- , l.OO a Year, in Advance. , "FOR COUNTRY, FOR GOD, AND EOR TRUTH." - " Single Copy, B Cents. VOL". XI. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FI1IDAY, JUNE 1571900. NO, 25. 1 t i I : 1- fkoji ini.j, nyh. 1 A ICilhct (o I'stpubliMliod A rt U o Writ ten in I he l'ntiioiiM IIhiiioi'ImI's Cliar aclcrlMic Vein. Now York Journal. The manuscript of this article waa given to it friend of the author shortly be lore the hitter's death. The recipient mislaid it and gave it up as lost until a few days ago, when it turned up unex pectedly. It is one of Mr. Nye's best and most characteristic productions. I have received the following letter: Dear Nye: I am about to start in the hoot and shoe business. My friends .say I am cut e it for it, have genius in that direction. Can you suggest some way to get going and stay goidg with out using the newspapers-? An early reply will greatly oblige, li "giuald. To begin with stay where you are! Don't move! Allons! '.'About to start" is better than starting without the aid of the press, Reggie. I am glad to hear that you have a genius you'll need it, Reggie, to succeed in any direction, unless you are bound ''up Salt Creek," without the genial and necessary assistance of print er's ink. I can suggest a way I will suggest a way a road aa plain as is the nose on your face, R?ggie. I take it for granted you have a face and that the uose orna menting it is a Roman one, and not a twere dent in you physiognomy. A road that has been travelled by more unadulterated failures both in the shoe trade and other branches of business endeavor than that charming country ramble which Snakei-irar says "is paved with good intentions." It will bear careful consideration, and is as follows: SOME HINTS ON' SEL1' ADVERTISING. The first thing on waking in the morning, turn over and go to Bleep again; this will rest you and keep you from getting up. No self-respecting shoe dealer should reach his place of business before 10 o'clock in the morn ing; and it might add to his dignity not to get there till 10 p. m. When you haye opened the store, bring in the hose and wet down the stock to make sure it does not leak. If it's a cold morning, wet down the walk, in front of the store, so it'll freeze, and the first man that attempts to go by will fall, like Lucifer, and drive his spinal column up through his brains. This is an efficient way to see if the man who attempted to go by has any. Drag him into the store and send for a doctor. This will ur:iw a crowd, some of whom might need shoes and steal a pair. While the doctor is pushing the man's spine back to place and sewing up the h le, Uli the injured wretch a funny story, and sell him a piir of shoes that wont slip, ion might turn the ho3e on the crowd, at that same time making some facetious remark about the weather. By this time lots of folks will have slipped down on your improvised rink, to their great mem ment. This little stroke of business can be dealt by you any time when it is not freezing by spreaoing a few banana skins on the walk. Folks'll sue you if they don't kill you outright and a law suit will keep your name before the public. When the excitement i3 oyer, take the best pair of shoes in the store, if you've paid for them, and get a big hammer and a long spike and spike them down to the sidewalk in front of the door. This will attract attention and aff )rd you infinite amusement when any one tries to carry them off . Wen a lady calls, on't jump at 'business" the first t'nng by asking her if she wants to buy a pair of shoes: she always goes to the drug store for them. Ask her how old she is; if her teeth are false and if she lives happily with her husband. Then introduce the subject of shoes carefully but firmly with h slitrht innuendo, as: "Ah! I see you've got your feet with yen!" or ""When suiall feel were given out in Maine you were in Texas!" Try a line of E'la, W heeler on her; wonien like poetry : LuiikIi nrul tlio world liiiitclis with you, i'ep and wo all repine: A 'i nxfcru sizn shoo is l lie tiling for you When your foot is a number nine. When she flounces out, ask her if that's her own, hair or a switch. Then, when her husbaud or 'tig brother comes around, laugh yourself as he jama your measly head through a slfoo case. "Laugh and he will laugh with you." This will keep the town talking about you and is much cheaper than advertis ing in the papers. The late P. T. Barnum, when bii'i ness was dull at the old "Museum, New York, '..'had. a man with a very solemn face walk out and lay a brick down in the middle of I he street, leave it there, walk back in and through the museum without saying a word or cracking a smile, tiike up another brick and lay that down by the firs'; pick up the first and back through the museum ngin. This he repeated till a erowd had gath ered and paid to follow hun m to see what he was doing. I wouldn't advise you t) do that; theyM call you an imitator. That you don't want. Re original. Buy a load of bricks have them dumped in the yard back of the store, and, when all the town is trying to fcleep after the excitement you have already caused, carry the whole load up on the roof, one briek at u time, thus vou can count them and it will perfect you in figures. Next day, about 10 or 11 a. m., get up on the roof and begin to dance and yell "Fire!" This will bring the town to your store. Then h dler "April fool!" and throw the bricks as faet a9 you can on their heads. You can yell "April fool" on! the 10th of October, if you like, it will add to your eccentricity, increase your popu larity, and perhaps land you in the cooler. Keep everybody talking about you that's the keynote of success. If you see a little girl going by with a bundle, take it away from her and cuff her ears so she'll run home crying. When her father is trying a different brand of shoes on your pusillanimous carcass, suggest to him that the shoes you carry will give better satisfaction. If he kicks you into insensibility, pay no more attention to him. Shut up your store three days each week, leaving a big placard in the win dow, "Gone Fishing, will be back most any time." Then from behind a broken window pane which you have knocked cut back of the shutters, you can enjoy the comments of your fellow townsmen. iou mignt ciose up al together, and thus play a joke on the sheriff, who was just going to save you the trouble. Finally, when you are too financially dead to tan and make into a pair of 72-cent brogans, you will have a Pig monument with "Adam Failure" cut into it in the latest ecru pattern. Yours for health, Bill Nye. New Way to Itecomc an Author. New Orleans Times-Democrat. "There has been such an astonish ing increase in cheap magazines late ly," said a New Orleans newspaper man, "that people often ask how they can possibly pay. I can answer the question in regard to at least one of them. Last fall I took a flying trip to Chicago and while there was intro duced to a very agreeable young fel low, who told me he was the editor of the Magazine, mentioning a pub lication I had never heard of before lie showed me a copy and I was sur prised at its neatness and general ar tistic appearance. It was full of very short stories, all signed by names that were absolutely unfamiliar tome, and I noticed, that it carried less than two pages of 'ads.' The copy I looked at was No. 10, volume VI. 'Pardon my curiosity,' I said, 'but I see this has been running a long time, and pon mv wprd, I can't understand how you clear expenses.' 'Why, its been a great money-maker from the start, said he. 'Do you have to pay much for your contributions?' I asked. lie laughed. 'That's the point of the whole scheme, he said. 'I don t pay anything for 'em. They pay me. We get $10 apioce for short stories, $5 for poems, and so on, in proportion, av eraging about $7.50 a page. Noticing my astonishment, he went on to ex plain that the whole country, and particularly the northwest, was full of ambitious scribblers who had tried in vain to break into the old-estab lished periodicals, lie gave them a chance to see themselves in print 'There's no gold brick about the scheme,' he said, smilingly. It's really a good thing for the writers Many of them are willing to pay the price for the mere pleasure of seeing ther stuff in type. Toothers it is a means of getting before the public and may lead to" openings elsewhere. Anyhow, they would spend that much for stamps hawking their manuscrips around the country and reap nothing but disappointment and chagrin I don't know positively to this day," added the newspaper man, "whether my agreeable young friend was 'kid ding' me or in dead earnest, but the circumstantial evidence certainly bore out his statements. hat a heavenly thing it must be to run that kind of a magazine. No trouble, no worry, no ignoble chaffering with greedy auth ors nothing but peace, felicity and P. O. orders for $7.50." Hill IIowNeM the New York Convention. New York, June 5. -The Democratic State convention to-day elected these delegates at large to the national Dem ocratic convention: David B. Hill, Richard Croker, Bdward Murphy and Augustus Van Wyek alternates Frank Campbell, Jacob Ruppert, Jr., C. Mor gan Sanford and James Shevhn; electors at large, Frederick Cook, of Rochester; Robert C. Titua, of Buffalo. The platform adopted contains no re affirmation of the Chicago platform of 18, but a declaration that the party in the State will support the platform of the Kansas City convention. The platform declares against war taxes in time of peace, declares for parity of gold and silver as currency; demands abolition f hJI customs and tariffs be tween Porto Rico and the United States; condemns trusts and monopolies and entangling alliances; demands just and liberal pension laws and election of United States Senators by the people, and favors the nomination of Wm. J. Bryan The convention gave promise of being very stormy, but ended quietly. The particular feature of the convention waa the domination of affairs by ex Senator David B. Hill. The silver men profess to be satisfied with the result. The statement is made that Hon. David Bennett Hill, of New York, has, since his retirement from the Senate made a half million dollars in the prac tice of law. Ol'It "MMSIIIMiTON MiTTICIl. Special Correspondence. The real attitude of the Republican party towards the anti-trust bill passed by the House with such a flourish of trumpets the other day, waa shown in the Senate on Monday, when Senator Pettigrew tried to get immediate action taken upon it. The bill, of course, was never intended to become a law and was pushed and passed in the House only to enable the Republicans to pick the fat pocketbooks of the trusts this fall, with the intention of allowing it to die after the election was over. But Mr. Pettigrew, who really fayors the bill, asked that it be placed directly on the calendar of the Senate (From which it could be called up at any moment) and not to be referred to a committee at all. This caused a sensation among the Republicans, and Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, at once objected and asked that the bill be referred to the proper committee. Thereupon Pet tigrew aBked for a yea aud nay vote. This threw the Republicans into a panic. They did not dare to vote against such a motion and they could not afford to vote for it, for it is not by the passage of the bill that they can bleed the trusts for campaign funds, but by holding it over their heads. At the last moment Senator Allison came to the rescue, moving that the Senate go into execu tive session. Such a motion takes pre cedence over everything else, and with joy in their hearts the Republicans ac ceeded to the suggestion, leaving the anti-trust bill haDging in the air where it will remain until the Democrats get into power, when they will pass a genu ine act, which will really control the trusts, instead of merely bleeding them. It is hardly probable that the deyice of granting permission to the House Ways and Means committee o sit dur ing the summer to prepare apian for reducing the war revenues, will satisfy the country. The present surplus in the Treasury is over $03,000,000 and the available cash balance is over $147,- 000,000 exclusive of trie gold reserve of $150,000,000. The chances are the re ceipts will increase and the expendi tures will fall off during the coming year, and ii will not be unreasonable to assume the surplus for the next fiscal to be from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000, Therefore, before the war taxes are like ly to be repealed the Treasury will have a surplus of from $225,000,000 to $2.30, 000,000. All this, of course, will have to be withdrawn from circulation. An overwhelming majority in Congress fayors the repeal of the stamp taxes, but every member who hopes to get a public building for his town or who hns his eye on a river improvement item, or who is particularly favorable to the construction of the iSicaraguan Canal or who, above all, is a friend of the ship subsidy bill, is naturally led to be lieve these measures will all be easy of passage if there is a large surplus. On the other hand, if the surplus is a smal one, public buildings, internal impiove- ments, canals, and subsidies will all have to stand the test of the ability of the Treasury to furnish the money -for such costly schemes. This is the Re publican argument for non-action, but, as a matter of fact, their leaders con tinue to resist the Nicaraguan Canal and other important plans, and retain the money apparently merely for the purpose of lending it to the banks in return for contributions to tne cam paign funds of the party. Meanwhile, the country suffers from the vexatious and unneeded 6tamp taxes. I'ointcri I'nra: nipl'. Chicago News. The meaner a man tries to be tin less he enjoys it. Chess players arc not the only ones who move once a year. The girl who doesn't care for dia monds must be stone blind. People who live in glass houses should have eye-proof curtains. Summer girls and baseball players are only engaged for the season. Persons who deal in bicycles arc not the only ones who have wheels. The baseball player would be per feet if he could only correct his errors It is proabably the charity that be gins at home that covers a multitude of sins. An egotist imagines the world thinks as much of him as ho thinks of himscf. When marriage brings a woman to the wash-tub she has a right to call it a labor union. Shandy society is made of the social dregs ti'irown up by the waves of com mercial convulsions. What a summer hotel proprietor wants is a lire escape that can't be transformed into a board-bill escape. It is just as easy to look pleasant as it is to wear a long face and look as though you had dined on crabapples. A learned insectologist has discov ered that the best time to examine the wonderful construction of a hornets' nest is after the hornets have moved out. A Washington dispatch says that there is reason to believe that the Presi dent has decided to appoint General Joe Wheeler a brigadier general in the regular army to fill the yaoaney which will be created by the confirmation by the Senate of the nomination of Gener al Otis to be a major general. I'll 13 HOJIAIIV OV TIIH PULPIT. Itev. 8am I'. Jones. Muc'i is being said and written on sensational preachers and the methods of the Rev. Dr.' Bulldozer these days. Atlanta and Chattanooga both have preachers who seem, in the opinion of some, to go outside of the regular gos pel line ana attack those who oppress the poor and denounce high officials for their debauchery and-uaseemly con duct. There may be two extremes; the Rev. Dr. Bulldozer may or may not go outside the boundary line of legitimate gospel preaching, but there is a Rev. Dr. Puppet somewhere in this country who will go a thousand miles around in thought and imagination before he will condemn or denounce anything that the devil approves. Now I have a few brief remarks to make in a perfectly good humored way. When we take up the critic of R.ev. Dr, Bulldozer and find him to be a little editor or an anonymous scribbler who perhaps never heard a sermon from the pulpit they are criticising, and very doubtful whether they have heard half a dozen sermons a year for the last ten years. This sort of a critic is about as capable of criticising the true minister of the gospel as Simon Magus was to receive the power 'of Christ when he thought that it was a thing that could be bought with money. Atlanta has but one Broughton, Chattanooga has but one Monk, and New York but one Tarkhursl; and if we only have one preacher in each city who displeases the editors and Christless critics, the gospel of Christ won t suffer much at their hands. A preacher gets his instruc tions from the Bdle and hisconyictions from the Divine Spirit. The Bible says io every preacner: put you as a watchman upon the tower, if you warn my people, their blood be upon their owu skirts; if you warn them not, then thy blood be upon your skirts." Again the Bible tells us to rebuke them that sin openly that others may fear. I weigh the critics more than I do the criticisms, and it is celdom in my life that I have ever known a Godly man to criticise a preacher who had the courage of his convictions. If a man is true to his church, prays in his family night and morning, attends upon the ordinances of the church and gives one tenth of all he has to God, the public will give sonieweight to his criticisms, but a man who runs with the devil's gang all the week and is seen in church only of a Sunday morning, or maybe t:ot a half dozen Sunday mornings in a year, his criticisms of a pulpit a cour ageous pulpit weigh yery little with the rank and file of humanity. I have learned this to be true; that a limn who is not careful about his relig ious life is very choice in Lis style of preachers and very particular that the preacher shall say nothing that will dis turb conscience or displease the devil. I remember on one occasion I had preached a terrific sermon denouncing sin and sinners in unmeasured terms. A big old colonel walking away with nis wife said to her: "My dear wife, I would not have had you hear such a sermon for all the world so vulgar and indecent." She replied: "Why, hus band. I thought it was one of the best sermons I ever heard." To the pure all things are pure, and vice versa. We hear very much these latter days about the gospel and what the gospel is. aud Dr. Bulldozer going out of his way to attack an ice company for grindirg the poor. If the critic will read the Bible he will find that the strongest fulminations and denunciations uttered by the Divine Christ were against those who extortioned on and robbed the poor, the widow, and the orphan, de nouncing them as 'a generation of vipers, "'and asking them "how they would escape the damnation of hell." If smooth gospel preaching, so-called, would have saved this country, then we would have been mingling with angtils on earth, but you need not talk to me about moral suasion. Moral suasion is a fellow sitting on the fence trying to call hugs out of a corn field, when the hogs have all they want at hand and are paying no attention to the moral persuader on the fence; but if the fool on the fence would put a dog in there after those hogs they would come a-hum ping then. To say the least of it, Dr. Bulldozer is doing something, anil the doctor who don't bulldoze, the devil has got him sidetracked, so to speak. If the public will put the critic lip on the scales and weigh him, then I am perfectly willing for the public to ponder over the deliverances of the critic. The Greensboro Record says that no grass is growing under the feet of the Republicans in that part of the State. "They arc not only sending emt ture by the car-load, but speal covering the held." We reprr statements an an ad mom Democrats. It hr.d just that the Republicans are W I ,.,,,.: ....I.. V, jiwl tr mrrtf tlio T orrlulatiWv their State ticket. Charlotte In ordsr to prevent misajjf as to the future policy of th$ partmcnt respecting the milit in the Philippines, Adjutant Corbin made a brief statement V facts in the case yesterday. He f there had been no change of policy t the departi ure of General Oiis and iu f ft " - 1 none waa contemplated. THE ltlilMON AT LOUISVILLE. Dig Crowd Rut the Rain Interferon With Outdoor lixoi-eic. Louisville, ICy., Special, May 31. Again to day rain interfered sadly with the programme of outdoor sports and entertainments which Louisville people had prepared for the United Confederate Veterans. The big barbecues, sham battles, picnics and tournaments had to be post poned, but every one of the 15,000. old soldiers within the city's gates, and all of the '40,000 other visitors enjoyed themselves notwithstanding. There were stirring scenes during business sessions held in Reunion Hall. For one thing, the present officers in chief, including Generals Gordon, Hamption. Lee and Cabell, were re elected by acclamation in less time than it requires to read of it. The spirit of a united country pervaded the pro ceedings throughout. This sentiment was especially noticeable. The recent utterances of Grand Army men at the reunion of the Army of the Potomac in Fredericksburg, Va., were commended in resolutions. The name of Abraham Lincoln was mentioned iu terms of the highest praise in the re port of the educational committee. This expression was cheered. Among the resolutions that are to be offered will be one petitioning the President to name a cruiser "Helen Gould," and another memorializing Congress to increase the pensions of Mexican war veterans. At the afternoon session the subscrip tion list for the proposed monument to Jefferson Davis, to be erected in Rich mond under the direction of the Daughters of the Confederacy, was pre sented. It was announced that $20,000 had already been raised. Rev. J. W. Jones, of Virginia, spoke earnestly in favor of the projected undertaking. Gen. John B. Gordon at onee arose and gave $100. He said: "I am poor, but my purse string shall not be drawn at this time." Immedi ately contributions began to pour in. A remarkable scene occurred. Within half an hour $5. GOO had been subscribed. Generals Lee, Reagan and W. C. Gor don each contributed $100. Many others gave sums equally large, while several camps gave $250 each. Among these were R E. Lee Camp, of Rich mond, Va., and Cabell Graves Camp, of Danville, Va. Wneu the business sessions were over dozens of impromptu concerts took place on the streets. The leading thoroughfares were crowded. At all of the headquarters were large gatherings of the veterans and their friends. A marked figure in the hotel lobbies and in the convention hall is Gen. M. W. Ransom, formerly United States Senator from North Carolina. Though 73 years of age, the general is straight as an arrow and in splendid physical and mental condition. lie is the larg est cotton grower in North Carolina, and says he is the hardest-working man in the ""Tarheel" State. Deliaiw-C to 10 11 rope. Shanghai, Monday, June 4. The China Gazette says it has the highest authority for stating that the Dowager Empress haa ordered the Tsung-Li-ia men (foreign office) to face all Europe rather than to interfere with the Boxer movement. Elsewhere it is asserted that the vice roy has ordered the troops to oppose the further landing of parties from foreign warships, and that the troops now en gaged in operations are designed to pre vent further foreign reinforcements reaching Pekin. Washington, Juue 5. The State De partment has received a cablegram from Minister Conger at Pekin stating that matters have taken a much more seri ous turn there. No details are given, but it is indicated that the Boxers' ac tivity is extending very closely to the Chineee capital. The State Department still finds itself unable to do more than it has already ordered respecting the protection of American interests in China. Troops are ik t available, and even if they were the government here is disinclined to participate in any joint demonstration that would menace the- integrity of the Chinese empire. This statement is a sufficient answer to the intimation com ing from the British newspapers that United Slates co-operation with British forces in China would be welcomed. To In vi'MlizKl' IVorili Carolina. Washington, June 1. The Senate committee on privileges and ejections to-day had under consideration Senator Pritcbard's resolution declaring' exclu sion from the privilege of -the franchise because of race to be unconstitutional. The committee decided to recommend he adoption of a substitute directing ther ioia. i me the (luentiong and Answer. Who w8s the author of the Declara tion of Independence? Answer Thomas Jefferson. Who deetroyed that declaration? f William McKinley. Who overcame the money power and destroyed the United States bank? Andrew Jackson. Who turned the United States Treas ury over to the national banks and gave one of them the use of $10,000,000 without interest? William McKinley. Who destroyed slavery in the United Abraham Lincoln. Who re-established it by protecting it in our island domain? William McKinley. Who promulgated the Monroe doctrine? James Monroe. Who destroyed the Monroe doctrine William McKinley. Who declared that the United States should have no entangling foreign al liances? George Washington. Who is trying to mix up the policies of the old world by a war for greed, gold and glory? William McKinley. Who discovered the Philippine Islands? Jeremiah Beveridge. Who discoyered Aguinaldo? Admiral Dewey. Who discovered the Sultan of Sulu? William McKinley. Whc discovered McKinley? Mark Hanna. Who discovered Mark Hanna? The devil. What is the difference between King George's war againstthe American colo nies and Queen Victoria's war against the Dutch in South Africa ? There isn't any. What is the difference between Queen Queen Victoria's war in South Africa and MeKinlev's war in the Philippines? No difference " - llanuina: Tor Ilurjilary .'' Charlotte Observer. It is observed that a good many of the leading newspapers of the country, notably The Washington Star and Cleveland Leader, are agitating for laws making burglary a capital crime. The argument is that burglary is "carefully planned in cold blood;" that the burglar is prepared to commit murder in case hs should be discovered in the commis sion of the lesser offense, and that, being a murderer at heart and a desper ate criminal in intent and purpose, he should receive the murderer's puuish ment. The proposition is opposed in some quarters upon the ground that it looks to a return to the barbaric age when the death penalty wsinflicted for a number of comparatively trifling offenses. But burglary is not a trifling offense, but one of the yery gravest. Few things could be more horrible than the entry of one's room, when one is asleep, by an armed ruffian, intent first upon pillage and then murder if neces sary to accomplish his purpose or to escape detection. North Carolina has for years had a law making burglary a capital offense, and upon our statute books there is no better law. The worst that can be said on the subject is that in recent years it has been so much modified that conviction for burglary in the first degree has now become difficult. Last week High Point shipped 32 solid car loads of furniture to Chicago, the cash value being over $17,000. i if mmm twmA'J .nw-lwv uvi i Look in Your fJsrror Do yon see sparkling1 eyes, a healthy4 tinted skin, aaweet expresion and a grace ful form ? These attractions are the result of good health. If they are absent, there Is nearly always some disorder of the dis tinctly feminine organs present. Healthy menstrual organs mean health and beauty everywhere. WineofCswdui makes women beautiful and healthy. It strikes at the root of all their 2;ifM-e is .no menstrual dis- Vvjch it will not f

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