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VOL.. I. MORGANTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 189c? 2CO. -10. 11 W I PE Present-War Talk Brings the Sub ect to Mind. "HE GIVES SOMt STATISTICS si .owing the Amount Paid by Geor gia, and the South, to Her Old soldiers aud Their Widow Since the War-. Sad memories come over us about this tiuio. The tocsin of impending war carries us Luck thirty-seven years, when eorgia uud the South everywhere was in u .state of feverish excitement when the roll of drain and the thrilling notes of the lifo were heard in citic3 and tiwns and recruitinsr camps and men, women uud children all seemed to bo wild with patriotic enthusiasm. Only Lo aed men aud women were serious aud solenu and silently smothered heir apprehensions. After the State iia-l receded it was hardly safe for a pau to-talk for the union. Here and there could Le heard a bold, defiant voice liko that of Pettigrew, the great lawyer, who, when asked by a country ijiu tha road that would lead him to Lu lunatic a-ylum, exclaimed: "Any liuid, ir; eery road, sir; all the roads, ir. This., whole -State is one vast lunatio ai.ylum." l ho wir fever is a3 contagious as the tiuallpos, and is an epidemic for which April is u historic month. In April thj rir.st ftuus of the war were fired and ioit ;: muter fell and surrendered. In Ail il President Lincoln called for 75, ;r) men to huppress the rebellion. In .April Virginia seceuded from the rebel lihv., una General Robert E. Lee seced- ll hum his ulle'Mauce to the United ufuiy aud tendered his sword to si .s ,.riU uLiti CopJederacv. In Anril iWlent Lavis telegraphed Governor iiovn for three companies to march Muuiediuiely to Norfolk, and intwentv. four hours a batalhon was on the cars m il arrived there before the Virginia tiuups duK I And, last of all, in April Luc ai; I Jo'huston both surrendered ' tht-j: Tii iaies aud the war was over. There is a world of history, sad, tbril-liu- and glorious history between the J.e -iuuiu and the end. Who that was utnit euu toilet it? It crows brighter ftu l grainier as the years roll on. No' , wo:i lei the surviving veterans wish to mvet once luore. For thirty years their tjioiKHM deeds have been tossed about ns treason and rebellion and a crime, h:i these old-soldiers have never sur rendered their convictions nor felt ilieiu gather. ia Atlanta in July aud have one more embrace and confeder ate a'a;u in memories of. battles lost uu.l battles won aud -hardships innu merable, and at tha Inst ir sad hnf. t... ct return to Lome and kiudred a lu-mo desolated and a kihdred.thiunad tv iieath. lively train brings news now new c 1 i:ai ending war but we are not. ex- .f i'.iil like wo were then. We remem lu .vh-eu there wa3 uo telegrah wire to Ime u-ul the daily signal came with - the unri v train from Kingston. If Wilev f:irllW1 til- I. Til 1111 TIT! HOT frn Ttrt 41i-ma Ion.;, loud, cheering whistles on his ci'pri'aeh lu t'j'yu everybody waked Up i . 1 1 I iu.-v "Lee has whipped 'em again," the wau-hword and the. people hur ried to the depot to meet the train and g t all the good of it. Two whistles .trum the engiue was indifferent news .a.ud was bad and sad, but did not come ottcu, for old Bob Lee and Stonewall whipped them as often as they got at them aud would have been whipping tuem yet if our boy children had .grownup a little'-faster.. We almost robbed the cradle aud the grave for bcl.Uers, and even then got only one for throe foes. I 6hall always think they u unlit to have toted'fair" with us nun iougut us hvo to one instead of 'threo don't vou ? I wouldn't have a l en-ion that took three to one to win v.-i-nld you When 1 was a school boy I Lad a tijiht with another boy and two of my frieuds clubbed in and sorter helped me, and I never felt so ashamed tf anything in my life. Hut old Georgia has never discount ed ber gratitude to her soldiers or their widows. She is a long ways ahead of her sister. States. Last year she paid liu-re to them than all the other South ern States combined raid tr theirs- Vieginia paid to hers $1-10,000, Ala bama j?l ljtS. 000, North Carolina $113; South Carolina SluO.OuO, Florida ?'i"),tM", Tennessee 868,000, Mississippi 81.3, (.;.!., Arkansas $42, 00 J, Kentucky nothing aud Texas S33.0G0, while Georgia i a i d o ver $000, 000. Now whiie we can boast of this, yef I am free to $ay and dare to say, for I am not a candidate for anything limit ed or unlimited, that our. pension laws are not just and need reforming Geor gia has ovordone the thing. Pensions fhould be awarded to- the needy, .and tho- needy only. The errand juries of the counties should distribute the pen siun fund' and make selection i of the jeer t-oldiers and the poor widows and I e required to add 25 per cent, to the fund aj portioned by the State. Con suieiiug the general -depression, the rate is paying too much. It should be l educed at. least one half, and let tLo counties make up part of the de fitiiciencj. Where is the justice or propriety of paving a man $100 a year who is worth 510.000 to S20.000 Vhile many poor, invalid soldiers, who fought u-t as hard and endured just as much, but did not lose an arm or a leg, get nothing. I see tb&t both Aikinson and Berner, in their -! elarations, speak of the rewards that wti e promised the soldiers. That is a mi-take nothing was promised nor' as anything expected. They fought ir- their couutry and S10 a month and htrdvtack and bacon or beef, and that ,v rt'.i they expected. The word pen mjus .-V.U! nut in the dictionary. I i'.unv a widow whoso husband was killed at Bull Run and she does not need hr pensiou and at frit declined to receive it, but changed her mtna ana gives it all to w idows who are needy. The gTand juries of the counties knov? who thould be the beneficiaries of the pension fund and if they have to add 25 ler cent to it thev woulfi be careful to Bee that it was not misapplied. It seems to me that a. leak of at least 8100,000 might be stopped in this way, bat as I am not a candidate, maybe I don't know. Then there is another leaklbat needs stopping. The railroad commis sion should be reformed. When Campbell Wallace ana Colonel Tram mel 1 and Sam Barnett first took hold of it there was lots of work to do and it took nearly all their time. But they built up a system without having a guide or precedent. "They established rules : and regulations and these. have lon since been reconsidered and readjust ed, and arc now generally accepted and approved by the railroads and the peo ple. Now the commission has to meet only once or twice a month and' one competent man as chairman is all that is needed. Colonel Trammell, from his Jong experience, could run the whole business and this w6uld save $o,00Q a year, besides the secretary's salary, which is.anothert thousand. If .Colonel Trammell or his successor needed any occasional help to decide new questions he might call in tha Comptroller-General and the Secretary of State, who would willingly f erve for nothing part of one day in a month. School Commis sioner Glenn has that kind, of help on his board and it costs the State nothing. Why can't we do that and save a leak of 810,000? Why not?-1 tell you, nay long suffering friends, the government ex penses have got to be cut down in some way; not just a- little, but a good deal. "Sine qua nons" are bigger tnings now than sinecures. The people are poor. The preachers tell us that a hungry man can't get religion and if he should he can't enjoy it. If we don't stop the leaks the weole dam business will bnrst and wash 'away and the mill, can't grind at all. 1 remember well when we had no pensions nor school fiind, - and the people got along pretty well., The young men married the young girls and left the widows for the widowers. ' There was no such a word as trcasseau in the dictionary, but if theie weie less clothes there was more love and fewer divorces. .: But we will talk about these thinsrs later, when- we get to the legislature I'm not going to vote for my man vho 'will not promise to cut down the taxes, and we will talk about the pc ns:on bi s iuess when tho veterans meet n . u1'. I was ruminating about that clay the anniversary of the greatest battle ever fought and tho greatest victory ever won 'by Confederate 'soldiers, jt was a small affair compared with Gettys burg and Shiloh' aud tho Wilderness, but its iniriression'on the country and goiaiers was more proronau xaaii any other. It was like a young mother's first child none thajt came after ever created so great a sensation. How vivid are the scenes, the rapid night march from Winchester, the crossing the Shenandoah by torchlight, wading up to the armpits with gnns and cartridges held up. I can foe Jimmy Smith, the little drummer boy of the Eighth Georgia, and little McKosker, bobbing up and down Over the deep places with water running into their mouths, while taller soldiers behind them held them 6teady. I hear the" shout of Stone wall Jackson's men as thoy came through. tho woods and turned the tide to victory. I eee the willow glade and the little branch where Dr. Miller and his assistants worked all night with their knives and probes and bandages, and every little while said, "next," like the barbers to their .ciiKtomers. I see the dead in tho pine thicket and the wounded placed iu the ambulances and hurried to theLewis houe for a hospital. I see the New York Zouaves iu the field near the old stone house on the pike. How thick they laul upon the ground how fat they seemed next rooming as the buVial squads rolled them into the shallow trenches. They had swollen in form and feature dur ing the nisht until their corpses filled their loose clothes almost, to bursting. But when we all meet on the 21st we will talk over the mi3ty past and re joice with those who rejoice and weep with those who waep. A sea of tears has already been shed, both North and South, but still the chalices, are not empty nor the hearts of the veterans seared over by ihe iron hand of time. Bill Arp, in Atlanta (Ga.) Constitu tion. How the Navy Has Grown. The. New York Tribune says: . The growth of the navy in ihe three last weeks, which constitutes the period of its abnormal activity" in actual war preparations, may be appreciated when it is stated that fifty-three vessels have been added to the list of naval units in commission for service. . This includes the vessels purchased, which now num ber nearly forty, and the revenue cut ters, lighthouse tenders and the steam coast survey vessels. Of the rurchased vessels the most effective are believed to be the anibulauce-ship Solace, the four Morgan Line cruisers Yankee, Dixie, Tail le and Yosemite, and the yacht Mayilower. Launching of Alabama. -May 13 has boen fixed as the date for the launching ot tho United States bat tleship Alabama, in course of construc tion at' Cramps' -hipyard. Miss Mor gan, daughter of United States Sena tor Morgan, will, it is stated, christen the ship named inhoner cf her native State. The Alabama will be the first in the water of throe first-class, sea going battleships contracted for in Oc tober, 1SD6. The other two, Wiscon sin and Illinois, are being built re spectively at Sau Francisco and New port News. B All three are alike. For Army Hospital at Key West. The war department has made an al lotment of $25,000 for the complete equipment of an army hospital at Key West, Fla. . Capt. Slgsbee is Given a Ship. . Capt Charles D. Sigsbee, who com manded the battleship Maine at the time of the explosion, will command tho St rani. Ij . Contract Closed to Move Troops. . The contracts for transporting the Iroops from their various stations outh have been let. Most of tho soldiers have tlready atarted (or theix pciU. I III An Answer Declared "Scandalous And Impertinent" ESCAPED BUGLAR ARRFSTE& Slonuraent Commemorative of tb Signing of the Slecklenburg Declar ation of Independence la Hearing Completion. A beautiful shaft of granite stands on the site of the old Queen's museum, on South Tryon street, commemorative of the signing of the Mecklenburg Decla ration of Independence, May 20, 1775. TheMast stone of the monument, the needle, was placed in position on .tho 15th, and the monument now stands complete except the bronze inscription pk tes which are to go on shortly. Hundreds of people witnessed the raising and placing of the needle. Charlotte Observer. County Returns of School Taxes. It is found by tho auditor that the county returns of school taxes show that the amount assessed for taxation under tho head of railroads, etc. ? does not equal that fixed by the railroad commission by some $0,000, so that much is lost to the public schools. Per haps it was because some counties fail ed to take note of telegraph lines, steamboats and canals. Under the act in which the State pays 81 foreach 81 raised by speoial taxation or subscrip tion for the public schools the State has paid out 86,246.41. "Scandalou and Impertinent. After The railroad commission made ah order reducing telegraph rates to 15 cents for a ten-word message over the Western Union lines in North Carolina that company secured an injunction and riled complaint. The railroad com mission "then filed its ' answer. The Western Union last week filed a repli cation in the United States Circuit Court in Raleigh, saying the answer made by the commission through its attorney is "scandalous and imperti nent" and b6gs the court to r;.)e the answer out. . .. 7 . . Lambert Acquitted. A special to the Charlotte Observer from Asheville says, at Hendersonville on the 18th, the jury in the case of Os borne Lambert, charged with killing Engineer li. M. Bumgardner, returned a verdict of acquittal. Last November Lambert attempted to beat a ride on a freight train near Fletcher's and was put off. He persisted in his attempt when the engineer interfered. Lam bert shot the engineer, from the effects of which he died; two days later. , ... -Sued Out an Injunction. Complaint has been made to the State board of education that certain lumber men are cutting timber off n 20,000-acre tract of swamp laud in Tyrrell county belonging to the board. The board has sued out an injunct on against five Norfolk men, restraining them from j cutting or removing timber. Killed Himself by Taking Morphine. G. W. Staley, in Randolph county, killed himself by taking morphine. He took a bottle from a store while the clerk was out. Meeting the clerk at the door, he said: "Charge me with 60 cents, " at the same time refusing to tell what he had taken and threatening vio lence if searched. West Point Competitive Examination The competitive examination for the West Point cadetship will be held in Raleigh on May 18, for the Fourth dis trict. Examinations for admittance to the Naval Academy at Annapolis will -be help in Goldsboro on April 22. Side of Their Bargains. The roller process flour milling business is being overdone in Ashe county. Seven mills are now in process of erection, and some of the proprietors are sick of their bar gains. - Kscaped Burglar Arrested. J. M. Overstreet, a white man, was arrested at Winston in response to a telegram from the sheriff of Bedford county, Va. He confessed he broke jail there while serving sentence for burg lary. Greensboro May Have Electric Ft. R. S. H. Houghton, ot New York, is at Greensboro with a proposition to build an electric street railroad and operate it, provided he can get the contract for furnishing electric lights. Twenty-One Mates Represented. Pinehurst is rretty well known. Twenty-one States of th6 Union are represented there; also South Africa, Canada and Nova Scotia. Sanford Ex press. Sales of Fertilizers. It is learned at the Agricultural De partment that the sales of fertilizers are as large as they were in the spring of 1SU7. That means 84,000,000 this year. . it Canning Factory for Apex. The State has chartered the Apex Canning Company capital 810,000, . Orders a Lrg Supply ofJBeer. A curious effect of the prospect for war was developed at the meeting of the State board of control on the ISth.' As a result the board sitting in extra session ordered seven carloads of beer thaUit had no idea of ordering. It waa bought in order to avoid the prospec tive war tax of from $1 to 82 a barrel. Negro Killed ut a Social in Lanrens. At a negro aocial in Dial township, Laurens county, Sam . Putnam was killed by a pistol shot.: John Pedes, charf ed with the killiay, i la jail. PEOSPEEITY EEC0ED. CONTRAST THE FACTS WITH THE RANK CLAIMS. In Cold Type tho Sewi Columns of tbo Plutocratic Press Expooo tbo Ugly Realities Peoplo TVTio Zlaven't Bo c1to1 Tboir DUb of Prosperity. It Is pleasant to read in the editorial columns of the city dailies that good times are here at last, and every hu man . being In this country would be glad to believe these editorials to be true. Unfortunately, "-the, news col-4imna- ot these- aomeLpapers, censorized aa they are. contain facts enough to prove the ghastly falsity of the pros perity claims.- Here are some random extracts from the news record: -The B.OOO operatives at the Atlantic and Pacific cotton mills, at Lawrence, Mass., have decided to accept the 1C per cent reduction in wages, which went Into effect on the 1st ult. The annual report of the board of state charities of Pennsylvania, reviews the work accomplished by the board within the last year. W. B. Streeter tells of . the child-saving work that is now being carried on under the direc tion of the board. The special effort of the department, he says, is to find homes for children on farms. The re port of the board on outdoor relief for the poor, based on the returns made by township trustees, shows that with in the year one person in twenty-seven received public aid. The total number of persons aided within tho ' year was 82,312, as against 67,414 the previous year. Of the number aided 76,899 were white and 644 colored; 56,340 were Americans, 1,865 Irish and 3,795 Ger man. In a majority of cases aii was extended on account "of sickness or death in the family.' The total amount expended in out-door relief within the year was $388,693.57, as against $355, 255.29 during the previous year. The employes of the Wheeling steel plant in Benwood, W. Va.. about 500 in number, have been notified of a sec ond reduction of wages within twelve months. The present reduction affects all employes and runs from 12 to 25 per cent. . Seven years is an -early age at which to, experience the irony of fate. But little -Willie Rodney, aged 7, knows what a grimly satrrical person destiny is. Willie. Is a boy orator. During the campaign which resulted in McKinley's election he astonished and delighted all San Rafael, Cal., with his speeches about Republican prosperity. Worthy members of the g. o. p. regarded him as heaven-dnspired, and even stanch dem ocrats were shaken in their faith by Willie's speeches. "Out of the mouths of babes," they quoted and felt that Willie Rodney must have prophetic sight when he pictured open mills and busy folk, well-filled larders and hap py families as a result of McKinley's election. Now Willie Rodney lives in a back room in a San Francisco tene ment, with his mother, who has wash ed clothes until she can .wash no longer, and knows what It is to be very hungry. They" haven't tasted meat in weeks. Crusts are a luxury to them. Willie's clothes are patched from head to foot. About forty employes of the bleach ing department of the American Print ing company, at Fall River, recently struck because of an excessive reduc tion In wages, which they claim has been made. The police stations of both Pittsburg and Allegheny, Pa., are liberally pat ronized these nights, but Allegheny central station acommodates more lodgers, perhaps, than does the safety palace. Last night, says a Pittsburg paper, up to 9 o'clock twenty-seven men had applied for and received lodg ing at the north side station. Of these twenty-seven "twenty were skilled workmen,' whom lack of work had finally driven to the necessity of be coming a public charge. There were blacksmiths, carpenters, engineers, ma chinists, bridge-builder3 and one or two other trades In the list, including a printer, a painter, a tailor and a glass-blower. Fifteen hundred EUlt3 cf clothes were ' contributed by the mail carriers of Chicago to the destitute miners at Ladd, 111. The labor trouble, in New England has grown more acute but it is not as suming a phase favorable to the men. The present status is, in fact, distinct ly gloomy for the men and women who wear away their lives in the mills. The prospect Is that there will be no great rebellion on the part of the wage-earners, for our working people have grown so accustomed to 111 treat ment that they have, in many cases, lost hope of doing anything to better their condition. v no-re rnment Ownership of Railway. By an overwhelming majority the people of the Helvetian Republic have sustained the measure passed In coun cil last October for the purchase of the railway system by the state. It is frequently remarked that ownership of. railways by the govern ment Is a monarchical idea and does not comport with government by the people. The successful working of the plan in the French republic and'lt3 adoption by the Swiss republic, how ever, are significant facts. Twentieth Century... MONEY A CREATION OF LAW. 7be Falsehoods ot the Gold Trust's Free "y ' Lit era tore. The gold trust is Hooding the conn try with false literature. There Is not a fetish worshiper of gold, from Sher man down to little Eckels, who does not assume that bullion is money and argue that the most costly bullion is the only material fit for coinage. Some of the most distinguished hypo crites or financial idiots, as the1 Silver Knight-Watchman classifies ex-President Harrison. ex-President'Cleveland and the loquacious Gage, speak of the intrinsic value of gold. If they are really so Ignorant that . they do not know that the intrinsic qualities of a thing do not constitute Its value, they must admit that everything having in trinsic qualities will always be of the same value 60 long as it possesses the same intrinsic qualities, and that there can be no fluctuation in the price or value of commodities having Intrinsic qualities. It is only those blind teach ers who are employed for gold monop oly that believe value is intrinsic in anything. The great masses of the peoplo un derstand this question -very much bett ter. They recognize the fact that the value of a thing is what somebody will give for it; in other words, it is what it will fetch. They understand very well that the price or valu of a thing is fixed and determined when two par ties exchange a commodity for money or onej commodity for another; and that vahie is the comparative worth of the two articles as estimated by the buyer and seller in making a contract. In the board of brokers the value of a railroad stock is determined from day to day by what the buyer will give and what the seller will take. When the minds of the buyer and seller come to gether the price or value of a thing is determined. This being the case it Is insulting the good sense of intelligent people for the great hypocrites of the gold standard to assume and declare that the value of gold is intrinsic, which Is equivalent" to saying that if all the mountains were gold an ounce of gold Would buy the same amount of wheat as it now will. It would be well if the country would treat these hypo critical or idioac teachers occasionally to. a cold bath and bring them to their senses. Free Coinage of Silver. The phrase "free coinage" of silver has no reference to the charges at the mint on bullion deposited for coinage, says the Silver Knight-Watchman. Ordinarily the mints of the civilized world have charged for converting bullion Into coin a sufficient aniount to pay the absolute cost. This charge is ordinarily made for melting, refining and preparing bullion for coinage. There is sometimes a profit also In the alloy used, the object being to make the mint self-sustaining. There has ai rways been a strong objection to mak ing a charge for stamping or coining the metal after It has been prepared for that purpose. When no charge is made for the stamp and coinage it is called "free coinage," and inasmuch as there has been generally no charge In this country for stamping and coining either gold or silver the term free coinage can be properly used. In 'com mon parlance we call it free coinage when a person can take his bullion to the mint and have it coined into stand ard money without any charge for the actual coinage, and only a sufficient charge for preparing the bullion for coinage to pay actual expenses. The popular use cf the phrase "free coinage of silver" means the unlimited coinage on terms of exact equality with the conditions applied to the coinage of gold nothing more and nothing less. A person now having gold may take It to the mint and have it coined after it is prepared for coinage with- out charge. He will be charged for melting and refining, and the. govern ment may also make something on the alloy, but we call it "free coinage" of gold. All we ask for silver is the same kind of "free coinage," wnich is un limited coinage of the two metals at tbefratio of 16 to 1 without discrimina tion against either. llanlclpal Ownership. . The employes of the Brooklyn Bridge corporation have short hours, fair wages, and free uniforms. This is mu nicinal ownership. The employes of the Manhattan elevated have long hours,, scanty wages, and have to pay high prices for their uniforms. This is private ownership. These two com panies are fairly Illustrative of sim ilarly opposed conditions the world over, and the people are almost con vinced. Scratch an opponent of mu nicipal ownership and you find an in terestedor salaried representative of monopolar. -But the people will soon awaken and claim their own. Charles S. White in American Craftsman. Do Too Mke tho lw. This is your country., eh? How much of it do you own? Do yon have any voice in making the laws? The majority of you great American voting kings have no more legal right in this country than yon have in China or Russia. Yon have to pay rent to live here and yon can live in those countries on the same Ignoble terms. Your country, indeed! Yon ought to -feel proud of your proprietorship. Appeal to Reason. - Blessing That Shall We are not mocked. It was not In de rision. God mads our spirits free. The Prophet's lightest dream Is but the dim prevision Of blessings that shall be. John 0. Sax. DEBl' THERMOMETETt. AO EXPLAINED TO JOHNNY BY . HIS TEACHER. If Too Change tho Scale oa tho Ther mometer It Goo All ; Wrong To Create' A Dbt tho Blmetallle Seatle and Then Force1 Pojaseat o tho Gold Scale Is Dishonest. J Teacher :SUnU up. Johnny, and tell the class whit is thermometer. . : Johnny A thermometer is an in strument for showing how hot it is. Teacher How is a thermometer usually made, and how does it oper ate? ; ; "; Johnny There is a glass tube with mercury in it. and a bulb at the bottom opening into the tube. The bulb is full of mercury. The tube is only partly full of mercury, and there is no air in the tube or bulb, both being closed. The tube is placed close to a scale or index, marked with figures, the bis figures at the! top. .When the weather is hot mercury swells, and the mercury.in the; bulb and tube ex pands As the tube is closed the mer cury has no other place to go, and as It swells it must rise in the tube. So when it Is hot the top of the mercury Is opposite a big figure, and when It is cold the top of the mercury is opposite a small figure on the scale. I Teacher Very well stated, Johnny. Now, suppose some one should slip the scale down without moving the tube: would the top of the mercury still indicate the temperature? Johnny I think the thermometer would be wrong, sir; but I don't quite understand how it would work. Will you please explain it to us? i Teacher I will do so, Johnny, for I wish the class to understand the ne cessity of using every instrument carefully, and to show you how an in strument may deceive you if it is out of order, or has been tampered with. The standard thermometer is ! made very carefully, about, as Johnny has described. The tube must be of exact ly the same internal diameter through out Its length. The tube is carefully sealed when the mercury is put In and the air has been, exhausted. The bulb is plunged in boiling water, and as boiling water , is always 212 degrees Fahrenheit, the mercury rises in the tube to the place it will always re.ach at the boiling point of water, and the place is marked on the tube. The bulb is then plunged into a mixture of salt and ice, which was once supposed to be the coldest thing In the world, and the mercury shrinks and goes down in the tube, so that its top Is at zero, and it will always go to this place when the bulb is in this mixture or in a place, equally cold. Thus the two extremi ties are marked, to which the mercury will rise and fall. Having found the distance between the freezing and boiling points of water, this distance is divided Into 512 equal parts according to the -Fahrenheit scale or 100 parts according to the centigrade scale, and these distances or degreesare marked on a card or plate, which Is carefully attached to the glass tube, so that the zero point on the tube and on the scale shall be exactly opposite. " h ; ' You can readily understand that il the scale moves up or down, so. that the zero on the scale Is-npt at the proper zero dn-the tube, the thermom eter will not tell the true temperature. So if you change the scale, by applying a centigrade scale Instead of a Fahren heit scale, while the zero may be the same, the degree, of temperature indi cated by the top of the mercury will be quite different on the two . scales, or "if the top figure corresponds the zero will be wrong. ; '; If the scale were printed on rubber or other elastic material, which can he stretched, by stretching the scale or index the mercury in the tube can be made to appear to indicate almost any thing on the scale. - Now, I wish the class to apply the same reasoning to another matter. This country at one time Incurred a great debt, called the national debt. The height of this debt was marked on a scale, indicating dollars, not de grees. These dollars were on what Is called the bimetallic scale, and were each worth at that time less than one bushel cf wheat, cr less than" five pounds of cotton. The highest point reached on the scale of debt was about $2,700,000,000. After the people of the United States' had heen working , very hard to bring down this debt, it is pro posed to substitute' a different scale or: Index, called a monometallic or gold standard scale. Some say this change of standard has actually been made. The dollars or degrees on this scale are very different from the dollars or degrees on the blmetallle scale, being each worth about two bushels of wheat or ten pounds of cotton. This new in dex shows the top of the debt to be at about the same mark as on the bimetal lic scale, but some people are begin ning to see that It will take twice as much work to bring down the debt to zero by the new. scale as by the old scale, and they fear they may never be able to accomplish IL Johnny Please, sir. why don't the people have the same scale they used 1 when they made the debt? It seems to' me that Is the. only proper way.; Teacher You are right, Johnny. If they were making a new th'eaiometr cr a new debt, it would not matter j wfcat scale tbey adopted, to the zero i point was right, and the same scale adhered to. Bat having made the debt oa one scaie, to auutxier im ice debt is raid is as dishonest and mls Jealnz M It would be to apply V cen tigrade Index to a Fahrenheit tier nfemetcr. or to move the zero pclat cr to stretch the scale. H i WALLACE A. CAHTXXTT. I POINTS FROM THE! PRESS. All men are born free acdeqaal. but most of them den't believe It. San Francisco Star- ! With the witnesses who were sum moned to testify in the Hinna bribery ease, silence Is golden. Phoenix Ga zette. - i " " - 4 The price of lrcn and steel has ad vanced and the wages of the workers have been reduced. This! 1 in trtct accord with the supply and. demand! Or is it the cost of production rxnUt Ing the price? Appeal to Reason. '.-.' ' -I L i ; Bryan demanded a direct legislation plank in the Chicago platform. Uln neapolis Representative. '. i m 1 We would advise ' the country tc watch events closely during these ex citing times incident to the Maine dis aster. If there is not a bond deal con nected with It,, we shall be graatly surprised. Silver Knight-Watchmaa, f i ,m i t The worklngmen cf Cleveland know Mark Hanna of old. Ho may rrotest that be is net a labor union crusher, and protest again and again; but they know" that the bones of all the slaugh tered unions of Cleveland are piled up before his front door. A tardy denlat now car? have no effect, against their own memories and the newspaper re ports of the time when he ; made hh anti-union crusade. Even today Mark" Hanna cannot muster a corporal' guard of union worklngmen In all tha establishments he owns in Cleveland, His organ, too. the .Cleveland Leader. iis known everywhere amopg printers j Then you -do not think; Mr. Reed Is as bad as he appears? Of course not. He Is simply part of a machinery, to break up and destroy cur representa tive system, and he is so involved in the cog-wheels of gold rascality that he has to move with the machinery or be ground to atoms. Silver j Knight- Watchman.-: . ,;K r In these days when public officials are so subservient tor aggregated wealth, as represented In the great corporations, it is positively refreshing to become aware cf such a man as Commissioner of Insuranco McNall of the state of Kansas. This competent and brave public servant has jutt be gun a new campaign against the cor ruption of the great life insurance companies, and tha indications are that before these octopl are through with him they will know how to dc their duty to the people. The latest action of Mr. McNall. taken last week, was to require from the' corporations of this state a statement of the sums which may have been expended by them for political purposes.! Mr. Mc Nall has learned that at, least two cf the corporations have mada plans to purchase legislation in the j state cf Kansas, and he proposes to find out all about , the business. Twentieth Century. . Why Sot? ; I ; -: if the eminent financiers whom Sec retary Lyman J. Gcge has invlt---af suggest a currency plan that j will make their business prosperous cannot agree upon some plan it would be remark able. So It is altogether; likely that in a short time we will. nave a plan -that will make at least one busineis pros perous. Now why would it not be a good idea to ask parties engaged in other lines' of business what laws they would like to have enacted that would make their business prosperous? For Instance, men who have been engaged In the business of raising horses hav not been very prosperous for several years. Then again other ""buslnets men" who have been engaged in the business of stealing horses have nhi had as good laws for the protection of their business as some other lines of business. In fact, sonre of the laws passed have . actually j discriminated against their interests. Men' engaged In the raising of poultry; could without doubt suggest , laws that would make their business more profitable. Gen tlemen engaged in the business-, of stealing chickens could! make sugges tions in regard to laws that would have a tendency to Increase their profits. . Men .engaged in the .Visinef of wrecking trains eoula bave tneir . business as well ..prctefiied' by liw a th9 bnsir,cr3 of wrecking railroads has been. In short, all of the different lines of business could be made pros perous by laws for their benefit. Pro vided, the laws were so framed that what 'was beneficial to one Industry did not conflict with the prosperity of other industries. E. L. Smith. " Tho Plnjndered Workers. What! A hundred barrels of wins In the cellar of the master, and for the exhausted slave only water from the river? What!.. A hundred mantles in tht presses, and only rags for the groan ing slave? Who Is it that planted the vine, gathered a'nd pressed the grape? The slave. Who. then, has a right to driok ' the wine? The slave. ; : Who ia it that sheared the tbfsp. spun -the wool, wove the mantle ? Thft slave. ' ; Who, then, should wear the zr.zr.lW! The clave. j-'v , 1 : Up. ye peer end op;reE2?4 1 T j lUiel Eujcse Sue. , v
The News-Herald (Morganton, N.C.)
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April 27, 1898, edition 1
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