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I Will begin Saturday, July 8th, | and continue unt^l July 16th. | — I STEIN BROTHERS, The House of Quality. Satisfaction Guaranteed. | BANKING BUSINESS? You have more 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 become _%_ one? Saving’s Department Is calculated to serve all classes; the old and the young, this poor and rich. It receives deposits from! $1 up to $5,000 And allows four per cent interest, com pounded quarterly. j i for Rent: Safety deposit boxes in fire-proof vault Price, $1.50 per year. The Bank of Sanford, 4 jf V SANFORD, N. a,,: g, p, Hatch, President; D. K. Molver, Vice-President ' * Miss Judith Ross. Cashier. VALUE OP GOOD HOADS. A Complete System of Good Hoads an Economic Necessity.) Norfolk TlrglD Ian-Pilot. If all the political nostrums lately invented or dragged out of the past for the regeneration of society were put into the scale of real value they would be out weighed by one single good road. A community that, has acquired good roads, marvels that it could have got along so long under the old barbaric system. Between half a billion and a billion dollars would be saved annually in the United States if every State would improve ite main highways to the highest point of efficiency. i; Calculations just made by the United States Office of Public Roads show that1 to affect this enormous saving throughout the country it will be necessary to improve only about 20 per cent of the roads. There are now about 2,150,000 miles of road in the United States. Two hundred thounand miles’ or about 9 per cent, are improved in some manner. To bring the number of miles up to 20 per cent, it will be necessary to improve 250,000 more miles. While this task may seem Btup sndous, it is estimated that it can be acomplished by a probable average eexpenditure of $700 a mile, or $1,750,000,000 tor's fair ly complete system. Were each State to put $4,000,000 into the improvement of its roads, the work could be accomplished in a very short time. “A complete system of roads,” 9aid, Logan Waller Page, direct or of the United States Office of Public Roads, in discussing the road movement that is sweeping over the country,” is an economic necessity. • "Wherever a new road is built or an old one improved the value of the nearby land rises automata ioaUy. This ingr^ase.v.in, iteelj is sufficient lit most, caa^s to pay for the improvement. The profit from the country |rom this source would be almost inestim able. In fact it is a very conserv ative estimate that the saving throughout the country, from all sources, as a result of the im provement of 20 per cent, of the roads, would be somewhere be tween half a billion and a billion dolars every year. And this sav ing could be accomplished by an expenditure of $2,000,000 in each State, the first year thereafter for maintenance. The whole thing depends, of course, upon systematization and all the States working together, but it wbuld seem that the era of road build ing that has begun is tending tf> ward these results.” Tli# Old Black Hammy. Wm. Lauri* Hill, in eharolotce ehfonctie. One <jf the sweetest memorise connected with home life in the old South is the old black mam my, and the children and grand parents who were protected, anc cared for by the faithful slaves of the sixties, should have bott love and pity in their hearts fo) their descendents.although many of them are unworthy of theii unlettered anceseors. The old black mammy was at autocrat in a Southern home. With eagle eye did she watcl the Sons and dauguters of thi home, and her commands wen as striotly obeyed as were thos< of the parents, To her did the house maids and even.the oook, pay due re spect, and “the house boy” wai her faithful slave, ^ell do I re member Mammy Martha, wh< carried in her arms every one o mother’s children, watched then grow up into young manhoot and womanhood,' and was ai strict in requiring obedience ai the head of the house. Then was a standing rule that the ho'yi should come in oft of the stree in the summer evenings by 1 o’clock, bathe their feet, and b< ready for bed by 9. In absceno of mother, if we presumed tz overstay aur time., we had to. set. tie with Mammy Martha, km Doctor Peach, wha lived in thi orchard was called to enforce hei comm rods. The Old Black Mammy wai very critical, in. her Jadgmen* when the girls of the. family he gan to receive attention fron men. , . I can hear her saying to thi mooter, “Miss Sarah, you bettei lie watching your eldest girl; d boys is takin’ notice, ^nd it i'° don't be keerful dere will be ha blood in dis family.” (t - -They were great, on blood and were not so alow in giyir-i an opinion, often qnotftr tin saying of the old Virginia stool breeder, "i‘f thfc daddy can’t ex pect the colt to pace:” , The OlS Black Mammy was * member of the family and, wa? Often advised with for no one in the household knew the.Ability, temperament and character oi each child better than she , did, and her judgment as to cbstac ter was almost infallible. life of today is the almost obi it erated Black Mammy. ^ _ jj, Occasionally we see . a red or •white turbaned head and bteck face, that takes ns back to the old days, but they aife rare,-ins now when we meet a g gemline one we feel like taking off our hat to her, and if we are partic ular blue, we would like to.Pl:: a throbbing head into that lap, and having a good cry, hear her say,."Don’t cry chile,unless.you jess tryinr*ter make-a rainbow. One summer afternoon outsold Mammy Martha passed away from us into the bright home of the Redeemer. Fortunately all the childern were at home and two of them reached home tlu very day she died. How Mix iouashe was to live long enough to see aOfl take“leave of ns all and the ybungest of the childru kept a watch upon the - read L tell her wlien the old stage in sight that was bringing p : We helped to lay her wear body to rest and as the sun wu setting behind the distant wood;, the closing hymn was Mpe,! ‘‘Why Do We Mourn Departs Friends?" and Mammy Martin was at rest until reaurrectio: dawn.. . v-A Custom Changed, Gaffney {8. c.) Ledger. i We wish a law could be pis d prohibiting the barbaric cust ii of opening caskets in public it church funerals. It is a relic if dark ages and has no place i a civilized community. It jars ji the sensibility of every tern jr cord, and is sonething that l a churches and undertakers oug it to combine and put to an ei . In ninetenths of the cases i h Merely a pandering to a trim I ish curiosity. People who in ' ir spoke to the deceased in thifr him: 1, lov< d eseni e i goi d ■liaise >r I'iitt life parade around the < gape at the form of ou r one, then go out of the pl ot death, not to talk of th deeds *done in life, but to r the appearance of the poor that death has left for nne it their mercy. Deatli is a s.irntji thing. If we are going "" k long journey we do not make our adieus before a gaping crowd; we pught*not to i>c • peoted to bid our dead a last goodbye while curious eyes fat ten on our grief, and we ought not to be expected to sit m tint . bouse of mourning while people we never speak to, who haw no . clgim on us or our loved one, Jostle each other in their desire to view the remains, and then get together and gossip over what they Saw or failed to >ee. , We "believe "that a majority <>f : the people detest the painful scenes as much as we do ami he more than glad to see them end i ed, • but are afraid to break a . ‘'custom." But it is a duty the i minister and undertaker owe to , themselves and the long sutler i ing public to put a stop to the ; exhibition, and they will nml ! the public only too glad to up [ hold them with a hearty amen Opportunities for Young M the Army. Secretary of War Stimsoi Bounces he is anxious to ap 200 young men lieutenants iu army. These aypointmeots nr subject to political influence, only requirement is that the apt ants pass the prescribed examine" nnt tin not I'll Wkiu _ diploma from is prefeered it is not required Aiiy young man who can pass d» examination will have an eipial chance with those who have dipl" thaii ,Tbe« art S88 Vacancies the army and the. class jnst gi Lilli ated from West Point flits just si of them. The age limit is 'll i< 27. The salary of a junior heuteu ant with allowanota i* $2,000 i ye*i.;,';.;w; p-h,;y,v v.,-> ■ ms I III; tariff on 8COAK. WIihi it Coat* the Counry—An Invcatigatiou Which Vitally lutereata all the People. »*■.. Jli'1 investigation by a com .njittec of the Hou^e of Repre sentatives into the Sugar Trust "'ll bring into the sunlight the most i nsteresting of all tariff sub-. 1 loots. According to the figures of the goverment, each person 1 in the United States, man, wom an and child, uses, on the aver- i age. over hi pounds of sugar i each year. Multiply 81 by 5 and t the amount consumed by the i average family will be shown. | The amount used by the family is over 100 pounds a year. It is , one of the necessaries of life, ( and the price of sugar concerns t every citizen, and especially ' those of small means. The Gov- i erment taxes all raw sugar im liorted at the rate of about one , cent a pound, and from that tax ( derives ovei $500,000,000 a year, j This is the revenue tax. Upon i top of that tax is put another | cent per pound to protect .the | Sugar Trust from foreign compe tition. That extra cent per pound is collected, not by the Goverment, but by the sugar j refiners. This is not all that t Congress has done for the Sugar | Trust. It has made the test of j raw sugar such thatall imported raw sugar must either pay the prohibitory tariff or go to the sugar refineries before it can be 1 used. The Sugar Trust, for ' whose benefit the people of the j United States must pay so enor mous a tribute, has been convict- ® 3d of cheating and defrauding the Goverment by means of false 1 weighing and perjury to the ex tent of many million dollars. '■ The company has now, afier 1 having paid its enormous divid- ' ands and $8,500,000 to the Gov ernment in ’ settlement of its f rauds, a surplus of - $19,874,000 bion on Wednesday a witness, who was formerly secretary of the company, was asked whether he believed that the remove! of duties would decrease the price of sugar.- The witness said he believed it would “in time.” There is no doubt about it what ever. Under the law of 1804 the duty on sugar was from 3 to 5 cents per [jound. In 1870 the tax on refined sugar was redu ced, from 5 cents to 1 cents, and the price of sugar went down Ircent per pound. In 1883 the tax was reduced one half cent per pound and the price of su tjar declided one-half cent per pound, . In a speech delivered in the House of Representatives on May 5 Mr Warburton, a Repub lican from the State* of Washing ton, estimated that if sugar were ou the free list the people here could buy it at $1.90 per 100 pounds less than it now cost them, or about as cheap as it seHs in England. Last year the comsumption in this country was 7,360,000 pounds. If Mr. War burton’s estimate is carrect, then the tariff on sugar cost the sugar cost the people of the United States $139,000,000 a yeat, and of this the Government gets $5_, 000.000 and the sugar men get $87,000,000. In opening up the sugar question the House of Re presentatives is engaging in an investigation which will vitally interest the people of the eouu try. MATTERS OF NEWS. Preaipoidnnt Taft has appointed Philander P. Claxton, professor of edition at the JJuiversity of Ted. nessee, as commissioner of educa tion'succeeding Elmer E. Utowd resigned. Professor ( siIon was the first superintendent of tne Ashe ville city schools and was afterwards on. the faculty of the State N'ortual end rndu trial College, Greensboro. During a baseball game in Char lotte Saturday the umpire, named Nugene, made a decision that in censed the crowd and but for the protection of policemen the umpire would have been been mobdcd. Proteoted from the crowd at tlie game be was latter assailed hy a fflob when when the car on which hewaa rimtrg'reached ti|e the sduare and the police had to get an auto mobile to gdt him away. Hon. Hope Smith was'Saturday inaugurated Governor of Georgia anaceeding Gpv. Jo. Brown, who'de faated Smith for the nominator when the latter had finished his first ;orra as Governor. 8raith reoipro :ated by defeating Brown when the attef had served but one term.! rhe Georgia Legirlature. which is in i ession, will elect a United States Senator to succeed Clay deceased, 1. M. Terrell, who is filling the va :ancy temporarily, is.a candidate ipd so is Gov. Smith. It is said the atter will in all probability be elect d. Thirty or more spinning mills in Jaston connty closed down on the st for ten days or two weeks and as > consequence many thousands of dill operatives will be idle for that eriod. Francis D. Winston, of Windsor ras elected president of the North larolina Bar Association at the leeting at LakeToxaway last week. \ W. Davis of Wilmington was re lected secretary and treasurer. The members of a family living ear High Point were poisoned the ther day by food which had been ut into a galvanized bucket and ung in a well over night. By eroic measures a physician saved heir lives. John Lane, colored, was stabbed ud killed by Jim Brown, afso color i, in Wilmington Saturday ui^it. t is said that Laue, who was much tie larger, attacked and was rough er handling the smaller negro. >rown was arrested. The thirteenth annual session of he North Carolina Bar Association ane to a close Friday at Lake Toxa ray way a business session. The lee tings were largely attended. Ion. Francis D. Winston, of Wind ur, was elected president and Mr. \ W. Davie, of Wilmington was e-elected secrotary aod treasurer. When the government’s fiscal ear closed Friday the Federal treas iry held a cash surplus of at least >33,000,000. The Treasury showed in excess of receipts over disburse nents for the first time since 1907. Die Trasu^ enters the fiscal year 1 of 1912 with more than $1,8000,000* cash'stacked in the vaults, the | lar gest sum ever held here. The State building commission has decided to have the pn^osed B250,0O0 fireproof administration auildiug four instead of five stories aigh. Ai^l it is understood that ihe historical commission and ball j£ records will be on the first tloor; Lhe State library on the second; the Supreme Court room, law library lud ollices of the justices on the third; aud the State Department of Education, the Department of Iu aurance afad the office of the Attor ney General on the fourth. The text book commission which has been in session for some time, | has completed its work aud adjourn ed. Hundreds of books have been presented for use in the public schools of the state and the publ sh ers have been heard in support of their contentions as to desirableness of the books offered. There is still a great, deal of work to be done by sub committees before any book are chosen, At the closing sesnon ot the N. (' Press Association Thursday at Junior, .1- ('. Farrias, of High Point s'as elected president; vice president, .1. U, Came, H. Martin, J. T. Vain; secretary and treasurer, John H Sherrill; executive committee, R. M. Philips. It. W. Vineent, II. L!. \ airiei and IX T. Edwards. The meeting was a tine true with a re presentative attendance. Many of the members left Thursday after, noon for blowing Rock and Booue. The state building commission went over the tentative plaus of P. Thornton Marve and E. P. Simp son, architects of the $200,000 state administration building at Raleigh Wednesday, aud indicat ed certain chauges. It was agreed to give the architects 90 days to work out their plans and detail sfreci Ih atious, at the end of which time the commission will meet and after , the plain are filially accepted ad vertise for bids. This will take an additional 30 days. This means that it will he the first of November be fnre the contract for the building j will bo let. I 'f|ie North Curoliua School for I the Feeble Minded will be located i aiilmrhrt of Kinston. The j people of that place gave 1000 acres of land ui the suburbs aud free tight I nud water for live years, * Other very liberal otfers were made by Liliingtou and Washington, and the Couucil of State thanked the towns for the great public spirit shown. The plan of competition for the location of public buildings has been followed by North Oarolint for a long time, and has worker: very well indeed. r i i i i i i i The necessity of providing more forage in stock law sections is becoming more apparent; each year if our farmers keep as much stock as th 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 We are yours to serve, |E.D.NallCo.| ~ Sanford, N. C. ~ ■ Our store closes at 6 P. M Saturdays excepted. 'I □ □□□□□□□cm □»□ □ □□•□□□ □ Clearance Sale. We we will sell o\ir entire line of Qfxiori prices given below. / Sale Friday June 30th to Monday July 3rd. Mens $4.50 and $5.00 Shoe at “ 3.35 and 3.50 “ “ 1.50 Womens’ $3.25 and $3.50 Shoes at 2.50 and 3.00 “ 1.50 Childrens’$2.50 and 2.75 Shoes at “ 1.50 1.40 and 1 25 “ .50 “ .25 “ 'l CASH ONLY. J. R. Dalrymple Clothing and Shoe Co JONESBORO, N. <?. sirgifwirsifsifi Summer Specialties. Ours is composed o£ the latest styles in belt pins, hat pins, brooch pins, rings, bracelets, neck chains, lock' fobs, etc. Remember that we guarantee every article to be as represented and we have the manufacturer at back. Our watches are watches of quality and will keep yon on time. We have a few small diamond rifgs to be sold at jobbing prices. Call and see them. W. F. Clears, f u ■ JEWELER. Phpne 109. I A TRUST COMPANY, organised with paid capital stock of $25,000.00 (no paid opj plus); officers, directors and stockholdeittan^j,; of known ability, standing and worth inipBOWf inanity; which has prospered for seven years—the period of its existeggSNBl. denced by regular, reasonable dlvidM^*^,; worthv of your confidence. Such is the Banking Loan (pR^rusi Company, ® 1 Sanford, N. C.
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