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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
OUR ADVANTAGES.

The advantages that Winston
Salem possess are many and these
advantages should by all means be
advertised to the world. Our loca-
ton is splendid, in fact so far as
health and climate is concerned, this
section is superior to Asheville,
which has such 81 reputation as a
health resort. We do not suffer here
from such extreme cold, nor do we
have those heavy unhealthy fogs
that visit the mountainous sections.
We are protected by the hills and
little mountains from cyclones and
severe storms, and our soil is fertile
and adapted to the growth of almost
every thing that is useful and profit
able
We have here superior school ad-
vantages, including perh apps the best
graded school system in the South
with elegant buildings, libraries, ETC.
Then there are water works, furnish
ing pure healthy water to all parts
Of the city. A sewerage system,
street cars, electric lights, telephones,
a fire department, perhaps the best
in the State, the municipal buildings,
market house and armory that
would do credit to any city. A court
house that we can show to a strang-
er with pride, and in fact, we have a
great place, with a grand future, if
we put forth little effort to show
it's advantages and possibilities to
the outside world.
One way to advertise our city, and
surrounding country is to go to
work and have an old time fourth of
July celebration that will eclipse any
thing of the kind, we have ever had
here.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
Smallest Party on Earth.
Our Home.


Mr.. Pritchard calls his Populist
(better named Repoplicans) middle
of-the-road Populists." He has
selected Mr., Skinner for their leader.
This is new organization in North
Carolina and has no connection
whatever with the Peoples party.
It's membership so far AS known
numbers between 20 and 80 voters
This is the smallest political party
on the face of the earth. 1t is led
and nourished by the Republican
party, being the adopted child of
that party. 1t is not known how
long it will be before it will assume
the name of it's fond parent. For
the present it is known as the "pie-
onefr Populist party" Their creed
middle of the road" is a misnomer
and is calculated to mislead. 1t i'm
plies that they are in the middle of
but one road and that only to the
Republican pie counter. The Repub-
liCans have bequeathed to this
adopted child one half the spoils of
the State and are nourishing it in
many ways with the fond hope that
it will grow and increase and multi
ply the family, but as yet it is puny
little thing and there seems to be no
prospect that it can live longer than
the present Legislature is in session.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11

YESTERDAY the curtain was rung
down on the last act of the Cleveland
administration and his corpulancy
passed from the political stage OF
action, where for four years he has
been amusing and disgusting the
people. The entire combination that
has supported Cleveland in the
various parts he took, retire with
the chief actor. Cleveland will spend
the remainder of his days hunting
ducks, fishing and taking care of the
wealth he has accumulated during
his brief engagement as boss actor
Cleveland is a private citizen now,
and millions of people rejoice "to
see the curse removed"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
Mixed Pickles.

The editor of the Willmar, Mimi,
Argus lives in a house located be.
tween a Methodist church and Il
dance hall. One evening recently
there was gathering in both places.
1t being too warm for comfort In
doors. the editor sat on veranda and
took in the situa ton. This is what
he heard:
"Let US pray-all salute-we be-
seech thee to join hands and draw
near-circle to che left-listen to US
first forward and back-as we, all
promenade-kneel before thee and
balance all-present our petition,
grand right and left, for Christ's
sake, seat your partners
The editor was more than sad
dened at the degeneration of the
village and went off and joined g.
baseball club in order to be neutral.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
Have Learned Economy.
Huntsville (Ala.) Tribune,

Huntsville (Ala.) Tribune.
The financial squeeze which this
country has passed through will re-
dound greatly to the benefit of the
South. Our people have been not
only improvident, but have been
wasteful. Our farmers must now
have learned the lesson that the pig
pen, the chicken yard, the truck
patch and the dairy are factors
which they must Ian upon more
heavily than in the past. They must
have learned that a wagon is intend
ed to haul more farm product than
cotton to the market II the intelli-
gent white TAI mer who lived in the
past with ease-for natures handi-
work fed and clothed him-had
learned this lesson, and will illustrate
its wisdom to the negro householder,
the country will prosper and will be
a beneficiary from the lesson OF the
past.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
THE CURFEw BELL.
North Carolina Towns Should Have
Them

North Carolina Towns Should Have
Them.
A correspondent of the Raleigh
Tribune says:
More than two hundred cities and
towns in the United States have cur
few hours. Most of them put the
hour at dark or twilight and the
age at Is years. Los Angeles, Cal.
makes the age of 16 years Som. of
the towns put the hour at 9 O'Clock
at night. In all of them crime with
children has very greatly diminished.
and will very greatly diminish so
long as such laws are made and
faithfully kept. AS the time comes
and goes, and the older people "swim
the Jordan" and the younger, good
people advance, crime necessarily,
will become less and less fre quent.
These hours and ages do not inter
fere with the children whose parents,
guardians or older brothers are with
them.
If curfew hours were had in the
cities and towns of North Carolina,
! in few years the small amount Of
money needed for a "reformatory
SCHOOL, or a "waif saving circle"
| would get unanimous vote by our
Legislature. Such hours would tend
to increase the health of children,
put them more under the influence of
home, where parents and children
could become better acquainted, in
crease the school attendance-both
day and Sunday schools-and make
many happy homes and faces,
mothers hearts glad where now the
surroundings are reverse of cheerful
ness. These hours, however, should
not now prevent a reformatory nor
a waif-saving home, which are SO
very much needed for present emerg-
| encies. These homes would, l be-
iieve, with curfew hours, lessen in a
few years the amount of State gifts
for SO worthy causes. 1t is to be
earnestly hoped that the legislature
will pass the bills and give the
money named in them for the re-
formatory and others
Children in their teens have no
business on the streets after dark.
1t is bad enough that the parents
should evince little enough solicitude
for their welfare as to let them roam
at will during the day. But how
much worse it is when they are per-
mitted to run at their pleasure with
whoever they may chance to meet at
night. 1t is doubtless the case that
the youth of the country learns It's
lessons of evil chiefly under the cover
of darkness. North Carolina should
have curfew law.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11

There was never a remedy so emf
nently successful, so far above and
beyond all competition, as Paine s
celery compound.
Paine's celery compound effects
marvellous cures,
Where other remedies miserably
fail, and where doctors do not sues
coed, there Paine's celery compound
is found curing disease, making peo-
pie we'll and happy.
Here is the case of Mrs. Half, who
lives at 40 Summer Ave, Newark
n. j. and whose portrait is printed
here.
"My DOCTOR" she says, "called
my disease liver complaint stomach
trouble, nervous dyspepsia, and all
most every other name you could
think of. When l was in Portland,
Ore, | had enlargement of the liver,
and the doctor thought all the trou
bles came from that severe spell of
illness. That was II years ago, and
l have done nothing but doctor ever
since. l have had the best physi>
clans examine me and see if they
could do anything for me. For
months at time my stomach and
liver have been so sore that | could
lie in bed only In misery, and with
such severe pain in my back, and sc
weak that | could hardly talk.
"After | had bad night | would
send for the doctor, and he would
leave me small box of powders and
one or two other medicines, and il
would cost me 81 every time l had
one of these spells. l believe 1 have
taken more medicine than any other
living woman.
''Last March | had a call from a
lady friend of mine, who asked me,
"What is the matter with you7"
replied by saying, How well you
lookw YES" she said, 81 never
felt so we'll in my life" She is a
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11

A NUMBER of our representative
citizens are becoming deeply inter
ested in our proposed big fourth of
July celebration. The small amount
of money that will be necessary to
get the affair in proper shape will be
well invested. 1t will be an excellent
advertisement for the town, besides
the pleasure it will afford to thous-
ands of people. The fourth comes
this year on Sunday, but the Sd or
the 9Th will do as well. Let's keep
the matter in agitation. There is
no one, but what will agree as to the
Importance of the enterprise.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
DISGRACEFUL.

The scenes that have been enacted
in the Legislature of North Carolina
for the last few days are enough to
make the gang who have participat
ed in the notorius proceedings, hang
their heads in shame forever. II the
majority of the voters of our State
were colored men their might be some
degree of allowance made for the
disgraceful proceedings of the howl
ing mob, who are supposed to be
making laws for the people, but this
is supposed to be State controlled
by the Anglo Saxon race, Trace
that is supposed to be superior to
any other. These men, elected by
white people of North Carolina, have
been rebuked by a few colored mem
bers of the Legislature for their in
famous conduct.
Is this not enough to prove to the
people that this whole business is the
work of a few designing politicians,
some of them protesting to love the
State, but are only seeking for re
venge upon the respectable people of
North Carolina because they have
not been recognized by the represen-
tative people of the State.
But there will be a change and a
change for the better, and the old
North State will again assert it's in
dependence, and the men who have
been engaged in the dirty work at
Raleigh will go down in disgrace.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11

woman of 45. "And now" she
said, 81 want to give you little
advice. | have been almost at
Deaths door with liver trouble. AT
ter the doctor had done all he could
for me | told him not to come again.
| | showed him bottle OF Paine's
celery compound and told him | was
going to give that fair trial. AS II
result | am strong and well
II sent right over to the drug
store and got bottle of Paine's
celery compound, and when | had
taken two bottles the soreness had
left my stomach and my side felt
much better. After | had taken
four bottles my side was much
stronger, and | was in better spirits
and felt as though | might live and
not be in such misery. Working
people nowadays work the vitality
all out every week, and all l ask is
| to be able to earn the money | have
to every week.
| "Paine's celery compound has
enabled me to do this, aud has done
me more good than all the doctors
put together.
"Why, my nervous system is so
| oullToly SlIeuS lHeHeu lndl L l66l llho
new being, and what is more, l
look the good the medicine has done
me, right in my face and eyes. Just
tell all poor women for me, that for
a medicine to build one up, give
Paiue's celery compound fair trial,
and If it does not do it, then they
might as we'll die. l have recon-
mended it to several and it has
helped in every case. have a great
deal to worry me. and dose of the
compound gives me quiet sleep and
then l can work. If any one wishes
to writo me they can do so.'
Why should sick person do any
thing else but try bottle of Paine's
celery compounds
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
Arkansas Humor.

The Arkansas House of Represent
atives the other day passed with a
whoop bill reading: each MEM
Der of the Arkansas Legislature shall
hereafter receive rs cents per diem,
board and washing, for his services
as representative in:this body of one
of the greatest States in the Union"
This was introduced as a substitute
for a bill proposing reduction of
salary from Sc to SIS per day. 1t
was intended as bit of humor, to be
sure. But it went through the mill,
and will have to be sent to the
Senate. That body, however, will
kill it.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
Colontsts for Georgia.

Within the next two or three
months two large colonies of West
erners will be settled on lands in
Sumter and Lee counties, within
twenty miles of Americas, Ga. A
company composed of citizens of
that place and of Duluth, Mimi, have
either purchased outright or secured
options upon large tracts, OF land
and will throw it open to settlement.
1t is said that parties of immigrants
have already been made up, and
several hundred will come during
March and April. Only thrifty
farmers of some means will be en-
couraged to come by the company,
and no farm of less than twenty-five
OF more than seventy five acres will
be allotted them.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
SOUTH CAROLINA DIsPENsARY
The New Addition to he Old Law
Evading the Supreme Court.

The New Addition to he Old Law
Evadins the Supreme Court.
"South Cardinals new dispensary
law, or rather a new addition to the
old law" says the Savannah Newa.
Twill provide that persons in the
State desiring to import liquors from
other. States for their own use must
first have the dealer from whom they
propose purchasing to send a sample
of the liquor proposed to be pur-
chased to the State chemist at
olumbia, together with a statement
setting forth the class of the liquor,
its various percentages and tests
and the like. If upon analysis the
chemist shall find the liquor to be
pure and TO come up to the speciti-
cations set forth in the accompany
ing statement, he may issue per
NIT for it's importation. All of this
tOmmy-rot is based upon the false
pretense that the State is exceeding
ly fearful that some of her children
| might imbibe liquors that were not
chemically pure As@a matter OF
| fact, the provision is to get around
the decision of the Supreme Court,
which permits citizens of the State to
/ buy liquors for their own use where
they please. 1t is the purpose of the
new provision, while permitting the
purchase of liquors outside of the
State, to make such purchases
hedged about with so many difficult
ties and delays that the prospective
purchaser will become disgusted and
buy from the State dispensary"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
Aimed at MASKING Conductors.

The Missouri Legislature has been
called upon to take the MASKING con-
ductors of both urban and suburban
railways in hand and legislate
against their flirting propensities
The proposed law does not provide
that they shall wear blind brides
during business hours, to be sure,
but 1t directs by inference that con
ductors shall be as blind as bats to
the charms of their passengers and
shall never, never twink the other
eye."
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
Frisky Georgia Editors.

Editor Rufus McLain Fields, nov
of the Nashville Sun, celebrates 1
happy event as follows:
"a great event has happened
In our part of the town
That's slightly calculated
To turn things upside down;
The world don't run exactly,
To tell the homes truth,
On the same ole-fashion schedule
For baby's got tooth.
Spa took and danced breakdown
When it's discovery was made,
An ma she laughed an cried some,
An nurse got on parade;
Granma, she cut up as frisky,
An says she feels her youth
A-comin' back a-leapin'-
Since baby's got tooth,
"We've done tole all the neighbors,
An tole the s. man, too,
An wrote a thousand letters
To all the kinfolks who
Amt here to see the wonder,
From Atlanta to Duluth
An I'll bet you forty dollars
The baby's got tooth"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11

to be good enough for "the life that
now is
By the English version we may
know whether there is any risk of
cholera morbus on the dining table,
or of heart failure in the sick room.
The legislature has closed or it might
be a good plan to petition that wise
combination to pass a bill requiring
all things done in the English tongue.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
Starts With 1S Charter Members.

Rev. L. L. Albright, State Organi-
zer, assisted by about twelve members
of the Winston-Salem lodges, insti-
tuted Jr. o. u. A. M. Council at
Walkertown Saturday night with
stOn-Salem boys say the initiation
was botn lively and interesting. They
returned home at o'clock Sunday
morning. The storm was about over
when they left Walkertown.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11

A CONGRESSMAN does not always
weigh as much in Washington as he
does at home. 1t is q weigh some
frogs have of growing small as the
puddle in which they navigate grows
LARGO
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
M others riend
Notice Of administrator.

Having qualified as administrator of Fran
els Hill, deceased, late of Forsyth county,
all persons indebted to said deceased are
hereby notified to make immediate pay
ment of the same to the undersigned, and
all persons having claims against said estate
must present the same duly proven by law,
within IL months from date of this notice
for payment, or this notice will be plead in
bar of their recovery. This 23d day of Feb.
1897. E. A. GRIFFITH, Admir-
of Francis Hill, decd.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
SCIENTIFIC NOTES

The remarkable popularity of the
new dark rays, or 'critical rays"
reported by Professor E Friedrich,
of ElbiDg, Prussia, is that photo
graphs by them of the living baud
show the bones, while only the flesh
is seen if the hand is dead.
The proposed Italian weather OBJ
servatory on Mont Rosa, at height
of IA 600 feet, will rank fourth in
elevation among the worlds twenty
seven mountain stations, those of
Arequipa, Mont Blanc and Pixies
Peak being the only loftier ones.
A test of the purity of metals,
rivaling the spectroscope in delicacy,
has been pointed out by Professor /.
A. Hennig, who has found that the
electrical conductivity of pure metals
is immensely increased by intense
cold, while the increase in alloys is
not more than 10 per cent.
A present of some deer from Queen
Victoria is said to have been to the
French colony of New Caledonia a
pest similar to that of the rabbits in
Australia and the mongoose, in
Jamaica. The deer have multiplied
with great rapidity and now invade
the plantations, causing great loss
to the farmers.
Wells are declared by DR. Casey A.
Wood, an American specialist, to be
cause of eye strain, well known to
ophthalmogists. Experimenting with
a dozen typical wells, he has found
that every kind effects the ability to
see distinctly, the most Objectionable
being the dotted veil and the difficult
ty decreasing with increase in size OF
the meshes. The least Objectionable
wells are those without dots, sprays
or other figures, but with large,
regular meshes made of single
threads.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Thirty creameries in Central Kan
sas pay to farmers $4,000 a month
for cream.
Milwaukee is preparing to have
hanging gardens for its exposition in
1898 rivaling those of Babylon.
Six women and six men compose
the jury in an intricate divorce case
now proceeding in South Dakota.
After long series of experiments
Brazilian planters are satisfied that
tea can be profitab bly, grown in Brazil.
Ignace Pelott, who has just passed
away on Mackinac island, at the age
of ninety-three, was said to be the
only surviving witness of the taking
OF the island by the British in 1872.
A Michigan evangelist recently
portrayed hell as a large hall, at one
end of which a walking match was
going on, while at the other end Bob
Ingersoll was delivering a lecture on
Genesis.
The lumber dealers of Florida have
been notified by their customers in
the Spanish West India islands that
a war tax of 81 per 1000 on pitch
pine lumber has been made by the
government. This news will raise
the rate of freight So on lumber.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
Bob Deal a vile Sinner.
Wilkesboro Chronicle.

WIKeSDOrO CnrOn1CIe.
Bro. Wilson, of the Statesville
Christian Herald, has more faith in
the spiritual condition of the Chron-
icle than the other brethren of re-
ligious papers in the State. The
Others gave it up as past redemp-
ton, and stopped exchanging. Bro.
Wilson has come to the rescue, be-
lieviDg that "While the lamp holds
out to burn, the vilest sinner may
return"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11

Tom Dixon has broke loose again.
He has now publicly declared himself
in favor of trusts. To give Tom his
dues ke deserves credit for some
degree of consistency, for he voted
and worked for Mckinley and his
crowd, who, with Mark Hanna at the
head, are trust promoters and com
binatiOn protectors.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11

SOME of the secret societies have a
pleasant way of perpetuating the
memory of faces and friendships by
the collection of autographs in q
lodge album, which is kept with
sacred care in the archives. Thus at
any time in future years, the lodge
may be "opened" and the brethren,
many deceased and others far re-
moved, are recalled to view, and re-
membered, as in days of yore.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11

SOME of the fellows who made a
good run in the last election will
make a poor walk in the next cam
paign.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11
Stick to Hog and Homtny.

The farmers of North Carolina,
says the Wilmington Messenger, for
the last three years have made a
strong effort to be free and independ-
emit in the meat question. While
they rely still upon the West for
horses and null that should be
raised at home, they have put in
faithful ticks to attend to home hog
and hominy. This has enabled them
to live in spite of low prices and
hard times and a moneyless condi-
ton. 1t is very certain that a farm
er is in his own light when he at
temps to buy pork and bacon with 5
or cents cotton. A Georgia coun-
try paper says:
"The relative difference between the
market value of pound of cotton
and a pound of meat is about the
same now that it has been, under
ordinary conditions, for fifteen or
twenty years past, and the fact re-
mains that a pound of meat can be
produced on an any well regulated
farm cheaper than it can be bought
with the proceeds of.cotton at cur
rent prices. Stick to hog and
hOminy"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-11

THAT was an unfortunate remark
that was made by our Lieut. Gov
ernor the other day when ne voted
to break the tie in the railroad bill
vote. what is it WORTH" said
Charlie, in a side remark as he arose
in his seat to vote. OF course the
Lieut. Governor did not mean to
leave the impression that he had
sold out, but we want our distin-
guished fellow citizen to be more
digni1ed in the discharge of his re-
sponsible duties.