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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
Original Observations.

Orange (Va.) Observer.
People fishing for compliments get
their bites in shallow water.
Is a tramp idle when he labors
under an impression or entertains an
idea?
Take care of the poor Indians, and
the poor Indians will take hair of
you:
Uneasy moves the foot that wears
a corn-this is d fact as sure as you
are born.
The friends We never forget-those
who borrow dollar of US and never
return it.
great many men who begin the
day by rising with the lark, end it by
going of IN one.
Life is crazy quilt made up OF
Jagged and uneven patches of every
day experience.
Men who talk by the ward and
think by the inch are frequently
moved by the foot.
Many man owes his success in life
more to the Kisses of his enemies
rather than to the piaudits OF his
friends
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
MoOdy's Savings.

There are too many congregations
that throw the sermons of the pastor
back into his face like a rubber ball
returning from brick wall.
A man might as well try to eat
enough at breakfast to last him all
his life as to try to get grace enough
at once to last him until he dies.
Christians who get half over the
border get it from both sides; the
church clubs them on one side and
the world throws bricks at them on
the other.
| am tired of people who say they
want to live on crumbs. Crumbs are
good enough for cats and dogs The
Christian wants nothing but the
whole loaf
The man who boasts that he ia
paying member and not praying
member of a church had better have
an eye to his children; children OF
such men go to ruin.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
North Carolina Day.

Baltimore Sun.
Friday, September Itch, will be an
interesting day to the hundreds OF
North Carolinians, including several
camps of Confederate Veterans, who
will journey to historic old Winches
ter, in the beautiful Valley of Vir-
ginia. This will be the last day of
the annual fair of the Shenandoah
Valley Agricultural Society and an
interesting feature of the day will be
the laying of the corner stone of the
monument which is to be erected in
Stonewall Cemetery to the memory
of the North Carolina soldiers who
either fell in battle or died in
hospitals and are buried there
There are over four-hundred North
Carolina soldiers buried in Stonewall
Cemetery, a larger number than from
any other State. Many North Caro-
linians now residing in Baltimore
will esteem it both a duty and sad
pleasure to take part in the cere-
monies.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
The Church and Civilization
Indianannlis News

No reader of the secular press can
have failed to note the great atten-
ton now paid to things religious.
News of the churches and their doings
is welcome in newspaper offices, and
it would not be welcome unless there
were a demand for it on the part of
the general public. Many papers
print sermons-indeed there are
bureaus and syndicates which furnish
sermons to the papers. The church
services are fully reported, and con-
ventions OF church people always
excite great interest. All this seems
to indicate that there is a much
closer connection between the life of
the church and the life of the world
than there was twenty-five or thirty
years ago We do not believe that
this is because the church has become
worldly, or because there has been
any lowering of it's religious and
spiritual tone 1t is rather because
practical men of affairs are begin
ming to see what a large place the
church occupies in our modern life,
and are impressed with the increas-
ing obligation under which civilizi-
ton is to the Christian religion.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
Judge Avery.
aleigh News and Observer.

Democracy of Judge Avery argues
that he does not know a Democrat
when he sees one. Three generations
of that noble name have been leaders
in the Democratic party in North
Carolina, and to no men does the
party owe more for brave and
honorable leadership. Judge Avery
is the same Democrat today he was
when he risked his life more than once
to redeem the State from Littlefield
and Holden domination. He will be
found fighting in the front ranks of
the party whenever Democratic
principles and Democratic govern
ment are assailed.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
"OUT OF POLITICS"
Tue Statement Branded "a Brazep
but Futile FaIsehood.


Biblical Recorder.
A crowd of politicians got together
at Raleigh r. Gently and promulgated
an address TO the people, in which
they stated that their party had
taken our public school system out
OF politics and put it in the hands of
the people. We try to have patience;
we try to use mild terms, whether in
praise or denunciation; but in this
instance it were weakness to brand
this statement more mildly than the
heading of this paragraph.
1t ls false because these schools are
stepped in politics; because commit
teemen, teachers, county boards and
supervisors, with only a few excep-
ttons, have been selected upon
political lines. The State Board of
Examiners and the State Superin
tendent of Public instruction are the
only parts OF the school system that
are not rotten with politics. 1t is
brazen because these men who wrote
this document knew this; knew it
why they had Just seen politics smite
into failure and defeat the best
measure North Carolina ever had for
building up her schools.
1t is futile because the people know,
and they will not be deceived. They
may be fooled; but you cannot OPEN
ly deceive them. The parties in
power had a splendid opportunity,
an unrivalled opportunity; they
failed signalIv. People talk about
the crime of '73, "the crime of the
century," the crime of all political
crimes is that which was done in the
counties in July, 1897, when the
hope of 100000 children was shat
tered at the demand of few poll
ticians, whose greed for office was
counted above the good OF North
Cardinals children.
The people will not endure this
You may try to direct their minds to
| other issues, but all who are true to
| their God. their children and their
homes will demand that the Shiny
coils of politics be Embossed from the
schools Of their children.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
SANCTIFICATION AGAIN.
Rev. Mr. McLaurin Denies Report OF
Divisions.
EDITORS OF SENTINEL:

Rev. Mr. McLaurin Denies Report Of
Divisions.
EDITORS OF SENTINEL:
My attention was called to an ar>
ticle this morning, in your paper of
the 2lst, headed, TOO Much Sancti~
fcation." l write to ask you to
state through your columns, that
there is not one word of
ruth in tie whole article ex
cept that [ am being assisted by
Rev. Mr.. Royal in a series of meet
ings on my work, and that we both
profess and preach Sanctification,
and we believe live it. No row oc>
Cured, nor did any one withdraw,
or think of doing so. All is harmone
ious so far as | know, except that
some do not believe the doctrine.
regard this as an ugly attempt to de-
fame a good and noble people, and a
great cause. Some ''evil agent of
the wicked one" is try ing to injure a
good cause. As to the personal
thrust at Mr.. Royal and myself, we
care nothing. We have long ago
learned that "Separation from the
world' means to have the "persee
cution of the world" We have left
our names and reputation and our
all in His hands, whom we follow.
If He can't take care of all we CONS
nit to Him, then we are mistaken in
whom we serve.
But while our personal regulations
are safe in His hand, and the reputa-
ton of that good people, yet we
deem it but right to say that no such
row or division has or will occur.
Please be kind enough to correct the
aforesaid report, and you will great,
~ oblige.
Yours Under the Blood,
W. III. L. MCLAURIN.
Walnut Cove, Aug. %, 1897.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
r. Elections of a Bachelor.

New York Press
An engaged girl may feel awfully
sure of every thing, but she doesn't
eat many onions till after she gets
married
After girl has once decided that
she won't have a man il he asks her,
she will never forgive him for not
asking her.
No girl ever respected man much
till he has made her lose her temper.
When "a rich girls hair looks like
streaked molasses candy, it is said to
be OF the color of spun gold.
Down at the bottom OF every
woman's prayer is n reminder to the
Lord that he knows she has to put
up with ST. uiurh from her husband.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
APPOINTED PRESIDING ELDER.
Rev DR.. Swindell Will Succeed the
Late Rev DR.. Black


Late Rev. DIR. Black
Rey. F. D. Swindell has been ap,
pointed to succeed the late Dr. Black
as presiding elder of the Warrenton
district, M. E Church, South. He
received this note from Bishop Har
grove:
81 hereby appoint you presiding
elder of the Warrenton district for
the remainder of the conference year,
made vacant by the death of w.
S. Black. This does not release you
from your previous appointment as
missionary secretary. Let the fact
be published In the North Carolina
Christian Advocate"
DR.. Swindell writes to the Advo>
cate: cat the earliest possible date
I will arrange for the dual work
placed upon me. do not object to
the Warrenton district. but I would
have been glad to have given my
full time to my work of missions.
Ny heart is in that"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
RoCKEFELER GIvEs $3.50 900.
Sends the Check 20 Clear Up a Large
Missionary Debt.


RosToN, Sept. 3 j. d. Rockefels
Ter has redeemed his promise 10 he
American Baptist Missionary Union
and the AmirIcan Home Missionary
Society, and has sent his check for
balance of the $3.50, 900 promised by
him upon the condition that the two
societies would raise 1896 600 The
American Baptist Missionary Union
in this city has received d check
faom him for 1921 267. The Ameri-
can Baptist Home Missionary Socie-
ty, whose headquarters are in New
York city, received check for the
balance necessary TO cancel its in
debtedness.
On Feb. last the announcement
was made that these two societies
were struggling along under total
| Indebtedness of about $4Sf,000 Mr..
| Rockefeller, who had previously
given each society $50 900, then said
that If the two societies would raise
1896, 900 he would increase his subs
scription to a total of $3.50. 900 The
| two societies strained every perve
and raised the money. Mr.. Rookie
Teller then kept his part of the
| agreement.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
THE ANDREWS INCIDENT.
A Triumph for Freedom of Though
and Freedom of Speech.

A Triumph for Freedom of Thought
and Freedom of Speech.
A great moral victory
Post.
This incident is triumph for free
dom of opinion and freedom OF
observation-disclosures Sun.
Whatever course President An
drews may take now, one thing is
assured. A big victory has been
gained for freedom of speech in uni
versities and collegiate institutions =
Chicago Record.
The request is a concession to
public opinion, and virtually admits
that coercion was employed.-Ba
more Herald.
L. is intinated that both sides
have made some concessions, but the
most of the concediDg apparently
has been done by the trustees.
Chicago Tribune.
No phase of the outcome will be
more heartily welcomed than the
proof that there is no ground for the
tear that freedom of thought and
speech in colleges is to be restricted.
philadelphia Press.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
New Method of Cleaning Wells.

Salisbury World.
A Mr.. Dukabill of Davidson county
was in the city recently ambulat>
ing through our metropolis in his
bare feet. Mr. Dukabill has record
of his own. He is six feet high,
weighs about 200 pounds and is the
champion well cleaner in Davidson
county. He ties rope to each of
his bare ankles and skins down a
well, headforemost with the CELEBRITY
of STRIPPING. He is lowered suf>
ficient distance to enable him to
clean out the well This is a new
method of cleaning wells.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
Due to Wilson Tariff.

Philadelphia Record.
The exports from this country for
July were about 81, 800, 900 ahead
of those for the corresponding month
of last year-the largest year in the
history of our export trade.
As the Dingley bill did not become a
law until the tail end of July, it will
scarcely be claimed that the amazing
growth of exports was due to that
measure The Governments figures
give incontestable proof that the
country never enjoyed such an ex-
pansion of it's foreign trade HIS in the
comparatively brief period in which
the Wilson tariff had chance to
demonstrate it's trade-making eff
eacy.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
Stands at the Head.

Aug. ]. Bogel, the leading druggist of
Shreveport, La, says: "Dr. Kings New
Discovery is the only thing that will cure
J. F. Campbell, merchant of Stafford, Ariz.,
writes: Or Kings New Discovery is ali
that is claimed for it; it never fails, and is a
sure cure for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds. ! cannot say enough for its merits -
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consumption
Coughs and Colds is not an experiment. 1t
has been tried for quarter of century,
and today stands at the head. 1t never dis
appoints. Free trial bottles at DR.. V. o.
Thompson's Drug Store
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
MAKING NEW PLACES.
Public Office fs Sometimes q Prfvat
Snap.

Public Office Ia Sometimes q Private
Snap.
News and Observer, Sept. 3.
vi making new offices and filing
them with kin there is no end. State
Auditor Ayers zeal in BUSTING
Stewart Brothers as Public Printers
is now explained. A new office of
superintendent of printing has been
created and Ii. w. Aver fills it and
draws IA salary of thirty dollars
month. Not only SO, but the
Caucasian printing Office has been
moved into the establishment of
Barnes Brothers who will hereafter
print that paper. 1t has been init
mated that Barnes Brothers do this
free of charge in consideration OF
getting the contract for State print
ing on their own terms.
1t also came to light yesterday
that another new office has been
created, that of assistant secretary
of the North Carolina Railroad, at q
salary of 5000 per year Who is to
fill iJ2 A son of State Treasurer
Worth. The good things are kept in
the official family. The young man
is capable and has served as book
keeper in the Wilmington bank
which now has "cinch," having on
deposit all money that comes into
the hands of the secretary and
treasurer of the North Carolina
Railroad.
On Wednesday Governor Russell's
bro ther Tom assumed his duties as
| warden of the penitentiary. He has
been there several months at the ex-
pense of the State learning under
eff Gent warden, Ledbetter, who il
relieved. Not only SO, but elegant
apartments have been fitted up, at
the expense of the taxpayers, for bis
family and no rent is charged for
them. Indeed until the last meeting
OF the board of directors, it is said
that they were all boarded at the
expense of the taxpayers, and it
was only after protest by a member
of the board that the large families
of the officers were ordered to pay
board.
We have hereto ore printed two
columns showing the extent to which
nepotism prevails under this admin
istration.
Recent events indicate that the
motto OF our rulers is Public Office
is a Private Snap"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09

HARPER's FERRY, WA, Sept -
E 5. Cummings, of Harper's Ferry,
yesterday struck bonanza. Some
time ago he purchased for trifis an
old tumbled down building, which
for years, and during the late war,
had been used as a popular saloon.
Yesterday, in tearing down the old
structure, he found coins of various
denominations amounting to 1891
hidden beneath the floor. The
money is suppose to have been
placed there during the war for safe
keeping.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
Likes the Good Old way.
Chicago News.

Chicago news.
Gov. Leedy, OF Kansas, says the
man who rides a bicycle much gets
long nose, as he is always looking
ahead for trouble. The Governor
wonders at the Jolly OF young men
taking their "best girls out on q
tandem. The old fashioned buggy
and gentle horse-that's the Gov
ernor's idea. Working like a Turk
aud never catching up with the girl
doesn't suit Gov. Leedy.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
The Collar Mckinley WeaIR.
From the Atlanta Journal.

Il
Quite stir has been created in
Troy, n. Y, over what is declared to
be an insult offered to President
Mckinley by a collar and cuff firm
whose factory he visited while there
last week. 1t is alleged that under
pretensp of getting President McKin
ley to sign his name in what pur-
ported to be a memorial album, the
firm really obtained the chief txecu-
tive's signature under an endorse
ment IF II lrgDd o collars manu-
featured by the concern. That was
a mean trick 70 play Mr. Mckinley.
Everybody knows he wears nobody's
collar but Hanna's, and wouldn't
think of endorsing any other brand.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
GEN. LoNGsTREET's MARRIAGE.
Both He and His Expectant Bride
Candidates for Office.

CHICAGO, Sept. "A special to the
Times>Herald from Atlanta, Ga +,
says: The positive announcement
was made today by the friends of
both parties concerned that the mar
riage of Miss Ellen Dortch and Gen.
James A. Longstreet will take place
at noon next Wednesday, at the Elk
eeutive Mansion, in this city. Ar
rangements for the ceremony have
been perfected by Mrs. Atkinson,
wife of Governor Atkinson. aud the
best man will be former Senator h.
W. B Ham
Gen. Longstreet is 80 years old
and very deaf. Miss Dortch is %
years old and very pretty.
The general is expecting by every
mail his appointment from President
Mckinley as railroad commissioner,
to succeed Wade Hampton, and Miss
Dortch is candidate for State Lii,
brarian.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
He is Theirs.

JnarIOtte ODS6rVer.
And so some of the Republicans
want Governor Russell impeached,
but there being no means at present
of securing this end, would have the
Republican State executive commit
tee meet and denounce him and read
him out OF the party. And yet he il
theirs. He was not inaugurated
until the middle of January last, and
it does seem hard that they can't
stand for eight months by the work
of their hands. As 10. Turner used
to say, Harmony at the centre"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09

THE success of the Tobacco Fair
may becounted upon with confidence
The Twin City can accomplish any
thing within reason when it is gone
about in the right way, and the Fair
has been gone about in the right way
with energy, earnestness and a
spirit of cooperation.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
A Telegraph Operator Gu, does Edison.
Philadelphia Record

Philadelphia Record.
A former-telegraph operator, Geo.
v. Trott, is credited with having iu>
vented mechanical device by means
of which it will be possible to cons
municate with a moving train any
where on the line. While Edison
has been making futile experiments
with induction currents, Mr. Trott
is reported to have successfully uti-
lized the new third>rail trolley prin>
ciple. Two insulated metallic tracks
are laid between and parallel to the
regular rails, and connection with
metallic wheels placed on trains clos
es the circuit. If the new invention
proves practical, one of the most
battling questions of safe railroad
operation will have been solved.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09

A PRETTY straight shot was that
of ex-Secretary of State Olney when
he wrote the trustees of Brown Uni
versity these words: 'The true OBJ
lection, however, to the course pur
sued toward DR.. Andrews by the
corporation of Brown University is
its implied incubation of the doctrine
that an institution of learning
should, above all things, get rich,
and, therefore, should square it's
teachings and limit the utterances of
it's faculty by the interests and senti-
ments of those who, for the time
being, are the rich men of the COM
munity."
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09

We are going to have a big time
the first week in November, with the
Tobacco Fair, general exhibits,
amusements, the Hospital bazaar,
etc. Come to see us.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09

The coal strike has been a very
costly affair to all concerned and, on
account of the strikers, it is crafty
ing that the end appears to have
been reached. What it has cost the
operators will, probably, have to be
paid by the consumers, and to this
end an advance in the price OF coal
may be expected.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-09-09
MR.. BRYAN,S VIEWS.

Some people have been disposed to
think that the wide margin between
the prices of wheat and silver and the
futter about returning prosperity
had put Mr.. Bryan in a hole and
placed seal upon his lips. Those
who entertained this notion took
only superficial, if not arti-
fetal, view of the situation, be-
cause neither an accident nor a
mere incident, whichever term may
be applied to the cause tor the rise in
breadstuffs, can shake we'll ground
ed faith in the cause of bimetallism-
the cause of the great mass of the
people Furthermore, there is moth
ing like bimetallic slayer about the
rise in price of other necessities, pro.
duced solely by a tariff law enacted
in the interest of trusts, which COM
pels the people to pay more into the
treasures of the combines without
providing them with more money to
do this extra paying.
Mr.. Bryan has given expression to
his views upon the situation, in
letter to the St. Louis Post Dispatch,
in which he very clearly sets forth
existing facts. Among other things,
he says:
Wheat has risen because the
| foreign crop has been exceedingly
short. The fact that silver and
wheat have parted company will
cause no dismay to those who under
| stand that the law of supply and
| demand regulates the price of both
"Nothing can better disclose the
weakness of the Republican position
than the joy manifested by the Re-
| publicans over events for which their
administration and their politics are
| in no wise responsible
I'll the Republicans desire to claim
credit for the high price of wheat,
they might assume the responsibility
for the famine in India. A great rise
in price should be followed by a rise
| in wages"
"The Joy oyer the increase of
money from wheat is evidence that
we have too little money; that if the
farmers are benefited by the rise in
one of their products, how much bet
sal; that the price of wheat will fall
when the foreign demand becomes
normal, and that the present spas
modic rise will aid, rather than injure
the cause of bimetalism -