the carolina watchman xxi---third series salisbury n c thursday september 11 l890 no 47 work and win the sweetest cherries mind you lad grow highest on the tree and would you win the fairest fruit one thing hi say to ihee it falls not it ibe clicking gay of sin idler's pelt — you'll have to climb the rugged tree and gather for yourself tis vain to wait tho fruit to fall or pelt the tree with stones yoti'l have to struggle bravely up and risk some broken bones you only waste your time below and get indifferent pay — if you would reach the ripest fruit just throw your fears away tis so with everything in life that's worth the owning lad — with learning wealth and character — the best the good and great have had they come not at the nod or heck < f any idle hand — tis only those who bravely toil may have them at command if then you want th ripest fruit just labor till you win i iii t mind thee hoy while up you climb keep heart and hand from sin the best and grandest guerdon lad f-bought with wicked wage no peace and comfort yields at last 15ut curses on your age — christian observer laugh and grow fat mary stop your flatteries or i shall imld my hands to my cars john wishing to be complimentary ah your lovely hands arc too small so ilattie has refused yi u well i woiiltln t can 1 . she's a thoughtless tiling ami doesn't know her own mind that's so o well it she doesn't know her mind perhaps i ought not to mind her no ' an old well posted goat who was kept by a secret society for u?e in ini tiations was chewing a lei of a boot when a young 1 n 1 came along and asked say don't it make you awful tiled to have those duffers in the lodge ride yon so much no not much on see 1 get used to it by degrees lulu who lias been very ill and suddenly awakens am 1 in heaven mama mother no dear we are still with you mother to bobby i'm sorry to hear that willie wayes whipped the poor cat bobby my little boy would not do such a thing bobby with conscious superiority no indeed ma ' mother why didn't you stop him bobby bobby i couldn't ma 1 was holding the cat teacher johnny give me the name of the largest known diamond 1 johnny the ace who is your warmest friend asked the teacher my mother yelled one of the bovs "^ our moth er yes she warms me every day the teacher has given up her mis sionary work why are you so late asked a school teacher of a little girl who hung her head and said "\\ e have go a little boy at our house don't let il happen again said the teacher lieivelv ami the little girl said she would not and took her seat mistress to cook why bridget what in the world are you doing bridget skure it's the dochter thot toiild me oi must take oiron fer me blood an oi'ni trvin to melt down the poker l»ad cess to it mistress liui gracious bridget you can't drink hot melted iron bridget thin oi'll leave it till it cools ' husband who has advertised for a typewriter export did many call to day my dear in answer to the adver tisement wife yes quite a num ber but there was only one applicant whom i told to call agnin he seems verv bright and i'm sure you will like him husband what was the trouble with the rest wife they wen 1 all young women here waiter here is a quarter for you and just tell me now what you can conscientiously recommend to me waiter thanks it you want anything good sir go to some other restaurant . ' he after all there isn't so much difference between man and the brute creation she no only tho brutes don't smoke chew tobacco get drunk moke and dispense profanity and um brageous talk the subject for conversation at an evening entertainment was the intelli ii ){' animals par icularly dog iid smith there are dogs that have rot more sense than their masters just so responded young jones i've got that kind of a dog myself 1 owner of race horse looking close ly at scales william you are a trifle over weight ant you lighten yourself a little williams the jock ey got on my ligtest suit sir ain't ett a bite to-day and ave just trimmed my finger-nails owner well go and get shaved montreal lady to american finan cier do you not find our canadian climite rather cold mr boodler a nierican financier ■■< >. no all : it agrees with me 1 left new \ ork be cause it was too warm for me there gov gordon's speech gov gordon was invited to speak to the state fanners alliance of georgia at its session in atlanta last week a arge crowd greeted him and enthus 1 lastically applauded his eloquent anl . i sarnest speech we niv the following ; account of his speech which we know will interest all readers of this paper it is compiled from the atlanta consti tion mr president said he my fellow countrymen of th farmers alliance brother democrats what n saluta tion how comprehensive how sug gestive alliance men democrats two armies with a single hag or rather one great armv acting in a dual capacity and yet holding the unity of faith no man ever addressed an audience under more noteworthy circumstances here is a great organ ization—a giant at its birth - in almost indisputed control of the machinery of the venerable and powerful democratic party vet yielding that machinery in conformity to democratic usage wag ing its special war fare within the democratic lilies marshalling its forces beneath the democratic hag and bat tling as democratic veterns with ances tral democratic faith for cardinal dem ocratic principles no wonder the district observer speculates as to the future and enemies of democratic principles indulge delu sive hopes but no wilder political prop hecy was ever uttered no more reckless partisan assertion was ever made no more groundless libel was ever penned against true and loyal democrats than that promulgated by the republican senator from new hampshire that the fanners alliance movement would strengthen the republican party in these southern states that the i'aniii rs alliance movement will strengthen till democratk 1 party in the northwestern states is un doubtedly true it cannot be other wise and at the south there is not a genuine democratic doctrine i hat you do not embrace there is not a democratic tradition that you do not cherish there is not a democratic policy that you do not pursue more significant still you de nounce as hostile to interests the re publican doctrines of a high protective tariff the republican policy of contrac tion of the currency and of an iron hound and unjust financial system and you proclaim your hostility to federal interference with the freedom of elections and the tendency to con solidated government and the dtstruc tioii of state independence as utterly repugnated to the fundamental princi ples on which this republic was estab lished democratic allianeemen of georgia standing in your presence,imbued with i lie deep conviction of your unpurchas able loyalty i hurl back thel'nworthy accusation and proclaim your unconquerable fi delity to our ancestral laiths viz equal and exact justice to all special privileges to none the lowest taxation consistent with an economical admin istration a just and liberal system of staple-currency at the least possible cost to the masse and finally the sup port of the state of the federal govern ment in all their respective constitu tional powers with your permission i propose briefly to discuss two propositions which seems to me worthy of your most serious consideration the first is that the obstacles in flic way of your success are very formidable the second is that succes can be secured if your efforts bo wisely directed and courageously made as to tiik obstacles first then as to the obstacles i might enumerate many but 1 shall present but one that one however rises as 1 complete it to alpaliuo heights across your pathway and casts its sombre shadows over the whole line of your march that obstacle is the almost resistless influence of concentrated money com bined with the gigantic power ol tariff protected and tariff-enriched corpora tions why does this power resist you because if you succeed the price of ni ney v\ill diminish and the price of property and of productions will necessarily ad av.ce.jif you succeed the tariff will be lowered and the profits of protected corpoiations would be less ened while our profits would be cor respondingly increased hence the conflict and i warn you not to under ■ t ; ni ite the strengt h of your adversary it is a great prjwer • trenched behind high-tarff breastworks which are mounted by the heaviest gun.s and commrinde'j by the most consumate skill and this power has successfully insisted in the past all the efforts at reform in id by the undisciplined and half-organized masses of the people what matters it that y itir case is just what matters it that the laws which have mad • possible so alarming a condition are unjust ? \ ou can neither change the laws nor redress the wrong except 1 huol'mi congressional leg islation you cannot secure the legislation till you obtain fh 1 majority in both i louses of congress and elect i ! ' dent you cannot ac omplish ' through the power of the v ., ■,■ american people exerted at the ballot box to win in such a conflict great wisdom great preparation and great power will be required and this brings me to the second proposition which is that success is j possible and may l assured if your efforts are wi.sely directed and courjige oii iv made the first essential of success i of course organization — complete and compact in character and national in extent organization is essential 1 rejoice at our organization fif teen years ago in the city of griffin i stood in the hall where had assembled the agricultiml society of the state and warned mv bretheru of the ap prcaching conflict between protected privilege on i\w one hand and the peo ple on the other and besought to or ganize that vast body of freemen the tillers of the soil inf a closer brother hood to meet the impending and in evitable conflict but organization alone is not suf ficient it is essential and potential but to make it effective in tne great oming conflict ymtr organization unist remain our of f/ie might tj corps of the jreal democratic i<>/i your liosfs inisf more on m the concert trith tin democratic hosts your lines stretch from sea to cca.wiih a white banners of perce of concord and sectional fratern ity and of equal rights floating above you rallying to your standard eyery veteran of reform and every raw re cruit who will swell the colum tramp ing under 3*011 r feet all needless issues and minor differences burying all per sonal aut agon isms and moving shoulder to shoulder with proud and steady nsein to overwhelming victory conservative leaderships another essential is wise counsellors and consertatiye leadership the most righteous cause may be weakened or endangered by unwise and inconsiderate action the bravest battalions when poorly led may rush on to certain de feat the holiest ambitions of the human soul when misdirected may lead to disaster and to human woe unbridled liberty is often transmitted into reckless and unholy liscense my friends of the farmers alliance my brother democrats there never has been a period in the history of this american republic since it was lunched on its earner of power and glory when the highest order of statemanship was more in demand the battle before you remember is the battle protected privilege against the rights of the peo ple in the halls of congress and the national legislature it is to be a wrestle of giants it will be witnessed by the whole american people you mustbe prepared for the contest you need to call to your assistance the groat intellects from every state and section of the union men self-poised and pru dent who cannot be shook from their balance in the fury of debate men whose souls are on lire with a sense of your wrongs men whose voices will be heard whose influence will l>e felt by the whole a merican people enlist all sections another essential is the enlisting in t ins cause all sections all classes all professions of the american people who agree with us to the great princi ples which we seek to establish we shall need them all there is not one of those principles that can be carried to success without the co-operation of all the friends who agree on the gen eral issue as for myself i am not sure that 1 shall be permitted to fight under the hag of financial reform although for over sixteen years i have been carrying its banners and defending every princi ple which von now advocate * if mv devotion to these principles for sixteru years or more do not entitle me to your confidence then nothing will while i am in the fullest sym pathy with the great object in view i wish to say in all candor that i cannot endorse the sl'ecfic sub tiieasl'ky bill because 1 do not believe even if it could be passed that it would bring the relief you seek the endorsement of spech'c bills is not what you need you need first to win the victory for reform by general agitation on all hues and then when the general battle i won let all the combined wisdom of all the friends ol tho can be called into requisition for perfecting the best measure for t he purpose for all these great principles 1 shall continue to do battle in the future as in the past but i should be untrue to you if i did not tell you frankly that if you insist 11 denouni ing every man as your < - 1 1 < • 1 ; ; ■. '■'. ho will not endorse a pocfic bill drive from your ranks many earn est friends and ever '•" ir brel hern ol missouri who refuse to endorse if !■» - of p«jw«*r will come to your organizi tioii vo 1 caimol afford to pin your destinies to any one program me or cast all your future in ain one speclic boat winch may b ■ engulfed and lost i did not ask your representative to endorse a plan for increasing the currency which i might think without a flaw because you might iind that i ■... .( mistaken tbi question of fin ance 3 the '! ■ ! \ :■! ill k ' ■■ ' ' l : ' ' ••!' . , : , i t h e p t o b 1 r 1 1 1 s ■ ' : h 1 1 1 1 1 ; 1 11 ■ " • ■ ■ :.< ut,uud ■ ■ ■ ■■■ ' ■ to ask i that your representative shall battle for great principles and secure it by the best possible measure the com bined v.isdom of all ean constitute are you going to secure your great re fonv.s by saying to the friends of those reform we do not want your help unless you agree with the exact pro gramme we have-laid down are yon going to recruit a great army from all this coi h lent by requirii g that every soldier in your ranks shall measure exactly six feet two inches by the yard stick a:.d weigh exactly 182 pounds no more no less 1 that generalship are you to shut the fi.vtk of heaven against every man who does not go thought one particular churl chri>t through that all were hisfollwers who believed in him as the crucified lie deeiner all he asked for the great army of the cross was devotion to the s,reat principle he was tested on that verv point you remember on one occasion john said to him master this man casteh out the devils in thy name and we forbade him because he folio wet h not with us what was christ's reply this god-man of all wisdom relinked john mid commanded that he be let alone saying he that is not against us is for us so i would say to you mv frients we shall need the votes and the sym pathy and the aid of all sections all classes all professions who agree as to the great end let us unite and lift this great cause of governmental reform i114i1 above all petty jealousies and minor differences or personal ambitions looking only to the success of the cause phoenix's oil find some weeks ago the attention of j j phoenix of this city was called by a ditcher employed on ins farm near town to the fact that the water in the ditch was covered with oil and smelled of kerosene knowing something of the pennsylvania oil region mr phoenix began a quiet investigation and last week began to sink a shaft when he t;ol a few feet below the surface he struck oil indications which have grown stronger with the depth of the shaft he wrote to an uncle in pittsburg pa mr j f brower who is familiar with the oil wells and the oil region of pennsylvania and he cane on after a through examination of his nephew's farm and the adjoining lands he ad vised him to continue prospecting the matter was kept a secret until last monday having secured options on land he wanted adjoining his place mr phoenix let the matter become known and hundreds have daily gone out to the well among those who visited the place was mr 1 1 thornton tor many years a dealer in oil in the pittsburg pa oil exchange mr thornton not only examined the shaft and the earth oil and water drawn from it but he made a critical examination of the farm and the lands surrounding it and it is his opinion that the staff is located in the middle of a break in the granite forma tion of a mile in width 1 1 1 says the oil found is what is known as white sand petroleume the most valuable mineral oil found and that the formation in which the shaft has been sunk is identical with that found in the penn sylvania oil regions the farm on which the oil is found comprises thirty-two acres and is about a mile southeast of the city the shaft is little over thirty feet deep an 1 the waterdrawn from it has oi floating on top while the earth taken from the bottom of the shaft is st united with it and the odor of it pervades the at mosphere phoenix has struck oil there is no doubt of that but the quantity is as yet a problem but one winch is to be solved to that end he proposes continuing the inking of the shaft until he reaches a depth of fifty or sixty ivt ; n | it the show of oil continues as strong as at pri sent mini the reports of the chemists to whom ii has submitted samples for analvsis are favorable h will take steps toward erecting a derrick and boring the excitiment over the finding of oil on the phoenix farm lias reviewed memories of the search after oil made in this h ction some years ago in 1801 a derrick was erected near the suaratown mountains in the vicinity of madison and boring was begun a well was sunk to the debt of juu feet with good prospects when tin drill broke o!t necessitating a new well or tin abandon nt ol the vvoi k and the eoinpan decided to abandon it i ,| y(j i '-. 1 an e!l rt •■■■• as 11:1 l to find oil ue.tr germ ml 1 but il was . 1 ;:■'■''■!. .- iu!d pn ii ■■ hud ii '■■' ving pe trolum well on bis fai in tin s entire si ate would enter upon a new era ol wealth and prosperity xbe r»-p r i 1 di cowry of oil here lia attracted attention throughout the , miitry t ie pittsburg ( pa dis patch tidi'graphed the writer monday f or 1 tbous n 1 words of particular . il ,,| it 1 1 k !'. that many oil exfierts will visit the phoenix place in the next f days < iiith'rn i iii.<><i<it 1 , y ( , 1 believe in tl e mgartrust ■ \ ,| , m 1 1 i iell all my groceries foi • a ! ■" a ra iical demagog o uuleigli ciir.iii lo there was a s!iferous radical demagogue in the last sat sonata who niade himself very conspicious and disgusting to the senators and the visitors by his inoessanl talk und by the jfi-mi.'iir i-niploymorit of tlin art : t the demagogue his nanic u ., 1 u thomas of tin county of david son ami if a good county was shami fiilly misrepresented it was by ths demagogue he was not shut up ' during tli itire sessiou until the dis cussion uf the railroad commissioi . he iiiadt a speech against the estab lishment of a commission usin all h.j hack noyed and stereotyped argu ments which an nrg<-d against fh irn]hmed law and attempted to ridicule and make little of the argumejita thai had ijeen marie l»y those in favor ftlie mesistire he was allowed plenty of rope ami as is customary when small demagogues are allowed full liu-rty he sliii\v<-(l up his inconsistency so clearly that in will not be able again to deceive the people after mr thoniai hat spoken iu long as he desired the fun liegan senator leqrand procured a file of a llaleigh daily six or eight years ago and lx?gan to read a sp h published in it strongly advocating a llailwav commission after reading a short time he asked senator thomas if be had heard of that speech before tin truth dawned on the davidson dema gogue that senator legrand wa<j read ing a speech that he thomas had made when a member of tho senate some years ago the senate applaud ed the galleries smiled audibly and senator thomas showed great confu sion at being made to swallow his own words and at being thrown up to 1 1 1 > > world as aturncoal senator legranri had him on the rack and gave him as severe a rubbing by reading and ap plying his arguments as we have seen a man receive lie twisted and tinn ed tried to answer but every word ho uttered only served to show all tho more his duplicity and his unworthi ness to represent a consistenl and hon est constituency it was n eene long to be remembered and one thai sen ator thomas ought never to be allow ed to forget we allude to the above incident to day because we have seen i circular is sued l>y mr thomas in winch he snv that at the request of ins friend from all parts of the 7th congression i district lie lias decided to fill moll co himself an independent itcpublicai , alliance and industrial union candi date for congress ho refers to the demands of the alliance and says i.e heartily endorses these resolutioi s and demands he attacks hon.jol.n s henderson and senator vance cal iug them politicians and trying to stir up the prejudices of the people against them all this is mean enough but it goes on to praise hon a lead er who was mr henderson's oppu nent for the nomination togive somt uccoiint of the services he ivudered tl »-• people in the legislature and winds up with the assertion i bat the tricky pi - liticians euchered mr lenzer out of the nomination or words to that r fect we have not the circular by us but the above is t lie gist of it we say that the emupliiuentsiry a lusion to mr lea/i-r is tin meanest part of the circular becaitse tin idea sought to be conveyed i that mr leazer and his frieudsaro disgruntled and that mr leazer failed of the nom ination because he is a farmer and a known defender of the i-i^ht of tho farmer we have talked with mr leazer about the circular and he is justly indignant at tin unwarranted use of ins name by mr thomas and the specious argument made 1 mr thomas based upon his defeat tim chi'omch know and tin people f north carolina huow — that mr lea ner is an honorable gentleman and u democrat of the straightestsect and no words of the davidson county dem agogue can add to their appreciation of his services we are authorized by mr leazer to denounce the card and to repudiate every attempt made in it openly or covertly to how that he or his friends have any feeling rf disap pointment or would even allow in it a statement to go unconnected mr leazer left llaleigh before the state convention to make a speech in a to.vns.hip in which every democratic vote was cast for him for the con gressional nomination j ! ■ • will j il frequently throughout the district and urge eveiy democrat to give their en tire support to mr henderson whose jibilil v and whose iutrgril v enl it !•■ not only to t he sii[iport bui t he conti deiick and estw.-ni of democrat . he dosn't e.vpeci i '• \> • .. ■ in ippoi l '■'■!'■■' il ican vb'j oti ; ■ r liini i - t»pp'j i 1 ! bill op posed to the fi - ' ■ '-* of iver ai l to a reducl ion ■ ' ' ■ i ion i fon .!. s hemlm on ■. i m .■■ • fed by uu llicie.i-eil ij ■' : , 1 . i i ■:•■ ! i;|||o(;r.ll , in th disti i't are i cami t in hi iupporl its hon a ugu l 11 - i v/.tt a for mr 1 bom i •.■■■' il w ill take tii a lliaticeinen ' wu mean tho v viio ha ■• alwaj i »• ii j )■ niucral ) jost about i ■•■ ei i nd lo i ppudiate him and to dispise ins pretended up port of their principle ife i a niin man to appeal to tho alliance foi sup port when he spoke again * and voted ut^uiii-.t a railroad commit ion the only rnea ture ti at the v 11 i nice ask i lia la.t \, . ■ l'j ' i act me see but (;. w wrigiit u leading furniture dealer and undertaker in salisbury the largest and best assorted stock of furni luie ever bronchi to iliis place '/ \ pallor suits j vj mohair crush plush at fco.oo fom.ir \^" prite s;;,.no s silk plush at 50.00 former price ' l \ ■ i«o.oo , r wool plush at *:;•"». 00 foimcr priro r "' imaxos and organs j?i ,, wiloox and white organs and dcclicr "^ hros chickcring & sens and whtelock ', \—^ m i '""" j - - h-h — hed knti.m suits h^j , antique oak antique aslu clicrry and walnut at prices that defy competition : mmi z ( a lakge stnik i h"h h chairs pafc-s mnttroffi-s of nil kinds ; l_j pprinj bids work tables for ladies ' j m inns iind piture frames t every st\le c j j nnd quality always in stock or will be h made to order on short notice nt reason [ : — —- - - w baby carriages __, *" " a large muck of baby caiiiiiycs with ; wire wheels it 7.-"io , q silk imusli seat and satin parasol car , ria«es with wire wheels it only 16.50 ; ** formerly sold for 52.50 >^ k > " ===• ' o undertakikg department _ w spieifll attention iven to undertaking > i in all its branches at all hours day ami k ■ uiglit h > paitirs wishing my services at ni;;lit will 7 f call al my residence on bank street in h.j brooklyn r*""h . ; ' jf i thanking niy friends and the public 1 *- g irenerully for ntst patronage und a-king i ' c './■* continuance of the snmc i am "* fours anxious to please g w wright leading furniture dealer < / i his space belongs to | w h reisner } t w'atcli it next week //