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painfully impressed with the different
manner in which war is regarded IN Eng
land, as compared with the view appar-
entity taken of it by some sections OF the
American population. War with the
United States of America appeared to
himself, and doubtless to his hearers also,
to be enveloped with the unnatural horror
of a civil war, which. with any nation,
was a terror to be avoided at all costs ex-
cept dishonor. Beyond their common
ancestry, language and civilization, ne be-
lieved. he said, that the British people had
a pride of race which embraced every
Engish-speaking community IN the world.
He admitted with sorrow that his teel-
ings, Judging from the newspaper articles
on The subject, were not shared by large
section of the American people, who ap-
peared to regard war with England as a
thing to be lightly INDUCED in, an exhil-
arating exercise, a gentle stimulus. This
distressing and horrible view, he declared,
he could not believe was the permanent
adoption OF any large section OF the people
of the United States.
Mr.. BaIfour dweIt at length upon the
sentimental aspect OF the question, and
said that he trusted and believed the day
would come when the better statesmen in
authority, and more fortunate than even
Monroe, would assert doctrine between
English speaking peoples under which war
would be impossible. He deprecated the
pessimistic view takan of the future by
some, and asserted his unbelief that pub
lie opinion on the other side of the At
lantic or in Europe would permit the out
break of war.
Moreover, he could not see that England
had cause for quarrel with any nation on
the face of the globe. England, Mr.. Bal
four said, did not desire anybody's terri
tory, and he had no wish to interfere with
any existing interest, but if war must come
he did not think she had any reason to be
afraid. He did not believe that there had
been a moment IN the recent history of
the empire when it was a better fighting
machine than it is at present.
In concluding his speech, Mr.. BaIfour
alluded TO the increase in the navy, and
said he believed thot it would not be called
into action, but if by any mlschance the
people of England should be called upon
to fight for their country he did not believe
the issue of the conflict would be dimin-
ished glory or diminished power of the
British empire.
Upon the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Balfour was enthusiastically and repeat
edly cheered by his hearers.
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FAMILY OF FIGHTERS.
Father, Mother and Children Engage in
Battle Over Division of
ProDerfY

CHATTANOOGA, TENN, Jan. 15.-After
living together thirty years and rearing
family of seven Joe P. Dove and wife, iv-
ing near Jonesboro, recently decided to
quit and divide the family stake. Just
before entering upon the division one son,
sympathizing with the father, struck a
partisan of the mother a terrific blow, the
latter retorting with two effective pistol
shots.
Another supporter of the father who
rushed in received a mortal wound in the
abdomen.
Then the father hurried TO the conflict,
pistol in hand, and fired at the son who
had been doing the bombarding, but the
shot struck daughter, inficting wound
from which she died. During the melee
the father was twice wounded, probably
fatally.
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P Huntington won't gentlemen give a to"

the Korean Government charges of COM
plicity in the attack on the palace on the
28th of November. They also assert that
the representatives of the United States
and Russia abused their right of asylum
belonging to their legations.
As TO the former urge, General Dye,
the PRINCIPAL American employe in Korea,
has published an emphatic statement to
the effect that his sole share in the busi-
ness was to make dispositions for the de-
fense of the palace, on the strength of the
warnings carried by the Rev. DR.. Under
wood.
This statement is confirmed by Mr..
Allen of the United States legation and
completely disposes OF the accusations
made by the japanese, for they have al
ways represented Americans as sympathiz-
ing with and abetting the conspirators,
whereas the action of General Dye and DR..
Underwood is exactly opposite.
With regard to the conduct of the lega-
tions it is arraigned on the ground that
asylum having been given-improperIy-
to certain people flying from the terrors of
the coup d'etat of November 8, it was i'm
properly continued to the same Koreans
after their attempt on November % to
storm the palace and take sanguinary ven-
geance on Tai Won Kun and his party.
The leading Japanese journals express
full confidence that if there be any truth
in this charge the Governments at Wash
ington and st. Petersburg will adopt
necessary measures.
General Tung Flu Hsiang, who com.
mands the imperial forces in Kanus, has
sent a report to the throne describing q
series of brilliant victories which were
gained by him over the Mohammedan in
surgents in that province. 1t is very sig
nihcant that the time covered by the re-
port is only thirty days-Novembe ID to
December a.
The rebellion began in May and Cen
eral Tung, at the head OF "a 900 Kansu and
Kashgar troops, then defending the south
ern suburbs of Peking against an antici-
pated Japanese invasion, was ordered at
once to.proceed against the rebels, but of
what happened to him and to his army
during the following five months we learn
nothing from the report. At any rate, he
AYERS that by December he had repeat
edly defeated the Mohammedans and re-
lieved Hochu, and the Emperor, believing
him, has handed him over to the board of
awards as being worthy of special honors.
a terrible fire occurred on September 3
last at Ngoshu, city lying on the great
highway between Canton and the southern
provincial market towns. The confiagra-
tion commenced at o'clock in the after
noon in hempshop outside of the gate of
the city, and was not extinguished until 7
O'Clock in the evening. Two thousand
houses were reduced to ashes and forty
people were burned to death.
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DEFENSE TALK CHECKED.
Reference to n Pdn-Anericdn Union
ELlnimated Eronl an Address.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 15.-It was
learned to-day that the original draft of
the address delivered this morning to the
President by the new Ecuadorean Minister
contained reference TO the necessity of a
union of all American countries to sustain
the Monroe doctrine, but that this was
omitted from the Minister'S speech at the
suggestion OF either the State Department
or some of the Pan-A merican diplomatists
who are interested III the project.
Some of the diplomatic Representatives
from South America and Central America
NAYS received credent;els toan eonferenee
that may be called for the purpose of Or
ganizine such league, but while there is
almost a unanimlty of opinion among Pan
American Governments in favor of the
idea, few of these are not disposed to
indorse it for the present, and for that
reason the proceedings are liable to be slow
in obtaining the desired end.
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CALI FORNIA POWDER TESTED.
samples Tried at Indian Head Proriu1-
Grounds Gire Satisfaction.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Jan. ia Herald
special from Washington says: Tests of
powder for the 13-inch guns for use
on board the battlesbips of the navy are
now in progress at the Indian Head
proving-grounds. The samples which have
Just been fired are those of two lots manu-
factured by the California Powder Works.
Th results obtained from these samples
have been satisfactory, maximum velocity
of 20S0 feet per second having been OBJ
ia ined with pressure in the neighbor-
hood of fl fteen tons. Other samples will
be shortly received from the California
Powder Works, which will also be tested
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South Americans arrested.

LONDON, Eng, Jan. 15.-The Times
will tomorrow publish dispatch from
Johannesburg to news agency here CIV
ing the names of other persons arrested
there. Among the names given are those
OF Victor Clement and T. r. Tindham, two
South Americans,
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E1oned Vith Anofher,, W;r,.

BUTLER, Mo-, Jan. 15.-Elijah and
Lincoln Haynes are distant relatives Elijah
is veteran of the late war and has a wifi e,
eleven children and several grandchildren.
Link, is a young man. Last Sunday
evening he eloped with Eiiiah's wife,
taking her youngest child with them. The
pair were taken in charge by the officers at
Jefferson City, Mo-, and are now in jail.
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Beliered to Barc Be.n 1o.t

BALTIMORE, MD, Jan. 15.-The Stag
Line steamship Laurastein, Captain Gavin,
is now believed to have been lost, with all
on board. She sailed from this port on
December 6, with a full cargo of grain, for
Sligo, Ireland, and should have reached
her destination before Christmas.
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Supervising Engineers Meet.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 15.-The
forty-fourth annual conference of United
States Supervising Engineers of steam ves-
sells is in session here. All members are
present exec pit John Birmingham of Cali.
fo-nia, who is expected Monday.
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HENDERSON, N. c. 1896.

and other juries do not find true bills
and make honest and speedy convic-
tions, let the voice of the people be
heard. If fthe judge does not do his
duty, let the voice of the people be
heard. The old politician has lost
the cracker off his whip, and it is raw
cling: the steers are taking to the woods
and some of them have thrown down
the whip and -are bowling, "Sook,
sook!" in the most conciliatory terms.
The present political roundup reminds
me of Texan corralling his ponies.
The politicians are running the people
in the convention corner OF the field.
but it is very uncertain whether they
will jump the fenc- in front, break
ranks behind, or stand and take the
lariat.
PEOPLE TIRED OF BEING CORRALLED.
l think the people are getting tired
of being corralled like Texan ponies,
and there are going to be some old
political tricksters lying in the fence
corners, with the blood running out Of
their ears, before the convention or cor
railing season is over. The Office seek
ers hardly know where they "are at,
because it is SO hard to locate the dear
people now. SAM JONES.
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Carr or Brown,
TMOrpantOn Herald. |


The Herald has been and still is for
]. S. Carr for Governor, provided of
course that Mr.. Carr either desires or
will accept the nomination. We feel
that there is very general sentiment
over the State favorable to his candi-
dacy and very strong concensus OF
opinion that he can be elected by a
handsome majority. There is no man
in the State who has done more for
her material development mo man in
the State who has been as liberal and
catholic in his charity; no man in the
State who has a warmer place in the
affections of the people; no man who
has done more for Democracy; no man
more entitled to its just and grateful
consideration. If he will accept the
the nomination we are for him against
the field. If he will not, we have a
second choice, and the fact that he is
second in no wise detracts from his
sterling worth, his intellectual strength,
his splendid public record, his ability
as forceful speaker, and his unflinch-
ing Democracy. We refer to Judge
Geo. H. Brown. The Judge, like Mr..
Carr, is faithful in his espousal OF the
cause Of I0 to 1, yet we have no quar-
rel with him on that score. He is a
true and loyal son Of North Carolina
an eminent and impartial jurist, who
has presided over her courts with great
acceptability to the public, and who,
at no time, has allowed anything TO be
placed in the scales Of justice but what
ought there TO have been weighed.
Fearless, bold, aggressive, he would
thrust his keen, trenchent scimiter into
the corpulent rotundity of Russell
venom and disembowel and annihilate
that virulent defamer of all that true
North Carolinians hold dear and sa
! cred,
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Original Observations.
TOrange (Va.D Observer. I

[Orange (Va.) Observer
Words are not always the evidence
of thought.
Men often begin to rise when they
begin to lie.
A load of vexation is lifted by
strength of character.
When heart-strings are tuned to love
life is full of music.
Out in old Kentucky is where the
blue grass widows grow.
The prettiest thing in the new spring
hats is our girls face.
The remarks of a blunt man are
sometimes very pointed.
Pride has two seasons-a forward
spring and an early fall.
Love seldom goes where it is cent il
there are dollars in the way.
A kiss is the fragrance of love when
in its richest and sweetest bloom.
Don't praise woman's complexion
too much, it may be all put on.
Those western cyclones are like a
new broom-they always "sweep
clean.'
Youth sucks the sugar coating
and old age chews the bitter pill OF
life.
1t is a novel thing now-a-times to
find person who is not novel
reader.
Who ever heard of a woman who
was hear,less enough to step on a
mouse?
If ignorance is bliss, we know larEe
number of people who ought to be su-
premely happy.
Divorces are becoming so numerous
that one term marriages are no longer
fashionable.
Some actors are born, some achieve
poor houses and others have poor
houses thrust on them.
The bicyclist may not have very
much money, and yet he frequently
comes down with the dust.
The young man who is an adept at
sowing wild oats is the very one who
would scorn to be farmer.
There is a class Of joiners who are
not at all affected in their business by
labor strikes. 1t is the minister we
refer to.
Orange has a man who is so lazy
that his friends say that it is impossible
to cut him to the quick, since he hasn'
got any.
In this world of almost universasial
failure it is pleasant to note that the
man who sets out to make a fool OF
himself generally succeeds.
Honesty, in these times is regarded
much in the same light as an article
of merchandise, its value is determined
by the extent to which it will pay.
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Marvellous Results.

From a letter written by Rev. J. Gun
derman, of Dimondale, Mich, we are per-
mitted to make this extract: Il have no
hesitation in recommending DIR. Kings
New Discovery, as the results were almost
marvellous in the case OF my wife. While
was pastor of the Baptist Church at Rives
Junction she was brough Int down with Pneu-
monia succeeding La Grippe. Terrible
paroxysms of coughing would last hours
with little interruption and it seemed as il
she could not survive them. A friend
recommended Dr. Kings New Discovery;
it was quick in its work and was highly
satisfactory in results Trial bottles free
at Melville Dorsey's Drug Store. Regular
size SOC. and Sl.00
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Lee and Weyler.
Washington TimeS.l

Washington Times
Nobody that ever had the pleasure
Of knowing general Fitz Hugh Lee,
our consul General at Havana. will be
surprised to learn that he is hypnotis
ing General Weyler into a heretofore
unknown degree Of gentleness and
complaisance. In his debonnair pres
ence, before his amiable and cheerful
demeanor, in the hearing of his hearty
laugh and with the cordial grasp of
his hand even such a nature as Wey-
ler's must melt. 1t is quite easy TO
, conceive that after a brief acquain-
tance "Our Fitz," as they call him
down in Virginia, so completely i'm
pressed himselfupon the captain gen.
eral that the latter just told him to do
as if he were at home and help HIM
sell. Hence, we hear of the United
States consul general visiting Cuban
prisons, having access to such captives
as he desires to see, getting permission
to visit the Spanish lines and even
going beyond to the insurgents camp;
in fact we obtain the impression that
Valerano Weyler is General Fitzhugh
Lees most obedient servant.
From all this the happiest auguries
may be drawn-for the personal inter
course between Gen. Weyler and Gen.
Lee, but it is not safe to progrostcate
from it change in the Weylerian
method of administration or conduct
ing war. The insurgents and their
sympathizers will be shot and butch
cred just the same, either in the Ha-
vana fortresses or in the cane fields or
the country roads. Gen. Lee will
have no trouble in ascertaining that
there is vast difference between the
sort of fighting he used to do in the
late unpleasantness and that carried
on by Weyler and his subordinate gen
erals. However gracious Weyler may
be to Lee in his palace at Havana. out
side of its walls he is the blood thirsty
monster yet and ever will be.
But the insurgents have two power
ful allies just now; one is the sickness
that now attacks the Spanish troops in
Cuba, the other is the prospect of a
revolution in Madrid, the possible re-
suit of the disclosures which General
Campos threatens to make in the Cor
tez as to the conduct of the war on
the island. Even now Madrid is in a
ferment and the most trifling cause
may serve to produce an explosion.
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A PATRIOTIC SONG
IAtianta constitutional

Be the pathway smooth or rough
WhatsOe 'er it be;
This old country's good enough
Thank the Lord, for me!
Good enough, its hills and plains,
All its sunshine and its rains;
From the mountains to the sea
Good enough. thank Heaven for me-
What though fortune should rebuff?
World is wide and free!
This old country s good enough,
(Rich Or poor for meD
Good enough, the Joy of life;
Love Of children and OF wifo;
WheresOe'er my steps may be-
Good enough, (thank Heaven) for me.
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She Couldn't Wait.

LADY, want to sit for a picture
Artist-"I shall be very glad to paint
the one am on now"
Lady-"Oh! my. l couldn't wait that
long. promised to be home to dinner at
five o'clock"
That's the trouble with some people,
they have no time to wait for results Some
Favore 1r sod so OF e,pec
to feel we'll Immediately. True. some do
find marvelousiy speedy effects from a
single dose. but chronic! diseases, which
have had possession of the system for
years. cannot be cured in a day. Perse-
we're with It and it will cure You. ladies,
Of all the ills you suffer from. The Pre-
scription" cures in all cases OF nervous
ness. spasms. chorea, irregularities, pain
full periods and kindred ailments
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Cutting Ac0uaiatances.

There are some acQuaintances we would
be glad to cut. They do us no credit and
our cash. Other acquaintances there are
that drain our life's blood and sap Our
vitality. Dyspepsia and its accompanying
evils. impure blood, mental depression,
nightmares. fear and nervousness are ac-
quaintances to be disposed of with all ce-
lerity. Heed this, ye sufferers! Take
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
and your unpleasant acQuaintances will
soon be gone. for this sovereign remedy
drives out all the impurities from the sys-
tenn. Send for free pamphlet. Address
Worlds Dispensary Meeical Association,
Buffalo, N Y
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Museum Condolences.

"My husband" said the wife OF the
bearded lady, "is such trial to me!
He knows exactly what my clothes
cost"
"He's a dear compared to mine"
said the .~i.e of the petrifed man.
"You can't guess how hard he is to get
along with
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Just now everybody is beginning to take
a Spring Medicine. And it is a good thing
to do provided you take Simmons Liver
Regulator-the best Spring medicine. It's
a sluggish liver that clogs the system and
makes bad blood. A dose day of SIM
mons Liver Regulator will make a new
man out of you, and new woman too.
Look for the Red Il. 1t is Simmons Liver
Regulator you want.
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Dr. Miles Neryine Restores Health.
GEORGE c. W0ODWORTH,
ELECTRICIAN,
HENDERSON, n. c.,

Would announce that he is prepared to
u.. .r HnuSrS with electric bells of all
B.. d~. for doors, for dining rooms, ser
laa. call bells &c. Large line of differ
..r -tyIrS from which to select. Will
warrant all work and keep same in repair
tu.. oi cost. Also prepared to furnish
In'.rrl,.- aHd do repairing of bells. Ilaye
hIA large experience i'll bell hanging as
Ar,i .t- electrical work.
VIII call on persons and show styles of
h.li-. door plates, push buttons, &c. from
which 30 make selection when notified in
prr-tn OF by postal card dropped in The
r"-, uI.cr.
Prices Very Rea sonable.
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Senator Dubois, silver Republican,
of Idaho, says if the St. Louis Conven-
ton straddles on the money question
or declares tor gold and the Chicago
Convention .nominates Horace Boies
on free silver platform he will vote
for him and "thousands of other West
ern Republicans will do the same
thing
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Referring to the regret expressed
by the Macon Telegraph that ga fair
test of the silver question will not be
had at the next election" the Will
mington Star thinks that with strad-
die or a gold declaration at St. Louis,
and free silver platform at Chicago
the issue would be sufficiently clear cut
for all practical purposes.
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SKETCH OF BOIES.
A Practical Farmer, a Successful Law
yer and Strong Debator-In 1891
He Wiped out a Republican rlajority
of 78, 900 in Iowa.

The name most prominently men,
toned in connection with the Demo
cratic nomination for President is
probably that of Ex-Governor Horace
Boies, of Iowa. Because of this
prominence anything relating to his
life is interesting. The following
sketch, written by Mr.. ]. M. Leach,
a North Carolinian now located in
Washington City, for the Charlotte
Obse,per shows the manner of man
he is:
Horace Boies is fbrous man. He
was born IS miles from Buffalo, N.
Y, 60 years ago. His parents were
American born, his mother being
distinctively English. The ancestry
Of his father was remotely French.
He met President Cleveland at the
Buffalo bar, and was at one time a
member of the New York Legisla-
ture. He commenced studying law
when he only had $500 in the world
and no influential friends to help him.
He moved to Waterloo, Iowa, in 867
where he has since resided, except dur
ing his two terms as Governor of Iowa.
He has been successful lawyer, and
is practical farmer, owning two very
large farms, and it is his boast that
there is not step in farm work which
he has not performed. He has only
been Democrat for the past sixteen
years, having left the Republican party
in 1880 when the extreme protection
plank of that party's platform was
adopted, and when Iowa Republican
ism was championing sumptuary laws
in regard to which he said: "The
proposed laws will substitute the un-
popular power of legal coercion for
those great moral forces on which the
cause of temperance, like that of relig-
ion, must continue to rely or cease to
exist"
He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs
100 pounds, wears about IL hat, has
broad shoulders and deep chest. He
is Romanesque in the rugged outlines
of his face, and in personal appearance
reminds one somewhat of Ambassador
Thomas F. Bayard. While not a great
stump orator, he is a strong debater,
and has as strong personal following
in Iowa, almost, as the late great Sen
ator Vance, of blessed memory, had
in North Carolina as shown by the fact
that in one of his campaigns in Iowa,
in a little town Of 43o inhabitants, he
had between 5000 and 5000 people
to hear him. But his greatest triumph
was in 81, after the Republicans had
in 'S6 gerrymandered the State until
they considered 10 to II districts
staunchly Republican. Horace Boies
was then strong friend of the white
metal, but he made tariff reform the
chief issue of that campaign, and in
a Republican State Of $1,000 majority
he won by S,2I6 plurality, on the
largest vote ever cast in the State
100000.
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tried to limit, and straightened out,
and then the literal rule Of the return
ed Messiah is TO usher in an era in
which the poor, the true, the good, the
honest, the simple minded.