Carolina Watchman

              tlie carolina watchman vol xi--third series salisbury n c april % 1s85 no 24 ileficbvs wjlit mm j r axentcure ind indigestiott '.:''■'■ gregory s'ov.29 1-4 i hereby certify dyspepl c , .., dcfit tn myself to others i p waring 1 attire ( li klottk n c i take great p ■ .. value of your • with ereat . . i ii to any me son u:d a .-!-. ■ f a jenkins freasurer ■ i , m ,' t c rniitli & [] , salis fifluarters for b x . , i-ennessee farm wagons i i ncin n a 1 1 : v s fc spring wagons i ii l'ffmas guano drills teas hay bakes ■ and walking jltivators i thomas hakkows hleeraph straw cutters ! '"' ' plows lextor co sliollcrs engines and boilers saw and grist mills ;; il..-r fittings guns . i ridges wads and caps lamitu fuse and l'ri lihi spaif building : i varnishes omeraised clover seed ipi in klrst class : ia eon h ind . th in tor mi di x1 u>3 tii in they bave ever w smithdeal mont wagons 65h0b cash or on til . b sers we have made ' li brated wagons eltli - ill wiio need wagons i h a bovdex agent i r .' <> white il • •■■ it anything else by taking f - ling book out be [ : iii terms fn e portland maine u.the best smith in u the county ! s ac ant a1 \ our y ■ ■ : and try i he k l bivovi v puds at the head _ is domestic ■ :>■ i loader is i ' vv , ' : disputed kt mitate it xoxe equal it in woo«l work is warranted ' material - of work ri spccl i territory •■ m hint co richmond i ■• . . & ki.mm.kman y n c he leads us on by paths we did not know upwards in leads us though our steps be slow though oft we faint and falter on the way though storms and darkness oft obscure the day yet when the clouds are gone we know he leads us on he loads us on through all the unquiet years : past all our dreamland hopes and doubts and fears he guides our steps through all the tan gled maze of sin of sorrow and o'er hounded days we know his will is done ; and still he leads us on — lot den i four mr cleveland's policy washington post those who complain of the presi dent's moving slowl in the matter of appointments ought to bear in mind that l here is a great number of appli cants fur almost every place at his dis posal they come from all sections of the country have strong indorse ments iron their friends and as a rule are men of meritorious character and competent to fill the offices for which they ask to give the list even a cursory ex amination in each particular case would take considerable time but it is lmiiernllv understood that mr cleve land desired to do more than this every application for a position rep utable in itself and reliably backed is entitled to consideration the can didates and their friends are support era of the administration helped to pi ice it in power propose to stand by it and consequently deserve a respect ful hearing it will be seen then that when the claims or merits of a dozen or more aspirants have to be passed upon and duly weighed it were almost a mat ter of impossibility for the president to move otherwise than slowly and at the same time deal fairly it he rendered his decisions with such abruptness and haste as to sug e*t an autocratic and preconceived judgment incapable of modification he would be chargeable with arro gance indifference and favoritism that he applies himself to the del icate work of appointments with rea sonable deliberation therefore is not to the president's discredit he is probably impressed with the impor tance of giving bis administration a good start as few presidents before him have been ic is to be presumed that he has no disposition to create needless displeasures anil that he aims to avoid as far as possible all occasion for criticism it is not to be expect ed that he can please everybody at the outset but if he so shapes his course that time will vindicate its wisdom and justice everybody will be pleased in the long run no use lor a private yacht fh ladelphia times by ordering the dispatch out of commission the president will reduce by one the number of old hulks which could not safely get out of sight of the shore and will add very much to the safety of the vessels in the coastwise trade the action : ought also to result in the order of a ! lew specially favored naval officers to some other work than the kind they have been doing for the past few years it is plain that the days of official junketing on board government ves sels are over for the present things have changed since president buch anan compelled his secretary of the treasury howell cobb to pay the cost of a trip on a government vessel he used one day to take a party down the potomac later presidents have apparently taken the view that as the war vessels and the executive both had some relation to the government it was only right that they should come together occasionally mr cleveland takes the view that he has no more right to use the naval vessels than any other kind of gov ernment property and has decided to return to the better but older meth ods of dealing with the question in this he will have the universal sup port of public sentiment and can re tire from office with the assurance that his action will thenceforth be insisted upon as a recedent to be followed i better times — the easton tal ! bot county ledger says an easton visitor to washington ou inauguration tlav tells the following good story : i was having my boots polished by one of the colored boot blacks on the street when he had finished i asked him the price whatever you choose to give boss he replied i handed him a quarter his eyes got big as saucers and then turning to the oth ers of his trade he exclaimed joyful ly dar i dun told you so i told you wen de demmycrats cum dar'd be better times ! dey's cum ! dis is only de fust day an de price oh a shine is riz from a nickle to a quarter tlic scat of war in fgypt general r e colston formerly a bey in egypt contributes the opening illustrated article in the march ci ntury from which we quote the following description of a portion of the present seat of war he who has never trav eled through the desert cannot form a just idea of that strange and marvellous region in which all the ordinary condi tions of life are completely changed it is essentially a waterless land with out rivers creeks rivulets or springs once away from the nile the only sup ply of water is derived from deep wells few scanty and far apart longdroughts are frequent when 1 explored the great arabian desert between the nile and the red sea it had not rained for three years and when i traveled over the suakim route and through kordo fan no rain had fallen for two years between the twenty-ninth and the nineteenth degree of latitude it never rains at all water becomes precious to a degree beyond the conception of those who have never known its scarci ty members of the catholic mission at el obeid where water is much more plentiful than in the deserts assured me that the summer before water had been sold as high as half a dollar a gallon by the proprietors of the few wells that had not dried up when long droughts occur the always scanty crop of doura fails away from the nile and the great er parts of the flocks and herds perish as well as a considerable part of the ' population it follows naturally that ! when undertaking a journey through f the desert the paramount question is water a supply must be carried suf ficient to last to the next well be it one or five days distant it is usually car ried in goat and ox skins suspended from the camels pack-saddles these are the water-bottles of scripture which become leaky from wear and always lose a considerable portion of their con tents by evaporation the first thing after reaching a well is to ascertain the quantity and quality of its water as to the former it may have been exhaust ed by a preceding caravan and hours may be required for a new supply to ooze in again as to the quality desert water is generally bad the exception being when it is worse though long custom enables the bedouins to drink water so brackish as to be intolerable to all except themselves and their flocks well do i remember how at each well ! the first skinful was tasted all around : as epicures sip rare wines great was the joy if it was pronounced nioya lichen sweet water but if the bedouins s.iid moosh tayib not good we might be sure it was a solution of epsom salts the best water is found in natural rocky . reservoirs in deep narrow gorges where the sun never shines as to live springs i never saw more than half a dozen in six thousand miles travel many seekers after office under the new administration are doomed of ne cessity to disappointment for the sim ple reason were there no other that there are not offices enough in the gift of the government to go around ma ny are already disappointed fault finders and grumblers are not hard to find there are those who contemn the civil service law as a humbug and fraud there is here and there some gnashing of teeth ; but on the whole the crowds that beset the president and departments are good natnred of criticism and patient under affliction there are no symptoms of factious dis loyalty di&cernible contrast this state of affairs with the stormy and resentful passions that shook the national capital with a sort of volcanic tremor for the two or three months immediately preceding tiie assasi nation of president garfield the scramble for place was then in the nature of a scramble for life men jostled one another in the crush with hatred in their eyes and murder in their hearts never had faction been brought to such high infuriated pitch before the grand oid party was act i uallv writhing over its own dismem berment and only the death of the chief magistrate served to appease the attendant furies as between that picture and this the present democratic onslaught up on the public crib is but the gentle wooing of a mistress by her lover the pastime of a summer holiday itas/i ington post the great revival of religion in fifth street methodist church surpasses any revival that lias blessed wilmington in a quarter of .". century or longer since january 1st pastor tattle has added 159 members since the regular revival be gan three weeks ago there have been ml accessions and 163 professions the good i work will continue through this week ' tvilminrfton star cabinet appointments and state lines the indignation apparently genuine certainly vehement that is expressed by some democratic politicians because their states have been ignored by president cleveland in his cabinet ap pointments exhibits a very distorted conception of thp relations of the fed eral government to the states what has a cabinet officer to do that should properly make his residence in a partie ttlar state an advantage to that state over the ohers absolutely nothing therefore if there is any stibstance to the complaints of these politicians it must be that president < ieveland has disappointed their desire for improper advantages and if that is so he deserves thanks geographical situation not merely state boundaries — doubtless should have some influence with a president in his selection of a cabinet the true prin ciple was concisely stated by president washington when lie wrote in th ' appointments to the grat of fices of the government my aim has been to combine geographical situation and sometimes other considerations with abilities and fitness of character president cleveland has not been in different to geographical situation the geographical centre of the population of the united states is not far from cincinnati looking at his cabinet appointments in their distribution re latively to this point four those of endicott manning vilas and whit ney have been made from the north and three those of bayard garland and lamar from the south and the same proportion holds as to the other cardinal points of the compass from the centre of population three secreta ries garland lamar vilas having been taken from the west and four ( bayard endicott manning and whitney from the east thomas jefferson will be acknowl edged by all these democratic com plainants to have been a sound democrat and yet in framing his cabinet when he became president in march 1801 jefferson took three of its five members from the single state of massachusetts — samuel dexter secretary of the treas ury kenry dearborn secretary of war and leyi lincoln attorney general the postmaster general did not become a cabinet officer till president jackson's time and the first secretary of the in terior was president taylor's and to aggravate this inequality massachusetts did not cast her electoral votes for jefferson in 1800 but for john adams nor when the election was thrown into the house of representa tives by the tie in electoral college was the vote of massachusetts cast for jef ferson even then but for aaron burr if state boundaries and state votes in the presidential elections should coi - trol the selection of cabinet officers this surely makes out a much stronger case against jefferson than the partisans of that theory can make out against president cleveland but nevertheless the principles and practices of jefferson are set up constantly for the shibboleths of the democratic party why revile cleveland in this matter and continue to worship jefferson at the same time — x y herald soudan war the fight which gen graham had with the rebels last week seems to have been hotly contested and of more importance than at first reported an account from london says : the battle between the british troops and osman dignsi's forces lasted five hours the marines were first sent to the front to drive arabs from the hill west of hasheen as soon as possible they were reinforced by batteries of gardner and krupp guns and by cavalry there was a hot engagement for a few hoars during which the british cavalry charged repeatedly on the arabs while the machine guns were worked with deadly effect whenever their lire could be made available great bravery was displayed on both sides at the end of the engagement the arabs retreated slow ly towards tamai the arabs loss in killed and wounded is estimated at 500 tiie loss of the british is 40 the arabs displayed desperate bravery the marines drove the arabs from the hills and forced fieni to retire to the plain then the indian troops charged upon the arab position but were outflanked and an un suspected body of arabs succeeded in getting behind their lines the indians found themselves between two fires and they fled during this retreat they were closely pressed bv the arabs w!io ham strung the horses and speared the riders a man with many medals — they say that republics are ungrate ful said an englishman to an ameri can friend at the theater the other night but they do not seem to be niggard in conferring honors that gentleman in the orchestra chair there is one of your distinguished generals i presume where asked the american there that gentleman whose breast is covered with medals who is he grant sherman sheridan or — pshaw ! that's no general what he's no military man he's a champion roller-skater and club swinger inquiries respecting 1 apprentice ship the bureau of education departmt nt of the interior washington i making what promises to be a very valuable in 1 vestigation as may be seen by the fol lowing circular one of the vital question affecting the present maintenance and future de velopment of american manufacturing industries is the question how employers are to secure an adequate supply of well trained mechanics the apprenticeship system of the past more or less modifi ed to meet modern requirements has hitherto been almost exclusively relied upon while in practice that system is gradually becoming obsolete there is a growing belief among specialists who have studied the subject that the system itself has survived its effective usefulness and that the manual labor school is destined to supplant it in order to re.ich a settled conviction on this important subject however it will be necessary to bring together a con siderable amount of trustworthy in formation and the accompanying in quiries to which your attention is re spectfully invited have been prepared with the view of collecting the needed data when a sufficient number of re plies shall have been received to war rant inferances from the facts the re sult will be published in a special re port on apprenticeship and manuel labor in schools issued by this office in two parts the first of these will con tain a compilation of the apprenticeship laws and decisions thereunder a brief discussion of apprenticeship at the com mon law and a succinct history of the rise growth and decay of the system the last portion of the first volume will contain a resume and analysis of the replies that may be received to the ac companing questions the second part of the work will give an account of the attempts in this and other countries to provide trade schools fitted to take the place hitherto filled by the apprentice ship system and will discuss the vari ous degrees of success which have at tended such efforts blanks accompany this circular which may be obtained from mr john eaton commissoner washington d c a person's character shows itself in the mair er of spending his leisure time there is a railway porter in a small town in scotland who makes astronomy his recreation from his small earnings he bought a telescope and fends notice of his observations to the scientific journals when ask ed how lie found time for such work he replied 1 am due at the railway station at six in the morning and 1 leave at six in the evening but i have two hours during the day for meals and rest sometimes i get a glance at the heavens on winter mornings when t lie sky is clear hunting for comets my observations on the sin are usually made twice a day during mv meal hours or in summer in the early morning and evening then the evenings are my own \\ hen the heavens are clear i watch them when obscured there are my books how much better than to spend one's time loafing about the streets or in saloons or skating-rinks ! a c harris still booming having purchased 11 k rtid'8 interest in the firm of harris 6c real i will contin ue business at my old stand on main st-eut thanking my friends and the public lor their liberal patronage heretofore given i shall endeavor to ensure their continued fa vor by keeping lor the trade a complete and full stock of fresh first class groceries confections fine cigars and tobacco ; and everything usually kept in my line call and sec me respectfully a 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