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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Garfield's Prophecy.
Atlanta Journal.

Atlanta Journal.
James A. Garfield will not rank
high as a prophet if he is to be Judged
by prediction which he made in the
house OF representatives in 1872.
At that time $50, 100000 was
asked as an appropriation for the
payment of pensions for one year
1t was commended by many leading
Republicans in congress that this
amount was extravaganza. Garfield,
apologizing for the appropriat ions
committee, said that 1--WE may
reasonably expect the expenditures
for pensions to steadily decline here
after unless our legislation should be
unwarrantably extravaganza"
Instead of the steady decline which
Garfield predicted nearly twenty
five years ago, we have seen steady
and rapid increase. Pension expend-
itures which were $3O.O0O,OOO in
1872 were $40 100000 last year,
and if the recent action of the house
on special pension bills can be taken
as Indicative of the Republican policy
we may expect to see many millions
added to the pension appropriations
during the Mckinley administration.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
w Use Words.

The Southwest.
Take time to deliberate; but when
the time for action arrives, stop
thinking and go in.
A man cannot go through the
world with a loving heart without
having Joy written on his face
You should cultivate not only the
habit of telling the truth, but the
forbearance to hear it.
The man who does always his best
will fod a steady demand tor the
things that he can do.
Don't hold a man responsible for
his fool kin. You may have troubles
of that kind of your own.
1t is as easy to draw back a stone
thrown with force from the hand as
to recall a word-Once spoken.
Some delicate matters must be
treated like pins, because if they are
not seized by the right end, we get
prickeG.
Remember that one may b. witty
without being popular; voluble with
out being agreeable, great talker
and yet great bore.
The voice should be carefully
trained and developed; a full, clear,
flexible voice is one of the surest indi-
cations of good breeding.
Be frank. A frank open cOunte-
nance and a clear, cherry laugh are
worth far more even socially than
"pedantry in a stiff cravat."
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

AT least one Republican Senator
is getting his eyes open to the true
condition of affairs. The dispatches
tell us that Senator Chandler, OF New
Hampshire, on yesterday, spoke for
three hours upon his resolution, de-
claring it to be the sense of the SEN
ate that the United States should
not permanently acquiesce in the
single gold standard. He attributed,
and rightly SO, the fall of values to
the progressive steps in the demone-
tization of silver. ''To the system of
bimetallism, from which we depart
3D." he said, eve must return; and
trust that we are already on the
road" Yes, sir, we'll get there after
awhile-probably about 1901, after
the Democrats get in the saddle
again.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Likes North Carolina.

EX-Gov. r. B Sherman, CT Iowa, is
visiting the various places of interest
in North Carolina. To an interviewer
at Raleigh he said:
81 like North Carolina. It. is good
State "a very fine State. It's soil
seems to be good and its natural re-
sources are certainly wonderful. Since
/ have been in her borders | have seen
some magnificent farms. / think,
however, if you will allow a stranger
to make suggestion, that your State
authorities have made a mistake in
not doing more TO properly advertise
your State. The outside world has no
idea of the grand State you have here,
You should send out more literature
and advertising matter and be repres-
ented in all the great eXpOsitionS."
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Turkey and Greece.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
At present the Cretans deserve the
sympathy of Christendom, because,
if for naught else, their success would
hasten the placement of the foulest
blot on the map of civilization.
Providence Journal.
The crisis in the present situation
will appear when Russia and Great
Britain come to consider what each
in it's own capacity has at stake in
the episode.
Philadelphia Press.
Greece is led by her king in this
step, and both together have ap-
parently taken it because the long
strain of European inaction has be-
come intolerable. Trade is dead.
Want broods over all the eastern
Mediterranean. All progress and all
projects for improvement are
stopped. For Greece and the little
lands about nothing can be worse
than longer delay.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
RAMS HORN BLASTS.
Warning Notes Calling the Wicked
to Repentance

Warning Notes Calling the Wicked
to Repentance.
The child of God is as safe as his
Fathers throne.
John the Baptist reached the
masses by preaching Christ.
Where there is growing there can
not be much growing in grace.
When our enemies are Gods enc
mics we shall always win the fight.
1t is not so hard to do right when
the mind is fully made up to do it.
Nobody would ever be lost if the
devil could not make a sinner be-
lievP it is safe to sin.
The masses would not long remain
Indifferent if all Christians were thor
oughly in earnest.
No matter how small sin may be,
every track it makes points straight
toward the pit.
Undertake to prove that there is
no hell, and the devil will take off his
coat to help you.
The only goodness that counts is
the kind that will not shrink when
brought to Gods standard.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
EXTRA SESSION.

Now there is talk of an extra SEES
sion of the Legislature. Why? Be-
cause pay drawing will cease after
the regular session has consumed
sixty-days, and if the legislators re
main after that time they will have
to do SO at their own expense unless
the extra days are dubbed "extra
session."
The term of the Legislature was
limited to sixty days for the express
purpose of preventing useless ex-
pendisure of public money by killing
time and unnecessarily prolonging
the sessions. 1t was thought, too,
that the term limit would afford
ample time for the transaction of the
business in a prompt and business
like manner.
But little was done by this Iegisla-
ture, during the first half of the
term, beyond maneuvres of parti-
san character, and as the people paid
for the time consumed in this sort of
thing, we submit that the people
should not now be required to pay
for any extra time that may be
needed to attend to legitimate bust
ness.
No, we do not believe that the
extra session idea will meet the ap-
proyal of the people, and it should
not. 1t would be wrong within itself
and would establish a hurtful pre-
cedent and, moreover, the public
treasury is not sufficiently flush to
stand unnecessary drafts for legisla-
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
SUNDAY MUSINGS.
Fhe Greatest Boon That Ever Fell 10
Mankind

Washington Progress.
Religion is the greatest boon that
ever fell to the lot of mankind be-
cause under it's benigning influence
We are resigned to the inevitable
while We remain here and look for
ward to something different and bet
ter while We shall cross the threshold
of eternity. The worth OF religion
therefore as pratical factor is be-
yond the reach of computation and
so far as you succeed in making it
practical you render yourself salts
factory to yourself and to the world.
st. Paul raid to die is gain and it is
true TO every one of us if we feel that
heaven with US Is a glorious reality,
we could hardly help being glad when
the time came for Us to go there. 1t
it is a place where we will not be
forced to struggle for the necessaries
of life, where the limitation from
which we now suffer will be removed,
when we shall have more opportuni
ties ard more encouragement to
develop the hest that is in US than
the present can possibly afford, then
st becomes clear that when our
friends carry our bodies to the
churchyard they do us a service and
the bells ought not toll but to chime.
But after all this the present life is
important Why were we born in
this lower level and must fall asleep
before We can reach the higher level
we do not know. 1t is a mystery
| and will always remain such. But OF
this we are sure that for some good
reason the providence of God has
decreed that certain amount of ex-
perience is necessary before we can be
prepared for better things to come.
| We get acquainted with ourselves
| here and when we have found out
| who we are and what we are and
what our destiny is the curtain is
drawn aside and we cross into eterni.
ty. Those who have gone before
await our coming. Our own lesson
| is yet unlearned, but theirs is and
from their hig her outlook they watch
over US. Some day the call will be
heard and we shall obey it. The
| light of the sun gilds the evening
clouds with splendor, the rainbow
spans the heavens and If we have
been good we have the promise of q
fair day tomorrow.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
One Thing and Another.

The latest definition of jury is "a
body of men organized for the pur-
pose of deciding which side has the
smartest lawyer"
Thackeray designates snog as
being on a ladder, who is quite as
ready to kiss the feet of him who is
above him as to kick the head of him
who is below.
Longfeliow said, ''In this world a
man must be either anvil or ham
mPr." LOngtellow was wrong, how
ever. Lots of men are neither the
active hammer nor the sturdy anvil.
They are nothing but bellows.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
HOME PRODUCTS.

Some of the best Irish potatoes we
have used were grown by farmer a
few miles from Winston. We men
tion this fact in order to raise the
question: Why should not all the
Irish potatoes consumed by our
people be raised by our own farmers,
instead of by farmers hundreds of
miles away from us?
What has been done by the farmer
referred to, may be done by many
others, and the question about Irish
potates may be applied to other
products of the garden and field.
The more general practice of the
idea of home patronage viii rebound
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

AFTER the peoples representatives
have fooe1 away the peoples time
and money, the people should not be
taxed for an extra session of the
Legislature. Under the circum-
stances, If it is found necessary to
prolong the session a few days be-
yond the sixty-day pay limit, the
cost should not be charged against
the tax payers. All the necessary
business could have been transacted
in sixty days and the people do not
look with favor upon the proposition
to saddle upon them the cost of
dilly- dallying tactics in the early
days of the session.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
The New Ribbons.

The new ribbons are very delicate
In texture like silken gauze, and the
variety in grass linen effects has
multiplied many times since last
season. There are Scotch plaids,
light tinted grounds plaided off with
some strong color and scattered over
with polka dots or sprays of flowers,
and plain colors, with fancy edges of
hair line stripes, in various colors,
and checked borders which are very
effective. Taffeta seems to have the
lead among the plain ribbons, and
some of these are satin faced. Moire
ribbons with corded edges are also
SEEN
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

The Republicans used to tear the
grit and howl vociferousIy for "local
self government" but now they pro-
pose schemes that are foreign to such
a slogan. Control by the Governor
of cities and towns, for instance, is
anything else but "local self govern
ment." Preaching one thing and
practicing another is too often the
way of the world and particularly OF
Republican politicians.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

SOME fun is promised a little later
on. The Republicans and gold -buz
Pops are arranging for a division of
the national pie, but after they get
the menu in condition to serve the
most of it will have to be sent to the
Senate for approval and then will be
the time for Buffers say. He may
succeed in making matters very I'M
comfortable for some of the hungry
fellows.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
A Slight Suspicion.
Sioux City Tribune.

OIIy
Was the plank in the st. Louis
platform pledging the party to pro-
mote international bimetallism mere
ly bait or a scheme with the end in
view of promoting the interests of
the tariff law? There exists a slight
suspicion in that direction, and if
the leaders do not make haste to
enthuse over Senator Wolcott's mis-
sion and give him some encourage
ment, the susp cion is likely to be-
come able bodied.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Rough Henderson's Job.

The Raleigh Press-Visitor says !:
Rough Henderson has finally landed.
He stated to Press-Visitor reporter
yesterday that it had been virtually
agreed that he should be given the
position of inspector of fertilizers.
Rough says he thinks he will like the
place, but would prefer to be railway
commissioner. Wiley Shook says
Rough has been shooting too high, but
has finally struck bottom. Rough has
Wiley's unqualified support.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

A NOBLE man and brave defender
of the peoples rights and interests
passed away by the death of VIM. P.
st. John, the New York ex banker,
who it will be remembered, took firm
stand for bimetallism and sacrificed
his position as a bank president
rather than sacrifice his honest con-
victions upon the currency question.
Such a man will be missed.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Something to Depend On

Mr.. James Jones, of the drug firm of Jones
Il Son, Cowden, Ill in speakinga of DIR.
Kings New Discovery, says that last winter
his wife was attacked with La Grippe, and
her case grew serious that physicians at
Cowden and Pana could do nothing for her
1t seemed to develop into Hasty Consum p
ton. Having DR.. Kings New Discovery in
store. and selling lots of it, he took bottle
home, and to the surprise of all she began
dollar bottles crred her sound and we'll DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to do this
good work. Try it. Free trial bottles at V.
o Thompson's drug store,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
The Bail.
From the Washington Post

Well, the. great and much discussed
Bradley Martin ball has come and
gone. The glittering pageant has
dragged its brilliant length and
passed from view. We doubt wheth
er the world has ever seen any thing
more radiantly beautiful, more
unique, more picturesque, more opu-
lent. Certainly no one in this land
of millionaires and prodigals has
even conceived its like, 1t beggared
the dreams of Princes. 1t was the
wonder and despair of spendthrifts.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Old Secretaries OF State.
Boston Herald,

DUsIUI I1VTdIU
John Sherman is seventy-four
Webster died as secretary in his
seventy first year, and his last days
saw his intellect in it's greatest vigor.
Marcy was seventy one when his term
under Pierce closed. General Case
was seventy-tive when he entered
Buchanan's administration, and
Hamilton Fish was seventy when he
retired from his arduous services at
the close of Grants administration
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

A Matrimonial Program

Boston Herald.
The New York Herald comes out in
favor of short matrimonial engage
ments, and prescribes this as the
proper caper: A spooning in sum
mer, thinking in autumn, an engage
ment in January and a wedding in
June-that is to say, three months
OF attention, three months of refiec-
ton, three months of alteration and
three months OF preparation. The
happiest marriages seem to be begun
and finished within the year.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

SOME colored doctors have been
inspired by the hope that one of their
number would be snHgly provided
for by the honors and perquisites of
the Superintendency of the Eastern
Insane Asylum We are guessing
that these hopes will be blasted. 1t
is not likely that the white bosses
will chunk such luscious morsel
into the camp of the colored brother.
There Ia too much of the WherewiUh
attached to the position to be used
as q tub to the whale. See if our
prediction isn't verified.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
NOT ENOUGH MONEY.
Part of What We Have Useless Be.
cause Idle
Wilmington Star.

Whining on Star.
We published an article few DAYS
ago In which we coutended that the
one of the principal causes OF the low
prices of farm products, the indus
trial depression, the low wages, the
great numbers of idle workmen, and
the great army OF tramps, was the
scarcity of money. We need not be
told that mOneg is not scarce, that
there are millions of dollars living
idle in the Eastern banks, from which
1T can be procured with the right
kind of security, provided the man
who wants it doesn't hail from onn
of the free silver States
1t may be and is true that there
are millions of dollars lying idle in
Eastern bank vaults, but it might as
well not be in existence as in those
vaults where it is controlled as it is
| now. Money that is locked up is no
money at all and of no more real
value to the country than the paper
| it is printed on or the crude metal
| from which it is coined. Thus there
J may be hundreds of idle millions and
| money yet he scarce. These millions
may show up in the bank statements
and Treasury reports, but these are
the ONLY places where they do show
up. Money is really plentiful only
when it circula tes freely and it circu-
lates freely only when it is plentiful.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Delicious scotch Cookies.

Beat together one cup of butter
and two cups Of sugar, two tea
spoonfuls of cream of tartar, mixed
with half a pint of -four. One tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in five
tablespoonfuls of milk. Beat two
eggs light and add them to the mix
ture; one teaspoonful of cinnamon.
Mix the whole together, adding more
-four from time to time to make il to
a dough. Roll out thin and bake
ouicnly.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
The Wilmington Fire.

The loss sustained by the fire which
visited Wilmington Friday night is
estimated at S25, 900, covered by fnsur-
aDce. Saturday the charred re-
chine agent, were found in the ruins
OF the fire He had assisted his wife
and two children in making their
escape from the flames, but for some
unknown reason returned to his room,
where he was overcome by smoke.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Old PeopJe.

Old people who require medicine to regu-
true remedy in Electric Bitters. This medi-
cine does not stimulate and contains no
whiskey nor other intoxicant, but acts as a
tonic and Alternative. 1t acts mildly on the
giving tone to the organs, thereby aiding
Nature in the performance of the functions.
Electric Bitters is an excellent appetizer and
aids digestion. Old people find it just ex-
s1.00 per bottle at Thompson's drug store.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Nctice CT Administration.

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 u 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. (. A. GRIFFITH, Admir-
of Francis Hill, decd
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
How the Human Body Is Divided.

The following remarkable physio-
logical statement occurred in the
examination papers of student in a
Western school: 1.-THE human body
is divided into three parasitic head,
the chist and the stummick. The
head contains the eyes and brains, if
any. The chist contains the lungs
and piece of liver. The stummick
is devoted to the bowels, of which
there is five, a, e, i, o, u, and some
times W and y"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Both,

The Foreman-We find that the
diseased died from natural causes.
Coroner You mean the ode
ceased" not the diseased"
The Foreman-Both. If he hadn't
been diseased he wouldn't be dead.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

A VERY emphatic endorsement of
the idea of higher education for
women is the decision of the Univer-
sity trustees to admit the fair sex to
the postgraduate courses of that
institution.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

A SPECIAL committee is monkeying
with the election law. If possible,
they will be apt to find a way to
make the law more unjust and more
Infamous than it is at present.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Written by Man.
Fearson's Weekly.

Fearsons Weekly.
Ejwin-How do you know that it
was a man that wrote the novel?
Helen-Because the story takes
you over a space of ten years, and
the heroine never changes her dress
but once
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
Doctors ways.

Fliegende Blaetter.
But, my dear sir, you must posi-
lively follow my directions. You
must take an ice cold bath every
morning."
"Why, doctor, that's just what
am doing"
"Oh-er-well, then, you must stop
it."
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

HAWAII will knock at Uncle SAM
door soon after McKinley's inaugu-
ration. She wants to be annexed to
this country and for the privilege
offers all she possesses, including her
national debt.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

WALTER HENRY, they say, will get
the criminal court judgeship. What
will Col. Thos. Sutton get?
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

THE death of Judge Seymour is
generally deplored. He was one of
the few good products of the carpet
bag regime. He won for himself a
good name, both personally and
officially.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

New YORK brings a breath of relief.
She is to have place at the Presi-
dents official table. j. j. McCook,
of New York city, will be Secretary of
the Interior.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

Col. BoYD's Cabinet probabilities
have dwindled almost out of sight
since the announcement that a
Southern man, Hon. j. A. Gary, of
Maryland, has been slated for a
Cabinet position. Perhaps the Col
onel will be remembered before the
official pie has been entirely dis
pansed.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

If the service will not be injured
thereby, as is claimed, that was
revenue-saving swoop that Cleve-
land made when he reduced the pen
sion agencies from eighteen to nine.
1t is estimated that the saving will
be something like one hundred and
forty thousand dollars per year.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25
NOTICE.

As a means of handling the liquor
traffic, the Dispensary system seems
to be growing in favor.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

AND now the Governor has got to
''cussing" We guess it's pretty
hard to manage his crowd without
flying off the handle.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-25

1T may be Governor Reynolds" in
the not distant future. There is
talk of Governor Russell as successor
to the late District Judge Seymour
and there is also an intimation that
Russell may succeed Ransom as
Minister to Mexico Either event
would mean luck for the Lieutenant
Governor.