blame for the errors the printers made in the paper. The printers have deviled, thee on Saturday eve for wage when thou hadst not a red to thy name. Men have taken your pa per without paying a cent, yea,, verily, and cursed thee for not is suing a better one. All these things hast thou borne in silence Thou caast not come in. There will be a continual dunning of de linquent subscribers (for hell is full of them) and discord will be created in our kingdom. Begone heaven is your home. i PRICKS (joirs- agj: In IN'oi'tli Cnroliiui, to 1 JO. 1 To Editor of the Observer: All speakers and writers favora ble to the free coinage of silver stern to take for granted that an epoch of low prices was unknown till after the "crime of 1S73;" that so long as w had the free coinage of-the whita metal wo had no hard times, no low prices of farm prod ucts, but that all went "uifrry as a marriage bell." The people gen-l erally entertain a similar opinion, as few people remember what prices obtained even ten years ago, much less forty or fifty years since. I will not enter into the philosophy of this fact. Perhaps it hasn't any, except shortness of memory and the disposition in mortals to grumble. With a view to ascertain the truth as to prices of farm products for the two decades immediately preceding the outbreak of the civil war, I have spent several days in turning over the files of the Greensboro Patriot from 1840 to 1S60 and examining the "prices current" as found there. These quotations are in the main the Fayetteville markets, as with the (exception of tobacco, that was the market for all this piedmont coun try down till as late as 1850; and, lot course, the cost of marketing must be deducted in order to see what the larmer realized. I have confined myself to those product? too, which the farmer produced trien, and still produces for sale. I find that 1840 to 1851 was a period of general depression in farm producte ; that, on the whole, they ruled considerably lower than they have for any similar period since "the crime of '73' not ex cluding the last three or four years. For instance, bacon which is quot ed at from 8c. to 10c. in 1840, was never again above 8c. for ten years, the average price being CJc. In 1842 bacon sold in Fayetteville (May 10th) at 4c. to 4c. Cotton was quoted at 6 to 8c in 1840 ; 5 to 7c. in 1842 ; 5f to 7 3-5 in 1834 ; bi to 7c in 1S44 ; 4 to 5c March 3 1845; 5 to 6c. In 1848 (I have n't quotations for '46 and '47 ; ) 6 to 9 in '49. Corn ranged from 40, the lowest, 1841, to 60a, for these ten years. Corn was often sold during this time in the "ud country" for 25c. from the "heap." For this period flour averages only $4.50 per barrel. It is quoted March 3, 1845, at $3.25 per barrel, "dull." It is quoted in 1840 at $4 to 85 ; $5 to $6, 1S41 ; $6 to $7.50 the highest, 1842 ; $3.50 to $4.75, 1843; $3.25 to $4.50, 1844; $3.75 to 4. 50, 1848, 4 to 5 in 1849. Wheat reachen 1 Der bushel but a single year in the decade (1941) ; the quotations range trom 65c to 90c for other years with the prevailing market 75c ta 8fic. During this period pork sold in Greensboro at 4.00 per cwt. net, and in Cincin nati, Gallipolis and Wheeling at 1.50 t 2.50 gross. In 1843 the Patriot says that "the latest news from the West is that wheat is selling at Quincy, 111., at 37c. P6r bushel and at Springfield at 25c to 28c, at which price the farmers were refusing to sell." Oats range during this period from 30 to 50c. Tobacco is quoted during these years (Petersburg, Lyuchburg and Danville) at 4 to 5c in 1840 ; 2 to 5 in 1842; 2 to 7. (extremes) in 1S43; If to 2c in 1845; 2 to 7c in 1849. Manufactured tobacco is generally quoted at 9 to 15c ; never higher. Wool ranges from 11 to 20c with 1 prices running as low as 25 to 28c. Apple brandy could be brought from 33 to 4Sc. Peach br Uiedoniyoc. higher, which account for the "good old til brandy may the "good old times,7 advising farmers not to hold out for 5, it says : "The unexampled scarcity of money through out the wholo country necessarily atYects the price of pork at the present Thus the value of a pound of pork is leas the worth of a dollar is more than it. has been beforw for years." In its issue of November 5th, 1S42, the Patriot, under the head of 4,Ilard Times," lias this to say: '"Thero is the same languor in New York that there has been in all business matters; dry goods, of every kind and description, are selling at ruinous prices to the New York merchants. The Kentucky correspondent of the Philadelphia U. S. Uazetto states that 'at Lex ington on the 10th inst. corn sold at from 3 to 5 per acre in the field ; pork a $1.75 net and $1.25 gross.' The Nashville Banner states that immense sacrifices are almost dai ly made in middle Tennessee, and mentions by wray of example that lately eleven mules, two new wag ons, costing 1.50 a price, and a ne gro man, middle aged and likely, were sold in Franklin and brought in the aggregate but $500 An acquaintance of an acquaint ance of ours, who is acquainted with times in Indiana, writes that everybody is heels over head in debt; nobody is trying to get out; but there is but $25 m the State; the Treasurer has that and it is expected and feared that lie wiil retire to Texas while he is full handed." Was not that a strange state of affairs to have occurred in a rree coinage era ? If free coinage was powerless to prevent hard times when it was the law, will it prove a certain cure for the hard times wre have been having ? Just as now, the financial quacks were at work in "the for ties." They accused the banks of manipulating matters for their own benefit, and rode into power on the abuse of bankers. On December 17, 1842, the Patriot says : "Mr. Shepard has introduced a bill for the 'relief op the people' by the issue of one million Treasury notes on the credit of the State.' The editor makes sport of the pro position; but on the 7th of Janua ry following (1843), upon report ing the failure of the Shepard's bill, says : "Some of our business men in this section were beginning to speak in favor ct Mr. Shepard's bill, in view of the orinding neces sities of the people ; they were ready to accept anything consis tent with the honor of the State that affords a reasonable prospect f relief' To hear our modern silver men speak, one would sup pose tnat under free coinage both such a bill and such language would have been unnecessary. It is true that the country had just passed through a panic five years before wrhen it had suffered from having too much money, the State banks alone having script out to the amount ot over $400,000,000, when they went under because they couldn't "maintain the pari ty." But have we not recently passed through a panic? Such were the prices of produce and such the condition of affairs under free silver from 1840 to 18 50. I will not discuss the causes of these low prices, but merely call attention to their existence and the impotency of free coinage to prevent them. The prices of produce for the decade ending in 1860 were, upon the whole, much better than those of the preceeding ten years, and the fact has gener ally been ascribed to the benificent effect of the walker tariff, which by this time began to be felt; nev ertheless there wero periods of de pression. Bacon went as low. as Gc., and averaged only between 8 and 9 cents. From 1851 to 1S55 cotton was rarely over 7 cents and sold as low as 5 l-2c. per lb. Corn J varied from 50c to $1., (one year? 1So4,) averaging abcut 0c. From 1S50 till 1854 wheat sold at 85c. to 90c., exceDt one year, when it reached SI. Flour sold at 4.00 a barrel in 1853 and again in 1854, and was dull at that. From 1840 to 1S55 lard rarely brought over 7c, and this was good 'houie tried', leaf lard, which to-day com mands 10c and 12c. From the acove it may be fairly inferred: 1. That we may have periods of depression not due to the demoral ization of silver. 2. That the panic of ltd'o un der limited coinage was no worse than that of 1S37 under free coin age and plethoric papei money, and that prices have not fallen so low as thy did at that time. 3. That it is possible that some other cause than the "crime of "73" has had to do with bringing on the panics and depressing the price of produce. 4. That free coinage was not a panacea in 1840-1850, and that therefore it w ould be a jump in the dark to rely on its saving us this time, if we should decide to make a plunge into the financial abyss of uncertain standards and reject ed methods. 5. That in view ot prices from 1840 to 1855 the charge of the great appreciation of gold in the last twenty-two years falls lifeless to the ground. A gold dollar to day will not buy as much of the necessities and luxuries of life as it would fifty years ago; while if it has appreciated 50 per cent., as tne silverites say, it ought to buy twice as much. Respectfully, J. Allen Holt. Your Physical Oondition Needs attention at this time. If yoa are tired, weak and nervous, it is clear that your blood i? impure, and without doubt there has been too much over-work or strain on brain and body. The course of treatment for such a condition is plain aud simple. The blood must first be purified so that the nervous system, and in fact all tne organs will be fed upon pure blood. Intel., ligiut people without number have testified that the best blood purifier nerve tonic and strength imparting medicine is Hood's SarBaparilla. Nervousness, loss of selep and gen eral debility all vanish when Hoods Sarsaparilla is persistently taken ; in a word, health and happiness fol low after taking Hood's Sarsanarils la. lfaiu'n Horn I31awt? Every life is a prayer of some kind. The man who cheats another robs himself. When the heart giyes,?the gift is always great. The man who plows deep has God for his friends. The hands grow heavy when the hesrt is'week. A temtation resisted in a step taken with God. God speaks to us most in the voice to which we will best listen. No gift can be put on God's altar unless the bood ef religious life has been put there first. Unbelief is the egg out of which all sins are hatcned. It is easier to give God all than it is to giva him a part, The pedestal means nothing un til the statue is in place. ' Those who borrow trouble never get a chance to pay it back. The moderate drinker is helping to gravel the road that leads to the pit. There isn't a millonare alive to day whom an angel would consid er sich. If the road to the pit din't begin in respectability it couldn't end in ruin. It may be that God made the Dead Sea to show a stingy man how he looks. It is always safe for right to count on the help of God when it goes into battle. The devil will promise to pay any kind of interest, if we only take his note. Jesus wrote the weman's sins in the dust. Our names are written on his hands. The only thing the matter with the religion of some people is that it ha9 no Christ. -The paths of righteousness leads straight into the valley of the shad ow of death. Washington Tcller. OrrearwMiderce of Courier. Washington, D. C. July 1, 1S95: The democratic party looks more like a winner to-day than it has at any time since the disastrous Congressional election, last No vember. The country is daily be coming more prosperous, and, just as the floating voters held the democratic party responsible for the '"hard times", which were a natural consequence of the thirty years of republican legislation,the same class of voters will next vear give the democratic party credit for their increased prosperity, and in that they will be right. The Treasury too, is beginning to feel the increase in the country's pros perity. The revenues for the month of June were $2,000,000 in excess of the expenditures, some thing' that has not occurred for quite a while before. But the principal reason why the democratic party is again look ing like a winner is that its mem. i'jrs are all directions announcing their intention to get together. The split which many foresaw and others feared as a result of the sil ver fight within the party lines will not materialize, unless some of the shrewdest men in the party are mistaken in their calculations. The fight isn't over by any means, but it is asserted by prominent silver and anti-silver democrats that it will be over when the Na tional Convention shall have acted upon it, and that tne platform a dopted by that convention and the national ticket nominated will be loyally supported by both silver and anti-silver democrats. In oth er wrords, both sides will fight to caary the convention, and will ac cept the decision of the conven tion. Another reason why the demo cratic party looks like a winner may be found in existing republi can dissensions. The republican party in the great states of Penn sylvania, Ohio and New York is divided into two bitterly hostile camps, warring, not for a princi ple, but for the supremacy of per sonal bosses. While democrats are hardly sanguine enough to ex pect the fight between the Quay and anti-Quay factions in Penn sylvania to result in the electoral vote of that state being cast for the democratic candidate, they certainly have good reason to hope that the wrangling between the fol lowers of Foraker and those of Sherman and McKinley, in Ohio, and of the Piatt and.anti-Platt re publicans in New York will result in both of those states in the dem ocratic column next year. Secretary Smith, Morton and Herbert are just at present the big three, they being the only mem bers of the cabinet now in Wash ington. Attorney General Har mon is expected home this week. With the fiscal year, beginning to-day, many changes provided for by Congress wentjinto effect in the departments. In addition to the material reduction of force in the Pension Office, seventy-six clerks in that office had their salaries re ducad in order to bring the salary total inside of the appropriation. My ! what a splutter those lame ducks are making in the pond of the Coast of Geodetic Survey, al though General Duffield's gun was not very heavily charged. Every one who is at all familiar with the different phases of official life in Washington has noted the air ot proprietorship which is assumed by many of the men who are em ployed in the alleged scientific branches of the government. These men draw salaries runniug from $2,000 to $6,000 a year, have been in office from ten to forty years, and are mostly well-to-do and some of 'jhem actually rich. Tne majority of tnem come and go when they please and spend more time working for nrivate parties than they do working for the gov ernment. They have succeeded fairly well in the past in muzzling criticism by calling the critics ig norant and accusing them of be ing unable to appreciate or under stand the importance ot the wort done by the gcientific employee of the government, but that cry i beginning to fail and criticisms are becoming more frequent. But to return to those lame ducks and their spluttering. In accordance with authority conferred by tha last Congress, General Dufiiold, Superintendaut ot tho Ooast and Geodetic Survey, has reorganized that bureau. He dropped six em ployees, two of whom had been in olllce forty yearn, and they and all their numerous social connections have begun to yeli as though some body had pulled tho plug out of the bottom of the world and that the whole business would be set tled mi the muddy bottom of ob livion in a few hours. Tne scien tific branches of the government are thoroughly alarmed to discov er that their employees do not own the whole outfit. But the govern ment still lives, and General Duf- lield has no idea of apologizing to or of reinstating anybody. He be lieves the charges made wero for the good of the service, and he ought to know. .RflTANIft. bLood balm. A household remedy for all Blood and Skin diseases. Cures without fail, Scrof oU.llcere, KheomttiHm,( ktarrh. Salt Hkero and every form of Hlood Disease from tho simplest pimple to the foulest Ulcer. Fifty years' use vrith unvarying succeM, dem onstrates Its paramount healing, purity' ing ana Duuaing up virtues. One DOiue has mre curative virtue than a dozen of any other kind. It builds up the health ana strcngtn from the first dose. 63T 'WRITE for Hook of IFon. aerful Cures, mentfree on appli cation If not kept by your local druggist, send f 1.00 for a large bottle, or 15.00 for six bot tles, and medicine will be sent, freight paid, by BLOOD BALM CO.. Atlanta. 62. I - IliK AVilo'K I'roMOiiti- Norfolk, Va. June 16 : A Sun day frolic cost two citizens of Norfolk their lives this morning. Shortly before daybreak Dennis O'Brien, Henry Smith, James Dunlary, John Messina, and Har ry Story started down the river in a small sail boat on a fishing trip. While passing through the draw of the Atlantic City bridge their boat was capsized and the men thrown into the water. O'Brien and Story were caught beneath the boat and drowned. The others saved themselves by bwimming ashore. O'Brien's wife begged him not to go on the trip, saying she had a presentiment last Friday night that he would meet his death by drowning. Her rdeading8 were in vain, however, as he laughed at her tears and ridiculed her for be lieving in dreams. Besides a wife O'Brien leavee five small children. Story was a young man and un married. A Had Condition. We have before called attention to a great calamity threatening the people of the South. There is ground for this fear. In no sec tion of the country is there greater need for Liver Medicines than in the South, and this has encouraged unscrupulous persons to take ad vantage of people's misery and oiler them all sorts of stuff as a core-all tor Liver troubles, Their crime is greater because tbey must have acoonoplices tc help them in this Defarioos work. Their pre perations are sold to the druggists at a low price. And the big profit to the dniggist is the road by wbicb they r&ch the public. Druggists of high honor will not be a party to ucb -a outrage, Beware of any cealer b. tells jou tbt any L ver Medi c ne is jut. the same, or as good us SMMinons L'ver liHtru'ator, pat up ? J. H. Zeiiin & Co, Yoa know i' tytbeK-Z on the package, I dese vi-Derations ar not tbe nam li as good, Stick to tb Old F'ecd. Your health nd life should be worth something to you 8 8 tm
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