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Pag-e Two THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER [Thursday, May ], 191:.! -THE- First National Bank EASTER SUNDAY IN PORTO RICO. .Ml'. Frank Parker Writes Interest- GASTONIA, N. C. Capital, . . . $100,000.00 Surplus and Profits, 75,000.00 ingly of the Day as Celebrated in One of Uncle Sam’s Island Pos sessions. We Pay 5 per cent, on Time Certificates of Deposit Your Business Solicited. W E F* A V 4 Per Cent on Savings Accounts and Certificates of Deposit. Accounts Subject to Check Invited Merchants and Far mers National Bank CHARLOTTE, N. C. United States, State, Coonty'and City Depositary Capital - - $200,000.00 Surplus - $200,000.00 GEO. E. WILSON, President. W. C. WILKINSON. Cashier. The 'First National Bank STATESVILLE. N. C. Capital $100,000.00 Surplus & Prolits - 33,000.00 Resources 750,000.00 Farmers are specially invited to open ■ an account with us. JOS. C. IRVIN, Pres. E. S. PEGRAH. Cashier. THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK GASTONIA, N. C. Capital & Surplus - $ 92,249.26 Deposits 392,300.45 Resources 603,927.71 O F*er Cent Paid on Time Certificates of Deposit The Union NaUonal Bank CHARLOTTE. N. C. Capital - - - - $100,000 T. W. WADE F. B. McDOWELL President Vice-President H. M. VICTOR Cashier We cordially invite business and offer every courtesy and accommodation con sistent with safe bankiner. We particularly invite the accounts of farmers. H. M. VICTOR, Cashier Every Idle Dollar of your money should be put to hard work. When your money is invested it works for you day and night-interest accumulates with astonishing rap idity. Also the knowledge that your money is safe from thieves or fire helps you sleep nights. Why not start a Savings Ac count here and let your money earn future money? WE PAY 4 PER CENT ON CERTIHCATES^OF DEPOSITS AND ALL SAVING FUNDS. Southern Loan and Savings Bank CHARLOTTE, N. C, JNO. U. SCOTT, W. S. ALEXANDER, W. L. JENKINS Fiiilfcit. Vice. Iiuf.il. r; ) > ’Tis Easter Sunday. A big event in this Catholic country. The past several weeks of Lent have been very quiet, so far as pleasures, fiestas, dances and such like are concerned. But tonight in every town of any consideration and many not so, will be given the great Easter Dance. One of the events to which many look forward—after being denied the privilege of such pleasures for many weeks. Notwithstanding it is Sunday. Here the best fiestas, dances, and the like, are given on Sunday nights. In fact it seems that Sunday is considered the pleasure day of the week. Perhaps due to the belief that rest means change of occupation, therefore pleasure. Most of the stores do their great est business on Sunday morning, be cause it is the day when everyone has the greatest liberty. No day has such crowds or abundance of products at the town markets as does Sunday. In fact from daylight un met on the main roads coming into town. Some on or by their little, til 8 o’clock great crowds may be heavily-laden and wabbling horses, which is the customary way for transporting fruits and produce in the unimproved districts where no good roads have been made. It is wonderful to see how large and heavy a load these little horses can carry and the roads that they climb and travel over. Another common method of the natives transporting wares is on the top of their heads. Why they fre quently carry heavy trunks. And when a creek becomes swollen too high to pass, the common method of crossing is to climb pn the back of a peon or native man and he wades through. One day a boy not over fifteen, weighing perhaps one hundred and ten pounds, carried me, weighing one hundred and ninety, through water much over his knees. Have you heard of the sure-footed mountain mules, always spoken of as being small? Well, we have here the true, genuine sure-footed horses, mules and people. Sometime ago I had occasion to make a cross-coun try trip requiring two days. Our line of travel led over wonderfully hilly, rough, muddy, steep and al most unpassable trails. Why, at one place, we stood on an outlook point which showed a great canyon below which by my barometer later indi cated a descent of over one thou sand feet of near sixty degrees in cline. And up the other side the trail lead by places where one wrong step would land one perhaps sev eral hundred feet below. Frequently the path was cut out of the face of solid rock and so steep as to fre quently require the use of both hands. I give this as introduction to saying that two horses we had along made all these places with as much ease as we did and yet they had packs on them. Had I not seen I would not have believed it pos sible. Say, dad One of my greatest shortcomings is either side or back sliding, for 1 am always leaving my subject. To get back to the market where we left the incoming popu lace. The common dress is a dirty white, and most country people have for market day these, their dress clothes. It is said that the larger percent have some trouble with their minds—not crazy, but unable to think quickly or well. However that may be, I have frequently had diffi culty in passing some of them un til by some unusual sound they were startled. For Instance, an automo bile horn has no effect because they are accustomed to that sound. When one meets these crowds with an auto, lie must go very carefully and con stantly attract their attention; At the market may be found in larger towns anything from many kinds of seeds, roots, herbs, fruits, tube vegetables to cloth, sweetened water drinks, trinkets and such like. The most interesting phase is to watch the bartering. As a rule oranges sell for from one-fourth to • one-half cent each, but they would start at one cent and the proper per son might get them for one-fifth of a cent or five for a penny. They expect this. The very worst kind of Jew trading. If an American want ed that orange and could not speak Spanish, it would be two cents. I was once asked five cents for an orange and get six for three cents. All this on Sunday—does it sound like it? I heard only one church bell this morning—the Presbyterian. As a rule the Catholic churches have three bells and even in ordinary week days, they are rung at fre quent intervals, beginning in early morning. One who is not accustom ed to the racket wonders whether it is a funeral, or in a minute a marriage—no it must be a fire—no what can it be. What is the pur pose of the mixing of the clanging of the three different tones? I might close by saying the church is heard and makes a great appearance here, but am afraid that the Catholic faith is doing very lit tie to improve the morals and spirit of its members. I understand that it is common on Good Friday for a procession to form and at its head some one car ries a statue of the crucified Christ or Virgin Mary. This is done as a token of remembrance and worship. In some places, a person, in the ab sence of the proper statue, may im personate the Virgin. And as soon as this worship is over their minds are quite free from further such thoughts. To prove it, the great dance and other festivities that are to take place tonight. wanted to see more of their Easter week customs but my broken foot still holds me in my room and bed. I think, however, I may be walking again in two weeks. This has surely been a lonesome day for an American Easter. FREE DRINKING CUPS. Washington, D. C., April 26.—Ar rangements have been made by the Southern Railway to furnish sanitary individual drinking cups to passen gers on all trains and a large sup ply of cups of the collapsible paper type has been ordered. As soon as the cups have been received each conductor will be furnished with a supply and any passenger desiring a cup will receive one free of charge on application to the conductor. No tices to this effect will be posted in each coach. Furnishing drinking cups to pas sengers on the large number of trains operated by the Southern Rail way will involve a substantial expen diture which is being undertaken to provide for the convenience of pa trons of the railway. All common drinking cups have been removed from trains in compliance with Unit ed States Government regulations and the statutes and ordinances of many States and municipalities. Hereafter passengers on Southern Railway trains will he put to no in convenience or expense in regard to drinking water and at the same time will not be subject to any possible in fection through the use of the com mon drinking cup. Seasonable Seeds. Mammoth Yellow Soy Beans per bus ft.75 Clay Peas, per Hus 1.80 Mixed Peas, per bus. 1.75 So. Queen Sweet Potatoes, seed or eatinc stock, per crate — 2.00 Chufa>, per bus 2,75 Velvet Beans, per bus., (f o. b. Reddick, Fla.) 2.10 One million Sweet Potato Plants, leading’ varieties, per thousand 1.50 Write;for special price list on other seeds. HICKORY SEED CO., BicEor>, N. C. Sweet Potato Plant Buyers ANSWER THIS LITTLE AD. Buy your plants from me. The “Famous Nancy Hall,” “Provi dence,” “Triumph,” and “Norton Yam,” $1.70 per 1,000; 10,000 or more, 11.60. Place order to-day. Don’t delay. Satisfaction Guaranteed. G. D. ivioore: HAWTHOR-SI, FLA. New Bern expects to open its new hospital for the accommodation of patients by May 1st. For Sale Mexican Big Boll Cotton Seed, 75c bushel. &ed Peanuts, 31c lb. Virginia Bunch Peanuts, 4c lb. Guernsey Bulls, (Registered) $25, $35, j^O. Guernsey Heifer, $25. Biood Sows, $25. Minorca Cockerels, $1 each. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Evergreen Stock Farm, S. W. WOOBLEA^ Prop’r. R 2, Box 4, Creswell, N. C. NEW EMBLIM BADGE ENAMELED IN BLUE, with the design in gold plate, screw back style. The prettiest and neatest Farmers Union Badge we have yet seen. Price 25 cents each, or $2.40 per dozen, by mail. UNION SUPPLY CO., lUarshville, N. C. Sweet Potato Plants Leading Varieties^ 15,000,000 Price $1'50 per thousand- Plants of first qual- ty- Count and safe arrival guaranteed- C. W. WAUGHTEL, Box 49 HOMELAND, GA. M-1 5chofield Boilers - Gviararvteed - Built of Highest Quality Steel. Have 60,000 pounds strength per square inch with an elastic limit not less than 30,000. Show no signs of fracture after being heated red hot and quenched in water. Castings are heavy, strong, substantial. Riveting dene by skills mechanics. All sizes and styles. Abso lutely safe. Free from all uncertainties. FROrt FACTORY TO YOU CoRrant—L W« also man* |]factur«C«ntar Craok and Side Crank Enginaa. aaw milla, amokaatacks. tanka, towara and all kinda of machtnary, mill aappKea, plp^s raiTanixcd roofing* wrP ' ‘ * ate. rita for Cataiag. SdioSeld Iron Works Dqit. B Macta, Gs. ANNUAL CONFEDERATE VETERANS’ REUNION- Ciiuttunooga, Tennessee, Alay 27 to 29, 1913 —Low Bound Trip Fares Via Southern Railway. Tickets.will be on sale on May 24th, 25tb. 26th, 27th, 28th, and for trains scheduled to reach Chattanooga before noon on May 29, 1913. Tickets will be limited returning to reach original starting point not later than mid night of June 6th, or if you desire to re main longer, by depositing your ticket with special agent at Chattanooga and paying a fee of fifty cents final limit will be extended until June 25, 1913. Tickets for this occasion will be on basis of one cent per mile. For complete and detailed information as to round trip fares, schedules, special serv ice, etc., ask your agent or address J. O. JONES, Traveling Passenger Agent, S. D. KISER, Raleigh, N. C. City Ticket Agent. Raleigh. N. C. When writing advertisers, please mention this paper. "tf 1 4 I
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