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The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09

For maps, time tables, schedules, first class or
emlgrant rates to all points east west, northwest
and southwest, write to Charles L. Hopkins,
travelling passenger agent Asheville, N. c., or
Charlotte, N. q.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09
s 3OO,OOO,OOO
s1,O49,OOO.OOO

Total, 81, 100000
This was nearly one-third of the as
sessed value of all the property in the
South in 1870, or earnings of about S47
to every man, woman and child in the
South. But about one-fifth of these
earnings, after paying the necessary ex-
penses of raising and harvesting these
crops and cutting the forest products,
went as tribute to the protective tariff
barons of the North. Is it any wonder
that in spite of the aggregate value of the
products of the Southern soil the pro,
ducers have but little left to their credit L?
What has become OF the $4,000, 100000
that came to the South for the cotton she
raised since the war? Nearly all the
profit from it has gone the same way
Wilmington Star.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09

eB- A rum smuggler bound for Lewis.
ton, Me-, was detected when his horse
ran away in Auburn and scattered five
and ten gallon kegs of liquor along the
road. Three residents picked up free
supplies.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09

Sam Jones will be here on the 1st of Novem-
Der. So he wrote Monday to Mr.. E. NJ. Andrews
representing the official board of the Methodist
church He will be here ten days
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09
TO THE TAXPAYERS OF
Mecklenburg County.

1 will attend at the places named below on the
State and County Taxes for the year 1891:
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09
Mems Clothing.

special bargain of 15O Sack Suits, sizes "a
to 42. which we are selling at from "a so to
$780, We guarantee cannot be duplicated for
less tLan $40.
We are showing line of 500 beautifully made
Sack Suits in Square and Round Cut. We
warrant every one all wool. and cheap at $15,
your choice $40.
In finer Goods we have everything you can
ask for. No matter how much your income may
be. you would want nothing better, finer, or
more elegant than the Suits we are now offering
at $l8. $40, $22.5O and $25. They are perfect
gems. made of the finest Worsteds, Cheviots,
and Hone-spuns. ALL the nobby shades are rep
resented. Tuxedo, Browns, Wood Browns,
Newport Tans, Greys, Modes, &C.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09

"Save who can" was the frantic cry of Ma
poleon to his army at Waterloo. Save health and
strength while you can. by the use of Ayers Sar-
saparla is advice that applies to all, both young
and old. Don't wait until disease fastens on
you; begin at once.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09
CharlOtte's Chance.

The Southern Exposition at Raleigh
will be: the means of drawing many
Northern and Western capitalists to this
section. With this influx of visitors to the
State Capital why cannot Charlotte parti.
cipate in the benefits to be derived there
from? If our business community will
take the matter in hand and devise ways
and means, excursion parties might be
arranged to bring to this city thousands
of persons who know little if anything of
it's advantages. We must not let these
golden opportunities pass by. The ex-
pense attending such enterprises would
be but small when compared with the
great good which follows incursions of
capital and pluck.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09

SUPERIOR Court of Lincoln county con-
vened on Monday last, Judge Graves pre-
siding, F. I. Osborne for the State. The
following are the grand jurors: S. D.
Burgin, foreman; G. W. Edwards, J. NJ.
Ramsey, W. E. Williamson, w. FL. Baker,
S. A. Sain. W. L. Condrey, M. Heafner,
James Nixon, Fl. F. McCoslin, G. W.
Workman, Michael Petrie, B. T. Grigg,
M. D. Dellinger, e. NJ. Shuford, W. J.
Wingate, John F. Beam, G. G. Anthony.
The docket is heavy-three capital cases.
In the burglary case against E. J.
Thompson and George Martin the de-
PENDANTS submitted for larceny and were
sentenced to ten and six years in the
penitentiary. The grand jury returned a
true bill against the Motz brothers for
killing their cousin Samuel G. Motz, and
they were formerly arraigned Wednesday
morning. Through defendants counsel
motion was made for change of venue,
which the judge sustained, but deferred
designation of the place.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09

OFFICERS ELEcTED.-The North State Club
held its annual meeting Tuesday night for the pur-
pose of electing officers. The vote resulted in
the following: President, Willis B. Dowd, re-
elected; Vice-President, T. B. Seigle; 2nd Vice
President, D E. Allen; Secretary, Jno, s. Carson;
Treasurer. Thos. Griffith; Board of Governors,
James s. Boyne and Ralph Holland
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09

When you need good, safe laxative, ask your
druggists for box of Ayers Pills, and you will
find that they give perfect satisfaction. For in
digestion, torpid liver, and sick headache theres
nothing superior. Leading physicians recon-
mend them.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09

friday. October 8, 1891.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09

W In his address at the opening Of
the Southern Interstate Exposition at
Raleigh, Gov. Holt presented some inter-
esting figures to illustrate the progress
the South was making in an Industrial
way. The following are the figures of
ho nrodnnts nf tho soil fo. 1901.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09
W. K AUFMAN & CO.,

Leading Clothiers, Furnishers and Hatters,
Cor. Central Hotel, Charlotte, n. @.
Oct. Q, 1891.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1891-10-09
OUR BOYS AND CHILDREN'S
DEPARTMENT

Is now complete, and we invite your inspection
Of same, assuring you prompt and polite atten-
ton, whether you be purchaser or not.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18
The Homestead Owner and the Sin.
gle Tax.

Take, now, the case of the homestead
owner-the mechanic, storeks. aer, or
professional man who has secured him
self house and lot, where he lives, and
which he contemplates with satisfac-
ton as place from which his family
can not be elected in case of his death.
He will not be injured; on the contrary,
he will be the gamer The selling val
ne of his lot will diminish-theoretical
~ it will entirely disappear. But it's
usefulness to him will not disappear.
1t will serve his purpose as well as ever.
While, as the value of all other lots will
diminish or disappear in the same ratio,
he retains the same security
of always having lot that
he had before. That is to say, he
is loser only as the man who has
bought himself pair of boots may -
said to be loser by the subsequent f. II
in the price of boots. His boots will Se
just as useful to him, and the next PAIR
of boots he can get cheaper. So, to the
homestead owner, his lot will be as USE
full, and should he look forward to get
ting larger lot or having his children,
as they grow up, get homesteads of
their own, he will, even in the matter
of lots, be the gamer. And in the pres
ent, other things considered, he will be
much the gamer. For though he will
have more taxes to pay upon his land,
he will be released from taxes upon his
house and improvements, upon his fur
niture and personal property, upon all
that he and his family eat, drink and
wear, while his earnings will be largely
increased by the rise of wages the con-
slant employment, and the increased
brislxness of trade. His only loss will
be, if he wants to sell his lot without
getting another and this will be a small
loss compared with the great gain.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18
BROKE HIS WOODEN LEG.

But He lima gined 1t Was His Bones, and
Suffered Accordingly.
police officer found a man lying on
the sidewalk writing in agony and
moaning piteously that his leg was
by street car. An ambulance was
called and the sufferer was removed to
the county hospital. He was lifted
gently into the wagon, and three Off
GERS carried him into the examing room.
He was stretched out on a cot, and
called feebly for morphine. DR.. Graves
hurried downstairs with his physicians
case IN hand With pair of scissors
he cut the trousers leg covering the in
jured member. The fractured bone
could be plainly seen by the impression
through the cloth. Its bad frac-
ture," soliloquized the doctor 'sHul-
loa, what's this? Bounce that fellow
out of here!'' he ordered, angrily. Il
wonder if he thinks this is wooden
leg factory"
The man raised up at the doctors re-
mark about wooden leg" and inspect
ed his fractured limb
''Durned if you amt right, doc" he
said My wooden leg is broke square
in two burned If it hurt worse than a
real leg. Got some string, any of you
fellows?"
The felluw's wooden leg had beer
broken and imagination did the rest.
He was provided with string, and, tying
the parts together, hobbled off with Q
suni,e.-Chicago Mail
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18
SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT.
THE BOSTON GLOBE FOR THE
SINGLE TAX.

In an editorial article ON "Tax Re
form in Maine," the Boston Globe
makes an admirable criticism on re-
cent article by Judge Emery in the
Lewiston Journal, which, after admit
ting that taxes on personal property
should be abolished unless every dollar
of such property can be reached, mere
ly goes on to recommend more drastic
methods for compelling people to dis
close to the tax collector the character
and extent of their possessions. The
Globe says that such inquisitorial meth
DDS invade personal liberty; that man
has right to his own and a right to
keep it's amount secret if he chooses;
that people feel this to be so, and.
though they submit to some invasion of
their personal liberty, they still feel it
to be an invasion and resent it. 1t
points out, as a curious inconsistency in
Judge Emery's argument for the taxa
ton of every thing, his declaration that
it is an axiom in the science of taxa
ton that tools and the products of Ia
Dor should be exempted, since the very
purpose of the kind of tax reform the
judge is advocating is to compel the
payment of taxes on stools and the pro-
ducts of labor" It further predicts
that if Maine adopts such measures her
people will find that few new enter
prises will be started and that many ex-
listing establishments will be moved to
states less disposed to put fine on in
dustry. The Globe thus concludes its
article:
When will legislators learn that CAPT.
tai is easily movable, and will not stay
where it is severely taxed? The tools
of labor" include machinery. Tax ma
chinery heavily and you drive manu-
featuring industry out of the state. Tax
the products of labor and you discour-
age the employment of labor. And
where in the state of Maine or else
where in the wide world will Judge
Emery and the tax commissioners find
any thing to tax that was not produced
by labor. There is only one taxable
thing that labor did not produce and
taxation can not drive away. That is
land. II Judge Emery is sincere in
wishing to exempt the products of Ia
Dor from taxation there would seem to
be no recourse but to favor raising the
revenues mainly or wholly by land tax.
With such a tax in operation there
would be as much land in Maine as be-
fore, and it would be as fertile. But
the houses, barns, cattle and crops of
the farmer would be exempted; SO
would the machinery of the manufac-
turer, the tools of the laborer, the saw
ings of everybody. Capital would flow
in instead of out. Many wise men have
advocated such a change in the tax
laws, and if Maine should try the ex-
pertinent it would be watched with the
greatest interest in every part of the
country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18
PlTH AND POINT.

The worst all-around striker is the
| borrower-Pittsburg Post.
The physicians may be called grip
men now.-Pittsburgn Chronicle.
Yes. Ruth. it is perfectly proper to
| speak of cigarettes as 1.-The fouls of the
| air. '-Columb Post.
The Wise Old Man.-"Was your
elopement success?' Hardly" What
went wrong?" Her father telegraphed
us not to return and all would be for
given. Yankee Blade.
-Milkman-'|ShallI leave the usual
quart of milk on the front step, ma'am,
in the morning?' Mistress of the House
mo. / think pint will be enough,
| it looks so much like rain. Harper S
Bazaar.
Presence of Mind.-Miss Plumleigh
| (choling)-"Oh, Mr.. DudeSin. IL
| really think I've swallowed dreadful
fly. What shall I do?'' Dudekin-
"Deah girl, better swallah some fly pa
pah. Pittsburgh Bulletin.
haven't had bite to eat for four days"
Nudge (hurrying by)-"And have had
to decline seven invitations to dinner in
the same period of time. Funny how
things average up, isn't it."-Indian-
| apolis Sentinel
Pete Genseng-''Mr. Paterson, de
| ole man wants to borrer your rake ter
| clean up his garden wild" Mr.. Pater-
son-''I can't let him have it; don't you
see I'm using it?" Pete Genseng-
"Well, caynt yo' borrer anodder one?"
-Conglomerate.
Tourist Have you any settler
water, my good woman?" The Good
Woman-''No! We hat none of dose, but
We hat goot spring vell-water." Tourist
mo, l am obliged I never drink
common water; it contains too many
microbes. "-Demorest's Monthly.
do you see that pale young man
calling out Cash. at the ribbon coun-
ter?'' Yes ''Fates awful funny
sometimes. Ten years ago when we
were boys together his one ambition
was to be mighty hunter and catch
mountain lions with a lasso. IN. Y.
Recorder.
-Watchful Mother (entering library
| suddenly)-''Goodh heavens, Maud, VIII
what are you doing? Go to your room
instantly" Fair Daughter (sobbing)-
81 wa-was doing just what papa told
me to-" w. M. (aghast)-''Whatw f.
| D.-'Ye-Yes! He said it was high
time 1 were sitting down on that impu-
dent Mr.. Jiggs, and that's iu-just what
l was dud-doing. Pittsburgh Bull
letin.
Willie (regretfully)-"rd like, just
awfully. to kiss you, Oracle, but 'spect
it wouldn't do. You know your man.
ma said you mustn't never kiss the
boys Gracie-''Yes, that's what she
| said. That is, it's about what she said.
l member just as we'll. She says to
me, she says: Oracle, don't YOU ever
let me see you .kissin' the boys Nam
ma, she's gone over to Mrs. Billy So
Boston Globe.
Game Prepared.-The Liars club
had met at the usual time and place,
| the competitors for the honor of having
| told the prize lie of the evening had
| span their yarns, and the committee
was about to retire for consultation.
Gentlemen" observed the chairman,
sit may tighten your labors if you take
a smoke. Try these cigars. You will
find them pretty fair" The committee
smoked the cigars and unanimously
awarded the prize to the chairman
Chicago Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18

lance churches, has awakened hope,
encouraged industry and thrift, intro
duced order and cleanliness, and added
another room or two to thousands and
thousands of little homes. 1t en-
courages the colored people to keep
away from the whites, and to rely upon
themselves for their welfare and amuse-
ments, supplying separate societies,
separate schools and separate churches.
This separation of blacks from whites
stops race troubles l do not know OF
any difficulty that has occurred between
our colored people and whites within
eighteen months. / have lived fifty
years among them, and 1 say these coll
ored people are as quick as white peo-
pie to learn This is shown in their
rise from slavery twenty-five or thirty
years ago to their present intelligent
and independent position.
what about the single tax idea?'
asked
81 am single tax man, heart and hand,
and so is the whole colored alliance.
In the official paper keep the single tax
idea before the eye. The present land
and taxation system Is a premium on
worthlessness.'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18
AN INVOCATION.

orother, come and with me stray
Back through the fields where We nssa
Let's forget we are careworn men
ana Tor awhile be boys again
Long, dull pages of dreary books
wen excnange for the songs of brooks
Drowsy hum of bees shall drown
Noise OF the money getting town.
How times flies, to melt seems
Lives are only fie.ting dreams.
SHOWS and summers strangely sweep
Fast our minds in one brief sIeen
Waklng now and then we sigh
For the long ago" or the by and bvn
weeping the weary way between
far-on valleys OF gold and green.
Let's dismiss the weary now.
hanlsh the lines from cheek and brow:
Rest awhile from our load of care
quite forgetting our siivered hair;
Trade our burden of wealth for Joy,
Such as We knew when we we're bows:
Giving our purses. gold-,listressed.
For one brief season of perfect rest,
Let's go down to the dear old mill
NAASANSh tiO "Hccl Is now ana Stlil.l
Through the bins play hide and seek"
Hear the rum bling whirr and creak.
Watch the rivers ceaseless flow
Just as We did in the years ago.
Wen once more wade the lily pond.
And climb the trees in the wood beyond:
Find a lithesome limb and high.
Swing as We watch the clouds drift by,
Every whispering summer breeze
bringing us pleasure and glad hearts ease.
Then through the meadows fair wen stray
watching the happy lambs at play.
Four-leaved clovers kissed with dew
VIII good luck" once more bring we two
Then We'll laugh where boughs oerhead
Droop with the apples gold and red;
Drink once more from the dear old spring,
Piay again at the same old swing;
Swing till We almost touch the sky,
Rest and wait FOR the cat to die
Old-time friends with US will play
Mum ble-the-peg'' and .'pullaway'
With laugh and shout and bIithesome skip
Wen join once more in crack the whip
Once again your heart and mine
All their thoughts shall intertwine:
Find once more our childish toys,
Mlngle all our tears and Joys.
Strange how since the years have flown
We have very strangely grown.
Gone are friends we knew in May,
Skies are dressed in their autumn gray.
We are weary of paths that rove
Far away from the scenes we love-
Let's go back to the Isles of Rest.
Back once more to the old home nest;
Drink from the springs of youth again.
God. must we evermore be men?
Brother, come and with me stray
Back through the fields of yesterday.
Chicago Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18
WHAT HE REQUIRED.
He Did Not Purchase the Entire Esta
Iishment.

He Did Not Purchase the Entire Estab-
Iishment.
by the great guns, SIR" said a stoIt
| man in an ulster and white necktie,
locking down from the balcony skirting
the upholstery department of we'll
known dry-goods store, this is an inn
mcose place-huge, simply stupendous. "
''Oh, yes; nice store" said the clerk,
obligingly.
1.-THE BonMarche isn't comparison.
No, sir; not n comparison, sir. How
much of stock do You carry?"
about two hundred thousand dol
lars worth"
Good! First-rate! And furniture
how about furniture?"
'Over one hundred thousand dollars ="
"Admirab BILE! Take a house and go
right through it, l s'pose-furnish it
complete, could you-from top to bot
tom ch?"
Yes; everything from carpets to
bric-a-brac."
"And lace curtains and tapestries, you
keep them?"
Keep everything"
''And you know what style is, too
rer eissance, Pompadour. Henry II. and
the Louise"
No one better posted than our man
ager. Pr'aps you'd better see him.
Mr. X, here one moment" and the
marager came up with a smile on him
like a half-moon.
NO idea of it, unused the ulster.
No idea. Had an impression you had
to go to Europe for such things. Good
tas%e-everything correct, surprising,
really
eff you could give me an idea" ven
tured the manager, ''of about what you
required, you know"
''Ah. yes, forgot. I want two and
half yards of green shade fringe.
Magnificent establishments - Uphol.
sterer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18
Effect of the Single Tax on the Farmer.

The farmer would be great gamer
by the substitution of a single tax upon
the value of land for all these taxes
for the taxation of land values would
fall with greatest weight, not upon the
agricultural districts, where land values
are comparatively small, but upon the
towns and cities where land values are
high; whereas taxes upon personal
property and improvements fall as
heavily in the country as in the city.
And in sparsely settled districts there
would be hardly any taxes at all for
the farmer to pay. For taxes, being
levied upon the value of the bare land,
would fall as heavily upon unimproved
as upon improved land. Acre for acre,
the improved and cultivated farm, with
it's buildings, fences, orchard, crops and
stock could be taxed no more than I'M
used land of equal quality. The result
would be that speculative values would
be kept down, and that cultivated and
improved farms would have no taxes to
pay until the country around them had
been well settled. In fact paradoxical
as it may at first seem to them, the eff
feet of putting all taxation upon the
value of land would be to relieve'the
harder working farmers of all taxation.
But the grain of the working farmer
can only be seen when the effect upon
the distribution of population is con-
sidered. The destruction of specula-
tive land values would tend to diffuse
population where it is too dense and to
concentrate it where it is too sparse;
to substitute for the tenement
C11r1 or hu
gardens, and to fully set
tie agricultural districts before
people were driven far from neighbors
to look for land. The people of the
cities would thus get more of the pure
air and sunshine of the country, the
people of the country more of the econ
omies and social life of the city. If, as
is doubtless the case, the application of
machinery tends to large fields, agri-
cultural population will assume the
primitive form and cluster in villages.
The life of the average farmer is now
unnecessarily dreary He is not only
compelled to work early and late, but
he is cut off by the sparseness of popu-
lation from the conveniences, the
amusements, the educational facilities,
and the social and intellectual opportu-
mites that come with the closer con-
tact of man with man. He would be
far better off in all these respects, and
his labor would be far more productive,
if he and those around him held no
more land than they wanted to use,
while his children, as they grew up,
would neither be SO impelled to seek
the excitement of a city nor would they
be driven SO far away to seek farms of
their own. Their means of living
would be in their own hands, and at
home.
In short. the working farmer is both
a laborer and capitalist, as well as
a land owner, and it is by his labor and
capital that his living is made. His loss
would be nominal; his gain would be
real and great.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18
he Colored Alliance Indorse Single
Tax.

Tn last number of the New Earth
pr1ns, the following important news
item as selected" 1t is important, be-
cause, if true, it brings within the
ranks of the single takers a tremendous
force for pushing the movement ahead.
Here is the item:
''The Colored National Farmers AL
lance" said Col Humphrey, has a
million and half of mem bers, and ex-
tends all over the south and southwest.
It does an immense exchange business
in the commercial centers of Houston,
New Orleans, Mobile, Norfolk, Va,
and Charleston, S. c.; besides having
many subordinate exchanges and CO.
operative stores all over the country
It has its official newspaper-the Ma
tional Alliance, of Houston-has built
upwards of four thousand alliance
school-houses and two thousand al