North Carolina Newspapers

VOL.-111. - NO. 32. Wby the Country Boy Sacceeds. * Senator DolliVer. of lowa, is credited with saying that all the really great men he has ever known have struggled op from the bottom •f the ladder with the solitary ex ception of President Roosevelt, who has managed to rise iu life in spate of the handicap of wealth and social posihort. Moreover, Mr. Dol liver declares that in nearly all cases great .men were from tliefarm. What brought this to his mind lie says was an accident that occurcd on a tour of the West made by President McKinley, the members of his Cabinet, three Governors of States and fou* United States Sen ators. The sight of a barefoot boy by the side* of the track led the President to say he had once been the same sort of a boy. On inquiry it was found that every one of the party had the same vonthful ex perience, even to Secretary of State John Hay.. Mr. Doljiver said he was so struck by the circumstance that he peopnally investigated the Mstary of Hie trig men uliu have j made their mark in New York,and. found nearly all of them bad an humble origin. Mr. DoHiver being brought up on a farm in lowa hinis*lf and ap preciating the support the coun try voters, may have had made out the case a little stronger than nec essary, but there was 110 occasion exaggerate in the matter. The pro portion of successful men who have begun life on the farm, and too often In the direst poverty, is too large and.too well known to lie questioned: It leaves the military strength of the nation in the people, but it trains and equips that strength for instant and effective set vice, if enacted into a reason fof their preponderance over the city born an bred 'are simple. Jn the first place, the country boys who leave the farm to make their way in the world are natur ally of a superior type. They are enterprising and aggressive or tliey wonld not quit the familiar condi tions and the ties of their early days to venture upon conijtition with people they must feel have had superior advantages. Those who are easily discouraged foon give up the fight and go back home, continuing the process of J, natural selection among those who remain. In addition the country boy has other and many advanta ges over his city rivals. He has had a better moral training in most cases, be has been brought up with out extravagant habits, being tanght the value of money. He has also been taught to work, aud finally, his mind has not been dis tracted by the temptations of a city, and what ■ he has he has thought ewer and contemplated from every point of view. If he has had a taste for reading he hasj almost certainly familiarized him self with the standard work, the only ones found it the country. The result has been in most cases that with all his ignorance of the world and awkwardness, he has much healthier and fresher views of life and a deeper culture than his city rival, with also more capacity for enthusiasm. . With acini, phyacal and hitd • factual equipment, the country 1 toy beg ins a life in anew home with all \ the advantages that come to certain Want that never thrive until trans planted. The bdy knows how ■ *ese plants begin to' grow and K parish as (bey ate drawn from the v where they have been sprout- V * In their new situation they V ppd grow with a vigor B cwnirobably never would haw ■ A*ltud tin jr . remained in the I »here seed was sown. ■ gwee4 languished man who once B stem pas»«d a barefoot boy B Itap*'*- .-eling like taking his bat K so great were the pos&i --■ Icr that shock head of ■ je only on what it needed B to know. It is the I ( _atry boy, barefooted, sundurn- cd and freckled, who is the rose » and expectancy of the nation.— ! {fcpricrJopmab f JUDGE BROWN FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. We, the undersigned lawyers of the First Judicial District, of which Judge George H. Brown is the Resident Jndge, present his name to the Democratic Couveutiwi for Associate Jnstice: In this, his home district and among liis home people who know him best, his character as a man a lawyer and a Judge is beyond crit' dsn. We think he would receive the nomination fot oue of the va cancies for ghesa CDgent reasons: First, his eminent fitness, im partfclity and capacity for high ju-1 >l»dn! office has been demonstrated by fourteen years of continuous ser vice. K. Second, he is the senior Superior Court Judge in length of serv ice and has borne all the hardships of the life of a Circuit Judge far that long j-eriod. It is sound poKcy in variably adbcml to by Democratic State Conventions toproniote those Superior court Jiwlges who remain J on tin: beuch and devote4b«it lives U> judicial labor. Third. Judge Brown was notni-j nated aud received the nomination tor Associate Justice in 1- S y6. when th«* was no chance of election, along entire ticket went down m the fusion cyclone of that year. Now that an election seems assured, we it but just he should receive the nomination. Thos. G. Skfnnet", s\V. B. Rod mail, K- F. Aiiylett, E F. Lamb, J. B. Leigh, Percy Me\ftillen, J. C. Drooks, Roscoc W. Turner. W. M. Rond, L. L. Smith, Stephen C. Bragnw, Geo. Cowper, A. Pitson Godwin. \V. C. Rodman, A. O. Gay lord, \V. D. Pruden, Juo. IT. Small, Ceo. W. Ward, J. Heywooj} Sawyer, P. 11. Williams, C. E. Thompson, Edmund Alexander, 7?. fl Want, Ctras. Whedhee, U. B. Nicholson, E. S. Simmons, T" W. Costen. Jr., W. D. Grimes, S. B. Sprulll. . The Tcs-or-No Comer. The efforts on the part of mem bers of the House to pin one anoth er down to direct answert reminded Representative Capron, of Rhode Island —one of the best story tellers in the House, by the way—of an experience in the last campaign. Mr. Capron was very much both ered while making a speech by a man in the audience who insisted on asking questions to which he demanded either "yes" or "no"for :r answer. ' "But there are feme questions," finally • remarked Mr. Capron, * 'which cannot be answered by 'yes' or 'no.' " "I should like to hear one," scornfully commented bis aunover. "Well," said Mr. Capron, "I think I can prove it. Have you quit beating your wife? Answer 'yes' or 'no.' " ' The crowd saw at once that Mr. Capron had the man in a trap. If he said "yes" it was a confession that he had been beating his wife; if he said "no" it was an admission that Ix YVSS still • indulging in the prstjnie.—-Washington Post. PAPERS PREACHING EDUCATION. I The 'Monroe; La, Daily Star says that if the southern press gen erally" wo: Id devote f pace to an educational department the con stant hammering, like drops of water upon the rocks, wou'd have its .«fiect and ' bring forth fruits meet for repentance." This is undo bt dlj true. The papers of the ?o-j*h r».re devoting a good deal of space ard tiihe *o ed ucational matte's, but many of them Could inpfotre along this line The influence of the daily and weekly papers arein calculable and itcan be used in no better for gcod schools. The people arc re sdiog abcut education as never before. WANTS OTHERS TO KNOW. "I hive and DeWitt's Little Early Risen for constipation and torpid liver and they are all right. lam glad to in dorse them for I think when we Cod a good thing we ocgbt to let others know it," writes Alfred Hrinrr, Qaiscy, 111. They never jfripe or digress. Sere, safe pills. S R. b«ks, (if (it, Qnitttprisf. 1 WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1902. BRIEF AND BREEZY. Those whose incomes consist of dividends on fire iusurar.ee com panies, stock will uot be likely to patronize the expensive summer resorts this year. A Maryland woman has applied for a divorce on the ground that she was compelled to furry at the point of a revolver. The revolver as a martiftge-maker has Usually been used on the groom. It looks as though the ownership of the raw- sugar in Cuba, which a Senate committee is trying to ascer tain, might be the determining fac tor in thp question of Cuban recip rocity. Au exchange fears that hand writing will l>ecome a 'lost art ou account of the general use of the typewriter. If the handwriting of some men could be lost it would les sen profanity, especially iu print ing offices. Secretary Shaw's explanation of the war with Spaiu, made at the Grant birthday Pittsburg banquet. Is likely to shock some persons and to be much criticised. For instance, he said: "Disguise it as we will, deny it as we may, the element of self-interest was a factor iu the equation of IK9B. We were mas ters of our own markets, and were reaching out for'new ones. Yes, commercialism, if you pleas", had touched and so it was t'nt our self-interest, as well as on unself ishness, were appealed to. Explosions in powder mills do not make much work for coroners. Oue near Shenandoah, Pa., killed five men, but only two arms were .fottpd. The trial of the man charged with stealing $30,000 from the U. S. mint, at San Franciscdff'resulted in a huug-jury. Gen. Jacob Smith's confession thst he did ordcT the killing of all Filipinos over ten proved him un fit to be au officer in any army. The Kaiser has been making another speech, declaring the army to be all important. He is dead right, too. Without his army he would have 110 empire. That Illinois amateu rhypuotist who put a whole family to sleep and couldu't wake them might find it safer and more profitable to con fine Iris power to the victims of in somuia. President Palma has killed one looting scheme already by declar ing that Cuba could not pay the SBO 000, coo claimed by those who served in the Cuban revolutionary army. Thieves who confessed having made a business of stealing horses and vehicles over a regular route between New York and Boston would have been in a bad way in soiaejeetioiis of the cannUy. If Brigadier I'unston could have slipped his official gag lie would dAibtle4K have yeJk-d, "you're another" at Senator..Carmaek. The British government ought not to have any difficulty in under standing why the**iumber of Irish emigrants to America Is so rapidly increasing. The increase is likely to continue so long as Irish editors are sent to prison for expressing their opinions. —— / We are getting so accustomed to big things that the formation of a $50,000,000 copper-mine trust ex cited uo particular notice. At atfy rate, the public won't Ik.- asked to buy stock iu the Govern ment's system, of wireless tele graphy. Russia is having a few Spring strike riots, In one at "Moscww there were fifty casualties. / J. Pierpont Morgan is too much accustomed to newspaper abuse at home to mind what European edi tors say aliont him. Now, that the dusky has been invited to be the guest of the Charlestion Exposition on Hawaiian day, it seems in orlef to ask. if the Expositipu is to ijave a Booker Washington day? I The country hopes that Mr/Wil liatn A. Day, who will have aiargo of the prosecution of the llecf Trust, will prove td lie a bad Day ftj: the price-kiters. Ohio puts in a new greatness. It is the greatest fcniou producing State in the Uniotu Philadelphia claims to have fight ing musk rats. Is this another at tempt to prove that the old town isn't so slow? Marrying a man short in .statue is much less dangeious than marry ing one short in pocket. * —— Senator Caruiack wishes it under stood that no&euator has a mono-' poly of sarcasm and vituperation. DANGIiHOI'S 11-" NKGUJCTKIX Rum, cut* ami other wouiuls OlUn fail to heil properly if ncjclcctetl suit be come trouble Miinvtte\Vitt'»Witcb Ilaurl Sulve prevents sucli t-otiM-quences. liven where delay lias aKgra> .tied- the injury DeW'itt'* Witch Min i Salve effects a cure, "i had a running sore on my lex thirty years," fays H. C. 11.nth y, Yati ke;town, Iml. "After usiux many reme dies, I tried DeWitt's Witch llaxl Salve. A few boxes healed the sore." Cures nil e>kin dwca*Cs. l'iles yield to it at oiK'e. Ueware of conuterfcils. S. R. HigH*. Every one ought to know hi' Shakespeare, for the plays consti tute,. on the whole, the foremos text-book \\huh our race has given to the W>rl j,—-April Ladif'-' llcnc journal. * J.IKK A ItROWNING MAN. "Five years ago a diieare' the doctors callcil u>»).c|«.ia took such bold of me that I coiild tiurcclv K«," writes C.eo, S. Marsh, well-known i-ll»nuy 6f,jiocona iex, "I tuok quantities of pepsin and utlie-r meilicines l>ivt at>llitlv Le-lj*l nn-. As a drowning ti:ao Jribs at a straw I Rrabl cd at Ko«1ol. I felt an improve ment »t once and r.ftcr a few bottles nni sctn:-l and well." Kedol" is the only ptepcrution wliieb exactly rcpioduecs the nntornl digestive juices anil couse|iieiit ly is the only one whichdigefUlMiy «md find and cures any form of stomach ticulffo. S. R. BijCfis. « pays » a t the Cfcarlcston Exposi tion. A number of days during the coming mouths have been selected aiul set apart for special purjxjscs and o?»jtcts,aiid jn honor of various bodies, ccinttiUliities r.nd assexia tionsof the country. These will lx? added fri m time.to time, so that all niny have sn opportunity of se lecting some particular day to be jn Charleston, aud at the Exposition. May 6—Carriage Woikcr's Con vention, May 7 —State Banker's Associa tion Day. ' Mav 8— Southern Cotton Spin ner's Day—Mississippi Day. May 9 —Vnldota Day. May 13— Independent Order of Odd Eellow's l»ay. May 14 —Jacksonville Day. May j6—Knight's Templar Day\ May 14-16 —Firemen's Day. May 20 —Memphis Day. May 23—Wagener Day, May 26—Colored Military Day. May 29 Florida Educational Day. DON'T START WRONG. Don't start the summer with a linger ing rough or coM. We all know what a "slimmer cold" is. It's the hardest kind to cure. Often it "hangs on" through the entire ie:i>on. Take it iu hand right now. A few doses of One Minute Cough Cure will set you right. Sore cure 'for coughs, colds, croup, grip, bronchitis, all throat and lung troubles. Absolutely, wife, Acts ct once. Children like it. "One Minute Cough Cure js the heat corgh medicine I ever used," says J..U. Bowles, Grove-ton, N. H. "I never found anything else that acted so safely aud quickly." S. R*JSiggs, rtcDuffie's Lit tl B!ce Liver Pill make blue people bright, cleances the system of all the delUerious aud unhealthy mat aer and makes a new penan of you, Souihcrn Education Kotcs. GREAT EDUCATIONAL. Guilford County, N. C., Raises fs,- 000 foi Better Schools. A very remarkable and thrilling educntioual meeting was that held in Greensboro, North Carolina, on the night of April 4, when sS,boo was raided to improve the schools t>f Guilford county. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Woman's Associa tion for the Betterment of the Pub lic School-houses of North Ca oli tia. State Superintendent Jot ner stated that the three most impor tant p:estipus in connection with Ihe public school problem were ( belter school houses, consolidation ofScWoola and increase t-f the pub li; fund by local taxation. , Govenor Aycock made a stiriiug speech, nnil F, C. Abbott, wbei has offered to be one of 1o 1 men to give 51,000 to beild better schools, . declared that compulsory eduction j laws would be useless us til there were better school-houses, better teachers and longer terms. Dr. Wallace Uuttiiili of New York; Secretary of the general Edu cation board, stated that the B->ard would duplicate any amount up to jjU.ooo raised for the Svhools of Guilford county. tf;e ruoney to l-e " distriluteil through the tute school . authorities, the only condition at - tached being that any dfstrict aided • should vote a local tax for the sup ' jiort of its schools. Two gentle men present at once gave SI,OOO each, several gave $ 00 each, and In a short while over St oco was raised, thus securing for the county gS,ooo which will be used by, the authorities when the required con dition is fulfilled. - - , - Guilford county is consolidating her weak schools into strong cen tral schools, preparing for trans s portation of pupils, is working for «• longer terms and betttr teathiog ' and h:'.s the largest number of com , munities in the State voting a local il , . _ " . tax lor schools. Having thuivu I her willingness to do ler part she ■ - lias been generously aided in doing " still more for her cliildien. x Tire News and Observer states C [. that the key-note of the meetii g .I was ''the jniprovenment of the h sehool houses, consolidation ol small districts, anil local taxation In these," it says, "lie Ihe hope of ~ the rural schools." It might hare added that this trinity means the abolition cf polities and despotism e « » ( j from the schools and the use ol alt school moneys for the the 1 est in terests of the children, for whom S . - alone the schools hrr*eany right of existence. e , 1 The Kalclgii Fost 'says of this meeting, "this is a far-:caching movement; it tncar.s more than. II ' school improvement It means the creation of public spirit, the arousing of patriotism, the devel opment of philanthropy, and above the teaching of relf help and of 1 . «• 1 help through community. The Southern people have 1 aceomplish • ed so- littTe through community power tha't they scarcely I now what it is arei what its possibilities arc,.' They will learn the lesson throtigli local taxation for rural ' schopls and good roads.'" The question asked bytheFarm ville, (Va.) Examiner, in ibis con nection hiay well be asked by ' every rural-connSuuity in tlie South; '•What, then, shall we of this sec tion do 111 regard to this matter? Shall we lend this movement our moral support and meet it half - way 111 all financial matters? Il | so,, we may feel assured that the ! time is not far distant when our 1 peerjde shall be raised again to their 1 former affluent position in tlie great American commonwealth; if 1 ot— how can a people receive a blessing who will not be. blessed. A POINTER FOR i»v£MTORS If you wfsb yotir patent business prop erly aiid promptly done «end it to SWIFT & CO., PATENT LAWYERS, opix>sitc U. S. Patent Office, Wasljiiigton, I». C. . they have no dissatisfied clk-nts. Write theai for tjieir confidential Utter, a pos tal card wiT. briiy,' it, r.nd it e:av tie wiith mony t-o'you. tbiir cclveititeo-eut il-t« liei fc iu this paper. ' * . r IF YHII tt/li I PIIT • I IUU VIIIL I O I Intent hit > n ghu.-, Irotf full of water ami irith this gargle your threat often it wi!l qukkly cure u tiure Throat, Keep this fact (tlwnys fresh in your ( ' For Cuts, Mashes and all Open Sores, you \ | ami only to apply | j sf|exican J t\ few times ami the soreness ami inflammation will * i lie conquered anil the wounded flesh healed. i ' To get the liest results you fehouUl saturate a piecQ. j of soft cloth wit It the liniment ami bind it upon tho 5 wound as you would a poultice. -V., oOe. uu.l £l.©o a bottle. kCCP AN CYC nkl y.mr poultry an.t at tho vory ftr*tri«n* l»t£l All tit UN Hom>. Srilv !>iral>k-foot or other umoug your fowl* uso Mexican Mustang Liuluicot, A NOTICE! NOTICE! V """ '* . • 1 shaH-nJlJor Cash Before the Court House Door, in Willi-niston, on Monday, the sVh>iay of May, ico2. the following tracts of land forthu Taxes du : and unpaid for the year lyoi, to wit: JAMKSYILLi; TOWNSHIP TMXF.S, COST. TOTAL Mrs. J. J. Httnbridge, 75 lures ailjomtnj" O. HrifUprii $ , 50 f1 10 f1 60 H. 11. Davis, 50 " " I ■ |oar Chat)el '33 1 lu J34 T. 11. Davis, 5u " " J. I' >IIi lli«!ay, 67 110 177 John Uriels Ponton, 111 " " Ri.sideme, 546 Ito 65S Susan Faxon, 15 " " Astoria 1 5 " " J.W.Warrinjjton { f>j 110 177 C.reen Ft ttiford 7 " " I tank r.mks 2 17 J >0 327 | Peter l'cttiford 2 " " » 33 1 m 143 W. M. Koliersott )-.( " •' JaiiiFsvillii 251 s 1 10 261 Dirtiil Sherrod 30 " "Residence 36 1 to 146 ORIFI-INS TOWNSHIP. 11. T. Woolurd 50 " ti«lj Smith Corey 67 1 10 177 J. 11. Woolurd 50 " Wilkins I.and 33 119 1 43 CROSS ROADS TOWNSHIP. J. R. Pender 1 town lot Kverctts, N. C. * 00 j 10 2 la John H. Whitakpis62jicreK adj J. A. Crikp 3 45 I 10 455 ROHERSONVH.LE TOWNSHIP W. M. Eulmtiks 1 town lot • 501 I 10 6 it Daw-on Hunan 1 town lot 20 1 to I 30 T. S. Stalls t-2 ncre alj. Still sito 5 Ho I to 690 Susan Wiggans 1 town lot 67 I 10 I 77 Mises Jones I town lot 1 S3 I to 3 93 Uuince Moore 1 town lot .. . " 333 I 10 443 IJ. E. Strowd t town lot ' 150 i 10 360 POPLAR POINT TOWNSHIP P. C. Riddick 73 acres AllsbrOok Land 3 33 I 10 3 43 Jordau Williams 10 1-2 acres udj. J. R. Ralhmt J lO 1 :d 4 20 HAMILTON TOWNSHIP: —• Edward Cherry 100 " " John licst 233 I 10 343 H. G. Howell 2 town lots and mill lot 6 33 1 10 7 43 Mrs. 11. 1). Taylor acres adj. H I).-.Taylor Land 733 110 450 Wni. Berge 1 town lot 66 1 10 1 76 Collin Dickens 31 aeYes adj. S. W. O. 340 Iro 450 Reuben Dixon 10 acres adj. R. S. Wlieatlicrsby 270 1 10 380 Webster S. Williams 1 town lot 2 68 1 10 3 78 * GOOSE NKST TOWNSHIP Charles Btnthaul 1 town lot J ' ■» 84 110 194 J. J. Bowers 61 acres adj. J. L. Bowers 1 60 1 10 2 70 James Curry 33 acres adj. Henry Kite 113 1 10 2 23 Billey Dawson 28 " " Carsoti Land 475 I 10 585 G. W. II a ward, Guard, 39 " " Dick Jones) " " 115 " " Geo. " ) 76 110 i 8(5 B. G. Howell 51 " "F. Taylor Land 136 110 156 lid. Shields 30 " Baker Bell 100 1 10 210 Staton 175 " Eli Michel I.and 467 1 10 577 W. W. Parkor Sc Co. 216 ~ Ben Harrell 533 110 64J WILLI A MSTON TOWNSIII P. r,. * / Abner Bennett 80 acres'adj. J. G. Staton 4 37 1 10 5 47 Major Latham 11 " " S. R. Mobley 137 110 247 This April 3rd. 1902. - . * J. C. CRAWFORD, SHERIFF MARTIN COCNTY. Xow is the time to subscribe for " J* * THE ENTERPRISE FOR CAMPAIGN NEWS, SIRSCRIPTION PRICE: si.ooA YEAR. SINT.Uv_COPIKS FIVE CENTS EACH )