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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
A SHAME.

Deserving severe condemnation
is the action of the Winston Alder
men in granting license to a full
f1edged brokerage establishment to
pursue it's demoralizing traffic in our
midst, and this, too, in defiance of
the State law upon the subject.
Chapter 221 of the Laws of 1889
makes null and void any contract
entered into with dealers in futures
and provides that every person who
shall become a party to any such
contract, and every agent and officer
who shall knowingly aid in making
such contract shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and on conviction
shall be fined not less than one hun
dred dollars, nor more than five
hundred dollars, and may be i'm
prisoned at the discretion of the
Court.
The validity of the civil features OF
this law were ffirmed by the Supreme
Court in the case of Ballard VS.
Green from Durham, and an oppor-
tunity for testing it's criminal feat
ures should be afforded as soon as
the law is violated in our midst.
1t will be remembered that one of
these concerns attempted to gain a
foothold here two or three years ago,
but were foiled because we then had
an administration that respected the
State law and regarded the moral
wei are of the community and did
| not grant it license.
But, now, for the sake of the pitt
| full sum of twenty-five dollars,
license is granted, the State law to
the contrary Notwithstanding, and
this alluriDg temptation which has
produced SO much distress and so
| great destruction of character is to
be set up in the community under
the protection of the city authorities.
The people should assert their
rights and, by appeal to the higher
law, say 1T SHALL NOT BEL
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
Radiant Re actiOns.

Rocky Mount Motor.
If you cancel a note you can't sell
it,
We have never seen the cushion for
the seat of Government.
Any word pronounced by young
maiden is Miss pronounced.
A tailor gets rich by shear in
dustry, and his business is always
pressing.
A we'll informed man does in reality
belong to the true know bility.
The traces of sorrow are frequent
ly made from the threads of iptemp
erance.
Nearly every man has a hobby, and
every girl is looking forward to the
time when she will have a hubby.
The man, who Unexpectedly sits
down upon an upturned tack, is
almost sure to be a profane upstart.
Charity and gentleness and kind,
ness are the sweet and precious
odors that are distilled from the full
blossomed flowers of brotherly love
and christianity.
Hope is radiant star in the firm
ament of life, and throughout the
darkest night of adversely it sends
down silvery stream of precious
light to cheer US through the gloom
| and bids us upward look
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
ONE SIDED.

The gold sentiment OF the com.
munity is ably represented at the
monetary convention at Indian
apolis, but what about the free COIN
age sentiment A proper reflection
OF the financial views of this section
would require the ratio of about 16
to lie free coinage advocates to 1
gold man-and yet the present status
Of affairs would indicate that the
commercial body of Winston Salem,
its Chamber of Commerce, which is
supposed to re fleet the business sen
timent, is solidly for the single gold
| standard, since, as we understand,
! it's accredited delegates to the con-
vention are adherents to the gold
| standard idea.
We think the Chamber made a mis-
take in officially recognizing the con
vention, tut, if it was to be repre-
sented at all, delegates should have
been sent rom both sides of the cur
| rency question, or the Chamber
should have issued q pronuRcia-
mento, setting forth the existing
| facts.
The monetary convention will,
most likely, endorse the report of the
monetary commission and take
steps looking to the passage of a law
in accordance with the views set forth
in that report, and the delegates
from the Chamber, being gold men,
will, quite naturally, vote for these
things-but will this result be in
harmony with the prevailing senti-
ment of the Chamber, or of the com
munity? Not by jug full
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
ONE REASON,

One of the speakers at the Chamber
of Commerce meeting, last night,
said we have a great many things
that the outside world knows moth
ing about, or words to this effect,
and in go saying he spoke a parable.
One of the reasons that this is true
is the lack of thorough apprecia-
ton of the fact that the newspapers
of d community are regarded by the
outside world as a mirror of that
community, rejecting what it pos
sasses in a commercial and indus
trial sense a failure and consequent
result not confined to Winston Salem
by any means, as a recent incident
within our experience demonstrates
1t was this: A gentleman prospect
ing for location informed us that he
was inclined to regard with favor q
certain place, but desiring to know
more about it without the expense OF
a trip there, subscribed to the paper
of the place and after carefully scan
in its advertising columns he was
less favorabiy impressed because the
papers advertising patronage failed
to indicate the amount and extent of
business which he formerly thought
existed there.
1t is frs q1ently the ease when a
person thinks sof changing location
that he sends for copies of the papers
published at points under considera-
ton and the thrift or lack of thrift
demonstrated by the business col
umns of the papers has much to do
with the conclusion reached by the
prospector.
So, without going. Unto details, we
would ask the gentleman who made
the remark which called forth this
article, as we'll as all others interest
ed in the upbuilding Of the commune
ty, to take copies of the Winston
papers, together with a list of our
professional and business men, in
Guiding manufacturers; then check
off the list those who regularly keep
their business before the public; then
compare the checked and unchecked
names and note how the latter pre-
dominate; then think a little and see
| il the reason does not dawn as clear
as the noon day sunlight why we
have SO many good things that the
outside. world knows nothing about
as we'll as the reason why we cannot
have newspapers that measure closer
to the ideal of theorists.
"Let your light shine is the scrip
+, tural Injunction, and the hill upor
which to set the business candle
stick is the newspaper of a communi
ty. No doubt about that.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
FACTS AND FIGUREs

Baltimore cans 100000 bushels
OF oysters per annum.
The kangaroo readily leaps from
sixty to seventy feet.
Maine factories sold $3.50 600
worth of wooden shoe pegs in 1897.
Locusts are regularly shipped fro 70
Algeria to London, where they are
worked up by manufacturers of
guano.
The Chinese dress in white at
funerals and in black at weddings.
and old women always serve as
bridesmaids.
According to a statistician the
area OF the herring nets used in Scot.
iand one wear WIGS no less than 164-
100000 square yards.
st. Peters, Rome, is one of the
most colossal buildings in the world
Forty three popes reigned while it
was being built.
The Good Habit Society now has
1000 members. 1t WAS started by
Harvey Prentice, a Chicago schoo
boy Its chief pledge is to treat
every body with kindness
A sensation has been created ir
[ Madagascar by the appearance of E
| carriage In the streets of Antanana
rIvo- 1t Is the first one that has evel
Deen seen in the country, and be
longs to the mayor of the city, Car.
| tain Deslions
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
Original Observations.

Orange (Va.) Observer.
Infancy is the preface of man, old
age the errata.
The profits from gambling all go
won way.
Every dishonest person is suspi.
cious of all others.
Never accept as a leader any one
who fears the result.
Yes, tbs woman who can keep a
secret with telling effect.
Few men can b. won by truth when
falsehood brings a revenue
The sun will only set in the west,
but an old hen will set anywhere.
The men " no put furniture togeth-
er have a very glue-my time Of it.
A train of pure thought will only
run on track of a we'll graded mind
The tattling busy-body is the most
poisonous snake in the neighbour
hood.
The reason Lots wife looked back
was because she was too fresh-and
there are others.
There is more joy in giving than in
receiving-but there is SO much econ
omy in receiving.
One good thought each day to
think of is worth more to man than
all the gold in the world.
The knowledge that we have made
one heart happier for our having
lived should be recompense for much
of the pain which every soul suffers
in pursuing life's daily work.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
THAT CONTRACT.

1t appears that the members of the
Republican Executive Committee
and the Republican candidates for
Aldermen who entered into that con-
tract with Tom Pfohl, just before the
last municipal election, not only
violated a moral obligation in fail
ing to live up to the terms of the
contract, but were guilty of a VIOLA
ton of the law of the land in entering
into such contract.
Section ~, Chapter 159 of the
Laws of 1895, reads as follows:
"That any person who shall, at
any time, before or after an election,
either directly or Indirectly, give, or
promise to give, any money, proper
ty, or reward, to any elector, or to
any county or district, in order to be
elected, or to procure any other per-
son to be elected a member of the
general assembly, or to any office
under the laws of this state, shall
forfeit and pay tour hundred dollars
to any person who will sue for the
same. and shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor; and any person who shall
receive, or agree to receive, any such
bride, shall also be guilty of a mis-
demeanor."
1t will be observed that the latter
part of the above section puts Tom
Pfohl in a hole, also, making him
guilty OF misdemeanor in agreeing
to tho a fOroSoid coptroot
1t is true that this law was amend
ed by the Legislature of 1897, but as
the offense was committed prior to
the amendment we take it that the
law OF 1895 applies in this case. In
the amendment, the offense remains
| a misdemeanUr, but the clause pro
viding forfeiture of four hundred
dollars to the party bringing suit is
omitted. The amended law has a
provision that would afford an
escape for Pfohl if the offense had
been committed after the adoption
of the amendment. This provision
exempts from the operation of the
law any guilty party who may testi
fy-against other guilty parties. In
other words, permits the turning OF
States evidence. We presume, how
ever, that this provision cannot be
made ey post facto in it's application
and hence the ex detective will be
unable to use it as screen.
The Raleigh News and Observer
refers to the contract as being $50
disgraceful and demoralizing as to
be revolving to all good citizens"
and takes the position that the
penalties prescribed by Section 70 OF
the Act quoted are applicable to this
case, said penalties being fine not
exceeding five hundred dollars, and
not less than fifty dollars, or impris
onment not less than six months,
nor more than one year, or both such
fine and imprisonment. in the discre-
ton of the court.
At any rate, it appears that the
Office traders will find themselves in
very warm water If the grand jury
and the Solicitor are on the alert.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27

thin and lack blood, recommend
Paine's celery compound as beyond
all question the one remedy that eau
be depended on to renew the vitality
of feeble persons.
This settled confidence in Paine's
celery compound is not a hearsay
belief, but rests IN nearly every case
on peronal use or acquaintance with
men or women who have been restored
TO useful health by no other means
| The rapid change for the better in
! color, flesh aud expression of the face
is so unmistakable that repair of the
wasted tissues might well be called
renewal of life.
The process by which Paine's cell
cry compound is able to build up
health IN the run>down body is not
! hard to understand when one OBJ
serves how surely it disposes the
bowels to act regularly, how it
increases the capacity to take and
assimiiate food, and regulates the
nerves all over the body.
The heavy, alarming pain in the
back and IONS disappears; the grows
ing paleness and loss of flesh is stops
ped and a bright, buoyant feeling
takes the place of that unending
sense of tire and depression.
Paine's celery compound is the
exact remedy for that large class
of feeble, thin blooded, often hyster>
zeal persons whose greatest need is a
thorough refurnishing of their blood
with the red corpuscles upon which
health and happiness in such large
measure depend
The extraordinary virtue of Paine
celery compound to increase the
proportion Of red corpuscles in the
blood is the source of its great power
over all blood diseases, rheumatism
neuralgia, kidney diseases, back
aches, loss of flesh and general run
, down condition.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Minnesota has established state
schools OF agriculture for girls.
A Kentucky man has married the
granddaughter of the girl who re-
fused him.
The whole effective strength of the
British army, regulars and volun-
teers, is 63 ,O67
A woman has made the Journey
from south Africa to South Dakota
to sue for divorce.
A woman in Hope, Knox county
Maine, still wears a common wire
hairpih which she has worn for fort y
years.
A naturalist of eminence finds tina
land birds make their journeys in the
day time and water birds at night.
Among the natives of Mexico there
are, according TO Lumhoitz. about
$50 900 survivors of the Aztec race.
An Anticipated case in "a st. Louis
court WAS dismissed because every
body that was ever connected with it
ls dead.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
INTERSTATE PLEA,

There is no doubt that the State
law is emphatically against the
operation of concerns that deal in
futures and that the people, through
this law, express their opinion that
the ira ffic is harmful and that so far
as their will is respected such con
Germs shall not pursue their avoca-
ton within the borders of this State.
Upon the other hano, we under
stand that the brokerage firms set
up the plea that the State law is an
inter ference with Interstate COM
merce and that hence the State law
should not be regarded. So far as
our knowledge extends, this plea has
not been tested in either the Supreme
Court of the State or of the United
States. AS we stated yesterday, the
civil feature of the State law has been
tested in the Supreme Court Of the
State and declared valid.
But, even if the Interstate plea
should hold water, which we serious
ly doubt, it's validity would not
carry with it any compulsion upon
city authorities to grant license
for the conduct of a business which
the State law declares is harmful end
should be forbidden. In other words,
the authorities would not be forced
to grant such license, but it would be
optional with them whether they did
or not.
And yet, the plea OF the brokers has
been needed and license issued for the
conduct of q business here which the
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27

The vote of Senator Wolcott, one
of the monetary commissioners, in
favor of the Teller resolution, must
have been surprise to administra-
ton Republicans. This resolution
provides that all the bonds of the
United States and interest on the
same are payable in silver dollars at
the option of the Government. In
other words, the resolution, practi-
caIly, defines the word ''coin" in the
law as either silver or gold, as it was
intended to mean when it was placed
there. III the trainers of the law had
meant gold they would have said
gold; If they had meant silver they
would have said silver. Yet, admin
istration Republicans say in effect
that "coin" means gold and gold
only, unless England will consent
that it may mean either, or both
silver and gold. Senator Wolcott,
by his vote, places himself on record
as bimetallist. His recent expert
ence as monetary commissioner
has, probably, convinced him that
independent bimetallism is the short
est cut to International bimetallism,
with the promotion of which the
commission was charged.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
The Burden Of the Past.

Baptist Union.
Ii Is related of Alexander, the ear
of Russia. that as he moved among
the tents upon the battlefield before
PIevna he found a brave young
officer who had been fighting all the
day in the trenches, fallen asleep in
his tent while writing II letter home.
In this letter he Iamentei hi teIly the
heavy debts he had incurred. and
gave Il list of them thnt bis OH "a
tions should be known in ease hr iell
in battle He had fallen asleep after
penning the ely: "NhO will deliver
me from the burden Of this debt p
The car, reading these words, took
the pen, and without waking the
young office, wrote underneath the
cry: Il wilI-Alexander." Whether
this be fact or not, ii illustrates the
way in which our Divine : lvior
delivers Us from the burden of our
past, and tills our bearts with n
Joyous sense OF emancipation. here
is a sense in which the past cannot be
undone; but there is also blessed
sense in which it is cancelled and
obliterated by the Divine assurance !:
Il will-JesuS.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
Too Nj uch BOssism-
Philadelphia Record.

u
Senator Hanna on reaching Wash
ington is said to have remarked to
Senator Foraker: Things are in
terrible shape III Ohio. We must get
together somehow and fix up some
harmony" And Mr.. Depew told the
Republican Club of New York on
Monday night: 1.-The differences in
our party are more acute and intense
than they have been for a quarter of
century. They found expression
at the polls in the last election, and
are rapidly eliminating in hos tile
organizations. The Republicans of
New York are not alone in these
troubles. They are found in Ohio, in
Maryland and in other States" The
trouble with the Republican party
everywhere is the boss system,
buttressed on the spoils system. So
long as these systems shall endure it
will pass the wit of man to ''fx up
some harmony which" shall stay
fixed
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
Time for Good People to Act.

Durham Sun.
If all the scandals, and muses., and
rumors of populations of bonds, and
farces, the haranguings over railroad
matters, now going on and filling
our State papers, are not enough to
disgust and nauseate the honest PEG
pie of North Carolina, they have cer-
tainly dropped into acomatose state
that forebodes no good. The effect
of all this babble aud confusion is
bringing the State into ridicule and
distrust among outsiders.
Is it not time for the honest and
yirtuous element of our people to set
their houses in order and right these
wrOngs-correct these abuses and
bring order out of the chaos to
which we are tending? 1t does seem
SO. And they cannot begin too soon
S .ntinels upon the watch towers have
sounded the alarm. 1t is time for
the good people to heed the warning.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
CAPE FEAR & YAlRIN VALLEY kY
scuEDrLE IN EFFECT NOV. 18th, 1897

TRAINS LEAVE GREENSBORO
Is y. I'D. DAILY-Arrive Ore Hill | 40
pm; Sanford = So; Fayetteville,
4 90 p III: Red Springs, 5 Il p m;
Maxton, 6 IL p m; Bennettsville
715 p M; Wilmington, 80 p m
Ocean View, p m; Ca DINA
55 p N; Athens, 3 45 IN: Allan
ta 6 20 m; Chattanooga, l 80 p
m; Nashville, SO M; Florence
35 p m; Sumpter 8 Is p M; Col
umbia, 10 80 p m; Charleston.
10 80 p m; Savannah. 2 10 N.
9.35, M DAILY Except Sunday)-arrives
at Stokesdale, 10 AZ p m; Madison,
ii 55 IN.
3.15 p m DAILY Except Sunday Arrives
at Climax, Is p m; Ramseur;
610pm.
4.3O D m DAILY-Arrives at Walnut Cove,
547pm Pilot Mountain, 6 So D
m; Mt Airy, As pm.
TRAINS ARRIVE GREESBORO.
11.55 a M DAILY-From Mt Airy, Pilot
Mountain and Walnut Cove.
9.17 m DAILY Except Sunday)-From
Ramseur and Climax.
2.45 m DAILY Except Sunday From
Madison and Stokesdale.
40 o m DAILY-From Ocean View, Caro-
lima Beach. Wilmington, Fayette-
vile, Red Spring, Maxton, Ben
nettsville, Savannah, Charleston,
Columbia, Sumter, Florence San
ford, Nashville, Chattanooga, At
lanta, Athens, Southern Pines.
Sanford and Ore Hill.
w. E. KYLE,
j. w. Fry, Gen'l Pass. Agt.
GenI Manager.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27

Miss Francis E. Willard, who hat
ton of the w. c. T. U says thas
better health for women is today
more urgen. matter than woman's
suffrage.
She says: "What woman at pres
emit most need is better supply of
red corpuscles.n
From every section of the country,
from Maine to California, come well
attested reports of women ,bloodless,
dyspeptic, nervous, seriously run
down. and in many cases so weak as
to be bed ridden, " no have been en-
abled to resume their places in the
family circle and IN social life
healthy, ruddy, wellcured women,
by the aid of that great blood maker
and health maker, Paine's celery
compound.
Mrs. E A. Ward is one of these
fortunate women whom Paine's cel-
cry compound has saved from an
ailing, unhappy invalid condition,
as her letter shows:
2l3 Michigan ave,
Mason City. Ia.
Sept. u, 1897.
Wells & Richardson Co:
Gentlemen-My greatest trouble
seemed to be a general weakness and
all>over tired feeling. l am GO years
of age and | did not expect to be
eyer strong again, but | used foui
bottles of PaIne's celery compound
and was greatly strengthened, and
my cough seemed better so that
stopped using the remedy and have
not since felt the need Of auy further
help whatever.
Very respectfully yours,
Mrs f.. A. WARD.
| Persons of large experience among
nervous women who, as rule. ar,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
Tribute to Robert E. Lee.

Ben Hill.
He was q foe without hate, a
friend without treachery, a soldier
without cruelty, and a victim with
out murmuriDg. He Was n public
officer without vices, private citizen
without wrong, ii neighbor without
hypocrisy, and a man without guile.
He was Caesar without his ambiLlun,
Frederick without his tyranny.
Napoleon withou his seltishness, aud
Washington without his reward.
He was obedient to authority as a
servant, and royal in authority as a
king. He was rs gentle as woman
IN life, pure and modest as u virgin
in thought, watchful as g Roman
vestal, submissive to law as Socrates
and grand in battle as Achilles.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
Smiles,
Chicago News.

Chicago News.
The servant girl is surrounded by
perils-seen, unseen and kerosene.
Chicago has female pawnbrokt r
and she is not poor loan woman,
either.
The farmer prefers the silent lay OF
the hen to the musical notes of the
rooster.
Sometimes the girl helps her bash
ful lover out and sometimes it is her
father.
Love may not make the world 90
round, but it makes the young man
go round to her house about seven
nights a week.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27

law of the State declares is illegal and
harmful and which has often proved
slayer OF moral and financiel char
acter.
The authorities should have been
guided by the spirit of the State law
as an expression OF the moral senti
ment of the people.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-01-27
Puhy and Pointed.

Chicago Record.
Experience is like street improve
ment-we have To pay tor it, whether
we want it or not.
Never make explanations; your
friends don't reed them, and your
enemies won't believe them
cakes needn't fancy he would cut "a
dash in Alaska.
New Y. ar's resolutions are like
lamp chimneys-if thy were never
broken men would have to quit max
ing them.