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4. M Number 44 ROTHERS^ iggest est I OnlyTwo I More Days j Satnrday at 2:30 P. M. I marks the closing of one of the most successful sales ever held in Sanford. i I Only two More I Sale Days Left, | So Take Advantage Of AT STEIN BROTHERS, The House of Quality- Satisfaction Guaranteed. | BANKING BUSINESS? You have mob*, or less of it. Possibly it is with us. Such being the case you know something of our service. But if not a patron would nt it be well for you to heroine one? Saving’s Department Is calculated to serve all classes; the old and the young, the poor and rich. It receives deposits from $1 up to $5,000 and allows four per cent interest, c'om pounded quarterly. For Rent: Safety deposit boxes in fire-proof vault. Price, $1.50 per year. The Bank of Sanford, SANFORD, N. C., 8. P. Hatoh, President; D. K. Mclver, Vice-President Miss Judith Ross. Cashier. HEAD OF TOBACCO TRUST, ♦J. B. Duke Works Ten Hotirn a Day and la Interested in Noth ing: but Tobacco. James Buchanan Duke, the head of the Tobacco Trust, was born in the year 1857, which makes him something like fifty four years of age—just an aver age age, says the New York Globe, and what will strike ev ery reverencer of genius, from Sir Walter Raleigh, the first of Duke’s “ancestors,” down to the present day, as even more un usual, is that Mr. James Buch anan Duke is himself an average man—looks it, acts it, and is proud of it but looks it especi ally: He looks like the way people think a farmer should look in one of the shire counties in England. He is of fair height, well fed and welf^ rounded, with a fat, high colored face, washed out gray eyes’ and red hair grown thin. His principal di mension is that of thickness. His arms and legs and body are thick. Ilis head is round and his neck thick. But he has never been accused of a mental thick ness, except when he came to Major Gin ter of the firm of Al len & Ginter and offered to buy out that once famous firm of cigarette manufacturers. Major Ginter listened courteously, but his sense of humor eventually got the better of him. He lay back in his chair and looked the panting Duke over and laughed —and laughed—and laughed. Finally he wiped his eyes and gasped out. iuu naven tenougn money— and you can’t borrow enough money—to buy us. My dear Duke, you are actually funny.” Mr Duke waited in silence un til Major Ginter had quite con cluded. Then he sought his hat. “Tm going now, major,” said he, “I just thought I’d wait—un til you had finished your last and created the germ of the present Tobacco Trust. He had become a millionaire, but while the fight was going on he at one time moved out of a $3-a week room in New York and took oue at a dollar a week less, “I didn't really need a good room,” he has explained. “I worked in ths factory or office all day, and then went out at night to make my rounds of the retail dealers, selling cigarettes. Ail 1 needed was a place to sleep.” Mr. Duke’s early struggles I were many and not far between. Hut: When .lames It Duke was - eighteen years old the family had become so prosperous that I the cider Duke, regretting his own lack of learning, sought to I send the youngster to college, j but he insisted on sticking to i business. He was given a one sixth interest in the tobacco i foe tor.v which had been started ] at Durham. Hy 1HHU their capital ! was $70,000, and the younger , Duke came to New York to push ] the sale of cigarettes and exam ine into a. cigarette making ma chine. He was the first to see ! the absolute necessity of this j mechanism if cigarette making were ever lo become a great business It was then that he tried to buy out Allen A Ginter. i Their refusal led to the most cosily advertising war ever , known up to this period. He inveuted the cupou system, gave great bonuses to retailers, and cut prices until his rivals lost not only money hut nerve. I Nowadays his personal fortune I has been placed as high as $100, ! 000,(XX). He works ten hours a i day, and is not interested in any j tiling that has no relation to i tobacco. j Wearing Away of Mother Earth. CiiH'mI SlateH Mrolugk'al Survey Muilotln. Investigations by the United States Geological Survey of the elusion of numerous drainage I basins of the United States show that the surface of the country is being removed at the average rate, of about an inch in 700 years. Though this amount seems trivial when spread over the surface of the country, it becomes stupendous when con sidered as a total, or even in separate drainage basins. The Mississippi river, for instance, carries annually to the sea 180, 400,000 tons of dissolved matter and 840,500,000 tons of suspend ed matter, and of this total th Ohio river carries p3,SJ50,( tons and the Missouri river < tributes more than twice ai much. The Colorado river, which has built up for itself a vatfl| delta, brings, down more. BUS; pended matier than any othet. river in the United States, de iivering annually 387 tons each square mile of its drainag basin, or a total of 100,740,0 tons. The rivers of the United State® carry to tidewater every year* 270.000. 000 tons of dissolved! matter and 513,000,000. tons oil suspended matter. This total] 788.000. 000 tons represents more] than 350,000,000 cubic yards^of] rock, or 010,000,000 cubic yards! of surface soil. If this erosive j'i I action liad been concentrated Otts the Isthmus of Panama at the] time of American occupation, itj would have excavated the prism] for an 85 foot level canal Ini about 73 days. j Jonesboro News Items. Corresprndence of The Krpresa. Miss Ella Eure is v&itjiigl friends in Carthage this week. Mr. M. L. Wright, of Greens boro, is visiting in Jonesboro. Miss Nannie Doub left Toes-1 day for Wadesboro, where she,} will spend sometime with friends^ ,1 Miss Norar Baldwin, of Ram-, j seur, is visiting the family off Mr. J. H. Philips this week. I The first cotton bloom seen in f Jonesboro this year was brought| in by J. M. Loyd on June 26th. | There will be a ball game! Fayetteville vs. Jonesboro at! the Monroe Park Friday after- j noon. Let everybody come out ! and help the boys Win. | Little Henry Arnold, the \ Eleven months old son of Mr.and I Mrs. D. H. Arnold, of this place, j died last Wednesday evening at] seven o’clock. The funeral was] hold Thursday from the Presby ! terian church and interment, made at Jonesboro cemetery! ! Mr. and Mrs. Arnold have the j sympathy of the community- m j the loss of thei^t * diver this week. « There are three scholarship to be filled at the A and M. col lege and one at Wake Forest through the education committer of the State Federation of worn en's clubs. The requirements arc that the boy must have no other way of attending college and must furnish recommendation from principal of school when he last attended. Any one de siring one of these scholarships, will apply to Mrs. A. W. Huntly Jonesboro, President Wa Wa club. Mrs. K. H. Phillips and child ren are visiting relatives iri Ramseur. To save the life of his wile, u : . was under treatment in a hospital u Washington, United States Sent’ • ■ Lea, <3^ Tennessee, gave a <|uar' t his blood. The transfusion op i tion was successful and both S.-n.c •• Lea and his wife an* ivrowiint' The physicians said that with | the treatment Mrs. Lea *v >ul«l h i - • died in a few hours. The new South Carolina mi ut • _* iaw goes into effect. July I At* that date licenses will be ret-ju.i- : as ill other States of the Union The Underwood hill rediu.no 1 i tariff on wool passed the lion-.- ! | Representatives by a vote of ‘J'JI ' K)0, twenty-loui Republican" . jail the Lem no rats voting for it Some Iowa Farmers Contempt.i i Locating in Hoke Comil \ . Somhern rtnes rorn-s|Mm<l«*iin*y hnlone Paul Clark is negotiating i deal with some Iowa people n ] a tract of 900 acres of land inti j northern part of Hoke county. .*■ which it is proposed to settle ! number of farmers from theW The Iowa men have boon h i looking over the land ami h i asked for abstracts of title T« • situation seems to be pretty -u i that the Towa folks will get in' action, and the experiment is <>i that is watched with a good de.i. of interest, for a movement o’ farmers from the Northwest t this section of the South is more than passing iiu porta mv A settlement of that eharei. hero is looked upon as the In-gin ning of a movement of consider able proi>ortions, as Iowa i pretty well tilled up with lam ers while North Carolina h.i • room for a large overflow fi■.-; that quarter. As Iowa farm, i are among the most success! farmers of America, it is need less to say they will he welcomed Twenty-on* big baking com panm in cities dotting the East and S.mll from Boston to St. Louis and Nr" Orleans threw in their lot tugethn Juue 14 merging under the name -I the General Baking Company with a total capital of $20,000,000 in stock and $5,000,000 in bonds. Tim new chain of bakeries will be oper afced in fifteen cities. III.ICAN ECONONMY? " " " < oim-H to HLs Own Per H«mal Comfort the Postmaster Coneral Im Extravagant but Tries to Economize at the h\jM*iiHc of the Public Service. Washington, .June 2Hth—Thir ^ h-dollar wastepaper baskets, desks and $320 tables were 80,11 <! of the little economies ef fected i i_y Postmaster General Hitchcock in furnishing his “red room and “brown room’’ offices. These and other striking ex copies of Republican cut to the luick economy were revealed in testimony taken before the Hou.sc committee on expenditures in the postoffioe department. Mr. Hitchcock sanctioned the expenditure of $7,500 in ref urn- . ishinjz three rooms, $4,000 of w’iiich went to furnishing the Postmaster General's private office alone. Circassian walnut lurnishings especially designed and manufactured to special or der. and specially designed car pets and dra|>eries furnished the nucleus of this expenditure. All supplies were bought with-1 Dutsubjecting the lucky dealer who secured the contracts to competition. He had but to state his price and secure an or der upon the treasury. Five hundred and forty dollars pur posed two mahogany daven- ‘ ports fjr American royalty; 1330 brought in two arm chairs; , produced a table; $295 pur chased a second desk, and $160 a third. A wardrobe to hang ] coats in cost $265. One rug was j purchased at $483.75. Another-, nirenport in Circassian walnut; “with pillow” cost Uncle Sam I $$5; draperies in one room, $80. Parquetry flooring in one $282. Telephone table, Table with black marble it® ' $64. One bookcase, $196. Jfeo$|the people $352 to‘‘scrape” ife Woodwork tot the private of tie preparatory to new finish, hundred and twenty-two rivate office. |Such was the measure of Mr. lifcchcock’s economy in matters | fertainlng to his own personal ! j>mfort. Tn matters concerning pe employees of the govern-1 tent the railway mail clerks! Or instance he followed entire . y different lines of procedure. Mr. Hitchcock figured it out me day that by making three lail clerks do the work of four, e could make a record for eco omy. The already over-work d railway mail clerks were driv a beyond the limit of ondur nce. Conditions in the west, specially m the tenth division, ecame intolerable. Open re ellion broke out on the Pierre ‘racy line, the men refusing to o the extra work imposed upon jieUL Ten men were suspended I}hen five of them were rem 'bated, but refused to return to vork without their associate*, .’his aroused the whole nortii west. The clerks met m nut** aeeting at St. l’aul. Minn They re now forcing the lVstm.iMur General to relent in hi* plan in conomise by overworking tin lilway mail boys Strange working* ot ti.«* • itchcock economy hump cau>e<l le Postmaster General to p.i,\ ie full ye&r'sahiry of '•> .. W. Ihawsbe. tim’d assistant >stmaster general, while the ter sojourned in New M*’xi< " euperating in health uml loon g after the interest* of the r« bliean party, hut perfnrmum government service whulet • i " di another example of 11 it» I ak economy was his appoint at of a pseudo lame ducU nmission” of four of his inn te friends and staunch polit supporters to go on a mh-i dy Grail conquest at the gov months expense. The cum ssion investigated "time r< ders” in every large city >n country, managing to *h> se in expenses $l.'.>7o _ 1 I'he average amount spent 1>\ h of the committee tor Mih ence was between nine ami dollars a day. Trans port a • n txpftnsPH for eueh man tor . erlod of loss than two mouth*, raged $300. Among many 18 of expenditures charged Ji paid by ITuo.lo Sam appear fees, bath charges, tele p bills, shipes, news stand hes, in fact, almost every I possible in such a category bt laundry, cigars and tlo rists' bills. The Hotel Willard in Washington, the Astor in New York and kindred hostel ries were employed to shelter the government emmissaries. Port er fees averaged 50 cents. The “commissioners” always pur chased Pullman tickets, and cab fares are thickly sprinkled imong vouchers Sometimes die commissioners traveled ilone, but generally together, as lehooves any well-ordered, Measure loving government ■ommittee. Hdw gratifying all this must >e to the discharged postal clerks vhile they sit and figure out how nuch the government is “sav ng” on them. Would Have Postmatsers and j Collectors Under Civil Service. ! The first authoritative answer^ o the charge that the adminis- j ration uses the appointive pow- I ir of the President to further I xilitical ends was made by President Taft a few days ago. In conversation with friends die President declared that he vould be delighted if Congress vould take from his hands the luty of naming collectors of in-! ernal revenue, United States narshals and postmasters of the iecond and third classes. The ’resident told his visitors that lothing which Congress could lo would be received more glad y by him than this act. lie vould be happy, he said, if Con gress would extend the civil ervice law to include such of ices. Practically every post up o the grade of United States listrict attorney, the President old his callers, should be put mder tile civil ser vice regula He has recommended such Lotion to (Congress in past mes sages and he said he expects to nake similar recommendations in the future. He declared his belief that there is a lot, of '‘hypocrisy”. charges, a political machine has been built up through appointments to such offices. Federal Treasury in OihhI Shape. The end of this month prom ises to find the Federal Treasury in a better condition than it has enjoyed for two years. While the, fiscal year already shows j an ordinary surplus of mole1 than $‘■',000,000, as against a ; defied of $ld,0<HUK>0 a year ago at this time, there is promise i that, the total deficit now stand-1 ing at 1,000,000 may he much reduced before the new fiscal I year begins. All corporation taxes should he in by the end of tin* month. 1 Nearly $L\1 ><>o,Otii > has been paid, so far this month The estimat- , I'd total income from that source 1 is Si!'*.1 *''O.i'Oo AM sourv es of income except customs receipts' haw prod mod more this year than list year F v pend it ti res w i ; show little change 'i \ i ri’.ijN or ni vvs. . r, It'.,.. I"l, l.l-I w- ■1 K "■■-■II I tlf M (, '..r! II (.1 " It .,1 N-,v 'i >rk. I , l; Mi" w 11 *' "t t h.- . .| ; | ■ - t i n,. m.im. I i; i::i■ ■'.111 . i ! . J. , ...lit V 1-. I 'p"t il«• It I . i ' I. . II. ' ."!l^ 1411.1 ■ ■ \ I t ■ I I ‘ i - f I '111 \\ ' 'I i r ■ 111! ■ i M ll I " HI 11 t I. |K- i I I itrli. . 1 t■ ■ IriMill 1 l; ■ 1' IV A . " ll I- >11-1 "t f.ll ,H.O o |nl ..(.-is .i t.. lit" I , ’ t -..-I: ' •IIVI.I U‘,> I .. II," m 1,1 (, ^ ,| Mir I I hid, tli.il III" I • ‘11,1 will | li iUl'l '|"-I.«t".| III 1 1 111 I 1,1 I T a , while men • >1 S. .it i.md eon n. 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The necessity of providing more forage in stock law sections is becoming more apparent each year if our farmers keep as much stock as they should do to maintain and improve their lands. Next to the idea of increased Forage crops comes the mowing machine and rake proposition. Then still the most important matter is what machine to buy, our suggestion to the latter is ascertain if possible what is the best machine on the market and buy that machine. The necessary outlay of money to own a mow ing machine and rake is too important to simply take any old thing because it is offered for sale by some dealer. We want to request that you investigate the Johnston. Our opinion is that it is the best machine made and we think we can tell you why. We carry a large, stock of these machines and can deliver you one any day. I I I I I I We are yours to serve, I lE.D.NallCo.l ® Sanford, N. C. ® I Our store closes at 6 P. M. Saturdays excepted. ■ ®®®®®®®®®®®®'®®a®®®®® Clearance Sale. (H We we will sell owf; □ □□OiO OxfonUaVl • poBawiiSg Sale Friday June 30th to Monday j§ July 3rd. 1 10 aiu! |=i Mens' $4.00 ant! $.4 00 Shoe at B " :;.:>r. am! ri.r.o •• ® I r.0 [■] Wonit'Ms' ;iimI £;l Shoos at ® .. rooanri ",l'’ ■■ ■f] (’hildrons' $-..'»<» and Shoos at a a ■] |j CASH ONLY. | J. R. Dalrymple | Clothing and Shoe Co., ebssbssssbb® bbbbbbbbbbbbis ii'.or, f={ i.oo £=J no a -’.75 ® 1.07, a .00 1 0H ® o.h m ,oo | .10 Summer Specialties. Our* is I'ompusfil uf thr latost styles in l>flt pins, li.Lt puis, I1ro<uli pins. • intis. Is. n• l\ rliains. lorUor fulls. .-It i:-nirtiiii. I lli.ll Ut I'inrimitv i‘Vny :> »t u • It* to i m ■ ;is i-i-pr-fsi-ntril a ml \v • ■ i i; i'. »* tin- maim fart iiivr ;it our I,.1,1.; < l:iC \\ lllcllrs ill*1 Wiltclirs o| < 111 ;i 111 V illltl Will ynn on liiui'. We have a few sin,ill diamond nnjis U> in' smd a! .ohlmiK pun's >'a 11 ami sen tin mu. W. F. Chears. JEWELER I'li,,,,, S.ml,ml. \ 'I'lH'ST l'( )\i 1 ’A X 'l . «iryiani I with a full |,;ml i-a|,11.■ I stooU ill' ... Ini. i>aul U|> kui* . ,tl i, ay;. till.Inrs mill stun1 U hoi lie IS nil'll nf Imiiu n ahilitv, stall,lum ami worth in a i'Oiii uiunit.v: wliu'h has | n is|f mil for a [mwicmI of SI'V.'II .fill's till' I'.'I'IO.I of Its I'XlStl'Iiri' Kvi |,y ivKUlar. masunahlu ill v ulnuils, is worthy of your <-oiitidt'in-" Sill'll is tin1 Banking Loan and Trust Company, Sanford, N. C.
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