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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
NEWS NOTES.

The Democratic caucus of the
Louisiana Legislature nominated
Senators Gallery and Blanchard to
fill out the two unexpired terms they
are now filling.
FL. c. Snodgrass, of Tennessee, was
renominated to Congress on the
437th ballot. One of the delegates
returning from the convention was
killed by another delegate.
Fire, which started in the baseball
stand during a game at Boston Tues
day afternoon burned over twelve
acres, fifty or sixty buildings being
destroyed and 500 families made
homeless.
The Manufacturers Record says
the business outlook of the South
shows On increased attention paid to
new manufacturing enterprises and
new railroad projects. More farmers
are settling in the South than ever
before. Among new enterprises for
the week it notes a 5000 brewery.
a $4,000 Touring mill and a
brownstone quarry for North Caro-
lima.
In the Southern Baptist conven.
ton Monday the report of the com
mittee on foreign work was read and
discussed. 1t showed the work oil
the church to be in fourishing con-
dition. Anti-Catholie sermons were
preached Sunday by two of the dele.
gates, which are said.to be a slap at
Governor Northern, of Georgia, for
appointing Patrick Walsh, a Roman
Catholic to the United States Senate
About 80 of the delegates will &c
on the excursion to Mexico.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
Davidson County News.
Correspondence of the Sentinel

Correspondence of the Sentinel.
TYRo SHOPS, May Give are
having most excellent seasons, rain
every day or two now and our farm
ers are pushing their tobacco in the
direction of Winston.
The roller mill at this place is now
in full blast, making -four equal to
any mill in the State.
Rev. T. IL. Pegram, Of Winston.
preached q most excellent sermon to
a large congregation at Bethel
church Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. K. Davenport, OF
Mount Holly, N. c., and Mrs. Fay, of
Massachusetts, are visiting Mrs. r.
B. Thompson this week.
Misses Blanch and Lila Barnhardt,
of Salisbury, returned to their
homes yesterday after spending sew
eral days in the village.
DIR. w. j. Vestal attended the
medical convention at Greensboro
last week, and with his best girl yes
terday. The doctor doesn't propose
to get left on anything THRo.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
SENATOR RANSOM.
The Political Signs do not Promise
Him Success.

The Political Signs do not Promise
Him Success.
From the Washington Times.
Senator Ransom is not as compla-
cent as his mobile countenance would
indicate" said distinguished North
Carolina politician, as he rolled the
end of a PEREZ Ito around in his
mouth, while summing his Apollo
Belvidere in front of the Shoreham.
"The old man is writing more letters
every night now" he went on to say,
ethan he ever did before in his life.
The political signs in North Carolina
do not augur success for him next
year. There are several good men
already in the field. He wants to
come back, for he could not put on
the style in North Carolina that he
does in Washington. Creased trous-
ers, billed shirts, twO-story collars
and boutonnieres are not as popular
at home as homespun jeans and
horny hands. Ransom has an aver
sion for writing letters. He has done
nothing for the boys in the way of
securing Federal patronage. And
my! can't he strut. He is the only
man | ever saw who could strut
standing still.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
AN EVIL OF THE AGE.
A Medical Warning to Women by DIR.
John Ellis.

Looking simply at the physical
development, health, symmetry of
form, beauty, increase, and perpetui-
ty OF the native American people, it
is perfectly safe to say that tight
dressing, as it is practiced today
among the women and girls of our
country, is the greatest evil that
exists. When the writer was boy,
seventy years ago, tight dressing
among women was principally con-
fined to the waist and theNosst, but
today it is carried down as Tow aa
possible towards the hips. Of late
years we have had advertised, by the
manufacturers or their agents, cor
sets for contracting and elongating
the waist" and we see the sad re-
suits of their use in the deformed
women all around us.
Kind reader, you who care for the
welfare of our race, pleaselook at the
distorted figures which are intended
to represent fashionable women to
be seen in our periodicals., and even
in some of our daily papers, and
which are freely sent to and admit
| ted into the homes where dwell girls,
young women, and their mothers.
With such Illustrations before them,
what is more natural than that the
young girls should feel that their
bodies should be forced into the shape
represented in the fashion plates be
fore them, and too many mothrrs
are anxious that their daughters
should be dressed in fashionable
style, and they know very we'll that
the natural human form can Only be
thus distorted by the means of cor
sets, tight dresses or bandages, APP
piled to their girls while young, so as
to forcibly restrain the natural de-
velopment and growth Of the waist.
abdomen, and hips, mechanically as
the Chinese fashionable mother pre-
vents the growth of the feet of her
girls.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
LIFE ON THE FARM.
ONE of its Important Advantages
Summed Up.

Some of its Important Adyanta GEES
Summed Up.
From the Massachusetts, Ploughman1
What are some of the advantages
of the country? Let US count them
up.
Fresh air.
The sunshine. In cities the sun
light never gets into parts of the
poor quarters.
No overcrowding.
A steady field for labor.
Fair wages.
Enough to eat-which one NAV
raia8Dn his own land
Better social advantages, especial
~ for the laborer.
Opportunities that develop self
respect, honor, independence. 1t is
from the country that the best stock
Is drawn. The strong men who have
been an honor to this country were
country-raised, and it was to that
that owed their force of character.
In the country the lines between
the employer and the employees are
not drawn so closely as to make
either feel that such q relation con-
stitutes inferiority on the part of the
employed. The class lines are much
stronger in the city than in the
country, and to Americans there is
always discomfort with that condi
ton of affairs.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
TIE WAY TO ELECT.

So odious is the United States Sen
ate that we have no doubt the peo-
pie would gladly abolish it now II
they could do it peaceably. There is
many a man in that body whose
election was bought or obtained
through chicanery in the legislature
which elected him.
The only peaceable remedy is that
by constitutional amendment but
this would take several years to
accomplish. What, then, shall the
people do in order to escape from the
plague of having legislators not re
sponsible directly to the people,
There is a plan which has been
worked and found satisfactory. we
hope to see the Democratic and other
political organizations to adopt 1t
to a greater or less extent in several
States. Illinois tried it two years
ago and California will try it this
year.
This plan is to allow the various
county or district conventions to
express their choice for United States
Senator. Then those who are noml-
mated on the legislative ticket can be
instructed to vote for the election OF
the choice of the convention. This
would bring the election of Senators
nearer to the people.
We have no doubt that the senti-
ment of the people overwhelmly
fayors the election of United States
Senators by direct vote of the people.
The only practical test of this was
vote taken in California year before
last when every ballot gave the voter
an opportunity to express his opin-
ion.
The result of that vote was that
1877, 95S people in California voted in
favor of the election of Senators by
direct vote of the people while only
IS, 342 were against Incorporation;
the majority was 174,616. Could
anything be more convincing than
that? And we have no doubt that
we're another vote to be taken this
year the majority would be greater
still.
A consideration of this subject
leads us to believe that the party
which goes on goes on record this
year as in favor OF some such plan as
above outlined will win the conf
dence of the people and have an i'm.
mense advantage over the party
that does not SO declare itself.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
George w. Childs on Drink.

81 cannot lay too great a stress on
the matter of strict temperance.
Drinking beer, wine or spirits is
useless and dangerous habit. 1t
does no good, and if the habit is con-
tinued it is almost sure to lead to
destruction and death. Taste not;
touch not; handle not. You should
have the courage to say no if you
are asked to drink. In looking back
over my life can recall many of the
best and most promising of my COM
panions who were ruined by the
habit of drinking-not one of whom
ever imagined that he would be
wrecked in mind and body and event
ually fill a drunkard's grave. There
is no safety in moderate drinking.
Every one who touches it at all is In
danger"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24

We call attention to these words oil
Senator Platt: "Wnen it (the Wilson
billy came from the House, an intelli-
gent scheme of tariff revision lay at
it's base. Here, it encountered the
opposition of a few so-called Demo-
cratic conservatives variously esti-
mated at from FIVE to fifteen. The
price of their votes appeared in the
protective duties in the bill. Take
the item of sugar. 1t was found by
those who insisted on duty on
sugar that the bin could not be
passed, unless the Sugar Trust was
taken care of. The iron ore and coal
interests had not been as powerful as
the Sugar Trust; they did not have
the negative votes behind them, but
they, too, had sufficient backing to
secure duty of forty cents per ton
each. The conservatives had played
the part Of stand-and-deliver brig
ands. J.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
WIND AND HAIL sroRm.
Closing Exercises of Enon Academy
Splendid Program.


Correspondence of the Sen,ineL1
MANA, May Give have had
some fine and refreshing rains and
all crops have been very greatly
benefited. On the 18th we had a
very severe wind storm. Mr.. J. II.
Conrad had barn blown down. He
had two horses in the stables at the
time; they were pinned down by the
timbers but received no injury. Some
hail fell, but no damage done to
crops.
The closing exercises of Enon
Academy came off on 18th. The day
was truly a delightful one. The ex-
ercises began at 10 O'Clock and by
that hour a very large and well
dressed crowd had gathered upon the
campus. The program was admira-
bly, rendered throughout. 1t opened
with devotional exercises.
A beautiful duet was creditablv rem
dered by the Misses Logan, followed
by speeches and essays by the differ
ent scholars-all of which reflected
credit upon instructors and pupils.
The speech of j. Henry Shore was
very able and instructive.
The Rotations by Miss Missouri
Shore and Miss Alice Conrad were
splendid.
The literary address by Mayor H.
E. Shore, of Kernersville, was the
browning honor of the day He is an
old Yadkin boy, but in his new home
is rapidly gaining a high stand.
The musical part of the program
was also an interesting and ettrac
tive feature For this Miss Dora
Shore, Messrs. John and Preston
Shore, John Myers and Walter
Phillips are due thanks.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
REV. Ell. EUDAILY DEAD.
A Superannuated Methodist Divine
News From Wilkes.
Correspondence ofThe SentinelJ

A superannuated Methodist Divine
News From Wilkes.
Correspondents ofThe Sentinel.l
NORTH WILKEsBoRo, May 16-A
drought is prevailing over this sec
ton. No rain has fallen to do much
good in more than six weeks.
The seventeen year locusts have not
yet put in their appearance here
abOuts.
The commencement exercises of
the North Wilkesboro Institute will
come off May 18th and 18th. r. z.
Linney will deliver the address.
The North Wflkesboro nine went
out to play Moravian Falls club
Saturday afternoon with a result of
II to Is in favor OF North Wilkes
boro.
w. M. Absher, ESQ. made a bust.
ness trip of several days to Ashe
county last week.
Rev. Mr.. Bradshaw preached to
large audience In the Baptist church
Sunday night. Holy communion
was administered.
A large concourse of people turned
out Monday from this place and the
surrounding country to attend the
burial of Rev. e. j. Eudailey, who
died at his residence two miles below
here on the 1th inst, aged SO years.
He was a superannuated Methodist
minister, and WAS circuit rider here
for several years. He came to this
section about fifteen years ago from
Stokes county. A Wife, one child and
mouv friouda ara left ff, ry1o11ru fIo
loss Of a good man. His last words
we're: Let me 60; / see my Jesus
STUDENT.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
CYCLONE AT WALNUT COVE.
Warehouse and Other Property Dam
aghd-Lif edia Man Up.
&C. oil

Warehouse and Other Property Dam
aghd-Lift edfa Man Up.
Correspondence of the Sentinel.
WALNUT Cove, May The citi-
Zens of Walnut Cove were very much
excited about 6 O'Clock last evening
over u cyclone which passed through
here. 1t was first seen coming in
from the west and looked like a
smoke from terrible fire but as it
got nearer its identity could be told.
Its path was about 200 feet in width.
1t passed DIR. Lash's house and
scattered his buggy house, corn crib
and some other out houses, and
from there it struck the Farmers
tobacco warehouse and carried one
end of it across the street, lodging
it against the porch of Mrs. Stone.
1t then struck another street and
Mr.. j r. Caudle wasin it's path. He
was lifted from the ground and car
ried about % feet. His hat was seen
about one-half mile from there, some
distance in the air. j. R, who for
tunately escaped unhurt, says he lost
his hat but the merchant who sells
him another one will be benefited,
provided he don't sell it to him on q
credit.
1t has been reported small to-
baeco crop for this year but judging
from the amount of guano that is
being sold here there will be a good
crop planted in this section again.
Dysentery seems to he an epidemic
in this section and it Is no respecter
of persons, about as common with
the old people as with the children.
Miss Minnie Highfield, of Summer
field, who has been visiting relatives
here, returned home today.
Mr.. Liipfert, of Winston, was in
town yesterday selling cigars.
from here to Piedmont Springs this
season.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
Why kentucky Prospers.

ri think that one great cause of the
prosperity of Kentucky as a state
lies in her excellent system of roads, !"
said John Sinnott of Paducah, KY,
recently. owe utilize our convicts
by making them work upon our
roads. Take the city in which live,
for instance, and the good results of
this idea are apparent. We have
four big pixies or macadamised and
we'll graded roads running out from
the city. On a rainy day when the
farmer can't pillow he'll hitch up his
team, put hogshead of tobacco or
a load of corn on his wagon and
come to town. In most sections of
United States he couldn't get to
town on a rainy day with a loaded
wagon on account of the mud. AS it
is, in our country he saves a whole
day, saves his team and his wagon
and his temper, and the town mer-
chant gets the benefit of his trade"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
Davie County Dots.
Correspondence of the sentinel.I

COrfeepOndenc6 OF the SentneI.J
CANA, May 21.-Sone tobacco was
set here Saturday but there are only
a few farmers planting here this time.
Mr.. LIT. Hendron and j. g. Hunt
er each lost child from fux last
week.
Mr. J. G. Clifford is quite Ill.
Mr.. j. w. Etchison returned from
a tripto Wilkesboro Saturday night.
Mr.. e. ID. c. Pope started up his
distillery this morning. =
There has been a brisk demand for
corn lately. Parties are hauling it
from here to .Iredell county.
Mr.. E. Frost seems to be on his
feet again, at least he is running his
store. Vox.
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AS to the state of trade, there have
been serious strikes and the dilatory
Senate to prevent restoration to
business, and yet, says Dun's Review
"the recuperative force of the coun-
try Is SO great that observers are
constantly amazed at the volume of
business being transacted. the tom
mage being transported, the number
of works resuming operation, and
the general soundness of trade, not
withstanding influences which in any
other land would produce dire dis
aster."
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
A Story of Henry Clay.

When Henry Clay was stumping Ken
lucky for reelection to Congress, he met at
one of his addresses an old hunter of wide
political influence who stood up in the
meeting and said, Harry, I've always gone
for ye, but since you voted so-and-so I'm
going agin ye.''
Clay paused and said, That's a good rifle
you've got, my friend, isn't it?'' Yes"
You think a good deal of that rifle, don't
you ?n eyes" "Well, did she ever miss
fre?'' YES why don't you throw her
away them
The old hunter thought moment and
said Harry, Ill try We again.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
Death of an Aged Lady Near Elkfn-
Surry I'll as no Populists.

Death OF an AGED Lady Near ElK1n-
Surry Has no PopuIists.
Correspondence of the sentinel.]
ELKIN, May hing rains
fell here Saturday and the farmers
are jubilant.
Mrs Emily Woodruff, an old lady
76 years old, living near Lere, died
Wednesday morning. She leaves a
husband and five children. She has
been drawing pension for some
time, her son having been killed in
the Federal army.
Mrs. M. F. Ross and children are
visiting at Col A B. Galloway's.
At the last meeting of the town
commissioners it was decided to
bridge over the Elkin creek.
Miss Louise Siddall's school closed
Friday evening and Miss Siddall re-
turned to her home in Salem Satur-
day.
Rev. A. T. Pardue occupied the
pulpit at the Baptist church yester-
day. The Lords Supper was adj
ministered at the close of the service.
A widower, SO years old and the
father of eleven children, married a
lady aged "a at Boonvillea few days
ago. Their names could not be
learned.
Mrs. Galloway's school will close
Wednesday evening. She will give
an entertainments.
Mr.. II. F. Boney has begun the
erection of his residence in the West
End.
Wild Strawberries and green peas
are being sold on the market here
now.
The Elkin Rifemen will give their
first public parade next Saturday.
1t was reported thlt there was
snow on the mountain yesterday.
The political pot is not boiling
over as yet In this county. The Re-
publicans are suggesting tickets, ETC.,
but it always takes them to do the
blowing and when the votes are
count..d they are generally cleft. -
Surry has no populists to deal with
and there are still enough of the
tried in the fire" to keep her safe in
the Democratic column. RETLAw.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
HON. W. j. BRYAN.

He Says the Democrats Must Sepudi-
ate Cievcland's Policy.
Congressman Bryan, the eloquent
Nebraskan who will speak in Green's
boro next week, will not be a candi-
date for reelection. Hesays: eff the
Presidents financial position is en-
dorsed by the party, see no reason
for the continued existence of the
party, because the Republicans can
carry out that policy better than we
can, inasmuch as they have followed
it longer. If the Democrats repudi-
ate Cleveland's financial policy and
renew their devotion to the common
people, they may yet be effective in
securing good government"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
How They Settled 1t.

We learned, the other day, from
reliable source, that two neigtbors
in Ashe county bought stack of hay.
After the purchase had been made it
seems that they could not agree as to
how 1t should be divided, until one of
them suggested that they mark from
the center of the pole and cut it &C
cordingly, which was agreed to by the
other, whereupon they ground an axe
as sharp as it could be made and pro-
ceeded TO cut it open, each half falling
away from the pole. Truly, this is
novel way Of dividing hay stack.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
Time,

DIR. Young truly said, "The man is
yet unborn who truly weighs an
hour" Some one records having
seen the following notice: "Lost |
Somewhere between sunrise and sun
set, two golden hours, each set with
60 diamond minutes. No reward is
offered for their recovery, for they
are lost forever" The day that ends
with the setting Gun will never come
back. Franklin asks: "Dost thou
love life? Then do not squander
time, for that is the stuff life is made
Off
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
THE POOL OF POLITICS.

The Republicans of the Ninth dis
trict have endorsed Richmond Pear
son for Congress.
Richard Croker resigns the position
of chairman of the finance committee
of Tammany Hall, which carries with
it that Of leader. No successor has
been elected yet.
In the next issue of the Goldsboro
Caucasian, the leading organ of the
Populists in this State, will appear a
card from Congressman "Buck" Kitch-
in, Of Halifax county, in which he will
announce himself as Populist.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24

la5ive pastime. A very few years
since it was found there was not
space in the Capitol for Senators
who insisted upon having rooms for
their own private accommodation.
The House was deluded into giving
its consent to the purchase of the
Maltby building, large apartment
house under the shadow of the Capt.
toll. The promise was held out to
the House that it should share in
the additional accommodations.
But the House meyer got a foothold
in the building. By an act of grand
larceny unparalleled the Senate took
absolute possession, and when the
House growled and grumbled, simply
said, What are you going to do
about it?" 1t has been fitted up in
the most luxurious style. Magnifi-
cent clocks of onyx have been put in
to the rooms; staff of some twenty
employees, more or less, have been put
in charge at most remunerative wages
and Senators can step across the
way from their onerous legislative
duties to find themselves rest in the
midst of Oriental luxury and ele
gance.
Is it not a nice thing to be a Sena-
tor of the United States? What do
they care if it does cost the country
1000 for every working day for
their services? Is it to be wondered
that in the midst of such delightful
surroundings they keep on dawdling
away at the tariff, and that pressure
from whatever source, high orlow,"
has no effect upon them?
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
Turkeys en- a Drunk,

A Cedar Hill, KY, woman found
all her six turkeys apparently dead.
She didn't want to eat diseased meat,
and after plucking them to save the
feathers threw the bodies over the
fence. By evening they all came
back, like little Bo Peeps sheep, and
stood shivering around the kitchen
door. They had only been on a
frightful drunk. The woman had
thrown out a jar of branded cherries
the daY before.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-24
washing a Hairbrash.

First, remove all the loose dirt
possible by the use of a comb, then
into quart of soft, warm water put
tablespoonful of aqua ammonia,
dip the brush into this the full depth
of the bristles, lift and give a quick
shake and the dirt will fall. Rinse In
soft clear water and place to dry
with bristles down.