Webster's Weekly's Mare's
Webster's Weekly, of Reidsville, in the course of its researches,
has discovered that a great fraud has been perpetrated upon its friend
Major Stedman in Stokes county. Commenting on the recent letters
of Mr. John Y. Phillips in this paper regarding the action of our re
cent Democratic county convention, the Weekly makes someun
founded charges against Mr. Glenn, slanders the Stokes Democrats
and evidently tries to create undue sympathy for Major Stedman
l>ecause of his alleged grievances.
The Weekly begins with this charge : "Major Stedman's friends
were shut off from voting for him by a resolution instructing for
Glenn by a majority vote."
As the Reporter has previously explained, Stedman receiving only
so much as amounts to a small fraction of a vote in the State conven
tion, and Glenn's friends being overwhelmingly in the majority, a
resolution was passed instructing for the Forsyth man. The small
vote that Stedman received came only from three precincts. Mr.
Phillips, a Stedman man, who was from one of these three precincts,
protested that the vote which his precinct gave to Stedman should be
counted, and Chairman Humphreys, with absolute fairness, ordered
the protest to be placed upon the minutes, and the same were*pub
lished to the world through the columns of this paper. Mr. Phillips
arose and stated that there were possibly others present who desired
their votes counted for Stedman, and if so they could speak for them
selves. No one else offered a protest.
Our contemporary says : "The most regretable feature of this bus
iness is that Mr. Glenn himself was on the scene and knew of the
opposition to giving a vote of instructions for him, yet suffered his
friends to gag the minority and send up a solid Glenn delegation.
The facts are that Mr. Glenn knew nothing of how the convention had
voted until it had adjourned. He was in the Taylor Hotel, out of
hearing, and was only escorted into the convention after all the busi
ness had been completed and the meeting was ready to adjourn.
We do not pretend to say that the action of the convention was
strictly in accord with the plan of organization. Possibly it was not.
Our poiutis that there were not the high-handed gag procedures in the
convention intimated by Webster's Weekly. The convention was
composed of many of the leading Democrats of the county, honorable
men and just, and its deliberations were presided over by Mr. John D.
Humphreys, who is the essence of toleration and fairness. His rul
ings at all times were impartial, such as to win the commendation of
even the hottest Stedman men.
For the Freedom of the Press.
The newspapers of North Carolina more than Mr. Josephus Dan
iels —are to be congratulated on the outcome of the contempt case
held against the editor of the Raleigh News and Observer by Judge
Purnell last week. The judge had placed the A. &N. C. railroad in
the hands of a receiver on the application of one of the stockholders
who held only one-fifth of the stock and against the protests of a ma
jority of the stockholders. Daniels criticised tlie judge's action se
verely, and was fined s2,oooami imprisoned for his pains. Daniels
secured a habeas corpus, and 011 the hearing before Justice Pritchard,
he was released from custody.
'Twill be a sad day for our country when the press—the watch dogs
of our liberties, the guardians of our free institutions is muzzled.
And Justice Pritchard won many a friend in North Carolina when he
stood by the constitution and the people's rights.
Mr. Duke Fixing to Enjoy himself.
Mr. J. B. Duke, head of the Tobacco Trust, has plans under way
for improvements on his New Jersey estate which are estimated to
cost one million dollars. Mr. Duke has already spent several hundred
thousand dollars 011 the property. Four hundred men are employed
on the estate the year around to keep it in good condition.
It would doubtless be interesting to the average Stokes tobacco
raiser to know just how much he has contributed toward the building
of this magnificent home of the President of the Trust, the improve
ments alone 011 which will cost one-half as much as all our taxable
property is "vorth. We will venture to say that many a poor fellow
who can't today buy a pound of coffee has stock in that property to
the amount of hundreds of dollars. But when he gets a dividend it
will be a cold day in June.
One Good Turn Deserves Another.
A good deal of sentiment has been arousedYoncerning the necessity
of taking care of the new court house and preserving the adjacent
grounds. Our commissioners are building a temple of justice which
will be a credit to the county for many generations. It should he
enclosed by a substantial stone or brick wall and the grounds cleaned
up and sown to grass, and made a pleasant, cool resting place for our
county people to enjoy.
REVOLUTION IMMINENT.
A sure sign of approaching re
volt and serious trouble in your
system is nervousness, sleepless
ness, or stomach upsets. Electric
Bitters will quickly dismember
the troublesome causes. It never
fails to tone the stomach, regulate
the Kidneys Bowels, stimulate the
Liver, and clarify the blood. Run
down systems benefit particularly
and all the usual attending aches
vanish under its searching and
through effectiveness. Electric
Biters is only 50c, and that is re
turned if it don't give perfect satis
faction. Guaranteed by all Drug
gists and Dealers.
j CHAMBERLAIN'S STOMACH
i AND LIVER TABLETS BET
TER THAN A DOCTOR'S
PRESCRIPTONS.
Mr. J. W. Turner, of Truhart.
Va., says that Chambeilain's
| Stomach and Liver Tablets have
done him more good than any
thing he could get from the
doctor. If any physician in this
country was able to compound a
medicine that would produce such
1 gratifying results in cases of
I stomach troubles, biliousness or
| constipation, his whole time would
jbe used in preparing this one
i medicine. For sale by all Drug-
I gists ami Dealers.
ANOTHER INTERESTING LETTER.
Prof. Harris Writes Again Says
Wheat Is Looking Well But Much
Later Than Ours Eulogizes Mr.
I Glenn.
Garfield, Wash.,
May 28. I'.HU.
Mr. Editor:
I sometimes fenr that my letters
are not interesting to your readers
because I am so far away and T
can only say that you are at liber
ty to consign them to your waste
basket without hurting my feel
ings in the least.
We farmers are just through
spring seeding of oats and wheat.
Fall wheat is looking well. Wheat
is from ankle to half knee high,
while T suspect it is in the head
in North Carolina.
There is a large crop of small
grain this year in this county. >ne
of our well informed ranchers es
timates the crop for this county at
twelve million bushels. The fruit
crop.is not hurt except the early
cherries in some sections were
nipped and there will be only two
thirds of a crop. As harvest and
threshing is near it interest
you readers to know how it is done
here. Tn harvesting the binder
with four to rive horses is used
and the wheat is shocked in the
field. The threshing outfit comes
along with force sufficient to haul
up that wheat, thresh, sack, sow
up the sacks, stack the straw and
everything. All the farmer has to
furnish is feed for the horses. The
outfit carries a kitchen on wheels
similar to those used in the South
by some traveling photographers,
only larger. Ail engine furnishes
the motive powerand the way they
knock the wheat out is not slow.
My nearest neighbor ran a thresh
er last year anil averaged over
twenty-two hundred bushels per
day. Farming is done 011 a big
scale here. So far as 1 can learn
I am the only farmer working less
than rive horses in this section and
T hired my wheat sowed last fall.
T shall lie compelled to increase
my team to 5 horses because two
horse machinery is not on the
market here. They use more horse
power and fewer men.
I wanted a common "bull
tongue" plow like we used in the |
South and could not get one. They !
do not know what a shovel plow is.
I made a stock I not exactly such
a one as K. H. R. Blair would
make but still a plow stock ) and
the blacksmith after my telling
and drawing a picture made a six
inch shovel for it and it was worse
than the stock. Iliad equally as
hard time in getting a one horse
turning plow for orchard use and
it was not much better, notwith
standing it cost me five dollars.
The plows used here are the best
and all highly polished steel plows.
No cast iron plows used. Nothing
but a polished plow will shed this
fine soil.
It's quite a relief to plow where
there are no rocks and stumps.
I've plowed now three weeks
and have not found a rock
or a root save some wild ruse
shrubs.
Two weeks plowing on an or
chard came near doing me up. I
don't think that there was a mus
cle or bone, nerve or sinew in my
laxly that was not sore. But now
I'm getting along somewhat bet
ter.
People here go back 8 to 10
miles to the timber in Idaho for
wood. They buy it cut up in 1(1
inch lengths at one to two and
a half dollars per cord. Two small
horses pull a cord easily, but in
winter the roads yet muddy here
and not much hauling is done
then. Most farmers haul their
surplus grain to the warehouses
on the railroad at threshing time
and then they can sell it when they
please. The busy season on the
farm is over now anil so you see
wood wagons in streams till thresh
ing time and then grain wagons.
The schools of this county are
just now closing. They have a
nine months term. There are no
private schools in the county.
When the people of a town or dis
trict want a school or a longer
. school they call a meeting and
vote more tax and have it. Oar
s field, a town of a thousand inhabi
i tants, has a twenty thousand dol
. lar school outfit, but that did not
satisfy them and they called a
meeting last week anil voted a ten
thousand dollar addition. I think
there were only fifteen votes a
gainst it. I hope the citizens of
Danlmry will set the example to
I the rest of the county by voting
sufficient tax as provided by your
school law to give them a good
! school.
Again I hope the good people of
( North Carolina will follow the
i example set by Stokes and make
i the nomination of Hon. R. B.
Glenn for Governor unanimous.
I I regard him as one of the most
unselfish, loyal, hard-working
I | Democrats in North Carolina.
When Mary Ann Butler was
j maligning the good people of the
[State and trading off his own
I party for selfish and personal mo
tives it was Bob Glenn who was
j called out and answered him as he
always does and followed him from
the mountains to the sea coast and
j gave him such drubbings as he
never had before nor since. In
short, Glenn put Mary Ann out
lof business. I saw Mr. Glenn in
j that campaign and he could scar
cely sj eak above a whisper but he
| did not whimper and say to the
j chairman "I can't go any farther,"
but he kept hammering away
doing a work that no one else
could have done. Whenever
there's been hard campaigning the
State has called on Bob Glenn and
whenever there's preferment and
office in sight he has la-en allow
ed to sacrifice his personal ambi
tion and stand aside for party
harmony.
As a jurist he stands at the head
of his profession. As an orator
he is excelled by few. As a pro
i gressive, open-hearted, high-toned
I Christian gentleman he is excell
ed by none and North Carolina
ji.wes it to herself to make him her
I next governor.
" It appears that the discussion
|on strong drink is getting warm
I between "Dog-Killer" and "J."
Stnnd up straight, boys, and hit
abovp the belt and if your side is
weak you will learn to be on the
stronger side next time. That is
j the good in a discussion. If you
want the facts about strong drink
well enumerated in small space
read a second time the article of
"K" from Walnut Cove. It should
be put in everybody's scrap book
to be re-read at short intervals.
I wish that all the correspond
ents would sign their real names.
1 think that we could enjoy their
letters more. Of course you would
enjoy a letter more when you knew
the writer. Would you enjoy let
ters from your friemlfe with ficti
tious names?
If any of the Stokes farmers try
Alfalfa this year I hope they, will
report to this paper their success.
It is just being introduced into
this neighborhood. I put in two
and a half acres this spring, sow
ing eight pounds to the acre. I
| found some fine volunteer bunches
in my orchard 18 inches high
when apples were in full bloom.
This makes me think it will be
successful here.
I think the winters here are
usually about as cold as they are
in North Carolina. Last winter
was some milder but longer than
usual. 1 have several bushels of
apples on the ground in my orch
ard that kept there all the winter
and are eatable now. They had
no protection save the tree and a
little grass that grew there. In
plowing a place where they hr.d
potatoes last year I picked up over
thirty bushels of fine potatoes and
planted most of them.
That is ns good climate as the
"Sunny South" ran Ixjast of and
yet. we are further north than
Montreal. Canada But east of the
Rocky Mountains the cold storms
break in all their artic fury and
freeze both man and beast.
We have quite a sprinkling of
Russian citizens in this section but
none of them are in sympathy
with their country. One man said
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A handsomely llloMrmtyl weeklr. Lameat clr
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rear : four months, |L Bold by all nawadealera.
lie anw liia father tied up by the
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The PoiiElry Busi
ness Coining to the
FIOIIL
• T your e«j«s i at home from p: '/.«»-
| u i tiltijk: fow Is.
My Comb lirowu Ixfiliorns are
of the finest strain. There is none l*elter.
Tliev will take hii»|i honors at any show.
Ms Haired Plymouth Kocks are as li *e
as ran be. K. li. Thompson lllue //iimVt
IN I lets ilia! can't l*» lieuf.
MV White H'\ ;IIMI »I te- are the | «tre
Huston strain. Some of my birds ) i*t
from his pens that took high honors. V» ill
tniarantee all m> stork and enjs.
i .Semi in your orders at onee. Fi.st
come, ti'st served. I am piv|iared to f.ive
Voii the best 1 have. No eulis or senilis in
my pens, so you see I ean give you nothing
hut. eajss fioni the best of pullets. |v;»s
headed by ti ie male*.
AIIV oiic interested. write for pines.
V\ i I «:ivo \ou s|MM*ial this .season l> get my
stock idvertiw»d and make ni\se|f kno.ui.
Vouis respectfully,
r. A. SLATE,
K. 1). No. I, KIN(i, C.
NOTICE OF SALE.
My virtue of the power c» n
tained in a certain mortgage Den I,
executed on the lttth day of Ju ie
-IS7U, by Win. T. Johnson and
wife Sarali I. Johnson to Win.
Wall, and duly recorded in the
Register's office of Stokes county,
N. C\, in Book No. 24 pages 27il
and 277. to secure tlie payment of
a note thereirr recited, for the suiu
of $12(1.H0. default having hem
made in the payment of said note,
I will sell to the highest bidder
for cash, on the premises of the
said Win. T. Johnson, in Stokes
I county, N. ('. on the 4th day of
June, 1!M)4, at 1 o'clock P. M. the
land and personal property de
scribed and conveyed iu said
mortgage Deed, towit: "All tie
following described piece or pare-1
of land lying and being in the
county of Stokes on the waters • f
Sandy creek and known and do
signated as follows, viz: Begi:;-
ing at Lewis* corner, pointers and
nflis S. .lit h 21 chains to a dogwot d,
East 28J chains to a dogwood,
Wiley Smith's line, North 21
chains to ii sounvood thence wt t
2S\ chains to the Itegiuning, con
taining .VjJ acres more or less, ai■ I
als i the household and kitchi :i
. furniture of the said Win. T.
, Johnson.
This the 22nd day of April 1901.
•). C. WALL.
adm'r. of Win. Wall, Dee d.
W. W. King nnd N. O. Petrte,
attorneys.
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