davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
BRITISH REIGNs AND QUEENS.
Interesting Statistics Concerning the
Victorian Jubilee,

Victorian Jubilee,
Philadelphia Record.
Queen Victoria has now sat upon
the English throne for the greatest
period of rule in all it's history of
nearly nine centuries since William
the Conqueror. Her grandfather,
George the Third-''snuffy old drone
from the German hive"-was King
for period of nearly sixty years
dying only a few months short of
the sixtieth anniversary ascension);
but he had shown signs Of mental
alteration only five years after his
accession. revealed insanity indis-
putably % years later than that,
and after the death of his beloved
daughter, the Princess Amelia, broke
down completely and passed the last
nine years of his Kingship in the
double darkness OF insanity and
blindness. He actually reigned only
81 years. Only one other sovereign
of all England's 30 royal rulers has
attained, like Victoria and her
notorious grandfather, to over half
a century of rule. Henry the Third
(1216-1272), a Plantagenet, reigned
about Sc years. King Henry III
was 9 years old when crowned, and
he lived to the age of 65. The third
of the Georges assembled the throne
at p, and lived to be 80. Queen
Victoria succeeded her uncle, King
William, at the age of IS, and is now
II years old.
Queen Victoria, the thirty fifth OF
the rulers of the seven great English
dynasties, is the sixth and greatest
sovereign of the House of Brunswick
and the fifth Queen of Britain. The
preceding four Queens we're Mary /,
who lost Calais, that 'jewel of her
CROWN" Elizabeth; Mary ii, who
shared the throne with William Ill,
and the good Queen Anne, who wit
messed the union of England and
Scotland. Three of England's Queens
have given their names indelibly to
three of the nations greatest epochs.
The Elizabethan era witnessed the
birth of the modern national spirit.
The age of Anne saw the revival Of
Augustan elegance and the birth OF
the first distinctive English man
of letters-Dr. Samuel Johnson. The
Victorian era has witnessed the rise
of meditative English poetry. The
memories of the three Queens will be
forever linked with the fame oil
Shakespeare, Addison and Tennyson.
Victoria Alexandria is nearly ten
years younger than Gladstone, who
was born December %, 1909, at
Liverpool. He was, therefore, 81
years old when she assembled the
throne
Victoria was not actually crowned
until June %, 1888. She was then
nineteen years old.
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
was born when Victoria was twenty
two years old. On November 9 next
he will be tifty-six years old.
Victoria was married to Prince
Albert of SAKE Coburg Gotha on
February 10, 1910, when she was
not yet twenty one years old. Her
consort left her widow after twenty
one years of happy welded life, when
she was nearly forty three years Of
age.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
Rays of Truth.

Selected.
tits always a good idea to recog-
nize the strength of your enemy.
1t is pretty hard to get people III
terested in what you used to be.
When you take a mans content
ment away from him, you can't add
it to your own.
If We talk without weighing our
words, they will soon have no weight
for good
You can guage a mans character
pretty thoroughly by what he con-
siders laughable
1t is better to have little talent and
a noble purpose. than much talent
and no purpose.
There is something about a girl
with money in her own right that is
awfully hard TO resist.
There are people who claim to be
praying for the poor, who never do
any thing else for them
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
TO LEAVE WINSTON.
The Public Printing and the Price
to be Paid.

to be Paid.
There appears to be little doubt now
that the public printing will leave
Winston and for the next two years
will be done in Raleigh.
It is stated that Mr.. Guy V. Barnes,
the public printer. and the Council Of
State have reached no terms as to the
price to be paid for the public printing
Auditor Aver admits that the rate of
thirty-seven cents per Thousand ems
has beeh suggested, and that all parties
concerned were figuring on such basis.
The State is willing to accept that
figure, but Mr.. Barnes has not yet
given his consent. Auditor Aver said
further: 1T is our desire to get the
printing done as low as possible" 1t
is very likely that thirty seven cents
is the price that will be agreed upon
Messrs. Stewart Bros have been
doing the work for q cents, which is
10 cents less than Barnes is to receive.
1t is being argued by some of the
officials in Raleigh that the print
ing will cost less during the next
two years than it has in the past two
In one sense this is highly probably.
The present State printers have done
more work during their term OF office
than will be done, perhaps, in the next
four years. Until the Legislature
meets, Mr.. Barnes will have no laws
or books to print.
Mr.. M. l. Stewart went to Raleigh
yesterday to confer with the Governs
or's board about printing matters.
The Raleigh correspondent of the
Wilmington Star says: Governor
Russell was the only member of the
council friendly to the Stewards OF
Winston. Indeed, the Governor was
very anxious to give the contract tC
the Stewards, but the other members
of the council happened TO be Popu
lists and extremely friendly to Barnes
who is also Populist"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
A BAD PRACTICE.

The Charlotte Observer of Sunday
refers at length to q matter from
which every paper in North Carolina
suffers more or less, but which affects,
probably, the daily newspapers most
the practice INDUCED in so extern
sively of borrowing subscribers
papers; of habitually using the prop
erty of another and frequently to the
annoyance and inconvenience of the
owner.
This practice sometimes works two
ways against the paper. Some who
borrow would subscribe If they
couldn't borrow, and once in while
q paying subscriber, one who appre-
ciates the paper and Is really anxious
to have It In his home, becomes SO
worn out and Disguised with the
borrowing habit that he stops TAX
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

The Tarheels made themselves
heard at the meeting of the veterans
in Nashville. A special to the Rich
mond Dispatch notes that the North
Carolina delegation marched in,
singing "The Old North State" The
business of the Association was in
terrupted by the incident and Gen.
Gordon took occasion to pay high
compliment to our State. He said !:
North Carolina is entitled to inter
rupt any convention at any time, for
she was not only among the fore
most in the late war, but in the first
revolution. A year before Jefferson
penned his immortal Declaration OF
Independence, North Carolina adopt
ed the Mecklenburg Declaration. So
[ propose three cheers for the Old
North State" The telegram states
that the cheers were given with a will
and then Gen. Gordon said: "And
now let North Carolina take her seat
and be Guiet.''
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
FRANCISCO ITEMS.

Death of an Aged Lady-Good Yield
of Whear-Corn Crops Promising.
Correspondence of the Sentinel
FRANCIsC }, June 26.-Mrs. DrucilIa
Lackey died on Wednesday of last
week. She was the wife OF Rev. S. J..
Lackey, formerly of North Carolina,
who died in Colorado ten years ago.
The deceased leaves eight children,
six of whom reside in Colorado, the
remaining two in North Carolina,
and a multitude of friends and
relatives to mourn her loss. The
deceased was eighty four years old.
The wheat crop has all been cut in
this section and the farmers seem to
think the yield very good. Corn
crops are looking fairly well.
Blackberries are beginning to get
red, so it will not be many days
before confidence will be fully re.
stored and prosperity will reign
supreme"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
County Supervisor of Schools.
Statesville Landmark

StateSVllle Landmark.
The board of educa ion, clerk Of the
court and register of deeds will elect
a county supervisor Ct public schools
for each county on the first Monday
in July. State uperintrndent
Mebane announces that he will not
officially recognize any one elected to
the position of supervisor who is not
a practical teacher, and that if other
than a practical teacher is elected he
will have 90 secure recognition
through the courts if at all. Mr..
Mebane has heretofore defined n
practical teacher to be one "whose
business is teachir g" and "whose
profession is teaching" Ohe who
has taught school but who for the
past two years has been engaged in
other business, is not eligible, he
says.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

We are not without q proper re.
gard for the welfare of the colored
people, but we have no sympathy
with any movement which tends to
supplant white labor by colored
labor, and, therefore. we are opposed
to proposed experiments with
colored operatives in onr cotton
factories. Poor white people have a
slim enough chance for earning a
livelihood now, without extending
the competition between them and
the colored people, by employing the
latter In line of work hitherto un-
attempted by them. Such q course
would produce friction that should
be avoided. Without entering into
an argument, these are our convic-
lions upon this talked Of innovation.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
A SUPERB OPPORTUNITY.
Inc Election to Supplement State
Funds for Public Schools.


Charlotte Observer
3. 1t Is indeed a time in the develop
ment of the country when the youth
ready and anxious for a college edu-
cation may with comparative ease
obtain it. Our universities and
higher educational institutions are
no Logger aristOcratic or oligarchical,
as you may please to call them; they
no longer educate only the rich mems
SONS and daughters; only the
moneyed few; instruction within their
walls Is no longer a dearly bought
luxury. We have multiplied colleges
and universities, and brought their
terms SO generally within the reach
OF those of moderate means that no
ambitious youth need do without q
good education.
But In our praiseworthy endeavOrs
to provide higher education for the
poor mans son and daughter, we
have neglected to provide means
whereby the poor mans son and
daughter may be prepared to "take''
the higher education. We have de
veloped higher education out of pro-
+, portion to lower education, at least
4
| State that we have principally in
/ mlnd. While we very properly
/ should have done the one, we ought
not to have left the other undone.
We are awakening to this fact in
North Carolina, and a superb oppor-
tunlty lies at our very doors-the
August election f IT local taxation in
order to supplement the State funds
for public schools.
There Is very great danger that the
| people OF the State are not alive to
the Importance of this great oppor.
tuuity. We should have had cam
paign equal in enthusiasm to the
| average political campaign. We
should have had orators in every
county of the State, instructing the
people as to the meaning of their
opportunity, and persuading them
to relax their prejudices against tax.
alton, the paltry taxes they woulc
nave to pay as compared with the
benz fits that would accrue from the
amount expended No election since
the gubernatOrial election of '76 was
so important as this one in August
I As 1T is we have had only occasional
speakers in a few counties. There il
absolutely no enthusiasm that WE
know OF in any county, and in most
of the rural districts there is tota
ignorance that such an election is tC
be held. There are a few weeks yet
left, and we hope the weekly papers
of the State will urge the Importance
of this matter upon their constitu-
encies.
The opportunity is here to balance
things; to pave the way for making
the public schools a step up to the
colleges and university Let Ut
make the most of the opportunity.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
Queen Month of the Year.

If there is ever a season of the year
when life seems worth living, it is
during the month Of leafy June. In
the country the fields stretch away 10
great pillows of green, with 1.-THE corn
in the tassels," and the wheat, which
has turned to golden hue; while
along the roadside the sweet brier
stands a big bouquet Of pink fra
GRANGE. The blackberries that short
time ago whitened the fence corners,
are now yielding their shining black
fruit, while the clover fields and wild
grapes fairly intoxicate you with their
fraprance.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
Death of Mrs. Jake Hicks.

Mrs. Jake Hicks, wife OF the engin-
eer that run the first train between
Winston and Greensboro, died in
Greensboro Saturday and was laid to
rest Sunday. Mrs. Hicks was IS
years old. 1t is said that she taught
her husband how to read aud write
after her husband lost his position on
the road, several years ago, because he
could not read train orders. Mr..
Hicks was engineer on the MOcksville
road for some time last year. He re-
tired from the railroad business
several months ago.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
Not a Speck of Mud
Columbia State.

Columbia State.
Even people who do not like
William Jennings Bryan overmuch
cannot fail to note the promptness
and completeness with which every
charge tending to lesson him in the
public esteem is 'disproved Yester-
days illustration of this rule was
especially significant, the testimony
coming as it did from senator's not
of his own party. The gold press
seeks constantly to belittle him by
cheap sneers, and his cause is
maligned without ceasing, but not a
speck of mud can cling to his gar.
ments. A man who can pass I'M
stained through such an ordeal is a
man whose leadership is the honor OF
his following
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
Is Hanna an Orator 2

Richmond Dispatch.
"Money talks" The Hon. Marcus
Aurelius Hanna is said to have
proved himself "a real orator" at the
State Republican Convention lately
held at Cleveland. He not only
whipped out the Foraker forces in
the preliminary fight, but won the
honors of the occasion when speak
ing came to be the order of the day.
And yet, it is possible that he is not
an orator. A rich and successful
mans friends are apt to find in his
words lcquence that they would not
be able to perceive if he were poor
and unknown.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
The Professional Jurors.
Charlotte Observer.

CharIOtte UbSerVer.
Mention has been made of the fact,
in our news columns, that Judge
Ewart, of the Western Criminal
Circuit, has made rule that there
after tales jurors should not be taken
from parties sitting in the court
room or about the court house, but
that the sheriff should summon peo-
pie from the streets and places of
business and that no defendants or
prosecuting witnesses should be
placed on the jury" This would
seem to be taking an unfair advant-
age of the professional juror-taking
the bread out of his mouth while he
waits, SO to speak.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
Petitions Against License.

Petitions are being circulated
throughout the county for signatures
asking the Guilford Board of County
Commissioners to refuse to grant
l cense in Greer sboro to sell LIQUOR.
The meeting FOR the consideration of
the matter is to held nextMonday. For
merly the county commissioners had
no discretion in the matter as far as
incorporated towns were concerned,
tht u b it rested with the ~ entire as
to OF her localities.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
To Curtail Production.

At a meeting held in Greensboro
yesterday afternoon by the cotton
manufacturers Of Randolph county,
at which all the mills OF Deep River
were represented, it was unanimously
agreed that production be curtailed
one-third time until new crop of cot
ton is on the market.
These mills formed themselves into
permanent organization with o R..
Cox, of Cedar Falls Manufacturing
Co, president, and Hal M. Worth, of
the Worth Manufacturing Co secre-
tary; subject to the call OF the presi-
dent, as to the time for the next meet
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

The ball set in motion at the
Teachers Assembly. on last week, in
behalf of public education, should lie
kept rolling. 1t should be impressed
upon every township in the State
that it cannot afford to do without
education. Let the friends OF the
cause do yoeman service In the local
taxation campaign. The opportuni-
ty for a great forward movement is
at hand. Let it be used.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

Send your add ess t H. E. BucKlen & Co.
Chicego, and get ee sam l. box o. DIR
Kings New Life Pills A trial W Ii convince
you of their merits. These pills are easy 10 acs
ton and are part cuiarly effective in the cure
of Constipation and Sick Headache. For Ma
laria and Liver troubles they have been proved
invaluable. They gu ranteed to be per-
fectly fee from every deleterious substa- ce and
to be purely vegetable. They d. not weaken
by their action, but by giving tone to stomach
and bowels greatly invigorate the system
Regular size Csc per hox. Sold by v. G.
Thompson, Dluggist
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

CIVIL service continues an elephant
on the hands of the Republicans and
the fellows on the outside are anxious
to find a hole big enough to crawl
out. The National Republican plat
form claimed that the law was placed
on the statute books by the Republi-
can party and declared that itshould
be- extended whenever practicable.
Now the Ohio Republican platform,
adopted last week, denounces the
orders OF Cleveland which extended
the service beyond it's purpose and
intent and demands revocation of
these orders or modification of the
law. Hanna must have had hand
in framing both platforms. In which
did he mean what he said and in
which did he say what he meant?
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

THE Mckinley wave has increased
interest in the free coinage cause and
prosperity will come when we get free
coinage. A round about way to the
goal, but we'll get there after awhile.
So, those who dubbed Mckinley "the
advance agent of prosperity" were
not SO far wrong after ell. The
trouble about 1t is the long wait be
tween now and 1901, when bimetal-
lism will be restored to it's place In
the currency policy of the country.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
Tobacco and Coal.

A special from Washington says the
Virginia senators have assurance from
the Republicans having charge OF he
tar fl bill that the cent increase Per
p uud on tobacco will be stricken out
OF the internal feature Of the bill Tie
coal schedule is practically settle at
81 cents on the ton, which, though not
what the PCcahontas and West Vir-
& mia operators wanted, will all Nv
them and the railroads Il living rat.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
Says He was Knocked Down.

into trouble saturday afternoon on
"Hickory Hill" He said negro
knocked him down with a pair of
knucks His face was bleeding, prov
ing that he had been struck by some
thing. A negro named John Lyle was
arrested on the charge OF being the
man who struck Acey. The officers
were informed that Vaughn was
drinking and that Lyle pushed him
away when Acey fell on his face.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

BEAR in mind that it is always in
order to make donations, either in
cash or kind, large or small, to che
Twin-City Hospital. By the way,
did you read the high tribute paid to
this worthy institution, a few days
ago, by a patient, and which was
published in THE SENTINEL The
utterances were the sincere and APP
preciative expressions of one who
spoke from experience and they
should encourage our people to take
even a deeper interest in the Hos
pitaf.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
Just.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

F1ttSbufg DISPATCH.
Senator Chambers plea for Cuba
is just. The cause of liberty and
humanity, the right of men, women,
and children to live by the fruits of
honest toll are considerations that
rise above all else. Yet this right is
denied to people at our very gates
by the might of monstrous tyrant,
in defiance of every law of humane
sympathy and civilization-denied
be it said in shame, by the consent of
the governments OF nearly 20, OOO,O 900
enlightened and free people.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

THE report that Queen Victoria
will soon abdicate is discredited. The
Charlotte Observer is among the
non-believers of the story. 1t says:
''This old soul likes her job and has
no more idea of abdicating than
Judge Dick has"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

Or great convenience will be the
telephone service connecting Elkin,
Roaring Gap and Sparta and we
congratulate the projectors upon the
success which they have met. Why
not extend the line from Elkin to
Winston.Salem?
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
A Divorce Item.

Lawyer examining applicant for
divorce MADAME, you are about to
testify in your own behalf, and you
will excuse me if l asa you if you
know the nature of an oath?
Madam-Not as well as know the
nature of the man who habitually
makes one.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
entitled under the provisions of the

act.
Section 8 exempts from the opera
-tions of the act such districts as now
levy special school tax of as much
as 10 cents on every 500 worth of
property and 30 cents on every pole
Now let every voter give this mat.
ter serious consideration and deter
mine whether or not his district can
afford to vote against schools and
miss this opportunity for strength
ening it's public schools.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

CIVIL service doesn't cut much
figure when a Republican administra-
ton wants to GUST a Democrat and
put in Republican. A late instance
of this is the removal of Gen. W. P.
Roberts, of this State, from Van
CONVEX
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

IF the mind could grasp the mean
ing of large figures some idea of the
number of stamps licked by the
American people could be had from
the fact that the estimated require
ment of two-cent stamps for the next
fiscal year is two and q half billions.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
A BrickIaYer.

Two Irishmen were dieputing. One
of them, speaking of himself, said
81 am q brick"
ssSure, ano I'm a bricklayer," said
the other, at the same time knocking.
him down.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

IT appears that those who predict
ed that the 1897 session of the North
Carolina Teachers Assembly would
be one of the most profitable in it's
history were not disappointed.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

The Indianapolis Sentinel says a
trust is "an associated hog, fattened
on Republican swill." Mighty near
right.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01
The santificationists.

The Eastern shore of MARYLAND
Santiflcationists who for several
months have been in the waters of
this State, and who travel in fat house
boats which they term Arks, are now
holding forth at Beaufort. The New
bern Journal says their sAvant
Courier" small sloop, with several
men and women on board, arrived
near Newbern Saturday night and is
now tied up near Clark's mill on the
Neuse.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-01

AS was expected, the Veterans
would not permit their beloved Com
mander-in. Chief, Gen. John B. Cor
don, to decline re election.