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Company, or the ::Cutter Trust,' as
it is called, but their real purpose to
control the tobacco interests of the
country perhaps have not been here
tofore fully understood. But that is
the game they would play and the
fight is now on. Their recent action
in Texas shows this. But they have
been foiled in their first bold and des-
perate game and they must be met
with the same spirit Of resistance else
where. The people must rise in their
might and thwart the ends of this mon
ster before they get fully into the
powe- of its octopus like grasp. AL
ludng to the little game attempted to
be played by the American Tobacco
Company down in Texas, the States
vile Landmark says
The American Tobacco Company,
otherwise the cutter trust, is growing
in insolence as it increases in wealth.
1t controls absolutely the output of
cigarettes, as we'll as man, of the
plug and smoking tobacco factories of
the country, and has put its own
prices upon cutters and smokers, which
are 20 to IS per cent. lower than they
were before the trust came into ex-
istence. We have told how this COM
bination withdrew its buyer from the
Reidsville market because Webster's S
Weekly attacked it, and a recent is
sue of that paper told that salesman
for the trust, having taken the order
of a Reidsville merchant for a ship
mert Of cigarettes, drew his pencil
through the order because the mer-
chant declined to buy the trusts smok
ing and chewing tobacco to the exclu-
sion of the products of factories which
were on the outside The latest de-
velopment along this line is at Gal
weston, Texas, where the combination
has demanded of the merchants that
they shall handle its tobacco exclusively
or do without cigarettes. The mer-
chants have refused and Ben Duke, of
Durham, the president of the Ameri
can Tobacco Company-who draws a
salary of $4,000 per year, the same
as that of the President of the United
States-and one Marburg, of Balti
more, have gone down there to bring
them to terms. The merchants are
firm, the issue has been fairly joined,
and may God protect the right This
great monopoly, not content with
grinding the faces of those farmers who
raise cutters and smokers, proposes
now to dragon the merchants, and
when it succeeds in forcing all tobaccos
excepting its own off the market, it
will have the world in a sling.
In proportion as we despise all un-
fairness, all extorton and taking of
undue advantage, all oppression of
the weak by the strong and the poor
by the rich, all efforts to nullity by
combinations of capital the laws of
supply and demand, to freeze out COM
petition, to deprive man of his natural
right to get all he honestly can for
the product of his own labor, in that
proportion do we honor Mr.. Julian S.
Carr, of Durham, for his refusal to sell
himself to this organized appetite,
this American Tobacco Company
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The Toledo Weekly Blade Free.

The propretors of the Toledo Blade,
the best known political weekly OF the
United States, are making preparations
to create sensation this winter by send
ing million specimen copies to as many
readers in all parts of the United States,
who do not now take that paper. To
that end they invite everybody to send
the addresses of as many people as they
care to, by postal card or letter. Send
one name, ten, twenty, one hundred or
a thousand. AS many as you have time
to write, only take care to send correct
addresses OF people that you know appre-
ciate good reading. 1t will cost but a
little trouble, and the thousands who
receive sample copies will feel grateful.
Send all the names and addresses you
please to the Blade, Toledo Ohio.
The man who succeeds in business
is the man who advertises. News
paper advertising is the great medium
through which fortunes are made.
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HUMOROUS BLUNDERS OF
THE TYPE.

In the course of an eloquent address
an orator alluded to Cato and Brutus.
The paper spoke OF his "feeling for
cats and brutes." a western editor
gave out two articles for his paper, one
on political subject, and the other
on fattening swine. He neglected to
correct the proof, and the next morn
ing, to his chagrin and disgust, he
found that the printer had changed
the heading so that one began, "Grea
hogs. Uuder this head we include the
clergy, the editorial fraternity and the
member of congress" At a large
public demonstration, popular and
prominent man arose to speak and
was greeted with enthusiastic cheering
and shouts. In speaking Of it the
newspaper said, "the vast concourse
rent the air with their snouts." Gold
smith, who was known as a tastidious
writer, fell victim to the errors of
the press. In beautiful poem in
speaking Of the nightingale, he wrote,
" And that low tone, more sweet than
ALL The printer said, "And that
low tone, more sweet than ale." A
New York editor, who wrote an obit-
uary on the death of man of celeb
rity, said, :" He began life as a legal
practitioner, but was diverted from it
by a love of letters" He did not see
the proof, and was confronted next
morning by this: "He began life as a
legal politician, but he was diverted
from it by love of bitters" A printer
by no means famed for piety, came to
the words, &C No cross, no CROWN" and
proceeded to make the type read, mo
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At the depot at Salisbury Friday
night we heard a gentleman from
Texas speaking OF the Raleigh Eposi-
ton. He said the exhibits were very
fine and in every way credi,able. How
ever, he was surprised at the small
attendance. He thought Charlotte
would have been a better location
Charlotte Times.
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A REACTION OF THE THIRD
PARTY BUSINESS SET
TING IN.
[CharlOtte News |

A gentleman we'll versed in the in
nermost secrets of the Alliances re-
marked to a Ne7os representative this
morning:
"Have undergone a change in my
opinion about the right of Southern
farmers to go into a Third Party"
picked up last weeks Charlotte Demo-
c,at and | read in it an editorial that
seems to me, to better illustrate the
dangers of carrying the Alliance
strength too far, than any other argu-
ment have read or heard. The ar
ticle shows in figures the result of
Withdrawing large white vote from
the Democratic ticket and that the
movement cannot possibly benefit the
farmers, may result in giving the State
to the Republicans. Tnen this posi-
bility has caused me to halt and
have no doubt when other members of
the order investigate the matter, as |
have since done, they will be of my
opinion and let the new party severely
alone. | think it will be OF interest
to Nezos readers, and | urge you to
reproduce at least portion of the
Democrats editorIal.'
Now let US see what effect this would
probably have on the result in this
State at the next presidential election.
Taking the votes of 1888 as a guide,
and adding five percent the possible
increase, we have:
cleveland I44,0o2
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THAD R. MANNING, Publisher. |
VOL. x.

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'TwoULD BE A BETTER WORLD.

If men cared less for wealth and fame,
And less for battlefields and glory,
Ii writ in human hearts name
Seemed better than in song or story;
If men instead Of nursing pride
Would learn to hate it and abhOr it:
Ii more relied
On Love tO.guide,
The world would be the better for il.
II men dealt less in stocks and lands,
And more in bonds and deeds fraternal {;
LII Loves work had more willing hands
To link this world with the supernal
If men stored up Loves Oil ana wine
And Oh bruised human hearts would
pour it
If yours and mine"
Would once combine,
The world would be the better for it
If more would act the play of life,
And fewer spoil it in rehearsal
If Bigotry would sheath its knife
Till good became more universal;
If Custom, gray with ages grown.
Had fewer blind men tC adore it
If Talent shOne
In Talent alone,
This world would be the better for it.
If men were wise in little things
Affecting less in all their dealings;
If hearts had fewer ruSted strings
TO isolate their kindred feelings;
If men, when Wrong beats down the Right,
Would strike together to restore it
If Right made Might
In every fight,
The world would be the better fOrit.
-Neoo Bradtord journal.
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"a Course Dinner"

With numerous illustrations showing a
modern dinner-table beautifully decorat-
ed, diagram OF how to set it, and also
each course separately, aad describing
in charming and explicit -1ay every de-
tail OF appointments and 8, lice and the
thousand-andone "little" hings that
are essential to the success OF such an
entertainment, is one Of the attractions
OF the December number of Demorest's
Family Magazine, which will be of interest
to every woman, and invaluable to mex
perienced housekeepers. From the initial
water-cOlor, "Ahead of Santa Claus"
the humor of which all will appreciate to
the Pattern Order on the last page. there
is not a single thing in this splendid
number that would not be regretted We're
it omitted. The beautifully execnted full
page engraving, ''The Mother ,ur
Lord, IL gem that is especial feiy,
and Christmas hymn follower by n
profusely illustrated paper on "Holly,
Mistletoe, and the Yule-Log," furnish in
themselves a menu that can hardly be
surpassed. Women as Smuggiers, +"
The Conquest of Neptune" (which gives
valuable and interesting information
about divers and how they operateunde
water), and the second paper in the
series, "The Romances of PreCoIumbian
Discoveries" are especially good, and all
handsomely illustrated. Then there are
splendid stories, and the suggestions
about Christmas gifts will be of great as
sistance to those who oan never decide
what to make for present. The numer-
GUS departments are, as usual, replete
with seasonable ideas, and over 200 IL
trations enhance the attractioSn
splendid reading matter2
in all, Demoresfs Family
most generous return
ton price, 81 year
W. Jennings Demor
New York City.
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Probable Democratic major

Probable Democratic major
without any" third party, 14,774
Now take $1,000 as the Alliance
vote, scale it 20 per cent, leaving 49,
900 votes: 90 per cent from the Demo
cratic ticket and 10 per cent from the
Republican, and we have on the above
gross figures
Democratic candidate I19,297
Republican candidate 1852
" Peoples Party candidate 10000
The force of the Democrats figures
are seen at glance.
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GRASPING GREED.
CAPITAL ORGANIZED TO OP.
PRESS.
The American Tobacco Company
Showing It's Hand---A Bold
and Desperate Game They
Would Play.

H E combining
together of men
and capital and
the forming of
trusts Of what
ever nature bodies
no good to the
C country. Our
people are al
ready ia m iliar
with the Ameri-
nv
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~'~ "Ss pAootSA~u ohA NN'' ~
partments of business and industry
suffer in proportion. There is unrest
and dissatisfaction among the people
but bravely and courageously they are
struggling on and trying to make ou'
as best they can. This state of affairs
moves the Charlotte Times to re-
view the situation and comment thereon
as follows:
The Scripture says that prosperity
best discovers vice and poverty best
discovers virtue. This does not mean
that prosperity tends to vice or that
adversity tends to virtue. The idea
is that virtuous person will be more
conspicuous in adversely because temp
tations and trials are greater. This
will be year of extraordinary hard
ship on the people of all classes. Not
only the farmers but the merchants,
lawyers, doctors, mechanics and all
others will feel the pinch of hard times.
Many men cannot see how they can
keep up their business and make ends
meet. They are discouraged and out
of heart. Their energies are paralyzed
and hope is withered. The future
looks darker to them than ever before.
The turning point in the career of
many has come.
Who will profit by the misfortunes
of 1891, and who will give up hope
and be crushed by themP This is the
season for testing manhood.
Many men attribute their success
to their misfortunes. AT each calamity
they double their Determination and
energy. The Almighty never makes
a mistake. He gives no man more
than he can bear. Misfortunes are
object lessons. The crop failure this
year contains a hidden lesson which
will prove a blessing to those who
have mind to read it. Men rightly
constituted will study this lesson take
new lease on life; resolve to labor
more intelligently; to pay the last
dime of every debt to live hereafter
by new plan, upon higher plain
and for the nobler purpose. You
know the wine comes from the pressed
grape.
Thus many may start on career Of
prosperity, honor and happiness, so
that in after life, they may look back
upon the financial reverse of 1891, as
the greatest blessing oftheir lives.
There is nothing too great for a
great will.
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N E of the most
prominent Alli-
a n c e m en- of
Jones county,
Mr.. ]. B. Banks,
Sr., has written
a letter to the
New Bern Jour-
mai, in which he
says Cleveland is
the choice of the
people in his sec
tiop Thew oI
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THERE IS HOPE
AS LONG AS LIFE LASTS.
Some Practical Thoughts ON the
Present Hard Times---Possibly
aBlessing in Disguise---Let
Us So Regard It and
Take Courage forlthe
Future.

- ~ - ~ ~ "a IL L.
complaint is rife
all over the coun-
try a m o n 6 all
classes. of "hard
tim e S. The
crops have been
poor and prices
low and as a
natural conse-
Quence the far
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mlre his honesty, his courage and his
friendship for the plain common peo-
pie, he says, and would cheerfully sup
port him if he should be the nominee
OF his party in 1892. We publish the
letter below preceded by some COM
ments thereon by the Statesyille Land
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CLEVELAND AND THE PEOPLE.

A PROMINENT ALLIANCE
MAN:TALKS.
He Says the Masses, the Plain
Thinking People, Are for the
Ex-President---Col. Polk
Not in It as a Promul-
gator of fPublic.Sen-
timent Among
North Caro-
lima Far
merS.
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clients. A little experience be had the
other day shows that he does not hesitate
TO Inconvenience himself to advance the
interest of his client, and that he does not
stop at professional work. but is willing
and ready to throw off his coat and per-
form the severest manual labor in a boil
ing sun. Wednesday or Thursday of last
week he left here for kiowa, Kansas, TO
get the depositionsof a man residing there
TO use in the Barrows-Sebastine contest
When he got to Kiowa he found that the
man was fifty miles down on the Southern
Kansas road in the Cherokee Outlet. He
took the first train down to Galya
where he Was supposed to be at
work. He was not there however,
but was working three miles
further on at another washout. The Judge
did not hesitate but struck out on foot for
the next place. He found his man but
another difficulty presented itself. There
was no notary public nearer than kiowa.
and the roadmaster refused TO allow the
man TO leave unless he found a man 10
take his place. This was impossible as
not soul lived nearer than fifty miles OF
the place. Finally Judge Brown proposed
that he himself would work that after
be excused for day and half to go to
kiowa. The roadmaster accepted the
proposition, and in five minutes the judge
had his coat off keeping up his enc with
fifty other shovelers. He blistered his
hands and burned his face and neck in the
burning sun, but he gained the object OF
his visit. But after all his efforts 10 get
the deposition when they got to Kiowa
the judge found a telegram awaiting him
stating that the case had been compro-
missed and not 10 take the deposition.
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Fine social intercourse il really TIA
inest of the fine arts; and If painting
and sculpture and architectural are worth
:herishing, so Is that higher standard OF
manners without which these things ara
merely a misplaced fringe for barharism.
It is true that manners joined with
nothing better are disappointing. Il Is
true that hungry man would rather
dine with boor on vension than with
Duke Humphrey on his proverbial dinner
that Is, on nothing. But if the boor-
lshness destroys ones appetite, where Is
the good of yension? and "adinner OF
herbs where love is''-or even where re-
hnement ls-turns out the better bill OF
fare. The true charm Of fine manners
is best seen In poverty, when attainable
there; but wealth is doubtless the better
school for them at first, and this Is one
! reason why men are tempted by wealth.
The English word means" or the
phrase "a man of means" is very instruc-
tive, for it views property but as means
toward something more important. And
though many men so no further than
the means, yet it is something that we
have this great truth recognized IN Ian
guage. So all the love tor fashionable
novels is really an expression OF long
ing after the reinements of hfe And
though the society columns are often
made up largely of the doings Of the So
cially obscure, and though the socially
prominent usually try TO keep out OF
them, yet they are no doubt a humble
school for good manners to those readers
who distrust themselves. The young
girl who with vague admiration reads OF
Mrs. AS and Mrs. BIS entertainments
perhaps acquires the wish that when
she also is annexed TO some matrimonial
letter of the alphabet, she also may have
an attractive home.-T. w. Higginson
in Harper's Bazaar.
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Cheer for the Ailinc.

a physician who has noted the dreari-
ness of the typical waiting room for pa
tients and its evil effects on people al
ready in an unhappy frame of mind from
bodily ills has devoted some time to
making his reception rooms as cheerful
and lively as good taste will permit. In
place of bare, white walls, with an odd
print or two upon them, a bookcase con-
tanning dry medical works and a stand
filed with stiff looking br5c-a-brac, he
has an abundance Of well executed
paintings or prints, the subjects of
which are of an interesting and cheerful
nature. The center table is covered
with copies of the latest novels. Illus
trated magazines and files of the humor-
Gus weekly papers. The furniture in
cludes several large easy chairs, so rest
full that when once settled in one OF
them q person is reluctant to get up
again.
at costs something TO do all this
said he, ''but it is certainly good in
vestment. Waiting in dull, cherries
room is very trying to the nerves, and
most visitors 10 doctors Office are nerv-
Gus and irritable. Like all reforms.
however, it is carried TO excess by some
physicians. / know several who have
the walls Of their reception rooms COM
pietely covered with oil paintings. 50
that the room looks like badly crowded
picture gallery. But the idea is good
one and is rapidly gaining ground -
New York Telegram.
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Governor stephens Las. Act.

Governor Alexander Stephens-dying
few years ago-persisted in having all
business matters brought 10 his bedside.
There was on the table a petition for the
pardon of distinguished criminal; the
petition was signed by distinguished
men. There was also on that table a
letter from poor woman in the peni-
Tertiary, written and signed by herself
alone. Dying" said the great governor.
"You think that because have been i'll
so many times and got well that / shall
get well now, but yon are mistaken;
viii not recover. Where il that letter
by that woman in the penitentiary? /
think she has suffered enough. As near
as l can tell she has no friends Bring
me that paper that may sign her par
don"
A gentleman standing by, thinking
this TOO great responsibility for the
sick man, SAID, Governor, you are very
sick now. perhaps you had better wait
TIL tomorrow; you may feel stronger
and you may feel better" Then the eye
Of the old governor fashe5, and he said,
II know what l am about" Putting bis
signature 10 that pardon be wrote tbs
last word he ever wrote, for then the
pen fen from his pale and rheumatic
and dying hand forever. How beauti-
full that the closing hours Of life should
be spent IN helping one who had no
helper,-Dr. Talmage in Ladies Home
Journal
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EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS.

DIR. Mayo, in his very full and compre-
hensive resume of the educational situa-
ton of the country, particularly in the
southern states, which appeared in yes
terdays dispatches, refers to a condition
that has always interfered with the
proper and satisfactory dispensation of
school privileges and advantages, and
that Is the sparcenesS of settlements in
purely agricultural communities: that is
TO say, in such communities the children
of school age within reach of a given
point are too few to warrant the organi-
cation of a school and the maintenance
of competent teacher. OF course this
condition will have to be overcome in
some way before much progress in the
educational line can be hoped for.
In this connection Mr. Bookwalter. the
wealthy Ohioan. has formulated plan
by which he thinks he will be able to
overcome the difficulty mentioned. and
that Is to organize a rural community as
village after the fashion of the ancients
and which still obtains in some of the
European countries. There are some
commendable features in the plan. but
at least one that in a measure COM
promises it, and that is, it carries with it
the idea OF peasantry, subject to the
control of the landlord and at his will.
and leads directly towards the establish
ment of landed aristocracy.
Ii the plan were SO arranged that the
tenants OF the farm lands, who are
TO be the residents of the Villages.
might purchase the holdings upon some
system OF easy payments, il would afford
very plausible solution of the educa-
tional problem, and at the same time mid
a great many persons in securing homes
who otherwise may never be able 70
dose.
1t may be said, notwithstanding the
Objectionable feature suggested. that the
question of intelligence among the people
Is paramount one, and there are those
who contend that an intelligent peaSantrv
is preferable to an ignorant democracy;
that, IN fact, a true democracy cannot
be maintained indefinitely without a
basis Of intelligence upon which to rest.