"FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH:1
V, FLKTCIIKH AUSnON, Kniton.
U. V. VV, ALifeliON, OL'BiNtse AIajuoeo.
VOL. Ill-
PLYMOUTH, N.G-, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1C, 1891.
HO. 23.
PUBLISHED BY KoANOKE PUBLISHING CO,
THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.
State Chronicle v
The campaign in Ohio ia growing hotter
very day. and the correspondent of the
. Now York World says, that enthusiasm for
Campbell is growing even in stron? Kepub
lican districts where he has boeu speaking
' during the last week. . The Kepublican
. strongholds are iu the Eastern parti of the
Rtatfi. whereas almost Eevew reounty in
- "Western Ohio is strongly Democratic.
Blaok. of Illinois, Mills, of Texas, and
Crisp, of Georgia, are speaking for Camp'
boll, and all the local Democratic orators
are on the stump. We have . been reading
Gov, Campbell's speeches on the McKlulcy
bllliwith great satisfaction. Ho, is making
' au able and rigorous campaign, and is
riddling that new "Bill of Abominations.'
' Ha hasnmch of the humor and sarcasm of
Seuator Vance; He scored a good point
when he told the people that ;the trouble
with this country is not that we "are not
nrosDerous. but. the wrong fellows are
getting all the prosperity '. 'Andrew Car
negle has made f 30,000,000 in three years
If McKinley & Co. are defeated, Carnegie
will not make another thirty million dot
inr iii the next thirty Tears unless he
works for it. The Democrats don't intend
to t&ko away what lie has got, but they do
, ntend to cot off the faVoritism that enables
him to make so much. We make few
extracts from his admirable address :
"Cl0ofcj(nakingi8ontt of iho protected
. induBtrieeMhe .Chicago Tribune recently
publish'?!' the ;. wages , paid to workmen iu
that rnatry.; i;It showed , that one woman
Woul4 Jnist "4ft'cetiU in four days vorKihg
ievcVf,ura!P,r By-' about Pm
taction J - wby j tbe men that pay such wages
uulwi uvtw mv , -r.: a
"Jjast Vear the tariff ou wool wan 10 per
wmt. Anil .wool brouttht S3 ut'iits. 'iljis
tojir thfl tnritf on wool is 11. aud-rbut hold
on, this thing duu't fit htie. 1 guess Til
rfron the Bubiect. for if I Went on aud told
you that wovl thw year was bringing only
27 oentd, you'd say 1 'didn't know how t
hlako a logical speech ou the tarifi trom a
Republican standpoint. Maybe I: don't
; bat yon won't hear any ftapublichn making
' a more logical one from thia platform thia
year." I vo been engagea meipaai mru
dnB." in cam hit: the Western lteserre.
and it'a hard work for oue wau. But I
bf: rig you good news from there. Those
republicans tfp there have dincovered that
the war ' is over. - They've been told so
uft?n to vote as thy nhot that they're going
to do it. They're going to vote ou toe
tight side, just uh ; they ahot.,' They have
diecovered that under a low lariif .prosptr-
itv iiSfcd t fail o:f the whole country, liko
the' fieyf from- heaven. - upon the just and
taojust, wbi.e under a nigh toiifi prosperity
cWmueain the cortutry, but it Uiw alt on
a. . .ul .La jiuf t.oVA ti tkklr nnL
for themselves. - , v - "
11 '"' HStatisrtbs show that half the wealtn of
this oouutry is in the hauds of 25,000 of its
Inhabitant. Do you suppose that -those
felloWs ha.ve half the bruins, half the iu
dustry, half the honesty, halt the blind luck
of the country ?"
Referring to the wool tariff and the farmers-
predictment he said : "While you
farmer are raising shoep and voting the
Republican ticket on the strength of Mo.
Kiuley's promise of 4.0 cent wool, a lot of
other fellows in the East were at work too.
They weren't raiding wool : - they were
combing Wool over your eyes. If thoy
were shearing anything it Wasn't sheep." ;
We iead nothing of the tfforts of the
T"l J i .J . . ... . V. n f anttnnuA t h A 7
are working through local leaders. , Presi.
. dent Polk, Senator Feffer and other pronii.
nsut Alliancemen ought every one to be
speaking in that State every day. The
two men who have done most 'to enslave
the people are Sherman and McKinley, and
we hope to Bee all men who favor low tariff
and a hotter fluaneial system unite in the
defuaof tho exponents of the vicious and
nnjust legislation that now oppresses our
people- -
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION-
Wilmington Star..
The Democrats of Accomao county t Va.,
took a lHw departure whunin, their couven.
. tion they made the road question one of the
Issues of the campaign. They incorporat
,ed it into their pliform and bonud the
candidal es nominated to work for a better
'road system and for better joads. lhey
not only did . that but resolved that the
county should equip itsolf with good roud
making machinery that the work ' might be
Well, economically and speedily done.
t It is astonishing when we consider : the
I vast importance of good roads, how little
attention this subject has received from the
" American people, the indifference being
peculiar to no section or state, but common
to all, the people of the older States being
'quite as indifferent as those in the fctates
but recently settled. From the indications,
however, that are being manifested, it seems
that there is somswhat of an awakening
upon this subject, which may rwmlt in
eventually giving us a system of roads that
will compare with those of other civilized
countries and one of which we need not be
ashamed, for. aa they now are the public
roads of the United states are in public
disgrace. This is doublleHs due in a great
measure to the numerous railroads thtif
have been conttraKcd throughout the
country, dinpensiu with the creat turn
; pikes thnt connected cities aaj wtrn the
highways of tralllo and travel as the rail
roads are now. The turnpike.', for which
there in no longer iho same use there was
are permitted to go to wreck and with them
the shorter country roads that led to them
and to the county beats and home market
towns. Good roads are the exception in
every IStato. Of course they are not totally
abandoned, there being more or ltsa work
done npon them during the year, but it is
of a temporary, make-shift character, which
does not lattt and is not expected to last any
leugth of time. The ordinary method of
putting in condition and keeping them in
repair, is for a few ' people summoned by
the rojd superintendent , to get together
with some shovelE and a little brown jug
shovel up a little loose dirt into the worn
or washed places . to be washed out by the
next rain, Reaving the roads in as bud.
not in a worse condition . than they were
before.
Tne town of Rock Hill, a. J., proposes
to take a new departnre, and one that marks
her au a progressive town with level-headed
people. They have determined to. maca
damize the principal roads leading but from
the town into the country. The idea may
have been caught from Charlotte, whore
for Bevoral years a force of convicts has
been employed on the principal roads lead.
tag out of the city, the result being that
Charlotte Is becoming the center of a sys
tem of roads which, when ' completed, wil 1
be the equal of auyin the country. But
whether the idea was caught from Charlotte
or not it is a good idea, and one well wor
thy of imitation by other towns. The citi.
Zens of those towns are in earnest ..about
this matter, view. it from a buoiness: stand.
point, and exptct thus to draw more trade
to their town.
But they are not the only persons inter
ested, for the people of the country through
which the roads run are even more interest
ed than they, and will be more benefitted
by good roads not only in the less labor and
less weare and tear in draft animals and
vehicles, and in the shorter time required
to market their crop, but in the increased
value of their lands situated within a reason
able distance of these roads. , . .
A reform like' this x extending over the
country would.be ultimately worth many
millions to inhabitants of town and oouutry.
A FLORIDA LAKE GONE.
DIIY LAND WllKltB BTKAMJ10ATS RAN AND
ALLIGATOLS PLATED.
Atlanta Constitution.
A very peculiar spectacle was tobe seen
ou the outskirts of Gainesville last week.
Alachua lake, a sheeAbf water from ten to
fifteen miles in length and covering, some
40,000 seres of land, is no moire." -; ,
On its banks were lying thousands of
dead fi9h, dead alligators floated ghastly
in pools of black water and the atmosphere
was heavy with noxious gases.
Men and boys were there in throng,
crowding around the pools left by the
receding waters, and with hoes and rak.es
dragging to shore hundreds of fisn which
had sought their depths for refuge, ihe
waters were fairly alive with their struggles
for existence. ' .
Exoept for a small stream known as
Payne's creek, flowing from Newman's lake
into the sink, the two main basins or tne
sink and a few stagnant pools, no water is
now to be seen where a few years age
steamers were ploughing their way. r
This is the Becond time sino 1823 that a
'similar occurrence has takeu place. At that
time, the earliest iu which there is any
record of that part of the country, the bed
of the lake " was a large prairie, Payne's
prairie, having iu.it body of water called
the sink und a btuall cree'k,
Ini,1603 heavy rains nlledjup the prairie.
but the water disappeared 4nftorJa short
time and the prairie was again dry land.
In 1873. after a seris o heavy rains,
the sink overflowed aud,the creek' Bweliod
to the dimensions of a lake. - '. . -
During several years. the water? increased
till a largerjake was.foruied, and for fully
lif teen years sufficient depth of water stood
over the prairie to allow of small; steamers,'
During the last two years, however, the
waters have been gradually lowering,- and,
about three weeks ago they commenced
going down with surprising rapidity, the
lake falling about eight feet in ten days,
until now nothing is left of Alachua Lake
but the memory of it. '
The sink is considortd the cause of this
change. There is evidently an underground
passage connected with it, and for some
reason cot understood thia underground
passage has been acting as a drain nntil
all the water in the lake has been drawn
out. - ,
Billy Herod is a conspicuous figure In
Republican politics in Indianapolis. Men
of that name ought to feel at home in the
Republican party. Star,
The Grand Duche Sorgius of RuhkU is
no it ikinrjy b antifni th.tt she is known
a a crowned Ophelia
A STRAY DIAMOND.
An Old Trick. With a New Face, Wlilch
a Jeweler Play.
' A large and glittering diamond lay on
the showcase of an uptown jeweler the
other day. Apparently the jeweler had
been" displaying his stock of diamonds,
and when ho had put thorn away had in
advertently left this one on the case. A
handsomely attired woman alighted from
her carriage and entered tho establish
ment.. As shb approached the showcase
her eye fell upon the glittering gem. She
gave a slight start, but quickly regained
her composure. Drawing her handker
cliief from her muff she placed it on the
diamond and compressed her : hand.
After a moment she restored her hand
kerchief to her muff , but the diamond
still rested on the case. ' '
A clerk was coming forward to wait
upon her. She replaced her handker
chief over the diamond and let her hand
rest carelessly on it. She asked to see
some' rings, und when the clerk turned
his back to get a tray from the safe, she
contracted her hand and tried once moi
to lift the diamond in the folds of her
handkerchief. Again she was unsuccess
ful. The stone lay gleaming on the case.
Then she reached out her gloved hand
and attempted to pick up the stone. Her
fingers grasped nothing. She had been
deceived by a trick of the clerk who was
waiting upon her. lie had stuck the
diamond on the other side of the glass,
but to the eye it looked as if it were Tying
on the glass. : He had uaed no mucilage
or other adhesive to discolor the diamond
or the glass. He had simply breathed
upon the stone and the slight dampness
thus produced had caused it to hold to
the glass. - v ": ' v
The cleik had purposely delayed com
ing to the case on the entrance of the
lady, to see whether she would attempt
to steal the diamond. 'He had observed
all her efforts to possess it, and when she
discovered the trick the consciousness
came upon her that 6he had been watched.
Muttering something about a sudden ill
ness, she hurried from the store, stepped
into her carriage, and was driven rapidly
away. -. The ; clerk's conscience did not
seem to smite him. He said that people
who would steal simply because they
had an opportunity were entitled to no
sympathy, more especially if they stole
when they had no need to.
The clerk said it was surprising how
many people, most of them evidently
rich, attempted surreptitiously to secure
the diamond stuck to the case. Meh
with high reputations would enter the
store with the intention of making pur-
chases of costly articles, and . on seeing
the diamond would carelessly cover it
with their gloves and attempt to pick it
up. On finding out the trick they would
cast guilty looks about to see if they had
been watched. For fear of injuring
trade the 1 clerks would pretend not to
have observed the effort to appropriate
the gem." There were, however, plenty
of honest people who came to the store
and saw the diamond. They would di
rect the clerk's attention to it and make
some remark about a rather careless way
of doing business. j
It is a common thing to silver
dimes and quarters and even bills stuck
on the underside of the glass in a show
case. At first people used to bo fooled
by them and try to pick them up, but the
trick was so generally adopted that every
body became familiar with it. Besides,
the coins and the bills were generally
stuck to the glass with yellow mucilage,
so that the deception was not a perfect
one. By breathing on a coin it can be
made to cling to the glass the same as a
diamond. The diamond being so near
the color of the gli s the illusion is com
plete. f New York World.
FIGS AND THISTLES.
You can't shut the devil up, but you
can shut him out.
We all hate tho truth that hits us be
tween the eyes. , '
Tbe moment humanity undertakes to
carry a flag it kills itself . ,
The man who tries to avoid mountains
will have a very crooked road. ;
Never put yourself in the power of a
man who will kick a dog for fun. .
When a man is well satisfied with him
self God is disappointed in him. . .
Keep a close eye on the man whose
wife is afrain to ask him for money.
If you want to live long, don't try to
live more than one day at a time. .
The man who controls himself will
also control a great many other people.
Qod has nowhere promised to feed the
man who will not take his coat off. .
Education doesn't make the man. It
brings out the gold that God put in him.
Ram's Horn.
Jelly Juvenile Definition.
" Repugnant, one who repugs. "
"Obelisk, one of the marks of punctua
tion.'
"Ironical, something very hard."
"Epoch, a ruler or son of a king, f
"Mastiflcation is moving the jawg all
round."
"Gladiators grow in my ma's garden! "
"An incendiary is when you go round
preaching and singing hims. "
David charmed Saul with a harpoon. "
The accidents of a noun is what hap
pens to it."
An adverb is used to mortify a noun
and u a person place or Thing. "
Tho cow jumped over the fence is, a
transitive nutt:r verb because ft nee isent
th name of anything and hits ho sox.
liuijia Queen.
WOMAN'S WORK AND AIMS.
In Strasburg, Germany, since 1884,
girls have . been taught to mend the
clothes of their families at the public
expense. Materials are furnished by the
city when necessary. The instruction is
given by teachers of ' the elementary
schools on the weekly holiday. The
number of pupils is increased from 20 to
about 1,000, and tho annual expense is
now $750. , In one year 9,000 garments
wero mended by 600 girls.
An "emergency cupboard" is one of
the good things started by a Working
Girls' Club in Boston. An old fashioned
secretary was secured and fitted up by
tho King's Daughters. Upon the shelves
above are tumblers of jelly and other del
icacies for the sick. In drawers below
are a hot water bag, a rubber sheet,
bundles of old linen, etc., which are at
the disposal of any member of the club,
or any needy person recommended by a
member in time of illness. Unlike the
renowned receptable of Mother Hubbard,
this cupboard is never bare, as friends
outside pledge themselves to keep it well
stocked with supplies. . o
The first woman to go as an explorer
of the arctic regions is Mrs. Robert E.
Peary. . Her husband. Lieutenant Pearv.
of the United States navy, is the com
mander of the expedition recently sent
to Greenland under the ausnioes of tha
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci
ences. . The object is to explore the un
known north coast of Greenland, and
lieutenant and Mrs. Peary will spend the
winter in that . country, in order to
continue their explorations the following
spring.
Mrs. Daniel and her daughter, two
Georgia ladies, are said to have made a
remarkable success as farmers. Three
years ago they were almost destitute.
They were offered the use of several acres
or land. at a fairly easy rent to be paid at
the year's end. The two women set to
work with enerev. The mother took
charge of the house, and the daughter of
the farm. Mies Daniel ' took an ax and
went into the woods and made a nlow
stock from a sassafras tree, broke a little
bull that was thrown in with the land.
and planted -and raised the beat 10 octm
of cotton and corn that were raised in
Baldwin county. They paid their rent
promptly the first year. Last year they
paid for the laud, and had money over ;
and the prospect is that they t-ill grow
rich. ,
SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT.
. There is creative reading as well as cre
itive writing.
To enjoy reading i3 to transform wear
isome hours into delightful ones.
Tho manner of giving shows the char
acter of the giver more than the gift
itself. , - , . :
We can not conquer a necessity, but we
can yield to it in such a way as to be
greater than if wo could.
The apparently irreconcilable dissimi
larity between our wishes and our means,
between our hearts and the world, re
mains a riddle.
Only as each man or each woman per
forms his or her personal duty in any
department of lifo can that department
be lilted to a higher plane.
To suppose it possible for a man to take
much wine and retain a right frame of
mind is as bad as to argue that he may
take poison and not die, or the juice of
black poppy and not sleep.
Until a man can control his own nature,
with its . various desires ' and passions,
thoughts and emotions, actions and ex
pressions, he can not acquire that real
strength which will enable him to con
quer the difficulties of life or to obtain
any true influence over others.
There is a kind of aid which it is im
moral for a friend to give and equally
immoral for another to receive ; it is the aid
which takes the place of work we ought
to have done, some energy we ought to
have put forth, some strength and power
of character we ought to have attained.
To do well is to be well. Persevere in
the thought, "I shall be better to-morrow,"
and it will help you to be so. It
has been said that no man ever died with
out his own consent. Never get your own
Consent to dying. Resolve to live; re
solve to be well. You yourself must
make the effort; you must work out your
own salvation.
If your love raises and exalts you, if it
helps you on your heavenward way ( if it
brings you nearer to God, if it strengthens
you to brave endurance, stimulates you
to heroic action, and makes all greatness
possible; if, in a word, it possesses itself
of you and sweeps you up and out from
the finite to the infinite, as a wave bears
seaward the strong swimmer, powerless,
yon are safe.
If a man is constantly learning and
never using his knowledge nor communi
cating it, of what value ia it? It does not
enrich his own life or that of others, and
he can not even leave it b hind him when,
he dies, as the miser does his gold. The
affections that are never expressed wither
up; the powers that are not exercised
decline. Tho very qualities which are
admirable in themselves exist only by be
ing constantly employed for the benefit
or pleasure of others. So no man can
live unto himself. Whatever he would
get and keep, that he must give and use
most freelv. s . -
JBomo idea of the foreign population of
Chicsigo may be gained from the fact that
of 172,758 voU who registered last aiv
tu"i.'.i i-3,?47 uuen .'ral!zcd ciuzeus.
Peanuts and other produce to
AND ' '.
General Commission Merchants
N0EF0LK, VIRGINIA.
Guarantoo highest market prices, quick sales and
1 prompt returns. v
EDMUND ALEXANDER, "DECATUR MORGAN L. P. HORNTHAL, I
Washington, x. C. , Norfolk, Va. Plymouth, K, c.
T. J. Mabbotr.
MIA.K,ItHVE"E?, - &; JACKSON,
. . 'DEALERS w , , - ';.'".'
Finest Caskets,
CONTRACTING
given special attention. " Estimates furnished on build
ings ol any kind
When in seed of anything in our line or wishing our services, call at our Undertakers
" Establishment on Washington Street , , ',.
PLYMOUTH, K O. . ...
6-lU)ltf
The "OLD RELIABLE" Carriage Mnnf
H, PEAL Proprietor.
.MA.M'FACTUREIt OF
Buggies. Phaetons, Road-carts, Farm-carts, wagons &c.
at prices lower than ever. Men with the cash can get a
bargain; I defy competition
jftcpamng 01 an Kinus uone.
GEORGE ' I BATEMAN,.
N MANUFACTURER OF
arts, Wagon s and other Riding Vehicles.
Repairing of all kind done
All Work Guaranteed-
jyl7-tf
Adams
HOTICE.
NSbtb CaBoLimA
Washington County.
In Um Superior C'o'iri.
Stephen Juhnxton,
Kmma Johneton
Ttwdefendnnt above named will take notice that
an actkn ntwlrd an above haa tweu corauwnctd iu
tbeMoperior Conit of Washiugion cooutj, bvinir an
action ror oivorrv. Ana tuts tmiu oeit'iiuaut win
farther Ukt notice that be it required to appear at
the neat term of the hnperior Court of auiii coduit
to be held on Monday 20ih day of October 1891, at
the Court Home of aald conuty In Plymouth. N.
and an' wet or demur to the complaint in mttd action
or Itie pinlutlfl will apply to thvComt for the relief
demanded in coaiplmiii. - T. J. MrBium,
Hw C. ofb. C,
NOTICE.
The firm of Carrington &Co., of Danville
Va , hold wot ftErnlnst iu lor thw sum of
two lmiJrd aud fifty dollars wliioh they
are oflVrini; for sule. 1 hr;reby notify all
persoas uot to purchase thfe note as lhey
will cot be f aid. HUFUS SWAIN.
Of2-4t.
Wwm
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W, J. Jacksoh.
Coffins, Etc.
and BUILDIHG
at short notice. '
E2r"Ord3rs by mail solicited.
Plymouth IT. C.
and will not be undersold
uive me a can. ,
with neatness aiuT disatch
street, Plymouth, N. C.
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