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1T HAS COME TO THIS.

1.-The finance which they teach
is entirely Confederate fat. In
the Southern Confedpracv the
same leaders who now are in
command Of the pickle guards.
for free silver at is to We're
leading tinanciers. And Harris,
Pugh, Morgan and the other
Confederate Generals now in
command nf the Bryan campaign
seem 10 desire TO accomplish, by
false finance. that which they
failed 10 bring about bv arms
national dishonor and disgrace. .
Hon. J Sterling Morton, Sec
retary Of Agriculture.
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ROW HE REGARDS THEM.
SECRETARY MORTON DE
NOUNCES SOUTHERN
DEMOCRATS
kTTaotS IfiEM INDiN,OuAA}

The Seer stary of Agriculture Says
That Candidate Bryan's Man
ayers, the Generals of the
South, are Trying 70 Accom-
pIish by False Finance that
Which They Failed to Bring
About by Arms, National Dis
honor and Disgrace = His
Denial.
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Pia no Tuning;

Mr.. Lee Ferguson, piano tuner and
repairer for Manly B. Ramos & Co.,
Richmond, va. will visit Goldsborc
soon to do some of the firms tuning
ahd will take orders for a limiteo
number of outside tuuings. Work
guaranteed. Address Manly B. Ramos
q Co., care of ARGUS office.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-10-22

For years you and your fathers
have found it Of sterling worth.
It is and always has been put up
only by ]. II. Zeilin & Co. Take
none but the genuine. 1t has the
Red z on the front of the wrapper,
and nothing else is the same, and
nothing SO good.
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GOLDsBOnO n. c.. THURSDAY OCTOBER 1896

one of their own nen for Presi-
dent.
Dr.. Persons speech, a. was
the case with all of his fellow can
didates, never elected the sIight~
est applause or the faintest mur
mur of approval from the crowd
present.
Mr.. E. j. Best, the would be
Republican nominee for the
Legislature, but WHO, as he
says himself, was cheated out of
it in caucus, was en- hand TO
represent Mr.. J. Frank Dobson,
cal dioate for county commits
sicner, and after all the rest had
finished he mounted the wagon
and told the crowd, among other
thipga.of minor importance.
that Mckinley was running
for Pre- si,ieni of the United
States ard that Judge Russell l
wanted TO be Governor OF n 0l'st1
Carolina
Mr. Brst finally wound up by
saying thai the cnunty had
bought some b;cUd hounds to
capture his coiored friends with,
and that the court house Er funds
had been beau:ified and that a
part of the court square had
been rented out for 30 years at
Sl21 per wear,
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02

wages and honest debts, life insurance
policies, savings banks deposits and
everything else upon which the Door PEG
pie and the people in general DEF eud.
For a time Mr.. Bryan contended (while
he was in the East) that free coinage
would raise the price of bullion in a
siver dollar to a parity with gold, but in
the South and West he has dropped this
contention. Cheap dollars they will be,
and the competition of all the silver in
the world will make them cheaper and
cheaper till they fall to the actual cost of
mining them. And the transition period
from q gold to a silver standard will be
one of panic, idleness and suffering such
as the country never saw. Even the
silver orators do not deny this. One of
them who admitted it exclaimed fervently
in conclusion: "But just think of what
will follow-America's financial indepen-
dence of the whole world" Alas, it will
be the financial independence of China
and Japan, where labor's condition of
poverty and barbarism has not changed
in twenty centuries.
CHARLES MARsEILLEs.
Exeter, N. H., Sept. 90, 1896.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
Current Silver Fallacies.
IRON the New York world.l

IErOn lu6 NOW 4Olh "ONANI
That our present standard Of oalue and
money system are not "AmerscGn," and
that zoe must change them to assert our
Independence Of foreign dictation.
Our standard of value and our financial
system are both our own, and unique.
The coinage of legar-tender gold was
authorized by the first coinage act passed
by Congress, April Q, 1899. Our gold
coins-quarter eagles ($2. so }. half eagles
($5), eagles ($10) and double eagles $500
are our own device. No other nation
has them or their equivalents.
Our silver dollars are equally our own.
No other nation has coins of the same
weight or anything like and equal num-
Der Of silver coins of an approximate
value. No other except Belgium has in
use an almost equal amount of gold and
silver.
No other patton has nine kinds of cur
rency-part coin, part Government paper,
part coin certificates, part national bank
notes, and 30 on. This dangerous chaos
is distinctively american"
No foreign nation has volunteered a
word as to our currency, or cares a rap
what we do abont it. Some of them
would like to sell to US for gold and pay
for our products in 30 cents worth of
silver, generously stamped as 81 by our
minis free of charge. II we return to
wampum, the original American
money, they will refuse to accept it. If
we adopt tobacco. the exchange medium
of a later date, they will take it only at
the market value. If we adopt silver they
will do the same.
There is no purer fapdoodle than the
current talk of Uncle Sans ability to
lift himself by his boot-straps if Europe
can be made to keep her hands of. Nor
is there any claim more absurd than
that unlimited silver coinage, borrowed
from Asia and Mexico, would be an
uAmerican system"
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02

1t seems from these hgures that in 1861,
before the war, the per capita circulation
was $13. So in 1862, after the war was fully
inaugurated, and before the legal tenders
were issued, the PER capita circulation
was reduced to $10.23; in 1865, after the
close of the war, per capita circulation
went up to SEC. 81.
There was also, at the close of the war,
a large amount of one-year, two year, and
three-year notes, compound interest
notes, and seven thirty potes, that were
legal tender, which temporarily served
the function of money; but as they were
all interest bearing obligations. and all
redeemable within three years after issue,
they were taken out Of circulation very
soon after being issued, and were held by
banks, saving banks and trust companies,
as investments. After the war closed,
the Government Immediately began to
refund all these interest bearing obliga-
lions into bonds bearing q lower rate of
interest, and at the same time began to
withdraw the legal tender notes from
circulation, for the purpose of getting to
a specie basis.
Under this process the circulation per
capita decreased from $20.57 in 1865 to
SIS. 80 per capita in 1878. The act of
1878 prohibited the retirement of any
more legal tender notes, and from that
time the circulation per capita began to
increase until it reached $4,000 per capita
in 1885, the year Mr.. Cleveland was first
inaugurated President. The next year it
fell off to $21 SO per capita, but from that
year it gradually increased until Novem-
Der, 1893, when it reached 1851 per cap
ita. Since that time it has fallen off
until in November, 1895, it was only
$22.61 per capita.
On pages 1870 and 1S1 of the Finance
Reports, before referred to, is found a
table giving the per capita circulation of
gold, silver and paper in each of the prin-
cipal commercial countries of the world.
The per capita circulation in the United
States is given as follows: Gold, 50. 09;
silver, SO 0S; paper, Sc. 80. Total per
capita, $25.07.
There are only three countries in the
world that have as large a per capita cir
culation of money, and but three that
have as large a per capita of silver as the
United States. Is it not evident that
there is still plenty of money to transact
all the business of the country, as all of
this money is at par with gold?
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
Secret Thoughts.
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX,
L hold it true that thoughts are things,
Endowed with bodies, breath and wings,
AND that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results-or i'll.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds to the earth's remotest spot,
And leave its blessings or its woes,
Like tracks behind 1t as it goes.
1t is Gods law. Remember it
In your still chamber as you sit
With thoughts you would not dare have
known,
AND yet make comrade when alone.
These thoughts have life, and they will fly
And cave their impress by and by,
Like some marsh breeze whose poisoned
breath
Breathes into homes its poisoned death.
And after you have quite forgot,
Or all outgrown some vanished thought.
Back to your ird to make its home,
A dove or raven it will come.
Then let your secret thoughts be fair,
They have a vital part, and share
In shaping worlds, and moulding fate
Gods system is so intricate.
From The NeW Crusade.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
Rich Discoveries of Gold

At Cripple Creek, Colo. and elsewhere,
are being made daily, and the production for
1896 will be the largest ever known. esti-
mated at Two Hundred Million Dollars
Cripple Creek alone is producing over One
Million Dollars a month, and steadily increas
ing. Mining Stocks are advancing in price
more rapidly than any other Stocks, and many
pay dividends of IS to SO per cent. They
offer the best opportunity to make a large
profit on a small investment.
J.. TALLMAN & CO., IS Broadway,
New York, are financial agents for the Pru
Dental Gold Mining Co., and others in the
famous Cripple Creek district. They will send
you free, interesting particulars OF the Mining
Companies they represent also their book on
speculation in Stocks, Grain and Cotton, con-
tanning many new and important features.
Send for these books at once if you are
interested in any form of speculations or
investments. They may prove profitable to
you.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
THOUGHTS.

We are led to wonder whether the W.
G. T. U. is better organized in any
county in the State than it is 10 Salem
county, and whether the work-especially
along educational lines-is carried forth
with any more vigor, with anymore Joy,
and with any better results than it is
within our borders. We have no
wish to unduly praise, but we do feel to
give credit where credit is due. Out of
the twelve or fourteen local Unions in
our county, probably eight are availing
the fine opportunity to bring before the
members of their several communities, in
mass meetings assembled, the States
Corresponding Secretary, Margaret B.
Ellis, who is also National Superin-
tendent of the Department of Legislation.
The promptness and adaptability of
woman in journalism is shown by the
fine report of the annual convention held
at Hancock's Bridge on Fourth.day,
23d instant, which appeared in the
columns of the Observation-Disclosures in its
issue of the Goth.
This stroke of interesting reporting is
from the pen of tho county's Superin-
tendent Of the Press, Mrs. Anna Myers,
DaretowD, who was appointed to this
office but six months ago. 1t is but
natural to rejoice in such cooperation in
the Presa Department 90 10 thoro;, nv;
denced. No county in the State,
probably, has a better systematized
method of Temperance Teaching in
Schools than exists in Salem county,
which result is brought about through
the tireless and watohful and courteous
efforts of the oounty's Superintendent of
that department-"our'' Jennie W.
Humphreys. And SO we might go on
enumerating the different department is
and the different superintendent of these
departments, showing the work done and
results accomplished. But enough has
been written to show that we are proud
and thankful for the well-planned work
of Salem county, which will grow broader
and brighter n the perfect day.
That day is dawning. What will be
the effulgence of its noontide ? the peace
and beauty of it's evening?
All, the Lord will lift up his counter.
ance upon thee and give thee peace.
RUTH.
Swedesboro, 9th Mo. 18th, 1896,
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NOTES N

10 another month the campaign button
will go to seed.
Mr.. Bryan and his managers have
abandoned Ohio, but Mckinley has not
abandoned Nebraska by any means.
Following the prevalent craze, what's
the matter with the girls this winter
showing their preferences by wearing bou-
~tonniers made up of bachelors buttons?
Philadelphia Times.
Bourke Cochran addressed a great
meeting in Baltimore on Saturday even.
ing, and aroused much enthusiasm when
he declared: "For my part, 1 stop at no
half measures; I vote for William
Mckinley"
The free silver men in New York have
forced John Boyd Thacher, Senator B ilps
candidate for Governor, off the ticket.
and substituted Wilbur F. Porter. who
is more to their liking. Mr.. Hill is still
occupying the ridge pole at Wolfert's
Roost.
The Dallas (Texas) News says that a
party of 200 business men in that oitv
are organizing an excursion to visit Can
ton and pledge their support to Major
Mckinley. The Neaos says they will be
the representatives of Texas Industries.
including planters, farmers, manufactur.
ers, iumbermeD, stock r~aisers, bankers
and merchants, as we'll as the trades and
laboring classes. They expect to start
early in October. Thus do the Indications
increase that even the solid south would
like an opening for a little sound money.
About eighty silver mine owners In
this country are credited with an agere.
gate wealth of over 5000, 900. 900. That is
an average of over 100000 each. And
yet their agent, Bryan, pretends to speak
in the interest of the poor man. How
those mine owners must smoker when
they think of their paying the expenses
of a man to go about the country to assail
the rich, while aiming to double the
enormous fortunes of these ~'sbonapzs"
mine owners.-PhtladelpAsa Press.
John Wanamaker has purchased the
entire business and real estate of the
assigned firm of Hilton, Hughes s. Co.,
in New York, the successors to the late A.
L. Stewart. who was known as the mer-
chant prince of America. The business
will be r~eorganized and carried on upon
the same lines that have made his Phila.
delphia store so successful. Though the
price paid is not given, it is understood
to be in the neighborhood of So, 900, 900.
Mr.. Wanamaker is destined to achieve
even greater success than crowned the
efforts of Mr.. Stewart,
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02

When your stomach begins to trouble
you it needs help. The help it needs, is
to digest your food, and, until it gets it,
you won't have any peace. Stomach
trouble is very distressing, very obstinate,
very dangerous. Many of the most
dangerous diseases begin with simple
indigestion. The reason is that indigestion
(not. digestion, not-nourishment) weak
ems the system and allows disease germs
to ATTACK it. The antidote is Shaker
Digestive Cordial, strengthening, nourish-
ing, curative. 1t cures indigestion and
strength and health. 1t does this
by strengthening the stomach by helping it
to digest your food. It nourishes you.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is made of pure
herbs, plants and wine. is perfectly harm
less and will certainly cure all genuine
stomach trouble.
Sold by druggists, price 10 cents to 81
per bottle.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02

1. give less than 81 90 per capita. TIE
liquor bill Isl. 900, 900, 900 per annum)
would average over $500 per family"
These statements were made in a sermon
on "The relation of the saloon to hard
times" Mr.. Peters is not a Prohibi.
tionists, but he has a correct idea of the
relative commercial values of the issues
before the country.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02

If your children are subject to Group
watch for the first symptom of the disease
-hoarseness. If Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy is given as soon as the child
becomes hoarse it will prevent the attack.
Even after the croupy cough has appeal red
the attack can always be prevented By
giving this remedy. 1t is also invaluable
for colds and whooping cough. For sac
by Geo. M. Andrews, Druggist.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
NEWS AT THE COUNTY-SEAT.
SALEM. Oct. 1, 1896,

To-day is the beginning of one of the
loveliest months in the year, and with
the equinoctial out of the way, we may
look for settled weather now for a time.
The storm, though accompanied by a
heavy rain and considerable wind, was
not destructive. The winds caused pretty
high tides iii the creek, but we have heard
of no damage to the banks.
The mysterious disappearance of Joseph
Waddington early on Saturday was a
shock to his family and a surprise to the
community, and the suspense heightened
each day of his absence, and though
deligent search was made for him along
and in the creek, no traces were found
until Monday, when his n was seen
floating down the creek near the Penn's
Neck Bridge. This strengthened the belief
that his body was in the creek, and tt e
search was kept up, being stimulated by a
reward of $50 offered by his son. The
searchers were rewarded on Wednesday
by finding the body near where the cane
had first been seen. Samuel Brown and
Elmer Sutton were dragging the creek at
that place, when their graphing irons
struck the body, and as soon as they
loosened the suction of the mud, it came to
the surface.
Mr.. Waddington has been in poor
health for two years or more, having had
a paralytic stroke, and of late he had been
somewhat depressed in mind, though for
a week previous he was quite cheerful. On
Friday night he was somewhat restless,
and his family heard him up once or twice
during the night, the last time about 2
O'Clock in the morning, but as he was an
early riser, they thought nothing partieu-
larry of it. About half. past five or six
O'Clock he was seen to leave his home,
dressed in a straw hat, a pair of old pants
and his rubber boots. Further than this
no one had any knowledge of his where
abouts. He owned considerable land
along the creek, and was in the habit of
frequently going to the creek to see about
the tides, and it was at first thought he
had probably gone to one Of his farms,
but when he did not return for dinner, the
family began to be alarmed, and steps
were at once taken to institute a search
for him, with the result already given. 1t
is supposed that he went to the creek, as
he frequently did, and by some means fell
ov erboard.
The deceased was a member of the
society of Friends, and a prominent
farmer until he moved to Salem a few
years ago, since which time he had lived
a retired life. He was a leading Demo
crat, a former member of the City
Council, and a director in the Farmers
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The
funeral will take place OF Saturday.
L. P. Plummer, for 30 many years con-
nected with the West Jersey Railroad
Company, has accepted a position with
Wanamaker & Brown, the Philadelphia
clothiers, and will enter upon his duties
next Tuesday. He will make a popular
salesman.
Detective Carney arrested Alfred Beck
EFT in Burlington county on Tuesday for
stealing chickens from Oliver Smith, in
Mannjnpton. He is in jail.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02

1t isn'ta counterfeit-it stands
on its merits. We've sold it
for six years past ; we haven't
had a complaint !; we've had
many words in praise of it.
And we show one hundred
and f0e colortmgs for Autumn.
ST. a ward.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
Increase in Money Circulation per
Capita.

There are a large number of people in
this country who believe that the prevail.
ing hard times and business disturbance
are due to contraction of the currency.
They claim that the act of 1878 which
suspended the coinage of the standard
silver dollar has been the means of les.
sening the volume Of money, hui in
creasing the value of gold and greatly
injuring business. Such people are con-
trolled by a theory, and ignore the facts
which prove their theories false.
The Finance Reports for 1894 and the
monthly reports on Finance for 1895 con-
tain tables that show the population and
the amount of money per capita in circu-
lation from 1860 to 1895. From these
tables we copy the following:
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
Sc Warren ST.. New York On
Champion shot OF the world.

Miss Annie Oakley writes: myself
and many of the Buffalo Bill Wild West
Co. have given Aliens Foot-E Ease, the
powder to shake into the shoes, . most
thorough trial, and it does all if not more
than you claim" 1t instantly takes the
sting out of Corns and Bunions. Allen g
Foot Ease is a certain sure for swollen,
hot, aching or sweating feet. Sold by
all Druggists and Shoe Stores, ESQ.
Sample sent FREE. Allen 8. Oimsted,
LIE Roy, N. Y.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
A Pointer for Advertisers.

Out of a total Of 277 weekly papers
published in New Jersey, the Amer
lean Newspaper Directory for 1896
accords a circulation in actual figures
to but 81. The M-oNIToR-REGIS-
TER is n of the 81, and the cir
culation is guaranteed by a re Tard
of 800.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
GLEANINGS.

1T is GODS LAW, REMEMBER 1.-THE
SECRET SPRING OF OLD AGE, AVOID Tt
STRUGGLING HUMANITY NOT CHEERFUL
TO CONTEMPLATE. HUMANITY MUST BE
LIFTED UP AS SPEEDILY AS POSSIBLE
FRANCES e. WILLARD SENDS FORTH A
SECOND APPEAL TO AMERICAN WOMEN
MADISON G. PETERS SHOULD FEEL
HIGHLY HONORED TO APPEAR WITH
THIS BOUQUET OF WOMEN-SALEM
COUNTY
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
Welcome.

Miss Louisa Powell, of the Hancock'f
Bridge Union, gave the following greet.
ing to the w. G. T. U. County Conven.
ton:
With gladstone hearts his happy day.,
Dur W. C. T. u.
Extends to this convention
A welcome warm and true.
And first to thee. our county's guest,
Our best respects we pay.
And wish thee, Mrs. Ellis,
A good and gracious day.
Our village, true, is very small,
Yet not to fame;
To this conventions gratitude
1t boasts a awful claim.
For was it not in Hancock's Bridge,
Not long ago, they say.
Our onore County President
First saw the light of day2
This day has meaning too, and stands
A milestone in her life,
For one and twenty years 6
She first became a wife.
And so to her we greeting bring,
Here on her native soil,
And trust a rich reward may spring
From her unselfish toll.
And all our other officers,
All Unions, great and small,
We thank thee for your presence here,
And greet o one and all.
All ye who love the temperance cause,
So far, at least, you're right;
We welcome you, and hope to-day
You'll don the ribbon white.
And all upon the other side,
If any such there be,
We're glad you're here, tits just the place
Where the blind are made to see.
Now. friends, our township has been dry
For almost twenty years;
1t is a drought we much commend
1t dries so many tears.
But only five short miles away,
They're selling death his day.
Shall we sit down and fold our hands,
And nothing do or say
Nay. frieuds. that were a towards part,
Rise, do your best, and now!
The enemy is strong, but we
Shall win, and God knows how.
And He knows when. Yes, and perhaps
Sooner than we nave dreamed;
If we but do our part, We'll cry
New Jersey is redeemed
o, sisters, tbs a holy cause,
Tha draws us here to-day;
May God direct and guide us all,
We most sincerely pray.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

The intense itching and smarting Incl
dent to eczema, letter, salt-rheum, and other
diseases of the skin is instantly allayed by
applying Chamberlain's Eye and Skin
Ointment. Many very bad cases have been
permanently cured by it. 1t is equally
efficient for itching piles and a favorite rem
edy for sore nipples; chapped hands, chill
blains, frost bites, and chronic sore eyes.
For sale by druggists at rs cents per box.
TryDr. Cady's Condition Powders, they
are Just what a horse needs when in bad condi-
ton. Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge.
The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02
To Think About.

Rev. Madison G. Peters, of New York,
has a pretty effective way of putting the
issue. He says: when the Mckinley
tariff was in operation the receipts from
customs was $171. 600. 900 a year-less
than $3.50 per capita. All the silver
mined in the country last year ($60, 000.-
000) would, If coined at the ratio of 16 to