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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1890-10-16

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
The Way it is Doing.

The News asserted when the silver bill
plesed the present Congress as it stands to-
day, that it was the best financial measure
tina: had become law for twenty five years.
This is the way il seems to be working.
As the bullion value of the silver in our
dollar, according to the statement made in
Secretary WINDOWS last annual report, was
72 cents for the fiscal year 1889, our
transatlantic friends could bring ~ cents
here in gold or goods and our minis being
closed to them for coinage, the best they
coulo do was to take il to India, where the
minis were open to silver coinage. Had
our minis been open, they would have had
this silver coined into dollar and would
have purchased dollars worth ofwheat.
The India mint being open, they had
their silver coined into full legal tender
money and measured the price of it by what
the silver cost them in gold.
With silver at 81 81 an ounce, the same
amount of sill yer they could buy with gold
has increased from ~ cents to 934 cents
Cannot every one see that this will tend TO
increase the export price Of our wheat and
cotton? Farmers, this won't hurt you.-Ihe
Neus, Salem, o.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
50, 6l2,OOO in Premium.

Secretary Window purchased on Wednes-
day 100000 4 per cent bonds, and paid
1875 and 1859. Put the whole amount at &c
per cent premium and the Treasurer paid a
premium to the Vanderbilts and other needy
capitalists of $685. 900 out of the public
cash box. The Jew bankers Of London
bought these bonds, or their original issues
for 50 cents on the dollar. in gold. in
1868 5. These premiums are the fruits Of
the financial system which Senator Sher
man was head and front in inaugnrating in
1868 and which he has struggled ever since
TO maintain. The bonds have risen 156 per
cent and farm produce has fallen at least
so per ceut, giving the money they repre-.
sent purchasing power of more than 200
per cent. Is it matter for surprise that
thiee-fourths of the farms in the country
are swamped with mortgages?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
A Brilliant Liar.

The following anecdote is related by
the Western Rural. A gentleman was
nominated fol- an Office who had been
advocate for the rights of labor for
years-an editor of a reform agricul-
tural paper-and a close student of the
relations of capital and labor. But the
campaign committee was not aware of
this fact. Soon after his nomination
the committee told him there was to | e
labor meeting in his ward and that he
was to address it. He was told he must
make friends of the labor;ng people.
At the appointed time he addressed the
meeting, making a sound labor speech
and simply repeating what he had been
saying for 20 years. But the committee
supposed it was all insiucere, though
charmed with the logic of the speech.
AT the close of the meeting the chair
man of the meeting grasped his hand
and said to him, "well you are u corker;
why L am mighty glad we nominated
you; you ought to be elected and think
you will be-why you are the most
brilliant liar ever heard" And this
Is party politics in nut shell.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
The Rule of Shysters and Dead
Beats.

In speaking of the nomination of candi-
dates by politica. parties from among the
Alliance farmers, an exchange very sensibly
says: "Just so long as we can find men who
are enthusiastic advocates Of the election of
farmers candidate simply because he be-
longs to the same political party to which
such men are attached, and are enrhus-
astIcally opposed to another farmers can
didate because he belongs &c the opposite
party, there will be much cause for disgust
and encouragement. There is just one is
sue for the farmer in politics to day and that
issue is the recognition of his own rights by
the government which he supports. 1t does
not make a continenta's difference to him
what party triumphs if it triumphs with a
ticket made up of the farmers friends"
This is the principle on which every
other interest has acted, except the farmer
and day laborers. The railroad and all
corporation interests, the money trust and
especially the whiskey and beer interest
All these have selected their candidates in
both the old parties, and carefully kept
aloof from identIf ing their interests with
either party. They oppose and defeat, il
posaible, every candidate that they do no,
know is for them, and if one is occasionally
elected who proves true to the interest oil
the great body OF the people, he is sure to
be set upon by the classes above mentined
and his defeat comprised al The next NOM
ination or election. We have case in point
right al home. When DIR. Mackall stood
up manfully in the legislature and opposed
the wishes of the whiskey ring and monop-
DIV politicians they s~ore they would kill
him politically, and set about preventing
his nomination for the next term. This
was accomplished by little banI of polit
ical shysters and whiskey politicians who
have their dead beats and Office hunters dis.
tributed over the country 10 take charge OF
the farmers and working people at the pri
maries and the elections. We cite this as
sample of the way our politics is run and
the farmers and honest unsuspectiDp peo.
pie generally are constantly made the vic
tins. through their own folly and pig head
edness, Of The idle, dead beat element. who
sill them out to corporations and other
interests, in the legislature. A decent tax
law cannot be had to relieve the farmers
from the present wholesale robbing system
of taxation that prevails In the State, prin-
clpally because the farmers pride them
selves in playing the fool in politics.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
Senator ingalls, on Gold.

The National View, Washington, D. C.
In a speech in the Senate in 1878,
Mr.. Ingalls, made a powerful argu
ment in Iavor of the coinage of sill
yer, and in the course of it gave the
most striking and eloquent arraign.
ment of gold that we have ever read.
We quote the paragraph:
NO enduring fabric of nat ON Il
prosperity can be builded on gold.
Gold is the money Of the monarchs !;
kings coyet it; the exchanges OF
nations are enacted by it. It's ten
d ,ncy Is to accumulate in vast masses
in the commercial centers, and to
move from kingdom to kingdom ir
such volumes as to unsettle the val.
ues and disturb the finances of the
world. 1t is the instrument of gam
blers and SPECTATORS, and the idol of
the miser and thief. Being the OBJ,
ject of so much alteration, it becomes
naughty and sensitive, and whenever
it is most needed it always disap-
pears. At the slightt st alarm it be
gins to look for a refuge. 1t flies from
the nation at war to the nation at
peace. War makes it fugitive. No
people in a great emergency ever
found a faithful ally in gold. 1t is
the most cowardly and treacherous of
all metals. l. makes no treaty that
it does uot break. 1t has no frined
whom it does not sooner or later be-
tray. Armies and nayics are not
maintained by gold. In times of
panic and calamity, shipwreck and
disaster, it becomes the chief agent
and minister of ruin. No nation
ever fought great war by the aid of
god. On the contrary, in the crisis
of greatest peril it becomes an enemy
more potent than the foe in the field /:
out when the battle is won and peace
has been secured, the gold reappears
and claims the fruits of victory. In
our own civil war it is doubtful if the
gold of New York and London did
not work US greater injury than the
powder and lead and Iron, of the
rebels. 1t was the most inyincible
enemy of the public credit. Gold
paid no soldier or sailor. It refused
the nation obligations. 1t was worth
most when our fortunes were lowest.
Every defeat gave 1t increased value
1t was in open alliance with our
enemies the world over, and all its
energies were for our destruction
But as usual, when danger has been
averted and the victory secured gold
swaggers to the front and asserts
supremacy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
Another Cooperative Colony.

Edward Bellamy's dream begins to
assume tangible proportions to some Of
our citizens. During last winter there
was an organization known as the I'm
vestigating club" at University Place.
The body met once week and discussed
the economic and social topics Of the
day. Not little interest was mani.
tested. Among those who participated
II the meeting were some earnest,
thoughtful men, who had become op-
posed to our present competitive system
Of industry.
About month ago small circle Of
men-Ernest B. Castor, Of The South
ern Advocate; @. II. Mershon, E. D.
Smith, W. P. Macy, D. Harrod and J.
P. Meredith. with a few others, all
prominent citizens Of that suburb-met
to see If they could not devise plan to
escape what they deemed the serious
evils Of the present system, and put in
successful operation the better princi-
pies which had crystallized in their
minds as the result Of their investigation.
The result has been the organization
of colony company, with the object of
founding in some favored part of the
country, probably near Lake Charles,
La, community which shall be as far
as possible complete within itself, and
where what they term the savage and
foolish and wasteful system of competi-
tive industry shall give place to the
kindly, rational and more economic sys-
tenn of cooperation.
The plan Of the new colony is much
like that of the Kaweah Cooperative
colony, of Tulare county, CAL, which
has been in successful operation for
nearly five years.-Des Moines Cor. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
A National LABOR Comm,ss,on,

Representative Farquhar, of New
York, has introduced in congress bill
to create commission to be known as
the United States Commission Of the
Worlds Congress of Labor, to consist OF
nine members to be appointed by the
president. 1t suggests that the presi-
dent shall appoint two of these members
from the National Farmers alliance,
and that the rest shall be named by the
American Federation of Labor and the
Knights of Labor, but no two of them
shall be from the same state. These
commissioners shall each receive IN an
nual salary of $1,000, and their terms of
office shall expire Dec. 81, 1895. 1t shall
be the duty of the commissioners to dis
cuss labor in all its phases, the relation
of trusts and combinations of capital to
>the industrial problem, and such other
industrial questions as may be suggested
to them and which they may deem it de-
sirable to discuss. The commission is
authorized to invite through the presi-
dent delegates of foreign countries to
take part in the conference.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
Gone Far Enough.

Let the railroad men go on demanding
better protection for brakemen, and lei
all other civilized people join with them
in the demand. If animals had to endure
what brakemen had to endure the cruel.
ty societies would have the railroad bus.
mess in court. But because the animal
happens to be a man the killing and
manning go on and seem to be taken for
granted. At the last session of the leg.
islature an appeal for the establishment
of hospital was backed by the fact that
the railroad business had much in
creased, and therefore" hospital was
necessary. What that sits down to is
that you must expect the brakeman to
be butchered, and the way to aid them
is to build hospitals for what is left of
them after the accident" This has
gone on long enough. With all the prog
ress that has been made in the art of
railroading there Is no reason why the
brakeman should be left where he was
twenty years ago-or rather where his
predecessor was. Twenty years is rather
long to expect one to survive In that in
dustry.-Hartford Courant.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
Returned
from the
New York
Markets !

large and varied of Goods Flannels
Blankets, &C., now i'll stock.
styles of figured Henrietta Cashmere, styles of
Elton Sutngs variety of Worsted Stripes double
fold
An assortment of Colored Mohairs awool Serges and
Henrietta Cloths.
line of Ga Cloths in the most popular fall coorngs.
One of 1900 yards of Outing Cloth and Gretna
Paids at "a the regular prices
For wash dresses buy Century Cloth Windsor Cold
Ticket Blues, OF White Rose Zephyr Bingham.
Where you find better assortment of Dress Goods
outside the city than able to offer you!
We have some or styles of Dress Goods of one
make good quality and finish which propose making
by reducing the price from 4oc 28c any person pro-
curing dress off any of these goods will get decided bar
GAIN they have already commenced and will go
these prices certain.
Clothing for Men,
Clothing for Bo>s
Clothing for Children.
Direct from leading New York factory; now fully
equipped for the fall rush.
Boots and Shoes pouring in from the different factor
les and filling every corner and crevice
Arrival of the first invoice of Ladies' Jackets Fur and
Plush Capes; sampled in basement.
E. R. BURLINGTON.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19

so blu. per acre but should grow
$50. In experiment with three plots
of ground last year the products
we're so, 11s and 1913 bu. per acre
respectfully. He stated that to
make the rows 8 IT. apart each way
there would be 1910 hills to the acre,
2 stalks to the hill and one ear TO
the stalk, a pint to each ear would
make $3.50 pints or over ISL bu. to
The acre; nothing unreasonable. And
to increase the number of stalks to
three in the hill would increase the
yield one-third, making over 200 bu.
per acre, this he thought was good
crop, (the audience thought 80 too)
The work that would do the corn
most good was to be done in the
month of July, though it should be
shallow.
Calvin Cooper gave valuable in
formation regarding cost and sus-
tanning of fences. Much discussion
was had by the audience and speak.
er for and against the use of barbed
wire for fence. Ma!in Brosius stated
that if stock trespassing on your
premises were injured by barbed
wire fence, the owner of such stock
could sue and recover damages, as
such fence was not lawful. Others
thought If they protected their own
stock was all the law required, or
common justice at least. Meeting
then adjourned till Friday morning
Friday morning DR.. B. H. Warren,
State Ornithologist, proceeded to tell
of the "Thc Birds for the Farmer"
He said we have about three hundred
species of birds in this country.
w. H. Brosius addressed the In
stitute on The Taxation of Real
Estate"
James G.. McSparran addressed
The institute in discourse ON the
Reorganization Of Farmers"
Friday afternoon.-The following
resolutions were passed:
RESOLVED, That it is the sense of
this meeting that the revenue laws
of this State be so amended that the
farming interests are not required to
pay larger proportion of taxes than
other interests of the State.
Resolved, That we, the members
of the Farmers Institute, held Sept.
I and S, 1890, at Black Barren
Springs, Lancaster county. Pa, re-
specially urge our State Senators
and members of the House of Rep
resentatives to use all honorable
means to secure an increased appro.
priation from the State funds, to the
State Board of Agriculture, for the
purpose of holding an additional
number of local Farmers Institutes
in various sections of the Common.
wealth.
Hon. John Fl. Laudis discussed
the idea of 'Reciprocation Between
Nations"
Miss Mena NJ. Cooper, of Bird in.
Hand, recited 'Archie Dean" in a
manner that would have done credit
to a professional elocutionist.
Hon. Gabriel Hester. OF Harris
burg, discussed "Fruit for Market
and Home Consumption"
Miss Bell IL. Mooney, of Pleasant
Grove read an essay on the progress
of the Nineteenth Century," 1t was
an eloquent resume of what has been
achieved in the progressive arts and
sciences.
The exhibits were very large in.
Guiding almost the entire product of
farm, garden and orchard ofthis sec.
ton of country. There was also a
good exhibit of farm stock and some
farm machinery. The meeting was
most creditable and encouraging to
the oranges which got up and carried
out the excellent program.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19

So long as all the silver we obtain.
ed we had to gain in trade from
Mexico and South America, we held
it as more precious than gold. So
soon as our miners produced tie
shining metal. at the instignation Of
money loaners beyond the sea, We
began to degrade and discount or
own silver.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
~- RR0WNS R0N BITrERS

Cures Indigestion, Diliousness, Dyspepsia, Mala.
ria, Nervousness, and General Debility. Physi-
clans recommend it. All dealers sell it. Genuine
has trade mark and crossed rcd lines on wrapper.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
The Farmers Meeting and FAIR.

The Farmers Meeting and Fair
held at Black Barren Spring on the
4th and 9Th inst. was q grand sue
cess. There was large attendance
on both days. On Friday there were
by actual count over one thousand
carriages and estimated 1000 to
5000 people. There was a large
display of exhibits of farm and gar
den products. fruits, canned goods,
farm implements, live stock and
poultry, fancy needle work, also a
fine display of works of art and
aacent relics, which was an interest
ing feature of the fair. The exhibits
were not in proportion to the attend
ance of former years, for which
ample accommodations had been
provided by the erection of tents
covering nearly three thousand
square feet of space, in which were
tables OF $50 #. of surface for the
display, attended by committee TO
care for and place the same.
The speakers stand was tastefully
decorated by the fairer and sternersex
of our land and reflected much credit
ON the designers in the arrangement
of cut flowers, bunting cereal plants,
etc. The people gathered at the
stand at 1890 81. M, Thursday, at
the bugle call by Miss Minnie Cog
ley, of Lancaster. who frequently
entertained the audience during the
exercises with choice pieces of music
atistically rendered. The meeting
was organized by appointing Calvin
Cooper president, Neal Hambleton
vice,president and Miss Bella
McSparran secretary. The presi-
dent delivered the address of well
come, and gave brief history of the
first Farmers Institute held IN
Lancaster about the year 1888, at
which about Is persons were present.
Compared with the attendance of
to day, Pennsylvania, especially
Lancaster county, had much to be
proud OF. Last year The appropria-
ton by the STATE was $4,000; go of
these Institutes were held and the
amount was entirely too small for
such important industry represented.
and it is to be hoped that the appro.
pr:ation will be doubled the coming
winter. Meeting then adjourned to
l:30 p. m.
At the time adjourned to bugle
call was sounded by Miss Minnie and
the people assembled at the spekers
stand. Prof. Henry E. Alvord, Pres
ident of the Maryland Agricultural
College was introduced. His subject
"Cattle Food and Feeding" In
this several things are necessary;
the food must he sufficient, satisfy
ing and healtLful; these things are
all essential whether we desire to
make food. milk or strength. In
order for us to feed intelligently it
requires US TO examine into the char.
acter and composition of foods
Here chemistry comes into requisi-
ton. Foods may be divided into
two classes, the life sustaining, and
the flesh forming or muscle produc-
ing variety. Corn, oats, bran, lin.
seed. &C., are those that produce
meat and muscle, while the coarser
food such as hay, straw and fodder
sustain life. The feeders reward
will be in accordance with the re-
quirements of food as to whether
milk, butter or flesh is desired.
Casper Hitler was next introduced.
Subject, SLOW Can Corn be Pro-
duced Cheaply and Plentifully?" In
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19
Our dear little daughter was terribly sick.
Her bowels were bloated as hard az a brick,

VIC I6drtu SIG would die
Till we happened to try
Pierces Pellets-they cured her. remarkably quick
Never he without Pierce's Pellets in the
house. They are gentle and effective in
action and give immediate relief in cases OF
indigestion, biliousness and constipa ton.
They do their work thoroughly and leave
no bad effects. Smallest, cheapest, efsiest
to take. One dose. Best Liver Pill ade.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-09-19

The Republicans of Delaware have
nominated Harry A. Richardson. the
well known Gamer of Doyer, for Cover
nor, and II. P. Cannon, of Sussex
county, for Congress.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-06-04
The Philosophy OF an Infdel.

A most remarkable deathbed scene
took place in Vienna some time ago.
The hero of it was young professor
at the university there. He was man
Of great brilliancy and learning His
lectures concerning the inner life Of
the soul were famous among the
students, who visited them in crowds.
He was regarded by his fellow profess
sors in the philosophical faculty as the
coming man in the department. of
psychology. Socially, also, he was a
man Of considerable prominence. He
had married into wealthy family, and
took every opportunity to get for his
wife and three children all the pleasure
which the gay Austrian Capital affords
At the theater, on the promenade, and
at the great court balls he was one of
the most familiar figures.
-Four years ago he fell. i'll of an in
durable disease and his physician
warned him that only a radical change
from his gay mode of life could hinder
for short time the progress of the
malady. The young professor an
swered quietly that he would die as a
philosopher should die, without an eff
fort to defer his last day. He ate,
drank, studied, 'lcctured, and danced
exactly as he did before the doctor
warned him. A few weeks ago he lay
down ON his deathbed He read the
same books and talked of the same
frivolous amusements as usual up to
one evening recently. Ats o'clock the
doctor then told him that he would die
within a few hours The young pro-
fessor discussed many topics, entirely
foreign to the subject of his fast-ap-
preaching death, with his wife till mid
night.
Il feel well, very wellH2> he said to
her finally, $50 well that / would like
to drink a bottle of champagne with
you before 1 go. Kiss me-for may
go while you are away-and then have
the wine put on ice." His wife obeyed.
A few minutes later he took the bottle
from the servants hand, poured out
wine for his wife and himself emptied
his glass to her health. flung it to the
floor, and dropped back to his pillow,
dead
The Vienna dailies, which have a
constitutional prejudice against print
ing the full name of any man of high
social standing, mention the hero Of
this strange scene only as Herr Prof.
P. He was an infdel.-M. z.
Sun.