the carolina watchman the watchmajst is the organ of the farmers alliai gth and 7th coi vi sional districts - advertisers make a note of this |; r third series salisbury n c thursday september 22 1892 wsmgm idrenthat cantoria enres colic oonsttpattoa mach diarrhoea eructation ... ,,.•. -. el ; , t»l iirj:-i r 3 dl .... i . y v'v'niiujt injurious medication ■ r and " for several ycirs t havr recommfnim your castoria and shall always continue to do so as it has invaria •_•. u--:.;n.:ial . : . recult knwim f pardct m d " tao winttrop l^oi street and 7:h we . • /. - iied church ke york cit y the ct^tatt posta^y tt mraaat street kjtw yowl , r • , ' : v v yr.u oire yotirwlf and f*a .'■- ' , l | bcm value for your rncsej • r by purcbasii i . ■ ' ' '.. r present t ho j then j j ■ ■ • " fcsj eh -.:' ■ liemoh&f ■:. .' n one ■ :' ' a . si . [ ■ ■ ! the scoa : . ■ - : i all ii . . . a ui . 3 • ■ i i thai w .-■- pnen 1.758 hoel by 1 ■ ! musit ■ ilf.aa idura i - mi fr . -■ .' ■ \'- i i toeconomize u . ■ ■■• cc 13 • . . ■ ; look for tt it • -'...'. • .- ■ : !:•:■: n«ara fra . ■ tit law tor ub yi.l do , . . . ■ j cold bj ffi i ins co of new york condi nsed 5tatehent 1 :- . - ' 11 ■■:_'. 20 25 i 1,447,1 ass ts i in psted as follows : i . ■ . - - - 1 .:. 247 i '• . " . < > 3 8 7 s for ..... . i special distrii ( agt ba eigh x c advice to wokeh if you would protect yourself from painful profuse scanty suppressed or irregular men struation you must use _^ — — —^ i bradrseld 9 s female \ regulator cartbrsvtlle april v ls^g this vrill certify that two members of my immediate family after having suffered for years from menstrual irregularity being treated without benefit by physicians were at length completely cured by oue bottle of brsidli'.iu'.i e'emaie idojruiator lta e£ect id truly wonderful j w strange i .. k to " woman " m.iilm free which contains valuable information on all female diseases bradf1eld regulator co atlanta c-a jtoii 6-'.lu by all druggists { a household remedy k 9 for all diseases \ \ p-m f-rr mm % a m3 i^j ioss t | bofsssc esood bassi $ k a r.-i-oc scrofula ulcers salt % $ t^rfures rh ium eczema every v a toin oi malignant skin eruption be $ > sides behig etticacious in toning up the a \ system and restoring ihe constitution \ v hen impaired from any ccuse its v s almost supernatural hcallnn properties 0 a justify us in guaranteeing a cure if a t directions ara tuliowed > $ sent rlitb bo.k l v i..!cr 0 q blood balm co atlanta 0a q remedy is at your uiind ? etlfif m u j is kttillspocdny remove all i'.s m norfolk alliance exchange 11 and 13 commerce st jstorfolk va 0v lied and < ontrolled 1 y ailii uceraen i for handling produce f cotton a specialty d.'ii't sell before writing for par i fciculars to i j j rogers mgr t o box 212 statesville marble works is the placs to get monuments tombstones slc v erm nt i rble to arrive in n few days we guarantee i every resj t and positively will nut be undersold g rai i i i e monn meiits of all ; : ;> "'- a specialty c b webb & co s5 ty proprietor meni ' n ivhen you write 1859 the 1892 c x georgia home insurance co #" .. • :\ columbus ga p v ' wm.c.coart jj :';, -. s presii ent secretary %. : fgi total assets ever si 000,000 v£k\t~"c - j '- a home cckpaty seckicg home patronage g inui ill lsikedeirksat lowest - lcc^aleialcs icsees adjusted j allen brov/n agt a h l i a n c 1 : i i k ec to 1 y rational alliance l l polk president north csn-nlinn h t loucks vice prcsi dnt dakota j h turner secretary treasurer georgia j f willetts lecturer kansas state alliance marion butler president clinton n c w s barnes secretary raleijrh 7th congressional district—lecturer a li/.ir mooresville president col h a for ey catuwba v.-l'res e p punifk el in wood j secretary and treasurer j l :' imsey salisbury r,aan county jesse miller president blafckmer m l ritchie secretary saw rr county j m parks president statesville m e ramsey secretary vlooresville cabirrus county a f hileman presi lent concord dr j s laffcrty secre tary concord davids n county r s green president jimcs vv a lindsay secretary thotnas viile catawba county — s t wilfong pnsi lent newtou j f ileruian secretary jjcwton n c reform press association otfu-crs j l ramsey president marion buthr vice-president iv s barnes sec retary papers progressive farmer state organ raleigh n c caucasian clinton x c itural home , ,\ u . irv '"' v ;,■ i c.irollttrt w.i!,-';imin salisbury s.c fanners advocate taruoio n c moii.it tin horn journal asbevlue n v ullance sentinel goldsboro n 0 countrj ltfe trlnltj cone e,n.c mercury hickory n.c rattler wluiiakei's n c each of ihe above-named papers are re juested to keep she list standing tin the first page and add others provided they are duly elected any paper failing to advocate the ocala platform will be dropped from the list promptly our people can now see that papers are published in their interest the conference platform the following is a correct opy of the platform adopted at st louis l>y the labor conference finance 1 we dematkj n national currency — safe sound and flexible issued by the gen ral government only a full legal tender for all limits public and private and without the use of bank ing corporations a just and rqui table means of circulation at a tax not to exceed avo per cent as set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the farmers al liance or some belter system ; also by ■ ijivmeiits in the discharge of its obli gations for public inijuoyenieuts " a we demand tree and unlimited coinage of silver b we demand the amount of cir inlatini metlinm to be speedily in creased to i:ol less than suu per i-sipita r wii demand a graduated income : i x . d we believe that tlie money of the treasury should be kept as much u ossible in the hands of the people md hence we demand all national and state reveiiues shall be limited to tin ufce^rv expenses of government economically and honestly ad in i nisi end e we demand thai postal saving banks be established by the govern ment for the safe deposit of earnings of the people t,nd facilite exchange land 2 your sub-committee upon the hind plank beg to submit to your p provnl the following the land in cluding all natural resources of wealth is the heritage of all people and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes and alien ownership of land should be prohibited all lands now held by railroads and other coporalions ni excess of their actual needs and all lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only transportation 3 transportation being a means of defence and public necessity the government should own and operate roads in the interest of ilia people a the telegraph and telephone like the postal system being a necessity for the transmission of news should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people while pome parts of the above ad dress may seem at a mere glance to make partisan political distinctions yet upon careful study one will clearly seo that it is non-part isau and further will be impressed with the truth of its promises and the ability of the com mittee who framed if it was adopted vrith only a few d^senling votes and the platform was adopted unanimously and received with gre.;t applause the co»ferenca having completed its work lisa representative body nud adjourned sine die there is nothing like a oxed steady aim with an honorable purpose it dignities your nature and insures your success — beecher it is wi dom to learn — even from n enemy when baby was sick we gavo her catuoria when she was a child she cried for castoria alien she became hiss she clung to castoria wbcn she had children she ga j them castoria a woman's weapon what is a woman's wenjion i asked a charming girl she dropped her lashes shyly and stroked n ragront ctiri tli'ii couscionsly she murmured — ■■ this rosebud newly out i hare a strong suspicion her w apon is a pout what is a woman's weapon i asked a lover true he turned him to a maiden will eye of heavenly bine her velvet liji were parted all innocent of guile and eagerly he answered her weapon i n mile what fi a woman's weapon i asked a poet then with suddeu inspiration lie seized upon his ;•; n oh i could name ;; '.'.., ir.:>nd lie cried in accents clear ' hut woman's surest weapon 1 grant you i a tear !" ■ — detroit tribune mm i u._'i i r ■■ a civilized idol man is a peculiar animal in all ages of the world he has manifested a wild desire to set up idols of some kind this desire has been utilized by tricksters and sharpers to rub their fel low men of the fruits of iheir labor ami live without doing hard labor themselves the caucasian race pre tends to be civilized and yet live hun dred yea re from now the people who live then will look down upon us with the same pitying contempt at our bar barism and ignorance wi;h which we look down upon the people who lived live hundred years ago l ve laugh at the ignorant blacks in africa who in their brutish supersti tion worship a tree a cow or a stone or carry a pebble or a button as their fetish aie we as the superior race race one whit belter or more reasona ble somebody said scratch the gilt from our civilization and you will find barbarism we worship idols as much s brutal black in darkest africa what else is it but fetish worship and idolatary to hold in high esteem a pearl an excre-ence from one of the lowest animals obtained only at a fear ful sacrifice < f human life and abso iu'ely woithles as far as practical use is concerned js the health limb and life sacrificed in obtaining rubit\s and other precious : stones iim/ie.-.s pebble nut a sacrifice to a silly superstition iust as the bun ilruls and thousands of human lives that are h<st in diving for useless pearl.s i but this idol vwj.-i'p is cyiujjurji 1 lively harmless considered with the horrid superstition that makes the whole world tributary 1 1 a few bankers simply because mankind has been taught to place a hiyh v.iiue on useless ' yellow metal and deify a golden calf hebe are the proofs the total annual crop of gold in the united states according to census statistics is sb~s s 7.imj just enough to pay oiu'-filtielh ot the annual ex p uses of the united states govern ment the aunual crop of wheat is about 450,000,000 bushels u one dollar the gold crop will buy about one bushel in twenty six the corn crop exceeds two billion bushels at sixty cents a bushel the i gold crop will buy one bushel out of ihirty-seven ail the annual products of the country are worth probably 85,000 000,000 gold represents a proportion of 1 to 15(5 for more than half a century tin united states produced scarcely any gold — now tin 1 product is gradually and surely diminishing if it contin ues at the rate of thirty-two million dollars a year it will take one hundred years to give us a per capita circula tion of 50 provided all the gold pro duced is coined into money the popu lation remains stationary and none of the gold wears away or is lost john sherman is authority for the statement that the life of silver is twenty years that is all the silver in the country must be renewed every twenty years because of wear and tear and loss say forty years is the life of gold then if we had only 20 per capita of gold we would not produce enough to keep up the supply at that figure pro vided the population remained station ary and the produce ot gold did not decrease the annual product of gold is just fifty cents per capita and a large part of that is used in the arts and sciences under these circumstances it is rank idiocy to talk about gold payments and gold basis but the hallucination is kept up for the benefit of the bank ing and boiidholding millionaires who are able to control and rob the bu>i ne.-s industry and agriculture of the whole ciyilized world by means of this useless golden calf idol that is only a thin shell and which maintains its supremacy only through hold that su perstition has made upon the minds ef i he people who do not think a gold basis is a physical iinj osibity it docs not exist and never am exist unless great mountains of it should be found the proof of this is found ia the fact that a specie ba>is was newr put to a test but what it failed every time there is a gnat finan cial panic or a nation is involved n ; a war of any m.-.guitude ] ayments tvea in silver are invariably suspe de.l is a basis reliable that nvaiiab'y fails when it is needed the mc gold can be beaten into a very thin film but the thinnest film that the human mind cm imagine is not thin enough to compare the gold basis with the billions of business transactions in the world — advance from salem corrcs ontknee of hie v.'at.i hman rev j h c fisher will preach at salem sunday september 25th p s kluttz cured his first and only barn of tobacco last week mr john harkey of steele town ship has bought land at this place ami we are glad to learn will move down in the near future he is a \\ eaverite a reader of the wakiimax and is coming from a town-hip oi which it is said there are only 9 demo crats mr warner how do you sell your crop bulletins or do you give them awa ? please send rae a dozen any way to give away to our republicans and democrats so they will know who to vote for politics are getting hot out here in spite of the coolness of the atmosphere there are a few democrats here yet but they are such as the people's party would not have and so they don't amount to much ail we need is a man like shuford to deliver us a few addresses and they will crawl hack in camp the mo-t of them are sitting on the fence and if i had the ammu nition i would certainly take my old musket and make it hot for them but by aud by they will come back when they find that they are straying from their shepherd within the past few weeks this part of the county has been flooded with such lying sheets as the leading char lotte and raleigh papers and main others of that stripe as usual they are filled with vilifying statements against the candidates of the people's parc-y candidates but why they are at enmity with them i cannot understand jake warner will yon give me infor mation it these people's party candidates are us mean as the partisan press ac cuse them of being why have they not been arrested surely the laws of north j iolina have not been en forced or else they would have all been hung long ago but they have not xow there is something wrong some where but what it is 1 cannot tell but 1 lifin vc tliotjc mm ivhitfl the people's party have put out as candidates are such men as ihe boss democrats are afraid of and the only way they can injure them i to print some lies about them but it is like betsy imkius says about daniel when he was cast in;o the lions den it will nut hurt them but oh what a sorry day it will be for those that are doing the ly ing for the inspired word says all liars shall have their portion in the like which bnriitth wiih fire ud brimstone now it seems to me that if these false accusers ever read their bibles they surely would quit some of their bare-faced lying why some of our own county papers are trying to make capital by printing slanderous reports about men which they nevei heard of before and how long will ii continue in conclusion i will say to the hustler that there are a few girl down here but i think they are all un der mortgage at least they try to make a fellow believe it so if there are so manv good ones up there i will speak early so as to avoid the rush pleast select a good one lor me first grade one that wears a beautiful face and sweet little smiles and has a good dis position to seek after young men of about 17 summers age anywhere be tween 15 and 20 1 desire to spark for love and perhaps matrimony i have a true heart which has never been broken please let me know soon as to your selection for you know love is a credulous affair best wishes for the watchman cirmson the sim cholera mixture more than twenty years ago when it was found that prevention of chol era was easier than ciut a prescription was drawn up by eminent doctors and published in the sun and it took the uame of the sun cholera medicine our contemporary never lent its name to a better article we have it in constant use for nearly 40 yea s nud found it to be the best rem edy for looseness of the bowels ever yet devised no one who has this by him and takes it in time will ever have the cholera we ommend it to all our friends even when no cholera is anticipated it is an excellent remedy for ordinary summer complaints colic diarrhoea dysentery etc ' take iqual parts of tincture of cay enne pepper tincture of opium tinc ture of rhubarb essence of peppermint and ppirits of camphor mix well i dose id to 30 drops in a little cold water according to age and vi lenc<3 of symptoms repeated every fifteen or twenty minutes u til relief is ih tained — new york journal of cnn inerce children cry for pitcher's castoria warner's chop bullkrix ; very little chanee this week how womon talk tlic giei1 mhii ories sinnp of t houi have correspondence of the watchm n saxdeksville x c there has been lint iit le ch.ihgc in political iiffiirs the woods are full f candidate and ill feel like ihej on«?ht to i elected but people ; ; i ; . advised to bet sparingly on most of [ them as frost wilj soon be here ! rejior^s frimi correspondents in l counties indicate i small falling nfl in numbers bul most of them me vigor ous and persistent n the western district several are suffering with sore mouths resulting from too much kiss rng of eroupy babies candidates are numerous aud give the voters no rest as the election grows nigh they be come more obstreperous it may be that the voters will have to leave the state for a few days when the election conies off they have to do that or re sort to violence 1 have got my gun loaded with trace chains flint rocks dynamite railroad spikes and buck shot if any long-eared candidates come thi3 way they will suffer untold misery until death puts an end to them there are times iu our life when we are afraid of death and others rvheu we are sorry we don't die 1 was ly ing in for repairs suffering with rheu matism mrs collins caine over to visit my wife one eveni g so i bad to sit and li.-ten to them talk or hire somebody to shoot me they first talked about all the women in the neighborhood who had bought new dresses this summer how much they paul for them the color how they cut hem and how they looked after they were made up they mad a photo tograph of each one but don't these women folks have fine recollections and such tilings then they told how many cans oi blackberries and fruit every woman in the township had put up how each c n was saving and what each one would make out of the fruit this winter that is more memory for you then they di-cn sed the sweethearts of every girl for three miles around when each one would get married whether they would do well or not and everything about them next they discussed the babies of the neighborhood presenl and prospective how much each one weighed how they looked who they looked like their d;t rereiit ailments what was done for them whether they cried much or lit 6te v lill ui l ut clotuoo tl.oi'i niotliim's put on them etc i don't know how many more things were discussed for i tainted and was unconscious for three hours by that time mrs collins had gone and peace once more reigus supreme 1 don i want another such experience would rather go to the war four years more school began again in our district last monday it is a subscription school every district ought to have twice as much school as they do w e iiave had a young lady teacher for two or three terms aud she either courted rlie lig boys too much or duin t whip them enough for they goi so bad u thought of asking president uarrisou to send a few thousand troops to sub due them at my suggestion as one of the committeemen we have a male teacher this time the boys smiled alien they heard he was coming rhey thought he was some dyspeptu dude wno would leave he first day bui when they seen him they thought ii was sullivan or corbdt he vvhipp d four of the biggest ikks so tu couldn't sit down the first day every thing is iookin - br gh for educ ition in the lie gll •■■ iioo i im\v sinci rely jake \'\ \\ s r mcaclcusi illc lcllcr '.; irr ,...■.■ i x ■' ' ■'■*■ ■ ■ this being the first place to catch us on our vacation frwin schi ol work rind as it is such a live place we liiought :» short description ot h might be of in terest to your many readers therefore we venture a few hues begging your pardon forauy intrusion it may be the m.ea ; : .. mills is situated in gas ton county on the small prong ol the uatawba river sixteeu miles west oj jharlotte on tiie air line luiiii a i tui.s mill was buili aootit twelv • or fifieeii vr.i - ago t !.;■• i he 11 v j :- ad ■.-. bui waa jir.te sm ill to m h u ii id i v it then imiiy spiunin^yi'ms a i le now it i is inado i irge a uuti us and m^kesa lot ol pi.iiiis ov •. lh ■ proji rt now belo g l the me \ leu h irs bul is now controlled by dr mcadeii ui charlotte the late ale-aden 1 * uroijn r | li urn.siied work for a lot ol t a . i is a.i industry of which tfastoa c u ay m ij « ■•• ->■■ proud and .: . curoiina haj m re iike it she « 1 ' a teat deal better oil than she uofl is , °£\ e whole oi the maclnuery is run 1 by two large l'urbine w-htels atiauheu i une mam driving wheel g •' - ■ u e power of thiee huudre i h ■■•■ ■ ■ \\ lieu we see this n at dm g » '■• '■■ aud belt it is a curi'ksity wilhiu ibell • un leaving this we enter the caidinji ; 1 id spinnnig department whii h is in ■■ 1 room b«u leet long in this d , , elj , the cotton starts in in the bal • u11 i c omes ut thread iv..dy or iveav ■ i n r jt contains litteen ihousaiidspiu tlles iiuluding spinners and twisters and th.-y are thinking ol ad mg nvt tim ; a lj morj - "• • h ch will ucce sitati the adling to tha room hi h is is 380 fr 150 ft moremakina it 530ft >■ ix xt lake iii the weaving 1 jfcpartment which i in a bald ng 300ft ion with brick and ma l ' "•■ dy to ;:! 1 100ft more m ik : ii il tooft lon k . in this three a ■ •' ■ i ' f v ntv-foi pn iheii • . i it il > . .'. ,! . \: . : . i hundred more soon : so conta is the quilling n«l beam nii mat him rv af»er going through these depart ments and the dye ■!■ part men t whieh h in i large bu id-n sep ir :■■ imi tli otheis the cloth h ' | anol her room >\ here i is . it uh d i ' ■ ' ten c irrii tl iui o uiuvl h r nq where it is stored aw at shipped i li - _■. ■ is i 2 » ii un cii ii.iv i quiring the ! . • -\ l hbout 350 hands which receive for their i ibor each in>t tuiiik of hat much mou ng tnrned loose i n conimnntl . . wonder the peo ■ : • ■ < •• i of hard times - iv we have nol heard a word aboui hard limes since « e ii \ .■ ii , ii ii t lie lu <■. veri ; hey are i lit liappi .-; sel ol people seemingly on earth mid no wonder when hi-v have iia.lv occupation for w hich i ic gel better pan than an other miils he have ever visited an i are umw the kindest sel of men i superintendents that has ever been our privilege to meet 3j i . ii !!. ii iy i he secretary and treasurer is one of the best men we have ever had the pleasure of meeting and we don't think ins pqual could hardly be found for the place in occu pies for he i is kind as •<<- man can be nol hwii h^tanding he has enl ire cen trol of all the hands to prove i ii he is ■ ..•■ :: j :> man in i he right pi evi-ry li u>t i ke him and love to i i frieud we also had the pleasure of meet iug mr jno l u row ley tirst super intendent although at first i^'ht one would tol iial ii rally take in v 1 1 h him yet to like liiin one only hsis to know him ii is a live energetic man and never still many moiegood things nii r ■ be s.iid of i hese men ind not on \ thi'si but others of au thority as the liarmony in which even thing woi ks will attest 1 ii t around rlouresvillo lev f ii wood of mooresi has just dosed a revival meeting at vanderburg's chapel close hers a large number were added to the church and the church much revived a little infant child of mr and mis noah ketc hie died la-t week and was buried in i o tow n cemetery n tbe nexl day i hey have the s m a tby of ina:i friends in their sad lioura id sin row all our public sch tola have closed mr win iven's school al the hr.wl-v school house closed last monday and mr 1 henry tha p closed hi icho ■! on friday the dth inst we had ilu p!e isure of hearing ;• good lecture i y mr i is i harp p.n iiblic school work mid i due it ion 1 1 ; - one of in d dl's best teacbei - n d a : ;, probably teach here i his winter an allianc • r.illy w us liel i al tin liiawiey school house lasl saturd 13 . ufti r w inch the al lance met in 1 : m;i s ■!..■ hue music was ren dered for the occ ision and tli evenii ; w;i much 1 i j \ i _\ ; i-ci cr vd gathi re i al the depot ■ .. !!:;;:• t i « itm 1 ■ the ar | it . 1 \ . ~ 11 < in.li • i dti ; ■.:.■ nt : " tra n . t j.j !•.;;.'■■ 1 ve • and mr ati veiison made a short talk from t lie platform of the < :. ;■ ' lo old iredell ' - ■> '■■ • •' ■ ' tors lie tin 11 i f >' -^ » ■ where • several peo ple from here ••• 1 -, tu hear him lemon elixir ts wonderful effects on the i ivor stomach bowcll u.ml kidneys for biiii usness 1 '• usl ipati m :.: ■■ ;..:: ., lake l mou klixir : - : in sick nn«l s i ir j r , . --:,,---. >.,:•. nisnesa and heart failure take !• 1110 ' i : - kevei -. ' ■ t;i e lemon ir ],.,.;.-. for natural ami uiroutrh organic re«uiaiiuu take i^enion klixir ir m /■ .■ - i • ■ v 1 f«,il you in urn . tt n o f wliieii arise from an.'ij i«l or ilisea>eil liver stoinach khliu-ya 01 bo , 1'n pared onlj '■■;■ > '■■ ''• ■ -' ' j lai.i-i i gists a prominent iilinister v.'rltes after ten years of r nl nil.nn i jresti i.'uiiii -• liou biliourtiitss msonleml kiilut and consiipation ! have t>eeu cured i»j l»r m y'd uuion 1 is . and am uo i tt-eli mau uev < < " eld i e < ~ ■■'■ no 28 in ' ■ ' ' ghildrv cry for pitcher's r^torta subscri l t more i 13 no 47