North Carolina Newspapers

C t- "s : : : X -.1 -A' Home Newspaper Published in the InteresVof ftePe6pfe and for. Honestyih Governmental Affairs ! : : " - ; -.o a.-. -. . - -. , . - - - ' v.-- . - - 1:. -. J m Salisbury, N. C, Wednesday, March- 27th," 1 2V Vol. VIM no. 15 Wm; H. Stewart, Eon oh r7 i-v i i " 4 i mm Ml i : ., ' : ' ,:r;r ' " ' v ' ' J4 ' ft CHEAmi QUICKEST AND ! EASIEST BOAD .BUILDING. The (1)rag-wiH-Aston'sh Yen. Raise a BanpSritid Make Them Ac. tit see&is to us that all the county papers in South Carolina are engaged in a contest to see- whicfy .can preach most effectively- the virtueaof the split-log drag. The dewberry Herald and News, a pioneer advocate, reports many converts among "wherry County farmers and pledges itself to- have edmethins? to say on the sub ject in every issue. The Timmonsvilie Enterprise says that the drag is being used onthe streets of Titnmons ville as well as'upon Florence County roads, arid with good results. The same thing i being done in Sumter, 'lhe Greenwood Journal and the Laurens Advertiser tell of farmers in boh those coun ties who have been using the drag on the roads in the vicinity of their hemes, and the1 Journal boasts that in that county every road was dragged before the last rain. The growing popularity of this simple but highly useful device for Keeping the high ways in good condition is-very gratifying, as is the the dis- " position of the farmers in the matter. But it is just as well to hear in mind that no country in all the history of the world ever built or, main tained good highways by a system of voluntary co-operation. Qharleston News and C&urier. ." . ; . -How. many good citizens havebeen spending the win- terintirn Davidson, "cussing" the loads. Some of this "cus sing" has been of the profane variety and some of it ha? not. All of it has been in effectual, worthless, unavail ing. The roads are as.bad as they have ever been and no amount of cussing, profane or otherwise, will help them. Now that you have tried the virtues of malediction, 'anathema, invective, and the .different varieties of plain and fancy cussing and proved their futility beyond: the shadow of doubt, try a little work. Build a split log drag and as soon as the worst .of - the mud dnes cut of the roads, put'it- to work. You will be astonished at the re sults: Davidson Dispatch. We want to commend the public spirit manifested by people in different sections of the country in regard to working the public roads which have for the past six weeks been so bad. The split log drag is doing the work and the folks are using them, giving their time and their tjeams to the good work Out on the Morgan Mill road yesterday C. F. Helms, Fred Chaney and others turned out with a split log drag made by T. .J. Bivens, and made a splendid road from the town limits to the forks of the Morgan Mill and Olive Branch roads. On the Lan caster road tor six miles or more out of town the folks have used the drag and County Superintendent N is bet, who. went down into Buford township yesterday ov-ir that road says that one cannot realize that the Lan caster, road, which last week was a continuous mudtfoie is now a smooth, solid, good road. Down in Buford township 'Sqitire Jerry C. " Laney and other progres sive citizens are getting busy and are using the drags over the roads to good advantage. "Blessings on the man who invented the split-log drag . and more blessings on those who are using these drags To the betterment of our roads. Monroe Enquirer. , All of us thought the roads were ruined when the freezes, j Or. Wile j Resigns. : I Dr. Harvey W. Wiley has re signed his position as Chief of tte B ureau of Chemistry ia the United States Department"" of Agriculture, giving as his reason the ' iuhospitaLle atmosphere" of the Department and the hostility of his soDeriors io the work het wai doing. There are some re markably good men' in the De partment of Agriculture,, but it would be hard to find one who has made such a hard and con sistent fight for a great principle or who has accomplished as much for the American people as has ;Dr Wiley, The value of his work is pot yet generally realized, fcr to him more than to -any other one man is due the pro gress made in preventing the selling of unwholesome and mis 1 randed foods, drinks and drugs.. His retirement is a loss t) the Nation.. It is a'so one more reason for the ftrtners' ineiBtiog that there he a new Secretary of Agricul ture. Daring the early years of his administiatiou Secretary Vi!son did a eplendid woxk for th-3 farmers of the cauutry; but it has become increasingly evi dent ifi the last three cr four years that the business methods of the D-apirtment were wretched ly conducted, and that the Secre tly was not in 6yojpafehy with I fbase of his subordinates who vre doing the best work, J3if f ,rd Pinch-t went; Dr. Wiley go s The country could have spared a . dc-zsn men like Secre tary Wilsou-beUer than either of them. It i3 time for President Taf t to act. Progresi7e Farmer. " snow, sleet and. fain put in thoip wocksentlys r$"ot m4 D. VV. Saunders, who lives three miles southeast of Troy, put his mules to a split-log drag and in half a day con verted what was an almost impassable road, between his place and town into the same admirable turnpike that it was before the bad weather set in. We had begun to de spair of good roads, thinking them a failure, but since Mr. Saunders has demonstrat ed that the most trying weather cannot deprive us of good roads long at a time, .we are stronger than ever in favor of good roads. No dirt road can stand up well under sleet, snow. freezes and constant rain, but since these last only a short time in the year, there can be no reason to oppose good roads because of the few days they are not good. Better have eleven months 01 good roads than 12 months of bad - ones. Troy Mont gomerian. Line upon line, precept up- J J . . A A on precept. u is not too often-to preach the gospel of road repairs every day, ess pecially at this season of the year. You who are skeptical about the efficacy Of thesplit log drag, take the testimony from the-Troy Montgom erian. . That is the note. Pass it along among the unbelievers. Stick it under the noses of road superintendents who are wasting the people's money hauling dirt and shaping up roads in the summer and then not touching it again, leaving it to be worn down by the fall travel and washed away by the winter rains, with the result that what might easily have been a firm roadbed, is turned into soft mud and al most impassable. If the supervisors can't sae it, then let some live, sensible' map in the neighborhood raise such .1 i ii ; l a rumpus mat otness win join him and make the offi cials take notice. Or what might be better in some ins stances, let him make a drag and donate a half a day now and then as an object lesson. Every community must have a leader, anyway, or the pro gress is apt to be backward, (xreensboro M ews. RLCLAI MINS THE BACK SLIDER. Pi'rrpont Morgan and Others Said to Jiaie ; 6irea One Million to "Protestantism One million dollars are to. he spent throughout tho country within the next eleven months to reviv e interest, in religion' among the massFT J. Piereponl Morjan .and ?V number, of liis, friends in the financial district gft New York, have subscribed the money. In many ways the, campaign to reclaim the backsliders, upon which they have eai barked is the most. significant and momentous in the history of Protestantism in America. - v With the ' stimulus given to Protestantism by such gifts, and the widespread interest awakened among Protestants, a return of the religous 'fervor fhat swept the country a generation ago is im minent. Mr. Morgan and bis associates osti mute that there are in the CJuitea: States approximately 65t 00$000 affiliated and non affili ated Protestants. Though the churches are rivals in spiritual matters, they are in accord upon manp subjects of mutual interest iiotably upon that of socialism, which recent statistics show to be making hsavy stiides in the body politic. To tig business, socialism stands for disintegration and is inccmpatable with the. precepts of religion . Hence . the Morgan religion revival is two fold in its objyct: First to check the growth of socialism, which "big business" regards as the most dangerous foe of social.-and- political order; Second to bring back into the fold the great mass of the, people who of late years have baeu steadi ly drittms away iron tne in- flaeuce of the churches. The first condition being con sidered the direct result of the second,: the sponsors of the Morgan movement propos3 to gbt to its primary causa. Religion is to be made popular as well as .at tractive by beiLg made sympa thetic. Tin complaint of the massss that the churches are cold and repellant in their attitude t,i the poor and lowly is to be remedied. Patrician and prole tariot ere to be made equally weloome. The warm hand of fellowship, will go out in glad ness and jcy to all alike. Cafcte, cliques, and the various divisions and sab-divisions in which con gregations are wont to array themselves in friendship and hos tility to one another, will be dis couraged. L:ve and cheerfulness will be the order of the day every where. Thus will the great tody of peo ple be drafted hack into the service of the church. To reach i man's heart firjt arouse hiB Spiritual emotions. Then he is invulnerable to the exhortations cf the socialist or the business biiting muckraker. Big business believes -that the religious man is a builder and not u destroyer and realizes .that to have' prosperity himself he must help rnakf others prosper ous. 1 lie idea marks a return to homely first principles and is al truiftic in that it seeks through indirection to foBtui a sense of good' will toward cur fellow beings dud discourage the notion so: fre quently emphasized by the polit ical and tusinees demagogne that tniLgs nere on tnis eartn are "going to the d gs. " Stuff sent out from New York. Glorious News comes trom 1)1. j. 1. Uurtiet- Dwight, Kansas. He wrnes: ' dot; oniy nave earca oaa cases 01 eczema in my patieuts with Ejoc- tric Bitters, but also cured myself by them of the same disease f el Burs thfey will benefit ai case of eczema. This shows what thousands have proved that iSlectnc Bitters is a. most effective" blood purifier. It's an excel lent remedy for eczema tetter, alt rheum, ulcers, boil and running sores. It stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels, expel poisons, helps digestion, builds up the strength. Price 50 cents. Satisfaction guaranteed by All Druggists. flllEITlIM JPRIZES QFFEREIJfQR RACES AND FLOATS. - - . " ryi--.-; ' f - ;- Proceedings of Foiir rof Jiilj, Celebration Committee Last TfiatsjIarHigE - .-'iU ' ' ' & ' ' ' .; i ' The Salisbury fourth of July celebration committee met in the grand - Jury room in the court hoijise at 8 o'clock Thursday nightr March 21. A - v President F. F. Smith pre sided and stated tlfat he had called the meeting, thus early to lay plans for the biggest celebration ever held in Salisbury and to ''bring the largest crowd of people here that has ever attended a fair or public entertainment in Kowan. . .' - Those present were: F. F. Smith presidents M. C. Quinn, 1st vice president; J. H. Ramsay, 2nd vice presU dent; S. VV. Harry, -treasurer; T. E. Withers pqqa, chair, man decorating committee: R, L Avery,' chairman rac ing committee; CT. Brown, chairman advertising com- mlttee; T. D. Brown, mem"1 ber of the arrangemet com- mittee. : . Treasurer Harry reported a balance of money in hand from last year's celebration of 825 including interest. j It was decided to offer five j cash prizes amounting to '$150 tor agricultural floats, divid ed as follows: irst piizer $50,' Second prize40, Third prize.'S30, Fourth prize20,' Fifth prize," 810. Attractions were arranged as follows:. There rf ill be held Pin the afternoon cf 'the 4th of July at. Fair Paris n, tqarna; thft P,mmtv. th m.mhfir nf knights to be limited to four- 1 . I t.n hein? nne to enp.h town- ship in the county. The 4111 01 JUiy association will offer ' as first prize for the aueen $15, for first maid of honor S10, second maid of honor $5. President Smith, who is chairman of the speaking committee, announced that he had invited O'ol. Robert E. Lee of Washington City, grandson of the immortal (ren. K, E. Lee, to be the orator of the day and had received a reply from him hanking the association for the honor of the invitation and that he accepted. PROGRAM FOR THE DAY. A program for the morning of the 4th was arranged as follows: At 9 o'clock there wUl be different contests on - West Innes Street for prizes, after which the narade will take rjlace. The parade will end at the speaker's stand, tne place to be selected, when the ad dress of Col. Lee will be heard. After the address everybody is expected to go to Fair Park to witness the tournament, horse races and baseball game. Cash prizes Will be awards ed for the fastest horses, the amounts to be announced later by the chairman of . the racing,committee. REODEST TO MERCHANTS. T?rr.. rr,oTv4iaiit. in Kfl KsU burv is expected to'.naye floats in the parade, the prizes for the handsomest ' to be given later. ine mer chants will also be reminded of their promise made after the celebration last year to decorate the front of their stores. All labor organizations are earnestly requested to parti- cipate in tfie 4tn. 01 July celebration. Any communis cation. addresseu iu me presi dent irom any 01 ine ainerent organizations relative to the celebration will be given nt.t.Hhtion. ana iniance, is tne awful speed -ot our niriua arfl Ht-siftid! , ULIUIU .-wpw- v - - awarding the prizes for floats will consist ot hve men to be appointed later- Dy the niaairianr . The committee was assured fir. Wi?PV Racitrno " i' rin nrniarl TBtfkf.;l. . m- s L .uU i-luu jjmiBe irom the ' nation's chief executive, r- . i nampsrea "Dy a reactionary de partmental - chief who has long since outlived his usefulness. badgered by a pettifogging-lawyer fthe night-school variety "who as a representative of the vicious interests, was: abr to1 nullify or reoaer anortive efforts made vm theTntejbf pabiic health. Dr. "Wjey has given up the unequal nghnd banded in his resigna tion.. Thus fetirei from the government . servicfl one of the most uie&l officials tTs-" country has ever hd . . An lroplacabla fos of fraud" od deceit, Dr. Wiley has for vears - stood hfit.wftsn more or less helpless oublio and th9 vested interests that have de veloped to a science tfie .business of adnlfera'ting focds.sophijti- cating drug?, thus ;n mauy wavj thraateniug putelic - health. On every dabatablequsti'.-a regard ing the wholes wnenesa of fojd- ? tuffs. Dr. Wiley ii3 oiiai-t j'tl on th.i side of the B&pit5! hi i s; - p-jrjur om:ers navere&u as persistently on the . side of thoBe who have made their ShilHoas b substituting cheap and. off n pyiojuu us urugs ror more expen sfve but wholesome foods As sailed from without by some ol the most "powerful, vicious and corrupt of orgauizatiens, ho was also antagonizej 'from' within by the political henchmen of the same organizations. Tb Dr. Wiley" mjro than to any other one" mar, says The Journal of the American Medical Association. the public owei the Pood and Drugs Act and to Dr. Wiley it also owes whatever of good has been accomplished by that act. lis is. to .be hoped that his forced retirement i If result in such juq 6UB6 taa lorcee 01 evu ac present . a if 11 rv l 1 13 UUUU1 01 e epanment 01 Agriculture will be driven into po.itncal oblivion and the depart- ment ntiea ty m n wno noia ae- ce-cyAbjve dollars, probity above pelf and publio health above private gain. Dictograph Reveals Grime. The dictograph, the sensitire instrument which has lent itself so rnarvoiou9iy to tne. purpose 01 securing evidence of crime, is de scribed in an illustrated article iu the April Popular Mechanics Magazine. The instrument com prises a most sensitive transmit ter, a receiver, a small battery and .as mcch wire as is necessary. rue encue ouino can oe neid in -M;e naud and not cover all tne fingers. The transmitter can he placed anywhere in the room where the rerson is des.rsd will be talk. whose evidence most likely to Iu the Ohio" bribery case it was put under a sofa in a hotel room In l?au Franoisco it was placed beneath tha bed in a call of the" city jail. At Toronto, Canada, where it was used in a hotel, it was placed on a table under papers. It might be hung on the. wall beneath a picture or a calen' dar, an ordinary pin being strong enough to hold it in place." Silk- covered wire can be run from the transmitter to whatever room tha ope-ator desires, ana wnen con- neccea, tne person notping ne receiver to hi3 ear hears distinct ly evsry word uttered in the room .where. the transmitter has leen placed, bteuograpuers, it so equipped, can make a verbatim report 01 sacn conversations, as has been d; ne iu several criminal by Chairman Avery of the racing committee that the races this vear will eclinse anything ever seen here. The committee adjourned subject to the call of the president. Nineteen Miles a Second without a jar.hock or disturb- earth through. space. I.I P . 1 of 1 1 t H a a oa rf natnfQ'o mnva. ment, and so do those who take Aimtr ir,Bt tunrnntrw work that brings good health and I nnKnna ' ' ' Man, n. AMI 1 Druggists. SUMPTION .ON THE FARM. Soraa Pointed ParagraUis of Value To ? -. Wisefa.mersr S.w alfalfa by itself ; it doesn't need any nurse crop. .. Have two or three plow-pofnts uu nana ready tor the fime of need. v , Leave no long nails Bfci:kuig np f . 11 ous lauen rails or posts in. the pasture. ' , ,- , -IVhat is . finer than an old fashioned spring after an old fashioned winter? Despise not the day of the one- horse farmer, for it leads tc a two- horse team. We sh mid not ccmplain when we think the other fellow has a better job than we; rather let cs rejoice. fhii is tha month fpr the land- roller, if Jiie land is dry enough. rush the f roots in good and cut more graslHo pay for it. QramfathT8 traits ofteL ruin ii ttHS') irraudsoa yetrs after i faimee f i8 ded. What kind f a:;inGu do y u want?. A good many , men who would jpti5!N a hole iu their (users' uk -Care all to com- the barn roof. The ten-cent co' t n or canvas g"ov tvhaf, qra so largely worn Ly farmers may be water proofed by dipping them iu mehed paraffine. If you don't want thing", don't bid on them at an auction. First thing )ou know they will be yours, and you will have to pay for them whether vju want them or not Dynamite can be used for very many purposes on the farm, but on should knpw how to use it If it explodes, don't blame the dynamite. That'fe what it's for po you usa a spike-tooth ha towT Hpw are the teeth? Worrft down blunt? Take them out and have the blacksmith sharpen them. The harrow will do a great deal better work then. - it is not a womau'i place to care for the pigs and poultry, to cup wood or milk cows, when there 13 a strong healthy .man around. Keeping a home in good order is enough for any woman. It is quite a chore to get stove pipe up every time , just right. Tell1 you how we do it: When we take the pipe dewn we mark every length with a piece of white chalk. Do it before you take it down and there will be no trouble next time. 4,Do you remember me, Mr. Roosevelt?" said the effasive stranger to the Colonel. "N-ho, but delighted, I'm sure. When did I have the pleasure?" ,,Why, whan you returned from Africa, and there was that big crowd on the wharf, I was the man in the brown derby hat." Make your garden plantings sm iller and plant more frequent ly, every week or ten days; this will produce young vegetables that are more tender, juicy and sweet than where large plantings are made and part of the veee- tables are allowed to become big, tough and Btrong flavored. , A good, balanced feed for a horse is one quart of oats and one of bran twice eaoh day, when idle. and three times a day when at work, substituting corn for oats occasionally; and half a bundle cf fodder, or one good forkful of hay three times a day at regular hours. My hors? keeps fat on this. He is given plenty of water. Some farmers wail beeause the robins and catbirds eat 'cherries.. Now I have notioed that with all their eating the birds only eat a small share. I have several cherry trees, and let the robins eat all they want. If a share cf my cherries will coax them to bui'd and rear their young in my orchard, acting as bug, police m 1 T . - : meanwniie. 1 am tne winner. From April' Farm Journal. There haB been so much inter est in the Republican situation lately that Governor Wondrow Wilson hasn't been; detected iu . 1- xi weeks. Ex. J . - ..i. 'mm. ,?! TAX-PAYERS SAY ROADS ARE NEEDED - MORE. i Ntimbar of too Best Farmers and Ltrtst Tax Payers Express Tfcenselies." Concerning the aations of the Commissioners of Rowan"C6nn$y it seems they think they 'liaTe the power to sell ths citisens of the County into bondage to build'a $125,000 oouxfc house, when the: one we have will answer the "pur pose very wdl at, least ? until ! the publio roads jef the ; county are put in a condition that :4wa the farmers of said county can get our produce to Salisbury. : Now citizens, tax-payers and voters which do yon think would benefit the county the most? We have a court bouse, but no roads, . especially in Litaker Township. We as citizens have been before' 4id cemmissioners thre times vith "petitions and with plead tags," and they have turned a deaf ear. We explained to them, , that our reads had not been work ed in ever two years, that the free labor and also our per cent, of -road tax had been lost to the , roads of said township. We ask-, id tbt ..they make ' the present u per visbT work the roads or put na mau thatwould. We were Usked to name the man, so we, pot thinking it a political ques tion, named a man that we as pe. tioners thought was prepaid the the best to fill thejjplaoe, as he has a traction engine and dtes not give all his time to farming, that hecouldull the scraper with en-, giue at a leasonable prico agreed upon by commissioners aud self. We were then asked," "C&L't you find another man? We began to think why is tins question and we had to conclua j that it was bis , politics. Nowfe:l3w citizeis if this he what they meant, and we ail to- see siA other .meaning, 1 hat dees this Tead 'bt to eos-' IndeT iattsSr-irfOlafitlly! usurpers of power, tramphna ;ua-,; def foot the wishes of the " people. Does it mean they are standing and acting for plutoqracy, mo nopoly aLd greed fixing a ta'e place for soiB9 man or men to place their I'lgotten gains at a . good interest? Now. 11 bonds are need 3d, we suggest they be used for impro . ing the public roads in tb coun ty, but no till the votes ay so : by ballot at the poies, tn? same way the court house question should be settled. Now there is being a great ef fort made to turn immigration ; NorthCaro4iua ward. Do the ad vocates want them in the citiei or in the country? If they are , wanted in the oity then the court house may be the thing, but if they are wantedi in the country, we think the "Publio Roads" is the thing we need. No- auto mobile highways or drive ways,, tut the old fashioned public wagon roads. No wonder the the citvs and and the towns are crying out high prices when it takes two horses to pull two men in a buggy. How do you expect us to haul wcod aad farm produce? It is impossible to haul it in quanti ties that wculd pay us a seeming ly and unreasonable prices. We. have wood by the huixheds of cords rottening because the roads have Leen allowed to 20 tin- worked, The. national highway only accommodates a few people. Do you see why there ic such a scarcity of necessaries of life in to wu ? We have the produce. Do you want it? Do you need it? If so let us get together aad have it. The question arises, how can we do it. By marching to the , poles and voting. for men. cf prin ciple, fair mmded men vhowill give us a iqnare deal, ulen that will not squirm and tremble when -the selfish, greedy boes s crack their whip, men who will dare to , do right by all the people at all hazzards. Now fellow citizens wiil we sur- reder this God-given right of free i Americanism that our forefathers bled and died for? Nay, verily. out let cb acquis ourselves use men, worthy sons of our sires. Come one, come all from everTv1 political creed, and 4et us sea that our proud American eagle be not j j e :i. TV- " araggeu irom iu ioicj pea K upon the mount and its plumage be- smirched by the filthy slush of po-5 mioai riugsseiB. so-- come on boys, prepare .jour ballots iftud let's give old Rowan - county '.' clan aud honest' government dhe deserves it;.;CriKirt' I Ps. B . We heartily endorse tha -J Watohmajc ciJnceTning the isa og ol bonds for ooaxt home, ' X 1 1 1- . -.