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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-03-08

Such a course is nothing short of
suicidal, and is wholly unworthy OF any
serious consideration. Nothing save
absolute monopoly lis safe in assuming
absolute dictatorship. 1t NAV bo held
that the price of American cotton can
be given a moderate Increase whereby
the planter would be benefited Ia some
extent. without the risk or the loss Of
any foreign business. That is not for
the planter TO say. In spite of mucb
talk that is made of the ,.sta h)iShment
OF prices on raw cotton by sppcnIa1or.
OF TIE Wall street tyne. tie price Of
raw cotton Is unQuesti0nablv fixed by-
supply and demand. and mon no athe-
basis. A review of cotton conditions
and cotton prices year by wear frnn,
the beginning Of the century. shoull III
enorgt. I" establish this fact il any
reasoning mind. Speculation in c,tron
futures Is nothing more tl.,n individual
betting upon the price Of cotton NJ sono
1utlrc date, the bets beng based unon
individual estimate of srHnly ON band
and the probable demani for if Al that
time. cotton prices ara made nor nv
spectators. but by BUSINESS m.n in ~,
"oriuS greatest cotton marker and 49,,
based npon the quantity and nnoEi.
onered and likely to DO offered in com.
me attempted Gictation az
me- ",uilcial lrlce con.G only operate
uinraNoraoly TO those who essayed if.
other solution is the 1rua ono
WV 'ne one upon which depends the f,''
u poul OF the American cotton plan
yer ana the American cotton mills Tho
:" poltical economy have never
The Irish standard., 1898-03-05

Why pay fancy price for wedding in
vitations when you can get the latest
and prettiest designs at the Irish Stand
ard office for $3.50 per hundred and
upward, including envelopes and print
ing. Our new sample book for 1878
has arrived.
The Irish standard., 1898-03-05

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The Irish standard., 1898-03-05

Rev. John P. Chadwick, the chaplain
of the Maine, has been highly praised by
the captain of the Inflated ship. There
were 1870 Catholics aboard out of which
14O belonged to the League of the Sacred
Heart and went to communion the first
Friday of each month. Father Chad
wick lectured twice a week in the mess
room on some scientific subject,
The herald., 1898-01-24

nesses in the Esterhazy case, whom he
has charged with falsifying reports; his
home surrounded most of the time by
frantic students, reinforced by the ca
naille, only awaiting a pretext to apply
the torch and the knife; property and
personal safety in constant jeopardy,
and with no protection, save that which
the metropolitan police, sympathizing
with his prosecutors, may perfunctorily
is the situation and envir-
onment of the man whom Bjornsen en-
vies. How wish were in your place,
to render country and humanity SER
vice like that rendered by you!" Man of
courage and heart must he truly be, to
enter upon such perilous
fraught with such consequences
to his house. his name and fame. The
world knows altogether too little of the
merits of his cause to form a conviction,
but most thinking men will be prone to
join the sympathetic Norwegian in
greetings to the hero of the hour.
The herald., 1898-01-24
Bishop Winners Method

Bishop Richard Hooker Wilmer of Ala.
bama got more money at one little dinner
than any man of my acquaintance. He
came north in the interest of confederate
orphanage, met many Union friends and
was dined. OF course, a story was ex-
pected of him, but he declined, saying he
had none, but would offer a conundrum
why are we southerners like Lazarus ?''
There was guessing on all sides of the
table, such as Because you are poor
Because you eat the crumbs from the
rich mans table" etc. Were like Laz-
arus," said the bishop, smiling blandly,
because we've been licked by dogs" One
of the bishops charms is his unrecon-
structedness, an devery man at tha table
laughed except one with motted face.
who Indignantly exclaimed: "Well, sir, If
you think we're dogs, why in --Ihave you
come up here to beg for our money!" With
wink at the rest of the hosts, the bishop
replied: my mottled friend, the hair of
the dog Is good for the bite. That's why
I've come.-New York Press.
The herald., 1898-01-24
The Next Step

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
aid: One more step is being taken in the
grand cons spiracy, hatcned in London many
years ago. to put our American finances
in a condition to be easily manipulated
for speculative purposes. The first step
was to make our national obligations pay
able in coin. when they were contracted
in lawful money and payable in the same.
This was done in 1869 under the guise of a
bill "to strengthen the public credit" and
the movement was worth hundreds of mil
lions Of dollars spot cash to the holders
of our securities at the time The next
step was the demonetization of silver.
This was accomplished surreptitiously in
1873 under the pretense of measure to
codify the mint laws of the United States.
The success of this movement was also
worth hundreds of millions of dollars to
the money dealers of the world. The next
and the now pending step in the great
conspiracy is the destruction of all gov
ernment paper money. Until quite re-
Gently this scheme has been moved under
one disguise or another, but now the
financial minister of the government avows
the purpose and his views, being approved
by the president, are therefore to have
the open support of the present admins
tration. as it had the covert support of the
last. The whole scheme is distinctively
British and is instigated mainly in the
interest of foreign money dealers. The
same class in this country, with head
quarters in Wall street, are only concerned
as junior partners of larger establishments
in Europe Smaller moneyed men through
out the United States are led to imagine
their interests involved in the success OF
this great conspiracy, but for most of
them it is short-sighted policy, inasmuch
as it greatly retards the general prosperity
of the conutry upon which they especially
rely for success. There is no argument
in favor of retiring the paper money Of the
government beyond thA most shallow pre-.
tense 1t is the proper and constitutional
money of the government and has beer
so declared, after full discussion, by eignl
out of the nine judges of the supreme couri
of the United States. All cav!l upon this
subject is therefore cut off, but money deal
ers are never without pretexts to bolster
up their own interests. The pretext mos
resorted to in this case Is the decidedly
treasonable one that the government Is
irresponsible and ought not to issue money
unon its own credit. Every advocate OF q
doctrine of this sort is an enemy OF ms
country and ought to be punished as such
The herald., 1898-01-24
THE BABY'S PENSIONERS

They are all heroes; Captain Jim,
Wounded and sore distressed,
With weak and wobbling dexter limb
And stitches in his breast;
And Colonel Price, with one arm gone,
And crippled Major Mears,
And exc the humble Private John,
Who's minus both his ears.
They do not blustar of their wars,
Nor tell how these occurred
And of their stitches, stumps and scars
They never say a word.
Not one of all the band declaims
With fervor, fierce and hot,
OF circumstances, dates and names
Concerned with battles fought.
And yet l know that Major Mears,
And also Captain Jim,
Could tell us tales to fetch our tears,
And make our eyes grow dim.
And even humble Private John,
Whose heads so smoothly round,
Because both of his ears are gone,
Could cause our hearts to bound.
But modestly these heroes bold,
Forgo temptations to
Grow eloquent of days of old.
When hearts were brave and true
Crippled in wretched wise and manned,
They only wait the end
To pass from view, unsung, unframed,
With not mourning friend.
Vain be your sympathetic tears!
Alas! They cannot charm
Back to his head the private's ears
Nor mend the colonels arm.
The only hope for these poor, racked
Victims of Baby Paurs
Is for some congress to enact
pension list for dolls.
-Chicapo Record
The herald., 1898-01-24
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

]. Hoge Tyler, the new governor OF vir-
ginia, is a farmer and the first OF that
calling to fill the gubernatorial chair OF
his state in forty years. Hitherto the Of
flee has been practically monopolized BY
lawyers.
Mrs. Longstreet. the young wife Of Gem
eral Longstreet, is considering the propo-
sition made her by publisher that she
write book. He mentioned no partio-
ular subject" she said. "but leaves the
choice entirely to me-"
Professor Charles Eliot Norton once pro-
posed that Harvard university tear down
all its halls and rebuild after a coherent.
and artistic plan for the sake of the edu-
cational influences of good architectural
surroundings on the student body.
The American Society of Naturalists has
passed a resolution voicing the sentiment
that the commissioner of fish and hsheries
of the United States should be a person
OF proved scientific and practical acquaint-
ance with the fish and fisheries OF the
coast.
Ex-vice.President Stevenson has ac-
cepted the invitation to deliver the prinoi-
pal address upon the occasion OF the un-
yelling at Charlotte, N. c., on May 2Oth
next of the monument to the .signers OF
tho Mecklenburg declaration OF indepen-
dence
Captain James Brown. commander OF the
Windward, lately presented to Lieutenant
Peary by Mr.. Harmsworth, has spent
thirty-nine years and made thirty voy-
ages in Arctic waters. His father and
grandfather were engaged In Arctic work
before him.
C. ]. Scofeld, ex-circuit judge In the old
Ninth judicial district of Illinois and appel
late Judge in the Mount Vernon district,
has accepted the pastorate Of the Christian
church in Carthage for the ensuing year.
He will continue to practice law as senior
member Of the firm of Scofeld, o'Harra
6 Scofeld of Carthage.
H. A. Sylvester, an aged man OF Rock
port, Me-, still owns a penny given him
when he was only two years old. The
penny has Travelled with him on shipboard
round the world. has been shipwrecked.
seen mining riots in the wilds OF Idaho,
and has been coveted by pickpockets IN the
wilds of San Francisco. Sylvester hung on
to 1t when 1t was the only cent he had 10
his name, and would not exchange 1t for
a golden eagle.
The herald., 1898-01-24

nearer town." 1t win be recalled that
one of the objections cited by The Her
aid was that University Heights was
too far from the city. making it incon-
venient for the younger pupils to attend.
The San Diego Union says that the
building will be 400x52 feet, two stories
high, and cost, when completed. 100000.
The board. it says, will expend only $780,
900 of the s5O,0oo appropriation this year,
reserving the remainder for equipment
and teachers salaries.
The Herald contends that 1t has not
misrepresented the case. If it is in the
wrong, it will gladly retract its state
ments. 1t has no interest in the mat
ter save that of the people of the state.
who will be mighy lucky If they get Oft
for 100000.
The herald., 1898-01-24
Unmusical Music

Who shall define Arab music? TT has
been described as the singing of a, prima
donna who has ruptured her voice in try
ing TO sing duet with herself. Each note
starts from somewhere between sharp
and a fiat, lbut does not stop even, there,
and splits up into four or five portions, of
which no person can be expected to catch
more than one at time. John Oliver
Hobbies says there is a great law of inf
deity in the human race-a man must be
faithless to something, either to a woman
or to his deity, or his most cherished belief.
The Arab musician is always unfaithful-
TO his stave and his keynote. But faith
unfaithful makes him falsely true to the
ears of his hearers. and they enjoy and ap-
plaud his wrangles with harmony Their
singing reminds one of the walls of the
beroaved Thomas suffering from an acute
attack of gastr.ts, complicated with neu-
ralgia.-Cairo, Egypt, Sphinx.
The herald., 1898-01-24
THE SAN DIEGO NORMAL SCHOOL

Some of the San Diego papers have
taken The Herald to task for saying
that, according to evidence submitted
to this paper there appeared to be
lob connected with the selection of
site for the San Diego normal school.
1t was at that time made to appear
that after the legislature had appropri
ated $5O,O00 for a normal school at Pa
cific Beach, where site and two build
ings were offered, a scheme was set on
foot to locate the school at University
Heights, an isolated location, where the
expense of establishing the school would
be much greater.
The San Diego papers declared that
the legislature appropriated the money
on no such understanding; that the
choice of a location was left entirely to
the board of trustees, and that there
was no intention to confine the expense
to the $4,000 appropriated. They de-
clared further that the University
Heights site is much the better one.
Let us see. 1t is true that the Pacific
Beach location was not specifically men,
toned in the bill, but we are assured
that the legislature never had any other
idea than that the site and buildings
should be offered and that it was the
plain understanding of that body that
the school was to be located at Pacific
Beach.
When the normal school building bill,
came to third reading in the assembly
Gerry, the member from San Diego, was
called for. He was asked if the bill
meant Pacific Beach, with it's site and
buildings, and was told that if it did the
members would vote for it. Mr.. Gerry
declared that the bill did mean Pacific
Beach, and on this understanding it
passed the house. The Herald is fur
ther Informed that when the legislative
committee went to San Diego to inspect
sites, they reported adversely on the
University Heights proposition.
So much for the earlier history of the
matter. Last week the University
Heights site was selected by the trust
ees. State Superintendent Black is quoted
by the San Die9an-Sun as saving that
the site selected is an ideal one, but
that he should like it better if it were
The herald., 1898-01-24
THE CASE AS 1T STANDS

| Messrs. Snyder, Grider and Hutchisor
have undertaken the self-imposed tasl
of managing the city's interests in the
water controversy. A very great re-
sponsibility therefore rests upon them
1t is their duty to point out a practical
safe and feasible way Of settling that
controversy.
These gentlemen have made great
deal of noise, and what is the net re-
suit? They have done everything except
to suggest plan under which the policy
advocated by them can be actually car
ried out They have sought to pull down
the fabric of the citys legal rights and
procedure, but they have offered abso-
lutely nothing to take it's place.
Now, if these gentlemen, or any one OF
them, will suggest practicable, feas-
ible plan by which the settlement of the
controversy can be assured or fastened,
in advance of the proceedings now under
way, The Herald will gladly give them
the credit and do all in it's power to pro-
mote it. But, thus far, they have done
nothing of the sort. They have stood on
the housetops and shouted forth that
a great calamity hangs over the people;
but they have not told us how to
avert it.
What are the facts? The city owns
the water system, which it leased to
the water company on contract that
is about to expire. The only question at
issue is. how much shall be paid the com
panv for its improvements? Here there
is a great difference of opinion. But
there is a prescribed method of over
coming that difference, by arbitration.
If that does not succeed, the controversy
will doubtless be taken into the courts
for final adjudication.
Let these things be understood. The
water company does not now own the
system; it owns only the Improvements 1t
has put in. 1t cannot retain the system
after the expiration of it's contract. 1t
cannot obtain a new contract, because
the people are unanimously in favor of
the city's owning and conducting its
own water system. There is nothing to
indicate that the water company ex-
poets or desires a new contract, and it
would make no difference If it did.
The water company is now holding the
system by valid contract, soon to ex-
pire. At the time of expiration, if the
matter cannot be settled by arbitration,
it must be relegated to the courts. which
are bound to act as an impartial adjudi-
Gator between the company and the
city.
Such are the incontrovertible facts
Now, what is the use of getting excited
and scared? Thus far, the city has
made haste slowly, and it has not lost
single point. 1t is actively preparing for
the struggle that is to ensue. There is
no step that can be legally taken that
has not been taken, all the believing of
the housetop reformers to the contrary
notwithstanding.
The herald., 1898-01-24
TOO LURID BY HALF

| If the proverbal marine" should
drop into Los Angeles nowadays and
should read and believe all that the San
Francisco Call has to say on the sub
ject of our water war" he might con-
clude that the people of Los Angeles are
threatened with some grim and over
shadowing evil, the exact nature of
which it would be hard for him to ascer-
tain from the rawlings of that paper
He would understand very definitely,
however, that the water, gas, electric
and street railway corporations had en-
tered into a gigantic conspiracy with
the League for Better City Government,
all of the city officials except three, all
of the local newspapers except one and
several other dangerous elements not
named, with the object of plundering
the people of Los Angeles and commit
ting them to everlasting ruin.
Against this untoward fate he would
find only the good Mr.. Webb and the
aforesaid three righteous members of
the city government raising their voices
in warning. He would recognize the
dsinterested and patriotic motives of
the San Francisco Call in coming nearly
five hundred miles outside of its bail
iwick in order to champion our cause
and extend a saving hand. Such would
be the picture impressed upon the mind
of marine
Fortunately, however, the people of
Los Angeles are not marines" They
know Boodler Webb; they know the
members of the city government; they
know the local press; they know the
members of the League for Better City
Government, and they know there is
not one particle of truth in all this
tommyrot about a gigantic conspiracy.
They cannot be brought to believe that
a large proportion of the most promi-
nent citizens of Los Angeles have
turned into rascals and plunderers for
the benefit of the water company. They
cannot conceive of such arrant knavery
and stupidity on the part of the heav-
lest taxpayers of the city who are thus
represented as concocting a scheme to
rob themselves. And if these citizens
were so minded to rob, what arrant fools
they must be to think that conspiracy
of that magnitude could escape expo
sure and defeat.
No, the irresponsible and vicious mar
plots who are working up this sensa-
tional stuff for the Call have allowed
their vaulting ambition to o'erleap it
self and fall i the other side. They
have drawn too strongly upon their i'm
aginations. They have painted the
picture of impending danger in such
lurid colors that it becomes comic.
They have tried to discredit so many
people of integrity that they stand dis
credited themselves.
It is said that the city Of Rome was
once saved by the cackling of geese;
but the good Mr.. Webb and the San
Francisco Call will not be required to
perform this service for Los Angeles.
The herald., 1898-01-24
UNJUSTIFIABLE METHODS

The investigation of alleged bribery in
connection with the late senatorial cleo
ton in Ohio has developed the fact that
the heavy villain in the play, the un-
speakable Boyce, made his headquarters
while in Cincinnati at the Gibson house,
and conducted his negotiations from
that place; that the proprietor employed
a stenographer and secreted him in a
place where he could intercept and take
down in shorthand all of the communi-
cations passing between Boyce and 9TH
ers on the outside, legislators, political
managers and co-conspirators. Night
and day, from January to 10, in
elusive, there was a man on duty,
instructed to take down every
communication sent or received by
by the management of the Gibson,
whose guest he was, and that this knowl-
edge hasteued his departure from the
country. But that is neither here nor
there. He is a notorious scoundrel, and
we are all prone to hope for his eventual
undoing.
But are the methods employed by the
Cincinnati boniface, regarding them
them from any possible standpoint, to
be approved? Were they not in the
highest sense reprehensible? Are not
telephone messages privileged and sa-
cred? Was the act less censurable than
would have been the interception of the
guests private communications by mail
or telegraph? What justification can
this man set up for such impudent in
terference with the affairs of a guest
That he suspicioned his intentions and
believed he was engaged in question
able or unlawful conspiracy was not
enough. Upon that specious plea he
might shadow every guest registering
at his house, spy out their movements,
and take a stenographic record of all
their sayings, using the information as
might best please his fancy or his in
terest. The mischievous possibilities
within easy reach of hotel proprietors
are accentuated by this incident. 1t is a
departure that will not be approved. The
confidential relations of hotel men with
their guests are too well established and
too widely recognized to admit of con-
troversy. Those relations are none too
confidential. A mans home is his castle,
and the hotel is his home while he is
there as guest. In all European hotels
even the record of arrivals at a hotel is
The herald., 1898-01-24

In view Of the Importance to this coun-
try of the British contention that the
chief ports of China must be kept open
and free to the commerce of the world,
In the maintenance of which we can
alone hope to protect the trade we al
ready have in the Orient, the firm stand
taken by the people of England in sup
port of the ministry. as indicated by our
dispatches is reassuring. The whole
country appears to be ablaze with pa
triotic war spirit.
The herald., 1898-01-24
Who Draws the PensionP

The New York Sun, with praiseworthy
public spirit, published Roll of Honor
or pensioners drawing upwards of $45
month. Among the names was that of HI
ram Miller of Tri States, suburb of Port
Jervis, whose pension is s72 per month.
Mr.. Miller has been dead two years, and
his widow died somewhat later. The ques-
tion presents itself, who is drawing the
late Mr.. Miller's pension? 1t is only an
instance of the value of publicity in un-
earthing fraud.-TroY Press
The herald., 1898-01-24
THE HERO OF THE HOUR

'How envy you!" Historically writes
Bjornsen to Zola. Indicted for an Of
fense which. if proved, will send him to
Devils island; threatened with a packed
jury; official influence in Paris and
throughout the republic massed against
him; the indictment so adroitly worded
that he may not place high government
officials on the defensive in his answer.
and thus win something of moral vic
tory; sued for damages by angered wit
The herald., 1898-01-24

The house. in which revenue meas
ures must originate, would like to know
how the Hawaiian debt of s4,000,OO0 is to
be taken care of by this government; bus
Mr. Hit is always in evidence with a
motion for the previous question to fore
stall the desired information. Contempt
for the rights of the minority in the
house, and for the masses of the people
outside of it, characterizes the manage
ment of the administration program
upon every question that arises.
The herald., 1898-01-24
What Mark Did Say

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her.
old. 7 wish to answer "F. j. C.'s" query
in this mornings Herald. 1t is time the
truth was made known regarding just
what Senator Hanna telegrapned Fresi-
ate II was all telegraphic mistake. The
onerator knocked ''r' out of gold-that's 8
iii Mark wrote: "Gold reigns. and the
Republican party still lives. j. J. w.
Los Angeles, Jan. a., 1898. :.
The herald., 1898-01-24
Ancient Scales Discnuered

pair Of scales much like thosel of the
modern pharmacists is among the multi
tude of objects discovered this year in ex-
cavations about thirty miles from Thebes
and recently exhibited in London. The
scales are finely finished. having beam
about four and one-half inches long, with
a ring at each end of the three cords, and
the pans, about the size of an English
penny, are slightly convex. M