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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20
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ABSOLUTELY PURE

high, c. ch containing a quart Of
pure, sweet water; and where the
soil is not a deep, dark red, but is
so black that it shines as if oiled.
Around the coral shores is the
snowy surf in seas matchless in
color, and over all the exalted
arch of the sky, with a delicate
tint of indigo, spotted with stars
that are strangely brilliant, and
the professions of the constella-
tions moves with unutterable ma.
jiesty; and one sees the all-search-
ing beauty Of the armament, aud
finds new meaning in Paurs line
with the divine inner light in it
that tells that the stars differ in
glory, and in Byrcn's that gives
the glorious image of woman
hood:
"She walks in beauty like the light
OF cloudless climes and starry skies"
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20
THE 1NLy susIIEIcarICa.

The Wi,keslaio Chranic'e
says tliai a letiti II is being cir
culated asking i, Governor to
release from the penitentiary
Sherman Grior, who was sent
10 the peri..i,tiary for ten
years, The Chronicle says this
brings 10 mind an incident in
the case. Judge Arnlfield re
sided. Affer the case was COM
cluded it was recalled for the
purpoe Of getting the sentence
reduced. Judge Armfie d: mo
man is ever justifiable in taking
the life Of his father II III, rs
could possibly be a case jnsti
fable, it would be when i
Southern farmer named his 10.
Sherui an about the time Sher
man n ade Ills march 10 the SEQ
through Southein blood and
wrecks of Southern homes ane
happiness But even that Is nj
sufficient provo, afich to Justlf,
tht awful crime The sentehc,
was not reduced
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20
poLITICAL COMPLICATION.

1t was no surprise to the ppo
pie that Major w. A Guthrie
was no1 mated by The Pcpulist
convention for Governor by SO
large a majority. The Silver
Knights picked him cut long
ago as the leader who should
wear their involnerable shield
ommand the North Carolina
division of the army Of financial
eform, and march with them
10 vic ory.
But il was rather unexpected
Tia, Oliver II. Dockery, whose
heretofore affi stations have been
y pnt,d as intimate with tht
Z Ia element of the mos
raigl.t laced OF the Republi
c n party, should have been ac,
orded the nomination fer Lieu
,nant Governor.
Ii bas been understood tha
his reason eau I'D Mr.. Dot k
cry s defeat by Judge kns sell
efore tie republicau conven
ion. II Dockery is a convert
o the Bryan patform, his name
will add much strength to tbt
icket-.sone b'ast upon hi;
bugle horn" being worth a thou
sand votes.
The other nominees of tn,
convention were not unexpects
d, yet the complication puzzles
the most sstute of our local ex,
perts, while all sorts of rumors
,hout deals are afloat, th" prin.
ciple being that after Guthrie
and Dockery have been elected,
the Legislature is to make Guth
.rie Senator to succeed Jetei
Pritchard, and let Dcckery b.
Governor. We hardly supppost
Judge Russell will appreciate
this way of laying him on the
shelf.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

The Pacific cnast papers are
profuse in praise Of the heroism Of
a seventeen-year boy named
La Porte, of Albany, Oregon, who
recently plunged into the Colum-
bia river and rescued two young
women from drowning. He de-
serves TO rank with the heroes Of
the age. The drowning girls
grapplcd the boy when he sprang,
full clothed, into the swift current
TO save them, and the trio went Ia
the bottom. After once rising he
realized that be could not swim
TO shore with his cling!ng bur.
tlens aud sank with them and
crawlcd upon the bottom 10 shal
low water, from which he dragged
himself and his charges more dead
than alive.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

IS ACTUAL number Of squar'
miles added to the United State,
since 1900 il is now four tim.s
as large as IL was then. OF tn
millions Of square miles of ter
ritory added only a small por
tion, New Mexico, Arizona, and
Lower California, came TO US a
the result Of war, the Mexican
war. All the rest, an area much
greater than Russia in Eurnp'
was annexed by peaceful pur
chase, Louisiana in 1903, Flor.
ida In 1921, Alaska in 1867 n
other civilized nation eau show
so peaceful a record. This !
sufficient answer 10 those Euro
pean editors who harp on th,
grasping and aggressive dispc
sition Of Americans.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

TIE misleading cry Of The sub
sidezed gold.bug press is that il
Bryan and free silver succeeds,
the United States will be mad,
the dumping ground Of the si.ver
bullion Of tile world Nothing
could be moro 70 our advantage,
but il is false. Other nations art
not ruled by idiots who would
bring their bullion over here 20
be coined into American money
10 the delriment Of their own
circulation. II they were, they
would have 70 spend i for Amer.
can products and We would have
such an industrial boom as th,
world has never witnessed.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20
"yERY ABLE SPEECH"

Even the New York World
cannot help but admire William
J. Bryan and admit that he is a
great reasoner. In speaking of his
speech at Madison Square Garden
last week it says: 1t was a very
able speech, logical in arrange
ment, admirable in spirit and
strongly reasoned, clearly and
cleverly expressed. We do not
think there is another free-silver
advocate in the country who could
write so able or so effective a plea
for his cause as was that of Mr..
Bryan. 1t contained sophistries,
fallacies, unwarranted assumptions
and deductions, of course. What
long partisan speech does not?
But there is nothing to be gained
by undertaking it.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20
WHERE WILL 1T GO?

The New York Advertiser i'm
pats the following bit of infor.
nation, which We clip as a speci
men: Gall the silver that could
be mined in the next ten years
and be melted into dollars would
not put an additional penny int
the American farmers pocket. II
would lessen the consumption OF
farm crops, because the wage
spending masses would be forced
10 live more economically" To
this the Wilmington Star replies
as follows: Well, as the farmers
will not get any Of it, and the
wage Garner will not g I any of it,
who is going to get it or what is
going TO become of it? If the
nine owners do not intend to put
il in circulation why should they
have it coined?
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20
He Bathed In Champagne.

A champagne bath with wine
selling at $3.50 a pint is a luxury
which but few ordinary people in-
dulge in in these days of depres.
sion, but there died in the Stock
ton Insane Asylum few days ago
a man who actually bathed in
this costly wine, and an ordinary
hotel bathtub was the receptacle
which he used for the purpose.
This man was ]. +. Durkee, whose
name was one of the best known
before or since IN Arizona. He
went there in the latter seventies,
and by a fortunate combination
Of circumstances wholly Of his
own making was soon enjoying
princely ipcomet ranging from
81, 800 to $500 a day. This
was maintained for a long period.
The receipt of so much wealth
proved too much for his weak in.
tellect, and he ended lns days in
an insane asylum, almost forgot
ten by the people who only II few
wears ago were receiving his
b ,unty. What was left Of Durkee
was shipped to Los Angeles and
there buried from an undertaking
parlor. very few people knowing
anything, and apparently caring
less, about the ending of the man
who, less than ten years before,
luxuriated in champagne baths
and was a high roller in that
town.-San Francisco Chronicle
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

A MAN in Farmington, Me.
drank eight glasses of soda water
in eight minutes on q bet the
other day. lie lost, for bis wager
was TO drink ten in ten minutes.
But that was not all he lost; be
was 50 sick he had to go to bed
for the afternoon, losing a good
half days work.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

WHAT ever the political com
plication In this State, or which
ever Of the three tickets in the
field may succeed II may be put
down that Durham county will
give a rousing majority for Gutli-
rie, not only because We want +.
pay a home man q deserved cour.
iesy, but because men Of all pOlit.
ical Civilizations here know him,
and have the most implicit con.
lidence in bis ability-and What
i, Of still greater importance thes'
times, in bis unimpeachable III
t,grity.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

They say il is "on the slate
for Judge Russell 10 come down
from his candidacy for Governor
and acceIt the vacant place left
for the Supreme Court Judgeship
We do not know how much reli-
ance should be put in this rumor,
but feel justified in predicting
that this is the best chance for the
rice farmer Of New Hanover ;,
get permanent seat at the pOlit
ical lie counter.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

THK total damage TO the peni
tentiary farms on the Roanok,
river BY the freshet In July ap~
proximates quite closely to &c.,.
600 at the present value Of pro.
ducts. There are three farms,
all leased. One lease has three
years to run, one Ave and
another six. The heavy loss il
yoing 70 put the penitentiary
authorities in a close place L
make both ends meet.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

OVER a year ago the Minnea.
polls, st. Paul and 81. Sault Ste.
Marie road tried the plan Of al
lowing each locomotive engineer
to hire his own firemen. The
plan has worked 90 we'll that the
managers Of the road now propose
10 let each conductor hire his own
brakeman. Other roads, includ..
ing some Of the most important
in the country, have been watch.
ing the plan with great interest
and its general adoption is under
discussion.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20
III. ExTRACTs on MINuTEs.


All i special meeting Of the stockhold-
ers Of w A. Slater Co., held yesterday
August 9TH, the President of the Co.,
Mr.. w. A. Slater presented the follow
ing lettcr
TO the Stockholders Of The W. A. Slater
Company:
Gentlemen:--I hereby beg to tender
my resignation us President Of your
Company, to take effect at the end Of
our fiscal year, October I, 1896.
In offering my resignation | do 80
with reluctance, but other personal in
terest nccessilate my taking this step
Schioss, Bros. & Co., whom have repre-
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

ABOUT 100000 freight cars in
this country have been fitted with
air brakes, according to the law
ii congress; but 100000 more
remain 10 be fited up before Jan,
/, 1898. Soon this country will
be using 100000.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20
still They Come.

NEw YORK, August 14.-The
Press announces this morning
that Richard Croker is coming
from England to work for tn,
Democratic ticket, and that Sena-
tor Hill is TO take the stump for
the ticket and the platform that
he 50 vigorously fought agailst in
Chicago.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

ing Goods, Shoes, Hats, etc., and to en-,
able them to close up this businessl
quickly, they shnllbe authorized to Offer
the goods regardless Of what they cost !
and at such low figure as viii enable
them 70 sell them quickly.
The following resolution was unani-,
mously adopted: Resolved, That the
be instructed to give no,
credit whatever, to any one during this
sale, but to sell for spot cash in each
and every instance, no matter how largeI
or small the purchase is, and that they!
take steps to secure prompt payment Of
all outstanding accounts.
On motion the manager was instruct
ed to close the store Monday in order to|
re-arrange stock and mark it down for
this sale.
T.J. FErzER, Secretary.
August 6. 1906.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

SOME women are easily won
with smiles, while others arr
won with tears; but to win a
girl without putting ON style,
will requir. about thirteen
years.-Orange (Va.) Observer.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20
A Nav jersey court is strug.

a NEw JERSEY court is strug-
Cling with the question Of
whether it is libelous to call a
woman a switch" II she is 16
to 20 years Of age it is not;
above those figures opinion
may be divided.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20

Neglect Of the hair often de-
stroys It's vitality and natural
hue, and causes IL 70 fall out.
Before IL Is too late. apply Halls
Hair Remover, a sure remedy.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-20
GREAT MEN DIFFER.

see that there is sort of breaking
up along old lines and that a
greatest crisis in eur history is
near at hand.
The brainy men are not all on
either one side or the other. This
political question is deep and
wide, and great and good
man, who have travelled side by
side and fought all former ques
tlons together, have parted, one
ing this way and one that, both
thinking they are right.
II is nauseating and makes all
honest men sick and tired to read
such journals as the New York
Sun, and others which are con-
tinually speaking of the silver
movement as a "silyer craze" a
"set of anarchists" "a poor FOOLS
ticket" and like expressions. They
ire causing more voters to join
the silver ranks than any other
me thing.
This question needs argument.
Falsehoods and slanderous ar
ticles will never help the cause
they represent. Old friends, who
started life together and have
ought many a campaign side by
side, have parted on this question;
Hon. Arthur Sewall, the demo-
cratic nominee for the viee-presi.
lency, has a strong opponent in
tie person Of his own son, Hon.
Harold sewall, who will stump
ne state of Maine against his
ather and for Mckinley and
Iobart; partners in business and
men who work side by side differ
mihis question; financiers cannot
gree; statesmen do not know
shat to do, and the masses, many
+ whom are almost starving in
ne l.idst Of plenty, continue to
.lamcr for relief. They know
hat a few more years under a
ngle gold standard Judging
rom the past) will place them
,eyord all hope and in their des.
peration, as a drowning man will
,ab a.straw, they have caught
hold of the free silver idea as
heir last hope. II is their only
chance, aud knowing that, theii
fight will only be the more des
crate.
1t will be a fight TO the las
Itch and when the smoke ofbat
lie has cleared away such men a
lie editors of the papers abov'
mentioned y i'll see that il was M
handful Of "fools" that were en-
listed in the ranks against them
| .ATURAL RESOURCES OF CUBA
Cuba has q great natured re
ource that is exceeded by onl.
.wo other islands-England an,
Australia. The former would nc
'e an exception if il we're not 70
he riches Of her prodigious dc
,usits Of coal aid iron.
Murat Halstead, in writing o
he natural resources Of Cuba ]
.he Review Of Reviews, say
Uuder all the disadvantages thi
.nisgoyeDment can inilict, an
; with a vast share Of her soil VI
Ouched, Cuba produces, when NJ
wasted by war, about one hun
lrcd million dollars worth
: .ugar and tobacco annually, al
there is a prodigal luxuriance
fruits aud forests, while her mou
: taiLs are reservoirs Of mineral
: and her rivers and shores swar
: with fish. There Is no more e
quisite feature in any landsca
!, than the royal palms, and I
: orange trees, never touched wi
: frost, are loaded with gold
: spheres, and the clusters Of bana
Q as cling under feathery folial
while the green cOccanuts ha
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-22
JONES EXPLAINS IT.
Has Figured Out the Cause Of the
Rise in Wheat.

Chicago, Oct. Ex-senator Jones,
chairman of the Democratic national
committee, was interviewed today re-
garding the prOnounciamento of Chair
man Babcock, of the Republican con-
gressional committee. in which Mr..
Babcock insists that the recent rise in
the price of wheat, while the price
Of silver has declined, indicates that
the claims of the silver men that the
price Of wheat depends on the price of
ounce of silver, are unfounded. The
senator said:
The advance in the price of bushel
of wheat proves rather than disproves the
theories OF the silver men. Our conten-
ton has been that the wheat of India COM
peted with our wheat in the Liverpool
market; that the Liverpool merchant
could in normal times buy in India at
any time during the past twenty-three
years a bushel of wheat for about one
ounce Of silver. When the ounce of sill
yer was worth Sl.29 in gold In 1873, this
meant that the bushel of wheat was wort n
about that in gold. But although the In
dian wheat farmer has always been viii
ing to take an ounce OF silver for a bushel
value owing TO its decentralization and
disuse, and consequently, as the gold
value of an ounce of silver declines the
gold value of the bushel of wheat de-
clined and the American farmer has been
compelled TO receive the gold equivalent
of the ounce OF silver for his bushel of
wheat. This meant gradual decline in
in 1873, to 90 or W cents in 1893. The real
cause, therefore. for the decline in the
gold value in our wheat was largely the
competition in India.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-22
MARK HANNA'S
NEW STATEMENT
Knocks the Points Cut Of Several Silver
Speeches.
DOES NOT ADVOCATE COERCION
The Republican National Committee
Will DO All in Its Power to Protect
Workingmen in Their Rights at
the Polls.

Chicago, Oct. H.-Chairman Hanna
of the Republican national committee
gave to the press the following an.
The manifest policy of the silver
Democratic managers in this CAM
paign, as set forth by their candidate
for president, shortly after his nomi-
nation, has been to create the belief
in the minds of the workingmen that
they We're being coerced by their EN-
ployers to vote contrary to their con-
victions. The chairman of their ma
tional committee, Hon. James X.
Jones. has emphasized this policy in a
proclamation, in which he boldly
charges the employing classes Of the
country with having entered into Il
conspiracy to coerce their employees
into voting contrary to their opinions.
This is very grave charge, and 1t has
now assumed form that justities Civ
ing IL some attention. To coerce n
voter Is O crime against the laws of the
land, and If Messrs. Bryan and Jones
know Of coercion they make them
selves accOmplices of the criminals
by not informing the proper authori-
ties and taking steps for prosecution.
While We consider the charge absurd,
and believe that American working
men and employers are too independ-
ent and patriotic. either to be CO.
creed or to coerce, the Republican ma
tional committee will do anything in
its power to protect workirgmen In the
free and untramelled exercise of their
rights as citizens, and will cheerfully
unite with the national Democratic
committee in any movement having
that object in view. Coercion Of voters
Is not only an un-American, un-patri-
otic and despotic usurpation of the
rights OF u free citizen, but it is a
wrong that will inevitably recoil upon
its perpetrators. 1t Is an arbitrary
use of power that is in direct conflict
with the principles Of our government.
The civil compact Of the majority rule
means free majOrities, for whose pro-
lection all constitutional powers should
be used, and without which political
victory would be barren Of results
worthy of a great party. This COM
mittee will spare no pains to secure to
every citizen, whatever his politics,
the right to cast his vote according to
his convictions and to have his vote
honestly counted,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-22
BANKERS SUICIDE.
W. 7. Rambusch, Who Had Absconded
fiom Juneau, Kills Himself in the
Cemetery at Fredericksburg.

Fredericksburg, Va, Oct. CIV. Il.
Rambusch. the absconding banker from
juneau, Wis.,, killed himself here last
night. Rambusch came here a week
ago and registered at the hotel as c.
4. Anderson. He has been visiting the
battlefields since. He shot himself in
the national cemetery here. The body
was found in sitting position, the
hand still grasping the pistol with
which he had shot himself in the right
temple. He left note saying he wish
ed to die among his comrades.
1t was evident from papers found on
Rambuschs person that he had con-
templated suicide, but was FASTENED In
committing the deed by the appearance
on yesterday evenings papers of cut
of himself and detailed account of his
crime. He addressed letter to the
Presbyterian minister asking that he
offer a prayer over his grave and begged
protection for his wife and daughter.
He requested that his remains be buried
here and that parties named by him
be wired to come here and identify his
body, that his family would have no
trouble in securing the insurance
money. He claimed when he came here
that he was in i'll health and had been
ordered by his physician to seek rest
and recreation and as he had not visit
ed the battlefields of this section since
he participated in the stormy scenes of
the war he had come to this place.
He had no effects with him save a
small handsatchel, in which were q
change Of underwear, few other small
belongings and $1225 in money This
he requested to he used in settling
his unpaid hotel bill and funeral ex-
penses. He was very methodical In
all he did and went to his death with a
deliberation and ca!;nness that only q
man Of iron nerve could comand. Those
who came in contact with him here
were impressed with his intelligence
and dignified manner. The verdict ol
the coroner's jury was murdered BY
his own hand"
kilograms have been received from
friends in Wisconsin and New York
but as they are somewhat conflicting
the senders have been summoned here
in person. The letters to his wife and
Mr.. John Curtis. Of Centerville, his
cousin, were at his request, forwarded
unopened. In neither his communica.
tions to parties here did he refer to the
grave charges made against himself In
the papers, doubtless thinking that the
disclosure of his identity would be suf-
flclent to publish his wrongs far and
wide.