DAILY REFLECTOR.D. J. WHICHARD. Editor.: Subscription 25 cents per Pvonth._ Batered as second-class mail matter.ORVERY AFTERNOON (EXCEPT SUNDAY)""""""" "_""" , ""The Winston Republican theleading paper of that party~publican platform in this Staomext year to contain these twoplanks:First, ~~that the system of cur| rency shall have gold as theunit value,�T| Second, ~that we are opposedto the free ani unlimited coin-age of silver�T The Populistscannot stand this and consequentiy there must be a divi-_ sion among the {[usionists next| year. Meanwhile it behooves| every Democrat to fight manfal_ ly for the full, free and unlimi| ted coinage of silver at the ratio.of 16 tol.'* Two of the Aldermen of the"city of Raleigh lost their plac-es itast Friday night under theelection law passed by the last» Legislature. The law requires| a statement of a'l monies spent| in the campaign by any candi» date to be filed with the Clerk_ within ten days after the elec_ tion and fixes the penalty ata' forfeiture of the office Underthis law no man who rnns for,an Office 1s elected unless he' complies with this sectiva. Bea.3)| the law in reference to the mat" ter:oEvery candidate whois yo-neState it issaid wants the Re |tetruetained ere in all respects .isafoll andand that the samedeta� ~ed statement of allso contributed or expended.~im, directly or indirectly,~eiuber by bimself. or through~any other person in aid of his~election. Candidates for offices~to be filled by the electors .of)|1© ~the encire State, or any subdi-in| vision or disirict thereoft-er than a county, sball file theirtaremenis in thefor town, yillrge and city offic -es staT! file their statements inhe office of the town, village orcity clerk wherein they are c«ndiJates. Candidates for ali otherOffices, including all offices ofcies and counties in the State,shall file their statements in theoffice of the clerk of the superiorcourt of the county in whichthe candidate resides or theelection occurs ; and any candi-date who shall neglect or refuseco file such statement shall for-feit his office, if any he have.TT""eeeNeeded a Change.There are some things whichsven the poor may get more ofthan ig necessary. ae Tadian-apvlis Journal telis thet » wearyard hungry mao fell from sbeerfaintness by the wayside.A crowd gathered at once, andan vfficious bystander bustied for-ward, sbouting:oStand back? Give him air?The fainting man rallied andsat up.oAir T be gasped. oGive meair! Why, gentlemen, I've Fadnothing but air for three days.�SMALL SAVINGS.low we publish the section of Tke Old Proverb oMany a LittleMakes a Micxle� ExemplifedBank Book fer Bright Puplis satted furatauy public election,held within this State, shall,within ten days after such elec-_ tion, file, as hereinafter provid~_ ed, an itemized statement, showing in eae all the mone_ contributed ore naded by him_ directly or indirectly, by him_ gelforthroagh any other per-egs~'atement shall give the namesof the various persons who re= of each item, and tnemrpose for which it was ex-ded or. contributed. Thereball be attached to such state: an affidavit, «ubscribednd sworn ogy Ag-sar serene oeting forth. in substance, that. statements in the paper con-son in aid of his election. Such!ceived the moneys, the specificBchool"A Saggestion as toPauper Relief~;~ nearShall we be pardoned for repeating~the old Scottish proverb that:**Many a little makes a mickle?� ItY*'ts so true in its teaching of thriftthat it ought to be impressed uponevery person, young and old, for noone is too old to begin to save.The basis of the prosperity of the'French people is their thrift. Ofcourse, says the YouthTs Companion,aoctevery French man and womansaves and puts by something, butthe practice is nearly universal. Itseems true, also, that those whoearn the least, and who are forcedto pinch aad screw the bardest togive themselves food, shelter andclothing of some sort, form the greatsaving class.office of the3eere.cry of State. Cuudidates|Tre Thrifty Frenchman " A SavingsAt the end of 1893, the public andprivate savings banks of France hadmore than 4and the amount standing to theircredit was three and three-quartersbillion francs. Yet this vast sum"~abont equal to the net public debtof the United States"was made upof little accounts which average butfour hundred and sixty francs, orninety-two dollars each.To save money is one of the les-sons taught in French schools. Asavings-bank book, with a smallsum to thecredit of the owner, is aprize commonly given to a brightpupil, in cases when an Americanschool would give the money out-right, or a book, or @ bicycle.Moreover, millions of French peoplewho do not trust the banks havemoney saved in old stockings and indiscarded teapots.The accumulation of savings by a-ommunity is doubly beneficial.fhe person who saves has some-thing laid by ~~for a rainy day,� andthe community has a fund which canbe lent at home. When savingsbanks exist and are generally pat-conized it ts not nevessary for theneople to look to capitalists in otherstates for money to be odorruowed onmortgages at exorbitant rates.~They can borrow of the local bank,and can have the satisfaction offeeling that the interest they paygoes to their own neighbors.This has been the experience notonly in the large cities of the east-ern states, but also in the factorytowns where savings banks are es-tablished, and where a vast majorityof the depositors are the ~~hauds,�who work for an average wage ofnot much more than a dollar aday.In some parts of the country"possibly the form of endeavor is morecommon than we suppose it to be~there is a systematic effort to teachthe poorest people to save. Wehave in mindafriendly society madeup of ladies, each one of whom hastaken under her oversight three orfour families in which the father isa drunkard, or the mother a widow,or where there are many youngchildren.The lady visits each family once aweek, makes all the members herfriends, and encourages them tosave something and intrust it toher. Ten cents, or aquarter, any-.hing which the family can spare, isaccepted. A careful account is kept,and when the coal supply runs shortthere is money on hand to pay forit.We knowof an Irish family, con-sisting of widow and five or sixvery young children, who werereceiving pauper relief at thetime this system was appliedto their case, and who are nowalmost independent. The boys aredoing well, earn their own livingand support their mother. More-over, they have learned to save.The methar aa laavwor «sql oheicharge of her case.Of course, there are many peoplewho cannot save, but there are morewho do not save because they think.they cannot. What we have ssid is ©for the benefit of the second class,who are apt to ascribe their difficul-ties to any cause rather than to thereal one. For the first class we canhave nothing but sympathy, and awish for better times and circum-stances.lf all who can save were to do so,and were to mass their savings forthe common good, they would. dealthe most effective blow possible atthe power of the great capitalists,whose accumulations of wealth arebelieved by many persons to be oneof the great dangers of the time.IRON STOVES.Dr. Franklin First Made Them forthe Burning of Coal.One of the very first attempts atmaking an iron stove was by Countor Cardinal Polignac, of France,early in the eighteenth century.The results of his efforts were sim-ply iron fireplaces, constructed withhollow backs, hearths and ironjambs; the only improvement itshowed over the old fireplace was ina slight saving of heat. In the year ©1716-Dr. Desaugliers, of London, im-proved the Polignac ffreplaces tosuch an extent that they could beused for burning coal as well aswood.Dr. FranklinTs stove, invented inthe year 1745, was a great improve-ment on everything in the stoveline that had preceded it. Theprinciples upon which it was con-structed were similar to the air-tight stoves introduced many yearslater. Indeed, it is believed thathad it been possible at that time forfounders to make tight-fightingcastings the Franklin experimentwould have been air-tight. Aboutthe year 1775 (there is some disputeabout the exact date) Dr. Franklinimproved his stove so as to make itsuitable to the consumption of com-mon bituminous coal. In 1782 Ben-jamin Thompson (Count Rumford)made several improvements onFranklinTs designs. In 1833 J. L.Mott made the first stove thatwould burn anthracite coal. Sincethe last-named date hundreds of in-ventors have taken part ia bringingthe stove up to its present perfec-tion. "St. Louis Republic.""The Curfew Beil.The practice of ringing the curfewbell appears. to have prevailedthroughout Europe long before theNorman conquest of England, itsobject being the laudable one of pre-venting fires, which, on account of -the houses being built chiefly ofwood, were at that time quite fre-quent and destructive,