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The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15
A Doubtful Compliment.

A man who was selling rugs stopped
at a house on Howard street. IN the
door of which Il woman wa sweeping
A great pile Of dirt had accumulated
under her vigorous welding Of tie
broom.
"G'mornin," sail She man. Can | sci
you a rug today" =
mo, you can't sell me anything
snapped the oma
Sorry" murmured the maj as ht
folded the rugs; that's IL powerful slght
of dust you've got there.
Il guess I've swept the whole house.
retorted the woman: faint every day
kin do the sweepin."
"You must be the c~leanest woman il
the world" continued the silver tOnguC(
rug seller.
"Dew tell" said the woman, leaning
ON her broom. What makes you tho
SOP
THAT pile of dust. My wife cou!c
sweep for a month and not get such T.;
pile of dust as that"
She was flattered, and looked at biz
rugs, with the result that she bouglI
two; and as he went away he chuckleC
to himself:
learnt sell ME anythin. No: Ma.
be | didn't sell her and the rugs both
And she never tumbledr'- Detroit Free
Press.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15
Fam AbductiOns.

Marriage by abduction was by nc
means uncommon.i in the early ages. The
daughter of the king of Argus was alb
Quoted by a Ph9nician; the Greeks a
ried off Europa from Tyre and Me,lca
from Colchis.
Next to the abduction Of the fan
Helen, perhaps the most remarkable il
it's political consequences vas the King
of Leinster's taking away of the wife OF
a neighboring petty sovereign. ORouIkc
of Breffni.
The king of Connaught avenged tho
insult and drove from the throne his
brother of Leinster, who appealed t.
Henry II Of England for aid to recover
his lost sovereignty. The Norman con
quest of Ireland followed, with long
centuries of war and devastation.-Lon
don Standard.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15
Lion Tanning Made EaSX.

With the object of preventing the ter
rible scenes of such frequent occurrence
in menageries between TIE tanners of
wild beasts and their more or less docile
pupils" a chemist proposes that Il nan
should be stationed near the cage armed
with a syringe Of large dimensions filled
with caustic ammonia, a stream of which
is to be projected toward the n~ostri!s Of
the beast in case of imminent danger.
The effect would be instantaneous, as the
creature, being unable to breathe, would
let go its prey Immediately. Better late
than neyer.-Sud Quest.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15
SUPPLY co.


Are the town talk and our sales this week have been enormous. We have
Just replenshed tn I'm with an elegant assortment Of choice bar
galnsw which we h I'VE marked down 81 very w that we
are confident that in one week from date there
will not be a dozen remnants left
. o.o uL
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15

Having practiced my profession for ls years
for town and country people. I now con e and
locate permanently in Durham for the prac-
tice of DENTISTRY. and offer my services 10
the citizens of URBAN and surrounding
COUNTRY in ali DEPARTMENTS of my profession.
sE ofies over Jsnes' Jewslry Store.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15
Juvenile ~PurchaSers.

One OF the most striking features in the
poorer regioa;ur i..c city is the early age
at which children are made useful in the
household. In my rambles about town |
have seen children-pIny. undersizsd
children too-of four and FIVE years of
age carrying milk, meat, groceries. etc,
having just performed that part of the
family marketing. Step into any of the
Seventh avenue butcher shops, bakeries
or groceries and you will almost invari-
ably see children Of from four to eight
years old purchasing family supplies.
l have seen children whose ewes were
still on a level with the butchers chop
ping block buying five cents worth Of
odds and ends of meat for the family
stew, and paying for it in pennies care
fully counted out into the butchers big
brown hands-pennies hard earned, no
doubt. One time the child couldn't talk
distinctly enough for the man to under
stand.
"How much money have you got?" he
asked.
The little thinly clad tot opened a
chubby and very dirty fist and displayed
four cents. WhereupOn the butcher. his
diamond pin sparkling in the rays of his
bright c~leaver, scooped in the pennies
and chopped him Cor herr off a fragment
of bones and gristle and threw III ID
chunk of fat.
"Small:" said he, in response to my
comment. These children commence
running errands as soon as they can
walk. At six and seven the girls do the
marketing and keep house, while the
boys sell papers and play craps. Por-
terhouse, sir::"-New York Herald.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15

The approach of fly time suggested an
idea to a man in Nebraska for a cow tal
holder. A clamp like "a clotheSp.l
catches the bushy end of the tail. and
two cords with a snap attachment fas5ca
the tail to a cows leg, to a post or to tie
milking stool. The same day that the
Nebraska man got his patent for IA COW
tail holder a man in Maine got II for
the same purpose. The Maine mans tail
holder is of "a single piece of wire cooled
so as to connect the tail with the cows
leg.-Harper's Young People.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15
Odd Safeguards

In Michigan Il double cedar knot IS
carried in the pocket to cure rheunEa-
tism, and in New Hampshire a man car
RED a gall from the stems of goldentod
for the am disease. A small white
grub is in the gall, and he thought as
long as the grub remained alive no
rheumatism could get hold Of him.
Washington Star.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15

Some queer specimens OF humanity
are to lie found on Isle an HaLt. Not
long ago Il Yachting party went down
there On Il fishing trip, and after catch
ing enough cod for a chowder went
ashore to procure ON milk. Tho
yachtslnen soon fell in with Il weather
beaten native who was looking along
the shore, and he informed them that
they could get plenty of milk. but that
they would have to wait until his wife,
who had gone blueberrying, returned
and milked the COWS. The native led
the way over rocky pastures to Il dilapi-
dated cottage, and ushered them into
the kitchen TO await the return of Ma
ria"
The floor was scrubbed as white as a
man-O'. wars deck, the cOokstove was
brightly polished and a little plot before
the windows was gay with marigolds
and other hOmely fOwers-all the re.
suit of Maria's patient industry. The
lord and master sat himself down upon
the doorstep and thus runinated while
busily whiting a Single and sending
up clouds of smoke from a short clay
pipe.
Times amt as they used to be in lie
er Holt 1.-THE native pronunciation). Time
was when a man might get a living here
abouts. Fishin was good n farmin
considerable good, but that's all gone
now. Used ter be a good wharf in this
here cove n a good feet er vesSils outer
here, but that's all gone now. My father
used ter be in trade here-had a store
down there II sold nigh almost every.
thing, but that's all gone now" He said
that he had been trying to sell his place
house, barn, land, cows and all, for he
wanted to emigrate I o Washington
state. He wanted $500 for the whole
outfit, and he stopped smoking LONG
enough to swear a great oath that he
wouldn't take a cent less. This man
had loafed so long that he had forgotten
how to work. He seemed to feel that
somehow he had been cheated-that the
world owed him a living. but that the
Isle au Haut was Il poor place in which
to collect the debt.-Cor New York
Sun.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15
SALE OF LOTS!
[ will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, ON the
18th and 18th of February, 1892,
SEVENTY SIX RESIDENCE LOTS !

adjoining lies Immediately beyond and adjoining the cor
..porate limits. The lots are located on South, Lea and
Willard streets. And at the same time will offer from
six to eight very fine Grass and Clover Lots, containing
from one to two acres each.
These lots, a part of which being situated on high
lands, overlooking the town of Durham, and being stu
ated within a few minutes walk of the city, render them
very desirable to home seekers, and those who miss the
sale miss a chance to make money and miss the rarest
chance yet offered to secure a home.
The terms of this sale are: One-third cash, balance
in two equal payments "A one and two years at 8 per cent.
Title reserved until paid. A discount Of 6 per cent will
be allowed on deferred payments for all cash.
This sale is voluntary, as desire to quit trucking.
Clear title goes with each lot when cash is given. No
by-bidders will be tolerated and mean business.
CA w. BaRHAM, k%uctioneer. 9. w. MATTHEWS.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15
OPEN FOR HOLIDAY TRADE

The finest Flour in the market 10 cases Three Crown Raisins; 10
cases California Cluster Raisins; 10 cases Peach and Apple Butter 10
cases Peach and Apple Jam; ~ cases choice Nuts; 1000 pounds Candy
since Meat, Currants, Prunes, Cucumber Pickle, Mixed Pickle, Chow
Chow, Olives, Sauce, Horse Radsh; MOnao, Lion, Arbucklc Toasted
Coffee; Graduated, Cut Loaf, Futverzc. A and Brown Sugar; Cakes and
Crackers, Maple Syrup by the gallon and quarter gallon jugs New Or
leans MolasseS, Cuba Molasses, SyruTs, etc; 80 Cheese; Pear. Grits,
Hominv, North Carolina Lard, lice, Lima Beans, Navy Beans, Flavoring
Extracts, Plum Pudding, White Cherries, Bartlett Pears, yellow Peaches,
Oat Meal, Dat Flake, Buckwheat.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-02-15

There are 500, 900 more widows than
widowers in England. In France for
every l0G widowers there are 1874 widows.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-05-27
NOTICE

is hereby given that delegate con-
vention OF the peoples party of Good
hue county, will be held at Cannon
Falls on Saturday, the 4th day Of
June, 1892, at l O'Clock p. M, for the
purpose OF electing two (2) delegates
to the congressional district conven-
ton to be held at Pennington, MINI.
June 8, 1892, to elect delegates to
the national convention at Omaha;
also to elect two (2) delegates to the
state convention to nominate state
officers; also to electfour a. delegates
to a congressional district conven-
ton to be held at Pennington, Mimi,
July II, 1892, to nominate a candi-
date for congress. The basis of
representation, as 9xed by the State
Central Committee, is three (3) dele
gates from each local alliance, three
delegates from each labor organiza-
ton and one delegate from each
organized township.
Dated at Wangs, MINI. this 10Th
day Of May, 1892.
O.. A. TvEITMOE,
Chairman County Com.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-05-27

pective glance at the political history
pare then with now. Are not the
''signs of the times" pointing more
favorably to complete turnover"
now than then?-Butler (Mo.) Weekly
Union.
If there be any so foolish as to sup
pose that the mortgages are not being
paid off, let them look over the leading
papers of this city last week. The
News contained 26 sheriff's sale no
tees, the Interior-Herald "A, and the
Gazette 10, making a total of so. So in
a few days there will be so mortgages
paid off. Now let the fools who have
been claiming that the mortgages are
not being paid off, shut up.-Hutchin-
son (Kan.) Alliance Gazette.
President Polk: of the Farmers AL
lance, says that the real political issue
of the day is the reform of the entire
financial system of the government, and
that this reform must come before ex-
listing evils can be corrected. He looks
upon the free coinage of silver, tax re-
form and the sub-treasury scheme as
mere make shifts that would not bring
permanent and lasting relief to the pro-
ducing classes. President Polk is right.
Usury, upon which our entire monetary
system is founded, is the giant evil that
curses our land to-day and is the parent
of all other evils of which the people
complain.-Our Best Words.
The present move of the people is
not spasmodic or convulsive effort, as
the two old parties and hired allies do
vainly hope. 1t is but the philosophical
result of existing conditions; it is the
voice of the great and mighty people; it
is manifestly and Enthusiastically result
of educating the popular mind in politi-
cal and economic measures. Our people
are reading, intelligent people, and
when their will is recognized, and the
power of money and corporations to
rule, Cypress and enslave is broken,
such results will be succeeded by an
era of peace and prosperity unparalleled
in the history of nation.
Cause.
Prior to the call for the June con-
vention Of 1890, in South Dakota, which
decided for INDEPENDENT political action,
letter was sent to every alliance, ask
ing an expression of the wishes of the
majority. In replying nine-tenths asked
that the step be taken. In the election
following the republican vote of the
previous year was cut down from 81, 900
to $4,000. The democratic vote from a.
600 to $4,000, and the Independents
polled over $4,000. To-day the strength
of both old parties is wasted away and
no good judge will deny that the peo-
pies party will carry the election. Do
not be afraid to trust the people. Or
ganize. Lift up the standard and the
masses from both the old parties will
come to it. Party lines will be light on
men when home and children are at
7takc.-NOncOnfOrm
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-05-27
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

"A peoples party convention for the
state will be called about the first of
June.-Nashville (Tenn.) Weekly Toiler.
The procession has started, the man
who gets in the way will get run over,
and the man who falls by the wayside
will get left.
up to May 1, sub-alliances in the
State of North Carolina to the number
of $50 had Endorsed the St. Louis plat
form and declared for independent
political action.-Exchange
The silver dollar is legal tender for
only IS or under. Make silver dollars
legal tender for all debts, public and
private, and issue greenbacks to three
times the amount of the free and I'M
limited coinage of both gold and silver.
This will give US $50 per capita, and
will settle by practical test which kind
of money the people prefer.-Noncon-
formist.
The republican campaign commit
tee is alive. ''The American Farmer" is
the title of the latest campaign dodge.
1t is a paper published by Lemon, a
man who has made So, ZOO, 900 out of his
business as pension agent through the
slick device of editing and publishing a
grand army paper. This is the Lemon
that has figured with Raum in the
pension scandals. The american
Farmer" is a sheep in VOLTS clothing
Chanute (Kan.) Blade.
Says the Mitchell Is. d. Gazette:
Georgia, Florida and North Carolina
are sure for the peoples party. Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and Texas are forging
ahead at an unprecedented pace. The
peoples party will come very near to
electing the next president" Don't
say very near" just take a pros
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-05-27

harness and there is a probability that
they will cast their ballot for neither of
them, they have hushed that doleful
cry, and are now charging that the
alliance proposes to lead it's members
into the peoples party. This last asser-
ton has about as much truth in it as
the others had. The object of the ALI
ance has in no sense changed. It is to
educate The people in the science Of
economic government in a strictly non
partisan sense. Now if they would
make as great effort to obtain the alli-
ance vote by working for the peoples
interest, as they are now putting
forth to prevent the organization
of the peoples party, their sue
cess would be deserved and with
out question of doubt. There is an
other very amusing and peculiar condi-
ton that has made itself manifest in
North Carolina, Georgia and South
Carolina within the last few months.
Before that time the whole power of the
old party press had been used to con-
vince the farmers. that their demands
made at Ocala, Fla, were in every sense
ridiculous, and would be exceedingly
injurious to the best interests Of the
country. Now these. same papers are
defending the Ocala demands, turning
their whole attention to an effort to
prejudice the minds of the farmers and
laborers against those demands agreed
upon by the confederation of labor at
St. Louis, February %, 1892, even go
ing so far as to make false state
ments as to what the demands were.
If any one will lay aside prejudice
and passion and quietly examine the
efforts made by the politician since the
Inauguration of this movement, they
will be convinced that it is plain case
of you'll be damned if you do" and
''you'll be damned if you DON'T" and
how any intelligent member of the
Farmers Alliance will permit these
foolish and ridiculous assertions to have
any influence upon him is, to say the
least, peculiar, when he must know
that if we were to surrender every de-
mand except an increase Of the circula-
ton, by an issue of legal tender notes
direct to the producer, the fight would
be just as bitter as it is to-day. This
congress, knowing full well that three
fourths of all the people are in favor
of such a measure have not
reported, nor have any of
them introduced, except some
member of the alliance, any measure
looking to such contamination. The
power of those whose interests are to
maintain a high-priced dollar have been
able to prevent even the free coinage of
silver, and it is more than probable that
the Hatch anti-option bill, and all other
measures that would in any way inter-
fere with their interests, will be either
defeated or prevented from coming to q
vote. As citizens, without any consid-
Grafton of whether we belong to the al
lance Or any other organization, in my
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-05-27
NoN-PARTlsAN POLITICS.

Auiance Members VIII Cast Their Vote In
support OF tho Party Which Advocates
Alliance Principles.
1t might be clear to all who are un-
prejudiced and desire to know the truth,
that this cry of the partisan politician
that the Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union has in the remotest degree
attempted to control the freedom Of its
members in regard to their religion or
or party utilization is but an attempt to
confuse and mislead with the evident
desire and object Of bringing discord in
to the ranks of the order. Each member
knows for himself that he is at perfect
liberty to belong to any party or profess
any religion that he may choose, and
that the alliance never inquiries, and in
fact it is not a matter for their con-
sideration at all. That great many
members of the alliance honestly be-
lieve that the reforms they seek can
not be accomplished within the ex-
isting political parties is unquestion-
ably true. And the very fact that the
order is non-partisan grants to these
brothers the perfect liberty to sever
their party connections and form others
without having their motives impugned
or themselves criticised by those who
may differ with them. It is peculiar
that you never hear politicians belong
ing to the democratic or republican
parties arraigning the alliance as a
secret third party organization so long
as its members continue to vote their
respective tickets. We then heard
throughout the democratic states that
the alliance was intended, and that it
had been organized by the republicans
to break up the democratic party.
In the republican states the
s0me cry was heard, only it
was democratic trick to destroy the
republican party; but now since
the people are taking off their party
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-05-27

treadng ground would be odous
alliance
should follow closely upon the heels which would
connection with this the fact that hopposed the subasury
plank the until the state meeting OF the alliance
last winter decided that what wanted No had it
apparent the woods avoraby
disposed toward than friend heart
forthwith Herod his advocacy the
"odous" plank.
the astounding intelligence that after his nomination
confidence he soemny assured
still good republican he
of the staunchest alliance
county, Mr. Lommen his will be
happy to furnish it,
friend 1.-The Hon. Clerk OF Court
advocates republican Mills Lommen in the
be held responsible his friends
with Mr. Mills and they both
other neither he be held accountable
together and ascribe them design but
suspect anything the angelic would be the
sa Now still further back than yet have
liars the time is distant but that
minds the Oldest inhabitants when Mr.
seeking the hands OF the old
the hands the said machine served
least assistant engineer his fallen
majesty.
tracks produced the sands OF time by
this political Pilgrim tempted to him
couple Moore poems with slight variation
"Though still stk I'm too hungry for Office
to be PARTICULAR
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-05-27

Judgment the time has come when we
should rise above party or prejudice
of any kind and, after careful investi-
cation, vote for what we believe
to be the best interests of home and
country. It seems to me from the very
nature of present conditions that the
eastern and southern democracy must
divide whenever the question of finance
is made an issue, and that this is of more
Importance to the laboring people OF
our country than all else combined
there can be no dispute. Again, it must
be patent to all who are thinking men
that the people of the south and west
will not surrender finance as an issue
in the next campaign; and If this di-
vision must come, which it surely
must, I cannot see how there could
be a more propitious time, and l
do not believe that any legislation
looking to the interests Of the masses
can be accomplished until the south and
west are politically united. Those ad-
vocating an independent movement be-
lieve that can be accomplished best by
that means. They contend with reason
that prejudice against republicanism in
the south and democracy in the west
would prevent many from voting their
interests that would do so under new
name free from such prejudices. This
is not time when men should consider
individual interests, but we should all
conscientiously bend our energies to ac-
complish the release of the people from
the class legislation that now Expresses
them. The foolish cry about love OF
party is simply pretense. A man to be
a patriot should love his country and be
willing to vote with any party that Of
fers the greatest relief. Now the PEG
pies party, like the democratic and re-
publican, must come before the people
with its platform Of principles, and !
pray God that the people may be patri-
otto and independent enough to vote fol
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-05-27

ton, and to transact any other
business that may properly come
before the meeting. The basis of
representation will be one delegate
at large for each township or ward
of chartered city, and one delegate
for each 25 votes or major fraction
thereof cast for S. M. Owen for gov
ernor, in 1890.
The several towns and wards will
be entitled to delegates as follows: