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VOL. I. NO. 31:
RED SPRINGS,. N. CM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1802,
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SPRINGS
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ALAS
All- chcu!
1:. .: iy r'ly Ma
; '. i from th grass
, . ,' ... arc fair;
i my Ki?hr thr
. , - 1 , rth rf sighs
I , .. .. r-h ' f f srs!
i , . . ., !' )i au:
i . bf)d in Time's anclsnt glass
i , 4. i" 'nl trna
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f . ' rl, Htl'l Pl''
1 r i,'.C f. n in Orsnit Dust.
toilton Pinkney Fairfax:
A'.y.'t nVK DAY.
r. a Br'Kr.T.
ri-Ti-fintr rl"f of an August
m truing gentlemen might
i' limbing ou of n dog rnrf
tn.r.t .f n n hitewashed Negro
. 'Ii r iC'l edgof n Maryland
ti'lv yiiin f 1 1 f v , of the
liirf f l i in upon the erati
,. mm in th'ir lending a
i i t to n worn out world. They
i ."i'i'l, wrepfsbly fentured.
' I ii peant rnnn iotisn of
.....Hi.
lllne Ibde Mountain were
,. .iiii'lou , ijuitr in the manner
i i I-.tr. ntlmrirt the luiiiri
h" i I r m k Valley, while the
fi. lin'1 liiiiofil from a riotous
i i--f iiviMii-, now that th
: imi ( tli' sky hal majestie
i l. tiin'1 tli- line of undulating
i I,
im i--i, ton, )i ii intensified into
I
r. . n. w hi h the nlls, fences and
.. iliv i iiti l with the effective
' i h .i-Ii, .cverey economical, but
i I irti-tir valiio.
- il l ill' vounger of the two
i ! i-i"l him lf in ffttenin'th
Mi- tumble dow j fence skirting
nrt n. "you potter around in
; r I there while I go in and ace
ml) I won't ho but a minute;
i kii .'v you hnte the amrll of ba
i .ro'i inr.ter. Thre am
i , ni. i ii'i-io buriril thrrp," h
. i i m u'incl v.
n.:ht," h:iil IV'irn.nnl, nnl, turn-
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111.
A
I . .(ioIImI h'L'urfly toward the
' . Iii h lay ju-t tli iilc of thf
t. uiikrnipt i.rnl uelrrtfil. The
"I.Mi. Ii nt trnl'l on r a month
rn.li ri. k. The small, whitewashetj
i ih'ii I'lii'- Mirikr flontinz indolent-
? i it lri k rhiinney, ami ita wik-mI-
.Ii smnthi-rrd with Virginia
., , win ihr nl'Mlo whrrp Aunl
.!., liri'Hlhrd and alepf, with in
" -it ntii iit i.n to li r broinl, and
niinilrntiont to th piit-st on hi
i! iit.
i,.... in th'ilmrMiy "f her ri,tU
i ' i In nl swatlird in ii fiiihii ban
I i iirni Mkiiul. Ib-r whif
'i-h.'l i wiirm wrlmme on Paul
In- .irkd hi sny toward thu
i . IH1--X. cf dnt ain't you. Mi'f
-li i rii'd. with ft colored wo-
. t. n!r vixin ity "I jea.ilonn
i t'ii I o'h- Ink k to N'w York
in i' 1 ri-n you. "
" .1 lu r lu rked apron nrroM
mi ..f a wo... li it i liai r, and made
i . n for a moment in the kitoh
t 1 1 in. II of the baron wa there,
in crip on th nontriU; but
I'd not mind it It only v
. tit'.
u'l I out Ironi Aunt Sarah that
II l. i would i om" to the chapel
in Sunday. itr hnd
"nt wh' ii the priet would
, i - it would paie hr a trip to
k t i onld p i'k to him w hen
' tin" miioii
' i.-uld not net awny without
. t the Nrre' h"pit..lity to
' of l i of milk, whirh ah
i o l mid crram, from th
l. ! fh w utrr rrrr prew ai
l'.'uitd tli- jnin2. lie pro
i d li.-iou a h lried hi lip5
--k lividki r. hi"f . Then hehook
"li Aunt arah. pinched the
- W of a pirkaninny who waa
.. it Iit dkirt. and went toward
't'i where h caw Bar
" i n up to hi knee in the long
i I l. kd up at hi approach, a
"ilr paitinu hin lij
i I. ut if what I hare dicor
!' id. a Thereon tore hi wa?
' through 'he ine and blncklerrv
lb pointed to a small, conical
f mi irb! utaineil yellow-white by
itirr. and half rt yard high.
i -something amusing in the
' '! in. I it remed to take among
i".ivp tomb nhoie brick wall
" I tin. k ' fh1 Some of them
k into the earth on one aide, and
i it into the marble were to
1 i'h !i. h. n a to l almost
.!-r.l.!o.
! i-. t iu'livr!" oaid Theron, i
-f iuht ' of the perky hft.
- t!ir ilrad ciant i"
i etvr'iaimcd Harnard, with his
' r ivt into hi poikctn. ' The in
1 ivr hi whole hitory."
i w t d iwn on one knee, brushed
lr,ilei grae. which ro to
1 iht of the monument, and cat
'tra'cry of shadow orer the
'UmiiAi.s Pinknk y Fairfax:
AiiKU ONE DAT." '
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'a tth n umile.
i i ttlo liegunr! Ytt a hort
l d. didn't he J Some of these.
1 Id tomb are the abodes of
ri.kxcu. There are other around
"iJl'orhiMi mill, I believe, wait
!'.tc;nienf. They arc not quite
""'i!;t to justify their burial yet."
v r r jollU r tombtooe than
I lUtn.iid. a they made their
-1 the grftvejard "If fine to
Httl' man taking hi place in the
in- md claiming all the honoraof
"T di funrt after hi one day of
"ll," ho went on muinulr. "he
i'.
d'i.,
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V.
v,
n
hf,.
e
. tcftliing and the croup, and that
cl thintf, and haa a nice htt
oice httla moau-
ment now. Laden with to nach naAe.
too!"
Barnard was a young lawyer frera
ew York who had mn down to Fred
wek County to put in a few dayi with
Theron, who had jat iUrted a etock
farna there. He waa a "society man,"
with a good position in an old law firm
and a moderate, Barnard thought alto
gether too moderate, income. During
the past winter he had conducted two or
thre important caaea with auccesa, aod
had been ety rpris with an eitrernely
elegant woman who hnd an enormou
"pull" in aocletr. Ramard had reallr
cared more for hia ucce with the lady
than hia aucce with the law. She ws
beautiful, rated a wealthy, and full of
the rnoat charming tact.
Mra. Aruidon waa not of the impres
sionable order, and the men who danced
attendance on her were wont to give
more than they rereired. Rarniird'4
comparative tucccas had been matter of
eny.
"I can't help thinking of thit little
beggar," Barnard "aid, with a smile, at
he pullej a cigrr from his pocket and lit
it, while Theron gathered up the reini
and they drove off, followed hy the open,
admiration of Aunt Sarah's "ofivj
branrhea." "How unnecessarily he slip
perl info and out of life. The lifetime of
a day ! Mot of us do little enough with
a much longer span, but he dii abso
lutely nothing ! If he had been born
twenty one year old. and in New York,
he might have had fuller existence, if it
were short. Poor little Jack-in-the-bo !'
Two month later Harnard met Mr.
Amidon in New York at an afternoon tea.
She had only returned from Europe a
week before, and the newspaper accounts
of her doing thereihad not lieen the most
grateful reading for him. Her greeting
wa friendly. But Barnard had the,
sen that it would have been quite tho
same if they had chanced upon one an
other in an Eskimo hut. at the extreme
North. It wa so independent of condi
tion. She would have said : "How do
you do ?" and would have made
anme remark about the icebergs as a
timely conversational topic. A it waa,
she said he looked brown. Had he been
yachting? , ,
He had never seen her appear so
charming. She was to him the ideal
qrnndt dnmt. Her exquisite figure could
have warmed an antique statue to an en
vious thrill. It woke her man dress
maker to extravagant admiration. And
her face was so noftly, coolly beautiful.
Yet her charm of manner almost made
one ignore the graee of her form and
face.
Mrs. Amidon reiumrd Barnard where
the close of the seaon had interrupted
him. He fell into hi rather favored o
sition in the line with n well-defined pur
pose of playing hinVelf w ith such success
that he could secure an enduring post at
her side. He knew that she had takefli
bim up; he meant to assume her.
By November, he felt that be had made
a distinct advance. Toward the end of
that month some fashionable woman gave
an entertainment at which Mrs. Amidon
and himself were present. The large
room were not stutHly full. Barnard
was very mu h nt Mrs. Amidon' ellow
thi evening, and there were twoor three
nuanvrn in her treatment of him which he
construed delightedly a a gratified nr.
ccptance of hi devotion, something so
much better than if she had merely shown
a consciousness of lieingnble to command
it.
Several of the vople present had
ilrawn eleemosynarily on their jwiwers of
entertaining. Somrlody had played on
the violin, a young woman with a brazen
accent had recited something from Andre
( henier, and a Creole girl had sung two
or three folk song of French Louisiana
with biarre quality in the lilting chant.
Then Barnard stepped a little forward
with a bit of paper in hi hand.
"In my travel of lat rummer in the
wildvof "Maryland." he legain, in hi
full tones Rnd slightly druwling manner,
"I chanced upon a warrior's grave. For
if, a they tell u. life is a warfare, then
was he a Knight though he jousted but
for a day."
Mrs. Amidon'sfan moved more gently,
until it came to repose. The allegory
was amusing.
'He had his monument, had thi knight,
one proportioned to his lite and deeil;
for the summer grasses threw slender
shadows quite across its top. This me
morial shaft chronicled nought beyond
the name of him who had fought the
good fight, save thit he waged it in a
day. I thought that even so small a poet
as "myself might sing of this inconse
quential warrior, and, if you will of
your patience suffer it, I will read what
for lack of better title. I have called
"Verses on Hamilton IMnkney Fairfax:
aged one day."
Mr. Amidon had sunk back in the
broad chair, her fan lightly resting on
,her bosom, till the glistening garrtenias
eemed veiled in a fUm of mourning, as
t for the dear, dead summer.
" Life's fitful day is o'er, and here he
lie.
Tucket! fast asleep beneath his nttive
skies.
Earth's warm, brown hluiket folded cjn
his breast. J
tti widom monumentnllr confessed.
- - - j J
For when he came, he did not like the
nlace.
knA h.rl the wit to wander into inter.
The crow of chants-leer hailed him be-
run .a
Noon saw his prime, and twilight found
him done.
Hamilton Fairfax, at the crack of doom.
Will flicker forth to judgment from his
tomb.
To find how little of the Book of Life
"a needed to recount his earthly
trife.
This to the world his modest shaft mutt
SAT.
When it records his snan of but a dav :
White waa his soul at dawn, as white at
noon.
White when it passed, at curfew, not too
IMB !
Had he bat known life 'a way he would
have chuckled
That at her breast h was o briefly
suckieo.
Hamilton Fairfax, lucky wight were
you.
To get to Heaven for whtft you did not
do 1
There waa a murmur of soft laughter
a he bowed gravely at the cloe, and
moved away. Smiling fact! and mock
protests met him. One volatile young
woman tapped him with her fan. and
cried in a high voire: "You hard
hearted thing, to make fun of that dar
ling little creature ! I didn't know
whether to weep or to laugh over this
abbreviated Fairfax. I watched you
and if you had shown any regret for
him, I should have cried. But you
di'Jn t not a bit !"
"Ah, 3Iisa Worden, I spent my emotion
at hw grave, retortel BarnaM, quickly
"You should have went."
He was making hi war. laughinzlv.
to Mr. Amidon. Almost at toon as the
vere were done she had risen, and with
willowly dignity of movement passed
through the crowd to the hostew and
bade her good night. There waa in her
a faint suggestion of what the flowers
must find in the breath of the autumn
She was standing in the hall wrapped in
her fur and talking volubly to three or
four men as she waited for her carriage.
when Barnard found her
"Are you going so soon, Mrs. Ami-
donP he exclaimed. "I hope Hamilton
Pinkney Fairfax has not acted the exor
cist, and driven you forth."
"How ungallant!" said Mrs. Amidon,
wun a nmnani smile at the other men.
"Don't you remember what exorcisms
are directed against? You must have
been deeply stirred, Mr. Barnard, to have
betaken yourself to verse. How very
amusing you found that little boy. It Is
absurdly ridiculous to live only for
day, is it notf Good night. "
She had spoken hurriedly butgayly.
until the man opened the door, and with
a nod she disappeared, the light falling
Boinv in a parting gieam on me smooin
coils of her hair. Barnard noted it with
a sort of pain. He had wished to ask
her when he could call the following day,
but she had offered him no chance for
speech.
There was just enough of the canker
of doubt in him the next dav to make
him irritably impatient to see her again.
He went to the large brick house on
Washington Square rather early in the
afternoon for a call. Her coupe was
standing at the door as he approached,
and when he reached the stoop Mrs.
Amidon wa descending the steps. She
bowed.smilcd, paused for a moment when
she reached the sidewalk and made some
remark on the lovely day a she arranged
the last button 01 her glove. I his was
all she could have been expected to do;
yet Barnard felt he had been relegated
some rod to the rear of the position
which he thought he had won for shim
self. "I am unfortunate," he said. "IJiad
hoped for some little time with you."
"I have got to make a doien rails,"
he returned airily, as if this were the,
nearest approach to a sympathetic re
mark which she could volunteer.
"Won't you name some day when
you will be at home to see me?" he
asked, as the footman opened the car
riage door.
"lam always at home Sunday after
noons," she said, suavely.
"Yes; but you have a mob of caller
then," he retorted.
"They are all nice people," and Mrs.
Amidon arched her brows.
"Oh, of course' But I would like so
much if you would allow me to come
some time when you will be
alone," he urged, with a pleading look
in his eye.
rdic hesitated a moment.
' Come Monday afternoon at five," he
said, and stepped into the coupe.
He repaired to Washington Square at the
designated time, feeling that h might, ot
might not, put the pietion fraught with
mch intense interest for him. It should
depend on how he found her. He would
not attempt to settle the point independ
ently of that. Hi determination to
speech should be the outcome of the cir
cumstances. Aa he entered the room where she was
itting. a warming sense of satisfaction
made him think he would speak before
he left her. The whole made such a
charming picture, Mr. Amidon was
fitting in a low, broad chair of pale blue
velvet. The exquisite lines of her figure
had never seemed more perfect. Her
dress was of heavy silk of a luterles black
with which some white fabric was com
bined, the severity of the gown softened
by a profusion of lace.
She give him her hand and raotiond
him to a seat. What a perfectly pos
sessed woman she was, he thought; every
turn, every movement, suggesting a
uueenlv serenitv. Ah. if he could call
this glorious creature hi!
Io you know what
picture you mske. vou
a comfortable
and your sur-
rounding?" he exclaimed,
ion of an artist.
with the pas
"Comfortable! That is a very moderate
compliment. I am a poor rival to the cat
there as a picture of comfort."
She smiled slightly, as with a move
ment of her foot she indicated a yHlow
pluh basket in which was coiled an An
gora whose soft sides pulsated to the most
nlissful content.
'I should have said soothing." he has
tened to amend. "That is what I meant.
You breathe such a sense of repose ano
completeness. I cannot help thinking
what a home would be with such sur
roundings and such a mistress. Could
man ask for more?"
"One would have to consider the man.
of course," she made reply, slightly aixh
ing her brows.
His gare waa bent upon her burningly,
his features set to seriousness. He bent
slightly toward her a he said, earnestly:
I would ask no more . and would feel
that I had won a heaven more b lessee
than I could ever deserve. Mrs.
Amidon. have vou not seen what I have
felt o long? i am not worth v of vou.
but"
"I)o you know," Mr. Amidon, inter
rupted, quietly, raising her hand a little,
"I should like to tell you a little story.
Io you think you care to hear it t"
"I shiil be charmed. " said Brnrd,
assuming an attitude of attention.
"Ten years ago," Mr. Amidon began,
after a moment's pause, in softly modu
lated but perfectly distinct tones, and
with her eves fixed on the great log burn
ing in the fireplace, "a girl of seventeen
married a bov of twentv. Thev
u- tv rJ i
. . I
loved !
each other in the
most
SimpIV ardent
fashion. The rrirl was noor. the vounff
M ml
fellow had einectationa from a wealthr !
grandfather. Seven months of perfect
happine followed thi union, although
the grandfather aw guod to frown np
it severely. Then," Mr. Amnion west
on, folding her hands upon her lap, "the
husband, who vu still tht lover, died
I One month later the grind father died
I ! When Lis will was read it waa
foutd that he had bequeathed his proper
ty9the issue of his grandson, leaving
to him only a modest income. The death
of the grandson had spared hia this ex
pression of ill-will.
Mrs. Amidon paused arsin, ."Very
soon after the grandfather's death a
posthumous child, a son, was born to the
young widow. He inherited the large
estate bequeathed him by thi will. The
mother saw for on dim moment the little
!oys violet eyes before she relapsed into
a state of weakness in which her life wa
despaired of. But she rallied, and when
she recovered sense of her surroundings
asked for her child that she might look
or comfort in hia father's eyes. They
told her a gently as they could that he
was lying by hi father's side in the
graveyard of the little church.
"Through the death of this short-lived
child the mother came into full posses
sion of the large fo1une which he seemed
to have come only to inherit and transmit
to her. It enabled her to gratify every
reasonable taste and to assume a position
in society which, without it, would have
been impossible.
"Later," continued Mrs. Amidon, rais
ing her eyes to Barnard's face, "she mar
ried again. It was a marriage unhappy
in its results, for there developed the
greatest disaffection. Two years ago the
woman was again left free. She has had
a brief, but rarely perfect, wedded life.
She ha had one not so brief and wretch
edly imperfect. Not long since," and
Mrs. Amidon' eve returned to the blaz
ing log, "thi woman, a widow for the
second time, bad not yet set her heart
sgninst marriage."
She remained with her gaze steadily
fixed on the glowing heart of the log
with it soft, silverv coating of white
ashes, as if in reverie, her hands folded
pasivelv in her Ian.
"Is that the end of the story ?" inquired
Barnarl, softlr.
"Ye, it is hrcnd of the storv," Mrs
Amidon answervd slowlv. "It L the
story of a perfect kve and of the substi
tute for love which came closest to the
woman's desires in the wealth and luxury
of her life, which she owed to thia
little bov who lived onlv a dav."
Barnard drew a slow breath. Then he
said: "And hi name?"
' "Hamilton Pinkney Fairfax," replied
Mrs. Amidon. "You found hi tiny
monument and his little life a very a in us
ing theme for your verges at Mrs. Van
Brugh's the other night. I thought it right
that vou should know how thev affected
me, hi mother. You see," she said,
smiling aintlv. she looked at Barnard,
while the expression which o often
seemed aliout to come and never came,
dawned upon her face, "there was some
thing more than the humorous in them
for me. for whom he seemed to have
lived only that he might be the little in
termeuiary ixrtweeu his lathers tender
love and the grandfather's stiff-necked
opposition. I have seldom been more
affected bv verses, Mr. Barnard."
"Mrs. Amidon," said Barnard, with
the utmost contritcness. "I beg vou to
pardon me for wounding vour feelings.
Believe me. nothing could have been
further from mv thought."
"I nuite feel it. Mr. Barnard," she
answered, quietly. "You have no need
to apologize. You did not know you
were reading your verse to the mother
of the little bov, 'aged one dav.' Nor did
voi know what that brief life accom
plished.
"And now," she added. riing slowly.
her tone and manner consigning the wo
man who had told him, o simply, the
life of Mrs. Amidon. irrevocablv to the
past, "I must ak you to excuse me, as I
nave to lres for dinner, tiood by."
As Barnard tok her hand and lowed,
he felt that it was a farewell over the
grave ol Hamilton rmkney j-airiax.-Independent.
AROrM TIIK IIOl'&K.
To polish kitchen knives nicely, mix a
little biarlonate of soda with the brick
dust and rub them thoroughly.
Slate floors should le. polished, rub-
binir first with a smooth, flat piece of
pumice stontt. and finally polish with rot
ten stone.
Coffee is ued for mixing Hacking for
the stove, in order to make it stick closer
and last longer. Most housekeepers prefer
the old-fashioned blacking to any of the
cements, because of its lasting qualities.
The cement is e.ier to apply a it re
quires nojabor in polishing. No stove
should be blacked more than once a
month, but it should be kept clean by
wiping off anv clots of grease which may
be spilled upon it. The flues of a stove
should certainly be cleaned as often aa
once a month.
The proper washing of silk stockings
is a matter oi moment, now that they are
commonly worn. White silk stocking
should be washed in a strong lather made
of catile soap or any good white soap
and warm water. Lay the stockings in
the lather and rub the soiled spots gen
tly with the hand. Then rinse them
verv thoroughly to free them from all
soap. ring them ury in a cloth, turn
ing them wrong ide out. When they
are almost dry stretch aad rub them in
the hands to make them - mooth and
bring them in shape. but do not iron them.
Black stocking may be washed in the
same way. but hou'.d be kept separate
from white sto king- in the washing.
Some people go so far as to rub their
stockings when thy are dry with a cold
iron, always making the passes one way
to make them smooth and glossv. It is
great mistake, howertr. to iron any
stocking. It alwavs. makes an uelv
crease down ih center aad dora not add
to the appearance. It i far better tn rub
them into shape, foi l them up and allow
them to fit tbemilves to the limb.
Cons and Tomsto Sorr. To make
a soup of corn and tomatoes, scald one
quart of tomatoes. Add a quart of stock,
a slice of rarrut. a small onion, a ha)
leaf, a sprig of thyme, one clove, six
peppercorns, and if convenient a tea
pooaful of minced ham. Let this all
rook slowlv lor hail an uour, then add a
-- -.- -
..ii. i rt . . . i .1 a ; a
UOIpoivill u mmrj nicuni uu ouxn
with two tablcspoorwu s ol flour. Strain
the SOUP through a puree sieve, SO that
eery portion except
the seel and aea-
soninjr will rasa through. Return the
strained tomato pur to the stove. Add
a liberal teacup rf scrawl corn. Lit
the soup boil for five minutes after the
corn is added.
VANCE TO HIS PEOPLE.
Timely and Able Address and Ap
peal to Patriotism.
God Has Afflicted North Caxolina'a
Belorad Senator, But He Has
Left Him Hia Cleirassa
of Head and Puritj
of Heart.
To the I'eop!e of North Carolina:
rtLLow t iiizens: ror many yem
past I have been in the habit of visiting
you in r,cion during every important
campaign and addressing you upuu the
iKilitical ivue of the time. Iking on
th a occasion prevented thia privilege bv
the condition of my health and earnestly
believing that the questions to be dead
cd by our November election are of vital
imortance to the public welfare, I am
induced to contribute, in this way uiy
share in the discussion uf them.
I regard the situation as most critical.
Since m;o the legislation of our country
ha been almost exclusively wtithin the
jKjwtr tf one pol.tical party. Naturally
it has cease J to be general in is benefi
cence and has become local and partial in
the extreme. The law-making power has
become the fearfully efficient implcmeot
of such clashes, corporation, cliques and
combinations as could by fair means or
foul obtain control of it. It has been
made to subserve purely personal ends.
In divers ways the taxing' )owcr of the
government has been perverted frt-m
public to private puroposcs, and moneys
levied thereby to enrich manufacturers,
to suppress rivalry in business, and, in
every conceivable way, to help the fa
vurcd few ut the expense of the many.
The varied corrupting influences upon
the bubincsH world arising from this
legislation produced their natural effect.
The classes whose ImsincM was thus fa
vurcd, flourished apace, whilst the un
favored have cxtcrienccd in the midst of
peace aod plenty all the losven auF hard
ships commonly fell only in time of pub
lic calamity; and the extraordinary sh
tacle is presented of a nation whose ag
gregate wealth is rapidly and vastly iu
creasing wbiht the individual wealth of
its chief toiler and wealth producers is
diminishing in proportion thereto.
From the Republican party, with its
disregard of the limitation of the con
stitution nnd its natural dependence for
support uHn the money of the K.ople
whom it has enriched, all of this corrupt
legislation lias proceeded. Without it.
there was nothing evil done that was
done. It follows as an undeniable truth,
that whoever directly or indirectly up
holds, helps or supports that pat ty is a
friend to the corruptions which it has
pioduced, and is an enemy to those who
would repeal that legislation and reform
the abuses founded ujhju it. There is no
rcjK! from this
The Democratic party, on thecontrarv,
believe. iu the strict limitation of the
constitution, and ha as a party steadily
opposed all abuse of the taxiog power,
or to any other power of the general gov
ernment for private purposes; and has
uoceasingly advocated the most absolute
nnd perfect equality of all citizens in the
legislation of our country. There is not
a Mingle wrong or injustice of which
complaiut it made in our laws for thirty
years past, which can justly be charged
M the Democratic party. Nor Onk. It
li2s ever b.en a breakwater ngtinst the
tyraunical teaucncici of the Ilcpuhli'
cans; and, though in a miuority, ja
been able to prevent some of the worst
legislation ever attempted and to tuodifv
uther lans which in their original ioi-
juity would have leen intolerable. This
st term nt of the acts and putios s of
the two great political parties caunot be
truthfully denied.
Now, what is the situation? What is
it the manifest duty of our people to do
in the coming electious? The two great
political parties into which our people
are mainly divided are once mo e in the
Held with their platforms of principle
and their candidates. State and Federal,
thereon. The Republican profess all uf
their old doctrines from which have
come the evils of which the people com
plain; th'.v glory in that abuse of the
tcxing p.wtr which has made a few rich
and millions (.oor; aod, seeking new
fields of inju-tice and oppression, thet
op nly declare their intention to take
from the Mat s the right to control the
election of their own representatives.
whiih i the thief bulwark of their rights
and liberties.
The Demcrat rc affirm their adher
ence to the constitution, their opjtositlon
to tariff robbery, to banking moowpolt
and to corporate oppression in all its
form and their desire to have the owrr
to control elect lots where the const i
tutions left it, aod where it has resided
for more than one hundred years, prima
rilv. it would seem that no Democrat.
and eserially Southern Democrat, c uld
hesitate a single moment a to which ol
these parties deserved his support.
But a new psrtv has arisen which is
endeavoring to make people believe thit
the Demorra'ic party is oo longer le
trusted. The argument to rrovt this is
a travesty on common sens; tht heciute
for thutv vears thev have as a party
tteadily opoed all abus-s and have no:
at any time been able to prevot or ie
form them, therefore is it no longer
nhy of the sipport of th se who de
sire a reform. I be meaning of this ii:
the iKm-jcrstic party has bern 'guilty
of being in a miooritv. Its sin consists
in not having done that which it ItiCi.D
iiotdj Ihentbeyin eUectaiy: "Let
it be condemned, wbi'st the Republican
prty. which hs has the power and ac
tual'y did all tbee .thing. ad still has
the jowrr to undo them and does not,
isacjuittd. Nay. we w II help it to
keep in jrr by Ixtrsyiog and destroy
ing its oi Ivenemv!"
Therefor the Democratic pirty, with
i's sast o gaouattoii in every btsie.
couttv and towobip in the Lblted
States, with its control of oue branch
of CongTfs. aod comprising fr the pop
ular vote a Urge majority of ail the ho-
plc in the I, moo, ling cot strong
enough heretffviro to effect rt for n for
bith it Ls llMrrd and w ibed, liti
without the Senate and KxevuMve; the
cUtTi the only chine; for reform is to
vote for the candidates of ibis Third
party, wbe exi-tence in the national
gnver inrnt and power l rooiroi irs
l gilt on are Vtdene rl by three cr four
m-tnlers of th House of Representative
and two to the fcenate; Common kuk
and self -preservation would s.-ni ta die
tate that we should help the Democrats.
who are almost in power, to get a'to-
gvther in power, aod trust them to cor
reel abusea as they Lave promised. Oao
stroog pull at the j polls in November
text would give them control of both
branches oi Congrca and; thi Executive,
and the long night of misrule and in
luaucc wouia Durst in to the dawn ot a
new and bet'er day. It would be tins
enough to leave them and fotm a Lear-arty
when they had been tried aod iaJ
proved faithless. J
But the leaders of this ncsr patty,
falsely called the "People's," insist that
you s'jall abaodon the Democratic party
now and voie who inem, i am grieved
to know that there arc uuite a number of
our fellow citizens io I North Carolina
who projKwe to follow that advice. It
ttrikre me aa the very titrams of uu
wiHlom;snd. when done with a full
knowledge of the consequence, it cease
to be mere folly and becomes a crime.
For, whatever may be the hopes or thv
wUhes of these men, they know as well
as they know of their (own existent),
that this larty has not only no chance
electing their candidates at the (tolls, but
also noue of throwing the election into
the House of Representatives, about
which they appear to be roost sanguine.
Let oo tnao be deceived about thu
The handful of votes which will be cast
for Weaver in this btatc,' be it as larg j a
they can honestly claim, cauoot iif
the electoral vutc for toh C levelaod and
Hani too, so aa to help throw the hvicc
into the House. It U absurd to hqe
so; but thirty thousand (80,000) vote s
taken from Cleveland aod given to Wea
ver will throw the vote,', not indeed iuto
Democratic Hou-e, but into the hands
of Hart is m.
This result is so plain that the Re
publican leaders, notwithstanding thiir
professions to the contrary, dctermiujl
te not let slip the opportunity, and they
are now revlv with full ticket aud a
complete organization, to avail themK'Ui
of everything which the dissension and
folly tf our people may' throw into their
lap. Their promises to run no Utc
ticket was manifestly 5 made w ith the
intention of alluring a Third party ticket
into the field, trusting that when nun
get hot aud bad blood prevailed, thev
might walk oft with the prize iu Ixjtfi
State aud Federal elections, Alas! that
want of reflection or patriotism should
render this scheme a probable succcst.
fndeed, it is so plain t that 00 Intelli
gent man can fail to see it. or an honet
one deny it. that the only probable, nut
to say possible, result ol the Hurt I patty
movement in No:th Carolina this fall
will be to elect a full Republican Stale
ticket and to aid iu the election of a Re
publican President and House of Hrpre
scrrtativc. What is to be gained by that
result 1 need not ask. i How the reforms
which they profess to desire arc to lc
obtained through Itcpobl can succcks is
something which surpasses human con
iccturc. So true friend of th's Common
wealth, I am sure, will contribute to thi
result. 1
It is reortcd that a promioeot tandi
date on the ticket of the Third party
savs be had rather submit to negro or
anv other kind of ru'.c '.than such as wt
have at preent; but I am forced to be
lieve that, if thi be troe, there are very-
few other white men of North Carolina
who are outside of the p.-uitentiary or
wh o'ight to be outside. wh euteitaiii
sentiments so foul and brutal. Our Iso
lde know that under Democratic rule
they have had god laws. low taxes,
economy and purity in the admlm'stra
ti id of their affairs, and I hje and be
lieve they will not lightly ritk its over
throw by casting useless or bopi less
votes in November. '
The clans of our people who have had
greatest cause to complain of vicious kg.
ilation is the agricultural The party
which has steadily restated thi. and con
tinually declaimed against it on the
hustings asd have struggled manfully to
repeal it in the halls of legislation is the
Democratic You will besr .rue witness
that uorcmittiogly since I have Iwco )uur
representative in the Senate, I have both
spoken aod voted agsiost that uojut
legtslati m. At home, ; as you , auuw 1
n-vcr ceased to cioc its inequalities
and to adf ie the farmers to orgsn'Z' to
re!t it. When they did U'gitfto corrt'
bine tbey bad the sympathy and J d
nihlu of almost every just mm jh the
United Mate h- wasj not in some wfry
the recipient of the plunder arising from
this abuse. .Never was there apobtual
movement of our people founded uj-on
better grounds or morn reasonable com
plaint. I
But that which I. feared and wraed
them against soon came to pass. Men
w ho bad little interest in agriculture .
and much interest in their own fortunes
apr.d to be i's leaders. Often me a
ho hod failed to obtaio offke from
either of the old. political psrtle-, con
eluded to rata .jut fa aula aaJ tau
icrsoosl crops of Ihhjot ana .profit out
of. them. They pawed to the front;
thrust red farmers aside aod iovolied
the Alliance io the wildra and mo t uu
practicable propeitions ever beard v
among ssoe men; and, in ditSance of
thir constitution soon consorted itsolo
h mere pontic naiiy.comfwi w
discontented and the disappointed lc.
rocuts cf xitty..p'tmc no Died tr
litical pritsdplca or regard for. the CH
.;..;.. nfHir Vihtr ' ISlit stri t in 4
on' v to rbtsin the tin srnrw of cUi
legislation, which is their .e id a of
statesmanship. t
Their pro. oaition to purchase aod coo
trol ail the lines ol ltiaoi"ratio u
te'egraph H the United Stat s, at the ex
(write of moy uUIioqs ol dollars, ana 01
rt funding to the soldier the difference
Ittwrtn paLT ar.d gold at the date f
tlnir psymeat, at least a billsoo nvnc; '
bn:ng ople money on real estate st
lower ra'es of Interest than the mls.et
m . m m. m
rates, ana kindled c&emesv are pe
osterus tbarlo argue them seriously, u
a tUuder UP0 J'1 civ i ixation; and the
advccv Jt such mcssur. s by the hit h
st to nx-st conservative tlerrfrwt i oor so
ciety i a notiftcatMHi toalllbe sofldthl
. . m Mm.
we are appvoscbtng that stage M cirrus-
rn-niKm dI cotnntuotsm siiKii iojis 1
1 ople as UCBt ! r ar-cvrtmcni.
unfaltering confidence is In tie tu
farmers of Nth Carolina who, as mem
cf that Alliance, will, 1 trmt, not
trnvt their lob'c order and llnir !
r4uv to be thu ervrrted and deleU
. Rest assured that 00 real friend of that
DohU class vf tuca who, uo ler the provi
deoce of God, give us our daily bread,
will ever consent to this degradation of
their. cause iotothe obsequious tool of
scrupulous ambi'ious mee, forfeiting
the sympathy of all moderate people,
and making the Tery name id Alliance
to stink in the ootrlU of iuOice and
Common sense. I can but believe that
the good judgment f our farmers still
enable them to see where their IcaJers
sre taking them, and tbit their ntiea
hoety will impel them to draw hack ia
time to save their country.
Many of our people, it is true, have ob
ject cd to Mr. Cleveland, and preferred
that he should not hate U-co nominated.
( confess that 1 was amosg that number.
But an individual preference before the
Domination of a candidate is nn tbiog.
and the duty c f a true man after that
Bomloation has been falrlv made, I an
other and very different thing ladced. In
the oue tan a preference may be in
dulged properly, without dsoger to the
priucipU-s w p olesi or the paitv which
has those principles io ehsige: in the
other cave wc endanger both aud flify
our pretentions by contributing uodcois
blv to the succ m cf our adsersar es
If we refuse to abide bv the voke of
the majority of our fe'low Democrats
fittly and unmistakably expressed ia
friendly coureotioo. iherc is an rod of
all associated psrty effort ia the gotrrn
uic nt nf cxir, ctiu'utry ; if sir petsonally
psrticipate in that consultation or cos-
sention aol then refuse to abide by th
decisiou rf the tribunal of our own e
le tion, theu there is an end 01 all iK-r.
sonal honor among turn, and the conM.
deuee sthich is necessary t4i all combined
effort is gone forever. The man wh
lts, proitosing to collect if he wins and
to repudiate if he loses, is in all coun
tii and among all classes of ivfnplec n
siderrd a dishonest man.
But if the considers! in of go-! fsith
do'not infl jcme men's actions Io mh a
eas as this, surely those which it iin
Io I he public welfare oiihl to Ih dccls.
ivr. If not satisfied with Mr. Cleveland,
it teem to ntc tha an honest man should
balance accounts pro and coi, in this'
wav: "Clcvclaud aatecs with me 'in
desiring to reform the oiiresire tsiiff
taxnti-in, to tcurict the abuse of c otinr
ate privileges, to tepcal (ho tax on Slate
bsuks aud thereby to expand thacut-
icncy; and alove all, he is vchcmeutly
opMisd to force lulls aod all similar
attempts to destroy the rights aod lilw-r
tic-sol the States. In all essential ie.
form he agrees with me eirtpt In the
matter of the free coinage id silver, and
in respect to thl, there i reasoo to boi
lh.it the same candor and vigorous lne
ligation which brought him in full sym-pa-hy
with his parly 00 the giral ipies
lion of tariff reform will aoou bring him
to see the absolute necessity of maiu
tabling ImjUi of the precious racUla 00 a
par, to meet the urgent needs of Ike
currency of the wot Id. ITsrris in, on the
contrary, agrees with me in nothing
There i no change or reform wbi h I
desire to which he is not biltetly oi
jwrnd, and his party with' him. Why
then should I hesitate f Kither my vote
for Weaver will help Harrison and in
jure Cleveland or it will not; it cannot
at ail Weaver, for he has no chanc e
whatever- will plobably tot cany a
single Mate.. Why, then, should I tbk
my doing a dsung.' to the candidate who
would d 1 most for me, though h does
not promise to do all, and coidribu'r to
the election cd the one who promises ne
nothing tut an'indcfiuite reotluuaucc of
exisiting wrongs aod an insolent threat
(dottier and greater wroogs a soon a
he h;s the power Io i:trste Ihemf"
It seems to me, fellow c illens, that
the path of duty was never mate plain, or
the iicccily of walking in it more im
j rstive tho it is at this moment.
et ine Inrg jour earn't coutid ration
cd the s. tuition before jou vote io No
vember; aud before jou c ut loose from
the old, constitutional Demoe ratic party.
wh;e h in liuies of our extrem ieiil hss
so olten brought us forth eut of the hMie
if lvndige, and absndo.i its shining
banner Io follow reckless aodiitcomttc
tc it men ioto the wilderness cd their on
re si schemes. Think well of the od
lit result of jour action; how assy it is
t destroy how hard to rebuild.
- I recently cut down ia my mountain
forest in about five Lour, a tree that had
taken five hundred jears to grow. The
O' lno ratic paity i strong and able ad
.willing lo help you. lis arm i not
shortened that - it eaonet lave you To
ch'tUh snd uphold it is lhe ilicU'e of
palcitAism aod common seose.
... . Vour fallow eirueo,
Z B Vaacr.
fJmbrooo," near Black Mountain.
bVpL letb, HW.
WklU Hair Taralaf Dlaek.
"TtVreYs'nothin unusual in hair torn
ing white, but case io which the hair
turoed blaoic again after beiog whiU was
recently told by a geotlemta from De
troit, A fady of that city originally ha J
blsck eye tad Lair, but la the course of
titn, whf a aha bad aiaiaai the age of
about leventy years, her hair Inroad pure
whre. This wss et pocted, but about a
year ago her hair began dar ken la r, aat
as 1 a ssss 1 . . Jk - .ts
IS DOW as DtACt M jm, t ioenaBu
about the change, nor was aay artificial
tries nt oed to -produce it, so that the
eat is cwrraioty one of the moat remark
ahlo recorded la tU aaaals of maitcal
history. Tha lady was aot conscious of
aay ebasg la diet or ia her physical
condition tUt would justify tae curiowa
pbeoomeaoo, ao it ia abnluUly iosi
plaiaable 00 aay kaowa hypothesis. -St.
Louis Olohw-Dfmocrst.
Sagteltat ItJrii-
XFsrjrliogtoa eotIes tslls a
story of the saTacity of the purple
tstls a v
mar
tloi, wblea 'abouad la that vta:iy.
Too geotlecoan had om fifty of tbtso
social birds la ue nouse upoa
groaads. A day or two ao, wbUe tbe
birds wera flyiis; about tha garJeo, a
est CSU7.M 00a of the martini and starUi
o3 wiu it in her mouth, the bird crying
p'.teouslr. Quick as a flash, howsvew,
iK kAbi flock of martins were after
pussy, lighting oa her bck packin r tai
acxaunin cer aaa erea-nia j
msrtioj can. Pun could lot staal taia
rery lonr, aad aha dropped tha martie,
arched her back up, eplt. n J0
life. Then tbe birds left her aoJ fl''
to tha house, loudly chstterin? orer th
icscue of thsir comrsds.
"i