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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
PREACHERS SALARIES.
Glass That Should be Bene fitted by
an Era of Prosperity

Washington Post.
A Methodist new spaper has ascer-
tanned that the average salary of
preachers of that denomination in
the South is only $473 35 per year.
In this case the cent column, usually
omitted in stating salaries OF pro-
fessional men, is really important,
for 30 cents have a deal of work to
perform in family compelled to
subsist, or die, on SO meager compen
sation as that. The $473 80 year
gives about 81 80 a day. The aver
age preachers family consists of five
persons. Allo ing the munifrent
sum of 81 a day tor rent, clothing,
fuel, doctors bills, and the number
less incidentals, we find 80 cents re-
naming for the table This allows
10 cents a meal for breakfast, dinner.
and supper; or, in other words, 2
cents a head for father, mother, ana
children. 1t will be seen that no PAL t
of the preachers income goes for a
! servants hire. The wife of the
clergyman, who is expected to take a
| leading part in religious and social
| work and to entertain many callers
must do the homework, including
washing and ironing. The Metho-
dist paper that figured out the
average salary of $473 80 has some
pathetic comments on the thread
bare coat of a clergyman thus situa
ted and the "actual misery" it repre-
sents The wonder is that 30 many
men can keep up even a semi respect
able appearance on such an allow
ance. If it be urged that thousand,
of workiDgmen support their tamilie.
on even less than that, we submi
that the fact "has nothing to do witt
the case" Preachers cannot adop
the habits of the workingman The,
must incur many expenses that ar
not in the account of the wage earn
er en- aged in manual labor. Thos
for whom preachers work are pre-
sumed to believe that such work is q
vital Importance. They expect goo,
sermons and a faithful Performance
of pastoral duties. And yet they d.
not pay for halt of what they xpect
If the era of prosperity does no
bring an increase in the compensa
ton of those ministers it will mis-
one of the fields in which it is great
needed.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
THEY ARE FRAUDS.

Republicans are raising a big
rumpus over the "abuse" OF civil
service reform. Their position might
command some degree of respect if
there was any sincerity, any consist
ency in it. The object in view is to
kick out Democrats who hold official
position by virtue of civil service,
and to put Republicans in their
places. When this is accomplished,
we may expect to see the Republicans
the strongest friends of the system
and throwing up their hats and ex-
claiming, with all the vigor and
earnestness of which they are
capable, "Great is Civil Servicel"
Great, because it will then hedge
about a pie counter at which only
Repu blicans have seats. The Re-
publican politician is a fraud and all
this ranting against civil service is
base hypocrisy, because it is made
by just such fellows as will imme-
diately change their opinions about
the matter if they should procure an
office.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Chicago Wants Talmage.

CHICAGO, Aug. 26.-Plvmouth
Congregational Church has decided
to call the Rev. Z. Dewitt Talmage
to fill the pulpit made vacant by the
illness of DIR. Frank W. Gunsaulus.
The Board of Trustees decided a few
days ago to extend the vacation Of
DIR. Cunsaulus until December
Among the names of a substitute
during his absence DR.. Talmage was
most favorably looked upon. and the
belief was expressed that he could
leave Washington for time. J. 81.
Strong, appointed to negotiate with
DIR. Talmage, has not yet commune
Gated with him.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
CALLS ON HIS PARTY.
Tactics of Sleek and Sassy Pop.
Officeholders


Chatham Record
The Populist leaders and office
holders seem to think that they
alone constitute and compose the
Populist party. If any Democratic
speaker or paper dares to criticise, or
expose the rascality of any PopuIist
leader or office holder, he at once
raises most pitiable howl and calls
on his party to resent it as an
attack on the entire Populist party !!
There is very great difference be-
tween the honest masses of the Pop
ulist party and it's unprincipled
leaders, who are merely seeking to
advance their own personal interests.
While promising all kinds of ''relief'
to the people, these Populist leaders
seek to obtain "relief' only for them
selves. And when one OF them gets a
good paying office he seems to think
that it belongs to him forever and is
his own private property
The people cannot be fooled for
ever, and they are finding out that
they have obtained no "relef' what
ever, even if the office holders have
obtained "relief'' and have become
SO ''sleek and sassy"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
CLOTHING FOUND ON THE BANK.
"A South Carolina Lawyer Probably
Drowned in Tuckaseege River

AsHEvILLE, n. c., Aug. 30.-At Dillsboro,
Jackson county. Sunday afternoon, the
clothing of ]. w. Grant, said TO be lawyer
from Anderson, S. c., were found on the
bauk of the Tuckasegee river. He had been
fishing with Preston Williams, of that local
ity. The latter gave the alarm and had the
river dragged for the body, but so far with
out avail. Grant is said to have told several
persons that he could not go back to his
home. at Anderson, s. c., where he had
brother, also lawyer In his pocket was
found letter addressed to J. II. Grant, his
brother, at Flat Rock, this State, stating that
he would leave for Flat Rock. Grant is
said to have been drinking Saturday after
noon, but was not badly intoxicated. He
was apparently about % years old, and had
just returned from the Nashville EXPOSE
ton
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

We should make a dead set for
that public building, which we ought
to have had years ago. The next
session OF Congress should make the
appropriation. fit be true that the
Dingley tariff bill is panacea for the
ills of hard times, surely there can be
found no reasonable excuse why Con-
gress should still further delay this
matter-this act of justice. Mr..
Linney, get on your working clothes
and go about this thing in dead
earnest. just tell 'em to appropri-
ate the amount of one months reve-
nue. collections from our manufac-
turers, and name the month, and we
will promise to trouble the govern
ment no further about government
building.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
There's Lots of Truth in 1t,
[adison (Ga.) Advertiser.

Madison (Ga.) Advertiser.
There is lots of truth in Mrs
Felton's speech on the lynching
question. The unprotected women
matrons and maidens-of our rural
districts live in continual dread of q
fate worse than death. 1t is easy
enough for lawyer, whose family
enjoys the police protection of city,
to get up and appeal for ''law and
ORDER" when the poor women of the
country-wives, sisters and daugh
tiers of our farmers-are daily at the
mercy of fiends in human shape.
Remove the cause and there will be
no lynchings.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
SALEM

Academy and College, for girls
and young women. Best home
care, together with full college
instruction. Specialists in mu-
sic, art, elocution, languages,
commercial and industrial
studies. Institution founded
in 1902. The register shows
324 last year. New term be-
gins Thursday, Sept. 2, 1897.
Send for catalogue to
REV. j. H. CLEWELL, Principal.
Salem, N. c.
The principal will be in his
office on and after August
10th. to register day pupils.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
OHIO MINERS STARVING.
Seven Thousand Destitute Persons In
Vicinity of Nelsonville, Ohio.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 30.-The
restitution among miners at Nelson
vile is very great. Mayor Buckley
says that 1860 persons, the entire
mining population of the town, have
absolutely nothing to eat, and 100 of
these are sick. In this immediate
vicinity there are 1000 destitute
people, large number of whom are
children. Local charity has helped
them till its means are gone. Gar
dens supplied the wants until res
Gently, but that resource is now ex-
hausted, Relief committees haye
been eppOinted,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
THE QUESTION.
Silver Decentralization Means Lower
Prices in the Long Run.

Senator Chandler in Washington Post.
The simple truth OF recent events
seems to be that wheat has gone
above the prices prevailing only be
cause of short crops in certain coun-
tries, as it always will under such
conditions, while silver continues to
go down because it is yet in process
of decentralization, as every human
being knew it would. But the great
question remains for solution wheth
er, through the years to come, wit
silver decentralization still progress
ing, there will not be as a conse-
quence thereof a steady fall in the
average prices of the commodities
and the lands, buildings, and ships
which make the wealth of the world.
If this question is 90 be answered
in the affirmative the remonetiz alton
of silver is sure to follow. The
world cannot be held to the single
standard of gold merely because OF
the rise in wheat.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
ISSUING MONEY TO MOVE CROPS
Silver Dollars and Small Bills Being
Sent to the ub-Treasuries.

New YORK, Aug. 30.-The Sub. Treasury
here today transferred for local banks
through the Treasury at Washington, $780,
600 in currency to Kansas City, and s25, 600
in silver dollars to Texas, through the Sub
treasury at New Orleans. Shipments of
currency to the South and West today, by
banks direct, were very large, all banks re-
porting the receipts of orders for remittances.
The United States Treasury is doing all it
can to facilitate the transfer of currency, es-
pecially small bills and silver dollars, to
places where the money is needed for mov-
ing the crops, and to that end has placed
supplies at the several sub-Treasuries, New
Orleans. Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati,
in order that transfers may be made as
quickly as possible.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Where Dingley Fails.

LOUISVILLE Post.
According to Lord Kelvin, there
are only 100000 tons OF fuel in the
world for each person alive today.
This alarming fact is pointed to 10y
Chairman Dingley as his reason for
the increased tax on coal, hut Ding
ley fails to take into account the un
limited supplies of heat in another
and lower world which should be OF
personal interest to the robber
barOnS
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
GET TOGETHER.
Redeem North Carolina from Mis-
management.

Chatham Record
1t is gratifying to all friends of
good government to see SO many in
dications of a determination on the
part of the best white men of North
Carolina to get together and redeem
our good old State from the control
and mismanagement of the incom-
petent and unprincipled men, who
have obtained their present places
by making pledges and promises
which they never intended to per-
form.
The true white men of North Caro-
lima need no better platform in the
next campaign, on which they can all
stand united, than opposition to the
record-the acts and doings-of the
Republican Populist Fusionists since
they obtained control of our good
! old State.
Surely no true North Carolinian
wishes another Legislature like our
last two. and all good citizens
should unite in preventing the recur-
renee of such a disgracel The last
two Legislatures should disgust
every decent man with Fusion
| rulei
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
White Men to the Rescue.

Wilmington Messenger.
There are comforting reports get
ting into some of our exchanges that
in localities worthy Populists are
openly expressing a determination
to co operate with the Democrats in
the next election. Let them come
and be welcomed. Every man who
loves his country and would save
North Carolina from farther wreck
age should pull with the one party
that offers prosperity. safety and
honest government in North Caro-
lima. Let all come wno- would help
North Carolina and help their own
imperilled interests.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Mr.. W hite's Wagon.

II Engineer l.. b. White, OF South
Carolina, can do what he claims with
his carbonic acid gas motor, the way
is open to the now discOnsolate cab
man to successful competition with
the railroads. Mr.. White says he
can run horspless wagon with his
motor 100 miles for % cents, and it
doesn't want any oats when it is in
the stable
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Sheetings for New England.

GOIdshOrO Argus.
The Wayne cotton mill on Tues
day shipped g carload of sheeting to
Rhode Island, which is the center of
the New England manufacturing
territory, and they also shipped a
car load to Mobile, Ala. These ship
ments show that the product of
Goldsboro manufacturing industries
is sold in competition with the larg-
est markets of the country and that
all we need is more factories to
utilize our wealth of crude material
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

WHEAT and silver are far apart for
the time being. That's fact. But
keep your eyes open and you will see
them much nearer together before
many months have rolled by. Mark
the prediction.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
How the whlpped Man won.

Cincinnati Inquirer.
$50, after they had fought for her,
she married the man who got
whipped, did she?''
Yes. She reasoned that man
who would fight man who could
whip him must be braver than q man
who fought q man he could whip"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

IT is nauseating to hear Republic
cans attribute the increased price of
wheat to the Republican party.
This sort of rot may fool for time
a few ignoramuses, but the informed
man knows, OF course, that higher
price for wheat is due entirely to the
short crops of Europe and the conse-
quent increased demand from that
quarter.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
SpeciaI Excursions.

On September 1st, I'd, Sd and 4th
the Southern Railway will sell round
trip tickets from Winston-Salem to
Richmond at 81. 05;to Norfolk at So 55;
and to Washington at.S9 10; being just
half the regular fare, or one single
fare for the round trip Tickets good
on all regular trains with final limit
80 days from date of sale.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
sugar and annexation.

Philadelphia Item.
"Annex Cuba and Hawaii" says
Mr.. Wanamaker; then we can raise
our own sugar and kill the sugar
trust" The masses will. eoncede
that this is an argument which ap-
peals directly to the people, and
which has back of it the force of
public opinion.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

The rush for the Alaskan gold
fields serves to illustrate human
desire for gain and the willingness to
suffer to acquire it. frequently,
hard work and seli-denial at home
would produce richer results than
sacrifices in feverish rush to remote
sections.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Sale off Moonshine Whisky

Deputy Collector Alspaugb sold
about sixteen hundred gallons of
whisky for "Uncle Sam" Monday af-
ternoon. r 81. Bennett, of Marion
was the purchaser. 1t was bid off by
William Cooper, of Statesville, the
price being S1.26A per gallon. This is
ten cents more than il usually brings.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

WINSTON Tobacco Fair, at Star
warehouse, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, November 4th, 5th and
9Th. Spread the news and remember
that we want all our friends and
their ''sisters and their cousins and
their auDts,'' as well as their relatives
Of the other sex, to come and see us
at that time.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

LET not gifts or offers of gifts
silence the voices of the press, the
pulpit and the school against the
evils of combination of capital for
the purpose of practicing extortion
and robbery upon the people.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Struck bV lightning

A tobacco barn, owned by John
White, a few miles north of Danhury,
was struck by lightning few nights
ago and destroyed by fire. Several
persons were in the barn when the
lightning struck, but it is learned they
made their escape.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

PROBABLY Daniel and Marion hope
to have two accessions to their new
party through the enticement of two
Railroad Commissionerships.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

KEEP the clutches of the trusts of
our educational and religious insti-
buttons if American liberty is to be
preserved.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

THE proposition to move the
County Fair to Winston-Salem APP
pears to be q good one. If not, why
not7
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

To even things up, the prosperity
wave should bring better wages for
the laboring man. If he has to pay
more for his bread, more for his
meat, and more for his clothing, and
gets no more for his labor, it will be
hard to convince him that the con-
dition is not misnamed when it is
called prosperity.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
ROANOKE s4IlM F 2 IA F,

Courses for degrees, with Electives high
standard. Also Commercial and Preparatory
Courses. Library 10000 volumes. Working
Laboratory. Good morals and discipline. Six
churches-no bar rooms. Healthful noun
tain climate. VERY MODERATE EXPENSE;
may be reduced below $3.50 for nine months
(fees, board &c) 45th year begins Sept 18th.
{ analogue free. Address julius ID. DERHER,
President
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

WE bespeak encouragement for the
ladies of the Twin City Hospital
Association in their purpose to hold
a bazaar, during the Tobacco Fair,
for the benefit of the Hospital. The
institution is blessing to the COM
munity and the good ladies who
have labored SO earnestly and SO
persistently in it's behalf deserve the
hearty co operation of all our people
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
j. 3. whitaker, JR.,
Editor and Manager.
NOTICE

A Blue Mark here is to call attention
the date to which your subscription is paid.
Remittances are desi red from those in ar
rears.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

The State Sunday School Associa
ton did deserved act by recognize
ing in it's resolutions the very effici-
ent services of it's Jealous Secretary,
Mr.. H. N. Snow, of Durham. He has
labored long, earnestly and success
fully in the Sunday School field, and
whatever progress the State Associe-
ton has made is largely due to his
tireless efforts. He richly merits the
kind words spoken of him by the
Association.
The Meeker herald., 1897-07-24

a drive with Mr.. C. A. Seymour Of this
place to Steamboat Springs. where they
spent day at Steamboats, celebrated
bath house. Mr.. Davis says there d
quite difference In this section with its
strawberry patches than when he laid In
q trench for seven days and nights dod8-
ing Indian bullets and nothing to cat
but shelled corn washed down With
wster.-Craig Courier.
Few of our readers arc aware Of the
fact that Mr.. Davis was participant In
in the Thornburg battle. but such 10 .
fact. He was attached to the transpof-
tation department of Major TAornburgs
command. aud was lucky In getting out
of that ugly scrap" with whole skis.
The Meeker herald., 1897-07-24
During the passed week Game War

During the passed week Game War
den Kilduff 'layed" for several alleged
market fishers. as they passed over from
White to Grand river, but in no instance
did he find more fish In their possession
than the law allows. Mr.. Kilduff pa
troled the country from the New Castle
White river road to the head Of Flag
creek but didn't find . sign Of q hunter.
There are numerous fishing outfits
camped along North and South forks Of
White river, and he visited these camps
frequently during the past two weeks,
but found all keeping well within the
law.
The Meeker herald., 1897-07-24
Baseball Lingo.

The English language 10 wonderfully
prolific Of now words and phrases.
With every science applied to industry
. vast number Of technical terms arise
which puzzle the best student of the
dictionary. The photographer is not
in 1t. It is doubtful, however. whether
any other branch Of knowledge Of
human activity can evolve 30 bewilder-
ing mass Of novel words and phrases
As our own game Of baseball. Here Is
. sample taken from the Quincy tlll.)
Herald, Of recent date, describing q
match between their home team and
ono from Omaha:
1.-The glsss-armed toy soldiers Of this
town we're fed to the pigs yesterday by
the cadaverous Indian grave robbers
from Omaha. The flabby. one-lunged
Reubens who represent the Gem city
in the reckless rush for the baseball
pennant had their shins toasted by the
basilisk.eyed cattle-drivers from the
west. They stood around with gaping
eyeballs like hen ON hot nail, and
suffered the grizzly yaps Of Omaha to
run the bases till their necks were long
with thirst.
Hickey made more errors than the
answer to Coins financial school and led
the rheumatic procession to the morgue.
The Quincys were full of straw and
scrap iron. They couldn't hit brick
wagon with pickax and ran bases like
pali-bearers at funeral. If three base
hits were growing on the back OF every
mans neck they couldn't reach them
with feather duster. 1t looked as if
the Amalgamated union of South
american Hoodoos was In session for
work in the thirtv-third degree. The
geezers stood about and whispered for
help. and were 80 weak they couldn't lift
glass of beer II it had been all foam.
Everything was yellow, rock and
whangbasted like stigtossel full of
backgammon. The game was whisk-
cred and frost bitten. The Omahogs
were bad enough, but the Quincy
Brown Sox had their fins sewed up un-
til they couldn't hold crazy quilt un-
less it was tied around their necks."