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m BisriTCK, LirnrGTOJr, x. c widxisbit, na. t, uit. BOLD rr X1IL CAKKIEB. Tkre KefTMs Fanaa4e Tacla Sua XMear to rart Witt HU Watch as 117. Wednesday afternoon the star route Biall carrier from Dobsoo to ML Airy, in Surry county, was held up by three aegroes near the outskirts of ML Airy and rellered of his watch and $17 In cash. The mall was unmolested. Tbs hold-up occurred In a dense wood. The negroes at the forks of the road told the carrier that owing to the fact that a bridge was down on his usual route, be would have to take the other road, which he did, and as this necessitated passing through the lonely wocd. It gave the robbers a fine chance of carrying out their pur pose without difficulty. The carrier was frightened almost to death. The negroes put a gun In proximity to his countenance and dragged him from his vehicle. He Immediately lit out tor ML Airy and reported, and the sheriff with a posse at once went in search of the criminals. The postmaster wired the postoflice department and Uncle Sam will take a hand, although the mail was not bothered, yet holding up the representative of the government Is a serious matter. The crime was a bold one and aroused no end of excite ment. Policeman Hepler "Treed." The Daily News of Greensboro of Wednesday says: In days gone by "blind tigers" and whiskey reposi tories have been located by Greens boro's police force In unheard of, and in some Instances, uncanny places, but all past experiences of local offi cers were relegated to the buck ground yesterday when Policeman Hepler, who was nosing along the outskirts of a thicket, caught a warm scent and with a yelp that would made a pack of hungry rab bit hounds green with envy deliber ately "treed," while his companion, Policeman McFarland. wondering what could have happened to bring forth such an unnatural sound, rush ed to his assistance. A Bhort Investigation disclosed the cause of his brother officer's ex hilaration, for snugly concealed among the top branches of a email pine was a three gallon Jug of corn juice, while a short distance away, with dead branches and leaves par tially covering, was a number of bottles, ranging In size from a half ptnt to a quart and a measuring in strument, which showed signs of fre quent and long use. Though Police man Hepler had the faculty of smel ling out a tiger, he, like the animals to which he has no resemblance In the least when it comes to a straight view, could not go any further and but for the agility of his companion the jug would still be peacefully re posing amid the topmost "branches of a "lone pine," for In his first effort to shin up. the tree .the ex tra avoidupois of the big po liceman became tangled amid the branches and he hit the ground with more force than Police man McFarland encountered when he finally reached the Jug and took a whiff of the contents. With much care this agile young officer reached the jug and made the descent in safety, the investigation of contents of as pure an article of corn juice as Nick Williams ever labelled, and this along with the "spouse" of the supposed originator of the unique re pository was escorted to police head quarters, where the now alleged re tailer was languishing in default of a $50 bond on a charge of larceny, which had been preferred the night before. A 8TAITLHG STATUI5T. !tew Terk Xedlral AitkerlUe Oaim Dyspepsia to k Prs-DUpeslaf Cum ! OtiMptlMb ; . The post mortem statistics of the bit New York hospitals show that some cases of consumption are due, at least indirectly, . to unchecked dyspepsia, especially when the vic tim was predisposed to tuberculosis. Dyspepsia, wears out tbs body and brain.. The weakened. Irritable stomach being unable to digest food, the body does not receive the required nourishment, and the vic tim become tbln, weak and haggard. As a result, the body becomes a fer tile field In which the germs of dis ease may lodge and flourish. Therefore, the person wba permits dyspepsia to progress unhindered Is guilty of contributing toward the de velopment of one of the most insid ious and fatal diseases known to mankind. Dyspepsia may be completely erad icated If properly treated. We sell a remedy that we positively guarantee will completely relieve indigestion or dyspepsia, or the medicine used dur ing the trial will cost the user noth ing. This remedy has been named Rex all Tablets. Certainly no offer could be more fair, and our offer should be proof , positive that Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are a dependable remedy. , Inasmuch as the medicine will cost you nothing if it does not benefit you, we urge you who are suffering with Indigestion or dyspepsia to try Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets. A 25-cent box contains enough medicine for fifteen days' treatment For chronic cases we have two larger elzes, BO cents and $1.00 Remember you can obtain Rex all Remedies in Lexington only at our store, The Rexall Store. The Isl ington Drug Co.. Ixtngton, N. C. A three-year-old daughter of Gro ver Shoftner, of Burlington, left alone in the house a few moments, managed to get her clothing on fire and when the parents returned the child was so badly burned that she died in a few hours. Bowels cloRged, sick headache, no fun Is it? Why not have that happy face, red cheeks that come with good digestion. Holllster's Rocky Moun tain Tea makes the bowels work reg ular, natural, makes you feel like new. Take it to night. J. B. Smith. J. C. Buxton, of Winston, has been presented with a pair of silver cuff buttons worn by the late Senator Vance during the closing days of his life. Mrs. Florence Vance, wife of the senator, made the gift. SORE LI NOS AND RAW LI NOS. Most people know the feeling, and the miserable state It indicates. All people should know that Foley's Honey and Tar, the greatest throat and lung remedy, will quickly cure the soreness and cough and restore a normal condition. Ask for Foley's Honey and Tar. J. B. Smith. A valuable barn containing much feed, tools, etc., belonging to W. W. Clayton, of Bethanla township, For syth county, was burned last week by fire of unknown origin, while Clay ton was in Winston looking alter the sale of tobacco. Sneak Thief Gets Seven Years. Because he stole $1,005 from the humble home of a Mitchell county ' farmer, George Hammett was placed In the penitentiary last week to serve seven years Hammett on the morn ing of the robbery had borrowed $100 from Bayard Roes, who had $1,105 in a wallet. After letting the scoundrel have the $100, Ross put the wallet back In a bed tick, and went to work. His wife went to the garden to pick beans for dinner, and his daughter was splitting wood near tbe house, when Hammett slipped back and se cured the wallet, but was seen by the girl as he made off. He left the state and went to Baltimore and other places, blowing the money in. Finally be was arrested, brought back and entenced. Of the sum, Ross never got a cent back, and $300 of It belong ed to his wife, who had made it by keeping boarders. Seven years in the pen la light punishment. Under the circumstances, hanging would not be too severe. Geological Board Meets. The state geological board held its regular meeting in Raleigh last week and the state geologist submitted his report The work of the next year was sketched. It will include a con tinuation of co-operation with the counties in making maps, agitating and surveying for good roads, pre servation of the forests and re-for esting old, outworn fields, drainage, etc. 'A man In Greensboro went to a . restaurant on a Sunday for to buy some oranges for a sick member of , his family who was not allowed any- thing at that particular time but or ange Juice.. In Greensboro the Sun day laws prohibit the sale -of fruit, etc., but the man, looking over the bill of fare, eaw fruits tnenuonea, nd as the law allows food to be serv ed Sunday, be sat down at a table and ordered oranges. Getting them, he put them in hie pocket and paid the bill. Sunday laws, white having a commendable object in view, often do more harm than good. FOOD FOR A YEAR Mat....... Milk....... Butter E i Vajetabbt.w .300 fee. ......... 240 att, 100 97om. J. BOO I This represents a (air ra tion for a man for a year. Cut tome people eat am eat and grow thinner. This means a defective digestion .;.! ur.sutl&Ue food. A large sis a Lct'Je of. - f n e s The cilice killed a mad dog on the streets of Greensboro Wednesday, within a ctone's throw of the court-bouse. HOARSE COUGHS, STUFFY COLDS. pain in chest and sore lungs, are symptoms that quickly develop Into a dangerous Illness If the cold Is not cured. Foley s Honey and Tar stops the cough, heals and eases the con gested parts, and brings quick re lief. J. B. Smith. Save a short gap between Glass and Harrisburg, there is now In operation double tracks between Charlotte and a point a few miles beyond Greensboro, on the Southern mainline, and the gap is ordered completed. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORI A Unique Chicken and Meat Houses. C. S. Holland, who bought the old Iredell jail, says that he will use one of the Iron cages for a hen house add another tor a smoke house whereupon The Landmark say that "thieves would not only find it dim cult to force and entrance to the cages, but the average colored man would doubtless give chicken or meat house of that kind a wide birth." rTBLIC SE3TUEXT THE Cl'BJL It Only WD.I Beawe-y the Crjlr la jastlce el Inserting rasper Daauige Salts. Editor Julian, of The Salisbury Poet, under the head. "A Grose In justice," says In his Issue of the 17th: The Lexington Dispatch of the 1 6th, in the course of an extended editorial, calls upon The Post to say whether or not a litigant at action against the Southern Railway Company can get Justice In the courts of Rowan coun ty, to which Interrogation we unhesi tatingly make affirmative response. Our Lexington contemporary gave no offense when It questioned us, for we have had It In mind to volunteer a statement with reference to the conditions that prompted Its inquiry. The dockets of Davidson county su perior courts, it asserts, (and with truth) are congested by suits against the North Carolina railroad and Southern railway by residents of Rowan, who, through counsel, would make it appear that citizenship of Rowan Is so biased in favor of the railroads that justice cannot be bad In this county. Term upon term. It is further stated, the interests of David son county people at law suffer by reason of thqpe suits. But lately, Gov. Kitchln ordered a special term of Davidson court to relieve the dock ets and how much it availed is shown by the case of a Rowan litigant who went to Davidson this month with his suit against the railroad. The case began on the 12th, the jury got It on the 17th, bung up on it until the night of the 2oth and was finally dis charged after the Judge had ordered a mistrial. The case was brought In forma pauperis, which Is to say If the plaintiff loses Davidson county pays the coBts in tbe suit Id addition to this tbe Immediate costs to our neigh bor county wae $285, in itself noth ing to compare with the inconven ience to which the citizens of that county with business in court were init. This Is the source of the griev ance of Davidson citizens, which The Dispatch Is charitable enough to call unjust. It is worse than unjust, it is shameful, und the responsibility lies largely at the door of one member of the Salisbury bar. That one, as well as the other members of the local As sociation, will understand to whom we refer and we are specific to this extent In order that the Salisury Bar Association as an association and the citizenship of Rowan county may be relieved of the odium that attaches to a notorious condition that is be ing heralded throughout the state. We do not pretend to say that every person in litigation in the Rowan county courts with the railroads gets exact justice, nor can this claim be made with truth for the courts of any other county. Henchmen of the rail roads and individuals uncompromis ingly biased in favor of the defendant company will slip Into jury duty in spite of every precaution, and wit nesses will, in the face of their oath, stretch the truth a mile. But this Ib true to a greater or less degree in ev ery county penetrated by a railroad. It is not true that the average Row an county juror cannot and does not deal fairly with those who have a just cause for action against the railroads. Without examining the records we believe we are safe in as serting that more suits against the railroads are compromised and decid ed in fuvor of the plaintiff in Row an than in any other county in the state. But Rowan Jurors have scant patience with ambulance chasers. Rowan Is a rich county. In point of wealth few of the ninety-eight counties of the state are ahead of her. She collects by direct taxes more than $125,000 annually. She is near the head of the list numerically among those counties having a four month' term for rural schools. She had a balance of nearly $10,000 for school purposes on the first day of December 1909; her Indebtedness Is art small that the county commission ers could in five minutes borrow of any bank In Salisbury enough to clean the balance sheet Davidson, on the other hand. Is not wealthy county. Her limited popu lation hae been sorely tried to make ends meet and even then tailed. She is one of forty odd counties In North Carolina that, through sheer necessi ty, calls upon the state to help pay the pensions granted her Confeder ate veterans and to aid In the sup port of her schools. This fact Is not to her discredit, tor ehe has "fought the good fight and run the race so far as bcBt she could a race which, when little more than begun, from present Indications, will give her place among the wealthiest counties in the state. But she lacks resources now and, yet. Rowan, her more favor ed sister, is constantly draining her meagre means. : The remedy? There Is tnone on the statute books nor should there be in the matter of removing cases from one county to another, for such law would work Injustice at times to litigants In every county. It Is a cry ing injustice which only public sen timent, giving expression to Itself through lawyer and layman alike, can correct For one, we have had our word, and in speaking It have wrong ed no man. J. M. Phelps, a cotton mill operative at Henderson, after helping his broth er at the latter'! barbershop Satur day night, went home and swallowed a lot of strychnine. He soon had con vulslons and a doctor worked with him an hour, finally swing him. . He said he aimed to kill himself, but he will take no more strychnine.' . It doublee yon up Into forty-'leven kinds of knots and Is a most abominable way of sneaking out the back door of this glorious old world, which, bower er tough It may be sometimes, Is noth lng to compare with what a suicide will find when he bikes over the bor der into the undiscovered country. Friends Have Fatal Quarrel. ' Thursday morning Basa Browning was killed by Allen Green In the lob by of the First National - Bank of Waynesville, Haywood .' county. Browning was In charge of a sheep ranch In the county belonging to Al den Howell, and It laid that he had BJ-cusod Green of tattling to Howell ntiout the conduct of the ranch I rownlng was. in the bank at 11:30 when in came Green, and Browning .- lii ii shout the matter. Green "tiled taut he had aid anything to iwell, whereupon ' Browning called i a llnr. tin-en struck at him and I . iwnii,g drew a fcnlftt. Green drew JVDCE QCASHES UDICTMST. Case el Ge'verasseat ts.'5ew Tert WerU Tarawa Oat kj Jsige Heagk ef Federal Ceart. Judge Hough, of the United States district court of New York last Wed nesday quashed the Indictment of Tbe New York World, charged with libel by Theodore Roosevelt while presi dent The indictment. It will be re membered, grew out of tbe publication in The World of an article charging that relatives of Roosevelt and of Taft were on the inside of the Panama ca nal deal, buying It from the French syndicate and selling it to the United States for a large number of millions more than they paid for It Roosevelt declared that The World lied and pro ceeded to set In motion the machinery of the government The Indianapolis News likewise published the same charges, both articles appearing on the eve of the last election. Sometime ago tbe case of the Indi ana paper was kicked out by a feder al Judge. In that case Roosevelt's Idea was to drag the owners of the paper from their homes to Washing ton City, and try them there. The Judge very vigorously declared that such could not be done, and out went that case. The World people were tried In their home city, and the judge in this case declared that the statute upon which rested the Indictment was insufficient, that the court had no jur isdiction, that the congress which passed the law had no Idea of such proceedings being held under the pro visions of the act He told them that If they wanted to they could carry the case to the supreme court and get a decision, but in all probability this will end the chapter of tbe Roosevelt Inspired suits. Delancy Nicoll counsel for the defendants declared that the decision was a victory for the freedom of the press. "The curious and Ingenious mind," he said, "that brought to life for the flrBt time in 85 years the law under which this prosecution was be gun, has retired to private life, but has left this legacy behind it This Is not a prosecution brought by aggrieved or Injured private individuals; It was be gun by the president of the United Suites In an attempt to show that a libel had been committed upon the American people. We had better have the sedition law, or even the star chamber again than such a monstrous practice as the government advocated in this proceeding." The Judge who tried the Indiana rase mighty near said that he believed what the newspapers wrote of the ca nal scheme. He Intimated etrongly that he believed something was rotten about the deal. Tbe government paid forty millions for the canal, stirring up a revolution at the sametime which separated Panama from the United States of Columbia. The gist of the charges were that Roosevelt tipped off his brother-in-law, Douglas Rob inson, Charles P. Taft, et al., who bought the canal from tbe French and then arranged a sale to the United States for a big profit. The idea that a newspaper cannot freely discuss a matter in all its phases that was as Important to the people as this with out fear of being put in jail by such a blood-and-thunder official as Roose velt, stirred resentment all over the country, and the public will be glad that both suits ended as they have. While flghtiug a forest fire at her home seven miles from TayLorsville last week Mrs. Robert James was so oaaiy ournea mat ahs was not ex pected to live. Her clothing caught and she ran to a stream and leaped in but by the time she got to the water everything had been burned from her body but ona sleeve. WILL HAVE TO QUARANTINE. The Statesviiie Landmark aays: Tha landmark made some remarks recently about pauper damage suit cases from a neighboring county be ing brought in Iredell and taking np the time of Iredell jsupertor court The same complaint comes from Da vidson county, the Lexington corres pondent of The Charlotte Observer saying that there are usually several of these cases from Rowan county at each term of Davidson court and that one at the recent term consumed sev eral days of tbe court If this thing continues adjoining counties - will have to quarantine against Rowan. George Hyams, administrator of Clyde Hyams, who was killed at Can ton last fall. Is suing the Champion Fibre Company for $50,000, charging negligence In switching ears, paying no attention to clearance posts, with the result that Hyam, who was brakeman, was killed. His father postmaster at Old Fort - f"" v p I T t tyt-? 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