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CHAPTER XIIL
BARRIERS INVISIBLE.
BLOUNT drove himself back to
-the capital the following
morning in the big roadster,
and there was no opportunity
for further confidential speech with
Patricia before he left But with the
new day bad come a new determina
tion. To the -best of his ability he
would try to live up to the high
standard set. for him by the woman
he loved, not only preaching the gos
pel of political righteousness, but do
ing his utmost to try to make it ef
fective.
With this high purpose in view he
drove on past the city garage and
made an early call upon Gantry.
"Hello, old man! Come back to row
me some more about that telegram "f
was his greeting.
Blount shook his head. "No. If
you have sent It, well and good; If
you haven't, you may pitch it Into the
wastebasket I came to talk about
something else."
"Good, sound, sensible second
thought," said Gantry, laughing. Then
he took out bis pocketbook and passed
the suppressed telegram across to
Blount "Here It Is. You can do the
wastebasket act yourself. I couldn't
let you commit haraklrl without at
least trying to get the cutting tool out
of your hands. What la the other,
thing you've got on your mind this
early In the morning?" ' •
"It's this, Dick. Tou know what
I've been doing—what I supposed I
was hired to do—assuring everybody,
right and left, that we were going
into this campaign with clean bands V
"I know," admitted the traffic man
ager, developing a sudden Interest In
the figures of the rug at his feet
"I have been doing this in a business
way at my office uptown in season and
out of season, and night before last at
Ophir I did it publicly. As the cam
paign progresses I shall doubtletj put
myself on record many times to the
same effect"
"Good man!" applauded Gantry,
striving to drag the talk down to some
less portentous altitude. "I'm sure we
need all the whitewashing anybody
can give us."
"That is Just the point," Blount went
on gravely. "It mustn't be merely a
coat of whitewash, Dick. It has got
to be the real thing this time. I be-
gan by firing the 'little b> o there,' as
yon called them, but I mean -to go
higher up if lam compelled to. Lan
here this morning to ask yon to give
me your word as a gentleman and my
friend that you will not, directly or in
directly, do or cause to be done any*
thing that will make me stand forth
as a self convicted liar before the peo
ple of this state. I want you to prom
ise me that yon will cut out all the
deals, all the briberies, all the bargain
ings, all the"—
"Oh, say, see here," protested the
man under firs; "you've got the wrong
pig by the ear, Evan. I'm not the
Transcontinental Hallway company."
"I know yon are not But to a
greater degre% than any other official
In the management yon bare Mr. Mo-
Vlckar's confidence. It yon don't feel
competent to handle this thing on your
own responsibility paas it up to those
who can and have it understood that
there must be no compromise.''
"Great Scott!" murmured Gantry.
"And you're' on the pay sheets the
same as the rest of us! But candid!/,
as man to man, Evan, tbs thing can*
be done. We've got to play the game
They'll eat os alive If we don't Ton
needn't figure in It It waa a mistake
letting Sim Hathaway go to you, and
I said so at the time. But your so ■
the powers that be said it had to be
that way, and I had to let him go and
ball you all up. It shan't happen
again. I can promise you that mueb,
anyway."
Blount caught quickly at the beat
tent pause.
"Who were the powers that be" la
Hatha way's case, Dick?" be demand
ed. .
1 can't Mi you that; honestly I
can't Evan," was the anxioae refusal
•Don't auk ma,"
"All right; them I shell amojom that
Mr. McWekar was responsible," said
Blount calmly, thus proving that ho
had not taken his degree in the law
sehoei for nothin*.
"Oh, bold on; yon mustn't do that
either," protested the aa wilting occu
pant of the witness stand.
"Thank you," said the postgraduate,
with the One Bio ant sortie "Now 1
know that it was my-fathas. -Nefdeaft
deny it. But wo are wandering from
the teal Issue. I've asksd yon tor a
promise, Dick, wm yon give itr
"I-I can't giro H. Evan, and that's
ths truth."
"No; tt isn't But that was abort
what I expected yon to soy. Now
bear ay Mo of it If yon dont dean
house you and the other officials of
ths company—l shall not only resign; I
shall take the field on the other ride end
tell what I know.
Honorable
Senator
Sagebrush
By
FRANCIS LYNDE
f I9M, by Strast « Snlth
' I have been tell
lif ' everybody
{•H k that this la to be
/2% * camnaiitQ of
■ jMty' publicity. I shall
keep my word."
"Oh. you would
|H y not do . that!"
protested Gantry,
J DOW - thoroughly
l alarmed. "You
\ know too much—
* -&M a a great deal too
much! "
Blount got up
-TOU no* TOO and relighted bis
MUCH A GBXAT „ " „WT, ™
DUAL TOO MUCH!" g F W,t " *
match taken
from the traffic manager 1 ■ desk box.
• "It's up to you," he said, with his
hand on the doorknob. "Get into com
munication with whatever 'powers
that be" then are that can give the
necessary orders and see to it that the
wrders are given and that they are put
In the way of being.carried out Dick,
I mean what I say. If■ a clean sheet
—or an exposure that will make a lot
of you wlah that you bad never been
born."
"Hold on—one question before you
go, Evan," pleaded Gantry, "and give
me a straight anawer. Is this another
move of the honorable—of your fa
ther's r
Blount's smile was as grim aa any
that Gantry had ever seen on the face
•f the Honorable David
"My father is much more likely to
take sides with you, I am sorry to
say. No, Dick; you've got only one
man to fight but you muatn't forget
that his name also Is Blount Go to
It and send me word and let the first
word be that you have scotched, the
head of this lumber company snake.
That's all for today. Qoodby."
Returning to hla office In Temple
court, Blount found that the morn
ing mall had been busy with him also.
There were three invitations from
widely separated cities in the state, all
based upon the newspaper reports of
his Ophlr speech, and the afternoon
mall brought three more.
It was evident that the campaign of
education had strnck a popular chord,
and the young political manager saw
what a miraculous opportunity was
opening for the railroad if only the
"powers" that Gantry had refused to
name could be broad enough and high
minded enough to seize it
After that for three weeks Blount
scarcely saw his office in the capital.
One appointment followed another In
rapid succession, and everywhere there
was a repetition of the welcome ex
tended by the Ophir miners t cordial
welcome, generous applause and kind
ly hospitality at eviry turn. »
It was not until he was deep Into the
1 fourth week of the hurryings to and
fro that he began to admit a suspicion
which grew like a juggler's rose when
he had once given it placet These In
vltatlons, which were now coming
from all parts of the state—coald It be
possible that they woe all spontane
ous? And If they were not—
If they were so many subtle moves
In the great game he could see no pos
sible end to be subserved by them save
one—they were effectually keeping
him away from the capital, .which was
the nucleus and center of the cam
paign activities.
Was there something going on at
headquarters that "the powers" did
not wish him to And outf Of one
thing he wan fairly well 'assured-
Gantry was dodging him, was ap
parently keeping an accurate record
of his movements, for whenever the
hurrylngs to and fro permitted a fly
ing visit to the capital Gantry was al
ways out of town.
With the awakening suspicion came
a rapid potting together of two and
two. Wherever be went there was al
ways the same pressing hospitality,
with many nrgtngs to delay his going.
At the saa» time tt became evident in
many little ways that be was in reali
ty merely skimming over the sorfee*
in his campaign work.
That a hot political fight was going
cd all around hip be could not donbt
The newspapers were full of It, and In
many sections of the state the fight
had become acrlmonlons and bitter.
Bat, although be was snppeasd to be
In the.flgbt 11 began to be apparent
that be was little more than an on
looker when It came to the really vital
alliums of the moment.
It waa aa If everything had been
eafotelly prearranged, like a sort of
trfcuapbal procession. None the lees
the tavisibis barrier, the barrier which
waa shotting him out from the Inner
workings of the campaign, was there,
and be could neither surmount It mar
posh it aside.
Notwithstanding the hasd work and
the bard traveling he was doing he
did not let thn missionary effort out
weigh the stnrdler porpoee, which was
to bold his principals rigidly op to the
mirror o a vigilant watchfulness.
Arguing that the opposition newspa
pers would bs quick to ssise upon any
efcarge of corruption involving the rail
road company, be toad them faithful
ly. As yet there bad been nothing
mors than spiteful tnoosadsss and a
raking evse of pest misdaada, though
many of the editors were sberging a
•octet a more between Ustat* and
McVlckar and warning tbdr renders
to look oot for startling developments
later on.
Mot content with mere watrhfui D «i»
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 11,1911.
However, "Blount got njs-ungar upon
tl>* pulse of occasions whenever he
could. On bis brief stopovers in tha
capital be kept his eyes and ears open
for tha earliest bint of any charge of
chicanery, And, though be was un
able to get bold of Oantry personally,
be kept up a steady lire of letters and
Mniimi, all pointing to the same
end—Absolute and utter good faith
and the upholding of his bands in the
public plea for a square deal.
To these the traffic manager replied
guardedly, but optimistically. The
management was delighted with the
good work dbne and doing by the new
division counsel; public opinion was
slowly but surely changing; it would
be a landslide election, and Blount
could take credit for his due.
In all this Blount did not fall to re
mark that there was never anything
said about the Hathaway bargain, and
the omission made blm the more
wstchfuL A little Investigation un
earthed other -and similar bargains
made in the past
For example, there was a practical
and very effective Irrigation trust, an
alliance, offensive and defensive, of
the big irrigation companies. Control
ling the water under proprietary
rights, as most of them did, these
companies could influence many votes
among the beneficiary farmers. Land
teals in the past with the railroad
company had been the basin for cor
ruption here, and, with the electric
power people, preferential freight
rates had been traded for the votes of
employees, as with Hathaway.
Some of these special rates were
still In force, as the quiet investigation
on the ground developed, whereupon
Blount's communications to Gantry
took on s more emphatic tone. The
tariffs must be revised and one of two
things must be done—either the prefer
ential of the favored corporations must
be withdrawn or the public rates must
be leveled down to meet the specials.
It was on a second speechmaklng
visit to Ophlr that Blount bad his first
face to {ace chance st the traffic man
ager after the opening of the corre
spondence battle.
A meeting of the Ulne Owners' as
sociation, moving for a readjustment
of the classification on copper matte
and bullion at a time when the rail
road company might be supposed to be
on the giving hand, took Gantry to
the great camp in the Carnadine hills,
snd the first man he met at the hotel
was the new dictator of pollclea for
the Transcontinental company.
"Made a mistake, didn't you, Dick,
coming while I was here?" said the
i reformer,- with a very lifelike replica
of his father's grim smile.' "I suppose
you've got an immediate engagement
to go somewhere or see somebody."
"No; I wish I had," was the hearty
adnilsslo4 "Say, Kvan, you are get
ting to be a perfect nlghtmaro with
your letters and telegrams.' You've got
me so I'm afraid to open nfy dgak.r
Why can't you let well enough alofce?
You haven't heard of any akulduddery
lately, have you?" t
"Nothing new, no. But a bouseclean
lng Is supposed to take down all the
old cobwebs. Those preferentlals for
United Electric and the SI wash Land
and Improvement"—
"Heavens and earth! You call your
self a lawyer, and yet you ask us to
set sslde promises that are or ought
to be as binding as so many written
contracts, with penal attachments! It
can't be done, Evan—that's all there is
to it; it can't be done.'"
" 'Can't' goes out of the window
when 'must' comes in at the door, Dick.
I've been digging into the records, and
I have evidence enough to turn the
people of this state into a mob that
will tear up your tracka if I should
publish It."
"But I tell you we can't withdraw
the specials, you wild eyed fanatic!"
"AH right; then level down tbe pub
lic's rateto lit the™ And do It quick
ly, Dick. The time la growing fear
fully short, and my patience Isn't what
It used to be."
"Anybody would think you owned
the Transcontinental, lock, stock and
barrel! Where under heaven did you
get your nerve, Evan 1 Bleat If I don't
believe you could outbluff tbe old—er—
your father himself if you once got
the fool notion Into your head that It
was your duty to try."
This time Blount's smile was rather
sorrowful, and be shook bis head.
"Come and bear me apeak tonight
if you're staying over that long.
Then you'll know why I must have the
solid rock of good faith under my feet.
Gantry. You spoke of my father Just
now. I bear the name, too, Dick. Don't
you se« that I've got to make good?"
It wSs during this hardworking In
terval that Blount saw, with keen re
gret, the gradual widening of the
breach between him and bis father.
That tbe long arm of the machine of
which his father waa the acknowl
edged head waa reaching out Into all
comers of the stats there waa ample
tfUesca and thai the machine cam
paign was a thing to be reckoned with
and fought against, wsa a cardinal
principle with the fSing reformer.
Bat It la hard to Ogbt to the dark.
Tt» organisation waa *o perfect that
tta T«7 ex late DC« a—ad mythical at
tlmaa a mere bugbear aet up to be
knocked down by the ho neat votar at
the potla on election day.
Tat Bloaot knew that It wu BO
■yth. Bometlmea be fancied that It
waa the machine which waa Interpoe-
Jng the lnrlalble barrier beyond which
ha waa not permitted to paaa. With
that thought came the old donbta and
feara that hla father and McVlckar
had conanlted together to make him
the fence behind which all the trickery
of a renal campaign could be aafely
•creased. Bnt while tble thought ▼!»-
Ibly widened the growing breach it
mad* hla only more determined to
light to the bitter end. What one man
could do to herald the daws of a new
political epoch for hla natlre atata
ahould ha done.
It waa on one of hia abort atopoeera
la the capital city that Blount found
hlmaelf aeated oppoalte hla father at a
table for two In the Inter-Mountain
cafe. The meeting waa purely acci
dental, aa moat of their meeting* bad
tmm to he. Inquiring for hla father
at the deek, Blount tad DM told that
the aiaaUr waa out of town. Bnt an
boar inter, whan ha bad taken bin aaat
at the dinner ÜbU. the auppoaed ab
aentee had walked In to take the op
poctte cbtir.
For a time their talk waa of the do
laea at Wanrao Halt of the profea
wish I could say as much for other
people."
The boss looked up quickly. "Some
body been trying to block you V
Evan Blount met the gaze of the
shrewd gray eyes without flinching.
"I don't know of any good reason
why we shouldn't be frank with each
dad," be said, using for the
first time since his return the old boy
hood father name. "You know better
than any one else, I think, what the
stumbling blocks are and who is put
ting them in ißy way."
Instantly the faraway look came
into the gray eyes.
"I know a heap of things that I
can't tell—not just yet, son. Has Mc-
Yickar been calling you down?"
"No one has called me down, but
some one or something is keeping me
out of the real fight. There isn't any
fight that I can get into. Everywhere
I go there is the same cut and dried
welcome, the same predetermined en-
Sometimes it seems as if
all the people I meet bad been in
structed to make things pleasant and
easy for me."
The senator's chuckle was barely
audible.
"I wouldn't find much fault with
that If 1 were you. son." he said.
"You'll get enough of the real thing
by and by." «
Blount felt Jils anger rialng. He
was In precisely the right mood to Re
lieve that hla father, falling to mince
him a cog In one of the wheels In the
machine, had gone about In some mys
terious way to insulate him, to make
It impossible for him to get Into the
real tide of affairs. But he kept his
temper.
"It's no use," he said, with a tang
of abruptness in his tone. "We are
diametrically opposed to each other—
you and I, dad. I stand for democ
racy, the will of the people and Its
fullest and freest expression. Yon
stand for"—
"Well, son. what do I stand for?"
queried the father, and the question
was accompanied by the quizzical smile
that brought the hot blood boyishly to
Blount's cheek.
"If I should say what all men say—
what some of them are frank enough
to say even to me"— He stopped short
and then went on again with better
self control: „
"Let's keep the peace If we can. dad.
I'm sorry that you are finding It nec
essary to fight me and a thousand
times sorrier that I've got to fight you.
But I'll "tell you here and now that
I'll never quit this state—this native
stato of mine—until It has bad at least
one decently clean election. I have
told Gantry to pass the word that I
shall show the railroad up if it doesn't
play fair, and I've got to band the
tfamo thing out to you, dad. I don't
tWant to threaten, but it la only fair to
say that I haven't been going about
with my eyes shut. Whether you have
suthorlzed It or not, there Is a lot of
crooked work going on, and If I am
driven to It I can print some things
that would change the political msp of
this state so it won't be recognizable."
For some little time after bis sun
bad left the cafe the Hon. Senator
Sagebrush ant absently toying with Ms
dessertspoon. When he rose to go out
the battle light In the fierce gray eyes
was the signal which not even his most
faithful henchmen could always Inter
pret, but which most men feared.
[TO BE ooirruruKD.] ,
The loafer is not afraid of spring
fever germs.
It looks as if tho harem skirt
were to be hobbled.
* *«?
The silk hat is threatened, but
threatened hats live long.
Iu catching a streetcar a harem
skirt haa a hobble skirt skinned
a block.
There ought to be no trouble in
getting a little light on the so
called match trust.
New uses are continually being
found for radium. All that Is
needed is some radium.
Sometimes when you thinktbat
opportunity Is knocking at your
door it turns out to be a collector.
The meanest man haa been
found in Texas. He waa arrested
for stealing milk from an orphan
asylum.
A hospital physician declares
that everybody is crazy now and
then. So it ian't always the other
fellow.
An unusual happening is re
ported from Connecticut. A
woman fonnd $3,000 in her dead
huaband'a pockets.
To teach tbe young idea how to
swim Chicago educators think is
quite aa important aa teaching it
to shoot.
Tbe harm skirt haa been caus
ing riote in Rio Janioro, but
Busnoa Ayres appear* to be mak
ing an effort to take it tranquilly.
In parts of Nova Scotia auto
mobileing ia allowed four days
sach week. The rest of tbe time
the roada are perfectly safe.
You can send a day letter by
telegraph now, but old-fashioned
people will cling to tbe "arrived
safety" and "am well" formula.
Property valued at upwards of
$0,000,000 was destroyed, hun
dreds of people made homeless
and almost the entire business
section of Bangor, Me., devastat
ed by fire Sunday night.
FOLEY'S OMNO LAXATIVE
n CofiiTJfATWM
North Carolina News.
Frost in Balden county a few
days ago killed the young cotton
and there was probably a similar
reanlt in other counties in that
section.
While Its mother was scouring
the floor, the 2-year-old child of
Mr. and Mrs. Will Davie, of Cleve
land county, fell into a pail of
boiling water and wa* fatally
scalded.
A Cleve'and county farmer lost
% horse valued at $250 and when
a post mortem was made it was
found that a quart of sand clogged
the animal's internal economy.
The horse drank water at a shal
low branch and thus took the
sand into its stomach.
F. C. Watkins, charged with
murder in the second degree for
the killing of John Ilill Bunting
at the Gladstone hotel, Black
Mountain, one night in August,
1009, was found guilty of man
slaughter in Buncombe Superior
Court last woek.
Mr. W. B. Ferguson, a brother
of Judge G. S. Ferguson and one
of the oldest and best known
members of the bar of the ,10th
judicial district, died suddenly at
Frauklin.jMacon county, where he
was attending court, Weduesday.
Remains taken to Wayneeville
for burial.
The executive committee of
home mission of the Southern
Presbyterian Church is planning
for a Statewide campaign in be
half of the Presbyterian riiissiou
schools of the State. A canvass
of the churches will be made this
month by ex-Gov. Glenn.
The residence and smokehouso
of W. C. Taylor, in No. 1 town
ship, Cabarrus county, were burn
ed 26th, hut most of the contents
of the buildings were saved. A
hay stack between the house and
barn was burned and the barn
was saved with difficulty. Fire
was of accidental origin.
At Kiug's Mountain the other
day a bird dog walked into the
bank and unknown to 4 the bank
people picked up a packago and
walked out. On the street the
dog stopped and proceeded to tear
opsn the package. A passerby
observed this procedure and found
that the package contained $lB
in cash.
T, K. Pittillo was recen.ly ar
rested and placed under bond in
Ileadorson county to answer the
charge of burning a mill. After
the mill wan berned it waa circulat
ed that bloodhounds would be
brought to trace the incendiary,
and it ia alleged that Pittillo was
ssen placing pepper in tracks lead
ing toaueffroin the mill, the pep
per being designed to throw the
bloodhounds off the scent.
West Pulley has been placed in
the penitentiary to serve 20 years
for the murder of Honry Perry in
Franklin county four years a«o.
lie waa deela'red insane soon after
tho killing waa committed to the
critniqal insane department of the
penitentiary without trial, re
maining there until quite recently,
when he waa taken to Franklin
county for trial. This resulted in
the 30-year aentenco.
Tho Tribune Bays the barn of
Mr. C. Richmond Montgomery, in
No. 2 township, Cabarrus county,
and about five miles from Concord,
waa burned at 3 o'clock Thursday
morning April 37th, five mules, a
lot of corn, rough feed, three tone
of fertilizer, wagon, gears, etc.
One pair of mules waa valued at
♦OOO. Tho property waa inaured
for 9590 and the-V>*s is estimated
at about thrice that amount.
The fire waa evidently of incen
diary origin.
A dispatch from Waynesville
says that Jim Davis, a groom of
four welks, is occupying A cell
at the jail for brutally beating hia
stepdaughter of 15. placed
her head between his knees, then
used three thorn switches on her
node body. Davis is trying hard
togiveboud, but public senti
ment ia wrought up to such a
point that it might be well for
him to remain in jail until court,
for fsar be might receive just aa
bad, or woroa, chastisement than
ha gave tbe girl. The good citi
zens who live in the aame part of
the town aa Davis put op the cash
for a lawyer to prosecute him.
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HAS NO SUBSTITUTE
fm
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure
Thm only baking powdar
mndo from Royal Bra/to
Oraam of Tartar
NO ALUM.NO UME PHOSPHATF
Items Of AH Sorts.
A revolution has broken out in
Canton, China, and the situation
is Borious.
The engine of a passenger train
overturned at Dayton, Ohio, Sun
day night, killed three —including
the engineer and fireman—and
injured six.
Mrs. Catherine Ilawk, of Balti
more, years old, a bride of leas
than a year, smoked a cigarette
as she lay in bed and was fatally
burned as a result.
Gov. Wilson, of New Jersey,
was a guest of honor at a banquet
in Norfolk last week and was
hailed as the probable Democratic
presidential nominee in 1912.
A few drops of lemon juice in
the water in which rice is boiled
will help to keep the kernels whole.
Plenty of water is another
requisite.
The season is at hahd when the
neighbors' lions constitute a per
plexing problem with the one who
takes pride in a well kept flower
or vegetable garden.
A few dayifo.ago a shipload o£
dressed sheep were sold on the
San Francisco market in prime
condition. They were brought
under refrigeration from Au
stralia, a distance of 7,000 miles,
and paid a duty of 5 cents a pound.
While fish make their homes in
water they must have oxygen,
which is always found in fresh
water. It is a lack of this element
that causes the death of fish in
many a shallow pond and lake
duiing the winter season when
then the water freezes to a con
siderable depth and prevents its
purification by contact with the
air.
The Eagle dam, located 1001
miles north of Ki I'aso, on the
Itio Grande, the building of which
has already been started, will
create, it is claimed, the largest
storage reservoir in the world.
The dam is to be 105 feel high
and 1,400 feet long on top. It
will flood an area of 48,000 acres
to an average depth of sixty-two
feet and will famish water for
the irrigation of 180,000 acres of
land.
| The Mecklenbury grand jury,
f which was charged by Judge Biggs
t) investigate the rumors of brib
ery and corruption at tho receut
r municipal primary in Chaslotte,
' finds that the "rumors wero ex
aggerated, some of thein totally
i false and the city in some rospscUi
'slandered." While it is admitted
1 that liquor was probably used
1 corruptly, the grand jury was un
able to fix the responsibility.
| Boone Democrat: Mr. Noah
Brookshiro lost a fine mare in a
gather peculiar way. Ilis sou,
Sherman, was riding her to town
and stopped to talk to some one,
dropping the reins on the animal's
i neck. She got her foot entangled
f and the rider dismounted just in
I time to save himself, as she reared
i up, fell backwards and crushed
I her head against the bard ground,
it. L. Smith, a traveling man of
Memphis, Tenn., en root to the
1 home of his parents at Jubilee,
' Davidson county, accompanied by
1 his wife and son, became uncon
scious just before the train reach
ed Asheville Sunday afternoon.
1 He was taken to a hospital there
and died in a short time. His re
mains wore returned to Memphis
for burial. Bright's disease as
-1 signed as cause of death.
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NO. 13
PROFESSIONAL CARDB
tT s. a oos:.
Attorney -at- Law,
GRAHAM, H. 0.
OOo* Pkttoraon Batldlnc
Beoood Fleor. . . , , . -*• T
r«m» uiArutio*. w. r. Brwntt,
BVNUM &BYNTJM,
A.ttoraejr* and Cotuuelorv §| X4AW
Qn-hiENHBOBO, II U.
Practice reftnlarlf la the eoorte of lift*
.nance county. An*. 1; ft | j
DAMERON & LONO
Atlorneys-at-Law
88. W. DAMEHON, J. ADOLPB LOW)
'Pbone 860, 'Phone IMB
Piedmont Building, Holt-NlcboUon Bid*.
Burlington, B.C. Oraham, M..0.
t WILLS. LORfi, JR.
» 1 t DENTIST ) | t
Graham, • » « . North Carsllaa
OFFICE IN BTMUONS BUILDISO
fAGOB A. LONO. J. XLICKS Ulß]
LONG & LONO,
Attonuj* and OonnMlow a* Lnr
GRAHAM, K. O.
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DR. F. G. GOWEK
DENTIST
GRAHAM, N. C.
Office: Over National Bank of
Alamance, j
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First Class
Farm Implements
Yon MY. Labor, Tba, tmi.
Momjt whan you boy i,yl,
ments that waar wall uU wotk
welt. Tha kind that we eeO.
We iasue one of die beat and
moat complete of Farm Imple
ment Catalog*. It gives prices,
description* and much interest
information. Mailed free upon
request
We are headquarters for
V. Crimp and other Wbs
Fencing, Barb Wire, Pwilhy
Nat**, ate.
Write for Deaeriptire Catalog and
price, on any suppllee or Fum Im
plementa you require.
The Implement Co.
1302 Kaat Main SL,
RICHMOND, . . VIRGINIA.
Special Privilege Defined.
Wood row Wllaoti.
By privilege, as we now fight it,
we mean control of law, of legis
lation and of adjudication by or*
ganizations which do not repre
sent the people, by means which
are private and selfish and worthy
of all condemnation.
We mean specifically tho con
duct of onr affairs and the shaping
of our legislation in the interest
of special bodies of capital and
those who organize their use.
We mean the alliance for this
purpose of political machines with
the captains of organized industry.
We mean the exploitation of the
people by legal and political
means.
Wo have ceased to see our gov
ernments under these influences
cease to be representative govern
ments, cease to be governments
representative of the people and
become governments representa
tive of special interests, controlled
by machines, which, in their turn,
are not controlled by the people.
John D. Rockefeller wonld go
broke if he should spend his sntirs
income trying to prepare a better
medicine than Chamberlain's Col
ic Cholera and Diarrhoea Reicedy
for diarrhoea, dysentery or bowel
complaints. It is simply impas
sible, and so says every one that
has used it. Sold by all dealers.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows
meets in Winston next week.
The secretary reports the value
of property of subordinate lodges
has Increased from $193,725 to
$439,14® during the past deesde.
In addition the orphanage proper
ty st Goldsboro is talued «t #IOO,-
000, snd 160 children are cared
for at an annual cost of t16,00Q.
The splended work of Chamber
lain's Stomach snd Liver Tablets
is dsily coming to light. No each
grand remedy for liver snd bowel
troubles was ever known before.
Thousands bless them for oaring
constipation, sick headache, bil
iousness, jaundice and indiges
tion. Sold by all dealers.
A white boy, 17 years old, wss
lodged in Surry county jail last
week, charged with criminally as
saulting a 9-year-old white girl,
Btanth*