North Carolina Newspapers

? r List Your Taxes. The auuual tax lintintf will be. gin throughout this State in a few days, and it is hoped that list takers and tax-payers all will obey the law and have an honest and fair listing- of allthetuxables of the State. It seems to be one of the frailtiesof our weak human nature, even among men who are considered honest, to try to es cape taxation and to list as little of their property as possible and tit as small a valuation as possi ble. All honest tax-pavers are interested in making ottier tax ? payers l?ear their just share of taxation, and the public gener ally are interested in having all taxables listed for taxation and at their true value. It is almost impossible to make everybody list trieir taxables in full and at their true value. The ?last legislature, however, enacted a law that will come nearer doing this than any law heretofore en acted in this State. The new "Machinery Act" (as every tax-j listing law is called), is an im-j provement on its predecessors in several particulars, and is stricter in its requirements of both list takers aud tax-payers. In the first place it requires every list taker to take an oath, before he begins his duties, that he will faithfully discharge his duties. This oath has never before been required. The list-taker is also required to administer an oath toeverv tax-payer when becomes to list nis taxables, and a failure to administer this oath is a mis demeanor for which the list-taker xnay t>e fined or imprisoned; and -in addition thereto he shall for feit ten dollars, one-half of which to go to the person furnishing information sufficient to convict and the other half to the public school fund. This penalty will no doubt make every list-taker very particular in swearing every tax-paj'er. All property must l>e valued at its "market value";) that is, what the property would ; bring at a cash sale when sold in such manner as such property is usually sold, and not by a forced sale thereof. Kvery tax-payer must list his or her own property in person, except that agents may do it for females and for non-residents of the township in which the prop erty is situate and for persons physically unable to attend the tax-listing. If the list-taker does list property otherwise than is directed by law he is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined or imprisoned. The law is thus particular in order that the list taker may have the opportunity of closely questioning the tax payer himself as to bis taxables. Every tax-payer must fill up, j sign and swear to, on a blank to be furnished by the list-taker, a statement of all his taxables owned by him on the first day of June. This blank has many questions, more than usual, which must be fully and truly answered, and heavy penalties are provided for any attempt to evade or es cape taxation. It is expressly provided, "if any j>er8on shall, with a view to evade the payment of taxes, fail or refuse to give into the list-taker, any bonds, notes, claims or other evidences j of debt which are subject to as-j sessnient and taxation under this act, the same shall not be recov erable by action at law or suit in i equity before any court, in this' State until they have been listed j and the tax paid thereon." The enforcement of this pro vision of our new machinery act will cause the listing of many solvent credits which have here tofore esc a i >e< 1 all taxation. And all persons claiming a deduction from their solvent credits on ac count of their own indebtedness must file an itemized statement of how said debts are secured, to whom owing, the residence of such creditors and the amount due each. Honest tax-payers should not complain of the re quirements of a law that, is aimed and intended to compel dishonest men to pay their share of the publi i taxes. Not only is the law thus strict in the listing of taxables by indi viduals but it is much stricter than any previous law in regard to th3 payment of taxes by cor porations, which will pay many thousand more dollars in taxes this y 3ar than ever before. Many corporations have heretofore paid scarcely half the taxes which they should have paid and which they will have to pay under the revenue act of the last legisla ture. Hut none of them willhave to pay a dollar more than they ought to pay. A surgical operation is not necessary to cure piles. DeWitt's Witch liazel Halve saves all that exjienseand never fails. Few a re of counterfeits. IlareASoii,-!. It. Ledbetter, llood Bros. A Oelence of tbe Missonaries. United States Minister U. H. j Conner contributes n notable article on tbe Chinese situation in the June number of "The National Magazine." Hesuvsiu part: The missonaries have been grievously misrepresented from first to last in reference to the cause of the uprising in China. They haw been accused of being the cause of t he war, which they were not, unless indirectly, and then only because they were foreigners and therefore unpopu lar. They were merely a parr of a great, hated whole. The Americans have a larger number of missionaries there than any other nation, and I think that we have reason to be proud of them. 1 am willing to say that there are very few t hings which the missionaries have done for which, under the circumstances, there needs to be any apology whatever. 1 do not mean to say that the missionaries have done nothing which, uj?ou review, might not better have Iteen done differently, but there is scarcely anything which has Iteen done by them over which they need feel any shame. 1 am frank to say that the stories of looting are false to my own knowledge. I hud no business nor power to authorize a missionary to make any claim whatever, but it was my business, as chief officer of, this country, to advise with them. Believing that this gov ernment would not demand a money indemnity for murder and robliery of native Christians, I advised the missionaries to make a settlement themselves with the villages where these murders and thefts had taken place, wherever it was possible to do so. lii rtung unang ana unang len Mao suggested that settlements might be made in this way with the least possible friction. 1 said, "If these people are ready and willing to reimburse the missionaries and native Christ ians for the loss of property and life, accept their offer. Do it upon your own responsibility. I take 110 part in it and the legation takes no part in it." There was no going out and compelling these people by force to pay such an indemnity. It wasaltogether voluntary on their part. seven Years In Bed. "Will wonders ever cease?" in <|uire the friends of Mrs. L. Pease, of Lawrence, Kan. They knew she had been unable to leave her bed in seven years on account of kidney and liver trouble, nervous prostration and general debility; but, "Three bottles of Electric Hitters enabled me to walk," she writes, "and in three months 1 felt like a new person." Women suffering from Headache, Back ache, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Melancholy, Fainting and Dizzy Spells will find it a priceless bless ing. Try it. Satisfaction is guar anteed. Hood Bros. Only 50c. Biggest Cotton Mill Company. All the cotton mills at Haw River have been organized in one corporation. For half a century the late Governor Holt had at Haw River the Granite Manufac turing Company, which he en larged from time to time until it was one of the best equipped, largest and most successful mills in North Carolna. About ten years ago Thomas M. Holt Manufacturing Company was organized and a very large mill was built. The Cora Company's mill was completed about two years ago. These three compan ies have now been merged into one under the name of the Ilolt Grauite Manufacturing Com pany, and is without doubt the largest mill in North Carolina. Under the able management of Mr. II. S.Roberson, the treasurer, t iie past success of each corpora tion will be surpassed in the one large corporation.?News and Observer. Mr. W. S. Whedon, Cashier of the First National Bank of Win terset, Iowa, in a recent letter gives some experience with a caipenter in his employ, that will be of value to other mechan ics. lie says: "I had a carpenter working for me who was obliged to stop work for several days on account of being troubled with diarrhma. I mentioned to him that I hadlieonsiniilnrlv troubled and that Chamberlain's Colic, j Cholera and Diarrhiea Remedy had cured me. Hebouglit a bot tle of it from the druggist here and informed me that one dose cured him. and he is again at his work." For sale by Hood Bros. A car of lime on the road. Hair, plaster andcenientin stock all the time. W. M. Sanders. The Cavaliers of Old Virginia. John Randolph of Roanoke paced nervously to and fro across the wide veranda, ever and anon giving hie fob a fierce twist. "There is only one thing re strains ine," he said at last. "1 would run awav from the whole thing and avoid the danger, only Home confounded historical nov-1 elist will come along some day and write me up. It will not do to he unheroic. I muHt put on a | brave front." Then he buckled 011 his sword and Hturted across the fields in the direction of Castlewood, where he knew (Jolonel Eastover awaited him. As Randolph walked up the broad steps leading to the mansion the colonel stepped out to give hiui welcome. "(iood morning, John," said the handsome young lord of the manor. "I've been thinking this matter over since last night, and it seems to me it would be foolish for us to engage in a scran over a mule that has 110 family con nections worth mentioning. Why not drop the matter and re-estab lish friendly relations between our houses?" "Coward!" hissed Randolph between his set teeth," would you spoil a historical romance by neglecting this splendid opportu nity to engage in a duel? On guard!" Instantly their swords leaped from their scabbards. "Wait," suid Randolph, "till I jot this down in my diary. I must make it plain that we did not come together in any com mon, unromantic way. It must be distinctly s[>ecifled that our swords leaped from their scab bards. If this were not plainly . . j- e at ai_ Ul-i. 1 Sei lOrUl lilt' lUeilMH'JII liuvflini who is to write up the affair for future generations might forget to say so. What would a duel j amount to where the swords j didn't leap from their scab bards?" "Good." replied Colonel Est- i over. "1 had forgotten that.' You always were a great hand for details, John." After hastily setting down a j few lines in his note-book Ran dolph grasped his sword again, ran his thumb along the edge of j the keenly tempered blade, and j the terrible struggle for life and death began. The weapons seemed to be in stinct with life, so fiercely did they fly at each other. Some times the duelists appeared to be contending within a flaming cir cle of steel, as they pressed for ward and then backward across the hard, smooth floor of the | wide porch. Thus the duel went on for near ly an hour, and might be in prog ress yet if a tall, handsome young j man had not suddenly rushed forward, bearing a fence rail, which he brought down upon the glittering swords with a heavy crash, crying: "Stop! What would you do?" Turning to Washington (for it was none other than he), Ran dolph panted: "Fool! You are interfering with the business of some histor ical novelist who is as yet un born." Colonel Kastover then invited them inside to have something. ?Chicago Record Herald. A bood Cough Medicine. It speaks well for Chaniberla'n's Cough Remedv when druggists use it in their own families in preference to any other. "1 have sold Chamberlain's Cough Reme dy for the past five years with complete satisfaction to myself and customers," savs Druggist J. Goldsmith, Van Etten, N. Y. "I have always used it in my own family both for ordinary coughs and colds and for the cough fol lowing la grippe, and find it very efficacious." For sale by Hood Rros. Unusual experiences in the line of marriage and divorce have marked the careers of John ami Mary Buckett of Kohomo, lnd. They were first married 40 years ago, and since that event they have been repeatedly divorced and remarried three times. Their last and fourth marriage occurr ed a few weeks ago. Neither was ever married to any one else.? Ex. Dnina marry lor Money. The Boston man, who lately married a sickly rich young wo man, is happy now, for he got Dr. King's New Life Dills, which restored her to perfect health. Infallible for Jaunlice, Bilious ness, Malaria, Fever and Ague and all Liver and Stomach trou bles. Gentle but effective. (Inly 25c at Hood Bros, drug store. Thk Hkiiam* and Home and , Farm one year, $1.25. ELECTRICITY'S PART. It is very Important at the Pan American Exposition. At no previous exposition ha* electricity played such important parts as at the Pan-American. It is the very life of the big show, not only by night but also by day. At night the presence of 1 the transmitted energy of Niag ara is made manifest in the beau tiful illumination which has won for the Pan-American the name of the City of Light. This name is well deserved, for it is not only reflective of the hope of humanity, but it also de fines the nature of the brilliancy that is winning such unstinted praise from every person who sees it. Hut in the day time, when there is no need of the electric current for the illumination of the grounds and buildingsduring the period when old Sol reigns su preme, electricity is everywhere present about the buildings and grounds, and it is doing its part to make the exposition a truly grand success. The fish in the fisheries exhibit are supplied with water by a motor that is electrically oper ated. Part way up the Electric Tower there is a restaurant, and an electric pump furnishes the water for use there. In the Ma chinery Building there is a 10 horse power motor operatively connected to a Peanesteam pump known as a four-inch by eight inch triplex single acting pump, delivering +9 gallons per minute against 189 pounds pressure. iiitriu are wuiti iijuluib ut work about the grounds and the current that operates them comes from Niagara Falls. There is work by day as well as by night for the energy of Niagara, and thus it is demonstrated that the power supply of Niagara is ever constant. There is no eight, ten or twelve hour shift with the force of this wonderful i iver, but hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year, asj unceasing as has been the flow of the current of the river,' the mod ern power of Niagara is always on tap. Centuries will roll on, | and generation after generation j will find the same response from the throwing of the switch that controls Niagara's force as is found and enjoyed to-day in the grounds and buildings of the Pan-American Exposition. Beating His Publisher. One of the more difficult tasks of the author is to bring his pub- j lisher to terms. The less known to fame the more serious the un-1 dertaking. A man like Kipling | may dictate terms while publish ers bend the knee before him. One of thecleverer ruses was that of Dr. John Wolcott, better known as "Peter Pindar," who succeeded in getting $.100 a year for life by a tit of coughing. The publisher proposed an annuity of $1,000, while Wolcott demanded $1 ,500. Failing to agree a day | was appointed for an interview, and the publisher on arriving at the doctor's room, found the old gentleman in bed with a most sepulchral cough. When he re fused to give more than $1,000 t he doctor broke out into a vio lent fit of coughing, which pro duced an offer of $1,250. This was refused and the cough came , on worse than ever. At last the publisher, thinking that no man with such a cough could live long, rased his offer to $1,500. The doctor, having secured the extra $500 for life, rapidly recovered, and lived more than twenty-live ! years.?Exchange. His Final Farewell. A Billville citizen came to the editor and asked him to write a fitting obituary on the citizen's deceased spouse. "How old was she?" asked the editor "I never beard her say." "She was gentle and lovable, was she?" "Well, jest tollable!" "Had bright hopes of the here after?" "Well, to tell the truth, and nuthin' but the truth, I think the hereafter wuz most too bl ight to suit- her!" "Hut you want to say that she is safe in the Promised Land, don't you?" The citizen thought a moment. Then he said: "I reckon you'll have to put it down that wny; but?I wuz kind er headin' thar myself ["?Atlan ta Constitution. If you wish to buy ladies', misses' and children's Oxford Ties and Strap Sandals cheap call on W. G. Yelvington. Prices fiom 40 cents up. Kentucky, the Home of the Peud. Nowhere is the feud so common, so old, so persistent, so deadly, , us in the Kentucky mountains. \ Nowhere else iN there such organ izution, such division of enmity to the limit of kinship. About 35 years ago two boys w ere play ing marbles in the road along the | Cumberland river?down in the Kentucky mountains. One had a patch on the seat of his trousers. The other made fun of ir, and the boy with the patch went home anil told his fatner. Thirty years of local war was the result. The factions fought on after they had forgotten w hy they had fought at all. While organized warfare is now over, an occasional fight yet conies over the patch on those trousers and a man or two is killed. A county as big as Ithode Island is still bitterly divided on the subject. In a race for the Legislature not long ago, the feud was the sole issue. And, without knowing it, perhaps, a mountaineer carried that patch like a flag to victory, and sat under it at the Capitol?making laws for the rest of the State.? John Fox, Jr., in Scribner's. Eczema, saltrneum, tetter, chafing, ivy poisoning and all skin tortures are quickly cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. 1 The certain pile cure. Hood Bros., Hare & Son, J. II. Led better. i The Sage of The Pasquotank. r.uitor it. n. i,reecv, tne ?age; of the Pasouotank,"one of the I, most gifted, best known and ( popular writers the State of North Carolina has produced, a gentleman who has ever wielded j his pen with the courage of a Ciesar and descriptive power of a Cicero in behalf of his State and country, is on the eve of publish ing a book entitled "(Iraudfath er's Tales of North Carolina." The last legislature has appro- j printed $200 for tne purchase of copies for the State Library, and what is still better, has recom mended it to the Board of Edu cation to be used in the schools of the State. This last endorsement, it is sin cerely to be hoped, will be acted upon immediately and favorably, for a child should certainly be best versed in the history of its own State, and no man is more capable to do justice to thei achievements of the preat men and women of that interesting commonwealth than this gifted son and patriot, who has had the experience of an active litera ry life of nearly three quarters of a century, and now at the age of eighty-eight, wields his pen with the enthusiasm of youth. There is already a great de mand for this work, which will be on sale at $ 1 per copy.?Nowitz- j ky's Monthly and "Traveller's Guide. Purest Anglo Saxon Blood. Not a great many years ago when the eminent Proof. Shailer was traveling through North Carolina, he chanced to sit behind a beautiful young lady who was talking with a friend on the train. Afterwards he told a North Caro lina student at Harvard that she used the purest, unmixed English he had ever heard any ? were. Writing to a friend in Winston Salem, l)r. Truman J. Backus, of Packer Institute, Brooklyn, who spoke at the Educational Conference in that place, referred to the "purest blooded Anglo- j Saxon" as living in North Caro lina. and makes this prediction: i "Look for surprising changes! in the State of North Carolina within the next fifteen years. The American spirit is there. The pu rest blooded Anglo-Saxons I of the continent inhabit that State. "By misfortune of war. etc., by j the scattring of its people, it had fallen somewhat into the back ground, so that its percentage of illiterates was higher than that of some other States, but judging from what I have seen, conviction has taken hold of its most thoughtful citizens and it has organized its force in such a way that, with face fixed toward the front, it will pass by State after State, until within a few years it will be near the van."? News and Observtr. A Terrible Explosion. "Of a gasoline stove burned a lady here frightfully," writes N. E. Palmer, of Rirkman, la. "The best doctors couldn't heal the running sore that followed, but Bucklen's Arnica Salve entirely eured her." Infallible for Cuts. Corns, Sores, Boils, Bruises, Skin Diseasesand Piles. 2ac at Hood Bios. FOK 40 YEARS. l)r. Worthington's Southern Remedy has been sold on a strict iruarantee to cure cramps, colic, cholera, cholera morbus, diar rhtea. dysentery and all pains oi (lie bowels and has stood the test. Price 2">c. at Hood Bros. BDWARD W POU. F. H BROOKS . POU & BROOKS, Attorneys-at-Law, smithfield, n c. Claimi Collected. Eetitee Settled. Freetioe in tohseton end adjoining eonntiee. DR. S. P. J. LEE, DENTIST Smithfield, : : N. C. Office in Smithwick Building. Dr. J. VV. Hatcher, DENTIST. Selma N. C. Office in Hare & Son's Drng Store. Treasurer's Card. John W. Futrell, Treasurer of Johnstoa County, will be in 8mithfield everf Monday and Saturday and Court Weeks. Office in back room of the Bank of Smith - field. In his absence county orders will b# paid at the Bank HOTEL DICKENS, smithfield, n. C. Transients and Boarder s? On Main Business Street. Rates Reasonable. MRSJ, E. DICKENS, Proprietress FLOYD H. PARRISH, 8MITHFIELD, N O. Fresh Meats, Beef and Ice. Highest Prices Paid for |Hides. Elf Beef cattle wanted. Rand & Stephenson, We desire to call the attention of the public of Pmithfield and vicinity to tbt fact that we have associated ourselves to gether for the purpose of engaging in -sGoptracting and Buildings BUSINESS. We want the work and we think that we can m?ke It to your interest to have us* to do yours. Estimates promply fur nished on all kinds wood or brick work. Call on or address w&JtVtephen.on. \ Rand * Stephenson - SMITH FIELD. N. C . STALLINGS HOTEL, W. H. STALLINGS, Prop'r, CLAYTON, N. C. Rates 25 cents per meal or $1.00 per day. Gal J and see me when you come to town. MY STORE, 1 KEEP Groceries, X- Fruits CANDIES, Confectioneries and Vegetables. MARKET Run in Connection. I will pay highest price for fat cattle, beef, pork, Ac. W. K. STALLINGS, CLAYTON, N. C March 20-0m THIS IS The New Number 8 Domestic Sewing Machine, FOR SALE BY J. M. EEATY. HMITHFIKT.n. "V. r. IK* GUARANTEED ^ ZrrS $5,000 DEPosre * / iflB Sr^tohr^Mpii offercA CA.-A..A. BuC.f-'Lo JCCL- Xw, i"accn,CaD?