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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
BANDS OF BROTHERS.
The Fraternal Organizations of the
United States.

The Fraternal Organic atoms of the
United States.
Atlanta Journal.
The Free Masons and the Odd
Fellows are running close race in
this country SO far as numerical pre-
pOnderance is concerned. There are
nearly a million of each. The
knights of Pythias are next in the
list of fraternal organizations, the
American Order of United Workmen
coming next, and the Maccabees
being a good fifth. 1t is believed
that fully one-half OF the fourteen
millions of voters in this country are
enrolled in the fifty leading organiza-
tions OF this nature.
These societies exert q force that
has not perhaps been fully measured
in part social, in part educational,
and in part benevolent. The last
named feature has of late been great
ly developed; and an order in which
the strong 90 not help the weak, in
which the care of the ailing and the
burial of the dead, is not looked
after, is now the exception rather
than the rule. We have not the
figures before us, but it is well known
that the yearly benefits disbursed by
the various fraternal organizations
is towering sum. 1t can safely be
placed at twenty million dollars.
And every dollar goes where it is
lawfully due or is greatly needed.
Some of the societies have in fact
almost turned life insurance into a
science. Altogether they have Won
public confidence, and there are few
who wish them i'll.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

States today. and the quicker that
fact isrecognizA ID the better. All who
stand for American money as against
the Shylocks of the world belong TO
the American party. He who would
strike silver and paper to the earth
belongs to the European party, and
should be counted as such until re-
pentance comes"
Mr. Powderly, then, having trans
ferred himself from the American to
the European party, according to
his own expression, became a latter
day Benedict Arnold, especially to
the workingmen whom he formerly
served.
And now since Mckinley has
"opened the mills and not the
mints," while workingmen have all
they can do lin keeping the wolf from
the door, and are at work for higher
wages Chan they would get in
absolute idleness) the erstwhile head
of the Knights of Labor is, by the
grace of Hanna and Mckinley.
occupying high Office, while he merits
only the esteem of traitors and the
praise of dishonest men.
VIM. F. BURBANK
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
RUSSELL-BUTLBR COMBINE.

Governor Russell appears to have
a fondness for d "high old time"
His latest move is to summons two
Of the Railroad Commissioners, Mai
j. W. Wilson and Ohio Wilson, to
show cause in writing on or before
September LIST, why they should not
be suspended from office, on the
ground that the one owns an inter
est in the hotel at Round Knob and
has a son in the employ OF the
Southern railroad, and the other
because he has leased that hotel, the
inference being a possible collision
between the Commissioners and the
railroad to the detliment of the
public interest.
The investigation is likely to at.
tract much attention and it is said
that the Governors action is the
result of conference with Senator
Butler.
Ohio used to be one of Buffers
right hand men and it is understood
that he was placed on the commits
sion to please the Senator, but it
appears that these "two of a kind"
have reached ''the parting of the
ways" and that Robinson Crusoe
Butler wants to turn down Friday
Sotho.
Maj Wilson enjoys the confidence
of the people and it will take some
thing stronger than Russell's hatred
for the Southern railway or Buffers
foxey chicanery to shake that con-
fidence. About the size of the whole
matter is that the places of the
Wilson's are wanted for men more to
the liking of the Governor and the
Senator.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
SAVE THE STATE.

Do you think your private business
would prosper if it was managed in
the same way that the States BUSH
ness is managed, and has been
managed, under Republican admin
istration? We think not. Then
recognize the important fact that
the principles of common sense and
business Judgment should be applied
to the States affairs as well as to
private affairs and resolve that you
will do your level best to prevent
Observation-Disclosures in North Caro-
lima in the future. Aggregation of
individuals make the State and the
interests of the whole should be care
fully guarded as we'll as the interests
of the single parts of the aggrega
ton.
The fact stands out prominently in
the history of the State, and it is
known and read of all men, that
Democratic control gives just and
honest government and that Repub-
lican control produces opposite re-
suits. In the light of experience, no
true North Carolinian should hest
tate in rendering a verdict in behalf
of Democracy when called upon to
say whether Democracy or Republi-
canism vouchsafes the greatest bless
ings to the commonwealth and all
her people.
1t cannot be expected that cities,
counties or States, governed by such
men as the Republicans place in
authority, will prosper and COM
mand the respect and confidence OF
the outside world. If they do, in any
instance, it is simply a rare exaep-
ton, paradox, and paradoxes are
| scarce things in nature, politics OF
government.
II we want good government, our
| State must be wrested from Republi
can control and again placed under
Democratic administration, with its
long record for purity, equity and
| honesty. To the task of redeemine
dear old North Carolina let every
| true son pledge his best efforts anG
| be ready for the conflict when il
comes.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
They Say.
Baltimore Telegram.

Baltimore Telegram.
That opportunities may be. found,
but the best ones are made.
That there never was a woman
who could talk fast gracefully.
That it seems strange that when
money is close it seems farthest
away.
That one way to sharpen the ap-
petite is to take a turn at q grind
stone.
That some men are never disap-
pointed in love until they get
married.
That when a fellow dresses to kill,
the girls are usually just dying to
meet him.
That so many people love authors
ty that it is always easy to find an
umpire at a ball game.
That between bicycles and trolley
cars, it's no wonder that the pedes-
trian should feel all run down.
That the most difficult ups and
downs of this life are keeping ex-
penses down, and appearances up.
That when we read we fancy we
could be martyrs; when we come to
act we cannot bear a provoking
word.
That because bread is the staff OF
life it is no reason why a man should
turn his whole existence into a long
loaf.
That since the prevalence of the
| wheel, labor circles are agitated over
the probable fate of the walking
delegate.
That "self- preservation is the first
law of nature" cts better to
break an engagement with a girl
than to have the engagement break
| YOU"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
THE PowDBRLY CASE.

In view of the appointment of I.
V. Powderly and the resolutions of
the Central Labor union of New York
denouncing that appointment as
ssthe greatest official insult ever
offered by the federal government to
organized labor" it may not be
amiss to consider what we're Mr..
Powderly's sentiments before he fell
under the influence of Marcus Alonzo
Hanua.
In September, 1898, Mr.. Powderly
addressed an open letter to President
Cleveland, in which he intimated that
congress, then in special session, was
Confronted with an argument more.
powerful than the wishes OF constitu-
ents or the voice of principle, and
asked the president to recommend
the restoration of silver ito it's time
hoDored place in the coinage OF the
nation"
The following month Mr.. Powderly
in the Knights of Labor magazine
nsed this strong language: "There
are but two parties in the United
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Happiest Creature on the Globe.

A statement was recently published
in a New England newspaper that
the colored people of Texas were so
unhappy and disconnected that they
are preparing to em1grate to other
States. The editor of the Galveston
News emphatically denies the state>
ment and In a most convincing man>
ner shows that the Texas negroes
are the happiest creatures on the
face of the globe. He says, in the
first place that Texas 'possums are
ripe in October and the crop is big,
ger than that of all other states COM
bined. With the springs full of cats
fish in the springtime, the summer
filled with watermelons, the autumn
and winter with 'possums and sweet
potatoes and all seasons percolated
with revivals, camp meetin's and
"baptlsin's," the Texas negroes are
the happiest mortals in this world
all the year round. 1t looks as if the
Texan had the best Of the argument,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Virginta,s Message.

''Virginia's message to the people
of the South" said Senator Daniel,
in speaking of the Democratic out
look, sis a message of good cheer
The Democrats of Virginia are un-
swerving in their devotion to the
cause of bimetallism and of the
great Democratic principles of the
Chicago platform. The party has
made magnificent nomination and
there has been no time when all true
Democrats were more thoroughly
united in the support of the party
and the ticket. You may say that
the Old Dominion will remain at the
head of the Democratic procession
and that the Democrats of the South
can count on an old time majority
this fall
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
UNsoLvED PROBLEM.

All of US remember how, during the
campaign, some people held up their
hands in horror and talked glibly of
the dishonesty of the fifty cent dol
lars which they said tree coinage
would food the country with. We
remember, too, how they hoasted of
the 'sinstrinsic'' value of the gold
dollar, the metal in which, independ-
ent of it's coinage, was worth
hundred cents in the dollar. eve
are for honest money they said,
and with pretty broad intimation
that everybody who didn't bow to
the golden calf was in favor of dis
honest money.
Now, the Baltimore Sun, one of the
yellowest of the yellow metal papers,
makes the statement that sit Is
shown by the annual report of one
of the largest mining companies in
Colorado that since the organization
of the company, the average cost of
producing 81 in gold has been 81
cents"
Do whatl Can it be possible that
all the talk of the intrinsic value of
gold dollar was a myth and that the
professors of finance were indulging
in fanciful delusion, or a purpose
to deceive, when they told us that
value could not be legislated into a
metal? Verify, it appears there was
a screw loose in that prediction
argument.
If monetization of gold has moth
ing to do with fixing it's value it is
hard to understand how it's produc-
ton will bear a profit of nearly two
hundred per cent. in the markets of
the world. If demonstration OF
silver had nothing to do with fixing
it's value, it is difficult to explain why
the metal in a silver dollar has de-
clined from a greater value than the
gold in a gold dollar to less than
fifty cents.
AS the Asheville Citizen remarks, in
commenting upon this subject, "Why
it should be moral thing to give an
extra value to gold BY fixing the
price of % % grains by law at a
dollar, while the mere proposition to
do the same by silver is immoral is
one of those problems that no gold
man has yet worked out for u.s.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Spain's Exhaustion by the Cuban War
London Spectator.

London Spectator.
People here hardly realize what
Spain has done in the course of the
struggle with Cuba. She has sent so
many conscripts to die there of fever
and homesickness and wretchedness
that at present the Spanish War
Office has greater experience in the
matter of the transport of troops by
sea, not merely than any other war
office of modern times, but of any
times. Spain in the last few years
has put 100000 men into Cuba
That she does not have to provide
for bringing them home is the most
dreadful and disastrous fact of all
The Cuban war has done much to
exhaust Spain in three ways. 1t has
cost huge sums of money, has alb
sorbed the energies of government,
and, more important, it bas robbed
the country of half her crop of young
men. The cOnscripts have been sent
to die in Cuba at the very moment
when they ought to have been using
their young energies in tilling the
soil, winning iron from the mines, or
working in the trades In a land
where the men have an invincible
longing to rest in the shade after
forty, and are old at fifty, the nation
cannot do without IFS youths
Spain, then, under it's present condi
tions, is exactly the country in
which one would expecG the gospel of
anarchy to flourish and abound.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
THE SITUATION.

1t is stated that the shortage of
European crops this year, as COM
pared with average crops, is as fol-
lows: Wheat, three hundred million
bushels; rye, three hundred and
twenty-five million bushels; potatoes,
one hundred million bushels. The
Dingley tariff bill certainly has moth
ing to do with this crop shortage
aud has nothing to do with increased
prices for wheat, ETC., since the high
er prices are a natural outcome of
the short crops in Europe.
This is the situation in nutshell,
notwithstanding the foolish asser-
tions of the political demagogue
that grain crops have advanced in
price because of the new tariff bill.
While the farmer will get more for
his products, he will find when he
makes his purchases of clothing, etc =,
that they have also advanced in
price and that the Dingley tariff bill
is alone responsible for this advance.
Hence, the money received for his
crops will not go so far, will not buy
so much, on account of the Ubiquitous
tariff measure fastened upon the
country by the Republican Congress,
and consequently the producer will
be cheated out of part of the profit
which should be his, and that part
of the money which he needs for i'm
proving his farm, for providing his
family with comforts, or, it may be,
for paying off a debt which has been
hanging over him as pail for years
money that could be used in these
advantageous ways and that should
be at the disposition of the producer
to so use, must, by edict of the Re-
publican party, be paid to the COM
bines and trusts, in whose interest
the tariff bill was framed and passed.
1t may be possible to hoodwink
the farmer with claptrap about high
prices for products, simultaneously
with the new tariff, but the scales
will fall from his eyes when con-
fronted by the fact that trust pro-
tected articles of necessity have adj
vanced, without any short crop
roaaoua for auch advance
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
FAMINE IN KLONDIKE.
Food Short and Suffering Certain for
PrOSnecfOrS.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. CIV. A. Ryan,
one of the 81 ecial correspondents of the As
sociated Press, EN- route to Yukon gold fields
writes from st Michaels, under date AUGUST
10, to the effect that there is grave danger of
famine on the klondike this winter. Ac-
cording to all reports received from the up
per country, it Will be impossible to land
sufficient food at Dawson City to support
the population already dependent upon that
base of supplies. r. I. Kyng local agent of
the Alaska Commercial Company at st.
Mi"haels, declares thatthere are already over
1000 idle men in Dawson, and new parties
arriving every day via Chikoot Pass, while
the total amount of freight landed there
this year will not exceed 4, 900 tons, of which
not more than three-fourths is provisions
Miners returning from Klondike, who left
| there in July, report that the food was run
ming very low, and it was disposed of as fast
as discharged from the steamers. OId-timers
realize the situation and predict distress and
death as result of the Klondike craze
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
Interesting Items Culled From Oul
State EXCHANGES

Interesting Items Culled From Our
State Exchanges.
At Durham tomorrow the Grand
Lodge of Masons meets for the pur
pose of laying the corner stone for
public library.
The State board of tax equalization
reports that the increase in valuation
of property in the state over last
year will be something over $4,000,
600.
Cool news is coming in from the
various quarters in the state as to
Democrats falling into line on ones.
tons of harmony and big fight
next year. Some persons protest
ton ofpolitics thus early. But py far
the greater number declare that
mention cannot be too early or too
vigorous.
T. j. Hoggard, ex> assistant posts
master at Aulander, BERTHE county,
was arrested on a warrant by Post.
Office Inspector Gregory for embez,
ceiling $4,000 of money order funds
| during the past seven months. He
, issued orders for dollars, but made
| applications only for cents. He con.
fessed that gambling caused his
| downfall.
| Persons who were on the excursion
which returned to Raleigh from
Richmond Saturday had an exciting
experience two miles north of Oxford
The train was stoned, and one stone
badly wounded young lady on the
head. A tfagman who was on the
steps when:the train was stopped il
an effort to capture the stone.throw
ers, was hit and knocked off.
Ohio Wilson, one of the two rail
way commissioners cited by Cover
nor Russell to appear before hin
September LIST and show cause why
he should not be suspended from Of
fee, has employed j, C. L. Harris t,
| represent him as counsel. 1t is tn,
current belief that the Governor ha
for some time made up his mind !,
remove two of the commissioner
and put on men who will do as b.
says
At Balls Creek campmeeting Sun
day young man named Watts stol
ayouug woman named Scronce an,
married her near the camp ground
The girls father then stole her fron
her husband. Later the husban,
again stole her from the old man
The latter filled up on blockad
liquor and went in search of them
He found them, but he could not &c
the girl back.-Lincoln journal.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
Took His Own Medicine.
Asheville Citizen.


The Populists aud Republicans
having done all that they could to
put the negro in the saddle in the
eastern counties-with some deplor-
able results-no Democrat at least
will regret the fate OF the Raleigh
Populist who insulted a negro, was
arrested by a negro deputy sheriff,
taken before a Republican magis-
trate and prosecuted by negro
lawyer. Having helped to give the
negro all the power he has, it is only
just and in consonance with the
eternal fitness of things that he
should get dose of bis own medicine
As it appears that the negro whose
life he threatened was the more
decent man of the two, there is an
added reason for not giving away to
grief over the disgrace this Populist
has brought on himself.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
FASHION FRILLS

Phlladelphla Record.
A crush belt Of medium wild tn fast
ened with a curved buckle at the
front or side will be the usual finish
for the bodice that is cut off at the
waist line.
There is a decided leaning to a
more frivolous style of dress; bodices
are exceedingly fluffy, and stiff effects
and revers have fallen into innocuous
desuetude.
The style of decoration made of
graduated widths OF ribbon, called
the crisis cross, is a prime favorite
and will continue SO through the
coming season.
Small crochetted buttons in ex.
travagant numbers will vie with
applique trimmings and velvet rib
bon for favor as the garniture for
full costumes.
The bayadere and Roman stripes
now SO beautifully developed in the
soft finished silks will be very much
used for trimming, and sash. stock
and cuffs of these very effective
materials brighten up an otherwise
plain gown wonderfully
OIeeVeS Will COHtIuuo 10 De sell
trimmed with tucks or ruffias with
lace insertion, or baby ribbon where
the material is of silk or very soft
The heavier ones will have a small
leg-o'-mutton with the indispensa-
BILE epaulet in various shapes.
The shades of the coming season
will be all bright and striking in
effect, and the more subdued and
neutla al tones will be relegated to
| obscurity. With these strong color
effects plain materials will rule to
| avoid bizarre and inartistic results
when com bined with the velvets and
rich trimmings that will be the vogue
| the coming months.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
So They Say.

Art is long-and money is often
short.
A man should bride his tongue,
and then he can rein his temper.
Many a woman who torgets to
wind the clock does not neglect to
keep Der tongue running
1t is said that money cannot give
happiness, but there are very few
who are not willing to try the Xperi
mont
Many a man of ancient times could
not write his name. We know OF
them because they made their mark
A close reader is the man who
always borrows his NJ ighbor's p per,
being too "close" to buy one himself.
When a man is prosperous his
friends see him afar off; but when he
gets short his friends get short
sighted.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02
The Stu alton in India.

Atlanta constitution.
Of course this Indian outbreak is
not general as yet. At the present
time it is largely confined to the
mountains, but scarcely day passes
without adding to the area of dis
content. For many years past the
Hindoos have been loyal to British
rule, but several things of late have
had a tendency to ALLEVIATE their
affections from the crown. When
the horrible bubonic plague broke
out in the province several months
ago, closely followed by the scourge
of famine, the hindoos naturally
expected some assistance from Great
Britain, but instead of realizing this
hope, they we're bitterly disappointed
This neglect has opened the eyes of
the Hindoos, and unless Great
Britain succeeds in restoring the con-
fidence which her seltishness has i'm
paired, she may yet lose the fair and
fertile province of India, or else be
compelled to subdue it at a tremend
Gus sacrifice of blood and treasure.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-02

AS we expected, the spectators
have succeeded in getting grip upon
the wheat market. and, consequent
ly, the price fuctuates. 1t is a great
misfortune that farm products are
made subject of gambling and that
prices are controlled largely by bulls
aud bears, instead of exclusively by
supply and demand. The rascals
would like TO run wheat down to as
low a figure as possible, then buy it
all and pop the price up, and pocket
the profit that should go to the
farmers. Such combinations are
contrary to law, but the trouble is
that the law Is not enforced.