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V 1.00 a Year, In Advance. - -, , .;..'- ' "FOR GOD ,FOR COUNTRY, AND EOR TRUTH." single copy, 6 Cents -VOL. XI. ; PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1900. NO 43, a? 1 ' th Tt rei . "1 Baltimore Sun. ii is omectoa to ivir. uryan mat .in case of his election he will introduce the free and unlimited coinage of silver dollars at the ratio of 16 to 1. This is mere speculation and could be brought about only by a concurrence of events most unlikely to take place. But Mr. McKinley has, since his election, been engaged in a kind of "free coinage" which is a reality and from which the people have already be gun to suffer. He has engaged in the free coinage ot Philippine subjects, who work for about 6 cents a day and who whea the Supreme Court of the United Statfdecides that they are entitled to the rights of American citizens, cannot be prevented from swarming into this country to compete with the American workingman. He has given u free coinage of yel low Chinamen, who are now in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and who will also find their way into this country to compete with American labor. When that takes place the trusts and big corporations will no longer fear the strike and the trades union. They will have free coinage of labor, and that is what tbey want. lhere has been free coinage m war taxes and the. mints are working oyer time, although we are told that there is no war. There has been free coinage in trusts no less than five hundred having been orgtewed under this Administra tiorajwith a total capitalization of more than eight thousand million dollars nearly all water: not even at the ratio of 16 to 1. There has been free coinage in coffins many thousands having been required already for those who have lost their lives subjugating the Filipinos and open ing up markets for the trusts. There has been free coinage in dis ease, in yellow fever, plague, leprosy all of which we have annexed and which will be spread broadcast throughout the land by returning soldiers and favored immigrant from the cannibal islands There has been free coinage in offices. to be held by men who will support McKinley and who are to be paid with money -wrung from he people. And the free coinage of scandals has begun in the Cuban Postoffice and will doubtless spread as the opportunities oiler. Are these things more pleasant than the free coinaee of Bilver, even if that were possible? A Fatal Cljrar. , . Atlanta Journal. Sometimes a man pays very dear fnr what ia of little value. Rev. G. C Stewart, of Chicago.probably is prepared to vouch for the truth of this remark. He will remember one cigar all his life. Mr. Stewart went before the Rock River conference at its session as a can didate for admission to the Methodist ministry. He stood a fine examination and the report on his character was highly commendatory. , lie was just about to pass when a member of the conference arose and asked if it "would nnt be well to inquire whether the brother has used tobacco." The inves tigator said he had heard that Brother Stewart had been seen smoking a cigar on a railroad tram. This statement carried some com mo tion in the conference. Mr. Stewart was nut on the stand and in reply to inquiries admitted that he had smoked thA n.llee'ed railroad ciear and that HV 0- w- during his probation he had used tobacco in moderation. The conference decided that he must wait another year before h nmild he ordained. A whol6 year's waiting is a big price for a cigar, and a railroad train cigar at that. Verv few church organizations have euch a holy horror of "a little tobacco now and then" as the Rock Itiver Meth odist conference. That body mast be made up of awfully good men. Ills Mean Revenge, Philadelphia Times. She sat in a car with a little smile of satisfaction on her face, for she was well . and tastefully dressed, and that means a great deal to a woman. As she moved up to make room for a newcomer, a man, he said to the comforable one: "Why, Jane, this isn't your afternoon off! How did they come to let you out today?" The young woman grew very red in the face, for all the occupants of the car were looking and listening, and stam mered out as she half rose and then fell back in her seat: "Now, look Dere " "How well you're dressed, tool" continued her tormentor. "They must give you $20 a month, eh ? Is your mistress about your size ?" "Now, do be quiet," cried the uncomfortable one. "If ycu think - " "Diamonds, too," went on the miserable man, as he caught a flash from her waving fingers. "Or are they artificial?" The tormented one sprang up, stopped the car and made a rapid exit, louoweu ty th cause of the trouble, whose farewell remark to the inmates of the car was: Well, well, but some people are too Hnsitive?'' Thev were husband and wife, and this was his weird idea of taking his revenge for a curtain lecture. Rev. Sam P. Jones, on account of ill health, has been forced to cancel all of his engagements in South Carolina and Mississippi, where he has been making a lecture tour. PIR.Itll VAN'S TOUR. He Floor III Questioners at Every Point. Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct. 11 There was a mildly wild time this afternoon when Mr. Bryan came to Ann Arbor. The students of the State University, which is located here, were at the meet ing in large numbers and each one ' made his presence felt. A platform had been erected on the south side of the court house building, and the entire south side of the square, as well as the adjoining street, was coyered with solid mass of humanity, a majority of those nearest the stand being students Mr. Bryan had no sooner shown his face than the boys began a clamor which did not cease for ten or fifteen minutes. Even after Mr. Bryan ad vanced to the front ot the stand the din continued, but it ultimately subsided sufficiently to allow him to begin. "I am glad to talk to you," hebegan "if you are willing to listen" : a. low voices responded: "we are willing," "If I were an imperialist," Mr. Bry an went on, "I would call out an army to suppress you, but I am not." This sally seemed to please the young men and most of them laughed and cheered Some of them jeered to such an extent, however, that an officer was compelled to enter the crowd and arrest several of the noisiest. After this, while , the in terruptions were frequent, they gener ally took the shape of questions. One of the questions brought out the explicit declaration from Mr. Bryan that "The Democratic party is for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation." By the time Mr. Bryan concluded the confusion had ceased entirely and he closed amid cheers. When informed of the arrests of the students, Mr. Bryan immediately sent the following letter: ''Hon. Mayor Cavanflugh, Ann Arbor "My Dear Sir: 11 it is true, as 1 am informed, that toe of the college boys were arrested for disturbing the meet ing, please ask for their discharge. am sure it was the result of boyish thoughtlessness and not malice. - "W. J. Bryan. Mr. Bryan took up the trust question at the beginning of his speech and was asked: "How about the ice trust?" "Will you explain to me, "he replied, "why every Republican knows there is an ice trust and yet no Republican knows anything about any other kind of a trust? Every director of the ice truBt is a Republican (applause and cries of 'No!' and 'How about Croker?") "Mr. Croker is not a director. He is simply a a stockholder. (Cries of 'Oh!' and applause). The Governor of the State of New York is a Republican and if he were in New York punishing the ice truBt instead of making speeches out here, there would be no ice trust. (Ap plause). We had an ice trust in Omaha last spring, but we have a Democratic Attorney General there and he com- mencenced suit against the ice trust there and it dissolved on the first day of August, but they do not do ; it in. New iork in that way. (Applause). A voice: "How about the cotton bale trust?" Mr. Bryan: "The gentlemen epeaks of the cotton bale trust. Now, let me tell you the facts. The cotton bale com pany has a patent for making round bales, and it bales less than one-twenti eth of the cotton of the United States, and yet you Republicans say nothing about a salt trust that controls 95 per cent, of the output, but you howl about i cotton trust that has one-twentieth of the output. Are you honest? (Cries if 'yea' ) Then you must have been ignorant, (ureat applause), tor no honest man would condemn a 5 per uent. cotton bale trust and defend a 95 per cent, salt trust, because it was Republican. (Great Applause). Let me cali your attention to the fact that your party has no remedy for the trusts." A voice: "What would you do? ' .. Mr. Bryan: "We have a remedy, and our remedy is, first to put every trust made article on the free list; second, we propose that Congress shall provide that before any corporation does busi ness outside of the State of its origin, it shall take out a license from the Fed eral government and this license shall only be given when the corporation shows that it has no water in its stock and that it is not attempting to monop olize any branch of business. I believe that would be a remedy for the trusts. I believe that no private monopoly could exist." A voice: "How about North Caro ina?" Mr. Bryan: "I thought there would bo tome North Carolina men here and so I brought a bulletin issued by the gvH'ernment under this administration, and therefore I know it must be right. It was issued August 29, and when you people worry about the educational qualification in North Carolina, I want you to know that your own administra tion has fixed an educational qualifica tion for voters in Porto Rico, and ac cording to this bulletin only 17 per cent, of the negroes of voting age in Porto Rico can vote under the educational qualification fixed by our own President. And my friends remember that in the South the educational qualification does not take from any man the protection of the constitution, so far as his rights concerned. But you take from the people of Porto Rico the protection of our constitution and under these quali fications we shut out 83 per cent, of the black men there." STATE ItEFORItl SCHOOL. The letter below is in reply to a series ot questions sent by Mrs. C. E. Craven of Concord, to the Superintendent of the Industrial Reform School at Lan if'.i. mi ii eiDg, aiicn. jinis scnooi nas been in operation forty-five years, and the letter below deserves our careful perusal. Lansing, Mich., Aug. 1, 1900 Mrs. u. L. Uraven, Corres. Sec. N. C. W. C. T. U. Concord, North Carolina. Dear Madam: - In answer to yours of July 28th I would say that it is impossi ble to give very much information in detail regarding an Institution of this kind in one letter. However, I will try to answer your questions. I will first give you a little history of this In stitution. It was established in 1855 We have about 650 boys at present. We have about 500 out on leave of ab sence all over the State. Our boys are received between the ages of 10 and 16 to remain until 17 unless sooner re leased. We keep them here on an average of about two years when, if they have fair homes, we send them home on leave of absence conditioned on their good behavior until the expir ation of their term of commitment The Board is the releasing power having authority to release by leave of absence or discharge any inmate at any time Our boys are taught trades as follows: Carpentering, shoemaking, baking, tail oring, printing, engineering, painting, engineering, painting and farming We have 260 acres of land. We ought to have an acre of land to a boy. We have at present $60,000 a year appro priated by the Legislature for running expenses. It cost about $112 per year per capita. With a smaller Institution the cost would be a little more per capita. Vve have 50 employees, and 12 school room 8. Our bovs are in echool 4 hours each dav and work 4J hours each day in alternation. Our Institution is partially on the congre gated system but largely on the family system. Nearly all our boys live in cottages, 50 in a family. Those families are presided over by a gentleman and his wife, his wife being the teacher and the gentleman having charge of some other department. We work all the way from 10 to 200 beys on the farm through the summer, raising all the vegetables used m the Institution. We use 5 barrels of flour every day for bak ing and bake every morning. It takes 12 bushel of potatoes for a meal. We do not manufacture anything in the Institution that brings in any revenue We do not believe in it. All our time and attention is given to training the boys in such a way as to benefit them in after life. We plan on having our boys self-supporting when they leave the school, or nearly so according to their age and ability. The boys who aie out on leave of absence are doing well. I do not know just what percent age of our boys become self-supporting citizens but it is estimated that about 90 ner cent, of them do well. It is the opinion of the people of Michigan that this Institution is most assnredlya pay ing Institution, as one of our governors remarked several years ago that if it cost a per capita of $5,000 and the In stitution only saved one boy, if that happened to be his boy he should think it paid. This Institution was built formerly for a House of Correction but the bolts, bars and walls have all been removed and it is now a very fine In stitution conducted on the open system. I have been connectd with the school for 27 years. Have been superinten dent 7 years to-day and the boys are having a special holiday on account of its being my 7th anniversary. Nearly all our boys are quite low in their grades when coming to the school. I would say in regard to the limit of age that 18 years, in my opinion, is preferable to 17 and I presume our law will be changed in that respect. We average something over 300 commitments a year. We raise from 7,000 to 8,000 dollars worth of produce on our farm each year. I will send you under separate cover one of our last reports which is nearly two years old, and one of the papers which we publish in our printing offce. Hoping this will be satisfactory to you, i remain, Very respectfully, J. E. St. John, Supt. There is a suggestion of media?val- ism in the statement made by Rev. Dr. Hubbard, of the Baptist Taber nacle of Raleigh in his sermon, Sun day, referred to in our Raleigh corres pondence yesterday, that on the day of the death of the late President Wingate, of Wake Forest College, he saw the Savior personally and talked with Him for eight hours. Mr. N. B. Broughton, of Raleigh, we are told, says there is no doubt about tins miracle that it was not an halluci nation. We had never heard of this occurrence before. It is the most re markable on record in North Caro lina. Charlotte Observer. The German Telegraph, the leading German paper of the west, says that 75 per cent, of the German vote of Indiana will vote for Bryan. There are 80,000 German voters in the State. It is a queer woman who does not love flowers. A MILLIONAIRE WITHOUT COUNTRY. The following is an editorial copied from the Buenos Aires Weekly Herald, a paper published at Buenos Aires, South America: Mr. William Waldorf Astor was an American millionaire who could not find sufficient elevated and aristocratic society in the United States, and changed his residence to London, be came a British subject, bought a news paper, an estate on the Thames, and prepare himself fully to impress London with his greatness. To do this well he invented a new set of ancestors, black guarded his native country, quarreled with the Duke of Westminster of whom he bought ''Cliveden," quarreled with the public over the use of his grounds, quarreled with the staff on bis paper and now he has quarreled with the Prince of Wales over a social question. He gave a concert and invited a com pany among whom was a lady in high est social circle. At her house there was visiting an Officer of the Royal Navy who was not invited, but the lady who was asked him to escort her in ac cordance with custom, which was con sidered a sufficient invitation, and he went. He was met at the door by Mr. Astor who asked him on what authority he was there. The officer explained but Mr. Astor asked him to retire. The captain apologized and retired. Mr. Astor not content with this, published the incident in his paper, giving the name of the oflicer whom he had turn ed out of his house. Naturally this made a stir in society and the attention of the Prince and Princess of Wales was called to the case they being by unwritten law the arbi trators of social questions and to charac terize their opinion of the matter at the opera where the Captain and Mr. Aster were both present the Princes of Wales invited the officer to her box and did not notice Mr. Astor and in addition to this, the captain was invited to a Rojal garden party and Mr. Astor was not and this form of sentence banishes the millionaire from the highest society for which he sacrificed his citizenship and made himself an ass so far as nature had not done it for him before. The millionaire who has been cast out in London, who abjured his Ameri can citizenship, has cancelled all his invitations and engagements, has shut up his house, and has gone to Germany there to contemplate the uncertainties of popularity and the ease with which a cad can do for himself, and moreover he will contemplate the fact that a rich man in London is not so great a noyelty as to paralyze eociety, and that money cannot reduce the 6ize of an asses ears. By they way was there not something said about the possible marriage of this millionaire with a daughter of the Prince of Walet? It does not look that way just now certainly. Into the social ethics of the case it is unnecessary to enter. While Mr. Astor remained an American he could have done what he about his home, his guests and his invitations. But Mr. Astor chose to be an Englishman. As such he became part of a social system of which the Prince of Wales is the so cial head and apex. In this close cor poration, to enter which Mr. Astor has sacrificed so much others bold dear, an insult to one is an insult to all. The Prince of Wales by propouncing in fav or of Mr. Astor s ejected guest, drs turned Mr. Astor out of English society. In the leisure which social disfran chisement joined to wealth gives him. Mr. Astor should devote talents in fic tion which he has already displayed on a novel and his own pedigree by writing short, a very short, story on a "Millionaire Without a Country." ITprittiiii; In China Ha Ruined Mis sion Work. In a letter to Mies E. Ward, of the wonnan'sPresbyterian board of missions, L. B. Neal, a missionary, says that the boxer uprising in China has wrought irreparable injury to missionary work in China. She says: "Can you imagine Pckin now? And Tung Chow and Pao Ting Fu? All those missions' promises are gone, utterly destroyed. The work of years wiped out, as it were, the Christians, terrified, scattered, robbed of their all, and many of them massacred, and all Manchuria, Chi Li and Shan lung al ready swept clean of all missionaries, and the first two of all large mission stations, while the whole interior of China is being cleared of foreigners f every description. The sufferings of those traveling from the far inland stations have been simply terrible, the China inland mission being the worst sufferers. One party of nineteen from Sean Si, where Yu Heien, under whom all this boxer uprising started in Shan Tung, is governor, had fifty days of horror, in getting from Ping Yang in Shin to Han Yo." There is no doubt in the minds of the Democratic managers that their candidate will carry States this fall that he did not carry in 1896. Mr. Bryan is stronger every where than he was tben and when the votes are counted there will be some painful surprises for the Re publicans. Nowhere in the country is the situation more encouraging than on the Pacific Coast, a section which ha been confidently claimed by the Repub licans and as confidently conceded by the general public to Mckinley. SAITI JON ICS TELLS OF HOT RE VIVAL AND WARM POLITICS. Atlanta Journal. This week I have made a flying trip through the Carolinas, touching at Charlotte, Wadesboro, Monroe, York ville and Chester. I find things quiet along the Potomac, not much being said or done politically. Cotton roll ing in every state, farmers with a smile on their faces, merchants look ing like they are making good collec tions. I marvel at the the constant growth of the Carolinas, and I at tribute it to the cotton mills. At the close of the week I am spending two days in Danville preaching here two consecutive nights. David B. Hill spoke here yesterday, and John W. Daniels at night, advocating the prin ciples of the grand old Democratic party. I spoke to a great audience last night, where no one was left guessing as to my politics and my candidate for the presidency. 'Tis said politics makes strange bed fel lows, but I will not vote for and do not like to stop at the hotel with a Republican candidate or a Democrat, nor sleep with a Democrat voter. I w as so desirous to join the prohibition train at Chattanooga today, but I was compelled to wire them that other en gagements tied me down. I would enjoy a trip through the country with Woolley & Co. I love to see the fur fly, and I wired Woolley this morning that I was doing my best to help him roll in a million votes for prohibition. I feel assured that when the prohi tionist can command a million votes dead sure, then we will be in a posi tion to hold some power, and we will command recognition and demand something also of one or the other of the old parties. I want to see the day come when the sober, God-fearing voters of this country command at least as much consideration as the Liquor Dealers' Association of Amer ica. Dick Moss, the crank of Charlotte, N. C, says: "If the Republicans can leave their old party for gold the Democrats and Populists can leave theirs for silver 16 to 1, I cannot see why they cannot leave them for . God and humanity. They will have to do it or spend eternity in hell with those they protect in their hellish business, making drunkards of their victims and ending in a lake of fire and brim stone. 'If any man would teach me how to follow the teachings of the Bible, keep God's commandments and the promises I made when I joined the church and not vote the national Prohibition ticket when I have the chance, I will be his slave the rest of my life, and if 1 cannot prove that every churchman is a liar and a hypo crite that belongs to any church that votes with a liquor party or refuses to vote with the Prohibitionist party, I will take 39 lashes on my bare back and leave the United States." To all of which I utter a cordial amen. When the Democratic party shall wash its hand of all complicity in and part nership with the whiskey traffic, then they can command my respect and keep my vote. I am ten thousand times worse against whiskev than 1 am against anything else this side of the hoofs and horns of the devil him self. I hone the people of the south will give Mr. Woolley a large hearing and thoughtful consideration. Somehow .1 . T1. It 1.11 ll or other the republicans noia uie Prohibitionists more worthy than the Democrats do. I don't know why, unless the Republicans have some conscience on this question and the Prohibitionists arouse what conscience they have left. But as a rule the average Democrat has no more conscience about whiskey than a tombstone has about a false record it may carry. This is carnival week in Danville with its Midway Plaisance, Eat-him-alive Roscoe, the Real Thing and all other things that go with it. The country cousins tramp the street all day, the town folks look on and con sider, the merchants are idle and the devil is kept busy all the time. The street cars have a picnic the entire time, the town is regaled in flags and bun ting and streamers and I think the picture would be complete if they had draped mourning on all the churches in town. This is Danville s first street fair, and no doubt it will be her last. I understand that Richmond, Norfolk and other towns in Virginia have resolved to have no more street fairs. Sam P. Jones. The Cotton Seed Market. Jackson, Miss., Oct. 11. Numerous conferences are being held by the cotton oil manufacturers of Mississippi with a view to controlling prices to be paid for seed. The mills are now paying $16 per ton and as the crop is 50 per cent, short, it is the general belief that the price will advance to at least $18 within the next few weeks. The manufacturers say, however, they cannot afford to pay more than the present price and that they are los ing money on seed products at the pre vailing figure. Many of the mills are holding their oil in the expectation of an advance. It is thought that two thirds of the mills will be closed down by Christmas on account of the seed shortage. A Baby Musical Prodigy. A little child, just 2 years old, Master Robert Bruns, son of Mr. and Miss. J. H. Bruns, residing at Alameda, Cal., is perhaps the most wonderful or latest musical prodigy. This small phenom enon possesses a true ear for music and almost unaccountable talent in harmony, and renders difficult selections, such as ara handled by a trained voice with care. The grand composition of Gaul's "Holy City" is actually given by this gifted child, in perfect tone and without the loss of a note. He repeatedly catches words and airs of difficult compositions after hearing them but once, and as easily masters these selections as he does a catchy rag-tag melody. The little fellow Bhowed his marvelous gift as soon as he could lisp a word, which oc curred when he was about 19 months old. The family have no desire to exhibit the boy before the public, and, in fact, have even made every effort to prevent his wonderful development in this way, fearing bis delicate nervous organization may become permanently injured. At home, however, he is not restrained, as he seems to enjoy so heartily his musical talent, doing so with the greatest ease and naturalness of manner. Another View of the Case. Charlotte Observer. One tale is good until another is told. Against the election table put out by the national Republican committee. claiming 266 votes for McKinley in the electoral college, the national Demo cratic committee opposes one in which 326 votes are claimed for Bryan, 88 conceded to McKinley and 33 classed as doubtful. If the Republican claim was a bluff the Democratic claim is a bigger one. For our part we have learned to place little reliance on the ante-electional figures of political com mittees or partisan newspapers. The only estimates that are worth their space are those of the great independent papers, which have ample facilities for learning the truth and no interest in suppressingorpervertmgit. The Wash ington Post, by the by, has a remarkable election table in its issue of Thursday. It names States having 107 votes which are conceded to McKinley, States with 112 votes which are conceded to Bryan, McKinley States with 170 votes which are contested by the Democrats and Bryan Slates having 58 votes which are contested by the Republicans. The Post's conclusion is that the result of the election hinges upon New York which it classifies as a McKinley State contested by the Democrats and that whichever party carries New York will win out. CoiisreKKloiial Nominations by the Several Parties. Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 7. The Popu lists of the Seventh district have nominated A. C. Shuford for Congress. The following are the Congressional nominations so far as made. First district, John H. Small, Democrat; Second, Claude Kitchen, Democrat, Joseph J. Martin, Republican; Third, Charles R. Thomas, Democrat, John E. Fowler, Populist; Fourth, E. W. Pou, Democrat, J. A. Giles, Republican, J. Jenkins, Populist; Fifth, W. W. Kitchen, Democrat, J. R. Joyce, Republican; Sixth, John D. Bellamy, Democrat; Seventh, Theodore F. Kluttz, John Q. Holton, Republican, A. C. ShufordPopulist; Eighth, J. C. Buxton, Democrat; Spencer Blackburn, Repub lican; Ninth, W. T. Crawford, Democrat, M. Moody, Republican. Led All the Rest. The Wilmington Messenger gives the figures showing that North Carolina led all the Southern States in the num ber of troops in the Southern Confed eracy . lhe largest vote polled in the State up to that time was in the Ellis- Pool contest when 112,586 votes were cast. Here are the figures showing the troops furnished : Total number in State service... 108,032 Total junior and senior re serves 9,903 Total troops serving in regiments from other States 3,103 Total home guards and militia, 3,962 Total 125,000 Of all its soldicre 41.000 were killed, or died ot disease. At Appomattox North Carolina surrendered twice as many as any other State. There were less desertions, fewer boom-proof posi tions. Letter Received, from Supposed Dead Soldier. Charlotte, N. C, Oct. 8. After be ing regarded as dead for two months the parents of George Wells, a North Carolina soldier in the Philippines, have? received a letter from him, stating that he was badly wounded in a hand-to- , hand encounter, but was recovering. Young Wells enlisted in this city. His home is in Forest City, N. C. He made a fine record in leading a charge some months ago, and is written of as "the braveBt man in the Fortieth infantry." Mrs. Alexander Davis, living in St. Joseph, dreamed that her husband had died. When she arose the next morn ing the dream was impressed on her memory. She went about her woik, however, and when her husband awoke she started to tell him about her dream. He was sitting on the side of the ed, and when she had finished the narrative be fell to the floor, dead.