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N. c.. THURSDAY MAY
SENATOR SHERMAN ON CoxEY

In the Senate on Wednesday
last, Senator Sherman, of Ohio -
Coxey's own State-in discussing
the Coxey movement, said in the
course of an extended discussion:
IF Coxey had the right to
make a harrangue from the Cap
itol steps, every other man would
have the same right; and yet
neither he-a Senator of the
United States-nor the Vice
President of the United States,
had any such right Coxey had
been allowed every right which
anybody could have exercised.
He (Mr. Sherman) believed that
Coxey was, on the whole, kind,
good tempered man in many re
spects, but he thought that he
was little fiighty. Laughter
He would not say anything I'M
kind of him because he was a
constituent, and he felt bound to
protect him if he were unduly
injured.
But Coxey had come to the
Capitol with the deliberate and
determined purpose to violate
the law.
He had the purpose, acknowl-
edged and decl lared, to come here
and violate this law, and he
brought with him some three or
four or five hundred men who
sympathized with him. 1t is true,
he did not bring them on the
grounds, but there were great
crowds Of people assembled to
see this extraordinary spectacle
of what is called an army OF men
| led here to get Congress to pass
| a bill to make all the roads of
the country good, so that every
man can ride on his bicycle or in
his carriage, or on foot. Naugh-
ter) Whether Coxey or Browne
or Jones violated the law, I
neither know nor care. They
certainly came here with the in
tention Of violating it. [ hope
that Coxey Will go~home to Ohio
and take care of his wife and
family, and that if others with
him came from that State, they
will also go home and rather suf-
fer the ills they have than seek
the ills that may come from Other
sources. There is no occasion
for excitement. At all events
the Senate Of the United States
ought calmly to await events an6
go on in the discharge of its higf
duties their fellowcit
izens, whether wise or ,unwise.
with forebearance and kindness
Let US perform our duty to the
country, and our countrymen vii
sustain us. These people who
say that they speak for seventy
millions of people will find thai
they do not speak for half a mil
lion. They will find thatethe
majority of our people are SOUND
and strong and are in favor o.
lawful means and lawful ends
and all this passing wavelet O.
excitement will die away will
the general appreciation and ac
ton of the mass of our people.
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Pessiuisms.

Energy and mirth are contagious
A drunkard is beast minus the in
stinct.
Deceit is cockatrice and its eggs are
suspicion.
Healthful amusement is the oxygen
of the soul
A man who is honest from policy is
not an honest man.
The more stupid a person the better
satisfied is he with himself.
We generally hate man who hits a
target that we have just missed.
1t is not unpleasant to hear tales
against those whom we have wronged.
As tendrils to climbing plant SO is
curiosity to the vigorous intellect.
Few persons stop to reflect that we
always bore those who are boring us.
Human nature is not altogether bad.
Few people see others in distress with
out wishing that somebody else would
help them. AMary III. Scott. in Judge
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The Conservative South.

General Gordon's speech in
the Senate in which he told the
plain trutI about the high regard
for law and order in the South
will attract much attention. The
closest study of conditions in this
section will justify every asser-
ton made by the Georgia Sen
ator
Recent disturbances in other
parts of the country have brought
into clear relief the spirit of true
conservatism which pervades the
South. We are glad to know
that the people in this part o1
tho country take sensible views
of public questions and have
never rushed after wild and dan
gerouS theories.
In regard to the great social
industrial and financial issues O.
the time, the South holds safe
views.
The conduct of some noisy pol
iticians and newspapers in this
section might produce the i'm
preston that the South is clam
oring for reckless financial ex
periments if it were not NOR.
than offset by the sober utter
ances of those who really repre-
sent the South.
The Louisville Col9.ier-Joatr7aa
comments on the attitude of tn
South in these strong words /:
Taking it altogether, tie Soutl
has displayed no unusual suscep
tibility for being swept off it
feet by political fads. Populisn
has never succeeded In obtainin.
a strong hold in the South out
side of South Carolina and Ala
bama. The agitation of the sil
tver question before the repeal o
! the Sherman law disclosed
strong Southern sentiment fo
lsound money. Communism is a.
most unknown, and scarcely
i Coxey squad h;ls been .recruite
1 in the South. The harmless ray
4 ings Of the Alabama Kolbites
the nearest the South has know
Ito anarchy
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NO.. %

'Oh! call me Daisy. Coots; that's
good enough for my style"
"Your style! You're to modest.
You are nt to star. You viii some day,
too"
well, 1 hope you're right. All 1
want is to get hold of an angel. I'll
work the duck for all he is worth!
Twelve dollars a week is rocky, but
have to do it or get off the earth"
q Wait till my luck comes back to
mer,. cried Coos. 'Ill back you then.
III have apiece written for YOU
You dear boy!'' she laughed.
They did not take a car. She said
she had as lief walk, as it would save
the fare; and Coots was sure he had
much rather walk as long as she was
at his side.
Tell me, Coots-how did you ever
happen to get down to this?" she
asked.
Then he told her all about it, and she
called him foolish fellow, but he did
not agree with her.
Mother sends me money every now
and then, without the governor know
ing it, he said. "I'n get along all
right until I find an opening and do
something to give me foothold."
COOIS never 1OrgOG tnaJ walk down
Broadway and the warm pressure given
his fingers by her plump little hand
when they reached the boarding house.
That night she was in all his dreams.
Sidney Temple belonged to tho
'1egit," but he was in hard luck; tho
"Bowery Flower company, in which
he had played the heavy villain, having
stranded in Oshkosh, where they were
deserted by their manager and left to
get back to New York as best they
could. Temple had come in on his up
pers. and he was staying at the second
rate actors boarding house until he
struck another engagement How he
obtained money to pay his board was
something of a mystery, but it was no.
| ticed that he had become very friendly
! with Coots, the two being together n
| great deal. Daisy was the first to sus-
| pect the truth, and, one day, she ac-
cused Temple.
"You are playing Coots for sucker.
Temple!' she declared, her brown eyes
flashing. 81 know he has money from
his mother, and you are beating him
out of it at cards! You are encourage
ing him to drink, too"
Temple laughed. "Well. what of it,
Little Spitfre? He'll blow himself
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tried to pass him, but he caught at her
arm. The next instant he lay fat on
his back, and Coots was walking away
with her.
'Oh, thank you, Coots!'' she said,
with catchy little laugh that was like
the gurgle of a brook to him. "That
cad has bothered me for week. Per-
haps he'll keep away now he has got
swiped.
He did not mind the slang; he ex-
pected it. He had found every body
talked slang at the boarding house, and
it sounded rather sweet and .schic"
from her lips, when he would have
thought it coarse from some other
woman.
I'm almost ashamed to think I
struck him SO hard" he said; "but my
blood boiled when / saw him put his
hand on your arm. Miss Thorne."
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AT LAST.

The following beautiful poem
has never before been published.
1t was written by the gifted Sis
ter of Mrs. Hattie w. Dortch, of
this city. and was read at the
Day exercises here on
May 10, by Prof. Logan d. How
ell
High human hopcs-How they ex-
pire.
And we upon their funeral fire
Heap all we hold for holocaust.
Then like a child in frantic mood,
We curse the very God of good,
And feel that all is lost.
But patient soul, with duty done,
Wait in your lot:
Defeat has many battle won
That arms fought not.
Let armed force win what it may
And armed force can win.
As well we know. whose tired feet
Have trod the path of dire defeat,
DiscOnsOlate,
That armed force can win.
But mortals. wait
Until mans might
Has had its sway
And then God s right.
Unarmed, comes III,
And carries off the day.
Ah me. that long and lonesome way,
With not "a star therein
How hard! we thought,
After those four eternal years.
With all their waste of blood and
tears,
OF tears and blood,
,.c,,,,lO0 md 0f ma s~11i tI1dpf
The pray ers we prayed, The fights
we fought
All naught.
How hard! we thought,
How hard
But honestly we sheathed our sword,
And patiently our ills endured,
And royalty we kept our word.
And now. O splendid Now!
From out the deepest, darkest
slough
OF our distress.
Where human might did slip and
Wholo human hope lay down an6
died,
We pluck the flower. Success,
And q ander flower was never e own
On Victory blood-built, gun-capt
wall,
Where rampant Triumph wears with
pride
Bellona's bloody crown
No Y, that the needed work is wrought
row thN the needed lesson 5
taught.
Behold
In spite Of all man ) boosted power:
In spite of every cloud that lowers.
Ere fourth the century grows old,
The victoly's ours.
The ye"y foes we did oppose,
! fitted our load:
Oar stumbling block, struck in thci
wrath,
Rolled from our path.
And now each day new triumph bring
Our foundries. factories. mines anC
mills.
Our crowding hamlets, wales and hill
All open up one grand, broad roaC
To higher, 6etter things
And our dear South
To-day comes forth
Unholden of chain.
Redeemed from olden stain,
Pure washed and clean.
And 10. we see her stand
In this her resurrected land,
A crowned and sceptered queen.
SELMA TARPLEY WILLIAMS.
Berryyille. Va.
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SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS.


the South has stood the hard
times better that any other sec
ton of the country.
One of the evidences of this
fact is to. be found in the compar-
tive record of Inc cotton aills in
the South and the North. While
the consumption Of cotton by
the northern mills has de-
creased very largely, the South
ern mills have used more cotton
than ever before.
For the year ending April p,
1888, the northern mills re-
quired 1927, ,488 bales of cotton,
For the year ending April q,
1894, these mills required only
1. 259, % bales, a falling off of
265, 252 bales.
Many mills in the North have
been shut down, while others
have been run only to supply i'm
mediate demands. Most of them
have reduced the wages of their
operatives.
1.-THE Southern mills have made
a far better showing. For the
year ending April %, 1892, they
consumed 500, 676 bales of cot
ton; for the year ending April
27, 1898, 564, 454 bales and for
the year ending April p, 1874,
they required $50, 095 bales.
This shows that there has been
a steady growth of cotton manu-
featuring in the South. This
progress has not been stopped by
the financial stringency or the
dullness of trade. While the
cotton mills were shutting down
in the Forth new mills were be-
ing erected in the South. A 90,
900 spindle mill has been com
pleted within the last year at
West Point, Ca, at a cost OF
500, 900, and another just like il
is to be erected by the same com
pany at the same place.
Atlanta will soon have a 800,
600 spindle mill, and work is now
progressing on a mill at Spartan
burg. S. c., which will cost 81,
600, 900.
A mill with 10, 400 spindles was
completed at Gaffney's, S G.
Just as the panic began, It has
run night and day for yeal
past and has not only sold it's en-
tire product but has orders
ahead up to next November.
The Boston Journal says tha
the goods from this mill sell at ;
premium over New England
made goods, as the commission
men claim that they are bette
made and from better stock.
The mills we have mentioned
are only few of those that have
been built in the South in th'
last eighteen months. It is a re
markable fact that during tht
financial stringency the erection
of cotton mills has gone righ
ahead IN the South.
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A Monument to Vance

To the Citizens Of GoldsDoro and
Wayne County:
The subscription list to the
Monument Fund, sent me by the
committee of the Vance Memo
rial Association, of Raleigh, may
be found at Miller & Sons drug
store, where all who may wish
to contribute can have the priv
i1ege of doing SO.
Let not Wayne county be un-
mindful of the past services o1
our late distinguished Senator,
the great war Governor Of the
South. T. w. SLoCUMB.
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SUNDAY READING.

The infinitely little have pride
in the infinitely greaU.-Voltaire
He who thinks his place below
him will certainly be below his
place.-Saville.
Never nina where you work !;
let your care he for = the work
itself. .-Spurgeon.
The love of>Christ is the con-
Quoting medium to the love OF
all mankind -JeWett.
Nothing is at last sacred but
the integrity Of your own mind.
Absolve you to yourself, and you
shall have the suffrage Of the
world. Emerson.
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Releigh Nelos- Observer: The
most promising vineyards in this
section are those of Harrison
Bilyeu and Whiting Bros. The
choicest varieties only are
plaated in these vineyards and
the outlook is good for a fair
crop, which will command good
prices this season.
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THE SAVING OF COOTS.
BY GILBERT PiTTEN.
Copyright, 1894, by the Authorl

- L IL " y u Ii L
her divine; but
he was only a
c u r l y-h e AIDED
boy, not moro
t h a n t venty,
and sentiment
al at that. He
had the head of
aGreelz god and
the figure of
Apollo, yet he
was simply one
of the army of
S u p ers w h o
C a m G ou t in
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Fayetteville Obserue,-On ac-
count of the general destruction
of fruit buds by the freeze of
March Goth and 9th, the officers
of the State horticultural Society
have concluded to hold no fair
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FRESH FUN.
THE SHARP AND WITTY SAYINGS
or THE PRESS MEN.

Poet to attendant in u theatre.
Nv hat are you doing there::'
'Please, sir, the manager ordered
me to open all the doors leading to
the street before the performance of
your play began. -Fllegende Blaet-
ter.
VINO is this man from Tunkviile
who is coming to-~the convention?
asked the reporter.
Why, said the man in charge of
the arrangements, | don't know ex-
actly.
Has he a prof ssion.
No.
Any military title?
Not that | know oEs
Well, there's nothing else to do.
Wen have to put him down as one
ofITunkyille's most influen tial citi-
zens.
Oh, said the lady lecturer, [ have
had such delightful conversation
with the gentleman you saw bow to
me as we l=ft the train. He told me
that the emancipation Of women had
been his life work for ever so many
years.
Yes, said the woman who had
come to meet her, that is so. he
has been divorce lawyer ever since
| coul,l remember.
Miss FinDe Sickle (hreathl essly)
Uave [ arrived in time?
Mr.. Adorror, suiter. Eth ? In time
for what.
1 hear tEat you and Mr. are goine
to fight q duel. =
Well.
And It's about me?
1t is.
1t must not be.
One or the other must die. We
can't both marry you.
No, but you can compromise. =
How?
Play poker till one or the Other
gets all the money, then | viii
marry the winner.
Do you know anything abou
palmistry, Herbert? she asked.
Oh, not much, he answered; will
the air Of modesty which is not in
tended to be implicitly believed III
Not great deal Although l ha,
an experience last night, which
might be considered remarkab,,
example of the art you allude to.
You don't mean it?
Yes. [ have happened to glance
at the hand Of friend OF mine, ant
[ Immediately predicted that h
he would presently become the pos
SCISSOR of d considerable sum O
money. Before he left the room h
had forty or fifty dollars handed II
him
And you told it just from hi
hand?
Yes It had four aces in it. Wash
/ in oton Star.
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STATE NEWS.

Graham Cleaner: Considerable
hail fell in the vicinity Of Union
Ridge last Saturday evening.
Some of the hailstones were SO
large that they broke out window
lights, but crops were not dam
aged to any extent. In this sec
ton wheat is looking well, but
oats are being damaged by the
louise.
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/ am selling for one week only, a good
article of A bleached cottons at 4ac
and 3}c. Joseph Edwards,
Champion of Low Prices.
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The "Johnnies" gathered thiclzly
about the stage door every night to see
the chorus girls come out; but he knew
she hated the insipid fops, for he had
heard her say SO, and she never paid
any attention to them. She usually got
off first, and left the theater as soon as
possible, and he had not yet commanded
sufficient courage to tell her he would
take her safely to the boarding house
If she would wait. But one night she
was delayed, and he was close behind
her when she left the theater.
There was the usual throng outside
the stage door, and one of them spoke
to her. He had been drinking, and he
placed himself in her path, offering his
arm and proposing to call a cab. She
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some way and I've got to live till get
on the road again"
Its shame!'' cried Daisy, warmly
"You are scoundrel and he Is nothing
but boy!'
SIT seems to me you take remarl,-
able interest in the kid l believe
you're stuck on his bang"
81 don't care what you believe. I'm
not going to see him beaten out Of his
money"
How will you help it?"
II know a way. There's man on
Twentythird street who would give
something to know where to find you,
and he says he is willing to pay your
board at Ludlow street Jail for awhile.
If you don't let up on Coots, that man
is pretty sure to find YOU"
81 passr' said Temple, ruefully.
"You hold high cards and the pot is
yours"
One day Coots came to Daisy with
strange look of mingled grief and Joy
on his face.
Its awfulr' he said, chokingly.
Fathers dead Terribly sudden.
Heart failure"
He saw the sympathy in her eyes.
and he went on, before she could
speak:
He was rich, you know, and his will
leaves one-half of everything to me.
providing l give up the idea of going
on the stage"
''Of course you will do that" she
said. you'd be crazy if you didn't!'
Yes, l shall give it up l don't know
as was cut out for an actor, after all.
l told you my luck would come back to
me, and I would not forget you then.
| There is nothing in the will to prevent
me from marrying an actress and back
| ing her, if want to do it If you'll
marry me, Daisy, I'll put you out in a
new piece and at the head of first-class
company"
''You dear, good boy!' she cried. with
laugh that was half a sob. 81
signed contracts for next season yes
terday, and l am to marry Sidney
Temple next Saturday! We are going
out together in the same company"
! Coots' luck had truly come bacl, to
! him!
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ton wheat is looking we'll, but
oats are being damaged by the
louise.
Kinston Free Press: There was
a severe wind and hail storm at
Snow Hill Monday afternoon
about O'Clock. The wind twisted
off the tops Of trees and blew the
top. of the chimney Of Mr.. T. G.
Wooten's residence on the roof,
which was broken in, letting in
the rain which greatly damaged
the furniture and the inside Of the
house.
Newborn journal: Mr.. Geo. n.
Ives received telegram yester-
day stating that members of the
United States Fish Commission
would be down tonight with 400,
900 young shad to put in Neuse
river. A howitzer has been
shipped to Raleigh by the New
Berne division of the Naval Re
serves, and with it the salutes
will be fired every half hour dur
ing May 22nd, in the Capitol
square, quite near the Confeder-
ate monument.
Asheville Citizen: The Citizen
is greatly disappointed at the re
suit Of yesterdays election, but
we shall refuse to become per
| manently unhappy over the fact
that majority of the voters Oh
Asheville took a differentview OF
the situation from what we were
compelled to take. We must
suppose that the opponents OF
the straight Democratic ticket
had in view the securing of good
government for AsheviAe, ano
that being theAend in view, theil
purpose will be carried out il
good faith, according to the views
the of newly elected Mayor ane
Board of Aldermen.
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JlnSe1 ana TIN armOr 10 marcn ana pose
and form an effective background for
the principals who won the applause of
the audience night after night. Still
he knew he could act. He felt it in his
soul, and he would prove it to the
whole world some day. He was born
with a silver spoon in his mouth, and
it made little difference if the governor
had cast him off when he left college
to go on the stage, for he knew his
luck would come back to him in time.
He was always thinking of her. He
saw her fresh oval face in the blue-gray
rings of his cigarette smoke; the smell
of roses was like the perfume of her
breath; her eyes looked at him from
the pansies on every corner flower
stand. Perhaps this was because she
was one of the band of wood nymphs
who came out in pink and white to
strew flowers for the feet of the prima
donna to crush. She should have been
a prima donna herself; he had heard
her sing, and he knew. Wait till his
fortune came back to him.
They were both stopping at the same
wretched actors boarding house, on a
side street that ran from Broadway to
| the Bowery, and at dinner she sat op-
| posite him at the long table around
which gathered nightly rare collec-
| ton of chorus girls. ballet dancers,
song and dance artists, variety per-
| formers, and broken-down and hard-up
| people of the ''legit.'' He knew that
curly shock of yellow hair was not it's
| natural color, and her eyelids were
| penciled, but she had teeth like ivory
and her laugh thrilled him away down
J into his shoes. 1t was only when the
j professional ventriloquist, desiring the
butter. made the chandelier squeak,
''Shove the grease, Coots," that he be-
came aware he was staring at her and
not eating mouthful He hated the
ventriloquist; for that manipulation of
vocalization was the one who had
! given him the nickname of "Coots,"
and now every body in the house called
him that-even she called him that
But she was divine!
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One day Coots came to Daisy with a
strange look of mingled grief and Joy
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-03-06
Automatic Cotton Minder.

An automatic winder of cotton thread
has been cOntrived, a mechanism which
takes thread from eight large spools loose
ly wound and transfers it to eight small
spools containing 200 yards. These small
spocls, having received 200 yards exactly,
stop revolving, knife cuts a slot in the
spool, the end of the thread is fastened in
this. The machine then cuts the thread
OFF, drops the spool into a trap, takes
eight empty spools from as many hoppers,
places them on the spindles and fills these
as it did the previous set The machine
goes through the entire process in just as
seconds, making all changes automatical-
ly and with the greatest precision. Fur
ther, in another machine the small spools
are placed on an inclined track, and in
rolling through the machine receive on
each end a ticket cut from a long strip OF
roll of previously printed tickets placed on
a stand above the machine, After the
ticket is cut paste is applied to the back,
and it is then pressed upon the spool
which has rolled into proper position to
receive it, this at the rate of 30 spools per
minute.-New York Sun.